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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-09-26, Page 6PERSIiING1 itijsn The Kaiser. the Chanceller, the gene orate and other Guinan potentates, While preaehing peace, congratulate their people that the war is being Waged in enemy countries and not ea the sacred 8011 of the Fatherland. There is 9 very evidence that these German gentlemen will not be in a position muelt Imager to $30 cengratue late themselves, Gen. Persning and his half million men are not far from the bordere of German territory. lu one fell swoop they. wiped out the whole St, Mihiel eallent, which for four long yeas had been a menace and a threat to Fratice. In doing this they captured ever fifteen thousand German aoldiers, rescued oyer thirty vtllages from. Germen control and cap. turd much war material. Not, only eo, but the exit of the Germans was eo tarried that they left behind them eQine very handy railroada in active operation whis.,h will be , a *distinet help to Gen, Pershiag, The result of yesterday's operations ha a been to shorten, the Americans' front from forty to twentytulles, thua releaaing a large number of men for future operations'. If Pershing thought fit he could now make a dir- ect invasion of German territbry. The great fortress and, city of Metz can. be cutflankea erom, both the west and south. It is not .at all likely that Pershing would attetopt a frontal at- tack on the place, and it is not neces- sary that he ("lipid. Heevever an aer- ial force an. do much to render it. harmless. Yesterday Gen. Haig captured twelve hundred prisonere in the HavrincoUrt-' Gouzeaucourt ,sector near Cm:Oral, af- ter some sereouts fighting in which tho Germans , suffered eeverely. • The British are pushing towards Lille. The inhabitente are eaid to be leaving that place, no doubt, being:forced, out by the Germane who are likely eereparing to get out Llso. It is pow Lime the' the German high comilianci-iseinform- ed that for every French town des- troyed a German town will -stiffer. This morning the French launched a new offenaive on both sides of the Ailette River, between the Alamo and the Vesta rivers. They have already made good progress, capturing over a. thousand prisoners. Gen. Foch is .evidently determinedthat he shall give the Germans no* rest so long as they linger on French soil, ENGLISH LITERATURE. Anglo-Saxon -Culture and Oivili- zation Will Speak One Tongue. What is English literature? We know what it haa been, bat what 13 to become? A London reviewer presents poetry made in Australia, made in New Zealand, made in South. .A.frica, made in Canada. Each of those ann.- triea is to produce its literature, has commenced doing so. The Mediate, of course, will be the English language. Will the production be English theme ture? Or, to put the question more specifica:ly, is the literature of Am- erica English literature. Now, literature's d,omains are not coterminous with these of politics. To describe Canadian or Australian liter- ature as English, becatese those doe minions remain in the British empire; and to .exclude American literature be cause Of a political separation, eVould be perfectly formai. • English literature once' was cone fined to the British Islands as Hellen- ic literature was confined to Greece proper. But as Hellenic culture spread to SicilY and Italy, to -Asia and Egypt., Hellenic literature expanded. Hellenic civilization and culture became, cos- mopolitan, beianged to a world, and the scholars and waiters of Alexane dria, Antioch, and. Constantlimple were as truly representative of Hellepe 4c literature as had. been these of 'Athens. tOher racesahd stocks became ar- ticulate through the Greek language and by means of Greek culture. Saint 'Paul himself was a Greek by culture, as he was Roman Iti legal status; and a .Te* by blood. Alexandria was a: city as cosmopolitan as New York, and the intellects of Many races gathered there. But Alexandria was a Grook city and its culture ahd civilization were Greek. The. Alekandrians, what- ever theirhlood spoke' thie tengue of Pericles, though after the fashion of Plato and Aristotle, • studied, examin- ed and wrote In accordance with the Greek exanteiles, carried on the tradi- tions of Greece, were what they were because Of Greece. We should regard the re o ter us that 'the lit- erature produced in Alexandria Vas Egyptian. •Englisb literature has been, like the French. German, tSpanisn and Rehm, a natiOnal literature, but .unlike any of them, is to become a. world literature. English is to be the spoiten arid writr ten language of North America and Australasia of the .larger portion Of Africa in all likeliheod. There are to, ' be, already are, factors other than, Anglo-Saion in the englistiaspeaking world, bue the culture and civaization of that ',rid will be English. We (meek ot ScOtch literature, of Irish literature, ae we, speak of Am-, erican, Canadian end Australian liter- ature. But they are all diyielons et English literature which, like the Greek before it, vvillecompare to other, literatureas the S' ether of Waters, or the Arnazont Compares to a Clerman, French, de Italian rffer. Vnglish literature takes its rise in little England. receives tributarthe of Stotch, lrlsn, hVeleh origin, flows one ward an augmenting streatil, broadens Into a vast flood, sends tutli arms' Of volume and power that fe-enter ite main streeirn lower down, is deetinee to inundate balf the worle.