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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-5-4, Page 3A GOOD MEDICINE VERDUN FIREMEN FOR THE SPRING ARE REAL HEROES Do N©t Use Harsh Purgatives-.-, REMAINED IN TOWN TO SAVE IT A Table Is All You Need. FROM FLAMES, ' Not exactly sick -but not feeling -- quite well. That is the way most peo- ple feel in the spring. Easily tired, appetite fickle, sometimes headaches, and a feeling of depression. Pimples or eruptions may appear on the skin, or there may be twinges of rheuma- tism or neuralgia. Any of these in- + Verdun. It will not abound in detail. dicate that the blood is out of order - that the indoor life of winter has left its mark upon you and may easily develop into more serious trouble. Do not dose yourself with purgas tires, as so many people do, in the hope that you can put your blood right. Purgatives gallop through the system and weaken instead of giving strength. Any doctor will tell you this is true. What you need in spring is a tonic that will make new blood'. and build up the nerves, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills is the only medicine, that can do this speedily, safely and surely. Every dose of this medicine makes new blood, which clears the skin, strengthens the appetite and makes tired, depressed. men, women and children bright, active and strong. They Worked Daily Under Fire and Rid in Cellar During Bombardment. This is the story of the heroes of L. R. Whitman, harmony Mills, N.S. says: "As a tonic and strength build. er I consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wonderful. My whole system was badly run down. and although I faith- fully took a tonic given me by my :lector I could note no improvement... Then I began Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and was soon restored to my old time health. I can most heartily endorse this medicine." Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi - sine Co., Brockville, Ont. LONDON PRICES SOARING. Necessities Show Rise During War of 13 to 50 Per cent. While a very great deal has been heard of the enormous rise in the price of food and other necessaries that has taken place in Germany and other enemy countries little attention bas been paid to the very great in- crease in the cost of living in Lon- don, England. The following list of prices has been specially compiled in a locality where the population is thick and the cora- petition oinpetition especially keen. Even a cur- sory glance at them shows that every- day necessities like bread, onions, fire- wood, coal, cheese, milk, soda, soap, and matches all show an increase of from 15 to 50 per cent.: Pre- Pre- war sent: Article price price! Firewood, 6 bundles $ .06 $ .09 Onions, 4 pounds .06 ''.08 Ale, quart . .08 14, Whiskey, bottle .84 1.20 Flour, 2 pounds .05 .09 j Bread, loaf .05 .09, Coal, cwt. .28 .44! Gas, 1,000 cubic feet .60 .72 Gas mantles, each . , . , .04 .08; Bacon, pound .... . . , . .16 .28 Meat (flank) , pound .11 .17 Cheese, pound .16 .241 Butter, pound .26 Milk, quart .07 Tea, pound .36 Sugaa.?moist), pound .04 Jam, 2 pounds Currants, pound. - Prunes, pound Miners, bottle ... .20 .08 .08 .02 Co,*.,' on, reel .05 body (washing), 4 pounds .04 Soap, pound .06 Matches, dozen boxes .03 'i'Per pound. EXPERIMENTS. Little is known as yet. But France knows that some old men lived there- and died -as bravely as any men in all the history of France. Senator Humbert told the story when he returned to Paris from Ver- dun the other day. Because he is a Senator he had been enabled to visit the beleaguered city. What he told has been dovetailed in with what others have heard. Little news has leaked through the military lines in the many weeks of the battle. In the intense interest felt by all in the major event. the old men who merely lived on there, doing their duty, were forgot. ten. The heroes -the real heroes --of Verdun are the town firemen. Twa civilians have .figured in previous stories. It is not positively known how this pair managed to remain be- hind when every other elan and wo- man and child was forced by the sal- diers to flee from the rain of Ger- man shells, One of then[ has some ill-defined occupation which has been recognized by the soldiers. The other once owned a home in Verdun. When visitors come to the city now he waits, smiling, as though in propitia- tion, until he can gain their attention. "Come with me," he begs. So the visitors go with him. By - and -bye they come to the shattered wall, which is all that remains of what was °nee a handsome house. The man who once owned it stands on the pile of stone which mark what was once a doorway, and beckons to the visitors. "Come in," he says. "I bid you welcome. This is my home." But the civilians, homehow, have not the appeal to me that the old firemen have. When the war began the younger men of the Fire Depart- ment were mobilized. Some were not