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The Clinton News Record, 1919-10-16, Page 6CHAPTER XVI. • It wee, indeed, quite "easy"—sur- prisingey ee, as the doctor soon found Pub. Not without some trepidation, - however, lied he taken the train for Dalton the next moriung and present, - ed hes ,proposetion to the master ef Denby House. ' "I thiale I've found your private secretary,' he began blithely, hoping that hie pounding heartthrobs did not really sound like a drum. "X" have? Geed! Weat's her nerne? Somebody you know?" clues. tioned Burke Denby, with a thew of interest. "Yee. She' e Mise Darling, arid Pie known her •family for years." (The doctor gulped and owalloWed a hteeeeneleleieelYa "She doesn't now shorthand, but she can typewrite, and she's very quick at taking dictation M long hand, I fancy; and she knows leveret languages, I believe. I'm sere you'll And her capable and thud - worthy in every way." 'Tory good! Sounds well, --sure," Emiled Burke. "And here, for my needs, speed and shorthand are not so necessary. I do only 'personal bueiness at the house. What salary does she want?" • So unexpected and disconcerting was this quite natural question that the doctor, totally unprepared for it, nearly betrayed himself by his .con- fusion. "Eh? Er—ah—oh, great Scott! Why didn't they— I might have known—" he floundered. Then, sharp- ly, he recovered himself. "Well, really," he laughed lightly, "I'm"a crackerjack at applying for a job, auci no mistake! I quite forgot to ask wbat salary she did expect. • But I don't believe that will matter mater- ially. She'll come for what is right, • I'm sure; and you'll be willing to pay that." -"Oh, yes, it doesn't matter. I'll be glad to give her a trial, anyway; and if she's 'fill_you cealc her up to be I'll pay her -more than what's right. When can she come? Where does she live?" "Well, she's going to live here in Dalton," evaded the doctor cautiously. "She's not here yet; but she and her mother are coming—a—next week, I believe. Better not count on her be- ginning work till the first, though, PerhaPe. That'll be next week Thurs. day. I should think they ought te -.-er-ezettled by that time." The doc- tor drew a long breath, much after the fashion of a num who has been crossing a bit of particularly than ice. "All right. Send her along. The sooner the better," nbdded Burke, the • old listless weariness, coming back to hie eyes. "I certainly need—some one." It was on a beautiful day in late September that Helen Denby and her daughter arrived at the Dalton sta- tion, Helen, fearful either that her features -would be recognized, or that she would betray by word or look her knowledge of the glace, and so bring an amazed questionto Betty's lips, had drawn a heavy veil over her km. it was a short drive, and Helen and her daughter were soon in the apart- • ment the doctor had found for them. It .was a pretty liege suite of five rooms up one flight, convenient, and tastefully furnished. "I don't think even Burke could find fault with this," thought Helen, a bit wistfully, as her eyes lingered on the soft colorings and harmonioas lilend- ings of rugs and hangings. Aloud she said:— "Dear mel I feel just like a little • girl with a new doll -house, dont "Yes; and when our trunks come, and we get our photographs and things oat, it will be lovely, won't it?" • Helen at one of the windows, gave a madden exclamation. "Why, Betty, from this winclow we can "See what?" cried Betty, huarying to the window, as her mother's words same to an abrupt halt. "The city, dear, so niuch of it, and —and all those beautiful houses ova there," stammered Helen. 'See that thuree with the big dome, and the • tall spire next it; and all those trees —that must be a path," she hurried on, pointing out anything and every- thing but the one big' old colereal house with ets 'tall pillars that stood out so • beautieully fine _and clear against The green ofa wale hewn on the opposite hill. "I shall take you over myself," said Helen to her daughter as they rose from tee breakfast table thatifiest day of October. "And I shall show you carefully just howto come bale this afternom; but I'm aftaid 1 shall -hale° to let you some back alone, clear In the first place shouldn't know when you were ready; and in the second place, I seouldedt wehe to go and -wait, for you." "Of course not!" alert Betty. "AsI if Rd let you—and you don't even have' to go with be. I can find out by asking." "No, I shall go with you." Hefty! noticed that her mother's, cheeks were very pink arid her eyes very bright! "Don't forget the doctor's letter; and remember, deal:, 3ust be—be your own dear sweet sele." "Why, mother, you're--creringl" ex- claimed the desmayecl Betty. "Crying? Not a bit of it!" The head came proudly erect. "But does it mean so much to you aid I—that I—that be—likes me?" astral Betty softly. The next moment, aleamed and =mete she found her mother's con- vulsive arms about hot, her mother's thernbling voice in her arra It'll Mean all the world th Retty—oh, Betty, my babyl" Why, mallet! exclaimed the girl, aghast and shaken, But already her mother had dvawn hereell up, and Was laughieg through her tears, "Dear, dear, bee may look at the fuss gag old wahine -bled le making at the first fiefehe of her Meng one!" oho ehattered gayly, "Come, no move of thief We'll be late, 'We'll get ready right testae. Y.. ee say you have the Theta farm the doctor. Dont for- get that," "No I won't I liege it all safe," tamed' the girl over tier selefider, aff etiveied away for her hat and coat, A minute latot she came bank to find her Mother ,eettoudine hereelf In the black veil. "Oh, Mother*, cleat pleat! You areee Oleg to Wear beet hotted Veil teakty, are you?" elm remearethated. "Why, yes, deer. Why note" "1 don't like it aebit, And it's so thickt 1 emit see a bit a you through "Oan't you? Good?" Vaguely Betty wondered at the ' elmat.gleetel tone ee tee voce,) Then nobody can ea my. ens—and enow thet I've been crying,' eilo! they wouldn't artYWaY," hewn" ed leettY, eYear eyes aren't red at all, . But the metber only laughed again gleefully—ared fristened the veil with still' another pin. A minute later reiother and daughter left the house together. , • It was not a leng rideto the foot of the street that led upetela hill to Blithe Derby's home. With carefully minute direction's as td be return home at night, Helen left her daagh- ter 'halfway up the hill, With the huge w,roughta'th ron gates of e Denby driveway just before her. Then, with a last lingering' look and a soe for- tuuately Smothered in the enshrouding veil, she turned ape Married away in the opposite direction. • Many times before Betty's return late that afternoon, Helen avendered that a day, jot one little da, could be so long,' It seemed to her that each: minute was an hour, and each hour a ds', so slowly did the clock tick the time away. She tried to work, to sew, to read. But there seemed really nothing that she wanted ta do except to 'Beard at one of the windows; her eyes on ,the massive, white -pillared. old hoiese -set in its wide sweep of. green on the opposite hill. At ten minutes hefrire five Betty. reached' home, Her mother met her' halfwayddown the steers: "Oa, Betty, you—you are bore!" she panted. "New.tell Inc everkehing —every siegle thieg," she esiterated, almost dragging the girl into the apartment, in: ;Iter haste and excite" - meet, "Don't elate aeythiag—not blue leapt little thing; for it little thihg might mean so much—to Inc." _ "Why, -mother!" exclaimed Betty, her langeleng ayes growing vaguely troubled. 1 "Db you really care so much?" With a :sudden eightening of the throat Helen milled hereelf up, sharp- ly. She gave a -light laffgh. "Care? Of course I care. Don't you suppose I want te know what my baby has ten doing all the long day away from me? Now, tell rem. art rigbt down and tell ite from - the beginning." "All right, I will," smiled Beta y. "Well, first, I walked up that long, long walk through thatheautiful lawn to the house; but for a Minute I didn't ring the bell. It was so beaatie fel—the view from the verandah, with the sin on the reds and browns and yellows of the trees ev-ery-wherel Then I remembered euddenly that a hadn't come to make a call and admeta the view, hut that I was a business wo- man ,now. So.1 rang the bell. There was a lovely eld brass knocker on the great deer; bet I awe a. very con- SPieuotes peshebutton, and I concluded that'wies for real use." "Yes, yes. And were you frighten- ed, dear -- "Well, 'nervous,' we'll call it. Then, as I was planning Just what to say, the door opened and the oldest little old man I eeer saw stood before me." Yes, go on!' "He was the butler,- I found out afterwards. They called him Benton. He seemed =lensed, ,somellow, to see me, or 'frightened, or something. Any- way, he started queerly, as his eyes met mine, and he muttered a quick something under his breath; but all I could hear was- the last, 'No, no, it couldn't bet'. " "Yes—yes!" breathed Helen, her face a little white. "The next mbiute be 'became so stiff and straight and *dignified that even his English cousin might have envied ham. I told him I was Miss Darling, and that I had a note to Mr. Denby from