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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-5-11, Page 2LONE HAND; OA 'Tile Capttiire of a German Pirate CHAPTER• III,-(Cont'd,) !lively on the handle of his heavy Meanwhile he watched with intense' Leuger, interest the actions of the erew before! Presently the torpero-crew finished him. ;They stepped into the positions: their work, the panels were shut, and and prepared the tube for action with' they filed out through the hatchway. the quickness and certainty of long; Crane lay thinking for an hour or practice, The deadly missile was el more as the ship settled into quiet. A ready in place; he kneev now when it', plan was taking shape in his mind, was put there. In i, few minutes and he wished to work it out to the Ins':detail. When midnight came, he the lights were snapped off, except a • small bulb which barely illuminated roti;ed himself and climbed down to the sighting mechanism. T'.he h a i the fluor. The time for work had panel slid back, and a large porthole come, opened in the larboard bow. Crane' could not see the Bloomed freighter,: CHAPTER IV. but he could see the reflection of her Ills first act was to locate the mech- lights on the water, There were a ani:.m that opened the concealed door. few low orders, a clicking of mach - •He tried it; the panels parted easily. inery, and then a sudden hiss of es- He opened the door wide enough to slip the acre. Better stands of grass and ventattve is to throw down the hay Irian and Russian ladies gene a y. Spain, in the next few months, may caping air at a long black shadwo through, found that he could operate clover can also be obtained in drilled by daylight. Z lantern in which the fond of cigarette smoking, On Rus- become of immense national worth, sliot through the open porthole. Be-! it from the inside, and closed it be-, than in broadcast oats. burner is alwa s ke t clean, however, Sian railways it is nob unusual to find arclless of danger Crane leaped up hind hint. Then he went carefully over he flitted back into place, puttying the The best depth to sow oats varies is not so liable to distribute oil. a coinpartment labelled "For ladies and he gives the following reasons g g for his belief: and scrambled into his ventilator, every detail of the giant tube and the cracks -with a mixture of sawdust and with the soil and the season. In any We never let the Champs sleep in who do not smoke." "Holland has no doubt quite legate- the sk • over -I lay -out of the room. The ceiling baked benne, colored with scraped iron case they should be covered with half our barns, no matter how solemnly Among men of letters and artists mately made large sums out, of /the The night was black, yhung low on hcac beams; that was rust. These shells were connected up an inch to an inch of moist soil. They they swear that they will not smoke who ignored the social, prejudices in cast. Hardly a thousand theyaraway,y'war in its earlier stages by being the e the Britisthe cockpit of the gun overhead. He by his fine copper wires, concealed in should be sown deeper in sandy soils or throw matches around. They are regard to smoking which Queen Via main emporium for Germany, But and slightly in advance, r bu k ricked l was familiar with all the detail of cracks in the planking, caulked with than in roams or clays. Deeper seed -a prolific source of farm fires, We toria fostered was Sri John Millais. the fall of the mark, in spite of' 'd 1 1 h 1 .I h ]ted n clap FOR YOUR NERVES' SAKE When they jump and throb, yeti can quiet an south them with Vasdllrre Trade Mss# Ana[gi Petroleum 3d1 A combination of the remedies your doctor prescribes and pure "Vaseline." Sold in clean, handy tin tubes at chemists and general stores everywhere, Refuse sub- stitutes, Free booklet on request. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. (eonsoadatad) 1880 Chabot Ave, Montreal ON THE FARM Prepare Good Seedbed. The promise of an early Spring will attract the attention of farmers to the approach of the grain -sowing sea- son, The first crop 'considered by the majority is oats, and the buying of seed or preparing of the home-grown grain for seeding should be looked af- ter at once. The best way to sow oats is with the grain drill. Drilling gives a more even stand than broadcast seeding, for all the seed is covered to ,about the same depth. In sowing broadcast some of the seed may not be covered .The Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the sealed it B1104 packet. Young tender leaves. onlylr grown with utmost care and w><th 'flavour as the prime object, are use to produce the ramous Salada blends. into hundreds of cases, states his be- lief that in almost all eases of so -call - at all and some may be covered too ed spontaneous combustion the heat - deeply. Germination is better from ing of the forage .was not sufficient drilled seed aid