The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

The Latest Designs •^'j ®UcC«II> A novel feature ,is the sash ar^ fsnpeinent which \-\ a continuation of the revers which pass under the arms, and tie at the baclt. MeCall Pattern No. 82i)4, Misses' Dress. In 8 sizes, 16 to 20 years. Price, 25 cents. The Chineses blouse served as the inspiration for this charming creationi whose straight pleated skirt is attach- 1 ed to lining. McCall Pattern No. [ 8760, Girl's Dress. In 5 sizes, 6 to' 14 years. Price, 20 cents. j These patterns may be obtained!^ from your local McCuU dealer or from j ♦he McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto,! D«pt. W. Insects Have Distinctive Colors. Naturalists for a long time were It a loss to understand how it was ."hat insects were enabled to so quick- ly recognize an intruder among their family or settlement. It has been de- termined that lin most cases they recognize each other by smell. Among the bees each distinctive class of workers â€" the guard, the fanner, the pollen carrier, the wa.xmaker. the architect, etc. â€" has its own distinctive odor. And besides this, each bee has Its own separate hive odor, which is Its passport into its own particular home. Easily Diaested If your usual food doesnt digest easilu and tjou want Bt© salisfedion of a readij-to- eal cereal dish thai will provide easily c^gest- ible nourish- ment at low JSSIE No. 11â€" '!» CANADA HAS GREATEST OF DAMS ACBERTA STRUCTURE LARGER THAN FAMOUS NILE DAM General Scheme Provides for Irriga- tion of 1,2.';0,000 Acres â€" .\n Engineering MarveL | There has just been completed in the Province of Alberta, Canada, a monster dam. It can claim the dis- tinction of being the longest edifice of its kind an the world. Whereas the famous Assuan dam, in Egypt, has a total length along the crest of six thousajid four hundred feet, the new Canadian structure is no less than seven thousand eight hundred and twenty feet in length. But apart from its record in the matter of lengxh it has many notable features. It has been erected in con- nection with a colossal irrigation scheme, the largest individual project of this character that has been car- ried_ out on the American continent. While most irrigation projects have for their objects the obtaining of a Larger yield of cereals or fruit crops, : the Canadian enterprise is destined solely to increase the dairying and live stock output of the province. The scene of this latest triumph on \ the part of the irrigation engineer is Bassano, on the Bow River, some | eighty-five miles to the east of Cal- ' gary. Across this broad stream a i mighty dam has been thrown and the river brought under subjugation : for watering a huge tract of country. • The waters held up by this dam alone i irrigate, by means of two thousand! eight hundred miles of canals and dit- ches, four hundred and forty thous- and acres of land. To Irrigate 810,000 .\cres!. But included in the general scheme is the irrigating of a further tract of three hundred and seventy thousand acres by diverting the wat- ers of the river to another point, I making eight hundred and^ten thou- i sand acres in all. Shortly, too, these ^ acres will be increa^pd to over one million two hundred and fifty thou- â-  sand acres, providing homesteads on' rich irrigated land for thousands ofi setters. j The undertaking owes its inception! to the enterprise of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which owns some six million acres of the finest virgin land in the Prairie Provinces of Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which it received as a grant for the con- struction of its transcontinental line. Some three miljicn acres cf this land is in Southern Alberta, a great open i prairie plateau lying between the Bow River on the south and the Red Deer River on the north. Its surface is rolling, and its soil, consisting of heavy black loam and a clay subsoil, is excellent. | In order to encourage settlement on this land and, incidentally, provide freight for its line, the Canadian Pacific Railway determined to see what could.be done in harnessing the waters so that a regular and plentiful supply could be guaranteed to the farmer. First they carried out an exhaustive survey of the whole re- gion. This occupied several years,, an irrigation project demanding sur-' veys and e.xamination far more com- plete than those for a railway line. The engineers first traversed the re- 1 gion in all directions, taking mea- surements and noting the rises and fall of the land. They spent several months upon the ground, virtually dwelling in what was then a wilder- ness so far as anv hfe was concern- ed. They now gave theiir attention to