Dr. Gleason, " 'Yes, Mies. The master is ex- pecting you,. He said to AMY you right in. This way, please,' he said then, pompously. And then I saw that great hall. Oh, mother, if you could sea itl It's wonderful, and so trill of treasures! I could hardly take off my hat and coat properly, for de- vouring a superie specimen of old armor right in front of me. Then Benton took me into the library, and I saw—eoniething Oen more wonder- ful." "You mean your—er—Mie Denby?" The mother's fame was aglow, : Betty gave a merry laugh. "Indeed, I don't! Oh, lie was there, but he Was no wonder, mother, dear, The Wonder' was cabinet after cabitet fillecl .with jades and beonzes and „mewed ivories and Babylonian tablets and— But I couldn't begin to tell you! I =Irina even begin to see for myself, -for, of course, I ,had to .say oomething to Mr. Denby." "Of course! And tell ane—what was he -,--he like?" • "Oh, he was just a man, tall arid stern -looking, and a little gray. He's old, you know. He isn't young at all" —spoken with all the serene confi- dence. of Betty's eighthen years. "He hal nice eyes, ancl I imagine he'd be Ince, d let himself , be. But he won't." "Why, Better, What --what do you mean?" Betty latighed and ehrugged her shoulders. -- (To be eontineed) Nothing But The Truth. : While crossing the veAlsvay at a level crossing ft. horst mid buggy was run down by a train. In the ensuing action for tianiagee, one a the most important witneeses was tee signal. man in charge or ale deeming. Bet ho stud; tightlyto his story, in cipttb of a severe cross-examination, He persisted that he had waved las 'lantern franticeily, but la vain, tb the driVer Of Om baggy. "You did excellentlee Tont," the superinteialent told hem etterwards. "I wee a bit amid at last you might waver." "No, ele, not me!" taid the old man ptheallY, ealut I rele re bit ttervoup thet that leavyee bloke woteld kik nib if the lantern was lighted," A fatecesefel eateeriment M peatert eultiVabiori on the DeTelleatea river in Meeepotarnia hes befia accoMptished, • The Nails. clallev4sil°' to weehizthWittlre °Iie4lanitilev:4•TalerUalY00:14° use fig hoof e on wh$oh IA yoa, in mai eery° only to import Mid stifeeu the :mils ler the fingers eed torn, The pine alightly curyo4 laoui gide bo side e°11611(5 trem end to end; it is smooth On itS snifaoe ' Ana homewhat 44M/trent; and, except in` the ereSoent-Sitalled White portion at ter:time, whittle 10 called the lunule, it shows the pink' color of the nail bed )beneath, 051 many persons' nails, the lunule Is web marked on only two or three of the fingers on OM hand, but it abtrost al- ways appears on the arena) Palle, Of- ten, too, longitudinal Nerve merit the saface of the whele mil. After a aiere Meese there IS usnally a trete,' verse groove, which is the resule ef :defective nutrition,' of the root—the newly forming portion—aerieg the ill! hese. Since the figs nails grow et the' rate of from one thirty-second to one eixteepai of art ince at week, sude a groeve takes tram two to tour monthe to work down to the end of the nail, The nails may be deramed in vari. ous ways, When 'very thin, they are often fiettened endhollowecaout instead of convex, end are called spleen nails. Vice May he abnormally thick end phew exaggerated carves, especially In a longitudinal direction. Victims af tuberculosis • or of chronic heart deenee often eave each hells, which make the ands of the fingers look as If they were 'hypertrophied; physe clans call them Hipeocraele fingere tiecatie'e the first description 'of thole Is found In the- writings of 'Hippo- crates, "the father of medicine." You should push back the skin fouled the Mil gently with a wooden toothpick or a thwel after washing Your -hands, and you should lime:* put it off, The practipe ortueting it off leads:to hang- nails or fissures in the ski,n fold At the root or side of the nail, which are not Mee painful but whien may become in. lectedand issult in a "runearourid," or ihflammatioe, that in methane cases involves that entire root and undersur- fade of the- nail and causes It to be shed. The presence of white spots or 'Mee on the nails is not uncommon. It Is thought to be the result Of slight inlay, but we do not know surely what cranes it. Ti3e nails are eubject to various dis- eases. Ringworm somelimes attacks the nails of children, and eczema and other skin diseases sometimes invade the Taal bed and affect the nails yeconderily. Warts at thealae's of the nails or melee the free' edge some. times cause rime's pain and annoyance. You ehoule- pare the nail* about once a Arg with a sharp knife or small soissors, and use the file only to round off rough places left by the cutting, If the nails are brittle, you often can help them by frequent applications of vase - line. . A lath Lancer Tradition. The 12th Lancers observed until 1914 a quaint regimented custem which was said to have its origin in .the Ben- i/muter Ware According to regimental tradition, certain members ea the 12th 'friend thernselves, after an engagement with tlre 'French, dein:Mad' Odin' the tnain body, and, there being, no oflicer with them, they "de'cided to go *footing. Unfoetunately for thorn and for the high reputetioe a the regimentthe fitst building they eame to Was a con- vent. Hew much tooting they did Is unrecorded; but when their offence was discovered,: not ,only Were they condemned to be shoe, but the whole isgiment was sentenced to have hymn ' tunes played to It every night for 100 years. • This 'custom was continued until the outbreak of war, and, althoup the al- leged sentence 'expired some years ago, it evill be reeived an soon as the 12th once more get to their peace footing. Heade:nay:whatever stigma original - '41 attached to the regiment on ac- count' of the Peninsular incident has lbng been forgotten- in the splendid achievements or the 12ta in almost every war caValry have been engaged in since, and the custom is 'regarded now-adays as an honor rather than a punishment. This is a good example of the way in which regular regiments cling on to their old traditions auil customs, no 'meter wipe may be the origin of the latter. A Terrible Business, Pat had seen nearly every dock in the plane, but 'had disceadee, all of tliem aS 801 beleg good enough for Ins purpose. The weary thopinen had ex- hausted his whole stock except- a few cuckoo °leeks, so ho brought these forward as a last resburce, and vowed, .110 would do his, best tosell one or know the eesaat'why. 'I'll show you what they do, 4 said the salesmen, and he set the hands of one to a few minutes to ewelve. When tlie door; flow open and the make° thrust his head out, cuckooing away fa dna life, Pet WA'S thuerletstreek. But when the bird disappeared he looked glum, end pondered in gloomy thought for a moment. "Well, how doe you nicotine?" asked the salbeman. That'e ti staggerar for you, isn't it?" • "Faith, and begorra, I should think it is," declared 'Pat, e'It's trouble enamel' to remerhber to weal It, with. out having ep think. 01 100(110' the eta"- The Modern Way. Two piles of apples lay' On atm groand. contained a large-sized rind rosy selection; the fruit of the other lifiLS greet ancl "Large on the top, sir, and small at the bottom?" inquired the new mast-, ant a his master, alt he prepared to 1111 a barterer "Certainly tot!" replied the farmer, vietitously. "tionesta Is tee befit pelley, my boy, 'Put 11116 little apples at the top, tsed the large ones at the bettonl," Tire assistahe nuester yeaseasadently as seem at Isis groom est frielt, "Is the barrel fall, My lad?" 951504the "1o/'laalifavered the remade:it, «eeeedel etele the farmer. Nolve tan le Ueda° dawn arid label it" CMCX4a) 07:71,62e0646 Rmergency Illeeseree 'First Aid. Sada 'Cuts and Screthhes,—,Slieht eu'Pettxlnded Worqu 4110Cla54.111108bew 1Yle solut;111,e61N1;vitellr ase court plaster. -It le not ,cleari ithelf and it 'sails in whateVer germs are in ale wound. A name eerie eee Adheeive plaster may be usedecrose fc eut, bolding the sides a it together, 4)11:11odinition,st mleerused nre Cbv'eVtile07shall 116leeotlev; (1 triviel cuts end serrithees, but 'le the flesh gets red and inflamed round it,. take the colledion off, because the M- ils eaalleinclahbip°11inPeri re.eg t114t PUS 8."1" ars Splinters.—zSplintere ehould be drawn out by ening pincers or the tip of a knife blade put under the earl of the splinter, :holding the splinter against the. knife blade yeah the thuerib nail, 11 the splinter is enearely under the tall ecrape the nail thin over the end of the ePlintev, then cut, out a tiny piece and draw the splinter. Don't ase eolloelion over such a wound; cover it with surgically clean gauze, Eye Wounds.—In an actual Winer to the eye, a doctor should always give all treatment. • All .you can do is to cover the eye with soft cloths, soaked in cold water and bandaged on, but not too tightly, Keep the bandages wet all the them till the data comes. When a cinder, ceast or send, get in the eye, don't rub the eye. Make the tears come by closing the eye and pull the upper lid over the lower sev- eral times, thee close the nostril on the opposite side and blow the nose hard. If lime gets in the eyie, bathe' et with a solution of vinegar, a teaspoon- ful to a cup of water. This, acid COM- teracts .0/1.9 alkali of the lineee Needles.