HE SUFFERED "Frait-a-ives" Made Him Fool As If Walking On Air Omnis, Owr,, Nov, 28th. 1914. "For over two years, I was troubled with Constipation, Drowsiness, Lack of Appetite and Headaches, One dsy I saw your sign which read *'Fruit-a-tives make you feel like walking on air." This to me, 0 I decided to try a box, In s very short time, I began to feel better, and now / feel fine. 1haveagood appetite, relish everything 1 eat, and the Headaches are gone entirely. I recommend this pleasant fruit medicine to all my friends'. v DAN McLEAN., B0c. 8 box, 6 for $240, trial size, 25¢. At all dealers or postpaid by Fruit- ssbives Limited, Ottawa, Cook's Cotton Root Compound, A Fh, 3. po THE COOK MEDICINE CG. TORONTO. ON. (Yarmarte Winder! JOHN. PATRICK ------ Sewing machines, Umbrellas, Suit Cases, Trunks repaired and refitted, Saws filled, Knives and Scissors sharpened; Razors honed; All makes of firearms repaired promptly. Locks repaired; Keys fitted. All makes of lawn mowers sharpened and repair- ed. 149 Sydenham Street THE CONFESSIO (By Frances Walter) It EDWARD'S MARRIAGE A HOLLOW MOCKERY | (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure | Newspaper Syndicate). ! Edward took two or three turns| up and down the room, went over and seated himself beside Sylvia and | then resumed his narrative "On the way to. Mr. Fordham's residence my imagination framed an image of his daughter," he said. "One's imagination does those things at such times, and mine wds not an exception. I pictured her as a sprightly young woman, full of the joy of living and glad to be back | home, glad to be rid of the sickly society of Europe and proud to live | ons THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1917 WwW NS OF ROXANE : jas soon as I looked at her, hut one glance at her gave me a distinct shock, and as we grew better ac- quainted her peculiarities became more and 'more familiar to me. Yet, curiously. enoughy the thought of going 'back upon my promise to marry her wmever onee entered my head. 'So far as my mental condition was concerned, I was already mar- ried to her. My father had selected her for my wife, therefore there was no option left to me. 'She was mine. I did not even go through the for- mality of asking her to marry me. Her father had arranged that for me. | The only time I discussed the ques- tion at all was when it hecame neces, sary té7Tix 'the day of the wedding, and I approached that matter just as once more amidst the sane and hu: |] would 'have approached any piece man surroundings of America. 1 was hot routine business. therefore, totally unprepared to} meet the young woman to whom I] was introduced." | Edward paused, studied the floor a mowent and said: "Before 1 go further I want it un- derstood that to tell all the facts which I started out to relate I must speak disparagingly of one whom, under different circumstances, 1 would be the first to defend. 1 hope, therefore, that you will suspend Judgment on me until after you have heard the whole story. If you wish to eondemn me then, it will be be cause I deserve condemnation. "Mary Fordham was a very differ- ent young woman from the one 1 had pictured to myself. She was not sprightly, and there was no joy no ticeable about her. On the contrary, her disposition might be described as of the killjoy variety. If one discov- ered her while he was laughing he would stop suddenly, clap his hand over 'his mouth and ask himself how on earth he could so far forget him- self as to do such a thing. She wore big shell-rimmed spectacles--the first I ever saw---and when she slow-| ly turned them upon you the cold chills ran down your back and you felt yourself growing smaller and smaller until a certain state of shrinkage had been reached beyond which it was impossible to go, much as it the case with a bale of cotton in process of compression. '""'She had what she called an in- quiring turn of mind, and she exer- cised this peculiar quality to the greatest extent possible. Each state- ment that was made in her presence was subjected to the microscopy of her mind before it was accepted or rejected. She took nothing for granted; she believed in nothing; she imagined nothing; nothing ap- pealed to her unless it was suscep- tible of demonstration by her precise mathematical methods, "Of course I did not know ull this "During those days there were times when all desire to live left me. 1 did not know then what it was, but I knew now. Without being aware of 'it 'my temprament was rebelling against the union which had been decred by two fond fathers. Bat there was no outward rebellion. 1 went ahead very calmly and mar ried her." His voice broke and I could see his hand tighten over Sylvia's. The poor Httlegirl was weeping softly. "From that time on my life, as 1 look back upon it now, seems one long nightmare," Edward resumed. "1 was married and yet I was not married. I possessed a wife who was not a 'wife, for 1 soon discovered that Mary "had 'mo intention of becoming my fiwe except in name. Nor did 1 objeet very much to the arrange- ment. I had gone through the mock- ery of 'the ceremony on my father's account and felt that I. had done my duty: Possibly she felt the same way about it and could not bring herself to go further, therefore our marriage began and ended at the altar. We never lived together, although the same roof sheltered us for nearly five years. We went our separate ways, meeting each other in the course of the days which followed, but always remaining separated by a formal barrier which neither at- tempted to remove. She had her rooms and I had mine. Her pur- suits occupied her thoroughly and 1 was busy with my own affairs. Sometimes 1 did not see her for weeks at a time. When we did meet 'we treated each other with polite consideration, but