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The Brussels Post, 1914-12-10, Page 7{ Ir ao ‘� THEM ON MOTHER ! Doesn't every boy love Griddle Cakes! Especially when served with delicious CR I:WM BRAND SYRUP Mother ]snows it too, for she likes CROWN BRAND SYRUP herself, and uses it to make delicious pud- ing sauces. And sister says it's tate Send for the "best ever" for candy -making. Edwardsburg Made in Canada. os Recipe Book.Sold by All Grocers. Manufacturers of the Famous Edwardsburg Brands. THE CANADA STARCH CO., LIMITED MONTREAL, CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, FORT WILLIAM. kl ���U 0� AO��i3TiSi increases the price of the article Tic sold; for it is •easier to make many articles than few at a cheap rate, and profits, if they are diffused over a wide area, accumulate fast, even though the profit upon each sepa- rate article may be less than it was when the Pale of the article was small; I wish good luck, therefore, to honest advertisers in their call- Vital?'ant of the ModernIng. The point of view of the demo- n ern ocraey (ratio literary man is expressed by Dr. Max Nordau as follows: "It's amazing how few people seem to be able to draw logical con- clusions from patent facts. Every- body agrees that the evolution of civilization tends towards demo- cracy. Everywhere the number rules. Everywhere the masses out- weigh the classes. How is it that it does not strike everybody as a truism that advertising is the un- avoidable out•eunee of democracy, its obligatory corollary? In an au- tocratic, and even an .aristocratic, society- you only need to impose yourself to the attention of one man or of a few men whose authority enforces its rules on the whole com- munity, 'The eye of Louis XIV. engenders masterworks,' as the French flatterer said. There, ad- vertising would' be of no. use, It is necessary and sufficient to please the King. His .patronage carries with it that of the nation. But, in a democracy, .a single, 'however ex- alted, person, or a small circle's fa- vor, would do very little for you. You must impress direct the hind of the million. And to effect this there is only one means, Advertis- ing. Of course, those who indulge fu .tole mad theory of the superman may condemn advertising as vulgar. Bub, then, leb them be consistent. Then they must eond•emn also the chiming of church bells, which is the advertisement of Divine ser- vice, They must condemn the Paris salons and all art exhibitions, for they are the advertisements of art- ists and their works. Ib would bo much more aristocratic not •to ring :bells, but to wait nobly that the faithful arrive on their own im- ipn'lse; not to exhibib creations of genius to the crowd, but to reveal them in the artist's studio to some individual co:enoisseur, • But who dares to reoommeud that haughty method nowadays?" KIN(. GEORGE 7IIINI(S PUB- LICITY 1S NECESSARY. -Dr. Max Norden Describes It :As a The value of advertising has long -ceased to be a subject of contro- versy. Men in all walks of life now admit that publicity is a tremend- ous factor in success. It [night he described as absolutely necessary to healthy life of business, whether it •be the business of a nation or an individual. As long ago es 1877, 1Ir. Glladslone said, "Corruption there roust be wherever there is not the utmost publicity. Putblieity, that is the great advantage, the .great security of English ,public life." A number of the outstand- ing men of England were recently asked to express their opinions re- garding the value ' of advertising, and the pithy remarks of some of • them are ,worthy of attention, says an English paper. The statement of his Majesty King George is very concise and straight 10 the point. He said :— "Experience has shown that, even in the case of firms having an es- tablished reputation and world- wide connections, attempts to dis- oontinue advertising have been us- ually followed by a diminution in the sales effected, and it is net un- reasonable to assume that the neg- boob by Great Britain of one of the most important .forms of national advertisement would be equally de- trimental to her interests as a manufacturing country." The weld -known British organizer, John Morgan Richards, has the fol- lowing to say on the subject; "'What is advertising?' I have often been asked. 