—Needles :that have gotten into the flesh Amid always be ex- amined 'carefully to see if any part has broken off and remains inside. In such a case keee the person still so that the 'piece 'will not work around, and send fa a doctor, Keep the piece of the needle so as to Iet the doctor know what size piece is missing.. Anirrial Biles.—Cat, dog and horse bites are apt to be rather mean, torn und -beruised wounds, Usually they need bhe same treatment as any other wound. The animals aee seldom rabid or mad, 'hut if there is any question about this get a doctor (immediately. There is a peculiar fact to be noticed with reference to dog bites. By f ar • the largest proportion of them are received by boys under fifteen, fewer by girls, and again much fewer by adults. The explanation in most cases is that the boys tease the dog, who naturally objects, and he can show his objection only by biting. There would be fewer seared parents as the result of dog bites if small boys were brought up with the idea of always making Mends with animals and pro- tecting them instead of plegueing them, Strange dogs should be let alone, Horse bites ere rare 'but may cause serious blood -poisoning if the wound ie not properly taken care of. Treat as for any other wound. For insect bites apply ammonia to the bite, then cold wee dressiegs—wet salt or mud are both soothing. Lockjaw.—Where dirt has been ground into a ragged and torn wound or a rusty nail bas made a wound, take particular cateeto give it the best wound treatment, and always have a doctor see it as soon as possible. Lockjaw can be prevented but is al- most never cured, and the lockjaw or tetanus germ is most apt to exist en such wounds as are ragged and full a of dirt Abdominal Wounds-I.—These are very serious, and one danger is the drying of the parts' exposed to the air when the wound has laid open any of, the abdominal organs. Send for a doctor immediately and treat f or shock. Colier the entire wound with a clean clobh kept wet with a weak solution of salt and water. -Use boiled water and sanitary empress if possible, butesuch a wound must be kept cover- ed if the contents of the abdomen, are exposed, as the drying probably will be fetal. A Very Ugly Poster. I was impreseed with the teaoher from the moment I meb her at the door of the schoolhouse. Sae was lit- tle, pretty, arid had lovely hair. Her dark &see Was protected by a crisp while apron. .She eeemed to create an. atmosphere ,of neatnese. Her echoolroom, with its starched white curtains at the wiedows arid its pretty holly deaerations' seemed to be, like the teacher. Her brisk -looker -1g chile dean as they sat at their well -ordered desks watthing every move their teaohee made remirededeme of soldiers at attention. Still they: seemed very cennfoitable tind hapay. I tried to take the -Miele room in at 'a glanee. The decorations were ini eerfect 'taste; I adreited some vevere artistic touch here and times until saw a large, ugly, bright red poster1 suspended from the blatleboard with heavy white creed. On this huge cevd wore pleated in large black letters, tee, worcle: "I Have Kept Myself, Clean I3eneath these words svere children's' All Day," lames and opposite the names were lerge weite, almost dueling stets. "How perfectly silly!" I said to My- self. I thought I hart met:a teacher possessing uniformly good taste, Imagine 'that. Ugly card staring those elfildven In the ince day in and day ould Heel she no emse of cleleeacy? Now, if the subjed of personal clean- liness lied to be tit the front, why not a email, clainey ,efied arid hung' in a less conspicueue pates? Well, I adchesssod the eichool, eot such wcts my business aniong them thee meaning, but someletew, the at- tisadeon of the room faded; greatest, of all was my cleciappointment le the loather, Than and bhot 1 learned a leeeora My little redelleaded teathet Meet haVe ,been Sensitive to notice My Weights libelee 11 e le edit tad end before left she told ate why it d was there aawhy it had to be exactly t letral Peed. he bed been warned snet to teach thet school. wire unrulY, iledeemlee and ite monde mid to be below gredei One group of boys had peatically deevea preview teachers away by their abeolute refusaie to oboe Hew - ever, this young WplAall WaS Pet to lie Keyed off. See took the letheol and peoceeeed to make the pupil like her. Tile process involved a great sleet cif hard thinking, She had to ,stimulate in them the desire to do right, Her chilclree were not clean, Their M *ei, eiande and'. teeth Wevd divtle fhen laegueplay- ge on thee ay ground Made her shudder. Stat ethought of the motto idea, She kne,v/ teat eclean- linese next to godliness". eke woulci not do. (She must thiniceef a motto that bhe children would underritande Mamie in words and direct M meaning. This came to her: "I have kept myself clean all day," e And oh what it meantl They must be physically clean. They must be menbally clean, Their codauct must bethe ve.y best. When a child passed the behavior test, a stay was placed opposite his name. With beaetiful pride this teacher told me that not one star, once placed, had to be removed, Was it not wonderful? Would you believe that seven words with one:lit- tle-teacher's personality behind them, could accomplisa a task late that? I have thought about et so mucer and this is the leeson I learned: Waen I begin to judge people and their ac- tions before I undenetand what lies behind, I think of my little red-headed teacher and her big, glaring motto - card. Some Things Soda Will Do. Soda is a splendid deodorizer for any utensil:* A teaspoonful ea soda bailed up with a little water in any kettle in which fish has been cooked is the finishing touch in cleaning the kettle, Occasionally it is good to clean out ehe coffeeeand tea pots by placing a teaspoonful of sada in the pots' filling them three-quarters full of coldwater, and bninging the solution to a boil. A teaspoonfiii of soda in a cup of warm water is an antiseptic gargle. A little soda in warm water makes a soothing bath for any nth salt as hives. pinch of soda In the water ie which flan -nets' are washed will soften the water ane whiten the flannels. A little soda added to toinatoes be- fore tomatoes are added to cream of tomato soap will prevent the milk from curdting. • Soda will make' tinware look like new if applied with moistened paper rand then polished eenth a pieee of dry I paper. 1 e t eSA HOW LONG CAN THEY DO IT? . There Is in Canada current opinion that It costs the Government $1,63 to get $1. of 'gross revenue from the rail. roade which have been emancipated from the capitalistic class. A deficit ef erso,tioo,000 In. 1919 is the forecaet. Tele etraighierste gives ries to conjec- tere as to what' the true relation of cost and revenue would be if some courageous Administration reached Mewn to the edema of our own Gev- ernment operation of th's roads. Thanks. in part to the peculiarities of the Canadian situation the private Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific have contributed nobly to the Govern- ment's experiment in railroad opera - time. This and other conies have steadily 'lifted the percentage., of cost to gross revenue. To -day it is 89 per cent. for the Grand Trunk and 81 per cent. for the Canadian Pacific, .The Percentage thus actually discloses. that s'hocking scandal. of surplus, rather than the uplifting inspiration of de. Wt. Monthly datements duly audited and certified show Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk can still operate on their own motive Power; the exact stein of the Government eoadseis not so clearly'faeriled, Why it Is not is a matter of coeeecture, friendly,. in- vidious or neutrel, as may be. Some irreconeilables want to know how theee'are to reach A conclueive audit of• Canadian Northern, making a true capital investinent basis foe figures. OtherEi my there is an operation defi- cit or more than three per cent, What, if a be so that the more wheels teen round and' the faster they go, the mote matey they Mee? le it coste cente net lass to take in a dol. lar, Isn't the taxpayer there to pay it? And doesn't the paltry 3 cents go at once back into civet:lotion?. "Ai long ar as lie has a dollleft. to burn, why shouldn't the taxpayer writhe find tur n ' , A staunch supporter of a western co-operative grain anicern with along nd honorable record of losses used to rater te its "turnover" as its "turn. undee," Happily free of the einhar. ramment Of literary cult,, he has given tee Goveremenes railroad auditas a book heading, accurate and novel. They sliould be atiseed and roe should the taxpeyers. For as a facetious in- quiret tot Governmeet flgeree says: "if taxpayee is riot to pay etheeta teems, whoa Is he for?" I3ut he* long can thee do Street ,Tournal, Good Reason. , "How old is Your baby brothel'?" asked little Tonime or e playmate. "Dee yaw old," replied Tommy, "Ali!" exclaimed Tommy, "I've got a toe rear old and he een walk ail well as your brotitea" "Well, eo he ought to," replied eohnily; "he's get twiee as really legs." You get more feed :them an aces if you let yout elates corn get ram eneviah to cot for fercidela