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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-10-16, Page 6enteeasegnseatetee ateseeseggeee PER U VIAN BOOKKEEPING fl yOU have spent precious hours eieMputitig Your lucerne tax, YeU still Mane Callas to congratulate youreelf that Yen are not a Pereolan. liter the Peruvian's kept their eacounts l'Y %Miens ot knotted strings -a method tit bookkeeping whicb might add eon- eiderably to the tria,is of the Income tax payer. 1 It le ficatictienes claimed thet tot reeeircle have been used to cometeum- . rate important historical even;s, Pre- ` aerate tratlitione., etc. Whether rm it 'this be true, it ie well loaown that the Use ot knot recerde for prestoriag ntiMerleal accoitnts bas been vtairly 'practised by prinatiVe peoples, Pit" tictilarly in. China, anti neru. Tao moat remarkable developmett of 'snot records is to be found in mere recent time among the laces of Peru, elanY carefully kept knot record e bave been found in Inca gra,ves arnong the er- My of personal possessions butied with the dead,. The Incas, althoug rebresenting an advanced stage of tiv11itio, aid possessing a highly -developed gov- ernmental machinery, a veto a of tradition and an Unusually rich, and expressive language, had no system of writing. aet, lacking this, they kept accurate recOrds of all the ac- eounts of the Inca empire, census and tribute statements, birth: and death statistice, etc., as well. as private, ace counts such as crop and etoeit records . Still more surprising, they used the decimal system. 'Moreover, their numerical records -while not as con- venient, perhaps, nor as quick noted doyen as ours -were absolutely lucid and easily transportable. A knot record consists of a serice of knotted cordeS depending, like a triage, from a main •'cord called a "(Alpo" (from the QuIchua Indian word meaning "knot"). The cords used in knot acceunts were spun twice the desired length, then doubled and the two strands twisted together, a loop being left at the closed end. In attaching to tne quipu. or main cord. the pendent .cord was laid around the quipu, the free end being passed through the loop formed by the doubling, and waa then drawn taut. The knots 'In the pendant cents rep- resent different numbers, their value depending on the 'distance from the main eord and on the manner of ty- ing, A single or overhand knot tied in it. pendent cord, if it is.in the posi- tion furthest from. the main cord (uuits pesition) stands for 1. Two such knote In the same position rep- resent 2, , Two suet, knots in the po- sition next farthest away from the main cord (tens position)indicate 20. or, if in the next position (hundreds order), 200. " The decimal system be- ing used, not more than nine single knots are ever found in one group. A long knot was ueed in place of a cluster of aingle knots to express the repetition of units of tbe eame order.. The rows of knots represeuting units. tens; 'hundreds, etc., in a comelete knot record were kept. straight (so thatethey yam horizontally• across the fringe), jest as our columns of figures are kept straight in amounting. Differently colored cords were used, sometimes merely as a matter of fan- cy or convenience with the record keeper, but frequently to indicate ditterent accounts. A peruvian herds- man would. (and does to this day) keep the record of his rains on cords orone colorathe record of his ewes, en cords of another color and the record ot his leinbs on Nits of a third color. V,ery frequently, short subsidiary cords were attached to pendent cords to represent oumbers outside the main count. For inetance, a record Of, the population of an Inca Village • naight for some 'reason bY supplemen- ted by a record of deatns. A series of, blue cords might be used to indi- cate the number of men living in. the village at a given time, a series of • tea: cords the Member of Women, end ita addition, a eithsteliary cord of cor- responding color fight be osed in ea.ch case to indicate the number of deaths within a given period of time, Still another cord might be used to sum up the account kept on the series ot cords. The cord repreaenting the to- tal was attached in such a way that if it and the group of cords were Palled taat from the main cord then ends would extend in opposite lire:. times. II. Leland Loelte, of Columbia Vol- vetsity, was tbe' first to work out the significance of tho Peruvian knot rec- ord & To him belongs the di:nine:ion of baviug analyzed What wan probab- ly the earliest system of notation of the western world. Mr. Locke has denaonetrated by teetieg ;tell check- ' hie that he cau readily and correctly read the knot reeords of the Inca Hie researches were made possible tbroUgh the coartesy of the Atnerican -Museum of NaTtirftI History, which extended to him the -freedom of its collections of kfloi records. An num- ber of these, with primed explana- tions and diagrains, sleeve been placed on public view in the Peravian Hall on thira floor ot the maseutn.