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The Brussels Post, 1917-8-9, Page 3AT 8,000 FEET IN THE AIR EXPERIENCE OF A CANADIAN AIRMAN IN FRANCE, Engine Refused to Work and Flight Liept.'Munday Narrowly Escaped Imprisonment. An exciting trip was that taken by Flight Lieut. Munday, of Toronto, who only a few months ago received his commission, and shortly afterward was sent to !fiance. He described the experience as follows "1 landed in France on a Thursday, and Friday morning I was over the line for the first time, On this first trip I very nearly became a prisoner of war.' "I crossed at eight thousand feet above the clouds and wishing' to see what 'Iiunland' looked like from the air, I shut off my engine and came through the clouds to five thousand feet. Then I endeavored to 'switch on,' but my engine had 'given up the ghost' to use a service term. You can iihagine y feelings—my first trip over the lmline and a prisoner of war. Engine Refused to Work. "I pushed the nose of my machine down and almost got into a nose-dive. but still my engine refused to start. At one thousand feet I was on the Point of giving up and selecting a landing place, when the 'engine showed signs of activity and with a little coaxing I managed to get its re- volutions to half the number required for flight. I headed for France, or rather Belgium, and sagged over the trenches and 'No Man's Land' at 500 feet. Rifles and machine guns were turned on my machine, and upon land- ing just behind the Belgian lines I dis- covered that my machine had been hit four times, but not much damaged. So that was my initiation to the war zone and 1 often. wonder what I would be doing now if my engine had 'given up the ghost' for good on !that trip. Fate of Pilots. In the squadron to which I was at- tachod there were eighteen pilots. To -day six are still intact for service. Of the six, one only is at the front, the remainder are recovering from wounds and injuries received in action. I have been informed that d will be un- fit for service 'for approximately two months, but I am eager to get back to the front to get even with Fritz for many sleepless nights and interrupted meals. They seemed ,to know our meal time to the minute'and would of- ten, favor us with a few reminders of the war in the shape of shells and bombs and on one occasion we had 'gas' as an appetizer for breakfast" Flight Lieut. Munday was quite badly huvt in the shoulder at the time of his flight, and has been in an Eng- lish hospital since. MR. ROOT'S REPORT ON RUSSIA Country's Most Serious Lack is Money and Adequate Transportation. The Hon. Elihu Root, as leader of the mission to Russia from the United States, has sent forward a brief state- ment of the situation there that is quite reassuring. elle does not min- imize either the^da gers or the diffi- culties, but he does insist' that the out- look is hopeful, and that he and the members of his party are, greatly en- couraged.' He tells us that he found no organic or incurable malady in the Russian democracy; democracies are always in trouble, he remarks somewhat faceti- ously, and Russia is passing through no darker days that his own republic has gone through safely. "We must remember," he says, "that world. Is Breakfast Ready.? The answer is easy in the home • where Shredded Wheat Biscuit is the regular every day breakfast cereal. Being ready - cooked and ready.to-eat, Shredded Wheat Biscuit is the joy of the housekeeper in Summer. Served with sliced bananas, berries, or other fruit, they make a nourishing, satisfying• meal at a cost of a few cents. Made in Canada. A SCENE IN LONDON'S SLUMS. Influence of a Little War Shrine on the Rough Inhabitants. I walked the other day through one of London's meanest streets, The bar- rows of costermongers lined the pave- ments. Rough women jostled each other and shouted in foreign tongues. Odds and ends Of unsavory -looking washing fluttered from the windows of slums overhead, writes an English- woman. 1 Andjn the midst of all this dirt and disorder I came upon a very beauti- ful little war shrine. In letters of gold against a background. . of white marble names were inscribed --the "Roll of Honor." Before the shrine lay great bunches of roses and pink 'carnations. As I looked at this tiny oasis in Lon- don's on- dons lowest slum a woman in a rag- ged shawl and with very dirty hands slouched up. In those hands she car- ried a bunch of lilies. She looked about her furtively to see if any one was watching, then placed the lilies at the shine. Tears were in her eyes as she turned away. "Good old Billy" I heard her mutter. " 'e always did like flowers!" Then I saw that 'among the dozen names inscribed on the shrine under the title "Roll of Honor" was that of. Private Bill Johnston, of the "Die Herds," and after his name were the words, "Killed while rescuing a wound- ed comrade." A big policeman—a typical London 'Bobby"—and they have to be big and very strong to cope with certain forms of liveliness evinced frequently in Lon- don's slums—strolled up. "That there little war shinne does more to uplift the men and women of the neighborhood than the sermons of a thousand parsons would," he observ- ed, "there ain't near so muci-eirinkin' and cursin' and fightits' 'round here since.we set up the roll of honor. It kind of sets 'em an example, it does. Take the case of that old womart just gone by, that left her lilies here. One of the worst and toughest cases in London, she used to be. But since her grandson was killed—givin' his life for a friend—and the 'War Office sent the old lady 'is decoration that he won for gallantry -well, she's a dif- ferent being, and that's sayin' a lot, for she was one of the hardest drinkers and the most quarrelsome in the neigh- borhood. Now she spends her money on flowers instead of drink, and through I don't much hold with wastiu! money on flowers, it's better than the drink." The solution of the food problem lies in the hands of the women of the a people in whom all constructive ef- fort has been suppressed for so long cannot immediately .develop a genius for quick action. The first stage is necessarily one of debate. The solid, admirable traits in the Russian char- acter will pull the nation. through the' present crisis. Natural lovetof law' and order and capacity for local self governmenteehave been demonstrated every day since the revolution. The country's most,.serious lack is money and adequate transportation. ' We shall do what we can to help Russia in both." To help Russia in both will be one of the great services that the United Mates will render. SOLDIERS USE NEW SLANG. New Words Developed by Contact With Experiences at Front. After the war some one will have to compile—for the benefit of realistic, but inexperienced novelists—a little code of the slangof the New Armies, It could hardly be done now for a good deal of that slang is in a state of flux. Phrases like "wind up" (i. e., frighten- ed), or to "put the wind up" any ono (i. e., make him frightened), have re- mained pretty constant during the last two years. Bat words like "wash- out" (noun and verb), have dovelopod all sorts of varying applications. Simply and 'originally a "wash-out" must have been the state of a camp Whose occupants had been almost lit- erally washed out by torments of rain: By an easy extension it became a de-. ecriptlon of any particularly unplea- pant situation—a water-logged trench very naturally indeed—but afterward anything at all, from a heavy artil- lery strafe by the Germans to a poor. Weal or an unpopular officer. Preparing for To -morrow Many People seem able to drink- tea and coffee for a while without apparent harm, but when health disturbance follows, even though slight, it is .Wise to investigate. Thousands of homes, where tea or coffee was :found %o disagree, have changed the family table drink to - Instant' Postiim With improved health, and it usually Follows, the change made becomes a permanent one. It pays to prepare for the health ort to-moixow. "There's a Reason" Canadian Fvllideoraere 1 Co„ Ltd. ARMENIA OF TO -DAY, INVENTIONS NEEDED. AGENTS WANTED BABY SLEEPS. Nation Has. Preserved Its Traditions and Religion for Centuries In spite of the efforts of barbarous masters, and notwithstanding the most frightful persecaeeions the Armenians have been able for centuries and cen- turies, to preserve their traditions, their language and the religion of their ancestors. This persistence of the Armenian vitality is one of the most remarkable facts- of Oriental his- tory, a fact almost unique of its kind; for, of all the people subjugated by the Arabs and Turks, very few have been able to preserve the three prin- ciple elements of nationality—eus- toms, language and religion., The Ghebers, the last Mazdaian remnants of ancient Persia, still form communities that are preserved sole- ly by religion; for the old language has little by little disappeared to give place to dialects of modern Persia mixed with archaical forms,4 The. Chaldean, for the most part Chris- tians, have in general abandoned their language, while a great number have changed their religion and become coalesced with the mass of the Arabs. The less numerous Christians of Saint John (Ma`deens), living in Low- er Chaldea, are still attached by reli- gious beliefs, but their ancient speech is 'dead. The Copts, in Egypt, remain- ing Christians, witnessed the extinc- tion of their language scarcely