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had already hinted that she was ready
to give notice the day that Aunt, Clara
dOSKINS FINDS AN ALLY aeeided to .L.Y•
"The doctor tells roe that the poor
French lady will probably 'want very
- e
1
Thins seemed to have gone a careful nursing, and may have to stay
wary with Mr, Joseph Hoskins, and hie here a long time, McClennan," he be -
plump and generally cheerful face gan, trying hard to keep the new
cheerfulness out of his voice,
"Yes, sir," agreed cook, trying
equally hard not to add "and thank
and Mr. Hoskins felt that if matters goodnes for that 1"
got very much worse he should be "It's too late to -night to let Mrs.
forced to join the local G.R.'s, so as Morley know, and, of course, I shall
to signify his disai‘proval of the not be homo when they arrive to -mor -
Kaiser in a fitting manner. row. Can I depend on your explain -
His only reason for not having al- ing things to them, and—that—I—I
ready given his services to the volun- I mean, she is—well, how very neces-
teer corps was his figure. Mr, Hos..sary it will be to obeerve quiet ?"
king was distinctly tubby, and he had "Certainly, sir ; I'll explain things,"
decided, in front of his looking-glasa, saki took, with a joy she could hardly
that he could never face the inevitable esneenl' "And the nurse, I expect
smiles of his female neighbors when she'll have something to say about it
they saw him in uniform. —the doctor told me to be ready for a
Mr. Hoskins was still a bachelor I nurse."
but this was because he had had such "Yes, yes ; mite so, I forgot a-
bout the nurse," said Mr. Hoskins.
" She will make things clear."
Cook, as she departed, told herself
that she would take care that thino
were made clear.
* * * * * *
Mr, Hoskins' first impression when
he entered the house next evening was
one of peace and quiet.
" It's like—why, it's like a hospit-
ing him that in the painful circum- 81 1" he said to himself as he hung up
stances it was evidently her clear duty his coat.
to come and look after him. It felt even more like one when, a
Aunt Clara was a person of decis- little later, he was informed by a
ion. Having decided on any action, pleasant but very decided -looking
' she did it. She had, therefore, in.. young lady in a fascinating cap that
formed the unhappy Joseph, sub -let Dr. Reeves insisted on absolute quiet
her house, packed up and forwarded as the patient's only chance. He tip -
all the boxes she might require, and toed towards the dining-roore.
she and Cousin Ada would be with On the threshold he shrank back.
him at 2.40 on the following day. Two angry faces, purple with rage,
No wonder that Mr. Hoskins leokedindignation, and too much hot tea,
worried. Aunt Clara was awful, but ' turned towards him as he opened the
Cousin Ada was the limit. He knew door. He had actually forgotten his
perfectly well that he should never relatives I
see thern go, once they had been in-
stalled.
He might even be forced to marry
Cousin Ada i
It was some thought of doing some-
thing desperate on the last free night " What is the meaning of this non -
he was ever likely to have, or of tak- sense, Joseph 1" demanded Aunt
ing further counsel with his friend the ; Clara.
doctor, that had sent Mr. Hoskins fly -I " And you're to make that bold-
ing home in an automobile. I faced hussy of a nurse apologize, too
The driver had probably noticed hisi—the impudence she gave me was be -
agitation, and proceeded accordingly, , yongrny
d everything 1" cried Cousin Ada,
for his pace was somewhatan
reckless. ,
Even Mr. Hoskins noticed it in the . " But what—what's it all about 1"
midst of his perturbation, and at the asked Mr. Joseph weakly. " Didn't
same moment felt a thud and the sud- ! she explain—or cook, or someone—
den jar of a too -quick stop. iabout the accident ?"
There was a thin little squeal, some- ! "Explain 1" echoed his aunt bit -
thin that sounded Mr Hoskins terly. ''It's the sort of thing that
was beginning to show faint pucker
between the eyebrows, The war was,
of course, really answerable for it all,
a very lazy and pleasant existence un-
der the guidance of his elder sister
that marriage had never occurred to
him. But his sister had recently suc-
cumbed to a severe attack of bron-
chitis, and he was now alone.