2 venture to say that a complete and exhaustive re- ply to that question cannot be giv- en by any. human (being., I know people who shudder at the word, Otthers'associate it with nothing:but vulgar acclaim, For my part, I say it is the live wire' o.E all com- merce, all enterprise, all progress in every department of 'the 'world's work. It is the 'live wire' of thrones, of parliaments, of repab- lies and congresses, iho 'live wine' of the bench, the bar, and the pul- pit; of statesmen, preachers, heroes and ,poets. It• is the 'live wire' of the army and navy. 14 is the all -in - elusive form of communication he - tweet cations, tribes and peoples. There may 'be other names for it, but it is advertising just the same," Voice of the Church, One famous preacher, Bishop Wol'ldon, had the following to say : "The value of advertisement lea's been amply proved by experience. Whether it is in 16,solf a good thing or not, ib is .indiepensalbls to ef- ficiency •in business. For any own part 1.:cannot but approve it, as it is the only means of bringing useful new inventions or improvements. speedily and successfully to :the no- tice of ,purchasers who might bene- fit by them all the world over; The wide oirou.lation of good articles is as much a ,benefit to the person i who buy them 00 to the firm which sells thele, Nor is it, in my opinion, VARIOUSKINDS OF GUNS; �n. ]itU' f �5 Ill 1, 1 •I i1 t it kill:, ! and u'i r 1 al fen d: 'i+ ia"r. 1: be.", .1 'tan' imee geolt d 1)111, r eying :1(.n );tacos ul,:u ba ° t prop•• ly in i!a,• air by t fere f„•, • 11 r•1i, th'e 1tuget.:,1.,"t l%+r t , «nli't.'' r• 11 lit' 21,.1•:;2'1, ilaoh••t" .l 11 rat::, .l, ,r. 1iri a ,ti., '1 1:r the ell, et pr ame 1.1 by:Si 11, ,:•l ..l And 'i'tuti' ('ulA.1"1"1ivr h•IPeetivc.• :a ''nr F to ,p, a mer ,';; 1- un:n lac••.:11.1f, a<',.1 t .. 1n: :. . aryls outlet' 1) ll'rrent (1:•:.1 rh -lire IJtnil i Loltrsive :thr•li t '1a a .r,a1 u1 l prof 1 fy a h, ny Li) '1 11 c rLt 1' bur ,c t. les' utt4le air or J, -t ' '1''• (divot. 1 a di t lit lee0:! • ,•r t'se• •. sit l „n t , chi. rd . f '1 11rot THE DIFFERENT A)'IE"APONH EM, PJ,OA'd'.l) IN WAIL ('ircttut .(Lute es It is a 1'ui'.m 11i tt iti d lu aciaiefl ars conlplr x , •rg to izat 1„n; t t1 11114 411)1)1'"8 e'itJ, agu,al free to thio as l Ivry will ithirh t1 head •tu army is r,luillp•d. lire lip" '.1' gnas141 be gist is a"• ,,.r'n1' L.,'1, f'! t:,' t;.. futnet with 11 n± 1 ‘1,1 II )d Almy are a 'tt !jr1 r ' t .2 i.. 1,111. Ina, !Cue grins, fa .1 ai' lois) gun_, ther,a01 ,d ., u} at sine l.t,^s Sn Leta artil'ery 1•) i t t,rt, h t. vi guns louse the w 1 kx t1.. a,ta ru int 'n is sod 41 ,101)13,' 1111141 ih 11111111):.1'u 1r,int t ± t tr, iu lhfs pie.:eut wnr all type:: w .• a et,nf.•',f. 1 :vies . late gloat .'1t,! 1111Pi<HISlif 'O GUARD AGAINST ALUM IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL,ANOT}IAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMiNIO SUL- PHATE I6 NOT ONE OF T(-IEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN GREDIENT$ IS NOT SUM GIENT, MAGIC BAKING POWDER COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS, FOR ECONOMY, BUY THE ONE POUND TINS. a E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED • WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL ... n.....25 a MY'.MFI"I NIIWH„ A ifUmiak BISCUIT CAR(.. B ECTIpN •' • 5555 powa ft 1;; C5IRROSED OF THE 55055/N1 FNQRQrr4 0151101211550 were PHUDPHATE 3I•L'Ane- ONATEOFSaaltksD11. srNACti. iG °Ilu°° TTCCPiV�bNYGHinl ±� raise, . FVTAil1/415 H0/&(.. nittrinIELTOMMET Leer 'their Barre in the dela: Prrar. ,t''r:: b tteee 'ten hr re 12,,,.1 which is finking htn'.e a,,, swot, vnrit',•1 e(1 gait untennl.,lc by high expire )1010. POI0011# If " P line!, Let tts glance at c i.- t ty11 Lire eh211 hl: t a tei,t het tine.. ,1 •. '1 ji r in then; eve 'thee M!4nlb-•.'.•1' But n 1..•rri, ,, t. he no 1:,N"-r..,,n- � 34 i6i 1IL G !Ai'l tel Gpardi'in, mend file trench parapet,s t•it' elf •r Machine guns are autieneele gums ,i vca v , : in fact, the n tet:v in of utoe rt ober, c.tptble of d .lieereng ob tee( late:e e:1 by e neelo a heavy, rapid( fire. 