Co 'oy "SEAL "BRAND COFFEE Irres istible! 92 In ¥4, 1 and 2 pound cans. Whole -- grouiid -- pulverized -- also Fine Ground for Percolators. CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL 165 -- AA i es A few of the many Bargains offered at the UNIQUE GROCERY: Good Tea, black and green 30¢ 1b, Sweet Biscuits 3 Ibs, 25¢ Maple Flavor Syrup, per qt. 30¢ ickering's Perfection Baking Powder, per 1b PICKERING'S, 490 Princess Street. Phone 530. 15¢ NE est's % ai fntic " ¢ two weeks hive vour eves 4 fe ted if tered Optometrist, anf if have rimless finger piece nose glasses fitted com- it plete for $2.00, r Old folks' spectacles complete for $1.00, Snow Glasses ----- Auto Goggles. Satisfaction , teed. : 'L. T. Best, Optometrist. AT BEST'S, The Popular Drug Store, Open Sundays. guaran Jenkins 98c Shirt Sale All Colored Shirts, with stiff cuffs, $1.25 to $2.00, for .........98¢ Cheaper 4 to 16 choice sizes Your ..ob¢ Ines, 1-2 on ! Fr Jenkins Clothing Company. L Ng ree bv a Regis 1: powders effort Ix made to retain some ------ { HH EXPLOSIES, Amateur Chemists Should Fight 'Shy of Dabhling In Them. SCIENCE IN THEIR MAKING. i wi | These Terribly Destructive Agents Are | the Outcome of Serious Research Work~--8mokeless Powders and How They Are Produced, ¥ A word of caution to amateurs who wish to expe with high explo- sives--don't. The manufacture of high explosives is now a highly specialized branch of chemistry and chemical en- gineering, and great technical know! edge and experience are nesessary if one wishes to go through life whole. Another cantion--not one of the present explosive compounds has been discov ercl and 'made practical by an ama- tear; they are growth of sclentitic manufae ture olf The strocti substan portance ad tant iment as mye 1 research as is iline dyes bages of the most terribly de. very innocent ind of kizh im Cotton impor high ex- benzol, far the most i Mitro compounds are osives are $ themselves tm the ars of peace siyedrin are the mw Iwo most for phenols materials used plosive next ftolnol, et Cotton is by important, as i ti oa | cume "mokeless powders and nsed rifles explosive the most cot Hy speak- latinized and nitroglycerin proportions, with small proportions 'of other sub: | stances to modify its notion or to stab- | flize it. The general method of mak ing each of the two types is as fok form of g sunlotton in varying lows: Guncotton powders are made by dissolving a mixture of dinitro and tric nitrocellulose mixture of alcohol and ether, working the mass until a plastic jelly is formed abd then work- ing this up with its other ingredients and finally pressing the ass threads and cylinders or cutting sheets of it to make small grains Smokeless powder for big guns and smaller rifled cannon is usually made In the form of perforated cylinders of varying Ly forcing the plastic ass through dies These eylindérs are izghth of an inch to un inch s atid from balf an inch to size and number with the size The in a into up sizes two laches long. the of perforations of the gun cylinders perforated the «flame from the burn them more evenly, thus securing uni forums pressure in the gun and its maxi mum effect, Smokéless powders are exploded by direct flame, from a friction or electric primer, the combustion being almost instantaneous. Set afire dn open air smokeless powders burn but without explosion de terforated by and formation - of of wwder seldom explodes by When exec acid it will explode spontaneously I vary which intended that combustion can ing for are fiercely, Unless badly age consequent excess free acids, smokel CONCUSS ssively I appearance smokeless powder re bles yellow or amber celluloid, has a horny texture amd ean be cut with a kuife. The powder used by the United States is a guncotton powder, a small proportion of diphenylamine and eal citm carbide being added to stabilize it. ethods of mann facture are closely guarded sec Nitroglycerin smokeless powders have As a base both guuncotton and nitro- glycerin, The guncotton is dissolved in the nitroglycerin. a jelly-like mass being formed. This is then dissolved in acetone or a mixture of alcohol and 'ether, stabilizing ingredients added and the whole worked into a plastic mass { This mass is then pressed into sticks or perforated cylinders or granulated from sheets by the sage process a8 guncot ton powder, and the tinished product is similar in appearance Nitroglyeerin powders have a greater explosive force than nitroc lose pow ders, but have the drawback of Leing unstable and irregulas In #Ction. In fact, all smokeless powders have these ® defects. The perfect smokeless pow- der is yet to be invented. .und mean while those who wd store it must keep a constant watch for signe of deterioration and consequent liabll ity to spontaneous explosion The most table and effective type of smokeless powder is the Euglish "cord | ite," so called because molded into