t eR Te: ° |e ' ee ers LR sii oF 3 x i: i . - ei * -recently in the British House of Com- ingest With Airplane and New Another War Now Would Mean The -, . Wholesale Destruction of Civil Population Discoveries London, Fepo16.—‘What would happen if we ‘had another war baf- ffeg~imagination. Discoveries made almost at the end of the war, if they had been used, would have pro- duced horrors indescrible; discover- jes by all the principal belligerents. “If we aré to have a repetition of that, civilization might well be wrecked and this world be driven. not to the condition of the Middle or Dark Ages, but to something..which the world has never conceived of = its most imaginative moments.’ David Lloyd George. “The next war, if ject place. would be as much more _ horrible than this war as this war has been more horrible than any preceding; war. It would mean wholesale des- | truction of the civil population,” Lord Robert Cecil, / These two statements were made it mons by the Prime Minister and Lord ‘commercial centres’ for the use of the 20,600 airplanes which Ger- many already possesses, at the insti- having invaded the pr sets E this bee is. now rapidly’ Spreading 4 westwi There is nothing eatable, avimal or vegetable, that the rat will not at- tack and it will “des by pollution ten times as much as it actually eats.” On the farm, grain of all kinds, vege- tables and fruits, @¢ggs and poultry, the- guillotine trap . whic lent. , Cage traps are useful in catching young rats, parti- night er two and partially conceale eularly if baited and left open for a, consliiute the chief. objécts of its foraging. It is omniverous, vérac-’ Aspit’* Gaps ian ba eous, destructive and With all. very; being hinged so as to turn with the prolific when there is an ample food; weight ofa rat. Among excellent supply. No one means of destruction | baiis may be. mentioned © toast is usually successful and recourse! cheese, bacon, liver, raw meat, grain must be had to as many of the various! of varfous' kinds, oatmeal and in agencies of destruction as may be’ winter fresh vegetables. deemed necessary or practicable, We! Poisons: A’s there is always more or cannot eniphasize too strongly the} less danger ‘to live stock in the use of value of persistent effort if the prem-) ! poisons, they are the last means to em- ' Manufacturers of Pipe Organs al ited mil tee KARN-MORRIS. PIANO & ORGAN C0. LIMITED. . Reed organs Morris & Player — ; Robert Cecil. No more fateful for- casts have ever been made in Parlia-| ment, and surely we may ask to be | told more fully what they indicate. Outlook is Barbarism. | Neither speaker can cherish the | Ulusion that wars shall be no more.! and their prophecy, therefore. means; that in a certain number of years! civilization wlll be destroyed and hu-! manity, if it survives, reduced to bar- barism. | Why and how “thay We not in-| quire, since the secret seems known, alike to America, France, Germany and Great Britain. Before deciding, that the peril cannot be averted let us, at least have a look at it. | ow, after the armistice, certain’ dramatic paragraphs in the press de- scribed the possible demolition by a! new implement of death manufac-| tured with unpararreled precautions in America, of such incredible po- tency that its use by eight airmen would suffice for the destruction every living creature in Berlj Re Enemy ave which sufficient material which a fleet of un loaded with explosives, could be driv- en electrically from a single machine and dr@pped on any destined target. e 3 aa) scheme, the enemy lacked! accomplish, by anned airplanes, Further, General Seely. former; British Under Secretary for Alir,, writes: { “Any power which gains initial! command of the air will be able.| within a few wreks, to destroy the; whole of the enemy's merchant! ships, all his main railway stations.! and, by a combination of explosive and incendiary fire, all his large cities."’ We may from these infer that what the: Premier and Lord Cecil had in mind was the new capacity for devastation which aircraft have put! into the hand of man; since by no ether engine of war can civilization} and the civil population be said to be threatened, Must Face Alternative. We have thus to face the _ fact, that, in the opinion of the men who know, the destruction of civilization is a certainty, unless either wars or aireraft are abolished. Three years ago 1 had the temer- ity to make the same assertion and to suggest tliat, as permanent peace Was some way off, it would be wise for any future Council of Nations to curtail mankind's capacity for mischief by forbidding, under the extremist penalties, the construction of every sort of aircraft. _ ‘The proposal was, of course, ridi- culed, even denounced, as a timor- ous attempt to stay the wheels of ‘progress—-progress being the accep- te’ description of any new ingenuity of man no matter whither he might be leading. Here is a description by a well-known airman, Capt. Paul Bewsher, of where it has led: ‘ “At dusk the enemy's secretly prepared and forwarded fleet of aircraft would collect at various ren- dezvous, and flying through the dark- ness, would arrive, a few minutes after the declaration of war, above the principal munition factories, pow- er stations, oil tanks, railway junc- tions, administrative offices, arsenals, barracks; dockyards and other cen- ‘tres of importance. “On these vital points their bombs ‘would crash; on the sleeping_cities a ‘hail of poison gas cylinders would be discharged . . .'and dawn would «come to a nation headless and power- Jess, its cities a hecatomb of dead and dying, its railway junctions and strongholds in ruins, unable to offer considerable resistance to further attacks by land or sea.’ Save in its expectations of.a dec- Jaration of war from an unscrupu- jous enemy,” that account. of what ;will happen is doubtless accurate. | Airmen: Voices Fear. y ment. Ttsthe picture which they drew a ccr-) jiaced on hens but it is-elways.svell Can war be prevented from com-| .jyeq ing and, if not. can it be robbed of! - . its power to decivilize the humaz | As none but the best pullets should ) race? | have been carried over the second gation of the “Airmen's Union which! ises are to be rid of rats, has been formed in Germany to sane Prevention: This is of the first im-! German flying men combined in an} Portance. It is inside the building! organization admirably constituted! Tither than outside that rats da the | for their ready mobilization for the| most damage; the great object there-| purpose of wa fore, must be to preyent their en- Well, there a trifle sooner per-/| trance. This is best attained by hay-) haps than might have been expect-| ing all foundations and floors of con-, ed is where the “wheels of progress’’| crete. From every standpoint con- are driving us—to an €xistence| crete so used, for barns, stables, pig- by i i gery. poultry houses, etc., represents a good investment. Old and dilapi-; dated stone foundations may be made rat proof by an inside coating of con-, crete or, at times, simply by stopping the holes with a mixture of cement by apprehens of violent death and national de- struction, against which the only safe- guards recommended are a large and costly air force and “sleepless vigil- ance.’ Evén supposing that a vast air| aud broken glass. force could be relied on as a pre- All basement and cellar windows! ventative, just consider what such’ Should be sereened with stout metal | prevention would cost, for the outlay} netting; open windows are of the | would be entailed on every nation,| readiest means by which rats effect an! and what pleasant brotherly / rela-; entrance. tions would be furthered by that, Limit their food supply as far as “sleepless vigilance’ and expectancy|,may be practicable by keeping grain. | of betrayal which would never dare, meals, garbage, etc., in rat-proof bins) to be relaxed. ior other receptacles, with’ close-fitt-| Air Conquest for Wealthy? | ing covers. It is impossible to make. Against those hundreds of mitions| much headway in keeping under this! spent and the never-ending app re-| pest so long as there js an abundance: hension, what has the conquest of | of MEBENCECSES: 400 rd about- We batld- the air to offer. At best the swift, ing carriage of wealthy people and their, . he seaplane ‘ss of the larger owls belongings and a new sensation of | and hawks in the destrpction of rats: All the other’ has ot fully been recognized; on the, outside of wuar,! Whole these birds if kept in check | considering: set, are beneficial A well trained dog may be depend-- which one soon tires advertised effects, are scarcely worth | ploy. Barium carbonate (preccipitat- ed) is the least dangerous; it is com- paratively