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The Exeter Times, 1919-2-6, Page 2',mow ts Richness In Quality • wes -Pot results tt but° _other es on sale anywhere Black e,Gre3sa e lc t Sealed Packe 084? 66:446400444.44.44.4444.4.11*1 MYSTERY SHIP GOT flaigat. rio 1111slacisi;it. -tehereallii-a1Xtri ! , Big German Drive in Franeel Extriel unATs N DAY / Ton Thousoad Fatricl r rex ers e. All About the Big Hian airoaelal AILING ESSFL MADE BR1TNII la that yer smallest, Boss? Extriel S Chirande! Change a boat! Extrie! I NOTABLE RECORD Down every street with slr111-pitched key And flying feet—we hear—Extrie! "Mary B. Mitchell," in the Decoy All about—Extrie.1 , Service Since Early in 1916, Sank From Harlem to the Battery. 44.441.01,4 Many Itun Submitei res. From London to the Zuyder Zee, From TeiciO to fair Dundee -- In divers tongues they cry "Extriel" Two German eubmarines were sank in one day by the Mary B. Mitchell, a The "Blood Bath" --such the wine sailing vessel, one of the "mystery They dubbed 1tes-well, at last it came ships" of the war. This craft was one With gas and flame. Then fell Baa - of the first, if net ,the first, of the decoy ships which played havoc with. the U-boats, This vessel went into thedecoy service early in 191(l, under To IVIontdidier they drove their wedge command of Lieutenant John Lowrie, With Noyon on the southern edge. All her officers and crew volunteered For. seesee days the long front bent paume, They took Combles and creased the Somme. BY Ploy Tolbeet Barnard for the hazardous work. She was Until it seemed their force was spent, CP A PTER V. Are you theie, Rhedta?" "Yes." "Is there senieth:ng else yea wish to say?" "N --no." "Of course, Rhoda, you know that I know you are running away. You are afraid you will marry me if you stay, ---Yes, you would. You know that yesterday you were afraid of the musk, that if I had—whistled al ant quoting you new) yeti would. have made a bee line for me at the end of that song. I'd have done it, too, only yo .0 looked so little and so wist- ful that hated to swoop you up without giving you a Little more time. —I didn't know that a girl could be brave enough to invite herself to vieit me at my heuse and then be too big a coward to it me come to see her at her own home! With her mother there, too! never mind! When I have invented a new kind of silo or wr7tten some new Beethoven Rem - tutees or d :covered a new kind of lee - cream sunane ar shown note other symptom of that streak of genius you divine in me, 1.11 net he proud. Ill let you come bock, any time you like because—listen etimely to this—you have to hack up your resolution not to marry me. by a thousand or so miles of space notwithetanding the fact that I am apparently a hopeless- ly insulatezl—wasn't that your word? —farmer. So you eee you really do like for myself. -LI am not laugh- ing at you! —Very well, then, I ant! —But surely you will admit that the whole. situation is ridiculous? .What is that ?—aVlea-at?-11ester Knight? —It is not exactiy probable but it is not impossible! You'll write, this time No? As you please! Good- bye!" As Townsend brought h's car to a skidding stop, a few days later, Aaron Dudley looked up from some machinery he was mending. "Watat you roaring around with the cut-out wide open for, Ward? To 'drown your own thoughts?' I judge you're. successful I thought a boil- er factory was coming down the road. What's the matter?" "Rhoda is gone." Aaron Dudley pureed up his lips thoughtfully. "White you going to do about it?" "Nothing. I do not want to farm next year and I'm not going to." "Sure you haven't any partteular reason ea letting the Ian re a year, Ward?" "No. The land has given me a friendly tip and by thunder I'm go- ing to act on it! It's a pity a man gm net ao as he likes on his own land without an uprising of the whole prevince!" "Well, don't bite my head off! Rhoda going to ver:te now and then?" Townsend smiled, recalling her Rene refusal to write or even to read any letter he might write. "No. That it why I came whim- pering to you." The eyes of the two men met in understanding. Aaron Dudley knew that Townsend never "talked much" to anyone. It was the greatest fault the neighborhood found wsth 'until they discovered that he was not having any fall plow- ing done. "I wondered if perhaps you did not write to her sometimes?'" Ward. questioned. Uncle Aaron , found leis red silk handkerchief and polished his spec- tacles before admitting cautiously: . "I might, .H. I could think up a reaeonable excrete to Mother. Why?" Townsend grinned ruefully. "Sup- pose you • let her know who Hester Knight is when you