a'cen- tury ago, and Syria has experienced a similar vanishing of a great num- ber of its traditions; Copts and Syri- ans now speak but the language of their masters. Little by little the Moslem religion has succeeded, not only in unifying the language, but also in 'reducing creeds. In the Turkish empire to -day we meet fragments only of,the Chris- tian races. The Armenians only have the moral force to cope with the cal- amity; they alone have preserved all the intellectual and moral inheritance of their ancestors. THE STORY OF THE STAIRS Every time you go up stairs you can test your state of health—the condi- tion of your blood. Do you arrive at the top of the stairs "breathless and distressed ? Does your heart palpitate violently ? Do you have a pain in your side ? Perhaps you even have to stop half way up, with limbs . trembling and head dizzy; -too exhausted to go fur- ther without resting. These are un- failing signs of anaemia. As soon as your blood becomes impoverished or impure the stair -case becomes an in- strument of torture. When this is so you are unfit for work; your blood is watery and your nerves exhausted, you are losing the joy of an active life and paving the way for a further break down and decline. In this con- dition only one thing can save you. You must put put new, rich, red blood into your veins without further delay and so build up your blood anew. To get this new, rich blood give Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills a fair trial, and they will give you new vitality, sound health, and the, power to resist and throw Of disease. For more than a geperation this favorite medicine has been in use throughout We world and has made many thousands of weak, despondent men and women bright, active and strong. You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.60 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. SAVING FOOD AT LONDON ZOO. Horseflesh is Only Meat Used—Bread 1\Iade From Condensed Flour. Host^,, the Zoological Gardens in Lon- don aro helping to conserve the Bri- tish food supply was told by the Duke of Bedford at a recent meeting of the Zoological Society in London. He said they had not replaced the animals that had died since the war began and had killed off all of those that were easily replaced. The only meat they gave to the car- nivore arnivore was horse flesh purchased from the army. They had ceased using potatoes, The bread given to -the monkeys and other email mammals was 'made from flour reheated by the Board of Trade and ship's biscuits that had outlived their usefulness as human food, Instead of wheat they used dark paddy, rine and locust beans. They were replacing oats with a mixture of maize and split horse beans, Hay was that left by the army buyers, supplemented with park grass and foliage. Only Obinose pickled egge were employed and the fish was that unsuitable for human use, Ban- anas, formerly fed to many small mammals and,bleds, had to a great ex- tent been replaced by boiled Mangold- wurzel ati"d beets, Only five pounds of sugar a week• were used, and this was "foot" sugar uneultable for human food. And the "greens" were limited to eleven bushels a Week of kinds not sold for human consumption, Now is the, time to break up sod where winter wheat or rye is to be sowti in the outtimn. Canadians ehould not consider that 1017 will be the only year' that rigid economies must bo practised, There is no knoWhng at this date when the war will end, and even after it, has ended there will be urgent meed for Canada's surplus of food for many menthe while. Europe le being regen- erated. 11 Chance to Promote Industry and Inci- dentally Make a Fortune. "Anybody who wants to make a fortune can get one quick by invent. lag a machine that will pick cotton satisfactorily," says Prof, W. J. Spill- man, chief of the United States Goy- ernment Office of Farm Management, "It will be a simple enough contri- vanoe when It arrives, and the every- ; day citizen will -marvel that the idea did not occur to him, "Such a maebine would enormously augment our annual cotton output. For, mark you, it is small trouble to plant wide areas—that is, to put the seed in the ground—but the gathering of the crop is a slow and laborious process,, It is, then, not the Planting, but the labor required for picking the cotton, that limits the output and raises the cost of the product. "Already there are Cotton-picking machines. Tho essential feature of one of them 1s a revolving belt carry- ing steel bristles that (operated by a' man on a horse-drawn vehicle) catch 'up the cotton, which is raked off the belt by a row of teeth into a sack. "Another contrivance, carried on a wagon, hast several long rubber tubes attached