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The Brussels Post, 1919-3-20, Page 6You cannot begin to measure its goodness alongside of others, the quality being INCOMPARABLE. Black, Greens. or Mixed .. . Sealed Packets Only. Ceityright =Oughton =gun CoameaZYb aleeeiar arrangement with Thos. anon CHAPTER XLL--Cont'd. almost magically under his eyes. And "You're capable of anything that's as he became more impressed by this normal and human, Jerry. Just any- his senses awoke to other aspects of thing. You're capable, too, of any the girl; she was good to look at in sacrifice. Put yourself in my place. her absorbed moments and inspirit - If I go out into the world now to ing when she was aroused; some - earn a living, in two or three years, times there, was deep thoughtfulness their wives, children, bundles and provided I show intelligence and ca- in her eyes, sometimes there was tobacco smoke. Bobby and Bertha paeity, I ought to be earning a bet- admiration, sometimes raillery; as wriggled their way to the big red ter living. On the other hand, if I she was deft with her fingers and; quick of mind, so was she swift and stove, while Anne waited at the coun- allow you to support us and to sendter with the butter and eggs she had me to college, I may suddenly din- lissome in all her movements; and cover that I'm mpeding your life and the more that Jerry watched her, the' brought to trade. A half-dozen other that some other woman leaks on more did she amuse and please and women were similarly wo,iting. Betty and Peter and me as blocking interest him. "How do you do, Mrs, Walton. I her happiness. Of course, as soon as On an evening in March Jerry seldom see you any more; where have I discovered that, I should at once came home to hear the announcement,that he had known was some time; you been keeping yourself ?'t said one have t break awey and stand on my of the woman Tho Rest -Room at Beverly. "Are you going to town this after- noon, Bert?" said Anne Walton to her husband, who was leaving the dinner table rather hurriedly. "Yes; want to fix up the children and come along?" "I'm not eager to go but I ought to, How soon must we be ready?" "Oh, in half an hour or so." A merry scramble with the chil- dren ensued, and forty minutes later the family was tucked away in the old sleigh, and Prince and Kate were making the slippery journey to town. The winter wind wa!s raw and chill, and by the time they reached Bev- erly the children's faces were purple with the cold. "Can't we go some place to get warm, mother?" begged Bobby. "There's no place to go but the store, We can wait there while daddy goes to the bank and to the blacksmith shop." next winter. Think there's anys-_-_--.—_-,___-.. _____ _.hope?" Mrs. Tompkins looked For he rest, the Gravesend men have purely from ^a strict sense of duty, around the group for a sign. anal 'zed the record of the corps and knowing the Importance to the nation "Sure there'll hope," The indoor- presented a report on the work ac- or quick dispatch of shipping, when itable Mrs. Saylor shook hands with cool lished during the war. they would sorely have liked to rest. Work With Transports. everybody and carried Anne off to find Bert and confer with him about the room, Throughout the week Beverly won- dered who was moving into Mrs. Price's shop. On Saturday morning it displayed a sign which read "Bev- erly Rest-Room—Come In," and dur- ing the afternoon and evening people came in, a little shy at first, but finding friends and neighbors they stayed to chat and rest. Mrs. Brownell luxuriously wrote five postal cards. Mrs, Lane knitted while she rested the feet that had been ready to drop off the week be- fore. Tommy Teasdale and Richard Sriylor built block houses; Bobby and Bertha looked at wonderful pictures and drew others yet more wonderful, Mrs. Tompkins thought of a dozen Anne and the youngsters unloaded improvements for the rest -room, and at the general store and Bert drove Mrs. Earlham read two stories and. off to look after his own errands. The copied a recipe. store was crowded with farmers, "I like going to town lots better now, don't you, mother?" whispered Bertha., as Anne tucked her and Bob- by into bed that night. "I'm tired but I don't feel so cross as I used to neither does brother." • own feet, and I should be less fit to inevitable. Kate had a position. She,was going to work the following! "Oh, the roads have been so bad we do it then than I am now—or shall Monday in the office of a stockbroker, haven't been anywhere and I dread be be