HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-6-29, Page 6THE CAMPER
It was early morning on Lek() Gol
on, The air slowly surrendered i
chilliness under the lengthening ray
of the sun, The teapot sputtered eve
the coals, and bacon flavors filtere
gratefully to the nostrils, Tho 01
Veteran squatted himself comfortabl
on a granite boulder and nodded t
.,ward the fire. "Boys," he said, "thei
don't look to be anything dangerou
in a little bunch of coals, does there?
"Not this side of a powder fa
• tory," chipped in the Youngster.
The Old Veteran tapped his pip
bowl significantly. "Some day we'r
going to have an argument abou
which is the best spot to trifle• wi
fire --a powder factory or a forest, an
I think the forest will come last. On
advantage about the powder factor
is that you know the worst right off
But in the forest, you may walk fo
days and have bhe fire of your own
malting overtake you."
"That doesn't sound reasonable,
the Youngster broke in.
"And it won't," agreed the Veteran
"until some time you start a cam
fire in a bog or on pine needles an
after a week's absence come face
face with your own fire in the shap
of a blackened township. There's lob
of surprises in store for you, my lad
I have known camp fires to burrow
into a boggy soil, although douse
with many pails of water, and remain
there for two weeks, travelling under
ground until they came in contact with
the dry duff of a fine old pinery, then
to dart upward and turn hundreds of
acres into a roaring furnace. The
only safe way is never to take chances
with a camp tire, never build one ex-
cept on rocks or gravel and never go
away until it is dead out. I have fol-
lowed that rule now for twenty years.
"You certainly make the camp fire
responsible for a lot of damage."
"Can't exagerate it, because I have
FRENCH WAR VICTIMS.
They Are Conserving Every Serail
Woad and Metal,
The idea that enormous quantities
a-' of material will be immediately in Be-
ts mend to rebuild the destroyed see-
s , tions of France and Belgjtim once
r : peace comes seems mistaken, writes a
cl'correspondent at British headquarters
d in France,
Y' "We shall not be able to buy many
0- things until we have something to
'e veil which will bring us money to bay
s with," said a citizen- of Ypres, the
most ruined of cities, and where the
e- wreckage is still pounded by shells.
No civilian inhabitants are allowed
e to live in the city; bat an indication
e of how reconstruction will begin is
t evident in the shanties which have
th been built near the front, often in the
d zone of shellfire. Beanie, discarded
e oilcans beaten flat, salvaged tiles or
Y bricks and any other kind of material
• that can be procured at no expense
r . are used to make a shelter for a man
and his family.
! When the refugee returne to his
!ruined village or town in the fighting
I zone his first object will be a roof
, over his head before he sets out to
P reclaim acres which have grown up
d to weeds and are nock -marked with
t0'shell holes; or, if he is in business,
e he will want any kind of temporary
s premises on the site of his old place
• • of business—which he will occupy be-
cause it is his and because it is there
d that his old customer; may expect to
find him.
The simple' wooden houses which 'int
the army has built for "rest camps",1
for the soldiers when out of then
seen the proofs with my own yes. I
have eroesec] Canada with parties of
geologists and civil engineers and for-
est engineers and seen so many thous-
ands of acres lying charred and use-
less, so many rivers nd streams dried
up from lack of tree life, so many
beautiful camping and fishing spots
spoiled for all time, that I said to my-
self, 'Never you become responsible
for this sorb of crime.' And I believe
I have lived up to it."
"But smoking!" sail the Young-
ster. "Suppose that I—"
"Suppose that you threw down a
Iighted cigarette or a burning match
alongside the trail, or emptied hob
pipe aches, I should feel like giving
you a sery gond licking. Lighted to -i
bacco and matches are just camp -fires
in concentrated form. They all have
the possibilities of another 'Porcupine'
fire horror,' and for a man to care-
lessly toss away the beginnings of a
co.,fiagration is to brand himself an
amateur woodsman and an enemy bo
society."
By this time we had made away
with the bacon and were glorying in
the nectar of camp -fire tea. The
Youngster, of course, hacl finished
first, and was lending a hand at strik-
ing camp. 1
Up from the shore came the guide,'
lugging two pails of water. He emp-
tied them on tate small bed of coals
and returned for ct further supply.;
Not until the fourth pail had immers- l
ed the blackened remnants of the fire I
did he look contented.
