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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-11-29, Page 6A:4104mm linintgration into Weetern Canada Mr fee first ten months of Yoar ;Mow an increase of more than 100 OF cent. over the Sable perhal of 1916. The 1 916 •ligure had doubled tliat of 1015. But. as the number was only 33,134, it. Ts not much te brag ebout, The battle car of eedition. "Thie la rleh waren war," easel the Chicago Tribune, bids fair to take on a new meaning not tntended by its orighte- torte Consider the Investment Ban1t. ere' assOelatiOn now In. Reston in Bal- timore. The association has deeided to Mibordinate all business to war fin- ancing end to exercise Re influence against the issuance of unitecesSarY neuritice Anterman organized labor is strong- ly behind President Wilson in his et -- forts to win the war. Amon.: the de- clarations ot the American Federa- tion ot Labor as to the basis on which peace must De negotiated were the "1,40 indemnities or reprisals based on vituuctive purposes or deliberate desire to injure but to right manifest wrongs. "No territorial changes or adjust. ment of power except in furtherance at the weltaxe of the peoples affect- ed. in the tartheranee of world Peace." 4. This is all that the Allies ask. The Rev, Dr. Hanson, at a meeting of the Montreal Presbytery, warned the public against the "white slavers," who are said to obtain victims with the aid of a hypodermic needle. This is done in a crowded street -car, theatre or even in an elevator, Then an ac- complice ot the creature with the needle ruelies forward and attempts to take charge of the sufferer as an • intimate friend. Dr. Hanna cited sev- eral •cages and the Presbytery sug- gested publicity as the best means of protecting young girls against this new and diabolical menace. Do euch things happen? Evidently they eo. As an 'evidenee of the determination of the American people to, see it tluough, it is worth noting that every time serious news conies from abroad respecting our troops, whether it be favorable or uufavorable, there. is a sudden jump in the recruiting for the regular army, says- tile Plifladelphia Record, Thus on Monday, following the despatches that told of the first brush with the Gerinans, no less than 1.002 young men voluntarily joined the colors, a larger number than for some time. The regular army now contains nearly 360,000 officers and men, and as the great bulk of these are in Franee it can be seen that Con. Persh- ing already has a good-sized force under his command. AMERICANS IN THE FIGHT. Prestdent 'Wilson is in the happy po- sition of having organized labor at his back in this fight with Germany. In his address to the delegates of the American Federation of Labor in Buf- falo yesterday, he did not •need to use one, word of persuasion or expostula- tion The men wore with him in all he said and President Ilayes, of the United Stine Workers of Ainerica, wlred: "We propose to steed strongly behind the Government and those who are leading this fight until minter- lem is wiped from the face of the earth:* This gave President Wilson an the more contidence to say that he was opposed .to peace untii the war against Germany had been won. He explained the policy of the German Government to obtain political con- trol of the world while it worked for industrial control. The Germans were out to capture the trade of the world, and If they could not manufacture cheap enough to compete m ith others, the Government granted them a eub- sidy to enable them to undersell. Ger- many wanted political and industrial control of the world, and she was at- tempting to secure this in the most systematic way. The Pre.sident said: "All ot this is a, preface to the conference that I re- ferred to with regard to• wt we are going to do. If we are true iriende ef freedom -our own or somebody else's -we will see that the power of this country and the productivity of this Country Is ranted to its absolute maxi - Mum, and that absto:utely nobody 1.5 allowed to stand in the way of it." The United States will brook no in- terference in its determination to use all its resources to detcat Germany in this struggle. No cost will be con - steered too great to accomansh this end and no party or political consid- erations Will be allowed to stand in the Way. The hies! 'Tia Paper Will be Med for wool; • .New dram and omit fallriat .ire te be made of it! .And junt as enon as the netebincre min be eet up! ' Inolv is it or is It not tietasproorl Let's hope 'tie. • A 'fells)* always tries to keep on tht, right side of his best girl in spite of the fact that her heart Is on the left side. Mtge Louise .aye ahc bopee !el so live filet whon her time mance it j1n the Intiumereble (ma's van Diet entle ite way doWn the middle a1810 end on up to the altar deenrated scan potted paha% no :mph laded end u•aletie �iM- 1r tvl1 re n.teR. "Well. I wonder vi bat • MI ever tax itt heel- -"ataecia halegrepn. • ••••e,...0•1~01~0.,^ry,r•oW,INAWA•ow.,,. ..eq•*4,./.0,"4""rewN -",••••••••"4••• .