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The Clinton News Record, 1919-10-2, Page 6COYERNE11 • C. 'Road to 1Jildcrstand'il , •gleaner H. Porter camel/lit- 1-Ifiligliton Malin Co.' Pliblisheil by special -.arrangement with Theo. Alien, Toronto ttserneraie adaptability a yeuth, and the netienr• of Jet) ell in ons, do wee": he ,ilet'- nlentied. The cloister turned Witte atireilitd oyes. ;ways: Burke, After all this, yen don't srieni=" "No,•it's not a wife P,In looking for/' 'interposed 13uelie, with a whimeleel shrug. "It's a -a stenographer or peivate s•eseetare, tiely eho must be meth more then the ordinary 'kind. went to eetelogire thie, truth eseeeeaeerese-e--..eteaaeemrierssesrsesessee esesseetneenMew 11 father and I have Accumulated. She CHAPTER XIV, MPS; time. I can see that new. Stll , inuet knew Frenth and ,Geernen-a One by lone the •;seers slipped by, swiftly, with little change, Then Dr. Gleason inttde another tele to Dalton, It Was on a sad errand this time. John Boldly had died suddenly, and after an hourks hesitation, the dodos' went up to the funerel, Not until the evening after the fuiora 41 the dead have •the •op. pertunity ;for more than a feereat weed of greeting and syinpathy with 13 arke Denby. He had been shocked in the afteeiseen at the changes in the 'N. young man's face; but lee was etsore so when, at eight &sleek, he called at the house. He hued Burke alone in the library', -the library whose every book and theist and curio epthe with the voiee of the man who was gone -the man =who had loved them so well. Inetice himseill, to the doctor, looked suddenly old 'and worn, and infinitely weary of life. He did not at once • speak of his father.Buteerhen he did . speak of him,' a little later, he 'seemed then to want to talk of nothing else. "And it's alm6st as if rd lost both father and mother," he went on brokenly; -------, talked .so meth of the real eyo-oPener finally throe aeons -Mother," " dYthe mother!" "Yes, her distry,--er, rather diaries, I foetid theta e. Month ago Among fathesoe things, I ernet tell you what. WAS in them', wouldn't, course, if I Wail. '1!hey're too -sacred. Peeheets you think eyen I should not have reed them; perhaps I shouldn't. But 1 did, and reveled I did; and I believe she'd have waded me to, . • "Of course, at first, when Picked ene of them up, I didn't know what it Was. Then I saw, my Warne, and I read-, page after page. I was El:baby baby. Gleason,:ean you imagine what it would be to look down into the sore of ae good woman and read there all her love, hopes, Prayers, and ambitions for her boy-ene then sud- denly -realize that you yeetteelf were that boy?" "1 trek up then the first one -the .th diary e kept the first year of her marriage; and if I had felt email and mean and unworthy before- pn and on I read; and as Lyeed, I began to see, dimly/ what' marriage means - for a woman, They were very poor mother. To him -she was always with then. Father was the „grandson of US, I think. • I.can rernemberewhen 1.1 the younger, eirneway son, Joel, and was a little boy, how real she was to; had only his trade and ' • his clay' me. In all we did or mkt she seemedivages. They lived in a shabby little cottage on Mill street; long since des- ireyed.. Thiehouse belonged to the ether branch of the family, and was becupidi by. a' rich old Man .and his daughter. Mother was gently reared, and svasesot used to week. Those first years of poverty and )privation must have been wickedest heed for her. But the little disiinea eatriecl no complaints. They did carr Y wedines-s often, and •ssimetirnes a pitiful terror lest she be us. And now Pin alone -so utterly not •strong enoegh for what was be - done. Gleason -how ever am I go- ing to live--without-dad!" The doetor's heart leaped with mingled fear and elation: fear at wbat he• was about to do; elation that his chance to do it had come.