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The Wingham Advance, 1914-12-10, Page 2Will You Help The Hospital for Sick Children, the Great PrOvincial Charity ? L Dear alr.-EditOri— Thanes for the privilege of appeal- ing through your eOhlralle On behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children. The HO:vital take e care of elek and de- formed cbildren, not only in Toronto, but in the Province, outside of tile cita This Coming year, of all the years In the IioSpital's history, has a more Serious °item% as regards funds for mainteeance, than any year that has passed its calendar. So Marty calls are beingenade on the purses of the generous people of To- ronto and Ontario, to help the soldiers • of the Empire, that as I make nay daily roends througie the Wards of the Hospital, and see tee suffering chil- dren in our cots and bede, the thought Strikes me as to whether the people will as of old, with all tee demands made upon them, answer our Appeal and help to maintain the institution that is fighting in the never-ending battle With disease and death, In its endeavor to save the stricken little arms in tb.e childelfe of Ontario. Last year there were 394 in -patients, from, 210 places outside of Toronto, and in the past twenty years there have been 7,000 from places in the Province otber than Toronto. It costs us $2.34 per patient per daY for maintenance. The municipalities pay for patients $1 per patient per day; the Government allows 20 centS Per patient per day; so, deducting $1,20 from $2.34, it leaves the Hospital with $L14 to pay out of subecriptions It receives from the people of Toronto and the, Province. The shortage last Year ran to $18,000. Since 1880 about 1,000 cases of club feet, bow legs and knock knees have been treated, and of these 900 had perfect correction. Nearly all these were from different parts of the Pro- vince outside of the city of Toronto. Remember that every year is a war year with the Hospital; every day is a day of battle; every minute the Hospital ueeds money, not for its erivn ••„t,sake, but for the children's sake. The ielospital is the battle -ground where the „armies of Life have grappled with the e' Hosts of Death, and the life or death of thousands of little children is the issue that is settled in that war. Will you let the Hospital be driven from the field of its battle to save the lives of little children for the lack of money you can give and never miss? „Every dollar may prove itself a dreadnought in the battle against death, a flagship in the fleet that fights for the lives of little children. Remember that the door of the Hes. pital's mercy is the door of hope, and your dollar, king' reader, may be the key that opens the door for some- body's child. Will you send a dollar, or' more if you can, to Douglas Davidson, Secre• tary-Treaeurer, or t J. ROSS ROBERTSON, •e) Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Toronto. WANT IT BA R R i) Toronto S. S. Teachers Against Sunday School Times. Toronto, Dec. 7.—At a meeting held yo,terday afternoon in the Simpson Avenue Methodist Church Sunday School, the executive of tho teachers passed a very strong resolution, con- demning the church authoritiee re- ellcnsible for the circulation in the Sunday scohols of the "SUnday School . Times." The teachers considered that an article, which appeared in this taper a short dine ago, was pro -Ger- man, and designed to have a •bad ef- fect on Sunday school j.upils. The meeting dccidul to bar the paper from the Sunday school, and will take steps looking to its being kept out of Canada. 'TRUE TO. HIS RACE exaseseame, ler "A Sudden. tune Never heed me, Suzy. What Were you sayilie, clear, about the livery?" "I wan Baying that Yeal ehoUld never, never, never be degraded by ouch a badge of servitude," began tee young fluShing up again with indignie- tion at the ideas recalled, el pay that 1 ehould inet an soon expect to see the Ea,r1 of Wellrose in livery! There!" "You ivYlouearyryight, Suzy; I will not wear tho "Teal* you for conceding so Much, Benny, I was afraid that you would bold put for the ltvery. Now listen to ine further. Since you will serve, al least you shall serve no one but me YOU shall stand near my chair lit meal tinaes, and never leave it, You shall not so much as hand a chair, or a pl;te, or a glass, or anything what- ever to any person present except to me The footman in livery shall wait upon everyone else, You shall wait upon no one else but me. And no one Shall wait on me but, you. That will be a bond between. us. And ob, Benny, I have just thought of something, and I wonder I die not think of it before." "Yes, Suzy," "This is -what it is: You shall be me butler and house steward. eince you insist Unoll taking nothing better tban a service from me, you shall take the best service in my gift. You shall , be both butler and house steward." t "But, little sister, shall I not be dis- placing someone else?" "No; for I have neither butler nor steward, nor ever have had." I "Nor ever would have, but for your . goodness in trying to make a better position for nae," said the young man with emotion. "I am not so sure of that. I cer- tainly need both butler and house steward; and