Gerrard St. Egst, Toronto., For ¢wo years, I was a victim of Acute Indigestion and Gas In The Stomach. 1t 'afterwards attacked my Heart, and I had pains all over the body, so I could hardly move around. T tried all kinds of medicines Lut none of them did me any good. At last, acting on the advice of & friend, 1 decided to try 'Fruit-a-tives'..T bought\ the first box last June, and now I am well, after using only three boxes I recommend 'Fruit-a-tives' to anyone suffering from Indigestion, no matter how acute", FRED J. CAVEEN. Simple Indigestion often leads to Heart Attacks, Calarvh of the Stomach and constant distress of mind and body, If you are bothered with any Stomach Trouble, and especially if Constipation troubles you, take 'Fruit-a-tives'. 0c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c. At all dealers or sent posipaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited; Ottawa. Oysters Dominion Fish Co. PHONE 886. - WEAK LUNGS | Bronchitis --Asthma-- Coughs : Debility And those conditions Leading to .Some Extracts from Sworn Evidence: R. Palmer, on Oath, says: " 'Nature's Creation is iat helped me." Charles Knoph, on Oath, says: "My night sweats~stopped and my hemorrhage stopped from the - 1 have to thank 'Nature's Créa- first day." | : Louis C. Zink, on Oath, says: tion' that T am here to-day." Bend for Booklet containing com- plete statements, on Oath, from those who have used "Nature's. Creation." Nature's Creation ompany of Canada, Ltd. |] :. Asx voum NewmmoR J Ask your neighbor about O-Cedar 3 Nah. She Will tell you how easy "is to. use but how wonderful are the results. If you would haves Jiyour furniture and floors a ork always lke new use : > -- Night Sweats -- nd wood. | bave a great deal more to do with our friends, the Russians, than we Had a year or two ago, says Aubrey Fullerton in The Toronto Star Weekly, Partly a3 8 result of the war and partly from other causes, we will feel this new contact in at léast two ways--in increased tradc relations with our big ally over the sea, and in an early increase of Russian immigration. Even now it is time for u# to get bet- ter acquainted with our new friends, both as prospective customers and probable neighbors. As a matter of fact, Russian im- migration into the Canadian West has already begun. Twenty families, of usual generous proportions, are now locating in the farming country of Northern Alberta, where they find conditions much to their liking, and this first movement is to be followed by others now preparing. These new ttlers are not coming, to be sure, from Russia itself, but from the United States. The twenty families, who intend settling in a golony * of their own, moved in from California in December, and presumably have been several years out from the mo- ther country. Further arrivals are expected from various 'Russian set- tlements in the Eastern States, the news having spread to them all that Canada has free lands to give. But while this first immigration is there- fore not by way of escape or relief trom war-swept Europe, -there is no doubt that it is being quickened very considerably by the fact that Russia and Canada are partners in the war, and the good feeling thus resulting between them brings results of its own. War or no war, Russian farmers make very good settlers, and the West can safely receive a reason number of them. As with every other nationality, the experiment of Canadianizing the ahs works out more smoothly ald satisfactorily on farm than in the city, and there have already beem some cases. of signal success in that direction in the West: . There is, for instance, the record of & certain big Russian farmer not far from Calgary. Cav. Uf L. Fyan- ellf is his name, and he has assoc- iated with him one Perelstrous, as un-Canadian names" as one could wish to work on. Fuanelli was an engineer in His own country, and when he came to Canada a few years '480 he at onc¢é proceeded to apply to the business of farming the same big push that he bad formerly applied -to railroading and bridge-building. He bought some 4,000 acres of land fn the Bassano district, gave his farm 4. good Russian name to remind him of home, and then fell to making a Canadian citizen of himself, That farm of Fuanelli's 15 almost in the demonstration class. an equipment of buildings and mach-~ inery that would make the average Canadian farmer twice happy: model barns, model chicken houses, water supply piped everywhere from a gasoline-driven pump, electricity for all the buildings generated on the property, and every description of farming implement for year-round work. The farm hands, most of whom are Rus also, live on the farm, in neat eof , of a mixed Russian and Canadian , and for their greater comfort and homeliness there is even a large Russian bath- house. 