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jm'^-^ ^ February 19 1920 THE FLESHEBrCN ADVANCE A Never-Failing Record T^I'EMORY may fail; a receipted bill may be lost; a household record may be open to dispute; but a paid cheque is a lasting, absolute R P RFl LAMY P*"***^^ ^^ *^® payment of money. Manager< \ Any person wishing to place personal affairs on F£V£RSHAM "^ business basis, may arrange for a checking account with this bank. 3» TMEBAN Ko^TORONTO Capital $5,000,000 Reserve $6,793,983 LOSS FROMUGHTNING Properly Rodded Buildiogs Alone Are Safe. Roda May B« Installed by Farmer Uinuelf EflDciently and Cheaply- Alumlnnni or Copper Material Should Be Used â€" Be Sore Boils Are Well Grounde<I. (Contributed by Ontario Department ot Avricnlture, Toronto.) 'A' The Phanloms of Horses Haunt Streets of Dublin,'^ Says an Irish Writer NCE, before the electric I rains came, Dublin aeeincd a noisy city; a city ot cobble- stones and ot mighty horses that ciushed sparks out of the same coboies, writes James Stephens in the Iiish edition of the London Times. Carriage horses, dray horses, out-* side-car horses (the foreigner calls them "side cars," but the inhabitant- would be ashamed to refer to them otherwise than as "outside cars"). The city neighed in those days; |/ CHEVROLET/ CM KVKOW/r "FOi;il NIJfETV TOlllINr, CAU, t"(|u ).ped with eloc'ric lightti mill starter, lnnli- . I'st tjpa two uiifKystem, niiiKlo wiriiiy U'ii'il. Cotiii)'oto liiinp equipment, Miihiiir iHilorcd one man top, top cover and side cur- t«ius; tilled wind«liifld; ppeedo- int t.r ^lileclric liotn ; extra rim sud carrier en reur ; coniplcti' tool equipment, includinc jiicW and pump. Foot tosi, mbo rail, pockets in cnch door. Price fiJK)."), f. o. b. (),lia»a, Out. Behind cvfHT effort there i.s ahviiy.s an aim, an iileal. With the nianufactiire of Chevrolet, car.s this aim and this ido.al \s - toimild'a cai-at the least possible price- liiat is consistent with (|'iality and j^ood woikinaiiship. * The success that tht C'hevi-olet organiza- tion" has achieved in this diiection is evinced liy the gro>vipg preference for Chevrolet cars by all who want the nt- ' most in value and service. CCOMfANYINO the heated summer days are the num- erous thunderstorms which infest th<^ temperate regions of our continent, and it is then we need the proper ans.wer to the Ques-^ tion of practicability of lightning it snorted and whinnied; it chaiiped rods. Conteinpoianeous with this' on its bit; it Jingled brazen harn. s; usually com6 tho lightning I oi agents' it tossed its nosebag in the air to and again a Icnowledge of the sub-' shake the last oft from the southern- Ject is nec-^ssa;-./. To ansjwer the most recess of the bag; about its ears -question we can do no better than were birds Innumerable; birds pop- rely on the statistics of Insurance ped and hopped under its legs, win- companies. UriiOrts from theSe in ning the easiest existence that fate 1913 show that 26 per cent, ot their' has vouchsafed to feathers. I risks were on rodded buildings. The There- were jehus '^ <;harge of the , , , ,_ . , â-  .1 'gorgeous monsters, and they were as total number ot claims paid were ^^j^^^ ^^ ^^^j^ ^^^ horses; pur- 1!)3, which amounted to J40,904.53; pie chapped, spiky Joweled, wide of tliuse eight wei-e rodded and dam- smiled, hard eyed, imperturbable an- ago done only $57.64. If the rods cients; caparisoned, not clothed, in ... „. . . „- frieze many-caped coats, balancing r,-t^ie no good then. 2o per cent, of L ^^^_ shiny hats on one side of their strokes should" have been on rodded. heads with huge hairy, chilblainy buildings, or, roughly, 60 strokes, hands. They chewed tobacco, their lu that year the insurance com- mouths were all to one side, and they panies figured an efficiency of 99.5jhad great yellow teeth, two of which per cent. In Iowa the efDciency runs] wobbled. 