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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-08-02, Page 6TAX TEB LUXURIES. This country is fast becoming Meter -Mad, declares Termite Sulu - day Night. At 4. thue when we preach war etionoiny a large proportion of our population is spending its surplus (when 11 is not running into debt) on joy riding, People are mortgaging their homes and their future solvency for the pleasure or owning motor Coes, Clerks and salesmen whose incomes would not average twelve or fifteen hundred per Year are putting them- eelves in the position of, spending per annum at least one-third of this sum on gasoline and upkeep. The time was when the motor Car 'was consider- ed the rich man's pleasure. It has now developed into the poor man's folly. Of course, later on the entire country is going to suffer from this raotor.itis. The nest eggs which should be put into war bonds or other good securities out of the suiplus which has come the 'way of people through an extraordinary, and one may say, temporary prosperity, brought about by the war, has largely gone into motor cars. The opportuni- ty of a life -time to accumulate a little something for the rainy day which is sure to come is being dissipated in motors, repairs, tires, gaso1ih6 and oil, Saturday Night believes the Min- ister of Finance could help to, bring these people baek to sanity by impos- ing a good stiff tax on a11 pleasure autos, ae well as on gasoline and oil used by such cars. Surely, it says, if a man is able to sport around in a pleasure car in war time, he can al. ford fee pay a considerable sum to the Federal Government for the privilege. It may be pointed out that in the Milted States a special Federal tax is now being levied against motor pleasure vehicles, and we could not -do better than follow their example. There are two 'reasons why the people should save and conserve. One is that we may have food to send across the sea to Britain and .her allies, aud the•other that we may be able to lend our money to our own Government. , It is spending about $2; 000,000 a day on the war. The U. S. money market is about closed to it, as is the British market. It must raise the needed millions by taxing the peo- ple and borrowing their mOney. If the people do not save they cannot lend, and if the Government cannot get the mbney it cannot finance the -- war. It is up to the people at home to do their bit. A GREAT AERIAL FLEET. The United States Congress has peeped an appropriation of $646,000,000 for the construction and equipment of 22,000 aeroplanes and the training of 100,000 aviators, according to the plans of the Aircraft Production Board of the Council of National Defence. Such an enormous addition to the strength of the allied air fleets as is contem- plated by the bill means the complete defeat of Germany e in the air and opens the way for the allies to know all that is going en behind the German lines, "and' .plari their attacks accord. ingly with no chance of their move- ments becoming known to the enemy. Among the important provisions in the aviation measure are: Authority to increase temporarily by Voluntary enlistment or draft the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps by a total of approximately 107.000 men. To establish at least 24 aviation canips end to form organizations for all branches of the military aviation service, including balloon, training and service squadrons. To construct more than 22.000 air- planes. To pay expellees for expansion and development of plants needed in the maftufacture of aircraft. Courses of vocational instruction for aviation students. Work has already begun on training camps where aviators will be trained in the use of handling of the aeroplane, and whence thousands of American aviators will be sent to the battle front In Europe. Several of these traleing schools will be ready very soon. Prom now on, 150 to 200 men will be turned out each woek, with a third of their training neeessary to becoming fighting aviators completed. The men graduated will now go for the next step of their training to Selfridge Field. near Detroit, where a complete aviation. ground line been prepared Tor them Sixty-eight stu• dents from the Stated have already reported 8,1, the Royal Plying Corps School at .Toronto. to take the full course in aviation there, thus to fit themselves as flyere in the United States army. ' When this aerial force arrives z in Prance it should be able not Only to totally blind Hindenburg and hie men, bat to bomb them out of Prance. Squid Ink Bag. Ancient ink was made by a se' Ing out of dead cuttlefish after the hotly 'was perfeetly relaxed. Painters got their sepia from this some squid's bOttle. Vile likewise is the true souree of the genuine and original India ink, for whit% there has never beea any eatinfaetory substitute found. The ink bag of the mittlefish is as big as a mart's thumb and can &mita six feet, darkening riabre_than a hogs- head of water, SO the equid can make Uneeert •a dart and &tell and got away 'When squid:eating sea fish coma round. .4.111.•41*-.4.40*11.11* floWer8 for Millinery are being triads to inciese tiny ;fiend!. getat leMpe, which ear' be teipplied 'with eirtrent front stomata battarle, *Menirirlide the Wearers' hat3 4.1PP.P.O.Opm.00wot t 4 HER HUMBLE LOVER Es...f.