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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-12-14, Page 6IWW101•19•1•001 I WHY THE. NAVAL °RANGY -10 We are beginning to Warn the roe on roe Making Adalira' Beatty COM - Meader of the Grand Fleet, and Ad Vaal Jellicoe First Sea Lord. Since the change Was made the ole colentrY newsPapere get that it . %lee made becauee of eliseatiefaction !tit the Admiralty ticarel, and the theirs to have. a Man freeh from the Ilea at Its heath -There lute been an agnatien of tkie kind going on for some Cale, Some weeks ago in the Howe of Lortle, Lord Bereeferd, Fighting Char" ley, speaking of the Gertnan embitter- inee, declared that he was convinced that the Unger the war lasted the more sericite would the eubmarine menace become unicee more vigorous. and energetic action was taken to etop it. With thie object, he sug- geeted that the Board of Admiralty ahould be strengtheued by the intro- ductiou of new blood in tlie shape at younger men, freeh from the sea, who had distinguished therneelves in the war, and had practical experience of the way in which it could be best car- ried on. Further, he suggested that no coaling facilitiee at any port belong- ing to the Allies should be given to Germans for two years after the war, and another year should be added •for every month' that they continued their piracy, A new department eliould be formal at the Admiralty to deal with submarines, .with an admiral straight from the aea • to central it. Why should not Greece also be held reepon- sible for allowing her harbors to be used as submarine bases? A blockade had onl3e to be threatened, and the thing would be'stopped. It ehould be publicly stated. that adequate cement- eation would have to be paid for !WS - es inflicted cu shipping by illegal me- thods of warfare. Lastly, the blockade ehould be tightened by every means in our power. Ie wanted to see the pol- 1 icy of the Government reversed, We should have a fighting policy instead of a defensive policy. We were taking far too great care of •our fleet, saki his lordship. It bad been stated in high quarters that if we lost any ships of the Grand Fleet it would affect our credit with our Allies. Let us go back to our old traditions. Give the Fleet a free hand, and put young men in the pheitiOnee of adminestration as well as in the executive. The Earl of -Lytton emphatically re- pudiated the suggestion that the policy of the Board with regard to naval strategy was no longer governed by the desire to seek out and destroy the shipof the enemy. He said: ' The German aim to reduce the super- iority of our fleet had failed. Relatively the strength of ouenavy to that of Ger- many was greater now than. at ,the outbreak of war, and no naval oper ation devised by the war etaff or the leaders of the fleet had failed because of the action of the German navy. In the last two yeare we had transported across tne ens over 7,000,000 persons, effective and non -effective, for purely military purposes, During tive e:ame time 1,250,000 horses and mules had been transported, and 7,000,000 tore cf supplies and ammunition. No danger from submarines had ever intimidated our merchantmen, while the actual de- struction of Britieh merehant shipping by submarines amounted only to a lit- tle over 21ge per cent. of the total grose tonnage of merchant ships of 1,000 tend and over. However, ft looks as if the Govern- ment had thought well of Lord Beres- ford' e suggestion .to make one who had been at the sea front head of the Board, and the choice of Admiral Jellicoe was the result. He at least the situation on the seasand this may will have first hand information as to *help him to deaf more intelligently with the situation. • HER HUMBLE _LOVER . ••••••••6669.66.19996.6969960.••••••••••91 He Woks up quickly, then tights= the sail. "And Lady Blyte?" "Ali, yes," she says, smiling faintly, "Suck a made dame! She received me like a dachess—black satin and point lace, and a long white liana held out so"—and she bolds out her hand. "I beg your pardon! 