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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-12-06, Page 14I tie ectiter of the Vancauvee tenn bass the reputation of being eoluee hat or en ast,rouomer. Ile eau tell how many trillione ct nines the site is trom the earth. and, Ito can calcillate co a Milt a eeona tee speest tna elarattion race of any of the velestia. nealees ene now Wile us trgetto comet Which was discovered in leo, is approachingthe earth at a 'speed or 1,134,Z4U miles. per des. vent Oe vielete at its best next .1une It Is said that thle new celestial via - nor will be much more brill:a:it thee eiallefs comet, tile last 01! Om great meteor -tailed 'planets to swim into the visiou of humanity. lialley's comer, whieli appeared in 1911, wae diettp- POIntment. it was. pale and diaphan- ous, he says, •Canadian-13rit1sh recruits :n the United States are responding to the racrulting officer. In Chime:, 0,400 r-ne.n were registered as of Canittlau or British citizenship for the reg:stra- tion for the draft, In Illinole. there are 7,5$8. In Michigan thero are near- ly 30,000. These figures, securel from registration .reeords of men bet,vege el and 31, are .made public by Col. J. S, Deni, in oonnnand of the Britesh recruiting rills:don, western divisioa. Already 13,000 Men have eecn. recruit. ed in the United States for Canadian and British forces from men who are till citizens either of Great Britain or Canada. Chicagohas now iii for- ward to training camps in Canada near- ly three battallons, but will be ealled Lipari to supply even a larger numeer. 4 A strange procession passci along the streGts of New York the other day. It was composed of sixty-eight diplom- atic and consular•officials of ,Germany Zind. A.ustria-Hungary returning_ from their posts in China and the Far East, after having been accorded tho cour- tesy of safe conduct across the Ameri- can continent. All were dismissed from the Celestial Republic when China declared war on Germany. There Were many women • among them, one of whom was a. Chinese.. In the party were thirty Germans and thirty-seven Auetro- Hungarians. They were hurried to the water front to board a vessel for Norway. They were not allowed: a single glimpse of New York or Its water front. • ALLIED UNITY OF ACTION. • The German invasion of Italy has hrought the Allied Powers to the con- viction that they are 'fighting a losing battle on all fronts except the main or western front. The lack of unity of antitin isdenlareTd to be the 'cause of the trouble. Germany see) I to be in a position to strike whesever she wills. • %Slid strikes at Russia, ireavee her forces and strikes at Italy, jest after.the,•faeleion in which rshe struck: - at Zerbia and Roumania,' While she Is doing ,thla .the Allied Power§ are seemingly too busy elsewhere to co- ordinate their defence, or meet (ler- =any in •combination. Premier Lloyd G..eorge. has become dissatisfied - with this pleatof carrying onethe War, and • lie has, with the aid ot the President . Of Feauce and the King of Italy, or- ganized a war committee, 'whose duty will be to see, that the forees cd the various allies act on some pre -ate ranged plan. Lloyd George, in Paris, epoke plainly along this line. There was too much red tape and "suscepti- bilities," which hav.g been standing in the way of co-ordination of plans. • These naust be got rid of, the Premier said. It is hinted that there is an intrigue , - On foot to withdraw Gen. Haig and I, Gen, Robertson from their positions. ' But this is mere lseareay. The Lan- newsp4ters. are somewhat, alarm- ed over this proposition of ,ranning the war by c.ommittee, and the Prem - hr will have some explaining to do tvhen'he gets home from Paris. There Is evidently something wrong. Ger- Many shotilti not be in a position to choose her plan of campaign and tun roughshodover the r half of Europe le iaer own .eweet 1 l'he tracks led them parellel to the general direction of the river, cutting tieroee from poiet to point of the wil- lows on the outside of eaeh bend. On the liorizon ahead was the Pine -elan ridge that bounded the lower end of the lake. JaelgICnife-eNlouutain rose over it, The sea of grass was dazzling 111 the sunlight. Half an nour's swift walking gav them no glimpse ahead of thei quarry. "Waste too mach time talking, Bald Bela, "Well, you did the most of it," re torted Joe. It was evident from the direction o Afterward a dleceeelen arose so to their aisposition between the two boate, The rowboat wao not big en- ough to carry them all. "Lay h1n In the dugout," Bela said indifferently. "I paddle him." "No you dont," said Joe quiekly, "He goee with the men." All right," taid 'Bela, shrugging. 