you shall be both, Benny, and be at the head of my household, and keep the keys of the wine cellar, and pay the wages of the servants. And when we go back to Paris you shall go with us there, Benny, if you will. And we shall never be parted In this world _again, Ben.ny, unless you wish it," said Suzy, in a tremulous, but happy tone. ' "Heaven knows 1 never wish to leave you," answered the young man, In an agitated voice. ' "Then thee is settled, my good bro- ther. You win come to -morrow— to enter upon your—office?" inquired Buzy, atter hesitating for a word. I"Yes, little sister, I will come to- morrow." "For, after all," said the young girl, cheerfully, "it will be an office, rather than a service, that you will have with me. Why, dear me, a queen has 'al - Ways a domestic officer called the 'master of the household.' And tey call me the 'Queen of Song.' So, why not I set up a 'master of the house- hold'?" she added, laughing. So delighted she was to think that she had found a place in her estab- lishment that Benny would take, and that was not quite menial. "Little sister," said the young man, "I cannot now say much—my heart is too full. But I am deeply grate- ' fut—" She put her hand upen his lips. "Huge Benny, hush! That word has no business between you and me. We have been brother and sister in our infancy and childhood, with but one Interest between us. If I had had my will, we would have been brother and sister up to this da. But fate was against us both. But as far as you will let it be done, we will be brother and sister again, and to the end of our lives, And now, good old brother, 11 is time for me to go to rehearsal." While she spoke there came a rap at the door. "Come in," she said. .A. footman entered. "If you please, miss, the brougham is at the door." "Very well, Smith," she carelessly answered the footman., Then turning to Benny, she said very formally: "Mr. Hurst, I shall expect you to enter upon your duties to -morrow morning." Benny bowed low in reply, and then left the room. "The house steward, Smith. You will in future take all your orders from him," she said in careless ex- planation as she put on her hat and mantle, that were lying on the sofa beside her. "Yes, miss," answered the footman. And -when he had attended his mis- tress to her carriage, and returned to the servants' hall, he informed his fel- low domestics that their young mis- tress was about to provide for one of her poor relations by making him her house steward. "One of the Yerl of Wellrose's poor relations, yon better say, for there never was two peas so much alike as thent two," said Miss Jenny Smith, the footman's sister and Suzy's dress- ing maid. And so it was quite settled, in the servants' hall, that the new house steward was some poor, unacknowl- edged kinsman of the noble Earl of Welrose, whom his lordship had re- commended to .their mistress. Meanwhile Suzy went to her re- hearsal at Covent Garden Theatre, where she sang with even more ani- mation than Usual. And Benny walked very thoughtful- ly away from the house. He had much to occupy his mind. A week before this he had arrived in England, after his fourteen years' absence, an had been filled with see deep delight that only a returning exile knoWS, mice more to touch his native soil, to view his native sky, to breath Ms native air. But then had followed the feeling of deep desolation, the sense of his own solitude in the crosvded ^city. But now all that was changed! Suzy, once his dear little child friend, but svhorn he had not ventured to seek, not knowbig how prosperitY, wealth and fame might have affected her, Suzy—the celebrated singer whom he worshiped only at a distance—SUZY had found him out, had sought him and drawn him to her home and had shown herself the very sante dear, loving, trusting little eister that she had boon to him in their poVertYs etricken infancy and cliildhood. Aria now she had Made an office for him in her heuse, in which he could really be cf use to her, and which Would also Make him independent. She ball done all dad he would Der. reit her to to for hitt, and he knew that she would do much tiv, 11: he Would only let her—that elm Would do quite as muck for him ilte for one of her own numerous brothers. While Making of all these thine ke MIAMI 110141 a liege old church, , o - o SEReS TAKE FOUR BATTERIES. Paris, Dec. 7.—A despatch from Nish, Servia, to the Haves Agency reports that tile Servians, since De - ember 5, have resumed a vigorous offensive. The Servian troops on Fri- day, the despatch says, pursued the enemy's right wing as far as the Kol- ubara River, and it was there that the Austrians abandoned four of their batteries. WARSHIP STILL STILL AGROUND. Baltimore, Md., Dee. 7.