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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-10-05, Page 6C===11 PROHIBITION FIGURES. The Province of Ontario le lure un- der a prohibitory law for Cue. duration ef the war. It came quietly into force last Saturday night, and We be- lieve that there is a desire on the part of the public to give it afair trial and we also believe that the On- tario License Commission will do its best to have its provisions observed. Only in this way can a fair estimate of its worth be obtained. The whole of Canada is more or less under pro- hibition. We are in4ebtee:1 to the Pioneer for some figures on the ques- tion, The following table gives the lest dates on which it was, or will be, lawful to sell liquor by retail in, the different parts of the Dominion of Canada: Prince Edward Island .. .1901 Saskatchewan -June 30th, 1915 Ivianitoba , . ..May 31st, 1916 Nova Scotia • -June 29th, 1916 Alberta .... .... -June 30t1t, 1916 Ontario ... Sept. 16th, 1916 New Brunswick April 30th, 1917 Britisn Celumbia June 30th, .1917 Yukon Territory.. July 18th, 1917 Quebec, as a Province, has passed no prohibitory law, but twe-thirda of the Province are under lutal op -on, The prohibition includes all Ivan liquor selling, except in feaskatche- wan, in which there are eti.l twenty Government -operated liquor shops. Newfoundland also will finieh up her licensed liquor -selling on December 31st, 1916, It le anticipated that perhaps twens ty licenses will be granted manufac- turers of native wines under Section 44 of the Ontario Temperance Act, The Board of Commissioners has de- cided that before licenses are granted a member of the Ontario License Board will visit every place of maim - facture. The board takes the stand that th,,, provision made in the Ontario Tem Pere.nce Act extending special privi- leges to the makers ot eat:, c wines from Ontario -grown grapes was put there to assist the grape -growing in- dustry, and that the manufacturer of native wines who sells a product that Is not entirely made of home-grown grapes is not complying with the epir- it of the law. "We propose to see that native wines sold in the province are raanu, lectured from Ontario grapes and On- tario grapes only." said Chairman Flavelle. "I have been teed that there are some makers who bring in cheap wine in bulk from outside the province, and. b y mixing in a, small proportion of Ontario grapes hope to come within the law. Firms of that type will not receive licenses from this board." A Parliamentary return issued by the British Government embodies sta-f tisties showing the number of con- vietions for drunkenness during the first six months of 3916, and the_ areas brought under partial prohibi- tion as compared with the areas in the same districts for the first six months of 1915. The Board of Con- trol area is now taking up a great deal of England and a considerable part ofa Scotland. Here is the statement: ENGLAND. Weekly.Age District 1915 1916 Greater Landon 1,077 569 Liverpool. .. .. 207 107 Manchester 80 49 Newcastle ... 63 37 Birmingham .. 37 24 Leeds .. 24 10 Sheffield ..., .. 22 11 Middleborough .. 27 30 Gateshead s. 21. 12 SCOTLAND. Edinburgh .. .. 120 79 Glasgow ......... .. 522 233 Dundee .. .. 70 48 Aberdeen ...... 42 28 Reports from the Northwest of Can- ada are to the efect that the ar- rests for drunkenness have decreased since prohibition came into force. A. new summing up of the State prohibition Situation in the 'United States by the Amethyst, the organ of the United States Presbyterian Board of Temperance, is in the following form: There are 18 Prohibition States and the nineteenth, Wein/a, will be add- ed November 21, 1916, Of these 19 States 32 became dry by laminar vote. The record is as follows: • POPULAR VOTE. State Date Mee they Arieons, .... „Jan. 1, 1915 3,144 Colorado.......Jan. 1, 1916 31,572 Kansas „Nov. 23, 1880 7,998 North Carolina.. .Tan. 1, 1909 44,190 South Carolina Dec. 31, 19:5 24,926 North Dakota .. Nov. 2, 1889 1.159 Oklahoma .. 3907 18,103 Oregon MY di 11 ..Jan. 1, 1016 36.480 Virginia, - -Nov. 1, 1916 30,365 Washington .. .. Jan. 1, 1016 18,632 West Virginia Jan. 1, 1914 92,342 Maine .