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It: shows what might always be, if one
were poet enough to sustain the mood.
Always she, my princess, is some-
where in the background, when she is
not actually by my side. When I saw
her before, Covington, I marveled at
her eyes—those deep, wonderful eyes
that told you so little and made you
CHAPTER XXIII.
Letters
Letter from Peter Noyes to Monte
Covington, received by the latter at
the Hotel Normandie, Paris, France: --
Nice, France, July 22,
Dear Covington:— dream so mach. T saw her hair too,
I don't know whether you can make and her straight nose, and her beauti-
out this scrawl, because I have to feel ful lips Those things I see now as I
my way across the paper; but I'm sit- saw then! then, I must wait a little
ting alone in my room, aching to talk while really to see thorn again. In What the women of Canada have done responded splendidly to the appeal for
do
with you as we used to talk. If you their place, however, I hwn and organize themselves or
ave now her in this line is negligible yet, although increased production earlier in the allow other authorities to organize
were here I know you would he glad voice and the sound of her footsteps. there has been some brave pioneering year, with the result that it is estimat- them, there is the possibility of one of
,
to listen, because—suddenly all I told To hear her comingjust to hear the in Eastern Ontario, and for years past ed that there are now 2,600,000 acres the most stupendous disasters to a lumps, and there are also spaces
you about has come true, light fall of her feet upon the ground, in the West, when no other labor was more than last year under the prine7- nation and a great people that every where the top and bottom meet
pal grain crops in Western Canada, occurred in history. Without authority through lack of straw.
It stands to reason that if labor for whom they have fear and respect, Still, with luck, , you occasionally
was scarce before the war, the greatly the Russian peasant seems to be with -fall asleep on the lumps, and dream
increased acreage, coupled with the out motive or initiative. We read of that your ear is on Mount Everest,
peasants in their anger against the
property holding class of the late
aristocrat regime, destroying not only
the personal effects of the nobility
and the owning class, but the very; ous ways of waking up. Otte is b8 it from memory, for it is,falely burnt
crops which they had themselves suddenly striking' the ground with into my mind.
under the former social organieationlyour hands, for the tressels raise you
produced for the nation at largo. Itt ,
only a few inches above it. Another Beeping ht Touch.
their re -action against property own - 'is the collapse of the tressels them- "S 0 S, S 0 S, S 0 S," it came with-
ing, they have destroyed thegoose selves, out warning out of the slow crackle of
that laid the golden eggs. We read Well, never mind! You have throe the night. "Dello!" said the operator.
of peasants in certain villages having
gone to such extremes as to seize the blankets. "Somebody's caught it." "Will we an -
The civilian idea of a blanket is ower?" I asked him. "Fat chance!"
cattle of the local land owner, now I something white and fluffy and soft he said, -It's too easy to fake an
deposed, flay them alive anis turn 1and warns. The Army blanket was S 0 S. We generally tell the Old
them loose. Without the old ,motive' not designed to fulfil these require- Man—. There, somebody's picked
of compulsion to cultivate the land for' nments. her up. No fake about that.")
the land -owner, now that, the land has I I could hear that answer very faint -
reverted to the peasants and they A little disinfectant sprinkled on ly, distinctly the voice of some strait -
the are the owners, they have the straw litter in the coop will keep ger in the night,
neglected to work and to produce the ' "What ship in distress?"
necessaries of life To such a pass I down vermin.
4 long pause
a
WAR'S INSISTENT CALL TO
let her do it and add one man to re-
lieve the labor situation.
1f elle can give up hor holidays this
THETHEWOMEN OF CANADA � DA year' to work an the farm, Rhe will bo
WOMEN !� IiP [7 doing a plucky and patriotic thing.
if she is t: girl of leisure, it is up to
`•;:nada Appeals to Her Datighters to Rally to Her Aid i►t This tl•.1* her to go out on the land or send a
11100 from the city 1011110 0111+ fills his
Greatest Crisis in History—Enlist For Food !Saving
and Food Production.
