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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-03-08, Page 61"! '4„114 SW:la/A+ 1:vT A Lord RoDort Cecil, Minter of aliceltalle, has nutdeo tatement show - tug the number of %meets sunk by Uelina eulatearince since the new "frightuariees" began, to be sometideg leaa than one tor every. oue aundred tips that hate arrIt ea at tar len Britteb. Howeeew air Robert &alarm that the menace is no bluff. although not Mail. but its terror lies ia its uncertainly and .crrd'ic stroltes. Weis uncertatute keeps _New York. berbor congested with meets, whieh are kept in port by thie German mennte. Nkutrals are also afraid tu take rinks, and it has long been a nuttier or surprise to us how Britieb owner!, and eepcetally British sailors breve the perils of the deep, of sub- marine and mine. Surely these sailors flitter, be well pant for thus teeing death. They leave port, home, told malty of them wiyes mid childrea, not knowing that they may go ei the bottom at any moment, and niullY do gu to the bottom. We daily rem) Buell cablea as title; "The ship v, e.s tor - indeed by a. submarine, and ont et a crew of flfty elm ea men were drowned." To our mind the merchant marine just now is a more hazardous aalling than is the navy. The figures presented by Sir Cecil bear out the prognoetication of Henry Clews & Co., as made in their weekly report. Creat Britain had a total ocean tonnage of neatly 20,000,000 be- fore the war, or almost one-half of the wogIche, tonnage. The losses from the beginning of the wur to the new eubinarine campaigu were about 4.000,- 000 tons, of which 2,500,000 tons were Britishand the remainder nteittel, Them losses, however, have been vY largely compensated for by new con- struction, so that, according to an estimate of the United States Shipping Commissioner, the net loss of world's tonnage .in .Jaattary was about 200,000 tons. Of late the output of' new ton- nage has been immensely increased in all parts of the world by high freights and -prospects of their continuance for a long period ahead. From this later Met it followthat submarines Will have to increase their present ae• atructiveness very conaiderably bet'ore they ean possibly even approach the starvation of England. Much distress arid inconvenience may be accent - plished, but starvation is practically " impoesible because for a variety of reasons the threat cannot be carried Out. First, it would require a fleet ot submarines many times larger than the present one to accomplish such a purpose. Second, the British navy seems tolerably able to cope with the difficulties, and has evidently found various successful means of defence, . such as destroyees, -nets, aeroplanes: traffic lanes,. convoys, etc. The sub- marine now appears to be practically powerless against war vessels, and its effectiveness against merchantmen when armed is much reduced. At 13ritish porta there are between 1,000 and 1,200' arrivals .and departures per week, each sailing offering an oppor- tu.nity to the submarine. This new York banking firm also states that in the States alone there aro now 400 steel merchant ships under coustruction with a tonnage of 1,700,- 000 tons. Japan and Norway are also turning out a large new tonnage. What Great Britain is doing in this con- nection is not officially known, although she is _much the largest ship builder in the world, and has lately tuened her attention to' building mer-. client tonnage with increased vigor. The hope of defeating England by miainarines is doomed to aerious die appointment. 4••o The New York Sun hate come to the conelusion that the Holienzollerris must go. It eowe: One step there is which, if tam Al - Hee would take it an together, would, go far to advance the effectual and permanent pacificatico of a dietracted continent, The blood eaturated house of Hohenzollern must go! Let it, Let it finally percolate through the might • hyrnotized German mind that Rae; hideous quarrel was impelled upon the world by the appetite and choize or that Gargantua Nyho prancea about the abattoirs het has made, etiering 0uperb1asplichale4 of infallibility, "Whore the offence is, let the great tote fall!" . And it adds: "The egotism and eel- eahness of the Hoaenzollerns liould prove their 'downfall, What dynastie. rv-iteons could tvarrant the holt:must at Varclun, invoked to erford preetige to that plunderer of chateaux the Crooh Prince? Truly Le proved lame Reif a Prince of Darkneee for 300;000 men, sacrificed only to buttress " the cleepotism whkh tn all the Getman dorniulone hal throttled an 'nfeptiii . • . freedom." • Tee; Britielt Governme.nt Should ba told thzet the Canadian whO reftieed•a* hereeitary title the other day reeeio- ed more eongratulations tlian the dila v.ho aceepted moll a title. • No wonder that there ere treed rtete on in 'New York. A New Yorli City del:teal eettinatee the increase in the prices of them ertichte of daily diet, trent the low priaes Of 101.6"to the high prteee ef 1017. tints: 0niens,..100., pound bag; 1910, .16.1e; 1017, $15., Pe- tatces, ISO.potinds; 1016, $.5.30; lent, t0.75. Cabbagesh per ton: 1010, $7; 1017, $160, The Men Who breaks- athiself of' a baa habit seldom breake hititeelS oX boasting Murat It. HER !TUMBLE- * *• **momooppogromm LOVER .