—According to a despatch from Ocean City, Md., timed 10 a.m, to -day, the steamer, sup- posed to be a warship, which ground- ed five miles below that place yes- terday, was still fast, and blowing her whistle Continuously for help. The high wind and fog prevented asAstance being rendered either from lite shore or the sea: 4 • "It's the unexpeCted that always happens," quoted the 'Wise Guy. "And i•ven then there is always somebody to say 'I told you so,'" added the Simple Mug. Sur Buy St. Lawrence Sugar in original packages. Un- touched from refinery to your cupboard) you are sure of eager absolutely free from contamination or impurities of any kind. St. Lawrence granulated white Pee* eon sugar is packed in directives of mediuta end coarse. lo 10016..25 lb. and 20 lb, reeled begs, and 5 lb. and 215. cartons. Ali first &as rlealsra can snooty ao insiat open having St. Laverelee Sugar, T. LAWRENCE Streak ittPINERIES LIMITED, MONTREAL saver% _J• 4114141141410114• 1 foUr nee Pollad ;Wee. Het tOOk eete to pay fOr the eeMplete littit that he purellaried, And there tatting Iliki latige parcel Under hie erne lie lent with it to an humble taVere, Ole One of .the Side etreete, and aseed fOr a bedroelit, where he proceeded 0 ehallge hle .clresa. His *Met vitt woe to a barberaS shop,. where he got Ma hair and Whitt - kers trammed and, elressed. ' CHAPTER XVL And, being neatly clothed in a Suit of clerical black, with spotless linen and fresbgloves, he looked more thete ever like a gentleman, more than ever like his unknown brother. He walked on until lie reached a bookstore. He weot in and riellieeted a young Shopillan to allow him to look at BUrke's Peerage for the year. "Certainly, my lord," answered the young Man, very deferentially, band- ing down the great red volume le question. "Will your lordship Please to take a Seat?" ."You mistake," said Penne, ver quietly, . "1 beg you lordahip'e pardon; Pm sure I underotood your lordship to ask for levee's Peerage," the shopkeeper apologized. 'SO I aid. You have not misteketi the book; but you eave mistaken Me. for somedne else,' said Benny With a smile, • "Oh, •I'm sure I hope you'll excuse Me. 1 did take you for Lord. Wellreile, who comes in here quite often," the young man explained. losing much of his deferelatial deportuient, "Oh, there isno offense at all," Beriey answered, with a littlelaugh, as he sat down, laid the great book on big knees, and began to tura over the leaves' In Search ,of the Barony at Linlitheow, He found it. • LINLITHGOW. Linlithgow, Earoness (Eglantine Douglas). of Sefon-Linlithgow, County Inverness,North Britain, born June 15th, 18—; succeeded her 'father Dee. 20th, 18—; married July 25th, 18—, to William Douglas, tenth and •present Duke of Cheviot (see ante Cheviot, Duke.) By this union her grace has issue— Hear followed a list of the children of that. distinguished marriage, com- mencing svith, the eldest and only son and heir. "William-Alexander-Croniartie-Seton Douglas, Earl of Wellrose, born Octo- ber e(), 18—," and going on with the names of the daughtern due order. Then followed the history of the long lineage.' beginning nine hundred years back, when the founder of tee family, one Madoch eten, for Seine important service • rendered to his majeste; was rewarded with the Lord- ship of Linlithgow by Malcolm rivet, King of Scotland. Penny ran his eye down the lines, where the family bistory of nine cen- turies wee, compressed into two dou- ble-colamned octavo pages, until he C11111 e to: John-Alexand er-aladdoek Seton, eighteenth baron, who was horn efarch 7th, 17--; eucceeded his tether May 14, 18—; married August 25th, 18--, the Lady Anne Moray, daughter of the Earl of °niece, and had issue-- Eglarifine, present baroness. Benny closed the book, and, holding it on his knees, fell into deep thonght, "There were no other children of the late baron, so I cannot be her un - owned nephew. The late baron died December 20, 18—, That must, 'have been mere than five years before 1 was, born, so 'I cannot be her unowned younger brother. Yet I must he some- thing of the beautiful duchess; all cir- custances go to prove that. I was born in her own native neighborhond. in Scotland; I was an unowned °held, outcast from my birth; I bear a per- fect likeness to the earl, her son; she once or twice manifested the leepest and tenderest interest in me; and the only mementos I have of my infancy are the little garments marked with the family crest. Let me be are of t hat," be said to himeelf, as he once more epened the Ll e red eneis, and turned to the article, "Linlithgow,' and examined the arms and crest of the family. Yes,' the crest engraved and (3,escri1>- ed there was the same that was em- broidered uDen the little sece and Soak —a lark with expanded wings, rising front a baron s coronet and holding in its beak a spray of ripe eglantine rose berries. ere closed his beak with a sigh, and fell inte still deeper thought. . teat the article "Linlithgow" had re. - !erred the reader for further informa- tion to the article, "Cheviot, Duke of," ante. So again he opened the book, and turned back the leaves uritil he found: - CIIEVE)T. • . Cheviot,' Duke of, William -Angus Douglas, Earl of Wellrose, Viscount Angus, Baron Dongles ef Douglas, alit] a baronet, County of Inverness, in North Britain, born April 3rd, 18—; succeeded his uncle as -tenth duke Aug. 7th, 18--; married, attar 25th, 18— Eg- lantine Beton, Baroneas Linlithgotve and has-- - etancling back from tee street in its shaded churchyard. Ile SAW that the door was ajar. lie opened the iron gate and walked in from the rear of the street to the quietnese of the churchyard, stained glass windowa filled it