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By MARGARET BROWN.
PART II. ago and I am some heavier now. Pll
Her next letter included her picture have some others taken when I come
and many i;uestions about the boy's home. Home! A real home with a
work and plans and the happy assay_ fireplace and a flower garden and a
ance that they really and truly be_ chicken yard. And you told m e I•g
longed to .each other: could put rings and a punching ba
The part about herself she did not in the big basement. Five more whole
find so easyto write but she launch_ months!
ed -..into it earlessly, "1 have some little things for you,
All must be lair and straight be- seashells and some little things made
tween you and nie, my son. I al- of bamboo and a little ivory lion and
widow but Something Else. I will not tell you
ways think of myself as a
Tam not that .in name. I am Miss what till I come. Arid there's a Bom-
Cornelia Baker. I will tell you about bay shawl for Mary and a piece of
it, though it is not altogether easy pottery from Algiers. You mustn't
because I never speak of these things tell her though.
• 7 here are I s of thins to talk
to anyone but good old Mary who p g
has loved and tended me for many over together. We will talk together, Another suggestion, that they should
years i about everything, won't we? Some be converted into transports or cargo
"When I was a young woman of I fellows don't seem to feel the need carriers, is a source of
twenty-three I became engaged to a of some one to talk to, but I do. Mygreat
navalr at hilarity
b mins in AUri1 "d I rpm inaval circles, betraying as it does
SINKING QF FOS WAR SHIPS.
Favored Strongly by English Naval
Officers,.
As the discussion regarding the fate
of the German warships interned at
Scapa Flow becomes more animated
day by day, I find that the preponder-
ance of opinion among both British
and American naval officers grows in
favor of sinking them in the Atlantic,
says a London correspondent. It is 0
view which is expressed with consid-
erable irony, in the comment:—"They
ought to have been sunk anyway, and
would have .been if they had come
out."
Apart from the sinking there are
several other methods of disposal,
none of which appeal to naval men.
One is in favor of their being distri-
buted among the Allies. The most
have objection which I h ve 1 heard
against this is that it would only lead
to dissensions over the proper divi-
sion of the spoil.
If the German ships were added to
the French, British or any allied navy
it is argued that they would be foreign
units, and as such a source of.endless
difficulties and expense. Being built
for German use, they would not be fit
for any other naval organization.
To the proposal that the vessels
should be broken up for the sake of
their metal, the question is asked
where are the ship brokers who could
undertake such a task. It is calcu-
lated that to break up these German
ships at Scapa Flow would occupy at
least three years and that the metal
so obtained would be worth no more
than $3,000,000 and the cost would be
large.
man named Ernest Gregory. He was i �acatzon e,
second mate of a merchant ship and; spade up your flower beds. Won't it
had every prospect of advancement. i bet fun? •
We decided to wait until he should! The other day the captain walked
have a captah?cy, and then I was to! over to where I was working' and
live with him at sea. He got his ship ! whistling away (work seems to go
in three years but one thing after
i so much faster these days) and he
another interfered to delay our mar- stood looking at me a while. It
riage. One night in an awful storm, ! bothered me like the dickens 'and I
his ship, the Grayling, was driver : guess tI blushed and he laughed and
a delightful ignoranee of the construc-
tion and running expense of a battle
ship. Battle ships are gluttons in
their consumption of coal, and that
factor alone would be fatal.
There is one naval authority who
suggested that the act of poetic justice
night be made to provide a series of
upon the Hampstead reef, somewhere said, Have you adopted a mother, experiments on the effects of gunfire
near Australia.tNot one was saved. Darken?' and torpedo attack, which would clear
"It was years before I could get' "I guess I looked astonished and I up many obscure points.
hold of my life again. I could not stammered, 'Yes, sir,'` and he laughed A writer in the Morning Post sug-
bear the mention of the ocean or a, and walked away. Now how do you gests that there is a precedent for
"
suppose he knew?" this disposal of the surrendered beet.
"When i read about the good we»T!ss Cornelia read into this inti- 4t the end of the Punic war, he says,
man in Halifax I suddenly wanted a ! dent an interest on the part of the!
