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the vsiud b1pvOflt '}rough sound 1lietirinr halened '
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Was it?" crreditean.
07-'OS:cold lino
;Mien it vat Tho rhe rico in his,,Wild
o sin
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alnyo�Te eould;;te11 by lo'olt ng bent so '414t b r mgh branch,
h, and the littl7sedgesl Ys Iy brushed ygYtc�rlitfl linage ther c x�
sl ush d togetl}o> , oto 1d o eiag angry 'and making all'
oelced from theily q the snow -The` it
,,.. � end o fa1i. e: then Wird-the,•e iho
end -'then tu_ped to fixer mother. gentle Itwa?inon merely railed one
hire -Vi tgorie'. oodyear a hand and 'touched the pine tree softly:
ecic,,-slie.'said, withe:af lrtrle pout. That merle the pine tree' feel sorry,
and he thought ne more -of -'harming
Mother interrupted. "Jean, listento' the„, dove. The dove.- flew bees to the
tile;' little sedges before you ,finish that temple ,roof and had' rho wish to dash
DR J. C. GAND1 ER sentence ' { [hetself against the: tork. The stork
"Swish" said the sedges softly. 1Rco' Irnu •-.,.—' tpee,.•.. _, 6 efay.. ,stood orico':more n'et `u � m
rl,... 1.a0 to,;.3.,31 ,.30 q r lY, .pthough Ica
.9.00 n,in. sor.days, 72.30 io 1.30o.m, "e hear thein"said Jean. at the edge of the'pool,and thought no.
.0 Mother closed' the whldow and satr i'
.O per Lours by oppo.ntment only, a Ino_e about peeking. rotor good little
ffinr,' and Residence = Victoria, St dawn by Jean near: the littlegarden, og. The frog, decided not to splash
"Do you see that 'Uncle ncle Gilbert into the pool to scare the carp The
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brought from Japan?"' great brown carp swat0 happily about
"Yes•," replied Jean': "He said i. .
l resiimuig practise at his residence, t and never once wished to leap into the
13;13 -field. was I4wannon•” air to scare. the duck, The duck iloated
11c i Hours; --.9 to 10' aux anti and 1 to 2 "Yes, the goddess o mercy," cy, said lazily upon the still sua,face of the
ne� Sundays,,1 to t p,rn., for con- her mother. ''"She h -,so great influence water and had no vtiish'to ily off to the
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over the other things in your garden, marshes to.frighten the little water
I will dell. you how it all came about. lien and the little water hen sat
see, I wannon is placed under lyquiet-
You
among the sedges stirring
that ancient pine tree near the temple them up to clash madly together with
on the lull." 'a horrid,, unhappy sound. That is
:why when 'I'open the window again,.
"Yes," said Jean..
"Weil, once upon . a time the pine as I do now, you hear their soft
tree; because angry. He did riot like f music. They are saying:
the way the wind treated hila, and sol "Swish,. 'swish; through the great
ho, tossed his branches in wrath: That pine tree by the far-off temple on the
made the great owl you see perched hill we have felt the touch . pf the
among the branches 'want to swoop gentle Kwannon, goddess of mercy.
down upon al, innocent dove asleep on . Swish, swish, we must'speak. gently
your temple roof, The dove was wak-J that we may carry on that touch of
end by the noise of the branches, and mercy. Swish, swish.' ' '
flew; about: wildly ins the moonlight till Jean lister:sd silently ,to the soft
morning. She wished to dash herselftilmusic.
aaginst the stork•standing guletly near! , "Oh," said her mother -after a few
your ;little pool in the: temple' garden.; seconds,'" think you' were telling me
The stork wished to peck the frog on' something about Margerio Goodyear,
the Bank. The frog wished to splash''dear. What was it?" '
into the pool; and scare the carp. The' Jean, hung her head. Then sudden-
carp- wished to leap into the air and • ly she lifted it and said with a• smile,
frighten the duck that swam upon thej "Why, mother, I think it ;was only
surface. The duck wished to fly off to, 'swish, 'swish.' "-Blanch Elizabeth
the marshes'' and scare a little `water Wade, in'Y-Quth's Companion('
British Production of
Materials in Great War•
A eIgnlfl.antnieesure of the war e
fort of ''Great Britain. Is found in the
output -of munitions, regarding :s'hiel
-the "Statistics" recently published. go
into minute detail
• From an output of only, 245,400
empty and 526,30d filled shells of all
calibers in the .period fi'Om August to:
December 1914, the manufacture'of
gun ammunition was increased to, a
peak output of 84,167,000 empty and
87,685,033 filled shell during 1917: The
total output during the war period was.