—xlinuca- polls Journal. _ • '- THE SOADE. WhatcreattireilWe ofhabitare, Dependingeoornepaceg, ThatwbertahentenceleaVesthemouth, Wegreekbetoreotrfacts. Ori fatmenten etw eha vep enned Ap rift torth ItatlianA. rata 111 arWord Supe erne for- Eightort gueben cattle urrioeee, --4r. el. Haskins, in Life. There are More whits lies in thq worm on even the nOcroil wotq afe STOLEN JEWELS CHAPTER I. nes,s habitual to thOso who have ,to A Wet 81111day—dreary, dismal and fight the world in their yOuta and lie infinite'y eloppy. Even the bells ring. /I1 their guard against everyone. Ins the people into evening service That two such dissimilar naturee as seemed to feee the depressing influence Mese could find any reciprocity an- e of the weather, and their brazen voices pears trange, but curiously enough sounded hearse and grumbling, as if some undercurrent of sympathy had drawn them together front the first they rang under proteet, Cold, toot— time •they met. Jew and Gentile, ot a brislc, sharp frost—for here in. Melbourne frost and snow are n• musician and student, different na- u tionalitiee, different trains of thought, known; but a persevering, insinuating', gnawing coldjust disagreeablenough yet the mere fact that they could both , e live in an ideal world of their own to make one shiver and shake with anxiety to get home to a bright re creation, heedless of the restless 11fe fi evhich seethed around, seemed to form and dry clothes. Overhead a leaden- b colored sky, with great masses of black a bond f concord between them. and clouds, from out whose sombretheir mutual isolation drew them al- bceoms !nost imperceptibly together. poured the steady rain, splashing Weisily on the shining roofs, and swell- Keith had only been boarding in the house a week, consequently Ezra knew Ing the gutters in the streets to minia_ nothing about his friend's life, beyand ture torrents. And then tbe wind—a gusty, chilly the fact that he was poor and ambi- tlous. As Stewart never volunteered wind—that came along unexpectedly, any information about himself, Ezra, and drove the unwilling rain againet eeith the delicacy of a sensitive nature, the umbrellas of struggling pedee- shrank from forcing himself on his trians, or else took a mean advantage confidence, The inexhaustible subjects Qf its power, and turned their um brellas inside out, with a shrill whistle banks of the Yarra, or an occasional of triumph. The steady light streamed visit to the theatre, had been, so far; out from the painted church windows' the limit of their social companion - and the dull, blurred glare of the street ship. Their inner eelves were still lamps wale reflected in the, wet Pave- unknown to each other. To all, lloW- ments. Ught a night not fit for a dog ever, there comes a moment when the to be out in, and yet there were a good rhany people hurrying along to the desire to unburden the mind to a sym- church, In answer to the clamorous ra hetic nature is strong, and it was In such a moment that Ezra Lazarus voices of the bells. first learned the past life of Stewart. Some folk, boweeter—wise in their Ongeneration—preferred staying at liome letthdreary Sunday night Ezra to sitting in church with damp boots hislY fis infoll.owing his thoughts, and gers wander over the piano, and a general sense of stickinees about the" u vagresult as their clothes, and though possibly their , eos_bwa bwa bizarre polonaise of queer mingling of souls zeffered from Ruch an omission, aelodfi op n, withi ts fantastic blending of their bodies were certainly more corn-atriotic joy and despairing pain, fortable. Among these godless people, ehen arush of stormy chords; prelud- who thus preferred comfort to religion lug a Spaniel] dance instinct with the were two young men occupying a room 'amorous langour and fierce passion on a first floor, the windows of which [of the south. Outside, the shrill wind looked across to the church, now full nould be heard sweeping past, a sheet of damp and steaming worshippers. tat rain would lash wildly against the A room ix a, boardIng-houee—espe windows, and at intervals the musical daily ono where boarders only pay hunder of the •organ sounded from twenty-five shillings a week—ie not the adjacent church. generally a very luxurious apartment, Keith smoked away steadily and and this special room Was certainly no aistened drowsily to the pleasant exception to the rule. It was square, 'mingling of sounds, until Ezra began with a fairly lofty ceiling, and the to play the Traviata nmeic, with its walls evero covered with a dull red Teverish brilliancy and undercurrent 'of sadness. Then he suddenly started, paper, which, being mellowed by time, ' his had assumed a somewhat rusty hue. clenched his hand, and taking " It was rapidly growing dark outside, pipe from his mouth, heaved an im- and there wan no light in the room, 'patient sigh, upon hearing which, L save that which came from a roaring Lazarus stopped playing, and turned . coal fire blazing brightly up the chum slowly round. • ney, and illuminating the apartment in "A link of memory?" he said, in a curiously fantastic mannerIt sent his s.oft voice, referring to the music. . e out rad shafts of light into dark cor- Stewart replaced hipipe, blew a ners, as It to find out what was hidden. 