needed then, but as months pass- ed by they found their way into the army, Manifestly the town could not be left without protection from fire. So men who had served in for- mer years in the Fire Department and had been superannuated volun- teered their services. Little by little old men joined, until at last there were enough for a full company. Then the Germans attacked Verdun. Old Firemen Remained. The civilians -man, woman and child -were ordered out. The old fire- men would not go. They were in the service of the State just as much as any man who festers in a trench or runs forward cheering against the white flashes of the mitrailleuse. Most of them had sons at the front. ,S8 Some had lost sons in the war. Life .10; was as sweet to these old inen as it .56; is to any man in the security of Paris. .09 But they stayed. Their duty lay plain .20 before then. It was to guard the town. There are gendarmes there, -it is 06. true. They see to it that no one .08 , touches property in Verdun that be - .09 ,longs to another. Every window is .07 closed and shuttered, and every door is locked. Now and then a 380 shell comes hurtling through the air with that gurgling scream it favors - sounds somehow like a locomotive being strangled to death in a tunnel - and falls upon a house. Then that house ceases to be. The gendarmes walk to the scene in their theatric blue capes and caps, or bicycle bo it if the street approach is sufficiently free of massses of stone and brick. They solemnly write out their re- port, that in some future time the city archives shall bear witness to the facb that on a day of February, 1916, Alphonse Picot's home was de- stroyed by a German shall. Always they find the old firemen there. The gendarmes are not press- ed for time, you comprehend. If they do not make their report to -day, then it may well be made to -morrow. But the old firemen must hurry. Fire is fire to them, an enemy to be fought whether it has its origin in a stuffed flue or is carried over fifteen kilo- metres by a German gun. The prop- erty of their townsmen must be saved.. They fight 'the flames !wher- ever they spring up and .save what propertythey can, and in their turn make their report. Then they go back to the cellar that serves them for headquarters and wait for the � -. . .121 .03 Teach Things of Value. Where one has never made the ex- periment of leaving off tea or coffee and drinking Postum, it is still easy to learn something about it by reading the experiences of others. Drinking Postum is a pleasant way out of tea or coffee troubles. A man writes: "My wife we's a victim of nervous- ness, weak stomach and loss of appe- tite for years, and although we re- sorted to numerous methods for re- lief, one of which was a change from coffee to tea, it was all to no pur- pose." (Both tea and coffee are in- jurious to many persons, because they contain the subtle, poisonous drug, caff eine. ) "We knew coffee was causing the trouble, but could not find anything to take its place until we tried Pos- tum. Within two weeks after she quit coffee and began using Postum almost all of her troubles had disap- peared as if by magic. It was truly wonderful. Her nervousness was gone, stomach trouble relieved, appetite im- proved, and, above all, a night's rest was complete and refreshing. "This sounds like an exaggeration, as it all happened so quickly. Each day there was improvement, for the Postum was undoubtedly strengthen ing her. Every particle of this good work was due to .drinking Postum in place of - coffee." 'Mame given by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. Postum comes in two forms: I Postum Cereal -the original form-, must be well boiled. 15c. arid 25c. pkgs. , Instant Postum-a soluble powder - dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa- ter, and, with cream and stigar,' makes a delicious beverage, instantly. 30c. and 50c. tins. Both forms are equally delicicee and cost about the same per cup.. "There's a -Reason" fo.' Postinn. -sold by Groctrs. next,.alarm. Few Fires in Verdun. Oddly enough, there have been very few fires in Verdun. A French town is solidly built, ,for one thing. The' .roofs are tile and the walls are stone and the floors are hardwood that would hardly burn until it had been split with an axe. Also a descend -1 ing shell produces such • a havoc of ' mortar that any incipient' flame may be quenched in the stifling. dust. But the old' firemen do their. duty as they , see it. Sometimes they trundle an old hand apparatus, through the choked streets. More often a bucket and a wet cloth will serve the moment's need. Humbert found •the old men crouch ing in tbeir•.cellar. Perfectly composed ed they were, as though. they were used to cities collapsing over them, and a crash came, and a cloud of mor- tar dust arose, They plodded out methodically to look at the damage- these old ones, as one says in the ben- der Frel ch way -and cautioned Hum- bert to keep under cover until they. returned. Byeand-bye .they came back and threw off the shrapnel helmets that they wear in going about where the air may at a moment fill with cutting slivers of white-hot metal and told Humbert what had happen- ed, and settled down to wait for the next shell. They need not have served, these men. Some of them, I am told, have been killed. One expects courage of a soldier and of young men. These men were old. What Does. Your Food Cost ? You could easily spend two dollars for a meal and not get as much real, body-building nutriment as. you get in two Shredded Wheat Biscuits, the food that contains all the muscle - making material in the whole wheatgrain prepared in a digestible form. Two Shredded Wheat Biscuits with milk or cream will make , a ' complete= perfect meal I at a cost of not over five cents. A food for young - BIRDS AND GLASS. Sometimes Fly Through Windows of Country Houses. It has been frequently noticed that no wild bird can understand the pro- perties of glass, and great numbers, ranging in size from a pheasant to a titmouse, are killed by flying against the windows of country houses. If a room possesses a large mirror ltT`,Io t1jt sters and grown-ups. Eat it for breakfast with • milk or cream; eat it for luncheon with fresh• ferries or other fruits; a perfect meal far the Spring days. Made in Canada. reflecting the view seen through an4 t, t'tJ�-! LI1`zi open window birds are particularly liable to be deceived, and especially if frightened, into thinking that they can fly through it. Sparrow hawks will sometimes chase their intended victims into strange places, Some years ago a member of this species pursued a small bird through the open window of a railway carriage in motion. In its blinded determination to secure the panting fugitive it entangled its claws in the meshes of the bat rack and was ignominiously slain by an as- tonished passenger 'with an umbrella. She Did Not Meed the NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS P'EOPL'1. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. We live merely on the crust or rind of things.-Froude, Fellows who have no tongues are often all eyes and ears.-l•Ialiburton. All philosophy lies in two words-. "sustain" and "abstain.",-Epictetus, Many delight more in giving of pre- sents than in paying off debts. -Sir• Philip Sydney. Moderation is the silken string run- ning through the pearl chain of all. virtues. -Fuller, People do not talk for the sake of expressing opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.- Ilazlft. Good intentions do not pave the road to hell; they are the stepping- stones that lift men every now and then out of the mire of common life, and there is hope for everyone save he who climbs on them no snore, -.T, E. Buekrose. There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright -winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us. • -George Eliot. NOTHING TO EQUAL BABY'S OWN TABLETS ROYAL YEAST SAKES The best yeast in the world. Makes perfect bread, MADE IN CANADA E,W,GILIETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. • WINNIP€ MONTREAL Visible and Strong. "Goodness!" exclaimed a gentle- man coming into a restaurant, and even then holding on to his hat from habit because of the gale blowing out- side. "I never saw such a wind in my life," "Never saw such a wind?" said an- other. `"What a stupid remark! Wiwi , es. el, saw a wind? Pray what is it Mrs.. Lawrence M. Brown, Walton, Inte?' „ N.S., writes: "I have used Baby's ,� •Like, replied the first speaker; Own Tablets for the past ten years, i lake to have blown my hat off." and believe there is nothing to equal l them for little ones, They instantly! Ase for Minard's and take no other banish constipation and teething trou- Occurronces lit the Land That Reigns bles, and, unlike any other medicine f Simple. I have used, they are pleasant to take "Those twin boys of yours are so and do not gripe the baby," The Tab- much alike that I don't see how you lets are sold by medicine dealers or can tell them apart." by mail at 25 cents a box from The "That's easy enough. When they're A film version of "Tom Brown's Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- on their good behavior they an, Schooldays has been prepared and vine, Ont. to their own names, and when they've will shortly rbe resented a iLntroduced , been in mischief each one answers to `"Potato bread" is to be introduced �-----�'� - in the local workhouse by the Croy- One or the Other. I the name of the other." don Board of Gual'dims as a war Pat --Iris, sore, work is scarce, but Supreme In the Comtnee- cial World. economy. ion in favor °f disallowing. 