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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-11-23, Page 6A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN." The jangle of the old-faehioned door -bell stirred May Dundas from her reverie. The door of the room was opened, and a maid stepped in a pace or two, "Lieutenant Fraser has called, MIs May," she said. "Shftll I ask him t come up?" May nodded. Left alone, ehe turned towards brightly -polished silver shield whic hung over the mantelpiece, and serve as a quite efficient mirror. Satisfied that she was presentable she seated herself again, and was jus picking up a book when she heard th creak of the door -handle. Twisting round in her chair, an letting the book slip from her fingers she saw Alan Fraser. Bronzed, athletic -looking, frank of face, and wearing the Service kit of the Strathmore Highlanders, he came into the room with a swing, and walk- ed towards the girl. The door closed softly behind him. Halting beside May's chair, Alan took the hand that she put out, and held it firmly. For some moments there was silence; but in the search- ing eyes of each lay a score of mys- terious questionings, tender, unborn speeches, aching fears. It was the man who spoke first. "I'm glad 1 found you alone, May. I was hoping for that luck. Your aunt is out'?" "Yes. Sit down, won't you, Alan? We want to talk." She lowered her eyes then, and did not look at him again for some mo- ments, Then: "Any news yet?" she asked, her voice not quite steady. He nodded happily. "Yes; we are striking camp in a clay or two. We hope to be at the front in a week from now." A little, half -crushed sob carne from her, and a strange in" t' e clouded her eyes. "So soon ?" she said, in just above :1 a whisper. 'Yes; and, ISlay, that's why Pm go-! ing to say Something now that maybe I wouldn't have hadthe courage to say' for a long time, if we had kept in this country. Look at me, dear. I! want to see if there's any hope for015 10 • our eyes." Slowly her head was raised. She met his gaze, and a glow, half-aweing in its power, but very sweet to her, surged through her being. She scarcely heard his words; there was; no need. "I don't know why I've never told you before, dear. You've had my heart all the time, but I never told you becauve I couldn't think it Ossible that you could care. I'm such a poor sort of thing compared with you. My love—my little ave -e heart!" Stooping', he put his strong arrns! about her, and in their shelter she lay trembling, but happy beyond belief; and, with her mouth on his, knew that the glory of love had come to her for all time. Half an hour later they said their brave good-bye. "You will come back to me, Alan,". she whispered, her small, hot hands on his ahoulciers. "Before so very long you will come back? Say it,: Alan—eay it. "Of course I'll como back," he an -1 savored, his voice cheery, "Maybe by Christmfts-time—who knows? But, , anyhow, I'll come back. But, May—" "Yes?" "There's just one 1 want to • 3 say. It's about Roy Davidson." "Oh!" "You mustn't mind my mentioning, him; I've got to. I know how he's been trying to win you. Everybody here knows it. I don't trust him, t May. Once I'm out of the way he'll s come pestering you. I know it. Quite possibly he'll ask you to marry him." ; t little laugh. She laughed. -.-a broken, pathetic, ''There's only you in the world," • t she managed. "Roy is nothing. I could never like him—never." Man leaned towards her. "It is not good-bye, sweetheart," he said slimily. 'It's only au revoir." Four or five minutee later May was ;51 alone, and sobbing; quietly, ft was a herder matter to be brave than s had thought, * When the Strathmore Highland had been gone from the great ho camp some ten days, and the sunshi of early autumn was atilt bright, R Davidson, choosing his hour careful called on May and asked her to mai. At first the surprise of the thi rendered the girl wordless. The he eourse; but ftie rest was for ,Mit , alone. Day after cley she scanned with es eager, fear -touched eyes the dread Inc lint in the daily paper, where every 00 soldier's mime meant tho broken oy heart of some women who had waited ly, hopefully, helplessly at home. And IT then one day—it was just at the be- ginning of December—this item in the ng "Scotsman"cau ht her e es. 0, yf WEDDINGS IN LONDON. There Were Over 58,000 of Them lie gletered in 1915. • With cheeks aflame, she faced the O handsome, rather dieeipated-looking man at her side, ; "You! Hew 0120 you dare to ask me that ?" she exelnimed. "Don't you 3 know that It is an insult?" h His eyelids narrowed and a nerve in u cheek stinted throbbing. "An insult?" he repeated, "What d'you mean, May?" t: "You don't think that you are in - O suiting inc by asking me to marry you, when you know that I am engag- ed to another man?" There was a tense silence, and she 1noted with a dim wonder how the