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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-03-08, Page 2di• it timOtor S AFORTIL F idayoliarelt 8,- 1918 Tfre World-is:facing a sugar famine -not any vague possibility, but an imminent and threatening probability. Right now, in United States cities, only one pound (in some cases, one -halt pound) of sugar can be bought at a time, and that only With a family order for other foods. _ Sugar is one .of the two contents form- ing the class of food that supplies the body with heat and energy, We at home need this essential food. But far more our _11 1 soldiers andtrur Allies need it. It will be a very real factor in winning our war,if we are to win it, •against Prussianism. The production of sugar, including the distinctively Can- adian MAPL,r, SUGAR, is a patriotic duty, immediate and .airgent. But it is more than that, too. It is a profitable enterprise to the ',inducer. In 1916, Quebec realized from this source three million dollars; and that out -put could be very much increased, other Provinces have .approxi ately two thirds the available bush that Quebec has. • Both for self, and for Country, utilize this resource, this year. The unusually heavy frosts and deep snowfall of dip past months predict an abundant • run of sap -- a bumpersugar -crop if you will only TAP TAP I TAP Our sugar making supplies are corn- plete---long and short pails, gal- vanized sap pans, spiles, auger bits and cans. Procure your sup- ply now. A.Sf4LS.'Seaforth IkekJcEiip liluttia -Fire Insurance Co Seaforth, Ont. DIRECTORY, OFFICERS. 1. Connolly, Goderich, Priiident Ian Evans, Beachwood, Vice -President N. E. Hays, Seaferth, Secy.-Treas. AGENTS Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed. Hincliley, Seaforth; John Murray, Brueefield; W. Yeo, Goderich; R. G. Jarmutti, 13roclhagen. DIRECTORS William Rhin, No. 2, Seaforth; John Bennewies, Brodhagenf James Evan; Illeechwood; M. MeEwen, Clinton; Jas. Connolly, Goderich; D. F. MeGre or, E. R No. 3, Seaforth; 3. G. Grive No. 4 Walton; Robert Ferris'Harl k; Iti George cCartney, No. 3, Seaforth G. T. R. TIME TABLE Trains Leave Seaforth as follows: 1015 a. m. - For Clinton, Goderich, Wingha.m and Kincardine. if.58 p. m. - For Clinton; Wingham and Kincardine. 11.03 p. m. -- For Clinton, Goderich. Rei51 a. m. -For Stratford, Guelph, Toronto, Orillia, North -Bay and points west, Belleville and Peter- boro and points -east. 3.16 p.m. - For Stratford, Toronto, Montreal and points east. LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE Going South ann. Wingham, depart 6.35 Belgrave - 0.50 Blyth 7.04 Londesboro 7.13 7.33 Bruceneld 8.08 .Kippen ..... ....... 8.16 Hensall ......... 8.25 Exeter 8.40 Centralia 8.57 London. arrive 10.05 nee, Going North a.m. London, depart8.30 Centralia ?A. 935 Exeter - 9.47 Hensel 9.59 KiPPen 10.06 Brucefield • 10.14 Clinton 10.30 Londesboro • • • • 11.28 Blyth 11.37 Belgrave . ..... 11.50 3Vingham, arrive 12.05 lamb 3.20 3.36 3.48 3.56 4.15 4.33 4.41 4.48 5.01 5.13 6.15 p.m. 4.40 5.45 5.5e 6.09 6.16 6.24 6.40 6.57 7.05 7.18 7.40 C. P. R. TIME TABLE GUELPH & GODERICH BRANCH. TO TORONTO, a.m. Goderich, leave . . . .... 4.40 Myth ..... 7.18 Walton 7.32 Guelph . .... 9.38 FROM TORONTO Pm. 1.35 2.14 2.20 4.30 Toronto Leave 740 5.10 Guelph, arrive ..... ....9.38 7.00 Walton 11.43 9.04 Blyth 12.08 9.18 Auburn 12.15 ., -49.80 Goderich 12.40 9.55 Connections at Guelph Junction with Main Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon- don, Detroit, and Chicago and all in- termediate point**. TO GO, TO BED • KIDNEYS - SO BAD COULD NOT STAND STRAIGHT'. Women should-- not despair even if they are troubled with severe paine the side or back, and not able to at.tend to their household duties. The kidneys of course, are to blame nine times Out of ten, but they 'can be promptly and permanently made healthy by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. H. M. Jansen, Pathlow, Sask., writes: -"I feel it my duty to recom- mend Doan's Kidney Pills to anyone having weak kidneys, as they have been a great help to me. A month ago ,my kidneys were so bad that I had severe pains in my sides and back, and it was trnpossible for me to stand straight. I