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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-01-02, Page 3eV! • ••••,...• AO • " u 4,1,7119F A.A. AL a iv. .pattehliettifie9.9ehrefeherheMtfetthethiramenreereverageeetatry and .Sayings England. 44,1414•11/1416A14114640/1466Zial84.6.4,45e‘oeleteNta04tteheAtte.N4tebAe-Mfstat+660•30.402404 The -experiments on the hulhof the old dier hae achieved. fame by remaining all, 1)0,41)u:hip Hero, which have been Oradea night at his post oa the lonely out by the Channel fleet to. teat the ef- around Alderehot wheal& voinrades had feet of ithell fire from modern gene upon mere -heti away autl forgothan the fire -control etatious and erews of The Reigate hays, in eonjunetion tvith warsitios in, battle, were brought to other corps, hall taken part in field op- conclumon Saturcley off the Irentieh orations in the vicinity of .13oxhill. Oue Kn,00k. boy was placed on outpostaltity at Ilea certain selected. battleships of the ley, tee miles from Aldershot. At sun. Channel Fleet opened fire at 7,000 yards, set the command "Vail in" Wad given, bet. whielt is the renge usual ie. battle prac- the bugle sollild did not reaeh the little tioe, and the firing c,ontinued all the day, sentry. the old ehip receiving a tenific pound- IVIten. the various companies had lug. The shooting was exteemely emu- marched severna miles, and. wore about rate. The nhermored portione of the to be entrained, there was a roll -call, hull were completely rkddled. Owing to ancl the eentry was diecoverea te be miss. the exteneive. damage ca -used to the Hero ing, it is not expected that she can he salved Later oa a search piety, composed of and. brought back into harbor. h'he Hero °Worts and noncoms., with 'bicycle and actually sank, but as she heel only two other lamps, searched the countryside, feet of water under keel, this feet was bet it with not imtil break of day that not noticed uutil a close inspeotion was• they aricertained that the missnig boy' made had remained through the night at his The Hero's funnel went overboard at post. He left it only upon the pereua- an early stage in the proceedings, the non of a. passiog gamekeeper, who took fightiag top was wreciced, though the limn to Ins !louse and provided hint with battleshipat one mest survived the fire. a hot meal. The boy was week and cold The fire control stations, fitted. with dummy telephones and speaking tubes, were swept away. 46o FINE FOR BRIBERY, Otte of the first shots Sound the base of the turret, and by blowing off their muzzles put out of action the two 12 - inch guns it contained. The turret.suf- fared severely, its armor being .torn about in places like so much tinfoil. The excellence of British shooting was exemplified by a performance done by the armored cruiser Duke of 'Edin- burgh, one of the vessels iu Sir Percy Seta's squadron. With her guns direct- ed from the fire -control positions, she 'made hits at 13,000 yards, or seven and et half miles. Tb.e hattleships Hibernia and Donahaion fired armor -piercing. pro- jectiles from their big guns, but they lailed to pierce the armored portion of the Hero. The experiments have thunconfirmed the results observed in the Russo-Japan- ese war, and shown that at the present time a battleship's armor is capable of resisting projectiles at all practicable from exposure, beteg only lightly clad. alges.armor of the Hero is compound, or iron faced. -with steed, and is 8 in. to 1i in. thick. Twelve inches of compound :armor are about equal in power of re- sistance to 8 in. of modern Krupp steel, such as is employed for recent battle- ships. These generally have 9 in. of plating, but the Lord Nelson. haa 12 in. and the Dreadnought 11 in. The latest British battleships should therefore be absolutely impervious to an enemy's shot and shell. Outside the armored portion in, the recent battleships there -is nething vital, and there will be but few men sta- tioned en battle. Only the fire -control ipositious on the masts must be greatly exposed, since it is a matter of extreme (difficulty to give them protection, and ;this though they are vital to the good a•hooting of the ship. KAISER'S TEA PARTY. 'The Kaiser is revelling in the delights a kis stay at Highcliffe, and apparently none ef his experiences has pleased, him ramie than the happy tea-party he gave to the village school -children on Satur- day evening. 'The tea-party and entertainment in Ilighcliffe National School had been eag- ,erly looked forward to by the childeen dor days. Bhortly after 4 o'clock le the afternoon the children„ numbering 170, and wear - elle. rosettes of the German colors—red, white end black — assembled. at the schoot. It was a place tra.nsforme.d, Ger- man and British flags draped the walls and long tables took the place of the ,school desks. pn the centre table stood the Emper- ewe cake, a work of art turned out by the chef at Ilighcliffe Castle. It stood ae,et high, and, covered with auger ideas, rose in terraces to a pinnacle, an %Inch was a design in British and Ger-• man Bags. All the little guests stood up as -the vicar, the Rev. E. S. Carpenter, and his daughter received the Emperor, who, evith a smile, took the bouquets present- od by two tiny mindere, Ina Barrett and Ana Young. Then, looking agein at the rehiklren, he said: "I am delighted to see them healthiand 'well clad." 