HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-11-07, Page 3Cuticura Heals
Pimplos On face
That Itched and Barna
Scratched' Constantly.
41 44 Plo?Plea end hlapltheads on
my face which were caused by bad
blood. They eameest ahead
and were hard and red calm.
Ing clieligureraent for the
time being. They itched
and berried so much that
eonstently scratched and
made them worse.
r aent forst free sampled Cuticura
Soap and Ointment, and afterwards
bought. mere. Now I am coznpietely
bealed."' (Signed) Mies Joeephine A.
Wetmore, 35 Sheriff Se, St, John,
, N. re, Aug. 10, 1917.
leeep your skin clear by using Cutl-
cum for everyday toilet purposes.
For Free Sample Each by Mail ad -
dregs post -card: "Oetleura, Peet. A,
poeton, U. 8..A." Sold everywhere.
1 ' Put In addition it would not be
fieult nor should it be an exPensive
Matter to raise a, few calves of the
•• beef tepte or theal purpose type, if one
so desires. It le ill not regitire mime
feed in addition to the pasture.
The silo, Will be almost Indlepen-
:sable for rattling calve. Even if one
has but a very amen farm the silo will
be very Maul in eupplYIng the cows
and calves with aucculent food when
eroute, is disastrous end when Wintera
are severe, The silo will reduce the
cost of roughage even in favorable
masons.
The element In soil which ripen°
corn is phosphate. An abundant sup-
ply of phosphate guarantees early rip-
ening.
Net evere farmer is A good feeder.
Some who handle teams have A happy
faculty of meeting tlae needs of the
animal. In other words, some farmers
alweys have at horses and melee,
others have difficulty in keeping theIn
Cat and efficient. It is largely a mat-
ter of attention to the animals.
FAB21 NEWS AND VIEWS.
The practIce of allowing calves to
mat n with their dams until large
enough tor weaning has been proved
unprofitable where there is a market
for milk or buterfat. Consequently
most farmers evho sell the product oi
their cows have adopted hand -feeding
for Melting calves, Bet in this there
is constant danger of causing digestive
organs of the young calf Are adjusted
to receive warm milk direct from the
udder in small, quantities at ehort in-
tervals, ' When feeding by hand this
must be dupligeted as nearly as pos-
sible. Overfeeding, irregular feeding,
dirty pails, cold milk, sour milk, or old
milk will eansa trouble, The most
critical periods in the life of the young
calf are at the age of four to . six
weeks, when the feed is changed from
whole to skim milk, and six or 10
weeks, when the calved is beginning
to eat grain and hay. Calves are al-
ways. greedy, and for this season overa
feeding sheeld be avoided.
It is a well-recognized fact, though
one to often overlooked in selecting
sites for orchards, that cold air settles
to the lower levels. For this reason it
is often colder at the lower .eleva,
tions than it is at higher points in the
same locality. This is what is meant
by "atmospheric -arainage." the occur-
rence of frost in low places where
• there is none on elevated areas is
thus explained. For the same reason
peach Mide Are often a inter -killed or
the spring in low places when near-
by orchards on higher elevations are
injured much less, or even escape en-
tirely,
-P.uttIng the efficiency test to sows
with the milk scales and the Babcock
tester Is one of the essentials of con-
ducting a successful dairy. When feed
is high in price a farmer cannot afford
ta have boarders in his dairy barn
who eat up 'more food than their milk
yield is worth. The Babcock test will
show tb.ose delinquent eows in their
true light, and the milk scales will
put the clincher on the argument.
Testing cows will give some farmers
a big surprise. Some times the cow
that looks like the poorest creature
in the let is the best butterfat pro-
ducer. .
Harrowing shallow and often has
saved many an acre of potatoes and
cora from failure during dry weather.
A farmer who has had somessexper-
ience in mulching potatoes .says,.,that
the mulching should be clone after
several cultivations. la' dry, hoieeea-
sons mulching is a profitable practice,
A dressing of lime on clay.soil Will
make the hard lumps crumble and
the ground will be more friable And
mellow. •
Land plaster distributed in the drill
when sowing radish seed will give: the
radishes a brighter color and tend to
keep worms from destroying th„ene.
An experienced gardener says that
a good way of exterminating eurdpcks
is to cut thein off close to,the ground
Just beforee they go to seed. Then
apply a little kerosene to the root.
He uses a 'common machine all can
for applying the oil. .•
The wounds made by 'removing
limbs from trees should be treated
with a good tree paint. Such a mint
may be made of raw linseed oil and
white lead. It should be of such a Pont
sistency that it will adhere readily
and yet spread easily.
The Bowels Must Act Healthily. -
In meet ailments the first care of the
medical man is to see that tee 'bowels
are open and fully performing their
functions.- Parmalee's Vegetahle Pills
are so compounded that certain _in-
gredients in them act im theebowels
solely and they are the very best
medicine available to produce healthy
action of the bowels. Indeed, there is
not other specific so eerviceable in
keeping the digestive organs In health*
fel action.
r e
Odd and Interesting Facts.
Enough matches to light all its con-
tents are attached to a recently in-
vented cigarette box.
