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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-08-17, Page 6Roger Caeement wee UM . Li. it, mertyr. Enlist for either the front er the harveet We hop...3 that the Kaieer 13 e',?.tilit,; hie place in the sun all right, llaig want a no peace talk untll victoi y is won. Esery time the Kaiser gets his Mad up he projects a Zeppelin rain on B.O.- tain. The gasoline needles:31Y usel Hamilton would be of great \ a:Ito to Cee. IIalg. aar St r Edward Grey,' the British For- eign Secretary, will now be Iowan as Viscount Grey of Falloden. Britain proposes to stop all motor travel on Sundays so as to conserve the gaseline supply. What a howl there wattle be if Hamilton got suah an order. --sae - New Zealand has adopted cams pulsory service. Borden and Beare -ea stand in the way of compunery ser- vice in Canada. The toll of the fire in Northern Ontario grows in hoeeor and in exteat as time passes, Surely we will never have a recurrence of such a catas- trophe. 01111111111111110111111111111111111111111311111111111111111111111111111111ai •44 F*0 Mot CROSS *NI 11•4 ....0.0 OM r2; WM PIO NIA mot 0.• a: In* leri RPOS . .,, = .... ... .... . ... . 0=0 Pl. miiiimimilimmummumuummumnimilimmumunsium "Are you inclined to have a look scornful," said Mrs, Austin, with her around the place?" lie inquired, in 3 gniet smile, "That isn't scOrreful," he auswered, meek Voice, Wlien Mrs. Austin. seemed sY. lowl " ' "11 d d I meant— e paused and all twhave finished the Times. He Waited looked at lier, at the brown oak pan - for her answer wita mate anxiety. Wing behind her head, at the blue and Suppose he should have changed her white china, at her lifted hand as she mind, or fergetten all about it! Exper- Put back a cup. The sunshine, ;dip - mime, it is true, had taught nim that ping through the leaves which way - women were flatteringly compliant Ored outside, brightened the picture when they had to deal with the young With, capricious touches of gold. owner of Culyerdale Manor. "Well -you meant? I am waiting." Prank's propositions were In "Why," said. Frank, "what good are variably applauded by his teminine these things to me? I don't under- liaellerS, and he knew Very well that Stand 'em, you know, I can read the irshe were to suggest to any girl in paper e and go over my bailiff's ac - the neighborhood that they should counts just as well without two blue amend Mount Everest together, she plates and an old teapot iu front, of would say it was a delighttul Woe, and Me. But when you stand there it's would take his arm to start off that different -they eera to be all right, somehow " moment. Frank had wager found • men capricious. Though he Willi LIS Mrs. Auetin met his gaze with a lit- wotle toucli of laughter just at the cor- ready as any other man to say Sou- ners of her mouth, "'Upon my Word!" vent femme varle, in point of fact, in she said, "I didn't know that I was hie, little flirtations, it was always in such perfect harmony with an old Mr. Francis Leicester who chenged teapot. Well, it is something, no doubt, to be able to adorn the leisure mo- ments of life -when the bailiff is away!" Frank would nave protested, but elle checked nim with a quick lit- tle movement of her head. "Are you going to explain yourself? Don't; an explanation is enough to spoil the most beautiful thing that ever was said,and to make the worst worse, Besides, there IS no need." "No," he answered with a laugh., "I don't suppose Were is." Mrs, Austin ended by enjoying her morning in a very bright, simple fash- ion, and feeling a little as if she and Frank were a couple of children en- gaged in some delightful piece of mis- chief. Frank had certainly hampered a lock, broken a little saucer, lost one key- on the floor of a dark cupboard, and mixed up the remainder in hope - WRY "V try quiciely,- and the girl who showed an unnecessary and sometimes re- prc,aehfue constancy. According to ex - regimes, Frank amid have had no misgivings when lie reminded Mrs. Austin of her promise. But he in- stinetively felt that his experience was not likely to be of much service to him on this occasion. "Yen said you sbould like it -there . isu't mush to show yeiu, but will you come?" he asked with simple directness. Mrs. Austin looked. up a little alsa Hamilton is not going to get the sently. Their talk of the evening be - nickel refinery. Port Colborne has fore had not made a dee n impression on. her, and she had almost made 'been chosen as the site of tbe face up her mind to spend the morning in tory, We will at least be spared writing letters. When Frank spoke, breathing the fumes. he had just reckoned uti the most -bee.