The Wingham Advance, 1918-01-03, Page 6THE STATES'. NEXT DRAFT.
Tile selective draft of the United
Statee has worked \e!1, but its oper-
ation has shown that it can be im-
proved. Too tomtit Wee left to the Ex.
elleptleit Beards, few of which ruled
alike,
ad too little attention Vid.e paid
to tbe kind of man who Wail selected.
For the next call, which may be ex -
petted early next year, 'General Crow-
der bas (provided that the nine million
men till on the rolls shall be divided
into five classes in the order of their
eligibility for service This is to be ef-
fected by sending a eeries of questions
to eh man enrolled, The .claseif:ca-
don will be .based on the answers. rive
classes are contemplated, of whieb
Class I, the first to be called to ser-
vice, will include men of these typos:
"I. Single men without dependent
relatives.
"2. Married men or widowers with
Ohildren, who habitually fail to sup-
port their families.
"3. Married men dependent or, their
wives for support.
"4. Married men not usefully engag-
ed whose families are supported by in-
comes independent of their tenor.
"5. Unskilled laborers,"
This division of Class 1 men will
make it possible to keep men from
taking advantage of a situation which
they should not be allowed to take. A
married men who does not support his
'wife and family should not be exempt-
ed because he has a wife and family,
Men who are supported by their wives
are not needed at home.
By conscription of all such man the
selective draft would increase hi pop-
ularity. These men will be called up
when the next draft is made, when it
Is expected that half a million young
men will have reached their .majority,
and may also be conscripted To do
this latter, we understand, a change in
the law will have to be made.
WORTH KNOWING.
When .pouring out tea one some-
times is annoyed to find the tea will
run down toe spout. To prevent
this rub a little butter round the out-
side of the spout.
Tan boots when mud -stained may
be cleaned with a cut raw potato.
Leave them till dry, then apply boot
cream or beeswax and turpentine, and
polish as usual.
To remove cream spots from em-
broidered centrepieces or doilies,
dampen the spot with household am-
monia. then lay a fresh pleee of blot-
ting paper over it and iron lightly.
This treatment will remove any
grease from white goods.
Brooms should always hang when
not in use. Have a hole bored
through the handle four inches from
the end and large enough to slip over
an ordinary nail. When left on the
floor a broom soon loses its shape
and will not do good work.
Place pulverized pumice stone be-
tween the layers of a folded piece of
,soesoft muslin and stitch around the
edge to keep the powder from spill-
ing. Wipe lamp chimneys or window
panes with this dry cloth and they
will be clean and sparkling almost in-
stantly. Enough powder will remau
in the cloth to be used many times.
Get a small whiskbroom and soak it
until the straws ftre soft and pliable
and you will find it very useful•when
dusting a room, for it sweeps the d:ust
out of the couch crevices, cleans the
dusty radiator and reaches the tiny
hwebs in the room. A soft paint
brush will answer the same purpose,
only the little broom is better. A
child's toy broom is even better than
the small whiskbroom.
To keep iron sinks and iron kettles
smooth and free from rust never use
soap in cleaning them. Wash them
In the water in which potatoes have
been boiled, using a well-bohed potato
to rub any spot which may have be-
come rough or rusted, afterward rin-
sing them with very hot, clear water,
By cleaning in this way they will al-
nontaesee-legeomelotet and free from rust.
A. very good salad can be made by
using a dupful of untooked cabbage,
green pepper, celery, all to be shredd-
ed; apples cut in pieces, a few seeded
• white grapes cut in nalves and a few
English wallnuts. Mix all together
thoroughly and place in the refriger-
ator. Serve with mayonnaise or.
French dreesing.
MOTION PIOTURE FILM.
How They Are "Edited" Before
They Reach the Public Eye.
After a, motion picture film has been
deVeloped and printed it is sent to the
general manager or to the, director to
be "edited." Lake an author's manta,
&crept in the hands of an editor. It is
shoetened here and there, the captions
altered, some parts entirely "cut" or
deleted and the whole film dressed up
to suit the ideas of the men eicegest in
touch with the theatre going public.
Tee eliting takes place ib the pro -
!cotton room, eays the Popular Selene°
afonthly, hut the altering—outtiag the
tilin and changing it—ie done in the
cutting and assembling room by men
who dci nothing else. Sometimes the
men in the cutting room ("cutters," in
the trade lingo) aro 00 overwhelmed
and confused With ordera hawed by the
studio officials that they 'are compelled
to ask for additional explanations. Need -
lees to gay this wastes mtith titne.
By means Of the photiegraph, how-
ever, one motion pietuee company, is
eliminating the waste and saving nooney.
As.,,the director watches a Dictum in the
projeetion room he nacre his editing or -
dere into the traneinitter of a dictating
machine. The film Is then sent bade
to the tilting reora Will he phonograph
record,
riaCe of IViilk,
A eubstitute for eow's Milk hes been
produced abroad which Makes uae of
a small quantity of eow's milk as a
base, and yields an article which can.
readily detected from tho real.
uthetie milk improver."
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Mallooley whistled. This was no
longer a joke. He looked at the old
man with new respeet.
"Wellthat' a sharp trick," he said.
"How did you get it?"
"Graves, My friend," replied Muscle
oosis, with dignity, "We talk much
comae up. HQ say I got good sense,"
The old man got up,
"Sit down!" cried Mahooley, "1
got as good horses as the company."
"Want too much price, I teuk,"
said Musgoosis.
"Let's talk it over. There's my
black team, Sambo and Dinah."
Thls was .what Musq'oosis wanted,
but nothing of his desire showed in
his face. "Too small," he said.
"Small nothing!" cried Mahooley.
"Those horses are bred in the coun-
try. They will thrive on shavings.
