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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-13, Page 6; r t /44 ,s? a s Iget,s44 .see" THE ITALIAN non, nuelag the ;natty weary mouththat the Hellen troops have been sealing themighty heighta that lie between them and their objective against Attetria little p1oznIene ha been given by the allies to ihelr nhie lu the war. Perhaps they had he mom dIfficult of 011 the propoettione that preeented thetneelvei to the allice. They had to attack en enemy that bad to ado lee the greatest possible natural protection. They had to seal° mountable', and precipices and dreg, big gana up with them. The wart was Slow and severe and hed many set back, 13at pluck and per- eeverance had their reward and now ltaly has taade such progress towerde her goal ibat success is altooet aseur- ed, Vvlthin the.last few weeks Italy has captured many thoweands a prisoners and hundreds of alms, and del\ en the Austrians from many dominant poet - lions, and now 'Priest Is in danger. In this latest offensive the Italians have had the assietance of many British I Ig guns that have done great tiervice m battering down the Auetrian de- feneea' and Britieh monitors are 0:4 - elating in the pounding of the A114. Ulan defences on the sea eoast, In' the natural course of eveuts, Italy should hare been fighting on the side of AuStria. instead of against her. Italy was a member ot the Tri- ple Alliance, but it was , an unholy alliance as tar as she was concerned R was an alliance not no much againei the other pewers., but one of protec- tion for hereelf against Analrla. But the Banana themselves had no loee for this alliance. They- had a enti- naental attaehment to Great Britain, and eome yeers ago they were turniag More and more towards France. Con- sequently when war broke out the Italian people- were, strongly opposed to backing up Austria in her attack on Serbia. When the conflagration spread King Emanuel was anxious to fulfill his obligations to the other two Central Powers, but the threats of a revolution hela him back. The King then declared for neutrality, and dick- ered for months with the German di- plomat von Buelow. But all his over- tureS had to be rejected. The people would have none ot them. The ravishment of Belgium, the sinking of the Lusita.nia and the over - gunning of France so incensed the Italians that the King was perforce compelled to declare war. Had Italy remained neutral she woutd have suf- fered no matter who won. DiSCUBS- ing the dieficulties that confronted Italy the Chicago Tribune says: That progrees would be slow, any Italian might have foreseen. Edacated Italians did. To the masses, the de- lays, the difficulties, and the ma- ,elonal reverses amid Alpine crests 10,- 000 feet high and clad in eternal snow have bean a series of torments and ImmillatiOns, and yet no ono in Italy have lost courage, :Now, with the Alps finally passed and with a flotilla of gigantic monitors mounting the biggest naval guns ever .employed, it seems that large and perhaps deci- elve results aro at hand: Even should this turn out to be a mistaken hope, the fact remaine that Italy bas -kept large bodies of Teuton troop' engaged In the"Trentino and on the Cerso and all alongs the Italian front. Tbey have nattered enormoue 10Seee. This, if nothing else, would entitle :Italy to the gratitude of her allies. Slue has other claims now. The interests of Italy more or less clash with those of Greece and the Balkans proper. But it is undereaood that the allies have come to a satis• factory agreement with her in regard to her claims. She wants Italy for the Italians. She wants more. She wants to. claim as her subjects all those who. are Italian and speak Ital- ian, and who are under the sway of the Austrian_ Crown. • Dreams May be Overtime Work. Dreams; are a good test of the need of sleep ,ancl, many times answer the qUestion of overwork or idleness, act - cording to Dr,- Percy G. Stiles, Who lectured tit the Harvard medical school ott "SieeP,"• "It is pessible to judge by one's dreams whether one needs sleep," he said. "If the dreams are of a ram- bling vatiety, the kind that seem to pop froat nowhere or anywhere, it is a pretty good. sign that you Tee t overtired. on the other had, if tee dreams are a eontintiatiOn of the day's worriee, the chances are that em are overtired. Dreams remote from tbe clary'e Work are a vecation, bnt dreams connected With the day's work are overtime. "To go to sleep get the body and Mind comfortable. The body is ea - ler to Make comfortable than thd tailed. A. rubdown, 4 bath and a lit- tle bit td tat bring that about. To tompese the Mind: read some familiar book ori poetry. That soothee the lulled, for no Vgertion le neeeseary th read it."—I3ostott ;tottrnal. ft.* Leave e of the EttealyptS, tucalypts are evergreens which shc-d thAir bark, but not their leaves. But they arA not shade trees, The leave are placed in inclined rathr.q, .than horiflontal imition, and the pagsage Of light ig but little .obstrueted. Vol- this reason .smaller trees and imbes and grass grow underneath, and the leCielle in plaOs DARIIMA 1h4S appearanee of a jungle from which arise the towering shafts of trees. It 1,4 interesting 10 note that primitive typcn of eucalyptus as. well as, the young more rootlets Ill)eg have borNontal ivaves, ton Mlle in th0 ,geole.gie pas: 'When 110 tlintate was MOM C'OtIFtilal and no preeartions 'comerv. tncq!tt need trAtill,-,eNa-ioli,e. Ger graphi:, te, YOU never C0 t11. Matte a hien !Tito t6 give the traprec4on Le is 4 big glut •villett triorely shoots blank cartridges. 