With the insistent note of a clarion in the fields, and help in every tend of surfs t
cell to service, the message has gone farm work, In Britain to -day, stere g he country of the full benefit
forth: "To the farms!" are 6,000,000 women taking the piens of those crops which Nature so bounti
F'or months past it has • wavered of men in various forms of work,
across the country, and the echo has There are 600,000 engaged in agricul-
been caught up and thrown back tural work alone.
from time to time. But now it comms The women of Canada can do these
with a direct challenge that is as ir- things, They have been spared the
resistible as the soldier's bugle call, suffering and the humiliation of the
It sounds from end to end of the women of invaded countries. They
country, Men and women are have had few material privations,
hearkening, They are thinking about even in three and a half years of war,
it; talking about it, But there is no They have worked splendidly, and
time to play battledore and shuttle- time and again they have reiterated
cock with such an issue. There must their desire to do everything asked of
be action—immediate, clear -cat, ' them by the Government. Indeed,
whole -hearted action, they have pleaded for a wider field of
The challenge is to men and women activity,
alike. Equality of service is demand- They have had the answer now. The
ed of them. Employer and employee way has been clearly indicated.
are asked to help; the rich and the The greatest need of the hour is for
poor; the busy and the idle. There labor on the farms. Mr. Henry B.
is no intention that any industry be Thomson, chairman of the Food Board,
put out of joint or business disorgan- has put it up to the men and women
ized. There is every intention that of Canada in no equivocal terms. the outside world. Transportation
all the resources of the country be The women can answer this call to and outsidedistribwo is so disorganized
judiciously used in making the most arms in one of two ways. Either
of Canada's harvest this year. The they can go out on the land them. that even were the peasants of the,
need is imperative. Nothing can off- selves, or they can release a man for land producing their usual amount of
set this fact, the period of the harvest. foodstuffs, the people in the mane-
set
the women of Europe have The farmers have done their share, facturing population would still be
done to save the crops is an old tale; They are working like slaves, and without the necessary food supplies to
yet ever new in the wonder of it. their wives are doing no less. They
sustain them in safety and comfort,
Unless the people of Russia steady
shoes.
In short• ---every woman and every
teen-age girl can do SOMETHING
during July and August towards as -
Cream Wanted' TRAGEDY
SWEET OR QI•IURNINQ Q1it AM
W'o supply oana, pay oxP1•ese ehargea
and tumult daISY•
Our price now Is forty-six cents
740' ga iia . W1111ba creamery O Ditto
UNEASY LIES TUB HEAD—
The Army Iced is Really 0 Serines
Subject at First Acquaintance.
fully yields, war or no war. Ib is one A. mere civilian does not know what
of the biggest things over asked of a a bed is. To him !t, is something soft
woman. It is for the sake of our and yielding, 0ometltinf; the body can I have -just stepped ashore' from a.
Allies, But most of. ell. --foe our mon snuggle in and the soul can dream in. New York liner, and, because of my"
"over then." They provide the ir- What a delusion! I speak from ex- interest !pt Wi} .,0';s telegraphy, I was
resistible argument why every woman perienee when I say that a bed is ne permitted to spend most of my time'
should turn her hand to food conserve, such thing. There is only one kind en route in the wireless cabin, says a+
holt, to food production, or to both, of bed nowadVs--ane kind, at least, newspaper. writer.
--- , — worth met.lconing.
OFWIRELESS
FRANTIC CALL FOR HELP FROM
A TORPEDOED VESSEL.
No Man Hales Germany More 1' !cicely
Then Ile Who Ilan Picked Up
An
"S 0 5" At Sea.
It consists of Three times we were called by Ger-
three boards, a couple of low tresseln, lean submarines. Apparently they
®� Control Cornern nurttress more oi' less stu51011 with knew just when we had left New
straw, and three blankets. York, Apparently they knew just.
"No 'ot-water bottles this trip," where we should have been—in peace.
says time rod -checked sergeant, time—on our 000811 lane, If we had.