They run out all winter."
"How moch wit' wagon and har-
ness?" asked Musq'oosis, indifferently,
"Six hnudred and fifty."
"We!" said Musq'oosis. "You
tank you got race-herses. I give five -
fifty,"
"Nothing doing!"
"All right, I go see Beattie."
"Hold on."
Thus E raged back and forth all af-
ternon, Half a dozen times they
went out to look at the horses. Muscle.
oasis had to admit they were a nervy
pair, though small. A dozen times
the negotiations were called off, only
to be renewed again.
"Be reasoieable," said Mahooley,
plaintively. "I suppose you want a
year's credit. I've got to count that."
"I pay cash," said Musq'oosi,s
calmly.
Mahooley stared. "Where the hell
will you get it?"
"I got it now."
"Let me see it."
Muscroosis declined.
Mahooley finally came down to six
hundred, and Musq'oosis went up to
five -seventy-eight, There they stuck
for an hour.
"Five -seventy-eight!" said Ma-
hooley, sarcastically. "Why don't you
add nineteen cents or so?"
"Tak' it or leave it," said Mus-
p'oosis,
Mahooley finally took it. "Now,
let me see the color of your money,"
he said.
Musq'oosis produced 'another little
paper. This one read:
I promise to pay the Indian, Mus-
q'oosis, five hundred and seventy-
eight $578.00) on demand.
Gilbert Beattie.
Mahooley looked discomfited. He
whistled.
"That's good money, ain't it?" ask-
ed Musq'oosis.
"Sure! Where did you get it?" de-
manded the trader. "I never heard of
this."
"Beattie and me got business," re-
plied Musqoosis, with dignity.
Mahooley was obliged to swallow
his curiosity. •
"Well, who are you going to get to
drive?" he asked.
Musq'oosis' air for the first time be-
came ingratiating. "I tell you," he ve-
turned. "Let you and I mak' a deal.
You want me do somesing. I want
YOU do somesing."
"What is it?" demanded Mahooley,
suspiciously.
"You do w'at I want, I promise I
tell the Fish -Eaters come to your
store."
Mahooley's eyes gleamed. "Well,
out with it!"
"I want you not tell nobody I buy
your team. Nobody but Stiffy. I want
hire white man to drive, see? Maybe
he not lak work for red man. So you
mak out he workin' for you, see?"
"All right," agreed Mahooley.
"That's easy. But who can you get?"
Mabooley iudignantly exploded.
Sam, the white slave, the butt of the
whole eamp, the tramp without a coat
to his back or a hat to cover his head,
He assured Musq'oosis more than
once that he was crazy.
It may be that with his scorn was
mixed a natural anxiety not to lose a
cheap cook. Anyhow, Musq'oosis,
calm end smiling, stuck to his point,
and, of course, when, it came to it the
chance of getting the Fish -Eater's
treed was too good to be missed. They
finally shook halide on the deal.
• Of the night that followed little
steed be said. As a result of the day's
excitement the crowd stopping at the
kitchen was in an uplifted state, any-
way, and from some mysterious source
a jug of illicit spirits was produced.
It circulated in the bunkroone until
fer into the night.
They were not a hopelessly bad lot
as men go, only uproarious. There
was not one Datong them inhumait
enough of himself to 'hive tortured a
fellow mature, but in a crowd each
dreaded to appear better than his fel-
lows, and it wan a ease of egging each
other on, Sam, 'who had thought he
had already drained his cup of bitter-
ness, found that it collid be filled
afresh.
If he had been a tame spirit it
would tot have hurt him, and before
this the game would have lost ite zest
for them, It Was his helpless rage
on her. He told hre hie story, sup-
pressing only certain fade which he
considered it unelise for her to know.
'I glad the men mak' mock of Sam,"
he said, bitterly. "Maybe 'he got
SOnie sense new."
"Well, he all right now," observed
Musq'oosis,
"All right!" she cried, "I guess he
more foolish than before, now he got
a teano 1 gless he think he bigges'
man in the country."
Muereoosis stared at her. "Wat's
the matter wit' you? You send me all
the eveY to get him team. Now you
let on you mad 'cause he got it."
"I didn't send you," contradicted
Bela. "You say yourself you go."
"I ke becalm you say yon got to if
I don't go. I don' want yeti to malt'
anot'er fool lak before. I go or muse
you promige me YOU stay here."
It was itupossible for poor Bela, to
justify her contradictions, se site kept
silent,
"lieu lak a wentan, all right," de.
dared Musq'ooses, scornfully.
Bela had an idea that she could ob-
tain a freer account of what was hap-
pening at the tettlement from Jereels
Or Hooliane, but pride would not allow
ber to apply directly to them.
Whenever shMw either of the
Making tit e of a group she
Inv time businese in
the talk always
A
suspicion that there was Boniething
ehe needed to learn.
Word was passed around camp that
there would be a "singing" on tho.
lake shore that night. Bela, wijo had
her own ideas about singing, despised
the crude chanting ef her relatives and
the monotonous aceompaniment of the
"stink -kettle"; nevertheless, she de-
cided to attend on this occasion,
• Waiting until the party was well
under way, she joined it unostenta-
tiously and sat down in the outer circle
of women. None but those immedi-
ately around her saw her come.
These parties last all night or near
It. It ueeds darkness to give the wild
part -song its full erred, and to inspire
the drummers to produce a voice of
awe from the muttering tom-toms.
They work up slowly.
During a pause in the singing, while
the drummer held Ids stick -kettle over
the fire to contract the skin, some one
asked Jeresis if he had teen Belaas
white man. This was what she was
waiting for. She listened breathlessly,
"Yes," answered ;Cereals.
