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BARON FISHER'S CAREER O , BUT STRONGER WESTERN INDIANS PURE WHITE FLOUR
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SUBMARINES CARRY
REMARKABLE GUNS'
iimavy Four -inch Rifle, With Crew to
1 Work it' Rises Through Deck,
Fires and Then Disappears:
by shell of 4 -inch calibre, The 4 -inch
gun fires a shot weighing in the neigh-
borbaod of 33 pounds. This,develop-
meat confirms a rumor that the Kais-
er's submarines were being supplied
with bigger guns and that those wea-
pone were installed in a novel man-
ner, in fact, so mounted that they
would not be co. tinualiy exposed to
the corrosive action of salt water
when the craft were ` running sub-
merged. Further, the arrangement
was such that the gun crews did not
have to stand upon the open deck.
The gun, with its superposed recoil
cylinder and sheltering hood, is mount-
ed upon a revolving pedestal"pro-
vided with seats for two operators—
one controhing lateral movement and
the other manipulating the elevating
gear with his left hand and firing with
his right. The revolving pedestal, in
its turn, is supported by a plunger.
elevator functioned by means of a
pneumatic cylinder, The gunhood is
really thehatch cover, and when the
v-oapon is lowered this cover is seated
watertight against a rubber gasket in
the recess Ott the top of the hatch or
barbette. The gun pointers take their
positions when : the elevator is lower-
ed, and rise with the rifle when the
hatch cover lifts and the gun is clear-
ed for action. The piece can be ele-
vated and lowered in a few seconds.
A SECOND BALACLAVA
Unflinching Heroism Displayed by
British in. Going :o Aid Canadians
The following letter signed "A Gun-
ner" and dated from the Red Cross
Hospital, Harlow, Essex, appeared in
the London Morning Post: "The fol-
lowing is an extract from your report
of Lord Kitchener's statement in the
House of Lords:
"'The Canadians, however, were
soon supported by British Brigades
pushed up, ad the enemy's advance
was thereby checked.'
"I want to tell you that the 'Push-
ing up' of these British Brigades was
one of the most glorious episodes of
the war. They went up in broad day-
light,
aylight, in skirmishing order, in face of
the most awful shelf fire, it seemed
impossible that *any of them would
reach the treeches. Their exploit will'
bear comparison with Balaclava, ad
I hope the day will come when a more
able pen than mine will tell the world
of the deeds performed by our in.
omparable infantry in front of Ypres,
I am thankful for the privilege of haw
ing' been a witness of their heroism
and offer them my undying admire,
Lion."
The submarine in the role of a com-
name destroyer has proved a surprise.
put it was inevitable that this method
of attack would prove too expensive
1f hits were to be made by the• tor-
edo alone. The merchant craft of
she allies c -ere not slow in realizing
the limitation's of the undersea boat.
When relying upon mechanical'flsh
is a weapon of destruction, and many
'have been the instances where zig
bagging and full speed have made It
[possible for the ship of trade to dodge
the oncoming torpedo. '
Then the U-boats took to halting
their quarries by means of gunfire and
blowing them up. alter abandonment,
iiy dynamite planted aboardwhere they
jtvouid be likely to sink the merchant-
hien
erchant`nen quickest, But this order of pro-
eedure is sometimes impracticable be-
cause of the great alertness of the
Gotillas of British and French destroy-
ers. Accordingly, the Germans some-
times sent tbe trader to the bottom by
gunfire alone in many instances, and
this method of attack is far more for-
idable than has hitherto been be-
lieved possible o, the part of sub-
marines. It is a matter of common
report that the German submarines
that figured prominently in the early
ontbs of the war wereequipped with
two sorts of gun. One, a 87 -milli-
metre weapon, flying from a fixed
pedestal mount a shell of lilt -inch cali-
bre;. and the other, a more formidable
piece, arranged to disappear into the
superstructureand to throw a 12 Pound
projectile. This gun is a stumpy, but
powerful rifle, having a calibre of 2.95
inches, and at moderate range likely
to prove an unpleasant antagonist for
a torpedo boat. But, again, this meant
exposure for the gun's crew, for the
men had to came out upon the deck.
