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A, an , truckw imicatiding peacefullE Ong the second, Concession read of .i•nielcillentam_ uthip, near Sarnia, on a nits moonlightlitatt lust September, and the drivh-a, Aharmed by the twilight glamor- of the' scene, •looked with kindly tolerance and a feeling of humane kindliness to the sturdy figure of a tine buil Which stood solitary on the left side of the road a hundred feet or so ahead. ,A he eame close to the bull the driyer eery considerately turned to the right side of the road an as not to disturb t the bovine highway guardian's medi- tations. But the bull did not appreci- ate this consideration. • Seemingly he, wag of the .opinion that the truck should leave the road altogether. He flicked his tail three or four times, shot a few clods of road surface into the air by the simple expedient of .scooping them up with his front hoofs, lowered his head, snorted and charged, in high, at the truck which was •moving at a nate of twenty miles per hour. He struck it just above the left front wheel and's/ye/turned it in to the ditch. Then,he shot a few mere clods of tsarth into the air, bellowed once or twice, shook the dust of com- bat frosts his sturdy shouldeiis and set out leisurely and contentedly for his accustomed bed under a clump ' of spruce trees in an adjacent pasture. The driver completed his journey on foot. Subsequently the owner of the truck sued the owner of the bull, feeling that although he had come off second hest in the preliminary encounter he might do better in • a court of law. The judge found as follows: that the truck was travelling without lights; that the bull was on the road con- trary to law; that the bull had at- tacked the truek -without provoca- tion; that there was no lack of dili- gence on the part of the owner of the bull due to which the bull got on the road. 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Big- gest prospects for ten years. Hemphill's Auto Gas Tractor School, 163 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario. 2834-tf SMUTS TRIUMPHS IN SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS In crushing the Rand strike Gen- eral Smuts probably rendered South Africa the greatest service of his career, which has been rich in ser- vices. He seems to have destroyed, or at least to have rendered harmless for a generation to come, the move- ment to establish a South African Republic and the even more danger- ous movement to establish a South African Soviet Government. Both of these .movements were inherent in the Rand strike. If they were not clearly in the minds of the strikers, they were in the minds of those who directed them. That was proved when the strikertook the step that forced swift military action upon Premier Smuts. They called a gen- eral strike, after a mining strike had been dragging along for some months. As everybody knows, a general strike is not an economic weapon. It Is a political weapon. It aims to break down government, to maks. it impos- sibly for a government to function. It has failed in South Africa as it has failed whenever it has been re- sorted to, and ip British countries, that has been rarely. The original Rand trouble was two- fold. It concerned the desire of the coal mine owners to make a reduction in the wages paid miners, which had been Increased from 20 to 80 shillings a shift in the course of the war. The .mine owners proposed a reduction to 25 shillings. The trouble in the gold mines was not primarily one of wages, but of colored labor. For some time, the union conditions that regulate the labor in the gold .mines, provided that there should not be mere than eight negroes employed for each white man. The mine owners said that if this condition was to prevail, it would be necessary to close down twenty-two of the thirty-nine gold mines in the Transvaal. They pro- posed, therefore, that the ratio should be two whit men to twenty,. one negroes. It was to settle these issues that the miners of both gold and vial went on strike last January. The owners endeavored a' carry one with negro labor, but found this dif- ficult because the strikers were admir- ably organized, and were able success- fully to employ intimidation. Never- theless, the miners did not seem to be winning the strike and three weeks ago their alnion asked to meet the mine owners assotiation. The offer was refused, for the mine owners took the ground that they no longer recognized the con- federation. Then the suggestion was made that the workers should take a. vete te find if they- desired to con, - *atm ' the strike. Their leaders, however, refused to have the Matter 17-77irr"7-;‘, Quickly Relieved By Short Tireateecut WitleTRUIT-A,TIVV.F" 445 ,44-444 MADAM LALONDE 170 CHAMPLAIN St., NIONTItEAL,P.Q. "I am writing to tell you that / owe my life to "Fruit.a-tives". This' fruit medicine relieted me when I had given up all hope of recovering my health. "I suffered terribly from Kidney Trouble. Dyspepsia and Weakness. had these troubles for years and all the medicine I took did not do me any good. "/ Mad about "Fruit-a-tives" 6/4 I tried them. After I had taken a few boxes, I was entirely relieved. of the Kidney Trouble, and Dyspepsia, and had gained in strength. "I hope those who suffer with Kidney Trouble, Dyspepsia and Weakness will take "Fruit-a-tives" to recover their health". JEANNETTE LALONDE. 