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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-01-16, Page 6M uyirtg a Packet eleasesnalW Is not a gamble, but a sure thing that you are getting the greatest possible Quality and Value to the limit of your expenditure. TRY IT. *590 Old late CMS Lt -1.41 Mrashing Without Worrying. Next to high prices as a topie for conversation, the scarcity of labor takes rank. Competent farm labor, always hard to secure, has about reached the vanishing point so far as the fields are concerned and the housekeeper no longer even dreams of getting her washing done, to say nothing securing other help. The work is all up to the house -mother, and she must "live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish," unaided by human !!ands. The situation in the cities is the same. Employment bureau; long ago hung out the "No Domestic Help" sign. There are no girls seek- ing domestic employment, with fac- tories offering three times the wages. Housekeepers in the towns bave for some time been facing the situation and adjusting their lives to the change. Their solution of the ques- tion is one which many farm women cin adopt -power appliances to do much of the work formerly done by hand. Motor power washing ma -I chess have forever supplanted the waehwoman n hen;lreds of homes. They aro always on the job, never late, quiet, efficient, courteous if t?sated well. never demand a ten o'clock Lunch, and don't tear the clothes. The electric machine is perhaps most convenient if you have electric power. but it is by no means the only thing. There are water power machines, dog power machines, a working out of the old familiar treadmill. where your household pet furnishes the power which does your washing, and machines which are run by the -gas engine. As to types of machines, they are legion. The best known are the cylinder machines where clothes are pat in a cylinder which revolves through a tub of hot suds. Whatever the type or whatever the power employed, the power machine is something wh'ch every woman who can afford it should buy. The wringer is also operated by the same power which washes the clothes, so that the hardest part of yvasbing is carrying the wet clothes out to dry. Not only do you save muscle, but you save time, Could you for instance, wash nineteen blankets in the old way in one forenoon and go to a pic- nic in the afternoon? This is what one farm woman did. Another on the sante day did a two weeks' wash- ing for a family of :-ix, and threw in two blankets and the curtains for twenty windows, then baked and put up her picnic lunch, and was as fresh as a daisy in the afternoon. The machine cannot perform mira- cles, however. Do not think for a minute that they are going to do the washing while you sit upstairs and read a book, as the advertisements picture the pretty lady. They are like any machine—they must be op- erated. Starch must be made, clothes fed to the wringer, tubs filled with rinsing water and lines got ready. You will not it down while the washing is on. Also, if the clothes wind around the wringer or you try to put too thick a garment througli—well, your machine is like, ly to stop in the middle of the wash- inge and you must wait for someone who understands its internal work- ings to set it going. Care in feed- ing the wringer makes this unneces- sary, however. And, to boil or not to boil, is another question. Most agents say it is not necessary—that good soap powder, scalding water and sun are all you need. Personally, I prefer boiling. Wristbands and soiled spots do not need to be rubbed on the board if you use sufficient care. Soap all these spots carefully and let the clothes soak over night. If the spots show when they come out of the tub, soap them again and wash a second time. Only on rare occasions will you need to rub them. Thrift Recipes, Leftover Beans. --1 cup beans, Ys , cup stewed tomato. Salt and pep- per and a teaspoon of grated onion. Heat thoroughly. The onion and tomato should be cooked for ten mi- nutes before the beans are added. Vegetable Hash.—Mix together and heat in a frying pan, with a little wa- ter or milk and a small quantity of fat and seasonings --2 cupsdiced cooked potatoes, 1 cup diced cooked carrots, 1 cup diced cooked turnips, z: cup grated cheese. Escalloped Carrots. -2 cups grat- ed carrots, 1 cup bread crumbs, en cup milk, 1-8 cup grated cheese, 1 table- spoon fat, ae teaspoon salt, pepper to taste. Cook the grated carrots in a double boiler until tender. Add salt, pepper, and milk and cook for five minutes. Place in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese, cover with the crumhs to which has been added the melted fat. Brown in the oven. Corn and Cheese. -2 cups corn, 1 cup celery, 1 cup buttered crumbs, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, lei cup hot milk. Arrange corn and celery in layers with salt. Ad'd hot milk and melted fat. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake 20 minutes. Warmed Over Beans With Cheese. —Make a cup of white sauce and add two tablespoons of grated cheese. Add the sauce to the beans and heat thoroughly. This is a good sub- stitute for meat. Cod en Casserole.—To prepare this dish take a one and a half pound slice of cod and remove the skin. Place it in a cesserole of ample size and pour in half a pint of boiling stock. Cover and bring to a boil again, Then cook quite gently for about an hour and thirty minutes. Strain off the stock. Adda quarter of a pint of stewed Spanish onion and tomato mixed, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and a dust of cayenne. Heat, stir well, pour over the fish and serve. TWO BILLION DAMAGE TO POLAND DUCING ITS OCCUPATION BY THE GERMANS. Indcstrial' Life is Extinct and Ravaged' Country WIIl Have Hard Struggle to Start Again. Poland was stripped of all materials and machinery during the German oc- cupation which ended on November 11. On that day a few thousapd soldiers of the Polish Legion, aided by the population of Warsaw, dlaarmed more than 20,000 German soldiers who hail arranged a revolt' against their own Moen, All food and all telephone wires 'were removed by the Germans. All in- dustrial plants were robbed and dis- mantled, with the result that Poland will have a hard job to start In again even if financta and political condi- tions were of the beat, observers say. Discussing the economic situation in Poland, Stanislau Larlowski, director of the Commercial Bank, of Warsaw, said to the correspondent; "It will take nearly $2,000,000,000 to repair the damage done in the German occupation and to put us on our feet properly and to develop our great natural resources Our oil products return 500,000,000 marks annually and we are rich in coal and salt mines, pot ash, tweets and agricultural products. "At the present time the economic eituation is confused because Russian rubles, Austrian crowns and German marks are in circulation. The marks are a heritage of the German occupa- tion. In April, 1917, the Germans is- sued 2,000,000,000 narks which they called Polish marks. The issue was made through a special bank with the announcement that after two years Polish marks should be redeemed by German marks. By this -scheme the German Reichsbank.was not compel- led to issue extra money and, there- fore, did not injure its own credit. "At the same time the Germans re- fused to accept the ruble as legal ten- der. The Austrians accepted the ruble M Russia and Galicia and also intro- duced the crown. Thereafter all sorts of complications arose, with no one knowing the 'precise exchange value of any money. This bank simply has ceased to pay dividends until we es- tablish a new money standard. Prob- ably the franc, for the three Polands. A SEA SECRET REVEALED Showing the Immortal Spirit of the British Navy. The Navy begins to. render up its secrets to the curious eyes of the civilian, says the London Times. The "Q" boat Suffolk Coast has reached St. Katherine's Dock, and the public will be allowed to go over her, at the price of a small fee for the benefit of naval charities. Here contrivances for deception allied with deadliness will surely interest and instruct crowds so long as she is in the Thames. But she has a deeper fascination than that, for within her lurks the newest in- carnation of the immortal spirit of the Navy. . In the spring of 1917 when the U-boats began to sink ton- nage at a deadly rate, the Navy turn- ed to devise defences against the new danger. The "Q" boats were an important part of them, embodiments of the adaptability and ingenuity of the. Sea Service. But the heart of their success was not in their ilnpene- arable disguises. Men clamored to be allowed to go to sea in them. To go to sea in them meant the luring of the U-boat by an elaborate pretence of defencelessness; endurance of shell fire, and even of being torpedoed; long waiting motionless, in a sinking ship, till the U-boat commander should at )alt be certain that his victim bad Ito sting and should expose his craft to certain destruction. For this the officers and men of the Navy scrambl- ed in hot rivalry. Through this they went, and, having gone, went eagerly again. ' Their ships were sunk under them, but