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i THE DAWN OF . YOUNG WOMANHOOD ‘Girls upon the threshold of womanâ€" ‘hood often drift into a decline in spite jof all care and attention. Even strong and lively girls become weak, depressed, irritable and listless. It is the dawn of womanhoodâ€"a crisis in the life of every girlâ€"and prompt measures should be taken to keep the blood pure and rich with the red .tint of health. If the body is not in a healthy condition at this critical stage, grave disorders may result, and future Jife become a burden. Deadly conâ€" _sumption often follows this crisis in the lives of young women. Dr. Wilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pills have saved thousands ofâ€"young girls from what might have been lifeâ€"long invalidism or early death. They are a bloodâ€"builder of unequalled merit, strengthening weak nerves and producing a liberal supply of rich, red blood, which every girl needs to sustain her strength. Over and over again Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills have proved their value to women and girls whose health was failing. Miss Jennie Gereau, St. Jerâ€" ome, Que:, says: "At the age of eighteen my health was completely shattered; I was suffering from anaemia with all its attendant evils. The trouble forced me to leave school. The Germanâ€"Swiss shops have enâ€" joyed up to the time that Italy enâ€" tered the war free communication with the outside world, and raw material of all descriptions has freely entered Switzerland by Genoa, and thence reached Zurich over the St. Gothard route. Italy has now blocked exit by way of the St. Gothard and Simplon of all trains carrying equipment which might in any way be of service to the German forces. Furthermore, Italy is ~commandeering such shipments which might enter into projectile or engine parts. It is understood that for some time the Swiss plants were receiving ‘ore shipments from Spain via Genoa and that much of the ore ‘came from .mines in Spain controlled by. Krupp steel works on the Rhine are largely fed by ore shipments which come from Spain and navigate the Rhine. I suffered from headaches, was tired and breathless at the least exertion. I had no appetite, and my face and lips were literally bloodless. A good friend advised the use of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, and thanks to this great medicine I am again enjoying good health, with a good appetite, good golor and a spirit of energy." Every anaemic girl ean be made well and strong through the use of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, _ Canals in the United Kingdom if put end to end would reach 4,000 Factories Furnishing Material Desâ€" tined for German Use. That the Germans are utilizing, to the fullest every available neutral source for supplies of war equipment is "made evident by reports that the leading machinery and _ electrical houses in eastern â€" Switzerland are working to full capacity in furnishing material destined for German use. This supply by way of the Rhine has been shut off, and Germany is now dependent upon ore received largely from Austrian sources. The shipâ€" ments of Swedish ore into Germany is still â€"maintained, it is said, to some extent, and ‘since the occupation of Northern France by German troops, the Germans have been able to obâ€" tain additional ore shipments from Douai district. The Rhenish coal mines are supplying the German steel works with sufficient coal, and no trouble is being experienced as yet in that direction. The Swiss shops are practically independent of coal, since they have recourse to electric current developed by the water power of the Alps. Ont. Every ‘available machine shop in Germany is being worked, and has been worked for months to full capaâ€" rity. The majority of the skilled men at the machine tool and locomotive works have not been called into active service with their regiments, but are Eerforming service, instead, at the enches. All these men so detailed in the shops wear their uniforms, and are rated as working for the State. Mrs. Wyeâ€""My husband gets dunâ€" ped for his bills, too." GUARD BABY‘S HEALTH IN THE SUMMER The summer months are the most langerous to children. The complaints »f that season, which are cholera inâ€" lantum, colic, diarrhcea and dysentry, rome on so quickly that often a little pme is beyond aid before the mother fealizes he is ill. The mother must be on her guard to prevent these }kroubles, or if they do come on sudâ€" fenly, to cure them. No other mediâ€" fine is of such aid to mothers during hot weather as is Baby‘s Own Tabâ€" ets. They regulate the stomach and owels and are absolutely safe. Sold y medicine dealers or by mail at 25 :rents a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co.; Brockville, Ont. Black Hand Business. Mrs. Exeâ€""My husband got a letâ€" :r toâ€"day saying something dreadful ould happen if he didn‘t send the writer a sum of money." SWISS GREAT AID TO KAISER. HOLLAND WILLl ENTE WAR Since the Invasion of Belgium Holâ€" land Has Made Steady Preâ€" paration for War. In Paris I met an American friend of many years‘ residence in Holland. He had just come from The Hague. He said: "Dutch anger is red hot. Politicians won‘t be able to keep the lid on much longer." Germany finally realized that if those products of Norway and Sweâ€" den were specially intended for herâ€" self they would have been shipped from the various ports in southern Sweden directly to ports in northern Germany, under the convoy of Gerâ€" man cruisers controlling the Baltic Sea. BRITISH ARMY WILL HELP HER INVADE GERMANY. An Englishman who had just come with important despatches from Lonâ€" don, said: "Weatch the Dutch!" The positiveness of this laconi¢ method of giving no information was getting on my nerves.. I devised all sorts of excuses to talk again and again with the Dutch Minister, writes John Martin, an American, journalist. In one conversation he incidentally remarked: "Yes, we are stating offiâ€" cially that we have but 250,000 men mobilized, but in reality we now have 400,000 on the frontier." That was enough. I determined to leave for Rotterdam on "personal business" as soon as I could get the forty different types of passports neâ€" cessary to leave Paris, to cross the Channel, to get into and out of Lonâ€" don and to run over to Rotterdam. It was a long and tedious journey, but it was worth it. But even Germany is realizing that Holland is conserving within her own limits much of the produce which Germany expected to have passed on to her. It is for this reason that the German Admiralty gave instructions in December to the Germanâ€"American friends in America to ship supplies to Bremen rather than to Rotterdam and Amsterdam. It is for this same reason that the German Admiralty Office gave orders to its submarines to sink neutral supply ships coming to Holland either from Norway or Sweden or from America. Holland has arranged four‘ great centres of supplies, one for a northâ€" ern army, one for an eastern army, one for a central army, and one for a southern army. Then there \ are great general supply centres at Amâ€" sterdam, Leiden, Delft, Schieden and Rotterdam. And what can Holland do? Can Pierce Germany. The northern army can move east from Groningen along the railway line toward Oldenburg, Bremen and Hamburg. In this way, any German forces at Emden andâ€" Wilhelmsâ€" haven will be kept engaged so that they cannot be sent south to interfere with the intended activities of the eastern and central armies. All western Holland is one gigantic storehouse filled with everything neâ€" cessary for the support of the Dutch people; with a surplus sufficient to meet the needs of an army during a nine months‘ campaign. All eastern and southern Holland is one great armed camp from the most northâ€"eastern boundaries, . opâ€" posite Emden in Germany to Bergenâ€" opâ€"Zoom, ‘north of Antwerp. Ready for. War. Holland has imported during the last eight months many times the amount and manufactured materials she usually imports during a similar length of time. It has been supposed in ~Norway, in ~Sweden, â€" and â€" in America that this surplus of materâ€" ials was being secretly sent to Gerâ€" many. Everywhere in Rotterdam I found an air of suppressed feeling and of intense activity. The Beurs Station was packed. The Grotte Barket was crowded with people and produce. At Utrecht the old Rhine and the Vecht (the two rivers by means of which the Rhine empties into the sea) and the two great canals were all crowdedwith commerce boats sunk to the waterline. I met Von Hoorn, whoâ€" simply _ reâ€" marked: "We are ready." While it is true that a large quanâ€" tity of copper, cotton, wheat and medical supplies have found their way down the Scheldt and down the Rhine, yet the portion which has crossed the border into Germany is indeed small compared with the amount that has been placed in storâ€" age within Holland itself. Not only has Holland prepared as far as supplies are concerned, but earthworks and trench fortificatins have been constructed along the west bank of the Meuse from Mook to Roermond a distance of fifty miles, and on the east bank of the Meuse from Roermond to Maestricht, a disâ€" tance of twentyâ€"five miles. The southern army can remain inâ€" trenched all the way from Bergenâ€" opâ€"Zoon to Endhaven, while the left wing of this army can move from behind the trenches at Maestricht and descend upon Liege, both by railâ€" way and along the Meuse, thus preâ€" venting Germany from sending her troops from Belgium to interfere with the action of the central army. In this way the southern army would menace all railway communications between Liege and Germany. Holland is a beehive. All the ports, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Schieden, Delft, and Hoorn show an activity never before seen in Dutch cities. The eastern army, of which a very large division is stationed at Felden, with great supply quarters at Zwolle, can move along three railway lines into Germany and also by water down the Rhine in the direction of Munsted and Wesel and on toward the great Krupp Works at Essen, only a few miles further south and east. ‘The Krupp Works are strongâ€" ly fortified but it is not necessary to take them. If the lines of communiâ€" cation between Essen and the westâ€" ern army are severed, that is suffiâ€" cient. Meanwhile the central army diviâ€" sions are stationed at Arnhem, at the junction of two railway lines, and on the bank of the Rhine,, at Nijimengen and at Venloo, and Roermond. These divisions can move east and south by river and railway, and severâ€" the railway communications between Esâ€" sen and Aixâ€"laâ€"Chapelle. British Army Ready. While Holland is a small country, it is long and narrow; the eastern frontier bordering Germany. is two hundred and thirtyâ€"six .miles long. The frontier from which an advance can be made into Belgium is over sixty miles long. $ The central army can move in two sections, one . down the Rhine, past Wesel and Ruhrort, and, the _ other from Arnhem to Crefeld by railroad. Both the Rhine and the railway inâ€" tersect the German railway between Essen and Aixâ€"laâ€"Chapelle. To the movement of this central army there could be but little opposition. There is not a single German fort along the entire Dutch frontier. "We were out of the trenches like lightning. It was ‘ wonderful. We were like a storm. In ten minutes we had won the first line of German trenches. But there was no stopping us. We kept it up hammer and tongs for an hour and a half, taking three lines of the enemy‘s trenches and driving the enemy in front of us. "French guns of all calibres were firing together for two hours without interruption.. It was like an earthâ€" quake. Suddenly, punctually at ten o‘clock in theâ€" morning, â€"the firing ceased, and the ‘Charge‘ was sounded. "By this time all the officers of our company were either killed or woundâ€" ed, so a sergeant took command, and we entrenched ourselves as best we could, but finally had to retire about a hundred yards. "Here I got two wounds. Four in every five of our men were either killed or wounded in that fierce ‘"Waiter," he suggested mildly. "I want three eggs, and boil them four minutes." If the Germans attempted to withâ€" draw any portion of their army fightâ€" ing in Belgium and Francée, the French, Belgians, and English would have the opportunity they have long been waiting for; and if the Gerâ€" man armies were not withdrawn ‘to prevent the Dutch invasion, . the Dutch army, in two days, even withâ€" out forced marches, could cut the four railway lines running from Essen, Cologne and Coblenz to Belgium and LuxémÂ¥urg and two million German soldiers, all of those in the western army, with the exception of those in Alsaceâ€"Lorraine, would be cut off from their source of supplies. £ charge." "The legion had the honor of being chosen to be the first out of the trenches and to take the German lines with the bayonet. This was at a point between Souchez and Carency. _Preâ€" vious to the attack, there was a terriâ€" ble bombardment of the German posiâ€" tion. Which proves the value of higher mathematics. Have Lost a Great Number of Men In the War. A London despatch says the French Foreign Legion has been doing brilâ€" liant work in the fighting north of Arras. The casualties in the legion have been very heavy, and a letter reâ€" ceived inâ€" London from a wounded member states that in his company of 250 men only 60 are left. The letter says: But the cook, having only one in the place, boiled it twelve minutes. The western Germany army would then find itself with the English, French, and Belgians in front of it and the Dutchâ€"behind it. And not only the Dutch behind it, but 700,000 English also. The massing of great numbers of English troops in the east of England during > the last few months has not been for the protecâ€" tion of the English coast, but â€" to be ready to aid the Dutch should Holâ€" land decide to move. From the east coast quick transportation to Holland is possible, and thenâ€"a rapid camâ€" paign from Holland‘s eastern border into Germany and. toward Bremen, Hanover, and Berlin. & ED. 7. FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. Four Times Three. ISSUE 27â€"‘15. â€" Minard‘s Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Halifax Sends Out a Message of Help to Many People. Halifax, N.S., December 15.â€"When interviewed at her home at 194 Argyle St., Mrs. Haverstock was quite willing to talk of her peculiarly unfortunate case. > "I was always ‘blue‘ and deâ€" pressed, felt weak, languid and utterly unfit for any work.. My stomach was so disordered that I had no appetite. What I did eat disagreed.. I suffered greatly from dizziness and sick headâ€" ache and feared a nerous breakdown. Upon my druggist‘s recommendation I used Dr. Hamilton‘s Pills. "I felt better at once. Every day I improved. In six weeks I was a well woman, cured completely after differâ€" ent physicians had failed to help me. It is for this reason that I strongly urge sufferers with stomach or digesâ€" ti\{e troubles to use Dr. Hamilton‘s Pills." Dr. Hamilton‘s Pills strengthen the stomach, improve digestion, strengthâ€" en the nerves and restore debilitated systems to health. By cleansing the blood of longâ€"standing impurities, by bringing the system to a high point of vigor, they effectually chase away weariness, depression and . disease. Good for young or old, for men, for women, for children.. All dealers sell Dr. Hamilton‘s Pills of Mandrake and Butternut. â€" A Nova Scotia Case of Interest to All Women Wanted capital to develop one of the most valuable natural resources in the Dominion, unlimited quantity of raw material to be manufactured into a commodity for which there is an alâ€" most unlimited demand. If you have one hundred to five hundred dollars or more to invest where your investment will be well secured, then write for particulars and prospectus which will convince you of the absolutely sure and large returns. Address P.O. Box 102, Hamilton, Ont. : By Prof. CreeIman, Ontario Agriculâ€" tural College. Statistics go to prove that the most successful farmers are those who keep their sons and daughters at home and interested in some phase of the work. One‘s own folks, of course, take a greater interest in the building up of the farm and the farm home than can be expected of mere hired help. Also a man or woman can plan work and carry it out better where home folk only are engaged in the transaction. Then why not make a special efâ€" fort this year to interest everyone in the old homestead? It may not be the glamor of the city that steals our young people, but rather the desire to earn wages and save money of their very ownâ€"wages or a life partnerâ€" ship might do. Times are very bad in cities now. Perhaps your boy or girl would come back if you offered a partnership in your business. Perhaps a good farmâ€" er in your locality has been spoiled by trying to run a street car or shovel snow in some large town. Perhaps your girl is tired, so tired, of trying to make an honest living, working for people who have no personal interest in her welfare. Offer her a tenâ€"dollarâ€" aâ€"monthâ€"andâ€"board chance to live with those she loves best, and then plan a poultry or dairy bee campaign to get theâ€"money back. Young Canadians are proud_ and independent. They will suffer in siâ€" lence and pretty nearly starve before asking helpâ€"but many a one writes me now that he or she would gladly return to the country if some definite arrangement could be entered into of a business sort, whereby the business could be run as a partnership and where hard work would be rewarded with adequate remuneration. Oh, ifâ€"we could keep our young people on the farm and bring back all who would come we should soon solve the problem of increased proâ€" duction. I have not much confidence in the cry "Back to the land" when it apâ€" plies to men and women without ruâ€" ral experience. I have every conâ€" fidence however, in farm boys and girls coming home to familiar work. If you have no boy or girl to bring back,, just stop to think of some neighbor‘s child whose parents are perhaps dead. Write to such a one, and I am greatly mistaken if you will not find such a response as you never anticipated. INVESTMENT Monkeys That Roar Like Lions. There are few countries where there are as many interesting _ and unusual animals as in the jungles and forests of Panama. The strangest of these are "the _black howlers." These are monkeys, and they reâ€" semble other monkeys but they roar like lions. They frighten hunters away as much as do genuine lions. When there are a half dozen of them or more together the noises