$100.000 OFFERED BY NOVA SCOTIA TO BRITAIN-- "MONEY REPLACES COAL. Quebec (heese Stored --While Can- adign Coutributions Are Yet Une |. distributed, Their Airival Has Kept. Down Prices. Jondon, Oct. 13--The government of Nova Scotia has cabled an offer, through its agent-general, Mr. How- ard, of $140,000 to be used by the imperial government for the rellef of national distress caused. by the war, Nova Scotia had already ofered a supply of coal, but gs its transport involyed a certain' loss, in view of the coal resources in England, it was decided to"change the form of. the provineé's generosity. It is un- derstood that the money will be handed to the local government board, which is looking after all re- lief problems. The Canadian gift of flour already to hand totals 392,108. bags, of which 131,680 are stored at. Liver- pool, 111, 175 at London, 50,353 Bristol 39,942 at Dubl mainder at Belfast f0ar gow. Shipments "totalling 271,000 additional bags aré'also due. Over 20,000 Quebec cheese are stored at London, Liverpool, Bristol aud Hull, while 10,000 more are in| transit. The gifts are being kept for two reasons; the first being that distress is not yet keen, and the se- cond being that a cabinet committee is considering the general question of the national food supply, and in this respect the arrival of these sup- plies has already ceased prices. How They | Are Related Toronto Globe, The facts regarding the blood-re- lationship of King George V., of Great Britain, Emperor William 1I., of Germany, and Emperor Nicholas IL, of Russia are just now of special interest, George V. and William IL., arefirst ' cousins, both being grandsons of the late Queen Victor- ia; George V. and Nicholas IL, are first cousins, both being grands sons of the late King Christian IX, of venmark. George V, is the son of Edward VII. and the Princess Alex- andra of Denmark; Nicholas II, is the son of Alexander III. and the Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Wil lfam IT. is the son of the late Prin cess Royal, Queen Victoria's eldest child. The relationship of the Em- peror Nicholas and King George is made closer by the fact that the wife of the former Princess Alix of Herse is first cousin to King Coorg being also a granddaughter of Cue en Victoria. It is interesting further to note that King Constantine of Greece is first cousin to King George V., beihg the son of Queer other Alexandra's brother, the laie King George of Greece. Aud The Band Kept Playing. London, Oct. 13---Now that the admiralty has ordered a court of in quiry into the escape of the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, from the British fleet in the Mediterran- ean, we are allowed to know official- ly what was common gossip for some time, that some one has blun dered. In this connection I may be permitted to tell a story that has been going the rounds, and that is almost too good to be true. I do not vouch for its truth, but it is cur- rent in naval circles. It is that when the Goeben went out she had on board a German band which kept playing the "Wacht am . Rhein." They continued playing long after darkness had fallen and the British cruisers chasing her followed the sound of the music. When day broke nothing was In sight bul a tug. The Germans had . slipped their band overboard into the tug and hdd gone off in another direction while the band on the tug continued to play the '"Waeht am Rhein." No Need Of Breaking In. National Monthly Magazine, The red-haired office boy was whistling a late popular air, but he] didn't carry the tune very well. | "You will break into song occas- fonally, will you?" remarked his em- ployer, "Sometimes," answered burn-khaired youth. "If you'd get the key you wouldn't need to break in." retorted the boss | the -au- rs 3 & Ww. GRAHAM BROWNE Leading man with ' Marie Tempest, in "Mary Goes First," so Grand en. Thursday, Oot. 15th. Big Fish Caught In Ontario Waters. The Bristol Steel Rod fishing com petition for the 1914 in Ontario water forth many claims for championship honors. fish weighing. twenty-eight: pounds won premier place in the grey (lake) trout class This was taken by Fred E. Ringweld, New York. in the south west arm of Lake Timagami. The second place went to Frank . J. | Barber, Georgetown, Ont, with a twenty pound trout, caught in Rag- ged Lake, Algonquin Park, s, has brought the angler'; rence Brown with a seventeen pound trout from Buck Lake, Algonquin Park. The largest entry of small mouth black bass -was that of C. C. Fox, Kensington, Pa. This fish, weigh- ing four pou , four ounces, was caught in Rock Lake, Algonquin Park on Sept. 3rd All the prize fish, were taken out of waters in the meg nificent sporting districts opened up by the Grand Trunk railway. Space npm---- Not Polly Ticks. During the political campaign a candidate fo the legislature was driving through the country seeking votes among the formers, when he met a young man ina farmer's garb walking by the roadside. "Are yom paying any politics nowadays?" he starting his team. The young man looked at suspiciously and drawled out: stranger, that don't happen my girl's name, but if it wouldn't think it was any of your darned business." This ended the interview as the process, it will be noted, attention to asked, after him 'No to be as well Would Reward Her. Smith was an ardent worker in the cause of the prevention, of cruelty to dnimals, and when Mrs. Brown came to tea, told her a pathe- tic tale of a donkey that she had re- gcued from a cruel master the day vefore. t The visilor was very interested, and when she rose to go said: "I am so glad you have told me all these fascinating things about dnimals, dear Mrs. Smith I shall never see a dordkey again without thinking of youl" Mrs, It cannot be, if it largest fish taken in | A beautiful { while { the third prize was secured by Law- | was 14 BRIGHT APA Ml AA Pte ts TREES DIGEST THEIR FOOD ANID CONSUME IT LATER ON | Known Fact That Roots Break Up | Nourishment Which Then i Absorbed by Pores. Journal, Is Kansas City Every gardener Knows that a trae | cag be fed and made to grow with |irdereased vigor. If proper nourish- | 14ent in the form of humus, nitro- | gen, phosphate, etc., be placed about !