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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-11-20, Page 2A F Wish Or, the Belle of the Season. ' eilAPTER XXXV.--(Coatinuetl). eollewed by : this devout -preyee, Ida Vi.ent up to her r003.11. Ae she piteed u» and down she tried to tell here -elf that the whole thing 'wags too ridiculous, wee too much like a levee to make her wretched; but -the felt unutterably =tearable, aud she knew that elm could no longer endure Laburnum Villa and the petty tyranny and vindietiveneve of 'these relations Poverty. hardship, he 'could here borne 'patiently and without eomplaining; bet there are some things more ietelerabes to a high-spirited gerl, emih at lda. tan poverty. or physticel hardship- there ere eoute things wbith burt more than aetual wee. 31ie fe1i atijug, ehoking; eh knew thee happen what- taigbt, the caul not remain under her eoustu'e roof, sa the bz.ead of les charity, for another en he shuddered as she picturea her meeting them at the breakfaet table, fee ing Mies. Heron's :spiteful fave, iesbela awolleti eye,s, aud her Comsat Johnie eanete ii1011itiUa sermon. She would bare to go. Hike thrust a few things into a bag- and took ont her puree and !counted the von - eats. They amounted to .ix pounds aed a !few shillings; but small though the ba3la Waa, She thought that it would mein - thin her, until the oould and some way of earning a livelihood, though at the mo- ment she had not the least Mee of what the could End to do. Without undreseing she threw herself on the bed and tried t eleeet but her heart ached too attutel nnd her Main was too ;wove to permit ef sleep; aud, try as ebe would, her mind would traael back to those brief daye of halseinesss, at Heroadale, and sbe -wee haunte1 by the remembrance of Stafford and the love .whith he hail lost; and at times that past was almost effaced by the visioxt of Stafford !seated beside Maude Falconer at tile coneert. Ate same as elle heard the servants mov- mg tamer the bouee be wee, pale and wearYand putting on her ontdeor things downetaire 'with ber bag in her hand. The servants- were ,busy in the kitehen, and she unfastened the hall door and left the hone° :without attrateing any at tention. The fresh, morning air. while 1 mused her to m siense of her potation, re -rived and encouraged her. After all, the was y-oung and etrong and she looked int as the house of bondage whith ehe was eaving--she was free! Ole blessed free- dom! How often ishe bad read of it and beard it extolled; but the had never knotve until this moment huw great, bow sweet it thing it wae. he waited :at the -mean little station until a workmen's tram eame up, anti, heeled by the crowil of eleepy and weary toilers, got into11, When she left the ter- minus, the walked with a portion of the throng 'Whith turned up Bishopsgate Street, though any other direction would have ;suited her as well- or -ass litte; for she had no idea, where to go, or what to do, beyond seeking scene inexpensive lodg- ing. She knew well enough that the eould not afford to go to it hotel; that the would have to be vontent with it small room, per- haps an attie. artil the plainest 4)1 food, while she sought fur ,work. it was 60011 evident to her that the was not likely to 1111431 what she was looking for ie the broad thoroughfare of iseippe and. °Riese, and, beginning to feel bewildered by the crowd, width, eerie ee it was etreamed along she pavement*, the turned off into one of the narrower street'. The Jong arm el' teoineidenve %teeth thrusts itself into all our affairs Itel her to the Minoress, and to the very quay waich Stafford had rev:died in his ahnlese itandezinge; and, ineehanivally she pane - ed •and looked on dreamily at the beetle and confusion whith reigued There. Per- haps the preeenee of the :sheep mud -cattle attraeted her; for the felt drawn to them by sympathy with thee'hustled and her. eied condition, Which so nearly resembled her own. 1Vith