= ‘11..... ...4.40.......abftrtimmoksarAr •••••••••••••••••••••••••=101MINININIIIIIINIEN • "Alas, yes," se the father, sadly, "And now I have to tell you of poor Lucia. Two morning's after the duel Milord received news of her frim her friends. It wag bad news, The ag011Y Which she had undergone had proved too much for the poor child, and she had last lier reaeon. Yes, the pretty, Innocent girl we had crowned queen of our simple fetes had gone mad!" A eigh of sympathy breaks from Leura and Lady Rookwell. "She was not violent. they wrote. but what is called melaneholy-mad. 'Melancholia' is the right word, Is it not? All her mind was set upon the trouble she had gone through, and all her thoughts were of milord -the man who ha' rescued her. In her madame she had conceived the idea that what he had dale on her behalf he had done film love of ker. and she grew to regard herself as his betrothed. Her triends. who had her in charge, strove gently to disabuse her mind of this delusion. but she clung to it with the tenacity ofthe insane. She would sit for hours. silent and rapt, murmuring his name; theta she would beg for writing materials, and write long let- tete- to him, Poor girl! Milord did whae any other noble -hearted man would have done: he humored her, and, while striving' to dispel the hallucina- tion, wrote her kindly, brotherly let- ters in response to hers. It was kindly meant. but it wa,s unwiee; they but served to fan the flame and keep the idea alive. and one day she fled trona Aietto on foot. and came here to seek him. He had returned to England by that time, sue all that we could do, ehort of keeping her in bonds, did not prevent her from following him. Mi- lord's generosity had provided a suffi- cient income for her, and thus, harm- less but restless, he wandered from city to city in search of him. Milord wrote to her at last, promising that, if she would retuth home. • he would come and see her. and with this. and the writing of many letters to him, she was content. • "The months passed; the poor child would borne backward and for- ward from the great cities to Casal - Ina, her home. Her father died, and left her his wealth. and we all hoped thee she would recover her reason and forget milord. when Heaven or- dained that a mountain torrent should compel milord to revisit this spot and meet her. What happened you all know, This is the truth, and all the truth," he adds, with simple, impres- Hive dignity. There is a dead silence; then Lady Rookwell bends over Lord Delamere's hand with team In her eyes. "Will you ever forgive us, my dear?" she murmurs. • "Yes -yea!" he says eagerly; "there Is nothing to forgive. It le a mieerable story, is it not? Forgive! It is 1 who ought to plead for forgiveness! Had I acted as 1 snouid have done, and told my darling all the father has now told you, this would not have happen- ed. But I shrunk from it. end put it from me day by day, until it became impcssible to tell her. Mine is the blame!" "No! no! Mine!" saya a horse voice from the shadow. Hector turns his eyes with a sad smile, and slowly, painfully, holde out his hand to him. "Blyte!" he says, "this is hard up- on you, but it was beat that you should know what really • occurred. Don't fret and worry over what has happened. We are all human, and you acted according to your lights. Will you take my hand in token that all ill -feeling between us is past and bur- ied?" Sir Frederic cornea forward slowly, with his haggard face and mournful eyes, and takes the thin, wasted hand. For a moment his emotion is too strong to allow Mee to speak; then, with an effort, he says: "Delamere, I do not ask you to for- give me. You have acted like a man all through this bitter business, and I have behaved like e. cur!" "No, no!" "That thought will prove .sufficient punishment for me. If you can forgive me, if in time you can bring yourself to think that I am. worthy to be -your friend, prove your forgiveneseby giv- ing me scene chance of atonement. Let me be of some service to you, and I 'will thank you with gratitude of a remorseful man who 'sees some chance of retrieving himself. Delamere, is thete einthing; nothing , Ican do?" he: breaks 'in with dull despair. There is silence ror a momeut, then the sick Man' says, solemnly; 'Yes; be a friend to ,her," and his eyes turn lovingly to Signe. 'elf -if anything should happen, be that friend which all who are in need re quire. See now! I place her wel- fare in your hands, I leave her worldly affairs in your charge. More take you at your word, you will you go and Iodic up my steward, and sea that things are going on right? I leave everything in your hands -my friend!" Gently, almost sweetly, his voice drops at the last ,wards,,ana Sir Fred- eric, with the tears running down his face, clasps the.hand in, both pf his, and with an inaploring glance at Sig- ua, tunas and silently goes Out. eiThere goes one whose generous mind risen froin the mist of Jealousy end Solt love, shines out in the clear ef true repentance," says the rolld Yoke of the father. "My son, Yon 'did well, to forgive and, trust him, You have won a friend who will be constant' till death." "1 -know it," breathes