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The Wingham Advance, 1917-05-24, Page 6eseeeeleannannne -;• t eieig kn. • e. s rise . aeeetn" The le, S. National taaumitteeon Prieente antt .Privoit Labor bas trans- formed, ascii into a relief soeiety for flu-, War Department, and proposes to lemic after interned prisoners of war in tile States. By so doll% it hopes to aeold unnecettsary after -war bitternems ie'tween the ,ittates and enemrnations, Vain belie. a he election of a Sinn Feiner in S'ontit Longford to the British Parlia- ment while lie Is eta' lie 11 or par, ticapeting in the Dublin riots, is not Very good omen of the political candle tion of Ireland. It is this state of af- fairs that makes. air. Redmond's posie Hon a somewhat trying one. Thai Home Rule question .should not be al- lowed to delft much longer, ' gerelve imertrai :Applications have beeu made to the Ottawa Vacant Lot isee,„eanee eer lend to cultivate. aler- alizing on ittle, the Ottawaalournel Pre' Fay's 000 of the thoughts whieli tecor hi tanneetieu with such a sink. rng fate es holt valuable a daelight eating law wculd be. Tee extra hem. 1,,oulti also he appreciated here. Are ao Patrietle enough 10 get up an boar tartlet*. 411•••••*-• it is said that Gen, Petain will oc- cupy a similar position in France to Viet cc:meted. by Oen. Sir William Robertson in Britain. Ile will be Cale! of the General Staff. As we understand it, (len. Haig works tattler the direc- tion of the tienetal Staff, which works in conjunction with the :French Gen- eral Staff. The staff supplies tile strat- egy nnd Gen. Haig the tactics. But then Gen. Haig has three Generals un- der him -Gen. Allenby, Gen. Horne and (len. Cough. Allenby Ts a cavaliir read- er who distinguished himself in the South African war. Ne has played a great part in the present ivar in France and fought a gallant rear guard ac- tion from Mons. He is 56 years old. Horne is a native of Caithness, and come.s from a military tamily. He is the .same age as Gen. Allenby. He served througb tae South African war, in which he wen the Queen's Medal with five clasps, and the Ring's medal, with ttvo clasps.. Gen. Horne has been at the front since 1914. The Ring con- ferred a knighthood upon him last • year. Gough is the most dashing cav- alry leader in the 13ritish army. lie played a conspicuous part in the Battle of the Somme. Ile comes a a theta- gaished military family; his father wan the V.C. in the Indian mutiny; hts grandfather commanded the 'Brit- isa Amy in the Sari' wars. SOME WAR NOTES. iThe Keteser muet" be a devil incar- nate, for he wee the devices of ,the inahla 'wartare, bi1ing oil, gas, tear shells and every vilething that eiten be thought of are put to use in an effort to defeat the Allies. But tame aaencies of the evil one do not lsring victory to the . men who roe them. The deviltry on the water as on the land, we hope le doomed to de- feat.. What adde to the villainy and iniquity at title mode of fighting is the impious claim of the Keleer that he hues the support and sympathy of the tosL Higli in all his devilish doings. • The Canadian e are busily engaged in the neighborhood of Lens, fighting for the paseeraion af some trenches, an the attack on the Hindenburg line 'eta the vicinity of Bullecourt and netride the ArraseCambrai road, the British gadaed their objective. It will be remembered that last week sthe Ittritieh were driven from their pain - tion astrale thole reale The news to- day goes to chow that the Britieb have game back and are again /astride the A:iras-Canibrai road. 13ut Gen. Haig doses not confine his operations to one part of the front. Local actione Wok place yeateaday eest of Lempire and. east 'of Ypres. Ilita- denburg is forced to fight Where he lenTq fly or retreat Would mean more leases, 'ale: the south the Freud are Peg- ging away. There le fightiag on the Verdun front and in Aimee. For voluntary recruits the British Government propcere to rain the age Built -to 60 years, for both married, and 'single men. Thiz is another hint tor Canada to enforce tbe Militia Act.. The three Scandirittelan gountriee have decided trice More to rernaiti neu- tral in the (straggle, Swedish Electric Power, 'The richneele Of Sweden in water Dower, add Denmark% nattiest' povertY tu any soureee of power, has led to Zweden exporting elettrie power across the sound; 'rile- works are to. labliohed cn the small rivet Laga, in Snutlantl,and the curreut is carried by overnead wirea to Heleinghorg, and thenee by three subittarine cables un- der the ;waterer of the *lotted to *tar- ianlyet. north et ligsinore, on the 1.1 land of Seelerid.• The Swedieh power etation easado. 