The Huron Expositor, 1918-09-06, Page 6GIVE "SYRUP Or nos
TO CONSTIPATED CHM)
a Fruit Laxative', can't Will
der little Stomach, Livee
and Bowels.
ht the tongue', Moth&
bested, your little one's stomata, liver
land bowels need cleansing at once.
sleep, eat or act naturally, or is fever-
ish, stomach sour, breath had; has sore
throat, diarraceat full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of "California, Syrup of
Figs," and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated wastte, uniligeeted. food, and
sour biter gently moves out of its little
bowels without icipiug, and you, here a
:well, playful child again. Ask your
druggist for & bottle of "California
6YruP of Tiger which c.ontains full
and. for grovnouPe.
Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solieiter for the Do-
minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do-
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and Notary Public. Office upstaixs
ever 'Walker's Furniture Store, Mtsin
Street, Seaforth.
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Be, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
en Monday of each week. Office ill
Kidd Block W. Proudfoot, KiC., J.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
hey College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Waterbaary College. Treats diseases of
ell domestic animals by the most mod -
bra principles. Dentistry and Milk Fev-
- ler a specialty. Office opposite Dick's
Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All or-
ders left at the hotel will receive
prompt attention. Night calls receiv-
ed at the office:
JOHN GRIEVE, V .S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
Igry College. All diseases ol domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at -
bonded to and charges moderate. Vet-
Ind:nary Dentistry a specialty. Mee
mad residence on Goderich street, one
, door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE IlElifeEMANNt
Specialist in. women's and children's
diseases, rheurnatiaroi smite, 'aro*
land nervous disorders; eye ear, nose
and thront. Consultation free. Office
• in the Royal Hotel, -Seaforth, Tues-
days and Fridays, 'd a.m. till- 1 p.m.
425 Richmond Street, London,- Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and. Gertito-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR
Physician and Surgeon
Office and residence, Main Street,
roone Hews
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
McGill University, Montreal; Member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Ontario;Lieentiate of Medical Conn-
ell of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
WI Resident Medical Staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
&ors east of Post Office. Phone -56,
Hausa% Ontario.'
Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seafortho
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY
Z. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
kge of Physicians and Surgecins, of
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trill.
Ity University, and gold medallist of
tririnity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario.
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member ef Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
Nrigland, University Hospital, London,
Znieland. Office --Back of Dominion
Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night
Calls answered from residence, Vic-
toria street, Seaforth
THOMAS BROWN
Licensad auctioneer for the counties
of Huron. and Perth, Correspondece
arrangements- for sale dates cats be
made by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth,
or The- Expositor Office. Charges mod-
erate and satisfaction guaranteed.
T. LUKER
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
of Hurort, Sales attended to in all
parts of the county. Seven years' ex-
perience in Manitoba aad Saskatche-
wan. Torras reasona.ble. Phone No.
175r11, Exeter, Centralia R. R.
No. •1, Orders left at The Huron Ex-
tftded to.
Nationalist Movement
,A:mong South Africans
FIE republican or secessionist
propaganda, of the Boer Na-
tionalists in South „Africa
has become serious enough
to call froni the Government a threat
of martial law. -Gen. Botha's deter -
rained stand in stamping out the
De Wet-Beyers rebellion, and his sub-
jugation of German South Africa de-
spite bitter oppoaition from the Hort-
log irrecencilables, have given him
the whip hand over political intrigue
and disaffection.
At Stellen.bosch, near pope Town,
Hertzog declared: "The conviction is
becoming stronger that a sound na-
tional feeling between the two see -
tions of our population can never be
depended on so long es the present
state of subjection to Great Britain,
continues." At another place he said:
"We expected to have ftill self-gov-
ernment, but the Ministers say we
are under the laws of the British
GEN; SMUTS.
Parliament. Wkat is tie guarantee
that the British Parliament will not
pass a law ito-niotrow calling bn us
to fight,in.Flauders, and so place us
in the- position. or abject stages?"
Senator Marais, another Nationalist,
eleclaredeetileara .convinced that ,the
flag of freeaom will again be planted
on the- hillocks of 'South Africa."