Leon Trotzky, lately so prominent in
Russian politics, was at one time a
moving picture actor in America,
APPLE SCALD AND JONATHAN
SPOT,
la a recent paper (Journal of Agri-
cultural Research, Vol; XL No. 7),
there are given some very interesting
notes on these two storage troubles of
apPlea, and since present conditiarts
demand most careful preservation of
all -food materials; the Central Ex-
perimental Farm, through its patho-
logical service, issue - a statement
whicla should be of especial interest
to every Canadian who has apples ili
his cellar or warehouse. The follow-
ing shert account of 'these two apple
troubles, based largely on the article
In question, atme at pointing out the
meaner that may be taken to avoid
scalding and epotting of our scanty
bet ''valuable supply of this fruit in
storage.
ai ia apples is a browning of the
skin nde deter tissue. It is different
from rots, because in rots the brown-
ing goes very deep into the tissue,
'whereas maid only affects the skin
and the flesh' immediately beneath.
Bot spots are usually definite in out-
line, while scald areas are often more
'or less irregular in shape. However,
scald areas are very often invadedby
rbt fungi, so that ordinarily one may
expect to find all sorts of corubina-
trona of the two.
The "Jonathan Spot," so called from
its being found very frequently on
the Jonathan variety, also develops in
etorage on several standard varieties.
such as Northern Spy, Greening, etc.
The spots are usually small, less than
y, inch in diameterand are sunken
and brown. The flesh under the skin
Is brown and somewhat day and corky.
There is another spot diaease, the
Baldwin Spot, or Steven, which may
be mistaken for the Jonathan Spot.
The Baldwin Spot, however, develops
when the apple is growing, and will
be present when the fruit is picked,
:Whereas the Jonathan. Spot develops
daring storage. Moreover,. the Bald-
win Spot may be found all though
the fruit, while the Seuathan Spot oc-
curs as small stinker, brown epots on
the surface only.
Both spot and ecald arise from im-
proper storage conditions, and will
likely be worse on fruit that hes not
matured properly before being 'picked.
The three etorage conditions that fav-
or spot and staid development are (1)
High temperature. (2) Humidity. (3)
Stagnant air. It should be understood
that the fruit is not completely dor-
mant, during the storage period, but
there Is a constant, if small, continu-
ation of .growth processes throughout
thee whole period. These proceed& re-
sult la mathring or mellowing the ap-
ple, and the chemical proceeses ethich
occur during them involve the absorp-
tion of oxygen from •the air and the
giving out of carbon dioxide. It is, in
fact, a slow breathing process. When
apples are stored. in e. place where
they have no free access tep air they
*re "emothered," and the scald which
deVelops on them is due to abnormal
chemic.al changes brought about be-
cause of an inadequate air supply, If
the room is to warm, the growth pro-
mese& are quickened, and scald or
tatting is increased. Very moist or
Ilumid air alao aggravates these trou-
bles.
It is elevlous that in an ordinary cel-
lar,spotting and scalding can be
largely 'avoided by a Itttle attention
to' the heeds of the fruit for cool, dry
conditions and a contingOus supply of
fresh air eluting the storage period.
It la recommended, (I) that apples
should be stored In small lots rather
than In 'large, close piled or bins. They
abould preferably be kept in open
slatted boxes er other similar contain-
ers, which wilt allow all the fruit to
bave free access t3 air. (2) That the
temperature be kept as low as is con-
sistent W4th protection fried frost,
end (3) that pletty of ventilation be
provided. If the air is changed fre-
quently in the :lend., the incoming
esepply Will not only renew the oxygen,
but will drive out the old, stagnant
air, which is laden with Moisture and
over -charged with carbon dioxide. The
method of ventilation can best be
detrmined by conditions; in some in -
./dances airshafts can be used, while
fa ethers the opening of doors and
rendows on mild days will be pos-
alble. In almost all eases 601110 simple
means of securieg frequent change of
air can be readily adopted, and the
fruit thus kept free from scald and
'spot trotrbles.
•
NOTES.
• Why not enlarge the Mestere till it
Is sufficient to graze calves enough
kr the fttrees beef supply and a few
to sell? Of mum, it Will be neeessary
to Inaintath the dairy calves. The
pasture Should be euffieient to take
•ce are of the calves needed to keep up
the tard's milk and better supply.
KEEP YOUR SIMI BRIGHT
BLACK KNIGHT
STOVE POLISH
I Will. EaSy
,irpt"4iih \I to
„Aril / tune
111.*
The tanks used in the war may be of
great Value in reclaiming the country
for agrictiltural purpeses after the con-
flict.
1.4••••••••••••••
Hereafter all policemen in the traffic
equad in St. Louis will be at least six
feet tall. Men of five feet sie and
Berne odd inches will be put cal the re-
gular squad.
Memo is the name of a beautiful
bird of the Hawaiian Islands, tow be-
lieved to be eatinet, hairing been de-
stroyed for the sake of Its golden -yel-
low feathers, Used. in krmer days to
decorate the state robes of chiefs.
•
The daily output of the twelve Ern-
isb, national projectile factories which',
have, as yet, developed barely emelt&
of their total capacity, would fill a
train one mile long composed of 400
trucks and requiring eight engines t�
pull it.
The Southern California, Retail Gro-
cers' AratociatiOn has .loinecl the Cali -
fore% Orange Growers' ]change to
make orattge juke a cOnipetitor with
grape juke as a national beverage.