• • ....1884 41,9/2 BY LEGISLATIVE ACT. Alabama .... ....Slily 1, 1915 Arkansas • • . -San. 3, 1916 Georgia, .. .. ....Jan. 1,1908 Idaho rr yr r•r• •• •Jan. 1, 1916 Iowa -Jan. 1, 1916 -Dec. 31, 1908 • • .. ...)ulyt I, 1900 New Produtt From Seaweed. Algin is a new produet made from seaweed, the diseovery of which le an- tionticed from Liverpool, and for algin many valuable qualities are claimed. It is lifted in the treatment of paper to make the latter proof meatiest the ae- tion of germs, Water and name. and it Is aTecs used in the maintfleture of a non-inflardinable film for moving pic- ture purposea. The ratio of 0°1er-bl1nd people .to thoee of normal sight is about 65 to le 154. Tilde dere not mean that all of the 65 are absolutely color-blind, but that that le the ratio of those who are rnore less affected, amomoimmoormiral LOVER Signe shakes her bend. Ile takes her band and theme her to the wiudow, "Loelt there," he says, with a quaint air of anticipating her 'surprise; and Signe, utters an exclamation of aoton- ielnuent, Below her lies the valley, With its river running down to the sea, which rens on to the meat; in gleaming bars of silver foam: but it le not the river, nor the sea, nor tire climbing limbs of noble trees_ which call ter the exclamation, but the ap- parition of a huge mansion Which lies almost at their feet, and which she has hitherto missed. White, almost enaw-white in the moonlight, it seem- ed to float, pliantonelike, amidst the portly waving trees and flowing river. The child laughs gleefully. "I thought you hadn't sc.‘.en It!" says, trimnphantly, "Mose people never guess that it's there. It's a real Place, you know." "So I suppose," says Signa, laugh- ing, "But I pretend it 'suet," says Archie, gravely. "1 pretentl It is filled with knights, and ladies, and men in arne Or." "Instead of widen," says Signe, In- most to herself, "it is probably filled with gentlemen in shooting jackets and ladies in the latest Newmarketsn but softly as she says It, he hare her. "Oh, no, but it isn't!" he e-ys, crowing over her. "It's empty." "Empty!" exclairas Signe, staring at the magnificent pile. And, SS she looks rhe notices that the gardens, ex- quisitely planned as they are, are ly- ing in a state of decay under the ro,00nlight; that there are no lights in the windows; that no sight or sound of living thing is to be seen or neard. She turns with a laugn to the child, who kneels on a chair by her side, with his chin perched on his hands, staring gravely, comically doWn at the house. "So it is, Archie. What a shame!" "Isn't it?" he says. "That's what papa says. He says that the earl -it belongs to an earl, you know -is neg- lecting his duty," with a shrewd imi- tation of the rector's pulpit style-" neglecting his duty and wasting his substance in foreign lands, while Mel house of his fathers is leet to decay," and he eyes Signa with an el- fish gleam in his solemn eyes. Signe struggles with her laughter, but the imitation is too good, and a silvery peal rings like music through the room, causing Archie to start and thrill with apprehension. '"Oh, I forgot," sne says, choking herself, but it was your fault, you wicked, unearthly child. Archie, you must have learnt that by heart. But say -I'm not laughing at you - you mustn't imitate papa; it's very wick- ed." "Is it?" he says, rather carelessly. "I won't do it if you don't like it. I won't do anything you don't like. You must tell me what you like, you know. I with you would let me stay fiere.. I could sleep on that woolly rug, couldn't I?" "No -no," says Signe. "Mamma, would be angry, dear. Come, you must go now. See, I will hold the light. Come," and she takes his hand in ners and opens the door. "Will you stoop down and let me kiss you?" he asks, and she bends own. "Good night, princess," he tlispers solemnly, and Signe, holding the light above her head, sees his white figure disappearing not quickly, but slowly, down the long passage. Then she closes and locks the door and goes to the window. Yes, it is real enough, the vast place with every pillow and window standing out against the background of the trees, and as she looks down at it, all so solitary and silent, she can sympathize with Master Archie's childish dream, and almost feel in- clined to drea.ra herself. "'What a pity" she murmurs. "What an I! diot a man must be to leave a place like this to the moth that de- vours, and to, the rust that decays! An e.arl, the child said; perhaps he has a half dozen such places; at any rate, he has none grander than this. Yes, I can see the weeds on the great gravel path. I wonder now, wheth- er my uncle, the rector, would deem it a great erfine if I ventured to pay a visit of exploration? Archie should accompany me, and we would people the old place to our heart's content." Then she turns from the window, and is about to close it, when a man's voice, singing