268,397,100. empty and. 218,280,586 filled
shell..
Production of high 'explosive was
built up Tram 11,891 tons in the last
quarter of 1915 to a peak of 250,605.
tone" In 1917 and a total for the war:
at 603,364 tons, e? which 200,534 tons
were ,TNT ,and 332,198 tons -were am
monlum nitrate, Propellants, Includ-
ing'aerdite, baliistite ``and NOT, in-
creaeed from. 12,961 tons in 1915 to a
peak of 204,80e tone in 1917, and a: war
total' of 482,183 tons.
For trench warfare a tote -1 of 19,090
trough mortars and f1}witzers were
put out and 16,994,915 rounds Of and-•
munition. for them., The entpue of
}rands grenades was Increased from
2,152'in 1914'to a peak o1-34,867,968 in
1916, and'a total of 100,102,719 for the
war,
Machine guns were increased from
274; in 1914 to art' output of 1,20,86'4 in
1918 and a war total of 230,840, While
rifles,,nunlbering 120,093 in 1914, were
built up to a. peak output of 2,123,287
in 1.917 and a war total of 0,090,442,
of which 1,117,850 were nianfactured
in the United States, The war total
of small arra antinunitlon for machine
guns and rifles was - 8,637,112,000
rounds, of which 876,587,000, hounds
were manufactured in the United
States.
The first tanks, a British device in
origin, were built during the last half
of 1916, 1.50 of thein. ' During 1017 the.
output -Was 1,277 and during; 1918 it
was 1,301, giving a total output•al 2,818
tanks:
Job of King of Albania Goes
Begging in Europe.
Since Harry:F. Sinclair, the Amer!
can. oil magnate, refused the Albanian
throne, the government of the little
Adriatic state has been; casting.aeout
Europe for a suitable roan to wear the
Albanian crown, The .Albanians ahs-
_parently have given up the idea of se-
curing an American to Bold thesee),"ter of power since three' o.f them; in-
cluding -Jerome Bonaparte and Wii
num Be Leeds, jr., already have :de-
clined to
e-clinedlto dote the kingly robes,
Albania is naw looking feria wealthy
British nobleman or gentleman as
ruler.:: The.job has been offered to tee
Dulte of Atholl,'wlao, however, is con
tent with Ills 200,000 aches in Scotland
and prefers his own bodyguard of Atli,
oll highlanders. '
An Irish earl also has been offered
the Albanian kingship, hilt, lilte ' Dis-
raeli, who, declined the throne of
Greece' many years `ago, this Irish
nobleinae prefe 1 the tranquillity and
serenity of old England.
The problennrnay possibly be echo$
by the approaching election, in :Al-
bania when the population will be cape
oil upon to express it9 thole°, for a
monarchy or as rcpebllc;
Religious Feeedkdn,
"t am sorry " sate '`,Le housewife to
the eoleyed applicairt, "but 1- advel'-
tised fel a Scaro,ln tvian 'nook,"
"Ibi de Lawd's Cake!" replied Olive
Peplonia V401111%140 gtclr"Jes x o'S_' •
.i
pa315011 can cook, what dilfdaee eft; 11
matte what liar 'ligio:r is?"
Silty( •
Clara—."Would you kiss a man after
you'd known Hire for 80100 thine?"
Claude -"'Can't say- I would. But a
pretty girl, now --eh, what?" '
Give It a Wide Berth, •
Pat and Mike were delivering a load
of goal when their progress was halt-
ed by a funeral procession,
"1 wish e knew where I was going
to die," remarked Pat,
"Why?" :asked illike.
"llecause, begorra, tel never go near
that piece."
is
Wished It"Couldn't Be bone.
The Scethhmau treated the Trish
fatally to a tune • on the bagpipes,
When lie had finished he looked round
and tetnaiiz'ed 'With ,prides "Eh, man,
but that's 'entre deefficult" •
"DifAeult,.is• it?" remfirked Pat. "Be
jabots, 01 wish it had been impos-
sible.'
Europe now contniris fifteen mon-
archs and ten presidents. -
Worley could n brand to`:parly,
-:At the,;tinao W !lee bre`-ei
So ho,1lt: = elf.
;11
I�.noc}te.
k. lin. throt(ghrthe gat/semen
pea ly.