It was while he mourned, most sin-
cerely, for the sister who had always
mothered him, that he got a second
shock, His Aunt Clara wrote inform-
" Why, aunt, this—this is a pleas-
ure 1" he said hastily. " Cousin Ada
—you're well, I hope 7"
The two only looked at him storm-
ily, and would not even shake hands.
His Secret Sorrow
"I reckon this bloke must 'ave caught 'is face against one of them forts
at Verdun,"—By Oaotain.Bruce Balrnsfather in "The Bystander."
at the doctor.
with him warmly.
" The only thing is, they might alter
their minds and come back," he said
doubtfully. I wonder if she'd stop on
for a time 7 I might ask her."
* * * * *
He did, and she did—only he put the
question differently when the time
came, and she agreed to stop alto-
gether and save him from Cousin Ada.
—London Answers.
TEACH WOMEN WAR TRADES.
British Call For Volunteers to Learn
Then
he
shook
hands
Munition Making.
There is a new opportunity for the
women of Great Britain to do war
work. Thousands of refined, well-
educated girls have offered themselves
in the service of the wounded, even
where it has meant unremitting labor
on hands and knees, scrubbing a hos-
pital floor. . Many women in good
thought, like a naughty word in wants a lot of explanation. Here financial circumstances are grateful
French, and then in two seconds there we've given up home and everything even for the opportunity of a few
was a policeman in the crowd, with to come and oo after my dear s e_ hours hospital " turn " a week. All
Mr. Hoskins, red and worried, trying , ter's son, and I find the house full of are eager for work more regular and
to revive an unconscious lady, and the a pack of strange women, and one of exacting.
chauffeur gruffly insisting that she them in my very room—some flighty The Minister of Munitions appeals
simply ran under the car, and why she foreign woman, too. Hospital's the for women volunteers to be trained for
wasn't killed he didn't know. 1place for her, not my room." munition making. With the London
And before Mr. Hoskins knew where " I really must ask you again, me_ County Council and other educational
he was he found himaelfin the au dam, to speak more gently I" said the authorities the ministry has establish -
mobile, supporting one side of the un-
r
nurse, coming in unannounced and ed nearly seventy free training centres
• 1. e quickly shutting the door behind her, throughout the kingdom. In six
weeks, at the rate of four hours a day,
learners are prepared for the lighter
varieties of munition work. During
this time they acquire the machine
sense," and the elementary knowledge
of tools and metals demanded for the
manufacture of shell fuses, bombs,
cartridge cases and other materials
of war.
Suitable employment is then found
for them in munition factories at
wages that average at the beginning
at least El ($5) a week and after the
first few weeks considerably more.
MUD HOUSES FOR ENGLISH.
Experiments Now Being Carried On
by London College.
The possibility of using mud as a
building material and so solving the
urgent problem of providing cheap
country cottages in the rural dis-
tricts and housing accommodation in
the areas where there has been a sud-
den influx of war workers is being
made the subject of an interesting ex-
periment by the new household and
social science department of King's
College for women, University of Lon-
don.
Six mysterious looking walls have
just been erected in the grounds at
Camden Hill, each wall being com-
posed of a different mixture of mud,
with a view to testing which proves
moat suitable to the English climate.
In each case the earth has been
subjected to a different process of
preparation. In one ease waterglass
has been added, in another soft soap
and to the earth and soft soap in an-
other case lime has been added. A
" grouting " of cement has been pour-
ed over the mud wall in yet another
case, and there is one wall made of
earth alone.