`
son who was on the sea. The thought captain that made her happy. I the Carthaginian war ships were taken
me, somehow, nearer
" "He •
must be a litte more than out to sea and burned.
to him. Do you understand? All this! usual,"she thought. "And his plc-,
seemed to bring—"•—
was twenty-three years ago, aye l ture tells the same. The mouth and I "FISH OUT OF WATER."
years before you were born. But i t chin are firm, and the eyes—they are --.
think some way, that you will under- fine." Mary, the spare bedroom But, For All That, Not Out of Their
stand, doesn't seem just the thing. It does-,' Element, Says. English Writer.
"Don't forget to send inc your pie- n't fit, somehow. How about the big, The belief exists that a fish cannot
ture. Do you have plenty of warm high north room? We have always live without water; but there is a
clothing these cold days?" used it for storing things but we
Miss Cornelia quite forgot that the can clean] it and put everything in species of perch which walks over -land
Britannia was cruising in the south- the attic. for miles, and, what is more remark -
ern Pacific; but the boy's next letter Mary agreed that the plan was an able, actually climbs trees!
reminded her and she laughed merri- excellent one and was for buying new The Indian climbing -perch (anna-
ly at herself. furnishings. But Miss Cornelia was bas) was first observed by Lieutenant
"Dear Mother Cornelia: the wiser of the two. Hers was the Doldorf, of the Danish East India Com -
I am going to call you that if you real mother -heart, after all, gamy.
like it. It sounds sort of cozy. `Just a bed and chair and dresser., To pursue rare and delicious insects
"And now I am et ;eft,• to tell you We don't know his tastes. He may
something that will pf.ase you. have a fish net and torn old flag —which never settle upon the water
"We have been. Ise r Australia for and maybe some strange knives. Just —this finny contradiction crawls over
two days now, and when I came on a new coat of buff for the walls, and the land by means of its spiked fins,
deck yesterday morning I saw the then let him arrange everything to ilhich are situated under its body, and
water foaming over a long line of suit himself—Oh, Mary, Mary, it upon reaching a tree it hoists itself up
rocks that lay just outside a stretch • cant be really truly true that hes the trunk, using its spiked gill -covers
cif sandy beach. I heard the captain coming home!" much the same es boys use climbing -
talking to someone and I caught a The short winter days slipped
mons..
word that made me stop and listen. ; away and the soft spring skies brood -
another amphibian—nearer home
The captain is over sixty and he! ed over the quickening earth, and this time—is the $rotes ue llittle fish
knows all the history of these coasts.; almost before one could catch aq
known as the shanny or the blenny,
Plentifully endowed ny an all -wise
Providence 'with --sharp fringes of
spiked fins, this little 'creature is nick-
named by all fishermen all round the
coast as the "umbrella" or "butterfly,"
Usually found under stones or in
the cracks of rocks at low tide, the
shanny is apparently as much at home
in the fresh air as it is in the water.
The foreign brothers and sisters of
this flsh emulate the example of the
Indian perch, invading rivers, waiting
for low tide, then crewing up the
roots and boles of trees, looking for
insects and the larvae of insects, and
crawling In and out of uncovered
stones, pursuing small river• -fry.
Of the same family, is a fish which
bears the jaw -breaking name of Perio-
thahnus. By the expert use of its
side -fins and repeated blows with its
tail upon the ground, it hops, rens and
jumps over the strand left bare by the
receding tide, chasing the active green
crabs and small eels which infest the
sands, devouring scores of these crea-
tures.
Certain fish of the South American
" he was saying, 'that is
I7ampstead Reef, as ugly a little
stretch as the eastern hemisphere can
boast. I suppose it has done as much
wickedness as gay half dozen reefs.'
" 'Tell us some of its crimes,' I
beard someone ask,
" 'Well, for one of its worst deeds,
it sent the Grayling to her tomb with
every man aboard, Captain Gregory
commanding. That Was twenty—no,
twenty-three years ago.'
"He looked over at the reef and
his voice was softer than I ever
heard it before:
'Gregory was a fine chap. He
was one of the most fearless and one
of the best captains that ever docked
in Iialifax.'
"That was all I heard but it made
me feel proud of the man my mother
loved, and, as we passed the reef, I
took off my cap to him who had
faced his death there so long ago.