'hick wreath of smoke, and Meted there, and, then, being disappointed, again. would sink back into a dull, sulky "Yes," he replied, after a pause; "it glow, only to fall into a chaotic mass, recalls to me—a woman." and blaze merrily up once more. Ezra laughed half sadly, half mock - The apartment wherein the fire ,angly. played these, h elf"Always the Eternal feminine of ish tricks was furnish- ‘Cleorge and." ed comfortably, but the furniture had leaith 'sat up cross-legged in front a somewhat dingy look. The carpet 'of the fire and shrugged his should - was threadbare, except under the table, ars• where there could be, traced some yes'. "Don't be cynical old chap," he said, tigee oftte original pattern. A cottage glanctee mend; "I'm sick of hearing piano was pushed into a corner slant- the tnceseent railing against women— ing ways, and beside it was a great • good heavens! are we then so pure untidy pile of music. At one end of ourselves, that we can afford te cast the room, a desk covered with paper, stones against the sex to which our and immediately above it a shelf con- mothers and sisters belong," taining a small array of well-worn .1 did not mean to be cynical," re- books,. Near the de,sk stood an ag- plied Ezra, clasping his hands round gravatingly bright sideboard, Whereon one of his knees, "I only quoted Sand, were some glaeses, a jug of water, and because when a man is thinking, it is a half -empty bottle of whiskey. Four generally—a woman, or five lounging chairs of wicker -work «or a debt—or a crime—or a sor- were scattered about, covered with 'row," interposed the other quickly; rugs of wallaby fur, whilst the walls "we cau ring the changes on all of and mantelpiece were almost covered theme with photographs, meetly of women, "Who is cynical now:" asked the but here and there a male face, show- ;Tow, with a 'mile. ing the well-known features of Beeth- "Not L" denied Keith, emphatically, oven, Chopin and other famous must- 'drawing hard at his pipe; "or if I am, clans. it Is only that thin veneer of cyni- This somewhat incongruous apart- cism, under which we hide oar natural ment was a private sitting -room in an feelings now -a -days; but the music East Melbourne boarding-house, and took me ba.k to the time when waa at present In the occupation of 'Plancus was consul'—exactly twelve Ezra Lazarus, journalist. Ezra Laza- months ago. rus was seated at the piano playlng "Bah! Plancus is consul still; don't snatches of music, while on the hearth- be down hearted, my friend; you are rug, smoking a pipe, lay a man prop- still in the pleasant cety of Prague." ped up on his elbow, with his head. "Pleasant? that es as it may be. I resting on his hand, staring into the think it a very disagreeable city with- buraing coals, and listening to his out money. Bohemianism is charm - friend playing. ing in novels,but in real life it is Ezra Lazarus was a young man of generally a hunt after what lehirger meditim height, with a slender figure, calls that voracious animal, the half - a pale face, rather dreamy, dark eyes, crown." and black hair and beard carefully "And atter women!" trimmed. He dressed neatly and, in "Ah, bah! Lads and Phryne; both contrast to most of his race, wore no charming, but slightly improper, not jewelry. Why he, had become a Jour- to say expensive." nalist no one knew—himself least of "rake the other side of the shield," all—as his tastes did not lie in the said the Jew gently. direction of newspaper work, for hay- "Lucretia, and—and—by jove, I e ing all the Hebraic love of music. he can't recolleet thname of the Other was an accomplished pianist. As for virtuous woman." the rest—staid in his demeanor, soft- "Who is the lady of the music?" spoken in his language, and much "My affianced wife," retorted Stew - given to solitary wandering. Yet he art curtly. was no misanthrope, and those "Ah!" said Ezra thoughtfully, "then win) knew him intimately found him a most we have a feeling in. common, I am charming companion, full of quaint also engaged." ideas and bookish lore, but he was Stewart laughed gaily. essentially a. man of ideality, and "And wo both think our lady -loves perfect," he said lightly. " !Duleinea. shrank from contact with the work -a - is the fairest woman in the world'— day World. For such a nature as this a journalistic sphere was most unsuit• . 1)G°rDon Quixote." "Mine is to me," said Ezra .eraphati- able, and he felt it to be so, but having the energy to extricate hiinself from , ca1,10er. t drifted into such a position, he lecke course," answered Stewart, with picture her, tall, dark, his uncongenial employment, and ac - and stately, an imperial daughter of cepte,d his fate with oriental apathy, Judah. with. the beauty of Bathsheba recompensing himself in some measure ahd the majesty of Esther." by giving every spare motnent to the "Entirely wrong." replied Lazarus study of music. dryly, "she is neither tall, dark, nor The man lying before the fire was stately, but—" the direct opposite of Ezra, both in "The exact opposite—I take your appearance and tenaperanaeht. A tall, meaning," eake Keith composedly; sinewy -figured' young fellow of six- "well, my Dulcinea is like the and -twenty, with regtless keen grey sketth I have given—beautiftil, clever, eyes, under etrongly-marke,d eye- poor and—a governess." brows, and a senaltive mouth, almost "And YOU haven't seen her for a hidden by a entail fair moustaehe. year?" His aose was thin and straight, with "No—a whole twelvemonth—she is delicately -cut noetrils, and his head up Sandhurst way trying to hanamer wee well set on his broad shoulders. dates and the rule of throe into the albeit he had a trick of throwing it thick heads of five small brats, and bitek which gave hint a somewhat 'I—well I'm an unsuccessful literary baughty carr ago. Ile had a fair Man, doing what is vulgarly known as complexion, with that reddish -brown peeisehe hue which eomes from constantly liv- "What made you take up writing?" lug in the open air, and altogether asked Lazarus. looked like a man addicted to wet "What Made Inc take tip writing?" rather than to study. repeated Stewart staring vaguely t This Waa Keith Stewart, who, ho.ve the fire. "Lord knows—destiny, I Mg passed meat of his life in aim- eunpnees--I've Ilati eineee eeeraregara land and In Wana.s"'-'-' aisout Au th b f bijt Lraiia genera113,, had a year previously honest phrents, quite the orthodox come down to Melbourne with the style of thing, isn't it?" laudable Intention of devoting himself "Are your parents alive?" ' to literature. That he was poor might "Dead" laeonieally, be eurrnised from his shebby, Well. There was a Dense of a few MO- brieShed clothes, and his fttee constant- , Ments, during which time Ktiitil 491$3 wpro that exprearsion O watehtni, evidently deep in 0044. • '''11%.iiiM•r•nrolirlime "According to Sir Waiter Scott," he observed at length, "every Idootchman has a .pedigre. I've got one as long ea the tail of a kite, only MA fie 1100.