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Caps, • etc, Suits, all sizes 2.4. to 36—$4.50 to $10.00 Knickers, c 75c, to 4 0 0 • 0 4 •0 • 0 4 •0 0 4 0 4 •0 0 • •0 • 0 0 e c 4 0 4 4 0 4 0 i 0 4 0 • 0 Greig Clothing Co SEAFORTH 4 • c • 111111111111111111111111116, Fire Co.Ran The Great Fuel -Saving Stoves Cuts Fuel Bill in HaIf BURNS ANY KIND OF FUEL (Soft Coal, Hard Coal, Wood or Slack) THE GREATEST STOVE INVEN- TION OF THE AGE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT (Not built like other stoves) SAND SEALED JOINTS (Make Them Absolutely Air Tight) Better, Safer and more Economical than gas or electricity Ex ._..l a Nation Ask�a� �r, OVER 8000 SATISFIED .USERS IN CANADA Call and see this range, also The -Gurney Royal Oxford, McClary's Pandora, Moore's Treasure Range, Happy Thought, and Doherty's High Oven. Get our prices for furnaces. Agents for Canadian Air Warmer, Sunshine, Hecla and Gurney Furnaces. The Big Haraware -Store II, Edge - Seafort CAMOUFLAGED SHIPS BAFFLE SUBMARINES It seems to be generally admitted that the most useful machine invented since the present struggle commenc- ed is the tank, the product of British brains, and it is gratifying to our na- tional pride to reflect that the defen- sive weapon most effective against the submarine is also of British origin. This , is the camouflaged ship. The of an evening to sit on the lawn or Commander Norman Wilkinson, D.N. V.R., who is in general charge of the camouflage upon British merchant- men, and who not long ago visited the United States to help in the or- ganization of a camouflage depart- ment in connection with the American navy. Commander Wilkinson .had so sucessfully learned his art that he was homeward bound before the A- merican newspapers had any idea that he had been a visitor. He spoke lit- tle on any occasion, but his work has been a most important one, and it is conceded that the camouflaged ship has made the task of the German sub- marine not only more difficult, but more dangerous. It has been no in- considerable factor in lessening the menace from the U-boats. Mr: Wilkinson was a noted ma- rine artist long before the war, and had made ` a study of principles of optics that he was later to turn to account. At one time he admits that he held the belief that he thought it possible to increase or decrease a ship's visibility; but later on came to the conclusion that this was im- possible, for what might decrease a Whip's visibility in certain conditions would be apt to increase it in other conditions. Sea, sky, light and color, and the horizon present constantly changing conditions, and there would be also the tell tale smoke, So after many experiments the task of painting an invisible ship was aban- doned and what has been called "baffle painting" was adopted, This is, now the only`'method in use by the Allies4 In brief, the principle of baffle painting is that, while it is im- possible to make the ship invisible, it is possible, by means of violently contrasting colors applied in certain ways, to make some parts of the ship' practically . invisible, and to give the man at the periscope a much more difficult target. How the schemer sometimes works was told not long ago in the account of a fight between a camouflaged ship and a "submarine, the latter. being rammed and sunk. The com- mander om- mander of the submarine xne was de- ceived in as to the course the ship was taking, and instead of coming.- to the surface at `right angles to . the 'n`rt�• a vessel, appeared directIjr i -path arfd was•serit tothe bottom.;On some are painted on the sides, their bows pointing toward the vessels stern. If the wind were from the stern and the smoke blown forward the sub- marine commander at the distance of a mile or "'so might imagine that he saw a: small `vessel going, west in- stead of a large vessel going east, and his torpedo- would be discharged on this calculation. Some of the large ships are eo painted that at a distance they do not look like one vessel, but like a couple in two of a tug. In these circumstances it is ne- cessary for the submarines to conte dangerous close before perceiving, the size and course of the vessel, and this exposes them to gunfire. Moreover, what they take for a ca- �i. arth Fall Fair T � z rsday and Friday an Huron, Cow- ►ty's Most Popular' Show ecial Attractions Horse Races 2.30 l 'ace ....... Purse $75' 2.18 ,ace... ..............Purse $100 Foot . Races loo yards, oper), men so years or over ioo yards, open ...... ..... ... Quarter Mile, ripen Value ... • 4enderson Highland Band will provide mu, is and give a special performance of Highland' Friday afternoon on the dancin platform. and Irish Dancing on F y, � Seaforth Brass Band in attendance all day.. Children 1c5 2 Admission,: i5c Autos 25c