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This attractive little model owes its
rharm to its simplicity, It is .one
piece from shoulder to hem and has
the newest fall feature, the collarless
neck. McCall Pattern No. 8456,
Misses' Dress. In 3 sizes, 16 to 20
,years. Price, 20 cents.
For the girl who is interested in
sports, here is an ideal costume. It
features the sleeveless' jacket which is
so' popular this season' for sports wear.
McCall Pattern No. 8458, Misses'
Dress. In 4 sizes, 14 to 20 years.
Price, 20 cents.
These :patterns may, be obtained
from your local'' McCall dealer, or
from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St,,
Toronto, Dept. W.
Where to Put Whalebones
They were reviewing the lesson
about the whale in the third grade and
the teacher was anxious: to 'see how
much they had remembered.
"What do -eve do with `whalebones?".
asked the teacher.
There was a long silence, then one
. small boy'raised his hand.
"Well, what do we do with whale-
bones?"
"We put 'em,on the sides of our
:_plates," he said.
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of +he f i nest
teachers of
food values
Grapes i tits
It's brimful of -
Nourishment
Combines nice-
ly with' other
foods and is
Delicious
Requires
=Tithe milk or
cream No Sugar
and there's no
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Canada Food 13oard "License
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''FORESTS AND ,.
CIVILIZATION
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NO'-UNrORESTED COON,"rRY HAS
EVER BECOME GREAT
The Effect of Deforestation is to Reis -
der a Country Desolate, Unfertile
and Impoverished.
Poreste and civilization are in
separably bound together. Not all
forested countries have reached a
high degree of civilization, but no
unforested country has ever reached
a state of culture, Egypt,` 13abylon,
and Assyria may be mentioned as
exceptions, but the probability is
that they were all forested at the
zenith of their progress, and that
their decline may be directly attrib-
uted to the disappearance: of their,
forest wealth. The whole north coast
of Africa, Palestine and China were
at one time well forested, and, with
the vanishing of the tree's, • these
civilizations waned and are now: at a
low ebb. China is probably tlhe best
example of ,deforestation which we
have. Originally, a country of great
wealth, both 1n timber and agricul-
tural lands the removal of the woods
has, over very large' -areas, destroyed
the Earns by allowing the rainfall -to
rush clown the hillsides in the fore{ of
torrents, carrying large amounts of
sand and gravel, which have: covered
up and destroyed the arable lands.
To -day China is .a desolate, treeless
country, forced to use dung for fuel
and ,to carry on the most intensive
form of agriculture in order to wring
a meagre sustenance from an im-
poverished soil.
When Forests Are Removed.
Where timber is removed from hi11i
and mountains by lumbering, fire al-
most `always follows and burns not
only the timber but also the soil,
right down to the rock. If the forma-
tion is not rock the situation is far,
worse, for the soil is washed down
'year after year into the fertile val-
leys, destroying them completely. In
the Cevennes and Pyrenees' districts
in France 8,000,000 acres of farmland.
were destroyed by floods, and a huge
sum of money had, to be spent by the
government in reclaiming them.
Where forests are removed in sandy
country the wind soon strips the soil
of the meagre remaining cover and
carries the sand for miles oyer the
surrounding. country, 'converting it. in-
to a desert. This happened along the
west coast of France, , and millions
were spent to arrest the : devastation.
An old friend. of the writer, Senor Don
Ricardo- Codorniu, a Spanish forester,
has spent.his life in this work of
stemming torrents, replanting denud-
ed mountain slopes, ;°' often , carrying
earth up on mule -back 'to`,start the
nucleus of a future protective forest.
His work in a onnection with drifting
erreset
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.e.SesSeteeeeestee,
The shell that stru.,k this house saved the making cM E a door for
Britislr canteen.
a
but he couldnot trust himself to wakeBE COUNTRY
a ( TY CORRESPONDENT
t the end of the hour. The African
no to 1 time, but the captain de-
termined to depend upon him, never-
theless. Showing him the dial of his
wrist watch, he explained that he wish-
ed to be waked when the long hand
reached there, and the short hand,
,•there. Then he lay down, with arm
extended, and the negro crouched be-
side him, with his eyes onthe dial.
Exactly at the, right moment, the
sleeper was called;, and as he opened
his eyes they fell upon the African;
in precisely; the same position, with
something strained in his aspect that
suggested inquiries. It appeared that
he' had not dared look away during
the entire hour.