- ' thl. I'd sell all my ancestors, as read- ily as Charles Surface did his, for fl, few Made. MY People claim to be connected NOVA the Mal Stewarts." "Your IMMO is spent differently," "It's !melt correctlY," retorted Xelth coolly, "In the geed old Scottish fash- ion; as for the ether, it's the French method aeclimatised by Mary Stuart when she married the Dauphin of Irranee." "Well, now 1 know your pedigree, what is the story of your life?" "My life?—oh Pnt like Canning's knife -grinder. 'Story, I'Ve got none to tell,' My father and mother found royal descent was not bread and but- ter, so they sold the paternal acres and came to Australia, where was born. The gold fever was raging then, but I suppose they- inherited the bad luck of the Stewarts, for they did not make a Penny; then they started a farm in Gippsland and ruined them- selves. My father died of a broken heart, and my enother soon followed, so I was left an orphan witla next to nothing, I wandered all ever Aus- tria, and did anything that turned up. Suppressing the family pride, I took a situation in a Sandhurst store, kept by a man called Progging, and there I met Eugenie Rainford, who, as I told you, taught the juvenile Proggins- es. I had a desultory sort of educa- tion from my father, and having read a good deal, I determined to take to literature, inspired, I suppose, by the poetic melancholy of the Australian bush. I wrote poetry with the usual succeee; I then went on the stage, and found I wasn't a, heavy -born genfue by any means, so I becam.e a member of the staff of a small country paper, wrote brilliant articles about the weather and crops, varied by paste - and -scissors' work. Burned the mid- night oil, and wrote some articles, which were acoepted in Melbourne, so, with the usual prudence of genius, 'I threw up my billet and came down here to set the Thames, or rather the Yaria,, on fire. Needless to remark, I didn't succeed or I shouldn't be here. so there is ray history In a nutshell." "And Miss Rainford?" "Oh, I engaged 'myself to her before I left Sandhurst," said Keith, his face growihg tender, "bless her—the letters she has written me have been my bul- wark' against despair—ahl what a poor devil a man is in this world without a good woman's love to com- fort him.". "Are you doing anything now?" said Ezra thoughtfully. "Nothing. I'm leading e hand-to- mouth, hereto -day -gone -to -morrow existence. I'm a vagabond on the face of the earth, a modern Cain, Bon- nie Prince Charlie in exile—the infer- nal luck of my royal ancestors still sticks to me, but, ah, bah!" shrugging his shoulders, "don't let talk any more, old chap, we can resume the sub- let' to -morrow, meanwhile play .me something. I'm in a poetic mood, and would like to build castles in the air," Ezra laughed, and turning to the piano, began to play one of -Henselt's morceaux, a pathetic, dreamy melody, which came stealing softly through the room, and filled the soul of. the young man with vague yearnings. Staring idly into the heart of the burning coals, he saw amid the bluish flames and red glimmer of the fire a vision of the dear dead days of long ago—shadows appeared, the shadows of last year. A glowing sunset, bathing a wide plan in delicate crimson hues; a white gate leading to a garden bright with flowers, and over the gate the shadow of a beautiful woman stood talking to the shadow of a man—himself. Mnenosyne—saddest of leities—waved her hand, and the shadows talked. "And when will you come back, Keith?" asked the girl shadow. "When I am a great man," replied tho other Shadow proudly. "I am riding forth like Poe's knight in search of El Dorado." "El Dorado is far away," returned the sweet voice df the girl; "it is the Holy Grail of wealth, and can never be discovered." "I will find it," replied the matt shadow hopefully. "Meanwhile, you will wait and hope," "I will wait and hope," replied the girl, smiling sadly; and the shadows parted. The rain beat steadily against the penes, the soft music stole through the room, and Stewart, with idle gaze, stared into the burning heart of the fire, as if he eXpected to find there the El Dorado of his dreams. „ (To be continued.) .beehe ear-a4e. tea -ea • Few Arctic Fishes. 