to it. In the wagon is a gaso line engine that operates in much the same fashion as a vacuum houseclean- ing machine. Men walk behind, point- ing the ends of the tubes at the bolls, and the cotton flies up them and into a receptacle provided for the purpose. "These devices are ingenious, but by no means wholly satisfactory. The steel bristles miss a good deal of the cotton. The vacuum contrivance 'costs money and is"expensive to oper- ate. Besides, it collects a lot of dirt and waste vegetable material with the cotton. "Before long, however, the problem is bound to be solved, And by that time we may have another much-need- ed farm invention—a machine that will not only dig potatoes, but will pick them up, knock the dirt off them and sort them ia, sizes ready for mar- ket " TIIBER GROWING IN CANADA. Two-thirds of the Dominion Area Should be Reserved for Forests. One of the surprises to those visit- ing Europe in peace times is the meth- od by which all lands are carefully ex- amined and put to work according to their capacity. No farmer is permit- ted to locate on non-agricultural soil, and at the same time, good farming soil cannot be retained under such a crop as timber. Canada has only made a beginning at applying such a policy of business efficiency in the use of the nation's natural resources. Thousands of farmers are to -day tied to farms that produce only a few dol- lars an acre, their efforts and ambi- tions practically wasted in a time when man -power is at a high pre- mium. Taking the whole of Canada's area, more than two-thirds will never produce field crops, and the bulk of the two-thirds will' prove profitable under only one crop, namely timber. All efforts for the protection of the forests against fire and other forms of needless waste aim to keep in a pro- ductive condition those millions of acresthat can never grow field crops. Canada holds a tremendous national advantage in her forests, but from the beginning of the last century about two-thirds of the original in- heritance has been destroyed by fires. Nearly all modern countries have put an end to forest fires by carefully or- ganized protective systems. @• Told the Truth. "Jimmy," said the gentle old lady sadly to the young imp who lay with a broken leg in the hospital,"the nurses tell me that you have been a very naughty boy." "Yes, misses," acknowledged Jim- my, his sun -burnt face and tousled head half -hidden in the pillow. "But, why?" came the gentle query. "Can't 'slp it, missusl" shamefac- edly whispered Jim. "Now, look here," said the old lady as she rose, "I shall be at the hospital again next week, and I want you to promise me to be a good boy till then, and, if so, you shall have a whole shilling. Jimmy fervently promised; but, alas, all his mischief reasserted itself, and One Agent ln saob town, to sell a new American home article, OXOGAS, Malt- ing Light and Neat, from common coal Oil. in any !tomo, as needed, 110 dirt, entolto, 00or, e,0 ilrea 'to build and 00 aehes to Dairy. Cheapest and mast ef- iicient of all fuels, Write qulcltly. Swloris eet ToI9oarotnto, and Light Co., 301 Yonge A One -a ieCt4'• Dress 11 Something absolutely new is the slip-on frock shown above which re- quires no fastening of any kind—nei- ther buttons, hooks and^ eyes, nor snaps. The two-piece skirt is attach- ed to the blouse, and the waistline ad- justed by an elastic which may be drawn tight or loose as desired. Mc- Call Pattew No. 7891, Ladies' Sim- plicity Dreg; in 7 sizes; 34 to 46 bust Price, 20 cents. This pattern can be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. When Your Eyes Need Care Gee Murine Eye Medicine. No Smarting—Feels Fine—Acte quickly. Try it for Red, Weak, Sore Eyes and Granulated Eyelids, Murine is compounded by our Oeudats—not a "Patent Medielne"—but used in successful Physicians' Practice for many years. Now dedicated to the Publlo and sold by Druggists at 80, per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve In Aseptic Tabes, 55,, and 50e. Write for Book of the Eye Free. Murine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago. adv. A canary's ears are at the back of and a little below its eyes. , There is no outer ear such as animals have, but simply a small opening which is cov- ered by feathers. It is quite surpris- ing that birds should possess the vory acute hearing which they do while lacking the fleshy flap which enables' the animals to catch sounds. I bought a horse with a supposedly incurable ringbone for $80.00, Cured hint with $1.00 worth of MINARD'S LINIMMMENT and sold him for $55.00. Proflteon Liniment, $54. MOISE .DEROSCE, Hotel Beeper, St. Phillippe, Que. Blasting With Lime. When water is added to calcium ox- ide, or quicklime, the