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that Japan oouid not settd troops to
Europe because of lack of 'shipping.
She is tieing what she can, however.
Every fighting ship she can safely
spare from the Pacific is doing excel-
lent and hazardous service for the Al-
floe. Her participation in the Medi-
terranean against the Austrian fleet
has been most valorous. She has
suffered Igoe of ships and men. She has
has inflicted punitive vengeance upon
the enemies ot herself and her allies.
qa0 --,
The United States Ia raising a lot of
nlcnoy quietly by means of the sale of
thrift and war savings stamps. Total
sales by poet offices throughout the
country of thrift and war savings
stamps amount to $2,7'68,114. New
York City leads, with sale of 61,240
war savings and 309,312 thrift stamps.
while Chicago is second with 50,961
and 204,016, resbectively; .Cincinnati
third, with 32,000 and 100,000; Detroit.
fourth, with 30,692 anti 195,113; h,an-
sas City, fifth, with 28,000 and 100,000.
and Pittsburg, sixth, with 24,30 and
282,800. Why not try these stamps
in Canada?
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PLEASED WITH PROIIILIT.ON,
Hardly a discordant note has been
hear) in all the land over the an-
nouncement of the Government's in-
tention toeufor:e Dominion• vide pre-
hibition during the war and a year
after. Even till ligttne metra aro in-
clined t'm accept the decision in a
friendly spirit, being satisfied that
nothing sh',uld stand in the wiry of
the winning of the war. The general
public receive It as a matter of
course, and the religious, social and
temperance organizations are delight-
ed with the prospect of complete pr
hibitton. Th. re is a geenral feelint
that the Union Government Inas ti -
ready justiiteti 5 L existence, and other
measures are locked forsvard to wi!h
expectancy. Tho Government will be
judged by ita actions and as to how
it fulfils its promises, • which were
many and important.
Some of our contemporaries were
under the impression that there was
to be a relaxation in .the matter of
beer, that something stronger than
2ed per cent. beer would be allowed.
figured out that 2?e pe' cent.
alcohol meant 4 per cent. proof spirits.
But the Hon. Mr. Rowell has publicly
stated that this is a, mistake—that
there will be no change in the
strength of the beer. It will be the
same beer as that at present legally
sold and consumed in Ontario and the
Western Provinces.
rrT
VIE MEN WHO GO DOWN TO THE
SEA IN SHIPS,
Mr. Archibald Hurd, the British
naval oepert, asks: "Row many of
the millions of persons in this coun-
try, completely surrounded by water,
realize the price at which the food
they eat ie purchased --and not only
the food, but the clothes they wear
and the articles in everyday use? Not
a motor -bus or taxi -cab can run ex-
cept the seamen bring petrol to these
shores; the shops would be closed if
it were not for the seamen. Almost
everything needed by us from hour to
hour is brought to us by merchant
seamen, and these merchant seamen,
as they make their furrows . through
the submarine»infestedwaters are
guarded by those other seamen of the
Royal Navy. And all the time there
exists, though unseen by us, a 'Fleet•
in being,' which is to bo held back
by the threat that if it comes out
from behind its sbore guns and mines
it will be annihilated, and that threat
must be maintained as a reality. Dur-
ing the winter months, when the seas
run high and the cold pierces the
marrow, our seamen are fighting two
enemies—the elements and the Ger-
mans. The struggle goes in almost
unbroken silence --by night as well as
by day. And then there are Netter -
chant seamen. About 0,000 of them,
I believe, hays made the greatest of
all saerifices. Why? In bracer that
a -
Nye
mow•..
doe gIIowed himself to bo r
ly eatiefied, and returned to
by the stove. Ile wat;.adva
Learning how the book w w it
the grand dfffieulty remained
solved; flow to get a loop at
out Stitfy'a knowledge,
Mere fortune unexpectedly
him, When he was not adding
columnns. Stiffy wee forever.
check, lay rights, he should ha
the chief clerk of a great el
porlunm, 13efore the others vett'
began to count the articleim
shelves,
He struck n difficulty in the
condensed nmille • Repeated co
gave the earns total, ".try gad
been robbed!" he er,e:l,
there's atilt a ease in the loft,"
He baetened to the stairo,,
etalmt hie weight creaked on the
overhead the burly, Iounging fi
the 'stove sprang into activi
luctant- "Um!" said Musq'oc1sis.
his seat "I thought I'd ask you, you're such
need by an mkd-timer."
opt, but "Um!" said Musq'oosis again, There
itso be with- whis suspicions. But on principlso far to ese
favored everkit wased to ttpossiblnswer e hetianswerede a
up his question by asking another,
taking "Do you know flint'?' persisted Joe.
ve been "Yes," replie;i Musq'oosis, guarded-
ty em• ly,
rned he "What like mean was he?"
on the "What for you want know?"
cane of "Oh, a fellow asked me to find out,"
answered. Joe, vaguely. He gained as•
ratings . surance as he proceeded. "Fellow I
' We've ve niet in Prince George. When he heard
I was coming up here he said: 'See if
The in- you can. find out what's become of
Walter Forest. Ain't heard irons him
boardo in twenty year.'"
gore by "What this' fellow -cell?" • asked
ty, Joe Musq'oosis,
darted moceasined feet to Belfry
sanctum, and with swift finger
est up 1I In the index..