— tiresome of her correspondents, and .. • . Brussels was fined $1,200,000 e' a had 'decided that' she might hope to cheering a cardinal. Now another t ne PoSsess an. easy conscience by lunch - has been imposed upon the Leel els eon time. But as elle met his eyes she remembered his anxiety to amuse her, for jeering at a bust of the lreifeee. In checked the answer which was on the settling up, these finea will all his lips. He was a nice, hospitable Italie to be paid back. 4-• • The Kaiser is worrying about "the helpless women and children of Ger- many." The helpless women and chil- dren of Belgium, France and Britain deserve all they are getting, we sup- pose. ney, this son of Fanny Leicester s, and in he wanted to do the honors of his home he should have his way. Her letters could wait, and she would sec Prank's old china in tbe morning and his little ruin in the afternoon. "Will I come?" she repeated. "Of course I will come. I shall be de- lighted." And she rose instantly, with a sweet readiness which filled Frank's soul with a tumult of delight. Those who are counting on racial :it was speedily obvious that the ties always. to stand between us and geeing man knew very" little about the Britain certainly haven't read the En- things he had undertaken to show. He ropean war aright. ----Pittsburg Clanette. vole vaguely proud of his heirlooms Times. ecause they were heirlooms. It Thetis so. President Wilson, luta pleased him to think that he inherited been quite saucy to Great Britain. 0.0 From thirty to sixty per cent. of the United States guardsmen who were called out for service o against Mexico have been regarded as medi- cally unfit, and raw rearuits have taken their places. Thus the National Guard. has lost over half its effective- ness. e • • It is some years now since the col fatale of the Quebec Bridge. It. is now ite matter of course what other people were so anxious to buy. HIS old oak had. been carved for the Manor- houee; his old cups and dishes had belonged to genera.tions of dead and One Leicesters. That was enough for him. He remembered the names of a few of the portraits, and in one �r two notable cases could oven tell the artigt, but his remark, as a rule, were not instrastive. "Oh, I rezollect that one," he woplil say,. with a glance. oe recognition., "mod to hang in the little room out of the gallery up- stairs"; or it might be, "Do you see -nearing completion. It has eost to that queer old fellow up there. 1 ie - date over e20,000,000 and ninety-foure Member I was awfully afraid of him Jives. It is the greaeest engineefng Wlien I was a little chap; I thought he walked." Sometimes he confined feat in. many respects ever ,attemet 7t1 himself to a simple expression of. iu the world. The central epen is the oeinion. "That's a comical get np- largest which has ever been attcine' doesn't she look as if .she'd got a The bridge will conn.ect with the duster and a feather on her head? Do You suppose that a cap, now, ,..1r a Transcontinental and will link ep the hat?" But curiously enough, his whole country. iragrance did not effect Mrs. Austin unpleasantly. She did iaot feel as tf Frank were an outsider, but rather as it the connection between him, and the people oii the walls was close enough to justify a disregard of mere book -knowledge about them. She could have learned more names and dates in a couple of days than Frank had acquired in his life, but he claimed kindred with the portraits in the very kites and attitude with which he con- fronted them. There was a young squire of more than a century earlier who might have been his brother. Mrs. Austin called his attention to the like - and Frank, with his handsome head thrown back, stood gazing at him In a glow of suddenly -awakened friend " Iwonder who he was?" ehe said. "Suppose he turned out to be a namesake of Yours?" "I'm sure I don't know," the young fellow answered. "ls lie really like Me?" And, withottt waiting for a reply, he went On, "I'm idiotically ignorant." .7"Don't call yourself names," said Mrs, Austin. "You certainly are ignor- ant, and it is very disgraceful, but I rather like it. People who know to much won't let one make any diseov- ories or imagine anything oil one's own accotint. Now you leave me quite with letter press by Archibald Herd, free in that respeet. author of "The Command et the Sea," Frank nailed rather ruefully. "If at you want, I am perfect." Musson & Co., pttbiishers, Toronto, A this all They went np-staire, and there he very interesting work. had rather an easier part to play, as she could appreciate what elle saw withoet his explanation. He was eagdr to fit keys into lecke for her, and would readily nave broken ellen any obstinate door whieh resisted his efferte. Certainly if the future was to be for Gilbert South, the preeent thne was Frank?e, and he Made good tie() of it; for, before that joarney of diseovery Was over, the house was peepled with beautiful nunneries, There was Mrs. Austin pausing at the or the stairs, and Birdlime et a grotesqtte head which grinned from • th door of an old cabinet--Mre. Austin intent On a diugy bit of tapestry, and triumphantly discovering Rebekah nt the wele-Mrs. Auetirt laugh- legly putting hint aside when he felled to unlock a great oak elicist, and turrang the key with her slim white fingers --Mm Austin leek- inp,• Out front ith oriel -window across the sunlit oaks and ehestuttts of the park with it tranqail far-seeing gaze. There nils Mete to remember of this; for in 'the act of turning away, elle Stepped sleOrf, "Oh, there's some beau- tIfuj old ..chliaa," she said; "I must ha.ve a look at that/ Don't you. care 1,ftese things, really, Mr, Leleee- ter?" 