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Alit MEMORIALS AKER CREAT •
WARS OF 'l'I'IE PAST
Symbol ,of Perpetual. Peace in South
America—New York statue of
.Liberty—!?rlstol. Monument..
j The only joint peace memorial in
the world is one erected by the two
South American Republics of Chile
and Argentina a few years ago. A
long and bitter dispute regarding the
boundary line between the two come;
tries had brought then' to the verge
of war, when they finally decided to
refer their case to Queen Victoria for
settlement. Hoe MVinjosty forthwith
appointed a commission, whose deal -
cion vise announced by Xing Edward
and areopted, In gvatiLude for their
deliverance from sanguinary conflict
the two republics entered into a
treaty of perpetual peace, and, to
symbolize _Over resolve, erected an
the new boundary 'line, where it
crosser; one of the highest passes of
the Andes, a great figure of Christ
cast 'from the metal of discarded can-
non. The figure is so placed that its
hand is outstretched in benediction
over both countries. •
France's Gift to United States.
Englantl can boast a peace monu-
ment in the form of an obelisk known
as Stoodley Pike, a notable landmark
near Hebden Bridge, half way between
Leeds and Manchester. Its construc-
tion was commenced in the summer
of 1814, but when Napoleon escaped
'from Elba work was suspended and
was not resumed until after the de-
claration of peace following Waterloo:
By a strange coincidence the column!
fell on Wednegelay, `.February 8th,
1854, the selfsame night on which the
ILuselan ambassador left London.
When peace was again restored after
the Crimean War, a new Pike was
'designed and 53,000 collected for its
erection. The total cost was over
'54,000, and the balance was defrayed
by a Todmorden worthy. The second
monument—the existing one—was
completed in the summer of 1857.
The famons Statue of Liberty,
erected on Bedloe's Island; New York
Harbor, was, at its unveiling in 1886,
heralded as a prophetic symbol of
the ending of all war. This colossal
figure of "Liberty enlightening the
world," is made of bronze, and, in-
cluding the pedestal; has a height' of
305ft. Gin., and is 40ft, square at the,
Kase. It is the work of Auguste
Bnrtholdi, a native of Colmar, in Al-
sace. It occurred to him in 1874 that
France should present to America
some symbol in connection with the
centenary of American Independence.
The scheme took shape, ad the great
monument was completeclein 1884.
A- Plumber's Lasting Work.
The oldest outdoor statue in Eng-
land incidentally comtnemoratee. the
the Armada and is to be
defeat of
,
found at Bristol. It is a leaden sta-
tue of Neptune, cast and erected by
n patriotic plumber of the City in the
year following the triumph of the
English, and occupies a prominent
position in the main street of the sea-
-port.
•.
vwithV.eminster Abbey y aboundsu
"L.—arts of curious things, but one
woule hardly look for the grave of
:,py in the historic building, Never
the.ess, such a grave is to be :found,
which contains the remains of the
most famous spy of his day --Major
Andre. The monument was erected
at the express wish and command of
King Gs rge III. During the War of
Independence, Andre was requested to
find out all he could about the doings
of the enemy; but, unfortunately for
himself, his identity was discovered,
and he lost his life,- the Americans
hanging him at Washington. For
forty years the dead officer lay in his
epys grave, but his services, though
not of an enviable character, were
recognized. His remains were brought
to London, and the major was buried
In the Abbey as a many who had died
while in the discharge of an office
entrusted to him by the State.
'E"' FEEDING THE REFUGEES
British Artily Furnished 20,000,000
Rations During November.
The British army is rendering groat
Resistance to devastated and impover-
!shed Northern France and Flanders.
Dori ag November the army furnished
to the American Commission for .Re-
lief in Belgium 20,000,000 rations,
which were badly needed, for quick
distribution among the hungry peo-
ple.
