8 NY DYSPEPTIC CAN GFT WELL By Taking "Frulf-a-fives" Says Capt. Swan Life is very gniserable to those who sufler with Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach avd Biliousness, This letter from Captain Swan (one of the best known skippers on the Great lakes) tells how to get quick relief from Stomach Trouble. Port BurwirLL, OxT., May 8th, 1913, "A man has a poor chance of living and enjoying life when he canyot eat. That was what was wrong with me, Loss of appetite and indigestion was brought on by Constipation, I have had trouble with these diseases for years. I lost a great deal of flesh and suffered constantly, or the last couple of years, I have taken *'Fruit. A-tives" and have been s0 pleased with the resiilts that I have recommended them on many occasions to friends and acquaintances. Iam sure that "Fruit- s-tives" have helped me greatly, By . following the diet rules and taking **Fruit-a-tives" according to directions, any person with Dyspepsia will get Benely?, H. SWAN *"Fruit-a-tives" are sold by all dealers at Soc, a box 6 for $2.50, or trial size 25¢. or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa i on ny BLBBALLLLLK00.00.0000 0000 HUDSON BAY IN. SURANCE Co. Head Office - « Vancouver, B.C. | Security to policyholders $079,441.60. A STRICTLY CANADIAN COMPANY, Parkes, MceVittle & Managers for Ontario, Wellington St. East, Toronto, Ont. J. R. C. DOBBS, Clty Agent, Kingston. Shaw, '26 Grafonola's and records MADE-IN.CANADA --, Old Ways Merely Quieted The Corn The New Way Ends It Some folks still cling to liquids, to inefficient plasters, or to merely "paring corns. iy They wrong themselves. Their own friends keep free from corns by using Blue-jay plasters. - They apply one in a jiffy, then forget the corn. In 48 hours, without pain or soreness, the entire corn comes. out. A famous chemist found this way which makes corns out-of- date. 'One can't prevent 'them easily, but to keep them is folly. Millions of people know that. Blue-jay Plasters 15 and 25 cents--at Druggists Samples Mailed Free Bauer & Black, Chicago aod New York © Makers of Physicians' Supplies Jusy when he hasn't time. to stop and a dog fight. : But a married man's dollars won't ~ X i ean his reward without cutfing his ers. : HAS THE TIME COME? DUNDONALD'S SECRET AWAITS BRITAIN'S NEED. Writer Speculates on the Nature of the Celebrated Scheme of Defence Which "Was So Horrible In Its Nature That the War Office Lock- ed It Away--It May Have Involv- ed Great Burning Glasses, A most interesting speculation as to the nature of the secret war plan laid before the British Government by the famous Admiral Cochrane (Lord Dundonald) appears in an article by Mr. Edgar 8. Maclay, who expresses the belief that Cochrane's discovery was neither an explosive nor a pois- on, but an adaptation of the "burn- ing glass." Dundonald's "war plan" has never been disclosed. It was first laid before the British Government in 1811. Its author declared that it was capable of destroying any fleet or fortress in the world. A committee eonsisting of the Duke of York, then commander-in-chief; Lord Exmouth, a4 famous naval officer; Lord Keith, and the two Congreves, experts in ex- plosives, considered in secret Admiral Cochrane's plan, and pronounced it to be "infallible, irresistible, but in- human." On this ground it was not adopted, and Cochrane gave a pledge never Lo use it for any other country than his own. During the Crimean war the secret plan was again brought forward by Lord Dundonald, then an old man, and once more it wa set aside as too terrible and in- buman for use in war. The details of the proposal are unquestionably still preserved in the pigeon holes of the War Office, and if Britain's exist- ence were at stake the "secret plan" might be called into use. Mr. Maclay's idea is that Dundon- ald had adapted to the purposes of warfare the then recently-invented "burning glass." The essential idea of this singular device was the ar- rangement of several hundred mir- Tors In a great frame, at such angles a8 to catch and concentrate the rays of the sun on any desired spot. The power of these concentrated rays was 80 great as to explode any magazine, quickly set all woodwork in a flame, and to cause the instant death of any human being who came within the in- fluence of their scorching breath. It was claimed that so great was the heat generated in these concentrated sun rays they could be swept along a line of advancing troops, causing each man to drop dead the moment the rays fell upon him. While difficulties were encountered in adapting 