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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-02-17, Page 3PIM Fp pow 49+++++4-4,444++++9-9 944.94-4-11.114.++++++++.444-449-494-4-4-e,4-4-9-94. Prisoners' Letters Show Conditions in Germany t 9-4-4e+94-9-9 4-9•9+4-9-4-0-4-4e+++++++++++-99-9-9.44-490-9•94.9.+9•9 4+9 9+9+ (Edinburgh Scoteraan). The follewiug dispatelt 'Ma been re- Ceired frenl the representative of the. British Press with the Freneh army: The letters taken on prisonerin the battle of ChaMPagne, towardthe end of September last, bore eltninent testimone to the ever-increneangpres- sure of the economic blockade on the German people, The impression made by these letters, from wbich I quoted at some length in a recent dispetch, is more than confirmed by letters taken from the prisouers recently captured on the Hartmannsweilerltopf, Several thousand of these letters have fallen into lhe possession of the French, and M all of them one finds the same per- petual wail as to the dearneas of liv- ing on the part of the families at home, end of utter weariness with the war on the the part of both soldiers and their "Everything is three times, dearer than in the past," says a letter from -Vielsen, dated November 14. "It is impossible to drink milk -it is much too rare," is found in another letter (from Hamburg), dated December 12. Dere are extracts front other letters, which deal with the same subjects: Williugen, December 12, "The Red Cross has given up dis- tributing milk to the women. It was the only thing we had left, and now I must buy it, for I can't deprive the ehildeen. I am going to ask for two lots, and afterwards I will see .11 1 can get any money. Mrs. R, receives nine marka (9s) a month. How can she live on it?" "Cologne, December 11. "I am taking '13lomalz' and the children Tionulsion'; that gives us strength. Eggs are toe dear, and everything is beyond all reason in price. There are too many people waiting and not enough milk shops open, so we have to wait for hours in the ram and snow." "Glauchen, Deeember 4, "We are now eating mainlg potatoes and honey. There is very little but- ter. Either the shops are elosed, or they say that all the butter has been sold, There are no vegetables." (Undated). "Everything Is horribly dear. I wanted to send you butter, lard, or bacon, but it is impossible to find any. Here in the country all Previsions are very scarce," "Kisselwarden, October 2, "We can't find a pound of .butter anywhere. Rice costs a mark (1s) per lb.; it nsed to cost 20 pfennigs (2y2(1); oatmeal costs 80 pfennigs (10d), Life is no longer possible, and things are steadily getting worse." "Tangstedt, September 26. "Yesterday 1 went to the wife of the Privy Councillor and she gave me sausege, and milk tickets for' three weeks, which will give us a litre of milk a day, and meat tickets with which I stall be able to buy 51/e lbs. of meat, so we are well providea for three weeks. I won't know what we ehould have done otherwise, for I could not have bought any." (Undated.) "Life is impossible. Pork costs 3n). 80 (is. 9i/sd.) a lb., and flour, which ia practically .useless, costs 50 pfennigs (Od). If we have to spend another winter -I brie we may not -I can't imagine whet will happen in the sering." • - (No Place) "Nov. 8. "As the price of pork has Wen fixed at ini, 40 a ib. (is. M.), it is impos- sible to get any, either for love or 'money." DIFFICULTIES OF GERMAN AGRI- CULTURISTS. The difficulties of the German agri- culturiste, which are, of course, main- ly responsible for the scarcity of meat, are explained in the following letters: "Volk, Oct. 29. "It is no longer possible to bug meal for the pigs. it now costs 80 marks (42) per 200 lbaerend then it Is 'worthless." • •• (No place) "Nov. 3. "We have killed our pig without fattening it, for there :s no !train to feed the animals." "Timmerdorr, Dec. 4. "We are giving our pigs 40 lbs. of Meal and 20 lbs. of bran a month. if My brother-in-law had. not given me some potatoes, the pigs would have died of hunger." "Widmer,' Aug, 8. "There is a. great ehortage of fod- der. My cousin's horses are very weak. 1 asked him why he was not using his machine for the harvest,eind he told me that this Year hie horses were not strong enough to draw it. His fifty pigs receive nothing more thee a cartload of meteil from time to time. There is no meal' or ollealte." •. ' • "Ilremorwarde, Dec. 10. "I paid 3m. 75 for my potatoes in the. market. The highest price v quoted In the newspapers were not so high. Great complaints are made as to elle food regulations and their efteets upon the constiteitienet "Tangstedt, Oct. 29. "We have potatoes, and that is the principal thing. God grant that wo do not die of starvatiou. If this war goes on we shall lose all our courage and. patignce. . Without the Government allowance one Ma to go liteigry and barefoot." "Berlin, Dee. 5, "In Berlin there le nothing that money can buy -no more food, no more milk. Eggs cost forty pfennigs, Life is always More and mere miser- able." LIGHTING, HEATING' AND WASH- ING DIFFICULTIES, The Germans are I vadOubtedly find. ing great difficulty with suet:: prob- loos as lighting, heating and wash- irg, Soap coste lm. 90 (Is. There is no paraffin, and the only thlug left is electrie light." "Bremen, Doc. G. "Everything is so dear It is Scarcely possible to buy anything. ' We can get petrol only once a month. Better, egga and Goall are practleaily unebs t tunable." ; -• "Bich, Nov. 1. 