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sgow municipal farms last sea- made a clear profit of $15,000. The offer to raise a Volunteer bat-| | 'Stirling's oldest | | died at the age; a Ein of 97 years. 'Women navvies are laying a cable 8, Linlithgowshire, as part 'dlegtric light: scheme. ~ ° ge McCrae of Edinburgh is ne base hospital in France; sufferin hase ho fever and dysentery. % A battalion to be known as the 1st attalion Ayreshire Volunteers' Regi-| ment is to be raised in the county of yr. The death has occurred of Mr. I enry Rutherford, for over forty years manager of Aberlady Gas Com- MacLeod; BO years of age; near Inverness, in a fire that gutted four houses. . a Ia Twenty more wounded soldiers re< cently arrived at Gordon Castle, Hospital, Morayshire, making a total of 90 inmates. memorial to the late Field Mar- shal Earl Roberts was unveiled in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, by his daughter, Countess Roberts. Lieut. Batten-Poole, nephew of Anna, Lady Colquhoun, of Colquhoun, has been awarded thé Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery in the field. Mr. A. J. Balfour, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, has begun an of- ficial visit of inspection of the Clyde ) and engineering works. 'meeting of Deeside = District shire stated that there are 60 cases of infantile paralysis in Aberdeen. special Scottish me PALE iH ' eT, Scottish contribution Mayor of London's Fund. : 8 feet in length, wie i up 'on the coast of Colonsay, off Argyllshire, but was afterward swept away by a higher of 84 cents per , the M.O.H. for Aberdeen- entered the Royal Naval Collége, Os- borne; in January, 1909, and became a was promoted to Acting Sub:Lieuten- ant_in September, 1915. When war broke out he was serving in a flag- ship of the Grand Fleet, but in Sep- tember; 1914, he was compelled to go on sick leave, and was operated upon for appendicitis. He was unable to rejoin his ship until February of the ember he was again on sick leave, with an obstinate gastric disorder. He returned to active duty in May of this year. THANKFUL MOTHERS Thousands of thankful mothers throughout Canada--many of them { your own neighbors--speak with the greatest praise of that splendid medi- | cine, Baby's Own Tablets. Many 'mothers would have no other medicine | for their little: ones. ~ Among these is Mrs. Albert Nie, "St. Brieux; Sus who says: "I have been ui 'Baby's Own Tablets for the past seven years and they have done my four children | a world of good. I would not be with- | out them." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at. 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams { Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. was, 3 KASHA THE SMASHER. Something About the Famous Russian General. - + The Russian soldier's nickname for General Brussiloff, the man who has driven the Austrians before him in | Galicia in a dozen battles, is "Papa Kasha." "Kasha," a writer in a Brit- ish periodical tells us, Is. a breakfast dish greatly beloved by the Russian . | soldier, - It is made principally of dry '| buckwheat mixed with sour clotted milk, and Brussiloff was the first to introduce it lar ration for midshipman in" September, 1913. 'He | £% following year. In the following Nov- | yratea ability in mancuvring large men, and he was permitted to have his own way. : . Li The victorious commander, like 'most of the other successful generals in this war, is well advanced in years; | he. ig sixty-four years of age. His vitality, however;.is amazing. He is report to be the picture of heath at present, in spite. of eS A dy. In all weathers he will inspect his troops' and visit the vital car cannot take him whére he wants .| to go on account of the bad roads, he will continue his journey for many miles if necessary on horseback. "We have undertaken a big opera- tion. With God's help we will con- duct it to a successful conclusion," was all he said when he was congrat- ulated on his victories, Brussiloff io a man of very few words. The Folly Of Taking > A Warning to The habit of ta direstive pi ter meals naked ghto ic dyspeptics usands of men an ir of have P 1 upon the excessively acl the stomach contents which is the cause of st forms of indigestion and dys- pepsia. The after dinner pill merely lessens the sensitiveness of the stomach nerves thus gives a false sense of freedom m If those who are subject flatulence, chi etc., after eat! no. Ont 0! ing, bis- magnesia from their druggist e a teaspoonful in a little water after meals, there would be no further necessity for drugs or medicines be- cause isurated magnesia ' instantly neutralizes stomach acidity, stops food fermentation and thus insures normal, painless Sigestion by Shabling the stom- ach to do its work without hind®nce. ll dite 41 ZEPPELIN RAIDS. 1,334 People Killed and Wounded in "England. y York Times prints the ; planes at $7,000 each, 85 submarines | shells at $500 each. These 14 Zep-| | pelins did no military damage; their bodiotrof | points along his front. If his motor| Te nfs be- | ian. ount the Germans have. lost the wrecking of Zeppelins alone. This sum would build 500 aero- lat $100,000 each, or pay. for 70,000 'only value to Germany has been in re- 'connaissance work over the North Sea. ! i "TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW. As evidenced by an advertisement which appeared in last week's issue, those who send telegram 8 fi i 2Eafzaf quite satisfied if these arri ple Tin Big e cost e is to the cost of speedy delivery. day letter of fifty words will be rated at one and a half times the cost of a agylas tush message of ten words still » day, which is as quick as many people desire. There are stktee dred C.P.R. telegraph offices through- Canada, at gach of which the new Te will Be fn Fore, so that this will be a _Dominion:wide service stretching i, Louisburg, Nova Scotia, to * Victoria, * B.C. Messages will be taken in either French or Eng- : 8 lish, code words not being permissible. | Mr. John McMillan owes his suc- cess to a genial and tactful. disposi- tion which made him one of the most popular C.P.R. officials in the West, B47 where his work centred until he was the Toronto Fat Stock Show are giv- ing special attention to farmers and breeders, and are offering many hand- | some prizes for classes where stock 8) i must be bred, fed and owned by the, exhibitors. This is work along the right lines and should bring out a good entry. imei fn MORE BABIES FOR EMPIRE. Large Family Will be Regarded As a National Asset. "The war after the war will be won by the nation which encourages early marriages and large families." These words were used by an em- inent London physician in an inter- view with the London Daily Express. He spoke on the subjects which Sir! Leo Chiozza Money, M.P., dealt with recently--the need for more abund-' antly populating the British Empire and the peril of the families of one or two, children. "My experience shows that, given good stock to start with, large fami- lies show no deterioration among the younger branches," said the physi- "On the contrary, I frequently find that the best bodies, and em- phatically the best brains, occur, say, with the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh child. "Married people who prefer small families risk the possibility of losing! a genius which might have come in a fourth or fifth child. Parsons set a good example, as a rule, in the size of their families, and they are usually fine families, too. "In Germany, early marriages and large, very large, families are the rule. I have seen a father, mother, and twenty-four children, all robust and bright, going to church. "Bachelors who postpone marrying! until they are thirty-five or forty act foolishly for themselves and the race. It is one of the weak points in our gocial system that men do not marry young." | been 28 in 1915 and' mary does not take into account the many aero and seaplane attacks and the numerous abortive attempts which have been driven back at the coast or balked by shifting winds and misty weather. If in these raids we take thyge Zeppeling as the average number, and allow three tons of explosives and incendiary bombs as the capacity of each dirigible, we have an aggre- gate of 870 tons of death-dealing mis- giles. Supposing each bomb weighs 50 pounds, we have approximately 15,000 'as the number dropped on England or in the North Sea in the last two years. public the number of casualties after each raid, and these aggregate 866 dead and 980 wounded: This means that it has taken more than a ton of German bombs for every British man, woman and child who has been killed. e enemy must lead. Before the heir defences life was The British Government has made Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. 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