"Is he big, fine man?"
"No, middle -size man, Not much.
Other men call hint white slave, 'cause
Bela take him away."
"Bela is crazy," said another.
The speakers were unaware that
elle was present, The women around
her eyed her curiously. C'''Bela smiled
disdainfully for their benefit.
"Other woman got him now,"
Joresis event on, indifferently.
The smile froze on Bela's face. A
red-hot needle seemed thrust into her
breast.
some one a sited.
"The white woman that was here.
Make her head go this way, that way,"
Jeresis imitated.
"The chicadee woman," said an-
other,
"I see them by the company fence,"
Jeresis went on idly. "She stand on
one side. He stand on other side,
They look foolish at each other, like
white people do. She make the big
eyes and talk soft like, They say he
goes up every night."
The matter was not of great inter-
est to the company generally, and
Jeresis' story was cut short by a re-
newed burst of singing. Bela continued
to sit where she was, still as a stone
woman, until she thought they had
forgotten her, Then she slipped away
in the dark,
which nearly killed him, and which
provided their fun. Mahooley, keep-
ing what had happened to himself. led
his tormentors. Sam was prevented
from escaping the place,
Next morning, after he had fed
them and they had goose out, he set
down in his kitchen, worn out and
sick with discopragement, trying to
think what to do.
This was his darkest hour. His
brain was almost past clear thinking.
His stubborn spirit no longer iinswer-
ed to his need. He had the hopeless
feeling that he had come to the end
of his fight. What was the use of
struggling back to the outside world?
He had already tried that. He could
not face the thought of enduring an-
other such night, either. Better the
surrounding wilderness—or the lake.
He beard the front door flung open
and Mahooley's heavy step in the
messroom. Ile jumped up and pat his
back against the wall. Ills eyes in-
stinctively sought for his sharpest
kuife. He did not purpose standing
any more. However, the jocuiar leer •
had disappeared from the trader's
red face. He looked merely business-
like now.
'Ain't you finished the dishes?
Hell, you're slow! I want you to take
a team and go down to Grier's Point
to load up for Graves."
Sam looked at him stupidly.
"Can't you hear me?" said Ma-
hooley. "Get a move on you!"
"I can't get back here before din-
ner," muttered Sam.
"Who wants you back? One of the
breed boys Is goin' to cook. Freight-
ing's your Joe now. You can draw on •
the store for a coat and a pair of blan-
kets. You'll get twelve and a half
cents a hundred weight, so it's up to
you to do your own hustling. Better
sleep at the Point nights, tio you can
start early,"
Sam's stiff lips tried to formulate
thanks.
"Ah, cut It out!" said Mahooley.
"It's just a business proposition."
CHAPTER XVIT,
On the way up the lake the sur-
veyor's party had been driven to seek
shelter in the mouth of elah-wabasepi
by a westerly gale. They found the
othor york boat lying there. Its pas-
sengers, tho bishop, the Indian agent,
and the doctor, after ministering to
the tribe in their several ways, had
ridden north to visit the people
around Tepiskow Lake.
The Fish -Eaters were still In a state
of considerable excitement. The gov-
ernment annuities—five dollars a
head—changed hands half a dozen,
tirues daily in the hazards of jack -pot.
All other business was suspended,
elusq'o0e1s called upon the chief
Surveyor and the white man was de-
lighted with his red brother's native
Courtesy and plailosophy.
When finally the wind died down,
Musq'oosis had only to drop a-Itint
that he was thinking of traveling to
the settlement to receive a hearty
inaitation. Musq'oosis, instructing two
boys, Jeresis and Hoollam, to come
after hini with a dugout in two dans'
time, accepted it.
• 'Whatever may have been goig on
inside Bela during the days that fol-
lowed, nothing showed in her woOden
face. Never, at least, when any eye
was Upon her, did she cock her head
to listen for a canoe around the bent,
nor em to tlx beech to lok up the
lake.
The Fish -Platelet Were not ee,peciallv
ettriotie concerning her. They had
heard it native version of the happen-
ing in Johnny Gagnon's shack from
the boatmen, but hail merely shrug-
ged. Dela was erazy, anyway, they
the se day, Mus-
q'oomia and the tw boys ret rn
Bela did not rim to
the old man em'
working around
different eIr.
On"
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"What you do up at settlement?" I 1ROT4CTION rItOlVf COLD,
she milted, carelessly.
"I fix everyt'ing good," replied
Musq'oosles "Buy team for Sam wit'
Your entnloY. ielahooley'a black team."
"It's too good for Sam,4rop11ed Bela,
scornfully.
The old man glanced at her With sly
amusement, and shrugged. lie vol-
unteered no further information:
. When Bela coula stand 11 110 longer
news at the settlement?' ie
he asked sulllaeunglly: a "Ton tip
violently shaken. He satouheianr
IVLusceoosis and took niter
Musq'oosis was awakened bi
belng
lits
blanket In no amiable frame of m n ,
"What's the matter?" he demanded,
indpieflfaerewnacse Intact all make believe of
"I promise you I not go to settle-
ininent," she said, breathlesslY. "1 coo
tall you I got go, anyhow, I got tale
Y promise back, I got go noW—nowi
I got go quick!"
"Are you as crazy as they say?"
demanded Alusq'oosis.
"Yes, I am crazy," elle stammered.
"No, I am not crazy. I will go crazy
1 stay You are a bad friend
hal e' s haefit'oe'r y man, I got go to -
to me. You not tell me that white
"Olt, hell!" said Musq'oosis.
"Give me back my promise!"
begged Bela, "I got go now,
"Go to bed," said Musq'oosis. "We
talk quiet to -morrow. I want sleep
no*. You mak' me tired!"
