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The Brussels Post, 1918-7-11, Page 2GERMAN CRIMES lifted ashore; two seamen who had gone mad had to be dragged from the boat, which they refused to leave, A ON,'( i+ Grimmer Bled of gangrene a fortnight Tilt IGH SEAS later 1n huepital, \where the baby oleo 'succumbed, after passing eafely through all the horrora of the journey, STORIES FROM THE OFFICIAL A steamer was ehelled by a submar- ADMIRALTY RECORDS. ine and stopped. While her crew — wounded by shell fire. The Germane Where the tall colonetls cant° Phe spirit of wandering 11<>tvs to came alongeble the beats and guile- You found the Grail of your questing. the veins of T•lu wanders No other A farmer owned and drove a late - British Seamen Have Declared a tiny- . Cloned the master, but refused to sup- • lad-- nation is filled w•telt such an o other model automobile owned which suddenly Not 1 an fiat for the wounded Dieu and And you soldier -soul was only glad coat Against Germany and \ ply Y midst of mortar -flume! . able yearning and dcaire to roam developed battery trouble, making t told rite boats to deur e>af. The tier- In the e over band and sea end explore the re necessary to remove and recharge the Without Reason. I viv ors were nicked un, after having • •s fo roar mutest regions of the sky, The wan- battery; Apparently there waft a leak 1 Tis never the need c f teat r y t hush, to the heart of to wander to the furthest limit of The wires In he London Times are published been adrift for 28 home, Nor the wietful words of grief! `der -thirst constrains and compels us somewhere in the electriea! system. t * details of a number of cases of Ger- Hun Continued Shelling. For death --alt, turd connections were gone man crimes against British seamen. Another steamer, atter coming un nal— space and thought inquest of noble over carefully for worn insulation or The stories are from the official Ad- tier fire from a submarine, signaller] let bound with the golden flour -de -lis ideals and the glorious future, The brulten places, but none could be a • ud when one reads s but he Ger- bronze of the moldy leaf! blood of the Vikings, the suns of found. Everything seemed in good miralty recol l., a that she was stopping, t The them he will understand and sympa-' man tools no notice of the signal and' thunder, and the spirit of the mighty condition and no trace of a leap could British w Fur death, who reaps for the shining sea rovers will have their way, and be located. Still the trouble continued, seize with the action ,. the continued his shelling. The crew seamen in declaring n boycott after abandoned ship, and when their boats' sheaf ; we must go wandering with the wan- and in desperation the owner was on the wara„•ainst Germany. ' had chopped half a mile astern of the' Of the symbols which are best, dyeing wind, ever sucking rlevv the venae orf of tearing out the old • r carry- But stooped, in a splendor breathless paths and ideate until all that is nob-, wiring system and replacing it with A British passenger steamer, 2 , steamer the submarine fired four .-brief ing 77 passengens and a crew of ..17, shots at rite chief engineer's Unfit, ; 'lest and Vest in the world has. been new, with the boyo of thus blindly 'a To seep the eign of the maple leaf— discovered and absorbed into our civ -'removing the trouble, when suddenly was torpedoed without warning 1z which was only missed by n very Hat the battery became as efficient as miles from land at 11 o'clock at row margin. , Which I wear againet my breast! ilizatinn, That is tier spirit of Eng - night, and at onee took a list to stare While two men were coming down ,q'i. •never •the need of teat's fur you! :land and America which is compelling ever. The puzzle seemed beyond so - board. Her boats were lowered as the falls of another steamer to join \. ith your Face set toward •d the foe, `the development of the flying -machine. lution until the farmer's youthful -son quickly as possible, passengers and their comrades in one of the ship's •\;bile the clear colonial bugles blew ; It is like Greek fire, immortal and not remarked: crew abandoning ship white the tier- boats, a German submarine, lying 200' Your last charge, lad afar year last. to be quenched, and ft will go on "Save Dad, I believe it was that mans put a meend N,rpede int, the y, p scever• ing for ever and for ever and for spotlight that made all the mischief, arils away, discharged a torpedo atadieu! • I Before we had it the battery gave us vessel. the ship. The torpedo struck the: You want as you wished to gni I cannot set foot on the springy no trouble, and since the light got Left to 'Their Fate. ship's side and exploded, killing broth -- turf without wanting a horse to gal- broken and we sent it away for re - The submarine then came to the men in the falls, and must have been CLOGS POPULAR IN WAIT MILI5 e sut•faee, wished the boasts' e•tml,anua . aimed were abandoning ship five men were The Maple Loaf.