Grand Concert bythe Alice Dunbar Company and Henderso.'s iligh- Band in Cardno's Hall, on Friday, e t. 20th, la a�� �.P 8 p.m. Reserved Seats 5oc. See programme later. D. -Fotheringham Pres. R. M. Jones M. Broderick Treas. ;Sec. there. Stories off:' her [ten and, brav- ery, ' n b' often. v - lids a lira a r '. e Y� .Haven't you atm e or other; eagerly scanned; for Small column -which said that suet and such a _draft had. arrived saf Iy' an England .or France.? YOU :gave asigh-'of re= lief as you realized lost your son, e or brother .had', thri " s ° * .secs Ped th iurderpus•Ilial . rt 'r - I wonder how many of ,the •.people, especially in grand old Huron ,Coun- ty, or shall I say Inland Canada, re- alize thework that:. it means to a small branch of the service whose duty it is to see that your boys are safely started en their journey "over. there." Let us drift away from the verandah for a while and peep behind the scenes of this deadly strife. It is four a.m.; the morning is cold and' wet and we are on a trawler somewhere on the Atlantic Coast. We have been laying in a basin for the night and the rest of the little fleet all dotted around. It ise still dark, but you can notice clouds of smoke rising from every funnel of this tire- less' little fleet, showii g, that the stok- mouflaged merchantmen may turn ers are busy down in the hold, where out to be a camouflaged destroyer. they have been since 3.30 a.m., getting In Great Britain and the United up steam for another d y's trawl or States hundreds of painters, from famous artists to the lowlier house ships. The real experts make the camouflage designs, prepare models, from which patterns are made, and these are sent out by the Govern- ments to the various shipyards and ports. They are then copied on the ships. The designs are frequently changed, for Hun agents have been able to make drawings of various camouflaged ships in neutral ports, and if a special were considered a special prize its description would be sent to all submarine command- ers, who would be on the look out for it. - Sometimes the work is done with great rapidity, and in one case an 8.000 -ton freighter was com- pletely camouflaged by a crew of 62 painters one Sunday in order that the vessel might sail on Monday morning. A camouflaged ship looks as though it were the design of some- body trying to burlesque the cabists . Great bands of bright colors Writhe over its side and continue to the up- per works. to the masts and smoke- stacks. There are great angular blotches of color interspersed. All the lines of the ship are lost or con- fused. It is said that centuries be- fore the Christian era the Greeks and Romans had ideas about cam- ; ouflaging their ships, and that some of the remarkable color effects they were able to seucre were done for ' purposes of protection and not merely for adornment as was at one time supposed. -Camouflaged ships have been sunk, of course, but their sinkings are few compared with ships 'not protected. It has been found also that camouflaged ships that have been struck in a great number of cases have been able to make port. This is because the submarine marksmen have not been able to place their explosives in vital spots. THE SILENT SERVICE The following exoellent letter is from Robert Reid, second son of Mr. and Mrs. William Reid, of town, who enlisted in the Royal_ Navy and who has been on duty at Halifax for some months :- Halifax, August 2, 1918 How nice it iv these fine summer mornings to sit at the breakfast table and read your letters and paper or of an evening to sit on teh lawn or verandah and read the latest war news and stories of our lads over sweep. At 4.30 all han are called and have a hot cup o cocoa. An order from the bridge a d we weigh anchor, haul up the flag and then full speed for the open sea. At daybreak the rain is ceasing, but the wind is • coming up and our little fleet stret- ched out in a -long straight line, be- gins to roll and :pitch over the rising sea. At 6 o'clock our watches are changed and we see the hot firemen coming up on deck for a breath of fresh air and a dripk of cold water. A seaman is just'going to the wheel- house to relieve his man at the wheel, and the others on deck are preparing the necessary tackle to "hook up" our trawler to our partner for we are go- ing mine -sweeping and at this work the boats have to "pair togther." Soon everything is ready and we slacken our speed to allow our partner to come alongside. A few sharp or- ders from the bridge; lines and wires are passed from boat to boat, steam winches. grind, ' everything is ' -made fast and we arehooked up 'for our day's work. The two boats now gradualy steam apart until we get our station. We now have time to look around and notice that all the other boats