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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-01-10, Page 6PP' 1 tomannarsonno•M eteetiatip4; eea"' CANADA'S PiPla LOSS 'alue lanterne.t.a Iteze wt. caltarla le a aubject upon wiliest most people are indtiforent, it is seldom, indeed, that we hear weed() tU1 about tile fire 1 *.e.• 11:,,oult.o.. A ate tneura Aire i- en a it; liArdly e.A.,=3derthi .A.th 116 yet tton.,:-..!ztii, of of property it Mime,' tee at the; tete te, ere rear, tval Klailtnn /i0.1.1:1 a large atora,• lova tilt, bUt Li.. melee asteara at invitee et .1: year, I ireu• be lookeil upou. av Itnavoidaale. Our laws are lament. ebb, lax in dealiug with firea, and the fire Insurance companies seem to be %dating to put up with the prceent eneansfeeture etate of alfairs. Dee•smbera Conservation Mlle us that Cen,ade's fire lose in 1916 was S20,400,000, and that it will be grate: this year. So vast le the amount tbat It is Liar& to realize ita significance when Mated in meee figures. But L. makes a enmparativa etatement for vor considoration. It 'the C'enadian (lovernmoit pity') $2,000,000 a :north in :......paratton al. tswances to ooldierb' wives and de, pendents. The Canada:al people burn property valued at $2,250,000 a month. Canada's annual fire waste is suffi- cIent•to pay 5 per cent. interest on all the war loanfloated in Canada and Provide a slaking fend large enougli a„ to cancel the total indebtedness in thirty years. Ono year's fire loss in Canada would purehaeo 12,000,000 bushels of wheat ler our allies. The value of grain and other agri- cultural produre burned in Canada in 1916 was equal to the al,erage annual t.roduction of 1.500 Miadred-acre farms. Canada's tir..A Ity:,sin 11 would have orovidod 3,:::et)r e or 2r, 000 900 Mtn). in thei trenches for 'imolai:le guns or maintained over 20,. These fade should mak.; the, dullest ofi realin 'hat V.:13re is Soniething wrong wben OUr.th 10 ,an go on con• tinually. It is different in Europe, where tho fir? loss is reduced to a minimum. Some day somebody will arise in Canada and put a stop to this vcsatlisious wash). 7: 7 GERMANY Aro. PUCE V, hen Laza Boehm:afield eame hac:t tram Lie poses confenme ar.Bedin o told the Britisn people that no t.reught with him "peace with honor." (‘ hat Germany is lookingfor at pre- sent rs peace with the simile she has eiready captured. sbo wants a peace Lased upon aer ocempation of Bel - Liana Prance, Italy and the other ceuntries that she has overrun. She wants peace as a victor, and because the Allies will not accept such a peace she declares the blood be upon their t oracle tor further slaughter, while she poeee tore the World a much in- jared ccturatry.• In her negotiations With the Bolseevikis er Russia, she a 0- theugat of relinquishing any cf tie adtantages which the war has given her. It will ee her business to make promises and to insist that she, end not the Allies, is the friend ot tne Russian people. Russia Is honey- or:ant/cid by Germans who are spread- ing this doctrine among the people end at the stone time preaching peace, earl it is peace that the Russians long tor. And here is where the danger ties, end bele is where the question of the deity of the Allied Powers come ta. If las tatilueneeets brought to heal. ao -ripen the Russians to counteract the influenee ref 1.1•,;.t Carl= !a prom! v.rtikt, there ie nn knouite wlett earl. ea e palea lY b figr,?.A n. Ti'Ve 13 a pflity thut the EAsheviki repr,t- s,.u.,,t:“...; may nut only Ocimony tf,ild Poland and what - eve: 61t.o she vs;:utg to 1131d. but thitt Vlay r,111 11".0.•ate all the tiern..tii r?l!Arinei have alr,:ady ("a4)11 c. It is rare tb,la. they ntay i-lven agree t vte.t fir an allituAei, with q1.71,1; in tho IA., of the A.1.. Log. . -1.ct rto.• 1 la. the eassibilite Otero. 'the r nited 'night take tart 1 Wee 11 tr.a.t:r.,;"4 l'Ind tit I-tre3 %et, tit:. Rut:Wens. 9. fp ,g14 ').• thlk. ti. •L;F"' t" r;41.• ,; ,r1.1;;" ti%e a it voulti br... Algrtivi ,•et V,' Are I • • • ts on ,-'1".it,••1 'N.! t t"..9 tn mit! gael; eriee. fallints entuptetele tee leale ea see )4010beeilai toot: t be whal,v pi !It 1.a* Isliate'vrx the:. 1,1 fall•i, ee,er,...plieF, `7,orrO,U1r3:1F; Mreet, .4;;A: if :I. et, eto- r•i' Iliej .'• .,10.1•• 'seer .,poirr 1110104! 11P4 hiN V,911111014. SOW'S Of Vegetrible Plant& Seeds may be saved from the beet 'vegetable venting. Lettuee and rat- gu tcs if p1rinitV4d to sp. coril ....II be loft "en ciul to1)131.n.‘. -eh. mat ; ;1.ii apt tir ecy ai47,tt, ac.4.1f the, vitt! no 11'," irt at q. allhtt ,-.2' , '01..17J Win Lityp7v for now A , • , "n ; t 1 .1 t A."11 Ai. r,,; •..! it 1 LI.: .1. tee aeaalee ea° aoilove J1IO is Vitt ill tho bookabout if. ?Dr' • -= e -InnowNon no▪ .Onn•no,".."..".11 "1 ant only thinking of you," elle sal& "I'll be there." Z, batter plates for a tryct coital haee bt'n fauna. No oue ever lied any Oecafilea to Ilse the beta trail, end it teat; aetisiala for he whole length to travelere on tae main road. After la. selna teem tiu woot13 of tirier's Point it cro9.;at n wnle teat among clumps of w11low:3, and climbing over tile taper of a attestei hill, dreemed in 13eattioe3 back yard. They met halt -way acmes the flat in the tender dusk. The tamy ligat took away ten years of her age, anti Sam experienced aleicat a bona fide thrill of romance at the sight of her slender rime swaying over the meadow to- ward him. In his gratitede for her kindnees he really deeired to feel more 'warmly 'to- ward her, vele& le a perilous etate of mind for a yt.u.ng man to be in. He spread it:Li coat for her to sit on, and dropped 'beside her in the grass. "Smoke your pipe." she said. "It's more cozy." He obeyed. "I it i :tad a cigarette myeelf," sho eddrel wa a a giggle." "Do von coke.?" aeked Sam, sur - plated. "No,' oho cenfecsed; "but ale the glees do, noNadays." "I don't like it," said Sam, bluntly. "Of course I was only jot& .