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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-03-27, Page 6I( 44i )tf THE- \., "��•'%�` So-\ �\y is N�. r• hu; HAT A DIFFERENCE 90 DAYS MAKE TODAY A TODDLING CHICK ... in 90 days a proud pullet about to lay. There's some- thing to think about! Tiny bones and little muscles have grown several times in size... a delicate fuzz has sprouted into hundreds of feathers ... a chick weighing grams has grown into a pullet weighing pounds ... all in 90 short days ! A wonderful change ... and only one thing can do it ... good feed! This year .consider Purina Startena Chow (:rash) and Purina Chick Chow (scratch) or loll -Mash Startena Chow for the first six weeiks ... and then Purina Growena and Purina Intermediate Hen Chow uatii your pullets arc lay- ing at 16 weeks. Put these Chows before your chicks. You will see pullets that ar ut_Lit right ... pullets that will lay eggs at.le_Lt,- ._. f..: and winter when eggs are elwaye Thos. Dickson, Seaforth, Ont, WORKING THE JUNGLE CATS All of us probably entertain a de- sire to hunt lions or tigers—possibly both. Most of us will never be able to do it. But we can at least go to thecircus and see the big cats there. It helps us to imagine more clearly the glorious sport we know we can never realize. As a child I was fascinated by the circus. Now in recent years, 4 have met a number of lion trainers send I know that they really are extraordin- ary men. They are unique in that they possess supreme courage coupled with magnificent self-confidence in their own ability to manage their an- imals. Clyde Beatty, who works more lions and tigers than any other animal DELICIOUS fie. vors—freshen the mouth and sweeten the breath. The very act of chewing relieves nervousness and calms and soothes the over -wrought. pleasure and benefit in CHEWING GUM trainer in America at the present time, is an excellent example of the type of man in his hazardous pro- fession. Twicsa day he enters the great steel afebs. in the circus tent with thirty-two snarling jungle ca'.s. There are eight lions, six lioness's, nine tigers and nine tigresses, all but a few of which have been captured when full grown and are really tamed wild beasts—"tamed" being a relative term, of course. It is net generally known that lions and tigers entertain a perpetual and undying hatred for each other, but this is so. With both sexes repres- ented, the danger is greatly aggra- vated. When Clyde Beatty goes' into the arena he is armed with a chair and a whip together with a revolver load- ed with blank cartridges. I The chair, carried' in his left hand, is intended •to fend off a charging cat. If hard pressed' by the feline' fury, Beatty releases the chair; and as it is such a h'ollohv, futile sort of thing, the animal generally Poses its inter- est in it and does what it was ex- pected to do at first—largely because it has done that thing so many times bef ore. "I use the whip," explained the trainer, "to distract their attention, and rarely touch them with it. Just the sharp crack of the lash beside them appears to be enough to take their minds off the wrong thing they were thinking about. Generally I can do it at once. When I can't, which is oftenerthan it seems to the people outside the arena, I use the pistol. ' "Firing the gun to the side of their head when they charge is usually suf- ficient to stop them, When it isn't. I keep them away with the chair and fire into their open mouths. The sting o'f the wad and the burn of the flame probably send them back under con- trol. If they keep on coming, how- ever, I have nothing left to do but to fire into their eyes. It sounds cruel, but it isn't, for the net result is nothing more than sufficient pain and confusion to enable me to drive the' ,cat away. Which 11uSe xeguilarl'y. Using y whip as a Op, I' play with Cleopatra, a Magnificent Bengal tigress. She rolls over and over, seemingly trying to catch .the 'whip lash while she is on her 'back. But when Cleopatra is reaching out so playfully for the Whip she is really reaching for me! Twice she got me' --once she ripped' my put- tee loose, 'and the other time she up- set me completely. I never say such a fast move in my life as she made to get off her back so she could' pin me down 'before I got up. She would have done it, too, if it hadn't been for Nero. The lion had leaped from his pedestal, knocked the egress end ov- er end, and was back on his pedestal before I was sure he had actually left it. 'Cleopatra was too surprised to do anything but crouch in a bend of the bars. I drove her to her place, but that was a tense performance. Every cat in the ring knew that Nero had interfered with Cleo's effort to get me. They were all waiting for the trouble to start. The act went fast, but it went well. The only untoward thing about it was that I had to send Nero from the arena first. Cleopatra wouldn't move until I had, and I think she was wise. "All the cats know me. None of them hates me. However, the absence of hate 'wouldn't prevent them from turning on me at any time. Of course, every precaution is taken. In the menagerie each cage has two com- partments, and these can be closed in such a way that there will be a narrow runway in front of them. This makes it possible for the menagerie men to send the cats along into the chute from any cage' they like, and we stagger them so that when they enter the arena there will be two lions, two tigers, and so on. "There, are always three men out- side the arena, equipped with hand- ling irons. If a charge starts I re- treat to the bars of the arena and they will hold the cat away from me with their irons. At least, that's the theory. 