a dom to domestic stocks! in the sm doses used for ae rats. It is used as a stiff dough, com- postd of flour or oatmeal and a ittle! sugar with 15% to 20% of the car-' bonate. The addition of a few drops! of oi] of aniseed or of caraway makes, the bait more attractive. Arsenic is; very popular as a rat poison but ex- perieuce has shown that it is variable, in its effect and apparently not al-; Ways fatal. The bait can be made as! already described under carbonate of} barium, or the arsenic may be spread or rubbed on- buttered bread. Stry- chnine is also employed and is very} rapid in its action. The best plan! is to insert a small crystal in raw meat, the pieces of meat being plac: dy 'in the runs or burrows. In buildings or yards in which there are poultry or other live steck,! a precautionery measure in the use; of poisons is the employment of two wooden boxes,”’ the one considerably | larger than the other and each hav- NOTICE TO EVERYBODY ! ALBERT IZEN : WILL PAY CASH for Beer and Whiskey Bottles, Rass, Rubbers, Newspapers and Magazines, Iron and Scrap’ Metals ot all kinds. Highest market prices also paid for Furs, Beef and Horse Hides, Wool and Poultry. PHONE 65, LISTOWEL 3 ing two or more holes in the aides: large enough to admit rats. he | poisoned bait is placed on the bot-| tom and near the middle of the sina lt er box. By this means danger to| live stock is avoided while the rats} have free access to the poison. Frank T. Shutt | against even more world-wide un-: Dominion Chemist | easiness they are as dust in the bal- ~ ——— eee } ance 1 } Let us face the fact that man has at last evolved, 2» means for wiping out all thatshas been won from six-| ty centuries of civilization, that he Preparing For The Breeding Season will pst certainly use it when next he goes to war. and that infatuated | (Experimental Farms Note.) hyinanity is applauding his achieve-, By this time it should be fairly weil| The question js: Were the British: decided what birds are to be used in} Premier, Lord Robert Cecil and Gen-j the breeding pens. | eral Seely talking in ignorance, or In the main, dependence should be| tainty of desolution™!f war comes a- to use some of the best pullets as by gain? so doing a year’s time js very often If it cannot, let us drink, dance, season there should be very little cull- and be merry. for to-morrow we die; | ing of the hens required. However but if he can, let not the glamor of there are always a few that have not a new toy or the impediments to aj kept in prime bréeding condition. solution daunt our efforts to preserve, 89™e may have put on too much fat— for our children the earthly inherit-. others may have shown a tendency to ance we have received. ' colds or other undesirable qualities. j These should not be put into the; In the biography of Mrs. W. E.' Preeding pens. Gladstone, just published, many in-| The hens intended for breeders teresting glimpses of the home life should be carried through the winter | of the great premier are given. One} is his habit of singing with his wife; OT stimulation of any kind, so that) when any adversity overtook them. | thty come to the breeding season full’ “A ragamuffin husband and a ranti-; Of vim and vigour. To obtkin and re-| ‘ tain this condition, green feed should , poling wife. \ | We'll fiddle it and scrape it through be plentifully supplied. Chopped in a normal condition without foreing | | clover, sprouted oats or mangels are: all good. The pullets used should be early hatched, vigorous and well matured. To these selected females should be mated either vigorous cock birds that have already been proven 4s “preéders 6F stréng. vigdrotts, Wen- matured cockerels that are not only the sons of high-producing hens but the brothers of pullets that have shown by their performance that they carry the quality for high production. , Do not make the matings too large. A good, vigorous cockerel of the gen- eral purpose type on free range may’ successfully look after 15 or 20 or even more females fut the same bird, in confinement might ‘fall down” la- mentably with more than half that! numbér. Do not expect a cock to\ attend to the number of females that‘ a cockerel would and if -you are look- ing for early chickens, use cockerels- at the head of the breeding pens as they are much more reliable early in the season. George Robertson, ' Assistant Dominion Poultry Hus- bandman. the ups and downs of life. | Giant Locomotives In Tug-of-War one another inija thrilling test strength recently at Erie, Pa., watch- ed by an excited group of spectators comprising 150 Yeading railway men of the United States and Canada. The contest resembled a schoolboy locomotives backward and the later the steam * moving steadily victor. one of a series to which a new type of gearless electric passenger ‘loco-| Motors, each of which direct connec- Steel monsters were pitted against the procession became almost a rout.