'We shall have eteetric llgbt ins v.gek. At first we wCTo to pay thIrtg !nuke to have it put in, but tio re - !mad Now, however, we shall have it for twenty marks, like everyone tee°, Paraffin is so gettrees 7 caul buy wore than a quarter of a Mies (a litre equals lee pints) ea a time. A. smell milky cots 13 pfonnige, ated &seen% laet an evening. However dear butter may be, yon shall have some, even I:Laugh wo bavo to live on (termite" (No elite()) "Oct. 18. We ette think eureelvel leek/ to here electric. light. Everyoue else has to lire in the dark, for there le uo paraffin, and a candle vests .250. ID - stead of 5. Black sleep costa 70 pf. rt pound instead of 15." "Leizen, Oct. 'I. "1 shall not finish my letter this evening. Mettler says I must go to bed, as otherwise we shall have no Paraffin Until to -morrow. Life, is really cruel, everything is so femme and so dear. I wanted to buy a pound oe. ham, but I could mot find anY. At Bergsdorf bacoa coste 2ni. 60, and even at that price it can scarcely be fc end," OUT -OF -WORK COMPLAINTS, Deopite the employment necessarily given by war industries, there are many complaints from men and we - men who are out of work: "Hoehnenkirch, September 5. "The factorice are doing very bad - JY, For three weeks we have had only two days' work a week." Forst, December 5. "Freda has come back from Berlin. The factories have no more coal. Bus- iness is very bad," There is even a case or two of men complaining that the activity of the 'war industries is slackening: (No place) "October 3. "There is no work to be had here. The manufacture of baskets for war material has entirely ceased. Let us hope the war will soon. come to an end." (No place) "November 11, "Everything Is very dear in Berlin, and many flats are empty, We shall probably soon eave peeve, for we are no longer working overtime in the evenings." -Press Association War Special, OTHER LETTERS OF COMPLAINT. Another correspondent sends the following extracts from letters found on German prisoners taken at Hart- mannswellerkopf in December laste- Schweich November 17. -It is na- tural that one should sometimes lose courage; for the finest song fatigues when it lasts tdo long. Albarben, 16th December. -We ra gret that you are compelled to suffer so much and to eat your bread dry, 'I should like to be able to send you some butter each week. I wornd anything for my husband; but it Is impossible, and the children are.con- tinually hungry. Letter from Zurich -All that one can learn here goes to confirm the view that "the Boches" have mare in hand than they can accOmplish. They are beginning to realize that they are not to win. A large wholesale German merchant said that his country wished for peace; unfortunately, the Allies had no desire even to speak of it. There is no doubt there is a dreadful fall in German enthusiasm. It took three hours for the pence to re-estab- Blisehrlinor.U der. on the nter den Linden, Wehr, 21st October. -After the grand mass the priest re-entered the church, and said -in a joyous tone that we should have peace on the 26th of February or March. All the congrega- tion began to weep and we could hear sighing all aver the church. Osnabruck, 4th October. -Every- thing is three times dearer titan it it was before. We have net seen meet for a long time. Dylau, December 14. --Just tiiink of our sick and wounded returning from the Ruseian front; some with their limbs frozen. They could not dig deep there, for the soli is very 'soft, and water everywhere abetted% Coal is scarce. We cannot get briquettes. We are burning peat. PRUNING. How few farmers there are Who have ever made the art of pruning a study. It seems as though they sear° nothing at all about the Matter. It is a sad reflection to think bow our shade and fruit trees are literally butchered by men who do not know the first principles of pruning. The "dull axe" and not the "sharp axe" is the instrument in the hand e of the unintelligent tree pruner. If trees could speak they would cry out against this, inhumanity of man. The pruner should have some know'. edge of vegetable physiology o shotild know the habits and growth of trees. Some trees will bear trim- ming a geat deal; :others will seemly hear trimming at all. Some can be cut in pieces almost and recover from the sliock; others will rebel If the ende of the branches Etre cut. Cut every limb' that is to be re- moved, large Or small, close to the body of the tree. If the limb is large, cover the wound with coal tar, sheltie or mint, so aa to prevent the cam- bium from drying out. Some years ago it was advocated: "Trim your trees with a sharp saw - never with an axe." It Would be far better, however, to have advised the use of pruning ((heats. A. good prune/ 'seldom uses a saw, lee removes nearly all the unnecessary growths on the trees under his charge (which frequently numbers some thousands) With band pruning shears?. In other words, he keep e hp far ahead of the. pruning that lie very seldom meet uso a saw, wept in emergenciee. "Triti your trees in June." Let this be the general rule, for the cambium Is at ite maximum: M this month. The matter of the cambium lying, text tie the sapwood is being converted into