soon—besides having lost the time who hada lied to the school for a I when I might have been getting a stenographer.p Although she was vary; coming to town. The children get start. Now suppose this shouldn'tso cold and tired and it takes so long happen. Don't you know that I cheerful about it, Peter and Betty; when Bert has business to attend to. should always suspect that just be- were subdued, and Jery suspected. cause of us you were not lettingit that Kate might be less exuberant Sometimes T think I'd rather stay at happen? For you see, JerrI really than she seemed. It was a home. How much are eggs worth know you pretty well. And I know stormy night, with wind and rain, to -day?" beating against the windows; but the I heard some one tell Mrs. Temp - you're capable of any sacrifice."little rooms were cozy and snug, andf kins they were thirty-eight cents," "You've got me all wrong, Kate, the little family, sitting together, en- volunteered a woman who stood at I'm not self-sacrificing, and I'm too gaged in their separate tasks, formed the edge of the circle. "I -Pm; my selfish and too comfortable, just as a circle which it was hard to think cousin in the oil writes that they're we are, to fall in love. You see, I'm was soon to be broken. As if by tacit! yAssociation put itself on record as urging you to do what I ask because consent they all avoided a discussion along," sixty cents in the city right favoring institutions for the feeble it would be for my satisfaction and of the subject that was uppermost' contributed another. "We'd minded. comfort—not because it would be a in their minds—where and how Kate I better save up a lot and carry them The Chief Diagnostician of the Juv- flne thing for you:' and Peter and Betty would now live. 1 to the city. I'd like to walk through enile Court of Seattle, Washington, "I'm not goingto let a keen law- "Haven't you some dictation, I one of the big stores right now! I addressed the Association on juvenile Jerry. Kate asked. I need all the; hate the mirrors, though—those long delinquency and its dependence on the yer draw me into an argument." Kate t' I t before et Mon -1 thatlethowskirt gave his arm a final pat and dropped sags and how shabby your s f responsibility results in it. "I don't doubt, Jerry, that we'll leave you and your mother with tears in our eyes, but it's got to be done, and you and she must make your plans for April without reference to us. By April I expect to have a job." "I had no idea, Kate, you'd be so difficult to manage." Jerry's glance was half reproachful, half admiring. "Oh, I can he granite when I have to be," she answered with a smile. When Mrs. Donohue returned from visiting Mrs. Bennett, she found Jerry pacing the floor and dictating notes for a brief to Kate; Peter and Betty had already gone to bed. "Now I hope to goodness you've got it all fixed up," said Mrs. Dono- hue, and her tone indicated that in- deed she had no doubts about the matter. "No, it's not to be fixed up," Jerry replied. "And the worst of it is, she's convinced me she's right, so I can't do anything more by way of persu- ading her," "But I can't understand!" wailed Mrs. Donohue, and she gazed from one to the other in amazement. "Jerry, child, couldn't you make her see. Don't you know we want you, Kate?" Reluctantly and without pretend- ing to comprehend the reasons pre- sented to her, Mrs. Donohue bowed to the superior intelligence of the young. "What must be must be," she said with resignation. "But it certainly will take all the pleasure out of mov- ing—which is little enough—to feel that we're losing you and Peter and Betty, my dear." Partly because of this feeling, partly because Jerry had very little time for house hunting, the question what they should do in April dragged on from week to week unsettled, And the longer .it dragged on, the less dis- position there was to settle it, "Perhaps Kate won't get a job right off," Jerry said to his mother. "We can stay on here as tennants at will, and we'd better do that until Kate feels that she and her family must leave us." Meanwhile he and Kate were help- ing each other professionally; often he brought work home at night and dictated to her, and she presented don't believe they have anything him with typewritten copies of his nicer than our new parlor furniture." utterances the next day. It was good '+Especially when you think of the practice for her, because it familiar- new tall clock." Jerry glanced at ized ber with legal phraseology; Kate with a twinkle of mischief in Jewry profited by the arrangement, his eye. - for it enabled him to turn out more "yes," she admitted. "I must say work than he otherwise could have I'm getting resigned to having it. done, He found Kate almost as rapid For it does look awfully well. Of course, I Hover• can like ?qrs. Maguire —but it was a handsome present just the same." (To be continued.) A ----.