Tho 'let. es bring to millet the re'
'Peter .Worley „who was the origin
•:early ..riser, , ,1 -le and his hired pian
-ley
ilur
poorly."
yes take not
'tile' number
casualties-
)ch In sevetin'
e eause;06 eery`hea
ranee, : for example;;
sIBh-.tile 'inaxifuunr strength at any
e ,tirbe was 2,042,901, the total per
employed durrn; tl'e war period
ri
de free 2, 399, 563requiring heavy replace-
, nlents.
p The operations in. Mesopotamia
e created> the heaviest wastage of '�a11.
There the" maximum strength on any
o lotto was 447,631, and the -total Person -
f rel employed during the operations
Touts Bunsen, were putting. .ont n cro
Sri White, River bettorrs, and, sine
their house was near, the raiitiay, thus
could tell the tinio pretty well by th
trains. l\o, 4, which passed at hal
s was 809,702,:or-all;but double, largely
g Y
because of heavy casualties from sick-
ness,
ick-ness,:there beii g _ only'. 31,758 battle
past tlrrce o'clocktin the morning, wa
as convenient as an alarm clock.
Louis 13unsen was a Irungi•y-looking
1 mortalities, 51,1,56 wounded and 15,150
man ;v110 apparently never got.'enougl
missing and prisener-s,
,to eat.: Blida, 1Vorleyle wife, sal
Moro titan once, If I could only go
that man filled up, Pd be satisfied,
One night after. Worley heard:'a
train o
g .. by he called Hilda to : -go
breakfast: Then he and Bunsen rush
ed off to the barn to feed and water
the' teams, When they came back
breakfast was ready and they all sat
down to eat.
"Somehow I don't feel hungry title
Morning," remarked Bunsen listlessly.
Blida looked at him en unfeigned
surprise. • '
"You're not sick, are you, Bunsen?",
she said,
"No,"replied the, hired man; "just
don't feel like eating, I wonder why
it isn't daylight yet?" .
Then someone looked at the clock;
It was just half past eleven! The sup-
posed No..4 had been areturning ex
curielon train.
Boy's Two Ainis in Life.
'Whop - t0rr Stanley Baldwin, Prime
Minister of Great Britain, was in New
York during his visit as Chancellor of
the Exchequer, he stopped; -'to buy a
newspaper from' a Iad 111 the street
and, struck by the youngster's bright
appearanee, and thinking it to, be -a
pity that he should be engaged in what
Is generally termed 'in England 'a
"blind -alley occupation," he asked him
a few questions.
The lioy, howei'er, expressed himself
as being perfegtly satisfted: with hie
Jobe sb' Anally .ISS, Baldwin' said,
"Eave yo1, no other nim in life?"
"Sure!" replied the youngster
promptly. "In fact,I have, two amts.":
"Indeed! And what are they?"
"Tho fleet is to become a million -
t Another gable, gives° the approalrnate
number alBritish oaaualtiery from the
outbreak of war, in e.91.4 'to December
3Ie 1920, as 508,371 soldiers dead in or
through the war,. and the number of
acre"
Sol el. said Mr. Baldwin, smiling.
".And the second? -
'The second, air: is to become a
multi-nfillion -ire."
Highs Ideals.
Are you contented with being an
average plan?•
Are you of'the sort that resents any
suggestion that you could make are
improVonieet it1 Your work?
iso you tale offence at once if a
criticism ,le made?
Iso you say: "ea -and -so cannot teach
zne anything.
"My work is just as good as: his, and
I do not know why i'ellbuld'be pulled
to pieces. if I am ;hist as good?"
But are .you "just' aa good,' and is
that ae far as your, aims geese'
Is it too much:trouble 10 study 10 be
better' than the Other fellow,` and do.
yell resent atigthing which would
-tau' hard?
,.Ykeouryoattitudworke'shoueerd be 0110 of con
stent alertness lo nod- out in What the
other follow excels; •
You should bd glad to know how you
could increase ,Your learninger your
speed feellity )for turning out' good.
etork.
Cariada received 600,000 new' en-
habitants from the "United' States in
the.years e910-1914.
the
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a 5 ,
1kAT OCEAN, LINERS FORST. LAWRENCE ROUTE
StearnOr "parmrcnia which with its sister^ ship, the C•aronia,' is
being transferred from the ITalffao route to its,
St,'Lawrence route,Vile
ehips;'ivl tell aro 22,000 ton,;" aro' now being, converted into oil burners, and
start`"their new service 3n t}ie spring, , Thor' belong to the, Cunard line, ;'1011191i
Origiiialed 1"its, t Canadian -heist pioneer In ocean traasportatlotl, Samthel
Cunard et Nova Scot;la,'*111 played a,11,15 part in early develOpmont of the
steamship.
