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Adtrtiral Wm. S. Sims Has
Won Canadian Admiration
-
As a ,Man and as a Sailor
treetereattetheratarieesaterftestataitekehihnehh,
DMIRAL W. S. SIMS, of the
United States navy, has cre-
ated a sensation by his re-
fusal to accept a D. S. medal
from his Government. His reason IS
that the recommendations he made
for honors were disregarded by -Sec-
retary of the Navy Daniels. Men who
should have been decorated were
Passed over and men who had not
their claim for reward were present-
ed with medals, he says. *Admiral
Sims" action has produced a depart-
mental storm which will not be set-
tled until President Wilson makes a
decision in the 'water, and perhape
not then. Sims' career has always
been. 'of especial interest to Cana-
dians because of the fact the,Che wa
born at Port Hope, Ont., although
• the son of American parents. His
long-established admired= for Great
Britain, hie brilliant service in the
war and his admirable published re.
portonit have all combined to make
Admiral Sims extremely popular both
in Canada and in Great Britain. In
the United States he is admired both
Lor his professional qualities, which
are second to none, and because of
his habit of speaking out in meeting
' and ignoring- 'precedent when he
thinks the interests of the seneiee
he loves 'demand it. In any contest
with Secretary Daniels he surely .
will have the popular support.*
Sims came first into. prominence -
in 1910, when he was ;visiting Eng-
land as commander of the Minne-
sota. He was an invited guest at a
Guildhall banquet and in the course;
of a speech he said, "If the time ever
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
Sir William Osier Was
One of the Greatest Men
• Given to World by Canada
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WITH the death of Sir Wil -
Nam Osier Canada loses
one of her greatest amis.
Fashioned by fate for a
career in the world of seientificenedi-
eine, he beeanie in - his- own ,.sphere
one of those overtowering authorities
who are recognized the world over,
and as suck he added lustre to the
name of his native land, as imperish-
able as any that springs froha the
achievements of the nation's politi-
cal heroes. .
. Up till a fortnighthefore his death
there had been every hope for the
recovery • of the famous - physician,
who was known to be suffering from
the effects of an attac:k of pneumonia
contracted in November. Toward -the
middle of that month he was reported
Convalescent, and in spite of a slight
relapse which 'occurred a fortnight
before the died he was well enough
on Christmas Day to be able to ex-
tend his greetings to his friends the
world over through the medium of a
message sent to the Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimorehin which he stat-
ed that he was . "making a good
Aght," after an ,empyema operation,
. which he was compelled to undergo.
Born at Bond 'head, Ont., on July
12, 1849, he was the sixth son of the
late Rev. F. L. Osier, the Anglican
rector there. He passed successively
through Trinity College, PortIgiope,
Trinity College, University- of To-
ronto, receiving his medicai degree
from McGill University in 1872.
Alro.ost immediately his distinctive
genius made itself apparent, and,
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have been prescribed by physicians for
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lions for Pain, Headache, Neuralgia,
Colds, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis.
Bandy tin boxes of th tablets—also
larger "Bayer" packages, can be had
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Aspirin is the trade mark (registered
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public against imitations, the Tablets of
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with their general trade mark, the
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ANIMAL W. S. 811118.
cornea when :the British Empire ill
seriously Menaced by external'
enemy it ie my opinion that you may*
count on every man., every dollar and
every drop -of blood of your kindred,
across the seen:" The remarks wee
applauded uproariously, not only by
the Britisheri; present, but by the
eight hundred American sailors who
were. the guests of the Lord Mayor.
But when a report of the speech
reached Washington there was con-
siderable dismay. Officialdom felt
that Sims had gone too far; that he
had no right to make remarks which
enight give offence to foreign coun-
tries and involve the - American
-Government in disclaimers and ex-
planations. So .shortly afterwards
Sims was publicly reprimanded by
Admiral Schroeder, though it is not
on record that he made any apology.
The incident did not have any
effect -in checking his naval career,
• which is perhaps evidence that his
superiors were not so grarely dis-
pleased with him as their official ac-
tions indicated. Indeed, by this time
Sims was recognized as one of the
most brilliant officers in the Amer-
ican navy. He had been Roosevelt's
naval aide, and when inspector of
target practice with the American
Asiatic fleet he had made h report
which resulted in revolutionizing
American naval .gunnery.
