NEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921 THE TORTURES OF RHEUMATISH Happly Stopped When He Began To Take "Fruif-a-tives" 8 Orrawa Sr, How, P. Q. "For a year, I suffered with Kheu- malism, being forced to stay in bed for five months. I triéd all kinds of medicine without relief ind thought I would never be able to walk again, One day while lying in bed, 7 read about "Frujt-a-tives" the great fruit medicine; and it seemed just what I needed, so Idecided to try it, The first box helped me, and 1 took the tablets regularly until every trace of the Rheumatism left me." LORENZO LEDUC. 50a. a box, Upa3.50, trial size 25¢. At all dealers or it postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, FIT TO FIGHT Life's greatest battles are between strength and weakness. 1Scott's Emulsions a high-powered tonic- nutrient, nourishes and fortifies the i} fahols body. Soott & Bowne, Toronto, Ont CERRY 5 [ PeEevisH RESTLESS CHILDREN OFTENTIMES ARE SUFFERING FROM THE RAVAGESor WORMS, ANIEFFIC)- ENT CORRECTIVE THAT WiLL QUICKLY RID THE SYSTEM OF THESE PARASITES, ONE THAT |S PLEASANT TO WHICH WILL NOT INJURE Tt" DELICATE CONSTITUTION, 15 THAT RELIABLE MEDICINE ILLER'S WORM Warmth! W.a.r-m-t-h!! WARMTH !!! then more WARMTH !! that's what THERMO. GENE is--a light. aes fieecy, medicated wool, clean, convenient. form, that actually genérates the heat you crave when suffering frem Grippe, Neuralgia, -- Bronchitis, Lumbago, or any caused pain. DONT FUSS WITH MUSTARD PLASTERS Musterole Works Without the Blister--Easier, Quicker There's in mixing of mustard, flour sad Lor, ag can easily Jslicve dain, or stiff - nesswith alittle clean, white usterole, Musterole is made pure oil of up "tired as a dog" and sleep is full of ugly dreams you need BEECHAMS PILLS Fatigue is the result of poisons produced by exercise or failure todigest food proper- ly, and eliminate it promptly with the aid of liver and kidneys. HOW TO FIGHT THE RAT | One of the Greatest Menaces fo| | Farm Profits. Rat-proof Buildings and Cribs a» Necessity--Guillotine Traps Best | ~--Handle Poisons and Baits | Carefully. ! | (Contributed by Ontario Department of i Agriculture, Toronto.) HE rat is the worst animal pest in the world. From its home among filth it visits dwellings and storerooms to pollute and destroy human food. It carries bubcaic plague and many | | other diseases fatal to man and bas | | been responsible for more untimely | | deaths among human beings than ail I | the wars of history. | { «In the United States rats and mice | | property valued at over $200,000, / | 000. This destruction is equivalent | | to the gross earnings of an army of | | over 200,000 men. | On many a farm, if the grala | eaten and wasted by rats and mice! | could be sold, t.e proceeds would | more than pay all the farmer's taxes, | The common brown rat breeds six | jo ten times a year and produces am average of ten young at a litter, { Young females breed when only three | or four months old. At this rate a pair of rats, breed- | ing uninterruptedly and without | deaths, would at the end of three | years (18 generations) be Increased | [to 359,709,482 individuals. | For centuries the world has been | | Aghting rats without organization and at the same time has been feed= | ing them and building for them forte resses for conceulment. If we are to | Aight them on equal terms we must | deny théin food and hiding places. We must organize and unite to rid communities of these pests. The time to begin is now. Granaries, corneribs, and poultry | houses may be made rat-proof by a liberal use of cement in the found- ations and floors; or the floors may bo of wood resting upon concrete. It has been found that in poultry houses, dry soil or sand may be used 48 a covering for the cement flocr, nd In stables a wooden floor resting on concrete is just as satisfactory so far as the exclusion of rats is con- erned, The common practice of setting | corneribs on posts with inverted pans at the top often fails to exclude raf, | because the posts are not high enough to place the lower cracks of the structure beyond reach. of the animals. As rats are excellent jump- ers, the posts should be tall enough to prevent the animals from obtain. ing a foothold at any place within three feet of the ground. A crib built In this way, however, is not very | satisfactory. For a rat-proof crib a well-drained site should be chosen. The outer walls, laid In