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The Huron Expositor, 1922-08-18, Page 2LIGHTNING'S QUFi :li :,c AND e public, ' many su4 t Ugt(hing, i , eidence Val The may acts is in 4Cality mach .let y. ath, t the aver- age pe on ima es. 6r instance, thereare superstitions against keep- ing in the hand anything of steel, even a pen knife, You are told to keep away from windows or floors through which there .is a draft. Tho iron in the wire of a acreen door is believed to attract lightning. The vicinity of the cook Stove is forbid- den, because it, being iron, would have a tendency to draw lightning. All these are idle fancies, generally speaking. There are a few chances of beg hit, but very few, and these few chances consist in being in close contact with an isolated building or tree that offers the closest electrical connection with the lightning. It is said that of all the vivid lightning flashes in Summer storms, only one per cent. strike the earth. The others are confined to the sky -- to making contact with other clouds. The chance of being hit by a falling brick or being bitten by a mad dog are greater than being hit by light- ning. In the United States about 500 persons a year are struck by light- ning, or about one in every two hun- dred thousand. The ration of sui- cides, accidental deaths, railway fa- talities, drownings, deaths from heat and other sources of mortality, is much larger -from four to twenty times as much. When lightning does strike the earth, it takes the short- est path. Penknives, screen doors or drafts do not have any effect on the course of the bolt. There is, of course, only one really safe place, and that is a cellar or dugout deep in the bowels of Mother Earth. Be- ing a ready conductor, the earth im- mediately scatters lightning or any other electrical current, and no one in it would suffer any electrical shock. The next safest place is in a build- ing with steel frames. The great skyserappers, for instance, that tor•• built on steel framework, are among er lost• m ti,up bird p au; Ing ! , aotputt t one of our .eaay-w ng ' ti -freest Iron Pumps? House Pumps, complete with cylinder and 4 -foot pipe 311.00 Heavier style 312.50 Pump Complete as above for jack or 316.00 windmill . Pump, three-way, with onside casing, special 123.00 Special Cistern Pump - 33.75 Cylinders, brass and iron $440 to 37.00 PRESERVING SEASON IS ON Bine and White Preserving Hettlee 95c to $2.50 Aluminum Preserving Kettles $2.00 to $3.15 Canning Racks to fit boilers,..$1.00 Fruit Presses 50c Wire Strainers 10c to 50c Stem Fillers 20c to 25c Granite Cullondars 50c Sugar Scoops, Aluminum 25c R0114111 To get more milk from your cows Spray them lightly with Creonoid bs tore milking. The odor of ud is b:scoot edle to area Thes C0.11 win then stand more quietly _asdowad yield more milt. Use Oreonoid in stable,. barns. ham houses and Ira Itaw W as cid of w - sect pests Half gal. size, 90c. One gal. size, $1.50 N Rubber Mat for Ford Car, each Running Board Treads, fits any car, per pair $1.50 $1.50 Geo. A. Sills & Sons SPIRIN UNLESS you see the name "•Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting AsP1rin at all Accept only an '-unbroken package" of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," which contains directions and dose worked out by physicians during 22 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Toothache Earache Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Neuritis Pain, Pain Handy "Mayer" bones of 12 tablets --Also bottles of 24 and 100 -Druggists. Aeplrin Is the trade mark (rigid -red In Canada) of nuyer Manufacture of Mono- c,•tlracldester oC Oalic,llen,-Id. isti le it Is ecu known that Aspirin means Baver manufacture, to assist tie• pnt,IIe against Imitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company will he atun.pi-•1 with their general trade marls, the -Bayer Cross.•' There is only one way tolull all the Flies This is it -Darken the room as much as possible, close the windows, raise one of the blinds where the sun shines in, about - eight inches, place as many Wilson's Fly Pads as possible on plates (properly wetted with water but not Hooded) on the window ledge where the light is strong, leave the room closed for two or three hours, then sweep up the Hies and burn them. See illustration below Put the plates away oat of the reach of children until re - attired in another room. The right way to Wilson's I!ly Pads AT Since Tracing "Fruit -a -tires° The Fong; Fruit Medicine P.O. Box 128, PAassBOae,1/.4. "I suffered with Rheumatism for live years, having It so badly at times I was unable to get up. I tried medicines 1 saw advertised, and was treated by doctors but the Rheumatism always came back. In 1816, I saw in an advertisement that "fruit-oo-tivess" n'uu[rl stop Eiseuma- ti.sns and took a box, and got relief; then took "Fruit -a tires" right along for about six months and -I have never felt my Rhi mItisrn since": JOHN E. (I UILDE1tSON. 50o a box, 6 for 41t u, trial size 25o. At dealers or i.