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The [ a .sin's Bur lar, days' are I was desperate, Don't send ,
p Burgla
the pollee! Give me a chance i EY BRITISH WORLD
just this oncel You'll never regret
� it, I'm nota thief, though I was
—
—. trying to be. Let me of£ this time;
It was the first occasion on which sir!' I'll go straight if you dol' I'll NECESSARY TO BEAT DOWN
James Haines had set forth as a get work somehow! I swear its"
night prowler after illicit gain. Something in the expression cf his
As he slithered along a wet pave- face, something in the tone of his
sent in a quiet road he did not quite • voice carriede weight, and Stanley
know what he was going to do. But ' more than half believed him.
he was keyed up - to the pitch of "Pm going to sit down for a m
housebreaking and theft, and only ute," he said. "You can sit. do
hoped that no constables, ordinary or too, if you like. I want just a w
special, would interfere with his busi- or two with you;just before I.dec
nese. what we are to do."
Now, Jim was not a wicked man—I It seemed almost as though
and if he contemplated crime, it was swayed a little on his feet while
for the first time in his life—but he spoke, and even Jim, consumed w
had had a long spell of. illness and, fear for himself, noticed this,
though quite recovered now, he was ; "There's nothing wrong with y
practically penniless, and saw no im-j mister?" he asked, dyeing Stan
mediate prospect of earning money very closely while the latter sea
People had told him that in these himself.
days any man could get a job, but "Nothing," said Stanley polite
Jim bad so far been unsuccessful. I "Now, my man, the question is, w
In his home of 'two rooms there are we going to do about you? You
GERMAN LIE FACTORY.
Gabriel Hanotaux's Tribute to the
Kn I British Peoples to Help
ori Win the War.
ids I The following is a translation of
he an article by Gabriel Hanotaux of the
he French Academy, ,in the Paris "Fig-
ith ax"The German papers write, apro-
62.1i rg` Y+rte. Q,4-71 _ gqEFirE3�
CONTAIN& NO ALUM MADE IN CANADA
ou, ' pos of the British offensive, 'It is a dress themselves to that opinion by
ley complete new army which now con- repetition and insistence; thereby
ted fronts us.' It would be more correct producing a species of hypnotism in
if they should say It is a whole the public mind.
ly world.,'
hat The reunion in Paris of the repre- I A New World Rises.
've sentatives from the British dominions
was a patient Mrs. Jim and a Miss told the story that I expect nin
Jim of some ten years. It was their out of a hundred who are caught
existence that had brought him to the same game tell. Somehow I'in
his present decision. 1 then inclined to believe that—to a c
Tlie hour was very late, or, rather, tain extent, at least—you are spe
very early, for midnight had long ing the truth. You say that you've
sence been clanged out upon the wife and child, and that you're ear
clocks of the district. The only figure ing no money—that you haven't g
which Jim saw in the gloomy road a job?"
was that of a policeman, who moved , "That's right, guv'nor! I could
slowly away in the distance. When , get a job."
he had quite disappeared Jim began "Why not? You may have be
to look about him. I ill, but you look strong enough. H
Some time had passed, and he had' is it that you're not in the Arm
become not only more desperate, but That's where every fit man should
had almost decided to give the thing to -day. Did it never occur to y
up and return home, an' honest if un- that you might provide for yours.
successful man, when, slouching past and for your wife and child at
a small house, he saw that a big win -same time that you would be servin
dow on the ground floor was open by your country? Why aren't you
a foot oz• so, soldier?"
It was a chance that he felt he Jim grinned a trifle sheepishly.
could not miss, and some few seconds "Me?" he returned. It nev
later Jim was inside the room, struck me that way. I am not
His nerves were more than a little youngster, sir. I'm forty-three."
shaky, and he did not dare to use the "Are you? Well, I believe you, b
small electric torch which he carried you don't look it. You'd pass fo
until he had pulled together the heavy thirty-five any day. If your cos'
curtains, which he was glad to find 1 science will let you attempt to ste
hung at the window. I won't it go the length of dodging th
As the moments went past, how- .tuuth for once, and telling the recruit
ever, and no. sound came to him either; ing-sergeant that you're say, thirty
from the road or front the house it -I eight? The country will look aft
self, be became more assured—more . your wife and child, and you can loo
like a real member of the profession„' after yourself and them at the sam
upon an apprenticeship to which he'time. Now, I don't want to spe
had just started. - I about myself, but we're alone togethe
Here and there about the comfort- and our conversation won't go 'fur
able sitting -room he moved on tip- ther. Do you see this?”
toe, and as the tiny gleam of his While he spoke he touched th
torch showed him such alluring ob- empty pyjama -sleeve with his revel
jects as silver candlesticks and cigar- ver.
cite- boxes, he almost forgot the risks I "Yes," said Jim uneasily, "I do.
which he was running in the prospect, You've lost an arm." Then light came
of having, on ills moi taw, money in to him suddenly. "I know!" he an -
his
foodpocket
h s home, plentiful supply of pounced, as though he had really
made a really staggering discovery.
