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The Clinton News Record, 1915-12-30, Page 6THE GOLDEN KEY Cr "The Adventures of Ledg4rd." By the Author Of "Whet He Cost Her." CHAP,TER He nodded, and ,pointed to the num- berS Whieh Were going' els.. ,'$h'e flash - gold, quaintly fashioned, and the fine gold chain around her neck, from which hung her racing glasses. ,She ed a sudden look upon himwhicb more was to him the very type Of eery - than compensated him for his defeat. thing that was aristocratic. It might At least he had earned her respect be as the had told hen, that she chose that at day, as a man who knew how to to work for her living, but he knew as --accept defeat gracefully. They wash_ though by inspiration that her peo- up,„ the paddock and stood le and connections were cif that ed slowly on the edge of the ell° Wd, whilst a world to which he could never belong, Pv great person went out to meet his , Pave on sufferance. He meant to be - horse amidst a -storrn • of cheering It 1 to it for her sake—to win her! be- long , I chanced that he caught sight of Trent He admitted the presumption, but on the way and, ,pausing for a ' Me- then it would be presumption of any rnent, he held gut his hand. man to lift his eyes to her. He esti_l , mated his chances with common sense; fight far it, Mr. Trent," he said. T 1 he was not a man disposed to under- I "Your herse-made a magnificent " "s'm I•valhe himself. He knew the power afraid I only got the verdictbyI fluke. A-nother time may you bae ! of hi5 wealth and his advantage over the crowd of young men who - were the festinate one!" Iher equals by birth. F.or he hail met Trent 'answered him simply, but ' some of them, had inquired into their without awkwardness. Then his horse lives, listened to their jargon, and had came in and he held out his hand to Coale in a faint sort of way to under - the crestfallen jockey, whilst with his ; stand them. It had been an encour- left he patted Iris's head. [agement to him. After all it was only "Never mind, Dick," he said cheer- serious work, life lived out face to fully, "you rode a fine race and the ' face with the great realities of exist- • best horse won. Better luck next ence which could make a man. In a time." ' dim way he realized that there were Several people approached Trent, few in her own clasS likely to satisfy but he turned away at once to Ernes- Ernestine. He even dared to tell • tine. himself that those things which ren - "You will let me take you to Lady dered him chiefly unfit for her, the • Tresham • now," he said. - ! acquired vulgarities of his rougher "If you please," she answered life, were things which he could put quietly. away; that atime would come when They left the Paddock by the un- he would take his place confidently in derground way. When they emerged her world, and that the end would be upen the lawn the band was playing success. And all the while from out • and crowds of people were strolling .02 the blue sky Fate was forging a about under the trees. , thunderbolt to launch against him! "The. . boxes," Trent suggested, . "must be'very hot now!" CHAPTER XXXIV. He tuned down'a side walk Away from the stand towards an empty seat "And now," she said, rising, "you under an elm -tree, and, after a mo- really must take me to Lady Tresham. ment's scarcely perceptible hesita- They will think that I am lost." tion, she followed his lead. He laugh -"Are you still at your rooms?" he ed softly to himself. If this was de- asked. feat, what in the world was better? • She nodded. "This is your first Ascot is it -"Yes, only I'm having them spring - not?" she asked. • ' cleaned for a few days...I am staying "My, first!" at Treshani House." "And your first defeat?" I "May I come and see you there?" "I suppose it is," he admitted The man's quiet pertinacity kindled cheerfully. "I rather expected to a sort of indignation in hers The slid- -win, too." • •den weakness in her defences was un - "You must be very disappointed I bearable. ' am afraid." a• I think not, she answered s or - "I have lost," he said "thoughtfully, ly. "You On't know Lady Tresham, "a gold cup. I have gained—" and they might not approve. Lady She half 'arose and shook out her Tresham is rather old-fashioned. skirts as though about to leave him. "Oh, Lady Tresham is all right," He stopped short and found another he answered. "I suppose I shall see conclusion to his sentence. "Experience!" A faint smile parted her lips. She resumed her seat. "I am glad to find you," she said, "so much of a philosopher. Now