- Two tons of ammunition were used for each soldier killed, captured or seriously wounded in the war on the western front. Child Welfare in the West. Child welfare is occupying a large share of attention in British Colum- bia and Alberta. Early in December there was held at Vancouver the first auntie" convention of the Child Wel- fare Association of British Columbia. The program inr' I discussions on educational raft.- juvenile delin- quency, child in::. .i:ity and -diseases of children. Vocational training was urged in order that children might become helpful factors in the com- munity. The schools of Vancouver were mentioned particularly on ac- count of the special -classes for the mentally backward children and the practice can ge a ore ne. ones you see your r status of home training. A low ebb day." u hoes are " parental Jerry produced papers from his and Mrs. Saylor edged behind Anne uvenedelin acne Itwas recom- green bag, Peter and Betty with -I 7 delinquency. drew to'another room where their at the thought. mended that mothers' pensions should studies should not be disturbed, Mrs. "Well, I don't want to see any- be established because motherhood Donohue continued to knit. But she thing or walk anywhere," remarked grew drowsier and drowsier while ; Mrs. Lane. "My feet are ready to Jerry, pacing to and fro, delivered! drop off. I don't see why they can't his slow monologue, and at last she have a few more chairs ,in this store gave forth unwittingly sounds Indl- when there is no other place for its eating that for her at least it was to wait for the men folks. I've had bedtime. So Kate and Jerry made My trading done for an hour and Sam's getting the horses shod; no one can tell when he'll be through." "That's just it! Why haven't we somewhere else to wait? Over in Stevenville they have a regular rest- room in the City Hall, with chairs and couches and little beds for babies, and magazines to read and desks to write on!" Mrs. Saylor forgot her tempor- ary embarrassment and stepped out from hiding with a swing of the hands that suggested all the comforts that were lacking. "Yes, but Stevenville isn't Bever- ly," said Mrs. Lane with the inflec- tion of a fatalist, the folding bed ready and went out to the kitchen to finish their work. They were still at it when Betty and Peter called gond night to them. "I guess that's enough for this evening," Jerry said at last. "Tired, Kate?" "No, not a bit" She sighed. "I wish my new employer were a law- yer; my training with you would be so much more valuable if he were. I don't suppose"—she spoke hesitat- ingly—"your office needs another stenographer, does it, Jerry?" "I don't know about the office. But I need you, Kate." Jerry slipped his arm round her and gave her a kiss. "Oh, Jerry!" "Yes, I do." He kissed her again But why couldn't we have such a and laughed, her eyes were so wide room to use on Saturday? Maybe d shining her lips ware opened in an such a circle of wonder and—yes, of Beverly could do more than it does if happiness, "You're the best little we women could wake it up. Since helper any man coukl have, and I Mrs. Price's store has closed I don't can't have you living, anywhere else see why we couldn't fix that up. I'll than just with me." bring a couple of rockers and a rag Then he felt both her arms round rug." Mrs. Tompkins had caught him, felt her lips softly brush his fire from Mrs. Saylor. cheek, and heard her say in a break- " ing voice, "Oh, Jerry, my darling! This was And I do adore you sol" a "Who'd pay the rent? poser; the enthusiastic ones knit their brows, CHAPTER XLII. "Why," replied Anne, "Bert owns From the Donohue's new suite of an interest in that building, and he rooms it was only a short walk to said the other day it would just stand the boulevard fronting the park. On empty this winter. I know we could Sundays Jerry and Kate usually took have the use of it. There's a stove a stroll among the park gardeps, and in it already," each time they would note with inter- "Well, I'll come in one Saturday est the progress made in the building out of the month and build the fire, at the corner of their Street. It was of the new house on the boulevard, if the rest of you will