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The Wingham Times, 1916-12-28, Page 6Page 6 THE WINGHAM TIMES Sir Gilbert Parker IHas New Novel ®®111111®®®1111S113111®11381® N Rochester, N.Y., there has been form - 1[ ed au association the object of which is to promote the "Live a Little Longer" idea. It aims to encourage men and women to give attention ta their health, awl. by preventive methods to avoid. serio,.7 . disease and add years of happiness to their lives. This idea is suited to people of all ages, but seems particularly applicable to per- sons of advancing years who feel their vitality on the wane. It is truly wonder- ful what is accomplished by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food under these circumstances. By forming new, rich blood, and nour- ishing the starved, wasted nerve cells, it instils new life and vigor into the vital organs and enables them to perform their natural functions. This means new strength and comfort, freedom from pain and disease, and longer life. 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LORD SHAUGHHNESSY looked strikingly tit as he stepped briskly to the pier on his arrival in New York on Friday afternoon. He stated that he had been deeply impressed by the Mother Country's attitude toward Canada, and seems thor oughiy imbued with the Imperial spirit, which is now the keynote of British effort. He went on: "Britain's forges are burn- ing fiercely, creating steel chains by which her iintegrai parts will be hound together as never before. Tt bas been her boast for years that only a silken cord connected the Mother Country with her overseas Dominions and Colonies. That time Is past. 'The war has de. rnonstrated thrtt' unity a effort and direction %Laf, continue. Canada has assumed tl heavy portion of the bur- den,. 'the war—far greater than inel;one anticipated. Canadians have stood in critical positions and have held them. They have done men's work, fulfilling the terms of the partnership that exists between the various members of the Empire. Canadians have won a name which will forever distinguish them. Never will they be confused with other nationalities on this conti- nent. 'Canada will, In tact, be a senior partner in the British Empire, bearing an equal share of the bur- dens; reaping an equal, proportion- ate share of the profits and filling a prominent seat tnni the council table, Lloyd c('ieorge's eletrat n to the premier- e_h undoubtedlyWikfia it k is he outcome of a desire on the nr„ of the More aggressive party in the House of Com- mons to have a Government that will prosecnte the war with more vigor. The change merely indicates that the people of Great Britain wish to ntiifae every resource and every force at their command to enema victory. Britain wants peace lust as soon as the demands made by her and her allies are won from Germany. Anything less is not victory The master- ful way in which Britain is financing the war is no less irnf:re alvc than the achievements at the front. Her wealth and resources are almost Limitless and are being freely and gladly pledged. This war is developing the individual. Every man, woman and child must do a share. Women in the United Kingdom are taking the men's places at home. They have demonstrated that they can do the work heretofore done by men and just as efficiently. They work on the railways, manufactere munitions, do the farm work, in fact, there is nothing except the arteal fleeting in the trenches That they aro not doing. Every woman at man's work, puts an - ether raga on the firing lino. "As to Canada's future, I have always been certain. The 'er has only hastened deevelopment. With a population nearly egtivelent to that of New York State, and a territory larger than the 'United .',a' es, her po .si- billtles are vast. The quality of her fighting and her share in the war has tarried her fan.e to remote corners. Ile°„rL the war immigration wn'> tlttpitd but not a measure to whet it will be ellen peach. is det'larcd. I finely believe that Canada will have an influx of population not unlike *Met in the United 'States about fifty years ago. A great dal of money alai litany thousands of settlers bare already gone to Canada from the Unites States, The investor finds utero a good field for his wealth, and the settler IL fertile soil for his. plow. Xtewards hare come quic..'y to Loth. Canada llro'ka to the gaited Stance more than ever she did Wert for two reasol , *OW and men aro plentiful bore and the supply from overseas is cut off." THE VALUE OF HONEY. Honey was the first sweetening used. It was in vogue long before man learned to boil syrup and refine sugar. And honey is still the best sweetening, It is more easily digested than any other and on that account it is often :prescrib- for children and invalids. Some people still insist on having honey in the comb, believing this to be a guarantee of purity. It is, but comb honey is natur- ally higher in price than extracted honey, and the only real reason for buying it is that you like the wax and honey, and the only