Montreal weekly witness and Canadian homestead, 3 décembre 1918, mardi 3 décembre 1918

[" \u2018The world is in the somewhat nerve \\ shaken state of having passed through | « great explosion, the biggest, and, lot , \u2018as hope.the last, of n desolating series that have followed eachother in repid succession, and it is anxiously peer- .img into the smoke to know what hope there 1b of the debris being pieced to- sether Into à new ordéf-a new wurld.Ths first appearance reminds one of am upturned anti-hilt in which myriad oreatures rush about frantically and blindly, except that in the ant-hill one detects @0 evil passions, while in the human upset hatred and selfishnegs smother men\u2019s better judgment.Oer- many is in à high fever\u2014raving at ; Great Britain.of course In her Gelirium, Britain alone tn (he enemy.Britain wants to feed her, but so ir- rétéble le she that it is hard to manage it.Bhe has all broken out in re, , publics with confluent symptoms, and « ench one 1s the [fighting ground of warring interests and convictions With fightings within and fears from without she is all of à tremble from head to foot.Her horror is like that of the man in the contracting chamber which was smaller each morning that he woke.he Bas seen all her dreams of world empire vanish like Ariel's moving pictare.Bbe has meen all her: boasted conquests fall off.just as thel crown fell oft her\u2018smperor's head.And} Dow, even since the war was supposed to have ended, she sees what for generations has been regarded as Germany 1tmelf contracting day by day by thefup- rising of peoples.German Poland isal- ready invaded by the Poles, and the Peles have not only risen in Posen and \u201cSilesia, but in East and West Prussia, the oldest seat of the terrible Prus- - sans.Socialism is rampant at Ber- | \u2018Me Dr.Lisbknecht has declared on the eide of the new despotism of labor and com._ bo mo longer, ap- ., Sounted democrat or à friènd.à Mberty.The Roman Catholic Church 1986.1 ta up te arma Againet divestablishment.Uniess Berlina establishes stable government without a moment's delay, the Rhineland, which is by all odds the bewt part of Prussia, will secede.This from Cologne where is the finest Roman Catholic Church in the world, | which sll Purope and the world wor.shipeth.It will not be easy for Ber- , lin, where Socialism is evidently taking a revolutionary turn, to resist the disestablishment movement.The other church, thy Lutheran, has been too much a part of the late autocratic machine, and has made too much common cause with it to make much of à fight.Nome can tell whether Roman.tem or Bolshevism Is strongest in that intemss hive of industry, Rhenish Prussia and Westphalia.It would be by no + means « bad thing for Germany, in - view of her hoped for federation, that Prussia whose bigness vesothers, and whost insolence exusperates the nation should fall to pieces by the Polish ex- eisions oa tho east and by this hercic amputation oa the weet.| The Partipment of Man.Good people of all sorta were minded tu impose progressive measures of all sorts on the Versailles eonference.Labor was determined to be represeated at it.Class recognition is tot democracy.Women must have a voios upon it\u2014elass resogal- tion also.A temiperance leader .ta Ohlo wanted io bave a worid tom- perance conference enilod as neariy as possible for the same place and time to impress upon the conference the great opportusity that should mot he let pass for emacting universml prow] hibition\u2014a splendid idea if thers was the remotest hope of its achievement.Then we think what a Yury hasy idea the European countries have of prohibition as a ourfous foreign eccen- trisity, ang how every one of them © furnished intoxicants to their men in the trenches.thet hope is small.But imagine that conference with the prass- tng necessity of Geciding à (housard Awestions between mations and having # score of mations to entiofy, taking on any ares that do not ariss unhvoié- ably eut of the matter in hand! \u2018Fhere are enough of contentions questivas already before this paritament to oe- cupy sa ordinary parllament for many t ssastona And the demand (hat the discussions shall be carried en in public will necessarily result in aR emoTmOuY plolcagaiion of the proceedings, an the members, Instead of being able Lo * } v à act Ihe good Destmemmen on the gui- together plan, will Rave to do Wnlimited talking te thelr constituemia snd W- à .Josting en thoir bohal£ On the other _\u2014 MONTREAC, world's pot is boiling over.There ia gToat apprehension lest even the necessary delay of à month or two may «et things in the starving countries\u2014 Dossibly in the neutral and ally coun- tries\u2014into such mad confusion that action will be next to impossible.What we should look for iw that the wise men of the nations will have got «bei heads together to strip the docket of every possibly postponable matter, and bring forward as bare a program as can he devised for immediate sot.tiement, with arrangements for the renewal of the sittings to deal witn further matters as soos as may be.Indeed, we can easily imagine this pro- cepa protracting itself indefinitely, and in fact develbping by « process, sot of artificial invention, but by npevessary and natural evolution, Isto the long desired Parliament of man.misohot Makers.\u2018 A very disagreeable statment attributed either to the editor of the Baltimore \u201cSum\u201d or « writer on the Pittsburg \u201cDéepatch\u201d\u2014to some one who hus just returned from Paris, has been telegrap! all over the United States, and, of course, Canada, to the eftect that the severe censorship bas been suppressing serious disagres- ments between the Allies, and between them and the United States, and that what.appears from the press despatches to he a happy family, bound to each other by mutual admiration.is really a bear garden of Jealousies and il.will.Somebody heard Mr.Balfour's remark to somebody that the meeting at Paris was going to be a rough and tumble\u2014a remark that might mean anything or nothing.but the chorus of Clubdom, of course, takes up, and keeps up the edifying phrase.The importance one attaches to such things depends on Als own point of view.A mingled mmokine room group of Jingo officers and othe, with nothing to do but [wean nations, would exaggerate alt reported jesiousies.\u2018 The Baltimore or Pittsburg man's: \u201cNobody loves ua\u201d is the \u2018natural reaction from the undue conception of the.importance of the United States in the war an American would naturaily carry with him from a country where the prowess of General Pershing\u2019s army and the overshadowing of Presidapt Wilson's personality occupy most of the landscape.Such a one.especially if his conversation there assumed.as does his writing, the primacy of the United States, would be disconcerted by disparaging remarks about his nation's tardiness in entering the war, or about General Pérshing's alleged bad language over having the first email arrivals of his army distributed under foreign commands The ill.nature prevailing against the United States was such, this writer says, that the various American interests in Paris joined in earnest appeals to President Wilson to come in person to bold up the American view at the conference.especially, it would seem, with regard to the freedom of the seas, a subject on which it hay been so much the study of the Germans keep the nations apart.Our writer concludes by telling us that the United States bas the financial command of the situation, as the Allies are indebted to ber 1a ten or eleven figures, and that, therefore, President Wilson will be able te insist on his own interpretation of the phrase, \u201cfreedom of \\ the seas.