0 "Yeti ceme wit' me." r This arrangement pleeeed Joe very well, and by it Bela eecceeded In part - e leg hire from 'Salm The two boats proceeded together _ dawn the emoothly tlowing, willow - bordered atream. Shand end Jack f took turtle at evulling the larger craft, the tracks tbei Sam wee taking eau; This ese,-fineed them all. They burst out in angry eeclaniations. It was not, however, for wilat they thought Bela had suffered. Each man was thinkleg of the wrong Sam had done him, To ward Bela their tittitnde haa subtl changed. She was now- a damaged article, though still desirable, Their awe of her was gone. "I'll grind my heel in his face for this," snarled Joe. "Pil kill him elow!" "Come on!" :tried Shand. "We're toeing tune. He can't have got far." Bela scrambled out of the clugou '1 tak' you where he Is," elle said, eagerly. "I can track him in the grass I can't cateighim myself. But you go give him to me for punish," "We'll attend to that for you, nay girl," said Jack, grimly. "No blood!" she cried. "If he Is kill for cause of me I get a bad name around. A giel can't have no pad name." They laughed with light scorn "You're done for already," Joe said. "Nobody knows him," said Jack, "He'll never be missed, We'll take good care he aia't found, neither." "The police will know," insisted Bela. "They can smell blood. Bare - by maybe you mad at each °Ver. Ono will tell." This was a shrewd shot. The three scowled at each other furtively. There was no confidence between them, "Well—what do you want to do?" asked Jack, uneasily. "I give him to the police," stated Bela, eagerly. "They eorain up the river now. Come every year this tam. Then all will be known. It is not my fault he tak' me away. I good girl." Maybe she wants to get him to mar- ry her," suggested Joe. to keep under cover of each eoint of Hee willows until he reached the next one. Each point afforded his pursuers a new survey ahead. Not until they had walked another half-hour at that gruelling pace were they in time to see a black "spot jtest about to disappear ahead. "Down!" cried Bela, and they dropped full length in the grass until it had gone, Bela, springing up, led the way at a run aeross the intervening me% She had to hold hersell back tor the men Joe was too heavy to be a runner, and Jack was beginning to -feel- the handi- cap of his years. . Nearing the willows, she held up her hand for eautien. They ranlightly in the grass. Neither man could see or hear anything; nevertheless, 13ola in- dicated by sigma that the one they etenglet was justaround the bushes. At the last moment ,she held back and let them go first. Sam, having deeittest thatthe clanger of immediate pursuit was over, -was sitting on the ground eating his lunch when, without warning, Jack and Joe fell on hari, bowling him over on his back. • He struggled desperately, but wae, helpless under their combined weight. Joe, with a men% lifted his clenched hand over Sam's face. Big Jack held it. "Not while he' o down," he » mut- .tered. Bele, following close, drew Sam's handn together and bound his 'wrists with her strips of hide. Elam, seeing her, cried out: "You've aold me out again! I might have knewn it!" Belk fearing his words—might start Jaok thinking things over, cried out layalartcally: "I got you nowt You Wok you run away, eh? You done vael You laugh ev'en. I cry . I fix you for that! I put you where you ean't hen no more girls!" To Jaelt and Joe it seemed natural nuder the eireurentances. Sara glared at hey in angry emazement, and open- ed Des month to reply. But thinking Leiter of it, he set hie jaw and kept quiet, He submitted to superior force, and they Immediately started back on the long walk to the boats. There was little laid en youte Ohly Joe, unable to contain his rancor, occasional -1Y berst out In brutal re-viling. Sam onlied at him More than once Big fade -wee ealled on to restrain Joe's flea "A bargain is a bargain," he re- maded him, 1301a, bringieg up the rear, glared at the haek of Joe's head with pive sav- age net:eel. Whey Ieuy 0f them chanced to look et her, her face was Wholly steltd. lnaok Selena's faee ligetened as they brought Sem over the bank. "S> It was on the level," he re- mitrIssel. It we new some time pest noon, and the word, was given to eat before emberiting. Sam , with hie bound hands Is his lap, sat on a groat sod *bine bed fullen from the bank above, enwited,i-ey-!tehed the others turiottely and He 1104 eooled down, So many Wage bad heppened tO bite during the is tare !days that his capacity for Alger and itetonidlinient was pretty enal ologi ile. He :IOW felt more like teptetator than the leading man in he ante a. Melly Bela, with a highly India eyelet air, carhe to him with 0, plate t Med which ch e put on kb e knees, idemtly he was expected to feed tiraeelf no beet he totild With his elide tied. Bela, avoiding hie eye, 'Mewed swiftly: 'I your friend, ,Sain„Tus' bora. Wait and Sam laughed scornfully. The Other tGit loeked over and Belahad to go seek. slam had ne otapunctioil egaitist totting their food, Stetting them all, lke telly intended' to got the better of them yet, Meatevrhile he Was wonders • and Bela loafed cu her padclle that they might keep up with her. The view was as oonnued and un- varying vs the 'banks of a eanal, ex- cept that esanale commonly are etralght, while thla waterconrsd tweeted like Archimedee' secrew, The Y only breaks in •the endlece panoettna of cutebanks, mud -flats, willows, and graes were the occasional little Inlets, gay with aquatie flowere. Bela was nteet at home kneeling In the stern of her dugout. Joe, Bit- ting oppcalte, watched her graceful action with a kindling eye. "Drop 'behind a bit," he whispered. ( "I want to talk to you. Are you lis- tening?". She eeemed not to have heard. Neverthelessee the other boat drew a.wdy a little. • "Look here,"• Joe