= "1 nmst have clamped R," he mar - attired, and thrust the offeitaiitg hand behind him out or sigh/. Witte A quick gesture Signa took out her own handlterehief, and, stoop:lig down, drew it through the long grass drenched with dew ,• Own put her band upon his arm timidly, anti arew his hand toward Moe no!" he said, huskily, quiver- ing at her touch, but she =ilea UP nt lam with, it little air of determina- tion, and tenderly wiped away the red (Atkin; then wound the handkerebtet round his hand, Pale and trerattimut he stood beside her, so near that his coat sleeve touched her dress. "Thank you!" he murmured. almost Inaudibly. "'Lou have spoiled your pretty beindkerehief." Tben he stop- ed abruptly, and looked Away from her, "And may I not do even that, when Yeti have done so much for me?" she Laid, reproachfelhe "Do you think I do not anow how much, ecu have done, andbow much more you would .have done? You .would have rtsked your life--" Her voice brae, but she struggled with it. "You would have leapt from that hideous tower eto save me, and I may not do so small a thing as We!" She eigaeda then she laughed softly. "Let me go now," He turned and looked at her, and bee eyes fell before the passionate are in his, "No," he said; "stay -stay one mo- ment. Signa-" He paused, and as he leant over the side of the seat his hand went out toward her with an imploring, caressing gesture. "Sig- ne, will You listen to me? I have something to say to you." She did not speak, but she looked up at him, a swift, fearful, passionate glance, "I feel that it Should not be said now - just after I have been of some slight. service to you, Just now that you may think I am entitled to your gratitude -but, ah! Signe, the words have been on my lips thee weeks aast. ; have said them to myself a thousand times. Can you not guess .wbat they are? 'I love•her-I love her!' Signe, I love youl" Like heavenly music the words ring in her ears. Mechanically her lips open, and inaudibly she echoes them, as it they were something infinitely precious -too precious to be real. - "I love you!" he murmured, bend- ing over her, bis hand still Outheld, his face pale with the pa•ssion of love and anxiety. "From the first day 1 • y ee, went out to you. When saw our sweet face that day for the first time, I lenew that it was the face of the one woman in the world for me, and from that hour to this my love has grown, has so grown that now it has mastered me -Ola my darling -let me call you so, if only for this once -if. you knew how truly, -how devoted- ly I love you, you would love tne even for pity' ; sake. 1 am not worthy te offer my love to you. I am not worthy to receive anything at. your hands but a simple 'Noe and yet I must speak. Signe, I who Break w you thus ef love, am -oh, Heaven, if I could but call back the uttst-one so stained and besmirched by the world that my love is not worthy the aceeptance of any womau, least of all of yours, the queen' and !mart of womanhood, and yet -and yet, see now, Signe, my darling, U- lf you can bring 'yourself to think of me as one whose whole Ilfe from this time forth shell be spent in aevotion to you, in worship of your purity and loveliness; then -ah, then---" He stopped, and his •face grew leadly pine. • "Speakto me," he said, at last, as she remained silent. "I -I can bear ;it, though the world may be the bit- terest in all the world for me. I will take my wasted life from ..your path, will -ah, Signs, speak to me, though at be only to tell me that I have loved in vain." ' Trembling, but with a keen, ecs- tatic joy, she raised hereyes, and locked at hint. For a moment he leans over her, as if too dazed to understand the look, then he bends over her, and lays his hand heavily upon her Shoulder. "Signal" With a faint cry she leans toward him, and her head drops upon his arm, Speechless, he draws her to him With a paszionate gesture, and strain.s her .to his breast. "Oh, my darling, my 'darling!" he murraure, hoarsely. "Is It true? Is it 'yes'? Do You, can you love tae?" For answer her face nestles still -More closely against his bosom, mut her hand creeps slowly up to his face. With a passionete gesture he takte It and presses it to his lips, and dravw it round his neck, and so, with her eat, silky hair against his face, site Ate It to the world- to the mt., the tt Ltlent, to lite itselt-in the me mo- ment of ecstatic bliee winch we poor mortals enjoy on earth. Above thein the placid moon sane on Luoding them Ivitialts met light as if WItj t b.eliediction„ A bird, ,artled from its reet, *Hies heaveriward with a faint elfin); the sound of the near- euuring title floate toward them; all ..liatareheeeMer to sytemathize and throb etz harmany.with title one moment of human intettion. , Then ,at lest Sigua ratites her heed . wide looks up at him • With eyes ileaoY _with tiappiness, and her hand elides teere ite ambrace'rat a erimeon flush tuaeleney elfattle Autfereee here face, 0••1 dretetaing?" mitrmure. Ile kieses.her holf•parted lips. • "No, darling, yen are awake, and tele le kat, Let me kiss you again, end you shall Me," "No, pol" she pants, drawing her laae troto latn, "I know now that it is real. But why -all, why do you love tne, len (odd that ,you loved me, did Sant litterawitle' a. epattei of In-: eredinity. "I love yon- 1 love you!" lie w1118pers in her ear, "Why? My darling •there. is,. nothing to wonder at in it, Anytmad• Might 'Welt' 'dee you for your .heautea but that-thotigh I prize tt ilitarly, iaidntne half foolish .veltit pritht of it -ds. as nothing with nut! Why? Why, Sipa, er011 that peer fool Whe justegoneweeven int loved Ma" She ehutitlers. "No! Don't- steak -of "AAA Wh.y bat l?"she rettritteliti, 1 She looke beyond Iiiin with softly 1 glowering eyes, tremulote with an ecs- 1 toey of doubt zold belief, of wonder i and delight, Ialt seems so strAuge, so wild A dream," she saye, softly. "That you w110 have etan so much, who bave seen, all! eo many beautiful and greet- otts 'wemen, should think ot loving 1 luel" and she leucite falteringly, 1 elfh:hrecr ‘gi'loi trdash a dhea dcmtsosueett eiise raja"rr' Intl' 1 . "Signe," he eays, slowly, and with I an 'Menem earneetmes, "la all nty life, I varied and eventful us it has been, 1 ; have never known what love was 0001 1 I met you. Do not doubt that whatever I MAY happen--" Her eyes turu. towera him with a midden startled _expression. "Happen!" elle w h 'spent. - Ills lips twitch, and his hand eloses on her. "Let cornet what may in the future, never forget that, a� thereeis a heaven Above us, I loved you with all mY heart and soul. 1 eivear to that, Signal" "Jove laughs at lover's perjuries," she murmurs, 'with a ezulle up into his (lark eyes. "No ueed to ewear. I know it, I cannot tell you' why or how I knew it, but I feel it. Yes, let come what may I shall always remember that you loved me thts night, this one glorioue, perfect night in my life. Ale 11 .It would but last!" and her glanee treseest. up to the men with mild wistfal- "The nleat pewee, but the daY comes!" he says, and his voice is ligh- ter, as if he had cast the shadow 01 some dark though froin his mind. "The day comes, the long day whith You and I, Signa, have to be happy in; that day when we shall be together, O2) e in mind and body and soul!" Ahuost selemnly his voice rings, in her care, and she lays her head upon his breast, and preeses her lips to the senseless coat. Then ehe lauglta-a low, rippling" laugh of exceesivo happiness -like the falling of water front a cup over -filled. "What 'will Aunt Pociswell say?" He laughe in Mamoru; . then he shrugs his shoulders. "Aunt Podswell," he says, "will get upon the evartrala she will unearth the hatchet and thirst for my scalp; there will be wrath in the Podseveli wigwetu when it is blown thatatee beautiful belle of Noathwell has given herself to the obnoxious Hector War- ren, The storm of the other day will be as nothing to the howling temp - me Which awaits ue." "That storm! How I love to think.' ot it, 'Immune Signa, almost inctud? ibly. "How happy I was, and how brave and good and kind- hot how bad and wicked you were!" • ,,A,s how?" he says, smoothing the silky hair with a proud, caressing hand, as a miser might nuts° and fondle his gold. "Oh, do you not remeniber? You would not drink out of the same cup." He laughs, but there is a thrill of passiou in the laugh. "No, I dared not; it eeemed sacra lege, profanation, and when at last you made me, I though that my lips. touch where yours had been, and all my strength was needed to keep me from- clasping you in my arms, and-" "What would Archie have said?" she whispere, her face all aglow. "But about ray aunt, I don't uuderetand-" "No?" he says, with a grave smile. "Do you think she will welcome me with open arms as her -what is it -- nephew -in-law? Poor, unknown, an ad. venturer, a balnsuspected opera - singer! I am a pretty fellow .to carry off the prize!" Signe is silent for a moment, then elm looks up at hint, - "What does it rnatter?" she says, simply. "Wbat does it matter; though an the world stood with upraised hands and sbouted 'No!' I should not care. 1 think -yes, I think 1 should be all the more glad to come," and her head droops. "But -but are you so very poor?" "At this moment I am richer than the anan NOD owns the biggest mine in Peru! Did I not hold in my Time the most precious thing In all the World?" "Ald so poor and worthless a tri- fle!" she falters. "But tell tee." "Poor?" he says, and he looks down at her with a faint smile, "It is an elastic term. Answer me, Signe, would you be content to live the life of a poor Man's wife? To depend upon his right arm end -brain tor daily bread?" . "It it 'Were your right arm 'and brain," • she answers, proudly, "and it I could not live then, I could starve and still be happy it 1 ktiew that you were not starving too!" "There shall be no starving." be says, "There will be enough for our modest wante„Signa." She sighs and a vagae shade crosses her brow. "What's amiss?" he asks, With half - smiling tenderness. "No -thing, Yes, I am disappoint- ed. I was 110011g -hoping that you were very poor." "Quite the mendicant?" "yes, quite the mendleant! Because then I should seem. (Mite rich, and it would be so sweet to feel that I Ilea something to give you besides Myself." "I did not know 1 was Making love to nil heiress," he says, still With the italf•stnile, She laughs, "An heiress, Meter! 1. have a mis- erable hundred a year, Or theretthoute, It he mieerable now that you are not quite poor, hut if yoet had beee " and she sighs again, "A at -mitred a year or so," lie eays, thoughtfully, "Signe, don't bo (limp- poireted before there la any °melon. A hundred a year is very Weleome to an adventurei—" "Really!I' with VIM dellglit, "neatly, and trttly," 110 soya, "Wet are Otte aft helrese. A hundred it year! I as thinking Of a little cot. tage....