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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-9-21, Page 6HAVE YOU A POLICY /N THE' wn Life E\'SURANCE CO. "LIKE LIVING TORCHES." Terrible Fate Overtook Party of German Flame -Throwers. A remarkable vivid description of the recent desperate fighting on the Somme front has been given by a wounded French signaller to George to Hir, a special correspondent of the New York Times. When asked how he came by his injuries the signaller made the start- ling reply: "In watching hell -fire from a tree -top." Then he con- tinued: "My company was sent to organize an old German trench a little north of a farm, but when the officers ex- amined it they found it destroyed by our bombardment so that it would be almost impossible to prepare it before the enemy attacked. So it was decided to withdraw to a better position fifty yards in the roar. Then the captain called for someone to stay behind to watch and signal the enemy's movements. I fixed myself up in the cleft of a tree, taking with me a telephone which was connected with the nearest battery. "For nearly an hour nothing hap- pened. Then a group of about forty Boehes crept forward from the wook, rapidly followed by the best part of a company I telephoned 'Enemy ad- vancing, led by a detachment of flamenwerfer,' for I had recognized the devilish apparatus carried by the foremost group. With appalling sad= denness, a dozen jets of white and yellow flames darted up to fall plumb into the trench. The dense smoke hid the rest of the Germans, but, thanks to my mask, I was able to give information to the battery. Our gunners nau the range to an inch, and a torrent of shells burst right among the fire -throwers. Great sheets of flame sprang up, one jet from an exploding container just grazing me, burning my clothes and scorching me rather badly. The ground was a sea of fire, and in the midst of it the Germans, like living torches, were dying horribly. One man spun round like a top, not even trying to run away, until he fell in a pool of flame. Others rolled on the ground, but the blazing liquid ran around them everywhere. "I don't think any fire -throwers escaped." 10,000,000 LETTERS WEEKLY. British Postal Arrangements to the Armies in France. The British may pride themselves more especially on the efficiency of their transport of both men and mails. One of the biggest armies ever rais- ed in any country has been convoyed over the sea without the loss of a single unit, and a prodigious amount of mail matter is handled with simi- lar effectiveness. The army postal arrangements, which are on a vast scale, are work- ing admirably. Letters sent from ! England to the expeditionary force in France take three days to reach men in billets and four days for soldiers' in the trenches. All letters for the troops are dealt with at the home base office in Lon- don, where the ,work of sorting is performed. There is a separate mail bag for every unit, both for letters and parcels. All the base shops are similarly treated. About ten mil- lions of letters are dispatched to the armies every week and about three- quarters of a million parcels. The mails are made up not only for the forces in France, but for the troops in Egypt, Salonica, Mesopotamia, East Africa and other parts of the world. Colonial sections deal with colonial letters both at the London base office and at the front. All the cross -Channel routes are used, and three special trains are run daily for the army mails alone The number of letters sent home from the front exceeds five millions weekly, and this vast correspondence has to be handled in the first instance at the,base. The sorting is done ,h London. Several hundred women are employed in this work and their num bers are increasing every day. They perform their work satisfactorily, but of course, not so well as sorters o long experience, nor can they deal with heavy parcels. Letters which for any reason are undeliverable ar sent back to the senders, Back To Wonderland 4'It is an enormous bill, Doris," sa•d Dick Barron. "You women take to spending money like a duck to water, Doris looked up from the couch in the dainty boudoir, "Oh, Dick, how odd a thing to say! And I must have clothes!" "Yes, of course. I know. I sup- pose It is all right, but these Modiste people know how to charge. You dressed just as beautifully before 1 came into uncle's money. We had little enough thea" "Yes, Dick; it was little enough then," said Doris wistfully, with