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The Wingham Advance, 1916-11-02, Page 6CUNNING CONSTANTIN:0, Greece's autonomy it3 a nation is guaranteed by Britain, Frauce and Russia, and all her intereete lie in their direction. Turkey and Bulgaria, allied with Germany, are her aucient enemies. There is nothing in cunanon between Greece and Turkey, of which the was eo long a vassal. Balgaria has in. the present war Invaded her territory. Under these eiremnataaeee one would naturally tide% that Greece's Isymps,thies would be with the allies, and no doubt the majority of the nation does sympathize with them. But the King, carried away by his German wife and German influences, has arrayed bimself in opposition to the allies, even though they mak only Greece's benefit. Ever since they landed at Salon'ki by Marltaticm of the Greek Government, the King has been plotting'against them.. In this be has been aided by a section of the Greek army. Recently, to check the tleiigns ot the King, the allies found it ix:ens:try to take control of the Greek navy, and since then, learning that he was pre- paring to take action of a military nature against them, they placed a number of troops in. Athens to watch him and see that he did no mischief. This brought out angry demonstra- tions against the allied troops, and it was feared that there might be bleodshed. So far that has been averted. Gen. Sarrail made the disvavery that, the King was laying up a store of warlike material at Larissa, in Thee- saly, with. the evident intention of striking a blow at the Wiles hil they were engaged with the Bulgar- ians. The King protesta that he had no such. intentions, and there the matter rests at present, Venizclos at the head of a provisional Govern- ment, situated at Sa:Walla, and .seeking recognition from the a11ie3. Feasibly they may grant the request. But at the same time it would be necessary to get rid of the King. Why he has not been got rid of before is somewhat unexplainable. WISHING AND GETTING. An Old Man's Realized Day Dream and the Moral It Teaches. They hid started in the most primi- tive way, the man and his wife, back in the little log house, but they were dreaming of the day when. they would own a farm of their own and not have to work so hard. After a time their hard toil was rewarded and they own- ed a farm. Then it eeemed deeirable to add to this tract, and they worked a little harder. A new house seemed a neceasary accompaniment to the large farm, so the work could not stop. A son came to the age when he must be educated and have his chance in life, and they toiled on. All tie time the old man dreamed of the daye ahead when he could stop work and take life easy. Somehow the days did not come, or he did not recognize them when they came, for he kept on working until. he had grown old and worn. Then his health failed, and he had to etop work. The son for Whom they had given precious years out of their lives now showed his gratitude by his gentle, via - failing love and care. it seemed to others that the goal had been reached —that the old man could now enjoy life, surrounded as he was by every comfort and attention. But he was quiet and sad, sitting 'with head bow- ed on his toil worn hands. A neighbor, stopping in for a little visit, asked, "How are you getting along, grandpa?" Then the secret of all his eadne-ss burst forth as he ans- wered earnestly, "Oh, if I could only get out and work!" What queer things our dreams are after all! BUSY BEES IN WINTER. How They Generate Heat to Keep the Colony Warm. The bee upholds his reputation for industry throughout the winter months as well as during the summer. Being susceptible to cold, the bee must turn to his colony for warmth. Communism, which in bees is so highly developed in the storing of Mod and caring for the young, Is also the basis for the heating system. i It was. found by experiment that only the shell of the cluster made by the bees in cold -weather is compact. This is formed by one•to several lay- `alatanaa, bees all solidly arranged with their benne inward, their hairs inter- lacing. fails arrangement is perfect for conseavation of tlie heat within. Except 'Or an occaolonal shifting of pOsitiga the bees- farming the shell are, quiet. But within the shell strauge - things are going on. lt is here that the heat is generitted, .And the antics are not unlike our own When wa aro cold. The bees are pack: ed lOosely within the shell ao that there ie plenty of space for many bees to be exercising at a time. Rapid fanning of the wings, shaking the body from side to side, rapid breath - hag and other movement; are all part of the scheMe for raising the temper- ature. In one particular instances 'When a bee had been rapidly fanning with his wings for seven and tt haef minutes, the thermerietr u. :.reit him retie half a degree Fa-Pearaone; Weekly. - Common senae is very uncemincn. —Horace Greeley. Whorl a women rea11ze:4 she is get- eng fat .she hates to see things go to weld. "Is tide a free translation?" wised a elletetner in the book store. "No, sir," replied the Clerk, "it will cost you a dollar fifty."