- He cleared his threat and began, comageoussly, • though not quite stealciiiy. "But -there's your wife, Btirke. If only you-" Heetopped short in clis- mae .at the look ehat had come into Burke Denby's face, "My wife! My wife! Don't speak of my wife now, man, if you went me to keep -my reason! The w.oinan who brought MoTe sorrow to my father than any other living being! What do yell think I wouldn't give If I could hint • out the memory of the anguish my marriage brought to dad? My wife, indeed!. Gleason, I never want to see her face again, or hear her name spoken!" "But your -your child," stammered the disfirayed doctor faintly. A slarcloss of quick pain crossed the other's feces. He lifted a proteding hand, changed the subject abruptly; • and the relieved doctor was glad, for once, not to •have him Wish to tath tenger of his missing wife and daugh- ter. VerY seen the (lector eaid good- night end lefts the house. But his heart was heavy. ° "Perhaps, after all,' t he sighed to hireedf, "it ates'n't jest the time to get him to listen to reason about Helen • -when 11 was his rertaway marriage • that had so grieved his father years • • .. • . ago; and his'fathershew-just gone!' Ten 'militates later he boarded the - train for :Boston.. ' • To his sister he told the story of , . the Dalton trip. "But -I 'can't write, of- course,- to Helen, men," he finished gloemilet. "Mat is, I can't urge her coining tack -not in thiefaeted-Biirke'ltangry as- sertion that he /Sever, wants to see her again," "Of c'eurse ad. But don't Worry, debt. I haven't given up hoPenby any . means. Jest • walt,",-, And the tinctot , )wp.ited. It wes, •indeefl$ es his lister • said, all thrtielie-cmild do: tenni. time thee. ,he went, -up to Dalton and . . , pale his wrist, up the ,old famillee walk to 'hav:e jI ohht'with the tecituen, sember-eyed Man gifting elope in the 'great 'ord' library. The doctor never spoke of Helen. He chided net take the-eisk. Burke Denby'e, only interests 'plainly were business, books, and the rate 'metes he. and his father had col- lected, A Mrs. Gown*, a '-clistant causin, had come to be hisshousekeep- • er, but the doctor saw little of her. She seemed to be a quiet, inoffeneive little women, plainly verymuch in the background. - There dame art .e.vening. finally', how - elver, svhities Muth tci the doetot'a beetific surprise, Burke Denby' of his own accord, mentioned his wife. It was nearly two years after John • Debby's death, The doctor had run up to Dalton for an overnight visit, and hed noticed. at once a peculiar restiessinse in his host's manner, an odd itnpatiencn of yoke and gesture. Then, abruptly, in anssece to thp dec- o ter's own assertion that Beek° needed 'something to get him ' away from his constant brooding in the old libeary,- ' "Need sotriething?" he exclairned. eOf course I need eornethingl I need my wife end 'chid. I need to live a pressed cheery interest; that was - all. notelet life like other Men. I need.-- "And Mee what do you propose to But what's the use?" he finished with dose , outflung handle I "Do? How? What do you Mean?" "I know; but ---you, yeerself-" 13y a sepreme effort the (looter was keep- ing himself from shouting aloud .with joy. "Ole yes, I lthow it's all my Own fault," cut in Beek° crisply, "You tan't tell me Atylihing neW on, that seore, that I haven't told myself, Yea, and 1 lamer I been% been willing to Sieve her name spoken," lie Went on reeklessly, Answeting the attazernett in the •doctor's face. "But whye-thie 'sudden change, -Burke?" "It's not se •sildileri ea you think." tS,o'l,''a eves irloonehe fledd int the tohave a part. And always, all the way um he Uselieto talk of her" -ex- cept for, the time when=" • r - He stopped abeuptly. The doctor, watching, svondered at, the, white compression that camesuddenlyto hia lips. In a moment it was gone; how- ever, ,and he had resumed speaking. "Of late years, dad has seemed to talk .more than ever of mother, and he spoke ahvays as is she were with little Greek And Iliebtew vsouldset be Arden And I want one that would be interested in this sort of thing -one who will realize sise ien't bencilingee ere-potiatoes, say. My eyes are go- ing bask on me, too, and I siva want lieT to road 10 me; so I must lthe her voice. I don't want anything, you see," be emiled grimly. (To be continued,) Great Britain's Flee. Where the guns like fiends are raving, There a grand old flag le waving, , Singing Britain's might; There its folds repeat the story Of each field of battle gory, In its cross. we see the glory, .0f a holtlighte • Through long -years that banner floats , • &leapt the seas while Inbeate,gleating , Overmureers dire,_ Cyled,thet liberty had perish'd,' Seld that holy thing we cherisfed; ,Died.by hellish lire. *Inealliands that flag was flying, In all climes her dead are lying, Fighting where they fell; , We