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winter evening, a tall, burly flour°,
greeted him.
1 "DIdn't expect to see ale so early,
did you?" said a strong, lusty 'votes;
It was some moments before old
e lir; Dodd collected his with siiftieient,
ly to realize who his•visitor was. Then
he remembered. It was one of the
wounded Australian soldiers whom he
had visited at the hospital—a certain
Private John Carew—to whom he had
taken a great liking, and whom, fore
getful of hie financial difficulties, he
had asked to come and dine with him
that evening.
"Oh, my dear • Mr. Carew, please
come in," he said, flushing with ex-
citement, "I'm so glad that you call,
ed early, because—it'd inhospitable of
me, I know, but my wits go wool-
gathering these days --I'd almost for.
gotten you were coming!"
took from has pocket, licked it, placed
The young man stamped into the
It on. ro from
of paper, st, cecd passage and followed his host into an
something• on blueua pen sed adjoining room, He was nearly six
handed it over to the other. feet two, big and bronzed, and the
"1blr. Maver don't care a donkey's
head about excuses," he growled.
"Money's what he wants, every time."
He turned away without another
word, and .the old man watched him
until he disappeared in the fog.
"You'll be eure and tell Mr, Maver
how sorry I am that there should have
been this delay in payment. The
times are not what they were, and the
War, of course—"
The old man who stood just within
the doorway oogghed nervously, as if
hoping that that would fill the gap
in the string of his excuses.
Itis companion—a broad, bullet -
headed figure, who remained with one
foot on the top step, and the other
pushed meaningly into the . passage
beyond, as if to take caro that the
door wasn't closed—unemotionally de-
tached a stamp from the sheet he
old man
with the bowed shoulders and
the child -like face contrasted curious-
ly with him.
"I'nt not going to stay now, Mr.
Dodd, but I just came to tell you a
piece of news I've had. My mother's
come over from Australia, and arrives
Then he closed the door and turned at Waterloo at six o'clock to -night. I
back into the passage. The old house thought I'd tell you in time myself, so
was very still and silent, and he was that you can put that dinner off."
alone there, as he had been alone for Old Mr. Dodd forgot in an itlsbant
twenty-five years. It had been his the fact; that he only had twenty-nine
owls house once. It was still legally shillings left in the world. He had
his own house; but, as he had to pay wanted so much this young' man to
interest to -Mr. Maver for the money dine with him. Though lie had for -
he had raised on it to keep body and gotten all about the function, he re -
soul together, his proprietary rights membered now that he had been look -
were little more than technical. ing forward to it for days.
Mr. Thomas Dodd—old Tommy "But your mother," he stammered
Dodd, as all the children in the neigh -1 pleadingly. "Perhaps your mother
bonceod called him, largely out of of would do me the great honor of dining1
feetieu—was well pant seventy. His here as well? I—I should be so dis-
hair was snow-white, and his face, un- appointed!"
touched by the magic hand of Time, There were almost tears in his eyes.
was like that of a child. The big colonial's face lit up with al
Ile lit a candle in the passage, and smile.
by it • light examined the money he "You can count on us, then, h
hn<l is his pocket. It was twenty-nine Docid," he said, "I wouldn't disc
shilli:-gse--all the money he had in Point you for worlds, and I know m
the world, now that he had paid Mr. the' wouldn't. Anybody who has be
itilavtr the quarterly interest on the a friend to me is a friend of he
mortgage—n quarterly intci•eet that We'll be here at seven o'clock punet
would fall doe again in a few days. ually."
"Perhaps I shall die before then," It was only when his visitor h
he said to himself. "That would be gone that old Mr. Dodd began to th3nk
the best way out. If I should have once more of pounds, shillings a
to leave here---" pence.