Hector, feeb- ly. "Sir Frederic hasa heart of .geld; -he was sorely tried and tempt- alid Was misled. Through the a note miserable business ,he has act- ed like fin benerable man, impelled by a misteken eense of duty to him- self --and illy darling`here. It is not hard to forgive such a one, Signe." She &tett not speak, but her hand proses his, and he is satisfied, Theft the dcetor tomes, forward and looks at his patient rather grittily, "lIamphl" he says. "This has last- ed long enough, Father Sebastiou." . The tattier Sees and lays his heed noon the hot forehead, and with a sot. aunt "Good night, nay ton," goes out. tady Itnekwall and Laura each press genthoehattd, and tolloW, but Sighs taller Wee., aor looks up, but re - Maine faithfully,. laaittgli, at hie side. "thezatensi boa* we have nalaiudged that nate fethave," sobe her ladyship, si $I,itnits late *hair in the par - tor below, He has behaved like a hero," "Like an honeet Englieh gentleman, my hely," murnaured the priesasadly, "Yes, that is better, Father Sebast- ian," says the old lady, "and all the time we la England were villifying him! This is a cruel world." "Have you lived so long and, but just discovered that?" he says, with a sad smile, And now what will be the end of it?" she sobs, "He will die, and slie my poor Signe will not be long after him! Laura, my heart is breaking! In all my life I have never met with such sorrow as this!" Laura cannot answer for her tears, but Father Sebastian answers for her. "It is a bitter lesson, my daugh- ter," he says, solemnly. "Would that the world- would hear it! That sin, like a upas -tree, will grow until It throws out branches which shall reach no man knows whither, bear- ing the dead fruit of sorrow and misery and even death! A hero! Yes! There have beep, few heroes so brave as he who lies at death's -door to -night, for he braved shame and ill -report for mercy and honor's sake! And yet he erred! There should be no concealment between man and wife! Had he followed his own instincts and told that beautiful girl, his wife, all that I have this night told you, this would not have happened." And Lady Rookwell, the hardened woman of the world, bows her head in reverent silence. The servant enters with a warm basin of warm milk, the simple fare which forms the Tuscan's supper, and sets it on the table, and the father is about to invite them to partake of it when there comes a knock . at the door. He himself goes to answer it, and the two women, sitting close together in their sadness, hear his voice min- gled with a gruff and coarser tone. Presently he re-enters the room, and then, looking up at him anxious- ly, they notice that his face is very grave and solemn. "What is it, Father Sebastian?" asks Lady Rookwell. "Hes anything happened?" He stands at the table, looking down at them. "Yes," he says; "I have bad news! And yet -and yet terrible though it be, it is almost good news. A peasant has Just come to bring me tidings of Lucia." . "That wretched girl!" murmurs Lady Rookwell. The father shakes his head sadly. "Speak no ill ot the dead, miladi," he says, mildly. "The dead!" "The dead!" echoes Lady Rookwell, with a: start. "Yes," he says. "This man has come to tell us that my poor Lucia has been found at the bottom of the ravine -dead! In her flight she took the Florence road, and in attempting to cross the stream, was caught by the torrent, and whirled by its irre- sistible power into the valley. Poor Lucia is dead! she lies now at the ine. I will go to her. Leave me, to tefl the sad news to milord." And taking up his broad, clerical hat, he goes sadly out, "How horrible!" exclaims Laura Derwent. "Poor girl!' Aunt, is there nothing we can do? Think of some- thing. What uselees creatures we are! This good man geems everybody's friend and servant. I don't believe he has tasted food this day? Let us do something, or I shall go mad!" Lady Rookwell stares at her. "What can we do?" she asks, help- lessly. "Something -anything," responds Laura, desperately; and ehe snatches up her hat and cloak. "Anything would be better than sitting here, helpless and useless, while that good old man goes emelt hie deity alone." And with flushed cheeks, and glow- ing eyes, the professional beauty, who a few days ago would have thought it a hardehip to svelte through Regent street, hurries out of the house, and l'AdyRookwell follows her. Stumbling, and holding each other's haiede, they make their way to the inteeand into the silent chamber *here the innocent cause of all 'thee eorrow lies wrapped in the last slumber, with a peaceful smile on her face. The, good father expresses' -no sur- prise 'at their presence, but calmly, solemnly points to the motionless form, "Poor Lucia!" he says. "She has passed beyond the vale of tears. Poor child! she has found peace at last. We -,W3I1 leave her now. Mine shall be the task of telling milord. Come, how," and'he leads them bads to the cottage again. 