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• pr room of the uper battle-crufiser. H
Will : be just the same finals as in='Ki
Alfred's er King" eorg0 Yk's day.
lin ,short; the Navy of A.D. 2Q20 will
Carse the'same sort of Men aboard and
*ill dothe same sort of work as the''
present one, though irk a different war,
We ,need, not worry about the ships
and machines of thefuture so long as
tile men are not • going to .change';
there- is a chestnut about. te .destroyer'
steaming at full speed into ,€tction in
the North Se . in 1915, whose teaptaIn's
stewardcameNtp to the bridge to ask;
"If you please;• sir, will you eve your
bath before or. after the battle"?" I
expect that sort of incident has oei
Naval Writer Gives' a Fascia-
4*:; . a_#ing Forecast—British Thr
Will Remain the Same.
What sort of a. Navy, is. "Our Sure' entree pretty regehtelY,.in -our Navy
Shield" going to be in the.future? since Saxon :days (except that - our'
There will not, be. much real Change Saxon ancestors' did not wash thein-
• in : the Fleet that they next generation ,selves with. any dangerous frequen :y),
is to see so one might ie ahead a.'bit '
iI Must Guard, Us.
and .look. at. the possibilities fol', say, "Our Sure • Shield" •
the year A,D: 202Q, says "Klaxon," ' The Story ie"' typical';Qf 'the placid,
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welt kgown English naval writer. matter-of-nct • way In which. British
s '1 e' onlyway tie'forecnst the future sailors go to war at sea: As'we are
is to first look back into theP ast for an island people this is only natural.
gl i4ance. •. No British soldier can go •to war :an-
teing,
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King, Alfred, ,to protect England ,less a ship 'elites him. along, to'�do ft,
against invasion by the Danes, built and our ,Empire frontier is the three
ships' twice as long as those of his mile limit oft our, opponent's coast=
enemy, -,"both swifter and less una line-
• steady, and also higher • thin the And we .can guard it. Without . any
• .others:" King Alfred's idea of glee boasting, we know from theexpert-
testing his country from invas""ion was' ence of this war that oi}r men are stilt
to go for the enemy at sea, , - • incomparable; you cannot:• beat them.
In Nelson's day aid in •Beettyf's-day We have read.* lot of the men that
the idea was the same; there will be beat the Spanish Armada, and.,of those
- nochange from. that sound policy ie. that Nelson led at Trafalgar, but the
the, year 2020, - men of the Great War andof to -day
There is another Tule that. bee can are .even' better. Brave, loyal, humors
ous; enduring, and absolutely uncle-
' get f om"history, and that ist ships ,feamble-•-the • British Tar is the att-
end d s lift s go' on getting Tigger, 'miration. of his officers and the 'pat-
Alfie d's little battleships have grown tern of the -navies of the world, ,
into .monsters ' like the Hood, ,that. is, .
As for the "material of the future
from open boats of: sixty 'rowers. they Navy,• it' will be as -good as anyone
have 'become' huge, armored hulls of: else's, 'Britons know quite a bit about
42,000, tone carrying 1;10.0 men, shaped the design and building of war -vessels, •'
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• silo:, racing 'Boats, with: the speed of a The new ships submarines and air-
.- Few Areas Now Remaining.
Midland express, and so- long from
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•.HOURS OF , SADNESS
We all have boors of sadness, when we abandon mirth, and
JOIE about° the badness of •everythiing on earth•, Perhaps- the
• grub we s4gailowv has nnade, vur innards ache, and we say - life
Is hollow, a grim and ghastly fake; Perhaps some ern; is busted,
whose stock we lately bought, and we ate sore disgented, die
•couraged and distraught.' ' Perhaps the eteigbbor's Leghorn has
scratchedour beans again, end we, with language corking, • fie-
nounee that' active hen. But after'eight, hours' sle4i1ng we're
gird and gay erica-. more, and have no use: for weeping, and think . .
that grief's a bore: Unfortunate the: morita1 who risesefrom his'
'couch, and feels no .wish to chortle; but airs a beastly grouch.
• Man's' sorrow should be driven by .siumber .front 'the mind, for
''n that's why sleep is' given to weary •ituniankind,' :A grouch is, is
,'the, gloaming, a• common thins with us; for then. tired Men are
combing their souls •for things to cues; thein' feet are full. of
thistles, their whiskers full of hal, and no one sings or•whistles
at closing of the day. But in the brilliant Morning, when all the
world is, bright, .the healthy man: is scorning the spectres Of last
night.