the.. growth is more to set the forage itself on fire, but uniform throughout the season. In that it set same smudge of oil or numerous tests at the experiment sta- grease n -blazing. The dirty lantern tions drilled oats have outyielded oats carried into the hay mow is a prolific "The Social History of Smoking" It immediate future 'of Europe. In Sir sown broadcast by several bushels to disturbutor of oil dirt. The best pre -is, of course, well known, that Aus- much us- EdwarcPs opinion, both Holland and r 11 are HOLLAND'S FATE IF GERMAN WON WOULD OPEN DYJ{ES OR BECOME IMSSAL OF TEUTON. Jiiii Alfonso. Has Done Much Work for Relief of British Prisoners. The Liverpool Daily Post possesses in its. editor-in-chief, Sir Edward Russell;`gne of the most capable and experienced\ journalists in Grgqaat Britain, whose weekly article, en if tied Queen of Rumania; the Dowager "From a Club Window," it is nob too i a mine of in - Czarina of Russia; the late Empress roue t to say provides of Austria; King Alfonso's mother formation for other less well informed formerly Queen Regent of Spain; the1 newspaper men. In his most recent contribution Sir Dowager Queen meliheiitet °ortugal Edward , Russell directs. .atiiention to and ex -Queen Appers of P g ' two countries which 'he is convinced says Mr. G. L. Apperson in his book, lust play an inhportitnt lar:, in the out t oby occasional ec n ung, gh ut e P She seemed, forP edo construction. He went back dust. The wires ran back below the ing is also necessary when the ground restrain our own love for the weed CQ not to realise the ocos:: presence,' to his den for his tools, then opened freight and up to his lookout station is dry than when it is moist. On the when we are around the buildings. Everything was calm and quiet; his the breech of the tube. For two under the ventilator. The free ends average the best depth is from one to Farm and Fireside, compares a senses refused to realise the mean- hours he worked silently and rapidly were fastened some three inches a- one and a -half inches. smoking man to a walking stick of ing of that sinister black shape slip- then he closed the breech, arranged part, so that he could bridge the gap' Oats should be sown as early inthe dynamite, and they are about right. ping so silently through the black everything as he had found it, and,with his saw -blade. Then he brought Spring as it is possible to make a good There may be dozens of other methods water. A few moments thus, and then' stood uP with a sigh of relief. Hein a lead from the electric -light wires, seed bed. The exact date of course of reducing fire risks. These are a a red glare showed at the freighter's had disarranged the steering appar-• and this plant was ready. A simple varies -with the season and with the, few. -3. Fraser in Farm and Dairy. water -line and flamed upward, setting, tus of the great steel fish inside. In- touch of his switch would seal the locality. This does not mean that --•i•--- - out every detail of the scene like a stead of swimming straight ahead to, fate of every man around the torpedo- the preparation of the land should be NO SMOKING ALLOWED. photographer's flashlight. He saw, its mark, this one would curve rapid -'tube and the gun above: . neglected in order to sow early. Bet- — ly away and lose itself in the sea t . The thing that worried h'in mo st ter yields will be produced from seed Famous People Wlio Detested Tobacco He is sal d to ave eine strenuous Teutonic machinations lies pipe in his carriage, during the first forcibly impressed the commercial Jubilee procession of the Queen. Wil-. Dutch. Again, the recent outrages on liam Morris was a pipe smoker, so Dutch vessels have more deeply stir - was Rossetti, while Carlyle, as red the inhabitants of. Holland against everyone knows, was a, great smoker. Germmhy than the English realize. The story is familiar-it,•may be true Except during the Boer Was, the -that one evening he and,Tennyson Dutch have always -exhibited most sat in solemn silence smoking for friendly feelings toward] England, hours, one on each side of the fire - combined with the greatest distrust place, and that when the visitor rose of Germany. The Queen of Holland's to go, Carlyle, as he bade him good- marriage was not very popular, be- cause it created fear of Teutonic in- fluence at eourb, What Holland Dreads. "Some six years ago, when•the pre- sent writer was in Holland, the Dutch upper classes talked of the war be- tween England and Germany as be- im, inevitable, If England was de - the big freighter heel over, a quarter a } ea £ h p t s' le disappeared show I So he closed the bulkhead door and was the uncertainty as to conditions sown in a good seed bed than from in Every Form. - night, said, "Man, Alfred we hae had r that own a few days earlier in a graund nicht; come ain soon." TRAINING 15,000,000 MEN. o er or -. u ing her interior structure like a house !sought out one of the smaller iron-! in the stern of the ship.