-New York Sun., *••• SCIENCE NOTES. SIR WILLIAM'S • --WILL She euepected nothing, It remained she had not heard the passiouate with him to deeide what he should do. Flight occurred to him, et course. Flight is the first thing a man thinks of when he bas been strack to the heart by love's dart. But flight seemed, to him mean, cow- ardly. Ile had undertaken to over- see the building of this jetty at Peth- wick; he had thrown himself heart and soul into the work, not fecogniz- ing that his ardor sprang from his desire to remain near Clytie; Lord StantOn, the lad who had treated him so well, and to whom he had grown attached,. relied upon him: flight was distasteful to him. And, after all, why should he go -just Yet? Clyne lead not heard bis passionate avowal, was still ignorant of his ident- ity with Wilfred Carton; he could surely keep a watch and guard upon leis lips for the future. No; he would not fly. lie would remain until the jetty was finished; then he would re- turn to Parraluna, develop Sliver Ridge, and bury himself in Australia as "Jack Douglas." "I hope she hasn't caught cold!" he raurraured, as he came to a de- cision. It sounded like aneomnon- Dlace aspiration; but it was the true lover's ianxiety for the beloved's "Ni- ter& He went home, and, to bed, nt last; hot he could not sleep. In the atilt-, nese, the darkness, of tae room he Mrs. Jarrow and all at Parraluna. Was back again In the boat, vine CO"- For that' day, and many after, Jack tie's lifeless form in his arms iter worked with the men with what.seem- head pressed against his breaet, her ed whole-souled absorption in the helpleseness appaaling to his eirength -frisk at hand; and seemed so occupied bis protection, that even Lord Stanton could scarce - And Ciytie? She, too, lay ewala iy get -a word fiom him that did not and, as she turned. on the piliew in apply to the building of the jetty, ieverish unrest, her mind and her The two girls came down to the heart were busy. She ha,d aeard every beach every day, but Douglas seemed word. he had said .in the moment of to avoid them; and once, when Mollie his terrible anxiety. on her account; proposed that they should • row to she knew that he was•Six Wilfrid Cm- Pethwick, Jack declared that he must ton -this man Wb.0 Was masquerading stay to see the unloading of a cargo as "Jack Douglas"; and she was trY- of stone, left them to the care of one Ing to analyze the teelieg heel of the Withycombe boatmen; but he been aVoked by her knowledge. Her watetted the boat a,while witb. jealoue face burned, all her body burned, with eyes, and turaed away with a sigh, as the remembertince of his passionate if he begrudged the man'his precious words; but she tried to nutlet them from her. charge. Strangely enougb, as lack grew . This man, who called himself jack more wistful and grave each day, Cly - Douglas, who pretended to ba a wotin tie seemed to regain' leer strength and In man, a fisherman, tioker, tailor. her old light-hearted spirit. what not, what had he been?? By Iiis thought --and Mollie said openly -4W, own account, a wastrel, a ne'er-do- it was the wonderful sea -air of Withy - well, a cumberer of the earth, not combe, and the relief of getting away one an honest, pure-miadea girl should from the cares of Iieramley; but Cly - permit herself to live. e -And yet liow tie' feft that these two .causes were strong and brave he woe! Never for not wholly accountable for the ine- a moment, during that awful time. provement. To a woman there when death hovered eve,' them, eta is no elixir like that of love, he shown the least signi of fear. And and, - though Clytie would not. have Jia was doing good, noble work, And admitted it, the knowledge that how handsome he wareetiow noble in she was loved by Jack Douglas was a form and Manner! How tenderly. precious, but secret, anodyne winch strongly, ha had prote.:tedther against sootiaed her worried mind; and, theestorm, against heeseit though it did not solve the problem of She turned to and fro, and strove her life, indeed, rather complicated it, to forget him, to blame him; but he was like, battle to her restless spirit. memory of his strengai, of his man- She knew he avoided her; but she ly tenderness, prevailed over her, and. found a subtle pleasure' in watching when at last she feil asleep, it was hint from 'a distance, in listening to to dream of him.' She woke in tbe his voice, as he gave erders to the morning exhausted as Much by he;' men, or colleen) his horse. emotion as by the feverteli cold which The da' arrived for their return to Jack had dreaded. Bramley, and it seemed as if she "You will stay in bed, my dear," would leave Withycomb -without Mollie said decisively. "Girls who go speaking to him; without saying skylarking in an open boat throilgh "good-bye," but, the morning of their a record storm must pay the Penatly. departure, 'elollie met him just outside And if I have the pleasure of seeing: the cottage as she was going down to Jack Douglass -I beg his pardon, Mr. the beach in search of a book which Douglas -1 shall give him a piece of Clyne had left in the boat. my mind." "Oh, good morning,. Dougles," "It was not his fault," murmured she said. "I've come down for a book Clytie, in muffled accents, as she of my sisters." drew the clothes about her. "Oh? Then whose was it?" demand "1 have foand it," he broke in. "I. found it last night; rii fetch It." ed Mollie. inf he doesn't know when He went into the cottage, and re - a storm is impending, he's not much tutted' with the book, followed by ot finhermau, and ought not to p o y, be trusted with .a delicate girl." "Oh, thanks." said Mollie: "Would "I'm not delicate!" declared Clyne You mind taking it UP to the farm? indignantly. My sister is jest packing." "Yes, You are," retorted Mollie. "Polly shall go up with it," he said; "Anyway, ybee are far too delicate to but Mollie shook her head. , face such a storm as we had yester- "Polly's coming down to the shop to day; in an open boat, too! I should buy chocolates for the journey," she think Douglas would be ashateed of said. "You take it, if you don't mind." himself." There tire 182 yariettee of Arctic flbevers which have bat .two colors white and yellow. Compared with its area the popula- tion of Norway is the smallest of any eotintry be Europe. Switeerleod is considering the adop- tion of the 24-hour clock, abolleaing the A, M. aud P. M. Pgypt has a railroad which rune in a straight line over the desert for a distance of 45 Mims. Gasoline aroductiou in tbe 'United States bee increased from 35,000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels a year 'since 1914. 