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The Wingham Times, 1914-11-05, Page 6Page 6 STUDIES FROM IVIOVIESI, The Deposed Emperor ot China Haa a Novel Selma. . The dethroned Emperor of the Ce- iestial Empire—still a mere child—ie permitted to retain hie full rule over atate in private life. Ile is living, with a dozen or so of 'very exalted relations of the Im- perial elan in a great country palace florne distance outside Pelting, and IM being educated altnoet entirely by picture films. "rho boy," ei3ye a Chinese mequese of the third degree, involuntarily in. clining his head as he referred to hie fallen emperor, "is a fine little fele IOW, 111141 ('0111(1 be very happy if eirs cumstanees would permit of his liv- ing in leurope on the enormous in- come '.'.-Isiela edit remains to him and has been euttranteed by the Re- Ipublie. "flu f, unfortunately, the imperial i one inu.it be jealously guarded and preserved from outward communion with ordinary people and especially from •:oreign devils.' Otherwise most extraordinary revolution is occurring in what is ibe usual education of an iniperiel prince of Cline, and Par- ticularly in that of a young emperor. "Re is actually being intormed," Continued. Mr. Thang, "that there are other lands outside China, and of equal, OVe7.1 greater, power; that there ere a fair number of kings and emperors on this earth, and that they are not barabarians, as was ever the creed in China in regard to other na- tionz, but might be considered by an -unprejudiced mind as passably civi- lized. These things are being im- pressed upon the boy -emperor largely by kinema pictures. "Hundretls of films have been ime ported into China showing European cities, and also Japanese and Indian scenes. The interior as well as the exterior of houses and palaces are depicted. and everyday life of prince and peasant, with all the grades be- tween, have been filmed for the im- perial teaching. The emperor is belug inade acquainted with the facee or monarchs and estatesnaen and ot other leading men of the world out- ride China. "The boy is -shown pictures of marching armies and of fighting ships or every deseription. He is not bored 'with technical scenes, first, because he is too young; and, second, because 'wonders of machinery or intricate manufaeture are hardly novelties to the Chinese mind. "I3ut the boy is being taught the history and habits of Europeans and many other things which, if he lives, may inspire him some day to place himself and his acquirements at the service of his country. "What may happen then is, as you say, on the knees of the gods—we say that also; but if ever the millions upon millions of China become civi- lized and capable of taking the initi- ative like Europeans—well, there will indeed be something of a Yellow Peril. "Chinamen, properly armed, pro- perly drilled, and instilled with the lust of conquest, could sweep Europe even as the Tartars, who became Teutons, did in the days of Atilla. I am an edheated Chinaman, was sent to Europe for schooling-. Fortunate- ly for 'foreign devils'—perhaps for us also, you are thinking—there are not many of us who are educated." Pier Choice. They were sisters-in-law and rea- sonable well disposed toward each other. (-lie was the mother of George, aged six months, and the other was the mother of Marian, aged six months and four days. "Marian does not seem to grove very fast," said the mother of George, with a suggestion of commiseration in her tones. "George is much tall- er"—(leeight being measure,d in inches). "Perhaps he is," replied the raoth- er of Marian coldly, "but Marian, weighs more." "Oh, well," responded the sister- in-law, with a smile of high bred superiority, "of course I should not -wish George to be gross." Neatly Turned. The car was crowded, and while collecting fares the conductor had stumbled twice in two minutes over the feet of Willie Sixiith, and, seeing that te,w aeoresaid Master Willie was quite the smallest passenger on board, he had a nasty suspicion that on each occasion a foot had been put nut deliberately to trip him. "Some people :teem to have mighty .v.heverd sous," remarked the con- ductor, casting a malicious glance toward the mother. "Yes," replied the lady thus ad- dressed; "that's exactly what I was thinking about your poor mother!"