\u201d If Britain refuses to surrender ber claim.the osly answer will be for the United States to bulld twenty ships to Britain's ten, a process thet would certainly sot make for peace.A False Pieture.We must hanten te ny that whole thing, if not piece of the .be hand, (be uimsoot hante ie nccdeé.The Montreal Weekly Witness and Canadian Homestead.nations! matters were far more complicated than now have warmly welcomed the intervention of à cokdjutor who entered the fleld with calm de- libergtion, free of past complications.Au for reported trouble between Clene- ral Pershing and (he High, Command either before or after its unification under Marshal Foch, we are Inclined to think, from ull we have heard of him, that the General does not use bad language.All the facts published have indicated the greatest willingness on bis part to accommodate the force at his command to the best rekulta Marshal Foch himself! gives the American commander praise for modesty and generous self-effacement.\u2018The Harm Of it.There could be mo greater mischler done the world to-day than th irritate the nations whose hearts are set on agreement against emch other.Eape- tially ie it wrong to \u2018raise .otd grudges between tha two kindréd ations that have lived for a hundred years at peace, \u2018and whose unity, of spirit must speak pènce to the world, + Wa are afraid that a number of Britiair atates- men of the first rank err in this matter by treating the question of Britain's naval supremacy ay one that must not be brought Into question.Mr.Winston Churchill, half an American by birth, and a Liberal by politics, speaking at an American Thanksgiving gathering.committed himself to this: \u201cNo arguments, however spdoious, no appeals, however seductive, must lead us to the abandonment of our naval supremacy, which is the only sure defence of these islands and of our distant dominions.\u201d The London \u201cTelegraph\u201d says, with much truth, that that ia the sentiment of British peopie everywhere, and it thinks the good sense of the Americans, after the experience of the war, will concede the principle as the right of un island people Speaking for the moment.Mr.Churchill's statement Is, we think, beyond dispute.Britain.in default of other defence, has wu right to defend herself.even If she has to maintain the safety of tbe.seas for all menkiod.But looking at the question from an ideal point of wiew, the position is hard to defend.What is Right?This problem, which the proposait of a league nf nations necessarily opens, is.of course, susceptible of a right solution as all moral problems are; and what is wanted is that all the nations should enter into council seeking such solution.The meaning of Mr.Churchill and those who speak with him is that Britain's ses supremacy is not to be raised, and to & certain extent they are ght.It le an issue that the Germans cannot be allowed to raise.To permit that would be allowing that tie existence was a legitimate cause of their war of comquest.Nor can it be admitted Lo be one of the questions created by the war.On the contrary, the war has absolutely vindicated Britain's emormous sea power, without which the whole democratic world would have been lost.it may also be said that it is not for nations which sought to evade and obstruct the very power on which their own defence depended tn make out of this war any case against British sea power.Put that the question is relevant to the conception of a leagus of nations many stateamen in England have seen only too clearly to become cordial supporters of (hat propodal.Btll the admission that something in the way of « league of nations must be agreed upon is ac- copted with practical unanimity; and those who admit (his must be prepared to face its Ingical consequence, which is that the policing nf the seas ts not a task for one power, but for some agreement between the powers.It the nations cannot trust ench other, then Wt us join the ranks of the unbelievers, and go on piling np armament.The present hope of the world is based on the ides that they ana and must trust each other.Large Ideas, The President of the United tasses la not one to huckster and bully with the financial superierily ef à country made enormously rich (or thres years out of the agontes of the mations that were defending it.To him the dedi will appear all the other wiy\u2014ihat the United Mates owes to the Puropean Aflles more than she can pay, Are thess Allies to pay her for their war burdens in a etruguie that was, 88 ali new ses, so much hors ne theirs?What does the United Mates ewb the British fleet, without which whe coulé mot have got Into the wer at ail, und would have needed all her powers 0 defend hor own shores?The | The People\u2019s Paper | time must come when she shall share the burden of this servien The Bole 4.' DECEMBER 3, 1918 forts in war have besn unequalled, so must our achievements in reconstruction be.THE OOVE OF PEACE.Cure for Bolshevism.Then as to the sinister spectre of Bolshevism, we have a sure charm for exorcising this also.It is the same which must be applied to international! relations.In brief, it is a spirit of whole-heaited brotherhood.We seem to be thrown back upon this elemental conception of our blessed Gospel in dealing with people who know no more.Many chapiains and Y.M.C.A.workers who have comm buck fmm the war say that the soldier as à class is practically untouched by the phrases of religion What he { understands ts comradeship, Is bro.| therhood.This Is often the hardest part of the gospel to fulfil, but it is the sins-qua-nom, and in our day it in | toe one and only entering in for all high truth.ft is right to eay that this spirit cannot be in operation with- cut a divine faith within the soul.It is also true that the only real evidence of thet saving faith is tn its fruit of : love.\u201cFaith worketh by love\u201d \u2014 Campanas de Gracia\u201d Barcelona.Here is the key to the revival spirit for which good men have tish fleet represutitit two = assets, the actual bottoms whieh.like all ner war-craft, are ng to the junk shop; and \u2018the sen@will of an institution that has\u2019 served: the world grandly for centuries.Greiit_Britain hae shown herself sot abows:slariag sea defence with others, Fier feet, and that of France, have made eommon cause for many years: and ebe would not be above sharing ip, tæ like manner with the United Btates.Let the latter sep in and take a ecasiderable share of the navy Mp4 tm view of the many ships thgt Miwe gone down in this war and of the past, let her pay over for 8 what will largely relieve Great Britaim of the debt contracted to her in &; common Cause; and let the two work as one, es and are now lanes and on the coming ton, at a moment when nat only Is the abolition of war for all time in question, hut when at the back of the scene we descry everywhere the direful and boding figure of anarchy, cynically laughing at statesmen and presidents, as he did at czars and kalsers.\u201cOh, masters.lords and rulers in all lands, how will the future reckon with this man?How answer his brute question in: that hour when whiriwinds of rebellion shake the world?How will it be with kingdoms and with kings\u2014with those who shaped him to the thing he is\u2014when this dumb Terror shall reply to God, after the silence of the centuries?\u201d been longing und praying.[t is no new commandment but the old commandment which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.And love must not be a mere sentiment.but something as strong, as enthusiastic.as passionate, as couragenus as the love of a soldier for his country or for his comrade, \u201cShare and share alike\u201d has been the motto of our boys in the trenches and fields of France and Flanders.[Is it, in any sense, to be our motto here?The Root of this Bitterness.