'The heaven ot India show the- great- est interest nhotiograpite, and it is considered a good Market for these in- etratnents. 'In coffee-groWing tountries a statue ston of the leaves of the plant is held by tunny to be superior to that made from berrlea. Tn Trinidad there are berries tre large tie a dinner Plate. TheY are en- cetiraged by the natives became they keep the housen free of roaches, A method ha e been diecovered og dietilling Valuable produete from the chips that accumulate in wood -work- ing estatilishmente, and at malting paper out el the'reeidue. IBW , eio• Tilt MGM. Tome Tattere-t!V attune, ine Anne uv my bualitcre. pard, but auz you ever Married?" •Rambling Rune -NO! Wot meant; aek? Tome Toth:re-:Why, I sal won- derin• bow yen cver aerptirel dat 'habil of eleepin' ;,,•!!r bone in 5-er poclote.- woras which Itmloaprung froin his lips. Indeed, she scarcely glanced at him, and did net address him directly; not even when Lord Stanton said: "Miss Bramley's none the -worse for the storm, Douglas." "I'm glad," was ail Jack said; and he said it with eyes fixed on the boat. She stood. for a moment Or two look- ing out at the sea, then she went up the beach, and Jack felt as if she had taken the sunlight with her. He put off in the boat for Pethwicle, and tried as yesterday, to absorb ainaself, to lose himself, iu the affairs of the moment, the setting of the timber, the hauling of the stone; but her face, Pale and with its subtle wistfulness, haunted him; and his position irritat- ed him. Here was he, Sir 'Wilfred Carton, ma.squerading as Jack Douglas, not permitted to exchange a 'word more than als assumed position allowed, and others -Lord. Stanton, for Distance - were tree to look at her, talk with her, unreetrhinedlen But he did his duty; and the work- men that day had more than. ever good reason and excuse for calling him a "masterpiece:" and though he was sterner, shorter, thaa usual, they obeyed him cheerfully; for they ack- nowledged that power, that spell, which. had made itself felt by Mr. and a, jerk, he staid; "Can I help you? There raust be a good deal to do -your paciting-'. "No, tbanka. Oh, bat Yes! WoUld you ruind cording a box tor roe?" ehe said with a smile. "It to go heavy, and all the mower(' away." Ats followed her into tbe sitting - room, where a box stood on the floor. "That is in" ehe said. "Is it rather full, isn't it? It's the last box, and everything otie bad forgotten, all the adds and ends have been throWn into it. Perhaps the lid Won't abut." Jack knelt beside it, and eyed the disorder, tbe (Atom gloves, books, and odds and ends doubtfully as he May - ed in vain to close the lid. "Oh, well," she said, resignedly, "Some of the thiugs don't matter; they are most of thenn of no value." She ne'ept off the to layer la,Uglie inFly; but Jack bateaposed. "I'm not much of a band at packs. ing," he said; "but I think I could manage better than that," "Oh, I give you a free hand," she said; "but please don't trouble Omit those old gloves and thinge. I denT know why I put them in." She turned away 88 elm Mite, and Jack, as ae rearranged the Muddle, took up one of the old gloves and slipped it into his pocket. Clytie hap." pened to be standiug in front of the looking -glees, and. ehe saw the act re- flected in the mirror. Her face went crimson, and eine stood quite still for a moment or two, her hand resting on the xuanteishelf, her eyes Lied on him. "I think that's better," he remarked reverently, as he laid a tiny pair of shoetnon the top and closed the lid. "Oh, you have everything in! How clever of your' she said. "But will you be 'able to cord it by youraelf? Shell I ring for some one? Perhaps I can help you?" "No, no; pleaee keep away!" he ad- Jured her earnestly. "You raightti get hurt." She took hold of the eord and laughed at his anxiety.' "Why, I could have done it by my- self, if I'd been forced to it," she as- sured him, rather upgratefullY. " 'Jack smiled, but took the cord from her hand, and interposed between her slight figure and the box. "I'm glad you' weren't, then," he said. "It is more than probable that you ,would have hurt yourself trying to lift it, or, having lifted it, have let it drop on your toes." "New, YOU want a knife," she re- marked, looking round. , • "Thanks, I -have one," he said, and he pulled out the ueeful and eentee what formidable nveapeu which ful- filledso many purposes. In taking it from his pocket he brought the glove with it; but Clyne affected not to see it, and he covered it with hie knee quickly, waiting for an opportunity • to 'take it up again. But Clyne leaned ageing 'the table, her bands clasping the edges, her whole.attitude one of indolent interest in the proceedings. • "You won't want a label?" he sug- gested, With