4 It is, of course, quite true that only an exceptional Russian settler in Canada has either the means or the inclination to do farming on a scale like this, but something of the same pluck, enterprise, and adaptiveness lcharacterizes nearly all of the bet- ter class Russian immigrants who go on farms. If they have only a homestead in the bush, or a stretch ot bald prairie, they have the knack if they are the right kind---of schooling themselvés thereupon into future citizens. As to the guality of the new immigration now setting in; it seems to be reasonably safeguard- ed by the good standing of the men" who are acting as promoters and or- ganizers. On the other contact between Can- dda and Russia, that of increased trade relations, C. F, Just is the chief authority... Soon after the outbreak of the war he made & Aur of Russia commissioner from | Westminster, keep our eyes on this new trade pect, aut of which a great and profitable market may cone ¥ E3823 peed 2 g ¥ 5% ge '| Infantry, sta is more than a polish, ft does' £over up the dirt or a8 it polishes and al beauty of the ttle home to-day, Baboo says that he bas been add a¥| "Your Divine worship," "Your holy. It 'has | Are Son etimes Amusing. Speaking in his. "Remin{scences" of 'the letters he has received from correspondents, Dean Welldon: ship," "My paternal old father," by one who signad himself "Yopr afil- iated son," is "Civilized sir," and "Honored enormity." "I have even, as 1 was told, been spoken of as an bonored and spanking sir.' " ng letters, perhaps, contdin the most striking examples of more or less theological English," As when one Baboo writes "This your humble, clotheless, and foodless. petitioner begs humbly to be pardoned and] TAPIdlY gracefully beseech your worship to shelter him under the Eecclesia's mighty wings just to support with the family.' Or another begs in terms of a humble supplication for baptism, absolution, and a pair of shoes, "There if not, I am afraid, much humor among the Bengalis, or it could not happen that the Lieuten- ant-Governor would be greeted by the word 'Welcome' on a large pla- card put up outside the jail, or the Viceroy by an inscription' which evi- dently dated from the time of the late King Edward's visit, when he was Prince of Wales, to India--"Tell Mamma we re happy!' " : Among other items of Baboo bu- mor cited by the Dean is the descrip- tion of a native baker who labelled his shop thus "English loafer," be- cause he made bread in the English fashion. The "very best" Baboo-ism that the Dean has heard, however, was that in which a house was de- scribed as 'Only three or foyr miles away as the cock crows." ! Animal Doctors. There is more than one kind of animal that, when in a state of hat- ure, employs animais of another kind to protect it from disease #nd other IMs. For instance, crocodHes in the Nile make friends with a little bird called the Egyptian plover, which feeds on the insects that infest their Jaws, and also on the pieces of food that cling to their teeth. No croco- dile. will ever harm this bird, for not only does it save him from having bad teeth, but it prevents him from being considerably irritated by the flies. An even more curious animal partnership than this is that which exists ween the hermit crab and A worm/called a "nereis." The hers mit lives in the empty shell of some other shellfish; but as he is a very untidy 'creature and litters his "house" with bits of food, he induces the nereis worm to come and live with him. In return for shelter, the worm cleans the hermit"s dwel- ling by eating all the refuse that is left about the shell, A Carrier's Fortune. The death of Mr. Robert Christi- Son, one of the foremost Queensland pioneers, recalls the romance of a Berwickshire post-boy whom he met out in the bush. James Nailan, the first post-boy between Foulden and Berwick, emigrated to Australia over fifty years ago. By working for 'wc years he saved enough money '0 buy a yoke of oxen, and be made a small fortune by acting as carrier during the rush to Bendigo for the gold-dig- ging. Mr. Christison met him in "Bace- hus Marsh," hiding for fear of at- tack by bushrangers. A feature of his equipment was a pair of bullock- horns, ostensibly filled with cart- grease, but having secreted in them 20602. of gold-dust. Four, years later Mr. Christison met him again | in Melbourne. He had saved £2,000 a8 carrier, and bought land near the place chosen as harbor for Mel- bourne. As the result of his invest- ment he was enabled to return to his native county and buy an estate of 1,000 acres. » A Scottish Ghost Story. The young Grenadier Guardsman, Sir George Houstoun-Boswell, who is reported "missing, believed killed," is a wealthy Berwickshire landowner and a scion of an - ancient Scottish family, A weird ghost story is as- sociated with Allanbank, the resi- dence inherited by him from his an- cestors, the extinct Stuart Baronets. Allanbank remained empty for a number of 'years because it was haunted by an apparition known as "Pearlin Jean," so called because she wore that kind of lace on her dress. " lin Jean" was a novice in a Continental convent when the first Baronet, Sir Robert Stuart, fell in love with her. Sir Robert deserted her, and the girl flung herself under the wheels of his carriage; and was killed. When the faithless lover re- turned to Allanbank he was horrified by visions of the girl. Seven minis- ters