'burning glasses" to nav- al warfare, not one of them was in- surmountable, The rolling and pitch- ing motion of water craft was easily accommodated in a manner similar to that employed with "floating" com- passes, whereby a degree of stability was acquired sufficient to maintain & direct line with the sun and trans- mit its concentrated rays to the de- sired objective, As to the delicate meckanism or fragile nature of these glasses being shattered by hos- tile shot, it must be remembered that & century ago ordnance was of a com- paratively low power; so much so, in fact, that it was the rule rather than exception for opposing war craft to hammer each other for hours and sometimes days without any being sunk---and the thickness of planks in militant craft th®n was only about four inches. It would have been an easy matter to fortify the small space occupied by a frame of "burning glasses" with timbers massive enough to render them impervious to shot---the narrow slit through which the concentrated rays were to be projected against an enemy affording an infinitesimally small target for the cumbersome can- non of those days. With this "hor rible" engine of death and destruc- tion thus protected, it was quite pos- sible for a war craft to approach close enough to an adversary to set the latter instantly afire. Perhaps if the baby-killing Zeppelins ever become a real menace the secret war plan may be resurrected for their destruction. FP raveting Schoo lmASTers; HT -- -- Rural education has been solved in one part of Australia by the em- ployment of a traveling schoolmas- ter, He conducts his class in a dis- triet of Queensland where a ranch of 25,000 acres is considered small. In order to gather enough pupils to fill a one-room schoolhouse it would be necessary to draw on the entire country within a radins of 500 miles. So, instead of suppo: a number ruggling educational institutions "semi-populated localities, the Australian Government engage a traveling schoolmaster, who is an ex- pert motorist and a hardy tourist. For his use they have purchased an automobile, and in his car the travel. ing teacher goes from farm to farm, making stops of two or three days at each, distributing books and map- Ding out courses of instruction by which the youngsters can easily teach themselves. treated to lengthy holidays every year, as the school are cur- " rains that sweep and of summer. rough : Ruskin on Wagner. The have been unable to , but it --~ tert our Toy ohn Rus- : ent to hear one gol ie falling 10 wrote to Hisna" e, clumsy, » of 'sling, baboan-bloodsd : scrannelpipiest, tongs and el of sounds I ever endured the deadliness of, that of noth- | ing was the deadliest, peri {sound went." far as the It isn't every man' whe | g) ) lar source of the following extract THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.1015. AN INFORMAL TRUCE. It Was Faithfally Kept In Spite of the Absurd Situation. One of the gqueerest informal truces on record occurred during the first Maori war. For three days the Maoris, strongly entrenched in one of their stockaded camps, or "pabs," had been firing at the British, who were similarly entrenched behind thes own lines and who, of course, return. ed the enemy's fire with interest. On the morning of the fourtn day, y Which chanced to be a Sunday, the British soldiers were amazed to see the Maoris, dressed in their best clothes, come trooping out of their pab, unarmed, and making friendly gestures, Thinking, naturally, that they wished to surrender, an officer bur ried forward 10 meet them, carrying a white flag. But the Maori chie} explained that they had no intention whatever of throwing up the sponge. Ouly they did not wish te fight that day and hoped that the British fell likewise, The officer, hardly knowing what te do, demurred at firel, but eventually fell in with the suggestion, adding as an afterthought tha: he was pleas ed to see that they bad so great s respect for the white man's Sabbath, "Ob, it is not that!" promptly re- plied the chief. "The fact is that we have run out of ammunition and 'se cannot figth to-day. To-morrow we have a fresh supply coming in. Then we will go abead again with the war." "Tell you what, though," he re sumed after a moment's pause, struck suddenly by what he evidently con- ceived to be an exceedingly brillian{ munition we can start again, and the day won't be wasted." decline this naivo proposal, and on reporting the matter he was censured for not at once making the whole lot of them prisoners. His reply was that he would rather be cashiered than take so