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The Wingham Advance, 1916-10-19, Page 6•111. • It is Bahl that Cottat Z'1a a i ssor to deetroy 1 ondon Jars,ip bonthardment or die in tii! att‘sapt. The man is either crazy or a bhesk- licartea vil'ain. If he ever ialln iato the hands of the Britieli we hope that they 'will hang Win. The folowing table lihowluz the in- treaseed eeat of foodstuffs is given by Bradstreet's agency. They me the Wholcsalo P3 on the Montral mark. ts: 19 ' I. 19 6. bloat' . • $5 1,9.10 Butter .. . :11 37 Cheese .• • • • • • 21 Egsss ....... 38 Potatoes .. 61 1.70 licans ....... 3.45 6.00 'rile retail prices go up in synr, athy. with these. 4 • • The following table gives the date of the firet day of prolilliltion in each O f those provinces: Prince Edward Island....June 4, 1901 Saskatchewan -July 1, 1916 • Manitoba ..June 1. 1916 Nova Scotia.. .... ...Tune 30. 1919 .Alberta . ....July 1, 1916 Ontario .... ..Sept. 17. "9'0 New Brunswick . Mal% 1, '9'7 British Columbia .Jus 1, 1917 The Duke of Devonshire, ur ceethig Governor-General, WAG preessntrd by the Freemasons cf Derby the other day with eilver-gilt replicas of the Warwick Vace and of an Armada wine jug. In acknowledgment of theca gifts the Duke said: No one was more conecious than himself of he lack of the qualifica- tions neeasary to one who would fol- low in the footeteps of the very dis- tinguished men who had already filled the otLce of Governor-General of Can- ada, It was a taek which required nerve and courage, but with .the good will of his friends at home and the hope of a friendly reception in Cane Se he trusted that he would have the etreagth and good sense to make the ! most of the opportunities that wcre placed in his hands. We were peesing through anxioue and seriore timce, but out of all that was sad and all that was terrible he hoped gocd wcald come, and that we ehould go forth resolved and determined not to allow the outrage which Germany had per- petuated on humanity to be repeated. That.wae the message which he knew he should be justified in taking from the Mother Country to Canada, of whose generous ehare in the war Eng- land wee justly proud. EVERY MAN NEEDED. "We are not Justified in expectino to win the war unless the service of every man and woman in the country be utilized to the fullest extent. 'We must be under no delusion as to the end or probable durat'on of this great struggle. We must be pre- pared to continue for a time which cannot at present be estimated. "In fact, we must prepare for the worst while we hope for the best. We have adopted In theory the principla of national service. We must see that we put it Into practice, because we avant more men, and we want them now, and eventually we shall want all 'who can be sparecie' This was the statement publicly made yesterday by Gen. Sir Wtlliam Robertson, chief of the Imperial • of the British army, at thelVer Osfice. • The General is the one mat who eon- trols all' the British ferns on • all 'rents. In his hands is the disposi- tion of the British troops. Other men may enlist and organize and drill. He is the man who directs and places them as the exigencies of the war may require. He tells the whole Empire that we need not expect to win the war *unless every man and woman in the country Is utilized to the fullest extent. .He wants more men and he wants them now, both for the army and for the munition factories. T t seenne _hard to think that, after all the eacrifices the people of Britain have made, that.they should be asked to inake'eniore. -Buti we believe that they will snake them that they will go the whole .way until victory is achieved. But the call comes to us as well, as te them. It locks like folly . to see bodies of men declaring against con- scription and even against registra- tion in the face of the crisis that confronts the country, for assuredly Canada is in more. %longer than is Britain should this war be lost. It mould be to the eternal infamy of Canada should it, slacken its hand in this struggle and allow free pecplee to be ground te the dust. The man is a coward, we ea 'e not who he is, who will refuse. lc light for his own home and hie awn This war is a struggle to the death for these very things, no .matter how ono looks at them. Eligible s•oting men may walk the street, heedlees of the fingser of scorn pointed at them, but they do so only by reason of the Pritish fleet, which prevents Gerrean slip:, and German soldiers from rsach- ing Canada, Natiosal servic3 is not cciiscription as it is understood on the continent. National service cnly means the calling up in a crisis of every available man to flatt for his own country when it is in porn, Sir Thomas Tait and hiscillekoies cannot too poen get to WA1 It f lade 13 to respond to the apfiestl or Gen. Robertson, Soindhing onslit t be clone to plaee wailful in lair noleidon factories so that eligible youn3 can be released