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w V ïgü n n Z* The Indian Basket. Gn the top shelf of the whatnot in grandmother's old-fashioned room had stood for many years the Indian bask^L „ Grace and Ethel always thouyt of it in big capital letters, be- causé of the way in which it had come, into the family, and the care that . grandmother took of it. In the old days, when grandfather was a young man, one day when he was riding alone by the banks of a little stream, he had come upon the bones of a child--a little Indian girl, he thought, because of some pieces of what had once been her dress. The bones were white and clean, and .on some of them were marks that looked as if they had been made by teeth-- probably the teeth of wolves. Near by lay the Indian basket. It was beautifully made, of closely woven twigs and grasses, some of which had been colored with bright dyes that made a curious pattern on - the finished basket. In shape it was nearly round, and in size about as large as a small cabbage. • When grandfather found the basket, there was nothing in it but a few pebbles from the bed of the stream, and two or three pretty shells of fresh-water mussels--just the kind of things that a little girl would like to play with. Grandfather took the basket, and brought it home with him and gave it to grandmother; and many a time Grace and Ethel had heard the story of the little Indian girl, and wondered wondered how she had happened to be alone by the stream, and whether it was . really wolves that had got her. Of course grandmother took great care of the basket. She seldom used it; and as for the little girls, they were not allowed to take it at all except except when grandmother herself put it into their hands, full of fruit, or flowers, or other dainties for some sick neighbor; and then they were told to carry it carefully, and to be sure to bring it back. But one day they were left alone, and after playing for a time at one thing or another, they stole into grandmother's room. In its usual place on the shelf stood the basket. "Let's take it out in the garden and pick it full of raspberries 1" cried Grace. It took them half an hour to fill the basket. The ripe, juicy berries they poured carefully into a dish, and were just about to put the basket back in its place when Ethel noticed that the berries had made some red stains on the inside of it; so they took it to thokitchen sink and with a wet cloth wijred it out; but the cloth left a few drops of water in the basket, and Ethel turned it- upside down to . let them run out. "Oh, look!" cried Alice. "When it's that way it is just like the helmets that soldiers used to wear. The handle is the strap to go under the chin!" And picking up the basket, she set it on Ethel's head. It sat tippily in its place, rocking from side to side, until, with a sudden push, Alice jammed it down. Then it slipped over Ethel's forehead and Semi-Fitted Dresses Smart. A Severe Sufferer Cured Through the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Fierce darting pains--pains like red hot needles being driven through the flesh--in thé thigh;, perhaps down the legs to the ankles -- that's sciatica. None but the victim can realize the torture. But the sufferer need not grow discouraged for there is a cure in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pdlls make new, rich, red blood, which soothes and strengthens the" feeble nerves, and thus frees them from pain and restores the sufferer to cheerful activity. In proof -we give the Statement Statement of Mr. Thos. D. Leinster, Wa- pella, Sask., who says: "I was attacked attacked with sciatica which gradually grew worse until I was ponfined to my bed; for three months I had to be shifted and turned in my bed as I was utterly unable to help myself. I suffered the greatest torture from the fierce, stabbing stabbing pains that , accompanied every movement. I consulted several doctors doctors and took drugs and medicines until until I was nauseated, Jmt without getting getting any benefit, and I began to believe believe I would be a continuous sufferer. Finally I was prevailed upon to usé Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after taking them for about six weeks I was able to get out of bed. From that on I kept steadily improving until I was free from this terrible and painful malady." The most stubborn cases of sciatica will yield to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills if the treatment is persisted in. These pills are sold by all medicine dealers or will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing addressing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. The semi T fitted dress has become and will remain for some time a favorite. favorite. This is not odd, for it is not alone easier to'make and "smarter in appearance, but it is a pleasant relief from the tighter tailored garments of the preceding season. A good exam- Anglo- French 5%--5 yrs. yield about 5i%, convertible at ÿour option for from.iO to 20 yrs. as per public announcement. WIRE your orders for all the Anglo-French Bonds you need while you can get them at 98. in the $100.' We had a large Syndicate .al- , lotment but fear it will be "all - taken before the 20th. WIRE commitments at once to be surd of a .share in this good thing. " PROVINCIAL TRUST COMPANY, Trust & Lpan Bldg., Montreal. AUSTRALIA'S PART IN WAR. Colony Has Raised 117,000 Men and Sent 76,566. Every Stiff Joint Limbered, Rheumatism Cored ! That Old Family Remedy. "Nerviline" "Nerviline" is Guaranteed for -• the Worst Cases. No. 9122. DO SUBMARINES PAY? The Germans Admit They Are a Disappointment. Disappointment. The British Admiralty gives out the following summary of the results of the German attempt to blockade the empire: Total sailings and arrivals ... 