•(~•..A•N•Woo••••eiv.v•rw•Were"rw•ev, "Let them curse," said Bela. "Curs' In' won't retch us. Already they row - in' half en hour. Got tire' soon." "They've got a spare Man to change to," Sam reminded her. 110 was now as keen to give them the slip as Bela. The mainland ahead promised free - dons; not only freedom from his late masters, but freedom from her, UM. Looking over their sleoulders, they saw the steersman change to one of the oars. Thereafter the rowboat came on with renewed speed, but the dugout, seemed to draw steadily ahead. Sam's heart rose. Bela, however, searching the wide sky and the water for weather signs, began to look anx- ious. "What ie it?" asked Sam. "Wind goin' down," she relined, grimly. Sure enough, presently the heavy sail began to sag, and they could feel tho dugout lose way under them. They groaned 'involuntarily, At the same moment their pursuers perceived the slackening of the wind and shouted in a different key. The wind freehened again, and once more died away. Now the ilugout forged ahead; now the rowboat began to overhaul them. It was nip and tuck down the lake between Ian smi oars. The shore they were making for be- gan to loom • nearer, but the puffs of wind were coming at longer and long- er intervals, and finally they an into a glassy calm, though they tout& see slants of wind all about them, a situa- tion to drive pursued sailors frantic. Bela paddled manfulla, but her sin- gle blade was no match for two long oars. The sail was a handicap now. Bela had etaked everything on it, and they Could not take it down without csandeing the dug -out. The oarsmen came up rapidly with derisive shouts In anticipation of a speedy triumph, "You've got your gun," muttered Sam. "You're a better shot than any of them. Use it while you have the advantage." She shook her head. "No shoot. Too mooch trouble mak' already." "Plug their boat, then," said Sam. She still refused. "They die in cold 'water if boat sink." "We might as well jump overboard, then," he said, bitterly. "Look!" she cried, suddenly. "Wind comine too!" Behind the rowboat a dark blue streak was creeping over the surface of the lake, "Ah, wind, come quick! Come quick!" Bela murmured involuntarily. "A candle for the altar! My rabbit - skin robe to Pere Lacombe!" At the same time the did not cease paddling. The rowers saw the breeze comiug, too, and bending their backs, sent the water flying from their oars. They managed to keep ahead of it. Both boats were now within a furlong of the river -head. The race seemed over. The rowboat drew even with the dug- out, and they looked into their pur- suers' faces, red with exertion and dis- torted in creel triumph. The steersman was Joe. "Don't stop," he yelled to the heaving oars- men, "or she'll give us the slip yet! Get ahead and cut her off! Y.ou damned dish -washer, we've got You now!" he added, for Sam's benefit. With a sharp creek, Big Jack's oar broke off short. He capsized back- ward into Shand knocking him off his seat as well. At the same instant the whispering breeze came up and the blanket bellied out. Shand and Jack were for the mo- ment inextricably entangled' in the bottom of the boat. Emotional Joe cursed and stamped and tore at his hair like a lunatic. Loud laughter broke from Sam and Bela as they sailed away. Joe, beside himself, snatched up his filln and opened fire. A bullet went through the blanket. Bela and Sam instinctively ducked. Perhaps they prayed; more likely they did not real- ize their danger until it was over. Other shots followed, but Joe was shooting wild. He could not aim di- rectly at Sam, because Bela was be- tween. He emptied his magazine without doing any damage, In the reaction that .followed Bela and Sam laughed. In that moment they were one. "Feels funny to have It fellow sling- ing lead at you, eh?" said Sam. "Musq'oosis say after a man hear ballet whistle he is grown," answered Bela. A few minutes later the river re- ceived them. There was a straight reach of a third of a mile, followed by innumeralne, bewildering corkscrew bends all the way to the head of the rapids, thirty utilise or raore, Out in the lake behind them, their pursuers were struggling forward, sculling with the remaining oar. Bela watched anxiously to see what they would do- when they got in the river. H they knew enough to go ashore and take to the land trail, it was possible that even on foot they might cut her off at a point below Where the trail touched the river. Apparently, however, they meant. to Mlles, by wetter. And the last sight she had of them before rounding the first bend they were still sculling, The river pursued its incredibly cir- cuitous course between cut banks fringed with willows. All the country above, invisible to them in the dugout, emooth cnrrent carried them on. On the outside of each bend the bank was steep to the point of over-. hanging; on the inside there was in- variably a mud 'flat made gay with water flowers. So crooked was the river that Sack-Itnite Mountain, the only object they could see abovethe evillows, was now on their right hand, noW oh their left, On the turns they sometimes got a Wriest of Wind in their feces and tame to dead stop. Now that they ite longer required it, the wind was Momentarily strengthening. "Wouldn't It be better to take the • sail &WM?" Sant suggeeted. "Can't tak it down wit'ont land on Shore," Dela answered selleetlY. Sem comprehending what was the shatter, chuekled inwardly. On the • next ben& teeing her Struggles with the baffling alt -Currents, he asked • teasingly: "'Well, Why don't you g0 'Ashore arid (Ake it down?" "If I land, eou promise not run eaglet?" elm said. • PAM laughed from a light heart. "Net Mt your life!" he said. "lint dely Own welder now," Bela had no more to say. "Where are you bound for?" Saill •ateitently asked. • "Down rhe:'," she answered. hese to be leaving Path" Said Pit Mealtillgly. "I'M 40111g the atiunh 'tatty. To the, heed of the lake." "If you gack they catch yon." "I'll lie low till they're thrown off the scent. I'll walk around the north shore." "If you stay with me little while, Pretty soon we meet police comin' tip," elm suggestee. 