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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927 EFFICIENCY IMPAIRED ^Kh^htalI Why Many Men and Women Are Badly Handicapped. When you are so run down in health that it impairs the efficiency of your work as well as your power to enjoy your leisure hours, or obtain rest, it la time you looked to the cause. If you do not, a serious breakdown is almost sure to result sooner or later. In nearly all cases this condition, which doctors usually describe as general debility, is due to poor blood --blood that is deficient in red corpuscles. When th© blood is thin and weak your whole system suffers. You lose appetite, have no energy, your nerves trouble you and you feel rest- What you need is help to build up your blood and you should begin at once to make your blood rich and red by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. *~You will soon notice the difference in your health by a better appetite and Increased vigor. The reason is that the new blood created by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills stimulates all the organs of the body to healthy activity, and so the system gains nourishment and strength. If you are weak or out of sorts begin gaining new strength to-day by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. You can get these pills from your druggist or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Reflection Do you remember when you said you cared? The sequent years have folded ten- About the raptured miracle you bared In simple meaning, woven slenderly Upon a thread of sounds--^and yet tliat day Seems now--it is so luminously near In its eternal beauty. Autumn lay In pools of brittle color, deeply across the sunburned earth;a smooth wind merged Light vapors in an elongated cToud Restraining the dilated skies, that surged Against the stern horizon, tall and Life walked between us for a little while Along the rustling path--gave me And then your lips, young with a love- Teeth of Mastodon Found in Transvaal StaDderton, Transvaal -- Twenty thousand to 50,000 years ago gigantic mammoths, far bigger than any African elephant, wandered about the banks of the Vaal River, the boundary between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. This statement is the outcome of Prof. Raymond Dart's Investigation into two huge teeth assumed to have been those of mastodons, recently discovered by a diamond digger at Bloemho'. This is the first time that mammoths have keen found south of the Equator in the Old World. The two teeth have been classified as belonging to the Pleistacene Age, and, says Professor Dart, "add greatly to the knowledge of the antiquity of man in this country. What he was like no one can tell, but he existed even before the time of the Bush- British Prestige London Times (Ind.): Great Britain, without committing herself to any further guarantees such as those involved in the moribund Protocol proposals, is now in a position to take diplomatic action with very considerable effect if at any point the European situation should again be-eame acute. Not for a long time has British prestige abroad stood as high as it is to-day. That is an asset which the present Government has carefully built up and which it has taken great care to not dissipate by any form of extravagance. There has been no departure from the policy of patient effort on the basis of real Lambeth Hospital, London, has introduced automatic wireless to Britain. Isolatd in an old watertower in a corner of the grounds stands an installation which switches on and off of its own accord and changes the program from London to Daventry "Junior." The apparatus, moreover, starts electric generators which supply the filament and high-tension current required by the seventeen tubes. Its total capacity is 2,000 pairs of headphones and 80 loud-speakers. Actually it is supplying 400 headphones and 67 speakers. When the apparatus was first installed two nurses came to inspect it. They entered the old tower cautiously and peered at the banks of valves. It was as silent as the gTave. But it was due to start about two minutes after their arrival. The nurses talked in snb- gloomy ceiling. With startling suddenness came a click, one of the generators whirled and whined into motion<, the banks of valve's lit up as if by magic, and the two visitors screamed The only human attention required by this equipment is the winding of two time switch clocks, once a fortnight, a process which takes about three minutes. These switch clocks are set to specified times at which patients are permitted to hear programs ; one controls a receiver tuned to London and1 the other a receiver tuned to Daventry "Junior." When the time switch "makes" it operates a self-starting motor generator and brings the receiver into action, and a little pilot lamp indicates that all is well. Further, the amplifiers and generators may be used independently of the receivers, that is to say, for the purpose of broadcasting services from the chapel throughout the building or concerts from the dining hall, microphones having been installed at these points. It is possible for the steward to make announcements from his room to all the patients. All the essential apparatus is in duplicate and the risk of a breakdown is said to be negligible. Each tube of the amplifying panel supplies one circuit only, so if a tube blows out only a limited number of headphones are affected. An additional advantage is that the high-tension current does not reach the line and patients are therefore protected from any possibility of shock, while the absence of standing current also prolongs the life of the headphones and loud-speakers. Nine and a half miles of lead-covered wire have been carried^throughout the buildings to the reception points, and every patient has a pair of head-phones over his bed. A sum of $5,000 was raised through local subscription for the purposes of this installation. Lambeth Hospital is a Poor Law institution and a great part of the money was subscribed through the pennies of visitors to the hospital. 