write. Rhode liked the way the house is furnished and asked sue how I managed by my- eelf. I told her Hester managed it for me or rather with me and before I could finish Rhoda acted so snippy that .1. did not explain. I thought I'd. be seeing Rhoda often for a while, at least, and would tell her about Mrs. ey0714e other day. Her last word was a suggestion that I marry Hester Knight!" Aaron Dudley .put his speotacles •carefully on, restored the old silk handkerchief to a hip pocket and shook his head. . "Aren't they funny? Women? Quick to see the troth when it is so obscure we men are just dumb before said dratted durnb when a thing is plain as day!" He threaded 'his fingers through Ms thick gray hair, smiling indulgently over that dratted dumbness of women. "Poor Rhoda! Why yes, come Christmas,. PE have Mother send Rhoda. a box .of jams and things age sag write a newsy letter to go along and - her what Rester picked out this time for Me to ear - price Mother and . the outrageous price it was and fast let her know all about Hester. I'll bring in about aivour trip: to Toronto with her and Richard Knight. It won't do. her any hurt to have to fret- tin Christ - ants. ; What you got there? Some tameras?: Going Into aniettetio pie- tere-taldng? Well, good-bye. Don't forget to mine over to supper with Mother and me some times. She likes to have rod.' • Winter "set no" waxed and waned: aping caMe early; the wiNoW row !budded and put north wee loaves be- fore the elras would trust the r buds 1 to the lunge in tae air; tae apple I orehard bleasemed into fragrant leve - 1 liness on the gentle slope prairie - dwellers eat). a hid, its gray branches . and pink -and -white blossoms etched in exquieite relief whether against mm hug blue 'Ales or lowering gun- metal clouds; and weeds held high carnival vashecked, running not over Townsend'e 300 -acre farm. The "neighborhood" wondered and talked ard criticized but with a certain kindliness under even the Sharpest c nem ents, ; Towneend loitered in the orchard,' went fishing down on the "crick,", took rates on his horse, Teraray At-! 1 kins. All whiter and through the spring months he had seamed wholly content, happy with the happiness that is wont to vanish with the first. teens. Fur from being disturbed or apologe- tic over the state of his land, he seem-, c..I to revel in it. Townsend's hon sekeeper, however, was the most non-plu'seed end the mos voluble over his ways. Her cemournt was that Townsend had "rigged up" a place in the attic where he finished his own pictures and that when he was nut running wild like a . . ten-year-old—and lean tharty-six the other day, if you pleash he worked up there whole days and some -Ulnas almest whole nights, getting brown stains all over everything and whistle; ing to himself. 1 He was guilty of confiscating a sheet to make a screen for projections —whatever they were! Of course it was his own sheet but the, Mrs.' Davis, had the care of things and she did hate to see tacks drove through , good eheets. One day when he had i a. missed two meals running and she had took him up a tray of food and coffee—though it did look like a man grown ought to come to his meals t when he was called—she had found ' him an excited, with his hair on end, and a -talking out toad and him by hniself. When he saw the tray, he laughed and grabbed for it. ' "By heck, I am hungry, Mrs. Davis," she ea:d he said' and then he yelled at I her, "Don't touch that!" When she ;asked what it was -eat hadn't looked . like "anything—he looked at her kind I of funny and told her solemnly that ; at was a medley, made up of a bushel or two of kodaks. She up and said, "Have you gone crazy?" and . he set his cup of coffee down and put . . fio • ,., ao impressivesaid, "I'm not 'sure. It mightn't be a bai, ; idea to keep an eye on me. I think, I am about to Make a revolutionary; ! contribut'en to the most whoop -la in- dustry in dustry in the world but it may turn aout to be a delusion of mind:" Thingsl went on like that for weeks and then' :the other morning Ward Townsend came tearing down from the attic and ; put a pine: on the talking machine I and picked up a chair and danced ' with .:t. When he zee her a -watching him, he .put the chair down and said. to her, just as solemn, "Mrs. Davis, you will have to learn to fox trot! There are times when it is next best to turning cart wheels, as a. mode of . expression, and you are usually the only available partner." If he had i been smiling, she wouldn't have ' thought so much of it but he wasn't. He was just as serious! So she satcl,; 1"You fox trot right out of ray . kitchen' And if he didn't