'Cr Arctic fishea are so few in number that almost all of them are known to science. Yet rarely are any brought back in a sufficiently good state of preservation to be studied to advan- tage. A email collection obtained by the Crocker Land Expedition is therefore of considerable interest. The trout, or more properly speaking, charrs, from this collection (the only fish which were found in fresh water) are now being examined by Dr. Wil- liam C. Kendall of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, who has for Many years made a special study of the species and distribution of trout. The marine fishes with the exception of the interesting esmeltlike capelin are mostly allied td -the code and the scut - pins, in fact, are almost identidal with cold -water species of these groups which abound off rocky New England coasts. A particularly fine -series of Greenlaad sculphis, — large -mouthed, thorny -headed fishes whbse mottled colors blend with the bottonl on which they lie, Will furnieh exhibition mater- ial to illustrate sexual dimorphism. The males have niore contrasted col - ore and the first or spiny bacic fin, comparatively high and broad. Stom- ach examination shoevs that the Greenland. ecuipin had been feeding on stnall crustaceans (resembling our shritip and sand hoppers) which abound in polar seas. They doulbtleae will eat almost any creature that comes within reach of the cavernous ma,ws.—American Museum Journal," • • Revelation. Till poverty knoeked at the door, He never kneW how bare The mieventfel days of thoge Who have but want and care. Till sorrow lingered at his hearth, He neve,r kheW the 'tight Through which all trofibled eouls must fare To gain the Morning light. Till suffering had sought his house, Ile never knew what dread May wrestle with, nor what grim fears Of agony- are bred.. NOT How much a pound? BUT How many cups from a pound? 11 will yield twice as much in the teapot as will ordinary tea. It is REAL economy to use it, to say nothing of the unique flavour. 044a 4-•-•-•-* 6-444444 * • •-•-•-•-• 044-4* 44-4-* *+•-•-• *4,4> -****-4-•444-•-•-1-0-+ Captive of U-boat Tells Experiences •-•-• 944-1-* 4+++++++++-t-•-•-•-•-•-•-••-•-•-• A thrilling story of fifteen days epent ing to speak a word, expecting a sec - in a German submarine, during 'which ond charge, the result ot which might thee the U-boat attacked several al- be the destruction of the boat without ljed veesels and was in turn attacked the slightest chance of escape. There by allied de,stroyere, which dropped is no doubt as to the state of that depth charges threatening her de- crew, for it was not their first exper- etruction, was told by the captain of thrice of a depth charge, and they had a British merchant vessel who has learned from others in the service just been released from a German pri- what awful weapons they were in the son camp. hands of skilled seamen. For some His narrative eonfirms . the reports minutes we waited; engines were of the terror whicb, the depth chargee stopped and all measures were taken inspire in the crews of submarines to erevent giving away our position. and gives an idea of the perils to "Minutee seem like hours in such which the new methods of hunting a situation. I must admit that I was subject the rindersea boats. This turning over in my mind whether I captain was taken prisoner When his should ever see my family again. No eecond ship was torpedoed. He said: father explosions, however, took "My second ship was torpedoed place, and after lying some eighteen without warning. The force of the fathoms deep for a long time we con - explosion was so great that the bridge Hurled on our voyage. was wrecked and when I recovered "We had another experience of from the shock I found the ship was depth charges, or wa,sserbomben, as sinking. None of the crew were in- the German sailore called them. The Aured; we were all able to get away sailing ship referred to above had just in the boats. AS we were in British been sunk by shell fire when two de - waters and it was broad daylight, I stroyers were sighted on the horizon did not fear but that we would soon and down we Went. By the micro - reach land, but hardly had we pulled phones the propellers could be heard, clear of the sinking ship than the U- and as the veesele came nearer we in boat emerged, the submarine could hear the thud - "The commandei, summoned us to ding quite digtinotly. To and fro the hie veseel and ordered me to go on destroyere went searching carefully board. After asking for details of my for us. Apparently they picked up Abrt? and cargoihe told me ,e0eonelder a clue, for there were two loud ex - myself' &prisoner and sent the boate plosions -ahead, not co near as that away. I was at once taken below from the cruiser, but quite neer and the yeasel dived. From what some enough to cause the submarine first Englieh speaking members of the to tremble and then tr roll about as crew told me, the submarine had been though in a heavy sea:re away front her base for some days. "Late the following Mitt there was She was a fairly large craft, of re- considerable rejoicing In the submar- cent numbering, having. three torpe- ine and the talking machine's live- do tubes, two in the bows and one aft, liest tunes were played . The Ger- and carrying ten ,:torpedoes. She was mane had torpedoed an: oil tanker, also armed with a four -inch gun, just which, according to the 'commander, forward of the conning tower. had sunk in thirty seconds. I could 'I had arrived juet in time for the not help wondering at the makeup of midday meal—stew with stringy men who could rejoice as such a moat, which was probably ,horefiesh, thing, knowing that without giving them the slightest chance of defend- ing themselves or escaping they had sent the sailors to their death, The next day we seemed to have got out of the track of eteamehips, and I went into the conning tower and saw the officers amusing themselves by shoot- ing at gulls.or at empty bottles. "Eventually the aubmarine arrived at Heligoland ,and I wile taken ashore and banded over to a militare guard, mostly composed of Aleatiane. aly only feat1 was a crust of bread and a piece of cheese and some verey weak soup composed mainly of vegetables. After remaining there a day and a half I was taken tq Wilhelmshaven, where again there seemed to be a ahortage of