•nt postpaid by Fruit-a-tivea Limited, Ottawa. ada. The once familiar hum of the great ntanr„ de birds if/ idom. Ent ens, $ 1 pilar �QWml�l, in ,;nllt 1821 w air �11,g of a 33 did 62 Canadian Air Board (military machines. The number of civil aviation harbors licensed was 24; of civil Government harbors, 6, and Canadian Air Force harbors, 1. This 1.114W4 continued life for the sport that once promised to be a great public favorite. The Air Board re- port says that the number of flights in 1920 was 18,671; the mileage, 422,000, end time duration, 6,605 hours, and in 1921 the numbers dropped to 10,886 flights. 294,000 miles, and 4,347 hours. The num- ber of passengers decreased from 15,265 to 9,153. Freight or express carried increased from 6,740 pounds to 77,850. The decline was undoubt- edly caused by the refusal of the public to pay fancy prices for a few minutes in the- air. The cost of operating the machines is too high and money is not plentiful for what is so often a losing venture. But there is an undoubted commercial future for airplanes in the North. Last Winter flights were made by machines fitted with akiis between Cochrane and Moose Factory, and the time was two and a half hours compared with eleven days by dog train or canoe. of r n tors,, ere,rnment ltacnt Ye 478, a o1 modern type. The season's program of the Air Board includes training at Camp Borden; flying operations from Vancouver and High River; in the Lake Winnipeg district from a main base at Victoria Beach, and subsidi- ary bases at Lee I'as and Norway liuuse; and at Ottawa. Operations on a repayment ba,is for the Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia Govern- ments are expected. The first will be a practicall test on a large scale of airplane forest protection. This is to be carried ,gut from Whitney, with a sub -base at Parry Sound. The Ontario Government is deeply inter- ested, and is giving thorough co-oper- ation to mape a test of the practical efficiency of airplane patrols of for- ests. For the Quebec Government, a station at Roberval is established, and used as a base for fire ranging the safest of buildings, even though by airplane. The Vancouver station is also used for tire ranging, and the they tower into the sky far over any work in this case is of special diffi- other buildings, and offer the finest cult owingto tb,• air holes caused by target for a bolt of lightning. If winds travelling ver so many moun- tain peaks. The Air Board has had in hand special tests relating to airplane effi- ciency in Canada. Our cold weather in particular has .special effects on airplane engines, wires and canvas. Prof. Robb, at Edmonton, has been studying the operation of airplane engines at low temperatures, and has considerably reduced the time for getting a cold engine started. Mr. Hughes, of the University of To- ronto, has carried out experiments on the strength of streamline wires and other aircutft parts under low temperatures. Mr. Gliddon, of Mc- Gill, has carri„1 out investigations of wind channe,c, including tests on tapered aerofell and different shapes of w;ng tips. Prof. Mc- Kerguw, of McGill, has carried out tests on anti -freeze mixtures suit- able for engine coiling. Prof, Bronson, of Halifax, has worked on the action of air speed indicators at low temperatures, and shown that a steel diaphragm indicator is more reliable than the present standard pattern. The Board has had air- plane fabric exposed to cold weather in Northern Western places, includ- ing Dawson in the Yukon, and has sent samples to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in England for com- parison with the standard samples of fabric. If airplanes are to be used continuously in Canadian Winters, a special type of airplane canvas may have to be used, or else protecting varnish or other material will be specially required. Nearly all the aeronautical research work has been in relation to the effect of exceptionally low temperatures on parts of the machines. Aviators who ascend to 26,000 feet find about the same atmospheric temperatures that we have in Winter, but the air there is a dry cold, whereas the middle of our Canadian Winters is the frequency of driving dampness combined with cold. The average Canadian may be in- clined to believe that airplane de- velopment is at a standstill in Can - lightning does strike, as might hap- pen, it immediately takes to the steel frame, and courses down to earth without damage. As long as a quick, safe contact to earth is pro- vided, there is no danger to persons in or near the building. If these buildings were struck, the people in- side would never know it, even though outsiders might see the contact. The Eiffel Tower in Paris has been bit many tines, but has never been dam- aged because itis stedl. When light- ning takes the shortest course, 0 house on a hill is much more in dan- ger of being hit than one in a hol- low. A low house in a valley in im- mune. Wood, stone, brick and stuc- co houses are all equally liable to be struck, and, if struck, to he damag- ed, because the materials in them are poor conductors. When lightning strikes a pour conductor, it heats the elements and shatters it. Then a fire starts if the material is inflam- mable. The bark may be ripped oil a tree by the sudden expansion of air cells, or the clothing or shoes ripped off a person in the path of a bolt. A ny upright object is a better• target than the air surrounding it. A house, barn, tree or other projec- tion from the earth's surface is a better conductor than so much empty space. All buildings