\u2018Where is the root of all this bitterness?Is it not In the distances between man and man\u2014in the inequalities which flaunt \u2018themselves so unblushingly in the heaping together of millions out of the labor of the people, and out of the privations imposed upon them, at times when men\u2019s very lives are requisitioned for the altar of liberty?\u201d is it not in a government that nurses wealth, and provides for privilege?These Sccummuiators go to chureh, and there meet other comfortable people.They are greatly respected and when they travel the congregation stands up and sings the hymn for thoss in peril on the sea.They do not know any poor people.The poor do mot in some way seem to be much at home in the carpeted churches.They cannot make out what the choirs are singing about, and do not understand the sermons.or much want to.Their notion is they are not wanted.A writer tells how he went into a meet.hing called for the study of subjects of social reform.There were a couple of hundred well-to-do men and women listening to a scientific disquision on the various problema It was very instructive and useful.But he could not help two visions coming to him as a contrast.One was a meeting of ignorant toilers in the slums of New York, addressed by some fiery Trotsky or other.How all these cool counsels would pale hefore the fervent heat of that asserr>iy! The other vision saw a hundred odd poor fishermen and other common folk, whose accordant apirita, fused together by long and intense contact.ars (anned aflame us though by & rushing mighty wind, and they go forth conquering and to cun- quer.Science and planning are of great The Answer.The answer is pretty well in our va the Atlantic).ge Firat of all, it lies along the line of international concord.In the \u2018| heat of the struggle which bas just passed, we of the Allles recognized in each other a friend in need and a friend tndged We had no time then ts think of @itterences, We mind 4p our best to preserve thet spirit.Or at least we must rub along side by side, bearing and forbearing with each other, discussing things frankly, as surely friends can, but remembering that the great thing ia that we fought and suffered together, that together we opened the gates of a new era for the: world, and that together we must maintain those traditions and principles for which we spent so much blood and treasure.We must not come out of this ordeal without cementing in some sort the league of nations which has done sn much and which ls now approaching {its great judgment day\u2014the day which shall show whether it is capable of amicably adjudicating the most diverse and in-| tense international differences.All men of good-will feel keenly the perils of this testing time, and men of prayer are seeking that it may be safely and triumphantly passed.Let all keep the absolute need of agreement deter.minediy in view, and force minor differences back to their subordinate piace, and while we meet our friends with generosity, so let us also treat our enemies.Punishment had to follow their crimes, but our hands must be ready.if we are permitted, to help in binding up their wounds.We Bri- out of their places.andl the-kiags of the earth and the chief capthins maid to the meuntains.\u201cFall on ws, and hide us\u201d \u2018Then there was silence in heaven fer half an hour; then new woes.80 it has been in our revoiu- tons When the empires toppled all seemed bright and hopeful for half an hour.Then came a grim looking for of worse woes through the turmotl of peoples escaping at high pressure from long repression.It was to be looked for that whens an explosion took piace there shouid be confusion, and that it would take time to quiet the tossing waves It would be 5 much more fearful thing should there be dissension between the powers whom a common peril has welded together in mutual affection and gemernus co-operation.We saw what occurred in the Balkans between the members of a victorious league, and we are no doubt all bracing ourselves to withstand anyg Satan who should attempt to cause strife in this new fellowship.Any hair.brained or disgruntled fool can thwow a torch into a palace or a temple.We think we see in the indignation which has poured from all parts of the United States upon a miserable aetion of this kind an evidence of the instinctive |tish, and French, and Americans have horror that all wise men must|done this before.For many reasons| Value\u2014are necessary\u2014but they are no feet ut such @ oreah of all|it may be harder to do it on this than] Substitute for the loving heart and the that the world has fought for: |on any former ncasion, hut as our ef.brotherly touch.These are weapons we all can wield, and woe to us if we .* [ao vot use them in the task of build- » NOBODY HOME ing Jerusalem in these fair lands of ours.Paying For War.While the war is aver the war is not paid for.In Great Britain the people paid during the course of the war one- fourth of the cost.and raised the nther three-fourths in lvans that must be met both in interest and principal In Canada, where the war gave ue an unprecedented era of prosperity, we did not make use of this prosperity to pay our war debt.Not ito the extent of a single cent.Indeed, during the war we raised ih loans more than the whole cost of the war.The result of this now ie that we have a tremendous debt to facon debt largelÿ to our own rie) men who will pay no tazes on their boldinge\u2014e debt so large that in capital aad interest It threatens frightful hardship If the old lines of taxation sre to be maintained.[It is, indeed, no large that some radical changes have a chance of adoption.The solution of this problem will be the.bigwest question that will confront our nest see- ston of Parliament.Whather it will create a cleavage remains to be even.Tt is very difficult to see how the former Conservative party oan be $150 POST-PAID; 4e A COPY.is possible for the western Liberals in the cabinet to support The Come servatives would probably be giad to keep the tariff as It is with its ware time increase, and it seems probable that Sir Hobert Borden will try to hold his cabinet together on this compromise.It 1s, however, doubtful it Mr.Crerar.Mr.Calder and Mr, 8ifton can adopt such a course without imperilling their hold on their fede lowing, without which they would be & burden on the Government.In view of the danger of such a social upheaval ss is taking place tn England.it may be that the Conservatives would band further than this, and that the manu- fasturers will agrees to accept the pres war tariff.If they make that come cession, It is possible that the Liberal wing of the Unionist party might be held In line on the ples that the pres.war tariff was a Liberal tariff sanoe tioned by Sir Wilfrid Iaurier, during many years of fis premiership.Thet would be a very good party argument It le not, however, à party they will have to silence, but the country they will have to satisfy; and the country before the war was drop ripe for a further reduction of the tariff, and in if we mistake not.still more so to-day.Apart from the tarif( issue the twe elements in Parliament are likely to be at odds over the amount of the debs to be raised by tazation.The Come servatfves, seeing the danger to their plans that ties in any very large ime crease in tazution, will be desirous of maintaining the debt which is (me mensely profitable to them, us the class who principally own it.They will probably proposes taxation enough Just to cover annual interest and provide for its extinction at wine remote day.The Liberals have, us yet, ne announced pulicy, and have possibly the same sort of nhjection to paying off debts.Our Future Path.In Hritain the huge wur debt in aoû to be let nation for years and years, paralysing ail desire for forward woctal Jegisip~ tion, ut least, mot if the Labor mes GAR prevent it.The latter propose to rip open the money-bags of the wealthy, and let their excess wealth flow into the puitte void has besn fief, say her ardemmeets 15 dumpnas chenp ze apn us That as he ont amit in poncipic we are Lismz down she must nt be aulhoweet te jay ter her wanton danse Ld doviestulion by dumping sleup emails and wrorking one trdustvies .Asked.