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CONSTIPATION 'i f*^ th« moat common ailment of th* •g*. on* rMponalbl* for many rioua and oftan fatal diacaaea. ' PURGATIVE WATER Is th« 8&ffl«t, surest and ino*t •conomlcal rMnedy for Its cure. It Qushea the InteeUnea an<l removes the accumulated waate matter which under- mines h«aHh and endaoferB life. On Sale svery where: 26 cents the bottle. RIGA PURGATIVE WATER CO. MONTREAL. For the I '.ride's Wardrobe LIFT YOUR CORNS OFF WITH FINGERS i; . SMOKF TUCMFTTS T&BGUT FRAGIC HERITAGE OF WARJCHILDREN MOST PITIFUL OF ALL WAR'S CONSEQUENCES. Their Lives Are Stunted, Dwarfed, Blasted, Says U. S. Red Cross Worker in France. "Can you imagine anything more pitiful than the lives of children who have never known anything but war? Is there anywhere on God's green earth a more dreadful tragedy than the tragedy of a blighted childhood? The most wonderful thing to me in America is to see little children run- aing about, happy and unafraid. "I have spent six months in the nearest approach to hell that exists, I believe, in or out of the teachings of the theologians â€" the hell where ba- bies are born to hear the sound of bursting shells as their introduction to this world of ours, where little ones learn their mother tongue only fur- tively and in whispers, where children must learn to wear their little gas masks as soon as they learn to walk, where suspicion and fear rule and love and confidence are not. "What do we in America know about war? We cannot begin to sense what it means so long as our children play. I know what war is, for I have just come back from the land wh<'rc the children have never '."arned to play." When Dr. Esther Lovejoy went over to France she found the Ameri- can Red Cross had just established Its children's bureau, joined the staff of that organization, and a^ the medical member of the Red Cross de- tachment went to Evian-les-Bains, the gateway through which Germany pours back into France the old and the infirm, the maimed, the halt and the blind, all who, found in the invad- ed zone have no military or labor value â€" and the little children. Germans Keep Many of Them. "Not all the little children," said Dr. Lovejoy, "for there are many whom the Germans keep inside their own lines. "In the French territory occupied by the German armies there were, be- fore the war began, more than 6,000,- 000 people. Not more than 350,000 of these have been sent back through Switzerland into France or returned through other routes. Many of them were young girls, just rounding the corner into womanhood. Germans â- and back boys under 14, for the older boys can work. They keep all girls over 16 or who look as if they were ovar 16. "The older boys become slaves, those who do not die of starv-ation and overwork, but they do not become Adds Richness to wheat and lends to its flavor, when combined in the sturdy cereal GfdpeMuts No prepared cereal food ex- cels Grape -Nuts in nourishment, economy or digestibility . L There's a RcasorT HIUaUUUUWIIIIKIINlllWWHMWMUttiMIIIIUIMIIIIIi t girls are lost to ! Germans. The France forever. "Men may be defeated, but they are not conquered. Women through the strongest of all human emotions and attributes, the mother instinct, can be conquered, and the Germans know this. So they keep the girls over 16 with the mothers of but one ; chUd • for their 'military value' as mothers to the next German army. "The rest of the children come back through Evian; thirteen thou- ' sand and more of them came through , while I was there. Once there was a â-  whole orphan asylum, carloads of children sent through alone. Life in Occupded France. "We piece together the picture of the life of these little ones inside the German lines from the stories they tell, they and their elders, but I more from the look in their faces ' when they find themselves in a world I where the sound of guns is a long way off and where, wonder of won- ders, people actually speak French I aloud without first looking around to j see if the Boches are listening. I "For the strongest impression one I gathers from the repatriated of the [ life of the native civilian in the strange No Man's Land behind the German front is of a country where the people's own mother tongue is : 'verboten,' but where nevertheless ' they all speak it and teach it to their 1 little ones; a land where little children ! are taught from infancy to be sly [ and deceitful, to do furtively and by stealth the things that are their pro- per birthright but which are 'ver- boten' by the oppressor; above all, a land where hatred is sucked in with the mother's milk, where every stran- gfer is an enemy to be feared, where the awful threat, 'if you don't be- have the Boche will get you,' is not the invoking of a story book bogey r.ian but a real, life and death terror, tangible, present, always lurking in