„" she returned, hastily, Their ,coneereation was not very ro- mantic. Sam, with the beet intentions in the world, aomehow frustrated her attempts in this direction. He wae prepped up on one elbow beside her. "How thick and • bright your hair is!" else murmured. "You've got eome hair yourself." returned Sam politely. She quickly put toth hands up. "Ah! don't look at it. A hair -dresser spoiled it, As a child it hung below my waist." Sam, not kuowing exactly what to say to thie, blew a cloud of smite. "What a perfeet night!" she breathed. "Great!" said Sam. "That near - horse of mine, Sambo, picked up a mtone oa the Deeelt tills morning, I disco*.er wtiat was makiffg him lame until we weer half -way round the bay. I wish I knew more about homes. I pick up all I can, but you never can tell when ths:ie fellei:•is are giving it to You straight." "It's a shame the way they plague you!" she exclaimed warmly. "Oh, its nothing, now," replied Sam. "I can atand anything now that I've got a man'e job. I a make good yet. I think I can Gee a difference al- ready. I think about it day and night It's my dream. I mean, making good with these fellowe. It isn't that I care so much about them either. But after what's happened. I've got to make them respect me!" And so on, in entire innocence. Sam waa aware of no feelitage toward her save gratitude and friendlinaza. Nevee- theleas, it would not have been the first time it happened, it 'awe 'safe and simple feelings had suddenly land- ed him in an inextricable coil. Men are babies in each matters. But nothing happened this night. Sam walked back with he to the foot Of the hill, and they pa 'ed without touching hands. "Sha'n't I see you through the wood?" he asked. a She shook her bead. "Some one might zee from the house. There's plenty of light yet. To -morrow night at theaame timer' "All right," said Sam. She stood watching until he dieapa peered among the willows, then turned to mount the shallow hill. Down among the trunke of the big pines it was gloomier than she had expected. The patchee of bright elcy eeemad im- measura;bly far overhead. The wood was full of whinpers. She began to be sorry, that she had let 'him go ao soon. and hastened her steps. Suddenly, as she neared the top of the hill, a human figure materialized in the trail before her. She was too much startled to scream. She Mapped, petrified with terror, atruggling to draw her breath. Its shadowy face was turned toward her, It was a very crea- air of night, still and voiceless. It blocked the way she had to pass. Her limbs shook under her, and a low moan of tertar (Soaped her breaet. Finding a little strength at last, rale , made a dart among the trees so that she could encircle the apparitlou. "Step!" it commanded. Miser Mackall fell half fainting against a trce. The figure came closer to hor, and sbe eaw that it was a woman. A hor• Kitts prescience of what was coming still further demoralized her. Women do not require explanations in Words. Mae "Weaken recognized the adven- turess of Musquasepi, and knew what she had come for. She sought to tem- porize. "What do you want?" she faltered. "I want kill you," said Bela, eoftly. "My finger is hungry for the trigger." She Moved slightly, and a spot of light caught the barrel of the rifle over , her arm. Mese Medicall moaned again. "What dld I ever do to you?" she wailed. "You know," replied Bela. grlmly.' "You tried tak' my man." "How r -ridiculous!" stuttered Miss blacken. "He isn't yours." "Maybe," returned Bela. "Not yet, • But no otair woman goin' get him from me." "It isn't thy fault if he wants me." 1= "Went you!" cried Bela scornfully., "An old woman! You try catch him lak he is fish!" l‘Io.elt.ell broke WO a 1.0w, .10,- 1:44“.1.%ei weeping. "gulf kaid Bela, "Listen to w'at 1 erey," "Let me go! Let me go!" Wept the Other woman.. "I'll *cream!" • "No, you won't," said Bela co011y. 'You not want Gilbert Beattie "know 1 Pou tun out at eight." "1 won't be murdered in cold blood! I won't! I won't!" "Shut up!" said Bela. '11 not goal' kill you Ns' yet. Not if yeti do what want," 3,88 Maakeel etopped Weeping. "hat do :you want?" she asked eag- erly. "You get go 'way from here," said Bela cooly. "What do you mean?" "Bishop I.ajeunease goin' back deem lake day after to -morrow. If you hero after he gone I kill you. A little tteearance began to return to Miss Machell, .4.eor all, it, esee uot a supernatural, but a human. manly With abota ohe had to deal. "Are you crazy?" she &mend With quavering (nettle:. "Yet," replied Beta Weide. "..othey 00,." "Oh!" sneered Mliti areakall. !OW a ,2 • •eeet you Mutt I shall pay any attention to your threats. I Imste .Dula to speak a word to my brother-in-law and you will be arrested." "They got catch me first," gala Bela. "No white man can follow me in the bush. I go