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MAIL ABOUT j ND HIS PEOPLE into the ja‘ World. and six hundred woâ€" employed on the Great very OM ENGLAND in the Commerâ€" B M fairly glistom he entire cuff . _ Wring out x up the cold warm water, and d. Put the starch, letâ€" pross with ys that traces cen found in $ _from 5§ at the dollâ€" pool factory, Hugglescote, _ purchased var savings TY Admiralty. ew of â€" sub« ially report. id Turkey, ary of the s American i! unit es ghing fiftyâ€" ind, Eastâ€" r £42 to mforts for ive closed ntious ob= the local »cted Lord cession to on, D.Se., 1 _ master _ Crooksâ€" he Royal mory of am, killâ€" the Tottenâ€" to plant ares on ntrol ably > di« ness to the 1 for Royal 1, has )lome i to ntie ached Mine tional m{on _ out= f the ing cas The ops is of Lady quarâ€" e l LONE, AGED WOMAN zon " [ | PATHETIC FIGURE of ind lly hat 1yâ€" cal ied it= milâ€" rit aD~ ot St. e Plant plenty of whatever kind of nut trees will grow in your locality. The value of nuts as food is coming to be better understood; they command a fair price and are not so perishable, while awaiting a market, as fryit. Even booidnuh n:‘:.' acorns are valuâ€" wble for feeding a pork o fner quaitty that cnuments a tote ter price. Nut and fruit trees answer as well for shade as nolopodnefin{ The eyes of the old lady glowed under the spell of a thought she had not yet expressed. "A French general came and thankâ€" ed me for what I did for our soldiers," she said. "Then, long after, he wrote me a letter saying I was a brave woâ€" man and had brave sons. I have the letterâ€"you may see it." "While I was making coffee a big shell struck this house and killed some of the soldiers. Another one had both legs taken off. I helped them all I could, but they went away and the Germans came. They are cruel, but I am old, so I am alive. Then our boys came again and I made my house a hospital. It was struck twice more and I was hurt a little, too, but not much. I don‘t want to leave. I have lived here all my life and here is where I shall die." "When the war was just at the beâ€" ginning," she said in French, "I had three sons. They hurriedsoff to get their uniforms and rifies. Then I waited. One day our soldiers came pouring into the town. They had been driven back by the Germans. Many were injured. I took as many as I could in my house and made cofâ€" fee for them. You see my house was better before it was struck by shells. Cherishes General‘s Letter. Waves of deadly gas sweep from time to time. La Dame Indomitable has her mask. An officer gave it to her. It is the best. The officers see that she gets the best. Her two American artillery officers hurry to their billet when the gas drifts into the village. They have nothing to do there. They just go to make sure that their hostess is safe. I had a cup of chocolate with her in her house and learned her story. I do not think she ever told it before. | "A shell may hit meâ€"yes, perhaps, sometime. But we all have our work to do." So there she stays. She has been seen away up on the brow of the hill looking down on the German held territory. One does not need glasses to see it. She trudges along shell swept roads when it is necessary, as it often is. a strong woman yet, but when I carry water this long, long distance and then walk to the boulangerie for bread sometimes my heart beats too fast, maybe, but that‘s all." hundreds of years. Soldiers occupied the town. Then the Germans came. Three times the quaint village was taken and retaken. The gaunt remâ€" nants of the old dwellings could tell frightful stories of slaughter and magnificent tales of valor. So can La Dame Indomitable. But she says little. She just works. She wants to help France. Officers told her a long time ago she could go anywhere she wished. Even the grandeurs of Paris were pictured to her in the hope that she might be lured from the abode of danger in which she resides. But why should she go? "No, I‘m not old," she says. "I‘m only sixtyâ€"five or maybe seventy. I‘m La Dame Indomitable is the only inâ€" habitant left in the village. It is no place for women. Childrenâ€"all who survived the Hun carnival of rage and rapineâ€"left long, long ago. The old folks dragged a weary way from the humble, aged stone buildings in which they and their ancestors \lud lived for many generationsâ€"yes, for I saw her the other day in the reâ€" constructed ruins of her once comâ€" fortable house. Two artillery officers â€"Americanâ€"have billets with her. She takes care of their rooms, shines their boots and leggings and puts on a button now and then when they know nothing about it. The Only Inhabitant, Then, when she