"I see you take no chances," re-;
marked the Veteran.
"1 too learned my lesson," answer-!
ed the guide. "If forests are not kept
green, there's no hunting and fishing,
and no tourists—and the guide's job
disappears. This is only self-defence.";
--Robson Black, Canadian Forestry;
Association,
The 'Historical Touch.
"Well, Alfred, 'ow are the cakes ?"—By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather,
London Bystander.
trenches, will become squatter settle r]S�C4'e�n B. OF
meats. Only less amaeing than the j` 8Ffi �., N a
amount of material which the army
i will leave behind because it is not
worth transporting back to England
will be the use the.thrifty French and —
Belgians will mance of it. For up to Annual Report Shows Assets
the very moment of peace, whether it p
comes this year or five years hence, • Approaching the Hundred
the army must have ample material
CANADA
in reserve for continuing the war Million Mark.
Lumber, wooden supports for barb In presenting to the Shareholder
j wire, timbering for the trenches and the 53rd Annual Statement of th
dugouts all will be adapted to their
necessities by impoverished people Merchants Bank of Canada, bhe Ge
who have suffered from the loss of eral Manager expressed the policy o
property and enforced idleness. Any: the Bank during the War as one o
funds they have saved will be needed , "Safety First"—maintaining a ver
for immediate capital to buy stocks strong position in cash and imme
of goods or farm implements and ani- diately available resources, ready f
mals. It will probably be years be -
Ifore the permanent buildings will take ; any emergency or development i
the place of temporary shelters. j these times of world wide financia
The restoration of such splendid certainty.
public buildings as the Cloth Hall at' A study of the Bank's Annual State
Ypres, and the Hotel de Ville in Ar- ment for the year ending April 29bh
ras, will come only when the civic L.
prosperity will permit, unless an in- 1916, shows how fully this policy has
demnity or a government grant is been carried out. Assets which are
distributed for the purpose. Even in; or can be immediately converted into
that case the first practical use of cash have reached a total of $40, -
money and labor will be to restore 960486—an increase of over Seven
business to something like its normal 1 ,
functions.
WHERE HEROES LIE BURIED.
and Three -Quarter Millions from the
remarkably good showing of a year
ago.
By this policy of keeping well pre -
Burial Ground of Battlefield is Spec-; pared and entrenched, the Merchants
ially Consecrated. 1 Bank of Canada has favorably im-
It mustn't be thought that officer..,, pressed the depositing public ab home
and men killed at the front are bur- and abroad, and deposits have grown
ied in nameless graves if it is at all in the twelve months covered by the
possible to prevent it, says London
Answers. Behind the firing lines of statement by the considerable sum of
all the armies, as a matter ee fact Ten Millions, reaching a total of $72,_
ground is specially marked off and , 177,029.15. These deposits reflect a
consecrated for soldiers' graves. ! measure of confidence on the part of
In France the French Government the public which has been very grati-
fying to the proprietary of the Bank.
they have generously given as much.
land as may be wanted to bury our j Total Assets also show a very sub -
heroic dead. The lana, too, is given stantial increase of over Ten Million
completely to the British Government Dollars, and amount to $96,361,363.07.
so that our soldiers' graves will al- j This does not include any mortgages,
ways be a permanent sign of the fact
that British and French had fought' '. while overdue debts and real estate,
side by side in the greatest war in; other than Bank Premises, total only
the world's history. I $341,549.47 or less than 2/5 of one per
There was recently appointed a, cent. of the total assets. Another
special committee whose business it en,year of such solid progress will brio
hat the graves of our fall
officers and men are properly cared the Merchants Bank of Canada well
or. Every gra,•e is numbered and into the class of Hundred Million Dol-
dentifled by the name and rank of lar financial institutions.
the dead man When a soldier is! Profits during the year were neces-
urieri on the battlefield, he is always sarily resbricted by the policy of
wrapped in his army blanket I maintaining so high a ratio of liquid
At present most of the graves in' reserve or assets that could be con -
these military cemeteries are sur•- vetted immediately into cash. Current
mounted by plain white wooden! commercial loans and discounts in
crosses bearing the soldier's name Canada, the main source of a Canadian
umber and regiment, In time por-! Bank's profits, increased compare
manent memories will be erected • tively little from last year, and net
here our men fought and died. profits fell off slightly to $950,713.42.
