2] Seg a “ROYAL YEAST CAKES STANDARD OF QUALITY FOR OVER SO YEARS: PAINTED FIRES BY NELLIE L. McCLUNG ~ COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1925 CHAPTER XIX Gne day in August, when the train came in, the conductor ran into the station and shouted to the operator, “Say Ted, there’s a war in Europe! _ What do you know about that?” Ted took his pipe from his mouth and spat at the red stove. “Quit your _ kiddin;” he said briefly. ‘The conductor handed him the pa- per. “What do you make of that?” he _ said, as he pointed to the staring headlines. “Maybe you'll believe me _ when you read that?” _ The operator grudgingly admitted that there seemed to be more in it than he had at first believed. “Well, i ‘what's it all about?” he asked the - conductor; “whose row is it any- way?” The conductor tried to explain. | “Toin't any of our business, is it, someone shoots an arch-duke,” said ‘the operator. “Isn't it about all some of these arch-dukes is good for? Are they scarce of them?” He was dusting eff his desk with a large handkerchief as he spoke, and ‘that was a sure sign of mental actiy- Beh (XA “Tt looks bad, Ted,” the conductor said, gravely; “there’s lots of excite- ment in town—fellows joining up, bands playing and all. I know some of the boys that are just itching to go, but I assure you it isn't me. Well, so Jong, Ted; I guess we should worry—- it’s a long way from Northern Alber- ta.” ' Old Sim, the nighe watchman, took it more seriously than anyone in Eagle Mines. “Wars,” he said to Hel- mi and Mrs, McMann when he came ‘ in for his supper that night “is inevit- didn’t do much remembering of the Maine that day. But dash it all! didn’t they find out later that it wasn’t the Spaniards at all that sunk the ship? ‘There was great explanation and beg- your pardons and excuses and after- you-sir, but no legs handed back, at least, not as came as far down as the privates. But that’s war, Helmi.” “Do men have to go?” asked Helmi, with a sudden whitening of her face— “men like Jack, I mean—good men who don't want to kill?” Helmi was getting the tables ready for the morning. Old Sim was always the last occupant of the dining-room. “They do and they don’t,” replied the old man, cautiously, “The law don’t make them, but you just can’t stay when everyone is lookin’ at you as if you ought to be there. I wasn’t fussy about war—there’s too much killin’ in it for me. If it could be done by arguing I'd like it fine, but this thing o’ contradictin’ a man by run- nin’ a spear into him looks coarse and clumsy. Now that young Jack of yours, he wouldn't like killin’ any bet- ter than I would, but I know how he'd feel. They get great mectin’s and crowds and play bands, and by Gosh! when the bands played ‘Dixie Land’ or ‘Marchin’ through Georgia,’ I never cared whether I got killed or not, and Speniards wuz just like pizen bugs to me—that was just while the band was playin’, though I- always came to when it stopped.” “Tt is all wicked bad to me,” said Helmi, as she held the dustpan with ene hand and swept with the other; “J wish Jack would come home. I am afraid, Sim.” “War is hell on women,” said the old magn; “but it don’t do no good to ‘| ditures. The total amount spent on the most toa shout, “Cared? Cared? Don't you know what it means? It's my ceuntry — your SERS — its threatened—evy neyo one cares.’ “Well, I id the sterekeep-| er, positively; “‘she got into this wi tn. | out askin’ me, and she kin git out the} same way.” —~ The Englishman stood spcecbless. Could it be that any man living in the Empire on which the sun never sets could utter such words and live? Something of the benumbed amaze- ment which fell on Rip Van Winkle when he returned to find good King George gone, and no one sorry. but himself, fell on him. Could it be th —but no, that was impossible. The Empire would endure as long as the sun held its course. The Englishman had heen a resi- dent of the neighborhood for over fif- teen years. Long before the opening or the mines he had come and squatted on a piece of land in another fertile valley about eight miles further up the river, going in on foot with all his possessions, a gun on his back and a dog at his heels. Geside the crooked little stream (called English River, in compliment to him) he built a shelter of boughs and began to cultivate a piece of land for his garden with a wooden hoe of his own making. He had told the