'The Emperor frankly enjoyed himself, and so didthe children. They refused to be oppressed. by any idea of rank and station, but inet their host on the friend- eiest terms. ,Presently the Kais.er strode down to enlagre the great cake stood, and, picking lupe, knife, cut deep into ite henrt, break - taw down its terraced glories. Teaoup ie hend„ he afterwards expressed his appro. elation to those • about him of. the ap- pearan,ee of the children and their bright and alert looks. When his Majester left the scluealroom after about half an homes stay, the chit- ,dren gave him three hearty British acheers. KING ALFONSO'S DISGUISE, fKing Alfonso paid a surprise visit to ram Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society, lin Brampton road, on Thursday, to see the amusing me -tool -is of the varioris .113ritish regiments, by Mr. Henderson, tate of the Buffs. The Xing wore a bowler hat, and turn- ed up the collar of his black overcoat so that it half covered his face. Thinking, he had thus sufficiently disguised him- self, he entered the front shop. Just then Major Tudor Craig, the secretary of the society, came in, and at once re- cognized the King, who shook hands and laughingly admitted hie identity. His Majesty, who was accompanied by the Peke of Alba, told Major ()nag that the hod Boon ono cartoon, entitled "The greaser's Own," and he wished to have eme of his own regiment (the leth Lari- leera), Several of the little colored sfacetelies were shown to the King, wire paid he would like to purelmse the whole nolleetion, containing one example of nvery British regiment in every kind of inniforra, and also caricatures of his own hegiment—the letli Lancers—in their five different uniforms, about one hun- dred and twenty in all. His Itlajesty ex- pressed his particular desire that they should be innuaing. Fortunately his :wishes in this direction could be met, fitstd he bought the picturee for 225. treeing made this purchase, King Al - Onset then went upstairs to the work- ehope, inhere forty men—all disabled col - alien: and PailOre—Avere engaged in their occapetions. Ills Mitjeety spoke to every man in turn, "I am so glad to zeee you wearing your medele," Ito Said to the men. "It showe what a pride you take in them and in your country." semonor 01,1)1EIZ ntito. iteigat. Grammar School Is justly roud. of a tiny thirteen -year-old member Oadet Oterph, This aloheolbOy 4,68. .ealliManneeteallee Mr, Justice Grantham, at Surrey As- sizes recently, fined an American citizen, William Nelsen Darnberough, of Prince's Hotel, Jermyn street, London, 260, for attempting to bribe Police Constable Miles, of the Surrey Constabulary. The constable stopped Mr. Darnbor- ough's motor car while it was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour at Esh- er. Mr. Darnborough asked him to say nothing about it, and dropped half A sovereign in the roadway. Sir. George Elliote on his behalf, now pleaded guilty mkt expres,sed regret. In tho United States the administration of the mew wee differeat from Sat of this country, and they were more accustomee to give tips. Mr. Darnborough did. not appreciate the gravity of the offenoe. Mre Justice Grantham said Mr. Darn - borough had made a proper apology or he would have sent him to prison, MURDER EVERY eo MINUTES. Pilled with vitality end brimming with plans for the future, General Booth is. back again M Greet Britain from his tour of Am•erica, and Germany. Asked to state his opinion as to whe- ther Americans or Beitish were the. bet- ter people, the Generai replied: "Speek- ing generally people aro pretty much the same all the world over. Compared with this country, however, America is more strenuous both for good and evil. In some respects the Ameriaans are the better. In one sense they have more re- ligion, "There is another side to the effair, however. The American pepple are like a human maelstrom; Here if a man, af- ter years, makes a thousand a year, he probably buys a villa and settles down to a happy domestic Iife. There, a man's sole thought is to turn the thousand into two thousand, the two thousand into ten, Then there is more frantic effort, and finally he cuts his throat. That, of course, is not quite literal, but it ex- presses what I mem). In America there is a, suicide every ninety minutes and a murder every aeventy minutes." ECHO OF THE NOTIFY, Oche "Civil and Military Gazette," a India, announces the death at Calcutta of Mr. W. Brendish, the telegraphist, who, on May -11, 1857, telegraphed the news of the sepoy revolt in Delhi to Um- balla, and thus gave notiee to the au- thorities in the Punjab. The incident is describea at some length in Colonel Edward Vibart's book on the Mutiny: The telegraph office at Delhi was situated outside the city walls, about a mile from the Cashmere gate. The staff consisted of Mr. C. Todd and two young lads as signallers, Brendish and Pilkington. On the day following the outbreak of the mutiny at Meerut the telegraph wire to Meerut was cut, aud Mr. Todd, who went to find the "fault," never returned. He is sup- posed to have been murdered and thrown into the jumna. The next day Brendish picked up some information of the spread of the revolt to Delhi, and telegraphed it to Umballa, before seeking refuge with Pilkington and Mrs. Todd in the Flagstaff Tower, coneluding his message with -the words, "And now I'm Oh" As regards the value rendered by Brendish, Col. Vibart quotes the follow - Ing teatimeny by Sir 17 -belt Edwardes at Liverpool in Marele 18e0: "Just look at the cottage and sense of duty which made that little boy, with shot and cannon all around him, manipu- late that riteesage, whieh I do not hesi- tate to say was the means of the ealva- tion Junjab. When the message readied Lahore it enabled Mr. 'Montgom- ery and the general to disarm the native troops before they had received one word of intelligence on the subpect." The Government of Wirt recognized . Brendish's special serviees by granting I him a pension on retirement equal to ' the full pay of his rank. • INSANE BOY LOVER. A youth of seventeen, Henry Harris, ' living in Leicester, drowned himself in ; the meal as the outcome of his jealous ! attachment to a girl, Agnes Firth, who geve a dramatic narrative of the episode at the coroner's inquest, when the jury found verdict that he committed sue Gide dutipgjemporary insanity. Agnes Firth, in ber evidence, said Harris hed become jealous of her. While , they were out walkieg on Sunday, Nov, . 