they caved not at all, so the the U-boats were destroyed. The Suffolk Coast herself is a ship newly converted to this service, but most of her crew have served with their commander in three of these "special service" ships. The immedi- ate predecessor of the Suffolk Coast —the Stock Force—sank under her crew when they had waited fifty min- utes after being torpedoed for the chance of sinking the U-boat that rewarded them at last. The story has been told. The men of other "Q" boats were not so fortunate. They disappeared and left no trace. The sea that robbed them of their reward holds immortal their unavailing valor. These are the chances of Sea Service. The spirit of the men who took them with delight—that spirit has wrought safety for the world of modern men. The women of Iceland recently celebrated the third year of their enfranchisement. A wave of popularity for things Western is sweeping over the whore of China, and with the cessation of war there may be expected to be huge demands for all' •sorts , of for- eign machinery, building materials and equipments generally. Must Win World's Confldence. "First we must establish a sound government which will have the con- fidence of the outside World. Any gov- ernment must have money to run it - sell, but it cannot get money without confidence. When such a government is established we will put out foreign loans for the purpose of buying ma- terials and starting up factories. It is even necessary for us to obtain loans in order to buy clothes; also machin- ery and locomotives. Everything in the country must be rebuilt along new lines. "The Germans transported home all the machinery from the industrial city of hallex and then set fire to the city. This was one of their great crimes in 1914. They did this although there was no battle fought there. They drove out the people by bombing the city and then 'robbed it methodically. "The Germane also requisitioned all the factories and machinery in Lodz, which is the Polish Manchester, with its vast cotton and woollen mills. In their entire occupation they continued to loot Lodz. Even last September they carried away all the Iron pates and floorings from the factories. "They stole our vegetables and our fruits. They took by requisition every- thing they wanted. "While they did not rob our banks, on the third day of the occupation of Warsaw in 1915, the director of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin came to me and demanded my cash balance of bubles, the surrender of which, he con- tended, would regulate our debts to his bank, The Germans did the same thing in Roumania after the Treaty of Bucharest. "It will take $200,000,000 to recon- struct us industrially without counting the other sums we must spend gradual- ly for improving the railways and the elities and rebuilding houses ruined in the course of the war." A French Peasant. Each week, in ram or shine, she ••,,l- gos out To that green little graveyard by the sea, Where rests her Jean. She tidies ten - CANADIAN WAR PICTDIIES gXHIBI° ARTISTS HAVE RECORDED OUR PART IN CONFLICT. Every Phase of Canada's War Activity From Start to Finish Is Depicted. Dealing with the exhibition of Cana- dian war pictures which opened at the. Royal Academy of Arts, London, on January 9, a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette says it was a unique spectacle of a nation's supreme en- deavor portrayed, not in retrospect, but during its accomplishment, by her artists. The 70 leading painters' of Canada, including some famous Brltieh ones, have risen gloriously to the task set by their Gov'ernnient when it took them out to the trenches in France and Flanders. From the landing of the first 33,000 men at Plymouth to the capture of Mons on the last day of the war, no phase of Canada's war activity bas boon neglected. There are nearly 100 paintings illus- trating the career of the Canadian Corps in France, including the magni- ficent paintings of the landing of the 3rd Canadian Brigade at St. Nazaire, by Edgar Bundy, A.R.A., and the giant canvas by Major Richard Jock, A.R.A., +`The Second Battle of Ypres." Major Jock has also a fine painting of "The Battle of Vitny Ridge." In the sante way the historic Canadian battles are dealt with each in their turn. Regina Trench, the taking of Courcelette and so on, and then the Arras-Can,hrai chile thc Land vc, B' Irloy Tolbert Barnard CHAPTER III: "What's the, matter with these clothes? You ..lid not expect me to wear partly things on a horse?" She dropper a gauntleted hand on' his mightinvent something- but. all the inventions have already been invent- ed! My hair