where I want, Always 1 will follow you -wit' my gun." The white woman's voice broke again. "If anything happened to me, 3'ottal be tried and hung for murder!" " 'What do crazy woman care for that?" askel Bela. Miss aleickall eommenced to weep again. Bela suddenly etepred aside, "Run home!" she seed contelaPtuellelaa "Better pack your trunk." Miss •Mackall's legs suddenly recov- ered their function, aud she sped up the trail liko a released arrow. Never In her life had she run so fast. She fell into, her room panting and trem- bling, and offered up a little prayer of thankfulness for the security of Lour walls and a locked door, Next morning she was uaable to get up in time to see Sam paes. She aP- peered at the dinner table pate and ehalty, and pleaded a headache in ex- plareation. "During the meal she lecl the cons ersation by ' a roundabout course to the subject of Indians. "Do they ever go crazy?" she asked Gilbert Beattie, with an offhand air, 'es, indeed,' he answered. "dt's one of the commonest troubles we have to deal with. They're fanatics by nature, anyway, and it doesn't take much to turn the scale. Weh-ti- go is their word for insanity. Among tho people around the lake there is an extraordinary superstition, which the priests have not been able to era- dicate in two hundred years. The In- dians say of an insane man. that his brain is frozen. And they believe in their hearts that the only way to melt It is by drinking human .blood - a i woman's or a child's by preference. That is the real explanation of many an obscure tragedy up here.' • oleiss elackall shuddered and ate no m Late that afternoon she managed to drag herself down to the road, She waited for Sam at the entrance to a patch of wood- a little 'Ivey toward . the French outfit. 1 "What's the matter?' he exclaimed at the sight of her. "Ali, don't look at me!" she said unhappily. "I've had an awful night. Sick headache. I just wanted to tell you not to come to -night," ntel rght," said Sam. "To -morrow ; night?" 1 She shook her head. "I -I don't think I'll come any more. I don't think it's right." "Just as you say," said Sam. "If you feel all right to -morrow after- noon, you might get a horse and ride around the bay.' i "I -I'm afraid to ride alone," sho ' , 1 faltered. "Well," said Sam, ever quick to take offense, "if you don't want to see, me again, of course-" "I do! I do!" she cried. "I've got to have a talk with you. I don't anew what to do!" - "Very well," he said stoutly, "I'll come up to the house to -morrow night. I gess there's no reason why I shouldn't." "Yes, that is best" she agreed. "Drive on now."' Sam clucked to his team, aad they started briskly down the trail WLerd, she looks about seventy!" he was thinking. Miss Mackall stood watch- ing until they rounded the first bend. When she turned aroundlliere stood Bela beside a big tree a few feet to the side IA the road. Evedently she had been hidden in the underbusb. behind: Miss Meehan gasped in piteous terror and stood rooted to the epot. • Bela's face was as relentless as a high priestess's. "I listen if you go- . in' tell him 'bout me," she said. "If you tell bim, IL ready to shoot." The ;Other woman was speecbless. "You not goin' be here to -morrow night," Bela went on quietly."13ishop ' Lajeunesse leave to -morrow morn- ing." Miss Mar:kali turned and flew up the trail. The trader's house was built bun- 'gaiow style, all the rooms on a floor. Miss efackall's room was at the back of the house, her window facing the end of the back trail, where it issued from the woods, The nights were now mild and fragrant, and doors and windows stood wide. Locks are ne- ver used north of the landing. Or if they are, ale key hangs hespitably within reach. Miss Mackall, however, insisted on locking the doors and securing her window. There were no blinds, and she hung a petticoat inside the glass. Laughing at her old-maidish precau- 1 tions, they let her have her way. As a further safeguard against nervoas- ness during the night, she had one .of her nieees to bed with her. There was no sleep for her. - In every little stir and breeth she heard the footfall of her enemy. Site was tormented by the suspicion that there was something lurking outside her window. She regretted leaving the petticoat UP, for it prevented her see- ing outside, She brooded on it until she felt as if sho would go out of her mind. if she were not reassured, Finally she mustered up suffiecint cottrage to get out of bed aud creep to the window. Holding her breath, she gathered the pettieoat in her hated and smartly jerked it down. She found herself look.ng into the face of the uative girl, who was peering through the glass. 