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edTiries for four prong manure forks'.. .. ....... .75c
Agricultural- Wrenches 95e Large pulleys 50c & 600
FLIES will not bother 'our cow S while grazing or while you aremilking, if
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Per gallon ....... . . ... .....
Per. Half Gallon .......... .......
fiend Snrayers
A • $1.25
75e
50c & 60c
• Big Tom
Barn Door
Hangers
earry one ton per pair, are all steel
eorugated ,easy running, will not
nome off and are guaranteed not to
break in use, per -pair $1.75
'Trolley track and hangers are storm
and bird ;Proof; the hangers are en- dosed with no possibility .of sleet or
/bird's. nests obstructing them. Per pair $2.00
Great Value in
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AM barna, drive sheds, barn' doers, garages, oltt house, we offer this paint
-*a a 'genuine good article in either g allon or five gallon tins.
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$1.85
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Fire Insurance Co
Headoffice: Seaforth, Ont.
DIRECTORY
OFFICERS.
1. Connolly, Goderich, President
Jen. Evans, Beechwood, Vice-Presider
IL E. Hays, Seaferth, Secy.-Treas.
AGENTS
Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed.
Ilinchley. Seaforth; John Murray,
Bracefield, phone 6 on 137, Seaforth;
W. Yeo, Goderieh; R. G. Jar -
south, Brodliagen.
- DIRECTORS
William Rim, No. 2, Seaforth; John
Bennewies, Brodhagen; James Evane,
Beechwood; M. McEwen, Clinton; Jas.
COmiolly, Goderich; D. F. MeGregor
IL No. 8, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve,
No. 4 Walton; Robert Ferris, Harlock;
George McCartney, No. 3, Seaforth.
G. T. R. TIME TABLE
Trains Leave Seaforth as follows:
19.55.a. - For Clinton, Goderick,
Wingharn and Kincardine.
1.63 p. in. - For Clinton, Wingham
and Kincardine.
- 11.03 p. m. - For Clinton Goderich.
6.60 a. m. -For Stratford', Guelph,
Toronto, Orillia, North -Bay and
; pointa west, Belleville and Petet-
boro and points east.'
I.16 pan. - For Stratford, Torontot
. Montreal and points east.,
LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE,
Going South a.m. p.m.
avingliam, depart . • • • 6.35 3.20
Pekrave 6.50
Myth . •7.04 3.48
Lendesboro 7.13
Clinton, .... 7.33
Bavicafield ... .. 8.08 4.33
trippen ........ ... . . 8.16 4.41
Hentiali . ...... . .. . 8.25 4.48
Exeter 8.40 5.01
Centralia 8.57 5.13
Leedom, arrive 10.05 6.15
HAD A VERY BAD
COLD-ar
COUG
DR. WOOD'S
NORWAY PINE SYRUP
•
CURED HER.
Mrs. C. Dresser, Bayfield, Ont.,
writes: -"I want to tell you of the beue-
fit I got from your medicine.
Last.winter I had a very bad cold_ and
cough, but after taking two bottles of Dr.
_ Wood's Norway Pine Syrup I was cured.
I think Atha about one of the best cough
syrups that'I know of. I always keep a
bottle of it in the house so I can have it
when want it. .
The other week I told an old lady
abut "Dr. Wood's." She had been
sic for three weeks with bronchitis, and
had been getting medicine from the doct
tor, but did not seem to be getting much
better. She got one bottle of Dr. Wood's
Norway -Pine Syrup and she says it has
done her naore good 'than alithe doctor's
medicine she had been taking."
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is
rich in the lung healing virtues of the
Norway pine tree, and this makes it the
best remedy for coughs and colds.
The genuine is put up in a yellow
wrapper; 3 pine trees the trade mark;
336 price 25e. and 50c; manufactered only
3.56 by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto,
4.15 .°11.te
we- Going North a.m.
