TORTURED BY RHEUMATISM Sunday School Supt. Tells How "Fruit-a-tives" Relleved 1st, 1918. s city for more well known, / suffered from Rheumatism, especially Torosto, Ost. Oct "I have lived in th 19 than 12 years and am in my hands. I spent a lot of money without any good results. I have taken "Fruit a-tives" for 18 months now and am pleased to tell you that 7 am well. All the enlargement has not left my hands, and perhaps never will, but the soreness is all gone and I can do any kind of work. I have gained 85 pounds in eighteen mouths." R.A. WAUGH 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 23c. Atall dealersor direct from Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. a ER GE TEA DARKENS HAIR TO ANY SHADE Don't stay Gray ! Here's an Old- time Recipe that Any- body can Apply. The use of Sage and Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its na- tural color dates back to grandmo- ther'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 mix- ture -was applied with wonderful.ef_ fect. But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a 50 cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy," you will get this famous old recipe which can be depénded upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair and is splendid for dandruff, dry, feverish, itchy scalp and falling hair A well-knowh downtown druggist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has beén applied You simply dam- pen a sponge 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. URIC ACID IN MEAT CLOGS THE KIDNEYS Take a glass of Salts if your Back hurts or Bladder bothers. . or If you must have your meat every day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasiondlly, says a noted authority who tells us that meat forms uric acid which aklmost para- Iyzes the kidneys in their efforts to expel it from the blood. They be- come sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather i# bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste get four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharm- acy here; take a teaspoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER "10, 1915. Some General Information for Busy People A TABLE OF LOGARITHMS. Its Use In Working Out Complex Mathematical Problems. A logarithm Is an exponent, and an exponent is a sumber showing how Wwany wes another number has been used in any multiplication. Ten times 10 equals 100. It was used twice, and its expunent is 2. Ten cubed equals 1,000, aud its expouent is 3; while 10 to expouent 4 equals 10.000, and so on out toward infinity. But suppose that Wwe wish to use 10, say 134 times or 1% times instead of twice. Then the ex- ponent must be computed, and expo- nents thus computed dre always print- ed iu tables. Thus, as I am now writing; the pa- per, as always, by day and by night, Is very near a precious book, a table of logarithms for all numbers from 1 to 108,000, computed out to seven deci mal places. To give examples of thelr use, suppose that you wish to multiply 8'by 11. Look In the table and you will find the logarithm of 8 to be 9030900, and the logarithm of 11 to be 1.0413927. Add these and the sum will be 19444827. Look along the column and it will be seen that this is the logarithm of 88. Easy. But suppose ygu wish to mul tiply two strings of figlres of from 3 to a dozen. In the great standard mathe- matical sciences, such as astronomy, physics and chemistry, the multiplica- tion and division of immense numbers are required. Thus, let us square the number 31558149--that is, multiply it- self by itself, a tedious job. But this toil can be saved by the use of loga- rithms. Thus, the logarithm of 31558149 is 7.4901289, taken directly from the table. Then. to square any number multiply its logarithm by 2, and this logarithm multiplied by 2 equals 14.9982578 Now. by looking in the table, the number of which this 1s the logarithm fs 995016962000951. Hours of work are performed in a few min- utes.--Edgar Lucien Larkin _ _ STONE MEASURE. There Is No Regular Unit, and It Fairly Revels In Variet Owing to the variety of uses to which stone is put, there is no regu- lar unit of measurement employed by the quarrymen, the stone being sold by the 'cubic yard, cubic foot, tom, cord, perch, rod, square foot, square yard, square, etc. Building and monumental stone, especially the dressed product, is usually sold by the cubic foot or the cubic yard, although this unit varies with the class of stone and with the locality; a large quantity of rough stone is sold by' the perch, cord or ton. Rubble and riprap, including stone for such heavy masonry as breakwater and jetty work, are generally sold by the cord or ton. Fluxing stone and stone for chemical use--as for alkali works, sugar factories, carbonic acid plants and paper mills--are sold by the long ton. Flagstone and curbstone are sold by fhe square yard or the square foot, the thickness being vari able and dependent on the orders re- celved. Granite paving blocks are sold invariably by numbers but the blocks are not of uniform size, the value de- pending on the size of the block and the labor necessary to cut into the shape desired. Other paving material is sold by various units, such as ton or cubic yard. Crushed stone Is usually sold by the cubic yard or ton, the short ton be ing more generally