Sequoyah, leVenter of the Cherokee
allehabet, was bile of the great inert of
the Indian rase. He Was a half-breed
whose Engliali name wat George
Guess. Ills father Was 4 White man
and his mother a full-blooded Indian
VoMan.
Mre, Catherine. Cudahy, -Widevr et
the Chleage meat packer, Micheal Cud.
has been made a papal coentase.
She shards this hOtter with only one
ether woman in the United States, the
Countess Leary, of. New York,
"So you're solo.' to work," said
lIfeandering Mike, "You het 1 am,' re*
plied Plodding Peter. "The L W. W.
has took ell the dignity out 0' 1011,f1ree,"
WishilegtOtt
trittfita
1MIMIT'altAL. W111,01,11614V, °GTO%
WHAT 'SOLDIERS
WANTi
M.••••
. A fuggestion t� thosa'.
'Whaler* sending' gifts hi
eoldiees, overseas corns
trent EA...co: (canon)
Frederick cargo Scott;
ea;: Senior Chaplain of ihe
First Division,,in a cablO
° recebrect by friendS.' in
t Montreal. He says Ma
1- men' want ,playing outs
and chewing tobacco."
vvet-,hati/nsaidt
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PoultryWorld
-
(By Prof. James B. eelormarte former
expert for the United Stetes De -
pertinent of Agriculture.)
As fall comes on, •the poultry keeper
should cull the old stock, dispose of
surplus cockerele, and get rid of serub
pullets, More meat, more eggs, and
more profits will result,
The primary need for poultry is, to
supply our homes with nitrogenous
foods. These keep the body iu health
and strength; they take the place of
red meats on the table, for poultry and
eggs can supplant beef, mutton and
pork in our dietaries. But, it poultry
sheuld be greatly Increased for the
sole purpose, of eliPPlying meat fee
the table, the egg supply would not
meet our needle, For general food uses
eggs are more inlportant than the
fowls themselyee.e
One of the needs for better pohltry
is to give as great an egg supply with
a fewer number of fowls. This can
be done by proper culling the older
hens. The time to slaughter a hen for
the table or market is when she is
no longer capable of profitable egg
production. Thie is utilizing th,
dual-purpose hen to the best advan-
tage. Testa have ehoevn that fear hens
are profitable after two laying years.
Hens should be carefully culled, there-
fore, in their second year.
The first hens to be culled for meat
are the fat birde, which are uaually
poor layers. But to -day a fat hen is
a store of wealth. Such a hen will fre-
quently yield from a pound to a pound
and a half of fat. This is conoentrated
food. It yields heat for , the human
body. The money.value of this fat may
run from 40 to 65 cents. In addition,
the flesh will be worth 35 or 40 cents
a pound. While the heavier dual-pur-
pose fowls may grow fat, which has
been regarded as a fault, it Is not to
their disadvantage in war times. Kill
off the older fat hens for the meat,
the fat, and the money they will bring.
HENS FOR LAYING:
Some hens molt early and others
molt late. It has been found better
to keep early -molting hens for late
fall and winter egg production. These
ueually begin laying before the pul-
lets, and continue laying all winter.
Moreover, these birds make the best
'breeders for early hatching of vigor-
ous chicks. If early molting hens
show sigma of health and vied', they
should be retained for winter egg pro-
duction, and as breeders for maintain-
ing the vitality of the flock.
But late -molting hens should be
killed or sold for table use. They
have served their economic usefulness
as late layers. As a rule, they would
be fed all winter at a loss. They re-
quire more food to maintain the heat
of the body on account of their lack
of feathers to keep them warm. The
more food expended in keeping up
bodily heat, the leee surplus energy is
produced for creating feathers. Hence
the molting process takes longer than
in summer. Se, it ,has been found
•economy to turn late -molting hens
ieto meat than to keep them for egg
production.
CONCERNING SCRUB PULLETS.
Besides the old hens, many young
birds should be fitted for table use.
This applies particularly to surplus
cockerels and scrub pullets, The lat-
ter usually lack vitality. As such they
make poor layers and worse breeders.
The best thing is to feed them on a
fattening ration for two or three
week', and then ship them to market.
This course will not only save time,
annoyance and expense, but it will
prove profitable.
As a rule, 50 per ee,nt. of the chick-
ens hatched are cockerels. A little
attention given to systematic feeding
will yield the producer a good profit,
For table purposes there is no better
THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
• Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.
Philadelphia, Pa. -"I was Very weak,
estlWays tired, my back ached, and I felt
Sickly most of the
time. I Went to a
doctor and he said
I had nervous
indi-
gestion,Which ad-
ded tomy weak
condition lop nio
worrying most of
the time- and he
Said if I could not
stop that, I could
not get well, I
heard aornuchabout
Lydi a E. Pinkharn's
Vegetable Com-
pound my husband wanted me to try it.
I took it fora week and bit a little bet-
ter. I kept ittip for three months, and
I feel fine' and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness.
3. WOlteritatele, 2842 North Taylor St.,
Philadelphia Pa.
