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4 ' ducted at Dayton. Indeed, there are indications that this tremendous achievement may come far sooner than we dare imag- that she had too little blood. Dr, Wil my health and now Mrs. Haughn't whole trouble was liams" Pink Pills were of aid to her b they renewed and purified her 1 | vetoed. Even now one dollar in every blood and that good blood promoted good health, for where good blood abounds diseas. cannot exist. You can get these Pills from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Eman) WEEE Cp a PENSIONS FOR "FATTIES" War pensions for such disabilities my household | duties are a pleasure instead of a tor ture." -- a as gout and obepity were to be all by a Bill passed by the United States Coagress, but which the President has four of the American Government's _ Boes to war veterans and their d Aont and anticyclones that are appro ing us or leaving us. This pooling of weather news is fast making weather prophecy into am ex- "met science. But, all said and done, it is no great consolation to kmow that disaster is coming when we awajt it impotently. What scientists desire today is di- rect control of the weather, that is, Interference with the natural process- es involved in its changes and varia bilities. The first attempt to bring about ar- tificlal precipitation was made at Medi- cine Hat. There the experimenter re- leased vapors with the object of mak- ing them rise into the high cloud re- gion and there bring about condensa-| tion and precipitation. y There has been a good deal of argu- ment as to whether that method was sheerly empirical or otherwise. Ob- viously, it would be easy t« fall lato the trap post hoc, ergo propter hoc. But no such delusion ix likely to arise from the far more dramatic ex- periments carried out, both in South Africa and America, on altogether dif- ferent lines. Professors Bancroft and Warren, of Cornell University, first thought of us- ing acroplanes to induce rainfall. The great nimbus clouds and the cirrus clouds are composed of minute mols- ture particles held in suspense. Each particle has a core of dust about which it clings. Precipitation brings about the collapse of clouds in the "form of rain when the minu > particles American methods sometimes puzzle them. Por instance, a certain M.P. re- cently referred to the way in which, in the States, "all the Civil Servants changed with every change of Gov- ernment." This isn't true, because America has a permanent €ivil Service, which us, partly because we misunderstand | viral var d and count different points, THE PUBLIC CONTINUES TO BE "GOLF.CONSCIOUS" Snooker golf 1s name of this latest variation of the miniature golf epide- mic which is played with a refreshing golf-pool combination. The balls are | Brown Rat Outwits . From the human standpoint, the most dangerous of all wild creatures to-day is the brown rat. Since the Great War it has been discovered that the rat has intelli and or 1 carries on, through the various changes of Government, just as our own does. But in the matter of pensions, Americans have always had rather curious ideas. One claim for a Civil War pension was made on the ground that the applicant had "hurt his ankle while intending to enlist," and similar claims were legion.--Answers. mean TAKEN TOO LITERALLY One of the witnesses in a case being heard in the county court was a very small boy who had been called to give evidence on behalf of his father. When the boy stapped into the wit- negs-box heslooked just like a freak from a circus. A big trilby-hat was pulled down over his eyes, his coat feached down to his knees, and the trousers he wore trailed on the ground under his shoes, whilst over one of his arms was a big umbrella, and his hands were covered with thick gloves. The judge, who was usually #0 very serious, burst into a roar of laughter. \ "Why do you come to the court dressed like that, my boy?" he asked kindly. $ come together and fall as raind heavier than air, In a word, the idea of these two ex- perts was simply to electrify the clouds by means of electrical sand PD! The y pulled a police sum- mons from his pocket. "Look, sir, he sald with a dignified alr, "it says here, "to appear in his scattered upon them from aeropl "Bombing" the Clouds The first experiments brought about the immense dispersal of clouds at 'Dayton, Ohio. Lieut. Wade, who was in charge of the operations, described the extraordinary sensations he ex- experienced after "bombing" the clouds. At one moment he flew above a dense purple cloud, the next it had dissolved beneath him in a heavy shower. / The possibility single cloud is, therefore, already de- monstrated. The question remaths; how could the ther over large areas be thus controlled? Most of our own weather comes from the Atlantic. The suggestion is simple - enough--in theory. .On the report of approaching clouds when fine weather is desired, large squa- drons of aeroplanes would fly out to 'meet the storm, bombard the clouds, and cause the rain to fall before the bad weather reached our shores. In other words, such weather squa- drons would cause the sua to shine by bringing about artificial rain else Professor Warren has declared that a single sand-bombing aeroplane could _ elear the air of New York of fog in a few minutes; and other American ex- perimenters using balloons in Virgin- 1a have had successes in causing' pre- .elpitation as dramatic as those con- of discharging a. father's suit'." CL ---- & <> ""Do you think Jack ever success- fully fooled his wife?" : "I know it. Didn't he marry her?" BSC ANOTHER GENERATION She was over forty, but she still