strips: or cords of varying length and diameter. The tew type cordite is composed of approximately 65 parts of trinitrocellulose. thirty parts of nitro | 8lycerin and five parts of mineral jelly "or petrolatum. acetone being used for | tinking the jelly and dissolving the n | trogelatin formed. Originally petrolatium was added 1 | vordite with the iden tliat it would less fen the erosion of the charge on the | | rifling of the gun. Later it yas discov | ered that the petrolatum-ficted ns an almost perfect stabilizer Ly preventing { oxidation mechanically™ "Cordite for { merly contained a -higher, proportion uf | nitroglycerin, but this formnk ! abandoned for the later oy powder was too subjec tion, ? ! Blasting gelatin' is similar in compo { &itlon to this (ype of smokeless pow der and Is mndesby dissolving gnncor The process aud ret' handle ton in nitrogivesrin, the propartions af i each varying as to the class and yse« of the explosive In all smokeless of the solvent used. as this mikes it safer to handle and more uniform in composition. Camphor and similar | substances ure sometimes added ns stabliizers. -- The man who is quite sure his heme is a¥ good and pure as any.in {the community is always a good i eitizen, i { Few of us believe in luck--unless we ppen to be unlucky, i THE ' TEMPTER WON. A Decoration That Was Accepted, but That Held a Sting. When the late Baron Nordenskjold was at Ceylon on the way home from his journey along the northern coast of he received a telegram from the Russian government asking him wheth- er he would accept fiom the czar a cer- tain decoration as An appreciation of his services to Russia. For many days the famous explorer wavered, as be was a member of Bjor- Sterne Bjornson's Anti-decoration club, whose members were solemnly pledged never to accept any decoration from anybody, Nordenskjold, however, could not re- sist the temptation, so he replied to the telegram in the affirmative. It is not hard to imagine his disappointment when upon reaching home a friend of his, a high official, told him the follow- ing: "The Russian government was well aware of your antagonistic views in regard to decorations and had there- fore placed in readiness 200,000 rubles to be paid you in the event of ydur re- fusing to accept the insignia, but be- fore paylug that sum they wanted to try your firmness. Russia is certainly grateful to you for your failure to live up to your pledge." a The Fashion of the House. A servant girl happened to be en« gaged' at a farmhouse where the mis- tress was known to have a hasty tem- per. On the first Saturday night the girl was at the was told by the mili $8 10 clean the boots ready for Sunday. The mistress on coming int Len later that the first. ne them int farmhouse she str the Kit on saw had cleaned her own -hoots and threw that took them up i water was by au "iE 1 out of the The §. but when she had cleaned the other boots she threw them also into the water. "Whatever possessed you to do that, girl?" asked the mistress on coming again in the Kitchen The girl simply "Well, ma'am, please, ma'am thought it was the fashion of house, ma'am!"--London Tit-Hits. standing plied: 1 the In Praise of the Eskimos. Admiral R. E. Peary in the narrative describing his discovery 'of the north pole devotes a very long chapter to the Eskimos, with whom he has had inti- mate dealings for many years, Ie tells us that, though they are savages, they are not savage; that, though they are without government, they are not law- less; that, though they are uneducated. they exhibit a remarkable degree of intelligence. He assures us that they have no religion, yet he describes them as destitute of vice and ready to share their last meal with the hungry, He thinks it would be*impossible to Chris- tianize them, but they already possess the cardinal graces of faith, hope and charity, for "without them they could never survive the six months' night and the other rigors of their home." -------------- Prompting the Prompter. Like all artists, Sir Henry Irving sometimes allowed the line he was to speak evade his memory for the mo- ment, but seldom his prompter grew' careless. One night Sir Henry turned to the wings and said, "Line, please." The prompter was busy chat. ting, and Sir Henry repeated, "Line, line!" There was a rustling of leaves, and then a distressed voice murmured, "Which line, Sir Henry" ------ s0 Sounded That Way. "The boys at our school bad a chin. ning contest." "What good is school to you if that is the language you use?' "Why, it was a chinning contest, dad You see how many times you can chin a horizontal bar. "Oh, I thought sbeut a debate." 