Museeoc'-e; rage 452. Silently
Ing the big bcok, lie tl'umbe
hipagms. The noises exactly informed Iofuwhat
was doing.
Joe found the place, and th
Stiwas
outttall that heat e wished kno
took him but a moment to ge
hang of it, On the debit side;
ith
and
team,
harness, $57$,0Santho and inalm,U rde •
were entered various advances to
On the other side Jos read: "
der on Gilbert Beattie, $578,00.
low were the different amounts
by Graves for hauling.
Joe softly closed the book.
was liusq'oosls, who employed
and Musq'oosis was a kind of
fan of Bela! It did not require
effort of the imagination to see
nection here. Joe's triumph in
discovery was nixed with a
Jealousy.
ty sure
Same was ignoranthe ' of who owne
team he drove, and he saw an o
tunity to work a pretty piece o1
chief. 73ut first he must make
more sure.
When Stiffy, having found the
ing case, came down stairs again
apparently had not moved.
A while later Joe entered the
pany store, and addressed Nims
Gilbert Beattie concerning a plo
said lie was thinking of impo
Beattie, seeig a disposition in
other mail to linger and talk, en
aged it, , This was new business,
any case, up north no man dee
the offer of a gossip.. Strolling
side, they sat on a bench at the
in te ,grateful sunshine.
Fromm3; where they were they
see Bela's shack below, with s
rising from the cook tent and th
man's teepee alongside. Musq' Was squatting at the door
gaged upon some task with his n!
fingers. Cdnsequentiy no ma
rent on Joe's ,part was require
bring the conversation around to
Seeing the trader's eye fall there
had only to say:
""Great old boy, isn't lie?"
"One of the best," said Bea
warmly. "Tho present genera
doesn't produce 'emu! • He's as ho
as he is intelligent, too. 14ay tr
itm the country would let him h
anything he wanted to take,
word is as good 'as his bond."
"Too bad he's up against it i
old age," suggested Joe.
"Up against it, what do
mean?" asked Beattie.
"WeII, Ite can't do much any nm
And he doesn't seem to have
folks."
"Oh, Musq'oosis hoe something
by for a rainy day!" said Beat
""For years he carried a nice little
ance on my books."
"What did he do with it, the
asked Joe, carelessly,
Beattie suspected nothing more
this than idle talk.
"Transferred it to the Trench
fit," he said; with a shrug. "I s
d
ahooley to kn.
he's a man ose he aofem means. Ire can't lora
spent any of it. I'll. probably
back some day."
"How did he get it in the fi
place?"' asked Joe, casually. "Out
fur?"
"No," said Beattie; "he was
some kind of partnership with a m
called Walter Forest, a white m
Forest died, and the amount s
transferred to Musq'oosis. It's twen
years ago. I inherited the de
from nmy predecessor here,"
Joe, seeing that the 'trader Ira
nothing more of special interest
tell him, let the talk pass on to oth
Matters. By lane by he rose, sayin
"Guess Ingo down and talk to t
old boy until dinner's ready."
'.It; is always profitable," said Bea
tie. "Come in again."
"I'11 let, you know about the plow
said Joe,
',a'little "Er --George Smith," Joe impre-
turn- vised, "Big , dark-eomplected guy.
• Traveler in the (tiger line."
open- Musq'oosis nodded.
Dumbed
the "Walter Forest died twenty year
rs kept ago," he said.
Stiffy "How?" asked Joe,
"Went through the lee with his
ere, in team,"
spread "Yeti don't say," said Joe, "Well,
tiv, It Well! I said I'd write and tell
t the George." •
"To Joe was somehow at a loris how to
wagon go on. He said: "Well! Well!"
these again, Finally ho asked: "Did you
Sam. know him well?"
BY or- "He was my friend," said Musq'.00s•
Be- is,
paid "Tell me about him," said Joe: "So
I can write, you know,"
'Sc i, Musq'oosis was proud of his connec-
tion with Walter Forest. There was
much no reason why he should not tell time
a con- story to anybody. Had he not urged
Itis upon Bela to use her own name? It
bitter never occurred to hini that any one.
could trace the passage of the father's
that bequest from one set of books to the
d the other. So in his simple wayhe told
the the story of Walter Forest's life and
ppor-death in the country.
oris "Well! Well!" exclaimed Joe.
still "Smitty will be interested. You said
meas- tie was married. Did he leave any
Joe family?"
"His baby come after.," said Muse
tom_ geoids. "Two months."
elf to "What's become of it "
sv he Musq'oosis nodded toward the
rung. Shack. "That is Bela," he said,
the Joe clenched his hands to keep from
Cour- betraying a start, This was what he
In wanted. He hit his lip to. hide the
lines cruel smile the spread upon it.
out- "jsVhy you smile?" asked 'Mus -
door p'oosis.
could "No reason," replied Joe, hastily.
od "I thought her name was Bela Char-
ley.
eefs "Her-nmot'er married Charley I,'ish-
rater after," explained Musq'oosis.
dm -
gaged '?'eoplo forget Walter Charley's baby.
nage: She call Bela Charley. Right name
d to Bela Forest,"
him. "Well," said Joe, "that's quite a
he story. Did he Ieave any property?''