cone to form the now Mimed N yearly growth While the matter lying next to the bark is changed into the ew bark, That advice a feW years ago was given by one eupposed to be aa au- tbority. But that advice will not fit Pruning grapevine, eurrant bushes, twee and flowering altrubts, anti only in a very limited way will it apply to fmult treas. In other words, be had in maid, apparently, only a very amali part of the subject of tinning, for the authority quoted above wart gee mesa, dent of a municipal improventent as- hotdation in a large tits* in and was, of Muse'eitiefly interested In the management of dilute trees. Compared with other problems, like the Management of apple, leach, plum and pear ordeals, vineyerde, hush fruit, plantations, ete., the penning ot natio trees is a small Matter, These Ishader tree Mice should not be applied to ell ort Of condiUst, Crone tola You will find relief in Zam.Buli It eases the burning, - stinging point stops bleeding and brings ease, Perseverance, with Zam. iluk, means cure. Why not prove this 74Ulertieteets and Mares,- boz climates, Prohably nlne-tenthe ef the 'Teeing done la ali the large pd.:herd; or the Uulted States is done etirine the clamant season, latweel Nov, 1 end April 1. ' RULES FOR PRUNING. Train all trove while young with a central leader, or main sheet, anti never anew two male briteenee to grow in each a way as to have tit) weight of the tree to come upon a fore of the main trunk. When branches cross, SO as to be iejured by rubbing together, the weaker of the two slrould be eat out. Seekers,' or water sprouts, be Whined out before 'they have made much growth; if the male Wade); are bare, or if the head is open ia piacee, suckers should be allowed to grow where they will cover title can- eition, If partsof the tree are weak in growth, this weak wood may be cut out and tiorne of the euckets allowed to grow at fts place, The cause of these sprouts is that the stip becomes impeded by the bending (town of the branches with weight of ruit, by the hot sun striking the brenchem, or perhaps by some injury to the pork In pruning or gathering the fruit, and nature makes this effort to repair the injury. The removal ot these suckers will soon result in the death of the tree, while allowing some of them to grow where needed • will renew the vigor of the tree. If laige branches are to be re. moved, make the cet in the middle of the enlarged part where tt joins the .main branch or trunk, end not quite iv. lane seat' the face of the main branch or trunk. Paint all wounds about one-half inch in diameter with linseed oil paint, gas tar or grafting wax. Never cut away the :nein broaches of e tree lf it can be avoided, but thin out the headewhen it becomes crowd- ed, from • the outside. This can be quickly done with a pdming book on a long pole and little' or no injury will regult; while if the large branches are eut from the trunk the tree is weak- ened and soon dies or is broket down. Cut off dead branches as soon as diecovered, and cover the wound with paint to prevent further decey. In training young tvees start the branches low. The trees will grow better, the thinning and gathering of the fruit will be more easily done, and the cultivation can be as well and cheaply done with the modern Acme or spring -tooth harrow and weeder as If the head were higher. while the trunk of the tree and ground ender it will be so protected that growth nill bo better albeit if more exposed. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS, For • general purposes stable man- ures giye best results all around. They have the vegetable matter, as well as tbe nutrient qualities. In some kinds, such as cow, sheep manures, etc., the nutrient qualities are more quickly available than in horse man- ure. Horse manures, as usually pro- curable, have a tendency to be either straw, 'which is mere Of re Mulchthan nutrieut, or dry burned Out, due to Melt of proper cam or mixed with green weed hba,vingo or eawdust, whit% will sour the Mittel unless tor 4ust Surface dreseing. All those who hare :gables and want to get the best oat of their stable manures when theY clean their stabiee every tiny, eltoula mato a layer about two incless deep, cover this with about two inches of dirt, and continue this until the pito readies 4 or 5 feet, Have this pile turned aver into a new pile every three months. Be sure the water cite get to it once or twice a week to pro- 'ent heating. Wben ready for use, none of the veluable ammonia hoe es - gaped and the entire mese is unsur- passed by any fertilizer, The farmer who burns wood for heating and cooking should carefully :gore the ashes and not permit them to leach, as they have n peculiar fer- tilizing seduce They not only contain potash and phosphoric acid in appro. clable amounts, but aiso contain magnesia and lime, end when applied to the land they also net indirectly to increase the available nitrogen con- tent of organie matter in the soil. Ordinary house ashes contain on the average about 8 or 9 per cent. of pot. ash and 2 per cent. of phosphoric aeitl. Investigators have considered that there is enough potash and pnosphor- ic acid in a bushel of ashes to make it worth 20 or 25 cents. Besides that, some 10 or 35 cents additional might be allowed for the "alkali power" of the ashes. This power is that 'which enables