The Brussels Post, 1915-10-7, Page 6BIBLE PROPHETS
AND THE WA
1 We have only to think .of ppieenolls
gas, liquid fire, and other inbiiman
barbarities to see that prophecy is be -
Ring fulfilled in this war.
Further, when we are puzzled as to
the long years when the Kaiser acorn -
ed to be the one who kept the peace Of
D Europe, we can turn to the prophecy
and see that such a period is indicated.
"Ile who now letteth" means "he who
now restrains," and the reference is
• clear enough. Bismarck held the Kai-
' back, until "the pilot was drop-
ped," and war preparations, hidden
under a fearful cloak of hypocrisy, bo -
gun.
of The pregnant passage in Thessalon-
isns (verse 8, chapter 2) indicates in
e mysterious language the destruction
Law
of the "Lawless Ono." His end may
m. be awful!
ld; "The Lord shall consume him with
e , the spirit of his mouth, and destroy'
d , with the brightness of his coming."
s A Man of Many Religions:
Let us remember that the Kaiser,
, if he poses to -day for a Christian, has
posed as Mohammedan to the Turks,
of and it would surprise no one if he
e openly Rung away Christianity, and
d proclaimed himself as the new God,
e It is but a step, and the prophecy will
b
e
PROPHECIES BEING 8'UI4'ILLE
BEFORE OUR EYES,
Arresting Predictions About the Grea
Conflict Culled From Holy
An awful, whirling Armageddon
the nat,�ons; the rise of an anti -Christ
or, as rs the correct and vastly mor
significant rendering, "A Man of La
lessnoss" (ihess, II. Chap, 2); his ai
at supreme personal power and wor
dominion; his claim to be God; his us
in the world-eon,bat of "power an
signs and lying. wonders" (deed
which create astonishment and fear)
his overthrow; the coming of Christ
and then the end of the world!
Such seems to be the purport
Scriptural prophecies. But hymens
difficulties surround the subject, an
the difficulties are eat lessened by th
fact that many phophecies which seem
to point directly to the present tiin
mere fulfilled by the Fall of Jerusa-
lem, says a writer in London An-
swers.
Taken From the Gospels.
There remain some, however, which
without a forced or fanciful interpre
tation, are surely being fulfilled be
fore our eyes.
The Scriptural books in which these
prophecies occur are Daniel, three of
the Gospels, Thessalonions, and the
Book of Revelation. Daniel may be
excluded, because his prophecies are
practically repeated in Revelation.
The Gospel prophecies by Christ are
found in St. Luke, 21; St. Mark, 13;
and St. Matthew, 24. They differ but
in detail, and St. Luke may be quoted:
"Nation shall rise against nation;
and great earthquakes shall be in
divers places, and famines and pesti-
lences, and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven."
(Verses 10, etc.)
"And there shall be signs in the
sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity; the sea and the
waves roaring; men's hearts failing
them for fear, and .for looking after
those things which are coming on the
earth; for the powers of heaven shall
be shaken. And then shall they see
the Son of Man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory." (Verses 25,
etc.)
Armageddon Is With Us.
Even in this awesome discourse of
Christ, of which the above are short
extracts, the vision changes from that
which is close at hand to that which
lies in the far future, and disentangle-
ment is difficult.
But Armageddon is with us; there
is famine in Belgium; pestilence in
Serbia; and, without doubt, men's
hearts are failing them for fear.
What the next year may hold, or even
the next month, is best unthought of.
We may pass from horror to horror.
But it is in the Epistle to the Thes-
salonians that prophecy seems to find
its fulfilment to -day. The language is
very difficult, and the English transla-
tion fails to get the full force of the
original Greek; but there, as in Reve-
lation, the "Man of Lawlessness," the
one who is responsible for the fearful
and horrible world -cataclysm, is plain-'
ly indicated.
Here is the passage (Thess. II.
Chap. 2). with explanatory notes fol-
lowing:
Full of Significance.
"Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day (i.e., the last day) t
shall not come except there come a t
falling -away first, and that man of c
sin be revealed, the son of perdition; t
who opposeth and exalt th himself a
above all that is called God or that is h
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth p
in the temple of God, showing himself t
that he is God. For the mystery of : a
iniquity doth already work; only het
who now letteth will let, until he be • r
taken out of the way. And then shall ; a
that wicked one be revealed; even
Him, whose coming is after the work- i e
ing of Satan, with all power and o
signs and lying wonders."
A difficult. passage, but full of sig- I
niflcance, especially when studied with ! p
the prophecies in Revelation. i C
A dread personality is indicated. fi
Back in history he was taken to be
The prophecies in Revelation as to;
the great world -combat are clothed in
mystical language, and are full of
puzzling allegory. But chapter 13 is
significant. The reference there is to
a "beast" which shall make war!
"And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blas-
phemies; and power was given to him
to continue forty and two months.
And he opened his mouth in blas-
phemy against God, to blaspheme His
name, and IIis tabernacle,"
Chapters 17 and 18 continue the
allegorical prophecies, and in chapter
16 we come to the reference to Arma-
geddon, when the kings of the earth
do battle with those which have the
1 "spirits of devils."
One feels that we are living in the
times pointed out, and watching the
awful drama being unfolded, even if
the greatest of scholars cannot un-
ravel the strange and tangled threads
of the world -war prophecies in that
wonderfully prophetic Book of Reve-
lation.
FISH AND COST OF LIVING.
As a Substitute for Meat Fish Should
Be More Used.
"Eat fish" should prove a valuable
slogan for combatting the high cost
of living. Meat has risen in price
steadily within recent years, and,
strangely enough, the available sup-
ply is becoming less competent to -
meet the demand. It is not surpris-
ing, therefore, that fish should be
looked to as a substitute. As a food
it is excellent, comparing not unfavor-
ably with meat, although the propor-
tions of nutritive elements such as
protein, albumen and fat differ con-
siderably.
Heretofore, fish has not been a pop-
ular article of diet in Canada. The
reasons for this are various and some
of them must be removed before fish
eating can become a national habit.
In the first place, fresh sea fish in
prime condition has been almost un-
obtainable even at points not far re-
moved from the coasts. This has been
due frequently to inefficient hand-
ling of the fish by the fishermen and
by the distributing agencies. It has
also been due to unsatisfactory trans-
portation and retail market condi-
tions. These difficulties are not in-
surmountable, and some of them are
already being overcome. - Education
of fishermen and others who handle
fish is a necessity that cannot be
much longer overlooked. Traditional
methods of handling must give way
o more scientific and efficient prac-
ices. Such changes would mean in-
reased profits for the fishermen, and,
a the same time, by making avail-
ble large quantities of food which
ave hitherto been wasted, would im-
rove the quality and lower the price
o the consumer. Transportation is
Iready being improved and, in time,
when the inland demands for fish war -
ant it, fast train services should,
nd probably will, be established from
the fishing ports to the larger inland
entres. The present offers splendid
pportunities to th4 fishery industry.
demand for fish is already half
recited by the high price and com-
arative scarcity of meat. But if
anadians are to be taught to eat
sh, there must be more enlightened
ethods of producing and handling
Nemo, and. then Napoleon, But when I m
we learn that the "Wicked One," if r
the words were rendered literally, is
really "The' Man of Lawlessness,"
who, as indicated in Revelation, will
convulse the earth and drench it in
blood, and: sot himself up above all
low, then we know to whom prophecy
has pointed -the Kaiser,
1n Ms bid for world -power, he has
broken every law of Goff, men and na-
tions. Tic is the it ti-(''hri ;t; the Man
of Sin: the Leu!',s nue" And it is t
.
within the memory of us all how he
hoe blasphemously. claimed to be Di -'s
vine,,
"1 :en your God!" lie told his w
Guards. The point need not be la- w
bered; ed; n know it. t
the passage which shows t
him in mite using "pc ,Jers and signs
and is iu wond'rs" is fearfully signi-
firnnt Ih, Gruel: word which we
ti :';.t,. waude•.r.;" really denotes a
inlinnman met ens, and r
the leni:hnnent no. fear they create, s
"Power" 1a a reference to the agency a
behind tie deed:•in this case, Sa- c
tonic.. 'Signs" denotes the signifl- h
entice of th, decals. 01
4•
WAR AND THE PHONOGRAPH.
