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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-06-21, Page 6sossmaimatiommiaiik Gen. John Thristian Smuts was the leading Colonial figure at the Imper- ial vonference. Ms revelation of tier- Many's intention te raise a great black army in Africa to dOMinate Europe bee opened the eyes of the allied statesmen, and his speech is to be Ls sued in pamphlet form. The United States naeane buelness. A,fter enrolling ten Million men be- tween the ages of 20 one 81 for war serviee, the varlous States are taking a ceneus and inventcry of their re- tiources. The Governor of the State of New York hasissued a proclannt- thin reading: "All pereone resident within the State who shall have at- tained their sixteenth birthday and who shall have not attained Orel; fif- tY-first birthday, on or before June 11, 1917, except those persons spec:FINALLY exempted from such enrollment, to furnish the information called for by those authorized to take the censue and inventory and enrollment, in such manner and form as the regalations herein prescribed or here,efter issued may require." By this means the Government will have knowledge of its manepower and resources, which will be taken advantage of as neees- sity arises. LESS SUNDAY LABOR. It did not take the British Govern- ment long to find out that there was no profit in Sunday labor. even in war time, When Lloyd George fine took Ip hand the speeding up of the manu- facture of munitions and big guns, Sunday labor was enforced. But he early saw ,that it did not pay, arid lie gave orders to eta out a,s much of•it as possible. Now we learn that, as far as possible, all Sunday labor in Britain controlled by the Ministay of Munitions has been abolished. A com- munication to this effect has been ad- dressed by the Ministry' to the firms concerned. Establishments in which the process worked •is of necessity of a continueus nature will not come -un- der the operation of the new order, and an exception will also be made in the .case of eienis whose contracts are of great urgencj. Such firms, af- ter consuieeeion with the Ministry, may have recourse to Sunday labor, but on the understanding that it will be nispensed with as soon as the re- quired output has been obtained.. Further, shifts beginning on Sunday night or ending on Sunday morning will be contiaued, and in all cases pro- vision will be made for work connect- ed withthe necessary repair of plant and machinery, The abolition of con- tinuoes Sunday labor in the national * factoriesand in the controlled estab- lishments in the Tyne and Tees areas has in most cases been highly bene- ficial, and it is believed that an exten- sion of the experiment made during the past four months will have equalle good effects on the health of• the workers ana :Hie output of munitions. In an interim report the Health of Munition Workers Committee deal with the subjects of industrial effi- ciency and fatigue, and state that the proportion of lost time due to sickness and other unavoidable causes is, as a rule: greatly underestimated in lac-- tories' records, ancnthe proportion due to slackness .consequently cveeeati- mated , They find that lpng hours, much overtime, and especially Sunday labor. have a pernicious effect upon health, particularly in heavy tradev, that work before breekfast gives infer:or output, loarers, health and leads to great loss of time; :and that under conditions of repetition work, eepeclai- ly if •it be monotonous, piece rates may be expected to give a greater out- put than wages. Hours of labor which give but little chance of spending the wages earned- diminish, they ray. the Incentive to earn more money. Hotirs of work for womeh should be reafricte ed wittily reasonable limits. "with suf- ficient pause at the week -end and with periodical holidays." By ex. 1 perieneed managers And meilieat offi- cers, the condition of stalenees in • workpeopie is attributed almost wholly to persistent long home; and the deprivation of weekly ret, • When the -Canadian Manufactuee.s' Association obtained the consent of our Governtnent to make a hole in the Lord's Day Observance Act we ,be- lieved that a miatake evas mad a dnd that More and better work would have been obtained by giving the men their weektY rest. Russians Light Drinkers, The Russian realized perfectly all the evil effect of the uee ot vodka upon his fellow Countrymen. We nmet not share the 'belief, dieseminated by the books of dilettante traveler, that every one in Russia was a hard drink - en Far from it. Certain very eonsid- (Table sections of the population did net drink at ll, Stith were the elo- hatereedatie, to whoni the prophet ef Allah had forbidden the juke of the grape; such were the seetar:ans ano (lig the Orthodox, who refrained on prinelple. Many Others as well did not indulge, either 'from ditaaele or freer' eoneelontioue eertiplea. in fa, t. statiefical evidene.e ;theme that the people at the Retsoian &attire eemerm- ed decidedly less aleohol per capita than the peoples of many other Rem, pean countrien—Itobert P. Blake in Atlantle. The felleivs who are taking Unto thereSelVee arat brides are singing "Plot be- the tie that hinJs." Quebeess--The mass meeting thas was . fo be held at the Arena here tonight or remitting iw General Lessard and Illondin has been ,&ineelled mines the coming of the conscriptiost bill in the Muse ot Commono. HER HUMBLE LOVER 1.