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PuttingPunch in Pre" tMARKING GRAVFS
paredness is not a (Ines-
.,
tion of galDS and shells alone
—it is a" question of men—
and you • have to build meh
out of food. )3e prepared
for the critical moments
in life by eating Shredded
Wheat, a food that supplies
the greatest amount of mus-
,; • de -building material with
the least tax on the diges-
tive organs. For breakfast
with milk or cream or fruits.
Made in Canada.
THE PASSING OF SIGNS.
Even the Wooden Indian Has Passed
Into the Diecard.
•In the.year before 'reeding and
writing came to be almost universal
accomplishments nearly every branch
of business: had its peculiar symbol as
a sign of what line of trade was car-
ried on within, Most of these devices
have 'passed away but nearly every-
body remembers when the drug store,
or the "apothecary shop" was an-
nounced by a gilded pestle and tier -
tar and by globes of red and green
fluid in the windows; when the shop
of the pawnbroker or money lender
was announced by three gilded balls,
and when no barber shop would at-
tempt to do business without a red
and white striped pole, because when
the barbers by common consent,
adopted that symbol they were also -
surgeons or blood letters, and the red
stripes symbolized blood andthe
white stripe the bandage. In olden
times the barber poles stood on or in
a bowl -shaped piece of wood, which
represented the basin.
It is only recently that the wooden
Indian, the sign of the tobaccomet's
shop, has passed into the discard, and
even to -day a few of these timeatvern
Indians linger on their posts. A wet:d-
en harm often stood in front of the
• harness maker's shop and a gigantic
boot made of wood usually stood in
front of the bootmaker's shop or the
cobbler's shop. No watchmaker would
alak-of 'doing business without a
golden watch hanging above his door,
and even now jewelers and watch-
makers insist on having a clock in
front of their places of business. '
After the passing of many of the
symbols of business, merchants began
to paint signs and to hang signs in
such a way as to disfigure and erten
obstruct the highways. Then there set
in an opposition to some forms of
street signs, especially overhanging
signs, which blew down and injured
pedestrians or imperiled firemen while
fighting flames. The symbols passed
away and the street signs came in.
Some persons profess to see a tend-
ency on the part of the signs to pass
away, and at 'mist a system of regu-
lation, varying in different places, has
set in. A recent writer, expressing
the current popular attitude toward
street signs,. said that "signs that
encroach upon the streets are a nuis-
ance that ought not to be tolerated,
and while disfiguring the streets over
Which they hang they introduce a disa
tinet element of danger at times of
storm or fire."
COFFINS HIGH IN AUSTRIA.
Vienna Undertakers Increase All
Their Funeral Charges.
In reporting that the Association of
Vienna Undertakers has decided to
raise its prices, the Vienna Arbeiter-
Zeitung expressed its indignation at
thigh cost of dying, and says that
while it is hard enough to live during
war times, ,it is almost as hard to
die. Metal coffins are to be doubled
in price, those of wood are to bo 80
per cent. higher, the interior furnish-
ings of coffins are to be raised 130,
pea, cent Hearses and mourning car-
riages are raised 50 pet cent, Com-
plaints have been made to the City
Council by bereaved peasons, but the
city fathers; having gone into the
matter, find the new pricee just.
According to the report, as reprint-
ed in the London press, the municipal
burying authorities have added s15
to the price of all the fiinetals con-
ducted by thein for destitute persons.
,These persons are 'buried in the "fifth
class," or that in.which a minim:3in of
funeral pomp is displayed. There is
a "sixth claee," for which the price
has not been raised.
•,OF DEAD HEROES
SYSTEM SOLVES PROBLEM AND
RELIEVES BEREAVED.
Last Resting Places of British Sot:Here
Who Have Fallen on the
•' Battlefields.
In keepiug with all other phases oa
the war, order has come at last in
the pare of the dead.- 'Where all was
topsy-turvy two yeaxs ago in the first
pell-mell rush to battle, and where
there was little time to bury men
even avhere they fell, the Britieh now
have evolved an orgalnization anda
system of dealing with this over-
growing problem which will at least
relieve the bereaved at home of the
added torment and anxiety of the un-
known grave.
