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Is not a gamble, but a sure thing that
you are getting the greatest possible
Quality and Value to the limit of yom'
expenditure. TRY - IT.
Washing Without Worrying.
Next to high prices as a topic for!
conversation, the scarcity of labori
takes rank. " Competent' farm labor,
always hard to secure, has about!
reached the vanishing point so kr as;
the fields are concerned and the;
housekeeper no longer even dreams
of getting her washing done, to 'say
nothing securing other help. The
work is all up to the house -mother,
and she must "live or die, sink or
swim, survive or perish," unaided by
human hands. •
The sjtuat:on in the cities Is the
same. Employment -'bureaus iongi
ago hung out the "No Domestic
Help" sign. There are no girls seek—
ing domestic employment, with fac-
tories offering three times the wages.
Housekeepers in the towns have for/
some time ,been fact he situation
and adjust:ng their ives to the.
.change. Their solution •of the ques-
tion -is -one which many farm women
can adopt --power appliances to do
much cf the work formerly done by
band. Motor power washing ma-
chines have forever supplanted t the
washwoman in hundreds of homes.
They are always on the job, never
late, quiet, efficient, courteous if
treated welt, never demand a ten
o'clock lunch, and .don't tear the
clothes.
The electric Machine is perhaps
most convenient if you have electric
power, but it is by no means the
only thing. There are water power
machines, dog - power machines, a
working out of the old familiar
treadmill, where your household pet
furnishes the power which does your
washing, and machines which are run
by the gas engine. As to types of
machines, they are legion. The best
known are the cylinder machines
where clothes are put in a cylinder
which revolves through a tub of hot
suds.
Whatever the type or whatever the
power employed, the power machine
is something•wbieh every woman who
can afford it should buy. The wringer
is also operated by the same power
which washes the clothes, so that 4he
hardest part of washing is carrying
the wet clothes out bo dry. Not
Anis,' do you save muscle, but you
save time. Could you for instance,
wash nineteen ,blankets in the old
way in one forenoonrand go to a pie
n:c -in the' afternoon? This is what
ere farm woman did. Another on
the same day did a two weeks' 'wash -
Ing for a family of six, and threw in
two blankets and the curtains for
twenty windows, then baked and put
ap her 'picnic lunch, and was as fresh
as a daisy in the afternoon.
The machine cannot perform mira-
cles, however. Do not think for a
m;nute that they are going to do the
washing while you sit upstairs and
read a book, as the advertisements
picture the pretty lady. They are
like 'any machine—they must be op-
erated. Starch must be made,
elothes fed to the .wringer, tubs filled
with rinsing water . and lines go
ready. You will not fit down while
the washing is on. Also; if the
clothes wind around the wringer or
you try to put too thick a garment
through—weli, your machine is like-
ly to stop in the .m ddle ':orf the
wash-
, and you must . wait for someone
' who understands its internal work-
ings toset it going. Care in feed-
ing the wringer makes this unneces-
sary, however. (And, to boil or not
to boil, is another question. Most
agents say it is not necessary—that
good soap powder, scalding water and
stn are all you need. Personally, I
.prefer boiling. Wristbands and
soiled spots do not need to be rubbed
on the board if you use sufficient care.
Soap all these spots carefully and
let the clothes soak over night. If
the spots show when they come out
of the tub, soap thein again and wash
a second time. Only on rare occasions
will you need to rub them. -
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Thrift Recipes.
Leftover Beans. -1 cup beans,
cup stewed tomato. Salt and pep-
per and a teaspoon of grated onion.
Heat thoroughly. The onion and
tomato should be cooked for ten mi-
nutes -before the beans are added.
Vegetable ]dash.—Mix together and
heat in a frying pan, with a little wa-
ter or milk and a small quantity of
fat and' seasonings -2 cups diced
cooked potatoes, 1 cup diced cooked
carrots, 1 cup diced cooked turnips,
% cup grated cheese.
