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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-6-10, Page 3YOU. SHOULD BE AFRAID OF A COUGH OR COLD. Coughs and colds •do not call for a minute recital of symptoms .as they are well known to everyone, but their dangers are not so well known, All the most serious affections of the throat, the lungs and the bronchial tubes are, in the be- ginning, but coughs end colds, Many people when they contract It slight cold do not pay any attention to it, thinking perhaps that it will pass away in a day or two. The upshot is that before they know it, it has settled on their lungs. Too much stress cannot be laid on the fact that .on the first sign of a cough or cold it must be gotten rid of immediately, as faire to do this may cftuse years of sufferiig from serious lung, trouble. • DR„ WOOD'S NO WAY PANE SYRUP will cure the cough or ,cold and prove a preventative from all throat and lung troubles. such as bronchitis, pneumonia and consumption. Mrs. B. 1i, Druce, Brighton, Ont., writes: "I am sending you my testi- mony of your Dr. Wood's l 'orway Pine Syrup,' telling you what it did for my little girl. The doctor had given her ,up as she was, as we thought, going into a decline with the cough she had. X was told by a lady friend to try "Dr. Wood's" 'and when she had taken two bottles she was on her feet again, and four bottles •cured. her. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is the best cure for coughs and colds. It is put upin a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; the price, 25c and 50e; manufactured only by The T. Milburn. Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. BROKE UP GERMAN ATTACK esassesseaitastessaStemareesteekSISta:. Gerni;any planned the introduc- tion of poisonous gas as •a potent agency of warfare. The gas innovation was no mere murderous impromptu. The gas factor was to be the contribution of German science to a movement that would revolutionize the west- ern campaign against the allies and dazzle the world with proofs of Germany's military genius. The ,history of the present war may crate flee visible collapse of Germany's hopes from the result of the fighting at Langernarck. Ger- many called chemical science to her aid and poisoned the air with the gas that was to clear the way for the irresistible advance of the Kai- ser's .army. It was not the Kai- ser's advance, but the vapor of Canada's ob,struetion of that ad- vance that proved irresistible, Canada is doomed to study a weary and apparently unending list of earn ties that records the heroic names Canada's killed, wounded and missiag. The dead, the suffer- ing and the captives are not the forgotten victims of an obscure i`'irmish.. The untried troops from Canada threw themselves across the conquering pathway which Ger- man chemistry head cleared for the mightiest attack that German stra- tegy could plan. Canada's sol- diers broke up that attack. They dislocated the plans of Germany's great general staff. They grudged neither life, limb nor liberty for the Empire which they served, and for the country ,whose name they carried to victory. The action in which so many Canadians fought and fell m,ay be remembered as the turning point in this war, as a battle that changed the thistoxy of the world. A. Useless Dog. Mrs. Hanley was greatly excited when a. neighbor :came in to call upon her one morning. "Just think,.' said she, waking over to the other e.nd ' of the room, "that fellow entered in broad daylight and actually stole the *leek off the mantelpiece." "And you .say your dog was in the very same room 1" "Yes, but he couldn't do .any- thin.g," returned Mrs. Hanley, ily. "tido is only a watchdog." In order to enjoy life a man must be a little miserable occasion- ally. SUFFERED .WITH LAME BACK. Could Hardly Straighten Up For Pain. When the back becomes lame and tarts to ache it is the sure sign of kidney trouble. Doan's Kidney Pills cure the aching back by curing the aching' kidneys be- neath -for it is really the kidneys aching and not the back. This isWhy ,"Doatn's" cures are lasting -the inMicine cures the actual cause of the diseese, the kidneys. Mr. J. W. Aylett, South Oshawa, Ont., writes: "I have much pleasure in recommending Doan's Kidney Pills. Last summer X suffered with a lame back. Sometimes I could hardly straighten up Ior the pain. I read about Doan's Cidney Pills and decided to give thetn.z. trdal, I • can truthfully a say thatthe 'ecoid boX cured ire, I can recommend them toall as a speedy cure to all suffer - hg with backache." . • Doari's Kidney Pills are 50c per box Iboxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed greet oe receipt of price by The 1. NFilbtirn Cos ; Limited Toronto, Ont. When orderiag clireetspecify "Doan's.", Make Tour Kitchen Sanitary,. Many of the articles whioh are published from • time to time on. sanitation in the home are