The =jolty of mothere nowadays
overdo, there ate so many dementia
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably a weakened, run-down,
nervous eeeditiell with headaches, batk.
ache, irritability and &premien-and
$00n More serious ailblents develop.
It is At itmliveriods In IA that Lydia F.
Pinkhritril Vegetable Compound will
rietet6 a 'norima healthy condition, as
Lt did to Mrs, Vrotthline.
meat than a well -fattened cockerel of
the heavier breeds. Surplus cockerels
and scrub pullete sold for this purpose
will improve the meat situation this
winter.
This applies, also, to the disposal of
surplus breeding males. Why keep a
male that is no longer needed for
breeding? "The, males for meat" -
this was a slogan of the Kansa e ex-
periment station aud It proved a great
financial' benefit to farmers in that
• state. The advantage in the produc-
tion of infertile, eggs was worth a
million dollars.
COCKERELS FOR MARKET.
The best cockerels needed for breed-
ing should be carefully selected. The
others should be penned by them-
selves. For putting flesh on them
they must be fed liberally. A variety
of feeds help digestion. Experiments
have shown that oats, whole or ground,
are excellent for putting flesh on cock-
erels. Since this is now one of the
cheapest grains, to feed oats works to
the advantage of poultry raisers. The
following rations have given good
results:
First thing in the morning the cock-
erels are given a little grain mixture
composed of two parts, by measure„ of
eats and equal parts of corn, wheat
and scratch feed, About 9 o'clock
they are fed a wet mash consisting of
two parts bran, one part middlings and
one-half part each of ground oats,
cornmeal, meat meal and boiled pota •
toes. • At noon they receive a small
quantity of the grain ration. Plenty
of green feed is supplied morning and
night, In three, weeks' time the cock-
erels are fat enough to 4r.arket. This
fall and winter such birds will prob-
ably bring 60 cents a pound.
Every poultry keeper should deter-
mine ea early as possible, how many
pullets he intends to winter and then
sell the others. If his surplus birds
are standard in size and vitality, they
should be sold to aomeone who pro.
pose,s to keep them for egg produc-
tion. There 'is always a demand for
such pullets. If there are any scrub
pullets in the remainder of the flock,
cull them out and fit them for market
in the mannes describesl fer cockerels.
IS POOR POLICY.
It is poor policy to sell young pullets
as roaerere 111 the fall months simply
because they biing a little higher
price per pound at that time, unless
they art scrubs. It is one's patriotic
duty to keep every pronereing pullet
for egg production. In the past I have
examined numerous orates of roaster
thipments only to surprised at the
large number of fine tenets that are
sold as meat. eepparently no effort
had been made to cull the ecrubs frem
the best pullets of the flock. The
profit In raising pullet roasters to
that age would be trifling compared to
what it would be if sue% eullets had
been kept for egg production and then
sold for meat after their profitable
laying period was over. The folly of
this kind of business cannot be too
strongly emphasized.
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A Cure tor
Bad Breath
"Bad breath is a sign of decayed
teeth, foul stomach or unclean
bowel." If your teeth are good,
. look to your digestive organs at
, once. Get Seigel's Curative Syrup
1 at druggists. . 15 to 30 drops
1
after meals, clean up your food
° passage gnd stop the bad breath i
• •1 odor. 50c. and $1.00 lIottles,
Do genuine.
substitutes. Get
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The Crux, .
He'd never really been keen on sol-
diering.
He's only gone Into the army be-
cause he couldn't very well avail it.
But hitherto he had gone through
with it without making a conspicuous
358oowf ,hhinoiwseel
however, that the moment was
at hand, the moment that would real-
ly test him, he knew hinidelf for a
eowlird.
He felt a worm, a jelly -fish, no man
-he felt, in fad, a conglomerafiei of
all the emotions that analytical novel-
ists, depicting their heroes in Inue
funk, had described at length in the
days before there was a paper short-
age
And the earth refused to open and
swallow him.
And even the opportunity of run-
ning away was denied him, e ze the
brutal sergeant -he'd always dielikcd
that particular ,sergeant -had set him
in front of the first rank Inside the
hollow soutue and was huskily whis-
pering in his ear: "Now, me lad, if
yer will be a blinkin' hero, go out and
take yer medicine."
"Corporal Smith," called an officer,
reading from a paper.
And Corporal Smith guiltily crawl-
ed forward to receive from the hands
of the general the decoration he had
earned in Frattee.--London Opinion.
, A 33
Emos-4......t Like-.....irds.
It IS a little known fact that flying
fish, encountered in the tropics, actu-
ally flap their whiles the same ae
birds. It is commonly supposed that
the fish merely volplane, sail, after
getting a good start With rapid sWirise
ru,ng. The flapping Of Wet* eings.
however, is so easily seen that it t an
be detemed with the naked eye. Al-
so, flying fish are delicious for the
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U. S. Leaders
In War Zone
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(GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING)
It was quite by the merest elm=
that General John J. Perseing, the
commander-in-chief of the American
Army in France, went into the army
at all.
He intended to be a school -teacher
-in fact, he meet surely would have
been a school -teacher if it hadn't been
for a newepaper article,
One day he read an animaseement
in a paper that exanilnations '.vee to
be held for a., anointment to Los
West Point Military Academy. The
announcement attracted him, Ile
asked his sister's advice on the mat-
ter, Should he try for the appoint-
ment; His sister advised him most
certainly to do so.
