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TERRIBLE TORTURE WITH ECZEMA
Leg Broke Outin Raw Patch, Caused Terrific Pain. Itched ferribly Dur ing Sleep. Spread Rapidly. Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Healed.
03. Acacia Ed.. Walthamstow, Easer. Ing.-"The complaint was ons of the types of eczema. It ainted by a small pimple. which festored, then broke and spread to the dzo of a periny. The back of my leg broke out into a raw pauch end on gettfog dry would leave gaping cracks which caused terride pain while walling and used to ich terribly during my sleep. I used to scratch and wake up with it perfectly row. It began to spread more rapidly and I suffered terrible tortUKO. would constantly scratch.
s while walking; it was us if rod hot irons were burning the flesh.
A friend of mine seeing the agony I was In recommended Cotteur Roap and Oint- 1 sent for a sample of cach. The tritation rapidly decreased and after seeing and feeling she relief obtained I purchased more. Now after a month's treatment. Culleurs Soap and Olotment havo cured, my . Is renewod and still remaining dear." (Signed) A. Norris, Jan. 22, 1914. Cutleura Boop and Ointment have proved most valuable for the trypstment of pinglas, blackbewis, redness and roughness of the face and bands, dandruff, itching, irritated scalpe with dry, thin and fliing hair, "as well as for-all purposes of the toilet, bath. and nursery from infancy to ago.
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A DEATH SENTENCE.
WAR NEWS.
GENERAL SARRAIL AND KING CONSTANTINE.
During his conversation with the King, Generaj Sirtual showed the the military nesisures taken by the Allies were irresi-
Waltor Larking" Wal" his friends ni The medical school called] hin--was in hi ari- ous mood. They were in the Garner's Aras --a section of which they had come to re. gard na prculiarly their own, "Do you know," said one of the company, Wattibly imposed by the situation, and, he looks like an old yetoran. He has the same ventured the opinion that the King his f placid look, firm mouth, strong faces as the similar circunstances would have done Feroes who, say, fought, in the Crimea and
he same. No measure taken at Salonika "I suppos Larking laughed,
F elsewhere, whatever its nature. 128 there is something in it,' he said. "My
saken with the object of forming Greece to bandon her neutrality. Greces was fren grandfather was in the charge of Balaclava and survived, Ons Guds the fighting spirit act according to her interests and to
follow the policy which suited her. in ono's blood. Now, after another whisky,
That was why, while recognizing and They laughed uproariously. Greek factor and the brave Greek Army Health to Wal, the direct descendant of the Alice took their witary mensurs as a hero of the Crimea," one of them exclaim the Greek factor might fail them. This d. Nine glasses were raised, nine voices military measures of the Allie were never shouted a gusly God health," and nine intended to wand the susceptibilities of glases clashed down on the table to bo im-reck national sentient or Greco's mediately replenished.
They took Sovereign, whose grong ability all admired
and recognized,
LIGHTS OUT!
THE NIGHT OF A ZEPPELIN RAID IN A MUNITION FACTORY,
[UY MONICA COBENS.]
Clank Clank Can
GERMAN COLONIES IN THE PACIFICA
The series of articles on the "Econouilo Resources of the German Colonies in the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute is com- eluded in the current number with, an article cu Germany's recent possessions in the Pacific. The article deals with (1) The metallic sound of a bainair coming Germna New Guinea Pratretorate, which down on steel,
includes German New Guinea, tho Bis- marck Archipelago and two Isands of the Tho Solomon group; and (2) Samına, article also contains a summary of the trade of all the German Colan al possessions in the Pacific, while, for the sake of complete- ness few notes are added on Kinochow,
Germany.
Whirr Whirr! Whirrrr! The sound of six-inch belting whizzing round driving wheels turned by electricity
"Pils up the munitions!" And the com, end is being fulfilled. Every worker straining her utinost,
I would undortako ti tackle any man in thegically appreciating the utility of the night comes the shriek of the hooter. So which was the only Asintio Dependency of
crowd,"
ed on Larking in a now light from that moment, He had been silent concerning his people, They knew that they were poor, and he had not been particularly popular owing to his self-contained habits. Tonight he had let himself go," and wry one of his eight companions grasped his hands, and he was "discovered.... "Hong it all!" said Care, the wealthiest man of the company of students, the grandson of a man who has fought for his country is. By the way is your grand- father at'll living "No" replied Lark- .ing. "He died some time ago, I --"
They turned on other subjreta,
II.
