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pply align,' 'y an actual smarm
t altogether .convincing. It
ei•ely the part of wisdom t
riot consumption rather se
et such a coarse is certain to
scontent, and a. Government
irdly venture upon it were it n
zxative. If, as is said, the me
ibsistence for the eiyilian
on are lust as abundant as the
;en for the last fourteen xn
by should such rigid ries' be
ulgated? The excuse for the
.In.b raids on England has been
attempt to starve Germany
ling made by the blockade of
srman ports; a "hunger war"
arm ans call it. Since the cuttin
the enemy's supplies has al
'en regarded as a legitimate fe
warfare; the extremity of the
mess against the blockader g
sts that in, this case the work has
en done successfully. If the Bri
bmarines have really gained
nt
vol of the Baltic which
them vhieh is cred
so that intercourse
seden is seriously interrupted, t
ght easily lie something approa
famine among Iarge classes of
man people. The reference to
tato crop is not reassuring.
food
ty are
may be
0 rem
verely.
arouse
rhe Disease is in the Blood and
Must Be Treated `Through
the Blood.
There are almost as many ways of
would tors.ting ifost ofatism th se1s there are treatments doer
inink; directed at the symptoms and are eon
papulo-'sidered successful if they relieve the
y have pain and the stiffness. But the pain
oriths, land the stiffness return particularly
pro- if the patient has been exposed to
dampness. This shows that the poi -
that
was
the
the
e
i wits not driven from the system
by the treatment employed. Rheuma-
tism can be relieved in a number of
ways, but there is only one way to
cure it, and that is through the blood,
g °ff expelling the poisonous acid that
ah causes the aches and pains and stiff -
tun nese. To renew and enrich the blood ,
bit' ( there is no medicine can equal Dr.
su - j Williams' Pink Pills, which go right
Through Forest Destruction Caused by Careless
Loses This Stupendous .Amount Th s Year.
Ontario
The people of Ontario lost over
r pe°l
0 Times of Special Danger.
$8,600,000 worth of standing timber
through fire this year, During particularly dangerous per -
Nearly eighty iods permits
g tYper centmay
of this l be refused in the
was directly due to carelessness by hazardous
1914andt1915 tsuc sin falls,
settlers in'setting out their clearing ar y refusal . e tempoi-
�Ifires. Such enormous penalties may various hos been necessaryein
well cause concern, particularly parts of the province,
experts have Pound- Ontario' y as In general, however, the obtaining
ehperts timbers mer- of permits is
to be rapidlymade as easy asr possi-
chantable
and every di- hle consistent. with safety. Frequent
quite well the heavy increase knows 1 patrol trips on the
in his part of the forest
lumber bills. guards, and` the arrangement of his
A movement has trips so that his territory is system-
for been under way atically covered,
some time to have and so that settlers
Ontario adopt � become familiar with his movements,.
the "permit laws" of British Colum- are. the chief means to this end. T e
bia, whereby no settler ' 1 I forest guard soon becomes familiar
with land -clearing operations in his
patrol district, seri
zct, and thus is able mors
easily to be in the neighborhood
when permits are wanted. Also his
familiarity with slash which he knows
the owners desire to burn during the
summer, enables him in many cases
to recommend burning at a particular
time, and by giving the owner a per-
mit at such a time the area is cleaned
up while conditions are right. After
several years experience an observant
forest guard will become expert in
burning slash cheaply and safely.
Very often he is asked for advice
about when to burn, or he may be ask-
ed to stay while the burning is done.
Such assistance when it can be given
is never refused.
zs a lowed to
first obtaining a permit from a quali-
fied d Bre ranger. This precaution is
rapidly cutting down British Colum-
bia's forest destruction.
jto the root of the trouble and cure ,start a brush or slash fire with
tish i rheumatism to t
that
ited
with
here
ch -
the
the
Phere is, ..inoreo v er, direct elide]
it the, situation is more alarmi
ei the German Government wo
re the world believe. Why t
vspapers are allowed under
'let censorship to reveal the fac
frankly is something of a my
y. But when the Frankfurt
kung says that "the sinister aspe
things certainly provides no fo
laughter," and explains the grow
hatred of England by this fact
m •Taximilen Harden, of the Zu
ft, admits that the German peo
are in distress, all the explana
is of ureic providence for future
ds have a hollow sound.
I out?" asks:`Can we
the Neu Zeitung, of
zssburg, Such a question must
ke a chill to a nation which has
tld again and again that defeat
i'o 4,i,-•• Of what avail is it to
I the western front, to take Poland
pzess fay into Russia, to endeav-
force a road to Constantinople,
e ring of enemies can keep all
lowing is an example of what Day cured. The i
l-
Williams' Pink Pills can do in case
of this kind. Mr. Henry Smith, St
Jerome, Que., says:–. -"For upwards o
of
it a most painful foyear I was a rn,, The trouble
e
was located in my legs, and for a long
time was so bad that I could not walk.