"I got go now, now!" she repeated.
"Listen to me," said Musceoosis,
"I not tell you that for cause it is only
She jus' a fool -hen. Aro you 'fraid of
hfoeorl?i,s,She is an old woman.
hness.
"She is white," said Bela. "She
Imow more than me. She know how
to catch a man. Me, I ani not all
white. I live wit' Indians. He think
little of me for that. Yes, I am afraid
of her. Give me my promise back. I
notbe foolish. I do everything yea
eay. But I got go see."
"Well, if you got go, you got go,"
said Musq'oosis, crossly. "Don't come
to me after and ask what to do,"
"Good -by!" said Bela, flying out oZ
the teepee.
One day as Mrs, Beattie and Miss
Mackell were sewing together, the
trader's wife took occasion to remon-
strate very gently with her sister con-
cerning Sam. Somehow of late Miss
Mackall found herself down in the
roadmornings when Sam was due to
pass with his load, and somehow she
was back there again at night when he
came home empty.
Mrs. Beattie was a quiet, wise, mel-
low kind of woman. "He's so young,"
she suggested.
Her sister cheerfully argued, "Of
course, a mere baby! That's why 'I
can be friends with him. He's so
utterly friendless. He needs a kind
word from somebody."
"But don't you rather go out of
your way to give it to him?" asked
Mrs. Beattie, very softly, •
"Sister! How can you say such a
thing?" said Miss 'Slacken, in shocked
tones. "A mere child like that—one
would think— Oh, how can you?"
Mrs. Beattie let the matter drop with
a little sigh. She had not been home
In fifteen years, and site found her
elder sister much changed and difficult
to understand. Somehow their p051 -
tions had been reversed.
Later, at the table, Miss Mackall
suggested with an offhand air that the
friendless young teamster might be
esIted to supper. Gilbert Beattie looked
up quickly.
"This is the company house." he
said, in his grim way, "and eve are, so
to speak, public people. We must not
give any occasion for siliy gossip,"
"Gossip!" echoed Miss Mackall,
raising her eyebrows. "I don't un-
derstand you."
"Pardon me," said 13eattie; "I
think you do. Remember," he added,
with a grim twinkle, "the tradees
sister must be like Caesar's wife above
suspicion."
Miss Mackall tossed her head and
finiehed her meal in silence. Persons
of a romantic temperament really en-
joy a little tyranny. It made her seem
young and interesting to herself.
That afternoon she walked up the
road a way and met Sam safety out
of view of the house. Sam greeted her
with a beaming smile.
It seemed to him that this was his
one friend—the only sold he had to
talk to, He was little disposed to find
flaws in her. As for her age, he had
never thought about it. Pressed for
an answer, he would probably heve
said: "Oh, about thirty!"
"Hello!" he cried. "Climb in and
drive ,back with me,"
"I can't," she replied with a niya-
terious air.
be"1 mustrx' aeon with you so
inu„ewhit"yr,
"It eeeme people are beginning to
talk about us, len't it too silly?"
Sain laughed. harehly. "I'm used
to it," he said. "Of course, it's a dif-
ferent thing for you."
"I don't care for myeelf," elle re-
turned. "But my brotherein-law—"
"He's boon warning you against
me, eh?" asked Sam bitterly, "Natur-
ally, you have to attend to what he
says. It' e all right." He made as if
to drive on.
Mice Mackall eeemed to be about to
throw herself in front of the horses.
"How Can alu?" she cried re-
proachfully. ")..Teu know I don't care
wbat anybody eays. But while len
living in histhouso I have tol—"
"Sure!" replie I Sam, eorely, "I
won't trouble you—"
"If we tOtild write to each Other,"
she (suggested, "axed leave the letters in
a h
sale
Peta=
Shis head. "Never was
any hand at writing lettere," he eaid
deprecatingly, "I run dry when It
talto a pen. Besidea, 1 have no plus)
to write, nor anything to 'write Withe'
"There la another way," she num.
murecl, "but I euppoee I ehOuldn't
tweak oe
"What way?" Asked Sam.
"Thertee a trail from the bade of
our house direet to Grier's Point. It
le wever used except when they bring
supplies to thestore in the summer.
We keep very early hours. Xvery.
thing le quiet by nine. I could alp out
of the home and walk down the trail
to Meet you, We could talk a while,
and ,1 could he in again before dark."
eani felt it little .dubiotte, but hotv
eau a young man hold back in it mat-
ter of this kind? "All right, if you
wish it," he Agreed,
- (TO he continued.)
e..
)' "So you have twins at your house?"
aid Mrs. Nabor to Little Jack. "Yes -
sure," he Said, soberly, "two of 'em,"
That are they going to tall thent,
dear?" "Well, t don't ltno* for
but I think titeir
Light1t111," 'Wave than to,
papa called
Assured by Keeping the Skin
From Chilling,
Persone who are prone to catch
Cold ellould wear suitable clothing es-
pecially during the changeable weath-
er. Coughs, colds and diarrhoea are
all caused. by chilling of Me Mein.
Ooing froin an overheated, unneutileg-
ed room to a cooler room or outdoors
without betng protected by a wrap or
coat (eveli ti newspaper serves to
keep one warm), to prevent loss ot
heat from the body and chilling of the
skin, is always to be avoided 1* one
expects to keep free from colds.
Exposure to draughts .and wetnese
and damn/less is one of the common-
est causes of •colds and the so-called
"summer complalut." It is impos-
Obi& almost to avoid being exposed
to draughts in the summer, and many
persons are unable to weer or carr
coats everywhere they go during the
clay. What are such persons to do,
then, to protect themselves from the
ills that result from sitting or stand-
ing in a draught Protection is give%
first by the clothing worn, and next
by keeping the body in Such a state
coliiiiihne:.1th as to enable it to reefed
The weak, aged or debilitated
should at all seasons of the year pro-
tect themselves against chilling of
the skin by wearing woollen under-,
wear; heavyweight in winter and
half -wool or oneethird wool in sum-
mer—from the neck to the ankles.