with He entered the old churce. it Wee at this time quite empty, And the subdued light seining terouge its a rich, soleinn, pleasing gloom. Benny sat down in one of the lower pews, bowed hie head upon its front, and earnestly thanked the Lord for the peaceful life that was opening before him, and earnestly pawed that he might be able to serve and benefit Iiis little adopted sister, and teat she illiget be forever saved from tee great te,mptations and perils tbat surround- ed and pervadee her art life. Then he arose comforted and strengthened, and went forth out of the church. And riot only ell his consteat frieud Suzy did his thoughts run, but on that mystery of his unknown birth that was beginnieg to possess a mor- bid and abeorbing interest for him, As he walked down Oxtord street he mentally summed up his case, so far as it was enown to Mee He knew, for Tony Brice on his deathbed bad told him, that he, called Benny Hurst, was not the son of Meese Hurst, but that he was the offspring of unknown parents, who had found it necessary to conceal his birth, and who had effectually done eo by the agency of a raidwife and a confidential medical attendant who had palmed him off on hip delirious foster -mother, in place of her own dead child, which was taken away and buried; that this much had been con- fessed by the midwife, who had died before she could divulge the name of the confidential medical attendant; that the name of the latter had never been ascertained; that the only mementos of his abandoned Infancy were the little sack and the little sock, both embroidered with a wreath of eglantines, and with a family crest. He knew, for he had looked into a book of heraldry on the table of a street vendor of old books—he knew tbat that crest was the crest of the ancient and noble Scottish house of Seton -Linlithgow. He knew, for Suzy had told him, that the Duke of Cheviot hail married the sole heiress and last repreeentative, of that house—Eglantine Seton; Bar- oness Linlithgow in her own right. He knew, for his own eyes assured him, that there was the strongest pos- sible resemblaiace between himself, poor Benjamin Hurst, the abandoned son of somebody, and the noble young Earl of Wellrose, son of Eglantine, Duchess of Cheviot and Baroness of Linlithgow. He knew', from his own personal ex- perience, that the beautiful duchess had more than once encounteree him In his wretched childhood, and had shown strange emotion at sight of him, He remembered that wintry evening at Brighton, when he had stood on the sidewalk in front of her house on Brunswick terrace, and by the whim of the little Lady Jessie, he had been brought in by a footman, and after having been washed and brushed and polished up a little, and made decent, had been taken to a parlor where the children were holding a Twelfth -night festival; how the children had made much of him, and little Lady Jessie had given him a slice of the Twelfth - day cake, and the ring having ben found in that slice, he was jestingly made the king of the festival, and told to crown his queen; how he had gone trembling to the beautiful duchess, and laid the crown at her feet, and tried to speak the words set down for him, but she had looked on him with such compassionate, tearful, tender eyes that he had lost all his self-con- trol, and burst into a storm of pas- sionate tears and sobs, for which he could. not account, and how the duke had ordered him to be kindly sent away. He remembered, later on, lying ill of a fever in the hospital, and in a dreamy, half-consciou.s state, seeing the lovely face of the duchess bending over him, hearing the tender tones of her voice murmuring words of love and pity, feeling the light, warm rain of tears upon his face, and trying -to wake lip and speak his thanks, and failing to do so. He had thought this all a dream until he had been assured by Raehed Wood that it was a reality. He had not. seen the beautiful cluel- ess since that time, now fifteen years past. • Why was there such a perfect like- ness between his poor self and her liable son? Why had the crest of Seton -Linlith- gow been embroidered on his own in- fant sack and sock, and the eglantines also? Why did the beautiful duchess weep over him, as he lay in the hospital bed? Was he perhaps her poor little dis- owned brother? or rather halt -brother, he Meant. And did she know it, or suspect it? If so, why' should she have Elft him in the hospital then, and never in- quired for him again? Ab, he remembered the reason now. Of course he was too ill to be re- moved at that tinee. And the ery next day he had been taken to the dead -house for dead, and his death had been reported to the duchess, as well as to others. And how should she know, more than others, that he had recovered from the deathly trance that had been taken. for death? And besides, as Rachel Wood had told him, she had gone abroad almost immediately after his reported death, And he himself had beet trims - ported within a year afterward - And fifteen years had passed, and no doubt she had quite given him up for dead, and utterly forgotten him. But the whole subject go troubled his soul that he resolved to go into a bookstore and examine the Peerage, to