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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-1-23, Page 6Buying Is not a gaflnble, but a:;e71:•,2 t irgt that yoti are getting the g ' .ate xG: possybl'e Quality and Value to the limit cl:g ? t:,e ems-- e! " a , y :t't- r '�' , 1 41 l�L.dy :���-.tLli_ ... .• ..... � M1S .G. to etet 7. Washing Without Worrying. Next to a ya, e. high lt :d - s tau:s fer conversation,~ the searaty of latter takes rank. Competent farm lead.. always hard to secure, has about reached the vanishing• point su far as the raids are concerned mil the housekeeper no longer ever- dream, of getting her wa:;hiug due, to env nothing. securing ether help. - The work is all up to the hoase-mether, and site must "live or die, Marc or swim, survive or perish." un,eide,l by hu'ntin na'..rds, The situation in the u' c,: ise the Fame. Employment bureaus tang ago hung, out the "No Domestic help" sa n. There are no 'rjrls s - ing domestic employment. with ,fac- to, es efiaram. three e t noes the wages. liousekeepere !n the times have for ,.true time beim .a. -ng the situation tend a ,,lust no �theii• 11,-00 to the rltange lh,, ,'(tion cf the ques- t4n is one which many farm women rat adopt—power tamliances to do much of the work formerly done by hand. Motor poser washing ma- ehr.s have forever supplanter the washweman in hundreds of homes, They are always on the jolt, never late quiet. effic _nt, courteous if treated well never demand a ten o'clock lunch. and don't tear the clothes, The electric machine is perhaps most convenient if you have electric power, but it is by no means the only thing. There are water power machines, dog power machines, a working out of the old familiar treadmill, where your household pet furnishes the power which does your washing, and machi-hee -which are run by the gas engine. As to types of machines, they are legion. The hest known are the cylinder machines where clothes are put in a cylinder which revolves through a tub of hot suds, Whatever the type or whatever the 'power employed, the power machine is something which every woman who ran afford it should buy. The Wringer is also operated by the same power which washes the clothes, so that the hardest part of washing is carrying the wet clothes out to dry. Not only do you save muscle, but you save time. Could you for instance, wash nineteen blankets in the old way in one forenoon and go to a pic- nic in the afternoon? This is what one farm woman did. Another on the same day did a two weeks' wash- ing for a family of six, and threw in two blankets and the curtains for twenty windows, then baked and put up her picnic lunch, and was as fresh as a daisy in the afternoon. The machine cannot perform mira- cles, however. Do not think for a minute that they are going to do the washing while you sit upstairs and read a book, as the advertisements picture the pretty lady. They are like any machine—they must be op- erated. Starch must be made, clothes fed to the wringer, tubs filled with rinsing water -and Panes got reedy. at:ut; will rout ..-it (town while the welling to on. Also, if the clothes wind aroand the wringer or you try to put too thi:k a garment through ---well, your machine is like- ly to step in the middle of the wash- ing., and you must wait for someone who understands its internal work- ings tr" set it going. Care in fecd- ing the wringer makes this unneces- sary, however, And, to boil- or not to boil, is another question. Most agents say it is not necessary—that good -soap powder, scalding water and sun are all you need. Personally, I prefer boiling. Wristbands and sailed spots do not need to be rubbed on the board if you use sufficient care. Soap all these spots carefully and let the cliches soak over night. If the spots show when they come out of the tub. soap them again and wash • eeeond time. Only on rare occasions will you need to rub them. Thrift Recipes. Lrf:ewer Beans, -1 cup beans, to cap stewed tomato. Salt and pep - pet and a teaspoon of grated onion Heat thorot gh'y, The onion and tomato should be cooked for ten mi- nutes before the beans are added. I Vegetable Hash.—Mix together and heat in a frying pan, with a little w^a ter or milk and a small quantity of fat and seasonings -2 cups diced cooked potatoes, 1 cup diced cooked • carrots, 1 cup diced cooked turnips le cup grated cheese. j Escalloped Carrots. -2 cups grat ed carrets,1 cup bread crutri ts, la: cup milk, 1-8 cup grated cheese, 1 table spoon fat, as teaspoon salt, peppe to taste. Cook the grated carrot in a double boiler until tender. Add salt, pepper, and milk and cook fo five minutes. Place in a baking dish sprinkle with grated cheese, cove with the crumbs to which has bee added the melted fat. Brown in th oven. Corn and Cheese. -2 cups corn, cup celery, 1 cup buttered crumbs, teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, lh cup hot milk. Arrange corn an celery in layers with salt. Add hot milk and melted fat. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake 20 minutes. Warmed Over Beans With Cheese. —Make a cup of white sauce and add two tablespoons of grated cheese. Add the sauce to the beans and' heat thoroughly. This is a good sub- stitute for meat. Cod en Casserole.—To prepare this dish take a one and a half pound slice of cod and remove the skin. Place it in a cesserole of ample size and pour in half a pint of boiling stock. Cover and bring to a boil again. Then cook quite gently for about an hour and' thirty minutes. Strain off the stock. Add a quarter of a pint of stewed Spanish onion and tomato mixed, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and a dust of cayenne. Heat, stir well, pour over the fish and serve. TWO CABMAN DAMAGE TO POLAND PICTURES E 1.� M OUR' -G iTS OCCUPATION Bl' -i51 GEPMANS• Inde: `real Lae is Entitles c.•:d Flay:.ged C..atntry Will H ve Herd $trooeto to Stern A0a'n. Poland ntt't strip; I'd f tilt 55.alrrials and snaelthiery (tering thi. Ccrmwt ocs cupatiuu which ended It Nescnther 11. 00 that clay a few tboue:ant soldiers of the Polish Legion, aided by the pupulattion ui' \5 at aw, disarmed tante than 241,001 titrmeh euldiers who bad arranged a revel., .gala t their own officer's. A11 freed and all 1e leplueno wires were r'sti coal by the t1,rtnaos. Ml in. de . tc i i plants e. eee' robbed and die, areal d. with the result that Poland will neve a hard jot to start in again overt it fin: meta ,rel politic ai s 'ndl- tiutts were of the 1,:1. observers nay. Itisenseinr the someway situation in Poland, tttanlslnu Larinwelti, director ' of the Commercial Bank. of \Varsaw, said to the correeponcient: "It will take nearlyc 010sosit.1c0 to repair the damage dune in the German occupation and to lint us on our feet properly and to develop oar great natural reeunrc•es cur oil products return 50o,00o,000 marks anmwlly and we tire rich in coal and salt twines, pot- ash. tercets and agricultural products. "At the present time the economic situation is confused because Russian rubles, Austrian crowns and German marks are in circulation. The marks are a heritage of the German occupa- tion. In April, 1917, tate Germans is- sued 2,000,000,000 marks which they called Polish marks, The issue was made through a special bank with the 'announcement that after two years Polish marks should be redeemed by German marks, By this scheme the German Reichsbank was not compel- Nled to issue extra money and, there- fore, did not injure its own credit, , "At the same time the Germans re- fused to accept the ruble as legal ten- ' der. The Austrians accepted the ruble ! in Russia and Galicia and also intro- duced the crown. Thereafter all sorts of complications arose, with no one :knowing the precise exchange value of any money. This bank simply has ceased e ed topay mttll wa es- tablleb anew money standard. Prob- ably the franc, for the three Polands. Must Win World's Confidence, "First we must establish a sound ,I government which will have the con- ; fidence of the outside world. Any goy- s! ernment must have money to rum it- [ self, but it cannot get money without -4 confidence. When such a government r i is established we will put out foreign eiloans for the purpose of buying ma- terials and starting up factories. It is n• even necessary for ns to obtain loans , in order to buy clothes; also machin- e cry and locomotives. Everything in n the country must be rebuilt along new e lines. "The Germans transported home all 1 the machinery from the Industrial city 1 of Ralice and then set fire to the city. This was one of their great crimes in d 1914. They did this although there was no battle fought there. They drove out .the people by bombing the city and then robbed it methodically. "The Germans also requisitioned all the factories and machinery in Lodz, which is the Polish Manchester, with its vast cotton and woollen mills. In their entire occupation they continued to loot Lodz. Even last September they carried away all the iron pates and floorings from the factories, "They stole our vegetables and our fruits. They took by requisition every- thing they wanted, "While they did not rob our banks, on the third day of the occupation of Warsaw in 1015, the director of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin came to me and demanded my cash balance of