• At the beginning of the war men
were buried near the treactes only
to have their graves blown away by
exploding shells the very next day.
But many eemained, and some have
been identified as the allies have
fought their way slowly back over
Part of. the ground once' occupied by
-the Germans.
Many Low Crosses. •
• Where there was hard fighting in
France and Belgium, the eye of the
traveller along the roads to -day is
struck by many low crosses sticking
out of the ground in the fields, in
cottage gardens, in corners of farm-
yards and orchards, even on the
roadside strips of grass. Where the
ground has changed hands a good
deal in the course of tho war one
eau see, within a few hundred yards
of each _other, the gabled and eaved
'cross of the Germans, the "Hier ruht
in Gott" and a name painted white
on a dark background; the beaded
wire w eath of the French with its,
Requiescat or "Mort pour la France,"
and the plain lined cross of the Eng-
lish, white or light brown, or just un-
painted wood, "In loving memory," of
one or more officers and men.
Why Wait
Mr. Tea or Coffee
Drinke r, till hearti
nerves, or stomach
give way? "
The sure, easy way
to keep out of tea and
coffee troubles is 'to use
the pure food-drink—
POSTUM
• Better quit tea and
coffee now, while you
are feeling good, and
try Postal% the popu-
lar Canadian beverage.
"There's a Rage'
Buried in "No Man's Land."
The very position of smite of
thee isolated memorials is eloquent.
Near Fricourt, on what used to be
"No Mat's Land," until the English
won it the past summer, a number
of English crosses stand -to the mem-
ory of unknown French soldiers. This
was part of the line turned over to the
English by the French. "We leave
you our trenches and our dead," they
said. When the English offensive be-
gan last July and the first line Ger-
man trenches were carried by storm,
it was one of the first cares of the'
British Tommies to bdry the bodies of
their French comrades, some having
lain in the fireswept zone since late in
the winter.
To some officers the idea of being
buried where they fall, and have
there erected even the modest little
memorial of a roughly hewn cross,
is an honor greater than the shelter
of Westminster Abbey. A few, such
graves, and some part of the trenches
near them, probably will be preserv-
ed forever • by village communes or
private °Where of land.
But as the war has lingered, and
there still is much stubborn fighting
ahead—some say for years—the care
of the dead has become a most im-
portapt branch of war work—import-
ant alike in sentiment and sanitation.
The British have organized a Commis-
sion of Graves Registration and In-
quiries, and under its direction regis-
tration units and sections have been
sent to the front, and back of the
front. Much of the work is done by
non-combatants, but many of their
tasks must be carried out under fire
and some have been killed and others
wounded.
Graves Identified.
When an officer or man is killed at
the front, or dies of wounds, his bur-
ial is now at once, reported to -the reg-
istration units. If killed in action he
May still be buried in the old way
somewhere near the trench. If so,
the chaplain or office:: who buries
him, reports the position of the grave,
which, as soon as possible, is marked
with a durable cross and an identifica-
tion plate stamped in aluminena But
this mode is becoming much less com-
mon. The army has been quick to
realize the desirability of burying its
dead in the nearest of the 300 or more
recognized cemeteries behind the line.
The bodies aro carried back by road
or light railway to one of the little
wooden, iron or canvas mortuaries
which the registration units have set
up in the cemeteries. There is noth-
ing perfunctory about the funerals.
Everything is done as tenderly and
reverently as if the dead -were in an
English churchyard.
Some of the cemeteries are great
extensions of little village graveyards.
Some were begun by special corps or
divisions, which wished to bury their
dead all together. In one is found sep-
mete plots, each with its special en-
trance, foe Gurkhas, Sikhs and Pun -
jabs. Under
the great treos 01! an.
other, where many. of those who fell
at Festubert 1' , some Indian1 ' •
have followed the custom of their
country and built brick tenths of cx-
traordinary massiveness,
Died et Vimy Ridge.