find out all he could about the an - tient and noble Scottish houtie of So- ton-LirilithgoW. Then he looked down upon his shabby elothes, and doubted Whether any bookseller would let him examine his books. So he derided to go to an outfitter's first. Ile kept on his way until he reach- ed the Strand, and totind a shop that suited his purposes. tile went in and selected the artieles he wanted, and took out the sealed nve1opo that had been placed in his bitt bY opened It, and i4hat it txratisined Here followed a list of the children similar to that given under the head of Linlithgow, and a pedigree even more ancient, noble and renowned than that of Seton -Linlithgow, and the arms and quarteringe of the fmaily, and, hist of all, a list of the numerous seats. Among thorn the inquirer par- tieuTarly notice1 Seton Castle, Seton, County of Argyle. He closed the book and took it to the counter, saying; "I will buy this book if yell will put it up for me." "Certainly, sir,' said the shoprean: still a little sulkily, in remembratice of having mistaken "this plain gentle" Man for the noble Earl of 'Wellrose. "In the meantime, will you let Me leek et a map of Sentiatia?' inquired ',Jenny. The shomean handed down the re- quited artiele, and laid it before the inquirer. Benny Opened it On the eottnter, and began to exilltine it closely. On the west coast of Argvleshire he eound the little port of Gilford. and a tew miles inland the village of Seton, above Which Seton Ciastle Was known to stand So close together stood the little fishint, hamlet to whieh he had been talten'to be contellea arid the endeet fetulal hold of the reaceeried hOttee what() crest was Wrottght upon Ms Ms fent garments! "I Will take title Map Also, if you please," said 13enny, beettlitig it back to the salesman, who put it into the parcel With the other large VOleriao, and Inquired: "Where Will you have these fleet) sit?" Benny gave the Stddrese of the DO head vaiere he had onolted 4 room. "What name, sir?" "N'est' tand the tante; the flambe Of the road *Ill do—No, t" (re bit Contlatied). Warm the Cold Corners el- DECLARE," said Mrs. Com- ftert, "I thought no one ever would use that upstairs room. And you couldn't blame them—it eel.. thinly was chilly, and there didn't seem to be any way of heating it. Final- ly 1 got this Per- fection 'Heater and DPW it is as good as an extra room. With a Per- fection to keep it warm it is Perkctly comfortable," The Perfection can be carried anywhere, where there is need of extra beat. In eve minutes it will warm sine ordinary worn. PERF smonLE TlON HEATERS It is solid, good-looking, easy to clean and rewick, and burnswitanahoutdaemoke or odor. At hardware and furniture stores every- where. 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But the chosen peoples of to -day are those .who can and will do most to uplift humanity In the mass, since it is altogether incon- ceivable that Providence takes a less loving interest in the backward brother or the developed son than human parents do. ; _ s - RHEUMATIC MISERY Can Only Be Cured Throudh the Blood. Liniments of No Use. In no disease does the blood aecome thin so rapidly as in rheumatism. Not only does it become thin, but it is loaded with impurities — rheumatic poisons. Without the proper treat- ment these poisons increases, the in- flamed, joints swell and the patient becomes a cripple. There are a num- ber of methods -of treating rheuma- tism, most of them aiming to keep down the rheumatic poisons until na- ture can build up the blood suffici- ently to overcome them. Bat unfav- orable conditions of cold or dampness may give the disease the advantage and a relapse or renewed attack fol- lows. 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Then the swelling in my joints began to disappear, and it was not long until I was perfectly cured and I have had no return of the trouble." -Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are' sold by all dealers in medicine or will be sene be- mail at fifty cents a box Or six box- es' for $2.50 by writing direet to The Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brock-, ville, Que. MORALITY. (Rochbster Herald) What most of us call morality may not be morally at all, but only prudence. A person ma., learn to be prudent, and the difference between the mist) ners011 and the fool Is mostly the difference be- tween the ability to be prudent and the laek of, ability to be. Real morality consists largely in doing right, regited- less of personal consequences, hi sacri- tieing prudence to principle. •• • • ARE HARD TIMES COMING? Yes, for the man that 'wears tight boots, but his corns are relieved Meek- ly' by Putnam's Cern Exttateer. No , pain, and certain cure. Theta; Put- nam's. lTse no other, 25c at all deal- ers, A Stage Story. , Here is a,•story by Miss Violet Vengragh (Mrs. Arthur 13Ourehier), the English actress, of two 'Deters who Were diaeuesing their professional ca- reers. One 'of them nientiohed that since he saw the Other he had left` the stage. "But why did you leave the stage?" his friend asked in surprise. "Well," the other replied, "X had a hint that 1 was not stilted for it." "I. tee," Was the friend's comment; "the little Mr& told you; eh?" ' "Well, no, not Maly," was the reply. "But they might have become birds if they had been allowed to hateh." 