'It le well," said Musq'ooeis. 'You know ray fat'er?' mated Bela, eagerly, He nodded graVely, "Tell me,' Musk'oosie seenaed to look within. "Isoag tam ago," he began, "though I am not young tnen ueltaer, It was In the Leuie Biel war see your fat'er. He a soldier in that war, wear red coat, Ver' fine. Ot'er soldier call him Smiler Forest. Red people call han Bird - Mouth for cause he all tam xnak' music Withie wind, so"—here Mustfoosis imitated a man whistling, "He is oue good soldier. Brave, The Great Mother across the water send hint a Medal wit' her face on it per catout lie so brave." "What is medal?" interrupted Bela. ALdttle rouad piece lak' money, but not to spend," exelahned hlusq'oosis. "It is pia on the coat here, so every- body know you brave. "Always I am a friend of the white people," Musreoceds went on, "80 I right for them in that way. I can't march me, or ride ver' good. I canoe scout oil the Saskatcheevaa River. Yaur fat'er ie friend to nee. Moch we talk by the fire. He mak' mach fun to me, but I not mad for cause I see he lak me Just the same. Often he. say to me, 'Iviulaq'ooeis, my boy, I bad lot.' " "Dad lot?" questioned Bela. "He mean no good," Isluseloosis ex- plained. "That is his joke. I not believe errytatig he tell me, no, not by a damnsight. 'He say, 'Musq'oosis, 1. no good for not'ing 't'all hut a sold - ler.' Re say, 'When there ain't no war I can't keep out of trouble.' He ask moeh question, about my country up here. He say, 'When this was over 1 go there. Maybe I can keep out ot trouble up there.' "Me, I all tam think that just his joke. Bam-by the fighting all over, and Louis Riel gent to jail. Me, I got brot-ere up here then, I want see my brot'ers after the war, So I go sea good -by to ray friend. But he say, 'Hold on, Musq'oosis, I goin' too.' I say, 'W'at you do up there? Ain't no white men but the comeany trader,' He say, 'I got fight somesing. I fight nature.' " Natare?" repeated Bela, puzzled. Mueq'oosis shrugged. "That last his fonny way of talk. He mean chop tree, Mg earth, work. So he come wit' me. He ver' good partner to trip. All tam laugh end sing and mak' music wit' his wind. He is talk to me just the same lak I was White man, too. Me, I never have no friend lak that, I lak Walter Forest more as if he was my son." . The old man's head drooped at this point, and the 'story seemed to have reached its end. "What you do when you come here, you two?" Bela eagerly demanded. Musteoosis sighed and went ou. "The Fish -Eaters was camp down the lake by Museuasepi then, Your mot'er was.there. She ver' pretty girl. Mos' pretties' girl in the tribe, I guess." "Pretty?" said Bela, amazed. "She is the first noe we see when we come. We are paddling up the river and she is setting muskrat trap �n the bank. You fat'er look at her. Her look at you fat'er. Both are lak wood with looking. We! I think me, Bird -Mouth ain't goin' to keep out of trouble up here neither! Well, he is lak crazy man after that, All night he want stay awake and talk me about her. He ask me what her name mean. I tell him Loseis mean little duck. He say, 'Nobody ever got better name.' 'Better wait,' I say; 'plenty ot'er girl to see.' Not for me,' he say. "Ins a week he marry her. Marry her honest wit' priest and book. He build a house at Nine -Mile Point and a stable. Say he goin' to keep stop- ping -house for freighters when they bring in the company's outfit in the winter. He cut moch hay by Muss quasepi for his stable. He work lak ten red men. When the ice come, right away he start to freight his hay acrose. I say, `Waits it is not safe yet,' He laugh. "One day come big storm wit' snow. He got lost out on the_ice wit' his team and drive in air -hole. We find the hay floating after. He never see you. You collie in the spring. He was fine man. That is all." After a silence alusq-oosis said: "Well, what you think? What you goin' do?" 'I gobs' outside," Bela pro natty answered. "To ray fat'er's country," Mustfoosis shook kis head heavily. "It is far. Many days' journey down the little river and the big river to the landing. From the landing four days' walk to town, I am to old to travel so far." "I not afraid travel alone," ex- claimed. Bela. alusq'oosis continued to shake his head. "What you goat' do in town?" he asked, "I marry a white man,"' replied Bela, cOolly, Musq'ooels betrayed no astonish- ment. ,"That is not easy," he Ob- served with a judieal air. "Not easy when there are white women after theta. They know too much for you. Get ahead of you." "I ani a handsome girl," geld Bela, eCraly. "You have said it. Yo a tell istiteris,,, white men crazy for .handsome "It Is the truth," returned Mug- raciosis, readily. "But not for marry." "My fat'er marry my moVer," per - slated Bela. "OVer white men not same laic your fat'er," Bela's face fell. "Well, What must do?" She asked, "Thete is niOch, to be Said, if yo1 elever you Mak' your white man marry yen:" "HOW?" she demanded. MuSghetisit hrugged. "I ean't telt you in one word," he replied. "I can't stay lvith these people," slie Said, frowning. "All right," said alusq'oosle. "Ilut stay in the country. This Is your Mtn - try, 'You kaew the way of this Olin - try. I tell you somesing else. You got male money here." "Money?" she echoed, opening her eyes wide. "When yotir fat'er die he have credit wit' the company. Near six hundred dollars. Ileaton, the old cora Deny trader, he talk wit' ree for Mit 1 you fat'er'e friends. He tety Uhl Motley tee little to go to law wit'. The law