our relations never became closer than that. I felt sometimes, as if I were a guest in her house and at other times as if she were a guest in mine. \ "And thus the years passed." (To be Continued). D. Phone 7 Fresh Every Day Fine Red Strawberry Rhubarb, 10c bunch Lettuce, Radish, Green Onions 841.83 Princess St. The Whig's Laiy Men | -~ Menu for Tuesday BREAKFAST Crisp Fruit Butter or Jelly Coffee or Cocon LUNCHEON OR SUPPER Meat Vales with Toemate Sauce mon Tea or Buttermilk DINNER Spinach and Kggw Flavored with Racon Bolled Rice Relish Rhubarb Stump Coffee ™ J Rhubarb Slump. Materials--One cup flour, % cup milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder, % teaspoon salt, 1 wup sugar, 2 cups rhubarb, Utensils--8aucepan, 2 measuring cups, teaspoon, tablespoon, knife, strainer, mixing bowl, flour sifter. Diréctions-- Wash and cut the rhu- barb "into 35-inch pieces; put into saucepan; add just enough water to keep it from burning, and boil until tender. Mash; add the sugar and dumplings; cover and boil 10 min- utes without removing cover. Dumplings--Sift the flour, salt and baking powder into bowl; add the milk slowly. Take a spoonful into floured hands and roll. When all are formed place over the rhubarb. FURTHER EVIDENCE OF COMING FAMINE Teronto Globe, "The Globe's advices from the west 'indicate a reduction in wheat acre- age this season, in the three Prairie Provinces, of 26 to 30 per gent. The very unfavorable weather of the past five weeks in the Middle West has done irretrievable damage in pre- venting the farmer from aceomplish- ing even an avera amount of Moughing Sue seeding. The de- of a famé®e-stricken world? Wheat and flour prices should be fixed at once in Canada. The abnormality of the present situation demands that such action be taken. The na- tional strength is being undermined and gradually impaired through the rapidly 1 ng cost of the most simple artiele of food, and this at a time when thy need for recruits and 'munitions presses upon Canada with painful urgeney. Rr BUMMER FROCK an attractive embroidered frack which is fastened to with beautiful coral orna- Here is sunumer the waist ments, Form of Lime to Use, Ground limestone deserves the earnest consideration of those who contemplate liming the soil. A nat- ural product, it-can be used in any quantity without danger of injury to the soil. Experiments have shown that two tons of limestone ware as efficient as one ton of quicklime, provided the former is finely ground when 95 per cent of it will pass through a sieve having 100 meshes to the inch. 'When two tons of lime- stone ean be purchased and spread on the soil at an equal or less cost than cae wn o. quicklime or 2,650 Ibs. of hydrated lime, the limestone should be used. Limestone sittings sometimes can be secured. Al. though rather . coarse, there is enough fine material present to jus. tity their use, provided they can be purchased at a price which will make it practical to use four or five tons per acre. J Gary & Practical [F Home Dress Making]? ALerrons Prepared Specially for This Newspaper 4 By Pictorial Review A Chic Tailored Skirt. .} touring Quebe=-in an appeal for re- NATIONALISM NOT PREACHED IN VAIN Toronto Globe. . Any anti-recruiting demonstra- tions in Quebec have been merely the stirring of the dregs of the cam- paign of six years ago. Some of the principals in that mischievous pro- paganda, whether from the solace of office or a change of heart, have publicly recanted, and are doing their full duty in the present crisis. One of them, Hon. Mr. Blondin, is crufts. The disorder at his Mont- real meeting was the harvest of the seed sown by himself and his fellow- Nationalists years ago. Men who talk of shooting holes through the 'British flag are somewhat comprom- ised when they unfurl it in the faces of dupes who took them at| their word. But there is no anti-war party in Quebec numerous, or re- spectable 'enough to give cause to the Dominion Government if it feels that the hour has struck for a more courageous policy, and a more. effi- cient system of organizing'the power of the country for the great task which confronts it. Why Wheat Lodges. From an 'Italian experiment sta- tion comes a report of investigation into the causes of lodging in wheat. A high percentage of water in the stalks indicates a liability to lodge. It comes from three causes: high content of nutritive salts in the soil, abundant moisture, and 'insufficient, The opposite holds good in the lack of a tendency to lodge ,and so a prolonged drought in plants raised in poor soil and kept in fullvlight, eliminate any lodging tendency. Fully manured plants were found to be subject to lodging, but if poor- ly lrrigated--or in a dry season-- there is little danger. Many Uses for a Tractor. An American farmer, writihg in the American Agriculturist, says nine hours with a tractor, at an expenditure of 50c per acre for fuel. e cut 18 to 20 acres of grain with a\binder in a day by the use of the same machine, at an expenditure of 25c¢ per acre for fuel. The tractor was also used in hauling in hay, and with the aid of othy sed in taken off 'in five 'Minutes. oro WwogWhys. Why, asks the American Agricuil- turist, shouldn't egg-laying contests award prizes to the layers upon the basis of weight of the eggs, rather than number? Why, also, should not eggs be sok by weight like beefsteak? Green Feed oFr Hens. Experiments at the poultry plant of the New Jersey station have shown that if the poultry flock is ot be kept in a heaitny and produe- ing condition in'/(Ye summer, the runs must be continually covered with a green growing crop. A rr 1 ile ; fl fe: i g hs Hit < L Ek ie ms aa "We never have coffee at our house, because I can't make good coffee". 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