were called in to lay "Pearlin Jean," but her spirit would not rest. Westminster's Famous Window. The east window of St. Margaret's, London, "which has been removed to a place of safety in view of Zeppelin raids, has a parti- cularly interesting history. It was made at Gouda, in Holland, and was Presented by the magistrates of Dort to Henry VIII for the chapel of Whitehall Palace. The King, how- ever, gave it to Waltham Abbey, The glass, of which the blues and greens are remarkably striking, suffered A [sundry removals and vicissitudes, and at one time was buried to escape the zeal of the Puritans, Eventually it was bought by the churchwarden of St. Margaret's for 400 guineas. : ~_ Bympathetic. A recruit of the Highland Light } tioned at Malta,' who spoke with a very broad accent, was sent by his color-sergeant to buy a note-book. Not knowing where to ' | ind a stationer's shop, be Hccosted a grain. but J tese, who couldn't speak English, + Under Heawll Difficulties, As there were early days of the Unite Empire Loyalist pioneers in Ontario, the fire was kept constantly burning, and when not required thé coals were covered over with ashes, where they would remain alivé for hours, Oe- casionally the coals would die out and then one of the younger mem- bers was sent away to a neighbor to obtain § pan of live ones, Most killed in making a fire fire-place furnished ample light during the winter evenings. The inventive gen- ius of man has since produced the kerosene lamp, gas, acetylene, elec- tricity, and other illuminants, but none of these can furnish the bright welcome of the pine knots blazing about the old-fashioned back-log. If any other artificial light was requir- ed, the tallow dip was the only alter- native, is dip was a tallow candle, in use before moulds were introduc- ed. A kettle was placed over the coals with five or six inches of water in the bottom. When the water was brought to the boiling point there was addgd the melted tallow. This remained on the surface of the water. The only servic. the water was in- tended to render was to support the tallow by raising it so many inches above the bottom of the kettle, where it could be used much more than it could if it remained at the bottom. - Ths candle wicks were twisted with a loop at one end, which was slipped «ver a small stick, Five or six wicks would be thus suspend- ed from the stick and slowly dipped into the liquid tallow, by which pro- cess 'the wicks became saturated. As soon as the tallow congealed they were dipped in again, and the oper- ation repéated until the wick was surrounded by a thick coating of tal- low very similar to the ordinary wax or tallow candle of to-day, but not 80 smooth or uniform in size as those made at a later period in the moulds. Dishes were as scarce as cooking utensils. A few earthenware plates, bowls, and a platter were displayed upon a shelf; and they were all the house could boast of. Others were whittled out of the fine-grained wood of the poplar and served the purpose fairly well until the Yankee peddier arrived with the more desirable pew- ter ware.. As soon as the iron could be pro- cured, a crane was swung over the fire-place, and from it were suspend- ed the iron tea-kettle and the grid- dle, The latter was a large disc up- on which the pancakes were made. it was supported by an irom bale, and was large enough to hold eight or ten fair-sized cakes. The frying- pans were similar to those in use to- day, but were furnished with handles three feet Tong, so.that they could "matches in the | ney or- ders which amounted to $649,723, From the gross revenue certain de- ductions had to be made, leaving a net revenue of $13,046,649, The ex- pendituré amounted to $15,961,191, 80 that the service shows a deficit of $2,914,641, which is largely ac- rural delivery. For example, more than half the ex- penditure is accounted for by the conveyance of mail by land, which cost $3,876,258; conveyance by rail- 'ways; which cost $3,441,744; convey- ance by steamboat, which cost $186,~ 186; making and repairing mail bags, locks, ete, $252,600; rural mail boxes $455,000. These ate up more than eight million dollars, The greater part.of the remainder went in the form of salaries. The deficit amounts to this: the service of carrying the people's lst- ters, newspapers, parcels, and money orders, is being performed at less than cost, and taxes derived from other sources will have to be uaed to balance the account. -v \ Would Cut Boats in Two, > The suggestion that-lake grain car- riers be cut in two and seat through the canals to be used on the ocean during the late fall and the winter bas attracted much attention along the lakes: Robert Carrs, the agent for Lloyd's at Port Arthur, says the plan is perfectly feasible for a ship of 43-foot beam and under. These boats are strong enough for ocean service, and the changes required would be comparatively inexpensive. St. Lawrence navigation is open after the upper lakes season has closed, and there would be time to prepare the lake vessels for the trip through the canals. Salvation Bands of Women, Salvation Army