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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-07-19, Page 6cowva The Rochester Herald SAYS that The Americalle are going to teach the Preach and Ifitaglieh a new wrinkle in efficiency in war, and the eery Rig' geetion la caleulated to contound teem American erities of "Witness" wee have been raising etielt a din during the twit year or se. Ten sawmill un- ite have already been organized for immediate service in England. Cern- binee, they consist of 260 New Eng- land luniberjaelte. Each unit contains 36 men, 13 horses, a portable sawmill rand equipMent. They will he set in some of England's fine forests to cut luMber or use on the French front." But Canadian lumber jacks have been in Britain for impale doing that laud et work, RUSSIA COXES BACK, Sooner than we expected, and with a suddenness which apparently sur' prised Vie Germans, the Russiami have resumed the offenelve on the eastern front, launchiug an, attack on the enemy welch netted them ten thousand *prisoners and i large ,guan- tity of spoils, Evidently the Kaiser was not Looking for so sudden an as- sault or he would not have lost such a large number of men, The chief hredit for this resumption of the cia fensive is to he attributed to War Minister Korensky, who visited the battle frent, addressed the soldiers and led the attack in person, although no doubt Gen. Brusiloff was in com- mand. The War Minister's harangue won over the soldiers • to his side. He told them that they were no longer fighting for the Czar and oppression, but for freedom at home and inter- natiOnal ,peace.-. The Russians are bald to haVe plenty of ammunition and to .be well equipped. This re-entrauce of ltutie.la into the struggle has heartened the Allies. With' American troops in Prance and Greece preparing to enter the struggle, and ,this fresh -evidence of Russia's active intervention in the straggle, France has taken new heart and will redouble her efforts to drive the eee- tny out of her territory. • Any day ziow iive may expect to hear that the Germans have retired from the neigh- bortatod of Lens. The process of dee- . , ing them back may be slow, but the great thing is -that they aro going back. FARMERS NEED TIELp. The Ontario Organization of • Re- sources Committee bas lesued an imperative appeal for help for the Parmelee At a meeting of the commit- tee .beld recently, the matter of sup!-• PlYing harvest help for the farmers was taken into serious tomideration. In the spring of this year farmers were urged, to increase their acreage under crop, and to do everything they pos- eibly could to increaee the production of food stuffs. They have responded tplenctidly to this appeal. They. have increased their acreage timid oropt Even with a normal barvest there should be a large increase in the pro- duction Of food stuffs, and the pres- ent Indications are that the Ontario harvest this year, will be very 'much above normal. Reports in the hands .of the Orgatalzation or Resources Com- mittee show that in many parts of the Preview the harvest will befit) abun- dant that the ferment will have to face a serious WW1. (-shortage for hay- ing and harvesting, The committee therefore appeals to every one to use their influence to see that the community prepuce to hell) the farmers in every way poseible. When the demand for men come it will come suddenly, and we should be prepared in time. It is the eoleran duty of every storekeeper, effice clerk, fac- tory hand and bueinetts man Who call be oared to prepare to help in earv. est, since the very extetence ot our Empire depends on sufficient food stuffs being wiggled from North Am- en:ea to &Witt and her Allie,sato ens able them to "carry au." That is a matter of life and 'death for the allied powere, Without tood, 'neither our sallow* nor withers could fight and Britain would be beaten if she could tot get food for herself. We talk about teeing "our bit." Well, •the man who neles the farmere will be doing his bit as traiy as if he were in France. The man who can and will not help the farmers is on the Kaiser's aide, a clacker and protGer- man. No truly loyal Cahadian or Brit- ish subject will turn a deaf ear to this appeal, if be can pcotibly bele. Every little counts, Your help end others help may 'save the ell:natio% Don't eae that you 'can't, if you can, lf Canada does not send feed then etarvtion will be the portion of our men in France, and our elites over in Benne. Mania ton 8heuld be ahle to spare 1,000 Men at least to help in the harvetit field. Let the Board of Trade Or some other organ'gatiren Opeit a twerp:tante :station ter thew willing le help the ranter. Let the women also reepteld, Abused Superlatives. It le hard to make neople understand that tile atliectiVe almOnt Invariably weidtens the noun and that the wad "very," for Matinee, deed eot :drength- en a Statement, but ttualinee it. reit the tole of the superlative Is even more abused. We talk bf the "unirrinettelt- able" honesty of eonteboey oe other, knowing perfectly well that anybody'a honesty may he impraelied. What teem; to ire required is a readjuArnent Of pup habits.. Or thought and better teaching of the value of worths and on of the tumfultiese of grettunar. A superlative etmeasarily invOlVeS an axiom. 