bubtes, the surrender of which, he con- tended, would regulate our debts to his bank. The Germans did the same thing in Roumania after the Treaty of Bucharest. "It will take $200,000,000 to reoon- etruct us industrially without counting the other sums we must spend gradual- ly for improving the railways and the Males and rebuilding houses ruined in the course of the war." g , A French Peasant. Each week, in rain or shine, site trud- ges out To that green little graveyard by the sea, Where rests her Jean. She tidies ten- derly Ilia wooden cross, repeats a prayer de- vou Then,cheet,r!1 elle chats to him about The simple u t , este of every day; The new -bon out, the apple crop, the hay, Since of his presence there she holds no doubt. Ansi who shall say they do not hover near— The wistful souls of those who died for France— Keeping their women brave through want and fear, Transcending cleat)" to bring deliver- ance To lives for whom their added strength WWI be The power that wins a holy victory, ®. ('There is no bealrtilier of cam- plexion, or farm, or behavior like the wish to scatter joy around us."•— lulnerlon, A SEA SECRET REVEALED Showing the Immortal Spirit of the British Navy. The Navy begins to render up its secrets to the carious eyes of the civilian, says the London Times. The "Q" boat Suffolk Coast has reached St, Katherine's Dock, and the public will be allowed to go over her, at the price of a small fee for the benefit of naval charities. Here contrivances for deception allied with deadliness will surely Interest and instruct crowds so long es she is in the Thames. But she has a deeper fascination than that, for within her lurks the newest in- carnation of the immortal spirit of the Navy. In the spring of 1917 when the U-boats began to sink ton- nage at a deadly rate, the Navy turn - led to devise defences against the thew danger. The "Q" boats were an important part of them, embodiments of the adaptability and ingenuity of the Sea Service, But the heart of their success was not in their impene- • trable disguises. Men clamored to be allowed to go to sea in them. To go to sea in them meant the luring of the U-boat by an elaborate pretence of defencelessness; endurance of shell fire, and even of being torpedoed; long Waiting motionless, in a sinking ship, till the U-boat eonimander ehould at last be certain that his victim had e tie .ting and should expose his craft to certain destruction. For this the officers and men of the Navy scrambl- ed in hot rivalry- Through this they went, and, haying gone, went eagerly again. Their ships were sunk under them, but they eared not at all, so the the U-boats were drsstroyed, The Suffolk Coaet herself is a ship newly converted to this service, hut most of her crew have served with their commander in .three of these "special service" ships. The immedi- ate predecessor of. the Suffolk Coast —the Stock Force—sank under her crew when they had waited fifty min- utes after being torpedoed for the chance of sinking the U -beat that rewarded them at last. The story has been told. The men of other "Q" boats were not so fortunate. They disappeared and left no trace. The sea that robbed them of their reward holds immortal theft unavailing valor, These are the chances of Sea Service, The spirit of the men who took them with delight—that spirit has wrought safety for the world of modern men, y'--'•--^- The women of Iceland t'eeentl'y celebrated the third year of their enfranchisement, A wave of popularity for things western is sweeping over the whole of China, and with the cessation of war there may be axpectod`°to be huge demands for all sorts of for- ign machinery, building materials) and equipments generally, ARTSITD HAVE RECORDED Cl'F: rt.fT IN coNrLICT. Every Phrse of Cannda's War Activity From Strmt to Finish Is Depicted. Dealing with the exhibition of Cana- dian war pietert's which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts. Loudon, on January 4. ,a c ontt'ilnttuf to the Pall Shill (11:01tte says it, wee 0 unique epeetitele of a matte's supreme en - *leaver Portrayed, not h, rut t espeet. but during its accoatpllehment, by hoc artists. The 70 Mullett painters of Canada. Including genie fatuous British one:;, have risen gloriously- to the tciek set by their Government when it tools them out to the trenches in France end 1 1 tinders• From the landing of rite first i .at0 nurt at Plymouth to the capture ei Mons 00 the last day of the war. vo phase of C'atutdti's war at•tivity has heel! negleeted, There utr nearly 100 paintings iilns- trnting the career of the C'enadiau Corps he France, inehullug the meant. ficent paintings of the landing