the object of getting her to more eo that he might secure the glove. "Ob, no," ehe replied. "A cart is coming for the things." "Ts that it I -hear coining down. the road?" he aeked, hoping she would go to the window; but she did not move, or remove her eyes from him, as be replied sweetly: "Oh, no; it will net be here yet. Have you quite finished? It is no kind of you. What is that? Oh, one of ine gloves," she went on as, in despair, he roee and revealed the purloined article. "Thanke." "I -I muet have left it out," -he said remorsefully. "Yes; but it does not matter. It is quite an old one," she protested brightly, She swung the ginve to and fro, and, at last, as if absently, tossed it out of the open window. By the ex- ercise of extraordinary self-reetraint, Jack refrained front watching it, and, having given a -superfluous knot to the cord, rase and reached for his cap. • "I will wish eyou good -by, Miss Bramley," he said gravely, 'aimless there is anything eiee I can do?' "No; nothing, thank you, Mr. Deng - las," she returned. "Good -by, and thank you very much for -for all, you have done for -us," unconsciously leer hand -stole out to him, but seddenly ehe remembered- bis 'assumed charac- • ter, and she let her hand wander to the ribbon at her neck, as if it want- ed pulling straight. "Goodtby," said Sack shindy. "I'm sorry you are going." • As he left the room she ran lightly up the stairs, but paused at the top and called to him: "Oh, Mr. Douglas!" Jack twung•round at ethe door like a soldier obeying the call of his superior officer, . a dog that of its master; ab, yes! a lover that of his mistress, "Oh, if you come up to Braemley- to see the Hall, you know -please let me ktow." "I will," he replied, gratefully. "Good -by." Having got outside the door, he stopped to light hia pipe; it seemed a more than usually elaborate prepare - tion,. and he edged toward the bit of garden in front of the open window, dropped a match and stooped to piek it up, then, with his pipe in full blast, strode down the and. He looked round fp' another awe - "11 was not his fault," Ethe said sen•ger; but there was no ohe about, again. "Awn -Mollie, I won't have and, half -gladly, halftfeerfullY, be you abuse Iiim," Belie added, in a low went up to the farm. Clytie was Vince. •packing, as Mollie had said, and she "Won't you? I shall abuse him all was running down the stairs, singing I know; arid that's n.ot a little, as to herself, as she opened the gate. The You are aware. There!. Tuck your- door was open, as 'usual, and elle saw golf up, and ery and sleep. You won't him and stopped, a faint color stealing pet up out of this to -day, my gentle into her face • sister." a ' a • ",I've brought this, eald Jack, his Mollie made her way to the beach.- vo ce sounding almost gruff. and finding Jack beside his boat, eX- I and ii0h, thank you," she •responded, pressed her opinion with absolute brightly, and she came out to him. devastating candor. "My sister is quite ill, Douglas -I "How stupid of me to forget it. My beg your pardon, Mr. Douglas," she favorite Browning, too! It is very good of you to bring it, teed. '"Quito unable to get up. Severe cold, mental prostration, low fever, Not at ail," he said, his eyes down - and the rest of it." • cast, his manner still reserved, ."Ycitt- you are going, so Miss Mollie told me." "I'm. very 'sorry, Miss Mollie," said Jack humbly, penitently. "All my "Yes," she said, (necking a sigh. fault. I ought to have seen that the "And I -we are very sorry. 'We have stornt was coming.' enjoyed the holiday, the change, so "Of courser" YOU ought!" declared much," • t Mollie resentfullY. "But you men; "And you are so much better," he with your brute strength, never think remarked, elmost to -himself, ef Us Wonten." She nodded. '*"It is the air, and tbe "Soneethhel," he pleaded, pleasant time we have had, I have to "Then why didn't you think of my thank -you, Mr. Douglas, fo,r-for take nster?" ehe demanded aggressively. leg us out in the boat and -taking so "I did think of her. I nleati-.-.--" he much ,re of -JO faltered humbiy. • "Well, I neatly drowned You," he "Not aoul" retorted Mollie, eatting Said, gravely. in min him. "You thought you'd "Nearly, is far from quite," she re - tet, another hand in the boat veith totted, with a bright Mile and a you, and you Min eare---" heightened color, 'I suppose we Were Ile looked at her 'with all the heart itt some danger; but I enjoyed myself in his eyes; and Mollie, as she turn- very much., more than I have done for ?,d away and marched up the beaeb, a very long time." hid a smile ,as she thoUght Of the alt. Ile ieegee at her with 4 grateful gulithed expression of his very expreto sense of what he considered to be her Atte face. magnanimity, but Field nothing; and Jack took the boat to Pethwick, and she went on: tried to force his attention to the et suppose yu will remain in Withy - 'ending of timber and shaping of combe Or Pethwick until the jetty is ?tone; but his theughts were fixed Ott built, Mr, Douglas?" Vlytte and her condition. Low fever "I --I don't know," he replied, look - is a Onerous thing, you see; and tog beyond her, fig 11' he feared to Meet Ireadfully dangerous when viewed by Se reyes. "It all dependo." the eyes of a lover. 