talk to me for a few minutes about what you have been doing in Africa." Iie obeyed her, and very soon she forgot the well-dressed crowd of men and women by whom they were sur- rounded, the light hum of gay conver- sation, the band which was playing the fashionable air of the moment. She saw instead the long line of men of many races, stripped to the waist and toiling as though for their lives under a tropical sun,, she saw the great brown water -jars passeddown the line, men fainting beneath the burning sun and their places taken by others. She heard the shrill whistle _ of alarm, the beaten drum; she saw the spade exchanged for the rifle, and the long line of toilers disalmear behind the natural earthwork which their labors had cleated. She saw . black forms rise stealthily from the long rank grass; a flight of quivering spears, the horrid battle -cry of the na- sunlight, then he stepped on to th e grass and made his way through the throng. The air was full of soft, gay music, and the skirts and flounces of the women brushed again -it him at every step, Laughter and excitement ,• were the order of the day! Trent, with his suddenly pallid face and un- seeing eyes,' eedined a ilittle out of place in such a scene of 'pleasure. Francis, who was smoking a cigar, looked up as he approached and made room for him 01)011 the seat: "I did not expect to seo. you in " England quite so soon, Captmn Fran- cis,Trent said. "I did not expect," Francis ansvver- ed, "ever to be in England again. I am told that my recovery was a miracle. I am also told that I Owe my life to you!" Trent shrugged his shoulders. , "I would have done as much fees: any of my people," he said, "and you don't owe me any thanks. To be fra.nis with you, I hoped you'd die." "You could easily have made sere of it," Francis answered. "It wasn't my way," Trent answer- ed shortly. "Now what do you want with 'me?" Francis turned towards him with a curious mixture of expressions in his face. "Look here," he said, "I want to be- lieve in you! You saved my life, and I'm not over-anxious to de you a mis- chief. But you must tell me what you have done with Vill--1VIonty." "Don't you know where he is?" Trent asked quickly. "I? Certainly not! How should I?" • • " "Perhaps not," Trent said, "but here's the truth. When I got back to Attra Monty had disappeared—run away to England, and as yet I've heard never a word of him. I'd meant to do the square thihg by him and bring him back myself. Instead of that he gave us all the slip, but un- less he's a lot different to what he was the last time I saw him'he's not fit to be about alone." !'" "I heard that he had left," Francis said, "from Mr. Walsh." "Ile either came quite alone," Trent said, "in which case it isodd that no- thing has been heard of him, or Da Souza bee got hold of him.", "Oom Sam's brother?" Trent nodded. (To be continued,) tives rang in her ears. The whole drama of the man's great past rose up before her eyes, made a living and ; real thing by his simple but vigorous ; language. That he effaced himself from it went for nothing; she saw him there perhaps more clearly than any- thing else, the central and domineer- ing figure, a man of brains and nerve who, with his life in his hands, faced with equal immovability a herculean task and the chances of death. Cer- tain phrases in Fred's letter had sunk deep into her mind, they were recalled very vividly by the presence of the man himself, telling his own story. She sat in the sunlight with_the mu- sic in her ears, listening -to his abrupt vivid speech, and a fear came to hes which blanched her theeks and caught at 'her throat. " The hand which held ber dainty parasol of lace shook, and an indescribable thrill ran through her veins, She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagina- tion. In many ways he fell short of all the' usual standards by which the men of her class were judged, yet she suddenly realized that he possess. ed a touch of that quality which lift- ed him at 'once far over their heads. The man had genius.