one band restieg on it rail, and it bag in the other, she watehed the men ats they drove the cattle up the gangwase or lowered huge casks and bales into the hold. -A big, fat man, with it sleuth hat on the bath of lee Ilene and a- pipe in the earner of bis mouth • white' -did not •Prevent him shouting. and bawling at the men and the !animals- birthed. here and elev. like .oue of the mete, 31334:1 in the tridet el les (shouting and bawling, he every eow and then glanced at it wateh /of the frying pan order. It wile evident glen to the inexperienced Ida, that the veeeel 'was about to start; the -sailors were rushine about, on deck in the beet* and excitement of ordere(1 disorder, citable were clanking, and rope e and pulleye were terieking; and a eteam whietle ehrieked at intervale and added 10 the thultitittlip- ohs noisee. "Poor sheep, poor belle!" murmured Ida, as the last of the !tensest were driven • up the gangway and disuppeayed. "Pete haps you J1:11-0 come from another Peron- - dale! Do yon remember, do yen leek' back. as 1do?" She drew back, for tbe big man etue dents?levelled in lier direetem, and he deed, ;alum% against her. "Beg pardon, male" be eid. 1011Viling lts b.10111111. hat. "Anything 1 van (30 for You, anebod,y 1+.011..r0 lookieg for?" , "No; oh, nor said Ida, blnehing and tnrnieg away. Mr. Jollier, for it wits that genial am- . tralian, noaded and stretched his neon. liko face in a mile "Thought you'd (nine to sey 'good -byte to tsomeone, pirape. it was me! Thotigh, if it was, tot idea that I should etay 4.•;1-11.11` or Ili 1 air-eane rm blest if -there eliet ;treetop.; little bout this 11103Mil113! Hi, t here ! All ready ? Bless it all. -we'll, be to lees for the tide if he don't come," he said to the ea t who stood :with ette foot em the taffrall an expreesien of impatience on his weath- er beaten face. "Like enough he ain't voinitie Mr. Joe Iter," he sated. 'Them kind o' Pints is al - leases elippery." eleseay. Though T indite think ne this one was one of that' kind. Too smith gvit about him ---ab, and 1 1V,I1l 1103 inietek- en ! Here llci 43! Get ready there!" He terned, and Ian. ,tnetinetively turn- ing with WYNN, it tell figure eled in a gem) suit making its- way quickly through itete crowd of bulgy docemen and idly lounging spectaors. lie ea -me etraight to the big, fat man, slam greeted him Pe anely end loudly, awl they intesed retie by ,R11(10 on to the vessel. Ida, clrew a long breath p1141 imesect her head ever eel, brow. et was absurd, of course. it •Waki a trick of the Imagination, of -6 .wearied and overetrained Wain -but the ta.II figure i» the bine cergee oh, how like it, twee to that of Staffordl it disan- fleered with that: of he big man into the !vessel, and, with a eigk, she wail coming! :away when.she saw UM two men coming ialeter the ilea and mount lo the quarter. The fat man VIM italking and laughing, eutethe man in the blue serge was: grave and anent, as le he MIN loet itt thoegitt and not lietening. Suddenly, as elm pautirel, the ,younger. /dimmer figure turned in her direction and uttered a 67. it ery almost of terror. ,Wee ehe demented? ;Rad her longing, hea aching loneing for a jight of hien called pp thie velum of Seafferd? Unless ehe Were out of her mind, ,the vietim of a trithge hallucination, It was lie himself who etood theta, his 'file% pale zed hap tent lamed towarde her 'elate ell" she eriea, unemmeartzely, a d Iwr$',1041 gripped' the ire» rail 'n !nee oe her. As If he had eeard bereleouga it was impossible that her veloe eauld reach him through theshouts or the sailors, the. lowing and bleating of the cattle -he rads - ed Inc heedand looked in hee direotion. Their oyes met and were enhanced for it moment, ,wilich eeemed -an enternity; then the blood flew to ills face, leaving it the. 