When,- Gen. Botha in the South
:African .Parlia,ment Moved a resolu-
tion, of appreciation of Marshal
Haig, and wishing success to. the
Allies, the Nationalists remaihed
seated. In such a time of strain and
tension, the Boers who feel them-
eelves unable to accept self-govern-
ment at the price of being in and a
part of the Empire, seem unable to
repress their prejudices. It is well,
indeed, for the Empire that such a
etaunch Boer leader as Gen. Botha,
heads the Government, and acts in
full pursuance of his constitutional
duties and obliga,tions. The presence
of Gen. Smuts on British War
Council, though he was one of the
Boers who lost a son in the concen-
tration camps, is another strong link
in the new union.
Beginning at Vereeniging, Gen.
Bothe has, faced and triumphed in
numbeelese clashes with the -old ir-
ecaticalaales*. From the time Hert-
iog "Wds ejected from his Cabinet af-
ter refusing to resign for making dis- •
complete. The majority of the ojd
Free State "bitter -enders" are gone,
and if Botha, and .Sinuts are .sparod.
to finish theirawork, they will prob-
ably wear down and shatter the old
veldt spirit, of their antagonists, and
aet firmly on its feet the new unity
of race and feeling for which they
have so gallantly striven.
A PROOF OF GUILT.
alormrtny Deliberately Planned Sink.
Thel cipher message which proved
that Berlin direatted. the sinking of
the Lusitania is made public in the
Worici's Work Magazine. John R.
atiahom, editor of the Providence
Journal, which exposed numerous
aerman plots during the last three
years. in an article givin,g in detail
the methods he used to unearth the
work of the German agents,. quotes
this tnessage from his files, and ex-
eleins how it was decoded. The naes-
in cipher, reads as follows:
--Prom Berlin Foreign Office, to Bot-
schaft, Washington:
!.top durch 622 2 4 stop 19 7 18 stop
This cipher message came through
1,ong Island, at two o'clock on the
tuorning of April 29, 19,15, and was
e.i.ught by the operator at a wireless
' Station maintained by the Providence
Journal. It was especially interest-
. ing because it followed none of the
?odes which they had previously ob-
oerved. It was evidently important,
l)ecause four attempts were raade to
nut it through before the German,
station succeeded in overcoming the
Infavorable static conditions 'which
srevalled that morning. Every at-
tempt to decipher it failed, until ,
somebody with a line on the intern.al
ectivities of the German. embassy re-
membered that during that morning
Prince Hatzfeldt, of the embassy
staff, had been looking for a New
York World Almanac. The first two
words of the naessage, "Welt, (Ger-
man for World) 1915," supplied the
mew, Following the Other numbers
le the message as representing peg-,
!me and word in the World Almanac,
eqr 1915, the Jeurnal men decoded
the message as follows: "Warn Luei-
etnia passenger (s) through press
rot voyage across the Atlantic." Two
,°ays later the German embassy print-
-A the now historic advertisement in
the New York papers warning travel -
lers not to eras' the Atlantic, and a
week later, on May 7, the Lusitania
was sunk by a Gerraan submarine.
A. draraatie touch of suggestion of
death in the message lies in the fact
that the word "not" in it is taken
from the first sentence of an obituary
of the late Joseph Pulitzer, former
owner of the World, which publishes
the Almanac. And another grim bit
of irony in it is that the last fear
words were taken from an advertise -
men of a well known marine motor
headed "The Seal of Safety at Sea."
Two words of the message are
spelled out in German, They are
"warne," which in English is
"warn!" and "durch," which means
"throuo." The word "botschaft" Is
German for "embasmea .
The German ambassador, immedi-
ately after the sinking of the Lusa
tante, declared that the advertise-
ment published in the Neweltork pa-
pers was inserted on his own respons-
ibility and had no particular refer-
ence to the Ltisitania. As printed,
this advertisement mentioned no ship
by name. But the cipher message
now reveals the/ feet that he deliber-
the whole tragedy.