1/4 As they enter the little hall, the doctor comes down the stairs. Hlis face le as grim as usual, but there IS an unwonted light in his eyed. "Hush!" lie Bays, gruffly; "he is asleep." Lady Rookwell murmurs something about the poor girl found drowned, but it does not interest the doctor absorbed by his case, "Humph!" he says. "What I ex- pected, but mind! no one le to go near my patient -not for all 'the drowned girl's!" "Oh, doctor!" gasps Lady Rookwell; "do you mean that we may hope?" "Hope!" he says, ehading the can- dle with hie hand. "That le a big word, even in your Englieh tongue. I do not say that; but do say that I have Just a chance with him -just a a chance, but nothing more," and with a shrug of the shoulders he goes up- stairs again. It is Just a chance, but the little, surly, gruffevoiced zurgeon elings to lt,,and makes naueh of it. All along he has /ought the fight braNely-that terrible fight which the matt of recience fights againat the King of,, Terrore. Even when there seemed no trace of hope, he &night for fighting's intke, but now that he sees a faint glimmer of light in the horizola he Stands squarely up, ready to contest every inch with his foe. He has no thought of faille, this lite tie doctor with the unshaven face and shabby dress; ;t helm* occurs to him that his patient is a powerful Englialt nobleman, and that if he recovers, the man who saves him will receive a great reward, and have a eliatee of becoming famous; my Lord of Dela ,- men) is just an inteasely intereeting 1 eaSe ef etebbitlie, With great nervous depregeloe in aelslitiela and for tere love Of the etruggle, he hest reeolved to ;snatch him froze Death'is clutches, If it be possible for mortal man to de so, It Is a hard fight, For some daytt Hector liee motioaleee, and to ail ap- pearance lifelene; their g weak delir- ium seta in, and Signe, always near him, hears him murmuring her name or Archle`e. Once he faucies that he Is sailing the boat to St. Clare; and mutters; "I will save her, my darl. Ina; EMe shall not die, and not know- ing that I love her," ° Then again he ia at Lady Rook - well's; but still dreaming of her--al- wane of Signa -"How beautiful she looks! Beautiful and pure as a lily. And I -so 'black -so stained!" Once only he meatioas the name of the girl who first crossed hie life's path with such baleful consequences. "Poor Lucia!" he murmurs. "Poor child! Where will it end?" Signe site beside nim, lietening al- ways with white face and dark -rim- med eyes. The surgeon and ehe scarcely exchange a word; elle knows what he requires of her without need- ing to speak -a glance, a look is suf- ficient for her. Never was man eo watched and nursed since euffering humanity began to suffer, So the days pass, until one morning tnere comes a change. Very feebly he turns hie eyes to her and smiles; his brain is quite clear; there is a look of life in the dark orbs; life expreesed by an Intense expression of love and gra- titude, "Hector!" she breathes, kneeling be- side him, her face to his, her bosom heaving. "Ah, Hector!" . "My darling- My darling!" he mur- murs. "How you- have suffered! But -it le over, Signal I feel that. I ahall live! Tell him eo!" and his eyes turn to the sturdy figure of the doctoewith a grateful smile, "That's no news!" says the little man, gruffly, but with a pleased, flick- ering smile about his lips. "I knew that days ago. I knew you'd live when you meant to! That is the best of hav- ing, an_Englishmara for a patient. When he means to die he means it, and when he means to live he means It, too! Ale yes; we have turned the corner. milord. But--" and he shrugs his shoulders significantly. It has been a near thing," says Hector, with a gentle sigh. "Yes, I meant living! You see" --and his eyes dwell wistfully on the pale but still lovely face beside him -"I have some- thing to live for." Then he falls asleep -into sound, restful sleep now. That night It is flashed by the elec- tric wire to Northwell that its lord has returned to this land of the living, and that death has been thrust at arm's length. Not only to Northwell, but to Lon- don and Paris does -the telegraph flash the news, for the story of Lord Dela- ntere's illness and its cause have been a fruitful topic of conversation in both cities, and the world has shown more than its usual curiosity to know the result; and many are of the opinion of the Duke of Deerford, who received the news of Lord Delamere's recovery with a grunt of satisfaction, and the remark that he objects, on principle, to Englishmen being done to death by foreigners of any kind. Neither he nor the world at large will - ever know the true story of Caaalina. "And now, Laura," says Lady Rook - well, two days afterward, 'what had • we better do? Lord Delamere is' growing well rapidly, and W9 are rather—" "Rather de trop -rather in the way," says Laura. "No, I don't mean that at all," re- -torts her ladyship, whose sharpness has returned with Hector's recovery. "I'm sure Signa is only too glad to have us, dear child, but I think we had better go." "Certainly," says Laura; "let us go at once. I'll come home with you—" "Thank you, my dear." ' "-Without waiting for an invitation. And you and I will get the Grange aired for them. Signe 'told me last night that she would take him hack to England the moment the doctor crcnounced it safe for him to travel. She hates Italy." "She has not much cause to love It," snapsher ladyship. "As for me, 1 oon't -want to hear die name of this place :again is long as I live, excepting you connect it with that dear, good Father Sebastian. Oh, 