'I don't ,believe they could do it. We have never had occasion to ascertain, and I hope we never do. Their chief duty is to circle the arena and prod any sullen cats out into the open w'h'ere I can get at them. "In the final analysis, you know, working these big cats is nothing more than a continual contest between the ability of a man to control wild jungle 'beasts and the resistance of the beasts to that control. Under those circumstances, anything m'i'ght happen. The best of us get it some- times, and usually when we least ex- pect it." As Beatty bade me good-bye and hurried away I noticed a sedate pro- fessional -looking fellow stop and talk to hen gravely for a moment. Later I learned that he was the show's physician and that he sees Beatty every day. He is certain that the "But aren't your animals trained terrific nervous strain under which to appear ferocious with the intention Beatty works will make him break of making the act seem more thrill- down completely within a few years, ing than it really is?" he was asked. and is doing what he can to prevent "I shouldn't say that," he began it. slowly, "and yet I can't deny it corn- It seems remarkable that this will pletely, either. One of the feature's take so long. of my act which always receives a tremendous burst of applause is the apparent cowing of a big Nubian lion.' "The lion suddenly charges, strik- edt a ainst' ing viciously. I have back g the' bars. Then I stop the lion's charge by suddenly taking a step toward him, leaning forward until my face is within a foot of his own, and staring hien into 'submission. The great dan- ger lies in the fact that I never know when Nero is going to make a gen- uine•charge! "This summer he disarmed me, as it was intended he should, when we were playing in Texarkana—but then he kept on coming! I was instantly knocked sprawling. Nero pounced on me, and held me down with his paws while the other cats came slinking from their pedestals • to share in the unexpected feast. "Then a miracle happened! A lion- ess 'which has just been mated to Nero happened to nuzzle him caressingly, and he suddenly lost all interest in me, strolling away with her. I man- aged to get out, but—" He shrugged 'and looked at his right arm, bare to the elbow. It had been chewed al- most beyond recognition or further use. He admitted that his side was badly disfigured, but dismissed the en- tire thing as an incident of his work. "Often it is possible to be extreme- ly cautious when I know that a bad cat is certain to 'become suddenly crazy. There is a sort of feline epilepsy which really maddens them, and then they are far worse than if they were merely naturally feroci'aus. They start to stalk me when my back is turned, or else start to fight among themselves. It is always the tigers that go bad; and when the lions dis- cover the act is shot, they all turn on their natural enemy and one less tiger leaves the ring. I have lost two already this season that way. "There is one very uncertain stunt THE WORRY ENDS r ds'fi c ht Milky fly �:,- •very'` I feed 'Sbotha ^" Salv,,a' ;tended the ask and paiunt my piles right away. Stopped owelling and bleeding•Pilesnowgone."—L.' .Sears. Quickest relief known All druggists. reasons for this. The biggest reason of all is that the public has an en- quiring mind and wants to know— the Members, ever faithful to the people who give them the vote, will ask the questions, and the questions will have to he answered. 'What will be the work of the ses- sion? There will be lots of work—also talk! The Conservatives 'will an- nounce that the result of the tariff, imposed last September seems to them and to the country, to be over- whelming and convincing evidence that all we need is not higher prices for grain and lower prices for manu- factured goods, or bigger crops or a larger volume oi' business, but just more and higher and yet higher tar- iffs. They will suggest that they fell down last September not in making them too high, but in not making them high enough. The Liberal View. The Conservatives will assert that imports are declining and that de- clining imports are proofs of pros- perity. The Liberals will reply that falling imports are not indicative of prosperity any more than declining wages. They will say that your re- duced purchases this year are not evi- dence of an indication to save, but proof positive that you are not earn- ing the money you were getting be- fore, your salary has been cut, your wages are down, your profits are less and you buy less. They will back this up by demand- ing to 'know when, on any occasion in the world's history, a decline in the total ;volume of business transactions indicated an overwhelming increase of prosperity! Taxes and More Taxes. Mr. Bennett faces one problem and the public is quite •likely to hear about it. That problem is the old fashioned one of bow to get blood out of a turnip or a stone. Purchasing power at the moment is not very large in the Dominion of Can- ada. Whatever the recent change in Government has made and it ap- pears to have done as little in Canada as the old government did in the United States—the people are not so rich as they were in 1928, 1929 nor 1930. Neither is the Government. 