Incidentally,. Mr. Rathom's erticle
adds that on the evening after the
Lusitania was sunk, when friends of
von Bernstorff de -dared that he was
overwhelmed with grief and secluded
n his rooms in a New York hotel,
he' was in reality giving a, dinner in
the apartments of a friend in New
York and there toasted the comman-
der of the U-boat which sunk the
The recent death of the U-boat
comman.der who sank the Lusitania
closes another chapter of the terrible
memoirs of how, in views= bf the
events of the last four years, he ways
led to say publicly In a ispeecb. at
Grimsby in 1910 that we were
"absolutely " and completely equip-
ped to meet all emergencies and sit-
uations" and that "the person who
says we are not is in -a blue funk,"
Also why, the year before, he • was
Zed to announce, according to a re-
port in the Dundee Advertiser, that
Germany had not the least inten-
tion of invading us and that he had
many friends there and they were
very much misunderstood, when he
must have known, as a reputed
student of German publications and
of German tendencies of mind, that
the Potsdam gang were at that time
preparing feverishly to enslave the.
world by force of arms and that
they were only waiting for a - favor-
able opportunity to open the flood-
gates of hellish warfare against
humanity.
LordrHaldane may write pages of
memoirs and may talk columns. of ex-
planations.
xplanations. He will never be able to.
get away from the fact that during
along period he was in supreme com-
mand of our military establishment;
The Glacial Periods.
One often hears of "the glacial
period" or "the ice age" of the earth
but, strictly speaking, this expressien.
is not correct. It is now established
beyond all reason,able doubt, that
this planet has experienced not cam
but a great many glacial periods,
says the Popular Science Monthly.
Evidence has been found winch
proves that the latest or Pleistocene
glacial epoch had several important
subdivisions and that all oe the pres-
ent continente have experienced gla-
cial epochs at different ages. Great
ice aheets were formed at different
periods back to the Proterozoic age,
that is, the age of the oldest' known
sedimentary rocks, a great marvy mil-
lion 'years ago. One pf the most re-
cent discoveries of old glacial de-
posits was made by Prof. W. W. At-
wood, of the U. a. Geological Survey,
near Ridgway, in southwestern Col-
orade. These deposite were found
beneath tertiary lavas of the San
Juan Mountains and resting upon
it .is believed, been formed in early
Eocene times.
It is impossible to stop eating and
not feel the pangs of hunger, accord.-
itg to the Popular Science. Monthly.,
If you haye been led to belieye dif-
ferently by tb.e stories of men 'Who
have undergone fasting tests, listen
to the words of Prof. Carlson 6f the
University of Chicago. He found,a4
a result of observation on man dur-
ing prolonged intentional stitivation
thet the view that hunger mechan-
iem fails early does not hold as a
general rule. The professioeal faster,
he points out, may ignore the pangs
of hunger in a spirit of bravado.
Indian takers who have been prac-
ticing the trick of fasting until the
normal cravings off the body have
submitted to will power are said to
be able tp go without food for in-
credible periods of time. But prob-
ably the real truth of the matter is
known only to them.
Economy.
Gently the girl leaned toward him
with an argh expression of inquiry.
"How many lumps?"
"Forty."
° And she Wrote ciewn his coel order
for the coming,winter.
.-FORCE LIQUOR ON RUSSIA.
Ukraine Treaty to Open Country to
German Wet Goods.
As a sequel- to the Ukraine treaty,
it now develops that Austria and
Germany intend to force -the import
of spirituous liquor into South RUSS-
sia. The former Ruesimi Govern-
ment took advantage of the state of •
war to curb the drink evil in. Russia,
but the beneficent plans of Germany
are to restore it in full measure.
Austria .has announced that she is
prepared to import spirituous liquors
into South Russia to the value of
$200,000,000.
What the capacity of Germany,
with her infinitely greater production
of wine and beer, in this sphere may
be can only be conjectured. From
firet to last there has been no Judie
cation that either the Kieff Rada' or
the Moscow Soviet was prepared to
contemplate a forced impore of liquor
on this or any other scale.
In further execution oe the pro-
visions of the Brest 'treaty •regarding
the importation of Austrian indus-
trial produas 'as a set-eff to the
food levy on the Ukraine, the Aas-
trians are arranging to despatch 'at
an early date up to 770 truckloads of
goods, valued at less than one-tenth
of the proposed liquor import. Up, to
May 1st there haddleft iVenna goods
to the value of under $2,000,000, in-
,cluding thirty-taree truckloads of
scythes and siekles, seven trucks of
enamelled ware, twenty-one trucks of
window glass., aye trucks of mineral
waters, twe trucks of lamps and
other lighting material, and • one
truck of miscellaneous goods. A
shoddier consignraent has never
crossed even the German frontier.