• AN AIRMAN'S LONGING. "Tis Haver the need ,f team for you! 111.4 Arl,ele (peers Expression to the You went as you wished to go-- blue o -- Wt+naler-`I'ldret of Englishmen. t When the shies of Franey were April blue Pieture in your imagination the; As the Northern Spring your boyhood vast future of the flying machine, and' knew-- all that it means to our country, Eine; ------e---• r"5 - With your forci,ead toward the fool Aire, and civilization, and you will ) ,,.....,.kr''> swere': Under the rim of the red barrage ungrudgingly do everything you can, to help in its development, I An Elusive Battery Trouble. ware the obteet to vtew flop rnile after mile over the breezy pairs the battery hasn't troubled he A steamer whieh was torpedoed : Wooden Shoes Introduced into Eng• moors and the warm and purple hea- either." good night; and disapeeared in the warning went dotvtl in five thee, mounting higher and higher on This set the father to thinking, and darkness. One of the lifeboats had fish Munition Plants. item hills, until on the highest crest he came to the conclusion that what been damaged while "teeing lowered, mhtutes. The submarine circled round' one looks over the wide highest apse of P the wreckage, and then made off. The, When the "man from Lancashire' P his son had said might be true. He owing the jamming of s os and F g p, y liked lots of light when driving at bi'• list. Site was consider- survivors clung to the wreckage for turned his hand to munition making ronin hills and dee thickly wooded the ship's n 'six hours before being picked up, 64 he not only went to any part of the valleys through which silver streams night, and had been in the habit of ably damaged before getting clear_ men losing their lives and only 12 be- British Isles to take up work, but also run babbling, and one feels a part of burning the headlights, spotlight, and and every wave washed over her cam took his clogs with him, says atone the magic of the fres earth and sky. other lights on his car when operating an „-hose sufferings were deplore ing saved. As a foot note to this re- g• i les etch. The result is to be' I cannot see the sea without yearn- it after dark, and perhaps this was too .pany, t cord, the Tames publishes the account .on [ t able. About two hours Inter after of a meeting held the previous day at found in the "clatter of the clog" in ing to sail over the horizon and along leasing the ship a fust -aloes passim- GERMAN RULE IN AFRICA. ger died from ex o•ure, and hes body Hammersmith by the British and For.: those districts where it was previous-'. the shores of sunny Spain into the was washed overboard. Then a vvo_ eigrt Sailors' Society. Mr. Gerald L. ler mlknovn, Lancashire clogs are in blue Mediterranean and out into the man died, but her daughter continued Perry stated that when the crew of consequence becoming popular all over mystic East. "Frightfulness" Practised Upon the th•nktng the Tuscaria arrived on the Irish the ceuntry. There is trite a boom in I cannot hear the tinkle of a cattle g q 'bit ethout being transported to the Unfortunate Native Tribes. much of a drain on the battery. In- quiry at a service stiction confirmed him in his belief, Therefore, a'l'ter the spotlight was repaired and install- ed again he was careful not to burn it and his headlights at full power for any length of time, and in consequenee no further battery exhaustion was experienced. On the average ear the dynamo and electric system are designed amply to care for the regular equipment, there- fore any added electric equipment should be used sparingly and the bat tevy discharge, watched so that no in. jury results. Especially dose thea apply to the electric heating devices, some of which are designed to keep the driver's hands comfortable, others to heat the gasoline mixture during cold 'weather. These or the spotlights are not to be condemned for this rea- son, but they should be used only when necessary, and then with judgment, even on cars that have no storage bat- tery, and that draw the current from the magneto. It pays to keep watch of the lights on any automobile, so" that none are burned needlessly, Especially is this wise when the car le left standing on the highway at night. A strong, fully charged battery makes for econ- omical automobile operation, and if unnecessary use of the electric cur- rent is guarded against it will aid in keeping the battery in this desirable state. to support the need none, t shore they were entertained at one this type of faotvvear, e w her mother was still alive. An hour of the institutes belonging to the so-, In several places in London boot summits of the mighty Alps at sun A London publication (Land and The observer in the airplane tries later the daughter herself died. A col- deter, One of the men said: "Don't ; dealers have set apart special win- rise, or smell the scent of the pines Water) is issuing a series of articles in vain to locate the enemy gun; his cued sealer and a passenger then sec- think the Germans are going to. dews for the display of clogs, and all without wandering through the limit- on Getman trifle in East