'next :moment paler than before. He swung round to the fat man by his aide and elutehed htni arm. "Wait! Step the veesel! I want to go nab -over he eald, boarsely, Mr, Joiner %stared et him, then laughed. "Holti onalt 1" he sake not unsympattle etically."Hold on! Took queer like! Lox" bless you, I know how the feelin' isi It ,e eatthes at you right in the middle of the waietcoat. We the thought of the land tt y. if going bath 'rem you- .we're moving, we're weliaway. Here; take a ,-tip of 'thee You'll get over it in a braee o' shakes." He thy:lief a Reek into Stafford's hand, but. Stafford put it away from him. "Let nie, go ;whore! I'll ebin you later," he said, breathereely. Mr. Jollier eaught hie arm ets he was about to jump for the quay. "Steady, steady, sir!" he admoniebed, soothingly. "We can't, stole- and you'd tweak your neek trying to jump it! And all for a fancy, too, I'd stake my life! Hearten up, man, hearten upl You're- not the fleet to feel eick and berry al learin' home and friende" etafford bit his Ea and tried to pull 0 himself together; bat 3118 (3,ree were Y teed on the »tele face, the girlieh, bleak - ,'lad figure, and his voice watt shaky, as be said: "You're eight, Mr. Joffler. It is too late now. -I thought 1 eaw eomeone 'on the quay there. But it anuse have been faney; it is impossible, quite impossible!" -Thata eaid Mr. Jollier, with a sympathetic wink. -Ler' love you, I've had them kind o' fancies myself, especial - at after it hot night on 'shore. If you'd only take it pull at this, mei be all right direvtly It don't do to come aboard too eober, 'specially when you're leavin• old England for the first time. Do You see 'em now?" - Ida, had moved away, and Stafford drew t a long" end forced a smile. • eNo. h0 saidheekily, and almost to leumelf. "Yes; it must have been lance. She meld not have been there. It le 1111- air. Jollier whistled and winked to him- self tomprebendingly. " " he murmured. "Ale that's it, le it? Ab. -well, I've been there myself! Don't you let the fancy upset you, ene It .1111 1111:6 afore we gets into the open. l0 tbing Late the sea for telvehin you to for- get the gale you've left belittle. you! Ccene down below and try and peek a bite There's cold beef end pickles. Thaell send them tied o' fanciee to the right about." Ida turned and walked quickly away. Tier head ewam, elm. looked like one In a dream. It was, of course, impoestible thee the man elie had eeen could be Stafford: Stafford on board a eattle-sbip! I3ut the 'hallucination had lnade Iter feel faint and ill. ehe remembered that *he bad eaten nothing sieve yesterday at noon, and ehe ascribed this freak of leer imaginatien to the weaknetes !masted 'by want of food Site left the quay plowlyane if her heart and. her strength and all her life' hope I had gone with tite dingy vessel- and . emerging on the narrow, crowded. etreet, looked for amine shop at which the could buy it, eoll of bread. Preeently she saw a bakere at the oppoette eide of the roa le that on wilith ebe was, walking, 311111 eh was tithe:tee, when a huge empty ere eanie linnbering 'rimed the earner. eh drew Meek to let it, pasts: and. as she dR so it lighter cart- came swiftly -upon her Site was so dazed, go bewildered by th sbe had seen, and the noise of th ;street, that etood, hesitating, anew. tate 'whethei to go on Olt tt) retreat to 111 pavement she had left. Tbe .wteuate or man -who heeitates it the meddle of a limey London street i that yen aro a latly 0b, it ittit't' the aret time 'we have lied a lady in the waea, A greet many of them thine down here 'elienraing, ant] wometimee they get min ever, ;es you base been, or they fall down Mule of the dark and riehety attars, or hurt ,themeelvets eame other -way -.a We wonderful -what a tholes of Witte -dents yqu oan have this buoy and crowded part ef Itondon. . After Palley ehe went on: 'Of eouree you will go; away as noon as Yoe eau; hut it's a. pity, it really le; emare ever so- much 'better off lere, and you'd oboe. get need to the other' neople in, the waria, though they Aro of a differ - eat class to you'reelf. But moat of them are Teri, p00.1. 