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With Devastation
Northern Manitoba and Sas-
katchewan Are Scenes
of Outbreak
RESERVES INVADED
Efforts of Fire Rangers Pow-
erless to Halt. Menace
Winnipeg.- Devastating columns
of fires,' scattered throughout North.
ern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, are
sweeping through large areas of um.
ber land unabated anti fanned by a
stilt breeze that made sire -fighting a1'-
most impossible. Varlousiy estimated
as to n unber, it was believed' that
more than a score of separate blazes.
werlboyond control in the northland.
Reports stated the ferocity of the
flames was accentuated by absence of
rainfall, which 18 badly needed in the
crisis, Burning its way steadily
northward from the Flin Pion Mines
in Northern Manitoba, a five -mile -wide
forest flre .last night was destroying
everything ,in its path, while fully a
dozen other naming assaulte were
levelling far more valuable property
to the oast of the mines.
Rain' Urgently Needed •
Ten conflagrations in Saskatche-
wan, thcf most
askatche-wan,'thdmost serious being in Pasqua
and Porcupine Forest Reservers, 80
miles east of . Prince Albert, were
quickly consulting valuable stands of
timber yesterday. Only considerable
rainfall will relieve the situation in
that district, it was believed, existing
dry weather conditions being against
the. heroic efforts of nrefighters.
Red glotti's seen on the night sky in
the scrubby-growthed portion of North
Manitoba, known as the barrens, told
a vivid tale of;the extent of the dam
age to forest tracts, The wall of smoke
which -enveloped the `i h -en o 'country,hinted
of wide -spread destriictioir and -fire
rangers, whose efforts have proved
entirely unavailing against the attack
of the grim fire -field, claim the crack-
ling of lobes " can be heard for miles.
While-
Are 'awed northward toward
the ,mining settlement of Cold "Lake,.
other sparsely -settled communties
• were endangered as.. well.• Blazes
raged`at Mile 69 and at Mandy Mine,
the extent of which in neither ,case.
has been reported. A changing wind
averted possible destruction of Mile
83, 'though two Indian shacks and
small buildings of the Ross Navigation
Company were levelled.
Country Is Parched.
Seldom in the history of the'north-
land have conditions been so favor
able for vast destruction by lire. Com-
paratively little snow fell during the
winter and disappeared earlier than
usual this spring, Strong winds of
the past two weeks have thoroughly
dried the forest beds. In stretches of
muskeg, particularly in Manitoba, in-
cipient fires have smouldered all win-
ter and, fanned by the spring breezes
of late, have burst into flange in many.
places to quickly spread to the bush.
Origin of liras in Northern Saskat-
chewan are attributed, in some cases,
to new settlers and prospectors, who
have not taken proper care with. their
ire.' for cooking. -�
Two Blazing Assaults
Two blazingassaults are in progress
in the Big River Forest Reserve, ac-
cording to reports from Prince Albert,
Sask., but the names here can only
destroy young timber.
A minor fire was reported by wire -
leas from Lac La Rouge, used by ex-
•plorers as a' flying base, but no seri-
-
eri- ons damage,.was expected as a result.
Fire -fighting crews were despatched!
Sibley Township and the Black -Stur-
geon District, about forty miles east
ofthe lake -head, where, forest fires
were, reported. Whether the situation
is serious theretds not known.
The Two Indias
Truth (London). The report of the
Committee on the Indian State!! makes
one tbing' above MI others quite
• clear—that any possibility of India
being given Home Rule as we know
it is outside practical polities, Sir
Sydney Low, who speaks with special
authority as the authorof one of the
best books 'ever written on India,
picks out fdr particular approval a
phrase in the report, "There are two
Indies>' In other words, the aims and
aspirations of the'Nationalist9 and
Swarajists• are in opposition to those
of the native States.. It Is this
which makes ,so many iadlan political.
programs the 'emptiest; claptrap. For
whom .. do the anti-British . orators
speak? Certainly not ' for India,
since the Princess, ruling two-fifths.