Africa, repro- eye, looking through a telescope, fails combed A male passenger was now clueing actual photographs of natives to detect its muzzle through the foli- seen to be dead, and a woman who frighten us or any other seaman from ,their window cards make twice as i less wilds of Arctic Russia. I cannot was his friend be•ame hysterical, so our calling. Let them sink away. If much cheapness of the new line, al -see a dome or minaret without walk- subjected to brutalities which only age. So he flies away and the gun is there's one ship left we'll sail her, and though, of course, clogs are now ' ing in imagination through the streete the agents of the German Empire not attacked. thew Pretended that he had fainted, when there are no more ships, by the twice as much as they were before the of the Holy City, and I cannot watch could conceive and carry into prat- This is an example of camouflage and kept has boar s the boat, Fifteen war. What formerly cost $1.32 to the sanguine glories of the sunset tees. as it is practised in the European minutes afterwards a fireman lurch- saints, we'll swim it:' ed overboard and was drowned. The � $1,50 now sell from $2.40 to $2.85, and the mysterious clouds compacted '4\re quote from this publication: war. And the camoufleur is so ex - boat was picked u at 9 o'clock next' Vacation Days, and even at these prices the supply of shadow and shine without yearning "The idea still prevails in some pert that his business of fooling the P P is not equal to the demand. to mount up again on wings and ex-' quarters—not m many, we admit, enemy has become an art. morning. ; Oh, I'm glad as a kid, as a very emall This is specially true of 'Woolwich, plore their wonders and become a nowadays—Chat the German is not An marry use of camouflage by the 820 Miles From Land. i kid, where the local stores are unable to part of the glory of the sunset." Iuniversally brutal; that his cruelty is French was the application of paint to Terrible sufferings were endured I When school lets out in June, cope with the demand. The men in _F due only to a small clique of minter- big guns in order to make them re - b • smtva of the surrevors of another; I could dance a jig if I ever did the arsenal are not to be deprived of HISTORY AT FIRST-HAND. ists, who practise terrorism as a fine semble the foliage in which they British steamer, which had been' I could almost sing a tune. their clogs; they have ordered 1,000 art, and that when left to himself the were partly concealed. However, torpedoed without warning 320 miles I For it's good to be sure of my bays pairs direct from a manufacturer. Visions of the Past in Light That Has German is as kind-hearted as men of when the guns had to be placed in the f which the sole of other nations P , - - _ FOOLING THE OBSERVER. Make Believe With Paint and Brush at the Front. from land. The boat in question con -j again Alderwood, from w re Left the Earth. open, disguise only accentuated their tained 31 people, including two women: And my girls for the whole day the Lancashire clog is made, is be- I Facts aro entirely against this visibility. The protective coloration and a baby four months old. It was through; coming short, and it is estimated that Light travels at the rate of 186,000 theory. A German, no matter to what of birds and animals gave a hint to in charge of the steamer's chief offi- There's such a lot we can plan for it will be ten or twelve years after the miles per second. As everyone class he belongs, is by nature a bully. the camoufleurs who saw that et dis- cer. then war before this hest of materials for knows, we are now Let any human berng be subject to guised the outlines of these creatures The steamer was sunk on a lion-: And so much that it's good to do. soles can be grown in sufficient quan- left them d counteracted to a considerable de day, and during that night the chief' Oh I'm glad as a kid, as a very small tity again. ofticer's boat lost touch with the nth-! The trade which employs about a lookingat some stars with lights that a nem cen- him, be it woman, child or native, and an coup - turies ago., ! he behaves like a brute directly the gree their undershadows. So the high Suppose that you could be shot individual runs counter to his will. lights along the gun barrels were kid, ,thousand men in the north of England, into space at a velocity greater' than, "Germany has ruled for a genera- darkened and their under surfaces When the school house door is But that of light. And suppose that you t• in East Africa and these meth- lightened. The colors of the paint, of Food Control Corner The Canada Food Board is receiving a great number of emluiries relative to the food regulations applying to picnics, garden parties, lawn socials, etc, Special permits to serve food contrary to the regulations are being asked for, but such permits will not be given. Mr. Henry 11, Thomson, Chairman of the Food Bonne states that enactment of the regulations was Prompted by the need of saving wheat, meat, fats, and sugar, and that any little discomfort to which