HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-2-4, Page 6ryi
HAD A BAD COLD
WITH PROLONGED
COUGHING.
YRIED NEARLY EVERYTHING
FINALLY
DR. WOOD'S
NORWAY PINE SYRUP
CURED HIM.
Mr, Wallace H. Grange, Vancouver,
•
13.C., writes: "During a cold spell here
about the middle of last October (1013),
I caught a cold which got worse despite
all treatments I could obtain, until
about November 22nd, a friend said,
'Why not try Dr. Wood's Norway
Pine Syrup?' Really, I had no faith in
it at the time as I had tried nearly every
other remedy I had heard of, to no avail,
but I thought I would give this last
remedy a trial. I purchased a 50 cen.t
bottle, and in three days I was feeling
a different man. My cold. was so hard,
and the coughing so prolonged, that
vongttag gccurred after a hard spell of
''scoughlng. I carried the bottle in my
pocket, and every time I was seized with
-- 'a emighing spell I would take.a small dose,
carsoTtn•Mt heartily -recommend Dr.
'roods Norway Pine Syrup to anyone
with a severe cold, as its powers are most
marvelous, and I never intend being
without it at all times."
When you ask for "Dr. Wood's" see
that you get what you ask for. It is
put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine
trees the trade mark; the price, 25e and
50; manufactured only by The T.
Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
FROM ERN'S GREEN ISIE
EWS BY MAIL FR OM I RE -
LAND 'S SHORES.
--a
Happenings in the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish-
men.
Lord Kitchener was born on June
24th, 1850, at Ballylongford, in the
County of Kerry, exactly 200 years
after the famous Duke of Marl-
borough was born in Devunshire.
The City of Dublin branch of the
British Red Cross Society has de-
eided te abandon the erection of a
hospital in the Phoenix Park at a
cost, of $50,000.
A telegram has been sent to Lord
Kitchener stating that the Ulster
Volunteers desire to place at his clis-
Ousel a fully equipped hospital with
one hundred beds in Belfast.
The total number of men who
have joined the new army and Spe-
cial Reserve in the province of Ul-
ster since the outbreak of the war
up to last week was 26,768.
Mr, Thomas Marshall, a -well-
known Holyhead resident, has been
charged with signalling with a
Morse code to a passing ship. He
was remanded for a week and allow-
ed ,bail -on13,000.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
has informed Mr. W. Abraham,
M.P. (Dublin), tat the government
have no control over the prices
charged by brewers for beer sold to
their customers.
The Government has taken ac-
tion against the seditious news-
papers in Ireland by warning them
that proceedings will be taken them
under the Defence of the Realm
Act if seditious matter appears.
A small daily paper started re-
cently named "Ireland," has been
abandoned, as the printer, it is
sthted, declined to take the respon-
sibility of printing it in view of the
warning given by the military au-
thorities.
The Ulster volunteer force hold
the record for big men. Sergeant
J. Bryan Stewart of the lith (U.V.
F.) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 32
years of age, is 6 ft. 1;4; inches in
height, chest 43.45 inches, 'and
weighs 24 stone.
Considerable damage was caused
by a fire that broke out at the
bleach -works of Messrs. Kirkpat-
rick Bros., Ballyclare. The gas -
house was practically destroyed, al-
though it is not expected that work
will be interrupted.
-
If You Wish to Be Well You
Must Keep tho Bowels Regular.
If the bowels do not move regularly
they will, sooner or later, become con-
stipated, and constipation is productive
of more ill healta than almost any other
trouble.
The sole cause of constipation is an
inactive liver, and unless the liver is
kept active you may rest assured that
headaches, Jaundice, heartburn, piles,
floating specks before the eyes, a feeling
as if you were going to faint, or catarrh of
the stomach will follow the wrorig action
of this, one of the most important organs
of the body.
Keep the live,, active and working
properly by the use of Milburn's Laxa-
Liver Pills.
