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The Clinton News Record, 1920-12-30, Page 6e Revoll From Four Walls ely C. COURTENAY SA yeAGE, on t Dwell. " DOn't•dweiv liaict an, em- ployer to one of his men. He meant .don't, When you finish With a, thing go at once to the next, Idling, dwelling on a thing after you have finish- , ed with it, will spoil your mind for alertnesS, elfec- tiveness,. dispatch. Dispatch is eVerything in lousiness, It makes the short day long and enables you to accomplish in a brief tbne what it requires a long time for other people to do —.people who dwell over finished jobs. fele etewesensweeettateeeeeeesSeeiateseeettoesoasseetwes eoseesseeteseeseeseeesea CHAPTER IstContimiede "Oe, welter &pith took si More op- t:I:Meths eiew of the eituatime "it will have to be a ease of every Mee fere himeelf, Pee get 11 few debttQ PO; so. Pli be respontible em more then my shale." "It'e the aeitetors we want," eary • explaieed. "The hired hete are no bleme." • e`Dene let tine of the other crowd , through your fingers. • Persorial-- Ite;Tewent to get a crack at the tellow web the face like a ferret.".. Tbee had reached a strip of stony reach, Oiliest opposite the maple grove by tlUs time aste 'Rather con- wag& had .been eteacel'y raised, howi prosperity had ^come among them, how; their eighteen were „learning to read, and write, holly •the Inrillers' elub had' eek so that they could be entertain - motion, pletere shows for them every wI el, of the hen:Inds or email adeanei tages that were theirs. He showed them that the farmer or the farnd hand of 1920 was not in need of See. I "And yet you woo fools enough to It that darned sitene, evho is not a citizen of this eouptry, coree among you and tell you different, 1 work for the Ca.nadiep Govereinent end it's been iny job to watch thatiallow singe he elipped across our borders. That versation was dangerous, fellow was trying to make a streee The ferret faced man wite talking bore; and if he bad succeeded; be had •plans to tie up tioe•fall harvest in this M part of the province, And if the har- vest a been tied up, how Would the far:nem tee° had money to pay- you? Do yeti realise that he was going, to elearge you for organizing you into thie revolt? That he would have some roend with his bill eor organizing this strike? No?—welle he was. Now, go back to your work, and if yOu have a kick, ko t� the Met femme's' club reeetirigeand. tell 'about it." There was a moment of 'hesitation; and then, looking at One 'another ste .thildeten who have been caught steal- ing Jam or playing with fire, they went their way. and othaleonal thouted words came tot te era "Th let" "Liar." e &elec." "tights." roped near he un: he if &Institut- ing •st bad:Mauna of approval, were two oft tee Tee that Guy had seen in the home on the Island, thew he did not *tweeze, the man that Go had cetheeto ecU etheefat Man" and to • Guyes great autprise, a young 'tomer who Mel o piece near- town. Guy knee him' to be of foreignpermit:age but a Canadian by bath. Phot he slime a there -wee as a stain op the cow ee. In adeesh.it &meth Guy, tha.. .5 Was the man Who had driven .the team the night he had, goneto the islend. "Chump!" be said mider his breath. "Some people are mire fools: Born end bred in this country and now try-, Ines tp throw it over for a braze) ideas" A movenent in the hushes near Liam, cued them both to be on the alert. It was John Baker. Thought you must be up here," he wh epoied a, "We're 'geing Metre a min- ute. Neva- • mind the rest of the crowd but get the fellow with the fer- ret fate, as- you ea .him .Iejetowe who sent .your letter." • • - For five minutes they viaiteree Then a ' sudden yell split .the morning 'ail'. It eves the sinal. •-• e. • . There really . would have been. no fight if the raielingeosattas hadebeen bethee. organieed, ithece closed', ire on the little group ofeleaders 'them captives. As it was., however, the motley audience stoodon- the way of most of the I -seders and the audi- ence, feelipg itielf .attackede.euffeseing from a guilty' conscience, and being frighteleds-proceeded to "mix it up' It was more or less of a one•sided battle, with the raiders getting- tbe better in short order. The confusion, however, had its moment of safety for the man with the ferret face. If he was surprised .that they were -disturb- ed, his features did stot mirror each an emotion. Quietly with one setift leek baekward,•he stepped from