'dott't mean 4 - *- A Buffalo exchange says that "those German -Americans who are making such a noise over the Britsh "in- vasion" of American rights in black- listing certain firms that do business In this country should not epyardoek the fact that the Teutonic allies aro preparing a blacklist of Siviss firms who trade with the western all;es." And are also sinking ships that trade with the Allies. Speaking of the amount coughed up by the Canadian Cartridge Co., Mr. Chas. Mardi, M. P., says: "If smell pro- fits could be made on a million cart- ridge order, those who take any in- terest in such matters an only figure out how much money has been made by some people since the war began." "Britain Prepared," from a Kinema- tograph revue of the activities of His Majesty's naval and military forcce, reproducing eighty-five photographs by permission of If. M. Admiralty, the War Office and Ministry of Munitei ns, sygicy.orne. "Cenling to 04,yr. oho uRam ho tvmed to his companien. "Yon will, woen4,311right,';ou?,,. said Irranian ti d. Mrs. Austin shook her head. "No, Met play, Noe -don't offer tO eeaeh me; it's very kind a Vett, but I'm too old to begin. now." If he 'WAS disappointed, it Was only Lor a raoMent, for hi a moment he felt that he WoUld rather not See Mrs, Austin rushing about after balls, etiger, excited, flushed, Tiny might of courts°, but not Mrs. Austin. "It ien't that!" he said, in answer to her smiling refueel. "You could learn any, thing you lilted, but you are quite right -it Would not be worth your learning." And he went away with long steps to fetch her a chair, When he came back, Oilhart South was do- seribing something to Thiy in his soft voice, and Mrs, Attetin etood a little apart, studying the old house with tranquil eyes. Franic brought the chair,' and an Iedian sliawl Of his mother's, whicn he had picked up in the hall. "Will you have .this on?" be Said. "Ne? Then I'll lint it over the cliair. It's a very ugly chair." Frank had never been, in the, habit of eyeing his tura- ture se discontentedly. It's very comfortable," said Mrs, Austin, giving a touch to Ats arrange- ment of the drapery whigh seemed to make it exactly right, "New I won't keep you from your game." "Look here, Frank," said Tiny, light- ly touching his arm witia her little sunburnt fingers, "leave me out this thee. You play with Mr, Smith." "No, no, Miss Vivian, that won't do," Gilbert protested. "You've been de- scribing Mr. Leicester as a champion player, and I'm not going to be pitted against him for you to laugh at my elernalnees." "You're not clumsy," Tiny replied, quite simply. "Thank you," said Mr, South, with a little bow. "But I'm a beginner, you know, and you have undertaken rny, education, Suppose you let me learn a little by looking on." "Conte then, Tiny," said Frank, After all, he had had his turn. It was only fair play to make way for the resat who was also. his guest. Gilbert strolled germ to where Mrs. Gilbert eat, and threw himself on the grass at her feet. "Upon, my word," ho said, "I'm not sorry to rest a little. I've taken a good deal of exercise this morning," Mrs, Austin smiled, and watched the game, though she did not understand it sufficiently to appreciate Frank'e skill. She was interested in the two agile figures merely as a picture -a pretty picture in the autumn sunshine. Gilbert, at her .feet, leauiag on his elbow, seemed as if ise also were watching the two figures, but in reality his eyes were fixed upon a third, tall, slender girl, fair, gracetul, swift, playing battleiloor and shuttlecock in the stillness of d Sumink, evening, close by an old red brick wall, on which peaches were trained. Above the wall a thin rank of trees rose against a clear sky. There was an. arch over the garden patch, a tangle of climbing roses, delicate leaf -sprays, and clusters of loose white flowers, under which the girl would go when the game was over and the sun gone down, And beyond the buttressed wall, where the elm boughs were stir- ring in the cool evening air, was the great world, beginning at the ivy - grown gardengate and stretching away to unknown