--Ilostoa Transcript. A multitude of people are either horn great or acqnira grsatnesa, com- pared vvith these who hava greatness tbruat upon them. 11001•...11101•••=1“•10111 HER HUMBLE LOVER r111111.1111111••••NOWIMMIll It was true that he had not spoken a word to her in the drawing -room at the rectory, but she was not offended; she knew that he had refrained from addressing her because he desired to avoid any reference to their meeting on the beach, With the delicacy of a gentleman ho had so behaved as to spare her any embarrassment. SSgua quite understood it, and was lfli no way offended; she knew that he had read her uncle and aunt at a glance, and it made her errand all the easier. Still she approached the great, huge place slowly, scarcely, heeding Archies chatter as he ran by her side, occasi- onally turning off to chase a butterfly or pick a flower. They reached the broad terrace with its moss -grown flight of steps, and Archie ran up then, calling to her to be quick. "Perhaps he'll be gone," he said, ap- prehensively. But he had not gone. The big door, with its panels of worm-eaten oak, was ajar, and with a strange feeling of mingled awe and curiosity Signe ,entered the hall. Hector Warren had opened one of the shutters, and the light streamed into the vast space, discovering the massive beams of oak and walnut, the exquisite carving, in which the gilt -- pure gold—still shone; a line of por- traits, all the Delameyes since the race obtained, the name, looked duskily down on the two intruders; fair wo- man in stilts and satins, fows of men in armor and tunic, with eword and with parchment roll, there they were, half -obscured by the dust, worth a king's ransom as works of art, and yet left to the moth by the young man who had inherited their name and their grandeur. From the roof, all carved and gild- ed, depended. a score of tattered flags, and on the gallery still shone, for all the dust, a great shield emblazoned with the Delamere coat of arms. Signa had been in many an ancient palace in romantic Italy, and visited many a German castle and famous Swiss chalte, but she had never felt same sensation as she felt now. She tried to laugh, but the laugh died away on her lips. The vast plaee seemed like a church, and instinctive- ly she glanced toward the east for the altar; but though there was no altar, there was a magnificent painted win- dow, which she knew must be of priceless value. She tried to laugh, but she could only manage a smile. "Here we are at last, Archie," she said; but Archie was too excited to an- swer in the same strain. "Isn't It grand, Signe?' he said. "1 shouldn't like to sleep here!" Signe laughed and walked toward the staircase, that, largo enough to admit of a coach -and -four being drawn up to it, ran up to the foot of the painted window, and thence round to numberless corridors. "I don't know where to find Mr. Warren," she said, half aloud. "We might wander about for hours, Archie. The place is like a cathedral!" "Supose we shout?" suggested Archie; but Signa shook her head. It seemed like desecration. "No—no;" he said. "He said he wanted the library; that must— it oilght to be on the ground floor. Let us try," and she opened the door lead- ing from the hall, and entered a long, lofty room. It was the dining -room -- a banquet -hall we should call it now. The dust of numbers of years rested as a falling veil upon the scene, yet its magnificence still made itself felt. Stained windows, exquisite carvings, magnificent pictures, and furniture which a connoisseur would have pro- nounced unique, struck Signe with a sense of awe and delight. Upon the long table stood an immense epergne of bronze, filled with flowers long since faded, and beside a chair lay a bouquet dropped by some fair hand, now perhaps turned to dust. "This is the dining -room," she said. "We shall never find the library, Archie!" "Never mind. Let us go on till we do. Isn't it jolly, Signa?" "Jolly isn't the word for it, Archie," she said, trying to speak lightly. "How 'an a man leave all this to dUst and decay?" Archie didn't reply to such a physio- logical question, but slipped his hand from hers, and scudded to a door at the end of the room, and, pulling it ajar, ran in. Signe followed, and then stood sil. ent and motionless. They had found the library at last. Before them .was a room e not so as the dining -hall, but much more elaborately fitted and furnished. The lour sides were lined with booke, the light coming from above through a dome of painted glass. Luxurious chairs were placed at worm-eaten writing -tables; portfolios six feet high were placed in alcoves built to receive them. It was an apartment fit for a lettuce. But it was not the grandeur that arrested Signa's footsteps. It was the presence of a human be- ing. .For seated in a chair near the ceutre was Hector Warren. Tho table was strewn with books, and papers, which apparently had failed to