3 vs yon wera *qlking i In 1 nminist iiberal conseiend e days of commercial the links the call ary churcl e should obey Many a id looking as good as she looks S11 from the 8¢ $8 the one his Wonlans isn t A A A AR et ee AAA AAA AAA AN Sl tt Mt AA a Trained Minds Stand to Win I. But First--the mind to be of support famons pure rood elements, lacking in many forces. Fasy tp Digest--Econ Made in Canada Canadian Postum Cereal a a well nonrished body. energizing and sustaining the "Theres a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Sold by grocers evervihere. Go, Ltd, Windsor; Ont, DESERTED VESSELS. Mysterious Wariderers Mariners Times May Meet at Sea. At least once in my life | have had the good fortune to board a deserted vessel at sea. 1 say "good fortune"! because it bas left me the memory of a singular impression I have felt a ghost of the sawe thing two or three imes since then when peeping thro fh the doorway of an abundoued heise, writes Wilbur' Daniel Steele Har per's Magazine. Now, that vessel was not dead. She WAS a good vessel a sound vessel, even a handsome vessel.-in ber blunt browed, 0Ast Wise way. She suited under four lowers feross as blue und glittering a sea as | have ever Known, ; was not a point in her sailing that one could lay a finger upons w rong. And ing that schooner ar two miles w somehow that no baud was | on ber wheel. Sometimes I can fag ine a vessel stricken like that moving over the empty spaces of the sea carry ing it off quite well were it for for that indefinable suggestion of a stagger, and I can think of all those ocean gods, in whom no landsman will ever believe. looking at one another and tapping thelr foreheads with just the shadow of a smile. I wonder if they all scream--these ships that have lost their souls? Mine screamed. +We heard her voice like nothing I have ever heard before, when we rowed under her counter to read her name-the Marionette it was of Halifax. 1 remember how it made me shiver, there in the full blaze of the sun, to hear her going on so, railing and screaming in that stark fashion. And I remember, too, how our footsteps, pattering through the vacant internals in search of that haggard utterance, made me think of the footsteps of hurrying warders roused in-the night. And we found a parrot in a cage; that was all. It wanted water. We | gave it water and went away to look | things over, keeping pretty close to- | gether, all of us. In the quarters the l table was set for four. Two men had begun to eat, by the evidence of the | plates, Nowhere in the vessel was | there any sign of disorder, except one | sea chest broken out, evidently in haste, Her papers were gone, and the stern davits were empty. 'That is how the case stood that day, and that is how it stood to this. 1 saw this same Marionette a week later, tied up in a Hoboken dock, where she awaited news from her owners. But even there, in the midst of all the water front bustle, I could not get rid of the feeling that she "ywas still very far away--in' a sort \ot shippish other world. The thing happens now and then Sometimes balf a dozen years will go by without a solitary wanderer of this sort érossing the ocean paths, and then in a single season perhaps several of them will turn up, vacant waifs, im- passive and mysterious, . ------ Negative Suggestion. | Legend tells of a Hindu fakir who seemed to have a working knowledge of practical psychology and made him- self rich selling plain wicker baskets in the streets of Calcutta. The peculiar virtue of the baskets, he explained to the buyers, lay in the fact that $f one filled his basket with ordi- nary. pebbles, placed himself in a re- ceptive attitude of mind and stirred them with a stick for an hour, each and every pebble would be transmitted into a nugget of gold--provided the stirrer did not think of a hippopotamus while stirring. - The baskets were sold, but the idea of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed in the minds of all' the purchasers that not one of them ever had legitimate grounds on which to demand his mon- ey back. d there Improvement. "Don't you think," 1 inquired of the prosperous looking man with the heavy mustache and watch chain, who was dressed in the fourteen inch balk line suit, "that the world Is getting bet: ter?! "Sure!", he replied with a frank en f 'Not only bet- thusiasm of fn SUCeess, ter, but easier." > properly trained needs the |] ---- vfluable mineral || foods, but imperative for wental and physical omical--DPelicios; ama i | purposes and chic No food supplies in more splendid proportion, - || the rich nourishment of the field grains for both body and brain building than does GRAPE-NUTS | Made of whole wheat and maliéd barley, this ; includes the 1SH WHIG ONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1916. hifismuch as the prices for fall 1916 on Winter Un- derwear have already advanced from 20 to 30 per eent., we take it that our Annual February Underwear Sale will' be more popular than ever with every foresighted bargain-wise person--eonple last year's prices less 20 per cent.