'There was a little light in the sky behind her. Bela sprang back, aria Miss Mackall eaw the gun -barrel. She uttered a taercing scream and fell fainting to the floor. The whole family rushed to her aid. Hysterics succeeded. They could Make nothing of her wild cries. When she recovered she Was MUM. In the morning Gilbert Beattie Med Ms wife diecussed it soberly,"Nervette' said the mote "We'd best let her go out evith the bishop, as She wants. Thie is no country for her. We Might . not get allOther chance this year to send her out with a proper escort," "it's too bad:" sighed his wife, "I thought she svould Matte such a good wife for one of the new men that are eomittg, in now. They need wives so badly!' "Haell" mid Gilbert. Gilbert Beattie, driving home by way ef the French outfit, after having seen his elatet1n-loev embark, found ;het (Mother party ot settlers had ar- rived. Malty of the natives, attracted 1 by news af these tweets. had alto 00010 in, arid the settletneat preetentel a Acelle et aetivity mu eh a* It had never known. . I nil eid allIIIIIIrlemeelemareeleeleillesillellPseaselaelleelsrelessweweasee s • It gave the trader Much food for thought. clearly the old. order was rasing faSt,ead it behooved an enter - leaning Merchant to adatet hantieli! te Ike new, i3eattie was no longer a yvitug Man, and he felt an Mama anxiety for the future. Would lie be able to Maintain his supremaeY? When he reached hie awn store he found a handsome native girl waitng biet could not place her. He asked hor ie sieehi.nt Ito had seen her before, nun e, "Bela Charley," she answered. "V -ho!" he said, looking at her with a fresh curiosity, "You the she, eh?" Whatever they might be ea,ying about thie girl, lie Commended the calm, self- reepectiug air wita mecit isho bare his scrutiny. "Do you want to trader' he milted. "One of the olorks Will wait on you." She shoole her head, "Want see you," "What can I do tor you?" "Company got 'little house beside the road down there. Nobody livin' there," "Well, what of it?" "You let me live there?" elle asked. "You'd better go home to your Peo- ple my girl," he said, grimly*. "I have left them," she returned, "What would you think of Wag?" . lie asked, curiously. "How could eon make your living?" cica„lenty litPeople .here now," she said. "MarcMcoin'. I goiter keep utoppina house for meals." He shook his head. "It wouldn't "Sure!" said Bela. "Alone?' he asked, frowning. "Why?" 'You're too good-looking," he re- plibeicea.b bluntly. "It wouldn't be eespec- ta"I talc' care of myself," averred Bela. "Anybody say so." • "How about that story that's going the rounds now?" "aloch lies, I guess." "Very likely; but it can't be done," he said, firmly, "I can't have a Scandal right ia front ot my wife's door." "Good for trade," suggested Bela, insinuatingly. "Mak' the new people come up here. Now they always liteaysgnin' round atiffy and Mahoos This argument was not without weight; nevertheless, Beattie continu- ed to shake his head. "Can't do it an- zlessdyou get a chaperon." "Chaperon?" repeated Bela, pus - ie, "Get a respectable woman to cine and livo with you, and I'll say all right." Bela nodded and marched out of the store without wasting any further v,oics. In an hour sho was back, bringing Mary, Bateese Otter's widow. Mary, according to the standards of the set- tlement, was a paragon of virtue. Gil- bert Beattie grinned. "Here is Mary Offer," said Bela, calmly. "She poor. She goin' live with me. I guess else is respectable. She live in the mission before and scrub the floors. Pere Lacombe tell a. her coin° ave wit' nee. Is that all right?" ee Since Bela had secured the sanction of the church upon her enterprise, Beattie felt that the responsibility was no longer his, Ho gladly gave her her way. The astonishing news spread up and down the road like lightning, Bela Charley was going to open a "ree- teraw." Here was a new and fascinat- ing subject for melte Nobody knew that Bela was in the settlement. Nobody had seen her come. Exactly like her, said those who were familiar witll her exploits In the past. What would happen when Bela and Cam met again? others asked. "While everybody had helped this story on its rounds, no man believed that Bela had really carried off Sam. Funny that this girl 13houla turn up almost at the moment of the other girl's departure! Nobody, however, suspected as yet that there was any- -thingemore than coincidence in this, The main thing was Bela was known to be an Al cook, and the grub at the French outfit was rotten. aMahooley himself confessed it. Within two hours six men, including Big Jack and his pals, waived for din- ner. Bela was not at ail discomposed. She had already laid in supplies from the company. Dinner. would be ready for all who came, she said. Six bits per man. Breakfast and supper, four bits. To -day they would heels to sit on the floor, but by to -morrow, proper ar- rangements would be cemeleted. No, there would be no accommodations for sleeping. Everybody must go home at ten o'clock. While they waited they could cut some good sods to mend the roof, if they wanted, Some of the guests, thinking of the past, approached her somewhat ditfi- dently; but if Bela harbored any re• sentment, she h•id it well. She was the, same to all, a wary, calm, efficient hostess. Naturally the men were delighted to be given an opportunity to dart fresh. Three of them labored at the roof with a will. Husky, who only had one good arm, cleaned fish for her. The dinner, when it came on, was no disappoint- ment. Sam, rattling back over the rough trail that afternoon, stamped in his empty acaawagen and whiselcd cheer- fully. Things were going well with him. The long, hard-working days in the open-air were good for both health and spirits. He liked his job, and he was making money. He had con- ceived a greet affection for his lively little team, and, lacking other coms Danielle, confided his hopes and fears in them. Not that he had yet succeeded in winning from under the lead of deri- sion that had almost crushed