inter- est him; for he sat with his head resting on his hand, a cigar between his lips, and his eyes fixed dreamily upon the painted roof. As Signe stood looking at him, he felt half -guilty of prying upon him, se weary and dreamy was tho expree- Bien of the handsome face, so lost to the present, so buried in the past. He might have been one of the figures in armor that lined the hall, strolled in to spend half an hour In meditation, but for his modern clothes and the cigar between his lips. "'There he le," ;Aid Archie, trimph- antly. "Hush!" Said Signe, wareingly, and she would have retreated. But the boY'a voice, light. as it was, reached the drearier, and raising his head, ho looked up and saw them, Without a start, but with a sinning air of surprise, he rose and approach- ed theni, drueping his well-worn hat on the table, and flinging his Cigar in the grate. '"IhiS IS a surpriee," he Said, light - 17. "I have been dreaming! 'Well, Archie, Rest how are you?" and he ,laid his haitsl on the boy' is head. 11 !Tea quite we11," said Archie, air- ily, "What aro you doing? Read- ing?" "Reading a little, thinking much," he answered, fixing his eyes on Sig- ne, " "We couldn't find the library for ever so long," said Archie. "What a big place it is? Aren't you afraid to sit here all alone?" "No," he replied, still stroking the boy's hair. "What do you think there is here to harm me? All places are alike to him with a good consci- ence—or a bad one," he added, with a curious curl of the lips, As he spoke he drew the chair forward and dusted it with the duster which lay on the table, "Won't you sit down?" Ile said to Sigma "It is," as Mrs. Podswell said, learfuly dusty,' but I think if you sit here," and he Places the chair, "you will be on an island of comparative cleanliness, surround- ed by an ocean of dust." Signe sat down. "After all, it is clean dust," she said. "But I am afrair we have dis- turbed you," she went on, her color coming and going a little as she ap- proached her mission. "Disturbed-" he echoed, in a signifi- cant tone which repudiated the idea emphatically._ "If I were going to say that I am deeply grateful to you —and Archie—for putting in an ap- pearance, I should speak the simple truth only. I was gettiag terribly bored with my own society. 'Think- ing is poor amusement, and it is one I am rather too much given to." "You mean looking back?" said Signe. He nodded. "Yes, looking back; the vainest and most useless of operations. `Ah! if I had but done this, or I had left that alone!' Bah!" and he laughed, with a touch of sadness in the laug-h. "What waste of time it is! This is just the place for dreaming," and he looked round the book lined room. Signn. Watched his face; there was still a vague expression of melancholy In the dark eyes, and she found her- self wondering what he had been looking back upon, and what sort of a past his had been. But she checked the speculation, remembering her errand. "I have come with a message," she said, looking up at him as he leaned against the table, his dark eyes fixed upon her face with an intent gaze. "A message?" he said, with .a faint smile. "Yes," said Signe. "From my aunt. She will be glad if you will dine with them to -morrow." Not a word of excuse. Simply the plain invitation. He noticed and fully understood it and ' admired the di- rect, truthful way in which she had put it. He noticed also that she eaid "with them" in stead of "with us." For 'a moment he stood silent, hie eyes fixed on the ground, then he looked up at her with an inquiry in his glance.' "It is very kind of Mrs. Podswell," he said. "Do you think—" he stop- ped- and laughed softly, with quiet amusement. "Do I think what?" asked Signa. "I wonder whether you will be of- fended if I should ask you the ques- tion that trembled on my lips?" he said, slowly. Signa laughed. "Had you not better try?" she said. "I will! I was going to ask you if you thought they really wished me to come?" Signe colored. "Isn't that generally understood?" she said. "I am answered," he responded, smilingly. "I see. Will you thank Mrs. Podswell very much, and assure her that I should only be too delight- ed, but—but--will you helu me with an excuse? I can't say that I am otherwise engaged, because I am not, and she should know it. 1 have no grandmother on a sick bed, or busi- ness demanding an instant journey into a far country. Will you help me?" "No," said Signa, laughing softly. "Besides, you misunderstood me. They really wish you to accept, and to male." "That alters the state of things," he said, instantly. "Then I shall be only too delighted, and it is really very kind of Mrs. Podswell to take coni - Passion upon a stranger and an un- known waif that has floated to her hospitable shores." Signe, smiled at this unintentionally high-flown acceptance. "Then I will tell her," she said, ris- ing; "they dine at six o'clock, and you will meet some people." Ho bowed. "I shall be very pleased," he saki. "How jolly!" exclaimed Archie from tho top of the steps, where he had perched with a large folio of plates on his knee; "that is if they let me come in to dessert. They do sometimes if tho bishop isn't there." "And why not wnen the bishop is there?" asked Hector 'Warren, emit - Ing up at him. "Because I once trod on, his gouty toe, and ho can't bear me ever since," replied Archie, with perfect equanim- ity. "I hOpe they'll let nie to-inorrow, because you're going to be there." "Thanks, very much. Suppose I enter into a little conspiracy with you, Archie?" "I don't know what you mean," he said, calmly. 