But things were not to go sof "You've been fightin' an' been wound -
smoothly as he had hoped, or as he ed. That's it. I thought you looked a
lied begun to tht-'- g
DUCAL "POACHER" CAPTURED.
•
Anecdote of Canada's New Governor-
General.
The Duke of Devonshire, the new
Here is the policy that we should Governor-General of Canada, owns, in
From Erin's Green Isle
NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE-
LAND'S SHORES.
Happenings in the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish
men,
A party of officers and men of the
Ulster Division are assisting in Bel-
fastnorth inof Irelanda recruiting campaign in . to
,'
A large body of troops was reviewed
in the. Phoenix Park by Field -Marshal
T.df@3;i.,9rfi„me;x,;i LtheordPllireomeFnoh,orces, Commander•in-Chief or
Mi. Montague Alexis Pollard, D,L„
of ISingsturk House, Castle Pollard,
Westmeath, was thrown from his
j � bicycle when riding home and killed,
DOING I�[IY��y�S WORK A movement has been. f arranging
in
Limerick with the obese. of arranging
to have some vacant land adjacent to
_— the City utilized for cultivation,
ENGLISH BOY
ety has a meaning so great in the world's adopt, in .answer to the German pub- addition to Chatsworth his rinci al A sum of $30,000 was raised at a
history that some daywe shall look; residence in Derbyshire,� some half a MILKS SIX COWS, , FEEDS THE recent garden fete at Belfast Castle to
atlicit, campaign, which has, for tooCHICKENS` AND PIGS. aid of the British Red Cross Soolety
ra_ back on this reunion as one of the , long a time manoeuvred" us The dozen palatial establishments in vari-
er i important
Mr. Asquithors onenday defined actual lisis.
the
!ofglish do announcements worry about the costs ouOne parts
ofoftheael� Bo
ak- ents or telegrams for lton Abbey, in
a British Empire as an ever-increasing they know'it is money well spent. It Yorkshire, is visited by its notable Arthur French, Ten Years Old, .War
t f • d Th free
n_' community oflee men. ere is necessary that the light should owner comparatively rarely, and then
of men grouped themselves spontane- !penetrate to Germany herself, in or- only in the shooting season
ously, not only to save the Empire • der to destroy the artifiedal and subOn one occasion however
Worker and Subscriber
to War Loan,
and Slee fund for Comforts for Belgian
soldiers.
At Victoria Barracks, Cork, a dis-
trict courtmartfal was held to hear
charges against live civilians for mak-
ing statements Nicely to cause disaf-
but to save the independence ande + °"� ..� lection to His Majesty.
n't guard the liberty of the peoples of the methodically
whish has been ointed
and in thehere unexpectedly
in pttedly overnight, Jane Anderson, the distinguished D . J. AthH. McKenna, BallylinanBoard of Guardians pmedical
world, and this groupdid not confine , Y kept up till this day byg early he went out American writer, draws this picture of officer of Monastereyan dispensary
en the German press agents. alone with his gun, intending to try the- wank of an English boy in war- district, ` owing to the resignation
ow itself within the limits of Great Brit- Yes, it is a new army—it is a new and /kill a hare before breakfast. time, when many ten -,sordid lads aro through illness of Dr. R an. g
y? air; they transported to Paris and world which rises. The peoples of After walking some time he came taking'the places of men ; About ten employeesyo2 the Dean's
be cams, rendering homage, to the sol- the British Empire, whose parliamen- upon one in a secluded part of the! This is the story of Arthur French, iGrange Burial Board suddenly struck .,
ou dIeis is01 this sainted
knee universal
Can- tary delegates actually are re -united estate, fired at it,.and missed. A who is ten years old, and who is a war work and left the cemetery. The
If in Paris, represent and mean not only following shot with the second bar- the trouble is said to be not
-
adian Senator Belcourt, that I offer re]
the a force of inexhaustible resources, but however, was more successful, It was when rtliur was ten years so much with wages as with Condi
g my veneration to immortal France, also new methods. France has held and ".Pussy" rolled over dead.old, or perhaps a little before tions of employment.