1 wish we could take him" to England -and keep him there!" ' CHAPTER XXXV. It is a bright morning in early win- ter -one of those mornings which England, perhaps, alone, can boast of. The air is so clear that, standing on Northwell Cliffe, one can see for miles across land and sea, the latter glitter- ing under the clear, keen sunlight like an opal set round in emeralds oP the. green fields. It is a morning when the . blood, especially if it be young, rine freely 'through tbe veins stud lifts the, mind above sordid cares and petty troubles. It is winter, it is true, but whater with a smiling mask on, his voice ettuned to spring roundelays, his frosty beard shining with something like a: summer sunshine. Floated into the elear, blue elcY rises the smoke from the tall, fluted chimneys of Northwell Grange, as it has not floated for many a long year. There are fires all over the great place; there Is stir, and hustle, and pleasant- excitement, rrom cellar to atties; servants in the handsome Dela- mere livery are hurrying to and fro; grooms in the stables are putting the last polish to their horses; aim maids aro hurrying about the bedrooms; signs of preparation are ' to be met With in _every part of the house, for to -day my Lord and Lady Delamere are to arrive home. • • Down below in the village there is already a' cro.wd of eXpectant sight- seers grouped round the pretty tri- umphal arch of holly leaves and ivy„ with its hackneyed but heart-stIrring word -"Welcome." • In the belfry the ringers stand with the ropes in their hands -and a huge jug of bottle - brewed -ready at the moment of "their honors' '". arrival to ring out a merry peal. 'I • it is a° ordinary, stereotyped "coin- ing hoine". this; and therte is teal and genuine pleasure in the popular:hearth; for is not the Lord M Northwell re- turning from death as well as from foreign lands? They have all read in the local newspaper of that awful etruegle between life and death, and all Northwell is full 'et syrapathy for tie lord and -the sweet young wife,.' Whom tb.ey saw married in their own church. 'Up at the Grange, flittleg fi'0111 roonf to room, is Laura Derwen.t, Momently dulling to Archie, who -cuts after her, full of frantic extitemett and int. patlenee. "Do you think the train will be late; Mills Derweat?" he denatudia - ,.. • . (TO bio tontines4.) - , . . ... Little Soli Was A Pitiful Sight With Ringworm Which Turned to Eczema. Just One Mss. Cuti. cura Completely Healed. "My little son, three years old, took ringworm on his left arm, and he scratched it so that it turned to eczema. It then spread to his back, chest, arms, legs and head. 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By the clay stove sat the grandfather feeding the fire with twigs and tend- ing a brood of children playing on a dirt floor packed hard, swept clean. Front one corner came the , merry whir of grinding millstones as a blindfolded donkey walked round and round, while a woman in red with a wonderful headdress gathered up the heaps of yellow cornmeal that oozed from the gray stones. More women in red threw the bright meal high in the air, winnowing it of its chaff; oths. ers leaned over clay mertars, pounding condiments with stone pes- neMen were hurrying here and there with firewood, cooking for the travel- ers, One end of the room was re- served for these wayfarers, but the k'ang at the other 'end was divided in- to sections. From each rafter over each section swung quaint little cradles. In each' cradle was a little brown baby, each baby tended by a larger child. Far away from the loud clamor of the western world we fell asleep in a clean inner room, to the sott sound of swinging cradles and grinding millstones. -Atlantic Month- ly. M [nerd's Liniment for sale every- . where, THE NEW FRENCH PANTHEON. (New York Tribune,) Amongst the phrases destined to survive this war there is only one which promises to rang in expressive- ness and vitality with "As cruel as a Bache." That is the phrase "As stupid as a German." Sooner or later the typical, spectacular movement of the Kaiser's Sacred Cow, the Great Gen- eral Staff, turns out to be a blunder. The invasion of Belgium brings Eng- land into the war, and Zeppelin baby - killers, mobilized to discourage her people, rise up a multitude of conquer- ing soldiers, The United States, flouted as negligible, is at last drawn by the ruthless submarine campaign into the circle of Ger- many's foes, and the nervous bluffings in her press show how sorely she regrets it. Insensate devastation of Northern France, from the killing of fruit trees to the swish violation of graves, all supposed, to further the process of bleeding a people white, serves but to kindle new fire in the veins of an avenging host. And now in its tarn comes the German's dqe reward for that fine flower of German stupidity, the persistent demolition of Rheims. "The Germans without reason," runs 'a late despatch from France, "con- tinue to bombard the town of Rheims, on which 2,000 shells were fired to- day," Had the Boche gunners heard perhaps the news from Paris, that the French Government has determined not to restore, the cathedral, but to hang up in its ruins the battle flags of the allies .and to dedicate it forever as a