began with eyelet he intended to be an ingratiating air, "this is a bad .buainess for you. I'm not eaying I !blame you. Just the eame your price has gone down, see? Do you get me?" Bela lowered her eyee and watched the little .whirlpoolo in the train. of her paddle. "1 un'erstane" ehe mur- inured. "After an affair like thio men look on a girl ae fair garne, I ain't saying it's right, but We so. You want to look out for thoee other fellows now." "I look out," ailed Bela. m "Come with e and I'll keep you from them," Joe went on, trying to epeak careleasly; meanwhile hie eyea were burning, "Cf couree, you can't expect me to marry you now, but I'll keep you • in better (style than" you've ever known. There's nothing mean about me." Bela raised her eyes- and dropped them quickly. There was a spark in their depths that would have warned a man lees vain than Joe. She said nothing. "Well, Is it a go?" he .breathlessely demanded. "I don't know," said Bela, felover.Y. Her voice gave nothing away. "I got get married If I au." "Who would marry .you . now?" cried Joe, "I don't .know. Somebody, I guene. Pretty bear every man I eee want marry me." Joe sneered. "Not now! Not when this gets about." 'eMaybe the big man want marrY me," she suggeeted. "Or the l'‘atist.k one." Joe laughed scornfully. At the Elaine time a horrible. anxiety attacked lain. Those two were old; the couldn't af- ford to be so particular aa he. One of them might— "Any 'ow I not go wit' you now," said Bela. "Plenty time." "You'd bettor look out for your- aelf!" Joe buret Out, "or you'll get in worse than you are already, You'll be Garry- then." "All right," elle returned calmly. Joe sat tuning., Anger and balked desire made his comely, brutal face look alyeurd and piteous. It was like a, wilful child denied the moon. Joe eould _ never resiet his emotions. Whether or not Bela had guessed It, it was bound to come. -"Oh, hell!" he cried, "Look here, If Jaele er Shand otter to marry you, I'll match them, see? Is that a go? You'd. sooner have me, wouldn't you? I'm young." 'Bela neither entiled nor frowieed, "I think about it," she said. "No you don't!" he eried. "You've get to promise now or 111 withdra;w it!" "I tell you someeing," oiled Bela, concealin.g the wicked oparkle in her eye. "I not want the 'big man. Not want the black man either. I tell you, ie I marry, any of the ehree, tak' "Y'I°'urst*Cl °°eatisfied," he cried. "By GeOrgel Ceited Joe sWallowed it whole. I'd like to bind 'it with a kiss!" "Look out, you turn us over," geld Bela coolly. "The water &nil cold."' ' Joe .was quite carried away. "You beauty!" lie cried: "Your 'skin be like cream. Your hair is like black velvet. You sit there as ;proud .as a leading lady, Can't wait for you!" "I ain't 'promise not'ing yet," 'said Bela warningly. Johnny Gagnon's plate was at the etrategle point on Musgtiesepl, where the foreet ended and the meadowa be- gan. In the Winter -time -the freighters left the ice here, and headed etraight acrose the bottom lands for the lake. Gagnon kept a stopping -house for the freighters. It .wass the.last house on the route to the head of the lake seventY-five miles away, extepting the shack at. Nine -Mile Point, -whiell had never been occupied until Big Jack and his earty Canape(' there. Beeldess beinfe a strategic point, it wee ono of those natural sites for a homeeteaa that men pick out when there Is a 'whole land to chbose from. The batik r011ed lip gradually from the Water's edge, Red Gagnon's; whole establishment wee revealed from the rived—dwelling, bunk -house, etable— all hunt Of logs- and crouching love on the ground ea if for wernith. The buildings had been. there So long they had beconie a part of the landscape. The log wane Were weath- ered to a eilvery gray, and the vigor - (nasty sprouting sod rode repeated the note of the surrounding fgraes. On this particular afternoon there was something afoot at Johnny Orig. mabee, The different members of the large tamely were Mining about like ants in e. dieturbed hilt. A cloud of dust was !setting from the hoes° door, Istenaelled by a reselute broom. Innumerable nails of water were being Carried up from the river, and wihdowe foci children evaehed impar- tially, One of the big boye was bune. ing rubbieh; another was making a landing -stage of logs on the muddy shore. In any other place such a epasin of !wino -cleaning need exeite nee o. mark, but among the Intopy,so.aucky natives of the nerth it Is pOrtettetts. OlditelY feetinal wile imminent, Sueli wae. the sight that Vet the. MS of those in the IneWhofit and the dugout tie they tame around the bend abeve. Johnny Gagnon himeeli Wile thrilling down to Meet theni. Be ; r °ad anel, Strength. Remember that the food you take one day Sujipliee the strength you put forth the next. It le. then a mistake to take a heavy meal on the day of heavy work. The time to take it is the day berore, "Mee stabldmen know th:s, and when a horse has a long day's drive before hint they give him ott:y what 18 trilled a "eheck feed' it veey light meal, to be followed at niglit with a heavy one. So there are two good reaaons for a inan's.not eating much on the day of stress. It adds nothing to his strength on that day, and "the process of diges- tion calla the blood to work at the etertitsch when every ounce cf it le needed at the brain. : a Wonderful Memories. elichelangelo had on, his lips the t greater part of the neetrY of Nte a ana Petrateh, end Galileo could re- r peat most cf ea•losto, Tetrarcli and o Beret, auatus Leipsius knew 'racitus by 'heart and eould repeat atiy paasage I celled for. Locke etatee that Paseai knew the who:e'er the Bilee by heart. 