for nerviee fbroR1. N, belt -hearted aneasureliMild be toler- ated, Fine linena and all pieces of hand - acme lingerie shOuld'be Wrung Oat by hand and never through a Wringet. HER HUMBLE LOVER "Pray don't apologize. Delamere him- self would be anything but offended by your curiosity. Is lie so bad as he le painted? I suppose not, It all de- pends upon how black the village folk have painted his portrait; but, to be truthful, an artist would need a quan- tity of dark color on hie palette." "I understand," says Signe, thought- fully, and admiring the delicate way In which the speaker has answered her. "Lord Delamere is -not juet quite as bad as he is painted." "Exactly," he says. "No ono is, you know." "And why don he not come home and live in this beautiful place?" she asks. "But I beg your pardon once more. Perhaps you never asked him?" Indeed, but I have," he says, thoughtfully. "I don't think he himself knew. Do you remember the legend of the man who could not rest in tlae carne place for more than twenty-four hours? It is a Plemieh legend -there are many good Flemish stories, by the way. The story goes that he could not live mikes he took a strange draught Of water drawn from a fresh town or village each day. I fancy Lord Dela- mere is like that man; he must have a draught from a strange spring each 'day." "What an unhappy man Ile must be!" says Signe. "Very," he aesents, laconically. "And where in he now?" aske Signe, thoughtlessly. The stranger shrugs his shoulders. "I don't think any of his friends know. His last date was Cairo, I be- lieve. He may be now -anywhere. Per- haps I could find cut—" "Oh, no, no," says Signe, earnestly; then she laughs. "Your rebuke was well deserved," she says, with a flush. "I have allowed myself to appear un- warrantably curious." "No," he says, in his decided fash- ion, "by no means. The old place at the back of us interested you, and from it to the owner was an easy step. And now, may I ask a question?" "You may if you like," says Signe, looking down at the handsome face with a smile in her gray eyes. "I think it is, quite your turn now." He laughs. "Do not be afraid," Ile says, lightly; "I am only going to ask if you know whether I should find the Reverend Joseph Podswell, the rector of Northwell, at home --1 mean in Northwell-and where the rectory is situated?" "Yes," answers Signe, smiling with faint amusement; "he is at home, and ti.e rectory is close to the entrance gates of the Grange here; you must have passed the gate -I mean the rectory'one-if you crossed the park." "Oh, I remember," he says. "I took It for a part of the Grange grounds." "The rector is gencally at nome at this time of day," says Signa. I know, you see, because I live at the rectory. Mr. Podswell is my uncle." lie looks -at her with deepened in- terest. "1ndeedi". he says. "Then -then our, young friend Archie ia--" "My cousin," explains Signa, sim- rly, "or rather my half -cousin, I sup- PObe, X am not certain; the rector and father were half brothers." "I see," he says, eently, then he looks at her black dress and is silent or a moment. 's "My name is Grenville," says Signa, why she knows not. "I am living at the rectory, because -my father is dead," quietly, composedly, though her face grows paler and her lips quiver. He inclines his head. • "I understand," he says, almost in a whisper, so low, so gravely sympa- thetic is the voice. • "Perhaps," she goes on, impelled by sem° subtle impulse, "perhaps you may have heard of -my father?" He is silent for a moment, then he says: "I once knew a man by that name: One of the noblest, one of the grand- est men I ever saw. Ile was an artist, musician, poet, painted -the sweetest, highest type of humanity one cau con- ccive. 'Jack' Grenville they called him; we were at Vienna together, mY tutor and I; I was a lad fresh from school, when I met him, he a man of the world. I shall never forget the charm his presence and manner, his 'look and voice had for me. I was spellbound. But I shall say no more," ha says, gently. "Yes, go on!" says Signe, calmly, though the tears are running down her face, and her nands are clasped tightly. "Go on! I remember that time; he had left me in France. I was a little child then, and -and skit aud ailing. Go on, please; if you knew how sweet it is for me to hear you speak of him as -as you do---" she stops and sweeps the tears away with an impatient gesture. "I have pained you!" he says, with self-reproach. "No, no," he says, earnestly, eager- ly. "I am not crying for grief, but lieasure. I have never cried for grief since he -he went. I promised him that I would not. And you knew him? It was kind and good of you to speak as you did of him! Here --"and he knew She meant at the rectory -`they avoid all mention of his name as i(" -with a laugh and a sob of seornful amazement -"almost as if they were ashamed of him," He looks at her with gentle sympa- thy. "Such people as