nob read by many housewives) because of the uninteresting way in which'they are written. Here is an article by Alice 11. Quin by, which appeared in Safe MUk,. published by City Dairy Co., Toronto. It splendidly combines an interesting story with an instructive article, and every housewife can benefit by the lesson, as well as fully enjoy' the reading. "You are always so fussy and particular and forever 'talking about sanitation and hygiene that I want you to .see my eanita.ry kit- Chen.", It was my newly -married siste} talking. I was paying my first visit to her at her new home in a distant city. I was glad it was my sister, because I would not have dared •talk ars plainly to anyone else as I did to her concerning the con- dition in which'I found her kitelhen. "Naw Betty, isn't it .absolutely immaculate 1 Doesn't it come up to .even your high standards for sanitary kitchens l" • Her kitchen did look immaculate and it appeared to be as sanitary as one could desire, but I saw many things which were not in keeping with my idea of perfect sanitation and without hesitation I told my sister about it. The boor was of a reddish composition with rounded corners and running up several feet like a wainscotting. There were tiles about the range and her sink was of white porcelain. It did look dainty enough, but there were only two spnlali windrows, These were high up and the lower half thickly shaded with sash curtains, while Clark shades were drawn down to meet them, "In the first place," I explained, "take ,down those sash curtains, put tip the Shades and get a new door leading to the back porch which is .at least half glass. You have no sun in your kitchen, and without suns your kitchen cannot be calledsanitary. Sunshine is better than all the ether things in the world for destroying germs and promoting cleanliness." Then 1 began to criticize my sis- ter's kitchen from beginning to en,d. I pointed out to her that white tiles and porcelain sink and composition floors are by no means all there is to sanitation. In one corner was a white willow waste basket in which cracker boxes, pa- pers that came around groceries and meats and other things had been tossed. I told her that this waste basket was not sanitary. She was inclined to doubt me until I explained that the little particles of food from the papers would at- tract flies and other things, and that in the tiny crevices between the woven willow strands of the •basket all sorts of little things might hatch out. "Get a. metal waste basket," I said, "and then you can clean it every day by set- ting it in the sink and pouring boiling water over it. In this way you may be sure neither roa,ch•es nor flies will deposit their eggs in it, nor can any dirt collect in it for a sufficient length of time to breed germs." My sister .was forced to agree with me and made a note of it. Then .she looked as though she were challen.ging me to fund any- thing else that was wrong. I did. First I told her to throw away the tin sink strainer and get one of white enamel,,as the tin would, rust, dirt would collect in the ,corners, and in spite of ordinary cleaning, it would become a breeding glace for germs. To. prove this I picked up a wooden skewer and ram it around th•e corners of the strainer, scraping ute a quantity of dirt:- My sister looked painedand surprised. "1 scrubbed that out thoroughly this morning," she said. I explain- ed to her that a white enamel sink strainer with rounded corners Weald be .cleaned perfectly but the tin ones .and` the cheap colored enameled, ones would not. The next thing I noticed was an egg beater hanging up at the kit- chen pantry. My sister said she always scalded it before using, but with a pin I picked out my spots of dirt which had collected in the ore- vices, "What . shall 1 deo 1" asked my isister, and I' told her to get the egg beaters which are enclosed in glass. Tlhey are !exceedingly sim- ple, there are no cogs or 'blades to collect the dirt and they are always kept away from the dirt inside the glass jars. Her meat' chopper was arranged to fasten on. her kitchen table, and she had a board which curved around' in order ibo. collect ,es ery- thing that went through it. She thought it was, e, pretty good idea until with, a kitchen knife I scraped the surface of. that board and proved be her that it was not possi- ble. to keep any board absolutely clean if anything moist were used on it. I told her about ordinary parchment paper, how to buy it by the roll, :and how to out, off a Ismail piece to put under the chopper, throwing ,away the paper ,after it was thus used, I also advised her to put this paper over her meat board and to use it in various other manners. Out on the back porch her dish cloths, two of them, were hanging to dry, "Three times a day you wash these out in clean hot water and suds and then rinse them," I told her: "It takes at least twenty minutes of your