is too far from no. 116 Say, 'I not eve It to Isesels, bet:Ail/it her people iget it. They only Door, 14 Witless peo- ple, just blow it in on foolishness.' II UT,1 goin' to keep it for the citlid.' say, 'All right,' ban -by Beaton leave the company, go back hoe outside. He gave me an order on the new trader. He say keep it till Bela grow up. 1 have It now. So I say to you, this Money buy you a team, utak' you rich in this countr. But outside it is uoths 44fi. I say to you, don' go outside, Marry a white man here." Bela considered this. "Which one?" she asked, "There Is oily Stiffy and Mahooly, the traders, The gov'ment won't let the Kato to marry." "Walt," said Musq'oosis, inepres- sively. "heave white men are coming. Many white men are coming" "I can't wait," complained- Bela rebelliously, "Soon I be old." "Some are here already," ha added She lgoked at him questioningly. "Las' week," he 'went on, "the blg wiuds blow all the ice down, the lake, It is calm again. The sun is strong. So I put my canoe in the water and paddle out: Me, 1 cau't walk ver' good. Can't moth ride a horse. But my arms strong. When 1 yo'ng, no man so strong lak me on a, paddle. So 1 paddle out on the lake. Smell sweet as honey; shine lak she jus' niadp to- day. Old man feel lak he was yo'ng, too. "Bans -by, far acroes the lake I see little bit smoke. We! 1 think, who Is there now? I look, I see the sky Is clean as a scraped elan. I think no wind to -day, So 1 go across to see who It Is. I go to Nine -Mile Point, where your fat'er built a house long tam ago. You know it. Wa! Wal There is five white men stopping there, with mocle horses and wagons, big out, fit. Rich men. "So I spell wit' them a while. They mak' mach fun. Call me or black Joe. Feed me ver' good. We talk after. They say gov'ment gain' measure all the land at. the head of lake this sum- mer and give away to farmers. So they come 'to get a piece of land. They are the first of many to come, Four strong men, and anot'er who cooks for them. They got wait over there till ice on the shore melt so they drive around." "All right. I will marry one of them," announced Bela, promptly. "Wait!". said Muscfoosis, again, "there is =eh to be said." "Why you not tell me when you come back? "she demanded. "I got think first what is best for you." "Maybe they got girls now," site suggested, frowning. "No girls around the lake lak you," he stated, She was mollified. "Do everything I tell you or you mak' a fool!" he remarked, impres- gaiety. "Tell me," she asked, amenably. "Listen. White men is fonny. Don't think moch of somesing come easy, If you want get white man and keep him, you got mak' him work for you. Got makhim wait a while. I am old. I have seen it. I know." Bela's eyes flashed imperiously. "But I want him now," she insisted. "Yon are a fool!" sad Mueq'oosis calmly. "It you go after him, he laugh at you. You got mak' out you don' want him at all. You got mak' him run after you," Bela considered this frowning. An inetinct in her own breast told her the seld man was right, but It was hard to resign hereelf to an extended campaign, Spring was in the air, and her need to escape from the nth - eaters great, "All right," she agreed sullenly at laet.,,How you goin' pick out best man of the fiver netted alusq'ooeis slyly. "I tale the strongest man," elle ans- wered promptly, He shack hie head In his exaspera- ting way. "How you goin' know the strongest?" "Who carrlea the biggest pack," she et nd eurprised -at each a foolleh quee- hlusq'ooals' head still wagged. ' "Red man carry bigger pack titan white man,a, he taaid oracularly. "Red titan's arm and his leg and hie back strong as white man. But white man I a the master. Why is that?" She had no answer. "I tell you," he went oft. "Who is the beat man in this country?" "Bishop Lajeunesse," elle replied unhesitatingly. "It ie the truth," he agreed. "But Bishop Lajeunesee IStUe, ekinny man. Can't carry big Deck at all. Why is he the best man?" Thee was too much 'of a pater for Bela. "I don't want marry him," she muttered. "I tell you," aaid Musq'oosis stern- ly. "Listen well. YoU are a foolleh woman. Bishop Lajeuneese is the bee' man ,for canoe ne ot'er man can look him down. "White men stronger thee red Men for Cense they got etronger fire In their eyeo. So I tell you when You choose it 'cabana Mk' it mait with etrong eye." The girl looked at him startled. This was a new thought. Musq'oeele, laving made his pOlat, relaxed bi atern port, "To -morrow if the sun ehine sve erees the take," he Bald amiably, "While we paddle 1 tell you many more thiage. We pas by Nine -Mile Point talc we goin' florae. Where elee. Not let on we thinkin' of them at all, They will call tie ashore, and we letay jun' little while, You eaust' look at them at all. You do everytang I Lay, I get yea good Ic4gb'an*L "llisp Lajeunecae corning up the river soon," auggeeted Bela. "Will Yeu get me 'osban' for him marry? 