"For -sure' him clock trabbel slow,
massa" he explained 'Tut'
pose
him stop go walkee, walkee? S'pose
him go jump, jump ?"
Upon a river steamer in Africa.
Miss'. Mary Kingsley, the English ex-
plorer once heard other 'passengers
giving directions to the native stew-
and in the adjoining main .saloon:
"You savvy six 'o'clock? When
them long' arm catch them place,,and
them short arm catch them place you
call me in the morning time."
An interval sof silence, and then..
another voice:
"You savvy five ` o'clock? When
them long arm—" And so it went
on, until each passenger had pointed
out on the clock face the proper rela-
tion of the. two hands to- each other
sands has been most interesting, es- at the moment he desired to be called.
pecially where the sand had cowmen- The ignorant native 'steward,
ced to invade a village, . burying the who
could not tell time and could not learn
'houses in the suburbs. Wattle fences to, was yet sufficient{ observant
had first to be built,' and . between 1 ycalorto
these pines were, planted, and when. pace ander them
rmhe calls correct -
the sand had 'piled up' against- the ly; he never got_ them mixed:
first line of : fence this had 'to be
raised to prevent the little trees from
being buried before they could fulfil
their function.' Nor do we have to go T i
o--o--o--o-o-o—o—o
ANY ,CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN'T HURT A BM
(St. Thomas; Times -Journal)
Some of the overgrown papers in
the big cities note the' passing of so
many country weekly journals and the
amalgamationof dailies in some of the
smaller cities and aren{
deluding the -
selves with the belief that this is is an
evidence of the growing. influence of
the metropolitan sheets. ' In time they
say, the big dailies, will cover the -en-
tire field and the country correspon-
dent who now writes weekly to the
press chronicling such facts as that
John Smith has finished his new barn
or that'Sam Jones has purchased'a
car, will pass away for all time.
The country correspondent, at
whose expense the city newspaper,
man affects to make merry, has his
own place in the world to fill. In his
limited sphere he is just as much of a
community builder as the funny man
in the urban centres. He records the
events that happen around him just
as the city journalist does, and any-
thing— someone whose name escapes
us has said—that Providence is not
too proud to allow to happen, no news
of amalgamation. 'Phe union of two!,
rapidly partisan papers would not im-
prove conditions, but rather increase
the opportunities for working econ-,'
oleie mischief. What the people want
in the newspaper of to -day is a broad-
er spirit ill political and every other
style of discussion, a press that is not
controlled by any !action or throttl-
ed by a particular interest, a press
that will recognize the reading pub-
lie as composed of so many individuals!
who cannot be led around and made to I
play the game set by the journalistic
dictator.
Was It Worth It?
by's idea of heaven, but since w
flour came in and fat was scarce
hadn't been quite so fond of them
before.;
Mother came into the kitchen o
afternoon, saw Bobby gazing at
dish of newly baked tarts.
"What are you doing, Bobby ?" sh
asked sharply.
"I •was just wondering, mother.!'
"Wondering? You haven't touch
ed those tarts, I hope?"
"Not.• yet, mother," said Bobby. ,"
was just wondering if they're nic
enough to be Whipped for."
LEMON JUICE 1S
FRECKLE REMOVER
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Potato Bugs
on • group of potato growers and : a
a seedsnian were discussing thedamage
which had, been done by potato bugs
e last season.
"The pests ate my whole crop in
two weeks," said one grower. "They
- ate mine in two days," said a se fond,
"and then roosted on the trees to see
h if I'd plash more."
e "All that is very remarkable," said
the seedsman, "but I saw a couple of
potato bugs eecanthi ng the books in
our store about a week before plant-
ing time to see who had bought
seed."
1-ilnard'o Zdnuxent Cures Distemper.,
No Use For Them
The Irishman came: home beaming.
"Bridget," said he, "Oi'vegot a job"
"Glory be!" said Bridget, who was
tired of supporting the family.
"I shall want a new suit," said Mur-
phy then. "An' yez can pawn me
nightshirts to get it."
"Your nightshirts!" gasped, Bridget.
"Shure." said Pat. "An' what for
should I be wanting them when I'.ve
got a job as night 'watchman, and can
only sleep in the daytime?"