- He suspect -"A custom lothsome to the eye, con struck by a cyclone. The glare died bound boxes. This he opened, and' ed that another gun was concealed ground too cold and wet for the seed hateful to the nbse, harmefull to the down; then a sed explosion came' found, as he had anticipated, a num—, there, but knew nothing of how it to germinate. Il d bed thUt tf braene, dangerous to the lungs, and as the water reached her boilers, and her of the twenty—pound shells. Fourna was placed, However, he did not goocseee esr•te o in the blacks, stinking fume thereof a shower of embers from her furnaces of these he lugged into this den, then dare to venture on deck, even at night. seeding in the corn belt is about tivo Russia Can Put Huge Army in Field flew out and hissed into the sea. A carefully hid the box away. Then he' The slightest suspicion of his presence and a half bushels to the acre. If the nearest resembling the horrible muffled roar filled his ears, a sharp once more retired to his den, where' on board meant death, and, worse than seed is sown broadcast, more is neves- Stigian smoke of the pit that is bot- �• Before 1918. blast of air struck his face, and the the sounds of his work were less like death the failure of all his plans,.He sary. More seed is required in a poor tamelesse." Colonel Kousnetenf, who is dhow re - had seriously considered death; it was seed bed than in a good one, as fewer So, on one occasion, wrote James L, tired and whose activities are con- fatted, one heard on all sides, then Cocos rocked and tossed in the waves. : ly to be detected. Awho hated smoking more than he fined to army missions for the Rus- Holland's only resource against an - All Wild dark now; only a black' It was ticklish work opening the so easy to blot this ship instantly from seeds are likely to grow. for smallr rate hated anythingelse; which recalls Sian Government,has just returned vexation by German would be the bulk showed where the freighter lay-, big 901 ops but his plans called the face of the waters. A hammer of seeding may be used email -key -opening of the dikes. That feeling black bulk that settled slowly, slow-; for it, and open them he must. His: swung on the nose of one of these neled varieties than for la mo�keoneled the fact that Swinburne, the poet, de- , to Petrograd froa tour of the em- s trust ha yielded a small coil of or edos; and the thin was done, He ones for there are many more f the tested tobacco so much that he for- tpiild,theincluding col espondent Asia, and Paris has never changed during the present ly lower. A jumble of minor sounds Y g t P g former in a bushel. gave .lames I. for being a knave, war, though Germany has lavishad came across to him, small explosions, waterproof forte and some caps; and would go too, like scorns of nameless Allow the Venter protection provid- tyrant and coward because he "slit di rsr ofhwhom0acce�tai0 n part areussian sol- al- money galore on its small neighbors. screams, shouts, commands. The when hisdaylight bedtime arrived the heroes who have given up life gladly ed the plants last Fall to remain upon the throat of that blackguard ready trained, can easily be put in It can be said with emphasis that black bulk gently,yand once endeared set- four shellshand-grenades, hadchanged intoleexcellent t to accomplish hes re things for the the plants for some time to come. Raleigh who invented- this filthy , the field between 1916 and 1918, if never before has our Foreign Office tied back disappeared. silence.en, Fur Meanwilehiwithr five -second fuses. Motherland.cst,butThe results were He did It is during the alternate freezing and smoking." !the war lasts that long, been in such close relation to the a few , moments there was whip, ' captain had his chart showedio that and the cost, for one thing. wdhich thawing weather of late Winter and Gladstone and William Penn hated! "They are all men of sound con- Dutch Government, Then, like the crack of a the' NW nowo heading so his course, and not believe that and intelligencettethis which early Spring that the protection is tobacco like poison, while Wellington stitution and of military age," he "Before the close of the summer wate• rs searchlight leaped across the, NNW south-west. Evac-• had conceived directed grin- most needed. abominated smoking to such a de- says. "We will leave in peace at home some interesting developments are waters and played upon the spot. A;ently he had decided to look for vac-'ly masquerade was 011 this ship. If gree, and was so annoyed by the in -'the men of the older classes torics- quite possible in that land of sturdy little wreckage floated -,(surprisingly tims along the sea -lane between Hon- one such craft could operate, why not' Maintaining Humus in •tike •Soil, crease of cigar -smoking among of- !pending tothe