•••••••••••••••••410mIetem•MONUMPIIININNOU Foe all her bravery Signe looks af- ter him with a sinking of the heart, It le the first time he has left her for hours at a etretch since they were made cue In Northwell Church. And yet she is sorrowfully glad that he has gone when she remembers the thoesand and one little acts of kind - nese by which Saundere has proved his devotion. To leave him with a maimed limb at a wayside inn in a strange country, the language of which lie ie next door to ignorant, would have been ungrate- ful indeed ;and with thie thought to coneole her see goes back to the guest -room and takes up a book; but It soon elipa from her grasp and lies unheeded. She leas so much to think of; tile past is so full of sweet ro- mance that the book of fiction pallet beside the reality. She recalls North - well and the Grange, of which she is now mistress, and Florence notwith- standing, almost wishes herself back again. Then ehe remembers Hector's strange dislike to this place, and de- cides that it arises from an anxiety to get back to England. "When he cootes back with poor Saunders," she thinks, "I will per- truade him to turn the horses and get back to the Grange, After all a Bo- hetalau life is not the one he should lead," So she thinkis, dwelling, lover -like, on one theme—the' lover. The hours pass. Every now and then the land- lord comes in to ask her with a pro- found bow If she needs anything, re- tiring cu her answering in the nega- tive, with the expressive shrug of the shouldere. The hours pase, but they pass slow- ly. It is the first time she has been left alone, and she begins to under- stand what it means. Life, as seen from her window, pre. cents a marked air of monotony. The girls have left the fountain, but the children are playlag round it in their place; the women, in their picturesque drees, cross rthe street with their knitting;needles in their hands to chatter and gossip with their opposite neighbors; a shepherd's boy comes down from the hills, tooting oa a pipe and followed by a shaggy dog. Preeently, as she leans back in her chair watching the progress of these characters in the little drama en- acted through her window, the figure of a young girl comes slowly down the hin. It has something familiar about it. to Signe, and she gets up and ap- proaches the window curiously. The figure comes nearer and then Sigma sees that it is the girl whom she saw In the church. As she reaches the spot opposite the hotel, she turns her face and -looks across at it, and Signe is instantly struck by the strange' ex - Pression on it. In the dark eyes 'shines an expre.ssicta of inexpressible mourn- fulnees, that is all the more touching for a vague vacancy which seems to sit upon the beautiful °Ito like a cloud. The girl stands fox' a moment, then she goes slowly, aimlessly up the slope in front of the hotel, and enter- ing a narrow lane, drops dejectedly at the foot of a disueed fountain, and with her head drooping almost to her knees, seems to be waiting. • An intense, almoet painful curiosity takes possession- of Signe, and she is about to ring the bell and ask the landlord who the girl is, and the cause of her sorrow -stricken manner, when she hears the sound of horses' hoofs ,and the sudden joy dispels all thought of the silent figure seated within her view. With a flush and a little exclama- tion of relief, she goes to the door; but as she does Go the sound grows more dietInct, and it is suddenly borne' in upon her that it Is coming from the opposite direction to that taken by Saunders and Hector. With a keen Pang of diss.ppolutment she goes back to the window, and as she dose so a light traveling -carriage, drawn by a pair of dark horses, sweeps up to the hotel. Hidden by the curtain, Sig- na watches and waits curiously. There Is no footman, and presently a Mind Is thrust•from the window and opens the door; then Sir Frederic Illyte alights. For a moment Signe can scarcely believe her senees, and looks hastly round the room to be sure that she le not dreaming. But it is no vision; pale and thin, wrapped in a huge loose cloak, as it the cold had tried him, Sir Frederic stands for a moment talking to the coachman; then as the man drives tne horses ta the stables, Sir Frederic slowly approachee the inn door, and Signa, toeing sight of him, stands un- certain what course to pursue, when he comes In eight again, and instead of entering the inn, walks quickly up the lane to the girl sitting at the feun,. Signe sees that he speaks to her, eeee the girl raise her head with a slow stare of recognition; and then watches them as they talk, .Sir Fre- deric standing with one foot on the