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formation made it clear to the girl
investigation, Pat received a full 1P -
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TWELFTH EPISODE,
The Sunken Vault.
ktyPre of Phil Kelly's approach to
the House! of Mystery, Pat was fully
prepared to give him a.reception that
furnished him with theeurprises of his
- se • • .
When Kelly arrived he investigated
every available affiance, and decided
action.
Johnson was ono of the most dan-
emus inewirs the city. Por years the
authorities' had tried to invest their.
suspicione with legal evidence. No-
body doubted but what his immense
wealth came from the most despicably
illicit means known to the law.
But to be suspicious was one thing
and to "get the goods" ea the ceafty
Johnson was another. Head of a syn-
dieate of the worst. kind of crooks,
Patsy's men reported that he lived and
profited immensely upon the dovnfall
of weaklings who fell under the evil
influence of his subordinatee.
Money rolled in to Johns,on from ev-
ery part of the country—and it al-
ways came in cold' eash. For the rea-
son he found it not alone advisable
but necessary to build the sunken
vault.
With this report from Pat's men
came the statement that, seeing
strange figures moving about his
grounds late at night, Johnson had
called in Phil Kelly to consult him,
to rodent •the exPedient of climbing a The "strange figures," it need hardy
• treat that' steed beside the house and be said, were Pat's Apaches on their
-grew. tall ..enough -to give him access
to an Open Window,
One man remained under, the tree
as a look -out, while the. Other two.
climbed to the windoW. After they'
had -entered the room through the
window, they stopped to investigate. s
The room they were in was perfect-
ly devoid of any fernishings and the
one. door , pre:siding . entrance and
egress was the only interesting fea-
ture of the place:sr Kelly reserked
open the doer and tonna a second
room, exactlylike the dne- they had CIUEAT '
was in this house that Johnson
gation. ters •
first entered inviting further investi-
made his business headquarters and
Opposite was a door leading into here he was having built the sunken
stilanother room. And when Kelly va
vault. Workmen were puttingthe
turned the knob, his prise
party finishing touches on the wall of water-
.
made a speedy beginning. l sur
tight masonry that was to form the
Pat was sitting in one comeof the outer shell for the flood that was in -
room, in ,. a large armchair. Other tended to baffle the craftiest of crooks.
i
One of Pat's investigators intercept -
than this one piece of furniture the ed the foreman of the men who were
room was empty. doing the work, and by a generous
Kelly Made it move to approach the
bribe obtained a place for an expert
elusive girl whom he was now deter- Apache investigator to become one of
mined to capture. Pat pressed
the bricklayers on the job. This man
push-button in the arm of her chair. was Pat's most skilled aeeistant, and
In a twinkling two swiftly -moving his keen wit and intelligence soon pro -
partitions were run out from the wall, vided the Purple Mask with all the
coming together in, such a manner details she needed'.
that they shut Pat behind their shelter I
Measurements were . taken, .the
as completely as though she were grounds were mapped and a plan of
locked in an entirely separate room. !Johnson's home was dravSn. And
Kelly and his man, stood dumbfound- while he was in the vault at work, the
ed, for a second, and then tried to Apache managed to interest Johnson's
leave the room the way theylad en- housekeeper in a scheme to add vast -
Suddenly . the floor : deoinied from' The final report that her "bricklay-
tered. The door was locked. ly to her income. '
under them, They landed lava great er" made to Pat especially delighted
wooden box that had -been placed un- her. It concerned Phil Kelly's visit
der the trap-door through which they • to the vault, when Johnson brought
had fallen. • • ' • „Ihim in to show how cleverly the old
Before they could make a move,villain had planned to protect his
some of Pat's men rushed forward and wealth.
slammed down the cover of the box I "When they left the vault," said
securely impritonite the detectives. Pat's informant, "Johnson told Kelly
Then strong hands mished the wooden that it was • important that Kelly
case toward an opening in the wall.' should get on the job at once, and -I
Down. a chute the sleuths proceeded, heard Kelly say ho wonld call this
riding in their moving prison. • The evening at nine o'clock to go oyer all
box and contents presently .emerged the details with Johnson."
through an opening in the outer wall "Good boy!" said Pat approvingly.