is not busy at home, she washes dishes for the Salâ€" vation Army canteen or performs more laborious service for all of which she receives ten cents an hour. That is enough. She doesn‘t need much. She begins her daily routine at five in the morning and finishes at seven in the evening. Then she walks two miles to a shop to get her allowanco‘ of bread, and after ten o‘clock, when her "boys" are in bed and asleep, nhel throws herself on a bed of boxes and] old clothes, with one blanket for covâ€" ering, and sleeps. ' In the charred village they call her La Dame Indomitable. Not a bad name for her, either. There is a great gun in the French army called Indomâ€" itable. ‘The enemy has trained its heavy weapons on this giant cylinder of destruction, but old Indomitable still belches its deadly hail upon the Huns, and so the old lady of â€"â€"â€" was named after this famous gun, says a war correspondent. Named La Dame Indomitable, After Great French Gun, for Her Work for Soldiers. AMONG THE CHARRED RUINS OF HER NATIVE VILLAGE. "Suddenly I saw another machine elimb up through the clouds to the eastward: ‘Another message from the Kaiser,‘ I thought. ‘No use, I‘ll never get back to old Kentucky.‘ But then I saw it was a French machine. It was Thaw coming back from Berlin or somewhere. And the Boches were buzzing around me like a lot of hornâ€" ets. They were so busy trying to get me they didn‘t notice Thaw. Thaw climbed like a rocket after those Fritzies, and I certainly was | _ "But I took a chance and started to |climb, which you can do pretty well \in a Nieuport biplane. Somehow, they missed me on the way up, alâ€" though their machine guns sounded like thunder to me and my wings were punctured a few times. Things didn‘t look any too good for me, even though I had temporary advantage. I showâ€" ered a lot of bullets on the nearest ‘Boche without making much impresâ€" sion, and then my gun jammed, and it was a case of defensive warfare. [ "Thaw and I started out together, lbut had become separated in the driftâ€" |ing vapors. I was cruising along about |10,000 feet up, with nothing on my ‘mind but my helmet, when who should drop out of a cloud above me :but three of the friskiest little Gerâ€" man fliers you ever saw. They didn‘t look little to me, though. They were the biggest Fritz birds I ever saw, iand I said to myself: ‘Bert, you will never see Kentucky againâ€"your numâ€" | ber is up.‘ "I doubled and dived, and zigzagged all over that cloud, but the Kaiser‘s boys always seemed to be waiting for me. They had spread out, making a threeâ€"cornered net. We were up about 15,000 feet by that time and the air was very clear. I was hoping for a cloud to come along, but no luck, and the blighters were coming nearer. One of them began shooting again, and I could hear the ping of the bullets even above the noise of the propeller. "We had quite a scrimmage with the Boche airmen that day, and I have always thought it was my fault that Thaw was hit; also, that Thaw saved my life. They certainly were after my life, three of them, away up there, above a nice, soft cloud, which looked .r:;ice to fall on, but had no bottom to 1t. R An "Ace" of the French Flying Corps Tells of Thrilling Experiences On Western Front. "Flying is the greatest game there is. I think the ‘thrillingest‘ afternoon I ever had was on the western front one time when Major William Thaw and I were having a little Boche hunt. It was the trip when Thaw â€" was wounded and with a smashed arm managed to guide his machine to safety," says Bert Hall, a Kentucky bo‘)"- _i'n ghe‘ French Flying Corps. 3 "THE GREATEST GAME THERE I8," SAYS AVIATOR. HUNTING THE HUN IN THE CLOUDS POSTUM PURGATIVE W ATEAR which flushes out the intestines and ensures normal bowel action without causing colic, cramps or discomfort. On Sale everywhere: 25 cents the bottle. RIGA PURGATIVE WATER CO. MONTREAL. OVR FOREFATHERS z. > :s great numbers of the highâ€"waged, skilled emâ€" ployes buy and drink ‘*There‘s a Reason‘"‘ A tribute, if you please, to honest materials and sanitary surroundings in manufacture; but best of all a preference based on true knowledge of its healthfuiness and attractive Aavor, _ At the Factories Where Postum is Made "RIGA" Defensive Warfare. ‘â€"at Grocers. at sea.