the rivers. First they made a thorough examination of the Deer River and then the Bow River. They studied their banks, their beds, ascer- tained their volume, and the discharge, at a given point in the dry season and during flood. i AVonderful Ehigineering Feat j As a result of their surveys it was shown that the block, as the region was termed, naturally divided itself into three sections â€" the western, eastern, and central â€" of about one million acres each, and the work of developing them has been carried out in the order named. { In the western section three hun- ' dred and seventy thousand acres has been brought under irrigation by di- verting the waters of the Bow River at a point just outside the city of^ Calgary. Hei-c , a canal, seventeen miles in length, sixty feet w'd^ at the bottom and one hundred and twenty feet wide on the water level, carries the precious fluid to a great lake three miles long, half a mile wide, and forty feet dee^. It is vir- tually a natural depression, but has been "strengthened by a large earthen dam. From this reservoir water is car- ried to the hundreds of farms by one thousand and six hundred miles of secondary canals and ditches. The engineers' real difficulties, however, began when they tackled the eastern section, for it was here where the great dam is situated. It was not a question of merely diverting the wat- ers of the ri\-er into another channel, but of first curbing the stream and then raising the level of the river over forty feet, and controlling the flow. This was accomplished by the erection of a great composite dam across what is known as Horseshoe Bend on the Bow River. " There is no engineening work that demands such careful pi-eliminary investigations as dam-building, par- ticularlv when it comes to the stor- age of a large body of water. For dams do burst with terrible conse- quences. Accordingly, the earthen embank- ment, which is some seven tho-.isand feet in length, 's of a parti.'ularly massive character. .-\t its base it is three hundreil and fifty feet thick, and cont.Hins about ono million cubic vavds of earth, rubble and atop-- THE GOLDEN COW. Lost Wedding Ring R:covered After Five Yean. A Godstoae, Surrey (Englandj. lady has just di»covered her wedding rinfr. which disappeared fire or sis years ago while she waa feeding a calf. It was thought the animal had swalloweil the ring, and as it could not be found the calf faecams known as "th? golden cow." A few days ago the cow was pur- chased and killed by an Oxford butch- er, who, being informed of the lost ring, made a search, and discovered the ring embedded in an Intamal or- gan. The ring has been restored to the owner. It Works! Try It Tells how to loosen a sore, tender corn so it lifts out without pain. Good news spreads rapidly and drug- gists here are kept busy dispensing freezone, the ether discovery of a Cin- cinnati man, which is said to loosen any com so It lifts out with the Qngers. Ask at "any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone. which will cost very little, but Is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft com or callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching com and instantly the soreness Is relieved, and soon the com is so shriveled that tt lifts out with- out pain. It iB a sticky substance which dries when applied and never Inflames or even irritates the adjoin- \ziA tissue. This discovery will prevent thou- sands of deaths annually from lock- jaw and Infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. ! Two Caldwell Water Tube Boilers, 22.5 H.P. each. Infor- mation en request, or may be seen in operation at Firsthrook Bros., Ltd., 2»3 King St. E., Toronto. SHIP LOSS AL.\RMS HUNS Shipping Companies Declare They Are Now at Mercy of .\liisa. Ham'ourg and Bremen are in a state of growing panic over the sur- render of the German merchant fleet to the Allies. The Hamburger Beit- rage, the official organ of the Hun shipping industry, declares that Ger- many's armii-tice negotiators must bend every energy to secure the eventual return of the fleet. The organ continues: 'â- Unless this is done, we shall be at the absolute mercy of the Allies n respect of imports and exports. If they insist that every ton of damage caused by our L'-'ooat war shall be made good by a Garman equivalent, i.e., by the handing over of German shipping to a corresponding amount the only solution will be the one pro- posed by Albert Ballin shortly before his death â€" Genr.an s-hipyards must build new ships for the Allies, but â- existing German tonnage mast be wholly or in part restored to Ger- many." BIT5 OF HU FRCM}JERt6Tli£a5 xxra >oui.T»i wAJm». WE BUY ALL KINDS LIVE POUL- try. pay highest prices, prompt returna. Write for prl..B». T Wtrinrauob * S<in. li-H St. Jean Baptists Market Montreal. Que. AQEVra WAWBS. eimsiiiAVtWAVY, THICK, eiOSSf Hll'l Kvi Up-tu-Date Pupil. Teacher â€" Name the five zones. Pupil â€" Temperate, intemperate, war, postal, and o. Big Banking Crisis. Neighbor â€" "Got much money in your bank, Bobby?" Bobby â€" "Gee, no! The depositors have fallen off somethin' fierae since sister got engaged." j Disposing of "Poem.'