used. The weight of a cubic yard of erushed stone varies from 2,300 to 3,000 pounds, the average weight being abeut 2500 pounds. In This famous salts js. certain localities crushed stone is sold made from the acid of grapes and]DbY the "square" of 100 square feet by lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate sluggish kid- neys, also to neutralize the acids in urine, s0 it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad. Salts is inexpensive: cannot injure, and makes a delightful effer- vescent lithia~water drink. How You May Throw Away Your Glasses The statement Is made that sands wear eyeglasses who do not really need them. If you are one of these unfortunates, then these glasses May be ruining your eves instead of helping them. ousands who wear these "windows" may prove for them- selves that they can dispense with lasses if they will get the following prescription filled at once: Go to any tive drug store and get a Ddottle of -Opto tablets: fill & two-ounce bot- tle with warm water and a in one Bon-Opto tablet. With this harmless Hguid solution bathe the eyes two to four times daily, and you are likely to be astonished at the results right from the start Many whe ave been told r ve astigmatisen; ide. thou- "eyea- the use of th prescription. prescription: filed and use it: y. 80° strengtheh your eyes that will not be necessary. Thou $ who are blind, or nearly so, or who wear glasses might never have required them if they 'had cated" for their eyes in lime. Save your eyes before it Is too late. Do not become one of these vie- thms of neglect. Eyeglasses are only like crutches and every few Years they must ba ¢ ro a the ve Increas. condition. se better see vou can, many others, get clear, Strong magnetic eves t h the Rieterigtion re given. The Val- mas Dr of Toromta, wil ait above tion By Wail, i A. 1 foot, or 100 cubic feet. Crushed stone is also Sold by the bushel, 21% bushels representing a cubic yard of about 2,700 pounds.--Geological Survey Bulk letin The Senate Barber Shop. Here's an odd thing about the Unit- ed States senate barber shop: Although the number of senators has hardly in- creaséd at all, the number of shaves has ficreased at a surprising rate in recent years. The reason is simply | that the senate is now inbabited large | ly by comparatively young men with SOLDIERS' BURDENS. l.oads They Have to Carry on the March and In Action. the rite of the infantrymean ul world's armies has steadily lesseved In welght during the last fifty years, sud while constant attempts made in other ways to lighten the soldier's burden on march, it i8 nevertheless a fact that the uni farmed fighter of today carries very Tittle if any less than he did a genera- tion or two ago. His gun and bayo net and some other details of equip ment that bad an exact counterpart in the old armies may be lighter, but modern military necessities have add- ed to his carrying requirements. He mpst now face this marching load: Magazine rifle; bayonet, . scab- bard, rifle cartridge belt and fasten. "ers, rifle cartridge belt suspenders, first aid packet, canteen, canteen strap, set of blankets, roll straps, haversack, meat can (used as a frying pan), cup, knife, fork, spoon. one shelter tent (half), five shelter tent pins, one pon- cho (rubber blanket), one pair shoes, one housewife (needle and thread), one overcoat, one intrenching tool These marching loads have varied | from 40 to 100 pounds in the past and weigh about the same now. Of course, in going into action much of this load is discarded, some of ft never to be. possessed by the owner again, even though he escapes the bat. tle peril. In the old days knapsacks were always cast off by seasoned troops, who grew calloused as to the hoarding up of little trinkets and mementos that so appeal to the amateur soldier. After a battle these discarded knap- sacks might be recovered, but it was not likely. At any rate, while another knapsack might be issued. it would not be the one possessed by the soldier be- fore the battle. Whenever a new levy of troops was mustered in and arrived in a camp where veterans were stationed the newcomers were greeted with mock praise for their spick and span sol dierly appearance, with special em- phasis on "How nice those knapsacks look!" This time honored receptacle of everything a soldier desired or hop- ed to keep ever near him is no longer reckoned in the latter day, universal fighting equipment. While troops on going into battle discard everything not absolutely necessary to them for the fight and are thus lightened up some, they have to take on some weight in the place of that relinquished in the shape of an extra number of cartridges.