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CHAFT' R IIT.—(Cont'd.)"That's all nonsense," replied Pen -
"I have heard there is a young par -i rose.
"Well, what is there?" asked Tom.
tton going after you. Are you gong "There's tha Y. M. C. A."
a make a match of it, Alice?"And "Y. M. C A•!" laughed Tom, "none
again he laughed. o' that for me! I know some of the
"Good-bye, Tom,e I nape you will dal fools who go to the Y. M. C. A. meet -
well." And Alice left him with a' � i11gS."
strange fluttering in his heart, "Why are they fools?"
Tom joined the Loyal North Lan -1 "Because they go and hear a lot of
cashires. I will not say which bat- tare a lot of ninnies,
talion, as the mention of it might; pihat'acv• e s what they are."
cause some of my readers to identify Hid "They don't get hauled over�� the
unit was located at a large Lancashire
the lad whose story I am telling. His I coals for misbehaviour; anyhow• town some thirty miles from Brun- "No, they haven't got pluck enough.
I didn't come into the Arany to be -
secrets
here he wax's initiated into first religious; I joined to fight the
eeverets of a soldier's life. At firse bloominggGermans, and what's fight -
could notg was a drudgery of him; he i ing otto do with religion?"
was in see the understandng what wI "Maybe it has a good deal if you
was doiggcould not how) feel you are fighting for a good
his drill
fours" and other sotdi r.of '' cause,replied Penrose; "besides, the
Si drib} could help him to be ae soldier. Y. M, C. A. chaps are not ninnies, as
se}is, lad, h a fairly sharp, rk quick-
you call them. Some of them are
lysense lad, he picked a his work week t e best fellows we have."
was, and in the course of ta few weeks "No religious lolly -pops for me,"
physically much better for his I said Tom, "I had enough of that when
training. At the end of three months i I lived i' Brunford,"
he was nearly two niches taller, and } course you can go your own
more than three inches bigger around, wa " said Penrose. "I suppose yon
the chest than at lire time he joined. will spend your evening in the public-
•
WESTERN Jl A1.54 J' � ERS
CALL FOR LABO
GRAIN RIPENING RAPIDLY BUT
MEN ARE SCARCE.
He began to enjoy his work, too, The house or at some cinema show, of
young subaltern whose duty it '
was to train the company had ; perhaps you will be larking around the harvest should be assured. " But
more than once singled him with some silly girls; but I am going this year the wheatless millions
out as capable fell owand as to the Y.M.C.A.
the cold winter days passed away and "Do you go there?" cried Tom in throughout the world look to the North
rig began to advance could
astonishment For Penrose was look- American continent and - pecia1ly
spring g
Cutting Will Commence About August
20—Patriotism Demands Con-
servation of Crop
The gravity of the situation in re-
gard to the harvesting of Ontario's
crops serves but to illustrate mare
clearly the seriousness of the call of
the farmers of the western' prairies
for some 30,000 men from the eastern
provinces to help garner the grain in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
this season.
The Canadian Northern Railway
whose 6,000 miles of line in the three
prairie provinces serve the most pro
ductive areas, have already announced
that the help of 25,000 men would be
required to assist the farmers along
its lines this year. Since, then repre-
sentatives of the Federal government,
the three provincial governr rents and
the leading' railways, have conferred
at Winnipeg, and announced that
31,000 harvesters from Oziario and
the other eastern provinces. would be
welcomed in the west this year:
As everyone knows, agriculture is at
the base of our Canadian prosperity,
and if only for this domestic reason,
neer Tom coat ,• ed upon as anybut goody-goody, Canada, for their supply. ,The North
i Bch
without weariness. He was well fed, and was he
undergo a twenty or thnty-mi e ma generally admired. He
g
well housed, and well clothed, and was the best boxer in the company,
while his pocket money was not ex- was smart in drill, could do long
travagant, he had enough for his marwascles alw<ys with
the tont of do a kindly and
-
need. respects it would tion. Besides all that, his evident
Indeed in P
have been better for Tom if he had education and social superiority made
had less money. The influence of the him a marked man. It was rumor -
Thorn and Thistle was still strong ed, too, that he had refused a com-
upon him, and I have to relate with mission.
sadness that on more than one occas- "Of course I go," replied Penrose.
ion Tom barely escaped punishment "What, and listen to their pie -jaw?"