\u201cWhat gout Tree icatef™ the Premier said: = SUoam premade canine as ery problem: to cust aanle uny prejudices ur preconecivel and examine them purely upen the [acts as the wpe lues revealed them to un\u201d epee.A subscriber.a leading lawyer of thc West.sent vertuin articles from the \u201cWitness™ to all the leading statesmen of Great \u2018Britsia.Canada and the United States.from all ul whom be liga received rourteour arknowledg- ments, Thié ir an 4 way tg _ increase the influence of vipa \u201d oe.\" À views The Hungarian Government hhs decided to intern the whole of Fleld Mæshal von Mackensen's army of 170.000 men, in uccordance with the tit ja reported from Budapest by way of Berlin.Von Mackenern has ceclured he would xrcid to the duviniot.\u2014 HOW DOVER WAS SAVED.The tatest latch of interesting war releysedl for time happenings.now publication, contains n story of how Dover murrowls missed being blotted out just prive fo the lust Melon offensive, The harbos fas Juithed sth var Vessels of all d- over.Auseri- | Gun ouscriers ui experience.and with | facilities for observation, koe strongly, disposed ww LhiaK they disern a die.| position npon the pat ot the other powers to «ct the stage agutost ut.At the peave cupferonue som.of our views ana \u2018aims src gong 15 clash, and clash sharply.with sume ot thelrs.Cur slew of whit we did over thers in going to be a 4ittio diffcrent from theirn.Theis inclination to \u2018pioh the boner\u2019 où Germany does not exactly fit in wilh cur feelings.und there wilt be u Alvergence\u2014a very marked di- vergence-upon (he luterpretalion of those famous phruses, \u2018the freadom of the seus,\u2019 and \u2018sen power.Undercurrent of Criticisan nem A \u201cSome disposivies to resent anything like Aus domination, or the speaking of America in a strong voice at the peace table, is already manifesting itself in an undercurrent of criticism of our army staff, and à tendency to minimize somswhat our effort in the war.Thix is true of the | politicians.1t ix not true of the people.Hu tar as the latter ave con- serned, they will be wholly satisfied.in England und in France, if the peace conterence gives them complete insurance against war\u2014ukes war of any kind at any time between any people utterly tmposaible.This ir what they want and this is sil they want, and their feeling towurd us is ntirely sincere and friendly, \u201cNot so the French und English politicluns who smart under the obvious fact thut, since America sat into this war game, America hus held att tho ME cards.Wilson hus done all the dealing, und they have been following hia lesd.Now the great dun- Eer has pas:- 104000000044 44000 0066404460 0000 7 © POULTRY FOR PROFIT : 604004444404 000 004600440000 © SENSE AND REGULARITY As previously intimated, there Jmuch lack of \"common sense\u2019 in the \u2018way niany peoplé not only view poui- toy Xneplug.but In tho way they actually keep and handle poultyy.Take fhe mutiër of the much horulded fn.\u201c Kensite poultry keeping.and (he large profits wo extensively advertised.- It moems almost Impossible.that uny thinking man or woman éan reason out\u2019the former or swallow the tatter, The: histiness too with which many poultry keepers jump at conclustuns dogs not bave commen sense bo recommend (t.Within the month these Îîmes are penned the writer has cofne hbrèss \u2018acverul instances of this, let alone the hundreds of Instances that have come directly under his observie- ton.Common sense is not only lack.fog in many individual poultry operations, but there are practices in pouf- try kending In this State thal arc almost universui that have nothing like good ucnse te recommend them.° Regularity ull the time {3 one of the 4mperative things tn poultry keeping.The work is never very hard, hut what work there ts ts work that needs to be done with clock like regularity.There are no Sundays and no holidays In poultry keeping.The Sunday work can be so arranged that the minimum need be done on that day, and -et there ir some work that must be done as on all other Ways.The most Important of this ix the rexular hour and system of feedine.The system and hour of feeding should de caretuily considered und then as carcfully adhered to, [ceding at Ir.Tegulur Intervals causes restlessness and discontent in a flock, disturbs di- weation and egx laying.Poultry quick.1y.learns ta carry the time and if the ins, 1s glways at exactly the same they will not Jose much time fret- tin Tor tho feeding haur biit spend their time in activity afong natural in- ginations.Farding and carine for ponttry at retvlar hours and after an estalltisi ee Ayotem trends strongly towards | success And profit.Towards making -tha work casier, \"oamming- / * \u2014 a al ® 12 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, DECEMBER 3, 1918 \u2014 me ~~ py = = transformation and wonders Yot nei.1oV0 in for awtile?™ he s\u20acEsE SURE] M4 he: Jbter - pa Permission of The Story to Dute-Ann \u2018harteris is a school girl ol seventeen when war was declared.Her brother enlists and ts killed.The shock is & deathblow to the futher, und Ann Is left alone, To ineet her tather's debts, she accepts a position as companion to two sisters at Bartonsmuir.ia Scol- land.old triends of Doctor Warren, her futher's friend and her fance.On her journey (n Ncotland Anne railway carriage is shared by a wounded soldier, whos she cares fur, for the auke of her dead brother.In changing trains «t Edinburgh she leaves her rug wrapped about the soldier, who 18 unaware of her identity.He 15m V.C.namo Fred Lorimer, home on sick leave.The Misses Barton, Ann's employe decide to open their home to 4 number of wealthy friends, in this way releasing servants to enter war work.This comp.ny of guests are called \u201cWeack.strawe\u2019 Mr.Tosh und hiv wan Al bert join the \u201cWrack.stiuws,\u201d und Albert is discovered by Jupp, the man- of-all-work, atlempting te open a safe containin; the .umily silver.Albert Goes ta Japp's house, the \u201cWest Lodge.\u2019 to frighten him into silence, und discovers thut the >dge is the entrance to a subte-raneun passage.(Chapter the Fifth\u2014Continued.) He was Sack st the window in time to see Jupp, in u frenzied haste, which cuused him to luke weversl seconds longer thun was necessary.push back the dresser inte its place uxainst the wal, Albert waited untit he had quite finivhed this encration.Then he returned tu the door and Knocked ugnin more loudly.Cho's there™ sud Jarp's voice, Jul tirade, alter x moment.\u201cBither à fricud or an enemy,\u201d said Albert.\u201cThat depends\u201d \u201cWhatever vou tre.\u201d returned Japp With piri.\u201cron ne-du\u2019t expect nie to be à \u2018rend of yours.I know row Vuiec.Veu nu Mr, Toshs men that was (ryia® the zule with false keys thir merutn\u2019.\u201d \u201cYer, soute sers clever\u201d sad Albert, \u201cLut votre not (lever enough.my bow.You leuve pcep-holcs in your blind: that crery na:ser-by can me through.At this there wun silence for a moment \"What's that to you suid Jupp at Jam, fut lis *vict had become a Jittie Uuncartain.\u201cNothing at ail\u201d aid Albert.\u201cbut it may be something to you when I get down to the villuge in about hult-un- our and let \u2018en: kuuw at the police otfied that I've discovered u hidden German dug-out.\u201d The list words acted like un Open Sesame.Instantly the key grated in the lock.A mument alter the door fiew open.\u201cBe quiet!\u201d said Japp hoarsely.\u201cAll 1 want is to Le quiet.you little fool\u201d said Albert.