-- Without edu- cation or culture he had yet achieved greatness. By his side the men who were passing about on the lawn be- came suddenly puppets. Form and style, manners and easy speech be- came suddenly stripped of their sig- nificance to her, The man at her side had none of these things, "yet he was of a greater world. She felt her en- inity towards -him suddenly weaken- ed. Only her pride now could help her. She called upon it fiercely. He was the man whom she had deliber- ately believed to be guilty, of her fa- ther's death, the man whom she had -set herself to entrap. She brushed all those other thoeghts away and banished firmly that dangerous kind- ness of manner into which she had been drifting. • And he, on his part, felt a glow of keen pleasure when he realized how the events of the day had gone in his favor. If not yet of her world, he knew now that his becoming so would be hereafter purely a matter of time. He looked up through the green leaves at the blue sky, bedappled with white, fleecy clouds, and wondered whether she guessed that his appearance here, his ownership of Iris, .the sttdious care with which he had placed himself in the hands of a Saville Row tailor were all for her sake. It was true that she had condescended to Bohem- ianism, that he had first met her as a journalist, working for her living in a plain serge suit and a straw hat But he felt sure that this had been to a certain extent a whim with her Ile stole a sidelong glance at her She was the personification of dainti- ness, from the black patent shoes showing beneath the flouncing of hei skirt, to the white hat with its clus- ters of roses, Her foulard gown was as simple as genius could make it And she wore no ornaments, save a fine clasp to her waistband 0f dull you to -night if you are staying there. , They have asked me to dinner!" She was taken aback and showed it. Again he had the advantage. He did not tell her that on his return he had found scores of invitations from people he had never heard of before. "You are by way of going into so- ciety, then," she answered insolently. "I don't think I've ma -de any par- , ticular efforts," he answered. I "Money," she murmured, "is an everlasting force!" I "The people of your world," he ' answered, with a flash of contempt; "are the people who find it so." She was silent then, and Trent was far from being discouraged by her momentary irritability. He was cross- ing the lawnsnow by her side, carry- ing himself well, with a new con- fidence in his air and bearing which she did not fail to take note of. The sunlight, the music, and the pleasant air of excitement were all in his veins. He was full of the strong joy,of liv- ing. -And then, in the midst of it all, ; tame a dull,,crashing blow. It was as though all%his castles in the air had come toppling about his ears, the blue sky had turned to stony grey and the sweet waltz music had become a dirge. Always a keen watcher of men's faces, he had glanced for a sec- ond time at a gaunt, sallow man, who wore a loose check suit and a grey Homburg hat. The eyes of thee two men met. Then the blood'had turned to ice in Trent's veins and the ground had heaved beneath his feet. It was the one terrible glance which Fate had held against him, and she had played the card. •-Considering the nature and sudden- ness' of the blow which had fallen upon him, Trent* recovery was mar- I vellons. The two men had come face to face upon the short turf, involun- tarily each had come to a standstill. Ernestine looked from one to the other a little bewildered. "I should like a word with you, Trent," Captain Francis said quietly. ,• Trent nodded. "In five minutes," he said. "I will return here—on the other side of the bandstand, say." Francis nodded and stood aside. Trent and Ernestine continued their progress towards the stand. -"Your friend," Ernestine remarked, "seemed to come upon you like a mod- ern 13anquo." Trent, who did not understand the illusion, was for once discreet. "He is a man with whom I had dealings with abroad," he said. "I did not expect him to turn up here." "In West Africa?" she asked quick- ly , 'Trent smiled enigmatically. 'Thera are many foreign countries besides Africa," he said, "and I've been in most of them. This is box No, 13 then. I shall see you this evening." She nodded,' and Trent was free again. He did not make his way at on& to the bandstand. Instead he en- • tered the small refreshment room at the base of the building, and called for a glass of brandy. He drank it slowly, his eyes fixed upon the long row of bottles ranged upon the shelf opposite to him, he himself carried back upon a long wave of thoughts to a little West African station where the moist heat rose in fever mists and where an endless stream' of men passed backward and forward to their tasks with wan, weary faces and slow- ly dragging limbs. What a cursed chance which had. brought hhn once more face to face with the one weak spot in his life, the one chapter which, had he the power, he would most willingly seal for ever! From