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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-10-09, Page 6en! eatneteteo !Agriculture In Japan eineentsieeeteeeetee lieseeernats *I++$+4! "AgricultUre i$, and always has bees, by far the most important in- duatry japau," H. M. Hyntiman writea in "The Awakening of Aela," "arta the growth of manufacture and commerce has not induced the goy- ernmeet to neglect this, the touud. ellen of eel sound nationel Prosperity, They have recognized, ne a recent: writer has statee, that 'it is no ex- aggeration to say that upon agricul- ture end agrieultitriets dependthe exietence of the hintpire.' 'rite email eueleletatore who *average holdinge aro not larger than time ot tne chitties* peasantrY, constitute the bealthieet and mot vigorous date In the Numire." "The laud itself la not tertile, and the climate is not specially faverehle for tillage, ConeeqUentle, rural life le hare, and the etandard of eueeist- ence lew, Home industry of all kinas Is brought in to ineeeese the product a the family and relieve them from actual bards -hip, The taore fortunate, who are engaged in the silk and weav- ing industries, owning at the sante time their plotof land, are the beat off, and stand in much the same pos- ition as the cultivate.* and weavers of the eighteenth eentery in the north ot gngiand, or the email vignerons of .southern France." "Bat important ae agrciulture is ani must -ever remain for Japan -if her atateamert retain their capacity oi correctly judgIng tile national inter- ests -she relies upon her advanee In the great modern industries for the means to hold permanently the poe- Wen, which ehe has gained by her was and her diplomacy, She has not, however, advanced in this reePect as much ae she reqeired, or as iter lead- ers, hoped. it is., easy to understand the enormoue difficulty of iutredec- ing into an -agricultural country a, - most at a blow as it Were, and with- out any thorough Preparation or tram - Ing, the complete paraphernalia. of modern industry -and' manufacture The wondere, not that Japan has fail- ed in the . course ot. a generation to rival fully the greet industrial coun- tries, which had so long a start of ber in, the market or the world, but that obe has ben :able to achieve so much within so short a period." "In less then thirty years her ex- port e aeld imports lave increased more than fifteen -fold; she hae freed her hands ,from the tremmels of commer- cial. conventions With foreign nations and on impose such prorective dut- ies as •she Menges; she has ceased to be. ,ependent 'upon Munitions; she has built up and is extending an im- portantmercantile- marine; and just at the ebbe when her financial cir- cumstances had become rather strain- ed. the great, world. war • enabled eapan, after the falenof Taing-tao and the deetruction of German. sea pOwer in the East, to aupoly Maple., at the cost ot England, ewith quantlies of • muulttonet at a peofit to:herself." "In. Great Britain itself, English school Minter. is in many respects behind the Japanese. ... So excellett, likewiseeare. the Japanese edueation- al nstabliehments and universities that thoustinee of Chineee are now going to Japan in order to acquire tat modern. knowledge from the \Vest which the Chinese theinsellves re- cognize as indispensable to the de- velopment of their countrq, but which they are unable to furnish at home," '11,••• SIR WILLIAM'S almionsommagoorinnaMillitoilniolloWNIMI . "We are going to have a shower," "It le magnificent!" ehe vale, in aid ClYtie cheerfully. her full, round Voice; "but it is last- a "Yes," he said succinctly. "If you'll In longer then I thought. Where are be se good as to stand up elle moment, we Maine?" I'll help you on with these." "Toward Labrador:" he replied "Oh, but I could not," she protested; grimly, "I'm a pretty kind a man to "you w111 have nothing!" be trusted with a young girl-linlY." ' He knelt on the stern -neat and get "Oh, comer she retorted, with a the tiller between ltis knees. laugh, as she fleshed the water from "elitiolt, Please?" he said, almost her eyes. "You are not Premiere, you curtly in Ins anxiety, "It wit be .Upon know; ann. didn't raiee the atorm, Mr, us in a moment, and you will be wet 1>Quglas1 through,""No; but I ought to .lave seen that "And you—" She hesitated, but It Was coming," he fetid bitterly. "1 ought to know the coaot by this time, he had, begun to slip the thiek, stiff It's not the first timieleve been caught veal on her, and with a shrug of the . e shoulders she obeyed. The wind caught in a authweeter. Why didn't I look at the sky? Why did I let let you the sleeves and blew them away from come? Are you getting wet?" her, and he hut, to take her arm; and "I am as dry as the, proverbial guide them. bone," she replied cheerfully; "and, "The cap; you must put it on, or if I do get wet, what clew it matter? your hair willget. wet." • As for you, you muet be drettched- Laughingly she took off her hat, the Able . . wind blowing her hair almost acress The cry was wrung from her -by a his face, and put on the sou'wester, flash of lightning that, for a moment, "There are some strings," he raid. made visible the huge wavee through "Can you tie them? Will you ]et which they were plowinn me?" "That means that it will soon be He did not 'wait for permission, but over," she mid, as If apologizing for tieu the strings under her chin, His her involuntary exclamation. 