'he Military Aeroplane Frequently
Carries One,
When the military aeroplane is
couting it usually carries two men.
One is the pilot, who runs and steers
t he craft; the other is the observer,
who marks the placing of the hostile
roops, the position of their guns, the
movement of trains* etc. The ob-
erver also makes many sketches of
the ground over which he is flying—
ork that often interferes with his
riling notes and memoranda. In eer-
ain conditions of flight, too, it is of -
en hard for him to trse'a pencil and
aver.
To obviate that difficulty the mili-
tary aeroplane now frequently carries
phonograph, with a speaking tube
tinning to the mouth of the observer,
o that by talking into the machine at
ny time during the flight he can re-
ord his observations and still have
is hands free for his field glass or his
setchin oncil
•
THOUSANDS OF WOUNDED .HAVE
BEEN MOVED IN THIS MANNER
In. the picture we -see ono of the British soldiers who is convales-
cing from wounds in the arms, unable to help himself, go down the lad-
der to the hospital launch,. For such as ho a chair has been rigged up,
and be is seated 11). it while the crane from which the chair 1s sus-
pended is being swung out to the launch. Thousands or wonuded Brit-
ish soldiers return -In- from the Dardanelles and other zones of war, aro
removed from the hospital ships on their arrival inports in such man-
ner us this before being transferred to the hospitals ashore.
•
THE BIDE OF THE
PRINCE OF WALES
NO FEAR OF A GERMAN "FRAU"
FOR H.R.H. NOW.
Marriage of the Heir Apparent to an
English Lady Would. Be
Popular.
As a result of the war a serious
problem has arisen in regard to the
marriage of the Heir Apparent of the
British Throne.
It is quite certain that there can be
no alliance between the English Royal
House and that of any branch of the
German Royal Family for many a
long year to come, if ever, indeed,
such an alliance becomes again possi-
ble. But the hard fact remains that,
outside German Royalties, there are
serious difficulties in the way of find-
ing a suitable bride for the soldier
son of our Sovereign who is one day
destined, if he lives, to reign over the
British Empire, says London Answers.
It would be out of place to discuss
just now the special character of these
difficulties; but it may at least be
stated that it is the earnest desire—.
indeed, one might say that it was the
settled intention—of the King and
Queen that the Prince of Wales shall
not marry anyone who has not been
brought up in the Protestant faith.
Someone of Royal Blood.
A way out of the difficulties that
have arisen in connection with the
marriage of the Prince of Wales has
been recently suggested in .quarters
closely in touch with the Royal entour-
age: that the Royal Marriage Act
should be repealed, or, at all events,
.suspended. Under this Act the sons
of the Sovereign must wed someone of
Royal blood, otherwise the marriage
is a morganatic union.
If the Act were repealed or sus-
pended, the heir to the Throne could
marry the daughter of an • English
peer, or even a commoner, and the
marriage would be valid.
Were the Prince of Wales to marry
the daughter of a great English aris-
tocratic house, there is not the least
doubt that such a marriage would bo
vastly more popular in the country
than would any'foreign alliance, and
it is at least possible that, after the
war, this may happen.
The daughters of the English sov-
ereigns have ere this married the sons
of peers; and nothing really stands in
the way of the future Princess of
Wales being a lady of pure English
descent, except an Act of Parliament
that can very easily be altered. Al-
liances by marriage between Royal
Houses of different countries in days
gone by were often made with the
idea of preserving peace between
them. But in later days it has be-
come quite obvious that peace cannot
be preserved by Royal alliances.