Escalloped Carrots. -2 cups grat-
ed carrots; 1 cup bread crumbs, i cup
milk, 1-3 cup grated cheese, 1 table-
spoon fat, 1 teaspoon salt, pepper
to taste. Cook the grated carrots
in a double boiler until tender. Add
salt, pepper, and milk and cook for
five minutes. Place in a baking dish,
sprinkle with grated cheese, cover
with the crumhs to which has been
added the melted fat. Brown in the
oven.
Corn and Cheese. -2 cups corn, 1
cup celery, 1 cup buttered crumbs, 1
teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, 3i
cup hot milk. Arrange corn ' and
celery in layers with salt. Add hot"
milk and melted fat. Cover with
buttered crumbs and bake 20 minutes.
Warmed Over Beans With Cheese.
—Make a cup of white sauce and add
two tablespoons of grated cheese.
Add the sauce to the beans and heat
thoroughly. _.This is a good sub-
stitute for meat.
Cod en Casserole.—To prepare this
dish take a one and a half pound slice
of cod and remove the skin. Place
it in a cesserole of ample size and
pour in half a pint of boiling stock.
Cover and bring to a boil again. Then
cook quite gently for about an hour,
and thirty minutes. Strain off the.
stasck.�.. Add a quarter of a pint of
sib Spanish onion and tomato
mixed, salt, pepper, a pinch of .sugar
and a dust of cayenne. Heat, stir
well, pour over the fish and serve.
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A SEA SECRET REVEALED ' I to certaih destruction. For this the
officers and men of the Navy scrambl-
ed in hot rivalry. Through this they
went, and, having gone, went eagerly
again. Their ships were sunk under
them, but they cared not at all, so
the the U-boats were destroyed.
The Suffolk Coast her.:elf is a ship
newly converted to this service, hut
most of her crew have served with
their commander in three of these
"special service" ships. The immedi-
ate predecessor of the Suffolk Coast
—the Stock Force—sank under her
crew when they had waited fifty min-
utes after being torpedoed for the
chance of sinking the U-boat that
rewarded them at last. The story
has been told. The men of other "Q"
boats were not so fortunate. They
disappeared and left no trace. The
sea that robbed them of their reward
holds immnrtal their unavailirag,valor.
These are the chances of Sea Service.
The spirit of the men who took them
with delight—that spirit has wrought
*ety for the world of modern men.
' The .women of Iceland recently
celebrated the third year of their
f ranehisement.
Show ing the Immortal Spirit of the
, British Navy.
The Navy begins to render up its
secrets to the curious eyes of the
civilian, says the London Times. The
"Q" boat Suffolk Coast has reached
8t. Katherine's Dock, and the public
will be allowed to go over her, at the
price of a small fee for the benefit
of naval charities.
Here contrivances for deception
allied with deadliness will surely
Interest and instruct :crowds so long
as she is in the Thames. But she
has a deeper fascination than- that,
for within her lurks the newest in-
carnation of the immortal spirit of
the Navy. In the spring of 191?
when the U-boats began to sink ton-
nage at a deadly rate, the Navy turn-
ed to devise defences against the
new danger. .The "Q" boats were an
impertant part of them, embodiments
of the adaptability and ingenuity of
the Sea Service. But_the heart of
their successwas not in their impene-
trable disguises. Men clamored to be
- al -fried to g"toe>i i'3fi=tliefri. • To go -en
to sea in them meant the luring of
the U-boat by an elaborate- pretence
of defencelessness; endurance of shell
fire, and even of being torpedoed; long
waiting motionless, in a sinking ship,
till the TJ -boat commander should at
last be certain that his victim had
ten Stine and siiculd expose his craft
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DUR::.A3 1T3 OCCUPAT!O!d CY T:1=
G�RMAr3_.
induc .rir.t l_i it Extir.c: z.nd flavared
Country Will Have 1-twr.•'. Ctruc:ie"
rolanci str'ipr e+l -I' ail tn-terials
and inle11:1'e•'r caring the 0:?: -r; .n
ctivtiou which e:� 4e:l on N ovt,atier -11.