London, depart•8.30
Cesitralia ....... ....... 9.35
Exeter ....... .. . ..• 9.47
Mensal ...... 9.59
*Open 10.06
Ilrucefield ....... 10.14
Clinton ....... ..... . 10.30
Londesboro ... . 11.28
• . • . • • • • . • • 11.37
ve 11.50
Winghann arrive 12.05
p.m.
4.40
5.45
5.51
6.09
6.16
6.24
6.40
6.57
7.03
7.18
730
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
GUELPH & GODERICH BRAN011.
TO TORONTO
LEL
Ooderich, leave 6.40
Myth .... . . . . . ... 7.18
Walton 7.32
Onelph . . . ... 9.88
p.m.
1.36
2.1.4
2.20
430
FROM TORONTO
Toronto Leave 740 1.10
Guelph, arrive 9.38 7.00
Wsdten 11.43 9.04
Blsrth ..... 12.01 9.18
Auburn .0.... . . ..
Goderich 9.1511
Connections at Guelph Junction wft
Main Liao itos Ga Woodstock, Low
Iden, Detroit, and Mia-yro and all la-
bour:diets potatte
CARRIAGE FOR SALE.
Two seated Gladstone, natural wod, as
good as new and easy running, cone4
fortable family rig. Apply at The
Expotdtor Office, Seaforth. 21,1841
KIDNEYS SO BAD
WOULD FAINT AWAY
THAT WAY FOR TWO YEARS.'
Those who have never been troubled
with kidney trouble do not know the,
suffering and misery ;which those
afflicted undergo.
The dull pains, sharp paine, and quick
twinget, nn point to the fact that the
kidneys,requite attention.
Doan's Kidney Pills are a specific for
all kidney troubles.
Mrs: Albert Williams, Edam, Sask.,
writes: -"I have the greatest pleasure,
in telling you what Doan's Kidney Pills
did for me. Ten years ago I was so
bad with my kidneys that .I would faint'
away, and could not stand to do anything.
I had been that way for two years, and
had done all I could, but did not get any
better antil one day some one put a,
little book in our dean and I saw how
another young girl had suffered like I
was then, so I thought I would try them,
and I am glad to say that after taking
four boxes I have never had the same
thing again. Thanks to f`Doanle"
When asktaig for "Doan's Pills" see
that you get the oblong -grey box with
' the trade mark of a "'Maple Leaf." t
Price 50e; t up by The T. Milburn
144.1.1._ T2_,rPujoe 010.
SEAFORTA VitidaY, August 2, 1918.
cotian5I Yard Is Busy
Fighting the Profiteers
Now Trafficing Gold
RILE lightenin.g the duties
of Scotland Yard in eorae
directions the war has
added many new tasks to
the staff. The famitications at the
Defence of the Realm Act are so far-
reaching that only the chief -officers
.of the Special Department arl fa,mil-
• tar with all the offences under, thie
sweeping measure. One a these is
trafficing in sovereigns. Gentry, Of
the same kidney as those who are
.buytn,g 'treasury aotes in Ireland for
17s. 6d. are in the east end ()Von -
don, buying sovernigns for a guinea
and selling, them for twenty-four
shillings.
Before the war, many working
relied on our gold currency f r their
jewellers, in a Breen way of hrinese,
supply of gold, and though t lit mis-
y.
use of our coinage was an itence,
it was one: difficult of discove . Toe
day, with gold at a premitun the-
' supply rationed, and the demand ter
jewellery abnormal, the temptation
to use sovereigns, wheia• obtaina.ble,
. is greater than ever, and with The
-
demand has ciente the supplY-and
the inevitable middleman. •
It is well known to the authorities
that there watt and is; still, a con-
siderable Iniantity of ' sovereigns
hoarded in Britain. To; etain gold is-
unbatriotic, but it is zi t an offence.
War Loan appeals h ve brought
mueh of this hidden. tre stire to light.