NTY• YEARS
AC HflM1 TI A 111M
c 41. Asie.is Spiritual, Y p.
'tyt tiii is a tivalltY. c seieltuai eneril y'
_aud, eresieriy erealting„ there .40dao
.cold age,"' but spiritual 'deetay errbo
font lege prompt to neat -the morning
dew". is etc valid, -evidence of geowin6
old, any •amore' theta t1D•'lose a %g ln'
battle; =rosy'. pheslcal activities ,ere
not the ouly 'testa of youth. . That
'brain of Sophocles which gave us his
greatest play at'ninety is more teethe
point, lis also that famous saying re-
corded .of him, in reference to the•cool-
hig • of the passions with the years,,
that to grow 'old was like being set
free
free frbm service'to a band. of mad -
because we grow 'wiser and stung
less selfish and generally . more
useful to our iiellows with the passage
of the years' is not to say that we have
lost our youth. It'Only 'means . that we
have learned 'how to employ it. eVe
do not run in every direction as we
did:" We kggw, a little better: what' we
•are,d'oing,'or, Whet We want ,to 'do; 'but
the motive force that enables us to do
it is that' same energy .which once
.:drove us to stake foolsof oureeives
it the beginning and still providesthe
same "swift means to• radiant ends."
Decay,, disillusion,. weariness; we
mean: these things When We speak of
."growing old," but we fail: torealize
that these. "are no necessary ,accom—
paniments of the years. 'We may, un -
of •the past twenty years, former fortunately,. inherit them, or acquire
United States citizens have been re-' them, like bad habits, or through neg-
spousib1e Toe the'settlement of nearly lett of a proper care and exercise • of
140,000, or almost thirty per cent,' The . • our spiritual selves. Spiritual and in -
V! lllVlllLIJ l Llt7lJll:\u British. Isles, taken together; atcount- tellectual-laziness. Makes most persons.
tp . ed for about .91,000 entries, divided "old before their thee." If we lose ins
• approximately into English,' . 67,500; .:terest in life, life will soon 'Lose; id
DEVELOPMENTOF CANA Scotch, 17,000; and Irish; 6,500. This terest in us, and it is just as ,possible;
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DIAN WEST was surpassed by the settlement of to achieve a precocious senility in the
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continental peoples in general who twenties as at:any later period of our
stem to stern that a"800 -yid. drive by A. craft foreshadowed. ' for a hundred Which Contain•Large Section
years hence will be British ' and not s
record-breaking .;g , 1 L• professional of Homestead LAilt�. .
QQ foreign . ' models, : The of :never'
would: only just . criver 'their length: 'stands . still-- very officer and Mari is hardly an •gainsaying
Theet cant to } 1914 31,829 potential-• farmers`, from; all
Taking a rower's horse -power as being. a pdten�tiai iAtentor, and the ideas for 'the statement that thebiggest factor
• one-eighth, King', Alfred'd ;flagship improvement come chiefly Pram •those •in the he omens! dee to me t ofthe.countries toott homestea'd's..: During
would -have engines 7 ¢' horse -powers, • ww~ho•have thepractical ex erienGe of P n h e P n •
the fiscal };ears 7915, 1916, 191.7 and
The Hood reckons her ,horse paver at P ' Canadian, .West as been' the conces-
Sea life to teach them what, is wanted, sion of free land by the. Dominion'gov- 191L8, a total of, only 60',036 homesteads
• 144,000, and does not trouble• to count were; taken up, in 1919' onLv • 4,227, in
the odd hundreds. Horse=Power' were, • Sea Water2 ernntent to farttielrs and intendng.ag-
We.•have taken a Took the 'future ricutturalists who undertook to 'settle 1920 6;731,' and:. in the trot seven
'The first practical submarines were mouths of,the last fls'rsi_ year, 3
of about 10 tons with'10.1w-rap-power:- 1 ayy through the lenses of :the past, and reside therein and bring -n gate of ..764
r. That 'i a good way to reach: the re- the sellunder.cultivation, The pros •Dwindling Aeallable•'Homesteads-' ,'
-how they run 'to 2,600 tons, With .10,-•
600 or more, hoise-poiver. If .the cap- , sult, but it is• liable to certain unex Pect • of .obtaining, 'for a mere . incur- ' In the dwindling • figures : of halite-
fain of one bf these. modern petted .errors. The fact is, the last . 'rence 0t the most ordinary,'obiigations,- •stead entries, one ebserves the reflec-
e d boats twenty years' have seen such extreme, land which 'in, settled sections of the tion of: both the'wartime cessation of
•wishes to speak to. an' officer. Lift he dinary scientific advances made that continent, was valued• at hundreds of British emigration•and"the falling off
Pings , him' uii on the telephone; in .