cement, should be sunk about 20 inches Into the ground. The Space within the walls should be grouted thoroughly with cement and broken stone and finished with rich concrete for a floor. Upon this the structure may be built. Even the walls of the crib may be of concrete, Corn will not mold in contact with them, provided there is good ventila~ | tion and the roof is water-tight. However, there are cheaper ways of excluding rats from either new or old corncribs. Rats, mice, and spar- rows may be kept out effectually by. the use of either an inner or an outer covering of galvanized-wire netting of half-inch mesh and heavy enough to resfst thé teeth of the rats. The netting in commen use in screening cellar windows is suitable for cover- ing or lining cribs. As rats can climb the netting, the entire structure must be screened, or, it Sparrows are not to be excluded, the wire netting may be carried up about three feet from the ground, and above this a belt of sheet meta] about a foot in width may be tacked to the outside of the building. Owing! to their cunning, tt is not always easy to clear rats from prem- ises by trapping; if food is abundant, it is Impossible. A few adults refuse to enter the most Innocent-looking trap. And yet trapping, if persistent. | each year destroy crops and other (years, and ly followed, is one of the most effeo- tive ways of destroying the animals. { For general use the improved mod- | ern traps with a wire fall released | by a baited trigger and driven by a | coiled spring have marked advan. tages over the old forms, and many | of them may be used at the same time. These traps, sometimes called | "guillotine" traps, are of m de- signs, but the more simply construct- ed are preferable. Probably those | made entirely of metal are the best, as they are more durable. Traps with {tin or sheet-metal bases are | recommended { A small section of an ear of corn is an excellent bait if other grain is not present. Other excellent baits | for rats and mice are oatmeal, toast- {28 cheese, toasted bread (buttered), fish, fish offal, fresh liver, raw meat, Pine nuts, apples, carrots, and corm, | and sunflower, squash, or pumpkin seeds. Broken fresh eggs are good bait at all seasons, and ripe tomatoes, | green cucumbers, and other | vegetables are very tempting to the animals in winter. When seed, grain, or meal is used with a guillotine | trap, It is put on the trigger plate, or the trigger wire may be bent out. ward and the bait placed under it. |. Among the principal poisons that | have been rpcommended for killing mice are barium carbonate, | rats a | stryeh arsenic, phosphorus, and i | i ' Pen or unsheltered places. | This applies particularly to strychnin. | or arsenic on meat. con- taining poisons should always bear | & warning label and should not be | kept where children might reach them.--Condensed from U. 8S. Farme ers' Bulletin No. $96. ! How China Reads the News. | In China the neswpapers are sold {two and three times over. Collect- 'ors 'go about the city gathering up the newspapers of the previous day's | Issue, redistributing them among the lower class population. They are then further distributed by | Sent out to the villages and couniry | price 35c. and ! sections, where they are sold x fraction of their original price, being | three pine trees the trade NOW ABLE TO D0 A BIG DAY'S WORK [Ontario Man Had Been Going Down Hill Five Years-- Tanlac Restores Health, "For five years I had indigestion 80 bad that I couldn't sit down ito the table and enjoy a single meal," sald Thomas Riley, of 187 Barton street, East Hamilton, Ontario, a resident of that city for years, "I got worse each year," Mr, Riley continued, "and during all that time I didn't average over two meals al day. I would work hard all day and when night came would come home | dragging and go to bed without | touching a bite of anything to eat, I had held out by pure grit and nerve | but I knew that it wouldn't be long | until I would break down for I was | getting weaker right along. "My stomach was in about as bad a fix as it could be and gas formed 80 bad that it nearly choked me to death. I never felt hungry at all, In fact was afraid to eat. My nerves j were on edge all the time and if | siept good a single night I don't re- member it. In the morning I felt worse than"I did when I went to bed the night before and I was so weak I just could make it to my work. y "About six weeks ago I decided to try Tarlac, as I Kept seeing where 80 many people everywhers were taking it. Well, to make a long story short, it has done the work for me and to-day I couldn't ask to be in: better health. 