01 got a job last Sunday that brought SEND POTATOES Sunday cinemato rah . me five dollars. r ffi FFA POTATOES, IRISH COB- S menu has been defeated by the Lon- r• mith NVhat; You broke the °der ate biers. Delaware. Carman. rite tar don County Council. Sabbath? ! quotations. H. w. Dawson, Brampton. Work on London's new reservoir Pat (apologetically) 'Fell, sorr, . near Staines, has been stopped by the '"was wan av us had t' be broke! Fi'n SATE - Ministry of Munitions which wants x(� ACRIsif. NICs: HOME, iircp tS the plant and labor. •Minard'a Liniment yam" barman,/ rriend ; el Iuiuse, " barns. ail ctutivat�ed, ust At the Parkhurst Convict Prison, , outside City. Dover Tonnst.tp. .Sohn Isle of Wight, convalescent convicts Idle Tears. liacituldnr, t•hati3am, tent. in the infirmary are knitting woolen „ , ER'iNr, MACHINE fil'PI'L1I:S-19 110, my usband ain't killed, Mrs. ; 1. httperlor Needles sac, .:houses 75e. sc ho 1101 Noror thumberland coal owners Marks. No sooner did I put all the Superio �Su pins ?Ate, 1Hamilton.atin Machine. t. have renewed their offer to give kids in mourmn , even to Biby in the miners an advance in wages in lieu phaco, when 1 gets a telegram a say -I of free houses and coal. i in' 'e's alive and well. Yes, an' all ; pi n s T - t1 L A SS COATMA El t -, The British Board of Agriculture' this expense for nothin'." i Steady Job to good man. 'Watters has announced that 12,000 to 14,0001 "Wet a crool shame!" and Bedell. Pembroke, tint. n OX RIPPERS WANTED I:11' iF,- 1 diately. good tvafies fol• good risen. Firsctbronk limo.. Penetang. Ont. • g P entertain.' M S Sha Dl Danger Signals BUT DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CUR - Ell HER DIABETES. Mrs. McDonald Might Have Saved Herself Months of Pain, Sleepless- ness and Anxiety by Using Dodd's Kidney Pills Earlier. Grand Narrows, Victoria Co., N.S., May 1st. -(Special.) That Dodd's Kidney P4ils will cure kidney disease in its worst form is evidenced by the case of Mrs. Roderick McDonald, an e atimable resident of this place. Mrs. McDonaldsuffered from diabetes for two years, and found her first relief in Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I am sure I would be in my grave to -day but for Dodd's Kidney Pills," Mrs. McDonald states. "The doctor attended me for five months for dia- betes, bub I was worse when I stopped taking his medicine than when I start- ed. I could not get a wink of sleep. "As soon as I started taking Dodd's Kidney Pills I fell in a solid sleep for one hotue, and soon I got . so that I could sleep fine. "Dodd's Kidney Pills have done so much for me that I feel like recom- mending them to everybody." Mrs. McDonald states that her ear- lier symptoms were shortness of breath, dizziness, backache and a bit- ter taste in her mouth in the morn- ing. All these are symptoms of kid- ney trouble -danger signals that no one can afford to neglect. Had she heeded them and taken Dodd's Kidney Pills she would have saved herself months of pain and anxiety. „ m PERMANENT BAN ON RUM. Bill Has Been Introduced Into the Russian Duma. A bill has been introduced into the Russian .Duma to put into effect the government's promise that the war prohibition of alcoholic drinks shall continue in force after the war. The bill, as summarized by the Novoe Vremya, provides: - "It is forbidden to produce alcohol for the purposes of manufacture of vodka. Equally prohibited is the import of alcohol from foreign coun- tries and from the Grand Duchy of Finland. The produetion of alcohol by private institutions and persons, either forsale, or for their own eon- Z�raveller-How's your train ser- sumption or fin. household purposes, vice here? is also prohibited. "The productionof alcohol for tech- Small Town Native -Wal, they ad- nieal or medical purposes is to be vertise one train a day, but you and carried on by the government directly, me know then advertisements exag- or through contractors. The. govern-: gerate! - nient has the sole right to sell spirits for these purposes. . "The sale of light wines is only al -1 ll i n lowed in towns. In provinces and' �� �% districts which- grow grapes the sale of wine -not on draught -is allowed.! If so, remember these facts -Zara - The limit• of alcohol for `different (. Bilk is by far the most widely used kinds of *ines is to be fixed by the balm in Canada! Why has it become go"TheThe ent. so popular? . Because it heals sores, sale of,beer 'is allowed only in cures skin diseases, and does what is towns. The mit lnent is also to fix claimed for it. , Why not let it heal. for beer 'the lilimit of alcohol. Town. councils have the right to issue regu- your sore? lations limiting or prohibiting alto -1 Remember that Zam-Buk is alto. gether the sale of beer or light u ents. ther different Most f these consist of.animal int - wines' , fats.