.of the building,. "Everybody has their instructions and
There was a motor truck waiting to it only needs for them to know the
receive it, and immediately the box time to b'egd4i* operations. We will
shot through the wall and landed on .start on the job to -night at six o'clock,
the truck. The driver started his en- and be ready to put Kelly where he
mission of investigation.
The knowledge that she was thus
once more to be involved in an adven-
ture that would bring her in competi-
tion with the Sphinx was good news
to Pat. A smile of intense satisfac-
tion overspread her beautiful face as
the issued an order for her men to
meet in consultation in the House of
Mystery and get their orders.
Johnson lived in a stately mansion
surrounded by spaciaus grounds in a
part of town not far froth Pat's head -
gine and drove away. An hour later,
with Kelly and his assistant still in-
side, the box was shoved off the truck,
landing in a ditch.
When the Sphinx and his man
had kicked their way outeof the box,
sometime later, they found themselves
far out in the country, near an infre-
quently used trail that led across the
fields,
"I'm n
not going back to the chief to
report this fizzle," said Kelly. And
then the two men started to walk back
home.
5 * * 5 • 5
There was a period of quiet, lasting
a month, after Kelly's adventure.
I must start something pretty
soon," Pat said to her chief lieutenant enjoyed by the women of this Far
one morning when he had called to North country
for more than a hun-
learn if she had any instructions for dred years. 1862 Sweden gave the
the Apaches, "This peace and quiet full vote to those of her unmarried
is getting monotonous." women who paid taxes. Eight years
The Apache had called while the ago the rights of municipal franchise
girl was at breakfast, As she talked were extended to all women, and the
to him, sipping her poi -Zee, . she occa-
sionally gdanced at the headlines ed destined for universal suffrage
in entire womanhood of the nation seem -
the morning paper.
She finally discovered an item that just when the European war broke
fixed her attention, It referred to en in 1914,
immensely wealthy man who had con- So smoothly has the feminist' move -
rived a vault.that he believed woifld merit progressed that when Strind-
be absolutely burglar-proof, berg, the novelist, promulgated his
"Here's something I want investi-
gated," said . Pat to . her lieutenant,
short stories entitled "Married," hav
"We may be able to start a little ing been inepired to inveigh against
excitement if we can find out how this "the new womenby se
" Ib n's "Doll
clan .gets so much money. If he House," he becaine involved in a law-
doesn'teqt it honestly, I may, decide suit instituted by the State: ,, — . — .,
Sweden first extended freedom to
cannot interfere.
That evening the apache in the vault
managed to hide when time came for
the workmen to leave. And the house-
keeper also got her instructions.
(To be continued.)
THE BALLOT IN SWEDEN.
First Nation of the Earth to Grant
Universal Suffrage.
Sweden was, first among all the na-
tions of the earth to discern the ap-
proach of universal suffrage. Certain
communal franchise rights have been
WHEN WE GET
' BACK TO MONS
seg women in 1856 when the Conservatory
•• of Music in Stockholm was opened to
them; the universities in 1870. The
. worker, the Countess Bathurst.
University of Stockholm wee the first
Sena Them To
A KE
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DAY BY DAY THE HUN IS LOS-
ING, GAO. ON INVAPEO SOIL,
Our "Clontemptible Little Army': May
Soon Re-enter Historic Mons,
"Key to Fatherland,"
History is full of dramatic coinci-
dences, and it may well be that, in
the course of events, the British Arsny
will once again find itself in the neigh-
borhood of Mons, whence, in. the fate-
ful Angust. of 1914, it was • falling
back with all ppeed, to avoid being ex-
terminated by a German army that
was coming against it in the propor-
tion of three to one.
The very mention of Mons stirs the
deepest chord in our being, for not
alone in our minds is its memory im-
perishably planted, but in our hearts,
as holy ground, watered by the blood
of the bravest of Britain's sons, and
kept verdant by the dews of their
heroism, which happily w,as not in
vain.
The Land of Shadows.
The great army is going back the
same way that the little army retreat-
ed, says a London weekly. It has in
front of it roads and villages whose
names will live for ever in our na-
tional story; roads and villages where
high and smiling courage presided
over Homeric combats, and the daunt-
less spirit of the heroes who can no
more hold up the German floodtide.
