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and. had realised wonderful experi-
ences. New facts and new forces
I had come into his life, day by (lay
nand Lhis had led" him to touch the
very core of life. Thoughts which
were unknown to hila a year before
} new possessed his being; powers of
i which lie had never dreamed had been
called into life.
Tom could not put thea,: things into
words, he didn't even clearly realize
them, but he knew that he was differ-
ent. The very thought that he had
looked into the face of death made
he had been face to face with death,
�1 ton i, tt
CHAPTER 1X• - -(COMM.) me mmne,s of three german swine;
when 1 think u1' spies Lilco that; when him realise the wondrousness of lite,
"Then you have nu sense of elaaree I think of porsonou gas, and of all Town did not feel that he had been a
for what you have done,'„ their treachery, I feel as though no- hero, and yet he knew that the life
{ rrman thing's bad for them Germans. he had been living, and the work he
commence 1 had been doing especially d the
"Shame
." rl 1 �' a ` served.
t ec too urine
I have : ' ' ' At Inst, when the war Go towards ,
the F atherlanrd'." your ae- ;had nowt but la Y. feeling. „last few months had called qualities,
"What do yuta cerate about y the :soldiers, as soldiers; but now- wcliic lay
latent
ate h8mlwas being, into life
t' their''" him ^z different man, it
,tSh •a laughed 1
"shame in feeling that
d
and _ had not made
ion, had only
I think what fools you all e d ice'. CHAPTER X. ! ed
" road Waterman taus. I aroused dormant qualities within him.
and -r.. • The fires through ,,which he hgd pass
solentiy, "I and eth played into laugh-'! It Was late in November when the 1 -
The
when you have It 5events just recorded took place, and had cleansed him, and he knew that
hands. Why," ttnd here there was alife would never be the;•, same again.
`� at felt, days ,ained• theers n Alaihatgraphs But more than all that, he, like thou
touch of passion in his voice, your ; part
of
is imply riddledothinkzthat be... headed "Heroism of a Lancashire 1'f d realised that it was
of Gerniuiy. Do you Lad.' Few details were given about
sea German become naturalised'' Lad. =reran, but Tom's bravery was
tau
he cease: to be a German . . t fully t ammented on. d be known.
think than, although be protestshis''lore than one journalist who had'
and his desire details of what Toni ha I And yet he was strangely mther's
loyalty to nd, tnci, obtaMect i satisfied. He had read his
dis-
help an ' at h that he Do the tthink' done made special reference to him
German r heart? younaturalised, and .poke of him in gloving terms. letter telling him that Alice Lister
whetheraytna.ura_. ,lard received many applicaiwas engaged to Harry Briarfield,
that a German,in order Mrs. Pollard and re-
t serve, steps country?o antYou have tic,ns for Ton's photograph, t P `his heart was ver'r sore at the thought
ho rdhis mansi to- sently when she learnt that it ap- of it. Never before had he realised
ay
hundreds of yourrinatis in five army ,all eared in uewspapers all over the the meaning of the choice he had
hltG offices ft p ave- expression to re- made, when more than a year before
day,while pu _' country, size g t. Alice to walk out with
to oand as p tut for that mac he had left
may ?" she laugh-
ter, of Crernratt parentage and wi h • i.iam•ks more forcible than elegant. 1 the time,,, he reflected, as the
'Our Tom an ero, eh . Polly Powell. "And yet I loved
kinm e s; nda':hie> • i les, you his ed. "Weel I never knowed it afore. Alice all hilt int," and he t.bast.train rushed northward. "I never
shonl• Proudly, "but that will not 1e alweys looked
pthistz'e es sodgeoi.ttg knew how I did love her till now. I
stop ti 1 bin conquering t s " coon- coward, done it, I suppose. Appen I must have been mad and worse than
try and being your mt 5t t s , ed. to there's summit in th' uniform. When i mast!"
I reck- (To be continued.)
stood erect, a lad's gottsma him feel cocky.
haughty, scornful; it mcg � • ' � pity he's sus a n
though he were:. clic a c....cr stoat not it's a l ,
• p on wi Polly Powell. I wrote TIII� WORLD ON RATIONS.
the a«t:sed.
EU -
"Of course you rid? thedd ctlle h mt t' Polly wur walking out wi' oth, Food Restrictions in Some of the
sequence of your deed?" i • el lade,. but she still boasts • as as ropean Countries.
