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AIG, FAMILY UPHOLDS 700
YEAR OLD PROPHECY
�# thrifiing •selven hundred years ago
'there lived in the shadow of the Eil-
.don Hills`Sir Waltr Scott's. country
-one Thomas Learmont, who was
.also known as Thd&nas"-the Rhymer.
Famed as a Border rhyming prophet,
'he got this off:
'Tyle what may betyde
IHiaig shall be Haig of Bemersyde
That was a terribly rash statement
to make in the thirteenth century,
'when men were cut down in war and
Border fray like corn in autumn, but
it held good, says H. V. Morton, auth-
or of "In Search of Scotland." No
'matter how many Haigs were slain
there was always a laird to Berner-
•syde, the most celebrated being Field
Marshal Earl Haig of world war
fame.
The reputation of Thomas seemed
in peril in the eighteenth century,
when a Haig had twelve daughters!
But lo! the Border prophet was right.
The thirteenth child was a son!
* *
By the way, near the tomb of Sir
'Walter Scott lies Earl Haig, a ring
of red Flanders poppies on the new
turf, and in the centre the wooden
cross from a Flanders cemetery with
his name printed, like that of a pri-
vate soldier, on a strip of aluminum.
*
The famous divine, Bishop Wilber-
force, was not averse to telling a story
against himself. He was walking a-
broad one day when an urchin threw
a stone that hit him in the hack. The
bishop was sufficiently alert tocatch
the youngster. and. holding him at
arm's length, administered a reprim-
and.
The boy sulkily denied throwing
the stone.
"You know that you did," remon-
strated the bishop.
"You didn't see me;" challenged the
boy.
"Nee, but God did."
"Huh! Does God see everything
that we do?"
"Yes, everything," said the bishop,
solemnly.
"Did He see what I done in our
backyard last Saturday afternoon."
"Certainly, He did."
"Garn! We ain't got no backyard,"
•exclaimed the urchin, breaking away
and disappearing.
It was Bishop Wilberforce—he was
called "Soapy Sam" behind his back
because 'of his habit of washing his
hands with invisible ;soap—who once
defined a,'man'sa;,,club as a place "where
the women cease £rotn troubling and
the wicked are at rest."
* *
When John Wanamaker went to
New York from Philadelphia, as he
did at least once or twice a week, to
give .oversight to his business there,
he would take the 7 o'clock train out
of Philadelphia. His buyers took the
8 o'clock. That put him into his New
York office about 9.12, and even
this "12 minutes lateness," as he call-
ed it, often fretted him.
Shortly before his death (at 84.
mind you) he examined the timetables
and found that a train left. Philadel-
phia at 5.30 in the morning,' reaching
New York at 8.30. But as there was
no Pullman on the train he gave up
)the idea. It was not the discomfort
of riding in a day coach that deterred
him. It was the fact that he could
do no writing on the trip. It was his
custom when going to and fro be-
tween New York and Philadelphia to
reserve two pullman chairs. On one
he would spread 'his papers and bocikb
and sitting on the other would get
throtkgh much work.
* * *
'But the most characteristic story
!about Mr. Wanamaker told by Joseph
H. Appel (in "The Business Biogra-
phy of John Wanamaker") has to do
With the 'opening of his first store in
Philadelphia in April, 1861. The new
'firm took in $24.67 on the opening
day—'for gentlemen's collars, cuffs
and neckties. Wanamaker put , 67
cents in the cash drawer to make
change the next day and took the $24
to a newspaper, where he paid for an
advertisement for the new store!
A near neighbor and friend of the
ex -Empress Eugenie at Farnborough
1--ifll—her Kentish estate in England-
-was Ethel. Smythe, noted composer.
who often dined at the royal table. It
was Miss Smythe's custom to bicycle
over from her cottage, take up a geoe
strategic point behind some lecher
when once in the grounds of Farn-
borough Hill and proceed to thane-:
into evening clothes. after wh;r-h she
would walk to the front door and ring
the bell This went on for same
months, declares the Duchess of €'er-
moneta (in her reminiscences. "Things
Past"), when the empress got to her: -
of it and was rather upset, so in the
i 1 future a carriage was sent for her
guest.
Once Miss Smythe turned up rather
late for dinner and the empress was
already in the drawing -room. This
-was contrary to Farnborough etiquet-
te, which demanded that all guests
-should be assembled in the drawing -
room before the empress made her
appearance.