Mrs, 141ijah A. .Ayer, Fawcett Hill,
1.1tBe writes; "I was troubled with
constipation for many years and about
three years ago my husband' wanted me
to try 11/Ii1burres Laxa-Liver Pills, as they
had cured him. I got a vial and took
them, and by the time I had taken three
vials Iwo cured. 1 alwaye keep them on
hand, and when I need a mild laxative 4
take one,"
Milburn's ',axe -Liver Pills are 26c a
vial, 6 vials for $1.00, at all dealers, or
mailed direct on receipt of price by The ,
'-hz. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont, I
AP' •
Hints for the Rome
re/
Miscellaneous Recipes.
cups bran, one
cup whole wheat flour, one table-
spoonful molasses, two .eggs, two
etips triilk, one teaspoouful salt? two
teaspoonfuls baking powder, raisins.
Bake twenty-five minute's.
Bran Bread -same recipe as for
muffins, but no eggs or baking pow-
der. Use one yeast cake: •
To Roast Potatoes -Peel and wash
potatoes and put them With the
meat in the roasting pan. Leave
them until they are well browned
and serve them on the same platter
with the roast.
Gravy -Take some of the fat from
the pan, use four tablespoonfuls
with four tablespoonfuls of batter
and stir theta together and let this
mixture dredge in the pan. Add
gradually one and a half cups of
boiling water, cook five minutes,
season with saltand pepper, and
strain.
Timbale ot Pumpkin. -One pint of
stewed and sifted pumpkin, one
tablespoonful of 'butter, four eggs
beaten, half a eupfal of sugar, one-
fourth teaspoonful of cinnamon and
half a pint of milk. Pour into but-
tered molds. Set in a, pan of water
in a moderate oven until firm,
When the timbales are cold, un -
mold and serve with whipped cream.
Steauted Fruit Pudding. -Cover
the bottom of a butter mold with
dices of bread lightly buttered.
Over this place a layer of stewed
apples or peaches, then another
layer of bread and butter, alternat-
ing with the fruit until the mold is
three-quarters full. Pour over this
a custard composed of two eggs,
one-half a cup of ,sugar and a pint
of milk. Fasten the cover of the
mold tight, drop into boiling water
and steain one hour. Serve with
foamy sauce or sweetened cream.
Ginger Oreents.-One cupful of
white sugar, one-half cupful of bak-
ing molasses, one cupful of sweet
milk, one teaspoonful of soda dis-
solved in the milk, one teaspoonful
each of ginger and cloves, three cup-
fuls of flour. Add ingredients as
named. Spread thinly in tins. Bake
and when cool frost with powdered
sugar and cut into squares. This is
a good recipe to help cut the high
cost of living, as there are neither
eggs nor shortening in them. They
are fine forsehikhren's luncheons:
Mixed Fruit Pudding. -Peel and
core enough tart apples to fill a
deep baking pan. Fit them in snug-
ly and fill in the holes left by the
cores with seedless raisins and. bits
of shredded -citron and lemon peel.
Dust with sugar. Pour over them
half a cupful of water and bake in a
slow oven until perfectly tender.
Remove them from the oven, sprin-
kle lightly with bread mumbs, dust
with sugar and bake 10 minutes
longer. Serve with the following
sauce: -Beat together in a stewpan
one tablespoonful of flour and one-
half cupful. of sugar. Pour over
this a cup of boiling water and bring
to a. boil. Remove from the fire and
pour this slowly over one egg well
beaten. Fla,vor with a dash of le-
mon. Pour over the baked fruit and
serve immediately.
*Useful Hints.
Linen is a fabric which can be
easily dyed at home.
Never mix any salad with dress-
ing until you are ready to use it.
Macaroni as an article of food is
rather more val-uable than bread.
A very practical way to finish a
floor is to paint it with linseed oil.
A wire bread o -r cake cooler is a
handy thing to have in the kitchen.
If a felt hat is faded or shabby,
the mown may be cut off to form a
toque foundation.
A pretty way to serve hot bistuits
is folded in a napkin on a sweet -
grass basket, •..withsa, handle.
When a box of sardines is opened
it should be drained of its oil at
once and the fish turned out.