Those who anpear to be strong also
need these woollen garments next to
the skin. Certain portions of the
akin are more sepsitive to cold than
others, and these should never be
left unprotected. One of the Neat
preventive treatments for summer
diarrhoea is warmth next to the skin
over the abdomen. Wearing a flannel
bandage, which can be made from
one-quarter of a yard of flannel, day
and night during the summer season
prevents and cures intestinal affec-
tions caused by cold. It is not
necessary to wear all wool flannel—
half-wool will answer.
To train the body to resist cold ad
chilling there is nothing so potent es
frequent bathing of the skin. A eponge
bath from head to foot every day
gives the skin good resisting power.
This kind cif bath can be taken quick-
ly and without expense. A pitcher
of water, a basin and towel can be
had anywhere one may journey to or
wherever he may live. Water nefty
be used cold .or warm, as one may
prefer. If warm water is used it is
better not to go out "of doors for an
hour after taking the bath—this is
especially needful if one has taken a
tub bath. A cold water plunge or
sponge off is best taken upon rising
innigthhte. rimming, and the warm bath at
The body needs rest to keep in a ,
ceendition to resist cold. Sleep Is
needful -eight or nine hours oi ery
night. Losing sleep lowers the re-
sisting power and makes the beta,
susceptible to any form of disease.
Exercise is essential to increase the
resistance to cold. A daily walk of
two to five miles builds up the health.
The vacationists and the stay-at-
homes can escape many ills during
the summer months by following
theso suggestions given for strength-
ening the resisting power of the body
and for preventing chilling of the
skin, for prevention is always less
expensive than cures.
I con eider MINARD'S LINIMTeNT
the BEST Liniment in use.
I got my foot badly jammed Wen-,
I bathed it well with MINARD
LINIMENT, and it was as well as
ever next day.
Yours very truly,
T. G. MoMULLEN.
SATIN BOWER -BIRD.
Feather Fellow of Luxury Whose
Bower is a Study of Vanity.
an the luxurious bush near Port
Philip resides the gem of Australian
birds. His holiday title is of Castilian
length, being nothing less than Ptilci-
norhychus Sericeue; you will perhaps
feel relieved when I inform you that
you may coil hint the Satin Bower -
bird, if you choose.
To a person fond of polysyllables I
can conceive no greater delight than
the acquisition of this title. One might
become president of a college in Kan-
sas on the strength of pronouncing it
with fluency and correcthess.
The satin bower -bird lives in the
thick bush, feeding on the fruit of the
gigattic wild fig. But it is neither his
splendid robe of glossy black satin,
nor his lofty nest, nor his loud, liquid
call, that renders the bower -bird so
distinguished above all the other fea-
thered tribes. Nothing less than a visit
to yonder clump of cedar bushes wt11
explain his claim to notoriety.
See how anxiously he watches us
from the top of yonder huge gum treo.
See how he scatters the golden pollen
oe the blossoms with an angry sweep
Oe iiitail. ale knows 'we are bent on
discovering his geeret, Let us pierce
to the centre of the cedar clump, and
examine the strange structure reared
on this secluded site.
We find an elevated floor of irregu-
lar form, made of shapely eticks firm-
ly interwevete This platform is slight-
ly cOrivex, and in its centre riaes the
chief structure—a long arcade built
of twigs and,delieate tree tops, strobg.
ly interlaced with their ends curviiig
inward so as to form a plain, fiat
arch. You Will note that the forks and
rough ends ot the twigs are plaeed
outward, laving the luterior of the
bower entirety smooth and free frora
obstructiens.
The mottled floor is paved with a
a mosaic of small, gar-Welored stones,
shells and bits of polished bone. The
roof and tides aro splendid in their
&orations. The blue tall feathers of
the parrots wave like banners in the
wind. The Walls 'Within are hung With
a varied tapestry or adored grasses,
and from each end of this fairy bower
diverge straight Venues,each floored
with smooth, 'White stones.
What elf of the forest inhabits this
fairy bower? is your first question.
Yonder, my friend, perched on the top
of the lofty gum tree, sits the archi-
tect, "meting the golden pollen.In ble
anger at our Invasion of his Wiettellee
house. Itt the solitude of this ewer
Quxi he has bat this palace, iixtd
CUTICURA HEALS
WHITE PIMPLES
Which Itched and Burned.
Swelled Enough for Two..
No Sleep for Weeks.
' "My fingers all -broke out in white
pimples and would crack and smart
that much that I could
eliaCr" hardly keep from scratch -
09,..‘1‘4‘
' ing. They began to swell
• tie
and were big enough for
two, I never had any sleep
• for weeks because they
see
itched and burned.
"I was told about Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment,
and I only had to use two
cakes of Cuticura Soap and two tins of
Ointment when I was healed." (Signed)
Miss Hilda Manser, 62 Ingersoll Rd.,
Woodstock, Ont.
Prevent further trouble by using Cu-
ticura Soap daily for the toilet.
For Free Sample Each by Mail ad-
dress post -card: "Cuticura, Dept. A,
Boston, U. S. A." Sold everywhere.
here he plays all day long. Rariny wilt
You film it entirely deserted.