1 Liebnitz, wen in old age, ceuld -repeat nearly all the poetry of Vcrgil, word. for word. Sauliderson knew' by hear' Iiorace's odes, Cicero's "Of& -e" an a large part of :Juvenale and PyridinI Person, the great English scholar, ib'.Mare(' that he could tepeat ,"Pederlelt taudom" front beeihuitig to ceet. • .- "Pco. won't you do comethin' tor in Mettle and reel" "What is It you 1(148watit?' "Won't yoit tell us the Wail. ill Mel tales net nye yon tell her "— Vi4tc.tinere Allierican 4t. g what had taken phiee between ihem. Ile eetiid not interpret the re. tione between. Bele and the three hat. They were apparently nelther itro.iy no Minnow'. ,1 Wgiit,...0.000,4**1.4404. 4s.. Wee little mart, purely Indian fea. ture and caleratg, but betraying a vi' veeity euggeeted the Vrencil aneeeter wile had provided niett with eername. The surname taeta longer than Meat white eliaracterietice, is •a prized noese(ston up startle If a man liae a tiername he votes. J plumy Witt) a Vi -V401011$ Indian, Such etioznalice are not uncommon on the bOrder of the wilderaese. His eioe-black eyes were prone to snap and twinkle, and his lipe to part over dazzling teeth, llis hands helped out ills tongue in the ininunnorial Latin style. Though he was the tatter of fonr strapping sons and several marriageable glrle, not to speak of the snialler fry, time Ihilan, tlileft surprisiugly few naarks on Johnny lield up his halide at the siesta of Sam, bound, He Was delighted to have the; additional excitement added to his brimmiug gore, • "1,Val a prisoner:" he cried, "Good; we will have a trial, You must tell me 01, Yon come back juet right. Big tam! Big tam! Never was so much fun in my house before!" "What's ttp?" asked Jack "Big crowd comin' to morrow!" replied the excited ,eolinny Gagnon, "Tracking up rapids to -day, Send a fellow up ahead ask my wife bake Plenty bread," "What all is it?" • Johnny counted them off on idn s fi- gem "Bishop Lajeunesse and two priests. Every year come to marry and baptize, That's three, Pour, In. (Ilan agent, ce.me pay Indians gov'ment money by the treaty, Got big bag money. Five, gov'ment doctor, He loolt at him fer sick. It is in the treaty. Six, seven, Sergeant Coulson and 'not'er policeman, They go round wit' agent and ask all if any man do wrong to him. That is seven white nn cominn 13ut wait! But wait! There is something else beside!" "What?" asked Jack. "A. white woman!" announced Johnny, triumphantly. Bela frowned and stole a side glance at Sam, The -men having lately come from the land of white women were not especially impressed. "Only one white woman here be- fore," Johnny wen e on. "Her corn y'ny trader's wife, This her sister. Call Mees Mackall. Her old, but got no osban' all. That is Nanny thing, t'Ink. Boys say all tam talk, laugh, nod head. Call her chickadee -woman." Bela looked relieved at. title descrip- tion. Sam, hearing of the expected corn pany, smiles. Surely with the law axed the church at hand, an lionest'man had nothing to fear. Ile glanced a Bela a little triumphantly, but she made her face inscrutable to him. Somewhat to his ,surprise, he per ceived that Jack and the other men were also pleased at the news. There was something here he did not under- stand. CHAPTER XIV. Sam, tied hand and foot, was con- fined in the bunkhouse at Gagnon's. All the heavy hours of his imprison- ment were charged up against Bela, and by morning the score was a heavy one. Big Jack or one of the other Men was always in the room or at the door, and Bela had e o opportunity to approach the prisoner. Bela slept in the main house with the Gagnon girls. I3efore the general turning in that night, Big Jack and Black Shand each contrived to separ- ate her from the others long enough to make a proposal similar to Joe's. In each case Bela returned the same answer. Next morning they were all early astir. The Gagnon boys put on clean blue -gingham shirts and red woollen sashes, and the girls tied their sable locks with orange and cerise ribbons. The cheeks of both boys and girls bore a high polish. SquawGagnon tucked up lace win- dow curtains for a final touch and brought out a square of carpet for the bishop to rest his reverend feet upon. To this laouseheld it was the greatest day in the year, and the sun was shin- ing like the shiniest-theeked Gagnon of them all. The younger children kept .careful watch on Sam. He was an attraction fortuitously added to the big show. Johnny Gagnon himselE was the most excited of the family. 