1 eat three good square meals every day and never suffer any bad effects at all. I am not nervous a bit, sleep like a rock and of mornings I am feeling fine and ready for as big a day's work as { the next man." Tanlac is sold in Kingston by A. P. Chown, in Mountain Grove by James Macdonald, and .by the lead- ng druggists in every town;--Advt Ald Scientific Research. More than 2,500 firms are colla- borating with the British Government fm the scheme to give organized State encouragement to scientific and industrial research. In its fifth annual report, the com- mittee who have charge of the scheme state that these firms have already guaranteed a minimum aggregate in. come of $200.000 a year for five have shown already that they would considerably exceed that amount. Experienr~ has shown, states the report, that the plan of organizing associations of industrial firms for the co-operative scientific investiga- tion of their problems is sound, the Present position being that eighteen research associations have been es- tablished, while five others have been approved. Out of the (Government grant | $6,000,000) fund granted by Parlia- ment for research associations, $320,- 000 has already been expended, and it is estimated that the department is committed to a total expenditure of nearly $2,250,000 on account of the established research associations, and to a further expenditure of at least $600,000 on account of those approv- ed, but not yet licensed. Negotiations are now for the establishment of other re- search associations, and the total commitments out of the Million Fund are expected shortly to reach $4,000,000. Considering the efficiency of do- mestic grates, it is hoped that the work of a board would result in great national savings, si"ce comparatively small economies in the cost of build- ing materials would at present prices represent a very large total sum, Serve Him Right. Thin, angular, and spinsterish, Miss Miges strode through the streets of the little village rounding up the housewives to come to to- night's meeting of the 'Helpful So- clety," on "How Husbands Should be Treated." The little hall was fairly full by eight p.m. when Miss Miggs, with her Select committee of old maids, pranced on to the platform, and began her oration. Putting on her best imitation of a smile, she advanced to the front of the platform. 'So many of you women," she said, 'are not sympathetic enough with your husbands. Now," she simpered, "if I had a husband and he came home--er- -late, I should not rave at him, but simply go and kiss him." "And serve the brute right!" said a woman at the back of thé hall. Different Kind of a Touch. _"'Go away from me!" said a fash- ionably-dressed woman to a tramp. "1 proceeding ; would not have you touch me for a sovereign." "I beg ygur pardon, I was only going to touch you for a copper, lady," came the reply. BEWARE OF BRONCHITIS Bronchitis is generally caused by neglecting a cold, or exposure to wet and inclement weather, It begins with a tightness across the chest, dif- ficulty.in breathing, and a wheezing sound comes from the lungs. There is a raising of phlegm, especially the first thing in the morning. This is at first white, but later becomes of a greenish or yellowish color and is occasionally streaked with blood. On the first sign of bronchitis you should check it immediately by us- ing Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, thereby prevent it becoming chronic, and perhaps Jevelapiag, into some more serious lung troy Mrs, Brice Culham, Sheffeld, Ont., writes:--*"In December, 1919, I was very sick with bronchitis, and had to stay in the house all winter. One day I saw Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup advertised, so I got a small bottle which heiped me very much; I then got a 60c. sige, and it complete- ly relieved me. I cannot praise "Dr. Wood's" enough for what it did. Two of my neighbers are now using it for colds." + Lon't accept a substitute for Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup; the gen- uine is put up in a yeilow wrapper; mark; 60c.; manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont: at * THE Da over thirty | ROOST. | } { What Causes It and Methods of Prevention, | Iron