-..0 "Oh, yetal" "But now we May life ottr heads to a vine, and-perhafte a aorlY.ahaltio." She nestles eleeer to him, "I iihl so gladt Mott think mama of Me; but I atri so glad, I Wiett-e•aht hole I Wish it Were thOUtiatidel" "NOW MIMI'," he ettY0, elleerallft ead Magrianinietely, "A hundred le tennethieg. I am A lucky Mail, My treafelte of pure geld IS gilt outelds One nett his light tone a taillory changes stithlertlY tO Imo of deep ten. 40410130, and lie murmurs, "Ny ztkU 2x1y child!" "Why do yon say that?' ehte asks, looking up at him. "Why? Because you ere like a 91\Wt, inneeellt child, who wears her heart upon her sleeve; but not tor it dawt peek at, bet to gather into his ole;urnor, diait b,olout-sot-11,11d cheriab, for e There is silence for it moment, then igosularetts.,, and Mys hie hand upon her, "My darling, yotl are wet with dew. (117.We rl8tgo atliieay)ueni l.Low thoughtless of 0 "Must we? AM" "Yee; even mow you may catell cold, Let inc brutal the dew from your arose." And he goes down on his knees to do so, and as he looks up at her, film stoops aud kisses him. "Shall I tell you -shall I multe a shameful confessien?" she) whIsPers, her face and neck a burning red. He nods holding her band, his eyes drinking ip the light down pouring froni hers. "Shall 1? I feel as if 1 Mitstl Well, then, when you knelt and wiped the wet front nly ;Arose the other *day at St. Clare, I telt tempted -ah! fiercely terupted--to stoop end kies yen as I Rise yoa now, Ale my love! nty love!" * "ra C10118 lit14 Yen !" "Bless C; MY bout!" "Signal" "What is the matter?" "Mr. Warren!" These and *Millar ejaauletions, tered in it sort of chorus by Mr, and air% Pociswell, greet the, pair as they enter the Rectory Oa -wing -room; elec. tor Warren rather pale, and still bear-. lug ebout him the evidences of his climb up the tower; Signe dew•drench- ed and pale to the lips, but with a soft -gleaming light in her violet eyes. Mary, standing at the back, staring with all her eyes, guesses at the truth ilea moment; but the worthy pair of guardians are thicaer-skulled, and stilt :Atter ejaculations open-mouthed, "Signe, what does it mean?" at last gasps Aunt Podswell, rising and clutching her shawl round her with an irritable excitement and wrath, Sigma takes otf her hat and sinke softly into a chair, with her eyes bent on the ground, not ashamedly, but with a heavy, dreamy consciousnefe. "Well!" demands Mrs. Podswell, snappishly, "can't you speak? Are YOU aware of the time? Where is Lady Blyte? Why have you left the Park? And whale-ewhat--" "does Ile mean by being in your 'company," lto would like to add; but the dark eyes, fixed do ou her, are too much for her. "Let me explafn!" says Hector War. ren, coming to the table, and putting his hat down with the easy, graceful self-posseeelon which poor Sir Frederic so madly hates. "aliss Grenville has left the Park--" "I suppose she Cale speak for her- self?" breaks in Aunt Podswell, glar- ing at 'him. "I don't understand: Jos- eph, why don't you speak?" turning upon the rector, who stands rubbiug P15 chin, and with his eyes like sau- cers. "I -ahem!-- I was about to do so, my dear!" he saes, meekly. "Signa, what does. this -mean? You -you have upset your aunt exceedingly. Why have you eorne here bo uoexpeetedly, and at this-ahem!"-eitith a glance ,at - the clock and a solemn shake of the head -"at thici-er, really uneeetnly hone" Signe raises her head, as it with an effort to recall herself from blissful dreatuland to the unpleasant reality of the situation. "Mese Grentrille is tired," says 'Hec- tor Warren, "Let me explain. Happen- ing to be in the park, I met with Mies Grenville; and hearing froth her that, for reasons -which elle' will no doubt, explain to you, she wished to .return home, I offered to escort her, and here. she is. Don't be alarmedemy dear Mrs'. Podswell; nothing serious has hap- pened." "Nothing serioas? But it is eerious. Do you mean to tell me that.you have persuaded this foolish girl to leave Lady I3Iyte at a moment's notice, and without -without informing her lady- ship?" demancle Aunt Podswell, fairly meeting the dark eyes in her wrathful indignation. Hector Warren inclines bis head al- most impatiently, 'He does ndt care, so far as be in concerned, aow tierce and long the storm may rage; but he sees the drooping heard beside him, and wish% to get the tenapest•over for her sake. "Yes, that le it, exactly. I plead guilty, Mrs. Podswell, I am sorry you should, be upset. It is enough to up- set you, I admit. But. Signa---' "Signal" echoes -Mrs. shrilly; and she throws up her. head, "By what right elo youtspeak Of my niece by her Christian name, Mr.