'You come jus' right!" he was con- tinually exclaiming to jack. "They stop all day now. Have trial in my house. Maybe stay to -night, too. I wish we had a fiddle. We couldegdance. But we can slap and sing any'crr." The girls giggled delightedly at this suggestion. Each one of the white men thought: "Dance at my wedding, maybe!" and glanced covertly at Bela. Bela looked out of the window. "What! dance with the ' bishop Idin?eleald Jack, affecting to be scan - "Sure!" said johnny. "Bishop Lajounesse no long -chin religeeux. Bishop Bay let yo'ng folks have a good time, Laugh and mak' fun wherever he go. Ile Is a men!" Early as they were, they no sooner finished .breakfast than they heard a shrill hail from down river. Every soul about the place, excepting Sam, dropped what he was about and scam- pered down to the water's edge, Presently around the bend below appeared the traekleig crew, slipping in the ooze, • scrambling over fallen trunks, plunging through willows. Be - hied _them trailed the long, thin line that must be kept taut, whatever the obetructioe, Finally the yak boat poked its nose lazily inte, view like a gigantic &Mk. The other four of the crew stood upon the Cargo with long poles to fend her off the shore, •tied the steerenian was mOunted on a little platforne astern wielding an immense Sweep. In the waist stood the passengere, As the celebrities were recogrileed a ehOut went» up from the shore. There was the bishop with red bet - tone, and the ordinary priests with black, Thel'e Were the police in their gay, eeariet tunics; the Indian agent with his bag of motley, and the doctor with his bag of thole. Finally there Was the blue hat with ostrich feathers that was already fatuous Ili the country. Defer° the stIrnMer was out, newS of that hat travelled all the way to the Aretie Ocette. Any one of Urea° pas- sengers would have inade a gala day for johene Gagnon's family. To lieve their! all at once was almoSt more than they eould take in. The traeking crew Was on the ealia. elte batik, Collitig up 'their lines and jumping aboard, all hands poled her across. The Whop, gathering hie eas- eock ww.....*aiet, was the flret to I5» aehore. (To be continued.) Take care of the present end the Mere Will take tare of itself, 10•00111.0 QUESTIONS TO ANSWER. gee fiow Well Posted You Are and Figure Out Your Percentage. Raymond A, 'Cent, assistant profes- sor of education and principal of the 'University nigh school, gave, an ex- amination to the junior and senior classes ot the College Of Education to tet their general knowledge. Fifty question swore asked, as fol - Name the vice-president of the Un- ited States; governor' of Minnesota, ruler, with title, ef Germany; United States Senators from Minnesota. Locate Petrograd,eWatican, Colis- eum, Parthenon, Golden Horn, Golden Gate. Who was the "Little Corporal?" Played the harp before Saul? Invent- ed the telegraph? Discovered the Pa- cific Ocean? Wrote nine symphonies? Received the Ten Conimandments? What is the motto of the United States? Is the Triple Entente? Is the blood forcilig organ? Ist he centre of the nervous system?' Is the normal temperature 'of the body? Is the max- imum weight carried by the parcel post?' Who wrote "Captain Courageous?" "Treasure Island?" "The Virginians?" "The Virginian?" "Franklin's Autobi- ography?" "Paul Revere's Ride?" Complete the following: "Fools rusk In"-- "It's a long way"— "Give nee liberty"— "What is so rare"— Why are the following famous: Alexander Graham Bell? Father Dam- ien? Daniel Boone? Edward McDow- ell? Florence Nightingale? Fritz Nreister? Mary Pickford? In what books lo the following characters appear: Aladdin? Shy- lock? Little Eva? Rowena? Some fell as low as 16 per cent. on the examination, and the general av- erage was not high. The same test was given to high school students, and' they fell still lower in percentages earned. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited, Have used MINARD'S LINIMENT for Croup; found nothing equal to it; sure cure, CHAS. E. SHARP, Hawkshaw, N. B., Sept. 1, 1905. $35,000 of Ambergris in a Lump. A. prize lump of ambergris secured by the whaling brig Viola is reported by Capt. John A, Cook, of Province - ton, owner of the vessel. The chunk of ambergris taken from a sperm whale captured lu,et south of Cape Hat- teras weighed 121 pounds, and was valued at $35,000. Each man of a crew of sixteen will have a share in the prizo. Another old whaling barque of tiae New Bedford fleet returned to port recently after a four -years' cruise, This was the Wanderer, built at Mat- tapoisett in 1878 and still apparently as sound as the day she was launched. The Wanderer had pretty good luck on her return cruise. In all she took 6,200 barrels of sperm oil, valued at $160,000, Most of this was sent home via thq Azores and Barbadoes. Capt. Antoine Edwards, eommander of the vessel, fig- uredthat an average catch of $40,000 et year was 'not so bad these days. ••• • Minawrhel'esreL. iniment for sale every. WALLOON AND FLE1VIING. • The report coming from Amsterdam to the effect that the Gernaan Geyer- nor•General of Belgium is to divide that country's Ministries of Agricul. ture, Industry, Art and Science and Labor into Flemish and Walloon niiii- ietries elicited from the United Stetes National Geograplaie Society the fol- lowing defining territories in the two districts: "In point of population the Walloon diatrict of Belgiura is considerably smaller than the Flemish, the lateet mete showing Soule 3,000,000 Wal- loons and 4,000,000 Flenainge, but in area the Walloons have a Blight ad- valitage. The advautage in population grows out of the fact that three of the four cities of the kingdom which When ef more than 100,000 inhabitants— Brussels, Antwero and Ghent—are in Flemish territory, while Liege alene Ilea south of the roughly drawn imaginary boundary line running in a, southwesterly direction front Aix -In - Chapelle (Gerraan, Aachen) to Lille. "The terra Walloone is used to desig- nate those Belgians Who epeak French I* Or. 4 French dialect, while the rum. tog* are those who speak Dutch Or a Dutch dialect. Deeignated ea pro. vines's, the Welloons are in the maixt confined to Halueeit, Namur, X.Ilege, telltenberg and a part of Brabant, 00111 - Prising en area 1004 flee timeas lerge as the State of Rhoee Island, while Irlenalell territory apprOeheateit the area of the State ef Connecticut, "In the veins of the Walloons gine a strata of Celtic, blood, for thee' are the .desitexidents of the Delano of Jullue Oaeser's• day, They exchanged their °WA language for that of the Latins. "During the fierce religioue confliete of the sixteenth eeettitry the Walloone fie a rule aided with the $Paniards alin Woe the epithet of 'The alalcontentea In feet, they furnished the Catholle Monarch with Many of his mercenaries during the days When 'the Duke of Alva, Don John of Austria, and Grand Con:inlander Reetteeens were endeavor. lag' to put down revolt in the. •Low Countries, . • "The ,Walloons are generally ac- credited with more vivacity and nerv- ous energy than their Flemish coun- trymen, and In a country where Indus. try and thrift are universal character-. !sties a comparison.witth, awards the palra for thee° virtues. to the Walloons is perhaps not odious, AMotig the lower classes, hOWevere the Flemings are said to excel their brunette com- patriots la pereonel neatness, . "Among the most distinguished Wal- loon men of letters in the aniddle ages was the famous ctronieler Frolosart." THANKFUL MOTHERS ...M11,10••••••••101.1. Mrs. Willie Therlault, Pacquetville, N. B., says: "I am extremely thankful that I tried Baby's Own Tablets for my baby. Through their use baby thrived wonderfully, and 1 feel as if I cannot recommend them too highly." Baby's Own Tablets break up colds and ,simple fevers; cure eonstipation, toile' and indigestion, and make teeth- ing easy. In fact, they cure all the minor ills of little one. They are sold by medicine dealers or by man at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine CO., Brockville, Out. • • a FREE PROM BEETL.ES. Spitsbergen is the Only Land in the World Without Them. One of themost amazing things •in natural history is the way in which beetles have triumphed in the strug- gle for existence, says the Popular Science Monthly. Of all creatures they are by far the most numerous, no few- er than 150,000 distinct species having been identified—ethree !Ames the num- ber of backboned animals - Beetles are found practically every- where— in tb.e frost bound tracts of Iceland and in the hot desert sands at Africa, on the highest mountains, un- der the ground and as fossil in the deepest strata, on land and in water, on. plants, among stones and in wood and earth and even in the very cra- ters of volcanoea But there is one pla,ce where no beetle has yet been found. 11 is the inhospitable land of Spitzbergen, to the north of Russia. Here are found the mammals, birds, fish, molluslue crustaceans, a few insects of varied species and many spiders, but not a single beetle, While other insects have succeeded In soMe way in migrating from the mainland, the beetles have apparently been unable to cross the wide, icy waters. Um than 45.000 clerks in England have been replaced by women, While other insects have succeeded In Some way in migrating from the mainland, the beetles have apparently been Unable to cross the wide, ley waters, *. Mlnard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. Old Time London Ruffians. At the beginning of tb.e eighteenth century a number of ruffianly young xnen of the higher classes—called Swift "a race of rakes that play the devil about the town every night"— known as "Mohocks," infested Lon- don, sallying out drunk in the streets, carrying short clubs loaded with lead at both ends and perpetrating shame. ful cruelties upon peaceful paeserehy, 'wantonly wounding and disfiguring the men and subjecting all alike to at- rocious Insults. Leeky says that mae trons inclosed in barrels were rolled down the steep and stony Snow hill. Watchmen were unmercifully beaten, and their noses were But. Coaehes and chairs were overturned on rubbish heaps, mid country gentlemen visiting the theaters had to be aceompanied by their armed retainers as if In thne of ware—Pearsen's Weekly. Antiquity a Tennis, Tennis is as old as the Tattle, basic- ally speaking., though it has under- gone many changes for the better. It was played by the alreeks and laomane under the name of "sphairisis" and "pita." As "paume" it is mentiorled in the Arthurien romances and in the earliest records of the dark ages, In the fifteenth century it enjoyed great favor in France and in England frona the sixteenth century to the present time. "Now, Willie, supposing you aeon dentally stopped on a gentleman% foot, What yould you say?" "I evotild say, 'Beg pardon, eir.'" "And if the gentleman gave you a, dirae for beteg polite, What would you de?" "I woind step