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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-5-3, Page 61 The volume of applications for new insurance in during 1916 was by far the Greatest the History of the Company. That is the best evidence of public esteem. Lot us send re some fresh Insurance facts CROWN LIFE SEIFIANCE CA., TORONTO Agents wanted in unrepresented districts 35 THE WIGHT ,.r, �a A. RAMSAY & SON CO. Makers of Fine Paints and Vanni hes_ TO PAINT RIcM4T For wear and beauty of 4 color they are unsur- 1 Toronto Hospital for it Durables' Train- infr School for Nurses,affiliated with l • -- ^-^••-' , livllevue anti Allied Hospitals. Nett York city, offers to women haring one year's The gill took doff her cond., s i7igh :rh401 edaeatiim n Three Yetti'a' Ng; se to Nln'sine. The 31011 receive � • theSchool amonthly e c h0rthe un it un ofant; a. r r i badge wearily, and put Ua 1 Jslight shoulders with a tired sigh, peisrw. fluf`IntnmUlaatolswllba "Done up?" asked the elderly man receivedao 1»' the n l Superintendent. upeiint on ot, Miss who stood just inside the doorway of the little office. "Bit" !stairs to her rooms. "Oh, why can't The girl's tone was decidedly curt, he be like he was last year? What but the man was not to be crushed. 'shall I do if he gets real ill?" "You want cheering up, my dear; haven to herself she would not own that's what's the matter. You come anything worse, out and have a bit of supper with me." And always her thoughts went back Ile eyed her inquiringly, while she ' to the one word "Dursley," and her flushed again—this time with anger, eyes fixed themselves on the photo - "No," she said tlereely. "Think. I'd graph of a farmhouse that hung over organized areas. It is to be anti - EOR TED'S ROY r NURSES WANTED • .FOREST AND PRAIRIE FIRES. Saskatchewan Takes Action to Oyer - come These Scourges. The possibility of preventing dam- age by forest and prairie fires in Saskatchewan will be greatly facilitat- ed by a new law which has recently been enacted by the 'Saskatchewan leg- islature, This law prohibits the set- ting out of fires except when certain specified precautions are taken, and provides for the appointment of the { reeve as chief fire guardian in each nrrp r rural municipality. All members of g, teas the provincial police shall be fire guardians, ex officio, under the new act. Provision is niade also for the ap- pointment of fire guardians in un - be seen with a thing like you?" the flreplace—Ted's home—and Ted's cipated that the latter provision will She flung out of the office hurriedly, • mother had so wanted the boy, her pave the way for co-operation with the knowing that the tears were very • only grandchild; and Dursley was deep Dominion Forestry Branch, for the near, and that she did not want to in the country, where Rob w•onid get better protection of areas immediately disgrace her position—she, Nell War- strong, and play with other children adjacent to forest reserves The new ner, whose husband had been one of in the fields; and there was fresh law includes a provision for the permit the best, and who was holding down milk there. Only—only—to give him' system of regulating settlers slash - a man's job and keeping her home to- l up, to have him forget her for that ' burning operations in forest sections, gether, ( unknown grandmother who had look- +' The enforcement of this provision, ed with disappointment on her son's !through co-operation with the Domin- But the tears kept coming all the marriage to a "giddy London girl," to ion Forestry Branch, in the neighbor- . way home. She was desperately tired live all alone! Nell grasped him hood of forest reserves, will greatly • and font ,`y, and the thought of the tighter at the thought, and she told reduce the danger of damage to the happy little home she had had a year herself: "Nol Never, never, never! , forest reserves through fires coming ago would come to make her throat He's mine!"in from the outside. Such fires have choke. Ted had always been so good, But in the morning, after her , been a fruitful source of damage in and had always had a good job, and cramped and sleepless night, as she the past. passed. ASIC your the little house and garden had been put the boy down, the pitiful look on I Reports on all fires are to be made eta Ramsay Dealer his pride—and the blue-eyed little wo- the baby face brought her a sudden to the Provincial Fire Commissioner, Y man and boy who ruled it. But Ted— forgetfulness of self. ;who will be in general charge of the —or write g her handsome, laughing Ted.