24th, he said, "Will you go with me and • drown yourself?" Next evening they at- tended a Spiritualist meeting, and he ming, "Pm Wearing My Heart Away for Yon." A blind nein in the audieece took him hy the hand and observed, ',You are run doWn and ill and. are worryieg about a girl you think you cannot trust." This remark seemed to have a bad effect: on him. On Tueeday evening they walkea along the canal bank. Darns said he mulct see something funny in the eky, and grasp- ing her, exclaimed, "Hold me tight aed let us jump into' the water together." Witness advised him to come awey. He seized her by the throat, saying he would kill her if she die not jump also; but she escaped and ran off'ecreaminee Harris eallea after her, "Pll take you home," and elte returned, Tbey walked, some distitnee, when there was another struggle, but Flo again ran away, mid he was drowned. The jury in their Verdict expreased "admiration of Mtn Vixen pluelty con- duct." • hour after vaiduight at the Court Thee- tre—for cute performante only, it is true. If the .experimeat enceceeful, or . is found to le. a 'owe for Insomula, there la not the alighteat doubt that hie example will be followea elsewhere, Tho notice:. of shirting the first performanee of a new play et half-paat twelve at eight occurred, to Mr. Stuart owing to a coed:de:Won of eireumataneas In the first place, be had .errenged Pre41114`0 Pee'0141 lin! 31 new two-aet tennedy. by Mr. George Gleniel, entitled "Your in Familte"„for a miles. of epeeist] matinece at thetleurt Theatre, and. on or About the sante time he wiebea to give a supper party en telebrate Clutha. matt. Well! he thought, why not pre - vide the gueats with the pert:nine= of eo play too, The idea was eplendid, but his house was too email for the eu•ter- faining of 250 gusto, mud so there mid then the midnight ploy idea oceurreit, FORTUNE SQUANDERED, Harlod Collengs, Colebester House,. Maklenhead, a young man of twenty- four, who came up for his peblic he- aminietion in bankruptcy -Court, explain: ed how he equendered, a loge fortune, Ito Ilea, he. said, carried on. bueiness as bookmaker ender the style of "H. Collard," and. had lost money at that. At the age of itw.enty-five—ou Autretet 21 next—he wonld have been eatithed to £22,000 under the will of hie. fether, but ho had mortgaged it aud entielpated the income he would have reeeived, From the age of eighteen up to the present time he caletaated that the a'sr- erap.;e rate at which he had been living was about £4;000 a. year, Moat of his money Ilea, gone ill 1110. tOr.C11111. "7 have paid es much as 21.000 for a motor -oar,' mid " and whenever I boueeht a new ono I sold the other for ooneidembly kes than it oast me, I do not agree with the Of- ficial Receiver's suggestion that a mo- thecar could be kept and run .at L200 a yeas. A 40-h.p. eete will cost 4800 to L1,000 a year to run." lie was in reoeipt of assistenee from friends, and tut the present time was actieg as "a erentleemn ehauffeur for ea gentlemen who gives me a present now and then" 4 PLAY AT MID11141-1T. Mr. Otho Stuart hae concaved thet Rea Of putting on a new play half Mt KILLED AT DIABOLO. Dr. Wynn WesteJot, coroner, held an irquest at Hackney on Saturday on the body of Rose Annie Page, aged eight, the daughter of a. general dealer of lima timerroad, Delatono who died from an injury sustained wnile plaeleg 11Dialto. . mother gated that the child was perfectly well up till Sunday last. In 'the afternoon. she was playing "Diabolo" in the garden After a time she Went indoors and :said that the heal thrown the "spindle" up and that it had struck heir on the left side Of the head. Aboat 2.30 the next anointing she was seized with vomiting aed oonvulsions. She wae seen by a: doctor and then re- moved to the Metropolitan Hospital, where MIA died on Tuesday. The spindle in question WAR prod:mad in eourt and proved to be a wooden one. Dr. Sydney Vesper, houide surgeon, stated that death with due to ertenaugi- tis, from a cerebral 'abecess. The jury retarned verdict ef Aecidental Death, WRETCHED .WIVES, Discuesion of the position of women ie Great Britain, with the moral that the lot of the German woman is better, is frequent in the German press at present, follothing on it lecture to the Young Merchants' Union of Berlin by a Mr. Lindenstead. After informing his hearers that there are in Great Britain 8,000 women teach.' ers, whose social position is below the German standard, Mr. Lindenstead pro- ceeded to put the mental situation of British' women in a "correct" light. Beiauty in British womanhood is true, he says, only of young girls. In mar- riage they bee their charm. In France and Germeny a wonaan's life ieally begins with her -marriage; in Eng- land the wife is often no better than a housekeeper or manageress. Had she not, he asked, better improve her own posi- tion in tile family before the strives for the rights of men? The bad position of British women is due co their treatment by their.husbands. The Briton regard? his wife as his chattel, a piece of his be- longings that, can be treated as he likes. Cases of wife -healing were referred to. Sales of wives are not uncommon, Lindenstead coneluded. SERVANT -GIRL EMIGRANTS, The Australian demand for healthy British doteetic servants is steadily ha creaeing. On Jan. 24, 1908, under the auspices of the New South Wales Gov - eminent, over 200 English girls will Jeave for Sydney. By special arrangement with the Orient Royal Idall Line, the New South Wales Government will only charge each girl L3 for the passage. The girls will travel by the steamship Asturias, which starts on her maiden voyage to Australia on Jan.•24. A Pitching It Strong. , Neither of the partners. had arrived, and the clerks that morning were in- dulging in their usual bout ef gossip. MIA I tell you, °Imps,. that I wae leaeiega" drawleal the languid swell of the etaff, whose incompetence wee aft palpable as the splendor of his Attire. "Heard yrni'd got the seek," replied the spectacled cashier, gruffly. "I ens-wered an advertisement yester. day for what looks, like a first-class job,' resumed the overdreeted one. ignoring the remark. "I've pitched. 