" ----_ ARE RELAXED ON ACCOUNT OF THE WAR. -------------- In Some English Dloceses | Fasting and Abstinence Have Been Dispen. sed With--<Temperance In Paris, London, Feb. 23 ---War conditions caused a ; modification of the I enten fasting regulations of both the I'rotestant sod Roman Catholic churches. - Each bithop has issued his own modifications, and the result thut in some dioceses fasting and abstinence have both been dispensed with, while in villess. ote is retained the Cardinal Archbishop of Westniins ter gave dispedsation covering both fasting and abstinence every day except 'Ash Wedneasddy and Good Fri day. have « is : ---- Germans In Brussels, "I'he Belgian government cam rest aspused as to the Attitude and feel 9 of the people of Brussels," says a letter addressed to uw Belgian olfi- cinl, -and appearipg . in the Figaro "All efforts of Cerwan officers fo e tat] sh amicable relations with the populace have failed, a officers yo had friends Bere formerly now hnd their doors closed against thom.' Fhe weiter also complains that the have beon deprived af news the and to be a ven hy German occupation, * dor of foriign papers we most danger anus While a few Belgian papers till has they under the trol of German influence. AL Louvain two thousand eiwilian prisoners been hiberated, hat to terrorist yetems which vendor it wnwire even to speak of their sulfer ngs. Cardinal Mercivr pantoral has becu read in every Bru el diocess One. crowded tion cluded many free thinker wd; ave con have they ar uhject of espionage CONYTega and Jews. Temperance In Paris, Aa active témperance campaign ik afloat in Paris, whee. at public mneet several restrictive mogsures were for legislation Among advocated were the im: license fees on all liquors except mgs recommended the reforms positions of heavy "vendors. ol alioholic French wines, aud the refusal of licenrod to all places near churches, schools, hospitals asd military camps SAGE TEA DARKENS "HAIR TO ANY SHADE Don't stay Grey! Here's. an Old. time Recipe that Anybody Can Apply. The use of Sage and Suviphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its na- tural color dates back to grand- mother's time. She used it to keep her hair 'beautifully dark, glossy and abundant. Whenever her hair fell out or took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this simple mixture was applied with wonder ful effect. But brewing at-home is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by dsking at any drug store for a 50 cent bot- tle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," you will get this fam- ous old recipe which can be depend: - ed upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair and is splendid for dandruff, dry, feverish, itchy scalp and falling Nair, A well-known downtown druggist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dam- pen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one strand" at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, it becomes beautifully dark, glossy, Soft and abundant. : Agent, Geo. W. Mahood. --~n EP DINE, Fas. wy or POUGRAA Co. xs OR TO. © war THERATION | FE. GOVT. ATAMP APPLIED FO ALL Sanuing PAcaRTE "The kind you are look- ing for is the kind we Scranton Coal | Is good Coal and we | Buarantee prompt Gi ALLIES FRATERWIZING. British and Frenél Soldiers Form the Most Surprising Friendship. One of tise few wWiF subjects which has not been exaggerated iv (he real iy dmdzing friéndship which hed sprung up between the soldiers of the allied armies. If you condider that they cannot understand a word of each other's langudges, you might imagine that real intimacy were nec more than a dfeam.. Sueh 8 sot the case. Mr. Atking and M. Piow-Piou have become actual snd veal friends, and fo see them strolling along In liberty hours, drm fp arms and talk ing volubly, it a liberal education io the possibilities of human Atiire. One incident which the writer per sonally' witnessed "soméwbere hear the front," as the -wdr corréspon: dents say, and whieh speaks vol umes for the friéfdship of tHe allied private soldiers, must be prefaced by the statement that some 40 per cent of the British troops af present af fhe front dre (otal aBstainers. 1 happened to be walking across the market place of the little town with a'staffl officer of the British. Just in our way were, 1 suppose, a couple of hundred French privates. As we came wp to them they fell away be- fore us in a manner altogether in- romprehensible, backing toward the nedrest wall, Keeping their facos al- ways loward us, and saluting con- tinually with a surprising enthus- faspw. | asked the colonel what hae supposed it meant. He replied, with raised eyebrows, that if was alto- gether incomprehensible, Three minutes later, Raving left the colonel at the door of his head- quarters, 1 discovered the key of the mystery. Three British stragglers, who had |sst their battalions and were lookMg for them had wandered into fhe fown. THey had rome far, and on the way the peasantry, who by this time positively adore 'les Anglished," had offered (hem the wine which was red. Their French comrades, recognizing their condi- tion, had flocked together fo protect themi from any possible punishment at the hands of the British officer-- whence the manoeuvring in the market-place. The pains which those French sol- diers took gsubBequently to insure the safety of their charges wis a lesson in humanity. After long consultation (hey decided that the village church was the best place of sanctuary, and accordingly they led them there, procured large trusses of straw, and