With what burnind emotion will the
new armies survey the scenes of that
glowing epic! How the.tearts of all
will thrill to pass through surround-
ings, the very hedges of which bear
witness to the great peril that became
the great triumph! And as they move
on it may seem that their task be-
comes easier because the shades of
the heroic dead are there to point the
way.
We are going back along the roads
where French's tired and dusty little
army never lost faith, although al-
ways near to destruction. We shall
reach the place where the guns at Le
Cateau Tented, their challenge, and
where, amidst fire and shell, with dead
falling around them, the gunners con-
tinued to serve their eighteen -pound-
ers.
Turning the Tables. ,
Our cavalry will one day stand
where the 9th Lancers and the 18th
Hussars .made their hopeless charge.
They will ride thrqugh the hamlets
where the Gordons and Munsters were
thinned like chaff. At the thought of
reaching such hallowed ground the
imagination leaps, and the heart, in
anticipation, prepares its most solemn
homage.
How the new armies will fight at
Mons, with so much to repay, with the
dyes of those who breathed their last
on its brown roads upon them, and a
look in them that seems to say: "We
did our best, but we had no chance..
For our sake as well as your own,
strike, and strike horim!"
It is not such a far cry, having re-
gard to the, map, to speak of Mons as
a British objective. We are pushing
across the plain of Douai towards the
town itself, and front Douai to Mons
is not more than forty miles.
True, it is country every mile of
which must be desperately defended
by the Germans, if they are to avoid
terrible disaster. But an army that
has sealed the ridge of Vimy need not
be deterred by any obstacles, how-
ever formidable.
Step by Step.
"The "contemptible British Army,"
grown twenty to forty times in size,
as compared with the little force
which first stemmed the German on-
rush towatde Northern France, slow-
ly, but steadily, despite all opposition;
will retrace its steps along the great
avenue of invasion& where the best
and bravest of our race, out -numbered
and out -gunned, fought and died.
Alas!. the great bulk of the original
British Expeditionary Force lies dead
under the, soil of Flanders or France,
or because of injuries will never meet
the shock of battle again. But there
are Some who,survive, and they are
fighting to -clay, and it is our hope that
When, after the lapse of all these long
and anxious months, the battlefield
moves .once more to Mons, these sea-
soned.vetrities shall be found in the
vanguard.
Just as Mons was the cradle of 'the
issuds of the war, so IVIons, in. all like-
lihood, may be its turning -point.
For if Antwerie is a pistol pointed
at the heart of England, Mons is a
pistol pointed at the heart of Ger-
many. An army' at Mons threatens
Namur. With Namur retaken, who in
Germany will say that Liege is safe?
And from Liege 111118 the great main
railway to the Fatherland.
The day when we cross the ,Rhine
may still be far distant, but it is the
logical sequel to the return to Mons,
where good fortune and hard fighting
should bring us sooner, possibly, than
we think.
Overworked Peeress.
. A good story is going the rounds
Concerning that indefatigable war
Recently, it appears, her ladyship
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A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE COMPLETE IN
• • TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS.
• Lesson XII, Cereals,
The grains used in preparing cereals
are wheat, cern, oats, rye, buckwheat
and barley. Cereal foods contain
Protein, carbohydrates, fate, mineral
flans and water.
Protein builds the bodily thistles;
carbohydrates (starches end sugars)
furnish warmth and energy; fats
supply warmth and mineral salts and
water are necessary for the perform-
ance of the bodily functions. There-
fore it will be seen that the cereals
are most vpluable foods.
Oats is the richest cereal in protein
end fats; wheat ranks second, and corn
third. Rice contains very little fats,
• Cellulose is also fond in cereals. It
has no food value but is useful in aid-
ing digestion. Long cooking of cereals
is necessary because of the presence
of cellulose. The starch, which is
present in the grain, is enclosed in a
cell-like structure, and long cooking is
necessary to soften this cellulose eo
that the digestive, juices may act upon
the cooked starch. . Following is a
table of proportions in. preparation of
breakfast cereals:
Cereal Water Salt Time
cupful ouoful teason.
Rolled oats .... 1-3 1 60 min.
Corn meal „ 5 1 60 min.
Oatmeal ..• • .. 11 1 90 min.
