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-1101 GREAT WAR,
We Wipe the Kaleer reads the
eeteclies on the war every once in a
while delivered by Premier Lloyd
George. They may not be very plean-
tent reading for llis Majeety, ant they
should act as a correction of hie own
alaieelies and show him how Us • wo.ec,
at large 1. leas him and his ear plaae.
It would 'be interestiug, to have the
Kaiser make a categorical reply to
Lloyd George's latest seeeeh. In it
the little Welsaman leas bare with a
increlices hand the war machinations
of Germany and her war lords. He
utile, what would have liappened haa
Britian stayed out of the. wa,r? We
know what has happened in spite of
hr belug in IL lin she stayed aut.
Europe, no doula, would have been
oveeweelined and overrun. lnetead of
peace after the war, there would have
been eonmiest, with Cermany the
domittatine power, and, the other
netious afraid to call their smart altar
own. Britain and America would hava
also fallen under the heel of the
despot*.
But the Clerman war plane have been
thwarted. The Kaiser and hia crowd
see that, and they talk of being bete:
preparednext time, But Lloyd (leorg •
iteclares that there will be no "next
tiuse,"• that Germanyei war macelue
must he so crushed that it will be
powerless in the future to disturb the
p:ace of the world. To those who talk
of peace the Premier reminds teem
that Clermany Wee not yet learned to
say tee word "restoratiod." There
must b3 restoration and intientiifica
tion by and from Germany 'berme there
can be peace. Aa inconclusive peace
now would mean war later on. worse
oven than the present war.
There will be no next war if sr.loyd
George can help it. lie eees the dila.
°tittles ahead, but he is no peesimist
The stakes are too high, and the
danger is too great or Britain to calf
a halt. She must fight until the
triumphant end or go down to a dis
estrous defeat. But Lloyd George is
not 'afraid. He sees victory ahead
with a world freed from the nightman
'of military enslavement. Side by aide
with the other democracies of the world
Britain will carry on until the e-eil
monster of German autecrace Is
•slatn.
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GENERAL TRADE NOTES.
(British Export Gazette.)
There are upwards of 20,000,000 rub-
ber trees in "German" East Africa.
A good tobacco of the Turkish vari-
ety is being grown In Uganda,
Practically all the chillies shipped
from Montbasa are produced in Ugan-
da.
The small Indian storekeeper pene-
trates to almost every corner of Bri-
tish East Africa.
Further efforts are being made to
extend rice cultivation in Bukedi and
other parts of Uganda.
Practically all the plant employed
in the cotton ginneries of Uganda is
of Britisb manufacture. ,
Dare-es-aalaam, the capital of "Ger-
man" East Africa, is a busy port with
a population of 26,000.
Cheap common soap for native trade
is an important item in Britsh East
,Africa. It mostly comes from the
Vnited Kinkdoni,
easel is grown on 62,000 acres in
"Cerman" East Africa, and there "dill
remain huge areas suitable for this
emit.
Lake Magni, British East Africa., is
expected eventually to supply the
world with 200,000 tons of rave soda
annually.
Before the war most of the goods of
British origin imported to "aerman"
East Africa were transferred at Ham.
burg to Hun boats.
A railway is to be built over tbo
'ruin Gishu plateau, Uganda, 'a 8,000
square mile fertile tract, With an aver-
age altitude of.4,000 to 6,0e0 feet.
On the outbreak of war Germany
was prepariug to spend £270,000 on
the improvement and extension of the
afse,mhara Railway, German least .Af-
rlea.
There is a big demand throughout
British. East Africa and Uganda for
wrist watches, nickel -plated and oxi-
dized, having leather bands and hold -
Commercial travellers cannot drive
business at racehorse speed in Zatizi-
bar, whose climate is more enervating
than that of Moinbasa, or even of In-
dia,
The United Kingdom takes the bulk
of Ugandas cotton, but a fair amount
goes to India, where Bombay spinners
are highly satisfied with ft. The trade
will increase.
The white population of "Cierznan"
East Africa before the war numbered
5,336, ttof whom 3,679 were Huns. There
were '9,000 Indians and between 7 and
8 -million natives.
Before the war there were no Bri-
tish merchants in the oast towns of
"German; East Africa. Their presence
1.50.3 discouraged in every means
anown to the authorities.
The average Indian merchant in
British laa.st Africa is clear-sighted in
business, but sensitive to a degree. 'He
expects an English visitor to respect
him and also to show self-respeet.
The Deutsche Bank in Tenet Afriette
so soon as It knew Re customers, used
to ttdvanee on a draft 00 deys D -A in
inn (less charges for collection, el.e.),
ap tha variable limit on vaell inden-
ter.
Two Headed Symbols.
lloth Ruesia, und Germany &inlay
two -headed males on their standards.
Yet this synxbot is considered by eome
heralds to be merely the result of the
heraldic practiee of "dimiellatin."