distances -to India, for instance, which lay waiting for a Young fellow who was to do the most remarkable thiugs. It was wonderful only to think of the sights he was to see, the strange faces, the strange skies, before he cathe home bronzed and bearded, to stroll once more along the grassy walks and find the cluster- ed roses of a later year hanging white In the twilight. As he left the garden for the last time that home -coming had been almost as vivid and real as the tender pain of parting. Afterwards it faded away into a dim picture, sad as such pictures are when what was to have become an actual future is Put aside and marked, "it might have been." But now, while he lay on the turf, watching Tiny and Frank, it rose Up before his eyes as clearly outlined as of old. It could never be. The heads of the household were dead; the old home' was broken up; the house was sold. Gilbert had a vague remembrance of having been told that a retired trades- man, who piqued himself on growing big pineapples, had taken the place and improved it immensely. However long his life might last, it could never hold that happy home -coming, as a here, to the old garden, and the girl who wasgto wait for him there. He raised himself a little, and turn- ed to Mrs. Austin, who was leaning back against Frank's Indian shawl. "Do YOU remember," he said, "how' we used to .play battledoor and shut- tlecock at West Hill?" She looked down at his uplifted face, "Yes," she answefed, .in het tranquil voice; "I remember"; and af- ter a just perceptible pause, she ad- ded, "perfectly." That "perfectly" disconcerted him a little, and checked a, sentence on his lips. As a rule, it is not a perfect but a discriminating memory which we desire to find in our friends. Gilbert asked himself whether there -was a touch of ironical meaning in her words, or Only a frank simplicity. It's a very long while ago!" he said. It was a safe remark to make, and not an original one. Yet momething in 14s accent made it sound almost like an entreaty, Mrs,. Austin smiled. "It's a very long while ago. These young people -were in the nursery then, 1 suppose, and now their turn has come round." "Do We only have one tern?" said Gilbert, looking down and touching the end of tile shawl Which trailed On the short, dry Mr. "Ah, that I can't sayl," she answer- ed, lightly. "HoW ean X tell What ll'istotve., may have in Store for you? fancy you are younger than I am "No, no!" he exclaimed. "But tell me -ant / much chauged?" lier eyes rested on him In smiling scrutiny. "NO," she said; "I thiek you have changed very little indeed." 'You are right," he paid, after a Mee, "I am very little thatiged. Aad you?" "What do you think?" South quitted his- lounging attitude, and Sat up. "TheNs aquestiOn 1 ean't antiseer. You are Changed, and yet X fancy yeti are not Changed. You were only a girl, you knOW-1-" "And now I'm an Old woman!" Ile 'winced as it the words hurt him. "Doift say that! Not even As a joke!" "Oh, I beg your pardon!" she re- torted, "/ remember now I am a year and a half younger than yott." /tilt stains may be retrieved With oXalle add or ealts of lemon, If °Wks add Solution le used, let stand some 'less confusion. He knew there were sonae queer old dresses somewhere - he remembered having seen them as a boy -and in the search for them he took Mrs, Austin into all sorts of shadowy corners, and made interest- ing discoveries of old brooms and brushes and dusty books. On one shelf he found. some toys, silent' with ill -usage and long neglect. He stood looking at these for a moment, bewildered to find that he had for- gotten them so utterly and remember- ed them so well. He stooped to touck a little painted water -cart and then shut them all: into the darkness again with a lingering smile. At last he came upon the old brocades and laces of which he was in search, and looked anxiously to see whether they would please his companion. "Are they eight!" he said, "or don't you care for them?" As soon as he was satisfied on this point, he would have tossed them all over the floor for her inspec- tion, if she had permitted it. "Look like private theatricals, don't they?" he said, when he was bidden to stand. one one side, "Oh, isn't this lovely?" she ex- claimed, without heeding his question. He considered the pale delioately- flowered silk with a puzzled face. "Ieevely? Isn't it rather quer and - and -washy?" he said at last. "Oh, that won't do at all!" Mrs. Austin replied, smiling up at him. "That isn't what we say about such things nowadays. We must educate YOU." "Well," said Frank, With a flash of inspiration; "I think I should know better if I saw it on." Mrs. 