11 cent - mite yott, like seeing thet the sum of the angles of any teenier le psI to two right angles, Yule dlentraa. alines 'when you try to prove it "Impregisa. Mar and .envulnerabilite" and all other eupertatives 10 generil use are tio4ing an oxlintei alien they urn Mostly fellatitee. -Walt Utreet Journal. Weeelehe HER HUMBLE LOVER1===11:14 Sereseopmennmweropeappresineme06 sestweetileareepa steeeeie "Ali!" comes with a gap. "Very ill, my dear, you would go to Iline; You Would not be so wicked, BO unforgiving, let him have done what lie may, as to refuse?" Signe, leans; forward, Panting. Itheatiht ilitaeei "W s it? Olt, tell Me at Once! Don't —don't keep me in suspense! You are killing eael What is it you want to tell ine, and are afraid? Is it it—ah!" with a *wild cry. "He is ill, and I ant here, all these miles away! Tell nie—you shall speak! Why do YOU alt there staring at me?" "Hush! husal MY Poor child! Signe, be brave still! Signe, I win tell you —I will tell you the truth! 'lector is ill—dangerously!" "It .5 fain! You mean that he la dead!" she shrieks. "I see it in your face!" and she starts up wildly, with her hands clasped, her eyes staring down at Lady Rookwell'e white face. Lady Rookwell catches her in her arms .and holds her. "No, no! He is alive! I said that I would tell Y011 the truth! He Is alive and ltes sent for you!" is he? Oh, Heavenl all those miles away!" pants Signe. "All those miles! Let me go to him—i, my datling, my darling! I have been Mad, mad! I eee it now! Who was I to judge? What did it matter? The Past, the' past was nothing, the pres- ent was mine and his, And he loved me, He loved me, and I was not con - tette Yes, I deserve it all! Heaven has punished me! and her head ,drops upon Lay Rookwell's bosom with a long moan. Then her mood changes suddenly, and with a calm, almest haughtygee- bnt* t ungra e , Bahr eZeets herselt from the trem- "Don't speak to me; leave me alone for a moment—to think! Where am I? fine.??,aris ,and he is in Casalina! Is "Yes, yes!" "It will taket—I must start at once! Ale this man, Sir Frederic? Where is he? Bring him to me!" "Are you sure—" "Briog him to me!" with a low moan. "Do you not see that I have come to my sensee? Do not be atraid; I know *what I am about. Bring him to me! If my poor darling has sent him, I will see him and take my hus- band's message from his lips. Oh, do not be afraid, I am quite calm now!" Lady Rookwell goes out immedi- ately. "Come with me," she says to Sir Frederic, "Be patient with her; she has been almost out of her mind, but lishveriltte..altai now. You can tell her the Biting his lips till the blood comes, he follows her. White, statuesque, Signe stands in the middle of the room, end eyes him as -if he wore no more to her than any. other messenger from her beloved. "Well, sir?" she. Pants, "your mes- sage—quick!" "Lord Delamere is dangerously 'ill; he hoes. sent me for you. I am to give you this," he hays, as if every word coat him a pang; and he hands her the ring. With a low cry she tales it and Presses it to herelipe, "No more?" "Nothing more—except this --he is innocent, Lady Delamere." She laughs with wild scorn. "Innocent! What shotild I care for that? Inn*nte Though he were guil- ty of all you accuse him of, and worse, I should not care! I left himat the bidding of—of---•••" "Do not Ware me," he says, with sad bitterness. "No words you can say can be more hard to bear than niy own remorse. Rest assured that I am punished---" She looks at him, through him; then glides swiftly to the door. _ "Walt!" she says. "I shall be ready in five minutes. Oh, (leaven, the ranee —the miles between us! Deingt and I am here!" CHAPTER XXXIII. The sun is sinking behind the Tils. can hills; far down in the valley the tinkling of the sheep -bells and the lowing of the cattle being driven slow- ly homeward float in the still, even. ing air, and mingle harmoniously with the chapel -bell, ringing softly for vespers. Hector, my Lord of Dela- mere, lies motionless, with hie eyee turned to the window, throligh which the last rays of the dying suit shine with a warm, crimson glow 'diet lights up the wan face with'a settle lance of its former self, Beside him stands the sister, her mild, dove -like eyes fixed upon hie face with intense, yet halfteonceelee watehfulness. "Is the light ego much, milord?" the inquires. "No," he says, and only elle' who has grown familiar to the almost in- audible voice could hear him. "No, I am waiting for it to go—another hour, or less, Did you ever Wait ne I haver waited, stater? Yes? 'Yoe know, then, how long the minutes can be. These seem hours, ages, woke! .Itead me the telegram epee." She takes the familiar paper froth bis grasp, and reads the Meseagei "My darting, I shall be with you to- night Signet.' "To -night," he murthure—"it ie only everting nowt The train is 'sure to be late. Ala haw weak my voice sounds! I beg your pardon, sister-' come nearer. To -night! 