these, if they are the ordinary type, could not under- stand such a man as your father," he says. "His place was in the world of the great. They learned to vain.) and to hive ken there; and you are Jack Grenville's daughter? How small the world is!" "Is it not?" she says, smiling, and secretly wiping her eyes. "My father always Said that if his heart Were large enough it would take all the world in and yet have room to spare." "Yes, I ean fancy him saying it; his heart was a vast One," he OM. "I remember once being taken by my tutor to the old room in which your father was lodging. As we climbed the stairs-- eall you bear to hear nie tell you this?" "See," she says, turning her fete to hin1 With a Milo 111 her eyes that is earnest angelic In ita serenity rind peacefulneeS, He inclined hie head. "%a we reached the attire We hettrd h the sound of a violin, and my tutor • stoPPed me. We sat down CM the top of the stairs and waited and listened, I had never heard such heavenly music before. I have never hoard anything like it since. We sat as if in a dream, and were only aWakened when the door opened aml your father appeared leading a blind old man carefully by the hand. The tears were streaming down the old man's face; our own were wet. It appeared that yeur father played for an hour each morning to the old man whose soul existed for music, but whose hands were too crippled by rheupaatism to play for himself." "Yes," says Signe, with the swell of a sacred pride in her volde, "that .was my father; and he is dead now, you see, while such a useless creature as myself" -with outstretched hands, and eyes full of sorrow -"still cum- bers the ground." "He would not care to hear you speak thus," he says, not rebukingly, but with the tenderest sympathy. They were both silent for a moment, then he says: "Yes, the world is very small. "Though we have never met before, Miss Grenville, we are scarcely etran- gem" "No,' she says, simply, with quiet, modest dignity; "my fathers fraenue are mine while Hee lasts. Will you tell me your name? Perhaps I may remember it." She asks with no idle curiosity, but with her whole -heart and mind full of her lost one; and she Is so absorbed in reflection that she does not notice his momentary hesitation. "I am afraid you will not," he says. "I scarcely think your father heard ite .Lt was my tutor whom he knew, and he merely suffered me to haunt his chambers in the goodness of his heart. My name is -Hector Warren." Signe thinks for a moment, aad murmurs the name softly. "No; I am ofraid 1 cannot remem- mer it," she says, with a touch of re- gret. "My father knew so many -no man had more friends. Wherever we went, in every capital or feurope, we iound a circle ready to welcome us. I say 'us -I mean him." Then she turns with that sweet. grave smile which renders the gray em so deep and soft, and holds out her hand. "We must go now. I am almcst afraid to look at My watch." lie rises and takes the hand In his ahd holds it for a moment, looking into her eyes with, the grave, eubtle ,earnestness peculiar to him. "I will fetch Archie," he says, in a low, calm voice, and he goes down the beach, and hoisting the child on his shoulders, carries him up the cliff. Then he come g down and helps her to ascend. As she reaches the top, his hand closes on hers with a gentle pressure. "Good-bye," he says. "We shall meet again. "Perhaps," says Signe, laughing. Then she stops short -and looks down at him. "Shall I tell the rector that you will call?" He thinks for a moment -scarcely a moment -and a strange look comes into his eyes. "Do not, please," he says. Very well," says Signe. "Good-bye." "Good-bye!" echoes Archie, leaning over and nodding with infinite conde- scension. "Are you going to wait there till the mermaids come?' "Perhaps," he replies, with a smile. "Shall I catch one for you, Archie?" "Yes, do!" ,replies the child; then he adds, with oinfinite generosity. But you can keep it yourself; I've got Signe., you know." "Thanks," responds Hector Warren, gratefully; and Archie, with a •het grave nod, bounds after Signe. •CHAPTER IV. It was a strange meeting. Signe yondered, over it on their way 'home through the 'park, while Archie ran by her side, chatting In his old.fasha ioned style. Hector Warren! She searched her memory closely, going back to the happy times when she and her father had wandered over Europe, from court to court, for with the highest and noblest 'Jack" Grenville had been welcome; but she could not remember the name. It was strange that she could not, for even in ber early girl- hood her father had been accustomed to talk to her about the people whom Ile had met; then, again, it was rath- er singular that, in the course of her wanderings, she had not met with this Hector Warren. As he had said, the world is very small,and she anshe felt cer- tain that Hector Warren had seen a great deal of it, He had all the ap- pearance and manner