Pres em. presently. ,. > •s.- Tom's faithful to her, and that she's ration -
"1.
Waterman - ,. .,,.,}til his shoulders.- b• .world-wide is food r
,h u herthumb." how
conJust
•
"i ht.. e courted th,. cu t, raid his
got him en he vill give her the sack Mg is shown by the French Echo n -
int to When
the nim _:,; It at his reply.,
Vaven he teas led away th,re was a nol', sana neighbor. the food restrictions fol now
• •,for sem, seconds. "Nay, our Tom wur ,always
L tea if review tofz{h„ch publishes the following
ct hate inthe room He
g
Whatever I:. else he had that done
he was had a i'been hadsuchninny, but she's in effect:
- � � to see that he hadn'triarfielct now., I l - Germany.
;, brave. cn his d,,,cslast
ohman;oithat to more wrote and toldhimabout it only The figures in
oft Gauntry w is mot thansuppose George Lister is
that for twat he had called the Fath- week, I 1'p
erland he hast trampled under his feet fairly .sited about it."
all sof by conventions, all Germany the V C. orccepted "1 hear • that Tom's D.C•M. or summato' that
to have
rules of hves truth. remarked a neighbor; "dost
was first, everything else came after-'• , no sort,"w what that means?"
waTds.s - 1 know nowt about it, but I
courage, Englishman
matter ntwhat form it hope as he will get a bit o' brass wi'
may appear, anal there could be no it, anyhow." dost 'a'
doubt that Waterman was courageous. "Will he come home, should
"It is no wonder," said the General, . think?" I dant know. Why as msu speaking terribleeenemies." "that No man he leave his job for a thing like that?
are such I expect if he wur to come home they'd
other' but each knew what was in the I stop his pay, and I hope Tom is noan
other's mind.such a fool as to lose his pay, b it
Of course, there was no doubt about'
the verdict; Waterman had been guiillty there, st e of all this, s no tellin'."
however, Mrs.
ofu the worst possible crime, and Pollard was in no slight degree elated.
f.,:• the quick wit and prompt action was
of the Lancashire lad he would doubt-!
She
knew
ahat a that special htalk of
of
to have continued to help the enemy.. B
The paper which Waterman had', were devoted to him in the Branford
thrown towards detailsGerman lines ofthe next plan newspapers.
be sure to come home,"'
of d the
of attaek; details tierce, known to the !said EzekielePollard
a lad's doneone ra job
ht
C,eintnns, would have nullified the, after supe
British action, and possibly have led like that, he's sure to have a bit of
tf, d` -aster, a "Mayholbe,
y:' tha'll be
`"that young,' Pollard is a plucky and I supposewur
,rung beggar," remarked the Presi-i shcwing him around as though
shoe glad
lad f brains a prize turkey.
too, and has e b
sands of- others, had learnt the grea
secret of r e, an r .
only by opening his life to the Eternal
Life that the highest manhood could
Fora moment he alio-• seen es on
hamihty, the roomi He ht •eenr a� on as aa'h fool . Butt
keen t elline• him
0
rth Pre t cth l
A good article is worthy of a good package.
A. rich, strong, delicious tea like Red Rose is
worth putting into a sealed package to keep it
fresh and good.
A cheap, common
tea is hardly worth
taking care of and is
usually sold in bulk.
Red Rose is always
sold in the sealed
package which keeps
it good.
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Related By harry Lauder.
"When I was across in France see-
ing the boys," said Harry Lauder, "I
often thanked the inventor of the talk-
ing machine for not having lived in
vain. A record out yonder, where
the mud is much deeper than evert in
the streets of dear auld Glasca an the Inc if it never would, stop, an
worst winter day, a record brings wonder where of all tame from. Even
back the sniff o' the hills, the wee the trenches were flooded. That night
It's gra
uk, and days o' sol Whd at sync- passed, and at dawn the Germans were
, �ye! What an iii a' 'ons were t
It's Braun, I oi tellrn scattered and new po.itm
vection! Voices o' loved ones always � en• But still it rained."
Lek-
wi' you; sangs o' the hameland, the
mountain and glen to inspire you, to Harry at this stage quietly chuckled,
fill your heart and strengthen your am.' puffed away at his pipe, and went on.
