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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-11-07, Page 6+ • Sr+ 4-4404 14 +44+44 4 44+ 4+1++-+ I Foch's Three Guarantees Fortress Cities in The Rhine I District to Insure Good . Faith. 4-4 47•44-++44-4,44+4 +++4- +444-4-• • When Marshal Foch demanded the eurrender to the Allies of the German fortressee of Metz, Cobienz and Stras- burg as a, guarantee of good faith by the Huns peirding any peace proceed - Inge, he demanded:the meaue of hold- ing the.faithiess lien in the hollow er bis hand. Tbeee teed (ems ere the Iteye to the entire Rhine ‘,,cilleY, and properly garrieonee tine deaeeted bY the powertul, torces avallabie by the Allies wound not wily confine the Mi- nims to the et bank of Lite Rhine, but would menace sucli great centre ae Cologne, lerankture Mayo:lee, eianalieile and other toe ne, contain - lug the munition meats eupplying the tierman arinies. 'With Mete as the central apex, theY would form a grent triangle, with Straeburg 105 mild to the southeliet, and eoleenz 115 Miles to the north- east, With Metz Wised by the French fortresse,s of. Verdun on the west, 23 miles away, and leeliney to the eouth, n mites distant. The base' of tele tri- angle would be tile Rhine, on which between Coblenz and Strasburg lie the reties pf Maine, Worms, LudiVigshafen, learlsrulle and Spires • cn the west bank, and Wiesbaden and 'Mannheim on the eteet bank, with Frankfort on the Main, and 'Heidelberg on the Nee- kar but a. few miles from the Rhine. In thie. triangle would be numeroue important tewns, including Treves, Which is On the Moselle, about half way between Metz and Cobleaz. This territory includes all of old Alsace and Lorraine; and the Rhineland Which vonstituted the province oE the Rhine .dreated by theerench during the great revolution, ALWAYS STRONGHOLDS. All three cities.dte back to :Roman thud and were etrategic cutpoets a the Ramat Empire. All three are neavily fortified and absolutely ne- cessety for ;the defence of GermanY. TTW STOLEN JEWELS Igether, and disagreeable rulnors began to circulate. 'Then, by Beetle elle*, Idained means, the opinion of Nahall became known regarding bia opinion that Caprice had atoleu the t.liamonde herself. Here Wilii enether InyeterY. WhY on earth eleoula ahe steal her own jowele? One theory was that she required MOUSY and had gold them for this purpose, pretending that they Were stolen in order ; to satiety the lovers who gave them to ben This was clearly abeurd, as Caprice cared nothing for the opinion of her lovers, and, moreover, the donors of the dia. sir o monds were long since dead or ruin -- "I'm certain I know tete thief," ciaid 1 "Yu—you suspect •ircY guests, - ' ed, so the idea of the detective was Fenton quietly. "I told you that the cried Kitty angrily, unanimously laughed at. But then man Villiers was seen about the place "Certainly not," said the detective the fact reemined, she would not al - on the night a the robbery." quietly; "but I suspect Villiers." "By whom?" "Villiers!" low an investigation to be made; and how was this to be accounted tor? "Myself and Caprice." "Yes: lir. Fenton tells Me you saw Who saw him last'."' One idea was mooted, teat Villers had bim on that night." stolen the diamonds, and she would Kitty nestled a look of anger on the "Caprice." American, who bore it unmoved. not prosecute him because he wee the "Oh, said Naball ihiperturbablY, husband of the woman Who had been "then she's the best person to see on "Yes, he was outside, and wanted to the subject." see me. I saw him give hire some kind to her. In this case, however, she would bave easily got back her money, and he left." "He's a bad lot," said Fenton; "he "Then' I tell you he overheard you jewels by a threat of prosecution, was mixed up in that poisoning ease eight years ago." say where ,you kept the diamonds, be- whereas they were etill naissing. Other "The Midas case?" cause he was hiding outside the wine solutions of the problene were offered, _ but they were unsatisfactory, and Mel- dow; so, after seeing YOU, he coni , . "Yes, Caprice, or rather ICitty Mar- e mitted the robbery." bourne settled itself down to the opin- churst, was conceened in It also "So I telieve," replied Nabalie :,eyThat,',s, wihat I think," said Fenton. ion that the whole affair was a rays- ou. er ed Kitty. "What have you tory which would never he solved "every one was innocent except Jar- aot to do with it? I don't believe he Keith and gzra, had both been puz- per and Vandeloup—one was hanged, - . ' e:ene them, and, whether he did or not, OA over the,' affair, and offered Kitty the other committed .suicide. I don't I m not goieg to continue this case." their services to unravel the mysterf, see what it has to do with the pres- ent case," Fenton. "You'll lose your diamonds," cried but she curtly dismissed them with the remark that she wished the affair "Simply this," said Fenton sharp- "That's my business," she returned, left alone, so they had to obey her and ly, annoyed at the other's tone, "VII- rising haughtily; "at all events, I have remain in ignorance like the rest of lers is a scoundrel, and wouldn't stop decided to let the matter rest, So M. the public. Affairs thus went an as at robbery If he could make some Naball will have all bis trouble for usual, and the weeks 'flipped by with money over it." nothing, Should I desire to eeopen the iso further information being f °rat - "He knew Caprice had diamonds affair, I will let you both. know. At ceming, worth five