Partly because of his high stand-
ing and partly because of his inti-
mate .association with high officers
In the British navy, Sims was chosen
a :short tine before the United States
entered the war to go to Britain and
learn exactly what the situation was.
The British Admiralty put its cards
on the table and told him frankly
that the German submarine peril re-
mained a deadly threat to ultimate
victory and made 'certain- suggestions
in the event of American co-opera-
tion. Sims made a strong report to
his Government, recommending that
what Great Britain suggested should
be done. It was done, and the honor
fell to Sims to do it.
One of the first orders he issued
upon reaching British waters was '
-that any of his officers who was
heard criticizing the methods of any
of the Allied navies would at once
be shipped home. Whether the warn-
inwee needed we do not know, but
It made for harmony and cheerful co-
operation.
When the war ended Admiral Sims
e offered a high decoration by- King
George, but he refused, ‘although
Gen. Pershing had accepted a similar /
honor. Upon his return to New York
he was given a tremendous reception,
and in the speeches he delivered in
response to the w-elconaes that were
extended to him he gave unreserved
praise to the British navy and the
British mercantile marine, declaring
that they were the twin pillars upon
which- victory was reared.
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that makes them mare -durable,
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producing the effect of several years
of drying.
OUR
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Strong and Healthy, If
they Tite„ Smart, Itch, or
Burn, if Sore, Irritated,
Inflamed or Granulated,
use Murine often. Safe for Infant or Adult.
At all Druggists in Canada. Write for Free
Eye Book. Merino Company, Chicago, IL S. A.
• SIR WILLIAM OSLER.
pursuing his academic studies fur-
ther, Tie proceeded to University Col-
lege, London, and passed on' to Ber-
lin and Vienna to acquire what he
could from German sources. His
.closest attention always centred up-
on physiology and pathology, and
from the first he 'carefully began to
build up that wonderful acumen itt
the diagnosis of disease, springing
from a profound knowledge of the
parts and functions of the human
body and its reactions. Indeed, with-
in a few years he had demonstrated
that he could probe more deeply and
go straighter to the heart of the.
problem than other accepted auth-
orities.
Returning to Canada in 1873, he
accepted a professorship at McGill
University, Montreal. Here he put in
a number on years of hard work,
steadily building up his reputation
and increasing his mastery of medi-
cine, till in 1883 he was elected a
rellow` of the Royal College of Phy-
sicians of London, and acceded to the
Gladstonian scholarship at the same
institution the following year.
In 1884 he was unanimously chos-
en to the Chair of Clinical Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Oster remained in Philadelphia
for a year. Two years later he was
made Cartwright lecturer in the Cal -
lege of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York. Finally, in 1888, he went
to Balthnore as physician to Johns
Hopkins Hospital and Professor of
Principles and Practice of Medicine t
in the Johns Hopkins University. He I
became Dean of the Faculty.
After fifteen years at Johns Hope g
kins' he was elevated to the posi- s
tion of Regius Professor of Medicine
at Oxford University, in which ca-
pacity he was -recognized as practi-
cally the greatest -medical authority
throughaut the English - speaking
the11 edeeraolf' C4threrntigthovtiintinA'ent school
In
on
for women in China boxing is taugh
to the girl students.
Women have been invited to tak
part in the Demoeratic state eonVen
tion to be held at Bangor!, Me., o
March 80th.
It is predicted that in a few year
nearly all the big hotels in the Unite
States will be run by women execu
tives.
• Queen Victoria of Spain recent'
opened the first of five public kit
chens which it is planned to operat
in The hetota.lnunaber of women share
holders of Pennsylvania railroad stoe
on December 31st was 56,995, an in
crease of 4,340. '
In an effort to end • the strike
mong railway men in Italy, i.rian
women of noble birth have volunteer
ed to act `as ear cleaners.
It is estimated that the numbe
of women inceme tax payers- thi
year will be double the number wh
filed 'returns kit Year.
Women administering property in
their own right will be permitted t
vote at the first national election in
Jugo-Alavia_ next month.