people at Bannerman, which was the nearest settlement, that any man should be able to wrest a living from the soil if he had a dog for company, an axe, gun and a few seeds. (To Be Continued.) Large Financial Outlay Over Twenty-Nine Millions Spent On Road Improvement Last Year George W. Yates, Acting Federal Commissioner of Highways, reports that for the year ending March 31, 1927, the mileage completed under the Canada Highways Act was 7,436, with 872 under improvement. In addition to the work Federally subsidized the ‘nine provinces have carried on extensive programs of highway construction and improve- ment, with the result that a total of 5,788 miles of road were improved during the season of 1926, at an out- lay of $29,585,000, made up of Fed- eral, Provincial end Municipal expen- improvement and maintenance of Canadian roads during 1926 was ap- proximately $45,500,000. There were 24,703 miles of highw approved as being eligible to partic pate in the $20,000,060 Federal high- way subsidy. So far of this amount i OouT OF 6 @xse3 ended in death! Soa recent Canadian investigation showed. These were not cases of infectious diseases —of consumption —of ty- phold! They were cases where a person had sustained some slight injury—a cut, a burn, a wire-prick —and where the wound, being thought not serious enough for care- “ful treatment, had been neglected. Blood-poisoning and death resulted. When you or your children sus- tain any injury, ensure against in- fection by applying Zam-Buk. This balm soothes the pain, stops bleed- ing, and by destroying all germs prevents blood-polsoning, ete. Hence no time need be lost from work or Pleasure by those who use Zam-Buk. All dealers, 60c. box. ~ PLANN: NG TRIP TO IP TO VENUS Long Foukiews rad Earth Is Objective Of Miami Scientist Jules Verne, wherever he may be at present writing, is invited to sit up and take notice of Professor Rob- ert Condit, of Miami, scientist and chemist, who has conceived a scheme so fantastic that the leagues under the sea bi becomes c place. Prof. Condit, too, is choosing the other extreme for his adventure and instead of exploring the floor of the sea he is going up. Just how far and high remains to be seen, but he has set a lofty goal—the planet Venus. Since nobody has ever succeeded in getting himself completely divorc- ed from the earth, Professor Condit is anxious to be the first to do so. He has devised a machine which resem- bles in some respects a rocket and on its completion the professor will set out for Venus, which he expects to make in approximately one jump. One unit of the machine, known as the central explosive chamber, a complex and forbidding looking piece of ‘apparatus, is finished. Hundreds daily are travelling to .|help which can be di Little Helps For This Week “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city — Prov. xvi. 32. If, then, you wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit; throw nothing on it which will in- crease it; at first keep quiet, and count the days on which you have not been angry; for the habit at first be- gins to be weakened, and then is com- pletely destroyed. When you can say, “J have not been vexed today, nor the day before, nor yet on any succeeding day during two or three months, but I took care when some exciting things happened,” be assured that you are in a good way.—Epictetus. To rule oneself is in realty the greatest triumph.—Sir John Lubbock. Let the world be better, brighter, For your having trod its way; Let your light be seen afar, Ere sinks down life’s little day. Scatter seeds of love and kindness As you tread the heayenward road, You will find them all again In the paradise of God. —Sister Dora. (Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison). There is nothing so powerful as ex- ——_———}ample. We put others straight by walking straight ourselves. —Madame Swetchine. What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other— George Eliot. Freedom From Asthma. Asthma is one of the most distressing trou- bles, sudden in its attacks and pro- longed in its agonies. Frequently many things are tried, but nothing seems to give hope of relief. Dr. J. D. Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy is the one ded upon. If If you give us their names, your relatives and friends may obtain the low occan rate of £2, reduced rail- road fares, and FREE transportation for children under wy providing they are placed ia farm or domestic employment, Ask at once for details of the British Nomination Scheme from any of our offices or agents Haurrax Vancoovsn ‘OXONTO Catoanr Wixxirra — Epwonrow Mowrazar Three New Canadian Books A SEARCH FOR AMERICA. F. P. Grove. $3.08 The Gripping Story of on Immigrant. ONLY ae James H. Ped! $2.08 The war book for every Conod THE SHADOW OF TRADITION.” x ‘Guns eee ray. A tale of Old Glengarry. tain locally or order direct from The GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS, Ltd., OTTAWA May Prove Interesting Earl Haig Reported To Have Left Sensational Diary Of War To Be Published 1940 The book which the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, fs reported to have left, the London Dally Express says, is a diary of the war years, which he deposited with the trustees of the British Museum, under seal, with directions that it shall remain you have tried other remedies SAtHoue success, do not fail to get at once a package of this uniformly successfur preparation. t English Prisons’ For Sale Twenty Are On Market But There Are No Buyers English prisons, fully equipped, complete with gallows and condemn- ed cells, graveyard, warden’s house and grounds, are for sale in groups. Since the war the prison population has shown a great decrease. Although the Home Office has ad- vertised the jails in such alluring fashion as “the large and. substan- tially built prison, with the adjoin-| ing detached villa; fermerly tiie Gov- ernor’s house,” offers haye been few. Twenty prisons are now for sale, Ip d until 1940. The paper understands that the diary contains frank revelations and fearless criticisms of war chiefs statesmen, politicians and others, and is likely to involve Sensational disclosures. GIVE CONFIDENCE T0 YOUNG MOTHERS By Always Keeping Baby’s Own Tablets In the Home A simple and safe remedy for the common ills of babyhood and child- hood should be kept in every home where there is either a baby or a young child. Often it is necessary to five the little ones something to break up a cold, allay fever, correct sour stomach and banish the irrita- bility that accompanies the cutting ~ able. That's a big word, Helmi, and| worry, Helmi.” _ $18,775,604 has been paid over to the| the Condit laboratory to see it. The|but most of them are going begging. | of teeth. means can’t be helped. They come) “But itis faraway, Sim—miles and} provinces. | public is given to understand that the One can get a good prison for any-.} ~ Pxperienced mothers always. keep ~ ever 80 often, and Icill a lot of people} miles of Water—all gray and far! Oh,| ‘This year will complete the Fed-| chamber is the main spring of the | thing from $25 to $100,000. The pris- Bieecara nevis Oa Wis rony ise off and maim and hurt a lot, make a lot/it’s a long way! Why shceuld we send/eral subsidy. It is unlikely there will rogohiie and its explosive qualities|on at Stornoway, in the Hebrides, seize their little ones so suddenly and of debt and trouble. Everyone in the|our men to fight? We won't; it’s the|be a further Feferal grant. will serve to raise the professor off|was sold, everything included, for! the young mother can feel reasonably war loses—cn one wins—every one! Old Country's fight—not Canada's.” RSet the earth perhaps permanently. The|$25. The Newcastle Prison, however,|safe with a box of these Tablets at blames someone else. No one knows; It was a long speech for Helmi to Fox Farming An question arises on how will the pro-|brought $135,000 and the fea a Generar attr tut for sure what it is about, but just|make ,and she had to stop her sweep- 1 1 fessor return if he succeeds in con-| Prison, $80,000. thorough laxative that act without while it is on no one cares. To these! ing to do it. Established sane quering the millions of miles which} The County Down Jail at Down-|pripping and they are absolutely here fightin’ men any war is better} “Anyway, Jack is safe up there on separate Venus and the earth. This] patrick went for $100. Brecon Prison,| guaranteed free from opiates or oth- than no war. Then it gets done when| the Nehanna—he will not hear of it| 21990 Foxes Inspected and Register-| oviously is worrying everybody but|in the mountains- of Wales, with| er harmful drugs. They are sold by everyone 1s dead, or lame, or blind, or/ until it’s over maybe,” said Sam. =| Gate: = Shane ay ve. | {he Professor. beautiful