This, with the balance brought for-
COMPAI2ISON OF TWO NAVIES. ward from the previous year, enabled
Ithe Bank to meet all dividend charges,
ea Strength of Britain and Germany contribute generously to patriotic and
at Beginning of 1916. ;Red Cross funds, transfer $150,000 to
Contingent Fund, and carry for&ard
The New York Herald gives the $250,984.12.
allowing as a probably accurate table i The feeling of the Direcbors as ex -
f the strength of the British and Ger- pressed at the Annual Meeting, is one
an navies at the beginning of 1916: of quiet yet complete confidence in the
England— Built. Building, future prosperity of the Dominion, and
attleships58 14 a readiness to devote the growing re -
attic cruisers 9 1 sources of the erlerchants Bank of
ruisers . 47 Canada to sound development and up.
Light cruisers 65 20 building.
orpedo vessels . 25 1
estroyers . 201 3G Luelcy Find.
orpedo boats tor, --- "Ah see ye'', heueecicanin'," said
ubmarines
Germany—
attics
ermany-.
atticshipa
attic cruisers '1 'round once. in a while. Why,1 des 1
ruisers ....,.,.,.,, 1)
ight crubiere 43 f enure ercroas a pair ob clippers under
orpedo vessels ; de berg clan ah hedn't s, en fch five
estroyere years."
CODDLING THE POLES. i _
Germans Making Desperate Efforts to
Win Their Friendship.
The following is an extract from a
private letter which "was written in b
Warsaw and, escaping the Teuton
censor, reached London:
It is the very astonishing volte face
in the Prussian attitude toward us
which is most to be feared and fought
against, No thinking Pole believes n
it to be sincere or lasting. The Ger-
mans have got themselves so hated' tv
everywhere that they now see the nee I
cessiby for making new friends. God
forbid that my people should fall into;
such a trap, though, alas, a great'
many have already clone so—that new-
born bourgeosie or commercial class,
which owed its birth mainly to Ger.!
man gold and is now dancing to the :1
tune called. Each day the subsidized Io
press sing the wondrous br
German rule: "The children will be
Polish," "The counbry is being re -I B
uilt." "The' Emperor has promised ;13
0 send an army to Serbia if necessary' C
o bring back the Polish exiles," And'
'miler tragic nonsense, We, who ; T
now Germany better than she knows ID
crsel'f, are not deceived. Another T
rederick, only a worse one, is on the 'S
hrone. j
The Germane could net be nicer R
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o tis for the moment. All we ask 13
or we get, and what we don't get C
aright we're. premised, The govor- L
er and the governor's sone kow-tow , T
e 001' old t.amilie.4. $honti..fs" parties. D
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have even begun while flu. peasantry T
starves. Those .tarring nal ion id St
dromns and ballets eo long banner! we
can indulge in unrestrained. The Ger- as
man officers are even the most vigor- re
000 al,pluudcrs,
f,9 27 Mrs. Snr,W White,
13 111. Building. "Yes,' r„plied Mrr;-Marsh Green,
3i, ti "dey is nothin' •like enovin' thing,4 1
WARSHIPS AND WARSHIPS.
Definitions of Terms Used in Describ-
ing Various Types.
Each time there is a report of a
naval engagement there is evident a
certain amount of confusion in the
use of names of fighting ships.
The name warship has ceased to
mean much: It is used to apply to
all classes of boats, from the super -
dreadnought to the submarine.
But the terms battleships, battle
cruisers, armored cruisers, cruisers,
torpedo boats, etc., refer to distinct
generic types of warships.
