ney to

n settle
Hydera-
1 church
athedral.
worship
Indian
- 50,000,
the Rev.
malssion-
ty years’
e, The
ago, but
ing In ils
» marbles
@ Was 00
ws. Six
most of
given the
gned by
nown Br
| the As
ays of the
10 donors
id be as
ammedan :
id I trust
n to real
an aid to

| are would be free as alr;

Washing dirty dishes,
es Ua _ going to do it for her. Hooray!

“ next meal, aq Qh that was
that mattered.

MATSOUI NEWS

PAINTED FIRES

BY NELLIE L. MeCCLUNG

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1925

CHAPTER M.—Continued
- “Anna dreamed pleasantly of the
golden age of which the street corner
Jeaders told, when there would be
ure and luxuries for the
mfusion for the capita
‘s and street cars

workers

“and tire
some, disagreeable drudgery would be
ease ever.

Indeed, for Anna the golden age
as already here. Some one would
her her breakfast tarnorrow

ig; Someone would have
ke this little stingy, stringy bed
you call it a bed) That was some-
“thing, too. Instead of attending
~ other people and carrying trays and
someone

to

to

was

on

So Anna sat on her narrow bed, a |

‘prisoner before the Jaw. but not cast-
down or desolate. She, too, had her |
own Hitle painted fire, and she had

not yet found out that there was no|

pest in it.

CHAPTER It.

 _‘Meanwhwile, Helmi washed
_ gold-clover ironstone dishes at
Yale Hotel, made beds and carried
trays and learned new words ever
day. English Janguags in Welmi’s
hands became a simple thing. She
took no account of its idioms. She did
not see why the man who brought the
bread should not be called the “Joaf-
er,” or why if the cat licked up its
nil Mrs. Spencer would mind if she
said In answer to a phone call “Mrs.

the
the

3ritish tradition—fore
and

tell

had the gners
i ignorant, and cer
her nothink.”
washed dishes
into” the without
them, turning on the hot water when
she Was ready, and subsequently res
§ the unhappy cups, and
plates from the seething
flood. Helm! broke storm of
Finnish rage when she v it, and Jet
the water run away prior to cleaning
out the sink. Then scraped the
dishes until clover leaves
were in peril, set_them
the table; scoured the
proceeded to show the
been born within the
Ils how dishes
Martha ¥

ly “could
Martha

them

by piling

sink scraping

cui saucers
and unlovely

into

she
even the
in neat piles
sink, and
lady who had
sound of Bow
should be washed
atched in cold and stiffening
She hated dish-washing any-
way, and saw nothing in it but a
}means whereby she could earn money
to buy herself some swell
riba had a “sweety night
Watchman at the Parliament Build
ings and she believed he meant busi-
Marth way of breaking the
of approachin nuptials
“I wouldn't be surprised if we
the finish of the whole busitiess

silence.

clothes.

—a

her

saw
this summer.”
When the meal was over the
dishes arrived as usual on the kitehen
table in their dizzy
Ss, slipp y with gravy, pic and

. Martha proceeded to insult the

ain (which Helmi had poliseed

into a state
enjoyed for
of the dish
tents. WHebni

next

great irregular

it had not
witb the
and their unused con

of whiteness

years) presence

was serving the des

Spencer fs out licking up tea!” Ib was | sert for the evening meal and did not

Yather bewildering; and how, w

Helm! to know that the meter man

had to do with the electric light—she |

~ thought lie must be the butcher!
are ‘Helm!’ S outbursts of temper gave
Miss Kenny some concern. The first
on ae Was directed against Martha Dre
per, the bow-legged English girl who |
Pops dishes, and to whom elm! |
"was now assistant.
Martha liad washed dishes in her
own untidy way all her life,
 taldng notice of her methods.

no one
The

4 cook, concerned with roasts and pies

and such important things, could sot

very well cumber her mind with the |

details of dish-washing.
ways had the dishes

Martha
ready for
about

al
the
all

Martha believed in purification by
fire ax well as by water, so she fre
quently left the potato pot to burn on
_ the slove until the burning smell

cane ed someone to investigate. Helmi
‘ ‘had many times shown her the better
- Way, to which Martha had given but
_ Scant and scornful attention, Martha

Mrs. Dayman Gives Lydia
__E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
“isd fs Compound the Credit