To no earthly use does the bower -
bird put this palace. It is not a nest
It is not even a resort from anger;
It is simply a playground, where
friendly and athletic bower -birds court
and amuse each other. Thine who
have seen them at play deseribe the
sight as very singular, the birds tak-
ing the greatest delight in scampering
up and down the elaborate tunnel,
now and then stoppiug to change
some or to a more effective
position, or to add a new one in the
shape of a slip of red cotton rag, or
a pipe bowl, stolen from some native
camp, for it grieves me much to say
that the satin bower -bird is an invet-
erate thief, and will steal anything he
can lay his bill on. •
Putting his moral habits out ef the
question, it is a charming piece of
bird romance, this building a pleasure
house in the midst of the. wild bush,
hanging it with native tapestry; and
paving it with precious stones. There
is something royal and sultauic in
this luxury, and it is easy to fancy
the days of rapt delight that the bow-.
er-bird passes in his seculded plea-
sure-dome.--Harper's Magazine.
MInard'sLinfmerr es Burns, Etc.
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MIMING THE OREDULOUS.
Lures of Gold Brick Schemes for
. the Small Investors.
Will persons with money never learn
how to take care of it? Will they
never guard themselves against the
horde of tricksters who make a busi-
ness of taking advantage of tha cred-
ulous and especially of credulous
women?
Bear in. mind that no one will make
money for you when lie can make it
for himself. If he offers to give You
the key to wealth, suspect him, for
such keys are kept by their possessors,
encrare not given away to strangens.
The post office a year or two ago
showed that over $150,000,000 had been,
lost by persons who listened to the
gold -brick ecleemers, but the game
still goes on despite the vigilance of
the Post Office Department and the
passage of protective measures, known
as "blue sky laws," by many states.
Will the people never learn to dis-
count the alluring literature which
these shysters send out and which is
written for them by some of the
sharpest and brightest writers of our
day, whose services can be easily
Obtained for a few dollars?
I advise my readers who receive
these tempting propositions to send
them at once to the Pestmaster-Gen-
eral at Washington for investigation.
That is the business of the Post Office
Department, and it wall be only too
happy to take up such matters.
Small inveetors are particularly the
victims of these bunco schemes, for
the false notion prevails that a man
or woman with. a small amount of
money cannot buy high-class invest-
ment securities such as successful in-
vestors prefer. This is erroneous. A.n
investment can now be made in the
best of paying securities was as small
an amount as $10 through the partial
payment plan, which is readily under-
stood, though the term may sound
formidable.—Leslie's Weekly,
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M (nerd's Liniment Cures Dandruff,
GARBLED QUOTATIONS.
Popular Passages That Are Fre-
quently Rendered Incorrectly.
Almost everybody who quotes at all
misquotes. Nothing is more common
than to hear:
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
This is an haapossible condition of
mind, for no one can be monvinced of
one opinion and at the same time
hold to an opposite one. What Butler
wrote Was eminently sensible:
He that complies against his will
Is of his oWn opinion atilt.
.A. famous passage of scripture is
often misquoted tints: "He that is
without ein among you let him cast
the first stone." It ahould be, "Let
him first cast it stone."
Sometimes we are told, "Behold,
how great a fire a little matter kin.
dleth," whereas St. James said, "I3e-
hold, how great a matter a little fire
kindleth," which is quite a different
thing."
• We also hear that "A Miss la as
geed as a Mile," which is not as sen-
sible or lOreible as the true proverb,
"A raise of an inch is as good as a
• "Look before you leap," should be
"And look before yea ere you leap,"
PoPc Is genemlly treated with hear.
hug written:
/minodest Words admit of no defence,
Per want of deceney is want of sense,
thongit it Would puzzle anyone to find
the verses in hie Writings. They were
writtee by the Earl of Roscommon.,
whor died before Pope was born.
rireived Paper.
patOnts haVebeen taken, ottt at
various time; 'for paper Which is
claimed to hti PrOOf against fit* and
therefore particularly BUltable for do -
records. Uost of these pe-
er* tentain anbestbs or a siraitar
tninetal fiber, 'withor without the ad-
dition of days or metallic dalts,—.
London Standard,
8010•101WO
. POPULAR FAULTS AMONG YOUNG
WOMEN.
(Newe:ri:n;:jnCcago'wi:larngblbetii:etains:tlieuntiiitetneyoun
uenuobenene°ibyu:
aiduoue preacher desirous of estab-
lishing and catalognin "Popular
rituals Among Young Wotnen," and
the result was laid before a palpitat-
ing world on Sunday, It is not ad-
mitted hereabouts that young women
have or are capable of baying any
faults; but if they were differently
constituted and imperfections might
be charged against them, unquestion-
ably those Amite would. be popular.
We hold that woman ---she is always
young—can do no wrong.
Nor does the inventory of "faults"
prepared by the Chicago synepoelum
shake us 'in our conviction. By an-
cient riglet, by immemorial custom,
dress heads the list. "Modern fashioxxs!
are not good for health and happi-
ness." Stuff and nonsense! Modern
fashions for women are always good
for health and napphaess. If the fair
wrap their throats in fur, they protect
themselves from winter blasts; if they
bare the thorax they harden them-
selves against the elements. For years
solemn (masculine critics belabored
rebman because her skirts swept the
ground; she thopped themshort and
now, behold, she is assailed because
her ankles are unwrapped. If she
lengthens hor garments she will be
denounced because she wastes wool,
silk and cotton; and if she keeps
them where they are she will be ac-
cused of wearing last year's suit.
"Her craze for soldiers": another
awful indictment, old, so old it almost
must be respected. But who should
enlist a young woman's interest? The
pacifists we have seen are not of a
build or habit to make us want to er .e
them attract young women anywhere.