thousand?" present, good morning," an, with a Meenwbile, "Prince Carnival" was knew that." "Of course; every one in Melbourne the room. Kitty appeared nightly, being now a sweeping bow, she turned .and left still running to crowded houses, and "Did he know where they were Fenton stared after her iti blank still greater attraetion on account of kept?" the robbery of whtch ahe was the her- amazemeat. "There's a safe in the room, and a - "Good God; 'what a fool!" he cried, oine. She had fulfilled her promise thief, of course—" ; risNinatall reethVrhuagtg'esdtohibeeeVeledenroew?" to •Keith, in seeing 'Mortimer about the chances. of production for "Faust "Would go' there first—precisely— but you forgot the diamonds were tak- "Nothing,' he plied, "since she de- Tbsetee. The nianager was doubtful en out of the drawer of her looLing- clines to give me power to investigate. about the experlittent of trying colon- glass—a most unlikely place for a thief I must throw the affair up. "But." ial work, MI told Kitty Plainly he to examine. The man who stole the also rising, and putting on his hat, could not afford to lose money on saeh jewels must have known where they "I'd like to have a look at the ro d a speculation, beneath the window," e .. g un "It's all stuff," he said to her when were kept." "Oh, said Fenton, and looked as- ! she urged him to give the young men They both went out, Naball silent, tonished, as he wear quite unable to ex- . and Fenton in.great wrath, talking of a chance. I can gel „ operas from Plain. He was about to reply, when sured, end I don't see why I should . Kitty's conduct. London whose success is aiready as - the train haying arrived at its des- "What an idiot she is!" he cried. tination, they got out, and walked of two unknown colonials." to "What is she going on in this Way' waste money on the crude production Kitty's house. for?" "That's all very true," retorted Ca - Singe it became part of the German She was in the drawing-roorad Wbrigt: price, "and from a business point of "I don't know." at 1 Ing letters and looking pale an at._ "Women don't require a ntotive for "She must have some motive." Empire .when, -.stolen be the Hun view, correct; but considering you le70, Metz. bee been surrounded with gard, her eyes having dark cire.es lb anything," said Naball, imperturbably make your money out of colonial tied - 22 great .forte, the outworks reaching I neath them, which told of a sleep cede iences, I don't see why you shouldn't to inc battlefield of Gravelotte on the : night. .When. the twp men entere proceeding to .exainine the ground un - give at least one chance to. see what west, ana ThionVille (Teutonized to the room she welcomed them grtace- der the window, through which the colonial- brains can do. As to crud- Diedenhofen) gin the north, The Am- fully, and then resumed her sea as y, waits -and see. I. don't went you thief had made his exit. The flower- erican force e 'are now within striking they began to talk. bed was filled With tall hollyhocks, it y. of both those . points and "I have brought you Mr. Naball to . and some of these were broken as if to take the opera if it is bad, but if Foch may shortly get Metz in spite of look after this affair," said Fenton, some heavy body had fallen fromy In atphper oevned of i eIt,t igmi veer iptreatecilleaend ,eet.h9at the Hun. When he does, the entire looking at her. Lorraine-colied euetry will fall to tbe Al- "You are very kind," she 'rep „ above. He clambered down by the ivy," if he approved of the libretto and lies ad Strasburg would be endan- coldly; "but the feet is I have not yet murmured Nebel' to himself, as he music, he would try the piece at the gered feoin 'tbe north, as well as from dedided about placing it in the hands bent dawn. "The ivory is breken end of the run of "Prince Carnival," Naney on the, west. of the police." here and here; the flowers are also but put Eblis in rehearsal, in case his With aletz• in the hands of the Al- "But the diamonds?"—began Fen - broken, so he fell on them in a heap— forebodings of failure should be justi- lies,,Coblenz would. also be endanger- ton, in amazement. , probably having missed his footing. fled. When, however, the first act ed -and- Treve,s would undoubtedly be "Were mine," finished Kitty, coo,- . was finished and shown to him,he was eaptured, ly; "and as the loss is mine, not Tours, Hump! Clever man, as he did not eeebeeitz Wits originally a pbsting I will act as I think fit in the mat - step again on the flower -bed, but graciously pleased to say there was tsiation of thejumped from where he fell on to the good stuff in it, and began to be a Romans. It occupies a ter." dry rass. . Humph! grass hard and rath- -ittle more hopeful as to its success. l So Keith evotked hard all day at his Rhineland at. the .corifluence of the comfited Fenton, she addressed her- __1' c ance of footmarks. ger em,ployment, and at night on his lib- retto, to which Ezra put bright, tune - And has Or lied`..aseletipnlation of about "I should like your opinion on the "By the gate, of course,' said Fen- tut music. With the usual sanguine 5e 000 tthd a gairlson befOre the war subject," she. said, graciously, "and. ton impatiently. - expectations of youth, they hever detective walked across the lawn d t f f il e a d Keith wrote the of a PritaSiatl ttiVASIOli. The neighbor- ing heights ,areergill 'strongly fortified, there bekig, theeeageeat fOrts and the famous citadel of Ehrenbreetzteln, toeveret ozt an eleVation 3e5 feet -then I will see If the case can be gone in with," to the gate, but could find no traceOf Naball, who had been keeping -1 is footmarks, as the lawn was dry, and keen eyes on her face the whole time, the footpath leading out into the pave - bowed. , ment of the street was asphalted. " • ' " h did. not o by the gate as a Above the two steers, and affords a "Tell me all the details of the rob- No; e g . , vieW -fee tellies in every direction. bery," he observed, cautiously. min in -such rags as Villiers Would It :lute. auryieree, nubaerous seiges and "They are- simple enough," replied ha-Ve been sure to be seen coming but Was in the poteseetilon of the French ICitty, foldhig her hands. "I bring ofa private house. That - would be f tom 17e9ld fOrtrto'Ul5e,'7•72'.