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The Brussels Post, 1916-5-25, Page 611 You Have Not a Policy in the CLOWN LIFE You are not doing justice to yourself or your family. Uncle's Way Out for the veritable bomb dropped at the supperetable by her husband. He had come home very late, and had, as usual, said nothing to the many ear - 1 castic ar-lcastic inquiries of his wife, Like his uncle, he was not very talkative by 1 There could be no two questions nature, and he had had stili fewer ' about it that old Uncle Robert was ! chances of becoming ae easy epeaker in the words of his niece by marriage since Mrs. Iiarvey had married '. him. ""drag." "Well," hesaid, n )- s a perfect Mrs, Harvey, the , ashe sun ir hair said niece, even went to the length of )er, . l , staring ab ii knob on an a me terming her husband's relative "an as if asking it advice, "I've enlisted." 'indrance"—her alas" having a way of 1 Uncle Robert gazed at his nephew appearing in the wrong places when as if he had suddenly become n total Mrs. Harvey got angry. I stranger, „ Mrs. Harvey gave a gets'', She often did get angry with Uncle , mrd- she said absolutely 'lathing= a Robert since he gave up''his business,'marvel in it or his business gave him up, and the I Then she tried to say all she want - hints which she dealt out to the poori'ed at once, and as a natural result be - man at frequent intervals daily would , came w)1dIY incoherent, and ended by . � going off into tears and sob, through 7a sults of the present system are poor. have boon quite plainto even a cruller I' 1 h 1 11 1 ' 1 tl t J MUCH LESS DRINKING! Do not imagine that the present con -1 brain than old Uncle Robert's, The ni' ire n s e ouc y proc aimet na oe clition is favorable to trade interests. arrangement had sounded quite pleas was a wretch to think of doing it. houses are not only too ''noel ant at first, all d Mrs. Harvey, as a 1 Whatever was she to do, and why NOW IN ENGLAND hl d d 1 business keen buswoman had been fully from the public order an po reel i ,' iI didn't he leave that sort of thing to Lions Licensed hou —. point of view, but they do not know alive to the advantages of having e that they are too numerous from the old man live with them. TOTAL PROHIBITION IS NOT standpoint of trade efficiency, avid that She had married Joe Harvey some - SOUGHT. the same net profit could be realized what late in life, and his uncle's nice• th them whose job it was? From which it will be seen that Mrs. Harvey's patriotism was not her strong point, She held quite openly Public Drunkenness Has Decreased 50 per Cent., Says Lord from licensed houses reduced in num- houseful of soled, old -fashion( (tura- the view which sundry tradesmen, big tune probably attracted her a good and little, held in private -that war her by 30 or 40 per cent.thine which only concerns nr deal more than did her prospective is a Trade Competition Evils.husband. She took him somewhat on regular soldiers, and that other people ".Assuring internal economies in the the principle which moves a woman were boutnd to do the best they could for themselves out of it. To all her protests, Joe Harvey only said: "It's no sort of use making a fuss, old girl. I've; been to the barracks to- te the question of the result obtainedaccount for much of the drunkenness She had not sized up the possibil- night, and I'mstarbing to -morrow." by the drink restrictions which the. ''which prevails, would almost wholly, ities of the wheelbarrow—otherwise He pushed back his chair—his first sign of the new order of Central Liquor Control Board, of{ disappear. Again, it would be pos..Joe Harvey—anything like as much oMrs.pen Harvey did not allow theirs things;which he is the heady had put in force, sible to negotiate for a stricter code as she had thought of the mahogany writes a London correspondent. of management and observation in the sideboard withwhich he was, as it be "scraped along the floor, Then Lord d'Abernon was emphatic in de- public houses themselves. Those re-' were, "thrown in." However, he had he slowly filled his pipe, pulled the pa- nying that total prohibition is his' sponsible for the management of the' been quickly given his proper place per out of his pocket, and started to ulterior aim. He made this denial in trade would be able to approach all; by the lady who had married him, and read, oblivious of the long-winded answer to certain suggestions which, such questions from a very difierent made to understand that he came very opinion of his conduct