him; the men still greeted him with their tongues in their cheeks. But novv that he had a man's jets, it was easier to bear. He believed, too, that he was making progress with them. The hated gibe "white share was lege frequently heard, Sam, passionately bent on mak- ing good. in the eonimunity, weighed every shade of the men's manner to- ward him, like a lover his Mistresea 1.1e Met Big Sack and his pals driv- ing beak around the bay in Jackal wagon. They' had staked ont their land aerate the bay, but etill spent most of their these in the settlement. Both drivers pulleil up their horses. The men hailed Sam with at lead the appearance of good nature. As for Sam himself, he had made up Ids mind that 01000 he Was going to live among them, he Would only snake himself ri- clamioue be Maintaining a sore and distant air, He Was learning to give Ae good its he got.* tTone tootineedel _ Phildrithropiet it:getteraltr a De. son Vihe kars no peer relation*, , BabiesWitil itching, B oIB( ng SiS Sleep And tired mothers rest after givbag baby a hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed by a gentle application of Cuticurs. Ointment. Peace falls on distracted households what Cuti. cure, enters. Trial free. For free sample earth address post-eardr "Cott. tgroatima vimr. V. 8. 4." 8015 by (1°41 ell HARD TO GET THERE. Tourists Find It Diffloult to Enter Biblical City ofJaffa. • • Jaffa is a historical biblical ciey im- mersed in a common -place present of uncleanliness, congestion,. petty com- merce and fearful and wonderful Turkish, ofelcialdorn, Practically all travellers in the Levant and Pales- tine sightseers pass through Jaffa, for it is the port of Jerusalem, where one lands if anything by boat from Greece or Egypt, and few such travel- , tors carry away any notably pleasant impressions from the city by the sea. IVery often you are lucky to land In Jaffa at all. The port authorities may have laid a quarantine against goods or passengers embarked from A 1 exandria-th is happens not in Jae- quently-and in such case you must voyage up and down the coast of Palestine until the quarantine flag is lowered. Or else the seas may be too high Lot' your boat to make a lauding, ana continuo so until the patience of the authority of the captain is exhausted, In which ease you will also get a longer aea voyage than you bargained Lor, If the elements and the health authorities are both in favernle mood at the same 4"-e you can land in the chi city that flourished in on days of leolouton, The quarantine regulations may give you the impression that Jaffa is run en senitary principles, but tee city itself quickly dispels your illu- sions. Apparently the local govern- ment is stricter ;theta imported dan- ger of detease than Its homegrown va- riety. Jaffa is no worse than any other Levantine port, neither is it noticeably better. Few travellers stay any great while in. Jaffa, and as .a result eccommoda- . tient; aie et the sketchiest. You may rind yourself in an Asiatie hotel, ie a monastere or In the home of SOTY:Q hospitable European ifthere are an unusual number of strangers • in the city. The shortness of your stay is no matter for great regret. Jaffa to -day is a city almost purely commercial. You carry away an ims pression et narrow and twisting ' streets liadly in need of a corps of White wingsef mean bouses and an occasional imposing mosque; of a populatiou at once inadly energetic in trade and constitutionally retaliate:, at the same time shrewd, avaricious I and good natured.-Excbange. t 1 Minerd's LinTinent. Cures Dandruff. PEADY-MADE 'ANIS, , Armadillo, for Instance, is Well Protected Against. Assault. Now that fighting men are .going 1 back to the wearing at armor for protection in battle it is intereeting to note the fact that nature has made eimilar provision for many animals. The early Spanish ievaders of troe pical tainerica were greatly interest- ed in certain 91)e01e-3 of armoured mammals, wholly new to thern, : whica they found plentifelly distri- buted over that part ot the New World. They called them "arma- dillos," becaust they teem enemeal in coats of mail. I The so-called "great armadillo" attains a length of nearly rive feet, ! It is clad in a complete coat of flint - like armor -plates, -and it tall, as ; solid as if forged in metal, bas . the U E ehape of a trumpet. In feet, the aborigines of the Amason valley use It as a trumpet for signalling in war. /Wen the smaller species of arum. dittos, however, are °gutsily well pro- Lected, the head being defended by a sort of. helmet. It attacked by a post or bird of prey, the creature instantly rolls itself into a ball, thus rendering itself proof against injury. In ancient times there lived in South America a giant ancester of the raodern armadillos. One of its huge thells, some years ago, was found by an English naturalist in use as a playhouse by halt a (lona chile dren. In another native camp (it was in the Pampas region) ae carne across a trumpet as big as thoee commonly employed on ships. It was the tail or a specimen of the ex- tinct armored mammal. Alligators ana erocodiles, of course, are familiar to -day as types of the armored reptile. They aro clad in complete mail, which is cer- tainly proof against buckshot, and is Levity penetrable by • a riflo bullet, unless a weak point in tiao armor be struck, Such a