outside came the ringing of a bell, the hoarse shouting of many voices ill the ring, through the open door a vision of fluttering waves of color, . lace parasols and picture hats, little trills of feminine laughter, the soft . rustling of =gins and silks. A few moments ago it had all Seemed so de- lightful to him—and now there lay a hideous blot upon the day. It seemed to him when he left the little_bar that he had been there for hours, as a matter of fact barely five minutes had passed pin,e he had left Ernestine. He stood for a moment on the edge of the Walk, dazzled by the • :' NEW PRENCH CHIEF OF,STAFF GEN. EDOTTARD 1>11 GASTELNAG, vilann Gen. Joffre has appointed Ms chief of staff. Three of the four, sons of Gen. de Gastelnau at the front have been killed. Mc raz ond.son to fall was brought to his father's camp terribly wounacd, mul died three hours later. 'rho General kissed lifs,dcad son 'and said: "Go, son, you have had tile finest death you could possibly wish for. 1 swear that our armies will avenge you iho avenging all French families." The news of,the death of the General's first sotrwas brought to him while Iso was In e,oneerence with his oaasers. •l'Oad •the 000te:tie:44 bowee his head a moment, ar d said :"Gentlemen, lot us continue." The third son, Lieut. flugues de Casteinau, was killed in October, , of this year. ALLIES' PEACE TERMS. Some Demands Suggested by British COUNTLESS FLOCKS OF SHEEP. National Review. Among preliminaries to peace sug- gested by the , "National Review" are the followinga-e- All enemy troops to retire from all allied territories before any peace overtures he entertained: Belgium to be fully compensated by Germany for all losses she has sustained directly or indirectly through • ' d tails. In addition to the amount of such losses to be fixed by allied commissioners, the sum of noo,- 000,000 to Ve paid by Germany to Belgium. France to be compensated on the game scale as Belgium. Alsace-Lorraine to be restored to France and such other territory as she may deem necessary for national security. Russia to be similarly compensated as Belgium and France, and to secure similar security against future ag- gression. . Serbia's claims to be formulated by the Serbian Government. Italy to obtain Trieste and the Trentino. Austria-Hungary to be dealt, with as leniently as Russia's ' interests permit. , Turkey to be leniently dealt with. No territory freed from German rule during the war in any part of the world to be returned to her. The German navy to be surrendered to the allies and distributed pro rata among them. All German shipping in allied ports to be conflscated. Kiel Canal to be internationalized. Rigorous justice to be meted out to all German criminals and arch - criminals. General von Hissing to be publicly executed prior to any peace pour parlers. Military occupation of Berlin pend- ing fulfilment of treaty. KING PETER AND ENGLAND. Bening Billions on the Steppes of Russia. Russia realm among the first of - the old-world nations where sheep are concerned. In southern Russia, where' the plains, or steppes, as they are I Called, stretch across the enormous empire from the outskirts of, Hungary to Mongolia, countless flocks of sheep roam. One man •often possesses as many as 500,000 os 00 , s eep, The number of sheep being raised on the steppes gets larger every year, but this is not because they are care- fully nurtured. They are, in fact, ex- posed to the most severe weather, l- and the scorching heat of summer ; and the freezing blasts of winter are only to be dreaded second to the bur- i ricanes which sweep over the plains at times. During the tempests the sheep make ; no effort to weather the storm, but run panic-stricken before the wind, andare forced by the thousand into 1 the streams and ravines with which! the steppes are intertwined. Were it ! not for the intelligent use of goats I neither the shepherds nor their dogs I could avail much at such times, for ' the sheep can,scarcely ever he brought . to face the terrible winds or to .seek the shelter of a ravine. But with every hundred sheep three or four goats are kept, and, as these can easily be made to face almost any wind, they are used to lead the way down the rugged descents and the sheep follow blindly. The shepherd of a large flock, or ottara, is called a tschabawn. The tsehabasvn usually owns a wagon or two, drawn by oxen, in which he car- ries his provisions and cooking uten- sils, together with the skins of such sheep as have died and those Of wolves he has killed. The wagon or