take turns.'" a large and handsome house in the Mrs. Earlham's quiet voice put con - Georgian style, built of dark -red fidence in the group. brick, with buff trimmings. "P11 come, tool" chorused several "But I'm sure the people that are others. going to live there arn't as happy as "Well, let's tear off a little of this we are, Jerry," said Kate as they wrapping paper and write down what passed it one day. She gave her we've got to start with," and Mrs. husband's arm a squeeze, after Tompkins took over the secretarial glancing round and making sure that work. no one would see. "I should say not," declared Jerry 'Round the group she bustled, and proudly, before the tardy husbands appeared "And however grand they are, I plans had been made. "We ought to have a couple of tables," suggested Mrs. Brownell. "Each of us could bring a tow maga- zines to place on a reading table; and I think one table ought to be fixed up for it writing table, Half the time I don't have as many minutes to my- self all the week as I spelt! in fidget- ing around this store on a Saturday afternoon." "Could we have some picture books and toys for the kiddies?" "We'll have to have such things, Mrs, Teesdale. That's one thing ,it's for—to keep the children from get- ting so tired and erase," "We'll try it out this way far a month or two and 1 believe after we get it furnished and folks see what a help it is the town council may provide for it by by-law ,in time for es his office stenographer and a good deal more intelligent; sometimes she ventured a hint or a criticism, and .it was always worth considering. The more he worked. with her, the more confidence he came to have in her judgment, the more respect for her character; more and more did he feel that she wiles a good person to work With, 'I`hs fi the had a reciprocal feel- ing about sdzxi was suggested by the rapid improvement in her work; Jerry was lhintsele amazed by it. Such facility and cleverness, with fingers Ground heather is being used as a fodder substitute for cattle in Den-. olid with mined ---he saw it developing murk, should be recognized as the highest service to the State. In Alberta the study of Child Wel- fare is concerned with the prepara- tion and serving of hot lunches to rural school children, The Depart- ment of Education for the preseince has issued a booklet containing a number of recipes and practi-al sug- gestions whereby the cold lunch will be wholly or partially abolished. It is estimated that more than three- fifths of the school children attending rural schools in Alberta are depend- ent on cold lunches and that these are eaten at ,irregular intervals and under conditions not beneficial. The idea of the Department of Education is that trustees and teachers shall make it possible to serve at least one hot dish each day at noon; well bal- anced cold lunches are also suggested to mothers. BRITISH PILOTS' DARING IN WAR 2,000,000 MILES COVERED IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE. Work In English Channel Called for Great Resourcefulness and Scorn of Danger. The German submarines, which, in the dark daye of the war, preyed on shipping in the Downs and the Eng- lish Channel, have been brought, score by scorn, to Harwich for surrender. Their menace has been removed, but the men of the mercantile marine, who, on voyage after voyage, cheer- fully heerfully faced the peril of death at sea, will never forget the anxious watches passed in the danger zone when "ruth- lessness" was in full activity. And if the sailors, who, after all, enjoyed im- munity from attack when their ships reached the further seas, have much to remember, what must be the memories of the Trinity house pilots, whose duties kept them continually in infested waters? There is the ease of the Ruler of Pilots at Gravesend, who was torpe- doed on three consecutive journeys down Channel with valuable boats, and or each occasion by sheer deter- mination and pluck, and the cont - donee 11e was able to inspire lin others, succeeded in bringing the ships to Dort This is but ono case among many, and there is little cause for sur- prise that the Admiralty has asked for the names of men to whom honors might be given for their services. The pilots, we understand, or, at any rate, those rvole:lug fron Gravesend, have decided to submit no name except that of their ruler, Captain H. Davis. Took Extra Licenses. The Gravesend pilots are proud of their, record, and may fairly claim that it will rank among the foremost of Britain's seafaring Achievements. Ow- ing to the