Recently, 700 sovereign were found
among the debris of a berabed -house
in London. Among the alien popu-
lation of the East End many Such
golden nest -eggs are -undoubtedly re-
tained, and even among perfectly
loyal citizens a stocking -foot has
been preserved by the timorous as a
hostage against dire misfortime. '
it is among ,auch that, the traffick-
er works. First he temnte the •owner
with the offer of a guinea for a sove-
reign. To the unsophiiiticated that
looks like good business, and the
transaction takes place. .Perhaps 22s
is offered; the owner May insist on
getting 23s., and the agent• may give
as much, if he has an u gent market
for the gold. Generally peaking, he
has no diffibulty in dis osing of the
coins, and the illicit market prioe for
sovereigns to -day le 24 to the jew-
eller who is in need .of he metal. '
e This gold he uses for plating, also
for making wedding rin s, pins, etc.
A sovereign, weighing 5 wts., mites
a substantial plain rin for which
the jeweller may char e anything
frem 30s to £2, aceordi g to his lo-
,calitynnd customer. Obv ously, trans- •
eeetiens of such a kind,. rried on be-
psfiein prineipals, are very difficult eof
.diacovery.
Very little gold now reaches the
banks. • Indeed, when gold is tender-
ed in the ordinary way l of bstsinals.
It is leoked on evith, as tenucle susten
chin as bank -notes were iforneerly re-
garded by small tradesMen. There
Is no absblute ban on the issue of
gold. Bank customer's On still ob-
tain it for N certain specified pur-
poses. ;
Some Dangerous Trees.
The plane tree, of WhiOT Kany fine
examples may be seen ing the gondon
parks, is a disseminateni of disease.
In the spring of the year this. tree
is responsible for an ;increase in
btonchitis, catarrhal irritation., and
severe post -nasal catarehS, the result
of inhaling the tiny, spicules which.
are liberated through the breaking
up of the fruit balls. ,
Lime trees-,-- although not danger-
ous in theraselves, appear to have 'a
peculiar bower for attracting light-
ning. A large percentage of the peo-
ple killed by lightning it the British
Isles owe their death. to having tak-
en shelter under these reee.
Elm trees are particul rly danger-
ous owing to The mann r in which
their limbe snap, often on a quiet
summer day, arid withou the.elight-.
esdt warning. •;-- This uliarity Is
well descaMed hY ICiplin in the fol-
lowing lines:
"Ellum she hateth mankind, and
waiteth
Till every guest be I id,
To drop a limb on the ead of him
That anyway trusts la r shade."
The dangerous nature of the lab -
urn= is not as well li
should be. The leaves, se
and even bark, of this
poisonous. -Answers.
nown as it
ds, flowers,
ree are all
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The U -Bo at.
+ and Its Hisiory
ee:eke:e:neeXe:eneeneeteneelteonee:pee:ene,
ROBABLY the aVerage per-
son's conception of the sub-
marine has been iore or less
influenced by the fascinating
pages of Jules Verne, w o launched
the famous Nautilus upo the sea of
his brilliant fiction, in charge of the
inventor, Captain Nemo. The Nau-
tilus was a vessel of peace and not of
war. "And our arras?" asks Ar-
ronax, one of the party. "Our guns?"
"Guns! What for?" exclaims Captain
Nemo. In the same way, the sub-
marine conjured up visions, not of
ware, but of submarine exploration
and adventure. The glass -bottomed
boat with its fairy visi ns of sea
fauna and flora, had stimulated
imagination to an inte se degree.
Perhaps the submarine o-uld help
m.en to trace the much- ebated sea
serpent to his lair; to ecovge the
treasure of the ships which dot the •
marine valleys and groves of Bevy-
Jonesland. Perhaps voyages would
soon be made free of -terms and
their physical inconveni nces, sub-
merged continents like he fabled
Atlantis be explored, and the watery
ways of vanished cities b traversed.