The siltip;e 10 aerate, tend aoti eati get more of lb into, the am fev it anything leee 'Wetter' le toe ail bo ptck we119 ackl eager as 11 Isom into t 0 WO' o e ,, eA Beae of e'cveil l1 551 tee hitehen woc ot . d0 Wn butibare e1l. It erncreoey irp. ereasee the Peuriehirge value of food—in fact lia beflye e , i leelleipg powers beve egon proved ton to tWenly tlInesi the ameunt teken, 11 must be Desalt, , s . - a•-edel. FRANCE RESURGENT of maces were repair e me 05,000 tone of different material: ' ' Delete' used 1a1 tire Work eer reearstlena :FROM STRUGGLE 700,000 Acres' Rest° red. * • he total serfeee cif Fearme invaded NATION RETCANS OFIEEIRFCLLY. TO Hes Reseored Already 588 pridoes and Tunnels, 700 Kilometer* of Canals and 1,100 Kilometers of .Roads, Before the was a legend had epread all over the wield about the Framer people. says Medrice Calienave, Diree• tor -General of French Peelle Service. Even their bast Mende believed them, te be elaconceited, vaiu, light, even corrupt, and o'fond oe pleasure that it was impossible for them to bear hardship. Ae.the same time they got credit .for Intelligence and artistic am eirecietion. Five; years ago- nal legend wee desthoyee by the victory' of the Maine, and Benince owes male to the great Marshal Joffre for having killed, the legend and beaten the Germane Alma. Now that the war is over, now that the victory is evon, another legend is spreading. It Is not the legend ot French frivolity, of French corruption, It is the legend which represents France as so debilitated by her suffer- ing, so weakened by her losses, so overcome by the burden °flier debts, that she never Will be able to recover, that she has not even the energy to go to, work again, that she is annihilated forever, and that all the money so generously lent to her by Meath:. is .lost. This is the new legend which I will try- to destroy bemired' It is most decidedly a pieee of tee German pro. paeanda ,whicK has to be fought In the open and which has to'be preyed false. Improved Industrial Methods. 'The losses in human lives suffered by France are well known. About L500,009 men had been killed- and' about 350,009 had. been crippled ,end put permanently out of work, Tffese losses are made so much more eerious because of the eact that they are de. Driving the countey of men mostly be, tvreen the ages of 20 and 40, the age when men are mod useful in every kind of work, and when they are most important for the perpetuation of the race. During this war the, shortage of hands caused by the mobilization had to be made up by the intecalection of foreign (Euronean). end Asiatic labor, but obviolisly this measure could be taken only as a transitory expedient Elam/gable during war time. Now that peace has been restored, we must go back to reetbeds which cappot imperil the intregrity of our reef) nor lower the standard of life for French workingmen. That means that we have to provide for a niers thorough efficiency by a betfer tution of htiman eetivity, a generalized use of modern "machinery, specialize.. tion of labor, and by the standardiza- tion of production. ' The prospects of metallurgical in• dustry in France are encOuraging,-10 1b13 the output of French iron mines, including (those of Algeria, and Tunis, aniounted to , 23,000,000 tone of iron ore, oe wattle about 10,000,000 tons were exported. If we now add to that amount 21,000,000 tons, the output of the Lorraine mines, France would be able to expert over 21,000,000 tons of iroa ore per annum. Before the war, Freace wee consuming the whole amount of, her plgeron output, a little ever 5,000,000 tons, The areclectionl *ill soon reach 9,600,000 tons, leaving an excess of 1,500,000,tons for expor- tation. The production of steel fie - fore the was was about 5090000 tons. It will no* attain abed 7,500,900 tons with 1,000,000 tons to be aerated. BY the recovery of Alsace, France pos- sesses very extensive potash field's, mid hese °timbal:al with the linecne tent paosphate deposit's in Algeria and Teets, will permit the resumptioa of French agricultural industry. ,M1 foreign nations must desire the re. iteration of agriculture ill Frallee. SAO leas 11,000,000 landed ' inaPrietore, mostly email farmers and peasants. The wegare of these people Is the best protection against the spreador tol- shevistu, Large Colonial Empire, ' , French,tae3alle industries were pee - grassing greatly in the ten Years Pre- Vious'te the outbreak of hoettlities, 111 1913 2000000, seilndies Weere preen- ing 89,000 tons of woolen yens, of which 75,000tons were used in France. Dueing the war 100,000 new spindles were put into operation, but, of course, many woolen factories in the invaded territory were put out 05 080 At the prefeent time 600,000 spindles are in ase in Aimee, and as soon its the mills in northern Femme can -be put in on der they will have an output a 105,- 000 tous. May people'ignore the tact that ..,„ Franco possesses a oelonlel empire wheel' is larger [lean the whole arm of Canada, rich it agriculanal and mineral wealth, and a population of more time 50,000,000 men, nearly all hard workers, and who luxe shown their loyelty to the mother country by fighting bradelyetor bet in the NEM My optimism for tas future of berance le not based merely ort sediment; it As based en ilguree. One Of the gfeat French militate* chiefs spoke of tho coeniet as a "war of treeeportation." What the amis. tice ems declared 2,240 kilometerot vfalways had t61 be eteastaeleshed, end Of thmo 2,016 !rave been put In order Oely totty.filx steams and depots ars closed; 1,100 bridges, tuniiels, ok had to be robtillt and 588 a thole are in normal condition at petulant. Move Mar 1,009 kilometers of mettle 'and carialieee VIVA% ever° seVerele elan- egoli, 1 Of those 700 have been to' StOrOa, 111 the 11101101 of Jiffy alio year wee about 7,900,000 Rao% Of wheel alma 3,000,000 nacre had been flevotee to Agriciaticee. About 700,000 taxa have been plowed once, more alitei they haul been cleftrea of barbed•wire and eliells and trenches 111104 PP, France bask 800,000 tionsee tied cattle, two-thirds of wheel have been re- placed; 202,000 aerieultural imple. ments heat) been aostroeed apd 200,- ;00.ithgni 0ieuefitiaoieo tutedn1543ais l 1014,0:0 velialpe4e el:sran4 end. they have been replaced by 10,000' tractors ane maims. Of the 850000 housei and buildings destroyed, 229 factories have been rebuilt, 80,000 of them repeirecl, 10,225 hutsecorapletee, . and 00,000 huts (portable homes) cire teeing estabifshed, giving shelter to eb0,009 men, evomee and call:Irene wee canre liack in 8,872 towns or vile lates in whjoh municipal life has beenl' reaetablisbeed. Of the 4,683 primary' schools flourishing in antebellum days: 3,000 have already been opened. From these figures it can be realized' that France hes gone back to work' with a spirit of virile emmage. You hear often of a clamorous France, but that is not the real France that re.! cuperated so quickly after the war ofi 1870. It paid an enormous debt so rapidly as to gain the admiration of the wcrld. The real France is silent! and working and looks for the esteem' mai respect of her friends. - Sir Douglas Haig Went to Church , With Tommies. During the past four years Sir Doug. las Haig has been little nibre than a mune tb the British public, writes a correspondent in the "Alanchesta Guardiee," Those who were assoce ated witle hit Staff were- often sue. prised et the secrecy of his earnings tied goregs, no ono in England seem, ing' eyer to be aware that he hed crossee the Charinel. But he has come wonderfully out of his shell in the last few weeks, and has -put aside sonm• thine of elm gravity and aeserveethat charecterIeecl ble appearance at pub. lie worship at general headquarters. He was a most cOnscientious church goer, ape unless he -were "up the line" lug which did noteree lean at his place there was not a single Sunday morn. In the little hut that wad 4 soldier's canteen all the week and a Presby- terian church on Subday. Indeed, it eves a canteen oe Sundays., too, be- tween the morning and evening sea vices., Tleere wee ttevey anathing in the nature •of a church 'aired°. Sir Douglas quietly toolahle saat.and any Tommy was at liberty, untrammelled by ceremony, to join tn a service of homeliness and simplioity. . Victims of "The Weed." "Theyare passionately addicted to tobitcco," a British offiCer wrote home, "aend can be made to do almost any. thing under its influence. One of them uses a triangular bit of wood for a cigar holder, and when a cigar is lighted aid pressed into the hole and pig in hismouth, he immedietele °Mies les eyes arid mine away through his mouth and nostrils till the cigar is entirely consumed. "Furthermore, the nicotine appears to exact's° a stimulating and refresh. Mg died upon' them, 'so that, whet appareptly they are reedy to Chet from fatigue lieemee a smolce, they will 'plod on foe many More miles after it." The letter does not, as the reader may have begun to fear, relate to thf Beitiee. Toinniles, but to some drama ,darieseund other camels that the. cer saw en his service in the East, • Spa h with To na n 8811C0 and Open red: • $eteeo, to ser00,'' last heed nd iet4 W, CLARK, LIWiltilD,) t4ONTMSAL Ulld c rstanding ee . Aleagur li. PortPr ---- Qom/eget-- Heughten Man 00.4 -- rgki.hg:,,1019,,,;tspzeiltlo os, Allen, Toronto CHAPTER XVI. • It wee, indeed, quite "easy"—sur- prisingey ee, as the doctor soon found Pub. Not without some trepidation, - however, lied he taken the train for Dalton the next moriung and present, - ed hes ,proposetion to the master ef Denby House. ' "I thiale I've found your private secretary,' he began blithely, hoping that hie pounding heartthrobs did not really sound like a drum. "X" have? Geed! Weat's her nerne? Somebody you know?" clues. tioned Burke Denby, with a thew of interest. "Yee. She' e Mise Darling, arid Pie known her •family for years." (The doctor gulped and owalloWed a hteeeeneleleieelYa "She doesn't now shorthand, but she can typewrite, and she's very quick at taking dictation M long hand, I fancy; and she knows leveret languages, I believe. I'm sere you'll And her capable and thud - worthy in every way." 