5011 horsepower to Den. mark, but the -company is undertaking to inereatse thie 10 5.000 - horzeoower. Precautions have been taken 60 Mr on makablo to. prevent tire -cables being fettled by the aueltora of ships,-Ilah. way Age,(lazette. Sattli; Faulty Name,. An Irisionat, was seated a railway earriage neat to a very pOrttpous.loek. lug matt with \salonl IIC cominetteed n eonversatiett in a rather tree and ette'.17 marrter. At length the troMpbas•titte ;aid'. -Nt). good man, regerVe yobr sett venation for on of. year Own Miele, kvould have you know that I tun a• N. fking's ,ThaIrisis Man jumped tniltbrl held out hie Iltti orra.altaker he exelaimett etWTh eatersa nlyetsif." at ON** •ooffiloefeSea..., • MaNIOadagmearanagriaapimemapapameopa••••• "I am very pleased to eee you, Lady Dtlamere," old. the thicaess. • "Your husband and 1 are old friends, and i ehould have been, brolteniteaeted if You bad passed through witicout corn - Ina to see me! Will you sit tiown? Lord Delamere shall bring eou some tea," and she made roora beside her- eelt on the broad ottoman. Signe eat down, and Hector went Mr the tea. There were no servants ia the room, theugh the vestibule was crowded with the ducat liveries, with the ex- ceptiou of -her grace's own maid, who sat at a large Male and poured out the tea, which the visitors fetebed for themselves, lie 'knew the customs of the house, and went to thttablo for the tea, and the decliess, loultieg alter liim for a moment wall a strange c' - pression which was :ether sad and wistful, turned. to Sigma "And so you are the heroine of the romantic tale which eas eo deeply in- terested us an, my tiear?" she raid, with a smile, "A. vary poor sort of heroine," said Slgna "A very lovely one, certaialy," sold her grace, with a :Manning bottle that robbed the retort of all rudeness. "And Is it. true that he ran away with eon to Scotland with that magnificent pair ot horses you drive ebout?" "Not at all tette:" eat(' Signa, with a blush and a laugh. "We did aoi run away, and it would have been 01 no use goiug to Scotland, because thea don't marry people theee in the fash- ion they used to do. We were mar- ried in a little country church in Dean onshire." "Really!" Then she paused. "How liallpY you must bet" . Signe did not know euite what to say to this, so remained client. "And he thought that he could keep you shat up in Paris Ake -like -a httle nun!" said her grace. "That was wild idea! Why, we were all dying to know you, and should have stormed that pretty little house of yours if you had not earreedered. Laura Derwent 10 a very dear friend ef mine, and has written to tell me all about You. And yqu'are.so happy, are you rot?" in a lower voice. "Yes, very," said Sigua, frankly. "And yotx will hate me for•in- terrupting your dream, and dragging you out into the cold world, • will you uct?" "I shall not, Indeed," said Signe.. "1 think it was very kind of eou to call." "I mean that we tibial1 be very great Mende while yea are here," said her geace. "We must do what we can ---to amuse you•' and as to Lord Dela- niere-he mustnot be selfish and yip to 'montspolize you. Why the honeymoon is over! Accordine, to Parisian custom, he ought to, quite have tired of you by this time!" But sheietiasmiled curiously and shook her i Then she beckoned to a gentleman with her fan, and when. he carne up with a sort Of hushed eagerness as if all his object and aim in life were to , obey the wishes of ber grace, she said: • "Alarquie, will you see if the duke is in the room anti bring him to me?" The marquis departed on his .prrand, and her gram, Introduced Signa to a dozen or so of great people, and the lietle chain of courtiers drew closer, it aas a tryittg moment for any young girl, more trying still for a newly - made bride, but Signe bore her position with her usual eompesure and sweet aelfeuncorisciousness, and -the favorable itnpression she created was evident. in the manner of her grace, who leaned back and smiled with haughty satisfaction. Presently the marquis returned, as conipanied by an old man with a tvig and a dyed mcustache, and powder thick on his face, yet not thick en- ough to alde a network of wrinkles. He tame up .with a jaunty step, amazingly juvenile, and looked at the duchess with a fine smile. It was the great duke 'himself. He had been fetehed away from a group c,f statesmen who were talking poll - Dag ot the utmost importance, dad there, was a burning Inmatienee in his soul, thougb not a trace of it was vieible in hie sinning face, as he stood waiting for his wife's com- mands, "Victor, eonie and knotV Lady Dela- mere, laird Delamere's wile," she said, "My dear," to Signe, "tiers is my, ausband." The duke smiled still more broadly and tanteaningly, and bowed low, then, as his vacant eyes took in sud- denly Sigrta's loveliness, the smile vanished, and a real look came upon bis flee, Without a wore lie an- Proaehed the ottoman, those near it making room for hint, and began to talk to her. And then, in an instant, it was known tbat Signe% fame was estala ached; .that the duke .had set his MI upon It, and she