food, and afterward to Brandenburg, a workingmen'e camp, including all nationalities. "On Boxing Day I was transferred to Switzerland, and eventually was re- leased and enabled to reach England. "At Brandenburg, although we were merchant ship captains, we 'were made to suffer various indignities, and to harness ourselves to carts, which we had to draw through the streets to the station or Post office, as the case might be, in order to fetch parcels or any commodities to camp. It was at this camp also that I saw 300 Russian soldiers working, apparently in the last stages of con- sumption. A druggist can obtain an imitation of MINARD'S LINIMENT from a Toronto „house at a very low price, and have it 'labeled his own product. Thla greasy imitation is the poorest one we have yet seen of the many that every Tom, Dick and Harry has tried to introdUce. Ask for MINARD'S and you will get it. supplemented by small portions of sausage, with black bread. This bread, as the voyage progressed, be- came mildewed and uneatable, and then eome bread of lighter color, which had been kept in hermetically 6ealed receptacle, was eerved out, but was even more unpalatable than the black bread. "The other meals were breakfast and supper, at which coffee, made of burned barley and acorns, was served. The commander and officers of the U-boat fared the same as the lower ratings, but were able to supplement their allowances with tinned ham, "Life on board the submarine was "The poor fellows conld not get of finding particles of food, I have enough to eat, and they would eager- ly scrape discarded tins in the hope even seen German soldiers do the same thing." - by no means pleasant. Forced as we were to keep below the surface to avoid the Britieh war vessels, the boat sweatted and all spare clothing became saturated with moistege, while the atmosphere often became very foul and breathing difficult. While we were below the surface the crew would switch on a tinting ma- chine. It was the band which played triumphantly when the U-boat got a victim. The sinking of an inaocent merchantman gave that crew as much joy as if they had sunk a war vessel. "While I was on board we had 'vic- tory music' on seven occasions, for silc eteamers were torpedoed and one sailing vessel sunk by gunfire, thirty- nine shells being necessary to de this. The U-boat also attacked several oth- er s e Mers by gun f Inc during the voyage, but had to submerge owing to the intervention of British war vessels. "On the third day,`just after the mid-day meal, I gathered that the U- boat was about to carry out an attack on a convoy which had been sighted. The boat approached under water for some distanceeand torpedoed a large steamer. Our whereabouts were evi- dently detected (I was told, by a light cruiser), for we dived rapidly to a great depth. Hardly had the boat got on an evel keel when we heard a tremendous explosion, which made the submarine vibrate from stem to etern. It was a depth charge from the cruistr. "The effect on the crew evan evi- dent. All stood trembling, with faces blanched with fear, not attempt - DRS. SOPER &WliTi SPECIALISTS Fia.LernalAttnma,Ontarrh.lnt°jin;:.ebiepy,thaumtan,.eitct nom o Mood, Nerve and Bladder Diseases. Call or send history for free Melee. ethe.rne furnisted in tablet form. liouts—lo are. to 1 wst. sad 2 to 6 pan. Sundays-10*A. fel Oh; Coaseitation atm 1* A fill yet, till these unbidden gtleka Do. SOPER it WHITE Ilad taught him to peelieet le *reroute Ble Tanta Old. ,. e di clearer sight, he never knave The licights ot 'happiness. lisfAX1101111101101 CONSTIPATED CtIILDR[N Childhood constipation can lie quick- ly banished through the use of Baby's Own Tablets. These Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which never fail to regulate the bowels, sweeten the stomach and in thie way relieve all the minor Illanf little ones. Concerning them Mrs. Eugene Cou- ture. Knox Bridge, Que., writes:— "Baby's Own Tablet have been mar- vellous in the case of my baby. She was constipated and feverish but the Tablets soon regulated her bowels and made her well." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. - _ ALL FAILED BUT IN RUSSIA. (Philadelphia Record.) , A Russian aetillery officer has ar- rived in this ternary with copies of Russian newspapers which some time ago published the original documents proving that German money was being paid to the Bolshevik!. Lenin°, TrOtz- ky and others were receiving money from Berlin as early as 1914 to be used in promoting a German propaganda. A circular issued by the German For- eign Office to German representatives abroad, dated February 23, 1915, gave information of the establishment of bureaus In the countriee to whin these officials were accredited for the promotion of German propaganda. "This propaganda must eXcite the So- cialist movement, and in consequence thereof strikes, revolutionary agita- tions, rebelliohe, civil war, and agita- tions for disarmament and immediate peace." Plut all the sinieter arta of Germany have failed except in Rus- sia. Making Nails.* An etteellerit Illustration Of the differ - mice betweea old and new methods Is the ordinary common mill. Formerly the 1 WOM clitit t qdtl• fOrged into shape with lialinners, and an expert took about one minute and a half for each nail. TO -day thPV are made Of steel and aro eut With steam shears and fed into automatic wittehines. One man tends three Machines, dropping a nail eVery teeend. ;nealt 24egt494 Poor, kilnlmotit Ouros Colda. £0. 