• aaylum them home, from the theatre every suspicious; besides, he would have 'kings and mediaeval I 1 night, and, Usually put them In the -been afraid." This Oese., Vas .an for eine**, during. ' e safe, which as ie. my room. On Sat- _"Of' the police?" troubles, and although Coblenz was a . urday nightahowever, I was tired, and "Exitetly; he's been in prison two or free ' ePiscopli eItyeeeio important waa . I must confess,'rather careless and three times since his connection evith the fortreee that eiti commandments as the case wason my dressing -table, the Midas case, and has got a whele- 'Were teefaired.toalitke the. oath of fi- I placed ft in the drawer of my look- delity to the Emperors' as well as to 1 ing_glese, to save me the trouble a thelet own eirincese ...- I going to the • safe I gave a supper the original ',Kurt )3aedeker, whose ' e :party- on Sunday nigne, and - when ev- guide books", a re in such demand- by ery one of the party had gone away, . the PerthineCreseders now on their I went upstairs to bed, and found the way on a pilgrimage'eto the Rhine,. is window open; reccollecting where I e buried here, ell a' Gjneral Von Gee- had ut the. diamonds I opened the ten, On of the eongtierore of Metz in 1 drawer and found them gone. My sea-, le70. I round beneath The heroie French General Marceau, vents examined the &. - the windoW and found foot -marks in who was killed at the battle of Alt- 1 the mould of the flower -bed so I sup- kirchen, bee a Montrinent there, it the pose the thief must have e'ntered by Hems_ ' havo•not destroyed ft. and it ' was here that thgrandmother oall- , the wind,ow, with stolen the jewels:, and e f • highest: Itved in heemad du'pelace ring tne , e'ranco-Cterenali war e.nd 'vliera ald Wi eff withem.' she hadem"ned silent for a minute, but justfinished, Naball re - ma William' I. sent her his Sammie report ' as Fenton was about to speak, he in - of the battle of Sedat which lias been terpetted. ; anglicized •to read: "I Will ask you a few questions, ma - "Glorious( news, my dear Auguste; . -, dame, ' he said, thoughtfully: "When We've fought. and won another buster. did you see the diamonds last?" Ten- thouttind Frenehtnen sent below! "About six o'clock on Sunday night. PreeteeflGowod, from wham :, 1 blest -An -1'e: I opened the drawer to get somothing, One- weilitlets if that was all -high- and saw the ease." .tstes Gott to whem Old nri .iam re- "Not the diamonds?" f erred. "They were in the case." Strasburg, only 30 miles from "Are you sure?" the . "W French frontier, had been a French here else would they be?" . city. fOrenearly e20le Years when all. "Some hne might have stolen them higliestak geanelfathee, the ebeve-men- previously and left the case the to toned Old Williani, forcibly stole it in : "KeritttyBUIPODicil°rIllier head. 18/0 -after - a. hereto. defence by the 'Impossible.' The case is ale° -Freitelineral -BlIrich. - gone, besides, 1 locked the case en Surrounaed by great fortifications ', extending five miles from the city, it Saturday night, and had the key with ,is juete3e4 mile, emu Berlin, and is me. No other, key could have opened it, and had the case been forcee, I '-consideteethe oath:western bastien ot Would have seen it at once. See," the litinaletilPire, It is the capital of AlsaceeLorraine and has a population e lifting up her arm, "1 always wear of 200,000. it- is ieltuatd en the riVer thle bracelet and the key' is attached III, rather a significant ,name at this to it by a chain." time, and is connected with tin:Rhine, Naball glanced earelessly at it, and three Miles away,by the Rhine- Went on 'Withhis nueetions. Warne Opal. It is elk') connected with "You generally kept the -diamonds the Rhine-It:Irene. Canal, in the safe?" . From, the Aitne of the Ronsans it "Yee' "And it Was has beet P;•iirlace Of-etrategleal 1Mper- ratite an oversight not tanee. It Was here that Julian the placing them in there on Saturday?" Apostlis won his great vietcry Over the "QUite." 'Altmann', which made him Emperor "No one knew they were in the Of Rome. drawer of your looking -glass on that particular night?" TOO MUCH. 50. "No otte." eA police court teen ale grhn and "You get along tfast," he said tord- , Here Fenton interposed. ked Judge White - day. "Sometimes something really funny euickly. "Everyone at the :upper Id," remarthe other oo happens, Not so very long ago a cheett- table knew you kept them thet:e; you -four WS ,b11,011,Sht In atter having run eaid it VS them yoarself." siown a man, ,you knoW that If you struek Naball glanced itherply at Kitty. this pederAraln he...would be setiously "1 keow I did," oho replied quietly; urett?" I !isked. "Then Why didn't you zigzag your car always kept there, which they 'were and n' ; „guessed • Honor . drawer Ort that particular night." nteour was the an • .yes, sir, replied the chauffeur. "hilt I smoke 118 if the diamonds were miss hir? -*Re waa zliftzagging hiTself, am]: cet- not. I did not say they were, in the eevete—Los 'Angeles TimeA, I "Y'ou mentioned it generally?" said - _ , Po3OrovArtificittl, • 1 Naball, tranquilly. said the detective slowly. with the Midas poisoning cafie, and of produetion were first eompiled in 1601 and to whom fell the posthumous , prepared to 11 the industry late Steedily in - "No, nene; and the other Wes 'the public were quite boner of leaditig off flomuti .Tolnizon's . hear rim evil of her, particularly to 1c9reased, tied the output for 1916 of "Live*, of the, Poets." Johnson ranked 1 cl°041." 