•filar "Several hours later the boys weree-
TRAMP OF ME
LOST "TICKET":
'•--p'e'r__--==
ERROR OF A MINUTE WRECKS A.
PROMISING CAREER.
A Bitter Price is Paid I3y a Merchant
Captain Who Makes
Mistake.
"The finding delivered, the other
I day, of the Board of Trade inclttiry
into the collision between the Mendi'
and Darro last February, when the
former was lost, with six hundred of a
South African labor battalion, as
that the collision. was caused by
wrongful act and default of the mas-
ter of the Darro, whose certificate was
suspended for twelve months."
Just a little paragraph in a corner
of the British newspapers, the epi-
taph, perhaps, to a fine career.
That is one of the bitter tragedies rs of
the Merchant Service—long
toil,and zeal, and skill, and then, by
theerror of a minute, a moment's
faulty judgment or seamanship, a
career is cut short.
Inexcusable Blunders. '
and hours the Jocks had been under a
fierce bombardment—with00
and withoot a halt. Then day gave
way to night. Shells were continually
bursting; Lazy Lizzies, Whistling
Willies and a' the rest o' the devil's
messengers." Now the rain came on.
Sheets and sheets o' it; rain that de koe d
regard to German
food restrictions are known to us in
detail. Among the commodities on
short allowance in Germany worthy of
mention are bread, meat, grease, oil
and potatoes.
The bread allowance differs in vari-
ous cities from four pounds a week
about
for every person to five potindesrs n
ten ounces a clay for every ).
The meat allowance -is nine auizges,
a week for every person.
As far as grease and food oils, in-
cluding butter, are concerned, the
weekly allowance is two ounces, and
even these are not always distributed.
The official allowance of potatoes is
seven pounds a week for every per-
son. But the distribution varies in
different localities.
As to milk, adults can receive none
till needs of children, sick people and
nursing women are satisfied. The
theoretical allowance for these
anthreee
classes was formerly a p.
half; recently it has been reduced to
a pint. As to others, in most cities'
they receive no milk at all.
Austria-Hungary.
Aye, the talking machine is a thin
machine, and the thoughts that it in-
spires e are pleasant thoughts,—
thoughts o' hame and the dear ones
left behind."
Such is Harry Lauder's description
of. music among the then at the front
in an interview with the London
Phono-Record shortly after his return
from his 'recent visit to the western
front; "I'll tell you a wee story," he 1 ma
proceeded in his own pawky and 111 slipped on a record,
inimitable way, "an' it's no' a made-
up yin, min' I'm telling yel This is a
story of how a gramophone backed up
the gallant soldiers o' a gallant Scot-
tish regiment. The day's duties had
been long and arduous, and for hourr
lieved, and tramped miles back
rest camp -,amid mud to the knees all
the road, and with the water stream-
ing down their necks and squelching in
their boots. • It was evening before
they arrived at the place where warm
tea, warm clothing, and a good dry lied
awaited them, but, man, even before
a
helmet was doffed one o' the Jocks
de for the com;iany gramophone.
e wound up the
machine, and started it a -going. And
the discomfsorts of the past. thirty-st"
hours were sent into oblivion when the
machine calmly churned out, 'When
You Ccme to the End of a Perfect
Day.
"
dent presently, 'h e is splendidly. Of; about this drinking order,"
' "Why?"
corse what h@ has done must not e "Because else all th' lads in the
l�� t sightwas of." general assent to this. town 'ud be wanting to treat our Toni;
There a. „en i to be seen Wi him,
He ought to be recommended for ! they'd be proud
hie D. C. M. was the general verdict, i and they'd make him drunk afore he
er
Early next morning Waterman from wastthe ; couldd suplmmt ch beeere he rl'wii'ur Tom 'out it gain'Tto
led out to a wall not
room where he had been judged. He hist head •" give up that sort 0'
walked steadilyof hisaexecution nd ,y andvthen thio Wit,' replied Eekiel.
the placeI
stood erect like a soldier at attention.
He faced his dread ordeal with a
look of pride on his face.
., dost -ost tea know?
'
"I do know, and that's enough,„ re-
plied Ezekiel, thinking ohTom's
had never
hic11 Iiy the way,
INVESTITURE BY THE KING.
Nine Victoria Crosses Recently Be-
,• •.._stowed at Buckingham.