then got so bad I had to go to bed, and was that way for a week. We 'sent for some Doan's Kidney Pills, and I have taken just about one box, and now I am able to be up and do my own work. I am certainly grateful for the good they have done me." To ensure getting Doan's Itnhiey Pilis when -you ask for them, see that they nee PUT up in an oblong grey box with our trade mark of a "Maple Leaf" on the label. Price 50e. per box at. all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. CARRIAGE FOR SALE. Two seated Gladstone, natural wod, as good as new and easy running, com- fortable family rig. Apply at The Expositor Office. Seaforth. 25713-tf CAUGHT COLD NEGLECTED IT MS SICK FOR MONTHS. You should never neglect a cold, how- ever slight. If you do not treat it in time it will, in all possibility, develop into bronchitis, pneumonia, asthme, or some other serioue throat or limg trouble. On the first sign of cold or cough it is advisable to cure it at once, and not let it run on for an *definite period. For this purpose there is nothing to equal Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, a remedy that has been universally used by thousands for over twenty-five years. You do not experiment when you buy it. Mrs. W. G. Paquet, Smith's Falls, Ont., writes: -"I was troubled with la - grippe. I caught cold, and neglected it, and was sick for several months. I took three bottles of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, and before I finished the last one 1 wag entirely cured. I would not have any other cough medicine in the house. It also cured my baby, who was very dick with bronchitis. She had the doe- . tor three times, and he recommended 'Dr. Wood's.' I highly recommend' it to those who need a qtnek cure." See that you get Dr. Wood's Norway pine Syrup when you ask for it. Do not accept a substitute. It is put up in ta yellow wrapper, three pine trees the tmde mark; price 25c. and 50c.; raanu- factured only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. upon exeept with regard to the com- fort of the crews. Mr. Tritton say" that the Germans , have greatly exaggerated the num- ber of tanks they have been able to eapturee although nothing should be, more 'easilti captisred than . a tank HAT YOU T INK GOING OVER j jthat has been diaabledo He thinks THE TOP 44 4By 1te. Victor Grayson). , Whitt were your exact thoughts wiian. Went 'Oyer the tolitsagelnlit tlie enemy?" This questio was put to mil Isk.a - Military doctor Wlso combined da.t.oate_ f4r pyechoIogy with a slsill In the lirig of wo ds. The question in- t t rested ma, a owing to .4 long - p etised habit of introspection, I was able to su ply the answer. ; the top" is 'probably And thrilling of -diet s Many grim- experi- culmiii ting point of I I I . "Going over the most solem Modern soldier fences; it is th sustained period ef emotional ress-what'C lylewould call the %junctures of o et eraities• Every - tiling in the s idler's previous mili- t ry training has been but an ard.u- xns preparation for that moment's ris. And th contents of his mind such a peri cl. Must be considered a a sort of sac ed. disposition. i The warningof "Stand to!" is minously whispered. In that brief s;nace there is little time for any but urely subc nscious, sentimental. t-houghts. Th enemy ii in front, and 41e good soldier never under -esti - Mates the power of his enemy's post lible resistanc . A fleeting thought inaY be devoted to the loved; ones enno are vagtie y waiting or watching nehind: the soldier must see to it ' that th bolt of his rifle works easily its kroove; that his Sights are lean; jthat the pins , of his hand - grenades ,are in proper order -that he is ready in ev ry detail for the ex - 'metes of th impending trial. His destiny hangs on the hazard of a moment's thr of the dice of Fate. Half an inch bc•ve the parapet . . . . death - is fra tically bargaining for him. The i coma and he scram the edge ' of t comrades stop He niustawa f his own si -hrapnel mo ie ead. "What are the thoughts of this . , hum? asks th py.schologist Popular magination c uld easily provide the eisly. ' If he 1 a nervous man he will Ise thinking o his danger; if he is a breve man he will' be thinking of some such ph ase as "For liberty I fight and die! ' "My -country, I strike or thee!" sei • 1. Before we dvancnit at Passchen- aele we had spent a night of un- peakable d'scamfort in a .bog- ound field. ntermittent showers of ain had drei ched 'us to the skin, and the Boc e was so near to us hat we dare not cough nor light a longed -for ci arette. When. the rder came to "Stand !" I found that my valise, *upon which I had een sitting, had been submerged in the mud. With an ef- tort I pulled i.t out and strapped it pn my back. With a crash like tthe rack of doom our barrage, began and. tve started fo ward. 2 As the shrapnel -mist began to rise could percei e . the tangled wire of he enemy in s tumbed in shattered eaps, and I r alized that my increas- e -3,g loneliness was being caused by 1hidden fire from some concrete tructures on my; left. The noise of rtillery was fening, the mud and he water -log ed shell holes made iidvance a work of art, and the bul- kts whistled at on every side. il I should have . been very exdited and my mind !should have riseii to the ocacsion by moulding an epi - gran of patriotic purpose and Brit- ish. defiance. I arit soi-ry to disap- oint the. pysc ologist, but the exact ords which ran through my mind, as I dodged th. bullets and the shells, were: "I'm Vey lucky to have one fissole and two slices of bacon in my valise. It's nola bad war after all!" d comes to advance, les out and over. At e "bags" some of his and silently fall back. h the creeping curtain eis barrage, while the' ns and shrieks overt • SNIPING They used to ers' section th A FINE ART call the machine -gun - "suicide club" .in the early daye of he war, so great was he slaughter anteing the gunners. In .hose days the machine -gunners were ice) often used to hold back German ttaeks; but noWadays the percentag.e f casualties antong mathine-gunners ilas considerably decreased, although n an important engagement the post f inachine-gunner is probably es dant kerous as any that can be found on the Whole front. Bat if a machine -gun - ter wanted to find a berth in which he *ould probably live to a ripe old age find become a credit to the community e would not chose that of a sniper. Jt is said that, taking: the days of im- ortant actions with' the days When here is nothing to report, the sniper has the most dangerous job in the 4r,my. It has been calculated that his iiverage expecancY of life is about ten ays. Somie are killed on their way o their first sniping station; others ave gone through the war for More han three years Without a scratch; tut ten days is said to be the average ime the sniper lasts before he is niped himself. Stephen Trask, ' writing in i‘Arms nd thie Man," the official organ, of he National Rifle Association of America, gives some interesting facts about the work of the Allied nipers on the Western Front. He oints out that the sniper is a picked ;hien. He must have all the nerve beid courage of the aviator, and he ust have ;something else, namely, 'Patience and a control_ of his mus - pies, that will enable him to Iie mo- tionless for hours at a time. In ad- ilition he must be a dead, shot and have the natural instincts of a tkunter. As regards marksmanship *e shall probably hear so,m.e tales When the war is over that will 'pale the feats of Dr. Carver and make Daniel Boone look like Cedric, the oted Son -in -Law of Pa's. Not only the man picked, but his rifle is hicked for him. He has the choice 4+1 hundreds of the finest weapons tnat can be turned out, and when e has chosen his rifle he gives it as Much care and attention as a so- iety matron does her complexion. • The art of sniping , which ap- Pears to have been born in the Cri- *team war, was greatly developed in the Boer war, but has advanced More in the past three years than CantenesOblos-:-i'l suffered from a female trouble which caused me =itch es se suffering,- and -two doctors -decided that I would lane to go through ioperation before' I 'could get well. My mother, who had been helped by Lydia E7. Pinkham Vegetable Com- pound, advised me to try it before BIM- tnitting th an opera- tion. It relieved Me frommy troubles so I can do my house work without any ' difficulty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with female troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham'S Vegetable Com- pound a Wel and it will do as much for them."