the shadow just beyond. No Chance to Play. "These children do not play; they do not know how to play. That is I the sickening first evidence we get at ! Evian of their stunted, dwarfed, i blasted little lives. "There has been no chance to play over where they came from; play was dangerous; it might annoy the Boche. Besides, children play in- I stinctively only when they are happy, and these chUdren, born in sorrow and unhappiness, have never been happy in their lives. Think of it, that there are thousands and tens of thousands of little children in France, sunny, smiling France, who have never been happy, who do not know what happi- ness meansi "It is not only mentally that these children show the effects of their environment from birth. All have suffered a war blight; they are under- sized, ill nourished and subject to all sorts of diseases. Shy in Thedr Gayety Even. "One of the most pathetic sights is to see the older children, those who remember France as it was before the war, when they get to Evian, back into France once more, where they can run about and play and sing and shout as they used to do. They are shy and awkward about it at first, but they soon recover Jheir spirits and gayety. "But the little ones, those born be- hind the German lines or who were not old enough to walk and talk when the war began â€" to see them watch the others is heart breaking. Their first emotion is fear â€" fear that the Boche will seize them for speaking in French aloud. "They have all been taught French, these Jiniest ones. They even have little French songs that they have learned to sing under their breath. "But of French as a language to be spoken aloud, sung at the top of one's voice, shouted as one romps in the open, they have no conception. Romping and games mean nothing to them; they cling to the skirts of their elders and shiver with fear; it takes a long time to make them under- stand that they are free at last. "They never will be truly free, these stunted little repatries. .All their lives the shadow of these early years will hang over them. The im- pressions fixed in infancy never van- ish wholly; these have been too firm- ly impressed ever to be erased. Of all the tragic heritage of war that of these war chililren is to me the most tragic. T How to looaen a tender com or callus •« it lift* out without pain. There is always a place in every wardrobe for the the simple dressing sacque. McCall Pattern No. 8011, Ladies' and Misses' Tie-On or Button- On Dressing Sacque. In 3 sizes, small, 32-34, medium, 36-38; large, 40-42 bust. Price, 15 cents. Partic -larly attractive is this ki- mono with its contrasting top part. McCall Pattern No. 8109, Ladies' Em- pire Kimono. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Dept. W. Let folks step on your feet here- after; wear shoes a size smaller if you like, for corns will never again send electric sparks of pain through you, according to this Cincinnati au- thority. He says that a few drops of a drug called freezone, applied directly upon a tender, aching corn, instantly re- lieves soreness, and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts right out. This drug dries at once and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without even irritating the surrounding tissue. A small bottle of freezone obtained at any drug store will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's foot. If your druggist hasn't stocked this new drug yet, tell him to get a small bottle of freezone for you from his wholesale drug house. ^â€" Conserving the .\pples. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired Puttey of his neigh- bor, Savall. "Fifteen barl," was the answer. Farmer Puttey took another sip. '•It's a pity," he said, "that you hadn't another apple. You might have made another bar'l." Let Cs Gire Ttiaaiu. For the courage which ^lomes when we call While troubles like hailstones <all; For the help that is somehow nish In the deepest night when we cry; For the path that is certainly thcrwn ! When we pray in the dark alooe, i Let ni give thanks! For the knowledge we gain it we wait And bear all the buffets of fate; For the vision that beautifies gight If we look under wrong for the right; For the gleam of the Ultimate Goal That shines on each reverent soul. Let us give thanks! For the consciousness stirring in . creeds | That love is the thing the world [ needs ; i For the cry of the travailing earth That is giving a new faith birth; For the God we are learning to find | In the heart and the soul and the ; mind, i Let us give thanks! For the growth of the spirit through , pain, j Like a plant in the soil and the rain; ' . For the dropping of needless things Which the sword of a sorrow brings; â-  For the meanini? and purpose of life Which dawns on us out of the strife. Let us give thanks! Kiaaxd'a zanlmcat Lojaberman't rrlaad. Low-priced