Of its area ,and ono -fifth of its, Popo•
late'', have expressed their desire
not to be withdrawn from the prates,.
tion of the drown,' It is perfect'
obvious that no native ruler could
wish to exchange the British Raj,
whatever tis shortcomings for govern-
ment be the Nebrus and the Ghndhis,
Walter Novalc was sentenced to life
imprisonnient recently for stealing $2.
Law enforcement in Chicago is that
atria you can't, get away with`any-
thing' eXcept' murder,—Chicago Tr'.
bone.
We should be careful of the books
We read as of the company we keep,
-..The dead very often have. mote power,
than the living.—Dr, Tryon Edwards,
How to get rich q,liiajtt. Sig itQ yipxleo
and b"i an awls/4114W
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enjoying lase?
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TT is just in her "teen
a
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g
be getting the moat fun
out of life i—Yet so often
it - happens that girls of
sixteen - to - twenty have
outgrown their strength
—are quickly tired, pale,
nervous, generally run-
down and unhappy l
These are euro signs of
anaemia, a condition that
results from thin, worn-out,
tinder -nourished blood. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills have.
corrected this lir thousands
of • girls. Here is the actual
experience of hits. Ben
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"My daughter was in a
run-down state. She was
easily tired and did not wish
to associate with, others. As
this was unnatural, I began.
giving her Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills,' end they Boon
made a strong healthy girl
of her. -Now slie is as happy'
a girl as one would wish to
see.''.
Start your daughter" on
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rov ow
by buying Dr. Williams' Pink
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dealer in medicine or by
mail, 50" cents, postpaid,
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WHAT THIS COUNTRY NESDR
Moro ehioken houses and /fewer
road houses,
--Moro 00°11100s and warm hearts.
—More babies and fiewer Poodles,
—Less lawmakers, lesslaw breakers,
-Fewer people who want their coun-
try to do something for thein.
There is one verse in the Bible
the school boy knows to be true.
"Mach study is a weariness to the
flesh."
FIRE WHEN READY,
Chief Petty Officer: "The enemy are
as thick as peas. What shall we do?"
OMeer of the Deck; "Shell them,
You idiot; shell them!"
Of course it is agreed that only a
few more years and airplanes for
everybody will be as eminnor as
d
motor cars are now, and we often,
wonder if there will be as much un-
certainty about the ownership of
parachutes ad_ there is aboutuinbrellas
A flapper refers to her skirt as ]ser'
"charm; string."
Housewife -,---Don't bring me any
more of thht horrid mills. It's posi-
tively blue!
Milkman—It ain't my fault, lady.
It's these long, dull `evenings as makes
the tows depressed.'
Only your ,',doctoris interested In
how you feel; others who ask do so
from custom.
If you're determined to be good-na-
tured you must expect to be imposed
upon.
New times call for new methods.
What once got by may not now get
buyers.
Visitor; -"And how old are you, Bob -
hie,
Bobbie; "I'm just • at, the awakward
age."
Visitor: "Really.? And what do you
call the awkward age?"
Bobbie (bitterly) : "I'm too old to
cry and too young' to awear."
The farmer's demand, 'in brief:
"Manufacturers rob the consumers;
we' want a law that will enable us
to do it too:"
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS
PICTURE?
"Waiter, Why is it that there is a
trduser button in my soup?"
"I do not know, sir. We employ
only female help."
Most men find it the hardest thing
in the world to come up to an enemy
and say "Let's let bygones be by-
gones." But when he does it shows
a big heart and, a fine spirit.
A little girl, attending an Episcopal
Church: for the first time, was amazed
to see all kneel suddenly, She ask-
ed her mother what they were go-
ing to do. Her mother replied, "hush,
they're going to say their prayers."
"What, with their cloths on?"
Another good way to 'save money
is to make more than you have time
to spend..