'illi are at- parapet, is use lily -, v,!11.,1 1 1 that taehed tin our uvice) by pairs to is not 0.21 t d ii r +.l 1 r,•aeh infantry b beetalions, as vvelrl ns to -tag, tied the•: energy is 51 e.111(1 (•tvelry regimeritr, and in ill? in Far cd un cligabliog tee -d 1 t t. r=, an tri they render. er the clo.s•e t t-opsi a mnnkiller tl,e high rx1l+ ter t ation w.l'n their own unto at their 101.a great t+u.. •, 'n t:ia tpcn. It fii tl tang's of the fire fight., netting radia: f activity s t,si emall as a rail eceerye ••f fire in lite unit 25 sends aa'ou:..l the centre of int c ntrandet s hand, tone by ear- prier.; ar prix , neral ars ,eriNis approaches. Bnt al(lsuug'h it is eald that. artil ) as •to imatre that fire supremacy (cry lightens mor;, than it (lits 11 NO CHANCE '1'1) WIN, S.IVS :A COPENHAGEN .l 7 hr ft' dndaxirial and Professional Leaders 11 ']tressed and is gained and that the bay :net can must be 1etnerltbrrcd, that ac, ur•i.t he brapg:le in'o play. Given e'uit 'Itat 11:•5- aro very ui111c:1h er, ,et able, targets (of con' .lerabl,' depth) and men hit by tin•apncl bullets itn and close ranges this w:,tp,ms are sI a:,ter4 of litcll are more aft:: capable of great a toot<a, bat they l..11;_cl ottriabee ,than wounded, aro are unsuited 1 a lung drawn-out •a'�trr an action the (lead are bttris frcta.l fare fight again t a :,')allow hurriedly, no note being taken ei target, how til caetta'.ty occurred, where Horse :Arlfllery Gnus as accurate records'• ai'3 /1,1 way made of patients who undergo hos are t'hc finest mobile of all guns in I•tal treatment. 'Ilnls it is probe, the field. They are intended to oo- bre that the artillery is not give o erate itit•,!1 cay.al.ry. Naturally, full cied'C for the teatime havoc i what these guns gain in mobility ,has wrought, .although everycn they loess in prayer, and in the, ?,atter agrees as to the damage the gun, have done to the nervy of the cum batants. But there ran be li.ttl: doubt that the destructive effcet o modern quick -firing field artillery is very great; and this is prove bv,the ever-in^reasingd'2 "re to ren- der troops a ed enbrems5 tncnte as in - vis ihle a e p.. -sible. This fart aline spe.ttks v triunes as to the efficacy and dead'.inees of modern field ar- tillery. Even as the backbone of the an'il- lery of an ,army is it field artillery, and Mie other tykes are adjuncts; 3Ie autcholy. The Lumber Times puWishes despatch front Cepeat,agen moth, al d s n s v d they ,are distin^tly inferior to our powerful field artillery guns, which a,re intended for co-operation with 1 the infantry. By oontrollinng the heetil,c infantry fire 'their field gauss !enable the infantry to advance • acmes ,the helpless zone, when (!te infantry could be fired at by l,e•Htila guns without having g ,the power to respond, In addition, the fiold 'guns pre- pare a position for assault; and finally they assist the 'aysau.lt by battering clown the enemy's final l esi. tante, sh,aking his aim, and de so •the artellery arum itself is but en sea eying •Itis reserves as they 1111uit ace S.,0t'y to its infantry, the real themselves. Thus all through the queen of the modern battlefield, action the field •artillery guns a:et and the duty of the guns ,is ,to in- as the goc.d comrades of their in- stere that ve eny cast their infantry , fantry, and the , greaten' 'tote diffi- shall -Wimple ! culties of their infantry, the closer is the support accorded by their own quick -firing fte,cl guars.• The field nlrtillery howitzers are short, light pieces of mobile artil- lery, capable of :throwing 5, coan- paratively heavy shell at high an- gles of elevation. Their role is to search ;the reverse slopes of hills, deal with redloubts, trenches, shielded field gun,s, villages •an,ci houses, and aupporrt an itss'at'Iib un- til the last moment, Heavy field howitzers—firing a 500 -pound high explosive Shell, such 0,9 the Japa- nese used as;b P'or•t Arthur—do, not aceolnpa,n3- an (army in the field, but are sent to the front when ne- cessary for 'their employment arises, The, material effect produced by one of their shells exploding in any