scenery and all the aspect| Medicine dealers or by mail at 28 tired enough to talk sense, and the|” Helmi looked at him gratefully. | a cre eS eae : ere | “Why cross bridges,” asked the)of a summer resort, received a bid) Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. world tries to pay the debts, builds| “will you have tea or coffce tonight | port nor’ the) Honorable eae Mother- | professor. “Ym not there yet and I)of $4,000 and there was no sale. — up the burnt cities, gets the sick fel-| in shiny bottle?” she said. jwell, Minister of .Agriculture, he! may not want to return if I do make a The Great Columbia Icefield lows well, buys! crutches for the one-| Hagle Mines, composed largely of| States that silver fox farming js now | it,» The Horrors Of War The Columbia icefield in the Cana- =| legged men and glass eyes for the! Americans, was not greatly disturbe ea) one of the established industries ot) ‘There are a good many persons in| The romantic and the poet may still|dian Rockies covers 150 square miles f blind and provides for the widows and) by the war. The mine boss, although 1a the country and bids fair to go on in-| wiami who believe Prof. Condit may |strive desperately to keep up the old) and is the source of streams flowing orphans! And then there’s great) Canadian, expressed the general view | CT°4S!N8 for many years to come-|return rather suddenly. Scientists|¢lamor which surrounded the busi-|to three oceans. councils and meetin’s to find out who-when he said, “Let the people who During the year under review there /cite the possibility of friction of the|ness of fighting. But it is not there, ————_ started the darn thing, and maybe) siarted this thing finish it.. It’s not| were inspected by officers of the de-| air heating the machine and neces-|and they know it. There is no “shin-|, A Remedy For Earache.—To have they find out it was some stranger) our funeral. We'll keep cur headg/| Partment and tattooed /for registra sarily the professor to a temperature|ing armor” left in modern war; only the curate dee endure eres The that no one ever knew was there at/ down and mine coal—that’s our busi-| tion 37,000 foxes, which was i consid-| that would melt both. mud and blood and a dull kind of to deal atrial, oeeaaaeat Sui es the time.” ness.” ; jerable increase Over the Previous year.| They say fallen meteors always re-|office work. la doctor. Dr. Thomas’ Belectric Oil “The war I was in,” Sam continued,| ‘The men heartily concurred in this, | Despite this increase, the Minister| semble a round metal ball, the natur- es eee offers a simple remedy. A few drops “was started by the sinkin’ bf a big! and when the price of coal went up,| Points out, prices for live foxes held 4) result of melted metal driven| “Miller's Worm Powders will purge hp Eee ae a ise eis boat called the ‘Maine,’ and we wa3/and their wages had a corresponding | *teadily, while pelts in the open mar-| through the air. the stomach and intestines of worms increlievivertatni SEAHEC) told to keep on saying “Remember the} increase, they were not disposed to| Ket commanded higher prices on et The professor has equipped the) 5° effectively and so easily and pain- 5 : , se o an in the previous season. ce r lessly that the most delicate stomach Fe Maine,’ if ever we got chicken-heart-| quarrel with the cause. javerage than in Pp |machine with polarized magnetic will not feel any inconvenience from| The Oklahoma editor who inherit- ee ed or soft toward the enemy, or tired,! “Good old war," said Peter Hamil-,T4%en 2s @ whole the year is reported) controls which he thinks will suc-|their action. They recommend them-|ed a quarter of a million dollars $s or homesick, or down in the mouth. ton, the time-keeper, as he counted|to have been a mos' successful one | cessfully guide the machine after he|selves to mothers as a preparation only another example of what a field That was to be what they called our, out the men’s money at the end of|for the fox ders who are finding | pets beyond the gravitation zone of that will restore strength and vigor to the newspaper offers young men. slogan, and we stuck to it pretty well.