At Villers aux Bois the French bur-
ieds2,500 of those who were killed in
winning the Vimy Ridge. On each
grave, at the foot a its wooden cross,
there is still stuck in the earth, neck
downward, the bottle in which the
first hasty record of the internment
Was placed.
A few days ago a Woman fo deep
mourning visited one of the French
cemeteries with a bandffil of white
flowere, Slee was arranging these on
one of the French graves when one
of the usual little bareheaded pe0ces-
810115 With at English chaplain in
atont, passed by. On the stretcher
Wee a body sewn lip in a brown army
blenket, a big Union Jack lying over
it The woman' rose and shyly, with
some of the flewers still in her hand,
fell in et the rear of the proeeesiorn
Ae the chaplain was reading "dust
to dent," and "atm to ashes," the
little X'reph worhun,Wes kneeling on
the ground. The Mance Over, and
the rest timing away, she came close
to the grave, .dropped the white flow-
ers in, and. interned to the other
graves empty handed.
A CAUSE OF INDIGESTION
People Who 'Complain of This
Trouble Usually Are Thin
Blooded.
Thin blooded people usually have
stomach trouble. They eeldorn ecog-
niee the fact that thin blood ISdm
cause of the trouble, but it is. In
fact thin, impure bleed is the most
common cause of stomach trouble; it
affects the digestion very quickly. The
:glands that furnish' the digestive fluid
are diminished in their activity; the
stomach muscles are weakened, and
there is a loss of radrve fore. In this
state of health nothing will more
quickly restore the appetite, the diges-
tion and normal nutrition than good,
rich, red blood. Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills act directly on the blood, making
it rich and red, and this enriched blood
strengthens 1 weak nerves, stimulates
tired muscles and awakens the normal
activity of the glands that supply the
digestive fluids. The first sign of im-
proving health is an improved appe-
tite, and soon the effect of these blood -
making pills is evident throughout the
system. You find that what you eat
does not distress you, and that you are
staang and vigorous instead of irrit-
able and listless. This is proved by
the ease of Mrs. J. Harris, Gerrard
St., Toronto, who says: "About three
years ago I was seized with'a severe
attack of indigestion and vomiting.
My food seemed to turn sour as soon
as I ate it, and I wiould turn so death-
ly sick that sometimes I would fall on
the floor after vomiting. •rtried a lot
of home remedies,• but they did not
help me. Then I went to a doctor
who gave me some powders, but they
seemed actually to make me worse in-
stead of better. This went on for
nearly two months and by tbat time
my stomach was in such a weak state
that I could not keep clown a drink of
water, and I was wasted to a. skeleton
and felt that life was not worth liv-
ing. I was not married at this time
and one Sunday evening on the way
to church with my intended husband
I was taken with n bad spell on the
street He took me to a drug store
where the clerk fixed up something
to take, and my intended got me a box
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. By the
end of the first week I could feel
some improvement from the use of
the Pills, and I gladly continued tak-
ing them until every symptom of the
trouble was gone, and I was again en-
joying the best of health. These Pills
are now my standby and I tell all my
friends what they did for me."
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills from any dealer in medicine or
by mail at 50 cents n box or six boxes
for $2.60 from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
---"a•
GERMANY'S FAILURE
She Held a Mistaken Idea of Union of
the British Empire.
The Germans thought the British
were a decadent race, which was
wholly the prey of materialism, and
which would never submit to the
sacrifices necessary in order to resist
the onslaught of the German :nailed
fist. The reply was that, in an incre-
dibly short space of time, the whole
nation abandoned those time-honored
traditions, which had been cherished
for centuries, and sprang to arms.
The Geemans relied on the occurrence
of cavil war in Ireland. The result was
that the Ulstermen gave his hand to
his Southern opponent. They antici-
pated that the overseas dominions
would shake off their loose connection
with the Mother Country. The reply
was that Canadians, Australians and
New Zealanders shed their blood like
water in order to preserve that con-
nection which German politicians er-
roneously held to be irksome. They
thought that South Africa was yearn-
ing for revenge and for complete in-
dependence. To. their amazement
they found that the policy of "daring
conciliation," as it has been rightly
termed, adopted by the British de-
mocracy after the Boer War, led to
the expulsion of Gevmany from her
South African possesaions. They pin-
ned their faith on Indian discontent
ancl disloyalty, and again they found
the light fetters, forged by a benign
democratic imperialism, constituted a
far stronger bond of union than the
heavy yoke imposed by absolutism.