So John Pershing went in for the
exam., heart and soul, with the result
that he received the highest marks of
any of the candidates. And that start-
ed his military career.
He went through the Military A.23-
demits, became a subaltern in due
course, and, like Many other subal-
terns of his timd, fought in the vari-
oue. American wars and skirmishes.
He reached the rank of captain, and
fought in the Philippine Islands.
Nothing very startling in. his eareer
so far.
Then it was that his big promotion
came.
President Roosevelt had his eye on
Captain Pershing, saw the very excel-
lent work he had done Iii the Philip-
pines, and, at one stroke, raised him
from the 'rank of captain to that of
brigadier -general.
President Roosevelt knew he was
the man for the Rib, so he put him
straight there without more ado, ig-
noring the intervening ranks, jumping
him over the heads of more than 000
other officers to „do so, and creating a
record for promotion in the United
States Army.
One can Imagine that General
Pershing will be very courageous in
the matter of promotion out in
France, and raise a man to whatever
position he merits, and ia fitted for,
irrespective of What rank he is, seeing
that he himself was raised in that
Way,
The full grade of general was re-
vived when Brigadier -General Penh-
ign came over with the first American
Army for France. Only, four officers in
the history of Amerlea have borne thie
title -namely, Washington, Grant,
Sherman, and Sheridan.
General Pershing is in favor of com-
pulsory military training and service.
and it is one of his saylage that "vol-
untary recruitment is a relic of mili-
tary inefficieney."
The American general is an ideal
t5pe of soldier, good-natured aed
charming, though there ie More than
a hint of the powerful will and high
military training in the lined forehead
and straight clear CYO%
He is known to his men -among
whom he is immensely popular - as
"Fighting John," "Kitchener Persh-
ing," and "Black Jack,"
;Many Englishmen -etho have spoken
to the general are extremely surprised
that his speech is singularly free from
the American "accent." He is a shy,
retiring man, where military matters
are not concerned, and has a thorough
dislike to publicity.
'Curiously enough, General Persh-
ing's ancestors came from Alsace. His
forefather Frederick came to Balti-
more with his brother John front, Al-
sace in 1745, sad eettled in Pennsyl-
vania. There is a public roati leading
from the little Village of rieauman, in
Alsace, which is called Pershing Road,
though it is spelt "Pforshing," which
in Alsatian patois means "the peach."
Whether this react really dates from
the time General Pershing's angestors
lived there is uncertain, but Arneri-
cane like to think it does.
Now General Pershing is doing his
best to help the French to wrest the
land of his ancestors from the iron
band Of Germany.
General Pershing is flftvenx years
of age, He was married in 1905, and in
1915 the tragedy of his life occurred.
His wife and three young daughters
were burned to death in a fire at the
Presidio, an army post near San reati-
el. to, where tie was tuen stationed.
, ADMIRAL W. S. Stele.
Another notes:or:11y maa oniengst
the American Forces tioW in Europe
Is Admiral W. S. Simi. Cheer up and
get busy" Is sell to be his motto, and
he is, of course, the Commander -in -
Chief of American Naval Forces op -
crating in European waters. Certainly
the American Admiral lives up to his
motto. He is 'always cheery, and. In-
variably busy,
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SPECIALISTS
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Oyspopme, Esiiiepsy, Rheutriatism, 014.1n, gist*
Moods Nerve and aledder
, Celt or seed history for toe Wrist. Wakes
turniti ed th tsbiet form, Ilcure,-10 S.M. tO 1 g4,010
Sad lite 6p.m. Suadsys-10 km. tO OZ.
COSseititelas Feel Alt,
DRS. 601:ISA WHttlr'
ta 'Neosho Si,, Totapsio, 0st,
Nesse Mention This Paper,
He Made his amanitas a gunnery eee
pert.
It is a rielte thing to tell your Nosy
Departnlent alee ellperior officera that
their ;lotions of guenery are entirely
wrong and Inefficient. But Admiral
Wino -then gale a lieutenant -took
the risk. He Wm en a China station at
the time, and hall become a close
friend of Sir Percy Scott, our great
• gunnery expert. The two worked to-
gether, and Lieut. Sims soon :taw his
way to IMProye American naval gun-
nery.
He bombarded the Navy Department
at Waehington with letters dealing
with the new methods, did was snub-
bed for his pains, for he received leo
anower to hie epistles. Nothing daunt-
ed, he continued writing.
Finally he wrote to President Roo30-
velt about the Matter, and was ordered
home.
Luckily tor him, however, Rear-Ad-
rolral Cameron Melt. 'Winslow, then
Assietaut Chief of the Bureau of Na-
vigation, had been reading eome of
the numerous reports he had sent
home, and, as he read, be became con-
vinced that there might be something
in the lieutenant'a contention. So he
went to the White House to plead for
Sims.
The indomltable seaman asked the
President if he could have a trial by
ordeal. He said that if one or two
Dreadnoughts 'succeeded in hitting a
certain target any decent percentage
of time he woold stand convicted of
presumptuous conduct,
Five Dreadnoughts spent five houre
at the, target practice, and scored nct
a single hit. Then Lieut. Sims had his
chance. •
Like General Pershing, he jumped
over the head of his superior officers
When President Wilson promoted him
through two grades to his present po-
sition of Comtnander-inaChief of Am-
erican Naval 'Forces Irt European
waters.