his log and made bif toward the shelter of the venods. _ • There was one via, ran fleeter than • he, hotiv,ever. Wardell jumped the log and crouching low, hurler/ himself thrugh the underbrush. His adversary had not gone a hundred feet before Wardell was close to here: He turn- ed, saw who wee, pursuing him and stopped. suddenly. A knife, flashed. Wardell milled the trigger of the gun he carried in his coat: pocket The bullet tore away the material and luck, which always playa a big part in adventure, directed the bullet, for it also'toretheiblide of the knife kern Its hilt. The Man with the ferret face was uninjured. He dropped the knife hilt and opened hiegreet bony heads, so tlmt the fingers spread late talons. Then with a low tense exy, he attack- ' ed. . For the spath.of two or them min- utes they tusseled—with the ferret - faced man gaining in advantage. Gity knew that it was time for a tremendous effert. He thew his knees up and thrust them irate the mat's stomach. His fists found the man's •ear and hammered with telling blows. • lis 'lifted his head and • hit hisetedth sink into the writ nearest te hien. Those etalon-like' fingers" elieet his windpipe would mean death, and Guy was not ready to die.. Suddenly, with a tremendous effort, he managed to turn from his. back to his side. The man let geeof his hold long eneugh to try to shake Ginea tenth from his arm. The -move was fetal. With all tlee 'strength that he had left Guy diet hts fist into the man's face, caught him on the mouth and his head went back. Guy struck again. The man was dazed. - Beeath- less, bleeding, Gey jumped to bis feet. He knew his enemy was only moment- arily stunned. He reached for the revolver in his pocket. It was. gone. It had feeen from hie pocket an the struggle. He searched the ground with eager eyes—but before he could find it, a fresh enemy was on him. It' was the fat man. , Guy loweree his head and iushed toward his new antagonist. As he ran, the man with the ferret face re- covered his consciousnese and with a • quick movement of hie lege, tripped the fellow who had knoeltedehim out. Guy Wardell fell heavily, And it seemed to him that Witlabiselast.mot anent of consciousness he could see the mytherione ,fat mai laughing. • CHAPTER X. He (Tema' his eyes) with a Mart • Madeline and Rose Esther were both itanding over him. el told you he was all right," Rose said, triumphatelye "Feel fine, don't you? Take a long drink of that water and let's got into the grove, I'm dying With curiosity to see what's happen- ing," "Say--viait a minute," Guy cone. nded. "Help me up—I feel kind a! lebly. And where the dickens is hat fellow --and that fat man ?" Both the Women smiled et meneon f the fat mans Roth aetuelly ug into a eaugh. ' •''Ws the biggest joke ori all of us," the Oirplained, "but 'that /at mon' le Parker Mason, the fellow Pen going to Marry—my husbandettabe," • "Your hue:band eYes, Re Mat the note and I just know that they would have really and hilly Mown Up Wises and killed peo- ple but he was plsiving at being OVA Of tho` leaders) of the rang so as to tet evidence and he wouldn't let than O etapeeate things. He's jaet giving e kilted mon tho Wee dickens, ['in atilee e hear /1 o A wits tails almost petalIeled with temyeo'Nlotighte of a half hour before Se he had good hi the .0edoses and telled the neMi with the forret WO, ohnplo langaege Matson told- three ' theyewere net boil* -treated late * fee, He sheartel them how telolle • "Bet what 'happened' to • my fiend with the ferret face?" -Guy asked, after he had ben introduced to Park- er Mason. „ "Sheriff's got him," Mason told him. "We tied them up good; put them -all in the back of the me, and they'll be cadet sash. , Ferret -face is a good name for him but he ,really was not over -bright, or Im would never have believed ply. fake'.eredentialethat I was to help hine with the -strike. 