time every day to wash them out, hang them up and bring thein in again. If you would buy paper dish cloths, which ¢nay be secured at about 15 cents a dozen, you would save all this ex- tra work and bother, and they uuld Lost you scarcely more than the soap you use three times a day to keep the cloth ones clean." These paper dish cloths, I explain- ed, are tough and insoluble and will not go to pieces and get on the sink drain. I noticed that the .milk bottle in her refrigerator had the paper cap top removed. I told her she should always keep an inverted tumbler oyez; the bottle to prevent the milk becoming contaminated. I made her promise me also to use pasteurized milk, warning her that raw milk even when produced under the most ,sanitary conditions was unsafe. I told her to look up her milk man and at the earliest opportunity visit the milk plant employing him and ask the proprietors to show her through and explain the different methods they use to protect the health of their customers and to be sure to ask if all their milk is pas- teurized before being delivered -to see for herself just how it is done. Now my sister had a really good kitchen, probably better than the average. It cost her husband a great deal of money to have it fit- ted up for he -r, but as I have al- ways maintained white tiles alone do not make for sanitation. They are greatly to be desired, but un- less you watch out for the little things, such apparently inconse- quential things as I found in my sister's kitchen, all the white tiles in the world will not mean •cle.anli- ness. It is better to have plain whitewashed walls and a. scoured, wooden , iioor together with such cleanliness as I have described than it is to have a strictly modern kit- chen and then equip it with inferior and unsanitary utensils .which col- lect dirt and aid in breeding germs. r � Be Whole and Wholesome. To gain your own respect es well as that' of your neighbor, you must be neat and physically attractive. Beauty in ,slovenly .attire dales not appeal half so strongly .as comeli- ness in ,oleen raiment, and, what- ever your condition in life, you can keep yourself whole and wholesome. The wise farmer sees that his cat- tle are wholesomely and eomfort- ably housed, knowing the penalty of negligence ; how much more .neces- sary it should seem to him to have dverything around the house sani- tary and.comfortable. Most of all, the drainage should be as perfect as possible; to .breathe pure air is absolutely essential to health, and he who neglects his drainage and plumbing invites a host of skeletons into the shouse that will not be closeted. A person whose body is untidy is apt to have an untidy soul; for there is an influence in the outer raiment over the mind and soul that is far-reaching • and strongly defined. A clean blouse and skirt, fresh neckwear, pretty slippers and a dainty white apron, donned in the afternoon by the tired housewife are restful and soothing. She for- gets that she has labored, when the traces of her toil are removed ; it •is a merciful Providence that change's the currents of our thoughts with a change of clothing, or environment. Nine women out of ten, if. con- culted about the nature of a gift, will choose something for personal adornment. This is not vanity ;• it is a justifiable desire to make a pleasing appearance. The hopelessness and wickedness of the very poor is fostered by the untidy and unwholesome condition of their surroundings, from which there is no escape, rather than by natural depravity. • A physically clean is usually a morally clean man, for physical Cleanliness is a long step toward spirituality. . The voice should be trained to be musical, the hands to be h,elpful, the mind filled with pure thoughts; then, and only then, is m,an at his highest and best and his influence the strongest. A morally clean man, or woman, shames one who has some vice Ito 'conceal. The mob will follow the strongest leader; strength lies in purity, mental, moral and physical. Phillips Brooks, 'the great Bishop, eevayed thousands by his personal- ity; men, women and children loved ,and,reverenced him and his memory is an inspiration. -Shirley Strange In illness two pillows are mach better on a bed than a bolster and a pillow. TBE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONA1. LESSON, ;JUNE IS. LesAon xi, '1'he Blessednes t of Fore giveness.---Psa.. 32. Golden • Text, Psa. 32. 1. I. The Ileavy• Iland of Sin ('Verses t-4). Verses 1, 2. These t'Hr-t's recite the "blessing of forgiven -ewe" Saint Paul, in Romans 4, uses them forcibly in his argument. Blessed -Our Pealber (Pea. 1. 