pantheon for the unknown dead IA all the armies fighting in France? Surely there could be no outcome of German stupidity *so harmful to Germany as this. and one could well understand how the -Kaiser Would now only be too glad to blot out by com- plete deetruetion all evidence of his original mistake. For this pantheon will hit his country hard when peace Mines. The Kaiser must know, what the dullest schoolboy could tell him, that the most favorable peace is going to mean a heavy burden to him and his people, that the sooner French hatred dies down the better it will be for him and :them, and that he must think of German trade, to say nothing of Ger- man comfort, in a thousand phases. There will be monuments all over France to keep hatred alive, but con- sider the overwhelmieg, world-wide significance of this one, reared, as it were. by the Kaiser himeelf, The ,stupidity of it, the Illimitable, ineffa- bly German stupidity of it! To have secared with their own ham% the creation of the one everlasting re - preach, the oue undylug appeal to the imagination of maakiad itgaluet the german spirit! "I will not call him king," said Joan the Maid of the Dauphin, "Until be shall have be anointed and crewned at Rheims." Cht. that taliseuanic point France Was with her, and to..thiti day Republican Prance preemiea in ite soul a kindred legendary emotion for the most renowned of all her faneli. Upon her Pantheon at Paris he has inscribed her tribute -"Aux grands Hommes la Patz -le reconnalsonte"- and before its imitate she has placed "Le Penseur," an image of thought. This new pantheon she gives not to her great men, nor to her men of fame, but to the unknown dead who have saved her, and before their shrine the Maid will ejt bestride her charger, a symbol of the heart, of all that most swiftly and most eimPlY touches every type of man. We are swayed py our heart, Long after the cold-bloodod theorist, work- ing out on paper the artificial solid- arity which he mtiitakes for the true brotherhood of mah, shall have de- monstrated to his own satisfaction the absolute necessity of "making ,frlends with Germany," ftheims will give pause to all men whalcan.feel als well as think. And the Kaiser will' lime done it. Not until he and his kind, he and his millions, have done pen- ance in sackcloth and ashes will the penalty of their blasphemous destrue tion lose a tithe of its weight, Force of Light. Light has an actual mechanical pres- sure and can be measured in the lab- oratory, It ha a been found that the sun's light in itself presses against the earth with a force soneething like 70,000 tons, As the surface pf a sphere varies as the square of the radius, and as the volume or Maas varies as the cube of the radius, and as the me- chanical pressure of light op the whole surface varies as that surface, and as the force of gravity varies ag the mass, if a sphere is made smaller and smaller it is easily seen time the pres- sure of light does not decrease so fast as the force of gravity, so bodies beyond a certain minuteness could not reach the sun, but would be repelled by the mechanical force of its light, Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Dear Sirs, -I can recommend MI- NARD'S LINIMENT for Rheumatism and Sprains, as I have used it for both, with excellent results. Yours truly, T. B. LAVERS, St. John. , BELLO' IN SORCERY. $pirits Thought to Haunt Trees, Mountains and Streams. To the natives of Kerea the world is populous with active ,and malevo- lent beings who are ready at any mo- ment to fall upon them in wrath, ac- cording to a statement made by Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator of Old World archaeology of the United States National Meseum at Washing -e ton cencerning the paraphernalia, of a Korean sorcereces now deposited in the museum collections. Dr, Casanowicz says the Koreans be- lieve that these beings or spirits' haunt every tree, mountains and watercourse; are on every roof, fire- place and beam and infest even their chimneys, living rooms and kitchens; tbat they beget them at home and waylay them when, abroad. They seem to' be everywhere at all times and make their lives miserable. To their influence the Koreans at- tribute every ill, all bad luck, afficial malevolence, loss of power or posi- tion and especially sickness. The no- tes divide these countless legions of spirits into two main classes: Demons consisting of self -existent malicious epirits of departed impoverished per- sons who died in distress, and spirits whose natures are partly kindly, which include thg ghosts of prosper- ous and good people, but even the latter appear to be easily offended and extraordinary capricious. To cope with these two forms of spirits and be assured of a little peace and quiet the Koreans have two class- es of sorcerers, or as they call them, "shamans;" the Pansu and the Mu - tang. Both classes are mediators be- tween the people and the spirits, but they bear little relation to each other. The former are "fortune-tellers" and the latter are the "deceiving crowd," or "bad lot," In this connection Dr. Casanowiez said: The office of the Parma is restricted to blind men, perhaps owing to the common belief among primitive peo- ples thee those who have been depriv- ed of physical sight have been given an inner epiritual vision. The Mutang is alwaya a woman, generally from the lower classes and of bad repute, and her calling is considered the very lowest in the social scale. While the Pause is, as it were, born or made by dint of his lose of eyesight, the Mu - tang enters eines her office in cause- quenee of a "supernatural call," con- visting in the assurance of demoniacal possession, the 'demon being supposed to have become her double and to have superimposed his personality upon hers. The "possession" Ls often accompanied by hysterical and patho- logical symptoms. 