He began to tremble so that the He had just twenty-nine shilling
can.11e traced weird gyrating shadows He counted them over thoughtful y
upon the ceiling, Steadying himself They would provide a very excel)
With one hand on the wall, he tottered i dinner for three. And after that
down the broad passage to a door at' well, it would at any rate only has
the further end. There he paused a; been •a question of a few days, an
moment, as if frightened, holding the' what did a few days matter to on
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To the Older Boys
C2 Ouutari0. .
A CALL TO CAMP.
Choice, representative imam: Boys, between
the ages of fifteen and twenty years, are here-
by called to Camp for (oven day( on the shores
of Labe Conchiohing et Qoneva Park, to camp,
to livo under canvas, away from the piles of
brick and otoue that wo owl cities; in the open
air; to breathe pure oxygen; to bathe in sun
and water; to sleep upon a bed of boughs bo -
side tho trail; to hear the whisper of the
trees; and from the daily vocation of the
farm and the farto oft beside the campfire
when the sun has sot; to ply the oar and wield
the paddle In the moonlight; to dive in the cool
waters of the lake at dawn and to watch the
stare at night; to eat flesh and fowl and the
delicacy of fish with the fragrance of the
forest an about you; to aomninne night and
morn aad mid-day with God's great out -of -
00010. This is the Can!
To confer, to study the guide -book of the
boy, the man and nations; to learn to livo
right, to speak true, to help the weak, to fol.
low the Clutet; to note rules of righteous liv-
ing in prophet, priest. end sage, and to apply
them to our daily life and service; to become
acquainted with the nib1e, To study plana forthe home Sunday School, and programs of ser-
vice and activities to be done; to hear roeY�
who have travelled life's trail tell the 51005;
to (license the ways by which mea earn their
datiy broad, without in the ma,u'e worse; to
play and soft and hike at night, when the day
is done and to do it In the spirit of the
)Caster of Olen. This is the Can:
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d l The call le to the Tenth Annual On- er boys, but because they are recog-
s Mario Boys' Camp Conference which is nized as specialists in the various lines
1 to be held on the beautiful grounds of of work they are to present.'
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eat Geneva Park, seven miles over Lake They include the following: Pro-
-' CoueliVeing from Orillia; the dates fessor Wm. II. Greaves, M.A., Depart-
s are July 22nd to 29th, ment of Public Speaking, Victoria Col-
ds lege; Professor E. R. Groves, teacher
e 1 This conference cannot easily be de- of Sociology, New Hampshire State
scribed. It is a Boys Camp, with all College, Mass.;Arthur Black Farmer,
that suggests in the way of fun and B.A., teacher of Vocational Guidance
ut fellowship. Character, Analysis, Salesmanship
It is more than a vacation, though and Business Science, Sheldon School
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-Ieach afternoon will be given over to
1 of Business Science,
e recreation in the form of organized nal M.
d Robinson, International Y.M.C.A.,
sports on land and water, and under
d the supervision of' an expert physical °ys Work Secretary New York
at director assisted by a number of ath- City; and the following Canadian
d totes. boys'leaders under whose joint or-
ganization the camp is promoted: Sun-
t It will be a conference on modern day School Commission of the Church
l methods of boys' work, discussing the of England, Rev. J. W. Storey; the
problems of older boys and offering Baptist Conventions of Ontario and
e help in their solution. Quebec, Rev, P. K. Dayfoot, M.A.; the
e1 Vocational guidance will be a prom-. Methodist Church Young People's and.
inent feature. These life work talks Sunday School Department, W. H.
1 • will be given by a number of success- Vaughan; the Presbyterian Sabbath
1 ful business and professional men, un- Schools and Young People's Depart-
' der the guidance of Arthur B. Falmer, meats, Rev. C, A. Myers, M.A.; the
! B,A., of the Sheldon School of Sales- Ontario Sunday School Association,
manship, vocational and business Rev. E. W. Halpenny, B.D.; the Na-
t science. tional Council of the Young Men's
I It will be a training school in the Christian Association, Taylor Statten,
I principles of leadership, especially ap- Wm. R. Cooke, G. H. Hutchinson; J.
pealing to the ambitious boy eager to P. Hagerman of Toronto Central
make the most and best of life's op- Branch Y.M.C.A.; W. H. Wood of
portunities. Brodeville Community Y.M.C.A.