.' [ Teacher â€" "In px-rsing the :zntence, i •The poem was long,' what do you del with 'poem?' " | Johnny (editor's son) â€" "Put it in' the waste basket." I i ^t*. a New Idea to Him. ; "Now, Lieutenant Tompkins," said the general, "you have the battalion \ in quarter cohimn. facing south â€" ^how i would you get it into line in the quick est possible way, facing north-east? "Well, sir," said the lieutenant, after a moment's fruitless considera- tion, "do you know, that's what I've often wondered." PORTRAIT .\;KNr.S WA.N'TINa go'iii prints: (IntHhinK a speclaity: .ramea and everythinif at lowent prtcm: guirk service. United A.-t Company. 4 Krun»wl.-k .\v», T'-ront'i FOB OAZ-B WELL EQUIiTED .NEWSPAPKa and fob printlnB plant In Eaotem Cciarlo. In»urance carried Jl.SOO. Will «o for H.2f)j on oulck ta.U Bo« U. «"-in Ptihltshlne Co T.t<1 Tnnn'o ..-! Agriculture in Canada is fn need of a leader who can rally around him the representatives of all branches of the industry, and present a solid front on all questions of agricultural interest. We have been using MIN.\RD'S LINIMENT in our home for a number of years and use no other Liniment but MINARD'S, and we can recom- mend It highly for sprains, braises, pains or tightness of the chest» sore- ness of the throat, headache or any- thing of that sort. We will not be without It one single day, for we get a new bottle before the other is all used. I can recommead it highly to anyone. JOHN W.\LKFIELD. LaHave Islands, Lunenburg Co., N.S. In 1917 the 400 co-operative asso- ciations of Saskatchewan had a turn- over of over 54.000,000. Reports so far received indicate that this record has been exceeded for 1918. Save your hair ! Double beauty in a few moments- try this: its aciajurd'l Iilsimeat for sale everywhere. If ycu care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable soft- ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try ; Danderine. 1 Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it im- mediately dissolves «very particle of dandruff ; you cannot have nice, heavy healthy hair if you have dand- ruff. This destructive scurf robs the ; h^r cf its lustre, its strength and Its very llf«, and if not overcome it pro- duces a feverlshness and Itching of the scalp: the hair roots famish. Iqosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and is thin, faded, dry. scraggy or too oily, get a small bottle of Knowlton's Dan- derine at any drug store or toilet counter for a few cents; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after yon will say this was the best investment you ever made. ^ We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and lots of It â€" no dandruff â€" no itching scalp and no more falling hair â€" you must use Knowlton's Danderine. If eventually â€" why not now? Doing His BiL The old Scot â€" Ay, my boys, they've a' done their bit tae help tae win the war. There's Wullie, he was in Mes- pitamia, an' Ji.t.mie, he was in Salon- iky, an' Tam, he was mine-sweepin'; ' an' wee Jock, he's jist seven past. j Lady visitor â€" But J :ck i-an't havo \ joined yet? The old Scot â€" No I but he earned yin and saxpence a wee's for sleepin' ; wi' an auld wife that was frichted o' Zeppelins. Couldn't Stump Him. The sergeant major had the repu- tation of never being at a loss for an answer. A youn-g officer made a bet w.ith a brother officer that he would in less than twenty-four hours ask the sergeant major a question that would baffle him. \ The sergeant major accompanied the young officer on his rounds, in the course of which the cookhouse was inspected. Pointing to a large kettle of water just commencing to boil, the officer said: i "Why does that water only boil ^ round the edge of the copper and not i in the centre?" I "The water around the edges, sir." ; replied the veteran, ".is for the men on guard; they have their breakfast half an hour before the remainder of the company." \V^FEKLT .NEWSP.\PER KOK %KLM TT 1" .New Ontario Owner coins to rranca WIIJ sell IJ.0OO. Worth doubU that amount Apnlv J H.. c'o WUaoa rubli»hlnr Co I-lmlt»>1 Toronto MISCgI.I.AgEOtTa CA.NCER. TUilOKa. LLMPa. ETC Internal and external cured wltH- cut pain by our home treatmenL Wrlt» ua before too late. Dr Uvllman Uedlcal Cc . Limited. CollinKWOod. Ont. AUTO TIRES. 