66 6 ilk Try a little Washing soda itt the 'eater with Whieh windows are to be eleaned. WAR MD WEATHER. Thus, throughout the area of the great war, the weather from .day to day le playing its part in the cam- paign Modern military methods Of of the greatest importance. The story all kinds have not in any way elimin- ated the weather element as a factor of the present war does not, thus far, read so very differently from teat of the stories of previous wars in the Hanle countries. In 1586, the Span- ish, as related by Motley, encountered suck terrible rains in the Meuse that they retreated. A previous fall of Namur, in 1692, was largely due to heavy rains, which prevented the Eng- lish from crossing the river and meet- ing the besieging Freneh army. The English in Flanders, in 1708-09, en- dured great hardships on account or. deep snows which 'blocked the roads. The cold wes intense, and the troops, Who were short of firewood, suffered Severely. The Duke of Malrborough wrote (1708): "Till this frost yields we can neither break ground for our batteries nor open aur trenches." The French, in Poland, in 1806-07, found mud three feet deep; drenching' mine, driving sleet; melting snow and icy streams. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, over the same historic ground in France, we read of torren- tial rains; floods; icy roads; middy fields, and of sufferings on account of cold. So the story goes on from age to age, from one war to the next. War and the weather; they are related to- day, as they were M the past, physic- ally, physiologically, psychologicalle, and they will be Mail war shall cease. —Professor Robert Dee. Ward in The Popular Science Monthly.. THOU WILL REMEMBER, LORD! (Janet Addlington, Burlington) .Above the shrapnel's zepping blast Thou hears the father's ;van, His helpless children's erY, His widow's bitter moan. From the widowed mothers lonely heart, Who gave her only' one, • Though hears her broken sobbing sigh -My son: my son: • Thou see'st the gentle maiden fair That bows her shining head; And weeping, mourns • Her dead. The aged and feeble, Lord, ' With strands of. silver emir: The thrusts of brutal savage hands Are made to bear: Awl wilt Thou then remember Lord, The homes made desolate, To satisfy .a monarbh's Petty hate. And Thou wilt surely hear, oh Lem! HoTwhvionngat. loonh'sLboirtatir y. • And why? A DOUBTFUL YARN, That is an Interesting story about- the serterdreadnought Audacious having been blown up by a Clerman submarine which had cone SOO miles from its base of sun - 1l105, but if it is true, why has Berlin never claimed the credit for this remark- ehle feat? Or Is it nessible that John Bull' censorshiphas been so strict that. Germany 'has Dot vet learnt nf this dis- aeeer to the /British navy? There is a ereat mystery about the whole affair. Possibly we' may have to wait for the end .of the war before the entire truth will. become IsnoD.m. For Women's Ailments, Dr. Martel's Female Pills have been the Standard for 21 years and for 40' yeare esescrthed and recommended by physicians. Accept no other. At all druggists. 4 • Success. To a journalist who once asked him for a success talk, 'the late J. P. More gen barked: "If you succeed you're a success, If yOU don't you're ft fool. That's the long and short of it."—Philadelphia Bulletio. Minartne Lintment Cures Dlphtherta, 4. A G (Rochester -Herald) Whatevet opinion ay be held as to the Warrant, military, Moral or Inter- national, 'for' Germany's invasion of a State that desired and 'begged to .be left at peace( there can hardly be much dif- ference of belhion astoits result.. In- stead of being an aid to Germany, it has beeii a seriette' embarrassment. It, itiere than anything else, has set the etirrent of eiVilited eOInlon arralest the Side of Gereutriy. It has, it is true, produced, the oecupation ot Belgium and has brotight the Geereatt artily a hundred miles or so nearer Paris than It would Otherwise have been. But the lobees Suffered by this erle asion aro elear iinlie;t1111:11ore sovere 571310 they wOulti have? alt the righting had boon thme on French or German eon The Profitable Link P etWeen efolthood end seiiing tittle is. SPOTIN.f.4 7I4t111) DISTEMPER COMPOUND. It etstriem mite through the eritleal Yeare of danger from I/late/liner in its various ferrite, as it act', Its a sure preventive, no matter how "ev- reified." few eery *Mali dotes prevent. thr, iliscaee in ease o n a All MIII(1141STR. spoHN ME1CM.1 GO., iitt 'r•glaitttert4. , • ''t •c • 3 . ISSITE NO, 50,, 1914 'SEED- GROWERS Tenth, Annual Report a Canadian Association Ready. Tiio torim annual report of the Cepa. dian Seed Growers' 'Association, whien is now being distributed, ordains the names of the onion and members or the association, together with a classified list or those who are endeavoring; 10 qualify for membership. 