the picnieer, or other person patronizieg a function of this kind, may be put., is negligible in the face of the Stern •necessity of war conditions, "Observance of the food regulations at private and public functions gener- ally has a value infinitely greater than the worth of the food saved," Mr. Thomson adds, "Waste is indefensible, not only because of the loss of food directly involved; the weakening of the good intentions cif personas who see swill waste is a much more serious aspect of the matter. Surety if we Must not waste food when we work, we must also conserve every einem when we play. "I have confidence thee the people are ready cheerfully to observe such restrictions as are deemed necessary. They will add to the pleasure of every holiday and like function icy planning themselves, and helping others, to make all meals and refeeehments models in the way of substitution and conservation. The sugge.etions thus offered will be an inspie•aDon for guidance in the working days. In this country we still have a little time to play; while we play let us help the cause by playing the game of food substitution and conservattion like true sports. Every picnic and every public and private function where food is served should be strictly a substitu- tion meal until the war be won." ens. At 10 a.m, on Tuesday the wea- V they compelled them to take in all sail, does not produce man} novelties. and they lay to, • keeping the boat I'm lad to think that the key is hid in some districts dainty things in the were armed with a telescope so I ons are obviously not recent. And it course, harmonized with the surround - head -on to the enormous seas that g way of slipper clogs are made for powerful that you could see every- is to this systematic torture, to these ing objects, The finishing\ touches to were running. During the night they And I find it isn't hard, i summer wear. These, however, ggagte thing that happened on this earth. forms of punishment, whichhlra civil this work consisted in irregular lost their sea -anchor, and next day. RI And myvgirlshat ahow vborthy pea seunch they cs chiefly fort the p t'oada has te it girl would u Po time lditso befome he history coda of Germany inflicts in times of the onthnesand sndat blotchese least unfused the they lashed two oars together as a The hours that I like the best by far' who Peace for ordinary offenses against substitute. By Wednesday the chef tradition by going to work in a hat tonished eyes. You would see IQs -i society, that we are to hand baelc observer if they did not serve to pro - had gone mad, and he died during the Are in these vacation days. , instead of the all enveloping shawl her poleon losing the Battle of Water -,these wretched people whom we have duce invisibility. day. That night the storekeeper went ' And you ought to feel test way, mother and grandmother used to loo; you would see Ding John signing now freed and to whom we have giv- mad and had to be lashed down; he kid, wear, the Magna Charta; you would see the, en security from cruelty for the time THE CORN EAR WORM. died at noon on Thursday, and before For now is your chance to make your -- 4.------ death of Julius Caesar, and then Mark, being? nightfall a third-class passenger had bed Pie and —1 Antony making love to Cleopatra on "The idea is unthinkable. The seg- Difficult to Combat—Atl.ack Several also died. For their lore and their treat to- Colonel W. C. Germs, Surgeon -Gan- the Nile, If you like, you could jug- E Vegetables as Well. day gestion which has been made by the There were heavy squalls during Anct there's nothing antler the heave eral of the U.S. army, tells this story gle yourself back and forth so that German •Chancellor that the native The corn ear worm does not coniine Thursday night but an Friday the ens high about a National Guard Encampment You could see the same events over 1 races desire German rule would be its destructive work to corn but at - weather moderated. agonies of thirst last summer: and over again and make a special laughable were the truth less her- tacks squash, pumpkin, melon and That can make the agnels glad, "Jim Wheeler, a new volunteer eyho study of it. riUle. And to this suggestion the pro- beans. On tomatoes it is called the posal was added that the native peo- tomato fruit worm, on tobacco it is INDIAN NATIVE TROOPS. Pie should be allowed to elect their known as the false bud worm and on _ rulers for themselves. cotton it is the boil worm. Show Bravery When Ship Was Tor- "What could be the choice of nae The worm varies in its markings, pedoed in Mediterranean. rives who had before them the alter- but it is usually greenish or brownish Manufactory -Proprietor Schultze reg - native of 'frightfulness' if they in color, with stripes, or spots, and is litteredof with Mrs. Lunch c Schwartz The British Admiralty reports a :thought that after having declared about an inch and a half long, resem_ and Mrs. Second -Lieutenant von Bing, striking instance of the discipline and against the Teuton, they might yet tiling cutworms. Of come% there