of the 3rd Canadian Ilrigade at St. Yazalr', by Edgar linndy, A.R.A., and the giant canvas by Alujoi' Richard Jock, A.R,A., "The Second Bettie of Ypres." Major ,lock has also a fine painting of "The Battle of Vitus' Ridge." In the same way the historic! Cam:dian battles sur dealt with each In their tern. Regina Trench, the. taking of Courcelette and so on, a and then the Arras-Cambrai road is shown, along which the Cana- dians are seen streaming after three months of incessant battle to the bit- ter fight for Cambrai, whence they passed to their last engagement wliich culminated in the triumphal entry into Mons, Many Beautiful Portraits. Apert from the actual fighting, how- ever, the paintings give a comprehen- sive view of every other phare of Canadian war activity overseas. the Forestry Corps, which has provided timber for the armies of four nations; the famous Railway troops, which of- ten worked desperately under a de- vastating fire, have contributed so much to victory: the Veterinary Corps, which bas'charge of three million ster- ling worth of animals; the hospitals . and even the patrol boats in the Eng - lisp Channel, some of which were manned exclusively by Canadian crews, There is a splendid collection of portraits, interesting personalities such as Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Perim', Princess. Patricia of Connaught and Lady Drummond, who labored so unceasingly for the Canadian Red Cross, There are also portraits of many members of the Canadian high command and a whole gallery of Canadians who have won the Victoria Cross. ------a-- (7, ^ (7, Arthur Stanwood Pies py ��.�'-.i."'v..."^��":>•.a a:'aofu':,: t'.: E""Cxa.. •.•,•�°"C,al,�,'-a.:.....,_'.''.�,i?'.ifi����_`�'•-• t ,:upyrignt RongLtoa. aenrun Cetmlrasiy by aracai5l arratnq,5toat with Tires. 411.5 Taronro i ( IIAI''i'?:R XXXVI,--tC'enfdJ ! a'd"I don't want you to try; I want it. ' jest to huhlrla out. of yon, a, it once ," "1t will, it. will, 1"i be 0 regularl (id Faithful and spout regu:aily- "Now, Jerry, don't call *our: elf Old Faithful; it's tae depressing; I don't want to feel Dint I'nn marrying that -- even if I ant." It's the name of the world's great- : eat geyeea 61:1y," Jerry reminded her. "Its quality of bubbling radh- er than- of faithfulness was what I : had lo mina' to emulate." "Now that's the way I like to have you talk, Jerryktns. ' She rewnrd- ed hint by perch'atg on his knee aml putting. an Ftm round his neck. "Oh, 'I can be so sweet to you when yeu'te , nice, and so horrid when you're, jrlam!'r That eventing as Jerry was about tot ' enter his house, a woman came up to hint aid said, rather trmtiti•ly, "01fi-1 eer Donohue? as this (Meer Deno - hue?" - "Yes." I "Clara Armstrong --she's a young' friend of nt'ne—she told me I'd' bet-, ter see you., The woman was agi-' tatecl, and kept glancing up and down' the street apprehensively. She was' r•at a youngtvom-an; whe might have' been pretty once, Clara Armstrong anj a few other young girls lived with her, it was a very fillet, respeet able sort of house, but the extortion was too much for her, Chief Dolan ;kept conning down en her every tee valete, and Hatt', ranter then meet this last &er and, she woe gong to quiit. But she would like to see that Lilian punished, he was such a nasty! !brute; she was mad enough se that; t sine was willing to take some pm-deb: meant herself if she bed to, 0o long as she ccut,l get him punt h d too, Cara Arm . 1 r,g had told hee tinct ()Weer Donohue and the Department had not, been en ga, i terms, and so .alt ata: danfi ng in him. She had been orderer to hent ave five hun- d:est dollars vt currethay to Duan day after to -morrow. lie was to call sit her house for the money. amide t! Officer Donohue be there mei arrest' the Chief when he received it? Jerry qusstioned her for a tang time, Ibe finally promised' to go to her betee, at five o'clock the next day; I be would then tell bet whet to do. THE ART OF ABDICATION There Are Many Instances of Royalty Who Quit Their Thrones. History affords King Ferdinand of Bulgaria many precedents in the art of abdication, but few have over resigned their thrones except under compulsion. The most remarkable voluntary ab- ' dication on record is that of Chris- tina of Sweden, daughter and suc- cessor of the great Gustavus Adol- phus. Growing tired, at the age of 28, of the restraints imposed on her by her high office, she resigned in favor of her cousin and went to Rome, which city she entered in the costume of an Amazon. Latter she settled in Paris, The desire to resign seems to have returned in later years, for she tried to recover her own kingdom and made a bid for the