ashes to rot weeds and to fer- ment 'peat. The potash content or ashes will be tost if they are permit- ted to leach and care should be taken to store them In a dry place. Wood ashes may be profitably eile plied as a top dressing to grass land and to pastures, where they will en- courage the growth of -clover and the bettor kinds of grasses, and which will then croevd out inferior kinds and weeds, Wood ashes also may be used for corn and roots. Because of their lime content they are not so good for potatoes, although some. times used for this crop. Ashes front hardwoods • (deciduous trees) are richer in both phosphorus and potash than those from pines and other soft woods (conifers.) The ashes of twigs (feggots, for example) are worth more for agricultural pur- poses than the ashes of heartwood taken from the middle of an old tree. In general, the smaller and younger the wood burned, the better ashes, The ashes of coal do not contain en- ough potash to make them valuable in this connection - The average mum' value to the fanfamily of food, fuel, oil and a roof overhead as reported for several hundred farms studied by the United States Department of Agriculture, was found to be $595.08, of which $421.17 was furnished by the farm, • Crops grown at a potendal profit may, by being fed to a poor grade of live stock, be turned into an actual loss. The cost of keeping a calf during its first four weeks is nearly double that of any other four-week period oi Its life. A CONFESSION. (Chicago Tribune) None of the arts seem to have thriven in America. the art of living least of all. When we are on parade we deck our - %elves out, not wisely but with ostenta- tion, and we ouite as ostentationely fill • cur insides with all Wilde of elaborate end expensive rubbish. When the Grave Yawned for Him SANDY qoui.arra TOOK DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR BRIDeiT'S DISEASE, .0+4 i+44 . THE POULTRY WORLD ;•••••••••44. 4411. 1411 kIP IMNIMSItS WANT UNIFORM EGOS Muck has been said about the high records Made by hens in the •egg lay- ing centests ae well as recordmade by hens in the yards or poultry breed- ers. The number of eggs produeed Is not all that should be considered, for an egg to be of 'mime should be of good size and shape, and be covered with a -sound, smooth shell. It is Indeed fortenesto for the poul- try industry that hem? eggs are all so near the eame size. Eggs of the dif- ferent breeds in the contest at 011Q place varied in weight from. 2.03 ounces to 2.29 ounces, while the hen$ themselves averaged in weight from 3,12 pounds to 6,811 pounds, and strange as it may iseeni, the hens whose eggs averaged 2.03 ounces Aver- aged only 3.40 pounds each. In feet, we find that the size et the hen haft little or no influence on the size of an egg. A four pound lien will lag taioneieuglghetilli! same siz e " aa After studying the poultry business front every angle, one recognizes the Mot that the size and shape of an egg Is the one thing all brepaers can work for, for it is the only thing in common with all breeds ad varieties. en poultry' shows the breeders a the various breeds and vedettes, cannot enter a free-for-all competition on size, shape, color, comb, ear lobes, shanks or any other characteristic, for they are not the (tame with different breeds, but the size and shape of all eggs should be the same. Therefore this is one of the Most important steps to be considered in breeding, An ideal egg should be an oblong oval slightly tapering from one end to the other, and should weigh 2.16 ounces, or 2$ ounces to the dozen. Eggs of this size and shape are the correct size to fill the standard egg case filler and if incubated will give better results than wnere various sizes and hapes are Incubated together. The old idea that round eggs hatch pullets is iecorrect, for a hen lays uniformly shaped eggs regularly which hatch approximately an equal nuniber of cockerels and pullets. Nailing can be told front the size and shape of an egg whether it is fer- tile or infertile or whether it would hatch a cockerel or a pellet, but the shape of an egg is a characteristic which is transmitted to the offspring. Therefore uso as breeders only the hens which produce e rge of correct size and shape. FOR 'THE POULTRY RAISER. When the fowls get off the roost in the morning they should have a small feed; it may be a wet mash, moistened and net sloppy. If dry mash is ueed exclusively a sufficient number of hoppers should be used to alMw all fowls to feed for an hour, then close the hoppers until noon when they should remain open the rest of the day. Scratch food should be scattered in the litter la the morning, sufficient to keep the fowls working until about 3 p, m. in winter and 6 p: tn. in sum- mer, when the night food. of wheat or cracked corn should be given, as much as they will eat up clean. Water: As the egg contains a large quantity of water, and the pro- cess of nianufacturing the egg goes on day and night, water is just as neces- sary as grain, and when poultry pays, water must be supplied. The poultry raiser who boasts- that he does. not water his fowls when snow is on the ground but lets them eat snow or pick at the frozen water cannot boast ofe_ large egg production, and therefore cannot make poultry pay. The egg shell must be manufactured. Grain does not contain a