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e OUR FOREFATHERS purged themMlvea often and lived long. They ueed mild but efficient purgative* like PUHOATIVH WATER vlilcll flwAea out the tnteetines and ensures aormul bowel action without oauilag coUo, cnun|>e or discomfort. On Sale everywhere: 25 oente the bottle. RIGA PURGATIVE WATER CO. itflONTREAL. HUNS ARE LIKE THUGS OF INDIA SAYS RUDYARD KIPLING IN A RECENT ADDRESS. Germans Taught From Birth to Re- 1 gard Crime as Legitimate Means of Serving Fatherland. Rudyavd Kipling says that the atrocities committed under the Ger- [ man policy of frightfulness were , paralled to some extent a century ago among the people of India, only on a smaller scale. In an address recently in the English town of Folkstone, which has been bombarded from the air several times, the author told his audience that the nations of the earth have banded together to down the Kaiser and his minions just as the Indian Government had to take meas- ures to wipe out Thugs. Suggestions of peace, Kipling as- serted, originate among Boche agents and confederates who are active not only in England but in every other country with which Germany is at war. Compromise, he said, would mean nothing less than defeat and "nothing we may have to endure now wiif weigh one featherweight compared with what we shall suffer if we fail." The Thugs of India. "One hundred years ago there was a large and highly organized commu- nity in India which lived by assassina- tion and robbery," continued Kipling. "They were educated to it from their infancy, they followed it as a profes- sion and it also was their religion. They were called Thugs. "Their method was to disguise themselves as pilgrims or travellers or merchants and to join with parties moving about India. They got into the confidence of their victims, found out what they had on them and in due time â€" after weeks or months of ac- quaintance â€" they killed them by giv- ing them poisoned foodâ€" sweetmeats for choice â€" or by strangling them from behind as they .sat over the fire of an evening. Then they stripped the corpse of all valuables, threw it down a well or buried it and went on to the next Job. "At last things got so bad that the Government of India had to interfere and after many years in tracking down and hanging up theactual mur- derers and imprisoning their spies and confederates, who included persons in all ranks of society, it put an end to the whole business of Tfluggee. ' "The world has progressed since that day. By present standards of crime those Thugs were ineffective amateurs. They did not mutilate or defile the bodies of the dead; they did not torture or rape or enslave people; they did not kill children for fun and they did not burn villages. They merely killed and robbed in an unob- trusive way as a matter of education, . duty and religion, under the patronage of their goddess, Kali the Destroyer. One International Department. "At the present moment all the Powers of the world that have not been bullied or bribed to keep out of it have been forced to join us in one international department to make an end of German international Thuggee, for tlie reason that if it is not ended life on this planet becomes insupport- able for human beings. Even now there are people in England who find it hard to realize that the Hun has been educated by the State from his birth to look upon assassination and robbery, embellished with every treachery and abomination that the mind of man can laboriously think out, as a perfectly legitimate means to Ihe national ends of his country. "He is not shocked by these things. He has been taught that it is his busi- ness to perform them, his duty to sup- port them and his religion to justify them. They are, and for a long time past have been, as legitimate in his eyes as the ballot in the eyes of an Englishman. "This, remember, was as true of the German in 1914 as it is now. People who have been brought up to make or- ganized evil in every form their su- preme god because they believe evil will pay them are not going to change their belief till it is proved that evil does not pay. So far the Hun believes that evil has paid him in the past and will pay him better in the future. He has had a good start. "Like the Thug the Hun knew ex- actly what he meant to do before he opened his campaign against mankind. As we have proof now, his poisoned sweetmeats and knotted towels were prepa*ed years beforehand and his spies had given him the fullest infor- mation about all the people he in- tended to attack. Right in German Eyes. "So he is doing what is right in his own eyes. He thought out the hell he wished to create; he built it up seri- ously and scientifically with his best hands and brains ; he breathed into it his own spirit that it might grow with his needs; and at the hour he i judged best he let it loose on a world ; that till then had believed there were ; limits beyond which men born of j woman dared not sin. I "Nine-tenths of the atrocities Ger- many has committed have not been â-  made public. I think this is a mis- i tiake. But one gets hint of them here jand there â€" Folkestone has had more ; than a hint. For instance, we were told the other day that 14,000 non- combatants, men, women and children, hati been drowned, burned or blown to pieces since the war began. I "But we have no conception â€" and ' till the veil is lifted after the war we ' shall have no conception â€" of the range I and system of these atrocities. Least i of all we shall realize, as they realize in Belgium and occupied France just across the river, the cold, organized miseries which Germany has laid upon the populations that have fallen into her hands, that she might break their bodies and defile their souls. This is , part of- the German creed. I "What understanding is possible ! with a breed that has worked for and brought about these things? Aftd as long as the Germans are left with any i excuse for thinking that such things j pay can any peace be made with them in which men can trust? None. "For it is the peculiar essence of German culture â€" which is the German religion â€" that it is Germany's moral duty to break every tie, every restric- tion, that binds man to fellow man if she thinks it will pay. Therefore, all mankind are against her. Therefore, all mankind must be against her till she learns that no race can make its way or break its way outside the borders of humanity." At the Factories . Where Postum is Made great numbers of the high-waged, skilled em- ployes buy and drink POSTUM A tribute, if you please, to honest materiala and sanitary surroundings in manufacture; but best of all a preference based on true knowledge of its healthfulness and attractive flavor. (< L There's a Reason" â€" at Grocers. The Weekly Fa.shions SMOKE TUCKETTS TSiCUT ii/ A dainty little dress for a dainty lit- tle girl. McCall Pattern No. 8170, Child'^ Dress. In 5 sizes, ti months to 6 years. Price, 10 centa. There is quite a vogue for the dresa that ties on. McCall Pattei-n No. 7901. Ladies' Tie-On House Dress. In 3 sizes, small, medium and large. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, ov from the J^cCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. GULLS AS FOOD FOR MAN. In Iceland Gull Flesh Forms Principal Wlhter Diet. "The flesh of gulls," says one of the best-known "Encyclopaedias," "is rank and course." So it if. You have only to shoot a gull and cook it to find tliat this is the case, and that as a dinner dish it is a complete failure. Yet in Iceland gull flesh is one of the principal winter foods of the peo- ple. There, in early summer, when the cliffs swarm with nesting gulls, parties are organized and men aie let down over the lofty precipice by ropes. They catch young gulls, which are as fat as butter, and send them up to the top In sacks. The moment they reach the top the birds are skinned. A great cauldron of boiling water is ready, and into this the bodies are dipped and held for a few seconds. This completely does away with the fishy taste, and the birds are then taken home and hung in smoke until they are thoroughly dried. When wititer comes they are cooked and eaten, and are as delicate as any chicken or game bird, but far more fat and noiirishlng. This spring it is expected that steps will be taken along the English coast to secure a good supply of young gulls, which will be treated in the Icelandic fashion. LEMON JUICE IS FRECKLE REMOVER. Girls! Make this cheap beauty lotion to clear and whiten your skin. Sciueezo the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, slialvo well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beauti- fier, at very, very .small cost. 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 ajid wliite the skin be- comes. Yes! It is harmless. - .â- V Great Lone Land. The biggest and lonest land on the globe is Siberia, of which at the pre- sent moment there is so much talk. i Anyone who would set about its con- I quest by uivasion would find the task a herculean one, for it contains near- ly five million square miles, and is about forty-ttvo times as big as the British Isles! In these vast spaces there is a popu- lation less than London contains by a couple of millions, and there are hun- dreds of thousands of square miles of territory where no human being is to be seen. The mighty rivers of Siberia are almost rendered useless by the fact that they flow mostly into the Arctic Ocean, and their lower courses are ice-bound during the greater part of the year, and their mouths arc at all times very difficult pf access. Aro- : tic Siberia is a vast country In itself, j but very inhospitixble. Nevertheless, ! under progressive government, it ', could, like the Great North-West of Canada, be opened up and largely eul- : tivated, and there ought to be a great I future for colonists if ever the condi- ' tions are brought under more enlight- ened influences. Siberia, it is said, is destined