In Corea the women are taught to
shun the opposite sex from their ear
liest girlhood and their seclusion. i
carried to the utmost limit.
Miss Etta Bernickow is head o
the dental hygiene department of th
New York association for the im
proving the Condition of the poor i.
that city.
Dr. Alice G. Bryant, one of Bos
ton's leading surgeons and specialists
is the inventor of a dozen ingeniou
a n d delic ate instruments fo
largyngea.1 work.
A charter has been granted i
New York to the, Women Democrat
of America, a nhtional -organizatio
of women forwed "to better condi
tions in the Democratic party."
Women of education in Egypt ar
taking a great interest in politics i
that country with a view of bringin
about better conditions for their mor
unfortunate sisters. 1
Miss Elsie L. .Green, recently elect
ed assistant general secretary of th
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
is "known to more big business men
than any other. woman in Indiana-
Polinewomens have acquitted them
selves so creditably as police officer
in America and Europe that they ar
now to have a chance to demonstrat
their ability in this line of work in
Japan.
An increase of several hundred in
the enrollment of women students a
Iowa college has led the state boar(
of education to provide $90,000 for
s
the coastruction of a new woma'n'
dormitory.'
Mrs. Inez H. Irwin, wife of Wil
Irwin, the author and war correspon
dent, and herself the author of
several 'bcoks, has undertaken • the
task of writing the first history of
the National Wonian's Party.
• 'Helene Landry, appointed a mem-
ber of the staff of the minister of
marine in France, is the first woman
in that countiar to occupy such a posi-
tion.' She holds the degree of doctor
of laws and doctor of philosophy.
• The Business Women's Club in
Cleveland, Ohio, which has a mem-
bership of more than 1,000 has under
consideration the erection of a busi-
ness building Which also would pro-
vide quarters for the organization.
Mrs. John L. Bennett, formerly of
the Republican national committee
headquarters in Washington, will
have charge of the western headquar-
ters for the Presidential campaign of
Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts.
The housewives of Pelham Manor,
a restricted residence district of New
York city: from which all stores are
barred, have solved their own shop-
ping problem by installing a co-opera-
tive grocery and notion store.
After an interrupted service of
more than twenty-seven years as
cleaner in a Philadelphia police sta-
tion, Mrs. Caroline Meyer, aged 82
years, has resigend to become bene-
ficiary of the police pension fund.
It has been suggested that Lady
Astor, the only woman member of
the British house of commps, move
or second the address replying to the
king's speech from the throne on the
occasion of the reopening of the par-
liament on February 10th.
One of the few women of France
to be -decorated with the cross of the
legion of honor is the Dowager Duch-
ess of Rohan. It was taken to her
by Marshal Foch himself and. was
conferred for her great work in car-
ing for wounded soldiers.
More than 60,000 Egyptian 'girls
are now receiving some sort of in-
struction in schools of all kinds under
he management or inspection of the
ninistry of education. This is about
ix per cent. of the total number of
iris in that country who are of
chool age.
Miss Mabel Keyes Babcock, presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Technology*
Women's Association, landscape arch-
tect and late director of the farmer-
tte activities in war work, is the
older of the only M. A. degree
echnology has ever bestowed upon
woman.
Miss Janet Scudder, well known
culptor, was one of the first to go
to Europe and undertake war work.
Nearly all the Red Cross and Y huts
rin France were • decorated by this
• artistic young woman who believes in
, the bright color theory in life.
When a New Guinea woman falls
in love with a man she sends a piece
of string to his sister, or, if he has
no sister, to his mother OT another
of his female relatives. Then she who
receives the string tells the favored!
man that the particular woman is
in love with him.
2,1 amount given to Missions- was $810.
A live Forward Movement committee
t has been. appointed with Marshal
Harrison as captain. Teams are out
e canhassing this week and the results
- will far exceed the amount of $1,800
hi allocated. Last Sabbath after the
'pastor had explained the Movement
S and -called for gifts, $1,700 was
d promised inside of ten minutes.