To get under suddenly, tl.e deck hatch
might have to be closed before the
men at the gun could retreat into the
submarine.
The Crown o Castille, a British
steamer, was sunk off the Scilly Is-
lands by the Gorman submarine 1.1-28,
and she *was' sent to the bottom, ac-
cording
scording to her crew, by shell fire.
But bhis attack, so It is reported, was
not made by 12 -pound projectiles, but
Was ConstauilIy
Troubled. =Rhh Bolls.
HAD NINE ON HIS ARMS AT ONCE.
urdock i3®d I otters
CURED HIM.
Boils are caused by bad blood, and
unless the blood is made pure you cannot
expect to get rid of them.
Ointments and salves will do you no
good. You must get at the seat of the
trouble by using a good internal blood
purifying medicine such as that grand
old remedy Burdock Blood Bitters.
Mr. Samuel Buckler, Tatamagouche,
N.S., writes: "Last summer i was
constantly troubled with boils. I had
nine on my arms at once. • I thought it
was caused from bad blood so I got two
bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters, and
before the first bottle was done I began
to feel a great deal better, and before
the second one was finished I did not
have a boil, nor bave I had one since.
I cannot recommend B,B.B. too highly."
Burdock Blood Bitters is manufactured
only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited,
Toronto, Ont,
Poultry and Profit
Of the many get -rich -quick schemes
there is perhaps none more delusive
than that of poultry raising do paper,
and yet, with the proper facilities and
applied intelligence, possibly as hand-
some returns can be had from poultry
raising as from any other industry 10
proportion to the amount of capital im
vested, and the readiness with which
results can be obtained. As a side
line for the farmer, or often as an in-
teresting and profitable occupation for
the boys and girls on the farm, poultry
raising offers great opportunities. The
value of the egg as a food is gradual-
ly but surely being recognized, with
the result that the market for eggs is
rapidly increasing. This 'means that
in future good prices for poultry pro.
ducts are sure to be realized.
Recent • experiments have shown
that flocks with unlimited range, such
as they usually have 'on the farm,
have given greater profits per fowl
than flocks that were confined. 'The
poultry house should be dry, free from
draughts, and well ventilated, but need
not be an expensive structure, as was
once.thought necessary, With better
systems of marketingthe products, and
with plenty of reliable information re.
garding .the business now within the
easy reach of all contemplating tak-
ing it up, there is no reason why there
should not be a development in pout.,
try raising in keeping with its import.
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for eves y SPORT
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Worn by every member
of titre family
SOLD BY ALL GOOD SHOE DEALERS
Gets Concert From Gas Jet
Albert J. Pyne, auditor of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufae-
turing Company, Pittsburg, Pa., has
perfected aninventionwhereby he gets
music from 'an ordinary, gas jet flame.
Flame music, as he terms it, is made
by placing a long glass tube over the
gas flame, then running the gas to a
certain height. Whenitattains the de•
sired height he strikes a tone on a
musical instrument, which causes the
flame to vibrate and -reproduce the ex-
act.. tones within the tube.
Tested with a violin, Mr; Pyne -re-
produced the same sweet 'musical tone
as that of the 'violin, but the volume
was much greater.
Living Electric Batteries.
Electric tithes, such as the electric
eel, the African catfish, and the elec.
tyle ray have the power of discharg-
ing an electric shook sufficient at
dates to disable a man. -
Win gliam tax rate will be 30 mills
which, is 5 myth lower than last
year; -
Training the Child
,Rev
John G,Nibbert•
"It is well in the early years 01
training a child's mind to develop as
many and as diverse interests as pos•
sible," says Rev. John Gr-er Hidden,
president of Princeton University.
"It is the period of discovery as well
as drudgery.