stop to argue that it was his kitehen. Then) come a thing she couldn't understand.' That same night he telephoned to lUncle Aaron to come over and right . after diener them two went up to the attic. It was the first time he had taken any one up and she didn't blamo. him, the way the place looked ---like a' junk shop. She Could hear them, laughing and talking as excited and; when they come down—weld, she, didn't know what to make of Aaron i Dudley! His specs was up over one ear and he was waving that old red. harielkershief . of Ms around and she; heard him distinct say, "Wiser than 1 'tire children of Tight," and then when'. !Ward says lei that way of his she 'never got used to "I beg your par- don, Uncle Aaron?" instead ;0 "What , did you ,sag?" Aaron Dudley said, I "I said I was hungry enough to hat a. bite!" And hint a preacher! She ; was so mad she just told Ward there was plenty in the cupboard and let him get it himself. Thus Mrs. Davis delivered herself. (To be continued,) hiTh—li . The Dreadful Malady. "Seasickness,"' said Lieutenant Syd- nor Harrison, 'is a dreadful thing. It will minion even the returned soldier." "A Canadian en route for home, on a transport- was seasick. Hie corporal, - to get him out on deck in the fresh air, roused him from his seasick stu- por one morning and saide - .. " 'Come on, Jack! Up with yout We've been torpedoed,. and the ship'S sink in 10. minutes.' - - - • " 'Ten minutes?" groaned the Can- adian. Then he added, With a great glib: • , . " 'Cant you, hurry her 'on a. bit, corp?! "- . provided with a twelve -pounder and And on they surged across their dead, two well -concealed aix-pounders. Yet ever in the news we read— She sighted the first submarine "Haig Holds thee Line." e three miles away and leafed along awaiting a chance to bag it. The German craft followed at a safe dis- tance for a time, but finally crawled closer and after satisfying itself that it had superior speed and gun power oreand Bee A million men and more they flung Against a wall that swayed and Swung— Out-numbered—yes! But unafraid! The earth rocked with their cannon- ade, But oh the Hunnish blood that drained Failure of the mystery ship to re- With every Oell-swept yard they turn fire at once baffled the German gained. officers. They were quiet for fifteen In Berlin, banners waved that day . minutes and then resumed fire. When And lo rang out—but who can say the submarine came sufficiently close What *depth of woe they knew who and was in good position abeam, the - read - concealed guns of the sailing ship Those columns of the endless dead— were broeht into play and landed six , Who saw their wounded—mile on mile mortal lege on the submarine, which • Return -strain after train—the while was enable to fire an additional shell. Haig holds the line! Just three minutes after the first hit, the submarine was blown up by a , They strove for Paris and Celais, shot which holed it just below the • They thought to scatter and dismay foredeck and caused an explosion Our ht t l't 4, aLLLCd which threw a vast column of water high into the air. A Successfel Ruse. Later the same day another. Ger- man submarine approached the Mary pick. . B. Mitchell and opened fire at a die- t Gods what a duel! A stadium tance of about two miles. After the Where all the eager world had come sixth round the mystery ship was To see the beast recoiling there stopped and a boat put off. To all In red defeat—while ev'rywhere appearances the craft was abandoned. Haig holds the line! The submarine approached the sup- posed wreck at. full surface speed. THE D. C. M. Then it submerged for a time and The answer came --"You shall not pass!" From guns left by the Bolshevik, Front Austria's guns they had their -- suddenly rose to the surface again. Takes Precedence of All Other Dec- orations Except the V.C. The gunners of the Mary B. Mit- chell landed a shell just below the Who does not know the red, blue, conning tower and pierced the side red ribbon of the Distinguished Con - one foot above the water. A flash of diet Medal? Yet it is quite a modern brilliant blue flame and a dense yellow; 1 decoration, dating with the Conspicu- smoke came from the hole. Almost ous Gallantry Medal of the Royal instantaneously another shell struck! Nagy in 1854, the year of the come forward and the submarine was en- I i mencenient of the Crimean Campaign. veloped in black smoke and sank into , The Meritorious Service Medal dates the water bow foremost, with a loudi back nine years earlier. I The earliest knoW'n medal for dis-' The official renort does not say thatrtinguished conduct is that awarded by the Mary B. Mitchell was filled with! Charles the First. The recipient was wood to keen her front sinking, but ' Sir Robert Welch, of the Irish Corn - this was doubtless the case, as other,.mand, who recovered the Royal Stan - mystery ships we so equippeda I dard at the Battle of Edge Hill. Pre - were able to float in spite of any sumably that award would be the damage inflicted on them by torpedoes equivalent of officer's D.C.141. of to -day and shells. Their guns were frequent- -namely, the D.S.O. lv hidden behind doors in the sides ' • f tee uC'11 is Private Joh _____ n McKinnon, of the Black Watch, a sixteen -year-old boy. e BLACK FOX INDUSTRY — . 