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adian Volunteer Reserve towards manning the new ships of the
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of good character and good physique accepted.
Pay $1.10 1Viinfintun per day -Free Kit
$20.00 per Month Separation Allowance
Apply to the nearest Naval Recruit-
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OTTAWA
NO "AS YOU WERE"
PEACE POSSIBLE
Lard Rosebery Says Prussian
Military Power Must be
Eliminated.
A despatch from London says; "In
pome irresponsible , quarters," said
Lord Rosebery in a speech at Edin-
burgh on Wednesday night, "I hear
.some babble of immediate peace."
Lord Itoseliery's reference was pre-
sumably to rumors which were cur -
"rent in London recently of a move-
ment in favor of the consideration of
prOposals which, according to reports
emanating from Germany, Chancel-
lor von Bethmann-Holweg intended
making public in the Reichstag.
The German Chancellor's expected
statement has been foreshadowed as
an appeal to reason and humanity on
the ground that prolongation of the
war could not materially alter the
mgitary position and would only in-
. iiiase useless carnage.
In Englana, according to the rumors
to which Lord Rosebery referred,
there was a tendency to look only at
the present results and forget the
primal reasons for which Great Brit-
ain went to war, reasons which Lord
Grey emphasized in his recent speech
to the foreign press.
Lord Rosebery vehemently de-
nounced "a sort of 'as you were' peace
which would enable the Prussians to
remain much as they are,ready and
prepared with the experience they
had gained and with resources not
much impaired to begin again at
the earliest opportunity their fiendish
antagonism against civilians."
Fighting for Freedom.
"Is it really supposed," he asked,
"that we have shed our dearest blood
by hundreds of thousands, that we
have been paying over £5,000,000 a
day and shall continue to do so as
long as it is necessary, in order to
leave Prussia the devilish power she
has been in the past?
"Why, I venture to say this (I can-
not, of course'speak on behalf of the
dominions):' If there was a Minis-
ter (and thank God there is not) so
cowardly, short-sighted and imbecile
as to conclude a peace of that kind
I am afraid OUT dominions and Our
Britons beyond the seas would say
that a country, so governed, is not
a country to adhere to, and we had
ee4etter find some better statesmen of
sour own.'
"Look at Sweden, Norway, Den-
mark, Holland, Belgium, five small
kingdoms, everyone of them outraged
by the German power. We are fight-
ing for them, for Norway, greatly
outnumbered at this moment by the
massacre of her merchant seamen on
the high seas. We ,are fighting for
Sweden, who at any moment may find
herself in the same position, We are
fighting for every neutral nation. We
are fighting for one that is not weak,
the United States, for if we were van-
quished, which Heaven forbid, the
United States would be the next to
suffer from the aggressive and un-
scrupulous power of Prussia."
WESTERN FARMERS
MAY WORK ON SUNDAY.
Authorities Will Permit Carrying on
of Threshing, Operations.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: ,T..
Bruce Walker, Commissichier of Im-
migration at Winnipeg, announced on
Wednesday that arrangements had,
been made between the Ottawa Gov-
ernment, the Attorney -General of
Saskatchewan, and the Attorney -
General of Alberta, whereby there
wouldbe no prosecutions for urgent
work carried on in the provinces on
,-e...3-tSunday in connection with thresh-
ing operations.
NO WINTER REST
ON SOMME FRONT
Allies' Offensive to Continue
Whenever Weather at
• all Favorable.
A despatch from London says:
During the course •of an interview
with the Associated Press correspond-
ent on Thursday, Major-General F.
B. Maurice, chief director of military
operations at the War Office, was
asked what he thought of Field Mar-
shal von Hinderiburg's statement that
the Entente allies could not break
through the western front in thirty
years. General Maurice replied:
"Our recent offensive was not de-
signed to break through. Its purpose
was to relieve the pressure on Ver-
dun and kill as many Germans as pos-
sible. I will not undertake to say
whether it will take thirty years to
get the Germans out of France, but
the allied strength is constantly grow-
ing and the German strength con-
stantly declining. The effect of the
allied offensive is accumulative. When
the weather permits its resumption
the results will be greater than ever.