To have dumplings fluffy and
light keep the pot boiling- steadily
from the time they are dropped in.
It is best not to serve the same
dish twice a week, unless it be a
vegetable, as everyone likes variety.
Damp !salt is an excellent thing to
remove stains on eups; and saucers
caused by tea and careless washing.
If a room :is filled with smoke,
open windows and wave a towel wet
in vinegar and hot waster around in
it.
The thoughtful housewife saves all
the waxed paper that comes to the
house for cracker an.d other boxes.
Salt on the fingers, when eleaning
fowl or fish, will prevent slipping,
and a little vinegar on the hand,s
will prevent odor.
You will have no trouble with
your thread kinking if you thread
the needle before breaking thread
from the reel,
tread should not be put into a,
too hot even* it should not brown
for the first ten minutes, and only
gr 44.1.18,11y after wards.
To renovate a white enaend bed-
stead rub the iron parts all over
with a °loth dipped in paraffin ;
then paint it with white enamel
paint.
In heating the oven, the drafts
ehould be Closed when the coal is
eveN started. In a word, to save
feel plan ahead and then watch
drafts,
After washing quilts and comforts
and while they ,tere silt on the line
but 4ear1y day, beat them with a
carpet' heater and they will be wone
eleefullY;
A goed way to :clean mirrors is to
wipe them with a pad dipped in
whiting and warnawatee. Then dry
with a eaft cloth and poalo with a
piece of. eharaeie
If eggs are plaeed in but water a
few minutes before breaking the
whites will separate from the yolks
very easily. They should be cooled
before startingto whip the White.
A paint' brush will get dust out ef
cracks better than any duster will,
for a elati ottrini5t reach all the eor-
um. Try the bruth when You are
cleaning baseboards, Window sash-
es, ete., and you will appreciate it.
After you have washed :the cur-
rants for a pudding, dry them, and
five minutes before you need them
steain them' well in a colander. This
partly cooks theM and makes them
swell, and their fall flavor comes
out.
Many people throw boots and
shoes away when they have plenty
of life is them th serve their own-
ers. This is espeeially the case with
children's boots'. Instead of dis-
carding the hard boots, soak them
well in warm olive oil and then dry
them and polish with a duster. Af-
terward clean thern with ordinary
polish.
New Deadly Weapon.
This little steel arrow, about the
same size as a pencil, is in great
favor with the French aviators, The
Flechette, as it is -called, when
dropped from a height of 3,000 feet,
will penetrate a man feoni his hel-
met to his feet. Members of the
.French Aviation Corps have also
been experimentingwith. this arrow
for use against dirigibles. Tieeatise
of the easier manoeuvring and great
speed of the aeroplane it can readily
soar over the dirigible and drop
these Flechettes on the gas bag and
probably explode the enemy's craft.
GERMAN TOYS. •
A Movement Has Begun' to Reform
Their Character,
Certain cities of Germany, particu-
larly Nurembergahave since mediaeval
times been celebrated for their toys.
The Nuremberg dolls, with porcelain
faces, have enjoyed a celebrity that
began in the fourteenth century. At
the same time, the people of Nurem-
berg began to make dolls' houses much
like those that children admire so
much to -day. In the year 1572, the
Elector Augustus of Saxony ordered a
table service for his three daughters,
consisting, among other things, of
seventy-one plates, 150 glasses, thirty-
six tablespoons, and twenty-eight egg
cups. That collection has been pre-
served to this day. In a sense it is an
historical document, as it contains no
forks. Forks came later. Albert IV
of Bavaria had a very realistic house
made for his children. It was com-
plete frofn cellar to greenhouse, and it
included even a household, ehapel and
a ballroom. In the grdunds were
stables and a menagerie.'
In recent years there is a movement
in Germany to reform the character of
the toys, a movement that' has the
hearty support of educators. Those
who lead the movement have set their
faces against the kind of toys with
which the market le too often crowded
-realistic' imitations etiotit- which
there is no atmosphere of strangeness
or romance, and which, for the most
part, are commonplace and ugly.