"I like your pcture. You are a lot
like I thought you would be. Here
come.. urine. It was taken a year
r '1W1
its Pure
Cleans sinnks,dosets
Kills roaches, rats Plao��c
Dissolves dirt that not mii g
else a "all move ,�,1;,-.
't.
sharp breath April was ,in the hind.
Then began a great bustling and
baking and stewing, in and about the
old white house. Hot, spicy smells
floated up from the kitchen, and a
£oft, clear humming floated down
from the big north room. Miss Cor-
nelia patted the pillows and wonder-
ed with wistful eyes if anyone had
ever sung hinr-to sleep or kissed him
good -night. It was all strange and
unusual but full of heart -comforting
possibilities.
(To be continued.)
FRENCH ORIENT TRAIN.
New Service to be Inaugurated Mid-
dle of April.
The operation of through trains be-
tween Paris and the Orient will begin
over part of the line on April 15, and
the whole system will be inaugurated
by May 1, according to an official
statement issued by the commission
on the international regime of ports,
waterways and railways.
A train de luxe, to be culled the
"Simplon -Orient Express," will be run
between Peels and the Orient via
g,,.l,+,ue".tils�'. Simplon, Milan, 'Venice,
'Trieste, ILaibach, Agram anti vin-
kovice. At Vinkovce the road will di-
vide, one branch connecting with
Bucharest, Constance and Odessa and
the other with Belgrade, Constanti-
nople and Athens. The train will con-
nect at Parts with the London -Calais -
Paris train, and at Milan with a fast
train for Rome.
The oldest reigning dynasty is that
of Japan, said to have been founded
by the Emperor Jiznmu Tenno in. 600
L.C.
We are determined to fight Prus-
sianism in the industrial world ex-
actly as we fought it on the Contin-
ent of. 1 ueepe, with the whole might
of the nation.—Mr: Lloyd George.
tropics leave the small ponds they
lived in to geek larger sed cooler
stretches of water farther afield when
the sun threatens to dry up their late
habitations. They spend whole days
and nights upon their march, and
travel by hundreds through the hoist
undergrowth of forests,
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A Bit Creased..
Billie had been studying his grand-
father's face, which was very
wrinkled.
"Well, Bill,ikin," said the old
gentleman jocularly pinching the lit-
tle boy's rosy cheek, "do You like my
face?"
"Yes, grandpa," said .Billie. "It's
an awfully nice face; but why don't
you have it ironed?"
COLONIALS IN BRITISH WARS,
,First Occasion When Britain's Daugh•
ters Sent Aid Was In 1653.
•In a lecture by the Hon. J. W. For-
tescue at the Royal Institution, Lon-
don, the speaker began by referring
to the pride with which the news that
the dominions, each of them of their
own free will, had offered a contingent
of troops for the assistance of the
Mother Country, had been received.
Many people thought that this was a
unique event in the history of the Em-
pire, but this was not so.
The first occasion on which the
colonies 'contributed military aid for
an Imperial enterprise was in Crom-
well's Expedition to Tamica in 1653-4.
On that occasion the Barbados fur;
nished 4,000 men. The lecturer ex-
plained how it was that, through the
system of white apprentices, tropical
islands were in those days able to
furnish a white militia. The next in-
stance cane in the Carthagena Ex-
pedition of 1740, when the American
colonies suppllied a force of 4,000 men.
After that the American colonies help-
ed consistently in the conquest of Ca-
nada, until the final victory of Am-
herst in 1760. During that period the
first two American regiments were
placed in the British Establishment,
and in 1755 'were created- the "Royal
Americans," which were still with us
as the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Then the American colonies were
lost, and everyone thought that the
British Empire had come to an end.
Immediately afterwards followed, the
war in which our losses in the West
Indies compelled us to raise a regi-
ment of African negroes, still with us
as the West Indian Regiment.
. During the 19th century the Empire
was consolidated. Canadians helped
gallantly to defend their country from
American invasion from 1S12 to 1814.
The Cape Cololnists joined in the
fights against the Haifa's, and the New
Zealand Colonists in the wars,against
the Maoris
Then came the war in Egypt, and
for the first time Australia offered a
battalion for that service. Then came
the South African war, when practical-
ly all the colonies sent contingents.
And finally, in the present war, not
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Portugal sent 1.10,000 men to the
front and provided 150,000 tons of
shipping.