they make are almost deafening. It is they who frequently make a‘ queer, booming and roaring howl that| resounds from one end of the jungle to the other. Rivals of these are the noisy parrots that shout in the mornâ€"| ing until the jungle fairly rings with, their tumult. There are also 'cheI grotesque toucans which at times vie | with the parrots, the calling of the| parrakeets and the peculiar chorusâ€"| like call of the chachalaca or wildE turkey. At night mysterious noises | are heard everywhere from unknown sources, but the strangest of these are the strange monkeys. WHERE EVERYBODY HELPS. OPPORTUNITY Always Harvestâ€"time. Not all of us, probably, understood a statement that Britain might soon be expecting cargoes of wheat from the Argentine, because we are so accustomed to our own August harâ€" vestâ€"time. But the harvests of the world are spread practicallyâ€"over every month in the year, and that is why the supâ€" ply of wheat is continuous.. The harâ€" vest in Australia, New Zealand, and the Argentine, is reaped in January. Eastern India and Upper Egypt reap theirs in February and March. The German harvest is also ahead of.ours being, in favorable conditions, reapâ€" ed in July. ce 2 Not all have realized that pars of the farâ€"reaching war plans of the Germans was to declare war when everything had been "safely gathered in," and the laborers free to be called up for another "harvest." Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Southern France, and the vast wheatâ€" growing tracts of the United States (Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Virâ€" ginia, Kentucky, Kansas) gather their harvests in June. Other parts are ripe in July. Canada has two harâ€" vest monthsâ€"July in Upper Canada, August in Lower Canada. t# T7 U i EuP 5 Seconds F Sore, blistering feet cu red from . cornâ€"pinched toes can be cured |â€" by â€" Putnam‘s Exâ€" QUHck tractor in 24 hours. "Putnam‘s" soothes Elwa.y that drawing pain, eages instantâ€" y, makes the feet feel good at once. Get a 25¢. bottle of "Putnam‘s today. It is a curious fact in psychology that nobody can stay at the same mental and physical level for twentyâ€" four hours together. In the morning you are more matterâ€"ofâ€"fact, for inâ€" stance, than later in the day. It is in the morning that the best brain work is doneâ€"brain work of the sort that requires industry and clear thinking. And it is about eleven in the morning that our body reaches its highest point of energy. In other words, you are stronger, though almost imperceptibly, at eleven in the morning than at three in the afternoon. You reach that highest point twice in the day, for about five in the afternoon the muscuâ€" ner . "Reg‘lar and unexpected." "What do you mean by regular and unexpected ?" Corns "They have chicken reg‘lar every Sundayâ€"â€"â€" NI See”___ » "And they also have it when an automobile unexpectedly kills one in the road." Minard‘s Liniment Cures Garget in Cows Northern Russia‘s harvest is ready in September, or even as late as Octoâ€" ber, as is Scotland, . Norway, and Sweden. The Burmah harvest is in December; that of South Africa in November. Texas and Florida have May harvests. Dear Sirsâ€"This fall I got thrown on a fence and hurt my chest very bad, so I could not work and it hurt me to breathe. I tried all kinds of Liniments and they did me no good. lar energy has risen again. But from five onward it declines steadily all through the evening, and on till beâ€" tween two and three o‘clock in the One bottle of MINARD‘S _LINTLâ€" MENT, warmed on flannels and apâ€" plied on my breast, cured me comâ€" pletely. C. H. COSSABOOM. Rossway, Digby Co., N.S. tween two morning. Forests sometimes take fire through the branches of trees being rubbed together by the violence of the wind, and thus producing the friction neâ€" cessary to ignite them. lielgium, Holland, Denmark, and important Manitoba, are, like ourâ€" selves, August reapers. "La â€" Marseillaise" _ obtained . _its name from the fact that it was first sung in Paris by a band of revoluâ€" tionaries bhailing from Marseilles. Minard‘s Liniment Co., Limited. 66 Specification No. 2B giving engine prices on request. Get our quotations onâ€""The Penetang Line" Commerclial and Pleasure Launches, Row boats and Canoes. THE GIDLEY BOAT CO., LIMITED, PENETANG, CAN. Best Hour for Work. Applied in "Overstern"‘ V Bottom Freight Prepaid to any Railway Station in Ontario. ‘Length 15 Ft., Beam 3 Ft. 9 In., Depth 1 Ft. 6 In. ANY MOTOR FITS. Motor Boat WOOL, wWOOL, WOOL. SELL DIRECT and get the top prices. 35 cents for tub‘washed wool, 25 cents unwashed. Large or small:lots bought. 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