‘" "Were you able to sell old Skinâ€" flint a grave?" asked the superintendâ€" ent of the Kew Mausoleum. The agent shook his head. "He was afraid he might not get the full value of it," he explained." “But.hngit-ll,nmnggotto die some time!" exclaimed superâ€" intendent. "That‘s what I told him, but he only answered. â€"‘Suppose I should be lost The lack of labor has become more acute in almost all the vital indusâ€" tries of France. The olive oil situaâ€" tion is typical and adds force to a movement that is becoming more and more popular. There are many solâ€" diers of the old classes in the French army, men 40 years of age or more, whose usefulness at the front is a question open to debate. Agitation has been going on since the time when United States‘ participation in the war made the demnnlf for men less acute at the battle front to relieve the old poilus. Early in 1917 the doubtâ€" ful privilege of an honorable discharge was granted to carefree fathers of six or more children. The real problem before the Chamber of Deputies is whether to take up the question of the old classes in a large spirit or‘ whether to continue to make slight concessions to the demands of theirl constituents. The price at the present time of a litre of oil is about five francs, that is, in Canadian values $1 a quart. The price will soon become six francs and, what is worse, the French will have to depend on imported oil, Italâ€" ian or Spanish, which they abominate. Industries of France Suffer From the Lack of Labor. News comes from France that the harvest of olives this year will be three times as great as in 1916. Nevertheless there will be less olive oil in 1918 than ever before. The greater part of the harvest will rot away because hands are lacking to turn it into oil. "I never saw a cooler chap than that French lieutenant. Believe me, he stood there looking the gun over just as if he were out for a clay bird shoot. He looked at me and smiled and then he turned loose and ruined the Boche. I never saw a Fokker whir!l and fall and break up like that one did. I nodded my head at the Frenchman and laughed, although my arm hurt like fury. We landed all right and the observer and I shook hands. I never saw him again and never learned his name." f |__"I met a Boche machine about 10,â€" 000 feet up. It was hazy and we alâ€" |most crashed head on. We swung out and after manoeuvring I let him have it, but my bullets only rattled on his engine. He climbed up and I felt the weight of his lead. My right arm went inumb and I knew I was through so far as shooting was concerned. It was sort of painful, then, and I was sore clear through because I couldn‘t get back at the Boche. Cool French Observer. _ "But I hadn‘t figured on the obâ€" server I was carrying with me, a French officer. He was a quiet chap, didn‘t say much until they winged me, and then he seemed to get interâ€" ested. First, he was out of the seat and fiddling with the trigger of the gun. Then I got busy and whirled the old Nieuport around so we had the‘ range of the Boche, who was c]imbing‘ again to finish me. "I suppose I had a narrow squeak the day they got me in the arm," said Hall. "It was on the Verdun front, and we were flying over the awful desertâ€"like place that the greatâ€" est of all battles was creating. Telling of Thaw‘s wound reminded Hall that he had also been shot in the arm, which badly injured his right elbow, but an excellent piece of surâ€" gery resulted in a silver plate being placed there for a part of the bone, while a patch on his back shows where skin was grafted to cover the shattered place. "It was some afternoon and I have always been sorry I couldn‘t have punctured that last Boche. He cerâ€" tainly was annoying." "Then the other two opened up on Thaw, and it wasn‘t long before I saw he was in trouble. He dropped another one of the Boches, but not beâ€" fore the Fokker chap had landed him in the.arm. Thaw started to volplane after he was hit, and all I could do for my rescuer was to try to atâ€" tract the other fellow while Thaw tinkered with a damaged engine and guided the machine at the same time. fle and s last idive. glad when his artillery opened. It took a great load off my mind, and one of the Boches immediately turned turâ€" OLIVE OIL SCARCER. soon was disappearing on his One Boche Escaped. Why He Failed. | The concern will be managed by a | company called the National Meat ! Products, Limited. The directors of | the company will be nominated by Lord Rhondda. The company has been registered with a capital of $25 iin 100 shares of twentyâ€"five cents ‘each and a called up capital of fifty ‘cents. A Treasury grant has been ‘given, but it is to be repaid out of | profits, and all the profits made are ‘to be put into the business. The diâ€" | rectors include the meat experts of | the Ministry. _ _ 3 Minard‘s Liniment l-&m'u Friend. The looks of the roadisde is a good indication of the looks of the back lot. _ Kiltieâ€"Obh, it is, is it? Weel then, what did ye do with ma pipe ? Kiltieâ€"Are you the fellow that dn;ged me oot of