'Oh, eyes were tixed on the knot he was how wet you look!" She laughed rue- fully as she leaned forward, seeping Making, and his lips were drawn tight- ly, so that he looked almost angry and the water from her eyee. sullen, and his fingers shook, as, ne- "The worst is to come," he staid, frankly; for he knew that nothing cessarily, they touched her warm, smooth. neck, could daunt her .spirit. "1 mud lower the sail, or we ellen. have ,4t torn to "Thank you, thank you," she said in erne sure ribbone, Give me the tine, Your a low' and hurried voice. I cannot get wet with these things on; Imola must he numbed." It would be imposeible." He dropped the emit, and ted him - "Keep her out a bile please," i an he self besiee her; sheltering her as well 'Is he could from the wind and the meld gently, as she sank back and took ` - driving rain. charge of the tiller again. "Strange," she said, Close to his ear, "Far enough? How the wine ,,but I haven't felt so-so happy for howls!" she said cheerfully."- haveI a long time. I suppoee we women all never been on the sea in a storm," tike excitement, Mr. Douglas; and this "And I wish you wern't now," he is the most exciting moment I have murmured. "I must have been blind over had. where are we now, 1 won - not to have seen it coming on!" der? 1 fancy -it is only fancy, of "Wia‘t does it matter?" she said, course -that we have passed Withy - "excepting that you will get wet combe." throueh. How dark it has become. It "No," he meld. "We are nearly op - is very----" poeite it. Are you wet? Have the rain As lie spoke a wave -the sea was and the spray drenched you?" running with almost incredible wild- "No," she replied. "I am sure I am quite dry. but there ie a pool of water nese, considering, th.e short Vane it had in my lap. I thin I will tilt it out." lead to get up -struck the boat and sent a heavy spray over her; and the With. the audacity of inexperience, next instant the rain drove across she rose before he couid,stae her; a them with the force of a blow. Clytie huge wave caught the that, and she shook the water fromeher face was thrown, hurled, against the side. and Site struck her head on the - gunwale, laughed; and she lauglied again when and slid a linip and helpless form at the next wave caught them and drenched the boat from bow to stem. itt3Jafceket;aught at her and. 1140n...her to Her eyes were sparkling, the rare hid bread. In doing so, he- renewed his color was glowing in her face, her hold • of the tiller and theboat seeing lips were apart ae if te give free Play round broadside to the mottutainous to. the spirit that rose within her, and *wave.% For an instant, they were in Jack claimed at her with admiration deadly peril; but, with:one arm. still 'SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. The United States employment sys- tem wilt ee extended to tneir insular possessions. Tne beet. cure for a grouch, accord- ing to Dr. Robert ni. Coughlin, of Diooklyn, is a swim in the stun. Boys need 25 per cont. more food thangrown-ups, ttecoeding to such famous authorities on nuteition as Drs. DuBois and Graham Lusk. The forest reseues .of the North- west are being gueeded by the ale of wireless telephones and it is proposed to. use 400 a patrol of airplanes, The cOncrete auchor seems like the bonleal elevelopmmit for concrete ships. There are sevezal forms being experi- mented with and one has steel -point- ed flunes. A phonograph hi the Maine woods with bird records, meant to attract the featheind, tribe for Observation,' was more successful in attracting a great euniner of skunks. The latter are very fend of bird's eggs, On the erounde of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in ',Foxes, there is trolley system by which the reeldente, many 01 whom are Kind, are enabled 1,0 .guide themselves hone oue part of the grounds to another. The number of telepiteace in use in the Belted. States at the cicse of the year 1917 was 11,712' -one to evet'Y eine rersons; end an averase of more than two hundred Calls for every man, woman and child .in the country evert made during the year. One of the leading phonograph panies has recently entroilucte a. cone- plete set Of instructional records and .books for thozte who wish to master ye. retess telegraphl at home. Tbe 1 ;nerds, together With the books, serve to train the ear to the dots and dathes Of the telegtaph code. The value of the sWeet potatoe crol) bus increased mere than FO per ent. in the last ten years. It now ranks seat/mit to value among the A•egetables in the tented States. The value of the 1917 drop - reached, the huge Bunt of $00,000,000, and that Of 1918 is es- tnuated atalmOst $117,000,000, lafteadena, Cale in responding to the tall of the Society for tleetrical De. veleentent for participation in the "Eleetrify your home" campaign,. claims that every house in the city la veirea for electritity. The mete/age says; "Sorry we have no need for your caturetign literature, inastutteh tte every house in readout is wired mid eorinected. Populatioti, 4200; meters connected, 14,600." A. new eleetrie limp will no 01117 'stand wherever it is plaeed ten a flat teirface, but the baee also committee a elin which may be cramped on any Preleeting edge or poet. Also the lamp may he hung on the