KING OF RAT CATCHERS BUSY.
held up the other and
" The patient's room is immediately
side ; as th'
lady was not exactly fragile the auto -
over this, and any noise—"
mobile was decidedly crowded. "1 don't care a fig about your
He hardly knew, in his general be- precious patient 1" cried the infuriated
'
Aunt Clara. "Take her off to a wilderment, who made the suggestion
p
hos-
that the best thing would be for himital, and yourself, too I Where are
to take the lady home, seeing that his her own relations 7 Why don's they
house was only a few yards distant. come and take her awoy
In any case, there was he, a sober 1 " The poor lady is French, and can't
bachelor, getting on in the fifties, at speak English ; so we haven't been
his own front door with a plump and able to find out anything about her;"
pleasant foreign lady in his arms, and replied Mr. Joseph. " And in any case,
the one awful thought buzzing round Dr. Reeves said she was not to be
in his brain—how was he going to ex- questioned."
plain things to Aunt Clara and Cousin! " Well, I must go back to the pat -
Ada ? llent," said the nurse. "I'll tell the
It was he thoughtful "special" who
night -nurse to see you before she goes
t
suggested Mr. Hoskins was too winded on duty," she added as she went.
"What I" shrieked Aunt Clara and
to get upstairs, and that he and the
driver could manage nicely if the ntaid her daughter together, "Another
would show them which room, and of them !"
then they'd trot off and get a doctor. ' "I suppose there must be," said the
While they went lumbering up and forlorn little man, feeling very much
down, and there was the usual con- at the mercy of his female relatives.
fusion of chattering maids and run- "Then, Joseph Hoskins, either they
ning feet, Mr. Hoskins' one thought go or we do. Which is it to be
still was—what would Aunt and Ada Three strange women that you don't
say 7 even know the names of planted down
And on top of the thought in came on you like this, and you do nothing.
the housemaid to say that "that poor You're a fool, Joseph I"
thing" had been put to bed nice and "Ob, hang !" replied Mr. Hoskins,
whose patience and meekness were
comfortable, and seemed to be coming
round a bit, but she only said queer getting crumpled up, and who badly
things to herself in French. wanted his dinner ; and he bolted
"Which room have you put her in 1" from the room.
asked Mr, Hoskins. * * * *
" Why, in the one we'd just got It was only when he roused from an
ready for the visitors, sir ; it was all , uneasy and late slumber by the morn -
aired, and everything," the housemaid , ing room fire—having given up his
answered blandly. And again Mr. I own bedroom to appease Aunt Clara—
Hoskins gasped. I that cook came to say that the'ladies
It was the best room in the whole I had gone, boxes and all, as soon as it
house, and had a south aspect ; and was light. They had left a message
Aunt Clara could only occupy a room for hint that they would only consent
facing south, and had specially order- to come back when the house had been
ed that room to be prepared.
Be gaeped still more when the doc-
tor came in to report on the case, and
told him that the lady had evidently
had a severe shock, and, though no that evening.
bones were broken, he rather feared "Let me congratulate you, Hoskins I
nervous complications, He was send- I hear they've gone —thought three
ing in a nurse at elide, and possibly would be too much for them. Come
a second one would be needed to -mor-
row,
After he had departed, Mr. Hos-
kins, feeling that his head was be-
coming fuzzy, went to his desk to she can talk English fast enough
start a letter of explanatiort to Aunt when she wants. I happen to talk
French, you see, and I just explained
matters a little, and told her I was
sure she could cls you a service by 1Y-
ing low, and being very bad for a clay
cleared of "those women."
Mr. Hoskins went to the city in
much joy.
He found the doctor waiting for him
up and see the patient, won't you 7
She wants to express her gratitude
to her kind friend, etc,
"French 7 Of course she is, but
ATO. a.
Then he had a sudden hopeful idea.
Suppose they came up and found
overythirg, upaide-down—the best bed -
roam very much occupied, a nurse or or two, after having so kindly tumbled
two ocupying the next best one, end under 'your automobile. Not ill ? Of
Has Contract to Kill All Rodents in
English Camps.