a shell hole under fire In some parts of the north of Engâ€" land there are already factories of the kind. There is a model one at Birâ€" mingham, but in the ‘\elth .of the country such foods haveeen despised until the coming into force of the raâ€" tioning scheme. In Italy only onéâ€"third of the army is being maintained on the battle lines, the official ;explanation being that there is not sufficient food. The starving Austrian army facing the Italians is said to have received large supplies from Russia. Member of the Ambulance Corps (modestly)â€"Oh, that‘s all right. Every slaughter house in the counâ€" try is now under the control of the Ministry of Food, so there will be litâ€" tle difficulty in supplying all the wants of the factory. _ _ Only Oneâ€"Third of the Italian Army The factory is situated in Liverpool Road, Islington. It formerly was the property of Appenrodts, who ran a string of delicatessen stores in the West End. Various kinds of sausages will be manufactured, in which kinds of offal that are not in the meat schedule will be used, as well as black puddings. The intention is to put on the marâ€" ket attractive foods made from byâ€" products of the slaughter house which have been simply wastedâ€"at any rate, in the south of Englandâ€"but which are staple foods on the Continent. British Food Ministry Opens Plant for Utilization of All Meat Offal. The Ministry of Food is going into the sausage business, says a London correspondent. An official sausage factory will shortly be opened under the control of the department for the manufacture of various kinds of meat products which do not come within the rations. * An extremely good model for the house dress. _ McCall Pattern No. 8069, Ladies‘ House Dress. In 7 sizes, 84 to 46 bust. Price, 20 cents. These patterns mx;.y be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from ghe McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, There are many possibilities in this little design for the summer dress. McCall Pattern No. 8184, Girl‘s Dress. In 5 sizes, 6 to 14 years. Price, 15 WILL MAKE SAUSAGE. No Cause for Pride. Spring Models 8184 ISSUE 18â€"‘18. The berries tasted sweeter then, That grew in clusters ripe and wild; And all the world seemed glorious when I was a bareâ€"foot, sunâ€"browned child. NCMe nee |soreness. If your druggist hasn‘t e \freezone he can easily get a small botâ€" A wellâ€"sodded yard with good walks tle for you from his wholesale drug where needed, keeps a lot of dirt out house. of the house. The grass grew greener in the lane; The sun shone from a bluer sky; The lark sang yet a sweeter strain; The sailing hawk did soar more high. The wild flowers bloomed in beauty there, ‘Long paths where once I bareâ€"foot strayed; . None since have blossomed quite so fair As when a boy I bareâ€"foot played. The robin built and reared his young; The bluebird and the swallow came; The oriole‘s swinging nest was hung, And none, since then, seems quite the same. 1 Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin beâ€" comes. Yes! It is harmless. Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautiâ€" fier, at very, very tmall cost. On occasions Vanderstraaten would paint in the manner described a landscape upon a long piece of canâ€" vas. In filling the orders of customâ€" ers he would cut the strip into pieces of various lengths. A purchaser could buy two, three or four feet of landscape, according to his fancy or according to the size of the space he wished to decorate. Girls! LEMON JUICE IS was ready to begin painting he called to his assistant, "Boy, a cloud!" and the lad speedily brought the desired pot. Vanderstraaten, with a thick brush, quickly transferred the clouds to the canvas. With the finishing strokes he called, "There are the clouds; bring the grass!" And so it went, without a moment‘s waste of time, until the thirty landscapes were finished. Vanderstraaten had little difficulty, it is said, in painting in a day thirty landscapes the size of an ordinary sheet of drawing paper. He would surround himself with pots of paint, each of which had its particular purâ€" poseâ€"one for the clouds, one for the grass, one for the shadows. When he ’ On one of his excursions to the East e e en s End to see how the rationing scheme ART BY THE FOOT. was working, Lord Rhondda was parâ€" rermm ticular‘y struck with the attitude of When Landscapes Could Be Purchased | ,, ; poor mothers whom he encounterâ€" e By the Piece. ‘ed there, and he decided to make some Hurry is not characteristic of thelp_ractical recognition of his‘npx’)recil- present century alone; our ancestors tion. It took the form of yielding up wereâ€"not