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THE AF EER EFFECTS
OF DREADED IA GRIPPE
Worse Than the Disease Itsrlf—
Victims Left Weak, Nervous
and Worn Out.
La Grippe, or Spanish influesiza As
the epidemic now sweeping over all
America is called, is one of the most
dangerous diaeases known to mans
kind. Anyone who has felt Its pangs
Is not likely to forget the trouble. La
Grippe, or influenza, starts with a
slight cold and ends with a complica-
tion of troubles. It lays the victim
on his back it torturea hen with
fevers and chills, headaches and back-
aches. It leaves him a prey to pneu-
monia, bronchitis, consumption and
other deadly diseases. Its after effects
are often more serious than the dieease
itself. It Is quite possible to avoid la
grippe by keeping the blood rich and
red by the use of Dr. Williants' Pink
Pills -a tonic medicine which enriches
the bleed and strengthens. the neyves.
If, however, the disease attacks you,
the patient should at once go to bed,
and call a doctor before complications
set in. That is the, only safe thing. te
do. But to recover your strength after
the severity of the shock has passed,
you will find Dr. Williams' Pink Pill
an unsurpassed tonic. Through the
use of this medicine all the e,vil after
effects of this trouble will be &atoll<
ed. This has been proved in thou-
sands of cases threughout Canada,
Where in previous sestsons la grippe
has attacked them. Among. the many
thus metered to _full health is Miss
Irene Bootes, Portsluouth, Ont. who
says: "I take. much pleasure in re-
eammesidliag Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,
because I have proved their worth ill
my own case. Last winter I had a
severe, attack of la,griePe and it left
me weak and all, run down. I had
severe pains in the, chest and under
the arms, palpitation of the heart, and
attacke of neuralgia,• which left me
with the feeling that life was ecarcely
worth living. I was advised to try
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and began
their use only on the principle that I
woeld try anything that might better
my condition. I. had only been using
the pills a couple of weeks when •the
pains began to leave •me. Gradually
my strength returned, my appetite im-
proved, and in a little more than a
month I felt all my old' -time vigor had
returned, I am sincerely glad I was
persuaded to try Dr. Williams' Pink
Pill, and I shall always have a good
word to say for them,"
Dr. Williams' pink Pills not only
cure tho disaetreas after effects of in
grippe, bttt are also a' specific fog all
trOubles due, t� poor blood, such as
anaemia, rheumatism, Indigestion, wo-
men's ailments, wed the generally worn
out feeling that affects so many people.
Yau can get the& pills through -any
dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50
cents a box or six boxea for $2.50 from
The Dr. Williams Me,dicine Co., Brock-
ville, One.
TEST YOUR LUNGS.
A Simple Method by Which One
May Measure'llis Development,
People often duffer from weak, un-
developed lungs without suspecting it.
True, small, feeble lungs are usPally
associated with a small, narrow or
sunken chest, but not invariably. By
meatts of the misuse of physical cul-
ture it is possible to develop large
chest muscles, „thus acquiring a big
•ehest measurenleitt, while the lungs
remain Mail and ill -nourished.
Again, rung mischief is often' so
slow and insidious in its approach
that the trouble is not discovered un-
til it is firmly established. Hero, how-
ever, is a simple' test which will tell
you Whether your lunge are healthy
or
Tnaoltte as deep •a breath as you can,
and then, in a slow bet distinct voice
count from one onward as far as you
ean without taking in more breath.
The number of seconds you ean con-
tinue counting Is a pretty reliable in-
dex to the State of your lungs, se Yen
should bave some one to tittle you,
• If your lungs are sound and normal-
ly developed, yoeir range will be be-
tweerl twenty and thirty-five seconds.
If your limit is betWeen ten and
twenty seconds there is no need to be
alarmed; probably your lungs aro
Merely in need of exercise, to be
readily obtained by regular deep
breathing in pure air. • A range lese
than ten seconds, howeVer, points to
more or less misehlet, and you should
not delay In having your lungs exam.
ined by a medical man.
MO P011011 Helder.
Por persons using pencils almost
continuously 4 clip has been inVented
to hold one an the back of the left
hand momentarily when the right hand
is occulted for other work,
THE ONLY
. AY
to cure gskin disease, ulcer or
pre permanently is te get to 'the
"root" of the disease. That's Whitt
Zara -link does.
Zamlink's extraordinary powers
of penetration, combined with ite
germ -destroying properties enable
it to reach gad destroy all garnet In
thq underlying tioeues, Where aide
fit:tibiae Itave tiler origin. In
other words, Zsmn-BuiS cure from
the "root" upward, so that no trao
of the disease is lett to breele out
again.
To get lasting results, therefore,
you, should use Zaradeule or ell
skin diseases, boils, ulcers reed
blood-polealling, aores and ones.
An dealers, 50c. box. e
a
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Two On
A Scent
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("Seamark," in Sheffiele, Rpg,, Inde.
• pendent,
There are destroyers and -destroy-
ers. Some are, the advanced creations
of the war, and as such are' respected
by the various units having dealings
With them; others are the pathetic
'pride o' the navy" of yesterday.