Battleships form the first fighting
line of all seapower. Gunfire is now
recognized as the great determining
factor in a naval battle. For this
reason the battleship has the dis-
tinctive feature of great guns and
heavy armor. British battleships of
the Royal Sovereign class and the
Queen Elizabeth class carry eight 15 -
inch guns, sixteen 6 -inch guns, etc.,
while their armor is 131,2 inches in
thickness. A battleship does not need
to be as fast as a cruiser for her ob-
ject is to get at the enemy and not to
run away. The Royal Sovereign has
a speed of 2235 knots, and the Queen
Elizabeth 25 knots.
when she can't. Battle -cruisers of
the Queen Mary class have a s sed of
01 knots; they carry eight 13-5 guns
land sixteen 4 -inch guns, but their
armor is only 99'4 inches in thickness
as compared with the 131/2. -inch armor
of the largest battleships. The Queen
Mary was 670 feet long, or -50 feet
longer than the Queen Elizabeth
battleship; her horsepower is 78,700,
as compared with the Queen Eliza-
beth's 28,000.
The armored cruisers have usually
a belt of 6 -inch armor, and from four
to six 9.2 guns. Their speed is about
23 knots.
The protected ,gruiser has fewer
9.2 guns than the armored cruiser,
and its resisting power is not groat;
its main feature being an armored
deck extending from end to end of the
ship below the water line. The pro-
tected cruisers of the Powerful class
are 520 feet long and have a speed of
22 knots. They carry two 9.2 guns,
sixteen 6 -inch guns, and others of 1
smaller calibre.
The cruiser, also called "second-
class protected cruiser,” is a ship of
5,600 tons displacement and 20 knots
speed ,with eleven 6 -inch guns.
A torpedo boat carries a supply of
torpedoes and launches them against
the enemy's warships.
A torpedo boat destroyer not only
destroys torpedo boats by gun fire,
but also battleships by torpedoes,
A battle -cruiser, though her busi-
ness is to stop and fight when she
can, should also be able to run away
p
DRUNKENNESS IS
GREATLY REDUCED
11IUCH LESS THAN A YEAR AGO
IN ENGLAND.
Great Increase in the Efficiency of
Woi•klnen as Result of
Restrictions.
Remarkable figures showing how
ut pasuaaoap suit sseuuetlunep olygnd
Great Britain as a result of the regu-
lations made bye the Central Control
Board are given in the second report
of the board, which has just been is-
sued.
During the five years 1009-13 then
was a steady rise in the number o
convictions for drunkenness. A ten
deney to fall became apparent ie 191
and the earlier months of 1915, bu
the rapid decline did not set in -tint
the orders made by the board cam
into operation. In the London are
the average weekly convictions befor
October 11, 1915, when the order cam
into force, were 1,011; the averag
Weekly eonvictions for the first twely
weeks of this year were 595. in De
comber, 1913, the total conviction
numbered 5,701; in December, 1914
they were 5,295; and last Decembe
they were 3,105. In February of thi
year the figures had fallen to 2,506
Equally good results have been ob
served in other parts of the country
Taking four districts, the North -Eos
Coast (including Newcastle, Liver
pool, and the Mersey), the Midland
(including Birmingham), and the Wes
Riding of 'Yorkshire (including Shef
field), the average convictions during
the first twelve weeks of the presen
year were 314, as compared wibh an
average of 597 before the respective
orders were made.
Over 40 Per Cent. Reduction.
The impressive character of the
figures is clearly brought out by the
chart which is reproduced above. The
'statistics gathered by the board indi-
, cate a reduction of drunkenness . of
from 40 to 50 per'cent, In Scotland
the fall in convictions were not satis-
;faetory until the board, on February
28, closed several houses which had
openly ignored the restrictions. Since
that date a perceptible improvement
has been recorded, although the per-
centage of reduction does not, on the
whole, compare favorably with that
in English areas.
The evidence of figures is supple-
mented by.official testimony from
many quarters. In a report received
from the Admiralty on March 28 it
is stated that the restriction had con-
siderably increased the efficiency of
the transport service, and the princi-
pal officer at Southampton has com-
mented on the increased efficiency
of all the labor at the docks. The
Army Council informed the board on
January 29, 1916, that the orders of
the board have had a beneficial ef-
fect on bhe discipline, training, and
efficiency of soldiers, and have help-
ed in the recovery of sick and wound-
ed. Statements received through the
Board of Tracie from the larger ports
of England and Wales were singularly
uniform in their testimony to .the ad-
vantages resulting from the regula-
tions. There has been a diminution
of drunkenness among sailors, firemen,
and dock laborers, and ships have in
consequence got away with less delay
than before.