Torrential rains in the past 'week
have prevented actions of any great
consequence.
"It is no doubt true that the Ger-
mans in recent fights have been short
of ammunition. During the Winter,
with its short days, limiting the use
of artillery, they will be able to re-
plenish their stores but, despite the
bad weather, we have no intention of
letting up on them. Our offensive
will continue throughout the Winter
when copditions are at all favorable,
"From documents recently found on
prisoners there is no question but that
there is a great deterioration in the
enemy's morale and material, al-
though they have been able to main-
tain the number of their divisions.
This has been accomplished by with-
drawing regiments from old divisions
to form new ones. You see, in de-
fence warfare, eight or nine battalions
can form an effective division, where-
as eleven or twelve ate required for
offensive work. On the defensive a
smaller number of battalions can hold
a great amount of line. This is pos-
sible through the use of machine guns.
whereas on the offensive the men
must he individually armed with
rifles.
"I am confident the actual new or-
ganizations of the Germans are not
more than 10 divisions, Others were
' formed as indicated 'by withdrawing
battalions from old divisions."
6,011 GERMANS TAKEN
IN VERDUN BATTLE.
A despatch from Paris says: A
French official statement says that,
according to late information, the to-
tal number of prisoners taken on the
Verdun front since October 24 has
reached 6,011. The material captur-
ed comprises 15 guns, 5 of which are
of large calibre, 51 trench mortars,
144 machine guns, two wireless
plants, and a great quantity of rifles,
bombs, shells and various other ma-
terial.
TWO AMERICAN AVIATORS
KILLED IN FRANCE.
A despatch from Paris says: Two
American aviators have been killed
near Nancy, according to a despatch
received here from that city. The
despatch gives no further details. The
Matin says that the aeroplane con-
taining the two Americans capsized
while flying over Bouclonville plateau,
near Nancy. The observer fell out
and the pilot, who came clown with
the machine, was crushed to death
under the engine,
99-IRIVING children prefer
I the bread you make with
Five Ross Flour. It is stored
with the flavor, vitality and
easily -digested nourishment
of prime Manitoba wheat.
Nutritious : Wholesome
Keeps Well
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NO "INDIVIDUAL PARCELS
7.. Ikkets..4.....the YiorId
• .TO PRISONERS IN
Explanation of the Ne
British Order Has Been Received at
Ottawa.
A despatch from Ottawa says: An
explanation of the new British order
prohibiting the sending of parcels di-
rect to individual prisoners -of -war in
Germany has been received by the
Government. The new plan has been
formulated by the new Central Pris-
oners -of -War Committee of the Brit-
ish Red Cross Society and the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem in England,
and the British Government has ap-
proved of it, to take effect December
1st. The Government here has cabled
for further information as to the ef-
fect that this will have on shipments
of Christmas parcels now being pre-
pared in Canada.
The object of the new plan is to
eliminate the necessity of the British
censorship by preventing the use of
food parcels as a means of conveying
information to the enemy, also to co-
ordinate and control the supplies of
food for the prisoners. The order will
apply to all British prisoners, naval
and military, except officers, parcels
addressed to the latter being dealt
with according to an existing system.
Under the new plan supplies will be
sent to every prisoner, • but only
through' one central organization, the
British Red Cross. The central com-
mittee or an organization authorized
by the central committee will examine
and pa& all parcels before sending
them to the prisoners. While ademiate
supplies of food will be sent by au-
thorized organizations out of their
own stores to all prisoners, it will
still be possible for persons to send
parcels to individual prisoners
through the authorized organizations.