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wille the have been Singular Gender. _ "Some days ago," relates the wife of a well known attorney, "I accompanied my husband on a business trip to Cleveland. As we ate our luncheon I chanced to overhear several traveling men jesting with the colored waiter. | * 'George,' (traveling men always say | George to a colored waiter)--'this bill of fare has an item, chicken giblets with biscuit. We would like to have some of that, but we want to know whether there is more than one bis- cuit.' "George examined the menu card, scratched his poll, and finally an- swered: * 'No, suh--yo' don' git only one. De SORCERY IN NEW GUINEA. | When the Charms Fail the Penalty Is Swift and Deadly. Not logg since, fn an inland village in New/!Gyinea, a certain mother-in law fell ill. A poripuri man was fetched to her aid from a neighboring village. Could the puri-puri man cure the mother-in-law? puri man could surely cure the mother in-law! The puri-purl man man must have, however, as a fee for the cure a dog and a pig. It was a bargain. The dog and the pig passed into the posses sion of the sorcerer, and he set confi dently to work. It was testified in the course of the trial, which presently came on, that the sorcerer, who was by this time the deceased in the case, bad "made a few passes" over the mother-in-law and returned to his vil- lage. "Now, my good woman," sald he. upon departing, "you will get well." This was not so. "I called you to attend my mother-in- law?" demanded the son-in-law, when next the sorcerer came. It was admitted. "I paid you a dog and a pig? "You did." "My mother-in-law is dead." "Hum." It is easy to imagine the consternation of the sorcerer. "Very well, then," declared the son- inlaw. "As I paid you a dog and '4 pig to cure my mother-in-law, and as you did not cure her, 1 am going to kill you." Thereupon the son-in-law went off with two friends in search of weapons. Witnesses of what followed told the magistrate before whom the case was being tried that the sorcerer made no attempt to escape, that he calmly awaited tLe inevitable event. Preseat- ly the avengers returned. The son-in- law grievously speared the sorcerer, ad the friends--lending countenance ar; stone clubs. Not one of these men, declares the magistrate, could be per suaded that they had done anything out of the way. Had the sorcerer not been paid a dog and a pig for his medicine? And bad not his cure fail ed? And was he not a sorcerer, any- how ?--Harper's Magazine. FIRES IN ICEHOUSES. They Are Easily Started and Particu- larly Hard to Handle. lcehouses, despite. their damp con- tents and their simple structure, have a high place among special fire risks. No kind of building is such a paradox. Apparently an icehouse is as safe against fire as a mp log or a mud SCOW; yet give the flames but half a chance and nine times in ten they work a total loss. Under ordinary conditions an ice house fire starts easily. The walls rise without masonry direct from the ground; grass fires and brush fires creep into contact with the bare wood. Dry straw and hay lie all about. Damp sawdust within often takes fire of it- self. Tramps, never over careful in their smoking, seek shelter in the buildings, The saw tooth roofs could | not be better planned to catch sparks | from passing trains. And when the fire has started, it Is wo'd "biscuit" is singul d as de good book teaches. So yo' all don't get but one' "--Columbus Dispatch. The London Bobby's Helmet. The policeman's dignity is largely cen- tered in his helmet. The late Sir John Astley testifies to this in his auto biography. Speaking from the experi- ence-of his youth, he says: "If you get into a row with the police don't at- tempt to hit a policeman, or you will get the worst of it, but knock his helmet off. He will instinctively stoop down to pick it up, for a policeman without a helmet is Impossible. Meanwhile you run away." able to add that Sir John Was the champion sprinter of the army, as well as being a first class boxer.~Lon- don Standard. ® ES By Inference. Pater and his small boy were Ing St. Paul's churchyard when of the pass. the fa- larger smooth faces or wearing mustaches at | most, and they are obliged to get | shaved every little while; whereas the | old style senator with § riot of whisk- | ers never had occasion to visit a barber | shop except every few months to get his hair trimmed Disgusted . One day while her grandfather was | paying a visit to Florence's home the little girl said to him: "Gran'pa, your talk about 'persevers ance winning' is all nonsense." "Well, well, child!" cried the grand. father, "Why do you say that? "Why," said the little girl, "I've worked all the afternoon blowing soap bubbles apd trylag to pin them on | mother's bat.' ! «| » A Little Ambiguous. Musiclan--~You didn't get around to my recital last night. Friend--No., had a splitting headache. However, everybody told me 1 should have gone, because' you would have made me for- get all other suifering -- s 3 ---- © -------- Heard on the Train. "What Sorrows of Satan."™ 2 : this for yg, Jim: you interest do take considerable > 4 book is that you are reading, | { "Do they put those that way to keep | the bad ones down ?'