The suffering which I endured can
s
e ' How the B. C. system works is
described thus by Mr. M. A. Grainger,
Acting Chief forest
pro-
vince:
Forester of that pro-
Success Is Conclusive.
Br'
1 only be irnagmed by those who have mi itish Columbia has had the
1 been simiia • per -
ice' similarly afflicted. Doctors' t system in effect for six fire sea -
ng i treatment dill not help 'me, and then I sons, and has maintained a staff each
won i began trying othdr remedies, but with year sufficient to supervise the grant-
ee no better results. Finally I was ad- ing and use of
a j vised to try Dr. Williams" Pink Pills successful experience permits.
has eo convinced
is ` and although 1 bad begun to lose y every citizen that the sys_
g practically
s- ;faith in medicine, I finally decided to tem of fire permits is a valuable con-
st 1 give the pills a trial. I am very servation measure.
edgrateful now that I did so, for after Burning permits are required over
taking eight boxes of the pills the the whole
- trouble completely disappeared, I wasprovince with the exeep-
t: afree from pain and could walk as well tionties of re thell, orest settled are nunh
- i as ever I did in my life. I have since broken up byeclearings. reas are mare
- 'taken the pills. occasionally as a pre- required front May 1t to September
- i cautionary measure and I cannot 15th for clearing land, for agricul-
speak too highly in their favor. tura and for clearing any debrisf
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink along roads and railways, around
Pills through any medicine dealer or camps and mines, or logging slash.
by mail at 60 cents a box or six boxes Permits can be obtained only from the
1 for $2,50 from The Dr. Williams' regular forests guards and rangers,
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. and Dominion wardens, and munici
'h " pal authorities who ma
Ybegr
0
)lies out of Germany itself ? is
e t It no other articles on the
e boast of military victories, There are
i FINDS FOUR KINDS OF BOMBS
spec
Magazine Describes the Hair Brush { regu
ten
and Others.
ial power to issue thein. W
rit -
permits only are allowed, and the
lar permit form only is used.
th
alk of Moitkeism versus Mahan !subject of the war that can compare I In
while the great storehouses with those to be found month by'rang
neutrel nations are barred of ' month in Blackwood's Magazine. / burnin
•sea power of the enemy. by t Even the censor has been unable to , certa
1 take the Life and spirit out of them t ever
es the efforts of land perhaps, because' they see the i
c Germany to
o -e came to ixo _ the events they de- vise
Over 11,000 Issued.
1914, 846 provincial guards and
ers issued 11,523 permits for
g brush. There is naturally a while the fires
in amount of hazard in 4 most!, fore the arrival of the forest officer.
y clearing fire, but so wen .Jeri 1 ]3ritish Columbia can properly , claim
ssua
nee
of
e' '
xmr
p is
been
in only128super � tr Yom;, ..s,Tready an effective fire pro -
that cases did th tection system, which system is ins-
et away. The permitee must 'do: proving each year. It is undoubted
his power to prevent a permit that .the fire permit policy is the ba -
fire from getting beyond bounds. Be- ars on which the whole system rests,
fore a permit is issued the guard or and is the most valuable provision in
ranger inspects the area to be burn- the fire protective chapter of the For -
ed to determine whether or not it ca. n est Act.
be burned with safety, and to see if
fire lines have been made around the Permits are the Int amen
edge, or, in some cases, he demands It is safe to say that among the
j °f high explosive. The policeman's that the brush be piled. The fact that settlers themselves 90 or 95 per cenxt..
due care has been exercised is shown support this provision, and would re -
re has fact that only one per cent, of j slat its elimination. It protects them
es set out under permit got from the occasional reckless citizen
In every case this season such !!� who might otherwise carelessly cause
g fires were controlled with I eYpexreixce gained
=lege. The permittee is re -
le for the .control of such fires.
Settler? Glad to Help.
II In every way slash burning is facil-
itated by the staff of guards, while
at the same time such. burning is ren-
dered quite safe. The settlers, who
are, 111 the majority. of cases, familia'
with the results of bush fires through
observation of 'old burns and through
occasional accidental fires which get
away, are ready to co-operate to pre-
vent the recurrence of fires, No pro-
vince in Canada has a better public
sentiment in the matter of fire pro-
tection. The permit system chiefly
has been instrumental in building up
this sentiment. The forest guards
have often very large districts in
their charge (average 500,000 acres
in 1914), but are assisted in the work
of fire detection through settlers re-
porting fires by telephone or other-
wise, and even by starting fire fight-
ingare smalland b
2
:light
1
s
a rapidof
.� long of
a after r
stroke
Iti
t d
th
s
h
iscribe e
ahave
s ve
been
occurredj
plain that the war valuable and interesting they contain I m•s g
likely to be one of endurance. It not to be found elsewhere. nformation 1 all lir
therefore, a sound strategy to A Nvriter in the current num-
: every German advance costly in !bei
and at the same time to sweepgives an interesting account g
razz commerce from the seas, :the various bombe that are being
s•rs' It used in the trenches. He :::ys:
been said that an army marches + "The hair brush is very like the
:s .belly. There are no indica- pprdinary hair brush except that the
so far of any failure of supplies, ; bristles are replaced by a solid block
r rood or ammunition
an arm for the
Y. But it cannot be fed 1
: the people starve. Such a policy, gay streamers of tape by the
Government epeople
starve.