'Let us imagine that, just at des - Bert -time,. you were passing outside the open door, and I saw you, and I said, 'Dear me, is that inv young friend Archie? Kindly permit him to join as at the festive almonds and raisins, Mrs. Podswell?' How would that her Archie laughed in his quaint, old- fashioned way. "I think you are very clever," he said, admiringly. "You keep a 'shayp lookout for me, and if you don't see me I'll give a soft whistle," Hector Warren laughed. "/ don't think I would Venture on the sWhistle, Archie," ho said. "It might lead to a suspicion that the whole thing had been arranged." "I see," mused Arehie. "Perhaps might Irtesv like a eat; X Cali de that very well." "You might Ventere ge far," ad - Stated lIettor Warren. 'Wave you got a nice book up there" "Yea, pretty fair," Frail Archie. "Then will you wait while I show orenviiie the picture gallery?" Archie nodded from his lofty perch. "1'11 wait," he said, "1 suppose 1 can look at any books I like. You 'will take care of her?" he added, gras ely. "Every care, I assure you," replied Hector Warren, gravely, "I protnise to return her to you without a broken lhnb." "Very well, then," said Archie, with an air of being satisfied. Signe stood emilIngly looking on while this negotiation was being con- ducted; then she said, as he took up the bunch of keys, "But I think we must be going back, Mr. Warren." '"Do not say that," he pleaded. "Let us take a look at the picture -gallery before you go; it is well worth see- ing," "I am all curiosity," said Signa; "but I am afraid that we have inter- rupted and disturbed you." He stalled, and it was a sufficient answer, "Take care of tho dust," he said, as he opened a door opposite that by whicli he had entered. "It is not so thick here, excepting in the carvings. This is the long corridor to the pie- ture-gallery; there is a door here which leads to the dining -room, and another passage which twines all round the house." Signm. looked at him with a smile of surprise/ on her face. "ITow do I know?" he said, putting her question Into words. "Because have been exploring the place during the short time I have been here, and have gained a vast amount of infor- mation from a plan and guide to this building which I found on the eentre table in the library; 1 will show it to you when we get back, This is the door of the picture -gallery," he added, as lie opened a tall door with painted panels. "I have been here before this morning and opened the windows." • Signe, uttered an exclamation of sur- prise mid admiration. It was a splen- did apartmeut, a salon decorated in the most exquibite taste, and still untarnished and unsoiled, save by a thin coating of dust. The contents of the room were priceless, and how any man in his sane senses could have allowed such a collection of treasures to remain neglected and unguarded amazed Signa. "It is a handsome place, isn't it?" he said, quietly. "It is maguificent," said Signe,— "simply magnificent. The place is a palace! It is diffieult for me to realize that it can be so neglected and de- serted!" Ho shrugged his shoulders. It is not the first palace that has owned a fool for king," he responded, quietly; and he walked beside her thoughtfully, as she ran her eyes rap- idly over the pictures. "Some of these, I fee/ sure, are masterpieces," she said "To think of them being hidden away like this! What can possess Lord Delamere?" He mailed gravely "Lord Delain.ere has been possessed by evil spirits, many and various," he said, in a low voice. "Amongst them they have driven. him from his home, and made him a wanderer up- on the face of the earth. But you are an artist, I see," he said, more lightly, yet earnestly; "there is no mistaking the expression in the critical eyel if You will make a promise, I will have this gallery properly cleaned—you know I have Lord Delamere's permis- sion." "What promise?" she asked, looking over her shoulder at him. "That you will come here now and again and spend half an hour with the pictures," he said, respectfully, plead- ingly, Signa flushed. "I will come if I may," she said, simply. "That is a bargain," he said. "See, now, here is the ballroom. It was not a bad idea to open it on to the picture gallery. I wonder how many a young couple have wandered here to look at the pictures, reflected In each other's eyes?" Signa laughed, then she clasped her hands in a genuine girlish gesture of admiration and delight. "Ah, I don't know which is best!" she exclaimed, looking from the splen- did salon to the picture -gallery. 