We could tell you some more jokes,
but what's the use? You would only
laugh at 'them.
A man inherits his religious be-
liefs; his religious prejudices are ac.
-gutted.
We may not know it, but we're be-
ing checked up all the time—the
neighbors are- busy' when we least
suspect it,
Most everybody thinks there is a
social law made just to embarass
them.
The difference betNi4een a fool and
an idiot is the fool an help it but
won't. .
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is it
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ILL Red, A made Names,
D.ROrnIAE Whl wr,ad oe,. 12,
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Children and the Movies
t -s blonds Ouvrior (Ind.): The law
prohibiting clriida'en under sixteen to
attend' the movies, whether they are
Acsompdnled or not, is a ridiculous
law, as it is broken thousands of times
every day in the year, for want of
being 'able to apply it. How are you
going to 'expect a ticket -seller at the
ins®c.lesrtsnTrtia1 door of a picture -house, especially
crowd, when there is a
to notice
'Opened at Oxford whether a Young glri is under sixteen
or not/ If he stops her he holds up
. the entrance of other's and hurts his
-will the young lady -leave her 'birth
certificate inher pocket? What is he
to do? Let her in or stop her? What-
ever he does, his livelihood—geuer•
designed as a memorial to Cecil John .ally a 7017 poor one at that—will be
Rhodes, founder of the Rhodes sclrol- aht stltke, What would 'you do?
Designed in Honor of ,the , mployer's business and even then
Founder of University,
" Fund
Oxford, Eng.—The .Rhodes House,
arehips,. was opened recently by Sir '
Otto Reit, a trustee of the . lihorles 9 t II TABLE
fund, 1n the presence of .3 0 lnvitecl. F1 P � �1 1s
guests and Ohford University author -I
ities.
At the same time Sir Otto formally
Presented the library to the university,
as a branch 0?.Rbodeliau Library:
Viscount Croy, chancellor of the
university, accepted the gift in a brief
speech,.
Te building. is an imposing struc-
ture on South. Parks Road, close to
Keble College, the University Museum
and the School of Forestry. It will
not only furnish living quarters for
F. 'A. Wylie; •Oxford ,sbbretary to the
Rhodes trust, but will alsa serve as a
centre for the activities centring
around the trust and the Rhodes
scholarships, which Celebrate their
twenty-flfth anniversary this summer.
In the small dome in the roof' are.
symbols representing the dominions
which compose the British empire.
Upon the walls will be carved the
navies of Rhodes scholars who ,have
deserved well of their country, wheth-
er that country be a Dominion of
the British "empire, Germany or the
United States. Rhodes, the Empire
builder, desired above all that those
who bonpfltted by his scholarships
1 vote .themselves to
should de public
service. .
At the entrance of the building, the
names: and countries of all Rhodes
scholars who lost their lives in the
World War have been carved.
Science and Health
"The old' 'cry used to be: 'The
greatest happiness of the greatest
number', to -clay the cry has been
changed to the greatest health of the
greatest number; take care of the
WIN GREAT �artlT P.
Many Mothers Always Keep
`hemin the Nouse.
Thousands of mothers state that
they know of no other medicine for
little ones to equal Baby's Owu. Tab-
lets—that they always keep the Tab•
lets in the home as a preventive of
childhood ailments, or if sickness
does suddenly grip their little ones
they feel safe with such a remedy
at band.
Concerning the use . of the Tablets
Mrs, Danot Ploudro, Tingwick, Que.,
writes:—"I have nothing but praise
for Baby's Own. Tablets, They are
the only medicine I have ever given
my two little onus, and I ant glad to
state that the Tablets have always
.rept' them in perfect stealth. I feel
so safe with the Tablets that I al-
ways peep a box in the house."
Baby's Own Tablets are a mild
but thorough laxative, They regi.
late the bowels, sweeten the stem•
ash and thus banish constipation
and indigestion; break a up colds and
simple fever and make the cutting
of teeth painless. The Tablets are
absolutely safe, being guaranteed
free from all injurious drugs. They
are sold by all medicine dealers or
by mail at 258 a box from. The pr.