— leinden Tit-I3its. Penelope Pales. Per Penelope Perkins, patently plucking pretty Driearoses, perceiving Percival Patmore, pretended preoccu- pation. Percy perspired profusely, penning pensive poetry. Presently, properly primed, Percival promptly proposed. Penelope, prudently pessi- mistic, playfully procrastinated. Per- cival, passionately protesting, pro- duced precious presents, promising, pathetically, perpetual protection. PUrse-proud, pompous papa, proving pliant, Penelope placidly paired. Sable Skins, The costlieet sable Is the 'Yakutsk (Russian) skin that runs "silvery"— that has, in other words, a number , of equally distributed white or Sil- 'very hairs mote* the soft and eilkY brown °nee. Such' akip, of the average size of 15 by 5 inches, are worth ;7 50 apiece. "Topped" sables are dyed ones. They fetch ;50 a skin, •••••••16.4,...** Drowsiness, Draw/finest; during the day, if a person has slept well the night be- fore, is often caused by indigestion, Often this is remedied by drinking something l'617 hot, like cocoa or coree. The brain needs a mild, stimulant. Lassitude of the body is not avant au indication of illuesa or laziness. . THE\VING1IAM TIMES Lest We Forget. WE need to be reminded quite as much as to be informed. Mem- ory has been jocularly described as "the thingEwe forget with." Out of bSTght is aptEto be cut of mind. An advertiser who relies on the memory offthe public leans on a brok- en reed. The absence of its advertis- ing fromrithe newspapers has been the mew. beginning,of the end for many a firm. "The present suitor has ever the ad- v E( CA(1 il( lart lover." A business that has achieved its magni- tude or strength as the result of faithful ad- vertising plays itself false if it Suspends or ceases its advertising, on the gronnds of econo- my. It is,poor business vision which fails to see the principal feeder of business, and fatal judgement which cuts it off or interrupts its flow. Economies may be warranted, but they hail better be effected in any other department than in the sales department—the department of revenue. Any course which shoves. your customer back- from you ,or hides you from your customer is ruinous. The man with the money needs to be cmstantly sought. Adver- tising is the great discoverer rf new customers, the great retainer of old ones. - If You forget the Public, the Public • will forget You. .111‘82P. Guarding Against Moths. Many women do not seem to realize that the work of ths moth goes on in the winter as well as in the summer, where the house • is kept at summer heat, as many homes are, which are heated by furnace. The mother moth, we see trine about in April or May and August, is nof the insect that eats the clothing. The mother moth lays her eggs where 'he knows there will be a supply of food for the larva when the eggs hatch; then she dies. Her work is done, Some one may ask what be- comes of the father moth. I do not know. When the eggs are hatched the larva at once goes to eating and builds itself a kind of coat from the material on which it feeds. A good lookout sheuld be kept for these little white w o'ms, and every one of them killed, The eggs are said to batch in six days, where conditions are favorable. Buffalo bugs and beetles destroy not only woolens, but silks and feathers and hair goods. The bug eats the carpet from; underneath, and can do much damage before found out. Silk 'waists, umbrellas, and like things al e , quickly ruined.I4The buffalo bug con - :fines its work to the summer months ; but the smooth:black beetle works at all seasons, and is very destructive. / One of the destructive insects that (kstroys dotton goods is the "silver- fish," or fish moth, aed shiner. It is a smooth, alender, wingless and worm- like fused, with two long antennae on ite head; it is fonnd in old houses. in attics, elosete, and trunks, and ruin laueS, cottons of various kinds, and books; any starched goods are especially l'ked. They can be exterminated with ; strong insect powder plentifully applied and persisted in. To fumigate:clothes for moths, shake (eft the garments so that fumes can get into the folds. Put a sulphur candle in the closet, and elese the room tightly for ,ome !hours. The sulphor candle should be Set in a pail of earth before lighting, to prevent fire. CANADIAN CROP YIELD AND QUALITY. A bulletin iesued today by the census and statistics office makes provisional estimates of the yield and quality of the principal Cieadian grain crops and also the