' tied to its tail to insure that it fails the fir
Glx to pursue it, would inhumane
ree 1 to the ground nose downward. Both 1 away.
ion. Unless, therefore, the cries it these is bombs advise explode on impact, and I escapin
stress that now toms from Ger- ! a bI to knock them 1 little d
are insincere, which is hardly i t en hs,t when h thio vi; the back of the sponsib
isonable surpositfon the
ern. rorty
,iv in a cricket ball works byagrieul
perilous condition—one !fuse. The removal of a certainpin
must have a great, perhaps a de-1releases a spring under
Ming influence upon the nr.ilitar fuse which lights the
an
tion in the near future.y uiteriral timed to explode
anlage. From .
in
British Columbia, the unqualified
statement is made that unless brush
thousand and four acres of burning is controlled' by means of per-
t
land weredburned over I mics no real fire -protection is possible
purmit during the fire Se in a timbered country. It is safe to
say that in no timbered region where
permits have'been used would the
people go back.to the old system of
indiscriminate and uncontrolled burn -
.I country"The
1 bomb in five seconds. You take the
bomb in your right hand, remove the
!1 TERROR TO SLACiiIEItS, i pin and cast the thing nradl
from you. The dam tin varietyY from
New <%ainivand:r-in-Chief in the peals more particularly to the sp6 s -
D hander in , mail, as the element of chance enters
largely into its successful use. It is
the official dry -as -dust details ` timed to explode about ten seconds
e life of Sir C. G. IVlonro, the' after the lighting of the fuse."
commaiider-in-chief in the Dai -
es, have been published. Here ' INSURANCE CLAIMS- RIGH,
nme more intimate details from
silken' mess somewhere in War Has Cost British Companies
e. In appearance he is a rather i Over $27,000,000.
get man with a short, bristly 1 It is estimated that the war has
ache and steely eyes, full of cost the insurance offices in th
ter. His voice is quiet but
Every tvord he utters and.
gesture he makes is instinct
restrained pugnacity and dog-
s. On parade he is typically
1, and no general can inspire
:onfidenee with Iess personal
You can see a regiment stiffen
vis very glance. A terror, but
terror.
i a terror to slackers—officer-
; s included. Punctilious in
r etiquette himself, he exacts a
standard from others. One
most
rcherished first ate fighter keeps him -
spruce under war conditions
ble, and no one will ever fort
rebuke to certain new troops:
pts' that have been months in
ekes and seen hard fighting
their soldier -like bearing
:t appearance, while you menried are going about in a
unsoldier-like fashion and'
w military eourteeies," he
added, "This will cease,"
1.
ritish Empire more than27e
This is made up as follows'000;000,
British life offices .. ... $14,000,000
British industrial offices.. 4,352,650
British friendly societies,2,500,000
Canadian life offices 3,600,000
Australasian . ...... 2,000,000
Dependencies . 1,000,000
Total . $27
352,650
The number of claims of the British
life offices are not available, but as
for the industrial offices their claims
now number 46,000, which is 4,000
more than a month ago. The largest
office in this group, the Prudential,
has lately been paying' claims at the
rate of $60,000 a week, and at present
its total war claims amount to close
on $2,600,000, while others have paid
as much as $16,000, a week.
As for the life offices, it must be
borne iifmind that they eater only to
the wealthier <classes, and the claim%.
they have been called upon to meet
include acre for $600,000 and several
for $260,000.
of 1914, besides 5,727 acresof ging
slash, 7,204 acres of slash along logging
ways, and 290 miles of slash along
public roads,
t ing.—Canadian Forestry Journal.
THE GUELPH WINTER FAIR. I every night from Saturday to Thurs-
Show- The Largest Live SStock1 day. In addition, on Tuesday and
Held 1 Thursday evenings, there will be a
In the Dominion. 1 competitiop for officers' chargers and
From. a small start in 1884 as a fat !levy, which exhibition
is stationed in Gueby the 1ph.
a ridinat-
stock show for Guelph and vicinity A series of lectures will be deliver -
there has developed the biggest pure- ed each day of the show upon live
ly agricultural exhibition in the Do- stock, poultry or seeds, and will be so
minion. arranged that the visitors will be able
At _first only fat cattle were pro -1 to hear the lecture and see all of the
vided for. The classification has been judging.
enlarged from year to year, including, A new feature this year is a judg-
first sheep then swine, later a dairy: ing competition between the different
test and poultry were added. In 1909,1couuties•of the province, each count
a horse show was added,•and this year
a start is being made with breeding
sections for cattle, sheep and swine.