'Then they can't touch you." "Much obliged," replied Sam. "I've me fancy to be Jumped. on at night again and tied up like a roasting fowl." "I promise I not do that again," said Bela. "Surer retorted Sam. "No doubt Mere got plenty other tricks just as Seed," "If you look at Me you siee I speak truth," she murmured. "I your Woad, Sans," The threatened break in her voice brought all his old disquiet surging up again. As lie put it, lie suspected her of "trying to put one over on him again," "I don't want to look at you!" he returned, -with v. harsh laugh. An adverse puff of wind blew them Into an overhanging which became entangled with the sail and the stay -1,01)e. Sam saw his chance. Seizing the branches, he aged to swing ashore at the cost only of wet ankles. A sharp cry was wrung from Bela. "Sam, don't go!" Gaining a sure footing out the bank, he faced her, laughing. "Well, how about it now?" There was nettles inscrutable about her face then. It worked with emo- tion like any woman's. "Don't go by yourself," she plead- ed, "You not know this country. You got not'ing. No grub!- No gun! No blanket!" "I can walk it in two days or three," ho said, "I'll build a fire to sleep by. You can give nte a little grub if you want. I'll trade my pocket-knife for it. It's all I've got. You got tne into this, anyhow." "No sell grub," she answered, sul- lenly. "Give all you want if you come witheme." "Very well, keep it then," he snapped, turning away. Her face broke up again. "No, no! I not mad at you!" she cried, hurried- ly. "I give you food. But wait; we get talk.' She drove the canoe on a mud -bank beyond the willows and scrambled out. Sam, scowling and hardening at her approach, was careful to keep his distance. Ho suspected her of a de- sign to detain him by force. "There's been too much talk," ' he growled, "You'd better hustle on down. They'll be here soon." "Sam, don't go!" she begged. "W'at You do at head of lake? Not get no Job but cook. Stay wi' me. We got boat and gun and blankets. We need no more. I show you all w'at to do. I show you fishin' and huntina When winter come I show you how to trap good fur. You will be rich with me. I not bot'er you no more. I do ev- erything you want." In her distress Sam's angry eyes chose to see only chagrin at the pros- pect of luls escaping her. At the same time her beseeching face filled him with a wild commotion that he would not recognize, His only recourse lay in instant flight. "Cut it out: What good does it do?" he cried, harshly. "I tell you I'm going to the head of the lake." "All riglat, I tak you there," she said eagerly. "More quick as you can walk, too. Half a mile down the river there is little backwater to hide. We let those men go by and then come back. I do w'at you want, Sam." "Will you give me a little grub, or won't you?" he insisted. "I'd rather starve than go with you!" She burst into tears. "All right, 1 give you food," she said. She turned back to the dugout, and, throwing back the cover elf the grub -box, put what bread and smoked fish she had left into a cotton bag. Sam awaiteu ner, raging with that intolerable bitterness that a tender and obstinate man feels at the sight of a woman's tears. She offered him the little package of food, and a blanket at well. "Tale my ot'er blanket," she said, humbly. "I can get more." He impattently shook his head, re. fusing to meet the lovely, imploring eyes. "Here," he said, offering tho pocket-knife: "For the food." With a fresh burst of -weeping she knocked it out of his nand, and cove ered her teem with her aria. Sam strode away, blinded and deafened by the confusion of his feelings. His face was as stubborn as atone. A wide sea of CMOs was revealed to etretchiug to pine ridges on the Oorizon. In all the expanse there was no sign of any figure, bat the dense willows Marking the tertitoitg couree of the river provided plenty of cover aoth up and down street -O. "Which way dld he go?" Jack called down. "I don't anew," said dila. "Down river, I think." • Below, Joe, full of bitter jealousy, was still upbraiding Bela. Jaek re- turned, scowling. "Cut it out!" he sat& perereptorily. "I will get to the bottom of this." To Bela he seal, harsbly: "What, do you expect as to do for yoU, girl? You prommed 118 a fair answer yesterday Morning, and In the night yon skip- ped with the cook." Bela raised an innocent -seeming face. "What you Mean, eltip?" she asItell. "Lit out, eloped, ran away," said Jack, grimly. "I never aid!" elm cried, Indignant- ly. "He carry me off." They Oared at her open-mouthed again. "What I want wit' a cook?" she went on, quickly, "I want mama' a man wit' something. He le a bad man, He tale use away. Now he say he done wit' me! Tears threatened again. They were only half convinced. "How