'Tory good! Sounds well, --sure," Emiled Burke. "And here, for my needs, speed and shorthand are not so necessary. I do only 'personal bueiness at the house. What salary does she want?" • So unexpected and disconcerting was this quite natural question that the doctor, totally unprepared for it, nearly betrayed himself by his .con- fusion. "Eh? Er—ah—oh, great Scott! Why didn't they— I might have known—" he floundered. Then, sharp- ly, he recovered himself. "Well, really," he laughed lightly, "I'm"a crackerjack at applying for a job, auci no mistake! I quite forgot to ask wbat salary she did expect. • But I don't believe that will matter mater- ially. She'll come for what is right, • I'm sure; and you'll be willing to pay that." -"Oh, yes, it doesn't matter. I'll be glad to give her a trial, anyway; and if she's 'fill_you cealc her up to be I'll pay her -more than what's right. When can she come? Where does she live?" "Well, she's going to live here in Dalton," evaded the doctor cautiously. "She's not here yet; but she and her mother are coming—a—next week, I believe. Better not count on her be- ginning work till the first, though, PerhaPe. That'll be next week Thurs. day. I should think they ought te -.-er-ezettled by that time." The doc- tor drew a long breath, much after the fashion of a num who has been crossing a bit of particularly than ice. "All right. Send her along. The sooner the better," nbdded Burke, the • old listless weariness, coming back to hie eyes. "I certainly need—some one." It was on a beautiful day in late September that Helen Denby and her daughter arrived at the Dalton sta- tion, Helen, fearful either that her features -would be recognized, or that she would betray by word or look her knowledge of the glace, and so bring an amazed questionto Betty's lips, had drawn a heavy veil over her km. it was a short drive, and Helen and her daughter were soon in the apart- • ment the doctor had found for them. It .was a pretty liege suite of five rooms up one flight, convenient, and tastefully furnished. "I don't think even Burke could find fault with this," thought Helen, a bit wistfully, as her eyes lingered on the soft colorings and harmonioas lilend- ings of rugs and hangings. Aloud she said:— "Dear mel I feel just like a little • girl with a new doll -house, dont "Yes; and when our trunks come, and we get our photographs and things oat, it will be lovely, won't it?" • Helen at one of the windows, gave a madden exclamation. "Why, Betty, from this winclow we can "See what?" cried Betty, huarying to the window, as her mother's words same to an abrupt halt. "The city, dear, so niuch of it, and —and all those beautiful houses ova there," stammered Helen. 'See that thuree with the big dome, and the • tall spire next it; and all those trees —that must be a path," she hurried on, pointing out anything and every- thing but the one big' old colereal house with ets 'tall pillars that stood out so • beautieully fine _and clear against The green ofa wale hewn on the opposite hill. "I shall take you over myself," said Helen to her daughter as they rose from tee breakfast table thatifiest day of October. "And I shall show you carefully just howto come bale this afternom; but I'm aftaid 1 shall -hale° to let you some back alone, clear In the first place shouldn't know when you were ready; and in the second place, I seouldedt wehe to go and -wait, for you." "Of course not!" alert Betty. "AsI if Rd let you—and you don't even have' to go with be. I can find out by asking." "No, I shall go with you." Hefty! noticed that her mother's, cheeks were very pink arid her eyes very bright! "Don't forget the doctor's letter; and remember, deal:, 3ust be—be your own dear sweet sele." "Why, mother, you're--creringl" ex- claimed the desmayecl Betty. "Crying? Not a bit of it!" The head came proudly erect. "But does it mean so much to you aid I—that I—that be—likes me?" astral Betty softly. The next moment, aleamed and =mete she found her mother's con- vulsive arms about hot, her mother's thernbling voice in her arra It'll Mean all the world th Retty—oh, Betty, my babyl" Why, mallet! exclaimed the girl, aghast and shaken, But already her mother had dvawn hereell up, and Was laughieg through her tears, "Dear, dear, bee may look at the fuss gag old wahine -bled le making at the first fiefehe of her Meng one!" oho ehattered gayly, "Come, no move of thief We'll be late, 'We'll get ready right testae. Y.. ee say you have the Theta farm the doctor. Dont for- get that," "No I won't I liege it all safe," tamed' the girl over tier selefider, aff etiveied away for her hat and coat, A minute latot she came bank to find her Mother ,eettoudine hereelf In the black veil. "Oh, Mother*, cleat pleat! You areee Oleg to Wear beet hotted Veil teakty, are you?" elm remearethated. "Why, yes, deer. Why note" "1 don't like it aebit, And it's so thickt 1 emit see a bit a you through "Oan't you? Good?" Vaguely Betty wondered at the ' elmat.gleetel tone ee tee voce,) Then nobody can ea my. ens—and enow thet I've been crying,' eilo! they wouldn't artYWaY," hewn" ed leettY, eYear eyes aren't red at all, . But the metber only laughed again gleefully—ared fristened the veil with still' another pin. A minute later reiother and daughter left the house together. , • It was not a leng rideto the foot of the street that led upetela hill to Blithe Derby's home. With carefully minute direction's as td be return home at night, Helen left her daagh- ter 'halfway up the hill, With the huge w,roughta'th ron gates of e Denby driveway just before her. Then, with a last lingering' look and a soe for- tuuately Smothered in the enshrouding veil, she turned ape Married away in the opposite direction. • Many times before Betty's return late that afternoon, Helen avendered that a day, jot one little da, could be so long,' It seemed to her that each: minute was an hour, and each hour a ds', so slowly did the clock tick the time away. She tried to work, to sew, to read. But there seemed really nothing that she wanted ta do except to 'Beard at one of the windows; her eyes on ,the massive, white -pillared. old hoiese -set in its wide sweep of. green on the opposite hill. At ten minutes hefrire five Betty. reached' home, Her mother met her' halfwayddown the steers: "Oa, Betty, you—you are bore!" she panted. "New.tell Inc everkehing —every siegle thieg," she esiterated, almost dragging the girl into the apartment, in: ;Iter haste and excite" - meet, "Don't elate aeythiag—not blue leapt little thing; for it little thihg might mean so much—to Inc." _ "Why, -mother!" exclaimed Betty, her langeleng ayes growing vaguely troubled. 1 "Db you really care so much?" With a :sudden eightening of the throat Helen milled hereelf up, sharp- ly. She gave a -light laffgh. "Care? Of course I care. Don't you suppose I want te know what my baby has ten doing all the long day away from me? Now, tell rem. art rigbt down and tell ite from - the beginning." "All right, I will," smiled Beta y. "Well, first, I walked up that long, long walk through thatheautiful lawn to the house; but for a Minute I didn't ring the bell. It was so beaatie fel—the view from the verandah, with the sin on the reds and browns and yellows of the trees ev-ery-wherel Then I remembered euddenly that a hadn't come to make a call and admeta the view, hut that I was a business wo- man ,now. So.1 rang the bell. There was a lovely eld brass knocker on the great deer; bet I awe a. very con- SPieuotes peshebutton, and I concluded that'wies for real use." "Yes, yes. And were you frighten- ed, dear -- "Well, 'nervous,' we'll call it. Then, as I was planning Just what to say, the door opened and the oldest little old man I eeer saw stood before me." Yes, go on!' "He was the butler,- I found out afterwards. They called him Benton. He seemed =lensed, ,somellow, to see me, or 'frightened, or something. Any- way, he started queerly, as his eyes met mine, and he muttered a quick something under his breath; but all I could hear was- the last, 'No, no, it couldn't bet'. " "Yes—yes!" breathed Helen, her face a little white. "The next mbiute be 'became so stiff and straight and *dignified that even his English cousin might have envied ham. I told him I was Miss Darling, and that I had a note to