-eMfs. Mei* BoYD, 1421 5th St., N. E., Canton, QM°. Sometimes there are 'serious condi- tions where a hospital operation is the only alternative'but on the other hand so many women .have been cured by this fainous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after doctors have said that an operation was necessary- every woman wbo wants to avoidsan operation should give it a fair trial before submitting to such 'a trying ordeal. If complications exist, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mau., for advice. The reeult of many years experience is at your iservice. 41 in the preceding fifty. Old tricks are out Of date. Between the snipe ers in the opposing armies there. ! is waged a constant battle of wits, i each trying to outguess the other, ' each trying to read the mind of his ! hidden enemi and. do the thing he 1 does .not expect. For instance, ' the obviousething for a sniper to do would be th hide behind some, bb- . ject like a -rock or a tree and pick - -off his. enemy front this conceal- ment. . To do the obvious thing, however, would be fatal. Nowa- days the expert sniper hides in front I of the object that is supposed to conceal him!. If there is a rock that would shelter a man lying be- tween the trenches, the sniper cam- ouflages himself and gets between the rock and the enetitY. The sup- position that he is beliind the rock 1 ,will nraw fire to it, and he can work with comfort unsuspected. If there is snow ,on the ground he covers himself with .paint, chalk or white- wash and merges in to the prevail- ing whiteness. Sometiines he cov- ers himself With grass, sometimes with leaves. It all dep'ends upon the sort of background he has to work against. : Rarely does the sniper fire at men in the trenches directly in front of nim, since this would be to indicate his position. Ile shoots to the right or left. He watches - the barometer intently since bullets fly • differently in different de- grees cif atmospheric pressure. He is equipped with a field glass, pre- ferring a telescope to binoculars, -since there is less chance that the lens will catch a reflection and signal his posi- tion to the enemy. He is always on his guard lest a drop of ram or dew enters his esfie barrel or touch his cartridges, because in this event when he fires there will be a tiny puff of steam from the muzzle. Allied snip- - ers now work in pairs; one shoot- ing arid the' other watching the result and coaching- his mate. They lie on the ground a few feet apart, so that if that after the Blade, of the Somme ; the tanks were not employed to the best advantage. They are utterly ?n- sukted to fighting d'n the quaguri-)s of,-Flandars- atzd on. thl* MAO of tne front the mud is .50 deep that on one `occasion a tank diaappeared the course of un- der the surface jnight. In fact, Flanders mud will de - I r1, the stroy a tank inuch more swiftly and • effectively than German gunfire. The only weapon that is effective I against a tank is field. gun on a ' • na,V a1 ow= tmg turned point blank ; upon the advancing tank. •This gun I must be operated froni . direct ob- servation, and _it the ti -tank gun- ner can see the tank, the tank gun- ner can see the -aati-tank gun. He • has the same epportunity of putting the eneiny pin out of action. Per- haps his chance is better because the tank zigzags like a. ship dodging a submarine. - . Machine gun- The does not worry the tank anye more than bird -shot . would worry a hippopotamus, and - the oncrete pill -boxes are the tanks' fav rit i e side dish.