A
a who has always held in high esteem on, in order that they should have ' His Grace secured his prize, then that he started to do a man's work. In answer to an enquiry made by
time to prepare themselves—and— turned to retrace his footsteps only It happened, as it has happened 10 the United States regarding the or -
the rights of humanity—of eiviliza-
tion, and of progress."
er These units are invincible in the
a' present and will be indestructible in
! the future. The human species,
et throughout the world, is subject to
the dictates of conscience; all the
✓ scattered peoples, who inhabit the
al, world, speak unconsciously a common
language. Germany, following the
o lead of her professors, her doctors,
- . her junkers, has taken the false route
er aiming for the absurd programme of
k domination and of tyranny. She has
e sworn that by force alone she shall
ak rule, but, if the force should fail her,
✓ what remains there.
The Lie Factors.
e Besides, force is going to fail her
- —from then on—trouble, uncertainty,
the anguish which exudes from her
official communiques, working to
create an atmosphere of calm—from
then on—remorse, -which even now is
so transparent in the imperial pro-
clamations, "I didn't wish for this!"
It is, that the official lie—the
dynastic eye -wink — the imperial
A box which he luted slipped bit done -up somehow—a bit white in manoeuvre, which has for such a
•
the face, like, if I might say so. long time obscured the real situation,
through his fingers and fell to the + "You might," said Stanley, "Yes; begins to be pierced by the German
floor with a small rattle, which to , meant to bolster u
I've been out fi htdn and I'm proud people, P their
Jim seemed very big indeed. Several to have! been. I left 'an arm over in broken down morale, the "lie factory"
moments he stood there motionless::defends itself byagain
Drops of sweat oozed out upon his the Dardanelles, which is a place youlying. How-
Drops
will have head f N ever when the German people real These
tell me why I or any other m h ld cam the women. How they manage so sue -
The
list strictly in alphabetical order.
to find himself looking so many English villages, that most der -in -Council restricting ,entrance to
here they are. They fight the fight g into the bar- op the men went to war there was Ireland, the British Government has
in their own manner. They are a 'rel of another gun held at the "pre- lysed of good labor— rave need.. stated that the order is not directed
g
people a little rough. "Bache! You ,sent" by a lad of about fifteen, . Above all, there was need for men for against Irish -Americans.
will learn to know them better. They I "Got 'ee, Mr. Poacher," cried the the farms. And so, quite suddenly, The white ensign flown by PIM S
1,
are only beginning, and you shall see
many more of them."
SERBIA'S BRAVE WOMEN.
oy exultingly. "Now you mon come Arthur came into man's estate. !Dublin at the battle of Horn Reef, and
along dine to yon house"—and he in- Perhaps there were sceptical people which was presented to the Council
dicated by a movement of his head who thought that, war or no war, a of the Dublin Chamber of Con.merce,
the gamekeeper's cottage, half -hid- small boy -was not equal to the work has now been placed in the Converse- •
den amid the trees and tall bracken.which hard to be done. And I have na tion Room of the Chamber.
„ doubt they said so, for people are un -1 Private P. O'Brien, R,LR., who re -
Me feytLer lives there. He'll ha'kind when success is not achieved.' Y y
The Many Duties Which They Are luminal to say to 'e'e " cent! returned foram German where
Expected to Perform. Mr. Poacher"meeklyobeyed, and However, Arthus, who was ten years he. was a prisoner for lis E •one
`c Y , old, became helper to the farmer. And months, leas died at his home in Ennis- ,
Serbian women are a hardy race. in due course they reached the place, straightway Arthur's responsibility be., corthy. His funeral was ,attended by
Outdoor labor in the fields is a com- when the boy was scared nearly out came the responsibility of a man ; for a company of the Connaught Rangers,
monplace of their lot. Up first thing of his wits by the discovery of the it is not easy work, the work of a farm.' At a meeting of Londonderry County
in the morning, the housewife is gen- identity of his "prisoner." it is about half -past five that he goes Council in Coleraine, it was stated
But the. Duke took it all in good • down the white street of the village,' that considerable damage to roads and
part, and after complimenting his whistling, an his way to the farmer's:. bridges in the county had been caused
erally the last of the household to get
to bed. The ordinary household duties captor on his zeal, he At the farmer's Arthur goes straight- by a oloudbursL It was estimated that
are performed by her, and she does p presented him way through the yard and out into the it would take $40,000 to repair the
other work which is generally done with a sovereign as a souvenir of his big field to drive in the cows, six of damage.
by men. Her spinning and weaving .them, orae after tlse other, through the A mass meeting of the rank and file
wide gate.