, The Sikh and the Gurkhas stood .side
, by side with their British -born com-
ades in"a supremo effort to disptl
the absolutist nightmare. They
thought that Egypt and the Soudan
must assuredly turn against those
whom they erroneously designated. as
their oppressors. But even the reli-
gious tie between the Egyptians and
Germany's bewildered friend, the re-
trograde Turk, of whose methods of
government the inhabitants of the
Nile valley have had some bitter ex-
periences, failed to produce any ef-
fect, whilst the perfect tranquility of
the Soudan, garrisoned by a marc
handful of British troops,, rendered
the most emphatic testimony as yet
recorded in history to tho soundness
f tho foundations on which the Brit-
ish Empire retits.--The Earl of Cro-
mer in the January Yale Review.
ENGLISH POTATO CROP.
•
180,000 Tons Below Average is the
Latest Report.
A preliminary statement issued by
the Board of Agriculture :thews that
the estimated production of potatoee
in arnglitial and Wales in the year
11)16 is 2,508,886 tens, which, with a
noniewhat reduced average, is about
850,000 ions below to average, The
average yield is eetbratted at 5,85
tons pet acre, or just one-third of a
ton below the yield of 1015 mid the
ten years' to/tinge,
lattedoi MI:intent rim ter 1lL»15t1i851.
EW EXPLORE
DRIVE GERMANS OUT
MADE BY FRIeNCH CHEMIST FOR
FORTS AT VERDUN.
Pan! Painleve Extraordinary Figure
in French Pttalic Life
To -day.
Paul .Painleve, a Freech °hernial:, is
the real cause of the Germans being
driven out of the outer forts of Ver-
dun, He it was who invented the
mysterious explosive against which
their field fortifications went down
and before whose onslaught the Ger-
mans had to retire in • a week more
than they advanced in eight months
of the hardest fighting the world has
ever eeen. As a chemist, Painleve lec-
tures before eager classes of the Sot-
bonnee-According to The London
Chronicle, his prodigious intellectual
powers -were manifest before he
reached his teens.
A Prodigy Arrives.
His teacher in the- lay school at
Paris decided that Ti prodigy had ar-
rived. Paul was soon idling while the
rest of his class had to work, yet
knew his lessons perfectly. • The
teacher went to the director, who de-
clared that the boy could be examined
for' promotion into the next higher
class., In due time the same kind of
report of Paul was again handed in.
He was examined for promotion again
and again he went up to a higher
class. The process was continued ut-
til Paul was in peril of protnotion out
of the school altogether. At last the
director was convinced that he had a
marvel of a mind to deal with. Paul
was discovered. No pains were spared
with him. A special purse was even
procured from some source. It is af-
firmed that in hie eleventh year he
could have taken a bachelor's degree
at the university.
Leader of Men.
M. Briand, Premier of France, is
quoted as having declared that Pain -
leve is a born leader' of men with an
unparalleled capacity for administra-
tion. Clemenceau pronounces him an
inspired debater. The effectiveness of
Painleve in the laboratory is based,
upon qualities totally different from
those which win him success in poli-
tics. He has a passion for order,
symmetry, harmony, method in his re-
searches. "You are an old maid!" the
late Henri Poincare is alleged to have
told him.' "Minerva was an old maid,"
he replied with his characteristic
smile. "She came down fall grown
from the head of Jove and was never
young." Poincare, himself ' the su-
preme mathematician of his time, des-
paired of the universal Painleve, who
took all science for his province.
' His Political Triumph.