Title was simply a ehild's way of im-
paling two oats of arms on t110 Pa1110
shield by primitive Method of cutting,
eaeh in half and taking the deeter
Win of one and the sinister half -of the
other and pitzeing them. Leek to back,
US It were. 'Strange two -headed beaste
naturally reeitited—as, for instance,
when 41 lion and an eagle were halved
end jeined together. The griffin in
stileliofted to liave been dimillietionea
Lewin Spectater,
CHAPTER I.
From within the teepee of CearleY
Waitefieh issued the sonde of a fam-
ily brawl. It was of frequent occur-
tenee in this teepee. Men at the doors
or other lodges, engaged In cleaning
taeir guns, or in Other light coupe -
lions suitable to the manly dignity,
ehrugged aelth strong worn for the
Wan who ould uot keep Ills women
la order, With the serugs went warn-
ing glances toward their own laberimut
apeuses,
Each man's seorn might well have
been migrated with thanafulness that
he, was 11Qt cursed with a daughter like
Charley's Bela. Bela was a firebrand
in the village, a, scandal to the whole
tribe. Some Said she was possesed of
a devil; according to others she Was
a girl born with the heart of a man.
This phenomenon was unique in
their experience, and being a simple
folk they reeented it. Bele refused to
accept the common lot of women, • lt
was not enough for her that sueh and
such a thing had always been so in the
tribe:
She would not do a woman's tasks
(unless she happened to feel like it);
she would not hold her tongue in the
presence of men. Indeed, :she had
been known to talk back to the head
man himself, and she had had the last
word iuto the bargain.
Not content with her awn misbe-
havior, Bela lost no opportunity 01
gibing at the other women, the hard-
working girls, the silent, patient
squaws, for submitting to their fathers,
brothers and husbands. This natural-
ly em•aged all the men.
Charley Whitefish was violently ob-
jurgated on the subject, but be was a
poor -spirited creature who darea not
take a stick to Bela. It must be mid
that Bela did not get muck sympathy
from the women, Most of them hated
her with an astonishing bitterness.
As Neenah, lthoiiam's wife, ex-
plained it to Eelip Moose, a visitor in
eamp; "That girl Bela, she is wehsti-
go, crazy, I think. She got a bad eye.
Her eye -dry you up when she look.
You can't say nothing at all. Her
toegue is like a dog -whip, I hate her,
I scare for my children when she come
around. 1 thiplc maybe she steal my
baby. Because they say weh-ti-gos
got drink a baby's blood to melt the ice
In their brains. I wish she go way.
We have no peace here till she go."
"DOW the river they say Bela a 'ars,
pretty ,girl," remarked Eelip.
"Yah! What good is pretty if you
crazy in the head!" retorted Neena,b.
"She twenty year old and got no hus-
band. Now she never get no husband,
because everybody on the lake know
she crazy. Two, three years ago many
yaung men come after her. They like
her because she light-colored, and got
red in her cheeks. Me, I think she
ugly like the grass that grows under a
log, Many young men come, I tell
You, but Bela spit on them and call
fools. She think she better than any-
body,
"Last fall Charley go up to the head
of the lake and say all around what a.
fine girl he got. There was a young
man from the Spirit River country, he
say he take her. He tome so far he
not hear -she crazy. Give -Charley a
horse to bind the bargain. So they
come back together. It was a strong
young man, and the son of w chief.
He wear gold -embroidered vest, and
doeskin moccasins, worked with red
and blue silk. He is call Beavertail.
"He glad when he see Bela's pale
forehead and red cheeks. Men are lila
that, Nobody here - tell him she crazy
because all Want him take her away
So he speak very nice to ,her, She
show him her teeth back, and speak
ugly. She got no shame at all for a
woman. She say: 'You think you're a
mall, eh! I can run faster than. you.
I can paddle a canoe faster than yeti
I can shoot straighter than you!' Did
you ever hear anything like that?
"By and by Beavertail is mad, and
he say he race her with canoes. Every-
body go to the lake to see. They want
Beavertail to beat her good. The men
make bets. They start tip by Big Stone
Point and paddle to the river. It was
like queen's birthday at the settlement.
They come down side by side till al-
most there, Then Bela push ahead.
Wel she beat him easy, She got no
sense. •
"After, when he come along, she
push him canoe with her paddle and
turn him in the water, She laugh and
paddle away. The men got go pull
Beavertail out. That night he steal
his horse back from Charley and ride
home,
"Everybody tea the story round the
lake • She not get a husband now I
think. We never get rid of her, MAY -
be. She is proud, too. She wash her-
self and -comb her hair all the time.
Foolishness. Treat us like dire. She is
crazy, We hate her."
• auch was the conventional .estimate
of Bela, In the whole camp this morn-
ing, at the sounds of strife issuing
from her father's teepee, the only head
that was turned with a look of compa.s-
sion for her was that of old Musq'oosis
the hunchback. .
His teepee was beside the river, a lit-
tle removed from the others, He sat
at the door, sunning himself, smoking,
meditating. looking for all the world
like a little old wrinkled muskrat
squatting on his haunches.