1) begins with this word alta weaves its happy charm theoughout the. musie of praise and thaukagiting. The word means "happy," as all blessing must bring happiness. Transgression . tits . ini- quity -These words frequently re- cur in the Old Testament. They m,eran, respectively, (1) rebellion, a forcible breaking of Cod's law ; (2) "missing the mark," or wandering from the way ; and (3) depravity, grave moral delinquency. These three wordsare repeated in verse 5. Forgiven , , , covered , .. imput- eth not iniquityaeA threefold par- don including all wrongdoing. "Forgive" means to take away the hurdlers (see John 1. 29); "co- ver" implies making the •sin to dis- appear so as not to meet the eye of the judge; and' "not to impute iniquity" is in the nature of a -can- cellation of the. debt which the debtor owes, but which he will net be required to pay. Guile -Deceitfulness. Absence of iniquity cannot be imputed were guile remains. There must be nei- ther self-deception nor an attempt to deceive God. 3. Bones -In.' Hebrew poetry, "the bones" denote the fundamen- tal part of the living organism. In Proverbs, they are ,spoken of as the seat - of health (16. 24) ; in Pea. 6. 2, of pain or vexation ; in Pea, 22. 14, the psalmist's bones (that is, the man himself, soul and spirit as well as body) are "out of joint" because of the persecution of his enemies; in Pan. 35. 10, all his bones thrill for joy because of deliverance. 4. Moisture - Figuratively, the vital sap, or juice, of the living organism. II. Penitence Before Forgiveness (Verses 5-7). 5. I •acknowl•edge•d my •yin -This is the first •step to peace and happi- ness. The penitence must be com- plete and whole -hearted. Nothing may be withheld. It is well to em- phasize this factbecause from the beginning man had deluded himself by thinking he need nut confess "all." An infinitesimal piece of de- cay in a tooth will melee the. cover- ing of silver and gold invalid. Thou forgavest - Although the weight of sin was efeermous, Jeho- vah lifted it all as soon es •entire repentance was made. 6. For this - "Tlie.r.efore" -an exhortation spontaneously issui.n.g from the life of one who has made the experience. Mayest be found -Throughout the Old Testament is an implication tluat a time may come for an indi- vidual when the forgiving God may not be found. (See especially Iso. 5a 6; also Deut. 4. 29; Jer. 29. 13 ; Prov. 1. 28; Eccl., chap. 12, and frequently in the Psalms). Great waters overflow -- Floods were .frequent in P.ale,stine ; the thought was not wholly lacking that the Mediterranean might inundate the country. (See Pea. 18. 16; Iso. 28. 2, 17; 30. 28; Nah. 1. 8). III. Instruction from the Most High (Verses 8-11). 8. I will instruct thee -Jehovah, and not (as some commentat tee say) the psalmist, is speaking. No hu- man speaker would dare to say, I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. (See Pea. 33. 18; 34. 15; Jer. 24. 6, and in many other passages.) 9, 10. As the brute animal can- not reason and must be controlled, man is warned not to become like hint. Many sorrows will be upon them who thus become "brutish" (see Psa. 49. 10, 12, 20 ; 73, 22 ; Jer. 10. 14, 21; also Job 33. 19), but loving- kindn:ess, or mercy, will be about him that trusteth in Jehovah. "Up, Dead, and At •A wunnded lieutenant told thea' following story to a representative I of the .Haves •Agency: "1'e were at work fixing up a trench we had taeriede with two sentinels watching at the :14'1)141)4p barricading the • end e" that .we could work quietly. J uddenl,t• •from i a. communication. trench which we had not seen an avalanche of hand grenadee fell on our heads. Before we knew, ten niezz were laid low, dead or wounded, in a heap. "I was just opening my mouth to urge them to attack when a same from the parapet, loosened by a prejectilo, hit me .on the head, anal 1: fell, tut•conecious, but nut 'fur! more than a second, ae. a shell splinter tore- my hand and the pain brought me to.- "As• 1 opened my eyes I saw the Roches leaping over the sarrdlrags! into the trench, about twenty of them. They had no rifles, but •car- ried a sort of wicker pettier, full of bombs. I looked towards my left ;I all our men were gone, the trench; empty. The Beatles were advane- ing ; a few more steps and they 1 would be on me. . "At this moment, one of my men, i laid out un the ground with a,' wound oil his forehead, another on, his chin, and his whole face stream- I I le ing with blood. sat up, seized Sack of grenades near him, and shouted : • Up, dead, and at 'am!' "He got on hie knees and hurled grenades into the thick of the lirrclaes, At. his cell three other wounded started •up. Two of them; who had broken lege, seized rifles and began a rapid fire, every shot. <,f which • told. The third, whose left Arun .hung' limp,' tore out his • baronet with hie right. • When I had recovered enough to rim, ; hri•1f the enemy was down, the other half iu disurderly iiig+hi•. `'There remained nnly, with • his back against the barricade and an iron shield in front of him, a•huge stun-ountmiemiuned office?, sweating, red with rage, who was firing at us• with his revolver, bravely enough, I must .say. Tire man