was to be a Great perSonage. Lora Delamere, as he satintered round Lite vast salmi, talltieg to one and the other, could. see the crowd round the Duke end Signe grow larger, and that she bad become the contt•e of attractioo; and he mulled to himself sarccetfeally; the, quiet days when they used to be all in all to each other were over. ' • The duke himself accompanied Sig. nu to the vlctoria-aa honor only ac- corded 'to his greateet favorites-aud whca she hthi left the salon tho room re-echoed her praistita. The duke's verdict was very short, but emphatic: "After air he aaid, with the un- reel enille upen his face once more, "there is no boauty like that of a yeutig, pureThntlsh girl. "Well,' geld Hector, leaning back and looking at Sktna's flashed thee a sMIle-"well, are you. stake .0.0" "Tho enly aentlinent on my tnind et present, sip, is -confusion:" site micweved. "What a crowd of people! It - wen like the crush•room at the Oilers,. Anti she rig:elvers them twice '•41.- awn! What do they find to talk aboutr , . "Herb otherad he eel& ,laughing. 'Nor 'kind of atnnetentent, len't it; Pitt we are in for it now, you will tee!" UO was quite riehti on the inorfow Came a thoal of .itivitatiOnS with the pack of Welting, aard Aloft re- Ittetently accepted ou from the duchess. It wee a magnificent party, a brilliant gathering of riell Paul beautiful women and ditstingutelted, men; but it was felt, and admitted afterward, that of them all there Wati no one more lovely than the young English girl; and that Lord Dela- mere, without a single order on Ills black coat, save the band Of blue rib- bon, looked the greatest patrIelatt amongst the gentlemen. The social treadmill, as HeCtor called it, had be- gun, and front that day Signe, took her place in the great eocial world and shone there like a bright star. It Was then that she understood the mtaning of the vast wealth at lier disposal. At the bottom of Lord Delamereds passionate love for hie bride was ae almost a passionate pride in her, and as he was forced to stare her presence with the world, he took a grim kind of satisfaction in seeing her at the head of it. It was known amongst the most eminent of the tradespeople that if they had anything out ot the commen in the way of precious dorms or an tielee of feminine adornment, they eould at once find a purellaser itt Lord Delamere, and accordingly Sig- ne found herself posseesed of suits of diamonds that had been eoveted by every woman. lu her set. Worth sur- passed himself in designing costumes which should. get seine share of the notice whieh was lavished upon Lady Delamere. • The head of a noble fam- ily offered his palatial mansion, to Lord Delarriere as better adapted to Lady Deleanere% position than the little house in the Mamma but Signe declined steadfastly. "We have been so happy here!" she pleaded. "Dou't let us leave It while We are hero." And Hector tied kissed her and nodded assent villa a thrill of giatification. Ile went with her everywhere, and. stood watehing her triumphs, quietly proud of thorn. Sometimes. as he leant against the wall of some con ner, men and. women would come to speak to him and speak of her beauty, and the nameless charm which did more for her even than her loveliness, which was now the talk ot Paris.; and be would listen with kis grave •sralle. and say some few words, and none knew the made that welled up in his heart,. It was, though she knew it not, a dangerous pre-eminence, Thera were men continually about ner who would have given their lives for one word or smile of more -than ordinary kind- ness from nor; there were men who had lost their hearts as 'utterly as Sir Frederic had done. Had she been anything but absolutely pure and in- nocent of even the appearance of evil, there might have been peril for her; but her lave for Hector was so obvious that like a halo it surround- ed, like a glorious charm, it protected her. As for him, he was almost as Po1M- lar as Signa herself, and yet there was a certain reserve about him that kept most men at arm's length. It was not pride or hauteur, but a male. less something they could not un- derstand. In very,truth, his life was so wrapped up in his darling that his love was all-suffieient for him. The world was but an unreal, phantasmal atmosphere, through which she, the only real thing, as it were, moved. He used the gay world of Paris as a plaything for bar, and was waiting until she tired of it to find some oth- er amusement to take its 'place. The women envied her her position, her wealth, her cliamonds, but there were some, and many, who in their hearts envied her her husband beyond all else. "He see no one else when she is in the room," said the duchess one night/ as she looked beyond her chain of courtiers to where Lord Delamere stood, alone and silent, his dark eyes fixed on, Signe, who was dancing. "Wheri she speaks he listens to catch