- er-Warren?" "l3y the right she has beamed up- on me in promising to beemy wite," he says quietly. "Your -your-a--" Woe !Mrs. Pods - well; while the rector: flushes . and shuffles as if the Haar had suddenly. become red-hot. "My wife," repeats Hector Wareehe mildly. "1 ant sorry to spring this news upon you in this way, and I hope to lay my proposal before you in pro- -per amen toenorrdwt 'att. "PotTsWell," and he looks af the•reetore who gitepa like a fish eta whaltes4tiseliett4 as 'if it were Of no use to appeal. toliim. "'Until then -0/ "Excuse me one lemma, a cannot permit this absurd -I say absurd -.. nonsense to go further!" says Aunt Podswelwehrilly. "I Would haveyou renttenther, air. Warren, that this young lady is not emprotected,..My bus- batid Arid I are her guardians, and • anewerablo for her Welfare." Hector Warreh itmlines his head. "And a part of our duty -the great- est part is that WO should not allow' her to fail into the hands of ----of--" "Aie adventurer," puts in Hector' Warren, calmly. "Yen have said the odious' Word, not 1, sir, but it has betel spoken, and let it stand." . (To be continue43 " 1144.41.4.1*NIMMIIMMI HAIR GOODS -40.11t- LADIES ANO GENTLEMEN Melted et lowest elossible mites, consistent with high-grade work. Our Naturn1 wavy a-sitrand Owitchea at 43.00, $7.00 end MOO In 011 shades aro tendert; with ma. Just sena oh your sample, or write for ehythlita in our line. OtaTTLIaafter8 TOUPItiralat MO and $36.00, that defy dtitee. non when WOrti. MINTZ'S HAIR 6opos EMPORIUM Ot NINO St, VI, HAMILTON, ONt• oportody Udine. 1, Wets), LLE TT 0111111111'"" °".1110iimmimit 'HAS NO EQUAL ilillim In........1........,armi,.......1..... 11, IL net only softens the k water hut doubles the cleans. lug power Of seep! and rnakee everything eanitery end wheleeeme. IREFU8N $1.143STSTUTES. 11111111 00000 II' 011411COmPANy VW° .......L.Luze.ap,...!..2„0 .....„,... N ..** FLORAL ARISTOcatxrs, Orchids Are Not Parasites, and It is Difficult to Raise Thera. Aristocrats of the ficnyer kingdom - and probably the least understood. Yott hear them _called parasites, wIlich is only one of the common mistakes Tnade about the orchid, Yo tt 000 a hundred, different abapes and a dozen different colors grouped together, each shape peraaPs a distinct family and each with a separate name. In the first plam, orchids aro not parasites. A parasitical plant ie one which gets nourishment front another plant. Certain orchids live on trees. but they get their focel and drinktrom the air by means of aerial roots. We can them epiphytes, Other orchids get their nourishment directly from the ground, They're called terrestrial orchids. People don't understand, either, whY orchids cost so much. They fail to me why a tiny plant is sold for, say. $1,000. If they realized that rare orchids may have cost it long trip Into a tropical Jungle to obtain and that it takes from eight to ten years to raise a plant front the seed, with patient care and treatment, they could see why these flowers remain in the aristocratic class. Only the orchid grower can under stand all tho details of his -art, but tha flower lover can easily learn to dis• tinguish the -mime types. Ask for IVIinard'e and take no other Quivers Were Really Pull. It seems very doubtful whether even war Will stop the failing of the birth- rate. The tendency is for it to go down -down -down in nearly all the countries of Europe. It is in pioneer settlefhents in new countries that families are generally largest.- Out on the prairie life is deadly dull if there aren't plenty oe little feet running in and out, Alice Morse Earle, who writes so delightfully of Colonial days and Col- onial ways, has much to say about the large fomilies of the early settlers ot New England. In those days large famillea were eagerly welcomed. Olin. dren were regarded as it real blessing -happy the man that had his quiver full of them. For the Colonial farmer, and espec- ially to the frontiersman, every child is an extra help on the term. In New England, when land was portioned out, there was in the early days it portion for every woman and every 41141(1 in the family, so that if eaeb child was not born -with a, silverspoon in its mouth, it came into the world In the proud position of a landed Paoprietor. Families of twelve, thirteen, four- teen, fifteen were so common that no one eoesidered them remarkable ;IL all, Sir William ?hips was one of the twenty-six children: ell with the same mother; Greene a weRknown Boeton printer, was marrfed twice, and had thirty children. Aredng the clergy large families were the rule. One -widely known - had twenty-six children, another tweu- ty, another eighteen and so on. Nearly Every Girl Can Make Ilerseit Pretty and Attractive SOME WHOLESOME TRUTHS EVERY GIRL S.HOULD :THINK ABOUT. Probably you know just such a girl. • Perhaps -the is sixteen -good to look at, and pretty -quite interestitig be- cause she rertects• the graces and charm that give promise of happiness to herself and others „But she Is not strong, The color in her' cheeks, once so rosy, has faded away -her eyes are iistiess-the buoyancy of spirit and vigor she once possessed are sadly lacking. Parents, friends, this girl needs Ferrozone - needs it that her blood may -be renewed -needs it to re- store tne nerve •force that growth, study and the development of her fresh youth have exhausted. Title girl will become a queen with Ferrozone- winch will restore her eolor-bring back her old-time energy -give bright- ness to her eyes and vivacity to her ,soirits. Itt Ferrozone every girl finds strength -then she can do thing& 1n ieerrozone there is .endurance -that -drives away Morning tiredness and languor. For the girl or woman. that wants to be happy, healthy, winning - v ehintogtlednegs aneio ttavoitultinedsanrtosgyothaeekssp.,irliato8g, can compare *with Ferrozone, 50e per box, or six boxes for 0,50. Ga. it to. day from any dealer in medteine, or by null from The Catarrhozone Co., King- ston, Ont, Universal Service and Pour Nen, (St. Louis Republic.) Havered serviee, according to a coMmOn sense plan, would not Mean the putting of a rifle upon the shoul- der of every boy. Far from it. It would !Amply mean that every boy, on reaching a. Certain age, would be Ifitted ittto tile sellerne of Ins country'e 'chance. 