bands, composed of women, will soon be a common sight in Canadian cities. Over 300 of their male musicians ve joined bands in the various ove*secas contin- gents, and more than 3,000 members of the Salvation Army kava enlised in the ranks. Kingston "il! have age of the first woms« Fen.ls Half a loaf earned is better than a whole one begged. Trouble hunters usually secure be used over the hot coals of : the fire-place. The bake-kettle was an 3 Gary Lesrons by Pictorial Review with a pleat at each seam and finished at the walst-line with a high, strapped stitched belt. " There is such 8 vogue for separate waists that skirt models must be cor- : CUTTING GUID} RO : SIDE BACK GORE. i : 40 Inches walst. Price, 15 conta, Pictorial Review Skirt No. $480. Sizes more or less game. Money may purchase recognition, but not reputation. & Practical Fomé Dress Making . Prepared Especially For This Newspaper *A NEW SKIRT WITH SMART BELT. respondingly smart. After the correct length and fulness, nothing figures more prominently in the design of the new skirts than the belt finish. On the skirt illustrated here there is a wide belt which may be made of self-mate- rial, but suede and patent leather are used extensively for the purpose. Fur belts are also to be found ameng the Season's novelties, and they afford real protection 'to the back---a vulnerable part of the body when the short, loose Jackets are worn. In medium size the skirt requires 2% yards 64-inch material. The closing is effected to the left of the center-front. If the wide belt is not desired, provi sion is made for a narrower design. The home dressmaker should study the guide carefully before making any attempt to cut into her material, This saves 'time, trouble and material and insures good lines for the skirt. First fold the goods in half and smooth out all wrinkles. - Then even with the 'fold of material place the front dnd back gores, marked by triple "TTT" perfora- tions, The side back and side front gores are laid on a lengthwise thread of the material, with the upper edge of each gore almost meeting. This arrangement results in an open space being formed by the sloping sides of the .gores, and in this space the belt and strap sec- tions of the skirt are laid, thus nsing up every available inch of material. For the shorter length skirt, cut oft lower edges of gores on single or dou- ble "00" perforations, according to the length preferred. 4 Of course no skirt ts immune from the fur band this season, and this mod- #l is admirably adapted to Buch a dec- oration, if desired. SIDE FRONT GORE * cB 22, 20. 26. 25, 20, 82 34. 36. 25 ana DECORATION FOR WOMEN. , Made fo: Helpers at Home. "Here is a letter with- a "punch," published :_cently in The Canadian Courier. It comes from a disinter- 'ested western woman who has ideas 'on the Tecogrition of women as a re- sult of the war und is not afraid to express them, At a time when so many men gre at war that a great - deal of the world's other work as well as war : work is necessarily being done by wo- wen, why should women's serviogy Zot be recognized as men's servi are "Winnipeg, January 25th, "Editor, Canadian Courier: "Sir,--Up to the present the"World generally has held to the pinched and hidebouné principle that honors belong to the male of the species; they most justly do--but in a case, such as the present great war, when the women of Canada are sharing the burden, the labor and the sacrifice, I feel sure Canada won't refuse to re- cognize what the women are doing. "Why not lay before Her Majesty Queen Mary a report showing the part the women are playing in the war? Why not ask her most grae- ious majesty to create a new honor and bestow it where it is most de- served? I do not mean by this a bar rel of medals for general distribution ~--women do not want 'reward' per- sonally--but representative recogni- within the radius of his tion for each province, let us say, and first honors should go to the Cana- t dian-born mothers who have given the greatest number of sons to fight. "The womah who has led in Red Cross work at home. The woman who has originated the Daughters of { Empire--a work truly patriotic in- deed. The woman who has given of her substance--not expecting re- ward, but giving to her country be- cause she wanted to give-=to such splendid women some recognition should be given. It would inspire the generations to 'come as it would proudly please those now enduring what God only knows and under- stands. "How to do this? To get every fact from every point between Vic- toria, B.C., and Halifax, from some official source. This in the form of a report which should (afterwards) be kept in the archives of this nation ----and believe me, no grander record on the page of Canadian history will ever be written! 