have done the same—forming a long straight line, which was the or- der when we steamed out to sea. We are now all in orderly pairs, the boats of each pair, a certain distance apart and each pair a certain distance be- hind each other. A pretty manoeuvre, but done in deadly earnest. You will also notice that every boat has its gun uncovered and ready for action, for we must be ready for any emer- gency. The fleet is now in formation and ready fer sweeping. But there are decks to scrub down and ropes to make up before breakfast which is generally about eight o'clock; after which the decks have to be washed and ashes hauled up . from the stoke - hold. With two hour tricks at the wheel these duties carry us until noon then dinner and preparations to un- hook, for, by this time we have swept all over our ground, going one way and returning another until the offi- cer in charge of the fleet is satisfied that everything is safe for another day. And only for a day, for the ground and channels rfiust be swept clear and safe all the time. Even then when a bunch of the boys are seedy to sail we double sweep ahead of them, that they may have every possible chance of safety. Perhaps we are nearly through with the day's sweep and a earl comes from a stranded steamer for assistance. MN. STAY FDR, STH; a F .3 v1c CARDNO'S OPERA HALL Fair Night after the Concert ORCHESTRA ;MUSIC °Gentleman '50c Proceeds in aid of poldiers' Aid Commission A. D. Sutllerland, Secy may be)—Silent Service, and a few words in conclusion and I write them in all cincerity, that the sailor boys here of the Silent Service appreciate immensely the worl4 of the Navy League and just pass this message on to the people at home from the. boys of the "heaving deck." Please don't forget the letters and parcels. Yours truly, ROBERT REID, R.N.C.V.R. Trawler NEW SUGAR REGULATIONS New regulations governing- the use of sugar in public eating places and by manufacturers have been announc- ed by the Canada Food Board and are embodied in an order which has just been signed by the chairman, Henry R. Thomson. The new restrictions, which, with 1 the exceptions specifically noted be- low, are most effective, prohibit the use of more than two pounds -of sugar for every 90 meals served in public eating places, except izt the case of soda fountains or ice cream parlors. The use of sugar in the latter establishments is already un- der regulation, and, in addition, af- ter September 30, such establishments will not be perrnitted to use more than 25 per cent, of the average monthly amount of sugar used - during the year 1917. Manufacturers of - biscuits, fruit - cake, pound cake, layer cake, wine cake, sponge ori any like product, must not use more than 40 pounds of sugar to 100 pounds of flour, and of this amount 50 per .cent. must be yellow or brown sugar! In the manufacture of sweet -dough pro- ducts and pastry only eight pounds of sugar (half of which must be yelolw or brown) may legally be used to 100 pounds of flour. Not more than forty per cent. of sugar may be used in the manufacture of cocoanut macaroons or fancy - al- mond macaroons. Not more than 10 pounds of sugar may be used to 60 pounds of marshmallow:. In the manufactuer of bread and bread rolls only one-half pound of sugar may be used to 100 pounds of flour, and all of this amount must be yel- low or brown sugar. Manufacturers of candy, chocolate, solid chocolate products, cocoa, co- ated cocoanut or tobacco, are limit- ed to-. 50 per cent. of their monthly Consumption. during rang the year 191.7. Wanufacturers of table syrtiK compounded honey, maple butter and. maple syrup,compounds, or. such products, nst°"not -use more than 50 per eent.of their average month- ly o th-ly ° consumption of sugar for the year 1917; and, one-half of :this quantity` m ; e x r u3 Abe � tt P Manufactilrers of srmaceutical must not use more than,'75 per cent, of their average monthly corisum. p- tion of sugar in 1917. Manufacturers of beer,, ales, soft. drinks, fountain fruits, fruit syrups,. desserts or jelly powders or marsh- mallow powders, after September 30, must not ues more ,,than 50 per cent. of the average monthly amount of sugar used by them during the year 1917. The amount of sugar which may be used in the manufacture of ice cream 'has been reduced to a maximum of 510- pounds of cane sugar to eight gal- lons of ice cream,j- The use of sugar in the manufacture of soap is prohibited. Certificates for ' the purchase of sugar for use in the manufacture of products mentioned in the order will be issued on the basis of the percen- tage allowed and suppleinentary cer- tificates will be issued for sugar for the manufacture of bakery products within the conditions of • the or- der on proof of increased output. Public eating places are