Rolled Wheat . 1-3 1 1 60 min.
Cream -of whe.at 1 1 3 60 min.
Rice 10 60 min.
A double boiler should always be
used for cooking cereals. A fireless
cooker is the best method. Boil cereal
for five minutes, place in fireless cook-
er and in'the morning it will need only
to be heated through.- Poorly cooked
a pi•ofessor's chair. Women were ad -
w" serving Lea to an Australian at a
London railway buffet. She was tired,
mitted to dentistry in 1861 and to the
and looked it, and, her khaki -clad "ces-
telegraph and postal service two years
tomer" started -to condole with her,
later. In 1870 they wore permitted to
take up the study of medicine, While
we hero in America have been lms
pressed with the new and varied activ-
Rios of women of late years, all these
things have been done by the woMezi
of Sweden for many years.
Rye can bo grown on old pasture
land, not suitable for other crape. Rye
is needed for breadstuff an4 grain
feed and the price will probably rest
main MO for several yeare,
Grocor--Yes I want a smart young
man, to be pattly otitcleore and partly
behind the coiltiter. APplicant—Then
What happens to Me When the door
Alert% I
"How long have they kept you
working herb to -day?" he asked.
The smiling Countess said elle had
been on duty sines early in the Morn-
ing
"And they don't overpay you, 1'll
wager?" queried the Aeitralien.
"I am not paid anything."
"What! Working for your keep,
are you? To bed! I'll see about,
this."
And the tall soldier, anger glinting
in hie oyes, Started off with the ex -
premed intention of interviewing the
"manager,"
It took genie thee, after they had
milled him back, to convince him that
the workers there volunteered their
time and services,
cereals will cause intestinal te6ublee,
For small children and invade the
cereals should be strained through a
fine sieve to remove the coarse cellu-
lose,
Oatmeal Goocliere—Mix inthis
order: 11/2 teaspoon baking aorta, 1
tablespoon water, 1 cup cooked oat-
meal, 1/2 cup our cream, cup
Molasses, 2 tablespoon cocoa, 1 tea-
spoon, cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon each of
nutmeg and cloves, 1 cup flour, 1 cup
dried bread crumbs. Mold into small
balls, flatten between the palms of
the hand and place on pans as describ-
ed for crumb crackers. Bake in hot:
oven for ten minutes.
Crumb arakers: 1/4 cup bread
crumbs, 1/2 cup white flour, 1/2 cup
Graham flour, 14 cup sugar, 14 tea-
spoon salt, 1/4teaspoon mutmeg, 3/4
teaspoon ginger, 6 tablespoons lard.;
Mix dry ingreelients, rub in shorten-
ing and dissolve 1/2 teaspoon baking
soda in 1/2.cup sour milk and add 8
tablespoons. molasses,. 1 well -beaten
egg and 4 tablespoons finely chopped
citron. Mix to dough, roll 1/4 inch
thick. Cut and then -brueli the top
with granulated sugar. Bake in hot
oven from 8 to 10 minutes.
Use level measurements. Always
bake cookie's on up -turned baking pan;
grease well .and then rinse well with
cold 'water before placing the cookies
on it to bake.
A cup of cold cooked cereal added
to pancake batter improves it. Cook-
ed cereal may also be added to muffin
mixture. '
Methods of Serving Cabbage.
Cabbage contains about 85 per cent.
water. It is valuable for it mineral
salts and it will 'furnish an attractive
meal. To be good it should have a
firm, well-developed head with fresh
leaves, free from worm holes and
decay. Always wash the cabbage
well in plenty of cold water,•adding
about two tablespoonfuls of sat. This
will remove any insects that may be
on the cabbage.
Place the cabbage in boiling water
to cook. Cover it closely and cook
quickly until it is tender. Drain at
once. If cooked slowly and left in the
water, the cabbage will be tough and
stringy. Overcooked ..cabbage is al-
ways insipid and without flavor.