'This- isnur last brg-Jobot-thiof sort; aadi: was sr ticklish' me, living eight hem under the Mete 'et boaple- knew---• nild loved'," he lookedatt Rose. -; "Then it wee Yee; I chased out of the sup home?" Gee-, leiighe.d. • ,..eYeee,egy, yolgetle about it =-•if' we eoisede go e elm -where where ahleideehe eiletecireceffee.. and ' other breakfast fixings." And so over the coffee cups he told them of being assigned teethe case— how he had alto -Wed the agitators to go so far and thustive him conclusive evidence agatimee them; how he had usedethe sap .houst-eisea piece of habie Wien, of his sudden move to the islands; where the man with the ferret face and his companions had already built themselves, a but, -how the cam - leg of 'Gregory' Smith had made the ferret-fareed man move -from the island and how 'they had moped back again when Guy had discovered it. It was a fascinating tale, with its unfolding story of the subtle distil- bution of .dangerous propaganda am- ong the hired help. Mason admitted that there had been sevens:I moments when he feared that the gang would become fiercely destructive but he had managed to curb them and play Iris p e en . "That's all," lie laughed, "and by. the way, I wonder if you, Wardell, happened to find a silk -undershirt I left at. the sap house—it was naW— and they cost money these days—" - "Yes," Madeline said, quickly, "and you'll never guess what happened to it. .Rose and I cut it clown—it was such. fine material that 1,,76 used. Hein the trousseau!" • Whieh, everyone admitted, was fair enough. When Gay Wardell brought . the mail dovrn the lane a couple of days later it tontained a long envelope with a familiar address in the corner. He was not - actively on th.e working list, for he still suffered from the cuts and bruises he had received. He dropped to the porch step, an4 breaking the envelope, read the tette. .Madeline., coming out of the kithhen, saw his anterest and asked what news the letter contained. "It's from the boss," heesaidasude denly. "It's from •MaTeme the presi- dent of the company at Warren Falls. He sem; the strike is over. They have „erleitrated apd the men are anxious to return. The men admitted they were misled by an agitator. MeTue says that he is going to make things eas- ier 'in the factory and also institute a bonus plan." "That's fair," was Madeline's com- ment. "What else does he say?" "He wants to know if I'm not going to oath, off the .strikei }Ie -says that I'm needed in the office, that I know the business so well that my place in the world is there. Ile says I'm too good a Canadian to kick over the law - and -order party for permanent re- volt." Guy stopped and looked up at her face. Hi a eyes were searching her face. '"ealeat do you • think e" he soaked .presentlee "e think that law -and -order is the ,only thing, Guy," ehe'saidt "But we've heal a good time, haven't We?" he laughed. "lust think' a the Moateeneent we've had, and how much prettio you are and how strong w both are. ,You know, Madeline, I thought last niggle, that I had no more business to bay° walked out that day, than these men aeound here have. I thought last • night that I belonged back there where I could take the place that e was t•rained for." ' She nodded. ' For a 'minute there Was IM sound save the dmmhe e of t summer ineeets, "When will you go?" she asked quietly. '"When you are ready." "That min be vecry SOMA." Then, er after anothweenie. "MeTue must think a lot of you, Guy, You meek be a very good man."' There was hs her voice that note a mother uses when her son is praised. He jumped to Me feet and took hee la his arms. "The male da over--Medelate--- over: We've curuedu tutu huetrueum over. We've cured it here. I'm going back to the (office, to the emit that can test de to help my fellow -map. And OUT revolt, the .bithernese that vie need to hold toward one another-- times over, too, isn't it?" . Tesa's sprang to het eyes. She node ed keeliead and lifted her Irips ter • And on a tepee post near the gar- den gate a solig theueli &mated et happalues, ' (The Veld) ihnionark has shout 86 head of tette to *Very 1110 inhabitanto, am-4mo drAtireoto Bunting With a Crazy Quili. Curiosity among manl birds' and animals is not an uncommon trait. But in Central Asia there is a' .species of partridge that seems to have more than its shoe of eurioalty. In hunt- ing the bird the natives take advan- tage of its weakness. If . you happened to be touring through that section a the cpuntey during the season of thee particular partridge, you would notiee peculiar Ojeda' of many brilliant motors bob- bing along in the fields or from behind. rocks. In a country so plentifully 'stocked' with strange -looking birds you might think these objects were nothing more than some oew species that you had not .seen before; .but on closer examination you would discover each of them to he a native.hunter. In their leftthande they are carry- ing screens of cloth that look some- thing like crazy quilts ofthe most glaring colors. This