throne of Poland. But even kings who abdicate by their own choice are not always al- lowed to enjoy freedom from the burdens of government. Philip V., the founder of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, was a nervous and gloomy man, much tormented by religious scruples, and he found life as King of Spain intolerable. At the age of 40, and in the 24th year of his reign, in order to look after "the affairs of his soul," he resigned the crown of Spain and the Indies in favor of hie oldest son, Don Luis, who was at that time only 16 years of age, But the peace that King Philip had hoped for lasted barely seven months. The young king was at tacked by smallpox, and died at the end of that period. Before his death, however, he bad made an act of re- trocesslon of 'the Brown to his father, who for another 22 years bore unwil- lingly the heavy load of kingship which he had so unsuccessfully at- tempted to throw off, The Berlin Ghost. Is the "White Lady" walking these momentous night in the Palace of Berlin? Always, says tradition, when a Hohenzollern is to die or some catastrophe le overshadowing the family, the "Weine Dame" is to be encountered in the corridors of the Royal Paine°, and more than once she has been known to speak and an- nounce the earning doom. One can imagine the White Lady's satisfac- tion in her task, for in coal life—so the story goes—she was the Countess Agnes of Orlamundo, whom a former Hohenzollern had bricked up alive in is vault, CHAPTER XXXVII. Jerry's expectation of getting ad- vice from Roger Trask was disap- pointed. Trask, lee found, was out of town for two days. Ile would have to determine for hintear,sf what action he should 'take. ' -He got Sheehan en the telephone act Sbatl on 10, and ma'd'e an app'aintment Ito meet hint chiming their lunch hour. Sheehan liabened attentively while Jerry repeated the ov,amanhs story. "1. Jet,' Sheehan seal, "whet d'id you think of doing7" "There are two or three things 1 might do," Jerry answered, "I sup- pose the most obvious would be to take the women iso the Police Com - ns isefloner and let him deal with the case tvh'en he'd heard add the facts." "If you did that, most likely no- thing wrould come of; it. The Com-) mbssaoner wants to keep bvs job and he'll do it only ,if the Maxwell -Dolan outfit win the eleebion. He'd probe.' ably tip the Chief off, and then it would cud ;:at your being• foamed' up, t To got recons, you need bhe baclen of those that are hostile: to Dolan, t not friendly with him." "Yes; I wanted to have Mr. Trask's, he' -p, but he's away, Now what do you themk of this? The Standard's I hohttl'ile to Dollan and Maxwell add right. How 'about the Standard's getting in on it and having witnesses of its own there when Dolan es caught? There'd' be no chance then of hushing the Chiang up." "Now you have pretty near the right idea," said Sheehan with enthu- siasm. "Plenty of witnesses, and publicity, plenty of at afterwaatda'— that'tt the thing. If it cats be man- aged," "Will you back me up—areal' me 10 melte the arrest? "You talk With tine Standard first, and then I'll trek you what 1"ll do." It was not difficult to get accosts to the private office of Aire. Finlay, the publisher of the Standees!, He was a man with sandy beard, me- talline nose, and keen bine eyes; he said hits' large -capable hands, nervous- ly back and forth along tine etrm,s of hiss chair tvhdtle Jerry talked. "If we ca0 pull 'Stis thl:hng off," he exclaimed when Jerry had finished, "it will be the greatest stroke fdn' good got;ernmemt in this place -- why, it wail mean the end of. that Young Turk crowd that's got hold of the city maoh:ime. We''ll beat 'em all, ,front Maxwell drown, Now we don't want to make any fake moves. What time 'has Dolan oat fiat' handing oven' the money?" "lie's Ito be there for it between five and !six to -morrow. I'm gotmg rogfnsd at five this afternoon to make the pret'lliminary arrangements. It might be welt fou yen to casae with me or send some meni you can de- pend on whho will be there to -morrow *0 a witness." Finlay rang and toad the boy who responded to send in Mr. Beacileweal, "He's the best reporlter we leave," F,imday said to Jen'qq, "A.bsiodutely 'safe, and keeps has ,lvend.' Bride/well appeared!, a cltean-cut, fails -hair young malt, with a pleasant smile, As Finlay oubltined the plot to hint, a g'iLnt of tagern:eee end 0x- eitement Dame Into Irma eyes, "Oif'ieer Donohue Wake that you ani he ,had' better go dowel there IJltts af;teanoon anttli 'set the singe for the proceedings 'to -morrow," Trlaitey esol- elude•dt I'm at to Indy lucky to come in on t story t lie this," $alol Brulewodi, have