31,385 British merchant ships sunk .. 98 Percentage of loi^s 0.31 Officers and men wounded .... 505 Neutral ships sunk :.. 95 pie is shown herewith, Ladies Home Journal Pattern No. 9122. This dress has a semi-fitted lining with yoke section section front and back, and full length or shorter sleeves. The dress opens on the left shoulder and under arm seam and the lining opens at the centre centre back--the dress at this point is 56 inches long. Sash and hem facing ribbon. The dress cuts in 6 sizes, 34 to 44, size 36 requiring 5% yards of 36-inch material, 2% yards of 3-inch banding for hem facing, % yards of 30-inch contrasting material, % yards 36-inch lining, and 3 yards ribbon for sash. Patterns, -15 cents each, can be obtained at your local Ladies' Home Journal dealer or from the Home Pattern Company, 183-A George Street, Toronto, Ontario. The British shipping has been doing a thriving business in the meanwhile, making large profits. The Berliner Tageblatt admits the substantial accuracy of the above figures, figures, and the Germans have been much disappointed at the failure of their submarine blockade to be 'an answer to the British blockade. The newspapers are blamed for raising extravagant expectations. It is pointed pointed out that it has been a long time since a warship was destroyed. The SCARCITY OF PHYSICIANS. Call of Young Men to War Will Cripple Profession in England. submarines have been seeking easier prey. ENGLAND FOR INDEMNITY. Germany Would Like to Realize Old Blucher's Wish. ears, until it covered her whole face and rested on her shoulders. But in a little while they grew tired of the fun, and Ethel found it very warm inside the basket, so she tried to take it off; but it. would not come. Inside the basket were the sharp ends of the hundreds of little twigs, of which it was made, all pointing upward. upward. Whenever she tried to move the basket, the ends of the twigs caught in her hair and pricked her face. "O, Alice," she cried, "help me! I can't get it off!" And so Alice pulled pulled and pushed, too, but more and more the sharp twigs caught and pricked, until Ethel was crying with the pain and Alice from fright; and still the basket would not move. But just then there was a sound of wheels in the dooryard and father's father's loud voice calling "Whoa!" to old Buster; and in a minute the whole family--father, and mother, and grandmother--came running in to see what was the matter. They found both children crying, Ethel still in the basket, and Alice dancing up and down shaking her hands in terror, and saying over and over again, "Oh, they'll have to do it! they'll have to do it!" In a minute mother's quiet voice had soothed her'into a gentle sobbing, and in the meantime father had taken ! his sharp knife from his pocket and carefully cut a long slit in the basket, and holding the edges of the slit apart had lifted the basket from Ethel's head. Then he said, "There! There! It's all over. Now, don't cry any more. What was it, Alice, that made you so frightened? What was it you thought we would have to do V ' "Why, I never thought you could tut the basket," answered Alice through her tears. "I thought the only thing you could do would be to cut Ethel's head off." The old basket still stands on the shelf, although no longeron grandmother's grandmother's room, for grandmother is not there now; but there is a long, ugly cut in one side of it. Alice and Ethel are quite grown up, and have gonè away, and have little girls of their own; but whèn thfeÿ gô back to thé Old home and see thé basket, they laugh at the time when as Alice says, fhat N cut saved Ethel's; life.--Youth's (Companion. The British newspapers are inculcating inculcating the belief in the minds of the people that the ultimate object of the Kaiser is to secure an indemnity from England. In the minds of the Germans Germans the wealth of England is fabulous. fabulous. It is not expected that any indemnity indemnity can be secured from Russia, Italy or France, and in case the Germans Germans win all three of these nations will be bankrupt at the close of the j war. England alone will have money | and property, and can be looked to to j recoup Germany for her immense ex- j penditures. To do this it will be ne- cessary to take Calais, sweejT the English Channel with the German guns, drive off the fleet and land the German army in England. The rest is thought to be easy and London will realize old Blucher's wish when he looked out over the city and said: "Mein Gott, what a rich place to loot." A DETERMINED WOMAN Finally Found a Food that Helped Her.. "When I first read of the remarkable remarkable effects of Grape-Nuts food, I determined determined to secure some," says a western woman. <( At that time there was none kept in this town, but my husband ordered some from a commercial commercial traveller. "I had been greatly afflicted with sudden attacks of cramps, nausea, and vomiting. Tried all sorts of remedies and physicians, but obtained only temporary temporary relief. As soon as I began to use Grape-Nuts the cramps disappeared disappeared entirely. I am to-day perfectly perfectly well, can eat anything and everything everything I wish, without paying the penalty penalty that I used to. We would not keep house without Grape-Nuts. "My husband was so delighted with the benefits I received that he has been recommending Grape-Nuts to his-customers and has built up a very large trade on the food. He sells it to many of the leading physicians of the county, who recommend Grape- Nuts very generally. There is some satisfaction in using a really scientifically scientifically prepared food." "There's a Reason." . Name given, by .'Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. Evas read the above letter ?. ' A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, ànü full of huma# Interest. The dearth of medical men in the United Kingdom is not "only serious at present on account of the war, but it will continue for years afterward, in the opinion of the Lancet, the organ organ of the British medical profession. In a recent issue the Lancet says : "That our medical schools will go very short of students is certain, and this will mean, a dangerously small list of medical practitioners to minister minister to the needs of the country in the near future. The position is inevitable. inevitable. The spirit which will lead young men of the military age and the educated class to join the army must have this effect, but it is the duty of the'medical profession to face the difficulty and to make the best of it. "The great work which the medical contingent with the navy and army has accomplished in the present war will act later as a stimulus to enthusiasm enthusiasm for'our calling, and the shortage shortage which must occur in our -ranks for the three or four years following, say, 1917, will speedily remedy itself when our Social work resumes, as far as altered circumstances will permit, permit, the scheme which wè had, with considerable lack of prevision, come to regard as the normal one. "The war found the number of the medical profession in this country already already disquietingly low, and with indications indications of further sagging in those numbers. The figures indicate a serious serious shortage of medical men for the years following the war. Not only" has a large number of young" men otherwise would be beginning or pursuing pursuing their medical studies been absorbed, absorbed, but, unfortunately, a serious toll was taken last autumn of those who, being already nearly qualified, would have been able to practice their profession as qualified men in a few months. "The future will see an increased demand for medical men, and their prospects of success will be so great that the aspirants will assuredly be numerous. And there will be an improvement improvement in the conditions which have prevailed in the past, not only because the profession of medicine will share in sociological progress, but because the record of the work of medicine throughout the war has been such that it must lead to a closer relationship between the medical profession profession and the public. ' "The British public are taking a more intelligent interest in these" things, and the energy with which lay bodies are working in operation with the medical profession in carrying out various schemes for the well-being well-being of -the people may be taken as an indication that the health of the nation will be a first consideration of the immediate future, which means that there will be a great demand for medical men/at the close of the war. And this is the x essential message to the students now in the schools. Vital Healing Power Fills the System And Health Returns A crowing curative triumph in medicine medicine is now given to. the world, and all who" have been sufferers from stomach ailments, indigestion and headache can be cured quickly by a purely vegetable remedy. Calomel, salts and such like are no longer necessary. necessary. They are harsh and disagreeable. disagreeable. Science has devised something something far superior, and you can go to-day with 25c. to any druggist and buy a box 'of Dr. Hamilton's Pills which are considered the very quickest quickest and safest cure for the stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys. Half sick men and women who scarcely know what ails them will be given a new lease of life with Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Depressed spirits disappear, headaches are forgotten, appetite increases, increases, blond is purified and enriched, enriched, pains at the base of the spine are cured, the nerves are toned'up, ambition ambition to work is increased, and day by day the old-time health and vigor return. return. A trial only is necessary to prove how beneficial Dr. Hamilton's Pills are to all who are weak, nervous, nervous, thin, depressed or in failing health. * GERM-PROOF TOOTHBRUSH. Paper Pulp Impregnated With Clean- *sing Powder. Instead of going to the store and buying a toothbrush as you have done heretofore you may now buy a box of toothbrushes and as you use one you will throw it away. The others remain in dust-proof box until wanted. The newly patented scheme dispenses dispenses entirely with the use of animal animal bristles and makes use of points made of paper pulp impregnated with a cleansing powder and a sanitary agent. This composition is formed under pressure and the substitute bristles and the points form an integral integral part of the back on which they are mounted. Have you ever watched a surgeon cleaning a wound? Everything which he uses is "disinfected or sterilized. The cotton-wool is not left exposed to the air, but is kept carefully covered. covered. All scissors, forceps, etc., are washed in hot water, to which has been added some strong disinfectant. There is almost as great a difference between our idea of .cleanliness and -surgical cleanliness as there is between between the former and our idea of dirt. Knocked Out. The silver lining to a great many clouds is nothing but moonshine. 