This aid came at a time when the
commission .was unable to get pro-
visions through speedily enough from
Iloliend, British officers and soldiers
are also giving largely from their
awn stores, and the British army is
providing great quantities of kero-
sene and candles for the hones and
shops; otherwise darkness would pre-
vail in most of the towns.
Succor of a different sort, but
equally valuable, is being afforded
trap the refugees.
s ortation of
by g
P
Tile timely aid saved many who
would otherwise have„ perished by
the wayside.
One seldom sees a lorry nowadays
without seeing it jammed with re-
fugees,'both French and Belgian. The
lvernments tried to prevent the re-
fugees from returning to the de-
vastated districts, but they preferred
their own comm, ulles, • eveir though
ruined, and so the'pitiful"procession
continues its -cruel march to the only
laces the peoplo'know as home,
Our
Funeral of General Lipsett near the lines.
the Prince of Wales following the cofdn.
THEDESERT BEL ' on either side;nfitted
roofed with
�,,,' •' corugated iron, fitted up As messes,
as orderly rooms, as sleeping apart-
��Pments, have been built into the pro-
tective banks. All about lie scattered
the flotsam left. by the ebbing tide;
remains of old furniture looted from
STRETCHES ACROSS FRANCE French villages, pieces of"German
ANI) FLANDERS uniform, discarded shirts, battered
steel helmets, cartridges (loose and
— in their clips), rifles, shells, gas hel-
mets—each•and every one in itself a
sign that the Hun has met dofeat:
The British army wastes very little
to -day, and step by step the salvage
men follow the Army, sweeping up
the litter of war.
"The Deserted Village."
The German made himself quite
comfortable in France. During the
long months of comparative quiet,
when on the drilling grounds and in
the factories of Great Britain,._ and
France ..the day of reckoning with
"kultur' was being prepared, the in-
vader made himself 'bite at home in
village, field and forest. How bitter-
ly he must hate"'the British, who, on
the glorious First of July, when the
guns of the Some roared out their
challenge to German supremacy, pav-
ed the way for the Nemesis which
has overtaken Germany's crime
against civilization. In a forest clear-
ing one may see where the invader
built himself an Arcadian settlement
of log houses, each with its little
verandah, comfortably furnished and
lit by electric light. Into this peace-
ful spot,. where the Germans in spring
and summer must have lived a truly
idyllic existence, r the great British
shells came screaming, smashing, the
the roofs
•to atoms.
flattening ont
huts g
with the ancient trees sent crashing
down,. drehchitig the forest and stifl-
ing the vegetation with that deadliest
of all German inventions—poison-gas.
Now the clearhig is deserted and mel-
ancholy, a sinister picture of des-
truction. I The ferns
have crown in
t
ructto t.
ruined plankingof
t ofthe
and out
the huts; the bark has crumbled off
the splintered,verandah rail, the thick
undergrowth which almost conceals
earth, well constructed, timbered, the shell craters smell evilly of dead
often lined with' sacking! They were things. But the picture is comfort -
built to endure, built to last as long ing, notwithstanding, for the abaat-
as Germany's enemies did not tire of cloned clearing species of the d]scom-
hitting their heads against the "steel fiture and retreat of the Bothe,
wall of, the West." The steel wall The Trail of the Serpent.
bent and broke; the dug -outs remain-
ed, and are there to this day—hor-
rible caves, untenanted, forbidding.
The sunken roads which run be-
tween the fields in so many parts of
France bear many traces of the long
sojourn of the uninvited guest. Deep
dug -outs yawn from the high banks
Ctieseeeleomereem,olo"(CoPYriphf)
Taking the coffin from the gun carriage. H.R.H.
OF
A Wide Tract of Land Over Which
War Has Passed and Left Be-
hind Desolation and Death.