"Ethel advanced towards hex host -
sees, running and curtesying at the
same time, the result being a series
of kangaroo leaps," chuckles the
1iell4ss, '4% 7 ku „. .
ftrhe� l tss) 'b ckof
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tivhiSpered:
"'Accompany Miss Smyth" and he
to arrange beer dress ao littler"
whereupon the duchess obeyed •and
a certain amount of hitching up west
on --outside the 'drawing -room.
"My dear," 'explained the musicii;,
still breathless and wriggling, " 'tl
tell you what's the matter. I bousfbt,
a new pair of corsets at the grocer's
and I believe he sold me a birdcage
instead."
Man's Poor Back
Lame and Aching
Some backs ache all day' long—a
steady aching soreness»—it seems to
the man afflicted that at times his
back was breaking!
When you come home froze work
at night with a back so sore, lame
and weak that you feel mighty sure
you won't be able to go to work in
the morning—DO THIS:
Get someone to give it a good rub-
bing with Joint -Ease — a soothing,
penetrating, pain subduing, wonder
working emollient that gets right
under the skin — right where the
muscles are inflamed and sore.
Then forget your troubles and go
to sleep.
Unless you're different from other
men you'll wake up in the morning
with a back free from aches, pains,
stiffness and misery—and you'll go
to work with a grateful heart and
tell your friends about the mighty
swift acting power of Joint -Ease.
Joint -Ease is made right here in
Canada and it's just as good for
lumbago too a generous tube for 60
cents at druggists everywhere—Guar•
anteed.
"THE MAN WITH THE SCAR" AND
BLACK -CAPPED JUDGE
j Some months ago there appeared in
this column an account of the murder
1 in Southampton, England, in October,
!1c)29, of Vivian Messiter, an oil sales-
man. For this crime William Henry
Podmore has now been found guilty
and sentenced to death. Podmore. al-
though still a young man, has had
several convictions marked against
'him and since he was a boy has been
in and out of jail a dozen times. He
has been a thief since he was nine
!years old, but at no time gave prom-
ises of becoming the author of a par-
ticularly brutal murder which has
been widely discussed in England for
!many months past. The theory of
Ithe Crown. which was accepted by the
jury, was that Podmore, who worked
for 'Rossiter as a salesman on com-
, mission, killed 'his employer over a
dispute of a few; shillings. The evi-
dence showed that Rossiter had hired
Podmore to sell his motor oil to 'deal-
ers in and around Southampton and
that he had paid Podmore commission
on several sales. But these sales
were bogus. Podmore supplied names
and addresses of mythical merchants
and reported that they had given or-
ders for oil to be delivered and paid
for later. Rossiter paid him as the
orders were turned in. Such a fraud
could. not long continue and when Ros-
siter discovered that he had been
swindled it is probable that he told
Podmore he would inform the police.
Knowing that a severe sentence
threatened him as an old offender it
is probable that Podmore brained
Rossiter with a hammer and hid 'his
body.
The crime was not discovered until
several weeks had passed. When Ros-
siter disappeared his landlady in
Southampton assumed that he had
gone to London. He had no friends in
Southampton and there was no search
for him when he did not turn up. The
London firm for whom he was work-
.
Lag must have assumed that he had
defaulted after letters addressed to
him were returned. But if his ac-
counts were not squared, the balance
owing must have been small. Tn any
.event the oil company took no action
for weeks. Then it sent another ag-
ent to Southampton. He visited Ros-
siter's lodging house and then went
to the garage and yard where Rossi-
ter had stored some oil and where his
ear was kept. This had been locked
from the time Rossiter vanished and
had never been examined. But the
new agent forced the lock and entered
the gloomy shed. There to his hor-
ror he found a body which was later
identified as that of the missing oil
salesman. The police were called in.
and with a few slender clues they be -
I gan their work. By this time Pod-
, more was serving a sentence for theft
in a prion in another part of the'
country.
In the shed the police found what
n ght have been an order book with
;•ertain pages torn out. They also
found a scrap of paper bearing the
name "Thomas" and a letter which
purported to have been written to "W.
F. Thomas." A search for Thomas
was at once begun, and gradually the
( v lice built up a fairly accurate des-
cription of the man they were in
'search of. It was as "the man with
the scar" that the description was
broadcast through the newspapers. It
was found that the so-called Thomas
with a woman who became known as
"Golden Haired Lil" Hambleton had
occupied lodgings in Southampton.
which had been suddenly vacated. He
was traced to two or three other plac-
es and from the last of them it was
discovered that he had disappeared,
leaving unclaimed wages, at about
the time the newspapers were carry-
ing the story of the discovery of Ros-
siter's body.