2,090,212.
q 0s2tiveoriel s^ of:the Bri-
ere .aalla}e, 65,
ind���i$•�ero'
Ves9'
riatrous to rho lelrgt i d6 the
e9$ by itish fore s iu'4France
Tande l a given le another table:
5e0 ii{ti"y nils- inSep-
dr, 1914,o9h- trorrottienting_thq retreat
w.6 `" IYIQx1a 'aid Site'iirot ba/t'tto(D2
. * a.tiitixiniuln of 125. miles in:
17yXar]i and AIarcil oI 1918, 'alter
steadily declined. until it
e3sulecl sixty -Pour miles at the coesa
on of hostilities on November 11.
etween. December 16 1914 -:• ands.
August 5, 1915, Great'Diitain-was ne-
post:d to forty-eight Gelipelin raids, of
whicY twelve incluse. Londoni ;fifty-''
nine''airplage raids, of whleh twenty.
included London, and to twelve bona -i,
bardments from the sea by, German ',
W0.1' y sols.
The airship s
s ar, raids 'tilled- 566 and
wounded 1,167= persona;-, and the air-
planes killed 857 and wounded' 2,020,
whilethe bombardments 1 illcl 157
and injured 634, The total number of
casaaitres front the three causes" was
5,611, of Whore all hut.: 762 were civil -
fans'. Tho 'raids; and bombardments"
killed 41Lwoinen and 295 children and
injured 1,210 women and 772 children.
—statistics of the Military effort,o2
the llritish Empire -during tho groat
war.
TfIE WONDERS, OF
ORION
w _ 1
From the Aline whet Orion first ap
Bears above the • eastern horizon 1
late fall evenings until' it disappears
below the western horizon in May it
is to -day,. as- it was in the days of tiro
Greeks ands Romans,. tire= most strik.
Ingly beautiful constellation in the
evening sky
All old-time legends,conflicting
though they are is their details, agree
in- the fact that Orion Ma's a mighty
giant or warrior` pursuing Thurus, the
Bull, morose the heavens''with uplifted
club in his right hand and a lion's skin
thrown over his left. shoulder. Tho
fieryred' star, Aldebaran, in the V of
the Hyades, represented the baleful,
red, eye of the bull.
In the huge quadrilateral that out -
'Mee the body et QrIon"appear red
Betelgeuze in the northeastern cor-
ner; brilliant, blue -white Rigel, like' a
diamond, diagonally opposite to Betel-
geuze, 8alph In the south.eastern cor-
ner, and diagonally opposite tb Saiph,
Bellatrix., .e. small group of faint stars
abovethe quadrilateral represente the
head of beige, 'In its ceptor, midway
between' Betelgeuze and Rigel, is the
line nt'three evenly spaced stare that
iorm the Belt oe Orion and from the
southern mid of the kelt hangs the
Sword of Orion. The central, euzzy-
appearing sear in the Sword represents
the Great Orton Nebula, the Anest ob-
ject of its kind -in the heavens,. It is
condensed about -tile sextuple star,
Theta, a star that Is made up of six
physically connected stars, four of
which are visible in smell telescopes.
This group Iles at the olid of a dark
gap 'in the midst et the Great Nebula
known as the fish's mouth, which Is
probably 3n reality a dare nebula shut.
ting off the light from stars beyond:
AI} of the 'brighter stare in the oon-
stellation,,witii the exception of Betel
gauze, ",form an enormous roup of
stars of inconceivably great extent
and at an enormous distance from the
earth. It has been estimated. that the
Great Nebula and brighter stars of
Orion' aro about 600 light'yoara,9 front,
the earth., That is, -the light.from tele
group of, stars; that is entering our
eyes to -day has been traveling toward
us for six' centuries with a velocity of
186,000 miles a second. We see these
Stars not tie they.. are to=day, bnt;as
they were six ;centuries ago.
The Orion stars; ere .all bl Lish-white
to color and are,the meet massive and
hottest of all the stars. Their entrtace
temperatures are believed' to be" tit
least as high as 20,000 degrees as com-
pared with a surtace temperature of
11,000 degrees for our own
Tho red star Betslgueze that mark's
the i'ight shoulder of Orion is verydif='
fer"ent in type from the typical Orion
star`, and' is not a true member of tee
Orion group. It is only about a third
as far away as the Orion stars, or
,about 200 light years, This 'teethe star
whose diameter was measured a short
aline ago by the' 'interferometer'meth-
od "devised by Prof. Albert A, lailclrel-
son and found tot !,1 aperdelmately
275,000,000 miles in diameter,- ler 320.
times that of the sun, Betelgeuze is
one of the supergiants of the universe;
but its density is estimate -Leto be less
than 0ne:-thousandth of the 'density ok,
air at the seashore:
rlheir Precious Pigtails.