The judging of poultry will be com-
..1...4_,1 Y
being represented by three men pick
ed by the District Representative.
yost Iportant.
Monday morning, Dec. 6th, ! Two boyslwereinexpatiating on the
and prizes placed on the coops, so { relative merits of their fathers as
that visitors will be able to note the ! musicians.
prize winners, The dairy test will be 1 "My father is: the greatest musi-
completed and cards showing the re- clan in the town," said one.
suit posted on Monday. As each "Ohl" the other'said. "When my
Blass of horses, beef cattle, sheep and father starts his music' every man
swine is judged, cards showing the 1 stops work."
catalogue ' number and the prize 1 "Flow's that?" said the
awarded will be put up on the stall "What does he do?" other.
or pen so that the ideals of the judges 1 "He blov'v'k the whistle for meals
can be followed by the visitors. All' up at the mill." -
beef cattle and dairy cattle will be
stabled according to classes, and; Differentiation,
sheep and swine according to breeds.; "Is yourhusband an optimist $"
The comfort .of visitors has received j "Well," replied the tirecWooking
considerable attention at the hands of , woman, "he's an optimist in hon
the' Fair Board, seating aecomnroda- i ingfor the best, but a good deal o
tion having been provided for seven r a pessimist in workingfor it." i'
hundred more people than in any
former year, 1 One thousand leniotis se
There will be judging of horses 1 gallons. of juice. giveve3rt, cr:
If you •e inclined to believe t
the age of miracles is past and w
visible evidence of Red Cross thou
tur•gy, you have only to look at o
returned soldiers who are now carni
home in steadily increasin
Nearly every returned soldier
ise
Red Cross miracle, for in the majorit
of cases a soldier is invalided hos
only when he is physically ineapae
rated for further service. You ma
ink ; that some of them are sadl
rippled and mutilated, but' if yo
ould compare their condition to -da
Waith their condition when they wer
rst placed in the hands of surgeon
d nurse, you would be able to esti
ate what the Red Cross has done in
e way of patching up and healing
battered bodies. 8
In Canada, however, you can not
e the greatest miracles of the Red
oss and Army Service Corps—the
en who have been made sound and
ole and as good as new again, and
e once more
back in the trenches,
king one life do double service,
eed, is is not a mime' e th
hat
ish
ma..
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number
th
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fi
an
m
th
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wh
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a
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man having only one life to give
should be able to give that life ve
and even three times over—thanks twice
the Red Cross.
Think what the Red Cross has
saved in that most precious of all
commodities — human life -- and be
certain when next you put your name
on a Red Cross subscription list that
you have made a very profitable in-
vestment—to say nothing of perform-
ing a humane and patriotic act.
Having; a Scrap.
Four-year-old Donald was out in
, the street having a scrap with a boy
' older than himself, and getting decide
1 edly the worst of it. But his quick
wit sawpadw y of avoiding actual de..
feat' youcall me . ? r
mother �s
, ez
. he
pouted I d
and the otherY.boyhere wenwas no rly
t on pummel-
ling. Then Donald shrieked desper-
ately, "Cali me in, mother, dear! Oh,
do call me in, quick!"
Different Noir,
"Before we were married you al-
ways gave the waiter half a dollar,"
she said.
"YeI wasp marrie" he de1lied always sadly.
had "Befor
a half -
dollar to give."
Here is a testimonial unsolicited
beadverIf I tised ed onad my �every streeit t
corner. The man or woman
that has rheumatism and fails
to keep and use Sloan's Lini-
ment is like a drowning man
refusing a rope." ---4.1T. Fan
Dyke, Lakewood,
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$21
With 15 ten -inch
double -sided Victor
Records (30 selec-
tions, your own
choice), $34.50.
Easy Payments
if Desired.
A' Genuine Victrola
for Christmas
is both a gift for the day and means of entertainment
and happiness the year round.
It will bring to your fireside all the delights of music
the world has to offer—vocal, instrumental, dance
and orchestral; and make your hours as socially
pleasant as those yon have enjoyed when listening
to the Victrola at the homes of your friends.
There are 6000 Victor Records from which to choose.
You can get ten -inch, double -sided Victor Records
for 90c., including any of your favorite selections of
standard and popular songs and instrumental pieces..
Any of "His Master's Voice" dealers will let you
hear them. If there is not one in your vicinity,
notify us and we will see that you are not disap-
pointed on Christmas morning.
Other Victrolas
$33.50 to $400.
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