'Austin shook it out daintily to let the light fall on it, and he looked from the silk to her face, and back again. All at once he seemed to see what she would -look like in it; a tall slight fig- ure in the quaint old gown. "Yes," he said, with sudden conviction, "I see now. It's beautiful." "You are a promising scholar," she replied. "What were you saying about theatricals just now? But these things are too good for theatricals -too real for such little candlelight shams." "Not a bit too good -if you would act!" She shook her head. "Not even to wear this drese! Though that would be delightful." "Do," said Prank "Why not? I'd got myself up like my friend down- stairs -the man over the library chime neypiece, You know, Would that be right with this Of yours?" It was Mrs. Austin's • turn to call up a picture, and she raised her eyes to his face, "Oh yes, I think so. We should be in the same half century at any rate, quite near enougi for private theatricals." "Oh, I say!" Frank exclainied. "Half a century!" "Well, I admit it would be an awk- ward interval in real life," said Mrs. Austin, smiling. "But I think it might do on the stage." "Let's try it," said Frank, with his face aglow. "NO," she answered, very gently and decidedly. "Why not ask Miss Viv- ian?" "Tiny!" The suggestion called bim out of ati Mechanted world into his every -day existenee, and he had to cheek himself lest he ehould say some- thing ungracious. "She would look charming in some or these things," said Mr. Austiiii thoughtfully. "I dare say she would-/ mean, I'm mire she Would. Well, we can think of that any time." "And do you think we can join the others any time?" kis corapaltion in- quired. "1 ShoUld say we had better bring our investigations to an end, and look for them. 'Vier mother will think we are lost." Iiirank attempted no ternonstrance; and she laid everything back In its place 'with a charming dexterity, only rousing once to look at sent() old lane. He watched her, still With the ehadow on his face Which had come when that mention of Tiny'e name reminded hint of more than Tiny. According to Mr. Lloyd George, in June, 1915, the British army wile ..zo ahort of munitions at the front, that it could. have been destroyed with ease had the Ciermans pushed their attack. This is in line with the Turkish state- ment that the British fleet could ease ily have forced the Dardanelles cia the occasion of its first attaelt on the Straits. It is strange to find. in the Cana- dian newspapers, pleas for the tnala-- tcnance of the hotels after these tutlons shall have been deprieed ef their bars, says the Christlaa Sexe.te..! Monitor. It eeeme reasonable to athilt that the hotel business tan staul as well in Canada as in the linked State, The ber has long since ceancd to be an essential to hotelkeeming the touthern iside nf the line, a.111 greatly to the advantage of the hotel and of Ito patrons. Cheer up, gentle- men. They went dewn-etairs, but could find no one. "My mother is having tr.ore than an lioer's gossip to -day," said Prank, He turned to a side whis dow and looked mit, "And the other are,playing lawn tennie." We. Austin provided hereelf with a parasol, and they weet across the lawn to find tho players. Tiny Vivian had enjoyed her 'morning very well, though she bad been conseloes that Prank and Mrs, Austin were long while going round the house. She had not, how. Atwell, an imported cold from the Odd Prank, "Don't yott think they are ever, got beyond the feeling' that it stable of 'Toward Oote, ratt away with women's tillage?" e.aft very good of Prank, And site tame little time, then rinse in ateMoilla tl i Detet be so to meet the pair with &bright faett of Water USEFUL PRESERVING HINTS Here's the Way to Succeed in Jam or Jelly Making. lo—Use ripe but not over- ripe fruit. 2o—Buy St, Lawrence Red Diamond Extra Granulated Sugar. it is guaranteed pure - Sugar Cane Sugar, and free from foreign substances which might prevent jellies from setting and later on cause preserves to ferment. We advise purchasing the Red Diamond Extra, Granulated in the 100 lb. bags which as a rule is the racist econo- mical way and assures absolutely correct weight. 3o—Cook well. 4o—Clean, and then by boiling at least 10 minutes, sterilize your jars perfectly before pouring in the preserves or jelly. Success will surely follow the use of all these hints. Dealers can supply the Red Diamond in either fine, medium, or coarse grain, at your choice. Many other handy refinery sealed packages to choose from. St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries, Limited, Montreal.. B.EADING THE HAND. Most Murderers, it is Said, Show Their Characters in Their Palms. A Frencli savant contends that the murderer has a distinctive hand. Ilia face may not be eideoup, but the hands are, ,and are self concienanatory. Evidence on the latter characteristic is scanty and rests upon tee investi- gations of the French criminologists; but, as to the former, it is a fact thee some of the most