It is provided, however, that such
parcels sent to an individual prisoner
must not exceed 30 pounds gross per
week, and must not contain bread,
cake or tinned food, as such
articles are difficult to censor without
spoiling, This is an outline of the
scheme, full particulars of which are
being forwarded by mail.
THE LAST SHOT
DID THE TRICK
THE HEROISM OF A BOY WHO
DISLIKED NOISE.
And, His Mother .Whispers Gently,
"He Never Was a Noisy ' .
Boy."
It was the custom of his mother to
boast mildly to friends that Georgie
had never been a "noisy" boy, and
the assertion had a firmer basis of
truth than the statements of most
adoring mothers, writes W. L. R. in
London Mail.
As an infant he cried pitifully at
the sound of a steamer's whistle; as
a youngster he held in abhorrence
the toy pistols with percussion -caps
which gave his companions such
thrills of joy; thus those who de-
lighted in the arts of teasing were
able to inflict upen hie fiendish tor-
tures. The bursting of an inflated
paper bag for example, close to his
ear would make him tremble and
grow pale --a fact which could not be
lost sight of by the nerveless bullies
of the school.
This nervous trouble stayed with
him as he grew up, loud and sudden
sounds causing him acute suffering,
and when the war broke out he was
faced with a difficulty negligible by
most normal men. He was patriotic
enough; he wanted to enlist; he did
enlist. But war meant guns. And
guns, modern ones especially, meant
frightful noise. So this young man,
victim of some trifling kink in tem-
perament or brain, did something for
which the term heroic might scarcely
be an exaggeration; sick of his life-
long weakness, determined to conquer
it, he joined the artillery.
His Will Was Strong.
The first time he stood close to a
field gun in action he shivered with
apprehension. He gazed at it with
awe. What did it signify, this com-
plex monsterof iron and brass, that
was to leap into life at the pull of a
lanyard, to spit its shell four or five
miles, to recoil softly, and settle into
stillness once more --all in a second
or two? The crashing, instant blast
of the explosion --compared with
which the bang of the old-fashioned
saluting cannon that had scared his
boyish ears was as a pop -gun --shook
him, and he experienced that nasty
"punch" at the pit of the stomach
from the concussion, as though some
'capable but unscrupulous boxer ‚had
caught him neatly on the solar plexus.
He endured his first day's actual fir-
ing practice to the end, and then was
ill for a week with nervous shock.
But his will was as strong as ever.
His body -his brain and heart and
nerve fibres -in time became used to
the carnival of noise which seemed
to be his daily portion; his soul, his
temperament, his real self never did.
He went through gun drill thorough-
ly and with apparent indifference
but all the time felt himself !shrink-
ing from the infernal din that the
other men accepted as part of their
work. And in due course he went to
Prance,
Somewhere, mf les in front,another
little group of men were serving an-
other gun, and the result of their
work began • to come unpleasantly
near. They had a grim, methodical,
German touch, too, altering their
range by a matter of yards every ten.
minutes, and confining their atten-
tion to a few acres of ground. Soon-
er or later, thought Georgie-sooner
or later. . . .
The Last Shot. •
The end of the day, was swift and
merciful for his comrades. • Death
came to them blindly, but ah, so ac-
curately, with one shattering report
that missed the gun but sent steel and,
stones flying all around. He fell, he
struggled, staggering, to his feet. He
looked at the men who sixty seconds
before had been toiling with him,
laughing, jeking . . . he looked away.
The gun -the gun was there, loaded.
but the breech, that wonderful, beau-
tiful back door that with a turn of the
wriest was closed and locked against
incredible pressures, stood open. He
stumbled to the gun. It was queer,.
but there was a curious little ringing
in his ears, a small sound that trailed
away and lost itself down long ave-
nues of uncanny silence. He swung
the breech with all his strength; it
locked with the familiar snug clash
and &Mk. He sent that final shell
shrieking on its journey, and dropped.
"I say, X battery . . . hello, hello
. . . are you there? Yon've done the
trick . . . that last one landed square
on their emplacement . . . are you
there? Hello . . . hello . . .