But the historical deve opment ef
he submarine has not u ually been
along peaceful lines. The ggressive-
'Nautilus in Brest *jarbor, in 1801;
and Falter+ was so, far suecossfur
thei he acteally .bleW uP a small, ves
8 -
sel' with his torpedmi
'rho world. IS Perhaps reaping what
, it flowed in the submarine., It is
thinking new irt terms of 4ubmereib1e
Should Read Pilra.114ijnyhan'5
1 battleships and huge cruising sube
Letter Published by .
Her Peimission.
Mitchell, IndeetPLydia E; Pinkliam's
Vegetable Compound helped me so much
' during the time I
. was lookingferward
to the coming of my
'little one that I atn
1 recommending it to
other expectant
„ Mothers. B a f or e
' taking it, somedays
1. ri I suffered with nem,-
' t ralgia so badly that
1 I thought I could
not live, but after
taking three bottles
...
of Lydia E. Pink.
ham's Vegetable
Cornpound I was en-
tirely relieved of
neetralgta, I had
gained- in strength
and was able to go
; around and do all
tray housework. My baby when eeven
months old Weighed/9 pounds ancl I feel
I3etter than I have for a long time.. I
never had1 any medicine 410 ins so
Muth good."-Mrn, PURL 110trilitews.
Mitchell, Intit
Good health -during .nlaternity Is a
moat important factor to both Mother
and child, and many letters have been
recitind by the Lydia E. Phekham
' Medicine Co., Lyn?, Mass. telling of
health restored durnigthiti tr!ying period
by the use Of Lydia E. Pinkham'S Nrege-
table Compound..
ness of the Il-boan and not the peace-
ful adventuring of the romantic
Nautilus and her crew, has proved to
be the anitnim moving the inv6ntor
front the earliest times, The expres-
Sloe ,'earliest times" IS not by any
means mispleced. • The submarine is
an ancient •and not a modern concep-
tion, and the Thought Of destruction
usually seems to have actuated thosti
olden -time inventors, in spite of therr
Rimita.tions concerning weapons a
(offense. ' It is thus an anchronism to
think of the subinaidne in -terms of
a Fulton or a Hollaed, or as the In-
vention of any one natien. Sub-
marine origins are actual lost in
obscerity. It is even saidethat Alex-'
• ander the Great, who contemplated,
developing. a great sea -borne trade
and a huge mercantile marine, was
interested in. submarine invention.
, Men worked out plans for subaque-
ous attack upon vessels ih medieval
times, and M. Delpeuch records 'that
some English ships were actually
destroyed, -in 1372, by fire carried
under lwater. In the early part of
the .Seventeenth Century, Cornelius
1,,Drebbel exhibited to King James a
on the River. Thames, a submarine
boat of his own design, Which, one
may fairly presume, was intended for
the purpose of naval destruction.
loss than a hundred years later at
lea.st fourteen types of submarine.s
,had been patented- in England, and
at Plymouth, in 1774, an isventor
named Day wee conducting experi-
ments with hisf submarine boat • In
the following 'ear, David Bushnell
had ,complete‘s,'? itubmarine, with.
•which Sergeant:A-Lee attacked the
Bride& man-of-war Eagle in New
York herbor. Lemelainis to have got
under tthe ship with his boat, but
the attank failed because the screw
by which the torpedo was to b lat-
tached to the hull of the Englisla ves-
sel was not sharp enough. I is
needless to say that with Robert Ful-
ton the thought, of the submarine's
powers of destruction must have betel
peramount. He was living in Paris
"When he constructed his Nautilus;
the invention was brought to the
knowledge of Napoleon, • and the
power inherent within the new wea-
pon undoubtedly appealed to the
conqueror of Europe: To him the
possession of the new weapon would
appear as the solution of his great
problem, the detaruction of the Brit-
ish fleet, that one barrier which lay
between hire and sea power. He ap-
pointed a commission to test the
,
temmilmous INN
DANGER LURKS it
-EVERY ONE Of IS
'We Ari As - Full of Deadly
Poisons As A Genn
• LAPratorY,
AUTO- ItifiXIOATION.