Baked Stuffed Cabbage.—Select
loose head of cabbage. Remove all
discolored leeves, trim the stalk close
to the .head and wash. Place the
whole cabbage in a pot of boiling Wa-
ter and boil until it can be pierced
easily with a fork. Remove and
plunge into cold water. DraM well
and roll back the outside leaves. Re-
move the center. Chop it fine, sea-
son and add: one-half cupful of thick
cream sauce, one-half cupful of bread
crumbs, one teaspoonful of salt, one-
fourth teaspoonful of pepper, one tea-
spoonful of grated onion,. two tea
spoonfuls of finely minced green pep-
per. Mix and then fill into the head
of cabbage. Return the leaves to cov-
er the center. Place the cabbage on
a greased pan and cover top with a
thick cream sauce, then cove): with
bread crumbs. Now sprinkle with
finely grated cheese Laid then bake in
a hot -even. for twenty-five minutes.
Cut in quarters and serve with cream
sauce. .
Swedish Braised Cabbage.—Shred a
head of cabbage fine. Wash in plenty
of cold water. Drain, • place in a
saucepan and then add one-half cup-
ful of water and steam gently until
the cabbage is tender. Now add: two
teaspoonfuls of salt, one-half • tea-
spoonful of white pepper, one tea-
spoonful of grated onion, one-half cup-
ful of ,sour cream. Heat until the
cabbage is very hot. Serve with
Wangles of toast.
Alpine Baked Cabbage.—Wash and
chop fine one medium-sized head -of
cabbage. Cook until tender in boil-
ing water. Drain and then grease a
baking dish. Cover the bottom with
fine bread crumbs. Place in a layer
of the cabbage, seasSn slightly -with
salt, paprika and a sprinkling of grat-
ed cheese. Now put in a layer of
bread crumbs, then the cabbage, until
the dish is full. Pour over the cab-
bage a thick tomato sauce. Sprinkle
with bread crumbs and grated cheese.
Bake in a hot oven for twenty-flve
minutes. Serve in the dish with to-
mato sauce made by rubbing through
a fine sieve one cupful of stewed to-
matoes, one cupful of Water and six
tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, Cook
until very thick and add: one large
onion, grated, one teaspoonful of salt,
one teaspoonful of pepper, one well -
beaten egg. This dish can be used in
place of meat and will furnish a de-
licious meal when combined with bak-
ed potatoes, string. beans, december
salad, stewed fruit and tea.
WHAT WAR DID
TO ROME
PROGRESS OF WORLD PUT BACK
EIGHTEEN CENTURIES.
Barbarous Tribes Whose Notion of
War Was "Frightfulness"
Wrought Havoc.
Rome in the days of Augustus was
a city of more than 1,000,000 persons,
and it did not have a single hospital.
The city was built mainly of brick,
with narrow, tortuous streets. But it
had some broad and well -paved thor-
oughfares, the fashionable avenue be-
ing the famous Appian Way, which
was the metropolitan terminus, so to
speak, of one of the great military
roads that radiated from Rome as a
centre to all parts of the empire.
The houses of the rich, and even
those of the fairly well-to-do, were
supplied with running water. No
modern system of aqueducts surpassed
that of ancient Rome, and the water
was distributed to dwellings by un-
derground pipes that furnished the
fluid through lead pipe connections to
tanks elevated on pillars at regular
intervals along the streets, From
these tanks lead pipes carried the wa-
ter to the houses on either side, which
were provided with faucets and basins
like our bonzes of to -day.
This in itself is a very interesting
fact, because even two centuries ago
there was no such adequate system of
water supply for cities tinywhesp in
the civilized world, In respect of dile
important item of eivilizetioti, the de-
struction of Rome by war put the
world back about 1800 years,
'When ;Witte Metter flied vielted
Alexantleirt lit Egypt, the occasion on
which he was captured by the Creek
therms of Cleopatra, be found there
so complete MI Underground water
-
SUMO esrlaile thnt the city twined
"hollow underneath,"
"All Madera Comeldencee."
The aqueducts of wield. Emile,
trubstantlal manning of Willett still ee-
ist, so supplied mimeroun street fetus.
thins, et which the people drank, end,
Wads more MI11(11.11011., the enormous
bath bulldinga, ereidrel end titoteletht-
ad lit fribulons expellee by various
perors,
There wore 610 etietel, III 156119. fbils
diers employed 6161 policemen melded
torches through the efteeite II. WW1 ft
Method correeperigling nearly to licit
in use in Tiliiropetin 411,150 61 Coilllio or
terituriee ago.