• FRENCH COURTS-MARTIAL
{
4 Have Sentenced Fifteen Alen to Deatl
t' for Various Offences.
11. The veil of secrecy is nowhere deep
o er than over the doings of the court
a martial. In one division of th
e French army it is known that sine
e the beginning of the war the court
e martial has dealt with 315 cases. I
o has passed the death sentence on 24
- men, of whom, However, only 15 were
s executed, the other 9 obtaining par
, dons or commutations.
r; An officer, attached to this division
s ; as a permanent court official, has
•'given to a correspondent of the Lon-
- Mail some details of the
• ' workings of the tribunal, You must
t' remember," he said, "that armies to
- day are made up of men of all shades
s and colors of belief and creed, an-
t archists, republicans, royalists, athe-
- ists and what not. Out of this ma-
terial we have welded together an
t army, the like of which the world has
never seen. It is not, however, the
bad eggs, of wham there are a few in
every regiment, who give us trouble
in the matter of desertion in the face
of the enemy, but rather the better
sort of fellows, who cannot under-
stand the military necessity of harsh
discipline.
"Our first court-martial in a ease
of this kind occurred fairly early in
-the war. We were new to the busi-
ness ourselves, but it was a flagrant
Ibreach, and to check its repetition it
had to be dealt with according to the
rules of the war. The man was duly
tried and -sentenced. I went to his
cell and read the death sentence to
him, .He listened without seeming to
understand what had taken place and
that he was condemned to die.
• "That night I instructed an officer
to call for a firing squad. Our firing
squads are always composed of
volunteers, 12 men. Not a man vol-
'unteered for that task. We had to
commandeer a squad. The prisoner
was marched out at dawn, stood
quietly facing the leveled rifles,, and
cued without faltering. I am sure he
never realized the gravity of Isis of-
! fense. But tear is war.
"Now it is different. The men know
the value of discipline, know that a
breach may endanger the lives of
many comrades, or even the safety of
(France, and though breaches of this
i kind still occur, they are stet in a
different spirit. Now when I call ,
for a firing squad 50 mon at once'
I volunteer,"
"Is the -family notified that a man
has been executed?" asked the inter-,
viewer.
"Yes and no," the officer replied.
1 "The French code is peculiar. Noti-
fication of death is sent to the family i
soon after the execution as though
the man died in• action. Then three
months Tater the family receives a
bill for 12.55 francs ($2,50, the ex -i
penses of the execution.. But other-!
wise there is no publicity. The grave ,
is not marked officially, but a recoiid
is kept, so that it will not be difficult
to locate later on.
"-Occasionally we have to deal with
the case of a men who has become'
flick of the trenches and thinks that;
the easiest way to get an honorable
discharge is to wound himself, shoot
off his trigger finger or the like.
This is a capital offense In time of .
war, -and is invariably so punished. j
"A recent case of th's'kind was that
of a young lieutenant who was mar-
ried three days before the outbreak of
the war. He was a gallant soldier,
but after a few months he become
homesick, and to get back to his wife
was his one desire, Menthe passed
and he could not get leave so he
took matters i% his own hands and
drove a bullet through his left fore-
arm. He did not stop to think that
it would soon be discovered that his
wound was canned by a French bullet. 1
"Ile was court-martial and sentenc-
ed to be shot I renin the death sen-
tence, but a few hours later a pardon
reacher] us. But the lieutennnt
knew his duty and fell fighting in the
field Without ever seeing his wife
again."
Free t :,
The nlapa er the Pima ilio
and Cobalt (humps, flniehod 1,
color% -are now about ready fel'
oletrlbdtlen to all who are In-
terested. These will prate la-
minable to theeo. anxieaa to
obtain succors In the aninlna
market,
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File Your .Application at
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HAMILTON B. WILLS
(Member Standard Stork:L'.cchana'c)
4 2r3S?Cr CTrozwr 0111055, TOISOIS_'0'.
WHERE CANADA'S
SUGAR -COMES FROM
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IN'I'lIIUISTING FA(:•'IS ABOUT A
DID INDUSTRY.