- —Last Saturday there passed away
at the parental home, lot 9, concession
Y 14; Grey, Margaret, daughter of the
- late Donald and Mrs. Stewart, in her
6 .fifty-first year. She had been operat-
ed on the previous Sunday for a.ppen-
- dicitis. It was found that the appen-
k dix was ruptured, and the patient
- stood little chance of recovery and
the wonder was she survived as long
as she did. The funeral took place
Sr Tuesday afternoon to Brussels cern-
- etery, Rev, Mr. Kennedy, deceased's
pastor, conducting the service.
✓ --The death Occurred on Sunday,
s February 8th, at the home of his son
O in London of James Clarke, a former
well known resident of Usborne, in
his sixty-eighth year. His wife, Mary
O Ann Camm, predeceased him. One
son, Charles W., survives with whom
he has been living for some time.
Two brothers, Thomas and William,
- of Usborne, and one sister, Mrs.
s Wesley Mills, of $t. Marys, also sur-
vive. The remains were brought to
Exeter on Tuesday -morning and in -
e terment was made in Elimvfile ceme-
t etery.
—After a couple of hays' illness.
Elizabeth Amanda Snell, wife of
Mr. Cornelius Hoare, of Clinton', died
at her home Wednesday evening, aged
forty-nine years. Though not being
in very good health for some months,
Mrs. Hoare had been 'going about
her usual duties and was at church
on Sunday morning. On Monday
evening elle became worse and a
doctor was called. Mr. Hoarse was
away and could not be located in
time to have him return Wednesday,
and he did not reach home until the
following morning.
—At high noon Wednesday of last
week a quiet wedding took place at
the home of Robert and Mrs. Mitchell
Howick township, when Miss Agnes
He the eldest daughter, joined hand
and heart with Gordon H. Elljott, of
Wawanosh, Rev. C. Malcolm officiat-
ing. Lohengrin's wedding march was
played by the bride's sister, Miss
Laura, as the principals took their
places for the ceremony, the bride be-
ing given away by her father. A
becoming costume of crepe de chene
with tulle ivory veil, and white slip-
pers, was worn by the bride, who
tarried a bouquet of carnations and
sweet peas. The groom's gift to
the organist was .a pearl crescent.
The wedding presents were choice,
valuable and useful. Mr. and Mrs.
Elliott will make their home onsthe
fourth concession, East Wawanosh,
where they commence housekeeping
with the hearty good wishes of a wide
circle of relatives and friends. t
—The shd news was received in
Exeter by relatives last week of the
death of Mr. David J. Ross, who died
in Sarnia on Tuesday morning last
at the age of thirty-two years. De-
ceased was a victim of pneumonia and
had only been sick a few days. Mr.
Ross formerly resided in Exeter, hav-
ing for a number of years followed
his trade as a carpenter and about
two years ago moved to Sarnia, where
he has since resided, The deceased
was a son of the late Hugh Ross, of
Winnipe'g, Man. The deceased mar-
ried Miss May Rivers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Rivers, of Ex-
eter, and besides his widow he is
survived. by two small children, a,
son and daughter. He also leaves
his mother and one brother in Win-
nipeg. He was a man of industrious
habits and much esteemed as a friend
and citizen.
—An old resident of Goderich dis-
trict and one of whom it can be said
that he was a very good man, was
called to his eternal home on Wednes-
day of last Week in the death of Mr.
George Edward, who passed away at
tbe residence of his niece, Miss Porter,
Bayfield road. Mr. Edwardi lOad a
short illness, being stricken with par-
alysis only the previous Saturday. He
was born in Leithe-Scotland, in 1831,
a son of the late William and Mary
Edward, and was brought as a child
to this cdntinent. After a short time
in the States, they settled in Goderieh
township, naming their farm "Honey
Hill." There was a family of nine
but only one brother of the deceased,
Mrs. James Edward, •of California,
now survives. Mr. Edward was mar-
ried to Miss Sarah Wilson, daughter.
of the late. George Wilson, of Gode-
rich- She predeceased her husband
in 1900, and for the past thirteen
years, Mr. Edward had lived with his
niece, Miss Porter, Bayfield road.
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world.
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In 1892 he was .married to Grace t
Revere, daughter of the late John e
Revere of Boston. He had previpusly "
been elected president of the Cana-
dian Medical Association in 1885
and his baronetcy was conferred on
him in 1911. He dies now without
an heir.