Then on the quiet air of a dark, mionless of the haters cease to clank. Some of the workers have heard that ensinous sound Thoy stop to listen, They hear it again. And then-again.
rubber, gata percha, (nea, ivory nuts and The principal plant products are copra, Sisal hoop. Activity in the collection of Before it dies away the fights are gut rubler and gutta percha is very slight in and the whirr of the machinery fules until comparison with the resturens available. A it stops and all its quiet.
valuable export trade is done in birds-of- A moment's pause while everyone is lis-paradise skins, which native hunters aro General Surrait explained, as a soldier toning unconsciously for the sound of the employed by the European gold-prospectors so a soldier, the work accomplished to ren-Zeppe in overhead. Instead come the sten-end small planters to collect. Among s der Salonika impregnable ga
dear
products are turtle shell and tropeng. answers to questions and deared up
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torian tones of the foreman's voice, which veral matters which had been the seg out through the black' and silen, fac- of various in sunderstandings. Ho conclud-Stand by your machines!
his audience of the King by expressing A friend feels in the darkness for the the hope that in future similar misunder-friend who is on the machine next to her. standings and other difficulties might h avoided
LIBERALISM AND THE NEW CONDITIONS,
Is it Zeppelins ↑ "
4 They say a fuss has failed
zt.
But I thought I heard the signal."
The chief mineral product of the German Pacific Islands is pho plate, Nantu and Ocean Island in the Marshall group are estimated to contain not less than 50.000.000 tons of phosphate rock. At Angur Island in the Pellew group there are estimated to be 2,500,000 tons of jho phate cock. Lolas exports of phosphate from Nauru ipally to Australia, New Zealand and apa, were valued at about a quarter of a
The
Then comes a quiet procession from the far end of the factory posing down the Angaar in 1912, which went prin-
BITOW
"stroots" littered with shek's. barrows, tools, left as they were being used when the Eghts went out, picking its way by the light of an eletrie torch which flashes here and there.
The leader tells each airl as she passes a rather scared little voice:
The foreman says we're to go into the canteer..!!
So the quiet procession wends its way out of the factory into the dimly lighted canteen. No one sprake much, and when one does it is more or less in a whisper.
ZEPPELINS ARE ABOUT.”
Mr. E. S. Mcatagu, M.P., presiding at the annual meeting of the West Cambridge A bara in Flanders-action of the hire Liberal Association, emphasised the field hospital of the R.A.M.C. There were no for an open mind on the fiscal ques ten beds, and in charge of them was Lieut.
tion after the war. He said: It is not a Walter Larking. He had a busy time, and part of Liberalism not to recognize altered his face was white and drawn, when, wellnditions and circumstances. Wu, in the on in the evening, Major Light drove up a treated all nations as nearly ns wo in his car He was a surgeon of distinc could equally. But look and so the use. tion. They know him well in the Mount Germany made of her trade and ask your Green Hospital, where he was the last velves whether we can ever afford or dare to word" in certain types of diseases, Larket that happen again. (Cheers.) Another Tag met him and saluted, "You look tired equally important subject is State owner- said Major Light. The work is a bit hp and State control. There are certain The canteen-a long, narrow room with heavy, eh? No, sir," replied Larking. arge enterprises which the Government narrow white tables is lighted with: can- But I have just performed an operation have had to take over during this war,dles placed in saucers. Candles are pry- and the patient was, well, a here. He was One sees the old competition between rail-mitted here because the windows are closely wounded in..
He talked in medi-way and railway under the control of a shutter. But the great glass globes in caf fashion and then went on: "We had Committee of their own set up under a the ceiling are empty, for it is Lights run short of næsthetics. But the brave Government Department. It is not possibly out!” here as well when the Zeppelins are follow lighted a cigarette.