wagons lead the van when this wild shepherd travels, next he comes, and after him trail the sheep. When he comes to good pasture he does not leave until the grass has been eaten down, and even when on the march his encampment is seldom more than two or three miles from where he started at sunrise. From 'five to six hundred ewes are in the ottara and the - tschabawn draws the milk from them and -laces it in huge shallow wooden bowls to be exposed to the sun and made into a kind of cheese known as "brinse," very popular in Russia and East Ger- many. , During the severe winter months the sheep are sheltered, but in spring, summer and autumn they are pastur- ed on the plains. When the evening meal is over the shepherds and their dogs sit about a fire of dry reeds and grass for an hour or two. Afterward the arra»gements for the night are made. Each !. man throws his furs, that serve for mattress and coverlet, on the spot the tschabawn has assigned to him, and between every two beds of the. dogs -and men the same inter- vals occur. • METALS USED FOR SHELLS. Only the Best of Material Is Suitable for Them. The great cost of the shellg used in warfare has astounded most per- A NEW PROI3LEIVI. Sunken, Tanks as Storehouses fore Submarines. The recentlaunching of !submarines designed" to permit a great crushing radius brought`maval expert feee to face with a new problem—a system of supply stations which would promote the submarine from the class of•etixil- ieries to that of battleships. , The battleship can carsy supplies and coal Or oil sufficient for, manY weeks and also has the advantage et the colliers and supply ships" which are a part of every fleet, But the submarine of the • future will be' designed to act alone, a soli- tary ranger in- the course of com- merce, quite able to escape should, it meet with a euperior enemy. Supply boats with ammunition, oil, extra parts, etc., have been designed to accompany submarines, but it is pMnted out that they, being visible, attract attention to the presence of the unclesWater fighters and are also very liable to SelS111`C. The latest piens call for submerged oil and supply tanks to be sunk in ‚inlets, where they may be securely anchored safe from the ravages,of a storm. It is claimed that these tanks may be sunk 111 the waters of an enemy in times of peace and that their contents will be as useful years later as if stored on land. These tanks are constructed with large air chambers which are emptied when the container is sunk. In times of war a submarine, desiring a freth supply of fuel, anchors near the sub- merged teak and sends down a diver, who attaches an air hose to the empty tanks. A half-hour's pumping of air into the tanks and the container rises to the surface and supplies ate taken from it. If the tank contains only fuel and oil it is claimed the submar- easaasa. RaiiiSinesielaliefirireaSreaSeleielts! !r; m ABOUT INTERESTING PEOPLE VOITAtad: WeeldMARA-detzpAindAVAI • Tod Sloan, the famous jockey, has been engaged in Red Cross work hs France. His ambition is to have just one more ride on the English Turf. Mdme. Clara Butt, who has worked so hard for the Soldiers, may be said to have enriched our nomenclature. She has a slaughter called Joy, who had the honor, some time ago, of pre- , senting a bouquet to Queen Mary at a concert arranged by the famous Lieutenant Marconi, who ,has been with the Italian troops at the front, • thinks it premature to ea' the least, to discuss the possibility of ammuni- tion being exploded by electric waves sent out by wireless instruments. The scientist is cautious enough to add that he doesn't say it is impossible. The elbquent sermons of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury have been one ef the features of wartime in England, Di.. Davidson's one recreation is thess, and people will remember his 'witty remark that he had a good deal to do with kings and queens, lived in. two castles, and was both a knight and a 1bishop. S5. Forbes Rebertson, who' in the last few years has earned a sub- stantial fortune after a long period of moderate luck, may care to remember that he was once told by Miss Ellen Terry that he had better stick to his painting, and become an artist instead of an actor. One of the most popular men at the Front is Prince 'Arthur of Con- naught. He is liked because of his ex- treme absence of side. It is recalled that at Aldershot a lady journalist was once surprised to find him sitting on the edge of the counter of the regi- mental coffee-har, whistling to him- ine can empty