len't curly enough to got me into the pictures.'and Babylon and Nineveh have already been dug shouller' as he walked beside her up by regular archeologists. I along . a' narrow path toward the haven't a telescope or I'd locate a house, new star, and I do not understand He laughed serenly, apparently un- navigation "°1-' I'd' hunt' up' 'a• third friendly hand. conscious of the small' phis ;or go fishing for old Atlantis. "I am talking about my handmaiden, I'd write youa sonnet but the only _ word 'I' knew' not me! 10you wish -my opinion, it that-elaythes with Rhoda is .most gratifying, oven flattering! is soda and I cannot • thinit of a e way, to write( In - You look adorable!' But Mrs. Davis l:it ire effectively. deed, all that's kept me from getting makes no discrimination ' between to the top, is not novel:havin' no riding breeches and pants. I didn tblack-smith;$" shop! For two more think your horse could get through cents, I'd kiss you but I agree with this gate—and it's the only way out. Iashjmnra Togo—when honor comes You will have to take him over,'• along tbo much are not enough. I Just when they were `10 mid-air, also share his belief that honor are Mrs. Davie appeared on some breath- noble but inconvenient! Whee-e! leas errand and stopped transfixed It's been six years since I have seen for one inarticulate second. Then she yelled ,frantically: "That there horse is running away with that boy!" Townsend paused to explain grave- ly. Mrs. Davis shaded hes' eyes with her hand, staring grimly after Rhoda, who had followed the drive- way to the barn and was already turning the horse over to a Davis, visibly admiring, even at that dis- tance. To his keen amusement, Mrs. Davis did not deign Townsend a second glance but proceeded • on her interrupted errand with a pregnant "Hump!" of contempt. Coming back, three minutes later with an apron full of vegetables, she stopped definatly as Townsend greet- ed her: "Wait a minute, Mrs. Davis. I want you to meet Miss Brookes." Rhoda was coming toward them in road is shown, along which the Cana- a progress much hindered by a diens are seen streaming after three family of collie puppies whose adorn - months of incessant battle to the bit- hie clumsiness accentuated her lithe ter fight for Cambrai, whence they passed to their last engagement which culminated In the triumphal entry into Mons. Many Beautiful Portraits. grace. She had pulled off her gloves, and was having a tug of war with a humorous pup, to the imminent des- He set the pitcher on the mantel truction of one of the gloves. One and lifted his glass, , smiling down at woolly assailant came dragging her her quizzically, you glowing -with wrath'? I'll be good nowt Take off your bet, dear, and make yourself at home. I'll rustle up some cider. It is P anti• claly good this year and it has not turned, notwithstanding Uncle Aaron's insinuations not very long ago.,, • He was gone' some little time, dur- ing which Rhoda sat staring into the apple -wood fire, trying- tb decide which she resented more, the frank longing in his clear gray eyee or his merry self-possession! She was peril ously near tears and' she knew that Towncend'e delayed return was ow - in to his perception of that fact, g When he heouredid return, as poured a glass of the cool amber cider, he said easily: "I think your director would do well to take a course in agriculture or perhaps have his scenario writer do it. In your last release there were some of the most absurd blund- ers. It really surprised me, for your company or corporation or whatever they call themselves, poses b tl" whip t Townsend Three others were donig their bolt Ln try out some Apart from the actual fighting, how- I new teeth on the In=trona soft Leath- to see me—in pictures. You never ever, the paintings give a compreheu wrote. I did riot know. I -I often sive view of every other phase of er of her boots. She had renfes;od _-wondered" She lifted her glass Ito twenty-eight year; to the Dun-, n response. Canadian war activity overseas, the hard preacher and the Traceys less'won- been M Forestry Corps, which has provided than an hour before but had she me Io.houi1 have U en'g n- 4 • "I'rn immensely proud that you go timber for the armies of four nations; the famous Railway troops, which of- ten worked desperately under a de- vastating fire, have contributed so much to victory: the Veterinary Corps, which has charge of three million ster- ling worth of animals; the hospitals and even the patrol boats in the Eng- lish Channel, some of which were manned exclusively by Canadian crews. There is a splendid collection omitted