1The medal was awarded him in 1916, and, much to his regret, his parents Carried on Extensively in All Parts! succeeded in getting him discharged . from the army because he was under of Canada and Northern States. ! age! Youth will be served. The number of foxes in the ranches' During the war something like one of Prince Edward Island at the be - gurgling and hissing. of the ship which could be swung , youngest. . open. thousand ginning of the pelting season in 1917 red for iD.C.M.'s have been confer- ndividual cases of slistin- was approximately ten thousargh From December 1, 1917, to January 31, 1918, 2,500 foxes were killed and their skins marketed. The pup pro- duction for 1918 is 3,500, therefore making the number of foxes at the opening of the present pelting season 11,000. If estimates of 3,500 for this season's kill and shipments abroad are correct the season of 1919 will open for ranch breeding with 7,000 selected foxes as a breeding stock. Japanese and Norwegian operators are entering the fox breeding indus- try on a small .scale, Japan having taken 34 island foxes this year and Norway 24. Good prices have been realized, probably averaging $750 each. American ranchers took 253 island foxes in 1918. Raising ranch bred foxes is an in- dustry that is being carried on ex- tensively in all the Canadian prov- inces, in at least a dozen of the north - of the United States, and be- ginning in Japan and Norway, all ly- ing in much the same climatic belt, adapted to domesticating the black fox under the most favorable condi- tions. erm "In Flanders Fields." (Canada's Answer.) Rest now in peace ye Flanders dead, With each a cross to mark his bed Where poppies grow. The boastful Hun Who thought by might and sword and gun To win the world, his quest has fled. Ye noble dead, The fight ye led is won, And peace is round us shed, We live and love because you bled "In Flanders fields." Your cause has triumphed 'gainst the foe, To us in vain ye did not throw The torch; With pride vie hold it high, And freedom's light shall never die. Sleep then in peace Where poppies blow "In Flanders fields." guished conduct and devotion to duty hi the field. Many of the recipients have earned the decoration on a sec- ond, third and fourth occasion, awl have- been given bars to their medal accordingly. Here and there many years have separated the winning of the D.C.M. front that of gaining the bar. 'For example, Company -Sergeant-Major W. L. McIntyre, of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, who won the D.C.M. in the South African Wag during 1902, was given his clasp for bravery dur- ing the present war in August, 1916. Thus 14 years separated the winning of the medal and the winning of the clasp. On one occasion the D.C.M. was cancelled and the Victoria Cross given in its place. This happened a couple of years ago to Pte. W. Jackson, of the Australian Imperial Forces. A man in the ranks wears the D. C.M. in the place of honor on the left breast of his tunic, unless he holds the V.C. All other medals and awards —excepting the V.C.—follow the D. C.M. But the officer who gains the D.C.M. in the ranks and afterwards wins further decorations in the form of the D.S.O., M.C., D.P.O., D. P.C., or any of the Orders of Knight- hood wears the D.C.M. after them, but still in front of all war medals. A pinch of salt addled to fruit when cooking greatly improves the flavor. STOCKS He CO111101137 a Co. Mr:afters Montreal 4tock Exohante. 