hear guns like great drums beat - Ing, See her sons each charge repeating. And the neaten fee retreating, From that field of bell. We see states and empires failing, Hear the old flag proudly `calling Sea and niountairs crag; ,• "Anglo-Saxon souls have striven, Britishhearts the lifeblood given - High floats Britain's flag. fore her, end se bring disappointreerit and grief to c-lear John,' But always, for,`clear John,' I could. see' there was to be nothing but encouragement and steadfast holding forth of high aiinfs and the assurance of ultimate suc- cess. "Then, one by one, cam's the babies, with all the agony and fears and hopes they brought with them. Three came and slipped away into the great un- known before I came -to stay. About that time father's patents began to bring epccesseand soon the money was pouring in. They bought this house. It hail been one of their dreams that they *mild buy it. Then, when'I was four years old, mother died. "That Is the story -the held story. Bet- that doesn't 'tell you anything of whillthope diaries were to me. In the light they shed I saw my own mar- riage -and 1 was ashamed. I never thought' of marriage before from Helen'e .standpoint. I :never thought what •the had to suffer and endure, and adapt herself to. I know now. Of course, very soon after our mar- riage, I .reailzed that she and I weren't suited to each other. But What of it? I had married her. I 'had effectually prevented her from finding happiness with any other man; yet it didn't seem to ocoureto me that I had thereby taken on myself the irrevocable duty of trying to make her happy. I have no doubt that my ways and aims and likes and dislikes annoyed her as much as hers did me. But it .never, occurred to me that my eat el.;eens entl.broivils and Beethoven harmonies got on her nerves just ex- actly as her pinks and pernles and ragtime- got on mine. I was.never in the habit of looking at anybody's happiness but my own; hnd 1 wasn't happy. Se.I let fling' regardless." "Mother had trials of her own - lots of thems"'lie resumed, after a mo- ment'e silence, `t -She• even had some not unlike mine, I believe, for I think I could read between the lines and dad wee' more than a bit careless at times in manner and speech compared to the polished stays of the. men of her family and'sodal circle. But mother never whined nor ren away. She just smiled and kept • brively straight abeiel; and by mid by they 'were under her feet, where they be- longed -all those things thanplagued. But I -I both whined andran away - because I 'didn't like the way my wife at her seep aol. spread her bread. They seem so small now -all those little ways I hated -small beside the big things that really counted. Do you know? I believe if more people would stop making, the little . things big and the big Vmsgselittle, there'd be a whole heap more happiness lying around in this old world! And Helen -poor Helen! She tried -I know the tried. Lots of times, when I was reading In the diaries whitt mother said about dad, ---how she mustn't let him get discouraged or downhearted; how She mest tell hern she jest knew he was going to succeed. -lots of times then I'd think of Helen. Helen used to talk that way to me at first! I wonder now if Helen kept a' dieryl There, there, old man, forgive rne," he broke off, with a ell,rug.; "I didn't meat to run on nice this," "I'm glad you dig; Berke." The doctor's carefully controlled voice ex- 1Vlighty,fiegi new wars come creeping Like wild beasts on nations sleeping, Faithful watch then keep; Freedom guard till time grows, hoary, Let the ages tell thy story, Holding high thy flame oE glory, While deep cans to deep. r 1 Points ..(m. Nasturtium leayea prevent fermen- tation just As well .its horseradish end the be esed withepickles when horses redieh le net available, 4 few leave SO a quart jar will he sufficient - Make sweet crab-apple pickles thus: Place alternate layers of crab-apples and ,sugar in a new stens jar, deing four pounds oe sugar for six pounds of /met, with a few'rhole cloves and a little ends cinnamon in each layer, Cover- with -vinegar, using one pint for six pounds of feint. Set the jar in the oven and bake slowly, Do this on A day when you have a steady fire going, and Id the pickles Mike elowly and steadily until .dene. They should be ahnest transparent, and are delicious. Cucumber