• early days he 'would have merely had we may find. estimates for the distant *dollars
• 'to dig. him in the. ribs to°attreot lits suture suddenly 'brought much nearer,
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attention. The greatest . revolution in naval de-
' • . sign will conte when• some scientist
The Same -Old Britbnl `•' •finds a method of •produ'cing, horse -
e. The- early- torpedo boats were little power from; for instance, salt water. the vaoant plains of the west In the main n Ofthe fwhich
things of 15 tons -they weigh nearly Oxygen is latent force, and, we have record of homestead patents is con- latus large sections of land which -,ma
ye
• 3,000 tons now. :The early aeroplanes plenty of oxygen ,in the sea. ,The air'
, ' weighed ,About 700 ib.; , now • the. big. 'itself could -conceivably be used .as ''a irte for it Ras the rccult list
. ones approach 20 tons. sole 'fuel for ;engines!. • fl Y and •many farmers and maxi of enada s•
Start• y • C
Starting, then; trots these,' facts; ' stay and all else has Poll wed it his i
_ . ••: _ e �a a nl at th 'n t o t
... .. W r. o y ..- ,e befit n ng.of our. d
.:• whst-eould we- expect to see en '17i01-• knowledge of electricity sound -waves
._. Ing a big .naval .base? There -will -:'be: -and ower-a:aveee .e.kn-w, - f
-`f ;submarines • there -small diving cents- saves ten times: powerful as an :in
ars' .o ��.D 0. n _ ,_-
-> •--�-.. ,- f .- d dtvtng..-bai'tle
�'-tts�' ;today; -but _tete do .:not yet !mow. .. _....
,.__e -hi o 40,000_tons. __
• s how tit prevent them going off, when tlement within the areas where they' in the hst.twenty years are :down. o,.' .far- into - h . "e r .. •easily: ar•ith;l a-livedas•• to •share: ;-� •-•e
Dosis the tits ,� ]k.
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• h. bi es . Iii s.. w ,. �.... � _ ., ._ _._...- __ , ...... iiia._ . ,, ..._........ , . Flt re --t "rn w
a gg -,1_s P , • .ill_ be,the sur we -dont •want them'tot-Alt'trtai our were made avaiiab - , l ' - duds much. of he aro • . ' •. ' . ''Iteinenrber - too: 'that 'Dunih= w -'--
• le, w tri a the d►m g t ps and cattle Parrs. rote
• '' ' '. face. battle ,cruiser's= -great Rat-boittom- designers and exerts an:do is togo inishin pumpers f•' - which : have theever • hilt vith a . eii: -H:e c • i •
„ „ „ . P c , g b. rs o homestead en made western ora In anis matter oP r:oad-building 'and Yt- g S P l ail .i .none
ed__..-..-.sktmm.e _- t• eir•� o
_ h- .:-l-, - « Cain 'Te- ...