INo answer came to the advanced
observer's call. But Georgie, lying
limply by X battery, turned over and
looked vaguely at his gun, squatting
' on its haunches, with its gaunt nose
in the air as though wondering at the
sudden stillness.
"Didn't seem to make any noise,
'that last allot," he murmured. "Fun-
, ny, I could have sworn I fired it."
And then he closed his eyes and
floated into a lovely, exquisite dream
sea of silence.
• At home, with a decoration for
dis-
tinguished conduct to his credit, loud
sounds or whispers are same to him
now, though a clever doctor hopes to
do something in the matter. But he
is not unhappy, for, as his mother
said, "He, never was a noisy boy."
I WAR ON ANCITNT GROUND.
Places That Marked the Beginning of
History.
• The great war thrusts its tongues
of flame into scenes that mark the be-
ginnings of human history and the
foundations of religions and empires.
In this moving picture our attention
has been called to the traditional site
of the Garden of Eden, to rivers that
are supposed to have watered the
earthly paradise, to Mount Ararat,
Mount Sinai and Mount Lebanon, to
relics of the Assyrian, Babyonian,
E ' • k
pires,, and to places that are closely
connected with the rise of Judaism,
Loroastrianism, Christianity and Ma-
hometanism. It is a little world, and
war can but tread on ancient ground,
Not long ago we were reminded by the
fighting at Ctesiphon, on the Tigris,
that there the Parthians defeated Tras
'en and now comes the mention of
Trajan's Wall in the Dubruclja as a
battle line, with the Russians and
-Roumanians on the north and the
Germans and Bulgarians on the south.
It was in the year 101 that Teajau
led his legions forth from Rome to
conquer the Dacians, whose country
comprised the provinces of Moldavia,
Wallachia and Transylvania, Which
the Roumanians are now endeavoring
to reunite uncles' one sovereign. Da-
cia's warrior king, Decebalus, defend-
ed his land so well that Trajan had to
start a Second campaign four years la-
ter before Dacia would acknowledge
Roman rule. The wall that bears the
Emperor'e name is an eatthwork ex-
tending from the Danube above Czar-
navocia to Constanza on the Black
Sea. It is no great rampart, 'being
just an earthen ridge from eight to
fifteen feet hieh but the Turks defend-
ed it against the Russians in 1854,
and it may be useful in the present
jan are still to be found in the mili-
tary road he constructed along the
banks of the Danube, including a -com-
memorative tablet and the piers of a
bridgeacl'osa the rivet' near
which the Roumanians have driven
the Austrians back into their Banat
province. And there the war now
bridges more than 1,800 years.
The longer the engagement the
shorter the married life.
Half the fan in this world comes .
from unexpected sources and half
the sorrow from planned joys that
didn't! materialiee.
21 SHIPS SUNK IN A FEW DAYS
ACCORDING TO PIRATE'S LOG
Harvest of Three German Submarines in the English Channel -
Valuable Cargoes Have Been Destroyed.
Berlin, Nov. le -The Overseas News
Agency reports that three German
submarines which recently returned
to their home ports sank within a few
days twenty-one ships of a total of
28,500 tons, in the English Channel.
Among the vessels sunk were the
French barque Condor, 760 tens; the
French barque Caanebiberre, 2,450
tons, loaded with coloring wood; and
the three -masted French schooner St.
Charles, 521 tons, with 400 tons of
fish.
_
Breadstuff.
Toronto, Nov. 7. -Manitoba wheat -
New No. 1 Northern $1.91%; No. 2,
$1.88%; No. 3, $1.83%; No. 4 wheat,
$1.74%, track, Bay ports. Old crop
trading Sc. above new crop.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 64%c1
No, 8, 63; extra No. 1 feed, 63e; No, 1
feed, 63c, track Bay ports.