pickles; Gathee cu- cumbers as they reach the desired size and put thhm into a clean done jar, with a layer Of salt in the bottom and enough salt to cover them on top. Add a little water at first to start the brine, and put a weight on top to keep the cucumbers under. As you add more cucumbers, add salt to cover them. When you vsish to use the cucumbers, take them mat and put them into a Preserving kettle with cabbage leavee over and among them. Cover with cold water, and eat on the stove where they will nearly scald, but not boll. Allew them to cool over night, or until they are as feeds as you like them, then pack into jars, adding some little red Peppers and pieces of horseradish. Boil enough good strong cider vinegar to cover them 'and pour over them while hot. To preserve string beans in brine, select half-grown, thick -hulled beans, string and break them into pieces. Boil for exactly mne hour in clear water to •vrIvich isadded a pinch of salt, as if preparing them for the table. Drain -and when perfectly cold, pack the beans into an earthenware jar. roe the brine: Add twb and one- half pints of salt to each gallon of clear cold water. Pour this ovev the beans and weight them down With a heavy plate. The brine must com- pletely cover the beans at all times. More beans and more brine (both pre- pared as directed above) can be added as the beans are procured. Cover the jar ,with a cloth to keep out dust, and set in cool place, but not where the contents would freeze. To prepare salted beans for the table, draM out of brine as many as you -wish to use, Coyer to a depth of three inches with boiling water, to which has been added one-quarter tea- spoonful of 'soda, to remove the sour taste. Let the bean, stead in this seater over night or until the water cools; pour off and add the same quantity of boiling water the second time, omitting the soda. Let this cool and ester all, then put the beans on to cook just as ft freshly picked from the garden, omitting the salt. Burst cabbage heads can be made into sauerkraut for fall use. If the kraut is properly nsadeeand put in a w arm place to ferment, it will be ready to use in ten d:ays. Cut the cabbage coarser than for slaw and pack in a clean, sweet barrel ov keg, sprinkling salt in the bottom of the vessel; then a layer of cabbage, then one of salt. Pound and bruise the cabbage until the juice of the cabbage mixes with the salt. Add more leyers of cabbage and salt, .f.lountling each layer until the vessel 10 full. Cover with cabbage leaves, and aver this place a clean board, with a heavy weight to press it down, and cause the juice to rise and cover' it. If the saner- kraet is wanted for winter use, keep in a cool place but de net allow it to freeze. Before cooking, wash it threugh several waters and cook slowly with a piece 'of pork. 011ZOWC6 e tfxteredtis Revenge. Careful observers have put on re- cord some very extraordinary • in- stances of dogs and other animals which have remembered injuries put upon them, and Wave eventually retail- ated. • - There is a terrible story on record of a dog, a huge mastiff, kept as a watch-dogby a Staffordshire gentle- man. The great brute -was kept chained in the stable yard, and during the very hot weather one of the grooms, noticing the creature panting with heat, threw a bucket of cold water over him, A week later the dog was loose when tie same man entered the yard. Sele sprapg upon him, and caught him by the throat and killed him touching little episode happened a fewn7ears ago in a Worcester village. A boy ,was the,Proud owner'of a very hanclootne,pair of fax terriers, named 'Mick and Jerry. . Jerry went off one day into a- Wood nearby and _tackled a badger, which killed him. 'Ray- mond, his master. went out to look for him, but could not find him. But two days atter Mick WaS Mend mourning oyer the dead body et les companion. 