KING'S FOURTH SON IN NAVY.
Prince George Is Now In His Four-
teenth Year.
The latest list of candidates who
have passed the qualifying literary
examination for naval cadetships, and
who will enter the Royal Naval Col-
lege, Osborne, in September, includes
the name of Prince George, their
Majesties' fourth son,, who is now in
his fourteenth year. He appears in
provides the homespun for clothing.
In Montenegro, which is a Serbian
country, the women also make - the
shoes which. are in general use. Serb-
ian women are usually the potters of
their land, making during the sum-
mer time a primitive kind of earthen-
ware vessels. They shape them
without the potter's wheel. Serbian
carpets have not the fame or the
quality of Turkey carpets; but their
bright red Pirot rugs give brightness
to their homes and are highly prized.
row- r o , Now, can you carpetsare woven by handby th
an should ize to a certaintythat theirThe Prince of Wales and Prince Al -
Then, just as he had begun to con- go out to fight and to risk his • life mummies have lied to them—when cessfully puzzles a Westerner, for
gratulate himself that the result of while snen like they announced trium boutly the tak- theybest, it will be remembered, both went
his clumsiness hadpassed unnoticed,I you should stay at P generally work without patterns,
t hem. to break into houses and live the ing of Liege—then the victorious and often without " shuttle. Yet their to naval colleges,
the door of the room was o cued
Had No Holidays.
of the Dublin Metropolitan Police was
recently held in Kelvin Street Police
Station for the purpose of considering
It is then that the work of the day the best means of putting forward
begins. . For Arthur milks these aix their claims for increased pay and a
COWS, aid then he- carries the big war bonus.
mdlkpails up to the farmhouse. The anniversary of the funeral of
Afterwards Arthur feeds the chick Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, eke Fen -
ens and the pigs. Not by any manner man leader, was marked in Du»lin by
of mean the simple matter which it is a Procession of some fifty ,dodge girls
reported to be. ' And there are other of the American Alliance of the
odd jobs to be done ;• a big farm A•O.H„ who marched from Drumandra
where men labor from said, morning to Glasuevin Cemetery.
-to late night is not maintained by
maglc. And each day there 'is new VIOLENT' DEATH PAINFUL ?
—
work to be Bono ; small -tasks, each
one independent of its predecessors, quite a Comfortable. Sensation to be
It is after eight o'clock before Ar• Drowned,; -Tis Said.
'their 'Comes d s for his breakfast at the
S{fico the days of the early Georges farm, After eight o'clock—and Arthur It is at least some coneobation to a.
P I sort of life that is no good whatever march to Pans—when they told of designs are almost invariably artisticmust be at school at nine. For al- man that if he is to die avviolent death
suddenly, and there was a little,' you tell me that?victorythey pleasing. it has been traditional for the our g
! to anybody? Canthe of the Marne—when and !eosin The Serbians are y g- though it is a men's work he has taken he will either feel nothing, or bis sem
sharp click. In a moment three else- I Think man! Whyshould I fight for were presented with the taking of thought to have learned carpet -mak- er son of the British Royal Family over, Arthus goes ,each day to school settees will be not only free from pain,
tric bulbs had lighted the room { v„ • g Douaumont as the decisive victoryto enter the Navy. Prince George and returns at noon to his mother for but probabl • pleasant
sharply. you.in ing from the Turks, who on their part g, g
! the capture of Verdun, and again,possesses an accomplishment which dihmer. The soldier who as instantaoeausly
The final sentence had been spoken p acquired it from the Persians.