} of! When the test ended a few minutes | Ambition has always been the! foundation of progress. | 1 lived got a new windmill, — | the days of steel mills and towers, and ‘couple of mechanice were about the A Boy's Windmill 1 Rae rience » Th e When I was a boy about twelve or . . Original ®t ai fourteen years old, writes a Compan- ion contributor, the family with whom the first Genuine they had ever had. It was before the windmill'was made of wood. A place for several days building the tower and putting up the mill. and to a farm boy it was a bright spot in an otherwise monotonous existence. During the day I thought of little, else, and I dreamed of little else at night. I slept alone in a room in which there was a sewing machine, BEWARE with a boxlike top, i At that time I frequently walked in| of my sleep, and one night I woke to he find myself at a great height: It: IMITATIONS was unpleasantly col, for I had on} hardly any clothes. and I knew that} sold J was up on the windmill. I felt a-, bout in almost every direction for the] th tower of the mill. and I had to sit very \ oo still with nothing to hold on to. Merits of T sat thus until the cold waked me, entirely, when I found myself sitting) MINARD'S on top of the sewing machine. In; LINIMENT the morning I told no oné about mv) adventure for fear of being laughed ! at—Youths’ Companion. ce . ee, Sif Hae STRATFORD, rid Where Are They? ' Where are the girls who were to return to the kitchens after the con- | clusion of the war work, as was pre- dicted? Where are they? Not in the kitchens; and trades and professions | atilizigg female help ure unable is | locate them. Perhaps, like Francois Villon’s girls. ‘“‘The wind has blown | them all away.” in the movies. Winter Tet from Jan. 5th , They can't all be| CONSTIPATION- By the term CONSTIPATION is m were | gufficient evacuation of the contents of the Lower , The Symptoms are Headache, Dizziness, Mental Sluggishness, Lack of | electric locomotive was declared the| 3Joncentration, Lassitude or a feeling of General Indisposition, Bad Breath, Seated Tongue, Loss of Appetite, Sallow Skin which may become dry and i | Western Ontario's largest and best Commercial School. 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The center cab is occupied by an oil ‘fired steam boiler for heating pass- | enger trains, with acdessories, in- At a given signal from the winee-| cluding tanks for oil and water, ¢ir- visor the steam engines got under; culating pumps and a motor driven way and began shoving the electric) blower for furnishing torced air draft. ahead of them along the straightway , track; then the current was gradual-| Hard “work is the best lock for the ly turned on.the electric, while the; door of adversity engineers of both steam locomotives rst opened their throttles ‘to the last notch. What was the surprise of the 7 plied to railroads which this country has ever seen.” Two modern steam engines of the latest type were coupled together and switched to a spur, where the electric locomotive awaited them, It was a case of a ‘‘double header” against a Mone opponent The ‘double header” and the electric, locomotive were coupled together. facing each other. a we Man ‘is as old ‘as his heart is, wo- man is as old'as-her ert'is, love is as old as your arteries. to. see the steam engines: slowly surely lose momentum and ‘Siete Orillia yes cae Doesn't it -‘‘jar”’ come to a.complete stop, still with; you sometimes when the lights. sud- their throttles wide, puffing and chug-) denly go on at ae pple. and-you under an extraordin strain.| see what you sat’ down ‘beside? the enier ports snd trom! forced backward, first only by but gradually, the full al e wer | ee slectric was Nene ato to ia with Intestinal Torpidity. 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