confine:cl.space, room, casement, etc., is prodigious, and cover to keep out their fire is 151101y worth the .labor of coneltruc'ti•on, except in the caro of magazines. But in bine have ,these powerful wea- ponse notproved so :successful; as tole targets are 'less ,favorable, and the slight modern field in- 'it'enchmemts aro notoriously (Hifi- cult to injure, Heavy Artillery are the xscst powerful :and the le•as:t mobile of all foams of utile lery accompanying our field army, Their use is to destroy clefend•ed buildings, knock out shielded field guns by direct hits, to deliver an enfilade fire against pant of the enemy's pomtion that the less pow- erful field guns can only reach with frontad fire, and (o mete out de- struction .to the enemy's reserve be- ers they can be engaged. Mountain artillery ,00nsls,t• of N ery light and lees powerful weil,- pons; lightness is •essential in theirarse, ,as they have to be carried on lake, or in 501115 05,85,5 01,011 011 P orter's' heads, bnttlhough the gums re dight they fire •a comparativelyLeavy shell. Mountain artillery anmove wherever .an infantry is nob forced to climb, and in the I;• ough, mountainous country which firms pant of the present theatreof war, doubtless these wens will play a useful part, All the gurus menddoatecl---except the 'machine guns, which uc•1tu•raIly A re rifle anntratnition—use shrapnel shell, 'tole hnankilllet'; while 'our (tow- tzers and heavy guns also fire high axp:losive 'sfie]l, the defense-d•e- soyer. Shrapnel is fired with the e d'ca of killing :or disablingthe soaps theinselvee; the material ?Image ib does to a parapet is inft- 3:teCintal, while oven .a :greet (lit y it on the, shield of a gun may Mild little damage, On tele otherand,. a 'shrapnel. Milting a wall will sttaily penetrate before �bm'wiint, and if it de then Weide a room the el5•a±ring of its 200 buliets hely ave,disastrous cft0Stst on' the garri- A Compliment1'rom,England. It is also amusing to find H. Hammond Fyfe, a British journal- ist, lamenting the lack of imagina- o tion in the advertising done in :Lyng- n land, and paying the following oom- :piiment to America: "In an Amer'i- a can magazine I turn to the adver- tising section Rest because it is far 0 more entertaining than the other part. I am made to feel how pleas- ant it would be to wear different kinds of underclothing, to eat dif- ferent cereals for breakfast, to buy new furniture, to take holidays in new places, to respond to a bun- ' creel and one appeals attractively made to my taste and fancies and aptpetites. If such appeals were made by British firms, I should quickly (hut enjoyably) bo ruined. st Vortex' „tbeiiy, they are in America, 1 too flit away, They do not ruin me, d tlherefore, but they teach me why manufacturers and sltol>'keepers t snake more 100003 in America thanU in this country. The reason is elm- 11 im- t pLa. They sail more things." fl You can buy te tiling 0110015 if at a., the truth adve.rtisemsnb there are no other bidders. OUR AMAZING PRONE. Some of Its Wonders As Set Forth by Britisher. The electric current ,which oper- ates the telephone is perhaps the gentlest and swiftest thing in the world. Any description of it must seem ,to be hopeless exaggeration. It is about ono five -millionth part of the ourrent required to light a single ele•etric Lamp. To use a pic- turesque illustration of Mr. 11, N, Casson's, i.f you cool a spoonful of hob water one degree you will have released sufficient energy to run a telephone .for ten thousand years. If you catoh the falling tear of a child you will have enough water power to ,carry your voice from Lon_ don to Paris. For an idea of what .the telephone system •can do, we have to look to America. In spite of the fact that it was built up largely by English - :men, the telephone stands as the one characteristic product of Am- erican civilization. "In America they -had to face and subdue natural obstacles of the most formidable 'kind. They had to braverse great forests where their poles looked like toothpicks beside the enormous trees. They had to cla'ive off Indians who coveted the bright wire for earrings and brace- lets, and the •bears who mistookthe humming of the wires for the 'buzz- ing of ,bees, and persisted in gnaw- ing down the poles," • The above is an extract from a pa,m1phleb in "What is _Wrong With the Telephone 1" recently issued by Mr. C. S. Goldman, chairman of the British Parliamentary Tele- phone 'Committee, in which the writer complains of the "hopelessly unbusin:escalike" methods of tele- phone arrangements in'Great Brit- ain, and gives their history at length. 