'Instead of, having a bountiful sur- plus to play with, Mr. Bennett finds himself in the position of being com- pelled to face a deficit of $150,000,009. As the school boys say: "Wouldn't that take the snap out of your gar- ters?" This means that taxes will have to go up and that. they will have to go up not a little, but a lot. We have been spending and receiving nearly $400,000,000. The old sources of revenue have fallen down. New sources have to be tapped. The Gov- ernment and the Opposition will spend days in wrangling over the different methods of raising the revenue. 'Liberals will contend for and sup- port the income tax. They will advance the theory that the income tax does not interfere with, consumption, that times are hard now and consumption is restricted. Because consumption is restricted, demand is small, the manufacturer is idle, the labourer is out of employ- ment. Any tax imposed which bears upon consumption, we will be told, is not a tax which ought to be applied in times like these. The Conservatives will advance a different story. They will say what this country needs is capital — that capital will not come if you are not going to inflict taxes upon it—all well and good, but will labour produce if it is not going to get employment? There is the question. Other Troubles. Parliament will discuss the great problem of why this year is not last year and why it's not like the year before. It will want to know how many of Mr. Bennett's promises have been kept and also some would like to know how many of the Liberal promises would be kept if they were in. That is always the way Parlia- ment meets this question—by stout insistence that "you my Lord are just as bad as 1Mn!" 'Conversely it car- ries the conviction that "I am as good as you are." Both statements takes us back to our schoolboy days when we used to remark to. the boys who had given us a nasty word, "You're another!" We are school boys even when we are grown up. It's a fair guess this year that quite a little bit of time will be taken in the discussion of the estimates. The country is hungry for expenditures. Each Member wants the money ex -,z pended in his own constituency. The Government 'with storm face has set itself now to reduce expenditures. It has set itself just as sternly in that direction as its Leaders set them- selves at the last election to increase expenditures. The National Highway is going to go "by the board." The bridge promised at Saint John is not likely to be built. It's not the only thing that will be in the same fix. In fact if it were not too Irish an ex- pression, one might remark: "The country next year and for the next two or three years will likely be fill- ed with unbuilt bridges," We p ss through different spasms of feeling from year to year. No one offers any objection. The criticism of the Government is because it does not go ahead and spend. Then there comes a time when it is the day of remorse, we regret the expenses of the past. We are like that old revival hymn of our boyhood: "Ah the years of sinning wasted, Could I but recall them now." Lamb however, must continue to be shorn and bulls must disport them- selves as bulls always do and human- ity cannot be changed over night and we go on much the same year after year. Still there will be a lot of ser- iousness at the session more so than usual. There are a goodly nuniber of men of both sides who will be little likely to jolts about it, all for tho "I can't seem to see any way out," said Will Sloan to his wife. "If I could only get some sound advice!" His wife suggested his brother, who lived in a distant city. "You could telephone him, Will. He is sure to help you." Will hadn't thought of that. He did—and 'haw grateful he was to Long Distance! His brother solved the problem. THE WEEK IN OTTAWA (By R. J. Deachman) Parliament has met. This will be an interesting session. It will be the first real session since the Conservative Party came into power. True, there was a session held in September last, but this was only a baby effort—an introduction— a preliminary. It was, in a measure, taking the youngster out for its first airing. There was rush and hurry about it. Mr. Bennett shook a bony finger at the assembled members and especially at the honourable gentle- men apposite and said unto them: "Be good—let me get these meas- ures through. If you do not, I will refuse to go to the Imperial Confer- ence and heaven only knows what would happen if I fail to appear." Changed Times. This time there will be no such threats. There will be no need for them. Neither will there be any hur- ry. ' The opposition will be fairly strong and there are a lot of things it will want to know. It's a fair guess on the opening day of the ses- sion that there will be more questions asked this year than in any year since the dawn of the century. 