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SoPER & WHITE *6 Toronto St„ Toronto, Cet, Plasma Mention This Paper, of custom and relationship, leave home and family to become hence- forth a social outcast, so that she is not even allowed to live within the city walls. But notwithstanding her low social status her services are in constant demand. "In traveling- through the country the Mutang or sorceress is constantly to be seen going through the various musical and dancing performances in the midst of a crowd in front of a house where there is sickness. And at the close of the nineteenth century the fees annually paid in Korea to the sorcerers were esitimated at $750,- 000. "The Pasu acts as master of the spirits, having gained by his potent formulae and ritual an ascendancy over them. By his spells he can direct them, drive them out and even bury them. The Mutang is supposed to be able to influence them with her friendship with them, She has to play to them, and coax them to go, By her performances she puts herself en rap- port with the spirits and is able to as- certain their will and to name the ran- som for which they 'will release the victim who is under torment. • "More varied than the functions of the Pansu are the pacifications and propitiations, called kauts or kuts, performed by the Matting. The kaut may be carried out either at the house of the patient or at the home of the Mutang, or at some shrine or temple, called tang, dedicated to some spirits, which are seen on the hillside in Korea. If, as is occasionally the case, the Mutang belongs to a noble faintly, she is allowed by her family to ply her trade only in hcr own house. Thoess, who require her servicee send the required fee and the neces- sary offerings and the ceremony is per- formed by tho Mutang in her own house or at the tang. "Her equipment consists of a num- ber of drawee, some of them very costly; a drum, shaped like an hour- glass, about four feet high; copper cymbals, a copper gong, a copper rod with small bells or tinklers suspended from it by copper chains, a pair of telescoping baskets, strips of silk and paper banners which float around her as she dances; fans, umbrellas, wands and images of men. iand animals." .• - • Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff, Source of Future Iron. That iron is the very basis of our in. dustrial civilization will be admitted by the thoughtful, and many of our greater supplies of iron ore are being rapidly depleted because of the in- creased per capita consumption of iron the world over. an increase which is destined to be greater in the future when the races in Asia end Africa in- crease their consumption and decreas- ing reserves have often in the past, particularly about the beginning of this century, been used to create a scare, on the ground that our supplies of usable ore were being eo rapidly depleted that their exhaustion would occur within two or three generations. This is a preposteroua point of view, because as we lower the percentage ot iron in the rock, which we call "ore," the Quantity of such ore increases at a rate out of all proportion to the de- crease in iron content, and as we tee leaner end leaner ores technical im- provements will be made which will minimize any tendency to increased cost of production. The same thing nas happened in gold, silver, copper an(i other ores. and to -day copper ores are being worked with only 1.5 per cent. of copper in thente--eletallurgi- cal Engicaeering. KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother knows how fatal the hot summer months are to small chil- dren, Cholera infantum, diarrhoea, dysentery and atomach troubles are rife at this time and often a precious little life is lost after only a few hours' illness. The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tablets in the house feels safe. The occasional use of the Tab- lets prevents stomach and bowel trou- bles, or if trouble comes suddenly -as it generally does -the Tablets will bring the baby safely through. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from Tho Dr. Williams' 'Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, MOTHER GOOSE ON FOOD CONTROL. Jack'Sprat would eat no fat; His wife would eat no lean, So rather than have any argument over it the Food Controller put them both on a diet of bran muffins. Sing, sing, what shall I sing? The oat ran away with the pudding bag string. "1 haven't the heart to ask for cat meat these days," said Ile. Hickety, pickety, iny black hen, She lay good eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day And make a careful, itemized record of her output for tho national food census, To market, to market To buy a fat pig! Home again, home again With some much less expensive but exitially nourishing cereals. When / was a little boy I lived by my - And all the bread and cheese / got put upon the shelf Until suddenly I realized that I Might be prosecuted for food hoarding. Old Mother Hube.rd went to the cup- board To get her poor dog a bone; But when she got there She found that the bone had been used by Miss Hubbard; her daughter, in inakinA tasty dish from yesterday's left overs. -New York Sun. "De you think your father will ob. ject to my marrying you?" "I don't think so. lie litte Jost received the bine of Iny new spring outfit, -.--De. troit Pale Press ISSUE NO, Si, 1917 HELP WANTED. !WANTED - PROBATIONERS TO _re train for ranees. .Apply, Wellandra eloepital, et. Catharines, Ont. W ANVIL/ --A GENDRAL ISURVANT •• for only two in family. Apply, 15 St. Illathew's Ave„ Hamilton, Ont. MONEY ORDEREi. or HE SAFE WAY TO SEND MONEY by mail is hy Dollainion Express Money Order. UNIONIZING THE MAID. He printed on her lips a kiss - Her "type" and "form" were fine - And then he Just Inserted title "To be continued" line, -Make-Up, Her printed on her lios a Ales - She thought he could do better For lo, the criticizing miss Perceived a wrong-fo_nut e. lpedttienrg. ;un, He printed on her lips a kiss, But Is it not surprising That this wee bit ofopo-onl:s : -Cy I: Should need so much revising? I:der, When printing on her lipa kis. Why did he not invite her To have a "mat" made of the job He printed on her lips a kiss, I challenge her to find the guy But, if he put no slug, Who thus defacedr m her By some good stereo_t_yg.tn_Ictiettri:Bevoya.. He printed'on her lips a kis, As well as he was able„ And then to have and hold the miss He used the union label! B. J. Robb, Hamilton. -Typographical Journal. Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc, TRADE BRIEFS. The city walls of Canton, China, are to be removed and math and tram- ways leading out of the city built. Numeroue Made of American pack- age groceries are en sale at St. Eti- enne, France, but there is GOO an opening foe the introduction of pick- les, jamas, saucea and fancy crackers, Swiss merchants are in the market for children's waehable cotton cloth - 11)4. Importations from Germany have stopped, and local manufacturera do not seem to- be able to supply clothing of as good quality as that formerly imported. American automobile buses have been gut in operation with success at Merida, Yucatan. Plane are being made' to clear vast tracts of land in the Straits Settle- ments for the production of bananas. Maas le being used in ,America as a substitute for cotton in articles that require packing and filling, ouch ae cuehione and raattreeees. Lonielana supplies most of the moss used In this way, The selling ,price ranges from five and a half to six cents a pound. Lasit yeares output had an eatimeted value of $2,000,000. Iron working machinery is needed at Genoa, Italy. There is a market for typewriter accessories at Bilba. Spain. Nail making machines, equipment for manufacturing wire for nails and nail wire are in demand at Alexan- dria, Egypt. A firm. at Grosby, Caucasus, Russia, would like to repreeent , American manufacturers of steel, iron, shoes, dry goods, leather suppliea, gas tubing and rope. There is a market for roofing mat- erials at Havre, France. A company Bahai, Brazil, has aelked for catalogues of American furniture. Incinerators of American make are in demand at Sao Paulo, Brazil, Shanghai, China, presents a good market for mineral lubricating olio and greases. a- & elinard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia _ • SOME GOOD SALADS. BANANA AND APPLE SALAD. Three bananas, 4 apples, ee cupful of peanut butter, 14 cupful of French dressing, 4 cupfuls of shredded let- tuce. Line a bowl with lettuce. Sties bananas and apples, mix and put en lettuce. Mix peanut butter with the dressing and pour over. SPINACH AND EGG SAL e.D. Two cupfuls of cold boiled spinach, 3 hard-boiled eggs, 4 cupfuls of let- tuce, 2 teaspeonfulls of salt, 4 table- spoonfuls of chopped peppers or par- sley, 1/2 cupful of mayonnaise. Add the salt and half the mayon- naise to the chopped spinach. Mix well and take a spoonful and cover the yolks. Then roll in finely -chopp- ed whites of eegs. Sprinkle with peppers or parsley. Serve on the shredded lettuce with mayonnxise be- tween balls. BEAN SALAD, Mix cold baked beans with shredd- ed lettuce and hard-boiled eggs chopp- ed separately. Serve with French dressing. The whites may be om- itted and ssrved as a garnish. BEET SALAD. Mix dice cooked beets with shredd- ed red cabbage and cold cooked flak- ed fish which has been marinated In beet vinegar. Serve on lettuce with French dressing, seasoped highly with cayenne, and garnish with sliced hard-bolled egge. - - - a beauty chorus." -St. Louis Star. Artificial flowers for millinery are being made to lactose tiny incandi. scent lamps, which can be supplied with current from storage batteries hidden inside the wearers' bats. 001111•111•1 .10.1.11•1•1•••• Hot Weather, is a Joy to the man or woman who is properly nourished with a light, easily digested food. 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