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HEALTH England's By R. Luther Werry, Montreal,* Que. Bites of Animals. Where mam* pets are kept Old England has a daughter, fair and beautiful to see; John Bull is mighty proud of-her, and so he ought to be; She'll stand beside him all the time and face the fiercest foe, - Her magic name is "Canada",-- you've heard of it I know. children children frequently get bitten, unless they have been taught to be very gentle and kind to animals. There is always more or less danger from the wound being poisoned by the saliva of the animal. A dog bite, though not so dangerous in Britain a.s in other parts of the world, where hydrophobia is prevalent, should always receive special care. CHORUS "A little scrap of paper" got our nation into war; "When Britain makes a bargain you can take her. note at par; The Kaiser will be wiser when this argument is through-- When Germans feel Canadian steel the cry. will be, "Skidoo.' They've called us to the co'ors and the order we'll obey, We want the world to understand we mean just .what we say; We'll help a little brother, struck by brutal bully's might, For honor and for liberty and justice we will fight. If a doctor is not close at hand, wash the wound out with carbolic acid as soon as possible, but as this is a trying thing for a mother to do. it is as well to get someone else to do it. The carbolic acid is applied applied with a small splinter of wood, smooth, so that it will not injure the wound. See that- every part o.f the wound is probed, so that no part of it may escape the caustic. Immediately a person is bitten it is as well to fasten a ligature around the arm. or limb, a short distance above the bite, to prevent the blood being poisoned. AN it-h ordinary bites, wash well in warm water, containing a few drops of carbolic acid, and encourage bleeding from the wound and thus get rid of the poison. Sometimes when the poisoning poisoning is severe the doctor will lance the surrounding flesh and ensure the escape of the poison. Snake bites should be at once treated with spirits of ammonia, and a very tight If you would see a nation that is loyal through and through, CANADIANS are the people I would introduce you to ; Just say a word against our King or country if you dare, You might as well attempt to beard the lion in his lair. We love our King, we love our flag, we honor British la\ys, And no one can deny-but what we have sufficient caiise; Beneath the grand old Union Jack we mean to live and die -In peace or war, where'er we are, on us you can rely. Unnumbered millions suffer now in lands beyond the sea And wonder if there is a place where they could happy be; Just send them word and tell them all to come without delay, For Canada can give them homes and work and steady pay. ligature applied to the limb between between the heart and the wound. But the best thing to do is to apply the .SECOND CHORUS ' O, Canada, I tell you, is the Eden of to-day, Its people are all prosperous and happy every way; And when you ask them if they like it, this is what they say : "Hip, hip hurrah 1 for Canada, for Canada Hooray ! " Dedicated to Canadian Boys at the Front. Copyright applied for. This song must not be printed or sold without the written permission permission of the writer. COST OF KILLING 1# BATTLE NUMBER OF MEN KILLED IN NINETEENTH CENTURY. ligature, and send for a doctor at once". Nothing can be gained by delav-na*. and time is of value. Comparatively Recent Wars Have Cost About Forty Billion Dollars. •< To Disinfect a Room. The usual method employed is to burn sulphur in a closed-up. room, and this is perhaps as _ effective as any other method. Fill any large vessel, such as an old bucket, or tin bowl, half full of earth, and stand it in the centre of the room on an old metal tray. Lay a piece o- paper paper on- the top of the earth, and pour on to this a pound of common sulphur or brimstone. Close all the windows, and push admass, of crumpled newspaper up t-ne chimney. chimney. set the projecting edges of the paner alight in several places so that it might ignite the sulphur. Leave the room, closing the door tightly. A mat laid on the outside will prevent the fumes escaping from the room. If the room is disinfected disinfected after a serious illness brown paper should be pasted over the edges of the window and door, and left for twelve hours after the sulphur has burnt out. After that time the windows should be opened, and left open for twenty-four hours. The fumes of sulphur will destroy of most fabrics, and tin colors therefore during any sickness of an infectious nature nothing should be used in the wav of hangings, ex cept ouch as can be disinfected and wa slv afterwards. All bedding should be sent to a professional disinfector. disinfector. The sanitary or health authorities in a town will generally give particulars of this work, and see that it is done. All wallpaper in a room must be stripped off and destroyed, a fresh paper being put up in its place. Old paper is in itself itself a sreat cause of infection, and a new paper should never be pasted ( ,ver an old one. This should al- wavs be removed beforehand.