always immune from the most of his. sugar allowance on behalf habit. The Dutch artist Vanderâ€"| oOf their children. _ _ _ ‘ straaten, according to a story from‘ _ His sugar is made into jam for the Das Echo, was a master in scheming little ones who spend their days in the ott short cuts and saving time. ‘nurseries while their mothers are at Vanderstraaten had little difficulty.! work. ] s! Make this cheap beauty lotion to clear and whiten your skin, In Boyhood. FRECKLE REMOVER. TORONTO This new drug is an ether comâ€" pound, and dries the moment it is ap~ plied and does not inflame or even irâ€" ritate the surrounding â€"tissue. Just think! You can lift off your corns and calluses now without a bit of pain or At little cost one can get a small bottle of freezone at any drug store, which will positively rid one‘s feet of every corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection. Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be liftâ€" ed right out with the fingers if you will apply on the corn a few drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati authority. 0â€"O0â€"0â€"~0â€"0â€"O0â€"â€" 0 â€"â€"0â€"0â€"~â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0 The boy or girl with a garden patch is happy and bealthy. Start someâ€" thing in school gardens! me at once. I am never without it now. + a | ELL â€"EQUIPPED NEWSPAPER Give the winterâ€"blooming h°“5°|‘ W and !obqprlntlnl plant in E:-ter- plants a rest by withholding sunshine Ontario. .llrznz:):r;:ceqm;lem:.sog“w‘l;n and water. . Cut to a good shape and iflmson Publishing Co., Ltd., Toronto. * keep the buds picked. |==_â€"__-Tâ€"T‘:T,_f.__,'â€"?\â€"- Oâ€"Oâ€"Oâ€"Oâ€"Oâ€"Oâ€" 0 â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0 I was very sick with Quinsy and thought I would strangle. I used MINARD‘S LINIMENT and it cured Minard‘s Liniment Co., Limited. Radish and carrot seed may be sown together. The radishes will be ready for pulling long before they become froublesome to the carrots, and the radishes break through the crust, being robust plants, breaking the way for the more delicate plants of the carrots. There are two kinds of tea: ordinâ€" ary tea and Salada. Salada is more economical since it takes so much less to make a satisfying infusion. See to it that every child has a garden, if it is at all possible. A real garden in real dirt. A garden and a few tools of his or her very own. You can buy plenty of seeds for a few cents, â€" The children will probably waste most of them, but they will have lots of fun doing it. Not many people know that most of Lord Rhondda‘s sugar ration goes to the childrén in Lady Cynthia Colâ€" ville‘s creche at Hoxton, says a Lonâ€" don weekly. Keep Minard‘s Liniment in the house. ‘MRS. C. D. PRINCE Nauwigewauk, Oct. 21st. WITH THE FINGERS! 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They came to a head and were hard and red caus» ing disfigurement for the Cuticura Heals Pimples On Face That Itched and Burned. ‘VEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTâ€" ern Ontario. Dulnf a good busi+ ness. Death of owner places it on the market. A great chance for a man with cash. Apply Box 82, Wilson Publishing Co. IAmited, Toronto. CANCI:R. TUMORS, LUMPS, ETC, internal and external, cured withâ€" out pain by our home treatment. Write us before too late. Dr. Beliman Medical Co., LAmited, Collingwood. Ont. __ MONEY ORDERsS. It is always safe to send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. Minard‘s Liniment used by Physicians. As soon as the frost leaves the ground is a good time to dig fenceâ€" post holes, if your land is not too wet. When the soil gets dry and hard the labor of digging is increased. Paint may be removed from winâ€" dows with hot vinegar. This latter will in the same way soften paint brushes which have become hardened. Anybody who discovers cases of waste of food may notify the legal auâ€" thorities, who have power, under the new Order, to take action. â€" Wilful or careless waste has become illegal, and municipalities who secure the convicâ€" tion receive half the fine, while proâ€" vincial officers securing the conviction receive half the fine, for the province, MIRSTԤ Family Salve, (500). , Â¥ MIRST‘S Pectoral Syrup ofHore .._da hound and Elecampane, (35c) BOTTLE For over 40 years Hirst‘s Pain Exterminator has been taking the pain out of sheumatism , lumbago, lame back, neuralgia, sprains, toothache and similar complaints. Buy a bottle, read the directions on the circular in the package, Ai dcalers, or write us, The Good Old Family Friend HIRST ‘REMEDY COMPANY Hamilion, Conada Waste is now IMegal, Cleaning Paint. JRST Sheriff 8t., for 35¢