to be I the granary of the world; and the opening of the railway across its en- I tire breadth has certainly done much ; to develop its re.sotuces. ,>. ^. ; Mlnard's Unlmaat ILambcnnan'i Friend. THE LI'lTLE DUCHESS. Pathetic Story of a Victim of War's Cruel Experiences. The mascot of the First French Foreign Legion, says Mr. Sterling Ileilig, is a little girl nine or ten years old, wiry, plain-featured, with deep- sunk eyes, high, wrinkled forehead and a severe expression. The sol- diers found her guarded by an aged deerhouiid in a shell-torn part of northern France that had recently been held by t)ie Germans. A.s she was apparently deaf and dumb from the shock of her experiences, .she was unable to give any information about her.self or where she came from. Some of the men declared her to be a peas- ant child; but others insisted that she was a child of birth and title, lost from some northern chateau. "She eats like a lady," said one. "Let us see what she will do with a napkin." Somehow they managed to get half a dozen napkins, and luncheon was spread on the ground. The Little Duchess, as the soldiers called her, looked indifferently at the napkin be- side lier plate, and then, without haste or curiosity, placed it in her lap. Then one of the men tucked his under his chin and another tied his. about his neck. In two minutes they noticed that the Little Duchess had tied hers round her neck. "It was the tact of a lady," said one group of men. "Not to correct an- other or be different in small matters when you sit at his table shows that you are well-born." Then they tried her in the drawing- room of a ruined chateau. One of them led her to the sofa; the child did not stop there but seated herself com- posedly on a battered ottoman. "That settles it! Children in old French families are taught to sit upon such stools in the presence of their elders." "But no," was the reply. "In Bo- hemia well-brought-np children seek a stool when they sit in the presence of their eiders." Then a Frenchman motioned the little girl to the old piano. She sat on the piano stool, perplexed, troub- led, wrinkling her forehead. The hulking legionaires held their breath.' What strain of effoi't might there be to I'emember an elusive something, sweet and peaceful, far off, through a purgatory of confusion, fright, blood, hunger, loneliness and awful explo- sions that had hurt her poor head! Or had they merely set before a poor peasant 'child an impossible task ? One of the men started to rescue I her, but at that moment the child's I hands reached the keyboard, and she struck a chord, a single chord, but a true one. ' "That's enough for to-day!" they cried, and they all piled out of the gutted chateau into the springtime sunlight, laughing and petting the Little Duchess. I Since then the little girl has re- ' turned several times to the piano and | has played bits of tuneful exercises, i Of course she proved not to bo deaf and dumb at all. Her condition was the result of the terrible artillery con- j cussions and the nerve-racking scenes through which she had passed. She is learning to talk aguiti, aided by Hie rough legionaires, and sometimes she | learns ten new words in a morning; \ but the men will not let her bi' "push- ', ed" too rapidly. ! USE BRITISH BOOTS. U.S. .Soldiers Find Home Product Too Light for Battlefield. American soldiers in Europe arc wearing British boots. The boots provided by the military authorities have proved too light for the rough battlefields of the war zone. British army boots are of great strength and heavily ironed. They will stand heavy wear and tear and are specially designed for the ston'-s, mud and damp of the battlefield. The specifications for the boots sup- plied to the American forces have had to be modified and strengthened. Meanwhile pending the arrival of the new pattern the American Expedition- ary Forces will wear the British article. The British military authorities have placed 1.000,000 pairs of l*ots at their disposal and can supply further millions of pairs if necessary. There are ample resources to meet all new demands, and the present issue has been produced without tlie factories working overtime. ROYAIL ivu«fii:<*i i 1(11 WHlUSI. Il'-!l The best yeast in the Avorld. •r'-if vv iH(r. â-  -. - ' â-  -".Viin MADE ''^•'illl[!l COMPANY 11*"'' IN •-.>, *• * rQod. CANADA E.V/.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED ^ ^ WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT MONTREAL There are two kinds of tea: ordin- ary tea and Salada. Salada is more economical since it takes so much le.ss to make a satisfying infusion. New Law Enforced Several restaurant men who have either willfully or innocently ignored the regulations recently passed by the Canada Food Board covering the con- servation of food stuffs in public eat- ing places have been heavily fined. Soldiers' Rations Reduced. The shortage of wheat in France has become so serious that the bread ration of the French soldiers has been reduced. 