Patthwork of colored cloth is stretched over a frame resembling thateof a kite; and some of the cloth is tied pa the edge in the form of stream.ens that wave back and .eeeteli intim breeze._ • • • That epecies of partridge for which they Mee hunting is called the thukar, or rock partridge;-thukars are Meath ful, .but they ,enre so weld that the hunters find' itediffieult be get within • shooting- &stance.. " Almost all fietive Asiatic. hunters merry old-fashsoned.guns, and if they cannot get close to their ranee they waste a. great many shots. However, one of them somehow discovered that the rock parlaidge was brimful of euer- theity and quick to approach and in- vestigate any gay-coloreel thing. So he rigged up the kite -like contrivance, with its various colored cloths, and found &et it worked with great ef- ect; and he brought in so many of Foliothe Doctor's Direction°. "The new. tnedieMe the doctor eerie fer the baby is the best steiff," mid the little new mother who had were red through Q. bad winter with ber email, delicate son, "It's pink, end it snsells so familia' —like some hind of candies I used to buy When I wee a little girl. Ana it's so sweet and nice, the baby just loves it. He sleeps all the him, too," the added, unconcernedly. "Some- times Imon hardly wake him at all When it is time to feed him." A middle-aged wom'an who had dropped in to &lee and was staying to viset, male "Are there no (Uree. term on the bottle?" "Oh, dear, yeel It eve only hale a 'teaspoonful, whes:. required; but baby likes it so well I Always give Min a teaspeopful and be goes right off to sleep." "How often does he leave it?" ask- ed the other woman. Her expression was quite lost upon the little new mether. • • "Oh, about three times a day. That reminds me the bottle will soon be entpty, and I Mast ask the doctor to hoe it refilled." , "May I see the mecticine my dear?" said the visitor. .As she iook out the cork and sniffed at it, she said am - too*: 'This is peregorie. No wonder the baby 'sleeps so well, The poor child is probably drugged. And•the direc- tions say very plainly that the medi- cine is only to be given upon occa- sion," the added, a little severely, for it was almost unbelievable that the little mother should have no suspicion of the nature of ehe medicine. "I'm sure it mast be alleright or the doctor would never have ordered it. Pll enee ring him up and -ask him about it.! "The eiteby's Medicine?" saidthe doctor, eiself puzzled. Then he remem- bered thee erescription and ssaid quick-' ely: "Tee bottle della empty yet, ,is it?" • "Tlieeleaby likes it. I have been , giving ban a spoonful three' times a day," said the little mother, her voice full of tears and a hint of fear in her eyes. . The doctor wasted no time in ex- planation by telephone, but as lie tramped' quickly up the village street he indulged in some caustic inward comment on the follies of very young and foolish mothem. The baby was sleeping when -the doctor stepped into the room. The these usually- shy bieds that Other little mother's eyes were very wide hunters began to wonder how he did it. -I andhlue as she met the doctor at the I , Einaely one of them chanced to meet. doorway. "Pm sorry you didn't him while he was approaching a covey' the directions," said the dunderstancloctor not of the birds and, of course, he saw the brilliant lure he was using. Soon 'every hunter was malting use of the. contaivance with the result that the hunting grounds am now dotted with nambees of odd-looking crazy quilts waving: in the or. Buoy -Laying in the St. Lawrence. • Laying gas buoys along a course of 340 miles, a great part of the way in a current running at a speed of over 10 miles an hour, is the defficult task per- fdrmed each seeing by Canadian Gov- ernment steamers in the, Ste Lawrence River between Montreal • and rather point, the latter the point where the "Empress of Ireland" sank in the sum- mer of 1914 after collision with the collier "Storstad. Throughout tee Win- ter mouths the entire length of the St. Lawrence is icelmund. All marine traffic is suspended. Prior to the breaking up of the ice to, Aerie all equipment is made ready. TM-buoy:4 • If invalids and people in poor health could only hold persistently t h e perfect image of themselves, and, no matter how much it may howl in pain for recogni- tion, refuse to see the sick, discordant, imperfect image, the harmony thought, the truth thought would soon neutralize their opposites and they would be well. unkindly. 