53 THE? 1 A comparison of the manner in which Australian and Canadian trade have been affected by the war and an official statement as to the number of soldiers Britain's Antipodean colony has contributed to the allied cause is. j contained in a report to the . Government Government by Trade Commissioner Ross in Melbourne. Australian trade during 1913-14 totalled $812,812,658, as compared with a Canadian total of $1,113,562,- 107, but in 1914 her trade was but $608,652,014, as compared with Canada's Canada's showing of $1,078,173,240. Since the declaration of war on August 4, 1914, the Commonwealth had organized, equipped and despatched despatched 76,566 troops for active service service abroad. At the present time 40,400 troops are in camps in Australia Australia for despatch to the front. To date the grand total of the Australian expeditionary forces raised has reached 117,000 men, excluding 8,000 troops of the citizen forces mobilized for home defence. Reinforcements are going forward at the rate of 5,300 a month, and this number will be increased increased to 10,600 in October and 10,- 600 in November. Professor--Klumsy is about the stupidest man I ever ran across. Atitoist--Well, he didn't know anything anything when Iran across.him! CURES NEURALGIA, BACKACHE, BACKACHE, LUMBAGO. Rheumatism to-day is unnecessary. It is so well understood and so readily, readily, curable that" every day we have reports reports of old chronics-being freed of their tormentor. "I can speak confidently of the Nerviline Nerviline treatment, for the simple reason that it cured me," writes Albert B. Cornelius, from'Kingston. "You. can't imagine how stiff and lame and sore I was. Nights at a, time I coiüdn't sleep well. I followed the Nerviline directions directions carefully--had it rubbed into the sore regions four, or five times every day. Every rubbing helped to reduce the pain. The swelling went down. I got a fair measure of relief in a week. I also took two " Ferrozone Tablets with* my meals. They increased my appetite and spirits, purified my blood and toned up my system generally. "I am as well to-day as a man could be--in perfect good health. I give Nerviline all the credit." A large family size bottle of Nerviline Nerviline costs only 50c., or the trial size 25c., and is useful in a hundred ills in the family. Whether it's toothache, earache, headache, neuralgia, lame back or a cold, Nerviline will cure just as readily as it will cure rheumatism. rheumatism. For family use nothing equals Nerviline. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS. Modern Store With Its "Ads" An All- Year-Round Fair. ENGLISH LIQUOR LAW EXACT. Hours for Sales Fewer Than Before-- Prohibition Gaining. The prohibition wave which is passing passing over England is gaining rapid headway, and drastic measures are being adopted throughout England, and the order just issued by the Central Central Control Board in charge of the liquor traffic in Liverpool and the In the days before our era scientific and mechanical improvêment began, a great deal of the work of distributing goods was done through the means of the fair. Merchants of all kinds would set up their booths at the fair, and the people from all the countryside countryside would'come looking for bargains. Wants thàti arose after the fair was over had to remain unsupplied until the opening of the next fair, unjsss the customer could make the toilsome journey to the nearest large town or could prevail upon some neighbor who was undertaking such a journey to execute his commission. The fair still survives for special lines of goods or for special occasions, but for general trade it has been supplanted by the established store with its advertisements advertisements in the daily newspapers. "A day too late for the fair" is a préver - bial expression of costly and wasteful tardiness. The person to whom it was applied in the old days had lost the chance of doing profitable business. Anyone who fails to read and heed the advertisements in his newspaper wastes his money just as did the poor wight of old who was "a day too late for the fair," and had to supply his wants at great cost. The modern store and the modern advertisement constitute, in effect, a fair that is open all the year round and that affords such bargains as the hagglers and chafferers of old days never even dreamed of. ILLETTS LYE CLEANS and DISINFECTS THIS LYE is ABSOLUTELY PURE. THEREFORE TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE IMPURE AND HIGHLY ADULTERATED ADULTERATED LYES NOW SOLD. When the Light Came. Their long acquaintance had ripened ripened into love and he had proposed. "Dearie," he asked, confidentially, "when did you first