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PROTECTING THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
It is perhaps time Co take some
note of_the changes which rise now
coining on our language at home and
abroad in the world.:- . It is quite
natural thatut oulr' Em vire, as
I
thee ;of the Rofnans, the metropolitan
vocabulary should suffer a great deal
of forcible expansion at the hands of
adopted citizens of mixed education,
We have long known that -a Chinese
coolie offering to .take your luggage
upstairs will probably use the form,
"Me carry ;pieccy-bag, top side," and
this is perhaps not much worse than
the French which we ourselves speak
on : our travels. -But in the- ;great'
business .community of the world, ,in
which we are only partners, there is
some serious possibility of a' new dia-
lect apising. . . -
Schoolmasters do what they can,
but their methods are often unpopu-
lar; those who speak our language
are for the most part freedom -loving,
careless, illogical, and easily eapti
witted by 'novelty. They think very
little about their, speech -inheritance,
and whew they do think they are apt
to conclude that it can look after
itself as it did' in the time of their
fathers. This attitude is a striking
contrast to that of ` some other na-
tions. The humblest of French pea-
sants may --be' heard to' rebuke his
children for 'au expresion which in
his opinion is "not good French." In
one district of France a peasant will
speak in patois to his animal's, but
not to his horse, because, as he says,
the horse knows what is French end
what is not. The Anglo-Saxon carter
and shepherd speak an admirably
terse and effective language to their
teams end collies, but it cannot by
any stretch be called ° English;'
Miners of Iancashire or Staffordshire
also. speak': a fine -sounding language,
and are devoted to' it, but it Is not
the English of the rest • of England,'
and that, very fact is partly thee cause
of their pride. We .may hope that.
our true and' characteristic dialects
will be long in disappearing, but also
that standard English may be added
to them; bilingualism is•in every way
more desirable than Babel.
Our, chief concern, however, must
be with Standard English itself. It
is nomore patriotic boast . to say'
that it is the most important lan-
guage in the .world; it is on the way
to. becoming the universal language,,
and International' Conferences have
actually declared that it ought to
take that place._. .
The Poet Laureate has been hap-
pily inspired, in the foundations of
his "Society for Pure English.. , .
Americans have been fortunately pos-
sessed by the seine idea, and a coni,
bination of their best scholarship
with our own for the practical pur-
pose of recorcling_ and furthering the
development of our common lan-
guage is at this moment in progress.
The proposed society will have
;neither the will nor the power to
compel change er to arrest it, -bet it
can hardly be doubted that it might
have a beneficent and far-reaching
effect, . not only upon the future of
the English language, but, as a nat-
ural corollary, upon the thought and
influence . of the English-speaking
races.—Henry Newbolt, in "Studies
Green and Gray."
Nature's Gracious Task.
No forlorn hope seems too forlorn ter
nature. She gets some of her loveliest
effects In some of the least 'likely
s
places. Carpenter pointed out long
ago, how the vernal sandwor't throve
ou the melee heape from Seed wines,
which is the most nearly sterile stuff
imaginable. Yet the sanclwort lie
thought grew more luxuriantly there
than in other situations. It is as.
though nature came to the especial
help of the seemingly hopeless place
—as though she 'were never quits so
happy as when tickling a forlorn hope.
This aspect of her handiwork Is one
that 'las kindled repeated surprise in
all sorts of unexpected plates.
It has recently been remarked that
in one district in the north of England,
famous for its uninviting tips of'chime
cal waste, there grows In wild profu-
sion a species of wild mignonette
(dyed rocket) with lovely spikes of
yellowish green .flowers. At one time
it was scarcely ever found away from
the coast, but it has evidently dis-
covered suitable -conditions In .thjot In-
land salt area, and has gone to the help
of all other plant pioneers like rag-
wort, sorrel and thistle, that never
cease their battle for :the redemption
of such wester.
Slag heaps ought not of course to
be allowed to accumulate, More re-
verence herald. be shown for the
beauty of the earth, that so precious
heritage. But until the day of that re-
verence conies and mankind treasures.
`more the loveliness of the landscape,
It is good tr know that nature has b:or
brave and beautiful pioneers whose
epactal task seems to be .the tr'anetor-
matlon ofthe waste.