Mr. Denby from Dr. Gleason, " 'Yes, Mies. The master is ex- pecting you,. He said to AMY you right in. This way, please,' he said then, pompously. And then I saw that great hall. Oh, mother, if you could sea itl It's wonderful, and so trill of treasures! I could hardly take off my hat and coat properly, for de- vouring a superie specimen of old armor right in front of me. Then Benton took me into the library, and I saw—eoniething Oen more wonder- ful." "You mean your—er—Mie Denby?" The mother's fame was aglow, : Betty gave a merry laugh. "Indeed, I don't! Oh, lie was there, but he Was no wonder, mother, dear, The Wonder' was cabinet after cabitet fillecl .with jades and beonzes and „mewed ivories and Babylonian tablets and— But I couldn't begin to tell you! I =Irina even begin to see for myself, -for, of course, I ,had to .say oomething to Mr. Denby." "Of course! And tell ane—what was he -,--he like?" • "Oh, he was just a man, tall arid stern -looking, and a little gray. He's old, you know. He isn't young at all" —spoken with all the serene confi- dence. of Betty's eighthen years. "He hal nice eyes, ancl I imagine he'd be Ince, d let himself , be. But he won't." "Why, Better, What --what do you mean?" Betty latighed and ehrugged her shoulders. -- (To be eontineed) Nothing But The Truth. : While crossing the veAlsvay at a level crossing ft. horst mid buggy was run down by a train. In the ensuing action for tianiagee, one a the most important witneeses was tee signal. man in charge or ale deeming. Bet ho stud; tightlyto his story, in cipttb of a severe cross-examination, He persisted that he had waved las 'lantern franticeily, but la vain, tb the driVer Of Om baggy. "You did excellentlee Tont," the superinteialent told hem etterwards. "I wee a bit amid at last you might waver." "No, ele, not me!" taid the old man ptheallY, ealut I rele re bit ttervoup thet that leavyee bloke woteld kik nib if the lantern was lighted," A fatecesefel eateeriment M peatert eultiVabiori on the DeTelleatea river in Meeepotarnia hes befia accoMptished, • The Nails. clallev4sil°' to weehizthWittlre °Iie4lanitilev:4•TalerUalY00:14° use fig hoof e on wh$oh IA yoa, in mai eery° only to import Mid stifeeu the :mils ler the fingers eed torn, The pine alightly curyo4 laoui gide bo side e°11611(5 trem end to end; it is smooth On itS snifaoe ' Ana homewhat 44M/trent; and, except in` the ereSoent-Sitalled White portion at ter:time, whittle 10 called the lunule, it shows the pink' color of the nail bed )beneath, 051 many persons' nails, the lunule Is web marked on only two or three of the fingers on OM hand, but it abtrost al- ways appears on the arena) Palle, Of- ten, too, longitudinal Nerve merit the saface of the whele mil. After a aiere Meese there IS usnally a trete,' verse groove, which is the resule ef :defective nutrition,' of the root—the newly forming portion—aerieg the ill! hese. Since the figs nails grow et the' rate of from one thirty-second to one eixteepai of art ince at week, sude a groeve takes tram two to tour monthe to work down to the end of the nail, The nails may be deramed in vari. ous ways, When 'very thin, they are often fiettened endhollowecaout instead of convex, end are called spleen nails. Vice May he abnormally thick end phew exaggerated carves, especially In a longitudinal direction. Victims af tuberculosis • or of chronic heart deenee often eave each hells, which make the ands of the fingers look as If they were 'hypertrophied; physe clans call them Hipeocraele fingere tiecatie'e the first description 'of thole Is found In the- writings of 'Hippo- crates, "the father of medicine." You should push back the skin fouled the Mil gently with a wooden toothpick or a thwel after washing Your -hands, and you should lime:* put it off, The practipe ortueting it off leads:to hang- nails or fissures in the ski,n fold At the root or side of the nail, which are not Mee painful but whien may become in. lectedand issult in a "runearourid," or ihflammatioe, that in methane cases involves that entire root and undersur- fade of the- nail and causes It to be shed. The presence of white spots or 'Mee on the nails is not uncommon. It Is thought to be the result Of slight inlay, but we do not know surely what cranes it. Ti3e nails are eubject to various dis- eases. Ringworm somelimes attacks the nails of children, and eczema and other skin diseases sometimes invade the Taal bed and affect the nails yeconderily. Warts at thealae's of the nails or melee the free' edge some. times cause rime's pain and annoyance. You ehoule- pare the nail* about once a Arg with a sharp knife or small soissors, and use the file only to round off rough places left by the cutting, If the nails are brittle, you often can help them by frequent applications of vase - line. . A lath Lancer Tradition. The 12th Lancers observed until 1914 a quaint regimented custem which was said to have its origin in .the Ben- i/muter Ware According to regimental tradition, certain members ea the 12th 'friend thernselves, after an engagement with tlre 'French, dein:Mad' Odin' the tnain body, and, there being, no oflicer with them, they "de'cided to go *footing. Unfoetunately for thorn and for the high reputetioe a the regimentthe fitst building they eame to Was a con- vent. Hew much tooting they did Is unrecorded; but when their offence was discovered,: not ,only Were they condemned to be shoe, but the whole isgiment was sentenced to have hymn ' tunes played to It every night for 100 years. • This 'custom was continued until the outbreak of war, and, althoup the al- leged sentence 'expired some years ago, it evill be reeived an soon as the 12th once more get to their peace footing. Heade:nay:whatever stigma original - '41 attached to the regiment on ac- count' of the Peninsular incident has lbng been forgotten- in the splendid achievements or the 12ta in almost every war caValry have been engaged in since, and the custom is 'regarded now-adays as an honor rather than a punishment. This is a good example of the way in which regular regiments cling on to their old traditions auil customs, no 'meter wipe may be the origin of the latter. A Terrible Business, Pat had seen nearly every dock in the plane, but 'had disceadee, all of tliem aS 801 beleg good enough for Ins purpose. The weary thopinen had ex- hausted his whole stock except- a few cuckoo °leeks, so ho brought these forward as a last resburce, and vowed, .110 would do his, best tosell one or know the eesaat'why. 'I'll show you what they do, 4 said the salesmen, and he set the hands of one to a few minutes to ewelve. When tlie door; flow open and the make° thrust his head out, cuckooing away fa dna life, Pet WA'S thuerletstreek. But when the bird disappeared he looked glum, end pondered in gloomy thought for a moment. "Well, how doe you nicotine?" asked the salbeman. That'e ti staggerar for you, isn't it?" • "Faith, and begorra, I should think it is," declared 'Pat, e'It's trouble enamel' to remerhber to weal It, with. out having ep think. 01 100(110' the eta"- The Modern Way. Two piles of apples lay' On atm groand. contained a large-sized rind rosy selection; the fruit of the other lifiLS greet ancl "Large on the top, sir, and small at the bottom?" inquired the new mast-, ant a his master, alt he prepared to 1111 a barterer "Certainly tot!" replied the farmer, vietitously. "tionesta Is tee befit pelley, my boy, 'Put 11116 little apples at the top, tsed the large ones at the bettonl," Tire assistahe nuester yeaseasadently as seem at Isis groom est frielt, "Is the barrel fall, My lad?" 951504the "1o/'laalifavered the remade:it, «eeeedel etele the farmer. Nolve tan le Ueda° dawn arid label it" CMCX4a) 07:71,62e0646 Rmergency Illeeseree 'First Aid. Sada 'Cuts and Screthhes,—,Slieht eu'Pettxlnded Worqu 4110Cla54.111108bew 1Yle solut;111,e61N1;vitellr ase court plaster. -It le not ,cleari ithelf and it 'sails in whateVer germs are in ale wound. A name eerie eee Adheeive plaster may be usedecrose fc eut, bolding the sides a it together, 4)11:11odinition,st mleerused nre Cbv'eVtile07shall 116leeotlev; (1 triviel cuts end serrithees, but 'le the flesh gets red and inflamed round it,. take the colledion off, because the M- ils eaalleinclahbip°11inPeri re.eg t114t PUS 8."1" ars Splinters.—zSplintere ehould be drawn out by ening pincers or the tip of a knife blade put under the earl of the splinter, :holding the splinter against the. knife blade yeah the thuerib nail, 11 the splinter is enearely under the tall ecrape the nail thin over the end of the ePlintev, then cut, out a tiny piece and draw the splinter. Don't ase eolloelion over such a wound; cover it with surgically clean gauze, Eye Wounds.—In an actual Winer to the eye, a doctor should always give all treatment. • All .you can do is to cover the eye with soft cloths, soaked in cold water and bandaged on, but not too tightly, Keep the bandages wet all the them till the data comes. When a cinder, ceast or send, get in the eye, don't rub the eye. Make the tears come by closing the eye and pull the upper lid over the lower sev- eral times, thee close the nostril on the opposite side and blow the nose hard. If lime gets in the eyie, bathe' et with a solution of vinegar, a teaspoon- ful to a cup of water. This, acid COM- teracts .0/1.9 alkali of the lineee Needles.