Tasmania In the War.
In this world war, all parts of the
British Empire have contributed gen-
erously in men and Money, but grew
have equalled the record of Tas-
mania, the Island State of the Com-
Thougla far removed from the
scene of -conflifIct, Tasmania has
nevertheless realized the question at
issue, and has given freely of her
men on the voluntary system, which
obtains throughout Australia. In the
first•place, it may be remarked that
she twice voted in favor' of conscrip-
tion, thou.gh that "does not obtain be-
cause a majority of the other states
refused it.
More than. 14,000 men, or 26 per
cent. of her manhood between 18 and
4tir years of age have seoluntarilziene
ature and Information, apply to
I C. A. Aberhart, Druggist, Sea-
). forth, or write R. L. Fairbairn,
listed, leaving only 31,060 more of
those ages to draw upon. These vol-
unteers, though taken from their of-
fices, factories or4farms without pre-
vious military teaining, have won
fame and seven have been awarded
the Victoria Cross. A Tasmanian
lieutenant took part in the recent
dashing raid an the Belgian coast.
Tasmania hag a, population of only
a03,000 people, and the war has shut
eft many _avenues of trade and cut
down the shipping services, wfach
bind the state commercially tO the
mainland of Australia. The Tasman-
ia.n people, however, besides provid-
ing more than 14,000 soldiers, have
subecribed money for three battle -
planes, have raised £289,000 for war
funds, including the relief of the Bel-
gians laid Serbians, and £3,750,000
for Australian war limas. This latter
sum is apart from 251,850 subscribed
by the state school childrea in less
than a yeaa, for the purchase of War
Savings Certificates.
0 Swiss Fewhie Favored.
The Grutlianer, a Socialist organ,
published in Zurich, is launching a
_violent protest against the .Swiss
milk rationing department. The
paper calls the milk departnient's de-
crees "blooming nonsense," and says
'it coesidere it an insult to the human
race when pigs are allowed a whole
litre of mink every 'day, while hard
working SwiSs. `citizens are entitled
to a daily ration of half a litre.
"Don't tell us the preference
shown to pigs benefits the produc-
tion of foods," the Grutlianer ex -
Claims. "To turn milk into meat is
a long-winded and expensive process.
.it would, be much more reasonable
'to feed thee milk directly. But what
do the producers. care for the people.
Profit is theft only- ideal, apd there
as plenty,' qf profit in' pigs ra,leiag. in,
spite of the, milk price being intol-
. "The result -is: The pig gets one
litre, the working man half of a,
tc New Strategy.
It begins to look as if the • 'Rhein-
isch-Westfalisch'e Zeitung `were go-
ing to earn a reputation for uncon-
scioue humor similar to that enjoyed
by the Tagealatt and the Lokal An-
zeiger'of Berlin. Indeed, there is a
probpility that it may become even
more noted for the delicate character
of its irony than the Fliegende Blat-
ter. - One of its latest teiumphs runs
this way: 'To have the initiative does
not COTISISt. in attacking, but also in
letting oneself be' attacked at the
proper moment." That is, to drive,
does not consist altogether in driv-
ing, but also.in withdrawing, or, to
Olidasb. does not consist altogether in
kimasching; but also in getting
Lord Haldane Proposes
To Write His Memoirs
And His Country Waits
T is annotucced that Viscount Hal-
dane has completed.the writing
of his memoirs, which, it is also
said, he has no intention of pub-
lishing until after the war.
This is soinewhat.of a pity, as we
saould have lilted him to follow tbe
example of Mr. Gerard -and Mr. Moe-
genthau, the United States Ambassa-
dors, who, as ,soon as they were re-
lieved of their official positions, lost
no time in acquainting the world
with what they knew of German per-
, fitly and what they had done to coun-
teract its effecte in the sphere of
their own oftlCial work.
The British public would like to
read now, and not after the war, the
explanation in Lord Haldane's
INTESTINAL
PARALYSES
"Frult-a-tives" Quickly
Relieved This Chronic Trouble
589 CASGRAIN Sumer, MONTIMAL.
"In my 2pinion, 'smother •medicine
is so curative for Constipation and
Indigestion as 'Fruit-a-tivesh
I was a sufferer from these com-
plaints for five gars, and my
sedentary occupation, Music, broagat
about a kind of Intestinal Para4isis ;
drowsiness after eating, and pain in
the back.
I was induced. to try Truit-a-tives'
and now for six months I have been
entirely well". A. ROSENBURG.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by
,Fruitisetives Limited, Ottawa.
• r
EPTE E E R
Ep ?1 E 'of 19-18
Iriow much
i
BUT °`"' Howe many cups fro a pound?
will yi4d twice as much ift the teapot as will
ordina tea. It is REAL economy to use it,
to say nothing of the unique flavour.
11446
The Long-range Guns.
That the bursting -charge of shells
from the German. long-range guns is
mixed while the projeatiles are ip ac-
tual flight is the belief of Frencti
scientists. When the shelling of Paris
began it was notieed Oat the explo-
sion of a shell produced a cloud of,'
lalack smoke mixed with a little that'
was white and, accompanied by a
strong smell of ether. Recently the
smoke has been entirely vrhite and
very light, the ether odor persisting.
No shell that failed to explode has
been found, nor even an entire fuse,
indicating how ,delicate and -reliable
the -explosive is. This fact leads ex-
perts te.) suppose that the shell is
charged with two liquid explosives,
separated by the perforated partition..
which is known to exist in the centre
of the projectile. When the shell 'is
fired at a high angle!ithe liquid in'
the upper end corabineii with that in
the lower chamber, and churned by
the violent rotation, produces at the
moment of impact, three minutes lat-
er, ae perfect mixture., This would
. explain, it is said, the ability of the" -
charge ta resist the enormous shock
when fired and the remarkable uni-
formity of the explosions.
• Colors, of Regiments.
- In the old days the .regiments of
the British _army were known by the
color of their unifetrins, as the White
Regiment, the Blue Regiment, or the
Red Regiment, , and so ad inflnitum.
It is qalte jpossible; therefore, that
there- was a Bleck Regiment. Tbe
Red Regiment, incidem tally, was
Cronawell's Ironsides. But the term
was also usea for the Guards of the
Dominicans or Black Friars, and
came to be appliea also to the scul-
lions, in the kitchens of the great
houses, whose business it was to
look after the pots and pans. The
well-known quotation, therefore,
from the Elizabethan playwright;
Webster, where he speaks,. in the
"White Devil," of a sleet that "rode
with the 'black guard in the duke's
carriage 'mongst spits and dripping
pans," may .explaih the origin of the
word, though it has els% been sug-
gested that it originated from. the
torch -bearers at funerals, or the link
boas who lighted gueets home 'at
night from the, houses of their enter -
Military Indecision—
A sergeant was trying to drill 'a
lot of raw recruit'', and, after work-
ing hard for threeetours, he thought
they seemed to beaketting into some
short of shape, so decided to test
them.
"Right turn!" he iried. Then, be-
fore they had ceased to move, came
anoaher order, "Left -turn!"
One hoodlum left the' ranks and
started off towards the barracks
"Here, you," yelled the angry ser-
geant. "Where are you going?"
"I've had enough," replied the- re-
cruit, in a disgusted tone. "You
don't know your own mind for two
minutes runnin'!"
?. Speaks Again I
SOME day following the cessa-
tiOn of hostilities, if aot be-
fore, the world will probably
be favorsa wfth what is bound
to prove a highly interesting treatise
upon the careers and ;views of the
prominent German exiles now An
Switzerland. Generally . epeaking,
they left their own country not ne-
cessarily because they were conscien-
•
tious objectors against military ser-
vice or the gospel of armaments, but
because of their consciousness of Ger-
many's bloodguiltiness in the -world
war and their horror of Germany's
methods of prosecuting it. Mareover,
they are democratically min.ded mete
who recognize that the only caance
for their, country's salvation Iies in.
her military defeat at the heads of
the allied champions of democracy.
But democracy as a national move-
ment has always had a poor time la
the Fatherlehd. To -day the humber
of Germans- who respect anything
ease but the gospel of force is aeglig-
ible. Both the leaders of the church
and the leaders of socialienee , With
their former fine phrases anent the
brotherhood of man, did not fail to
toe the line in 1914 with the mili-
bolas and pan-Geolianie. leaders of
the natilon, the mom-ent the oppor-
tunity • came for German conquest
and dominion.
. But lihoug Germany lay in sub-
ti,ction to th dominent passion for
conqiiest an national aggrandize-
ment, those f w who refused to iden-
tify themsel es with the shameless
conspiracy gainet other peoples'
freedom, wer yet to be heard frora.
There were significant voices like
Muehlon, the former Krupp *rector
and °mild= of the Kaiser, which
could- not be. suppressed. The iron -
master repreeented a conscientious,
antisimperialiatic Germany. He left
the country which he could no longer
tolerate and which would not tolerate
him, and reMoved to Switzerland.
There he 'gave vent to his views in
Once more la has been heard froth.
He has publis ed a book called "The
Devastation f Europe.a The world
is already f miller with the main
features of al these writings. He in-
variaaly sees the wrong which hes
behind. the German cause; predicts,
Tentan defeat; sem; the Prussians al"
barbariaas, d scathingly analyzes
Prussian seer diploinacy. For him
Germany is the slanderer of the
Tzar, the met t accuser of perfidy by
the Russians, and he "cannot cry
'aloud often e ougla into the ears of -
the Germans hat predominance and
violence will !ever atone for 'lack of
moral superiority." "No wonder," he
goes on to ea , "that foreign voices
declare that n t Russia but Germany
is the perilou , savage and despotic
natiOn, that t e Kaiser is the incar-
nation of the worst German
instiects, the instigator of disturb-
ances in Eur pe and must be re-
moved." He r ,MuehIon. virtually
spareS no on , from the highest to
the iovrest. T e Foreign Office is "a
confused, oesi ed, exclusive ,body of
bureaucrats"; and Germany's at-
tempts to "g in supporters at anr
cost to her c use among the neu-
trait'," den "o y be regarded as cor-
ruption."
The numbe of this devoted band
of German e les are steadily grow -
ng; not only n Switzerland but also
are doutiflelis many others ready to
declare tnem elves as soon as the
bppertunityi fiords. They are one
and all Men of earnest conviction,
mostly demo ratio in sympathies,
and imbued
Allied, cause.
they in their
'land; but th
when it hae
abandoned it
and . has ex
dynasty, with
:Won with th
cies now figh
righteousness eat tat
Just as earnest are
evotion to the Father -
will extead their 0.6 -
that Fatherland only
been" regenerated, has
ostensible wareainas,
hanged its autocratic
its schemes for world
or a policy of co-oper-
Epide e of Marriage.
In spite o the war and the in-
creased cost of living there has of
late been au amazing marriage enia
demic in the anks of the kanioe civil
servants E gland. *A large propor-
tion of them ave married girl clerks
in the same epartments, and as the
girls are on y temporary employes
they have b en permitted to retain
their posts. any of the girls have
bigger sala-ri s than their husbands.
In one case, for instance, the hus-
band has onl 22 10s. a meek, while
Use young w fe of 22 has 23 and a
war borius i addition. In pre-war
days a eivil ervant was allowed six
days'` leeve n the occasion of his
marriage, bu this privilege has _been
temporarily cancelled for the dur-
edd ng Ring Theories.
Among s veral theories as to the
origin of e wedding -ring is one
which is to the eitect that before the
time of mi ts and 'coinage the gold
money in Egypt was made in the
form ,f ing, maually worn on the
aneer as a convenient method of
carrying a d safe -keeping. The man
or trioraan therefore had ell their gold
or wealt made into rings, and for
the majo ity Of people these rings
, were no arger than tke plain gold
bands of to -days Thus, wlien the
groom pl ced the ring on the bride's
finger, e meant exactly what the
modems ervice makes kim say—he
did actu lly endow his bride with all
Not Conceited.
Frie d Husband—Do you think it
would be conceited of me, dear, to
Frie d Wife (sweetly)—Not con-
ceited, my dear, merely superfluous.
CONQUERABLE CHINA.
Co ry May Be Overrun But Con -
'It as a Chinese Official at Pekin
who first gave me the sense that
Chin is unconquerable and con-
quer ng.
ad gone to this official to ask
eert in. questions concerning political
affai s. He had listened quietly and
ans ered with seeming frankness. He
had no illusiens concerning the pres-
ent situation. The Chinese Govern -
me t was yea.k; its finance badr,
the e was no money for schools; no
mo ey for anything. Officials were
co rupt, and repeated promises of re-.
u der the leadership of semi-indem
p ndent generals, could not be dis-
b nded because they• had not been
p id; to disband them would con-
y rt the soldiers into brigands. The
"If the worst eornes to the worst,"
e concluded, "we shall invite Japan
I stared. #'Invite Japan?
. would be the end of China."
- He smiled indulgently. "You pas.
pie of the West are so impatient, So -.--
may I say?—immediate. You think
in years instead of In centuries;
There can be no end of China.
"What can the conqueror, as we
1 call him, 'do? He can make money-
.aua of ue and for us, and he cam
'aults us—for a tirae; but he cannot'
absorb us and we can and will ab -
sub him. I would. give the Japanese
just Mty years of control; then'they
would go the way of' the Manchus."
He went into details. He portray-
ed a new Chloe growing up Tiger-
ously under its supposed Jepanese
masters. He assumed that under the
foreign rule the C,hinese would get
railroads, telegraphs, faetories,
schotats, and universities, and would.
become a wealthy and intelligent na-
tion. Every effort of Japan to exPloit
China would aid China, and though'
the seat of empire might be at Tokio,
the real a.dministrators, the tens and
hundreds of thousands of subordi- .
'aorta officials, Would be Chinese. Offi-
cer the army with. Japanese and it -
would. still be a Chinese army. The
keel power would remain with the
Chinese people. And in the end, in
twenty, fifty, or at most a hundred
or two hundred years, the people -
would exercise this power and the
fragile Japanese domination would. -
be shattered. The day of little na-
tions, he -intimated, is over-,- the great
raasses learn quickly, and all the
tricks of organization 'and discipline
and science can no longer be naonopo-
elized by any one people. en the end
it would be the same, the little island
folk would succumb' to the continen-
tal people. And the same if Europe
were ever to divide China. .Jeitlous- '..
ies, boundaries disputes, Wars bet -
tweet' these hasty nations— and *
the quiet fullness of time China, Nitta -
cated and drilled, would coine int*
her own again. Either She woubl:,
drive out the lavaliere or they Woulif
drive one another off as --Japan droie
out Russia and Germany,
"No," he declared, "China may be
overrun, but inane end will be trituei: -
phatit. We ardvno doubt the weakest
- and most unpolitical -otemationista'aut
we are unconquerable.' —W. E. Weyi
in Harper's Magazine.
That
Chain Armor.
An ingennieus improvemeat has
recently been made- to the already ..
familiar steel shrapnel helro.et in use
"over there." It is designed V) pro-
tect. the eyes and the upper part of
the face from splinters , of woode
stone, sand and metal thrown op by
exploding shells,. The new device is
merely an adaptation of the ehain
doors which have been introduced in-
• to .metal, chemical and glass works In
recent years to protect the viarkent
from the heat of the furnaces and the
splashes of molten material. It .con -
sista of a fringe .of separate. Wirt
lengths of fairly heavy chain which,
effectively arrests the flying particles.
On account of its looseness It does
not seriously iaterfere wftb. the
vision.
Furnishings High.
Tke manager of one of the biggest
furnishing houses ilk London told 4
London News writer the position. er
their trade to -day is Mere
than it was thought a year ago would
be the case even if the war were to
last ten y'ears. "We eau replace
nothing," he said. "Artielee of au
inferior quality are 75 per cent, OP
every time they come In. In $11
months' time I belieye furniture
will ae made. am especially sorry'
for those girls who have married sol-
dier thusbands, and have gone
straight back to their parents, with
the intention of furnishing their
home at the end of the war. be-
lieve that will be literally impos-
Smooth Saws for Metal.