sufficient quantity- of lime to supply a business hen with shell matter. Lime must be supplied in some form. Crushed oyster shell is the best. If that can- not be had, old plaster, slaked lime or sifted coal ashes will help, and when fed from a hopper it is surprising how much -they will eat. While supplying the necessary ma- terials for the hen to produce the egg, 'we must supply the necessary meter - Jai to sustain the fowl, supply a new coat of feathers and keep her in healthy condition. The more food a laying hen can di- gest, the greater will be the egg pro- duction. The hen's teeth must be looked after -grit being the oilly teeth .that fowls have. Unless proper grit 'is always supplied, the health of the fowls will be affected. A very im- portant detail which is often over- looked is supplying granulated char- coal; it helps digestion, perinea the blood, absorbs impurities and prevents "bowel troeble to a great extent. - Woman's World for February, NOTES, No one can dispute that the poultry exhibits of the country are good edu- cators. It is there that the best in fowls can be seen, the different makes of incubators, brooders and other poultry equipment. A. poeltry show is always a good thing for the town, and the poultry keepers in tvhich 50119 it is held. They need not be large, but quality shOuld be the ann. Early hatohed pullets are not stop- ped by Old weather, after once get- ting down to regular laying, as long as they are properly handled. For the beginner the early -hatched chlek is a paying propositon. Incubators. are better this year than ever before. Many advances have been made that improve theid hatching of chieke, the kind that live, yet none are yet self-regulating and must Still to a certain eXtent be controlled by the operator. Perhaps the most rapid improve - meet in poultry equipment hats been the breoder, the one great drawback to many potiltry raisers of the past. This year the hovers that tare for the chicks bave Made wonderful iris- provement over last year, and among tint ieltdera one ean find brooders that, with proper tare, Will success- fully raiee the °bloke. Failures in poIlltry Will beconie less as the years go by, dub to a better understanding by those starting, tele to the teachings of the press and tho up-titedate experiment etatlons. The foundation has been laid, and with Increased knoWlodge eath year to the esseatiale that go to Snake sUCCeSS, and are new known, ftWer fellttren will result. The elty Man with a liking for Pettltry ehould lay his plans now to put fear hens In the Spate he can find for them. Poultry and eggs dur- ing the fall and winter of this year will not be any lower, and a feW hens well kept will prove a paying propo. olden, ail Wen as a pleasure. Now hie Gan Do HI a Day' i Work As WeellraAe.ploeo0oeufildita .TaeneYetaer4lnt. Ag0- offOld Fort Bay, Labrador, Que., Feb. 14s e(Speciel.)--Oured at Brightet tette when the grave yawned for him, Sandy Goulette, au old settler bare, wants all the world to knew that he ewes We life to Doeld'a 'Kidney Pills. "I was swollen out of tempo from hezid to foot, I Was VI short of breath I' could bardly speak," Mr. Gottletto states. "Tho doctor could do nothing Inc me. The utiatster gave inc the holy sacrament, and a good old priest came and told me that 1 weld not live much. tonged 'I was tack all whiter and in the spring I telegraphed two hundred miles for twoboxee cf Dodeei Malley Pills. I toolt three pilla the night they came and 1 got rend before morning. I took Dodd's Kidney Pille and they cured me. "If anyone doubts tide etatement they can write me, and I will give them names of peopls who know me and who will vouch for me. I am able to do my day's work as; well now as I could ten years ago." Todd's Kidney Pills are no curo-all. They simply cure the. Kidneys. Contradictory Science: The infinitely little and 'infinitely vast alike baffle the understanding, developed as it is by our concrete fin- ite life. Creation is typified by the sphere, A circle is a straight line that at every point ceases to be a straight line, and the earth's stir -face is a plane that every moment ceases to be ti plane. Following the surface of the earth does not carry us to the under side because there is no more ari un- der side than there is an upper side. Thdre is only a boundiees surface. But if it were possible for us to build a globe on the globe as large as the one we inhabit, would it not have an up- per and an under eide? The rain causes the grass to grow, and the sun causes the snow to melt, but we cannot apply the idea of Cause in tills sense to nature•tte a whole, but only to parts of nature, Gravitation caused Newton's apple to fall, but what causes the earth to fall forever and ever and never to fall upon the body That is said to attract it?' o o "Sages Are Not Really Wise." Sages are not really wise • Till they read In Polly's eyes Vils.10111aitelpote,, to roue their reles, Kt V. CaPCS SellOWS, Tc'll me, Btgnalji;t/ttl Kiss uf laughter, glance or sigh, Waiting for your slow reply? Sageo, ince what life is! ' While vou prate of "joy" and "strife," , Mumble. de/Malone give. ; Pools like me rejoice ti' live: While emu labor, dig and seek, ' Dull of eye and gray of cheek; Whileyou etude., eelve, explain, beeline, examine, think. refrain. Pointer on the meaning of • +,11.0 and death and