a scrap of the opera "Carmen" floats upward. With a start, Signe 'draws back and listens; half con- vinced that it was fancy. But after a pause the voice floats up again, and almost against herself she draws the blind aside and looks down. As she does so the song, the scrap of careless song, ceases, but she sees or fancies that she sees, a thadow of men cross the weedy gravel path -and join the other shadows in the shrub- bery. For a moment her blood runs quicker in her veins, then, with a laugh, she drops the blind and turns away, "I'd better go to bed," half -ashamed of the effect the s.udden appearance a life in the old place has produeed co her. "Yes, certainly I had better ao to bed, or, like Archie, 1 shaII be streaming 'big dretime t" CHAPTER M. "The boy stood on the burning deck," "The boy stood on the burn- ing deck," repeats Arehie-, with a yawn. "'Well," Says. Signe, "that .boy has been standing on that burning deck e long time, Archie. Don't you reniene ber any More of it?" And she looks up from the volume of poems- with an eniused "There's seneiething about dead, or fled, or head," says Arehie, "but- I forget exactly what It is. Oh, 1 re- member now! 'The boy stood on the burelug deck, whence all but him had fled.' The-tlie----no! It's no use, Signe; 1 think the sun boo got into my head.' It would be nice down by the shore. The tide is juet wilting in, Don't you Mak the boy Might stand on the burning deek ua tIl ,, And he look e up at her with the quaint gravity that is so muck In ade vance of his years. 4Poithaps he might," say S Signe, glancing out of the window rather wistfully, "Put the books up While fetch my bat and we'll have a scamper." A. week has passed since Signe ar- rived at Northwell Rectory. Look- ing back at the monotonous seen doYs, Signe is iecleined to think that but for Archie ehe would nave been reduced to a state of imbecility like that of Mariana of "The Mortted Grange." Never in all her varied and extend.ed experience, has she knowu what boredom is until now; and but for Arcaie she feels that she must have given up in despair and talten refuge in flight. But Archie has been the saving clause. • "I must do something," she said to the rector on the first morning. "I'm afraid- I shouldn't do much .good to the poor, or be of mirch assistance in looking after the parish, I never know what to say to poor people, and should feel that I had been. guilty of great rudeuess in entering their houses without an invitation, Oh, Ito 1 I am sure I should prove a failure, But T think I can find something to do. I will teach little Archie, it you will let me?" And the rector had coughed and set his book down and looked at Mrs. Podswell, who had moaned faintly and murmured something about the child being very slow and obstinate. "Slow!" echoed Signa, but pulled herself up in time. - "I've lot* of patience," she said; "let me try. We neve struck up an acquaintance, sworn a friendship, indeed, already," The pleasant parents neither said "yea" nor "nay," but Signo, took their incoherent response as a Consent, and assumed the dutiea of A.rchle's guide, mentor and friend at once, much to the unexpressed relief of the rector and his wife, who were only too glad to shift their responsibility. For Signe soon discovered that these worthy people's duty consisted in urg- ing upon other people the duty of hard work, and doing as little as they themselves could help. The "martyr" lay on the sofa all day and scolned the servants, and the rector lounged about the garden, or strolled nine lessly round his parish, and talked ebout "duty" to the curate, a lean end care -worn young gentleman, who welted from morning to night on a salary of something under a handred a year. Signe and her charge lived annoat solitary lives together. An old room was found at the end of the rambling eouse, and converted into a school- room, and here, when they were not walking in the lanes, or clambering about the beach, the two spent their time; putting in an appearance in the dining -room at meal times, It was an admirable arrangement, and it suited all parties concerned, and no one better than Signe herself. With. her uncle and aunt, she was as quiet and silent as the first evening she orrived; but up in that old room overlooking the sea, there were many bursts of song and laughter, which -never reached the gloomy apartments down- stairs. Archie was the companion of all her walks, and chatted to her as he never chatted to any one else, pointing out the celebrities of the village on the Stor, and amusing her with his quaint criticisms on persons and thinge. He poleted out Captain Jenks, the half -pay captain, who used to pro- menade up and down the quay in a Suit of blue serge with brass buttons, and with a telescope under his arm. He also showed her the captain's son, a local Elwell in gaudy costume, who, said Archie, phrewdly, "spends all his time, Signe, leaning over the bar of the hotel; you'll see him if you look In at the door, talking with the young lady behind the bar." But Signe, de- clined. Ile told her..the names of the boatmen sauntering on the beach, or mending their nets, and soon the ebeautifill young miss that Master Archie alters has with him" began to be known, and the Men touched their hats, and the women courtesfed and Captain Jenks made re nautical salute, and young Mr. Jenks stared with all his eyes 'when her back was turned, and blushed and glared at his boots when he met her face to face. And thus the strange girl was getting gradually to be a part and parcel of the place, and -well, if she was net happy, the was at., peace. She was living in One of Archie's enchanted castles for the present, but the thee was Coming when the spell shoald be broken, and how near that time was she little guessed. "There is one thing I like about yen awfully, Signe.," says Archie, as they turn out of the gate and run hand in hand down to the !shore. "You realty Mean it when you say you'll only be minute; now it takes mamnaa half an hour to put her things on, and Miss Piumbe-that's the girl with the red cheeks, the doctor's daughter, you know; We met her yesterday in the High Street, and the whispered to you that I was a singular child; but I heard her." "I remember," says Signe, with a laugh. "You have sharp ears, ..krehie." -"Well, when she cornea to dinner she takes a quarter of an hour to Mite her hat off. I've eoulited the time by the clock. Oh, Signe, let us go. Into, the Grange gardens instead of to the sea," and he stops short in front of Ia pair of tall iron gates that Mend at the entrance to the grass -grown avenue leading to the great white house, which he had shown her in the moonlight. It is net the first time they have steed and looked bo - teen the testy bars, and Signe, had listened to no end of Ardhie'e storlea about the big plate, etories halt and fearfully fabuloos, made up trent snatthea of dinner -table talk lie had heard from hie father, But hitherto they had not ventured beyond the gates, partly iti consequence of Aiehle's hover -ceasing anxiety to get to the beach, end partly because, for some reason too vague to put late words, Signe has avoided mentioning llie inibjeet to the rector. They stated how looking in, AMMO • impatient, Slgna heeitating. "Conte on," he says!, With a teg at her Soft, white Mud, "Let us ge right up to the lime. thew yOu the sundial and the Meet where the Sat, When )10 Wee herseene ;Ogee tild really come and MAY here -papa reMembers 'The last temptation le Irresistible," syu Sign, with atntle: "but, the ;Mee are loeked, Archie." Archie laughs +Sec/Wu11Y. "(at course they are, and w8 couldn't open them it they weren't; they're toe old. and rusty; but I know a place to get le at, 14 Y01111 atoop. I euppose You're not toe tall to etoep very, yery low?" and he Woke at her criticallY. "Let's! see," and he helf (Wigs her to a gap in the hedge, half proteeted by a rough bar of Wood, and histantlY aliPS tinder like a rabbit. "Here I ara, and 1 shen't corae !melt," he flares with a lenge; "eo you'd beet follow., or I ahall think you can't bend!" Signe heeitates another moment, then stOoPE" and passes beneath the bar, Wouldn't it have been better If she had kept straight on ber way, and retused to pass* the boundary -line of Northwell Orange? The Fates alone caa cal, It wee the Rubicon of her young life -and the passed it, "Come ou!" exclaim Anchie: "don't be atraid!" for Signe, stops snort as there flashes to her remembrance the snatch Of "Carmen" that came float- ing up to her window, and the tall shadow that she saW or fancied that she saw, disappear Among the trees, "There's nothing to be afraid of ex- cept the deer, and even a girl can't be afraid of them. See! there they go!" snd he theasvs up his arms an4 scares a herd of deer, that flit acrose the grass -grown avenue, and stand look, ing at the intruders with 'wide-open eyes and Pricked up ears, "Tell me, Arceie," says Signe, as she comes up to hint, and stands to stare at the wide -stretching front of the great empty place, "do deer sing?" "Do -deer-----" and he bursts into a thrill laugh of glee. "Why, what made you ask that, 5igna? Of course not; at least, not out of a fairy book. They do all sorts of things in Fairy- land," "Perhaps this ie Fairyland," said Signe, and I heard. one of them in a fairly good tenor voice einging the air from 'Carraern-I mean from an opera, Archie." The child stares at her with his head on one side, then he goes on with the confidence of a superior mind. "It must have been the gardener," he says "He lives in that lodge there; You can't see it from here, and he sings sometimes, and he plays the concertina." ' Signe laughs. "We'll say it was tile gardener," she asserts carelessly: "Ah, Archie, what a beautiful place!" and she leans ber hand against the stone pier of the broad steps, and puts her hat back with an air of enjoyable admiration. "Isn'tlt?" exclaims Arcnie, as proud as if it belonged to him. "But, come up the steps, Signa -come up and look through the window. Don't be afraid; there's nobody there. See, the lock's all rusted, and there's grass on the stem Papa says that the furniture must be all worm eaten and decaying away. I ehould like to go inside, shouldn't you?" Signe leans on the broad window, sill, and peers through the dirty glass Into a vast hall. "Very much," she admits, "but don't let that tempt you to commit a bur- glary, Archie; you were quite capable of it, I know! Ah! what a pity!" "What a pity It's left like this," he says, in his shrewd, quick way, "Jane It? Signe., do yOU know what I would do if I were Lord Delamere, and Northevell Grange was miner "I can't even guess," she says, tak- ing his hand and wandering round the terrace. "I should marry you, and come to live here," he says, gravely. "You might to worse, Archie," says Signe. "And I'm very much obliged to you. But come along, Archie; nil not quite so hardened as you, and I'm In mortal fear of some one or some- thing appearing on the scene and de- manding our business here. Let us go back into the lane and down to the sea." "Go back!" he laughs, with super- ior knowledge. "We needn't do that. Look here, come with me and I'll take you to the sea in a couple of min- utes." Signe pauses a moment to look back at the wing of the house they have wandered round, then she gives him her hand, and with all due triumph he leads her down a sheltered avenue of shrubs, and suddenly, as if by magic, ehe finds herself_ at the end of a miniature precipice, at the bottom of which lies -a cove of sand all golden in the sunlight, and upen which the green sea is rolling in with a =steal, lapping sound "Mind! Don't fail!" says Archie. There used to be a rail here, but it got rotten, and some one leant on it and tOppled over and broke his arm, and so the gardener took it right away -hot the arm, but the rail. There are some steps here, Give me yonr hand, Don't be afraid," and he drops like a deather on to the first rough step and holds up his tiny paw. 'Under pretense of accepting his as- sistance, Signe, keeps a pretty tight grasp of the small fingers", and they descend to the little sheltered bay, and Archie points up with a laugh, "See, the Grange has disappeared, Signe. Nobody woeld- ever guess it was there, would they? They say the earl -this one's father -had this cut out of the rock so that he could conae and get into his boat without beteg seen from the house, and row over to the town, I don't know what for; but papa said that he was a wicked old man. Now you salt down; I dare say you're tired. Girls always get tired, don't they? And I'll jest build a eastle with a meat round it. Would yOu lend me your sunshade for a spade? I Won't hhrt it; sand comes off quite easy," Signe looks at the sunshade for a second. then teases It ti nim with a laugh, and eurling herself up in a center its and dreams, her hands felded idly in her lap, her hat fYing 'on the pebbles beside her, her eyea fixed on the distant horizon. Half an hour pass; Archie has erected a huge mound of sand surrounded by a atrial; the sunshade .is irretrievablY ruined; his boats and stockings are Wet; be Is inipreniely atid ecstatically happy. Signet, has been erecting her castle, and it is as Unsubstantial sie Arthie's. Half necensciouele, the sight of the deeerted house has entered into her fairy Visions and she has been Weaving a tents:Ale bletery Of the oweer. (To be continued.) . The Man wilt Strains at a gnat and wallows a camel would eltoke on a fish. bone and sevallow a fish Store` Whole. Teadhene-Tominy, ma YOU spell "fur?"? Thomas --Yee, sir Teacher -That's right. NeYW can you tell me What fur le? 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Nerviline is sold by every dealer, everywhere. c About the U. S. Presidents. The religious connections of the preeidents of the United States have been as follows: Episcopalian -- Washington, Madi- son, Monroe, W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce and Arthur. Presbyterian -Jackson, Polk, Buch- anan, Lincoln, .Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Wilson. • Methodist-Johneon, Grant, Hayes, McKinley: Reformed -Van Buren, Roosevelt. 'Unitarian -John Adams, John Quin- ey Adams, Fillmroe, Taft. . Discipies-Garfield. Thomas Jefferson was not a sectar- ian, but his biographer says that he was a believer. President Johnson was not a church Member, but attended the Methodist church, of which his wife was a member. . Three presidents of the United States have been Harvard men, the eidames and Roosevelt. Two bave been PrincetOn, Madison and Wilson. Jefferson, Monroe and John Tyler were from William and Mary. Polk was graduated front the University of North .Carolitta, Pierce from Bowdoin, Buchanan front Dickinson, Hayes from Kenyon, Garfield from Williams, Arthur from Union, Taft from Yale. Although there have been several sol- diers elected to the presidency because of their military achievements,- Grant Is the only West Point graduate.- SyracuSe Post Standard. Frozen Food in Siberia. The markets of Irkutsk, in Siberia, are an interesting eight, for the pro - dude offered for sale aro :n mOst cases frozen sone. Fish are piled up in Wicks like so much cordwood, and meat likewise. All kinds of fowl are similarly frozen and piled up. Some auintals brought ieto the market whole are propped up on their legs and have the appearance of being actually alive, and as one goes through the markets one seems to be surround- ed by Jiving pigs, eheep, oxen end fowls standing up, But, stranger yet, even the liquids are frozen meld and sold in blocks. 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Add to these oysters ot Marenne, Careale and Arcachon, fowls of Breese, trout front the Doube, and "stre- nouilles"-frogs. Verdun, -where the great battle rages, is noted for coated almonds; Nancy, of war fame, for macaroces; Chartres and Nerac, for pates. Among the specialties in French fruits and vegetables are Agen prunes, Montmorency cherries and Fontein- bleau white grapes. Isigny butter, Rheims biscuits, Arles end Lyons "saueissons," Canaillon melons, La Garde chestnuts, Argen- teuil asparagus, Chateau- Briand An- gelicas, Soissons haricot beans an.; Bar -le -Duo jams are among the table focds prized in war-torn France. PILES 'CURED AT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD If you suffer froth bleeding, itching, blind or p:otruding Piles, send me your address, and I will tell yoa how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with refereeces from your own locality, if requested. im- mediate relief and permanent cure as- sured. Send no money, but toll oth- ers of this offer. Write to -day to Mrs. M. Summers, Box P. 8, Windsor, Ont. 4.0 Absolute Reality. What does our science, so sublime .compared with the frailty of cur Means, so contemptible in the fact of the boundless spaces of the unknown, what does our science know of abso- lute reality? Nothing. The world in- tereets us only because of the ideas -which we form of it. Retneve the idea and everything becomes sterile, chaos, enipty nothingnesa, An Omni= gatii- erune Of facts is not knowledge, but at most a Cold catalogue which we must thaw and quicken at !he fire of the raind; we must introduce thought and the light of reason; we must interpret -Febre. FOR THE FARMERS Many Attractive Prizes for ranters Only, at the SEVENDI ANNUAL TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW UNION STOCK YARDS, DECEMBER 8th and 9th, 1916 Prize List on App!icatio-ri to the Secretary Union Stock Yards, Toronto .„ teirleoit eNpeavvel mYeenrak:. Here are a few an eeheolchilaren'e "howleni" aro provided by recent examination pap- whAerellatelUirrepl8e lalvelasrfe eillPtY si)"° net Marry a woman out Df fenOther In India. a Man out of a cask MO aicoieAttreustOlagrie "ratipOiWlem 071/ : X4 . 