'But you know, Mrs. Lane, that if we doctors intended medicines to be given by the spoonful or the cupfel, we would never spend yeaes studying materia mediae" He had the baby in his arms, a limp, little heap of flannels, antl as he carried him to the- light he called the mother to his side. ' "Look at his eyes," he said, gently raising the tiny eyelid and revealing an eye pupil that had contracted to a tiny pin -point. "Listen to that breathing," and the • 11 eleethar ear, for the firet time, iietenee and understoed that .there wee omen.. theng Wrong with' the leng, ebellew regulaeity MI the child's breath. . "I'm gled you called me. Al Mat- temstatal, I Welk there is no greet danger. Throw awity the inedleieee • The mother had learned her lesson Now the reside the dtreetions on the bettle—and follows them, ' A, Sermon on Onions. Onious are the great tea:there of modention, • Too muelt orient and you have a badtaste .in your mouth the next morning Juet enough onion and all other foods, taste the better for it. Many people whe pretest that they do not like opions will exclaim over the eelicioes fiver- of 'a salad, not knowing that a eit of 0/11011 jUlee is reeponaible for the flavor: Even 'a .bowl rubbed with .garlic, or a clove of garlic placed to a crust of bread and tossed,With a salad and removed, will intrigue the taste of • )nany who would scorn it if they knew what they wore getting. A plain lettnice salad which would be otherwise utterly Un- interesting becomes a relish and an appetizer if a bit of one.'garlic or chives is stelcle,d.to the deessing. Like othen good; teings, the .onion Me suffered the most at the hands of its friends. Creamed or beked oesien.s sere among the most delicate and. delecta,ble Of vegetables, and they sae very cheap and are with. us fos. the winter. They are antiseptic and most wholesome as well as appetizing and give zest and savor to bland foods. Use the onion with restraint and it will make many a dull meal piquant and interesting. Would You Like a Free Lib -eery? leo you keep accounts? Have you a budget system? Or do you run your hoxne o blie old happy-go-lucky plan of buying what you want when you see it, and coming out with a monthly deficit which you cannot ex- plain? If you are om of those house- keepeps who never knows Where she stands, why not turn over a new leaf? Now bhat the long evenings are with us, you will have plenty of time to study out a budget and resolve to sleek to it. ' If you need help in planning your budget there are plenty -of booklets to tell you how. Write the Depart- ment of•Agriculture, at Ottawa, stet - Mg your neede. Have you ever noticed in your mag- azine advertisements how many free booklets you can get? Of course, they are gotten up primarily to ad- vertise the wares of the company, but many of them have .good ideas. You can often get ideas for house furnish- ing and decorations which help you solve your own speeial problem. Sew- ing machine companies give you hints on dressmaking, using your machine attachments, and fancy work. Soap companies give you :invaluable laun- dry hints, linoleum tompanies help you in taking care of floor coverings. If you haven't money for hooks, whieh wouldn't be surprising ib these days of high-priced ireapo, you can get quite a fine free library by merely writing a letter and asking for litera- ture. Read all the advertisements in your papers and magazines, and etart your library -this winter. are charged tylth several maths' sim- ply of gas; the lanterns, including the flashing mechanisms' and burners, are adjusted, and sneering cables are Out to lengths and conveniently placed. Each buoy, with lantern, mooring cable, and anehor,.wetbs about four tons, Is from 5 to 8 it. in diameter, and from 10 to 30 It. in length over all, rm. cording to type. The distance from Montreal to Father Point is 320 miles. One hundred and fifty gas buoys are placed to mark this route, • • Monday is Always e Bad Day. He was a very popular curate, says the London Morning Post, and when he left the country parish he was greatly missed by everyone. His suc- cessor was not much of a coultryman. When he went to call on old Mother 'Brown one. Monday afternoon, she took his educationin hand. "I be main sorry tether ,eurielc's gone," sloe said, "for this I will say for that there auricle: be allue did -know vhen 'tees -washing day." What Lies Beneath the. Earth's Crust? • It is surprithig how little we really know about the planet on which we live. 