Of Long Descent,
At one time there was talk of a
marriage between the Prince of Walea
and the daughter of the Kaiser, and
if such an alliance hed been arranged
—no doubt it was never seriously con-
templated—no one for an instant
thinks it would have had the least
effect upon Germany's long -conceived
ambition of smashing us at the first
good opportunity.
There are several families among
the English aristocracy whose descent
is as ancient and honorable as that of
our Royal House. What more natural,
and fitting than that the future Queen'
of England should be chosen from t
among these ancient families of the
purest English descent?
The suspension or repeal of the
Royal Marriage Act would, of course,
be bound to influence profoundly the
future destinies of the English Royal
House.
There are some who fear that it
would weaken the Monarchy, or possi-
bly give rise later to conflicting claims
to the Throne, such as in ancient days
led to civil war; but there is no real
justification for such fears. The war
has tended to deepen the affection of
all classes for the Monarchy, and it is
more firmly established than ever in
the affections of the English people.
An alliance between the Heir Ap-
parent with the daughter of a great
•English aristocratic house would tend
to strengthen this affection further,
and would be vastly more popular
than a foreign alliance.
Pleased in One Thing.
A story has been told of the Prince
of Wales that on the night when the
news reached Buckingham Palace that
war was certain, the Prince rushed off
to his sister's boudoir, where he found
her Royal Highness writing some let-
ters before retiring.
"Mary," exclaimed the Prince, "we
are going to war with Germany, and
now I shall not have to marry a Ger-
man princess, thank goodness!"
National Duty in War
From The Round Table;
L, 22," --.The events
the pastondon, threeSeptmonths matte it un
necessary to demonstrate further ho
great is the effort which lies hefor
us, if liberty is to be saved in Eurep
Now that Russia has been forced t
evacuate not 'only Galicia, bu
Poland, every citizen of the Empir•
must be able to see for himself tha
the war is likely to be a very ion
i business indeed, and that the cause of
Liberty will triumph only if we pu
forth our whole strength. German
has produced no Napoleon. But i
the forty years that her General Staif
'has spent in working out the theor
of the conquest of Europe she h
, created a military system And a na
tional organization unequalled by
those of any of.the Allies. By coin
pa+ison we are all somewhat oma
of end, and at least something would b
• done. If the nation could out realiz
w that it is not fighting so much agates
e militarism, or for Belgium, or fox
e, anything else, but just against itself
o against all that which' has kept u
t where we are, instead of the living
e Empire we ought to bo, there would
t be more ;hope.' Unless we first cast
g the beam out of'our own eye it is no
use shrieltbng at the size of the mote
t in the eye of another nation, and
y' until we do it our struggles and the
n heavy price of manhood we Are pay-
ing will really be as vain as they
y sometimes appear, • Our light at pre-
ss sent is a peculiarly thick darkness,to
and great because so few seem
know that it darkness and has been
darkness oven when we thought It
- light."
CANADA CLAIMS
WHEAT HONORS
0
e HOLDS ITSFUTUREIN•IIOLLOW
, OF BROWN BAND,
, e
• Mammoth 'Elevators Have a Capacity
tour. It will, therefore, be by otn
endurance, our courage and our
, numbers rather than by any superior -
t ity in generalship that we must reck-
on to win the war.
Till recently nobody fully realized
these facts. In consequence as a na-
tion and as an Empire we have so far
;failed to approach the problem of or-
i ganization for war in the spirit of ab-
solute subordination of the conditions
and controversies of peace to the su-
preme necessities of war. It is this
failure which is the root cause of the
dissatisfaction and unrest which have
manifested themselves in the body
politic in the last few months. In
one sense we have nothing to be
ashamed of. The spirit and bravery
of the individual have been beyond all
praise. The•figures for voluntary en-
listment, the endurance and courage
of officers and men by land and sea,
the long hours spent by workers, male
and female, in factory and workshop
producing munitions of war, are an
answer, final and conclusive, to the
charge of degeneration in the nation-
al stools. Nor have our actual per-
formances in the field fallen short of
what either we ourselves or our Allies
had good reason to expect. It would
probably have been impossible by any
other method to have produced, a
larger army, better trained and bet-
ter equipped, and of better material,
in so short a time. The task of the
fleet has been discharged with such
silent efficiency that people are in-
clined to forget that it may yet be
the most decisive achievement of the
whole war. Yet there has been some
national failure of method or purpose
1 in the war; though it is difficult. 'to
' see exactly where it lies. It cannot be
ascribed to delay in achieving mili-
tary success, or to a shortage of muni-
tions. Both-of,these might have in-
duced disappointment, but not the un-
easy conscience which afflicts us to-
day.