Onithat day a few thousand s;,ldiers
of the *Polish legion, aided by the
population of ;Warsaw, d isarmcd.:nere
than 20,000 German soldiers Who lid
,:arranged a revolt egaiast their own.
otfcers. • .
All. food and. all telephone wires -
were removed by the Germans. All in
dustrial plants were robbed and dis
mantled, withethe result that Poland
:will have a ha. rifloltao rtart lir agaftr
even if financia and political condi
tions were of the best, observers say
Discussing the economic situation in
Poland, Stanislav Larlowski, director
. of the Commercial Bank, of Warsaw,
said to the correspondent:
'•It will take nearly $2,000,000,000 to
repair the darihage done in the German
occupation and to put us on .aur„ feet
and to,r
develop e o our re.,,
I.properly
F h
natural resources Our oil products
return 500,000,000 marks annually and
we are rich in coal and salt mines, pot-
ash, .forests and agricultural products.
"At the present. time the economic
situation is confused because Russian
rubles, Austrian crowns and German
marks are in circulation. The marks
are a heritage of the German occupa-
tion. In April, 1917, the Germans is-
sued 2,000,000,000 marks which they
called Polish marks. The issue was
made through a special bank with the
announcement that after two years
Polish marks should be redeemed by
German marks. By this scheme the
German Reichsbank was 'not mpel-
led to issue extra money andther e,
fore; did not injure its own credit.
"At the same time the Germans re-
fused to accept the ruble as legal ten-
der. The Austrians accepted the ruble
in Russia and Galicia and also intro-
duced the crown. Thereafter all sorts
of complications arose, with no one
knowing the precise exchange value
of any money. This bank simply has
ceased to pay dividends until we es-
tablish a new money standard. Prob-
ably the franc, for the three Polands.
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PTIIPFS
HAVE RECORDED CU::
r. •TCo:;rL:CT.
Cvery `h; e. cf Canada's Vier Act's+,'
r'rcr:i tart to Finish
is Dep:ct_d.
Dealing with the e:hibiticn of Celia-
diae lvar picture! which o.': r e.I rt t`:•:
Royal Aca„ehay of Arts, Lemons un -
January 4, a contribut-r t.i tire Pell
Mail (gazette says it was a unique
spectacle .of a natiun's supreme en--
deavor port'•pyed, .not i:h retrc:;pect,
ut during its acccntpli'=hnhent, by her
artists. 'The 70 ie�.clirg painters o!
Canada, including some famous.British
ay 8iud Lt 'fhat Mede Goo4
Py Iia Robertson
PART" 11.
Al, the scrap; cf c i irdn he gath-
eeed into gra, a ':lacks and sold to a
inkdealer, rea:t zing $14.1,8 from the
s.
'1 kr_ i's4:iees were re paired: - A ne
rsol e.,. pt t oa tka g canary. The
c h:cke:i h ee w hirl •zeoad in a hal-
lee.:ii c:aught a l .:t.e Likes cause 1
by heavy rein;, w'as reeved to a 'ii',:l
and dry
flve'.`y 4pring
c rnt'^-'3 eh`ck.s had Leen drowned -in
i u.:1 of natee's frcm a spout nF::r
by, sell nr dcteetniaea that such a
IUz- dieu-tl net aga:.1 occur. r.'.
1.1-:Jrn froet gete to the front
door there hal never Leen a walk.
Tcrn :+::+'d one cf cement and contint:-
"Why, son, it looks just like new!"
exc:-ain..:d the happy mother. "How
c+_d you ever ..think to do all these
h;.'ne s ? " she asked when she caught
:ght of the sower beds and changed
ehrebtier y, She had been forbidden
by her m_ elerful son from g^aiag to
the front part of the house alter he
;rads begun work there. "I've always
wanted a flower garden, she said,
sesehing ll.ip'p►"y..
- '•1 ic'areeeiemost of it at c'o:.eege,"
said Tom, :_•1 rep:y to her question.