• for being drunk and disorderly. Most "There is precious little pie -jaw, as
of the lads with whom he was brought you call it," was Penrose's response.
into contact were, on the whole, steady "We have jolly good,• entertainments
and well-behaved. On the other hand, almost every night, and some of the
however there were a number ofthem fellows � who come to talk to us are not
bad influenceupon himbIn ho
American wheat crop this year be-
longs to all the world with the excep-
tion of the Teutons and ,their allies,
and because of this it is 'imperative
that the grain yield be conserved
ELECTRICAL HOME LIF
Idyllic Conditions Which 'P
the Homes of Sweden.
It is a generally acknowledged. fact
that we have never made proper' use
of electricity sin this country; In The
World's Work; for July, Ms:. James
• ,111itn�vniui,,Jr
IF THE TONGUE'SOF YOURSHOES
OOUL 7 SPEAK, THEY WOULD SAY
USE-
It
SE
It gives the sante nourishment to the leather that the
skin gets when on the animal's back.
Black, Tan, Toney Red and lark Brown. IOC. per tin.
"TAKE CARE OF YOUR SHOES."
upon merely to move a small switch
in their hones in order to receive the
I full benefits which the "juice" can
extend.
Meals can be quickly and conven-
iently cooked, the house brilliantly
lighted, and as much heat as desired
obtained --all by pressing a button.
And the cost, owing to the extensive
scale upon which current is generated,
• but a fraction of the expense which
uld be entailed were coal or any of
other familiar mediums, gaseouss
is most important problem before
solid, employed for such purposes. the' the majority of farmers to -day.
most ordinary occurrence in the day's
work. I had to get back to my lot
then, and I don't know what happened
to the sergeant -major and his prison-
er. T hope he came through all right.
The Gordons went over the top soon
after and I fear they made an awful
mess of the Germans. If they are all
of the breed as the sergeant -major, I
don't wonder in the least."
SENTINEL D GS
AT FRENCH FRONT
ANIMALS WARN SOLDIERS OIC°
Increasing the fertility of the soil
COOLEST THING OF THE WAR.
Calm Nerve of the Sergeant-Major of
a Scottish Battalion.
This war story, exemplifying stolid -
Armstrong predicts the early dawn ity and nerve, takes a lot of beating.
fact, while he narrowly escapede- g there to nib up my conversational of the British electric age... He cites "The coolest thing I've seen out
ing brought before his superiors for French.
i misdemeanours, Tom's "Conversational French!' said Tom, Sweden as an example tr of
ale des.. Ihere,"nder, a Argyll
and Sutherland his variousdimlywhat he which electricity is playing
h 1 u French there? Th t of Stockholm
character was steadily deteriorating. only Do understanding
a, mean tsay that tiny of the "world had broken into -anen fighting. Some -
'Che first flush of enthusiasm,.and meant, is trig , a tunes it happens, zn olden
fighting ,) htin that
loyalty, and even' something. nobles they _earn you e ci y`_
beat: Seta f` , is t'.' "' ,Preis o cr es a` m ♦ inter as b A"' a 193�� a �-o o e 1 a µ 1 at7 � .k 'e
than' loyalty �svhich, . 7ie.d been/ r � ., . �'
�' , ......-.ter¢'
., , . r ..�..•, un a.e �.iEi c 'c,,,., S off. is,71f-a.lpm tn,h.ry�(y- ` r:` �+r�. A "visas .. �>,,. �"
i.. T the... speaker ho .hada
7�r1 h,szi,. �, � .,. ..,.. w sS . tf�ll'-:,:,;v;ilf.t Nisi .;� ice. �g +,'.*'.rvs•; r., „� -;�! r Via, e � ,,a'
xs name, still he does it In his wiry
he angels, rattier :' they' ap- he's quite a French scholar, and he
pealed to what was coarse and debased has helped me no end."