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way?" inquired the disappointed
author. "Why," replied the editor,
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the old man turn purple with rage,
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hero turn white with anger, the hero-
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BUILT A BIG NAVY
DURING. THE WAR
BRITAIN CONSTRUCTED ,LARQE'
NUMBER OF ANTI -SUBS.
Between 200 and 300 Destroyers and'
1,500 Mine -Sweepers Built, Besides
100 Liners Turned into Armed
Cruisers.
Secrets of England's gigantic out-
put of warships since the beginning of
the war are permitted to be revealed
now, Battleships and cruisers have
been completed and many new ones
built while the war was in lla'0
gcess.
But even more notable in the matter
of production, we learn from the naval'
correspondent of the London Times,
is the namber and variety of the anti--
submarine vessels and or craft con•
struct"d to meet special requirements.
In some classes which originally were
numbered in scores the total ran into
thousands, and not only dict public and
private ship -building yards and engin-
eering shops meet the demands made
upon. them- for the new tonnage, but.
many novelties in armament were
brought forth with astonishing speed.
Besides building new ships the British
converted many vessels intended for
peace purposes into instruments of
war. About a hundred liners were
turned into armed cruisers and many
other merchant ships were put in the
service of the fleet. Upward of 8,000
small vessels were utilized in the vari-
ous theatres of the war as patrols,
convoys, mine -carriers, sowers and
sweepers, fleet messengers, and in the
air service. Nearly all these, we are
told, were additional to the 500 ships
added to the British Navy proper
since. 1914.
Both Canadian and American plants
shared in this unexampled production
The monitors were among the first
ships of a new type to bo built. The
monitor is a vessel of shallow draft
carrying a feta' heavy guns in armored
position, ,and, from her shape and
structure, virtually invulnerable to
torpedo attack.
Monitors Useful in North Sea.
In the building program there were .
some thirty monitors, the largest of
which mounted twin 14 -inch guns in
a central turret, while others have one
9.2 -inch in the how and one 6 -inch at
the stern, and.. the smaller vessels of
the type carried two 6 -inch guns.
Originally intended for service where
the tides and currents do not ran
strongly, the larger vessels proved to
be unwieldy and difficult to handle at
the Dardanelles, but the efficience of
the design has been fully demons-
trated both in the Adriatic and the
North Sea.
How many submarines were added
to the navy has not yet been revealed.,
we are told, but the destroyers com-
pleted during the war number between
200 awl. 300.
In and around home waters there
were some 1,-500 mine -sweepers with
crews of 25.000 officers and men.
Apart from the trawlers and their
smaller sisters, the net -drifters, there
were several classes of minesweepers
in the navy proper, all of them built
daring the war, One class was called
after dowers and plants, another after
hunting-pr:.k:a and a third after towns,
all of them armed, and although -usual-
ly working under protection, capable,
as they proved on many occasions, of
taking care of themselves The old
mine -layers, too, were found to be too
slow, and faster vessels w'ere...sebsti-
tuted for thein. Both destroyers and
submarines were also capable of mine -
laying, and before the war came to el
close the huge cruiser Courageous had
also been fitted for service. The -above
description, incomplete as it is, for it
does not deal with repair work at all.,
should indicate what a gigantic feat
was accomplished by the shipyards,
the engineering shops, and the arse*,
alt.
_ ..-_-
The Wattle.
Australians hate to hear their nap
tional flower called mimosa. "11
people don't like our popular name of
wattle let them use the sc:ientifio
'acacia,' not 'mimosa,' which is quite
another plant." grumbles , one Aus.
tralian flower lover.
The origin of the naive wattle dates
back to very early Colonial days. The
iir'st colonists built themselves wattle
and daub huts, using the long supple
branches of 'Acacia saligna" for the
purpose. The plant which supplied th.0
material soon became known as the
"wattle -tree," and then the name
spread to the whole acacia genus.
M
Don't Forget the Mothers,
Don't forget the mothers
Who gave their all for ethers,
Their sons so true,
Who died for you,
Our noble, gallant brot:4an's.
We'll not forget the mothers
Whose hearts are sad to -day;
We'll ne'er forget our brothers
Who lie 'neath F1ar,'crs' clay