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The hero of this story, though no
longer pasha of a great city, still lives
in peace and tranquillity in one of the
secluded coast towns of Morocco. The
tale of his magnificence in other days
Is not lost, nor is the story how he
Ince met the demands of an income
overspent. It was as ingenious as it
was dishonest—which is saying much.
The Tangier correspondent to the Lon-
don Times writes:
At length the pasha's situation be-
came serious. • The craps of the year
before had been poor, and he had
drained every possible source of re-
venue, legal and illegal, just and un-
just. The Jews would lend no more.
The tribesmen of the country round
threatened revolt, but every day the
expenses of his- household increased.
It was a matter of pulling through till
the harvest—but the harvest was still
a couple of months ahead. Two or
tbree thousand pounds would suffice
for the most pressing needs—the rest
might wait; but how to raise even, that
paltry, insignificant sum? For the
hole of one night he pondered, and
1n the morning lee issued an edict.
There was danger, this document
stated, from the surrounding tribes,
whose loyalty to the Sultan was in
doubt. The walls were sufficient to
defend the city, but it was of vital im-
portance that the suburbs should not
be raided, as the population was large-
ly dependent for its food supplies on
the gardens and granaries situated
outside. The military forces under
his command, though sufficient to pro-
tect the town, were quite inadequate
to venture outside and patrol the -sub-
urbs, and there was no cavalry. In
these circumstances he proposed to
raise a troop of horsemen. The men
.were to hand but there were no horses,
and the edict terminated in inviting
every merchant of the town to provide
a hys, e.
a14G�r unlike the Arab tribesmen of
the country districts, the town Moor
Is no rider.. He climbs now and again
on the padded crimson saddle of a fat
mule and ambles to his place of busi-
ness or to pay a visit, but a horse is
to him an annoying and dangerous
quadruped. possessed of only two
ideas: to fight every other horse it
meets—for in Morocco only stallions
are ridden—and to throw its rider..
Accordingly not a single merchant pos-
sessed' a horse and determined not to
'buy one until the absolute necessity
arose, on the principle of "wait and
see."
A few nights later about ten o'clock,
when all the inmates of his house
were asleep, there was a tremendous
aaaknocking at the nail -studded door of
the house of one of the principal mer -
"chants of the city. Hastily donning
such garments as were within his
reach, and wrapping his bed blanket
around him, for the night was cold,
the elderly gentleman called out from
within and asked what was wanted.
"Open, in the name of the pasha!"
With Redrawing of many bolts and
the turning of great keys the door was
opened by the merchant himself, who
timidly asked the reason of this late
visit.
"We have called for your horse,"
replied the master of the pasha's
household, who stood without, sur-
rounded by half a dozen particularly
evil -looking soldiers.
"My horse?"
"Yee, the horse you were command-
ed to buy, The tribes are In open re-
volt, and the horse is required at
dawn."
"Oh, sir," replied the now affright-
ed merchant, "I have been looking for
a horse ever since the pasha's edict
was published, but in vain. I have
searched high and low, but I couldn't
find one. I left no hole or corner unex-
plored, but all without success --so
help me all the saints of Islam, may
peace be upon them!"
"Then you have no horse?" asked
the pasha's representative roughly.
"Alas! my lord, to -night I •have none
—to -morrow I will endeavor-"
"To -morrow you will have no oppor-
tunity, My orders are to arrest and
imprison every merchant who has not
got his horse."
"Arrest! Imprison!" cried the miser-
able blanket -wrapped old gentleman.
"Yes, arrest and imprison."
"Pityl I beg pity!" he cried, weep-
ing copiously. "You are a good and
worthy man. Soften'" your heart. Find
me some solution to this tragedy."
The master of the pasha's household
seemed to ponder the matter deeply
for a moment and then said, "Indeed
I pity you with all my heart, but 1
must obey my orders—unless—"
"Unless?"
"I am ready to make a sacrifice. My
own horse is here. 1 will sell it to
you, and you can hand it over to the
pasha."
"Oh, thank you. And the price?"
"Three hundred dollars,"
"Three hundred dollars!" almost
shrieked the merchant. "Three hun-
dred dollars? Impossible!"