on the other and say `Beg pardon again,"---03oeton Tranecript. YOU WILL MISS SOMETHING • If YOU PAIL TO ATTEND TR EIGHTH ANNUAL TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW UNION STOCK YARDS TORONTO MORE ENTRIES THAN EVER ElEPORE, INCLUDING THE BEST THAT ONTARIO PRODUCES0 Jealging cohirnelieett it) a.m. Friday, Decotriber 7th. Auetlett Sale Of Show Stock 10 A.M. Satueday, beoptuber-Sth. • Yob • if , 1 no, yr r.), FOR SALE Book and Stationery Business IN HAN/in:MN Ettabillihed 12 years in good central location. Will be sold at a sacrifice. Good reasons for selling. Apply to THOS. FRENCH go JAMES STREET NORTH HAMILTON, ONT. Wouderrful Invention. Themes A, Edison waa talking about time of the queer anti-submar- ine, inventions that had been submit- ted to the national defence committee. "The best I can 1say for them," he declared, "is that they remind me of the lunatic. A lunatic in an asylum onee said to a visitor: "'1 aiul a lunatic, mister. I'm as wale as you are. I'm an inventor, am. I've got an invention that is going to make me a second John D Here, let me explain it to you.' "The lunatic took out a pencil and au old envelope aud drew a bird cage. 'There you etre,' he said. 'That's the invention. Just a cage, an ordinary bird cage, but you'll observe that on this side there's a door with a heavy iron knob, and on the opposite aide there's another door, also with a beavY knob. "'Now, then, you see, we take this bird cage and we put her on a bronze Pedestal 17 lee( high, the pedestal standing on a marble slab. We place a 17 -foot ladder on the right side of the pedestal, leading up to this door, and a 17 -foot ladder on the other side, lead- ing to the opposite door. "'Now, what happens? A fly comes along and climbs up the right-hand ladder. It opens the right-hand door by means of an iron knob, walks through the cage, onens tho left-hand door by means of the other iron knob, and starts down the ladder on the other side. And that's where we get him, sir.' "The inventor in hie excitement gave it wild leap into the air, " 'Yes, sir, that's where we get him,' he yelled. 'That's where the inventor conaes M. That's where I make money. You see, mister, the eighth rung is missing in this second ladder, but the fly don't know it, and be falls on the marble slab and breaks hie neek."— Exchange. Min'd's Liniment Curet Dandruff. GET BACK TO NATURE. Live the and Win Hea ness. The movem o nature and sinaple life f ered to the high octet o but health experts d v found it to be theo h living or livingday. They healtatan:110:taitiosifbrnept: 0:21 goontei: et have adopted it as a. safe road to health. They say that a return to nature moans good dlgestlom'oound sleep, a clear head, a placid mind, contentment and joy to be But first,they say, it means getting close to nature—living out of doors as molt as poesible by working, playing and resting in the open air and, above all, by sleeping in the open air. "Out- door elewing Ls tho beet life preserver known." It means also going to the ear-. den and orchard foe your bill of fare— tomatoes, lettuce, celery, spinach, tur- ULM beans, corn, peas, melons, berries, apple,,, peachee, plums and all other fruits end green atuffs untouched by tire. Tho real value of adopting the eimPle life, according to the health experts, lines In the pleasure we find in living it To do it grudgingly or without knowing and appreciating its benefits we botch it and fail, but to love health more than ap- petite and seek it is to have health, com- fort, efficiency and a long life. "Start the itimple life—begin it to -day," is the motto of this health movement.— North Carolina State Board of Health ) 4 • II, RELIEF AT LAST I want to help you If you are suffer- ing from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Film I can tell you how, in. your own home and without any. one's asaistauce, you can apply the best of all treatments. PILESTUATEDAT Melt I promise to aencl yea a FILM trial a the new absorption treatment, and references from your own locality If you will but write and ask. I assure you of immediate relief, Send no money, but tell others of tient offer. Address MRS. M. SUMMERS, I3ox 8, Windsor, Ont. ea. _ ite You're 'Wealthy. DOn't worry lut becaute you're poor; If you were rich roted worry more— That's cert In. Yeti get your three square meals a day, Yen couldn't eat more anyway— 'Mout Wallin'. Don't think tho fates have been unkhul, There's maey millionaires you'll :Ina— CoMplainth'. There's lot -of men with so -celled means, Who'd like to wear your old bItto jeane— 'Tliout strainin'. We fellows In our working clothes Can shako 'am when tars whistle blows-* 'Thout trottin'. The bees with dello* to your dime, Yon bet he's working overtime— . Aeld Isweattre. There's titers who'd give up every sou et the could etand n 'strong like WOU—* end healthy, You've gat your children and your wife, You're love and happiness And life— You're evealtbr. ,4611674111,0113. . 