105-lOSaTufaA0710.0SITATION u. *4.44 4444 BONDS' :Nursing The Sick. The tame .rateat come in the Wee of healdar every woman, when unless she i$ waling to &irk the moist sacred of duties, she will be called upon to; , inarteter to the eick and Safelling'• "4 when those whom she loves will look :to her for care and comfort. One of the first qualifications for ! the positteon of nurse is is willingness to yield ohablute obedienee to the . , , nommen nvenarge, and to WO pain- staking accuracy in carrying mit hie directions. The patient's faith in the doctor should alio be encouraged as long as that phallic:Ian has charge of , the case, since it has a (lathed value ' in furthering the recovery of the pati- ent. A tranquil mind being of the utmost importance to the patient, ' everything' mast seem to be moving smoothly egid easily, no matter What d!fficteltics'the nurse may have to en- counter. The inValid should not be allowed to feel eny responsibility whatever about hie own case. I know you will say—"Why, every- body knows those things." But it is the little things that count in a sick- room, and though everybody knows, these eriaple precautions ;are very of- ten neglected, Too much 'stress cannot be put upon the appearance 'of the sick -room. It 'must be as cheerful and attractive as - • • -- ' of the patient may rest with pleasure upon his sure romalinge,.. The nurse herself must contribute to the agreeable environ- ment. H sinsist be "sutiripie and tasted, but above all, scrupulous- ly neat. No food must be in sight -- even medicine betties should not be obstrursieVyhi evifience. assenee ,has power to soothe, and aids nature's healing processes. So all grating and disturbing noises must be banished front the sick -room. The putting of coal on the fire is of- ten e.ccoraparaed by nerve-racking nolees. It may be brought to the room wrapped in newspaper, and laid noiselessly on the fire, paper anal As fresh air is said to be the best tonic, the sack -room should be well ventilated. An open fire 33 a fine exertion himself; A foot bath may be waren under the el:0nm to one in bed card •Of ten induces sleep when :all else falls. In illneso no detail Is un- important that can add m the least to the comfort of the sufferer. Substantial Supper Dishes. During the cold weather the house- wife turns her attention toward more albeit:anneal &Shea times those which have satisfied her family &vied the comelier seacon. We are coming to reealize that meat ,once daily is in ;eclat eatea sufficient, and; following the suggestion of those who have made .dietetiete a study, are finding acceetaine many dishes which do net WI far meat at al Besides being nouriehing and 'appetizing, the calles dezeribed beau are comparatively in- expeeeive. All have been tented per- sonally by the writer and called good, although it is nA claimed that all are original. thitaller folluei-cefgee:obfiubascmonallanigef?rEy3 until broWn. Slice in the pan one goadeeiz-ed onion and 'allow' to cook 1a few minutesTo this ad(' two ceps of cooked oice and the 'eame =went of canned tomato. Cook to- gether until well blended., seasoning to taste with salt and pepper—cay- teonnasteliked—or 'chopped red or green peppers. Serve alone or on Blecuilte with Cheese Pres-Ging.— Malta a white sauce and. in it melt a cupful of cheese tut in email pieces. Open the biscuit and pore the cheese mixture over them This is a hearty dish and very good to taste. Serve hot. A few hard boiled 'eggs, aeanan, can of tuna, or doled beef added to the cream sauce furnishes a pleasing variation to the lelecuit dish Stamen with Hot Biescuits.—Bake a tin of baking powder or buttermilk biscuits, using one's favorite retipe. Remove salmon from the con, free it from hones and skin and add it to a rac,h miali gravy or white sauce made quite thick. Break the fish into suit - table sized pieces for. serving. Open the • biscuit and arrange on a platter,. means of ventilation. A thermometer then cover with the hot gravy and should be frequently used in a sick- pile The biscuits may be buttered,' room. A window may be opened at but if the gravy is rich enough, this 'the top on 'a sunny day no matter how will not be necessary. ill the patient array be, if in the 'open- ing a wooden frame covered with flan- nel is fitted. An umbrella covered with a shawl makes a good screen When the windows, are open, the pati- ent being 'sheltered by it as in a tent.' A room a little 'shaded is more rest- ful to a patient, 'but a little sunshine in the room anal -es it more cheerful. The one in charge of a sick per- son should not allow visitors. £0 stay long, even though the physician has given permission to receive callers. Neither should the mime talk too much herself. Often the t '- fatigued in thas way. Some other - win good nurses fail in this parti- cular. They do not use 'discretion about when to talk and when to keep talent Unless' the attendant has some lit- tle 'occupation to fill the odd moments of leisure, the sick gne ds often un- ,1c3Iteril3istiaonorist who may houfvebeoitnhera.clubtuise-s to attend to. So the nurse may, oc- cupy her hands with some bit of work that may he