William Dalton of Southwarlc, Lan-
don, who is known as the king of rat
catchers, has been given the job of
killing the rats in all the army camps
in England,
" This year," says the " king," " I
em fighting almost single handed, and
the menace is really serious. In less
than six months I have caught over
12,000 rats, and cries for help are
coming from all quarters.
The Government has come to real -
* 1,,, necessity for killing the rats.
At one camp I have already visited we
VICTIMS OF THE TURK.
Greeks Deported From Thrace and
, Asia Minor.
In one camp on the outskirts of
Saloniki, says a correspondent of the
London Times, were collected six
thousand Greek refugees who had been
deported by the Turks from Thrace
and Asia Minor. As soon as the last
Balkan war was over, these deporta-
tions began, and they have continued
ever since.
The occupants of a village or a dis-
trict are notified that they must leave
in twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
Perhaps an opportunity is given them
to sell their cattle or other property
at a public fair on the next day, but
that is a farcisal privilege, for there
is no one at the fair to buy except the
condemned villagers themselves, the
guard of Turkish soldiers, and a few
Mohammedan residents of the neigh-
borhood. These men can buy the cat-
tle for a few cents a head, or by simp-
ly refusing to buy them they can get
them for nothing when their owners
leave them behind.
At an appointed hour the whole
population is assembled and marched
under armed guard to the sea. There
a ship takes the refugees, who have
to pay their own fare, to the nearest
Greek port. Sometimes the march to
the sea has not been accompanied by
any special hardships. Sometimes it
has been made the occasion of every
kind of outrage and pillage and viol-
ence. In all, 250,000 Greeks have been
swept out of Thrace and Macedonia.
The Greek government has made
every effort to take care of them and
to move them out into villoges and
rural districts as fast as possible ;
but, even so, there are now some thirty
thousand in concentration camps or
billeted in houses near Saloniki alone.
The camp I saw, on the outskirts of
Saloniki, is composed of brick build-
ings erected for the purpose. Aach
building, One hundred feet long, is
theoretically divided, without interior
dividing walls, into four "rooms."
Each room contains four families, and
each building holds, on the average,
one hundred persons.
It was shortly after noon, on a day
of broiling heat, when I was there,
yet the interiors of the houses were
singularly cool. Owing to the lavish
use of chloride of lime, they are al-
most absolutely free from flies, which
are' so great a curse in nearly all
Eastern countries.
The undivided quarter of one end of
the floor space of a brick shed with
an earthen floor hardly makes a home
to take much pride in. Many of the
families have occupied the same
square of ground for months, and in
a number of cases one saw pathetic
attempts at decoration and at making
the places homelike.
The refugees are as a rule as nearly
entirely destitute as it is possible for
people to be, although the value of
the property left behind by the 120,000
now in Macedonia alone was about
$60,000,000. The Greek government
gives them all impartially a subsidy,
of about four cents a day per head,
on which they manage to live and keep
fairly robust. The total cost to the
government for all Greece cannot be
less than $500,000 a month.
Tho health in the Saloniki camps is
generally good, except for the pre-
valence of malaria. The refugees
come mostly from dry inland regions
of Thrace and Asia Minor. The en-
virons of Salonilci, with their wide
marshes, are notoriously malarial, and
these peasant folk seem to have little
resistance to malarial fever. It is not,
or is very rarely, fatal ; but is is
dreadfully prevalent among them, and
neither in Greece nor in Italy has
(pinkie of late been obtainable,
Not Medicine,
Mrs. Flathush— 'What are you malc-
the house in a general uproar? They come she isn't ; only a bit braised ing awl), an awful face about? Is
Wouldn't like it ; they'd grumble-- and shaken up—wonderful ' escape caught 1,086 rats and over seventy of the doctor's medicine bad?
they might even decline to stop i really I" them weighted more than a pound and Mr. Fltiebutdi—No, it's not that
Thn wild hope made hire send for Mr. Hoskins stood still and stared a half each." I just got his bill,
GERMAN PEOPLE
ARE SHORT OF FOOD
LETTER PUBLISHED IN SOCIAL-
IST NEWSPAPER.