You grin, to show your apprecia- not been far oil our weal course, I
tion of the point. If the sergeant have no doubt We would have been
says 50, it is so. And then you ex- sunk,
amine the structure which is going They called us in the line's own
to turn you from a flabby, Hamby- code. All three calls came about mid-
pannby, puny molly -coddle (the ser- night. "1i B, H B," cane the call—
geant's phraseology, this) into a real our call,
live man. Bach time the operator—a boy of
The boards, you discover, are really nineteen who has been torpedoed once'
boards. There is nothing yielding or and shelled twice—:answered the call,
elastic about then, To look at them, "have important message for you.
you might take them for innocent deal Please give position," the message•
boards in need of a scrubbing. But ran each time.
when you have spent one night on A. Far, Faint Call,
them you have a fairly vivid notion Each time the captain was ratified..
of how the ancient martyrs felt after
"Tell them to ;ciao their message," he,
a course on the rack.said, "Probably a submarine," he con -
And the mattress! It is a snare tinned, and evinced no surprise.
and aa delusion] It has lumps in it. "Give your message," replied the
There are some big lumps and small operator.
"Can't give message unless I know
your position. Please give position."'
But it was too old a trick to work.
On the seventh night out from New
York I heard two ships torpedoed.
Neither call was in code, but the•
Bolsheviki doctrines leave brought
Russia down from one of the greatest
food producing countries on the globe
to a condition of starvation. Drunk
with liberty, which they did not
understand, filled with idealistic no-
tions about the equality of men, and
lacking individual initiative, produc-
tion in Russia has practically ceased,
according to the evidences reaching
Riding to Cannes the very next day is like music.
after you left I spoke to her„and— But when she speaks, Covington,
she listened. It was all rather vague then all other sounds cease, and she
d grown
and shemade n promises but she speak••
obtainable, the farmer in desperation
enlisted his wife's help in the outdoors.
Not even the deeds of the thous-
ands of men who are daily sacrificing
listened Ina few weeks or months silent to listen There is some quality
or years, now, she'll be mine for all in that voice that gets into me—that
time. She doesn't want me to tell reaches and vibrates certain hidden
Beatrice, and there is no one else to strings I did not know were there. So
tell except you—so forgive me, old sweet is the music that I can hardly
man, if I let myself loose. give enough attention to make out the
Besides, in a way, you're respon-' meaning' of her words. What she
Bible, We were talking of you, be - 'saws does not so much natter as that
cause we missed you. You have a she should be speaking to me—to my
mighty good friend in her, Covington.; ears alone.
She knows you—the real you that I And these things are merely the
thought only. I had glimpsed. Sha superficialities of her. There still
sees the man in the game—not the remains the princess herself below
man in the grand -stand. Her Cov- I these wonderful moternnls. There
ington is the man they used to give' still remains the woman herself. Wo -
nine longHarvards for. I never imam, any woman, is marvellous en -
heard tht in front of my name. I, ough, Covington. When you think
was a grind—a "greasy grind,” they of all they stand for, the fineness of
used to call me. It didn't hurt, for I them compared with our man gross -
smiled in rather a superior sort of way ness, that wonderful power of crea-
m: the men I thought were wasting, tion in them, their exquisite delicacy,
their energy on 'he gridiron. But, combined with the big-souled capacity
after all, you fellows got something for sacrifice and suffering that dwarfs
out of it that the rest of us didn't' any of our petty burdens into insigni-
get. A 'Varsity man remains a ficance—God knows, a man should bow
'Varsity man all hie life. I think she his knee before the least of them.
always thinks of you as in a red But when to all those general attri-
sweater with a black "H." Any time butes of the ser. you add that some -
that you feel - you're up against any -1 thing more born in a woman like Mar -
thing hard, that ought to help you. 1300 enough in the world
thea man do
charge of
V e talked a great deal of you, as I. bbig a soul? In the midst of all
said, and I find myself now thinking: mprincelyaemotions, mid thought
more of you than of myself in connec-' y
tion with her. I don't understand it.; makes me humble, Covington.
Perhaps it's because she seems so I fear I have rambled a good deal.
old man. I can't read over what I
alone in the world, and you are the
most intimate friend she has. Per-
haps it's because you've seen so much
snore of her than I in these last few
months" Anyway, I have a feeling from you I allow any one
that somehow yon are an integral part from
to read. wouldn't tear thiswup and!
of her. I've tried to puzzle out the re-
lationship, and I can't" "Brother" forget it if you want., Some day I,
does not refine it; neither does "con shall meet you again and see you.
rade," If you were not already mar- Then I can talk to you face to face.
ried, I'd almost suspect her of being in Yours,
I
love with you, Peter J Noyes.