The broad belt of ruin and desola-
tion, which years of stational., war-
fare have spread right across France
and Belgium,}, "is an extraordinary, a
dreadful place. For years to come,'
to a generation to which the present
great cataclysm is a mere name, it
will be one of the wonders of the
world—or, , let us rather say, a stu-
pendous monument of civilization's
shame. It is the waste of war incor-
porate, a pregnant illustration of the
appalling futility of war—of that
which for forty years and more the
German people have worshipped as a
national ideal. The Hun has left be-
hind him mile upon mile of'trenches
and acre upon acre of barbed wire
entanglements. These are the char-
acteristic features of the desert zone.
The whole countryside of France and
Belgium is scarred with the crumbl-
ing evidences of our enemy's beaver
like industry.
Dug -outs Made To Last.
What thought must have been ex-
pended on the laying -out and siting
of thole endless mazes of trenches!
What sweat poured out of German
soldiers and poor persecuted, under-
fed prisoners of war in their digging!
What long nights of relentless work
in the dark—often under fire, often
interrupted by the dazzling brightness
of the star-shells—do these innumer-
able le belts of barbed wire bolts
ab ,
ceeding belt, now rusted and broken
and useless, represent! And the dug-
outs scooped into the bowels of the
Tihio
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elements l n' , of
Wheat. d bar
ley so l ads as
to be rich in
suss' and
ready to eat
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Food
and Economical
• Canodb Food Board
License i142.026
ISSUE No. 50--'18
The live German has fallen back
from France, but he has left bis dead
behind. In the valley; and on the
plain, on hillside and on ridge, amid
the desolation of empty trench and
rusting wire, the German graves
stand. Here there isa single cress
hastily nailed together and put up
over a filled-in shell -hole; there a
more elaborate memorial—a handsome
solidly earpentered cross, with the
dead man's style and title set forth
in full`beneath a florid representation
of the Iron Cross. In every village
churchyard, beside the heap of ruins
where once the peasants worshipped,
but a little apart from, the broken
and often . violated tombs, the Ger-'
man dead dee buried in rows, the
dates on their cremes clearly record-
ing the ebb and flow of the tide of
war.
It is an eerie thing to wander
through the desert zone: The Army
has moved on with man and horse,
limber and lorry, tent and hut: There
aro no civilians, leo shops, no houses,
no barns. The fields lie fallow, tock
and rent by the shells of four years'
campaigning, gashed' and seamed by
trenches, The countryside has re-
lapsed into''jrrintordialdesolation, and
is waiting for man with all the re-
sources of civilization at his hand -to
build and plant and sow as he did
at the beginning of time. One May
walk for miles in places amid `every
evidence of the' recent presence of
man --the cold, open-air hearths, the
odd
bits of
clothing scattered
about,
—
the remains of food yet as far as
the eye can reach there is no sign
of anything living. The 4lisort is a
desert indeed. But its• very silence
tells of German hopes trashed, of Ger.
man plans foiled. Soon will come the.
fruits of peace and once again the;
desert e4acgp o France and Belgium
will to filled eel% human habitations.
Toot and mouth disease has again
broken out in Rnglenel,
tiAXtnerd's, ntnhinent Ouros Gastret in Cows
The Weekly
Fashions
The neat tucked vest is a novel fea-
ture of this new model and the cuffs
attached to a foundation to corres-
pond. McCall Pattern No, 8663,
Ladies' Dress, In 6 sizes, 34 •to 44
bust. Price 25 cens.
This pattern may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer, or
from the ilEcCall Co., 70 Bond St.,
Toronto, Dept, W.
"WHAT OF THE NIGHT?"
Silent Listener WhoGuarded eGu dedLn-
g
Eng-
land's Shores in War -Time.
The 9entry paces slowly up and
down along the sea-wall. Seaveards
his gaze takes in the stretch of
gleaming mud that seems to reach
out right to` the limit of. vision. For
this is the East Coast of England,
and the tide is right out, a very long
way out,
Landwards his eye sweeps across
miles of desolate marsh -land, with no
sign of habitation, except for tele-
phone wires that run towards a small
hut in the near foreground. The hut
blends so well with the surrounding
drabness that only a sharp eye would
see that it was there.