SELF.;..POISONING
Absoh#ely Pre.
vents This Dangerous Condition.
The chief cause of poor health is
our neglect of the bowels. Waste
matter, instead oftpassing from the
lower intestiee regularlit every day,
is allowed to remain there, generating
poisons whieh are absorbed by the
blood.
In other words,. a person who is
habitually constipated, is poisoning
himself. We know now that Auto-
intox-ication, due to uon-action of the
bowels, . is directly responsible for
serious Kidney andBladder Troubles;
that it upsets the Stomach, causes
Indigestion, Loss of Appetite and
Sleeplessness; that chronic Rheum-
atism, Gout, Pain In The Mack, are
relieved as soon as the bowels become
regular; and that Pimples, Rashes,
Eczema and other Skin Affections
disappear when -"Fruit-a-tives" are
taken to correct Constipation.
"Fruit -a -fives" will prated you
against Auto- intoxicatien because
this wonderful frnit medicine acts
directly on all the elliebeating orgaps.
59c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c.
At all dealers or sent on receipt of
price by Fruit-a-tiv Limite d,Ottawa.
1
marina and it sees no finality to
the subt:,q,ueous weapon tn. to its dia-
bolical ingenuity. The coming of
peace among the nations may Wing
a change, We may forget the "U's-
ness of the boat and, by means of
International codes, remove the sub-,
Marine forever from among the fight-
ers of the sea. Developed along the
lines of peace, we ought, In time, to
have the diving leviathan of the
ocean; and even the ene-ntan sub-
marine, available to .the coMmon
citizen.
-.net I
CalllOttfiage Not New. '
'While camoulla.ge is new, as a
word applica to the deceptive devices
adopted to fool the enemy, it dates
back as a practice to Bible days. Gid-
eon, with 300 men, put to flight a,
force of 135,000 Midianites by pro-
viding each of his, small force with a
pitcher containing a light. According
to the prevailing ,leustoms of war in
those days, only the commander of
ae corps carried a light, so that when:
Gideon's men broke their pitchers
and displaYed their lights it is eosin'
to believe that the effect of the
cam.ouflage was quite stirtling. At
all events it worked, for he Mellen-
ites, thinking each light represented
a, eteltpany, fiedln dismay.
The artificial forest idea as de-
Veloped in the present war is of en-
chant origin. • In Shakespeare's "Mac-
beth" 'each man_ in the army of Mal -
maim carried a branch a a tree from
Birnam Wood when he approathed
MaebetWs hosts. It had been pre-
dicted that King Macbeth Would not
be in danger until Birnam Wood
moved towards his castle. When Mac-
beth . saw what he thought was the
forest approaching he became fright-
ened and lost the day.
Drawing It Fine. -
"Our janitor has things down to a
tine point."
".As -to how?"
"I never before ran across a. man
who could have One end of a radia-
tor hot and the other stoae cold."
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Building $ub Chasers
At Rate of One Per Day
Is Henry Ford's Record
t).feOoteietoo•eeaeeoeoeotoeettetetn'eeeaotaeneaertee
NE of the most extraordinary
efforts of the United States
in the war is the shipbuild-
ing program being carried
out by Henry Ford at Detroit. It is
too -Soon yet-to,say whether the Eagle
boat e which is building as sub-
marine -chasers will prove efficient,
for so far none of the boats is afloat.
However, as they are not being built
from Henry's own plans, and are in
no respect founded upon the famous
Oscar ship which he sent to Europe
for the purpose of "gettingtthe boys
out of the trenehes by C.nristmes,"
but, on the others hand, 'Kaye been'
designed by United States naval
authorities, there is event reason
that they Will do 'What they are in-
tended .td do. In this case Henry
Ford is now engaged upon the most
important and useful work of his
life. His land ffivvers will be forgot-
ten when his iliviera of the sea per-
petuate his raemery, and posterity
may forget his pacifist 'ravings and
recall his solid achievements in help-
ing the Allies to win the war.
