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P§ë?%* IH H1 S I "-. 11 Hp i i: x Health CRITICISED Learn How To Protect Broken. Bones and Sprains. While there is very little a member of the family or a nonmedical friend can do in case of broken bones, and while it is unwise to offer t suggestions relative to the setting of bones, it is important that both the family and friends know how properly to sup- port a broken leg while carrying a ! disabled person into the house or to near-by medical aid. For instance, suppose your child falls from a tree and fractures his New Invention WH, Prevent Making a a al Mistake. | the leg with two pocket handkerchiefs the ends of the fractured bone will not rub against each other and increase Clean to handle. Sold by all Druggists, Druggists, Grocers and General Stores. Acquisition of Canadian Northern Northern Imposes Burden of Unknown Magnitude. BEWARE THE POISON BOTTLE. Every now and then somebody helps himself to a dose of poison out of - , -- what he imagines to be a medicine the pain and a11 danger of causing the bottle. Nearly always, of course, it is i broken bones to protrude through the in the dark. Next on the job ' (un- j fIesh ' thus "compounding less the doctor happens, by good luck, to arrive in time) is the undertaker. ture, is avoided. A good emergency stretcher may be quickly made out Why indulge in such foolishness? A of two or three buttoned vests with New Jersey woman, Mary Beers has poles ' rakes or brooms run through invented a bottle stopper that is more ' the armh oles, and if the sufferer is efficient, for precautionary purposes ! placed on the improved stretcher so than all the poison labels ever thought i that one vest comes under the shoul- of. j ders, and one under the hips and still j another under the fracture, he may be I carried for miles quite comfortably. ! If the fractured end of the bone pene- • trates the flesh it is then known as a r compound fracture and the utmost cleanliness must prevaiL If the wound is dirty Dakin's solution It is simple enough--a cork, to fit the bottle, with a metal arrangement in the shape of a cross that is • stuck through it and projects above it. It is sharp-pointed at the top and the two arms are sharp-pointed. T ou wake up in the night with a pain and grope in the medicine closet for the jamaica-ginger bottle. Ah! yes, that it is; you recognize it by the shape. You go to pull the cork and your fingers are severely pricked. Yes, it is painful. But by that tokfczx you know that the bottle you ' have got hold of is a bottle of poison. Better Better a pricked finger than a coffin--eh. what? % egetables and fruits often are stored in quantities in hot, damp poorly ventilated bins and under conditions conditions which hasten wilting, fermentation fermentation and decay. Nature's Way Is Best N a tore's laxative is Bile» If your liver is sending the bile on its way as it should, you'll never be constipated. Keep tbe liver tuned right up to its work. Take one pill regularly (more only if necessary) until your bowels act regularly, regularly, freely, naturally. ORTEfS ^iTTLB llVER PILLS should be employed. For it is in just such wounds that this solution has been found to be of such great value on the battle fields of Europe. In all instances an X-ray laboratory laboratory should be sought to ascertain if ihe two ends of the bone are in good apposition. Sprains A torn ligament often causes almost almost as much pain as a fractured bone. And during tbe interval of getting getting medical aid, Bier's hyperemia may be produced by tying a piece of rubber tubing above the sprain; for instance, in case of a sprained wrist, tie the tubing or a handkerchief just below the elbow. In other words, tie between the sprain and the trunk of the body. The intense pain is immediately immediately lessened and often entirely relieved. The tying should be loosened every hour for about ten minutes. The rubber rubber tubing is much to be preferred to the handkerchief when it is to be had. Sprains may be complicated by the fracture of a tip of a bone, where the tendons are attached, so it is always wise to securê medical aid in their care. Sprains, dislocations and fractures should be observed in the X-ray laboratory laboratory whenever possible. Moist heat, such as the local hot bath, together with the use of the three-layer wet compress, consisting of an inner layer of cotton cloth wrung from cold water, a middle layer layer of oil silk mackintosh or newspaper newspaper and an outer layer of blanket flannel, is an effective home treatment for a sprain. The wet compress is applied during the three-hour interval between the local hot baths. The injured injured member is kept elevated meanwhile meanwhile . The properly applied adhesive straps about the instep and ankle have given temporary support of j value. TQ MY SOLDIER. r£tnutn* bears S/gratura Colories» fmces often show the absence of Iron in the blood. Carter's Iron Pills vrül help this condition. Dear Love, I wanted you to know That ever in my heart I go And stand beside you, there Amid the noise, .the flying shell; Amid the smoke; amid the Hell; I stand beside you there ! My quiv'ring soul knows but prayer-- "Oh, keep my soldier in Thy care-- God, stand beside him there!" --Maude Gordon-Roby. one In time of need Evêry woman should know the comfort and exnerJ. en ce the relief of a reliable remedy that can be de- pendEri upon to right conditions which ca"se -headache, -headache, dizziness, languor, nausea and constipation At such times, nothing b so safe, so sure ancfTpeedy ts The following criticism of the policy of the Government in respect of