~ STRICK STREET Completely Resfored To Health By "Fruit-a-tives" 882 Br. er Sr., MoNTREAL, "In 1912, I was taken suddenly ill with Acute Stomach Trouble and dropped in the street, 1 was treated by several physicians for nearly two years, and my weight dropped from 225 pounds to 160 pounds. Then several of my friends advised me to try "Fruit- a-tives", 7 began to improve almost with the first dose, and by using them, I recovered from the distressing. Stomach Trouble --and all pain and Constipation were cured. Now I weigh 208 pounds. I cannot praise 'Fruit. a-tives" enough", -H, WHITMAN. B0c.a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25e. _ Atall dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- a-tives Limited, Ottawa. THOMES COPLEY Telephone 987 wanting anything done in the carpen tery line, Estimates given on all kinds of repairs and new work; also hard wood floors of ell kinds. All orders wil) recelve prompt attention. Shop, #¢ Queen street Cream Puffs Charlotte Russe We are now making Cream Puffs and Charlotte Russe, with a little ad- vance in price. No explanations needed why. Cream Puffs, 40c per doz. - Charlotte Russe, 4 for 25¢ -- 70¢ per doz. P. H. BAKER & CO 802 King St. Phone 141 i Many Sick Spells Begin with Coughs and Colds And they will end right there if you take the Hickey-Dover Compound Hickeys for the cong and Dover's Cold Breakers for the Cold. kly yleld over- The worst cases quiel 'might to this splendid combination. 25 Cents for Each. At Best's THE POPULAR DRUG STORE Open Sundays Wind Breakers % 3 EN IN THE [MYSTERY oF The TANKS ARMORED CARS HAVRE | [BEEN ONE OF WAR'S. SURPRISES. London Daily Express Fears het | the Machines Are Receiving | Praise Which by Right Belongs | to the Men Who Operate Them-- | Some of the Other Surprises of the War, HE "worship of the tanks" 18 getting a bit overdone. The pmans of the uninform- ed grow louder and louder, {and it would seem only incidentally that it is taken into account that the great battle in which they first ap- peared was won by men and not by machines. Some persons are talking and writing as if the "tanks" had won the war, while Mr. Lloyd George himself has warned everybody not to expect too much from them, It is recalled in The Daily Express that at the beginning of the war mysterious references were made in the newspapers to a wonderful high explosive with which the French were going to blast the Prussians from the face of the earth. Its merits were discussed in messes, in ward-rooms at sea and at clubs and in drawing-rooms at home. "We are," The Express says, "in spite of the war, a simple nation. We believed the yarns. We went even further and enlarged upon them until a new surprise was launched on the top of us which completely eclipsed the old one. . "Very few of these early sifrprise packets materialized. Who among us did not hear stories of the wonder- ful concrete built ships which were to be sunk in the mouth of the Kiel Cana]; of the Zeppelins which would asphyxiate towns with their loathsome bombs, or of the great howitzers which were to plaster the cliffs of Dover with a daily 'hate' as a reminder that Calais was nearer than it seemed? "In those early days we were most efficient talkers, Ngvertheless, it was the Prussian who sprang the first surprise on us with his poison gas. We were deeply shocked. It was unsportsmanlike. It was not cricket. We raised horrified hands to heaven and talked . and went on talking, till one fine day we made gas ourselves, and later used it. War is a great levgller. The poison gas surprise was first blood to the Prussian. As Tommy and Jack have it, they 'did it on us-- proper.' We made gas every bit as good as the Prussian, improvised gas helmets and respirators, and-- waited for the next surprise. It was not long in coming. The Prussian went one better than the poison gas 1vention and treated us to liquid re. . "While we were busy making gas helmets and poison gas, Grandpa Tir- pitz so far forgot his whiskers as to burl a bomb at us in the shape of his famous 'unterseeboot' a They were most wonderful boats, those submarines of Grandpa Tir- pitz. Tens of thousands of miles was their radius of action; they carried torpedoés innumerable, their speed was at least thirty knots, and they bristled with guns. Grandpa Tirpits has had a fair measure of success. We must give him his due, but where in the sea do those great dread- noughts and cruisers lie which were to fall such an easy prey to the tor- pedoes of his U-boats? "Russia has had her surprise as well as England and Germany. The great Sikorsky biplane, a huge aerial monster of efficiency, was brought into use early in the war, and there were few Zeppelin commanders who dared the flight over the Masurian lakes with these giants of the air for antagonists. There