in his nature. "Ay, abut you learnt. French at
To tell the truth, there was very lit- school," said Tom; "he would have
tie in Tom's life which tended to en- nowt to do wi' a chap like me."
noble him. It is true there was a
service for soldiers every Sunday
morning in one of the big buildings in
the town and while Tom, lover of
"Don't be an ass. Why, dozens of
fellows got to him every night. A
few weeks ago they didn't know a
word of. French, and now they are
music as he had always been, was picking it up like mad. Besides all
somewhat influenced by the singing that, the Y.M.C.A. rooms are open
of the men, and while the hymns re- every night, they have all sorts of
minded him of his Sunday -school days, games there, lots of newspapers, and
they did not move him very deeply: they give you every facility for writ -
He paid little or no attention to the ing lettees end that sort of sling."
rninistrations• of the chaplain. Neith- (To be continued.)
er did he avail himself of the many _
meetings which were held for solcliers
by the various churches in the town. '
Indeed, up to this point Tom was not
the better, but the worse, for joining'
i the Army.
There was in Tom's company a
young fellow much superior to the•
renk and file of the soldiers. He was! �oaTOzts NOW aavay malanszA
a young Cornish lad, the son of a well- ' dust how dangerous it is to indiscrim-
to-do father who had sent him to a I mately dose the stomach with arose and
good public school, ai: from f medicines is often not realized un
to Lancashire to learn the irianufactur- late. It seems so simple to ..Ballow a
ing business. This young fellow,. dose of some special mixture or take
tablets of soda. pepsin, bismuth, etc., af-
Robert Penrose by name, although be-, ter meals, and the folly of this drug -
longing socially to a different class gin$', ie not apparent until, perhaps years
from that in which Tom moved, took afterward. when it is found that gastric
MACH MEDICINES
. DANGEROUS
h d thence l' a til too
Ulcers have almost eaten their way
through the stomach wails. Regrets are
then unavailing; it is in the early stages
when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn,
flatulence, etc., indicate excessive acidi-
ty of the stomach and fermentation of
a liking to him. He was amused at
his good humor, and seemed to be
grieved at seeing him drifting with the
dregs of the battalion.
"I say, pollard," he said to him ori food contents that precaution should be
one occasion, "do you know you are taken. Drugs and medicines are insist-
snaking an ass of yourself? You sloe andnot often
da gerous—the rn have
have the makings of a mail in you, and acid, aucl that is wily doctors are Vs!
ti
yet you mix with that lot." carding them and advising sufferers
"Why I?" said Tom from indigestion and stomahh trouble to
get rid of the dangerous acid and keep
"Because you has e more brains than i the food contents blanc dna sweet by
they have, are better educated, and
are capable of better things."
"Why shouldn't I have a lark while
1 can?" replied Tom. "I shall have
to go to the front in a month or two,
so I will just make hay while the sun
shines."
"Make hay!" replied Penrose, "make
a fool of yourself, you mean. I hear
that years ago you were on the way
to becoming an educated chap, and
now everybody's looking upon you as
one of the drinking fellows."
"It's all very well for you to talk,"
said Tom, "you're a swell."
"I am a private just as you are," of life.
replied Penrose. A word to the wives is: "Efficient."
"Ay, but you will be getting a com- If the shoe fits keep on wearing it.
mission soon, and there's no chance of Better no garbage can than a full
that for me. I don't belong to your
sort. Besides, what can I do? one.
There's no places but the theatre, the It's a wise father that grows his
cinema show, and the pin lic-lou"
when the Choy'e work is over.
insail eeMeitel little pure imagnesia,
ab-
solutely
pure anti -acid which can be
readily obtained from any drug store,
It is absolutely harmless, is practically
littler warm or cold teaspoonful xneken lals
will usually be found quite sufficient to
instantly neutralize excessive acidity of
the stomach and prevent all possibility
of the food fermenting.