1 ' ,j • 98.7 per cent, and in Michigan, wliern | A nose-red citj' half as old_as time, the rodding is inspected tho efficiency ll" the fanlight over every door there is 99.9 per cent. I'-fom these we are! were small plaster horses with one forced Ui_agi-ee that lightning rods leg up, with both ears cocked, with, arc a protection, .and we must now I interrogative names. The city was consider where and how to rod. ,on tiptoe, it was alert, vn-id, it was During the year 1900 in U. S. A. la sparkling eye, it was a hoof! But the number of persons hilled by, conversation languished under the lightning was 7.13, of which 291 were menace of those thudding, deeply- killed in tiie open, 158 ia houses, 57 whiskered fetlocks. Dublin, was a under trees, and 56 in barn;;, of Uu (silence in a tempest, as il \a now i^ii^^^^j:^: \'^i S'iiif -^^l/: a?ii<:- «5:^- i^-^: ^}Jt: »i5, D. McTAVISH & SON FLESHERTON, W-f'^ ( ''' â- f â- â- â€¢ -f + ;• -f ' ;- 4 -*â- ' ONTARIO ANCIENT ^CUSTOMS IN ACADIA. -.^mt: ^ â- 'â-  i.K'i.i ,.11 ()i Till autoTflohilo â- upplanted tho once favourite hon:e- drawn coach, and now the aoioplHUjj. may, lo a largo extent, talw tho place of the automobile. Cut. how- ever science progrosso.s, there Ftlll nreplaces where the anclfnt Older of things endures anrt the people are contented following the simple cus- toms of their anrestors. O.xeii may yet lie seen drawing drays in tli;it part of Nova .Scotia known as tlio Land of Evanpollnp. It Is quaint to Bcp fiuch a slpht on the strict of a ~ village or town. Unlike horses, oxen have their greafect Ktrcn^th in their necks. The diay.-i are yokr-l to the brows and horns of the anl- nial.s with leather .straps. Bcll.-< tln- lile on llirlr breasts us they move slonp. The tlps'lJt the hornS arc nearly always decorated wltli trars knobs. A pair of oxen will tvalk alom â-  leisurely drawing a load of four tons. ; If you Interview the driver he v/lll BovaHT ma homs toww. remainder tho circumstances wort unknown.* From this it appears tlia it is more dangerous in the open thurt. anywhere else. The reason of this probably is that the lious<>, irco, etc., act as conductors ai)d caii-y th'J a solitude in a in-ultitude. The electric trams came and a new era. That Dublin is as remote as' the Stone Age. The horses disappeared, the Birds are searching vainly -else- where for a like city of nosebags, a charge directly to the giouud with-!eity of dream. Only here and there out harming the occupants. Ol: those 1 will you now see a plaster horss in killed in tlie open llje most were a fanlight; and Dublin, silent under raised above their surroundings, on|tl!e dashing of those hoofs, has not liorse-back, a load of hay or an agriiiyet recovered from the silence they cultural iniplemeut. In Schleswig-. had forced upon it. The streets then Holatein, for tho years 1874 to ISHo summary reports show that yearly out of every million buildings, 549 ordinary buildinjss (houses, barn^), C,477 churches, 8,524 AVindmills, and 306'factories were struck. Naturally the total number of churches in that country are less than any other type of building and yet they were mora often struck, which is due*.to their lieighl and especially of thoir spire. Thus all high or projecting objects are more liable to be struck and lience should be rodded. A lightnitig rod is merely a me- tallic rod sunk in damp earth and terminating in a point or points Hbovo a projecting structure. Now unlike charges of electricity attract, were thronged, men antl women went out then to look at the horses, to drown themselves in the uproar and menace of i the horses, and to this day the Dublin people do not speak in the streets, but they talk much in private and are the most voluble race of silent people that the world has ever known. Prof. Macaliister considers that the pre-historic Irisli totem was a horse, and perhaps Dublin is yet mourning her vani.shed steeds, for to tins day her people do not use the streets tor any social purpose except funerals. It is a haunted city! The ear of a stranger, halted at midnight in those deserted ways, will cateji a sound thus the charge of the cloud attracts i driving toward -him which never the oppositely induced charge on the comes near; he will hear a rumble earth up through the rod to tho poiut I which will not materializp. He will where it slowly leaks off into the aiiJ stand waiting for tho vehicle that about it and thus loniees- it. TUiirwill never cqjjie. It will be long ere ionized or charged air now o.