voiced by his have been afloat that the various re -'standpoint from that adopted in the' much second to the sideboard, and ''wife. strictions are simply stepping stones' past, in that they would have a great-' chairs, and the plushette curtaining, Only once did he even glance up, and to prohibition. The official board of er percentage of profit out of a small -land the polish on the linoleum, that was when Uncle Robert seized which Lord d'Abernon is the leadinger business because of the economies) There came a time when Joe Har- the chance to whisper hurriedly, Mrs. figure took over control of Great Bri-' of management. I vey said things about that linoleum Joseph being occupied in noisily piling tain's liquor problem on May 15, 1915.; "It might be made almost impos_ as he left the house in the morning up .dishes in the back kitchen: Designed to affect areas such as, Bible for the habitual drunkard to ob-I which would have caused his wife Good luck, my boy! Never should munition centres and seaports, it, has main more than was good for him, and to give him a look of horror. The 'a' thought you'd the pluck to do it. gradually extended its scope of opera the occasional drunkard could bel floor of the old days, unpolished and Joseph gave a slow wink. tions until 29,000,0p0 people are direct-' largely eliminated if checked in time! comfortable, remained in his mind's "Wants more pluck to stay here," ly affected by its decisions. The on curative lines. Very little is done] eye like a lost paradise. He had been was all he said. But it put things board possesses drastic powers, even for the drunkard to -day. I think hel persuaded by Mrs. Harvey that mar- on a confident footing between them, to the point of absolutely closing has a real grievance. These are re -i ridge was the thing that was wanted and Uncle Robert said to himself sev- eral times before he went to sleep that his sister's son wasn't such a fool, after all. Neither did he mean to be one him- self, for all he was sixty-five and giv- en over to rheumatism. He might, not be able to enlist, but he thought a move from his present quarters would be wiser before Mrs, Joseph began to train him to perform Joe's duties. So the next day, after seeing his nephew off, he also went out, and had a long talk with a pleasant -faced little woman who kepb a general shop the other side of the town. -He seemed to be quite at home there d'Abernon: brewing trade to be accomplished, it at an auction to buy a wheelbarrow, would be much easier to effect the kind a rolling -pin, and a never -to -go -again "Fifty per cent. less public drunlc- of reforms which are necessary in. the barometer in due lot, in order to se• enness and disorder than before the public interest. The present Cern cure the barometer to fill a .vacant war," was Lord d'Abernon s answer petition for trade, which is said to place in the hall saloons when it considers their errs- sults which might flow from the sup- tence prejudicial to the interests of pression of unnecessary houses and national productiveness. foolish expenditure, Intoxicating At preeent saloons may sell intoxi- liquor needs no artificial pushing to eating liquors only between the hours command a steady sale and a lucre - of noon and 2.30 p.m. and 0.30 and tive trade. The customers are there own breakfast dishes before you could 9.30 p.m. on work days, and on Sun- and the number of those who misuse have your supper, and that having days between 1 and 3 p.m, and 6 and the privilege of purchase is relatively plain meals at proper hours, though 9 p.m. Limited hours are prescribed small. This small minority brings good for the digestion, did not give also for the' sale of bottle liquors for discredit upon and danger to the trade such a spice to the day as having tasty consumption off the premises; the pro- as a whole. snacks of whatever you liked best hibition of selling liquor on credit "The public has now had an oppor- just when you fancied them. and the absolute stoppage of treating tunity of seeing what is possible on Moreover, meals under Mrs. Joseph in saloons, clubs or any other places. new lines under the board's orders, Harvey's direction had to be eaten Increased Efficiency, and in. a readjustment of pre-war con- properly, and were often ordeals. to put right the many little draw- backs of life with a bachelor uncle. He came to the conclusion before many months that there were worse drawbacks than having to wash your ' dition_i we may easily find a solution In addition to the