Not so very long ago the diseovery
was made in Germany that metals
could ebe sawed easier and quicker
with rapidly revolving smooeh disks
of steel, than with tooehed eircular
saws. It was found that the cutting
was done by the heat generated br
the friction of the edge of the, disk
against the metal. The metal is
melted,at-the point of contact, while
the steel of the disk, being cooled lelf
die air, does not reach the melting.
point. The disks need no sharpening
and do not wear out so auickly ae
the toothed saws heretofore used for
butting metal. The faster the disk
revolves, the greater the amount of
heat generated, and the quicker the
job.—Popular Science.
Laurie Island.
The southernmost permanently In-
ha.bited spot.* the world is Laurie
Island, in the South Orkneys, and its
sole inhabitants are the party of
tneteorologists who maintain a sta-
tion there for -the meteorological ser-
vice of Argentina. lihe A-rgentine
Or 6vernment sent outia new staff last
February, as usual, on a naval ves-
sel, to relieve the observers, whose
term of service in this desolate spot
lasts one year. From time to time
there has been talk elf installing a
wireless station at Ladrie Island, but
still the plate is cut off from all com-
munication with the rest of the
world.—Scientifie American.
Office Call.
"Telephone message."
"For whom?"
"One of the clerks."
"Soma dame wants to speak to
Of Course You
Are Coming to
London, for the
Western Fair!
E HAVE made every
preparation for your
accoznodation while in
city.
Make this store your head-
quarters. Use the free check-
room in the Pasernent, where
your wraps. grips and parcels
will be taken care of without
charge.
Waiting Room
Rest Room and
Lavatories
are conveniently located for
your special accomodation
Autumn Fashions
While the store is one great'
Fashion Show on every floor,
we want you to feel free to
look and ir.spect without
placing yourself under the
slightest obligation to make
a single purchase.
Make this your down -town
headquarters while a.ttending
the Western Fair. You'll
find it helpful and conveni-
ent in more ways than one.
LONDON, ONT.
CREAM WANTED.
W0 have our Creamery now in
uperation, and we want your Retro
age. We are prepared to pay y
tbe.higbest prices for your trtlinis Pa
jou every two weeks, a6egh, amp
and test each can of (=won caret
ssid give you statement of the
also supply cans free of
and (give you an honest business deal
Call in and see us or drop us a card
THE $EAFORTH CREAMERY
Seaforth ()uteri
/set folks step on your feet hereafter
wear oboes a SiZe. smaller if you lik
for germs will never again send electri
aparks of pain. through You, woo
to this Cincinnati authority.
HO says that few -drops of et
freezone, applied directly upo
a,- tender, aching corn, instantlY
AIMS soreness, and soon. the ent
eorn, root and all, lifts right out.
This dnig is a sticky ether compo
but dries at onee and. 'simply shrive
up the -corn without inflaming or -ev
kritatiog the surrounding tissue.
la defined that a quarter of
orate of freeZone obtained at any
. store will cost very little but is
-dent to remove every hard or soft
from one's feet. Cut this -out,
•erlio weers high heels.
$2000000
i.11 lend on tarins, Second;
btertgagea Can or write nie
toot and get your loot arroneadl
bY return mail. No advance
Z. Z. ZETNOLDS,
77 Victoria fit., Toronto. ,
Mt FLETCHER'S
CAFtirOFIIA
GIRLS. WHITEN YOURSKIN
WITH LEMON WI
tap, freckles, sallowness.
To grocer has the lemons and any
ilrug store or toilet counter will supply
you with three ounees of orchard white
for a, few cents. Squeeze the juice of
*wo fresh. lemons into a, bottle, then put
in the orchard 'white and shake well.
This makes a guarter pint of the very
best lemon siti7A whitener and. -complexion
ibeautifier known. Massage this fro. -
grant, creamy lotion daily into the face,
neck, arrns and hands and just see how
freekles„ tan, sallowfiess, redness and
roughness disappear and how Smooth,
soft and clear the skin beeoznes. Yesl
It is hatmless, and the beautiful resulte
CASTOR I A
pa bd.*. and Children.
You Always *At
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