every word, though he may be talk. Ing to some one else with the most apparent interest. There never was such devotion -never!" "Nevelt% it is a mere suggestion!" said a statesman, with a wave- of his hand; "perhaps Lord Delamere is - Jealous?" The duchess laughed. "You have not been amongst us long," she said, quietly, "or you Would never even make the suggestion. She thinks him a god and worehips hitn--- that is all." The statesman bowed courteously. "Yes? Indeed? It ie strange. De- lamere was always fortunate. I re- mentber-" The duchess shrugge,1 her shoulders ever so faintly. "Do not," she said. "livery on.e has forgotten Lord Deiamere's youth- ful sins." "And she-?" asked the statesman, with a fine smile. "Never knew Of them," retorted the duchess. But she was wrong in point of feet; people had not forgotten, and often, as he stood silent and Preoccupied, some one answering a question would ex- plain who he was, and Whisper some ot thes starlets of whicli sigftxt knew nothing, CHAPTER XXVII. The world left them but a few hours to be alone with eah other now, and Motor thatched every mo. went of such time as something pree- l'ious. Ile would hum Oyer hls drees• ing in the evening, that he might go and sit in her room and watch the elaborate toilet, which afforded her maid a great dee) more satisfaction and pleasure than it did Signe. On the night that he told her, with gen. tle irony, that She had, been a stiCcest, Sign& was dressing for a state ball. ISM had dismissed her maid, and was standing before the glass putting on the diamaude, which the man who oold them had declared to be -equal to, if not purer that those of the wife of the great American millionaire, Hee. tor was sitting ixi a low taeyeeltalr, leaning back to watch her with luxur- ious Content, "Like Byron yott awoke one morn., Ing to find yourself famous, 1 wort. der hoer it feels to be the great planet in the hemisphere of social stets. Does Yout head get turned now and again, 3igna7 Tell mol 1 like to make a study of these things. What metai. mem; dp you feel most steutely when you tr. queening it in -those crowded ed roots? Tonight now, for in- stance, when they come round, Yee like the moths roand the eandle, any oue of thud ready to think himeeir for -Mate if Ito can hold your fan, and rcallY happy if he can get a dance: when the duke, for whom all make way, tells you in that whisper of his which can be .heard by every one, that your dress is glumly perfection - Low eball you feel?" And, he laughs softie. She turns, and yets her glove fall upon the dressing -table, her violet eyes fixed upon han questioningly as a smile turves her lips. "Conte," he says, with an air of gentle banter "dean let your modesty overcome your truthanness. Tell me exactly how it takes you. 1 have often wondered, as I have stood at some remote distance and watehed you. It is so different to the old life at Northwell--and yet how calmly you take it; if you had always had a duke in your retinue, YOU could not accept the fact with greater compose tire. What are you thinking of, Sig, na?" Fer a moment longer she is silent, then her eyes are suffesed, and site glides towarde hire and kneels at his side, "Sball I tell you-lionestly and truia?" she murmurs/ "Certes!" be says, taking the One unglovea hand and kissing it. "e am thinking of -you," site says, and her voice thrills with suppresseal passion. He looks into her eyes and the col- or eomee inks hie face for a moment; but he says, with that quiet, which comes of intense self -suppression: "Of me, my queen?" "Of you!" she repeats, anti she takes Isis band and puts it round her white neek, where it lies against the dia- monds. "Hector, 1 wonder whether- ahl bow shall 1 go on?" "Go on; tell me everything, dear," he says, gently, • "it is so hard," she murmurs. "But I Itave often wondered if you thought me frivolous and --and 'heartless, all this giddy, whirling time!" "Heartless, No," he says, quietin/ his eyes fixed on hers, "Yes, heartless!" sue says. "Day after day,, night after night, it has been one rush and hurry; we have lived in a crowa and confusion, that 'seems to me, when I think of it quiet- ly, like a marl dream, It is often like a dream to me when they, are all round me, buzzing like bees, with the niusie filling the air, and the lights (bailing and beveildering, • and -and then I wake and see you standing si- lent and alone, and 1 wish -ala Hec- tor! if you could see my heart -I wish that you and 1 were wrecked on St, Clare, and were euite alone, where the glittering, buzzing crowd could not reach us!" And with a little sound that is scarcely a sob, she draws near to hint, and lays ber head upon" his shoulder, He is silent for ^a moment, as be presses her to his heart, and hie brows are knit with troubled doubt. "My darling!" he murmurs. "And you said nothing of this! I thought that you were happy -that, woman- like, you enjoyed it! It is only na- tural that you should have enjoyed it? Such as you were meant to play the Owen! And an this time you---" "Have been longing for the old time when we were all in all to each other, and there was no duke to murmur flat- tery into a heedlese ear!" size whis- pers. "Great Heavens!" he says. "Why - why did you not tell me? A word or a look could have ended it!" She smiles strangely, "And that I would not have said or looked," she says. "You have stud I have -been a success. You said it - not I." "All Paris says it, darling!" "Well, be is so. Do you know why I have borne it, and gone on? No? Be- cause you have told me to speak, dear -because I wanted you to feel that I was not ell unworthy the great name you have bestowed on me!" "Signe! My chtid!" he murmurs, Lor the tears are streaming from her upturned eyes. "Yes -yes," she'says, swiftly, with a long breath. "You -you married me, a mere nobody -without title or posi- ten; you, an earl, with a high place in the great world, and I -I -when the chance ceme to show myself worthy to stand. beside you and bear your name, seized it. I epee nothing for nil this;I-Inector-J hate it! but I have done it and gone through it that the world might admit that you had not married beneath you." Pale and steadfast she leeks at him, and pale and steadfast he look; down at ber. Then he draws her face • to- ward him and kisses her. "Then it was all for my sake, nil, darling" he says. "Yes," she says. "If there was at any time any pride In 'my heart, it was that the world should deem me worthy to be your wife and bear your name, Hector; nothing more. Often, wiren I have looked at you standing alone, my heart has ached for ate old time; but 1 have whispered to myself: 'Ile patient! The time will Some when he wit say. "Yon have done enough!' and we shall go away and be alone once InOre, he and. I together, and leave the magi to itself!' Ile is silent for a moment; then he bends over her, taking her into his arnis, utterly regardless of the magni- ficent costume which Worth expects to See chronicled in the moraieg papers. "Greet Heaven!" he murmurs, more to himself than to her, "who shall know a woMaitat heart And it le far me that you have done all this? My poor darling! Well, there shall be au en.c14yelf es,ith"ectarr, eagerly. "Yes, to -night shall be the last night," he says, firmly, "Why', Signe, thought -blind fool that I was!-' that you were enjoying your triumphs most latensoly!" "Ali, Hector: When timy left me eo little tittle for you!" she murmurs. Ile bows his head poniteetlyi "I have been wrOng. Forgive me, Signal We will leave Paris at once. I have noticed that you have Inked pale and 'tired---" Site Mlles. "1 bave often been tired, Hector; but fOr this quiet half.honr I don't think I could have bora.° iti" nig"Ght°.?' a hettaeril Signe, we will go to. 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Thus, the "painted lady," or thistle 'butterfly (Pyrameie canati), hats been known te crow the .Alps ;the red ad - mine butterfly tVaneetat atalantat has leaded In numbeie on the desk of a, veer/el 500 milefrom the coat et England; the vommon white butters Mee came the Englesh channel la eloude; the fitments nallaweed butterfly (Derails archippuaa abundant every- where in the Ceited States, is eald to make the smee mile journey from California to the Hawaiian Wands and has gradually progreceed by way of the south tem Wallas as far as Anit- ti'alla. A deatine head zuoth base boarded a steamer 200 miles off the Cape Verde Islamise Cloutas of ladybirde miles In extent, so that they resembled creek° from a /steamer, have been 'seen at Sea. A (warm of locuets that tweed aver the Red Leta in 1889 le mid to have ex- tended over 2,000 square milce, and it was esainotted to weigh 42,e50.000,000 tone! Mittard's Liniment Curer; Diphtheria, 4 I. TOURISTS BY WING. 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Vast nuMbers of turtles are found on as sliorcer and It serves as a derot and watering plata for Bailie, ASO011nitai IS governed by a captain eppointeti by the British Admiralty, There is no pritate property in land, no rents, no taxes and no mai for money. The notate and het* ere Pub- lic property and the meat is issued as ration. So are the vegeteblee grown on the, farina. When. an island fish- erman makes a cetch be brings it to the guardroom, where it in lesued be the sergeantsmejor. Practically the entire populaton are sailors, and they work at one of the common trades. The muleteer is a Java tar, so is the gardener, so is the shepherds, the etocamen, the grooms, masons, carpen- ters and plumbers, Even the island trapper wbo gets reward for the tails of rate, is a sailor, - The climate is almost perfect: any thing can be growne-Philadelplaa Ledger, RELIEF AT LAST 1 want to help you if you are suffer- ing from bleeding. itching, blind