1 ought not to have let go that"—the tiller. "It was a treat to see her presiding at lunch- eon; it was as if she was bestowing a favor on the knives and forks by using them. leut I liked her, though 1 am afraid she didn't think much of me. I lilted lier because ehe MS so proud of her son, Sir Fred- eric—she worships hien! She told me he was the best tem a woman ever had, and the clevereet, she added." "And Sir Frederic?" Signe laughs happily. "Sir Frederic was more the Great than the other evening; he was on bis ONIeV, territory, you see. But he was very kind—oh, moat kind. He showed me everything. He was as neat as 13lyte Park—'painfully neat,' as Hood says. I quite felt for him, his collar was so high and stiff. But he was very kind! He took a great deal of trouble. I admired a ruined old tower --part of an abbey, Lady Blyto said it was—and he had the horses put to the landau and drove us to it, though it was barely a mile from the house. Such a -quaint old man—a deaf old man—keeps the keys, We went to the top, and we Could see Northwell Grange quite plainly." f`The poor Grange!" murmurs Hee- tor Warren, in pleasant mimicry of tlio tone she had used. She nods, "Yes, the poor Grange. And I couldn't help wishing that it was—not quite so neat, but as much cared for as Blyte Park. Lord Delemare must bo a very foolish man." He nods gravely. "Yes, he always was a fool. But Sir Frederic?" "Oh, I think that is all. Excepting that he took me round the hothouses, .and picked a huge bunch of flowers, as he said he 'would." "You left them in the hall, and they would have died if Mary hada't put them in water," breaks in Archie, re- proachfully. Signe colors, then she laughs apolo- getically. "It was very ungrateful. Yes; Sit Frederic was most good-natured. I almost felt inclined to agree with his mother that he was the best -tempered tnan in the world." aze.''Alrnost?" says the grave, musical voice. Signe colors and laughs. "Yes; it %is a great shame, but I could not lielp fancying—you know what slight things one judges by? -1 that, if -Sir Ft:Wei° had not every - thin -g' lie own way, be would not be quite so' good-naturea." • Ho looks .up at her and nods. "I understand," lie says. "I had a horse once -1 mean no disrespect to Sir Frederic; comparisons are odious was as beautiful and easy-going a creature as a man might wish to Possess, so long as it has its own way. But the moment yoie wanted to go a road he didn't like, it would be trans- formed. We fought it out one day*' nle early killed me, but I conqueeel. 1 think Sir Frederic would"be like my poor horse if he were crossed." Lightly spoken, in the quietest, easiest tones, and yet the words clung eto Signa, and were recalled at a critical moment in her future. He laughs. "Luckily there is no one to cross Sir Frederic," she says; "they are his abject slaves, even his mother. Poor Lady Blyte! I think sho is the proud- est person. I have ever met. She showed me their family tree; I didn't understand it, but it made out, I think, that they were descended from Noah." He leans back, las arms resting on the seat upon with% she its, and,looks at her, revelling in her hanuinees. The English Language. A weather vane is never vain And has no vein of humor; A window pane is free from pain, No roomer free from rumor. A strait is very seidonl straight, A knight is eeldom dark; Yoe see no tier beside a bier, No bark Upon a barque. Shad roe could never row a boat; A Dane might deign to row one; A toat was never known to quote A bough will bow to no one. A boy elite threw right through door A ceitt that Rent him seeking. And while they talked the Matter o'er ehowed hie Ogee by peeking A ruler reigns in rain or chine, With reign held tight or loose; One May be nine and not benign, A mite might still redeee. A Monkey climbe in tropic climes And people think he'e funny, And 1 have made these money rhyme Becauge I knead the money, —William Kirk. 46 6 * Out of the Mouths of Babies. Little Fred—I've been awful sick, Little Harry ---le hat was the matter? Little Fred—I had. brain fever— right in my head, too—the worst place any one could have it, "Sohnny," said the miniater to vi bright little fellow of six, "do you know the ten commandments?" "Not very well," replied tba Atoung- ‘,1 just kuuw 'put by eight." Small Nellie had been to an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" matinee. After the show was over she said: 'Mamma, does lit- tle Eva, play again to -night?" "We, dear, I suppose so," reviled the mother. "Won," continue.] Nellie, after a mo- mett's thought. "I don't tee how she can die and go to heaven at 4 o'elook and get back in time to die again et ' Sonic people are se afraid they'll miss eolnething that, they never Make it bit. "But she was very lust," goes on Signe; "she admitted that the Dela- laeres wore. a little older." "That was very kind," he says, with Indolent carelessness. "Yes, but she made up for her 4admission by declaring that Lord Delamere ought not to be permitted to live," and she laughs. "Am I steering eroperly? I don't understand it in the least." "Quite