re- • gret in her tone, darting a look in- stinct with anxiety at her husband, Land realizing at last that a few big dressmaking bills would never bring back the old days, Dick did not notice her look. He seldom did observe anything which -*concerned his wife. He was satisfied Iso long as she looked charming at the receptions he attended since he f ! had taken up politics. i Doris sighed, and Dick crossed the room, said he must really be off, kiss - e I ed her, and left the room. His wife followed him into the hall and held his coat, though the servant was wait- ing. "You are always leaving me now," she said sadly. "I have been thinking of the old days when we were happy." "So are we happy now, dear." There was a shake of the head from Doris. She waited to see her husband ' hurry down the steps into the square, then walked slowly back to the fire she had quitted, to, drop into a low, chair, resting a white satin shoe on the brass rail, and gaze dreamily into the caverns of gold. "How lonelyI am!" she murmured. She knew it had to be done — that , Dick must be stopped in his career of excitement, He would not listen to her. She knew that well, too, for her f protests had been laughed at; and yet I at a dinner -party a few months be-' fore, Russell, the physician who had always taken a paternal interest in her for he was her father's old friend, as well as a great nerve spe ialist—had told her of the p PASSENGER BUSINESS GOOD. Northern Navigation Company Is Having a Busy Season. "Our passenger business during the season has exceeded all other years and it now seems probable that our steamers will be filled to their capa- city upon every trip to be made to Duluth," declared E. W, Holton, gen- eral passenger agent of the Northern Navigation Company, while discuss- ing the large reservations which are being made on all steamer lines this summer, "There are several reasons for this increased business. Of course the warm weather has played an import- ant part and the European war has kept many persons in the United States and Canada who might other- wise have toured in Great Britain, France, Germany and other countries. "Then, too, the fact that Detroit has been made our southern terminal, has given us facilities to care for the residents of the Michigan metropolis and nearby American and Canadian cities much better than ever before. The Huronic, Hamonic and Noronie leave Detroit weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and hun- dreds are now enabled to board the steamers at Detroit instead of mak- ing the trip to Sarnia which was our southern terminal until the latter part of last season. "There has not only been a large business from our southern terminal, but there has been heavy traffic from the other end of our line. Many of the people who have boarded our steamers at Duluth are tourists from the western states, Seattle, Pohtland and Prince Rupert sending big dele- gations east which have enjoyed the cruises on our steamers. "While reservations made up to date are unusually heavy, we are of the opinion that there will be room for all who care to take the northern voyage during September. This month, the last of the season, is us- ually lighter than those preceding, and we have no reason to anticipate any difficulty in getting suitable re- servations this year, although it is one of the most delightful months of all for a lake cruise. The days are usually as warm as during August, • the sunsets are wonderful and the cool evenings make dancing and walking on the decks most enjoyable. Because many people were unable to take our trips in August, a large ma- jority plan to leave for the north in September on the week's voyage." Their Marriage. She—How did they ever come to marry ? Ile—Oh, it's the same old story. Started out to be gool friends, you know, and later on changed their minds. 