—was ly-' She sent a telegram to the farm- administration of the law. USa ing somewhere in France, and the house, and was waiting to receive the 1 The act prohibits the throwing aa ay clear little house had gone, and she grandmother when she came. of matches, cigar and cigarette stubs, herself, leer pretty hair hidden under , "He's not well," she said stonily, etc., without extinguishing same. It a slouch hat, her forehead drawn in a like one saying a hated lesson, "and I provides. also that citizens may be re- IONTRSAL TORONTO —w� FILL THE CARS. Business Men Are Urged to Co-oper- ate 'With the Railways. • A little more co-operation between the merchants and the railways will do much to relieve the present freight situation. The railways are not try- ing to shift the responsibility on to the public, but are asking the public's help. Much mare tonnage, for in- stance, could be handled with the ex- isting locomotive power and terminal facilities if cars were loaded to rapa- city instead of being so often only two-thirds full. In the old days when traffic w•as lighter, it mattered less to the railways if a shipper did not use all the space he paid for --that was th , shipper's loss. But now it is realized that the extravagance of one shipper may cause delay to others owing to the limited amount of locomotive pow- er and terminal facilities. The short- age is not so much in equipment as in train crews, and labor in the yards and roundhouses. Anything which can help to secure quicker clearance •acct freer m•vennent in the yards, helps to speed up the movement of ii•eight• Another drawback to the economical movement of freight is that a great many consignees order not the full carload of freight, but merely the minimum allowed under the classifieutien. It weak! materially help to solve the problem if in placing orders consignees would order enough to fill a car to capacity instead of the minimum, which very often does not represent more than half a carload. The question of the capacity of cars' is itself the subject of investigation. The standard of leading grain, for in- I stance, has remained the same for many years, but improvement in the • engineering of care hae gone on stead- ily, so that the modern freight far can bear stresses greatly in exceee .,f what wae possible twenty years ago, The result is that there i.; j' i. pest of considerably increasing the load line on quite a large pro;or`ion of freight equipment, thus ir'rraaeing the train capacity without requiring additional train crews. Grain marc rated for 80,000 lbs. are rowel ensmehl.• of carry-, int; over 90,000. It has been figured that if the aver- age load could Is 1201 ,,used nn Cana- dian railways in 1917 Ly five t!mcs neer that of 1015. this would he equiv- alent to 554,800 additional rare, ramie- ing no additional lorOnrotivcs 5r man- ; power. Canadian business noel are, there- fore, being urged to ra-operate with firs railways in time endears to in- crease the existing carrying rapacity, by using to better adrantag smut available rolling stock. Light bulky commodilicA, of which there are many, should be loaded to the full cubic capacity of cars, !leavier freight should be loaded to the full carrying capacity, which is 10 per cent, in excess of thc!1• stencilled r.•apaeity, —� - ----- . pucker of anxiety, spent her days know he'd be better in the country; quired to fight fires which occur with The following figures are taken racketing through London streets and he'd gat used to you after a time, in 15 miles in wooded districts, and 6 front the Railway Statistics of the Do-, calling out: "Hurry on, please!" , and—and—I'll give him up, if you'll miles in prairie country. minion of Canada, issued by the De- "Hold tight!" "Penny, please!" "Tup- have him." I Fire guardians are given author- puty Minister of the Department of pence!" "No, we don't go to Padding- Her voice broke, and her head went ity to make arrests for violation of Railways and Canals, and cover all, ton!" "Take the next 'bus.