The Bustler undoubtedly pelongesi to
the aecond category; eke was ridicu-
lously mid-Vietorian. She Welted it as
she lay in harbor; her very appear-
ance was sheepish, sele•depreciating.
She had a captain -a reallive "loot."
but not so's you'd notice. Hi was the
grubbiest of all the, grubby denizens
of the bridge; the "cnattiest" of all the
llama coats was his,, and. • his gold
braid had long since admitted defeat
at, thelhands of a big succeseion of coal
sihips, The crew called him "Bugs."
Now Bugs was a man of ideas. He
belonged to the unattached division,
so that his patrol ' courees took him
-.mostly into pleasant waters, yet he
longed for a stronger, a Swifter coni -
mad. He knew; moreover, that he
mast serve his apprenticeship on "the
blamed hooker" to the full of his time,
unless he could prove tee the Brass
Hats that he was worthy of a . . .
Ah, well, Mahomet Must go to the
mountain. •
There are great traffic lanes down
the east coast, %here, the giant mer-
chantimen sedan in steady convoys,'
where they occasionally leave one be-
hind, and where the acent Is alwaye
good, and the peck abound. There
Bustler dispel ted • herself„ .greatly • to
the disgust of various Fritzes who
dipped quicker than they rese, fluently
cursing the little grey Oast of the
swatchwayse and welting for the awful
"Woomph!" of the falling . depth.
charges. But ill -luck seeneed to deg
the wake ef Beefier.
"I ain't glad 3 joined!" vehemently
declared Bugs to the world at large.
"If you kaep On your present course
much longer yoael be cutting canals. in
the Maplinse• returned the. first neg..
tenant, by way of rebuke.,
"All right. e Bring her nose out to
Heligoland, and when we get there tell
old Bill I Wish destroyers had never
been invented. I'm fed -fed right.up."
"Oh! go and turn in. I'll give you
a shout for the, first," said the. first
lieutenant. with a grin. The eltipper
retired, gleaning to.. -
Then a -well, it looked like a dingy
old tramp-eloonied• veer the skyline
and flickered something at her fret&
darkened e lamp. Thereafter their
&urges ren,Parallel, but far apart.
At half -east seven it happened. A tin
fish caught the tramp in tee' foreheAd,
but the bulkhead,s • held, and • the
Beefier caught .the Submarine all over
lid, with a. salve, and the bulkheads
didn't hold. Lea,stways, they, fished
• four survivors etit ..of the oil patch,
and that looks a 'bit suspicions, doesn't
it?
Hustler ranged alongside the, tramp.
eAtit-in?" sh,e said.
"Ole, deer, not" replied the tramp,
"Good for at lervet kur knots."
"Racehorse!" taunted, Bustler.
"Throw me a bit of string and tow
you."
"You? Tow me? Run away and
play, little boy! Mother will miss you
if you're out after dark." .
Bustler's blood was up. However
much Bugs might traduce his charge
in 'his own wardroom, he wasn't going
to awed by and hear ft openly elan.
dered by a Gentile.
"Look here," said Bugs. "I'll have
you remember that this destroyer .18
one of the little old boats that tucked
old Tirpitz away, in Kiel in the .early
days of the war, when you deer,:
people were panicky for the nearest
Port. There's material In this hoOker •
-she was built before the war. ,Now
-it you've got a towing wire in that
decrepit old packet of yours that will
etand a ten -knot strait', sling it over,
and not so /leech chin maid 1 have
sp
The wire came across, and wounded
dignity and insulted impudence
• flounced away together -ono lorikleg
for a dry dock, and the other hoping
for a few hours' leave. '
And that' a how we, catch 'em-eome.
times.
Tallow and Ink.
If ink Is split. 'en the fableeloth Im-
mediately melt e candle, taltleg sonte
of the tallow, spread it over the ink
patch and leave it to dry. Afterward
wash the tablecloth and all traces of
ink disappear.
Even at wartime pricee WS easy
enough to bey shou. The trouble is
to foot the bill.
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HARD TO, FOLLOW'
Avonsier )N1lere that caetlidat0
stanilth"
"sawirt't korn to stand anywhera.
Ii:estke running around in airclea."
AN UNDEFINED EXPRESSION.
4..T.s your Owe 'within widk,In# digs
tance et the cars?'
"I dunno," answered Fennel: Corn-
Nosel. "How far kin you walk?
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+FE WAS fi iatfr.
130o837 Brennan (tryhig blarney)*.
foine 4ay, yer honor.
Judge -You are right, and the anioutt
of yours will be no,
H EAR ID AT TI:e" CLUB.
"Poor Jones 1 troubled with hYpOs
Metairie."
"What's that?"
a bort of ilyspepsia or the dome."
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NO REO,R4TS.
Senthnental Sam-Pon't yet, levin'
thoughts ever Wander back toyer old
home life, B111?
Booze -Naw; / was rals.ed In er
Prohibitien- town.
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A LIFESAVER.
"Spendid girl, Milli: saved her life
once,
';)•ndeed:
"She said she would sooner die tbart
become mywife and I didn't inslets.
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A -HAPPY RELEASE.