\ist« within a held of electrical force which causes a current of electricity lo travel slowly tjirougti the aiuio- sphero to tho doiul which lends to he realizes, as all Dublin pcoptf^do, that at midnight the ghosts ot lori'g dead horse-tranis revisit the pl^^scs of the ,moon. If a linger should touch his eye he would see again a Itoauu-table CJ>«er -of m P»or Yortc^ (ililr« Bojr. Thirty-seren years ago be left Huddersfleld with less than |1 la hts pocket;* to-day he virtually has completed a transaction maklnc him, at a cost ot $5,000,000, owner of the greater part ot that Yorkshire town. That Is the remarkable achieve- ment ot Sam Copley, a banker of London. He is a short and sturdily built man of sixty years, yet, despite the strenuous life he has lived, he looks many years younger. Althougl^ he has been away from Yorkshire 80 many years, there is no mistaklQg his ftcoent, and Copley is as proud ot it as anything he has achieved in his Ute. He remembers with relish that When a lad living with his fath- er, a barber in Berry Brow, outside Huddersfleld, he was known as the "Young Terrier," always in mischief. Copley made his fortune in Aus- tralia. He says: "When I was a boy everyone la HuddersQeld was cursing landlord- ism. Ever since I h»ve always thought that it I were rich enough I would buy Huddersfleld and free it, and now I think the opportunity has come. It was at the suggestion of my friend. Wilfrid Dawson, a well-known stock broker of Huddersfleld, that I gave the corporation- an offer of the pro- perty I bought. If the corporation does not accept the offer I shall give every man In Huddersfield the oppor- tunity ot becoming the owner of his own freehold property. "This buying of the Ramsden estate is just one of those changes in' social conditions in England to which we are now' getting accus- tomed. "There was a period of slavery, then a period of serfdo::; and then a period of landlord-and tenant. To- day is the period whenâ€" people are going to own their own freeholds,, which is one of the greatest ties to keep men at home, and satisfied men will always fight for home." London Bridge's Predecessor. Probably few ot the luillions who pass over London Bridge know- much of the romantic story of its predeces- sor, which spanned the Thames for six centuries and a half, with its long street ot houses and shops. This was the bridge that was a familiar spectacle to every Londoner and to every "country cousin" fi'om the days of Henry 11, before Magna Charta was -yet thought ot, to the days of people still HvLng. Three times the bridge was in danger ot being destroyed by fiie â€" once in its infancy in 1212, auain when the Great Fire laid London low, and last- ly, s even teen years later, in 16S3. This old bridge had witnessed many strange liappenings; but one of the oddest, and certainly tho most romantic of them all, was when it served as a tilting-ground for two- doughty knights of the fourteenth century. John de^ Weils, a valiant knight, who was Ambassador to Scot- land, had boasted that there was no such ctyalier north of the T-weed as the south could produce, and David Liardsay, Earl of CrawfonJ. had pick- ed up the gauntlet the Englishman had thus thrown down. The ^duel was arranged for St. George's Day, lo90. and tVie scene of it was to be â€" of all places in the world â€" London Bridge. On the day appointed the two gal- lant champions, John do Wells and David Lindsay, each clad iu mail, ' took u^ his position. At the ttrst onslaught the knights met in the centre of the bridge with a terrific crash;' but. though their neutralize the charge on the cloud spanking city and hear once more the i lances, were splfirrej'ed 'like match- above tho biulaiiig an! hence pre- thunder of the hoofs. The stranger vents u disdmrge. Ilowevor, the dis- steals to his hotel with his overcoat charge is not always provynted as padded protectively .about him and I lightuiug souu'linas acts with a Ins umbrella at the ready. He is glad â- freak nature" and a Ulscliarso oc- to got back to London", wher? the j curs between the clonus and tho streets are full, and away from emp- { lightning rod. This is duo to a re- ly Dublin, 'where the streets are too j voi-.sed condition being very sudden- full. ' ly brought, about by induction and tlie slow transfer of electricitj' through the air has not tiiiio lo dis- chargu the cloud Ueforo tho Hash (1) The C.l'.R. stcamoi' Ei.ii>iv.