"I see you don't want to buy it."
And, calling up his ill -looking soldiers,
he ordered them to arrest the unfor-
tunate man.
"I will pay! I will pay!" cried the
merchant, and, leaving his blanket in
the hands of the soldiers, he escaped
indoors, to emerge a few moments
later with a bag of coin.
"There is more than three hundred
dollars there," he said, "far more, but
it does not matter."
The master of the pasha's household
ordered a man who led a horse by a
rope to hand it over to the merchant.
In the flickering light of the lamp the
miserable individual found himself
face to face with the object he most
dreaded in the world, a horse; and
what a horse! It appeared in the
darkness immense; its eyes seemed to
him to glow with unearthly fire, and
as he unconsciously took hold of the
rope it reared and neighed. With a
cry of terror the merchant sought re-
fuge
efuge inside his doorway.
"Caine, come," said the pasha's re-
presentative, "you must • take the
horse," holding out the halter.
"Where—where can I take it?" pite-
ously asked the merchant. "I have no
stable."
"Your house—"
"My house! There are only women
in my house, and even the courtyard
, is carpeted. Everyone would die of
fright; besides, it would certainly kill
me long before I got it in." And. a
fresh flood of tears staved his words.
"Well, take it you must—unless--"
"Unless?"
"Unless I take it round to the
pasha's stable to -night instead of to-
morrow at dawn."
"Oh, my god friend, my savior., take
it!" and he pressed more money into
the officer's hand.
Th cavalcade moved off, and, cry-
ing aid shivering, the merchant closed
his door. It was only then that he re-
membered that the soldiers had not
given him back his blanket.
When the merchants of the city met
to attend to their business on the fol-
lowing day it was evident that they
were all suffering from nervous • shock.
At first they guarded a discreet sil-
e fee; but at length our friend related
the episode of the previous night.
Curiously enough, they had all had
the same experience -and, more curi-
cus still, in every case it had been a
ferocious untamable gray horse, with
fiery eyeballe, which had screamed
and reared, that they had one and all
been obliged to buy at a wickedly ex
crbitant price for the pesha's cavalry.
The same day the pasha announced
that he had been able to make peace
with the surrounding tribes, and that
all danger was over. As he sat in his
garden he ordered one of his slaves to
bring hint a certain )horse from the
stable. A few minutes later, with .a
bound and a neigh, a vicious -looking
stallion was led before him. He loop-
ed at it for a little while and smiled;
then said, "Let that good horse have
a double feed of barley to -night," and,
feeling kindly disposed to all the
world, and generous, he ordered his
workmen to be paid three days' pay
out of the twenty-six that he owed
them, and went into the house to
count the dollars.
The Costly Arctic,
Roald Amundsen deserves a better
reward than permission to file a yearns
tary petition in bankruptcy at Chris-
tiania. The Norwegians themselves
should organize a Meal rescue expedi-
tion, if none else will undertake it. For
the doughty explorer who was first to
attain the South Pole has stimulated
geographic enterprise throughout the
world. His researches in magnetism I
and in trend of ocean currents have?
resulted in valuable contributions to I
knowledge, and he has put new land,
on the Antarctic map which may prove
one day to be of great commercial
value.
Amundsen in his exploration has
had to live by faith like other sailors
before and since Columbus. The lat-
ter received a few hundred dollars for
discovering America. Neilsen, inter-
national altruist that he is, has had
to write books to finance his journeys.'
Shackleton was compelled to pass the
begging -bowl vigorously to supply the •
little "Quest" for his final adventure.;
The first American polar voyager,
Kane, of Philadelphia, could not have 1
financed his undertaking without the
generous aid of a New Yorker, as
Peary, after strenuous lecture tours'
and much writing, owed his supreme'
encouragement to another broad-mind-
ed citizen. The annals of discovery'.
are filled with the experience of de-
termined navigators who sailed to-
ward the unknown with incomplete
equipment and strong faith, and who
on their return were miserably recom- I
pensed, though others richly profited
by their pioneer activity.
At this, late day it ought not to be
necessary to urge prompt aid for the
gallant mariner of Norway. The
world in his debt should enable him
to meet obligations he incurred for
the benefit of the race.