crumbling stone, the girl looking tin at him with the half -wild, half- vaetint eyes that Signe, had noticed. In her intense interest and eitriesity she almost forgets her astonishment and dismay at Sit Frederic's arrival. Had he approached and spokee to the .gIrl from sheer pity? she- wonders. That seemed the reasonable explana- tion, and yet she could not disabuse herself of an impression that there was someting of recognition hi the girl's look, that the two were, if not familiar, certainly not strangers, It was 5 problenit that puzzled and harassed her strangely.. . She stood and watched. •Preseatly Sir Frederic said amid - thing, and pointed to the Wood. The girl got up slowly, and with the same air of dejection, and went in the di- rection he indicated, and after look- ing after her for a minute, he wrap - Ped the cloak round him and returned to the inn. There is the usual little stir and bustle, and Signa, with a strange thrill, hear e Ills- familiar voice in the passage. A Wild hope springs to life In her bosom that he will only stall for some refreshment, and continue his journey in ignoranee of her prox- hnity; bnt suddenly the door opens, and the landlord, earning in, closes the door after him earefatly„ and with series of apologeticai shrugs and bow, Waco: a Wen of paper, evident- ly torn froM the back of 6, letter, on the table in front of her, She takes it up reluctantly. Scrawl- ed In pencil is written upon "I have travelled nundreda of miles on the bare hope of seeing you, Do not refuse xne. I have words to say to you that I must say, and that it is Imperative you should hear. P. B," leer a full ruinute Signe stands titer- ing at the words, What shall she do? The first instant she resolves to send a curt refusal; then, as she re- members that she is alone, and the hot, wild temper of the men, she hesi- tates, After all, will it not be better to see him, to listen to what he has to say, and to persuade him to go at once, and quietly, before Hector should return? Above all things, she dreads their meeting. Should she refuse, Sir Frederic, in a stubborn, obstinate mood, might insist upon re- maining, and then— An awful vision of the two men face to fac,e, with their hands at each other'e throats, rises before her, and, with a shudder, she says quickly: "Tell him—tell the gentleman that I will see him, at once." The landlord bows, expressing re- luctancy as plainly as if he had put it into words, but Signe shakes her head. "Go, please; it—it is an old friend." The landlord goes at this. An in- terval.- which seems like an hour—an age—though it is but a moment pass= es, and Sir Frederic enters. CHAPTER XXX. Sir Frederic does not offer to ap- proach her, does not extend his hand, but inclines his head, and stands with one hand resting on the table, the other holding back his loose cloak. Pale and trembling, but outwardly calm Signe stands at the other side of the table. She, for her part, of- fers no greeting, nor asks him to be seated. Before her rises that awful quarter of -an hour on Die tower, to get rid of him quickly, quietly, is her one fervent desire. "You—you nestled to see me, Sir Frederic?" she says, trying to make her voice sound hard and calm. He raises his eyes and looks at her, a strange look of suppressed passion, of deep, despairing sadness, and—of pity "Yes," he says,, and he, too. is try- ing to control his voice. "Yes, at the risk of refusal, at the risk et be- ing misunderstood, at the risk of meeting with your scorn and re- proach, I have come to you.'' "I feel no scorn for you," she says, touched by his changed face and hol- low voice; "I have no reproaches to utter, Sir Frederic. You will not expect me to say that—that I am glad to see you," "No," he responds, sadly. "I do not expect that; I know as surely as that I am standing here that my pre- sence is distasteful, my voice and face are hateful to you. Think, then, what It costs me to be here and real- ize how grave the cause which brings me " el—I do not understand," she fal- ters. husband—Lord Dela- mere is absent." "I know it," he says, simply. "I do net fear to meet him. I expect to find him here. I can wait until he returns, though it is to you to whom heve to speak." "Speak, then," she says, quickly, with* a spasm of fear. "You—you must not wait until he comes back. He may return at any moment—you —for Heaven's sake say what you have to say and go before he comes back and finds you here." A gleam of scornful irritation lights his eyes for a moment. "Do you fear for him, or for me?" he says, coldly. Even in that moment of dread and apprehension, she returns him his glance of scorn. "Can you ask?" she de - demands, swiftly, as she re- calls that moment „ when Hec- tor Warren had dragged this matt to the edge of the battlement by sheer force, and stood ready to hurl them both into the darkness below. He sees of what she is thinking, and his face grows more pallid. "You fear for me! you wrong me. I am not the coward that you sup- pose. I am no longer mad, Lady Delamere; and yet I love you