mean an advantage of a brave and chivalrous enemy who bad trusted him and who, after all, as their conduct plainly showed, were in some things little more than grown-up children, ------------ War Humor In London's East End A 'visitor to the East End sends tc the London Spectator some amusing Statements apropos of the war. What could be more refreshing than to be told by a mother of "my sons' money lying, so to speak, dor mouse in the bank"? It is all a little unexpected, when trying sympathetically to take Par ticulars of an absent husband, the wife suddenly throws in: 'And | only 'bpe 'e'll serve the Germans as 'e served me." There is a good deal of confusion relating to locality, as in .the case of one mother, who said her son was in , he thought, "working «( the basement." One delightful old lady, in a con spicuously clean room, described be; health as never having been good since the hot summer, when she "made too free with water." She Was Bure the complications of hes son's finances would be straightened out if I would write to the "colored sergeant." nother mother described her younger son as being now In the "fly corpse," while the elder one "had joined the ditch patch riders." Gilbert's Wit, At tlie Crystal Palace one evening I bad the pleasure of being seated next to W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, at a banquet, where Burnand, editor of Punch, was chair- man. Burnand, 1 was told, was very Jealous of Gilbert, which became ra- ther apparent as the banquet pro- gressed, both he and Gilbert indulg. ing in several combats of repartee. Gilbert was telling us a rather amusing incident at which we were all laughing very decidedly, when Burnand shouted down tho line of diners, 'Are you chaps laughing at those funny sayings of Gilbert, which he sends to Punch and never gets in?" Gilbert quickly replied, "1 do not know who sends the funny things to Punch, but 1 do know that they never get in." Gilbert was once asked his opinion 8 per. formance of Hamlet. "Well," he sald, "it was very, very funny, without be- ing vulgar." ' Potsdam Stage Sword. The original state award of Pots: is among B ham posses sions in England. It has been Iying ane of the show places of the Mid- lind metropolis. The citizens were unaware of its existence till atten- tion was called to it recently by a local antiquary. Itis a handed weapon with a four-faol blade, with allegorical devices dat ing back to remote Jaya of Teutonic chivalry. It was p bly part of the spoils of Napoleon's invasion of Prussia, and is fated to have passed abou years ago from a vate collection to Aston Hall. its ae lai the word '"Pots- blade, An old Scots minister who did not Quite regard himself as the of pulpit perfec Adam was the only mah n world who never tried, i nu] idea, "if you will lend us some am- | 3 Naturally the officer was obliged te Gary & Practical Home Dress Making| Lessons 2 k= ; Prepared Especially For This Newspaper ' by Pictorial Review YOKE DRESS OF > PINK MADRAS. perforations, 'then turn under the hem | As notched. The center of the front and center of the back of the waist are pinned to corresponding parts of the yoke, after which the gathers should: be evenly distributed. Baste the yoke to the waist carefully, so that after it, is stitched there will be no frayed or| irregulas edges. The collar is now added to the neck, but if the round ' 1 OO > T-- GO0G3 Little gir's yoke dress, having sleeves cut in one with the walst and a detachable straight skirt with pleats it the sides and back. This dalnty little frock has the shoul- der yoke that Is featured so smartly this season and is made of pink ma- dras, 4'§ yards being required to de- velop the model for a girl of average in a lumber heap at Aston Hall, now|. size. For the lining, 3 yard of 27-inch material Is needed. To. make the dress, first sew up the inder-arm seams, which continue the gth ol the sleeves, then close the seam at center-back. It is best next 0 hem the front, then gather the up- per edges of front and back, so that thé yoke may 'be added. Find the cen- ter of the yoke by the double "wo" Pictorial Review Drees No. 6063 156 cents. CALLS RUM RATION DEA -------- Protests Against Doling Out Spirits To Troops." Sir Vietor Horsley, an eminent medical scientist, and a Captain in the Medical Corps, (Territorial For- ces,) has contributed to the British Medical Journal an article remons- trating against the new issue of rum rations to the military forces as a protection against cold and damp. He declares 'that all medical scien- tists now know that, although alco- bol