Side by side with the glory that has,
come to him as a member of the
academy of sciences, marches the
glory of his political triumph. He
Would hold a class spellbound at the
Sorbonne with the delicacy of his re-
searches into the theory of light, heat
and sound, and repair at night to a
packed hall for the sake of harangu-
ing discontented proletrians. "Do you
not think," asked Poincare after a riot
in which his friend got a blow on the
nose, "that you might abandon your
absurd politics?" "That is all very
fine for you," retorted Painleve, "for
you can go shooting in the forest of
Rambouillet whenever you please; ant
I am poor and my only recreation is
politica." '
Knows Sorrows of Poor.
Painleve knpws what the sorrows of
the poor mast mean to them. His own
mother has often told him of her hard
lot as a girl. He has seen his father
go all winter with a threadbare coat
and with shoes that did not keep his
feet from touching the ground: His
parents were of the working class
and little Paul had to go about in his
father's patched trousers until the
school age was reached. He was
brought up until his tenth year in ode
of the meanest neighborhoods in
Paris. His parents were so poor that
they could not afford wine. Paul was
given water sweetened with sugar and
bread with no butter. Once a week
there was meat. He slept in a large
Packing -case. Such were the original
worldly circumstances of the moat ex-
traordinary figure in French public
(11! e to -day.
AN ARTIST'S ADVENTURES.
Newspaper Man Who Painted Tanks
Had Lot of Bad Luck.
Mr. Alfred Pearse, who has painted
a tank in action for the Ring, has
had an extraordinary number of miss
haps and adventures duriog his long
career as 'a newspaper artist in Eng-
land. It is said that hehad been
neatly drowned three times, isuffer
cd concussion of the brain five times,
thrown from vehicles four times, shot
ones, fallen clown Beachy Head once,
between a train and platform once,
injured by a runaway horse, nearly
hanged by a madman, and blinded for
two days. Evidently Mr. Pearce has
the most valuable of assets—a charm-
ed life.
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From Erin's Green
NEWS AIA 11. PRO31 IRELAND'S
GU KEN SI10 R ES,
Hai/veiling!: in the Emerald hoe of
Interest to All True Irish.
Canadians, •
•
NEWS ITEMS FOR TAXATION.
What Next? Is Question Now Agi-
toting Empire.
What can we tax »eat? is the quo -
tion which financial advisers of • the
British Government are puzzling over
es the time draws near for next year's
budget. With the cost of the war
steadily mounting, any proposal that
bids fair to realize a few thousand
pound e per year without injustice to
individuals and without increased cost
of collection is worth careful scru-
tiny. The naw French tax on all
who buy extravagant meals at cafes
and restaurants is being' favorably
watched from the English aide of the
Channel, and at the same time the
smallest' existing items of public
revenue are being examined to see if
they can be made to yield more.
A writer in the Economist suggests
a revision of the numerous license
duties'other than liquor licenses:" For
example, a manufaeturer of wood
alcohol now pays an annual license of
ten pounds ten shillings, while a
manufacturerof petrol or gasoline
only pay): one pound. "The number
of firma involved is leek than eighty,"
says the writer, '"but it is believed
that they could safely stand 0••con-
siderable increase in charges. A simi-
lar increase is possible in the case of
dealers in these commodities. Almost
as much more could be obtained by
increasing the licensing fees for sell-
ing patent medicines from five shil-
lings to a pound. These licenses,
moreover, aro at present collected
only in Great Britain, and could be
extended without injustice to Ireland
as Well."
"It nitfst be 'said," writes another
tax expert, "that so small an annual
duty as five shillings ought never to
have been imposed for any purpose.
The cost of collecting such a sum once
a year is altogether out of proportion
to the revenud secured. Even the dog
tax, which at the present rate of 7s 6d
(a1.85) yields nearly A750,000 yearly,
could certainly be increased without
appreciable hardship."
The present license fee charged for
dealers in tobacco is 58. 3d. per year.
It is proposed to increase this to el.,
representing an increase in revenue of
nearly 1(800,000.
A (ambling of license fees is recom-
mended for real estate agents and
dealers in gold and silver, The form-
er now pay from £2 to 110, the latter
from 42 6s. to 1(5 15s. An increase of
about 260,000 a year in the Treasury's
receipts could be obtained by these
increases.