3+ iteeord for Volunteers. The far -away island of Lewis has surely created a record in ,the mat- ter of volunteering for eervioe, .r1 c,arrespondent of a, :Scottish news- paper ,points out that daring the first week pra,aticalle all the mon on the island answered the call to take up amus in one or other branch of the service. One in 'night of the whole palliation ,of 28,000 is already under arms. If the whole country contributed proportionately to the i a distinguished citiz ti of a t,ett- tral country, a loamk r t,c prefer sign, whose longStan itt hueines'a relations with the country required him t, spend the past seven weeks in Gemma')," where he has profs sional connections with Germans o eminence in polities and eo.mmerce to &how that internal conditions as -gleaned by him, are at templet variance with published reports."It would be a grave fallacy,' said the Times' informant, -‘t: German affairs by the Ger man newspapers of to -day. They must ,not only suppress what the Government does not want printed, bub are required to publish practic- ally that, and that only, which the Government lays before them, I re- fer, of course, to news and views of all sorts bearing on. the war, Every- thing, for instance, tending t4) sug- gest that the ri,g'ors elf war are slowly but surely undermining the national economical fa'bric is strict- ly contra'bran(l. It is that feature of the situation, naturally, which makes the liveliest anneal to the imagination of a business man, Realize Tragic 'Fruth. "My' every' -day contact with Ger- mans of my class, extending over a o periodf ,many weeks, leaves me firmly convinced that those of them who must know now realiie that Germany has .been plunged into a tragic and pathetic adventure. Even the great industrialists of Rhine- land -Westphalia, 'though many of their works are occupied in the pro- duction of war materials to a whol- ly Unprecedented extent, are de- pressed and melancholy over the awful struggle into which Germany has been precipated. Delusions of General Staff. coming lilirt a i tgly plain to tiler tiler they Ben t. t veil, flaw cit thee.' .A ritilittit;v nation - trained fr„ n the cradle up to h.lieve in the might, of nen.Is'rs nnttt, viewed mr, 1y .3r,.o that !+t7 ebednt, naw, .ea that the „Lodi are ov erw'he:lming ly agait: t cheep. They Know. - "Men 1114" Ilallin and 1-eineken ale 1: 1 s have been swept from the Les :a, if by tome alt-clevastat lac; Iniiri••tnt , 5'onh like the Lex 11 n m a tilt. magnates of �A stI;halia and g +ayo,ry, ', it l i.,ms are silent when Ito more American cotton can he imparted; iron masters like Krap•', Tin ee, and Stinnes, elec- trical magnates like Rathenau and ton- Si.'tnens-Selnskerts, who know what uninterrupted supplies of E staple raw -stuffs from abroad such as copper and petroleum' mean; , 'bankers like van Gnvinner and Fur- '' stento,:. who ](now the havoc. , which the financing of war and step- page of ex.norts work to German "These are men who cannot be deluded lbs, official optimism and bluster. They are anen accustomed to deal with facts. Nothing else impresses them. %\That are the facts? The General ,Staff told the great eaptains of industry, who in Germany are hardly a less import- ant factor in the conduct of a war than the staff itself, that the plan of campaign—reduced to essentials— was this: We shall smash France within three weeks, then wheel about and deliver Russia a knock- out ,blow before She ha,s had time to complete her mobilization, Bel- gium will offer only the resistance of sullenness. England will not 'some in' at all, The German GOy- ertsment had the positive assurance of leading Englishmen to that ef- feet, Not ,a single one of the Gen- eral ?Staff's objectives had