Musq'oosis glanced at him sharply.
tlis suspicions began to be aroused,
ttie, "No," he said, shortly.
tion "That's a lie!" thought Joe. Now
nest that he had learned what he wanted
ader to know, he took no further pains to
ave hide his sneers. "I'11 tell Smitty that
His Forest's got a fine girl- for -a daugh-
ter," he said, rising, (laugh-
, Musq'oosis' eyes followed him -a
you lithe anxiously into the house.
The dinner -hour was, drawing near,
ore. but none of the boarders had arrived
any yet. Joe found Bela putting the plates
and cups o't the table. Seeing him, she
Put stood fast without fear, merely glen -
tie. cimig over her shoulder to make sure
bal- her retreat was open.
i, "Hello!" said Soo, affecting a bois-
n • torous air. "Am 1 the first?"
She declined to unbend. "You got
in be'ave if yes, comin' here," she said,
coldly. .
up_ "Got to, ell? That's a niee way to
ow
speak to a friend."
ve
"If you don' act decent you can't
get come here no more," she said, firmly.
"How are you going to stop' Ind?"
est he detiiande s, truculently. -
et .s "I tell the ot'er boys," she said, cool-
ly. "They keep you ottt."
fn "You won't do that," he returned,
an sneering.
an. You find out pretty soon,
sae "You won't do that," he repeated.
ty "Because I got something on you
bt name
act She looked at hint sharply: Then
to shrugged scornfully. "Everybody
know ail about rte."
er "There's something Sant don't
his know yet."
In spite of herself .she was be-
t. frayed into a' sharp Movement. ,Toe
laughed.
," ,"What do you ;Mean?" she de-
manded.
It was his humor to be mysterious.
e, "Never mind. 1 know what I know,"
10 Bela unconcernedly resuntect- her
work, "You jtts' bluffin'," She said.
s,
at
e
d
this country may continue to exist "Hello, biusq'oosis," began Jo
and fight in a Just cause." face ouhly.' "Fine weather for o
',mires, eh?"
We Have a high admiration for the "'Ver' good," replied Musq'oosi
men who go forth to battle, either on 'b1'a�srdly, N. The old niam had no gre
sea dr en land. They deserve of our liking -for this burly youth with th
Lest But there appears to us some -,►s1 eaely, self-indulgent face, icor di
he relish his style of address; bort
thing snore than the heroic in the ser- ever, being a philosopher and a gen-
vice of the men of the merchant mar- tleman, this did not appear in his face,
"Sit down," he said, hospitably.
�, ire. who daily face death in the pur- Musq'oosis was making artificial
suit of what should be a pearetul oall- flies against the opening of the trout
ing. Wo often wonder that men can season next month. With bits of
be found to man these vessels with feather, bait and thread he was turn-
ing out wonderfully lifelike specimens
the knowledge that death natty be -wnot according to the conventional
lurking fc:r thenen as soon as they smut varieties, but as a result of his own
to arra. The action of these men lhalf century's experience on neighbor -
form a page of history that will add p o streams. A rowkof the oth a iek,
product was struck in 'a smooth stick,
imperishable lustre to the annale of awaiting possible customers,
the mother country. In the annual "Chit of sight!" said Jne, exaniinin
report of the London America Trading ' th"1 Wink Maybe sell some this
year,"
Company it !a stated of these leen observed alusq'ootis, "Plenty tie\v
that "wbcn a ship has been torpedoed men come" „
and gone down, the survivors bt,!'ly ' ""T out' bite," asked Joe.
baek to the offir'es of the firm, make "I'll take a couple. There's a good
tt hasty report, and then ask cneelile, stream bestde tnY Pitted."
Wb u is the next ship to be ready"'
"Stick eni In your bat.' ,
After Otte transaction :\rust oosie
That is the ,plrit of tate nmoreatt.ile liked Joe e, tittle better, fie entered
marine." upon an amiable dissertation on fly-
fishing, to which Joe gave halt an ear,
while be debated 'mow to lead up to
What he really wanted to know. In
the' end it carne out bluntly,
• know aboutua Tfe losw what
do"
4i"'alt r
Forest?"
niusq'oc,sis looked tit :foe, startled.
ll'au know hitn?�t he askeilt
'4Ycs4," said 700, 4ltceolleeting that
Beattie had told hint the ]roan had
been dead twenty yegs, he 1 tilt'
eorreeted. himself, "That 'ia, not ox-
attly. Net 3,erhotl*lly,"
r
EXPLAINED. '
tl os,t Tn 'Dreinsart.�iJ
Miss '1 otic .-'m;'r:>tt ain't believe half a
man Peva Ntheir hr.'s in love,
:tray Mdrat ysIfu'f the timtmelht he dk, know
what beet e )'ing -
-
"Is your Lbw stenographer industri-
ous?" "1 can't deny that she is in-
dustrious, hut she Is too busy knitting
to do° Anything around the office," ._._
I,rxtlevilie C'ottrier4ogrnal,
"I will kin yard" repetmted
dltlly;
t"olnething in her desperate
warned him that one might i
primitive nature too far, Ile e.
bis tone.