Williams' Medicine Co„ Brookville,
Ont.
Government Ships
La Petrie (Cons.): (Sir Henry
Thornton, being asked what would
happen if the Canadian .Government
health and the happiness will take 'Merchant Marine belonged` to a pri-
care of itself," writes Professor-. D. vate company, said: "It would immedi.
Fraser Harris in the Clarion. ately he put into liquidation.") Hon.
"The young people should not be H. H. Stevens has made the sugges-
brought up` to believe that science
does not concern itself, with the
practical details of our personal daily
lives. She teaches 118 a great deal.
about ourselves, our food, our clothes,
our sleep and so forth. The science
of personal hygiene is intensely pra-
ctical, it tells us, for instance, why
we must use hot water and soap to
wash our skins, why even hot water
alone is not enough. •
"A scientific training is one of the
most powerful character -builders
there is. • For science is not antagoni-
stic to the cultivation of artistic taste
or to the highest conceptions, of
ethics. The notion that `science' and
'materialism' are synonymous •is quite
out of date.
"Science teaches us reverence and.
humility=reverence for the beauty in
the Universe and humility in presence
of its mystery. For although we
know so much about the Universe
there is plenty or mystery in it—the
mystery, for instance, of the origin
and maintenance of life ,and the
beauty of numberless living median.,
isms so perfectly adapted 808, their
purposes or functions.
"Science—reverent science -fosters
a love of beauty. Keats said that
Newton, by explaining the colors of
the rainbow, had destroyed its -beauty.
But Keats was very young when he
said that. poi, the adequately in
structed mind, the man of science
had added to the sensuous beauty of
the rainbow the intellectual beauty
of a matheratical demonstration.- The
scent of the lily would bo no less de-
lightful to me if some day 1` should
come to know the chemical formula,
for the substance of the perfume.
"Science teaches us that, as in
Peter's vision, there is 'nothing com-
mon or unclean'. Science teaehes.
us that the disease -bringing microbes
and the stinking, slimy fungus, the
parasitic worms and the 'devil -fish'
must be studied with as much tln-
partiality and detachment as the lily,
the rose, the bird of paradise' or the
human body."
Hands "
Under trio still, sequestering snow ,
The finger -roots begin to grow,
And in the darkness there is mirth.
They, will be reaching, soon,
Those green hands out of earth. •
And we who seen so fixed and deep,
As though no change had now begun,
Shall we not reach with quickened
hands .
To claim our yellow share of Sunt,
publichangman at I3itda-
The new public
Enda-
peat, Hungary, wears a silk hats` a
frock coat, and spats in performance
of his duty. He is drest to hill.
Let us' have faith that right makes
might ,and in that faith: let us to the
end dare to do our duty as we un-
derstand it,—Abfnhan Lincoln.
,'Maid's LIniinen —good for tired feet
tion that some of the 0, Cy: M, 03. ships
Should be allotted the task of trying
out the navigation conditions of Hud-
son Strait. If they succeed in bring-
ing out soma cargoes from Churchill,
it will encourage other ships to go
on this presumably dangerous route;
if they perish, the destruction of the
cargo will be a lett, but that of the
ship will in reality; be a gain. How-
ever, Mr. Dunning has no desire for
such an experiment. He wants to give
the Hudson Bay route a real chance
of proving its utility: He is even en-
tertaining.the notion of havingspecial
ships built for the route, which makes
us quail at the prospect of still more
.unprofitable expenditure, in, keeping
with this whole enterprise of the Hud-
son Bay route.