I know that sounds absurd. I know Sitting alone in his room at the
it is absurd. She isn't the kind to al- Normandie, Monte read this through.,
low her emotions to get' away from Then his hands dropped to his side and
her like that. But I'll say this much, the letter fell from them to the floor.
Covington: th t 'f we three were to "Oh my God!" he said "011, my
start fres d standa mighty poor God!"
have been scribbling here, so I must
let it go as it is.
I'm not asking you to answer, be
cause what I should want to hear:
your shoulder in the Thames Valley, must was very short. 'Roos devils,
and your legs on an escalator. they must have gone down in a hurry.
But you need not worry. The dreamThe latter call, however, I shall
won't last for ever. Thera are cosi-• never forget. I can put down moat of
i the nation drifting that recent dis- 1 , "Who are you? flurry. Sinking
patches have reported that the so-, a rapidly!"
called Government of present -clay "What ship in distress?"
Russia are sending plenopotentiariesF "For God's sake, hurry, Who are
to China, the formerly despised and you?"
so-called decadent neighbor to the "American destroyer —. Coming
east, to make arrangements for pro to your assistance, full speed."
visions to tide them over next winter. a , "How far off?"
It is difficult to imagine China, one; p.: "Sixty miles. Shall we be in time?"
of the most densely populated areas in J "What speed have you? Hurry,
the world, living largely on rice and We are the —, London. Sixty-two
very meagre fare, having sufficient all told."
surplus to feed 150,000,000 people in "Will arrive in two hours. Can you
starving Russia.
Bolshevism is sometimes quoted in ke"Twoep.up in your boats?"
this country as an ideal, worthy of "Two floats fouled already. Hellishees
imitation. The pass to which Russia rf M t'a w sea.'
has drifted is a warning that Bolshev- "Bang on. We aro hurrying. How
a not ver far
long will your wireless last?"
insanity me y
ism and Y "For God's sake, hurry! All over
apart. The nation that will weathers ttv „
the storm of this war the best, is the N; in a minute,
nation that organizes most efficiently (t '] ti•. "How were you sunk?"
and disciplines itself most strictly. "Torpedoed. No warning. Toa
y fpm late Another boat capsized."
a i y Production must be carried on to e !
h I' h G d1" Men Must Fight—and Women Must Reap, limit of 'our power, Destructive Ton Late!
chance with her. Letter from Madame Covington to — -- - criticism and petty fault-finding ane "How far have you settled down
This is strange talk from a man her husband, Monte Covington, which themselves on the battlefields of Eur- exodus ofyoung men from the farms weaknesses and dangers. Unity of now
purpose and constituted leadership is W'xroi p
'Tye got you. Our bows are tm-
essential. It is a case of a strong der.
had let her go once, and that now I never meant to be :sent,It was writ- France, Bel pun and Great Britain. estimated that over 100,000 men are • pull, a long pull and a pull altogether. w •. v r "Save yourself. We are Doming
had found her again I wanted her to ten merely to race hes:-elf from doing Tlt 1 thexkremity of needed t ache in this ear's harvest. Men must be found for the arm for fast."
stay. i s Y. RY, s
1 munition making and for food pro uc-
f 1t is
0.1v Or
demi
coins -
C��tlil�i�iszBi.
9
who less than six hours ago became the latter never received at all be- ope have eclipsed the heroism the en -
officially engaged. I told her that I cause it was never sent. It was durance the atienee of he women of
to join the colors, makes the situation
infinitely more serious. It has been
t And he sand "I'll tr "That something. something for which
ley nave cnoyvin e nee[ e o gather y "What spe—
wasn't very much, Covington, was it? she could never forgive herself—like suffering. They have tasted the dregs The teen-age boys have been called f d s.; „
But I seized the impliedpromise as a taking the next train to Purls and of war. They have lacked the stimulus tion. Non-essential industries must sa• SPI "Cant hear you.