diminution of of many of the more pressing pro - drunkenness and disorder, Lord d'Ab- blems of the evil of intemperance." ernon said one of the most satisfactory' results is the increased efficiency and preductiveness of workers in muni- tion areas, Continuing, he said: "The first step toward realizing the German Machine Seized Despite Sol - true conditions is to appreciate the dier's Lack of Suspicion. fact that in the years immediately pre- ceding the outbreak of war both con- A good c.pecimen of a Fokker aero- sumption of alcohol and the number plane is now in British hands. A many curtain -lectures, to regard him - i with the cheerless rooms over which of convictions 'for public drunkenness strapping soldier belonging to a eg- self and his uncle as drawbacks to were eteadil his niece by marriage presided. y going up. In the pastinal company of the Royal Engineers, the social and financial advancement He was quite decided that he want good trade has always coincided with; was trundling along on his bicycle of the family. ed to leave those rooms as soon as • DIDN'T RECOGNIZE ENEMY. Shirtsleeves were not allowed, and the comfortable chairs, in which Uncle and the swift appearance of a mug of Robert and his nephew had always warm cider showed that the little wo- eaten Sunday morning breakfast, be- man did not decline, like Mrs. Joseph fore the latter's marriage, would posi- Harvey, to provide Uncle Robert's bively have scared Mrs. Joseph stiff. favorite drink on the ground that it Being a really capable manager, it was bad for his rheumatism, took a surprisingly short time for her Quite at ease, he sat by the fire in to "manage" her husband. His dispo- flee back pan rlor, shernt talkeottedd intot out sition, naturally mild, rapidly became in the intervals of serving customers, meek, and he began, as the result of and contfiasted tlne cosiness of it all round some day, and see what she'd like of the furniture, She's a lot of, her own, but maybe some of this will come in handy, boo" He ended the most amazingly long speech he had ever made, feeling that the moment held iits reward for all the weary months he had suffered at Mrs; Joseph's bands. And Aire. Joseph continued to stare at him, speechless, open-mouthed and goggle-eyed, with het' bewiilderod thoughts on the mahogany sideboard. —London Answers, LORD WI1 KERNE FINE SPORTSMAN HE IS QUITE POPULAR AMONG THE IRISH. Lord [aeutenant of Ireland ;las Been Lacking in Political Foresight. Lord Wimborne is -an agreeable and affable man. He wears an eternal smile on his face and an everlasting flower in his buttonhole, He is 43 years old, and, ten years or so ago, was an average representative of the "young man about town"—of the "gilded youth" of England. If not overburdened with brains, he has loads of money and owns pretty close on `a hundred thousand acres, chiefly in the county of Dorset and in South Wales, where some of his acreage 'consists of coal fields. In short, in normal times, he would have made an ideal figurehead at Dublin Castle —lavish with- dinners and dances, strong at races and horse shows, and the rest of it. But when plots are on foot to establish a Republic in Ireland, times can scarcely be said to be normal. And if neither the Lord Lieutenant could sense these plots, nor was forewarned of them by his officials, then either he must have been -singularly obtuse or some of the officials ought to be shot. cord Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. an increase of alcohol consumption,, near the front, when be suddenly came For Mrs. Joseph had ambition, and possible, or anywhere else that involy- but it le disappointing to realize that upon the scene of the landing. Her Uncle Robert certainly did not fit into , ed the company of Mrs. Harvey. The in 1910-14 increased taxation of al -'beheld an aeroplane which was clearly the picture, with his rough ways and cohol, the temperance propaganda, and not of British pattern, and a well- broad, Dorset speech. As long as he proposition had evidently been made to the pleasant little woman some the licensing regulations in force swatched figure standing by it. The had been capable of carrying on his, time ago. She was more than agree - which resulted in an annual diminu• t idea that it was likely to prove - an small business, and giving hera able, but there were pestles] difficul- tion of about 1.,000 licenses a year enemy machine never entered the steady amount per week—the furni- had not been sufficient to counterbat-isoldier's head. He frankly