condiion of root and fodder crops, as compiled from reports of cor- respondence made on September 30. In general the reports confirm the statement issued last month, the aver- age yields per acre being about the same as that estimated for wheat, but being somewhat less for oats, barley and flax. The total yields for Canada of the principal grain crops in bushels are as follows: Wheat 158,223,000; oats, 311,420,000; barley, 34,491,000; rye, 2,258,000; peas, •,537,100; beans, 823,400; buckwheat, 9,169,000; flaxseed, 7,533,000; mixed grains, 16,458,000, and corn for husking, 14,732,000. In the Maritime Provinces both the yield and quality of the grain crops are excellent. The condition of root crops at Sep- tember 30 is for all Canada about equal to last year, being 75 per cent. of a standard or full crop for potatoes, 78 per eent, for turnips, 80 per cent. for mangolds, carrots, etc., 89 per cent, for sugar beets, 90 per cent. for fodder torn and 76 per cent, for alfalfa. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan the condition of the rot crops is low. Alberta, where the season was of more, owing to the drought. In Northern normal character, these crops make a fair showing. During September conditions have beak favorable for harvesting and threshing and in the Northwest Pro- vinces a great deal of threshing was completed by October 1. There are indications that the amount of fall plowing this year will be greater than usual. '..01114144.41 Baby Eczema ileccracs Chronic Causing Great eh 7"ring and Anxiety —Prompt Itel ..e" and Cure by Dr. Chase's Chitin, At. This is one,.;ason why every mother should kie• .v about Dr. Chase's Ointment, since it is an unfailing Cure for all itching s'e diseases. Mrs' F. Clar,o, Belmont, Alan., writes:—"My bee had eczema on her ear. The s./1. was very bad, and nothing seemed t. her much good. Hearing of the markablo cures Dr. Chase's °intuit..., making, we sent for sonic, a•. after the third ap- plication the s•xr ocgan to heal. / ant gladto sex 1.,.; It is quite' well now, and we el credit to Dr. Chase's Ointreen: Vil'e cannot recom- mend this pretr• Lon highly." Here is anotli- letter, which tells of the cure of a te2-tvecks-old baby: Mrs. Wallace i.tpron, River John R.Ottd, Colchester 7ounty, NS., writes: "My little girl to z eczema when she was five weeks e, 1. Though we doc- tored her until s7 was nearly a year old, she got no 1: tter. I Was advised to use Dr. Chao,'. Ointment, and this 'reatment corapl,, cly cured her." POINTED PARAGRAPHS With suchipeople there is no such word as enough. Some people talk so much that they have no time to think. Fortunate is the man who can see the finish of hie enemies. Don't blame your wife's relations. You aelected them yourself. The filed time a girl goes to Europe she expects a proposal from a prince. The worse ordeal a small boy has to face is plenty of pie and a limited capacity. A woman seldom makes a fool of a man. She merely points the way and he does the rest himself, xia:46.4:. • NOVCIllber 5th, 1914 Found a Friend in Dr, Chase Ills Medicines Proven Effective, and Always Kept at eland in This 'Ionic, Mee. Chas. Lovell, Agassiz, 13, C., writes:—"I feel it my duty to tell you what a great friend Dr. Chase's medi- 21ne3 have been to myself and family. cannot praise Ills medicines too high- ly, and Dr, Chase's name is a house - bold word in our home. Ve1l, quite. a number of years ago 1 ent to you for a sample box of Dr. Chase's Oint- ment for protruding piles, and, having used tho sampl3 and found relief, ient to a neighboring town for four boxes, and I an completely cured, -I have also used Dr. Chase's Kid - :icy -Liver Pills for constipation, and, after using them, I am completely cured of this dreadful disease. I ant tho mother of ten children, ef whom !Me aro living, and when seven of my .1iildren were all very bad with . beeping cough, caught in the middle )f a :10'010 winter, I used Dr. Chase'S 3yrup of Linseed and Turpentine, and hey wero all cured before the winter vas ovor, and now we are never with- out Dr. Chase's medicines in, our home, and I recommend them to all." Growing i,,jfalfa. In preparing the land for alfalfa it Is best to go slow. The first step is to plow the soil deep and prepare it the first year for potatoes or corn; using ten loads of manure per acre, pulveriz. Ing or harrowing the land down in good shape. The corn,or