readily pricked up and laid . down ' Don't read, unless the patient ts asleep. That i$ too.absorb- ing in appearance, and the paitient often hesitate's to Interrupt. Making the bed properly is one of the, necessary requialtes 'of a, good .nurse. Stretch the muter sheet tight- ly over the mattress and tuck it in firmly, and mu& discomfort will be avoided. In order , to change, the sheets while the patient is in bed, the under one Ss rolled lengthwise from. the edge of the :bed to where the per- son lies. The clean sheet relied` in like manner, is tucked in at one side, and 'unrolled over the space from which the first woe taken, until the two rolls are side by side. The pati- ent may then turn or be lifted over the rolls to the clean sIttelet, the soil- ed ,one is men:eyed, and the rest of the clean one unrolled, The upper sheet may he .changed by freeing all the clothes art the foot of the bed, 'and spreading a clean sheet over ell Over this sheet a blanket is laid . The clean clothes should then be tucked in securely at the toot,. arr4 the soiled set slipped arom under. Blankets are the better for frequent airing. Pillows may be comfortably arranged by placing a large one antler, the back aridishouldees, and a mall one under the head, drawing the lower corners of the latterwell down are as to fit into the nape of the neck, thosegiving: support to the head. i TO raise a person in bed to' a sit- ting poeiture, when too weak to help himself, have . the patient pat his right •ariri around the nurses neck while her right arm supports 114 • ehatildees. . The nurse.. then, leaning' backward need' make but Willie effort, and ve)th practice can raise the pati- ent with ease. Frequent bathiagis refreshing, and acte-as both cure and antidote for fey- eritsh tanditione, The :water „.ehould be tepid for face and hands, and Warmer -for the rest of the body. The patient elleculd be uncovered 01-4 e; little at a time, andsallowed to make .4,44.44404.44414 "DEMOBILIZING" BRITISH W MEW IS A DIFFICULT AFTER -WAR TASK IN OLD LAND Specie' Deintatinena of Ministry of Labor Faces 'Problem of Making. $20 Toiler's Content With $3. To "demobilize" about 1,00000 wo- men • war workers is the great. task assigned it special department of the Ministry of Labor, says a tendon desOateh. Women predominate in, this new organization. One, of the most difficult of their sgoblems will be how to. satisfy a munitions workee• who has been earning from $18 to $20 a -week now that she is called on to return to her ;former task as a family servant at from $3 to $3.25 a week. Government officials realize that this is one of the hard problems cons fleeted with the reconstruction period, especially as then girls and women must sacrifice sonic of the freedom they have enjoyed as munition work- ers and now submit to more exacting hours of work, They are appealing to the workers to adjust -themselves to the new order of things as best they can and to be willing to make sacri- fices during reconstruction as they did clueing war. Government Aid. 'Unemployment is a big problem. Employers •are admonished to give their workers long notice of dismis- sal .and not to discharge large num- bers at one time. To aid the girld the Government has decided to give each war worker $4.75 a week for thirteen weeks after she stops war work if during that time she does .not find other employinent. This is the only tangible bridge the Government • has been able to provide to carry the workers over the transition period. Other means of helping the situation are to be left to the new organization in the Labor Ministry. To solve the problem of demobiliz- ing these women evokers the country has been divided into eleven labor districts, each with a district council which will be in close touch with the Labor Ministry. These councils will be composed of representatives of each town or small district in which labor e t agency, there' and these agencies will organize com- mittees to care for the needs Of the workers in each town. A member of the Government re- cently told the Associated Press that the most serious difficulties could be expected during the first six Menthe of peace. During that time, he said, there was bound to be much unem- ployment and dissatisfaction over wages and the high coat of living. He hoped a reduction of the prices of necessities would help to relieve the situation. A CANADIAN IN GERMANY Describe e 'Triumphal March Through Runland—Canacks Looked Fine. Major Geary, of Toronto, in a let- ter from Bonn, under date of Dec- ember 8th, says in part: "We have had a great time ever since the. 11th of November. First there