'He was btought back. One day he did not return. His master searched and found him lying.dead, his teeth in the throat of the badger, which was al:sonmicalileut Aing incident was that of an Indian elephant whose revenge on a new mahout whetting took a dislike to was rather funny. He licked hinf up end deposited him in the 'branches of a there tree: - , Lost illusions. Early in life Itearned that ueither Bennet sprouts nor Brussel carpets hailed from the eity whence they took their names. But it is only recently that I have been disillusioned in other matters, says an English writer. When but a schoolboy, buying my threepenny- "camelhair" paint -brush with whith to daub my Christmas (cards, I used to conjure up visions of Arabs chasing the camel, and pluck- ing him in very much the same way that cook did the chickens, in order to provide the hair with which to mane the fannies brushes. , But now I find that the home of the camelhair brush is not on Africa'a strands, but in the beech-woodesvhere the squirrels live, and from Whose bushy tails WS so-called "cienel-hair" is eistracteil. I remember, too, how Mit imagina- tion was kindled when I wore my first pair of "porpoise" laces, I imaghted that they lied once skimmed alongside the great ocean liners, chasing the .srnall fry of the North Sea, or sporting beneath a Racine sun. Woe is rne when I find that they are nothing more thee the hide of Wiltshive porkers; elated and dippecniIt 'GARDENS TO RIM LONDON., Millions of Dollars.to.Be Expended In Creating Industrial 'System. "Why, about -your svife, o11 course." eNtothing. Then* nothing I eat 10. And that's the pity of et. Sheswill go ori, of ceutise, to the end of her life, thielcing me a and a coward!' , "But if you coilld be----et-beought together again," suggested the doetor in a Vieth so coldly in-mm.8011.d it Wee alpinist hidifferent. "Oh, yes, of comeas-perhaps. But that's tot lithly. I dot% know where she 11, voteetiben; and she's eot lilsoily to come back of her own mooed, aftev all this time. Rd though of Gib!" lie lirolie off abruptly, springleig te his feet, "Yon don't; happen to know of itel'emito Want did liot (1On Atha *Ifftlte- a young weenie who has the ;Skill ,of beet eenting gradually 101 11 eenerionno, the wieder-is el $014, 4,9 bilVe bailed the OTOS heavily, It may eave a drop in eenned geode. An eld teapot .is one of the best things to 1100 Ige potbbsg Peraffin en glades of jolly. AStee using Set the teapot away, and te will be weedy for future Urge. 4 Fingers will net be lammed tiv stain- ed ft when straining hot jelly you- str'etch the eloth adds the top -of 0, deep yeeed 'did fasten tbe cloth with spring elpthespies. Pour the Mae into the cloth and let it drein through. When covering jellies or jams with meltesi paraffin turn the glees go' the paraffin will rue up the sides of the turnbld a little way. Otherwiee, as it hardeas, it may thaw away from the sides Ansi leave the jelly exposed. When making jams and marma- lades, place a large dishpan of belling water direetly Wee the fire, Put a handful ef smell pebbles in the bot- tom and upon these ‚set your preserv- ing kettle, which should be covered closely. Very little ‚stirring of the contents will be required as it ta im- possible for thefruit to urn. Keep the 'waiter boiling until the desired regitet is obtained. Millions of pounds ate to be spent In the oreetion of a sYSteirt of indus- trial garden cities, which ultiinately will rim Metropolitan :London. The sch-ente, just outlined, IS the most elaborate eite-bitilding moject over undertaken in England. Building on the first of these "flower garden" suburb cities is to be. gin next yeer north of London'accord- ing to teSitspaper annottneeniofitl. Th town will be selesupporting and Will cover several thouinuel acres, Within its precints will be aft agricultural area. Its populace will ho supported by dive -rat engineering indltstries to be located thole. The prided Is an attempt nat only to solve London'e hoesieg Problenn width has become a grievous one, but to preyed. an overwhelinleg cringes - Gott of the Oates inciastiles and other coMmeecitil 'Butter From Boots. In preparing hides for market large quantities of scraps remain over, but these are no longer wasted, n has been discovered that they contain no less than six hundred ancrfifty pounaie of grease to a ton. This grease contains both tallow and stearine, •which, when purified, can be used in the manufacture of some of the coarser forms of mar- garine. 