required to keep a reocrd of all meals served, and if their allotment of sugar does not equal two pounds per 90 meals served, licensee may make written application for a further allotment. A record must also be kept of the quantity of fruit preserved and the amount of sugar so used in public- eating places. Then out we go again to clo our best. Another day or night it may be patrol work. Sometimes. there is gun prat- tice in the afternoon When the whole shin's crew have to be on the juml.,1 for the seamen man the gun, the oilers and' stewards rig up the fire hose and stand, by the pumps. If not unhooked the trawlers; steam into single line again and steam for home generally arriving about two p.m.. But best of all, the :mail conies a- board and all crowd around for their letters and iiarcels. Oh, that is a hap- py moment for the sailor boys—let- ters, parcels, snap -shots. See the smiles on the faces of the lucky ones and sad disappointment on the faces of the others: Yet there is a hope and longing 'for better luck to -mor- row. Certain days our boat is duty boat and no-one is allowed ashore and. everything `is, kept in readiness to proceed to sea at a moment's notice., Of course the boys have amusements if they stay aboard and you can bet that one of them is sparring and we -have a Victrola given to us by the, Daugthers of the Empire too. If yon are off duty you first shave, then wash and dress and Ahoy, ho! for the lib+ erty boat and terra firma again. This, is the routine every day for 'seven days a week. rain or shine, for remise ber the boys are going and coming ab the time. This is a pat these sailor boys aril doing for youlr soli (or brother as= it Sailois'. X1'eek Sept ist to 8th under the auspices of the Seaforth Branch, Navy_ League DR. ALFRED , HALL of Toronto I will give addresses 9n the Navy and Merchant Marine in CARDNO'S OPER. ' ?iLL, ONI FRIDAY EVE'G, SEP r 4I,BER f th at 8 p.m a. Vocal and Instrumental Music Admission Free. F. Holmested, K. C. Mrs. A. A. McLennan'" A, A. Naylor b Chairman Treasu>er Secretary 4111.CANADA —Sir Edward Kemp, Bishop Fallon and Sir Clifford Sifton have sailed for Canada. —The black quarter, a fatal disease among cattle, has been found in South Yarmouth, near Yarmouth Centre, and fifteen head of young stock, belonging to several farmer have died and others are affected. f Russ, of Russ Corners, lost seven and Mr. Wingham lost three. The out- break has been controlled and the young cattle on about 20 farms have been vaccinated. —William Wecker, superintendent of the Chatham munitions plant, charged with being a German sym- pathizer and failing to have proper 'papers as provided by the M; S. A., was remanded in Police Court until Friday for trial. It is charged on the information that Wecker said: "I am a German and proud of it. I would sooner have Germans work for me than these d— Englishmen." Wecker denies he ever made the statement attributed to him. His employers have engaged counsel. —Under a new order issued through the Toronto Military headquarters, cheesemakers and creamery operators have been placed in practically the sante position as farmers regarding leave of absence. The order is as fol- lows: Expert and duly qualified cheesemakers and creamery operators who are actually in charge of cheese factories and creameries at the time of being called up for service and whose services are absolutely essential to the factories and creameries con- cerned may be granted leave to re- turn to their factories until November I, 1918, on production of a certificate from the district agricultural repres- entative that such cheesemakers and creamery , operators are esserstet to local industry, —In the way of a general appeal to the motoring public to conserve the supply of gasoline, the bulk of the big gasoline filling stations in Toronto, willfbe closed on Sundays in the future, and an attempt is to be made to discourage Sunday motoring. This is following out the call for gas- oline _ conservation in: the United States„ which has been under way for some weeks past, and which has resulted in a marked decrease of Sun- day motoring. In Detroit, one of the largest motoring centres of the States where there are something like 85,- 000 5,000 cars, it is stated that last Sunday there were no more than 5,000 cars in operation, and it is hoped that a similar spirit of conservation will be displayed by the local motorists. —The county police have been re- quested to investigate what appears to be a deliberate attempt on the. part of some person to poison the poultry of Mrs. John Bagnall, of Dover twnship. According to High Constable Peters, Mrs. Bagnall went to the farm yard and found ler flock of geese and ducks, valued at a con- siderable sum lying dead on the ground. She was unable