'Designed by Luigi Barri, frescoes by Boucher, carvings by Grinling Gib- bons,' so says the guide," said Hector Warren. "Yes, it is a fine room." "Imagine it filled with guests, with music floating in the perfumed air, with laughter and gay chatter echoing in the galleries; fancy the Place lit up and dazzling in all its glory of blue and gold ! Oh! I wish I could wave a magic wand and restore the Northwell Grange to its old glory! If I were master—" "Or mistress?" he said, softly. "Or mistress," she said, her eyes growing deeper and more rapt, "how proud I should be of it! Even as I am," and she laughed, "an insignifi- cant nonentity, I would like to see the place full'of life and happiness." "Would you?" he said, 'with a strange smile on his face as he leaned against a pillar and looked over at her, flushed with the faint excite- ment called un by the theme. She laughed and recovered herself. "Yes, liht if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I'm afraid Lord Delamere will not come back and re- store the house of his forefathers, be- cause Signa Grenville has a fancy for seeing it free from dust and full of , life." He did not reply, and in silence he followed her to the hall. "What wonderful faces they have," she said, looking round at the por- traits. "Wonderful!" he said, half resting on a table and swinging the keys on his finger, his eyes fixed on her face, and wholly indifferent to the portrait "As how?" "Why," said Signa, "they are all either extremely handsome Or ex- tremely ugly. There is no medioc- rity." "There is none in- the uahappy fain- IIY," he said, "They are all said to have been particularly good-looking or particularly plain, as you say, and they carried the rule to their moral qualities. 'Good or evil, pure and sim- ple, should have been the Delamere motto," Signa listened with Interest. "Did you read that in the guide," she asked, "Oh, I have heard Delamere say much the SaMO thing," he said cares lessly, (To be eontinued.) t WhOl God calls you be ready to go; and if you haven't courage, ask God to give it to you, and Ilo will.—D. L. Moody. A multitude of people are either torn great Orisequire greatness, coeds Dared with those who have gretthless thrust upon them, 2'N Combination Cooker and Beater The most efficient and economical ,stove made. lommmemormionrimmum $2 1.00 DELIVERED AT YOUR 11011IR TOWN fin•NINIMM..Mammi.i•Manii• efli W111 burn coal, wood, colte, corn cobe ex or anything burnable. Fated with Duplex G'zette, Dot Blast Tube and Screw Dampers. git Will hold fire over night, cook, boll '"J1 and bake equal to the largest range. Ill Has a, fine oven of heavy steel sheets -11 closely riveted together. Body of Polished steel. 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The allied trench looks, in every way, like the work of inen who hoped and meant to move on aefore long. The German trench looks like the work of men who hoped or feared, that they would be in it for years. British trench housing has been much more of a paageshift, a sort of camping -out, with soms ingenious pro- visions for shelter and comfort, but not .more than the least that would serve. Most of the dugouts aro just roughly delved holes in the earth, with only enough props and rafters to bold the roofs up; their floors are bare ground, with a little straw on it; their doors, if they have any, are a few odd pieces of plank with a couple or other pieces nailed across; often the floor illiESESIBigiS=181112=3501=iii=wil Art ottery You will be pleased with the choice assortment of • New Art Pottery which we are showing this week. The assortment contains Flower Bowls, Bud "Vases, Vases of various shapes, Tars, etc„ In Yellow, Jet, Verd, Red and ]Slue. This is very attractive. Priced from $1.00 to $5.00. ROBERT NOR 64 KING ST. E., SOUTH SIDE Hamilton, Ont. THE HOUSE FOR GIFTS. Is on the trench level, to save burrow- ing, Lighting is done with candles, mostly ,bought at the canteen, and if anyone owns an armchair or a two - foot high mirror, it is the Jest of the platoon. The German front In the west is like ono huge straggling village, but of wood, and strung out along a road 30i. miles long. Of course, the homes are all underground. Still, they are houses, of one or two floors, built to certain official designs, drawn out in section and plan. The main entrance from the trench level is, sometimes at any rate, through a steel door, of a pattern apparently standardized, so that hun- dreds may cense from the factory on one order, and missing parts be easily replaced. The profusely timbered door: avay is made to their mensure. Outside this front door you May find a per- forated sheet of metal, to serve for a doormat or scraper. Inside a flight of from 12 to 36 stairs leads down at an easy angle. Tile treads of the stairs and the descending roof of the staircase are formed of mining frames of stout timber, with double top sills; the walls. are of thick planks notched at the