1. lak marry by rfishop Lajeunwee." "Ivoolish woman!" repeated 'dine- q'oeele. "How do I know? A great work takes lintel" Bela panted. aluaq'ocale rose Stiffly to hle feet. "1 give you aoMecting," he aid. Shuffling ineide the teepee, he Drea. ently reappeared With it little lamdie Wrapped in 'folde of dree.sed • nuMee hide. Sitting, he undid it deliberately. A. pearl -handled revolver was reveal- ed to liela's eager eyes. "Tile whitman's short gun," he said. "Your fat'er gave it long tam Ago, I keep her vet' eareful. Still itheot etraight, Here are sheltie, toe. 13e1it's instinct wan to run sway to examine her wise in secret. As she rose the old mati pouted a portentous finger, "IlemeMber what I toll you! You got mak' youroelf hard to get." During the rest of the day Belo. IvEv4 anebtrusiVely beoy with her prepare - Wins for the RAMO?. Like Oily glrl, / red or Whitt, Alte had her Ilttli store 01 Tillery to draw u. taharley did not ehow himself in the teepee,. Her mother. eeeitik what eche wag about, watched her with tragie eyes and cloee mouth, At evening, Without it werd, she handed her a little bag of bread and net, Bela took It in ea entharriteeed Silence, The white blood of the two 'women eried for eudear- tnents Unit their red training forbade them, ,More thou once during the night Dela arcee to look at the weather. It Was With oatiorection that elle heard the plue-treea eopaplainiag, In the roOrlling the white hereee weuld be leaning on the lake outside. She 11031 no intention of tailing Maseeoosis with her. She respected the old mane edvice, and mean to apply it, but an imperious Instinct teld her title was her own affair that gem could beet manage for herself, In such weather the old Inan would never follow her. For Itereelf, elle feared no wind that blew. . At dawn she stole out of the teepee without arou&ing anybody, and set forth down the river in her dugout alone (111A.PTER 111. The cenap at Nine -Mile Point wee suffering from an attack of nerves, A party of strong mea, earl- denly condemned in the heat of their laborto complete inaetion, bad be- come a burden to themselves and to each other. Being new to the silent North. theY had yet to learn tee virtue of filling the long day a with mall self -Imposed taske, They had no resources except- ing a couple of dog-eared magazines --- of which they knew every Word by heart, even to the advertisements— and it peak of eards. There Was no zeet in the cards), because all their cash had been aut tato it commela fund at the start of the expedition, and they had nothing to vvager. It was ten o'clock at night, and they were loafing indoore. Above the high tops of the pines the eky was atm bright, but it was night in the cabin. They were lighted by the fire and by it stable lamp on the table. They had gradually !ellen into the habit of lying abed late, ,and consequently they could notesleep before midnight. These evea- ing hours were the hardest of all to put in, Big Jack Skinner, the oldest and most philoeophie of the party—a lean, sandy -haired glane--sat in a rocking chair he had ecatrived from a barrel and stared into the fire with a sullen Composure. Husky Mari' and Black Shand Fraser were playing pinocle at the table, bickering over the game like a Pair of 111-eonditioned schoolboys. On the bed sprawled young Joe Hagland, lietlesely turning the pages of the exhaueted magazine. The only contented figure was that of Sara Gladding, the cook, a laoyieh figure sleeping Peacefully on the'floor itt the corner. He had to get up early, It was a typical Northern Interior; log walls with caked mud in the inter- eticee, a eloor of split pole, and roof of Poles thatched with Gods. )Dxten- sive repairs had been required to make It habitteals, The door was la the south wall, and You had to walk arouad the house to reach the lake shore. There wasit little crooked widow beside it, and another in the easterly wall. Opposite the door wale a great fireplace made out of the round stones from the lake Of furniture, besides Jack's chair, there was only what they had found shore. in the shack, a rough, home-made bed and a table. Two shared the bed, and the rest lay on the floor. They had some boxec for seats. aomething more than diecontent ailed the four waking men. Deep ht each pair os guarded eyes lurked a strange uneasluees.. They were prone to start at mournful, unexpected sounde from tee pine -tops, and to glance apprehensively toward ' tifb darker corner's. Each man was care- fully- hiding these evidences of Per- turbation from his resift. The game of pinocle was frequently halted for recriminations. "You never give me credit for my royal," said Shand, "I did." "You didn't." Husky snatched up the pencil in a paesion. "Hell, 1'11 give it to you again!" he cried, "That's a poor bluff!" sneered Shand, Big Sack suddenly bestirred him- self. "For God's sake, cut it out!" he snarled. "You hurt my ears! What in Sam Hill's the use of scrap- ping over a game of fun?" "That's2 what I say," said Shand. "A man that '11 cheat for nothing ain't worth the powder and shot to blow hine to hell!" "Ah -h! What'a the matter with you?" retorted Husky, "I only made a mistake scoring. Anybody's. liable to make a mistake. If it was a real game I'd be more careful like." "You're dead right you would," said Black Shand, grimly. "You'd gee daylight let through you for lees.' . "Well you wouldn't do it," snarled Husky. Shand rose. "Go on mad play by yourself," he snarled disgustedly. "Solitaire is more your style. Idiot's delight. If yeti catch yourself cheat- ing yourself, you can shoot yourself for what I care!" "Well, I can have it peaceful game, anyhow," Husky called after him, smiling 'complacently at getting the last weed. Ile forthwith dealt the cards for solitaire. Husky was a burly, re- faced, red-haired ex -brakeman, of a simple and conceited eharatter. Ile wasmuch given to childish strata- gems, and was subject to fits of child- ish passion. Ile possessed enormous physical strength withOut much stay- ing power. Black Shand carried his box •to the fire and sat scowling into the flames. He was of it caturnoine nature,, itt whom anger barbed slow and deep. He Was a man of few