WHEN BABY IS ILL
When the baby is 111; when he cries
a great deal and no amount of atten-
tion or petting makes him happy,
Baby's Own Tablets should be given
him without delay. The Tablets are
a mild but thorough laxative which re-
gulate the .bowels and sweeten the
stomach and thus drive out constipa-
tion and indigestion; break up colds
and simple fevers and make teething
easy. They are absolutely guaranteed
to be free from opiates and narcotics
and can be given to even the new-born
babe with perfect safety and always t
with beneficial results. The Tablets
are sold by medicine dealers or by
mail at 25 Bents a box from The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
Too Late.
Wandering aimlessly about the farm
the city boarder happened to see Uncle
Si and the hired man cutting up a hog
they had just killed, and with visions
of pork chops in the near future, made
the remark that he was very fond of
fresh pork.
"No fresh pork from this one," Bald
Uncle Si. "We're goingto 'cure him."
"Cure him!" exclaimed the city
boarder, "Good ,Lord! You are too
late to cure him now; . you should
have tried that before he died."
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• and hand-playea? ,sti11on of fifteen bells for -installa.tion in'a ehuroh at Oshawa, Ontario. The largest bell weighs
two avd a bait. tone:
WEN FOODFAILS
Canada's Bill for Firewood. Classified Adverfiaements
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MONEY TO ta3A
If the Canadian forests could' ren-
der an account for the firewood sup-
plied by thein in 1922, it would read
something like this: "The Canadian
Public, to the Forests, of Canada: 8,-
860,846 cords of firewood, $38,228,702."
And then the bill would represent only
the original value,
To produce this enormous quantity
of firewood required 841,780,560 cubic
fest of standing timber, the largest
amount consumed by any of our many
forest products.
To the unthinking • person this fire
wood output is but one of ,the many
uses to which our timber producing
areas are put, and is passed by with
the same unconcern as day and night,
says the Natural Resources Intelli-
gence Service of the Department of
the Interior. If, however, he were
travelling` from Halifax to Vancouver,
and, looking out of the car window he
should see a pile of firewood seven
feet high on either side of the track,
with no break through the 3,494 miles
he would cover in his trip from coast
to coast, he would get a visual demon-
stration of the importanee of Canada's
annual cut of firewood.
Pilled four feet high it would make
a wall 12,832 miles in length, or a wall
across Canade, fourteen and oriehalf
feet high and four feet thick.
Almost all species of wood are used
far fuel purposes, depending upon the
area in which it is cut and the mar.
ket. In Ontario, Quebec and the Mari-
time Provinces the firewood is mostly
composed of hardwood, maple, beech
and birch predominating. In the
Prairie Provinces large quantities of
poplar and jackpine are used, while in
British Columbia, .owing to the very,
large variety of timber available, many
species are used.
When it is remembered that Cana-
da's forests are annually providing
over a cord of firewood far every man,
woman and child in the country, and
that the warmth and comfort of mil-
lions of our people are clopendent up-
on the continuance of this fuel supply,
the value of the forests of Canada will
be more fully appreciated. Large areas
of Canada, particularly in the central
portion, are devoid of other local fuels,
and dependence must be placed upon
wood :or imported coal. It is therefore
the part of wisdom to protect the
forests from fire that the supply of
firewood for domestic and power pur-
poses may be assured.
Defective Digestion is the Cause
and Misery Follows,
There are thousands of people who
do not get the proper nourishment
from tho fs;od they eat, becauso their
digestion is defective. Food that lies
Undigested in the stomach is not mere-
ly waste:!, but will fe ment µtic poison
your system. Flatulence and sour ris-
ings in the throat follow and unless
you are careful you will beccine
chronic dyspeptic.
By toning up .the stomach to do the
work nature intended, you will re-
move the cause of the trouble. Noth-
ing will more promptly restore the 'di-
gestive or•f.,ans than good new blood.
Stomach, nerves and glands all de-
pend on the blood, and when it gets
thin and Watery they are at once weak-
ened. It is because of their action in
building up and enriching the blood
that Di. Williams' Pink Pills have
proved successful in so many cases of
indigestion where ordinary medicines
have failed. The new rich blood quick-
ly tones up the digestive organs; the
appetite improves and you are able to
eat with comfort and get full nourish-
ment from your food.