Get on with now to fonu a judgment on the question, about.
but wo know more about State control and The girls seat theme you at the tables The man is
candleight flickers and dances, reflecting on the facts of the girls besmudged with grease and dirt.
lion pounds sterling, Gold, copper, coal, graphite and bil occur, but have not yet been found in epunereinl quantities,
The former German Pro'cetomte of Kino- chow has an actual area of 193 square miles, A farther zone of neutral territory with an area of about 2,750 square miles como with- in the German sphere of influence. Tho chief agriculural products are barley, mil- lat, wheat, beans, ground nute, fruits, sweet potatoes and tobacco.
TALKS WITH APES.
PROFESSOR TO LIVE IN A STEEL CAGE,
Prof. Richard L. Carner of New York, who several years ago made a study of the language of the ape, in the African forests, will suun again take up his temparaty resi-
to resume his scientific studies of the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Mr H, W. R gera, Jr. | it, sir,' he said, and he never flinched: The ownership than we did in the past, and we covered with American cloth on which the donce in a steel cage in the Coago region
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hero, But it hay unnerved me. You under-must, re uns der our opinion when we get stand, air?'" Major Light nodded. leisure. Let us all try to evade controversy “I understand quite well,” ho said. Then for the present, and let us, no doubt under he called to someone in his car "Take great provocation, keep cool and choose the charze," he said. Lieutenant Larkingen whom we can trust to form our Govern- meds a rest" He beckoned Larking toment, Gel r'd of them if you do not trust follow him into the car, and they drove of them, but do not hamper them from day to together.
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"Can you hear the trains running?'' "No.
I can't."
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And then from someone giving cousola- tion;
Why, they put the lights out when they're fifty miles away !'' III,
BULGARO-GERMAN AMENITIES.
And the same speaker, just to chov her Lieutenant Larking has had a trying
more nervous mate now little she cares about time," said Major Light He was speak Bulgarian deserters, who still continue to
the Zeppelina. takes out a paper and ing ati
thefts of the officers of the arrive at Sabnika in detachments of 10 or drawing the candle aer, bends her hack, R.A.M.C., at the base. His nerves have more at a time, report that relations arly head over ig and reads the sering ato y noi yeu "Lieutenant Larking, patecoming more and more strained between through from the title in its hig, black and vrembling, bent his head, Too high their fellow countrymen and the Germans gul italics at the end To ha
kers Man's Darkest Hour to tho praise," continued. Major Light, thiorenys Mr. Ward Price writing from tinged;" be given to our mes on the battlefield, and Saloniku).
he towered his yo'ce" to those who come into our hands afterwards, But I should like Lieutenant Lerking to hear a story, if I may He looked round. There was a muur of approval. “I think it way
trengthen him, help him to endure, want to tell him about the bravest man ever met."
Major Light paused and glanced at the young oficer, whose head
Somebody in a corner faints. But there Recently says a sergeant major of the 8this no panic. She is attended to by the Artillery Regiment, which is at Monastir, trained nurse who is always in attendanes. there was a proposal made by the Germa is Perhaps some others are feeling faint, for ihat large detachments of the Bulgariaa the room is hot, and there are 300 peop.o Army should be sent to Russia and France in it. A canteen worker brings round some It had to be abandoned in face of the re- newspaper screwed up in the shape of sentment caused among the soldiers, who fans and hands them to the girls. One cr openly proclaimed that they have done all two begin to cry. But in every group that their duty requires in the present war there is always someone who is stronger
Less than a fortnight ago a party of men than the others. story that I hope will stimulate you all belonging to this deserter's regiment were It should help Lieutenant Larking," Lark on to the village of Trun, near Monastir, ing looked up. His fans was still pale and
to bring back some hay. On arriving there drawn, but a ghost of a saile appeared they found that the hay had been requisi- for a passing moment. "I suppose" hrtioned by the Germam, who had get a guard said, "I was foolish but I am new to the work. The man was so brave, smoked a cigarette, and
had sunk over his folded aris, "It is a
IV.
over it. The Bulgarian officer in command of the party ordered his men to take the hay. Upon this the Geras guard attempt ed to prevent them and, again on the com "I was the house surgeon in the Mount and of the officer, Bulgarian artillerymen Green Hospital," said Major Light, "when he five Germans with their revolvers.