011(1000M oath= are -usual- ly rough When they are at home, it is woodereal hosv.pattent they aree-you will soareele ever hear a murmur; only e -sigh now and again—end they are so grateful that sometimes they bring the leers to your eyes, 11.041 it's quite hard to part from them wheu they get Oen and are die- eharged. Batt I really mustn't talk to Yell any more." she )nurmered, penitently, 'and the soft, placid voice ceased. Itla, looked assund the ward, her heart beating ae fast as hercondition *would al- low. As Nur s° Brown had said, she felt terribly strange and nervous in tile long, whitewashed ward wbieth, bowevey, wae rendered cheerful enough by the dozens el Piotures from illuetrated papers, wbith had been festened -to the walls, and bY the \Imes and great !bowls of flowere whit% iseemed to ocettpy every suitable spot, She 0 -Weed her eyes and tried to think; but she fell asleep instead ane dreamt that she had fallen oft .Rupert tebd was lying on the 1110:13 beside the river, quite comfortable and most absurdly content. Wheu she woke the sister was standing beside her, end nodded twith cheerful ap- nroval. "Theta better, Mies Heron," the said. "It hs quite p/eaeant to wateh yeti aelcoe and not to hear you eatubling " Ida's face fluseed. "Ha,ve I been rambling?" ehe asked. "Whet bare I said? You know my name." The nurse smiled. • "Your things are marked," ,she explain- ed. "But there was 310 address, nothing. wheel could help ue to communicete with your friends, or we -would have done so. You tell us where to send now, will you net?" Ida, blushed again and felt troubled. 'Why Should ehe leneoy awl worry the He- rmes? She shuddered siightly as she pie - tared. her eoutsin John standing beeide ehe bed where the oweet, and pleasant -faced stater 11011t St00(1, and preaching at her. They would went to take her 'back to La - burn= Villa; and Ida regarded the pro- speet of return to that cheerful abode of the ehrietian virtues as a prieoner :might regard the paoseeet reterning to his gaol. The taster regarded her keenly without appearing to do so. "Perhaps you would rather remain quiet- ly for a few day, Mies Heron?" the dug- gested, sweetly. Ida's eyes --they looked preterneaurally large, violet orbe in her atite faee—beante- ed gratefully. ''Ob, yes, yes! if I may. Shall I be 111 lone- how Itoon will it be before I can go?" It is about as difficult, to got a deenite ttheever from nuree 116 from a, doctor. "Oh, some -days yet," replied the sister, cheerfully. "You meet not go until you are quite sarong; in filet, we should not let you Now you lio quite still and try and sleep again if you cent attil you tem think over whether you would like to communicate with your Mende in' not. If You ask any advice, I Mould tsey, like Mr. Punch `Don 't t" "I won't," said. rate 'with her rare ensile: Tbe sister nedded and left her, and Ida ojesed her eyets again: but not to eleep. She recalled her flight from Laburnum Villa, her 'wandering through the street, the crowded and eoisy qua,y and- the: strange hallucination, the vieton of Staf- ford standing on the stern of the,yeeeel. Of coure.e, it, was only a 'vision, an thelltze einatioe; but how real it hail %teemed!' Soi real that it ales almoat difficult to believe - that it .was not he hinnself. Site smiled ea:My at the ideit of Stafford the son el ay do You Do youl say decisiv-ely 0A 5-1b. Package of REDPATH Sugar", or "A, 20 -lb. Bag of REDPATIV, and .-vet a definite quantity —of well,known quality,"Canada's beat" —clean and uncontaminated —in the Original Package? Or sic you say, thoughtlessly: "A quarter's worth of Sugar", or "A dollar's worth of Sugar", and get —an unknown quantity —of unknown quality —scooped out of an open barrel —into.a paper bag? Extra Granulated SUGAR CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL; e 012 ea: eeeetteereet. carefully inspected its quality, and inquired : "This is doubtless your sister's handkerchief: "NO," replied, the officer, "it's mine." "Ab," echoed Kitchener, "it is yours !" And he handed it back, without wr;ting upon it,'inquiring as he did • CAM: what kind of hairpins do you wear ?" L f the story is not true, it is at least invented in harmony with the known 'characteristics of K. of K., who despises fripperies and affecta- tions, Mr's. Erskine, wile of one of his former officers, teals how, at Pretoria., he one day obserVed a young lieutenant sporting a mono: de, Does your eyesight require you to %year that?" he inquired. It does," replied the young teen, hastily. • Then report to -morrow morning to the line of .communications," or - dc !cid Lord Kitchener, :crisply. • "I do not require men with poor eye- sight at headquarters." K. of K, despises self -advertising, and has never sought popularity. When•he ean, he escapes lionising; and he Am:ie.:lets to care nothing for t ease' and approval of the tpu excepte,se far as it helps him Wearry 0 his work. Buthis ob- servant eye discriminates as keenly as in other things between the real and the artificial in popular re- nown. Mrs. Erskine describes, how, after an elaborate funetion in his honor, at which a pompous master of .oeremonies had delivered a ver- bose eulogy before a distinguished emnpany (boring him most fright- fully), she and her husband return- ing home on horseback in his com- pany, On the way they passed a shabby. ice-eream cart, the sides of whiCh were decorated with cheap lithographs ..)f Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, and Kitchener. K. of IC leaned suddenly forward 111 passing, flecked his own dusty portrait with the tip of his licling whip, and declared : "That, and that only is fame." IMPRESt10NS IN BATTLE. A ,Russian Officer Writes of Ins Ptperionces. It is difficult to describe in words the impresSion that battle makes on an -inexperienced man, says a, Rus- sian officer who ha.s written an in- tere4ing ,account of his experiences in •the 'Tar with Japan. The first prpjeotile bursting .adongside or the first bullet hurtling past awakens varied feelings and impressions. It is of the greatest importance, to take yourself well in hand during the first moments of the fight. It is a great help to think of the thou - ands of soldie,As who are watching your first steps, and of your super -1 iors who are studying the "new map." The soldiers form their ' judgment of a, new commander at; tie?, and it le likely to be a very ribecal judgment. Modern rifle fire produces a trong impresSion ; the air seems o be literallY filled with bullets; heir plaintive whistling pervades he atmosphere like a continuous man, . above, below, and 'every- -hem As soon as the first shot is cord, the soldiers grow 'serious, ake off their caps, and cross.thern- elves ; jokes and 'conversation ease. At the given order, all lurch bravely, as during loaaloeu- res. The .courage and ,calmnes..s ill,. which seldiere go into babble re remarkable. The infantry soon rowsaceustoined to Afle are; but te artillevy,. fire, especially the -tells, produces. a deeper impres- on. seems to me. that elm. is ot due so much to the losses in- ioted by ,artillery as to the ears eleeeina neat that the, explosion I the projectiles makes. Tho effect .produced only on the ear, but it The el1nlose shells -have speeia,1 e the great Sir Stephen Orme, sailing in a e tattle -seep! 1 Innue paesed in a kind of Peseefel e monotony, broken lig the frequent visits 1 of Puree Brown and 'the house Burgeon, with his grave face and preocatipied air; e and for scene time Ida lay in a kind of • eenzatorpor, feeling that everytaleg that was going on around her -were the unreal e actione in 'a &ease; but as elle grew stronger the began to take an entereet in -1 the life of the great ward and her fellow - ,s pa tents, and on the second day after her I return to coneciousnees, began a ()olive- sation 'with her next-door neighlioe, a y -pleasanalooking woman who had eyed her wistfully -several times, lint who ha -d been , too shy to address "the yoneg lady." She , was a eountry-wonitato -from Dorsetabire.