If it had not been for Musgioosis,
Bela's lot in the tribe would long ago
have become unbearable; Musq'oosie
was her friend, and he was a person
of consequence, The potation, Of his
teepee suggested his Social status. He
WaS so old all his relations were dead,
He remained with the Fish -Eaters be-
cause he loved the lake, awl eu1d not
be happy away from it. For their part
they were glad to have him stay; he'
brought 'credit to the tribe,
As one marked by God and gifted
with superior wistioln, the people were
inclined to venerate Musq`oosis even
to the point of according him super-
natural attributes, Mesq'oosis 'Weighed
at their superstitions, and refused to
profit by theta, This they were unable
to understand; was It not bad for busi-
ness? a
But while they resented his laugh-
ter, they did not cease to be secretly in
awe of hien and Were ready enough
to seek his advice, When they came to
lam Musgioosis offered them eound
Lens° Without any supernatural admix.
ture.
In earlier daps eluaq'oosis had so.
lcurned for a while In Prince George,
the town of the white Inn, and there
he had plata up Muth of the white
aian's stranae thee This lie had im-
rartea to Bela-- that was why elle was
eraty, they sel.d.
He had taught Bela to eapak Eng-
lish. Bole's first-hand observations ef
the great ;white race had been limited
to hal1 a sore of individuals—priests,
policemen and traders.
Tee row in Charley's teepee lutd
started early that morning. ebarleY,
bringing in a couple of skunke from,
hal trails, ordered Bela to seta
them and 'stretch the pelts. She had
refused point blank, glean' ea her rea-
sons in the first place that she wanted
to go fleeing; in the seond place, that
she didn't like the smell.
run from me squeaking ilIce a puppy!"
, Both reasons seemed preposterotas
to Charley, It was for MOIL to ftall
while women worked on shore. As
for a mete whoever heard of any-
body objecting to suelt a thine
Wasn't the village full of smells?
Nevertheless, Bela had gone flailing,
Pela was a duck for water. Since no
one would give her a boat, she had
traveled twenty miles on her own ac -
Count to find it suitable cottonwood
tree, and had then cut it (loam unaid-
ed, hollowed, shaped, and serapee it,
and finally Urania it home as good a
boat as any in the camp.
Since that time, early and late, tha
lake had been her favorite haunt. Cari-
bou Lake enjoys an unenviable repu-
tation for weather; Bela thought nettle
Ing or crossing the ten miles in any
taress.
When he refueled from fishing, the
skunks were still there, and the quar-
rel had recommenced. The result was
no different. Marley finally issued
out of the teepee beaten, and the little
carcasses flew out of the door after
him, propelled by a vigorous foot.
(harley, swaggering abroad as a man
, does who has just bcen -worsted,
sought hie mates for sympathy.
He took his way to the river bank
in the middle of the camp, where a
number of the young men were mak-
ing or repairing boats for the summer
fishing just now beginning. They had
heard all that had passed in the teepee,
and while affecting to pay no atten-
tion to Charly, were primed for him
—showing that men he a crowd are
much the samewhite or red.
Charley was a skinny, anxious -look-
ing little man, withered and blackened
aslast year's leaves, ugly as a spider.
His self-conscious braggadocio invited
derision.
"Huh!" cried one. "'Here comes
woman -Charley. Driven out by the
man of the teepee!"
A great laugh greeted this sally.
The soul of the little man writhed in.
'aide him.
"Did she lay a stick to your back,
Charley?"
"She gave him no breakfast till he
bring wood."
"Hey, Charley, get a petticoat to
rover your legs. My woman maybe
give you her old one."
He sat down among them, grinning
as a man might grin on the rack. He
filled his pipe with a nonchalant air
belied by his shaking hand, and
sought to brave it out. They had 110
mercy on him. They outvied each
ether in outrageous chaffing.
Suddenly he turned on them shrilly.
"Coyotes! Grave -robbers! May you
be cursed with a, woman -devil like I
am. Then we'll see!"
This was what they desired. Tey
stopped work and rolled on the ground
In their laughter. They were stimu-
lated to the higheet flights of wit.
Charley walked away up the river-
bank and hid himself in the buih.
There he sat brooding and brooding on
his wrongs until all the world turned
red before his eyea. For sears that
fiend of a girl had made him a laugh-
ing -stock. She was none of his blood.
He would etand it no longer.
The upshot of all this brooding was
that he cut himstlf a staff of willow
two fingers thick, and carrying- it ae
inconspicuously as possible, crept back
to the village. At the door of his teepee
he picked up the two little carcasses
and entered. He had avoided the river-
bank, but they saw him, and saw the
fsutinck, and drew near to witness the
Within the circle of the teepee Char-
leys wife, Loseis, Wat3 mixing dough
Ila pan. Opposite her, eBla, the cause
of all the trouble, knelt on the ground
carefullg filing the points of her fish-
hooks. Fish-hooks were hard to come -
by.