| October; “Long may she wave.” |a lively export market in the United) the earth, He says he will have full Ebeinschildren and passe: poera nor Ree eB ) the debilitating effects which result It Sliook me up quite a lot the day I) The first disturbing glimpse that| States and in several of the Puropean | control of the rocket or ship 2s soon| from the depredations of worms. Minard’s Liniment for sick animals. lost my leg—my best one it was, too--| the residents of Eagle Mines had, was | countries. as it soars into a meteor stream, oo —_—_—_—_—_——_. but ain't that always the way? I) the coming of an English homestead- A rs Oo Jeeves: “So you attended the lec- California, Kentucky, Massachu- er from up the river. He was but “The pine marten gets its name from CREAM RICE PUDDING ture last evening, who talked?” setts and New Jersey, each have ono 7 slightly Imown to the people because |its love of conifer trees. 4 tablespoons rice. Reeves: “The audience, as usual.’’| woman representative in Congress. he came in only twice a year to buy == =| 1-3 Goaptod fale MENTE . ee his supplies, and never lingered for a 2 cups Borden's St. Charles Milk. : The true sable of Siberia is black-| A 25-cent piece dated 1876 is worth friendly chat like other people, and} 1% cups water. ish and has a very valuable fur, 80 cents. therefore was not liked by the few | Nutmeg. = a= = (UT (IN FACE people who had seen him. Their diag- | Wash the rice thoroughly, then add nosis of his case was that he was just with the sugar and salt to the mili| 4 PosteiheariyaVeat, «| je uite ot: 4 ‘sn who lives slone, [fered baling lek eal and a: eprinic| y a ars raises dogs, takes pictures, gets no : 5 y ae Healed by Cuticura. “My skin trouble began with pimples breaking out on my face. They gradually grew worse and |spread to my body. They were red and itched very-much, and when I Scratched them it caused more pain. Scratching caused eruptions which disfigured my face. At nightI could not sleep on account ofthe irritation. The trouble lasted nearly a year. “Tread an advertisement for Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment and sent for a free sample. The sample pee me 60 I purchased more and in five months I was healed.” (Signed) Willie A. Yaremko, 8924- [88th Ave., Edmonton, Alta. Use Cuticura Soap, Ointment and . | Talcum for daily toilet purposes. Boose, Each Tree }) ai eaeres Cepe tian Uintmewat #2 thd Gi. MSE Caticura Shaving Stick 25c. Nu A mail, and talks to on one except when ling of nutmeg. Set the dish in a pan of hot water and bake three how it cannot be ayolded, has no right to) expect that people will consider him | @ sane person. The residents of Hagle | Mines when referring to him at all called him, “the crazy Englishman.” It was a dull gray day in early No- vember that he came to town and drew up in front of Simpson’s store. He sprang out of his buckboard and ran into the store excitedly. “The Empire is at war!” he shou! ed; you know it? A man pas: place showed me the pap: ia LESSON No. 15 | Question: Why is emulsified cod-liver oil $a important as an added ration with milk in the diet of children? Answer: Because when it is mixed with milk it makes milk a more effi- cient rickets-preventing food and builder of strong in a slow oven (300 degrees F.) sti prevent the rice from settling to the bottom. Serve hot or cold. Manager of Small Town Theatre: “What do you do in this show to- |night 2” f Actor: “I represent Juilius Caesar.” Manager: “Say ,you can’t pull that stuff on us! If he can’t come himself, we aln’t going to stand for him send- ing any substitute!” word?" , bones. Children like it |] | 24 Bob. Jim Simpson wrinkled his nose. best in the form of Virginia: Which are you going to “How did I know you cared?” | ma . | marry? he asked, replacing a prune which had} , | Fred! fallen to the floor. | is The other man raised his yolce al- | Minard’s L for ast }ring several times the first hour to} wubles For to Acid Just a tasteless dose of Phillips’ Sour Stomach parts. You are happy again in five | Milk of Magnesia in water. That is an | minutes, | Alice: I am engaged to both Harry | | alkali, effective, yet harmless. It has’ | been the standard antacid for 50 years among physicians cverywhere. One | spoonful will neutralize at once many | i i. It is the nt and effi- ss acid. The t ,the pain de-| times its volume in right way, the quick, cient way to kill the stomach becomes s Don't depend on crude methods. Employ the bes y yet evolved in all the years of That ia Phillips’ 2 ) Be sure to get t ° Phillips’ Mill of Magne by physi- clans xe cess acids, Each bottle con full directions—any drugstore.