11 the nation needed hitt. it would know Wirer° to find hita, what ho was good for, ahd how to uso him, Let tis take, for instal:tee, fear Men of 24 years bull, who have been fitted into this scheme. The first is a lab. orer of 160 pounds weight, sound and strong. He has been given, dering selected periods between the ROA el 17 and 21, the training of an infantry - Man. He Is oiled to the colors itx the hout of need and a rine is put.into his hand. Ile is a trained soldier, available for Immediate eerviee. The second man drives a motor truek. He is not put into the lino with a rifle, but id attached to the ambulance corps or quartermaster's dePartillent as a part of -tho onny's transportatI011 eall- tern. Aloth of these men are in per• feet health and conaition. Hut the third man lute a. blemish -a stiff knee. Ho tould not fluty& three 111110* a day. lio is n, machinist -the • etgett epereter. of a turret -lathe, tie ia as necessery altd valuable a. part of the Military machine as the soldier or the Motor truelc driver, but his place of service is in the munition shop instead of in the field. Tlie fourth Man is slight tend delicate,' he Is under weight and Incas in chest expansion; he would riot teat sixty days in a strenuous campaign, But he is a skilled aecountant and will be invaluabie as the army's representa- tive in the accounting ,department _of a factory villa% bas beentakenover as'a anunition plant, and to this ser - 'eta° he Is assigned, Universal service, rationally organ- ized, would not attenipt to get every man into the fightingaino; such action would insure -not preparedness, but unpreparednese; it would involve it topheavy fighting force on the One eide and a depleted suetabeing force on Gm other, Practically carried out, universal service would so organize the umultood of a nation that, P1 the event .of war, every citizen would be placed, with the minimum of delay and friction, in the position where 11./ would be of the greatest value to Ms country, Instead of wasting the energies of the nation's manhood upon useless and barbarous tasks, a rational scheme of universal service would make for" ever thipossiale just such wasting of energy as bas been witnessoa on the Mexican border during the last few mouths. And it would have a most powerful influence upon the prepared- ness of 'the nation for the conqueete of peace, How many boys do you lame/ who have lost years by "drift- ing" before they found out the thing to wbich they were best adapted? vtnat kind ce. effect upon the citizen would it have if the Government look- ed over every boy at the age of i7 and saw to that he received, in school or shop or mine or railroad yard or plowed field or counting room or laboratory, the- training best cal- culated to enable him to do the thing which would help his country most P1 the hour of its need? Can anything be thought ot which would be a better preparation for the citizenship of peace than this? .....+••••.••••••••=0N. I cured it horse of the Mange with 111INARD'13 LINIMENT, CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS, Dalhousie. e cured a horse, badly torte bv pitchfork, with MINARDS LIN'. MENT. EDW. LINLIEF, St. Peter's, C, B. cured a horse of a bad swelling: by eilleARD'S LINIMENT. T11014. W. PAYNE. Bathuest, N. B. 0.0161...•••• Progress. (Chicago Tribune). Because we travel- iff automobiles anti aeroplance, Ineause we build AY- tterapers and • enjoy the movice, be- cause the whole machinery of our phY- steal life hae been complicated, amet- erated, and upholstered in luxury, eve put title, down ea progrce•s and eharge little er nothing off againet it. I. We can be sure that we have paid roundly for this, and one of the larg- est items he registered in our mental habits. An acute observer of .A.meri- ean life, long- a reeident a this come - try, has said that the nutet sericite of our fauna is our refusal to submit to persietent mental effort. We are men- tally lazy, in &tort, The charge is true and undoubtedly we can faid its• explanation in the rapidity of our external life and our inevitable preoccupation with it, We tatetitate for the hard and pereistent effort mere surface apprehension and easy, though eltallow, generalization We pride ourzeivett on our Imola- ledge--that is, our information- but ..eve do not eift this industriously and patiently. We know thousends of facikt our forbeays did not dream of, and we do not stop to think that many if not most of them are pragmatically valuelete. The men of former times had lece to think about and thought more Of what they had to think about. They to hold their facto longer anti -cae nearer to a mastery of t1 te. The newspaper le reeponeible for that in largo degree. It has whim:tee men's horizon and increased men's stock of information. tn 60 doing it hate perfortned a :service of value, but the serviee has been paid. for. One commend over life, which ie the test of real knowledge, 10 1111t greater in pro - Portion to our increased informedneaa. We are tempted to Move rapidly with a swiftly running ;current of reported events whieh we do not take the time and effort neetssary to relate to one another and ihterpret. Reading, which maketh a full man, if it is orderly, purpeelve and well di - CLEAN Ilanteltes wears longest EUREKA IIARNRSS OIL does niOre than make your harness clean. It revives thelcather. This oilsoaks intittiie pores, makes the thersoiterk blacker, tougher. Try it oft any black leather. alta IMPEttitAt. 