"It must be remembered education
prepares for onething—and for one
thing only—the ability to think. The
one whom we count illy prepared for
college is not, as a " rule; the young
man who lacks a book or two of Vir,
gil, but the one who fails to grasp
the point of his studies, and does nol
know how to go about his tasks in
an efficiontii masterly way."
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Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver is right the
stomach and bowels are right.
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LIVER PILLS
gently but firmly com
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do its duty.
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Indigos -
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Sick
Headache, and Distress after Eating.
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Idol of the Navy Prepared Britain For
War. He Long Foresaw
No shifting' in the personnel of
those chiefly responsible for the pro-
secution of the war will be .so gener-
sily regretted as the retirement of
Lord Fisher as First Sea Lord. His
successor, Sir Henry Bradwardiee
Jackson, 1s a comparative stranger to
the general, public, while Maher is as
well known as Kitchener.. Fisher, too,
accomplished great things. The mod-
ern strategy cf the British navy is his.
It was Fisher who, in the face of great.
opposition, insisted that the 'proper
post for the British Grand Fleet was
not in the Mediterranean or scattered
elsewhere about the world, but in the
North Sea. Under Fisher the first
Dreadnought was built, and because
Britain "adopted the Dreadnought Ger-
many was forced to follow suit, Ger-
many was thereby obliged to enlarge
and practically reconstruct the Kiel
Canal, which the began to doin 1905.
The work was not completed until
about a month before the war began.
Fisher's policy may be said to have
given Great Britain nine years in
which to prepare for the struggle
which he long ago saw to be inevit-
able.
Undoubtedly Lord Fisher made
many enemies while in the Admiralty,
but he is almost worshipped by the
fieet. One reason for the resent-
ment felt in many quarters against
Fisher is the ruthlessness with which
he promoted youngermen over the
heads of others who felt themselves
entitled by seniority to advancement.
Sir John Jellicoe owes his command
to Fisher. In 1909 Jellicoe was mere-
ly a junior rear -admiral far down in
the list, and was filling the office of
Comptroller at the Admiralty when he
was designated by Fisher as Comman-
der -in -Chief of the British naval forces
in the North Sea and the Baltic hi
the event of a war with Germany,
Of Fisher's own skill and daring as
a seaman a naval writer recalls an
interesting incident. With only a
small force under his command he
was lying off Lisbon at the time of
the Kaiser's famous telegram to Krug-
er. One morning a German fleet
twice the rise appeared in the Tagus
with the idea, probably, of impressing
the Portuguese. Fisher did not wait,
but exchanging salutes with tate Ger-
mans, he made down the river, and
instead of steering to the south,
where he would have had ample room,
he ran his little fleet directly through
the 'middle of the German lines, leav-
ing only about twenty yards clear on
either side. it was a manoeuvre that
might have wrecked a dozen ships,
but Risher had trained his squadron
well, and not a vessel swerved a yard
from the wake of the flagship. It is
said that the German sailors were
so amazed at the daring feat that
they cheered the British ships as they
passed, f'o the citizens of Lisbon
who lined the shore saw something
else to impress them. Though Lord
Fisher ret: -es, the nation cannot be
deprived ()film results of his cease -
lees labor to make the Brittish navy
absolutely efficient, and equal to its
great task of saving the Empire.
TOWN FOR WAR 'WORKERS
To be healthy 'at;seveety, prepare at
forty, is sound advice, because in the
strength of m e e we o en org
that neglected colds, or careless treat-
ment of slight aches and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.
To be stronger when older, keep your
blood pure and rich and active•wrth the
strength -building and blood -nourishing
properties of Scott's Bsnulsiou which isa
food, a tonic add amedicine to keep your
blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and
avoid sickness. At any drug store. e
Scott& Bowae, Toronto. •Out -
that atter the working hours and the
time spent in eating ansi travelling are
deducted, some of, them can only man-
age to snatch about five or six hours'
rest. Tho only "remedy, of course, was
to build a sufficient number- of houses
in Woolwich to allow all the extra
workers at the Arsenal to live near
their work,
Builders, however, did not come for-
ward, apparently being scared by the
idea that when the war is over half
the houses will not be wanted. So
the Government' is taking the work in
band itself, In order to get over the
difficulty a little, fiftyhouses are be-
ing built with all speed on a vacant
space near the Arsenal, and have al-
ready been snapped up by eager men.