other's hands clenched and unclenche where they hung at his sides. s. engaged!" he said, in sort of husky mutter. "I—didn ' know. It's to Alan Fraser, of course? "And you love him?" • "Yes." "Would I have had a chance if h "OFFICERS. "Wounded. "Fraser, Lieut, Man J., 1st Batt. Strathmore 11." She did not faint when he read Ont., nor cry out. Tears did not come to her wide eyes. She just sat hold- ing the paper crushed between cold hands, gazing deep, deep into the core of the leaping fire. Ile was wounded, they said! To -morrow maybe there might be that awful phrase: "Since died of wounds." How could she live Until she knew? How could she face the grey days of torture ahead? * * * * * d Two drays before Christmas Alan Fraser, with an empty sleeve to tell a of sacrifice made for 13ritain, was 't brought by May's aunt to the door of " the room where the girl was waiting. "She is expecting you," Miss Dun - des said. "It was far better to warn her. Just go in, Alan." I el Five minutes later the magic joy of reunion was over. The first soft ' a tears shed upon her hero's empty s sleeve, May sat listening to him while I he spoke. : t ; "There's something I want you to. !know to-night—now, dear," he said • ✓ gravely, "I'm alive and back here ✓ with you because another gave his life for mine. I'm not going to give you ' details of that engagement when I; went down; they're too ghastly, But I just this you must know—the man who saved me, who, while he was I wounded himself, carried me a half- i mile under fire into our own lines and then died, was Roy Davidson. May, don't start like that. You must be brave, too. "I thought we were both done for then, but he had strength enough to whisper, and I had strength enough to hear, his words. "'It's for her I did this,' he told me. 'I loved her, and I've saved you for her. Love was stronger, after all. She'll understand. Yop'11 see her again, Fraser; I won't. Tell her— "That was all. I can't say any more. I'm not able. I can't forget his eyes." Long moments passed, and she drew near to him so that her wild heart- beats thrilled him. Something wet was shining upon her cheek. 1 At last: "He died for me, then," she said, so faintly that he could scarcely hear. "He died for our happiness." Looking past her to the fire, Alan nodded. "Yes; he died for us. God rest his II t I!" Then he bowed his head, and, with his lips, stopped her starting tears.— London Answers, hadn't asked you first?" She shook her head. Gentle as rule, she felt no gentleness toward this man, of whom she had hear much that was evil and but little tha was good. "No," she said. "There would neve have been a chance. I could neve have cared for the type of man who skulks at home in safety while his brothers are giving their lives for their country. You have no ties to keep you from joining the Army, and yet you don't join. You are a coward —a coward!" His face was cl k 't1 sudden, bitter resentment, with a passionate hatred of his rival. His hands were twitching then to be at Alan Fraser's throat, "So I am a coward!" he said, his voice bard. "Well, perhaps! But God grant that Fraser and I may come face to face some day! Pray, then, girl, that I may be a coward!" Dazed, and with a numbing pain in his heart, he went from the house, and back to the little estate where for the past six months he had been laird. For a week May heard nothing of him, then got this brief note: "Dear May,—Having now no fear at all of German bullets, I have join- ed the 2nd Battalion of the Strath - mores as a private, and have been luckyenough to which is to go to the front at once to make good wastage in the 1st Batta- lion. I've escaped weary training by this, and I'll be meeting our friend Fraser soon, He will be my superior ufficer, but that won't matter. I don't quite know which is the stronger — my hatred for him or my love for you.—Yours, "The Coward." With the torn pieces of this note in her hand, May stood staring dully in front of her, a new fear in her heart — a fear for Alan Fraser. Far more bitter than any Germam:Would be the enemy whom he would have in his own battalion—perhaps in his own company. It was not until some weeks later that May heard from Alan, and then his letter contained news, tho receipt of which she had dreaded. "A little while ago," Alan wrote, "I had one of the surprises of my life, A draft came out to us, and one of the privates ,joining my company was Roy Davidson. It won't be news to ..ou that he is at the front. But im- agine his being in my company! We quarrelled, of course. That was hound to happen, and rank and so on vas forgotten. I expect we'd been mad enough to come to blows, but — here wasn't time. .A little dose of hrapnol wakened me to the fact that was there to fight my country's bat - les, not my own. "Davidson has been in action three imes with us already, and I'll say his—he has been recklessly brave. He doesn't seem to care what he does with his life. These are the sort of fellows who win through. Nothing over seems to touch them. Yes; he's a good fighter—Davidson—and a good hater! He and I will have to settle iings some day*" This was not all of the letter, of Think of It== People cut out tea or coffee before retiring when these beverages interfere with sleep. In the morning they drink freely of them, strangely overlooking the fact that at whatever time of clay the cup is drunk the drug, caffeine, in tea and coffee is irritating to the nerves. More and more people are turning to Instant Postum the drug-free, nourishing, comfortable cereal drink, "There's •a Reason" slantulian Poiiam Cereal Co., Ltd„ Wludeor, Ont BirMtharzeilatile.