American corn -No. 8 yellow, new,
98c, Dec. shipment.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 62 to 64c.
nominal; No. 3 white, 61 to 63c, nom-
inal, according to freights outside.
Ontheio wheat -New No. 2 Winter,
per car lot, $1.75 to $1.77; No. 3, do.,
$1.73 to $1.75, according to freights
outside. Old crop -No, 1 commercial,
$1.70 to $1.72; No, 2 commercial, $1,60
to $1.63; No. 3 commercial, $1.51 to
$1.55.
Peas -No. 2; $2.35 to $2:40, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Barley -Malting, $1.10 to $1.12,
nominal; feed, $1.02 to $1.05, nominal.
Buckwheat, $1.15 bid.
Rye -No, 2, $1.25 to $1.27, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $10.00; 2nd patents, do.,
o¶111o0. strong bakers', do., $9.30, Tor -
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample' $8.00, in bags, track Toronto,
promptshipment.
Millfeed-Car lots -delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included, bran, per
ton, $30; shorts, per ton, $32; middl-
ings, per ton, 534; good feed flour, per
bag, $2.50.
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $12 to $13; No.
2, per ton, $10 to $11, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 58 to $9.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Eggs -New -laid, cartons, 48 to
50e; new -laid, ex -cartons, 46 to 48c;
storage, selects, 39e• storage, No. 1, 36
Co 37c. Buttes -Creamery prints,
fresh made, 43 to 44c; creamery prmts,
storage, 42 to 43c; creamery solids,
41% to 42e; choice dairy prints, 37 to
39c; ordinary dairy prints, 33 to 85e;
bakers', 30 to 32c. Cheese -New,
large, 23 to 23%e; twins, 23% to
2334c; triplets, 23% to 23%c; stiltons,
24 to 24%c.
Poultry -Spring chickens, lb, live,
16 to 17c, dressed, 21 to 22e; old fowl,
lb, live, 14 -to 15c, dressed, 17 to 19e;
ducklings, lb,, live, 12 to 13c, dressed,
17 to 19c.
Beans -Hand-picked, $6; prime, $5.
Heney-Tins 2% -lb tins, 121/2 to
13c a lb.; 5 -lb. 'tins, 12%c a lb.; 10 -lb.
tins, 12c a lb.; 60-1b. tins, clover, 11%c.
a lb. Comb honey -Selects, $2.40
to $2.75; No 2, $2 to $2.25.
Potatoes -New Brunswick, in car
lots, $1.90 a bag; western, in car lots,
$1.65 to $1.70 a bag.
Provisions -Wholesale.
Smoked meats -Hams, mediem, 24
to 25e; do., heavy, 22 to 23c; cooked,
35 to 360; rolls, 19 to 20c; breakfast
bacon, 25 to 27e; backs, plain; 26 to
27m '
boneless 28 to 29e.
Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent
less than cured.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 18
to 18%c. per lb.; • clear bellies, 18 to
18%c,
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 19% to
20c; tubs, 20 to 20%c; pails, 20% to
203ic; compound, 16 to 16c,
Cottonseed oil -Tierces, 1531,c; tubs,
16c; pans, 16%c.
Montreal Market.
Montreal, Nov. 7. -Corn, American
No. 2 yellow, $1.10 to $1.11. Oats,
Canadian Western, No 2, 68c; do.,
No. 3, 67%c; extra No. feed, 67%.
Barley, Man. feed, 51.02%. Flour,
Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts,
$10.10; seconds, $9.60; strong bakers',
$9.40; Winter patents choice, 59.50;
straight rollers, $8.90 to $9.20; do.,
bags, $4.25 to $4.40. Rolled oats,
barrels, $6.85; do. bags, 90 lbs, $3.30.
Bran, $28. S m m $31. Middlings,
$33. Moulllie, 536 to $38. Hay, No.