—No. 73!" , down on Rob's brown curls with piti- the act. the railways of Canada: l At first she had liked it, and the ful sobbing. The older woman put Provision is made also for the safe Note. -1907 is the first and 1915 the excitement and bustle took her her arms around them tenderly, and disposal of debris resulting from the last •year for which figures are avail-. thoughts -from the heart -breaking held them both close to her. construction of roads, trails, telegraph or telephone lines, and raihvays, or from the clearing of land for other purposes. The new act is thoroughly progres- sive and its enforcement will unques- tionably go far toward reducing the forest and prairie fire losses in Saskatchewan. HIGH COST OF WASTE. p .1- able. !loneliness, but the glamor soon wore "But we want you, too, my deary Total tons freight carried 1 mile: • off. The few friends and relatives she Ted's wife and his boy. You'll both 1907, 11687,711,830; 1915, 17,001,- j had had when she "lived in" at the come and bide with me for his dear 809,723; increase, 51.1'i. Aggregate, drapery had all been given up on the' sake'i —London Answers. capacity of freight cars (in tons): proud day dhat she went away to be, 1907, 2,908.903; 1915, 6.731,205; in-' Ted's wife and have a home of her' THE HERO OF KUT-EL-MARA. crease, 131.4'1. Total freight cars: I own. Now, when the harassing day's 1907, 105,540; 1015, 201,640. increase,' work was over and eNell was free, Rapid Riseof The Brave Commander 91,1'1. there was no nice little house awaiting The car capacity increased 5 c tons. her—only two rooms that always of British Forces in The East. The contents increased 3,0 ton:. wanted cleaning, washing-up that had Th man who has captured Kut, Just To Mention One Small Article 48 per cent. of the additional cepa- often been left over from the day be- Lieut. -General Sir Stanley Maude, was Among Many.city provided was not. used. fore—and Rob, only a colonel when war broke out, The public is asked to co-operate , And the thought of Rob brought a and he has risen, says the Daily Dis- If you take..a little journey among with the railways in an endeavor to bigger lump in Nell's throat. j patch, to eminence at the comparative- statistics, you will find that the high remedy the existing car shortage- ly early age of 53, His success fol- cost o4 waste is as web worth noting It can he done by utilizing to better She had always been sopr proud of hadows quickly his 'knighthood, which he as the high cost of living. advantage the present available call -.her boy, and the tines when theyreceived two months ago. The There are, in the rough, same 4,000,- ing stock. m gone out on Sunday afternoon, with i Mesopotamia Command was given him 000 men and boys in this country who By increasing the average car load Rob in all the glory of his baby finery,' last October on the retirement of Sir, wear coats. Can you find one coat to 23.4 tons or 5 tons more than dur- had been the gladdest of her life. The ( Percy Lake. without four or six or more useless ing 1915 would be equivalent to the first thing that Nell had decided when ( Before going to Mesopotamia Gen -1 buttons on it? Assume that each placing of 5.1,800 additional cars in she had to face life alone was that the oral Maude had won distinction in, male has only one coat and only four service. hey should be "kept nice." She was France, where he was wounded in' useless buttons a year; and average Light bulky commodities, of which not going to haveHe Ted's boy grow Ap i1, 1915. His injury necessitated the cost of buttons, thread and labor there are many, should be loaded to in the gutter, she told herself. a period of home duty, and he served at one cent; then you have the very the full cubic capacity of cars. Heav- - should have everything just the same,'. on the General Staff at the War Of- pretty sum of $160,000 a year—spent ter Freight should he loaded to the whatever she did withou . fico for the greater part of last year. in sheer idiocy and waste. maximum carrying capacity author- She meant to keep him to herself, Sir Stanley Maude is the son of a V, No one but an idiot wants buttons ized. too. 1C. --the late General Sir F. M. Maude, in the middle of his back. Only a "I'1} not have a crowd of interfering After four years he was adjutant of lunatic wants them sewed on his coat !boy!" coming between me and my the lst Battalion Coldstream Guards, sleeves. It is one of the insane LILIES' SCENT 8,000 FEL', til. boy!" she said, and declined almost then Military Secretary to the late things tailors—who are really madder fiercely the proposals of the well- Earl of Minto as Governor -Genera} of than hatters—keep on doing, because British Aviator Tells of Giant Bed in , meaning grandparents that she should i Canada, and the lute Mr. Arnold Fust :lfrIea• I let them have the child. •Forster's