- ; ep to London on a visit "to my daughter, e, whRqi is :married to a mail as lieeee a defier." It was her ilest visit lo Lott - (10)1; .ehe ha -d -wandered from ber &lush- . ter's, lest her way, and, in her eonfusion, t tumbled down the eellar of a beer -shop. • She told. Ida the history ofesome of ,the ether (met*, and Ida foetid herself listen e ing with an interest which astonished her. , Nuiwe Brown, seeing the two talking, _ nodded approvingly. 'That's right," elle tsaid, 'with a smile. "Yon keep each other company. lt, passes . the time away " Very 00011, Ida, fotind herself taking an bitterest in. everything that went on, in the noiseless movemente of the imams, in the arrival of -a new ease, in the sestet of om ' le t art wats 1112011 her before she bat moved, the theft struck her o2:1 the ehoul tier awl -down went ben the tumid road! The driver jerked the horse aside and leept ,from bits seat, the usual erowe which iseenits to' spring instentanitonsa from 1110 very etotiets, colleeted and eurget round, the usnal policeman forced Jul way through, and lila was picker -I up an carried to the p iveanent. There was patch of blood on the ,side -of her Mete - the dear, small belie wbith bad rested in litaltentre breast so °flee! and she wa unconeekree. " 'Oreo sarnek 'el' with 'is 'tette" oak] th polivernest, isententionsly. " 'Ere, by call kelt. leave yonr melte anil ad dress, young anan." A eat) was brought, mid no eeneitit la, watt -carrell 10 the London :hoe pi . And lay 'there, in the white, painfully .elan, earbolic-smelling ward, attended by the mast *MINI doctors in England and ler the graee 8,1141 silent antrees, who, not ,wlebotanditig their lives of stress and toil had not hest the capaeity for pity am p a thy. Indeed, im one .wite e heart in ber 1)0 ciom could tailed by unmoved wed hear the girl moaning lout eryintr in et 'whisper for "Stafford." Day and niglit tbe white lips reamed the imams name - Stafford, et:Weed '-as if hes eoul were Le the cry, the• doctors mat the chaplain, and the . Mende of the bther patients, Let the pet- shniets say what they may, there is tx, lot of good fit -human nature; and it comets . out, (mite etartlingly in tbe tvard of a hospital. Ida, 'was amazed at the care and atte»tion, the eateence and the deeotion -wheel were lavished on. 'herself and :her fellow -sufferers; a devotion which 210 Money etin buy, and wihich could not have been exceeded if they bad the anil all been prineeesee of the blood royal. (To be continued.). 1FIAPTER XXXVI, When Ida team to elle foetid the tester of the ward and a ;voting ;terse bending over her yith plavitt and smiling faces. Wily .hoepital 1111re0 should under any and every eireumettence be invariably theerful 16 0110 of those mysteries worthy to rank twitit the pro'bleut eontained in the faet that en undertaker is nearly alWays of a merry dispasition, Of C(AlrEM Ida asked the usual tineetions: -Mere am 1 P" and "How long liave been Imre?" ane the Aster told her that she was in the Alexandra ward of the London Hospital, and that she had been there, unemetoione, fox' ten days. The num) =ilea les if it were the 'beet joke in a mile way, in the 'world, and anewered Idea further (maidens ;while the admin. lettered beef tea with an eie or pride and eatisfaetion sviiich made her ektin 1111(1 homely face -seem angelie to Ida. 