In addition to this, the Office of Works
proceeding apace with another
tan. On r- large tract of agricultural
land barely one mile and a half from
the Arsenal, 1,000 houses are being
iwahed up,
Homes to Accommodate Men Working
at Woolwich Arsenal
Other housing problems, besides
that of 'housing . vast armies, arose
through the war, and not t:.. least of
these was that connected with the.
workers at Woolwich Arsenal.
Since the war started the authori-
ties -at the :-rsenal have been engag-
ing men ' • numbers never known be-
fore, with the result that men have
r r
come from all pa is of London and
Great Britain to get work there. As
a consequence, some of the workers
have to travel nearly across the city
in order to get to work, the journey
taking in some cases as much as an
hour and a half.
So hard ara the men,workinggnow
, World's -Biggest Safe
An enormous door of armour plate
was made for the largest bank vault
in the world in the new J. P. Mor-
gan building at Broad and Wall
Streets, New York.' It took a year to
build the door, which weighs 120 tons.
Despite its enormous size, the door
was so accurately constructed that
when closed it makes an airtight and
watertight joint. Being constructed of
solid armour plate, a burglar will find
it an exceedingly difficult matter to
make any impression upon it.
The vestibule of the door is 11 Leet,
6 inches in diameter, and the door It.
self 9 feet in diameter, with a thick•
nese of 451 inches. It is controlled
by two 5 -inch bolts, which in turn are
controlled by two combination locks,
and these by a time 'lock with four
movements, so arranged that any one
of these movements will permit the
opening of the combination lock.
The door swings on a crane hinge
with heavy pressure mechanisms to
force it to its seat and to maks the
joint tight. This prevents the introduce
tion of any explosive of a liquid nee
tura. '
iaildren Cry
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FAIRLY WEALTHY THE RESULT OF A FAD
Some Alberta Red Men Have Four
Times the Average Possessions
of Wh'lte Canadians
It will be rather a surprise to most
people to be told that aboriginal Ref
Men of the United States and Can-
ada are the -wealthiest peopleper
capita in the world. The average
wealth of the people of the world is
about $10; for the United States and
Canada combined, about $1,400.
But a tribe. of Osage Indians in Ok-
lahoma and the Blackfeet tribe in
Alberta, have these figures pushed
away into tire background. The Osa-
ges are worth per capita more than
060 times, and the Blackfeet more
than 600 times, as much as the aver-
age citizen of the world, and six and
four times respectively as much as
the .'averagecitizen of the United
States and. Canada.
The Osages number about 1,800
souls, and every one of them—man,
woman and child—is worth $8,612 in
land and cash and has a comfortable
income "besides, The words "every
one" are used advisedly, for all the
worldly goods of these people are
held in common. Their possessions,
reinforced by,e present capitalization
of their income, makes every one of
the tribe worth, it is estimated, about
$50,000. Their wealth consists of
$8,000,000 in cash held by the govern-
ment, and 1,500,000 acres of land, most
of which they lease,
Land Brought Wealth
It was through the sale of their land
in Kansas several years ago that the
Osages were started on the highway ID
their great wealth. For this land they
received from the government a sum
total of $8;000,000, which the govern-
ment has since held for them in trust,
paying to them quarterly, the interest
amounting annually to 9400,000 or 9222
for each man, woman and child. Of
the ,500,000 acres of land which they
have retained, they lease 600,000 acres
for grazing, at an annual rental of
$120,060, which, added to the interest
on their money at Washington, makes
a revenue of a little more than $309
each, or over 91,500 a year for each
family offive or more. One family of
fifteen, for instance, would receive
$4,500 a year without having to do a
tap of work,
At $6 an acre—a small valuation for
land in that section, the Osage grounds
are worth $7,500,000, or 94,106°per
capita. This, added to the 94,444 in
cash, makes a total of 98,610 owned by,
each individual from the increment
There are 2;329 Blackfeet settled on
three reserves in Southern Alberta,
They belong to the great Algonquin
linguistic stock. One of these reserves
has an area of 349,326 acres and is
the largest in the Dominion of Canada,
The total value of Blackfeet land is
$10,000,000, and the value is increas.