is the metal most important | | to man because it is the most useful | to him. Without it modern civiliza- tion would have been impossible. Its | strength and durability are proverb- | tak | Tusting unless well protected. | Protected? { Influences which cause the iron to | corrode. If we wish to protect the | iron we must first ascertain the iden- tity of these influences which consti- tute its enemy, and become acquaint. ed with their methods of attack. Experience has taught that the | rusting of iron is caused by the joint | action of two chemical agents, air and | Water, explains Ernest Welleck, writ- i ing {n Popular Science Monthly. Iron mill not rust in air free from mois- | ture, or In water free from air like pure distilled water. spring or well 'water, or in water drawn from the faucet of a hydrant, it will soon turn black and dull. If it is left longer in the water, the iron will gradually change its color. Its surface will turn from black to brown and finally tb a yellowish red. The change will be greatly accelerat- ed if we take the iron out of the water and expose the wet metal to the air. In a short time it will be coated with a red dish-yellow covering of rust which will continue to extend deeper into the metal until the iron is changed to a crumbly mass of rust. Why does spring or well water cause iron to rust, while distilled water does not? The water in springs, wells, rivers and lakes always con- tains oxygen in solution, usually in the form of carbonic acid. But if such water is thoroughly boiled or dis- tilled, the oxygen is expelled by the heat and the water thereby loses its Power to corrode iron. Rust, chemically speaking, is not a stable and uniform compound the _ composition of which can always be expressed by the same chemical for- mula. In its first stages it contains but little oxygen. Gradually it draws more oxygen and also some hydrogen from the water or from the atmos- phere, forming what the chemists call & hydroxide of iron. Chemis explanation of the intricate electro- chemical processes involved in formation of rust. "dissociation," "'ironization' and "'@lectrolysis," jut tHese terms have No meaning to the average person who is more interested in the prob- | lem of Preventing rust than in scien- tific theories concerning causes and reasons of the corrosion of iron + The rust, which clogs and gradn- ally destroys iron water pipes in houses and factories, which eats holes Yet, it is not an ideal utilitarian | | material. It deteriorates rapidly by Against what? Against If a plece of iron or steel with a clean, bright surface, is placed in | give | & highly interesting and complicated | the | 'They speak of | ILY BRITISH WHIG. f SOMETHING new for dinner tonight--some- thing easy to make--some- thing economical! Just another proof that there is never any need to worry about variety in the ment, with a can of Royal Baking Powder on the shelf and the New Royal Cook Book at hand. Banana Cake with Jelly Sauce 1 cup flour 3 teaspoons Roya! Baking Powder tablespoons sugar teaspoon salt cup milk 4 bananas 1628 Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into a bowl; add the milk and well-beaten egg; mix well. Peel and scrape the bananas; cut in halves, lengthwise, then actoss. Pour batter into greased shallow pan, place the bananas on top and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in moderate oven 15 'minutes. Serve with jelly sauce, Jelly Sauce 1 tablespoon jelly 1 cup water 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon cornstarch Put water into saucepan; bring to a boil; add jelly and Another Royal Suggestion Banana Cake and Cottage Pudding From the NEw RoyaL Cook Book ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure Made from Cream of Tartar, derived from grapes. MADE IN CANADA until dissolved; stir "Bake with Royal and be Sure' sugar; then add cornstarch wet with a little cold water; boil 3 minutes, Cottage Pudding 1 cup flour 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 8 cup Initk | cu i foaspoen salt legs 2 tablespoons shortening Sift together flour and baking powder; add milk, sugar, salt, well-beaten egg and melted shortening; beat 2 minutes, our into greased pan and bake in hot oven about 20 minutes, Serve hot with the following chocolate sauce: Chocolate Sauce 1 square unsweetened chooolate 1 tablespoon butter % cup boiling water 1 cup su 3 teaspoon vanilla extract Melt chocolate in top