'Ile longed for a "Oh, I hope so -I mean," she con - tight of her. tinned, hurriedly, "that Lord Stanton uratified. She tame do to the -- Oh, you muet not leave them in And the next day his iiging was woilid be so tlisapPointed, that -that beach with Mollie and Lon 8tanton. tbe lureh!" alie WAS looking pale and thoughtful, ulie could Soon fill my place," he and Nut was at once overwlielmed by said. "nut 1111 see." lie still lingered, remorse; bit then the laughed at his band on the gate, as if loath to go, tomething Lord Stanton bad said, and and ClYtie stood, s, graceful figure in • her eyes as theY niet Pick's Were cairn, her tailor-made coat and skirt, the Magid, unembarrassed; and, with re• book clasped in her hand, the ether ::•144:47.tr.71'. 4104,, s..4` i ,ItIrift-' I . eleziciri. Z;;J:::•:11 . 7r; hkrINI111.1. 4 itiltifitni14111 "'GILLETT'S LYE „ ,,,, JUST 'TM THING EATS DI • T I FOR POTS AND PANS 'let he thanked flreten that they aim 00; It AS :till ma. e 'lent tbet •,) raised to protect her hair from the at- tacks of tile wind; and presently, with (To Ite Continued). ( • S. neelommeraima Life Span of Industrial . Workers, At a recent meeting of the nntOyal Sanitary Institute, reported ini the Westmiester Gazette, Dr, Edgier L, Collis, Director of Welfare and Healtla Ministry of Munitions, • said that to -day the average age of deatn among industrial workers Was Kt which compared sadly with that ot about 67, the average for underpaid, and badly housed agricultural work- ers. Describing the -methods adopted by the Ministry of Munitions for Im- proving the condttions in factories, Dr, Collis said the introduction of welfare workers has been a great success. This would always be the case wherever their dutieswere not strangled by routine and red tape. Four thousand 'Women welfOre work- ers had been appointed to, care for women and girls, and four hundred, for boys. An important part of the newt in- dustrial development would be the light work depots, which would also be day nurseries and centres. of motb.er-craft for mothers or young children. 0. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. • - Indian Magicians. A recent meeting 'of magicians, or sleIght-of-hanci men, conaeseed itself he despair over the metaled of opera- tion of the Indian rope-clintbing trick, which has been, rot often de- scribed by eastern -travellers, Thus Thy Batute,, art Arab from Tangier, described this trick as performed at Haug Chau; I was entertained by the Emir in hisown house in a most splendid manner, At the banquet was present the Khan's jugglers, the chief of whom took a wooden.sphere, in which `there were holes, and in these long straps, and threw it up into the air till it went out of sight, end while the atrap reniained in his band, lie If Animals Could 'Talk. . . If animals could talk they would be able to tell us first hand of events; that happened a hundred years or more ago. The Itueeian eagle, for instance, that bovered over the freezing, fam- ishing goldiers of Napoleon, while they were retratiog from Maicove in 1812, etill may 'be living, says Le Peleeelele, Parte, for eaglee frequent- ly paes the eentury mark, Crocodiles, . which were in th,e sWampe of the Wed Indies when the first explorer Net foot on the !elands, are basking there yet, and in the ocean etill are whales that freeinett- ed the coasit of Prance when Jowl of Are was a child and *hen, in 1415, Henry V, of England landed in Nor- • • Mandy With a great army and (gazed ladtifieer. These Whalee, if they could talk and cared to, could tell us that litt those daps there were large Whale fieheriee Wong .the Bemis coast, Ilt tact pretty generally hi, the Gulf of Giteemy. Por Whales live several (*unitive, while elephants rately PASS One hundred years; but carp atid erceeret tolnetitnee live, two centuries. • Speaking of bide, we may recall that parrote Mid swans Often become ceettettariane; and it is not unusual for a long -beaked heroie to reach 60. tiecne seed pentane live half a eon- • tury; the humble sparrow frequent- • ly eee'e 40, while pigeons, eanartert, etorke and peacocks often reach 20. Partridges, pheasants, rtightingalee and larke live nominally front fifteen • to eighteen year* • E70011`,MONIS. "Adviee is heap," glibly (mote& the youth. "Huh!" growled his elder. "It'e ap- parent you have never hitd anything to do with lawYers or doctors." • OVID. IN BULGARIA. StolenWtatne Will Be Returned to Roumania,;'),, 0..1.41 7 Jt was; a bitter blow to ,laubli Ovidius Naso t the best selling!, poet of Augustan ;Rome, when theperor exiled. bim to a deeolute towno ) Em - on tho ba 'ren. shores ot the Blaclet Sea as 'a le lehment for,too faithfully reflecting, the manners ,of his time There he ived hi rt last years and, there he d ed; nor did a gentleman used to the luxurious life of the capi- tal of the orld ever quite reconcil himself to the society of barbarous Scythian& ' Two thousand years later Ovid would have liked it better. By that time the town of! Torn' had become Constantza, one,ofjthe principal ports of Roumaniat'andithe,summer resort of the wealtbyi and ease -lowing society of Bucharest. • .And every OaY gentle. men very munh 'like Ovid, and ladies whom Ovid Amid have aiked very much,: passed' throughi the Platza Ovidite where t a statue e of the poet commemoratedt ate Meet incursion, if an unwilling one,,of the' leisure iclass. In due course of time, howeeer,,Con- arm th stantza tell into the hands of rthi. more ungrantous than.ose among whom' Ovid bad lived. , When the Bulgarian army overret the Dotcrudja in 1916k.it was Raley en by the expropriators• whim all the•Cen- tral Powers sent intotoccupied terri- tory. The Bulgars, pike the Ger- mans, were acquisitive; they 1would take anything from fleeter mach- inery to first editions and Jetpa,nese prints. Among the'. plunder 'Shipped back into Bulgarialfrom C nstantza was the statue of Ovidoemce \more, an exile. t. • Malicious Roumanians have said that the Bulgarians.did not know who Ovid was, that they thought the) sta- • tue was that of the ',Mayor of •Con- stantza. 