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The Signal, 1918-12-26, Page 6sew • 'Ir—Thnrday, De& 2S, 191e. BUY War-Savnuls Stamps On Sale at an MONEY -ORDER POST OFFICES BANKS AND W HF.REVV1 THIS SIGN IS DISPLAYED BUY War -Savings Stamps for $4.O() each, place them on the Certificate, which will be given to you; have your Stamps registered sofa free of charge at'any Money -Order Pod Office; and oa the first day of 10'24, Canada will pay you 6S.00 each for your stamps. M an aid t, the purchase of W. -S. S. you can buy 'THRIFT Stamps for 15 tents each. Sixteen of these Thrift Stamps on a Thrift Card will be exchanged for a W. S. S. Thrift Stamps do not beer interest. Their virtue is that they enable you to apply every 2S eeata you can save towards the purchase of a Goverornetrt, intrreat-bearing security. "If high rates of interest must be paid on Government borrow- inp it is but right that every man, woman, and child should have the opportunity to earn this interest."—Sir Thomas Whirr $5.!° for $4.L° Story of Queen Mary. 1 his slay n told about a visit paid by Queen Mary to a communal kitchen. itc Wes in London's East Did, belong g leyan mission. the very kitchen which. by its success, led t0 their establishment in on et the West End. The Queer lis moving helmet the counter. 10 the great dehrht of the customers. One small in the flurry of the mome- ent. gave a ttwe penny duke( for a twope my pie. The ac Qcit asked h[m *hat he would like for the e• 1 eism. "Oh. you can keen, it for yuue'eff. tidy." was the prompt answer. Ask the time Those who speak of their sons or brother coining through the war "with- out a scratch" about abt the cooties. • BELGIANS GREET TEs . $IG*AL GODUIC , OE?. _me bit atreAuotr tor the. horses• er.pecully in a( iapyIlfSAHtN?S otlr 1NATRl110Ni, the transport and aralkry. but. even so. the Belgians say enure kick wonderfully whet "Newly Weds^ should esti CANADIANS WARMLY. well in abmpa raon with those of the ftun, I dlhould Not Do. • whose animals were thin and in poor con 1. You shall not glee your Atts- dittota t' band "beaus" other than kidney and "Vitro les Casadieoacm." haricot. for "strafing" Is the bane ot "Viet lbs ober i •,%I" the crowds malrfmony, and the wile who glees sh sit. as we soler the •*lieges, lIe the back -talk Is seeking trouble. tern reply with "Vint la pomnlc de 2. You shall not "pop down to lever' and of het pat ri tic erre+. breakfast" camouflaged In curl - I ha* the pleasure of arriving in Lon Tro.Da on March to Germane Reeeh•ed sills gage. Muale and Cheers. The Lxtdon Free Press publishes the ollowing tetters from Sergi. W. E. El- liott (son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Elliott of town I : Buret. jlelgium, Nov. 22.—(On the gtarcb to Get maree.)--At test we are treading the great march through Bel- gium which tor w Wog we only dreamed —a great conquering.ermy. with the 1st Battalion. Canadian infantry. properly the head of column. Everywhere therf has been a wonderful welcome from the inhabitants of the villages four years uh• der Hun domination. Nowhere has the enthusiasm exceeded that shown by the people of this little town rear the famous old battlefield of Quatre Bras. A depu- tation of frock -coated dell authortttes met us outside the town. Hundreds of little children marched through the red • *tree s ahead of us. waving Belgian. add at least. French ind lttttl-h flags and cheering and 7. You shall not expect your wife singing, whsle their mothers and sisters division *as. and no one cared a qualt- danced by the roadside to the music o(' fled cur I bd etted myself with the 2nd 10 sweet and amiable morning, the bands. The kt:al band headed the C. M. R.'s. shared a b•rnk with a comes' soon, and Dight; for it you do, you tet scion. and behind it. in the glory of are going to be badly disappointed pr in that era, got in the breakfast 6rnrup- 6 You *hall not tell your wife don fro¢t'Manchester on Novembe��e the day the armistice was signed were wild scenes that night on the Strapd, in Piccadilly. the Haymarket and bei Shaftestrli avenue. Redtabbed staff of. fusers. Ott whom dignity hitherto rested like a mantle, rode on the topsof taxi- while cab.. waving sticks and flags, everything oo wheels was crowded with eotdters and girlie bound nowhere in par- ticular and paving no fares whatever. The celebration was still on when I left nearly a erek later. It showed itself in increased cordiality towards visiting troops. Once 1 even got sugar in my tea m a London l . M. C. A.' took for better or worse that he V It took four days and a half for me td tot half a bad Bort. find the battalkan, and some of the lads For Husbands. papers, pins. or potent (rtzaers. 