11 18 possible that, during the war, you May bave buttered your bread with the refuse if hides from svhich ythr boots were made. The grease .15 usually extracted by means of a naphtha solvent, and the six hundred and fifty pounds are worth a ten -pound note. The residue left over, after the grease has been, got out, contains six per cent. of nitrogen, which is valuable as a fertilizer, and to make this avail- able the waste is treated with sul- phuric acid. 11 thio treatment is not adoited, the greaseless residue can be worked up for a cheap soiling material, an insm lating substance, or for agricultural belting for wasbers, car straps, and a variety of other purposes. During the war the Germans saved even' atom of scrap leather for such purposes, and by mixing the scrap with asbestos, produced a very useful insulating substance. None of it was spared for boot soles, -Wood being generdlly employed tor this purpose as alinbatitute -for leather. ' • Some Tempting Pies. Pear Cuethed Pie -Mix six heapieg tablespoons of flour with two table- spoonsiful of cold butter, add a bit •of salt and cold water to make a stiff paste. Roll thin, put in bottom of pie pan and partially bake. Make a cus- tard of three cupfuls of inilis, four beaten eggs, tine eupful of sugar and two cupfuls of thick etewed peals strained through .a colandee. Fill the Pie crust and littera to oven, baking as you would an ordinary custard pie. Pear Meringue Pie. -Make a rich pastry for one crust and parbfally bake. Stew the pears, sweeten, add the juice of half an orange and pour i•rto the crust. Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff, all three table- epoonfras of powdeted sugar and a little orange juice, pour over the filling and put in (wee until brown, Pent ?ie. -Pave; core ;and slice eneegh pearl to fill the tin. Add three tablespoons of' sugar; one-half teaspoonful of cinamee, two teaspoon- fels of sifted flour and a teaspoonful of Jautter tut int e sniall pieces. Mix We:Wand bake betweeh two crusts. eaBanana aol Pear ,Pie, -Pare and core the peaes, cut into eighths or six- teenths according to the size, and drop in hot syrup, cookieg until tend- er, but being careful not to break the pieces. Make a crest and bake as for letnon pie. When cold fill with the welted pears and sliced bananas. Cover With meringue, beaten white Of egg slightly oweetened, or whipped crearn* Open Apple Pie.' -Lia a deep- pie tin with lade.. Put one-half cep -of algae in the bottom and sift a little flour 00 top cif euge:v. Quarter the .apples and place them around evenly. Avid a Nee Water, sprinkle with cin- namon and put a few small Meths of better oe top. Rake without top rust, Serve while warm with cream, - Homely Wrizeilere Dry diem eldeeheeries to feed to the birds derieg the whites 'A feW drape -of glycerine out on the edges 01 -Nutt jars before' %crowing ot lisia wili keep mold front formirtg on the ftuit. Driee tine mere nail into the board that hallie the Ming 441,tYlf nn. 11 vol.( ollaro savo0 y ovril esed .M the Kirehen means dollars ;aved in tire Panic, • 1 It =sloe nourishiag. het dishes out of cold food which would not otherwise be eaten. Bur itee that you get the real thing If It is not in the'povril bottle it is not idovril, And it 6IUS1 be Bovril, ' 0,11.'11 Part Elypfians Took it to War "The British,Goirernment," says lVIr. Lindsay, Charge de Anaire of the Bei- tish,Ensbesfty at Washington, who was in Egypt all through the War, "haa carefully avoided destroying Egyptian sovereignty. Egyptian soldiers al- wa)94 BMW() under the' Egyptian and not under the British nag. '',Che 1301011 Jack doss net fre in iikypt except over the Bietisn military establishments in the country, elsewhere the illstlective Egyptian flag is displayed. To answer your question literally, no Egyptian soldier Joined the British colors, "Or mime this Ss only a partial statement. In February, 1915, when the Turkish army attacked Egypt, a battery ot Egyptian artillery Joined the British force defending the line of the Sue i Canal, The enemy's attack developed Just opposite this battery, the members of which managed their guns in an able manner ana assisted In the repulse athe enemy,. I believe they lost two killed and half a dozen wounded, "leo other Egyptian dined forces were in action during the recent war, but later on three or four Egyptian Value of Incinerators, , In the army, every camp, no matter how small, had its inhinerator. Fa- tigue parties were told off, and every scrap of litter was collected and burned. All cans also were put in the fire to remove particles of food that would ettritet files. Mapy of these in- cinerators were of quite inexpensive and improvised construction; others were specially manufactured. The