ing at the rate of.a dollar per acre per
year. Besides their vast reserves, the
Blackfeet have stock amounting to
half a million dollars; their buildings
are worth $160,000; implements and
vehicles represent nearly $100,000;
public properties are set down at 990,-
005;
90;005; while household and general ef.
facts bring the total of real and per-
sonal property held by the 2,328 Black
feet up to $11,645,000 or $5,000 per cap-
ita. In addition to this they have an
annual income of nearly $500 per cap-
ita,
The Sarcees, a small band of 250 In.
duns, whose reserve of 69,120 acres,
touches the City of Calgary in South-
ern Alberta, have wealth, mostly in
land, amounting to a trifle more per
capita than the Blackfeet, but the band
is so small that it can scarcely bo
spoken of as a tribe or nation.
Would Throw Money Away
Fortunately for, the Red Men, their
vast estates and personal property are
held in trustby the government and
cannot be squandered: If the Indian
had control of his wealth he would
Spend it on fancy biscuits, gaudy hand.
kerchiefs, and fire -water, The fact
that .their revenue enables them to
live in idleness has resulted in abuses
. in many quarters. Intoxication is said
to be on the increase and many of the
Osages and Blackfeet are described as
having retrograded to primitive con
ditions,
The Blackfeet were once a power-
ful confederacy which held by force of
arms for a century all the territory
from the Missouri on the south to the
Red Deer on the north, and from the
Rockies east to the Cypress Hills, no
protection of their vast territory
against invasion imposed upon these
1.85 Indians a life of almost constant war-
fare with the numerous enemies that
3.35 surrounded them on all sides, and de-
veloped in them a proud and imperious
spirit which, alter more than 3 years
of reservation life, is still the prom-
inent characteristic of the Blackfeet.
These Alberta Indians are 60 per
cent. pagan, and comprise 88 per cent.
of all the pagan Indians of the pro-
vince, and 5 per cent, of those of the
Dominion of Canada, including the
Eskimos,—Max MGD, in Toronto Sun.
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In 1834 hiVnglaiis
e of posta`pg atanrpa r' ;
odme 80 common, and the stamp Rata
such a necessity, that it seems as
though the custom must be older than
it is. It was in 1834 that an English-
man, James Chalmers, invented the
gummed stamp for sticking on letters.
The idea was not immediately adopt.
ed, and when, in 1840, the British gov-
ernment passed the one penny postage
hill, stamped envelopes were furnish-
ed for use. These did not take with
the public, who preferred Clialmer's
adhesive stamp, which was soon sub-
stituted. In. America the first stamps
were introduced in 1847.
Notwithstanding the prejudices
against licking postage stamps which
las developed of late years, it appears
•that people have a lways preferred
:%tis' method of using them.
Old -Fashioned Dark Bread Much More.
Wholesome -the Bleached Variety
Lacking Health -Giving Properties
Nearly a hundred years ago ;an epi-
curean faddist of London, Hugh Pad-
dington, decided to have a novel din-
aer. Its dominant characteristic was
to be the color scheme, White was
fashionable then. Paddington determ-
ined to have all the foods at the din-
ner of a color quite different from
their natural hue,, with a leaning to-
ward white. To match the'whitenees
of the tablecloth he " would have the
bread white; IIe called a miller ' into
conference and ordered flour ground
especially for the occasion, .