to arrive at any conclusion as to what might have caused their death when she not- iced her cat drinking from 'a large dish of feed placed for the geiese. Af- ter taking a few sips at the sed t'ae cat gave a violent scream and dead. The doctor found =et birds had been poisoned by s dropped at the? ryche, William F. Morton, swftchmam in the Windsor yards of the Michigan Central Railway, was arrested on Sat- urday charged with the theft; of two cases of whisky from a bonded freight car. Morton is the seventh fsnar_ to be arrested in connection with (a series of wholesale thefts of liquor from cars. The authorities suspected Mor- ton to. be a member of gang, which it is claimed, has been operating for several .months, during' which time something like $45,000 worth of liquor has turned up missing. According toy the detective, Morton's arrest imas the result of information given by John F. Shultz, a former employee of the Michigan Central, now in jail( await- ing sentence on one count andl facing trial on a second charge of Stealing a large quantity of liquor. ?Robert Q'Brien, of Detroit, also employed in the railway yards, was in polio court en Saturday for sentence on a charge of stealing thirty cases of whisky but the . case was remanded by agis- trate Miers until Tuesday. , `Robert McLeod, of Windsor, and_ WalterPastorious, a Walkerville fire- man,. re- man put a quart of whisky, to the wrong use and as a result both.landed in Windsor police court on Satnrdaya M¥Leo i procured the whiskyOn a physician's prescription for his aged grandmotht�r•,. .14t10t .:he . th sick as a.� used externallyby Laaid.e `w t be a relative. S,Instead .McLeod and Pas+ e. in- : e on le to rters George Guinott, a Windsor city, fire- man and driver of the police patrol, received a blow in the face which frac- tured his jaw in three places. Guin- ott says Pastorious struck hint i- Ac- cording. to the police, a third fireman, owner of an automobile in which? Mc- Leod and Pastorious were driving on Campbell avenue, was in the party, but had previously been deserted in the country. McLeod, was fined $50 or three months in jail for being drunk. and disorderly. erly. Pastorious was remanded by Magistrate Miers on -a charge of assaulting and wound- ing. —Battered and broken by hundreds of tons of clay that crashed down upon it from the cut the great Bu- cyrus shovel in the northern end of the Hydro Canal ,nutting near the whirlpool, at Niagara Falls, is out of commission for some time to come. The .avalanche came down from the face of :the cut and from the left bank. The great machine was driv- en backward about 20 feet, broken loose, and partly dismounted front the truck on which it travels.' The backawrd movement saved it from being hurled and more seriously dam- aged. Several workmen had a very narrow escape. The lrooxr of the shovel was torn off, thrown to one side and badly broken in two places. The rain, the day previous was probably, the cause of the slide. The cutting - is about 90 feet' deep and the stratum exposed is mostly of a quicksand char- acter. AboVre is a great bed of red clay, and at the surface several feet of top soil. It will be a difficult piece of work to dig the huge shovel out of the dirt surrounding it. A revolt'- ing lcomotive crane was brought up from Queenston, to assist in the Work —Fire, thought to have started -from defective wiring, broke out in the basefnent of the Yonge st. !Arcade, Toronto, at 1 o'clock' on Sunday after- noon, resulting in a loss of over $20,- 000. The blaze brke out under the Scotland Woolen Mills Company's store and burned all the joists holding up the cement flooring . of .the walk through the arcade from Yonge to Victoria street. The fire was one of the most stubborn that the fire fight- ers have had to handle for a long time, Dense clouds of smoke choked the men and they were forced to re- tire. " One fireman was overcome by smoke and bruised when he fell front a ladder. Lieut, David Leslie ran a large spike in his foot. The Bell Tel- ephone Company has a trunk line running under the arcade walk, from which 1800 telephones on the inaia exchange are connected. These Wires were burned, crippling the service, with a loss placed at $10,000 by the company. Four hundred tons of soft coal were stored in the cellar and the smouldering fumes frown, it hindered the firemen from fighting their way to the front of the building. The premises are owned by the Sterling Trusts Corporation, whose loss will reach $8,000. Tamblyn's drug. store had stock damaged by water, as did. the United Cigar Store, Alive Bollard, Scotland Woolen Mills Company, and the National Typewriter Company. a cions usedit xntorna.lIy, be toxicated and were arrested la Friday night. During a strugg bring the pair to police headq