thought she was a flapper. The young man she had cornered at the party was thinking hard for an excuse to escape. Presently an idea came to him. "I gay,' he sald, "do you remember the youngster who used to tickle you under the chin at school?" #Oh," she cried gushingly, "so that is who you are?" capacity transcending even the mar- . vels of Lubbock, discovered in the ant, and Fabre in the bee. The Great War made it necessary for the City of New York to investi gate rat life, and to discover how com- plex and perfect is the whole system of rat government, During the war vast stores of food accumulated, await- ing transport to Europe. -Rats multi- plied until it is estimated that there are now 30,000,000 rats on Manhattan Island. Part of the city is built upon the is- land, so that ordinary steps to destroy or drive away the rat army proved in- effective. The rats, instead of finding easler living 'elsewhere, discovered themselves hemmed in by water on all y sides. They organized, grew more cunning, and put up such a skillful re- sistance that new methods of combat- ing them had to be devised. It has now been discovered that rats exist, not as single units, couples, or families, but in vast organized colon- fes. Every member of a rat colony is subject to discipline. Here is a typl- cal instance of the way their organi- gation works. In one area under observation there were seventy-five storehouses, mostly used for holding food supplies. Of these all but one were infested with rats. The solitary exception was used for storing grains and flour. Not a rat ever entered it, but it was over run with mice. That was puzzling for the rat haunts the mouse. The mouse-infested building was closely observed. Watchers found that the rats, so far from interfering with the mouse colony, brought extra food to keep the mice fat and healthy. They brought green vegetables, meat, and the cores and peel of fruit. They were correcting the grain diet of the mice with valuable vitamines. No wonder the mice in that store were plump and heathy. = Then, at one period of observation, the watchers saw a number of rats ad- vance upon the mouse town. They fell upon the holes used as exits and en- trances, and enlarged them to rat size, That dome, the biggest and 'flercest of the rats entered. Presently the in- vaders came out again, each with a dead mouse. These were laid in a little heap, and the rats returned for more. Bo they worked until fifty or sixty dead mice lay in the heap. Now representatives from the whole rt colony appeared. Each took his Man World's Biggest Menace Over 30,000 Rats Banded Together Into One Colony Defy Manhattan Island Authorities. share of the game, carrying the dead mice to the family holes as delicacies for the young. In short, the mouse castle was no more than the game pre- serve of the rats. Another puzzle was supplied by an egg store. Here, to save the egg crates from rats, a platform was built on legs of this metal eight feet high. No rat could climb to this platform, and for a time the eggs were undis- turbed. But one day it was discover ed that a crate on the platform had been emptied. Here was a job for the expert observer. Watching the platform, on which was an open crate containing 300 eggs, the observer saw about forty rats come out of their holes. By one of their regular run-ways they climbed to a big gas-meter, higher than the platform, and more than 9 feet distant. Each rat in turn jumped for the platform from the meter, Two in every three landed safely at the first attempt; the others fell short and hit the floor with a thud. But, shaking themselves they tan nimbly up to the meter and tried again. Eventually there were forty rats on the platform. Gripping hind legs with forepaws, the rat army began to form a chain, reaching from the platform to the floor. It was evidently a well-rehearsed acrobatic feat, for in the twinkling of Lan eye there was a chain of rats reach- ing from the crate of eggs to the floor. Boon eggs began to roll down that rat chute. At the bottom was a rat who received each egg carefully. In half an hour - the crate was empty. Then the chain unhitched and the spoils were equally divided. There was not a sign of disfigurement. Hu- man thieves quarrel when the plunder is to be divided: the rat army is not subject even to that weakness. A similar instance occurred in a restaurant .famous for serving shell fish. One day a kitchen worker filled a bucket with opened clams, set it on a shelf knee high on the wall, and went on with other work. When he next looked at the busket it was empty. It was decided to call in a rat ob- server. The same conditions were re- peated. The man worked away, with a full bucket of clams behind him, while the watcher waited for results. Presently appeared a rat scout, who climbed the bucket and looked in. On returning to the rat-hole, out swarmed the rat army. It was ninety feet from thé hole to the bucket, but they sta- tioned themselves in line from hole to bucket. The first rat threw the clams : out; the next caught them, and with his forepaws p- ised them on. -- Sk, sa THE RODENT 'We feed the birds and squirrels, Berve lunch to dogs and cats, But in category, 'We draw the line at rats. At least this was our feeling, But to-day on looking out, ' And, world weary, pause upon it. .