still. Stay!' for Signs, has made a swift movement to the bell; "do not ring; I have not sought you to mate any protestations of a passion wbich will last me, as your heart will tell you, until death. But that you forced me to defend myself, I would. not have spoken as I have done," "Why are you here?" demands Sig- ne, coldly, and yet with a fierce agi- tation. "If you have no fear, 1 have. Do you think I wish him to meet you? 11-11 there is any truth in what you have said. if I am anythine but a mere straw in the wind to you, you will obey my wish and leave the place at once, at once!" . • "I will go at once," he eays, "but I have first a duty to fulfill." "A duty!' incredalously, wonder- ingly. "Yes," he says, calmly, his heavy eyes resting on ner face tia If he were speaking words that he had rehears- ed a hundred times. "Yes, a duty that will cost me much, that will cost you more. Lady Delamere, when last WG met, I Was half mad, but I was sane enough to warn you against, and to strive to save you from, the man who has become your husband" He Pauses, but Signa motions him to go on, with a little shine af 'acre- dulons wonderment. "You warned me!" "/ warned you Against a Villain. Hear Ine out—you hase premised to hear me—el ask no mere." For Signe Inc raised her hand to the bell; she lets It drop, and sinkinto a chair still' a 'gesture of infinite contempa and weariness. "I implored you te fly from him while there was time. I bad no reason e for my doubts of his honesty exctept these of instinct--" "And mad jealousy," alio says, telly. "And sued jealousy. Put inatinct Is stronger .sernetimes than reason. Yon disregarded my warning—you turned from tho love of an honest man to the arms of A villain. Stay, if this Is as false mid itnreliable as you deem it, it will mg you nothing to listen—I only ftels you to liaten. Treat me, it you like, as a maniac— Orli who, in hi, Madam, to pouring evening, out an insane fabrication. Talco it as such, it you choose, but hear me—it is all 1 ask. Justice, justice Is the due even of a madman!" And he smiles bitterly. She makes a cool jesture of assent, which he takes as permission for him to proceed, and wiptng the cold drope of aweat front ltis brow, he goes on: "I left you that night crushed, maddened bp shame and defeat; I had behaved in my madness lilco brute beast; I bad made the woman I leved afraid of me!" He groans, and Presses his hand ,flercely upon the table. "I left her almost in the arms of my rival, knowing well that he would console her, that he would gain the Jay, and all that I had lost. Yes, I wile mad, but there was method in my madness. That Wight I stood be- neath the stars and while I cursed the hour of m3, birth, I vowed that would not rest until I had Pierced tho' mystery whieh enshrouded ths man who had stolen you from me—wbo had transformed me from an honorable SS'ngitsh gentleman into a wild beast! Signe, are you listening?" "My name and title aro Lady Dela- mere, Sir Frederic," she responds, icily, "Yes, I am listening, but my patience is wearing out, I warn you" "Like an outcast, with my load of shame, with the touch of that man's hand burning me, 'I left the Park thet night, vowed to a solemn purpose. had sworn to know no rest of mind ore body until I had learnt for myself who and what was the man you lov- ed, and what was the mystery -which enshrouded him." ' He pauses, and unclasping the echlooakkthrows it back, as if he were ing "I went to London; I made inquir• les. No detective could have been more vigilant, more of the blood- hound than I was, therefore .1 ore- ployed no one. I learnt something in London; I went- to Paris. I learnt more there, sufficient to identify Hec- tor Warren with. the Earl of Dela- mere. I—we were all Tools not to have discovered it at once. Yes, he was the Earl of Delamere, and bore a name stained with a mass of wild Ws- sipations- and vice. From parls I went to Italy—I came here, 1 remember a certain evening at Lady Rookwell's when the name of Ode place was men- tioned as that in which a dark rind sihtme_efuldeed was perpetrated by iny With a sudden pallor, with a tight- ening of the lips, Signe turns her face to him. She now remembers every word of that awful story, and the name of the pla„coen.salinal,, he breathes, involun- tar2lyao.ssa; I came eteasalina." line!" breathes Signe, a spasm of dread sweeping over her like a cold, chill blast of the north wind. He sees the impression his words have made, and his eyes gleam. "I had forgotten the name of the place for a time, as you have done, but one day it came to me, and the story of crime and cruelty connected with it. I came here—here to this very inn, and here I found that my instinct had been true; ay, even in the face of Jealousy and a rival's natural mis- truct, it had been true; and Hector Warren, otherwise Lord Delamere, was proved to be e, villain, and a scoundrel!" "Silence!". The word rings out like a trumpet note; clear and metallic, with fierce indignation and contempt. "Wait! wait!" he says, waving his hand. "I ask