—e sytoitlriallilsiinggh.est on record These are among the most interest ing pointe brought out in the repor for 1915 of Dr, W. H. Hamer, Medica Officer of Health for the County of London, England, The number of marriages register- ed in London was the highest ever recordec1-58,345, as compared with 43,373 hs 1914 and 41,409 in 1913. Tho increase over 1914 is 34 per met, but as the corresponding increase for the rest of England and Wales is only 20 per cent., there• is reason for thinking that a considerable number of these marriages may not properlY • belong to the London population. 1 The estimated "civil population" ! cannot be used for calculation of the rate, since the males married Include a number of men on service, but tak- ing the probable population of 4% znillions the rate would be 25.9 per 1,000. There has been a slight an- nual increase in the marriage rate •since 1908, but the bulk of last year's increase must be directly attributed to the war. MOST NAKED FORM OF PROFITEERING - BAD 1 The birth rate shows a further fall from 25.0 in 1909-13 and 24.3 in 1914 to 23.6. The increasing tendency to marry later in life is another factor which is examined. "The effect of post- ponemerit of marriage has hitherto been considered mainly from the point of view of its relation to the duration of marriage," Dr. Hamer says, "and insufficient allowance has been made for what might be termed the physiological effects" The London Chronicle comments as follows on conditions: It may be urged that if the decline in the European birth rate be largely attributed to emigration, the coun- tries to which the emigrants go should show high birth rates. It may be noted that the United States have received nearly 20 millions of young adults from Europe during the last 40 years, and, as H. P. Fairchild notes, the high birth rate of our now large foreign -born population is notorious; moreover, the years of this great exo- dus are precisely those of the declin- ing birth rates throughout Europe. "One curious effect of the war to which Dr. Hainer draws attention is the arrestment of building activity, the result of which has undoubtedly been to check the outward movement of the population which has been go- ing on for some time, more particu- arty north of the Thames." GERMANY USING CRIMINALS. Put Into Most Dangerous Service at the Front. D. Thomas Curtin, writing in the London Times, says: Throughout the war Germany has used every scrap of material in the Empire to help to win., To one who knows y, ore, it does not come wholly as a urprise to learn that she has heeded he demands from some quarters to ut criminals in the most dangerous ervice at the front, where they are riven to their work. I have heard it tated on excellent authority that, ome of them have actually been! hained to the machine guns and been' iven this terrible chance to fight for -1 heir lives. This is a radical depart -1 re from former German boasts that o man with a criminal record was sl- owed to serve. 1 HOW TO INVEST Yourt MONEY.t No person with any sense disputesis the wisdom of depositing money in a d savings bank and earning three per s • cent. per annufn, but what a good busi- s nese man cannot understand is, why c it should be allowed to remain there g and left to accumulate at that rate. ; Money to -day is certainly worth u more than that, but the difficulty is,n the average person does not know 1 how to invest it safely. There is a way open to every healthy person to invest his money without any risk, which may bring him or his family a e thousand per cent,, and no matter what the result, cannot bring him less than three per cent. interest, and that is by taking out an endowment life insurance policy in the Crown Life Insurance Company of Toronto, The moment you pay your first premium you create an estate of the full value • of your policy. Should you die with -1 in a year your estate will receive a thousand per cent, on your invest- , merit; if you live to the maturity of : your policy you will have returned to you more than principal and three per cent. interest. Can there be any comparison be- tween leaving your money on deposit in 0 savings