Two days later *lien a real-estate
lean r ea'.ied Alonzo Han3'oa by tete-
phone and etbd he h -ad a good offer
for' the farm,' the father .called his son
to hint and said, "By. jinks, Tom, the
_ ones, have risen gloriously to the task ed it around the house to the hack Norton peop:e have offered me $200
set by their Government when it .took ,p-crcn. and then to the, barn. ` The an acre for the place, and I'll be jig -
them out to the t-enches in Franco ce:lar sttai'es, gtbwn ' wobbly and un- gered if I'll sell. tit. I'm going to
` and Flanders. From the landing of-tlie--said Were rep:aced by cement ones. - keep pit! . If it'ts worth that much =ta
first 33,000 men at Plymouth to the --'i e h ,use` and brans were pain td. Ile them it's worth more to -rum."
:,
'.capture of Mons on -the last --day--of tie-..``-creer:ed the back porch - on wh'eh "This se a gc:den opportunity to
! war,-rfo phase of Canada's war activity dui eve su
then a or
mmer days, much__ofLt'ie let• gay.,. `I to dt.you_ iso,' " said Tom, laugh. -
k could
Must Win World's Confidence.
"First we must establish a sound
government which will have the con-
fidence of the outside world. Any gov-
ernment must have money to run it-
self, but it cannot get money without
confidence. When such a government
is established we will put out foreign
loans for the purpose of buying ma-
terials and starting up factories. It is
even necessary for us to obtain loans
in order to buy clothes; also machin-
ery and locomotives. Everything in
the country must be rebuilt alodg new
lines.
"The Germans transported home all
the machinery from the industrial city
of Kalicz and then set fire to the city.
This was one of their great crimes in
1914. They did this although there
was no battle fought there. They
drove out the people by bombing the
city and then robbed it methodically.
"The Germans also requisitioned all
the factories and machinery in "Logs,
which is the Polish Manchester, with
its vast cotton and woollen mills. In
their entire occupation they continued
to loot Lodz. Even last September
they carried away all the Iron pates
and floorings from the factories.
"They stole our vegetables and our
fruits. They took by requisition every-
thing they wanted.
"While they did not rob our banks,
on the third day of the occupation of
Warsaw in 1915, the director of the
Deutsche Bank of Berlin came to me
and • •• anded my cash balance of
bubles, th • surrender of which, he con-
tended, Wo id regulate our debts to
his bank. e Germans did the same
thing in`Roum: s is after the Treaty of
Bucharest. •
"It will take $200,000,000 to recon-
struct us industrially without counting
the other sums we must spend gradual-
ly for improving the railways and the
ciities and rebuilding houses ruined in
the course of the war."
A French Peasant.
Each week, in rain or shine, she-ttrud-
ges out
To that green little graveyard by the
sea,
Where rests her Jean., She tidies ten-
derly
His wooden cross, repeats a prayer de -
vont.
Then, cheerily, she chats to him about
-The simple interests of every day:
The new-born (.df, the apple crop,
the hay,
Since of his presence there she holds
no doubt.
And who shall say they do not hover
near—
The wistful souls of those who died
for France—
Keeping their women brave through
want and fear,
Transcending death to bring deliver -
A wale of popularity for things
western is sweeping over the whole
of China, and with the cessation of
war t a may be expected to be
huge d ands for all 'torte of for-
eign ma hinery, building materials
To lives for whom their added strength
W _ shall tjr.
The power that wins a holy victory.
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''There is no beautifier of com-
plexion, or form, or behavior like the
wish to scatter joy around us." --
and equipments generally, / Emerson
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be done.