Nature is ever at that gracious task.
She never counts any place hopeless,
In spots where man would never
dream of seeking a garden, she will
often grow ono of the loveliest. Where
there Seems neither foothold ,riot ens..
blames ,nature will -somehow find a
way. 'The snore forlorn and desolate
ithe place, the 'bold& will . she there
write •her brave hope-Resurgatn!
That- Is the cheering message of
every blade of grass and of every
leaf and every•flower.' In such a place
one is reminded of that so mighty and
iio gracious power so con ueringly and
tenewhrgly et work in the earth. To
come across suoir a place Is to share
in -Infinite and rejoicing hope.
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Everyone, is .bound to Make ,itis-.
takes. The wile t,an is he who does
not make the came, mistake twice,
Sure
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"Spring's Look at the tI tie
green lentoes demi
ne out," .
"Yes, a•noyt on the back lots
With bats kale!"
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(Continued Front Our Last Issue.) crept around him, and she.kissed.his
• The night was chill; she longed 'for rain -wet brow. His cyst opened,
the tcomferif.a the fire. The' actual looked wonderingly into hers.
"The tree got me, didn't it?"- he
labor of building It might take her
Mind from • her .fears "for a while,
Besides, It might; be a beacon light
for Ben. She turned at once to'the
pile of kindling Ben had prepared
But before she could build a. really
satisfectpry fire, one that would enr
duro-the'rsin, she must cut, fuel from
some of the logs Ben had hewn down
and dragged to the cave, ` She lighted
a abort piece of pitchy wood, intend-
ing to locabe the he tamp nae.
Then puttingon halve 1 `u coat—the
�'.`v3'
Same' garment of ltt'strotis fur which
Ben had sent her back for the day'
of her abduction—she 'ventured .into
the storm.. •
• The rain splashed in vain at her
torch. The pitch burned with a fiereS
flame. But her eyes sought in vain
for the axe. '
Ben :had taken it; he had plainly
gone forth after .fuel. Trees stood
ell about` the little glade: he couldn't
have gone fer.
Holding her 'torch high she went
the lad s and
to' the edge of,called g
into the gloom: 'o
She turned at" once to the pave,.
and, piling up ber kindling, built a
fire just at the mouth of the cave.•
This fire would serve to keep her di-
rection and lead- her back to . the
cavern, '—
Then
_Then she hunted for pine "knots
taken from the scrub pines that grew
In scattering clumps among the
spruce, and which were laden with'
pitch, ' •
One of these knots she put In the
iron pan they used for frying, then
lighted it. Then she pushed into the
timber. -
Holding her light high, she -began
to encircle the glade clear to the bar-
rier' of
att-rier'of the cliffs. '
With courage and strength such as
she: bad not dreamed she possessed,
OM launched forward. But fatigue
was breaking her now.. The -tree
roots tripped her faltering feet, the
branches clutched at her as she
passed.' It was ,hard to tell what ter-
ritory she had searched, or how far
she bad gone.
The flickering light revealed a tree,
freshly cut, its naked stump form gleam-
ingll
" and its:tall o r r lying prone.
Yet benedth it the shadows were of
strange, unearthly shape, and some-
thing showed stark white through
the green foliage, Great branches
stretched over it, like bars over a
prison window. • ' •
Her strength wilted and for an
Instant she could only stand and gaze
with fixed, unbelieving eyes. But al-
most at once the unquenchable fires.
of her spirit blazed up anew, -
Instantly she was beside the form
of her comrade and enemy, struggling
with the cruel limbs that pinned him
to the earth -
CHAPTER XV,
The Conspirators Disagree.
The pine 'knots flickered feebly;
and by their light she looked about
for Ben's axe. Her eyes rested on
the broken gun first: then she saw
the blade, shining in the rain, pro-
truding fronebeneath a broken bough.
She drew it out and swung it down.
How and by what might she did
not know, but almost at once the
man's :body was free except for the
tree trunk that wedged him against
a dead log toward which he had
leaped .for shelter. •
Seeing that she could not move the
tree itself, she thrust with all her
power against the dead log beside
which Ben lay. In a moment she
had rolled it aside.