bullet, striking one of the plates, is fairly sure to be de- flected harmlessly. There care no armored birds. So far as known, there never were any. It is a fact accepted by naturalists that all birds aro descended from reptiles, but in the process of acquir- ing wing and feathers for purposes of flight they might have been ex- pected to discard unnecessary en- cumbrances. In antediluvian days there were many species of armored fishes, some of which are represented to- day by survivors, in this respect, de- generate. Evidently nature, which is forever Making experhuents, not think the idea worth perpetuat- ing. In the insect kingdom, howevat, there are to -day not merely a few, but hundreds of thousands of armor- ed species. These are the beetles, which are clad, in complete suits of mail. Their armor, in fact, is made of a material far more indestructible than steel -namely, "chitine." CM - tine cannot be destroyed except by certain mineral acids. There are several species of beetles whose "shining armor" is re- puted to contain gold or silver, and, owing to this belief, people often gather them and melt them. Most remarkable of these are, the "gold bugs" of tho genius "plusiotis." One might easily imagine a specimen to be the work ot 'some clever artificer In metal, the head and wing eases being brilliently polished, with all itthses"ming of metal to sight and ch, and with a lustre as of gold eit- touch, : 4 Mlnard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. -- 4 ; VEGETABLE WAX. Old -Time Domestic Industry is Spreading Out. Vegetable wax is already filling an important place in the economic needs et the world, and taere are many in- dications that the production of wax trent certain plants will increase as time goes by. It was not long ago that the world supplied certain of its needs with animal oils and develop- ment et tho Togctable oil industry, aa well ac the development ofthe miner- al oil industry, has been remarkable. The uses for wax have increased, and a number at way -producing plants arc being employed on a commercial scale. The industry of making high grade wax from the candslilla plant has made long strides in the last few years, and there are severed big fac- tories for the extraction of wax in the candilela-grov.ing sections or the Unit- ed Statee. It has been estimated that there are 1.000.000 acres of land on which cand.e11111 is growing wild axtel in great profusion in what is known as ate upper border regions of Texas. It is believed that not only may the candelilla-bearing territory be inters, - ed, but that the wax -producing quali- ties of the plant may be improved by cultivation. Then are also largo areae of the wild caudelllla lands In r netball Mexico. The recovery of wax from the baye berry was for centuries a ;New Eng- land househeld industry, and it • has lately become a factory industry, the wee of the plait beteg generally used in the malting of bayberry candles, held in high estecm for use and orna- aunt by Now Englanders. A bushel of the berries yields, as a rule, be- tween four and five pounds of wax. Another plant beronging to the same genus Fi the "sweetgalaW which grown abundantly in the bogs and marshes or Scotland. it is e small shrub wiee leaves somewhat like those of myrtle or willow, having a fragrant odor and eater taste. and yielding an essentiat ell by distillation. The wax of the candelilla paint is used in making candles, phonograah records, wood and leather polishes, iloor wax, certain varnishes, linoleum, e rind in n (Wain° The locked antlers. IN September and October during the rutting seatIon, the hunter occasiOnelly hears tbe eounda of terrific, renabat between tbeee giants of the forest, the bull moose. With their formidable antlers these huge oteeturee can snap a young birch tree like a Nee° of matchwood, and although it is only rarely ihat the iill mese will &abet( a man, if he (tees do so the men hes little chance unto** he 10 quick witlx his Ilikb peenered rifle, The other dee on S' 1A11A06 mane", tvente.one miles tsoutl• °elites/inert, en the V, I*. R., a pair 0* Wtelged meeee haree Wes laittid AS the triaged iseeoed Of n eorehat. 'they •,0,1 evseAntic heels n•zh+trte• when Ott, , ,m , b1Ii aritatee heettrele eetosattee utmbio reain* neinA eleen 'ay • Oil y °NM areue'd TA to ettecate etell ottset the tet Mil- belt" w" 4fOe thOff Of *moo, at 044.4{), • . 7;0 46I • • • A i4,111 Moose. . tubber compounds an1't celluleid, and it also enters into use in pharmaey anT andIn Inhnt)13 gItaal1 ng°121:1uutgro 2•Qp°trle4.1 twur,ola tion,t: the poorest quality of soil, and before it was found to have a commercial .considerell a pest. value far the wax contained it was Though candiee aro not so generally used as they vale before the days of mineral illuminating oils, gas east electricity*, they still constitute an im.. Portant ,article, of manufacture. /he cattalo is an ancient fo•rm of lighting. The word. comes from the Latin word. "candere," which means to "glow," Beeswax anti tallow were used far ligating purposes by the Romans. Lengths of cotton or flax fiber were dippea in these substancea and theY usually burned with znuch smoke and soot and little light. The rush -lights of the middle ages, and even ot re- moter times. were Melees that had been stripped nearly to the dry pitch and dipped in wax or tallow, When "candlepower" was adopted an the unit of light measure by the London gas•act of. 1860 it was taken to mean the amount of light which would be given by a sperni candle, six of which would weigh a pound, and which con - Bunted 120 grains of the candle each hour. Candles are made and have been made for centuries by four distinct processes called "dipping," "pouring," "drawing" and "moulding." Few candles ofcommerce are now made of pure beeswax or tallow, but usually by combining sterine, a trade name for a mixture of various animal and vegetable fats; obtaiued from ozocer- ite. where,Palnoil and cocoanut oil are also extensively used in the candle - making trade.