who had started. the' defense, the hero of 'Up, dead, and at 'ern!' was struck by a bullet in the jaw, and down he fell. Th,e nzan with the bayonet, who had been crawling from body to body, jumped to his feet, when four paces from the barricade, was missed by two shots frim the Ruche's revol- ver, and plunged his weapon into hie enemy's throat. The maiden WAS saved." plet•cly in six weeks; a accord, [ [VY FOR CANCER' tvhfcli lt•ad been retarded by expo - MADE FROM SEVERAL DRUGS; lies Been i'sed with Success Itt Cases Where Operations Were Found to Be Impossible. A new treatment for inoperable cancer is announced in Medical Journal by Dr. S. P. Beebe, profes- sor of experimental t•herapeuties in the Cornell Medical School. Dr. Beebe who is regarded as an au- thority on the treatment of cancer, thinks so well of the new method that he says he has "nut seen here- tofore such conais•tent improve- ment, •uf the character mentioned. follow in the type of patients eited by the use of other known reme- dies." The discoverer of the new remedy is Dr. Alexander Horevitz, at•n Austrian, who conducted his pre- liminary .studies in his native coun- try. He has been carrying on ex- perimental work in the past year, and in this Dr. Beebe and Dr. J. Wallace Beveridge have been aid- ing. O1? VEGETABLE ORIGIN. Remedy Purely 'Vegetable. The experiments on which this preliminary report is based were carried on in the General Memorial and the Polyclinic Hospitals in New York. The feature of the treatment is a liquid extract made from sev- eral drugs of vegetable origin. The extract is administered with a hy- podermic needle and has been used both by injection into the minor mass itself and otherwise subcu- taneously, but in nearly all the cases treated in the General Me- morial Hospital it was used as a local application in the form of a plaster ur poultice, or the same ex- tract was administered internally, either as a liquid or in pill form. The •treatment has been tried at the Polyclinic Hospital without any accessory treatment, such as rays, radium, vaccines, toxins or sera, and the results there have been much better than in the Gen- eral Memorial Hospital. More than thirty cases were treated in the Polyclinic under the supervision of Dr. Beebe and Dr. Beveridge, and not one death from cancer resulted. Most of the patients have been dis- charged as •cured, but. Dr. Beebe and Beveridge, afraid .lest the rem- edy will be estimated too highly be- fore it has fully proved its worth, hold 'that not time enough has elapsed to show whether or not these patients are entirely cured. Recommended With Reserve. Dr. Beetle, in his article, recalls the ultimate failure of other widely heralded cures for cancer, and sass that because of this he writes with great reserve. First he details three cases of superficial cancer treated outside the hospital. One of six years' standing, healed come •-- 711.1.. _. _ .... Schmidt the Spy and Itis Message to Berlin. "The shortage of oiilcers in the English Army is. so serious that they are now endeavoring to ,employ women es Generals." -London Opin- ion. sure to N. -rays, healed in ten weeks and remains healed; and a third, of eleven years standing, healed in six weeks and remained healed. The second group was treated at the General Memorial Hospital. It included several of the worst re- current and inoperable cases. Most. of the patients died -some of hem- urrhages and others as the result of denudation of large blood ves- sels. All of these cases had been treated with other remedies he - sides that devised by I)r. Horovitz, The sufferings of these patients was greatly relieved by the treatment and the •tumor mass receded .in size, The Polyclinic cases were treated entirely by Dr. Huruvitz's treat- ment. They included patients with malignant sarcoma, beginning in an operative sear on the back caused by the removal of a kidney, inoper- able carcinoma u£ the breast. and carcinoma of the bladder. In one case the patient died of Bright's disease. The others recovered. Dr. Beebe and I)r. Beveridge are nut making positive statements as to the remedy, but they say that it has proved to b•e of some value in treating inoperable cancer, and that time will show whether it. real- ly cured. rangcntents for 'Trial. Arrangements have already been made for a general distribution of the liquid extract. S. M. Noyes, 7 Wrest Thirty-eighth Street, New York, is interested in this work unly for the geed it may do. Three of the largest hospitals in the city will be the centres of this treat- ment in New- York, and Dr. Beebe and 1)r. Beveridge will ins=truct physicians in the use of the extract. Other hospitals in large cities will be supplied with the extract for free treatment. SPIES BIG MENACE TO ITALY OBTAIN VALUA BLE IN FOP b1A- ATION ABOUT COUNTRY. Woman Is Arrested in Attempt to Destroy Strategic Railroad at Nervi. It is a well known fact