One of his arms: was broken; its
position indicated 'that. Some of his
ribs were crushed too -what internal
Wrench ng with all her fine young
stresegth she lifted' him upon, her
shoulder.
injuries ho had that might end ;him
before the morning she did not know.
She worked her ehoulder'.under• the
• body.
Wrenching, with all her fine, young
strength, she. Lifted him upon iter
shoulder; then, kneeling in the vines;
she 'otruggled for breath. Then,
ih, u. i ing with • her erns lie got on
her feet, •
At the end of a hunched yards she
stoppeil'to rest, leaning against'a. bice
and still holding the beloved weight
upon her shoulder. She p -lunged on,
down toward the beacon light: .
She lunged oil end laid her burden
on her bed.
Then . she relaxed• at his feet,
bieathlste; in sobbing gasps.
• But far distant thou h Ben was
!3
t lie 'let �.rse outside the
dean ea s o s d
anti i p
'dark portals of; death itself—those
sounds Wept clown to hint. He lay a
leci time, trying to tntderstand.
On her knees beside ,rim Beatrice
Saw the first flutter of his eyelids. In
arve, rather than ,raptere; her arms
'''Don't try to talk,'°the`cautioned.
"Yes,—the tree fell on you. But
you're not going to die. You're going
to live, live—"
TIe shoolc his. head, the half -smile
flickering at his lips. "Let me talk,
Beatrice," he said.. "It's important—'
and I don't think—I have much time."
- ITer oyes. widened in horror. "You
don't mean—"
"I'm goin€ back hi a n i u o—I
can't hardly keep awake," he said.
His voice, though feeble, was preter-
naturally clear,
"1' believe the tree got me -clear
inside—but you must listen to every-
thing I "say."
She nodded. Tn,that eerie moment
of suspense she knew she must :hear
what he'had to tell her.
"Don't wait to see what happens:
to me," he went on.. "I'll either go
out or Pll live -you really can't help
me any. Where's thelittle?"
"The rifle was ,brolcen—when the
tree fell." •
"I knew,it would be: I saw it corn -
lug; Beatrice—please, please don't.
stay here, trying to save me." '
"Do you think' I would go?" she
cried.
"You must. The' food—is, about
gone; Take the, ,pistol. Theee's' six
shot or so—in the box. The rifle's
broken and we can't gets meat. It's
just—death=if you wait,"
"And leave you hereto die, as long
as there's a chance to save you?" the.
girl answered. "You ,couldn't get up
to get water—or build a fire--"
He listened patiently, but shook
his head at the end.
He struggled for breath, and she
thought he had slipped back into un-
consciousness. But in a moment' the.
faltering current of his speech began
.again..
"Take the pistol -and go," he told
her. "You showed me to -day how
to .give up—and I don't want to kill
—your father—any more. I re-
nounce it all! -Ezrain—forgive me—
old Ez that lay dead in the leaves."
Unconsciousness welled 'high agave
him, and the lids, dropped over his
eyes. And Earam, watching high and
afar, and with infinite serenity know-
ing at last the true balance of all
things one with another, gave him
full forgiveness.
The trail was long and steep into
Back There •for Jeffery Neilson and
his men. •
They had counted on slow• travel,
but the .weeks grew into the months
before they even neared the obscure
heart of Back There where they
thought Ben and. •Beatrice might be
hidden.
The days passed, June and July,
ever they moved at a slower pace.
The food stores brought for the
journey were rapidly depleted.
No experience of their individual.
lives had ever presented such a daily.
ordeal of physical distress; none had
ever been so devastating to hope and
spirit.
Jeffery Neilson had almost forgot-
ten the issue of the claim by, now.
He had told the truth. those weary
weeks before, ;filen he wished he had
never seen it. His only thought was
of his daughter. Yet he dared not
turn back. She might yet live; held
prisoner in some far-off cave.
• At first all three agreed on this
point; that they must not turn back
until either Ben was crushed under
their heels or they had made sure of
his death,
They were still partners in their
effort to rescue the girl anti -slay her
abductor; otherwise they were at
swords' points.
If mentntl distress and physical dis-
comfort can : constitute vengeance,
Bee was already avenged. .