30 X Ik AUTO TIRES. * 11.25. TubBS 11.65. All sizes cut rate prices. Rlverdaie Garage & Rjfaber Co., Oerrard and Hamilton Sts.. Toronto, a nd 728 Dcrciiester St. West. M.intreaL WRITE TWO PAGES WITH ONE 'ilp of pen. Inkspoon does it; fits '^nv pen. silv.;r-pliiLed. sample by mail, te.T cents. J. \v. F:tZB%raid. Dept. E. \:\ Fu::o.". â- *â- . anue. Turjnto. Soldiers and the Battlefields. Banlefield touring, curiously enough, seems to 'oe becoming popu> lar among the troops in France as a means of passing the time until gen< eral demo'Dilization is ordered. Tin soldiiers are invariably interested in the sectors of the front other than those which were the scenes of their own exploits. A system of short leaves has been aut.horized, and lor- ries detailed for the tours. Ypres, Messines. .A.rra3, and -Albert, are eas- ily first as sight-seeing centres, but places of lesser fame, such as Bois- inghe and Wood 1.5, Hois Grenier, Combles and La Prie Farm, Epehy, and Bousies. are all claiming their crowds. Xlnard'B Xdnimest Cures SandnS. To make a paint brush as soft and clean as new, no matter how hard it has become, simply bo'l it in water in which a little lye has been put. A little washing powder or soap will d<vbut it will take longer. The boiLmg water should be no deeper than the length of the bristles, as the boiling suds will injure the handle. KNOCKS OUT PALN THE FIRST ROUND Comforting relief from pain makes Sloan's the World's Liniment Most city people are country peo- ple come to town. IClaard'B Uniuent Believes UTearalcl'^ Every job better than the last one â-  that is good farming. A TRAIL ACROSS THE ROCKIES The first trip over the Simpson Pass through the Canadian Pacific Rockies was made by Sir George Simpson. Governor of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, in 1S41, and formed part of the first recorded overland tour round the world, that is to say across the North American Continent, and by way of Siberia and Russia, occupying about nine months, and the subject of con- siderable literature, Jim Brewster, the famous guide and outfitter at Banff, discovered the fallen tree on the sum- mit of the Pass on which the travel- lers left their record. Fired by the ambition to cross this pass. I set out one day last summer, with two guides, ten ponies and camp- ing outfit and supplies for six or seven days. Jim Brewster sent these over from Banff to Invermere at the head- waters of the Columbia Valley, where I had promised to wait for them. Close to Invermere are the remains of Kootenai House, an outpost of the Nor' West Trading Company estab- lished by David Thompson in ISOS. Now there Is a comfortable little tourist hotel, much appreciated by motorists who use the excellent Gov- ernment road through the Upper Columbia Valley. On our first day's ride we stopped off for a swim at the hot radium-water springs of Sinclair Canyon, where St. John Harms worth, brother of the famous Lord Northcliffe. fimd himself proprietor of the still more famous Perrier water, built a concrete bath- ing pool under the springs which pours its naturally warm water out of the rock. .\t night we found shelter in a houjesteader's. cabin, the owner of which was away at the war and hospitable enough to leave the latch loose. Next day we were In the forests of the Kooteuay â€" a wonderful resort for big game. Judging by the ti-acks we saw and the animals we even met two black bear and a deer on the trail with moose paths worn deep like small Devonshire lanes along the meadows beside the river. The Kootenay River had a rather bad reputation. Two parties were drowned in the attempt to make the crossing at the same time last year, and we ourselves had been warned to postpone our trip. However, we found a ford where we did not even havo to swim cur horses, and next day wei-e on the banks of the Vermil- lion River. Into the Vermillion pours the raging torrent cf the Simpson. which itself is fed from the melting glaciers of the snow-clad Rockies high above. At least one cyclone seemed to have swept down its valley, and the river itself had washed away several corners so that our trail had to be made, or found anew on many a mile. ".A.bout seven hours of hard work brought us to the height of land, the hinge as it were between the eastern and western waters. We breakfasted on the level isthmus, which did not exceed fourteen paces in 'width, filling our kettles for this one lonely meal ar once from the crystal scuixes of the Columbia and the Saskatchewan, while these willing feeders of two op- posite oceans, murmuring over their beds of mossy stones, as if to bid each other a long farewell, could hardly fail to attune our minds to the sublimity of the scene. '•But between these kindred foun- tains, the common progeny of the same snow wreaths, there was this remarkable difference of temperature that the source of the Columbia showed 40 degrees, while that of the Saskatchewan raised the mercury to oS'-s degrees, the thermometer mean- while striking as high as 71 degrees in the shade. "From the vicinity of perpetual snow, we estimated the elevation of the i^eight of land to be seven or eight tho.jand feet above the level of the sea, while the surrounding peaks ap- peared to rise nearly half that alti- tude above our heads." We ourselves found the snow all gone and our horses found sweet and ample pasture on an .