On the other hand, these sturdy
young m.en in khaki, alert, upsta.nd-
nig, straight -eyed, clean -limbed, with
shoulders set back and chests prop-
erly expanded, they are exactly the
sort of men that attract and hold the
attention of everybody. They are good
In themselves and good in what they
typify. Some slacker, who finds his
exemption from duty was bought at
a hioh cost he did not reckon, was the
author of that fling.
"Powder is superfluous;" what does
any mere man koow about this inti -
!mate detail of the toilet? Powder fills
an occult glace in woman's life; it is
the badge of a universal sisterhood, a
sorority be tan never understand. Let
him aocept it as woman accepts =e-
ta:Mies on her male acquaintances and
only wonders why they are endured.
It is complained that young Women
love too many men at once, but how
many are too many? One monopolist
holds that all women should love him
and only him, while he is free to love
as often and wherever his mood may
move him. He is the masculine type;
and until a great convention decides
how many men a woman may love at
the same time we shall hold that none
of them have over exceeded the natu-
ral and proper limit. And why should
jealousy be dragged into this ex-
clusively feminine discussion? The
Chicago witnesses say "it is„the root
ot many troubles;" but men are not
free from it, and actually it may add
a spice to lives otherwiee not oven-
croTahadtedycwninthg interest,
nlack "aim and
purpose in life" and that Alley "prefer
business to home making" are allega-
tions made without the evidence to
sustain them. We know of no more
purposeful persons than the young
women we see about us. Most of
them have the wholly admirable ob-
ject in view of gratifying their anibi-
tion to have a good time; and the
amount of thought and energy they
give to it is appalling to those who
sit waiting Dor the apple of happiness
to drop into their laps. And as for
'preferring business to home making,
we have observed that when the
right young man comes alonghe
wears khaki nowadays, or navy blue
—the business of home making be-
comes the only important business
for the business young woman.
The only faultless creations in this
world of trouble are the young
women, and no Chicago detractor can
deceive wise men about them.
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Minard's liniment Relieves Neuralgia
41.--aaaa.
SLANG,
And Why Some Expressions Be-
come Permanent.
01 the fate of current slang wore&
we find an index in the fate, whenever
it has been determined, of analogous
words in the past. The word automo-
bile Is built to describe a new spec-
ies. and eve promptly shorten it to auto.
Scitewhat more than /00 years ago a
new and fashionable vehicle was the
cabriolet, By 1830 the abbreviated form
cab was in good use. One might infer
auto would be in good use by 1930 :were
It not for the fact that the vaguer car
is superseding It. From the past we
learn that abbreviations whleh aro nt
first slangy are likely to survive 12 they
are peinutnently useful. On Sept, 28,
1710, Steele published in "The,Tatler," an
unsigned letter written by Swift, who
complained of the popular and fashion-
able corruption of the language.
Of the, "maimed" words which Swift
complains of here, mob, far mobile
he
vulgus, is tonly one which really sur-
vives. Hyp for hypochondria has given
away for to the older grouch, prob-
ably because grouch speaks more plain.
ly for itself—hyp might stand for any
one of 100 derived, from or built upon the
Greek. Similar Causes might aecount
for the fate of pos and phtz, which, if
they have not 'actually palmed out of
the language, are mero ghosts of
archaisms. Reputation is rep now-
edays only In a few slang phrases (demi-
tep, "go. get a rep"), but is not widely
accepted because the word Is not m wide-
ly used 'as to prove a stumbling block.—
tnost persons who use it at al are wil-
ling ,to use the whole of it. Incognito and
plenipotentiary are field= Used informal-
ly; for sueh occasions incog and plot-
lpo still stand ready, but they are dusty
with disuse. An expressioa that is used
to -any in newspaper diplemaey, charge
traffaires, Is shortened and unglicized
DRS. SOPER eic. WHITE
SPOIALISTS
Piles, Emma, aithme, Catarrh. Pimple*,
Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, Rheumatism, Skin, Kid.
noler 81605..Nerye and Bladder Diseases.
• Call ee seed lastory for fat advice. Medicine
fatale ed In tablet form. Potite-10 arm te 1 pee.
/ad 2 to pen. Sundayeale aan, 101 pea
4 Ottitialtstloa rrea
-DRS. 801211V?
SS Titeesis Ste Tot tioto, Clot.
' Zeus Mention. 104.12 raPet
ISSUE: NO, 1, 1918
HELP WANTED.
WANTED — PROBATIONERS TO
"" train for nurses. Apply, Welletalra
Hospital, st. Catharines/ Ont,
WANTED—LOOM FIXIeft ON CelielSiVe
e ten and Knowles Looms, 'Wee-Ving
eglaVY blankets and cloths. For full
Partictilare, apply The SlingebY tktan."
facturing Co., Ltd., 13rantford, Ontario.
WANTEDe-SLASIIER TENDER FOR
'" Steeo-Lowell Cylineer Slasher, (IreY
'and Willte Wraps for union Blankets.
For particulars, apply to Slingeby Mtge
Co., Led., Brentford, Ont.
A.NTED—EXPERIENCED WEA.Ve
"1 ere and apprenticee; steady work;
highest wages aaki, APPaY. SlingebY
Mfg, CO., Ltd., Brantford, Ont,
MONEY ORDERS.
A DOMINION ExPrteess MONEY
e Order for five dollars, costs three
cents,
MISCELLANEOUS.
RAVpFURS WA.NTED—ALs0 BEEF
hides, tallow, wool, sheepeltins, horse
?Ado, calfskins; reference. the 13e.rat of
euellia'eal; I have bought furs slime 1893;
ships
inc yours, Henry O'Brien, opposite
Y.m,c.A„ Tiara Street, Collingwood, Ont,
FARMS FOR SALE.