private -secretary at the War A British oHrer on duty with the She kept him herself; and, for the, Office. He has also been Assistant air service in East Africa includes 4n ,most part, kept him shut up in two Director of the Territorial Force. His one of his reports a graphic dest•rip- rooms, paying an oldwoman to mind active service career includes the tion of an immense valley filled with him. "I'd be worrying all the time `South African War and the SuakimEx- the huge "Arum lilts;:," over which what was happening to him," she re- l pedition of 1885. he Hero somewhere in the region of plied to suggestions that the boy ---` - _— Zanzibar. As he passed over the vol- oughtto go out more, On Nell's "Safety First."ley he was 11,000 feet high, but the scant "time off" she took him out her- As the touring season is within perfume of rhe lilies reached his nos- eelf, dressed up so that the neighbors measurable distance it may be timely tries for a long distance.stared and made pointed remarks for the teachers in the different schools By means of his glasses he observe ; at. out "stuck-up people with more throughout the province to impress eel that the lily flower, were "as large money than sense." She bought him on the boys and girls the importance as elephants' care," and that the whole food that was good enough at the of exercising care in crossing roads, of the valley hal bear monopolized start, but as the frying -pan was her• and in appreciating the difference be - by the beautiful flowers. The luxuri- only idea of a kitchen utensil and the- tween a slow moving horse-drawn ante of the vegetation was Particular - old wonnan's cooking would have ruin- vehicle and a switfly moving antomo- ly remarkable He learned fates that ed the digestion of an ortrich, the bile. The danger of playing in the fire scent of the flowers was so aver- mels were hardly the sort for a baby streets, and the foolhardy habit many pewer!ng in the valley that no native children have of racing across the road bed had ,ver dared to penetrate within its And, in the natural order of things, in front of appreachirg vehicles, just get up to the tune you go o e( you bonier..Rob pined. out of a spirit of childish bravado, walk through a welter of waste, canna[ he tau sirongiy emphasized. The high cost of living 4s bad en - At lir. the girl -mother trice} to Mere deaths among tha younger gun- ought but if you figure it• cut you'll Nothing New. tempt itis appetite with indigestible eaten are caused by lack of precau- find that what gets away with a tlth•d There is nothing new under the elm.' dainties. Lately he had grown too tion than by any other cause; and of your income is the high cost of The aniol : Egyptians heal mansions dainty to care for even these, and was the same may be said of the grown- waste. supplied with gardens. orchards, 11,,h fretful all day and feverish at night. ups too, for they act as children only And the parasite Milton is only an ponds anti game preserves; they v.rrr When she left him that morning he too often in crossing streets at all example, acgnainterl with the benefits of the 50- had cried for her to stay, and even i points, without paying the slightest' � —" tatlon of crops, and bred poultry er- ;.;1,11---town-bred, and accustomed to attention to approaching traffic, and Woolwich Population. teneively, practising artificial hatch- the sight of little white fames --knew: with a sublime disregard td the pas- The population of Woolwich, the ing as we do at the present time. As that something more. than "being: sibility that when they are stepping Landon borough which contains the early as 4514 Bea, or 0,131 years ago,cross" ailed I.hc boy. I out from behind one vehicle there may great Woolwich Arsenal, has nearly irrigation became a, objectof nation- "What shall I do with him 1" she be another coming in the opposite trebled since the beginning of the al importance to the 1,gyptiane. ' fried to herself as she climbed the direction. war, and is now about 140,000. a.,ztay.dr.•rm.„mon,are,.. .eoame os a,,.