1100,410.40,1* 41:01-240iffe DOTICOS. Devices for shutting out noise have become a necessity aM0114' Men at the front in Europe. They are called anti - phones, In large, noisy cities they are much desired, especially by stu- dents. The Medical Record says thotie sold by instrument makers are "relatively expensive and not guaran- teed to produce any definite results," As for such "aural obtunders" as cotton tampons soaked in vaseline and plugs of chewing gunt coated with lint, they produce the desired effect, but only at the expense of disagree- able noises within the ear. La Press() Medical° (Paris) describes a new tine' that is extremely simple—an emptY gelatine capsule of the desired size, warmed, oiled and inserted into mea- tus of the ear. The advantage that this possesses over the unyielding tampons is that It is elastic and therefore does not completely shut at sound, worda of command, whistles, etc., beipg heard distinctly, and It dOes not produce noises in the head, , Minardla Liniment- cures Garget In cows. FISCIENTI 07DDS AND ENDS. A great development of the water- power resources of France has taken place recently owing to the scarcity or coal and war demands generally, Automatic receiving tellers are be- ing placed in the U.S, schools to en- eourage saving on the part of the pupils. The new railroad mileage built dur- ing the year in the States was 962, whieh is less than in any year since the otvil war, except 1915, when 933 mileswere constructed. Reliable figures show that the loss of life In the British forces at the front, from all causes, is only a little more than 2 per cent. a year. Of the 2,500,000 babies born every year in the. United States, more than 350,000 (Ile before they are a year old. That is ee more than 14 per cent. , - At, Sioux City a dancing pavilion -was erected on the lake to evade a municipal ordnance which prohibited Sunday evening dances. The bituminous coaleoutput for 1917 is placed by the United States Geolo- logical Survey at 544,000,000 tons, an increase of 42,000,000 tons over 1916. Hundreds. of lonely fishermen and trappers of the far North will add ma- terially to their profits when ' tho word reaches them that the hereto- fore clespited hair seal yields a ekin which is now marketable There are 102,000 head of reindaer In Alaska, and it is estimated by Got- ernmen t authorities that they will amount to more than a million in 20 years. • An Indiana expert says every rat de- stroys $7.30 worth of property annual- ly in that State. Six hundred millions tons of coal were mined in the United States in 1916. It le predicted that 7,00,000,- 000 tons will be mined in 1917, and the production in 1918 will likely be still greater. Of this quantity ap- proximately 67 per cent., or 469,000,000 tons, will be burned for stham-mak- ing purposes on land. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Cettarrit is a local disease, greatly fluenced by constitutional condition' s and In order to cure it you must take an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medi- cine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of tne system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years. It Is composed of some of the best tonics known, com- bined with some 'of the best blood pur- ifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medicine Is what produces such wonderful re- sults in catarrhal conditions, Send far testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. All Druggists' S5c, Hall's FamilyPills for constipation. 7 TEN THOUSAND. (New York Sun.) 'We have not the means of verifying the estimate of the brewers that 10,00 saloons in this city will go out of business next month .because of the Executive ban on beer, but the figure is round and fascinating and suggestive, Ten thousand bartenders would be welcome in essential industry, if not in the army. Ten thomeand hardwood bars could ;. be turned into gun stocks, ship's fur- niture and peace conference tables. Ten thousand sets of mirrors, placed in the cantonments. would add to the, joy of the man putting on las first suit of olive drab. Ten thousand brass footralls would be received by the shell factories with loud cheers. Ten thousand groups of "private stock" bottles could be used as heitehttp containers. Ten thousand bungstarters could be adapted to shipyard use for the driv- ing home of wooden keys. One of theze interesting weaponsmight be sent to the Historical Society. Ten thoesand elates. after careful waehing, could be used in schools. Ten thousand vacated saloons— what would be the increasecle value, in money alone, of the buildings in which they now nestle? - Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Ruskin On Hun Traits. Ruskin in measuring the Germans in peace and war times, gives the follow- ing in "Fors Clavigera": "Blessing is only for the weak and merciful, and a German cannot be either; he does not understand even the meaning of the words. In that Is the intense, irreconceivable difference between the French ahd Gornian na- tures, .A. Frenchman is selfish only when he is vile and lustful; but a Ger- man, selfish in the purest states of virtue and morality. A Frenchman is arrogant only in ignoranee; but no quantity of learning ever makes a German modest. "Accordingly, when the Germans get erntuaand of Lombardy they hombard Venice, steal their pietures (which they Can't Understand a single touch of) and entirely ruin the noaatry, morally and physically, leaving be- hind them Misery, vice and intense hatred of themselves Wherever their accursed feet have teodden." • - • Idolatry On the beeline. It is beeoming ft custona among Ilan- ChriStilla Chinese of Borneo to go to the Methodist chapel for their imAr- riage ceremony. Because of the fiance of the mission idolatry &tuna them bas practically