is no doubt as to the barred; were endured, and during that day an ablebodied seaman expired. On Sat- urday morning a fireman was found dead in the bottom of the boat and a pantry boy died in the course of the day. They drifted with sail down through the night of Saturday, there being no stars to steer by, On Sun- daycattlemanjumped overboard As a bay and a girl, while the years had not quite learned his business was go by on sentry duty one night when a Who are loving "chums" with Dad• friend knowing his fondness for pie, ----- -a--•-- -- I brought him one from the canteen. Canada's Harvest, "While he sat quietly on the grass , devouring the pie, the major saunter - It is true now, if never before, that ed up in undress uniform. Not recog- Canada is the bread basket of the Em razing him, the sentry did not salute, DISCIPLINE IN GERMANY. A Real System of Caste .Exists in the German Empire. From the time when he, is four years old, says former Ambassador Gerard in lely Four Years in Germany, the German is disciplined and taught that his government is the only good and effective form, The teachers in the schools are all paid by the gov- ernment, and they teach the children only the principles that the rulers of the German people desire. There are no Saturday holidays in the German schools, and the summer holidays last only three to five weeks. You never see groups of small boys playing alone in Germany. Their games and their walks are superin- tended by their teachers, who are al- ways inculcating in them reverence and awe for the military heroes of the past and the present. On Saturday night the German boy is turned over by the state -paid school -teacher to the state -paid pastor, who adds divine authority to the principles of rever- ence for the German system. There is a real system of caste in Germany. For example, I was play- ing tennis one day with a man and, dressing afterwards, I asked frim what he was. He answered that he was a kaufmann, or merchant, For the Ger- man this answer was enough. It placed him in the merchant class. I asked him what sort of a kaufmann he was. He then told me he was pre- sident of a large electrieal company. Of course with us he would have an- swered first that he was president of the electrical company, but, being a German, he merely disclosed his mete without going into details, On the registers of guests in a Ger- man summer resort you will see Mrs. a ons b ire. By August Canada will have his companions being tun weak to re+- P so themajor stopped and asked, bravery of Indian native.,troops cue him. shipped 148,000,000 bushels of wheat What's that you have there?' aboard a sinking British transport in from 1917 harvest overseas. Over and "'Pie," answered Jim, good-natur- the Mediterranean, which had been Suffered From Thirst, above her own normal requirements edly. 'Squash pie, Have a bite? The last tot of water was served out, the United States last year had only "The major frowned. 'Do you a mouthful apiece, after which they 77,096,000 bushels of surplus wheat, know who I am?' he asked. haughtily. tried to collect a little moisture from although by conservation methods she "'No; the sentry answered, 'unless occasional showers. Then they lick- saved and shipped more. Canada and you're the major's groom.' ed the oars and woodwork, but every- the United States both have increased "The major shoolc his head. thing was saturated with salt. So, the area sown to wheat this year. Ac- "'The barber frnm the village?' at last, they broke up their water cording to official conservative esti- "'Nol' thundered the other. beaker and licked the inside which mates 1,324,960 acres represents the "'Maybe'—and the sentry laughed was saturated with moisture. On Sun -`increase in Canada. 'Unofficial esti- .._.'maybe you're the major himself.' mates place the figures at over 2,000,- "'1 am the major!' came the stern 000 in the three prairie provinces reply. alone. Fifty thousand extra men will "'Good Heavens!' exclaimed the be needed there for the harvest ac- sentry. 'Hold the pie, will you, until cording to report. In the east an in- I present arms?'" weak to make the share. however, a creased acreage, not only for wheat »9--- couple of fishing bents carne to their but for other crops not yet reported, A pasture or rape run for hags will assistance and towed them in. Thelhas been planted, and the call for greatly reduce the cost of making linen keeper died as he was being farm help has already been raised, pork. day night the deck boy died. They sighted land at 3 p.m, on Mon- day, but the weather prevented them from attempting to put in until Tues- day morning when they were too torpedoed by a German submarine. The natives coolly proceeded to the boats' stations and stood at attention, As the boats were being lowered a second torpedo struck the vessel which was rapidly sinking. The sol- diers were thereupon ordered to heave the rafts overboard and jump into the water after them. These orders were carried out with commendable calm- ness, and all except three reached