with tall chim- neys, steeples, or high roofs are most susceptible, unless they have steel frames. The places of real danger are un- der a solitary tree in the middle of a field. Beneath a hanging lamp with metal chains to the ceiling is dan- gerous. To stand between two metal objects, such as a stove and kitchen radiator, is also dangerous, because lightning will jump more readily from one to the other than go through conductors of greater resist- ance. On the average, however, one part of a home is about as safe as another. There is no particular use in lying between the folds of a fea- ther bed, hiding in a closet or slink- ing into a dark corner. The only safe place is in the cellar. Small, isolated pieces of iron are not attrac- tors of lightning. Some golfers might throw away their steel sticks, but when they do that they show ignorance of the way lightning acts. What the current in a bolt wants is an easy, short path to the earth, and it will not deviate to touch an insulated or isolated piece of iron metal that does not offer a good con- tact with the ground. AIRPLANE TRAVEL DECLINED IN 1921. During the war period, everyone fully expected that Canada would or- ganize and maintain a large military and civil war force and epuipment after the war. Our great spaces lend themselves to aerial exploits. (The need of communication over great distances now not covered by railway or telegraph, and not likely to be so covered for decades, has been patent The aerial corps was expected to sup- ply the need. The co-operation of the Dominion Air Board, operating under the Department of Militia, and the provinces, in organizing regular mail routes in the North-West was looked for. In some isolated cases work of this type has been done, but aviation under the Air Board has not by any means reached the vigor and distribution that the circumstances suggested. The Dominion estimates for 1922- 28, for Air Board purposes were cut by about $600,000, to $1,000,000. But as buildings, machines, etc., are on hand, the operations are not greatly curtailed. The number of young pi- lots to be trained has been reduced, and university cadet training this season is postponed. The chief effect of the reduction in the estimates is the inability to get new machines of INCORPO 1 66 (capital Ppid Up $4,000,000 Reserve Fund $5,000,000 Over 125 Branches A FARM RUN ON A BUSINESS BASIS requires that every .member of the familybe made a partner. That the earning from some particular pro- duct be allotted to each member. Then good sense in- dioatea that these earnings ahoru'ld go to swell .their saw trigs account with ,The Molaons Bank. This will make each one ambitious to make his product pay. Deposits by snail accepted. BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT: Brucelleld St. Marryysa Kirkton Exeter Clinton Hensall Zurich HORSE POWER VS. TRACTORS H. G. McMillan, editor of the Farmer and Breeder, discussing the present status of horse use and pro- duction in the territory within 150 or 200 miles of Sioux Falls, South Da- kota, says: "I have motored over a large proportion of the farming area within 150 miles of Sioux Falls dur- ing the last ninety days, and have seen more teams at work than for the past four years. In all my trips I have seen but nine tractors actually at work in the field, and only one of these was being used in soil pre- paration. Farmers generally are re- alizing that low priced grain and hay makes the use of animal motive power more economical than the use of tractors for this season at least, and are acting accordingly." NEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE Interesting Letter From Woman in South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa."I took Lydia E. -Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and because I felt run down. I tried a lot of medicines before I tried yours. One day I was standing on my stoop when a boy came up to me and handed me one of your little books. I read the book and the next day my husband went. to the chemist's and bought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound. i have taken the medicine ever since and 1 feel quite strong and well now as 1 am on the sixth bofits, f have written to my sisl,r o::d told' her all about the wnrrlrrs it has done for Inc, and 1 am ruffle willing for you to use my name is 1 can not thank you enough for what. Ithas done for me." --Mas. W. h. RI•sn, 128 6th Ave., Mayfair, Fordeshurg, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is this sort of praise of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Conspound, given by letter or verbally, one woman to another that ought to com- mend this splendid' medicine to you. Lydia E. Pinlrham's Vegetable Com- pound le a medicine for women's ail- ments (in use nearly fifty years), and the fact that it has helped thou- sands of other women, should cause you to give 1t a trial now. It can be safely token by any woman -young er cid. ONTARIO LEADS IN AUTOMOBILES Ontario's position as the most mot- orized province of the Dominion is well indicated by a brochure just is- sued by the highways branch of the federal department of railways and canals, advance copies of wnich have been received by Canadian organiza- tions of motorists. This brochure is a compilation of much