—Needles :that have gotten into the flesh Amid always be ex- amined 'carefully to see if any part has broken off and remains inside. In such a case keee the person still so that the 'piece 'will not work around, and send fa a doctor, Keep the piece of the needle so as to Iet the doctor know what size piece is missing.. Anirrial Biles.—Cat, dog and horse bites are apt to be rather mean, torn und -beruised wounds, Usually they need bhe same treatment as any other wound. The animals aee seldom rabid or mad, 'hut if there is any question about this get a doctor (immediately. There is a peculiar fact to be noticed with reference to dog bites. By f ar • the largest proportion of them are received by boys under fifteen, fewer by girls, and again much fewer by adults. The explanation in most cases is that the boys tease the dog, who naturally objects, and he can show his objection only by biting. There would be fewer seared parents as the result of dog bites if small boys were brought up with the idea of always making Mends with animals and pro- tecting them instead of plegueing them, Strange dogs should be let alone, Horse bites ere rare 'but may cause serious blood -poisoning if the wound ie not properly taken care of. Treat as for any other wound. For insect bites apply ammonia to the bite, then cold wee dressiegs—wet salt or mud are both soothing. Lockjaw.—Where dirt has been ground into a ragged and torn wound or a rusty nail bas made a wound, take particular cateeto give it the best wound treatment, and always have a doctor see it as soon as possible. Lockjaw can be prevented but is al- most never cured, and the lockjaw or tetanus germ is most apt to exist en such wounds as are ragged and full a of dirt Abdominal Wounds-I.—These are very serious, and one danger is the drying of the parts' exposed to the air when the wound has laid open any of, the abdominal organs. Send for a doctor immediately and treat f or shock. Colier the entire wound with a clean clobh kept wet with a weak solution of salt and water. -Use boiled water and sanitary empress if possible, butesuch a wound must be kept cover- ed if the contents of the abdomen, are exposed, as the drying probably will be fetal. A Very Ugly Poster. I was impreseed with the teaoher from the moment I meb her at the door of the schoolhouse. Sae was lit- tle, pretty, arid had lovely hair. Her dark &see Was protected by a crisp while apron. .She eeemed to create an. atmosphere ,of neatnese. Her echoolroom, with its starched white curtains at the wiedows arid its pretty holly deaerations' seemed to be, like the teacher. Her brisk -looker -1g chile dean as they sat at their well -ordered desks watthing every move their teaohee made remirededeme of soldiers at attention. Still they: seemed very cennfoitable tind hapay. I tried to take the -Miele room in at 'a glanee. The decorations were ini eerfect 'taste; I adreited some vevere artistic touch here and times until saw a large, ugly, bright red poster1 suspended from the blatleboard with heavy white creed. On this huge cevd wore pleated in large black letters, tee, worcle: "I Have Kept Myself, Clean I3eneath these words svere children's' All Day," lames and opposite the names were lerge weite, almost dueling stets. "How perfectly silly!" I said to My- self. I thought I hart met:a teacher possessing uniformly good taste, Imagine 'that. Ugly card staring those elfildven In the ince day in and day ould Heel she no emse of cleleeacy? Now, if the subjed of personal clean- liness lied to be tit the front, why not a email, clainey ,efied arid hung' in a less conspicueue pates? Well, I adchesssod the eichool, eot such wcts my business aniong them thee meaning, but someletew, the at- tisadeon of the room faded; greatest, of all was my cleciappointment le the loather, Than and bhot 1 learned a leeeora My little redelleaded teathet Meet haVe ,been Sensitive to notice My Weights libelee 11 e le edit tad end before left she told ate why it d was there aawhy it had to be exactly t letral Peed. he bed been warned snet to teach thet school. wire unrulY, iledeemlee and ite monde mid to be below gredei One group of boys had peatically deevea preview teachers away by their abeolute refusaie to oboe Hew - ever, this young WplAall WaS Pet to lie Keyed off. See took the letheol and peoceeeed to make the pupil like her. Tile process involved a great sleet cif hard thinking, She had to ,stimulate in them the desire to do right, Her chilclree were not clean, Their M *ei, eiande and'. teeth Wevd divtle fhen laegueplay- ge on thee ay ground Made her shudder. Stat ethought of the motto idea, She kne,v/ teat eclean- linese next to godliness". eke woulci not do. (She must thiniceef a motto that bhe children would underritande Mamie in words and direct M meaning. This came to her: "I have kept myself clean all day," e And oh what it meantl They must be physically clean. They must be menbally clean, Their codauct must bethe ve.y best. When a child passed the behavior test, a stay was placed opposite his name. With beaetiful pride this teacher told me that not one star, once placed, had to be removed, Was it not wonderful? Would you believe that seven words with one:lit- tle-teacher's personality behind them, could accomplisa a task late that? I have thought about et so mucer and this is the leeson I learned: Waen I begin to judge people and their ac- tions before I undenetand what lies behind, I think of my little red-headed teacher and her big, glaring motto - card. Some Things Soda Will Do. Soda is a splendid deodorizer for any utensil:* A teaspoonful ea soda bailed up with a little water in any kettle in which fish has been cooked is the finishing touch in cleaning the kettle, Occasionally it is good to clean out ehe coffeeeand tea pots by placing a teaspoonful of sada in the pots' filling them three-quarters full of coldwater, and bninging the solution to a boil. A teaspoonfiii of soda in a cup of warm water is an antiseptic gargle. A little soda in warm water makes a soothing bath for any nth salt as hives. pinch of soda In the water ie which flan -nets' are washed will soften the water ane whiten the flannels. A little soda added to toinatoes be- fore tomatoes are added to cream of tomato soap will prevent the milk from curdting. • Soda will make' tinware look like new if applied with moistened paper rand then polished eenth a pieee of dry I paper. 1 e t eSA HOW LONG CAN THEY DO IT? . There Is in Canada current opinion that It costs the Government $1,63 to get $1. of 'gross revenue from the rail. roade which have been emancipated from the capitalistic class. A deficit ef erso,tioo,000 In. 1919 is the forecaet. Tele etraighierste gives ries to conjec- tere as to what' the true relation of cost and revenue would be if some courageous Administration reached Mewn to the edema of our own Gev- ernment operation of th's roads. Thanks. in part to the peculiarities of the Canadian situation the private Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific have contributed nobly to the Govern- ment's experiment in railroad opera - time. This and other conies have steadily 'lifted the percentage., of cost to gross revenue. To -day it is 89 per cent. for the Grand Trunk and 81 per cent. for the Canadian Pacific, .The Percentage thus actually discloses. that s'hocking scandal. of surplus, rather than the uplifting inspiration of de. Wt. Monthly datements duly audited and certified show Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk can still operate on their own motive Power; the exact stein of the Government eoadseis not so clearly'faeriled, Why it Is not is a matter of coeeecture, friendly,. in- vidious or neutrel, as may be. Some irreconeilables want to know how theee'are to reach A conclueive audit of• Canadian Northern, making a true capital investinent basis foe figures. OtherEi my there is an operation defi- cit or more than three per cent, What, if a be so that the more wheels teen round and' the faster they go, the mote matey they Mee? le it coste cente net lass to take in a dol. lar, Isn't the taxpayer there to pay it? And doesn't the paltry 3 cents go at once back into civet:lotion?. "Ai long ar as lie has a dollleft. to burn, why shouldn't the taxpayer writhe find tur n ' , A staunch supporter of a western co-operative grain anicern with along nd honorable record of losses used to rater te its "turnover" as its "turn. undee," Happily free of the einhar. ramment Of literary cult,, he has given tee Goveremenes railroad auditas a book heading, accurate and novel. They sliould be atiseed and roe should the taxpeyers. For as a facetious in- quiret tot Governmeet flgeree says: "if taxpayee is riot to pay etheeta teems, whoa Is he for?" I3ut he* long can thee do Street ,Tournal, Good Reason. , "How old is Your baby brothel'?" asked little Tonime or e playmate. "Dee yaw old," replied Tommy, "Ali!" exclaimed Tommy, "I've got a toe rear old and he een walk ail well as your brotitea" "Well, eo he ought to," replied eohnily; "he's get twiee as really legs." You get more feed :them an aces if you let yout elates corn get ram eneviah to