did it happen?" Jack de-• mended. "In the afternoon he find my cache where I stay by the little creek," she said, "Talk to no lak a friend. I think all right. But in the night he come back when I sleepin' aud tie my hands and my feet and my mouth, and throw me in my boat and tak' away! I hate 'him!" "Then it was you wo heard cry out?" exclahned Joe. "Sure!" she aSsented, readily. "The handkerchief come loose. But soon he stop em." • "He did it jug to spite us!" cried Joe, furiously. "He didn't want her himself! I always said he had too Proud a stomach for a cook. Worked against us at night like a rat! I warned you often enough!" "Hold on!" said Big Jack, scowl- ing. "Theres more to this." He turned to Bela, accusingly, "You were paddling the dugout when you came to the river yesterday. I saw you plain." "Soon as the wind begin to blow he cut me loose," she said. "He can't mak' boat go. Ho tale my gun and point to me and mak' me paddle." "The damned blackguard!" mut- tered Shand. Jack was still unconvinced. "But to -day," he eat& "When my oar busted you laughed. I was loolcin' at you." Bela hung her head. "He tak' me away," she murmured, "1 Cilia he marry me then. I good girl. I think got marry him." "No marry!" cried Bela, with a fine assumption ot anger. "He throw me down. Speak bad to me! I hate him! I want pettish!" "Sounds fishy somehow," muttered Jack, hesitating. . "You come wit' me," she said, shrug. ging "See all I do." "Maybe the idea is to get us away for the boat so he ca.n sneak back and swipe it." suggested Joe. CHAPTER XIII When Sam had passed out of sight around the willows, Bela, still shaken by sobs, went down on her hands and knees to search for the penknife she had spurned. Finding it, she kissed it and thrust it inside her dress. Going to the dugout, she stretched out in it, and gave herself up to grief, Not for very long, however. Grad- tially the sobs stilled, and finally she sat up with the look of olio who has something to do. For a long time thereafter she sat, chin in hand, thinking hard with tight lips and in- ward -looking eyes. Souhds from arotted the bend eato,ie aroused her. She heard the working of an oar in its socket and the eau- Uous voices of men. An alert look eaMe into her face. he glanced over the gunwale at her face in the water and disarranged her hair a little. Flinging herself down, she coinmenced to weep again, but With an altered note; thia wan self- conscious grief addressed to the tare of others. The three men finding her thtts, gaped In boundless astonishMent. It was anything but what they expected to find. They peered into the bushes for e sign of Sane "What the devil la the Matter?" de- manded Big jade "Where is Sem?" (Tied Joe. Bela auswored both guntione at once. "He leave me," she sobbed, with heart -breaking effect. "Left you?" they union& stupidly. "Gotte aWay," wailed Bela. "Say Ile dohe with wie for good!" • filmic Shand and .Teelt were genu- inely deeoilmoarel at the night of her tears. Jove with more beadiltood, laughed. "Serve you well right!' Raid he. Big Jack had the oar. Ile drove the boat on the bank alongside the dug - 1 tett, Mid they elinthed out, jack and Shand wont up the bank. "He Vela beve got far," tleld the Winer. aw•aeineeetelseellreeepeetre FIELD CASHIERS PAYMASTERS IN FRANCE , cAsu DOMINION EXPRESS FOREIGN CHEQUES THE HEST WAY TO SEND MONEY TO THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES Ins•41•1M.00•414111.1111.4 44•11•401,10.6.04 11,00•• •-• ++444 -t -e-9 I Beri-Beri On a Windjammer "I lost my Chinese cook this YOY., age," remelted Cepa John Anderson, of the British four masted bark DaY- tight, which recently completed smart paseage of nineteaelght days from Calcutta to New Yorlc. "Not that old Ching Lee was Ion overboard or had beri-beri, but when we got to Cal. elate he said be just hp,d to go home to see his wife, back Canton River way. "Pretty nice sentiment, waat? Chinaman going 2,000 Miles to see hie Wife. Anyway, he said he would re - Join the ship when we get up to Shanghai. That's sometning to look forward to, "I have lost a Chinese cook under more strenuous circumstances, when you had to sew him up in canvas and let him go over the side. I remem- ber one voyage -we were bound from Bombay for Baltinaore-when the ship was swept with an epidemic ot beri- beri, and two-thirds of the hands, in- cluding the mate, were put out of commission. "But the 'Chinese cook was the first one to go. One day I passed him out walking along the deck between the after cabin and the galley. He was limping, I noticed, and his feet were swollen. 