bank or buying a policy in the Crown Life? Write the Head 1 Office at Toronto for literature. WAR IS PREFERABLE. Former Clerks at the Front Dread Return to Civil Life. The life of a soldier convents favorably with the pre-war existence of a London clerk, says a man 'who worked in the offi cefaciliergswaftwa worked in the office of a great busi- twee house before he entered the service, Ile writes home; "r am going into the line again in an hour or so for a few days' rest. It's a great life except for the war, and I say in all sincerity that, after seven months of it, I have really en- joyed it, "Think of the time saved, for in- stance'by lying down fully clad, wee to one's boots, and the time caved by getting up fully dressed. No need to wash or shave—no water to manage it in. A good, open-air life, plenty of excitement and humor, no worry in the world; why, 11 fear that I shall feel like a poor stranded jelly -fish when I got heel( to business and a full drawer of orders," Mamma—That's just like his fath- r. He made his money in the gro- ery business. POTATOES SOLD TO POOlt IN GERMAN Y. Tricked by Government Into Buying Food That Sickened Pigs, D. Thomas Curtin of Boston en- titles his article on German condi- tions published in the London Times "The Potato Trick; Rich Against Poor." It charges that the poor of Germany have been sold rotten mita- ;toes with Government connivance. "The difficulties of the cynical group who are the real rulers of Ger- many have increased," he writes. One of the countless sources of anx- iety has been the harvest of the very important potato crop, now an integ- ral part of the Austrian and German bread, "The handling of this crop exhibits the most naked form of profiteering to which the poor have been subjected by the rich. "Slowly the food situation in Ger- many has grown worse month by month. I would ask my readers not to build false hopes. This is an accu- rate statement; nothing approaching actual starvation exists in any part of Germany. Thus far I have discov- ered no child without milk. I believe the infant death rate is less than in time of peace. No German is without a sufficiency of some kind of nourish- ment to carry on existence. Weak and Delicate Suffer. "The weak and delicate are suffer- ing., and there is 'a great amount of .„, seliqg va,,.: •• . mpg) ion 0:: es. i s •ri: 1/,:etillill I III iitIrk Lillie"4‘.' ;111:11111 II If i 1 Xs tartx14,..ig,-,:4, I 111111 lo pi THE WONDERFUL FRENCH ARMY REVIEW OF ITS WORK SINC THE WAR BEGAN. From Erin's Green Isle NEWS BY MAIL FROM IREs LAND'S SHORES. • Happenings In the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men. The Belfast War Pensions Come mittee are to open central offices in Wellington Place. The Lord Lieutenant and Lads, Wimborno recently entertained over Dub- lin hospitals.wmu nde dsoldiers from the Dub - Sir John Maxwell has prohibited the' sale or manufacture of arms and explcoosnivent sin Ireland, except with his consent. 13 Capt. Vincent A. Acheson, Royal In- niskilling Fusiliers, killed In action, was a Rugby football player and joined as a private at the outbreak of the war, in Dungannon. The death has occurred at his resi- dence, Portadown, of Mo, Thomas Armstrong, TY., head of the firm of Messrs. Watson, Armstrong & Co., f well known throughout Ulster. e For trying to induce Pte. Jas. - O'Neill, Royal Irish Regiment, to sell - l them rifles and 150 rounds of ammu- s 1 nition, Hy. McGinn and F. Kerroll lwere each fined $25 at Dublin, 1 The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. have ordered from Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, six new vessels of the Desna type, to cost well over one and a half million pounds. The death has occurred at Com - bre, County Down, of the Right Hon. Thos. Audrews, D.L., in his 74th year. He was one of Ulster's leading business men, and a great supporter of Ulster unionism, The death has taken place of Mr, Samuel Herd, J.P., chairman for six successive years of the Ballymena Urban Council. He took part in the formation of the North Antrim Roe- , inent of the 'Ulster Volunteers. 1 At a meeting held in the town hall, Rath:nines, presentations subscribed to by members' of the council were I made to the staff of the Rathmines . Ambulance and others in recognition of their services during the rebellion. At a meeting of Callan (Co. Kil- kenny) Board of Guardians, it was 1 resolved that in view of the treat- ment stated to have been meted in • England to Irish laborers no articles I will in future be accepted except those of Irish manufacture. 1 The Roscommon Guardians have extended leave to Capt. W. Ormsby, R.A.M.C., formerly Officer of Health for the Ballyleague Dispensary Dis- trict, for a period of twelve months, but have withdrawn his salary. A largely -attended meeting under the auspices of the Ballylinan, Bally- adains, Ballickmoyles and Strandbally branches of the Irish Land and Labor Association was held at Ballylinan, when it was decided to oppose con- scription. CHIEF. BRITAThi7s,_...;,E.._;..