top and bottom to fit the frames and strengthened with iron tie - reds running from top to bottom et the stairs and with thick wooden struts at right angles to these. At the foot of the staira tur acted corridor runs straight forward, for anything up to 50 yards, and from it open roomand minor passegee on each side. In many dugouts a second staircase, or two staircases, lead tp lower floor, which may be 30 feet or 40 feet below the trench level. All these staircases, Passages and rooms are, in the best specimen's, com- pletely lined with wood, and as fully strengthened with it as the entrance staircase already described. In one typical dugout each section of a pla- toon had its allotted places for mess - trig and sleeping, its own place for par- ade in a passage, and its own emer- gency exit to the trench. In another, used as a dressing station, there are bed e for 32 patients and a fair-sized operating room, A third, near Ma - meta, was designed to lionise a whole company of 300 men, with the needful kitchens, provision and Munition store rooms, a well, a forge, riveted with sheets of cast iron, an engine -room, and a motor -room. Many of the cap - Mired dugouts were thus lighted by electricity, In the officers' quarters there have been found full length mirrors, com- fortable bedsteads cushioned arm- chairs and some pictures. One room is lined with glazed sanitary wall -paper, and the present English occupant is convinced by circumstantial evidove that his predecessor lived there with his Wife and child. Clearly there was no expectation of an early move. Other German trench works show the same lavish use of labor as the dugouts. In the old German front trench south of La Boisselle an en- trance like that of a dugout leads to a flight of 24 stairs, all well finished. At their foot a landing three feet square opens on its further side upon a nearly verticlo shaft, Descending this by a ladder of 32 rungs, you find a second landing like the limn open- ing on a continuation of the shaft. Down this ladder of sixty rungs brings you to the starting point of an alinost straight level tunnel three feet wide and about five feet high, cut through pure, hard chalk, It ends in a blank wall. This is right underneath a huge crater which had evidently been held. and probably made by British troop% So that, at the moment of the advance In July, nothing remained, presum- ably, for the Germans to do but to bring the necessary tons of high ex- plosive to the end of their tunnel. and blow the mine under tbe base of the old crater. Like an incomplete dugout near laricourt, the mine still contains part of the machinery used for wind- ing up the excavated chalk to the sur- face, German trench work is. therefore. more elaborate than the British, but that does not. mean that it is better. No doubt the size and the overhead strength of German dugouts keep down casualties under bombardment and sometimes enable the Germans to bring up unsuspected forces to harass our troops in the rear with machine- gun and rifle fire when a charge has carried our men past an uncleared dugout of the kind. On the other hand. when an allied advance is made good. every German left in such a dugout will be either a dead man or a prison- er. No doubt, again, the German dug -outs give more protection from very bad weather than ours. But tb.ey also remove men more from the open air, and there is nothing to show that the half -burled German arymy gains more by relative immunity from rheu- matism and bronchitis than it. loses in the way of general health and vitality. —London Times. Ore Absolutely Painless Ara No cutting, no plas- ters or pads to press the sore spot. Putnam's Extractor makes the corn go without pain. Takes out the sting overnight. Never fails— leaves no scar. Get a 25c bottle of Putnam's Corn Extractor to -day. C rn Go! BIRD TRAGEDIES, The Feathered Creatures Often Bring Themselves to Destruction. Birds and other wild creatures, like human beings are often the victims of peculiar and unusual accidenta. Sea gulls and shore birds, which ob- tain much of their food along the ocean surf are sometime.; caught by their bille or feet by clams. Large guns have been observed flylog away with these bivalves hanging to their toes, Willets and sandpipers on eev- eral occasions have been found along the beach at Wallops !Blanc], Ve., un- able to escape from the viceliko grip of clame. The late Dr. John R. Everhart, of West Cheater, discovered a kingfish- er on the bank of a creek. The bird, although alive, was exhausted and died (soca after it was liberated. This kingfisher had evidently attempted to make a meal on a freeli water mussel, and the bard shells cleeed upon the bird's bill and it was held a helplees prisoner, unable to fly as the weight of the bivalve pulled its head dowo- Ward, A robin at West Chester was so en, raged when it saw its refleetion in a window pane that it severely injured its; bill striking the glass in futile ef, forts to vanquish a phantom antagon- let. A man at Atlantic