- - So far as has, bee announced the enemy has not been able to tackle the tank by building deadfalle for it, which would seem to be about the most effective . way of dealing:: with this p. Pe Or . might be also traps:for artilleryand bodies. of iiffaittry,, and it would- 1*k a big task to I make the excavations .444.M44.4.1.4.414141.444, ; sufficiently numerous and deep to be 1 a really effectiVe weapon. Charging: I infantry or cavalry or long-range ' gun -fire are useless - against the tanks Ai pictiirehas been published. of a nuniber i of. German - soldiers swarming over a moving_ tank azid trying to find an; aperture through which their revolvers -might be dis- charged , As well mightia man -in a canoe prod at a battleship with a. ' penlalife. Soft ground - or a direet i hit by a gun a large calibre is the ! only real obstacle to the tank on the 1 Western front. ' Mr. Tritton says tliat there is a ! considerable " tank literature, much 'of it apocryhal, but the story of the origin of the name is much ,more picturesque than any of the 1 several versions published. The ' tanks were first built at the works. f of William Foster and Co., and the I workmen naturally ' curious as to • the purpose of the strange mon- sters; were told that they were tiers , intended foe Mesopotamia, the idea being probably that they were expected to wade through the sands of the desert like camels. The blessed word Mesopotamia, was too much of a niouthful for the already herd -worked mechanics, and they . hit on the even • more blessed word "tank", because it was supposed to be a reasonable abbreviation for Mesopotamia rather than en., ac- count of the appearance oft the engines. The writer says. that the workmen have never been given 'sufficient credit- for the wonderful way in which they kept the secret of. the construction, although as we know, a German spy WOMan did get some advance information . which was communicated. to Ber- lin. . For herr. enterprise she paid , with her life. I Mr. Tritton lays great emphasis upon the value of tanks . as protec- tors of the British infantry. They haire saved thousands of lives, for they have been able to perform tasks with impunity which would. have called _ for the lives of many brave men to achieve. On a pure - one of theni is spotted the other will f lY monetary calctdation, he says escape. Similarly, when it new sniper's post is estahlished it is always left un- occupied for a couple of days to leapt whether it has been noted by the en- emy. If it has, it is abandoned. If a sniper is firing from a house he never goes to the window, but ack in the room so that no can fall upon hien. He is always to fire with his rifle on his hand, for this, will provi e the same duality of resist- ance at all times, whereas if a man rested • his rifle notv on his hand, now on a wall, and again on a dirt Dile, his marksmanship would not be so uniform. When firing through a small aperture in brickwork, the sniper always carefully waters the opening. This prevents the gas from the explosion blowing out any dust and betraying his whereabouta Loop holes similarly are always "gagged" 'or plugged in front and curtained behind. When the hole is to be used the curtain is raised, the sniper enters and then the cur- tain is lowered again before the plug is removed thus preventing any light striking in and revealing. the camouflage. Sniper's nests or hides are usually made in pairs, some distance apart. One is a "fake," - designed to draw the enemy's,. fire, while the sniper, or bodysnatchen as he is called, gets in his deadly work a few yards distant. CAPITAL AND -RESERVE -48,8003000 98 BRANCHES IN CANADA A General Banking Business 'Transacted. .CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT BANK MONEY ORDERS SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Intereat ;allowed at highest Current Rate. BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT: Brucefield St. Marys Kirkton - Exeter Clinton Hensall Zurich lications to dissemble the spirit of pacifism or defeat, it has been charg- ed that Germany devoted. a sum of money ranging up to or even exceed - in g 10,000,000 marks. • 1 Partial uncovering of the plot has resulted not only in the -arrest of Call- laux and Bolo, but In driving out of office of Louis J.- Malvy, 7 formerly' Frenel. minister Of the interior, in the arrest of several editors of the BOWS - paper Bonnet Rouge, and its suppres- sion on, the ground that it had been I subsidized to preach pacifisni in the interest of Germany.