--plus the advance on all lines, means an actual Saving of 50% On Underwear FOR MEN, WOMEN Avail yourself of 1 needs for next vear. STEACY"S AND CHILDREN. NO RESERVE -- 20 PER CENT. OFF ALL LINES. this wonderful bargain opportunity ad supply vour "The Woman's Store of Kingston." Gary & Practical ome Dress Making Lerrons * - " un =» | Prepared Especially For This Newspaper by Pictorial Review A Model Fer Modish Mate 1@ expense for dress will an investment in this ich is made of figured cotton trimmed with embroidered volte oF= | sandy, er its line, j in figured actical in Its this one 2 Is 1 piece frock of cotton volle, | trimmed revers and collar of organds In medium size the costume requires 6% yards 36-inch material and ¥% yard organdy for the trimming. The st "is made first, apd it is neccessary study the construction guide to aveold errors. First turn urn der the fiont edge of side front on slot Pi Cosf Price, to on torial Rev! 48 inches bust ume No. 6314 15 centa » ug notched, DAVIES Finest Western BEEF | 1,000 lbs, Oven Roasts, 16¢ Per Pound | ials. 0" perfor and bring Face seam, front neck edre, ce dérneath front { ations t I'T" perforations Se. The Wm. Davies Co. Ltd, Phone 597. | free perforat notched, le tensions under extensions on slot borsmicTion ATEGS 14 STEM A enn #75 {URC ACID IN MEAT BRINGS RHEUMATISM little Salts in water may save yon from dread attack. Rheumatism is easier to avoid than Says a ! 1 g 0 erforations. © | am: ol ed oe {to cure, states a well-known author- sleeveband and cuff and join as notch- | ity." We are advised to dress warm- cd. Adjust on short sleete-dodble "oo" | 1¥; keep the feet dry; avoid expos- perf jons and seams even. Sew [ure; eat jess meat, but drink plenty sleeve in armhole as notched | of good water, . For the shield. standing and turn: Rheumatism is a direct result of over, face the collar and turn-over and | eating too much meat and other rich join as notched. Sew collar to sleeve | foods that produce urie acid which is absorbed into the blood. It is the Next, join the skirt gores and pleats.! function of the kidneys to filter this as notched. leaving edges to left of cen {acid from the blood and cast it ut ter-front free above large "O™ perfora- [in the urine; the pores of the skin tion in front pleat for opehing. Pleat, jare also a means of freeing The blood « i ing on slot Periarat) na. bring fof this impurity. In damp and chil- folded edges to corfesponding ines of | |y oold weather the skin pores are small. "0" perforations Iress. | closed thus forcing the kidneys to do Gather upper edge between couble [gonple work, they becojie weak and "TT" perforations. Sew to lawer cd=e sluggish and fafl to iminare the of waist over even. And ype "a0id which keeps accumulating bring. the cer » ox-pleatl, gq circulating through the system, to under.arm » overs and |€Ventually settling in the joints and Ewibroldery rovers "0% muscles causing stiffness, soreness salias - and pain called rheumatism. ? Sizes 32. 34, 36, 38740, 42, | At the first twinge of rheumatism . |get from any pharmacy about four nnel ters finishes the 44, 46 and = {ounces of Jad Salts; put a tablespoons a a At PtP AA a Mgt to nai THE SLACKER'S REASONS, s They want more men the papers say, But surely they don't mean That I should go, because you know The tennis champs are on, and so, Just call again, and then I'll see, If Cissy, Maud and Janh agree" Perhaps I'll join the Army, { But don't you lthink it's better far That some they are Suppose we men. al went away And Arabella, ove fine day Be-tbought that she wouid like row, wuld stay just wii FAnd lacking escort, could noi go, | Because I'd joined the Amar And think what it would mean to me | No bridge, ping-pong, or tango tea; | No pienics, dances, { To go and join the \Mriny. ful in a ghiss of water 'and drink be- movie shows, [fore breakfast each morning for a sits or white silk nose/ (week. This is said to eliminate urie {acid by stimulating the kidneys to the jvormal action, thus ridding the blood of these impurities Jad Salts armel | and lems fthia and No summer 3 But beastly fag@ing in the trench Beside some low chap Ir hench, If I should join the nn Army i nexpensive, harmless * from the acid of grapes Juice, combined with H- used with excellent re- sults by thousands of felks who are sul-ject to rhewspatism. Here you have a- pleasant, effervescent lithia- water drink which helps overcome uric d and is ben i to your ° kidne 5 well, -- Most of 'the cases\atiributed to A lot of people express apinions "mysterious providence can ually | that might better have been shipped' be traced to other causes, . ( id freight or not at all, There's always room for one mgre A faney vest may be instrumental in the path of rectitude, in hiding & ragged shirt, ; i ais ; And, wall, I do not want to bruv But how we love thé dear old flag! My uncle's wife's stepsister's Is working hard behind a gun i Somewhere in France. So now sea It really is not uy FOU lo. me a a o ?