-.s, (kicked in Di^by llavb-n- (2) At Grand Pre, Tho Willows, a memorial cross and a pilgi-ii-;!, _^ , • - (3) An old-fashioned freight car on a Digby street. drays. radlalc from DiKhy amonj^it enrhant There are other old customs still i'l? Bcciiea. There are sonio good iturvivlng in tho I^nd of RvanKcllne, liotcl.s in th's prosperous little town, and those add to tho attractiveness oi, niid tennis, croquet and f;olf arc one of tho most picturesque, roinan- amr,iti?st Iho raniei inovirtcd. lie and li'storlc reglon.i in Amerlca.l Tourist:! to Jlvangclim's Land gen- Bllvory buys and rivers, shores of orally n-akj; a tour of all the beauty n- ?y iwshort w.nilt from Wolfvllle to golden sand, hills and vales covered, spot :i nf iho ro;;!!ii). Yarmouth. bfl-:(l-nnd Pro, and the marshl.aiid-i rx licadriuartcrs for tourists to Gi-;u)d pro, Is hunt In the m'dst of one of tho .qieatcst apple Riowi"" lo- calltic 1 !n the woiid. The late Kinu Edward w:;;) amoiijj.st those who V ted and loved this spot. Tt Is Across (he Bay of I'linrty from St. tain:i the lwid'tlo!i:! of the Aradians. come a public park. A memorial John, New nninswick, to l)t;fby. Nova Kcnttlllo -Is tho hcadriunrlers ot thcjci-osH now stands there on the .site ot Bcotia, Ik a delightful trip oroupying Dominion Atlantic Itallway whlrh thrt ancient .burial grounrl, nnd a ft few hours. ApproachluK Dlgby Gap scrv/s ibe euliro (U.-rtriet. Grand Prejs(alti(> of Evani^pllne peiilptiiied by the Bay la dotte(S4v'ih tho craft of was lh.< site of the vlllane from | Pblllppn TIelicrt and his son tlcnrl hardv Nov* Kcollan fisherr-ien. P.-inn- \. hicli the Acaiiaiifi wore linnlahrd in descendnnta of an Acad'an family' tng Ihroueh the Cap tho homes of tho I7.'>.''i. 'I'hu v/ell v. Ix-ro ilvanjjerne was! will poon add the grace of art to at- (M'oplo. arnldst tin; woods on Piihrr wont lo po for water and the willows j tractlnna of a haunt where iintura (ido. look BO pretty that one iii:;;hl iiml.'r wliiih she rculcd are Btlll has lavished her rarcct cUarma.^ l*tM?ss and Peei-age. V A notable figure seen recently in the Peers' Gallery at the House of Commons was Lord Russell of Liver- lakes place. It is now thai, improper instalhition proves disastrous, llenco , ,. .. â-  , , • careful inspection hy the owner at """"'J' distinguished journalist, who the time of Installation is most l"l»'''f''*^'' Gladstone ^mongst his essential. /"'f'!''^- " . , Uoils should profeiably bo alum- "'« presence as a peer of the inuin or copper, as these do not rust ''^'â- '"," â- â€¢e""n'|ed one that the pei- tasily, and weight about three ^""'*' connection between Journalism wood, each remained Immovable in his saddle. A second course had a like result, so sturdy and so equally mufched were .the antagonists; tiut iu. the third course the assault ot the Scot- tish kntKht was so irresistible that De Wells was flung senseless to the ground. - Such was one out of hundreds" of the strange sights old London Bridge- had looked on before, in 1832, it vaa- ished altogether from a city in which it was evident It had "lagged super- fluous." ounces per running foot. There and the peerage dates back beyond the time when newspaper propvio- onors bestowed upon them. The Cecils are ot tho old ariatoc- bhould be a continuous rod starting '"^ "'"f '''')f" newspaper pr, iumoist earth i.hout eight to tcu feet °''^ ""'* ^''â- ''"*"" ?""• ^'^^''"'' ^ below tho surface and running up l''^?,!"'^"' "P°" "'T.'. ,, tho coiner of Iho Iniilvlius to the • ^"'I^''^"'' •'"''' °' Iho old ar cave, hence along tlio slam edge of ''?'^^' ''"' ''°* '"""'' 1"^°^'^ ^°°'^ ">"' tho roof to the peaK aud along the ^^? '"^^e"' marquis and his •â- illus- ridge to tho other ena, ana down l''"!'''' brothers. ' as Mr. Timothy the opposite jlaut slJo again to tho "^'''i' <"'"' j-f^^'ed them, arc, on the eave, and theuco lo dan-u ground '"'^""'na' s'^e, the grandsons of the This conductor should bo fastened ""^^ *'"* ^'"^ """^^ " member ot.the firmly ta the structure by metallic Press Gallery? uiiuiy lu uiu Bu-uciure uy metaliic i , -,>,"•' , , „ ,, , fasteners and not insulate.! from it ^"^ '"'^ ^'"''' i>"lishury, twice It should also be protected to. .iP''""" Minister, struggled as a height of eight or ten foot nbovi"!