--A Fifteen billion human lives, a sum total far too great to be grasped grasped by any human imagination, have been lost in war since the beginning beginning of authentic history, if the exhaustive exhaustive researches made by Benjamin Benjamin F. Trueblood, LL.D., an authority, authority, are to be accepted. Thus battle has cost the world-a number of people greater than that of all those who have inhabited the globe during the last six centuries,* allowing three generations to the century and accepting the estimate of 050,000,000 for the world's population population at the beginning of the nineteenth nineteenth century as the average population population per generation for the six centuries. But perhaps this statement is too general and complicated of computation computation to be impressive to the average average mind, so it may be better to turn to definite consideration of the nineteenth century. War during this period, according according to a very conservative estimate, cost the lives of 14,000,000 men through wounds and disease, 6,000,- OÛO being, sacrificed in the Napoleonic Napoleonic campaign alone, in the nineteen nineteen years between 1796 and 1815. The war of 1812-14 between England England and the United States resulted in the death of about 50,000 men. The war of 1846-48 between the United States and Mexico cost another another 50,000 lives, most of the American deaths being from disease. disease. The Crimean War R nvsieian. Wise. want to brag- about my- foolish things been wise in 11 1 do n self. I've done many in my time, but I've one way. . **What's that :" *T never had the idea that I could paper a bedroom myself.' - of 1854-56 cost the five nations involved--France, involved--France, England,^. Piedmont, Piedmont, Turkey and Russia--785,000 men, 600,000 of whom died of sickness sickness and hardships. Little Schleswig-Holstein's comparatively comparatively unimportant war, in 1864, cost Denmark, Russia and Austria 3,500 men. The American Civil war, 1861-65, cost the- United States between 800,000 and 1,000,000 lives from wounds and disease, or, to strike an average between the two estimates, estimates, 900,000 lives. The short war between Prussia, Austria and Italy in 1863, cost 45,- 000 lives. European expeditions to Mexico, Morocco, Cochin-China, Lebanon, Paraguay, etc., between 1861 and 1867, cost 65,000 lives. The F ran eo-Prussian war, 1870- 71, not less than 250,000 lives. The Russo-Turkish war of 1871 cost not less than 250,000 lives. The Zulu and Afghan wars, in 1879, cost 40,000 lives. The Japo-Chinese war of 1894-95, according to crude and surely incomplete incomplete estimates, cost 15,000 lives. The English-Boer war in South Africa, 1889-1901, edst the lives of 125,000 men, of whom 100,000 were English, and it involved an additional additional loss of something like 15,000 Boer women and children. The Spanish-American war of 1898 cost both sides from wounds and disease less than 6,000 Lives, but the Philippine aftermath of this war has cost the United States the loss of abouU 5,000 soldiers and the loss among the native Filipinos, from wounds and disease, during the entire period of definite war and occasional fighting has amounted, amounted, it is said,' to 500,000. v The cost of war in money runs ever further beyond the limitations of human comprehension. The Napoleonic Wars cost France, Great Britain, many, Italy, Austria, Spain, sia and Turkey, all of whom involved, in actual expenditure and destruction, not counting loss of trade and other economic waste, not less than $15,000,000,000. The British-American war, 1812- 14, cost $300,000,000. The .United States-Mexican war, 1846-48, cost $180,000,000. The Crimean war, 1854-56, cost $1,660,000. The Italian war, of 1859, cost $294,000,000. The Schleswig-Holstein war, of 1864, cost $34,000,000. The American Civil war, of 1851-5, cost $8,000,000,000. The Prussian-Austrian war, ■ of 1866, cost $32,000,000. The expeditions to Mexico, Morocco, Morocco, Cochin-China, etc., 1861-7, cost $200,000,000. The F ran co-Prussian war, 1870-1, cost $3,000,000,000. The Russo-Turkish * war of 1877, cost $1,100,000,000. The Zulu and Afghan war of 1879, cost $150,000,000. The Chinese-Japan war of 1894-5, cost $60,000,000. The British-Boer war of 1899- 1901, cost- $1,300,000,000. The Spanish _ American - Philippines Philippines war of 1898 .to 1902, cost Spain and the Philippines $100,000,000, and the United States (Edward Atkinson's Atkinson's estimate for the whole five years), $7,000,000,000, or a total of $800,000,000. The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, cost $1,735,00,000,- of which Japan's share was $800,000,000. The Grand Total of this vast expenditure, about $33,- 000,000,000, and the cost of innumerable innumerable little wars, of which England alone .had eighty during the last century, and of which, for another example, there have been an uncounted uncounted number -in South and Central Central America, as well as in the foreign foreign possessions of the various European European nations (as, for example, England's India), would surely add something close to five billions to this total, giving an approximate total cost of $38,000,000,000, which, for purposes of convenience and with no fear that we really are exaggerating,- exaggerating,- we may make $40,000,- 000,000. BuUto juggle with such figures in a-n attempt to estimate what it has cost so many nations of the world to kill so many of their neighbors is a cumbersome task, so we will reduce reduce our observation to the cost of and the total of lives lost during the great comparatively modern wars, beginning not ' farther back than the Napoleonic campaigns, including including in the list only the Napoleonic Napoleonic wars, the United States-British war of 1812, the United States-Mexican States-Mexican war of 1846, the Crimean war of 1854, the American Civil war, the Franoo-Pruseian war, the Russo- Turkish war of 1877, the Boer-British Boer-British war, the Spanish-American war arid the Russo-Japanese war. Fashion Hints the CANADA'S FIRE LOSS. Heavy Charge for Replacement Must Be Provided For. D.D.D. In Hospitals; Standard Skin Cure Ger- Rus- were ■ In the competition of nations tor the trade of the world, any condition condition which would prove a handicap must be carefully considered, the causes investigated and every possible possible endeavor made to secure either their absolute removal to the minimum. Canada, in her present efforts toward toward obtaining a share of the export export trade of Germany, suffers from one of the most serious difficulties with which a nation can contend, namely, that of heavy fire loss. In the commercial world three items make up the cost of every article, viz., raw material, labor, and overhead charges. Raw material material is governed in price by market market conditions. Overhead charges, however, are a factor of expense which is always open to investigation. investigation. The charge against the output output of . a nation consists of a great many individual items of expense ; prominent among these, is the cost of replacing property destroyed by fire. Canada had "a fire loss in 1913 of $26,346,618 or $3.29 per capita. The Census Branch allows approximately approximately five persons to a family, and, on this basis, the .head of every family in Canada, ""must provide $1.46 to pay his share of this expense. expense. Using the Census figures of .675,203 as the number of employees engaged in manufacturing in Canada, Canada, and assuming that each of these represents a family of five persons, Canadian manufacturers paid out, in 1913, no less than $8,- 475,089 to provide for replacement of property destroyed by fire. Gerniany, on the other hand, has a per capita fire loss of .33, with a family unit loss of $1.65, and, on the basis of the number of Canadian Canadian manufacturing employees, she pays out $651,075. In other words, Canada and Germany working side by side, and with the -same number of employees, Canadian manufacturers manufacturers must provide, in wages alone, for an additional overhead expense of $7,824,014 to cover fire loss before Canada can compete with her opposition on an equal footing, all other conditions being approximately the same. Fads and Fancies. Fur is : used to trim many of new 'broadcloth suits.. Winged skirts with side plaits are one of the new styles. Imitation .porcelain flowers are seen on the new millinery. The military note is evident . in many of the new fashions. Tricorne and continental shapes are in favor for -winter hats. Black enamel jewelry set with rhinestones is in high favor. _ Suits in large checks are trimmed with bone buttons -and ibraids. Long and short haired zibelines are among the favorite cloths. Sharkskin cheviot is one of _ the favorite cloths for the quiet suit. Fine 'black coats are made with military collars and artillery capes. The new net fiouncings have wonderful wonderful designs of .sparkling spangles. Some of the new dresses have their skirts cut full, and no overskirts. overskirts. Marabou and ostrich are frequently frequently combined in the new neckpieces. neckpieces. . Silk ratine, plaided or striped, is used for charming girdles and trimmings. trimmings. . -< Satin and chiffon" is a favorite combination for the dark colored blouse. Corbeau blue with brown is a combination much prettier than it sounds. Red panne velvet and red tulle are occasionally used for evening dresses. Many, of the new laces are embroidered embroidered with gold and colored threads. Long haired cream colored plush is used for evening wraps and lined with brocaded crepe in vivid colors. colors. Some of