1,066,876 short tons, valued at e1,146,. Nebel' patteed a Moment. her career since then had been anr- him *thong those he called the, "mete- I thing but pure. phyoc,ar. roeto and .noreosei a 41s,.. "I tell you what, he said sloWly, , 582, represents a gain of 512 per cent. eithe diamonds were stein between nix 'Ihe name or Villiers WaS mentioned in quantity and 460 per cent. iti valet, like far his far.fetcheel conceits arith I &dock and the tune you went 0 bed." and then it transpired that Vil- whisb. fne present tlay-readur would 1 "AbOut thte3 o'clock.° said Kitty. Hers had been iseen ottteide her for the six years. Iv artily coincidet- ....... -..---4.4.41... I "Precisely. You saw the diamonds hedge on the night of the robbery. Illobbs—He Intim% much of a ropu- Yet 1 dotibt not etbrottgh the ageg 0110 'last at six, they were gone by three; It was curious that another tation in political life, has he? Slobbii inorMeing PnrOso tans, and the You mentioned where you keet them Crime thould haVe happened where .--Wele, he 'boasts that he has never tholsghts of melt are widened he' the at the elinriemahle; now, the thief these two, formerly implicated in a bean bribed. Illobbe I'll het he'S procese of the stins.--Tennyson. IAllat have overheard Yon." ,.. murder case, *tumid have come to- Itoging tie luck may Change. ream o a ur , most enthusiastic letters to his be - teethed, announcing the gratifying fact that he had got his -foot on the lowest rung of the ladder of fame. As to his uncongenial employment at the pawnshop, he stroVe to conquer his repugnance to it, and succeeded 111 winning the approval, of old Lazarus by his assiduous attention to busi- ness. He attended ta the books, and, as time went on, the pawnbroker ac- tually let him pay ' money . into the bank, so great had his cenfidence in the young man become. He increased some 'dread of the law. No; he did Keith's salary, and oven then chuck - not go lei the gate, but by the river."' led to himself over his cleverness in "The river!" repeated Fenton, in retaining such a clever servant at so low a pric.e. amazement. Naball did not answer, but walked Though bis business was ostensibly back to the window, then along the that of a pawnbroker, he was in the side of the house, turned the corner, habit of conducting very much more an,d went down the sloping - green delicate transactions. In 'his dingy bank which led to - the river little den at the back of the shop he Still he could see no footmarks. The sat like a great spider waiting for grass ended at an. iron fence, and be- flies, and the 'flies generally came in Yond Was the uncultivated vegetation, at a little door which led from the room into a dirty yard, and there was the banks of the river. Between thie rank and unwholesome, that clothed gartykeineadomfitntannrreoew terigthht-iosfayeearyd evfhreicnht and the grass, however, there was a the street. By this humble way many strip of black earth, and this Nebel' well-known people came, particularly examined carefully, but could find at night—the fast young man who had nothing. If Villiers had come this backed the wrong horse, the seeculat- way, he could only have climbed the ive share -broker, and the spendthrift fence by first standing on this earth sobiety lady, all came here in quest of parently he had not done so. In order to get near ,enough, but ap-- ea their security was good, and, of tnoney, which they always got, provid- said, as they Walked back. centage. Lazarus had dealings with course, they paid an exorbitant per: "But how could he have left the all -sorts and conditions of . men and place?" asked Fenton.. women, but he was as silent as the "By the gate." "The gate? You said he Would he knew what secrets that dirty old He - grave over their affairs, and no one iehea'd he been doing brew carried in his breast. Of these afri.asiod obfe twheoupiodl: anything wrong. Had he stolen the nocturnal vistiors Keith saw nothing, diamonds, he Would have gone deem as he left at six o'clock, after which by the bank of the river rather than Isaiah Shut up the shop, and the front chance Meeting a policeman on the doterittnheeseh,o‘upshellewhasneilneefete in enprtofeenunind street." the little back room, "But whet does this prove?" "That, had he met a policeman, be,.. It was now a fortnight since -the could have explained everything, and robbery, and the nine days' wonder referred him to C,apriee as to hie In- having ceased to amuse, people were terview, and right to con ie nut of the sbteglinnlivnegdtoinforEgeeettallitteblhoeunt 0. 'ee withit l i Ezra, and on going home one night Melbourne house. In a word, it proves he did not w.as sUrPriSed to find a letter from steal the diamonds." the manager of the Hibernian Bank "Then who, in HeaVen'a name, 'which informed h'm that the eium of , "I don't give an opinion unlels I In fl 'e hied credit. Stewart Went: next day Ve. hundred pounds had been placed certain," said Naball deliberatelY; " bo fin out the mine of his unknown "bat I'll tell you what I think You enefaetor, but the manager refused heard Caprice mg she won't go with t to tell him, as he had been pledged to the case?" secrecy. So Keith returned to Ezra In "Yes; I can't understand her rea- a state of great perplexity to talk over eon." "I can; the stole the diamonds her - room and discuesed the matter late the affair. They sat in E ' zra s sitting - self." CHAPTER IX. at night with great aasiduity, but Were EVeryone was greatly excited over Unable to come to any conclusion. the great jewel robbery, especially as "You don't knove anyone who Would it had taken piece at the house of do you a good turn?" asked Lazarus, sa celebrated a person as Capriee, end when he heard this news. numerous Were the conjecturea as tet "No—no oee," replied Keith. "1 the discovery of the thieves. . When, haven't a single relative in the Col - h iwever, it beeame known that the onies, and no friend rich enough to aely in qeestioa declined to allow an give me so much money—unless it be "tee, end was tee. Were your father," with a. sudden in - invest igation to spiration. parently contented to lose five thou - (To 'be continued.) sand pounds, worth of diamonds, the oxeitement grew intense. What was Limestone Continues in Favor. "Yes. All the people present were her motive for acting in ouch a strange Pulverized limestone continues to be To the ,eatte yew. siq Lovelace, or IILIY gleittS," and I hardly thitik any of Way? All Melbourne leaked itself WS In favor as a soil sweetener or fertil- them would rob MO Of MY diainonde." question, but withoUt Obtaining a Sat- izer, aecording to the United States ' And three centerieff ago, was born "Were any of the servants in the isfaetory answer. Reference was made Abrahafte Cowley, who published hie 1 geo ogical stirvey. Since the figures room when you nutde the remark?' to Ki t ' t I t 1 i t y s an eceten a n conned on I first book of poeme at the age of fif- Economy ! 11 1 is not only the most economical on account of its great strength but you have the refreshing and deliciols qualities as well. 0438 Ask your (roceri In Sealed Metal Packets. General Ouster's War Horses, Frog Town was one of General Cuss ter's war horses. He was the fineet specimen eaf the thoroughbred I ever saw, standing 16 hands, well balanced and of excellent proportions, writes a (correspondent of the Washington) Poet. Ia motion he was superb, a perfect model for the sculptor's art. The favorite war horse of General, Custer on the plains was a brown horse called Dandy. He was 151,ea hands, a compact, muscular horse, fine head and neck. He marched in tho ranks of Cueter's little army of daring troopers on June 25, 1876, against the confederated Sioux tribes, that terrible day of the massacre of Custer and his men, in the Valley of Little Big Horn, and was shot through the teeulder. He lived, however, to return te Fort Lincoln, whence, after a partial raeovery, he was sent to General Custer's father at Monroe, Mich. - Mlnard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. - A Queer Building. 01 the many strange buildings heel temples in the Far East, says a writer in 'the Wide World Magazine, there are none more wonderful than the four hundred and fifty temples of law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma, known as the, Rutholdaw, or "Royal Merit." The group consists of it large central pagoda surrounded by Ain-shap-min, who asceaded the throne on the death of his brother In 1867. The latter was cruelly mur- dered by his two nepliewe, and it appears that this very much affected the new king. Not only did he de- vote his energies to peace, but erected this strange group of temples, each one of which contained a slab on which ie engraved a portion of the Buddhist Bible. The holy tablets are made of eoft marble or alabaster, each slab being about the size of a large, old-fashioned upright tomb- stone. On both sides are engraved chapters from the, Buddhist scrip- tures. Oververy slab is erected a canopy shrniounted by a gilded framework of metal with small tink- ling bells. The temples are situated In a beautiful woode,d valley, and seen from the surrounding hills they present a fascinating picture. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. ' used MINARD'S LINIMENT for found nothing equal to it; sure Have Croup; cure. CHAS.. E. Hawkshaw, N.B., Sept. SHARP. 1st, 1805. Thinking, Standin' up here on the fire -step, Lookin' anead in the miet, With a tin 'hat over your ivory And a rifle clutched in your fist! Wallin' and watchin' and wond'rite If the Hun's comite over to-night— Say, are,n't the things you think cse Enough to give you a tright? Things you ain't even thought of For a couple o' months or more; Thinge that 'ull set you laughin', Things that 'all make you sore; Things that you saw in the movies, Things that you saw in the street, Things that you're really proud of, Things that are--xiot so sweet. Faces of pals in Homeburg, Voices of women folk, Verses you learnt in ,school days Pop up in the rdiet and smoke, 'As you stand there, grippin' that rifle, A-starine and chilled to the bone, Wonderin' and wonderin' and won- , derine Just thinkin' therd—all elate! When will the war be over? When will the gang breakthrough? What will the U. S. look like? What will there be to do? Where will the Boches be then?. Who will have married Nell? When's the relief a-comin' up? Gosh! But this thinkin's hull! —Private Hudson Hawley- - - - Minard's ,Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. How Sugar Became a Necessity. Man's enormous need for eugar is the result of the evolution of his di- gestive system. Our remote ancestors in the European forests of the ice age were able to digest cellulose and get the sugar out of it, as a goat or a camel cloos now. The organ which dld this work was the fermiform appen- dix. Later, Man began to get enough sugar by converting the starch in grains and fruits. Then he discovered the process of cooking, which makes this convers'oe of etarehes into sugar much eaeler, and even in some (mete performs the conversion. When sia gar wag discovered, it was at first regarded as it euriceity, then eerved as a luxury, and finally, became the necessity which it now ie, as men's etornechs became aecustom- ed to its use. It is, then, it partially digeeted food, and a highly carmen- trated form of energy. The sugar -eat- ing man has survived because he took great burden off his digestive tract and thereby had more energy for oth- er work. Hence man lute beconhe confirmed sugar eater. Vegetable Sheep. "Some of the most singular plants in the world," says a writer in Wide World, "are the vegetable sheep of New' Zealand. These are known to science as Raoulia eximia, and at - though they are of such a strange habit of growth they are members of the daisy tribe. The vegetable sheep grown at high altitudes, usually on some bleak mountain slope, which which may be 5,000 feet above sea - level. The whole plant is a com- pact mass of stems densely covered with small woolly leaves. So closely do the raoulias resemble sheep that ex- perienced shepherds will often climb a long way up the mountain thinking that they see some missing member of their flock huddled against a rook, only to diseover that they have been deceived by a plant! During a re- cent exhibition at Christ Church in New Zealand, some specimens of the veeetable sheep were collected for the "show The plants are often large and heavy, 6.2.4 0It requires the efforts of half a dozea strong men to secure some fine exaerples of the raoulias, • • AGENTS TohoSlecill HAorviscle- of Real Merit . Every woman wants it and buys . it on sight. 100 per cent. profit. . Sample 25e. Write to -day for par- ticulars. HOUSEtiOLD UTRITIES Box 404, Parry Sound, Ont. k Worth Rem.erabering For a coal saver, dissolve one pound of washing soda in one gallon of water and pour it on the coal' and let coal dry. Coal treated in this way will burn much longer than tho original coal. Don't put aside your carpet sweeper because the wheels sae worn out. In- stead, bind the wheele with adhesive plaster the desired thickhess and the sweeper will again run smoothly and dolts work. Common alum melted in an old iron epoon will mend broken chine. The old trunk tray covered with white- oilcloth makes a handy kitchen tray for dishes. A garbage can will not rust, and so wear much longer, if given one or two coats of, good paint in the inside when it is new. To remove spots from wash goods, rub then when the yolk of an egg be- fore washing. When making ginger cookies cold coffee, if milk is scarce. Rub the nickel stove trimmings and plated door handles and hinges with kerosene and whiting and polish with a dry cloth. Catarrh Cannot Be , Cured Vilth LOCAL APPLICATIONS', as they use Rather a Jolt. Apropos of the pro-Oerman Props.- ganda which he bas been carrying on In his own country, a stater is being told concerning the son of tbe groat Norwegian Writer, Bjornsterne gpartwPrioeenh atshea Pbenieint elleaenrdned",ieist worth preserving. Young Rjornsoll, in the course of a voyage on an oceau steamship, had the temerity to intrude himself on Use bridge. The captain was scandalized, as au captains would be, and requested the intruder to ree turn at once to the deck. "Are you aware," Held Bjornson, hotly, "to whem you aer tweaking'," and when the captain professed complete 'gum., twee, added, "To the eon of Norway's greatest poet." "I cannot help it," said. the captain, with the ON! et Man Who performs an unpleasaat duty. "You Must, none the lase, leave the bridge."—Mr. Ibsen, 1 ; 1 Without Military Honors. The Sunday sehool teacher hed read tho 73rd Psalm. "Whet do you think," she asked a little boy, "the words mean 'I 'saw the prosperity of the wicked, For there are no,bands In their death:" The boy paused, and then replied, "Why, teacher, it means that wicked men mustn't have mili- tary funerals." THE FALL WEATHER HARD ON LITTLI ONES Canadian, fall weather is extremely hard on little ones. One day it is warm and bright and the next wet and' cold. These sadden changes bring on colds, cramps and colic, and unless baby's little atomach is kept right the rata may be serious. There is nothing to equal Baby's Own Tab- lets In keeping the little ones well. They sweeten the stomach, regulat2 the bowels, break up colds and make baby thrive. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. William& Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Helpful Hints. To clean a topper boiler, moisten a cloth with kerosene, and rub it over the outside while the 'boiler is hot. The stains and smoke will disappear' like magic, leaving a clean surface which may be •polished, if desired. Instead of chipping a block of ice to °bale ice for freezing cream or for the table, apfey a heated bread,knife or poker. This e'..S) cause the ice to sep- arate easily without tee annoyance of OR SALE—POUNDRY AND ma.- chips all over the room etal else with •11. v chine shop; low price for immediate less waste to the ice. I purchase. Apply to the Tillsonburg Pone- eobnart.& Machine Co„ Limited, Tillsonburg, Try using your Vaceum cleaner for drying the feathers in your pillows after washing. Remove the bag from the cleaner and after ripping the end of pillow, apply it tightly to the clean- er and turn on the current. The air thus created will dry. the feathers in a surprisingly short time and they will be as light and fluffy as when new. M inard'sLiniment for sate erywhere everywhere ISSUE O. 45, 1918 WANTED. WANTIelea-GBNICHAL, BLAOKOMTH0 Bele Bros., Bothwell, Ont. HELP WANTED --MALE putsr..ol,,Ass OstaleleNTER8 WANT. • ed for inside and outtsido WOrki Also ahop work; winter's work for cOMOetont mechanics. Apply W, J. eliceey, general contretor, Welland. WANT= — PM/A.113BR WHO CAN ee work at tinsmithing, stea.fly 30 S. B. McClung es Ca., Trenton, Ont. MISCELLANEOUS. A DOMINION EXPRESS MONIat 4-4 Order for five dollars cOsts Cents, ' tait SALE COleel SCREENTNGS fl • car lots. Selling cheap. Apply Thos. Myles' Bons, 1ion-111ton, Ont, rvIlUASHING OUTFIT IN FIRST, A class running shape; now earning R5 Pet' day; consisting of Waterloo en- gine, 18 x 20 h.p.• Waterloo separator, 33 ,cylinder, 42 body; Victor clover huller; water tank, drive belt; new LH. C. corn cutter; complete outfit, twenty-five hun- dred; worth three thousand; terms ar- ranged, 'Apply Fred. Gould; IlingWooci P.O. FARMS F0.4 SALE. s1P1c2cdAsid0en,Brogr —3511‘51;°oRnnthOeRpreBraisSes 1,40: trooll trio; e ChOuA ese:,81u°pn- t o 2- dEa trearrib 49:1: barnnesr: good stables, with water; closed in shed. Silo, piggery; hennery, sheep pen, never failing well, windmill, goed orcnard; farm In good state of cultivation well fenced, well watered; flve miles'from arwneoacigdU: Swri, 0.teRenl:uNfIr.cooh.me3s, Gocuinoetal.pen tby.scAhopopli-yhouot Premises, Mrs. Lena Leybourne, Rock- , 1-4 LOCK OF LAND, 926 - ACRS. 9 • Farms of 160 acres each. All in the Province of Ontario. 1 Farm of 160 acres in Manitoba. 6 Private De/clangs In North Bay, Ont., will be sold cheap for ca,h. LOANS WANTED on North Bay Pro - Potties gilt edge, one of $7000, and one $800. Particulars will be furnished on aPPIlesaion. Apply to 'William Martin & Son, North Bay, Ont. Box a26, Phone 42. BUSINESS CHANCES WANTED. WANTED—TO 13UY A GENERAL store,in a live Ontario town of at least 5,000 population ; must be a good live business. Address R. S. Brown, St. Chrysostome, Province Quebec. FOR SALE OR TO RENT. RICIC STORE SUITED FOIL GENER- LJ al, merchant, in village of Mori -es - ton, if miles from Guelph, 1 mile from Puslinch station, C.P. Railway; easy terms; immediate possession can be giv- en. Apply M. W. Hinkley, Drumbo. BUSINESS CHANCES. 1 - In Topsy Turvy Japan. Jinrikishaw men draw lots for pros- pective passengers rather than over- whelm him with attentioe. To.call a Japanese child by beckon- ing, the gesture should be made ‘with the back of the hand uppermost end the fingers bent together downward, the motion being siightly downward. Although the Japanese school chil- dren leave their wooden clogs or san- dals outside the school house, no Mis- chievous school boy eVer mixes them up. Temple bells in Japan are rung by being struck on the outside with a swinging wooden beam. Swallows build their nests in the eaouses of people of the rural districts In Japan, even in the best rooms, a she or a tray being placed under the nest to prevent the floor from being marred. Most Japanese are indifferent .to rain. Children with small babies on their backs are often seen wet to the • -Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in- when one jinrikishaw overtakes cannot reach the seat or the disease. — internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medi- tanisce aLnInd and passes another on the country Ifnlueonrcdeedi. b tyo c co Inns. et t ttt I oynoatil cnol nu ds t itlo cine Is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surface of the system, Hall's 'Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the beat physicians In this country for years. It Is composed of some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the Ingiedienta in Hall's Catarrh Medicine is what pro- duces such wonderful results In catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. ,7. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. All Druggist, 75c, Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I Worth Knowing. To make a delicious picnic sandwich spread thin slices of bread with a mix- ture of mayonnaise dressing, chopped olives and celery. Finely chopped nuts are also added sometimes, but the flavor of the celery is so much more prominent than that of the nuts that the latter is apt to be lost. --- A cook who is famous for her clear soups says that a secret of her season- ing is that she always adds it lump of sugar to the soups before serving. If after washing lace you wish to have it it little stiff, do not use starch, but rinse it again in water in which a little gum arable has been dissolved. Stuffed eggs are particularly suitable for a picnic luncheon and the flavor of the filling may be varied in many ways. Nitric Add From the Air, French chemists have given very Close study to the Serpek method of manufacture of nitric acid from the air. Tti this process bauxite is Used. If Ole proeaes can be worked out ou eatisfaetory basis it will connncet the nitrate industry with the very im- portant aluminum industry. *** The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none, -Carlyle. DON'T SUE'VE PAIN' BUY HIRST'S! Mat be prepared agaInskattacks tierchenthetismi lumbago, neuralgia, " war,enegmieore ktrarialtauttilltipaveinfalialgartesi,_1(11.1over 8w4grjeUt Vrttln 'to • tat buy Dirsete-alWaya letee pottle in ratan/ len un 060" -lei the hon.*. tte wait r ‘US625. At &aide* or write toal. man EttlignYCO„ Mantuan. Canada, road, the man always apologizes and says, "By your permission, if you please" When boards are cut at a saw -mill In Japan, they are put together in the order they were cut so that in build- ing the carpenter may get the seine color and grain of wood. Children buy grasshoppers, feed them on sugar and keep them as we keep canary birds The tiny cages are tastefully made in a variety of forms—for instance in the shape of a fan, each compartment housing an in- sect. - " Chronic Skin Disorders Now Diercome Quickly There is no hope of getting rid of disfiguring akin blemishes until the blood is purged of every trace of un- clean matter. Wonderful results follow the use of Dr. Hamilton's Pills which provide the blood with the elements it needs to become rich and red. Quickly indeed the blood is brought to normal strength, is filled with nu- trition, is given power to drive oat of the system the humors that caused rashes, pimples, pasty complexion and kindred ills. Don't delay. Get Ham- ilton's Pills to -day; they go to work at once, and give prompt results. 'Mild, efficient, safe for men and women or children. Get a 25e box to -day frotn any dealer. •• The Silence of the Doers. Friends who had been arid seen and Who had come home again had gone off blithely and unselfishly, to drive anibu- lances, to nurse the wounded, to know the storm centre for themselves; and they had cattle back sobered' which was intelligible, and Silent, whielt was ute. Intelligible. That they should speak mod- estly of their deeds was natural, but that they should be so strangely ret,. Icent in speaking' of the grim total fact and of their inner reactions was unnat. ural, They had boon willing to commun- icate it few items frotn their adventure,' hut of their total experience they would not speak. The cleverest raconteur broke doWn. The Most discerning phlloe- oh))ter found himself beyond Ids depth. A touch of the ineffable aeeinel to have entered Into the lives -of all such Wha had seen and shared, hOwever briefly and humbly, In the strain and *tress of the storm centre.—"Atlentle." Sweet Young Thing—But how clo you stop an airplane when it is 11P in the sky? Earieg Aviator—Oh, We use airbrakeis, e'.,1 course. --Cornell Witte% MACKIN,F.RY FOR SALE r OR SALE 22 H.P. CIASnLINE EN- ". gine. Muir Bros, Dry' Dock Co, Port Dalhousie, Ont, AGENTS WANTED. ANTED -1,020 AGENTS ANYWHERE] in Canada to sell the Wonderful Cabson Funnel Dampers; positively saves from one-quarter to one-half the fuel, and gives more heat for stoves, furnaces, hot water or steam boilers. Apply to pat- entee, A. Gibson, 391 Yonge street, To- ronto. . LET a woman ease your suffering. I want gyou to write, and let me tell you of n.'y simple method of home treatment, 4 send you ten days' free trial. Post- paid, and Oa you in touch with 'ICI\ women in Canada who wil mthl 0 gladly tell what my eod ••• has done for them. If you are troubled triW sena_ with weak, tired lb tions, blad- . feelings, h ea d• der Weakness, ache, b a c lc- constipation,ca- tarrhl conditiens. ache, bear - lea down e), pain in the sides, teat - misplacement os; of lib gait,. nervousness, desire to cry, palpitation, hot flashes, dark. rings 1 under the eyes, or a loss of interest In life, write to Inc to.clav.* Address: firs. IL Somers, Cox 8 Wisdtsr; 111. : Callahaaa's Error. Two Irishmen in Maryland decided that they would enjoy a bit of sport on the occasion of the "opening of the :reed -bird season." They were pro- vided with tremendous game -bags, *and, as it was their first experience, they were very enthusiastic. Suddenly Callahan spotted a bill, and, taking very careful aim, prepar- ed to fire the fatal shot. But Casey seized him by the arm, crying, franti- cally: "Don't fire, Callahan, don't fire! Ye've forgotten to load your gun!"— "Harper's efonthly." - Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia - Not His Loss. A dusky soldier was standing guard after taps and a civilian attempted to pass his post—ono of those fresh wa- ter civilians. The challenge rang out and the mufti gentleman attempted to give back talk. The negro guards- man became serious, leveled his gun, and approached. "Aw, g'wate" chided the challenged person. "You would- n't shoot that gun!" Back -it came, - quick: "Ah wants to tell you all right heah and now, this heah am'niehun didn't cost me a cent."—Buffalo "Commercial." laily $irs5 r et trY, , Use for Rheumatism. Old Farmer Horkins always would spring eurprises on the village, and one day he bought a barometer. He was singing its praises to one of the village dude and explaining: "I bought that barometer to tell when it's glen' to rain, ye see." "To tell When it's agoin' to rain!" echoed the chid in surprise. "Why I never heerd of such extravagance! What d'ye suppose the good Lord have given ye the theumatiz for?"— "Answeres." The bugle call, at any rate, never comes Out at the end of the horn, KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT IN SHOE POLISHES LiQuipsandpAsires frilLACK,VVH111,TAN, DARK DROWN O OX-EILOOD SHOES PRESERVEAiLEATIIEN Mir, DAM otoll4mr2LtelvOt....