The Dresden toys, so called are de:
signed to remedy this fault; to hold
the child's attention by the beauty and
simplicity of their design, and by soine
fantastic deviation from the actual.
The toys are the work of men who are
interested in encouraging an artistic
instinct in the young. Most toys do
not foster the child's inherent feeling
for beauty and harmony, but actually
repress it by reason of their conven-
tionallty and ugliness. The new toys
are at once simpler and more the pro-
duct of the imagination. They strongly
resemble the wood carvings of primi-
tive peoples, whose imaginative facul-
ties were mucb like those of the child-
ren of to -day.
The toys manufactured on the Dres-
den plan do not look at all machine -
Made. They have a mivelty, an in-
dividuality that pleases the child. 13e-
s1des the single figures, there are
groups designed on the same plan -
farms, villages, or menageries. In
such series, the toys are colored on a
simple and effective basis of color
harmony.
Among the prdminent reformere of
children's toys is the author, Frank
Wedekind, who is also the inventor of
the "German discus" and the "bicycle
swing," which are intended to develop
In older -children agility as well as
control of the body' e movernente
through will power and sureness of
eye.
THE SUNDAY SCH01 STUDY'
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
liEBRUARY 7.
Lossen VL, Rnth Chooses the True
0 -Rut h 1,, Golden Text,
Ruth I.-16.
Verse O. That she naight return
from the :country of Moab.e-Naosni
went out from Bethlehem -Judah
with her husband and two sons.
They were -called' Ephrathites. This
is another word foe Epirraimites as
found in judg. 12, 5 ;1 Sam, 1 1;
1 Kings 11. 26, Bethlehem is •spoken
of as Ephratath. k wee too "small
to be ainong 'the families kg Judah,"
but it was "the finest site in all the
province of Judas," (George Adam
Smith). Bethlehem as is well
known, is made up of two words,
"Beth," meaning "house," and
"Lehem," meaning "bread". The
name "house of bread" indicates
that the eountry was exceedingly
fertile, ,
jehovah had visited hiapeople,-
This is a :ceminon expreesson in the
Old Testament to denote the bene-
fice.nee of- God (see Genes..21.ale.50..
24, 25; Exod. 4. 31; 1 " ;
Psa. 80, 14).
7. Went on the way to return
unto the land of jaclah.-It ..was
customary fel: the host to stecem-
pany the guest a certain distance
along his way. Doubtless -Naomi
thought that her two daughtersein-
law would go with her for a distance
and then would returnato their own
homes. As the next verse shows,
when they had gone with her as far
as she thought they ought to, she
said to them, "Go, return each of
you to her mother's house?' She
presses them to. return.
9. She kissed them. -The kiss was
the usual. greeting at meeting and
parting. It isstill the salutation
in the Orient among men as well as
woman (see Gen. 29. 11; 31. 55;
4a:od, 4. 27). It was a mark of
friendliness. There are two in-
stances where it was used forfoul
purposes. Under the guise of
friendship, Saab kissed Amasa, and
thus taking him- unawares, killed
him (2 Sam. 20.9). . Another in-
stante is the • well-known one of
judas.
10. Nay, but we will return with
thee unto thy people. -Both of the
daughters-in-law, it would seem,
were determinedto return with
Naomi. After the fervent appeal
of Naomi, as. -recited in verses -11-13,
Orpah weakened in her determin-
ation to adcompany her mother-in-
law; but Ruth (verse 14) "dame
unto her." The friendliness of Ruth
went•far deeper 'than that of Orpah.
15. Behold thy sister-in-law is
gone back unto her people, and un-
to her god: return thou after thy
sister-in--law.-Even after Orpah
had gone, Naomi insisted upon Ruth
going., She • wanted to 'give Ruth
every' opportunity to go back, net
only to her peonle, but to her god;
as it was believed among the Israel-
ites that, the God of Israel did not
have power ovei the people of other
nations. David at one time pleads
that he be not sent away from bis
own country and from the protec-
tion of the God of Israel (1 Sam.
26. 17-20). .