3. You shall by no means ask your husband what be would like for dia- ler, as there is nothing he likes bet- ter than a guess in the evening; and • good wife knows her husband's likes getter than he does himself. 4. Remember that your husband Is a man and not an archangel; and that blessed 1s she who expects lit- tle. for she may haply get more. 6. You shall not wish. (aloud) that your Wieland were such a one aa Mrs. Sof .ebody Else's paragon of all the virtues. but shall. if you be wt.e, occasionally tell the man you who left France before me are still miss- ing. Valenciemg♦es was the railhead, and there was plenty of motor lorry traffic to Mans. but there the tr disappeared. No one knee where the first Canadian 6. You shall not bring home any other fellow than yourself to take "pot luck" without two days' notice cadet and gold, came the huge Nag of alit! thrtyptoceeded in the general three. the corporation. It was the end of a tion of Get many. six a en•nuR "hike" over Loud roads, but At noon, having tramped over eighteen out brass band put its entire resnairung kilometers, I found myself in No Man's energy into the regimental air. "John land. with no troops visible. and where Ped," and Judging by the chetrine most staring Gvtlians accepted money for coffee. of the inhabitant: must "teen John Peel' Taking a cast oft to the east I struck a very welt. lode company of the. 7Sth King's Own Under the terms o1 the armistice. the Scottish Botderers. Nothing could be Hun had to leave this part of the coup- more aimpiete than their ignorance of try in good condition. Crops are in and the location of any Canadian unit, but look well. There are quite a few cattle and horses. though so many of the latter have been taken away that oxen and cow.; are more often seen hauluig the plough. The largl has not been fought over (we are minty nortt.east of Mins) ' and the houses are undamaged ,in the Old Saying Amended. main. Undoubtedly they have been pie "What's come over the girls nowadays: lagrd to some extent. There isn't a bit they dont seem to want to marry .'" of brass to be wren; even the knobs have "Perhaps they think: Where sfngleneas been removed from ( ons and window is bliss, 'its folly tote wises." fastenings. One of the men was grumbling in the their officers gave me a hot dinner. a madame at the officers' mess. olio had never seen a Canadian, contributed two "'erring 1 dangled on my way. During the afternoon. farther east. 1 encountered Canadian Engineers. and then the Royal Montreal Regiment. A driver of a lien took me to Soignies.' altere the brigade was. Brigade headquarters could tell me nothe g as to the loc'aition of my own lot, but gave me supperes bed. breakfast and ctgar- ettes and tent me away next morning. Her Complaint. ranks yeeterdav ever the k.ng march m 1 made my way to division headquarters the mud. with he ivy pack.lend ancther re- in Neufvilles and there learned where the, "If it ain't enough to drive a poa oved him atter this fashion: Aw, woman barmy'. i Morino won ie'" ex- Pr battalion lay—in the village of Naast. prologue of the great war, declares ahut�up: you railer history for Your back over the rand t had float travelled.; the London Chronicle. She would dairned Mrs. Mixup to a sympathizing grandchlldrenl'' It will be something for A couple of kilos' ride on a spare artillery I meddle in minor matters, especially group of friends and nrighbers. "Ere s Canadians to look back on with pride in horse out and I made •'hone' in ;when she could appear censorious of me met od'me feet again after triplets— years to cant. when the mud and fatigue time dinner. an individual's morals, but so far u triplets. rnefk ver !—and they've got eve have i.wn more or teas forgotten. Something similar k the experience of I any understanding of the Intricate all men returning from leave to the! problems of race or frontier or na- United Kingdom throve days. It is often, tlonality was concerned. she had net - more trying. and i know ol cases where' ther the wish nor the capability to men have declined their leave recently , interest herself in subjects which she rather than undergo the trip during i imagined concerned only the men. prevent unsettled conditions. It was the Kaiser's parvenu Idea to when you find her "tired to death," that the house was clean enough and that to go and turn every room mut was a piece of blithering tomfoolery. 'here is no surer road to strife and bitter tears. 