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water but double the deems,.
W riot Only aoftena the
HAS NO EQUAL
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• ' ing POWER of 0op,, and makes
everything sanitary and
Wholesome.
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"THE LAST CALL"
TO TWO BRAVE MEN
SOME TOUCHING STORIES OF
• THE WORLD WAR.
Stoves were unknown and dwellings
were heated with braziersof charcoal.
Olive oil lamps and candles of tallow
and wax furnished domestic illumina-
tion. House furniture—sofas, chairs,
bedsteads and what not—much re-
sembled ill pattern what we have to-
day, and for the rich was no less lux-
urious.
Grain was ground by watermills and
windmills. Boats on the Tiber car-
ried mill wheels that were driven by
the current of the river. Chickens
were hatched by incubator on a great
scale for market. Ice obtained from
mountain heights was stored in sum-
mer time for winter use.
A big book might be written about
the "modern conveniences" enjoyed by
the ancient Romans. They were wiped
out, together with nearly everything
that was worth while in the way of
civilization, by barbarous tribes,
whose notion of warfare was "fright-
fulness" carried to the ultimate ex-
tent. These tribes were largely,the
ancestors of the present-day Ger-
mans. What they are to -day they
were then. And what they did to
Rome and to the civilization of which
Rome was the dominant centre put
back the progress of the world just
about eighteen centuries.
Perhaps.
Lady Lecturer on woman's rights,
waxing warm—"Where would man be
11 14 had not been for woman?" After
a pause, and looking round the hall—
"1 repeat, 'Where would man be if it
had not been for women?'" Voice
from the Gallery—"In the Garden of
!Eder, lein'am."
An Irish Chaplain and a Famous
Highland Soldier 13045 Answered
"'Ile Last Call."
He was the best -loved padre •on the
western front—a fearless man who
scorned bullets, and whose life was
given over to ministering. to the fall-
en, writes an'• Englisliwoman. When
the Men.vvent out into Noelefan's-Land
on that deadly business' known as an
"advance "' he went, too. No one could
hold him 'back.
"Mother o' Go,d, 'tis he that leads
the charmed life!" said the regiment
of Irish Guards among whom he work-
ed. And indeed hie was a charmed
111 e.
Hail of shrapnel, patter of machine-
gun bullets, thunder of howitzers and
heavies—none of ,these mattered in
the least to him. He escaped death by
a miracle—a hundred. times. All over
the world, on many a field of battle,
for many long years he had been
known .and honored. And it was on
the battlefield that he fell at last, mor-
tally wounded. He was bending over
the body of an Trish guardsman, band-
aging his wounds and cheering him.
A thud, a sudden choking sound in the
throat, and "That's my last call,"
breathed Father Simon Knapp as he
fell forward. He died within a few
minutes.,
"Sure we'll never have another
padre his equal," said an Irish guards-
man, who told me of the impressive
funeral at the front when Lord ' de
Vesci, adjutant of the regiment, laid
the decoration of the Distinguished
Service Order on his coffin.
It was in London, hi Kensington,
that I attended the solemn requiem
sung for this great-souled padre. A
party of Irish Guards were present
and formed. a guard. of honor, with
arms reversed.
And the wives and mothers and sis-
ters of soldiers he had helped were
there, weeping the rOss 'of a very
brave and, noble man. The church
was crowded.
"But 'twos the service on the battle-
field that was more wonderful than
this," I heard a soldier Whisper, "and
'twas on the battlefield the padre was
evishin' his last call would come. 'For,
boys,' he -would say, `I'd like to die
alongside ye, flghtin' to the end.' "
The Wooden Cross.
It was in a remote part of the
Highlands of Scotland not very long
ago that I came across a little grave-
yard, most of whose age -worn tomb-
stones dated back to the fifteenth cen-
tury. ..
Several of the inscriptions were
Poetical and crude—as used to be the
fashion a hundred or so odd years ago,
Tho faults of the departed, as well as
-the virtues,. ever° set forth fax all the
world to read. Here one could learn
that bad temper and spitefulness had
been the leading characteristics of
the occupant of one grave, evhile near-
by a paragon • of perfection lay,
"mourned and lamented by all who
knew him."