One of the controversies in which.
the -great man's name was iniplicated,
was the rather futile storm of criti-
cism and protest which arose as the
result of his being incorrectly report-
ed as advocating that all men should
be ant omatically chlbroformed when
they reached the age of sixty. In
fact, to the public at large he was
timost better known for this alleged.
eict um than for his actual achieve-
ments in medical science, The origin
of this remark, which gave rise to
a story which for a long time he did
not consider worth refuting, was a
speech delivered at Johns Hopkins'
University in 1905, in which be refer-
red t o "The Fixed Period," a novel
of Anthony Trollope', in which the
pivotal ideais the author's picture
)E a comidetable--- college for men to
Nem into at the age of sixty, whence
hey may be privileged to make a,
eaceful departure from this life by
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ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Only :three in every thousand wo-
men in Egypt know how to read and
write.
New Jersey granted suffrage in
1776, but withdrew the right in 1807.
Twenty-five states have not ratified
e) woman suffrage amendment to
• The Northern Baptist Convention
has planned to establish in China at
least five high schools for girls. As
only one woman in every 350 can ,
read, the government has approved a .
simplified phonetic- alphabet of 39
characters. By the study of this
alphabet an illiterate person can learn
to 1.•ead and write in six weeks.
111.
—At the Official Board meeting_ of
Ethel Methodist circuit Rev. Mr.
O'Kell was given a hearty invitation
to continue as pastor. The minimum
salary is paid. The reverend gentle-
man accepted the invitation with
words of approval for the Board and
membership for their cordiality and
brotherhood.
—Knox Church, IVroncrieff, has clos-
ed her best year of church work.
The total raised was ,$2,485. The
YU-
FERTILIZERS FOR THE POTATO
Of all ordinary farm crops that of
the Potato is probably the.most profit-
bbly respensive to liberal feeding.
The acceptance of this statement does
not in the least ignore the fact that
there are several other factors that
play a very important part toward
success in potato growing—type of
soil, character of season and the
cultivation and spraying of the 'crop
—but it means that with these fac-
tors favorable the crop is a veTY
responsive one to applications of plant
food and that the yield will be ap-
proximately comensurate with the
available plant food. supply.
It is generally conceded that there
is no better preparation for the crop
than a clover or alfalfa sod well
manured (1) to 20 tons per acre) h
and ploughed in the late summer or
early autumn. This practice of fall j a
ploughing ensures the decay of the sod a
and manure and provides a good sup- o
ply of humus, which is so useful in T
keeping the soil moist, and at the
same time allows for the preparation T
of plant food in forms available for t
the use of the crop. Spring dress-
ings of manure are not desirable,
as they tend to encourage the de-
velopement of scab.
As is well recognized, soils differ
greatly as to their productiveness—
a quality largely dependtant upon
richness in available plant food—in-
deed there are no two soils exactly
alike in this respect—and this fact
makes it inipossible to lay down hard
and fast directions for fertilizing or
to give a formula that would be
equaDy epplicable for all Soils. But
with a fairly good soil, from a well
Manured clover sod as described, we
CROP
FEBRUMIT 27, pat.
Used in Millions
of Tea -Pots Daily
Its Intrinsic goodness in Tea
Quality - makes it the most
Economical in, Use at
11
Ishould consider 350 to 700 pounds of
3:9:6 commercial fertilizer would
represent the limits that may be deem-
ed desirable and profitable. This
would mean an application of
nitrogen 103 to 21 pounds, of phos-
phoric acid 313 to 63 pounds and of
potash 21 to 42 pounds, per acre. If
the ingredients are purchased rather
than the ready mixed fertilizers,
(generally the more economical plan)
the amounts would be nitrate of soda
75 to 150 pounds, superphosphate 200
to 400 Pounds and sulphate of potash
40 to 80 pounds, per acre. On light
and very poor soils scantily manured.
the maximum amounts here given
may lie somewhat raised, dressings
to 1,000 pounds or more per acre fre-
quently proving profitable. For soils
rich in nitrogen, as from .clover and
liberal manuring, the nitrogen in the
above recommendations may be cut
down one-third. On clay loams the
potash may likewise be reduced one-
third.