1�tin congalous, ..blr, Dad1y ttirt, We :felt 1t right to jvire There s no im Mediate danger, b --= " He Stopped!, and led the way to the rotltri where Doris Baron lay, Dick heard all hat had happened; His Wife must, he thought, have been has- tening back tp London. Anyway, the oar had smashed into the wall of a viaduct, and the girl had been thrown out, to lie in the lonely road for some time before help came. Dick forgot everything, and the fever .of his normal life, as,he sat in the darkened room by the bed where the treasure of his world lay. He was thinking back into former times, en- tering once again that dreamy won- der -world which Doris had shown him—their own realm of enchant- ment. Doris did not recover consciousness that night. The doctor was in con- stant attendance, also a nurse from the cottage hospital, Then towards morning the sufferer opened her eyes. Dick was waiting. ! He had not slept. He had watched, his wife's burning hand clasped close 1 mlrs, He thought.she knew him. But the poor girl, although she was staring 1 at him, seemingly did not realize who It was. She began to talk; and Dick , knew she spoke without knowledge, that fever held her in its grip. The words came wildly: "I must stop him! It doesn't mat- ter! •Dick to speak—Dr, Russell— his heart! A little accident, and it i will be well!" Dick started nervously. The truth was coming in a mist, though he could not yet believe. There was silence, then Doris was saying something more; "Oh, the car! Stop! 1 cannot stop it. I—" Her voice died away. N i, * * "Dick!" Barron bent towards the bed. Doris was speaking very softly. It was several days later—days of an- guish and doubt. Ile had never left the hotel, de- voured as he had been with fear. "Dick, I am so sorry, but I was afraid." "Don't let's talk about it now, dear," said Dick unsteadily, as he saw something of what his wife had meant. menacing Dick. j "Take my advice, my dear," he said. "Call him off before it is too late. You must have noticed the change in'.. him?" "No," replied Doris. "Unless it is that now I am very little to him. He never remembers me." "Quite so. Just make him remem-? ber you. That is where you come in. • Insist upon it. Show him that you are good enough to fill his entire life —as you are, dear lady. The pre- sent mad rush is killing him; he can't stand much more of it. A wo- man can always find a way of doing anything in the world if she chooses." * * * * * d, It was late when Dick Barron reached home. Doris was awake and listening. "So he walked home," she said to herself. "There was no' sound of a cab." j Then she started, raising herself 1 on her elbow as Dick entered the; !room. She saw he was merely sus -1 tained by nervous energy, just as Dr.! j Russell had said. "You have been overdoing it again, 'Dick," she said softly, as he dropped 1 into a chair, Then she smiled as at a sudden idea. "I don't believe you give me a single thought, once you}' are away from me." 1 a "Doris, dearest, what nonsense! All Business. "Then I can be one of your pupils ?" "Assuredly, sir, for $10 a lesson," said the great artist. "And a favorite pupil for $2 extra," us Family jars are never ed in pre- serving peace. 'Dominion of Canada LOAN • We are authorized to receive applications for this loan. Yet} may send applications to us by telegraph or telephone at our expense. By placing subscription through us you receive, without extra expense to you, special attention to all details such as payment of instalments, de- livery of interim certificate and definitive Bonds. We will send you application form on request. C. H. Burgess & Company '1'RADERS BANK BUILDING TORONTO, CANADA TELEPHONE MAIN 5938, ? It was not until Doris was able to go downstairs, leaning heavily on her husband's arm, that she told him all —one evening as they were seated on the veranda of the hotel, an evening in springtime, one of those periods of unreality and tenderness, with yellow daffodils in the grass, and the thrill of great tidings in the air. "I can speak now, Dick," said the girl, as she sat forward. "Perhaps you will be angry, but I have been hoping and praying that you will for- give." Barron's face was in deep I shadow.. Doris went on: "I was 1 frightened about you, Dick. Dr. Rus- sell told me over and over again that you were killing yourself, and that one day, very soon, you would break down, and then— Oh, I was troub- led, and you—you would never listen to me, any more than you would to the doctors, for there was the meet- ing that night, and I did not know what to do." Dick Barron laid his hand on that of his wife, but he did not speak. "I meant it to be only a little, little j accident, Dick," she went on—"just 1 bad enough for you to be called away froth town; and then I thought that perhaps you would be convinced. I had tried to spend such a lot of money, Dick, so that you would not be able to go on but somehow it never eemed to make any difference. How angry you will have to be with me!" Why, I think of you all the time!" Dick Barron bent down and kissed her hand tenderly. "You are going to forgive me, Dick! Oh, if you could, and if you