Proverbs for War Time.
Cherish thy parings.
Waste not, want not.
The high cost of living is the whine
ii;, h
as 'warm and snug as f ivdcv in.
the tropics. Electricity -•s applies the
solution of the problei}ii The, Stock-
holm householder does not burn coalms,
in the grate of his rooand strive to
profit from a modicum of heat which
is radiated into the room, while most
of it escapes up the chimney.- Neither
does he dive into the depths of the
cellar to stoke up the furnace. His
last duty on retiring for the' aught- is
to move a small handle or sivitch —
button if you like which sends a cur-
rent of electricity circulating through
the wire coil enclosing a cold -water
tank. As the water becomes heated,
up it is sent coursing through the
pipes laid throughout the house, and
the constant circulation preserves an
equable temperature from hall to
roof. Upon rising in the morning the
householder shuts off the current
the water has been heated sufficiently
to last the house during the daytime
when the energy is required for a
thousand and one other purposes for
the benefit of the community.'
How is such a system possible? The
Swedish engineers have been busy.
The torrential rivers and mountain
streams have been harnessed to, turn
huge turbines linked up with pnder-
ous generators which, in ,their rapid
revolution, turn out current as readily
and as copiously as water flows from
the tap. The energy thus obtained so
readily is conveyed from the . lonely
power -house, maybe for scores of
miles, to the city to be 'distributed
among the residents, who are called
own crop.
Beauty is less than skin deep—in a
potato.
WE PAY CASI.1 FOR Bread, scattered from the back
door, is the, chaff of life.
Eat to live; there is no virtue in liv-
ing to eat.
When prosperity flies in' at the win-
Gold and Platinum mailed to Canadian dow, garbage slips out at the door.
rebating Co., Imperial Bank Bldg., A rounded purse cannot live in har-
Xonge and Queen Sts., Toronto. mond with a full garbage pail.
Old False Teeth
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ENEMY RAIDERS.
Their Acute Vision and Hearing Has
Many Times Contributed to
Allied Success.
Dog sentinels of the French army•
take their regular turn of repose to-
gether with their human comrades in -
the rest camps of the second line,
where they are relieved for a time
from the nerve-racking thunder of the
cannon, which is their daily lot in the
front trenches.
These dogs, mostly of the sheep-
dog species, do most valuable services,
at night more especially, in company
with the look -outs who have the task
of keeping an unfailing guard on the
front lines. The dogs have become
quite accustomed to the roar ' and
bursting of shells, which, when the
animals were first sent to the fighting
lines, caused them to run off with
their tails drooping. -
Now when the human sentinels are
posted right in face of the enemy- the
dogs take up their position quite na-
turally beside them and keep a sharp
watch out over "no man's land." Their
ears perk up at the slightest rustle in
the darkness in front, but the dogs
do not bark or growl. Instead, they
call the attention of the soldier sen-
try by wagging their tails and moving
about nervously. On many occasions
they have given notice in this way of
an enemy patrol moving about stealth,
ily in front, and have perceived the
approach of raiding parties off` Ger-
mans long before their human com-
panions had any idea that any hostile
movement was in progress,
Faithful Guardians.
-a...In fact, a considerable part :of the • -
French success in beating offs German
raids has been due to the dog -sentin-
els' acute vision and hearing. One
battalion of the famous Alpine chas-
seurs, which possess a number of
these animals, has, owing to their
alertness, been enabled to prepare
timely defense on six occasions this
month against German night attacks..„
When the Germans arrived at the
French wire, they found the riflem
w—
aiting for, 'diem' and t e
Nw_
'lion of or=
dons that mostly; Caine from Moray-
shire, my county, and as things were
quiet, except for a bit of shelling, I
just dropped into a shell hole where
the Gordons -were.