weede. Half a head shorter than big jack, he showed a greater breedth of shoulders. His arms hung down like ati ape's. "How far did you walk up the shore tacitly?" big Jack asked. . "Matter of tWo milea." "How's the lee melting?" "SloW. It '11 be a week before we can move on." Jack swore under his breath, "And this the 22nd of Mayt" he cried. "We ought to have beeil on our land by now and pIoWing. We're like to lose the whole season, "Ill luek has dogged us from the start," Jack Went on. "Our calcula- tions were all right. We started the right time. Any ordinater year We could have gone eight through oti the ice. But from the very day we left the landing We were itt tremble. Whett we wasn't broke down we wag looking for lost horses. When We watn't held up by a blizZard we was, 'half drowned in a thaw! (To ba continued.) Mr. Ouzzler—Ahi woman le the eeektfell Of life, Mr,, atisslar—And Man is the Chaser, A 0014NY Or REES.. Its Members, Their Product and the Heat of Sting. ,..,••••••••• A colony of bees In summer on. slots of frOm 59,000 to 100,000 Indislile tittle. Each calolly Writable a queen, several hendred drones and the bal- ance workers. The latter are neuter or undeveloped fe okaies, and they do all the work of tbe hivaa gather their food from the flowers, wilich consists of honey and pollen. They else gather propolis, resinous substance used to act) cracks and boles In the hive. It 18 not generally known that honey Is not thick and ayrupy when first gathered, It is called nectar by beekeepers and looks like Water. When first gathered it can be shaken from the combs easily, Sometimes it is necessary to shake bees from a brood comb, and the bees as they fall are so delugpd by the wa- tery meter that they look like the proverbial "drowned rats," This, how- ever, does no harm, as they at once proceedea to clean each other, and when bees clean up they do a good job. I have put out a dish from the table that was datsbed with honey, and In it very short time it was tes clean as thigh washed. Many persons are very much afraid of the business end of the bee, and those who are not titled to bee ding poison suffer pain when stung. The sensation of a bee sting can be com- pared to the prick of a needle point in the flesh, and then try to imagine that -while Just under the skin, the needle is heated white tot and held there for about five minutes, Bee- keepers will agree that this otatement Is not overdrawn. Beekeepers work- ing about tbe hives every day are seldom stung, as they know the habits of the bees and avoid their prods. In time one becomes more or iess int- ItlUfl8 to the poison.—George Saiber in New York Sun. Monoteur: For 13 days in the month of eanuarY was suffering with pain ote-rheumaelem in the toot. I tried all kindEr of rerrie- dies, but nothing did me any good,. One person told me about MINARD'S LIMI- MENT, as soon as I tried it the Satur- day night, the elect morning I was feeling very good; I tell you this, remedy be very good; I could give you a good certificate any time that you would like to have one. /f any time I come to hear about any person sick or rheumatism, I could tell them about this remedy. Yours truly, ERNEST LEVEILLID, 216 Rue Ontario East, Montreal, Feb. '14, 1009. IN THE TRENCHES. Names wi' the air o' the mountain and glen in them, Names the sound o' the plbrodees Amen in them, Narnee wi' the ding o' the dour kilted men in them, Oh, but they're beautiful, Shlela, my owa. Names wi' the smell o' the haggis and peat in them, Names we the flavor, of whiskey site sweet in them, Names wi' some clocle,o' Ben Lamond's broad feet In them., Famous for fetchin.'' the hale weal o'er. 4 I* Minard's Liniment cures Colds, etc. • Names wi' the thochts No' the Bible and Burns in them, Names wi' the hearts el the heather that yearns in them, Names wi' the kilts that frieht babe - killing Huns in them, Oh, but they're beautiful, Shiela, rnY own. Names wi' the memories o'r1Valle.ce and Bruce In. them, Names wi' the bond o' Sohne,Knox's aula ' hoose in them, Names 11'1' the.sitirl o' thee/mg-pipes let loose in them, "%Maur can ye beat thenedihe hale evarld o'er. MacDonald, MacDougal, MacNab and eteLoan, MacPherson, MacTaviele 'MacKinnon, idaeBean, MacCulloch. MacOrimmon, alacLeod.and MacRae, . MacGregor or, MacKenzie, .MacDuff and MacKay, Hamilton, Chalmers, Scatt4 Laing and Dunbar, Grahame, Qordon and Walston free dark Lochnagar, Ross, Reid and Dalrymple,, Craig, Angus and Burns. Monro and MacFarlane (attars Irish by turns), Campbell and Stewart, tiunlop and Mac- Neil, ith the Carneron inere‘frae the land o' Loehiel. —Anon. FLAGS OF IRELAND. ••••••••••••11.••••••••••••• Orior to 1798 National Color Was Blue. The universal belief concerning the flag of Ireland is that it has always been "the harp without the crown" im- posed on a field of green, and that green has from time immemorial been Erin's color. I venture to say that ninety oUt of every hundred persons will assert, in anewer to a query, that the harp on a green background has constituted Ire- land's national design these many cen- turies, this belief obtaining generally among the Irish themeelves. In oppoeition to this belief it will ap- pear strange when the asseveration is made that Ireland' e national color un- til something more than a century ago was blue. It may, indeed, Draftee tt bit of a eheek to many who have been wedded to the nation that "the Emerald Isle," "the shamrock 50 green," "our green Isle beyond the 13ea" and other siMilar expressiOns were indiesolubly and for- ever connected with