16. Entreat me not to leave thee.
-This and the following verse ex-
press so emphatioally Ruth's desire
to ;remain with Naomi that there
could he no other question in
Naomi's mind as th Ruth's determ-
ination and -steadfastnees. The
beauty of the, language of these two
verses is captivating and shows
that "out of the- fullness of the
h.eart the mouth speaketh," that
beauty of form is associated with
beauty of thought and conviction.
(See 2 Kings 2. 2-6 for a similar. epi-
sode between Elijah and Elisha).
17. Jehovah' do so to me, and
More a,lso.-This is a, Oommon form
of oath among the Israelites and
amhng other people who came in
close association with the Israelites
(See 1 Sam. 3, 17; 14. 44; 20. 13; 2
Sam. 3. 9, 35;19. 13; 1.Kings 2. 23;
2 Kings 6. 31).
18. She left off speaking unto her.
-It is an easy;play for the imagin-
ation 60 see these two women talks
ing in ;the *road together, stopping
as they frankly and firmly express
their views one to the other, but
when the matter is settled, going on
their way with gladness.. •
44
German Soldiers Go Mad.
George Prado,
special Paris cor-
respondent at the front, ,declares
that he saw a German train paint-
ed red, go through Aix-lasChapelle
from Belgium, filled with German
soldiers who had been driven mad
by the war. "Alf exits were seal.
el," he writes. "The carriage,s were
padded everywhere and each eon-
ta,ined a dozen or more soldiers,
who were writhing, shouting,
foaming at the mouth? or scream-
ing deliriously. Station officials
told me that the red train made Itre-
quent trips [whenever the allies' ar-
tillery had beet active, and that
after the murderous Yser fight it
ran continuously." '
If it were not for your memory
you would be unable to forget
THE GREAT GRAND DUKE.
Present Commander-nachlef of the
Ruselan Army,
If the Rassian army is a niole
efficient instrument to -day tha.zx it was
ten years ago, it has the Grand Duke
Nicholas, its present commander iIi
chief to' thattit: After the disasters at
the Japaneee War, the grand duke, ale
ready well Itn.owii` as a brilliant cav-
airy officer, undertook to reorganize
the array, and the event has proved
that he really performed wonders. In
speed ot inobilizatioa, agility of move-
ment, aud, intelligent response to the
stragetical opportuniVes of. the cem-
paign, the Russian forces actually
showed something 'that approached
evert the high standard of their Ger-
: man" enemy.
During the Japanese War Nicholas
: was given no oppartwaty to distin-
guish himself; some observers believe
, that the Czar's jealousy of his ihore
brilliant Cousin had something to do
with that, But with the' collapse of
the other military leaders, the grand
duke's chance Games and no one else
; was suggested for the chief command
when the present war broke out. Not
(only is he in authority in the field; no
Ione else has so much influence with
the Czar. Indeed, his position in Rus-
sia to -day- is said to be almost that of
O dictator, without the tramangs of the
office. - 9
In person, the grand duke is a strik-
ing figure; he is six feet and six inch-
es in height, espare and active, with
the -delicate feature_ and graceful
bearing of the eristocrat, In youth his
head Was covered with short golden
curls; now at fifty-eight their is not
much. hair left, and that has turned
gray. His eyes are • blue and very
keen, his nose is prominent, his mouth
determined and a little cruel in ex-
pression, ' and his chin strong. His
periOnality is so much more remark-
able than that of any of the descend-
ants of Alexander II -he is himself.
the son of a brother of that monarch
-that he has always had to bear
some suspicion and dislike both from
Alexander and from the present
Czar Nicholas II. It is because he
has niade himeelf indispensible to the
latter monarch that he has risen to
power at last.