®r,a, m e .a.araxr. a,.m,aar" usesoe m a few hundred years ago buttons on sleeve and back really had a kind of usefulness. Your great-grandfath- er buttoned back his coatcuffs or but- toned up the tails of his coat; but you don't. The blind and horrible buttons linger on like something that has die`} and forgotten to get buried. And each year you pay prodigal thousands for them. It is part of the high cost of waste. If you will stand your wife up in front "Of you—she may consent—and look at her in a statistical way, you will discover that about one-third of her is sheer waste. She too is a victim of the "blind button game." Iter milliner and dressmaker have beaten your tailor to it. In fact, when you get the statistical eye you will discover that from the time you IVE OLgg MOLDING A LITTLE ooy 1)F hei Peel Et0VLL0t F 1AcP W5RIC FOR A VIRILE NOW, I'LL $dL ROW MUCI1 LW: 0 '5 W -z 02 wri-io. 45 F1'1C Tr -F1,1 -1•r ,rN'i Ely Poisons Attract Both Flies and Babies In t110 lad611,roo yams rho prod, has TelI,er1n i 1310 0y rbolsnningcnsos—ulntI3e pros erWonfalni,ojnnnceeG ounds esu wills its sweetol,od wlul,—tires mo ienC e'l- soa paper -both Domain 8,•08800. dosdllest of 901001 5. No mother would pot ay Msan whirls id' ohII• drew, meek it she 38811001 rbc dwgor, Yot It kills morn ohtldrop than all other 901000, combined, Thl, is U,e f , a, Govornwont foams, o shot rip leoua, bdten from 15. 10. Pathe rloel'tln 5010100 8uirolia, ,upplomont No. 20: normt,rar l"arm,nu.no r^.',1s.1,.'a.1: a,,mrrotym,0, rums,• dr enni. n, inn, nr nra•d odm9881 5r rr"de. r„11,0.,0 ur ro"oalr t,rchlld„ntl r:a Weumoreuvbao,nponudrwvh,rnvprau,v,r cud nxbd to Dista 1105801UN 4yolwumg,a,umm,r dIn,L...nd bolontrb»0mr ills ho1.n0lhatura cn,e, w}xnMl do n''.11::;r17::: t, tyauym ane 1vmprhe ,1, add. A,mnImi •0•l,.0,.Ivr dn,i,re mde, 1. ,n,el ea 0501, Javge,auv, end e5ould, ,,s.u!,dr Dean It d,Lermev,mec,",rt ♦t1am,: 7•IIo Pn0 safe, aar0, non-DO!SPDOi,a, CLf1tloAt fly wWlw,• i5 ANGL J!OO .c. r>limew 4 whlrh stoles the Ornn 1 embalmsitnn 1 ell tb0dondl7 kerma 1t enrrlaa is o tblck eoetlug of 18001811. 1101) Made in Canadaby • THE 0. & W. THUM COMPANY, Walkerville, Oat. American Address: Grand Rapids, Mich. HAVE A GARDEN! Give Yourself the Joy of Seeing the "Green Things Grow.” Farming is man' most natural, most honorable calling. Man was born in a garden. Just where this garden was, the theologians and the arehmologists and the other sciehce mongers are not yet ' fully agreed. But of one thing we are certain --it was out of doors! And the "Golden Age" of the old Greeks and Romans—that also was an out-of-doors' experience—a life close to Nature. In that happy age every man sowed and tilled and reaped. Every man earned his bread by the sweat of his, brow. And the exercise and the sweat kept his blood clean. If all mon and women were farmers to -day, nine -tenths of the doctors would haveto go oat of business. The average farther lives fifteen years longer than the average city dweller. The reason is obvious. The farmer lives in the light and the air—pure air. • City dwellers—the doctors, the law- yers, the professors, the clerks, the stenographers, the factory wor•kees— live in the shade and breathe dust germs. We're all born as wild as was the first baby or the latest savage. But we are tamed in our "bringing up" end the taming—called education and civilization—spoils tis, inoculates us with disease and infects us with abnormal tastes and appetites. And so we, some of us, grow up to be crip- ples and perverts and wear ourselves out prematurely with had habits and death -inviting practices. We are not only born wild but born farmers. If we are not 'farmers, we are wronged—we are robbed of our birthright! If you can't have a big farm, you can have a little one, and get all the primitive joy and boisterous health and ravenous appetite and round di- gestion, dreamless sleep and mental poise anti peace and intellectual vim and snap and endurance that comes from living biologically, Make a garden.. If you can't own one, rent one. Get the loan of a \'s- cant lot. Pre-emjrt a corner of unim- proved public domain, Geta bit of mother earth somewhere, some way, "byhook or crook" --you're entitled to it! It's your birthright. And make it blossom with roses 05 potatoes or cabbages, have a garden of your own and "eat the fruit thereof." Trials of a Mather, "Marg, I shall take one of the child- ren to church with me this morning," announced Mrs. FesUionet, "Ycs'nn," repijrd the timid, "Which oile do you think will go best with my lavender. ;;own?" (� r•harpei his teeth are lonl;cr, his scale - J i NRLLO TOM j/%softer'anct net sa thick, and his bndy i r ---.,r t/�1��' fl FT rN is slender and active. IIia eyesirltt r CW Niy and hearing 2012 both g00d and ho can ac:euten: an c nc any, if the wlhcl favors, i. fl,r nt tin half a mule. IIe can slIve ?