admits ture she regarded as a natural per- The war had crippled her finances, anco the influence of good trade and, that he took it to be a French aero- quisite—things had not been so bad.ities in the way. as it had done Uncle Robert's, 'and high wages. plane which had been forced to alight. Now that the business had dwindled they'd have to have a bi ert' , nd The second point is the readiness, Having dismounted, he went up to the away, and the old man's savings had tierede, she thought, until things pa - with which the public has conformed' Boche with his hand extended and a been' so much affected by the war that brightened p. Perhapsthingsbilwould to the drastic regulations which have` genial smile. The German shook sil- they also were in danger of disappear- I !be better sooner than they expected, ! been applied during the last nine entity and sadly, ing, Uncle Robert's niece by marriage and then she smiled so cheeringly that months I attribute this attitude to+ The soldier then moved towards gave him to understand that he was the restrictions being regarded as war! the. machine with the idea of investi- in the way. Uncle Robert decided he could endure !Uncle Mrs. Josephs if the little woman came as a final compensation. w a' n= * x * The compensation did indeed ar-I necessities and the realization that in gating the trouble which had brought She told him this, in anything but a great crisis personal convenience it to earth. It was just at this junc- veiled terms, about twenty-five times must give way to national efficiency. l ture a party of Fusiliers came around a day, particularly when she wanted This patriotic view has not been eon -!a bend of the road. Taking in the to "turn out," and found it necessary; rive sooner than had been expected,] fined to the consumer and to the pub- s tuation—a black cross aeroplane on to move him on from one haven of,for it came only three days later, be - the ground and what was evidently refuge to' another. - fore Mrs. Joseph had recovered from ane of its occupants raying to get the Finally, he took to"turning-out";the shock of seeing her meek husband engine to work again—they came on himself, and Mrs. Joseph, at first, , disappear from her power, and change at the double, unslinging their rifles audibly thankful for his removal, be- into a self-reliant man in khaki, as they came. came, for a while curious to know! It cams in the shape of a letter,' sumption of alcohol to those hours,The engineers presence of mind where he spent the absentee hours, which caused Uncle Roberti, whose which conflicted least with the work - seems to have gone by the board, especially as he began to miss teas at 'scanty breakfast had not cheered him ing day and which coincided best with TIe suspected some trick and tool home, and then dinners, and book to I up much for the day, to smile'broadly. ' ordinary meal hours. One unexpect- to his heels. The Fusiliers, conclud- "popping out" m the evening as well, The writing was plain, and rather ed result appears to have occurred in ing that he was a Boche trying to She also noticed a new cheerfulness irregular, but the message it bore was many cities, that the reduction in the make away with papers or photo- finer, in the old man's eyes, than ever ' number of convictions for drunkenness graphs, paused and let fly. Happily written. I with • aggravations—aggravations us- the aim was too hurried to be good. "I'll be gett' ng my dinner out to -1 ually representing disorder and ash The soldier took a flying leap into the day," he, told Mrs. Joseph, as she faced sault.—had been even greater than the roadside ditch and awaited capture.him with an accusing look across tho reduction in simple drunkenness. When he learned that he had m'Ca- table having got to the stage when ..Wants Permanent Reform. he, It has been supported by all the better members of the trade. "Regarding• the restriction of hours, more divergence of opinion exists. The board has sought to confine the con - about him—a certain youthful spruce- ness that was suspicious. Ono day, discovering a new suit dur- ing her explorations of his room, she bluntly demanded explanation, "Where did you get the money for the new things, I'd like to ]mow?" she jerked out at the offender when he ed the chance of making this fine cap- she thought everyone ought to show' tura himself single-handed I am told their personal interest in the war by 1lf you aek my general conclusion T --- _ his language was quite unrepeatable. came in that evening. "You don't