you to listen, to take nothing on trust. Remember, if you like, that it is a madman who speaks to You and accuses him,but it is a mad- man who brings proofe!" and he hole up his hand and lets it fall ae.if it were the ax falling upon a condemned criminal. Signa sinks back, panting, breath - lees. "I found little difficulty in discov- ering the truth of the story told by Lady' Rookwell. It was still green in the memories of the simple, honest people of the village. A young Eng- lish lord had come and stayed here, and won the affections of a peasant girl. She was engaged, betrothed—a solemn rite—to one of the farmers here. The Englishman had enticed her away, the honest lover had followed them, and with the spirit of a long line of ancestors as honorable as Lord Delamere's had challenged him. With 'col-bletoded eelf-poseesalote—that 1st the name they give it—the English lord had' shot the peasant -farmer like a dog, and decamped with the girl. The English lord was the Earl of Del- amere, your husband!" Signa turns upon him like a stag at bay, her eyes flashing like two violet stars above her White cheeks, "It is a cruel, cowardly—lie!" she gasps. "Before Heaven, I wheel that it wereVe, he says. "Think what you *ill, I love you so truly and devotedly that I could 'Wish that it were us you say, a cruel and cowardly lie. But it is Heavenee own truth. This ,raan you have married, this man to whom you fled from me, is the man who stole a bride frem her bridegroom, and who afterward shot that bridegroom. Shot! What do I say? Murdered! Murdered! For how could a Tuscan peasant stand before a noted duelist, and be the °vic- tor? It ever there was a murderer, ac- tually and morally, Hector Warren, Lord Delamere is one. And this .13 your husband!" He stops and looks down at her, white and haggard, but not more white than she is. The Clock ticks slowly, contentedly, on the mantel shelf—minutes pass; who shall say how many? Then, as if awaking from a hideous dream, Sig- ne, Sits upright and laughs. "You have done Well, very well," she says, with an unnatural gayety. "I have enjoyed it very Much—Yee, real- ly enjoyed it! I was feeling lonely lit - 111 you came, If you Were riot Sir Fre- deric Blyte, withe—hoW many titres to Yoursname?—I sheuld recommend you to take to the Stage; I think yen would be a suecese, I do Indeed. But" --with the same quick, harsh laugh—"you are n,ot Original—you forget that we have had thie story before, sad I have almost grown tired of it. And so you thought"—with a flash of scorn - 11 was Worth while to travel all this way to tell me that Lord Dela- Mere, my huebeind, Wes a --murderer —a., creel, heartless betrayer Of a sim- ple, helpless girl, and a murderer?" "I thought it worth while," he Sayii, White !Mud tortured, his hands clineh- ed oft the table --"I thought it worth while, in defense of my own honor, In defense of yours." "Thanks!" with bitter Italy. "And pray what effect did you auppose this —extremely dramatic story Would have upon Me? What did yea exneet that 1 should do in the event of my believing it?" (To be continued.) --Lieut,.Col, 'George It, Philp has been appointed A, 11. M. r, at Pete,. wawa °amp and left for there last All Pure Tea 1Sealed Packets Only Free front Dustj Never Sold la•Bulk 111 Black—Mixed—Natural Green. E218 II1100118010118 Hwnor Gems. While nosing thretigh exchanges, John D. Welke managing editor and coltuna4 conductor Of rite Bufealo News, unearthed this choice collection of unconscious humor which 10 said to have been copied from the New York &nate regent's examination papers: Ithaca, at the foot of Cayuga 'Ake, has a large university for the insane, The main provision of tbe May- flower compact with potatoes. The function of the stomach is to hold up the petticoat. Pompeii was destroyed by an erup- tion of saliva from the Vatican, Sair.xsanimals peculiar to the frigid zone are three seals and three polar eb Three kinds of teeth are tato teeth, gold teeth and silver teeth, The permarient Bet of teeth coneists of canines, eight bicuspids, 12 molars and four cuspidors. Typhoid can be prevented by fasci- ae -time. Guerilla warfare is where men ride on guerillas. - The RosetthStorie was a missionary to Turkey. Three heavenly bodiee are tbe Fath- er, Son and Holy Ghost. The invention of the eteamboat caused a network of rivers to spring The 'qualification of a voter at a school election is that he must be the father at a child for eight weeks. • After a while the Republican party became known as the Free Spoil party.