'Legs full water, go die non,' he said. "I ordered him inlo his bunk and be- gan dosing him up as Wen as I could. I had two medical books on board and read op on bed -bed. It was all very well to read up, but I found that the books contained almost opposite views as to the medicine to be given in the can of this peculiar disease. So the books were not much help, and the poor old cook died. He migbt have done botter he had taken any of the medicine I prescribed; but we found all that carefully hidden under the mattress of his bunk. "The men fell ill rapidly atter this. Tho mate toppled over on the poop "You foolish!" said Bela, with a glance of nom. "You can walk to Johinny Gagnon's and get your horses. Let one may stay bore to watch the boats." "Come on!" cried Shand, from the top of the bank. "Catch hint fleet and decide what well do to hint after." "Go on," said Bela, sullenly. "I not track him wit'out you give hint me for punish." "You swear you'll hand hint over to the police," demanded Jack, sternly. "I swear it!" she replied instantly looking him in the eye and holding up her''Abllaurdight. Come en, I'm satisfied,' assented Jack. "Wait!" she said. "You promise to me you not hurt him. Give me your , hgarSandeel heforced all three to shako hands on it, Joe submitting with an 111 1 "Now, come on," said Shand, Ina I patiettly. "Leave your guns," commanded Bela.' "Maybe he run. Yon get mad and shoot. I want no blood." Jack scowled at her with reawakened suspicious. "I keep ray gun with me," i he growled. "I -le got no gun," sneered Bela, scornfully. "You 'fraid catch him wit' hands?" "You staid he had your gun," said 13Ig Jack. "He give it back," said Bela. "He 1 Is bad man; but no steal. My big gun,' my little gun -see?" Site exhibited them. -Jack knew that Sam owned no gun; ! still he was suspicious, "it you had , your gun why you didn't plug him when he lett your' he demanded. 1 Bela, paused for an instant • This was a poser, because in her heart she , knew, supposing her 'story to be true,' that she would have shot Sam. She' had to think quickly. "I not want no blood," she murmured. "I 'fraid Pere Lacombe." It was well done. Big Jack nodded. "You leave your gusts, too," he stipti- lated. "Sure!" she seed, willingly putting them in the dugout. 'Leave one man to watch the boats And the guns. Two 1 inen and a. woman enough to catch a t cook, I guns." The laughed. • Bela was playing for high stakes and her faculties were eharpened to a. sword -edge. Every look suggested the ' Wronged woman thirsting fOr jilStiCe. I Site ostentatiously :searched in her bag- gage, and rawing out piece of • monehlde, cut It into thongs for beads. Cleverer men than 13Ig Jack and Ms pals might have been taken In, "Boys, she's right!" crief Jack. "We don't want no blood on our hands to start off with, if we can see hint pun - feted proper . Shand,. you Stay here. Lead off, girl!" Shead. shrugged with a SOny look, and cattle down the Wolk, It Was al- ways tacitly understood between hint and Jack that young Joe Was not to be trusted alone, sO he submitted. The ether three started. Bela, Mak- Mg believe to be baffled for a moment finally led the way upstream, Sae weut Met at the rolling gait the lh. diens affect. The men were hard pitt tc it to keep ins with her over the un OYU greet& ter the grassy plain, which looked like s. Withal table, was full of butiths. ••Iihe kept her eyes on the ground. - It wee a, eireple Matter for her to Sainte traCke hi the grass, but the Men, though they eottld tiee the faint depreeeloes when alui pteinted them out, could never have foetid thelti Unaided. (TO be eontlitted,) .••••••rommiamiefai..MONS.P.. Marion Bridge, C.B., May 30, '02. I have handled .MINARD'.3 LINI- MENT during the past sear. It is always the firet Liniment asked for here ,and unquestionably the best seller of all the different kinds oil Liniment I handle. NEIL FERGUSON. "Strangely enough, es soon as beri- beri Yietires get Wane they improve rapidly.. My follows in the hospital were Boon ready to hobble out, but were kept at the hospital for some time sa that specialists could make blood tests. "I hope the scientiste pined some- thing fro= 'their experlments oit the Daylight victims, but I liaTe not heard as yet of any positive cure being found. At any rate I don't want an- other voyage with my crew down with beri-beri. That was about the Moat trying trip ever I had." -New York. Sun. •••••,*••••*4.4••••••••,•••••••• How the Horsefly Bites. When the horsefly alights on a horsb he walks around looking for a tender spot, and this he finds with his hairy' feelers, Then he cuts a hole with the scissors oa, each side of kis central tu- bular tongae. An ordinary lead pencil caunot be Mien:toned to a point without sharpen- ing the lead. So it is with the tubular end a this tongue -111m extension of the horsefly, nye the Popular Science Monthly. Nature bas provided it with barbed piercing "derrick ropes." The fly inserts these sharp points into the 'horse and then pulls back on theta, The barbs hold, and the fly's tongue Is forced down Into the horse's flesh, I3ut if the hole has already been made then it ie not necessary for these ela- borate tools to be taken from the sheath in which they are placed witlat In th,e tongue or proboscis. Theblocal is sucked up by the tongue in tarsal, cally the same way as by other forms ot flies, one day as I was taking the sun. In a few days out of thirty-two men on board only ton were fit for duty. I had only five men la a wittch on deck at one time unless we had to take in The weather was good, too good, in fact, most ot the tliue, hot and nary in the Indian Ocean, which did not seem to Itelp my sick men. "Beri-bert seems 10 be a mysterious disease and to baffle the doctors. This was evidenced by the two contradic- tory medical books I had. Well, we buried three more men in the lonely Indian Ocean, and we let the mate go in the long swells oft the Cape. I was almost determined to put in at the Cape for medical assistance, but we were far south, and I decided to