it without rising to self as he gravely counted out the view, simply by the uSe of a diver and coppers in the till, and entered them a pump. In the account -book. , e dvteins sfarindnith aote Germansmubanni a rpinnieiss h a ivne bothene Liverpool to become pastor to the mil - The Rev. C. F. Aked, who left North Sea to the Dardanelles without lionaires' church- in New York, and fresh supplies. If proper supply whose utterances on the war have lately been severely criticised, does tanks were stationed in all the wa- ters of the globe it is safe to assume not lack for courage. He commenced sons who are unfamiliar with such that submarines could wage war on matters, and in answer to a corre- enemy commerce in any or all parts spondent asking why cheaper "shells of the navigable earth. made of cast iron were not made use * of in preference to the more expen- sive steel, the Eingineer. of London A COSTLY PRODUCTION. . — h b 1 ' concerned tffe The Zeppelin As Employed in the War has the following: In the first place, number of bullets is reduced because the walls of the projectile must be made thicker. There is not an o . present war have come in for so much jection to high explosive shells, which discussion as the Zeppelin airships, call for walls thicker than is neces- yet few people really know ilia what sary for strength, but there is danger these formidable machines are like. of cast iron shells developing cracks 1.ri appearance the Zeppelin resembles during manufacture, and there would a long, narrow pencil with 16 sides, its be a risk of such shells bursting in exact measurements being 400 feet the gun. long and 50 feet in diameter. If a Another objection is that a cast Zeppelin were 'placed vertically next iron shell is liable to be inaccurate in to. St. Paul's Cathedral, London, it its flight. The projectile must be in . would prove to be over 100 feet taller perfect balance with the walls, not , than this historic building. The body only of the same thickness all around, ' of a Zeppelin is constructed of alumi- but homogeneous. At the high speed num, and is so built on the girder of revolution, the slightest difference principle that deal:lite its extreme in weight on one side would cause lightness it can withstand immense machined inside and out to insure I prepared rubberized silk is stretched. , strain. Over this frame specially irregular shooting. The steel 'shell is uniformity; but if a shell -were cast I The interior of the Zeppelin enve- on a core and the core were not ab- ' lope is not filled entirely with gas, as solutely concentric, the centre of gra- lis the case with the balloon. It is vity would not lie exactly in the I divided up into 16 compartments, each longitudinal axis of the shell. Fur- I of which contains its portion of hydro - thermos°, the making of a steel shell Igen g has been so perfected that such shells ! are terams.Ted, hInensle'c like 1 il000nnnetnist,a n" lined ctihup y can be turned out more quickly than inside the sausage-shaped "parent" those of cast iron of equal reliability balloon envelope. By means of this of accuracy. An eighteempeunder constructional system the Zeppelin Costs $200,000. Few military instruments in the "That' Country Has Done So Much For My People." ' In describing the Serbien people's retreat from Nish, Charles S. Jenk- ins, who was engaged the work , • of the hospitals there, tells of a visit , to King Peter: I "He sent for me because he de- sired to hear about the sanitary work in connection with the hospitals. He was in his bengalow at Topola, north- west of Kragujevace, a nice, -unpre- tentious stone building on the side of a hill, under the shadow of a white !marble church which he is erecting I to leave to his people as a memorial. ' I was presented to the King in the garden, where lie was walking. He is a short, slim, erect figure. He 1welks with an alert, springy step. I He has a blonde, yellowish moustache ; and imperial, and keen blue eyes • under shaggy brows. "I was about to kiss his hand, but he gave me a hearty hand -shake in- stead, indicating that he did not de- sire any ceremony. We walked and talked for about twenty minutes in the 'Most friendly fashion. He spoke in fluent French and expressed his great regret that he could not use the tongue of "the country that had been so good to his own people." "He mentioned thathe met Queen Victoria in her younger days and climbed Mount Pilatus with her. Several times he repeated,his grati- tude towards 'England, our greatest friend.' He mentioned that he ,suf- fere