the Canadian Northern Railway is made: The Government bill to authorize the purchase by it of the capital stock of the Canadian Northern Railway is half-way through the House of Com- mona and will shortly be in the Senate. Senate. If it becomes law, it will impose on Canada, at a time when the country country is under an unprecedented strain, a burden of unknown magnitude. One certainly greater than any ever before before imposed upon this country, with the exception of the war debt. The purchase of-a defined piece of railway property is one thing. The buying of stock in a company with unascertained assets and unknown liabilities is another. Once the Government Government becomes the principal, owner of the common stock, it must proride out of loans or taxes for all the debts of the railway due or to become due and for all future losses in operating. The estimates of expenditure still necessary to be made run into enormous enormous figures. No one knows what the real extent of its obligations are. The railway has bonds outstanding and debts unpaid; so have its subsidiaries. subsidiaries. There are guarantees given by it to other companies, unpaid balances balances on contracts and upon accounts, accounts, but to what extent is unknown. What its assets are is equally un known. It operates and is interested in railway companies, land companies, telegraph companies, tunnel companies, companies, lumber cqmpanies and hotel companies, companies, but no one knows how far it owns them, what their assets or liabilities liabilities are, nor to what extent the railway company is responsible for their liabilities. No other railway company nor any other group of business men would consider such an acquisition except after elaborate examination and reports reports from accountants and appraisers appraisers on the assets and liabilities, and then only subject to a solvent guarantee guarantee that all supposed assets would be delivered and that no undisclosed debts or obligations would appear. To find out these things, where such examination and guarantee cannot be had, the usual course in the United States has been to place the road in the hands of a receiver, whose staff can ascertain them and place them before those interested in an accurate and clear statement. Systems quite as large, notably the Union Pacific, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and , the Rock Island, have in the United States been through this process and have emerged from it with capital written down to correspond to the actual values, in a solvent condition and able to perform their duties as public servants. The only examination so far had into the affairs of the Canadian Northern has resulted in the opinion of out of three railway experts that the stock proposed ta be purchased purchased was worth nothing. This means that whatever its nominal value may be, the unsecured debts are more than enough to prevent its being being sold to any reasonably prudent purchaser. In view of the fact that no money was paid to the company foi the stock and that the company has never been able to earn anything upon it, there was and is no reason to expect any other result from amination. ex- No agreement or obligation to purchase purchase is ..produced. • Infact, nothing xue " aDUlt y ox Canada in either t v*rhon„ -- - 1 the n urov e * main \ th - e Government and the provinces having guaranteed the a-discount. No money was receive! into its treasury for its stock.. Noth ing has been made public which would justify, the taxing of other citizens of this country for the purpose purpose of giving fictitious value to these bonds and stocks. The interest and other charges on Canada due to the war increase every day and even now. are so great that it is difficult to say from what source they can be paid without an economic strain hitherto undergone and a cutting down of expenses not yet even begun. begun. The credit of the country abroad is less than it has ever been. The last loan of $100,000,000 at 6 per cent, for two years netted only $96,111,111. In other words, the country is borrowing money at a cliarge of more than ' 8 per cent, per annum. Note.--Accord- ing to the Monetary Times of August 17th, Sir Thomas White stated the net proceeds to be $96,25.0,000, not $96,111,111^ and that the commissions and charges were 1% per cent. He was speaking of a two-year 5 per cent, loan. The cost would be 8 per cent, if the 1% per cent, comes but of the $96,250,000, but not otherwise. Its future credit may depend entirely on the-belief of foreign bankers that good money will not be sent after bad, and that speculative enterprises will be allowed to find the financial level called for by their intrinsic merits. The undersigned, all of whom as investors investors have a stake in the prosperity prosperity of this country, desire to call the attention of their fellow-countrymen to the grave- risk they all are running running of having their own earnings diverted diverted for the purpose of securing profits to bondholders and stockholders stockholders of a concern, the equity in whose enterprise has been declared by the only people at all in a position to form an opinion to be of no value. It is also urged that the strongest possible possible protests be made before it is too late to all senators and members of Parliament. Montreal, August 20, 1917. F. W. Molson, James Law, H. R. Drummond, Geo. E. Drummond, Armand Armand Chaput, Ferd. Prudhomme, Zeph. Hebert, A. J. Brown, C. S Garland, H. A. Ekers, Chas. Chaput, A. Guy Ross, Joseph Ainey, C. Meredith, Meredith, C. S. Campbell, W. R. Miller, George Caverhill, Wm. McMaster, H. W. Blackwell, Andrew