City was rowing a boat in, a heavy fog, when a flying SHLE POLISHES LACK-W11111TE in TA N 100 KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT P. bailey CO. 0/14 CANADA, LTC., HAMILTON, CANADA wild duck, unable to see the boat corn- ing toward it, struck the man with full force ou the back of hie head. The rnan was knocked forward in a dazed condition, and the bird which weighed some three pounds, fell dead with a broken neck. - Itii, COCAS and woodcock are often killed by flying against wires of tele - Wiens} and telegraph lines, One day as David Prichard, of Scranton, was making a cast for a trout in the Broadhead, a swallow darted at his fly and was hooked by the wing, Last summer I saw an old purple marten pull one of its young, which was almost large eneugh to fly from the nest and throw it on the ground. Other martens about the box at the time ,saw thio ,but (showed no resent- ment, nor did they make any outcry as 10 usually done when their young by accident fall from the boxes. This Poor little marten, which had been so badly treated by its father, was picked up, and its legs were found to be paralyzed, owing to the fact that fine string—probably carried by the birdinto the box as a part of the nest—was tangled so tightly about the legs as to have cut off practically all circulation. It would seem that Mr. Purple Marten and his forty odd rel- atives who had homes and young in the same box, realized that this crip- pled Youngster would never be able to provide for itself, and it was unani- mously agreed that it should die, and the blue -coated father was the execu- tioner. DRS. SOPER de WHITE SPECIALISTS Plies, Eczema, Asthma, Catarrh. Pimples, Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, Rheumatism, Skin, Kid- ney, Blood, Nerve and Bladder Diseases. Call or send history for free advice. Medicine furnished in tablet form. Hours -10 an, to 1 p.m. and 2 to 8 p.m. Sendays-10 a.m. to 1p.m. Consultation Free DRS, SOPER ct• 26 Toronto St., Tororite,, 014. Please Mention This Paper, Johnny Roche's Tower. Standing on the banks of the river Awberg, between Mallow and Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, is a remarkable edifice known as "Johnny Roche's Tower." The whole tower was built by the labor of one man, who subse- quently resided in it. This individual, who received- no education whatever, also erected a min, sconstructing the water wheel after a special design of his own. Long before the introduction of the bicycle he went about the coun- try in a wheeled vehicle of his own construction propelledeby foot power. His last feat was to build his tomb in the middle of the river bed. John Roche died, but was not interred faS , the etrange burying place which he selected for himself, his less original relatives deeming such a mode of sep- ullatugraezinuouchristian. — London Strand i‘ - • 4. M inard's Liniment Cures Carget In M Cows, They Meant Well. A postal correspondent sends the following extracte from letters that officials: i•ently been addressed to the 'Dear Sir,—My husband has been away at the crystal palace and got a four days furlong and hee now gone to the m:nd eweepers." "Dear Sir, I am his grandfather and grandmother. He was born and brought up in thte house in answer to : You have changed my Your ealerttserir." little boy into a little girl, will it make any difference in the future?" "Dear Sir: "I have not received no my husband gone from no- pwahye ei.11,,c Another correspondent who had a grievance replied: "In previous corres- pondence with your office I am always deocribed as 'Mrs.' you yould form a different opinion if you eaw my whis- k ers,"--Mancheeter Guardian. I was cured of terrible lumbago by MINARD'S LINIMENT. REV, WM. BROWN. I was cured of a bad case of ear-, ache by 11-1INARD'S LINIMENT. allaS. S. KAULBACK. I was cured of sensitive lungs by MIlelARD'S LINIMENT. MRS, S, MASTERS. Ada Rehan's Bandsman, Miss Ada Behan used to say that the finest appreciation of her acting she ever observed camefrom ft bands- man in the orchestra of a Birming- ham theatre. -When she played the angry Katharine she had ono piece of superb fury—a swift march to the back of the stage, a right about turn and then a straight march down the stage, pulling up short and sharp at the footlights. One night she saw a bandsman sitting directly In her line of edvanee shrink back in his chair at the moment of the full stop at the footlights. "Sure, lie thought, I wasn't going to atop on the stage," Miss Behan said. 9. wonder if he is married to a Kath- arine." The next day she sent him a box Of eigars.—Manchaster Guardian. 0 • Minardls Liniment Cures Distemper. Ancient Basket Makers, The Worshipful Company of Basket Makers dates back to 1569, but basket making was a recognized craf 1 in Lon - /Ion more than a century before then. In 1403 basket makers "and other for- eigners" were banished by the com. mon council to the old manor of Blanche Appleton, and in 1538 even those English basket mekers who were still permitted to bye in the city were shnilarly dealt with, on account of their indifference to the danger frora fire.