you thought at all about the money Ihtt a to elainga hatnds?" "Not particularly. Why?" "Wouldn't it be a goad idea for the 51ii card to furnish the warnan with the money—evert hill marked co that you end I can ident'fy it?" I etal:ei t," aerced leinlay. Tell her, lir, Donohue, that well eapply th' fund :he's not to u:,e tiny money ex:t'pt whet you or Mr. Bridewell wtiil Irani her to-morraw. You'll have to be pretty circumspect, enter- ing and leaving that house; you 'don't want to have Reran get wall l of your pins e.nd di'appoint you," "he's pretty self-confident—not likely to t Ice name titan ordinary precaution'," Jerry said, "But we'll be careful,' Late that' afternoon Jerry, Shee- han, 41.111 Peastewcal ntet at the. herse and rehearsed the parts that .they were to perform the next day. Under the etairs in the front tali rind oppo- alte the doer into the parlor was a closet in which Jerry and Sheehan were to conceal themselves; leaving the closet doer ajar, they coups hear without seeing or being seen. The woman wits to het the Chief into the parlor before passing the money to lam. In that room a h h-backsd 'sofa set across a dark cornea would furavish a raiding -place for Bridewell, 11 he got clown behind at on lids hands and knees. The women was ell alone in the house; she explained that she had goat rid of the other occupants by te.1'ring tient than the police had. notified her to expect a raid within the next two days. At four o'clock the next afternoon ,Tea'1'y and Sheehan arrived; a few minutes latter carte Beidewo;l. He gate the women five hundred dealers n five re kis of ten -dollar bills; he shower Jerry and. Sheehan the letter "le" written in a fine hand on the mrdd}e o,' ,•'h'e topmost tali i oi' the packets. "It's written en every sand Bttdewe't, "Alt. Finley pas it on and stand rcaay to idea::ify hie wr'i" WhtSngen *1 Iatet tate dorbe',l pang, the three men nen-emely book their placed. Iwsdide the claret Jerry stead nearest the door'; S'h•cekan ware be- hind him leaning over has ehouid'er. They hean'd the woman :say, "Weeaal, I've got et am you Chief, but I don't know how we're all going to 'live from now till e:'.eection , " She led him into the parlor tvhs1'e sine taticocl The Chi'af was In a good-humored mood; his cobl'ections had been pros- pering, "Oh," he saki, "you'll just have to get on with a fete less silk petticoats enol ;lingerie; you folks are too luxurious in your habits." "I wonder wheat you do with add the money you raise'hfe wavy," said thewomen an the aajcc intg manner of which site eves past mistrese. "Well, we've gat to use a lot of at to cleat a mayor who'll be good to you folks," replied the Chief. "I certainly wash you suecests in t'hat.—FLecee d't le Chief, -one, two, three, four, five hunched, all. fin ten- dolaar bills, Is that right?" "That's eight" Just. a moment 'longer Jerry and Sheehan waited, in order to give him time to button the money inside his coat. Then Jerry flung the closet draw open and sprang out, followed by Sheehan. The Chief, at potverfal and ec'-ive mean, leaped at Jerry; the two went down ir• a fumes grapple; Sheehan fell upon the C'h'ief aind il'ohed ham until lie su:rrerxlered. ,Tc'•ry 'snapped handeulfs on itis wrist. (To be continued.) Yukon Fish Statistics. The Yukon • Territory during the year 1916-17 produced fish valued at $00,210, principally salmon, whitefish and trout, according to the report of the Fisheries Branch, Department of Naval Service, covering that period. Boats and gear valued at $12,487 were used and 248 men wawa employed in the Yu]ton fishery. British Boys' Showing. As shown by the report of the Chief Inspector of the British Immi- grant Children and Receiving Home, the total enlistment of immigrant boys in the Canadian farces equals nearly 26 per cent. of all the boys who came to Canada. The pendutirtm in New Zealand sheep breeding is reported to be swinging in favor of the Down breeds, Stocks Purchased by our PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN enables investors to become the owner of eelected standard se- caritiee-- (stocks or bonds) — without malting any large out- lay, payment being made by easy monthly instalments, just as much as you can oemtortabiy Save frons pour regular earnings, This method provides an attrac- tive plan of etoclt purcbase, and is fatly explained ln,our interest- ing booklet entitled "Saving by the Partial Payment Plan." Wrlte for a free copy, It M. Connolly � ao. Mettnbere Montreal Stook lil:cebango 106.100 Transportation Buttdin{t MONTREAL anal. "EST BPFORF 1117 LE" REVELATION OF A SOLDIER'S HEART. Written by An American Major Just Before An Attack on the Argonne Foreat. 