—Youngstown m Telegra. Mlnardee Clniment Cures Dandruff. BELGIUM RELIEF * To the Editor: Dear Sin -1n view of the recent, statement issued by Mr. Hoover, chair- man of the Commission for Relief in 13elgium, which points out the impos- sibility at present of obtaining the necessary shipping tonnage to forward to Belgium the food supplies in the same quantities as in the past, and also draws attention to the fact that the 'United States Government have made arrangements to loan to the Belgian Government the sum of $45,- 000,000—payable to the Commission for Relief in Belgium in six monthly instalments—which sum 'will cover the cost of such food supplies as can be shipped in that time by the limited number of ships available to the com- mission—the central executive com- mittee of the Belgian Relief Fund in Canada finds it uunecessary" for the present to make appeal to the gener- ously disposed people of Canada on the plea of the urgency of support in order to stave off starvation. The needs of Belgium continue, how- ever, as pressing as in the past, and the situation may be considered as being even more pitiable as, through the forced decrease in imports, Bel- gium will be compelled to fall back on her last native resources, already so denuded. In order to maintain that so limited ration that has been doled out in the past it will he necessary to encroach upon the country's stock of milk cattle, which has been reserved to maintain a supply of fresh milk for the children. In the. hope, however, that the re- cent swiftly developed, shortage in the world's shipping—the cause of this new departure of the relief work— may not permanently endure; 10 the hope that the necessary funds ruay be available should any emergency or special occasion arise, and in view ot the fact that in any event relief in many forms will be required after the war, the committee hope that all gen- erous supporters of the fund in the past and ail those whet have pledged themselves for future payments will coatinue to support the fund, and thus continue to show their sympathy with the people who gave their all for the cause of humanity, MI such donations received after the 16th of June will be disposed of to the best advantage of this stricken people, according to the .wish that may be expeeseed by any donor or according to the actual or More press- ing needs of any 01 the already organ- ized channels of relief work, such as: "Help to the children removed from Belgian front." "Queea's fund for the wounded sol- diers." "Home for the Belgian soldiers." "Relief for Belgian prisoners in Germany." "Anglo -Belgian cOmmittee of the Belgian Red Cross." "Relief of Belgian cltildren suffer- ing from tuberculosis and rickets." "Belgian orphan fund." "Belgian national relief fund for war orphans, etc." All donations received prior to the 15th of June will be held at the dis- posal of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, for the purcherie in Canada of Canadian produce, according to our previous pledges. The central executive dommittee will issue in the immediate future a report covering the whole of their operations UJ) to the 15th of June. Thanking you for publishing the above, we remain, Yours truly, A, De Jardin, Hon, Secretary -Treasurer, Montreal, Canada, June 2, 1917. Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. TREATING' BURNS, French Surgeon's Method Has Splendid Results. The daily press and certain medical reports from the European fighting, front have frequently mentiohed a new and successful treatment of burns by French surgeons. Since the special 'dressing was known bg a coined word and since the composition was not def- initely stated, the profession has been awaiting an official description. in the first place, it is not very new. says the Medical -Report, since its erhployment goes batik to 1904. It has been in use in the present war almost from the outset, but has only recently come into anything like general em- ployment. It consists of a mixture of paraffin and resin, and while no chem- ical change ie set up,' it possesses peculiar physical properties which make it advisable for the treatment of burns. In the Archives de Medicine et de Pharmacie Militaires for August Dr. Barth de Sanfort reported over 200 burns in soldiers treated with the rem. edy, which is described in detail. The name "ambrine," with which it was christened, come from its amber hue, and seems to be purely descriptive, This surgeon states that he first de- vised the formula in 1904. Toussaint used it in 1.907 in the Military Hospital at Lille, while another ' colleague, Michaux, has also had 'long experience with it. Recently Kirmiesion presented some patients before the Societe de Chirurgie in which the remarkably favorable action was well demon- strated. The substance la a solid whieh fuses at about 50 degrees centrigrade and may be sterilized by 'boiling without injury. It is applied hot (at 70 de- grees Centr1gade-15$ degrees F.), CALLS FOR., SUMMER SHOES • CANtrugt yourself to slippery leather, 'T in canoe, sail boat or yacht. And, of course, you have to have Fleet Foot Shoes for tennis, baseball, golf and lacrosse: Fleet Foot Pumps or low shoes are the proper accompaniment of Summer apparel. And Fleet Foot Summer Shoes cost so much leas than leather, that it is real economy to wear them. Look Mtn and neat—enjoy yaarloolf—aha save Money) by oiaring Fleet Foot this annuner• 202 Catleing no Pain whatever, and even after 2,t, hottra is still warmer than the body, The favorable action is due in part to local