4.41. Minard's liniment Relieves Neuralgia Trite Eloquetoe. True eloquence, Indeed, does not cornea In speech, It cannot be brought from far. Leber and learning May toil for it, but tiler Will toil for it in vain. Words and phreees may be Marshalled in every way, but they tatirtOt compliee it, tt Met censist In the Man, let the Subject and in elie ottaeloh, Alfeeted eteaseien, intenee eeprossion, the pomp of declaelatieri, ell ratty inspire ta it. They eattlibt reach it, It totems, if it Cornell, a all, Illee the mitbreakieg of it fetuitain from the earth Or the busting torth fires 01'41714 waive toroto–w ter, Of volettnie With Zontelleehe, ISSUE NO, 49, 1017 SITUATIONS VACANT. VOLT CAN MAKE ipa TO f14 weekly, writing show earde et xienee. Etteily learned by our siMplat teethed. No eanvassing ar solleitIng. We selj mar Work. Write for 'Anton - !arc AMERICAN SHOW CARD SCHOOL. 801 )(ono Street, Toronto, HELP 11f-ATITED—. WANTien PROBATIONBIIS TO 'Jr train for nurses. A.pply, Wellam4r4 Ifospital, JR. Catharines, cut, le °NEN( ORDERS. lerIfEN ORDERING (loops BY MAIL, ," Sent) a Dominion EXprees ldgneY Order, FLORIDA LAND, LORXDA ORANGE AND TRUCt< 4 land; two winter heines: popular Cast coast toWn: very desirable; from owner direct. C. ff. Stewart, Melbourno, Florida. IVIISCELLANEOUS, ARMERS Vt'A.NT BETTBR—CtleT lege 4 liable churn and recover it all; it chums pct$Ier, quicker, sanitary; you tele be money ahead to put yogi, other churn out, as well as saving yourself all the hard work. If no dealcr In town, or- der frem Reliable Churn Co., 141 King etreet east, Toronto. • Pe AW FURS WANTED—A.1E40 BEEP 4' hides, tallow, wool, sheepskins., hovel hides, ealfskins; reference. the. Bank ef Montreal; I hatre bought furs since 18E:: ships me yours. Henry O'Brien, opposite Y.M,C.A., 'Mira Street, 0011m:wood, OM. PATENT YOUR INVENTIONS I Some simple device you thought 61 for your own tie' may be valuable. Booklet of information free. STANLEY Ree'd .Pate.nt Atty. LIGtiTrOOT Ltuns*den Build:ea, tomato. - • , • FARMS FOR SALE. ••• -mnACRES—PARTS OP LOTS 2.5 AND -tcoueil, 10 third concession, township of Haelimand, County of • Northumber- land, miles from Orafton, 9 milee from Cobourg; large brick house, 10 rooms; large barns and poultry liGUSSS; 20 acres in ai.ples, 10 in eherries; two welland cistern; also. running water in pasture; rural mail delivery and tele- phone; price 87,500; immediate possession; owner overseas. Douglas Bonton, 10 Ring street east, Toronto. • .111,T A SACRIVICE-4,000 ACRES LCM- ber, ties and ranch: .3,000 acres !um- bra and Ping lands; in Buckley and Lalceise Valleys, A.cldress, Box 789, Prince Rupert, 14. C, 4ACTIES t4,6C0—TWELNE MILES 1°4' front London on a gravel road; two storey brick house; bank barn; half a mile to school; two miles to station; great bargain. 15 acres of wheat looking well. Choice warm sand loam. T. A., Follicle, 39 Victor Street, London, One POULTRY WANTED. A A. POUL LTRY WANTED Or AL t» We pay highest price. Write for complete price list. Waller's, 090 Spadina Ave., Toronto. WE1 HAVE THE BEST MARItET IN vE 'Western Ontario for good live or dreased ,noultry. We supply crates and remit promptly. Get our prices before selling, C. A. Mann & Co., London, Ont. WILY OEOIL RHODES. The Way He Discovered the Dia- mond Fields of South Africa, IIave you ever heard how diamonds were discovered in South Africii? And did you kaow that Cecil Rhodes was the man. who made the discovery? But here is the story; A. German trader in skins and ostrich feathers from the interior, with Pietermaritburg as, his frohtier station, drove Into Cape Town one afternoon. He had been, two months bringing in his wagons, each drawn by ten yoke of long -horned oxen, from the frontier trading post named. This trader, among other curious things, had a dozen or so very brit- liant pebbles, which he was showing to his friends. "Fine specimens of globular quartz," said a doctor newly arrived, who had Just enough of- a smattering of geology to know nothing at all about it. "Would you mind giving me one or two of those pebbles?" said a tall. dark-skinned, Wender young man. "Or I will buy them from you at whatever you may consider them worth. I have no- such stenos hi my collection at home." "My dear air," the otlier erplied, with the heartinese of it dweller on the veldt, "you are very welceme to a couple. Pick out any two you may fancy." The dark Ming man selected two about as large as a medium-sized hickory nut, thanked the trader and Immediately sent the "globular quartz" off to Amsterdam. As he thought, the report came back saying that the stones were diamonds of in- comparable flawlesaness. Then started the rush to the diamond fields. se- a Ivl I LITARY NOTE. (Boston Transcript) Lo.cly Hone—You say you are in tho army. Then why aren't you dressed os a soldier? Ragged Rogers—It's de army of de mt. employed, lady, an' •dis is mo fatigue uniform, Property ean be paid for; the lives of peaceful and intiocent people cannot be.—Woodrow Hard to Drop Meat? All depends on what yon eat as a substitute. It is a good time to study "food value." You may be eating the wrong foods, the foods that cost most and give the least nutriment. Shredded Wheat Biscuit containa more real, body-building nutritnent, pound for pound, than meat, eggs or potatoes and costs much less. I'vvo of these Biscuits with milk and a little, fruit make a nourishing meal a a cost of a few cents. Make Shredded Wheat your "meat.'% A satis-• fying breakfast on which to ztart the day's work., It 1.$' ready -cooked and ready -to! eat. Made iti Canada.,