"Mind you, I don't say I'm !i
Icil. I don't mean to toll if
\that I svelte"
"What you want?" she oskec
ly, with glittering Oyes, •
"Not to bo imnybody's feet, t that's all," ke he r
threateningly. "To be treated as
as anybody else. You node
me?" •
".i
maks no promise," said Bel
"Weil, you know what you'v
'to expect if yeti don't,"
CHAPTER XXI.
On the afternoon of the same
Sam, 'c'lattering back front G.
ealnp in his empty wagon, stud
came upon 11usq'ooais squatting
a little Buddha under a willow
'rlie spot was at time edge o
wide flats at the head of the 13
13ay, Immediately beyond the
turned and followed the higirer gr
along the water lute the settle
It was about halt a mile to 13
shack. Musq'oosis rose, and Sam
ed up
"Colne aboard,"invited
"What are you waiting up here
" \Naftin' for you," replied
goosis,
13e climbed into the wagon -box
Sam chirruped to his horses.
nervous little beasts stretched
flanks and were off at a bound.
whole outfit was in a hurry. Sam
hoping to be the first to arrive at
stopping -house.
Musq'oosis laid a claw en his
'Drive slow," he said, "I want
Too much bang and shake."
Sam,reluetantly pulled his team
to a walk. "Anything up?" he as
Musq'oosis shrugged, and anew
the question with another. "Anyl
conn' be'incl you?"
"Not near," replied Sam. "`
weren't ready to start when I
And I've come quick."
"tloodi" said Mttsa'oosis.
"What's the dope?" asked Sam,
iously.
"Stiffy and Mawoolie's York b
come to -day," said Musq'oosis con
sationally. "Bring summer ou
Plenty all Linda goods. Bring rate
papere three weeks old."
"I heard all that," said Salim. "`
tison brought word around the ba
"There's measles in the Indians
Teposkow Lake."
Sant glanced sidewise at his pass
ger. "Is that what you wanted to
ne?"
Musq'oosis shrugged. •
"Out with it!" said Sam. "1 w
o get a word with Bela before
ang comes.'
"Don't stop at Bela's to -night," s
Iusq'oosis.
Sam frowned. "Sdsthat's it! W
ot?"
"Goin' bo bad trouble, I t'ink."
"I know," said Sam. "Joe's be
alking big around the settlement
ay, Mattison told that, too."
Musq'oosis looked at him, surpris
You know it, and you want to g
ou can't fight Joe. Too much big
"Maybe," said Sam, grimly; "b
11 do my damnedest."
Musq'oosis was silent for a mom's
vidently this contingency had n
tered into his calculations.
"Bela can't have no trouble there
finally suggested, "If the place g
bad battle. Gilbert Beattie put li
t."
Gam -was taken aback: "I' m. sorry!
said, frowning. "I never thougl
that. But I've got to consider m
if a little, too. I •can't let Joe btu
e out. Nice name I'd get aroun
he>
'Nobody 'spec' You tight big ma
J oe."
'I've got to do it just time bame,"
'Only to -night."
'What good putting it off? To
rrow it would be the sane. I'm jus
ginning to get on, I've got to mak
od! Lord! I know what it is to b
under dog! No more of Watt Jo
lay me out cold, but l,1.1 neve
t1„
If Beattie ,put Bela out, she got u
ce to go," pleaded elusq'oosis,
am scowled helplessly. "What ca
o?" he asked. "Bela's nearly don
me already up here. She shouldn'
this of rte, I'll put it up to her
'11 understand."
No use stopple'," sale Musq'oosis.
la sand ore up road tell you not
z to -night,"
am, in his helplessness, swore
er his breath and fell silent for
IIe. Finally his face cleared a lit -
"Tell You what I'll do;" he said.
won't stop now and let then. find
there. 1'1l drive on down to the
t and fix my horses for the night,
n I'll walk back. By that time
ybody will be there, They will
that I'm not afraid to come, any.
. The rest is up to Bela. She can
se to let 1110 in if She wants. And
o wants to mix things up, I'll Oh-
hinl down the road a piece."
11 right, I tell Bela," said Mus_
Is. "Let me down now. Not want
ody know I talk to you."
mn pulled up. As the old man was
t to get down he offered Sam his
in't you little bit scare of Joe?"
as
curiously,
m smiled wryly, "Sure!" he
ssed, "I'm a whole lot seared of
Hasn't he go thirty pounds on
weight send reaele beside, It's be -
I'm so scared that I can't take
Ing from hint. Do You under.
stand that?"
omm'erstan'," the old Indian said,
Iy, "\Vstlte' Forest tell me lair
that long tans ago, You brave lak lmimr
I t'ink,"
Sam shook his head, "'Tien't a
case of bravery, but of plumb neees-
flela,
eyes
)rens
hanged
Ging to
you tie
t,
under,
epUrnL.
good
rstand
a.
e got
day,
raves'
denly
like
bush.
f the
eaver
road
ound
el• a's
hull-
Sam.
for?"
Mus -
and
The
their
The
was
the
arm.
talk.
in-
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ered
molly
`I 'hey
Ieft,
eer-
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ver -
tat.