No sound seems to break the still-
ness except the shrill cries of the
sea -birds as they wheel and turn over
the glistening mud, And yet the
sentry has stopped hie pacing, and
in a septi -strained attitude appears to
be listening intently. He turns about
and hurries into a small, box -like re-
cess in the wall, and, with his gaze
sweeping the sky, he commences to
speak into the telephone: -
"There, sergeant? Right -o! Sounds
of aircraft from east, apparently
British. Yes; all right. I'll spot him
in a minute."
He has had twelve months of this
work, and his trained ear tells him
almost exactly the,tytre of 'plane it
is -by the sound of its engine, which,
water -borne, reaches his oar before
his eyes can pick out the 'plane's
shape and markings.
He Watches silently for a•moment
or two, and then: • •
"Got him! Yes, British, 2,000 feet
up, heading sou' -west now," he says,
While the sergeant is receiving this
message he is repeating it aloud, and
the telephone orderly is entering it
into the message book, with time and
date. The -sentry's message finished,
the sergeant rings
up headquarters
i •. I themessage should
and repeats t f
pg
be "apparently , hostile," then the
whole of the machinery that defends
there islands from air -raids gets mov-
ing. If the message is confirmed, pos-
sibly from, some other post, then the
air-raid wanting, "Take action!" is,
flashed far and wide.
The authorities kilo`y, at what exact
spot and time the t'aider's 'Messed the
coast, and can issue instructions ac-
cordingly. The sentry who gave warn-
ing of their approach may then have
the satisfaction of seeing them flying
%1 ''`.Lir
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A Great Nation's
Tribute
'Che United States Govern-
ment has conscripted tins
entireoutput of our U.S.,
factories in order to supply
the "Yanks" with Auto -
Strop Razors as part of
their regular equipment.
This tribute is worthy of
your consideration when
next you send a package
Overseas—your sol'dier's
comfort is your first
thought—the AutoStrop,
because of its automatic
self -stropping device, 'is.
the ideal razor for his use.
Price $5.00 •
At leading stores everywhere
22c. Postage wildu ea
A"toStro;, Overseas by frsb
odasr regraterett maid.
AutoStrop
Safety Razor Co.,
Limited
53.87 Deice St., .T ronto, ant 7
02'8-i8
for home, with a fleet of British
'planes hanging on to their tails.
•
"Time Canadian Service Flag."
Dear little flag in the window there,
Hung with a tear and a woman's
prayer,
Child of the Maple Leaf, strong and
true,
Oh how proud we are of you.
And now you come in this frenzied
day
To speak from the window, to speak
and say,
"I am the voice of a mother's son
Gone, to be gone, till victory's won,
T am theflag
of the service, ice sir,
The flag of your mother, I speak for
her,
Who stands by the window and waits
and fears,
But hides from all the unwept tears."
I think;that the word "England" is
merely used a$ a short equivalent for
"Great Britain and Ireland," which,
after all, is the correct appellation
of the British Isles.—Lord Denbigh.
If lemons are old and dry place
them in a pan of hot water and keep
the water at an even temperature
for a few hours. As a result the
lemons will become fresh and inky
again.
MONEY ORDERS.
Buy your out -at -town supplies with
Dominion Express Tvloney Orders. Five
Dollar's costs three cents.
' German steamers will do most of
the ocean;,,g'reeehound business for a
year or two, but it will be under
British and American colors, The
Cunard and Anchor Lines alone lost
twenty-three liners during the war.
''chard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
A Dominion Government report
states that in some parts of On-
tario farmers- are reported ae win-
tering from twenty-five to thirty per
cent„„more hens and pullets this year
than, lash This is not a general
condition, however. There will be
little. increase in poultry until feed
becomes •cheaper.
LIQUIDS
end
PASTES
JRITISU ARMY TRUCKS
Great Service Rendered by Corp
1 PI
na
Which Had Small Beginning,
One of the' lesser known branches
of the British army urganizatlen,'but
which has played a mostimportant
Pot in the wise, is the meehanical
transport section of the army service
corps.