of a man who had moved in society, and become fa- miliar "with Men and cities." Signe thought that never in all her iife had she seen so perfect a manner, so full of ease and grace, so natural and unconstrained, with an admirable mixture of grace, dignity, end respect- ful deference Even as she recalled him on her way home, the Voice, and the hand- some face, and the quiet, self-contain- ed Manner haunted and possessed her. It was singular that such a man should be here in this out-of-the-way spot, more singular that he should have business with her uncle, the rec- tor, Bet wa,s it business? Perhaps he was a friend. Then she remembered that he had not inquired about the rector as a friend would, but rather as stranger, and sho concluded that IL mut be business. Thtts hor thoughts ran on half unconsclottely, when she was brought to a little start and a blush by an f exclamation of Arehle'S. "Signe, why den' t you answer mo? That'e the third thne I've asked yota and you dent' take a bit of notice, I don't believe you're listening!" "I am afraid I was not, Archie,"he sconfessed, penitehtly, "I asked you if you didn't think him a ver' niee genteemean?" "Yes, Very," said Simla. "He Was very kind to you, was he hot?" "Yes, awfully. It's a pity he'e so Door, Isn't it?" Signe looked down At him with a shine. "Poor! How do you knew he is. poor?" "I knew by his clothe," liaid the ehild, With that Odd tiherneee peeuliar through fifty thnee, Beeidee, he did not wear a ring or a watclachain, like papa, you know, I'm sure be was poor. I wish I tad Offered my pock- et -money. I've got it all in lily pock- et, Signe." "I'm very glad you didn't," said Signe, laughingly. "Your eyes are very share), Archie, but don't trust them too much. At any rate, though Mr, Warren may be poor, he is a gentleman, and one doesn't offer gen- tlemen one's pocket -money. De YOU understand?" "I think I do," he mailed, thought- fully. "But I don't think he would have been very angry; he would only have laughed, and then I should have felt ashamed. Yes, I'm glad, too, that I didn't offer him my money." Archie's chatter served to keep Si na's mind On the same tack, a when she went down for luncheen s found herself still 4hinking and wo dering whether Hector Warren wou pay his intended visit that afternoo So absorbed was she that the sect had to ask her twice to pass the sal and Mrs. Podswell regarded her wi a stony stare of cold-blooded surpri when she passed the pepper instead "You seem -ahem! --a little abse this morning, my dear Signe," ea the rector, with a feeble smile; an Mrs, Podswell snorted, complai ingly. "Absence of mind is another ter for inattention to the wants of ot era." "I beg your pardon," said Sign coloring for a moment, but recoverin herself almost instantly. "I w thinking—" "Of what may we inquire?" d mended, the rector, with a heavy so of playfulness -"of your new bonne or what?" "We will say it is the new bonnet said Signet, quietly, and the recto not being ,quick at repartee, smile feebly and relapsed into eilence. While the cloth was being remove and Signe was rising to take her d parture for the schoolroom, the se vant entered, and said that a gentl men wished to eee the rector. Signa's face flushed, but fortunate ly her back was turned to the shar eyes of her aunt, who had betake herself to her sofa. "What name?" asked the recto reluctantly -he did not like being di turbed immediately after his meal • "Always ask the name, Mary." "It is somebody ,o sell steel pen or patent door -handles," moaned Mr Podswell. "Mary is s careless! 0 course she has taken him into th drawing -room. One of these day some one will get in and steal some thing. It is just the way they do i -get admission, to the house, an strip the drawing -room while the ser vant has gone to inquire." "Mr. Hector Warren, sir," sal Mary. "He says he's very sorry, bu he hasn't a card." The rector. looked up from his coz chair svith a sigh. "I don't know anybody of tha name, do I, Mary, my dear?" "No," said Mrs. Podswell, emphati catty. "It's some one come for subscription. Show him up here Mary, and do be more careful for th future?' Signe turned to leave the room, biz the rector stopped her, Taking up quantity of papers he held them ou to her with a conciliatory smile. "If you have nothing more import ant to do, my dear Signe, will you look these parish papers over for me and enter them in the book? It is on that table. You can do it here." Signe hied once or twice made her self useful with the parish accounts and though she would have much sh preferred escaping, e took the papers and seated herself at the table. She had scarcely done so, when the door opened, and Mary announced "Mr. Hector liVarren." Signe raised her eyes, and saw the tall figure standing in the doorway, but, though the dark eyes rested on his face for a minute, he made no sign of recognition, though Signe fan- cied that a faint, almost imperceptible smile shone in the dark eyes. The rector looked up with a slight elevation of the eyebrows - which might be taken for an apology, for even his dull brain could not fall to recognize the fact that his visitor was a gentleman -and stood rubbing his hands behind his back. "Mr.