'Whether this be truekor not, 111111111111101101 DISEASE AMONG HORSES -the answerlis Spohn's Distemper Compound AVherever there is contagious disease among horses SPORN'S is the solution of all troubles. SPORN'S is invalu- able in all cases of DISTEMPEB, PINK EYE, INFLU- ENZA, COUGHS, and COLDS. A few drops a day will protect your horse exposed to diIt sease. eguri,r doses three times a day will act marvelously on your horse actu- any sick. Buy: of your druggist. S•POHN MED(1CAL COMPANY, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.A. mailemaarmimmastims then commanded one of Ins disciples to take hold of and to ;ascend by. this strap, which he (lid until, he elan went -out of sight. efts' master thext called him three times, • but no an- swer came; he then took a knife in his hand apparently in anger, laide hold of the strap and also went quite out of sight He then threw the- hand1 of the boy - upon the ground, them his foot, then his other hand, then his other foot, then his body, them his head. He then came down, pant Ing for breath, and his clothes stained with blood. The juggler then took the limbs of the boy and applied them one to another; he then stamped upon them, and it stood up. complete and erect. 1 was astonished and was seized in consequence by • palpitation . of the heart; but they gave me some drink and I recovered; The judge of the Mohammedans warn sitting by my side, and swore that there was neither ascent, descent nor cutting away of limbs, but the whole were mere juggltng. Any magician of the present day who can perform this trick as it is performed even at the present day/ in India, certainly must be sure of a fortune, says the Boston Transeripte, The funny part of all such tricks is that, as in the caseof the trick of making a, tree grow from the ground. and hear fruit before the spectators" eyes, the pleotographic camera re- veals nothing of the sort going on. ----- Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In Cows, 4 • Ir Passed Up Tempting Offer, William Ewart .Gladetone,;the great stateentan, refused tene of thousands of pounds; offered to him for artielee by publiehers. It is said that ,an Aru- erican magazine proprietor once sent him a blank cheque and told him to fill It up for any amount he pleased so long as he sent him 2,000 wade for hie Magazine. Mr. Gladetone rettireed • the letter arid the cheque oleo no blank as it arrived. the Buigars have been considerably. more careless about the preservation' of classical remains than the Rou- manians. Some years ago a great heap of stones with Roman 'inscrip- tions, lay in a museum yard in Sofia with grass growing among them; no- body had cared to take the trouble to carry them indoors. Perhaps Ovid was ,thrown in among them to await such time as the Bulger had leisure fromohis forays into other lands and .could arrange culture to suit himself; /at any rate, Ovid escaped the ignominy of being melted•and burned into shell eases, for after vigorous protests from !Roumania and the Allies the Bul- garian Government finally shipped nim back to Constantza, One coold /Wish that all the wrongs suffered by aeoumania could be so easily redressed. t Minard's Liniment C"u1r7;Di phtheria P Ferryboats. , In a country where rivers are sub- ject to midden and heavy floode. 'bridges are in many cases se insecure that ferries must always be maintain- ed in addition. Such is the case in India, and the neethode of crossing streams to -day are what they have 'been front the earliest times. An Am- erican consular officer tells how he was taken acroee an Indian river at the time of a freeket The contrivance was simple, and has been ueed In the Orient as long as history shows any record. A. cord having been fastened to a large, elongated gourd, and a entailer gourd being also tied to it, the native gets astride, and laying his breast up- on the, arger gourd paddlee himself across with his hands and feet.' Women, too, avail themselves of this singt4her contrivance. under the escort of a ferryman, who, eirelIarlY mountedetakee hie charge in tow, car- ries her 'basket, with perhaps a child in it, on his head, and conveys them Wen,' *roes. Herds" of cattle ewim theee flooded ••••••.••••••,..... A Labor Saving Combination 110.000.4 TtlIsatthberleaaltrre. camel's back." So runs the old proverb. And it is the little extra efforts which tire you out 011 wash- day. Eddy's Indurated Fibrovvere Washtubs and Washboards form a combinaticm which save you much extra labor. Indurated riberware tubs are much easier to lift and to 1110ve about. They keep the water hot for a much lenges' enact of time, beCausg they do not conduct heat as mend does. They arceasier to keep clean, beeause they are tit:Latin one piece without joint or seam, end the bard, glazed surface is imper- vious to liquids or odors. And they cost no more. Lest longer, too. Eddy's Twin eaver Washboard has a double rubbintrourface of Indurated Pibrewere which loosens the dirt quiekly and eaves many tiresome motions. The E. B. EDDY CO. Limited HULL, cans& A7sr