Out of 780 horses belonging to this artil an old man was brought in. He was a dears lery regiment, consisting of six batteries, old fellow, with cheeke bronzed by foreign 140 have died for want of food, and the rest climes, with-old as he was a wealth ofare in such a poor condition that double white hair that hung over his neck: Hems are necesary to draw the guns. had done diughty deeds for his King and
An order for the Bulgarian troops to be Country, one of the type who in old dressed in German uniforms was counter Roman times passed by the Tribune shout-manded three days after it began to be car- ing, I have fought for Romo.'
I was rod out, and the German officers attached interested in him, and inquired about his trouble. He pointed to a spot. It mayn'e withdrawn.
to the 5th Infantry Regiment have been be much,' he said; "I don't think it is But perhaps you can tell me.'. I looked
Given you much trouble?
I
PRINCE NICHOLAS APPEAL.
it. nsiced, Yes, bittle,' he replied, and I
The Tempa pablishes a letter by Princo thought it might be something you can Nicholas of Greece (brother of King Con- remove. As I told you, I was interestedstantine), in which he recalls the food that, Me & Man F. B. J. Mm J. A Martin and in him, and made a detailed examination, wh le Greece has remained neutral, she has Then I summoned the operator who used never declared that she would never at any the Finsen fight. He spoke to me, I thick price depart from her neutrality. it may be serious,' he said. I caled an
On no occasion, when approached on the other surgeon. We talked together so that subject did Greece put forward oxng- our patient could not understand, To him.gerated claims as the price of her on opera it was so much jargon, You must come tion. M, Gounaris, the former Premier, again, I said to him presently. Further enly asked that the territorial integrity of examination is essential.'
the kingdom should be respected until peso "Gentlemen, I shall never forget what was concluded. But this casdtion was not followed. The old follow drew himself up. accepted such a promise being considered Tell me, sir, he said, is it-cancer! 1st the time as likely to alienate Bulgaria, hesitated to reply. But he inquired again. But in Greece there exist only two currents Is it tell me I am not a child. Is iof opinion, the one anxious to enter the -1 I am afraid so, I replied. Then struggle on the side of the Entente, the the old man drew himself up and saluted. other in favour of neutrality. No one in Mr & Mrs Viviano, air. Again he gainted; and walked the country should take part in the war It is my death sentence,' he said. "Thank Griese has ever expressed the opinion that Dan Findley Smith Mr&Mr David Wood that he was the bravest man I ever met,
out, I never saw him again. But I do say on the side of the Central Empires.
Prines Nicholas then refers to Greece's engagements to Serbia, and attempts to "Would you like to know the hero's prove by the arguments already so often put forward that the Grego-Berbian Treaty name "Major Light addressed Larking,was exclusively a Balkan one and had no who had been looking at him throughout application in the event of a European with pale, sot face. Larking nodded. "His выше was John Walter Larking-your grandfather" He looked at Lieutenant have been cast upon the good faith and He protests against the doubts which
Evening Standard.
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He will attempt to increase his vocabu- iry of words used by the apes and will carry phonograph -rwords to record the | language of monkeys. The scientist will con truet n cage of steel rods enc3nied by a netting of steel wire, on a pineapple plantation in the Laka Fernandez basin, about two degrees zouth of the equator anl 150 miles from the cons. The cage will be covered with branches and leaves, and Prof. Garner will live in it while pursuing his studies-Reuter,
SAYS NO ONE NEED REMAIN THIN NOW.
PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE FOR THIN, UNDEVELOPED MEN AND WOMEN:
Yet their
Thousands of people suffer from exces sive thinness, wenk nerves and feeble atomincha who having tried advertised stunts and rub-on creams, resign them- flesh-makers, food-fads, physical culture selves to life-long skinniness and think nothing will make them fat. Cryin' 'Ere don't yor be a cock-eyed case is not hopeless. A recently discover- onion. Them ole Germans couldn't 'urt vered regenerative foroo makes fat grow if they tried!" spoken roughly but with after years of thinness, and is also great deal of sympathy and feeling.
unequalled for repairing the waste of So the tears pass,
strengthening the nerves, sickness or faulty digestion and for
This remark able discovery is called Sargol. Six strength-giving, fat-producing elements of
A canteen worker comes round with a biscuit in full of oranges.