have been many surprises in the shape of inventions, but of all the inventions which have borne fruit and prospered, the new mystery cars are the greatest. What are they like, these great, formidable, steel-clad monsters? Of what calibre are these 'tanks' which override trenches and trees and dugouts and shell craters? Are they merely the mechanical perfections human brain, or in truth real devils that can put a battery of guns out of action, charge a prisoners' ' ' aad en- filade a trench in one fell swoop? "The Prussian cannot tell you. Of a surety he must have thought some form of Satanic incarnation had broken loose when he saw the great mammoth-like 'buses' rolling to- ward him in the cold, grey morning, menacing and ugly, utterly heedless of barbed wire and shell holes, plunging over mine craters, spitting fire and smoke as they came. "They are wonderful cars, these ating Pains In 'tanks." Whose was the cleve that thought them out and perfected them? Where aad by whom were they made? The stories about them are almost as miraculous as the cars themselves, Here are a few 'real truths' which have been circulated about them: "They carry a crew of 400 men. -y have 12-inch gums. "Their speed is 30 miles per hour, and: "They were made by f™ades in Japan) "Whatever the 'tanks' may be, whether fish, flesh, or good red her- ring, they are marvelously efficient. They are a real surprise, and, what is more, an effective one. "It is extraordinary how like we are to Cousin Hans. It is not sueh a long time ago that our protests rose to the skies against poison gas. It is a still shorter time since we used it ourselves. We have thor- oughly scared Hans with our 'tanks' and already he is complaining that they are a cowardly and unfair wea- pon to use against an honorable ma- tion in modern warfare!" CHURCHILL AND LLOYD GEORGE They Have a Great Many Character istics in Common. Very alike in many - respects are Lloyd George, "the man of the mo- ment" in Great Britain, and Winston Churchill, the most notable politician outside the Cabinet in that country. For one thing, they are both men of the very highest courage, and both rate courage in others as chief among the virtues. - Both, again, are philosophers and guide themselves when confronted by the various problems of life by certain definite principles of practical wisdom. Each of them possesses a prodigious mem- ory. Mr. Churchill knows all the works of some poets--Burns and Kipling are his favorites--by heart. Mr. Lloyd George has a marvelous memory for anecdotes and tells a good story well. Neither is what would usually be called a "well-read" man. Yet each has a wonderful fund of varied im- formation. Both are omniverous readers of newspapers. Both have read a good many books--Mr. Lloyd George's favorite reading matter is a historical novel, and .Mr. Churchill's military history. It is often mistakenly thought that both men are far from robust physi- cally. There could be no greater mistake. Botl are exceptionally strong and muscular--Mr. Lloyd George, despite his small stature, weighs 190 pounds, ard is of singu- larly sturdy build. Mr. Churchill, although he stoops, is as active as a cat, and can undergo the most strenuous physical exertion. Both men have a singular strain of youth- fulness in their make-up, and, when away from work and responsibility, are fond of all kinds of boyish pranks. At one time the two men looked to be running a neck-and-neck race for the leadership of the Liberal party. But it looks now as though Mr. Lioyd George has definitely out- the other. He looks #afe to be the next Premier, though one expects to see him the head not of a purely Liberal, but of another coali- tion, Government. Mr. Lloyd George is. by far th: more emotional of the two men, Mr. Churchill by far the more logical. Thus, as one might expect, the for- mer is the better platform speaker and the latter the better debater. Mr Lloyd George is very musical, "vhile the particular form of art favored by Mr. Churchill is that of paint- ng. Mr. Churchill, when he is in good form, can be very animated, but ut times he is preoccupied and gloomy. Mr, Lloyd George, on thé other hand, is always animated add ani- mating. Mr. Churchill is apt tn miss his sleep too much and too often, while the other has the en- viable knack of being able to go uit to sleep at any moment and any- where he wants. Mr. Lloyd George cares nothing whatever for the pleas- ures of the table. Ho likes the very simplest kind of food, and cares jot at all for wine, drinking very little and that little only for the hte. of good fellowship. His one ox. ®va. gant taste is a liking for a good cigar. Mr. Churchill, on the con- trary, is an epicure who appreciates the best of food and <ooking, and likes a dinner of many courses. He is also a