keep on for my dettination. "It was trying work to navigate the ship and keep an eye on fifteen or twenty sick men, to say nothing o1'. the working members et the crew, who began to kick, as sailors will, and call her a hoodoo ship and a death ship. I began to think there was a Jonah aboard. However, things got better in the Atlantic. The southeast trades were strong and we were only nineteen days to the line, without starting a rope -yarn. "There scented to be little I could do for these poor chaps suffering in their beaks. I tried the tures sug- gested by one book and then those indicated by the other. Neither 'teem- ed to have any appreciable effect, and I began to doubt that the medicos knew what they were. talking about, "We lost only ono more man in the Atlantic, making six dead Altogether. But even with conditions gettitig bet- ter we were very short-handed and it was weary work. When we got up to Hatteras I could muster only eight fit men on deck at cite time, and it was just our leek to butt into a nor'wester. With only a few hands 1 could handle the ship but poorly and we were blown off a huadred mites Or SO, "it took us ten painful days to Work her back, and when we got a towbOet ott Cape 'Henry we had beeit 1$8 days on the paseage, the longest voyage this vessel ever mad'e. On renting Baltimore 1 sent tetanal men to *the hospital and felt somewhat like going there myself. THE ONLY MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES •••••••• •••••••• lMrs. II, Blanche, St. Pamphile, Que., writes: "I have obtained great results from the use of Baby's Own Tablets. They are the only medicine I know of that one can de- pend upon to promptly cure bowel and stomach troublea." The Tablets never fail to relieve the little one and besides the mother has the guar- antee of a government analyst that they are absolutely safe. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Bahia, a Great City. Bahia, once the capital of Brazil, is in many ways the centre of art and religion in that largest of South Arne - lean place.republies, She is the oldest of Brazilian cities, and many of these of I:er present inhabitants are desicended from a long line of natives of the Atter the puzzling custom of several Brazilian cities" the name ot Bahia is really not Bahia at all. The same thing is true of Para, for instance, known to its Inhabitants as Bemel. Bahia is really Sao Salvador. Bahia, or Sao Salvador, whichever you prefer, is a city chtefly notable for the number of Its public buildings and monuments. Some of them date back to Portuguese colonial days; others are very modern. The menu - menu includes numbers of very fine bronzes. After South American fashion. there are monuments of the principal rivers of Brazil, as well as to the glorioue events in Brazilian history, Also after the puzzling South Amer', cau fashion, these monuments are not labeled in outspoken fashion with the name of the event they commemorate. If a monument commemorates the victory of Brazil over Paraguay, it is not labeled "To the memory of those who fell in that glorious conflict," etc. It is simply labeled, "The Ilth of November." or "The 29t1u of June." You have to be well posted on loca1 history to appreciate Brazilian menu - menus, treAmt el3ndaohilit aot gitirnolDusiceal°f ptrlo* ' - ducts which pours out et the rich, mysterious interior into the maw of a hungry world. Cocoa and ccifee. rub. ber end cotton. rare woods, diamonds, strange bird skins. nuts and sugars, nreciong metals -all these and a hun- &red °there flow Into the bolds of waiting ellipse -Exchange. TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW The Eighth Annual Toronto' Fat Stock Show will be held at the Union Stock Yards, Toronto, on Friday and Saturday, December 7th and lith. The entries are larger than ever and the 191 7 show promises to be the best (wet held in the Dominion of Canada. Tbe judging will begin at 10 a.m. on Fri- day, 'December 7th. and the auction sale of show stock at 10 nail. on Sat- urday, December Sth. Do not tail to attend. If you do you will miss the finest exhibit of cattle ever shown in this Dominion. •---•••••••••••••••••••••••• Inequality of Punishnient by Fine. An anottaly in our jurist:rudence, limited, however, to the administra- tion or criminal law, is the evil et allowing the purchase of immunity from punishment, writes Franklin Taylor in Case and Comment. A pen- alty is imposed with the alternative of paying a fine. The rich man pays and goes free. The peer man is im- prisoned for not having the money. And even among those who can afford to thus purehaes immunity the result is most nnfair. because the punish- ment, instead of being commensurate with the degree of the offence, meets its severity according to the size or the defendant's pocketbook. To one man the amount is of no consequence, la not even a punishment. To another, because of his lowly position, a simi- jar amount may mean weeks of toil, hardship, privation and sufferbrig to himselt and his depeudents. ASSAM Teas for Economy Assarn teas are the strongest and richest grown. It is of these teas that Red Rose Tea chiefly eonsists.That is why it yields the ,very large number of 250 cups to the pound -at the cost of about a cent for five cups, and every cup rich, strong, delicious tea. Kept Good by the