cot for fercidela The siltip;e 10 aerate, tend aoti eati get more of lb into, the am fev it anything leee 'Wetter' le toe ail bo ptck we119 ackl eager as 11 Isom into t 0 WO' o e ,, eA Beae of e'cveil l1 551 tee hitehen woc ot . d0 Wn butibare e1l. It erncreoey irp. ereasee the Peuriehirge value of food—in fact lia beflye e , i leelleipg powers beve egon proved ton to tWenly tlInesi the ameunt teken, 11 must be Desalt, , s . - a•-edel. FRANCE RESURGENT of maces were repair e me 05,000 tone of different material: ' ' Delete' used 1a1 tire Work eer reearstlena :FROM STRUGGLE 700,000 Acres' Rest° red. * • he total serfeee cif Fearme invaded NATION RETCANS OFIEEIRFCLLY. TO Hes Reseored Already 588 pridoes and Tunnels, 700 Kilometer* of Canals and 1,100 Kilometers of .Roads, Before the was a legend had epread all over the wield about the Framer people. says Medrice Calienave, Diree• tor -General of French Peelle Service. Even their bast Mende believed them, te be elaconceited, vaiu, light, even corrupt, and o'fond oe pleasure that it was impossible for them to bear hardship. Ae.the same time they got credit .for Intelligence and artistic am eirecietion. Five; years ago- nal legend wee desthoyee by the victory' of the Maine, and Benince owes male to the great Marshal Joffre for having killed, the legend and beaten the Germane Alma. Now that the war is over, now that the victory is evon, another legend is spreading. It Is not the legend ot French frivolity, of French corruption, It is the legend which represents France as so debilitated by her suffer- ing, so weakened by her losses, so overcome by the burden °flier debts, that she never Will be able to recover, that she has not even the energy to go to, work again, that she is annihilated forever, and that all the money so generously lent to her by Meath:. is .lost. This is the new legend which I will try- to destroy bemired' It is most decidedly a pieee of tee German pro. paeanda ,whicK has to be fought In the open and which has to'be preyed false. Improved Industrial Methods. 'The losses in human lives suffered by France are well known. About L500,009 men had been killed- and' about 350,009 had. been crippled ,end put permanently out of work, Tffese losses are made so much more eerious because of the eact that they are de. Driving the countey of men mostly be, tvreen the ages of 20 and 40, the age when men are mod useful in every kind of work, and when they are most important for the perpetuation of the race. During this war the, shortage of hands caused by the mobilization had to be made up by the intecalection of foreign (Euronean). end Asiatic labor, but obviolisly this measure could be taken only as a transitory expedient Elam/gable during war time. Now that peace has been restored, we must go back to reetbeds which cappot imperil the intregrity of our reef) nor lower the standard of life for French workingmen. That means that we have to provide for a niers thorough efficiency by a betfer tution of htiman eetivity, a generalized use of modern "machinery, specialize.. tion of labor, and by the standardiza- tion of production. ' The prospects of metallurgical in• dustry in France are encOuraging,-10 1b13 the output of French iron mines, including (those of Algeria, and Tunis, aniounted to , 23,000,000 tone of iron ore, oe wattle about 10,000,000 tons were exported. If we now add to that amount 21,000,000 tons, the output of the Lorraine mines, France would be able to expert over 21,000,000 tons of iroa ore per annum. Before the war, Freace wee consuming the whole amount of, her plgeron output, a little ever 5,000,000 tons, The areclectionl *ill soon reach 9,600,000 tons, leaving an excess of 1,500,000,tons for expor- tation. The production of steel fie - fore the was was about 5090000 tons. It will no* attain abed 7,500,900 tons with 1,000,000 tons to be aerated. BY the recovery of Alsace, France pos- sesses very extensive potash field's, mid hese °timbal:al with the linecne tent paosphate deposit's in Algeria and Teets, will permit the resumptioa of French agricultural industry. ,M1 foreign nations must desire the re. iteration of agriculture ill Frallee. SAO leas 11,000,000 landed ' inaPrietore, mostly email farmers and peasants. The wegare of these people Is the best protection against the spreador tol- shevistu, Large Colonial Empire, ' , French,tae3alle industries were pee - grassing greatly in the ten Years Pre- Vious'te the outbreak of hoettlities, 111 1913 2000000, seilndies Weere preen- ing 89,000 tons of woolen yens, of which 75,000tons were used in France. Dueing the war 100,000 new spindles were put into operation, but, of course, many woolen factories in the invaded territory were put out 05 080 At the prefeent time 600,000 spindles are in ase in Aimee, and as soon its the mills in northern Femme can -be put in on der they will have an output a 105,- 000 tous. May people'ignore the tact that ..,„ Franco possesses a oelonlel empire wheel' is larger [lean the whole arm of Canada, rich it agriculanal and mineral wealth, and a population of more time 50,000,000 men, nearly all hard workers, and who luxe shown their loyelty to the mother country by fighting bradelyetor bet in the NEM My optimism for tas future of berance le not based merely ort sediment; it As based en ilguree. One Of the gfeat French militate* chiefs spoke of tho coeniet as a "war of treeeportation." What the amis. tice ems declared 2,240 kilometerot vfalways had t61 be eteastaeleshed, end Of thmo 2,016 !rave been put In order Oely totty.filx steams and depots ars closed; 1,100 bridges, tuniiels, ok had to be robtillt and 588 a thole are in normal condition at petulant. Move Mar 1,009 kilometers of mettle 'and carialieee VIVA% ever° seVerele elan- egoli, 1 Of those 700 have been to' StOrOa, 111 the 11101101 of Jiffy alio year wee about 7,900,000 Rao% Of wheel alma 3,000,000 nacre had been flevotee to Agriciaticee. About 700,000 taxa have been plowed once, more alitei they haul been cleftrea of barbed•wire and eliells and trenches 111104 PP, France bask 800,000 tionsee tied cattle, two-thirds of wheel have been re- placed; 202,000 aerieultural imple. ments heat) been aostroeed apd 200,- ;00.ithgni 0ieuefitiaoieo tutedn1543ais l 1014,0:0 velialpe4e el:sran4 end. they have been replaced by 10,000' tractors ane maims. Of the 850000 housei and buildings destroyed, 229 factories have been rebuilt, 80,000 of them repeirecl, 10,225 hutsecorapletee, . and 00,000 huts (portable homes) cire teeing estabifshed, giving shelter to eb0,009 men, evomee and call:Irene wee canre liack in 8,872 towns or vile lates in whjoh municipal life has beenl' reaetablisbeed. Of the 4,683 primary' schools flourishing in antebellum days: 3,000 have already been opened. From these figures it can be realized' that France hes gone back to work' with a spirit of virile emmage. You hear often of a clamorous France, but that is not the real France that re.! cuperated so quickly after the war ofi 1870. It paid an enormous debt so rapidly as to gain the admiration of the wcrld. The real France is silent! and working and looks for the esteem' mai respect of her friends. - Sir Douglas Haig Went to Church , With Tommies. During the past four years Sir Doug. las Haig has been little nibre than a mune tb the British public, writes a correspondent in the "Alanchesta Guardiee," Those who were assoce ated witle hit Staff were- often sue. prised et the secrecy of his earnings tied goregs, no ono in England seem, ing' eyer to be aware that he hed crossee the Charinel. But he has come wonderfully out of his shell in the last few weeks, and has -put aside sonm• thine of elm gravity and aeserveethat charecterIeecl ble appearance at pub. lie worship at general headquarters. He was a most cOnscientious church goer, ape unless he -were "up the line" lug which did noteree lean at his place there was not a single Sunday morn. In the little hut that wad 4 soldier's canteen all the week and a Presby- terian church on Subday. Indeed, it eves a canteen oe Sundays., too, be- tween the morning and evening sea vices., Tleere wee ttevey anathing in the nature •of a church 'aired°. Sir Douglas quietly toolahle saat.and any Tommy was at liberty, untrammelled by ceremony, to join tn a service of homeliness and simplioity. . Victims of "The Weed." "Theyare passionately addicted to tobitcco," a British offiCer wrote home, "aend can be made to do almost any. thing under its influence. One of them uses a triangular bit of wood for a cigar holder, and when a cigar is lighted aid pressed into the hole and pig in hismouth, he immedietele °Mies les eyes arid mine away through his mouth and nostrils till the cigar is entirely consumed. "Furthermore, the nicotine appears to exact's° a stimulating and refresh. Mg died upon' them, 'so that, whet appareptly they are reedy to Chet from fatigue lieemee a smolce, they will 'plod on foe many More miles after it." The letter does not, as the reader may have begun to fear, relate to thf Beitiee. Toinniles, but to some drama ,darieseund other camels that the. cer saw en his service in the East, • Spa h with To na n 8811C0 and Open red: • $eteeo, to ser00,'' last heed nd iet4 W, CLARK, LIWiltilD,) t4ONTMSAL