the country's ha- tional colors. But, as a Matter ot fact, the green flag made Ste appeitranee in 1198, the year of the uprising, so that as flags go it is cOmparatively new. Green, you know, is A blend of the orange and the blue, aid it is asserted that CUTICURA HEALS, f• ITCHY PIMPLES On* Face, Badly Disfigured. Used 2 Boxes Ointment and 3 Cakes Soap. "I had a bad itchy lot of pimplee on my face vvhicit made it badly disfigured. They were inflamed and came to ahead, and I could tear my skin ee soon as a little heat came near them. I could hardly &cep. "When I saw Cuticura Soap and 0Intnient advertised I sent for a free sample which did so much good that I bought more, and I used two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and three cakes of Cuticura Soap when I was healed." (Signed) Miss Bertha Nilsson, Stock. holm, Sask. If you have a -good Complexion keep It so by using Cuticura Soap daily and Cuticura Ointment occasionally. For Free Sam Sample Each by Mali ad. dress pest -card: "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. S, .A," Sold everywhere, greets Was adopted la 1798 by the United Irishmen to typify the union of north and south, orange being the eolor affected in the northern Part of Ireland and blue in the southern prov- inces, In point of antiquity the real Irish flag is the "spear and serpent," whioh appears In the exms of the 0Sullivano. It is said to commemorate the incident of Ceitodhal Gins, the ancestor of Mille - sins, who, tradition says, Was cured of a snake bite by the rod of Moses. Next to that comets the flag of Fionn Me.oCumhaill's militia, the golden sun- set on a blue ground, and the weight of opinion among all Irielt students of research seems; to favor this as the true national flag. Indeed, blue was always Ireland's national color until 1798, figured in Irish, history, and each 01 Quite a number of other flags have them has its line of enthusiastic sup- portere. Not the least popular among these is the flag exhibiting three gold- en crowns impoued on a blue ground, which figures at the present daY in tbe arms of the Province of Munster. This flag was acceptee after the Nor- man invaston in the near 1170 as the ensign of Ireland, the three crowns representing the kingdoms of Des- mond, Ormond and Thomond. It was retained until 1547, when genry VIII. aboalsised It and substituted the harp. Coming down. to more recent times, It is found that the Parliament of Ire- land, of which Henry Grattau was the head, did not recognize green, although it did accept the harp, That parlia- ment's flag was a golden harp on a blue ground. At the time of the Union with Eng- land In 1801 a new flag was evolved apparently for the express purpose of incorporating it with whet is now known as the union jack, but it does not seem to have caught the popular fancy any more than the act of un- riek's cross. Apparently it. was taken Dublin though how Dublin came by it ground, which was christened St Pat - from the arms of Trinity College at Thie wee the red saltire a white mystery. The tricolor of green, white and or- ange—"The orange and green, with the stripe of peace between"—is the reeognized flag of the Irish National- Ists, whose aim le complete independ- ence. ---James T, Doyle, in Baltimore American. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In Cows. se- ss Peggy. My Peggy is it young thing, Just entered la her teens, Fair as the day, and sweet as May, Fair as the day, and always gay; My Peggy is a young thing, And I'm not very auld, . Yet well I like to meet her at The wauking of the fauld. My Peggy speaks sae sweetly, Whene'er we meet alane, I yish nae mair to lay my care, I wish nesa air of a' that's rare: My Pete y speaks sae sweetly, To a' tile lave Int cauld, But she gars a' ray spirits glow At wauking.of the fauid. My Peggy smiles sae kindly Wb.ene'er I whisper love That I look down on a' the town, That I look 'down upon a crown; My Peggy smiles sae kindly It makes me blyth and bauld, And naething gives me sic de- light. As wauking of the fauld. My Peggy sings sae saftly When on MY pipe 1 play. By a' the rest it is contest, By a' the rest, that she singe best; - My Peggy sings Fete saftly, And in her sangs are lauld With innocence the wale of sense, At Wauking of the faual. Allea Ramsae. Curious Superstition The ancients believed that the mar- row contained in the human backbone often transformed itself into a ser- pent. Pliny ("Natural History," volume 10, page 66) says that the marrow of a man's backbone will breed to a snake. The Chinese (Worde's East- ern Travels) burned the backbone to 'destroy serpents that might hatch therefroni." . 4. - The man whogoes into public life shouldn't mind abuse. Many a fellow has been kicked into proMinence. Do all your preservim with La ntic Sugar 4.1,11r• mid tineoloird" Pure can. "PINE" granulation. nigh sweetening power. 10, 20 and 100.11. emits 2 and 54beesirtene Order by name ireerig. Indy atkages, patTbis toolk el triatta esel rea labels foe fruit at+, if yeti 'win dtat te bill ttsdeanete *ow Linda ing rArton sad onid h te .A.tlantle Sugar teflaerletLintitei Nwet Dahlias 1.10N fitzid, 3.41 SOIVIZ EGO IAMB. How to Test, How to Beat, Row to Boil. •••••••0,.*••••.• Are the eggs for which yeti pay 40 cents better than times whiett emit SOT Teat them to Sea. Muelt hunching Melon eggs ehiaas Tholes direct from the farm are dull. It an egg 13 stale .110S110 of the water of Ite senapositien ham evaporated through the porous hell, air has en Wed, and the egg is light. To test. /nit in it deep pan of water.. larat--It had it -war float. Socancl.