1 staid I should live till she comes, tied I think 1 shall. Give hie something anything. rf you could glee me the elixir the wise men rated to d?earni of in the middle ages—the elixir of youth and Immortality now; • But. you cart only give nie—what itt It— thampagne? Thank you, thank Ma Put the dock where t cite hear it. Another hour!" "My lord must catrd himself, or lie will be worn out before—befOre the time," murmurs the ratter. A wan Mile abases his fitee. "t ant ealmnees itself, sister," he eays. "Yes, t koow how important it Is. I have been eaving Up ray Strength tor ihe tint hour. Even the greel fa- ther is satisfied and praiset Me," and he Miles- aware but it is evident he only talking t6 while away the thee, the lagging, Ilene -feet tiled. There is a silence for a Matti& or two, then he looks up et the clock, Whetie dial he Millet &Cipher, "Meter," he sayst "I ilaVe just Made bp -my Tided to oleep. She Shakto her head inerectUlelley. She returns in a few ntinutee with Lady Raokwell, awl eloses The deer after her carefully, 'What is all this that Laura ha -a been telling me, Sir Frederic?" %tee Lady Rookwell, earnestly, and With a Warp scrutiny of his hag- gard few, "Is—is it true that poor Lord Delamere is—I cannot filleak the word! It cannot be true." "It is quite true," be nye, in a uncertain voice. " Ileft Ulm. dying There is on tiMe for explanation, Lady Rookwell. eft,' widen le to brminegrhis—his wife to him. Can rho eo Lady Rookivell stands at the win- dow, and he knows that the tears are running down her face. Then see turns sudenly. "I will aslc ber," she says, with a tone of decision, "Stay here. I May senel for tyou." • Carefully removing all trac;es et tears, Lady Reokwell goes hito the adjoining sitting -room. Pale tine mo- tionless, Signa lies in a chair, ber head thrown back, her eyes closed, her hand lying. Idly in her lap, as she has lain for the last two days, as if dead to the world and lost in the past. • "My dear," she says, taen falters. Signs, opens her eyes and turas them upon her with the awhil, de- spairing look which has wrung the old lady's heart every time she hes met it, "My dear," she says, 'do yote feel better, stronger?" and. :the emooths the hair from the face that has never looked lovelier even ie ita hours of bliss than it does now for all Ito pal - Lady Rookwell comes up to her and lor. "Better. atrongee?" echoett Signe, with a faint smile that le pathetic in its pairthlessness. "Yes, I an quite well, Lady Rookwell; I am lying here 'because it would hurt you if I got up, and seem ungrateful. But I am tired, oh, very tired! If one could but aleep away one's. life when it got un- bearable!" and she sighs. -But why do you ask?" "Because I wanted to speak to you, dear, You know tve have not press- ed you, have not bothered you, sinee —since—" "You found nee more dead than alive in that awful station. Yes, I know. You are, all goodness to nie, dear, I always knew that you had the tenderest heart in the world, and you have proved it by letting me keep my secret," and she takes the wrinkl- ed hansl in hers and kisses it softly, letting it drop again with a lattices weariness. • Lady Rookwell sits silent for a mo- ment; ebit has often had to "break" bad news, but never such news as this. "Then I may speak, deer?" she says. Signe, opens her eyes 'again. "Yes; but not—not—of what brought me here," she eels, fearfuly. "But, Stena—well, I must say this. You know you were very ill?" Signa• shudders. • was almost inert" ehe says, in a whisper, "yes.". "People in delirium are mad for the time, dear, and You were delirious You wandered a great deal in your talk, and Mentioned' names; anmaget them was -Sir Frederic Biyte's." Signe, starts, and the blood rushes to her faee, leaving e deathly pallor behind. "Well?" she says, with distended eyes. "Well, dear, I—I telegraphed to Mut." "No!" she exclaims, wine a shud- der; then she sinks .back. "But It didnot matter ;he was not there." "No; be was not there; but—but why do you. look like that, Signe? You—yon surely do not feae him?" "Fear him?" she repeats, with clinched fist. "He IS the Cause of all My misery. But for him I should - have gone on, happy in my ignor- ance.", Her violet eyes fill with tears, and the hands interlace spas - Medically. "But for him I should hew have known; I might linve got* flown to the grave itt ignorance, and died in—in my darling's arms, happy to the last! Fear Sir Frederic Blyte! 1 loathe Muer . Aghast, Lady -Rookwell sinks back in silence. How can she tell her that the man is here, in the same house? There is a moment's pause, then Signa site up again and stares at her "But why do you say all. this? Why do you ask me? Why do' you ask me? Why do you Mention that man's name?" Lady Rookwell nerves herself for the effort. "My dear," she sage, gently, stretching out her hand and taking the white one nearest her, "because he is here!" "Heel In this house?" eases Sig- ne? "HOW dare he? The coward!Is thete no place where I tan be safe from his hateful presence?" "Hush, hush, my peer child! 110 is here, not by hat own accord, but by dire necessity. He was sent bere—" "Sent here—to Me! Who sent hate? I do net believe it. It is false!" arid she tears her hand away and thruste back ber hair from her face with A wild gesture. "My dear, it is true. Can yclu not guess who has sent him?" "'No! No, I cannot! No °he could have seet him eXcept—" a pause; and with a twinge of suety she core ers her 'face with her hands. "No one exeepting bit» !and he `would not tend title man:" "Int you mean your has. band, Lord Delantere," says 'Lady "If you Meali ytitir husband, /Aril Delamere," says Lady Itotacyrell, firm. ly but gently, "you. are right. Ile has sent bille." "Hector!" breathes Sigtia, ainteilt "Yds. Heider Delamere." "WhY1 Why?" "Cannot you guess, Signa? He bas MO him to tell you that—that yoU ere to go back to him," A Shedder rues threligh Eiigna'os frame, and her eyea he WOuld not do thailie knows that 1 would not go! Netter— Melia" "Bet attetpoet.