'We have examihed its surface pretty thoroughly, but of what is be- neath a thin outer crust we are almost wholly ignorant. Volcanoes from time to time tbrovi ite great quantities of stuff out of the bowels of the earth. But there is no telling from what dept.!, it eomes; and at the present time there is a good deal of dispute among geologiets as to whether this molten material is de- rived from localized pockets or from a Aery mass accupyleg the whole in. tidos, of tIte terrestrial globe. There are even scientists so hereti- cal as to query Whether the core of the globe is hot They think that per- haps it may be cold. Temperature, it le true, does rise as one destends into the earth, but conceivably this may in- dicate merely a hot zoene beneath which it cools off. An eminent Britieh engineer hes ade 'treaded the digging ef a shaft twelve miles deep, which, he says, Gould ,be temk in thirty years, at ati expellee of a feW niuiliSis dollars. He beeievea that the knowledge elYtitined would aneee relate tile klieefenent. A5. an etglekilierrig pfeteastsition the task weuld, be attended with Umlaute able difilcultiee athe tremeedeets pres- s/11re in the eseepthe might mush let the title from the elders, But the Main ob. Stade Wotad be heat: The deepeet hole °Vet' dug Is a well. sunk or on, mar leaerinaht, In, Wesst Virginia. It is six inches In diameter 'and neatly o mle and a hal/ in depth. At that point it stopped, became . a elide of rock choked it. The temperature at the bottom of this hole is 168 3-5 degrees rahrem het, and the guess is mat the bolting point of water would be reached at 10,000 feet. At a depth of thirty miles: It Is surmised, rooks would be hot enough to be plastic like putty. The earebthee been' Weighed by am tronoeners,, who say that it would just about balance an iron ball of equal size, if the two could be put on a pair of stales. There seems to be no other laference than that the interior of the Planet la mainly composed of heavy metale. . But nobody positively lenowth and it is not In the least likely that ssaybody will evee feed out. The fact that mite regions are highly volcanice-aueh as the Aleuthian Islandss, the Caribbean and the neighborhood ,of /Oa—Yr/elle others, like Canada, are free of thole dleturbaneese has never been adequate- ly explained. ' We do know that under our feet are untold stores of energy. If only we Could tap it there weald be no more worry about fibe exhaustion of the world's fuel supply. eaktiient Italy and its geographic neigitherhood (including Sicily and other isateable 1E1 a typical wimple re- gion. JIa many piaeos, where steam issues from the grottad, the people trap it end put it to work. _ Rescued—In' Whet Condition? It is related of Mr. Augustine' Bir - veil, the British etesselst and politi- cian, that he once get into a third- class railway euerlage in the north of England and sat down hurriedly next to a little girl in shawl and clogs. Happening to gli.nce at ber a moment or two afterwards, he saa- that she was .tegarding him with no great faw or. It dawned upon him thht he was sitting on her newspaper. "Dere, my dear," said Mr. Birrell, pulling the newspaper out and hand- ing it to her; "I'm sorry." The little girl did not look quite satisfied, but she said nothing until a few minutes later, when the train drew up at a station, "Please, sir," she then inquired weakly, "may I bare my fried fish?" It ha.d beeu wrapped up in the news - Neer! Owing to Lack of Space. "There's profiteering in houses," re. molted Brown one day, "Most certainly there is," assented Robinson, "And despite this profiteering," he said, "houses and apartments are in greater domed than ever.. Well lo- cated tenants have their leells rung two or three times a day by total strangers who anxleuely inquire if by any chance they think of leavieg their home soon. 'I heard of a chap who entered a newspaper oMce recently and said to the girebehind the counter: " 'I want to advertise in your paper for a house or flea' " 'Yee. How many ineeetionee' said the gly1 briskly. 'We make a reduc- tion foe space takers by the year, and we have else a very reasenable three. year contract that would probably suit you better still.' " • You can sleep better after a day's hard week than after a day's idle- ness.