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has been neglected. I With 0,4 tkn clans he filled two' "You needn't. I want to regi you
1 There aro nearly 100 paintings illus- - ab.andoned W3,against which the right riow that when you go back ex)
trating •, the career of the Cauadian small boys of the fancily and u egh- coillege next fall, as the oenlist says
Corps in France, including the Magni- , boihoed had continually t e be warn- you -may, you dog't need to bother
scent paintings of the landing of the ' ed. He gathered :, tip LI the loose anything about money. It'll be forth-
, 3rd ,C'''anadian Brigade ..at..St. 1liaza,ire, I boards lying .about; .,such,,aa couldnot,,coniasg, for pail your expenses. I've
be use.1 f _ii - -e• ., •r .. l e t
by Edgar Bundy. A_R.A., and' th.e gi et or .metl...ng putp_ - lie telt ch'an i my mi» 1 <f ►' < ..E c
into kinei'rg• He stacked h scat -and new think. it -is : )me good., Be
• ;canvas by Major Richard JoQlt;�.,4�,R,A•, ,, "' � .. �.... _
"The Second Battle of Ypres." Major tet ed stove wood into p,l+_•;, • fore' your elean-q,p—I was sure you
The shrubbery en the .yawn had been were wrya-st:ng good time and money."
Jock has also a fine painting of "The panted in a ha:ter--skewer fashion .and To'm,.'turned a. hang spring before
Battle of Vimy Ridge." In the same without attention had grown into a he went on with his farm " ditties, '
way the historic Canadian battles are tangle, almost obscuring the grass. which he had taken up after !his.
dealt with each in their turn. Regina Moet of it he moved to the 'sides of cleaning campaign was.ende'd.
Trench, the taking of Courcelette and the lawn and replanted in graceful, j {Then came thatmemarab'+e fourth
so on, and then .the Arras-Cambrai irregular beirriters• A clear view from day of August when the +storm cf wear,
road is shown, 'along -which the .Cana- the house to the road-- was thus had burst over the Britie'h. Empire. Tom I
diene are seen streaming after three and a. lawn -mover was freely used en iaok the ' examinateen necessary to
incessant grass. /On the many bare spots . enlist as a se -Idler, but as he feared,1
months of in ant b attl bit-
ter.
to the t -
ter fight for Cambrai, whence they 'awn grass -seed w210 generew lyr eown, . his bad eye was against heart. -1
and he spaded a flowed an: each "The next best thing, Dad," he told
passed to their last engagement which :I:de of the cement walk.; No male his father, "is for me to work my
culminated in the triumphal entry into member of *he family had ever taken h;arcilest at college this .. next berm
Mons. 1 time er thought to do such a thing. and then/ come 'home early in sprung
Many Beautiful Portraits. ' - 1 Wonderful to. relate, during all this and help ycu grow the bi;gest and
Apart from the actualtflghting, how- time Alonzo Hanson made no tom- best crops the - old farm .. hes ever
ever,. th .. parotins ' mon t concerning 'his son's , labors, known. _ W�e':,: make her fairly hump
g give a comprehen- hich we're carried v gomUue1:yn en each herself! r±e'•! grow enough (tuff to
sive view of every other phase of whichd'aiy
f1'
m' sune.se ':o sunsot urtC1 tom- feed a 1ecrii a -ay i_f not a regiment.
Canadian -war activity over sass the p:et.:c� i. Ease:; I want to get some of tae
Forestry Corps, which has provided When Tcnl hat nccop'l:i?h 1 what town yc'rns,:t€rs 'interested in gar
timber for the armies of four nations; he lied sept -out, tip do, he . called the de'iang. •1':: ha:p them to grow gar -
the famous Railway troops, ssrliich of- fam! y togs;her i and irivite.i - the dens if they'll .et me. If 1 .can
lien worked desperately under a de- members of it to go with him on a help it. I'm rot ge ng 'to let my bad
vastating fire, have contributed so pen-conducted-c:onduct+ed tour of the place.' eye keep' me fr'em being patrioti :."
much to victory: the Veterinary Corps, - -- -- -
which has charge of three million ster- MOST�YELLt)ti8 ordinary shipbuilding: activity acid
ling worth of animals; the hospitals one which contributed more than any
and even the patrol boats in the Eng- to the supremacy at sea which uiti- 1
lish Channel, some of which were OF MYSTERY SHIPS mately strangled Germany and com-
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manned exclusively by Canadian + pelled her to cry aloud for peace "4
crews. There is a splendid collection l
of portraits, interesting personalities BATTLE CRUISER HOOD I8 BIG
such as Sir Robert Borden Sir George,
Perles-, Princess Patricia of Connaught i SURPRISE OF WAR
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and Lady Drummond, who labored so
unceasingly for the Canadian Red1
Cross. There are s Iso portraits of Wonder Work of War Period is Found
many members of the. Canadian high
command and a whole gallery of
Canadians who have won the Victoria
Cross.