--/ Ohly eay supper/tee- he- needed your "Needed Mei" "Yee; be calm, tny child! Auppose he needed YOU very much; that—that was ill:" "NO? Yeitt Atilt reef" he riayS "BOW My head a little. Give me the telegram, I will Sleep tithe deavdlithe hour away. What is it the poet itaysl " `Abe Me, that tittle ShOunt Ite so long, WI life so ahorte So shert!" and with a eigit he clos- es his eyes. The siSter wateltee, and presently bis over bine The will ao strong, theagh all else is so wealc, hoe eonquered, Ile is asleep, An hour melee The prieet comae In with noteeless steps. "Asleep?" he saya, wtth bushed surprihe; "it le Unto they were here. Listen, ithat Is that?" for there is the sound of distant wheels, Hector seem to hear them even in Me sleep, for he murmurs; "My darling! At WU It has beep very leng—lollg—hingt" The priest goes on tiptoe from the room; helute caught the mound of hushed footeteps in the ball below. A. few zninutee pass, then .the aoor opens, one Septa glides in, She hes thrown, her hat und jacket off, Pled rears the old black dress which see wore that day to $t .Clare. • For a moment she pauses at the bedside with averted face; then with one effort Ithe braces herself to meet the change whicli elle knows must have cent° to the handsorae filets pt her belovee, and Woke down at him. Then, with not a cry, with not a tear, he kneels down and lays her face close to his. Half an hour passe, The sister and the tender-hearted father stand ie the shadow out of sled, both weeping At the end of the helf-Jour Heater stirs and opens his eyes. "Stgria," he murmur; 'am I dream- . Ing etill?" She puts her arm round hit% and lifts him. till his head Iles upon her bosom, and lays Tier tips upen his Without a single word, « An hour later ;he is still lying in her arms, and there is still ofience between -them. Only skee has he spok- en, and then but to stay: . "I knew that I should live until you came, dear!" and he seems quite con- tent to Ile and rest with his head up- on her bosom jooking up at her occa- elonally, as if the sight of her face Were life to him. The doctor has ar- rived, and stands !peeing down evith compressed lips and inscratable face: lie feels the flickering pulse, and avoiding the 'violet eyes that, fixed upon bis face, seem as they would wring the truth. from bine gots out of the room, Downstairs two pale faced, 111)Xious women are awaiting him, as if he brought the verdict, lite or death, in his hands. "Well?" demands Lady Rookwell, almost fiercely, while Laura clings to her trembling. The doctor leeks from one to the other, and shruge his shoulders, not unfeelingly, but as an intense expres- sion of his inability to aeswer them. "We must wait," he says. "He is neither better nor worse. Another man would have ben dead twice over; but this man—he!---has the will of three. And, miledi, a man who can will bire- self to live as he bas done will not die without a hard fight for it. But I say - nothing; I can do nothing; no one can do anything. You need not speak be- low your breath, miladi," he adds; "It Is a case in which no noise, scarce 'anything is capable of exciting the pa. tient." Aed he goes out and smokes a cig- arette, much less eaim end cold than he Seems. Slowly tee night rolls on. A rapt look " of peace and deeply rooted Joy rests upon Hector's Mee; and • his voice is full of Petient serenity, as, after a time, he speaks her name: "Signal" "Hector!" she breathes. "Who came with you, my darling? I heard' voices, or did I dream them?" 'Lady Rookwell and Laura Der. went; they are downstairs," she ans. were, He pauses ao.d drinks. "And he—Sir Frederic?" "Yes, she says, in the same tone. "I im glad," he murmurs, faintly. "Poor eellow! Signs., send for them, 'Father, comp near. Signa'—putting out his hand slowly till it touches the priest's thin one—"if —ever—you hear the word 'friendaspoken, -think of this good ,nitin. No brother, no mother, could have dcne more for ree than he hes done. But words are poor things— peer things!" and his hand tries to piess the bee he holds. "Father, I want you to Io one thing more for me. There is—a—story to tell that she must hear. It will cottie• heetter from your lips than mine, elmif T could tell it, which I cannot. I want the others to hear it. Him—Sir Frederic —espectally. Will you send for theme "Hector!" she pleads, bending -over hint; but he staillee and shakes his head, "It has gone on quite long enough, dear," he says. "Concealment bag borne too deadly a crop already; we will 'cut it down and east it into the fire, You shall ten them, father, how it happens that I have been caljed a worse man even than I am, let them come in." The sister, at a signal from the Priest; goes doWnstairs and speaks a word to the three who are Waiting. "lie bas sent for you," she stars, simply, and noiselessly they follow her into the hu,shed reem, The doctor fellows, "It an do ho harm," he Says.. "He must have <his wish, If it should dis- turb hitn to much I will hold up my heed ahd you will go out, please." Rector