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The Seaforth News, 1919-10-09, Page 3• MOW'SONG THRICE REJECTED BY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Fleetly Accepted by "Punch"1 and "Went Through the Land Like Wildfire." Few poet -lovers but are feinilier with Thomas Hood's song to the et, "The Song of the Shirt," which has been tt'ansl teal into more foreign lungneges than any other poem writ- ten by Heed. This poem was feet, printed it the London Punch on Do- oenber 10, 1543, and created a sensa- tion in London, and it was soon re- printed throughout the British Empire, and shortly thereafter it was repro- duced practically throughout the world. Good Living."' There is quite a story connected with Hood's composition of the "Song of the Shirt."' On October 25 it was brought to the attention of the poet. that a wretched woman named Bid - dell was charged at the Lambeth police station with having pawned articles belonging to her employer, it was 'shown that she -made trousers for seven pence a pair, anti the utmost she could make was seven shillings a week„ which, her employer looked up- on as "a good living for a woman who had herself and two infant children to support," Thiscitedattracted a great deal of attention at the time, and two days later the London Times had a power- ful editorial on the incident. Punch quoted from this "leader" with :ting• lug additions --probably by Douglas Jerrold—the following week. Hood, whose sympathies were :tiered by siif fei'iug, penned his "Seng of the Shirt" and sent it to Punch, his wile saying as the peel:ego c was done up: "Now mind, Hood, trunk my words, this, will tell wonderfully! It is one of the best things you ever • did!" Wife's' Faith Justified. Mark Lebon, who tee at the titue the edit',r of Pnm n mealtime the lee d:( 1)t of the u -.-.i:. c.ipt i-1 lacer years, s: t;l that the tthor accompanied it with a n,ot' tying that the lines had oho:My-been rejected by Givenn ete eves; that lte feared tt was not sit ..;1 to Punch, and leaving it to le:•et+ cretion whether to put it in i': n a:' or in the waste baslttrt. The confidence of Iloot•s wife in "The Song of the Shirt" was justified. The poem in Punch created a sensa- tion, It "110 copied hi The Times and other jnurnels, and as el. 1 t. Spiel. mann hits put it, in syiili:: , .tic ap- praciation of lime as a c :•;rl.butor to Punelt, it "went through tem land like wildfire," The historian of Punch claims that the publication of "The Song of the Shirt" trebled the circulation of that Journal. It may be said also to have trebled Hood's fame and popularity at the time, Facts. Asiti-aircraft gun defences employ- ed 717 officers and 11,948 Hien at the signing of the armistice. Shirts cost $175 in Petrograd, while es much as $1,000 will be givens for a ;re -Imide pair of trousers. French authorities estimate that 1 n every 30 of the Allied soldiers who lnteed that country married a French bride. Germany's population has been es- timated Eft as low as 57,000,000, as compared with nearly 65,000,000 be= fore the war. London roads are being repaired, after years of neglect, and old wood blocks, in great demand as firewood, fetch $15 a cartload. • Thee MIlitar'y Intelligence Depart- ment of the British Army in July, 1914, was 103 strong of ale ranks; in November, 1918, it had grown to 5,969. "Tin hats," which are being sold off by the Government, are being con- verted into wash -basins, flower -pets, cake -stands, ash -trays, and fish -bowls. Films taken on the battlefields have already brought the British Govern- ment over $355;000, a large portion of which has been given to war charities German trains will not be heated or lighted in the coming winter, it is stated, owing to coal shortage, while all express trainswill be abolished, Mournful Outlook. "I engaged the rooms for my holt- day," he said, "because the landlady wrote me that the overlooked a superb garden of 200 acres, richly adorned with statuary, where I was at liberty to promenade."• "Well?" his friend inquired. "It was a cemetery," he said, bit- terly. • Very 'Slow to Grow, .. After growing for 10 years, the Japanese cypress, one of the smallest specimens of the horticultural world, reaches the size of a golf ball. As if exhausted with this tremendous ef- fort, the next 10 years see it'increase' only by a fraction, when it practically stops growing altogther. In China when a pupil is reciting /is lesson he turns his back to his teacher. There is a great' advantage in plow. 