Girls'. Make this cheap beauty lotion
to, clear and whiten your skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons in-
-to a bottle containing 'three ounces of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle
and tau lotion, and complexion beauti
Fier, at very, 'very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any,
drug store or toilet counter will sup.
ply three ounces of orchard whitefor
a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and'hands .each day and see -show
freckles and blemishes disappear and
how clear, soft and white the skin
becomes. Yes{ It is harmless;
'%%ar Tanks 2,000 Years Old
"Is the war tank not a brand new
invention?" was one of the questions
th
at came to the editors of "2,000
Questions and '"Answers About ' the
Great War." Probably 999 people out
of 1,000 would answer "yes" unhesi-
tatingly. On the staff of the Review
of Reviews, which produced the book,
there was, however; a specialist on
ancient wars, and he spoiled the whole
thing by answering that the first war
tanks were used exactly'. 2167; years
before they made their appearance
e British -German front. It was
wring the gigantic siege by Rome and
he
• allies; of Carthage, the "Queen of
ride." After many months of as-
ault, which ended only" in mounds of'
oman dead under the fatal wails,the
besiegers suddsnly approached under
enormous armored tanks shaped like
tortoises.' Safe beneath' these huge
wheeled shields, the Roman soldiery
labored to breach the walls, unmind-
ful of the rocks, spears, boiling water
and oil, molten lead and liquid fire
which. the desperate Carthagenians
poured on them. Before that ancient
siege was. ended the Romans devised
super -tanks— genuine land - dread-
noughts. It will be worth while to
watch for some such development this
year.
print . th
paper should be too proud. to putinto h
print.
In many respects the country'ocor Af
repondent can give the city reporter s
or editor lessons in the ethics and the R
morality of the profession. Ile deals
with the virtues rather than with the
vices of humanity. No country Cor-
respondent, with a warped idea of
his duties, ever attends a magistrates
court and essays to make jests with
human derelicts as his subjects, a line
of endeavor that is all -fours with
chortling over the sad scenes witnes-
sed in an insane asylum or in 'a cas-
ualty hospital.
The country correspondent describ-
ng in his own way a service in a
so far afield to see tI`e results of, ase
and fire. Travel west on the C.P.R.
through Ontario; take the Canadian
Northern to Lake St. John, or the
National Transcontinental to Winni-
peg, eand
innipeg,-'-and see the blackened waste
which should pe' one of our greatest
tourist' attractions. On the Lievre'
River there is a large tract of coun-
try where the hills are of white
quartz. Fire has passed over it and.
the rain has washed away the burnt
soil, and to -day seen in summer from
a distance, they look like snow-capped which will positively rid one's feet of
No foolishness! Lift your corns
and calluses off with fingers
—It's like magic!
0•••••0-473.--0--0.--0 —o
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the cern a few* drops of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
For little cost one can get a small
bottle of freezone at any drugstore,
peaks. There is another hill of this every corn or callus without pain.
character at Riviere a Pierre' Junc-
tion, on the Q. and L. St. J. R. R. At
Lachute, Que., and along the line of
the C.P.R., near Bertllier, Junction:
may seen the' drifting sands which.
have swept over several square miles
of once fertile country, turning it into many of our readers. If your drug -
This simple drug dries the moment
it is, applied and does "hot even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
This " announcement will interest
a desert. , Fortunately, our progress gist hasn't any freezone tell him to
sive Minister of Lands and Forests,
the Hon: Jules Allard, through his
chief forester, Mr. G. C. Piche, has
begun the work of checking this men-
ace, and at Lachute has planted a
large area with beech, grass, and
young trees to hold back the devour-
ing sand.
TELLING THE TIME
IHow Our African Soldiers Watched
the Hands Go Round
France has many black fighting
men from, Senegal in the field; nor axe
they' the only troops recruited from
savage or semisavage races that are
engaged in the great conflict. A
young British officer found himself
one night. by a mischance to his motor
cycle, stranded by the wayside far
from the destination he must reach
at dawn. and with only a little group
of negro stragglers anywhere in
sight. He was very tired, having had
no sleep for many hours. One of the
Africans talked the pidgin English of a
coast town, and this man informed
him that some motor lorries would be
coming along soon, upon which it
would be possible to get a lift.
"Soon," in the mouth of an African
is an elastic term; but the captain
thought ho could afford to wait an
hour before setting forward on - foot
in search of come other means of
transportation. Meanwhile, he want -
surely get a small bottle foryou from
his Wholesale drug house.
A Song of the Air
This is the song of the Plane-
The creaking, shrieking "plane,
The throbbing, sobbing plane,
And 'the moaning, groaning wires
The engine missing again!
One cylinder never fires!
Hey, ho! for the Plane!