greets them with a faint. Mile, that grows infinitely tender as Lady Rookwell stoops and Mese% MS liand. "Muth!" be says. "Don't cryt That's tot like you! Besides," with a faint copy of his old fronleal smile, "I have sent for you to be—matted, Sit down —ne, let me hold your heed—ail! this Was worth living for Now, father, the truth, and all the triithl" (TO be eentintiede -• • * Itt Northern Frtaift. It te strange and terilLts, to visit Pal— and no one can be happy. but tO One who hait loved Prance It 15 far wered to Visit the lovely nerthern country. There Is here a sense of emptitie55, as if tenet, still hushed the normal cheerful noise of mathind, The people of these regions have 10St everything. Their houses ere burned; their animals, eVelt the rabbita, aro gone; their farta implements aro thapeless. pleCts of grotesquely melted Iron They Me tit temporary, patched islielterS and hi the houses built by the Soelety of $*rienda or 'Maas thernseivea in some nearby village Vett escened deritruction. After a time in this silent Ottuntry One gets the sense that tlestruc. tion 18 normal, mid team Start to Otte' oyes et the sight of an nedestroyed Wrench village Settling in the one. „,Ett charged ere all values tiler. ceultt feel nothing, strange in the words of the.,,iete, mart who told moo "Fortunately my heir - bend is littriabtiek. 146 can't 16 to , the 'war."—Mary Heaten Verse, itt Cele. they. Serer§ aeople believe all they hear, and ()theft believe Mee o'Mtleh, Baby's itching Burning Skin sax.% Cuticura Oint. ment it's wonderful how quickly a hot bathwith Cuttcura Soap followed by a gentle anointing with Cuticera Oint. ment relieves itching, burning eczernas, rashes and chafings, pariahs sleep for infant and rest for mother, and points to speedy Inalment in most cases whett it seems nothing would do any good. This is only one of the many things Cu - Valve does for tbe skin when. used for every -day toilet purposes. • Sample Each Pree by Mail, Addreaa Post - we'd "Cuticura, Dept. N. Boston, U. S.4" Scold throughout the world. Frauds of Olden Days, An amusing sidelight on the Mil- ner in which fraudulent vendee; of the people's necessittes were puulshed in the good old days is to be found in Maitland's "I'lletory of Loudon!' Dur- ing the reign of King Edward I. draft- ee laws were framed egainst "En- grossers, Forestallers, and all sorts of Frauds and Impositions in the sale of provisions, especially against Bakers, wbo bad got tato a way of making Ihiessaasuedritnji,er the standard weight, and age.inet Millers who cleated in ba nd For a first offense the baker had his light bread confiscated, a second ef- f.ense was punished by imprisonment, while for a third he was pilloried. For the "thievish miller" a sterner Pun- ishment was meted out. He was put ou a tumbril, 1. a, carried in a dung cart though certain streets exposed to the derision of the people. The Engrossers were the gentlemen who attempted to matte a corner in commodities, and against these profit- eers the king advised his subjects ol London "to devise proper laws tor regulating the erices of poultry nna fish, which siert of provisions haft been engrossed by a few rapacious Hucksters." Accordingly it was or- dained by the magistrate of the city "that no hueltster of fowl or poulterer , go out of tbe city, to make any buy- ing from them; but buy itt the city, after the buyers of the Lord the King, of the Barone, and the citizens have bought and had that which shall be needful for them, namely, after threo o 'cloelc and not before." And then came a list of the standard prices at which they nmet buy.—London Chronicle. • • M n a ;de.sLiniment for sale every. hr ENERGY OF THE SUN, 11,11.......••••••••• •••••••I•I Far Reaching Effects If It Could Be 'Utilized Scientists have believed for some time that the sun has an importaut part la determining weather condi- Wow, but just what its influence to and how thie influence is exerted are more cm lees mysteries. In order to learn if possible what -connection ex- ists between the sun and ratite, winds, higheand low pressure areas and other weather phenomena, U. S. government has establiseed three statioras where the sun's 'power and heat are carefully observed and recorded. One of thew stations is at Washington, D. C., one at eladieen, 'Wis., and the third at Lin- coln, Neb. Observatione made at these sta- tions prove that a violent volcanic eruption servos tore.duce the heating power of the sun, that the clouds of volcanic duet which is thrown into the air and extends part or all the way around the globe, though, it may be invisible, ,acts as a blanket to prevent some of the solar heat front reaching the earth. It has also been shown that for a given place there le considerable variation in the amount of heat from the sun in the course of a day. For example, snore heat is received in one hour whert the suti is near the meri- dian than is received Itt several hours at an earlier or later period in the day. ,• It has iotig been recognized that the sun is the source of enotenous en- ergy which if properly harneseed would be sufficient no furnish aboua 'all the heat, light and power needed by man. A,pyrheliometer—an enstru- leant for recording the sun's heat—in orie of the govertimentes solar observe- tornhas ahown that on a hot day heat energy