Playing cards, which at present pay
threepence a pack, may be expected
to suffer an increase to perhaps six-
pence.
Other
licenses which are likely to
be increased are the duties on male
servants, on carriages and motorcars,
the gun licenses in connection with
the hunting or preserOation of game.
The tax on male servants may also
be supplemented by a new tax on all
households employing more than one
female servant. The tax on male
servants at present is fifteen shillings
a year.
One of the more radical proposals
for new taxation is that put forward
by Prof. A. C. Pigou, of King's Col-
lege, Cambridge University. He urges
that all persons who have been grant-
ed exemption from military service
shall be subject to a special war tax,
and that this tax shall be levied not
merely on men of military age, but
on all stay-at-homes, whether old or
young. ,
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• FAHms FOR VETERANS.
What the C. P. R. Is Doing For Re-
turned Soldiers.
The decision of Lord Shaughnessy
to provide, through the department of
Natural Resources of the C. P. R.,
farm homes for many of the returned
soldiers, is.a further proof of his
desire that those who take part in the
war will have recognition of their We publish simple, straight testi-
,
services. This subject received much menials, not press agents' interviews,
attention during the past year. The
from well-known people.
extent and magnitude .of the work of From all over America they testify
preparing 1,000 farms will be realized
to the merits of MINARD'S LINI-
when it is noted that it involves: mENT, the best , of Household Re -
Building 1,000 houses, building 1,000 medics,
barns, constructing 1,300 miles of MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., LTD.
'fence, digging 1,000 wells, breaking
and cultivating 50,000 acres; the build-
ings will require about 20)000,000feet
of lumber to erect. The preparation
of the farms will entail an expendi-
ture of about 0,500,000: One thou -
mind farms will of course provide for
an extremely small proportion of re-
turned soldiers who will want to ob-
tain farmhomes,and the Dominion "No, you're wrong," returned her
The Countess of lahigeton has; made
en appeal for disabled eisidiers,
The Athlone Guardians have re-
fused a war bonne to the relieving and
sanitary sub.oilleers.
Iitmdreds of navvies aro being im-
ported from Treated for work at the
Alexdra Docks, Newport,
A. destructive fire occurred in Derry
When the entire stock of Alex. Byrne,
draper, was praetically desti,oyed.
Leitrim County Counell hoe refused
the application of their assistant
county surveyor for an Inca -oath In sal-
ary.
Two dollars forty cents has been
freely given In Roscommon for loads
of turf that were formerly considered
dear at 11.20,
Mr. Patrick T. Daly, T.C., who has
been interned since the arrest after
the rebellion was put down, leas been
released° en parole,
A Workers' Protective Association
has been established in Carlow, the
°hied of Which Is to combat the in-
oreasin.g prices. of living.
There are now sixteen gravel dig-
gers at work in Glasnevin Cemetery,
but the number of workers is still so
eltort that burials are restricted.
Lord Dunraven says Ireland has not
clone her duty in the matter of ealisa
ment, and if she does not do her deay,
she will stand disgraced,
At the last meeting of the Carlow
Board of Guardians, the master stated
that there was only one able-bodied
Irian in the workhouse, and he was an
imbecile.
'The Grauard Guardians, have decid-
ed to discontinue eggs as au article of
diet for the workhouse officers, except
on fast days, when two will be allow-
ed to each officer.
The members of the V.A.D., Kilkeal,
have through their provident, the
Countess of Kilmoroy, remitted
$1250 to the 'Ulster Volunteer Force
Hospital Fund In Belfast.
The programme of the Ministry of
Munitions for producing munitions in
Ireland is very elaborate and will ne-
cessitate the use of every building
available throughout the country.
One of the stone arches of the
Isla.ndanny Bridge, between Abbey -
beats and Kilmorna, collapsed LIS a re-
sult of the floods. It was erected a
few years ago at a cost of about
$20,000.