—If stabe it 'will be light enetigh to atant away from the bottom of the pan or tand on end. Third—If Its weight eittimee it to sink. This,test will inake you what eggs could alwaYe be bought by the pound, as in mune places, instead of by the dozen. BLv4tme the eggshell le porous Ana read- ily absorbs impurities %rpm a dirty shell or the air OHS'S ahould always he wash- ed before being put away. Second test: Hold egg before a candle or gas jet behind which b a dark Wok - ground. Areund the yolk ot all egg, Is a thin tissue, -which hoide the yolk together. When decomposition Occure the Yolk together. When decomposition occurs the yolk breaks this membrane and he - comes Mixed with the white.- 13y hold - Ing the egg before a strong light the Yolk can easily be seen as it large dark opot. Xt bad, the yolk has broken its mem- brane and this dark spot cannot be noticed. Where is also a. tissue arouod the white of an egg which, in beating the whites stilt, must be broken into infinitesreal nieces before the egg will become light and fluffy. A. few grains of salt dropped into the white before beating will at each turn ot the beater help to cut this membrane. The whites then "beat up," much soon- er than if the salt had not been added. Table Inc cooking eggs without keep- ing time or temperature: One egg, one -halt pint oa•boiling watee. Two or three eggs, a. pint of boiling wa- ter. Three to five eggs, one and one - halt pinto of boiling water. Five to eight eggs, a quart. Put the eggs into the water while it Is boiling and inimeditttely set the dish away from the fire, Fifteen or twenty minutes will be required to cook the Alter that time the water -will have reached 140 degrees and will do no more cooking, but will keep the eggs eve.rni it long time, filEQUENT HEADACHES People with thin blood are much more subject to headaches Wien full- blooded persons, and the form of anaemia that afflicts growing girls is almost always aceompanied by head- aches, together with disturbances of the digestive organs. Whenever you have constaat arete- curring headaches and pallor of the face, they show that the blood is thin and your efforts should be directed toward building up your blood. A fair treatment with Dr. Williams' Pint Pills will do this effectively, and the rich, red blood made by these pills will remove the headache. More disturbances to the, health are caused by their blood than most peo- ple have any idea of. When you' blood is impoverished, the nerves suf- fer from lack of nourishment and you may be troubled with insomnia, neu- ritis, neuralgia or sciatica. Muscles subject to strain are under -nourished and you may have muscular rheumat- ism or lumbago. It your blood is thin an,d you begin to show synaptoms of any of these dieorders, try building up the blood with Dr, Williame' Pink Pills, and as the blood is restored to its normal condition every symptom of the trouble will disappear. There are more people who owe tlteir present state of good healthto Dr. Williams' Pink Pills than to any other medicine, and most of them do not hesitate to say so. You can get Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box 'or six boxes for e2.50. from The Dr, Williams' Med- ieine Co., Brockville, Ont. CONTINENT OF MARVELS. Some of South America's "Great - eat In the World," Op..1.1141.1•MLEM.M.1.1 Bring on the superlatives! We write of South America, the continent where are the world's greatest moun- tain ranges, densest forests and larg- est rivers. Just for instance, the Amazon river system has over 60,000 miles of navi- gable waterway, enough to tie two loops around our planet. It can be navigated for 2,500 miles by ocean steamers, a greater distance than from New York to Panama. The Rio de la Plata is 120 miles wide An da t ninttsw t nosuttah. nding all Colonel Roosevelt's discoveries South Ameri- ca still has the largest, unexplored area of any continent, Almost 'everybody knows that. Bra- zil ds larger than Europe or the con- tinental 'United States, but the size of the "little" republics is not so well known. Texas could be lost tevase in "little" Venezuela and still leave room for Kentucky and Tennessee. Peru could comfortably swallow California, Oregon, Washington, Ne- vada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho, And it is over 2,000 miles from one end of Chile to the other—ahnost as far as from New York to Glasgow! Gold is found in every state of South America, and from Potosi alone the famous "peak of silver" la Boliv- ia, more than $2,000,000,000 in silver has bean mined in the last three cen- turies.—World Outlook. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. ironing Kills the Oerms. One need not worry about receiving infection in clothes sent to a laundry Oveh though they be washed with those of other families in which there tnay be infectious diseases. Such, in substance, Is a report just issued by the 'United States public health set'. vice after an investigation by M, C. Schroeder and S. G. Southerland of the New York department of health, For whatever disease germs are not killed in the washing will be killed In the ironing. In fact, the Ironing* kills More gertna than the washing. There is, hoWever, tlanger in hav- ing clothes washed by a laundress at her own home, for, "owing to the close quarters in which the lauhdress- es live, there is possibility of reinfec. tion of the clean linen if communic- able diseases are present among the Members of the laundress' family." improvement. Mrs. Josiah