- One of the Bont net Rouge's editors who threatened to make sensational diiiclotaires was fount strangled in his cell -before he had airchance to •reveal what he may 1haTe nova °tithe plot. A few other 1.nowspene* alleged ' to have been fousided in France to spread, the Ger- man . peace propoganda ale° were sti pressed: stays light taug resti A trANK INVENTOR TALKS OF THE WAR It is fully expected that when the Germans make their attack u.pon the West front they will bring intd action a troop of tanks. -Of course the Ger- mans know perectly well how the British tanks are constructed, they have taken several of them since their first appearance, and there is no reas- on why they shoulcl not build as many tanks of their own as they choose. The reason they have not used them before is that tanks are ageless for defensive warfare, and the Germans have been' on the defensive. Thus in the next battle there may be a new experience for correspondents on the Western front. They may be the opportunity of describing a bat- tle between tanks. In the London Despatch, Mr. W. Tritton, who play- ed a large part in the invention of the original tanks, says that there is no reason why tanks should . not fight tanks, and the tank that wins will be the tank, that carries the heavier artillery. It will be just the same as a cruiser fighting a cruiser. He remarks significantly' that we are by no means at the end of tank development, although the original tanks were so well designed that they have not been much improved that the tank pays for itself when it saves the lives of seven soldiers. He believes that the' tanks are de- signed to revolutionize warfare just as labor-saving. inventions have revolutionized indestry. "This is an engineen's war," says Mil' Tritton; "but it is still very difficult to get officials to understand that an engineer's advice may be valuable. The inore the, engineering side of war is considered "the less costly in human life shall we find our pro- gress to the Rhine." As a personal footnote, Mr. Tritton adds that he has made no fortune out of the tanks. The Government offered him $200 for his patents. Apart from that he spent his total private, in- come and • devoted two years' time in running about for the Govern- ment in the development ; of the tank, "though I had no eomplaint on that score," he says. "Anything to helip the country win the warr GERMAN INTRIGUE MAY NOW comg, TO AN -END. IN bringing to trial rain. Bolo, or Bolo Pasha the French Govern- ment is .endeavoring to disrupt the whole' system of ,German in- trigue and propaganda- in France which in the spring of 1917 became so bold and effecVve as to threaten to defeat France's effOrts to carry on t the war. Bolo's case has been defined as but one of a - series of inter -related inci- dents in the -German Zifort to orga- nize a propaganda, of idepression and discouragement among the civilian leaders and soldiers of France. These Inv/dived not only Bolo, the so-called "Levantine financier," but also Jos-, eph Caillaux, a former Premier of France, one or more members of the French Chamber of Deputies, and several French newspapers. These newspapers are alleged to haye been subsidized by German money to : spread 'abroad in France a spirit of "defeatism," a belief that here was no hope of beating Germany and that Prance should make haste to accept the best terms pessible. As Bolo's connection with the seheme was the first -startling de- velopment in uncovering the plot, his name has since been applied 40 the whale system of. German propaganda in France and the new word "Bolo - ism" was coined. In tne attempt to bribe French i statesmen and leaders, and to *flu- me* French opinion by subsidining ber newspapers or founding new pub- i ‘ lo's activities possess peculiar in ereet to people on this side of the Atlantic because of ; the fact that, of the funds at his disposals, it is charged. that $1,683,000 was transferred -from the -Deutsche Bank in Berlin to France by way of New York. It wag as a result of discovery of his mani- pulation' of this fang -through five New. York banks or banking houses that Attorney-Generae M. E. Lewis of New York State was able to obtain in- formation which was forwarded to the French Ambassador in Washington, M. Jasserand, upon which Bolo was arrested. According to Mr. Lewis, Count yon B.ernstorff, then German Ambassador to the United States, dinected the !xansfer of the $1,683,000 to Bolo in New York,. through the financial