We presume that eventually Thomas
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would have been found and arrested
and of course identified with the Pod-
more who had the long police record.
But at the time the police were scour-
ing the country for him he was in the
safest of all hiding places, serving a
six, months' sentence for theft. But
in jail, according to the Crown, he
committed the fatal error of discuss-
ing the\ Rossiter mystery with two
fellow 'prisoners. The subject seemed
to fascinate him, and he was never
tired of hearing what other convicts
thought of the case. He also made a
couple of remarks that were consid-
ered significant, and the convicts com-
municated what he had said to the
prison authorities, who .in turn placed
the facts before the police. So it
happened that when Podmore left the
prison at the end of his sentence he
was arrested on the charge of murder
and later put on trial.
The evidence against him was
wholly circumstantial, and on this
point Lord Hewart, the presiding
judge, said: "Circumstantial evi-
dence is sometimes spoken of in
language of apology as though it
were some minor or less compelling
kind of evidence. It is contrasted with
direct evidence, that is to say, the
evidence of an eye -witness. But one
cannot forget that sometimes an eye-
witness may be mistaken. There may
be the inference, for example, of
grudge or spite. Circumstantial evi-
dence is free from those blemishes.
Circumstantial evidence consists in
this: That when you look at all the
circumstances you discover such a
series of undesigned unexpected coin-
cidences that. as a reasonable person,
you find that your judgment is com-
pelled to one conclusion. If the cir-
cumstantial evidence is such as to fall
short of that standard, if it does not
satisfy that test, then it is of no use
at all. . . . No amount of suspic-
ion is enough. If the effect of all
the evidence is no more than to leave
on your minds strong suspicion, you
must acquite the prisoner." e Pod-
mere's story was that the last time
he saw Rossiter he left him with a
man named Maxton or Baxton, pre-
sumably an agent, who had an ap-
pointment to meet Rossiter the next
day. He described his sudden quitting
of Rossiter's employ as due to a bet-
ter position being offered him, and his
flight and change of name as impel-
led by the knowledge that the police
were looking for him -to answer for
lesser crimes which he had committed.
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"After baby was born I was very
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FAVORITE RECIPES
Grapejuice Sponge.
Dissolve one package lemon jelly
powder in one cupful of boiling water,
stir until thoroughly dissolved, then
add 1 cupful prepared grapejuice.
Chill until as thick as honey, then
beat with a rotary egg -beater. Add
the whip from one-half cupful whip-
ping cream (one small bottle): beat
until well mixed, then pour into in-
dividual moulds. To serve, unmould,
and garnish with whipped cream and
chopped nutmeats.
Apple Tapioca Whip.
Heat to the boiling point in a dou-
ble -boiler one and one-third cupfuls
of water, then add one-third cupful
of granulated tapioca and one-half
cupful of sugar, stirring constantly
for about 5 minutes. Cook until the
tapioca is transparent—or about 20
minutes. Remove from the fire and
heat in one and one-half cupfuls of
thick unsweetened apple sauce and the
stiffly beaten whites of two eggs.
When well blended, pour into a dish,
chill and serve with soft custard
made with the left -over egg -yolks.
Vitamin Salad.
Raw spinach, lettuce, chopped raw
carrot, green onions. Trim, wash and
dry the spinach and lettuce. Wash,
scrape and grate the carrots, or put
them through the fine meat -grinder.
Use one-third as much carrot as spin.
ach and lettuce comibined. Cut fresh
green onions or Spanish onions ;,n
very thin slices.. Mix lightly with
French dressing.
Vitamin'' Salad H.
Another interesting and delicious
salad is made by adding chopped cel-
ery to the shredded spinach and let-
tuce. The Celery tops, chopped fine"
add a very desiraible flavor. A little
onion juice improves the salad for
some. Combine the vegetables ' and
mix with a •11'f;er%eti dressing. Place a
generous, sptftg, on the salad plate
and gra o et' it cheese of .d Snappy
flavor,' ciP With' 'a 'sii'oonful of lair
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Moulin '" hicken 1110usse.
one cup died, cooked chicken, 1 cup
clear 'b'onillia qi. 3 egg **As; - 1 up
cream •wliipped, '/a teaspoon salt, 14
teaspooliv paprika, 1 chopped piinieento,
1 tablespoon' gelatin, 'y cup cold Nye -
ter.