It will he a place of greab visions, The programme is based upon the
!wholesome inspirations, and high re- Canadian standard efficiency tests
solves. which sets up for the boys of Canada
Character is contagious. Here boys a programme of life activities making
will form lasting friendships, not only for strong characters physically, in -
with boys from other schools, but with
Christian men from the colleges they
hope soon to enter. Here, too, they will
1 come to know men whose names sband
for success mid honor in the commer-
tial world.
The boy of to -day is to be the lead-
er of to -morrow, so how necessary it
is that at the time when character is
being formed, ideals set up, and re-
sponsibilities of life service realized,
the boy should have the opporbunity
of fellowship with older men who have
actualized their visions of earlier
years. These leaders, comprising the
strongest group ever gathered for a
conference of this kind, have been
chosen not merely because of their The following is a testimony writ -
personal qualities and interest in old- sten by one of the boys of last year's
"Well, I've always been in once a Abruptly he put all these thought
year on this day," he muttered to him- ! from him and began bustling abo
self -"this day that she ran away I to put the room in order. Almost e.
from me—my Marjorie, my little Mar- ' hausting his small stock of coal, h
jorie." made a glowing fire, and then tai
He turned the handle and opened the table. This done. he buttone
the door. As he did so, an odor of himself into a tight -fitting top -co
dust and damp assailed him. He held and sallied out into the darkness an
up the candle, shading his eyes. 1 fog,
From out of the darkness there Ab a neighboring small restauran
leapt up a strange, fantastic scene.lhe ordered and paid for a substantia
The room was a large one, and down I four -course dinner, which was to b
the middle of it stretched a table laid sent in punctually at a quarter pas
for dinner. There were glass and } seven. With what remained h
plate and silver candlesticks there, but bought some flowers for the moths
the silver was tarnished and the glass of his gallant guest.
was covered deep with dust. There) These preparations took hine so
were vases filled with what had once long, and he became so excited and
,)teen flowers, but the flowers had enthusiastic about every purchase,
mouldered beyond. recognition. In the, that it was close upon seven before
middle of the table stood a large, he got back to his house. A taxi -cab
heavily -iced cake, which was now al -1 was standing by the pavement, and
most tumbling to pieces from the tun- dimly through the darkness he could
nelling of the mice that scampered see a soldier with a lady by his side.
away at the sight of the candle, The "What a curious old place, Jack,"
old man entered the ghostly room, he overheard the lady remark. "I
and, closing the door, stood looking can't see much for the fog, but just
about him. At the far end was a side- the outline of the building reminds
board, crowded with an odcl collection me of the old home I used to live in
of worm-eaten, tarnished goods—a when I was a child."
lace shawl that was hanging together Old Mr. Dodd hurried forward.
as if by a miracle, some silver knives ! "I'm so sorry to have kept you," he
and forks almost black with the ac -I said. "Please let me get you out of
tion of the atmosphere, an open jewel -'this cold."
case, out of the dust of which there) Ile fumbled with the latchkey and
shone dimly, as the candle -light lit I opened bhe door. As he did so, the
upon it, the glow of a precious stone.levind blew out the candle in the pass -
"Marjorie -my little Marjorie!" he age. 1
cried, "Oh, •why did you leave me— "How very stupid of me!" he ex -1
why did you leave me?" claimed. `But T'II
open the door of
With a trembling hand he set the l the dining -room, and you'll be able to
candle on the table and sank upon his, see."
knees. From out of the past came the ; Closely folowed by his guests he
picture that was never absent from walked down the passage and threw"
the mirror of his mind—of the scene l open the dining -room door.