-er---.Mr. Warren, I believe?" he said. "You wish to Gee rae?" 'h The stranger inclined his ead, and the rector, sjhuffling with marked em- barrassment, nodded with a sickly smile. "Yea, yes, certainly. Will you- per- haps we had better go to the library. Will you follow nie, sir?" The visitor half -raised his hand. "Pray do not let me disturb you," he said, in hie low, grave voice. "My beeinees is by no means private. I am the bearer of a letter -I may almost say of introduction. Permit me to hand it to you," and he took an en- velope from a pocket -book and handed It. As he did so, Signe saw that the envelope was emblazoned with a coat of arms in crimson and gold, and the rector saw it also, for his manner grew more embarraseed and apologetic. "Pray sit down. That is a comfort- able chair. Yes; a letter -ahem! -from -dear me, title is very, extraordinary, my dear; yes, very extraordinary!" "What is it?" demanded Mrs. Pods - well, with ill concealed impatience and irritability. "Who is it from?" "Well, really -dear Me! From, my dear? It is from Lord -ahem -Lord Delamere!" Signe. looked up involuntarily. Hec- tor Warren wits leaning back in the chair with natural, easy self-posses- sion, his eyes resting waitingly upon the rector; but as Signa glanced up he eeemed to know it, and for a sec- ond's space his eyes turned and met .hers. Signe bent over her papers again instantly. "Prom Lurd Delamere?" echoed Mrs. Podswell, rising with a sudden alae- rity which one would scarcely have deemed her capable of, "Indeed!" and her light eyes glanced at the quiet fig- ure in the chair curiously. (To be continued.) es•-• WHAT BETTER MESSENGER. (London Tit -Bits) Over the garden fence the conversation had suddenly Vented acrimonious. "An' lf yore boy 'Erbert tiee any more cans on our pore dog's tail," was Mrs. Moggins' stern ultimatum, "ell 'ear about it, that's all! Oh, an' per`aps you've come witi that iip.ucepan. Wet you borrowed last Monday, ""Firbert," asked Mrs. Grubb, shrilly, "wot 'ave you bin doin' to Mrs. Mog- gins' dog?" "Nothin', Ma," replied the email bee'. unbluebingly, "There!" Add his tnether, triumphant- ly. "An' you returned 'er saucepan Yes- terday, didn't you, &axle?" "Sent it back by 'er clog," said Her- bert, calmly. 4 • I "IrOw's things in Plunkville?" niet." "How's your piano fulled com- on?" 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After they had drunk each other's health he let the constable out and bolted the door after him. The man lost no time in getting the "swag" together and left the house by another exit. Minaret's Liniment Cures Garget In Cows. 4 Chronometers Aboard Ship. A ship's chronometer is the most wonderful and accurate timekeeper, made, for upon its accuracy depend the lives of all on board. So Nceurate, indeed is a ship's chronometer that it does not vary a second a day. An er- ror of only a few seconds may put a captain oe a vessel miles out of his reckoning at sea and run the ship in- to great danger. For that reason every ship's, timepiece goes through the most thorough teats before it is pro- nounced perfect. It is set going in a very hot room and then transferred to a cold one,- for it may be used in any part of the world, from the polar re- gions to the tropics, and it must al- ways keep good time. 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With a four -horsepower engine a motor -driven plow of English inven- tion cuts a six-inch furrow at a speed exceeding three Miles an hour. The charts of the coast and geodetic survey Will be publicly displayed at the leading post offices of the United States to make persons familiar with their use. The Islands of Lake Erie aro part of a limestone ridge that the ice -age glaciers did not wholly reduce. Geolo- gists call this ridge the Cincinnati. an- tielina. It extends into Tennessee. — A calculator that shows the money values of Otte CoUntry in the terms of seVeral others and aPplles the values to various weights and meastires has been invented by an Englishman. That the "baek-te-the-farne" Melte- Ment Is led by city boys is shown by etatisties at the a,grieultural sehoel of the Pennsylvania, State College. TO - day the threo large eitiee of Ponneyi. . et) 1 Vanite haVe More than 200 young men ra the school. Some Of thee have never see11 a farm, exceat at a die. term). 