dangers, both of ordinary navigation and those created by war conditions, they were required to take up a new Admiralty license, as far west as Plymouth, and encouraged in addition to go as far as Barry Roads and the Bristol Channel. They were also asked to undergo, voluntarily, an examination for the whole of the east coast, and a large number responded and were duly licensed to conduct ves- sels as far as Berwick. As a matter of fact, it is noted in the report, Gravesend men have conducted ships as far north as Scapa Flow to Drench, Dutch and Irish ports, and to Liver- pool and the Bristol Channel contin- ually. Measuring outwards from sea- wards of the Edinburgh lightship, and taking no account of the waters of the Thames between Gravesend and that point, the mon covered from August 4, 1014, to November 11, 1913, a total distance of 1,341,320 miles. Several individual pilots have alone covered more than 30,000 utiles of unprotect- ed waters. One of their body was captured by a German destroyer and has been a prisoner for two years; one Lost him life by enemy action, and one died from sickness contracted on foreign service. Thirty-two have been mined or torpedoed, four of them on two oc- casions and two on three occasions. Few have not had many close con- tacts with the German. One pilot, to his own knowledge, has seven times had the enemy close alongside. Once he passed over a submarine off New- haven. Every pilot, too, has seen many sad and impressive sights, when ships, large and small, had received their death -blow from nine or tor- pedo. It is useful hero to quote from the report: Saved Many Vessels. "Often the shock transmitted through the water was so strongly felt on board other ships that people rushed on deck imagining their own vessel had been struck. Two particu- lar cases will live In our memory: One in which seven vessels in twenty- eight hours were sunk, beached, or towed disabled away front one point and another when six were destroyed or seriously damaged at ono spot within a few minutes. When one knows, as we do, the different escapes we have nearly all had, generally through being too close alongside the submarine, and that we have had so very few accidents with nearly 2,000,- 000 miles covered in the hottest of the danger zone, surely it may bo taken as proven that our being there has materially assisted to keep down the number of casualties to vessels, "It is quite impossible," the report continues, "to single out any men for special mention, for it is impossible to get like conditions for different men. Luck enters very largely into it. Some have done first-rate work in getting their damaged vessels in, others with very big mileage, and many close shaves, have escaped al- together, probably largely through luck, though, on the other hand, the escape may be sometimes due to ef- ficient lookout, zigzagging and a gift of doing the unexpected instead of the obvious thing at danger points. It be- comes a pretty problem as to whether a man who has been torpedoed and gets his vessel in, or one who has done big distances and never been touched, is most to be congratulated, Our work has been very varied beyond general pilotage, and has comprised all sorts of duties, many of them 07 a volun- tary nature. It has been the rarest event for any ship to be detained at Gravesend for lack of a pilot, and in the times of pressure men have gone from ship to ship till nearly collaps- ing from exhaustion. They kept going "Some in the earlier days were largely engaged with the hospital ships when first comniissioncd, some at cable laying, others 'trooping: Twelve went to Dover and were en- gaged with transports under the King's harbor master in taking men to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Dunkirk with a view to strengthening tho Ant were garrison, and prevented the fall of that city. Many have crossed again and again to Rotterdam and back at the request of the Admiralty --in fact, most of this work has been Clone by men of this body. Some, to perfect themselves, sought instruction about submarines at Chatham, before the Admiralty woke to the fact of its im- portance to us. Others have drawn attention of the authorities to various means of saving ships. We have also been able to report unauthorized sig- naling from the shore, being acquaint- ed with the places where authorized signaling was to be expected. One of our body detected two escaped Ger- man officers on board a Dutch vessel, and turned back and handed then over to the naval authorities. In fact, as each has been able, every man has put his heart into his work and done his very best in most difficult and trying circumstances, and with very little sympathy or understanding." Nearly 15,000 15,000 acres in Canada are devoted to wheat growing. At the recent convention of the United Farmers of Alberta, Hon. 