that Italy is infested with German and Aus- trian spies who, besides obtaining valuable information about the de- fences of the country and the pre- parations for war, are plotting to damage the railroads in case of mo- bilization, Germans disguised as workmen were arrested near Genoa Decently,. and it was suspected that they were attempting' to blow up some of the railroad runnels under the Giovi mountains. The Germans succeeded in convincing the police that they were workmen in a near- by factory, owned by a fellow coun- aryman. They were expelled. As a result of this incident, however, all the railroad tunnels were guarded by troops. The police have arrested a Ger- man woman nt Nervi, near Genoa, who was in the habit of going fur long walks on the hills.. On being shadowed ,she was dise-ove-red stand- ing in a suspicious attitude near a railroad tunnel where in a. deep hole freshly exeavated and eare- fully concealed an enormous quan- tity of dynamite was hidden. This line is one of the most important railroads in northern Italy. Nothing but the bare announce- ment of the woman's arrest and its motive has leaked out so far about this ease, Even the wa•man's iden- tity has been withheld by the police who, it: is reported, are following important clues in the hops of dis- covering her accomplices. Th' Italian police are past masters in the "third degree" art. It seems certain that no wnntnn. wnnld attemple.ct to blew up tt reilieet•rl titit,tel unaided, The (lurid ere ,della Sera of lkliiatt • • Was All Run Down ITN N ART TROUBLE AND NERVOUSNESS When the heart does not do its work properly and the nerves become unstring the whole system becomes weak and run down, and needs building up before you can feel fit again. 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Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. says it is useless to point out i.l,,. extreme gravat c• of this ease, and adds : "When the enormous aunt:bar of foreigners residing in Italy is sun- de/Fred and the extension of -our railroad lines and the. great facil- ity with which they can be irrevo- cably dama,gsd is taken into ac- count, it is clear that the . Nervi case should serve as a serious warning to the Government, the more so as numeruus : imilar in- stances have occurred during the presa:nt w•ar. "Italy is now full of fureign• agents who, besides being sent here for espionage, are preparing sur- prises fur us in case of mobiliza- tion. It is th,erefure indispensable that timely precautions should -ba adopted and the railroads closely guarded, especially. in localities where communications can be ean- ile interrupted. If such precau- tions are delayed until mobiliza- tion is ur'dered they may prove tuo late. It is not difficult to have the railroads guarded and any delay under present circumstances will be nothing short of criminal." In all probability the Italian rail- roads willbe placed under military control, a .measure which has often been contemplated in cases of gen- eral strikes. and will certainly be. taken in case of war. Two Lancashire Germans. The story of two Lancashire lads who are serving in urte of the new cavalry regiments in northern Prance is tukl in Tit -Bits: One day the officer in command sent them, together with several (tthers, to reonn•vitre the enemy's lines. each man taking a different direction. _New the day previous there had been heave- fighting on the very ground that they were scouting. so that when our Oldham hero saw a German helmet lying behind a hedge. he was struck wit,t a bright idea. Putting on the Pru elan headgear he thought he would be able to de- tect the enemy's whereabuuts with- out himself being suspected, espe- cially as it was getting dusk. He had not got very far, how- ever, when a shot rang out only a short distance away. Ile dropped behind a hillock and fired back In the direction of the shut, and then the rifle practice began in earnest. For a few moments the two men fired at each other without any suc- cess. It happened that they were within shouting distance, and our Oldhamite could not resist howling out: I'll get one o'er on thi yet. owd mon You may guess his surprise when the reply was: "Ay, if aw dunno get thee Net, tha ble. ,min' owl German l" Insured. The Lusitania was insured fur about £1,500.000 07.500,000). Of this amount the British Govern- ment, under the war reek plan, will have to pay about- 80 per cent. The cargo is said to have been insured almost entirely in American insur- ance offices: The Slow, Sluggash, Torpid Action of the Liver's. 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I used several vials, and I found .they did me so much good that I can recotninend them to any one suffer. ing from liver trouble." Milburn's taxa -Liver fills are 25e a vial. 5 vials for 51.00. at all deslers, or mailed direct on reeript of price by The T. Miib,irn. Co., Limited, Toronto, .Ont.