produces a temporary flush on the surface of the skin, this is due to a rush of blood to fill the arteries slae- kened by alcohol; and that the ex- cess of blood thus driven to the sur- face losses its heat and, on returning to the interior chilled by such ex- posure, inevitably lowers the bodily temperature, Sir Victor points out that the spir- it-drinking habit in our army was first contracted in Flanders during Marlborough's campaign, 200 years ago, and that its extension in the form of gin drinking caused the Col- lege of Physicians to appeal to the Government for legal restrictions, which followed. He says it is more than a national misfortune that this story of 200 years ago is being re- DLY again being taught (hy the issue of Tum) to become vietims of the spirit: drinking habit. In the American eivil war, when McClellan's great army, on the ~ Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. WOMAN NERVOUS, WERK AND Dizzy Could Not Do Housework for! Family of Three. Vinol in a Short Time Made Her a Strong Well Woman. Fort Edward, N. Y,--"I was in a | run-down condition, nervous, weak and dizzy, so that in doing the housework | for Ing little family of e, 1 would be 1] exi ted. I tried liver oil emul- sions and three or four other medicines without benefit. Finally a friend told | me about Vinol and I tried it. I soon felt better and now it has built up my strength, I have no more nervous or di spells, and can do all my house- | work without getting all tired out."'-- | Hn, ELMER GLIDDEN, Fort Edward, Women are so active nowadays, and | 80 much is expected of them, that they | constantly overdo and suffer from head- | | aches, backache, nervousness and kin- dred ills. Vinol is a most efficient strength creator for such women. It is the medicinal . elements of the cod's liver, aided by the blood making and strengthe properties of tonic iron which makes it so far superior to all other tonics. If you are in this condition try Vinol on our Jiarantee to return your money if it fails. Geo. W. Mahood, Druggist, Kings- ton, Ont. at outlise. is preferred' cut out neck edge of yoke on small "o" perforations The skirt comes next. Beginning a large *"O" perforation. center back, continuing to lower edge, the finish the edges above for the opening Pleat, creasing on lines of slot perfo rations: bring folded edge near center back to seam and bring remaining folded edge to line of double "vo" per forations: press pleats. Turn hem a! lower edge on small "0" perforations gather upper edge double "TT" perforations. Sew skirt-band t gathered edge of skirt, notches and centers even; fold through center; fell remaining edge over seam. XVork but- tonholes in skirt-band at center-tront and at singie small "0" perforations and sew buttons on stay to correspond for adjusting The belt is now adjusted into place, as the final stage of the work. To re- Heve the plainness of the material, it | is a pretty idea to stitch a few rows of | mercerized brald along the upper and | lower edges of the beit and on the col- lar and cuits. { close between Price, AAA AAs i | banks of the Potomac endured sever- | al weeks of severe hardships in tren-| | ches, battles, and exposure, to wit, | it was determined 16, issue spirit ra. | tions, but after one month the ra- | tions Were withdrawn because the | men were the worse for it, so Sir Victor declares. { Sir Victor stakes his professional | reputation on his declaration that |rum causes "loss of resistance to i cold" and is a '"'causation of chilli- | ness, misery, and frostbite." No bet- | ter Way of encouraging frostbite could have been imagined than the! { Issue of the rum ration, since alcohol | produces the circulatory changes re-| | quisite for the first stage of this in- | capacitating and painful condition. | Alcohol also causes loss of resistan- | ce to disease, (particularly those oc- | curring under conditions of wet and { cold), namely, pneumonia, dysentery, | and typhoid fever. It also causes | loss of efficiency in shooting. | Tum ration causes a loss of 40 to 50 | per cent. in rifle shooting. The navy {rum ration causes a loss of 30 per | | | i f PAGE ELEVEN AUTO LIVERY Bibby's Garage A-1 Auto Mechanics Agents, Dodge Bros, Phones: 201, Garage; 917, Residence. - --_-- OUR FRESH GROUND COF- FEE AT 40c. CAN'T BE BEAT. Try a sample order and be convinced. - - NOLAN'S GROCERY rincess St. Phone 720. Prompt Delivery fafesssascasssancasnsnay MARBLE HALL Pure Ice Cream In Bulk or Bricks. Packel and delivered to any part of the city. 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