—Harry Lauder. r •.. Do'not dwell on your dis- appointments, your unfor- tunate surroundings or harbor black pictures in your mind. Do not dwell upon what you call your PeculiaritieS. Hold to the belief that _the Creator I made you in His own imager a perfeetly normal, healthy bapp3r and sensible human being, and that any other condition is the restilt of your abnormal thinking, v ....rog.opm......r..6........•••••10 There is gen.uine and Untnista,keable pleasure in its daily. use, . • , black - Green ) Try a pachet trout ypur,groctp,. Or Mixed f but be pure it's Salede.. ' 8516.' From,Vitny.Ridge. Breathe deep, dear' Land! From Vimy'e ridge a fragrance ::are Thrills glorious o'er the seas. Our Canada is there! The Splendid sons Thy wide -flung winds have proudly bred, . Keep well the cause for which their sires so gladly bled. Think long, dear Land!' Carest measure yet the burning love Enshrined within their heart? Or have they failed to ,prove To him a strange Fate left behind, that Time—nor Fame -- May not outlive this deathless joy—or deathless shame? Drink deep, dear Land! The cup fair Glory lifts to Thee 'Brims. high, Each dPop is liOured in Crimson ecstasy. • Time was when ancient gods were crowned with laurel • wreaths, But see! Thy maple bowl is rimmed with living leaves! Live true, dear Land! These filet rare fruits were .dearly given, Earth bears no aftermath that shall not feel their leaven. Pray then, dear Land! Thy destiny on sacrifice Of Love is built. Hast•gift of Thine that may suffice? Ploughed Under. Oneday late in the winter, when there -was still a sprinkle of snow on the ground, I was driving along a country road and saw a friend in the field sowing doer seed. It seemed to me a strange peoceeding to sow clover seed in the snow, and I said to my friend. "Wait and see," mid he. So waited, and I saw one of the finest crops of' elver hay in the country. -When the bloss'oms began to: ap- pear and • the bumblebees • began to hum .over the red flowers:, 'seeking honey, I was passing the field again and saw my.friend, thialarmeredneve out from his bon into the field. But what was' my amazement to see that, instead of a mower, he rode a plough, driving four big horses. I asked what he ems going to do with the plough. His answer was: • . "1 aon going to plough under this Plough ender that clover! I could scarcely believe my ears. It must surely be a mistake. How eould that be- right when the cattle might, eat it and grow fat, and when any of his nelgethors would buy it from him at the highest price? But the farmer was wiser than I, for he knew that there were thousands of men and women and children who were starving for bread, and that our government was pleading with the farmers to raise wheat. The ‚sheat =it come from Amalie& or those hungaypeople would starve. So he ploughed under his :clover end doubled his yield of wheat on that field, The cattle ate oats straw that winter, but on the other side of tee world hungry mouths were filled with bread and heavy hearts were cheered. How many times we see a father or a mother taken away from a home when they are needed there so much! How many times we see young men or women cut off in their youth when they have just begun a life of service for the world and for Christ! Thou- sands of brave soldiers died in camp before they reached the battle. We grieve over it each teme as If a ter- rible mistake had been made. But Ged is much wiser than we. And He knows that in his plea those lives that would mean much, if left to serve in the natured way, will yield a double harvest by being "ploughed upder" just as they are ready for ser- vice. "Ploughed under," yes; the long furrows, row- ape's.. row, hold our sil- ent dead; but oh, the riches of the harvest that the Master will gather through their dying! "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it dies, it briegeth forth =eh fru i t." "If I treat all men as gads," asks Emerson, "how to me can there be any sueh thing as a slave?" In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: "Don't cry, don't shirk; but hit the line hard."—Theo- dere Roosevelt, Whatever you do in life, keep in an ambition -arous- ing atmosphere. Keep close to those who are dead in earnest, who are ambitious to do something .and be somebody in the world. Keep close to those who are doing big things; .along the: [line of your own aspire- ' tons. • s. ,. Artillery Sniping.. ...