wall or placed fin ft flan eurface, using es a brtsci. inee ractleally ell arti- cles of furniture haVe either an edge, a post 'or a flat surfaee, it is poeelble to llele thIS lanto almost anywhere. As the damp 15 felt.11ned, there, i4 no clanger or scratching or denting polished surfaces. ly coinniendingly. "Bile la wet As Clytie turned, with !Mollie's arm round her, she looked over her ;shoal - der at his drenched figure, but she eaid nothing alio was silent Until they reached the farm. As Mollie 'slipped the oil- ekina front the stint figure, she eze elaimed: "Oh, you poor dear Clytiel Such a etorm! on must have been terrified out of yur life! Now,' ain't tell me you weren't afraid)" for ClYtie ad laughed strangely, "Yes," she responded , with a little ehiver; but with. her •eye s lowered, as if he feared Mollie's loving scrutiny, "I wee afraid; and—and I are afraid still)" "No wonder!' 'exclaimed Mollie, "It was awful! There, get into bedt They —the fishermen—.e•ere' eaying that Jack Douglas moist nate) been a mare vel to have faced such A Morin and lived through it. Doee your head ache" "No," said 'clytie, but she might hey° added that 'her heart din For certain words, spoken, cried, maid tile/ roar of the storm, etill raps in her ears. CHAPTER XV, He loved her! He had not realized the fact WWI he had bele her le his arms, had- felt her heart faintly beating against his, in that moment when death seemed Ilevering on the edge of the storm; when, in a greater storm than that which raged in the heavens, a rush ot Pity, Of love, of agonized anxiety swept over his spirit end bore away the barriers of prudence, and, tore aside the veil of ignorance and doubt as to his own feelings. It had sraltten laina, this love of his, the first time he had seen her on his return -had it not, indeed, existed in those far-off da, when they played as children together? -and it had been growing, grOwing ever since. He knew why Itis -heart had stirred at eight of her, why he had been so happy when he was near her, Why' he had thrilled a the fiound of her voice; he Toyed her. Whet was he to do? he asked Mule self, as he paced up and down the lettY that night, long after Withyombee had gone to rest, and no sound broke the stillness save the eplaeh of the now calni water against the walls of the jetty, and the mournful cry of an owl up among the trees on the heights. Surely no man was ever placed in so unfortunate a position! If he had fallen in. love with one of the Withy - combo inaidens, he would have been free to tell her, and to, have borne her - away to the far -away land, to Parra - tuna, in whieli he had made a secure habitation arid a twine; to have re- mained "Jack Douglas" and lived con- tentedly, happily, to the end of the chapter, 13ut he had fatten in love with Miss Bramley, the girl to whom his father had left his fortune and the estates -unless he, Wilfred, married her. The irony of the thing filled him with bitterness.' Supposing he were to go to her and say: "I am Wilfred Carton; have been xnestmerading as Jack Douglas, a fisherman, a common man; and I love you!" Would. she not jump to the conclusion that he was wooing her because he could not 'obtain the estates, the money, without doing so? Of course, she would. refuse him. And lie would rob her of Bromley and the money. . jack, with all his faults, was not a vain man, not a coxcomb; your strong man rarely is; and, it did not occur to him, for a moment, that during their fairly frequent intercourse of late she/might have grown -well, to like him. To her he must seem just a workingman, a workingman with rather more cleverness and better manners than those oath which the workingman is usuiely endowed. He had been wearing a mask -but she had been just her own incomparable self, a beatitifte Woraatt of infinite chartsi, of Irresistible lovableness. Ile lit another pipe, biting hard on the stem, and took another quick, feverish stride up and down the jetty. It wae evident, he told himself, that she had not heard the words that 'escaped his lips at the moment he held her In his arms, crushed her, pity- ingly yet passionately, to his heart, If she had done so she would, of course, have shown Iter Indignation, 'her re- sentment of his presumption. jack did not know that a woman can con- ceal her feelings with a perfection of art which is been in her, with that capacity for concealment which is the birtheight of her sex. He did not Itnow, or, kne wing, remember, that a woman, the veriest girl, can smile when she is recited with physical palm or turn an epigram while her heart is wrung with anguish; and he was con- vinced that she had not heard his paseionate declaration of love, his con- feesion of his real name. Of course, she had not heard the wild words which had burst from him; she must have been. insensible when he tittered theme for she had shown nO resent- ment when she had come to, had not overwhelmed him with haughty dis- dain, or treated him with the coldness of outraged pride. No; her eyes *ad rnet-etis eteadily, almost kindly; and they had worn a grateful expression when they had rested for a moment • on his as SIM Vent up the beach. (To Be Continued). and surprise. encircling her, he regained. the tiller "You are not afraid?" he said unwite and put the boat head -ways to the bil- tinglelows, and the peril was averted. She . "Afraid? No!" she retorted, with hung on his arm like ee'illy, her face a smile. "There is no danger, is premed against his breaet, her eYes there?" cloeed, her lips apart as if her apirit Jack responded to her smile. "No, had paesed through them for the last there is no danger -while we keep out. time. liere," he said, as quietly as he could Jack lost his bead. He pressed her in the roar and crash of wind and to him, calling on her name in the ac - wave. "Of course. we cannot go in." cents of the strong man in auguieh. "Oh, 1 understand that," she said; "Clytie! Clytle! My dearest, en)? "but it will not last long."' darling! Oh, God, I have killed her!" A fshit thrill ran througb. her; the Jack could not refrain from casting crush of his embrace sent a still war - "I hope not," he said. As he spoke, e glance at the eity, , mer glow racing along her veins. She sighed and, ineeneibly, nestled closer he wriggled out of his shooting -coat t him. and wrapped it round aer feet. to "Clyde!" he cried hoarsely. "You "No; I certainly win not permit you to do that" she said, with a sudden are safe. It is all right! 1' am here- lgouglas, Wilfred Carten-e-oh, my rush of color to her spray -wet cheeks. arling, you are hurt -hurt!" "Please take it back and put it On im- He pressed her to him -et was all he mediately." "You must icloyledneodo-and murmured, seill hoarte- Jack sleek his head. "It le opened encouragement; meld presently 6he ehiver, stirredin hasil keep it," he said resolutely. a,rmweIth a little streng," "What hag happened?" eh asked, Yes i getting cold, and -and. you are uot "Not strong!" She opened her eyes "Ar,e0a;e---nzreheekerne; ended feereietl 011 him and laughed as she thrust the "No, e coat away. "Why, 1 am as strong as eagerly, "We are all right. A -wave' a woman could be." caught you -you were hurt. Oh, 'Mollie says not, and I won't risk Clytiel" it," he said, still more resolutely. She neoved slowly, not to readily, "And, besides, what on earth's the use until sbe bad slia-there is no other of the thing to me! 1 ant wet through word that will adequately describe the already, as I have been some hundreds movement -from his arms, and sank of times before. Don't add to lay re- info the seat. morse by refusing to take as much Sheattevbteetd,eidleenv devoured, ufreerd,ahenirowmitebnej,lwthhoilre. care of yourself as you can!. I feel bad hee enough about you as it is, Miss Bram- dent, anxious eyes. Sb ceuld l * see them through the mist, the dark- ey. She let him replace- the -coat round ness of the raging storm, "I -I mast have fainted," she {mid. her, and said no more. But even in "Something hit me." tb.e stress of the Moment she noticed "You fell against the side of the that he had spoken of itionie WithOttt beat," he said, hoarsely. "Are you the forntal, reepectftil "Miss." : ' • hurt -in pain? If only I had some br "I am afraid we shall have to keep andy!" her farther out," he said presently. „_ ii am all right," she said, in a very et "We're getting the back current of the nut et, still voice, wind here. and there are stame rocks. ', 'Thank God!" he brethed, devoutly, caintlyMid he leaned forward ahd Qtrickt" he commanded sharnly, btit 'I was afraid -no, I'll take the tiller ; Bit there." He placed the cushion seized the tiller. t the bottom. of the boat. "The for her a tin:wittingly his strong hand had sterol is passing; there is a streak of clesed. on hers, and she felt all the light in the weet, Y011 are sure that force of his as he preseed down on her YOU are net hurt?" own. If she had been nervous, which "Quite," site old; and she lay al- thatshe was not, the strength of the hand mOst at his feet, her head pilloeved on seemed to almost crush hers her arm, He tould not see he rfate; Would have given her confidence. She it he had beef' able to do So, he could steetched her fingers when he had re- not have failed to have seen the ex - leased them, with a sense of protec- ing; her breath -and how he lietened don, of assurance, and. glanced at kis to it., -came as regularly, as Softly, as fade with a strange light in her *lent it ' ey,e4 There was silence for some' childs. no Word "Xil$gnot," The word "magnet" Is derived from the name of the eity of Magroede, in Mit Minor, vfhero the propertim of . tbe lodestone are eald to have In beee `.• 6/1"E.t!ht wr: duln the ati-De°Mtin4 etecovered. uaing etestes:epee . :e. time, then: he m Tmoments passed, and with the enh, mower he exaaernee, rot the storm ---One of the most sudden loudly, but he hear her. and wild that even that coast had ever experienced. The sky grew clearer, "That's ail right," he said quieltlY• the waves sank, theerain vetoed and "They wilt think we have waited aehore, at the Head, ulitil the storm the wind dropped to a. InoderatA • breeze. Jack raised the sell and pasted," made for Withytonabe. Clytie lay "Of ceurse." she assented with a ernin ',Besides, she is riot nervous, quite quiet; site Seemed to be sleep. and takes things that WOUld. eend some big; her breath - how he lietetted to iti---eame as regularly, 40 sOftly, as a, girls into hysteries quite eallttlee" "The Ilramley pluck," he comment d &mottle% It was not until they swept into e She looked. et him with it earioue Withycotnhe harbor that she stirred, exeression. and, sitting up, eald; *Are we far enough ou"Are we there?"t?" fete ask. "We are," he eaid, almoat gruffly; She tied 10 raise her voice; and ite whet weeds had lie allowed to efiespe ,eree eetiveg note sang ittpxleatigg. him itt that moment of anguish, that iy in his ear& Ifttoxicatingly, be. 