splendid freedom of the army from typhoid fever attests their efficiency. Moreover, hi this manner the camps were kept decent and tidy. Compare this with the disgraceful method employed by many civilian communities of clumping garbage in huge, evil -smelling, unsightly neaps: Worst -o3 all, each dumps are actually used ..for filling hollows on which houses are to be built. If mere temporary communities, such as military camps, can efficiently and decently dispose of their garbage, how absurd to say that villages and tosIvnnstheiesnIrieost pcel0et,Itif in no other, let us take a leaf out of the army's book and profit by the lessons learned dur- ing the war. batteries guarded lines of commun.. canon in ,Sinai, while Genera Allenby was conducting his campaign in Syria, and an Egyptian detachment was at one time in the leadjez. Neither of these forces was over under fire, "In addition to this, largo numbers 01 ni3Yetians were enrollee in labor end trausport corps auxiliary to the British forces. These mee were en. tided for short terms of three to six months and did the 'manual and un- skilled labor for General Alleaby's forces, AS such, their services Ware 03 high value, and they released for the fighting lines men who otherwise would have been engaged in the Tear. "How many of these mee passed through . the labor corps cannot be stated, but the total maistments at ono moment amounted to between 80,000 and 90,000. Of the labor corps men, some came ninder fire while digging trenches and transporting stores and ammunition .near the front .and casual- ties were seffered. I cauriet give the figures authoritatively, but I believe there were altogether about 1,500 killed and wounded during the four years of the war." Peace and Bald Heads. An amusing sidelight on the recent Peace Conference at Versailles la thrown by a correspondent, who not only reported the proceedings proper, but took notes regarding the hair, moustaches, beards, and whiskers of the peacemakers. Two-thirds of the delegates were more or less bald: Perhaps some of them Made up. for this by wearing moustaches. Out of sixty-five men who sat round the peace table, all had moustaches but fourteen. Whiskers, on the other hand, were not popular. Only three people wore them, and by a curious coincidence, the names of all these three people be- gan witb. V. They were Venizelos, of Greece; Vandervelde, of Belgium; and Vassitch, of Serbia. The latter's whiskers -were particularly prominent. In -regard to -dross, there was less formal attire than one might have imagined., The English paid no special attention to dress. Bowler hats and frock coats, once a combina- tion that would never have been sanc- tioned, were quite popular; but there were some countries which put all they knew into their attire. These were, notably, the Japanese, and Wine of .the South American States. Button boots a,nd lace boots, we are told, came out even. He Didn't Care. James (who has come to London with a view to emigrating, stops be' for a newsagent's shop to look at a placard with a large line upon it, "Situation in Russia"): "I've come about the situation you're advertis- ing." News agent: "What situation?" James (pointing to poster): "It's the one in Russia Pm after." News agent; "Pooh; that's on the state of affairs." James: "I don't sere whose estate It's on, 111 take it." Nine Times Their Weight. Rats do a great amount of damage, and destroy millions of dollars worth oE food, but they do not eat anything that is set before` them. They, even as we, have their likes and dislikes. They are not fond of radishes or turnips. They hate barley. Dande- lions do not tempt them, nor does raw meat. They will eat raw meat if there Is nothing -else, but their aversion ler crusts is rarely -overcome. Rats have been found dead in their homes with whenmeatis bad, It cruAstrsatstiitilliowunstawe will eat up the good portions, and leave those that are elided, Most people imagine that rats ave loud or wheat and oats. They un- doubtedly eat a great deal, but only when they can get no other food. If it tries to live on oats, it dies. This applies equally to many other articles of diet which it gnaws with apparent relish, suels as cloth, wood, or leather. The trouble is that rate destroy more than they oat, They eat about \throe limos their weight, end destroy or defile about nine times their