Beat the yolks and stir into . the
bouillon, add.' seasonings and cook in
double boiler until mixture begins to
thicken. , Remove from the stove and
add gelatine, which has been dissolv-
ed in cold water. Mix thoroughly.
chill. Fold in the whipped cream and
chicken. Turn into a mould which
has been rinsed in cold water. ()bill
four hours. If desired, mould in in-
dividual moulds. Use canned bouil-
lon if desired.
Sunday Night Salad.
One can Tuna fish, 3(s cupful diced
celery, 1%• tablespoonfuls minced on-
ion, 2 tablespoonfuls chopped sweet
pickles, lettuce, mayonnaise.
Put the fish into a colander and let
cold water run over it very gently
until the oil is rinsed, off. Drain thor-
oughly, and put in the fee box until
chilled. When ready to use, arrange
in large pieces on the lettuce. 'Sprinkle
with the celery, onion, and pickles ;
add the mayonnaise, and decorate with
a light sprinkling of paprika, strips
If green pepper, and a sprig of pars-
ley.
The Only Thing That Helps
Her Lame Back
ONTARIO LADY USES DODD'S
KIDNEY PILES
Mrs. J. S. Reid Speaks Very Highly of
Canada's Foremost Kidney Remedy—
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Enterprise, Ont., April 17.—(Spe-
cial).—"Anytime I get a Lame Back
I turn to 'Dodd's Kidney Pills and
they soon do. the work," writes Mrs.
John S. Reid, well known and highly
respected resident of this place. "I
have used them for years. As I oc-
casionally take a Larne Back, they
never fail to do the work."
With the winter months approach -
in, comes colds and chills, which
double the work of the Kidneys. Of-
ten the results are serious, for, if the
Kidneys weaken, harmful uric acid
and otherpoisons are allowed to es-
cape. Backache, dizziness and urin-
ary disorders should not be neglected.
Use Dodd's Kidney Pills to stimulate
Kidney activity. This treatment re-
lieves you of discomfort, and wards
off Rheumatism. Lumbago and Sciati-
ca. An occasional course of Dodd's
Kidney Pills 'will prevent Kidney dis-
orders.
THE MAMMOTH CANNON THAT
BOMBARDED PARIS
One of the most extraordinary in-
ventions of the war was undoubtedly
that of the guns which from a dist-
ance of 75 miles dropped shells on
Paris. There were rumors of these
guns before they were in action and
even after they had made their marks
of death and desolation there were
many who doubted their existence.
The war had ended before it was gen-
erally known that the Germans had
actually invelited these guns and that
thee had proved their effectiveness.
Still a greater period of time was to
elapse until the whole history of the
mammoth guns was laid bare, and it
is only recently that a book on the
subject has been published, the auth-
or being Col. Henry W. Miller, of the
American artillery service. Col. Mil-
ler has also talked about the guns
over the radio when millions learned
for the first time what the monsters
were actually like, what they did, and
how, from March until November,
their hiding places were kept secret
from the Allied airmen, who by this
time were scrutiiezing every square
foot of the land where they thought
the guns might be mounted. The guns
originated in the brain of Dr. von
Eberhardt, of the Krupp works, in
1915. It was the middle of 1917 be-
fore the first of them was sent to
the proving ground where it was a
failure. It was toward the end of
March, 1918, that the first shell was
dropped in Paris.
Seven guns were made, one remain-
ing at the proving ground• for contin-
uous experiments while the others
were located at a clearing in the wood
known as La Sapiniere, near the vil-
lage of Crepy, five miles behind the
German front, ata corner where the
line was nearest. Paris, a distance of
70 miles. Whet the first shell fell in
Paris it killed nobody brt the moral
effect was what the Germans had
counted on. Not''only the general pub-
lic 'but the government and army of-
ficials were dumbfounded. At first
they could not believe the eveiences
of their own eyes. They insisted that
the shell must have come from an
airplane and they persisted in this be-
lief after several shells had fallen, all
of them doing damage. It has been
calculated that in all there was a
property loss of $10,000,0001, while
250 people were killed and 640 wound-
ed. Naturally women and children
were among the victims since the
Germans at this distance found\ it
impossible to discriminate. The guns
were merely pointed to drop shells
in Paris and if women and children
happened to he in the way that was
their bad fortune.