"Doesn't "Two a penny!" she says. anyone want an orange ?"
Here and there one will be bought. B acknowledged merit have been combined many of the girls sit with their faces endorsed by eminent physicians and wed in this poerless preparation, which is buried in their hands. To most of them by prominent people everywhere. It is oranges seem out of place when Zeppelins absolutely
are about.
efficient armless, inexpensive and DEFIANCE IN THE AIR.
Á month's systematic use of Sargol From one table in the contre there rises should produce flesh and strength by the chorus of "Tipperary." It is no correcting faults of digestion and y hysteria perhaps from shoer bravery of blood. sung-defiantly. Ferhaps prompted by supplying highly concentrated fats to the Increased nourishment is Epirit Gradually it is taken up, and hi- | obtained from the food eaten, and tho for the last line is reached the whole room additional fats that thin people need are 1 singing it. Some keep accompaniment provided. with their feet. Some jump up and dance; A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., Some are shouting unnecessarily loudly, The first feeling of awe bas passed and there is an atmosphere of defiance in the air.
"They're a d—— ruisance, that's what they are, interferin' with my bonus !"
Then the whisper of a more plaintive
spirit:
“I wish they'd let us go tome. I'd much rather be at 'one with mother than cooped uplere" the thinking of a bell and
Oa top
of
that
VICTORIA DISPENSARY; THE PHARMACY,
QUEEN'S DISPENSARY,
THE EDWARD DISPENSARY. and other leading Chemists supply Sargot end say there is a large demand for it.
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LIGHTS: UP.”: The concert has lasted three hours now, a grey-haired woman--the head of the can- and the audience, as well as the per- teen workers, very mall and fragilo-look-formers, are tired. The singing becomes ng but with a power behind her much desultory. stronger than herself-souncing:
**Someone will sing a song in which you can join in the chorus."
The song 18
y
When Irish eyes, are smiling. The concert starts, and once it starts it swinging
The Belgians at their table start "La Brabancone." It from the girls for a few minutes. Then it flags.
A foreman appears in the doorway. A canten worker speaks with him. Ati eges are turned suspiciously. There is an air of alertness, Nobody sings now. The girls Concert It in & concert. There are whispe, among themselves. The mood has comie; songs old songs now. And no one stand up rag-time duets, recitations, serious and changed. Some begin to move, Others
could have told coming into that room- Thero is a rush towards the foreman. faving the absence of a piano-that it was What are telling those in authority that anything but an impromptu concert that he is not telling them? Something is hop- was being held for the amusement of the penings. Bomething they do not know "hands," Yet overhead these girlz knew about. Are the Zeppeling eating nearer! neither how near or bow for a fleet of
Everyone listens for the sound of the first Zeppelins was making its way to deal guides Lighly pro death as indiscriminately as a bridge Insteadt 13" up
greeted with applause, laughter, a burst of cheer- player deals a pack of cards
Once in between the songs comes the
Bet laise"
or La Brabanconne" that is bangla song now, but a song that has been heul upon the roof,
That's one of our seroplanes scout back, treasured for a supreme moment
God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King, rolls out in one volume
Larking as he spoke.--Vincent Wray in the sincerity of the King and of the Greek gound of rushing water being poured down, a burst of singing. It is not the "Mar-
Government, and upon the feelings of the Greek people toward the Alliet troops These suspicions he says, are, unjust and TO KEEP OUT GERMAN TRADERS very painful to Greve and might have an influence or the sincere friendship which the Greek people and its King wish always The New Zealand United Travellon' and to preserve for the nations which assisted Warehousemen's Association is forming an, in the regeneration of Crocos and to whom "' All for the Empire League” to koop out all Greece wishes a prosperous and glorious the German trader.
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The concert goes on, but the talent 13 exhaustible. And just when no one knows where to turn for the next item ure of the dario staff, a Scotch laddie, comów to offer his services, and
He is greeted uprosriously ra he steps on to the chair and sings in a sweet tenor
"Annie Lauris,”
Back to the factory, back to work. Once again, sound the clang of metal and the whirr of machinery.
The tension is gone. There is an air of relief abroad which seems to make the whole world kin-Daily Mail.
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