real reason for buying it is that you like the wax and honey together. Extracted honey, sold under pure food laws, which is guaranteed no compound, is more econ- omical in the home. As the flowers follow one another through summer, the color and flavor of honey stored by bees vary greatly. Practically every blossom has it own characteristic honey. White clover, sweet clover, sage alfalfa, mountain sage, raspberry, willow herb, and so forth are mild and light in color, golden rod, aster, heartsease, buckwheat and and other flowers yield darker and stronger honey. Buckwheat is very strong and a deep brown. Most of the pure extracted honey sold is blended, but only pure honey of different colors and flavors is used to make the blend. Honey sold in the comb is always un- blended, except where pieces of comb honey are packed in pails and covered with extracted honey, in which case more than one kind may be sold in the same pail. Honey is more than sweetening. It has the property of absorbing moisture from the air. Oakes, cookies, honey bread, etc.; made with honey will not dry out. Honey should be kept in the dark and in a dry, warm place. Moist- ure injures it. Never keep honey in the cellar or ice -box. Put it in a warm garret, or any place where the temper- ature is comfortable and the air dry. It will stand as much 'as 100 degrees Fahrenheit, If extracted honey has granulated, you can restore it to a liquid condition by setting the can rn a pail of water about as hot as the hand can bear, Children Oxy FOR FLETCHER'S ° STORIA December :9, I9t6 IT has always occasioned Cana- dians a certain feeling of pride to know that one of the few British novelists possessing a knighthood is Sir Gilbert Parker, q son of the Dominion. Every year, when he publishes a new story, the people of this country turn to the book with interest, especially when. the scone of it happens to be Can- ada. Although Sir Gilbert Parker bas occasionally strayed beyond Ca- nadian borders for the scenes and the people of his stories, he has easily found his way back to the un- doubted delight of his readers and presumably to his own satisfaction. He has written of England, of Egypt, of South Africa, and of other parts of the world, but it is of Canada alone that he is a master. If hie novels and his stories have any last- ing vigor in them it is because their origin and his are the same. Ever since the days of the first popularity of "The Pomp of the Lavilettes" and "When Valmond Came to Pontiac," Sir Gilbert Parker has found his best and most fre- quent literary resource in the old- fashioned story of adventure. World politics and the problems of imper- ialism are not his forte, as he clearly manifested not long ago in "The Judgment House." He is thoroughly at home in describing those human. passions that find their outlets in physical action. Tempests of the soul are also his to command, but they receive full value from his' pen only when they are allied to tumults of the body. A census of the fights in fiction between men, and with women often involved,. would dis- close the fact that they are his fav- orite means for the .expression of human turmoil. And there is no, denying that from his earliest to his latest story they are very good fights that stir the reader's blood and draw forth his admiration for the descriptive skill of the novelist. The most recent contribution of Sir Gilbert Parker to our literature is "The World for Sale." In this novel he sets his scene in the newer part of Canada which is so rapidly becoming the powerful heart of the British Empire in the West. The story starts with a reckless young woman running a dangerous rapids at low water in her canoe. She faints and is brought ashore by the hero, an efticiency expert in charge of the development of the district. The place is a 'spot in the North-West, where an oh' slow town and an en- terprising new town face each other across a river. There is trouble of all kinds between them due to dif- ferences of race and of religion as well as industrial rivalry, which the hero tries to keep down. He is op- posed by a dastardly and disreput- able French Canadian. More trouble arises through their rivalry for the girl. She is the ,daughter of the chief of all Cie gypsies, who has come into the wilderness because he has promised that his daughter shall not belong to his people. He is fol- lowed up, however, by the son of the man he deposed, a wholly disreput- able scamp. who insists on the ob- servance of the child marriage be- tween himself and the girl. She will not have him and the old man turns him out, whereupon he joins forces with the French Canadian. In a riot the hero is blinded, the girl nurses him, but he will not ask her to marry him till he can work for her. Then, the girl is kidnapped by the gypsy, but is rescued in time. The hero re- covers his sight, the old gypsy dies, the girl renounces her people and marries the hero. It is true that this story will not add greatly to the laurels of Sir Gil- bert Parker, but it is Canadian and good Canadian