of dou. ble boiler. Add butter and when mixed pour water on slowly, stirring constantly, then add sugar. Bring to boiling point and let boil about 15 minutes, add vanilla, and serve hot. FREE Be sure to get the New Royal Cook Book -- just out. It contains these and 400 other delightful, ful recipes e for the asking. Write today to ROYALBAKING POWDER 00, 8 5¢. Lawrence Blvd, Montreal In kitchen utensils, corrodes boilers | and machinery, and the iron and steel | work of bridges and viaducts, is sel- | dom homogeneous in composition, It | is nearly always a mixture of oxides of Iron containing variable propor- tions of oxygen, hydroxide of iron and carbonate of iron, which forined by the combination of the metal with oxygen and carbon, taken from the carbonic acid dissolved in the water. Modern engineering has devised a simple method of preventing the cor- rosion of hot water pipes in dwellings and factories. It is based upon the clearly established fact that iron will not rust in water which does not con- tain dissolved oxygen. is | Photo shows a {this country's medical system. Left to right, Drs. humil Vacek, Vladimir Bazika, Ivan Halek, and Karol Sriml. ~ PHC Rl LL er bi | BRITISH WANT THE TRADE. Americans Are on Hand to Snap Up Best Propositions. The brightest prospects for Canada were prophesied by ' Theo | Fellden, Director-General of the Im- | perial Trade Propaganda Organisa- ! don, who has been investigating con- | ditions in Canada since the visit of The water, derived from the supply |! system of the city or village, is con- | ducted to a large metal tank, placed horizontally and containing a large number of thin, perforated sheets of & cheap grade of iron. From the lower part of the tank the water Passes through the coils of a heater and back to the tank. 'Whilé the hot water is circulating through the per- forations of the iron plates it gives | up the oxygen which it contains in | solution. Most of the rust formed on the plates adheres to them, the rest Is carried by the hot water to a small. er, vertical tank containing a sand filter and is deposited on the filter. The water, free from dissolved oxy- gen, and therefore no longer able to cause the formation of rust, is dis- | tributed to the consumers by a sys- | tem of service pipes. The operation and maintenance of | the plant require little attention; it.! is practically automatic in its.action. The deoxidizing tank must be opened from time to time and new perforated | {iron plates must be substituted for | those that have corroded. It is advisable to clean the filter | occasionally by reversing the flow of water through the sand, or by re- moving the rust-stained layers of the filter and adding fresh, clean sand of the same fineness to take their place. World's Oldest 1.0.U. It was suggested recently that an unpaid note for four shekels in sil- ver, dating from 1962 B.C., found among the clay tablets at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Museum, was the world's oldest 1.0.U. In the British Museum, however, are to be seen 1.0.U.'s which go back to 2500 B.C. In the Assyrian and Egyptian des partment there are a number of clay tablets recording trading and loan transactions of Babylonian civiliza- tion 4,000 years ago. The unpaid note for four shekels referred to is certainly one of the most interesting of ancient 1.0.U.'s. It was given by a man name ur- Mama, and there were four witnesses to the note. Instead of signatures the witnesses placed their seals on the document, and were not liable for knew the character of Bur-Mama was bad when they swore it was good. A shekel of silver at the time the note was made was equal to about £20 at the present time, NT -------- * Labor Commission In Belgium. Belgium has national committees organized to, héad and seftle labor controversies, the plan being success- communities. It is a product of the post-war reorganization. - It doesn't do yon a bit of good to make a resolution that you are not going to fuss with your wife. She'll argue with you even Jf you agree with her. Eels avoid' cold and are inclined to migrate to warmer waters in win ter. ' Traces of hind thoms, limbs exist in py- ja Payment unless it was shown they © composed of employers and employes i th ful in nearly all of the industrial | | he 'said, "a greatest city." Mr. {stronge advocate of inter-Em}yire trade and desires to see British manufatcurers come to Canada and butld factories in