2, per ton, car lcts, $13. Cheese,
finest westerns, 2254 to 22%c; do,,
finest easterns, 21% to 22c. Butter,
choicestcreamery, 41½ to 42c; sec-
onds, 401/2 to 41c. Eggs, fresh, 48 to
50c; selects, 38c; No. 1 stock, 34c; No
2 stock, 30c. Potatoes, per bag, cat
lots, $1.80 to $1.85.
Winnipeg Graie,
Winnipeg, Nov. 7, --Cash quota-
tions :- Wheat - No. 1 Northern,
$1.82% • No, 2 Northern, 51.70%; No.
Nortfievn, $L74%; No. 4, 51.64%;
Noo.. 65,1,41(e5c
es. feed,;N . 3
$1.1081/41i7., 58i4
0t
a s-
Nc
extra No. 1 feed, 561/sc; No. 1 feed,
56c; No, 2 feed, 55Sec. Barley not
quoted. Flax -No. 3. N.W.C., 5248%;
No. 2 C.W., 52.4538.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Nov. 7. -Wheat -Dee -
ember, $1.881/2e; May, $1.8614. Cash
-No, 1 hard, 51.9238 to $1.93%; No. 1
Northern, 51.87% to $1.91% No. 2
Northern, 51.82% to 51,89%. Corn
-No. 3 yellow, $1.02 to $1.04, Oats
-No. 3 white, 50 to 5014e. Flour un-
changed. Bean, $26.00 to $27,00.
Duluth, Nov. 7. -Wheat --No. 1
hard, 51,88%; No. 1 Northern, 51.8514
to 51.8744; No. 2 Northern, 51.74% to
51.82%; December, 51.85% asked,
Linseed, cash, on track, $2.67%; Nov-
ember, 52.66%; May, $2,6844.
Live Stock Markets,
Toronto, Nov. 7. -Choice heavy
steers, $8.85 to $8.75; good heavy
steers, $8.00 to $8.25; butchers' cattle
good, $7.60 to $7.90; do., me:liana $6.75
to $7.00; do., common, $5.40 to $6.00;
butchers' bulls, choice, $7.10 to $'7.35;
do., good bulls, $6.40 to $6,50; do.,
rough bulls, 54.50 to 55,00; butchers'
cows, choice, $6.25 to $7.00; do., good,
$5.75 to 56.00; do., medium, 55.50 to
$5,60; stockers, $5.25 to 56.25; choice
feeders, $6.25 to $7.15; canners and
eutbers, $3.75 to $4.40; milkers, choice,
each, $70.00 to $100,00; do., corn. and
med., each, $40.00 to $60.00; springers,
$50.00 to $100.00' light ewes 40 to
59.00; sheep, heavy, 54,50 to 55.50;
calves, good to choice $10.25 to $10.00;
lambs, choice, 510.50 to 511.00; do.,
medium, $9.25 to $9,50; hogs, fed and
watered $11.15 to $11,25; do., weigh-
ed off cars, $1140 to $11,00; do., f. o, b.
$10.30.
Montreal, Nov. 7. -Steers, choice,'
$7,50; good, $6.50; cows, choice, 56.50;
good, $6; butchers' bulls, $5 to 56; Coll -
Tian, $4.25 to $4.75; sheep, $6.25 to
$6,75; lambs, $9.50 to $10.75 each;
calves, vessel's, 54.50 to $5; Milk, $6
to $9.25; hogs, $11.50 to 511.65; lights
and heavies, $11. Receipts at the
east end market to -day were: Cattle,
500; sheep, 900; hogs, 1,200; calves,
300.
The Way of Man.
Mrs. Wilkins -Did Fussleigh take
his misfortune like a man?
Mrs. Williame-Precisely. He blam-
ed it all on hi wife.
A. wife can overlook her huelmed's
shortcomings if they aren't in his pay
envelopd,
ITALIANS RENEW OFFENSIVE
• TAKE 4,731 MEN IN ONE DAY
Strong System of Defences Captured on the Height East of
Gorizia.