were the receptions and that sort of thing. The jaoy of the Bel- giarepeople was unbounded, and no- thing was too good for us. The only difficulty was sometimes in avoiding their kindnesses and different meth- ods of expressing a welcome. Even the poor people ran for hours with pitchers of coffee, a substitute, for they have not been able to buy the real thing. This lasted all through ! Belgium, bet, needless to say, it has been quite the other way in Germany. We have had no trouble. The people are very deferential, and ready to do what they are told, but receive us in what someone called a "frigid silence." They look foolish, sulleal, or mourn- ful, or uninterested. They take ofr their hats, . but don't smile; neither do we, so far as that goes. The girls, however; are girls, and I ex- cept a good many of them—they clo smile. On the -whole, the country we have passed through has not been noticeably hostile, nor do the people appear to have suffered much. Now we are just outside of Bonn and with- in a few miles of the Rhine, and begin to encounter a distinctly hostile at- mosphere, but that does not worry any of us. We are the vanguard of the British forces and the first in Germany, and it is all novel and in- teresting. I am lucky to be in this march, but it has been a long, hard one. The men have been splendid— did their 15 to 22 miles a day with: full equipment, and at the end of it ' marched into billets in some O'er - man towns bolting as fresh as daisies. They did not feel that way, ' but no German was going to knowh how sore were their feet and backs. "We carry colors, the bands play, the Boche salutes the flag, and everything is lovely. I have never I seen the battaliow look so well. It seems to be tacitly aceeeted, how- ever, that every man look his best, do his best and be his hest, The Boche is seeing a force of real sol- diers. All I hope is that he will neer think of `starting something'— he would simply get more than he was looking "All in all. for. this march has been a wonderful experience, from Mons to Bonn; from the last days of fighting to the entry deep into Germany, and an occupation of her rich Kingdom of Prussia. One must pinch himself to know that he is not dreaming and to realize that after all the collanse has onto. We are definite vietoes and peace id practically assured,"BRISTLES 'OF THE PIG -- Exported From China in Large Quan- tities to Gt. Britain and France. Pigs are raised everywhere in China and pigs bristles have become an fin - portent pornt article of export, amounting to 4,000 tons a year, valued at about $6,000,000. Bristles that are long, thick, stiff, bright, wiry and clean command the best prices. The yield of each hog is tied in a bundle, placed in water for a few -days, then scraped off, combed to remove impurities, sun- dried, steamed, and then sorted into bundles about lta inches in diameter, with bristles of uniform length. Most of the work of cleaning and tying the bristles is done by women, who re- ceive about five or six cents a clay. Buyers are very particular about the bristles being well cleaned, of uniform length and color, and the bundles solid. This is apparent when it is considered that prices vary from twenty taels to 300 taels per picul (133 1-3 pounds), depending on the assortments. The collecting. season is from November to April, as bris- tles are soft and useles:s for the tractr* during the hot months. This accounts for the fact that the main producing and shipping centres are north of the Yangtze. For export the bristles are packed in boxes, containing one picul to a box. The ports from which they are ships ped are; in the order of their imnort- once, Tientsin: Chungkiang, and Han- kow. Manchuria and Shantung are increasing in importance in this trade. Most of the bristles are shipped VI the United States, Great Britain and France. Chine offers an excellent field for the manufacture of brushes. It ; . is surprising that greater develop- ments in this direction have tot taken'.place. Bagpipes in Brussels. The London Daily Telegraph in its account of the entry into Brussels of King Albert says: The Americans came first in the military cortege 'which followed the Royal party. Then came the French. At intervals of 200 yards, and a silence, and then a sound gfrange to the ilruxellois, the skirl of the bagpipes 'blown by 80 Highlanders, leading the way for a company of their kilted comrades. The Scotsmen, let it be recorded, had the ' success d'estime of the parade. How the ladies waved their handker- chiefs as the Highlanders swung past, and how everybody voiced his and her admiration for these stalwart men,