When the shells continued to' fall
and no airplanes were sighted it was
thought that through some cunning
camouflage view of the planes was
concealed. Then it was (believed that
perhaps planes had been invented that
could fly so high tl>rat they would trot
be,viteible. In the meantime the shells
continued to drop. There Were four
separate .bombardments, the first con-
tinuing intermittently until May, the
second from May 27th tb Jupe 11th,
and the third of two, day's only from
a new position somev.shat nearer Par-
is. The final bbrlthardme,nt lasted
front Aiugust 5th to •: August 9th. In
all 367 shells we`re"` fired. Each gun
was supposed to have a lifetime of
50 rounds, after 'wb,;dh the barrels
.had to be rifled againtp anotheli' cal-
ibre. The shells ttaigeled 234 flouunds
each. Of course the C eyiftatts had no
der that the 'physi"ciA i' aihiage a ra:ei'glit
by the guns evoulS N WO an eject in
bringing about , "`'eftii of 1e war:'
they calculated . ;` p e terire'they
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THE ANTISEPTIC LINIMENT
For swollen tonsils
and chest colds
would strike in the heart of France,
and believed that when added to their
final desperate offensive they would
break down French moral resistance.
That they were not 'altogether astray
in their calculations is• indicated by
the fact that between the time the
first and the last great shell dropped
in Paris, a million people left the city.
The guns and their emplacements
were screened by trees, and when the
muzzles, of the weapons were not ele-
vated at the angle of 50 degrees at
which they were discharged, they lay
flat on the ground and at a short dis-
tance might 'be indistinguishable from
huge logs—and huge they must have
been for the guns were 120 feet long
or as Col. Miller says, the height of
a 10 -story building. The region in
which they were located was particu-
larly favorable in that light mists
might be expected on most morning;
until almost noon. German airplanes
also sought to further obscure the lo-
cation of the guns by hanging smoke
screens over the whole district. It
is no wonder that the Allied airmen
failed to locate them since in addi-
tion to the precautions already men-
tioned the region in which the guns
were stood were guarded by German
airmen as fiercely as though the Kais-
er himself were there, which, as a
matter of fact, he was on several oc-
casions.
Finally German ingenuity contriv-
ed to baffle the French sound -ranging
instruments which might have locat-
ed the guns, but for the fact that a
second before a shell was fired a doz-
en other large gun's in the sector were
electrically discharged, thus vibrating
the French instruments so violently
that they were unable to pick up the
sound made by the hidden monsters.
On the flight to Paris each shell rose
to a height of 24 miles. At this
height, even though there was prac-
tically no atmospheric resistance, the
velocity of the projectile was only
2,200 feet per second, compared with
the muzzle velocity of 5,500 feet per
second. Falling from its extreme
height to 12, miles above the ground
the velocity increased to 3;300 feet,
but in consequence of the greater air
resistance as the surface of the earth
was reached the shell struck at a
speed of 2,450 feet per second. The
entire 75 miles was covered in three
minutes, and in aiming the gun intri-
cate calculations and allowances had
to be made for the curvature of the
earth as well as the rotation thereof,
which was different at Paris and at
the point where the gun was discharg-
ed. Taking everything into consider-
ation the 7'5 -mile gun was one of the
most remarkable German mechanical
achievements in the whole 'war.
i.. GA )4409- 4'* r
" :n 'e of ,;li"al#a" "or every 6''".I
is a slogan a4t pted, In mew :distric
where -live to*ishopt'ai4 with Via
iheat%ktp shit Igt tl xeguiron*ata �t'l
is ene clerltitilterSOIVet) strong support`(
by the, Pomj!do* lilepartttment. of 1gri .
culture. With. the short crops •andii
diilicul't -SOW* conditions :Iaf 1928
and 1929 the need of adequate pro-
vision with -respect to fodder Drops
became more apparent. Not only wall
the application of this slogan to al-
falfa, or suitable clover or hay crops,
go far to' meet the urgency of the
present situation but it would also
provide a useful and profitable rota-
tion medium for keeping soil up to
production capacity and assist in
weed control. This scale of planting'
not. only provides adequate pastur-
age 'but allows a surplus for feeding
to other farm animals and often pro-
vides a carry-over of hay to a lean
year.
More Milk is Used.