'rether strong yarn, hut youhre got to do that if :you want to heep up with the times." Just then the -senior partner entered eel all wrote intently. Within five 'minutes tbe "old mite," who bed been opening letters, called the last apeaker into hia room, and. the following dialogue became itud- ible to those outside: • "Have you been in our service seven years?" "No, sir; Only 15 menthe?' "And is your eatery L4 10s a week?" "Ble eo sir -30s. "And are you entire eliarge of the countieg-h ottee, • No reply. "Arid are you leaViiig tU3 because of a differetice with the firm regarding the numagementaof our Colonlel britnele t" Dead Allem, and a short praise. Then the old man: "You riltould he mote eaveful in your statenteuts, sir. Thie is a smell world, The advertisement you answered Ive,41 for the situation yoit are leaving en 'Sat, Imlay, That will dod"--Titellits, , Wonderful Fish. A Scottish laird evas at• the dinner table of a fine fish he . heel might. "How heavy was the Dell took last week?" he asked, turning to his servant. "Weil," replied Sandy, "It woe twill' peed at Ineakfitait, led gotten the aelitoon at dinmer-time, and it Wee eroceneetwenty when to sat dOWn to Pulver wi' the eahteinte"Theri, after a prase, lie added eht Arn 1)0411 tell- ing lees a' my life to plelee. the skeet -ere, but I'm no' goihg to tell Its441 yam in my -okl atra te piettee the fat:hers!" The Cure for Rheumatism AJAX OIL is a blessing to Rheumatics< It is the one and only treatment that absolutely cures Intlaxn- matory a n d Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica and Lumbago, Father O'Reilly, of Oakville, WS: "7 suiferod for yeare with Itheunithird, but AJAX OIL fixed me up, f3 ounce bottle, $2.00, Sent on receipt of price by The Ajax Oil Co„ Toronto, Ont. IMITATION OF HARDWOODS, How Ferniture Manefacturers Ni@ct a Contingency. Perhaps no set of men appreeiate the seriousness of the timber eupply quas- tion niore than thos,e engaged in the manufaeturere of .thraiture. They haere reidized for ,some years that: pineh the hardwood raaaket ewe come, anti they hane .49ecceded. in coping with the situetion by the economical use of material by the practice of veneering, and the imitatien of the higheet•priced hardwoods. During the Mat few yeass the greet inceetthe M the prim of hardwoods has ereated a strong demand for wood which can be used he imitation. The two woods that axe most successfully ime tated, amording to the New York Even- ing Post, are mahogany and oal, par- ticularly the quartered oak in the golden and darker finishes. AImeat without exception the manefacturer markets th,em imitations either as imitations or under S011/0 registered trade name, and does 110 preteod bo kieceivs his ous- temeee, For imitating makogany, eherry was formerly used, elmoet entieely, but the diminished supply 'and the burreased price of this wood hive led mennfa,c- Wren to seek a substitute which- would lend itself mere inadily to the stain than- cherry, and, at the wane time, show the grain and hold the.glese. For these reasous birch, especially curly birch, maple, beech, and gum aro ex- tensively used fee parts of furniture. Even in the better .grades of mahohany furniture birch and maple stained to a ma,hogany finish are often used for posts awl frames, while genuine mahogany, thaforin of veneer, ie used for panels,. tope and rolls. mekieg imitetion quaihered oak, al- most eny wood cen be used,. same in this ' oleo the original grain of the wood is first covered with a "filler" add then the quarteritig is printed on in (leek ink by the impression of aotual quar- tet:ea oak rolls, or by a transfer from quartered oak prepared by. spoke procesees, Bireh, maple, poplar end plain sewed oak are oommonly used for this work, Afterethe wood hes been fini•shed and polished, the imitation a,p- peers so real that only en expert can detect the difference. Certain woods used in furniture con- struction are extremely expensive, ow- ing to the difficulty of obtaining pieces with a good grain of sufficient size for working. Such, for inStance, is Circas- sian walnut. This, which cemes from the Ural Mountains, is largely used in the form of veneers for chair backs, panels, and tops in bedroom suites, table tops, etc., the balaace of the pima of furniture being composed either of American or black walnut (natural fin- ish) or of satin walnut, commonly known -as red gum. The latter, while it does not often show the be•autiful grain of the panel, is so near the color of plain Circaesien walnut that only close ecrutiny can detect the difference. a SOUP FEp noEvrAy, - Predigested Food Givee Norsemee Q004 phypiques and Excellent Teeth, Tee stronger of Narway," says aere- earned, traveller in tho Baltimore See, "is forcibly struck with the superior physi- que of the nation; he meets a race of large boned, fair haired man and evemen, and his chief wonder is the absence of ill -formed end under developed people. When the rigor of the Norwegian winter is considered one is likely to aseribe this physical well being to the survival of the fittest. But the splendid physique is also due not only to the widespreed sys- tem ef physical development in vogue, but to the peculiarly suitable food eaten, "The customary food -for the nation is of the soup and stew order, This results In a large quantity of nottrisinnent be- ing taken in a liquid form, and renders the diet one easy of digestion. Nations employieg food in more solid shape re- quire more liquid in the form of drink; but this unfortunately leads to a dile- Lion of the digestive fluids and renders them unable th not on the solid food In the necessary coneentrated stitte, It is thee a matter of no surprise that taw' Norwegians suffer from indigestion; deed, it is eatly.to see that many of the dishes, .as the result of their mode of preparation, are to an extent predi- gested. "In this connection it would be well to point to the effect upon the nation's teeth. Neturally, the posseseion of per- fect 'teeth is a getaritutee of satisfactory mestieation, the first stage. in the ota. similation of food, But bhe nature of the food taken determines to a largo extent