, Colborne, Ontario,—‘‘When I was
married 1_was very thin and
fs weak. The doc! tor

be able to have a
child, but I did,
and from the time
my baby came
I suffered all the
time and doctored
and medi-
cine. Life became

husband was ah posed to
seen Lydia E, Pinkham’s
advertised, so I told my hus-

that I thought I would try it,

be mire get some relief. I

|

|
|

| companion,

|

see what had happened until Martha
had the sink dripping with — dishes
When she s what had
stood quite still, a black
ing in her eyes.
in her hand she
Martha,
the
load

ypened she
ge gather
With the ompiy tray
awaited the com
who came gaily singing into
kitchen with another toppling
of dishes, Helmi until
had deposited them on the table,
then brought her empty tray down on
Martha's head with a metallic ©
Martha s amed in genuine te
and and Mrs. Spencer

waited
she

Maggie Kenny
came running in

Helmi pointed to the littered sink
and tried tg explain. Martha meta
phorically wrapped the British flag
around her injured person and called
was one of those

the

for justice. It

where evidence
sight.

It was Mrs
abst of the

“Ain't that just ike
clean and neat, but
Well, if she wasn’t a dy girl she,
wouldn't have done it. Martha, shut
up or I'll give you something to baw!
for; you're not hurt as bad as all
that. Welmi shouldn't have clouted
you with the ¢ Do you hear, Hel
mi? Now, Martha, you can get off for
the night; Helmi wii do the dishos
alone. And I've a sort of notion she
doesn’t mind that, a bit, so every onc
is satisfied. and it may be that M
tha now knows it’s a dangerous thing
to be too messy with dishes when
Helmi’s around, anyway.”

Helmi lost no opportunity
ing English ,and counted the day lost
if she had not added a few t
She used
which came into
on par for the purpose of k
her lists, tearing it Into
together
who after the
recorded became a better

more ag

cases
plain
the

pencer who made

uct case.
1 Finn, Maggie,
high tempered?

of learn
words to
the wrap
kitchen

her vocabulary
ping-paper
sping
squares and
with twine

unpleasant

sewing them
Martha,
event Just
dish-washer and a
to
acqulring
the boarders

Helmi
her

taught
in
which

words, resulting
accent
amusing

for the open took

cockney
found very

Helmi’s love
out w
afternoon a week was hers and e
second Martha would
come with her even if they had been
ther, for she often
country and liked

when she got

her

en her spare days came. Ont
ery
Sunday nou

able to get off t
said
to see
At
Guards

why
to the country

she hated the
a bit of life out

went to see the

palace

she always
change at the
any one would walk out in
eatin
Draper
Draper
take

‘ome,
gates
“bat
cows
grass” was Mis
could make Miss
erously hastened to add, “it

to watch
than
“but,”

more

out;

jall kinds. Miss Draper,
could see sonic fenuse in going to see

s+ in the shop windows and |

= out which ons you would get
in the
red enough
the dining

Helmi had now been
four months. She had acqu!
English to take in
room.

} “win
your hegg:

orders

you have ‘am or bicon

“Peach pie, happle p' tabio
ae

often dered why she was

to repeat

the bearders Jaughed,

"s work to He

delig

city on

her orders,
but

at
her §

there were no sidew.
‘sand few

of the

out
noons, where

no pavements, no street c
she determined to walk far
il the houses behi
find green gras:
or
H ¥, Or meet 4
did not know she y She
d the
sidewalk d,
the good soft
It was familiar,
It spoke to her ir
it was aughing I if
e plant would

place the
and felt
rth b
home-like, her
sown lansu

soon rez
once

th her fe

more

oy

did not know its

English name it would come the

Helmi’s heart

with the tho t.
The sky - low

ing to Helmi like a greac

just

Same, and grew warm

that day, seem-
s cover
over the earth,
that Mrs

parlor over he

like the dome ef ¢
ad in the upstair

lay
look into

Spencer
seed-wreath. She
down slope
the sk I
home it made her feel not so fé

after all

on 4 a to

en if words were so dif-
3) the
same, soon she
to call them. Aunt
known a word

ferent, and and

ground e the and
would know
Lili, like her, had not
of English when she came out.

It wags lovely to ke away where
|it was quiet and green and all by her-
} self. It did not matter i fone could not
| spe Bnglish here; the = and the

g and the little creek on whose
bank she sat knew no English either.
A fringéd blue kentian growing in the

how

grass peeped Shyly at her as she peer-
ed about L She called it by
Finnish name and wondered if it had

its

ever heard it here
(To Ve Continued.)