Four Women Went to Jail Because
They Endeavored to Get
Potatoes,
Pour women, says, Vorwarts, the
leading German Socialist organ, the
wives of soldiers at the front, were
present with a multitude of other
women in the large market hall in
Dresden, where they were looking for
pot,atoes, the sale of which had been
advertised. There was a bad short-
age of potatoes all that week. All
four women declared that they had no
potatoes for a long time. One of them
had six children.
In the crowd there was frightful
crushing and excitement. The in-
spector, provoked by one of the four
women, gave her a box on the ear.
After hours of waiting without being
able to obtain any, potatoes., about 80
women set off for the Rathaus, the
four at their head. On the street
othrdeyerewderteo sdthisppperesde.byTheenturrdesecalinna- A British Naval Officer Writes Re-
ed, and were arrested. One of them '
garding the Great Sea
had her arms so twisted balk by a
gendarme as to cause her great pain, Battle.
The four were accused of having re-
sisted lawful authority. They were A.correspondent of the Edinburgh
convicted of this offence, and of lib- Scotsman writes :
erating other women from the clutch- " We were about the first in action,
es of the police, and sentenced to and for ue the action lasted with in -
seven weeke' mprisonment. The , tervals for over twelve hours ; and
court remarked that the punishment during that time we were engaged
was a very lenient one for so grave man
nh fleaveetryextienpdt of fthsrnhaipriniens,thIethHinefc-.
Ger-
an offence.
The destroyer attacks were picnics ;
A Meal Soup Breakfast: they must have lost quite half their
The War Committee for Coffee and flotillas; you would see them 'being
Tea lately suggested that as these blown out of the water all the time.
commodities were very dear and , We got into action, as I say, one of
scarce it might be well if Germans the first,and were engaged with light
resorted to the old fashion of a meal cruisers and the leading battle cruisers
soup breakfast with a little fat in it. : But our battle cruisers were coming
Vorwarts now publishes a letter in on, loosing off the thirteen -point -fives
which the writer points out aspara- : at the Huns, and so we were left with
gus and butter also make a very ad- ' craft of our own size to deal with;
mirable breakfast, but the difficulty. but they were so far off that we
about them is that they are unob- couldn't do one another much harm.
tainable, nearly as unobtainable as , The Queen IVIary was maintaining a
" meal and fat." The Writer pro- perfect, steady fire on her opposite
cee a . number in the German line. A mom-
" As cards for ink have not yet been ent later she was overwhelmed. She
misseuaeldColps,ubpuptoswehIerlinenaymwIittoe.geItltihkee of red glare and smoke.
broke up and sank in a wild confusion
meal for my family of four persons 7
"A Most Hellish Din."
say ' Prost lVfahlzeit.' As to Meat. her picket -boats go hundreds of feet
Is
hperlopblmeme,ouatndI Hcouthldeno
dItid potatoesl
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r
" Then the Invincible. I saw one of
Since October 16-1 don't wish to go up into the air, spinning like a leaf in
back further—there has only been Ye an eddy of wind, followed by a huge
pound of bacon in my house. This , lick of flame as high as her masts.
year, after searching seven hours for '
was all over. We were loosing off at
A great belch of smoke and then it
it, my wife managed to secure two
the Huns all the time, and they were
pound for ourselves ; the other we
1pounds of 'back fat.' We kept one
loosing off at us. I guess that there
sent to our son, who is a soldier.