Sealed Package 114 • 0413 ECM HEALS SORE HANDS That itch, burn, crack, chap, and bleed, in a wonderfully short time in most cases. Soak the hands on re- tiring in a, hot • suds of Cuticu. ra Soap, using plenty a the Soap. Dry and rub Cuticura Ointment gently but freely into the bands for some time. Wear old gloves or softer bandages during night or remove surplus Ointment with soft tissue paper as preferred. Free SaMPle Each by Mall Per free sample each address poet -card: "Cutleura. ept, N. Beaten, V, S, A." 001A by dealers threughttut the world. Waking the Sleepers. In a dairy kept in 1646 it is assert- ed that "Allen Brydges has been chose to wake the sleepers in meeting, and, being much proud of his place, must needs have a fox Utile fixed to the end of a long staffe, wherewith he may brush the faces ot them that have naps in time of discourse." This energetic individual was likewise arm- ed with "a sharpe thorne" for the benefit of those who 'be most sounde,' There is a record of the use of this implement upon Mr. Tompkins, who was sleeping comfortably in the com. tier of his pew when Allen "thrust the staff behind Dame Ballard to give him a grievous prick upon the hand, whereupon Mr. Tempkins did spring much above the floor and with ter- rible force did strike his head against the wall and also to the great wonder of all, 'prophanalie' exclaim in a loud voice, 'Huss the woodchuck!' he dreaming, as it seemed, that a wood- chuck had seized him and bit his band." • • * Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff.* ......,•••••••••.***•••/• Liszt Fooled Them. Wrapped in his dressing gown and with feet encased in slippers, Franz Liszt was sitting comfortably one evening in his armchair ready for work and. inviting inspiration. On the floor above in the apartments of a banker a polsy musical soiree was in progress, Polonaises had succeeded waltzes and nocturnes had followed polonaises, when suddenly the door et the salon opened and Liszt entered still 'wrapped in bus dressing gown The astonishment ot the company may be imagined. 'With slow steps Liszt walked toward the piano, and the young key pounder who was sitting at It quickly left his place. 'Liszt at down at the instrument, carelessly swept his fingers over the keys as if to prelude, and then suddenly he shut down the cover and put the key in his pocket. .And inonediately. with the same tranquil air with which he had entered, he went out and returned ts Ills room, where he could work itt It 2 ease,. ISSUB 3N0. 48, 1917 4.-eeesiesee—seee •,==ot SITUATIONS VACANT. . , you CAN MANN $20 TO ;76 weekly, writing show cards at home. F,aelly learned by our alfilitile method. No eanVasSillg or soliciting. We sell your work. Write for Dutton, larli. AMERICAN SHOW CARD SCHOOL, afrl Yong* street, Toronto, .....,.._ . ......, . ..,...........- HELP WANTED. WANTED - PR0I3ATI0NERS. To 4,- train for nurses. AMAX. Wellandr1. Xfooltal, St. Catharines, Ont. 1 .........*.,.....*, O LAIN ES WANTEO DP ZD T L ADand light stewing et hems: whole or spare time; good itay; work tent Ana dietanco, charges paid. fiord etamp for Particulars. National Mena -factor - log Oa.. Atontrcal. MONEY ORDERS. PAX YOLTIt OTIT•OV-TOWINT A.CCoUNT3 * by Dominien lilxpreva Money Orders. Five dollars costs three cents. •-•"^-"--r-, ••••••._.•-•••-••-•-•-r•-a-"""""r•"'"'"'"-6 FLORIDA LAND. ali LORIDA ORANGE' AND TRUCK 1." land; two whiter • homes; popular east coast town; very desintble; front owner direct. O. II Stewart, 'alelbourne, Florida. • • MISCELLANEOUS. p A.111s1DES WANT Burealat-Catrr RE- & liahle churn and recover it all; it churns osier, quicker, sanitary; yon will be money ahead to put your other churn out, ars well as saving yourself art the hard 'work. If no dealer In town, or- der from Reliable Churn Co., 141 King street east, Toronto. FARMS FOR SALE. 1 nnACRES-PARTS Or LOTS 25 AND IA -Pull, in third concession, township of Halaimand, County of Northumber- land, 21i miles front Grafton, 8 miles from Cobourg: largo brick house, 10 rooms; large barns and poultry houses; 20 acres in nudes, 10 in cherrios; two wells and cistern; also running 'water in pasture; rural mail delivery and tele- phonc; prive $7,500; immediate pottsessioe: own• -r overeeaa. Douglas Penton. 10. ng atreet plot, Toronto, ..............„ .... DRS. SOPER & WHITE1 ..: , el C . . - ..% • 4 SPECIALISTS Piles, Eczema, Asthma. Catarrh, Pimples. oyepassie, Epilepsy, Rheumatism, Elkin, Kid. ney, Bloodi Nerve and Bladder Diseases. Call or send history fnr firm A dyke. Medicine, furnisi ed in tablet form. l'oure -111 am. to 1. pan. and 2 to 6 pm, Sundays -10 ajn. to 1 p.m. qt Coasultation Fro. tb. DRS. SOPER & WHITE 96 Toronto St., Tana*, ost. Please Mention This Paper. Minard's Liniment for sate every- where. Abandon rood Prejudices. Don't be finicky. Be willing to try new foods. Certain plentiful and nour- ishing foods widely used and enjoyed In one section are practically un- known in other sections of the coun- try. Learn to know all the good Into food ruts; thingspeop, en et, ot 0a eta% yongley. t insist on eating only the food they are used to and refuse to give a fair trial to others. This causes undue demand for certain staples, with resulting scarcity or high prices when temps are short. At the same time other valu- able foods may be relatively cheap and available. A striking instance ef this is failure fully to appreciate rice valuable source of starch -when potatoes are scarce and high. Anoth- er example le refusal in certain sec- tions to use anything but wheat as 11, bread stuff, when corn -a, valuable cereal svidele- used elsewhere as a breadstuff -is plentiful and relatively cheap. -Los Angeles Times. 