Qtte would suppose that details re-
garding the new ships would be sup-
pressed by the censor, but since
Frank Parker Stockbridlte is permit -
HENRY FORD.
ted to tell the readers of The New
_York Timeepabout the chasers, there.
is no good reason. why the particu-
lars should not- be circulated in
Canada. The Eagle boat ts a tor-
pedo-boat destroyer withotit torpedo
tubes. It has fess engine power, and
consequently less speed than the de-
stroyers,, but it is fast enough to run -
down any submarine, is much
cheaper and can be built in a frac-
tion of the time. Itrhe Eagle boat is
a development of the "chaser," a
craft that was not thought of before
the war began. The original chaser
was evolved in England early in the
War, its bisiness being to- make the
waters near the British Isles un-
healthy for the U-boat. All kinds of
craft were pressed into service in
those days, pleasure yachts and
motor boats were . equipped with
guns, and, having superior speed to
the 'underwater craft, did -much
(teenage. The original chasers were
usually manned by volunteers, for
at that time the bunting of the sub-
marines was regarded as a sport, a
sort of deep sea Milling rather then
a most deadly and urgent business.
.Gradually. a special type was
evolved, a 85400t boat with a com-
paratively small Cruising radius,
good speed, with guns heavy enough,
to sent any submarine, and this
British chaser has probably' to ite
credit more sunk submarines than
any other craft that floats. When the
United States joined the Allies the
U-boats had become rather bigger
nd faster than in.. the> earlier days
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of the war, and consequently a more
powerful chaser was needed. The
Eagles, therefore, are longer than the
older'type, and correspondingly fast-
er and more powerful. The plans for
the American chasers were prepared
at Washington, :and Secretary Dan-
iels asked Mr. Ferd if he -could turn
them out and the motor man said
that he could. A contract for 200 of
the craft was thereupon signed, and
Ford agreed to fill- it in a year.
If he could have made the Eagle
boats In the same eland as he makes
his automobiles the task woulitt not
have been a trentendous one; but he
had to erect a new plant, buy of in-
vent new machinery, employ new
hands and generally launch upon an
enterprise as strange to him as would
be the manufacture of hair nett: Or
gas fixtures. .However; Ford and
the Ford organization proved equal
to the teak and in a few days a dozen
of the Eagles Will be afloat. In Aug-
ust it le calculated that one et them
a day will be turned out. There is
not a forging or a rolled beam or
shape in th,e whole ship. Everything
-keels, iloors, frames, beams ind
angles ---is pressed from sheet metal,
cold, by means of automatic machin-
ery thal euts every piece to an exact
pattern, punches the rivet holes, 30
or 40 at a, time, and bends every part
to its precise final shape. In other
words, Mr. Ford is building Eagle
.boats as one might build galvanized
iron garages. As Mr. Stockbridge
sa,ys: 'All that he asks is to have
a sufficient and continuous supply of
standardized steel sheets delivered at
hin back door, and the finished snips
can be turned out of tbe front 'door
as rapidly as the automatic machin-
ery can fabricate the raw steel 'Info
the necessary parts."
Government Tax.
In Italy a governinent tax -a. spe-
cial. 1 -cent stamp --must beaffixed
to all restaurant or cafe- bills aniounte
lug to more than 20 CentEtr
•
1.410. Morbid Broter.
A critic was condemning a novel
_te. the ground that it was morbid.
"Morbidness never pays," he said.
"It's always a mistake. Take mor -
!aid curiosity, for exainple. They who
indulge in morbid enriosity are apt
to find their worst fears realize&
"A broker who had married aewtfe
a good deal younger than himself
said to her morbidry one night:
"larling, what would you do, ff I
should die and leave you?'