-Wiashaington Star. Mlnard's Liniment for sale every - EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. Something About the Sea of Air in Which We Live. We trawl about on the bottom of a sea of air. Only very recently have we learned to swim in it. We call the performance "flying." The gaseous mixture composing this ocean of air is so fluid and trans. Parent that we hardly • realize its presence. Doubtless fishes in like manner are not conscious of the 1 water in which they swim. IBut the air is much denser than we imagine. A small child blows up a • toy balloon. Probably the air inside the inflated rubber bag is at a pres- sure of no more than two atmospheres yet the balloon has become in effect a solid object. A cubic foot of air weighs considerably over an ounce. A dry goods box throe feet cube will contain two and one-half pounds of air. This means, of course, at sea level. As one 'climbs a mountain or goes up in a balloon the air becomes thin- ner, its density diminishing steadily until perhaps 150 or 200 miles front the surface of the earth there is vir- tually none of it left. It is reckoned that one-half of the entire bulk of the eerensphero is below the three mile levehle T, sea or air is a warm sea, cope serving the heat delivered by tlte sun upon •the earth. If it were suddenly removed we should find ourselves ex - Posed to the cold of outer space (466 below zero Fa and would be frozen, - Philadelphia Press. 1 was cured of Acute Bronchitis by MINARD'S LINIMENT. .1, M. CAMPBELL. Bay of islands. I was cured by Facial Neuralgia by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Springhill, N.S. WM. DANIELS. was cured of Chronic Rheumatism by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Albert Co., N.B. GEO, INGLEY, THE CAPITAL OF FINLAND. flelsingfors Accumulates Much History in a Century. Helsingfors, the capital of Poland, is among the youngest of the Euro- pean capitals, for it: is but little over a hundred years since Czar .Alexander r., shortly after the annexation of tne Grand Duchy by Russia, transferred the capital thither from Alm, which was, in his opinion, too near to Swedea. It has, however, managed 1 to compress mach history int() that I that hundred years, and tho story of Helsingfors, whether one gleans ,eati from the annals of the city, orarom the strange medley of arahltecture which it displays on all hands, is the ' story of the struggle of Finland to Maintain her liberty, and to develop and express her national spirit. For many years, until the revolu- tion of two months ago changed the whole face of things, Finland has boon fighting a specially hard battle against the RussifyIng policy of St. Petersburg, Everything that could be done to crush national spirit has been done, and yet it was all to no purpose. Russia might deprive her of her liberties, abrogate her funda- mental laws, and endeavor to discredit her language and literature ,but she could not compel the Finn, in the streets of Helsingfors, or elsewhere throughout the country, to depart from his exasperating policy of sim- ply "ignoring the Russians." And so, In spite of everything that eould be done, Helsingfors has always given the visitor the Impression of beim; a capital. It has, as the writer bas wen expressed it ,all the mental and atmos- phere of acupital, the cosmopolitan.- •Isin, the entertainment, the rush of life, the mend growth, and the eom- plexity of interest. It has spaeious etreete, laid out In a dignified man- ner. There are fine parks and open spaeen, restaurants and theatres, • ISSUE NO, 2, 1918 ArItTgLor7nullri4?013:41IQJJ.V, 11)felio.nirirr? Vosplito :81.gcl-ePthaWrsAnNes,TP:opt,. 4Nl411-0rtiisAS1linTP11a1s(:WSa.:::0i4l ;yidera:11 (7roy '011(1 Whits wras for uion nciets, 1O1,p4i10u1.a;lylon0mfc6D.,Ltd.intollt. WeOrnAh:USII)a-t.11;rXr:O"nrtr.. N. °I") WEAV. M 11,4414It AN714D-S17.1COND-NICIIIT • A run: teady kt. M. Pin - man ...C.'s,3.,tuLp.ita,a,p1j3n;,eannttircue:3.0;, s(t)4•00,14,Y w ogee paid Apt;ly, SlinSebY MONEY ORDERS, . - - • SAIM.1 WAY TO SEND MONEY hy 01011 lo by Oumlnion Express; Money Order. FOR SALE. IGLET C-ABINE'r AND WOODEN ••••• fUrnIturo. .A.ssorttql rezea, NoVor turcal. Will be sold at a bargain. Ad- drees Canada 11.rady Print Co., 7141.111'1- 1011, Ont, FARMS FOR SALE. pARCIA.IN-FUTi, Q,EIOTC. SALE ONLY- ...., " 610 acres cholte level wheat land In O entre' Alberta; price /2,1.00 afro; terMer arranged; first (Too should more thaa pay for the land; figure One out at ciV pu,..men) per acre, J. (,. Lelsic es Com- , mins., Farm Lands, Calgary. I.: _................