011, COMPANY, LIM ite4 ittel MAW Throughout coned* geated, may boom° a more ;mania ur A pastime:We read Mere eatetelve• 1Y than Our fathers and probably think less ot what wo read. The short, story displaces the three (loiter novel, the novae the fire aet drama, the news- paper the esSay and debate. The Gentians hare a WOrd witielt we may translate "Iongesittingleees." It is it eignitivaitt Word expreceive of the solid, deterralued, untiring (negate; me on watch alone it solid -structure ot real culture, of lasting achievement, eau be built; There is nothing more needed in American life. *44 M Inard,s Liniment lumbermares friend - 4-• Sir Vrilfrid Lawler. We may net Aare bis views in ManY Ways, Or claini connection with his race or tame, .A.nd party's call receives but langold heed In battle times. But Laurier earns this phrase That tongues of ga It Ctili ne'er his Laine abase; Or Sully the clean grandeur or his life. The fature erowns him o'er tho trans- ient strife; His' honored years 'wear garlands of bright days. Tradueors prate as winds of summer blow (1., little dust that eddies metal)* Peat, While sunlit vistas keep their tin- Olmn'cl &ow. A great man's genius Is its own sure charm, 'Unwounded by the spite-shet halts of harm; Ills light shines clear while fades de- traction's blast. -Janes P, IWIoadtlen, St. l\fary's, Ont., In St,'Thomas Journal. TEETHING TIE — A TIME Of WORRY Waco baby is teething ts it time of worry to moet mothers. Baby's lit- tle gums become, swollen and tender; tie becomes cross; does not sleep well; is greatly troubled with constipation; colic or diarrhoea. and sometimes evea convulsions seize hint. During this period nothing can equal the use at Belay's Own Tablets, They regulate the bowels mid stomach, and make the teething so easy that the mother scarcely realizes baby is getting his teeth.. Concerning the 't'ablets, airs. Arthur Archibald, New Town, N. Se \views: "1 used Saby's Own Tablets when baby was getting his teeth and lomat tnem an excellent medicine." The Tablets are sold by medicine deal - he Dr. Williams' edicine Co,, Brack- \e.ri:eo,rolnrymail at 25 cents it box from Ont. Tal Party of Bride Hunters. In meest of Mlles, sixty young Jap- anese residents or California saw Ja- pan for the first time when the Pan- ama Meru of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha reached Yokohama nem. San Fawn- cit:co on September 15th. The japan- ese. were all born in America and were all on their tirst trip to their home country. Most of them are en- gaged in farming in California, al- though a few are in businese in San eraneisco. During their stay in Jewell they . will be directed by the Rev Ia. Terszawa, for the last thirteen years a Japanese missionary iu San Fran - ewe, They will stay in Japan for three months, during which time they wiii visit practically all the leading districts of Japan. ...ac;comnanied by their brides, whom they will ecaect ivhile heie, and will return to Weir homes in California early in January. Four aapanesegirls, also born in Am- erica, were paseengers on the Panama. Marue-Exchange. Keep Mi the house na-rors-.....n.Linne.......___Iment Antiquity of Passports. Passports are a evry ancient inOtitu- tion, Some, of the old monkish chroni- clers ruention'as an achievement on the part of King Canute that he ob- tained free passes for his subjects through various contineutal countries on their pilgrimages to the shrinen hf the apostles Peter and Paul at Rome. Farb pilgrim_ was furnished with a document in the nature ot a passport eelied "Tructurin de itinere Pergenta." Hall in his "Chronicle" makes refer- ence to a system of paesports in the time of Edward IV., and the enforce- ment oath's eystem is known to have been very stri_..e._et in the reigns of Eliza. beth and James L-Londoe Mail, Why People Feel Depressed In the Cold Weather Why is tiredness and languor a° prevalent just now? A physician 41,c plained that the cold of winter drives blood from the surface of the body P1 the liver. Nominally one-fourth ot the whole blood supply is in the liver, and when more blood is accumulated hi that organ ererythiug goes wrong, No better remedy exists hhau Dr. Hamilton's Pills, white' are composed of such vegetable extracts as Mau. drake and Butternut, and possesses woncleatful liver stimulating powers. Itte a znarvel the way Itazuliton's Pills clear the blood of the poilmous humors. They put new lite into worn out bodies, bung up the appetite, bring "back a resaave of nerve euergy, tale face over the cold days of whtter and the depressing days of Spring, For your health aud body comfort get 25c, box of Dr. Hamilton's Pills to- day. • S MENDE NOTES. As it preeaution against contlaeras tions manning from- the fires ot ex- cursionists, several strata fireplace:4 have been erected in Swope Park, Han sas City, for public um. A new cafe anti observatioe ear has largo windows at the tables, so that diners may get a broad view ot the passing landscape wane dining. The steel mast or ith Atlantic Coat oil barge is used as it sm..testa.ck from the oallete Every square mile of sea is eidithat- ecl to contain About 120,000,000 fish. Itecent observations made in North- ern Norway indicate' that the leverage display of aurora -Wreath; takes piece at a height of from 60 to 05 miles, A lady's foot should equal in length one-seventh of her height. The outpour of the Bureau of. PIA? tries. In stocking the waters of the United States amounted to Mere than 4,000,000,000 specimen last year, japan. Occupies it prolninent pla(te among the countries of the world in tho possession or mineral springs, riell itt radium emanatiOne. 