Such a thing never had been heard
of before -a perfectly white flour- It
was a hard task for the miller, but
after many efforts he succeeded in pro.
during the desired results by selecting
only the white, lifeless, starchy por-
tions of the grain and discarding all
others. This being accomplished, the
epicure was delighted. The rest of
the color scheme was easy. As he
had expected, Iris dinner proved the
novelty of the day, and the bread was
a tremendous hit,
That was the first white bread ever
eaten in the history of the world. As
the wheat grain was dark, 'so bread
had been dark from the days of Abra-
ham. To produce white bread would
have been considered impossible, un-
less a white grain could be grown.
But the miller's ingenuity succeeded
in bringing forth a white, flour from
a yellow grain.
The white bread fad, as it was then
called, spread like wildfire. All the
smart set of London took it up, and
soon the bread made its appearance
on the tables of the extra -fashionable
all over England. No one liked it so
well as the old-fashioned blood -and -
bone producing breead. But people
often sacrifice very much of taste and
health for fashion's sake. That was
the way it was with white bread, It
didn't taste so -good and it wasn't so
satisfying as the old-time bread. But
it looked pretty, the white slices on
the white tablecloth, and no pother kind
of bread was permitted at dinner in
stylish London,
Strength in Dark Flour
Now the main element of nutrition
in wheat is gluten, and gluten is dark,
The least nutritive part of wheat is
starch, and starch is white. It fol-
lows, therefore, that the darker the
flour, within reasonable limits, of
course, the more gluten it contains
and the more nutritious it is, and the
whiter the flour the less gluten it con-
tains and the less nutritious it is. The
white flour contains a superabundance
of starch. When you buy white flour
you pay your money for starch. When
you buy dark flour—by dark flour is
meant flour of a rich creamy color—,
you pay your money for nutriment.
But to go on with the story of whits
flour:
England was beginning in those days
to vie with France as a fountain
source of fashions. So from there the
white -bread fad proceeded to ,hake its
way into other lands, always the fash-
ionable circles taking it up first and
the other people following. And
everywhere it went there trailed in
its wake the loosening of teeth, the
shattering of nerves and the devitaliz-
ing of blood.
France went wild over the white
bread craze. All adopted the white
bread habit, and there, also the mills
had to be reconstructed to adapt them
to the new form of flour manufacture.
But nowhere has the white bread
habit made greater headway than in
America.
Bleached Flour Harmful
But at first the white loaf in Amer-
ica was not so bad. It was not so
white as now, but more of a creamy
color. Its crumb was elastic and of
a sweet, nutty flavor. It tad not been
robbed of all its nutriment. Only the
husk and the germ of the wheat had
'been removed in the milling. The
bread was yet rich in gluten.
When the miller had made the flour
so white that it could be made no
whiter, when all the starch in the
wheat had been exhausted; he had to.
turn to other sources to supply the
demand for starch, Finally the miller
was forced to resort to chemical
bleaching. This came near destroying
what little life was left in the flour,
and introduced a cltemical substance
which made it all the more harmful.
The demand for finely ground flour
has kept pace with that for whiteness.
It has forced the miller to such ex-
tremes that he is now actually sifting
the flour through layers of silk, mak-
ing a, product so fleecy that the'expres-
ston of "fine as glust" was long ago
rendered useless in trying to describe
it. In this day there is almost no sale
for the old-fashioned bread that fed
our hardy forefathers. HHousewives.
won't have it when it wont' match the
tablecloth.
In bygone days our flour was made
of the entire wheat grain excepting
the outer husk or bran. Such was
the flour of Biblical days. Such was
the flour that was very generally used
until the time of the eventful white
bread dinner in London,
Over 80;000 women are employed in
the steam laundries of the United
States.
There are a quarter of 'a million
acres of land devoted solely to on
chards in England and Wales.
Every month 3,000 rats are destroy,
ed by workmen of .the Port of Lon-
don Sanitary Committee.
"Lae" is an Indian term, signifying
100,000; thus, a leo of 'rupees .is 100,•
900 rupees, or about $33,000.
Aluminum can be rolled into sheets
one two-tltousandtl'i of an inch in thick,
nese that are as strong as tinfoil.
The appointing of field -marshals in
the British army is entirely in the
hands of the IC1ng, promotions being
blade from the lists of general officers,