been at- tained, Checkmated in all direc- tions, Germany has little but an enormous death roll to •cuunterbal ante the terrific effort the first 1'00 days of war have cost her, Rained Commercially. These are the immunt•able things which thinking business Germans see and know•. They know more than that, thanks to a very farsee- ing and economic and financial or- ganization, their trade and com- merce have time ,far --(barring the annihilation of the German merch- ant marine—been dislocated per- haps to no greater extent than the trade and eonlineroc of their (Inc - miss, They look across the Atlan- tic and see that even America, as e•ottld not .be otherwise in a truly world -war, feels the ,blight of Eu- rope and .?sin's colossal blood-let- ting. Bub what' German industrial leaders also realize is that :prolong- ation of. the wax' into months and wars n)ust 5pe'1l :eventual ruin. Pressure of Farts. "I could see no traces that ilet•- 1 nanv, 01 yet, has actually felt the ffett of her great adventure, lint he etnnu'lative effect or 11)' eolldi- ions which war brings, especially ow that intelligent Germane knew is tp be 0 prolonged struggle, is wagered at its full value, It ie be - service:s, we 8110111d have to -day be-, e tweeet five and 'six million 'men !,t; arms. The island of Lewis and its 1 neighbor, the island of 'Skye, have 11 lo te ng military tradition which it dates from she elder Pitt, n credits at hone and abroad --these men are under no delusions as to 'What the war is doing .and will clo, the more it develops into a protract- ed victorylcss affair of mere give- and-take on three or fotir vast fir- ing lines. They are immensely pa- triotic, all of then. They cannot truthfully be described ,as down- hearted or hopeless. They are not grumbling. But neither can they be said to be even remotely cheer- ful over the ultimate ,prospeet. The war has not vet sapped the .prosper- ity at the zenith of which 'business Germany found itself three and a half months ago. But war has placed that prosperity in .terrible jeopardy. - England and the Enemy. "A man cannot tarry lung, in Germany these days without hav- ing it• home in upon him with what ferocious fury- allclaeees of 2115,pop- illation hate .England. England is blamed for the eall•apse of the gen- eral staff's grand ?elan of oam,paign. To judge. by the language and the headlines of the press, a stranger •cw.uld 11.05(1115 tell that Germany enemies iuc•inded France and Rus- sia. England is depicted as 'the one and only foe,' Everybody will tell you that on throttling England all German's energies are now be- ing bent, The 'great settlement' is to come with her. I.t has become a niclee fixe among all strata of the nation that England 'organized' the tear and herself went into it for the sheer purpose of ruining a feared .and despised eommereial rival. At Least 50 Years Lost. "The Emperor William once said .that Germany would emerge from even a successful war set back at least 50 years in her economic de- velopment. 'Kaiserworte are not, soon forgotten by the Germans. When they recall the famous diotum above quoted, and contemplate the eventualities of this atru.ggle, they 'cannot 'be .blamed, I .thought, for gazing into the future :witih troubled eyes." 1 New Dyeing Process. The shortage of German aniline dyes has• led to experiments being made at Huddersfield Technical College in England that have re- sulted in the patenting of a .now proeees in which sulphur dyes are used. Sulphur dyes aro the cheap- est series in the market and it has been found that by the new process wool and silk, artificial sill( and hemp can be dyed, either ;separl'tte- ly o'e, in any combination, •nr best material, topes, 301115 or pieces, :At present sulphur (lyes are exelnsivc- ly'used for rotten fabrics. Prc'sc:nt machinery cttn be need for the now process with little alteration, ex- cept that veinier fitt.itige cannot be used, .and it is stated that the pro - mess •rain be learned by 41 competent dyer in half a day. Every girl ought to know that flitting .for eont,pinoents is a poor way to land a httf:btand. FROM (N( SCOJL Ni NOTES OF INTEREST FROM TIER BANKS AND BRAES. 