�:_.. - _,-__ __ -.r , �. - inti_ � , >t.:-;..b..,ttoms,--,step_. u =fm rovrn ferias; w •vin _ <�_:: __ _ _ _ .. < ._
� >. .•o -improving ma along --the -Frac . tries rn ,the )cast fe�vr"'years .itidicdC�' ees famous th-e:.•vtorfd ,giver. `' �1'h`' air, i`i R gnld 'seem tTiat Qanada can eef , � zh� ino2ierti":assti T•trice;-�F'`i=cps
.. , - 'ped like hydroplane ;Motor, bodtse and tical• lines of development ermitted the a roachin exhaustion of .d si , are now nettirt 'their ownwri ern or• dicta aloha: 'tti'orl i _
. , � . . • - , , P1n P PP g e r. ,g. ars in' many �•learn a greatdeal, arom a,'stu'dy• of'Ohl. tom. .J� ,, .c ug ,Math ;_
„�. -,-,. drawrng_,1tut:_a_few,.ieet_;ot water.,_. -of-; b resent -da• seienee but as' they' vas s ' hauls • o ..w _ .Cain t ego0 1.. n a t - 1
„ Y P Y • y _able land its be secured by this means. e , . s me yearly revenues,' an Country• methods; For many of, tlieii. + g . d s e ogc 1 her, i 1ere:At a writers • � `
.;; - .--:,150:..ft,..beam-•and.-1,200-ft:--in length: work -they- keep a wary and watchful In' the: -last twoaecade fm 1960 to ifretie beingsecured "for The ex '•. * , z• ' .'allose• out put aveta es --titin A -6 -is= `'
The speed- 'of these ships •will be• 90 �� , change, ,roads that date bactc to (.ae.�a.r s time P _ �g- .- .Y_._-_
g - ori cor s: a 1 ee c _Ocie. of these; a 110•'
eye:' on the men n�thelaboratories,. for -1920rmore than=500;000-homestead-en _ Y: a-� tip-dolI•ax•--hill,; cn�--fe w- a ric,ui='''are 5n more perfect' repzir to -day titan. i
it sots at least, '•They' will: --have -Rol _ ... O, . - r
I sane -_cam, tell _when- some small, .da tries -war -a -made 'tnahe rovinces. Of tural.• and restdenttal dutTe� are held oof . `': c �' - "'' makes a sFeeitilty � of `uYeuciP''firLiitn - :
- . • ,':guns; ..but will ' s�--�- . , P ... l 'mime our , costly uiacadant .5roads••
>. carry numbers of aero- , covers by chemist'. or engineer'. may.'4Ilaniteba; Saskatchewan and Alberta in' tnany 'instances • a values of onthatkeeps' fivo .and: sometimes.. six serial • '•
• p guided it - e are not'yet five years. old. '•. e
lane • stielis which •can' be not five the si nal to' repare for tom- which • rer resents the •settlement "and hundred 'dollars stories•
1 g gP P per acre., Carefully - going -at the, same. lisle. And ' ,
against an enemy by magnetic` weaves. ;plate changes in all new types of war- fencing off' of More than 80 0'00,000 compiled statistics •prove -that land" in ti • the inst'alteenis average: five'thoucand•_
; Under, • - those conditions . `battles vessels • '-- - . acres b this system of n ro rriatio Canada i's rig€fir in rice ` at•trances- O icza"il ,Ca i+l3l. `'•' word:• each: Tee
Y Y PP . 1 n.• g If o arert :. R•
-.Would take place.at some fifty miles. I. •=-}�+}-•- . .. -:.. „,r• fi ' ,
_.. . . ' .. . Nat a1L,_this.. canes -of-course, be.con ling -„,rate- ate -The excellence. 'crops.: -Paris .is -.not .the -capital - of•.Prance:--
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.. Sem*.'wvriter's ot -neva Pante L_Itil.e l
range, the. real: strttgglc w ing between, • • A Caron Torc�i. . sidered• .as under. cultivatioiY tlto h `Produced attd ;tlte rap drt of citta= •''1'1iie, is nota aradox n,or a •oke ..but•tons .are' extra'ordinaril '' speedy. .:1u
• bhVen ageetic= 'o• ei•atoi s iof-the . epees- • - iP- evIre p•} P• j •
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PIi"ttmpTtrgr--yon- have -ever the farmer who takes "a' homestead finest• are. til -.a- large measure resEous as :oiiieial fact. , .i'arisiacis who are:: outl�.or':of this type .has beeq'knowcn to
in hiholdings
•;.. _. gxi ]rs. ,Met[irSw�liTFe]re sul�marrnes . tried to lrghi your .way from the :teat without. • addiitonal• usuallyrble Por this: •I;otne5tead ten to •alarinie 'di 'i - • comPl'hie .ay stoi},"ot':tltc'l*ind within 'a
s :: • :: ,. , . 1 settled g v• ,t silos tion •are
rc ee i - - .
_ . .... p _ d ng Submerged .nt. trenren ous to s to . or. t e bo t . peeling b :. _ .,. _: to a ,-vi.il ,- :• -, -. . _ we -:.;:..t, . ,: - .