It is. considered good practise by
many experienced potato growers to
supply a part of the nitrogen in the
form of an organic nitrogenous fert-
ilizer, 'as dried blood. As both fert-
ilizers contain approximately the sarne
percentage of nitrogen this may
readily be done by replacing half the
nitrate of soda in the above recom-
niendation.s by an equal weight of
dried bloed.
Probably the best plan of applica-
tion is to broadcast the fertilizers
Mixture on the prepared land when
re -worked in the spring and harrow
in. If the method of putting the
fertilizer in the drill or furrows is
considered- more direct and . more
economical, care should be taken that
the fertilizer' does not come into
direct contaet with the sets.
THE REASON WHY
• Why do we see stars when hit on
the eye? We do not really see stars,
of course, when we are hit on the
eye or when. we fall itt such a way
as to bump the front' of our heads.
What we do see, or think we see, is
light.
To understand this we must go
bath to the explanation of he five
senses—sight, hearing, feeling, taste
inh and touching. Now, each of
these senses has a special set of
nerves through which the sensations
received by each of the senses is
conummicated to the brain and, as
a rule these special nerves receive no
sensations excepting those which oc-
cur in their own particular field of
usefulness. The eye then has nerves
of Vision; the nose, nerves of smell;
the ear, nerves of hearing; the mouth,
nerves of touch As we have seen.
nerves of touch. Ae we have seen
then, these special nerves are suscept-
ible of receiving impressions or
sensations only in their particular
field. But, if you should be able to
rouse the nerves Of smell in an en-
tirely artificial way and give them a
sensation, they might easily act very
much as thotigh they smelled some-
thing. We find this often in the
nerves of tou0 when we think we
feel something when we do not.
Now, when some one hits you in
the eye, .the nerves of vision are dis-
turbed ip such a way as to produce
upon the brain the sensation of see-
ing light. In other words, you can-
not affect the eke nerves without
causing the sensation of light, and
that it just what happens when some
one hits you in the eye.
Why will water run off a duck's
back? The reason that water runs
off a- duck's back, is that the feathers
of ducks are oily and, as water and
oiln will not mix, the water tuns off
instead of soaking in. The feathers
of a duck are so thick on the body
of the duck, top and bottom, that
even if it were not In the oil which
is on the feathers the water would
have some difficulty in soaking
through the feathers. But the main
reason why the feathers on a duck's
back cause water. striking them to run
off is that the duck has an oil gland
which is constantly producing grease
or oil and which the duck uses in his
feathers a thin coating of oil to make
them 'slick _with oil and when any
water strikes the duck it rune off.
Other birds which live in the water
a great deal have this oil gland for
the same reason.
Why.does,an apple turn brown when
cut? The reason ..is that when you
cut an Apple, the exposure to the
air of the inside of the apple causes
a chemical changd to take place, due
to the effect the oxygen in the air has
on what is scientifically known as the
enzy-rnes in the apple, or what are
commonly called the ferments. When.
the peel is unbroken it protects the
nside of the apple against this action
y the oxygen. The brown color
appens to be due to the chemical
ction. The action is similar to the
ction of the air on wet or damp iron
r steel, in which case we call it
Why does salt make one thirsty?
he blood in our body contains about
he same proportion of salt as the I
rater in the ocean normally. When 1,
the supply is normal we do not feel r
that we have too much salt hi our
systems, but when you take salt in-
to your month the percentage of salt
in the body is increased,and the -be
ing thirsty, of the desire to drink
water afterwards is caused by the
demand of the human system that
the salt be diluted. The system calls
for water or something to drink in
order that it may counteract the too
great percentage of salt in the sys-
tem, Other things also, when taken
into the bok in too great a prepor-
tion, cause ns to become thirsty.
Thirst is merely nature's demand for
more water on account of the neces-
sity of reducing the percentage of
some substance like salt, or merely
a ile.celleitY for having more water in,
the bodia
—From the Book of Wonders,
published and copyrighted by the
Bureau of Industrial Education,
Washington,: D. C.