novels are not nearly so plentiful as we might wish them to be. Quebec's Cotton Industry. The textile industry, especially the manufacturing of cotton goods, has a big place in Quebec. At the big Val- leyfield mills at Magog and Three Rivers plants are operating to full capacity. Many of them are wholly engaged in filling contracts for war materials. One remarkable excep- tion was the Canadian Connecticut plant at Three Rivers, which, with' its 1,200 hands, is working overtime producing its accustomed line of cotton lawns. One manufacturer. explained \chat, without the aid of a single war contract, the cotton mills of Quebec would be kept engaged to their utmost capacity in supplying' the ordinary demands of the Cana- dian market, and as proof of his statement he drew attention to the' fact • that Canada's imports of all lines of cotton goods, both from Bri- tain and the United States, and par- ticularly from the latter country, had increased from thirty to one hundred per cent. during the past six months, as compared with the same periods in the past two years. Cottons are sub- stituting more and more the silk and linen fabrics, which have been cut off from America in such large measure as a result of the war. Vesttvius Near Eruption. The crater of Vesuvius is filling up little by little every year, says a despatch from Naples. The base of it to -day lies at a depth of 86 metres, 69 metres higher than it was a year ago. frank Alwood Perret, the Am- erican engineer and volcano expert, just made this discovery. With Professor Alexander Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory he camped for twenty-four hours in the heart of the lava -spitting mountain. Golf Behind Firing Line. One of the prominent ball manu- facturers of Great Britain states that quantities of golf balls have been sent to British soldiers at the' front. It is probable that crude holes have been laid out where the men may follow their favorite Pastime, when 'off duty. Before Buying be sure to hear the COLO JA GRAFONOLA Don't let the high cost of living deter you from getting a Grafonola Although costs of material and labor have increased, Columbia prices are lower in many instances than they were a year ago, because of the tremendously increased demand — and they are the best value in musical instruments obtainable. Grafonolas $20 to $475. Records 85c. up. Fit any machine. H. B. ELLIOTT Sole q�re�t WINGHAM ONTARIO MADE A SPLENDID APPEAL. (Stratfard Beacon.) Mr. N. W. Rowell, leader of the Ontario Opposition, ha;r made many eloquent appeals on behalf of service in war -time, but hr has made none which ought to awaken a response more than that which he made in speaking at the Winter Fair at Guelph last week, when he said in part: "We must not lose sight of the fact that during these days, and the days that lie before us, there is being settled on that immense battle line, more than two thousand miles in extent, with al - moot forty million men engaged, the question of the whole character of civilization, under which we shall live throughout all the days that lie before us. We live in the most momentous of all times. There never was a time when human life seemed of so little value, and yet, there never was a time when human life was of suah transcend- ent value. We may live under moral conditions, die and be buried and for- gotten, and our lines may count for little, but there is no man who has a life to live today, but who could throw that life into the balance for freedom, for justice and for liberty, and help make this old world better by the sacri- fice he makes. That is our privilege, and I believe Canadians will be equal to it." Premier Hearst has made some ap- peals which do him credit. Sir Robert Borden is visiting various places seek- ing to call out the manhood of the nation. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has appealed in a most forcible way to his com- patriots in Quebec. "Win the War First" should be the predominating thought in Canada today, just as it should be in Britain. Even there they did turn aside for a time to find fault and it would be vain to hope that Lloyd George's ministry will be judged by its deeds, but we as Canadians should get rid of this spirit to as large an extent as we can, and esteem it a privilege to make sacrifice for liberty, for freedom and justice, as Mr. Rowell has so eloquently said, Five sailors on the steamer Corsican were found to have tampered with mails between the United Kingdom and Can- ada. Three were sentenced to three years in penitentiary and two were let go on suspended sentence. on, A. u. CASE'S CATARRH POWDER u lr is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. Beals the ulcers, clears the air passages, stops drop- pings in thv throat and permanent- ly cures Catarrh and Hay Fever. 26c. a box blower ower free. Accept no substitutes. All dealers or Elafmasety safest Oo.. Limited, Toronto. HERE FOR YOUR Novels,Writing Paper, Envelopes, Ink,Playing Cards Tally Cards, Etc. 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