___---myroil Sir Albert Stanley - One of World's Most Able Railway Men. Sir Albert Stanley, the managing director of the Underground Hall- ways and London General Omnibus Company, two of the most perfectly organized concerns in the world, con- veying every year millions of people f British Tribute to Accomplishments and Sacrifices of the Nation. Is it possible to praise the work o the French army too highly? asks th Manchester Guardian. It began bad ly, for its plans of campaign were un sound, and, in addition, the German had an immense lead in numbers, in their mobilization Arrangements and in most important branches of the mechanics of war, But "after the opening passages it recovered with amazing rapidity. The strategy of the Marne was in subtlety the finest thing in the war, and ,on the Nancy front the French, under Gen. Castel- nau, were about the same time ex- hibiting qualities of stubbornness in defence that we sometimes like to national irritability caused by law think of as digtinctively British. diet, but everybody is getting along Then followed during the winter a somehow—the army and navy ex- periodofth ocofdrastic r s my reforms ormthse which v tremely well. showed "No people are more easily and French army at its best, for nothing continuously bluffed by their Govern- puts such a strain on it as to cashier ment than the Germans. Lincoln's one's friends, as General Joffre had to do at this time in the highest in- terest of the country. The French army last year over- estimated Its power by forcing the dictum about not fooling all of the people all of the time does not apply to them. "An abominable deception was practised upon the public with the enemy's position, and it suffered very first potato supply. For many months heavily in consequence. But for all potato tickets had been in use, when that, in spite of its failures, 'what a suddenly official notices appeared magnificent record it has, with two saying that potatoes could be had for tremendous offensives in Cham - a few days without tickets. pagne, one in the spring and a sec - "The unsuspecting public ordered ond in the autumn, the first real great quantities, and the agrarians. breach in the enemy's lines by the thus got rid of all their bad potatoes,conquest of the Labyrinth near selling them to the mass of the peo-1 Arras, to say nothing of fighting in ple. In many cases they were rot- Alsace and away to the north of ting so fast that the purchaser had Ypres! to bury them, and it was found that Surprised Her Enemies. they produced illness when given to 1 And, in spite of all France's losses, Whatswine.pooplo in she was still equal to a campaign in world but the Germans would have ' the Dardanelles, and after that to stood it? !a leading part in the defence of Sa- "Food Dictator Batocki has been un-: lonica. One does not know which to able to make the agrarians put the admire most—the loyalty to her ally potato crop now gathered upon the Serbia in distress the profusion of market even at le maximum price her racrifices to the common cause, allowed by the food commission. They the clear, penetrating vie;es, 1.' are holding back the supplies until strategical situation, or the stoical they have forced up the maximum calm—so different from L11,. .,... .., price, just as a year ago many agra- ideas of the Frenchman—with which rians allowed the potatoes to rot she has borne losses and the post - rather than sell as millings to the ponement of her hopes. But, great city at the price fixed by Mw. 1as France was last year, she has Won't Agree to Fair Price. risen to fresh heights this year. Ver - "In any other country in a state of I dun, after the shock of the first few siege the Government would coin- days, was magnificently done, and, m andeer the supplies. As the indus- so far from being weakened to help- rial classes until recently misted lessness by her losses, as the Ger- the war taxes, so the Prussian Junk- inane had hoped, they have stirred ors snap their fingers at suggested her to fresh efforts. Her energy in fair laws for food distribution. What, the Somme battle is beyond praise ; W reaping a splendid re- state of mind does this produce among and is 110 the people? I ward. She has in General Foch per - "Outside Germany there is an idea I haps the finest tactician in Europe, that every German is working at topland her staff work and technical or - speed, the spirit of the fatherland ganization have now reached the highest pitch of efficiency. But ading him on like a flame. That these things would have counted for as the spirit witnessed in the early ays of the war. Now there is a comparatively little after all that reat bluff in circulation throughout' France has gone through if it had not he woald. I been for the indomitable energy and "The revelation that so angers j the lofty pride of her people. Well 0 em is that it is a lie, that all is go- 1 may we b.e...._pro_u_c.:!