from rheumatism; certainly his movementsdid not betray it. When speaking •of 'the vvar -his voice had a sad note—attaehe ; on thine' sides, and the ravages of typhus'—but he was !riot gloomy; be! seemed confi- dent that things wield be well in the end." German Offipers Killed. In private report v,hich has Come into the hands of the French; the number of German field artillery of- ficers of all ranks who have !been kill- ed up to September 10 since the be- ginning of the war on the Western front, is put as equal to the offices personnel of 240 batteries. - BritiAlt Nation's Thsee Merits. Viscount -Bryce, presiding at a lecture by Sir Charles Lucas at King's College, London, said that "there were thsee great merits which the British nation had shown in the government of the Empire. In the first place, we had alwaYA proved ourselves capable of learning by experience. The sec- ond' Was symPathy, and he claimed that our Governors in India (ex`cept in very early days) and in all the Crown Colonies had to a degree which was unparalleled by the rulers of other nations shown a desire to gov- ern with justice and sympathy. In the third place, the _British nation, having begun to learn the lesson of liberty further back than any other people, we had always felt that what- ever else we dicl we must be true to our own principle of liberty." The best way to get a living is to earn it Experience one buysrig sometimes worth the cost. n''ised s11811 e, from the bay in forty minutes. • SOLDIERS ASIC PRAYERS. cannot be sunk unless half of its hal- loonets" are robbed of their gas. Also these sections prevent the body of the airship being forced out of shape through the wind resistance set up Canadian Highlander Voiced Senti- when the machine is forcing its way ments a the Men. through the air at 50 miles an hour.. A Zeppelin is a costly production, Annie S. Swan, the well-known and $200,000 is required to build such writer, in a letter to the London a military weapon and equip it for Times, says:— destructive purposes. The expenses The Chaplain -General's appeal for connected with these airships does not more faithful prayer for the troops end here Great sheds meat be erect - recalls to my remembrance what a ed, and gas -producing plants laid Canadian Highlander, just down down, so that the Zeppelin may have from. the. trenches, said to me one its daily feed of hydrogen. i in a n France. his career in New York by attacking millionaires, and .when they stayed away denounced his flock for stingi- ness, the result being the asrlyal by post of many cheques. - kTo increase the share of women in local government is now the keenest intereat of that most philanthropic of Society dames, the Duchess of Marlborough. Her Grace believes that if there were more women.on the borough and county councils invalu- able assistance would be rendered. to the country in regard to such pro- blems as a pure milk supply, muni- cipal lodging -houses for women, and the increase of playgrounds for chil- dren. ;11 --AT- IS -D—AY? Some Parts of Norway It Lasts Two evemng camp "Go home and tell the women to * pray for us, and never to leave off. We are helped more than you know by the prayers of those at home, and in the trenches we know when they have had a slack day." Everywhere . tliere, adds Mms. e iant thoseevenings—far more brill Swan one is astounded and uplifted by the the perception in our than any of the stars, and rivalling even the moon ---it the planet Jupiter, fighting men of the spiritual forces largest of all the sun's family, of which are necessary as the material ones to the conduct of the war. whith the earth is a member. Jupiter has only just passed the MEASURING SPB'ED OF LIGHT. Said to Be About 186,000 Miles a Second. Blazing in the southeastern sky , Telling His Experiences. An high soldier just home from the front was relating is experiences to his mates at home. "I well remember , one time. Myself and Brother Denis I was a listenin' control, when a 'Jack !Johnson' burst close to us, and when we came to ourselves after the shock there waa my poor Brothel Denis ' with his left arm blown clean from !the shoulder. When he saw what they had done he got So mad that he dashed out before I could stop him, and he grabbed two Germans, one in each hand, and clashed their heads to- gether till they fell insensible." "Ah," said one of his mates, "sure and are you not just telling us your Brother Denis had his left arm blown off?" "I am," says the Irish soldier; "but, sure, you don't take any notice of 'these things