properly—admirably," ho says. "Poor Delainere. And slid she give her reasons?" . "No," said Signe, bending over to dip her hand in the water—no girl ever sat in a boat without dipping her ,liand in the water. "No, but she in- timated that he was everything that wee bad and utterly useless." ".4.14" he says, lazily, "not quite useless, seeing that, no doubt, he has been upheld by her as a warning to her son, Sir Frederic." Signe. laughs. "I never thoughof that. Where • ere we going? That is the open sea, levet it? How lovely it looks! May we go over the bar?" "If you like," he says, rising and looking at the sky. "It's calm enough. Put your helm to the right; that Is it. You would soon learn to steer cr boat. Now, Archie, mind the water; W$ shall ship sonie spray here." "All right," says Archie, who- IMO been examining the contents of a locker with all it boyel keen curiosity. "Here are some biscuits here; I grip - rose I can take one? Whitfield wOn't mind." "Oh, no," essente Heater Warren. "Hold the tiller firmly now, please, Sig—Mies Grenville," and hie hand closes over hers. • Signe, feels the strang thrttl un throtigh her at his toueli, and the telltale color spriegs to her face, but lie is too occupied with the sails to notice it. With her galls blown out to the ft:nett, the boat makes it dash for the bar, rides ever the foaming MVO, find glides into the open sea. The windeee, summer breeze only—rufflee flignIt's hair, red gold in the bright, warm sunshine, and brings the color to her clear, iale face; her heart bounde within her; she Mole am if all her life were compreeeed int& the Moe Mont; ahe ItneWs that grand sense - tier( Which teen have called hapPiteett. Almost ellently they Sail en; Arehie the repo whistle againat the Made. wliclSigna, ell unconscious of dan- ger, Wake extremely Signa, lying Warn' “Ild COMfOrtabl8. little gliefigob, as SILO gazes at the calm, bet face, the thoughts that are working in h1s alert braie. Ile are not let the eaile down—the moment- ary elacitealug of speed might owing the boat round and i:apsize it, and yet, as they are, any Mement the etorin may be too much ter there and overturn the boat; and as be Woke through the veil of pelting rain at the dark sky, he is thinking how he shall manage to save them both if the boat should turn over; aad a Ilene, gnawing remorse takes peesessioa of him at the thought that it is he who le to blame for this half-hour of peril. But there ie no sign of theee mental throe e in hie face; calm and impasse Ivo he eits, ready to Meet Signa's up. turned gaze with a cheerful smile, Meanwhile the boat is flying toward St. Clare; but its speed brings hiln, little consolation. They may be fly- ing from the peril cif the raging open sea, to the more deadily danger of sunken rocks near shore. He knows nothing of the approach to the island, and must rely Up= his judgment un- aided by knowledge. Hastly, Ile scans the dark line of rocky shore and, choosing—he has only a moment or two in which to choose --a spot more sheltered than the reat, puts down the helm and drives the boat upon the pebbly beach. The shock sends Archie rolling over With a peal of laughter, which Signa echoes; the big sea falls rustling into the boat, and Hector Warren, spring- ing up to his waist in the water, drage the boat on the top of the next wave further on land, and with a murmured "Thank Heaven!" holds out his arms. "Come quickly!" he says, or rather shouts, for the wind howls like a wild beast deprived of its prey; and Sig- ne, mildly surprised, staggers to her feet, only to fall again, but that he takes. her in his arms and supports her. It is no time for false deli. eaoY, and without a word he lifts her to the seat in the stern, and with a "Hold tightly to me!" presses her to his breast, and places her lightly on the hore. Then he takes Archie in .his arrasand drops him beside her, and pointing to a sheltering rock for them to fly to waits for the Assistance of the next wave to drag the boat in- to safety. Fen the first time, Signe, looking at the wind -lashed sea, sees what he has brought them through, and under- standstheir danger; and as she watches the stalwart figure, drenched to the skin, quietly approaching her, a wild thrill of admiration of his phy- sical strength and self-possession sends the blood to her face. After all, strength is the quality all women most admire in mon; before it they kneel, humble and vanquislied; and as Signs looks up at him, that vague, womanly reliance and ease fill her heart and make her meek and Beady to be as obedient as a child. MI