111(111 Is Going 011 in the IIighlttn( and Lowlands of Auld Scotia, 1'tf y-llaree Belgian refugees have arrived ut ]hunlartart. Lord IL,ti'ht:'ner lure been imam measly elected Lord Hector of Ed- inburgh University. Sir Charles JIsiss of. Iialnaguwrt, and Lady Moss, have fitted up Bai• na;own Castle as a hospital. (here are 250 teachers and stu- dents of the Aberdeen University on service for their King and coun- try. A local contingent of the Nation- al ]Reserve. connected with the Lau- der detachment, has been formed at Stow, Nearly out -half of the 900 men wanted for the 11e: erve Battalion of bite i'fo ayshire Seaforths, has been enlisted. Monsieur Raymond Poincare, President +•f the Ict�'neh Republic, has been elected Lord Rector of GI tsgow university, Lord Tullibardine, M,P. dor Perthshire County" commander of the Ftottisla horse Brigade, is on N Ire Dr)S. The Earl of Home has made ar- rangements whereby 30 Belgian nuns (refugees) may be accommod- ated in 13uthwell Castle. its) 171' (1.0111 pas 0051 tragic suddenness of Mr, R. W. I Hepburn, assistant deputy clerk in the Court of Session, Edinburgh. Motherwell Town Council have formulated a housing scheme on the cottage system. The total cost is estimated at about $77,500. Clydebank and District Water Trust are to proceed with a scheme for the disposal of waste water from the new filters at Cochno. Word has been received by Mrs. R. M. Souter, Renfrew, of the death of her ]husband, wlto was wounded at the battle of the Aisne. A number of citizens have decid- ed to raise, in C'ambuslang, a Terri- torial company of the county bat- talion of the Scottish Rifles. There has been en increase of over $150,000 in Greenock Provi- dent Bank funds during the past twelve months. The total funds now amount to $4,350,000. In the report of the East Park Home for Infirm Children it was stated that over 2120,000 has been collected towards a new country branch. .r. A('ClDENTAL DISCOVERY. Aeetyleiae Gats From Carbide Found to a Peculiar Way. The immense production at Niagara Falls of carbide of calcium, the curious artificial stone which, when 'bathed in water, gives off acetylene gas, recalls that this sub- stance was first manufactured in America by .accident, through the metallurgical operations of T. L. Wilson, who now lives in Ottawa, near a small stream in North Caro- lina, While using limestone and salt in smelting, he noticed among the melted slag which day by day ran nearer to the brink of the little stream, a greyish -'white su'bstane.e new in his experience, bat thought little of it until one day the molten slag overhung the water and began to flow, into it. Tlten suddenly a bright white flame 'burst out of the molten mass :and enveloped it for some time. He drew from the dry slag .some of the Strange mat:erial and touched a match to it, but with- out result. Then he poured' souse water upon it, and at the. next triad the liberated acetylene gas, broke into flame. Thus in 1891) accident disoovercd a practicable way of pro - :Inc -Mg that acetylene gas, first dis• covered in England in 1836 by Ed- mund Day while experimenting with potassium tartrate and char- coal. It remained, however, for the intense heat of the hydro-eleotric furnaces of Niagara to turn out this wonderful stone in almost ,perfect purity and immense quantities. '14 The i'hlltti's Lance, Unlike ordinary lances, the Ger- man lance is not made of wood, but is u steel tube, between .11 and 12 feet lung. Being made of 4001, it . is naturally very heavy, and at : first sight seems clumsy and hard to handle. There is a knack in .]told- ing it, :however. .Just about two- thirds of the Wily down from. the head of tote lance, a length of thick '' twine is hound around it, to form a grip, When the lance is held by, that "handle" it is so •perfectlylbal- iiiced that one could tel:most write with it, Mrs. Barnes --"1 don't believe in these faith 'tires brought, about by the laying on o1 hands,"'Mrs. row n--'' Well, Ido ; :£ cured my fele boy of the' cigarette habit in hristimasbnnRLt freta ve 13 5' ) ' 25 11 ntOnl'y, 6 q, Each ihlenaltt ut001(de1ortt+, ]l that ivnv. 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