Charley atopped wielan the entrance,
glaring at lier. Bela, looking up, in-
stantly divined from his bloodshot
eyes and from the hand he kept behind
lilm, what was in store. Coolly put-
ting her tackle behind her, she rase.
She was taller than her spiiposed
father, full -bosomed and round -11m)(1
as a sculptor's ideal. In a community
ot waistlese, neckleas women she was
as olender as a young, tree, and held
her head like a -swan.
She kept her mouth close abut Uhra
hardy boy, and her eyes gleamed with
a fire of resolution which no other pair
of eyes in the eamp could match. It
was for the conscious superiority of
her Once that she was hated. One
trona the outeide would have remarked
quickly how different she was from the
others, but these were a thoughtless,
mongrel people,
eharley.flung the little beasts at her
feet. "Skin them," he said, thickly.
"NS°17e."said nothing—words were a
waste of time, but wate.hed warily for
his first move.
He repeated his command. 'Bela
saw tho end of the stick and milled.
Charley sprang at her with a snarl
of rage, brandishing the stick. She
nimbly evaded the blow. From the
around the wife and mother *watched
Motionless With wide eyes.
Bela, laughing, ran in and seized the
stick as he attempted to raise R
They straggled for possession of it,
staggering all over the teepee, falling.
against the poles, trampling in and out
of the embers. Lcaeis shielded the pan
of dough with her body, Bela, filially
wrenched the stick from Charley and
in her turn raised it.
Charley' c.ourage went out like ti
blown lamp. He Waned to rum.
Whackt came tite stiek between his
ehoulders. 'With n Mouraful howl he
ducked under the flap, Bela after hen.
Whack! Whack! A little eloud arm
from hie coat at each stroke, and a
double wale or dust wan left 'upon it.
A whoop of derision greeted them as
they emerged into the air. Charley
outtled like a rabbit across the en -
and lost hiniself in the bueb.
Bela stood glaring. tonna at the guf-
fawing MOM
"Yea Vile!" she tried.
Suddenly she made for the nearest,
brandishing lier leaf. They scattered,
laughing.
1301a returned to tlie teepee, head held
1 bigh. Her mother, patient, otolid
egitaw, still at as she had left her,
hande motionless In the dough. Bele
etood for a menieut, aresagetuee altaaa.•
g'
liuddenlY tiliefiCtung herself oa the
ground in a tempest of weeping. Her
darned Mother stared at her uncom•
prehendingly. For an Indian woman
to cry is rare enough; to cry in a mo -
meat of triuMple unheard of. Bela
,was strange to her own mother.
"Pigs! Pigs! Pigs!" she eried,
between sobs. "I hate them! I not
gnow what pigs Are till I see them in
the style at the miskion, Then I think
of these people! Pigs they are! I
Late then t They are not my poplar
Loseis, with a jerk like att automa-
ton, recommenced kneading the dough.
Bela raised a streanag, -accusina
face to her mothar.
"What for you take a man like
that?" she cried, passionaely. "4
a easel, a mouse, a flea of a man A
dog is more of a man than he! He
"MY moteer gave me to him," mur-
mured the squaw apologetically.
"lam took aim!" cried Bela. "You
go with him! Was he the best man
you could get? I Jame) in the lake be-
fore 1 shame my children with a 00
-
pate for a father!"
aoseis looked strangely at her
daughter, "Charley not your father,"
she said abruptly,
atela. pulled up short in the middle of
her passionate outburst, stared at her
mother with fallen jaw.
"You twenty year old," went on
Loseiserelineteen year 1 marry Charley
I have another husband before that."
"Why yon never tell me?' murmur.:
ed Bela, amazed.
"So long ago!" Loseisreplied, with
a shrug. "What's ,the use?"
Bela's teasr were ineffectually called
in. "Tell me, what kind of mail my
father?" she eagerly demanded,
"He was a white Man."
"A white man!" repeated Bela, star-
ing. There was a silence in the teep-
ee while it sunk in. A deep rose
mantled the girl's cheeks.
"What he called?'• she asked.
"Walter Forest." On the Indian
woman's tongue it was "Hoo -alter."
"Real white?" demanded Bela.
"His skin white as a dog's tooth,"
answered Loseis, "his hair bright like
the sun." A gleam in the dull eyes
as she said thls, suggested that the
stolid squaw was human. too, '
"Was he gcod to you?"
"He waiegood to me. Not like Ind-
ian husband. He like me dress up
fine. All the time laugh and make
jokes, He cell nie `Tagger-Leelee."
. "Did he go away?"
Loses shook her head. "Go through
the ice with his team."
"Under the water—my father," mur-
mured Bela.
he turned on her mother accus-
ingly, "You have good white hus-
band, and you take Charley after!"
• "My motier make me,' Loseis said,
with sad stolidity.
Bela wonderd on .these matters,
filled with a deep excitement. Her
mother kneaded the dough.
"I half a white woman," the girl
murmured at last, more to herself
than the other. "That is why I
strange here."