the Oondition of the ritolate, Thia idee borne out by the Met that Norway, where road Meats are the ex- eeption, the condition bf teeth is neierlh always excellent. , "'no Norweglens, above ell things, un- derstand the art of preparing fith. One of- the Most appetizing' ways of eating thla article of diet is tea fiehballs, for 1.1 Which the lish, is baited and poinaled and 1 ettewed Atter beiug rolled Into Mentbellit ere prepared the some way. When meat deem eppeer it is Imlay under the gulag of boiled mutton, and tbie diah is generally followed. by maths stewed in tapicee. "The natiovel Saturday dinner will noit ahpeal very appetislegly to Anent, eau Minds, for it coneiats new *kW honing heckled in brine), with raw on- ions and 'boiled potetoes, The Norweg- laus chant for it that in this form none of the. mitriment is lost, An imported dial', which bids fair Also to become a national dinner, is a delicious Spanielt dish, reeembling 'elle padrida,' whioh made of flaked coil, heked with -sliced potatoes, tomatoes. and rich gravy, "Supper is a hearty meal, taken about seven in the evening: Among the vedous dishes in customary use are meatballs, 'slid' salad (herring -salad. made of ed herring, online sage -and parsley, minc- ed and eaten cold), braised fish end po- tatoes served hot, and steaming dried fish, "During 'Icaffe' a great variety of fancy breads and cakes are caten,• The Norwegian bread is varied ith cook- ei7, But the chief Item of domestic egonomy which eppeal to the stranger are the great variety of dishes, the lengthy time deeoted to the peeperaqon of meals and the extreme care and clean- liness of the housewife, with whom nab - lug is ever too Much trouble. "One cannot but admire the 'sensible way in which the temperance question is (lean with, for Noeway possesses non- _ alcoholic drinks which are not palatable merely, but delicious. Tim fruit syrups are things to be desired, ana the imita- tions of intoxicants are really attractive, This is a common sense way of dealing with intemperance. The 'alcoholfrik' li- quid most frequently,drank is known as `vateroele end appears to be an unfer- mented malt beer, aerated without being . objectionably gassy. It ie sweet and nu- tritioes: and otherwise meth resembles good stout, It is sahl that the Norwe- gian who leavea his mother country has much difficulty in aesimilating American foods that he aetually pines for his na- ive diet; but a month of Norwegiae diet- ary to the average American induces in him a longing for something he can real- ly 'put Ms teeth into.'" a e WHAT ARE WATTS? • A Question Apt to Puzzle All But this Expert in Electricity. In the world of electrieity ono hears a good deal about "watts," says the Washington. Herald. The current is mea- sured by watts, the machinery is rated by watts, lamps by watts. The man to whore we owe this symbol of power was John Watt, a Scotch in- ventor, a.nd when the electric unit, in- volviug the idea of working capacity, came to be fermulated, the name of Watt was chosen to indicate this unit just as the name of Volta gave us the term volt, and Faraday, the farad. Watt considered that, taking the average, the London dray horse was capebte of doing the work of lifting 33,000 pounds through one foot of distance in ono minute qf time. This introduction of the time Ilea, the minute, gave the unit of power or rete of performing work. This, or its equivalent, has ever since been called a, horse -power. The electrical unit, callee in terms Of the horse -power, and In that form it is, perhaps, most intelligible to timer> who are familiar with mechanical rather than with electrical expreasions. • The electrieal. watt is the product of volts, multiplied by amperes, where the volt is the unit of electrical pressure, and the ampere. is the unit of measuring the density of volume of an electrical current. Experiments have demonstrat- ed that 746 watts per amend are equal to 560 foot 'pounds per second, or, to state the equation in its usual form, 746 watts equals one horse -power. The form in which electricalepower generaaly sold is conmuted on the besis of kilowatt hours. The prefix kilo conies from the Greek Chilio, 1,000. A kilowatt is, there- fore, 1,000 watts. The kilowatt hour is the perfermance of work at such a rate that 1,000 watts per second shell be de- livered continuously, for sixty seconds.' • The . Village Blacksmith. Uncle]. a spreading chestnut 'tree The village smithy stands. The smith, a mighty man is he * t —Now prepared to meet domande rgr prdmpt repairs to auto eranka, Ithionetos, spare:ern chides, hoods, tanks I Newparts for every keowe machine) WI Stook of oil, graphite, carbide, gas- olene— * * * Arid the muscles of Ms brawny -arms • Are strong as iron bands. His letir is criep, and blitelte and long, Hie face is like the tan! Iiis brow is wet with holiest sweat; He earns whate'er he can * * * —Vulcanizing, riveting, brazing, repair- ing Of radiator, clutch, hylinder, bearing; •Innei tubes for sale, cement, patches, tires, Battery cells, spark plugs, coils, wires-- * * And lookc the whole world in the face, Foo he owes not aay man. Toiling—rejoicing—sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begirt, Each evenieg sees it close * * * —Tires recovered, relined, retreaded; sectional and tube patching; eluminien brazing; repairs to eadiators, mud guards, sprocket cones; overhauling end adjustment of every descriptioe; tit hand day, night and Sundays (residence third house to right, behind mho* house) ; prices reasonable; all work guaranteed; petronage ef atttoreehiliste resp. invited— t * Something attempted, somethieg done, Ras earned a eight's repose, —Front Life, Greatest Conaemption of Brash According to the Ameriean Mitehinet the greatest Riegle consemptiott of braes Is for condenser tubes, n battleship alone having from 30;000 pounds to 40,000 pounds of condetther tubing in it; and, owing to the corrosive effeet of sea, water this tubieg must be contirtually replaced. The material used is 'usually either Mentz metel--00 