'ing in the fall where possible. The period for plowing ,preparaltion and Cowing in the spring is short, and ?levying is the operation that requires most time. The Tiewest Blollss "hire' a my idea of - a razor ---- one that sharpens its own blades" "Why, I remember when I used to have to throw away a blade after a couple of shaves. Now, I simply take it and give a few turns on the strop and it's as good as ever. -- "I can shave in three minutes; and my face is as smooth and slick and comfortable as when thec head barber used: to q,,:•' over it. To clean, I simply put the blade:. under the tap and wipe it off, There's no taking the razor to pieces and messing around with parte. In fact, the whole thing is so simple and easy, I wish I bad had one ion; ago." Razor — Strop — 12 blades --$5 15k. arop Art AUTOSTROP At T Y RAZOR CO., Limited L= AutoOtrep ,-i.G.1z,, Tomato, Canada 0 The Vanishing Lake. Near Valdosta, in Georgia, there is a l ko three miles long and three- quarters hree- quart rs of 4 utile wide, with an aver- age depth of twelve .feet of water, which des u: every three or four yenta and ci •""us:a heels again. It disapyears inM menet sttht•.r.anc':tn p - t t 1 ,two or three weeks in the preeftee no ii leaving a beautiful e.,.>a;, basin. ?After a month or so the venter begins te come bask, and in a c oxine of week:: it is the salve alit lake. MONEY ORDi<Rs, .When ordering goods by mail send a Dominion Express Money Order. It is estimated that there are 120,- 000 more cattle in the United King- dom now than in 1914; sheep, however, show a decline in numbers of upwards of 900,000. 0002 No, 9080—Ladies' Fusstian Blouse. Price, 20 cents. With or without bends, two styles of sleeve., , Cut in 8 sizes, 34 to 48. ins. bust. Size 36, with bands, 2%, yds. e6 ins, wide, or Zee, yds. 40 ins. wide; without hands, 1% yds. 30 ins. wide, ,or leis yds. 45 ins. wide. 0087—Waist. Sizes 34 to 48. Price, 20 cents. No. 9082—Ladies' Cossack Blotis Price, 20 cents. Body and sleeve in one. Cut in 7 sizes, 34 to 40 ins. bust: Sin_ 36, with gathered sleeves, 2% yds. Sd ins, wide, or 2% yds. 40- ins.- wide; with bell sleeves, 21/,e yds. 36 ins. w,icie, or 21/+ yds. 40 ins. wide; ribbon for sash, 2 yds. These patterns may he obtained from your" lecal McCall dealer, or fr¢m -the MeCell Co., 70 Bend St., Toronto, Department W. Work is the hest solace for sorrow; Jerk 15 the hest soother for dist:acted nerves; work is the sole corr'ee'4ive for the ills of mankind.—Sir Robert Horne. The science of bell casting has been practiced in one English foundry for nearly 350 years. The George Who Did It •' "I watched Lloyd George fill prac- tically every post of high distinction within the bestowal of the British gov- ernment oyernment during the war," says Mr. Isaac F. Marcosson in an interesting account of his interviews and ex- periences • with the wonllerful little Welshman who is England's premier. "Often when `figuratively I saw the flag of distress hung out, heard the alarm bells ring and felt the heart of Britain turn to him. for leadership in her hoar of peril and crisis, I realised that the American phrase, 'Let George do it,' fitted hint and his astonishing survioe betterthan anything else, I once told -him about this expression, and he was amused and pleased." No doubt, And if Mr. Marcosson had chanced to quote the phrase, with a similar complimentary application,— as pplication—as he might almost as aptly and ap- propriately have done—to M. Clemen- coast, the George who has served France so long and so remarkably, that wise and gallant old statesman would also have been amused. Per- haps -since Ire knows America, bet- ter than Mre Lloyd George does—he may have heard the phrase;• but quite certainly, in any case, he 'would know that it originated in his own country, and that the George who or=iginally "did it" had lain at rest be. neath his magnificent tomb. In Rotten Cathedral a full century before Ameri- ca was settled. Iie was the famous Cardinal, Archbishop Georges d'Am- boise, prime minister of King Louis :CII, A courtier from childhood, a bislibp at fourteen, a conspirator with princes, a prisoner for two years, a reformer of legal procedure, army discipline and taxes, a counselor of generals and kings and an aspirant for the papacy,. the fifty years of his life were crowd- ed with wide anclavarious achieve- ments. The beneficence of ,,the re- forms he promoted caused Louis to be called "the Father of his People," al- though the credit for them belonged chiefly to his ministers who was called "the tongue and soul of the icing," Sometimes, when troublesonffir af- fairs were presented for decision, the king would say neither yes nor ire lint. instead: "Let George do it. He is a man of experience," and "George," the invalu- able churchman, statesman and friend, would do it. Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal of Rotten, was, in his prime and pride, a man of high ambition; but as he lag dying, attended often by his sovereign, an oftener by a humble brother of the monastery, it was not to King Louis that he addressed the words so often quoted: "Ah, Brother John! If only I could have remained Brother John!" That was in 1510. So it is a long four centuries back that slangy Americans of an inquiring turn of mind ust go to find out who was George and what he did. ea 8 fin We I© 1 B 11 0 2 u When Your Nerve, Cry Out,it may be -from. tea or, coffee. Then think of the healthful. satisfying' quaiitieeof njj INST. NT- 0511,1 free frorxl .e distiaarb�' 'Delicious,n Ling ingredients:, onorpical, tl -fi^Cpm, ' oi':ir GY»ocer: °a! N� fl et:.tri:Pi e: • 2 The Belfries,, ;.lpo s1,tip 111 Jhasteee Oyr ISrti1ttlun1el gp grey and baro, YIfou'll hoar'the eweetcsIt bells that play A faint and chiming air; And belfries in eaols little town Sing out the hour and nark it dews, if you should go to La Dassee or walk the Bethune street, You'll see the lorries pass that way And hear the tramp of feet; And where the road with trees is lined You'll watch the long battalions wind; But all the clocks that, meritthe time Are months and yeere too slow, And all the bells 'that ring and chime Strike hours of long age, And all the belfries where you pass Lie tumbled in the dust and grass, 'Yet still the long battalions tvinil, Though all the men are gone, Because one hour has stayed behind +And wanders there atous�- Yes, one heroic shining hour Chimes on from ,every' fallen tower. DREADED INFLUENZA Medical Men Believe it Will Again Visit Canada This Autumn arid Winter. There is a widespread belief among Medical men that the epidemic of la grippe,. or influenza, which swept over the world last year, will again appear in Canada 'during this atitumn and coining winter. Tins dangerous trou- ble spares neither ago nor sox, but A naturally finds its easiest victims among those whoare run down in health, or those whose blood is weak and watery; and it Is among the latter class in which the greatest number of fatalities occur. The surest way to prevent an attack of this dreaded trouble is to keep the blood rich and pure, and the eelest and best way to do this is through the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. No reasonable precaution to avert en atteek of influenza or la grippe build be epar'ed. • The disease itself ie t'.oarlly, but its after-effects, among those who are spared, make the life if the victim one of constant misery. Ask ;detest any of those who have been attacked by influenza what their enema condition Of health is and most of them will a,ir,:ver; "Since I had the i 'uenza I have never been fully well." This trouble leaves be- -liind it a persistent weakness of the limbs, shertnoss of breath, bad diges- tion, palpitation of the heart. and a tired feeling after even Blight exer- tion, This is due to the thin -blooded condition in which la grippe almost always leaves its vii'tins after the fever and influenza have subsided, They are at the mercy of relapses and complications, often very serious. This condition will continue until the blood is built up again, and for the purpose of building up the blgdd and strengthening the nerves nothing can equal a fair treatment with Dr. Wil- liams' Pink PIlls, From first to last dose these pills make new, rich blood, which reaches every organ and nerve in the body. Thus the lingering germs are driven out, and the weak, despondent' victims of Influenza are. transformed into cheerful, healthy, happy men and women. But better still, you can put your- self in a condition to resist an attack of influenza by enriching the blood through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and this, it seems, is the sensible thing to do at once. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers in medicine or will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, by The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co„ Brockville, Out. Less than 1 per cent. of the total number of women in India are educat- ed, but these few are making big strides to form plans to educate all the women. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. - Gents, --A customer of ours cured a very bad case of distemper in a valu- able horse by the use of MINARD'S LINIMENT, Yours truly, VILANDIE FR.ERES, 13 Chicks Cut of 12 Eggs. The hatching of a double -yolked egg is not by any means a rarity, But it is a. vest' rare occurrence indeed for such an egg to produce two perfect chickens, Cases of this kind have, however, occurred from time to time. The stuffed figures of a couple of perfect chickens which emerged from one and the same egg are to be found in the British Museum. A few eases 'have been authenti- cated of the appearance from a single egg of two chickens joined together by a wing or a leg, but as the general rule, when a double-ydked egg is hatched, the result is a 'monstrosity in the shape of a chick with two heads or two pais of legs, Many people.. think that the produc- tion of two perfect chickens from a double -yoked egg is by no means' un- common, because sittings which they have placed under fowls have yielded one more chicken than the number of eggs. It is, however, far more preb; able that oases of this Icincl result from the fowl leaving laid another egg iter she h d commenced ed her a a n c task of incubation. RARY'S OWN TABLETS OF GREAT HELP Mothers, if your baby or growing child is sickly; if he does not sleep. well at night; if he cries a great deal; is constipated and his little bowels and stomach are not working' .right, give him Baby's Own Tablets—they have proved of great help to thousands of mothers. Concerning the Tablets Mrs: W. H. Decater, Combon's Siding, Ont„ says:—"I have used Baby's Own. Tablets and have fund them excel- lent for the little ones and would not be without them." The Tablets are a mill but thorough laxative and are" A Schemer. guaranteed to contain no harmful drug—that is 'why they always do goodeerhd never. harm, They Sip sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, HOW LONG CAN THEY DO IT? There is -,in Canada current opinion that -it costs the Governme• is .,ti 03 to What it Merited, Tho vocalist's mother 'sat listening with a Proud smile. Then she turned to a lover of music and said: "Do you think her voice ought to be cultivated?" The lover of music replied: "No, I think it ought to be harvest- ed." get $1 ofgross revent'te from the rail- roads which have been emancipated from the capitalistic class, A deficit Of $50,000,000 in 1919 is the forecast. This straightway gives rise to conjec- titre as to what the true relation of cost and revenue would be if some courageous Administration reached clown to the bottom of our own Gov- ernment operation of the roads. Thanks in part to the peculiarities of the Canadian situation the private Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific have contributed nobly to the Govern- ment's experiment in railroad opera- tion. This and other causes have the friend. steadily lifted the percentage of cost ,T have, of course; but lie pays not to gross revenue. To -day it is H per the least attention to what I say, lie cent. for the Grand Trunk and Si ne' listens only to the advice of fools. I cent, for tate Canadian Pacific. The tvisir you -would talk to hint:' percentage thus actually discloses th shocking scandal of surplus, rather ^.•.•.• titan the uplifting inspiration of de Reit, Monthly statements duly audited and certified show Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk can still operate on their own motive power; the exact No More Gentle Than status of the Government 'o i roads spat Small boy (politely)—"Won't you. take another piece :of cake, Miss Jones?" Guest—"Well, since you are so pressing, I•will.". Small boy—"Now, mother, remem- ber your promise that if you had to cut the second calve, I could have a piece:" •Diplomacy, She: "Mrs. Green has just got an- other new hat, atld I=" Its: "My dear, dirs. Green has to have new hats. If she were as pretty and as attractive as you she wouldn't have to depend on the milliner so much," A Bit of a Facer. A man, says the Weekly Telegraph, complained of the conduct of his son. He related to a friend •all the young man's escapades. "You should speak to him with firm- ness and recall him to his duty," said ,Q DEWS OF EVE so clearly revealed. Why it is not is . "Cascarets" for the i matt•ar of conjecture, friendly, a 7 e, .t idly, in-# ii vicliosis or neutral, as mayhe. Senn Liver, Bowels i' $sone gables want t r u 17 i , f t t know her theyare to reach a ronrlusire mine tlitl It is ' u&': an ur<r•if -s•ns it tt eau. of Canadian Northern, nicking n,.uo j capital investment basis for flgu' • t e- . Nto take viol,. + c t di - s ,ti Nature prcci ., no slro.�.