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CHAPTER X. --(eont'd,)
For at long ti2r.e he had ceasd to
care for Polly Powell; •. •hen he \vas in-
Surrey
n-Surrey his mother's letter bad open—
ed his eyes to the kind of girl she real-'
ly was. Ile aw her, c•oaree, loud-'
talking, .:n l vulgar; a girl who had
appealed only to what was coarse in
his own nature. And he turd yielded
to her l,irtediehinent Ir? had left a
pure,. refined girl for her,'end he had
lost Alice for ever,
That was the bittern hi Tuna's'
cup of joy. Ile irks proud of what
he had 1at fellow; situated us
he was would not be? His heart
thrilled with exultation as h,' remem
bored what the Colonel had said and
written about him. He remembered
with joy, too, what his cezn,;a:].s had
said when he left for home, end the -
eheets they gave him.
Oh, if he hadn't beet sut'h a tool!
• He thought of what his home -com-
ing might have been if he had remain-
ed true to Alice; he fancied the look
in her eyes as she greeted hilus of the
feelings which would fill his heart as
he sat by her side in the chuech ,he
attended. But that was impossible
now. Thus his home -coining would
be robbed of half its joy. If he saw
Alice at all she would be in the com-
pany of hairy Briarf,e.:i, and Briar -
field, he knew, had always looked
down upon him. "But there," he
said to himself, "I'll bear it like a
man, I have done nay bit, and that's
from them, and so they gave
great welcome.
him a
stead of the scenes of home, and thea
loved ones, were the blackened ruins
of an ancient town which had been
ruthlessly destroyed, Oh, how . Tom
wished the War were aver! How he
dreaded the idea of going back again!
Yet he knew he must go, until those
who 'had made war should be power-
less to make it again.
Presently the service was over, and
Tont made his way towards the vesti-
bule of the church, Scores of hands
(To be continued,)
WHERE OUR MEN FIGHT. •
No words can tell the joy which World -Wide Triumphs of Our Match -
Mrs, Pollard felt when she found that
British At nt '.•
TOM was going straight home with less )
her. As she said, she had got the It is obvious --and yet it needs say -
best dinner in Brunford for hien, but
ing---that was afraid that Tom would yield
ing---that the war is going on in its
to all the inducements which would.
reality miles .away from London,
he held out to him, primarily (for as) in Flanders and in
"Never mind," she said to the France; then, also, wherever our best
neighbor whom she had asked to get men tight in almost every climate and
everything in readiness by the time corner of the 'world, says the London
she returned, "we'll have everything Pictorial.
as though we were sure he wur tom- They advance upon Jerusalem in the
ing Uric. Nobody shall say as 'ow I Fast, after many triumphs. They hold
• didn't prepare a good dinner for my l;ahciatt. They keep guard in Egypt.
bey when he returned from the war,
Thus r heti Tom had refused the i They watch at Salonika. They are ar
invitation to go to the :Rose and rayed for battle in Italy. They rule
Crown. and declared his intention of the seas, in great or humble vessels,
•':oink; : traight home, her joy knew no; maintaining the nerve and body and
bounds.,j life -breath of the Alliance, securing
"Do. t 'a' really mean, om, "'for fen• the talkers at home the means of
thotert coming straight home with elisplaying their abilities' and, as we
thee reyther• and me?" !
"Ay, I du," replied Tom, `there's; say, of "airing their views." The
tact ,ate but home for me to -clay." presence and prevalence of this amaz-
something, anyhow."
Ile had sent a telegram to his moth-
er the clay before, telling her of the
time he expected to arrive in Erin-'•
ing •host is the real the
Wy. than I iron kiss thee agean," ng that matters
she sobbed, throwing her arms around : to us all.
his neck, : This wonderful, this unconquerable,
Throughout the whole of the aai "I- this ubiquitous British Army of ours
noon and evening Erekiel I c.l,ard stis the rock which beaks all waves of
house was besieged with visitors. Drs. Re- „ essimism„ to pieces,
i2l
porters cae from the newspapers in
order to hear any detail: wich lead Think of it, critics who despair of
been missed concerning Toro's ex -
our race, thus represented i21 the
plaits. Relations whom Tom had not, great society of the bravest and no -
seen for years came to bid him wel i blest of our sons! 4
come. tthile the neighbor:s thronged! But if you do not remember and
the doors, , think of it, be sure the Germans de.