per cent. copper, 40 per eent. zirte—dr oleo a mixture of copper, 70; zine. 20, and tie, 1. The best Way to reinOVO *ex front the ear is to 1190 a 'Multi ntixture of 'equal ports ef tdyeerine and water, Hese- water may be substituted for tho wet- er, if preferred. This. diesolve the watt and leave no Michel, 'width le ali importatt part of Re tieefulness, 13ritttin'e yearly consumption ef eggs magic:is the ellarilleilS total of 4,400,000, - MO, of Witieh Mere than half ere impott- ed from Denmark, Genially, 11,Uatift 44 444-4444-4444.4e.teeteedee-s-e÷etweeateheigt-gageteefeteeinetahees-aha • Cow Testing Associations Announcement for .1904t *4 -1,44,4444 -44 -e -e-•+` •-•-•.4.4444-e-egt It is now four years since the De - pertinent ot ,Agriculture, through the Dairy Division, began an eetive coati- jaign for the improvement of the Miry herds of Catuielte. inaugutra Ming a cow testing assoolation at Covvansvile, Quebec), Tho Departmeet provided all the equipment and lean. ed each member the scales and neces- sary outfit for taking and preserving the samples, furnished the requisite blanla forms for keeping records, made all the tests and compited the reports, without any charge. In 1905 a series of 30 -clay tests were concluoted at seven places, the De- partment loaning the outfith and doe mg all the work without cost to the owners ot the herds as in 1904, The objeet of this work waa to call atoll. tion to the importance of the ques- tion and to create sufficient interest in the matter to induce dairymen to Organize for the purpose of conduct- ing systernatic test of the individ• -eat cows of their herds, The pub- lication of these tests showed the great difference which is found in the yield of cows in the sante herd, and of different herds in the same locality, At the beginning of '1906, 16 aasoci- ations were organized under the aus- pices of the Department. Eaoh mem- ber was required th provide his own outfit for weighing and taking sam- plee, but the Department' of Agricul- ture provided the blank forms and made the tests without charge. The work was continued on the same basis in 1907, with,e, total of 52 associations organized in' the different provinces as follows: Quebec 27, Ontario 18 Nova Scotia 2, Prince Edward Island 1, British Columbia. In addition to making the tests frea of cost, the Dairy Division has compiled for each member a month. ly end a yearly statement of the in• dividual tests of his herd and, each member has also been furnished with oopy of the monthly summa,ries ol all tests made for the other assoce ations. Summaries. of the morathlo tests have been published in the agri- cultural and weekly press of Canada, so that every person who reads has thus had an opportunity, of study- ing the results and judging of the importance of the work. The Honorable Mr. 'Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, has taken a special interest in this work and th very 5- sirous of having it continued. I am directed to say that the Dairy Divie sion. will again co-operate with inisoci, aliens of 20 or more merrilhers, oe Owners of not less than 200 paws, toe the season 6f 1908, lay doing the test- ing, providing the 'necessery blenk forms, and aseisting in the argent zation as heretofore, lent the Minis- ter th of the opinion that the tima lute arrived when the members of the associations may .reasonably be asked to contribute something towards the met of the work. If it th worth anything th a dairy- man to know the relative value of his cows as:milk producers, in order that he may improve his herd by a pro- mise of intelligent breeding and selec tion, it should be worth paying for, in part at least. If it is not worth anything to the owners of the herds it is certainly not worth anything te anyone else. ' I beg, therefore, to making the fol- lowing announcement in connection with thiii weak: For the season of 1908 the Depart- ment ef Agriculture through the Dairy Division wilt co-operate with the cow testing associations on the following terms: Ka) The members must provide Abele own outfits and agree to take samples according to instruction. (b) The members will be required to pay -towards the cost of the testing at the rate of 20 cents .per cow for the . season, for herds of 5 cows and over. For herds of under 5 cows a minimum oharge of $1.00 per herd will be made. (c) The association must arrange for a, suitable place In which the testing may be done as in previous years without cost to the Department. (d) The Dairy Division will pro- vide all the necessary blank forms, chemicals for testing, compile month- ly and yearly records and forward them to each member without any charge except 'as mentioned in (b). Note—The charge for testing wilt be based on the highest number of . cows tested in any one month. A eow tested only once will be charged for the season. Deity and Cold Storage Commissioner. 3'. A. R____:HUDDICK, Sin—Judgieg front certain replies th our eircular of Nov. 26 in regard, to tho cow testing work for 1008, it weuld seem that some of the members of the asso- ciations have had the impression that the Department of Agriculture had agreed to bear the whole cost of testing the milk foe an indefinite period. I beg to point out that the last agreement on this point covered only the season of 1907, It was so stateel, distinctly, in all our circulars, bulletins and other lit- erature covering the work, and the or- ganizers were instructed to the same effect. regret it if there has been any inismaderstanding on that point. In all other countries where the work of cpw testing has been carried on the melt/here of the associations have borne the greater share of the cost, and in ; t ; e44 -44 -44 -44.4•44•44 -a4 -e. some caeca they lieve received no goy - eminent aseistanee, the work heing organized and conducted as a result of the initietive of the dairymen them- selves, The stun wItich Canadian dairymen are asked to contribute tdwards the cost of this work amounts to a very small frac- tion (About 14) of the actual cost of doing the testing, Yours very truly, J. A, Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner. 1: BUNDAY IN HYDE PARK. .hoeialiet Orators Taking the Place of the Old Time Religious Speakers. eld Londoners who go to Hyde park on occasional Sunday afternoon to hear the speekers and watch the erowde gathered about them soy 'there has been a great ehange Within the Test few yeara in the trona of thought which marks these oratione. At one time there were a large number of re- ligloue speakers---Ohurch Arinyists, Christian landeriven-ers and 'Frehibitionists, with OnlY a meagre acattering ot Socialists or other po- litical orators noticeable, Now it is just the other way, The re- ligious eocieties are much in the minoiltY, while the .anareleiste, Socialists, Woman Suf- fragiste, eto„ 011 the air with their loud one long exhortations. Just In case some overzealous orator should never break up a meeting or have to inter- otevreerainepatienye walin)1..it of tolerance and try to Motto to erline, there are plain clothes men scattered among the groom but they almoet It do certainly remarkable the extent and variety of the subjects dealt with at these gatherings, Atheists and preachers for the istoannidi Leofaliguoopea,lisie:telikeer;rre m the Tariff Re - Catholic Educational 'Union TanratethUe nNitielatilhael Seculor Education League all ,preach theihr gospele to their temporary followers', eao without the slightest regard for the others and not in the least disturbed by the prox- imity of ea equally foreeful neighbor hold- ing and setting forth exactly imposito views. Here we have e. Christian Endeavor group. An old American megro is addrasing the crowd and urging theni to find salestion as he has found it, and with tears rolling down his dusky oheeks he prays for their souls to be saved as his will be, Then a bustling 'cheerful ontleman in a high hat takes lila piece and 'gives out a hymn, read- ing tbe words of each stanza slowly and oarefully so that the crowd may be tempted to join in the ernittng. In ease they should not, !however, he has fortified Ms own ef- forts by a email ohoir. In the pauses of tho hymn can be heard the voice of the nearby anarchist shooting: "It is my firm and steadfast opinion that we shall !acreage oar power and magnify our strength by Alt:king close, shoulder to shoulder, in the raerob of progress." Beyond him Is a soholarly looking man, shabbily dressed, talking on humanitarian deism. He has only a tiny group of atten- tive listeners, Still further on the anti -vivisectionists have qequred tbe services of an American Indian, wbe is addreasing intelligently a crowd much mere interested in Ole appearance than hie words. Just .a little beyond him is the suf- fr'Shag.ete ttr; a very much in earnest young wo- man, and the crowd is good naturectly toler- ant toward her efforts to convince them, though there is a general tileap,proval of her mission among her own sex, whose cause she is so ardently pleading. She courageously tries to answer all the facetious question; which ore put to her, and fills in all saps by reiterating the warery: "Votes for women!" " 'Ow do yer know they want teem?" shouts a big burly avail. "Mine don't, do Yer, Nance?" and Nance murmurs some- thing to the effect that he'd best shut his silly 'ead and not 'ave hevery one-a-lookin• at relent. Quires a woman amid the approving nods of ibi:'00orp'vedd ..get the workin'man's dinner?" in- . But this question does not impress the suf- fragette as having intich bearing on the ease in hand, for she ignores it to the great tri- umph of her questioner, whe feels that she has scored a point. , The Socialiet sPeakere are frem many dif- ffeecrteenrti seiitoganialitrtsty1111040, soTe.hiaelreist arttrre ttyheoiCciissafretti. Britain, the Sqoial Demeoratic Federation, and the, Clarion Scoots Socialiste. These Beakers always have large crowds gather around them, and if they misplace a tow h's in their words they make up for tint deficiency in the vigor and earnestness of their discourse, Meunted on an uneVenly balanced table ia youag man who shoute at the crowd and_ tries to Make them Wideratand hew capital oppresses laber arid how ,labor must corn - 111'9; asfnainostwotrici:gmnemsYn. talking to working- • rues and I am proud of it," he -says, "and if they was te hoffer to make m.e Ca.dret Minister I'd say, 'No, thank yer, I prefer toHreemgeaitne 7foer:increettrus." t dramatio ending to his opecoh,,and they are mingled with the hoots andeMughter that the flat earthIst nearby is receiving as he '''promu/- seta: hie theory to an unsympathetic etowd, who quite 'naturally prefer to believe the earth round like an orange or a ban, se It was When they went to school, It is a Tower of Babel of Ideas, Dui, liryde Park forum, and as it Ines been ?or g time Go it win be for retire seneretmr the speakers change so &Oho ideas, tin the old ones come back all over again and are greeted as new. And More in His Library, The teio philosophers built houses side by side and their respective sons showed filial pride. "My -father's a bigger teen than your ' father," cried Christopher. "No, he isn't, either," answered Wil- liam, jun. "My fether's a professor." "So s mine," said the son of the'ex- perimental psychologist. "Weil! my father's got more brains than yours has, anyway." "No, he hasn't, either," said William, bum, "for my father's not only got his own brains, but a lot of other men's brains in bottles oh his mantelpiece."— Boston Herald, = [- When we say a per,sen is "not worth his salt" we are using one of the oldest phrases in the English language. This exprosielon has etome down through the centering front Roman days. The origin of the phrase is the same as that of our weed salary, both heving come from the Letin selarium, or sat money. -444400114.05.4):1)444444.44042444-- A Boston schooll3oy was tall, weak and sickly. His arms were soft and flabby. He didn't have a strong muscle in his entire body. The physician who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed Scoice.s Err:viva/on. NOW To feel that boy's arm you would think he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. ALL OS uootwrs .8045. Awl $1.00. 