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Bullard, superintendent of the navy radio service. • If the recommenda- tions are accepted the radio service will be a government monopoly, A WOMAN'S MESSAGE If you are troubled with weak, tired feelings, headache, backache, bear- ing -down sensations, bladder weak- ness, constipation, catarrhal condi- tions, pain in the sides regularly or irregularly, bloating or unnatural en- largements, sense of falling or mis- placement of internal organs, ner- vousness, desire to cry, palpitation, hot flashes, dark rings under the eyes, or a loss of interest in life, I invite you to write and ask for my simple method of home treatment with ten days' trial entirely free and postpaid also references tU Canadian ladies who. gladly tell how they have regain- ed health, strength and happiness by this method. Write to -day. Address, Mrs. M. Summers, Box 8, Windsor, Ontario. -••, 4 • • RETIRED BURGLAR. Crying Babies Gave Him Two Shocks in One Night. "Of course in My business, nine as In any other," said the retired bur- glar, "you learn by experience. One of the first things I learned in that way was to avoid houses where they had young children, infants. "Grown folks may sleep right through thunderstorms, windstorms, things falling down in the house, 'most any sort of racket, but you never can tell what an infant will do. And those same grown up folkthat will sleep right through anything else will wake up sharp at the smalleet peep from an infant. They seem to be tuned that way. But I had to learn this by experience. "One night when I was new in the business I went into What seemed to me a promising looking house in the suburban. districts. Got in by the eaey cellar window and padded upstaii's to the second storey front room with no trouble at all and went straight to the bureau. 1 opened the top drawer gently, without a squeak, and when I turned in My light the very first thing I saw was a diamond ring that I geese must have made my eyes sparkle as much as the ring did. It was a big stone. 1 should think two or three carats. "It was a man's ring, and instead of slipping it Straight into my pocket as I should have done I put it on my fin- ger fax just a moment to look at it. At that same instant I heard a baby begin to cry. "I had seen two persons in a bed in this room, but I had not observed a crib. over on the other side of the bed. But the instant that baby cried one of the figures in the bed raised up on its elbow with its back toward me and looked over into the crib at the child, and didn't need to have any- body tell me that it was time for me to go, which I did, without those two persons in the bed knowing then that I had been there at all. "When I got back into the street it was still within what you might call my business working hours. I hadn't been in that house ten minutes and I thought I still had plenty of time for another. "In this second house I had just ex- actly the same experience as in the first, with one thing added that I will tell you about In this house there, was a crib wich I saw, and that ought to have been enough for me, but sometimes, You know, wee have to have our experience rubbed in. "I went to the bureau here just the same as in the first house and opened the top drawer and was pawing around In it with one hand and holding the lamp with the other when the baby here fairly screamed -nightmare, I suppose. Two persons in the bed jumn- ed as if they'd .been blown out of bed, one on the side toward the crib and the other on the side toward me, but I got out and got away. "I hadn't much more than got set- tled down and etarted on the road for home when I began to feel as if some thing was wrong, as if I had missed something or lost something, and then it struck Me all of a sudden that I had loet my diamond ring! I must have clenehed my hand on it when and receive highest cash gelato, We geld money the same day the furs see receive& Charge netrommisslorie-and pey all Ohaeller We have paid out millions of dollars to thoO• fiends of trapiters in Canada who mend their fors to no betimes they knOW 11301 get ft Agitate deal, andretelve more Meney for their fare. Yell will alit. We buy Mere fore feat trapreell for flash then any ether five firma in Canada. Trallarc'eTrallpet °tide (06Pe1ts) FREEIf flttortsmen's caesurae Wetlitalul Raw For Quatottleng Wallam'S rue fitYle Rea in 09406) fleet free On rote/set • Addresn at follbwat JOHN HALLAM Limited 201 Hallam i3uildhlo, Toronto. Atit*VolkWalOilaik. Art Pottery You will be pleatied with the ehoice assertanent of New Art Pottery which we aro ohowing• this week. The assortment contains Plower Bowls, Bud Vaees, Vases of 'various ehapes, Jars, ete., In Yellow, Jet, Verd, Red and Blue. This is very attractive. Priced from $1.00 to ROBERT JUNOR 64 KING ST, E, SOUTH SIDE Hamilton, Ont. THE HOUSE FOR GIFTS, that first baby cried, for I know I still had it on my finger when I reached into the bureau drawer in that second house, but there I must have left it, That second baby's sharp cry was really startling, and when it struck me I must have let go of myself for just an instant, let my hands open, and in that instant the ring slipped off my finger. "Those two expereinces, being scar- ed out of two houses by infants and losing a valuable diamond ring all in one night, were enough to teach me the lesson, and from that on as long as I was in active business whevever T went thrOugh a town prospecting by day I always left out of my calcula- tions all houses around wl,lch I saw a baby carriage." Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. • • PLANTS OFTEN ARMED. Only Goat Will Attack One Plant —Some Carry Poison. Many plants protect themselves from their enemies by the use of Spikes or prickles, and venom, Just as certain animals do. Of those using the firet named device there are -as a naturalist pointed out -innumerable examples. The oramble, the gorse, and the holly are familiar instances of shruhe and trees "armed to the teeth," so to speak, Many plante Imitate the reptiles in arming- them- selves with venom. Of these are the deadly nightshade, or belladonna, and the nux vomica. Lees destructively inclined are those plants which are simply protected by their disagree- able taste. The common buttercup, which is one of theee, is generally shunned by horses and cattle. A plant which, like the skunk, is pro- tected by a disagreeable smell is the figwort. Only that hardy and insen- sitive anima, the goat, will touch it. THE ONLY WAY TO CURE RHLUMATISM MUST BE TREATED THROUGH THE BLOOD AND THE POISON- OUS ACID DRIVEN OUT. The 'tortures and twinges of rhen. ntatism are not due to cold, (lama eather, as so many .people suppose. Rheumatism conics from poisonous Leid in the blood. This is a medical truth that evefy rheumatic sufferer eliculd realize. There is only one way to cure rheumatism -it must be treat- ed through the blood. All the lini- ments and rubbing and so-called elec- trical treatment in the world will not cure rheumatism, and the nu fferer who tries them is not only wasting money, but is allowing ale trouble to become more firmly rooted in the sys- tem and harder to cure when the pro- per remedy is tried. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have had remarietblc success In curing .rheumatism because they go right to the root of the trouble in the blood, driving out the polsonens acid, releasing the stiffened joints, clearing ay ay the torturing pains, and g', -Ing the victim renewed health and ease. Mr. Vincent Brow, Havre Boucher, N. S.. says: "For. two years I was an almost constant sufferer from rheuma- Vern, the trouble being so bad at times that I could scarcely get about. The trouble seemed to bring with it anaemia, and altogether I was in a very bad condition. I used doctor's medicine fax almost 'a year without is lief. Then on the advtee of a friend I decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I think I took altogetaer about a dczen boxes, with the result that I am again enjoying perfect health." You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or .six boxee for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Prockville, Ont. • .4. The Way of a Boy. fills is the way a boy comes hozne And the way•it shall ever be: A scrainpei 0J teet thrOCISII tne leaf and IOizi A coat cast off and quite forgot. A. whistle and ringing cheer, A coat cast oit anu quite cheer' And a romp near every well known spot 011 the \tay nem tnere to here. This Is the way a boy makes haste. And the way It has ever been; A. squirrel seen is a squirrel cnased, And 0 top is made to spin; A tree's to cliznb and a orook's to wade, And the shade is a place to lie After the zest of the game that's played When the sun Is hot and high. qhis Is the path a boy calls straight: 13y every winding way Where berries are or wild birds wait Or sqxdrrels dart at play; 13y banks that bid you sit and cool Two dusty feet and brown In the pebbly shallow of the pool. That's on the way front town. This is the errand swiftly done. As shall ever be: An ounce of care to the pound of fun, And an hour that grows to three: A fence to climb and a rail to stride, With berries to hunt and share. And a breathless quarter hour beside A timid woodchuck's lair. ..tnd this is the thing the.t a boy calls care And the thing it shall ever be: An old straw hat that's lost somewhere In the shade of some far . off tree; A Shirt that's damp or trousers rent, A bruise or a hornet's sting, A.nd lagging footsteps cnoreward bent In the soft twilights sof spring. So these aro the ways that boy e all know And eo may they ever be: Fancies as fickle as winds; that blow, And dreams as wide as the sea; Heaven above where the blue sky amiles. With no day overlong, And a widen° of merry tuna that while A Whole world into song. -James W. Foley, in Youtive Compare. ion, Minard's Unimeht Cures Distemper. "T don't hear you eoMplain any more about the cost Of living." "No. It seems quite reasonable after getting rates from some mummer hotels."