"As far as I am concerned, I do not every five seconds—probably more.
was a salvo of eight heavy guns
know whether I shall require anti -fat
treatment this year. My wife will imagine. And so he went on ; the
'It was the most hellish din you can
certainly not require it, as she is 20 battle cruisers and the Warspites giv-
pounds lighter. But there are peas ing the Germans such hell that some
and beans. This year I managed to of them must have sunk. We saw one
store up one pound of beans andtwo sink—a big three -funnelled chap ; I
three
pounds of rice. Unfortunately all
ds are gone,and with
- don't know what she was. Beatty did
job the eau ' u y.
them the only piece of good butter
Enemy Gunners " Rattled."
we had. By right we ought to have,
one pound of butter a week for the a As
Fleet did come up, looming out of the
you know, when the Grand
four of ua, but we don't get an ounce.
thick weather in the north, a great
It is all very well writing to Vorwarts
sickness fell upon the Huns, and, like
about a nice bit of butter. All I can
the fellows in the parable, they all
cook with my meal is the butter card.
with one accord began to make tracks
I wonder how it tastes. Do you re-
member the time when there were for home. Our big ships fired several
sausages 9"
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salvoes with good effect; but funk
and the mist between them saved the
AND THIS IS WAR. Huns from sure distruction. Well, it
wasn't really funk, you know; it was
753 French Towns Ruined By the quite their line of strategy. Only
compared with the Beatty touch, the
Seven hundredGeramnadnsfe.
ty-three com- help it ; there it is ; and so we've
Hun looks a bit poor. They can't
munes, or townships, have been partly come home frightfully buckled be -
or totally destroyed through military cause we can never meet 'em when the
operations in France since the begin- odds are in their favor and hold our
ning of the war, according to atatis-
own. How much the Grand Fleet sue-
tics gathered by the Ministry of the , ceeded in doing, I don't know ; but
Interior with a view to ascertaining I saw that even before they arrived,
the total damage caused' by the hos- and very noticeably after they'd fired
tilities. These communes are distri- a salvo•or two, the German gunnery
buted over eleven departments of was simply all over the place.
France, including those in Ardennes, "I don't know much about gunnery,
still occupied wholly by the Germans, but it seemed to me that the Huns
who are in possession of 2,644 towns couldn't keep their gunners up to
of the total of 86,247 in France, or scratch' in an action.. If so, cheer -oh I
seven per cent. when we meet them again, For our
Houses to the number of 16,669 have fellows were simply wonderful. As
been totally destroyed and 29,594 the night drew on the sight of the
partly destroyed in these communes. battle became more awful than the
In 148 communes the proportion of sound ; all along the horizon, and
sometimes 10 the air and sea, the
night was rent by lurid red flashes,
with here and there the towering
flame of a ship on fire, and here and
there a vast explosion, heaving the
inside of a ship to heaven.
" But I can't describe what the fight
at night was like. It was literally'
too awful for worde, One moment
we were in furious actin with enemy
craft, then the darkness would swal-
low them up, and we would wait as
you wait for thunder after the light-
ning flash. The tension, the appal-
ling din, the more appalling lulls, the
torpedo alarms I And we came back
to port With vitals untouched—a per-
fect marvel, I'll probably remember
Moro of the details of the thing as
time goes on ; but that's what I went
through,"
houttes destroyed exceeds fifty per
cent, while it is eighty per cent, in
seventy-four towns and less than fifty
per cent. in the remainder.
Public buildings destroyed in 428
communes were 381 ; churches, 379 ;
schools, 321 ; town halls, 800 ; be-
sides other public buildings of various
sorts and sixty bridges. Of these
buildings fifty-six had been classed as
historic monuments, including the
Town Hall of Arras and the Cathedral
and Town Hall of 11:11.0iDIS. Three
hundred and thirty factories, which
supported 57,000 persons, were des-
troyed.
There is always room at the top for
the reason that somebody up there is
always starting down hill.
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A Sad Diagnosis. •
" Well," said flilkins, "the doctors
say that I ani as sound tie a dollar."
" Thatet tough,"'iaid WiI1cin. "A
dollar doesn't Iasi very lett these
days."
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT J0113
BULL AND 1178 PEOPLE.
OceurrencesIn IT"Tnd That ItalHaa
Supreme In the Contour.
eial World.
The L.C.C. purposes to keep the
parks open an hour later because of
the Summer Time Act,
German prisonere at Douglas Camp,
Isle of Wight, are engaged in cutting
Peat to relieve the scarcity of coal.