hyperthermia. Ocourring as it does in cakes of paraffin consist- ency it Is broken up into bits of vari- ous sizes, heated to 325 degrees C. (257 degrees F.) and then cooled to 70 de, grees ts, degreea :5%), the tempera- ture of application. It use ie not cons fined to burns, for it is excellent In freezes and le even superior in the treatment of certain wounde. It is first applied in very email quatittties with formation of a thin pellicle. Over this is placed a very thin layer of cot- ton, whieh is followed by more of the remedy. This simple dreesing is pain- less and inexpensive, It is remeved In 24 hours and comes away en masse and without pain. It is true that con- siderable pus, often of foul odor, is found beneath. This, 'together with loose slottiths, Is carefully wiped off and the surface dried with a het air douche. The dressing. is then reap- plied, In no type of burn is it contra- indicated. In general, rapid healing takes place, with superior end results, Minardia Liniment Relieves Neuralgia • FOCUS EYE FOR COLOR, Reading by Blue -White Electric Light Requires Close Vision. Nowadays many people when read, ing books or newspapers hold them nearer to the eye than used to be customary, By most people this is regarded as evidence of short sight- edness, and is advanced as an illus- tration of the constantly declining physical standard. As a water of fact, the reason is entirely different, remarks the Washington "Post." Most reading is done under elect- ric light, and electric, while brighter than gas light or lamp light, is blue and contains a different proportion of light rays, The variance between the yellow light and the blue -white light is of a modern tungsten vacuum electric light requires a difference in focus of almost two inches. A book or a newspaper, to be read with equal ease, then, should be held two inchee nearer to the eye under electric light. than under lamp light. The reason for this can be made Quito clear, The eye is a single lens. and, as a photographer would say, it Is not corrected for chromatic aberra- tion, or, in other words, it has to cor- rect itself for various colors. Now, the eye naturally adjusts itself foe yellow and green, It is therefore, out. of focus for blue, Color is merely the number of light waves; the red. waves are slower and blue waves faster than yellow ones. A newspaper printed on n pink pa- per, therefore, for the average eye should be read at a distance of six- teen inches; a newspaper on a cream colored paper at fourteen inches and one on a blue -white paper at twelve inches. Or, to put the matter aa-, other way, reading a newspaper or book on white paper under a Pink, a yellow or a blue -white light requiree just the same adjustment of distance, —New York "Tribune." This is to certify that I have used MINARD'S LINIMENT in my family • for years, and consider it the best. liniment on the market. I have found It excellent for horse flesh. (Signed) W. 3, PINE°. "Woodlands," Middleton, N, S, GET RID OF RATS. Costly and Dangerous, They May Be i)riven Out: -Many a seemingly unexplainable Ill- ness in our homes niay oftentimes be traced to the presence of rats, These3' little animais travel every- where, and in their journeyings go In and out among filth and where disease prevails, They thus become carriers and disseminators of disease and pestilence. The only wild animal that lives un- der the same roof with man is the rat, says Literary Digest, We pay for his keep, although we are not on friendly terms with him. In. return, he plagues us in many ways; he steals our food, and, above all, is ac- tive in the spread of disease, The an- nual rat bill of the United States for food alone is estimated by Mary Dud- deridge, writing in the Forecast, at $160,000,000. The rat not only disseminates bu- bonic plague. but carries tapeworms, trichinae flukes, round worms and other parasites, besides being suspect- ed as an active agent in.communican Mg leprosy and Infantile paralysis. It can gnaw through any common build- ing ,material except stone, hard brick, cement, glass and iron. It destroys whole fields of grain, climbs trees to steal fruit, eats both fowls and their eggs and destroys game It steals costly furs and laces for its nests when it can get them, Much of oar annual loss by fire is due to the rat, and he also starts floods by burrow- ing into dams and levees. He is a great traveler and fond of living on shipboard, though, fortunately, he journeys little by rail, Finally, his fecundity Is nrodigieus, the fond nioth- er presentmg him with numerous ad- ditions to the family circle sometimes as frequently as once a Month, The modern Way of attacking the rat, this writer tontinues, "la to build It out." The rat -proofing of .buildings is described as "a cheap form of in- surance against fire and pestileace." Miss Dudderidge Continues: "When rate get into rat -proof build- ings we have to resort to traps and poison to get them out, the former being the least objectionable. In the use of traps it must be borne in mind that the rat is cautious