'JAS an earnest of my own abso- lutely impersonal interest in this idea, I want to say to you that I don't, at this moment, know the name of any woman who has earned these (suggested) honors; but I do know individual cases of self-sacrifice on the part of our women, cases that appeal to one's tears---and done with only that passionate love of home- land, and the dear flag their sons and brothers, husbands, and lovers are dying for! "We are entering upon a new era --& greater to-morrow is coming--- what more splendid act than that sur Canadian men should say: 'We'll share any honors won with the wo- men who did not fail us when the crisis came.' They didn't." What is Fair Recruiting? What are fair and what are unfair recruiting methods? asks The Cana- dian Courier. How far may a re- cruiting officer go in trying to per- suade men to join the colors? he be always gentle and seductive of Voice? May he rise to heights of heated eloquence likely to be termed ----abusive? Is he wise in sneering at Canadians and holding them up to ridicule by comparison with old countrymen? These questions are not all to be answered off-hand. Major M. S, Boehm, of the 169th Battalion, came under the limelight recently in.connection with his ef- forts to get men for that unit. Part of his general plan of operstions is said to have been to hurl vitupera- tive epithets at Canadians for allow- ing old counirymen to be first in coming forward to volunteer. The Toronto newspapers took the matter up and published veiled hints that this sort of thing was unwise. Gen- eral Logie Iseued an order forbidding the use of certain unpleasant' tactics in the military district under his command, and putting the ban on the abuse of Canadians as Canadians. Since then Major Boehm has been in Ottawa and n General Sir Sam Hughes. Though he is said to have reported, "Ottawa just patted us all over" and approved the methods, the newspapers report a marked change of tone in the Major's speeches and an absence of tie offensive references to Canadians, Major Boehm has had charge of special recruiting efforts for the 169th, and "zs made a specialty of canvassing factories and offices. This Dattalion has been very successful in getting men. A Counsiderate Editor. It is the policy of many an editor in the smaller towns of "Canada to avoid hurting the feelings of anybody newspaper's influence, but possibly the man most careful in avoiding offence is Mr. Bourinot, of The Richmond ' County Record. Delow is printed a literary gem showing Mr. Bourinot's letting down easily the fellows whose mod- Sty makes them shrink from enlist- "The main objection, as we see it, to participating in military opera- tions against persons such. as the Turks and their uncivilized allies, the brutal and murderous Germans, Austrians, and Bulgarians, is that it involves, in all, a certal Y "Now, it is important to mind that these ob; bear in One Asks What Provisioh Shall Be Must | w ab! has noticed the tel ple to put on an excess i at. . ' It you happen to he one of those whose weight is more than § ould ibe, don't try to starve yo , eat all you want, bat go to your Srugglst and get oll of orilene in capsule form and e one with cach meal 3 Ofl of orilene increases the ox: n= carrying power of the blood dis solves the fatty tissue, in many cases at nearly the rate of one WM. per day, = Be sure to get oll of orilene in capsule form. 1t Is sold only In original seal ed packages. Any good druggist has it, or a large size box will be sent on re of $100. Address D. J. Little Drug' Co., Box 1240, Montreal, Can. GLASS OF WATER BEFORE YOU EAT ANY BREAKFAST Wash 'poison from system each morning and feel fresh as a daisy. Every day you clean the house you live in to get rid of the dust and dirt which collected through the pre- vious day. Your body, the house your soul lives in, also becomes filled up each twenty-four hours with all manner of filth and poison. if only every man and woman could realize the wonders of drinking phosphated hot water, what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, women and girls with pasty or muddy complex- ions; instead of the multitudes of "nerve wrecks," "rundowns," "brain fags" and pessimists we should see a 'virile, optimistic throng of rosy- cheeked people everywhere. Everyone, whether sick or well, should drink each morning before breakfast, a glass of real hot water. with a teaspoonful of limestone phos- phate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the pijevious day's indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, thus { cleansing, sweetening and freshening the entire' alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Those subject to sick headache, bil- lousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds; and particularly those who have a pallid, sallow complexion and [who are constipated very often, are {urged to obtain a quarter pound of {limestone phosphate at the drug store which Will cost but a trifle but is J sufficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable change in both health 'and appearance awaiting those who practice internal sanitation, We must remember that inside cYanlinwe is more important than outside, because the skin does not absorb impuri- ties to contaminate the blood, while the pores in the thirty feet of bowels 0. | om sms 4 eG RA a CLARK'S - PORK BEANS Ready to serve you're Ways feady W. CLAR MITED MANUF A ERS 3 MONTREAL :