makitt* of thilfrairiatirr Xchty llittefter 54 river& like water ro,* and the herd, boy, as a matter of course, take* the tail of the hindernmet bulloek itt tie band, and MIS gable a very comfort- able lift acroee. These methode of Cramping riVerat however, are bardli in accordance with our ideas of comfort. So the Am- erican thought Mae clay ae fieotood, after A long ride, on the bank a a wide and rapid etreane „Which separ- ated bine from his halting place, cue did net relish the ida of buffeting the muddy current On a twee ot gourde, but ae there wee no boat within twen- ty miles it seeined, as if he Muet eith- er do this or bite:Mae on the bank without his dinner. While he wgus in this dilemma a na- tive signified that he wottlel Mame glet the foreigner rlght. Front a neighbor- ing hut he brought a native bedsetad --net a four poster such as Weetern- ere use, but a einall, light trans() of wood having for little lege and held together bY the:interlacing eff a Piece of cord, whieht thus forme a sort of totted bottom 'to this eirapie piece of furniture. Thetnative next brought out four. Mud earthen pots, and after protecting the, bottoin of each with a few inches ot sand he put the legs of the cot into the poet and eignified that the vase% was ready to be launclied. Aelthe American eat doubled up on the xtemporized raft in company with eaddle he found himself relied an inch or eo above the level of the yater, the earthen pots form- ing adm rable floats. A couple of lusty swimnee s the took him in tow and soon la ed him on the opposite bank, • On, INTEREST TO WOME4 .1111111410 - 4101°Ivrage->tta DR. MARC AURELE's stiPposi-. TORIES AND SUPPORTERS' the mOst Aerentific and successful Home Treatment eVer offered SUFFERING WOMEN. Quick relief from inflanuna- 'Mon, bearing down sensations. falling or ,displacoment of internal organs, back- ache, ex,retne nervousness and such F1- MALEy TROUBLES. in the privacy of P.your aeme. Dr. Marc Aurele's book on "t'iromens's allinents sent FREE, enclose 1,three 'tamps for postage. PHOME TREATMENT REMEDY CO., ‘. Box 126 H, Windsor, Ont. FOR MILD SAFETY. ‘iliydro CommissioniPlin to Avoid Fatalities. • -,....._......a; • This letter was /recently sent to sehool. teachers throughout the Pro- vince With anequest -that it be read to the pupils. It is y art of the Hydro Commission's "Safet, Fara" campaign. . Some days ago a/schoolboy, while piaying on the stritet, picked up an electric light wire. It seemed quite harmless, but he wasninstaritly killed. During the last feao years many lads eave"been kille11 by(elimbing poles and trees and toucleing wires. The wires tbet you see support the iipoles along the streets and roads al carry electricity, very often at great pressure (ar, as I)ia called, "voltage") when it istvery (deadly. These wires are always dangterous, and should lever be touched hinder any circum- stances. Be, carefulito remembqr the follow- ingithings: . 1. Do !not touchttallen or hanging wires. 2. Do not climb poles or towers. 3. Do not alimb ;trees through wineh tbe wires pans. 1. Do not touch or shake an wires. e 5. Doinot throw stones at the in- sulators. I 6. Do I not fly kites across , the wires. 7. 2Do not stand below men workin ov erhead. 8. If you seem wire down, repor it. 9. Keep away.from switching tow ers,.eub-stationsiand power houses. BRIEF MENTION China's .foreign', population at th last countawas 2n0/,500. The prodbetido of yarn from pape was known -in' Japan more than century ago. Germany has pronticed the greates potatO crop, 'with fthe 'United State second and the prntish Empire third Pennsylvania hasemore blind peopi among its residents than any °the Minard's Liniment 1, Co., Limited. Gentlemen,. -Last winter 1 receive great benetil. front the use of miNARD, LINIMENT in a severe attack of L Grippe. ndi I have frequently proved I to be veryteffeCtive In cases of Infirm motion. Yours, IV, A. itu'retteNSON. ••••••10.•••••/$9•4•011MIN State, but the percentage Os greater i New Mexico. Columbus Circle Is the busieet par of New York city, Forty thousand vehicles pass here in 12 hours. The ;most eatiefactory Intealne o thea,SUring the flow of gas is by mean ot a new electrical device. Amber can be made into a vannlJi by melting it, pouring oil 'linen it, an stirring ih a little turpentine as 1 cools. The pro rata share of the money Ix circulation in the U. 8. is $54,66 nearly $5 more than. it Was last year Anemone means "vrindfloever," an is so called beeause it is se delicatel poised that it sways with the lightes motion of the atmosphere. Anstralian engineers have invent three -rail ewitthes for use by' roads where three rails are laid i etieh track to aceoremodate rollin stook Of different gauges. ' To make ironwork proof againe rust, heat it until 11 18 almost red -ho and then brush it over with Mute oil. 'rigs makes a varnish, which un like ordinary paint or enamel, dot not chip off. Veal remains in the stonutelt fo fivo hours undergoing the DIY:Klett' o digestion. Nuts require the 84131 title. There are but few other viand 'tallith require tuck a long period. Barn* the war 00 her cent• or arti fItitl dye e eolore were Inverted five or sire.A.nterlean concerns pro duting 9,200 torts a year; now tiler are 100 entente, *toll Minting speeta odors, and 100 more making erude and intermediates. It is an easy matter to determine r ISSUE NO. 42. 