Jim, twisting round, looked towards 1 very slowly, almost faintly, and when when they announced the great naval The Serbian housewife is often doe- ds cur{ons for a boy—he is an expert However, it is at the farm that Ar-; killed by a bullet feels nothing—he
the door, and there he saw a tall man , it •
was finished Stanley's head fell on victory over the British fleet, etc., etc, for as well as nurse for her household. knitter, and has knitted articles for thur has his tea. Because in the after-; does net even hear the report of the
in pyjamas standing watching him a sudden to one side, and his eyes In all these is that he is
charity functions which have won noon there is much to be done—work rifle that kills him. All he knows, if
great events the offs- She is skilled in the use of medicinal in the farmyard asp' ' '
grimly. The tall man's face was. very closed herbs and in. the practice of the art the admiration of feminine critics, fields
Prince George will commence his
vial communiques have lied — more
than once. Berlin has had to take
down her flags, hoisted in celebration
of an officially announced victory —
a victory flung to the crowd by the
light of day—truth uncovers herself.
In this lamentable "address" to the
Emperor himself from the balcony of
his palace.
pale, but the pallor was not fear -born. I The revolver dropped from his limp
On the contrary, it had come there as i hand,
a direct result of bravery. The left; It was then that Jim did a most ex -
sleeve of the pyjama jacket was I traordinary thing. One would have
empty, but in the right sleeve a ser- I expected him to make a bolt for it
viceable, though at the moment rather I then, but he did not. , Instead, lie
weak, arm remained, and in the hand : crossed swiftly to where the soldier
was a Service revolver, one of the few; half lay on the chair, and, putting all
articles in his outfit which Captain arm about him, drew him quite gently
Stanley Innes had brought back with' to a more easy position.
him from Gallipoli. And then, not sure whether the man
TJim and s revolver was m did not like .ng now at who had foughtforhim and Mrs. Tim
"Don't,uv'n I" and Miss Jim was dead or had only
g os_ he managed swooned, he crossed to the fireplace
throatily. "Don't point that thing at and pressed an electric - bell. And
ase! It might go offs" some minutes later, when. Stanley
The others eyes were opening and came to himself, he found not only
shutting slowly, as though he were Jim by his side, but his fair-haired,
very weary, but now he stirred him- anxious -eyed sister Kitty, too."
self to something of alertness. "1 rung for her, mister," Jim ex -
"It might," he agreed. "That will plained, a little proudly. "You need
depend upon you, my friend! Bur- ed water,'
glair—eh?" Stanley looked at him reflectively,
"Noe" Jim mumbled. "'Struth, Then he turned to his sister.
mister! I'm not that! This is the "Kitty," he said, "this man wants
first time—" to enlist in my regiment to -morrow.
"I know!" said Stanley. "It always You will make a point of calling now
Is! Got anything' in your pockets — and then to see how his wife and
anything from here, I mean?" child are getting on, won't you?"
"No—not an article! I've just "Yes, of course," she told him,
come in!" Then she turned to Jim,
"I thought so. You were fairiy "You're going to enlist?" she ask -
quiet, but not quiet enough. You see, just a shade of incredulity in her
unluckily for you, I'm not sleeping voice.
well these nights. I thought I heard There was a new light in Jim's eyes.
the Window" being opened, and when "That's right, miss(" he returned. „ his funeral, and the horses used were sophically accepted by the French as aggerated expression. One of the Among the many exbraordlnnry cus-
you let something fall a'm{note or so "Some'ow, I never thought of it be- all he sees is the daily bread ticket."to be brown, bay, grey or chestnut, an Unavoidable evil: But itis not new inventions to be, placed on the toms of the Chinese is that of. banding' '
ago you gave the game away alto -, fore, but this gent here, he's suffered Now, comes the terrible and crush- and "not the usual undertakers' slab- so ear for them to view calm! the market soon is a pneumatic sole put years tegether iii groups el twelve,
gether, Well, I've no pity for your cruel for me an' my m{s-us as well ing British communiques, falling, at sided Belgian horses, besides which' wrecking of historic and beloved
forward to share the popularity: of called 'cycles," and naming each year
sort, so I think Ill ring the bell, M as for hiniself.an' you an' if he'll let two hour intervals, on the already no gentleman would care to be seen I ti ns and villages b the
b i n -. the rubber heel. The new sole ire. of tits serlee after some animal'cycleThus,
Y g pope " , ow g s y e advanc ng P N fl t f{
j undiced imagination of the Bead or alive.
of massage. Altogether the women
pastures. There are such important no longer among the living, •
training at Osborne under the same 'matters as sheep -shearing, and in their] Men who have struggled back to life
play so great a part in the everyday conditions as a commoner, as was the just season isay-ma,king, and the, out- after a hairbreath escape from drown -
life of the Serbians that one wonders , tine of the corn. In all of these ;Ar-`ing, declare that, after ibe first few
to learn that the birth of a daughter lieutenantcasewih in the Albert,ince tnow a sub- l then. has Helped, I know that his sent! moments, their sensations were pleas -
is not considered an occasion of muchN Sea, and will mer bo.iday was the work he did in ant—a painless, happy floating
rejoicing, as is the case when a son spend the next few years in 'imbib- the cornfield. however, this is but one through sweet sounds and beautiful
is born. ing varied' training considered es- I part of the story of a small boy of ten, visions.