A branch of the French Wounded
Emergency Pund has been establish-
ed for Dublin and the south or Ireland,
under the patronage of the CoUntess
Farnham and several other ladies.
The Committee of the Belfast Co-
operative Society adopted a resolution
protesting against the non-tholusion of
Ireland in the Government scheme for
coaitrolling food supplies.
In view of the Defence of the Realm
regulations, the Chief Secretary for
Ireland has ordered that railway ex-
cursion traffic, not neceseary for the
business interests, shall bo discon-
timed during the war.
Coasiderable, dissatisfaotion is felt
in Belfast and the north of Ireland in
regard to the sugar supply. Although
the price has been fixed by the Sugar
Commission, in many districts this is
Ignored.
SACRIFICE THEIR PETS.
London Patriots Give Up Their Cats
and Dogs.
Inathese days when nearly every-
body is giving up something to the
cause of the war, pet animals have
played a prominent part as a form
of war charity, says a London news-
paper. People have given their dogs
and cats to charitable institutions %to
be auctioned off to raise money f crt.
wounded soldiers. So ninny unsale-
able pets have been offered as to
make them a burden to the animal
protection societies,
At a recent sale, many of the eats
and dogs were so old, decrepit and
dirty that no bids could be obtained
for them, and they were banded over
to the societies to be put to death by
gas.
Russia is over forty times the size
of Germany,
TAKE NOT.CE
He Was Wrong Right.
"I really believe, Will Atwood, that
you married me because I have mon-
ey," she annotinced, with a fine dis-
play of feeling.
Government must adopt some general husband, candidly. "I married you
because I thought you'd let Inc have
some of it"
'When Your Eyes Need Care
meet will announce Rs gal j1"
r)a°,1476Y/YeMe'lleine- N"mrfarting-6cis
policy of providing these homes. How-
ever the Canadian Pacific Railway
has led the way in trying to solve the
pressing and troublesome question
aild no doubt the Dominion Govern-
eter
ISSUE 1,417'
scheine. An examining Committee sc:eBYees 7mTatiAlalgittiefIrlsaciflintieear4
will select the prospective farmers. Wa'4Ie5tl'Ol-elsbrlf.ureiPeull6t8-nefiL "L'ate4
There will be inspectors ancl advisors Practice for many years. Now dedicated to
to help the Soldiers from the tarns 111,11;7,9Pul% vg iSWitIgNiggkgaito WA%
they get on the land. tinder the im- me and 50e. Write for Look of tile Rye Pres.
proved farm scheme 100 aeras may i MurIno gyo Remedy Oompanyt Oblong*. Adv.
be allowed Lo a settler and under tare I
assisted colonization seileme as much: Itcalism.
as 820 acres May be anowed, 'I'liel The Author—Well, bow did yon like
tetras of payment for the laed are ' my play? Didn't you think the elm eli
very easy,
ae. --- scene realistic?"
- The Critic:a-Intensely so. Why, a
Militted'a mielaibat cave: a...WA in Oowca great many of us actually 'iveut to
There inn 80,000 Miles of tailteay in 81e" while it W518 011'
Gerrhany,
1 iiii104,0 Zininlent Mikan Mildew Etd.
Rheumatism
Is My Weather Prophet.
Ican tell stormy weather days
off by the twinges in my shoul-
ders and knees. But berets an
old friend that soon drives out the pains
and aches.
Sloan's Liniment is so catty to apply, no
rubbing at all, it sinks right in and fixes
the pain. Cleaner than mussy plasters and
ointments. Try it for gout, lumbago, nets.
falgia, bruises and sprains.
At your druggist, 25c. 50o. and $1.00.
He Was Short.
Early one evening a frail little girl
entered a candy store and asked for
a cake of chocolate. After she had
the candy she put four pennies on the
counter and started out.
The storekeeper, thought averse to
frightening the little thing, called
after her, in a gentle voice:
"You're a peny short."
"No, you're a penny short," she cal( -
ed back as she disappeared.
1ginard'u Liniment Cures Dintemper.
Human nature is an interesting
study, but it's a mistake to think the
finest examples are found in a bar-
room.
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