THE ART OF ABDICATION
There Are Many Instances of Royalty
Who Quit Their Thrones.
History affords King Ferdinand
of Bulgaria man' precedents in the
art of abdication, but few have ever
resigned their thrones except under
compulsion. -
The most remarkable voluntary ab-
dication on 'record is that of Chris-
tina of S n, daughter and suc-
cessor of eat Gustavus Adol-
phus. Growing tired, at the age of
28, of the restraints imposed on her ,
by her high office, she resigned in
favor of her cousin and went to .
Rome, which" city slna entered in the 1
costume of an Amazon. Latter she
settled in Paris.
The desire to resign seems to have
returned in later years, for she tried
to recover her own kingdom and made ,
a bid for the throne of Poland.
But even kings who abdicat4 ►y
their own ehoice are not always al -'l
lowed to enjoy freedom from the
burdens of government. Philip V.,
the founder of the Bourbon dynasty ,
in Spain, was a nervous and gloomy
man, much tormented by religious
scruples, and he found life as King
of Spain intolerable. At the age of
40, and in the 24th year of his reign,
in order to look after "the affairs of
his soul," he resigned the crown of
Spain and the Indies in favor of his
eldest son, Don Luis, who was at that
time only 16 years of age.
But the peace that King Philip
had hoped for lasted barely seven
months. The young. --king was at-
tacked by smallpox, and died at the
end of that period. Before his death,
however, be bad made an act of re-
trocession of the crown to his father,
who for another 22 years bore unwil-
lingly the heavy load of kingship
whish he had so unsuccessfully at-
tempted to throw off.
The Berlin Ghost.
Is the "White Lady" walking these
Momentous night in the Palace of
Berlin? Always, says tradition, when
a Hohenzollern is to die or some
catastrophe is overshadowing the
family, the "Weine Dame" is to be
encountered in the 'corridors of the
Royal Palatn'7and amore than office ilie
has been known' to speak, and an -
'pounce the coming doom. One can
imagine the White Lady's satisfac-
tion in her task, for in real life—so
"the story goes—she was the Countess
Agnes of Orlapiunde, whom a former
Hohenzollern had bricked up alive in
a vault.
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Vessels in Four Years.
In an article on shipbuilding, the
London Observer st t th t th t t 1
aes a e oa
output of the United kingdom dur-
ing 1918 of both naval and mercan-
tile shops was 1,246 vessels, of 1,876,-
411 tons and 4,349,260 horsepower.
"SPIRITUAL WEARINESS"
The Attitude of the British Soldier
in Victory.
Now that the realization. of -victory -
has had time to soak iii it is interest-
ing to review how the great news has
been received by the British Armies,
slays a war correspondent. I have
found everywhere a soberness of spir-
it which woes deeper than mere stoic
ism. Indeed, there is a sensible mood
of depression in the demeanor of the
very large proportion of - our troops.
Nor do I think the explanation of the
"The wonder work of the war per- I psychological conditions is very far -
iod," says the Observer, "is to be to seek. In the first place there is
found not in mercantile shipbuilding,; the natural reaction from the state of
but in naval, and, above all things in I chronic subconscious tension in which
naval engieering. On the Clyde alone,men have lived through the most ter -
during the war 481. vessels of 770,347 alone'
rible of . all human wars. We have
tons and 6,093,830 horsepower were -r aiways been under the impalpable
constructed as additions to the naval 1 shadow of imminent tragedy. The
strength of the country. In this to- l sudden lifting of this shadow has been
tal are included no merchant vessels followed by the sense of spiritual)
ordered by the Government, and no 1 weariness. Further, there is a haunt -
general service trawlers, tugs or 1 ing consciousness of the universal
handycraft built on Government ; sorrow which has been ' cau':ed.
order.