•.s,,• Others say there is an operation dei,.' emrbers for your liver end it•t;el; cit of more than three per cent. + against rilorue] Pep' et pills, .;;:lceluint; What if it be so that the more' oil and salts. Cm:fel heir, quick re - wheels turn round and the faster they if go, the more money they lose? If it costs 3 cents net loss to,take in a dol- lar, isn't the taxpayer thele to pay it? And doesn't the paltry 3 cents -go at once back into circulation? "As long as he has a dollar left to burn, why shouldn't the taxpayer writhe and turn?" A staunch supporter of a western co-operative grails concern with a long and honorable record of losses used to refer to Its "turnover" as its "turn - under." Happily free of the embar- rassment of literary cult, he has given the Government's railroad auditors a book heading, accurate and novel. They should be satisfied and so should the taxpayers. For as a facetious in- quirer for Government figures says: "If a taxpayer ' is not to pay these taxes, what is he for?" But how long can they do it? -Wall Street Journal. The titian:- honors conferred upon naval and military leaders in the war by the British Parliament are more lavish than most people expeoted, con- sisting of nine peera.ges,, eight Baron- etcies -and one Grand 'Commandership of the Bath. The generous money gifts are in keeping' with custom since the eighteenth century. Minard's Liaiatent Cures Burns, eta. The efficient police work done by women in England during the war has been the means of many of them being retained in their jobs. He `SYRUP OF FIGS'` CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poi- sons from little stomach, liver and bowels Accept "California" Syrup of Figs f • the.name Califo rnia oh only—look of the package, then you are .sure your child -is having the best and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. 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Collingweod, Ont, Yeast, diluted with lukewarm water, according to a Paris phystician, is an effective remedy for burns, HRinead's Liniment- Relieves Neuralgia, "To know one's limitations is a Mark of wisdom; to rest content with them merits •contempt."—Donald 'flunkey. E --o q—o--o--ts—o• -w-w SUFFERING CA S1 GIVE THIS MAN I' THE GOLD .MEDAL Let folks step on e > r feet i re.^.fter; v ear shoe a size smaller if you Iike, for corms will never er aLtafn send electric sparks of peen through yea. according • to this Chcu ti t >crity, HO Says th=lt fe drops of a drug cacti freer 0' ' eel directly upon a tender, uceleg corn, inet;+ntly re- lieves soreneFe. tiel soresoon tine entire torn. root MO ult. tiff: right ofi . 'ibis drug is a sticky ether com- pound. nd. but dies at cues end sImpiy shntvri ,1 up the corn w:tliort inflaming cr even irritating the surrounding tissue. it is cleimel that a quarter of en cueee of frececee obtukas,d at any drug stere well emit very little but is xn;lf- cient to remove.every hard or soft cern or callus from one's feet. Cut this out, especially it you are a woman reader who wears high h"pts. America's Pioneer Rog Remedies Book on DOG DISEASES SES and Row to Peat Mailed Free to any Ad- dress by the Author. E. Olay Mover Co., Ins, 115 West alst Street New York, U.S.A. GET SLOAN'S FOR YOUR PAIN RE laiEF You don't have to rub it in to get quick, comfort- ing relief Once you've tried it on that stiff joint, sore sciatic p 1e ma ic twinge, lane back you'll find a warm, soothing relief you Bever thought a liniment could produce. Won't stain the skin, leaves no muss, wastes no time in applying, sure to give quick results. A large bottle means economy. Your o*n or any othada,er dGetruggist to - has ay, it. 35u., Made70cin Can- it., SiNCE 6 1870 3051 UBSC UG3 'W PRIPLES' IITC 11 f' D AND BURNED FaceWas BadlyDisfgured, Cuticura Soap and Ointment Healed. "Small red pimples grid black- heads began on my face, end my face was badly a ciigured. Some of the pinsples fes- _ 4. 11 toyed while melee a scaled over and therner.,pia ces where the lan'plee were in blotches. They used to itch and i ur .tsribiy. "I saw .fvertiae- ment for Cuticura and I u:cra them. They stopped the itching and burn. tug and I used feta cakes of Soap and three boxes of Ointment which healed me." (Signed) Miss V. A. Hayne, Stormont, N. S., Dec. I'S,'18. The Cuticura Toilet Trio, consisting of Soap Ointment andTalcum,premotessliin purity, comfort and health whenneedier everyday toilet purposes. For Sample Cash Free by Mail, address: "Cuticura, Dept.A,Boston,U.S.A." Sold everywhere.. 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