The English Coal Conciliation Board
for the federated area have grunted
wages.anin
crease of 34, per cent. in minerar
At a meeting of the Essex War
Agricultural Committee it was stated
that 5,600 women had registered for
farm work,
The death has occurred at the age
of 94 of the Hon. Mrs. Robt. Dalzell,
grandmother of the present Earl of
Carnvtath.
A bouquet, presented by Lady
Hampden, on opening a British
Farmers' Red Cross sale at Hitchin
market, sold for $65.
Potatoes are being planted on nearly
all the unoccupied land in the church-
yard at Styal, near Manchester, and
a big crop is confidently anticipated.
In the village of Tatnorth, Somer-
sett, the curious custom of letting a
field by auction during the burning of
an inch of candle has just been per-
] formed.
With thte object of encouraging lo-
cal garden lovers to grow special food
!products, the Notts Corporation have
I decided to let out a number of plots
at 60 cents per annum.
The eighteenth centenary of the
i death of Mr. W. E. Gladstone occur-
ring, celebration of Holy Communion
took place in the Memorial Chapel of?
Hawarden Parish Church.
Mr, Charles Seegers who has been
sexton at St. Nicholas Cemetery,
'Rochester, for 50 years, has been pre-
sented by the citizens of Rochester
with a handsome cheque.
Moltino dieease, a cattie and horse
disease, prevalent in South Africa,
has been traced by the Imperial In-
stitute to a poisonous alkaloid in a
plant eaten by the animals.
Lieut. Harry Brodrick Chinnery, the
well-known Eton, Surrey and Middle-
sex cricketer, and a popular member
of the Stock Exchange, has been re-
ported killed in action.
The Council of the Yorkshire Miners
Association, at a special meeting, re-
ported that 906 members had fallen
during the war and altogether 30,000
men are with the colors.
The Local Government Committee
of London County Council report that
a tablet commemorative of Miss Edith
Cavell, who was trained at the institu-
tion, be placed in the London Hos-
pital.
Brigadier -General Colquhoun Grant
Morrison, C.M.G., whose death is re -
I ported in action, formerly belonged to
the lst Dragoons, was fifty-six years
aoafage,arand served in the South Ain-
nWar.
FOR PRISONERS.
France to Send Four Pounds a Man
Weekly to Germany.
The despatch of bread to French
prisoners of war in Germany has just
bent centralized in a national federa-
tion which undertakes to send two
kilos (a little over four pounds) of
bread weekly to every French prisoner
in Germany.
The new organization includes the
provincial societies previously formed
for aiding the prisoners. It has the
active support of the French Govern-
ment and of the International Red
Cross Bureau of Geneva. As a result
of the arrangements made French
prisoners in all the German camps
will find their bread rations doubled
by these parcels from home.
' Certain guarantees have been ob-
tained for the proper distribution of
the parcels. Germany has agreed to
allow in each camp a French delegate
to correspond freely with the federa-
tion in order to inform it of the re-
gularity of the deliveriee,
Neutral Ambassadors will also exer-
cise control. The German Govern-
ment has consented to reveal the exact
number of prisoners in each egnip.
ORIGINAL "ANNIE LAURIE.
First Version Differs Greatly From
One Familiar To -day.
"Annie Laurie," as written and
sung by William Douglas, differed
greatly from the version familiar to-
day, says the London Chroniele. It
had only two versee, and the second
ran ;
She's backit like the peacock,
She's breistit like the swan,
She's limp around the middle,
Her waist ye weel nicht span,
Her waist ye weel nicht span,
An' she has a rolling 'co,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay nie do= and dee.
It was Lady John Scott who wrong-
ly attributed the original to Allan
Cunningham, who made the rough
smooth in the existing verse added a
third and wrote the familiar tune.
"Annie Laurie," by the way, WAS a
great favorite with our soldiers in the
Crimea.
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