A despatch from Rome says: The
Italians resumed their march on
Trieste on Wednesday in two direc-
tions, and the first day's operations
netted 4,731 prisoners, six cannon,
numerous machine gone and large
quantities of other booty. Strong sys-
tems of defences on the heights east
of Gorizia and on the Cease east of
Vallone were wrested from the en-
emy and remain in Italian possession
despite the most desperate counter-
attacks. With the advent of clear
weather Gen, Cadorne launched his
infantry across the rain -soaked ter-
rain against the Austrian lines, which
were penetrated at several points
south of the Oppachiasella road.
As a result of the fighting in the
Gorizia region the Italians on Thurs-
day occupy the eastern slopes of Ti-
voli and San Marco, as well as the
heights east of Sober.
On the Carso plateau the Italians
at points advanced almoift a mile.
East of Segiti two-thirds of a mile of
strong positions were won. The
brunt of the Carte fighting was borne
by the Eleventh Army Corps. Here
the wooded slopes of Velki were
Stormed and Kribueh and Hill No, 375
carried. This latter height dominated
Monte Pecinka, a strong Austrian
position, from the east.
SWEET LAVENDER.
Lively Scenes in a Y. M. C. A. Hut
at the Front.
In the language of the British army,
-says Mr. G. A, Birmingham in the
Cornhill Magazine, the building is
called "Sweet Lavender." It is a
Y.M.C.A. hut, but hardly more like
the hut of civil life than it is like the
flower from which it takes its name.
The walls are of thin wood. The roof
is corrugated iron. It contains two
long, low halls. Glaring electric
lights hang from the rafters. Inside
the halls are gathered hundreds of
soldiers. In the one that we enter
first the men are sitting, packed close
together, at small tables. They turn
over the pages of illustrated papers.
They drink tea, cocoa and hot milk.
They eat buns and slices of bread
and butter. They write those letters
home that express so little and that
to those who understand mean so
much.
In the other, the inner, hall there
are more men. The evening's enter-
tainment is about to begin. Oct a nar-
row platfoem at one end of the hall is
iTt piano. The pianist flogs the keys,
and above the babel of talk sounds
some "rag -time" melody, once popu-
lar, now forgotten or despised at
home. Here or there a voice takes up
the tune and sings or chants it. The
audience begins to catch the spirit of
the entertainment. Some one calls
the name of Corporal Smith. A man
leaps upon the platform. He is greet-
ed with cheers, He and the pianist
consult. A tentative chord is struck,
Corporal Smith nods approval; his
song begins. If it is the kind of song
that has a cherub, the audience shout
it, and Corporal Smith conducts the
singing with wavings of his arm. Be-
fore the applause has died away, an-
other man takes his place on the plat-
form. He is a stranger. But the
pianist is a man of genius. Whisper
to him the name of a song, give even
a hint of its nature, and he will vamp
an accompaniment. He has his diffi-
culties. A singer will start at the
wrong time, for a whole verse per-
haps will make noises in a different
key; the pianist never gives up. Some-
how, instrument and singer get to-
gether -more or less. There is no
dearth of singers, no bashful hanging
back, no waiting for polite urging,
The entertainment draws to its
Close about eight o'clock. Men go to
bed early who know that a bugle will
sound the reveille at half past five in
the Morning. The end is always the
same, but always comes as a surprise.
We sing a hymn, for choice a very
sentimental hymn. We any a short
prayer, often as rugged and uncon-
ventional as the entertainment itself.