landstuem classesof f the lass men, hard thinkers and good livers, little. A few men clung to boxes or olulu and Australian ports. a dozen? Where there not others' A valuable pamphlet has just been facers of the army, that in the early er enough men of sound constitution and Nowhere, not even in Sweden, does planks, and one small boat, with about During the next afternoon the Cocos now at large under various disguises? issued by the Nova Scotia Department 'forties he issued a General Order , fit for war to make a breach in the one get better food or see larger in- lozen occupants, rowed toward! was again chased by a warship, a fast It was his duty to se that the in- (No. bfi7 which contained a era - of Ag,icuItln•e. It deals with soils ) P German lines and destroy the Kaiser's dividual consumers of it than in that strongest armies." country of superlative cleanliness and them. The Cocos was swinging ins British destroyer this time, which put formation he had should reach the Ad- soil cultivation and crops in that pro graph which would have delighted closer, and Crane expected to see a up a determined race. But the miralty, that the ports and lanes of vines, being a reprint of a series of *he heart of James I. It ran thus: boat manned for the rescue, Then! Cocos's powerful engines settled to the Seven Seas be watched for tush articles appearing in the annual re- "The Commander -in -Chief has been h heard orderforward, I their talc and maintained a lead be - ghouls. So he could take no un - port of the Secretary for Agriculture informed that the practice of geographical flatness. The Whale's Little Joke. "Spain is becoming of increasing e tears a crisp ortvar ,enc Tom -That saying. "It's hard to note because the strong pro -German saw the crew of the quick -firer leap yowl the range of the destroyers's necessary chances with his life yet, for'the year 1915. Tine articles have' ing, by the use of pipes, cigars or „ , feeling found in certain quarters at hells. The sea twin did not seem For two days longer the Cocos trots_ keepfa: good man down, is thousands the outset of hostilities has sensibly to stations. The gun swung round; shells. p y g been specially prepared by experts cheroots, has becoeae prevalent of years old. abated in -the last two months. The three sharp explosions rent the air in anxious to show his utmost speed; he, ed north -ward through the Indian and contain a fund of valuable in- among the officers of the army, Dick -That so? Kingof Spain has taken theplace ear - rapid succession, Three more ex-� simply kept his distance till night Ocean, while Crane grew restless and formation for farmers generally. In which is not only in itself a species came en. Then he dodged to and nervous from enforced confinement of intoxication occasioned by the Tom -Por a fact. That's what the leer occupied by President Wilson as lesions echoed back as the shells: an article prepared by 11Sr. Cumming whale told Jonah. reached their mark, and the small fro fol u while with fights blanketed, ane inactivity. Then, m early morn- appear the following valuable, hints fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly boat crumpled like an eggshell. Once' and presently left the British ship far ing, the lookout reported smoke a- on humus: : occasions drinking and tippling by Lo the leeward, her ineffectual search head, Soon it a eared that theywere, y those who ac vire the habit." Obvious. more the searchlight swept the scene Phumus may be maintained or even, q then flickered out; the hum of the en -'I light playing back and forth over the overhauling a fleet of three large gradually increased by the following Both Queen Victoria and the Prince' Father (reprovingly) -"Do you tervention of Alfonso. He has kept gines quickened, and the pose of the empty waste. pa:tsenger-steamers convoyed by a practices: i Consort detested smoking, so tobacco I know what happens to liars when they aloof as fur as possible, although the ship swung away to the west. The same ruse had to be repealed battleship which was in the lead. (a) Live stock farming, with its' was taboo wherever the court was. die. Roman Catholic influence of his court Sick at heart, sick in mind and body,• next day thin Lime for the benefit of When this was learned, the Cocos attendant use of barnyard manure, "On the other hand, many royal Johnny -"Yes, sir; they lie still." is probably pro -German. But he has Crane crept clown from the lookout, the Australian cruiser Sydney. Crane' slackened speed and allowed the flotilla ladies of Euro a contemporaries of done immense and unacknowledged g , (b) Reasonably short doareps•in P ' work for the relief of prisoners, a d and lay almost listlessly watching the gathered over the 'phone that she was to draw away. At sundown the look-' which clover and grass sods are plow-' Queen Victoria and her son, have had It pleases the average man