• • A British major tells w story ef tem • offieees in an observation pose whe happened to see three figures come eel of a wood safe thousand's of yards behind the German lines. • The 110,4 wee goad, and • as •the fiehree• came nearer one of the offieers became in- terested in them. As a rule, that:tee servation post did not • ring tp• the guns unless a party of more tharetren Germans were seen; but presently the • officer at the telescope spoke • • "Get on to Stiggins'(the code name • of the battery). Tell Omni that thee, - Hun officers with blue cloakee lisoosi light -blue silk, blucher boats -and gee- ing swords, will be at the crossroads at 11. 16, 0. 45, 6, in about five nee- utes. Tell them they are probahly Prince Eitel Fritz. and Little 1Villie. • rn give the word when to let thst,n have eesietril Pry the obs.ereing officer sate. The shells.. passed shrilly over the observation post, and a moment labas the cloaks and swords were flying at all angles as the officers- dashed bate from the crossroads. Two fell; fee third eseaped. It was never learned who they were. A Majority For. • e ' A village school teacher recently re- ceived the following note •from are mother of one of the 'school teacher: "Deer teecher,—U wrot me about whiping willie, "I hereby giy you perm's:Mon toe smak him emit, thus yuithink it is nea sessary to leen him. his leshun. "Willie iB jest like his farther. Yu hay ter leen him wiv a belt. Pleaa. pound nollege into willie, for I want him to get 'it, and don't pay no :mel- anin to ‚shot his farther says. lle haudel him --Tours farfully, Eliza Jewel." We often hear intellect- ual people say that super- stition is harmless; ' birt nothingis harmless which makes . a man believe that he is a puppetat the mercy of signs and symbols, omens and inanimate relics, 1 that there is a power in the world trying to do harm to mortals. The Miracle of Bird Migration There are few subjects in natural history which have Interested man- kind for so king a time as have the ap- peseranee end disap'pearance' of the birds with the melons, Thousands of 'years] ago primitive peoples remarked the precision with which some birds appeared in the spring, and so great was their belief in the birds as timepieces, that they are said to have been guided In the planting of their crops by the coming of certain birds. They naturally woudered where the birds had spent the winter. One old belief was that some hibernated in hollow trees, and another that swat. lows burrowed into the mud as do the fizakes and frogs. But when travelers visited distant parts and found the :lame birds there in winter that Ahoy had at home in summer, they realized that the birds must migrate. They could believe that largo birds, suoh as. hawks end herons., might be able to• flyetsreet dieteemese but how the small- er Weds, such as span:ries and Warb- ler, were able to fiy see far they could not mideretand. There -fere, they retie 'eoned that the big birds must away the little ones. en their bitokre Indeed, Wo cal still fhol illustrate:Me iu BOMO old geognaphies shoeing -small Miele riding across the Idelltenranean on the backs of storks, Tuday these pictures seem ridiele. lam, for we nole Ithow that the altet majority of Merle, even the tiniest of! humming -birds, make phenomenal journeys to and from their breedleg grounds every year,- and always by their own povvers of flight. It must not be thought, however, that all birds travel the seme dis- tance, From the birds that 'do not migiate at all, to those that traverse: nearly the whole extent of the globe, there Is almost a complete series. Th chickadees, nuthatcbes and the. woodpeckers that mime to our feeding stations hi winter speed their entire. Hetes le one timothy; the ruffed grouso. perhaps ilvee bbs whole span of years; in a single wooded ravine, The robine. bluebirds and blackbirde winter bit Southern United States; the orioles go. to Central ,Amerlea; many of the. warblers eed threshes go to Northern South America; our foneliar bobolink that bounties over the daisy fields in June spend the winter on the pampas of Brazil, about 5,000 miles from their breeding grounds. The gthatest tra- vellers of all are found among tho. eh:Ore-birds and sea -birds, some of which journey to Patagoeda, tb,e southernmost part of South America, or still farther to the islands of the Antartle Sea. The Winter and min- ter homes of the Aectio tern, for ex. ample, are rdiout 11,000 miles apart, maidag it distance of 22,000 oiliest. Width.' emit° Membere of tele speelee• travel yearly,