P Silence.
a
drowning man does a straw. It was claiming this man as if he tcerl: her of the excitement. of war. Yet they ,
< o g
gLondon, had gone down
1 The—of o
much morethan anything I have own:— havenobly"carried Even as
so y g "car ed on." til in a hellish sea.
hoped for. Dearest Prince of my Heart:-- their men have fought, they have P
I should have kept her that time I You've been gone from me twelve worked.
found her on the little farm in Con-' hours, For twelve hours you've left What they did in the fields of Eur- �t 3 VICTORIA CROSSES GIVEN.
nectieut. If I had been a little more me here all alone. I don't know howote b]' 1 i t t: -^
insistent then, I think she would have I've lived. I don't know how I'm go- of error al on temporarily
mstatlho doors of the 1918 4d s British Sergeant Held Six Hundred of
come with me. But I was afraid of ing to get through the night and to- w �: Enemy elaBay.
her money. It was rumored that her morrow. Only there won't be any people. What they did in the muni-' Ar'7 y
IIAKEa•9REAa In 1 EIn/TES
upon, and have responded gallantly,
the
l ler of
Some thirty thousand Soldiers S i
a
Soil will help the farmers through the
arduous period ahead of them.
How about the women?
Canada needs her daughters to rally
11000. She needs the help and the in-
spiration of every one of them, There
is none so weals that she cannot clo
something, and surely none so craven
that she WOULD riot do something.
No true Canadian woman would let
the grain spoil on the stalk were she
actually to see it wasting before her
eyes—the grain that is now more pre-
cious than gold o: rubies.
But when it begins to rot would be
too late,
The time to act is now!
It' does not matter a scrap whet a
woman is or ever will be; what her
social status, her occupation or her
share of this world's goods, There
is a new democracy abroad—a won-
derful levelling of grades. Useful-
ness and service are the things that
count.
Every woman must search her soul
and ask herself how she can best help
takingere ofthe harvest 9
in a v st of 1 18,
She does not kneed to be a trained
termerette, though if she is, it's all
th,, bettgr.
If -slue is a city girl who was brought
up on the farm, she should be useful
right out on the land,
If she is a good housekeeper, the
can volunteer to help the farmer's
wife for e time,
Ti' site knoves of any nmlt10 loafers,
she can report them end have them
sent" to "pastures new" to pitch )ray.
If she can take a m8n's place tem.
poraxtily in the city, then by all means
provide men for essential industries
t take the
i thiscountry mus
ncu
Women y
places of men to the limit of their
power when called upon. Farmers
must recognize the necessities of war
and the public me in general mus unite
to save the harvestof.
E2,lminateso all guess
•i , "C .work. Makes light,
wholesome bread,
q•
rolls, etc., without
.era b e. Save, IIDDI
uI u
a
^ a bel a eDnrer,D
A r
��,, /-1 the .SAM tool
r���✓'i1p1j
Convenient ukk
'and clean—hand
do not touch dough.
aunt left her a vast fortune, and—' to -morrow. There'll never be any.. tion shops kept the guns supplied with Announcement of the award of
you know the mongrels that hound a thing more than periods of twelve shells. What they did in office, in n S �p three Victoria Crosses, including one
girl in that position, Covington? I hours, until you come hack: just from factory, in work -shop, in every phase a�' ;. �dD n ` to Sergeant Albert Mountain, West
was afraid she might think I was one dawn to dark, and then from dark to of industrial life, kept the wheels of y ' y' exam Yorks, Sergeant
act was an outstanding
of the pack. She was frightened dawn, over and over again. Each commerce turning and steadied the �r example of supreme fearlessness and
bewildered. I should have snatched' period must be fought through as it fluctuating pulse of an over -wrought
with her. I was earning enough to ers. I'm beginning on the third. The initiative, is made in a recent number
her away from them all and gone off; comes, with no thought about the oth- nation.