Weddings in Serbia are most pictur- sential for a naval officer. The first And death comes in no less pleasant
esque and interesting ceremonials. part of that period will lie passed at guise to the man who falls from a.
Love matches are not the rule, how- a five years e
ever, for marriages are usually air- lad will go to Dartmouth. Finally,
Helped War Loan.
Many Hun Mistakes.
Osborne and m bout t th For each morning, despite the other great !.eight, When Professor Heim,tasks which must be completed in a mountaineer, fell down. a precipice
The German successes have always turn, there is his own articular rou-in the Alps ,
been "arranged" in such a fashion ranged by the parents. In Serbia the he will complete his course on a spe- lino in the farmyard ; he must feed thus ; , he described His feel
that they have kept up in the people men outnumber the women. Early cial training cruiser, and then will be- the chicken, dries in the six cows "At Rrs•t
a false confidence in victory. First, marriages are the rule, and over fifty come a fully-fledged midshipman and
the coming victory—and then the final per cent. of the women marry before
Victory. They were mistaken about they attain the age of twenty. And
England. They were mistaken about many are married at sixteen, or
Italy; they were mistaken about the younger.
fidelity of the French and the British egos
colonies. They announced that the SIMPLER FUNERALS NOW. built When Peace Comes. own past toward the shaping and a.nd fro, borne up painlessly slid
one boy of ten. And ft ]tae done its clouds of crimson, I was wafted to
war would be of short duration—that
will join a sea -going warship.
REPAIRING WAR'S DAMAGE.
Whole Towns Will Have to' be Re -
From the . „ying
field and milk them. It is,, through the air. vAt intervals 1 heard,
again, the work of the evening ; only but did not feel, the impact of head
the sum, which showed above the tall and body against rocky prominences,
badges of the east, is round and golden' "But through my long, swift descent
above the wide hills of the west. 1 to what seemed certain death, 1 telt
Which is, sea in all, a very whole,no pain or terror. I was floating in a
some and adequate portion of labor far heaven of glorious blue, flecked with
it would not last six months and —
again, they promised that there would
be peace before Christmas of 1915,
and, later, they promised that every-
thing would be over in the spring of
1916. They announced to him that he
would not see the end of their finan-
cial and Keno/Meal resources. They
told him that the cravings of his ap-
petite would beceatisfied. They pro-
mised him an honorable and profitable
peace, and the bitter reality is de-
Protesta in England Against Con- If anyone imagines that there has moulding of those certain. sinall err• pleasantly, while a vasa and moving
been exaggeration in the estimates rents of life which have their own in. snowfleld seemed to accompany me,
vent{anal Paraphernalia. timate part do the beading of courage, Then came a dull thud, which 1 heard,
the probable extent of post-war
and honesty, and character, and suoh but did not feel, *aid myfall was et
Since the war funerals in England rebuilding operations, says the Rootl-
et .!rings, For Arthur, despite the fol- ed. At that inseamt a dark veil passed
have become simpler. Plumes, and ester Democrat •and Chronicle, he ness of his day, hes had a lawful share before me, and as fair as all .sensut! e
hearses, the brass -handled coffin, and should consider the havoc in North-' of catastrophes which are the heritage, went life was over." o'
other conventional rites of an expert-' ern France. Poland, Belgium, Serbia,' of galland;, small persons of ten. g It was when he recovered con -
sive funeral have been strongly pro- 1 and East Prussia also have suffered' And this ds Uha keynote of many I'selousiresa Ulna 1
t tee fort pain.
tested against recently. much devastation. But to '§lion, the things. An tltui Fren•dii, aged tan, lislw
The late Major Walton, of Brigh- magnitude of the destruction. caused inveshed flys pounds-ln nils war loan:.
tom ordered in hiswill that no
o r a I by the war it is sufficient to consider
straying, one after the other, all the loves, hat -bands, scarves and cloaks, only what is taking place in Northern
"or other disgusting paraphernalia of France.
meshes of this tissue of lies. They the undertaker," were to be worn at The destruction of Verdun is philo
boasted to him of the "war "
map, but
We May Now Walk on Air.