This pis the song of the .Man—
The driving, striving man,
Tho chosen, frozen man—
The pilot, the man at the wheel,
Whose limit is all that he can,
And beyond, if the need, is real!
Hey, hot for the'FMMan!
This is the song of the Gun—
The muttering, stuttering gun,
The maddening, "gladdening gun—
That chuckles with evil glee
At the last, long drive of the Hun,
With its end in eternity!
Hey, hol for the Gun!
This in the song of the Air --
The lifting, drifting air,
The eddying, steadying air,
The wine of its limitless spa-0e—
May it nerve us at lastato dare
Eyed death with undaunted face!
Hey, ho! for the Air!
—Observer, Royal Flying Corps.
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Liniment cures TArulitiinrt&
ed a nap—wanted it desperately,-- ED. 7 ISSUE 3e -1e
church at the crossroads, or a meet
ng of the Epworth League, is doing
infinitely more to develoli a sturdy
brand of national character than is the
arrogant occupant' of the city saectnm
grinding out blood -curdling. and cut-
icle -lifting homilies on the political.
outlook or- articles setting thediffer
eiitm`- religious sects • at war
with each other flattering himself the
while" that he'is the one man chosen
for the duty' of saving his country
from social and religious degeneracy.
The people are becoming weary: un-
to death of the arrogance of the big
party papers that, • blind and often
morally halt themselves, are still as-
suming to lead the world and to dice.
tate to men > apd women as to hew
they shall worship and for whom they
shall vote. The'people refuse to be
coerced. They have long since brok-
en the' party leading strings and are
able not only to think for" themselves
but to find their way around alone.
Their is talk of newspaper changes
Iginard's Liniment: Cures 'Colds. to.
' MONEY O.RDER$.
A ,Dominion Express Money Order
for five dollars costs three cents.
Handkerchiefs
If the handkerchiefs are yellow, th
reason is that they have' not been
properly washed.. To overcome this
yellow color, put the handkerchiefs in
cold water in which there is kerosene
about one teaspoonful to a quart and
a shaving of good laundry soap. Let
the handkerchiefs boil in this about
three hours. Take them out, dry in
the sun, and they will be snowy
white. This treatment will apply t
any linen or white `clothing.
Minard's Liniment cures Gargot in Cows
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
Gentlemen, — I have used MIN-
ARD'S LINIMENT on my 'vessel and
in my faintly for years, and,for the
every -day ills and accidents of life 1
consider it has no equal. I would'not
start on a voyage without it, if it cost
a dollar a bottle-
CAPT. F. R. DESJARDIN.
Behr. Starke, St. Andre, Kamouraska.
Two Legs or Four
Anna, aged five, was drawing a pic-
ture of her sister's beau. She worked
,yery earnestly, stopping- every few
minutes to compare her work with the
original. Finally she shook her head
sadly.
"1 don't like it much," she cow
mented.' "'Tisn't much like you. I
guess I'll put a tail on it and call it
a dog,"
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TV in New'Ontario, Owner going to
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that amount. Apply .T. H„ c/o Wilson
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WELL EQUIPPED NEWSPAPER
Y T and job printing plant in Eastern
Ontario, Insurance carried 21,800. Will
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Wilson Publishing Co,. 'Ltd.. Toronto.
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.LL Puppies, that noble breed now so
nearly., extinct- We have some very tine
ones. R. A.,;Gillespie, Abbotsford, Que.
j1P EDIGREIrD BLACK SIBERIAN
_11. • Fur Flares weighing fifteen pounds
at maturity. Charles Reasbeck, . Van-
kleek 1.1111, Ontario.'
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German Dog Whips
a er c an es That the German officers carried
in the big as well as in the smaller small whips with which to accentuate
cities. But this talk is not in the line their ' commands—given in a snarling
and bullying tone -to the soldiers, is
one of the many intimate points noted
by Captain A. Radcliffe Dugmore in
his book,".When the Somme Ran Red,"
just published by Doran Company.,
Falling into the enemy's hands, Cap-
tain Dugmore escapes, or rather is let
go,and then the famous camera hunt-
er African lions ets erm
g , p lssi onto
go at once into the thick of the fray
at Alost and take pictures of the Ger-
man Army in Action. Hiscamera is
spotted and he is greeted with a
shower of "German hail." He had
almost made.. his escape when he was
wounded in ' the leg by a shrapnel
splinter. As an eye -witness Captain
Dugrnore lays great stress on the
wonderful markesmanship of the Bel-
gian soldiers:
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