*'"""*^^''' ^°" before he catiie to the ground by nailing a board over it l''"'"' '*'"' ^^â- 'â- '"'' '"'" ^^^ '"â- ^^^- 1'° married a daughter of Baron Alder- his y to prevent cattle lioin disturbing ijl „ ,. in any TVay. Metallic nickel pointed â- ''"'"• °^ '"** exchequer, who tn hi uprights about five feet iiiga are sol- >'"""' "'i« b***"* A. Parliamentar; derod and braced llrmly lo tho con .•'"''.f,"''*''?'- , ducting rod running along tho ridi;» I *"*' ''^'® ^^°'''' »i"ssell of Kill- and plAod about 20 or 3U feci apar^, •!'.^.''"'. "^I"'} ^''''';^ Justice (father of lu tlie casu of a ho ' should extend a .sliov chimney and should bo beat iu, so that the point would project aboro the centre of tho due to pr-3vent a discharge passing down (lit. chimney oiiso an uprijiV't i"'" "''^^' ^"''K'")' ^'"^ I's" '" his t way above each •^'°""' *' 'â- &»â- "«'â- >â- " man.â€" Tit-Bits. Boar For Service Pur«" bipd KcK^N'eri-a Y'>rl<^llir â-  Hon. for Hf-rvici' â€" Mnxn-ell .Inch i>2i)l>3--o lot 1«7, S W T. & 8 H., Ar â- â€¢iiiuBii. T«rm«fl50. 10,4.10 T. J. HTINSON. Boar For Service Ho^For Service Uitfii'trnd Ch» (w Whi'.> li iir for »rvioo »l R. cl< <'i . Til fn li. I won. III-. -.1 Chic mo Kuir. I'. ir •> #1.50 'I.C 6111 - I SMITH I',, p. Pipe l>r«d Yi>lkHliir.< Boir for Rervice. T.itHii -f 1.50 II' liiiie of Miriiciv J. h\ t'OLI.lNhOM. 1 ii'nt (Vylon. RoUilI Tronbles. A chemist who appeared before . .. . ^ , . - the Brentwood Profiteering Tribunal by the fairly gp.od conductors, the in England for changing a customer hentod air and soot. On u bam & 'iS cents for halt « pint ot methylated lod also should extend above eari; spirit produced invoices showing ventilator outlet. All weather vanes, that the cost to him was $2.41 a fiulals, ridgo Ironwork, ...avetroissha. gallon. He added: "Then there is inoial hay-tracks, and even litter car- the loss by evaporation, and 1 have to rior tracks, if close to the conductor, sell sixteen half pints, say 'Good should be soldered lo tho conductor, morning' sixteen times, stick sixteen In fact, all niasses of metal ot any labels on sixteen hollies and say Bizo should be connected, to the rod -Good day' sixteen times." The case or grounded well, as in these Induced was dismissed currents may be set up by a dia- I 'â€" - charge, which in jumping trom one »»,„ .„,„ „..„ piece to another i::iay come lu contact ' army u«>. 1 \fiih some luflaxnablo material. f "' thought a doctor had to (ell I Good llghluing rods bought from a •'*"'''^'„ ^^''^ "'^^ *''*' matter with I reliable Urm properly inalalled will 'hem?" I not only decreiise your iusuranoo " *^"' "°'' '" *t^ army. In the army : premiums, but insure ymi against an "'^ "I' '" "'*^ patient to say what's I enormous danger and expense.-- "'^ matter with him, and it's up to U. C. Moffat, B.8.A., 0. A. College, ""' doctor lo prove that he hasat trt\t if '• Chai-m Lu.sts Only Year. It is a curious fact that tho snake- eharmei-s of India ch.ingo their vic- tims every year, letting loose the snakes they have had for exactly a year, lo the very day, and procuring fresh ones to take their places. The superstition in the family is to the effect that their power over indlvl-'' dual snakes becomes ineffectual after -exactly one year, says the Wide World Magazine. They cite as proof the fact that a venturesome female snake-charmer once attempted to keep a particularly fine specimen be- yond the specified time. The result was fatal; the woman died from the creature's bite. This odd belief could be easily explained by the fact that,, knowing this legend, the women lose their confidence. Prizes for Weav«jrs. A gift of $10,000 from John CrouTpton, of Manchester, England, will provide rewards to the design- ers and weavers of original cotton fabrics designed and woven in tech- nical colleges or weaving schools in tho British Empire. One-halt of the fabrics sent in tor competition must be entirely of cotton, and the remain- der may contain 70 per cent, of cot- ton threads. A special couimittee ot the Textile Institute, of Manchester, will take care of the collection of the- samples. Sleu Wear C«aib.s. In India men wear combs In their hair much more Ihan women do. A Cingalese gentleman wears what we know as the circular comb, and a very ornamental back comb ot tor- toise shell to gather his curly locks together. ' Quelph. got It. Mnalc Hath Oharmi).. "Why don't you learn the violin, L'ly dear?" "Why should I?" « "It would give your chin a rest.** ^)d: tfUIIMIMtl I HI