".Ay, it's good to be home c,gain,"} May it not be said indeed, truth -
Card Tona standtii • on el a eco,„ ere
ford, and presently when the train and watching the 1 last visitu�• Beira t fully, that they think of•nothing else go Pee cent.. Titin Out 4'r'ell, for the Moslems retard it as one of was signed, that their repro < >tati.ives
drew into the station he looked out of that night,: I never thought that ft The British Army baffles them fors sacred cities, the others being
the window eagerly expectant, and g t i Wherever they torn. They cannot stop About eighty per cent. of the trees Mecca 111edina and Jerusalem. It took counsel together agatinet the
rrld l,e like the` enemy of the polity= and of the ivi!iza-
tion they have developed.
Franklin had pleaded and 1,:°otested
there; Adams and Jay had detti,tless
often called there in the n•ig .' i.ttiens
for the settlement to wh!e•h their
names are set with his. The successor
of North and of Portland, who weleoni-
ed the American delegation, was lay-
ing practical problems before practical
and busy men, but nobody with lfr.
Lloyd George's east of mind could
pass over facts so striking without a
word. We do not doubt that they will
appeal to millions on. both sides of the
ocean..
Historic Meeting Place.
Thoughtful men will everywhere
feel that this meeting, whose aim is
the protection of human freedom,
could have had no more appropriate
setting than the room in Downing
Street where that great chapt=:r in its
history was largely written. It was
not only the indepenclene'-' of the
United States which that el: t i cr de-
termined. It decided the future of the
British Empire as well. We have
never forgotten the lessons. that it
taught us. From them we have learnt
how a great democratic Empire must
be moulded and preserved. S`atesmen
sat in the old room in Downing Street
even in those days to whom the secret
was clear.
Chatham saw it, and Edmund Burke,
and many of the Rockingham Whigs.
"Things could not be otherwise,” said
Burke, than that Englishmen beyond
the seas should claim the full rights of
Englishmen. But they preached to
deaf ears in a Parliament of "King's
friends" and placemen, and the miser-
able quarrel followed which long
estranged the two peoples, who have
more in common, as Dr, Page has
said, than any peoples everhad before.
"The purpose of this historic
gathering," said the Prime Minister,
"was to determine how the United
States could best co-operate with
Great Britain and the other Allies.""
Co-operation in the War.
Mr. Lloyd George said that, after
full deliberation, he and his colleagues
were satisfied that two matters—man-
power at the fronts and shipping—..
were of superior and equal urgency.
He was anxious to know how soon the
first million men could be expected in
France. Other matters of urgency
were the supply of airmen and aero-
planes, the supply of food, and the
tightening up of the blockade. •
Speaking of Food, the Prime Mini-
ster assuredthe Mission 1V salon tH..
st the
most drastic restrictions were about
to be imposed upon the people of the
PUNTING TREES
ON TIE PRAIRIE
MORE THAN 7,000,000 .SET OUT
DURING 1917.
Three -fold Object of Providing Shelter
Belts, Future Fuel and
Ornamentation.
3 Many �.
People
Make a
B -Line
unta's
pal;
Famous lista
for the Wacker House (The House
of Plenty) as soon as they arrive in
Toronto. The meals, the service
and the home -like appointments
constitute the magnet that draws
them there.
Noon Dinner 60c.
Evening Dinner 7$c,
THE WALKER HOUSE
7brn„tds l�an,ou.s 1 foie1
TORONTO, CANADA
2b
On the farms of the prairies of the tj
three provinces during the season of
1917, 7,450,000 trees have been plant-;
ed by the joint co-operation of the Ai
forestry department and the far'zners, ,T•
Rtes Reasonable '
:
with the three -fold object' in view of Geo. Wright 8, Co., Props,
providing the farmsteads with shelter s lee e �:it, �,•., z; t,,Et . ,ay
belts, the farmer with a possible fu-
ttn e supply of wood, and of adding The trees are supplied for planting
pleasing eiFect by beautifying the on the farms only, and must not be
landscape of the prairie homeland, t plantec!. in towns or cities. Those
says the Canadian Forestry Journal. ; wishing to plant trees in 1919 must
Incidentally, trees are said to have an have their applications in before
important effect on the weather and ; March, 1918. The ground on which
climate, as well as in the supply of the trees aro to be planted • must be
moisture.. Certainly they tend to summer-fallowed the year previous to
check the winds and by catching the planting and a satisfactory report is
drifting snow, they may be used to in -'received by the department from
crease the supply of moisture in the their own inspector before the trees
soil of field or garden, an end much • ,
desired in certain eee't.ions of the i
are sent out,
prairie weet. ( ANCIENT HEBRON.