J. Dawes, Robert Hampson, George R. Hooper, George W. Sadler, W. W. Hutchison, Wm. C. Finley, F. H. Wilson, G. F. Benson, A. Craddock Simpson, James Morgan. The Gazette, Montreal, of August 23rd, comments on the above as follows: follows: THE RAILWAY POLICY. We print in another column a protest protest against the purchase of the "Canadian "Canadian Northern Railway signed by many of the leading capitalists of Montreal, and this protest is not lightly to be disregarded. The point at issue is this, is the country to take over a burden that other shoulders should bear ? Will the ownership of the Canadian Northern impose upon the people a financial obligation avoidable without danger to national interests ? If the Government was divorced divorced from the enterprise, the answer answer is easy. Like any other business business undertaking the property should stew in its own juice, and undergo the course of liquidation through receivership, receivership, emerging therefrom in stronger condition in respect of liabilities liabilities both of- current and of cap! tal account. That appears to be the view of the financiers whose statement statement we print, and there is force the view. The Canadian Northern must be carried on as an operating road. It serves a great territory and a large community of people whose welfare is dependent upon the operation of this railway, but having exhausted its financial resources the alternative of Government ownership by acquisition of the common stock, or through the medium of a receivership, is the only one presented. To Government ownership we are opposed. 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ORANGE,"vis., S*8c" d p;,Xf has transpired except verbally and then between members of the Government Government not named and persons whose names are not disclose^ In fact what is to be paid, who is to get paid for it, what the cost and the at tendant obligations are, no. one .knows The smallest transaction in common life could not be concluded in such" a way, and " any attempt to do it by trustees responsible to a court would unquestionably be a breach of- trusty and this is the largest and. most on- erous undertaking ever contemplated iy any Canadian Government, and the most: risky. It is safe to say that no road capitalized above its earning power can ever -he a useful public servant, nor can any road bought by à Government for more than its worth ever be anything but a continuous drain on the tax payer. . The Daily Star reaches Bowman- ville at 6.40 o'clock every afternoon, afternoon, and is promptly delivered. The following dealer can supply you, or it will be sent to you direct from the office of publication-- whichever you prefer. great sum of $211,000,000 of bonds of the company. It 4 is, however, neces- ^ td 1 Iearn th e extent of the liability liability taken over by Canada in the bill now before Parliament. What assets assets are acquired ? What obligations mcurrqd If there be a margin on the debit side of the account, if Canada Canada is assuming a debt over and above existing guarantees, the public may not unreasonably ask why. The railway is a fine property with ex- cellent prospers, but after all is said, it is a,business' venture which should be allowed to face the consequences consequences of all business ventures One thing is certain; the countr^ should not be saddled with any avoidable avoidable liability. The debt created by the war is already large, and. constantly increasing. New sources of taxation have to be tapped. : The outlook is by no means bright in respect of the Dominion finances and before the additional obligation of taking over T* L A I* M « A 1 A M XT -11 _ _ • 1 . W. T. z z z z Z subscription, commencing". Address copies direct to me at Name. Address. P.S.- ,our ««s = w r rœ set, and what is being incurred in the way of liability. • .. ^ V-L gye The Canadian Northern Railway ^ be Canadian Northern Railway is in- was built as a private speculation ! curred, jiecessary at tjie lepst . v j * ,cvluauon * that we should know nreciselv wW ts bonds were sold to financiers at is being purchased in'the Mÿ The Duty of the Individual. Strict economy is needed in the use every of :all food stuffs by -each and individual householder. Our food supplies must be conserved, Jbut they should not be hoarded. Of what use is a mine unopened, a forest untouched untouched or land untilled ? By the conservation conservation of our food supplies, we mean that they should be used in the wisest possible way arid shared equally. We the garden vegetables, much of this material will be wasted.. Perishable things should be canned wherever possible. possible. Rhubarb, tomatoes and other & vegetables winter use should be put away for should eliminate superfluities and luxuries luxuries and . eat the things that are substantial, substantial, plain and nourishing. There are many foods produced in Canada, such as corn, peas, beans, oats and barley, which are not as much as jthey could and should he. Unless provision "It is now vital for the United Kingdom Kingdom and the Allies in Europe to obtain obtain from Canada foodstuffs in far larger quantities than under peace conditions," says Lord.. Rhonda. - - J r l ir w XT'-*- v v loivn vuiu x uxii Vi is made td care for and properly use ! during dry weatheis In hot, dry weather do not allow the flower beds to dry out, or the vegetable beds, for that matter. Beds of: lily of the valley and other plants that have flowered for the season are likely to be forgotten. To obtain best results for the next season thé niants must be cared for thé remainder of this season. Turn on the hose, at least