potato crop should then be kept thoroughly clean for a season. This will destroy weeds and the ground will have time to settle properly for alfalfa. Then the follow- ing spring the land should be double disked, rolled and harrowed. The seed can then be sown with an ordinary wheat drill as follows: Mix, and mix thoroughly, about six ppunds of cornmeal to ten pounds of alfalfa seed. The ordinary drill when closed to its finest calibration will sow about sixteen pounds per acre. Thus sixteen pouuds of the mixture will mean ten pounds or alfalfa seed. This is considered about the best amount to am per acre under field conditions. Another method of sowing is to cov- er or plug up all but the first, seventiat etc., holes in the drill with the bad-, cator set at the same position as be— fore. This will take about one pound of seed per acre and will put the rows forty-two inches apart, far enough to be cultivated. Straw as a Fertilizer. A large amount of straw is shipped from a county in Missouri to a nearby paper and strawboard factory. This straw brings the farmer about 60 cents per ton. A county agent recently, found a pile of about 1,000 tons at Sikeston ready for shipment. He com- putes that as a fertilizer this straw is worth $2.50 per ton, in addition to its value as a means of adding organic matter to the soil. He is making a campaign of the county In an attempt „to show the inadvisability of the farm- ers selling their straw and urging its more extensive use as bedding in sta- bles and feed lots. Straw used as a top dressing on fall wheat has been found to practically insure a good stand or clover on lanes where clover Is otherwise grown with great diffi- culty. Cure or Kill Trees. It Is very unjust to neighbors to per- mit trees to grow that are covered with insects or troubled with disease, rhe disease or insects will spread and finally destroy other trees on the prop- :.‘rty where they are growing, and the trouble rapidly spreads to neighboring erounds. Either cure or kill. If un- eble to do the first cut down the trees Ind burn them, and do It promptly. A'Good Whitewash. A pound of cheap bar soap dissolved In a gallon of boiling water and added to about tive gallons of thick white- wash will give it a gloss Iike oil paint. Silicate of soda In tbe proportion or one to ten of whitewash produces a fireproof cement. It's too bad that we can't live long withoht getting old. Some men were born asleep and for- got to wake up. Laeghing draws the corners of the mouth up; crying pulls them down. If You Wish to Be Well You Must Keep the Bowels Regular. If the bowels do not move regularly they will, sooner or later, become con- stipated, and constipation is productive of more ill health than almost any other trouble, The sole cause of constipation is an inactive liver, and unless the liver is kept active you rnay rest assured that headaches, jaundict, heartburn, piles, floating specks before the eyes, a feeling as if you were going to faint, or catarrh of the stomach will follow the wrong anti= of this, one of the most important organs of the body. Keep the liver active and working properly by the use of Milburn's Laxa- I,ivcr Pills, Mre. Elijah A. Ayer, Fawcett Rill. N.13., writee: "1 was troubled with constipation for many years, and about three years, ago my husband wanted me to try Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, as they bed cured him, T got a vial and took them, and by the time I had taken three vials1 was cured. I always keep them on hand, and when I need a mild laxative I take one." Milburn's Lesta-Liver Pine are 26e a viel. 5 vials for $1.00, at all (feeler,: se' meilel direct on receipt of.prfee file T Sifilburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. What Makes Attrrctiveness? Peterboro Review: The Monetary Times of October 16 said, in part, as follows: short, farm life is not attractive. The farmer cannot afford to make it attractive to his help, because the price gap tends to prevent. We must burn- ish the attractions of the farm The rural depopulation will then be lessened and some of the good stock which has drifted to the cities will return to the land." . By "price gap" is meant the dis- tance between the grower and the con- sumer that the goods of the former must traverse, It is true that this transition of geods might be improved a great deal, but a reference to actual farm production seems