-. Louisville Courior-Sournal, ISSUE NO, 42, 1916 HELP WANTED. learners, any girl with good kiwYsilvdi-P* 1AT ANTLIDestsxxiista 7.'0 WORK ON )1' knit underwear-licamera and 1111streets, Hamilton, Ont. 0: Plata sewing; good wages: Ideal Lek:- imbed stitcher,/ preferred, Wo slice tetten tory Conditione. Zinnuerman Manufau- turing Co. . Ltd., Aberdeen Gann , WA.NTED - HOUSEMAIDS AND waitresses. Previous experiente riot necessary. Apply, "The Welland . bt. Catharines, Ontario. WANTED- EXPERIENCED COOK- :* general; no laundry work; wages *25,00; references. Address, 0,, Qtto011 Etreet tiouth, Hamilton, ();xt. MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED -GIRLS OF GOOD tion to train for nureee. Apply, Wellandra Hospital, tt. Catharines, Ont. Help fax Woollen Mill, Carders, Weav- ers, Fullers and Napper Tenders. Good wages paid in all Departments, and- steady work assured, We hese several openings for inexperienced help, where energy and ability will bring promotion. Wages paid to ap- prentices while learning weaving. Special inducements to family work- 018- Write, stating full experience, if any, age, etc., to the SLINGSBY MANUFACiTURING CO„ LTD., BRANTFORD, ONT. GIRLS WANTED Exaerlenced knitters and loop. era also , young eIris to learn. Clean work and highest wages. CHIPMAN-HOLTON KNITTING CO., L:MITED, HAMILTON, ONTARIO. RABBITS FOR SALE. Temporarily overstocked; ' bargains while they last Grey Flemish Giants, Rufus Red Belgian Hares all ages fully pedigree. 'Write to DONALD WATERS, 175 Jackson Street West Hamilton, Ont. NO PRECAUTION NEGLECTED. (Harper's Magazine) The little son of a clergyman recent- ly appeared at breakfast with distinct evidences of a hastily made toilet. "Why, Edmund," his mother remon- strated, "1 believe you forgot to brush your hair!" "I was in such a hurry to get to school," he explained. "I hope you didn't forget to say your prayers?" she asked anxiously. "No, siree!" was the emphatic assur- ance: "that's one thing I never forget. Safety first:" 4 • Minard's Liniment Cures Ciphtherla. ENGLAND, 'Great England put her armor by, and stretched tier stately limbs to slumber in the sun. The nations, seeing then how long she slept, Communed together, and In 'whispers said: 'Lei She is old and tired; let us steal The crown from off her brow. She will not know.' And Goner!' and Regan, over seas. Mocking her, cried: 'Her time is past. Is sluggish, and her rusted sword from Her blood out Her scabbard she will draw no more. And so, Thus gibing, flung with cruel hands the seeds Of discord and of hate amidst her sons. 11u: from the East there came a blast too loud, As from the West there came a taunt too much; And aslhide, saatItv.aiting, raised her head, and Around her all the faithless Mende, and all Her sisters and her children jeering her, And crying, 'Sho is old' and meting out Her lands among themselves, and par- cellingoiiorh Her . Then, swift as lightning flashes From blue skies, her glance of scorn fell on them, And they crouched, like wolves that are o'ermastercd. England stretched out her hand and touched the world - England arose, and spake, and calmly said: 'Nay! I am mistress still!' " Thirty-four years ago Ouldrt (Louise -- Bente), wrote these lines. She lived to within six years of the great war. TWO SIDES OF THE STORY. (Rochester Times) With pathetic tears on her baby cheeks, little Ethel ran up to a big, stalwart policeman. "P -p -please, sir," she sobbed, "will you come and lock a bad man up?" "What's he been doing?" asked the man in blue, gently. "Oh -boo-boo," wailed Ethel; "he's b -b -broken my hoop wif 'is nasty bi- cycle.'' "Has he?" replied the bobble, angrily, as he saw her tears flow afresh. "Where is he?" "Oh, you'll easily catch 'im," said Ethel, drying her tears. "They've just carried 'lin into that chemist's shop on a shutter!" • • • An Ingenious Picture. There is in one of the European picture galleries a painting caned "Cloudiand." It hangs at the end of a long gallery, and at first sight it looks like a huge repulsive daub of confused color without form or come- liness. As you -walk toward it the Picture begins to take shape. It proves to be a mass of exquisite little cherub faces like those at the head of the canvas in Raphael's Sistine Madonna. If you go close to the picture you see only an innumerable company of lit- tle angels and cherubim. • It's always the open season for office hunting, 11.010•111.•••••=11111•1111. For a Quick Pick -Up Luncheon try that most delicious, nourishing, whole wheat food, Triscuit, the shredded wheat wafer -toast. It contains all the body- building material in the whole wheat grain, including the bran coat which pro- motes healthful and natural bowel movement. It is real whole ,wheat bread without yeast, baking powder or chemicals of any kind ---an ideal food for children be- cause it compels thorough mastication and ensures per- fect digestion. A crisp, tasty "snack" for picnics or excur- sions, Toast in the oven and serve with butter, soft cheese (5r marmalades. Made in Canada