4. Remember to bring your wife chocolates like you used to. for a few shillings thus spent—a pound of the best—brings a week of content; for where thoughtfulness is concerned a little goes a long way• 10. You shall not covet the last word. but shall let your wife have 1t for her own. shutting your mouth like a rat -trap teat a worse thing befall. KAIAF.RiS .AND THE WAR. impress Played Small Part In Pn,logwe. The Empress of Germany ptayi but the smallest part in the political ole man down at the training camp. and they're a-tearnin' 'tin 'os to tam fours !" - Fair Play. 1f a men's mina is ever filled burring thought., 0 - when he the gas 1,111. aith pays -e In the meantime, discipline has tightened up. rather tl an relaxed, and there is constant shining of brass and cleaning of leather. presumably for the edification of the admiring civil popula- tion. the long marches are proving a BREEDING SHETLAND PONIES IN CANADA Edith of Tranay and her foal, and a foal she is nursing beside. • For the name's sake 1 visited London make the court of Berlin a brilliant South while in the metropolis. and there! and fascinating assemblage which Ian George and his royal mous I would rival the lost glories of Ver - met i g out driving. escorted only by a few sallies and surpass anything his fore - mounted police. A few hundred thous- ; fathers had evolved. This last ambi- and other people had gathered to see the! tion was not difficult of realization. same sight. War s upheaval doesn't . But there was neither the money nor seem to have shaken the throne in Great was Augusta Victoria the ornamental Britain. `' type of woman calculated to be a On the Field of Waterloo. 1point of orientation for the splendor iud brilliancy which the young hus- Beuzet, Belgium. Nov. 28th.—Today `band's 'animus had prescribed. A11 the Canlltians are on the Field' of Water• j the pearls of the Indies and the biro - too. About a hundred ysars or so late.,] cedes of Lyons and the sables of Si - butt still they're there. 7 he battalia[ ill beria could not transform this plain resting for a day so near the famous battle- and ill -poised princess into an ideal field that a lorry load of officers and N. C. Youthful viaitnra— the two children on the left Irelong to Mr. Percy Colons, of Montreal, who taker an active intnrtnt in the Victory Loan Campaign. Fr wart in 1112 that Mr. T. B. Man auley. President of the dun Life Aaloran,•e Comteaoy of ('►nada. Orin Imported Shetland inmates to ('coeds, but long before thin date he had made s uteri!' and very close attidy of the hreedimt ,e( Iheae ponies: 11 was, therefore, very natural that during Mr Macanlay's ti:ett to the snrth of Scotland he 'Dol 'f ler sod secured the he -it possible pedigreed ponies On his beautiful estate. which Is 'situated nn the Heights at Hudaoa. Quebec, near Montreal. there are to. day some of the most (aurone pare bred Shetland ponies le existence' The Canadtaa Pacille Railway passes through part of the estate and pas- sengers to Point Fortune and Ottawa 'save very often wondered to whom the little jet black pontes belong. Mount Vtrtnrla Pony paid Farm at iludson Iletghta welcomes rtsltnra. It is a sight well canworth 1,0 omen -fromPonies the U all typos tier twelve or eighteen Inch foal to the tether of the herd. Pulver Star of T , ehamplon of ell ir-otland. wtin steads hut tbirt llin -baa 4, b.ighi Possessed e la and tail Ater looks 'he Mn. i. H 14 d ol let Mark *04 Miasma ten Tion there d Is le protons evrodlklw. hi Math of Triomf, aan(lser prise oh- /tr r. and a fine type of germine IWO- Mind pony • Moocher pony tinier all •lsitere se* est ,hist* M std, Dorothea gibe 1 years old, but yon asset tell her s4 op just Hokum at her, for ab leaks sat ao well M the tree yaltgt Ar y sae M the rwest fa+•5 1 b,w40 In me wort... wilt a OAtSM- *tloa eft here( bleed N SheNaSd etnpress-geeen. The Kaiser was often O.'a went over to visit it. wont to coattast the empress with (kir triumphal march to the Rhine . the contemporary occupants of contmuett* featured by cheering Belgians thrones — the mystic and ill-f}ted waving flags—and mud' The country Alia of Russia, the young andAnt- is full of rolling contour 'those greasy• etous Queen of Spain. the beautiful slopes [nay be useful to the slide from I and gracious royal women of Italy bones burare highly unpopular with the who have recently reigned fn Rome. transport However. they managed to ' But the most envy anti invidious cum - get a be Canadian mail up today. and . parison were called forth when the we are enjoying the pleasures of antici- . imperial eyes scanned the sauve and peUon. Meanwhile Harry Bennet has smart court life of London. where been out garnering a harvest of perfectly King Edward and Queen Alexandra. good Hun helmets, left behind to the the idols of their people, continued scramble to get back to the Vsomber little their peaceful sway. How the flags light up thesese somber little