9,9 LET a woman ease your suffering. / want Y011 to write, and let me tell you of mtsimple method of home treatment, eend you ten days' free trial, polo.- 0%,, paid, and put you in touch wait ecV1/4 • wotnen in Canada who will a.11/4(tio gladly tell What my method has done for them. 457 If you are troubled sensa- with weak, tired does, Wad • feelings, head. der weakness, ache, h a c constipation, ca - ache, bear. tarrhal conditions, (nig downeto pain in the sides, regu- larly or irregularl 405 bloating, sense of falling or misplacement of internal or- gans, nervousneas, desire to cry, palpitation, hot flashes, dark rings under the eyeo, or a loss of interest. In lift, write to Inc to -day. Address: Mrs. M. fawners, gro 8 Windsor, Ont. ao-+• Paste This On Your Mirror. If your boy gooa to the Front: }Tc lute twenty-nine chantes of coming home to one <khanc8 of being killed. Ile lute nInety..eight ehances of recov- ering from a, wcund to two chances of dying. Ro lute only one chance in 500 ot loa- the a, limn Ho will live fit 0 'years longer because ef ehysical training, It!: Is freer from disease in the army than in civil life. He has better medieal care at the front ilia» at home. In other wars from ten to fifteen mon filed from disease to one front bullets, In Ulla war one man (Iles from disease to every ten from Title war Is loss wastful of lite than any other in history. Only 10 per cent. of all Canadiana dis- dbird for -furtive service bas been physi. cally unable to engage in their former oc- cupations. If yottr hay is one of the 10 or cent. the governmont will re-educate him In another vocation at whielt ho can earn tt living. Minard's Liniment Curet Burns, Etc. Where Bye is Buried. Jeddah is a most important town for the entire human race, sipart from lacling the p eliptil lending place for pilgrims to the koty cities. Close beside the eity is burled no less a pergonage than Eve. The reputatl Mother of mankind, like a good Moslemah, lies with her feet totverd Mecca. Iter grime has gradually grown, and is now of huge ditnensions.—Westminster Gazette. The woman who knows it siecret almost u sure to eatkia as the ken that hag lust Mtditt eat. How Hard Rubber is Made. We're all of ue coming into contact with hard ruttier every day of our lives. Our fountain pen; our inkwell tops, the magneto parts and telephone receivers are ail matte oe hard rubber. But how is it made? Where does it differ from the mubbr in an automo- bile tire, for irstaece? We'll wager a guess that not ons man in a thousand knows. -Vulcanization consists in uniting sulphur with rubber to give it certain properties of elasticity, durability and, still imore impottent, make it to retain these same properties under all nor- mal conditions ot beat and cold. When a linger proportion of sulphur than is found in ordinary soft rubber is present and . vulcanization is con- tinued tor A much longer time we obtain as 0 result a substance vastly different in phyeical properties -hard rubber. Before vulcanization it is quite elastic, and we can mould it to suit our needs. -Exchange. Minard's liniment Relieves Neuralgia Arms of Washington. The arras which Washington used are heraldically described as follows: Argeht (silver), two bars gules (red), in chief three mullets '(sars) of the second, gules (red). The' crest: A raven with wings addorsed, sable (black), issuing out of a ducal coronet, or (gold). Althoegh these arms were used by Washington, the arms of the family in Yorkshire are materially different, bearing a lion, and being surmounted by a crest with an eagle, not a raven. Tile Yorkshire arms were the original arms, according to Albert Welles, whose "Pedigree and History of the Washington Family" gives with edify. Mg detail the descent of the Father of His Country from Odin, finst king of Scandinavia. Fifty-five generations were required to evolve George Wash- ington from Odin. • ••••••••••••••...........0.••••.••••••• Surveying Land. The art of land surveying owes ite origin to the fact that the Egyptians were unable to keep permanent mouu- ments on land which was overflowed every year by the Nile, tnder sueh eircumstanees it Immune necessary to have some means of reidentifying the various pieees t)f land. The Metal- ments and mathematical Methods of astronomer, with suitable modIfica- tams, were used by the Egyptians for land surveying The Brawn and Brain of a boy are not made out of books or sermons. They are built out of foods that supply in well-balanced proportion and in digestible form every needed element: . These ele- ments are found in Shredded Wheat Biscuit, a real whole wheat food which contains all the material for building the human body. A perfect food for growing youngsters. Its' '`!crispness encourages thorough chewine which develops sound teeth and healthy gums. Children like it and thrive on it. It is ready.ecx)ked and ready.to, eat, c)For breakfast or any meal with milk or cam. Made in Canada.