The general nature of the trouble is
well indicated in a letter written from
the trenches in Gallipoli and received
a few weeks ago;
"I write to voice that which I think
many of us are feeling now, and more
will be before we get much hearer the
end of these times, and that is the
wonder whether there are to be found
anywhere the men who will at last
rise to the required greatness and
take hold of our poor blind -eyed coun-
try and lead it, when its eyes are
opened at last. I think many regard,
as I do, this change of government as
a pity, while fully recognizing that
it was necessitated by our system.
What we want is not a change of gov-
ernment, but a change of system, and
this last move smacks very strongly
of an attempt to pour the newwine,
which is already running (for those
who have the eyes to see it) from this
great treading of the wino press, into
the old skins, and they patched at
that. Out here our view, both physi-
cally and mentally, is apt to bebound-
ed by the sea and the summit of Achi
Baba, but we do not altogether for-
get there is something beyond. If
there is any possible influence which
could be exerted to show the nation
at last what it is really fighting for,
there might be more hope of a near
I
GOD'S LAND,
The Story of Why Canada Was Called
a Dominion.
Canadians are accustomed to take
the expression of the "Dominion" of
Canada for granted; but the origin of
that somewhat unusual term is known
to very few.
When the great scheme of the Fa-
thers of Confederation was finally rea-
lized, and the nine provinces grouped
themselves together into one great
confederation, a serious difficulty was
presented by the choice of a suitable
name. For a time almost a deadlock
ensued.
At length one old member of Par-
liament rose from his seat and told
his colleagues that he had read in his
Bible that very morning the words:
"His dominion shall be from the ono
sea to the other," Accordingly, he
suggested that Canada should be
known as the Dominion, or God's
Land. The suggestion seized upon
the hearts and imaginations of those
present, and it was promptly acted
upon.
,p
"I once knew a fellow who gave a
girl an engagement ring of opals."
"Gracious! Wasn't it unlucky?" "You
bet it was! She married him:"
Bix—"Getting in debt is as easy as
falling out of an airship:" Dix--.
"Yes; and getting out of debt is about
as easy as falling up to it again."
We propose to consider this diag-
nosis in two parts. First, as it con-
cerns our conduct of the war, and
second as it concerns our national
mode of life." In substance the criti-
cism of our conduct of the war
amounts to this, that as a nation we
have not yet risen' to the full level
of -our duty in this supreme crisis of
the world, that we have spent much
time in abusing the sins of Germany,
while we have" dealt lightly with our
own, that we have criticized our own
Government "unmercifully, and have
changed it, but that we have not yet
begun, to make the sacrifices and in-
cur the discipline that are necessary
if we are to -support our own brothers
and our Allies' at the front to the ut-
most of our power. That individuals,
and an immense multitude of them,
have sacrificed their all, but that as a
community we have not pulled our-
selves together, nor abandoned abso-
lutely the shibboleths of peace, nor
accomplished fully the three things
which really matter in war: the or-
ganization "and disciplining of the:
whole population for the purpose of
the war, the absolute suspension• of
every hindrance, however dear to
capital or labor, which impedes the
work of national supply, the husband-
ing of the resources of the nation by
a : rigid enforcement of public and
private economy. Tliat people are:
still left to serve only if they choose
and when they choose, that industrial
service is rendered by many employ-
ers only if they are handsomely paid
for it, that trade unibn regulations
restrictive of output are still enforced,
that strikes occur, and that, 'through-
out, money is squandered lavishly as
if nobody could be expected to do his
duty without being paid for it, and
paid extravagantly at that. In con-
sequence that, while onesection of the
nation is enduring hardships and mak-
ing sacrifices greater than any in
English history for the sake of their
fellows, the rest are still living at
their ease," seeking pleasure and en-
joyment as usual, and wasting re-
sources which are vital if we are to
make certain of victory for our cause.