Nickel Being Large cly Used

Long Period of ee
This Canadian Industry

When nickel deposiis
ered in Sudbury, Ont.. district
in 1886, the inipenetrability of
metal proven and the governments of
; nations convinced if its high

for purpose of armanients, the
company faced a long period of pros-
perity. ‘This was the first phase, and
{the chief interests of investors today
that up to th of 1926

| $77,000,000 had been paid in dividends
and the company had built up a net
working capital account of $15,551,000.
und much more import-
the the com-
invasion mar-

erity Seen for
were disco7-
back
the

end some

The second ¢

phase result of
ef commercial

production tonnage

ant
pany’s
kets, and alr
has attained proportions equal to the
best Previously,
nickel were
now uses
It has been said that
has supplanted the battleship, but this
‘is only a small part of the story, be-
cause nickel is being utili in more
than a hundred products in the fae-
| tory, and home.

ady

uses for
limited;
general.

war year.
comparatively

becoming
the motor

its

are

car

shop, laboratory

Unless worms be expelled from the
system, no cbild can be healthy.
Mother Grayes’ Worm Exterminator
an excellent medicine to destroy
worns.

is
inequality of
persons invariably
Straight course
without

Because of the
lost
circles: a

strides i
is im
guiding

in
possible
odmarks.

to anyone

When The Babies
Are Cutting Teeth

During the baby’s teething time, in the
ot summer months, the bowels become
loose and diarrhoea, dysentery, colic,
cramps and other bowel complaints
manilest themselves; the gums become
swollen, cankers form in the mouth, and
in many s the child wastes to a
shadow, and adie often the termination
is fatal.

This is the time when
should usé “Dr. iF

the mother
and, per-

It has been on the market for the
ah 80 years; put up only by The
ilbura Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.

however.

hotel

|
with

|

WHEN USING
WILSON'S

FLY PADS

READ. DIRECTIONS
Sc” CAREFULLY. AND
SS FOLLOW THEM

= >) EX ACTLY

Best of all Fly Killers—10¢ and
25c per packet at all Druggists,
Grocers and General Stores.

Japs High Code of Honor

Although Officially Abandoned is Still
a Living Force

The Japanese code of honor-is very
and very rigid, and although the
of committing hari-kari—or
ppuka (the death), which
the personal ripping open of
the has been vetoed by law,
it still exists in-fact, and is expected
of those who fail in achievement.

The dramatic of Lieutenant
of the Japan destroyer
after the sacking of the Im-
Consulate at Nanking, says a
ithe London Da News,
oflicially-abandoned
is still a living
efficiency
Western
n-Ply

tem
honorable
means

2domen,

suicide

Niroki,

perial
yo

writer

in is

evidence that the

code of Old Japan

Beneath ruthless
and outward convers to
ways, the Isles of the Dra
main untouched by Western ideas
moral values.

The vital
ido coc

| force.
fon
re-
and

spirit of the ancient Bush-
Teaching of Knightly
the old

—the
Sam-
shting

animated

still lives in the fig
forces of Japan. That code recognizes
ut one way of expiation for deadly
insult, insufferable s failure
high duty

urai caste,

me, ip

for these is
the Honorable Death,
more yulgarly, “hari-kiri.”. Up to 60
years ago Seppuka- was officially im
posed suicide, and something like 500
officers and officials went through the
yea Al-
been officially
steeped In

The remedy wrongs

Seppuka,

ghastly ceremonial
though Seppuka ha
abolished, Japane
older tradition, S this unfortun-
ate officer, still prefer the Knightly
Ways of their ancestors to the more
> and s painful penalties of
a court-ma

every

as wi

le:
al.
Araki,
3 of the
ble Death,
And,
the

Licutenant
new regulatic
of the Honors
with a bullet.
he did it with
mates

deprived by the
full formality
compromised
one may be sure,
full approval of his

mes

Had Strange Appetite

Ostrich in London Zoo Succumbs to
Hard Boiled Diet

Ida, famous ostrich at the London
Zoological Gardens, is dead be
she swallowed one nail to many