ceased, .............1•••••••11111.01•All•W•11116041iMUid ISSITF,,' NO. 89, 1918 J*11,411011140,1111111,10130, Hat.P WANTAD FEMALE laXPERIENCED WEAVERS WANTED, eer Woo apprentices. Meetly, worn. etighe est wages paid. APPlYi kiling40bY ,Mfg. CO. LW. lerantrord, Ont. le ANTED—A 14AID. NO WASIIING or Ironing: Two In tea-y.01Y. Apia to eIrs. White, 15 St. elettliewn, Ave. *fame litori, Ont. 1) AY )'0tlR Ottr-OF*TOWN AC - 0 counts by Dominion Express Money Orders. Five dollars eolith three canto, e— t ADIES WANTED --TO DO PLAIN and light sowing at home, Whole or epare time; goo a pay; worle sent any taktauee, charges paid. Send stamp for particulars. National, Manufacturing Vompany, Morareal. ANTED—BALED IlAY. QUO= price delivered at Bothwell. Reid Bros., Bothwell, Ont. p on SALE—WOOD AND spLITTER ' and Motor all complete, also Two Duni? Wagons. Apply Thos. Myles' Sona, Hamilton, Ont. eALE—TWENTY-TWO STEERS ,---Joarharn grades; deherned; about onelthottsand pounds; an extra fine lot to finish for Christmas beef. Apply W. II, Littlefield, Brantford, Ont. Telephone 44. FARMS F02 SALE. 112 ACRES — MORE OR LESS—LOT . 27, Conceseion 2, Erarnosa, near SPeedside, for sale; on the premises is a (Nod stone house, up -to- date bank bumf: good stables, with water; closeel in shed. silo, piggery; hennery, sheep pen, never failing well, windmill, good orchard; tarn: in good state of cultivation, well fenced, 'web watered; five miles from Fergus, ten from Guelph; school -house and two churches close by. Apply on Preinises, Mrs. Lena Leybourne, Rock- wood, It R. No. 3, Ont. 'TWO HUNDRED ACRES, CLOSE TO IL town. Good building—some bush, Easy terms. D. L. Gilmour, CollIngwoOd, Ontario, TaTEAR TILLSONBURG—loo ACRES;ol splendid ' Soil; fine dwelling; large barn on 8 foot concrete walls; good water: garage; telephone. Ten acres bush (hard timber) 68500. Terms $1000 cash. Retiring. Box 14, 'ramblings P. 0. Ont. PROPERTIES FOR SALE. 'RPM< HOUSE—ALL TOWN CON- "-• veniences—one and half acres of garden. For full particulars apply 1301C 8434 13arrie. POULTRY, L' OR SALE -200 TOM BARROWS PAM- °. ous Layers; English White Leghorns, Hens, Cockerels, Pullets. $2.00 and $2,50 each (Breeding pen mated); 6 Sillialan Butter Cup hens unrelated Cockerel $14.00; 6 English -Pencilled Indla.n Runner ducks unrelated Drake 514.00. Square (Teal guaranteed. For partictilars write. John W. Nash. 534 4th Ave. Owen Sound, ()Uteri°. WOOLLEN MILL IIELP WANTED We have several good opening's for experienced and inexperienced male and fe., male help. We require girls for weaving' artd. winding. Every assistance given to learners and good wages paid during aPprentIceship. 1Vorkers in this line earn very high wages ahd are alwaYs inatemand. Only a couple of weeks' time ne!...essary to learn. Several good open; Ings for steady men. Special conslderat tion shown to family of workers. Rents and cost of llyln reasonable in Brant- ford. Moving expenses' aavanced to re - rabic families and housing tasearaniods.- tion arranged. Full particulars: eir.28r- fully furnished' upon request. 'Write us. The SLINGS BY MANTJFACTURIN'G CO„ Limited, Brantford, Ontario. Ivan Draws on 1VlanchurimOre The Russo-Japanese war materially Improved the iron situatibn for Japan. In Southern Manchuria, Olcura F4 Company have developed a joint Jap- anese-Clainese enterprise at Peri -hal - hu, which is on the Antung-Muriccien railroad about 70 milee southeest of Mukden. At this point there is a leer .quantity of magnite are of good quality, and large amounts that can be copcentrated, not far from field of coking coal that is estimated by S. S. Loh to contain 123,000,000 tons of coal. Here iron mining has been started and a magnetic concentration plant built; coal mining, coal wash- ing and coke making is in progress, and a 160 -ton blast furnace (etarte-d in 1911) is in operation, while another Is to be started early in 1918. This enterprise is of especial moment since it is the first case I know of the suc- cessful and harmonious development of a.Japanese or Chinese enterprise. —"Asia." - Youthful Mothers. Some of the ivorld's notables have been born of parents well over thirty years of age..Conversely great numbers of them were born of youthful mothers. Abraham Lincoln's mother was only. twenty-five at the time of his birth, Nap - °lean the Great was born of parents twenty-three and nineteen years of age, respectively. The mother of Pasteur, un- doubtedly the greatest genius France has yet produced, was under thirty, as were the mothers of Herbert Spencer, Michael Farraday and John Stuart Mill. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. • Numbers Not Vital. The great odds in numbers which the British army has had to face on the western front is no rare experience in its annals. Wellington has borne witness to that fact in his remark that Talavera was the only battle in which he had a numerical superiority, owing to the presence of the Span- iards, who, while showing much per- sonal gallantry, were badly led. At all.his other battles he had fewer men than the enemy. "At Salamanca I bad 40,000 men, and the French per- haps 45,000. At Victoria I had 60,000 men against 70,000. At Waterloo the proportion was still more against me. I had 56,000 to 58,000; Napoleon had nearly 80,000. The whole army in the South of France under my command was considerably larger than the force of ,Soult at the battle of Toulous, but hi numbers actually employed in that battle I had less than he." All of which goes to show that strength and success do not neeessarily lie with mere weight of numbers. There are other factors Vastly more essential.— "Christian &fence Monitor."