Cowles, the new presi- dent of t113 National Federation of Womett's dubs, Was talking In Neve York about dress, "Women, Once they get interested In our movaemnt," sne said, "dress more senolbly. They give 1e3s thought to dress., I may claint In faet"--ISIre. Cowles smiles—"I may claim in faet," She ended, "that these WOMOrt start waling their own clothes and stop picking their •friencis' clothes to pieces,".'Lxchange, ISS1J14 NO. I37, 1917 #I -P WANTED WANTED PRORATIONialla TO es train for nurses. Apply, Wehandra Hospital, St. Catharines, Vat - I ADIES WANTED TO DO SIAM, light sewing at home; whole or epare time; good pay; work sent any dietanee; charge prepaid. Send stoup foe pore tieulare,. National istanufacturinu Vo•I Iv/atrial, Que. MONEY ORPER4 s N D .A. DOMINION leXPUBSS three Order. riVe dollars 12)t4 roR SALB A GHOSOIS PALEY FA.RAI IN TI.ta County of Brant, leuildinge No. 1, with plenty of water. lea particelers. Apply to V. Barber, Kelvin, Ont. THE DRUG MENACE. 01,••••••••••••••,.14,40.0..... Society Facing an Bxoeedinely Dangerous Human Element. In rigorous effort to suppreee the 11 - legal sate and use of habit forming druee the New York police are now ar- resting annually abont 900 persons and *Retiring 700 convections. Of thcee fully 75 per cent, have had previous pOliee records, whiert include eery crime in the statutes. Tirla is an offsaal state- ment, one of sinister portent. It means that law abiding eaclety Is fae- itg a human element new and exceale Ingly dangerous—s0 grave, in fact, tbat one of the moat important duties of the police lies in atampIng out this traffic, The danger is by no means confined to large citieG like New York; it is probably growing in towns and vil- lages all over the country. Police in- vestigations have revealed an aedall. ing inereaste of drug addicts. More tnan one-half of those confined In the eity prison, the Tombe, were victims, Men and women following virtually every beainess ,trade and profeseiva were ineleded. Even echool ehildren became addicted to the habit of teeing these drugs. It be with full knewledge of such oc- ehereneee that the Police are doing everything pcniible to stop Clegal traf- 1:c in deuge. Criminate of this class ereeent a problem even more difflcult thin the old time bank robber and general crook, The police may arreet 1.000 offenders annually, but the pro- blem will not be solved until boys and girls are taught the terrible reaults 55 llich follow upon the tee of habit forming drugs, It le at this point that teachers of physiology and personal' hygiene must lend powerful co-opera- tion.—Century Magazine: Science Jottings. It has been discovered that wood ate be preserved from destructive worme by injecting pure turpentine into it by means of a syringe or other instru- ment. The illumination of the Statue of Liberty in the New York harbor is ac- complished by the use of 250 lamps, each of 250 watts capacity. Within the twelve months ended March 31 the British and Foreign 13ible Society distributed 11,000,000 Bibles and tracts printed in 497 different lan- guages. An electric lamp on the phonograph helps the orator to guide, the needle to its proper place on the record. The average passenger treat earns about $1,40 per mile. The cars and locomotives weigh about 550 tons. The resources ot the State of Arkan- sas are being boosted by means of an exhibition train, accompanied by 125 residents of the State. A large insurance company claims that out of 100 aveaage healthy men of 25 at 65: Fifty-four will be dependenti upon relatives, friends or charity: 36 will be'deacl; five will still be earning their daily breed; lour will be Wealthy and one will be rick. 4 • 0.; Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Odds and Ends. Certain German naval authorities are experimenting with electrical ma- chinery for gathering peat. Berean College students,' numbering 1,100, are being sufficiently fed at a cost of 17 cents per day, and those at Carlisle School at a slightly lower costi Pttsburg's pay -roll amounts to about $1,000,000 per day. The manufacturing capital of the Southern States is nearly 60 per cent. of that of the entire) country iu 1899. The world's consumption of cotton last year amounted to 24,500,000 bales atIt"h0apsobuenedns eteonitil)iveiteb(ailiebat 25,000 v e - hicles pass Forty-seeond street and Fifth a -venue, New York, each day. According to data compiled from var. lous sources by the United States Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, the number of strikes and lockouts during the year of 1916 was 3,323, as compared with 1,2A29pairnt 1fOrleen. thousands of lives de- stroyed by fire, the. United States sus- tains an annual loss from this cause of at least $300,000.000; a per capita loss nearly ten times as great as that found in the leadin!_eountries of Bur-. epes "Undertakers." in England in 1614 undertakers Were men of influenee Who andertook for a consideration to get such persons re turned to Parliament as would prove submissive to the royal will of Icing 'James I. The three chief undertakers of 1614 were Lords natal, Somerset and Neville. Then there were under' takers in Ireland 111 5e08. They were English and Seotch colonists sent te North Ireland and were each allottea 2,000 acres of land.' They were men at capital arid undertook to pay a mark O year for every six acres and to admit no recusant, fOr tenants; hence the name as applied to them But neither the histories nor the diction - Aries give any reason for calling the melt who bury our dead undertakers.