going without their meals and look-' should say that the period has been too - „aas"� seem to have much to pay up for your ing miserable. I brief sfor any final opinion to be ex- keep here --and all the weak -and tear "Oh, will you?" was all she jerked 1 Ditch •Digging Extraordinary. pressed, but that there can be no ion things that there is. Look at that out, by way of reply. I doubt that there is ample ground for A French soldier with a taste for,lirto now"—with a glare at a worn She still harbored the idea that the belief that a vast improvement has statistics has calculated the amount of fragment—"just under your Feet]" enlisting had been in a great measure! been achieved. The drop in public in- ! soil that has been moved in the work! The old man kept back the retort duo to Uncle Robert, and she had an tereperanneo and of convictions result- I of trench making. There are about that, after all, it Was his own lino- extra grudge against him accordingly. ! ing from -itwhich oecured in' each area, five hundred miles of first-line' leum, and answered mildly that the "Yes,' said the old man deliberate - directly the orders were put in force, ! trenches. stretching all the way f • ! suit didn't happen to be quite new, 1, ly; "and I don't suppose I'll want g Y nom , Pp i Y, PP ,. has been steadily maintained tip to the North Sea to Switzerland, and' I got it from a friend whose bro- many more hero at all, I'm going to date, It is often said, 'Men cannot there are five or six lines of trenches' flier didn't want it no more, and that marc ovo• to the shop in Dale Street, be made ether by act of Parliament; . on each side. A total of t sr lines of, Prl (lone a piece of work for." I She and 1 fixed up to get married My. belief is that under a really eflec- trenches would give ahnut five thous -1 Mrs. Tlarvey rnlfted, but was ins' some time ago, and now she's just! tire system of regtilation three'•fourths find miles, and this, according to the; oortain whether tr, say that she didin't' conte in for a tidy -bit---two hundred, of attic cltunlcenness which prevailed ' calculating soldier, means a total ex-' believe him, or tc dennarel the friend's' and fifty pounds it is, so there's no before the war would never exist cavation twice that of the Panama name,aslc the nature of. bheworkl' cull for us to wait ins longer. Clever again• Canal. And it has all been done by, lor and the old man seized his chance to little woman, Annie iso" Ame)ht, ether reasons why im- ]land labor with militaryshovels ant C•aCri.pC Up<tali s, "Maybe,"he went on wall move , C �, provenient is or should be easy is the much of it under fire by men who hall Tor curiosity might have prompted back along to Dorset; she comes frim Undoubted fact that the financial re- to work while lying mi their stonnachs, her to twenty idquir.ea next day, but these parte, too.' I'll ask her to slip The post of Lord Lieutenant of Ire- land is, at the best, a difficult and thankless one in many ways. In these days, it is a post of positive dan- ger. Had the rebels been able to carry out their object, no doubt it would have included the capture of the Lord Lieutenant and his family, and the holding of them as hostages. Lord Wimborne's courage is undoubted. He has given plenty of proofs of it in the hunting field and on the polo ground, as well as on -the battlefield in South Africa.. But he has a very beautiful wife, as well as a young family. And the last week or so must have been days of great anxiety for him on their account. A Fine Snort The Lord Lieutenant has now held his office for over a year. During that time he has made himself reason- ably popular with the Irish people, all the more so in contrast with his im- mediate predecessor, Lord Aberdeen. The latter and his wife were both amiable and well-meaning people, but they had not the happy knack of adapting themselves to Irish senti- ment that his successor has boon able to do. Ino has clone his utmost to en- courage certain enterprises which the majority of the Irish people happen to be interested in. He cares greatly for horse racing and for horses, as do the majority of the Trisha Horse breeding, moreover, has always been a consider- able industry in Ireland, so that a Lord Lieutenant who does a good deal to foster it is assured of a . certain measure of goodwill. Racing may not be so important as many other things —as the crusade against tuberculosis, for instance, with which the Aberdeen regime was associated -but the Irish like the stranger '(so far as they