joy and love, Laws. diecover, reasons frame, • • We folks nre pleying at the game! -Seers and sages are not wiee, . Lacking wisdom to revise All they're learned and taught in schools By the laughter of us fools: -Don Marquis in New York Evening Sun A woman can forgive a great deal hi a man if he is only a good listener. Miss Evelena M. Risser, Dublin Shore, Lunenburg, N.S., writes :-"I suffered from severe .headaehes for two years. In fact, 1 ha.d headaches day and night. My appetite was very poor and I frequently had pains in the back. After using a few boxes of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food the headaches disappeared, appetite Improved and I gained in health and strength, I am very thankful for the benefit obtained from .the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, for I am well again after two years of misery." The object of pain seems to be to give warning that something is wrong in. the human system. For this reason, when you have a headache, for instance, you should 'honestly seek for the cause. Headache is not a disease in itself, but rather a symptom. If you find other indi- cations that the nervous system is exhausted -if you are restless, nervous, sleepless and irritable -you may rightly suppose that to be the cause of the headache. . The headache NirarTIS you that 1;/ith neglect of the nervous system you later expect nervous prostration, locomotor ataxia, or some form of paralysis. Wisdom suggests the use of such treatment as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to build. up the system, and thereby remove the cause of the headache, as well as prevent more serious troubles. The use of headache powders is not only a'fiangerous practice, but the shock to the system of drugs which are so powerful and poisonous as to immediately stop pain is most harmful. The relief is merely teMperitry, and with this danger signal removed the disease which caused the headache continues to develop until results are serious. The moral is, when you have headaches or pain of any kind look for the cause a,nd remove it. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is not intended as a mere relief tor headache. It cures by supplying the ingredients from width nature rebuilds and revitalizes the wasted nerve cells. Some patienee is required for this reeeostructive process, but the results are wonderfully satisfying, because they aro both thorough and lasting. If you would be freed front headaches, as was the writer of the letter qnoted above, put Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to the test. Working, as it does, hand in hand with Nature, it can no more fail than can other of Nature's laws. to cents it box, all dealers, or lEdmane son, Bates ee. Co., Ltd., TotroutO. bk, climes rteeio,nook 1,00 i1ected reelpese sent freo if yOu nicitttot title paper, ORIEICCAL MENDACITY, A Little Thing Like the Truth is of No Account in, Egypt. It orientalo bave one fault more than another it is it disregard for truth. do the early days of the Eng- lish occupation of India, the English judges were astounded. at the conflict- ing stories told by witneeses, and they soon learned to eet them all down as unworthy of credence. In Americap courtts it is also well known that the Chinese are very pe- nurious of the truth, and that no oath will prevent thent from giving false witness. In Egypt it is also eery easy to get native witnesses to swear to anything, true or untrue. For instance: Ahmed, it native of Cairo, had a slave who peeped. over it wall into Suleiman's harem, and the ladies considered themselves insulted. Suleiman wented revenge, but he could not bring his wives into court to testify, so it was agreed that Sulei- man should accuse Ahmed's camel of walking on Buleinattn's land. A crowd of witnesses came forward and for two days teetified about the camel and the land until the English judge de- cided in favor of Suleiman. It was not until it week afterward that the judge discovered to his' great Surprise that Suleiman had no ground and Ahmed had no camel. -Exchange. IF YOUR THROAT -IS HUSKY, CATARRH MAY BE STARTING A weak or irritated throat is the first step towards Catarrh. Every- thing depends on your remedy. A cough mixture slips quickly over the weak spots, theme into the stoteece and does little but harm digestion, It's altogether different \rah Catarrho. zone -it cures because it gets right at the trouble. You inhale Catarrhozone, breathe in the vapor of healing bal- sam that strengthen aria restore the weak throat tissues. You'll never bay() colds or cougbe. Throat trouble end catarrh will disappear with the nse of Catarrbozone. Get the large dollar outlet, which: iucludes the in - baler. It lasts two mouths and is guaranteed to cure. Smaller eizes, 25e and 50c, sold everywhere. TRENCH HUMOR, Soldiers of Three Nations Showed It in This Instance. There is humor as well as tragedy In the trenches; Not all of the time or the men is given to planning the death of the enemy, although that is thc main object in view. Sometimes the soldiers of the opPosing armies have an inter- change • uf pleasantries •which seem al- most linnessible to the outsider. Tile Brooklyn Standard Union tells of a most interesting incident which occurred the day before the British made their attack last September in the vielnity mound