which the room commemorated, "Now pray let me have the honor
Marjorie's wedding-dayl The table of shaking you by the hand madam,"{
had been laid for the guests—the pre_ he said, in his gentle, old-fashioned
sents displayed! She was to have way
been the wife of Lionel Maver-that Bub the lady did not answer him, I
very Maver who hacl advanced money She was looking round the room with 1
on the security of old Mr. Dodds staring, wondering eyes. Suddenly, 1
house, and was so exacting in the with a cry, she staggered towards the;
payment of the interest. And Mar- table and, putting her hands upon it,
eerie had fled, without an explanation, as if to support herself, turned and
except for a few hurried lines to say faced her host. All the blood had fled
that she could not marry Lionel Ma -
ver --that her father was to forget,
and, if he would, forgive her.
He had never known where she had
gone, or what she had done, The
from her cheeks, and her face was
ghastly in the candlelight.
"I trust, madam, that you are not
- --" old Mr, Dodd began nervously,
bridegroom had searched for her ;n But the lady cut him short. Hold-
vain, and then gavagely accused her ing out her arms, she staggered to -
war e him,
father of being party to the flight.
She had left hint broken-hearted and
alone, and he had kept that room,
where her marriage -feast was to
have been, exactly as it had appear-
ed on her wedding -day. And that was
twenty-five years ago!
"Oh, Marjorie, Marjorie, my little
Marjorie!"
The dinner was cold when they sat
On the silence of the
old house down to it, because they had much to
broke the vibrating clamor of the tell—how Marjorie, thinking she was
knocker, Oid Mr. Dodd rose half dam- obeying her father's wishes, had
edly to his feet, and then, as the forced herself to regard Mr, Maver' as
knock was repeated, he picked up the her future husband, and then, on the
candle and )hurried to the door. As night before her wedding,had fled
ho opened It, letting in the fog that secretly to the man she Io' d ---to John
Was^ therm
ego ng with the ;fall of the Carew ;with.. him to battle through
"Father!" she cried: "Oh, my clear,
dear father, to think that I should
thine back to my old home like thisl"
The old man gazed at her in dazed
wonder.
"Marjorie," he gasped—"my little
Marjeriel"
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tellectually, religiously and socially.
Every day in the camp will be full of
fun and worth while activities in-
cluding swimming, fishing, sailing,
canoeing, baseball, tennis, group
games, group studies, vocational and
practical talks, etc. Boys' Sunday
School classes, Y.M.C.A. Square Clubs,
High School Clubs, and other groups
of older boys are hntitled to represent-
ation.
A training course on boys' work for
male teachers, pastors and superin-
tendents, is to be held -simultaneously
and for the week following. (Send
for special programme.)
camp, and many others of a similar
strain could be produced:
"It has given me an insight into the
possibilibies of the work that I did
not know it .possessed and showed me
how little I really knew. It has help-
ed mt by giving me the chance to rub
up against the right kind of fellows
and showing me what kind of a fellow
I ought to be.
It has showed me how to treat sub-
jects of which I already knew bhe
theory before the fellows in an inter-
esting way. It has given me the in-
spiration to go home and endeavor to
be a man, clean in thought, speech and
action and to try to develop into a live
wire and try in spite of discourage -
meats to try and help our fellows• to
do the same thing through the C.S.
E.T., and ih every other way I can.
But above ail this conference has
given me a clearer vision of the spirit
of my Master and what He means to
me and may mean to bhe other fellow
if they only catch the vision of service,
and I hope I may be able to help some
of them to catch that vision of service,
to themselves first, to their fellows
and to the world brotherhood,
And I hope bo be able to put this
camp conference before the school, the
township and county in such a way
that next year a greater number of
fellows will be persuaded to take the
opportunity to come and get next year
what I am getting this."