when you're fighting." a. Czar, World's Wealthiest Ring. There is no doubt that the richest. ruler in the world is the Czar M. Russia. On his accession he inherited the Romanoff private -estate, yielding about two million pounds a year. Be- yond that his allowance amounts to another two millions. There were small expenses to be deducted, such as some live hundred thousand pounds a year to grand dukes and duchesses. But when everything had been taken into account the Czar remained far richer than the Turkith sultan, with point at which he is nearest the earth. He is now only about 400,000,000 miles away from us. The most interesting thing about Jupiter is his moons, eight of them, four of which can be seen through a field glass. These four were the first discovery made by the telescope, Galileo seeing them first on Jan. 7, 1610. They revolve about Jupiter, one th four and one-quarter days, one In eight and one-half days, one in seventeen and one-quarter days, and one in forty and one-half days. It was these moons that first taught men the speed-. of light Soon after they were discovered astronomers be- gan watching their eclipses, and be- fore long they were able to foretell the exact hours at which the moons would disappear behind Jupiter and reappear on the other side. But it was. noticed that as Jupiter got far- ther away from the earth the eclipses were alvirtya late, and as he came nearer the eclipses little by little got back to schedule thne again. When jusfiter was farth.est away the eclipses were about sixteen minutes behindtime. In 1675 Roemersa Dutch astronomer, accennted for this by say- ing that light, instead of being an instant flash, took an appreciable time to travel through space, and he calculated this speed to be about 186,- 000 miles a seco)1d. Months. A day 'is generally supposed to be a period of twenty-four hours, but this is not necessarily sp. The period of the sun's position above the hori- zon also constitutes a day. time The actual measure of me covered by a day as we know it is 23 hours, 50 minutes and 5 seconds. In some parts of Norway the day lasts two whole months without in- terruption! Three and a half months constitutes the period of the longest day in Spitsbergen, while the short- est onlyregisters two and a half hours! That is, judging the actual period of light, whith would be the natural day. Petrograd's longest day is nine- teen hours, and the shortest five. At Hamburg the longest is seventeen, and the shortest seven. London's longest day is, roughly, sixteen and a half, with the shostest about eight hours. • WORTHLESS DEVICES. Medical Quacks Prosper as Result of the War. The exploitation of a great variety of electrical devices for the treatment of diseases has attended the return to London of wounded soldiers from the front. Most of these aro absolutely valueless and many have been sqld fr a udul ently, The Electrical Review, of London, editorially attacke the practice. The. writer o2 the article declares that "while he holds no brief for the quali- fied medical man," he does bold a brief "against those who with the aid 02 fiewspaper adverbisrnent and pseudo-selentific pretenses, are ready to take unfair advantage "of- tiir: portunity to fatten on the earnings of poor and rich alike t We know something of the lengths to which these sharks can go, the profits that they make 011(1the receptivity of the easily deluded mind, when we ex- press a hope that the powers in au- thority will keep a careful watch over this matter." Pays Tribute to Russians. An enthusiastic tribute to the Rus- sian soldier and his leaders is paid by Gen. Arz, the Hungarian military leader who for' five months was Field Marshal Mackensen's chief lieutenant in the Russian campaign. Gen. Ars says: "The Russian military leader- ship is energetic, determined and up to date.. The Russian infantry soldier is active, brave, determined and not afraid of death. Those stories which assert that their officers drive 'them into battle with machine gush are nursery tales. His individual merits aro indisputable." Thoughts of Love. , Kind thoughts 311(1'WOWS are never wasted, and if we were regularly to 'set apart five 'minutes early every mining for sending out thoughts of love and .sympathy for all, I think his million and a half, or King George S. If you intend to do a mean thing would, says a writer; ,often. V:, who is the poorest in pelf and wait till to -morrow. yon are -to clefrom forgetting to do nalaces of all the old World potentates: a noble thing do it now. the opporttes"