the Dominion. "British capitalists are anxious to [ come to Canada. They are not to blame for want of interest. Canada's | snormpous possibilities have not been | fairly presented to the British | public, and, moreover, we are beaten { many times by the Americans on | account of their proximity." Mr. | Felden had noticed during his tour {that the best propositions were {always controlled by Americans. "I can quite understand it, though," he | sald. "Whenever a mine is discover- {ed the Americans are on the job and close the deal before the British capitalists have a chance to investi- gate. Only a few days ago when I | was at Port Arthur a new pulp mill was about to be started, and the promoters were looking for financial backing. I knew Britislr capitalists who were anxious to invest and supply the capital, but before I had started to put the British firm on the trail an American banking firm had closed the deal, and we were beaten. When I return to England I will | produce authenticated cases and will furnish English business men with an illuminatizg and instructive account of conditions and oppor- tunities in Britain's finest dominion, and I will in my report emphasize the necessity for British industries Empire," to have branch offices and factories | on the job, so that we will not in future be beaten within our own Empire," 4 ---------------------- The Last Survivor, | The month of October saw the | death of the last survivor of the Light | Brigade charge at Balaclava--Mr, J. A. Kilvert, J.P., who died at Wed- nesbury at the age of 87. He was only 21 at the time of the charge; and as only 326 were left in the bri- gade after it, the link between the twentieth century and the famous episode could not have been expected to last much longer. 2 There is a curious interest about ' the last survivors of historical events. | The last man who fought at Water loo was Lieut. Maurice Shea, who died at Sherbrooke, in Canada, in 1891, aged 398, . still was the last who had tak in the Amer lean War of Independence, who, fight- ing as a lad of 18, died in 1869 at the age of 109. The last survivor of | the icre of Cawnpore, Gen. Sir Hovrray Thomson, died at Reading in 1817. But the most striking of these stories is the well-known one of the last two survivors of thoss who sign- ed the American Declaration of In- dependence. On July 4, 1826, the Jubilee of the occasion, John Adams, ome of the signatories, lay dying, and Just before he passed away, at sun- set, he was heard to say, 'Jefferson still survives." But Tho: Jelerson had died that day at nooh.--London Observer. 4 gooc saver is a good server. s Per : SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. No man ever prayed heartily with. out learning something.--Emerson. . * . No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbe- lief in great men.--Carlyle. - - * Be earnest, earnest, earnest, mad if thou wilt; Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And that thy last deed were the Judg- ment Day. ~--Charles Kingsley. * - - I find that doing the will of God leaves no time for .disputing about His plans.--George MacDonald. . * * For verily the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give hig life a ran- son for many.--Mark 10:45. » - * Before man made us cltizens, great Nature made us men. --Lowell. . . . Everything right that we do is on the winning side; everything wrong CZECHO-SLOVAK PHYSICIANS VISIT CANADA. group of six Czecho-Slovak physicians who are now Vladimir Petrik, in Canada, studying Antonin Kolinsky, Be- \ A, We go down in ------------. is bound, in the end, to defeat.--S. S. Times, Slightly Behindhand., The umpire at the cricket matoh stammered so badly that when the bowler appealed for leg-before-wick« ot he could not get out a word. "The field waited for him to speak, but he could only stutter, They grew impatient at last and the bowler, Picking up the ball, exclaimed, "Oh, I can't wait any longer." He bowled again and sent the bats- man's middle stump flying. "N-n-not out!" said the umpire. "Not out?" roared the bowler, "Why, look at his middle stump!" "Th-that d-d-decision," spluttered the umpfre, "was f-f-for the o-0-other b-b-ball." . CZEMA &3 ¢ for Eczema and in Irrite- ve Tt relieves at i gradu- ally heals the skin. Sample box Dr. Chase's i free ou mention o. and send 2c. stamp 0c, & Beal deiers or Edmanson, & Co, ted. 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