unconscious that something prompts her to take his cold, wet hand and warm it against her cheek, which his care and forethought have kept warm and dry he begins to apol- ogize and beg hor pardon. "I ought not to have crossed the bar," he says, full of remorse; "I am afraid you are wet and cold. I am very, very sorry " Signe interrupts him with a ges- ture almost of impatience. munches Itis biscuit, Signa leans back on her easy etishione, while Hector Warren, coiled et her feet, his hand almeet touching her drew, seems lost in thought, though hie eyes are fixed on the ;mile, and his mind on his task. "If one could but sail On like thie forever!" Wake Sigma Ae the thought and desire float across her mind, a spot of rain falls on her face, "What is that?" she aske—"spray?" "No, rain," lie replies, and his dark eyes Mu the sky. 'We are going to have the shower Whitefield prophes- ied. Let me put yotir.oil shin on." "Oh! I don't think I shall want it," nays Signe,. But he rises and puts it around her, slowly, carefully, as if he were wrap- ping up eomething very precious. 'Put it around your throat," he says, and as he draws it round her, his fin- gers touch her white, fair nook, "There," he says, gently, with a long breath, "you will be dry now. Archie, come under this mackintosh of mine," and he covers him over, leaving oly a Peep -hole, "But you—what will you do?" de- mands Signe. . He laughs carelessly. "What does it matter?" he says; "I am ail right as long as you do not get vet, and Archie. Everything is right; you need not trouble to steer now, I will do it." "No!" says Signe, and her hand closes over the tiller. "I will -do it. Un- less you don't care to trust me." He nods. "Very well, but you mut not get wet. Ah! Here it comes!" It—meaning the storm—came in pure earnest, Whitefield prophesied a shower, but this is a ptorm. Hector Warren looks at the black remises of clouds that have appeared in a magi- cal manner on the lately blue sky, and he tells Signe to put the helm round. As she does' so the sail swings to the wind with a threatening whish, and the boat leans over till the spray dash- es in over the gunwale. "Come here, he says to Signa; quietly. "Lie down at the bottom of the boat. I win take the tiller. I can- not let you get wet." Signs obeys, as she would the quiet voice if it ordered her to walk over a precipice. Tenderly he covers her With the oil -skin, so arranging the cushion that it makes an easy bed for her, then he take the tiller and makee for the bar. But as he nears it his heart fails him, not for himself, but for her and the child. There is the possibility of danger—the possibility only —but he cannot risk it. "Signe," he says, bending down. She can scarcely hear his voice he the howling of the wind and the pelt - of the rain, and she draws her- self nearer to him, so near that her face almost rests against him. • "Signe," he says, using her Chris- tian name unconaciously, 'we cannot cross the bar just yet. You are not afraid?" She laughs. Afraid! This strange joy and happinees that fills her heart leaves no room for fear. "Ali right," he says, ',Keep tho oil- skin round you"; and he bends down aind draws it about her, his two hands touching her face. "Do not be alarmed. The storm will soon pass." "I do not care," she says, and she nestles down beeide him. He -glances at Archie, quite protect- ed by the tarpaulin, and still munch- ing at the biscuit, and then he puts the helm about and makes for the open sea again. If this should be it ehort shower, all is well; if noe—well, he has his wits about him and knows how to manage a boat. It is not a sim- ple shower. The wind rises, the sky grows black, He looks around keenly. On the left of him is a rocky ieland called St. Claire's. There le a rude, rough kind of shelter there, but if he goes there, there he must stay till the storm abates. Meanwhile, what will the rector and Ills wife say? He hesitates a moment, then he looks down at the graceful fignre coil- ed at his feet, and muttering, "Her safety before anything," he makes for St. Clare's. CHAPTER X. "I do not care!" says Signe, and it Is true. She does not care, come storm or sunshine, so that she may be there with the cool, green waves rushing past the boat, with the clouds flying above her head, and the white sails blown tight by the winds, Is it only the keen, sweet, briny air, and the swift motion that bring her so much delight; that awaken the new- born happiness In her heart? or has the presence of Hector Warren any- thing to de with it? Shee'does net; ask herself; she le content tit lie