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out
en -
tell
ant
the
aid
gray
en
all
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ask
She
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Me
Dein
The
ever
see
how
refu
if Jo
lige
anyb
Sa
abou
hand
he loch He was the picture- of a bad- etnife
tempered schoolboy, "If you don't .111fre
treat me right you'll see if am. PR mo, .
out with the story to -night • before' 041100
them an, before Sam." anyth
"What story?" asked 13eIa. "You "The Story of how yotere paying •
BeIa stopped dead, and! pale.
She struggled hard to command. her -
sett. "It's a lie!" she said.
"Like fun it is!" chied Joe, trl- pee
Umphilig. "I got it bit by bit, and tit Be
piercea it ell together. lent a tittle too
ethole thing now, How your father laugh
to Ur
(lever for you, I guess. I know the ese
left the money to ltIttereooeis when he Alt
died, and Musn'oesis bought tho team largos
from Mahooley, ahd made liim give it
when tell that arid hear all the fel- gathei
to Sam to drive. I cart soo Sam's face tient
every
to bluff it out.. She.trame opposite to to be
where he was sitting, and put her Lve
hands 011 the table. 'If you tell that tore V
I kill yell!" she said softly
joe leaned twit, "gooh! You in.
can't scare a man with threats 111re sat on
that. After / tell the mischief's done,
m the window of the Prench out -
ore Sant was Seen driving down
lees Point.
area off!" cried Ate with a great
"Lucke for hini, toot"
heur later Bela was feeding the
t ImMber of Men that had. Over
'ed in her settek, Except the Os
teet on ditty, and Gilbert Beattie,
white mall inY the dittriet had
drawn bY the word passed from
to mOuth that there -was "going
entured among the white men
without particular invitation came
le 010 not eat at the table, but
the floor in the cerner watcl
ing and listening with bright eyes, like
somo queer, philosophic little ape, •
•Prin6 Max, et Melon, Says that
aermarry'S'sworti alone can never
as neatIoubt made Germany sup.
it trio.sword with the firebrand.
teher 'knife and various medie.
"1 will kill you!" she said again.
joe laughed. "I'll take my ehanco
of it." Hitting out at random, ho
mid; "I'll bet it was you seared the
White woman into fits!" •
'io lave herself Bela could not help fact h
betrtiYing 'it lie her face, Aie laughed Werner
uproariouely. • •• the bit
"Gad! Teat '11 make knottier good' ina
atom to tell!".
Baby's Own Soap
• 0010.
its fragrance is pleasant
but the great value of Baby's Own
Soap is its creamy softening lather
which cleanses and beautifies tate shin
Doctors and nurses recommend Baby's Own. •
Albert Soars cleated, Arks., monist
Sold everywhere,
LEGISLATION FOR LAZINgs
(Utica Press.)
Among the bills already introduced
at Albany ie one by Hon, Louis M.
Martin, member of Assemnbly from the
Second Oneida District, which provides
that all able-bodied melee between the
ages of 18 and 50 years, not regularly
and continuously employed, may be
dratted and set to work at such oceu•
pations as are essential tot' time welfare
of the state and nation. This includes
even those whose income is such as to
make them self-supporting, The com-
pensation is to be that, paid for •the
sante sort of work to other people al-
ready engaged in it. The details are
worked out, the plain purpose being to
see to it that there are no idlere in
these war tines and that every man
is doing his bit, if not in uniform,
then in some other useful, helpful way.
There are more people than one night
sueepo5e at first glance who will be hit
by this legislation if enacted, Despite
the ,demand for workers at good wages
there are a great many able'bodied
fellows who are idle right here In
the city of Utica, its suburbs and
throughout Central New York.
The purpose ,of Mr. Martin's in..
sure is most excellent and there a
a good. many who would really
much profited and benefited by bel
brought under' its Compulsory int
euce, The practical difficulty with
is 1iliat suggested by the old says
that anyone can lead a boree to watt
but that none can make him drin
t esome
these idlersfor swere,sent out to ti
fawns, carrying their indolence wi
then, and their unwillingness
work. now much good would th
do? Laziness is an inherent qualic
which it is feared can not be m'eaeihe
by statutory enact/110e It would b
one of the, greatest blessings the worl
ewell worthver saw f whIlelt11' inld esometway til
state could lay its heavy hand on then
loafers of all grades and varieties an
force them to earn an honest living b
the sweat of their brows. It woul
be elle happen btot them i and thing
m ghthich instillul
i:
them not only a wholesome respec
for law :but prompt. them to acquit.
the ambit of work.
Mlrard's -•-----•+•
Liniment Cures Garget i
Craws.
O. And now yen mind not aee your
I a Owe your face. Tile warsnip,
unlit and moving alowly, loomed dim-
ly In the darkness, like a great shape
of fate in aznbush welting to pounce
on her prey,
litelein,,ocame the betrayal. Phospho-
rescence inariced the ripples along the
gleaming streak' of golo, charted tne
path or the warship; the same bright
lunlittotts magic played around cer-
tain oval shapes emerging seddenlY
from underseas. Whales? Never were
whales like these, appearing suddenly
out of tne ocean depths anti throng-
ing about their hunter,
It was necessary—to strike swiftlY
or perish. Once the mother ship es-
tablished contact with her =Retrain;
brood it would be- too late. The brie'
tient phosphorescence limned the tar-
gets clearly. The warship brought her
guns to bear instantly, there was a
noise heavier than thunder and more
enduring, rea flames. lit the night.