/its roots the tree will absorb this food and grow rapidly and strongly. | But how the tree feeds is some- what more difficult to explain. In all probability the tree digests {ii3 | food first and consumes it afterward. | Certafnly it is that average {ree has no means of consuming food as » whole, as members o. the animal kingdom absorb it. It is well known that the larvae of certain insects digest their food st and consume it afterward. Ob- servation would indicate that ihis is exactly what the tree does. The tiny, rogtlets act on the substance in the earth, dissolving and breaking theni up so they can be absorbad through the toot pores. In ordar 0 -to be taken up the chemicals must be liquid form and develd of all waste The end of each root is armed with a horny substance with whica it can burrow through the hard soil in search. of food. When faod 5 found it is dissolved into liquid an'. absorbed by the root there, From the root the food is. carried by the } sap to all parts of the tree. Very Brutal Of Him. Ww wEhington Sta 'I.am supe vou have had provoca- tion," said ti relative, "or you would not be so determined to leave your husband." "Provecation!" echoed the indig- nant woman, "I bought Fido a package of dog cakes. This morn- "ing I made biscuits for breakfast. Can you believe me when I tell you I found that brute of a man trying to feed Fido my biscuits and coax the dear little pet's perfectly good dog cakes away from him!" " J. H. Rogers, a farmer, was most instantly killed from hig wagon on from Dresden. al- when thrown his way home YOUR CHEWING TOBACCO SHOULD BE AS CLEAN AS THE FOOD YOU EAT. is sold in bulk and v touched by soiled. hands - PAC. CHEWING is untouched by any hands from the manufacturer to you, for each plug is separately wrapped and cannot come in contact with any dust, dirt or germs, You will never know the enjoyment of chewing a "DELICIOUSLY GOOD" tobacco \ until you have tried PACIFIC. A satin insert of the kind that is being sought after by collectors everywhere ls packed with each plug. See window displays around town. And the price is Every one has heard of the somby of Reme, close by the Ap) onto fries the lofty corridors and of the. Neapolitan: catacom! famous grotto of St. John, un obviously an untrayeled route, and ie explorer was curious to descend Xn, nding his dragoman to en- sage cut through the rock, into the vaulted chamber, Through another excavation he madé his way and found himself in a second chamber, the floor of which had been cut away to form a large square pit. Descending into this pit by bracing his arms and digging his toes into the sides, where little holes were made for that purpose, he reached the. bottom. Here, crawling about on hands and knees, he was at last among the mummies of the sacred ibis, the embalmed deities of the an- client Egyptians. The birds were preserved in stone jars, closely piled one upon the other, Knocking two of the jars together, the birds were found to be perfect as any mummied Pharaoh. Novel-Writing Records. R. L. Stevenson takes high rank among those who haye broken records In mnovel-writing, the first draft of his "Jekyll and Hyde" hav-) ing heen written in seven days. He is closely followed by Crockett, who penned the greater part of "The Stickit Minister" in a week, and com- pleted it at a forty-eight hours' sit- ting. The elder Dumas once completed a volume of 40,000 words in smixty- glx consecutive hours for a wager, and Beckford's romance, "Vathek," is said to have been written at a sin- gle sitting, which occupied three days and two nights, during which he never removed his clothes, For two years Thackeray 'did all his writing with vne pen, which also served him for writing two novels, Blanquet's Idea. The cold winter of 1340 gave the comforting blanket to England and afterward to the rest of the world. Its inventor, Thomas Blanquet, was a Flemish merchant, settled in Bris- tol, who had fallen 'from affluence into want. He and his wife were suf- fering from intense ¢old by reason of scanty bedding and lack of fuel. He searched for something to put on the bed to increase the 'warmth and hit upon a piece of rough, unfinished cloth t had been thrown aside. Its success ng & warmth glver suggested the manufacture of special bed covers of the same material, and these arti- cles, to which he gave his awn name, won him wealth and immortality. Animal Mimiery. Observers of nature are frequently struck with the singular resem- blances of insects to leaves, dried sticks, etc., and these likenesses are supposed to have grown out of the necessity of protection against or concealment from enemies. An in- teresting example of this kind of resemblance was brought to the at- tention of the Entomological Sociefy in London by a naturalist who ex- hibited' a spider found inhabiting some rocks near Cannes, on which were also fastened the 'cases of a species of moth. - When at /rest the spider exhibited almost precisely the same form and color as the moth cases surrounding if. Not For Her, In the great war at the beginning of the last century the public was asked to subscribe, not merely for re- lef funds, but for the actual raising of forces. 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