left them fo sleep off thelr "fatigue," as one of tke French. men put it, Two of the culprits proved perfectly amenable and went |. quietly to sleep. The third, of more heroic mold, no sooner found him- self abandoned than he rose swiftly to his feet, left the church, and wandered again through the market- place, hinting by signs to the pass: ers-by that he was still athirst. His watchful French protectors rose to the occasion, led "him again to the sanctuary, and again put him to bed. Two minutes later he was out again, recommencing his tour of ile market place. I do net think I am exaggerating if I say that this performance was gone through ten times, with unvarying patience on the part of the Frenchmen, before the infantryman-errant was at last persuaded to go to sleep. Even then guardian angels in red breeches waited outside another quarter of an hour to make sure that he should not change his mind. The writér could instance a hun- dred cases within his own personal knowledge where the instincts of ou common humanity have triumphed over the red bestiality of war, from an actual set-to at fisticuffs be- tween a Bavarian and one of the West Surreys in the space between the tremches, with both armies as enthusiastic spectators, to a case of which I was told by an eye-witness, when an Englishman and a German both sacrificed their lives unavail- ingly, as it proved, to save that of a French peasant boy who had some- how wandered into the very middle of the fight. The Hull of a Dreadnought. An amazing amount of material goes to the making of a 22,000-ton battleship. Into the hull &fone enter some 0,800 tons of steel and iron, an &mount more than equal te the whole of the material from keel to fighting tops in many of the pré-Dreadnought WAr vessels. Of this amount of ma- terial, over 6,000 tons is steel plat- ing, 2,856 tons is for shapes, chan- nelling, and angle pieces; the weight of the rivets used exceeds 530 tons, these rivets ranging in diameter from 3+8 'inches to 1 1-2 inches, and there THE % NEW SEEP CATALOGUE ARRIVES, "LAUDS PRAISE OF FRENOH. ni Army of Republic Has Performed Great Work. London, Feb. 23.--A British mili- tary observer stationed with the French army in the field describes the advantages gained in the last few months by the French forces, in a statement given out to-day by the official information bureau, as fol- lows: "Since the repulse of the Germans by the allies in Flanders no battle of great importance has been fought. If the gain in the smaller engage- ments which have taken place is mea- sured only by the amount of ground! won,. thé results are indeed small a few hundvéd yards to the north of Arras, a village or two between Ar- ras and the ¢orner of the line nearest Paris, a belt varying from a mile and a half to two hundred ycrds in breath to the cast of Rheims, and a few miles of what was German terri- tory in Alsace--these acres are all that have been gained--the enemy's hold en Belgium and Northeastern France is as strong as ever." The British observer nevertheless contends that the success: of the French army has been very great, and that its work is deserving of the gratitude dnd the admiration of the allied Jowers, It has kept the Ger- than army &o busily engaged, he says, compelling if frequently to fight un- der unfavorable eircumstances, that the Germans have been 'unable to withdraw troops for a deédisive blow elsewhere. While performing this work, the observer says, the French army, has steadily improved in personnel and equipment, A good many men are perfectly will- ing' to admit failure before they have made the trial. = TIQUOR SALE PERMITTED, Canada Takes Step In Oppos| ite Dirce- tion From Allies." Ottawa, Feb, 23. The Canadian government is apparently mot follow- ing the lead of the allles in legislat- ing against the sale of liquor. In- stead the bun of the past five years has been lifted, and Wquor can now) be sold at Le Pas, the westers ter- ron minus of the Hudson Bay raflway.f An order in council has been passed removing the prohibition 6f the sale of Hquor at Le Pas, hitherto in force under the legislation of 1906, which provided that liquor may not be sold within ten miles of any government railway during the time of construc- tion. If a man would HKve to be 2000 or 300 years old he might Wave sense enough to leave off cotton whiskers when he played Santa Claus. Said-- ise Old Ben Franklin "A penny saved is a penny earned" castings, ranging in weight from two to eighteen tons each. These figures include nothing for gun mounting or special armoring, but are for the mere construction of the bare hull alone. Halléy's comet has "an enviable history, but its chief claim to diss tinction rests in the fact that it was the first periodic comet whose return wis predicted. Ba Halley, an Be. English astronomer, observed its be. havior in 1682 and made calculations which led him to conclude that it was the same comet which had been seen and noted several times before. 