or protruding Piles, I can tell you how, in your own home and without any- one's assistance, you can apply the best of ail treatments. PILESRTllOM AT I promise to send you a ERNE trial of the new absorption treatment, and references from your own locality if you will but write and ask. I assure you of immediate relief, Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Address .MRS, M. SUMMERS, Sox a, Windsor, Ont. ••••••.......11•••••••••--•-•-•••-•-••••••• AIVLIUAR PIIRASZS. A Few of the Many Gents We Get From Alexander Pope. With the exception of Simicespeare, Pope is tne autnor of. pore tamiliar phrases than any other writer of mod, ern. times. Here are a few of his gems: "Shoot folly as she flies." "Hope springs eternal in, the human breast." "Man never is but aiwtos to be 'bless- ed." "Whatever is is right," "The proper study of mankind is man." "Grows with his growth and strength - ems with his strength." "Order is heaven's firet law," "Worth me.kee the man and want of it the fellow." "Honor and shame from no condition rise; aet well your part -there all the bonor lies." "An honest mane the noblest work or God." "Thou wen my guide, philosopher and. friend." "Wo - mens at best a contradiction still." "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.", "Who sball decide when dortors disagree?" "A, little learning is a dangerous thing." ,-ro err is human, to forgive divine," "Beauty dreass us with a single hair." "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "Damn with faint praise." "The many headed monster." Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. THE JAGUAR. Is Bigger But Not So Fierce as African Leopard. The jagunr or eel Here," as it is generally known throughout Spanish America, 1i the largest and handsomest of American oats. les size and deep yellow color, pronsety marked with Llack spats and rueettes, gives it a cloee reeemblance to the Aftecen leop- ard. it is, howeser, a heavier and more powerful animal. la parte, of the dense tropical Iona of South America taut -black jaguars emir, and while representing merely a color phrase, they are' supposed .to be much flercer than the ordinary animal, Although so large ,and powerful, the jaguar has none of the truculent ferocity of the At:Mean leopard. During the years 1 Or" 4'46 t a. a .tren'areireenteasaantieVz.iri.' 141,ttaar4t-4.-zzlt---, ‘1.111ifr and Save Morker With leather pries Mil! high, you may have several pairs of attractive Fleet 'Foot Summer Shoes for what ono good pair of leather boots cost. Fleet Foot line it to coMplete, that there are Many styles for work and play -for *ports and outing -or men, women and children. Ask yam- dealer to show you die Maine of Pleot Pilot Shoe* -ad *aye money M. summer. 206 e•• DRS. SOPER et: WHIT SPECIALISTS geroma, Asthma, Datairrh, Pimples, Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, Rheumatism, 8kini ney, Biped, Nerve and Bladder Diseases, Call, or send ilstory for hen *deice. Median* torrasheil in tablet loon, itonts-40 st,nt. to mi. AO 1 ta 5 p.m, bandays--1(1 5S2. to 1 pp, f Casseliiiiaa Frse DRS. oOPER to worts: 25 Toronto 21., Torooto,04ts Please Mallon trtaa Paper.. spent in this country, malaly in the open, I made careful inquiry without hiteaaarrantgtaockf ead siliniiignittitacibiti;•shere Poe in one locality on the Pacific coast of Guerrero I rotted that the hardier natives had an interesting method of 'mating the atigre during the mating Period. At euch time the male lute the habit af ieA'uztg its lair neartolite thefo- hills early in the eirening and follow- ing down the canion for some d1B- tunee,. at intertals uttering a subdued roar. On moonlight nights at thie time the Muster lamas an expert ate axe with a short wooderi trumpet near the mouth ot the canyon to imitate - the "tigre'e" call as soon as it is heard aud to repeat the ery at proper inter- vals, Ater placing the the hunter Meendn the velvet" several leni- tive' yards, and, gun in hand; aetate the approacis of the animal. The tet- tives have many amassing titles of the sudden exit of untried bunters wben tee approstehine animal utlexpectecily uttered its roar at close quarters, - National fleegraallie Magazine. "Do you I.now," siinpered "yeti ati UV' nt St real rotor r ever nit. it 141.1FL be •xtrornoly interesting to act the part)' en,ated by the master dramatists Ilite tihaliespeare 11 "Now you're tallthe, kid." he broke In. "1 just eat that biodospeme ,tuff yod in Shakespeare's Last 1.4"171,e' Eci' two whole. seasons; and part ot ticwowtfs7 lostyed a horn in the or- * t Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In THE NOISELESS MOOSE. Taller Than Ordinary Horse, He Moves Silently Through Forest. Although I:tiler thsit an ordinary horse, weighing more Liao buff a ton, and adorned with witie-spreading antlers, tho bull moose stalks with ghostly silence through thickest forests, where