The devotion: of the typical Chinese
to his quenelles long been a source of
harmless amusement' to the close-
cropped, Occidental -rale. But Eng-
lishmen at least should be elow to
jeer:'
When, gradually, the. queue of old-
-time European fashion was abolished
In .England its disappearance was be
no means universally hinted with re-
lief and 'satisfaction. The new styled
originated In:Prance at the time of the
Revolution and retained a eertafn po-
litical tinge after itwas imported.
Liberals immediately favored it
Tories were slow to accept It. Admir-
al ?<'afrfax, when his pretty young
danghter diary innocently remarked
that she thought a crop very3ocoining
and 'wished that ale the men would: cut
off those ugly pigtails, brought down
hie,ast with a bang and exclaimed:
"By heaven, 'when a man cuts off'iile
, queue 'the head, eheuld;go with it!
Lady Susan: Toevnley in her recent
volume of reminisceness relates that
her father used to tell with glee an
anecdote ' received from hie father,
'(whose fleet cousin, Welliam Keppel,
was' said to be Otho last pig -tailed, Eng-
lishman. L1eppel' was, equerry to
George Ip, and held a high place in his
favor.
The Duke of Clarence came 'Said t0
him' with regard to "hie hirsute adorn.
meet, 'Wiry don't you get rid of that
old-fashioned, tail df yours'?" -
"From the reeling," Keppel replied
with ready wit, "that actuates your
royal highness in weightier matters
-the ,dislike to part,with an old friends"
War Increased Illiteracy
Among French Youths.
Twenty-five per cent, illiterate—that
Is the war's effect upon the working
class youths of ,France, according to
examinations -in two regiments of con-
scripts last Month,', which showed that
only 600 pont of , $00 -could' head ,and
write, whereas only 160 had the educa-
tion Of the average boy of 12, During.'
the war, instead :of continuing their
studies, boyo 01 3 and 10 were recruit-
ed into factories of, all kinds and paid`
men's wages, ' Naturally, they did not
go back to school after the war,
A movement Is under way to compel
all 0ach conscripts ,o attend 400ia1
•Ohas"es, tell hours a week, -until the
,lnen'000 to l' er Ch intellectual prestige
116 ..,muved Less;1-lian 2 per neut., of
'Preach soldier's were clastiod 0.5.'de
ifcierrt before iho tear, coaling cllie(fy,
from the OeeSf,rtng toll; eC N0r1'10.1dy
•l
13ritislr -air pz.ois }rave �flottn Berne
2,000,000 `miles, and 00021011 nearly y •
80,000 passenger's daring the la41,'four
years, dttring which period, only ol!s
air travellers have lost their 'lives,
Same Old Story
Sometime back, this old'ountry went
dry,
There were tears in a many an eye,
But with any ancient thirst
On this January first
I'm et111 swearing 10 quit the old rye,.
Butterfly's Tiny Nose Longest
in Scent Range.
The Germans and French are agreed
at least thin one upon at ie
P g, and that
'that the butterfly has the keenest
sen90' of smell of any living creature..,;
- The Marvellous 9meiling powerof.
the .Purple Emeerar; the Zebra Swat-
Iowtain, the Palated Lady an& ether
species; is se, acute and operates at
such sting range- that It is almost in-
conceivable t0; the average person,
considering the minuteness of the but.
torfiy's-olfactory apparatus.
In a book written by Dr, Hurt Floe
-
lecke, 0110 of Germany's best known'
naturalists, the writings of the French
entomologlst Fabre are quoted at
length,.' i'rodossor Fag.
bre citing new
French authorities to prove that the,
butterfly's sense of smell is astound -
A Miscue..
Tom -"I would have brought you a
box of candy this; eveaing,Glaelys, only.
you're training fora basket ball gams,.
you know, and
Gladys (sharply)—I ani not doing
anything of the sort"
Tom ; (turning pale)—"Then I've got
MY girls mixed;"
Estimates place the total population
of the World at 1,500,000,000.
it'li CC -C
-
,"'j trip... Whet tlieee a
eahem@@ you.cad..
8nl.aman: L ially, bn doing
�r ennnwcr kids
e? Then get
reset east or 'q
Italt Fn, I. will,
'to Eftiptoyrrtent ,
dcase i,1 Sailing;
10 000
tr d ch fn ao es
511 5 x1,121
National Sa
Ca,ildian