the eight it would have best to set your—curiosity—at rest. I d'eserfbed her as she frolicked with I was under the impression that you the blundering collie pups, I never wanted to see or hear of me She turned laughing eyes to her " host and his housekeeper, to surpriselagShe amused love -light in one pair of eyes! She made a little face at him and and unvoiced brazen hussy" in the resumed the discussion of the lapses other. Then though Mrs. Davis did .from`things as they are, in the photo not know how it happened, she found play in question, a discussion which herself shaking hands with Rhoda, tty lasted dinnersp presently rt of a San out ed who, not waiting for the formality by Mrs. Davis. of Townsend's introduction, was say- (To be continued.) of portraits, interesting personalities to Mrs. Davis, I am Rhoda Brook-ee. such as Sir Robert Bordon, Sir George I think it is wonderfully kind of you •`SPIRITUAL WEARINESS" Penley, Princess Patricia of Connaught to get dinner for me, to -day. Mr. and Lady Drunmiond, who labored so Townsend tell's me you are a surpass- Fite Attitude of the British Soldier unceasingly for the Canadian Red ingly good cook and I am looking in Victory. Cross. There are also portraits of forward to a real treat. I warn you Now that the realization of victory many members of the Canadian high that I have a vast hunger. command and a whole gallery of Canadians who have won the Victoria Cross. THE ART OF ABDICATION There Are Many Instances of Royalty Who Quit Their Thrones. History affords King Ferdinand of Bulgaria many precedents in the art of abdication, but few have ever resigned their thrones except under compulsion. The most remarkable voluntary ab- dication on record is that of Chris- tina of Sweden, daughter and suc- cessor of the great Gustavus Adol- phus. Growing tired, at the age of 28, of the restraints imposed on her by her high office, she resigned in favor of her cousin and went to Rome, which city she 'metered in the costume of an Amazon, Latter she trick to it. I must be seam' to my settled in Paris. baking. I don't pretend to cook like The desire to resign seems to have Mandy Tracey but I'll try to have returned in later years, for she tried something you can eat!" When she had disappearend, Town- send laughed. "You win! With Mrs. Davis to stick up for you and Uncle Aaron to justify you and with Mrs. Tracey's lowed to enjoy freedom from the sanction, you will be able to make burdens of government. Philip V., de iofeyourrvidt osyyour all the remain- thelamenl founder of the Bourbon dynasty "Ward!" in Spain, was a nervous and gloomy "You know quite well, Rhoda, that man, much tormented by religious I have had no change of heart either scruples, and 3m found life as King as to you or the farm. Then why of Spain intolerable. At the age of not be satisfied to leave me to my 40, and in the 24th year of his reign, carefully cultivated content?" in order to look after "the affairs of Followed by the romping pink his soul," he resigned. the crown of to the house. ued puppies, made no replwalked y Spann and the Indies in favor of his and avoided his quiet eyes by re - eldest son, Don Luis, who was at that newing the tug of war at the porch steps. Townsend passed her, going up to hold the door open. Entering, she turned to ask in a low voice: "You would rather I had not 00010?" "I would rather you had come—to stay„ "Don't l'et's go over that, Ward. I trocession of the crown to his father, still think you have other, more in - who for another 22 years bore unveil- dividual talents than farming. I lingly the heairy load of kingship hate your burying yourself here. If which he had so unsuccessfully at- farming were all you could do, it tempted to throw off. would be different." She paused, „ Mrs. Davis afterward admitted that it was not what Rheda said that won bar over. She insisted it was "just something in her voce and in has had time to soak in it is interest- ing to review how the great news has been received by the British Armies, says a war correspondent. have her cyns nt:d the way she held my I hand. I eeelare, she wate't a bit found everywhere a soberness of Spix- like I had her sized up. it which woes deeper than mere stoic Townsend's face gave no hitt of jsm, Indeed, there is a sensible mood hie delight in Rhoda's power to over• of depression in the demeanor of the come that most difficult of all btu_ very large proportion of our troops. tiers, provincial prejudice. 