"There was a -sergeant-major in
this hole shaving as calmly as if there
were no such things as shells flying
around. I said to him, 'Man, sergeant -
major, ye arena Peart.' Says he, 'I
left my fear by the side of the Lossie.'.
That's the river that Elgin stands on,
and we had a bit of a erack then. ,,He
told me that he had been a bit of . an
athlete in his clay, and when he gave
ane his name I knew him for, a man
famous on the cycle track. We were
talking away about Elgin and Plus-
carden and Mosstowie, and about peo-
ple thereabout when suddenly a Boche
turned up at the crater lip. How he
got there Heaven Duly knows, but we
were a bit mixed up with the Germans
round us near and far. This Boche
had an ugly look as if he meant mis-
chief, but it didn't disturb the ser-
geant -major much. He just laid
down his razor, and picked up his
rifle and bayonet and sauntered out
with soap down one side of his face.
`.!The Boche had a bomb in his hand
but he dropped it without drawing the
safety pin and he up with his hands.
The sergeant -major rounded him up
into the shell hole, dropping him in by
the scruff of the neck. He made the
German hold up the mirror while he
finished his shaving.
"I had to laugh at that. The ser-
geant -major looked as if it were the
saving money
by neglecting to re -shingle
that Barn roof? You know
that each additional patch
lessens the value of your
building. You know each
widening teak moans rotting.
loosening _ shingles and early
deca�yy. You know that only
by Fedlarizingyour roof oats
Tool get - enduing ffrredod om
durability and woariag qualities
of steel at a price, when laid,
about that of a good wooden
shingle roof. A Pedldrizcd roof
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totting you at all times from
the danger of lightning and
fire., •Vim "Right KKoar Book.
lot , telling you all about
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10, 20, 50 and 100 lb. Iia;
food a favorite name among the long -forgotten food products
of half a century ago, just as it is among the live ones
of to -day. Only exceptional quality can explain such
permanent popularity.
"Let I edpath Sweeten it"
ade one grade n __-the highest P
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Al!: the soldiers' at the front
learned to have very strolig' confident
in the instinct of their dog compan-
ions,
ions, who participate in all their per.
ils and often save them from death
or capture.
NO LONGER OBSOLETE.
Things That Were Thought Out -of -
Date Are Being Revived.
In spite of the fact that this is a
machine and petrol war, it is remark-
able how old things that seemed obso-
lete keep bobj ing up: Who, , for in-
stance, would have thought that the
seeming -outworn weapon, the grenade,
after which the British Grenadiers
were named, would be one of the sue
cesses of the war? Or that the old
bayonet would be much wise against
machine-gun fire?
One must go still further back for
armor; yet there has been a distinct
movement in favor of a return to it.
And it is a fact that the steel caps
our men have been provided with have
saved tens of thousands of lives.
Then the sword was supposed to be
obsolete. Yet we not only read of a
naval fight where there was boiarding,
but it was followed by a cutlass fight,
for all the world ;as in Nelson's Fleet
in the brave days of old.
After all, it does not do 'to ..scrap'
things too soon: They may come 'in
very serviceable by-and-by, and eve
save the situation. And, in spite o
machines and general frightfulness,
the man himself is the most import-
ant instrument, both of war and
peace.
P,ETAIN1 PROPHECY.
French Commander -in -Chief Tells
When the War Will End.
Here is a story about General Pe-
tain which I have had on good au-
thority. If there is one thing, more
than another that the General dis-
likes it is being asked when the war'
will be over, Only foolish,' ignorant
people ask such a question be has de-
clared. But some little time ago he
met an English lady at dinner in
Paris who put the question to him. `
Now General Petain is incapable of
replying rudely to a lady. He turned
to his questioner, and said with a
smile, "1 shall tell you, only you must
not tell anyone."
"Oh, certainly not," said the lady
eagerly.
"Well," continued the General, "the
war will be over when I shall have
the pleasure of sitting next to -yore
at dinner in Berlin."