brutal murders on record have been perpetrated by men whose countenances habitually wore very mild expression. Deeming was a pleasant man to speak to until crossed, but some of the authorities who examined his hands declare his broad thumb indicated the born murderer. The true ballheaded thumb gives to the first phalange it round, bulbops appearance. It is short, and the nail is so abbreviated as to suggest that It has been gnawed. It is imbedded in the flesh, which rises on either side and beyond it. Duneollard, a wholesale murderer, bad a hand remarkable for its thick- ness and length of palm in proportion te the fingers. He had a significant dem, common to most murderers -- namely, almost entire absence Of lines in the palm, save the three principal ones -the line of life, head and heart. nese lines were very strongly defined. The line of the head -the center lino extending across the palm= --was vio- lently cut by the line of life running upward fie= the wrist. Chiromancy interprets this to foretell a violent death. His fingers • were knotty and uneven at the nail phalanges. the second race after inditiging Illue WOMOIS ngs f•-• •• SUMMER COMPLAINTS KILL LITTLE ONES At the first sten of illnese-during tbe hot wather give the little ones Baby'e Own Tablets, or en a few hours he may be beyond cure. These Tablets will prevent summer complaints el given occasionally to the well chili and will promptly cure these troubles if they come on suddenly. Baby's Own Tablets, should always be kept in every home where there are young children. There is no other medicine as good and the mother has the guar- antee of a. government analyst that they are absolutely safe. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The 1)r. Medicine Co', Brockville, Ont. Author of "Annie Laurie." THE PILOT SNAKE. "Annie Laurie," according to the generally accepted story, was writteu by a soldier in Flanders to his lady- love at home, The writer was William Douglas, and Annie lea.urie was one of the lour daughters of Sir Robert. Laurie of Mawelton. Sad to relate, says the London Chronicle, Anuie did not marry her ardent lover. Some say Douglas wale killed in Viandere, but at all events Annie was led to the al- tar in 1700 by Alexauder Ferguson, of Craigdaroch. se. BE 'FAMOUS PRONOUNS EP The Gaane of Life. Life becomes, as .the stoics more than once tell us, like a play which Is acted or a game played with coun- ters. Viewed from ihe outside, these counters are valueless, but to those engaged in the game their importance Is paramount. What really and ulti- mately Matters is that the game shall be played as it should be played. God, the eternal dramatist, has cost you for some part in his drama and 'hands you the role. It Ma,y then out that you are cast for a triumphant king. It may be fora slave who dies of tor- ture. What does that matter to the good actor? HO can play either part. His only business is to ticeept the role given him and to perform it Well. * * Success or failure is a thing he can de- termine Without stirring a hand. It hardly interests him. What interests hita is that one thing which he eannot determine -the actiori of your tree and COntiCiOus Will. -Gilbert Murray. IviinardIe Liniment Cures Burns, Etc, Construction of Big Guns, The Makieg of a big gun involves as much intricate Work as the putting to- gether of a loeometiVe or a giant crane. A twelve inch gun on board a battleship if fifty feet in length, and has an. extreine ralige of 25 miles, and an effective range of twelve miles. There is a vast =bunt of intricate and delicate trained workmanship wanted in the finish of a giant Can- non. Iror example,. Says a writer in the Millgate Monthly, the breech block has to undergo eighteen or twenty ma- ehinitigs, And all the medley of medh. anism necessary to enable the ponder- ous MAAS of ordnance to move to the right or left or up or down at a touch from the naval gunners is being built up together at the same time as the Work proceeds on the gun itself. FOr ten% Of the smaller grins no fewer than 650 mathininge are netersearY befors the weapons aro ready for nee. 1 LN(1 AND. ARE REPRODUCE.° 41 THE HEW AT STONEWARE NOW ON VIEW AT ROBERT 62 King ROWS St. East HAMILTON, ONT. Giant and Dwarf Honey Bees. In some of the East Indian Ielands and on the mainland of Hindustan are to be fcund the smallest species of honey bees in the world. These dwarf honey collectors are known to entomologists an Allis florea. Their honeycombe are no longer than a child's hand and the cells are about the size of a small pin head. This honey is excellent, as is the wax. The little creatures build the comb on the branch of a low tree, and ea they have not to provide for winter they work ail the year through, ra'sin.g broods like themselves. In the same land there is a species of giant bees, Apis dorsata, as large as a field tricket. These monsters of the bee world build Innieycombs that are from six to seven feet in length; four or more in width, and weigh from 300 to 400 pounds each. ••••-•45-4.• Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff, ' 4. Light of the Fiiefly. Probably an' kir back an 1723 it was known that the luminorei parts of fire- flies, glowworms, ate., could be dried and preserved out of cootact with the air for considerable periods without losing their light giving power. In late years it has been possible to prove this permanence of the light giving power for at least eighteen months. Kaetle and McDermitt were able, upon open- ing tubo e containing the luminous or- gans of the common firefly preserved in hydrogen or a vacuum, to obtain quite a brilliant light by simply mois- tening with water. The light was in- creased when hydrogen peroxide re- plaeed water. IIowevet, scientiets have yet to discover the firefly's secret of prOducing light without heat, 4 • The man who has a great opinion ot himself isn't always it good judge et human nature, Ife.is a Bold Burglar, and Birds Are His Chief Victims. 8SUE."-WfV.1131. 1916 HELP WANTIM, geoW••••04.04",•~00~4•WWW,"•"••••"•,..W004 ex7ANTEP-GIRLO TO WORK ON 1/V kult underwear-es/earners and tins Jeltee slitchere preferree. We also teach kernel% any givi with good knowledge of plain seWing; good wages; ideal fed^ tore' conditions. Zimmerman Aeanufuee tering Co., Ltd., AberclOen mut itiartle streeta Hamilton, Ont. WANTED IIOUSEINALDO ANP waltreafee, Vrevic!tis eeperience not necessary. Apply, "nlee Wellana", Se. Catharines, Ontario. MI$CELLAN goys. WANTE1D-QIRLS OF 00014 EDVOlk. Om to train for nurse*. Ampie, Wellandra Hoereeet st cetharinee. ont, PBBSONAL. $25,00a1iwARD WILL Bla PAID coneltionally, where Creole fella to prevent A.ppendicitle. Positive cure for Indigestion, Constipation Dys- Pensia. Write for partieulars and testi- monials. John Galbraith, 91. Cronyn A.ve., Tarmac.. Maybe you've been in the woods some day cad heard a eqUawking and fluttering in a tree over your head. You look and see a pair of frightened birds darting this way and that about their mot on a limb. You look closer, and you see a long, black t3nake creep- ing along the limb to the nest. In a minute he will have devoured the young birds or eggo in the nest and then stretch out on the limb for his afternoon nap. The name of this rob- ber is the pilot 'snake. He's one of the boldest burglars among our snakes, and birds are his principal victims, He ca.n climb trees, clamber over buohes and race over the ground with equal speed. He grown to be from four* to six feet long, arid in the woods he looks terrible, but he isn't, He's entirely nonvenomous, and lie doesn't "charm" bird's, as many people begeve. It may be that a bird will become so frightened at seeing one et these reptiles attacking her nest that elle will become virtually helpless. But an for charm, that's all a myth. The Pilot snake damn' t neea to charm his prey. He's too good a climber. Often the pilot mike is mistaken for tito blacksnake. The latter has a white throat and. is bluish rather than black. The young pilot snake hes. white spot. In addition to birds and eggs, it °ate insects and even smalt animals. It will climb a tree and crawl into a squirrel's ne3t to devour the young equirrels.-Our Dumb Ant - male. DRS. SOPER & WHITE SPCIAUSTS Pues„Eazeme, Althma, Oalarrh. Pimples, Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, heurnatism, akin, Ktd., nee, Bleedi Nerve and Bladder Diseases, CR1 I at Stlid lettere ler tire eariet, etediriee furnished in tablet form. Pours -10 a.m. to 1 p.m, tuid 8 to a p.m. 8uattays-10 J.n. tCP 1 lette 4 Consultation Fete . Doa, OPE R i %Ware ti Tomes it,, Tfirtnith Oct. • - as. - saes) Menet Mention filit Pape, ' v.— • Gi LS WANTED Exaorlenced knitters and loop. ers, also young [lids to learn, Clean work and highest wages, CHIPMAN-HOLTON KNITTING CO., LIMITED, ati.:.-11,T0N, ONTARIO. tiuMX.R.M1.11.101/11,111111111.11,11. RABBI -TS FOR SALE. D CPUS RED BELGIAN HARES; AI" Orey Flemish Giants. Fully edl, greed, All ages, D. C. 