lime expands slowly with almost irresistible force. Rock Products describes how that pro- perty of quicklime was utilized re- cently to break up piers twelve feet wide, twenty feet long and twelve feet high, The piers stood between simi- lar piers that supported engines in constant operation and therefore had to be removed, without injury to tlso machinery. It was impossible to blast the piers, and hand cutting was too slow and expensive, The work was as complishod by drilling -three-inch ver he was sadlyen disgrace when the old tient holes, three fent deep and three lady again visited the ward. foot apart in both directions, over the "Well, little man," she said mildly, entire area of the piers and filling "I'm not going to ask the nurses if youlthem within six inches of the top with have been a good boy, Tell me your -afresh slaked limo, in pieces one half self. Now, do yo deserve that shill- ing I promised you?" Slowly Jhn raised his big brown eyes to her face, and then lowered them again. "Gimme a penny," ho said in n low Voice. ISSUE No. 31-'I7. inch to one and a half inches wide. As soon as the lime was thoroughly wet the tops of the !soles were filled with brick dust, which was well tamped. In about ton minutes cracks started in. every direction, and the entire top of the foundation was broken into three- foot cubes. Ono Pen or Two Peas? We deceive ourselves much more often than other people deceive us, because wo cannot rely upon the tes- timony of our physical senses, Illllsion+s of one sense or another are everyday experiences. Wo have iflu- siotss of visiolt and illueiens of hoar- ing, They are always interesting, But iINalone of tooling' are specially curious, being rarer. I -Tera is ono that anybody may try! Take tt pea and roll it to and fro on tine table with the forefinger and middle finger, It Poole, 4:of course, litre one pea, But repeat the process with those two fingers crossed and use pea becomes to the foolingtwo peas. Tr it 1 y , rslaard'a T,lttiment Cusco Colds, Eta. k;. Tho baby wept; The mother took it from the nurse's arms, And hushed its fears, and soothed its vain alarms, And baby slept. Again it weeps, And Good doth take it from the mo- ther's arms, From present griefs, and future an - known harms, And baby sleeps. —Samuel Hinds. KEEP CHILDREN WELL • DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother knows how fatal the hot summer months are to small chil- dren. Cholera infantum, diarrhoea, dysentry and stomach troubles are rife at this time and often a precious little life, is lost after only a few hours illness. The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tablets in the house feels safe. The occasional use of the Tablets pre- vents stomach and bowel troubles, or if trouble comes suddenly—as it gen- erally does—the Tablets will bring the baby safely through. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, Brockville, Ont. Every garden needs a compost heap. A good way to start the heap is to cut sods and pile them up upside down. On this pile throw -all the cuttings from the lawn, weeds from the gar- den pulled before they go to seed, tops of vegetables, pea vines, &c., old bones and if the pile is away from the house garbage can also be thrown on it, cov- ering this promptly with a few shovel- fuls of earth. Next year when rotted and sifted this makes excellent potting soil and good compost to spread over the garden. It is doubtful if any of us realize the need that there will be for meat and live stock in the European countries after peace is declared. Canadian breeding stock and Canadian meat pro- ducts will be in demand. It behooves the !Canadian breeder and feeder to grasp (the opportunity and produce a maxi- mum of live stock when prospects are so good for continuous high prices. No better outlet for the best of his stuff can. be found than at the auction sale of Om Eighth Annual Toronto Fat Stock Show, Union Stock Yards, December 7th and 8th next. Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. It is estimated that there are 600 professional story -tellers in Tokio, who wander from house to house re- lating tales. The story -teller learns a new set of stories when he finds that the old ones are too well known. Poor tea that can be sold at a low price is most extravagant in use. A1 little good tea, like Salada, makes j many more cups; hence it's real economy. If winter flowering plants have not been repotted do not longer delay. Get good rich potting soil from the near- est florist and repot the plants at once. Plunge the plants in the gar- den and keep them well watered. Minard'e Liniment Cures Garret 511 Cows Influence Needed. He was very young and fresh and new, and he was