tillages. We were accustomed to Riede Helping Win the War. the French trico'or, nearly always of modest oar but every Belgian who can' Iver, since this terrible war start - manage it displays from an upper win- ed a great feathered arm':- ?:.ea been dow of his house an immense specimen of fighting day and night. summer and the national banner. in all its glory of ' winter, to help the Allies win. With - purple and yellow and scarlet, sometimes wit the help of these feathered sot - bordered in gold. with tassels swinging' Were oar fluting meg would- .not from a shiny spearhead. It was a mys• tent to us where these people kept their FOR YOUR Bread, Cakes and Pies you will find (Government Standard) thoroughly dependable "MORE BRIAD AND BETTER BREAD AND BITTER PASTRY' Western Canada Flour Mills Co. United HEAD OFFICE—TORONTO, ONTARIO Casae ?..e a..rd 1.r owe r.,. Cerra 2 -00► --11... 11, te, N have had sumelent food. Our Allies would have been facing starvation and we ourselves Mould have been little better off. The margin between sumcient food for absolute necessi- ties and famine has been and still is uncomfortably narrow. hence the food restrictions with which we have all become so familiar. The margin Is harrow. but It Is sufficient. Have you ever realised that but for the birds, the feathered soldiers, the mar- gin might not. end probably would not, exist to -day' It is an Indisput- able fact. Had a great disaster de- stroyed all insect -eating and vermtn- destroying birds two years. or evea a year. ago. we would to -day be fac- ing such a on aborta maa antn all probabilllY w loss of tag war. Even is it Is the loss from insets and from such ver- min as rata and mice totals a sum so vast as to be ■Imoat unbelievable. What '1l would be without the aid of birds In keeping the pests in check fairly staggers the Imagination.— People's Home Journal. • Champion Silver Star of Tra --Pttnee or Theile, the strain which [yr. Douglas. author of "The Shet- land Pony.. says is the scores of the Yost riding blond In the breed. Dorothea Is believed to be t1'i. naly Shetland pony living to -day which U practically Dire bred to Prince of TYa1e nn both sides. f Tim ponies In th. hard •re black, Attestant and white. and black and white. Poets' suited e*Derts1I7 for the nee of ektlde in Inc bre&, while experiments are Aetng eondnrtsd to predate' • sew breed of posy by UMW nay. the head of the herd. lag pellgreed Ebetani mares with • prise wtnnfaag� Hackney pony stallloa. Tlls 1s calculated to Mag out • posy with all the (otitis characteristics of the Ph.tlasd and a'1 the fine action et the Haekooy pony. Besides posies and all the stock that to fogad to • prosperous farm ,them U • herd of elk on the slopes of [indent Helens. Thee run Isom winter and minamer Mad add to the attracttoes or ons of the beauty *pets attar Montrs.:L 5 . , , , A. 11. O. • hatlot.al flags ail these years while under German rife, but it has been stated that ; Fritz's commercial instincts overcame sentiment and he entered the market' with a m,tde•inl ermany stock when the retirement began. However that may he, it is certeio that he sold no British flags The Union Jack, wherever seen along our line iii march. is homemade. The mesdames, who sewe »em together. were not always sure of the extort makeup of the Jack, and there are some curious St. Andrew's crosses in the corner. but we appreciate the effort all the more. The mottos displayed on arches and windows and walls are likewise eloquent of god feeling. They are "1. Due Aux Allies." "Hontteur Aux Liberateurs " "Vive la'Detiverulce." "Hnnneut Aux Soldats de la Semnme, de In Verdun." and many other welcom- ing phrasett (Jur hands rouse tt em to a great pitch of excitement. In Beuzet the local musical chsnTnizattrm turned out and played a imicert in "I -a ['lace its first public appearance and eta fust tune in tower years' And its first number was .'God Save the Kinge' As may be im- agined. the bandsmen were a bit shaky on some of the notes, but there was no thing uncertain about the cordial feeling thus expressed The colonel ordered nut our braes hand and bugle band to r, turn the compliment; in fact. w we rest a day our hands play on the village streets. [Jur bugle bond is at present in chine of Cara Ford. [ truism. of Wind- sor. Sergt. Day being in Engiand on leave. What tors the bard play on the march? Well, "Over There." ' Gypland " ^C.ori- temptibk Army," "To the Front," "On to Victory; aLsoAiy' is ibaki,- •• Voice of the Gum'," and all that sort of chi . In future "TlseGirl i Left behind M.' is to he our farewell musk on leav- ing a town. just ss the regimental "John Peel" is the inevitable marching in nium- box. The gumlike is. what are we gning to ppiItty7 newt** into Germany, and what kiwi of ti will In thea meantime Mtilne axe tie finest sights we have ae in weeks was • real loco- motive and win. running over the track between Natrik and Brussels. last night t'they 'Mean. The atesaaingly meanlinglesa figures as the lining of your shoes are en- tirely Intelligible to the shoe clerk. Tbey are to code. and the code is a tribute to twinan vanity. There are several codes, the most common of which Is termed the western For In- stance, 376 means 7 % C, The •umber. 