4 He figured it would come back in seventy-five or seventy-six years and, although he did not live to see the event, the comet did return aeccord- Fo 4 schedule. Consequently it is the true economy in Halley's comet, oughly commended it : oy 3 J builds nerve and musele. bone and kage of G ana ga 0 i ps y A un - y With the price of beef and wheat soaring higher and higher, the problem of ebonomie living is causing housewives to - consider food values in platting meals. For years many have known, and others are now finding out, J a Fa ne THE ENITERS. By C. Fox-Smith, Jn"sireets that are humming th the chy's-stin Or wheré'leaves fal: rustling Through the quiet ais, There are Worien knitting Everywhere. Knitfing snd wditing Through hours Wkeé years, Not with loud grieving, . Nor sighifig por tears; In their hands the needles Flash like spears. Every thread a sorrow, Every strand & prayers \ ('O, where sleeps my dear one? Or how does he fare?) There are womea knitting Everywhere, H Treason. The charges of high treason against severdl pérson, both in Canafla and in other paris of the Pmpire® in that they have assisted a common énemy of hig Majesty the King to leave the country in time of war, is a rare charge to be Brought against a Brit ish subject. They ave brought under subsection (1) of #elion 74 &F (he Criminal Code of CaNada, which pro vides that (among other things) the offénce of high freason consists of assigfing any 'pablic enemy at war with his Majesty by any means what. soevéy. TH Most cages the means" charged is assistance to leave the country. Everyone ""who commits high treason is Hable to suffer death of a term of hmprisonment. And until the year T8TO, in Groat Britain, the death pefialty might be exacted in various barbarous ways. Nowadays it is paid BY the traitor beifix hang. ed. Durftig the Boer war there Were many frials for high treason, chiefly under martial law, including cases of British subjects who had actually joined the Boer forces: Treason is of several kinds, many of them having regard to the King's person, or that of his heir apparent, or that of his consort. In the reign of Henry VIII. many special treason statutes applicable to that monarchs domestic concerns were passed. By ole of these it whe treason not to believe his daughter Mary iNegits mute and his daughter Elzabeth legitimate; by another to believe eithe er legitimate; ard by yet a third not to believe both legitimate. One wit. néss is not suficient for a conviction in a case of tredson, unless, of coprse, the accused pleads guilty. Ice' For Farmers. There aré few localities in Canadd that have not available a river or smdller stredm from which a supply of ice miay be obtained for use during the summer mohths. The case wirh which thé ice crop' may be secured is probably the resson why it is not taken advantage of to a preater ex- tent thaw at présent. For economics! harvesting operations it iv advisable thet & number of thé farmers of a community' co-operate, sharing the expense, and making the labor pro- portionately lighter. A few tools are necessary to hare vest the ide. supply efficiently. A steel scraper (o remove the snow cov- ering is désirable; some #tyles of id scrapers may be used, or a very #0od homemade scraper may be made of wood and faced with a strip of Steel. An ice plow facilitates the work 'of scoring into Blocks for bréak- ing off. X slice bar for breaking off the blocks can be made similar to » a: with & sharp blade from sfx to' eo fnchés wide. An ice saw may be improviséd by removing one handlé of a cross-cut saw. ber of pike poles, ice tongs #nd 4 chain, with Heyy pair of jcé tongs attached, complete the tools required. A platform, one end of which may he Tet down into the water, and the oth. er end raised level with the floor of the sleigh, permits the uke of a horse in taking the ice out of the watar and loading on the sleigh Conger vation, Cherfy Fruit Flies, During the past five or six year: cldrry growess in Ontario have heer Souiplaining of little white maggoi: which werd attacking growing cher ries, rendering the interior of the froit unsightly and unfit to eat, Prof. LL. Cader, of the Ontario Agri cultural College, was given the work of investigation, and; dssisted by Mr. G. J. Spencer, Just written the resulis of several y#ars' observation, which have Been issued by the On- fario Pepartiient of Agriculture as Bullétin 227. Two distinet varietios of -which-becomr | maggots, have beed identified: one-is}- the White-bandéd Cherry Fruit-fly and the othér the Black-bodied Cherry Fruit-fiy. * The life histories of both thess Mies whieh, happily, pear (o attack uo other fruit than © cherry--are given in the bulletin, together with methods of control, ------------------ Guard Not Necessdry. That there is fo nt need of guarding the boundary between ihe | United States dnd Ca Ly tA SA 5 : - #, 4 ; This food, the true meat of wheat and barley full of Nature's richest brain, in a way.that has thor- cooked, ready to serve and sen od im its be had from any grocer. No rise ts, served with milk, eream or fruit, gives satisfaction, sustain- A num! \ If you were told of a new discovery for the treatinent of coughs, colds and bronchitis, a$ ccrtain in #ts action on all chest troubles #s. anti-toxin is on diphtheria, 6: vaccination on small-pox, wonldn't youn [ce! likegivinzita trial? Especially if you ¢ould try it for fifty cents! Peps is the discovery! Papsnra littla tahhorg, neatly wrap pa in aif aod germ post silver for hey' cofitain dertuin medicinal ing dients, 'which, when plwdl upon the Wh, immediately rn info vapow: #1% AE ofica Breathe dnan { passages tothe lange, in bdoir § they soothe the inflamed snd is ! membranes of the bronehisl tutes, tho | Galindon' walls of the air peasnges, avi Brally ster and carve relief and healing to the sapillaries mud.tiny 8 r sass uy thy lungs. , word, wifla no Lavid or oan ges to the ge these Pana fumes at 0ndh commenos their ' Peps ara antively diatn ol fashtionad hiqatd cough onires, AS MaPaly swallowed into the sams ant navef reach the ings. Poy : mand of coughs and eolds ia direct tre ment. 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