like strangers at all) who will adapt him- self to their little weakness. It was only the year before last— only a couple of months before the outbreak of war—that the name of Lord Wimborne, as "the cup -lifter," was in everybody's mouth. For it was he who organised the sporting hive- sion of the United States has his clever' polo team which "lifted" the inter- national challenge cup. At regards polo, he is an enthusiast of the enthu- siasts. But he le almost as keen on HOES ,t�n�ei. Sport ecreatioii Sold by all goat glsee dealer Weeenivy every mewl eritiini➢y IIMSESW1.00S902==0=00100111111 many other forms of sport—on hunt- ing, racing, shooting and so forth. His Brainy Mother. kle inherited his money from his father. What brains he has must have come from his mother, who is an aunt of Winston Churchill's—Lord Winiborne's family are said to have been of a good deal of assistance to the deserving cause of the Churchill finances ere now—and who is cerbain- ly a women of consummate ability. Indeed, it is said to have been large- ly due to his mother's influence that Lord Wimborne and JNinston Church- ill, too, definitely broke with the Unionist party over the question of Tariff Reform. For, like his cousin, Lord Wimborne was, for some years a Unionist M.P. Lord Wimborne has a regular hosb of relatives living in, or hailing from the United States. His aunt by mar- riage, Lady Randolph Churchill, was an American millionaire. The wife of the Duke of Marlborough, his cousin, is the daughter of another. One of his brothers, Capt. F. E. Guest, M.P., is married to a daughter of Mr. Henry Phipps, of New York. Another of his brethers, Mr. Lionel Guest, married Miss Flora Bigelow, daughter of the late Mr. John Bigelow, of New York. His brother-in-law's wife, Mrs. Robert Grosvenor, was formerly Miss Flor- ence Padelford, of Washington. WOMEN TURN MACHINISTS. Receive the Same Pay As Men to British Factories. Overalled, leather-aproned, capped and goggled—displaying nevertheless a woman's genius for making herself attractive in whatever working guise —some 18 women are being trained in the Notting Hill Gate, England, workshops of the Women's Service Bureau in the skilled engineering work , of welding joints and fine flange sockets needed for the construction of aeroplanes. As fast as they are trained the wo- men are placed in Government fac- tories, where they receive the sane pay as men. The women welder is !another instance of woman's adapt- ability to work believed to be out of her province. She bends over an oxy- acetylene blowpipe with a Same of 16,000 Fahrenheit that can make steel run like sealing wax. Though her !eyes are protected by goggles of colored glass, a rain of bright rparks impinge on her face and neck, but she heed, them not, nor obvious- ly does her complexion. She saws, files and hammers steel, and the women welders' workshop it filled with a hundred loud or shell] clamors of metal, but the nerves of the women welders are unaffected Miss Woodward, the principal, de- elan•es that many of these women, who have never done manual work be- fore, find their work "n nerve tonic," and that headaches are ieft at home, GAMBLERS NEVER SUICIDES True Dealers in Chance Are Persons of Eternal Hope. Great police officials assure us that the professional gambler 01' person' moved by true gambling instinct nev-i er under any erocumstances takes his own life, says Melville Post in the Sat -I urday Evening Post. It is the de -I faulting clerk who kills himself, the ruined shopkeeper, the desperate wo-, man of the world, the involved fin-; ancier, the defaulter and the like, who have turned for the moment to the! gambling table in the vain hope of; recouping thein_ losses or mending their ruined fortunes. The true gambler is a person of eternal hope. If he loses to -day he believes that he will win to -morrow. "None but reasonable and reasoning men, players from ambition, from envy or necess .ty, ever give way to despair and commit suicide. "The profes- sional gamblers lives to old age," says Monsieur Claude in his memories. ]]'light be Worth Trying. FROM SUNSET COAST WIIAT TTIE WESTERN PEOPLE ARE DOING. Progress s of the Great West Told in a Few Pointed Paragraphs. Hugh Leith, 12 -year-old sin of Mrs. Leith, North Vancouver, slipped from the rock on which he was fishing and was drowned in the Capilano river. Arthur Wood, of the Nicola Valley, was in the battle in which the Ger- man cruiser Blucher was sunk; he ;has now joined the B. C. Pioneers. Mr. R. A. Stoney was