equivalent to one horse - Power was received on a single yard of the earth'sendue. From thisit is evident that enormous =gents of en- ergy are tonstantly going to wade. The problem of devieing a solar en- gine bas heen given mutt' thought and attention by inventors., and while they hay(' succeeded in :producing ale. paaattisetepable ef developing same maul patter nothing of the kind has ever been produced Which will ecoho- micalty and effielentle traneformi solar energy so that It ean be um' eatieenc• tartly. A elute:her of difficult probleree are involved, Among throe are: That of protecting eamo relatively irteepen- etve Means by et Welt the eun'e rayn tatty be Witeentratee on a large Beale; an economical, efficient ineann for feeling ttp energy da e by day for use at night and on ditee wben the eun 10 hidden Ina the elotide; WOO, for storing energy during stamina of the year When the 61.111'-e heat Is greatest for lese in seasons when it is at ite loved ebb. Yet When the dentand le likelegto be greatest. The growing /scarcity of Nei, togeth- er 'with the imereasing demand for power tor Industrial purporate, for heat, light, etc., now furnish a power - tut incentive for developing other eources.f merge, The leucite which owe their -existence) primarily to the eun have been utilized to gone extent for years. Waterfalle which are oleo Producte of the sun't heat 'lave long been used, and they are now being harnessed .rnore and more extensively. It May be that earn° inventive gealus will ebortly find a way whereby setae energy ;may be utilized effectively io Its original form at relatively small test. Needles e to gay, auch a diseov ery would have very far-reaching ef, fects on induetrial and economic con, ditione the world at-cr.—Pathfinder, Automobile Tops, The practice of running an automo. bile with the top up when it is not needed Is coetly, acording to tests which I made, says a contributor to Pouter Mechanics. When the back of tlae top cannot ae rolled up the re, sistance is especially great. Six miles mare wore obtained trona a gallon ot gasoline with the top roiled and cov- ered as compared with having the top ni) witli the back closed, WIsen going against The wind this extrit pull te es, pecially heavy, and difficulty in mak- ing a hard climb may often be re. lieved by teetering the top. Careful regulation of the top, using sr only when essential, will be found to be a worth while factor in reducing the gasoline bill. • 0 • SAVE THE CHILDREN Mothers who keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house may feel that the lives of their little ones are reasonably safe during the hot weath- er. Stomach troubles, cholera in- fantura and diarrhoea carry off thou- sands of little ones every sutumer, in most cases because the mother does not have a safe medicine at hand te give promptly. Baby's Own Tablets cure these troubles, or g given oc- casionally to the well child will pre- vent their coming on. The Tablet are guaranteed by a governnaent an- alyst to be absolutely harmless even to the newborn babe. They are es- pecially good in summer beeause they regulate the bowels and keep the stomach sweet and pure. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- liams' eledicine Co., Brockville, Ont. TRADE BRIEFS. Recent earthquake damage in San Sal- vador should increase the opportunities for the introduction of reinforced con- crete constructlon In that district. Steel wares s.hould find a ready mar- ket in the 11.1ga •district, Russia, as the four factories engaged in the manufac- ture of steel products there were dis- mantled and moved to the interior at the beginning of the war. Correspon- dence should be In Russian. atotoreyees and bicycles are becoming °pular throughout Siam. There is an opportunity for the sate of supply parts and accessories. Chrono resistance wire is needed bY a firm at Genoa, Italy. Argentina offers a good field for the sale or °belying gtim, inquiries bays been received from Sao Paulo, Brazil, about sectional office par- titions and metal furniture. A firm at Shanghai, China, is in the market for split wood pulleys. „ Motor boats, forty feet long and draw- ing three and a half feet Of water, are wanted a 241outevideo, Catalogues •and prices of steam dis- infectors arc orequested by a. dealer in Argentina. .A. firm in 'Manila, Philliipine Islands, Is in the matiket for ging/tams, chant - brays, nainsoolts, batiste and cambrica Cui‘131°an.'s athletic Underwear is wanted in Due to the scarcity or broom corn, State Senator J. it.Dme ongeaux of Louisiana has experimented successful- ly with palmetto leaves as a satisfac- tory substitute. Experiments will al- so be made with palmetto roots in the making of pulp and paper. The sup - 01 palmetto Is inexhaustible. A continuous burning nine kiln of a twenty ton daily capacity is needed by a firm at Tampico, Mexico. Shoes, furniture and rice are in demand at Tunis, Africa. • Soap manufacturers are wanted at Port of Spain. Trinidad. 