During the past eight years domes-
tic milk consumption per capita has
;practically doubled in Canada. The
Dairy 'and 'Cold Storage Branch of
the Dominion Department of Agri-
culture attributes this increase to the
growing demand of the sweet milk
trade and to the• increasing popular-
ity of ice cream.' Canadals exports of
dairy products have declined mater-
ially, and' this has 'been due in part
to the increasing domestic consumps
tion and in part to the large numbers
of high quality milch cows which
have 'been sold to United States buy-
ers and gone out of the country. In
this connection it is noted that there
were approximately 100,000 fewer
good milch cows in Canada in 1928
than there were in 1927. Canadian
dairymen are realizing the economic
danger of, the situation, however, and
few sales of high grade mulch cows
are now reported.
GASOLINE PUMPS PRESENT
INTERESTING HISTORY
The way in 'which gasoline pumps
have popped up 'over the countryside,
almost like mushrooms over night, has
been one of the phenomena of .auto-
motive history. To many motorists it
is not so very long ago that the only
utensils the wayside garage man had
to' dispense fuel with were one and
five gallon cans and a funnel, accord-
ing to E. B. Holton, writing in one of
the American papers who calls atten-
tion to the fact that to -day there is
not one in ten motorists who, when
buying gasoline, take the trouble to
watch an attendant handle the puma
to see if he is getting the amount of
gasoline for which he is paying.
This fact is well known in the trade
and here and there operators will be
found who take advantage of this in-
difference on the part of the driver.
But the percentage of dishonest op-
erators is small.
One of the earliest fuel dispensing
,units was the "blind" or displace-
ment type of pump. This operated on
the suction principle, drawing one
gallon of gasoline into the measuring
chamber as it pushed one from that
receptacle through a flexible 'hose in-
to the automobile tank. This type of
pump called for five strokes by the
operator to deliver five gallons of
gasoline. It was gradually replaced
by a pump of similar design that
drew five gallons at one 'operation.
The weakness of the "blind" or
displacement type of pump was that
the measuring chamber was supposed
to hold five gallons by means of check
(valves, but if the valves leaked gaso-
line constantly dripped back into the
underground tank below. The amount
of gasoline delivered to a customer
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depended upon the length of time the
gasoline held in the chamber.
(Then carte the. visible pump, the
type of apparatus with a glass bowl
at the tap of 'the pedestal. Motorists
were able to see the gasoline before
it was drawn off into their ear mks.
Early types of this primp had a crude
system of fill and discharge „pipes that
could be taken advantage of by un-
scrupulous operators. By opening two"
valves. the discharging 'gasoline could
flow both to the car tanht and to the
dis'penser's tank underground.
Present day 'visible pumps are all
manufactured with an overhead fill
pipe and discharge at the bottom.
There is only one outlet for the gaso-
line and that is through the hose in-
to the car tank.
About the same time as the visible
pump appeared the meter pump came
upon the market." Early models of
this type were operated on the hy-
draulic system, with water in ' the
underground tank forcing the lighter
fluid, gasoline, through the meter un-
der pressure. Air has been used but
the present practice is an electric mo-
tor pump.
The meter- pump has not solved the
problem of "short measure." Nothing
will ever do this. Each mechanical
device is as honest as the hand' that
operates it. 'But the meter pump has
aided every one. It permits of a rap-
id delivery of 'gasoline in varying
amounts from one gallon to the ca-
pacity of the car tank.
It also enables the device to be a.
"wet hose" unit. This latter phase
means that gasoline is held to the
nozzle of the hose, a point of advan-
tage for the operator, as he may
watch the flow of, fluid into the car
tank, and for the 'buyer because the
hose is always wet. Few people re-
alize that a lengthy "dry" hose lying -
about in the sun onl a summer's day
will absorb many cubic inches of the
gasoline that should pass through it
to the tank.
LOST POUNDS OF FAT
—in 2 short weeks
Kruschen Salta will give many a fat
person a joyous surprise. You can
knock pounds off your weight and years.
off your age this este and easy way.
Every morning take "the little daily
dose " of Kruschen in a glass of hot
water before breakfast. This will mean
that every particle of poisonous waste
matter and harmful acids and gases is
being expelled from the system. They
are the cause of all the trouble because
they remain in the system and accumu-
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" I have lost several pounds in less than
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Kruse'sen is all you claim it to be,"
Mrs. E. H.
After three or four weeks of the little
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how many pounds of fat you have lost.
Your mirror also will tell you what you
have gained in health and
Your eyes will sparkle, your skin wilbe
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youthful and energetic—you will feel
many pounds lighter and many years
younger."
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