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
through any dealer in medicine, or by
mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville,
Ont.
Foreigners.
Among the broadening influences in
our lives, one of the most potent is an
acquaintance with those who have
lived in other lands and have a range
of intellectual interests and spiritual
inclinations that are new and fresh
and stimulating. Those who put a
girdle round the earth and have not
the powers of sympathy and imagina-
tion, enabling them to feel and to see
deeply, are traveling in a physical
sense, but they might as well remain
at home for all the gain they make in
the knowledge of the world and in the
understanding of their fellowmen.
In a little,' isolated country men lead
narrow, egocentric lives and boast that
their tethered daily round circum-
scribes all that is worth while. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, said of a New Eng-
land city that you could not pry the
inhabitants loose from their idea that
it was the hub of the solar system.
In Lhasa, capital of Tibet, the belief
of each ignorant, simple soul is that
the filthy, smelly town is the centre
of everything. The mountain villages
of the Andes are filled with folk who
scratch for fleas, postpone till "Mana-
na" what ought to be done to -day and
indulge the chauvinistic pretense that
no land is like their own, no glory
comparable with its glory. But the
like conceit persists and rums at large
in parts of our own Dominion. Too
sufficient unto ourselves, we inveigh
against the alien as unassimilable
when we ought to be teaching those
whom we would find docile enough in
most instances if we cared to teach
them.
It is a aign of savage ignorance and
of imperfect civilization to feel resent-
ment against another man merely be-
cause he comes from a land we never
saw and uses a dialect with which we
are unfamiliar. If we are mentally
hospitable, we shall eagerly welcome
the chance to hear wonder tales of
strange climes and peoples and ad-
ventures with "beasts, men' and gods"
such as are denied to our shut-in lives
except through the medium of litera-
ture. It argues a purblind, miserable
satisfaction with the groove we move
in when we are unwilling to step out
of it with an outheld hand of personal
greeting to e. "foreigner." '
Those who moat want the peace of
the world are those who sedulously
cultivate all ways and means of in-
ternational intercourse. They do their
best to give the desirable stranger to
feel at home and at ease among us:
Because they seek to 'establish a uni-
versal friendliness', they are of one
mind to discourage the anarchist and
his seditious principles.. They would
not inundate Canada with those who
would demoralize and destroy. That
kind of foreigxi-er they would repel, but
the others are welcome guests, and the
desire of eveey lover of his' own land
le to make friends of them for the ad-
vantage of the entire comity of civil-
ized lands.
Rescuing Goal.
Large deposits of coal thrown over-
board by various warships stationed
near the island of Crete during the war
have been reoov red in a curious, not
to say laughable, manner. The.thrifty
islanders, being without dredging ap-
paratus, attached an octopus to a line
and lowered it to the bottom. As soon
as thetentacles, of the creature' closed
round a lump of ooal they pulled it up.
To the ordinary American the thought
of eoupling •the octupus and coal will
see'rri both natural and fitting.
A September Ronde!.
Fair sulnnier dies—she fades away;
The truth is hard to realize; •
Yet though he lingers, fain to stay,
Fair summer dies!
She smiles to hide it from our eyes,
And golden day succeedeth day;
The world in languorous stillness lies,
Vain hopes are fostered by delay
To cheat death of his lovely prize;
With flush of beauty in decay`
Fair Summer dies!
Minard's Liniment for Rheumatism
Teacher Was Slow.
A school teacher was talking to the
mother of a boy who had reached third
book.
"He's got all the learning he'll ever
want," said the mother,
The teacher replied: "I was at
school until eighteen, and spent four
years at 'college, yet I know very lit-
tle."
"Ale, ma'am," said the mother,
"some folks are much slower at learn-
ing than others."
A powder made from fish, which
will increase human height, is an-
nounced by a Japanese scientist.
Pay your out-of-town accounts by
Dominion Express Money Orders.
The total area .in orchards in New
Zealand has been estimated by the
New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture
at 30,000 acres.
Minard's Liniment Relieves Pain.