0 Aluerle1 Maine gave Lanneelot an omelet be- Xere be departed for the toUrilanlent, He sueceeded because lie had entry Price (enterpriee). Tennison wrote "In iViemoranduna," Parallel lines are the same distance alal dte.110 Way and do not meet unlees you bend them. two sides. mThe qqatificatierie for citizenship are that you must be neutral born or An angle la 4 triangle with only Gravitation is that wliich it there were none we should all fly away. thije°Puirsen4c1r. ItelvmsolUtigonel.atIned "ri" A 1nountain range is a large steed cook (cooking) stove. Horsepower is the distance one horse can carry a pound of water in anGhuoeurirlia, Warfare is where men ride on guerillas, Have a Good Complexion! The Flower of Good Health The true secret of complexion lies in the blood Keep it rich, pure, nutri- tious, and, above all, keep the system regular. No aid to complexion com- pares with Dr, Hamilton's Pills. They tone and enrich the blood, clear the system of waste products, promote good digestion, and, in short, establish sound health, which, after all, is the keynote to all happiness and well-be- ing. Don't delay: the charm of a lovely complexion and all the bless- ingof health are yours, ,once you em- ploy this old-time family remedy. All dealers sell Hamilton's Pills in 25c boxes, Pith of the Sunflower Stalk. The sunflower is cultivated to a con, siderable extent in Central Russia, where every part of the plant Is put to certain economic uses. The disec,very of the extreme lightnese of the pith of tho stalks essentially increased the commercial value of the plant. This light cellular substance is now care- fully removed from the stalk and ap- plied to a good many Important Pres. One of its chief uses is the making of life-saving appliances. Cork with a buoyancy of one to five and reindeer's hair with one to ten has been used. The pith of the sunflower has a buoy- ancy of one to thirty-five, Th3 latter cart be used advantageously in the construction of boats and life pre- servers. .A sufficient quantity can he worn on a person without any fawn- venience, The pith of the larger sun- flower stalks is used extensively as a substitute for other materials former- ly employed in making moxas for cauterizing purposes. -London Mail. • • a Minard's Liniment Cures Ciphtherla, Moorish America. What kind of people do live in South America? The Spanish, the Portu- guese, but chiefly the descendants of these European races who have inter- married with the Indians. Other na- tions have made lesser contributions. Brazil, which is only a few days by steamer from West Africa, is one-third negro, the crudest ‚type of negro on the American hemisphere. There is a strong naarke of the Moor upon the Spaniard. The Arabic Moor wrought his customs very deeply into the life of Spain. The people of Mexico and Cuba might be called Moorish Ameri- cans rather than Latin Americans. The customs, manners and heart expe- riences in these people of Latin Amer- ica are more Moorish than Christian, more Moslem, more Arabic than Span - isle -World Outlook. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. • • a Romance of a, 'Railway. The Uganda railway possesses a his- tory unrivaled for romance. Nat only does It run through wild jungle, tra- verse lofty viaducts thrown across deep gorges and climb mountain pass. es to a height of 8,300 feet, but in its early days it received far too Many unwelcome attentions from the na- tives. It was found that coils of tele- graph wire became quite the rage in feminine fashions, while in the hands of sturdy warriors bolts and nuts be- came formidable weapons. The floods of the rainy season are now the only untoward occurrences that break the ordinary routine of the line. -London Chronicle. 40• 4 - Sore Absolutely Painless • Corn Go! No cutting, no plea- ters or pads to press the sore spot. Putnam's Extractor Makes the corn go Without pain. Takes out the sting oVernight. Never falls - leaves no sear. Get a 2.6c bottle of Putnam's Corn Extractor today. - POLISHED RICE Is Said to be Cause of the Dreaded Beri-Beri. Recent investigations are said to leave no doubt that that terrible male ady, bernberi, is due to eating polish-. ed nee. The outer covering of the grain contains a principle inimical to the disease Science hae not succeeded in definitely establishing its identity, but regards it as an orgaele base which exists also in the yolk of an egg, beana, barley and, perhaps, yineapsten .a While but a minute quantity of it Is required to fortify the system against neuritis. that amount is de - elated to be absolutely essential, and rice -eating people, therefore, and sub- ject to beri-beri in case the outer toy - ening of the ride which contains this ib prciple is renioveti, as it is, in the, polishing Process. A quality of this principle, Net dirt. eovered, is that it is