agent of the Deutsche Bank in New York. It was stated that the money was placed at Bernstorfrs disposal by vhreless messages in a secret code in -.virich fictitious names were. used to •epresent the parties participating in 'he transaction. Bolo's first appearance as a • factor 'n international affairs was as finan- sial adviser to Abbas HIlmi, who was •n 1914 the Khedive of Egypt. It was nrom the Khedive that 'Bolo .eceived his title of pasha. Bn 1915, however, the Khedive had . been ousted, and 13olo, it said, was a Pensioner of his brother, a -French priest, in 1914. In the following year, it is ainerted, site Khedive and Bolo met in Switzer- land, and, with the approval of Gott- lieb von Jagow, then- Gerraan For eign Minisler, it was arranted that 10,000,000 marks should be placed to Bolo's account to influence the French press * favor of a premature peace, The money, it is charged, was transferred to Bolo through New York, and -a -large pert of it used to purchase an interest in Ise Journal,. an important newspaper controlled by Senator Charles Humbert. On die, conery of the origin of the funde Senator Humbert tried to refund. it,. but this was op-nnsno lay Bolo.' In September last Bolo was arrest- ed after a judicial investigation of" his alleged relations with the enemy His arrest profoundly stirred the , Frenen capitaa inspiring in some - :French patriots the feeling that at. Last the scandal that weighed So heav- ily upon France was about to be cleared. • teas From Wood. Experiments on wood as part sub- stitute for coal in gas -making haves recently been carried out in France,. The wbod used was sea -pine in Otte form 4,1 billets tut from the- middles of the'.. trunk. The cheese.- of the wood ivas about half the weight of chat of coal, and carbonization occun pied about hail the Amnon time, Who*" running one retort with wood iq every two with coal, no appreciablies difference in the calorific power ofthee gas was noted. Of the two bye - products - small coke and ter -7- thee former amounted to five to ten .peeii cent. The tar from the combineddist. dilation of weed and coal is rote* lighter than common tars and is niore difficult to separate frpri water in thiig condermar. Owing to the acid Char., actor of certain of the products .of distillation of wood-e.g., aeetio_ acid -n -trouble- may be -caused in thes condensing plant unless the propor- tion‘nef coal is sufficient to yield' am- nionia in the- quantity necessary to. neutralize the acids The yield of gas from the wood was found to be - substantially equal to that from -coal.. A4Novel Oiieratkm for the .Deaf. Surgebns have recently fdentifiedi hysterical deafness in soldiers as deafness not accompanied by mutt-. ness. They are curing it by att °wenn atirin. The patient is given enough ether to excite Ilinn then two sines cuts are made behind his bear,* A. hammer is then banged on It sheet qf Iron, and, if the operation le net- cessfuL . the patient jumps off the., rtaesbtloerwitb 11is heeatriefr onrille:s:1011M ed, 13ion de fmeealatahte he eatiweinnt beiscnitir:coo4fliespodto ular. Science Monthirt ..wmant 1 Miss Alice V. Douglas an assistant in the statistical department of th. Canadian National sertdee department has been made a member of the most excellent order of the British Empire. Ella Trout is the new Grace Pliant of Great Britain. She is a fisherevrome an and recently rowed her beat into the vortex of a sinking ship and nes- cued a sailor who was .clinging to * lifeboat. TO THE GIRL BE LEFT BEHIND : - Insure Your "military man" against thiret and fatigu,e. Keep him supplied with EarlY- in‘ the War the great value of VitHIREYS was tilszolarai by the Aliied hunies. L';,..-4,*ts on the War, magazig3 articilz'sjTceprrc spondenee tQ, pretiis. VA of its use by the alE:tA tvrcss-the com. fort and refreshment it affords - the "PCP" it inWzreS. TINIE FLAVOUR LA- ars WIDE lr• CI:Int:Mtn 44 - 1*1 *erg of at Helm 'The fol MeCom Bog.", 2' ontJ -present and Yt1 Aitkat: l'yMr Pleb the-sut Venting prat Telferd resol lath St Ceorie :ter,u* l'resby for ths nninisti atssOeia Ileum . -day* -Dr.] tat -s ;and < -tOEth 33r. op* edby :Temp inner -was, .1 aent The Rens ten - len sty; 13 ; leve teetl Mrs tie beg 0