The deciduous trees are of five
kinds, maple, ash, Russian poplar, Most Venerable of Earth's Cities and
caraganna, red willow and aspen leaf Rich in Historic Interest.
willow. The evergreen trees include
white spruce, lodge pole pine, jack Hebron, recently captured by the
pine and Scotch pine. The deciduous British forces in Palestine, is a very
trees are supplied free by the forestry
ancient city, figuring, in fact, as one
department, and the nominal charge of the oldest in the history of Canaan,
of a cent eaeh is charged for the Its modern Mohammedan n.eme is El
evergreens. The express from Indian Khalil, or Khalil Allah, "Friend of
Head, Sask., is paid by the applicant God," said to have been so named
in each case.
from its association with Abraham,
--,._._-_--__.,-._,., --,.,.-7777 77'77,,,,,""1,
AN HISTORIC
MEETING TING
ELI) AT 1)O"VtNING STREET, IN
LON DON;
Representatives of the Two (,reat
English -Speaking RCO4's confer
Once Again.
Anhistoric ..
meeting took f,1x••e= at
10 Downing Street, Loudon, ;u No-
vember•, says a writer in a F:ritish
weekly.
Members of the Amet'ieen !issitnn
met the British War Cabinet an,! the
Heads of the Departments 'poet. inti-
mately concerned in the wlea The
meeting Was essentially a b:. i •tens
meeting to consider how the Ceited
States could best work with UV.. and
with the other Allies for the s:aglc
end we have in view. Bet the: d,_Ellest
imagination must be stirred by this
gathering of the repreeentet;1.,.:•t r:f the
two great English -speak inn; peoples
for such a purpose upon "rich a scene,
Members of the Satre Faintly.
Until a century and a half ago, they
were one people with a common in-
heritance of blood and of iat.•:•cnge,
of political and religious thought, of
institutions, habit:;, character, and tra-
ditions coming down to than tbrotzgh
countless generations, Then the claim
of the colonists to self-e�:o rrnment
divided them from the Mother Coun-
try, and just baeau'w they awe of the
same family the kinsmen s!...bbornly
fought their quarrel out. It •.:t., in
the room and at the tail: where r e the
decisions which mace the severance ince in-
evitable were taken, and where the
treat of ace with the n ae T. ert,hlic
with fast -beating heart.
Yes, there his father and mother;
were, waiting for him. But what,
was the meaning of the crowd?
No sooner did he set foot on the
platform than a great cheer arose.
"There he is! There's Tom Pol
lard!"
"Gi't tongue, lads! Gi't tongue!
Hip! hip! hip! hoorah!"
Tom, heedless of the cheering and
shouting, went straight to his mother.
For a second this lady looked at him,
and seemed to be on the point of
greeting him with a caustic remark;
then her mother's heart melted. •
"Ay, Tom, I'm fair glad to seef
thee, she sobbed.
"And lam glad to see you, mother.!
Ay, father, it is good to see you, it isc"i
Art 'a' tired, lad?„ asked his fath-� its advance in the East,,. They feel its planted have turned out well, and
er, , ceaseless pressure on the West. As where there has been failure it has
"Just a bit," said Tom. "I couldn't they plunge hither and thither,
claim_ been largely dire to uninterested ten -
sleep last night, I was thinking all' ing victory and wondering why, if ants on rented farms, the enlistment the Old Testament in Numbers Hili.,
the time about coming home, and •they win, they cannot have the peace of farriers, and the selling or aband- 22 Genes
now--•--" thew want, slimly, sternly, the British y '
lies only twenty-one miles south-west
of Jerusalem.