destroyed when eubinitted to it temperature of 120 deg, Ceritigra,de, or above. It thus appears that perfectly safe Hoe May be de - paved of its neuritis-preventleg qual- ity *when eooked under steam preeeure, as is freqUently done When the rega- .,.. HELP WANTED. ANTZ1)-G1i't1,48 TO WORK ON IV knit unclitrwear-seatners au4 flt;^ WWI stilettos preforro4. We also teacit learners, Athy girl with good It-1101'00dg* ,of Plain sowing; peel 'Wages; itlea4 Wk. wee' eenditione. eirnmerman elanufeen twine Co,, Ltd., Aberesen a I entrte "arson efamitton, Ont. WANTED - 1-10TIEIETAAII)0 AND Maitre:num Prevlous orporienee not necessary. Areely, "'rile Weiland". St, Cathartues, Ontarto- M I EC Et.LAN ECUS. virovu&-Tior itavo. vire - Wellan ra Hoer tsl; sr thermos. LADIES WANTED. 1110 1:10 PLAIN AND LIGET 3111 W- .1. Ing at home, whole or :mere time; good pay; work sent any dlotance; charg- es paid. Send stamp for Particulars. National Manufacturing Company, Morn treat, GIRLS WANTED Exeerlenced IcnIttere and Soap. ere, oleo young girls to learn. Clean work and hIgheat wages, CHIPMAN-HOLTON KNITTING CO., LIMITED, IIA-e,TON, ONTARIO. 00.••••••••••=ymamilkm• tar preparation of large quantities is necessary. There are forms of neuritis called beriberi which occur where rice is no Part of the diet. They may result from alcohol, lead, arsenie and vari- ous bacteria. They are sometinaes the result of a diet that is not well bal- anced. Whether 'they are true beri- beri, science has not yet definitely es- tablished. There is no longer any doubt, how ever, that the typical disease is caused both in man and fowls, by the con- sumption of polished rice. Scientists Insist that its ravages In civilized countries would be vastly wider. did not other foods contain tee principle which we eliminate from rice to make the grain more sightly. n111122=31615111111EIEMINIIIIIMIIIIIIIMII ANTIQUE FURNITURE FINE CHINA, GLASS AND ART GOODS 1Ve certainly nataie no mistake in this combination. Our faith in the liberal spirit, refinement of taste and broad-minded appreelation of the citi- zens of Hamilton, the surrounding cities and towne, has o.lready proved that our faith was not misplaced. New goods now arriving will challenge comparison with the best shown in Canada, ROBERT JUNOR 64 KING ST. E. SOUTH SIDE Hamilton, Ont. THE HOUSE FOR GIFTS, Origin of the Name Siberia. In 1582 Yermak, a Cossack chief- tain, with a band of warriors "chosen for tneir bravery rather than for their morality," set out to chastise and sub- due e powerful Tartar tribe east of elle Ural Mountains. When Czar Ivan IV. heard of it he was badly frightened. for he feared to stir up the fierce Tar- tars. He frantically sent orders for the expedition to return. But it •vas too late. Yermak and his men had al- ready crossed the mountains. When they approached the city of Sibir, the stronghold of the Tartar chief they found an arnly thirty times as large as their own awaiting them. But. they were far batter equipped witli arms and ammunition than were the Tar- tars and administered to them a crush- ing defeat. Sibir was captured and be- came the nucleus of the expansion of the Russian empire in Asia, giving its name to the new country -Siberia. 0 I, 0, Minard's Liniment •Cures Distemper. Geordie and the German Bullet. Two Tyneside pitmen in the North- umberland Fusiliers were doing fa- tigue work behind the lines when a stray bullet thanced to hit one, going right through his hand and lodging itself in the thigh of the other. In hospital their "Wounds were attended to, and as ie the case when a bullet is extracted from a soldier the doctor in- variably returne it to his patient as a keepsake. Unfortunately, in this in- stance this practice nearly ended in a free fight. Joe said: "Way, I we hit first; the 'bullet passed through ma hand first, so I shud hev the bullet!" Hie "pal" Geordie replied, with a rue- ful look at hie wounded thigh: "Aye, iyek.ewor hit first right eneuf; but I stopped her. If ye wanted the bullet, why did ye not keep it, man, when ye had It ?'i -Newcastle 'Weekly Chron- 4 - * A. man is indeed lucky who can fall from graee and strike a soft thing. - Detroit Journal, A Real "Peach Coh. bier "-Not a soggy, doughy, inedible combin- ation, but a crisp, tasty, easily -digested dish of whole wheat with peaches and cream. Cover one or more Shredded Wheat Biscuits with sliced peaches and then pour cream over them. Nothing so appetizing and satisfying and nothing so easy to prepare. 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