No ane Was of more service than
the grand duke in restoring order and
confidence after the hurailiating break-
down 'of Russian credit at the end of
the .Japanese War. No ,ene could- aa
cuse Nicholas .01 being anything, but
a believer in the essentials ef Russian
autocracy, but he is said to hare .sup-
ported Count de Witte agahist .the re,-
actionary party at that, time, .and. it
was his arguments, so we are told,
that 'finally persuaded the Czer • to
summon the first Duma. -
The father of the grand duke was a
man of very dissipated Jife, and the
conduct 91 the son hat not been above
reproach, Yet he has an intellect, an
ambition, and a patriotism that would
not let him wholly weste his life in
ignoble ways. In blood he is half ,Ger-
mare for his mother was of the ducal
house of Oldenburg. As a young alien
he . recouped the family's financial
fortunes, which his father's extrava-
gances had ,brought low, by a moiga-
matic marriage with the rich, widow ot
a Moscow tea merchant. After her
death he married the Princess Apes -
taste of Montenegro, • who is sister of
the Queen of Italy. Both princesses
spent much of their girlhood in the
royal family at Petrograd, and • the
Grand. Dake is said always to have
been in love with his present wife.
FINEST. FIGHT EVER WA.GED.
structions for lieutenant to re-
ma co
ain out with vermg party, and
went to seareh the dead to see who
they belonged to. I was just in the
middle. of the job, when), on looking
into the trench, I found it hill of live
Germans, who at onee opened fire.
How they missed me I don't lenow,
as I was absolutely on the point of
stepping seeress the treileh.
• "The thing gave; me such a shock
that meet of the Germane got away.
However, the stafi are awfully
-rhteased at as having cleared them
out at all, I don't think the Ger-
mans can hold out much longer --I
I mean here. Their losses are enor-
mous and their men give me the im-
pression that they try to get wound-
ed or taken prisoners."
GET FUN OUT OF A FIGHT:.
British Take Hardships and Death
Lightheartedly.
When Oxfords Were Pitted *Against
the Germans.
The personal element in waffare-
the battle of brains against brains -
is strikingly illustrated in a letter
from a captain of the 52nd Foot, 2nd
Battalion, Oxfordshire and Bucking-
hamshire Light Infantry. Writing
to his sister he says :
"We were sent ,off to help the
Guards to hold up a line previously
held by a regiment sahich wae al-
most annihilated because they were
not dug in deep enough. As soon as
it was light the Gerina;ns opened
with all guns. Lots of our men were
buried in the trenches, but we "got
out into others.
`-`About three o'clock, I saw the
regiinent an our left retiring. This
was the absolute devil, as it meant
I had to get out. I was told to re-
tire and try and stop the Germans
getting past a certain road. From
then on it was awful. As aeon as,
we left the trenches they opened on
us with every gun and rifle.
"Luckily I got the new position
and collected. about 150 men.
Things looked real nasty, as the
Germans were pouring in through
the gap and filling the welod,we were
in. Under the circumstances I
,thought to do something unexpetted
might upset their ,apple -cart. • So
we fixed bayonets and went straight
in. 'We had the finest fight that ever
was fought. We fleet -came on some
fifty of them,. went straight in, and
atnihilated them. We were very
quickly into the next lot, and in a
few minutes we were shooting, bay-
oneting and annihilating every-
thing we carne across.
"To mit a long story shoat, we
drovethe whole crowd back. I had
five holes in my coat as a souvenir.
We went on occupying this position
in the trenehes, which was vitally
important, for about three days.
The German trenches; were only
twenty-five yam& in front of us. It
was very; uncomfortable having
them so close. Ilw•o subalterns and
two voldere placed themselves so
ekilfally behind a ;big hump in the
ground that they saw the whole
length of the German trenches.
They then let drive with their rifles,
with the result that they stampeded
the lot and killed forty.
"I afterwards took a party of
twenty-five to reconrioitre, mia we
found these forty dead. In feat, in
a space of 150 yards, there may have
been 400 or 500 dead. I gave in -
Nothing more clearly' 'shows the
excellent spirit of our brave sol-
diers than the light-hearted manner
in which hardship, and even death
itself, is faced The man who
marehes to action with a rollicking
song on his lips, who finds nick-
names for the very guns heeling de-
struction at him, , and who ina:kes a
a jest even of his own sufferings, is
a hard Juan to beat.