Walking on air is no longer an ex -
CHINESE CYCLES OF YEARS.
A Child Is One Year Old as Soon as
•It Is Born.
;lister or one of her maids will come me go I'll join up to -morrow, an' I'll la
British and French trob s The Ger-1 aumed to take up the jar of walking.
.° is' year o anew s the
and telephone for the police." send 'im a card when I've done it if ace' In another case in the eastern I mans report that the' allies' Leavy The new device is attached to the ! � tl of the Rat, the Second the year
0
A look of very real terror showed
he'll tell pie who to writs to."
n Jim's eyes, but in justice {b must Give him a card, Kitty, Stanley
e mild the terra which came to him said, keeping his eyes steadily on Jim,
And two days he e
hen, came notgot a rather
s
because he was think-
soiled postcard, on
the
back o which
ngofhbmslfP , fwhc
e so much as because he thorn appeared these words:
leas think{ng of Mrs. Jim and Miss
Jim. "joined up. Hoping you are well."
"Mister," he pleaded, "don't you do —London Answers. '�+
itl Listen just a minute! I'm not --e
going to lie to you, I'm going to tell It Does.
the truth, I can hardly expect you Bogey—"Do you think that golf in-
to believe ins, but I •swear this is the terferes with huciness?"
!brat time I've ever done anything. Green—"No, but business raises.
.Crooked! Nye boot{ ill and out of hob with -a man's golf."
In truth, it was time to speak thus I , leather Sole b plates and screws and th'e year ePear
counties the body of a woman was y laying y o le x, fie u F
airtillei' is la in waste the country Y p , Tiger, Every Chinese herb in the year
—high and clear, and to announce borne on a fatm wagon from the es- on the Somme front to a depth of f_ punctured can be readily removed of the Itat belongs to the Order of the
abroad the exact Ct d truth.
We have v
and repaired,
An.�
tate ra n a r m -other
d w bof seen Coemus -
Y pairhl d the work Rat,and �a
twelve miles ben e Getman linesgs on. Th animal
been to modest T
w,e a mal. "elate" of,
4 m es arc too discreet mending this style of funeral, a col- Peronne and T3apaume lie in ruins, I ing along the same lines, has devil-, every Ch3.nedie man and woman 15 times
our valor is obscured by our modesty, enol writes in the Eastern Dail, A large number of French villages, ed a pneumatic plug for use on the recorded, and is held to be of great
in ignoring our successes. They have Preset "A hearse is an abomination,
lied impudently, and they still lie in Of stamped tin and .tinsel. Compare
saying that the British communiques
do not tell the truth—foie it is the
very truth of these communiques,
which affirmed and re -affirmed, be-
gins to confound them, For the brasses burnished and an old ser -
English, are past -masters in the art ventfor driver. I have gluon my der to deceive h
but yeti r b1 the evil pini h
of publicity. They understand the instruct{ons'to this effect seine years lies go wrong,bet » hawhat a.pparentdy, ,nave an objectionable
value of public opinion andi they ad- ago+ as decnt as .le, are. ut so many are juidsdi t{onto. the mill. gate out of her habit of making a it as hard as poss4»lo
to rear a made oliild auccossfully:
such a carriage with one of our hest
wagons cleaned and .litteted with
clean stra drawne
wour alt horses
w byb ho
in Cleaned harness, with all the
have been wiped out. Systematically' heel of a shoe. It is claimed that the importance in forfeiting the Settee.
and relentlessly the allies' guns have
destroyed every German supply basin
and concentration camp..
When you get right down to'Mew-
ing
ew-ing all the oirenmstances In men'e
lives the wonder isn't that some. of
new contrivances matte not only for' Another curious fact about the Chin- '
less nervous exhaustion among people se reckoning of trine is that in tete
but also a means toward safety on 1 Celestial Eugene a child ie held to bo .
slippery pavements. one year old as soon as it is born,
With the absurd supei•etitiou sss dear
to tits Oriente .
Oriental mind a baby Y
boy. Is'
fro lientty _ 1 '
Y
The World veli a '
wo d is q Y fila nam.
three-fourths j1 B e 1n.
t ee lour It I 6^! sr•
t a Vi'ateT
Can• , aino a cow for spirits, W o,