All three submarines wore appal.,
ently sunk by the deetroser's gunfire,
The mother ship, which- had not dared
to flee by day, was riddled and left to
sink or rot in the midst of the car-
casses of the whales. From papers on
board lter her reudezvous with the
raider was ascertained, and the war-
ship, under full speed drove suddenly
ahead through the night, the velvetY
night with gleams of phosphorescence
glinting the surface of the sea.
AN EXACT CLOCK.
re
ng
lu-
ng
k.
of
10
th
tO
ey It is the Most Accurate Time.
THE WHALER.
All day the warship had watched
steam trawlers going to and fro in
this lonely region of the ocean, All
day the mother ship had cruised along
the horizon, her looeouts manned and
keeping a dose watch upon tho sea'
The steam trawlers moven in response
to the mother ship's signals, easily
read. 'rimy had made great ha.voc with
the whales, tossing their carcasses to
the larger veseel. he odor filled the
air and carried conviction to the war-
ship's crew,
The warehip exchanged only cus-
tomary signals with the whaler. It
would have been pleasant to go away
from her odorous neighborhood. But
this was impossible. It was about here
that the German raider might be ex-
pected on her way home from south-
ern waters.
Night fell, a velvety darkness clos-
ing over the smooth surface of the
ocean. There was at first a few
twinkling stars, in particular the
Southern Cross. Tben, on a little gust
of wind, a cloud rode over these
bright specks of the crimson sky. It
thunder. The zed and green sidelights
of the whaler flickered across the hid-
den waters. Presently soon she
would be lighting great fires to try out
oil.
Some time went by and a ghastly
spot of flame wickered and danced in
the 'whaling ship's rigging. A corpo-
sant spirit of some poor dead sailor,
skipping about aloft and yelling, as
he loosed the canvas, a hoarse and
cheery message to the deck below:
"Sheet home!"
keeper Mau Has Devised.
in the Case Scheml of Applied
Science in Cleveland there is a clock
that holds the' world's record for
of several mouths it showed a varia-
tion of only eight-thousandthe of a
second a day, which in a year's time
would be less than three seconds.
Ship chronometers, which are tho
most accurate time -measuring instru-
ments in general use, cannot keep
true time within leas than three to
five seconds a month. Marine obser-
vations are absolutely dependent on
accurate timepieces, but ship's officers
have to be satisfied if they can adjust
their cbronometers o that they, will
either gain or lose a certain amount
each day. Then they add or subtract
and get absolutely correct time. • In
plotting records of a ship's timepiece
its desirability is judged by a line thet
ascends or descends with absolute
regularity. If the line rises and falls
tile instrument is worthless.
The Case clock stands on a stone.
pier independent ef the building thet
extends eleteen feet to a natural shale
founeation. It is in a small room
surrounded by two other rooms, all
buile with brick walls, Gas stoves
heat the outer rooms, and electric
contact thermometers regulate the
temperature. The gas stove flame
automatically rises or falls with the
variation in the outside air tempera-
ture. Thue on earn' days in August
the flame in the gas stove is very low,
while iu below zero January it burns
at its brightest. In the clock room
Minard's Liniment Co., Linlited.
Gentlemen.—Last winter received
great benefit from the use of MIN-
ARD'S LINIMENT In a severe attack
of DaGrippe, and I have frequently
proved. it- to be very effective in eases
of Inflammation.
W. A. HUTCHINSON.
From Industrial Agent,
To Flight Commander
eriptions of incidents
in the lives of fly
ing men in gngland
-are given in letters
to frieride written by
Acting Plight Com-
mander Graham
Waters Curtis, for-
Merly Industrial
Agent of the Cana-
slian Pacific Railway
en Montreal, Who is
tor in Eltiglaad. The
school in which. he
teaches is a Vast ex.
Ostae of' country'
close to '4 beautiful
writes': "The Vielv
from the, air it, tee
perb, and we often
nee out older the Lea,
the British Warshipe.
And wave to the
sailors. When diving
We only travel t t the
tate of about 175
1111arructing, and em turning Out it tot of expert pilots.' The
hohool 1 am tOnneCted with is one IA which flsers finish their course of traiu-
leg, let of chaps from Borden come to ut to get gnat lessons, and then
thei are sent to Prance. We do all kincle of fancy performances—loop the
WO, roll, make spinning nese.divert, stde Wipe, end vertieal turns."
IIe describes how "little excite/twits" 11=1)01 When one aerenaut gee
into the "wash, or teiteettrettitt of air" made hy preeeding. navigator. The
tha high school in 'which he seats, Ile Mee: eWe have a lot of smasho„
hut very few death, considering eVerything. None of my
lettere indicate that Acting Ylight Commander Curtis le a plutielpii:lebaasiLtebreeo:
*filed yet." 414
Acting Plight' Cetnrciander Curtis has lately been recononeeeee by hts
tormanding °Meer for a first lieutenancy, ant expects tO sent to Preneei
11 all WO, Ho lolned the lloy$1 Vilna Corps on Novembep,
aa ordinary sixteen candle power in
candeseent lamp that Is Melted on
and oft by another eiectric contac
thermometer. The school strictly en
forees the rule that there Must never
be more then two people in this
Lefler room at one time.