\u201cLet me in and I'll be quiet enough.How can wc be \u201cét as you call it Lawling through a door at exch other™ \u201cYou're quite right,\u201d said Japp, whiv- thoulh with cold while he led \"At least you're yuite right about the door\u2014but Soun wrong\u2014quite wrong about the other.I\u2014I tell you ut once,\u201d he went on huitiedly.as Albert was about to interrupt him, \u201cI am nu German agent.I hate the Germuns.My uncle was one und I always Luted him.1 hate him now though he is dead for getting me tato the mess I'm tn\u201d \u201cHe was a spy then?\u201d \u201cOne of the worst\u201d said Japp.\u201cthough nu one knew or guessed it here., He'd been a lut u° years at Bartonsmuir, and he'd mude a queer use of his time, too, I tell sou\u201d \u201cHe'd made « well-concéaled trapdoor anyhow.\u201d eaid Albert admiringly.\u201cAnd what's below\u201d A dug-out or a passage oi what?\u201cBotl said Japp miserably.\u201cThere's & rvum almost as big us this and a passage neurly u mile long leading from 1t under the tour to néar the beach.It comes cut ul u place you'd hever notice among the dunes.Uh, he was à batetul traitor:\u201d \u201cCome.come:\u201d said Albert.\u201cYou mustn't speak like that of your unclk.: Besides you knew, ido, didn\u2019t you™ \u201cNever (ill he was dying.\u201d suid Jupp.\u201cHe died just before the war und so he was obliged tu tell me\u201d \u201cPour chap!\u201d said Albert.\u201cYes, it was a cruel thing tu du.\u201d said Japp.\u201cI'm not pityiag you, your uncle,\u201d said Albert.have been sore put (6 it when he took you inte his confidence.What has he down there?\u201d \u201cPetrol, tine and tins\u201d \u201cAnd there's bombs too.\u201d Albert slarted.\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d he asked.\u201cBombe.\u201d repeated Japp.\u201cBoxes and boxes of \u2018em.\u201d \u201cT don\u2019t believe it,\u201d said Albert.\u201cBut fl'a truc.\u201d persisted Japp.* \u2018Explosives.Tu Le handled with the Utmost Caution\u2019 That's what's on the boxes \u201cOL.nons\u2026 - \u201cTes true\u201d Tm pitying aid Jupp.Tid Albert.À the little man again.ut here, J can\u2019t stand the thought of the dug-out under :ne at nights.I've tried sleeping tn the summer.house tli 1 cas hardly walk with rheumatism.8¢ T was down Ltinw theré just mow to see If Ÿ could ciear the things out.1 wanted tr take them down the passage under thd moor and throw them into the \" \u201cBut jou couldn't.Albert ecorntulls \u201cNo.\u201d said Japp.1 suppose\u201d raid \u201cI couldn't.| souldn\u2019t bring myself to 1t,° A \u201cHe must.London, England sa CARTE) \u201cYou're « uice accomplice to have yuu are.\u201d said Albert disgustediy.\u201cDid your uncle die suddenly?\u201d \u201cYes, he fainted off one day and only came to again for à few minutes.\u201d .\u201c1 thought so,\u201d said Albert, \u201cor he would have tried to get somebody else.But tf you are so scared, man, why don\u2019t you clear out yoursel(?\u201d daren\u2018t,\u201d said Japp.\u201cDaren't \u201cNo.\u201d replied Jupp.\u201cMy uncle ssid that this was my post, and that there were Gem alt about and that they would know If 1 left it.He waid it would be known in Berlin, too, and thut to desert would Le as much ae my lite was worth.\u201d \u201cNousense,\u201d said Albert.\u201cYour uncle wasn't up to date.There may be Germans about, but they're not so {rec us they were a month ago even, und Ber- Vin fa a long way off.I'll bet you a pound that if you left here tu-morrow and went and cnlisied you would Le pertectly safe.And more than likely you'd never be sent tu the front.They want brains and muscles there, you know.\u201d \u201cThen vou think that Bertin\u2014\u2014\" \u201cBerlin be blowed,\u201d said Albert.\"We'll bc in it before they know you have left Bartonemuir, What's wore they can\u2019t have known that you were here in charge ut your uncle's job, for M they hud they would have bombed you off long ug \u2018That's the kind of people they are.\u201cWhat scaros me most.\u201d said Japp.becoming garrulous in the relief vf at lart being uble to unburden his mind 10 soine one.\"wha.scares me morc than «nything ts the thought of what might Liuppen if u bomb from a Zeppelin reached the dug-out.I might esvape myvelf, but there would be « flare-up like the Lust Duy and Miss Caroline ever after would think I was for the Germena\u201d \u201cMy deur chap.\u201d said Albert.\u201cmake 4 bargain with me then.Clear out to-morrow and I'll clear the homhs out \u201cWill you?\u2019 said Jupp nwe-atruck.TOC course 1 will\u201d said Albert.\u201cYou seem preity «ool about it\u201d sald Jupp.with :udden suspicion.\u201cAre yon, perhaps, for the Germans Yourself\u201d \u201cThe Lord forbid!\u201d said Albert.\u201cCatch mie taking such a risk as to bick any nationality.No, ne, my led.For me there exie: only two peuples in the world\u2014the Rich and (he Net Rich\u201d \u201cOh.yes \u2014 I forgot \u2014 youre = burgla:.\u201d and Japp with a recurrence of contempt, \u201cI beg your pardon.\u201d said Albert.\u201cI am nothing ot the kind.A burglar tukes whatever he van get.I op- propriaie only superfluous wealth.I 4m what is called a Honeycomber.\u201d \u201cLuce.\u201d said Japp.blinking at him doubtfully.Thea ho started back as Albert advanced suddenly upon him.\u201cAnd I mind my own business.\u201d lie hissed into his face.\u201cMind yours my chicken, or it may bc the worse for sou\u201d \u201cI will\u2014] will.\u201d suid Japp hastily.\u201cClear out then\u201d wald Albert.\u201cAfter prayeis to.uight tell \u2018em you ought to go.Nu more will be needed here.\u201d \u201cBut\u2014but the work.\" said Japp be- - \u201cfidered.\u201cOh.TIl arrang> that\u201d said Albert.{ \u201cleave it to me and your motur und Your mop and whatever vou need for Sour work.I' do it three times vver, and my own tou, withvut kmow- ing any difference.\u201d He stood tapping his foot on the ground impatiently while Japp whifted { and swemted in ap agony uf indecision.\u201cWill yon swear you'll clear wut the bumbs?™ Le said ut jest.\u201cAs soon us I come back frum mec.ng you of at the station to-morrow i morning I'll get started to them,\u201d said Albert.| After that, as Japp said to his conscience ufterwards when it accused him cf leaving such a man is his place, what clue was frere left in him to do?Any one in such = position would huve dome the wame.On the one hand, all he could sec was Albert denouncing him at the police.office: on the other wus Albert releus.ing him from un anxiety and « responsibility which had Lecoine intolerable.Hesider, xs he reminded it further.from le time vf this interview onwards ke wus nut himsell.Me was in © dazed state.Ke wuch so, that it was unly afterwards he realized | that hie haa gone up the drive on the! way tu prayers actaully urm.in.armi with Albert.Ile had nol, in fact, known 1ightly what he was doisg until he was in the train next day many | miles front Hartonsmuir.But all these excuses, though le repeated them a dozen times, availed him little with that conscience of his Not for nothing had he.every Sunday of his boyhood.been taught about heaven and Lell by Miss Caroline.Not for nothing had ha heard her read the Bible and say her prayers at nine o'clock every eveulng fur years.Gradually, under his flabby cxterior, a tough and wtern mentor had ! come into being who would now toler- ute Nu evasions or prevarications end o.dered him.at all costs, to denounce Albert the Honeycomber.This however.he could not bring himesll to do any more than he had been able to Dring himeeif to handle the explosives.5o with Albert on thé cne side and Mise Caroline on the othar, (hough phymcally sate enough.wentally in a state of torment.t \u2019 His one comfort was Ann's cleverness.Hel | remembrred how she hed disco: ered him in the summer-house.\u201cWhoever he geta to the north of.\u201d he kept ma)ing to himself.\u201cRé never will get to the morth of Miss Char.teria.