Minard's Liniment for cuts and bruises
Rolling Stones Gather No
Moss
Quebec Evenement (Cons.): If
any of our French-Canadian brothers
are thinking at the present time of
going to seek their living in the Uni-
ted
nited States, we would like to give them
a word of counsel: this is no time
to emigrate, not only because too
many' of our compatriots in New Eng-
land are suffering from hardship and
lack–of work, but also because the
Province of Quebec can count on a
continual improvement in conditions
which are already satisfactory. There
are :four times as much happiness
and good fortune waiting for our
People who go on cultivating their
lands with perseverance as there
would be for those who are going to
embark elsewhere on the adventure
of being happy.
Wives of groat men all remind us
of it.—Wayne C. Halsley.
The Red Rose Tea guarantee means what it says,
not satisfied return the unused part in the llackato and
the grocer will refund your money.
RE .w' '' OSE ORANGE PEKOE is extra good
The Mexican Revolution.
Ottawa prolt (led.): " President
Portes Gil, in a public address, has
said that he does not believe that the
Catholic Church, as an institution, is
responsible for the recent military
revolution, Hedenounced certain
Catholics, who, according to his state-
ment, have committed : reprehensible
actions In certain States. But he
praised the conduct of other Catholics
who kept apart from the revolution,
This is a praiseworthy appreciation,
Portes Gil admits that the Catholic
Church '010 not provoke the present
revolution. It some of its members
tools part in it, evert for .religious mo-
tives, that would be no reason to
throw the responsibility on the official
authority of the Catholic Church. The
position of the official authority in
the present conflict has been one of
absolute neutrality.
Leaven
A noted geologist is quoted as say
Ing that "had a man been living dur-
ing the changes that produced the
coal he would not have suspected
their progress," so slow was the
mighty process. Neither do we sus-
pect the progress of many a social
movement in theori about d abo t us
which in the centuries to come will
be seen to have been of the utmost
importance: The leaven of the king-
dom works slowly and silently, but it
works.
The civilized world today 1s run on
the basis of a belief in promises.—
Dwight
romises:Dwight W. _Morrow.
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COY BABY SPECIALISTS
TREAT CONSTIPATION
Constipation in babies and children
Is the cause of colic, bloating, skin
disorders, etc. It weakens them,
just as it does grown folks; makes
them cross, feverish and fretful. But
don't use grown folks' medicine with
thein, baby specialists advise. Ninety
,per cent. of them recommend just one
preparation for constipation, colds and
other ills of babies and children. They
say Fletoher's Castoria. Millions of
mothers have proved its merit during
thirty years of use. Castoria is pure-
ly -vegetable, harmless and pleasant -
tasting, Genuine Castoria always
bears the Fletcher signature. Avoid
imitations,
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—"I am gaining every day."
S��Ii�Ln headache
Minard's will drive it away.
Bathe the forehead. Also
inhale.
Those Languid Eyes
They quickly relied your health
Wand physical condition—restless
eyes indicate the temperament pf
the stomach.
Watch the eyes . . r Bee thae
the whites are dear with a healthy
bluish tinge. The minute a yel-
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iousness, you need a laxative.
Bring back your
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Try a regulse doily +r°
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Read about Character from the Eyes in
future Beecham Advertisements.
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Just a tasteless dose of Phillips'
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an alkali, effective, yet harmless. It
has
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years 'among physicians everywhere,
One spoonful will naturalize at once
many times its volume in acid, It is
tate right way; the quick, pleasant and
efficient way to kill the excess acid.
The stomach becomes sweet, the pain
departs. You are happy: again in fire
minutes. •
Don't depend on crude methods.
EmpIoy the best way yet evolved in
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Be tura to: get the genuine Phillips'
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DOCTORS quite approve the
quick comfort of Aspirin. Pop
these perfectly harmless tablets
will ease an aching head without
penalty. Their increasing use year,
after yearis proof that they do help
and can't harm. Take them for any,
ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to
(women; many, have found therm
marvelous at such tithes. ale
proven directions found; 3'ti; every
package of Aspirin tell how tq
treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia,
neuritis, etc. All, druggists.
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Aspirin Is a Trademark'Ileglatered In Canals'
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