man min stier(el:, tTIIIVO ithifilt bting 1)0.1.'47(4-d hY the loud eraehling of dry twige. n SUM^ iner luvos Lex -lying, swampy forests. inteisrersed with shallow lakes and elurgitti warics up to Its neek in a lake to teed en sueenlent water plants, and when reaching to the bottent becomes entirely sabmerged, These visits to the water are sometimes by day, but usuany at night, especially during the season when .the /laves are young and the horns of the bulls ore hut partly grown. Late In the fail. with ,furi-grown ant- lers, the bulls wander through the for - Est looking for their Tastes. at times ut- tering fat-rrachincr calls or defiance to all rivals, and onasionally clashing their horns against the saplings In exiiber- anee of masterful Vig(>1.. Other bulls at tlITIPS accept the ehallenge and hasten to meet the rival for a linttle royal. At thia season the eall of the cow moose also brings the nearest bull quickly to her side. Minters ialte advantage of this, and by imitatintt the call through a birch - bark troinnet bring am most aggressive bulls to their docon.-Exeliange. Lacitute. Que., • Sept. 25, 1903. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. entlemen er eince coming home from the Boer war I have been hot tiered with running fever sores on my legs. I tried many salves and liniments; also doctored continuously for the binoJ, but got no permanent relief till last winter, when. my mother •and. I have Worked every working day gilt:teen: to try MINARD'S LINIMENT, cal. Two bailee eompletely cured me, the effect of whiten was ahnota, mnstel- -Tom's gratefully, JOIIN WALSH. A BOITMANIAN VILLAGE, Quaint Switch Houses 1VLasli Great Poverty. Behind the community hayetack wnf be found the village. Each village lieuse itself seems but a =as of willow switehes, wattled to- gether, the interetices being then chinked in and about with mud, so that the place resembles nothing so much as , the Dahomey villages of World's Fair times. Along the road, iteneath the locusts, rise high walls.of it, hiding the yards behind as Turkish women were eont to oereen their fa.coe from the masculine gaze, From the street wall other fences ten back to the meadoweie to enclose a yard. Passing through the fence, one will .see the home, tentally the bare, brown nutd. ealls alone, but. oceasionally coated over with a wbitewash ot slightly blue tinge, and now and then boasting a portico, cn wiach repose ohl sheepskin coats, green poppers, cats and the great troop of village dap, the k.ca.vengers of the Inside the homes, poverty is overy. \Otero manifest. The floors are of earth, on which tho family go about barefoot in oraer to sate the man^ ehoes. The oven is of earth; tile bed Is a plank, eet against the wail; and the artietic 10 supplied by a single cheap iron. Opulent matsants now go as far as to cover their Malls with a. eheap eloth, which gives a deridedly pretty effete., but they are the term). Hens, For food on their table, thera is One dish that es mammon to all, and that lea sort meal of maize. In addi- tion, there will be mangoee„ the poor man's friend in the Salkans,.either stuffed with eabbage, roasted or boil- ed, and, possibly, a potato. Sheep's Chnene is rasa served; but bread is a rarity, and then it Is of the black vari- ety always. Meat, of course, le to be bad on great oceasions only. At one end of the villtiete Stands Me cymbal of their wrongs --the home of the landea oroprietor, to whom the adjoining thoueand.odd hectares of Mud belong, Seldom, if (ttOr, is the noble here. Ife Meg in Vienna or Paris, and leaves the place in charge of tome Greek or Macetionittn, 'who has the stewardship for a term of five years, with the In- tent of making all be tan, first for 11111'410f end thea for the proprieter.-- 'Christian Herald. ISSUE NO. 216 1917 HELP WANTED.,. 'WANTED se PateleATIONEIRS Tai wtIlea/Joel, St, Catharines. 4)1' " 't rain fur nUraeg; A la eY• C .A.1)IFIS WANir131) TO DO PLAIN` ee light newing• at home; WhOle or kPont- thlio; MOOd pay; wore sent any distance; &Marge prepaid. Send Stamp for par- ileulare. National Manufacturing Co., :Montreal,. Quo, WtNTFM--ait,RI) r011 Woolen AIM cleaners and Tondos for day and uight work, For portico.. larS, apply to the SIM/Wry Mfg, Vmu- natlY, LimItra, 131'antforil, Ont. WANT111).--WOOL1EN• MIL,f• 1I Napper tender, one eeenstouted to creamer Nappers tin White and (Vey rlianitete and !navy Cloths. Put. Mit particulars, apply to tAingsby Mf. 00, Ltd., Brantford, Ont. SEPARATE SICIRTS Ultra Smart for Spring—Some 011ie Blouses. x•,••••••••,4:.*.o.,r,. The separate skirt for spring; hue been given more .ettention by dean - ere than thts important garment, htl'i received heretofore. They have last realized that it is :IRK ag (41.41110 ear eg,arenel enleltegtO43e'rrttb1(31s, 41dttakainill f (11.4:1eitkel 5.11.1 mutat care in its designing, ,As a result, it is now being devel- oped in various very approPriat fa - Inlets and It is showing a greater vole iety of line. •Tlee barrel slthe le tieing featured Has year, however, and. ons may safely say that It is the leading akin silhouette. Sportesairte will be more popular taan circa ThEro too, a dress elan,. 