to us to show plainly that the farmer can afford to make it attractive, It is not a case of money or production, of selling or mar- keting, so much es management mid attitude of mind. The acthal produc- tion of one hundred acres of land, the prevailing acreage of farms, is capable of producing an income sufficient for quite comfortable living. The trouble is few farmers understand financing as business men in cities do who conduct concerns of a similar investment. We have seen one farmer put up a fine house where another farmer was to all intents and purposes a failure. That is common in all lines, however, but a general survey of the farms shows that they are capable of providing an at- tractive living. It is not the farm, nor the market, so much as the desire to get something out of life besides dol- lars, that will regenerate farm life. With flowers, fresh air, good houses, rural mail, automobiles, labor-saving machinery, economies of production, rsral education, and such things, farm I fe should be as attractive as any other. It's a matter of training and culture. Tired -out Eiddeys Kidney troubles are so frightfully common because the kidneys are so easily upset by, overwork or excesses of eating and drinking. Cure is affect- ed not by whipping them on to renewed effort, but by awakening the action of liver and bowels by the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. This rests the kidneys and makes them well. Backache and urinary disorders then disappear. French merchant merine in 1913 had a tonnage of 1,981,048. lois TRAGIC LEITER— How would aver esessircr It? 13etwte th !lees of this ehort letter yor can Krim tragedy, If its appeal NI(Orli! 11111.1.4.* 1,1 3'011, p:rinittlly, how would you. aii,wor it? iia;moz,e yeti hed tho power tc- rc,(,,4%.0 his po wc.irati or to tUru bel away, which tvoid,1 you do? 0, 11';11 you keidly give mo information conecruiter edges:eon of 'a very needy woman Inc. Her littiband Is dead,, and On- : in consumption. She has twa. small ail'Irca, at present in an orphans' home, as the mother ie not able to care feel them, and their okily income is what; aa aged mother mem. They in one small, room." It is easy to say, "Why, of course, 1' would olfier relief, if it were in my power 1" But, think ! Are you sincere when you say thatt Are you in earncst? Do you, really Want to lielp poor, suffering Con-. sumptives? Then here is your chance to, prom your sincerity. Contributions to the Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives will be gratefully. acknowledged by W. J. Gage, Chairman Executive Committee, 84 Spadina Avenue, sr R. Dunbar Secretary - Treasurer, King Street West, Toronto. A WOMAN'S HEART. A woman's heart is a savings ball„ Where the love you deposit lies, Gathering interest day by day Prom the sunshine of the skies. There isn't a safer place, my lad, To bury the treasure you'd keep, Than down in the beautiful vaults of - dream, 8 "--• Sitarg Where the tenderest blossoms Esleep. A woman's heart is a place to hide Whatever you'd treasure best: For she'll give it back as the years• go oy, In a love that's more than rest, A woman's heart is a storage vault, Where nothing breaks in to steal, Excspt the honor you fail to pay And the love you forget to feel. A love you have placed there once - remains, And you may forget, but she Will give it back, if you want it so, And smile as she hands the key. Smile, but never forget, my lad, That a smile is the saddest thing When its over the ashes of something: dead, And the heart is a broken wing. A woman's heart is a fortress strong, Where your foes may never come, With prancing steeds and the gleam- ing sword, And the rat -tat of the drum. For that which you treasure she will, defend, And loud as the guns may roll, She'll stand in the breech to the very end — And then she will fight witn her soul. PRINTING AND STATIONERY We have put in our office 'a complete stock of Staple Stationery and can supply your wants in • WRITING PADS ENVELOPES LEAD PENCILS BUTTER, PAPER PAPETERIES, WRITING PAPER BLANK BOOKS PENS AND INK TOILET PAPER • PLAYIr;G CARDS, etc We will keep the best stock in the respective lines and- sell at reasonable prices JOB PRINTING ' We are in a better position than ever before to attend to your wants in the Job Printing line and all orders will receive prompt attention. 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