3, indicates the width, 1 meaning A; 2, B: 3. C, etc. The second figure Is the length. if a 5 appears after it, that adds a half- s1se. An 0 indicates a whole six-:,; 6D. for.tnatance, would be 460. Sweet Omors. Sweet odors are of three kinds— the floral, the aromal and the bal- samic. The first group Includes all those derived from sweet smelling Bowers and plants: the second. those derived front *tusks and resins; the third. those derived from leaves and gums. The Otto. or essential oil of perfume. is obtained In th:ee differ- etweys—d1st illation. maceration and encourage. Massey -Harris Shop — FOR -- BINDERS, MOWERS AND CULTIVATORS. DELCO-LIGHT PLANT BUCKEYE INCUBATORS. GRAY AND McLAUGHLIN CARRIAGES. GAS ENGINES. WIRE FENCE. OLD HOMESTRAW FERTILIZER. Robert Wilson Hamilton St. ( •,ixlrTi ll i For Good Reliable Shoe Repairs, try Smith & Ring 30 East Street. Opposite Knee Ch,,, _h Give Us a -Trial F'arnous Pass over the Rockies WHEN Sir George Simpson, In 1841 made his overland jour- ney round the world, in the interests of the Hudson's Hay Com- pany. no region Impressed him with Its sublimity and wild grandeur more tbau the ridge of the Rockies bstwa'n the prairies and the Upper Coiumbba Valley. The pass by which crossed this ridge still bears his name std 1s used by a few of the more adventurous tourists. hut still more by Alpine climbers with am- bitions to irate Mount Asetnibolne. a pytamldal monarch of dearly 12,000 feet high The description of this pans across the Great Divide le con- tained 10 the journal written by Simpson. After crossing the How, following one of Its tributaries which to evidently Healy Creek near Hang to the southeast of Mount Brett, be says "We were surrounded by peaks and crags on whose summits Me per' petusl snow; and the only strunds which d*tnified the solltude were the crackling of prostrate branches tinder the tread of our borsch and the roar- ing of the stream as It leaped down uta [rocky course. 'About seven hours of hard work brought us to the height of land. the hinge as 1t were between the eastern and western waters We breakfasted on the level Isthmus, which did not exceed fourteen paces to width. filling ear kettles for this one Lonely meal al ones from the crystal sources of the Columbia sad the Saskatchewan. while these willing feeders of two o.Woslts oceans. murmuring over their beds of mossy stones. as if to bbd each o; her • Iona farewell. reek hardly fall to atlas* our minds to Use sub- limity of the wens. Bet between throe kindred Nes tater, the common progeny as Odaof tlie snow wreaths. there remarkable d$f.re•oe of temperature. thau the source of the Columbia Moored 41 . *1141. ileal of tb letakag, skew$* raised oke woman to M. Line of the Great Divide Separating Alberta and British Columbia the thermometer meanwhile striking as ►Igh as 71' In the shads. "From the vicinity of perpetual anew, we estimated the elevation of the height of lard to be given or eight thousand feet above the level est tot sea. while the surrounding peaks appeared to rise nearly half that altitude above our heads "in addition to the physical mag• nttleenre of the scene 1 here met an unexpected reminiscent., of my owe >ytive hill■ 1• the elope of a plant. which •peear.d to me to be the very heather of the Highlands of Scotland. 1 tarried away two specimens white. however. ea a '*tante cs.Dartees i Oland to Mar fres% oke guanine staple of Use brows beaebe of the land et cakes" TM Massa Naas M user end e1Nb be gseltstam*, wbe tad this s emaysstost way of reheats", flu woo - Aortal heaths' gresod• of the Zoete may 1elle1 hem Banff. the tile( evt- At1M pet la the Caaadlaa POO. Rockies. The route Is also being used by the more adventurous toprtsts who desire to go ramptng and fishing en a week or fortslght's trip In oY taking their 'vacation In leisurely way near the big such party of tourists m last July. finding the freer from snow than led to believe from A son's deeerjpfien. 1 Alone meadow. os found ■weft and a panorama of the, moontalsa was stone honndary Ilse at the 0 beets and Nr1 Jim Drew the Rendre. age. oke tr Mures P their tear was rut farther rite i