the new jackets are made with belts showing in front, but hidden under the jacket in the back. How many hospital patients, suffering the frightful itch, the raw scorching pain of skin disease, have been soothed to sleep by a soothing fluid washed in by the nurse's hands? That fluid is the famous D. D. D. prescription prescription for eczema. The Supervising Nurse of one of our Catholic institutions (name of nurse aud institute on application) writes regarding a patient. "The disease had eaten her eyebrows away. Her nose and lips had become disfigured. Since the use of D. D. D. her eyebrows are growing, her nose and face have assumed assumed their n itural expression." How many eczema suffers are paying their doctors for regular treatment and and are being treated with this same soothing, healing fluid ? Dr. Geo. T. Richardson frankly writes ,,D. D. D. is superor to anything I have ever found. Soft and soothing' yet a powerful agent." To do the work, D. D. D. Prescription must be applied according to directions given in the pamphlet around every bottle. bottle. Follow these direction and see ! And it certainly takes away the itch at once--the moment the liquid is applied. applied. The skin is soothed--calmed-- so thoroughly refreshed--delightfully cooled. All druggists of standing hav« the famous specific as well as the efflcieufc D. D. D. Skin Soap. But we are so confident o " the merits of this prescription that we will refund, the purchase price of the first full size bottle if it fails to'reach your case. You alone are to judge. Jury & Lovell, Druggists, Bowmanville.-- D. D. D, Soap Keeps Your Skin Healthy No increase in price. Notwithstanding heavy increase in ( ost of important m- Notwithstanding heavy increase in gred'ents price remains the sunn . IS CHRISTIANITY A FAILURE? Thousands Have Tried It and Are Trying It, and Never Once "Without Success "Everyone that hearefch words of mine, and- doeth "Look here," said the indignant mistress of the house to the peddler of small wares, "do you call these safety matches Why, they won't light' at all." "Well, ma'am,'" said the peddler sauvely, "wot could you ' ave that'd be safer ?" The Irate Parent (who has been trying to satisfy Gerald's curiosity on every known subject under the sun)--Now, look here, Gerald, if you ask me another question, I whip you on the spot ! Gerald-- 'W-what spot, Dad? Aunt Ethel--Well, Beatrice, were you very brave at the dentist s ? Beatrice--Yes, Auntie, I was. Aunt Ethel--Then there's the fifty cents I promised you. And now tell me wlj,at he- did to you. Beatrice--He pulled out two of Willie's teeth ! 'these them, shall be likened unto a man who built his house upon the rock ; and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that bouse ; and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock." --Matthew vii., 24-25. The old gentleman's wife was getting into a carriage, and he neglected neglected to assist her. "You are not so gallant, John, as when I was a gal," she exclaimed, in gentle rebuke. rebuke. "No," was his ready response, response, "and you are not so buoyant buoyant as when I was a boy 1" Old Peterbv is rich and stingy. In the event of' his death his nephew will inherit his property. A friend of the family said to the old gentleman--"I gentleman--"I hear your nephew_ is going going to marry. On that occasion you ought to do something to make him happy." "I will," said Peterby, I'll pretend that I'm dangerously ill." ' This question is not new ! It has been asked whenever a whole society, society, like eighteenth- century France, has been rotten with corruption corruption ; whenever a barbarous institution, institution, like slavery, has been allowed to flourish ; whenever, as in our own day, poverty, unemployment, unemployment, prison abominations, offer flagrant violation of the religion of the Nazar ene. But never has this question been urged with such insistence insistence as to-day, vTien war is ravaging, the world from end to end. Does not the inability of the Church to stay this conflict demonstrate demonstrate its failure as an agent of human human betterment? Is it not evident that Christianity has done nothing to destroy prejudice, soften enmity or banish lust from the human heart? Why not frankly admit its fall and turn to other and more promising means of establishing justice and peace upon the earth ? The usual answer to this question is that nobody can say whether or not Christianity is a failure since It Has Never Been Tried. This answer is witty, just to. the extent extent that it is untrue ! Christianity, interpreted as the simple law of love to God and man. has been tried, at most times timidly and half-heartedly, but even so successfully successfully ; on some few occasions sincerely sincerely and courageously, and al- wifcs thus triumphantly. Jesus tried Christianity in Palestine, with results that shook the world. St. Francis tried it in Assisi, David David