—London Chronicle. Minard's isinimens Cues Blphtherla, CoMMOn sense is very Uneouttnen, HOrstde Greeley, ISSUE NO, 44, 1916 `.4 HELP WANTED, 0".0....",...""owyW4WWW,e1MoNo."0,"0.00W4 WANTEIl---GIRLS TO WOR1C ON Knit witierwear—seamers aka fur' !shed stitchers preferred. Ws alsorsle learners, any girl with good knov of plain sewing; good wages; 1404iao• tory conditions. Zimmertnan Ilanufts,e. Wring Co., Ltd., Aberdeen and Gar* streets, ono WANTED — HOUSEMAIDS waitresses. Pr.violgo vglycir not necessary. Apply, 0.rhe we an St. Catharines, Ontario. WANTED— EXPERIENCED COOK. szkoortx1,:ignigs laundry workL. wages . Address, 3S5 QUeen street south, Hamilton, Ont. •••••••••••••• MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED—GIRLS OF GOOD EDTJCA., '• Von to train for purses. Apply, Wellandra Hospital, St, Catharines, Ont. GIRLS WANTED Ex;torlenced knitters and loop. era, alas young girls to learn. Clean work and highest wages. CHIPMAN-HOLTON KNITTING CO., LIMITED, HAM' TON, ONTARIO, FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN 1) POTTER CYLINDER PRESSES—A L, half sheet Double Demy and •s, half sheet Double Royal size. Make 113 an of- fer for them, Woll suited for a Coun- try Printing Office, Address, Times Printing Company, Hamilton, Ont. RABBITS FOR SALE. Temporarily overstocked; bargains while they last. Grey Flemish Giants, Rufus Red Belgian Hales all ages fully pedigree. Write to DONALD WATERS, 175 Jackson Street 'West, Hamilton, Ont. Disgusted Scots. (New York Sun.) Correspondents on the western front see some great exhibitions of courage on the part of Sir Douglas Haig's men --some of them rather amusing. One writer sends the fol- lowing to his paper in London: "The angriest man I have seen since the first morning of the'fight was a Ssotsman who was so disgusted that be had difficulty in finding words to exprees himself at having got a bullet through his leg before the real fun began. It was another Scotsman who regretted that the enemy ran instead of stopping to have It out, because, he said, when you can use your bayonet "It makes it so much cheaper — an adniirable phrase." . 4 BETTER THAN SPANKING Spanking does not cure children of bed-wetting. There is a constitutional cause for this 'trouble. atm. M. Sum- mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send frge to any mother her success- ful home treatment, with full instruc- tions. Send no money but write her to- day if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it. This treat- ment als-o cures adults and aged peo- ple troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. . - Officers' Training School. The Defence Minister of Australia has decided to establish a Central School of Instruction for selected candidates for commissions in the Australian Imperial Force, The: school, which will be in the neigh- borhood of the Royal Military Col- lege at Duntroon, will have 400 candi- dates, will be under the super- vision of the 'staff of the Military Cpllege. It has also been decided to establieh a non-commissioned officers' school in each district, and no non-ccimmissionecl officer will be permitted to embark with the Aus- tralian Imperial Forces until he has qualified at one of these schoels. Candidates for commissions will also be required to pass through the non- commissioned officers' school. MInard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. . 40* Made a Social Outcast. In Court ;birdies in England- it- is a serious matter to incur royal displea- sure, The ynan or woman who does so intentionally ceases to be recognized by His Majesty, which means Social extinction. The offender's name is struck out of the visiting list 01' every person who is anybody in society, and should the offender be a Man be Is politely informed that his resignation from hie club or clubs would not be out of place. No man or woman of social repute will in future know and if he is in the army or navy he has no option but to resten, for 110 will find himself cut dead by every one of his brothsr officers.—London M. A. P. THE HIDDEN HIDE. (Judge) . Little Bobby was sent to tho bathroom arid told to take a thorough bath, after having played close to*Mother Earth ell day. "How are you getting along?" called Ms mother. "Pretty well," replied Bobby, optimis- tically: "I'm almost getting down to myself," The Bread Problem is not a problem in the home where Shredded Wheat is known, The whole wheat grain is the real staff of life, and you have it in Shredded Wheat Biscuit prepared in a clige$tible form. It con- tainq more real body-build- ing material than meat pr eggs* is more easily digested, and cost q much less. The food for the up -and -corning man who does things y.rith hand or brain—for the kid- dies that need a well-bal- anced food for ptudy or play for the housewife who Must save herself from kitchen drudgery,. De 1 i ci ous for breakfast or any mealt with milk or cream, Made in Canada•