learn that you loved me?" "When I found out that I became very angry whenever I heard anybody anybody refer to you as a brainless boob," she answered. Mlnatd's Uniment Cures Dandruff. Never Missed a Chance. No Cure Guaranteed More Mersey district is typical of what is being done. This order prohibits the sale of any intoxicating liquor in hotels or any licensed premises or clubs for consumption consumption on the premises during all hours of the day and night which are not included in the special rn^eal hours designated. These hours are between 12 noon and 2.30 in the afternoon and between 6.30 and 9.30 in the evèning. Except between the hours just mentioned mentioned no person will hereafter be permitted, either by himself or any servants or agents, to sell or supply \ to any person any intoxicating liquor to be consumed on the premises.. The order also prohibits the actual consumption consumption of any liquor, even if it has not been obtained or purchased on the premises. The only hours during which liquor may be sold for consumption off the premises are between 12 noon and 2.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. . * Never known to fall; acts without pain in 24 hours. Is >% ^ M M _ soothing, héaling ; E»0 mS takes the sting right out. No remedy so quick, safe and sure as Putnam's Pain-; jess Corn Extractor. Sold everywhere--2 everywhere--2 5 c. ner bottle. Mark Twain Story. Of the Braver Sex. Mother--"I'm afraid you are overeating." overeating." Tommy (keeping » on)--"I ain't afraid. Women get scared at things 'fore men do." Mlnard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. So Considerate. It had been their first separation and during one week the young husband husband had sent his dear little wife ten letters, fifteen picture post cards and four telegrams. Why, then, this touch of coldness in her welcome on his return? "Dearest," he whispered, as he drew her to his manly bosom, "what is wrong? What have I done to upset my little ducksy-wopsy ? " "Oh, George," she replied in broken tones, "you didn't send me a kiss in your seventh letter!" George thought like lightning for a moment before, he replied: "I know I didn't, petsy, but I had steak and onions that night for supper, supper, and you wouldn't like me to kiss you after eating onions, would you?" Mark Twain told how, when travelling travelling through India several years ago, he greatly enjoyed the humiliation of a very pompous member of the judiciary. He was strutting back and forth on the platform of a wayside station when a perspiring Englishman rushed up, touched the judge on the shoulder, and asked: "Tell me, is this the Bombay train?" The judge drew himself up, brushed the stranger's arm aside, and cuttingly^ remarked : "I'm not the stationmaster, sir!" "Oh! you're/ not?" said the Englishman, evidently surprised. Then with an air of extreme exasperation, he demanded: demanded: "Well, what the dickens do you mean by swaggering about as though The saying that a woman doesn't like to tell her age may be a cruel slander on the sex; but it was true of Mrs. Thomson. She never missed a chance of letting her friends know she was years yonger than her husband. husband. "Yes, George is 50 years old," she remarked to a visitor one day., "and there are ten years between us." But the visitor was an elderly spinster, spinster, with a sour disposition. "Is that so," she exclaimed, in well-assumed surprise. "Now, really, you look quite as young as he does!" It is almost as difficult to be a good neighbor as to have one. AM-BUK Purely Herbal--No poisonous poisonous coloring matter. Antiseptic--S tops blood- poisoning, festering, etc. Soothing--Ends quickly the pain and smarting. Heals all sores. you were Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. 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He'll take the hint and go. Daughter---I did, and he told me what beautiful teeth I had. Yonge and Charles Sts., Toronto. The demand for our graduates during August and September was four times our supply. Commencé now. Calendar free. W. J. ELLIOTT, Principal. Send for the 1915-16 Edition of our FUR STYLE BOOK 34 pages, illustrated, of beautiful fur sets and fur garments for men, women and children. IT IS FREE. Addrass: IT IS 1-Kfc.fc.. Address: JOHN HALLAM, LIMITED Room 152, Hallam Building-, Toronte WE BUY IT A Blow to Her Pride. V An old Scotswoman, who had re T sisted all the entréaties of her friends to have her photograph taken, and who was at "last induced to consent in order that she might send her likeness to her son in America, is the heroine of the following anecdote: On receiving the first proof she failed to recognizé the figure thereon represented as-herself, so, card in hand, she set out for the artist's studio to ask if there was no mistake. "Is that me?" she queried. "Yes, madam," replied the artist. "And is it likè me?" she again asked. "Yes, madam; it's a speaking likeness." likeness." v "Aweele," she said, resignedly, "it's a humblin' sight." Perhaps you have been sending your supply of Milk to a local factory,--then you do not know the advantages of sending to the Largest and Most Up-to-Date Dairy in Canada. LET US TELL YOU. WRITE NOW for information and copy of contract* Give your shipping station and railway. City Dairy Co., Ltd. SPADINA CRESCENT TORONTO, ONT. ED. 6. ISSUE 42--*15. aunard's Liniment Believes Neuralgia. v.