a second lieutenant. One day he sought Isis elderly colonel, and poured forth a complaint. "Sir, I should be so obliged if you'd use your influence to prevent the men in nsy platoon from calling nie 'Baby Bunting.'" "Certainly, my lad—certainly!" said the old colonel. "I will, with pleasure —if you'll use your influence to stop the whole battalion calling me 'that bow-legged old duffer with the bald head.' " 0 0 --0-0 0-0 0 WOMEN 1 IT IS MAGIC I LIFT OUT ANY CORN Apply a few drops then lift corns or calluses off with fingers—no pain. Just think! You can lift off any corn or cal- lus without pain or sore- ness, A. Cincinnati man dis- covered this ether com- pound and named it fneozone, Any drug- gist will sell a tiny bat- tle of freezone, litre hero shown, for very little cost, You apply a few drops directly upon a tender corn or callus, Instantly the soreness disappears, then short- ly yon will find the corn of callus so loose that you can lift it right off, Freesone is wonder- ful, It dries instantly, It doesn't eat away the corn or callus, but shrivels it up without eves inn stat 0t; the snt's'ountding akin, Hard, soft or corns between the toes, has well as painful calluses, lift right off, There le no'poin before or after. Wards, If your druggist hnsr.'; freezono, tell him to order a small hot - tie for you from his wholesale di u•;: ouse.,w Every ^merchant should unload freight cars promptly. Fruit growers are suffering for cars that aro kept standing for days waiting to be unr' loaded. During the month of May at the principal Eastern markets after the cars were placed on team tracks for unloading the average detention of cars for unloading was four days. Help the whole country by unloading with as little delay as possible. MONEY ORDERS. REMIT by Dominion Express Money Order. If lost or stolen, you get your money back. When boiling coined beef you will improve the flavor by adding a small onion, a few cloves and several bay leaves to the water in which it is boiled. Minar4's Liniment Cures Distemper. The "Queen of Heaven" (Jeremiah vii., 18; xivi. 17, 18, 19, 26) is the moon worshipped as Astareth or Astarte. NEWSPAPERS P03 SALE PROFIT-MAKING NEWS AND JOB Offices for sale In good Ontario towns. The most useful and interesting of all businesses. Full Information on application to Wilson Publishing Com- pany. 75 Adelaide Street, Toronto M38CELLANEe51751 CANCER, TUMORS, LUMPS, ETC., internal and external, cured with- out pain by our home treatment. Write us before too late. Dr. Selman Medical Co., Limited. Collingwood, Ont. The Soul of a Piano is the Action. Insist on the "OTTO HIGEL r PIANO ACTION America's Pioneer FI. CLAY CLOVER CO., Inc. Deg Remedios 118 West 31st Street, New York BOOK ON DOG DISEASES And How to Feed Stalled free to any address by the Author DATED IRON increases strength of delicate, nervous, rundown people 100 per cent, In ten days in many instances. $100 forfeit if it fails as per full ex. planation in large article soon to appear in this paper. Ask your doctor or druggist about it. Stayered Three Weeks mer..■ ^■ s taw >, Il� 4.nappea nasi as• Sore and Unsightly. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Healed. Above are extracts from a signedl`statement recently re- ceived from Miss Gladys Hambleton, Roxton Falls, Que., Nov. 1916. How much better to prevent such suffering by using Cuticura for every -day toilet purposes, the Soap to cleanse and purify the pores, with touches of Ointment now and then as needed to soothe and heal the first signs of eczemas, rashes, dandruff and pimples. You will use no other once you try these super -creamy emollients. For Free Sample Each by Mail ad- dress post -card: "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. S. A." Sold everywhere. NEVUSESS AND BLUES Symptoms of More Serious Sickness. Washington Paris, Ill.—"I am the mother of four children and have suf- fared with female trouble, backache, nervous spells and the blues. My chil- dren's loud talking and romping would make Ine 8o nervous I could just tear everything to pieces and I would ache all over and feel so sick that I would not want anyone to talk to me at times. Lydia E. Pinitham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re- stored mo to health and I want to thank you for the good they have done me, 1 have had quite a bit of trouble and, worry but it does not affect my youth- ful looks. My friends say 'Why do gat look so young end well?' I owo it alt to the Lydia E Pinlcham remedies." —1drs. Roar. STOPIOi,, Sago Avenuo, Washington Paris, Illinois. Ifyouhtvc any symptom about which you would like to know write to the Lydia. I;.Pinkhant Medicine Co., Lynn Til n e,' for helpful advice given free of charge.