Mrs. Noorich (to chauffeur turning
a corner—"Don't put your hand out
that way; keep both hands on the
wheel. I'll tell you when it is rain-
ing."
Insurance Agent—"Conte with me,
you can get damages for this." Ne-
gress (bit by truck)—"Good Lawd,
man, ah don't need no mo' damages—
what ah needs is repairs."
Marsh marigolds and water lilies
will last longer in water than almost
any other cut flower.
Say "Bayer Aspirin"
INSIST! Unless you see the
"Bayer Cross" on tablets you
are not getting the genuine
Bayer Aspirin proved safe by
millions and prescribed by phy-
sicians for 24 years.
�.l crept only a
Bayer package
which contains proven directions
Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets
.Also bottles of 24 and 100 -Druggists
Aspirin is the trade murk (registered in
Canada) of Bayer Manufacture of Mon -
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Druggists guarantee Bitro-Phosphate
to rebuild shattered nerves; to replace
weakness with strength; to add body
weight to thin folksand rekindle am
bitiod in tired -out people. Price $1 per
pkge. Arrow Chemical Co., 25 Front
St. East, Toronto, Ont.
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Staves, Mill Slab Wood, and Cord
Wood. Reid Bros., Bothwell, Ontario,
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AGENTS- SALESMEN -CANVASSERS
Wanted in every city to sell the most
essential household combination. One
small handy tool combines aknife and
scissor sharpener, can opener, glass
cutter, bottle opener, ice pick, etc.
Send at once for a sample with our
special -agents proposition. Samples
may be had for 35 cents., and money
back unless satisfactory.
Berk Bros., Ltd. 220 Bay St., Toronto
Soft -Fleshed Fish.
'Me softness of the flesh of many
deep -water fish is due to the pressure
4,4 the great depths where they spend.
their lives, When they are brought
to the surface this pressure is taken
off; they then expand and their flesh
becomes soft,
Sensitive plants in the Tropics
protect themselves from cattle by
drooping and seeming to die. There
are also sharp spurs on the stalks
which prick the tongues of hungry
animals.
UR1N
NIGHT &
MORNING &
KEEP YOUR EYES
LEAN CLEAR AND REALTZ-IV
trrAtE POA MSC OTE CAN A DOOK- HVAIN6 CO.CIOCA0O,
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Hurt
Stop the pain with Minard's. It
stops inflammation, soothes and
heals.
Cuticura Complexions
Are Smooth And Clear
Use Cuticura Soap daily for the toilet
and have a healthy, clear complexion
free from blackheads and pimples. Assist
when necessary by Cuticura Ointment.
Cuticura 'Talcum is ideal for powdering
and perfuming.
Sample Sash Pres by Mali. Address Canadian
Depot: "Outlaws, P. 0. Bos 2616, Moateoe1."
Pr ' T,ne 6op26c. Otntmeat26and5Oe. Talcnm2Se.
Try our new Shaving Stick.
WORKING OIRL1S
EXPERIENCE
Read How She Found Help
in Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
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Arnprior, Ontario.—. I must write
and tell you my experience with your
medicine. I was working at the factory
for three years and became so run-down
that I used to take weak spells and
would be at home at least one day each
week. I was treated by the doctors for
anemia, but it didn't seem to do me any
good. I was told to take a rest, but was
unable to, and kept on getting worse.
I was troubled mostly with my periods..
I would sometimes pass three months,
and when it came it would last around
two weeks, and Iwould have such pains at
times in my right side that I could hardly
walk. I am only 19 years of age and
weigh 118 pounds now, and before tak-
ing the Vegetable Compound I was only
108 pounds. I was sickly for two years
and some of my friends told me about
Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable:Com-
ppound and when I had taken bottle of
it I felt a change. My mother has been
taking it for a different ailment and has
found it very satisfactory. I am willing.
to tell friends about the 'medicine and
to answer letters asking about it."—
Miss HAZEL BERNDT,Box 700, Arnprior,
Ontario.
A day out each week shows in the pay
envelope. If you are troubled with some
weakness, indicated by a run-down con-
dition, tired feelings pains acv' irregu-
Iarity, let Lydia E. feelings,
Vegeta-
ble Compound help you, C
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