Again her mother looked at her in-
tently, presaging another disclosure.
"Me, my father a white man, too," she
saiiidninomh.e"r abrupt way. "It is forgot-
teBela stared at her mother, breathing
quickly.
"Then—I 'most white!" she whisper-
ed, with amazed and brightening eyes.
"Now I understand my heart!" she
suddenly cried aloud. "Always I love
the white People, but I not know.
'.always I ask Musq'oosis tell me what
they do. I love them because they
live nice. They not pigs like these
people. They are my people! All
Is clear to me!" She rose.
"What you do?" asked Loseis, anx-
iously.
"I will go to my people!" cried Bela.
looking away as if she envisaged the
whole white race.
The Indin mother raised her eyes
in a swift glance of passioiiate suppli-
cation—but her lips were tight. Bela
did not see the look.
"I go talk to Musq'oosis," she said.
'"He tell me cal to do."
CHAPTER IL
The village of the Fish -Eaters was
built in a narrow meadow between a
pine grove and thelittle river. It was
a small village of a dozen teepees set
up in Ough semicircle open to the
stream.
This stream (Hah-Wah-Sepi they
call it ( came down from Jack -Knife
Mountains to the north. and after
passing the village, rounded a point of
the pines, traversed a wide sand -bar
and was received into Caribou Lake.
The opposite bank was heavily
fringed with billows, Thus the vil-
lage was snugly hidden between the
pines and the willows, and one Might
have sailed up and down the lake a
dozen times without suspecting its ex-
istence. In this the Indians followed
their ancient instinct. For generations
there had been no enemies to hide
fr()Int.l.was at the end of May; the
meadow was like a rug of rich emer-
ald velvet, and the willows were fresh-
ly. decked in their pale leafage. 'rhe
whole scene was mantled with the ex-
quisite radiance of the northern sum-
mer sun. Children and dogs loafed
and rolled in almlesat ecstasy, and the
old people sat at the teepee openings
blinkbag comfortably, ..
The conical teepees themselves
each -with its bundle of stickat the
top and its thread of smoke made no
inharm-onious note in the sone of na-
ture. Only upon close look was the
loveliness a. little marred by evidences
of the Fisialeaters' careless housekeen-
ihg.
Muscroosis' lodge stood by,itself out-
side the semicircle and a, little down
stream. The owner was still sitting
at the -door, an Odd little buedie in a
blanket, as Bela approached.
"I tink you come soon," he said.
These two , always convereed In Eng-
lisil'IYou know everytang," stated Bela,
simply.
Ile shrugged. "1 Just sit quiet, an
my thoughts speek to me."
She dropped 011 her knees before
aim, and rested sitting on her heels,
hands in lap. Without any preamble
she Baia sienply: "My fat'er a White
man."
Musq'oosis betrayed no surprise. "I
Itriow that," he replied.
"My moVer's fat'er, he white Man,
too," she went on.
He nodded.
"'Why you never tell me?" she tteike
ed, frowning slightly.
He spread out his patina "What's
the use? Yott want to go. Got no
Place to go. To ninth young to go.
I Chat you feel bad it I tell."
She shook her head, "Mak me feel
good. I know what's lite Matter wit"
tete now. I understand all. l' was
mad for Ono I tbitik I got poor miss
ereble fat'er lak Charley,"
(TO be confined.)
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TO LIVE IS TO BE W.ET.
Where There is No Water There
Oan De No Life as We Know It,
Alul life is lived in water. Where no
water is no life can be. The 'loco-
sary maehinery may Imo been al-
ready made tie in a completely dried
peed, but that seed cannot actually
uutil water reaches it again. To
live is to be wet, or, in the phrase of
French student, "Life is an aquatic
ph en omen an."
When the supply of water is with.
beld frotn living things they may stue
rive, but their life is bloated down, as
it were. In the coneeetely dried Boa
life is arrested alteigather, yet the
creature is not don The French call
that a .case of vie suspendue, or, in
our language, suspended animation.
After astonishirgly long periods suet)
seeds w111 germinate if they are wat-
ered,
The astronemer tells us that our
planet is only one or many belonging
to innumerable suns, and he woudera
whether this little "lukewarm bullet"
of oure, as Robert Louis Stevenson
called it, is really unique in beering
a burden 01 life. There is one path
that leads to the answer of his query,
11 he finds no evidenee ot water on
other worlds he cannot 'expect to find
life there.—Dr. C. W. Saleeby, 111
Youths Companion.
Minard's Liniment Cures Carget In
Cows.
AMRITSAR.
Religious Centre of the Sikh Race,
is Interesting.
The city of Amritsar, in Britise In-
dia, as the religious center of the nth
Rita, and as such it gains a high de-
gree Sif interest and distinction. The
Sikhs are anosvn all over the British
empire, as the bast of the native In-
dian fighting. men.. They ha.vo done
Icyal service on every battlefield
where England has called on her na-
tive troops, and they are immensely'
proud of their record and their fight-
ing ability: They are perhaps the
most militant creed and people in the
world.
