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Daily British Whig (1850), 3 Oct 1914, p. 12

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i Try a "Wolfe Toddy" --the ideal "nightegp" hot 'water, lemon, and sugar, and a wineglassful of Wolfe's Schnapps. Wolfe's Schnapps (WoLLAnDS aim) you will sleep "like atop" and wake up in themorn- ing refreshed and free from aches in the joints and pains in the back. Wolfe's Aromatic Schiadam Schnapps is unequalled aus a tonic and in its beneficial effect on the liver and Kidneys. Obtainalbie at all Hotels and Retail Stores, James McParland, Distributor, 'weeeeg biscuit of most delectable flavor, short, and light as a feather. At tea-time, or any other time, it is sure to be a success. THE PERRIN "SAMPLER" PACKAGE will delight A box of delicious fancy biscuits -«--- send 0c. (coin or stamps). and your grocer's you. nickly takes away every. ticle of grease and dirt-- aves , utensils clean and ght. It was 7 o'clock .in the morning, and the narrow street in front of the factory was full of hurrying -work- ers-- women mostly---- from all sta- tions and conditions of life. | Some of them had lost hope and happiness, and were merely plodding toward an unseen goal. Of these was Monnie Trevor, She was twenty-three years ald--a slim little girl, with a pointed white face, half obscured by a great mass of dark hair, Her eyes were dark, too, with circles around them. As Monnie neared the factory building she heard a step close be- hind her, and a woman caught up with her. "D'ye know the new due to-day?" she asked. "Yes," replied Monnie "I don't care what he is, he ean't be any morse"n Fowler, I hated that man like pizen." : The machines were on the second floor ----two long rows of them. The building had not been intended for factory purposes, and so there was only one window to two or three ma- chines On sunless days in the sunimer and all through the winter the lights had to be turned on. The room always was too cold in winter and it was an oven in summer Monnie went quickly to her ma- chine and sat down. A pile of work awaited her. She made collars at 2 cent a dozen. Sometimes she earned more than a dollar a day. All over the great barniike room belts began to purr and machines to run. Monnie turned on the power and began her day's work. She gat facing the wall. The next girl had a window and Monnie got the light from it Monnie had worked in the shirt factory four years and the manage- ment of her machine and materials had become almost mechanical. She did not néed to look fixedly at her work Besides her work there was nothing to see save the wall before her, but she looked at that and her young imagination formed a picture upon its marred surface. The lon- gest crack was a crack that prank- ed merrily along willows and across fragrant meadows. Alongside the creek was an old white farmhouse under budding apple trees, which presently would burst forth into lovely, pale pink bloom. In the door of the farmhouse stood a young woman with a child in her arms, watching a man who was plowing in a nearby field. At every turn of the furrow he swung his hat to the woman, and the woman and the child responded joyously: Once Monnie had seen the realty of her vision. It was the day four years before when she came to this big town to begin work in the fac tory. The train had been among the hills for an hour when suddenly it swept out into a peaceful little valley. There was the creek, the blue sky, the brooding hills and the fa¥mhouse under the apple trees, But no woman stood in the open door, no man plowed in the field. The place looked deserted. It seem- ed to be waiting-- waiting for her. Never had the vision been so clear as upon this morning. Never had the dream been so bright. The ome fled and the other was broken by an excited whisper from the girl, on her right. "Look, Monnie! There's the foreman, "and---=Oh, heavens. I've stitched my finger!" Monnie shut off the power on her machine and turned to help bind up the bleeding finger: "What's happened here?" The voice was deep, quiet and gentle, so unlike the harsh tones of the former forenian that both girls looked up witha start of surprise. Monnie saw & clean, pale, square face with steady ayes and firm. mouth. The eyes wet hers fairly. " "Lizzie stitched her finger," explained. "What's that you're putting on it --tamphor? I've something here that's better than camphor. Try it." He gave Monnie a bottle She thanked him and he went on A moment after her machine was whirring and she was trying to make up for the time she had lost The picture was again on the wall, hut between it and her was the clear, kind face of the new foreman. She never had seen a man's face so kind and so clear, She wished that her plowman had that faee In time the learned that the new foreman's name was Abel Otis. That was as much as she knew concerning him He had few words for the work peo- ple, but it was said that he got more work and better work done than had ever heen done in the factory. The weather drifted into extreme heat and the girls at the machines worked with sweat on their pale forehead. One day Lizzie fainted. The next day electric fans were in- stalled, and everybody said she had the foreman to thank for it. One of the fans was fixed upon Monnie's expanse of wall, He stopped to see if- it was running properly and spoke to her with a smile, saying: "You ought to 'haye a window, but this is the best I can do for you." She lifted her eyes, pushed back her burden of dark hair. "Thank you. You are very Kkind'™ she murmured. "I'm not kind. I'm only doing my duty under difficulties, It shames me to see how hard you girls work here and the pay you get and the kind of hole--"" he paused, his blue eyes like steel. "Well, never mind," he ad- ded, smiled again and passed on. There: began to be a rumor, Mon- nie heard it. The foreman was quitting Saturday. ig "I guess he's had enough- of it." Lizzie confided. ; Monnie's small face was white under her masses of dark hair. Her heart felt lifeless and heavy. She sat at her machine and stitched un- comprehendingly. Over and over the machinery said one thing: "He's going away; He's going away!" foreman's she end ~ A From the 8,000-foot long mo! DELIGHTFUL SYLVAN SCENE. tion picture, "Nept 's Daughter," r #2 fantasy of the sea, featuring An nette Kellerman at the Grand OperaHouse Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 8th, 9th and 10th, with matinees daily. daily rn A A a . couch and a woman and a doctor she had never seen ( before were with her. "1 feel all right now," hastily She thought she ed just as Lizzie had. The doctor looked call, he said to the patted Monnie's shoulder live girl all right now," he "but you came near being a one." "You were explained the "Oh!" said ed. She nodded. Somehow it did not seem strange that he should call her, dear. "And the others!-----Lizzie?"" she asked. \ "You were the only one. I brought you here." They were alone in the room Suddenly he whipped a little colored photograph from his pocket and put it in her hands. "That's home and [I'm going back there Saturday." he| said. "Do you suppose you could stand it to live'on a farm, Monnie?" "1 could stand it to live anywhere --with you," Monnié answered. She looked down at the picture Then she forgot that she had just been struck by lightning, that she was prickly all over and that her head ached. She forgot even that Abel Otis was watching her. For the place in the picturé was the place she had seen in her vision. she said, had faint pleased. Close woman He "You're a laughed, dead | struck by lighting," woman Monnije She shudder GIRLS OF BRUSSELS CLEAN UNIFORMS OF THE WOUNDED Women of France Give Property to Government as AM in War Times, The girls of Brussels doing much to aid the wounded soldiers of | that vicinity by cleaning the uni-| forms of all those being cared for in | the hospitals, so that when released their clothing will be in good condi tion. Many women of France are giving | their property for the disposal of the | government. The women: of the American colony have gone far the, forming of a Red Cross hopsital for the French soldiers. In Eng land the National Union of Women's | Suffrage Society of England have | taken the task of organizing volun tary services of women hospitality and help to wpmen and children «who are refugees, or are | suffering in any way because of the war. They find situations for the | most needy and are taking into their | homes as many as they can When the present war broke many of the women of- England be gan to. organize for sewing. But the competition of these voluntary workers threatened to put out of | employment &irls and women who | needed the work.. Queen Mary was appealed to, and through her ex- pressed wish the work of the needle work guild is to be carefully restrict | ed to avoid competition with wage earners. are A Bank's Queer Privilege. { The bill to abolish the wine sell-] ing privileges of the university of Oxford, and the city of St. Albans, | reminds me that an old charter, the | Bank of England has the right to| sell beer. It does not appear to have exercised its privilege, but there fs 'apparently mo reason why the bank should not if it wished, open | a beer house in Thread needle street | or supply customers at their own homes. Just imagine how popular "Bank of England Dinner = Ale" would be, with the chief cashier's signature on every bottle, guaran- teeing it genuine!--- London Chro-| njcle: ) | 4 { { tions ordinary kidney medicines | sufferéd | pains | would make, a in giving | \ out {4 | vearly twice the » tevervthing. 060 a month! | weigh Much Pain From Kidney Disease Doctored in Vain Until Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills Were Used. Kidney derangements are often as sociated with disorders of the liver nd bowels, and under these condi us- ually fail to effect cure. It is be cause of their unique, combined uc tion on the liver, kidneys and bow- els that Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills are so generally successful, even in the most complicated eases, Mr. Emanuel Bernard, farmer, Paul's, Kent county, N.B., writes: "About eighteen years ago my wife ad with kidney disease, and greatly from headaches, in bowels and stomach, and heart was affected. bor a year she was treated by her doctor, with apparent bepefit. She then used five boxes of Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liv er Pills with most satisfactory re- sults, This gave us such a good opinion ' of Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills that we always keep them in the house 'to be weed for all de rangements of the kidneys, liver and sowele." "Dr. Chase's Kidnev-Liver Pills, 25¢c. a box, 5 for $1, all deal ers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Lim- ited, Toronto. St 18 her ONE MILLION MEN-- WHAT IT MEANS Such an Army, Four Abreast, Would ! Stretch Out 750 Miles. A million men! What does that mean? How are a midion men? many Can we grasp what an army of a| several actually there are the field and in lion them men now of inj i: Tms army, marching four abreast closed up cel 750 miles long, that from Toronto to Winnipeg the crow flies, from New York to ndsor via. Toronto, or from Chi- 120 10 Smith's Falls The million are mobilizit re all in one big camp ich ground? Lan come reach They how of infantry wit all g0ons nn: ning r acres; a cavalry regiiaent must ixty acres; an artillery regi forty-eight acres. A div:sion fas 640 acres, or a squares r all its infantry, cavalry, artillery il other troops tir camp for a vild oécupy n° \ regiment ani. al als and »: Mite = illion men, then square ze of th miles = Cl.r 0! *orato And now to feed this vast array of | men and animals? The full day's ration for a man in the field weighs 4.4 pounds and costs about thirty cents, including Item--$300,000 a day for [ood for one million soldiers This is just a little matter of $9,000, This food would 4,400,000 poundé--jusi the food for one day or 2,200 tons One box car's capacity is 1,800 cu bie feet. This will carry 9,172 ra: tions ----- fogd for one day for 9,172 men So, for one million men, all waiting impatiently for their grub, it would take 109 freight cars every day to bring along their rations - five trains of twenty-one cars each And this, mind, only for twenty-four hours! FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAR OR THY SEALP---25 CENT DANDERINE It Grow Luxuriant and Beau- | if you care for heavy hair, that and is thin, faded, dry, Girls! Girls! Save Your Hair! Make- the scalp; the hair roots famish, loos- en and die; then the hair falls out tiftul. fast. \ been 'neglected feragey or too If your hair has a oily, get a 25 cent bottle of Knowl- A ad --- FOUGHT WITH BARE FISTS Strange Weapons. That Warriors Have Used in Battles of Long Ago. In all ages the means of defence use 'of primitive and offence has been a mark of warfare. When | Wat Tyler's men of Kent marched over London Bridge and scared the city and court almost to death, their arms were sickles and bill hooks and scythes, and a few black- smith's tools. The same remark applies to the arming of the men of Deven and Somerset at the battle of Sedgemoor, the last real battle fought on English ground But even in these days of arms of préeis- ion there have been many cases where these scientific tools have been discarded in favor of something much more primitive For instance, at the battle of In- kerman, which was a soldier's battle fought in a mist almost thout leadership, many of the English sol diers, finding their fire useless and their bayonets untrustworthy and bent, went in with their fists in true British style Bluejackets have more than once followed this exam- ple when a punitive force has been landed to punish the natives, The tars have gone for them with fists and belaying pins, possibly feeling that anything more deadly would be more than the occasion required The band has on many occasions joined in the fray. It is reported to have occurred in the late war in the Balkans, during the later fighting which took place between the. late allies, Bulgarians and Servians. The | former, were greatly outnumbered, | and seeing them getting the worst of t, the band went into the meele with | their instruments, and many a Ser vian was laid low by a blow from | the butt-end of a cornet, ophecleide, ind trombone, not to mention the | | | formidable bassoon. here is a story about a peasant who defended his hearth against "a horde of the enemy with a three- legged stool, and another of a wo- man who routed the enemy on the double by pverturning a stand of bee hives in her garden, but certain ly one of the most remarkable wea- pons on receord was the big sauce- pan which 'it is creditably said a lusty Turk brandished with great ef- fect at the Battle of Widdin. Since Samson's use of the jawbone of an ass there has never been surely a tranger weapon. In one of the fierce actions im the Peninsular war ammunition ran short, and many shifts were resorted to in order to make up for the lack of bullets. The chief means were buttons. There were not many left one the soldier's uniforms when the fight was over. To-day, of course, a soldier, could not do 'this, for all the rifles are breech-loaders. But In those days it was different. Thus in this very same battle it is reported that a soldier took a razor from his haversack, rammed it down, and fired it after the flying French cav- alry. Evidently that cavalry had a closé shave. Emperor And Chef. Mescoffier, the famous chef, cook- ed for the German emperor when he stayed aboard. the mammoth liner, he, Imperator, last year. After dinner he called for the great gast- ronomic artist and complimented him on his excellent cuisine. Escof- fier - thinking it a wonderful oppor- tunity for doing his country, France a turn replied: "Sire, 1 hope your health will per- mit you to reign long enough to bring about the greatest service to humanity in the 'world, the rap- proachement of Germany and France." it is a cynical commentary on the honesty of the emperor's intentions to note that his reply was to assure M. Escoffier that this was his great- est desire, and one for which he had worked the hardest, but that unfor- tunately it was very difficult and véry hard to see his-good intentions misinterpreted. M. Escoffier responded with the re- mark that though the times might not always be favorable to good ideas he trusted that for the happi- ness of civilization such a rappreach- Your home merchant will back up our guarantee on this splendid range. Ask to see __MClarys Pandora Range and let him demonstrate its many. exclusive features to you. A McClary dealer in every town, w - SOLD BY J. B. BUNT & CO. 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