'Waters, 175 Jackson street west, Hamilton, Ont. FOR SALE. ee, Tho Cause of Ipp,andicitis Low llefin;tely Knoto The commonest calm of appendici- tis is constipation. Every doctor says so. When you require physic, don't use a cheap, drastic pill -get Dr. Ham- ilton's Pills, which axe made from -the rrivate formula. of 011G of the greatest physicians. Dr. Hamilton's Pills strengthen the stomach, regulate the bowels and prevent any tendency to appendicitis. In one day you feel the tremendous benefit of Dr. Hamilton'a nis. Byperil:eine.; the blood and cleansing the system they prevent headaches, lift depressien and drive away wcariftess. No medicine so suc- cessrul as Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Sold everywhere in 25e boxes, with yellow cover; get the genuine, roar. hi I nerd's Lin! me n t for sale everywhere The Miserable Moors. The lives lived by the Moors are -without perhaps any exception the Wet precarious and miserable that can be imagined. The poor man is thrown into prIsen for sums he never possessed and can never pay, the TICII to be squeezed of all he po4sesses, while those only can hope to escape who are members Of fattillies suffi- ciently poWerfut to arouse the fears of the loeal 'governor should he at- tempt eatortion and not sufficiently powerful to stir up the avarice of the sultan. Dven the governors of the provinces suffer themselves as they make others =lifter, for just as they squeeze the agricalturist and the 'peanut so are they itt turn squeezed by the sultan and hie viziers and slieuld they fail by conetant preserga to Maintain a good opinion at the court they am ex- pect only imprisonment and often death. "Is he eenceited?" "Very. I'll bet at times he even wonders; how heaven la getting Meng Without him." -De- troit Vroo Press. OR sAe,ie-PLANING SAW AND a: Chop Mill; doing good business; also motor truck, 1 1-4 ton capacity, la No. 1 er.ndition. AF,Tply to John McOormick, Lawrence Station, Ont. Anaesthetic for the Teeth Wanted. There in no local eameethetic that will penetrate dentine, -which forms tho principal Part of a tooth. That le Why dentists hurt teeth so much when drilling holes in them for fillings or when grinding them down for gold crowns. Any one who will invent something that can be put on a tooth to render it inseneitive for ten min- utes without injuring it has a fortune awaiting him. Cocaine and novbcaine, which are iteed as local anaesthetics in other Parts of the body, have no etfect upon the teeth, an they cannot penetrate the hard tissue of which these aro com- posed. An Old Alarm Olook, At Schramberg, in the Black Forear, there is a respectable alarm cloak that -warned sleepers it was thne to get up when Charles I. was King of England. This was made in 1680, and it is deem- ed a remarkable piece of workman- ship. Itt form it resembles a lantern wLerein is a lighted candle, the wick of which is automatically clipped every minute by it pair of scissors. The candle is slowly pushed .upward by a spring, which also controls the mechanism of the clock, and at the required hour or waking an alarm is sounded, and at the same time the movable sides of the lantern fall and the room is flooded with light. ramtrarlaa We believe MINARD'S LINIMENT is the best: Mathias Foley, Oil City, Ont. Joseph Snow, Norway, Me. Charles Whooten, Mulgrave, N.S. Rev. R: 0. Armstrong, Mulgrave, N.S Pierre Landers, sen., Pokemouche, N.B. A Shabby Royalyalmoe. The Persian royal palace is a inost unattractive place. The courts aro filled with painted pictures of cast Iran itt a kind of operatic Romeo's costume and with boys of gilt iron of- fering vermillion cups to gilt eagles. The tanks are stagnant and shabby, the gardens neglected. The rooms are horrible even for one of those monuments of bad taste •called royal Palaces; the walls are covered with mirrors, and a decoration made of small pieces of mirror set in elabor- ate patterns, the effect reminding one of a wedding cake. The furniture is without exception European, of poor quality and worse taste; there is not a single one of those exquisite works of • Persian .art which in the collect- ions of Europe arouse enthusiasm - pot so much as it fine carpet. Neither the famous peacock throne -so long erreneouely thought to be the one built for (he grcat•moghal and looted by Nadir Shah -nor any of the jew- els are now exhibited. Local gossip believes them to have been broken up and sold 'in Europe by the ',present government. -"From Moscow to the Persian Gulf," a a feinerd's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. Ancient Portent Solved. The "Woe Water" at Croydon, Surrey, otherwise known as the Bourne. Plow, Le for the fifth succes- ive year running down the Caterliam Vulley between Whiteleafe and Pur- ley. The history of these visitations, extending over 600 years, gives an average interval ed about five years between them, In ancient days the Flow was regarded as a mysterious portent of "death or pestilence, or great battle," to quote a chronicler of 1473. The prosaic explanation is the flooding of underground water chan- nels. Are You For "Pre- paredness"? The best preparedness for man or woman is the preparedness that comes from living in harmony with law. In Sum- mer cut out the heavy foods that tax bodily strength and vigor. Eat Shredded Wheat Biseult, the food that con- tains all the body-building material in the whole wheat grain in a digestible form. Ivor breakfast or luncheon with berries or other fruits. Made in Canada