Loos. When the German trenches were near to the, English a board:•with this printed on it was shoved into view by one of the Kaiser's men: ."The Luellen Aro Pools." Very probabler the Lnglielunen dis- believed the accusation, but they did not Lire on the hoard. It disappeared and ehortly popped up again with this addition: "The French Aro Folds." Still the British did not fire. nor even shout their disaeproval. Se ihe board went down once more be- hind the earthenworks only to coma tigain with a, third lino reading: "We Are Pools." At this the British ehout- ed. The comedy was not yet ended, how- ever, and five minutes afterward the board with the fourth black inscription 'WM poked above the top of the em- bankment:- The last line read: "Why Not All Go Home?" The Beitiele re- ceived this sensible suggestion s the Germans with unroarous applausef't It met with ananimOus approval. All show- ed they were tired and disgusted with trench life. Next day, however, the order to'chargo Waft given, and the British troops rush- ed into Loos using their bayonets on the Germans and getting bayonet thrust and machine fire in return. So they fought end killed each other while, perchance they was not one man of them who did not wish fervently that he was at home and engaged in some peaceful pectination, -Rochester Times, 4.. TONIC TREATMENT FOR THE STOMACH The Modern Method is Most - Successful in Treating Indigestion. Tee old-fashioxied methods of treat- ing indigestion and stomach troubles aro being discarded. The trouble with. the -old-fashloned methods was, that when the treatment was stopped tho trouble returned in an aggra- eated form . The modern method of curing indigestion and other stomach troubles is to tone up the stomach to do nature's work. Every step toward recovery is a stop gained, not to be iost again. The recOvery of the ap- petite, the disappearance of pain, the absence of gae-all aro eteps on the road to health that those who have tried the tonio treatment remember distinctly. Dr. William's Pink Pills aro a blood-builaer, tonic medicine, overy constituent of which is 'helpful in building up the digestive organs, aed is therefore the Very best reniedY for chroeie cases of stontach trouble. Thousands oe cases like the foliceving prove how succoesful this treatillent is: Miss Amy Browning, Cotnith, Ont., says: "e have found such great benefit front Dr. Willian1s' Pink' Ville that I *would be tingratefUl 111 did not publiely say a geed word in theit favor. I Was badly run down and my stomach, was le a very bad eandition. All food distressed me and left nte disinclined to eat. I StiffOrta from nauSea arid diedneest and frequent Sick headaehee, and this was further aggraNdled by pains in the beck and sides. I Was in thiS condition for several years, rind although I lied got Medittive from several doctors it did not help me, Then I heard of Dr. 'eVilliatiese Pink Pills and began taking them. 1 ant glad to rag tht they soon helped me, and now 1 era as ever; ean tat all Itirt113 of food, with roligh, and have not an 'Mho Or Dein." e You eatt get the ee *Pills threugh any dealer In Inediehle or by mail, post paid, at 60 Cents it box or eix beget for $2.110 frem The Dr. Williaroe Med. lchte Co. Brockeille, Ont. fL t** 949 titee +++ 99 • 94-11e******* Spots on the Sun t++11 -**+.**-*****104,0*****-**** • The rtturn of sue epole ix 0. phenome 'non that astronomers alwaye regard with groat tioncern. They come rages- ing neck once in about every eleven year;. It taltee on lite average four ..intl a ball yeers for them to roaeh 11 MaXimuill Of allalherS, when the eun is seen to be more or loss speckled ev- ery day, and iliX and a half years to (1eeline again to a nrintinum, when for Months in suceeesion the sun's face is Lti clean as a polished mirror, Uron tbe whole the beat Mx the earth. tak- ing ita entire surface into amnia mei liming the observation on the temper- -attire of the atmosphere, IS abou,, degrees of the Fahrenheit acale Meese at Km sprit maXimum than at eun 811,1 minimum, • This cannot be wholly due to the (darkening of the sun caused Dy the Presence of the spots, eine% as- Mr. V. G. Abbott, of the Srettbsonian inetiitt- tion, has Shown, the Amount by which the temperature is lowered is five times too great to be accounted for in that Way. But there are other ways in which an invasion of a horde of spots on tne sun makes its eftects felt 'upon our globe. The moat conspicuous of these Is in connection witn the earth's mag- netism. The earth is a great magnet, and the sun appeare to exercise it direct influ- ence upon its magnetic state, that in - flume varying with the condition or the sun as to spottedness. When sun spots are at a maximum, magnetic storms of great violence occur, during which the electro magnetic excitement of the earth is eividly manifested -in he atmosphere by imposing displays )1 the aurora borealis, and inethe earth itself by vagabond current which in- :errup telegraph and eable •communi- sation, and sometimes leap 'into visa oility in the form ofcracking sparka Ind electric flames playing about the nstruments. Occasionally it has been possible to ..race phenomena of this Itiud to the alfluence of individual sun spots of un- isual magnitude and activity. It is eke the transmission of a shock from ..he sun to the earth, across- a gaiI.of 13,000,000 