weight. No weeder the farmets look Worried! Stockitig DOM The doll is made of a white stocking leg cut eleven inches long, and silt for a sp-ace of three inches along ono seani and up the opposite tide to Make the legs. join the cut edges 0,f oech of the tsvo peens Made by the throe - bleb slits, alid etuff the eases thus roade 101' legs ;and feet. Thai duff the rest of the stocking leg. Eight inches from the toes tie a ribitee round the stuffed hody to form the neck. Three inches ebove the edit son the top 01 the stocking leg together to make the head, Tie a how on the top of the head and bows rimed ,the ankles, Ilse Water-eolov paitts for making sno face and 1 031 tillting—V10 'arms and legs. Insiet, When the theeshei• mated, that he baS his Inivelt mender in place awl we -titbit, 19116Inseemins, ifST 24 l'es,fees SEE VIM in OH CLA rs AND AM IS A • CIJARANTE1 MIN -W.CLAFttsem.Te.mownbmt. giEtErIM79:1421MEIMVAI • • Renternbe the. Date—. .Ctot,,...ber 20-22 atinhat :Ed.'ucational Conrerence AT WINNIPEG PROMINENT SPEAKERS—LIVE SUBJECTS In advance of the definite program In the form in_which it will be is- sued at the Mae of the Conference, the COCIV01111114 Committee announces that the! folloting Regis, are definitely assured: 1—Salutato1y Addrosses—By 1OIs Excellency the Clovornor-fleneral of Canada, Sir Zanies •Alkins, Lieutenant -Governor of Manitoba, and His Worehip O. P. Gray, 4Vinilipeg, . 2—"T1te.Lessens of the War for Canadian Education," non. Dr. Cody, • Minister or Education, Ontario, 3—"The-School and the Development of Moral Purpose," Dr. 71, itodere • SOILOCill. Professor of Religious Eduention, University of Utlicago. 4—"The - Developfnerit of a National Character Throlt411 Ediuntileit.“ ess. leeriest Falconer, President University. of Toronto. 5—"Tho Ei3sential rectors of Education," Dr. lZtel.92.1 Mmolgarchy, On- tario Department -of '111ducatiOn, 0—"The BOY BOOUi Movement as an Auxiliary to the School In Moral - Training," Dr. Jamas W. DObertson, Dominion Commissioner of the Boy &oats, 7.—"Methods and ideals`of the Comtdian Standard_ Efficiency Train- ing Groans," Taylor Slattern, National Seeretar Boys' Work Do - Pertinent of the Y.131,C.A. 5—"The rani:Von ar thseublic School in Choral:nor Pormation," Bt. Z. r: White, Principal Ottawa Normal School. 11—"EctimatIon and lteconstruetion," Peter weight, British .Settinan's T-1"Tnift°enBesis of Moral Teaching," Ilitichael O'Brien, Toronto, Ont, 11—"The School and Induatriel Relationships," Dr. Suzzallo, 1?re's1- dent University of Washington, 12 -"The School .and Democracy," Promeent Sohn IL Finley, Com1S- s10ner of Edneation for the State of Now York, Albany, N.Y. 18—"The School and the NoWer Citizens of Canadrf.,' Dr: se W. ex. An- deteon, Diteet.m.. of Education . among New Canadians, Regina, 14—S"Vhicc. Interest of Um State in Character Education," Dr, Vinton Fairchild, Washiraton,113. The teals of initiating discussions ban been atailifned to persons repro- sbutaiive of all ports of Canada. Among those definitely Soeurect at thin date in this connection arei Dr. Clarence McKinnon, PrInainal Dine Till 1 College, HaltRy.X, KB.; Prof. El, 1'. .T. Coleman, Dean of Pitatilty of Education, Queen's University, Hingslon, 00514 Tomplcia, Esq., Vloo-Prosident. Iluiversity St„ Fraliala, Xavier's College, Antis:Welt, 10.8.; Very Rev. Dean Llywdd, All Saints' Cathedral, Halifax, N.S.; Dr. P. 1V11dden, MX, Brandi:Ai, Mane Prof., 'Iva ID, Matilf Royal Military College, Kinftsion, Ont,1 Prig, W. H, Alexander, Univer.ftv of Alberta, llidmonton, AltriA Dr, ak, W. Parmelee, Deputy Minister o kidueation. Quebec; R. W. Craig, Mu., president, Win., ninetr Canadian Club and Chairman Winnipeg School Board{ Pr, John MacKay Westminster Bail, Vancouver, 13.0.1 Torrande, Manager n,01,0 Guol ph Onto W, A, 13tiehananoM.P„ Lethbridge, Altai W, Mot, Davidson, M.P.P., Bditor, Calgary Albertan, Calgary, Alta; W. nisynioed, Esq,, Post Master, Brantford, Ont; Prof. 0, 00 l3Iiaaoh,, Victoria ttetversity, Ont,; W. J. sister, resealed Strathcone S,iltoOl, Wile tepee-. ' xicassents to tee oonforonoo should unlike thole hetet resins/Wens inutadietely. The following committees are at your services; noception. Itetortala. mein, Transportation, Hotel Accommodation, • Address all Communications to THE GENERAL SECRETARY, NATIONAL 'SDUCATiONAL • CONFERENCE 506 Eleatic. Chambera, Winnipeg.