"The young wife squeezed the old
fellow's hand.
'Leave me-er-hew ninth?' she
murmured.
A Warrior's Luck.
"What was the narrowest escape
you ever had?" the beaneiful girl
asked when she and the bronzed col-
onel were alone together.
"I don't suppoie you'll believe me
if I tell you," he replied.
"Of course I will. Why shouldn't
I? I'm dying to hear all about it.
Was it while you were stationed In
the Philippines?"
"No, it was just after I had gradu-
ated from West -Point. I- had an en-
gagement to elope with a lady, but
she -insisted on potetponing it on ac-
count of rain." .
Wanted: A Horse -maid.
A man who wanted a horse for
general use went to a dealer end ex-
plained that he. wished to buy a nice,
quiet, good-looking anim-al thit
mould be driven by his wife in a dog-
cart, and that would not object to
being hitched up to a lawn mower.
The dealer listened attentively,
and then asked:
"Would you like him to wait at
the table at all, sir?"
Busy With His Bugs.
Maid (to professor in study) --
Madam has returned frein her week's
h
trite set -
Professor -AM Remind me by and
by to give her ,a kiss.
Things 'Worth Knowing.
The post office has no special. de-
partment for handling letters mark-
ed "In Haste."
ACTIVMES OF WOMEN
Nearly all the public utilities in
England are being run by women, and
they have even invaded the police and
fire departments in many English
cities.
Miss Jeanette Rankin congresswo-
man from Montana, has announced her
candidacy for a seat in the -United
States senate to succeed Senator
Walsh. )
It it estimated' that there are 121
women between the ages of 20 and 44
in England to every 160 -awn, while
France has 124 weenen to every eleven
men.
tVIrs, J. A. Smits?better known as
My Yohe„, the actress, is now on her
way from South Africa to France,
where she , will serve in the British(
Red Cross.
, War experience in the employment
of women as bank clerks has convinced
British bankers that women are able
to keep business secrets quite as well
as men.
Mamie Schumscher, fifteen years old
a domestic in the home of a Saint 0
Louis physician, recently. transferred
fifteen tons of coal from the crub to t
the basement of the physician's home. p
The largest group of women in uni- T
form and forming part of the war ma-
chine are the army nurses, 10,000 of en
whoin are now prepared to carry their en
hospitals with thern to the field of
battle.
The electric freight trucks used by n
women. They work eight hours a day, G
and. are paid the same wages as men. , h
Afore than 500 girls have already
upplanted men in clerical positions
1St. Louis banks and are making gooa
in their new positions. The bankerk
claim they are more efficient Ulm
Innen clerks.
It In. the principal streets of Constant,
Ittlople and others cities, Armenian limn
Syrian girls are being sold as slaves
or a few dollars because their Turkish•
asters are no longers able to fee&
tthem.
CHINESE THRIVE (IN CHEAP '
FOODS
1 In these days, when the high test
of living in this country presses e
hea-vily on so many, the manner in
hich the Chinese manage to live se
eaply without an deteiment to their,
efficiencyDr15.ec
Go.nipe 8. ' salyirvoes ts terif,
a3Ot to le ra a lo fenvy
.
vv interesting account of the too -
Toronto gave The Star Weekly te
feed.
n nuical manner in. vehich the Chinese;
lie recently spent a year in Chinat
While there on a tour he was aP-
antinted medical examiner for the
Ftench C-overnrnent, his duties
, examine -Chinamen who, vohinteene
or the labor battalions which
dig such eterling service
th . Allies' lines in. France. -
a r battalions there. are something'
liiko 2d00„. ,000 Chinamen, it may be melte
Ii the course of his duties no fele.,
e than 18,000 Chinamen came be.
fore Dr. Sylvester for examinatitme
consequently he gained a very
siderable insight, from Shangliai to.