A • T A SACRI0'ICE-400 ACRES LUM-
" ber, ties and ranch; 3,000 acres 'tim-
bre and fruit lands; in Buckley and
Laltelse Valleys, Addrese, Box 789, Prince
Rupert, B. C.
POULTRY WANTED.
A A. POULTRY WANTED OF ALL
• kinds. We pay :highest Priee•
1Seete for complete price het. Waller'S,
6s9 Spaditut Ave., Toronto,
UTE HAVE THE BEST MARKET IN
" Western Ontario for good live or
dressed poultry, we seetay crates and
remit promptly. act our prices before
selling. U. A, Mann & Co., London,
Dnt,
BUSINESS CHANCES.
e UST TWELVE SALES EARN $18
-9 premium and $00 in cash. Oppor-
tunity to make several hundred dollars
monthly, Write quick for details. Fos-
ter Phonograph Co., Foeter, Que.,
. .
AGENTS WANTED.
le/TEN AN le WOMEN W eTTED
everywhere, no maiier how, shall the
village or how large the city, to show
samples or mail circulars, if preferred, fel
Large Canadian Cut -Rate Croet.ry ;lad
Order House eelling groceries at factory
priet.s to be consumer. For exam-
ple, Redpaties beet granulated sugar $6.50
per hundrea; Sunlight, Surprise or Com-
fort Soap, 7 bare for 25 cents, together
with other goods tea, rice, etc. Post -
tion will pay $15 weekly with few hours'
work. Write for information. The Con-
sumers ' Association, Windsor, Ontario,
to charge, and used as if it were a tide.
But we retain mob because it means only
one thing, and that thing we ))ave al-
ways with is, By analogy we might
rug,ur a successful career for auto and
phone, were 11 not for the fact thet photo
nas been knocking at the gate for 50
years with leesening chances of .galning
admittance, and that gent gent and pants
have been on the waiting list even lon-
ger. Of American speakers of lenglish,
probably 9-10 know no other word than
petits for the garment it names; stlil
tide all but unanimous voto for it does not
emit° it acceptable to the necessary
"majority of the best 'writers and
speakers," for it still has the taint of
Vulgarity, whereas other words to the
same effect have not. —Professor R. 1'.
Utter in Harper'e Magazine,
PACKING GOLD IN KEGS.
Care Taken in Preparing the
Money Metal for Shipment.
When a gold .shipment is to be made
by ship the necessary number of kegs
are taken in a truck to the assay office,
where they are received at a door In
In the rear. The gold bars are •than
placed; on a hand truck and rolled to the
kegs. In 'the preeence of tho agents of
the shippers and of the officials of the
assay office the bars are packed in the
kegs, and ziowdust is placed around
them to prevent abraelon, When the
tho heads of the leegs have been placed
over the peeked bare a piece of red tape
Is stretched across and fastened between
the chine and the edge of the. heed. The
seal of the ehipping h011Se 15 then at-
tached to the head and the bottom of
eaAchttekreg'
sealing the kegs are rolled to
trert to handle each keg, as there ar
the wagon and Jifted en. It takes tw4
ten bars to a keg, with a total gold
weight of about 190 pounds. It may be
menttoned that $100,000 weighs in gold
about no peunds, and $1,000,e00 weighs
3,800 pounds. Some thne ago one of the
officials of an assay office compiled fig-
ures showing how much gold a man
could actually handle. H. ,s a singular
thing that great difficulty Is experienced
In carrying gold for any dIstanee. 'rhe
weight Teems to be more "dead" than
that of other metals, although that may
be Instance,
it 11 Ilen.
For
o
the average man could
carry 100 pounds Of gold one mile with-
out much cliecomfort. Its value would
be about $25,000. A strong man could
aetuaily handle. It ie a singular thing
that great difficulty ie experienced in
carrying gola for any distance. The
-aelght seems to be more "dead" than
that of other metals, although that may
heFoaill• iliiiistrall9ieri.
c, the average man could
carry 100 pounds of geld one 01110 with-
out muelt discomfort. Its value would
1.,e ebout 820,0e0.'A strong. 0100 could
4151))', 913', 150 poutels a mile, reaching
the (mil of hie joutney lvith just under
840,000. A very powerful man might
carry 2e0 pounds, or nearly 833,000, a
Los Angeles Times,
mile:NN‘h,teurioeu: exinustion., Carrying gold
is almost as difficult as getting le"—
Minard's Liniment for sale every -
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AVOID PREJUDICE.
Evil Thing That Warps Judgment
and Breeds Injustice.
Prejudice is an insidious thing. It
creeps into the soul unawares. It
leade us to say and do wrong things;
It warps our judgment and leads to
injustice, unkindness and even
cruelty. It paves the way for hatred
and malice. In proportion as we
learn to clear otir minds of prejuilloo
we become better men and women;
we win friends and dissolve enmi-
ties; We are more 'worthy of respeet
and confidence.
No one v fans ti be judged by
false standards that prejudice sets up.
Beware of judging others in ouch a
light. Prejudice cramps the mind
and lixe leart; it stands in the way
of rightful greveth haractor . It
lo Iviee to searea your heart stai if
you find prejudice there to set about
to root it out wholly.
1)o not be sure you of all men aro
unprejudiced. That is the danger, for
prejudke is guarded by vanity, Seog
to -le eust in all things, small as well
as groat. In all the relations of life
be sure yeu 410 Lei judging another,
not for his error, but from your pre-
judice, Po- .;'10 worst thing about
this wee' x'et-*, is that it breeds ine
euetice e.1 elikilldtletis and mallee.
It hurt e Itinecetet folk alid Makes to
one happter.—Milwaukee
You nom* Can tell. Many a man
sows his wild oats who goes to Seed
pretty tame,
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