at ease, to feel that his stroll!! White hand is on the tiller; that she is under his care and protection. "If it could but last forever?" she thinks, with it dreamy wistfulhess. "If we could but sail on—on, away from the rectoryortVay, from the past, to some new land where all is light and happiness?" Occasionally oho looks up at the tail figure seated 10 the stern, with one hand grasping the tiller, and the oth- er tending the sail sheet, looks up to dark eyes, charged with it keen, wate ehful expression utterly unlike the tad, dreamy one she is atquainted with. He seems so absorbed in his work that she thinks he has forgotten her presence; but once as she look* she meets his eyes beat on her with it Watehful tendernest thee thrills her to the heart; but he seats nothing, on- ly smiles the rare Mile and nods eri- couragingly. "Aro you not getting fearfully wet?" she says, raising herself on her elbow. He shakee his head , though the pelting rain must have saturated hire long since, and motions to her to lie dOwn again, "It is of no conseeuenee," he eaye. "nut you—yon Mat not Mtn% not yet, See, there are some rain-drOpe on your hair. ICeep the oll-skin round your head, please. Archie, is he all right?" 'I tim all right," sings out 'Arthie, with hia mouth full of bistult. "Are you going to St. Clare, Mr. Warren?" It le a questimi net easily artswer- ed, If Mortal man tan teke the boat there, Hector Warren will do it; but the storm is friereating every. min. We, and he is running haitiwaY against the wind—it wind that makes MAGIC ,BAKING POW -DER 111101•111=0666 404141411440 11111111=111 Still901111 kiel=111 "I —I!" she says, and her voice through him. "What do you think of me? I have been lying wrapped up in comfort, with no knowledge or care of danger, while you -you are wet through and must have known every - moment!" and she lays her hand upon his wet sleeves, humbly, remorsefully. "I thought it was all fun, and was I enjoying it, and all the time you were fighting the wind and the waves, What fools women are! And you are 'wet—wet through!' He laughs carelessly. "Which does. got matter in the slightest," he says. "Now to fin.d a place of shelter for you!" and he looks round eagerly. St. Clare is a wild, barren spot, un- inhabited, save. by the sea -gulls, and rarely visited excepting by some chance eishermanain quest a eggs, but Hector Warren is not discouraged by the cheerless prospect. After a ew minutes' search he finds it hollow cavern. termed in the rocks, and hav- ing ascertained that the floor is dry, Ito comes back. '"I have found a shelter, such as it is," he says. "Come along." The wind blows with such violence that he has to hold a hand of each of them on their way, and with a sigh of relief he sets Archie down in a corner, and makes a pile of dry bea. weed into a couch for Signe.. "Stay!" he says, "let me take off that oilskin; it must be awfully wet," and she obediently stands up. Gently, tenderly, he.removes it, and the lithe, graceful figure emerges, her dress •somewhat crushed, hut dry. "Are you sure you are not wet?" he asks, anxiously. "Let me wipe your dress," and he goes down on his knees and wipes the edge of her frock with his handkerchief, Signe. protesting all the time, yet faintly. "Now sit down and rest," he says, "and I will go down to the bOat for minute." "But why?" says Signe, reproach- fully. "Out in the rain again! It it you who should met." "I will Only be a minute," he says, cheerfully. "Viten, it you will go you must wear this," she says, and she gives him the oilskin, and holds hinl by the sleeve until he takes it. (To be continued.) 1111121111116111 eseseinesges EAGILLETTOIETTici.'Agyr LIMITED WINNIPEG MONTREAL AnonalwidalMe Out of the Mouths of Babies. Little Fred—I've been awful sick. Little Harry—What Was the matter? Little Fred—I had brain fever— right in my head, too—the worst place any one could have it. "Johnny," said the minister to a bright little fellow of six, "do you know the ten commandmente?" ' "Not very well," replied the young- ster. "I just know 'em by sight." 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Now he cuts a slab of bacon, 'which he placed Inside the lien, with a goodesprinkling of salt and pepper, at last stuffing feathers into the open- ing to keep the meat 'dean. This done, he covered the chickeii with the mud Paste. - Now he dug a hole deep enough to put the bird in. In the hole he built a fire and waited until there was a thick coating of coals on .the sides and bot- tom. -Next he carefully placed the mud -coated chicken on top. All this he covered with shovels of dirt until the hole was airtight. Now he turned to me and said: "It will be cooked in cue hour from now." „ .With that he went his way. At the end of tho hour ne came again and, throwing back the soil, drew forth the chicken, quickly skin- ned it and laid before us a eelicately trowned chicken with a wholesome odor about it.