33e had Nor do I think the explanation of the diverted the attention of the puppies psychological conditions is very far to himself and seemed se1ceely to be to seek. In the first place there is. listening as Mrs. Davis modulatedlth into: e natural reaction from the state of "My lands, Miss Brookes! You chronic subconscious tension in which give me an awful scare, goin' over men have lived through the most ter - that fence thatea-way! I thought rible of all human wars. We have you was bein'• run off with. And I always been under the impalpable thought you was some boy! I de= shadow of imminent tragedy. The Clare i aid!. I didn't get a right sudden lifting of this shadow has been good look at you, the way that horse followed by the sense of spiritual was jumping around. It looks Iike weariness. Further, there is a haunt - tempting Providence; to do the things you do! I've seen you in the pictures ing consciousness of the universal but I always thought there was some sorrow which has been caused. Scarcely a man' out here but has lost a relative or a pal. Jubilation is tinged with sadness. Then, again, the spectacle of the long-suii'ering inhabi- tants tramping back to their too often destroyed homes must needs have a depressing influence. I think there is a real grandeur in this subdued reception by the conquerors of the greatest victory in the history of the earth, EE,`ORg ..M irlirOATTLE" REVELATION OF A SOLDIER'S. HEART. to Written by An American Major Juste Before An Attack on the Argonne' Forest. 00 what does a soldier think the: night before he gees into battle? ., In the Luxembourg, Patie,-is a"pias-- terpiece of Edouard Detaille entitled. "Tho ?)ream." It shows a long line, of French soldiers sleeping near their• stacked muskets. Sleeping withthem. are their degs. In the clouds above. u army c tar !erotic nt 1 is a vision of a victorious Y g ing beneath the banners, cheering as. they prove onward. According to the painter of drama- tic scenes, "victory was the thing on. btiatettlse o.ldier's mindthe nighthto4 ore they ..: Tthappened that a Missouri soldier• in^'France wrote to his wife just before. the battle after which he was pre-• noted from major to lieutenant -colonel. for gallantry in action. Major J. B. Rieger, of Kirkville, Mo., led into at- tack on the Argonne forest a battalion. of 1,000 men, of which only 400 Came out uninjured. ...A machine-gun bullet broke Major Rieg'er's'field glasses and he was struck by a piece' of shrapnel., He commanded the Second Battalion. 139th Regiment, Thirty-fifth Division, A. E. P., in the Argonne battle.' Before the Battle. Just before the great battle in which. leis battai,ion was destined to suffer so severely, and which action caused 'his promotion by General Pershing ore the battlefield, . Major Rieger wrote this and mailed it to his wife in Kirk-- ville: Front Lines, Oct. 21, 1918. Just Before the Battle to recover her own kingdom and made a bid for the throne of Poland. But_even kings who abdicate by their own choice are not always al - time only 16 years of age. But the peace that Ring Philip had hoped for lasted barely seven months. The young king was at- tacked by smallpox and died at the His wooden cross, repeats a prayer de- end of that period. Before his death, vmtt, however, he had made an act of re - Then. Ghee .1y, she chats to him about The simple interests of every day: The newborn calf, the apple crop, the hay, Since of his presence there she holds no doubt. And who shall say they do nothover. near— The wistful souls of those who died for France— Keeping their women brave through want and fear,, Transcending death to bring deliver- ance To lives for whom their added strength shall be The power that wins a holy victory. "There is no beautifier of com- plexion, f behavior 1'k the searching his face with troubled The Berlin Ghost. eyes but as he waited in silence, she continued. "Orr, I know that a sue - Is the White Lady"walking these cessful farmer is as tare as rubies momentous night in the Palace of and that you have succeeded'. But Berlin? Always, says tradition, when You are a five talent man! Get your a Hohenzollern is to. die or some other talents out and use them and then I will talk to you—of other catastrophe is overshadowing the things:" family, the "Weine Dame" is to be "You have had no change 00heart either, I see!" said Townsend thoughtfully, taking her shoulders into a light grasp between his'hands. "You are a funny girl! For two encountered in' the corridors of the Royal Palace, and more than once she has been known to speak and an- nounce the coming doom. One can imagine the White Lady's satisfae- cents, I'd write a book, or paint a Mature or barn sometl in t tion in her task, for in real life—so pus re or or i g jus' to