THE COWBOY OF getrADon.
He Loves to Ride Fully Dressed and
Equippeit.
It is a custom to eelebrate the
popular festival of San Pedro and San
Pablo in the Sabana Grande with an
6-questrian frenzy, says Jose A. Cam-
pos in Inter -American. 1 say eques-
;rian frenzy, for it is now well known
etia, this is the hippie festival par
excellence; everyone who wishes
celebrate it and to contribute to t
honor and glory of ihe holy apost
must go on horseback, or, lacking
horse, he must mount the first
he chances upon and set out at a ga
1,op like the Cossacks of the plains.
The only ones who came off whole
are our montuvios, who, to tell the
the truth, are not outdone by the
Venezuelan Ilaneros or the Argentine
gauchos.
These montuvios are the heroes of
the festival of San Pedro and an
Pablo, the only ones who survive ell
the numbers on the program.
Give a montuvio a half -broken
mule; he is in his element and you.
will see him transfigured. He puts
on him one of the great, broad pom-
melled saddles of national manufac-
ture, with long leathers from which
hang enormous metal stirrups- sets
brutal bits in his mouth and tightens
the martingale until the neck of the
animal is given, a curve of 60 de.-
grees; attaches the indispensable
cotton saddlebags of the coast of vivid
tint and finished with tassels and a
fringe; coils at the head of the saddle
30 or 25 fathoms of rope; and them
mounts, diet:haying wide pantaloons
of cloth, girded at the waist with a
long belt, from which hangs a mur-
derous machette, .a stareiited shirt
without
without a collar, It poncho i -as ampie
as a choir cloak, a wide -brimmed
mana,bita hat, called a -"singing
oven" by the common people, and
finally the inevitable "snoring"
spurs, bound tight, ."as hard as a
knot," to the bare feet. -
There you have -the type.
Add, to complete the figure, a be-
nico de montane, two yards long, by
way of a hunting crop in his right
hand; a Daublean cigar between his
teeth and a bottle of aguardiente ia
his stomach.
These are the equipment of the
man and his beast that from the mo-
ment they set out together form a
sin,gle creature.
The mule may caper and eut up to
his heart's content; run away, kick,
roll aver on the ground. One of our
countrymen hardly notices these de-
tails. What you see is that he always
stays on top.
The only thne he becohies disturb-
ed is when his hat falls off, The
montuvio has an infinite affectien for
his hat, however old or worthless it
may be. He would expose his life a
thousand times rather than run the
risk of losing his hat.
It it falls in the water he plungee
into the most dangerous current to
recover it; if he is pursued by justice
and, during the flight his hat escapes
him, he turns squarelyaround, goes
back, secures it, and lets himself be
captured. Finally, when he gets
drunk and goes to sleep outdoors a
relation or a friend who thinks some- -
thing of him takes charge of his hat
and keeps it for him lest he lose it.
If he drops his cigar or his match
he picks it off the ground without
dismounting— performing prodigies
of horsemanship, to all appearance
with the greatest ease—as if they
were at his side on a table.
Can't Fake Black Opals.
There has been a great rush fa
New South Wales on account of the
finding of black opals, and already
several hundred "claims" have beet
pegged out by excited prospectore.
They have reason to be excited, toe*
for if the discovery of a black opal
field turns out to be as big as hag
been stated, many of them will be-
come millionaires.
The real black opal is not only
one of the rarest of all stones, but,
curiously enough, it is found hardly,
anywhere except in New South Walesa
Most ordinary opals, -which are no-
ually semi -transparent, are ef a blu-
ish or yellowish white In color, and
found in Hungary.
In feet, the most famous oPeL
over discovered was found there,
and forms part of the crown jewels
of Austria-Hungary. Thi e magnifi-
cent opal measures five inches by
two and a half inches, and if it were
sold in the open market would fetch
several hundred thousand pounds.
There is a kind of black opal
which is fairly common and cheap,
but it is not a real blaek opal. It it
the ordinary opal that has 'become
spoilt by earth and other things.
Opals, by the wa„v, are one of the
few precious stones whieh cannot he
artificially inaitated like rubies and
diamonds.—Pearson's Weekly.
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