Scarcely a man out here but has ,lost
An Imposing List, a relative or a pal. Jubilation is
"The list is composed of brittle- tinged with ,sadness. Then. again, the
ships battles cruisers, light cruisers, spectacle of the long-suffering inhabi-
destroyers and submarines, together • tants tramping, hack to their too often
with armed merchant cruisers, sea- destroyed homes must needs have a
depressing influence. I think there
plane carriers, monitors, mine -
is is a real grandeur iR this subdued
sweepers, those new vessels known reception by the conquerors of the
as sloops, which are really little ; greatest victory in the history of the
lighter than cruisers or low -speed des- earth'
troyers; gunboats, patrol boats, hos-
pital steamers, and also the "Q" Yukon Figh Statisstics-
boats and "13,Q" boats, of which so
little could be said while the war L. The Yukon Territory during the
was on or can even yet be said. I year 1916-17 Produced fish valued at
"The battle cruiser Hood was the $60,210, principally salmon, whitefish
greatest of all our mystery ships. - and trout, according to the report of
She and the Rodney would have the Fisheries Branch, nepa-tmen't of
been the greatest surprise packages Naval Service, covering that period.
of the war. In speed and gun -power Boats and gear valued at $12,437
they were to have exceeded any- were used and 243 men were employed
in the Yukon fishery.
The pendulum in New Zealand
thing afloat. Only the Hood, how-
ever, will be completed, as a great
specimen of the latest in British
naval architecture. 'A11 that exists sheep breeding is reported to be
of the Rodney will be 'scrapped. swinging in , favor of the Down
"But it Is really on marine engin- : breeds.
eering that the year 1918 and the
war period as a whole have been
extraordinary.' The twelve months'
record in production of ships' machin-
ery is held by the Wallsend -Slipway
Company,,of Wallsend-opi'ync, which
turned out engines of 316,•290 horse-
power, but other great firms have
turned out machinery in amounts
which would have been notable in
normal times. -
Year of Highest Records.
Stocks Purchased
byoor•
PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN
enables Investors to become the
owner of . selected standard se-
curities --- (stocks or bonds) .--
without rnakiug any large out-
lay, payment being made by easy
monthly . instalments, just tin
ranch as you can comfortably
stove from your regular earnings.
"The year 1918, however, was the' This method provides an attrac-
year of the highest records, the Fair- tive plan of stock purchase, anti
field Company on the Clyde alone 1s fully explained in our lnter'est-
pfednein ` ifiar"itrg piebrelfng ?n1e-hiin="`''- ing booklet -entitled "Saving
ery totalling 468,410 horsepower....a_-
the Partial Payment Plan." '
This was the year when high power
destroyers were being turned. out al-
most en masse by all firms for the '
purpose of hunting down German
submarines, and it will live for all
time in the industrial annaln of the
United Kingdom as. a year of extra -1
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H. M. Connolly & Co:
]embers Montr.al Rock Pitehe,nR„
105-106 Transportation Building
MONTREAL - P.O.
THE BATFLE"
REVELATION OF A SOLDIER'S•
HEART.
Written by An American Major Just -
Before An Attack on the
Argonne Forest.
Of what does a soldier think the, '
night before he goes into -battle?
ln the Luxeipbourg, Paris, is a iflas-
' terpiece of 1i duuard Detaille entitled
"The bream." It showe. a long line
of French soldiers sleeping near their' .
stacked muskets. Sleeping with them
are their dogs. In the clouds above
is a vision of a victorious army charg-
ing beneath the banners, cheering as
they move onward. .
• According to the painter of dralnar' 4,
et c -scenes, "victory"owas- the thing on � .
the soldier',s mind the night before the
battle. _ _
-It-ha-ppened that- k,`1Vlissouri--soldier•-
in France wrote to his wife just before,
the ,battl'e, after which he was pro-
moted -from major to lieutenant -colonel
for gallantry in action. Major J. E.
Rieger; of Kirkville, Mo., led into at-
tacit-ou:the .Argonne -forest a battalion
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out uninjured. , in'aehiacegun bullet.
. broke Major Rieger's field glasses and
he was struck by a piece of shrapnel.
He commanded the Second 13attalion.
139th Reginient, Thirty-fifth Division,
A. 'E. F., in the Argonne battle,
Before the Battle.
Just before the great battle in which
bis battalion was destined to suffer -
so severely„ and which action caused
•his promotion by General Pershing on
the battlefield, Major Rieger wrote'
this and mailed it to his wife ip Kirk
A. al.a .
Front Lines, Oct. `21, 1918.
• - Just Before the Battle
-.The Tong, long` night :marches had
ended, the dragging of weary feet
through mud - and debris was over.
The grotiing through rain and black-
ness, made doubly so by dense forest.
was done and now, concealed in the
(crest of the Argonne by day, the
a:r,�1y of attack quietly rested.
The order' of battle was handed nie
and `T read, it to my assembled -battal-
ion.' The day for 1ti-liicle the long
training. clanger and Hardships had
been incurred bad come at last. We
were to. -attack the.bill where 40.000'
French soldiers had fallen An defeat
two years before: but death was there,
artillery, nla.chine guns, mines, wire,
trenches, tunnels, a mighty stronghold.
We were to be ably supported. 1, told
my mon alt
The order was recessed in silence;
their faces took on a deterriined look,
but nu tear was there. 1 noticed them
later; all wore smiles, for the hour of
vindication had come; soon was heard
the songs about mother. short stanzas•
of baby songs, cradle -rhymes, lullabies
of mother. Manly voices, harsh, un-
trained, unmusical, became sweet with
melody; each his own heart's deepest
longing was giving expression. Wife,
sister, friend—all forgotten -- Nat.
mother. Then, as the truth carne to
theni that some might not return, long -
forgotten songs of religion, learned in
days gone by. • were heard --songs of
the Lord. And mingled together were
the notes of love and -protection of
mother and Jesus -411. others were,
forgotten.
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During Battle and After.
Later I heard those same voices
when in the attack; .not now the soft
voice of song, but. the shout of combat
-a mighty roar! The voice of the
people is not the voice of God, but the
mighty voice of soldier nren. Seeing
before them those who had pillaged
and murdered - and burned and en-
slaved, they became as "the avengers
of God and spoke with His voice and
acted with His power. Never .will I .
forget -their look, their volee! We
swept everything before us, capturing -
and wounding and killing the enemy
to the face of artillery and machine
guns worked with desperate speed. •
I heard voices again, now -:subdued --
they were of mother. and Jesus still.
1 board the wounded- not a cry, just -
a song, strong for mother : as the
wounded one felt the earth strong be-
neath hint, but a sort of farewell to
her who bore him and a clinging to an
unseen hand of power as lift slowly
slipped away. . _ .-
Mother, you are honored above the
king, the president, the general, the
great of earth. The song of heroes is
of you. Could you ask more than to
be first and last by those whom the
liberty -loving world delights to honor?
Your name and that of Jesus bound
together in the hero's life and death.
":Wither, beheld thy son; son, behold
thy niot ier." .
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('oal nn the i'rairies.
According to estimates prepared by
xperts there is enough soft coal in
he four Western. Provinces of Canada
o supply the world for a couple of
enturies. The mines of Saskatchew-
n, Alberta and British Columbia
ave scarcely been tapped but have
minced n total cifi one year of 6,000,-
0 tons, to the value ofover_26 .ma--..
nn dollars. The coal is of very good
rade, and is c -pinl'ly serviceable for
tram purposes and household heat -
g. The Canadian Dominion geologi-
al survey has estimated that the coal
cls contain a total of 143,410;000,000
tins, covering an area of 87,000
onare miles.
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