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The lady was a Miss Hutch- ison, daughter of a gentleman of independent means who lived near Peterhead, Scotland, an owner of quarries, pillars of whose poliohed red granite adorn the entrance of St. Andrew's Church and other buildings in Toronto. Kitchener and his lady love met in early youth, when she was a bev;itch- ing Scots girl with brown eyes and hair and an out-of-doors complexion, and the future field marshal a stripl- ing of seventeen, not yet entered the army as an ensign. Why She Refused Him. K,itchener later sought the lady's hand in marriage, but meantime two of her aunts had become invalids. She was the sole one whose ministra- tions they would accept, and the last one to shirk her duty, and she felt that she could not then accede to the soldier's offers. Hundreds of letters passed be- tween Kitchener and Miss Hutchi- son during their lifetimes, but at the request of Kitchener most of them were destroyed. A passage from one of the few that were saved reveals the reason that this Scottish lady refused to become the bride of her soldier lover. It reads: "I must de- vote myself to the duty that has been laid .upon me," wrote Miss Hutchi- son, referring to her invalid aunts, "but there is another reason why it cannot be. I have became accus- tomed to a small life. For you there is a great future, and you must have as your wife a woman accustomed to a lofty station and to presiding over great establishments. But always to remain one of your best friends ie the dearest wish of my heart." Fatal Russian Voyage. During the rest of his life Kitch- ener, called by the Germans the Silent Earl, the man whom the world regarded as relying upon no human being, went to Miss Hutchison with his triumphs and also when he need- ed counsel, consolation and sympathy. Wherever be was he wrote her con- stantly telling her all that was in his heart and mind. She had attempted to dissuade Kitchener from going on the fatal voyage to Russia in May, 1917. But Kitchener was inflexible against her pleadings. "You have always been one," ho said, "to be most loyal in putting duty first. You must try not to dissuade me now. The Czar him- self has asked me to go to Russia, and go I must."• EDINBURGIH CASTLE Was• Long the Recognized Sftrong- hold of "Bonnie Scotland." Edinburgh is the heart of Scotland and Edinburgh Castle tis the heart of Edinburgh. A truly `wonderful cluster of stone towers on a stone foundation, it is no wonder that the castle was so long the recognized stronghold of Scotland, in which everything precious to the state, from the crown jewels to an undesirable heir to the throne, could be hidden away and forgotten until wanted. Int was a fine place for a desperate king to retire and defy anybody to come and get him, and it was a coun- terpart of the Tower of London, in that anyone with the mediaeval equi- valent of political pull could have iris or her choicest enemy absent-mind- edly locked somewhere in the castle —by an oversight, of course. The one room in which the ordin- ary oitizen visiting Edinburgh Castle lingers longest is the crown room, winch contains the "Honors of Soot- land"—that is, the ancient sceptre, sword, and the crown worn by the famous Scottish kings land queens from Robert Bruce to Mary Queen of Scots, The crown of Scotland is the ideal crown of royalty—solid gold, banked with precious stones of many colors. The "Honors of Scotland" had an eventful 'history rivalling that of the kings! who wore them. They worn held by Cromwell, when he captured the castle and were stolen away for Scotism(' by a minister's wife, who with her maid and several baskets of lint for spinning, came with per- mission of the governor of the castle to visit a friend there. When she loft in full eight of the governor she ca't- r"ted the Scottish grown concealed in the folds of her riding habit, and the sword and sceptre were embedded in her load of lint. Her husband buried thorn in the floe;; of his church until Scotland could .claim them opelsly; am then, when they were finally dug up, they were looped in a chest and never eon again for 110 years. -___•, tie"'•,:.- ---, Dominoes is Bald to be the national ante of the :usgttletete