--New York Post. | Confirming a Wife's Right. } "At least be was original in his pro | | "Did he claim that you were the only | | girl he ever loved?" j "No. He asked me if I'd accept the | |right nightly to démand of him where | he had been till this hour." i i" Start of His Finish, | "Well, old man. how's tricks? i | "Miss Wallaby accepted me last | | night" { 1 "1 suppose you are around today ac. | | cepting congratulations." |. "No: I'm around today trying to bor | | row $200 to buy the ring." | Rarities in warfare are bullets made | of stones. but during the fights | | lig on the Kashmir frontier. whes the | | British troops defeated the rebellions | | Hunzas, the natives used bullets of | | pure garnets eiiclosed in lead. Many | | of the troops preserved these as curiost- { tds. T.ondon Maik : | draft and sweep. It is perhaps advis. ane ly hard to | t In most cases it gets an overpowering headway before the fighters can assemble. Hy. drants are often lacking. If the build- Ings are full of ice and the covering straw, the firemen can work only from the outside; if the buildings are empty, the great spaces give the flames both, And the walls, by their peculiar construction, double or triple with twelve or eighteen inch spaces within, packed with tan bark or other combustible filling, usually baffle all attempts at reaching and es. tinguishing the well fed fire within them 4 ¢ * wn ie oh Trigger Fish. The curiously named "trigger fish™ are plentiful in Japanese waters. They are of the balistes genus, and their popular name is derived from the trig: get-like peculiarity of the second spine of the dorsal-8n. When the fin is erect ed the first ray, or spine, which is very thick and strong, maintains its elevated pack of to Ob, yes, the pugk | aid--dispatched him with Gsaf| be no dispute. y CULLODEN MOOR. Where the Last Battie Was Fought In| Great Britain. | The last battle fought on the soil of | . Great Britain took place in the middle | of the eighteenth century. While George II. was engaged in the war of | the Austrian succession Charles Ed- ward, who was called the young pre- tender, a grandson of King James IL of England, landed in Scotland and made twoattempts to obtain the throne of bis ancestors. He was victorious in the battle of Falkirk, but the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II, having | been recalled from the continent to take command of the king's forces, the | pretender was defeated at Culloden Moor, a plain in Scotland four miles from Inverness, This was the last battle fought on the Island of Great Britain and took place April 16, 1746, and it was also the last attempt on the part of the Stuart fam- ily to recover the throne of Great Brit- ain. Charles Edward Stuart escaped to France after he had wandered five months in the highlands, He died in Rome, Jan. 30, 1788. . The Duke of Cumberland gave no quarter, The wounded were all slain, and the jails of England were filled «With prisoners, many of whom were sxecuted. Among the latter were Lords Balmerino, Kilmarnock and Lovat, Lovat being the last person who was beheaded in England. CURIOUS SWISS LAWS. Some That Look With a Very Pene- trating Eye Into the Future. There are in force in Switzerland certain laws, which, in the hands of the unscrupulous, may work great havoc with personal rights and liber ties, an exchange remarks. This is a point concerning which there can For instance, in most cantons men and women may be punished not only for what they have actually done in the past, but also for what may pos- sibly result in the future from what they have done. Suppose a man is spending week by week all that he earns. Then the local authorities, acting in conjunction with the local police, may send him to a penal workhouse on the pretext that his conduct is such that he may later become destitute, and therefore a bur den on the community. To be a burden on the community is a crime. The result is a woman who wishes to be rid of her husband for a year or two--or a man of his wife-- has 'only to persuade the local author) ties that unless he be forced to change his ways he may perhaps some day become destitute, A visitor once found in one penal workhouse a woman who was there for two years at the request of her husband, How Letters Strike Our Eyes. Roman letters of various sizes are commonly called into request by ocu- lists in testing vision. Recent experi ments show great differences jm the ease with which the various letters are recognized by the same person, T is especially difficult of recognition and is apt to be mistaken for Y. By a sim- Har optical illusion the angle of L is rouhded off, making the letter resem- ble a reversed J. V is the easiest of all letters to recognize, and O presents { little difficulty. K is more easily rec ognized than H, which resembles _it closely, and both N and Z are easily recognized. A is easily guessed at from its general form, but is difficult of positive recognition, including dis tinct perception of the horizontal line. E and F are among the most difficult of all letters. --------. Equine' Sagacity. Here is a startling story of equine wo A-- { 1 i | PAGE ELEVEN ™ This Advertisement may induce you go try the first packet of " DA but we rely absolutely on the inimitable flavour and quality to make you a permanent customer. We will even offer to give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to Toronto. BLS BUILDERS !! Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? | And belong class, lat food that keeps you glee- ful, That is food WITH GAS." "Phone 197, or drop a card to the Office of the Works, Queen St, and have the GAS installed in your home. to the happy It Saves Time P. WALSH. Barrack St. "COOKED RR Hest, Power sng NINGSTON CEMENT PRODUCT Water Depts. 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Phone 845 :: Price's sa -- st go INDIA PALE ALE Not a Useless Intoxicarit, but a WHOLESOME BEVERAGE with dietetical and medicinal uses -- MADE AS GOGD AS WE CAN MAKE IT -- 1 not sold by nearest wine and api split merchant, write E