'moment et dread? "Here we are, and wise, like most strong men must be, here are Lord Stanton and Mee Mol - was mil:iterated by the stortn, and life," he added, as those two persotte her dear intwavering yoke wee like rnehed down to the boat. that of a fellow spirit railing to him, "011, you poor riettri"cotelaimed. nlol- ttirrieg his emotten. He nodded; he lie, as she flute Tier arms round ely- ...mid not trust hitt...telt to Speech. They tie. "You *felted girl) And req, !...on)a not Mt the cottisteline now; the Mr. Douglas! now could you let her 11,,1-ariont rein had blotted it mit; go to etit in such a storm?" melting \vat cleible but the great "Yes; it was my fault, 6110$ tidolliet" ectIcina; round them and ever said ,Yeek, remorsefully. yhil evict breaking in white spray, "By George, we were -.on teletere tendered denting be the turrekteding hooks)" said Lord atitntOrt. "We Mee delikheitet over the beat MI falling in On her br the road." LIKE MARRIES LIKE, 'Donald M. Marvin Attacks an Old Theory. The psychologists hav pretty thoroughly persuaded us that itt the choice of mates people instinctively seek their oppooltes. It is therefore not a little startling to flied the re- verse of the tbeory advanced. Don- ald M. Marvin, writing in "Publica- tions of the Innierican Statistical Association," declares: "The presence of a large and in- creasing number of women in indus- try raises the question of the pos- sible influence of industry upon mar- riage selection, Model% social eon- ventions are based upon the pre- sumption that WOMall is shut away In the home and that man must fol- low her there if he wishes to see her. Ili entering leduatry in such large ntillibers women Eve two new condi- tions, Oita negative, the ether Posi- tive. They leeve the home tempor- arily empty and they create a new social phnoneenon of occupational propinquity. This modified by the various intiuence of class stratifica- tion, financial status, a,nd other forms of group cohesion involved in the ,present organezation of societY, tends to differentiate certain groups of men and women' for marriage. "Industrial propinquity e.xtends to the home and to the economic) status. Even class and race lines enforce oecupational cohesion. Such stratifi- cation and drawing together of cer- tain parts of social groups rauet re- act variously upon, those involved. It eeents possible that friends who marry within Meer own occupation are not' so Much guided by similar tastes and backgrounds as they are driven by a new force of industrial Propinquityan, force that has develop - 4 with the appearance of woman In Industry. "Marriage, anmatter of individual choice, if any chnice exists, obeys the sweeping, silent force of propinquity: Women in each occupation are sur - 'rounded by the men of the same cc- tupation. Of course they marry these men. This ,inevitable sequence 'causes no aetoolsainent. "To -day the erupt attractive as well as the strongest eand most vivre/1M Worth Knowing. smoked painted ceilings may be leaned by Washing with clothe wrung out of warm water itt vehleh soda has been dissolved. Creaking doers, windows and draw- ers mey be stilled by- rubbing with hard soap. White fabric gloves are easAst wash - ea by putting them on tl/hands and using 600,p wild water as though Wash- ing the heti& Ulnae in cold Water end hang up bY the fingers to dry. Cottage theese dey,s are here. If yen uee a Seettrator ahd do not have tietir Milk, just as good or better ehatee can be made front buttermilk. It requires it little More heat to separ- ate curd from whey, but the theese is eoft and creamy, 4•100.0.4..1. To prevent the cehtres of yonr round donee from tuot,ing, press your iron down very hard tug yttu Iron amnia the edge et the eehtre (not the Uwe) with your left hand pull the edge ahead. of the iron. It stretehee the edge to its !meter eiratinferene,e and. the doily will lie flat. lalue and White Is a very COMMOri coler ticherne for hedreoms, end elniott Ittly torabination of blue end *hitt is pretty for rugs. ,Vice se made itt shades Of tall and broWo are lovely for a yellow room. annee. AU oil useful in the manufacture of soap is obtained from grape seeds In Argentina. 9ll111.1111.18111111111111111110111allt PARADES. Passion for Display Deep in Hu- man Nature, It is tortunate that a passion for display implanted in human nature; and we owe a dent of gratitude to those who make the display for us It would be such a dull, colorless world without It! We try in Vain to imagine a city without brass bands, and mili- tary mareleings, and processions of so- cieties in regalia and banners and re- splendent uniforms, and gayly capari- soned horses, and men clad in red and yellow and blue and gray and geld and silver and feathers, moving in beauti- ful lines, proudly wheelirtg, deploying,. opening sale closing ranks in'exquisite pm:Melon, to the strains of martial. music, to the thump of the Arum and the scream of the fife, going away down the street with nodding plumes, heads ereot, the very port of heroism. There Is Scarcely anything in the world so inspiring as that! .And the sell -sacrifice of it! What will not men