| more food yale at a lower price." | This was five feet | HEART'S EASE (Logheven) love to tread a winding peth --Jean M. Snyder. orn THAT GLAZED RICE "To purchase highly artificially- glazed rice was ridiculous. It was prepared solely for the benefit of the lady shopper. She went into a shop and saw beautiful pearly-glazed rice; she naturally thought it was very fine, and was prepared to pay a few cents more for it than for ordinary com- mercial rice," says Mr. Charles C. Douglas, M.I.Mech.E,, in "The Journal of the Royal Society of Arts." "That glaze was simply put on by adding powdered French chalk and 1 to the finished polished white rice before it was put into sacks. Quite obviously it had no food value whatever. If one contented oneself by purchasing the ordinary article, one was purchasing something which had THEREASON WHY Thin, 'Own Tablets, Malnutrition, or inability to derive That Autumn flaunteth In his bushy nourishment from food, is a common trouble with little children and 1s en-| Where tomtits, banging from the tirely due to stomach and bowel weak- ness. Another cause of loss of flesh Of giant sunflowers peck the nutty and sleep is worms. To correct stomach and bowel trou- bles and thus banish constipation and | Seize and set free the honed flowers, indigestion, break up colds and simple fevers; expel worms and allay the pain which accompanies the cutting of While ever across the path mazily flit, teeth is what Baby's Own Tablets| Unpiloted in the sun, Weak Children Need Baby's' Wao Syst, Rep Rose Tea ia quod Wa" Tito QuaLrties - = ED LABEL % Onanet Pexor a = m-------- -- -- ROWS OF HIGH-GROWN Classified Advertising HOLLYHOCKS Now thin mists temper the slow-ripen- FOR SALE ing beams 'A SEA SLED FOR SaLD, MODEL . , with new ta vinrude Of the September sun: his golden {UR 1)" {1 perfect condition, very fast, gleams abrolutely safe, splendid fishing boat, On gaudy flowers shine, that prank the has special megan Jor: Soe, setting rows Bay. Wilson Publishing Co. 73 Adelaide Of high-grown hollyhocks, and all tall| W. T rontu. Box 37 shows bowers; drooping heads seeds; And In the feathery aster bees on-wing Till thousand stars leap with their visiting: were designed for, They never fail to| The dreamy butterflies be of aid and can be given with safety to the youngest babe. Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. -- SHE WANTED TO KNOW Teacher was taking the class in a general knowledge test. "Stand up, William," she said. "Now tell me how matches are made?" William stood up and thought hard for a moment or two, "I don't know, miss," he returned, after awhile, "but I don't blame you for asking." "What ever do you mean, William?" inquired his teacher. "Well," replied William; "mother sald you've been trying to make one for a year." Sm---------- HECTOR KNEW DIFFERENT Breakfast-time in the home of the Remingtons was always a battle of words between father and his daugh- ter. "Mary," sald her father sternly one Sunday morning, "did I see that young man kiss you last night?" Mary was on guard at once. "I don't know whether you did or not," she replied. "You are evading my question," snapped father. "Did he kiss you?" "Well, daddy," she shot back, "you don't really think Hector came here last night to see our goldfish, do you?" a -- h More than two hundred people live permanently in the British House of Commons. They include clerks, wait- ers, kitchen staff firemen etc. a "I can think of no more nerve. wracking, no more mentally arduous task than making music."--George Gershwin. GOT IN A TAXI ON HIS KNEES Was Crippled With Rheumatism--But Now Fit THANKS TO KRUSCHEN Bo Shy al cpp ony he is' the object of A -- ly active man. It was Kruschen that acoom- i With dazzling colors powdered and | soft glooms, | White, black and crimson stripes, and peacock eyes. | Or on chance flowers sit, With idle effort plundering one by one | The nectaries of deepest-throated! blooms. . . . ~Roberf Bridges. ty IN| THE NEGATIVE She was annoyed and she was vent: ing her wrath on Walter, her future husband. "And another thing," she continued, "I thought you said your sister was working on the films?" } Walter raised his eyebrows wonder- ingly. "What about it?" he murmured. "What about it?" she echoed. "Why, 1 was passing the chemist's shop to- day and Isaw her preparing snap- shots." Walter smiled back triumphantly. "That's working on the films, isn't it?" He returned. Et HOW OLD ARE YOU? Age Is a quality of mind. If you hav® left you're dreams behind, If hope is cold, It you no longer look ahead, If your ambition's fires are dead, Then you are old. But if from life you take the best, And if in life you keep the zest, If love you hold, No matter how the years go by, No matter how the birthdays fly, You are not old. --Taken from "The Silent Worker." "There's no coal left in the cellar ma'am." "Why didn't you tell me be- fore, Mary?" "Because there was some, ma'am."--Punch. BE i, i Inhale Minard' Linime for Ac*hma. i LikhR { i It costs almost as much to feed a baby as an adult in New York City, one expert stating that an increase of $700 in the family income is necessary to provide for each addition, 'Fall Colds take us unawares. At the first symptoms heat Minard's and in- hale it for prompt relief. i ~ "KING OF PAIN" | LINNMENT BABIES are Upset ABY ills and ailments seem twice a8 serious at night. A sudden ci may mean colic. Or a sudden att of diarrhea. How would this emergency--tonight? bottle of Castoria ready? For the protection of your wee one--for your own peace of mind-- keep this old, reliable preparation always on hand. But don't keep it just for emergencies; let it be an everyday aid. Its gentle influence will ease and soothe the infant whe cannot sleep. Its mild regulation will help an older child whose tongue is coated because of sluggish bowels. All druggists have Castoria. FleT cir CASTORIA YOUNG -WIFE STRENGTHENED After Taking Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable ou meet ave yous