The city of Amritsar was built by
the Sikhs, to serve- as headquarters
of: their churc. The name itself sig-
nifies "The Pool of Tmmortality." In
reference to the great tank in tee
center of the town. In this tank 1S
an island and on the island stands
the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
which is to the Sikh What Solomon';
temple was to tho ancient Jews, and
what the Tomb of the Prophet is to
the Mohammedan to -day. The Gold-
en Temple is 'so-called on account of
its burnished copper dome, that
gleams with aalull flame in the fieree
Indian sun. Beneath it, the hole
men or gurus, of the Sikhs, expoune
the sacred books. Vim aunts are
cad men, and the fighting Sikh peeve
them all devotion, but his real venec.
ation is for the sword.
The origin of the Silche is a gool
indication of tbe kind of men they
are The creed hail its birth in Com-
paratively reeent times, wham the
Junjah waa (elating wider tlfa heavy
twat of the Mongol conquerors. A
certain matt of pugnacious temper
grew weary of the oppression, and
dechled to raise a small band to fight
for freedom. He drew his sword and
stpoa shouting in the market place,
calling for volunteers. The people
th,ought he wea mad, an. reared aim,
but at last another figating man, tir-
ed of servitude, volunteered.
Tees first man concealed himself- in
a secret piece, and returned to the
market place, after =oaring himself
with tho fresh blood of a sheep. Again
he called for volunteers, but the
People thought be haa killed the first
one, and flee. But at last he got an -
'other volunteer. Again lie concealed
him, again he smettree himself with
blood, again he called for aecruits.
this system, he only got those who
thought they were going to certain
death, and did not fear 11. When he
had collected a dozen men by this sy-
stem, he put himself et their bead and
they sallied forth to rout the Moslem
oppressors.
Thus the Sikhs had their origin in
battle, and it battle they have main-
lained themselvel ever since, They
furnish to -day some of the moet
loyal troops in the British empire.
VI,11••••..
BRITON AND TURK.
A Surprise, a Pair Fight and the
Way the Battle Ended.
...1....••••••••••••••••••••
There is a story of G'allipoli that
deals with a figat in the open and
exhibits the "unspeakable" Turk as a
fair and worthy enemy. This is the
81017:
A young English officer, doing ob-
servation work alone, was suddenly
confronted by a Turkish officer, simi-
larly engaged. The Tnrk was as sur-
prised as the Briton, but came for-
ward revolver in hand. The English-
man had no revolver. He stood hie
ground, his hands in the large.pockets
of his tunic.
Seeing that his adversary was un-
armed, the Turk, much to the surprise
oe the Briton, threw down his gun and
put up his fists in approved prize ring
style, The Englishman put himself
on guard, and the next moment • the
Turk flung himself upon him, and the
pair began to fight desperately.
The men were about the same age,
the same weight and had equal knowl-
edge of the art of boxing. The
fought without stopping for about ten
minutes. By that time each was fairly
exhausted, and they paused for a
brief rest, only to continue their little
private accounting when they had
found their breath. Round after rourd
the riot went on. while out in the
Gulf of Sams the ships fired auto-
matically, and back of each of them
the field artillery thundered. Neither
ecemed to be able to get any decisive
advantage over the other, and at last
Turk and Englishman rolled over on
the ground and laughed and laughed.
Just then the Englishman's hand
touched something. It was the Turk's
pistol. He picked it up and handed it
to -his enemy. The two young men
shook hands, and eacit returned to his
own lines.
riME most valuable of all fruits for preserv-
..L ing. Home preserved peaches give at small
cost, autumn's most luscious fruit for our
winter enjoyment.
"Pure and Uncolored"
Is best for peaches and all other preserving. The
clear sparkling syrup develops all the exquisite flavor
of the fruit. Pure cane, "FINE" granulation. Expert.
eneed housekeepers oiler it by name all through the
preserving season.
2 and 5413. eartons; 10,20 and 100-1b. sacks.
PRUSERVING IABELS 1?REr.--.1end zee a red ball trade -mark cut
front a bag or earton and we will send you a book of
54 reedy gummed. printed labels.
APoitc,s
Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Limited
POAVOr Building, Montreal
Worth Knowing.
Whitee of eggo elionid be old if you
want to beat them very (Alfa
it improves prunes to an a little ci•
der to the wa.ter la Which they ere
eooked,
kt4vee gun he vgy wan clean-
ed by a Va.vta otadg ef Aaarr Offirfpatt
and oil.
Alwaye Use cotton !Weed of silk
when mending gloves, The cotton will
not pull the kid,
itlusline must be ironed. wet. If al-
lowed to get arY, they will liave a
rough appearance.
Lettuce and green peas cooked tee i
gether make a dallaY spring disli.