Pekin, into the Chinese physique, an,
the effect of the Chinese daeta
the reon. He arrived at the me
sion, that the ordinary Chinamen is
very iint type of man.
ma"nPyllYtitfealitYlie"mhe over 'sIixf°fuenedt very
heieht ;and. over 200 ennui& ii
'
weight. 'This was a great =swift.
to me,, tn. view of the size of tine
Cantonese, who come. from. the south.
of China, whom we see in Toronto
As a general rule, they were
muscular and strong, and wit
any superfluous flesh on them.
Itally. too' they are a fine type.
aandfirlioat-nell sdas,nimhoetIoinsrmiattarrwtoi 'entlodaaerrre.fulH_ eeraltail04,
the Chin man is properly trained
e to. the ..co.,.ncluslion, thah
*afcluiaestepktetnocadil fartner, and will
gr
more to he square inch than
other livin individeel. •
A man arming. 5 acres will en
be able raise a large family -
clothe an feed them. The aVerage.
Chirianien Owho farms a small holdine
in the rue I districts will eat dhier
rice and illet seed. Rice costs hint
but 3 een a pound -instead of the
15 cents so that it, costs in
onto -and millet seed is the same'
lparniedef whTihle thlaetterrice is
ss grown in<InnediTgue
tar water -b ds. Then the Chinese w.t;
a good dea of sweet potatoes, which,
are very ore luxuriant than. those,
we get fro California. They eat*
too, a cab ge called Shantung cab-
bage. abou a foot in diameter alg
about eig een inches long. These
cabbages a e like great watermelons --
and are ea en cut up into salads.
"The Ch. ese also eat tomettiea.
and onions. Bean oil is practically,
the only fa they use, and this they ,
pour over heir rice. They eat ette
little pork nd chicken as well ate
eggs. But hey are very abstemioutie'!
as regards q ntity in all their f
A. Chinama has learnt,* by experi-
ence. how any calories d. day his
body requir , and he seems able T4P.
adapt hirnser with exactitude to Vest
requirement.
"An ordin ry good wage for it
Chinaman is 30 cents a day, and Jur
will raise a amity on tha.t. A spar-
ing diet ee inly . does not imp -
his power to ork well. I have often
seen. one of hem put a ton of cod
in a wheel- rrow and wall: off teak
it The wheel of the barrow is about '
four feet in diameter, and he know*
how /to balan.te the Ioad to perfection.
I have no hesitation in saying that t
hannehoinniavrna5nolWinttshalidis,_focoadn, ocnostaattinw
regimen. do good a day's -work as' -
any tman cou d want to see or doe'd:
Asked whe her a Chinaman would' -
find, the diet which he is aecustomed
in his native 'land suitable to work
on in this coantry, Dr. Sylvester re-
plied that he had no doubt of it.
"Yon. Must remember,' he added,
"that it -:e very cold in Northern
China. I foulec pdainea,itdtah,caonpldeetr urlinvies Tealsvinsae;
1
, A
dime: omf°stthein Chic°nnnette•e-
Ion their teeth. Out ed.
n I examined, I did TIPt
imperfect teeth. 1 do-
t that is due to their'
Tsm, for exa
known it in
cold.
"What stru
tion with th
was its effect
the 18,0000 m
find ten with
not doubt th
diet However, they are _rn.uch both-
ered by trach a, which is a grenu-
ated and infl oiled condition of tile
eyellids. But it is the sand-stonns,
and. not eir dietary, which must be
held responsible for this The nuene,
r pigtail, ' now almost eradicated -
'"The Chine e Who volunteered for
he labor ba aliens in France are
aid $20 a Tin*. For four months,
sir.g-Tau we the headquarters of
ur recruitin canna This was for-
erly a Ge colony, and the Ger--
alas had spen an enormous sum on
ts fortification It is the best port
n the whole 0 China, and one ean-
ot conceive w it was that the
ermans were ever allowed to rot'
old of it,"
A
een
tope
a
the
tete
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fa.