4) 4 • Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia CANDIA OF CRETE, Important Port That Was Found- ed by Saracen Pirates. "The prosperity and importance of the Cretan port of Candle Was so pre- poilderant during the occupancy of the Mediterranean island by the Venetians that the 'whole province assumed the name of the city and even to -clay MOM. charts and maps label the land 'Crete or Candia,'" says a war geography bulletin of the United States National Geographie •Soelety describing the former capital of Greece's largest insular possession. "To -day Candle, near the centre of the northern shore of the island, is second in importance to the new capi- tal, Cauca, near the 'western extremity. The larger city enjoys the advantage et proxintity to Sudo, Bay, the only deep Water harbor of the island, hut ln historical and legendary associations Camila- ranks with Rein°, Athena, Babylon, Nineveth, No111)1118.. Tyre and Sided, Owing to tito adjacent ruins of the great Willman capital of Keossos White Cake .100 While LIquidelOc. firie Tvt EN'S WOMEN'S r w. reAtelea•Y r' -'- SOPER &WUJTU SPECIALISTS Piles, Eczema, Asthma, Catarrh, Pimples, Omega's, Epilepsy, Rheumatism, Skin, Md. nine Mood' Nerve and Bladder Dleeases. Call or send history for free advice, Medicine Nonni Id In tsblet form, 1iours--10 cro, to V.10. end 2 to 6 p.m, Sundays -10 a.m. to 1p.m. Consuilatioa Fres DRS, SQPER & WHITE 26 Termite St., Toronto, Ont. Please Mention This Paper, (Ctiossus), where evIdeneee of an 4S- toniehing evilizatioe, existing nearly 2,000 years before the Christiau era, have been unearthed, as described in a recent National GeegraPille SodetY bulletin. "The present city was founded by Saracen pirates who wrested the islaud from the Byzantine emperors early in the ninth century, They named the new town Mandate from which Can- dle is derived. On many maps the town, is called efegalokastron (Great Fortress). "One of the stetting features of Candle is the number of religious mil - flees of atich it boasts. With less than 25,000 inhabitants it has numerous synagogues, Greek churches, a cathe- dral and fourteen mosques, The metro- politan of Crete resides here. One of the institutions of which the city is justly proud Is the museum containing priceless antiquities taken from the ruins of Knossos, Phaestus and other vanished Cretan strongholds, 'The fortifications which surround Canala were begun by the Genoese in the twelfth century and greatly strengthened by the Venetians- during four auuceeding centuries, but walls of stone were unable to resist the pro- longed siege which the Turks conduct - ea in the seventeenth century, oven though, the defence of the city by the renowned Venetian admiral Francisco Morosini furnishes one of the most stirring pages in the history of Crete. This great captain', one of the most distinguished of bis age, was a member of a noble family which furnished many doges to the powerful republic. For eighteen menthe he, and his fol- lowers performed prodigies of valor in an effort to drive off a vastly superior investing force of Turks under the vizier Aluned Rupee., bat after sus- taining 30.000 casualties, . killed and wounded, eforosini 'capitulated in order to save the surviving inhabitants. For this surrender he was court-martialled but was very properly exonerated of all blame and lived to redeem the prestige of -Venice abroad by conquer- ing Athens and all Peloponnesus, in recognition of which he was jubilantly acclaimed by the Italian populace and received the title of 'Peloponnesiacae "Turkish rule over Crete was not an unmitigated misfortune. Tit fact, dur- ing the second quarter of the nine- teenth century a wise and just Alban- ian pasha, Mustafa, one of the most brilliant etatesmen of his time, gave the island is 'golden age.' He en. couraged agriculture, improved the roads, introduced an Albanian police force and succeeded in stamping out one of the curses of the country— brigandage. During his regime the harbor of Candia, which had become choked with silt, was deepened so that it could accommodate vessels of light draft, such as frequented it during the heyday of 'Venetian supremacy. "Candia exports quantities of olive. oil soap manufactured in the vicinity, and also has a moderately flourishing trade in dried raisins, wiue. almonds and silk cocoons. "One of the relics of Venetian occu- pation is an aqueduct, built in 1627, which bas withstood the ravages of time so successfully that it still sup- plies the city with much of its water. "One ot thegruesome sights which formerly aroused the keen pity of tour- ists was a colony of lepers, perhaes seventy families, which clustered in diseased squalor about St. George's gate. They have been removed recent - Iv to Spinalonga, on the Day of Mirabelitue . • We believe ARNAUD'S LINIMENT is the best: lifethias Foley, Oil City, Ont. Joseph Snow, Norway, Me. Charles Whooten, Mulgrave, N, S. Rev. R. 0. Annstrong, Mulgrave„ N. S. Pierre Landers, sen., Pokemouche, N, B. Laundry Hints. Soak ink stains in sour milk. If a dark stain rernains, rinse in a Weak eolution of chloride of lime. Saturate grilse etaine thoroughly with kerostue, then put in the vaoh- tub. eeash iodine statue with alcohol, then rinse hi soapy water. Soak iron rust etaine thoroughly with lemon juieee (wrinkle wth ttaIt for Several hours in tee eun. Hot water and soap generally re- move grease speigeSotten wheel greehe or tar Mains with lard and soak in fur- pent:tee.