Basil wag 'a bore and a brainleas one
at that. He looked' dreamily at the
charming girl .on whom he was endeav-
oring to make a favorable impresalon.
"Int you ever long for death?" he
malted. In a low and moving torte.
"Whose?" Inquired the charming but
practical young person.
1
DELICATE quEStION,
1aCry-How long since, yen. have
done any work?
Tiamp-Pardon me, lady, but I'm
rather sentitive about me age.
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DURING HOT F14i-rriNG..
Mr. Dielt-1 wonder how Soldiers in the
trenches manage to get their clothes
dry when they Wash thin. •
Stick (oheerfully)-I suppose they
hang thcm on thtfiring line. '
(1)311 Rk IfN
iYon PR EC. e OA 11/PENT.
"Is that your auto outside?"
"No, that's Brown. He swallowed some ,
gasoline by mistake for medicine and '
now instead of coughing he lionit.s."
NOT (riosHtclmS TFitf.a.eniese.crTpl,t0)N.
"I want to know," said the grimfaced
woman, "how much money -my husband
chew out of the bank last week."
"I can not give you that information,
madam," answered the man In the cage.
"Yon're tlie paying teller, aren't yeti?"
"Yet, but not the telling payer."
PREPAHEDN'ESS.
Burglar -Cot i, dz•aft registration card
you'i 0 not using't •
Pickpocket •(producing a po.ek)-What's
your favorite name?
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DrFFERENT NOW.
"Jones alWays;used to be making him-
self Out Yeanger• than he
"Doesn't he 40 it now?"
"Not shied the draft registry."
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• , PB;gcl,s1sPPI, . •
"Looka here,' .sald the irate soldier,
"there's the butter." •
"That binft a fly," kindly commented
the Mess .Sergeant "It is a moth. And
that Isn't butter; It's Oleotnargarine.
Othepvise..yOur xissertion is entirely cor-
rect. •
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WISE *JACK.
Little. Jack. Smith's Sunday school
teacher, atter a lesson On Ananias and
Sapphire. usked, "Why is • not,everybody
who tells„.4.11e skruck dead,?"
Little J7ib gravely, "Cause
there woilldn't be; anybody left."
.• Fc)RSION
Kistress-ban you prepare any foreign
dishes, Noah? • • •
New • Cook -Sure I can, mum -French
pays, Spanasivinyons and °Irish pitaties.
•A T
THOS CgA, MAILS.
"Does yettr son write OftP,n. from the
front?" • •
'"rwlee a week."
"So you get letters every Wednesday
and Saturdays."
"No. One every eix weeks is the. aver-
age."
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IA BAD.
"We played fool," declared the crotvn
‘
prince; see It now."
qkeraci the whole world to Molt a
fight, wIth." .
f." look at the crowd
out."
SUSFIC1ON.
"Don't talk .to' me about Methuselah."
exclalthed Cie army man.
never 'heard' anything against him."
"Well I have my suspicions that he
reported 'hla age as -high as1 possible to
make sure of being beyond* the draft
limit,"
we picked
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Curing .Tuberculosis.
The earlier tu"13°me os s Is detected
.'
in aft individual case, the greater are
Inc ToziiibIllties of a cure. Therefore
help your ,friend, your neighbor, yeur
relative, to recognize and treat this
,d!sease at :the start.
The first eseehtlal fer the treatment
is rest until. the diseaae ha$ ceased
progressing. The physicianmust de -
termites?. wben •exerclee Blunted be re...
sumo.- The second 'is IV* in abuzr:-
stanCe until the •loat weeetlehas been
regained, And a little Mere, The third
Is fresh air, indoors and out, but most
of he timh'oueeelh arse -aeons and
teweirrere. if lhe. patierft°.41defis indoore.
The wiadowsi and the aexteenal dere
of his ,rooM, it,AAere oneohould be
Open twerp night, and ell night.
The Werth Is hope' addedetermina-
ben. tou.r elmags for inetvery will
largely YOWL, aftitiide of
11)teirnniiiinaendd eflielrlitnegoneree9cetvilerrerkca3 yoellre.
acr: ales at the heginninglonterva-
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Had Everything Skinned.
Mary had a little lamb-
'Twas leertilatt-ott her coat;
She also had a mink or two
About tier dint y .thrget;
A bird et„ paradise: te tern
And ermino 'Made the 'hat
That perelied at jaunty angle
On her toltfitte, la'rgely "rat."
Her tiny boots wereemable topped,
Her• gloves eyeee ineskrat, too,
Her muff had heads and' tails of half
The "defiers" iti the zoo.
And when. the Walked abroad, t ween,
She feared no wintry winds:
A t keeping Warm, *Was plain to Pk
She 'hod etir nature "skinned."
'- '4'11 1111'
Plenty .of iientpany.
It ustIally takes thirty ceets to reap e
what it took thirty minutes to sow in
the 'Wild oat crop, arid a hundred Mett
often take part in the reaping of what'
one little fellow saved. - No Man sow.
eth or Meweth Wild eats be hinteelf.
right rt. Ont NOW.
You cannot tun away fron't a weak-
ness; you must sornetthle fight it oUt
or perish, end if that be SO, Why net
now and where you stand?„ ---.R. L. Mt: -
velum.