The city of Hebron is referred to in
Genes' xxiii. 2; Joshua xiv.,15.
onment of farms. Only
about five Asa sanctuary it was the most fern -
"Ay, lad, I'm proud of thee," said per watches them,all the world per cent. of the failures were due to
his father for the hundredth time. ous of the south, and the three patri-
"'Thou art a fool,lad," said his } over. They cannot get beyond it. They -gross carelessness, The most success- archs—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
mother, "but thou'rt xoan such a fool cannot understand it. It stares at fol trees prover to be Russian poplar are reported to have sojourned at
as I feared. Thou'st done vary' them—a many -headed Sphinx, threatrrid caraganna, and among the ever- Hebron (Genesis xiii., 18; xxxv., 27;
weel too, vary weel." 1 ening them. greens the white spruce has proved xxxvii., 14.) A legend hes it that
"Father," said Tom when they had; It is the German nightmarel to be the most adaptable to Alberta. they were all buried there with • Re-
entered the house and closed the door,
,t
do you ever pray now?" i
14T L f•
The pines are best suited torockybocci and Sarah, while even to -day an
Contrai.of Insect Pests in Canada districts. ,, 1 is' t d t t M
ams o oak
adna prayed for yours,' said 1f, S&•see farmers on the R'�.lt!It�rave
Ezekiel Pollard, "till thou went to the The annual report of the Dominion
Front, but every night sin' I have; Entomologist for the year" ending found that the double shelter belt has
asked nowt for 'myself " he added al- ! March 31st, 1917, has just been issued enabled them to grow small fruits
s poen a eta a entre, near
by, as that of Abraham.
The spies sent out to visit the
Promised Land ventured to Hebron,
°`And I ani fair proud on you, Tom," 1 most proudly. "I didn't deserve it; by the Department of Agriculture, most successfully. The outer belt and Joshua was said to have destroy -
and Ezekiel Pollard's voice was hoarse but PVC) asked God to take care o I Ottawa. and in its twenty-four pages of trees catches the drifting snow, and ed the city before giving it as a heri-
as he shook his son's hand. i thee." i a brief record is given of the activities the garden or berry patch is planted Cage to Caleb, and made it a city of
"•But, Tom," cried Mrs, Pollard ! "So have I," said his mother. "I
wiping her eyes, "thy clothes be dirty; never towd anybody about it; 1 wur a
I sh<zl] have a rare job to get th' bit ashamed, I reckon, but I have
nnul~ rut of 'em " I prayed twenty times a day.
of the officers of. the Entomological in the treeless land between the inner refuge. Then the place figures promi-
Branch. The necessity of protecting • and the outer shelter belt. The farm gently in the history of David, for it
all aur crops from insect pests with n yard is often located inside the inside was here that he was anointed King,
This was followed by a general "Then," said Tom, "let us kneel} viewto increasing crop production is belt, where the family and live stock first over Judah, and then over the
lataxli by these who had come to down, and thank God for His good -;more urgent than ever at this present are quite comfortably located, even on whole;of Israel. (II. Samuel fi., 1-4;
greet Tom and bid him welcome,
nee&. ltine. The establishment of regional
"Ay, and thou look'st as though' And the three knelt down together, l entomological stations, of which there
thou hasn't weshed for a week. II are now ten in different provinces, has
thought as aa' sodjers kept theirsens : • CHAPTER KI. !greatly enlarged the scope of the
clean." j It was nearly midday when Toin work and the usefulness of the officers
I'll wash right enough when I get awoke. The church bells had ceased concerned. Concise statements are
home, mother," Iaughed Tom. ringing for nearly an hour, indeed at
"Halloa, Tom. I air glad to see nearly all the churches the congrega-
, given of the progress of the following
yon," and Polly Powell made her way tions were being dismissed. 'Nei lines of work; investigations on in -
through the crowd. , Town Hall clock chimed a quarter to i sects affecting grain and field crops,
"Thank you," replied Tom quietly; twelve, but all else seemed strangely; garden and greenhouse, fruit crops,
"have you brought one of your young silent. Toni rose in his bed, and rub-lfot'est and shade trees, stored grain
211011 with you, Polly?" bed his eyes. , and other products, insects affecting
"I have not got any young men," was am I ? he gasped; "this is' domestic and other animals the house-
"'WherePol]y's reply. Whereupon there was —the is—ay, tvltere am I , 1'Viiy, I'm � hold and public health; the introduc-
a general laugh of incredulity. home! I'm home!"}
Poly, heedless of the crowd, and al- i Immediately he jumped out of bed, ! tion and colonization of parasitic in -
though angered at the remarks that , and pulling up the blinds looked out: sects and studies of natural control;
were made, still held her ground.