'Yon were knocked Own by a cart you knew,' said Nuree Brown. "Yon weren't badly ittjered; that Ist, no bones were brace, ae is very often the ease- that gee ebere in the next bed but two had one urea, one leg, aud two ribs broken; man ease; and that poor tvoznati opposite, got beth arme and a, collalebone broken— But, I mustn't harrow You with our bad eases," she said, quickly, 'ate Ida seem -ed to 1VilWe. '01 601)110 eon feel very etrange - I isuppose thus is the first time you have been in a hoepttel wiled?" replied Ida, glancing Telma ties - idly, "Ale yes, of counsel" eaid 'Melee Brown; notlame, and smilieg encouragingly. eAnd you leel thy and nerveue; but, if you only knew it, you eta. better off here than -you would he anYwhiere 'Meal you have the vent best -surgeons; in the .world -We are awfully proud of theneettnel, though 1, ,ought not, -Le say it, th o beat of nureieg. Yon comievatched. nigb,t an& ;day, and you get the least woe little thing yeu wane 0 it good tor you. t claresay you won't .a.re. to istay here, but. twin like to be tale 031 away as soon aft you are enough ;4) be reeved: for of ourse 11 k 1!: N ND h. OF 1K. Interesting Anecdotes of the (,:reat Soldier. Anecdotes Lord. Kitche'ner of o • Khartum—IC. of IC., as he is popu- c laxly called by the Eng]ishL--have 'been going the rounds of the for- eign and -the American newspapers t sinee the outbreak of the war in t Europe. 'Some are p.m, and more t old; some eredible, and more, One of the most popular 11 is that of the hairpins—of which b there are .aarnosb as many Vereleale t as there tun pins in a lady's hair. s The version, however, e seems to he that brought' from n' &nth Africa at the time of the v Boer War by a lively young Fre-nob W journalist, ...Mons: • Jean Oariere of a the Paris Matin, According to him; g a dandy British officer, with an in ,11 . , fortunately . effeminate taste in sl trifles, one day cattle to Lord Kitohsi - ener bringing a fine)awn kandket n &fel' upon winch, .an • compliance fl with a. fa•shionable -fancy of the ano- ment, he:desired to obtain the gen- o eral's,autograph. is K. of lc. took the handiterehief, t ed ' ly powerful effect on the inexperi- enced, and the shrapnel .on those unaccustomed to battle. The young soldiers throw themselves face downward as .eatla shell bursts. Thus the infantry, which suffers most from rifle fire, pays lea.st, at- tention to it; the artillerymen, on the contrary, are much impressed by rifle fire. That may be owing to the fact that the.men are accustom- ed to their own arm. In addition to this, the whistling of the bullets is likely to :alarm a battery, be- cause it notifies the artillerymen of the approach of the 'enemy, and consequently of clanger. —Ile a, general rule, our soldier in battle has a surprisingly simple and everyday demeanor. He who expects -to zee something out- of the ordinary, something heroic, on his face at these decisive moments, something picturesque and drama- tice, is greatly mistaken. The sol- dier remains the same ordinary man as before, only Ins, fate is somewhat paler, and his expression more eon- oentrated and serions. His nervous and rapid .firing betrays the inner struggle. It is at that moment that it is necessary to master the sol- dier's impressions and bring him to a normal eondition, as far as the officer can do that in. battle. Never judge the age of women or eggs by outward appearances. "I kept my head when I fell into the water," observed the young man. "How fortunate," replied the caustic maid, "it must have helped you so nicely to float." 1111111 11 —1111111 r see 'Et Better Light and More of It vEROSENE .1-1k. light is best for young eyes and old eyes alike. The lamp gives you kerosene light at its best a steady, generous glow that ,reaches every cor- cher of the room. The RAY() does not smoke or smell. It is made of solid brass, nickel -plated. It is easy to light, easy to clean, easy to rewick. At dealers everywhere. Made in Canada- ROYALITE 011,h bed for all uses THE IMPERIAL OIL CO., Limited Tonto Queue Hitlitax Maidireal St. Jolm 'Whinitteig Vitnettliver r= IIIRffiloNimpirgiNgiopulitimlopovoingutionouniono)111111.111d ottomeetveteets,sr~stees, meeset. thc Farm AmsAtt.,e1.45.0,.e 41,0stoot..,,a.,ekyvb. Sheep Raising is Profitable. ConditionS in Canada are as fax - arable for raising sheep as for 'eat- tle-, horses or sWine. .Yet we find. these latter ,have rapidly inereased during the past thirty -fife years, while there