would believe! There were the old days, Dick, the brown roads. And then you Were conquering the world, for your work was wonderful, and we were so happy—so happy— The nights when you sat up writing till late, and I lay awake thinking and listening, for you were working for me then, Dick, and there was the glory of the day, and all the big and lovely things, the people working, and the morning, and we had the world just as much as if we had been kinks and,queens, "And you were my king, Dick! Couldn't we go back, Dick, go back home, live as we used to? For, Dick, I could not bear the idea of troubling you. I was thinking, as I drove that day, of the speech, your speech, and of the triumph, and_I hated myself when I reflected on what I intended to do—to have you sent for so that you should not go -to the Imperial that night. Perhaps you would hate me for that, but it was your life and my happiness, Dick." "Doris!" The girl gave a sigh, and clung to her husband's hand. "Perhaps you would never see it, Dick, but it was what Dr. Russell said He set Inc thinking more and more. It seemed to be to be just a fight for myself against all those peo- ple who were claiming you. "And you were mine, Dick—mine," she went on, "and it seemed to me that I had the right. But yet—ah, how I know it all!—all you will say, being 'worried by me, begged to think of the small things again—you who were so great—you sitting here at my side being bad, although I was treacherous and bad!" Then the man spoke in husky tones, while his lips were twitchfng. "There was no treachery, Doris." "You say that now, but there is the world. And people spoke of you as though their rights were everything; mine no longer worth a second's thought, And• yet I love you, Dick, and I thought if there were just this tiny accident that you would begin to think of me again. Again did Barron stoop and kiss his wife's hand, grateful for what she had done, glad to think that she had con- trolled his hfe—brought him back to her, her slave! "We are going back into the won- der-world," onder-world," he said, "you and I!"— London Answers. Accurately Put "Why did Rev. Banks leave his charge 1" 'He said parishioners were guilty of contributory negligence. • INEXHAUSTIBLE RESERVES. German Expert Says Russia Can Con- tinue War Forever. The Vossisehe Zeitung of Berlin, in a long article written by a military expert, admits that the hope of a breakdown of Russia for lack of re- serves will never be realized. $The writer concludes that the Czar has human material enough to continue the war almost forever. "At the beginning of the war Rus- sia had 172,000,000 inhabitants," the expert says. "This means that the pop- ulation of the Russian Empire was almost three times as large as that of 'Germany.. The annual increase in Russia amounts to more than two million souls, against 000,000 in Ger- many. Under these conditions the 'Czar has more than one million new soldiers at his disposal every year, while the recruits in Germany only number 450,000. "With the enormous birthrate of 47 per thousand inhabitants, Russia is able to keep her army at its pre- sent strength for an unlimited time, even if more than a million soldiers should be killed, totally disabled or captured in a year. For Germany the loss of a million men per year: means a serious weakening of the army, be- cause only 450,000 men can be re- placed. "The exhaustion of the man power ,of Russia is out of question, but the i breakdown of the colussus will surely come as soon ae"England and France are no longer able to furnish the enormous sums of money needed by the Czar." ACROSS TIIE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN TIIE STATES. Latest happenings in Big Repnbllc Readers. Condensed for Busy Lightning tore off the flag on the 20 -foot pole • in Antietam National Cemetery. At Lottsville, Pa,, Charles hill shot and killed himself at his home, after setting the place on fire. A police guard was necessary at a Trenton child's funeral because of, re- ligious differences of the parents. A shortage in • the city's water supply has been hampering manu- facturers and housewives in South Philadelphia. A profit of more than $1,000,000 a week was made by the Ford Motor Company during the year which ended July 31. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will have the first big hospital to co-operate in carrying out the, Workmen's Com- pensation Act. IHarry J. ;Durr, for twenty years a leading merchant of Harmon, Ill., was run over and killed by his own auto driven by his wife., • After dreaming he hadbeenarrest-, ed a man wallced 100 miles to Char- leston, W. Va., and confessed to rob- bing a post -office two years ago. Nine hundred enthusiasts at Har- lem luncheon, several of whom came by aeroplane, celebrated the organ- ization of the first . "flying boat" . club. ,New" York City was borrowing or owing money in London when the Iwar broke out. Now London is floatinga city water works loan in New York. James Talcott, wealthy New York banker and merchant, who gave away $1,000,000 in philanthropies be- fore his death, bequeathed his estate to his family. A North Caroline minister refused to baptize a condemned convict in the prison bathtub and held out Iuntil the ceremony was performed in a real church. Trade of the port of Boston for the 'year ending July 31, amounted to $347,303,047, an increase of more than $87,000,000 over' the correspond- ing period of 1916. The Bethlehem Steel Company has awarded contracts for erection of an additional 500 -ton capacity blast furnace to be known as "A" stack, at the Steelton, Pa., plant. The prosecuting attorney of Lima, Ohio, where the sheriff was tortured by a mob intent on lynching a negro, informally asked for state troops to prevent revival of the mob spirit. Federal Judge Landis --in Chicago permanently enjoined the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Transporta- tion Company from selling its nine ships to the Government of France. Two and one-half ounces have been lopped from each loaf of bread baked by San Francisco bakers to be sold for five cents, and doughnuts were raised from 12 to 15 cents a ozen. Mrs. Cora Schuester, a mute, shot and mortally wounded Gilbert Erick- son, also a mute, at Tacoma, Md., and immediately indicated her intention to rely on the "unwritten law" _de- fence to save her. IGNORED JAPAN'S ADVICE. CASH IN CHINA. Some of the Inconveniences of the Monetary System. In the remote parts of China the silver "shoes" are still used, and buy- er and seller each carry a pair of scales, while the purchaser chips off with a chisel enough silver from his "shoe" to pay his bill, which the mer- chant again carefully weighs to the fraction of a grain, to see that he has enough. The "cash," worth now a tenth of a Chinese cent, has disappeared from' the coast cities, where big copper, cents have taken their place, but they are still used m the far interior, though even ten years ago they were of universal currency, and it was a common saying that one took a don- key to carry his cash to market and took his purchases home in his hand. Undoubtedly this financial muddle will in time be straightened out, says the Christian Herald, and even as it is it is more a matter of inconvenience than of actual loss to those who "know the ropes." She leaned back on the pillows, re-, p„ garding him oddly. "And I should like to go back to Surrey," she said dreamily. "It was very good there, Dick, and you were not worried out of your life. You had time to come down the garden— do you remember that summer?—and: we reigned over whole kingdoms and empires, just as children do in the shadows of the firelight." "And it is the same now, dearest." Doris gently pushed him from her, for Dick had risen and taken her, hand. "Nol" she said pathetically. "You work yourself to death." { She was wondering what he would say if he knew her plan to save him despite himself. ''- * * -* * "Mrs. Barron badly hurt. Come at, once." Dick Barron received the telegram as he was leaving the club late the! following afternoon. It was despatch -1 ed from a village far away in Wilt- shire. He did not understand it at I all, Doris was devoted to motoring, ! and she drove herself, but not for a single second had Dick thought she' would have left town that day. He stood on the pavement, the message crisped in his hand. He was 1 troubled—more troubled than he could have said. His wife( Doris— the girl whose mind had one time seemed to him a radiant country which held mysteries of thought and tenderness it would take a lifetime to' explore! But there was his engagement! What was he to do? He raised his cane, and a taxi glia-, ed up. He got in, telling the man to drive to Paddington. Ho travelled down to the little town whence the urgesb summons had come. Tho doctor met him at the door of the hotel where Doris had keen taken, "How is she?" gasped out Dick, dreading the answer he might receive, NEW CANADUtN WAR LOAN The Safest and Best