50e a box, for $2.60, trial size 25o. At dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- a-tives Limited, Ottawa. , 114; '44$ 4•04 4Ni• 4;k44. - • , iititgtg ` • 1,1,1. • .- '1,r1mth.111Pe141',!enet44114;i7''11'1;:hettelt:8.°;: 011i4:'• 1blow a -e .Soviet 'pbz 07:4044iirjthe.'Laborite3, than -at .'thea Seeesafonlet. principles t4 the Dutch.. ENGLI$H CHARACTER REVEAL.' ED AT ETON It is only on the surface that Shane Leslie's new novel is a record of Ettin life at the opening of the elleitury, of its pereonalitcles and its prkidiees, its flowing humors and its inhibitions, its foibles and its .aspirations. Funda- mentally, it is a rendering of that confused and eternally baffling phe- nomenon, the English character and mind—which we in America, says the New York Times, persistently mis- read. For more than Oxford or GMT, - bridge, more than the two combined, Eton is England. • Who can say whether this little England is free- dom- loving or hidebound in the snob- bery of aristocratic tradition ? Founded as an. institution for poor scholars, the boys "on the foundat- ion", properly called Collegers, were still, in the time of"The Oppidan," called "beastly tugs" by their well - to -d� fellows living in the town out- side. "Tug" is probably derived from the gown or toga whidh was the badge of the sdholars tribe. But the "beastly" was scarcely less approp- riate. For in point of fact the Colleger led a dogs life. Through long centuries the Head Master shame- lessly appropriated the funds of the foundation, living in luxurious state while his wretched charges suffered in morals, mind and body. As late as 1838 there wa4 not even water for them to bathe in; and when a deputation of the frowsy starve lings asked that -pipes be laid in, they were dismissed with the re- mark that they would be wanting gas and Turkey carpets next. The feet was, of course, that, being re- quired to be poor boys,' they came from the lower classes; in mariners and traditions they had little in common with the boys outside. In the time of which Mr. Leslie writes much 'had been done to rehabilitate them, but so great was their disre- pute that for an Oppidan to vie with them in scholarship, as the young hero of his novel did, was to be "sap" and in imminent danger of being, in effect, dis- classed. Yet among themselves ihese juvenile snobs brook no distinctions. Members of the royal family go through precisely the same course of "fagging" as the son of a wealthy tradesman. A certain lordling who presented his card when making purchases at the shops was hunted down by his house mates and kicked into the street as often as he was discovered in the act. The trades- man who told this story to an American inquirer had a heart of sympathy. Doubtless the shy slip of nobility found it easier to drop a pasteboalid than to speak his grand- iose title. Certainly the tradesman had a right to know to know the pro- per address of his customer. None the less the shoe leather of freeborn English schoolboys had a duty to per- form. At Oxford and Cambridge, nobility and royalty receive something of conventional deference; but at Eton they are confronted always in the spirit of Magna Gharta. Yet tradition is no less zealously guarded 'than the spirit of freedom. Mr. Leslie has an eye for detail: "Clothes are important at Eton. They have been built up by tradi- tion. The side pocket came in with pegtops, the top hat with the house of Hanover, overcoats with the severe Winter of 1865. * * * The first time Peter turned into New and Lingwood's to have his hat lashed by old Solomon, he learned that his narrow silk band artist in- stantly be replaced by a thick band of mourning for his late Majesty King George the Third." Old rules have to be positively lived down before they can be re- pealed. A century ago the river, which is the cradle of English boat, ing, lay "out of bounds." It re- quired decades of struggle, of actual rebellion, to win the right to be a "wet bob." Even then the rule was not formally honored in the breach. Prudence required that no 'master