-
support her decently, and I should morning will bring the fourth. It was in those early days when of the Official Gazette.
the Moentainis company was compelled
have thought of nothing else. In -i Each one is like a lifetime—a birth men were suddenly called to arms and to fall back before the advancing end
stead of that I held back a little, and and a death, And oh, my Prince, I the crops would have rotted had they to fy mass, Volunteers for a cg en,
so lost her, as I thought. She sail- shall soon be very, very old, I don't not harvested them that the women ` attack were being called, when Mout-
\
ed away, and I returned to my work th
dare look in e mirror to -night, for first showed their mettle and rose to
like a madman—and I nearly died. I fear of seeing how old I'veadvanced on the flank with a Lewis
grown the occasion voluntarily. As Lloyd � p rain and ten men stepped forward. He s1\ti;
Garden crops will not give good re-
sults unless time soil is kept well cul-
tivated.
Wilmer local of time Saskatchewan
Grain Growers' Association has re-
commended that all poolrooms and
bowling alleys be closed during the
war.
Delivered all charges
paid to your home, or
• through your dealet—
ious loaf size $2.75,
eight loaf size 5,3.25.
E. T. WRIGHT 00.
ANIMA
HAMILTON
CANADA
02.05
Now I feel alive clear to my finger-. since morning. I remember a word
tips. I'm going to get my .eyes back.' they used on shipboard when the
I haven't the slightest doubt in thewaves threw the big propellor out of
world about that. Already I feel the' the water and the full power o$ ,the
magic of the new balm that has been' engines was wasted on air. They
applied. They don't ache any more.' called it "racing." It was bad for the
Sitting here to -night without my' ship to have this energy go for moth-
shadIe, can hold them open and catch Ing. It racked her and made her
the feeble light that filters in from the tremble and groan. I've .been racing
street 1 mps at a disteece, Its 15 only ver since you went, churning the air
!pawl ori of. few Months, p. r�1pp§ to no purpose, with a poiver that wee
weeks, perhaps days. The next t'• A' ;]leant to driveAped, as , I'm right
we meet I shall be able to see you. where I started after 13
Ycst won't joet to hearit a man Dearest heart of mine, I love you,
rave a little, Covington? 11 you do, Though I tremble away from these
you can tear up this right here. But words, I must put them clown for
I know I cant say anything good once in black and white, Though 1
about Marjory that you won't agree tear them up into little pieces so small
that no one can read them, I must
write them once. It in such a re-
lief, here by myself, to he honest.
If you were here and I were honest,
I'd stand vary straight and look you
fair in the eyes and tell you that over
and over again. "1 love you, Monte,"
I would say. "I love you with all my
heart and soul, Montt" I.wouldsay.
with. Maybe, however, you'd Dail my
.present condition abnormal. Perhaps
it is; but I wonder if it isn't part of
every normal man's life to be ab-
normal to this extent at least once.
to see, for once, this staid old world
through the eyes of a prince of the
ancient city of Bagdad; to thrill with
the magic and, gorgeous beauty' of 15?
Y*
George said of them:
"They know their country is in the
grip of grim tragedy. In Flanders,
irls harnessed themselves to heavy
ggGar
Barge's` end
led along the towpath,
,
thanking God they've released—not a
ma.n, but a horse to help in the war."
In Russia and Italy the woolen plow,
sow and reap. Even on the beautiful
Riviera the shadow of war has fallen,
and the young girls In the 1pprk of
transportation stagger under kegO Of
woe o water, ei hing eighty pour ds,
i. �V i s single turnips,
Iii �eotland, g g p ,
plant potatoes, drive horses and carts
"Right or wrong, coward that I am
or not; whether it is good for you or
I
not, love ,you, Monte," I would say
And, if you wished, I would let yell
kiss me. And, if you would let 1110, I
would kiss you on your dear tousled
hair, on your forehead, on your eyes—
(T be continued.)
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machine gun and enfiladed an enemy
patrol, of which about 100 were kill-
ed.
Mountain rallied and organized the
party for defence and covered the re-
tirement of the rest of the company.
With one non-commissioned officer and
four men he successfully ]meld at bay
600 Germans for half an hour.
Later he took command of a flank
post and held on for twenty-seven
hours, until finally surrounded" Moun-
tain WAS one of the few who managed
to, fight their way back.
r-.
•
We have gathered a. bunch of posies
from other men's gardens, and only
the string that binds them is our own.
Some sugar refineries at Honolulu
have installed furnaces that burn
heretofore waste molasses as fuel, the
ashes being valuable as a fertilizer.
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