\lpine meadow. As we looked back from the Great Divide upon the mountains of the Sel- kirks. we had as fine a panorama as any artist could desire â€" rugged out- lines capped and fringed with perpet- ual snow. The fishing, I may say in passing. which one gets on such a trip, is of the very best. Every creek, every pool seems to be stocked with trout, all inquisitive about the nature of the fly. l?row11 Hackle and Gray Hackle are always deadly. The red files such as rarniachene Ueilo do not seem to take so well in thcae waters. There were both Dolly Vardeu and Steel- head to our credit on the Simpson, ave!;iging a little over a pound, lu Ihc Kocte:'.;iy the trout ran up to two und three pounds and were very game, though shy in the middle of the day.-- J. M. G. FIGHTING LONDON FOGS New Invention V.ill Aid in Discovery of Adequate Mean£. Efforts to find a means of clear^.^.g the air of fogs have been advanced considerably 'oy the production- of an apparatus whiA, it is claimed, mea- sures exactly the constituents of fog. The device is the invention of Dr. John S. Owens, of the Atmospheric Pollution Research Department of the Meteorological Office. It draws in a volume of fog, retains and mea- sures all the jimpurities, and dis charges the pure air. Soot and tar have been found predominant. "Hitherto the difficulty in devising a means of fighting London fogs has been the absence of data concerning: the proportions of impurities in the air," said an authority. This famous reliever of rheumatic aches, soreness, stiffness, painful sprains, neuralgic pains, and most ether external twinges that humanity suffers from, enjoys its great sales because it practically never fails to bring speedy, comforting relief. -•Uways ready for use. it takes little to penetrate u:\thout rubbing and pro- duce results. Clean, refreshing. Made in Canada. At all drug stores. A large bottle means economy. *i.::o. MONEY ORDERS. .\ Dominion Express Money Order for five dollars costs three cents. Try to Avoid This Error. "We had to stop our little girl answering the front door calls." "Why?" "The other day when Ensign Jones came to call on our eldest daughter he was dressed in his white uniform, and when the little one opened the door and saw^ him she immediately called upstairs: 'Ma. how much bread do vou want to-day?' " ' Constipalion Cure A druggist »ay$ : "For nearly thirty years 1 have commended the Extract of Roots, known as Mother Sc igel's Caraiive Syrup, for the radical cure of constipation and indigestion, it is an old reliable remedy thai never fails to do th« work." 30 drop* thrice daily. Get the Genuine, at druggists. a mnard's I^inlmeBt Cnrea Bnras, BTo. Polly stopped for breath and Mrs. West's face cleared. Two carloads of flaxseed have been ' shipped from the Tilbury district to ' Belfast. Ireland. j Serious complaints are arriving ! ; from England as to the wasty and ' generally bad condition of Canadian apples shipped there. ^ ASTHMA INST.ANTLY RELIEVtD WITH OR HONEY aEFt)'--0ED..4SK ANY OftUCfilST tr write '.j.-.iii>-N«Oi ^'c . « .'..ir«i,, P.Q. pncsSOc Rcmrmtjr; trie aimt n -I ,-a';^T njt t»e »<«.-. i-»in Let Cuiicura Soothe Your Itching Skin Nothing pnrer, sweeter or more effective for rashes, itchings and ir- ritations. The Soap to cleanse and purifv, the Ointment to soothe and heal.' They prevent skin tn.<uMes if used for everv-day toilet purpi.ises. For free samples address: "Cuti« cur«, Dept. ISf, Boston, U. S. A." Sold by dealers thaiu^houttheworld. DISEASE AMONG HORSESâ€" THE ANSWER 18 Spohn's Distemper Compound 'v\ ii-.': fv^i- •,:,•.<; :.•! L'i..;;ui;i J'.iS or Infei-tloas '.i.--.\i -•> .':aoni| horse-* sroUN'S is> the solution of a!I trouble. tflVUN*S is li»aJuah> in i,\\ ta..** of DISTEMPER. PINK KYB. lNFl.rE.NZ.\, COl'OHS and TOLl)?. .\ few drops a d»y will i)rote<-t > vur horse exposed to disease. KcKular doB«» three tt;ti€.>! a day will au;t niarveloualy on your )i«ra* actually sIcH. S?OHN ^'SO'.CAL COMPANY, Goshen, Indiana. U.&Ai ittrrisMirMii