should risk being flouted by seeing the boys at ,practice; so the river was out of bounds for mas- ters, that was all. Sometimes it happened that on coming up to town the boys encountered a worthy whose duty it was, if ,he saw them to- punish them. The master then dodged into a shop ; or, no refuge being at hand, he turned abruptly -and led the flanneled procession, officially ignor- ant of the grinning troop at his heels. This lasted twenty years; it was not until 1840, when a boy was drowned, that th river was formally put in bounds. ' Here, manifestly we have a nati l+btle subjeot to the rule of readon. ot if vigor and stab- ility are of value ,in institutions there is still something to be said for it. We of to -day observe that England is the last of the great nations to stand by its ancient monarchy. But few have paused to reflect that it was the first to develop free institu- tions. Germany may again have an Emperor.; even Frapm. But not for one moment could either be both an empire and a democracy. Yet both forms appeal strongly to something deeply ingrained in European elates - ter and instinct; and in England kith still eontribete to the strength and the permanence of the national life. It is something of this sort that old Etonlans hone' in mind when they sing "Molest Biome 1111111 1111111 1111 thus reviewed and a couple of days later, with the co-operation of vari- ous trades 'unions, a general -strike was called. It was then that Smuts took action with kis soldiers and in a few days the strike was broken up and several hundred strikers were arrested. There was considerable bloodshed, and it was announced by the Prime Minister that ample evi- dence had been secured to prove that the organizers of the strike had aimed at a revolution. This was to have been expected for General Hertzog, leader of the Nationalist Party, said thatninety per rent.' of the people of South Africa prayed for the success of the strikers. His party has never ceas- ed to oppose the Union of South Africa with the British common- wealth of nations, but has denied that it would employ other than constitutional methods to bring about seceitiffit. The Labor Party however, has never disguised its Soviet leanings and there is suppos- ed to he a natural alliance between the Labor member and the Nation- alist menibers, for they form the op- position in the South African House of Assembly. It is only fair to say, however, that in 1920, the Laborites were in a position to beat the Gov- ernment if they had joined with the Mati000li.tv They refrained front doing so, and the Government was able to varrt- on with a majority of two. The election of 1921 produced a different situation, for in the mean- time, Smuts had united his South African party with the Unionists, which represented the Afrikanders of 'British descent and in the House had a following of seventy-nine, while the Nationalists had forty-five and the Laborites, ten. In the elec- tion, the Nationalists had gained but one, while the Laborites had lost eleven, a fact which may thave serv- ed to embitter the Laborites. The election enabled Smuts to deal with the Rantl crisis in commanding fashion. Had the strike occurred a year ago, it is possible that he might have been beaten in the House and • NEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE Interesting Letter From Woman in South Africa • Johannesburg, South Africa.—"I took Lydia. E Plnkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and because • I felt run down. I tried, a lot of medicines before I tried yours: One day I was standing on my stoop when a boy came up to me and handed me one of your little books. I read the book and the next day my husband went to the chemist's- and bought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound. I have taken the medicine ever since and I feel quite strong awl well now as I am on the laannirile.tolld Itater; vzittiyoutto rhye saix,,ttehr wonnorii 11 has done for me, and 1 atniin'tc willing for you to use my name as 1 can not thank you enough for what it has,done for me."—Mas. W. F RDATI, 128 6th Ave., Mayfair, Fordeshurg, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is this sort of praise of Lydia 15. Plaltham's Vegetable Compound, given by letter or Verbally, one Woman to anotherthat ought to cam - Mend this splendid medicine to you. Lydi ham' Ve ()ta E Pible Com- a E. ult s g pound is a medicine for women's ail- ments fin use neatly fifty years), saa the faet that it has helped Dion - sands of other'Wmuen, should cause "A dangerous woman," says a erit- rilti t tretv am be cal ,eXchange of Mrs. Aimuitii. You err • Mir welliplit*Inunt bet she's dangerous. 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