Then "The King." In these two words
we announee the national anthem, and
the men stand stiffly to attention
while they sing. At half past eight,
by order of the supreme authorities,
Sweet Lavender hut must close its
cloots. The end of the entertainment
is set to allow time for a final cup of
tea or at least a glass of milk. The
last half hour is a busy one for the
ladies behind the counter in the outer
hall. Long queues of men stand wait-
ing to be served. Dripping cups and
sticky buns are passed to them with
inconceivable rapidity. The work is
done at high pressure, -Mit with the
tea and the food the men receive
something else, something they pay
no penny for, something the value of
which to them is above all measuring
with pennies -the friendly smile, the
kindly word of a woman. No one will
ever know the amount of good those
women do, without praise, pay or hope
of honors. If "the actions of the just
smell sweet and blossom," surely
these deeds of love and kinclnees have
a fragrance. After all, the hut is
well named "Sweet Lavender."
•
WOULD STOP EXPORT
OF BREEDING CATTLE.
A despatch from Quebec says:
That the time is opportune for the
Federal Government to pass an or-
der-in-Cosi:mil prohibiting the sale of
breeding cattle from the Dominion to
the United States and that farmers
should have a specially low rate on
railways on the transportation of
farm implements, malt, manure, was
pointed out on Thursday by Hon. 3.
Si. CS17011, Minister of Agriculture for
the Province of Quebec in his testi-
molly before the Dominions Royal
Comiaission in session at the Paella -
m ent Buildings.
BRITISH ACTIVITY
IN SHIPBUILDING.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Figures received by the Government
illustrate the tremendous effort which
Great Britain is snaking to maintain
and increase her fleet of merchant
ships. An official statement shows
that at the close of last month there
were under construction in British
yards, 469 vessels of an aggregate
tonnage of 1,789,064.
RULES OF WAR.
Old Fighters Were Very Careful te
Observe Them.
The father of the rules of civilized
warfare, which Germany has broken
so ruthlessly, was Grains, a native of
Delft, who attempted to codify exist-
ing customs during the Thirty Years'
War.
'That was three hundred years ago,
and his book soon became the basis
of warfare, for when countries were
fighting to extend their territory they
were wise to recognize the advantages
of propitiating their future subjects.
So punctilious were the old fighters
that during the wars which followed
the French Revolution those attacking
the French actually paid hire for •
camping -grounds and for hospitals,
Even more ludicrous was an incident
which occurred during the fighting
round Mainz in 1793.
An Austrian regiment, anxious to
cross the river, were held up by the
ferryman because he demanded ready.
money for the toll. Rather than dis-
obey the code by seizing the ferry for
themselves, the Austrians calmly sur-
rendered to the advancing French.
But France was fighting for her
life, and disregarded the little niceties -
of the rules of warfare, and those of
her enemies who still observed them
faithfully were taken at a disadvant-
age, so by degrees the elaborate pot-
' iteness disappeared.
But the Prussians have always act-
ed on the ideas set forth by Clause-
witz after Waterloo, which may be
summed up in two of his sentences:
"The use of force in war is absolute,"
and "Every idea of philanthropy in
war is a most pernicious error."
CANADIANS AT LOOS.
Most of Them Have Moved From
Somme, After Hard Weeks.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Cable advices report that most of the
Canadian troops have now been mov-
ed off the Somme front, after several
weeks of hard fighting, and have been
given positione in the Loos sector, to
the north.
CIVILIAN VICTIMS
OF GERMAN METHODS.
A despatch from London says:
Premier Asquith, in a written reply
to a question in the House of Com-
mons on Wednesday, says: "The num-
ber of British civilians killed, drown-
ed and wounded by the enemy fol-
lows: Killed or died of wounds or
shock, 589; drowned, 3,014; injured,
1,693."
Regularity Personified.
The doctor had listened to his pati -
cut's heart, taken his blood pressure;
in short, made a thorough examina-
tion of his physical condition. Then
he announced his verdict.
"What you want is to get more ex-
ercise, walk more regularly."
"Well, doctor, I don't see hew I
can do that," answered the man. "I'm
a postman."
Not Different.
"What sort of a woman is Perkins'
wife?"
"The ordinary kind. I guess Per -
Idris has as much trouble with her as
, the rest of us do with our wives."
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