First ad 1lus Toininy' 'Atkiii• 4-1S
a sportsman, and even when en-
gaged in the -grim game of war he
cannot Sorget entirely the pastimes
of peace, as witness the following
incident, One of our batteries was
firing at a building occupied by the
enemy, and our lads in the trenehes
watched the proceedings eagerly.
At the third discharge the target
crumpled up. like a house of cards,
and a prostrate spectator flung -up
his arms excitedly- and yelled:
``Goall B:arcly himself couldn't
have stopped that tne."
Again, when at Mons the long
days of retreat became. days of -ad-
Vance for our troops, a jubilant Bri-
tish private described the situation
tersely as "Half-time. Change
over." Another football enthusiast,
painfally, away from the
firing -line, -answered a sympathetic
inquiry with a sniile, and the ex-
planation, Got fouled in the pen -
That magnificent bit of marks-
ma.nship, when H.M.S. Birmingham
shot away the periscope of a Ger-
than submarine, was aptly described
by one of the crew, who remarked,
"Arellbow-led. Just took the bail
nicely,"
During the early days of the war
the scarcity of blankets was a fre-
quent topic in the teenehes. "I hear
there'll be a lot of chaps without
blankets to -night," said one "Tom-
my." No sooner had he spoken
than a perfect hurricane of lead
swept over them. "If We geb much
of this there'll be blankets without
men, I'm thinking," came the grim
A. private in the trenehea, raising
himself to -get a glimpse of the foe,
had his sleeve ripped open by a bul-
let. "Well, 111 be darned," he,
said, quiizically..Anetheri on.being
told by: his pal that they were fac-
ing a, million ot the enemy, took
careful aim; fired, and replied,
"No, lad; only' 999,999."
Two riflemen were discussing the
enormous amount of lead used
daily, and one suggested the possi-
bility. Of a shortage. "No, fear,"
said his chum. "Lead's economical
stuff; you can make a little go a
long way." It' eva,s an Irishman
Who on heariag, that the Gerana,n
soldiers have an aversion to "eold
steel," promptly retorted, "Share,
then, . we'll jist make it hot for
them:"
AN ESKIMO'S TRADE. • '
Give Anything He • POSSeSeS for
'Whet He Really Wants.
Among the Eekimos of the Bering
Sea region, there is no fixed value
for whalebone, fere, or anything
they mayhaveto trade. If one of
them hes anything of value, he will
keep- it until som,e, white man an-•
pears withsomething that appeals
th his eye. And the money value of
what may take him does not nude°
any difference to him. -If he has .2,
trinket that maybe wath a dollar,'
and some one offers th give him for
it something that is worth a thou-
sand .clellars, but of which be has
no need, he ,will refuse to trade.
Bat he will give anything be pos-
sesses for what he -really wants.
An Eskimo of St. La,wrence Is-
,
land, in Bering Sea, made IL catch
one season of a big' besehead whale.
The head of baleen was worth be-
tween ten and. fifteen thousand del -
here: He knew the approximate
value of the heacl, but he held en to
it with no apparent desire to trade.
One day a trader appeared with a
small gasoline launch, valued • at
perhaps two or three hundred dol-
lars. The sight of that so took the
native that he !straightway traded
his head of bone for it.
.Far Out in the ,straits, one day he
ran out of gasoline. He abandoned
the llamas for the 'canoe he was
towing, and paddled back to the
island. But he did not regret his
trade. He was. Satisfied, and ready
to try for another whale. '•
THE LAST:MILITARY ARCHERS.
Only One 'Hundred Years Since,
. We think of the bow and arrow -ail
mediteVal weapone of war, abandon-
ed by the nations of Europe four or
five eentariea ago ; the bowmen of
Crecy ,are the 'last of any pro/Isis
litat News.
'Affected •Her....
Many people who have been reading
the terrible war news from day to day,
especially those who have relatives at
the seat of war, have become so nervous
that it is impossible for them to sleep.
The nerves have become unstrung and
the heart perhaps affected.
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills will
build up the unstrung nervous system
and strengthen the weak heart.
Miss Hildia Dicaire, Martintown,
Ont., writes: "In August, 1914, I was
out of school for my health. I was visit-
ing friends in London, and heard of the
war. It made me go nervous that I
could not sleep, but after using Mil -
burn's Heart aud Nerve Pills I improved
greatly, and could take my school again.
I have recommended them to many of
41
my friends."
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are
50e per box, 3 boxes for $1.26 at all
dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited,
Toronto, Ont.
peace in English history. Yet it
is only one hundred -years since sol-
dierefought with .bOWs and arrows "
in European wars, ,and that, too, on
the fields of southern Belgium, •
where the present war began.
It was in 1813, when all Europe
was armed against Napoleon. Every.
one of the allied nations brought
every possible resource of men and
means to further this, end. Ansoag
them was Russia. -To, the war she
sent soldier's from the newly con-
quered tribes that dwelt upon the
steppes of Asia: Bokharans and
Turkomans and Tatars and other
half -savage peoples. Many of
these regiments Were, armed with
bows and arrows. Jomini, the mili-
tary historian, speaks, of a great.
number of -these that fought side by
-side with the Prussiesns in eastarn
Germany and in Belgium and he.'
says., that then , bowmen ;held their
own against the French infantry.
Their •aim, hessays, was, surprisingly
good, and they cerild shoot an. ar-
row with effect abaiost as far as a
musket ball was - effective -hat in
those days that was not much mere
than a. hundred yards.
FORETOLD BY ANIMALS.
There Are Many Superstitions Con-
nected With Them.
In the ease of a lion, it is believed
that the wearing of a claw of this
animal will bring great strength.
People coiln
neeted with • eie se.s.
and shows have a saying:that whers
lions get restless, •and uneasy either
ilhluek or extremely bad weather is
ab hand, and that .when they con-
tinually wash their faces in eat -like,
fag -lien they are likely to have its.
of ill -temper in the near future. •
Numberlees are the superstitions.
associated with the tiger. • The na-
tives of India believe that its whiek-
ers are a deadly poison, and t
when finely ehopped and secret.
introduced into person's food they -W
wiFI assuredly cause death.' hat is,
known as "the evil eye" is greatly
dreaded in India, and th avert this.
parents hang the claws of tigers
round the necks of their children.
To eee a wolf is supposed th be a
good sign, but if a man sees a wolf
before the wolf seesthim then he will
either become ,durnb for the time or.
loFseorhiat
haretso; run across anyone's
path is considered- a very bad sign
in some parts of England,' because
in olden times it raS believed that
witches transformed themselves in-
to hares in order to bring bad hick
th their enemies.
.5
Kaiser's Own War Movies.
Moving pictures which are being
used ,to arouse ,the patriotic im-
pulses of the German people appear
to have been taken with the Em-
peror's hearty co-operation, for
they represent him talking to his
staff, inspecting his teoops, and
chatting with the Crown Prince
very near to the camera,. These pic-
tures' are so numerous and clear.
that no ;photographer could possi-
bly have set up his eamera so dose
-
without royal approval.
THE WEAK SPOT
1111 THE BACK.
, 'When the kidneys get Ul the back
givee out.
But the back is not to blame.
The ache comes from the kidneys,
which lie'tinderthe small of the back.
Therefore, dull pain in the back, or
sharp, quick twinges, are warnings of
sick kidneys -warnings of kidney trouble.
Plasters and liniments will not cure
a bad back, for they cannot reach the
kidneys which cause it.
Doan's Kidney Pills reach the kidneys
themselves. They are a special kidney
and bladder medicine. They heal the
diseased, surface of kidneys and bladder,
and help them to act freely and naturally.
Men Feu -gist With Bows.
'40
• Mrs. Chester Romain, Port Coulonge,
Que., writes; "I had been trbubled with ...
sore back for over four years, and could
get nothing to do me any good until
I heard of your Doan's Kidney Pills,
I got three boxes, and took them and
now I am conmletely cured."
Doan's Kidney Pills are 60c a box,
3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed
direct on receipt of priec by the T. Mile
burn Co., Limited, Tomato,
Whea ordering direct specify Doan's.°'