One rainy, disagreeable morning,
as they cainped beside the river near
the mouth of a small creek,' affairs
leached their crisis, They had caught
and saddled the horses; Ray was
pulling tight the last 'hitch. Chan.
stood beside hien, ,speaking in an un
dertone. When he lead finished Ray
enrsod explosively in the silence.
Neilson' turned. He, seemed to
sense'. impending developments.
"What slow?" he asked. -
"I'm not going on; that's What it
is," Ray replied. "Neilson, it's two
d`gainst one -if you want to go' you
can—but Racy and I are going back,"
"Yo'u'ro going hack, es—scared
out!" Neilson commented coldly.
"I'm going back—anid don't say toe
munch about being scared out, either."
"And you" too, Chan? You're
against me, too?"
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The latter mill which has 'a daily or to wli'eat straw.
Chan cursed. "I'd gone a week
ago if it'd been tae, "We know the
way, home, at .least."
The old man looked a long time
into the m Iver depths. Ti
"Then turn the horses around, you
cowards," he answered. "I can't go
on alone."
For once neither Ray nor Chan had
outward resentment for the epithet,
Secretly they realized that old Neil-
son was to •rho wall at last, arid -like
a grizzly- at bay, it was -safer not to
molest him: Chan went' down to the
ndme of the creek to water his satldig
horse. '
Birt presently they heard him curse,
in inordinate ane Startled, amaze -
meet, as he gazed at some imprint
in the mud of the shore,
- Clear and unmistakable in the mud
wed' the stale inquiet of Ben's canoe
no they had landed, and the tracks
of both the man 'mid the girl as they
had turned into the forest.
-The dawn that crept so gray and
•i the frosty wen o
oyster, ons over s y t,e., f
spruce brought no hope, to Beatrice,
sitting beside the unconscious ,form
of Ben hi the cave fronting' the
glade. -
(To be continued,)
"The Room."
It is not the room you would be
shown Into- it you were calling So-
cially on Miss Wylie, The drawing -
room for you, and Mise Wylie in a
colored merino to receive you; very
likely ,she would exclaini,_ "This is a
pleasant surprise!" thopgh she' has
seen you coining up the avenue send
has just had time to whip the dust -
cloths, off the chairs., and to warn
Aleck, David and JameS that they bad
better nut dare to come in to see you
before they have put on a dicky.
Nor is this the room in which you
would dine in solemn grandeur if in-
vited to drop in and take pot -luck,
which is how the Wylies invite,
it being a family weakness to pretend
that they sit down in the dining -
room daily., It is the lining -roam of.
time house, where Alick, who will
never get used to fashionable ways,
can take off his collar and sit hap-
pily in his stocking soles, and James
at times would do so also; but catch
Maggie letting him.
'There is one very fine•chair, but,
heavens, not ,for sitting on; just to
give the room a social standing in
an emergency. It sneers at the other
chairs with an air of insolent su-
periority, like a haughty bride who
has married into the house for
money. Otherwise the furniture is
homely; most of it has come from'
Wars of the,J'uture.
Paris Action Francaise: 'The use 01,
bombing planes ; from .January to No-
veinber, 1,918, gave us a foretaste of
what the real war' of the future was
going to be like. Moreover, .the dis-
tinctions drawn by Paul Boncour and
his colleagues are beside the point in
discussing the armrest situation to
which modern nations are being drawn
by tee perfection and progress of In-
dustrial inaehiner•y. Every new article
used by modern man contributes, in
fact, to his extermination. There have
been terrible wars in the ages of feu-
dalism and of commerce. But they
will be nothing compared with the
wars of the industrial age, which are
only just about to commence.Arefor
the democratic state, so far from
diminishing theethances of war, it stirs
them up and multiplies: them by the
chances of revolutionary war, which
has its origin in .envy and adds'its
scourge of class hatred to the rivalry
of mit Ione.