- Serape off all the Iocee tor - face dirt with a knife, sponge clean With turpentine and reb gently until dry, Soak mildew in a weak eolutiott of chloride of lime for etweral hours. Melee in cold water. Ruh sewing machine oil staine with lard, let stand for several hottris and Wash with cold Water and soap. To remove ecorelt Mains wet the coreit place with wap and bleach in the sun. Wash chocolate and cocoa. wit15te0ap- in tepid water. To remove fruit stains, etretelt the fabric over the Mouth of a "taste and pour boiling water on the Oahe Gapes, They are en trenched. And frankly military. Or Jere the tippetate Winging front semi to elite Inelizding broadelotbe, velettee tat- fetaft, satin& While some are of double-faced ries, others are fascinatingly fined. non't hit a man *hen he hes yog deal& ISSUE NO, 29, 1917 =1=!1.Amiz:gem=omoo, HELM WANTED. 'WANTED — PheattATIONErtei TO el" train for nurses. Apply, Welieurirot Hoapital, t, Oootharines, Ont. WANTED—A SORVANT v• for only two in family. APPIV,p. is it. Mathew's Ave. Hamilton, Ont. riONEY ORDERS. tunriN °IMBUING GOODS 13Y 1141r :Tler, Newt f.‘ Dominion lesawesc Money Or* IDEAL PERFECT GIRL, Harvard Bachelor Graduates Agree On Many Attributes. The following are the attrtbutes of be perfect girl as wen through Har- vard eyes, some 50 bachelor graduates having recently And after consider. able discuesion, agreed on thent for the "girl that's worth while!" , tale Is attractive, graceful and healthy, bat not necessarily pretty. She can dress tastefully alid enter- tain anyone and make them feel aei ease. She can make bread an well as fudge, and cake as well as a "rarebit." Her dancing is not necessarily lat- est, her tennis is not necessarily up to the standard, but she is apprecia- tive of the dance and of the sports: She is broadeninded, sympathetic, tactful, unselfish, optimistic, thrifty, of good disposition and moderate in all things. She can stand reverses withouf Worry. She is gentle to children and kind to older people, temeciaily her par- ents. She has a broad education, but not necessarily a renege one. Sim is modest and true and berme loving. She hal good social standing, in of a religious eabire. and it; not "too proud to prey." Minardis Liniment Gyres Burns, Etc. o STEEL DLi0OVERY. Two Norwegians Patent Method of Smelting Poor Iron Ore, According to the London Times two young Norwegian engineers have made an important discovery within i.he realm of steel ,smelting, which' will probably have niar-reaching results. The dis.eevery has been patented and consiets of a new method of smelling poor iron ore by electric energy Into first-class steel at a very low cost and with less fuel. The smelting Will be done by ae- sistarce of coal oxide gas and water gas, and the new important factor of the discovery is that the coal gas by passing througa a, name oven is re - (laced to Coal oxide, whiclt can be util- ized again. The well-known metallic expert, Dr. Groendal, welcomes the new process. and bits put his dIftereut metallic petents at the disposal of the young engineers. Practical people are san- guine or the success of the now smelt- ing process, which will specially suit * country like Norway with only poor Iron ore deposits, but plenty of cheap water power at disposal, The Norwegian' mining trade jour- nal, Dergverkflyt, referring to this new discovery says: "We welcome this dis- covery with sincere pleasure, and hope It will make enr naturally poor coun- try rich aua enighte." MInard's Liniment Cures Dandruff, .•• . An Unconscious Linguist. eien have travelled safely, it not al- ways placidly, throughout Europe with no other language than English at their cOnimand, but few have been se lucky as a correspondent of a New York paper, whose English was actu- ally taken for French by the French themselves. While he slioke no language other than English, this gentleman had nev- er had any trouble in traveling in Eu- rope. In the only instance when he greatly longed to be able to speak an- other language he was helped out of a predicament in a most unexpected way. At e railway station in Parli he could not make the porters under- stand that he wanted his baggage, Finally he exclaimed: One of the porters replied "Oul, ban. ,gazh, out, out, ban-gazh," and he soon produced the American's trunk. That was the first time he knew that the French have the word "baggage" and learned how they pronounce it. Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo was born at Besancon, Franco, Feb. 26th, 1802; died May 22, 1885. He began his literary work at fourteen, and by 1827 his reputation was continental. ln 1862, on account of his democratic sympathies, he was an exile in the island of Jersey, but alter 1870 be' returned to Franee. Forced into pelitics he soon became disgusted with its insinceeities and resigned his seat to the assembly in which be been elected. Itt 1876 he was made a senator but teem' encore- plished much on acCount of his Un- compromising hosility to every form et official trickery. Aire fair in war. No army is too honest to steal a march en the enemy. Many it fellow is out Mr the dust who doesn't dean up, Strength in Sumner Comes to the man or woman whose daily dict consists of cereals and fruits, Meat and potatoes are a heavy load on the digestive organs. The ideal Summer diet is Shred- ded Wheat Biacait, a food that is 100 per Cont. whole wheat and prepared in a digestible form. For break- fast with sliced bananas or berries, with milk or cream, Madehi Caoada. •