� and swim irk,, a fish, and on 1011(1 he can run ata good pace He is cruel I�rrj/� t and rltnn4/1g, and it is not easy to cap- tare frim. improved Clrcurostancps, Father (at head of treble)—When I 1 t rd1 ` was a boy 1 was glad enough to eat MIDNIGHT IN A GERMAN TRENCH EXPERIENCE OF A 'i'YOENDED BRITISH OLDIER. s The Glistening Eye That flaunted Him During Long Hours of Pain and Exhaustion. An American who was recently per- mitted to observe the arrival of Brit- ish wounded in England, examine the hospital ship on which they carne, and later travel with some of them by hos- ' pital train, Miss Jane Anderson, found the experience of deep and mov- ing iptcrest, She has much to say of the complete and often novel and in- genious arrangements and devices for their care and comfort; but what most impressed her was the men them- selves. No matter how wasted, crip- pled and suffering, if they could -move a muscle or lift an eyelash, they ar- rived smiling. Always they made the least of their misfortunes, the most of the joy of returning home, and were touchingly grateful for every- thing done for them. During her journey by hospital tram she talked with some of the wounded. One of them, a young fellow of nine- teen, wounded severely in the chest, told her his story. He had asked -her, as she stood at the car window look- ing out on the fair and fertile English landscape, which he could not see from his low pillow, to tell him "how things looked. out there"; and when she had complied, he was ready to converse in . his turn. A Gruesome Experience. .elle had participated in the storming of a line of Gelman trenches. Just as he was throwing a bomb into one seemingly evacuated, to make sure no (living defenders remained, he was hit, and sent rolling heels over head to I the bottom among the slain. There he remained all night; a gruesome but all -too -common experience, to which, in his crude cockney lingo, he added a touch that seemed rather ,to belong to the inventive genius of Guy de Maupassant, or some other master of creepy and hair-raising literature, than to simple fact. Yet it was simple ' and natural enough, ! "1 was pretty sick,'" the boy told his listener. "I was lyin' down for a. while. Then I was crawlin' round. I was lookin' for a 'elmet,"—the Tom- my's favorite trophy from the field,— ] "but I wasn't hup to much gettin' round there in that dirty, black 'ole. "And all of a sudden I see an eye watchin' me! Big as arf a crown it was. Stalin' bright it was. An' it }rep' on watehin' me. Never see sues an eye! It gimme the 'ump. An' it never shut—only when a star -lighter ud go hup. Then that eye'd go out. Go out it did. I'd take a look then, an' no eye. Harfter about two hours I couldn't stand it no longer. I crawled hover and 'ad a look on "rale own. Crawlin' hover heverythin', 1 wa8, sticks an' stones an' bodies . . ," The Glistening Eye. Light-headed with pain and ex- haustion and the horror of his situa- tion, the relief when the poor lad reached the horrible and mysterious thing at last and found it nothing su- pernatural was too much, aHyl be burst into peals of hysterical laughter. For the dreadful eye was no eye at all, but the illuminates} dial of a write watch on the cold wrist of a dead German officer. Shaken with hysteria. the young soldier could not :'top laughing; alone, in the midst of ' horror's, lie laughed and laughed, until the effort of crawling and his uncanny laughter brought or hemorrhage, and he lapsed into unconsciousness, thinking it was the end.. "Get me out all right? Rather! I opened me eyes and a nurse wee a•sk- in' a•ftor me 'ealtlr. A bit of rt cap she 'ad and nod stripes. And pretty --my wordl "'It's Blighty for me,' T nays to tr And he was back in "llli:h!y."-- that extraordinary, absurd affection- ate new name for old Feekeel that her Tonnmies everywhere in France have bestowed or her, --one of those smiling wounded, when emits the American observer found so piteous and so heave. Ways of the Crocodile, The crocodile differs from his cousin, the alligator, in that the lower maxil- lary, or jawbone, moves in the "gator," whereas it is the crocodile's ripper jaw that is movable. The t'rorodile, more - 1 ever, has two sharp teeth that pro- ; trade from the lower law through the upper and movable one; his nose is s "t� 44- 111.. f 'I t rr.:.t�'rir}`^. dl Sml'"udtfo�gmt 1(hntler. �l- 'ell y daddy, you arc having a much Lotter time new �.s»✓.y� f ` — "lu: Mr x6 you aro living with ns. The secret of s screw is constancy Ccr purpose,— Disraeli,