give you a chance to say I al - the story goes—she was the Countess ways knew you could,' but It don't p erten, or form, or a ewer r e Agnes of 0s'lamunde, whom a former know what to write about nor how. wish to scatter joy around us. "= Hohenzollern had bricked up alive in to paint a picture and it is Be much Emerson. a,rvault. easier to hire the barn painted! I The long, long. night marches had: ended, the dragging of weary feet through mpd and debris was over, The groping through rain and black-, nese, made doubly so by dense forest, was clone and now, concealed in' the, forest of the Argonne by day,' the army of attack quietly rested. Tbc order of battle was banded nue• and I read it to my assembled battal- ion. The day for which the long training, clanger and hardships had. been incurred had come at last. We- were ewere to attack the hill where 40,000• French soldiers had fallen in defeat two years before: but death was there, artillery, machine guns, mines, wire, trenches, tunnels, a mighty stronghold. We were to be ably supported. I told my mien all. The order was received in silence; their faces took on a determined look, but no fear was there. I noticed thein later; all wore smiles, for the hour of vindication had coma; soon was heard the songs about mother, short stanaas of baby songs, cradle rhymes, lullabies of mother. !Manly voices, harsh, un- trained, unmusical, became sweet with melody; each his own heart's deepest longing was giving expression.- Wife, Meter, friend—a11 forgotten --• jest mother. Then, as the 'truth came to thein that some might not return, long - forgotten songs of religion, learned in days gone by, were heard—songs of the Lord. And mingled together were the notes of love and protection of mother and Jesus—all others ' were forgotten. British Boys' Showing. As shown by the report of the Chief Inspector of the British Immi- grant Children and Receiving Hoene, the total enlistment of immigrant boys in the Canadian forces equals nearly 25 per cent. of all the boys who came to Canada. The pendulum in New Zealand sheep breading is reported to be swinging in favor of the Down breeds. Stocks Purchased by our PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN enables investors to become the owner of selected standard se- curities-- (stocks or bonds) — without malting any large out- lay, payment being made by easy monthly inetalments, Piet as much as you can comfortably save from your regular earnings. This method provides an attrac- tive plan of stock purchase, and is fully explained in our intereet- ing booklet entitled "Saving by the Partial Payment Plan." Write for a free copy. i1®® Conn Co MembersMontreal Stogtc Exchange 105-106 Transportation Building MONTREAL = P.Q. During Battle and After. Later I heard those same voices when in the attack; not now the soft voice of song, but the shout of combat —a nighty roar! The voice of tho. people is not the voice of God, but the mighty voice of soldier men. , Seeing before them those who had pillaged and murdered and burned and en- slaved, they became as the avengers of God and spoke with His voice and acted with His power. Never will I forget their look, their voice! ' We swept everything before us, capturing and wounding and killing the enemy in the face of artillery and.. machine ;duns worked with desperate speed. I heard voices again, now subdued— they were of mother and Jesus stili.. I heard the wounded—not a cry, just a song, strong for mother as the wounded one felt the earth strong be- neath him, but a sort of farewell to her who bore hint and a clinging to an unseen hand of power as We slowly slipped away. Mother, you are honored above the king, the president, the general, the great of earth. The song of heroes is of you. Could you asic more than to be first and last by those whom the liberty -loving world delights to honor? - Your nave and that of Jesus bound together in the hero's lite and death. Mother, behold thy eon; son, behold thy mother." Coal on the Prairies. According to estimates prepared by experts there is enough soft coal in the four Western Provinces of Canada to supply the world for a couple of centuries. The mines of Saskatchew- an, Alberta and . British Columbia have scarcely been tapped, but have produced a total in one year of 6,000,- 000 tons, to the value of over 25 mil- lion dollars. The coal is of very good grade, and is equally serviceable for steam purposes and household heat- ing. The Canadian Dominion geologic cal survey has estimated that the coal beds contain a total of 148,490,000,000 tons, covering an area of 87,000 seuare miles.