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Marconi's Latest Device Automatic, Warning Crews Receiving Vessels When Wireless Operator is off Duty; Tested on Phila.-Norfolk Trip Norfolk, Va.--William Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, has contributed another invention to science for the saving of human life at sea. It is the radio alarm. This invention promises to be the greatest mechanical life saver ever devised by man, shipping men here said recently. It should be the means of reducing the loss of life at sea--from wrecked or sinking vessels--by 50 per cent., marine experts asserted. The radio alarm is a mechanical device for the summoning of one ship to another in answering SOS or distress calls. It works mechanically and the presence of a wireless operator on board the receiving ship is not necessary, it is claimed. The radio alarm has been installed On the British steamship Mahseer, which arrived here from Baltimore and Philadelphia. Captain T. A. Tyson, master of the Mahseer, says it has worked perfectly so far, and he believes it will be only a question of time before every ship will be compelled to carry the new The Mahseer is the only craft afloat that has the radio alarm on boaTd. It was put on the i:h;p for experimental purposes but now has proved The device is intended to alarm the entire crew of a ship when a distress call has been received from another vessel. The alarm consists of a serlei of wires and bells which are installed in various parts of the vessel. This apparatus is connected with the wireless plant on board. When an SOS calL is received a powerful electric switch is released which causes the bells to ring. The radio alarm compels ships to receive SOS calls whether the operator is on the job or asleep in his bunk. As soon as the letters SOS are received in or by the aerial or antenna on a ship, the alarm sounds. The wireless apparatus will register the direction of the call and will make it easy for the operator to ascertain just where the helpless craft can he found. Christianity . . . introduced a love igher, deeper and broader than any-j thing the profoundest Greeks dream-! ed of. Vienna Honors Centenary Of Inventor of Propellor Technical College Pays Belated il^ior to J. Ressel, Austrian Forester, Who Sought in Vain for Backing to Give to World Idea He Had Discovered Vienna--THe Technical College in Vienna recently commemorated the centenary of the invention of the propeller, which is ascribed to Joseph Ressel, an Austrian forester. Son of poor parents, Ressel never reaped the fruits of his discovery, but died in modest circumstances. As a surveyor of the Austrian governmental forests he was sent to Trieste in his youth and there saw the first paddle steamer plying between Trieste and Venice. That is to say, the steamer only went when it was fine weather, for when the sea was rough the passengers could not stand the rolling. This brought to Ressel the idea to replace the paddles by a screw. He approached a bank-for funds with which to begin practical experiments, but when he demonstrated to him the advantages of a screw with the help of a corkscrew, which he let glide through the fingers of the left hand, the financier failed to understand the point and refused the money. Ressel had to expend ?20 of his own scanty means for the construction of a small screw, which he fastened to a rowing boat to give people a clearer idea of what he was out for. > This was in 1827 and he succeeded in getting a patent and the permission to build a small screw steamer, which was to replace the paddle boat of the Trieste-Venice service. A year later the vessel made its trial trip with forty persons on board, and everything would have been "all right if there had not occurred some trouble with a steam pipe, which burst before the ship had covered many miles. This gave the Austrian authorities a welcome pretext to forbid these experiments for good, largely at the instigation of the Trlestine shipowners. Ressel was finished and done with, but not so the schew, which was gradually improved by other naval constructors until it assumed the form In which it conquered the seas and, as an aeroplane propeller, also the air. Salt in Every Province Salt, either in natural brines or in beds of rock, is found in every province of Canada, although commercial production is confined to Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Albeita. Dogmatic orthodoxy is Christianity in need of Plato's search-light of I sincerity. j. Canada At Washington "I reckon," said a farmer, "that get up earlier than anybody in tl neighborhood. 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