—Outiag. mars FOR THE CURIOUS. Texas is devoting—130,000 acres to peanut culture Dickinson College, Collide, Pa., Is 132 years eld this year. The United States last year produc- ed 1,731 tons of asbestos. Experts have listed more than 10,- 000 varieties of orchids. A Water.cooled motorcycle engine has been invented by an Engliehmen. grl'arihth, Theixstate capitals of Australia have been connected by wireless tele - Each of the 30,000,000 workere itt the tatted States 10sete on the aver- age, OM nine days every year on account of sickness. The average Ituselan wheat yield is only 10 busheIa to the here. New Orleans demands heavy 10 - &meaty bond from Puy drivers. Only two marriage Peensee wee() Is - Sued to grooms of Montpelier, Vt., fl olty ef about 8,000, during the month of Stine. More weddings than two took plaee in the city &Irina Suns, BETTER THAN SPANKING Spanking does not cure children of bed-wetting. There is a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum- mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send free to ,any mother her suceess- 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 aleo cures adelts and aged peo- ple troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. BRITISH WIT AND HUMOR. awl goosivo laglioill 061111 IIRIA*Gs WA rlt. gpmzsi Ms do, Okil• /Soo Os rops4 sa Vary:G=1 gitigra7s:trag °trios: owl* GI itzres is cassis who *old Cy itist_titt" 60oaiu4,144:14679_11,u'iorit:171.4.. *ow gr.. „ . MIT Plerli (a. GAIN tropo•ro 66 0606 o soy •666606 0* Armin C0004o. axon's Trapb6r GlIGA EIMILEM) FREE Isim,::te;urilititr, at... riop Oeylo usi.Olt (UMW loot hos on ragout . AArls000 es tato** JOHN HALLAM 1141111t04 am Hallam aunding, Toronto. etory show?" "Please, sir," came from a little giri.in the trent row, "it shove how many children two she bears can hold!" "Patience and pereeveranco will ac. complish all thinge," was a favorite (saying of an old miller, He made thia remark on it train one day ea the way to market, when a pompous indivicluai In the corner turned to him crosslY and said; "Nousenee, sir, I can tell you a great many things Which neith- er patience nor perseverance can ac- complish." "Perhaps you can," %said the miller, "but I have never yet come acmes one thing." "Well, then. tell you one. Will patience and Perseverance ever enable you to carry water in a eieve?" "Certainly." "I "I would like to know how?" "Simply by waiting patiently for the water to freeze." Mr. Goodfellow had dined out six nightin succession. On the seventh ho turned up at home for the evening meal. When he was seated Mrs. Good- fellow rose In her seat, and, address- ing the other oecupants of the table, said; "Children, we have with tes to- night a guest of whom you have all hoard, even if you do not pereonallY know him. He is a man who has a re- putation for conviviality and cheer in every 'elub and cafe in the city, and this evening we are to have the honor and pleasure of being numbered am- ong the admirers of his brilliant and entertaining qualities. Therefore, it Is "You are not the boy who usually caddies for me?.!' "No, sir; I to,seed up wif 'im for yer." "And you won?" "No; I lost." Benevolent Gentleman—Johnny, my boy, I am Garry to see that you have a black eye. Johnny (ungraciauslY).— You go home and be sorry for your own little -boy. Heei got two! Court (to prosecutor)—Then you re- cognize the handkerchief as the one which eves. stolen? Prosecutor—Yee, your honor, Court—And yet it ien't the only handkerchief of that sort in the world. See, this one I have in my pocket is exactly like it." Prosecutor —Very likely, your honor, there were two stolen. Witneee the answer to queetion put by badgering counsel—it was a mau with one eye named Wilkine. 13, C.— Oh, indeed! And what was the name of his other eye? Witnee.s—Well,"and how would you put it? B. C.