investment Possible to Obtain Without Charge We Will Give Best Attention to Any Applications Placed Through Us These Securities Are Always Saleable and We Are Always Ready to Purchase Ful! Particulars and Subscription Forms Furnished on 'Application Write Us, or Telegraph or Telephone at Our Expense W. A. MACKENZIE & CO. TORONTO WINNIPEG J1 v Why Germany Antagonized the Oriental -Empire. A six -column article, prepared by the Japanese Admiralty,' giving . a summary of the activities of the Jap- anese navy in thepresent war, ap- pears in the Lopdon Times. The sum- mary s'prefaced by this statement: "The nationalpolicy of the Jap- anese Empire has always been the maintenance of peace in the east, That policy has never undergone any change and never will. When the action'. of Germany compelled our ally, Great Britain, to declare war, the incessant movements of German warships in eastern seas became a serious menace to the international trade of Japan. The peace of the Far East was at that moment M the greatest possible danger. Japan first approached Germany with ad- vice. On the refusal of the latter, ' Japan found herself unavoidably in- • volved in the war." ti SHIP TO SALVAGE SUBMARINES. Craft Launched at Zaandnm to Order of Spanish Government. An ingenious craft for the salvage of submarines has just been ounched at Zaandam, Netherlands, to the or- der of the Spanish Government., It I is a double screw steamship made up oftwo separate vessels six meters' deep and six meters broad, the fore and aft decks of which are bound to- gether with an intervening space of eight meters, thus giving the entire structure a breadth of twenty meters, The open space is spanned by hoist- ing apparatus powerful enough to haul up sunken submarines between the two halves of the ship, The electrically driven windlasses have a total lifting capacity of 060 tons, with a Leet load of 1,000 tons, On board the ship are four workshops for the rair of the salved underwater craft, together with a hold for the storage of tbrpedo heads, which, can in case of fire be immediately sub.. merged, The vessel is 024 ranters long. — = =poi D g _ MADE IN CANADA a d iSn P `t• ` � 1t• ` CONTAINS �sr NO ALUM S � t F`:. i' ..:'Me�h-• �c`.'�ii'FE. . }.• •.0 :IISfeee Ts nim c i ��r Dick Barron bent down and kissed her hand tenderly. "You are going to forgive me, Dick! Oh, if you could, and if you would believe! There were the old days, Dick, the brown roads. And then you Were conquering the world, for your work was wonderful, and we were so happy—so happy— The nights when you sat up writing till late, and I lay awake thinking and listening, for you were working for me then, Dick, and there was the glory of the day, and all the big and lovely things, the people working, and the morning, and we had the world just as much as if we had been kinks and,queens, "And you were my king, Dick! Couldn't we go back, Dick, go back home, live as we used to? For, Dick, I could not bear the idea of troubling you. I was thinking, as I drove that day, of the speech, your speech, and of the triumph, and_I hated myself when I reflected on what I intended to do—to have you sent for so that you should not go -to the Imperial that night. Perhaps you would hate me for that, but it was your life and my happiness, Dick." "Doris!" The girl gave a sigh, and clung to her husband's hand. "Perhaps you would never see it, Dick, but it was what Dr. Russell said He set Inc thinking more and more. It seemed to be to be just a fight for myself against all those peo- ple who were claiming you. "And you were mine, Dick—mine," she went on, "and it seemed to me that I had the right. But yet—ah, how I know it all!—all you will say, being 'worried by me, begged to think of the small things again—you who were so great—you sitting here at my side being bad, although I was treacherous and bad!" Then the man spoke in husky tones, while his lips were twitchfng. "There was no treachery, Doris." "You say that now, but there is the world. And people spoke of you as though their rights were everything; mine no longer worth a second's thought, And• yet I love you, Dick, and I thought if there were just this tiny accident that you would begin to think of me again. Again did Barron stoop and kiss his wife's hand, grateful for what she had done, glad to think that she had con- trolled his hfe—brought him back to her, her slave! "We are going back into the won- der-world," onder-world," he said, "you and I!"