\u201d And Albert ét4 not.though for quite another reason than any :mag- ined My his remorseful accomplice.The day after Japp's departure Mr.Tosh was in a furious temper because a shett of paper had Deen mislald up.en which the clean cupy of à pers- graph had been written.In thin evil hour a letter from the recruiting-of- ficer arrives ordering Albert Figgle to report himealf at oncé at Southemp- ton.\u201cYou could claim temporary exemption for me If you Mked, sir\u201d ssid Albert tentatively.\u201cOn what growadsT\u2019 amapped Mr.Ton.\u201cS am (he only man-secvant about.Sy ~~, ORL LX GAATLY the house.sir.\u201d said Albert, \u201cTo-day I have heen motor-mun, gardener, and footman besides valeting you, sir.\u201d \u201cAnd throwing wy manuscripts about like waste-puper,\u201d sald Mr.Tosh fosing \u201chis temper ugmin, If indeed he had ever found it since the incident of the missing puragiraph.\u201cNo, you are of nu use whatever to me.\u201cin that case, air.\u201d said Albert, repressing a violent desire to seize his master by Lis long white hair and shako him, \u201cI shall start by the first train to-morrow morning if that suits vou J \u201cAnything will suit me\u201d suld Mr.Tosh, \u201cthat will rid me uf any one so inept as you are\u201d His temper had changed, however, by dinner-time, \u201cI was waiting table\u201d wrote Albert im u letter to Jane Chat night, \u201cand 1 wish you had seen lim proposing my health and ull of them drinking it.and 1 wish sou had ocen them ufter pray- ern shaking luods ail round, end then tirst Miss C.and then old D.giving me their farewell Liessings.It was u picture.But especially, my dear, | wish you hud ween the stones\u2014rubies, emeralds, and supphires\u2014that were blinking round me ull the time.One old purey\u2014a Mrs Pitmirraf\u2014had u diamond sun on, worth 1 am sure at least a thousand pounds, that it would huve Leen as easy to gather as a « .ndelion If that government of ours had only known how to conduct « war without interfering with civilian employments in the way it's doing.\u201d CHAPTER THE SIXTH.WHICH GIVER SOME ACCOUNT OF AN ENCHANTED WOOD AND OF WHAT BEFEL A HERO THERE.The seme train which bore Japp away from Bartonsmuir carried also another letter addressed to Rathness whose arrival caused quite x sensation in a small way and necessilated the holding of another council.It met ap soon am Captain Piffard had a free hour and held ite sitting round the drawing-room fire at the Gables.\u201cBegin by reading the letter, Fred\" said Mra Alleyne in her most business-like manner.Khe leaned back then in a dig armchair while Fred took the letter out of its envelopr.\u201cIt's from thst again,\u201d he said.\u201cDear Mrs Alleype.\u2014I have been asked by Miss Barton to write and ask you if you know of any one who would take the post of chauffeur and general odd-man here in place of une who has felt it to be his duty to enlist for war wervice.Heo would lave a comforiable thres-roomed lodge at his disposal, and the terms, which will be settled on his arrival, will be liberal The motor 1s being little used.dut ae the gardener has also enlisted, his duty\u2014which includes at present the planting and drying of medicinal herbs \u2014would fall to be done by the newcomer.This.hewever, with oc.castonal window-clieaning and bath- Miss Charteris chair worl, would be ull that he and would be expecled to undertake.\u201cMiss Barton hopes that among the many men ol ali sorts that you know you may huppen to find nomme une suitable.Any old derelict she bids te say would do, provided that he je ! thoroughly honest asd vf sn even temper.\u201d \u201cThere, Captain Piffard.\u201d said Mrs.Alleyne triumphantly.\u201cNow, do you ste an vpening\u201d\u2019 \u201cFor me, du vou mean?\" said Captain Piffard.Mrs Aleyne luughed.\u201cFor jou-in a sensc\u2014yea\" she said.\u201cI call it providentinl.Now vou can put some one in this place te keep watch upon that serpent Albert.\u201d \u201cYes I could\u201d said Piffurd, if 1 hud any one to put there\u201d \u201cBut you know hundreds of people.\u201d wiged Mra.Alleyne.\u201cThey can\u2019t afl huve enlisted.\u201d \u201cNo.but they.haven't all braius\u201d raid Piffard.It will take Lruins to do this job, alm some pluck nd any amount of energy.It will need Wome ne.100, rho can play à part and net sive himeelt away.You Know what Albert is\u201d \u201cOf course.\u201d said Mrs.Alleyne, \u201chut surely some ufic can be found.Home one must be found.Jt would be criminal not to take this upportumity.When | think of these pour old things.the Wrack.straws, ut his mercy there, it makes me ruite tI.1 have Lardly slept at all since | heard of it.Home.thing must Le donc or | must write and warn them.\u201d \u201cIf you do thai.\u201d snid Piffard.\u201cwe lose an excellent \u2018pportunity of catching him.He's in n 1rap now il we can only close it on him.\u201d \u201cThen why ure you »o indifferent about 117\u201d exclaimed Mer.Alleyne iin.patiently.\u201cI'm not indifferent.\u201d suié Piffard.\u201cbut the only nian I know who has not enlisted and who would gu like a shut is another detective\u2019 \u201cAh, then it's jeslouey, Is it?\u201cYeu.I's jealousy,\u201d said Pittard.\u201cI may survive the war, you know, and if 1 do I shall badly necé my work\u2014for muny reasons.1 didn\u2019t let Albert go twice scot-free tu hand him over to another man.\u201d \u201cYou are candid.\u201d «ald drs.Alleyne coldly.\"Bo Jou \u2018ourself are giving Alberi @ third opportunity at the x.pense of the poôr old Wrack.straws?Well, Captain Pifferd.| did not thunk it of you.\u201d \u201cDo wait til 1 have finished.exclaimed Piffard.\u201cI said I only knew one man who would ge like a shot instead of me, but I do know anotler who would be the very pérson If he would go.That men uvesr there\u201d and he pointed at Fred \u201cFred'\u201d exclaimed Mrs.Alleyne.\u201cMe\u201d exclaimed Fred sitting up., Captain Pilfard Isughed.\u201cWe are tv be partners, you mom he said.\u201cWell, Fred\u201d vid Mrs.Alleyne.Moning forwaré te her ehair all sager.ness.\u201cWell, Fred.will you go?You have still ome leave\u201d Fred thought for « moment, hie eyes kindling, the spirit of advemture awakening within hm, 1ising up and trampling Gown for the moment Ihe spirits of baulked pansion and despair that had heen rending him.A wonder.fui lightness and seam of relief rame with it, an irresponsibility and gaisty that had not been his for montha .The two silting watching My saw the ! | K | { \u201cDo you think ; going, Cantais Picard!\u201d ; thay thoueands have dona really.ther of them cit could learn the bathif chair work the window.cleaning in the time?he saill at lant.\u201cOh, you will go\u2014yuu will!\u201d cried Mrs.Allsyne clapping her hands \u201cHe's \u201cYes.I'll go, partner.\u201d said Fred.\"Ry Jove!\" exclaimed the captain in his turm starting up.\u201cThis te a stroke of luck, This ta splendid of you.Lorimer.\u201d .Fred laughed the first hearty laugh he had laughed fur a long time.\u201cNot half so spiendid as it 1s of you nominatiog we,\u201d he said.\u201cWhat if | make a hash of the whole thing?\u201cYou won't de \" eaid Piffard with conviction.\u201cYou are -not the kind of mas that makes hashes\u201d \u201cIN write at once\u201d said Mis Alleyne springing up.\u201cAunt Caroline and Aunt Emily will be off their heads with joy\u201d \u201cWhy?seid Fred, suddenly holding fier arm to detain her.\u201cWhat arg you going to write to them?\u201cThat a V.C.from the Rattle of the Marns ts coming 1¢ do \u201codd-man for them,\u201d ssid Mrs.Alleyne excitedly, \u201cwho knows all shout motors from motor-bicycles to fiving-machines, and was besides\u2014this is for Aunt Caroline \u2014~\u2014at the beginning of the war\u2014one of the best students of that year at Oxford.