In the presence of thousands of
people, says the Daily Telegraph, the
King bestowed nine Victoria- Crosses
in the forecourt of Buckingham Pal-
ace recently. Relatives of the heroes
In no other service does there exist
the unwritten law that he- who has
failed is ruined, and no other service
has such a long and pitiful list of sui-
cides to its name, for few skippers
have cared to survive the disgrace!! of
"suspended."
There have been insta t •es, however,
when men have lost their ships in; cir-
cumstances which are not to be ex-
cused. -
Very few people are aware that the
commanders of the P. and 0. liners are
forbidden to have any social •inter-
course whatever with pass angers dur-
ing the voyages.
This rule dates back to the time of
the stranding of their 111,., ship, the
China, which was run ashore on an is-
land in thin. Red Sea in 18;)7. cess
A birthday party was in prod
for one of the passengers, who was a
well-known lady of title. She sat at
the captain's right hand, and the re-
ports of the inquiry showed that he
was so engrossed in his fait -neighbor's
conversation that he paid no attention
to three notes which were sent him
from the bridge.
A Race With Death. -
occupied advantageous seats -- ,
numbers of wounded soldiers were ad, Majesty shook hands with her and also
witted to the investiture. Three of with the little boy. The lad drew
f•t1Q
-
pressed his deep sympathy with her in
her loss. "He was a brave man,"said
the King to her. The father of Second
Lieutenant Frank hW is S ri e received
The King
the V.C. earned by
shook hands warmly with the bereav-
ed father and congratulated him on his
son's noble act. Another widow, Mrs.
Davies, accompanied by her little boy,
received the honor won by her hus-
band Corporal James Davies. His
"Firer, ry ,
Several shots rung out, and he fell + shown to his wife.to tryto describe
heavily to the ground. I am not going
"Yon' •ha '11 never do any moreTom'sfeelings when he as told that
c p
them had lost both their legs on
Somme and one of them wore the Mili-
tary Cross. They were wheeled in
bath chairs. Shortly before eleven
o'clock His•Majesty held a private in-
vestiture inside the palace and de-
corated a large number of naval and
military heroes.
The King !on entering the forecourt
inspected the guard of honor and then
took up his position in the centre of
the courtyard beside a table upon
which the crosses were placed. Each
V.o pero was presented to inned the coveted award onhis
R+hop'
breast after his gallant deed had been
read but. The names of the recipients
are set out in the Court Circular,
A poignant scene was witnessed
when Mrs. Henderson, wearing wid-
ow's weeds, was presented to the King
and received the V.C. won by her late
husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Hender-
R, 1 Warwicks.The King chat -
The situation in Austria is no better
than in Germany. The daily allow-
ance of bread is ten ounces. Meat has
not been put on allowande in Austria;
only two meatless days are
the ques-
tionby the law. At present
tion of increasing the number of
meatless days is under consideration.
The weekly ' allowance of butter,
grease and food oil is four and a half
ounces, and consists of two and a half
ounces of butter, one ounce of merger-
ine and one ounce of bacon. In real-
ity, however, nobody receives more
than one ounce of butter.
atoes is three
The allowance ofpotatoes
the press r be-
lieves
per week,
to w thou ds,sonwill
account of "the fail-
ure
totwop
of the potato crop.
Bulgaria.
Very little is known about Bulgaria
and Turkey.
In Bulgaria the allowance of bread
has been set at eighteen ounces a day
for every person. On the other hand,
there are three meatless days each
week. Turkey.
In Turkey the theoretical bread al-
lowance is supposed to be nine ounces
a day, but it rarely exceeds five
ounces.
Denmark and Sweden.
In Denmark the daily allowance of
bread is eleven ounces a person. In
Sweden it is nine and a half ounces.
Netherlands.
The daily allowance of bread in the
Netherlands is nine ounces a person,
the meat allowance seven ounces and
he had been recommended for the D.
C.M.
"Thank you, sir, but I've doneansont
to deserve it,”cried the lad, lapsing
for the moment into the Lancashire
dialect,
Colonel Blount laughed. Ever
since Waterman's death he had felt as
though a burden had been lifted from
+ him, He felt sure now that his plans
would not be frustrated.
"We are the best judges of that, my
lad," he said. "You can tell your
father and mother that, as a Lan-
'cashire man, I'm proud of you."