_f suchallies. c g fairly well in Germany and that: _ b ere is no longing for peace. In cer-1 The ocean of life is filled With 5 ..-,....litsis ..pl: JLISTEI ii vdi E itlira.)-,...---1114.4141--4.4,4:41=--4-4 t 0,Ze name thcri sterna's for 0 th f Q.z.ralif y inFarmAfachlemy • in t LISTER ENGINES ARE ? th great metro- polis to the other, has been appoint- ed by the War Office director of the army motor department, which has been transferred to the Ministry of Munitions. No man is more suited for this position of great responsibility, for Sir Albert Stanley has the repute - ion of being one of the most able railway and traffic managers in the world, It has been said that if all he railway companies in the world ombincd, the working of such a huge oncern would be perfect if Sir Al- ert Stanley were in charge. Such a tatement, exaggerated as it scents, gives some idea of the energy of this emarkable man. He is still comparatively young, eying been born in Derby in 1875. When he was quite a boy he went to he United States, where he received oat of his engineering training Sir tot if 2.3.5,7&9 HP. On Skids or Truck. Hip Tension ,Magneto jf Automatic LAabrication. ( Lister Silos, Ensilage Cutters. I Threshers, Sprayers, Mincers, rt Electric Light Plants, Meiotic Cream Separators. IITHE LISTE,R 41 GRINDER • st../ IWrite for price or: tfrigitefiVgi '4101\ Fnairni6elisitRenle, laLlit gY113V V BRITISH BUILTG 4 ta in rural districts there is an in -1 breakers; that's why so many men go r nse longing for peace, not merelyh broke, erman peace, but any peace. T feeling arises not only from military1 reasons, but from the utter weariness; tretseti: of the rule of the profiteers." sale in The writer declares that the last ACHING TEETH the Li BrItigh potato crop was poor, rye was good, Empire. wheat was fair, oats and berley ex - Oslalopte RiA•LI S TER & Co.Limitod TOCIONTO celleftt, He refers to the great ef- forte of the Germans to get oil, nuts, berries and poppies, but says the peo- ple aro apathetic, as the Government has taken the crops at prices already I set. He elide: "The conquest of Rumania may yield foodstuffs and oil, and smug- gling by neutrals will help the army and munition work, but if the block- ade 'is strengthened GormanY can be defeated." A Job for 5 Versatile Man. According to a London paper, the Lady's Magazine for 1789 contained the following comprehensive advers tisetnenti "Wanted, for a sober fam- ily, a man of light weight who fears the Lord and can drive a pair of home. He must occasionally wait at table, join in household prayer, look after horses, and read a chapter in the Bible. He must rise at seven in the morning, obey his master and mistress in all lawful commands, and if he can (Iron hair, sing psalnis, and play at cribbage, so much the better. Wages, fifteen guibette a year." RELIEVED AT HOME Abill b ite ier t s's wweroondveerifyu I as orogna i zrionegog. clpeaci Sloan's Liniment "fobs Tooth, ache of Its Terrors. Pain Vanishes in a Pew Minutes. No need to pace the floor all night with the agony of a th,robbing tooth. Sloan's Liniment will quickly relieve he pain and give you rest. A single applicistIon mud the pain tumany disappears. Sloan's Liniment gets right to the root of the trouble, Like a warming balm it relieves con- gestion, and in a few minutes tooth, ache in reduced. To soothe the throb of a tooth that pains with neuralgia, apply Sloan's Liniment externally, Aching muscles, rheumatism, gout, bruises, sprains, lumbago, chilblains, eptnims and stiff neck can also be most effectively treated with Sloan' Liniment. Clean. er than mussy plasters or poultic.es• Sloan'i Liniment at all drug stores In 26e., 500. and 21.00 bottles. si a Is Liniment for he was only in his twenties when he was appointed superintendent of the Detroit United Railways, and subsequently he was made general manager of the American Electric Railways, a post which he held for early twelve years, Hls name came prominently before the public in connection with the re- organization of the Metropolitan Dis- trict Railway, and he was eleeted to he manager, and later had full ex- ecutive control of all the railways and associated transport agencies operat- ed by the Underground Electric Rail- way Company. Sirf Albert is a firm believer in hard word and very rarely misses a day at his office, Since his appointment at the Ministry of Munitions he has been working so actively that a breakdown has frequently been fear- ed. Be is a keen open-air man and Is In the front rank of amateur golf- ers. Sir Albert Stanley was knighted in 1914, and is said to receive the highest salary of any railway =in- ept in the world. Perhaps the best way to kill false. hood is to let it lie. `4, 00010,-.