information, all presented in tabular form, which is interesting to motorists and more particularly to the motor industry. Its contents include tables showing motor vehicle registrations by prov- inces, revenue derived therefrom, reg- istration fees in force in the various provinces, the criminal code in rela- tion to motor vehicles, administrative provisions of motor vehicle legisla- tion, resistance of various types of road to traffic, demands of modern traffic, registrations of visiting tour- ists at custom ports of entry, and extracts from regulations of the cus- toms department re motor tourists. Of particular interest is the table which deals with the revenues deriv- ed from motor vehicle registrations, the application of the revenue, etc. This table shows Ontario far in the lead with a total revenue from registrations of $2,930,000, an aver age fee per car or $14.19, and with 14 persons to every car in the pro- vince. Quebec derives the second largest revenue, a total of $1,386,- 531, from motor vehicle registrations; but in this case the average fee per car is 125.37, nearly a hundred per cent. more than in Ontario. The num- ber of persons per car in Quebec is 51. Saskatchewan is third in point of revenue, deriving a total of $821,- 881.50, with an average fee of $18.43 (the lowest in any province), and with the greatest number of cars per unit of population, 12 persons to a car. Alberta ranks fourth with a gross revenue of $718,531.30, an average per car of 317.83, and with 14 persons to every vehicle, the same as in On- tario. British Columbia is fifth with $600,000 gross revenue, $18.27 aver - ave per car and 16 persons to every motor vehicle. Manitoba is sixth with $528,194 revenue, 313.68 per car, and 16 persons to every vehicle. Nova Scotia is seventh with a gross revenue of $372,217.67, or $26.07 average fee per. car. There are 37 individuals to every car. New Brunswick is eigth witth a gross revenue of $273,074.48, an average fee of $20.05 and with 28 persons to every car. ;Prince Edward Island ranks last with $38,203.10 gross revenue, 321.82 average per car and 51 persons to every vehicle. After deducting the administration costs, Alberta applies all of the net revenue derived from motor vehicle registrations to the construction and repair of roads. British Columbia applies all this revenue to a sinking fund and interest on highway deben- tures, as do also New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Ieland and Quebec, though the last mention- ed foto* deduct administration costs. Ontario applies the net of her revenue from this source to road construrtion and repair. In Saskatchewan the mo- tor license revenue goes into the con- solidated revenue of the province and funds for road work are appropriated by the legislature. CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM The new Premier of Manitoba has had no political experience whatever. There are probably many who will be perfectly willing to give him the ben- efit of theirs.-Kitohener Record. Our own opinion is that the twelve greatest women in America are the twelve who can make the best lemon pies. -Kingston Whig. TheTobaccoof Quality /2 LB.TIPi and in packages esfinfustefl,5ofel TORONTO The Only Hotel of its Kind in Canada Centrally situated, close to shops and theatres. Fireproof. Homo c8mfort and hotel conven- ience. Finest cuisine. Cosy tea room open till midnight. Single room, with bath, $2.60 ; double room, with bath, $4.00. Breakfast, 60c. to Ile. Luncheon, 65c. Dinner, $1.00. -55- Free taxi service from trains and boats. Take Black and White Taxis only. Write for booklet 240 JARVIS STREET - - TORONTO, ONT. . 95 t,- • • The Question of Price Price seems the main consideration -'but it is well to remember that some clothes are dear at any price, how- ever low, "Clothes of Quality" are a positive proof tihat Correct Styles, Fine Fabrics and First-class Tailoring can be ob- tained at reasonable prices. Before you buy- your new Snit, give us a call and look ever our Samples and Styles. We can save you dollars atm give you real value. Suits $20 Up at "My Wardrobe" Main St., Seaforth i 0 in 13-. 0. a r.'iilti k a ;, it • to The Western Fair LONDON, ONTARIO (picot(' 9th to 16th, 1922 WESTERN ONTARIO'S POPULAR EXHIBITION $38,000 IN PRIZES AND ATTRACTIONS EVERYTHING to EDUCATE and Amuse-NOTH1NG to OFFEND Exhibits of all Kinds. Speed Events. Calf and Yearling Competition. Dog Show. Auto Racers, Saturday, 16th. Music all the time Wonderful Programme Twice Daily. Fireworks Every Night C. A. Wortham's Shows on the Midway. Something doing all the time ADMISSION: 9th, llth, 15, 16th, 25c, 12th, 13th, 14th, 50c. Chtidren Free on Monday, Sept. llt'h. Ala i.nfornration Prem Secretary J. H. SAUNDERS, President. A. M. HUNT, Secretary. . 95 t,- • • The Question of Price Price seems the main consideration -'but it is well to remember that some clothes are dear at any price, how- ever low, "Clothes of Quality" are a positive proof tihat Correct Styles, Fine Fabrics and First-class Tailoring can be ob- tained at reasonable prices. Before you buy- your new Snit, give us a call and look ever our Samples and Styles. We can save you dollars atm give you real value. Suits $20 Up at "My Wardrobe" Main St., Seaforth i 0 in 13-. 0. a r.'iilti k a ;, it • to