It is easy to lose sight of the im-
mense amount of hard and efficient
labor which is being put forth amid
the confusion and turmoil incidental
to the sudden transformation of the
industrial, social and political life of
a democratic and unwarlike State.
When all has been said and done our
effort has been prodigious considering
our unpreparedness for war. But
still in this charge there is funda-
mental truth. We are now fighting ,
the war with only half our national
strength. One hgTf of the nation,
and that the smaller half, are sub -
ting themselves to discipline and t
to separation from relatives 1' and
friends, are suffering untold hard-
ship, pain, and, in great' numbers, are
giving up their lives for their friends, e
while the other half are making no
equivalent contribution to the common
cause. That is broadly true, and, in-
asmuch as it is true, it must be t
ehanged. We owe it to ourselves, to 3
our brothers at the front, and to our s
Allies to put our whole national
strength into this war.
(To be continued.)
of Over Forty,three Million
Bushels.
Britannia rules the waves. Germany
corners the horror market, But Can-
ada holds the world's wheat future in
the hollow of her young brown hand,
writes a Winnipeg correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger. And Can-
ada knows it. The man, woman or
question-age child, therefore, .who
thinks that Canadian romance lurks
in the society column alone, or may be
had only at the price of a movie tick-
et, doesn't know the biggest thrill-
motive in the modern world—the
yearning to plant something and
watch it grow, whether it be wheat in
a field, dimes in a bank, dollars in a
transportation system, or new ideas
in other men's heads. •
And all these things—wheat,dollars
andnew ideas together—go into the
romance of getting No.' 1 hard from
the Peace River, say, over the 5,000
miles of blossoming prairie Find briny
deep, to its destination, which, like as
not, is Liverpool,
Greatest Grain Porft.
When Canada woke up and found
she had the biggest falls in the world
at Niagara, she had proved ,nothing
except her luck. But when to -day she.
can state that, in Fort William and
Port Arthur, she `holds the world's
greatest grain port, with an elevator
capacity of 43,260,000 bushels, she has
proved her brains. For she made that
port herself out of raw backwoods and
concrete.
During the 1913 season of.naviga-
tion, 282,644,596 bushels of grain
passed through the twin ports. Dur-
ing the' same period, Duluth -Superior
handled little more than half that
quantity, and Chicago less than a
quarter. •
The office of the Lake ` Shippers'
Clearance Association is as near the
hub of the wheel as you can get.
There is grain data o every escrrp-.
tion; there are shippers in Winnipeg
getting Fort William on the Associa-
tion's private wire; there are railroad
companies sending their representa-
tives to see about cargoes for their
steamers; there are bronzed and
breezy captains blowing in to !mow
what about more One Northern for
that No. 3 hold: And there , is an
alert young manager, in the person of
J. A, Speers,who seems to know how
to pacify both the shipper and the
road and get the captain's cargo with
precision and dispatch.
But suppose we begin away back at
the ranch, where John Bull's youngest
son, Uncle Sam's little brother, and
Johnny Canuck, have fed the thresh-•
ers who got in the grain.
There has been a great sigh of re-
lief, a Chinook of peace -at -last, from
all over the land. The wheat, oats,
barley and flax have been sent to the
local elevator, the stark tin bank of
plenty that you've seen clotting the
right of way as you've sat in the ob-
servation car. Now it's up to the
roads to get it East. And it may
worthy of note that during the last
two years there have been no car
shortage complaints.