elected Peesi- Ident of Kamloops Trades and Labor Council in place of President W. E. Naiden, who has enlisted for overseas service. Lieut. J. K. D'Arcy, well .known in Victoria business and athletic circles, 1 has been lcilled in action. He acted ' as biller in the Bank of British North America. Pte. Joseph George, of the 143rd '-Battalion, Vancouver, is one of seven brothers who have enlisted. Three have been killed' and one is held prisoner. I United States workingmen- have Ibeen warned against going into Brit- ish Columbia. It is reported that more than 1,000 able-bodied men are un- able to obtain work., I The Irish Association at Vancouver has expressed abhorrence of the ac- tions of Sir Roger Casement and the Sinn Fein party in their detestable , efforts to stir up rebellion in Ireland. At North Vancouver, Herbert. Dix- on Ford, only son of Richard Ford, who accidentally shot himself in the head on Sunday afternoon while handling a revolver, died in a sani- tarium. Several Sloean mines took advan- tage of the cessation of operations following the war to carry out devel- opment work, so that a larger pro- duction may be expected in the near future. The 103rd Battalion, Vancouver Island "Timber Wolves," have been taking on men at a good rate lately and now only about 50 more Hien are required to bring the battalion 'gip to full strength. Sergt. T. G. Armstrong, smarted wounded, is a well-known ex -resident of Nelson, B.C.; having been em- ployed there with the Crow's Neet Pass Coal Company as assistant col- liery manager. Hundreds of miners are stamped- ing from Fairbanks, Koyukuk, hli- tered, Kuskokwin and other polite: to Boob and Tolstoi Creeks, in the hn- noko district, where a rich gold strike is reported. Three Vancouver men, Mr. Brown, Mr. Dixon, and John a Mune, with Police Sergeant McLennan, risked their lives in resetting 20 horses from beneath the burning dry kiln a'.• Han- bury's mill recently. Instead of objection:, employers had eve? praise for the proposed workmen's compensation Anna, in a meeting held at Vittoria. Official news has been received that Lieut. Hesketh St. John P,iggs of Vancouver, is missing and is be- lieved to be a prisoner of war. GERMANS WEARY OF WAIL. Historian Says They Desire Peart, But on Impossible Terms. "Lord Kitchener is reported to have ; said from the first that this will be +1 long war. I =eider that its ending will prove to be more a question of nsyrho- I logy than of military happenings. 3ut, in turn, it seems that military happen- !ings alone will produce that state of public feeling•in the belligerent stem - tries ion which peace can be foand- I ed," So Professor Oman, the distinguish- ed Oxford historian, answered my question as to when and through what steps he thought the war would •nd, He has probably authoritatively n- plained more wars to more students of history than any other living his- torian. His views upon the present war are interesting for further reas- ons. From the very beginning he has occupied a responsible post in connec- tion with the censorship, and ---what is really more important—he typifies a "university influence" which in Eng- land traditionally sits at the right el- bow of statesmen. "My work in connection with the censorship keeps German newspapers in my hands about eight hours a day," be continued, "and I can't help feeling that the Germans are ready for peace. But for peace only upon impossible terms. There is more fighting to be done." THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. That empty and ugly thing called popularityl—R. L. Stevenson. What nn abject thing is man if ho cannot lift himself above humanity,-- Seneca. If. to do were ;as easy as to know what wore good to do chapels had been churches, and poor men's cot- tages' princes' palaces,—Shakespeare, By friendship I moan the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, mid the most: ex- emplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, wind the heartiest counsel, and the greet:et union of minds of which brave mon and women fnt•e Capable,— Jeveniy Taylor, - Mrs. A.—Doetor, is there anything in.rthe theory that our natures are af- fected by the food we eat? Doctor—Oh, yes; that point has been conceded by the beset authority. Mrs. A, --Then I think I'll get a set- ting hen and feed my little boy on the meat. He's the most restless Child I r.;vaa.:.Sew. „ • At the Show, Edith --1 noticed you wiping you' eyes when "Tho Sorrow of Sarah' film was being r.liown. ,lack—Yes, it was a moving plc; taro.