:... .. . , ._. .. r. g . 1} .: . a l,_nng .y. has:.i:he eater- art of- thearea ren: tl y. _ ,i beworth a lir. e•fi ure:in drstuibed ivahetr'.ni,nds for fr . ek . I arae one :hundre-d-thJusand -;-r:- ..__
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spec 1, will be launching out huge: for, 'dip the Light of a...flaming brand; you have, dered productive. ` : fewyears,and ireproved•land purchased' fact that 'Paris has Ceased to be ilia words in length, asci its i eceived for it
`' pada ::.,` which will be guided. to •thein' probably ,hecto surprised to. have our ;-•v at the .cn'in arativel ` 1 a ` : i' ' r + '_ ie the e _four, _ ,, •
, I Y p y ow _prices. pre- vale_ ef_:die; cenn•tt.. Mem 1914, teaqu , ,
arlr- the seine --mit netl l •torch a A..Survey..aa_tiomestead-Statistics. • - i .
-4--•gt tjy- g- a-contro :: go= !out" `ra l ee y tril4rk vaiiing at: tlie.present time, when cbtn-, :suits that all effiekti'deeiimente'of the
_'1;Icc aircraft used. will -be about n s ,. - '' . . United States irenngratien to• Cana:t.00kirig Onthe•Bright: Side:
: v 100, a s,• pared iv th• those existing' in 'other' Re.pulilic .of' France. sighed .since ,their ••
e - : • tons. weight: and ' 30 - da has always been regarded In so dee c ' A r • . ' t • l
g- ,OOA horse,poveer: - : Make year torch not three. ••blazing : • countries, wrl1 cth.n, the cltee 3 little fellow: ` of, lever ..
,span ofthe` ,above date are theoreticail,y ildegalz
They will join in, a battle of their own , sticks instead of one stick. You may •'sirable a light, •largely+ because the•ma- orches • is 'life, rea1Jz a peice mane,On eptember 3„ 1914, Leben the t wvhose optiiitisnr Ives ' a periictuai sac
leen lidight ; of 25,000 ft. ' above the! have 'noticed that in the.' came. fire ority of those emigrating. .to the Doi fold vsha h prise Lo his Iwo: to ss a "beiri inn
1. c P t @.!)aid, Gove.rhment left Paris , fi_h.
minion find their- •way. to the land, P`shed 1)y his father. •_ .
iigl}ting fleets'. three; brands that lie • close together ace of the German advance . the aetue r
together'
the�_,
__ There may he veee,tittle--land-fight-+ *fit blaze -with a single ame•to which--- _here Dominion has the• gFeate t . o' }} `He;wvas Sprawling' ant+ani
g d,nal Official announcedAhat:.l3orde•
all of them contribute.' The continue ecanonnc deed of them, whereas a w n +kliees;_.and after ,'shout su .strokes of
• Y, VaiLe .off Education h and until' further e;
Thin s will • no Llarge section of the •British emi ration . i ilia c u li c"
as he cethrt
Thine t, however, be alto- ,,to. bi}rn. • because the heat cannot. es- g '.Th most • lice the lega6 c antral capital of Fiance, a e - e -nattered' to 'himself ,--It
ether ehan .ed•••hu•tide•'flows fhto .the. cities and' Indus e. st important t.uug you ac f,ww ' .nine' ire-- _
g g „. tkian natuie will, be cape.in. all directions,• as,it ,can vehen ._•__ tinct_ elides documents: areuld.lis-dated-•i •i .--tte-•r done sit-daavt •tnuelt..
-jest the':' r. ..: .. v �triiil eafitrrn Am"wn„-ner.t'2i^.v. quire :3#r 'sclrcioT fig -:not ilifl iilfr�L�nli itioiai
`1d same. „ , Only, .one ' eticl, 1., oi, fire. Itr tL., - • c� ! cou get but theha i irgiri : idorgeuus. Until 1)ecemlrer this ;
• - , in the, past, • been possesse f she bit of study yea Possessed the Combinatioie
Xing Alfred's coxswain; 'a rather. same with the torch.
�.-_ • ; . , . , _ ,.._..4.._�.._.-•,._.�.�. ..... aiur_�- ...,;.,... tt �€1 � r lrrocedure was 031oweed. U �
1 w,.: .. .• ,.,., G .-tea ` laiisk 5 e..W?d1 T - •.se R_ and
"circ" -fico-e3x a'''' - �-' c-7 . 'e oft--
r, uiati, Via; wore yen • have •the bis tv to worst at th • -Ge`iri wst es' came �ac7; fo"i ark; and
packing 'round his lege,.and a. roar = Knew His Bible. in Canada; for Which reason a great e by December' 11 'al's document i door ane walked :in; u!"th a, confident
se- solution of •the problems which.: