The Wingham Times, 1916-01-20, Page 6Page, 6
THE WINGHAM TIMES
THE FAMILY GROUP HUSBAND WAS A THIEF STILL CHEERY,
The family group Is alianet a thing ;
of the reatit in the photegraphic busi-
ness -Item from a trade paper.
It's jest from readin' things like i
the we eometime s get the blues, end
think the world and all its folks are :
dressed in sombre hues. The family
group -wily 1 nand well when last we
sat to pose -1 wouldn't swap that pie- I
lure now for all the coin that grows.
They brandied us all off to town to get
our likeness took. We wuz so starched *
and plastered up we shivered and I
shook. Why maw, she sat and held a
book, and tried to smile and grin, and
paw sat sideways on a chair to get his •
wlaiskers in. The picture man then
took the kids and stuck 'ern here and
there--sorne standin' up as straight
as etieks, some leanin' on a chair. I
mind he took ntl(t by the ear and give
my neck a spin, that made my laiinder-
ed most 'sassinate my chin. He
said we had to stay rigot stilt and nev-
er say a word -and keep our lamps a-
starin' hard to see a little bird. Well
after all this thing was did; 1 mind we
got a frame. and the other pictures on
the wall looked mighty poor and tame
-when they gazed on the family group
-like sun against the moon, when
that thing was a-hangin' in our sittin'-
room. But things are different nowa-
days, they're aint no family groups,
with folks dressed in their Sunday
clothes and' with their Sunday boots.
Why, good land sakes, when wirnmin
go to get a fotygraff, they try to make
themselves appear like some well grow -
ed giraffe. They wind some cheese
cloth round their neck, then gaze off
into space, instead of turnin' square
around and showin' all their face.
They say the thing is more correct, in
keepin' with the times - but let us
whack the bloomin' style in these here
homely rhymes. Fer pichers that is
took like that I wouldn':: give a hoot -
go get the gang together and have a
family group. -Ark in Guelph Mercury.
Pez-ona on Om ft t.tttl,
Mr. Peterson, South Bay, Ont.,
writes: "For years I suffered a sort of
eczema on the head. I tried four
different doctors, giving each a fair
trial, hut the disease grew worse and
spread to my arm. 1 got Dr. Chase's
Ointment. and it has entirely cured me.
I give you my name because I want
other sufferers to know about this
splendid Ointment."
A Milan despatch to the Echo de
Paris says that Austria has celled up
her last line of reserves, many of whom
are unfit for field service, and will be
employed as auxiliaries in the rear.
A sad story was unearthed at (lhica-
gi) recently, when Mrs. James Le iis
found that her husbaini, the sweeee
heurt of her girlhood, the man
wle-an she trusted, was a women burg -
late Th y had been mai•ried ten yeare,
hid three little daughtere tied woe
very happy.
Lewie, wen is the son of e. ereitly
reeident of Kitheas Cite. bee neer* tie-
r:genie:fed recently, hut hie g.t, to his
wife did tiot stop 410 t 041,
Mrs. Lewis was tiever trapper than
when her hu betel liseuerit tier pres-
tine t.,teiieereine end eed eke of jeua
"liere's. a little soreeteirg 1. bougl t
treday,' Lev, is seared -re., noleing a
paeaege behhai A nd k.
&reenters. Tbelrna, 1 retie: mai Miiiiree,
air of whom are ender eight years of
age, would dunce on tiptoe and try to
tiler the parcel from him.
Mrs. Lewis' tare wouid si arkle with
delightwhen the wrappioge had been
oeened and she had aiscuvered inside
another piece of silver fur the buffet
or a new lavalliere.
She didn't nag her husband because
he stayed out late some nights and
sonfetimes didn't reture until morning.
Be was not working, she knew, but
once she saw a $50 dollar cheque sert
him by his father and she believed that
Lewis supported the household on re-
mittances.
Then the police came one day and
found $1,000 worth of stolen jewelry
silverware and clothes. Mrs. Lewis
took her family back home to her moth-
er, while the police took the burglar
with them.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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A combination ladder and scaffold
with many uses that folds as compactly
as a step -ladder has been patented.
It is said that no one can breathe at
a greater height that seven miles from
the earth.
For the protection of the eyes of
workers about lathes and grinding
machinery from flying metal frag-
ments, there has been invented a trans-
parent guard, supported by spectacle
bows.
This year is the centenary of the
invention of trousei's, first worn by a
Landon tailor.
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The Experiences of Private Lonsdale
in German Prison.
Private W. Lonsdale, the Leeds
tramwayraan who le a prisoner of
war in Germany and whose death -
sentence (afterwards commuted to
twenty years' penal servitude) re-
cently aroused great Indignation in
this country„ writes bitterly about
the treatment meted out to him. He
is now in the fortress prison of Spau-
dau, end, though in good health, is
feeling the full rigour of German
"discipline."
In one letter to his wife he says:
"The captain came to see me yes-
terday and gave me some papers. The
only time I have for reading is on a
i Sunday. During the week it is all
work and sleep, and not a large
amount of the latter. . . . Pleas-
ed to hear that -- (someone at the
Front) is still alive and well. You
can tell him 'hat I don't fancy being
,I a prisoner of war; and also tell him
that, if he is so placed that he is
likely to be taken prisoner, he had
better put a bullet through hie brain,
Death is far preferable to what I have
already gone •throtigh. If my time
were to come over again, I should
never be a prisoner of war. I would
be with my comrades on the pithills
in Flanders. They have tried several
ways to kill me. Now they are trying
to starve me because I am English. I
only get half as mueh to eat as the
German prisoners. This is not the
Salvation Hotel; it is the Starvation
Hell."
In another letter he urges his wife
not to worry about him, as he is quite
well. "So cheer up," he adds, "keep
up a good old British heart the same
as I ane doing, and all will come well
in the end. Remember: Once 33rit-
ish always British. That is a good
motto, and it takes a lot to break the
heart of a true Britisher."
Ocean Greyhounds as Cruisers,
Since Britain became a sea power
the British Government has claimed
the right to convert , merchant and
passenger vessels into warships in
time of war. Indeed, we have paid
subsidies to certain lines in order
that we might have the means of tak-
ing over vessels which we intended
to convert.
, In Elizabeth's time every trader
became a warship at need. The fleets
of the East India Company consisted
of armed vessels which could and did
tight on occasion in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, and there is
an historic incident in the annals of
the Navy concerning Commodore
Dance, who, in 1804, with his squad-
ron of Indiamen, put to flight the
French fleet under Admiral Linois.
To -day such vessels as the Lusi-
tania, the Mauretania, the Aquitania,
and the Cam:Lyra, which performed
the gallant feat of sinking the Ger-
man armed cruiser Cape Trafalgar off
the Brazilian coa ,t, have been taken
over by the Navy, or remain at call.
The same remark applies to the ves-
sels of the P. and 0. Line and those
of the White Star Line, such vessels
as the Teutonic, the Adriatic, the
Olympic, and the Oceanic, which was
wrecked off the North Coast of Scot-
land, having been transformed into
armed cruisers.
Such vessels do not seek action
like the ordinary cruisers and Dread-
noughts. Their business mainly dur-
ing a time like this, is to patrol the
trade routes. Naval officers and men
are drafted on board, and, although
they would stand little chance in a
pitched battle with armed cruisers
and Dreadnoughts, they can, as is il-
lustrated by the case of the Car -
mania, be reckoned upon to give a
good account of themselves in an
emergency.
All Want Gowns.
The craze for legal- gowns, says a
Calcutta newspaper has now spread
to the mukhtears of Bengal. A few
years ago vakils obtained permission
to wear gowns. Black gowns were
suggested by vakils but as these
would have led to their being mis-
taken for members of the Bar, blue
gowns were given them. Recently
the pleaders asked that the privilege
of wearing gowns should be extend. -
ed to them and the necessary sanc-
tion was granted, green being the
color selected. Not to be outdone the
mukhtears are now. moving in the
matter and the initiative has been
taken by those practising in. the Sal-
paiguri courts who have petitioned
the Registrar on. the Appellate Side
of the Calcutta High Court to be al-
lowed to wear gowns. The color
suggested is chocolate. The matter
is under consideration by the Chief
Justice.
Make jaw From a Rib.
Part of a rib of a Toronto soldier
has become his new jaw. This sur-
gery has just been wrought at To-
ronto upon one of the 800 injured
who have recently returned from the
Canadian army corps fighting in.
France. The subject, a private, had
a big section of the bone from the
back portion of his lower jaw carried
away by a shell at Ypres.
Reaching Toronto, he was badly
disfigured, as the cheek had fallen in.
General hospital surgeons decided to
operate, but they needed a piece of
bone to fill in the gap. So they re-
moved a piece of one of his own ribs
and built it into his face where the
jaw -bone had been. before.
1HE A3USE OF POWER,
1London Filet 1
Humour bee become a kind of idie
irriong us, and eveta one le obsequious
it. In conversution, in parliament.
in book r, in newspapers, little sacrifices
are continually made to it. No matter
how serious his subject may be, every
writer and speaker is nervously anxious
to assure his andience that he is not
wanting in a sense of humor. In his
first sentence, if possible, he yill prove
that they cannot be more ready to
laugh at him than he is at hitnself. In
fact, to be ready to laugh at ynurself
und your own deepest enthusiasms has
almost become a point of good man-
ners. There is in this the same kind
of cowerdi ,e that makes a man who
has tumbled down in the street and
coveeed hirrieeir with mud laugh at his
own misfortune so as to anticipate the
laugater ot the unlookers. . , All
this is proof that we have come to
value humour, far above its proper
worth. We talk of the saving grace
of humour. We say that a sense of
humour would have kept a man from
some enormity of conduct. We pretend
even to ourselves that humour is one of
the cardinal virtuesevithout which no
one can be either good or great. . . .
But this greediness for humour may
soon become a vice of the mind, an in-
stinct of frivolous revulsion from every-
thing serious, more prosaic and far
more contemptible than that romantie
revulsion from reality that sounds in
so much modern poetry.
SLAMMING THE THREE-FIFTHS.
The ball and chain of the three-fifths
clause fastened to the legs of the tem-
perance people of Ontario. - Sarnia
Obsereer.
The three-fifths clause was the chief
victor yesterday.- Port Arthur Chron-
icle
There is little use in some people
praying for a "dry" Brantford so long
as they are willing to continue in office
he men who are responsible for main-
taining that great fortress of the liquor
traffic. in this province, the three-fifths
landicap, In Manitoba the three-fifths
arevailed at one time, having been
:opied from Ontario, but even the
Roblin Government saw its •unfairness
Had returned.to the bare majority prin-
.iplc. Is it not time the people of this
province insisted upon the Hearst
3•overnment, giving them a fair deal in
this matter? -Brantford Expositor.
Sisyphus, everlasting rolling his
boulder up the hill by patient toil, only
to see it go crashing down again just
is it neared • the top, had no harder
task than the temperance men of On-
tario who are endeavoring in face of
the three-fifths handicap to abolish the
bar. What is Mr. Hearst going to do
about it? The premier of Ontario had
better wake up. If Premier Hearst
stands by the bar he cannot remain
Preinier Hearst. -Toronto Globe.
Revenue Of the Punjab.
The total revenue raised from the
Punjab population of twenty millions
is eighty-seven million rupees, This
includes all seurses of revenue under
the laeads of excise, stamps, opium,
salt, forest, law and justice, jails,
agriculture, and education, which are
for zervicee rendered or goods sup-
plied, as well as direct taxes, sueh
as revenue front the land or income
taX. This works out at a little less
thaa four and a half rupees per head,
about equal to $1,50.
Mrs. Churchill a Stenographer.
Among her Many accomplishments
Mrs. Winsten Churchill numbere that
of being able to write shorthand. She
frequently acts as Shorthand -writer
tO her husband, the notes being after-
Veleerde haiided to S. secretary to copy
!into IOnghand.
WEAVER AND SOLDIER
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Killed in action at twenty-two!
Straight from the mill to the camp
he went;
Died as the darlings of England do,
After a life in her factories spent,
Died for a mother he might not know,
Could the mere name of her move him
so?
Corn iields steeped in the sun's great
gold,
Streams that fret through forget-me-
nots ;
Homesteads tucked in a hill's green
fold,
Blossomy orchards and ferny grots;
Deep lanes winding to cliff -crowned
seas -
These are England: did he know ttiese?
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GLACIAL EPOCHS.
This Old Earth of Cure Has Had More
Than One lee As.
Every one with intelligent interest in
the history of the world on which he
live e has heard of "the glacial epoch'
or tbe ice age. The inhabitants of the
northern portion of the Uelted States
have no doubt a general understanding
that the gravel hills and ridges and the
huge howldereswith which they are fa-
miliar are due to an irresistible inva-
sion from Canada by "the great ice
sheet" at a date just preceding that
which geologists term "recent," yet
many thousands of years ago.
It is. boweyer, not strictly correct to
speak of the "ice age" or the "glacial
epoch." for there have been 'many of
them. It is now known that even this
latest or pleistocena glacial epoch bas
several Important divisions, and in the
Rocky mountaiti region it appears that
important changes in the form and
height of the mountains, due to it wear-
ing doWn by erosion, took place be-
tween the glacial subepoehs.
More than fifty years ago it was rec-
ognized by English geologists that cer-
tain masses of gravel and breccia and
certain planed and grooved rock sur-
faces in rocks of Permian age in India
indicated a glacial epoch vastly older
than that of the Canadian ice sheets,
but it is only within the last thirty
years that geologists have learned that
glacial conditions have recurred at
many different times in the earth's his-
tory. The evidence of this has been
found in all centhients in Europe, Af-
rica, Asia, Australia, South and North
America. The formation of great ice..
sheets took place at different periods in
the larger divisions of geologic time
back to the proterozoic-that Is, to the
age of the oldest known sedimentary
rocks, a great many million years ago.
Glass Razor Strop.
"The best razor strop 1 ever had was
a piece of glass'," said the boss barber,
as he sharpened the razor with a pull
in it. "An old barber gave it to me,
and 1 tell you it worked fine. Un-
fortunately I let it fall and broke it.
and I have never been able to get one
like it. There's some .kink in the
grinding which I can't seem to figure
out. In these days a good razor strop
Is a mighty hard thing to find. and I
would give a good deal if I could only
get that piece oi' ground glass back
again, It sure ow put a cutting edge
on the razor."
No, He Had No Opinion.
-Before we take you ou am jury, Mr.
Smith, we must asis whether you have
formed any opinion of the prisoner's
guilt or innocence."
said Stulth grimly. "No, I ain't
formed no ()pluton."
"And. Mr. Smith. have you or have
you not nny conscientious ebjections to
capital punishment'!"
"No." said Smith, more grimly still,
"not in this ease." -London Opinion.
Very Likely.
"Our ancestors had very few boards
of health, insanity commissions and
so on."
"Perhaps it is just as well. Probably
they would have locked up Sir Isaac
Newton,. Copernicus and also Chris-
topher Columbus."
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Great Difference.
"Some say that marriage is a lottery
with us."
"That's a step above the south sea
islanders, where they marry a girl to
the man wile can offer the most cocoa-
nuts. There it's a raffte."
All but one week of the golden year
'Twixt mill -chimneys he took his
way;
Saw not the leaves growing green or
Sere,
Knew not the breath of the maiden
May.
Smoky streets, and the strife for
bread -
These, these only, he knew instead
Other there are who shall yet return
(Straight from the mill to the camp
, they went).
What shall their faith and their valor
earn,
Sons not heirs, with a name content?'
Englandl then in thy grace some part
Yield them, some knowledge of what
thou art! •
-S. Gertrude Ford.
Barrie Town Council has decided to
raise $10,000 by ten-year debentures for
the Canadian Patriotic Fund.
Guelph Patriotic Committee has de-
cided to aim at $60,000 for the fund this
year; last year $28,000 was raised.
Dora Kowaieh, a Galician girl of
eighteen, was shot and killed by her
Rusaian fiance, Nikolas Nestervoh, at
London.
The Reeve -elect of Fort Erie, Lewis
Douglass, and one of tbe Councillors,
Geo. 8. Mann, Were declared disquali-
fied by the Clerk on account of not
having paid their taxes.
Military Pensions In Servia.
Servian soldiers enjoy a pension,
granted only to invalid cases. The or-
dinary veteran who 'does not suffer
some injury which would render him
invalid does not receive a pension, mil-
itary service in Servia being compul-
sory. Invalid pensions in Servia are
paid by the year -that is, each appli-
cant who is granted a pension receives
a certain sum each year. In case the
soldier receives injuries which would
render him partiaily invalid he receives
only part of the yearly amount, most
likely one-half, but in case of the sol-
dier being totally invalid he gets the
full amount.
In Dread or croul).
Every mother dreads croup unless
she knows about Dr, Chase's SyrUp of
Linseed and Turpentine. Given in
frequent small doses, at the first in-
dication of trouble, this treatment
loosens the cough and affords relief and
comfort. Its use should be kept up
until the Child is entirely recovered.
One on the Stenographer.
The other day a little stenographer in
a downtown office in Boston begged
some workmen -who were putting up a
new telephone not to place it so high
on the wan as thee were doing.
"You see," she said, "I have to use it
as much as any one, and I am so short
that I can hardly reach it."
"Oh, well, miss," said the humorist
in charge Of the work, "you can raise
your voice, can't you?'-Iloston Tran-
script.
Definitions.
Miser, a man who kills two birds
with one stone and then wants the
stone back.
Tact, the art of saying nothing when
there Is nothing to be said.
Epigram, an artistic way of saying
something that is not true.- •
Delirious.
The Wife -Oh, doctor, I think Henry
is much better this morning. Be took
my hand just a minute ago and called
tee his own 'ittle teotsy woOtsy. The
Doctor -The case is more eerious than
thought. Tt's a very bad sign when a
patimit becomes delirious.
A Difference.
"I am told that Jones Is a regular
leeee. Is thnt true?"
"No: I meld hardly erty that. A
1..). you know, neVel• gets stuck on
eimeelf."
January 2oth 1916
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