'entire were 263 individual applications for rnembershie during the year, while 01 seed eentree, having a membership of 4t4, were Web - Willed. Vie total number oz growers noW actively affiliated with the tiesociation 13TieCi6e4airectora report *helve that dur- ing the year 1913-1s$ a line ot action was initiated which bies fair to revolutionize the wine° eeee growing business, and place it on an ,infinitely higher level. Ths action manifested Rolf in the estab- lishing of what is known as "Seed Grow, ing Centres." Up to this time those seed growers wito were operating; as members ef the association were Widely scattered rendering It impracticable to co-operate In any was, which might lessen the work of each and at the same tittle make it easier to supply large quantities of "reg- istered' seed at given points. The de- Dartrnent of agriculture in different prov- inces assisted In the movement, Ontario, through her widely -spread "district rep- resentative" system, established over forty centre. The remaining eentre Were distributed over the other provincea. Reference is made to a change in the constitution making it possible to have all regularfy organized seed centres ac- cepted as members et the association. Further latitude was aleo granted in al- lowing a centre to choose one or two of their number to produce the elite stock seed for propagation by the centre in- stead of requiring each individual grower to produce his own stock seed. The papers and addresses printed In the report constitute a valuable contri-, butiqn to the literature on Seed Improve- ment. They deal with such subjects as "The Production of Seed and Alfalfa in Canada," "The Rural School and Seed Improvement." "Meld Crop Competi- tions." "Solt Management in Relation to Yield and Quality in Seed." "Difficulties In Pure Seed Propagation," "Potato Dis- eases" and "The Seed. Centre as a Basis of Simply of Registered Seed." Copies of this report aro available at te Pu re:,tiOnna awBraarieh, Department of • 1 DR. CHASE IS NO STRANGER In This Home—Receipt Book and Medicine Kept at Hand All the Time. There is no bettee safeguard against disesse and. suffering than a good catlaartic medicine. In the great ma- jority of homes Dr. Chase Kidney - Liver Pills are constantly kept at hand, because they quickly awaken the action of liver, kidneys and bowels, and cure the most common ills of life. Mrs Thos. Smith, Jamestown, Ont., writes: "Dr. Chase is no stranger in our home, for we have two of his Receipt Books hi the house. My father and my husband's father each had one, and I have been familiar with it ever since I can remember. It was only natural that we should use the Kidney -Liver Pills, and we found them so satisfactory in regulating the digestive system and curing the com- mon ills of life that we always keep them on hand. Many a time these pills have saved me much suffering and prevented serious disease. We also keep the Ointment in the house all the time." END UNEMPLOYMENT. (Chicago Tribune, The government as an employer knows of no slack seasons. It does not lay off its postmen and others for months at a time. It keeps them busy all the year around. Private employers 'have in not- able eases, like the Ford Automobile com- name., found a way of making unemploy- ment less prolonged and distressing. What is possible for the government and for a' fewfar-.sighted private employers to acecmplish in the way of minimizing the. horrors of loblessness should be pos- sible for man-ir more emplayers. We have learned to rout physical disease by the application of proper health and sanitary • measures. We shall rout In- dustrial disease through the application cf nroper economic laws. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. THE ALLIES. (London Advertiser) That the Allies are hound by more than the threat of a common oppresser might be shown by the followitig arrangement: J -A -pan. Be-L-gium. Eng -L -and. Franc -E. Rus -S -la. PILES CURED AT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD if you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding plies, send me your addres.s, and I will telt you how to enre yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your earn locality if* requested. Immediate relief and pea manent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write to- day to Mrs. M. Su.malers, box P 8, Wind- sor, Ont. WON'T BOTHER THE SWISS. (Duffel° Express) An alleged night by French aviatora over Belgium was one of the points by which Germany justified her invasion of Belgium, In contending that the British aviatore flew over Switzerland, there- fore. Is Germany Plying herself the same pretext for moving troops into Switzer- land? Minard's Liniment Cures Gargot In Cows, THE ALLIES' ALLY. (London Advertiser.). Bankruptcy will sena be clutching Ger., many by the throat. • 4 • STILL STANDING. (Buffalo Courier) The peace palaee Is still standing at The Hague, Luckily it was not built in Belgluni, else it might have been shelled to pieces before this time, 4 • e. Minerd's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. - * POR FREEDOM EVERYWHERE (Toronto Star) 'With the great nations of Europe .epending in all about $35,000,000 Per day ln gigatitid labors of destruction, and the 'United States devoting her wealth to works of construction, there 1:1 boun1 to be an enormous inlet...einem. ni the 61u. live importanee the' latter Country be - o1: the war. Bat .after all is said and done, the British citizen who Willdie hi war or after it live in debt in order to vittemeth the '"ainted Man," 'who would rcelttee iIT citizen:4 to servitude, is really egterlfleing himself in defense .of free itiatitUtiOns everywhere—its much In ItiallSall and Michigan, ultimately, ea in ()titmice or Belgium, er Yorkehlre, Or 1ers.nee,„ For ea Jaillee, Mp ille ut it, thle Wet is 'le determine whether :he eithien or the sol - 07 -el sliall %owl n the world. etwrisEt DEEADItNet, (tntarra Evening Journal) tine Lundved and teenty-sig mci St no British trouN% of Common nuu, strviau in the army torrot en er sen. • 'Hew lis,ve the fitiset deOa1e$t+5 over, there In tn. 15ri tio4 VD 141 berg IWO 511.4 • OF ECZEMA .INTENSEff * ITCHING.BURNINOL Began on Child's Facet Spread all Over Head, Pimples Would Fes- ter and Break Like Boils. Cuti. cura Soap and Ointment Healed, ZIrose, i3ask.-'-" My little boy had eczema when he was about a week old. It began ea his face and woad all over his bead. It was in pimples and they would tester and break like little belle all over Ido bead. but Were like rash Oa his Tea. Tbe fiezenta wee very itching and the burning was intense; It made him so restless tei could warmly deep. "1 tried several ointments and salves and they seemed to de very little good so X tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment after he had been, sick about a month. When I used Cuticura Soap and a few applications of the Outicin•o, Ointment I noticed such a difference, He was able to eleeP anci his face began to get a new sidit on it. I kept on using them for three moothe, and two Oakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes or Cuticura Ointment cured him." (Signed) Mrs, A, F. Thayer, /My 13, 1914. Samples Free by Mail • Cuticura Soap and Ointment do so much - for pimples, blackheads, red, roughfarid oily eldns, Itching, scaly scalps, dry, thin and falling hair, chapped hands and shapelese mails, that it is almost criminal not to use them, They do even more for skin -tor. tured infants and children. Although sold, by dealers throughout tho world, a liberal sample of eacli will be mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post -card "Cutt. ctirit, Dent. D, Boston, U. S. A." Be Thrifty! Don't telephone for groceries, le: less y:ou specify as to quality ant, Price. Don't run up a grocery bill. Casa buying is best, Don't cook too much, merely to fill the garbage can. Don't buy in small quantities staples; buy in bulk. Dorn be ashamed to save penulea; otherwise you are "easy" prey. Doiet add to delivery expenses by ordering at the last minute what you might have ordered during the morn- ing hours. Don't buy vegetables out of season, then grumble about the price. Don't think spendthrifts need to be capitalists. One can be a spendthrift with a dollar as well as with a larger sum. Don't forget that peace of mind is better than things you cannot afford, Don't forget, either, that you alweee can afford courtesy, kindness and a SIMPLE JUSTICE. (Montreal Evening News) The idea is ,gaining ground in England that those who go to war, will receive promotion and recompense from their. present employers when the war is over. And that those who do not volunteel but well might, will be passed over. That is as It should be. $700 in Cash CAN BE WON WITH A LOAD OF 15 STEERS AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL. TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW UNION STOCK YARDS, TORONTO Friday and Saturday Dec, 11th and 12th, 1414 Many other prizes offeretere For all information addreas C. F. Topping, Secretary, Union 1 Stock Yards, Toronto. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ' -Robert Miller, J. H. Ashcraft, Sr, l' J. W. Wheaton, Martin Gardhouse. 41.14•34=104.0.44=114140. AIR BOMBS. (Buffalo Express) There Is hardly an abhorrent act el barbareus war for which a more logical defense could not be made than can IA offered for the dropping of bombs et 'Chs civlltan quarters of a, city, particu. tarty it it has not been formerlly dared under siege and if notice hit n't! been given to non-combatants to leave. The massacre of wounded end of nrr eners Might be met by the excuse that wounded men and prisonersit ailewei to live. may fight again. lent the enc., mks most exposed to 'tlanzer and ree:s frequently killed and maimed by bomb: dropped promiscuously in clues roe: who never cuid fight, The killing non-combatants can in no way atfet1 the course of a war. When ft °emir' ° deliberately, and not as ari utio.voidable Incident to the acconiplishtnent or'a, gitimate military purpose it has tin Character of wanton. slaughter of thi helpless. I was cured of terrible lumbago le MINARD'S LINIMENT, REV, WM. BROWN. I was Cured of a bad case of earaeltia by MINARD'S LINIMENT, MRS, S. KATILBACK, I was cured of sensitive lunge bj el MARA'S LINIMENT, MRS. S. ATASTERS. AWFUL. (Ottawa Ciente It is claimed that the Germans have neval berm off the Chilean coast, pen harm on Robinson Crueoe's Island. 'WI hate to say. this, but atter all is seem a logical place for Defoe, • 'AP When 'tieing gasoline for twine elteire ing, add a little salt to it and there will be ne ring left, . .