The elock, which stands five feet
high, has three separate dials that
register the hoUria, Inintites and see.
ends. It is ineltesed in en airtight
glees jar, Inelde et which at:e delicate
instrOments for measuring tempera-
ture, atmospheric preesure and mole.
ture. A small =Mutt of chloride of
lime, which is an efficient desiccating
material, is kept always in the jar to
absorb the moisture.
By the aid of a set !of dry batteriee
the clock automatically winds itself
every seven minutea. The movement
is edjustee slow ter fast by pumping
air in or out of the glass container,
Observations are made from the out-
sIde through double glass windows
through the separating walls and by
means of a smaIl electric lamp placed
over the Male.
Not only can this wonderful piece
of clock mechanism be adeusted to
show less than a three second anneal
variation, but It is also possible to
make electrIc connections with othei
Renner elocks elsewhere. With this
es a master clock the °there can be
Made to. keep the same accurate time.
—Youth's Companion.
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
CONVEX LENS OF THE BYE.
A Burning Glass That Adjusts the
Bight to Varying. Distances. ance. Chargea halt]. Semi stamps for
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St. Catharinea, Ont.
AAT,AIITIII) FOR WEAVIS ROOM—MAN'
ee with some experience in weaVIne de•
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portunity to learn fixing; steedy job end
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rte.. to Siingeby Mfg. 00., Ltd,, Want.
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ilOislEY ORDERS.
ee with Dorninien Fixeren Money or.
dere. Five dollars- costs three cents.
FOR SALE.
prar.R.T CABINET AND WOODEN'
** furniture. Assorted sizes, Never
Used. Will be sold At a bargain, Ad.
dress Canada Ready Print 0o. goal'.
ton, Ont.
FARMS FOR SALE,
13.14,110/1" "OR QUICK SALL) ONLY—
hoice level wheat land In
C entre a; price SZ.Do acre; terms
arrange.. erop should more than
PAY for 'Li., mad: figure this out at 25
bus:lois per acre. J. CI. Leslie 84 COrn-
Pony, Farm Lands, Calgary.
EitISINESS CHANCES.
A prints; finishing a specialty; frames
and everything at loweet meows; kulea
service, United Art Co., 4 "Brunswi.ils
AN enue, Toronto.
T. ADIVS WANTIeD—TO DO PLAIN
•-• and lig,ht sewing at home, whole 01'
spare time, good pay; work sent any die -
One of the manifold wonders of th
h an eye is the convex tens with
which the focal distaaces et sight are
made instantly and without mental
eral "burning glass," as may be show
by the simplest of experiments.
Let the person at midday hold
straw nalust the face of the sun an
focus his eyes on the straw. He eau
look at the straw, with its back-
ground of a dazzling sun, and without
discomfort. But the moment he looks
at the fiery ball of the sun itself sub-
consciously the lens of the eye comes
to its proper focus, with the result
that a "burning" sun spot appears on
the retina of the eye, and It Is said
that few seconds of such looking
would burn out the retina as if by
fire itself.
In the subconscious adaptability of
the eye lens to adopt itself to dIffer-
cut distances lies its value to the hu-
man sight. The man with a camera
adjusts the focus of his lens by slid-
ing them forward and back. The
lenses of the huznan eye, by chaeg-
ing their curvatures, allow of one
looking at fine print six inches front
his nose and in a fraction of a second
to look up and away, probably fifty
miles to a mountain peak that in an
instant is in true camera focus, —
Pittsburgh Press,
particulars. National. SIanufacturira
company, Montreal.
VOU GAN MAICE 05 TO $75 1VEIMLY..
writing ahow cards at home. Bas-
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t_ canvassing or soliciting. We sell your
work, 1Vrite for particulars.
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PAINLESS—NEVE!? FAILS
Just think of, He -instant relief the
minute eon. but'a few drops of Put-
nam's Extractor on your sore corn.
Putnam's makes eornsedry up, makes
them shrivel and peel off. It doesn't
eat the goad flesh, it acts on the eorn
alone, loosens it so YOu can lift it out
with your fingers. Wonderful; you
bet Putnam's is a marvel, and Costs
but a quarter in any drug stove. Why
pay more for something not so good
as Putnam's?
"AIR -POCKETS" -
Trained Aviators These
Days Laugh at Them.
The rtoyel Flying Corps instructors
at the School ef Military Aeronautics, ,
declare that the "air -packets," about
wheels so much was said and written i
three years ago, have 'gone out of
fashion.' The aviator who goes to
the front from out of training camps
to -day no longer dreads "air -pockets,"
or any other eccentricities of the up-
per strata. He knows his element
just as the sailor learns to know the
sea—with this great difference: There ,
od in the aviator's training,
is nothing of the ruIe-of-thumb meth- I
By scientific application to the
study of aeronautics, the young avia-
tor. strange as it may seem, quickly
learns infinitely more about the air -
currents and clouds than do the grey
beanie of science. The first fl r
used to talk of "holes in the air," into
.which the aeroplane would fall. The
cadet learns that these aro really
downward currents and swirls. "Mr -
pockets," said one instructor; "Yee,
the air Is still wearing them, if that
is what you want to tall them. I know
they are there—Just as the man at tno
wheel knows when his automobile
gees over the last bump In the road,"
Therein lies the itecret of the safeee
of flying to-day—the. trained man
lcnows what causes air currents and
knows when and where to eepeet
them. And in any case they are no
longer a menace. because the swift
aeroplane of to -day has such speed
and power that it rides easily through
the strongest air currents. So Hier-
ough and complete is tho cadet's
grounding in metereoiogy (one thing,
for exaMple, the cadet soon learns
that running into gusts of Wind is as
bumpy as driving a cart over a cul-
vert), that within the short space of a
few months he gains wonderful pro-
MInard's Linirnent Cures Colds, Etc.
"Well," fetid the far west maYer to
the English tourist, "1 duano how YOU
manage these affairs over tliere, but
out here, -when some of' our boys got
tied up in that thar bankropt tele -
about they 'became mighty eruaty!"
"Yoe; they didn't like the way the
receiver wee handlin' the business no.
how."
"Indeed!" commented the earnest
listener; "then, may I tisk Ivitat they
"liertinlY; I was goin' to tell yeti.
They just hung up the teeeiver,"
PAPA% WORRY.
(Lenten Tranectiet)
"You masn't he angry, trIpa, because
,tath ones. to take tue &Way from
Certainly mt: But if he eVer
dote anything that will cause you tO
ohm hack again, I'll breVc his lleck."
ARTICLES WANTED FIR CASH
Old Jewellery, Plate, Silver, Curios,
Miniatures, Pictures, Needlework, Lk Cs,
010 China, Cut (Hass, Ornaments, Watch-
es, Rings, Table Ware.
Write or send by Express, to
ANTIQUE GA.LLERIBS.
28 and 30 College Street Toronto, Ont.
THE FLYING DAYS
What Are We Weaving Lito
Our Chara,eter?
"Thy days are swifter than a weav-
er's shuttle."
Youth d,oesn't realize the truth of
•
passes thirty he begins to talte note
of the fleeting years, and by the timo
be reaches forty the quick Pewee of
time appals him, But whether we
think about it or not the treth re-
mains that our days are sWIfter Llian
a weaver's shuttle. And clay by day
we are Wearing new strands into. the
fabric we call character. We should
be careful -of the WOrkinanship So that
each day as the weaving goes ou
unworthy etrands May. wovati In to
mar the beauty of_ the fabric.
In theeaet museutus hang priceless
tapestries: the handiwork of weavers
of marvellous. skill. These tapeetries
have beconee historic and hold high
ple• e. among the world's art treasures.
But not oue of them has the value
of the fabric each of us is weaving.
from day to day. The things made by
men are less great than the men that
make thetu. The tapeetries wilt Intl- •
inately diteintegrate. Character Mono
which we are daily weaving the etrande
of life is the thing of tepreme im-
portance,
tapestry you must stand from it far
enough to get the right perspective,
And no it is if you would sect what
kind of a fabric you are weaving. Don't
forget this. Don't • be so relay that
you have no time to eit down by your-
eett and examine' your character. And
further, don't be, afraid to do it; that
is a coward's unworthy part. eltea,vo
into your character strands of JOY,
truth, sincerity. kindneas and ail those
things that make for beauty, so that
as pee etand back and look at your
work, as your friends look at it it
may be beautiful,
This to:peatry of character that yoll
weave 54 the only thing you can both
take with YOU and leave behind YOU,
It Only is of supreme worth, It will
endure threugh eternity, And remem.
her that the davs of Your weeving Pass
:twiner than a weaver's shuttle.
Dying Villages,
But it is the American village that
most betrays the impulse of our civile h
eation, a civilization Ora perpetually
averrettehee, itself, only, to be obligel
to surrender again and again to nature
everything it has gained. How many
thousands of villages, frost-bitten,
palsied, full of a morbid, bloodless
death -in. -life villages that have lost, if
they ever posseati the secret of self-per-
petuatioe, lie scattered across the cou-
Unmet! Even iu California need to
find them on Ione erose-eountry walee,
villages Often en-ough not half a eel.-
tury old, but in a state of essential de-
cay. Communities that have em.r.imo
teing on the flood tido of an enterprise
too rapidly worked out, they all eignify
the nentral areas an old pdteting
where the color, incompletely ',,Ttisci:
And of perishable quality, has iirapot•
tiARD ON 'UTILE ONES
OM' Canadime winters aro extremely
hard on the health et little elles. The
weather es often so eovere that*, Oaf
mother cannot teke the little one out
for an airing. The tensequenee is that
yetilated rooms;.1141tea olds and be-.
comes eross and peevish. Baby,s."Gale
'Mire nide, The Tablets are sold'_'hy*
181 Ittp, steeciaatil:bratOrotlYw..Ltr8T. 41bitteyiy:1;
'1'hora MAY be uleadess days land , on
whotitles4, days, but the, average wo. MeiLl
elan will alwaye* sWalloWflattery, cud