has been a considerable decline in the number of Sheep raised during the same period. Various reasons are given for this -- falling off. Mutton and wool prices fell, and sheep -keeping, conducted eareleasly, brought, little profit. The thorough -going sheepnian, how- ever, did not find it neeessa•ry to good prices and cleaner and richer jaabnadndon the business, and he has , consequently reaped the reward of Much -effort has been pu-b forth to further the swine and cattle industries, but sheep culture has been allowed to drift alOng with the current of indifference. In 1911, however, work was undertaken by the Ontario Department of Agri- oulture having as its objeet to stim- ulate this negleeted industry and to demonstrate tha b sheep -raising pays. Nine flocks, of from ten to twelve grade ewes per flock, i11 various parts of Ontario, were used in the demonstration. These were owned by the farmer in each ea,,te and the work was conducted in manner quite within the reach ..)f all other farmers who own, or could own, sheep. Interest on the -capital invested in the floek and the cost of feed were in each (else deducted from the receipts. 111 eyery instance .substantial net art. - fits were made. the average beieg with a few cents of $39 per Ifek per year, or $3.50 per head. Lead- ing sheep papers of the United States are forecasting good times for sheepmen, and they do not seem far wrong; when it is considered that during the war there will doubtless be thousands of sheep de- stroyed in Europe, it woeld rz!ein to he an opportune time for those con- templating en -tering upon the breeding of bheep to get a few -breeding ewes and start a fiteek. It does not cost much to start in the business, and the monetary, re- turns are rapid; the wool and the lamb erop are saleable annually. 'Sheep eat almost all elastelt of weeds and, as their manure is rich and evenly distributed, they are great soil improvers. Expensive buildings and constant care .are unnecessary. "Sheep -Raising Pays." Try it with a flock of ten or twelve grade ewes, and a pure bred ram, and increase the profits from your farm, and at the same time, ,vou will be cleaning and enriching your land. —F.O.N. in Conservation. Wire Fencing and Trees. Occasionally, in running wire fentes, it is necessau to attaeh the wires to trees. In doing this, it 19 bad practice to use staples to attach the wire directly to the trees, thus ensuring that the wire will become ever grown and imbedded in the wood. Not only is the tree thereby_ ruined or injured bub, further, it ‘itisiropossible to remove the fencing v ut elating either the wire or t -he tree." A. 'better way, protecting both the tree and the .fenee, is first to nail to the tree a strip of wood about four inehes wide and nne inch allele, Of a length te suit • the heighth of the fence. The wire fence eau then be stapled to'this strip. This will secure the fence ancl will not interfere with the tree growth. Tbe" Worlif's Debt_ decently compiled statistics show that the world's debt in 1912 amounted to $42,060,000,000, of whioh Europe had $32,000,000,000. A, century ago the public debt of all :countries amounted to but little more than $,7,000,000,000, so that 1 there has been a six -fold increase iduring the past hundred years. Other statisties recently eompiled shoW that the world's population is now •1,900,000,000, an increaee of 140,000,000 in the, past four years. This, population is divided as. foi- low$:- Asia, 933000,o00; Europe, 484,000,000; • Africa, 188,000,000; America, -187,000,000; Oceania; 000,000, The ' world's commeree atnounts to $0,600;000,000, and is . carried on by 55,802 sailing -Vessels and 47;714 stealiteieL : The World's railway mileage amounts to 6215,000 ,or sufficient to girdle the earth twenty -ave times. • Nearly 4,000 women are .einpley7 as bookkeepers in Chicago, The , average gibi hasn't .iimpti irie.601, her kin- until alter 'she avried and has little trouttIed of er own, ec •ti