This Country Has lied Splendid Suc-
cess in Growing Sugar
Beets.
We will' have to revi'ee' our school
books, to let the next generation know
the real facts about sugar.
So fast moves the world'that each
fresh edition of an encyclopaedia' has
to.take back much that was published
in the former ci."ation; Small won
t der, then, that most of us are hope-
jleasly behind thr'times in our known-^
edge of. even the most commonly -used
n : acmmodities. Sugar is a good in-
stance of this.
i About all we know of sugar is what
. we learned in school. Even the house
o wife who buys it and useu it 'till
a thinks it come from sugar cane, cane
- that grows in the tropics.
t Now that is still as true as it ever
was. But it not the whore truth -i)
not by millions of pounds.
A large percentage of the world's
supply, of augur does not come from
the tropics at aB. England, Ger-
many, France, the United States, all
grow sugar beets, and these beets
make the very finest of sugar.
Canada Tries Her Hand.
Not Exclusively Repressve.
The work of the board is not ex-
clusively of a repressive kind, Among
the most important of their duties is
the constructive task of facilitating
and encouraging, and, if necessary,;
themselves undertaking, the supply of 1
food for munition and transport work-'
ers. The absence of proper facilities
for obtaining wholesome nourishment
eads indirectly to drinking. It is not i
possible to state the exact number of
canteens provided, but additional pro -I
vision has now been made for the
daily refreshment of tens of thous-'
ands of dock and munition workers.
The powers given to the board to take
over ' and manage public houses, or
without license to.carry .on the 'salef
or supply of intoxicating liquor, re-,
freshmonba, or tobacco, have been;
exercised only in three districts.
In October, 1915, the board ap-
pointed a committee of women un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs, Creigh-
ton, to inquire into and advise the 1
oard in regard to the alleged ex- I
essive drinking among women. This
ommitteo has since recomnmended.
he adopbion of more drastic rostric-!
ions as to the distribution and can-,
assing for the sale of drink; lite:
In recent years Canada has enter..
ce,, the field as a grower of beets—and
with splendid success. Indeed, it has
been found that certain party of
' Canada are quite ideal for the grow-
' ing of this remarkable plant, and
;' with modern manufacturing methods
our Canadian -grown beets are pro-
ducing a sugar that is the equal of
, any.
"Can it be as geed as the sugar
refined from cane?" is the natural
question of the housewide. Tho best
answer to give her is that she is
probably serving this very Canadian
sugar—sugar refined from Canadian
beet roots—on her own table every
day in the year. A goodly percentage
of the sugar sold in Canada to -day is
this very sugar that comes from the
beet.
I In this use of beet root for sugar
refilling Canada is but following
percentage of the. eager used is re-
fined from bee` root. In England this
• sugar is used almost exclusively, both
'for table use and for preserving.
; England's jam manufacturers, fa-
mous the world over for the excel -
lence of their produets use, beet sugar
in the making of those delicious pre-
serves. England's housewives, in a
land celebrated for its discrimination
in culinary matters, use this type of
!sugar almost exclusively for every-
i thing they cook or serve.
A Fine Thing for Canada.
Now, let us see what all th s means
to Canada. It means, for one thing,
an industry already very important
from a labor -employing standpoint;
an industry that keeps two huge
Canadian plants busy, with another
sfifll finer factory now being built,
It means, fm;thor-more, an industry
that supports, on an exceedingly pro-
fitable basis, hundreds of farms in
Western Ontario.
The District It Makes Prosperous.
Lambton, Waterloo, Wellington and
Huron thousands of acres are devot-
e)1 to the growing of the sugar beet;
and every, day 1,800 tons cf 'hese
beets are made into sugar, The,
new plant, soon to be compleeecl, will •
add to this a further capacy'y of 1,500
tons per day, bringing Canada's rapa-
city for sugar refining' from beets up
to a point where it can take th- pro-
duct of 28,000 acres of our land. That
would mean $2,000;000 pair] one year-
ly for beets alone.