\u201d \u201cBit down, Lottic.\u201d said her nephew peremptorily.\u201cIf vou write that to them Til nit go a single step\u201d \u201cBut, Frog\" \u201cI won't.Sit down amd Pll tell you what to say.\u201d \u201cDo sit dowa, Mis.Alleyne,\u201d said Captain Piffaré.\u201cVery well\u201d she aid, subsiding into her chair again, \u201cbut please.Fred, dont be silly.Let the poor old Wrack-straws have the pleasure\u2014the ecstasy\u2014of eatertaining a V.C.\u201d \u201cAunt Lottie,\u201d said Fred.\u201c1 would do anything to oblige you\u201d \u201cExcept what 1 want you to do,\u201d said Mra.Alleyne pouting.\u201cBut I will not go with a label on.\u201d mid Fred.\u201cI have given you my reasons before.1 may be all wrong.but that's how I feel.Besides 1 want a change duritg those last weeks, the Inst perhaps in which ! enay be alive and intact.I'M bc a motor-man for you, « gardentr, a window-cieaner, a detective if you like.But I don't want to have to prattle about the front\u201d There was a moment's silence after the word fell as with the sound of « distant knell between them.\u201cWe must accept his terms, Mra Alleyne,\u201d said Caplain Piffard then.\u201cYou must write.What would you like written shout you.Lorimer?\u201d \u201cBay.\u201d said Fred.\u201cthat you have found a man called James Green, inexperienced exeept in motor-work, but wiiling to do his best at the other things.You can add that he is honest and of an eves temper.\u201d \u201cWell.after what you have sald I must.\u201d said Me.Alleyne rising, \u201cbut 1 tell you, Frid.that I feel as though my name wege Wolff and 1 were goins to Berlin to rite an Official Statement.\u201d «om ve eee After she Wad gone the two men sat in silence fog a ttme, Heteming to the rain which had begun to fall outside.\u201cOf course.\u2018you are remembering, Lorimer.\u201d sald Piffard at last.\u201cthat both old Tosh and Albert know you.\" \u201cI was just thinking of that\u201d said Fred, \u201cbut I'did write to old Tosh and tail him thag-§-m following up a trail \u201cNo.ols, Better mee him\u201d maid Pittard; \u201cWho \u2018iaiows but that Albert may toad sil his letters?\u201d \u201cWell then, I'll wes him,\u201d said Fred.\u201cand get him to tell Albert that | am travelling incognito and that if he breathes & syilable to any one «bout mr not being James Green hé will dismiss him,\u201d \u201cThat will de.\u201d sala Piffard.\u201cAlbert won't want 10 be dismissed just yet.The only difficulty\u2019 will be in getting to ves old Tosh first.\u201d \u201cWell, where woul Le the fun of it all.\u201d laughed Fred, \u201cIf there were no Afticulty T° Pitfard looked at him curiously.\u201cThis little emiernries is quite cheering you up,\u201d he said.Fred laughed again, flushing a little.\u201clave | heen 20 BINT\" he anid.\u201cWell\u2014up ané down\u201d said l'ilfard.\u201cMostly down [ think.\u201d He pmused for a moment.\u201cI say, Lorimer,\u201d Ne went on hurriedly.\u201c1 uupposs it's about the limit out there, tent it?[ know you hate speaking of it, but\u2014\" \u201cYen, before women\u201d wid lred.; \u201cRomchow [-1 cant bear it.I'm a foot.of course, but 1 can't stand hear Ing them talking of it.You see they think they understand They have a kind uf picture In their minds.and Five ons 4 wild desire ut times to tear tt down and show them the truth\u2014 which would he impossible of course.But you'll sec for yourself soon.\u201d \u201cIUs strange,\u201d said the other.hear you talk you've dona\" \u201cNow for gracious's sale, Pitfard.\u201d mid Fred.\u201cdof't talk of what [ve done.I've done no more than thousands have done, and very much less \u201cto like this after what | I's not & question of heroism, it's chance abd brute violence and brute instinct of self.defonce and conceit that makes you willing to die rather than appear a coward before company that's why § Rate and loathe this V.C.busters Look: at me\u2019 1 seem slways 19 bo mying.\u2018how brave and nobte F am:* Paht It's monstrous!\u201d PilTard ext silent for & moment gas.10g into the fire, \u201ctl understand,\u201d be asid at last.\u201cf should fcel \u2018ust the same about such an honor except for one thing\u2014\u2014\" He hesitated.1 could imagine it a fine thing to Rave it to bring home to à woman if vou loved her.\u201d He paused again, but Fred sat silent looking at him, \u201cAV hether ahe loved you of Bol,\u201d said mite \u201cPittard.old man.\u201d said Fred aftera moment, \u201cU're sométimes wondered\u2014is \u2014in Ht Lottie\u2019 Pittard's exer met his and a them he read his answer.\u2018Ané-\u2014and\u2014* santé Fred again, \u201cI've BO Lusinegs [ kaow\u2014but won't she have jou then \u201cNo.there in sbiié one else.\u201d sald Piffard to the depths of thé fire asain.\u201cBut\u2014\u2014the hap besa good enough not to shut me out altogether\u2014in ict me come as before till T go away, .Tou see things are difterent just now Things that would be impossible at other times are not impossible mw Life to me hes beonme strangely bounded, Lorimen\u2014shut fn\u2014l can\u2019t express it.1 mipposs it means that 1 #m near the finieh.\u201d \u201cI know what you mean\u201d anld | whan PMarhiehpe \"'wilh darkness and the death hound rounding it\u201d \u201cWho said that?\u201d said Piffarfl, \"He might have said It for me\u201d?\u201cIt was & woman,\u201d ssid Fred.ut Just then the door opened.\u201cStop talking about women\u201d said Mrs.Alieyne's cheerful voice as she crossed the room behind them, \u201cand fisten to this.\u2018Dear Misa Charteris,\u2019 she went on, reading the letter in her hand, \u2018I have just received jour note and am nieasod to be able to tell you that 1 have already found you a very suitable man.Please tell my aunts with mx love that his name ie James Green and that, though tmexperienced except in motors, he is willing to learn the other things.Helng out of work for the time he ia anxious to begin as econ ns possible.and, ag you say the fodge is vacant, I have told him he my go to you to-morrow.He is a good walker so that it will be quite unnecessary for any one to meet him at the railway station.I am sure that as odd-man you will find him quite à treasure.\u2014Yours sincerely, Caroline Charlotte Alleyne.\u201d \u201cThe only thing T don't like,\u201d said Fred.\u201cis that bit about the treasure.it's a gross exaggeration and you know 11.\u201d \u201cYes, but 1 did it to save telling lies,\u201d she answered.\u201c1 could not say you were honest as you were going under an assumed name.and 1 couldn't say you wers of an even temper, #0 what was I to do, Freddie?\" \u201cWell, tet it stand,\u201d said Fred laughing.\"though why taking a nom de guerre should be called dishonest I can't see.It is not as though I were to he myself at all.For the next month or so I am to be a totally different person.\u201d \u201cBravo!\u201d sald Pitfard rising.\u201cI knew you were the kind of man.Give Mp: post it on Aw WAY Home, yo Mrs.Alleyne was seated at a mette desk ngar ws door pt ng | ditedting Soh elope.-, ond however} turned Im Wom .\u201cHome™™ shy said.\u201cTe your po\u201d age do you mean?\u201d Piftard nodded in siicnes tocking at her.The rain was pattering drearily upon the window-panes.\u201cHave you nothing more to do tonight?\u201d she sald gently.\u201cNe.\u201d he answered.\u201cThen your home is here for this evening.\u2019 she announced.\u201cJohnson shall post the Official ttaterment.\u201d 80 Johnson in snow-bnots and raincoat.for he was theumatic, \u2018went \u2018the hundred yarda to the pillar-box and posted the letter, and in dus course it arrived at Bartonsmuir when the Wrack-straws were assembled in the drawing-room after dinner, Atbert had left that morning and a sense of Lereavoment was upon the party.Sanders and Willlums handing round cofféd looked inadequate and awkward, and Mr.Tosh had & neglected appearance which Mrs.Hellat described as heartrending.