111141 favorea ly foasttie bioniabll‘einPterat:Isian women threugh u - rthich will be Wore this spring. It le of black or easy blue satin ana 15 eepeciallY effective when worn with the na,w chit -ant bloctees In art velars. ' A very new &alga for a sephea,.. skirt is that Witch ha a been borrowee front the native dress of the lekenele eolony of Algeria. It has pan* or thick pleats eet close together. to forin the sides of the 'skirt, the -front an 1 back panels being entirely plaiu. ^ Blouses, simple or elaborate, are frequently composed of two materials: usually sheer.. Practically all dressy blouses aee made up in sheer febriee. Net blouses will be worn, many of them having colored beluga of chiffett or satins, Dressy blouses show a de- cided preference for very abort ki- lnalla sleeve, but the tailored biomes have sleeves extending quite to the mona sleeves, but the taPte"ell bloussa are expected to reeeive the approval of the ultra smart, Paisley daligns appear upon chiffon. bionees. Sheer organdies; show the finest ifostsible embroidery done in, fin.e sewing eine Very fine linens, lawns, organdies and washable 'silk crepes are, the fa• tvearriea. disepring and summer hieese Ina' ut ta Minartan 1 iniment Cures Colds, Etc, THE CATACOMBS. Between Six and Eight Million Bodies Laid There, Nature has been kind To the Pale tine, that hill where dwelt the they - herd kings and where -later rose Gm tremendous palaces of emperor after einneror, clothing its scanty ruins with lavish vendure, alence of ob. livion broods over the fragments of the halls where Dente an played with his fleas and Caligula bathed in 'feline mering seas of rninted eoirts. The most compelling thing upon the whole beaky hill, says Geographic Magazine, ie the littte stone alter ehisled: iel Deo. Set Deivac-to the 'Unknown God. This was really the shrine of the oratecting deity of the city, the patron god of Rome, and only the priesto knew the dread spirit's name. It was never written, but handed down ver- bally from generation to generation, because. if the common people knew whom they 'worshipped, any treater tould reveal the sacred nante to an enemy, who :night bribe the deity to target Rome. What a contrast!Tthe home el the ienknown God on the pleasant hill- side, in the sun -sweetened nir, mitt far undeeground, pent in the amine ehill of the Catacombs. the altars often the earconhagi of martyrs- of the stout-hearted who worshipped the Known Clc,d. OrigitutIly ttemeterlea per/a:eta ;sea 'mown to the pagan authoritiee. tee .1 retnarkable vaulta and galleries and chapele, 20 to 50 feet below the /sur- face, became hiding plate.s for :oft faithful in thee of persecution. 'Moro than forty of these cities of the dead. which extend around Rome in it great subterraneaa circle, have been ex• 'gored, and it Ines been estimated be an Italian investigator that 'Rave es six and eight million bodice v, oro 1:1 - tenet' In theme - - ST. VITUS DANCE EVEN THE MOST SEVERE OASEG CAN SE CUREO BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS, Is your ohne fidgety, restless, or irritable? el 0 the hands shaky or the arms jerky? Does the fa. -e 1 witch? Do the legs tremble er drag? These are signs of St, Vitus Dance, a nervous disease %that' le coniinea ehiefly to young ehildren, but which often affects Weals - strung women, and sometimes; ma:. it. Vitus Dance is caused by dist/Mee ed nerves, due to poor bleed, and le always; mired by the use of Dr. limns' Pink Pills which fill the vein: with new, rielt red blood, strengthen - leg the nerves, and thus drawing ma the disease. Here is proof-Mre John A. 4:muting, Lower Caledoula, N. S., eayst;---"When my •latig:o..:r Myrtle WM; about nine Years of one she bermue afflicted with St. 1late Dante. The trouble ultimately te- tanus so bed that ehe tould not heel anything in her hands, and had la it-, fed like a child, nhe could not ewe walk woes the floor without he:a She was treated for some finie by a phyeleian, but dtd not show ,InV /pa provement. Otte day n. neighbor and she had read of a nate of at. elate Dance mired be• Dr. 'Williams' Pees Pills, Mid we decided 10 give in.§ medicine a treat ay the time ale third box woe used there was sons improvement in her condition, oral we continued giving her the pills for about a month longer when Om entirely eared, and has Mit Rinse gell the least return cf the tronble. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills eau be ob. tallied from any dealer in me.ifotte or by mail at fin rtilta a LOX or 5a. borers for ;$2.50 froth The Dr. Wils liartie' Mt dieitee theleitvIllei . .