• . LamBik• contains no trace of. The was thus out position in the any- animal fat, or any mineral matter. platter was thus outlined by Mr. Bark,• Minister of Finance, in his budget It is absolutely herbal. . : "-: speech :-"Among . the factors which Remember that Zam-Buk is at the have helped to keep our budget bal-! same time healing, soothing; and trace it is im ossible to overestimate ,antiseptic. Kills poison instantly, and the new factor Sri the economic life of all harmful germs. It is ,suitable alike' our .country --the total . abstinence l for recent injuries ,and -diseases, and. from elcoholic..drinks., The success of for chronic sores, Ulcers, etc: Test this measure, which cannot be: coin- hew different and superior ham -.Baits pletely realized, is such that I am really is, All druggists and stores at bound to state. most emphatically that Gee. 'box. Use also Zam-Bilk Soap. thechi is rbition is not' to be abolished Relieves sunburn and prevents freckles, 1 after the war." HELP WANTED. women have gone to work on the land since the outbreak of the war. The ladies' committee of the Nor- folk War Agriculture Committee have secured promise from over 3,000 wo- men to work on the land when called Minard's Liniment Co., Limited: on. The War Office has asked the Metropolitan Asylum Board to pro- vide another hospital with 800 or more beds for wounded soldiers. The death has taken place at New- ton Abbot, Devon, of Lady Baker, widow of Sir Samuel White Baker, the Central African explorer who died in 1893. During February the supplies of fish at Billingsgate market amounted to 9,516 tons. In the corresponding month last year 12,473 tons were re- ceived. Official intimation has been receiv- .i..IACHINISTS, FITTERS, TOOL- makers, handy men, also operators experienced on shells. Phone, wire, or write. B. Bell & San Company, Ltd.. St Dear Sirs, Your MINARD'S LINT- George, Ont. MENT is our remedy for sore throat, colds and all ordinary ailments. It never fails to relieve and cure PROFIT -MAILING NEWS AND JOB Orifices for sale in good Ontario promptly. towns. The most useful and interesting CHAS. WHOOTEN. of all businesses. Full information on NEWSPAPERS Pon SALE. Port Mulgrave. application to Wilson Publishing Com- pany, 13 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. MISCELLANEOUS. T ADZES WANTED TO DO PLAIN J • and light sewing at home, whole or spare time, good pa)... work sent any dis- tance. Charges paid. Send stamp for So Silly of Them! particulars. National Manufacturing As a train was getting up steam Company, Montreal. to leave a certain station,it sudden- ANGER, TUMORS, LUMP$, Lre„ ed that Warwick Prison will shortlyC internal and external, cured wuh- be closed owing to the large decrease' ly parted in the middle. Of course, out pain by our hcme treatment. Write of prisoners and the pressing need of the communication cord broke and Co.,eforeLimitoo colo, Dr. d. BelOh}n Medical economy. one end of it struck an old lady, who Mrs. Pleasant Lowman, who has was standing on the platform, in the BOOK ON died at Eversley, Hants; aged 82, de-, face.1` livered letters daily in the scattered' "Goodness me!" she gasped in { DOG DISEASES. districts of Bramshill and Eversley astonishment. "What was that?" for 42 years. . Hundreds of shopkeepers in Man- chester and suburbs, owing to the lighting restrictions, are to close be- fore it is necessary to light up, except- ing on Fridays and Saturdays. Erected at a cost of nearly $250,000, delay, is being experienced in starting a new spinning mill and a new weav- ing mill at Walkden, near Manches- ter, owing to the scarcity of labor. The death has occurred of the Rev. T. Bustin, 50 years Congregational minister of tong Buckly, Rugby, who had been congratulated by the Ring on having six soldier sons, one of whom was recently awarded a com- mission. Mr. William E. Cain, chairman of the Mersey Brewery, Liverpool, has offered to the Government his resi- dence, Wilton Grange, West Kirby, Cheshire, as a home for totally and permanently disabled soldiers. It was built only a few years ago at a cost of $125,000. Putting Him Wise. Best for baby's bath. 25c 'tablet. "The train has broken in two, ma- dam.' said a gentlieman .'who stood near by. "And I should just think so!" said. the old lady indignantly, as she eyedi the broken cord. "Did they really. think that a piece of string like that could hold a train together?" SoreGranulated Eyelids. Eves inflamed by expo- sure to Sun, Oust and Wind E � a quickly relieved byMurine a�7/ a Eye Remedy. No Smarting, lust Eye Comfort, At Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye SalveinTubes25c. ForllookoliheEyeFreeask Druggists or Murine Fye Remedy Co., Chicago What Angered the Barber. A man entered a barber shop for the purpose of being shaved. As he was somewhat hollow-cheeked, the barber, as is the custom in some country districts put his thumb in the customer's mouth, in order to press out the cheek. Suddenly the razor slipped, mak- ing a great gash in the man's face, and he sprang to his feet with a yell of pain and anger. "Shut up, man!" said the barber, holding up his hand. "I've cut my thumb!" 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