— London Answers. Accurately Put "Why did Rev. Banks leave his charge 1" 'He said parishioners were guilty of contributory negligence. • INEXHAUSTIBLE RESERVES. German Expert Says Russia Can Con- tinue War Forever. The Vossisehe Zeitung of Berlin, in a long article written by a military expert, admits that the hope of a breakdown of Russia for lack of re- serves will never be realized. $The writer concludes that the Czar has human material enough to continue the war almost forever. "At the beginning of the war Rus- sia had 172,000,000 inhabitants," the expert says. "This means that the pop- ulation of the Russian Empire was almost three times as large as that of 'Germany.. The annual increase in Russia amounts to more than two million souls, against 000,000 in Ger- many. Under these conditions the 'Czar has more than one million new soldiers at his disposal every year, while the recruits in Germany only number 450,000. "With the enormous birthrate of 47 per thousand inhabitants, Russia is able to keep her army at its pre- sent strength for an unlimited time, even if more than a million soldiers should be killed, totally disabled or captured in a year. For Germany the loss of a million men per year: means a serious weakening of the army, be- cause only 450,000 men can be re- placed. "The exhaustion of the man power ,of Russia is out of question, but the i breakdown of the colussus will surely come as soon ae"England and France are no longer able to furnish the enormous sums of money needed by the Czar." ACROSS TIIE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN TIIE STATES. Latest happenings in Big Repnbllc Readers. Condensed for Busy Lightning tore off the flag on the 20 -foot pole • in Antietam National Cemetery. At Lottsville, Pa,, Charles hill shot and killed himself at his home, after setting the place on fire. A police guard was necessary at a Trenton child's funeral because of, re- ligious differences of the parents. A shortage in • the city's water supply has been hampering manu- facturers and housewives in South Philadelphia. A profit of more than $1,000,000 a week was made by the Ford Motor Company during the year which ended July 31. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will have the first big hospital to co-operate in carrying out the, Workmen's Com- pensation Act. IHarry J. ;Durr, for twenty years a leading merchant of Harmon, Ill., was run over and killed by his own auto driven by his wife., • After dreaming he hadbeenarrest-, ed a man wallced 100 miles to Char- leston, W. Va., and confessed to rob- bing a post -office two years ago. Nine hundred enthusiasts at Har- lem luncheon, several of whom came by aeroplane, celebrated the organ- ization of the first . "flying boat" . club. ,New" York City was borrowing or owing money in London when the Iwar broke out. Now London is floatinga city water works loan in New York. James Talcott, wealthy New York banker and merchant, who gave away $1,000,000 in philanthropies be- fore his death, bequeathed his estate to his family. A North Caroline minister refused to baptize a condemned convict in the prison bathtub and held out Iuntil the ceremony was performed in a real church. Trade of the port of Boston for the 'year ending July 31, amounted to $347,303,047, an increase of more than $87,000,000 over' the correspond- ing period of 1916. The Bethlehem Steel Company has awarded contracts for erection of an additional 500 -ton capacity blast furnace to be known as "A" stack, at the Steelton, Pa., plant. The prosecuting attorney of Lima, Ohio, where the sheriff was tortured by a mob intent on lynching a negro, informally asked for state troops to prevent revival of the mob spirit. Federal Judge Landis --in Chicago permanently enjoined the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Transporta- tion Company from selling its nine ships to the Government of France. Two and one-half ounces have been lopped from each loaf of bread baked by San Francisco bakers to be sold for five cents, and doughnuts were raised from 12 to 15 cents a ozen. Mrs. Cora Schuester, a mute, shot and mortally wounded Gilbert Erick- son, also a mute, at Tacoma, Md., and immediately indicated her intention to rely on the "unwritten law" _de- fence to save her. IGNORED JAPAN'S ADVICE. CASH IN CHINA. Some of the Inconveniences of the Monetary System. In the remote parts of China the silver "shoes" are still used, and buy- er and seller each carry a pair of scales, while the purchaser chips off with a chisel enough