upon the smoky town. 1 field work against the brown -tail moth
Dear old Brunford, dear old Brun-, in the Maritime Provinces; and the in-
ar_d�Thistle,aen coming dyou,t Tom?"the sheta ford," he said; "ay, this is a change!'
and of impair .1 nursery stock. A
Art 'a got up, Tom
said; "mother and father are expect-` ,.Ay, mother , ' brief statement of the work undertak-
the prairie which was once noted for v., 1-3.) Absalom also made his at -
its • blizzards. In the district., near tempt to capture the Throne from He -
Edmonton this would not apply as bran, but soon after that time it dis-
much as it does to those settlementsappears from marked prominence in
where there are no trees except those , Bitrle story. In the Apocrypha it is
planted by the settler. In many mentioned, however, as being the
districts to the north and west of place that Judas Maccabeus took from
Edmonton the trouble of the pioneer t the Edomites.
homesteader was to get rid of the i ;+
natural growth of trees. But now ' B.C: s Trade Position.
that the native brush is being cleared
off, the settlers of the Edmonton
district are frequently turning their
attention to the planting of shelter
belts around their farm buildings. ist." On that side of the continent,
With the satisfactory supply of mois- says the "Colonist," there is' the larg-
ture found here, there is little or no � est supply of merchantable timber,
difficulty found in growing these trees.; pulp and paper mills when fully in
Another Plantation Started. I swing will be able to supplement the
The forestry department have on shortage of products in the east and
ing a ou. "Make haste, then, I'll have dinner . en with a view to conservation of wild their farm at Indian Head a planta- probably indefinitely supply the de -
British Columbia's mills have a pos-
sible output of 2,500,000,000 feet per
annum of lumber, according to an es-
timate made by tine "Victoria Colon -
`No, thank you, Polly," said Tom.m •
agoing o %%1 1 my mother ready." inc publication does not contain any
and father. Besides, I don't want to "Ay, it's good to be home," said recommendations respecting the con-
pley gooseberry.' i Tom, and then he sighed, "I wonder trol of insect pests, such information
At this there was general cheering.; now, 1 wonder—a" and then he sigh- is published in the bulletins and circu-
It was evident that Polly Powell was , ed again, 1
lays of the Entomological Branch, It
comprises a brief account of the year's
work and will be of interest to all
who desire to learn what progress is
ready for thee by the time thou're life, particularly birds, is also given. tion of 480 acres devoted to the culti- mind for paper. In the years 1912
nation of trees and demonstration to 1914 not more than five per cent.
plots. Owing to the increase of of the foreign lumber export trade on
applications in recent years, and to the Pacific was handled from the west -
supply the demands of a large area, ern ports, notwithstanding the na-
another plantation of 320 acres has tural resources, which are greater
been started at Sutherland, Saskatche- than all the States to the south. The
wan, and sown with seed that will figures, therefore, show that British
in due time produce a crop of trees. Columbia, which is in a position to
These tree plantations are under the supply the major portion of the de -
supervision of Norman Ross, chief mand, is only in a small minority in
of the Tree Planting division of the actual trade.
Forestry Department, with headquar-
ters at Indian Ilead. To him all ap-
plications for trees should be made.
ready to give up her latest lover in; "I mean to go to chapel to -day," he
order that the glory of Tom's lustre: said to his mother when he presently
knight shine upon her; but her powerappeared.
over him had gone. I "Chapel!" said his mother, "I
"Nay, thou'lt come down to the thought thou'd given up going to being made in this line of scientific
Ro'e. and Crown wi' us, won't 'a'?' chapel," research as applied to agriculture.