tea is a delusion for it yields so poorly in the teapot that it is actually an extravagance compared with the genuine Salada Tea, which yields so generously and has such a â-  delicious flavor. Might Lose His Job. .A well-to-do Scottish lady one day said to her gardener: "Man, Tammas, I wonder you don't get married. You've a nice house, and all you want to complete it is a wife. You know the first gardener that ever lived had a wife." "Quite right, missus, quite right," said Tammas, "but he didna keep his job !ang after he got the wife." Kiaaxd's Unlmeat sa*d Iit niTstdaaa Ircorrigible. .A.t a college in England it ie against the rules for male students to visit the "resident lady boarders." One day a student was caught in the act and brought before the headmaster, who said: "Well, Mr. Blank, the pen- alty for the first offence is four shil- lings, for the second ten shillings, for the third £1 and so on up to £10." "And what would a season ticket cost?" enquired the culprit. MINARD'S LINIMENT is the only Liniment asked for at my store uJid the only one we keep for sale. All the people use It. HARUN FULTON. Pleaaant Bay. C.B. What it Meant. Sunday-school Teacher â€" Wtiat does this verse mean where it says; "And the lot fell upon Jonah?" Little Hanie â€" I guess it means the whole gang jumped on him. AaEXTS wajrrsB PO R T R .\ I T -AGENTS WANTING (ood prints; flnishlns a specialty: frame* and everything at lowest prlcM: pulck service, t nited Art Co.. 4 Bruns- wick .Vve-. Toronto FOB aax a WEEKLY NEW3P.VPER FOR a.VLB l3 New Ontario. Owner going to France. Will seU »2.000. Worth double : that amount, .^pply J H.. c o tvilaon Publtshlnir Co.. Ltmited. Toronto ONE EIGHTY HORSE- POWER Boiler, with 300 fi. o< H in. pljw; i stlff-les Derrlok, <ie<.'OR>l-haiiil Sawyer- j Ma»sey Tractor EnKine._ Grey Iroa 1 Castings mado to order I Fk-u-dry Tweed Or The Dominion ; tXTBLL EQUIPPED NEWS3P.\PKa I Tt and Job prlntlnjr plant In Eastern Ontario. Insurance carried 11.500. Will go for tl.20a on quick sals. Box II. Wilson Publlahlnn Co. I-td Toronto. â€" I â- Â« I ifT.T. ^ irvfMrm CANCER. Inter Trawler Crew's Ordeal. A tiawler employed as a submar- ine chaser recently arrived at the Azores with 19 men on board after â-  having been at sea for several weeks j without bread, fresh water, or coal, i and navigating, owing to a break- down, by means of sails. She was on the high seas for Ave weeks before being able to reach port. MONEY ORDERS. ' When ordering goods by mail send a Dominion Express Money Order. -♦- The Solution. For two weary hours the small boy in the railway carriage had howled, and the occupants were getting tired of it. "Oh, dearl" sighed the young mo- ther, almost distracted. "What ever shall 1 do with the child!" .\ gleam of hope shone in the eyes of the long-suflfering traveller oppo- site. • '•Shall I open the window for you, madam?" he inquired. GIRLS! WHITEN SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. 1 Your grocer has the lemons and any ' drug store or toilet counter will gup- I ply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the ' Juice of two fresh lemons into a â-  bottle, then put in the orchard white 'â-  and shake well. This makes a quar- j ter pint of the very best lemon skin ; whitener and complexion beautifler known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face, ' neck, arms and hands and just see how ; freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful re- sults will stirprise you. o ~ The Farmerette. Oh Khaki Jack looks through the smoke. Of deadly barking guns. With thoughts that stray from trench and shell, .\nd all the hate of Huns, His broken thoughts slide home again, .â- \.s water downward runs. .\cross the fields he sees her go, Behind the well-known team, .\nd through the flashes of the smoke He sees the harness gleam, .\s back and forth she gtiides the plow â€" The woman of his dream! Too heavy far the cumbrous plow â€" Too hard the daily toil â€" • Too wearisome the endless tramp. Across the yielding soil! Too slight by far the hands that seek To straighten out the coil! Yet noble women-hearts at home. Make noble men abroad, Whose splendid deeds reflect the souls That strive with soulless clod. For women such as these men die â€" And dying, they thank God! Not What He Meant. "My brother wrote me about a din- ner some of the soldiers gave for two visitors at camp, members of a fam- ous Canadian regiment, who were home on sick leave. The sergeant had been carefully coached about giving the toast, but became flustered, and this is what he made of it: "Here's to the gallant Eighth, last on the field and flrst to leave it." Silence reigned; then the corporal came gallantly to the rescue: "Gentlemen," he began, "you must excuse the sergeant; he never could give a toast decently; he isn't used to public speaking. Now I'll give a toast: "Here's