At this time of world crisis it is a
call to men and women of Ontario to
use..every means at their disposal for
the development of stronger men; if
our boys best powers are called out
they shall respond when they are in
world -leadership by giving us greaber
laws and administration for agricuI-
ture, science, industry and also social
conditions actuated by a religious dy-
namic of heretofore undreamed of
purity and nobility. The camp lead-
ers aspire to such a lofty objective by
touching the lives of our boys partic-
ularly during the impressionable years
of 15-18,
Send to any of the above bodies for
further information and registration
blanks, or to E. D. Otter, Secretary,
Promotion Committee, care of On-
tario Sunday School Association, 299
Queen St, West, Toronto.
misfortune, at the other .end of the
world, to wealth. and comfort,
"1 thought I must have broken your
heart, father dear, and I couldn't
write to you. I thought it best for
your own peace and happiness to go
out of your life."
"My peace and happiness!" he ex-
claimed; and then, without another
word, he took her by the hand and led
her to that fantastic room which he
had, kept as a shrine to her memory.
And that was the nearest he ever
got to any expression of reproach.—
London Answers. .
All in life worth having has its
price. It must be paid for in effort,
and in tears, and can be had on no
cheaper terms,
"Yesterday," said Jabson, "I refus-
ed a poor Woman a request for a
small sons of money, and in milieu u-
enee of my net I passed a sleepless
night, The tones of her voice were
ringing in my ears the Whole time,"
"Yon). softness of heart does you
credit." aid( i Maltaon,j "W1to was -the
woman?" "My wife,"
1200 OPIUM DENS IN PARIS.
Even Flower Girls Peddle Drugs in
the French Capital. -
The war has incidentally revealed
the existence in Paris of a number
of opium smokers, cocaine and mor-
phine users that was unsuspected
before. Monsieur Charles Bernard,
deputy for the district of Montmartre,
where he is engaged in the drug bus-
iness, estimates the number of opium
dens now hi existence at 1200.
"Even the flower girls on the
street," he says, "have been drawn
into the traffic in stupefacients, Re-
cently a girl,. in short skirts and
with a vieious`'expresoian offered a
bouquet of violets to a passer-by,
The rhan wanted no violets, but the
girl's expression excited his pity and
he togsed her two sous. 'But it's
00 francs, she said softly. Then ap-
proaching near enough to whisper•,
she added, 'there's some `coca' in-
side,'
" 'Coe(' is the familiar term used
3n the quarter for cocaine, of which
there was a little paper concealed in
the heart of the bouquet. There are
other quarters of Paris also :where the
same practice has taken root,"
An elegantly dressed woman got
out of ataxi in front of a fashion-
able bar in the centre of Paris and
asked the footman of the establish- n
ment if he would please till her lighter B
with gasoline, A plainclothes, man m
standing by seized the lighter when $
it was filled and it was found to con-
tain a solution of chlohydl•ate or mor-
phine. These incidents. show how
forbidden drugs are procured, There
are sued to be at least 80 illicit estab-
lishments in Montnatre where mor-
phine is to be had, including bars,
cafes, restaurants and hotels.
The Chamber of Deputies has just
voted a iaw raising the maximum
penalty for illicity traffic in opium
and kindred drugs from 3000 francs
($000,) to 10,000 francs ($2000) fine
and from two menthe to two years'
imprisomnent,
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PRIVILEGES OF PEEP E FOR-
AMBASSADORS
OR AMBASSADORS ANOTHER WAR
CANNOT I31a FORCED TO PAY HIS GERMAN NEWSPAPERS TELL OF
JUST DEBTS. THE SCHEME.
The Embassy Is Recognized as Piece lililiO
of Country Which It
Represents.
To Ttrain Boys in the Arts of
theism Almost From
Very Birth.