erica another, i "I tun going to -day anyhow," said 1 p g
"No, I am not going to the Ruse , Tom. "It would be grand if you i Copley may be obtained on application
and Crown," replied Tum. ' and father would come with me to-
"Nay,
o- to the Publications Branch, De]pagt-
Nay, you doan't mean to say night," tient of Agriculture, Ottawa, All en -
you' ;. t"rned teetotaler?" I "Then us will," said Ezekiel quiet- quiries respecting insect pests should
"Ay, that I have," replied the lad,! ly. . be addressed to the Dominion Entomo-
"yeu see I'm following the example That night Tom, together with his logist, Department of Agriculture, Ot-
of the Ring." Whereupon Polly father and mother, found their way to tawa; such requests and enquiries may
went away abashed, i the church which he had attended be mailed free of postage.
Ali the way Tom's progress down years before. Many eyes were upon
Road • s h e was shown into the n. •ijool 1 oacl tiwas a great proses- him a. pew.
sign of people. On every hand he was All the town had heerd of Tom Pol-
gr e< < d and el—Jeered. Other soldiers lard's return, but few expected to see
who lard „ m r, cut from Branford had him at church that night. For some
rt tot nc::d; seine had been wounded, time Torn was very self-conscious, and
and many had dene brave deeds, but : it is to be feared that be thought lit -
Ton's aeticn hod laid hold of the; tie of the service; more than once, too,
imagination of the people. To dis- I he caught himself gazing furtively
1 th 1 112 1 ut he i d t
Where Water is Precious.
On the coast of Bslire'in Island, in
the Persian Gulf, there is no fresh wa-
ter, so the inhabitants of that very hot
climate resort to getting drinking wa-
ter from the bottom of the harbor,
caves a German Ity in Waterman { arounc a rue. t ing, r ( i no where there are springs •of pure we,-
' See the face he longed yet feared to ter that well up through the sand.
firing teeny in the town knew; to ice. Since his return he, had asked Knowledge of the location. of these
bring }} him to justice; to risk his life, no questions about Alice Lister, and
in order to render his country a ser- neither his mother or fatlrar' had springs is handed down from genera-
ice; to ?see almost certain death;volunteered any information about tam to generation, Divers equipped.
tit ct h,� might obtain the plans which jhet• with water -bags made of skins des -
1r dy been intended to help the enemy•, I "Nell," said `tom, "I must drive send from boats and catch the water
I• y h as it flows fresh from the sands by
carefully inverting their bags over
the current of the spring, • One can
imagine how precious water is in such
]1c l`eio) tit, anti 'Pain was, stead of church bells he had heard the a region where the thermometer fro-.
.en eowne-boy, He had been; boom of guns; nu' +ad of the music quently stands at 140 degrees Fahren-
, ;Cyst them, :had gone out; of hymns, the shrieking of shell:.;; in- heft.
21.to 213 erl,, iter out of my mind. "What a fool I
P' tit m there etre few parts of •the 1 wast"
i� . . , c the people are morel How beautiful it was to be singing
r s
and more generous than the! the old hymns again! The Sunday be-
e,' e those busy manufacturing fore he had been in Ypres and in-
t :•
A square foot of honeycomb con-
tains about 9,000 cells.
.., .eow. ...rnenwoorn..> _.gym.....,.-.--.-..-,...-.-..im.,.m,,,,
ci42ti'6 E ^,x:•.11 �.�L•. 1IMEMIE h,..u�'
tcl el Ci
re
Coronado Bench, CaMornia
Near San Dizcio
POLO, MOTORING, TENNIS,
BAY AND SURF BATTING,
FISHING AND BOATING.
18-I1cfe Gol Course
ITotbel is equipped throughout with Automatic
System.
AMERICAN PLAN
JOHN J. HERNAN,- Manager
.www.•:.-..i.a, a;Yuiwz �.- wn; as : i aurL
British Isles, partly in order to assisi
the Allies and partly in order to leave
more room for the carriage of men
and munitions to the battle fronts,"
Paper and Steel,
The latest census of manufacturers
in the United States shows that in
America the manufacture of paper is
second in importance only to the steel.
industry, The total invested capital
is estimated at $500,000,000, while the
annual value of the manufactured pro-
duct of the paler and pulp amounts
to $850,000,000,
The average depth of the English
Channel is 110 feet.