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Oh, yes, there will he considerable criticism of Ole conduct of the Prime Minister at the Imperial Conference. We may expect a revival of. the word "humbug.' There will, of course, be an • equally spirited defence. There will be many • thin'gs else which may happen, but the 'humour, the bright- ness, the wit, 'wisdom, comedy and perhaps the tragedy of it all will have to be told from; week to week. No one can anticipate all the events which the session' will hold. 00 Weekly Crop Report. Naturally at this time of the year the reports of the agricultural repre- sentatives throughout Ontario would deal chiefly with seeds and seed problems. The most recent one states that seed cleaning activity is quite pronounced, particularly' in Lan- ark, where one large plant has been running to capacity for same time. In Leeds many enquiries are being received for seed grain. Winter con- ditions as reported from Muskoka and Parry Sound, have been almost ideal for new seeding. Hay is becoming scarce with the baled variety selling for $18 per ton. Ontario reports a heavy demand for both seed and sieve material for fanning mills. Large numlbers of Peel County farmers have been turning out for barn meetings at which agricultural problems are co-operatively discussed. In Perth, seed grain is not moving as briskly as in .other counties. Live stock in Peterboro is in good condition gen- erally, with feed quite cheap. The same applies to Prince Edward. Orch- ards and fruit bushes in South Sim- coe have wintered well because of the mild winter and good prices are be- ing obtained at sales. In Welland orchards are receiving a general clean up and are in good condition. More alfalfa seed than ever before is re- ported by Wellington. AMAZING PARTNERSHIPS OF NATURE Herodotus, one of the first world - tourists, was the Robert Ripley of Greece. One of his best stories was that of the astonishing relationship which existed 'between the crocodile and the Egyptian plover. He insisted that he had seen this bird step calm- ly into the wide open m%uth of the crocodile and pick the leeches from the big reptile's gums. He explained that the crocodile was never in the habit of restraining his appetite when any other living things got within reach of his quick -snapping jaws. And then he told them the bird performed another friendly service for the crocodile; it emitted shrill cries to warn him of approaching danger. And believe it or not, science has not been able to invalidate Herodotus' claim in the two thousand years which have elapsed since he lived and told his tales. Students have found that Na- ture presents many, amazing exem- pies which may be conscious partner- ships that are almost unbelievable or mere accidents. Species of ants shelter and care for the green or black plant lice or aphids, int exchange for the privilege of milking them, like cows, of the sweet plant juice they have eaten. The team of shark, sucker shark, and pilot fish has been a source of wonder and amusements to sailors for centuries. 'Several pilot fish are sometimes seen swimming around a single shark, like motorcycle police- men escorting a dignitary's automo- bile. And tiny sharks, called sucker sharks, attach themselves to the belly of the shark by means of a sucker - like muscular structure and hook a free ride. Like the crocodile, the shark seems to restrain his blood -thirsty appetite and not regard his small associates as legitimate prey—while in return for this immunity the pilot fish is supposed to guide the shark to schools of mackerel and other fish entirely suitable for a shark's dinner. The pilot fish thus resembles the pointer dog of a human hunter. Of course, course, the pilot fish does not disdain any scraps that escape the shark's jaws—such as a pearl -diving natiive. The pilot also secures considerable protection (through travelling in the shark's company) from being gobbled up himself by other large fish. It would seem from field and acquarium observation that the pilot fish is merely hanging around for food. Yet some naturalists. believing that the shark is quite capable of find- ing his own food, refuse to adroit that the pilot fish's share in the partner- ship is exclusively food finding, and think that he also performs some service as yet unobserved. At first glance it would seem that there could be no way for a clam or oyster to co-operate with a fish—yet one of the most remarkable partner- ships in Nature exists between the large mussels of lakes and streams and the fish called the Bitter Carp or Bitterling. Their association is in force only during the breeding season. At this time the female Bitterling de- velops a long orange -red egg -laying tube. It looks like a worm almost as long as she is. In the bottom mud lies a river mus- sel, with its shell partly open to re- ceive the microscopic food contained in the water. Suddenly the Bitterling swims over the mussel, inserts the red egg -laying tube between the valves of the shell, and expels prob- ably hundreds of her minute eggs in- to the shellfish's gills. The mussel's service is to shelter these eggs until they hatch and the baby Bitterling are large enough to swim out. The mussel plays nurse for about a month. What service can the fish render in return? The shell -fish is fixed in the mud; the fish swims far andwide in the lake and river. What more nat- ural than for the mussel to send out a stream of her embryos to attach themselves to the Bitterling's