Few people know that lettuee is as
good when cooked as spinach. Boiled
With young peas and flavor is delici-
Otte. also it la very \Outworn,
Fruit Jal's can be easily opened if
Yea will talcs hold of the top with a
piece ,of sandpaper,
One of the reasons why epinaelt is
such a valuable food le that it is seeh
an excellent butter carrier. City dwel-
lere need niore fats than most of them
Oet, and butter Is almost the best fat
in the world. Oil is better, but it Is
too expensive for every one to mite.
.If you wish to tnake stareit and let
it get cold before starching the
clothes, try this plan: After starch is
made 'and 'while still hot, sprinkle cold
water all over the top, as though you
were Winkling clothes, You will find
no scum on top and cl (14111 use ever);
speck of it.
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper,
Worth Remembering.
To remove fruit staine from the
most delicate colors, as readily as from
\vette, wet the stain with camphor be-
fore putting in the wase,
To make new boots polish, rub them
over. with half a lemon and let them
dry.
A babyie bottle should never be
washed in soapy water. The moment
it is empty wash it in coal water and
then fill with a weak solution of bor-
ax, till needed again.
After your blankets have been.
washed and dried, beat them with a
carpet beater, This makes the • wool
light anud soft.
A chocolate stain can be removed
nicely by eoaking in kerosene an
washing in cold water.
Wrinkles may be removed from
clothing by hanging garments in the
bathroom and turning on the bot wa•
ter till room is full of steam. This
will alwaye remove wrinkles front
crepe.
To remove paint from a dress take
a camel hair brush, dip the point of
It in turpentine and just dampen the
'stained parte. Let the garment dry,
and then rub briskly, when the paint
will fall off tn a dust. 11 11 does not
all come off 'repeat the operation.
A.*
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 Wren -
tum and diarrhoea carry off thous-
ands of little ones every sum•
mer, in most cases because the moth-
er does not have a safe medicine at
hand to give promptly. Baby's Own
Tablets cure these troubles, or if giv-
en occasionally te the well child, will
prevent their coming on. The Tablets
are guaranteed by a government an-
alyst to be absolutely harmless even
to the newborn babe. They are espe-
cially good in summer because 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. Williams'
eledicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
4 *-
Average Age at Death by Occu.
pations.
The following table of the average
ages at death according to occupa-
tions is the result oi investigations
made by Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statisti-
cian or the Metropolitan Lite, Into the
mortality experience of the industrial
branch of that company:
Average
Occupations. age at death.
Bookkeepers ane office assist-
ants ... ...... 36.5
Enginemen and trainmen
37.4
(railway) •
Plumbers, gasfitters and
steamfitters
Compositors and printers ...
Teamsters, drivers and chauf-
feurs 42.2
ealooniceepers and bartend-
ers 42.0
Machinists .. 43.9
Longshoremen and stevedores 47.0
Textile mill workers .. 47.6
Iron moulders .. 48,0
Painters, paperhangers and
varnishers 48.6
Cigarmakers aud tobacro
workers .. 49,5
Bakers ... 50.6
Railway track ard yard work -
39.8
40.2
era • .. e.
Coal miner ..............
Laborers ... . .
Mastitis anti blieklayers
Blackemithe . . ,
Farmers au .1 farm laborers
60.7
51.3
52.8
55.0
55.4
58.5
a All occupations .. 47.9
Minard's liniment Cures Colds, etc.
4
HERBERT .0. HOOVER.
Tabloid Biography of the U. S.
flood Law Administrator,
Herbert Clark Hoover: Born West
Branch, la., August 10, 1874, Quaker
parents, After death of parents in
1883 sent to °revel in charge aof tele:
tives, residing at Newberg and Salem,
Ore., until 1891. Became self-support-
ing at 13 years of age. Went to Stan-
ford University, California, 1591, grad.
uating 1895 as tallith& engineer. lame
Played professionally ''!in New Mexico,
Colorado. Califormia and Oregon until
1897, part time with United States
Geological survey. In 1897 went to
Australia in administrative metallur-
gical work and mining.
Returned to California in 1899. After
few months left for Chino, as ail enga
neering adviser to the Chinese Gov'
ernment. Returned to California, 1900,
after outbreak of Boxer rebellion, At.
ter a few months left -California again
for Caine as manager of industrial
works, comprising 'oal mines and
works, fleet Of 20 Ships, canals, rails
ways and harbor works, employing
some :15,000 people. Returnee to NH -
ramie, in 1901.
Thereafter opened offices in San
lerancisee, New York and London, vis-
iting all points annually. EmploYed In
administration of large industrial
work, embracing railways, metallur-
gical wOrk, mining, iron and steel,
elapping, land Lind oleNtleal enter-
prit,e!:i in alifornia, Colonado, Alaska,
Illeele0, india, Ittlaita and China, awn
I8817 Po P(), 1917
H.P WANTED
WANTED .PROISAirIONERS TO
le train for nursec. Apply, Wellanere
eiespital, St. Catherines, Vat.