connoisseur of wines. He is blessed with a remarkably healthy appetite, As Born. Wild of eye, a man burst into a barber's shop. "You remember selling me some patent bair restorer last week, you hoary-headed old swindler?" be roared, angrily. "Sware it would festore my head to its original state, didn't you?" "And didn't it?" asked the bhar- ber, as he went on shaving another customer calmly. ' "Didn't it?" snorted the enraged man. "You obtained my money under false pretences. Why, it even the little Nair 1 had left, Joe I'm as bald as the pave- retence REV. T.D'COURCY REYNER IN FIRST CONGREGATIONAL. Is Well-Equipped' Preacher, and His Discourses are Most Interesting | and Helptul--First Efforts Were] Very Timely. Rev. T. DeCourcy Reyner, the new | minister of the First Congregational Church, began his ministry on Sun- day with two helpful and inspiring sermons. As a.speaker he is well! equipped. He has a good presence! and 'a pleasing voice. His thoughts are direct and convincing, and they are marshalled in a telling manner, clothed in simple, yet forcible lan- guage, and emphasized with appro- priate gestures. He makes his ser- mons heart-to-heart talks, and the result is that he is in close and con- stant touch with his hearers. His initial sermons were exceedingly timely. In the morning his subject was: "The Pastor's Work," and in the evening he spoke on "The Preacher's Message," His morning text was Luke xxil, 27: '1 am among you as he that serveth." He had been called not merely as a Congregational minister, he declared, but as a minister of the living God, and not only that, but also as a minister of a ministering God. A pastor was not able to un- derstand all the needs of his people, as in every heart and in every fam-| ily there was a closed cupboard. It] was therefore necessary that he! should come as a minister of a min-| istering God who leoked into the! hearts of all men and saw other| needs. Man had no need that God| could not supply. The Pastor's Office. The preacher passed on to speak of the pastor's office and the duties connected with it. He pointed out that it was impossible for] a pastor to work by schedule. He| was continually at the. call of those! in sickness and in trouble, and it was impossible to govern his duties by a timetable. One of the duties of the pastor's office was that of a prophet. He came as a prophet of the living God. Men were called to.be prophets to- day just as much as they were in the days of Isaiah and Jeremiah. A prophet was God's spokeman, and he had come to declare the message of the living God. Y Another office of the pastor was that of priesthood. Every pastor | was a priest. In thinking of priest- hood they were not to think of elab- orate ritualism, but rather of the simplicity of service. They were to think of the pastor as one seeking to serve and starting at God's altar to minister to needy ones. A very essential part of a pastor's duties was pastoral work. The ad- ministering of spiritual help in the homes. The speaker asked the con- gregation to let him be their pastor, their helper. A minister could only |] be a pastor as far as the people £2 willing to let him be. It was a pas- tor's duty to lead his people along the path of service. In God's plan every individual believer was intend- ed to be a priest to administer the spiritual things of Christ. Some con- gregations were more concerned about giving their pastor a living than they were in giving to the church and to the world their lives. Every church member must be will- ing to make sacrifices for Jesus Christ. A priest was needed in every home. The head of each family should be a priest. The idea of the family altar had been generally forgotten, with the result that parents were weak spiritually, their children were drift- ing and the world was forgetting God. With a family altar, the home would become a sanctified place, the children would find their happiness there, and their parents would be able to hold them for God. In conclusion the preacher asked for the prayers, the patience and the co-operation of his people. CHAPLAIN SEARCHES TRENCHES To Find Son's Body--Buries it Be. hind: Lines, London, Dec. 4.--The most re- markable story of devotion yet is that which a wounded officer tells of Canon Scott, of Quebec, who return- ed to London last Friday. ians swept over where he fell. and in the meantime young Scott's body was buried with others. Later on the Canadians captured i Regina trench again, this time hold it. Canon Scott's duties him into this front line and ; i33aefEs, Christmas Our stocks are now complete, replete with many beautiful nov- women. The values offered elties that will attract all discriminating Waists during this great Christmas sale are exceptional. 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