to the gallant Eighth. equal to none.' " At Sunday School. With an air ot great importance the small boy of a Sunday School In Belfast imparted this happy fact to his teacher: •â- The devil is dead," he said, solemn- ly- "What makes you think that?" ask- ed the startled teacher. '•Dad said so," exclaimed the boy. "I was standing in the street with him yesterday when a funeral passed, and when dad saw it he said, "Poor devil! He's dead!' " Post offices were first established in 1464. Many persons are unaware that the green and tender tops of many vege- tables, such as radishes, turnips, cel- ery and beets, contain valuable min- eral and other food substances, and are excellent cooked as greens, or even as additions to salads. Aak for maard's aad t«k* ao otksK The production of farmyard nui~ ure in Great Britain is estimated at 37.000,000 tons annually, valued at i'9.250,000, compared with an annual consumption of £6,500,000 worth of artificials. KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT I RBI WHITE SHOE DRESSING LIQUIDo„c/CAKE For Mens Women's -. andChildrensShoes - ^gSORBINE 5<K The Magic Healing Ointmenf-. SooiFirk tn4 he«!l aU inifBranattoni, such a« bmin^i »t«M>, bli'irri. con. koils, niln id4 •b>ce»c<--J •old lor or«., ;s tein. All dnl«», ot wnn u. HIRSV SFVUPY COMPANV. Hinllioi,, Casi4^ sron \tAM£MCSS from a Bone Spavin, Ring Bone, Splint, Curb, Side Bone, or timibr troubles and ^eu horse going sound. It acts mildly but quickly and good re* suits are lasting. Docs not blister or remove the hair and horse can be worked. Page 1' in pamphlet with each bottle tells how. SZ. 50 a bottle delivered. Horse Book 9 R fr««. ABSORBINE. JR., the intiseptic liniment lor mantind, reduces Painful Swellings, En- brged Glands, Wens, Bruises, Varicose Veins j heals Sores. Allays PSin Will tell you more if you write. $1.2.^ « bottle at dealers •I Jrll»»re<l. LIVr«l tn«l bonlc for 10c icmmp.. W. F.TOUNe. P.O. F..91Bl]Mm ll<(-l>ontretl.Can. ^Ibsotbiac uil AliMit.ii& jr.. ir« aule tn Cualh i Cause of i i Early CM Age 1 The celebrated Dr. Michenhoff, T an autho ity on early old &ge, f aay* that it ia "caused by poisons generated In the intestine." When your stomach dlgefl^ food properly it U absorbed without j romiinx poisonous matter. Poi- ' son* bring on early old age and ^ premature death. 15 to 30 drops < of "Selgcl's Symp" after meals » make* your digestion sound, i > TUMORS. LCMP«. STO. rnaJ and azternai. cured wltfc- ctit pain bT our hom* treatment. Writ* Bs before too late. Dr Bcllmaa Meitteal Co.. Llnilfil. Co lllngwoo^ Oat SUFFEREDTWOYEARS WITH PIMPLES Child Could Not Sleep Till Cuti cura Hea led. "My little brother suffered for about two jrears from tiny red pinrples. They appeared constantly on his body but be had the , greatest trouble onder hia ears. The skin was red and very sore and at the least touch he would give a bowl of pain. After a few seconds he would have to scratch, and he was not able to sleep. "A friend advised me to send for Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I no- ticed a change, and I used three cakes of Cuticura Soap and four boxes of Oint- ment when he was healed." (Signed) Louis Frank, 746 City Hall Ave., Montreal, Que., February 2, 1918. Keep your skin clear by using Cuti- cura Soap a.nj Ointment for every- day toilet purposes. For Free Sample Each by Mail ad- dress post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. 8. A." Sold everywhere. THE MAKING OF ~ A FAMOUS MEDICINE How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is Prepared For Woman's Use. A visit to the laboratory where this successful remedy is made impresse* even the casual looker-on with the reli- ability, accuracy, skiii and cleanliness which attends the making of this great medicine for woman's ills. Over 350,000 pounJs of various herbs are used anually and all have ti> b« gathered at the season of the year when their natural juices and medicinal sub- stances are at their best. The most successful solvents are used to extract the medicinal properties from these herbs. Every utensil and tank that comes in contact with the medicine is sterilized and as a final precaution In cleanliness the medicine is pasteurized and sealed in sterile bottles. It is the wonderful combination of roots and herbs, together with the skill and care used in its preparation which has made this famous medicine so successful in the treatment of female ills. The letters from women who have been restored to health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- Jwund which we are contioually pub- ishing attest to its virtue. Tlie herd hull renuires exercise. If a paddock is not available, give him ' the run of a large box stall. He will be more prepotent than if kept in cramped quarters. C*«p maard'a Ualmeat la tbt Ii9iia*> Punctuation marks were first useti in 1490. > ED. 7. ISSIK 24â€" '18.