more 9 German crew as they opened the near-' acting as convoy to a fleet of five out reported the smoke barely visible.' ed under at not more thou 2 to 6 the • reputation of being confirmed to have a woman tell him that he is when English relatives now try to est box and fitted another torpedo into merchant vessels. Then, too, certain The crisis was still postponed• years intervals. smokers. Among them may be the first man she ever loved than'sto trace n missing warrior the tempt the tube. T the first timeh code messages picked up during the About eight o'clock however, a roes O Th f ] 1 I named "Gagmen Sylva" the poetess- have her tell him tlhe truth strenuous efforts are made to assist the chief impartial onlooker upon hostilities. If Germany wants peace she will appeal fon it through the in - le U e, ' UI' a re a yea— , - C C use '0 clover, a ways i ' lased the capabilities of the literal, see -1 night by the wireless operator, seem-, sage passed over the 'phone that when seeding down. ahem by the Spaniards. Portugal's entific Teutonic mind. The men be -.ed to indicate that a small gray ship, brought Crane up ontlhealert, Picked, (d) The plowing under in extreme! THREE VITAL 0UESTI0NS declarationsmade nowar against Germany I having given the slip to several war- up bythe wireless operator, it identi-buck-I Are Y.E. fou 010.0,¢7 v1te1 tecta, end general co iv o , headache h dl 1 a ,tan has made considerable stir in Madrid, fore him did not look cruel or brutal. P instances of green crops, such. as bu , good health? Do you know that good digestion Spain will not fight, but she may They were simply carrying out al vessels, was under suspicion. The fled the flotilla ahead as H. M. Battle-, wheat, rye, clover, vetches, etc. ' b the foundation of good health: Paine and or" i have much to gain commercially. if plan to its logical conclusion. Their; captain evidently deciders that these ship Dauntless, convoying three trans -1 (e) When commercial fertilizers she engineers peace. operations could he carries on only waters were to well guarded, then he ports that carried five thousand Aus- are largely depended upon, short rota i "Peace, by absolute secrecy. They could would seek new postures; for he set a tralian troops, bound to the help of tions and the plowing under of green ion rather the is, now of not burden themselves with prisoners.; south-west course at a good speed the Mother Country. The speed of crops are absolutely necessary. hostilities in the autumn, is now be- not in stomaoh ■ d chest after eating, with' oat t n ea ac dizziness, re ■ re s of India tion. Mother Sclgal's.Syrup, the great, herbal remedy and tonic willcure you, AFTER MEALS TAtKE ee . .f MOTHER :t ;tc- hri s : YI .q �• nip, t I1 e AND BANISH STOMACH TROUBLES I =' �-1 j They knew before they attacked than which led, through unfrequented seas,' the Cocos increased, and her course The humus supply may be depict the crew of the freighter must die. The, toward the Dutch .East Indies, I swung slightly to port. Crane let ed by the following practicesr I destruction of the few miserable,! A week passed by quietly, and the himself out of hie, chamber and hug-; (a). Selling hay and other products helpless survivors was, to them, not Cocos w•as threading her way through. vied to his lookout post, Soon the off the fcu'm instead of feeding to At ell Druo,t.,., or direct on receipt of price, 50a. and $1.00. The latae bottle coir inn three Nm;. o, P he rect on. ce 7. WHITE &Co, d $100. Greig strc, t Went 6lootrhre murder, but a simple military men the narrow seas of the Dutch archr-aleck lights flicked out, and the gun- live stock. me`hat sure. They must not be left to he pelagoes, Not a ship had been sight-', crew came forward and began strep-! (b) Careless preserving of barn-' picked up and to spread their story, ed except two small traders , with , ping the piece. He realised that the yard manure. It was no worse than dropping bombs which the Cocos exchanged signals, captain would try to sink one or more, (c) Growing too many successive from aircraft on sleeping cities, or reporting herself as bound from the' of these transports, and trust to the crops of oats, etc. or roots or even' shelling towns filled with non-com -• Marshall Group for Borneo. Twice' darkness and his great :Teed to slip hay (tine latter is the most common batants, Loth common events in the site stopped at small trading stations, t away from the guns of they hattleship. source of :humus depletion in Nova present war. Nevertheless his flesh left a little freight, and took on small. They represented great prizes to the Scotia). crept and his fingers dosed ronvul- quantities of shell and copra, doubt-: captain, well worth the risk, Crane' (d) The wrong use of commercial 1 less to strengthen her disguise in. realised that the crisis was at hand, fertilizers, cage of necessity. Certainly the, and