Livingstone in Africa, Tolstoy in Russia. Thousands of men arid women, knowm and unknown, have tried it and are trying it, and never once without success! • Nor is it only in private life and b* separate individuals that Christianity Christianity has thus been tested. More widely.than we realize it lias been applied to social life, and numerous numerous institutions, such as the family family and the school, have been brought under its sway. Nowhere, of course, has the application been complete. But just to the extent that the trial has been made the result is in. terms of happiness, prosperity and peace has been immediate immediate and permanent. If anywhere in the world there are violence and misery, it is nob ecause Christianity has failed, but on the contrary because something else; very different from Christianity. Christianity. has failed. Take the Present War, for example ! Here, nlainly enough, is a failure of battle ships and _ standing armies to'safeguard international international peace ; a failure of militarism militarism to train great peoples in the virtues of gentleness and honor ; a failure of secret diplomacy- to guide the nations in paths of amity and concord ; a failure of commercial commercial interests to bind mankind together together by the bonds of mutual interest; interest; a failure of a social order to prosper on the basis of force and hatred. But nowhere is there a failure of Christianity. For when has this religion had any part in the governance of people ? What kings have.ever ruled in the spirit of the Carpenter? What statesmen have ever deferred the aggrandizement aggrandizement of nations to the welfare of humanity? Failure is here! But it is the failure, not of Christianity but of barbarism, riot of Christ but of Caesar, not of love but of -blood and iron ! On some glad day in the future, "the tumult arid the shouting" of this present horror will. die--"the captains and the kings depart." And then amid its blood and tears shall the sad world and wreckage see that "Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, sacrifice, . A humble and a contrite heart." -- Revu John Havnes Holmes. x - m- An Unwilling Thief. The captain of a steamer who, while loading at Burntisland, took on two hands--one, a man- who was "character," 9î Kirkcaldy without a written and another, a Dundee Dundee man who had^abundance of documentary documentary evidence as to his honesty honesty and uprightness. Thev had not been long at sea when " they encountered rough weather, and the Dundee man, while crossing the deck with a bucket in his hand, was swept overboard. overboard. The Kirkcaldy man saw what had happened, and sought the captain. "Dae ye mind yon man frae Dundee Dundee ?" he asked, "that ye engaged wi' the fine character ?" replied the captain. it?" "Week he's rin " awa wi' yer bucket!" ; 4 i-'VL cy 'ÿAc.f. ARROWROOT, MALTO ÇREAM SANDWICH, OPERA FINGERS, WATER ICE WAFERS, LEMON NECTAR "'Yes," "What These and other Perrin's Sweet Biscuits are the very acme of deliciousness. We put them in our of SPECIAL "SAMPLER" PACKAGE m G v nu a n B us li» Sever n c c! It uiches ai the Battle of the Aisne. will help in giving one the- reason for the protracted nature of the fighting along the m Si* Our ill nut-ration wm ncip ^ :*, ~ x • ,v~ +v,*x V "Aisne and why -the Germans have been able -to offer so tenacious -a resistance. The way. m which lit-erallv du°* themselves in everywhere, we see here: making elaborate shelter-trenches deep ; ernpugn to cover m* n to their arm-pits, and enable them to fire on a-Level with the ground, with emergency protection- protection- fur tirer a »ainst enfilade fire. To conceal the trenches leafy branches were planted in front so^&S fe to look Fke'ordinary clumps of bushes, between the stems of which the men fired, the smokeless powder used*materially aiding the conce-alment'. The visual effect of the bush cover at a little ^ well bv the two trenches towards the centre of the picture, which are so- screened. -- IRu-strated Wai shown News. Not Her Pie. Hostess (at parti*) "Does your that you can sample them readily. We will send this delightful assortir assortir xx„fA'vrtn for 10 cènts in coin or stamps and your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when, you are at home, Wil- lie?" Willie (who has asked for a second second piece)--"No, ma'am." . ' "Well, do you think éhe would like you to have two pieces here r ' "Oh," confidentially, "she wouldn't care. This isn't her pie !" so ment of our fancy biscuits to you grocer's n^tnë. Spine of them may probably like them all. Write be entirely new to you you will 24 pier package to-day. ■Jeer. D. S Cheerful husband, entering the kitchen singing--"My love is like a ted, red rose." Wife, looking up 'from the etove--"You'd look red, too, if you'd been bending over a frying pan for twenty minutes./ Perrin & .Company yLlMfeeb LONDON - CANADA ti A ÏÏ ■ »»« ■ -, .-.T -t. A V. • v "V q