1919 I40,0•00 . A. WM r R 6 1 2:1 ACItlea-VOLiNTY Oie YORK -- •"1-2- close to shipping points, sehO*4 "CI Ciltirellenl good lend, bUildings, In 000 repair; rive thousand. D. VOW, 110 Cierrield south, Itamiltota - . ... .. , •-•-_--- . _ .. .... ... VINELAND-THE LAND OP VINES- , .W the garden or Canada; buy a fatIll Pr ten -acre frit and poultry WM and live happy. See, 'phone or write O. w. ..ar- hot% Vineland, Ora. • retetlf FOR SALE -2,00 ACRES ON TUN •a Grand Inver, 10 minutes' walk front aSOrlarlieleesdg°b1 laul 1st) 1 , stationCbltta YeIlio:ell:II eflaalitieg21111°f tit eri lalhllogenTi. large barn 40x100, stone foundation, IOC* assortment of frttit; ean be Add with or Without implements. Bargain for qteick Salo. I. D. wager, 205 Clyde Deice. Regent 014, ........................ *......... oo.,•*=.0 • MISOELLANE0110 g END A DOMINION rxruzsa '''•' Money Order. Five dollars coetil three genta. .-------.. -- • HELP wANTED-rillaa LOOM FIXER -FIRST-CLASS MAN ON ••A Knowles Cam Looms, workbag on blankets and heavy woollens. State full details of experience, age and whether marierci or Single. Apply Slingsby Mfg. Co., Brantford, Ont. ,......... . . PARKS WANTED TO RENT. ,a,........e...........w...~..................s.ant.enna WANTED -FARM TO RENT,. GIVit • particulars, rent, etc.;eals0 apple orchard wanted tor this fall or more, with apples on it. P. 0. Box 65, Hentil- ton, Ont. ARTICLES FOR SALE, ....,,,....„-.....................„..........,.,. • PI °Lrtszciesir,ALArlte:iii.iitnesg.Hotri7:111n11011. PI.IInErig class condition. Price, thirty dollars. .. - PP,OPERTLES FOR SALE. p OR SALE -CHOICE Corr runne- l' central; select; handsomely furnished; modern; hot water heated; tieing a profit- able businees; a gilt-edged proposition to a Praetical party to acquire a sound, well- • equipped business property at a right prige; seventy-five thousand; on eany terms; 1-3 cash; balance, lf desired', exs tending over 8 or 10 years; win not lease. Apply Box 751 Postal Station E. :Torontp.. --- BUPSINESIS MANORS p OR eALE-1:rAftwEss BUSINESS - e . good farming country; stock small; no opposition; Landes leather machine, in good order; good reason for selling. Box 37, Dtterville. . POULTIM WANTED. "'ENS WANTED -ALIVE, 23 CENTS A '" pound, any kind, and Mae; tlitcka, 18. Deduct one dollar oft each crate or box for shrinkage. I pay express within 150 miles of Toronto. Samuel Lewle,‘ 667 Dundas street west, Toronto. , r . . whether a sampleof cloth, is all wool by boiling a little piece, in- a test tube a ith a solution of caustic soda oveteaO alcohol lamp. Whatever does not die- solvels not wool. Locusts are rich in nitrogen and phoephoric acid, and the Government of 'Uruguay has ,appointed a commis- sion to ascertain if the insect i eatnot be utilized in fertilizers,' soap, ft nd lubricants. , The utilization of the large peat areas, in the north part of Jutland in receiving much attention, The area , is said to be as much as 28,000 acres, which might be completely drained by gravitation, and the total eontentis would be egnivehnt to 23,000,000 tons of coal. Brass is perhaps the best-known and hetet useful alloy. It is formed ' bY tusing together copper, and zine, Dif- ferent proportions of these metals pto- duce brasses possessing very' marked • distinctive properties. The ,portions ol the different ingredients are seldom precisely alike; these depend upon the • requirements of various uses for w'hielt the alloys are intended. Peculiar qualities of the constituent metals aleo • exercise influence on the results. HOW'S THIS? We offer 5100.00 for any case o:f cetera that cannot be cured by HALL'S CA TARTU' MEDICINE. • ALL'S CATARRH MEDICI? is Mk en internally and acts through he Blood , on the Mucotie Surfaces of the System. Sold by druggists for over forty years ' Price 75c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0410. Blue Moons and Suns. Astronomers of different countrie, ' have more than once recorded a blui This remarkable phenomenot , moon. has been twice observed, both in Ran ahd Austria, but only once in England A blue sun has appeared onto only and will probably never be see; Win even to the end of existence. •Thie oc• curred in August, 1883, at the Sdndi t States. The cauee was the ertiption o ; a large volcano. In the terrible shoal ' that followed, a great range of moun t tains was blown coMpletelY Into thi air. The cavity left on the Staub States after this explosion Was on, thousand feet deep. Billion e of tons 0 rock, dust and mud 'were biewt heavenwards for no less than seven teen miles. A The reader Will see what the explo elm was like, when it is said that a ' hundred nine• , Batavia, exactly one , away, the' street lamps had to be lit although the time was not yet noon . The am up to thia time was cemplete , ' known to , astronomere as the Btu, Lilt' sioeYatrITnn;_OsebieAtitSatitchirsttdeht::attl ;nolbangtlt)nt. 1 ftitTeelaurt dr os posh:es:sal cem,nt -00 il 10_1, 5 Sun. This was seen by everyone with in thirty or forty degrees of the Equal • se_÷,......_11.6-4"4"--iniment Cures, Colds, etc A HOT ONE. - A lawyer was erose -examining 1 '. witness who had a very rod nose, am I asked Mine r "Are you addicted to drink!" t "Thatei ray busineee," replied thi witnese, tedignatitly. I Iwo sir, is that yoor only butt( .: ..........,............. • . t t ...24.- . , '. • , • 01 t•i t 7. ‘.;-;ICIONE -- s Y i.., . • . ; (/// Pi LAS .P\rri\li [,:, \....\\NN.....„......„ ot ''-''',IC iDNF -- , - Y r - • ri ,-,t e- AP'. .1,;;;;;:: t 0,... . I t 4/ 4% ,rtg ft. *A Irg a THEP