Before the war the British War
Oilice owned only about ninety ve>-
hie]es of ell kinds, but privote manu-
faeturtrs had begun to build a "sub-
sidy” type vehicle designed :to meet
military requirements. When war
broke out steps were taken immedi-
ately to construct the "subsidy" type
in large quantities. At present the
number of vehicles on the books of
the mechanical transport branch run '
into five figures, and the personnel of i
the corps has grown in prop's' tion.
Overseas the motor vehicle is put
to every possible use 10 maintaining
the army in the field. The vehicles
are used to transport food, are put to
varioue services inthe medical corps,
draw the larger guns and howitzers,
carry ammemition and troops and dis-
tribute mail and water, Special ve-
hides carry anti-aircraft guns, while
othere are used for tethering ohse'tt-
vatic)» balloons, •
To maintain this great number of
vehicles there are hundreds of sta-
tionary and mobile workshops with
complements of mechanics. Both men '
and women are. drivers,
It is said on one day one ammuni-
tion unit of forty lorries, working
twenty miles out and then home, can
load, carry and unload nearly 500
tons in twelve hours at the expendi-
ture of 700 gallons of gasoline, The
tonnage carried is equivalent to near-
ly 15,000 rounds of sixty -pound shells.
`War-TimygeCookery'
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'food and to effect savings in
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M1NARD'S LINIMENT.
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I was cured of inflammation by
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I was cured of Facial Neuralgia by
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"0, my sisters, children small,
Blue-eyed, wailing through the city.
Our own babies cry in' them all,.
Let us take them in to pity."
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
nrinard'o Liniment Cures Distemper,
To destroy odor and bad taste of
scorched food as soon as detected,
plunge pan or kettle into cold water.
In a few moments the bulk will
separate from burnt part which sticks
is
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TORONTO, CANADA
t,tv:'uter
Uncle John Told Her.
Little Dot—I know something my
teacher doesn't know.
Mamma—Indeed! What is that?
"I know when the world is coming
to an end and she doesn't. I asked
her and she said she didn't know."
"0, well, who told you?"
"Uncle John said the world would
come to an end • when children stopped
asking questions that nobody could
answer,"
Minareps Liniment Cures Caine, 00,
When sweeping day comes remem-
ber that the hair of the woman who
sweeps should always be covered.
Canadian consumption of butter
could profitably be reduced by 25 per
cent., according to a Canadian aiitlr-
ority. If such measureswere adopt'"
ed it would release for export 56,-
000,000 pounds per year. Another
technical advisor states that national
consumption averages 28 pounds a
head per year.
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and Job or ating plant in Eaatera
Ontario, Insurance parried 9:,600. Will.
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11TEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR SALE
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STORM WINDOWS Pox
eirl ET OCR 'PRICE LIST SHOWING.
ILT cost of windows grazed complete, an;
size, I3alliday Company, Box B:'61,
Hamli Lon.
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There is no meal -at which apples esbefore
eioeeoqlate
amo tle1iman Modtcai
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Does not blister or remoyo the
hair 52.50 per'bottle, delivered,
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M. D. advises "k'ersond who '®
e suffer. Irani severe indigestion u)
a and constipation can cure them- m
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Mother
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t P e t mankind,
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Once you've tried it on that stiff
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Won't stain the skin, leaves no
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e rb`e
Sore Red fr ples
Itching,urninng and
fated. Lost Sleep.
"My face broke out in pimples that
would heal up and then break out
again. It was very sore and
red, and all the time itching
andburning, and I irritated
my face by scratching, • 5
lost a lot of sleep.
r: "I had the pimples for
=i over five years. Then I used
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.and one box of Cuticura Ointment
healed my face completely." (Signed)
Mfse Zoo Parkes, Ottervilie, Ont.,
March 13, 1917.
Skin troubles are quickly relieved by
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