___.......7....._.............._........2......::____—. a scene of eager animation. Roads are marked out over it with fir trees, between the town and the various, Is- lands, and carts, cabs and motor cars Ply back and forth over them, for all the world as though on dry land. Sometimes the tart is frozeu beforethe 1 snow comes, and then the enterpris- ing skater may go where he pleases, and as far as ho pleases. Then again, ' he will take unto himself skis, and, leaving the islands behind hint, go a - skiing a long way out over tho sea. IThe period of change from winter • to summer is the least attractive time in Holsingfore. All Finland, indeed, seems to "move reluctantly at that time, and Helsingfors, in April, is not a success. Ultimately, however, spring emerges, and comee on with a mighty rush. , Winter is ex,pected to disappear by May day; whilst by early June summer is in complete posses- sion. The sea and 'the sky are of the deepest blue; all the land is fragrant with lilacs, fruit blossoms and wild roses; the hills are covered with wav- ing green, and delicate beauty of the silver birch showup bravely against the dark green of the pines. At such • times all Helsingfors is, once again, on the sea. On every side one sees boats and steamers, brilliantly white In the sunshine, steam launches, mot- or boats, fishing boats and rowing boats, moving hither and thither amidst the multitude of reeky ispands which give the waters the appearance ofa vast lagoon.-Chrisuan acionr.,1 Monitor. Minard's liniment Relieves Neuralgia i INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE. I The Chinese want more railroads, 'which may mean business for Ameri- can capital}, and builders. During the five-year period ended in ' 1914 Georgia surfaced 6,361 miles of hoe roads. This is at the rate of more than four miles per working day. ' At the present time China has but 6,000 miles of railroads to servo a population of more than 400,000,000. After a moving picture reel has been made, it must be "edited" in sorneWhat the same method as is a , manuscript. This operation is per- : formed by the editor making his di- : rectIon in a dictating machine as the reel is worked off in front of ,him, There are 430 manufacturers of aut- omobiles located in 32 States, and 825 manufacturers of parts and accessor- ies located in nearly every State, ,A new vacuum cleaner is driven from power derived from the water spigot. IThe latest thing in window screens rolls up like the shade where there is not immediate dornaad for its services. • ,Some of the California Indians , store their corn supply In wlilow Dtte-1' Rots, which are as large as the rooms ' of a modern -sized house. Many pigs die from becoming over- heated in the cars while in transit. This is being taken care of by a west- ern railway company by providing a shower bath attachment In the cars for cooling the pigs off at regular in- tervonallse Dstic sales of incandescent lamps in 1916 were 145,000,000, which is 31 per man or 35,000,000 lamps greater than..1915 sales. In addition, over 9,000,000 lamps were exported in 1916, malting total sales for last year of 154,000,005 lamps, in comparison With 116,000,000, the total number of sales that was recorded In 1915. . It is estimated by the National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce that 1,500,000 automobiles were manufac- tured in 1016, valued at $810,000,000. Naturalists aro at a loss to explain how the whale ean descend to a depth of 3,000 feet, at whin point the pres- sure should lie great enough to crueb it. Of the English women who have re- cently been instructed in carpentry at l3yfleet, England, 20 are now said to be in France helping in the erection of huts for the soldiers. French and Belgian women are also engaged in work of this sort, Cne Wort.; -There is one word that we quiekle learn in five languages," said an Am. erican Red Cross nurse who served in a. Prelieh army hospital. "It is the ' word that comes more often to the lips ot sick or wounded soldiers when euffering or delirium wrings utteranee from them. It is Mutter, mere, mo- eder, Metre and mother." 12 time is Olney, lerl atraege how few peOple seem to Mimi losing time. DRS. SOPER & WIIITE churches and pablic buildings, and. it • one pasees suddenly from the ciassital Inaeterplece of the German architect. Tinget, to the low, wooden buildings of the Finnish peasant, one quickly comes to recognize the latter,' and altrelY to welcome it, as a charaeterie- , stlictligloftfoertilaiiitse4tttl°tiellvi sea. The average citi- isistent thing about Het - i zen spends almost as muell time on the Ben ns.,011 the land. In summer ;Le en It, and in winter, he skates 1 ever it, site over,it, or flies across it Itt an tee yaeht. 'Indeed, in spite of • all its sunlit -ter beauty, lielsingfor% is designed.sis a winter town. ..,The sea le usually frozen by the New -Year and it is then that the real "joys of win- edr" begin:, It Was thought tho sea lend suddenly enlarged its boilers, al-' • meat without MAR. , The.ibsvontes 4 •4,1 4‘. asariee.eassaar I : SPCIALISTS - Plles,Eozeinst, Atthrn*, eMstrh, inrnples Oyspeptila, Et:M(4...44 Nheurnatlem, Sian, Kid! nay, Blood, Nerve arid litlaelder Dletesee. Cita or tend bitto.7 for free advice. Meditine furnirt ed in tablet loon, Pburs-IO am, le, 1 P.m. and 2 40 d On, 1 Sundays -40 cat. to lp.bil. 1 e ... , , i derhilItatlest Vied *tfiRG. SOPEP & wHitit t81,4„.t. St" 'reroute. OA. • llattion Thisk A 1.1 A.A. tee ' '