'These• etre round exclusively in granite reglad. Air-cooling methods of the rapid-fire guns now in use 'have proven Made- quate, and the soldiers seem to think that water.tooling is superior. fir the $00 German misgioliere OW. ISStili Nt ii) . • ia.e.e - 14p! 1 •10 P4r,Y.111.: Pietro time: good p ty; wottt te liEihy ttiotanevi elAtrit4 a 1111 0.9.1 1.4.:t t1: ia p.artletil.tr,-3, NW' • .,1,10. M inn f. I• . 4. hit inni!arlY, aloutretti. 1,1,,Ine tot tliltahte ettA: itt4.1tY' M v 3. noting ere Ahee era , it anallon. (mt. ANTIQUES Have you any old artietee of merit which you are desirous of disposing of -such as Atitleue Fur. niture, Old Plate, Brassware, Printe, Engravings, Old Arms, Ar- mour, CUP108, etc.? if ee, you will find it, of Interest to you to consult 80. ROBERT 'NOR 62 KING Si, E., HAMILTON, ONT. TH.E HOLISO FOR OlFTs. Importers and Dealer e in china, Glass, Fancy goods and Antiques, ea in different parts, of the 13rit1elt Empire before the war, 400. were lo. Gated in India, In the up-toelate school, the black- boards are cleaned by e Jaeuum de vice. -A well-known explorer is authority for the fact that lions ere generally "lertehanded." 'They usually strike witb the left fore -paw. A bat lima difficulty in rifting from, it perfectly level surface, Sugar exieta in the Bap of nearly 201) Plants and trees. It is estimated that a ton of watee from the Atlantic Ocean, when evapor cied, Yields 81 pounds of salt; a ton of Pacifie water, 79 pounds; a ton Arctic or Antaretic water, 86 poUnds; ton of water from the Dead Sea, 187 pounde. "R. Minard's Liniment Used by Physicians . True Blue. The expression "true blueo whice we heareo often; has not even an Eng Itsh- parentage, but is *aid to have been a Spanish saying which meant that the blood that filled the veins or the aristocracy of Spain was blue lit color, while that of the inferior ?or tale was more or less black, and the Proverb that "true blue will never stain" -instead of meaning, as is gen. orally supposed, that "a noble heart will never disgrace ttself," actually refers to the "blue aprons" worn by butchers on account ef their not show- ing blood staine-a far jump this .from the blue blood of the haughty Spanish aristocracy to the humble apron of a butcher's boy. -London Ex press, v04- 0, RELIEF AT LAST I want to help you if you are suffer- ing from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Piles, I ean tell you how: your own home and without ani' - one's assistance, you can apply the beet of all treatments. PILESTREATED AT nome 1 promise to send you a FREE trial of the new absorption treatment, and references from your own locality 12 you will but write and ask. I assure you of immediate rellet. Send no money: but tell others of this offer. Address MRS. M. SUMMERS, Sox 8, Windsor, Ont, Why Vats Purr e.nd Lions Roar. One of the most interesting dia. coveriee made lately is that of Sir Richard Owen that the lion roars, in stead of purring, simply because the hyoid bone in his throat is loose, - in the eat this bone is stationary, so that the cat purr e and cannot roar, but in the lion and tiger the hyoid is loose, and therefom even when call- ing to their Mates the larger memters of the cat family roar. The roar of the jaguar and leopard are like "hoarse, barking coughs, au Interval ot about one second separating the ex piratory efforte," says this observer. They may be eaeily reproduced or im• Rated by sawing a piece of thin board with a tears° toothed eaw. The cleat- bowever, cans with a de.. -d.1 mew, tery much like that of the eat. IL It Pocock, superintendent of the Londone Zoo, explains that tliose telt• dae or cat family that have an elastic ligameut between the ceratohyal and the uttper °temente of the suspensor- ium (lion tiger, leopard, jaguar) roar, but never purr; white all the ether species of the felidae, with normally constricted byohle, pltrr, but never roar, and among theee are the chee- tah and puma, A BETTER WAY, (Louisville Courier -Journal) . "What's the use or buying diamonds? They are just small pebbles. You ean't etit them .or get any real good from tt em,Tr• ' •Pltut they :show you are weattitY."• "You Van ga the same result by having egg on the chin, And you have the satisfaction of eating the eggs, as welt" Make it thy business to know Gite self, whieh is the meet difficult he - son in the woeld.-Cervantee. "Going- up on High?" Better try the low gear first. The human engine must have the right kind of fuel - food. Power to do things comes from food that is rich in muscle -building ma- terial, that is easily digested. ShreildecI Wheat is a high- power food, the kind that fits g man or woman for the day's work -just enough muscle -making material, just enough beat -making mater- ial to keep the body in top- notch condition. Shredded Wheat is ready-coOked, ready -to -eat. Two Biscuits with milk make a nourish- ing meal at a cost of A few cents. made in Canada.