The tragic death of the first seer& ',After we win this viar 'lt will not
tory of the Italian Ambassador at a behoove us to become inactive and
London hotel recently had a curious indifferent. In fact, Germany will
sequel, says London Tit-I3its. Tho still continue to have powerful and
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put forth the utnisuai bitter enemies, and it will be cur duty,
plea of "diplomatic immunity,' and as, the Japanese say, when a victory
the result was that no inquest was is wen 'to set our helmets tighter on
held. The last occasion on which this our beetle.'
plea was put forward was when, many These remarks, made by the late
years ago, attempts to hold inquests
on deceased members of the Chinese.
Embassy were defeated by recourse to
the tact.
Ambassadors, however, have many
peculiar privileges of which the gen-
eral public know very little. In the that is now being discussed in the
first place, an embassy, or legation is, empire of preparing for another war
to all intents and purposes, a piece of after the present conflict is over.
Develop ,Militarism.
arylaws of the countryAccording to the scheme outlined,
in which the militarism will' be more deeply rooted
legation stands. This was emphasiz- than even at this time, and a boy will
ed some years ago when a cerbain be trained to be a soldier from el -
gentleman whose name was well most his very birth. As soon as a
known at the particular period was boy enters school at six years of age
kidnapped into the Chinese Legation. instruction in military natters will
An inspector from Scotland Yard im- begin, and will forma an important
mediately proceeded to the legation part of his studies. Drills will be
and released the prisoner. TI s was held in the open air, and Spartan An-
a most serious breach of international plicity and discipline will prevail in
law, and created quibe a sensation in his bringing up. He will be pot
diplomatic circles at the time, through a severe course of athletics
Cannot be Sued. -, will be exposed to all kinde of urea -
An ambassador cannot be sued. In ther and hardship, and physicals?' his
fact he is immune from legal pro- l hotly will be hardened in order that
ceedings by a statue which was
pass- he may be prepared to meet all the:
ed to appease the wrath of Peter the' vieietltudes of, a campaign.
Great of Russia, whose arnbassador ; When the boy reaches bre twelfth
was actually arrested in London fora Year the drilling Will become will.
debt of £i0, more strenuous, and several hr,m-t
1909 Bethmann Hclhvcg, the daily will be devoted. to military tenni-
InGerman Ambassador in London, claim -;tug 10 camps especially selected by
ecu to he exempt from rates in respect i the Governzl%nt. This will continue
of his residence at Walton -on -Thames, until his eighteenth ytar, when h
and although the Walton authorities I will be eonsirered fit to enter the re-
took the matter up with the treasury,! "Jar army
the latter upheld the ambassador's Army of Boys
claim. Again, in Washington, in 1904,' During the school term from the
a member of the British Embassy sue- twlfth to the eighteenth year the
cessfully claimed to be outside the law boys will constitute a big army by
when charged with exceeding the mo- themselves They will have their
army corps, brigades and regiments,
and they will be commanded by gen-
male, in the law courts. He is free erals, colonels, lieutenants, and eap-
fromdenc paying custom duties,tsand if free
tains selected from the boys whom
p y gthe big general staff of Germany will
footman is summoned for being drunk consider best fitted to fill such posi-
and incapable in the streets (this has tions. There will be regular man-
actually happened in London) he can oeuvres and sham battles, and noth-
save him from being fined,
Exceptional Rights.
The most curious of an ambassa-
dor's privileges is thab when dismiss-
along
ed from an audience with the seve- along the same lines. Athletics will
reign to which he is accredited, he form an important part of it, aril
may turn his back to the court. He Spartan endurance and indifference
also has the right to demand admin- to pain and luffering will be their
sion to the sovereign by day or by training also. In addition, they will
night. An ambassador's wife is re -
the
special instruction in nursing
gardecl as almost as important aper- the wounded, and will be trained to
son as the ambassador. Not only is grow up strong- and hearty women,
she addressed as "Your Excellency," fit in every way to be the wives of
but any insult offered to her is as soldiers..
muchhn affront and even a cause for
war, .as would be one offered to her
husband or his country.