his courage and determination In a light, open soil, humus is rapid- f� shell part of the cargo strengthened rose to meet it. Everything hinged on ly decomposed and lost, and cense- shell odour perceptibly, Sometimes', Iii actions in a few short minutes, and quently one must apply manure 'more mon walked through the corridor his brain cooled and his muscles hard- frequently and follow a shorter rota- ! within a few feet of Crane, an he lay tined to the task. ' tion in order to conserve the humus in his narrow cell; but his luck held, ; Then one dark night they ran the (To be Continued.) ' Strait of Sunda, between Sumatra and -ee II ▪ of Course You Need �1 itENS ORN 6 o � Ice Cream comes out of the lreezov 01 with a velvety smoothness—•mid a Oz nowdallalousnoss-when It is made with 09•'149014'6. 10 And It Is prosy hard to tea for any- thing morn delicious titan a Chocolate idBlanc Mango or Cream CHEW,' with Fruit, made of Benson"a Corn Starch. P - Our new Recipe Book "Desserts and 4 Candies" PHIS how and how much to use, Mite for a eery to our Montreal e l e -^ -and ho sum tall bili grocer Office sa 1s r of Y r to nada. or MOO t'S, da staedhyrn •Canada for,nbra than heli a century, 1 gDE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MONTREAL, CASDINAL, enANTfOIo, 216 Io0T WILLIAM. Java, and when the morning coma (•IIII.OREN AND DISCIPLINE were in the India Ocean, standing out in the track of shipping from Aus- Make the Child Trust You, and 'Cie tralia to the Suez Canal. No 'Threats, supply than on heavier soils, Reduce Fire Risks. The average farm building is a fire trap from one end to the other. I1 is full of readily inflammable ma- terial. Once started, a farm fire is 1 All this Lime (Trane had been busily very seldom stopped. We will sug- working at night and lying hidden by The following hints to teachers gest a few precautions which we take day. His work was laborious and whicih appeared in the Educational to reduce fire risks. Review will be equally useful for Vow, by reason of his inadequate ar•ents. If a lantern is upset almost anyy , tools and the Constant neceosity to where in the ordinary barn or stable, work noiselessly and leave behind no than punishment of the wrongdoer, there is a 'litter of chaff around to visible trace of his operations. This Exercise groat c: re in taking a take fire. The first precaution we much he had accomplished. Digging stand that you may have no occasion would advise is to clean up the chaff Patiently, hour after hour, with his to retreat. small gimlet, saw, and chisel, be had Fault-finding 1s no1 czlculnted 10 hollowed out two spaces in one of the eUDistrii`sthli h the parent breeds cfc- I thick ceiling -beams, and had planted crit eth the child. 1 two of the twenty -pound shells direct- A child properly employed gives no ly under the feetof the gun -crew on trouble, ' deck, and likewise just over the heads Be firm, Be kind. Be patient. Be self -container. Bo es perfect as yon tisk your chil- dren to be. And above all, make no threats. of the torpedo -crew. To make sure, he had planted two more shells hi the floor just under the sliding -door through the forward bulkhead. The outside sections of wood removed and litter and eliminate this danger. Another precaution is never to set a lantern down where it can be knock- ed over. Everywhere in our barna we have convenient hooks or wires running from one end of the stable to the other on which the lantern may be suspended. Spontaneous combustion is suppos- ed to be the cause of many farm Area, Is there such a thing? A United StAttes professor who has examined Catarrhal Fever Throe to six doses cure, - Ono small sire bottle of SPOHN'S guaranteed to ours a ease. Safe for any mare, horse or colt, Largest o,.11ing veterinary specific ever known. 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It is because of this increasing potentiality that the coming budget is viewed with com- parative equanimity, for it is under- stood to be only a six months' budget. And after that? Well, we wait and hope." THOSE BOYS OF MINE. Those little boys of mine. I see them years agone; . Playing in the yard Oi' tumbling on the lawn. And often in the evening 1 When play and boosts are hast, I. hear diem laughing in their bed Til) hushed to sleep at last. And as we gazed upon them, Ere we turned off the light, We prayer to God to bless them And guide their steps aright. And now they are men full grown - Stalwart, brave and true; Khaki -clad and sworn 7'o fight for me and you, I know they'll prove their manhood; When drawn in battle line; God bless and keep them safely -- Those little boys of mitre. To Prove She Could, Astounded Mother -Why, Tot tie, tri d m•you had i � e. you never (old t i „4. so many children tothis party, Small lloste9 -Thoi s 'Callan you said Clint 1 eeulli never keep a secret. The enfailneee of the fair • sex is l••*rust hill1, -