00413440400:4100414.04414 0 0 tve ©WigiVa ,ight hen ht York,. • ---are....ed iinene,„ A Ganiemehie woma a drink out of the wrong bottle and the intainke tent her her life. it is time to trot out the .suggeation I poisons he eept In equare shaped I 4. Pit., went back to. work 'thin, week, After being idle a week. Woollen mile in Webster, Mass„ which have been shut down for a month, have resented on frill time, we ere told-, with nearly asemany hands as they had when they closed. These are evidenees that the Minolta stringency is passing away, and that hard timaa are stilt in the distance. Uncle Sands filie-;eP industry, which hat not shown much vitality, le again. begin. ning to grow, The volue• of the clip' has increased from $04,94%059, in 194 to $80,410,file in 1905. The number of sheep In the country at sbearing tinte„ April 1, 1005, la placed at 38,021,476, its. compared with 38,342,072 the preceding . year, The extension of foretit reserVes and the restrictions on the public grazing' . lands will, it is said, tend to .operate againet the great •sheep ranclies. More smaller. flocks will be required to enve the industry. • Seven thousand Mx hundred and fifty' deaths are eaused Annually in New- York City by the common house fly, th a . statement gravely made by Dr. Daniel C. •fackson, bacteriologist •of the water bureau, in a 'report to Gov.. tTeithes. "The time of greatest prevalence of flies," says- . the report, "Was in the three months' beginning on July 1 and ending on Oct. . 1. Corresponding exactly,. deaths from intestinal aiseases rose above the normal, culininated at the same high point, and fell off, with a slight lag, lit the time of the gradual. subsidence of the pre.valeece - of the insects," If the above betrue the cOmmou hoilee fly must be a more aeadly• foe to tha humen rate than , the- malaria-bre_eding i‘ono_s,gelto„ Shoo fl.y1 Dr. Theodor Barth, diatinguislted. • German visitor to the United Staten has been' writing lettere th the Frankfur- ter &Hung, foe some months back. fn his latest letter he states Ott the Dom. inion of Canada hits crossed the thres- hold of the twentieth century under ton - :Mims incomparably more favorable to •-• rapid expansion than • obtained -.in the United States at the beginning of the nineteenth. In support of this statnuent the following facts and igures" fa' givTelnte: population of the United Stetee in 1800 was 5,308,000; that Of the Dandle . ion in 1901 (exclusive of Newfoundland) was 5,371,00C. The tothl imports and, exporte of the United States in 1800 were valued at less than $163,000,000; • tbe total Inverts 'and exports of the .• • Dominion of Canada itt 1901- exceeded e540,000.000. The receipts of the United Statee Treasury in 1800 were from cus- • tints $9,080,000 and from internal rev. enue $809,000; the total revenue of the Dominion in 1906. 'was $80,000;000 to which $60,000,000 was e antributed frore -- customs and excise. la 1800 the -United. States did not heve steamboet 'it. a:t- in-He of railwaY. Canada,- on. the other • • hand, at the eed of June, 1905, had e - network of steam railways With a track.' e age of 20,600 miles. Finally,. the hiltiaild tants of all the chief citiee of tha TJn- ited States in 1800 did not eonetituto more then a fraction of the -present po- pulation of Montreal. No doubt the twentieth Century is Canada's. As the years pass she. is bound . to grow -with accelerated speed. She has everything in her fever. Inventions of - which the United States in their infamy did ,not know, 411,0 00W aseisting in the rapid development -of the Dominiom 1Barber t C ippingn sav -0: • :6 The barbet as his -patron arose, shook from the apron to the floor the short locks that he had clipped from the man'e head and a boy appeared, swept up- the hair ged, placed it carefully in a large bag. • "Has got any user asked the *- eon, with an interested and pleased •sin"101ef. course it has," said the barber. "Would I save it otherwise?' :,`NBuot niitatitsers.onshioifir rits USW." . "What is it used for?" said the man• - "What. will •beeome of that short whieh I have been carrying obouta 0 my hat?" "Well," said tbe barber, "some of it will go into mortar, some of it will stuff furniture, but most of it will be made into those fine straieers which are used th clarify the best eyrups. There art no strainers equal to those Woven of short human hair and for all the hair that we . barbers can supply the strainer makers. • keep 'up a steady demand."—From the , Philadelphia Bulletin. ' ' Monarchs.' Shooting Grotands. Most monarths own. vast estates on which there is plenty of thole and op- portunity for the preservation of Mg game. King. Edward of Itinglittei has great moors in Scotland on whieli the. grouse and the deer live in peace and maltiply extraordinarily under the fostering tare of experienced gamekeepers. The Ger- Man Emperor Ilea great foreste in which bears and wild bears roam at large. The Czar of Hassle lute many miles of foreate devoted to gaMe end the French Republic inaintitins for the use of its Presicleet it fine park at Rainhouillet, where the game is well preserved. Vietor Emmanuel TIT, of Italy hag :tplendid preeerves theeel Porzie ano, half tin. hour by motor froin Roma The Spaniel' King, Itlfeneo oue of the youngeet of Europe's rulers, does his slumCing at PA Perdo. liis preservel near Maetifl. Ills neighbbr, King Cathie of Por; eget, is elect one of the most famous altele with rifle and revolver in all Pa- r: le. Recreation. I hide polhh foretthoieum le very eaeily made, and prolific -es a very good emit without emelt labor. Take four ounces of breswase two =wee of white utea,*' and two inmete: of Castile soap. Serape all finely, and pour over it tree pint of boiling water, Mori diaaolved let it boil agaie; hike it off the fire and add one pint of turpentine, Stir Until eeld ' at short Intervale. rse exaefly as you Vela beeswax arid turpentine,