Completely Endorsed By Experts, -
The Agricultural War Book, rub -
fished by, the Canadian Department
of Agriculture, pays special tribute to
this comparatively new industry,
pointing out that it is only a matter
of time until Canada can produce at
home an even larger proportion of
the sugar consumed. All the ler :ing
economists and agriculturists approve
of the growing of beets for the mak-
ing of sugar, so that this important
staple may be, from the ground up,
a Canadian product.
Dr, C. C. James, of the Ontario De-
partment of Agriculture, says .bat
there is no crop which will preva
more profitable, and points etu that
we have been importing millions of .
dollars' worth of sugar that we
'might just as well be'prolueing sur
salves here at dome."
" tis thriving Canadian indeet y le
quite beyond the experimental :tem.
It is but 15 years since the feet sugar
wad made in Cameoda from home-
grown beets; to -day we have a pro-
duction so large, so fire in quality,
NOVEL NERVOUS CURE. .
Being Mechanically Whipped or h
Spanked is Beneficial, c
It is considered beneficial to be
whipped or. "spanked," provided it is
done mechanically,, says Populgr v
Science Monthly. In the mechano
therapy departments of up-to-date in-
stitutions tl•e "whipping post," a
mechanical device for therapeutic
padding, is an accredited healing ma -
You are whipped by straps of
heavy cloth or leather nttached to
two rapidly revolving poste. When
you take the treatment you step',
backward into the flying whips and
'c•:'c'1ve their tints neon yeti' legs,
tacit, abdomen ay chest, depending
.ye. t'he malady from which you
are suffering: The bipart of the
,trars is ,just sufficient to set the
7
.ool•e i free cu,'ultttion. There is i
.1) t a r tit; ! t r irt; sensation, br-
;1 5 , ,h' rt1 to rt, broad enough to
Pfeil at; r„v lse•iliiity of n reeling'
cow, 'gee eee eerie rl retle r titan
174 r`I” .117ii, 11;1. ;;n'i:" 1.4 veal- :1
11. r 7 inn 'y types ,d' nervan.,neue. ]
133
orpedo boat,a 80 ��
Not Always.
rbmal'ines , r
1T • many24 14 Mee, Wm/Inner-• My pour women,
How
of the, vessels classified dery you,. 11,r.Lnnd acs'vnv rlr°nl I 1 c• ,
"building" have been put in come tlr'e?
ieeine it is, of course im ossible
r P to tilt'? 0(')v..tely a,. I7..J71. ;. 11]q, t
calralate, i times he gets out of worn, st
withdrawal of the recommendation'
that the wives of sailors andsoldiers
should not be charged for drunken -
moss except after a first or second, i
offence; the appointment by a ten- I
ral authority of special plainclothes;
:Teeters to visit the public houses
nd are that the rules against serve
g drunken persons, treating and
rinking out side are observed; and
r special inspectors, of the same
landing as fnc•to• or othe
tint inspectors, to visit towns to n
cep the local police tip to the mark, f
Ina ter I
emieecl houses. '
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Highways Saved France.
A recent correspondent at the As-
oeiatecl Press, writing from Paris,
tells hots the military highways of
France have, upon more than one e
r
that it merits inve ,Ligation try were
thoughtful and patriotic Citizen:
Paddy's Ready Reply,
An Irish soldier had lost his 'left
Ye in action, but was aliowtd to
emain in. the service oil eonaenting
to . have a glass eye in its place,
Being a typical "absent -mended beg-
gar," he appeared on parade one day
minus his lett "lamp."
"Nolan," satid the offieeli•, "you are
not properly dressed. Why is your
artificial eye not'n its proper place?"
"Sure, sir," replied Nolan, "l.:eft it
n my. box to keep an eye on my kit
]tile I'm on parade."
m ccasion, saved the French front,
I; iter German long-range artillery
a 1 the . reduction of the number of; with consummate skill had cut the
li 'rt'nch railroad lines of communica-
tion dropping with the precision. of
I clockwork as many as 80,000 shells
'upon short. sections of track in the
.:p (+a•„
F r, (keep:, 1 ge saga he is very aimed van of approaching supplies incl men,
ter; eel aborad, h':; income," "1 should : I ct each lime the automobile care
let Cheek he would worry al, sit, a reel 1:rol,l ht up the reinforcements
ittie ihenk like that."
e, ' •'z ;, munitions, food and teeter, w