A post-mortem examination
closed that the bird
lost property
other things,

Two

2USe

dis

depository.
ard contained:
handkerchief. a
handkerchief, three
feet of cord,
four-inch
four-inch

her ¢
women’s

man’s
three

gloves,
film
nail, eight-inch
lead _ pencil, four
farthings and 2
part of celluloid comb,
part of a rolled Id necklace, a col-
lar button, a bicycle tire valve» a
brass winding key for an alarm clock,
bits of wire, metal sta-
ples small nails and copper
rivets, a glove fastener and a piece
|of wood four inches long

an empty

spool, a an
nail. a
half-pennies,
French coin,

two

a dozen short
crews,

Wretched from As. nan Strength
of body and vigor of mind are in-
evitably impaired by the visitations
of asthma. Who can e under the
cloud of recurring attacks and keep
body and mind at thelr full efficlency?
Dr. D. Kelloge’s Asthma Remedy
dissipates the cloud by removing the
cause. It does relleve. It does restore
the sufferer to normal bodily trim
and mental Hepyiness

teaming Defined

Learning is a pecullar compound of
memo: imegination, scientific habit,
observation, all concentrated
a prolonged perlod the
analysis of the remains of literature.
The result of this ained
endeayor is net a but a
| {t cannot be embodied in print;
sists of the living word.

accurate
through on
sust
book, man
it con-

Automatic Contro! a Success
Automatic train
}which a train in a
brought to

|
|
|
|

control, under
zone

ont
man successful
that the Pennsylvania railroad is in
Stalling it on an eighteen-mile stretch
in Ohio. The road hag
$3,000,000 to extend it

danger
a stop indepen
has proved so

of hu
hands,

appropriated
through the

Pittsburg region

Minard’s Liniment for warts and Pim-
ples.

The Corinth Canal was started by

The pro
nally com

ro about 2,000 years
ject was abandoned and
[pleted in 1893

or, }

the |

|
| Professor is Working on Key to
Baffling Characters

| The key to the baffiing characters
of a strange half-Semitic half-Esyp-
tian language which flourished nearly
3,000 years ago and which science has
never been able to decipher may rest
|today with Prof. Kirsopp Lake, head
jor the Harvard-Michigan expedition
to Mt Sinai, Arabia.

A terse mesSage from

to The Boston Herald
| found fragments of the mysterious
“Sinai inscriptions,” which Harvard
University authorities said might
throw on entirely new light on Moses
and biblical history.
| The Sinai inscriptions were
found on the mountain where
the tablets of the law
never been satisfactorily
although authorities never
ceased to seek their solution.
If Prof. Lake’s “frag fit in
the e ing gaps it was possible,
haeologists said, that
might not only history
reveal a
guages.
The were discovered
1904 during the excavation of the
temple of the Egyptian godde: Ha-
ther, on the Sinai
They caryed stone tablets
and images unearthed among ruins of
the temple and in a
never before encountered by
tors, according to Dr. Henry
Ph.D., instructor in Semitic languages
at Harvard.

The characte hew sald
strangely allied to Egyptian lilerog-
lyphies and the later Semitic alpha-
bet, yet were identical with
eithe

Prof
reports

Lake

first
Moses
but
read
have

received
have

ments”
to
here they
but
lan

remake
new origin of modern
inscriptions
in
Mount

side of

were on
were

Pfeiffer,
were

hot

Queer Ways of Paying Rent

Tenant of Scotch Es.ate Pays With
Bucket of Snow A

On the anniversary of the Battle of
Waterloo the King receives from the
Duke of Wellington a small banner.
By this annual presentation the Duke
holds the estate Strathfieldsaye,
which was yoted to his
tor by Parliament

The Duke of Marlborough,

of

great ances-

on

| forwards to Windsor a miniature silk-

| crevices

| Bucks,

en banner decorated with the ducal
arms. He thus holds Woodstock in
fee for the monarch and the nation.
The tenant of the Foulis estates in |
Scotland is supposed to pay for his
lands with a bucketful of snow. Luck-
ily these estates are close by Ben
Nevis, where snow often lies in deep

all the year round. Conse

quently this peculiar rent can be paid!

at almost any time in the year.

At one time it might have been dimi-
cult for the tenant of Crendon, in
to raise his rent, which con-
sists of-#"Garland of roses. The mod-
erm gardene however, can guaran-

| tee roses well-nigh all the year round

was a Veritable
Among |

Buoy Makes Long Trip

Drifted From Canadian Coast to
Scotland in Two Years

A buoy belonging to the Canadian
Government which away from
its official dutles Canadian
two years
been lost to
the Firth of Clyde
claimed by the
Ottawa. Despite its long and slow
voyage 5 the Atlantic the drift-
ing buoy’s light was still functioning
when the was found. It is
being towed to Port Glasgow, where

broke
the
and
been found in
and has been
Government at

on
ago
view ha

coast had since

Acro)