It was on a Saturday in December
when Tom arrived in Brunfard on
leave of absence. He had spent Fri-
day in London, and caught the ten
o'clock train at King's Cross Station.
There was although,er lad truth zn toEtell rnd
he
that day, Naturally he
was not quite happy•
had read what had been written about
him in the newspapers, and reflected
upon what the people in Brunford
would be saying about him. He
imagined meeting people whom he
knew, in the Brunford streets, and the
greeting they would give him. He
knew it would be a great home -coin-
ing, and yet he had a heavy heart. I the potato allowance fifteen ounces.
It was several months now since he i Natures food foP the very young
I
had left Brunford, and he could not s
help reflecting on the change that had and the very •
old is mills.
taken place in him. He still wore a
`private's uniform, and carried the Mabel—You've been wanting some
ud of the Pollardhes ohad enlisted) Ahis clothes. "giganticislippe sale"y, and sour chance.
adverti ed
But theTom Pollard who , n the papers. Amy—You had better
at the Mechanics' Institute was not, .
the same lad. who now made his way get a pair yearself. • I dont wear
to his Lancashire home. Since then gigantic slippers.
he had been through strange scenes,
spying," said one soldier to another a
little later,
"If I hail my way," said the other,
"he should not have had such a death
as that. When I think of the dirty
r ecutterior,$ overcame positive y. ur
,yat,ar„l methods permanently restore
natural speech. Graduate pupils every -
I�gp•1-..ere.ree advice and literature.
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himself up, clicked his heels together,
returned the King's handshake proud-
ly and then smartly saluted. His Ma-
jesty smiled and patted the lad kindly
on the shoulder. The King afterward
walked over and chatted with several
wounded officers and men.
These notes were from the officer of
the watch, and they warned the cap-
tain that the vesselwas rapidly near-
ing a certain point, and that the
course should be altered.
Conceiving that he had done all that.
was required of him, the officer did no-
thing more; and before the diners had
reached their coffee, the vessel struck:
One of the most tragic illustrations
of over zeal hi a captain to save hiss
ship above all other considerations,
was that of the disaster to the Salem
in 1904, a big New York excursion
steamer. This caught fire, and instead
of running his vessel aground and
awaiting rescue, the captain put on
full speed and tried to reach port with
the ghastly result that over one thou-
sand Sunday -school children, out for
the day's treat, were burnt to death
in full view of the agonized onlookers.
In the summer of 1915 occurred the
terrible disaster to another excursion
ship, which, ironically enough, took
place right in the heart of the city of
Chicago.
An Occasion For Grief.
After shoveling the snow from the
sidewalk for two hours little Patsy,
began to cry.
"What's the trouble, my little
man?" asked a sympathetic neighbor.
"A bad tramp came along and stole
the snow shovel from the boy next
door."
"Well, my lad, it's a very nice thing
to be sympathetic," said the neighbor,
"but you mustn't worry sq over other
people's affairs."
"It ain't that," said the boy, "I'm
crying because he didn't steal my
son, oya little time and ex shovel, too.
f
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"The Light That Failed."
The boat was lined up alongside the
Chicago river to take on over 1,500
passengers. Through gross negli-
gence on the part of the authorities,
and utter disregard of the laws of
overcrowding and ballast, the Eastland
suddenly turned over • On its side and
deposited its human cargo into the
dirty river. In less than ten seconds
there was a death -roll of over 1,500
souls!
Perhaps the saddest instance of the
rule that those who go down to the
sea in ships must pay the cruel penal-
ty of shipwreck with their lives was
the fate which overtook the captain of~
one of the liners which grounded on
a coral island in Jamaica.
The boat was crowded with passen-
gers, making a pleasure 'trip to the
West Indies, and fortunately as the
weather was calm, all were safely
landed. But the captain returned to
his ship and shot himself through the
head.
The pitiful part is to come. It was
not the brain he shattered that was
at fault, but the Kingston earthquake,
which had wrecked the lighthouse.
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Cottage cheese is an important sub-
stitute for meat It contains a larger
percentage of protein, the chief ma.,
terial for body building, than most
meats.
In every'• pound' of cottage cheese
there is about one-fifth of a pound of
proteins, nearly all of which is rli •esu
tibio. A pound of cottage cheese daily
will supply all the protein requited by
an ordinary adult engaged in a sedent-
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