The ambassadress has the right to
sit in the presence of the sovereign
of the country to which her better
half is accredited, and, like her hus-
band, cannob .be arrested or sued for
debt,
Field Marshal Von der Goltz in a
speech in Constantinople some -months
ago have found a ready response
throughout all Germany, and the Ger-
man newspapers and periodicals that
reach in England, tell of the scheme
the country which he represents, and
consequently an ambassador and his
staff are not affected by the orclin-
for speed limib.
An ambassador cannot be forced to
pay his bills or forced to give evi-
ing will be overlooked or left undone
to train these boys to be the best
"soldiers the world has yet seen."
For girls there will be trainin e
RUSSIANS MANY RACES.
Population is Most Varied of Any
Country in the World.
The military spirit in Germany,
instead of subsiding after this war,
will be more and more encouraged,
and pamphlets advocating these mea-
sures tate being widely distributed
throughout the empire.
THE OUTC0ME OF THE WAR.
Lloyd George in an Address Indulges
in a Parable.
In fighting this war I have simply,
The population of Russia is more in my judgment, been carrying out
varied than that of any country of the the principles which I have advocated
world. It consists of over 140 different on this• platform now for 30 years of
peoples, nationalities, and races, all
my life, I have bad no illusions se
differing in their customs, religion, to what this war means or meant. T
language, and dress. There are; Fifty have always felt that the life of this
empire was at stake, and I know how
much depends on that life. With all
ants of the former Grand Duchy of its faults, the British Empire, here
Moskva), now ruling all Russia,•and amens the seas, stands for freer,
Twenty million Little Russians, for better, ampler, nobler conditions of
merry a part of Poland, life for man. (Cheers.) I believed
Twelve million Poles. 'that in this war freedom was at stake,
Six million white Russians; former- 3O I have thrown myself with all my
ly a part of Poland.
heart and soul and strength into week-
ly
million Lithuanians; formerly ing for victory. (Cheers.)
a part of Poland, Nor have I ever had any 'lentis,
Two million Germans, about•the result, if we fought with
One million and a half Armenihns. intelligence and with resolueion, The
One million and a half Roumanians. fundamental facts are in our favor. , . .
Five million Jews. I react a story the other day—I stn
Sixty million of 180 other different very glad after a very tiring day to
tell a Bible tale of adventure as a
counter -irritant to the excitements of
the House (laughter) ---I road ono the
other day about a mining camp at the
foot of a black mountain in the great
West, The diggers had been toiling
long and hard with but scant encour•-
Badly Needed. agement :for their labors, and one
"There will be no meeting of the night a terrible storm swept ever the
Good Health Society Tuesday evert mountain, An eanthqurle stattcred
ing because of the illness 01 so man lbs hard surface and hinged its rocks
of the members," y about; and in the morning in the rents
I. and fissures they found a rich deposit
Town Visitor (to farmer, whose of gold, This is a great storm that
chickens he hos been admiring) ---"I Europe; sweeping over the favored ofutels or
suppose you hatched all these chickens witl find but in this night he terror
yourself?" Farmer.—"Olt, no; we cruet you
vof selfishness
the hard
keep hens for that purpose," geeets, has
"You can't fool the people all the ofbeothe n 1p eopled, and in the rent hearts
me," announced the investigator. "I p 1 you will find treasures,
Mot -id-
iom, it: " replied the Trust:Magnate. golden , teammate of courage, and oe
, t.Tt
P t f1 fastness, endurance, devotion, of
[levee: to plenty of profit in fool- the faith that endureth forever,
million Great Russians, or' actual Rus-
sians or "Muscovites" (the inhabit-
ations and races, as: Testers, Kurds,
ashkirs, Samoyedes, Kirghizes, Kal-
uehs, Turks, Bulgers, Greeks, Gip-
ies, and 120 others, Mostly all of
these live in groups and clans on their
ncient territory.
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tl
"Wanted -frill; fm'mhouse'; lei,
lived two "
ears, in
g half of them half the time." (Cheers,)