The Whole Stream of Traffic
i
mits cleared out and hustled along by
h
• e quickness of the transfer. The re-
cord case of loading is 17,000,000
bushels in five days last year, follow-
ed by 9,000,000,in the next five days,
r an average of 2,600,000 bushels per
day.
eVssels of 200,000 bushel capacity
and over are charged 40 cents per
housand for loading within 24 hours,
0 cents within 48 hours, and so on,
leaner boats getting a lower tariff.
The average charge per cargo loaded
in 1913. was 823.20.
And then, off goes the boat, bound
for Goderich, Montreal, Port McNicoll,
Port Colborne, or Buffalo. The wheat
onsigned to lake ports is, .of course,
afterward transferred to cars that will
arry it to the coast, where the ocean
rain boats take it up. So far the
ermans have never Sunk one of
these, and until they do their blockade
of England can't be said to have done
much harm.
And so, whenever the market de-,
manss `such haste, a month or maybe
only 20 days after it left the farmer.
One Hard is climbing out of the hold
in Liverpool. This pleases Kitchener
and delights the loyal ]3ritisher.
Novel View - of the War.
It is something in these times to
et a novel view of the war. Two
orkmen were discussing it, obviously
nder the influence of a great Ileal of
unofficial news. "It'll he an awful
ong job, Sam," said one. "It will
nn' all," replied the other.' "yon see.
nese Germans is tatting thousands
nd thousands of Russian prisoners,
nil the Russians is taking thousands
and thousands of German prisoners,
it keeps on all the Russians will be
Germany and all the Germans in
Russia. And then they'll start fresh
1 over again, fighting to get back
their tomes,"
CARS FOR FIRE FIGHTING.
Railways Are Being Equipped for
Forest Protection Work.
The management of the Govern-
mant railways has made material pro-
gress in. fire protection in Quebec
since taking over the line of the Na-
tional Transcontinental for operation.
A. tank car, for fire -fighting purposes,
has been equipped and will be sta-
tioned at some convenient point be-
tween Edmundeton and Quebec. This
car has a capacity of ten thousand
gallons and is equipped with hose to
reach a fire five Hundred feet from' the
track. The question of placing two
similar cars at convenient points be-
tween the City of Quebec and the
Ontario boundary is under considera-
tion. Special fire patrols will also be
necessary, and the details are being
considered. Hon. Frank Cochrane,
Minister of Railways and Canals, has
announced that the same measures
for fire protection will be taken on
Government railways as are required
by the Railway Commission of lines
under private ownership. The mea-
sures referred to above constitute an
excellent beginning. The Govern-
ment railways are not under! the juris-
diction of the Railway Commission,
Special tank cars for fire -fighting
purposes constitute efficient means of
conserving forest resources along rail-
way lines, The Canadian Pacific rail
way has two such cars stationed at c
Brownville Junction, Maine, where
serious fires had previously occurred. c
The Grand Trunk Railway also has g
equipped a tank car duripg the pre- G
sent season, placing it at Algonquin
Paris station, to be used in extinguish-
ing fires along the railway line be-
tween Ottawa and Depot Harbor,
especial attention being given to that
portion of the line within Algonquin
Park. Excellent results have been se-
cured by both the Canadian Pacific
and Grand Trunk railways from, the
use of these cars for fire -fighting
work, --C. L. in Conservation,
•
g
Played the Same Game.
George --"You seem devoted' to that u
old lady you were with, Is she a near
relative?" Gus—"Rist! I'll tell you 1
how it is. She is the mother of Miss.
Beautie, and I've always heard that t1
the nearest way to a girls heart is a
through her mother's. That's why a
Im so sweet on the old lady. See?
"Humph! Yes, I see. I played that
game, too, when I was young." "Yes, lIn
and you married the girl, didn't you 2"
"True. But the oldlady tools sueh a al
fancy to that she, has been living
With mo ever since." to
There is an average of about 850
births ansi seventy deaths a day in
London
Some two thousand men,; are em-
ployed in New South Wales on the
wobitsrk. of catchingand destroying rah,