silver from his "shoe" to pay his bill, which the mer- chant again carefully weighs to the fraction of a grain, to see that he has enough. The "cash," worth now a tenth of a Chinese cent, has disappeared from' the coast cities, where big copper, cents have taken their place, but they are still used m the far interior, though even ten years ago they were of universal currency, and it was a common saying that one took a don- key to carry his cash to market and took his purchases home in his hand. Undoubtedly this financial muddle will in time be straightened out, says the Christian Herald, and even as it is it is more a matter of inconvenience than of actual loss to those who "know the ropes." She leaned back on the pillows, re-, p„ garding him oddly. "And I should like to go back to Surrey," she said dreamily. "It was very good there, Dick, and you were not worried out of your life. You had time to come down the garden— do you remember that summer?—and: we reigned over whole kingdoms and empires, just as children do in the shadows of the firelight." "And it is the same now, dearest." Doris gently pushed him from her, for Dick had risen and taken her, hand. "Nol" she said pathetically. "You work yourself to death." { She was wondering what he would say if he knew her plan to save him despite himself. ''- * * -* * "Mrs. Barron badly hurt. Come at, once." Dick Barron received the telegram as he was leaving the club late the! following afternoon. It was despatch -1 ed from a village far away in Wilt- shire. He did not understand it at I all, Doris was devoted to motoring, ! and she drove herself, but not for a single second had Dick thought she' would have left town that day. He stood on the pavement, the message crisped in his hand. He was 1 troubled—more troubled than he could have said. His wife( Doris— the girl whose mind had one time seemed to him a radiant country which held mysteries of thought and tenderness it would take a lifetime to' explore! But there was his engagement! What was he to do? He raised his cane, and a taxi glia-, ed up. He got in, telling the man to drive to Paddington. Ho travelled down to the little town whence the urgesb summons had come. Tho doctor met him at the door of the hotel where Doris had keen taken, "How is she?" gasped out Dick, dreading the answer he might receive, NEW CANADUtN WAR LOAN The Safest and Best investment Possible to Obtain Without Charge We Will Give Best Attention to Any Applications Placed Through Us These Securities Are Always Saleable and We Are Always Ready to Purchase Ful! Particulars and Subscription Forms Furnished on 'Application Write Us, or Telegraph or Telephone at Our Expense W. A. MACKENZIE & CO. TORONTO WINNIPEG J1 v Why Germany Antagonized the Oriental -Empire. A six -column article, prepared by the Japanese Admiralty,' giving . a summary of the activities of the Jap- anese navy in thepresent war, ap- pears in the Lopdon Times. The sum- mary s'prefaced by this statement: "The nationalpolicy of the Jap- anese Empire has always been the maintenance of peace in the east, That policy has never undergone any change and never will. When the action'. of Germany compelled our ally, Great Britain, to declare war, the incessant movements of German warships in eastern seas became a serious menace to the international trade of Japan. The peace of the Far East was at that moment M the greatest possible danger. Japan first approached Germany with ad- vice. On the refusal of the latter, ' Japan found herself unavoidably in- • volved in the war." ti SHIP TO SALVAGE SUBMARINES. Craft Launched at Zaandnm to Order of Spanish Government. An ingenious craft for the salvage of submarines has just been ounched at Zaandam, Netherlands, to the or- der of the Spanish Government., It I is a double screw steamship made up oftwo separate vessels six meters' deep and six meters broad, the fore and aft decks of which are bound to- gether with an intervening space of eight meters, thus giving the entire structure a breadth of twenty meters, The open space is spanned by hoist- ing apparatus powerful enough to haul up sunken submarines between the two halves of the ship, The electrically driven windlasses have a total lifting capacity of 060 tons, with a Leet load of 1,000 tons, On board the ship are four workshops for the rair of the salved underwater craft, together with a hold for the storage of tbrpedo heads, which, can in case of fire be immediately sub.. merged, The vessel is 024 ranters long.