—Why, a man named Wilkins 'with one eye, of course. Witness—Wilkins with one 1? Spell it! Laughter in court. A farmer, who wale an inspector of a school in 'Yorkshire, once asked a Waste of small boys the meaning of the word "nought." All was quiet for a few minutes, then suddenly a little hand went up. "Well," asked the farmer, "what is the answer?" "Nought is what Yorkshire famine give for bold- ing their horses' header was the un- expected respOnse. A visitor to a Sunday school was naked to address a few remarks to the children. He took the familiar theme of the ehildren who Mocked' Elisha sea his journey to Bethel—how the young ones taunted the prophet, an.d how they were punished when two she bears came out of the woode and ate forty -and -two of them. "And now, children," said he, "what does this Wag a HOSIM M IM •4' " sesanusras •••••••••roe, .era. Kidney Disease Mr. dolin B. Pmnfrey, Partner. Viceroy, &telt, Was twice operated en In an English hospital for kidney disease. Urinary troubles grew Worse and caused excruciating pain. no new states positively that he hes been mired by Br. Chase's ididner- Liver Pills and Is enjoying excellent health. Tales farther proof that na Cltese's Milner...Liver ruts, by their combined action, cure the most iser.h ileum and complleated ailment/1 of tho kidneys. Prove this for yourself,. Ono pin a dose, St eta, a box, all dealers, or rtdmantion, Bates & 00., Ltd., T0ront0. 1161.1 LI Vert Pitts 11111•1•01101.111111•••••••1 Fairville, Sept. 30, 1902. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Dear •Sirs,—We wish to inform you that we consider your 1\11N- ARD'S LINIMENT a very superior article, and we use it as a sure relief for sore throat and offest. When I tell you I would not be without it if the price was one dollar a bottle, I mean it. Yours truly, CHAS. F. TILTON, 4411•19111.1•61•194199991 with the greatest pleaeure that I pre- sent to you—your papa." • As she stood outside the little coun- try inn two great tears shone in her innocent eyes, tears so large that -the passing cyclist saw them. Beauty in dietreee caused him to dismount and ask if he could be of any aseistance "I'm afraid not, thank your replied the dameel sorrowfully, as she pointed Lo an automatic chodolate machine at- taehed to the wall of the inn. "I've just put a penny in that thing, and nothing has come out." "That's soon remedied!" said the young man conefidently. He elipped a coin into- the slot, and then another and another. After the sixth lie muttered angrily, raised his cap, and pedalled wildly away. As he disappeared a female head peeped round the door. "Any luck?" asked the owner thereof. "Oh, yes, ma!" replied the simple damsel gaily. "That's the tenth. I've netted three bob since dinnertime." •9 • Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. ISSUE HUM WANTED. elifANTED-- 111141$ To WORIC RIF knit le erweer—evainers and !shed stitchers prererree. Wu else vise learners, gni girl with good lenowler4g of plain sewing; good Wages; ideal fac- tory coeditiene. Zimmerman elenufam 'Wring Co.. Ltd., Aberdeen and Otirth etreete, ZIarnitten, Ont. WANT41)---14A,1)/1ie TO 110 PLA.IN " And hget newing at hem*, whole or spare time; good pay; work seat any els. tance, chargee paid. Send stamp for pare Melva—National Manufacturing CM^ puny, eloutreet, AikralciTIi1D--A GOOD GENERAL SER. vant for small family; highest wages; comfortable Inane. Adams& mrs- Jahn. Ielee, 125 Ilemewood Avenue, Ont, England's Income Tax. come tax was first ingecreed in Eng- land by Pitt in 1799. It vac a tempor- ary inapositiou and was graduated on at lincomes from $200 to $1,000 a year, .wIth a tax of 10 per cent. on all in- comes over $1,000. Addington reim- posed the tax when the war with France broke out in 1803, and the rate was fixed at 5 per cent. on in - cornea of $750 a year and over. On hie ,return to power in 1803 Pitt contin- ued the tax, and it was gradually in- creased until 1815; when it was abro- gated. Peel revived it, however, for urely fiscal reasons in 1842, and, al- though his original intention was to impose. it only for three years, it has continued ever sin.ce. 1 HANKFUL MOTHERS FOR, SALE, FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN 0) POTTER CYLINDER P11ESSES---4 half sheet Double Demy and hall sheet Double Royal size. Make ui an of- fer for them. Well suited for a Coun- try Printing Office, Address. Times 'Printing Company. Hamilton, Ont. Thousands of thankful limners throughout Canada—many of them your own neighbors—speak with the greatest praise of that splendid medi- cine, Baby's Own Tablets. Many mothers would have no other medi- cine for their little ones. Among then is Mrs. Albert N10, St. BreuX, Sask., who says: "I have been using Baby's Own Tablete for the past seven years, and they have done my four children a world of good. I would not be with- out them." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cent e a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. * THE ANSWER. Proudly the flag that protected our fathers Floats o'er the freemen of Brita.in. to- day: Waves o'er the battleship bulwarks of Britain, Holding the hordes of tho TwatOrt at bar. Proudly the fleet that ioretected our fath- cra Biding rnajest1.0 lit battle arraY; Strains at the leash as It watts on tho Waters. Silent but eager to wolOome "The Day." Clear conies the call from the fleet or old' England, Clear let the onswer ring (wee the sett; Deea cans to doep and the soul of the Briton Answers that Britons shall ever be free. Proud lot the blood of the men of Tree faigar, Leap through the veins of Canedians to. day; Proud, let us answer tho fleet of old Eng' and, Give uz our pittee in tho thick of the fray. Minood,• Liniment Cures Diphtheria. LONG WAita. (Birmingham Age -Herald) "Why do you Always take along a book when 'you go nut motoring with Mr. Glithers?" "00", replied Mrs. anthers, "r reed it while heet making repairs on the ear. /ft feet, / keep up with all the leteat teflon that way." THE HO FOR GIFTS When in Hamilton do not fall to visit junor's, the House for Gifts, See our display of China, Art Pottery C Glass and An- tique Furniture, Pictures, etc. you will be made welcome. ROBERT JUNOR 62 KING ST. E. sOUT11 SIDE Hamilton, Ont. NOT HIS JOB. "I'm not supposed to do that," said ho, When an extra task he chanced to 'ea; "That's not my job, and it's not my 0, So I'll pass it by and leave it th And the boss who gave him his Wet pay Lost more than his ivages oo him that day. "I'm not supposed to do that," he said; d "That duty belongs to Jim or Fred." So a little task that vas in his way That ho -could have handled without de- lay Was left unfinished; the way was paved For a heavy loss that he could have saved. And thne went on and ts 0 kept his place But he never altered bin easy pace, And folks remarked 04 a0V1 well he knew The line of the tasks he err.c hired to do; For never once was ht it,own to turn His hand to things not of his concern. But there in his foolish rut he stayed And for all he did ho was fairly paid. But he never was worth a dollar more Than he got for his toll when the week was o'er; Fot he know too well when his work was through And he'd done all he vas hired to do. If you want to grow la this world, young man, 'You must do every day all the work you can: If you find a task, though it's not your And it should be done, take care of it! And you'll never conquer or rise if yott Do only the things you're impposed to 80. • • —Edgar A. Guest in the -D.etrdi Preto. 110•••••••••••••••••••• 1 CONQ by the d way. mettts or appliauces. Everything shim you know how. worth gold to sufferer this treatm ent withoutdela y. Sent prem. THE ARONA CO. 106 NorthBaySt. A Hamill The Arrow of St. Ednr The legend of the death of St, mund was curiously corrobrated a a lapse of eight centuries. The sto goes that the martyr was tied to e tree and, as torture proved unavailing to make him recant his faith, was shot at with Danish arrows till his body was covered with them. The tree at Hoxne to which he was said to have been bound and which was twenty feet In circumference fell in 1848, and, according to "The Black Letter Saints of the Prayer Book," a piece of iron like an arrow head Was found imbed- ded in the wood. 4 6 0 MinartPe Liniment Cures Distemper. ' Myth of the Doones. How largely Mr. Blackmore drew upon his imagination for the story of "Lorna Doone" is made clear by F. W. Rackwood in his book, "The Good Old Times." There were, in feet no Doones. The word was simply a lo- cal bogy, a modified form of "Duke," a memory of the faroff times when the viking invaders harried the land. "The only vestige of actuality discov- erable is a faint'tradition that it fugi- tive froni the battle of Sedgemoor, to escape the hangings of Judge Jeffreys, appropriated the ruins of some wret- ched huts in recesses of the Badg- worthy glen, now the Toon valley.' finding there a safe retreat in which he reared a considerable family, which managed to eke out a living by coin. mitting petty depredations In the dis- trict. The 'last of the Doones,' an old man and his granddaughter, are said to have perished in the snow dur- •41. uog the Winter of 1800." 4 "A howling success' may be a. slang phrase, and again it may be a baby show,—'Wasb.ington Post. 1014 04NIMM ".momm6666.6.6.66.6.66nrorwormo "The Perfect Day" is the day when you work in har- mony with law. Health comes froxn Harmony.- Get in harmony ,with Na laws by eatin Wheat, a s* elernentalfo the gre the leas ion. Tr hot milk with 41 fruit.