do and endure to gratify their tellows. . . . It is very fortunate that men do like to march about in ranks and lines, even without any dietingutshing ap- parel. We have seen hundreds of citi- zens in a boey, going about the coun- try on an excursion, parading through town after town, with no other dis- tinction of dress than a ureeform white hat, who carried joy and delight wtereaver they went. The brass band itself, when we considereit phil- osophically, is one of the most strik- ing things in our civilizatton, We admire its commonly splendid clothes, its drums and cymbals and braying brass, but it is the impartial spirit with which it Jowls itself to our var- ied wants that distinguishes in . . It is equally ready to play at a festiv- al or an encampment, for the erns of war or the sons of 'temperance, and It is equally willing to express the eeelings of a Democratic meeting or a Republican meetingand impartialle, blows out "Dixie," "The Girl I Left Behind Me," or "My Country, 'Tis of Thee It is equally piercing and ex- citing for St. Patrick or the Fourth of July. There are cynics who think it strange that men. are willing to dress up in fantastic uniform and regalia ttat.t need not feet being 1,0114 women" "gather than make litve n eltUrtaY Isrliinage, bite your toulitte Out." "Plain women bewail their Wider. time in PrePertiOn to their ifferntti." "When merriege WOO Prtgee teal WaliditO, for her virtUes, you may be eertairt that it it another waY of oar, ing that she ie "'Womea who eeek liberty WO often Iwo A.!" "A wife Wit0 dot* not Ullow' bow to please her lansbanCt Males hint cornet no eild, a blunders." "Men who like to take photoe witb their wivite are henpecked." "Thin-lipped women tell lies; thick,. lipped women are lazy and jealous" " women who know they are ugly that powder their faeee," "Women admire women. of their own type." "The secret of winning the woman who jilts you is -perseverance." , "Woolen. understand men; those who understand woMen are also wo- men" "Polsonotts Mee carry ehiny wings; bad women pretty faces." "Men laugh with their hearts; Wiio- molt only with their mouths." "Women who habitually bite their lips are jealous." "War makes men strong and women lovely." BABY'S OWN TABLETS OF NEAT HELP ,.............-........., Mothers, if your babe or growing thild is sickly; if he does not sleep well at night; if he cries a great deal; is constipated and his little.. bowels and, stomach are not worleing right, give him Baby's Own Tablets -they have proved of great help to thousands of mothers. Concerning the Tablets, Mrs. W. H. Decater, Cor- son'e Siding, Ont., , says: "1 hese usen Baby's Own Tablets and have found them excellent for the little 'Ones: and would not - he without theme' The Tablets are ti. mild but thorough laxative, and are guaran- teed to contain no harmful drug - that is why they always do good and toner harm. They are sold by meet - 1 eine dealers or by mail at 26 Tents a box from The Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. IN EVE RY sTABLE Spohn's Distemper Compound to the one indispense.ble remedy for contegious and infec- tious disease amone: horses. Its 8000068 as a preventive and cure for DISTF,M.PER, EYE, INFLUENV,A, COUGHS and COLDS for more then twenty-five years Is the highest tribute to its merit as a medicine. It la en- dorsed by the best horsemen and livestock men In Amer- ica. Buy It of your druggist. SPORN MEDICnL COMPANY, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.A. 'women are In industry. Their ereset epee has been acceptedeand the taboo bas been removed. The result is that man are now rattrryiug the women whom they meet In their work. The treinendous proportions of this move - Ment are of -startling and far-reach- ing ggnificance. "The data were derived from the books of the Marriage License Bu- reau in the City Hall in Phitadel- Dhla for the three years from Janie, e918, to June, 1916. The numbers run from 299,768 to 322,586 and from '332,601 to 340,900 and from. 341,401 to 355,367. "The grouping of occupations of the United States census was used in a preliminary study of a thousand cases. Of these thoUsand cases 1141 women veorket1 and of these 275, more than half, married men in the same Occtipation. Of the thousand men more than 25 per rent, married into their own occupation. "A supplementary ,investigatIon Was made of statitties of Bryn Mawr alinnUae. It WlaS fouhd that about 90 per cent. of the married alutnan had married college graduates. More than 60 per cella of them married men in Professions. "Where men and women are eel- ployed together ia like positions, each Profession or specialized Oecupation is the natural breeding place 'for peo- ple of the type of ability required. Thie &filiation Valet be retognizee both by these who believe in hered- ity and by those who favor environ- ment. Sex propinquity In modern in- dustry seems destined to [-infect the matings and through the matings the tyPe Of the coming generations." Minardis Liniment cures Dandruff. so, Fnt Praise. Speaking of doubtfut complimente, it subtsertberiretritefs: "I witth to offer the following as one of the best exam- ples t have e'er seem Ali accom- pliehed natsician was invited. by a friend to a church hi order to hear the chorus Choir render 4 %Wird selec- tion. Tho friend, highly pleased With the rendition, Was awaiting with tiff& interest her Ompaniott's verdict. It came thua, itt a whisper. "They sit well."