18,000,000 bushels of wheat were promised Europe from North America per month. Since January 1st, the shortage has been 35.000,000 bushels, according to the Hon. Everett Colby, Senator for New Jersey, in his speech delivered at Ottawa the other day. MONEY ORDERS. It is always safe to send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. I was vei'y sick with Quinsy and thought I would strangle. I used MINARD'S LINIMENT and it cured me at once. I am never without it now. Yours gratefully, MRS. C. D. PRINCE. Nauwigewank, Oct. 21st. One pound more of wool, one dozen more eggs, on every farm of this coun- try will help to keep somebody from going cold or hungry. Minard's Iilnlinsnt used by Fhysiclana. A slice of lemon or a dash of vine- gar added when boiling meat or fish improves the flavor. FOB SAI.1: WEEKLY NEW.SP.'VrER IN WEST- ern Onturlo. Doinu a good busl- nees. Death of owner places It on tlie market. A jfreat ctmnce for a man witji cash. ."Vpply Box S2. Wlluon Publishing; Co I.lniKpd. Toronto. Some retired farmers are so tired of retiring, that they'll jump at the war call for more farm help. The country needs them all. WIJI.L EQtTIPPED NEWSr-AI'ER and job printlnjc plant In Eastern Oniarlo. Insurance carried tl.500. Will go for $1,200 on fiulck sale. Box 69« VVIlBon PMl.ll.''hlnB Co. T.trt Tor nnlo. USOSALANBOVS Keep Dflnard'* Zilniment in the home. Tie your coat to the implement seat so you will not get wet by the April showers when you are" on the far side of the field. g^AHCEn, TUMona. lumps, etc.. V,' Internal and external, cured with- out pain by our home treatment Wrlta US before too late Dr. IBellntan Medical Co.. Limited. Polllnirwootl f>nt. â€" o â€" o â€" o â€" o â€" o â€" o â€" U---0 â€" 0â€"0 Aek for Minard's and take ^o other. WITH THE FINGERS! SAYS CORNS LIFT OUT WITHOUT ANY PAIN O O 0â€"0 â€" o â€" o â€" o*--oâ€" o~o â€" o- Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can .shortly be lift- ed right out with the fingers if you will apply on the corn a few drops of freozone, says a Cincinnati autliority. At little cost one can get a small bottle of freezone at any drug store, which will positivel.\^ rid one's feet of everj' corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection, This new drug is an ether com- pound, and dries the moment it is ap- plied and does not inflame or even ir- ritate the surrounding ti.ssue. Just think! You can lift off your corns and calluses now without a bit of pain or soreness. If your druggist hasn't freezone he can easily get a small bot- tle for you from his wholesale drug house. OOW'T CIST OUT ip'^i^r'^l A Shoe BoiI,Cappe(i|'' '.^'^'^m Hock or Bursitis Climbing cutworms may eat out the buds on young or newly-set trees, if you don't watch nut. A little paper "fence" around each tree trunk- three inches high and not touching the trunkâ€" will prevent such damage. I Or use poisoned bait. This jwper- fence idea also works nicely as a pro- tection for cabbage and other plants set In the field. DEIIGHTTUI will reduce lliem and leave no hlemlslie,'« Stops lameness promptly. Does not blis-: ter or remove the hair, and horse can be, worked. S2.50aboldedeliveMd. Boilk 6 R (tea, ABSORBINli, JR., lor minkiiKi, die inuicpde tlntmrnl for Boill. Bruiici. Sorei, Swellingi, VxricoieVriw Allay) Pillnftn<llQ6Amiiiation, Trice ftt.CS a bottir at dniK4 fbis or adivtrcd. Wilt rcll you more if yoj write. W.F.Y0UNQ,P.D.F.,5tEtyiniiiis Oiilg.,Monlr«al.Ca»., Usorliiuc tai Absoftlai. Jr.. i|e mide la Ciatdlb/ Driving with STOPGLARE LENS SEND FOR ^ < nn '"E" '•A'" CIRCULAR enal'V/t/ ALL QIZES ALL SIZES â- :f; . -^tiyour dealers or dittict STOPGLARE LTD. HAMILTON, ONT How to Purify the Blood "Fifteen to thirty drops of « Extract of Roots, commonly 5 ckJlea Mother Sclgel's Curative ~ Syrap, rosy be token in water with meala and at bedtime, for tha cur* of iodisettion, consti- pation and bad blood. Persist- ence in this treatment will effect ?' a cure in nearly every case." Get the genuine at druggists. A Cuticura Heals Pimples On Face That Itched and Burned. Scratched Constantly. *'I had pimple* and blackheads on my face which were caused by bad blood. Tbey came to a head and were hard and red caus- ing disfigurement for the time being. They itched and burned so much that I constantly scratched and made them worse. ' "I Bent for a free sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and afterwards bought more. Now I am completely healed." (Signed) Miss Josephine A. Wetmore, 35 Sheriff St., St. John, N. B., Aug. 10, 1917. Keep your skin clear by using Cuti- cura for every-day toilet purposes. For Free Sample Each by Mail ad- dress post-card; "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. 8. A." Sold everywhere. The Te»(. Thi.s war will be the test of us. And kill some of the best of us, But make men of the rest of us, And leave no east or west of us. ED. 7. ISSUE 18c-' 18. iOHlNOCO "cut FINE FOR CIGARETTLS - CUT COAKSE FOR PIPE .â-  ..^...S