and will riot enter strange -looking contrivances in search of food if plenty of other nour- ishment is available, Ttie trap should be strong enough so that the rat can- not force its head between the wires and escape, and ehOtild be dipped in boiling water or stnoked before being set, to kill the human smell, or that of rats previously caught, It should not be Plated is an opea spttee, but along the wall or in a narrow runway, for the rat's vision. is somewhat de- teetiva lit the daytime, and depending ion it's 'whiskers as a guide It has to boundary. loish makes an excellent keep close to some wall or Other bait but aa odorous edible different sonnsmirausesiesmosseameararsammem jellies have highfood value Make as many as you. can, They will be worth a great cleat to you next 'winter. "Pure and Uneolared" make8 dear, clelieioug,Sparkling jellies, The purity and "FINE" granulation makes success -easy. 2 and 5.1b 10, g0 and100.1b cartons sacks in Ask your Crocer for IANTIC SUGAR. Milli NO, 25 1917 HELP WANTED., WliorFrita*, Dfsf.170711;tilirne$I, IP°SnlirVellajr1. *-------4L-------44merejaislONEY ORDERS. -°lNN4P1'4U .954 1°NEr$01tereai27rive bou411?fi,etoll10 •••••••••••••••Mor* from the animal'customary diet is likely to attract It. Poisoning should not be resorted to in dwellings, and genie of the most efficient poisona are so dangerous that theY should be us,e,Ddoogile.ilyelgrts,exwpeeass, els and ferrets are all useful, but the ordinary house, cat is too well fed to care for such diet, and if not inured to the hartt things of life is not equal to a come bat with a full-grown brown rat, Non- poisonous snakes havesbeen eraPloYed with considerable success in ware. houses," Olive Oil. It's good. Especially in winter. Serve 11 10 salade. Has the basis of French dreeeine. And some take it alone, to build up. It is very necessary to have it pure. But, alaa! it is very, very often adue- terated. But there's a way of telling the pure olive oil. It is of a greenish color, has a curi- ously thick concietencY and has the odor of the olive. -411.1-41. CHILOHOOD CONSTIPATION Constipation in children .can be promptly cured by Baby's Own Tab- lets. They have a gentle but effective laxative which, thoroughly regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach, and thus drive out all childhood ali- ment. ,Concerning them, Mrs. 3. B. Tauffenbach, Richer, Mane writes: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets and have found them an excellent medicine far constipation." The Tablets are sold by meelicrne dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. -WIlliams' Medicine Co.; Brockville, Ont. Argentina's Preparednes. Argentina has a population of only 8,000,000. Its area is a little ism than one-third that of the United States. The average American mental picture of it is that of a country whose inhabi- tante are occupied mainly with agri- culture and raising of cattle. But Argen tina could, in time of no - malty mobilize an able-bodied army' of 185,000 soldiers between the ages of 18 -and 30, The first article of the mains charta of Argentina provides that "every Ar- gentine is liable to military eerviem and instruction in accordance with the orovisione of this law." Between 50,000 and 60,000 Argentine youths reach the age of military ser- vice each year. Of these. the Govern- ment takes about 30.000, drawn by lot, and from these aceigns 18,000 to the army for a ycer's training, and 3,000 to the navy for a two years' term of service. But them not drafted: still re- . ceive a kind Of military training at home, In the rifle clubthat are or- ganized ail over the country. The regular army conaiste of only 5,000 officers aud privatee, but with the annually drafted 38,000 conscripts • ere io alwayo an army of 23.000 in active service. Thcee who have passed through the year of training consti- tute, the reserve upon whose services reliance ie placed in case of war. They are already so numerous that, as stat- ed above, an efficient- foree of near- ly 200,000 could be called to arms if its servicee were required. Being a ceuntry that has about one - thirteenth the popalation of the "Mt - ted States and one-third of its after', A.rgentia hae made better progress toward preraredneca than the United itatee.—Albany "Journal." Minard's Linitnent for sale eery. where, A Floral Peerage. In a railway carriage in England two men were talking rather loudly: "Lord French is rather sick," one of them observed. "Yee," said the other, "so is the Marchionees of Powys, but the Duch - of Cleveland is getting on famous- ly, The Earl of Rosebery seems to be dwindling away. I can't make it out." When they left the carriage a pas- senger remarked to a friend that these Iwo fellows seemed anxious to impreea the comrany with the fact that they were acquainted with every one in Burke's Peerage." "Peerage be blob -ed," he said, rude- ly, "they were talking about dahlias." —Pittsburgh Chronicle. Superstitions carry eonsequences which often verify their hope of the!), foreboding.—George Eliot. MOW