01 Mint dues a soldier think the (tight before he goes tato battle? In the. Luxembourg, Paris. is a mate torpicce of. Edouard Detatlle entitled "The Dream." It shows a long llue of French soldiers alt.ping near their reached tuuskets. Sleeping with them are their dogs. in the eloude above Is n vision 111 a vietsrlons army t:harp htg beeneatli the banners, metering as they move onward. • According to the painter t t dranne tie scenes, "victory" war the thing on the soldier's nttncl the night before the battle. It bappe'nto that a Missouri soldier in France wrote to his wife just before the battle after which he was pro. motel from major to lieutenant -colonel for gallantry in action, Major J, le. Rieger, of Kirlcville, bio Iced into at- tach on the Argonne lomat a battalion of 1,000 Wren, of which only 4110 canto out nn injured, A machine -gnu bullet broke :Major Rieger's field glasses and he was struck by a piece of ehrapnel. Ile commanded the Second Battalion. 139th Regiment. Thirty-fifth Division, A.,E. F. in the Argonne battle, Before the Battle. Just before the great battle in which his battalion .was destined to gaffer so aeverely, and which action caused his promotion by General Pershing en the battlefield, Major Rieger wrote this and mailed it to his wife in Kirk vide: Front Lines, Oct. 21, 1019. Just Before the Battle The long, long night marches had ended, the dragging of weary feet through mud and debris was rre:. The groping through rain and blaa'k- ness, made doubly so by douse forest. was done and now, concealed in tlhe, forest of the Argonne by day, the army of (Week quietly meted The order of battle was bantle l 1n•t and I read it to my assembled Mamie ion. rue dn.y for which ihu long training, danger mrd hardships had been incurred had come at last. We were to attack the hill where 40,00a French soldiers hall fallen in defeat. two years before: but death was there, artillery, machine guns, mines, wire, trenches, tunnels, a rnigltty stronghold. We were to ,be ably supported, 1 told my anon all. The order was received in silence; their faoes tools on a determined look, but no fear was there. I noticed them later; all wore smiles, for the lulus. of vindication had come; soot was heard the songs about mother, short stanzas of baby songs, cradle rhymes, lullabies of mother, Manly voices, harsh, um trained, unmusical, became sweet with melody; each his own heart's deepest longing was giving expression. Wife, deter, friend—all forgotten — just mother. Then, as the truth came to them that some night not return, long - forgotten songs of religion, learned in clays gone by, were heard—songs of the Lord. And mingled together were the notes of love and protection of mother and Jesus—all others were forgotten, During Battle and After. Later 1 heard those saute voices w hen in the attack; not now the soft voice of song, but the shout of combat —a nighty roar! The voice of tho people Is not the voice of God, but the mighty voice of soldier nice. Seeing before them those who had pillaged and murdered and burned trod en- slaved, they became as the avengers of God and spoke with His voice and acted with }Ile power. Never will I forget their loop, their voice! We swept everything before us, capturing and wounding and killing the enemy In the face of artillery and machine guns worked with desperate speed, I heard voices again, now subdued -- they were of another and Jesus still. I heard the wounded—not a cry, just a song, strong for mother as the wounded one felt the earth strong be- neath him, but insert of farewell to her who bore him and a clinging to an unseen hand of power as life slowly slipped away, Mather, you aro honored above the king, the president, tiro general, the great of earth. The song of ,heroes le of you. Could you ask more than to. be first and last by those whore the liberty -loving world delights to honor? Your name and that of Jesus bound together in the hero's life and death, "Mother, behold thy son; son, behold thy 'nether," Coal on the Prairies. According to estimates prepat'ed by experts there Is enough soft coal in the four Western Provinces of Canada to supply the world ler a couple of centuries, The mines of Saskatchew- an, Alberta and British Columbia have seemly been tapped, but have produced a total in one year of 0,000,- 000 tons, to the value of over 25 mil- lion dollars. The coal le of very good grade, and is equally serviceable for steam purposes and household heat - Mg. The Canadian Domittion geologi- cal survey has estimated that the coal bells contain a total of 148,490,000,000 tons, covering an arida 02 -875000 square miles.