wanderer

|it will be overhauled

mental |

Shorten Winter Mail Trips
Mails going in from Pe
Crossing, Alta., to Fort
will ha
shortened six winter
after certain cut-offs haye been made
along the river between the Cros-
sing and Carcajou Polnt, according
Louls Bour famous
The round trip now takes
28 days. In the winter he trave
the river-with five teams sta-
at strategic points along the
Owing to the windings of the
river, he will cut ary overland trail for
part of the distance, hoping thereby
to cut the timo to 22 days

nace River
Vermillion
ye the
next

by days

to
mail man

along
tioned
route

Conscience Troubled Her
Yustoms officer McDonald at New
gate has received a letter from a lady
living in a Saskatchewan village en
closing 50 cents with the explanation
that last
a cheap new dress she had purchased
across the line. As
tian and wanted to do what was right

us duty.

summer she failed to declare

she was a Chris
he enclosed the money
In the of
the
Readymade

with them

Sritish navy,
their

are not

00 per cent

sailors make own clothe:

suits popular

The
should

charity of a lot of people
» charged up to publicity

Keep Minard’s Liniment near at hand.

|May Decipher Strange Language |

new |}

the |
anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim |

time for the round trip |

northern |

CANCER

Great Success of
Cantassium Treatment

A well-known London surgeon
and recognized authority
Cancer has created
Interest in ‘the
Cancer due f

the
the cells to
down and become malignant.

In order that every o} ay learn

The Real Bios af

Cancer

Sioareatile book has been
sent
who

free

one is

Is a Ust of the
» Limitations of Surgery;
Some Doctors Oppose ‘Operation: 2%
What Cancer Is; 4. Why the BODY
K DOW Tnjur-
Methods; 6. Common
t: v

to
Are Seldom

and Kindred Com-

and | tnexpensive,
e ken {n one’s
Apnly for free book to
Walter, 51 Brunswick
Ontarlo, ©

Avenue. Toronto,

ada.

Little Helps For This Week

Though He be not far from every
one of us.—Acts xyli. 27.

Then my heart said, “Give o’er,

Question no more, no mor

wind, the storm, the wild hermit-
flower,

The illuminated alr,
The pleasure after prayer,
roclaim the unoriginated Power;
|The mystery that hides Him here and

there
Bears the sure witness He is every:
where.”

The

—Alice Cary.
If you wish to behold God, you may
see Him in object around;
search in your breast, and you will
find Him there. And if you do not yet
perceive where He dwells confute me
if you can, and say where He is not.
ghee oe

every

‘WHY TORTURE
THE LITTLE ONES

do you think it fair to tor-
little ones by forcing them
| to take ill-tasting oils when they need
‘a laxative medicine? Don’t you find
that the child’s dread of these medl-
cines often do more herm than good

Baby’s Own Tablets are the mod-
ern substitute for these nauseous
doses. They are the very medicine
the child requires and are so pleasant
to take that they are as easy to ad
minister a glass of water. They
are the perfect remedy for all the
minor ailments of, little ones, being
absolutely guaranteed from injurious
drugs.

Baby's Own Tablets accomplish all
that castor ofl and other bad-tasting
remedies can do. In fact they accom-
plish more as they do not le the
shild exhausted from its struggle

ng medicine. They re-

teething pains, banish indiges-

tion and constipation, break up colds
and simple fevers «and promote
healthful, refreshing sleep. They aro
sold by medicine dealers or by mail
jat 25 cents a box fram The Dr, Wil-
Brockyille, Ont.

| Mothers,
ture your

liams’eMedicine Co.,
passenger steamship
in the world, for use on inland wa-
ters, Is 550 feet long, and was recent-
ly launched on the Great Lakes,

The largest

| The art of glassmaking was prac-

ticed in 2,500 B.C. by inhabitants of
|the Euphrates Valley, who sold glass
| beads to the Egyptians.

Stomach Upset?

Food or water may cause severe
abdominal pains, but you can
relieve the agony at once with

Chamberlain’s Colic &

A BROKEN DOWN SYSTEM.
This ina condition (or dis ast ito which doctors
w of them really

down,

th
No matter what may belt
alajost numberless), iis ay:
me; the more prominent being
of prostration or wear)

id want of energy for all the orc inary
aBsirsoflite. Now,whatabenelaabsolutely ance
tial in all auch cases is increased vitality
vital strength and energy to throw of
morbid feallogs, and a4 night aueceeds the 4

by arourse of

@s it ls taken in accordance with the direction
omipanyingit, willtheshaiteredhralihbe restor
THE EXPIRING LAMP oF Aas
LIGHTED UP AFR !
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