But the small cross that caught my
eye was of simple wood, and vas, new.
It somehow seemed strangely out of
place in that old-world graveyard, so
I crossed over to read the inscription.
It was scrawled in pencil, roughly:
"The Last Call."
Below was theomme of a very fam-
ous soldier of a Highland regiment, a
man who had won every decoration
for gallantry that it is possible to
win.
For a moment I wondered that such
a gallant and famous soldier. should
lie in such a simple grave, with only
a wooden cross to mark it.
And then I remembered the story of
his little Highland mother, who had
crane all the way to - France, just to
bring his body home for burial. She
was far too proud to accept a penny
for expenses, too jealous that any one
else might want to share the honor of
burying him. So she herself had erect,
ed the little cross and inscribed the
words on it,
A wreath of white heather lay or
the grass above the grave. And the
rain and the damp had blurred the
writing on the cross—or perhaps it
was the mother's tears, who knows?
And as I drew nearer I read some
words written in much smaller 'writ'
ing below "The Last Call."
They were: "He answered it brave.
ly, and ae a soldier."
WOODLOTS AND THEIR VALUE.
By Proper Utilization a Permanent
Fuel Supply is Assured.
Woodlots on the farms can be made
an important factor In the relief of
the threatened fuel shortage, Farm-
ers and the residents of smaller towns
and villages situated within hauling
distance or woodlots, should, as a
measure. of !practical patriotism, use
wood in preference to coal.
Few farmers realize the value of the
crop which can be obtained from their
woodlot. If even a small proportion
of the attention given to other crops
were devoted to the protection and im-
provement of the "bush" a good finan-
cial return could be secured, Aside
from as value in affording protection
against wind and storms, its impor-
tance in the conservation of soil mois-
ture and its aesthetic value, the wood -
lot has a considerable value for the
crops which can be harvested from it
every Year at a minimum expense. It
should have a place on every farin.
Live stock should be excluded as
they destroy the natural reproduction,
Injure the larger trees and pack the
soil so that the growth of the trees
is retarded. Defectiveand diseased
trees should bo removed first; then
those of poor form, such as very
crooked or very branehy ones which
Interfere with the, growth of better -
formed neighbors, . The trees of the
less valuable -species such as dog-
wood, ironwood and hornbeam should
then be removed. Every effort should
be made to Remo natural reproduc-
tion, but, if that be impossible, plant-
ing will be found profitable.
The tendency has been -to encourage
6the growing of soft -w0000 suitable for
, lumber, such as pine, spruce and ce-
dar, but the function of a farmer's
woodlot is better fulfilled by produc-
ing hardwoods for fuel.
The fuel value of one cord of sever-
al ef the common kinds of wood is
equal to , the following quantities of
anthracite coal :
Hickory and hard maple, 1,800 to
2,000 lbs. of coal; white oak, 1,540 to
1,115 lbs. of coal; red oak, black oak
old bee* 1,300 to 1,450 lbs. of coal;
poplar, chestnut and elm, 940 to 1,050
lbs. of coal; .pine, 800 to 925 lbs, of
coal,
Therefore, hardwood is worth, to
the owner of the woodlot, from 46.00
to 09.00 per cord, as compared with
coal at $10 per ton, plus the cost of
hauling it out to his farm,
It a yield is to be sustained pea
manently, it should not exceed the On.
nual growth, which, in unmanaged
woodlots, probably does not exceed %,
cord per acre. This proauctiern can be
considerably increased by careful
management. A woodlot may bo con•
sidered as similar to a savings' bank
aceouni from which the annual in.
terest represented by the growth,
may be taken out or allowed to ac-
cumulate. In the case of the woodlot,
however; the withdrawals ran lie so
made as to greatly benetit the condl.
tion of the stand and improve its pro-
ductivity.
The Dominion Forestry nroneh and
the various provincial forestry organi.
zations have done much to encourage
farm forestry by supplying advice and
assistance, Tho Dominion Govern.
meat distributes annually between i,•
000,000 and 3,7511,000 seedlings and
cuttings among the farmers of the
prairie provieces. In Ontario, the
. Forestry Breech of the 'Department of.
Lands, Forests and Minos also sup-
plies seedlings for planting in farmers'
woo -dints,
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