Of the •total area of Canada, 1,-
200,000 square miles (approximately
one-quarter of the whole) is forest
land. Less than half of this carries
timber of merchantable size (0 inches
in diameter) at the present time, and
only about one-quarter carries saw
material '(10 inches in diaineter).
that smaller house where the Wylies
began. Theme is the large and shiny
chair which can be turned into a bed
if you look the other way for a
moment. James.cannot sit in this
chair without gradually sliding down'
it till he is lying luxuriously on the
small of his back, his legs indicating,
like the hands of a clock, that it is
ten past twelve; a position in which
Maggie shudders to see hint receiv-
ing company.
The other chairs are horse -hair,
than which there is nothing more
comfortable if there be a good slit
dews the seat. The seats are heavily
dented, because, all the Wylie family
sit down with a dump. The-draught-
board
hedraught-board is on the edge of a large centre
table, which ileo displays tour books
placed at equal distances from each
other, one of them a Bible, and an-
other the family album. If these
were the only books they would not
justify Maggie in calling this cham-
ber the library, her dogged name for'
it; while David and Janes call it the
west -room and Alick calls, it "the
room," whielels tohim the natural
naine for any apartment without a
bed in it. There is a bookcase of
pitch pine, which contains six hun-
dred books, with -glass doors to , pre-
vent your getting at them. No one
does try to get at the books, for the
Wylies ate not a reeding hinny,
They' like you to gasp when you see
so much literature gathered together
in one Arisen -house, but ' they gasp
themselves at the thought that there'
are persons, chiefly clergymen, who,
having finished one book, coolly begin
another. Nevertheless it was not all.
vainglory that made Datviclbuy this
library; it was rather ai mighty re-
speer for education, as something that
hehad missed. This same feeling
makes him take in the Contemporary
Review and stand rip to it like it pian.
Alia, who also has as respect 'for edu-
cation, tries to read the Content-
poi•aey, bet becomes dispirited; and
may he beard muttering- over its
pages, "No, no 'use, no use, no." --
From "What Every Woman •Knows,"
by Sir James Barrie.
Ancients Wore Gloves.
Thought'lilcs origin of gloves is uSi-
known and their history is obscure, it
is known that they Were worn by rho
ancient Greeks anal Romans. The
Greeks considered them effeminate,
but subsequently wore so-called -lieges',
stalls it ;taking their mesio. These
existed also among the Romans, who,
111 e'tire, G,rechf, did,lsot; use iorkei bet.
but their food In their mouths with
their hands, It Is lrelieyed that: gloves
originated ,in the cold regions to be
worn' just as n. lim'otection against •the
cold, ante that their divl'dedeaud'.seper.
ateil'finger'c originated as a statural
convenience for certain. manual opera-
lions'.
Asiatic gloves Were complicated•
with the sleeve of which they form a
b in -a acee'tto the
t sleevee 'itt c t
maC tl 1g
1 y e
tunic •or• existing as a separate gar -
meat. noes Iain ale beginnings glovott
rose to be badges of rank and Digester
office and 1,11ey still retain it vestige of
their feline,' dlsE•,hatlpil•es emblems of
gentility. •
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Homemade Flower Su ort.
pP ,
Nothing is los decorative than a
bouquet in which all the flowers are,
tightly together or stand in
a stiff, angular fashion.
The flower supports sold in the
stores and intended to it in howls)
often hold the flowers too rigidly. A,
contrivance that works better and is
homemade, is a round piece cut, frown`
wide -meshed wire. That used around
chicken yards Is good for the pees`
pose. With pliers cut the piece out'
a little larger thail the bowl in which
it is to be used. Then bend down the'
cut edges until the flat surface of the'
netting comes as near the bottom or
top of the bowl as you wish, this de-'
pending' on the 'height of the bowl
and the' kind of flowers used. With
this wire support the flowers can be
arranged to make a loose and very
graceful bouquet.
LOW TEA PRICE USUALLY •
DECEPTION.
A low price for tea to -day means
only one thing --^poor quality. A lot of
poor quality teas are now being of-
fered. The public should be advised
not to buy them.
Pests made at the Forestu
N rear,
Stations of the Forestry, Branch of
the Department of the Interior, show
that hardy conifers such as spruce,
lodgepols pine, jack pine, Scotch pine
endear -eh aro partieularly suited for
prairie planting and thrive under.
adverse conditions. These trees are
now widely planted, throughott the
Prairie Provinces.
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