miles, supposed to be filled ' eith nothing but the invisible and he Langible ether. Exactly how the forces that produce spots upon the sun effect the eartlee weather is an unsettled questioa, rhere is a considerable amount of eve lance for saying that such storms as eur western tornadoes, the hurricanes at the West Indies and the typhoons ot .he China seas are far more numerous luring sun spot maxima, and especially luring the time that the spots are in- oreasing in numbers, It has also been thought that wet and dry seasons tire Eounecied in some way with the sun ipot cycle, but on this subject the evi- lence is contradictory, Some stalls - tics show that dry seasons accompany un spots and others that wet seastms iccompany them. But all of these things are really of .ittle account in -comparison with the ereat question of the effects produced pon the sun itself. The earth is a meck in the infinite vault of space, Ind we are animated atoms living for .he fraction of a moment upon that nsignificant speck. Of how great tonsequence in the vast scheme of the )reation can the little questions that :elate to our ephemeral comforts be! f a sun flame should lick us up our lisappearance.from the universe, phys- .cally considered, wouldbe of less ins- eortance than that of the minutest irop of water from the ocean. But if he sun should disappear there would se a star gone from beavele A part )f the universe at least would uotice ts absence. Whatever threatens the sxistence of the sun, then, has an ap- neciable importance. The astronomer finds that the sun spots are sympto- matic of progressive changes which will eventually bring the suuss queer es to an end,- andgeos he'SttrdierigiM not or the sake of find out merely how .hey may affect our petty affair, but le -order to trace for his intellectual satisfaction the grand phenomena of the life and death of a star. And in doing that he is pursuing the only course which can rescue man from ob- livion, offsetting his material insignife =nee and nothingaess with the rela- tive greatness of his mind -Garrett P. Serviss in Spokane Spokesman -Review. EXERCISE FOR BEAUTY. • The Wise Woman Never, Closes Her Eyes to Defects. The 'wise wonia4 stands before her intr- fel% every now id then and carefully si :fattest o 11: Yr and graceful, or does it droop forward. tet.i :it.: ;that may.„be comae -led,. 'go do Ude sat - length mirror and a hand glow so that. iftigitleivene.tees:a4rey";"hr itne ou can view yourself from every angle noseibee, figuring' stoop correct. it at ()nee. First notice your Carriage. Is It erect from the waist? In these days it Is more ant to be the latter, thotigh fashion has at last consented to alloW its to resume an erect carriage. • ;Lyon have . Cis - It tray be necessary to wear shbulders braces, WIliCh Cat be purchased at uny, drug store and are inexpensive. Some of you will find a roll of super- fluous fat between the shoulders which produces tho effect of round should- ers. To correct this bleneish throw away Your pillow and sleey With your head and feet on the same evel. Then eultie vete the habit of standing erect and me- arcisin,g -whenever you have the oppor- mnity, using this • movement! 'Stand with the body erect and etreteh the army nit on a level with the shoulders and Alagerethein a n ragepttr ,dly`..etihwh eoltwarclieh wiii re_ Ince this accumulation of flesh of it is molted every night, rubbing It thorough - :V into the flesh. It is made of tWelete ninces of alcohol and one ounce of °dine, Many of you will find that your !bribe tre out of proportion; some 'will be too wavy, while othera are too thin. TO eedime the bulk of fatand make the insoles of the loWer BMUS. To add flesh to the limbs massage thom vith olive or ahnond oil, your hips are out of proporthat veer figure is unattractive. Fashion may demand straight lines one season e Ind it entail waist the next, but the ideal gee of the hips does riot vary. If Yon have ever made tt study of the eld Greek statues yoll COUld not help !long imeressea by the beauty of the hie lines. The hip bones elieuld be well eovered, but there ahould Pc lee flabbY fat. If your hips are too large the only help for you ia in exercise and thasetutge. If is uselees to diet, for you will elite* nutice the balance of your body propor- tionately thin, and the 11108 will Atilt be a blemish, raTineiricatiSt(ileYlflotare end raise the foot sloWly until it is ere - high 0.8 Y�tleut'llttl? Al" low the weight or the body to rest en- tirely on the left foot 'while doing thie exercise. Now Icicle for twenty times er more until the rauseles are Well: hen .shift the weight ever to the right i'oot and Id& in the same fashion with 'he left. Stand with Your weight on orie foot, 1:level with the trtUdt. T..,ower the foot end continue the 6,261•C1S6 Until emit nye f,antliogrueledn... Repeat the exercise with the Steed ereet and take the noeitien that rt. switraner neeninea *When be is retitle, to eve. 13on0. the trunk forward without bending the knees And touch the finger tine to the neon When you feel ttree ewe and rest. Thin Mete exercise will %eon (hewn alalonthint fat. Always ftraembte if yea rleeite Wee 1. eupple, eltteeful, beautifully felefted body !tent Must exerehm. 1110 Melte ft. re ttert of Your deity life to torreet the doe lift(T, *Vett detract Thom leettr attrardtfte 1