,
11.)44 WANT4D DO lateelN,
febt sewing at home; wbole er OPare
time; bay: work sent any distance;
charge prepaid. $end stamp tor pare
1,!jeulare. National Manufacturing
entreat, Que. .
fik ANT= —LOOM PIXEIR ON CI. Ae
1p
ton and Knowles' Looms, aotel
opportunity to riskroan. APPly,. stating
ago and experience, to the Slinipey Mfg.
Co., Ltd., Iirantford, Ont,
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flONEY ORDERS.
T T Ik3 Al.,WAYS SAP% '.VD SEND A Do.
* minion Bxprow Money Order. Vivo
oollars ousts three cents.
1.110•01.4.••••••••••••=111
FOR, SALE
A CIIOICE DAIRY FARIet IN Tut?,
I, County of Want. Suildings N), 1,
with plenty of water. Pull ,Intrticulars.
Apply to P. Barber1{
, eivin, Ont,
the war broke out in 1914. Wan a
trustee of Stanford University, Cali-
foruia, and spent much time there,
1901-1914, in affairs of that institution
and on conduet or businese in that
state. Went to London just before
war broke out. When the war broae
out became engaged in the organ!,
Wien of return of stranded Amore.
cans, In October, 1914, orgaulzed cone.
Mission for relief in Belgium, and re-
mained in Europe during the war, with,
the exception of a return to the Unit-
ed States in the fall 01 1015 and the
winter of 1917.
The commission for relief of Bel-
gium from October, 1914, until April,
1917, handle(' the import of tiewards
of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat, rice,
beans, peas and other cereals, together
with many thousands or tons of meet
A druggist can obtain an imitatiou
of MIANRD'S LINIMENT from a Tor-
onto house at a very low pries!, and
have it lalieled his owh product.
This greasy imitation is the poorest
one eve have yet seen of the many
that every Tom, Dick and Harry has
tried to introduce. •
Ask for MINARD'S and you will gee
it.
mammelomomair 4••••
products; operating its own, fleet of
from 50 to 70 ships, its own mills,
and in addition thereto acquired and
redistributed cereals and severalaother
staples in the occupied .territory in-
volving between 30,000,000 and 40,00,.
bushels of other cereals, an !arse
quantities of meats, ets. The commis-
sion for relief in Belgium organized
and distributed a ration to 10,000,00)
people, directly employing upleard of.
125,000 ,people in its operations. The
personnel was in a great inaJOrlt*,'—
volunteer. and the total over/lead ei
penses of the commission up ko Aprit,
1917, were three-eighths of one per
cent. The aggregate amount of Morley
expended on imported foodstuffs and
through the organization in the pur-
chase of native food supplies was asp.
proximately $500.000,000.
ea. •
• Joy of Pockets.
The pocket has to be lecke(' Neve
It is properly appreeiated, the London
Chronicle says. This writer had taken
his pocketa as a matter of course un.ta
ore evening he attended a limey dress
ball in costume, which, he diseoverce
when too late to remedy the defect,
was absolutely pocketless. The ques-
tion at once arose what to do with
Pocket handkenthief. numey, cloak-
room,. ticket, and so on. The hanker.
Oiler, of course, went up ais sleeve,
but it took some minutes to devise re-
eeptacles for coins and other nem-.
series in the lining of the cap, the
heels of the 811008 and the cuff of the
coat. All night long, however, he felt
lost throngh having no place to
thrult hie halide into. Since then he
finds himself fraquently putting his
hands into his pockets to experience
the sheer joy of 'mowing that they
are there.
—seer—
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria,
PLAN Gat..X.:A91 girkncr,,.
U. S. Metal Workers May
Back Shipyards Men,
New York, Aug. 10.—Labor leaders
In charge or the strike in shipyards of
the New York citotrict to -day aoserted
that 250.000 metal workers in varthee
parrs of the country would be aske;1
to declare a eympathetic 'strike unless
a settlement is reached to -day. A,
meeting of labor leaders, to he held
tit Tammany Hall to -morrow, Is ex-
pected to take formal action ieelang
to extend the strike, it wet' mad.
According to those in charge of the
strike, the plans iuclude taking out
men all the way from Seattle, Waste,
to the Delaware River. The moan -
to -morrow wia be attended by of f.
cials of the, international unionu in.
volved, .elachiniets. blacksmiths, boil-
ermakers and patternmakers.
band for fisiohri to.geiegotrdt eizt
bneivtteer:
The young w w chides her hus-
band
1 e.ho
lr
nmtgelinef wrwet dah sdahititintotigaatotaii
Don't Eat Less—But
Eat Better. There is no
need of anyone going hungry -
Canadians should eat foods
that supply the greatest
ambut1t of nutriment at the
lowest cost. The whole
wheat grain is the most per-
fect food given to man.
Shredded Wheat Biseait
is the whole wheat grain
prepared in a digestible
form. Zvery particle of the
whole wheat berry is used --
nothing wasted, nothing
thrown away. Two or three
of these biscuits with milk,
sliced peaches or other fruits
make a nourishing, satisfying
meal at a cost of only a few
cents.
Made in CanadaA