the rafts. The survivors were picked up patrol vessels and safely landed, Tarte care of all old bags. The supply of materials from which these be handed over to his tender care? "That has happened to them in the past, so they might well think it could happen to them again," Stopped in Time. Little Willie, who, for some months had always ended his evening prayer The prevention of the attacks of the insect is difficult, though early planted corn is more likely to escape injury, Manufactory-,ManufactorySchultze may It is seldom that it is practical or r-, have a steam yacht and e tetra, an desirable to spray field Born with are opera box and ten million mance. She senicals, though this has been done fila, he an old lady noted for het• for the first broodwhen without any danger works of charity. Her husband may of poisoning where the corn is not fed • have made discoveries of enormoue to stoclt for a month attar is has Ueon But elle will relative social positions of Mrs. Manu- factory -Proprietor Schultze, and Mrs. Second -Lieutenant von Ming. Mrs. llifr value to rho human race with"Please send me a baby brother, sprayed, For centre ng th at e e announced to his mother that he was brood that attacks the ears of sweet tired of praying for what he did not corn sprinkling has prevented consid-' get, and that be did not believe God erable injury in some gardens. This had any more little boys to send. does not kill the insects, but acts as j rward •he was cart•iet1 a repellent, Late fall ploughing and Not long afte into his mother's room very early in harrowing greatly reduce the number the morning to see his twin brothers, I of the insects for the following year, who had arrived during the night. Willie `- "tet - Willie looked at the two babies criti- Keep onion rows free from weeds, The third U. S. liberty Loan was ca-ey and then remarked: "It's a good Hand picking is necessary in this oversubscribed by 39 per eent. thing T stopped praying when I did." I work, AFTER THIS TOM Dt wr, iF YoU DON'T LIKE THE pLA`I ‘101.1M161 -1T AT LEAST LET OYII ER. ee PEOPLE. ENJOY d lye ' Ate 444 always be compelled to take her behind Mrs. Second -Lieutenant Bing, even if the officers wife is seventeen years old. A Big Crop is Hoped Por. All hopes centre on the 1918 crop of North America, Of all crepe the wheat crop is the most vital, The Canadian wheat crop eettmates for 1918, issued by the Census and Stat- istical Branch, Put the increased area at 1,824,950 acres and 426,000 acres increase in oats, Unofficial estimatee from those in close touch with condi- tiona in the Nest place the increased wheat acreage at over 2,0011,000 acree in the Prairie Provinces alone. Given rain there will be an immense grain crop in the West, in fact increased grain crops throughout the Dominion. The only anxiety then will be as to the harvest. Where are the men to come from? Some will come from. the United States, no doubt, because their harvest operations are over earlier than ours, but it is said that 60,000 men will be needed in the West alone. People of towns will have to organize their affairs so as to get out on the farms when the thne comes. Otherwise the harvest will be only partially saved and every grain of foodstuffs will be wanted, The actic:4 a in Canada its the highest ever recorded• place von only OUR SEATS ARE IN �TNE et RSI ttow !� m D / c,-.,.....—.-.---......_,..-,......_ THEATER.,'�'�,. �It'. >Y � � c � ^l �f r � r f '. a n / �. 4 da � a+y i� at e ,�i % ,/ 7 F 1 I ? . e .. •q i, > t pr //G w ?�J; Jj l / I l F�t ayYta �' ✓�i AiSJ r „ k r ,.40Y'ratty. ` �9 / ' r �S el li lir ff ,k y d fit, - -K a in //• �1pYINO W N r ( Mate, ... "`-: :. (ee) ' neA �y' e# 6}. :>ayP 4 , . ii% fit. tAr, •• Q • AFTER THIS TOM Dt wr, iF YoU DON'T LIKE THE pLA`I ‘101.1M161 -1T AT LEAST LET OYII ER. ee PEOPLE. ENJOY d lye ' Ate 444 always be compelled to take her behind Mrs. Second -Lieutenant Bing, even if the officers wife is seventeen years old. A Big Crop is Hoped Por. All hopes centre on the 1918 crop of North America, Of all crepe the wheat crop is the most vital, The Canadian wheat crop eettmates for 1918, issued by the Census and Stat- istical Branch, Put the increased area at 1,824,950 acres and 426,000 acres increase in oats, Unofficial estimatee from those in close touch with condi- tiona in the Nest place the increased wheat acreage at over 2,0011,000 acree in the Prairie Provinces alone. Given rain there will be an immense grain crop in the West, in fact increased grain crops throughout the Dominion. The only anxiety then will be as to the harvest. Where are the men to come from? Some will come from. the United States, no doubt, because their harvest operations are over earlier than ours, but it is said that 60,000 men will be needed in the West alone. People of towns will have to organize their affairs so as to get out on the farms when the thne comes. Otherwise the harvest will be only partially saved and every grain of foodstuffs will be wanted, The actic:4 a in Canada its the highest ever recorded• place von only