-Irrom the Outlook, "Oet her—get Idles BratoleY holUe as The profiteer continues to hold his soda en /on On," broke in 3044 Edit- own, and a good tit besides. and march about in sun and rain to make a -holiday for their countrymen, but the cynics are ungrateful and fail to credit human nature with its trait of self-secrifice, and they do not at all comprehend our civilization. . . We cannot all have decorations, and cannot all wear uniforms, or even re- galia, and some of us have little thne for going about in military or civic procession, but we all like to have our streets put on a holiday appear- ance; and we cannot express our gratitude in words to those who so cheerfally spend their time and money in glittering apparel and in parades for our entertainment. -Charles Dud- ley Warner. Mlnard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc, +e-A•do*, . JAPANESE PROVERBS. dn. •••••••••••••••• A Large Percentage of Them Concern Woxnen. Many foreigners have been ;pleased to call ray Country, Japan, the land a proverbs. A. large percentage of our proverbs, it is needless to say, con- cern women, says Saito -Wan, in the London Mail. Most of the old, Widely known ones have been freely translated or stolen, by foreign wrtters. 13ut we are not worried. New and clever proverbs are fast being created by the new gen- eration of men and women. translate below some of the gems which have recently come under my notice. They do not necessarily rep- resent the opinion of the present day Japanese people, but they are, at any rate, a contributioat to the abundant world wisnom on the immortal prob- lem: "'New' Women are created to re- place geed women." "If you want to love Women, be- gin by loving money." "Wonten who rernenther ehop signs and trade Marks make good wives." "Very jealous women are easy to control." "Pride gout before a fall, eglieeittily in bes.utifin woneett." "Wortien and mouietaitta should he looked on at a dietance." "Women fall in love wit11 their pro- tectors; men with women." "Men who can 'neither brag nor IFQ FE To Asthma, Hay FeVet and Catarrh sufferers, Write to -day and tiot a trial treatment of the world's greatest remedy, Buckley's two beetle mixture; nothltin ever made like it... One bottle gives in - tient relief, while the other drive* the poison front the syetem. Something different; no burntrie or nerve wrecking drug*, but two folientifle Mixturee that W111blankabbeolvottw otoillortidenattet. ° priOul 141 r ouatnytheof Don't heeitate a niinute longer. Matted On the road to health, W. K. SUCKLtY MANUFAOTWONO CHEMIST. •'91 Dundee at, ,Boutt, Toronto. send me two bottle* et your mixture. It endive* ten coats to ' cover tot of peeking and Mal/ing. Do this to -dal' a* for a limited thee only melte this offer. NAME ADDRIIKS lie YOU DIMAS) TO0=4 IQWTj lean ee ;toiletry hereta ret reet an have deocriptlen p is ed in my now oeutiogua It You ern. In tau Market to buy, 4otoribe vier events anti so* whet 1 Java to offer. opens, whatever to you unlOpo I, WOO P. ICC. J. D. Biggar, litealtY =toner/ Clyde Week, Hamilton, ient, inn A -CUM ON THeR GOOD ROAD, ins's' overlooking Newmernet; WOW modern improvement; aungelovr; with furnace, bethrooms, atone chimney; end fireplace; brick garage; large motel -ow - ergo, vtg pen, barn, .Ito, -creamery; cola - ;storage, plant and. implement bouio-Alt, red. Ale*, lee acres arjacent with vroPne water and pasture. A fine herd of 30.r- eeys making thie farm an attrectivo vestment. Price of the whole outfit a1. a gelng concern on nOPlicationf Dr. J. Weolen Newmarket, Ont. . EVENING HYMN. Now do the shadews fall Evening anon - Low sinks the setting sun, Night -has begun; Birds to their nests have flown, All is at rest, God in His heaven above linoweth what's best, Slowly the eters come snit, One after one• Telling each weary heart. Day's labor done. In the soft moonlight'ebeams. All becomes falr What need to worry nos'? Banish all care. Fresh dews now bathe our breve Nature's soft tears. Sweet voices of the night Fall 011 our ears: reace then steals over us Sent from above, Telling,each mortal soul That God Is love. ..--- eillnard's Liniment for sale everywhere ---•41-0---- SOAPA now. Known in Naval Circles as the "Last Place On Earth." ELEVEN THOUSAND BUYS 176 A.C11160 —one of the best farms in -Guelpit townsilip; gooe buildings; three m1144 from city. R. lafeDonald, Guelph.. ix; AC'RES-COUNTY OF YORK,» (dose to PhiPpIng poInte, and churches; good land, bultdinga, good repair; five thousand. D. rilken 11e Garfield south, Hamilton. HELP WANTED—MIAM ANTED—SMART cant, 45 OM - oral in good home. Apply an 0500 t Mrs, R. B. Cotton, 146 Westminster avenue, Toronto. mmor.Luszvos T TIE SAFE WAY TO SEND MONET by mail, is by Dominion nxprestr efeney Order. HELP WANTZD—MALR, r. 00m FIXER—FIRST-CLASS MAN OTC " Xrtowles .C'arti Looms. working on -blankets and heavy woollens. State fun details of experience, agd and whether mat:lard or single. Apply Slingsby Mfg, Co., Brantford, Ont, nenneen FARIVIS WANTED TO 'RENT, sajANTED—FARM TO RENT, GIVeti particulare, rent, etc.: also apple orchard wanted or this fall or mere, with apples on it, F. Co., Box 64,', gantli- ten, Ont. 10010•1•11011•AW `1141MOMIMINWPOO 7—ARTICLES FOR, SALE, pan sAt,le - SHOE etrpAtetliTtle • Singer patching machine. , In first- class condition. Price, thirty dolla,ra, A. Lynch, Almonte, Ont. Scapa is knowu by navy Men ae "the last place on earth" -but it le really only in the midst cf Winter that this title is deserved. Then there are only about seven hours of daylight, and, owing to the rough seas, communication with the shore more or les.s ceases. When the better weather arrives, parties are landed from the ships for recreation on the various Wanda On the !eland of Flotta, the officers and men of the Grand. Fleet have made a first-rate golf-couree of eight: een holee, and thie is the Chief attrac- tion of Beanie Thi a island also has several football and hockey erounde. Several ships have cultivated petite of land on tbe Island of Fara, and have quite useful vegetable gardene. Unfortunately, however, the ship sometimee leavee fax another port just when its best produce is waiting to he gathered, and on its return is perhaps nicely ready for next years need. In the early days of the war men were much inconvettienced by having nowhere to sitcp, but in 1915 the stearneirip Borodino was chartered by the Junior Army and Navy Stores, whe otarted a floating branch of their eetablishment at Scapa. This ship indeed came as a bleesing to the fleet, for she contained a laundry and a hairdreteing saloon, and in the shop were to be purchased all man - ..••••=•••••••••••.•••••••••••••••..... Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gents, -A customer of our cured a Very bad case of distemper in a valuable horse by the use of MINA.RD'S LINIMENT. • Tours truly, VII,ANDIE FREES. ner of articles and luxuriee which help to comfort those Who "go down to the sea in ships," The after -hold of the steamehip Gourko, a provietort-ship and eider of the Borondiho, watt early in 1916 turned into a theetre, So that while In the daytime the Gourko cerried en provieloning the fleet, at night she was able to lay elongelde any witrebip requiring accommodation for it contort. Oer foirgesons will alWayg haVe a good Word fer Scapa; ite eir ie moat warmed hy the Inuit Stratum, it might braclug, and *with the climate slightly almost be called a hkeltit resort. , EDUCATIONAL, 4.11111.11.1111111011•11111011P., PARK Business College , The school for bee( results, 72 James St. N., Hamilton, Ont. Thorough courses -Shorthand, Cleri- Bookkeepiog and seeretaristi, Ex- Cellent opportunities for Public Scheel teachers and High School 'graduates. We give personal attention. Untie Victual instruction, and prepare our students thoroughly for superior posi- tions. In estimating value, you mite con - elder .service, quality and pr! -not price alone. It is not so much what you pay; it is what you teceivee that Is vital to you. For full particulars, rates, etc,, send for free Circular ".A.." Write .us to -day. New itudentsett- roTIlheed beetis Mt heenctlbaeYa. pest in the end. Park Business CglItge F. W. A. J. Par'. HAMILTON, ONT. UNDERSEA OIL taitiV. eee How' Tankers Load avra4r,„ Mexico. ti;g9. ...aomprar••••• Many of the meet productive oil wells in the State of Vera Crtnz, 4a - leo, are situated near the port of %Tux- pam. For some distance thane the ehore the water there is -soflhallOW .that few of the large oilzateitn:ehiPe can get into -port. The oil' cOrepanie* hit upontbeidea of laying eubniarine pipe lines to points where the target oft tankere can be convenlently .moor- ed. for loading in any state of tide and weather. There are now five of these greet Iron pipes in duplicate. They are from sax to eight inches en diameter. and four of them are nearly a Mile long. They terminate iti forte-threl feet of water, where It is so deep that the wavee have no effect upon them. When they were laid divers' fastened to the end of eaeh 120 feet ot flexible hose. When not in me the free etut of the hoee le closed and allowed to ife on the sea bottom, where he, pceitien As marked by a mall buoy attached to the hoe by a tout ehain. When tank etealuehipS arrive they moor themselves to the permanent buoy with a derrick, raise the flexible hoe° to the deck of the ship and t - tech it to tbe tank openingey meant; of a eignal code, the eaptaine of the ships notify the pumping eta - tion on shore, in which are the valises that control the flow of eil though the pipe line. Generally epenkitin it takes about twenty-four hours to load one of the large 15.000 ton tankere. whieh meant; that the pipee deliver 4,37e-barrele of oil an hour. Tim pager iri ChiligititiatA. Dusts of the CiteSara show them to have been eleanethavert. Men in the eighteenth tenture relied still farther ort the tterber'e art, for they ehaved their heade at well. Ifogerth hes %tainted n beim of thie period who by eonte thence had his wig refitted, Walt kites hint the look 01 an elderly haby. The ttiteouth appearance oftite - hatharistrig, *With *hooked the Bo - gums, "gee duet a pod deal to On neglect f thete wild men to dress their hair. iamitrit Liniment Relieves Nourelnis Big Bill for Highways. The staggering total •of $20,00,4111 le the amount that wilt he expeedee on highways during 1019 by the in S. Nate:mid Government atid the differ- ent States. Texas heads the Hat with atteppropriation of $25,000,000: 1111 - noes arid Indiana, vie for eetond Plea* with $17400.000 each, 9,, Censure is the tax it man pays to the publie for being eMinent.-Switt.