scales while she is busy with her egg -laying tube? To make the attachment eas- ier for the baby mussels, Nature has provided these tiny shell's with two sharp hooks. With them engaged in grappling the Bitterling's scales and fins, the mussel embryos, can secure free transportation until they grow big enough to drop off and sink to a new mud bed more favorable for growth 'to maturity. This balances Says Lifeue to Taking Dr. WilliairiV Due .Pills (Tonic) "When I was theage of twelve", mites Mrs. Win. Armstrosig, 263. ;Wentw!octh St. N., Hamilton, Ontario, '� I w a strong, healthy girl but bet,y�eep twelve and fourteen I became very sick indeed. I had to stay indoors just lying on a camp- bed. One day my 'nether bought Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for tee. ... Well 1.1 grew stronger 11 and stronger and I continued taldng the pills for two years and eight months, and I can safely say ,diet my life is aue to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Your daughter needs rest, good food, exerdse in the open air, a hobby or interest — and if necessary, a good tonic. You can get ler. Williams' Pink Tills from any 'ding store. Do so at once. Price 50 cents a box. Or write to Ijr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville. , o s the ledger, for she ferries the mussel children for about the same length of time that the Bitterling babies are be- ing cuddled by Mrs. 'Mussel. That the latter appreciates the arrangement is seen in the fact that she refrains from closing her shell and snapping off Mrs. Bitterling's egg -tube while it is between her jaws. The hermit crab would appear to have a legitimate ground for com- plaint against Mother Nature and her inveterate liking for experiments. Not content with making him lopsided, with one claw or pincer much larger than the other, she finally left him incomplete. He has a hard, horny covering in front, but his soft hinder parts are left totally unprotected. His life among hungry crab -loving fishes, would therefore not be worth a moment's purchase did he not, from earliest infancy, seek out an empty spiral shell in which to hide his un - armored rear end. And as he grows he must constantly change to larger and larger shells. You would naturally expect any creature who is forced to find new un- occupied lodgings of the right size every few months to be of very alert and enterprising mentality. This is nowhere better seen than in the clever arrangement which the hermit crabs have made with those strange animals that look like flow- ers—the sea -anemones. The crab noticed that the anemone is let severely alone. This immunity is partly due to the fact that it is provided with stinging threads which can be shot out and will penetrate the scales of small fish and kill them., Then again, larger fish find the an- emone undesirable because of a slimy. highly objectionable secretion from its skin. Our clever hermits knows that a big fish's palate teeth are strong en- ough to crush his shell if the fish really wants a meal of crab—;but he also knows that the fish will pass him up if it cannot secure him without getting a distasteful mouthful of 'ane- mone before et can crack his shell. So the crab joined forces with the ane- mone. Now, in exchange for his roof- ing service, the anemone gets free carriage to better feeding grounds with a. share of the crab's food. There are many illustrations in bot- any of plants that have taken particu- lar care to insure 'that ants shall feed at home on their stems and leaves. Why? Because the ants, usually pro- vided with formidable jaws and stings, are deadly enemies to the leaf -eating caterpillars and vegetation -destroying insects which might threaten a plant's life by stripping it of its protective foliage. In the case of the cow -horn orchid, which grows on trees in Central Am- erica, the plant has actually modified a part of its structure to make a permanent home for a protective col- ony of ant -police! Orchids, having no roots in the soil, can lonly weather the hot, dry season by storing moisture in long pod -like structures called "pesudo-bulbs." In the cow -horn orchid, these bulbs are extended (a foot or two long) and hollow. This arrangement gives the requisite waterstorage space in the walls and at the same time provides a long hollow gallery into which the ants can bring their nesting material and set up housekeeping. Here, no matter how hard it rains in the wet season, the ants can re- main dry and be ready to sally forth in force on the appearance of any caterpillar or other enemy of the plant and its foliage. And here is the most amazing fea- ture of the whole arrangement: at the base of each of the long pseudo - bulbs there is always a tiny doorway, for the entrance of the ant -police! Don't Give Sleeping Powders 1 N• EVER, never do that! Don't give anything but the safest remedies to a child_ Baby's Own Tablets are an abso- lutely safe laxative. For infants up to 6 months give one tablet; 6 to 12 months, two tablets; 1 to 2 years, two or three tablets; above 2 years, three or four tablets. Yon will find this an effective remedy for your child's cold, simple fever, sleeplessness and irritability. Don't ever be without Baby's Own Tablets! 25 cents box, at any druggist's. rtst B ,& B Y',S'I,OW TA ETT (Dr. Willierns;'J