\u201cHis tia ia quite squint.poor dear\u201d she said aside ta Ann when she had beckoned her into a corner, \u201cand ho has lost or forgotten one of his aleeve- links too.Would he be offended, do you think, if F offered to lend him & pair of my late Arthurst* \u201cOh.better not.\u201d said Ann hastily.\u201cHe would think it very kind | am sure\u2014but you know he has rather a quick temper.\u201d Mrs.Bellairs laughed her comfortable laugh as she patted her own plump arms contentedly.(To be Continued.) 2 LITERARY REVIEW THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS (The \u2018Times Literary Supplement.) \u201cMy German Prisons.\u201d By Captain H.Q.Gilliland.(Hodder and Stough- ton.\u20acs net.) À Htétie while ago the German papers were demanding that the treaty of peace should include a formal retraction of «ll charges of inhumanity brought against their countrymen by the Allies during the war.The mill- tary situation {s not at present favorable to insistence pon these exigeu- cies, and the charges comtinue to accumulate.Captain Gilliland's book containe a remarkable batch of them: and their effect is the more deadly because the author discriminates.He freely admits that now and again he met a private soldier who seemed Kind-hearted and sympathetic.an offi- ¢or who behaved with courtesy, and a military doctor who gsve him the best of his professional skill.Nens the leas his narrative as a whole ie the narrative of a man who has falls en among thieves and savages, and makes many additions to the long Mat of outrages which will have to foes the subject of careful inquiry by British Courts after the was is over, There is, for example, one startling story of « prison commandant who, for po apparent reason, walked into an officer's cell and \u201cstruck him on the (ace and chest with his clenched fist\u201d: and there ls an appalling array of instances of medical neglect of the wounded.On the whole and for a season Cap- toin Gilllland was well treated in the Dresden hospital, where he had special reasons for gratitude to his nurse: but he continues:\u2014 This happy state of affairs.however, undérwent \u2018an extraordinary change on the day Rumania entered the war, when, whilst my nurse remained stanch, the matron of the ward, who had hitherto been quite friendly, came to my wom, shook her fist in my face.called me a sichwelnhund Englander, cursed the English and everything appertaining to them, and gave orders that | should de cut off all my invalid food and be given the soldiers\u2019 rations Instead.This was done.In the end Captuln GiHiland managed to escape Ly jumping (rom tha train while being taken 10 Crefeld, sud tramped the country until he found à means \u2018of eludi the pentries and passing over the Dutch frontier: and hiw tribute to the Dutch officer who welcomed him when he arrived (ills some of his most eloquent pages: \u2014 With iia own hands he took off my rocks and washed my feet, smearing the sare cuts with some atnff which he seemed to have great faith in.Then he made us 1ake off our clothes and wash: clean shirts and vests were supplied from the officer's wardrobe; and.finally.he rang up the military doctor, .and informed him that he had a couple of bad cares.All the time.he bustied uhout helping us here and there, and never saéened tired of informing us what fine [ellewn we were, .- When the breaklast arrived, he hoversu ground us like à hen with her chicks.Almost every story of an escape from Gorman captivity ends with a scene of the kind in Holland.The reviewer has vivid personal recolienilons of such.an tnetdsat on Dutch soll, though the enthusiasm who hovered round Him was not an officer but a private sol.dler in mufti acting as a Vaiter, Whatever the rank of the Dutchman encounterrd by the prisoner.who feta away, whather he estates or Is.ex.ctanced.the cordlality of the welcome never varies.\u2014\u2014\u2014ranntett THR KIND OF GTARCÉ - CH ponN TUAT APPRAL wo\" ADULTS AS WELL.Duvaild Frevart Walker has written APA {Tuer sata à book sntitied, Prrenm Pinota\u2014 Portraits and Histories of Tarn, Faldas.Maher And Other Pleasant C'reptaren) and Other Playa\u201d Pags À Comnaav muhliehat te last n° Detsher, Thane ner pastis (raminati\"e fantasios of ahijfhand.AN moter and (thiaten, tome nen dans 19 the pomantin antrit - font fe host Piven hy tha author's In.tredurtiong\u201d-\"iH onens: \u201cThere je.a ter-avray bire veu nf unendine wonder Fred eimai siège tradiction or ea bie to stand snd and bwttof.A fragile craft is Janvohes trom à Mothors arms, 2900 Ms wotout \u2018 You are the helmmuan of the vessel and you are the guardian\u201d and concludes: \u201cIf you wish.and wish with all your heart, you can come to join us in our play, which in honor of the waves of \u2018Let's Pretead\u2019 through which T hope your littls craft has passed, I have called \u2018Dream Boata'™ \u2014 \u201cTHE DAY!\u201d New York, November 11, 1918.x (By Richard Le Gailienne, in the .\u2018Evening Sun\u2019 New York.) .\u201cThe Day!\u201d O fata! and fantastic toast Your idle princes of the sea Drank to cach other, making silent boast, .With lifted glass, towards that immortal coast Whose names are one England and The dream that Spais.And even Napoleon had dreamed is vain.\u201cThe Day!\u201d - When France should die ia very deed, France whose grave soul is ever the world\u2019s need\u2014 Strange flower that we call France! Flower that to u sword sa.swigtly turns, Changing disaster into a dance, And to dim lands that gropingly as- Brings wisdom like a faiead; cend, Whose altar burns With such clear flame of the skios, That cven her foo Marvel that men 20 gay can be- so wise, Fuse to Ard go to battle a3 lovers to a rose \u201cThe Day\u201d When this Republic, born to make men free, With al its golden south hot in its veins Of antique Force un casy vassal should be, And wear the chains Of kings once nore that for thres hundred years #he mocked across the pea.\u201cThe Day!\" O Kaiser, can this be \"the day® You dreamed of?Did you mean This day?\"Movember {he eleventh day Of the year nisetoes humired and aishtesn?\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014r THE REFORMING OF AN ANTI QUANY.; ge A broad picture of the 1 way in which the English people bear themseives In their liomes after nearly four years of war, has been given us by Mrs, Humphry Ward, \u2018in her hook entitled.\u201cElizabeth's Campaign.\u201d .Tn this story she shows how the English.haviug socustomed (hem- scives hy degèées, to unwontéd priva- tlens and labors, to the tetrifying sound of gums and 10 Acenes of bereavement, have settiod down with steady.unflinching.determination, to win the ver.Agalnet thih background +f strong patriotiam, \u2018stands ont the character of Mannoripg.Elisabeth's employer.the welflsh recluse, who le #0 absorbed (nn his Greek studies and Ms écllsction of Grucx vases that he takes no Interest \u2018In the awful pro- gréss of the war, save as it.interferes with his awn.pleasures ans pursuits; when that occurs, ha violently oppose everything connected with thé war, a Red Cross demande, all Government meaanres of rationing, forestry or eul- tivation.Elisahetd.his: invaluable atcretary, althotigl he has a tarte fo: hia Greek studies, \u2018and Ma beautiful Greek Vares, feels every cuntemdt (or his mistaken opinions.Ehe fs a clever and atisaciive yqung woman sndrwed.with much common , senee and for the wbod of her country she sets herself tv the task df brining round (he erfabéc enliecior fé a more healthy framg nf mind, Thin Yaak involves tha heli~ ing pound of tha Mame rerinf artates, \u201cRich gre mush om- harraseed, and thé ceririfarion of the Mannerine \u2018amie, fer Mr, Mannemtier 19 6 widewer who grown wp anna and éavehtera.thanch much in need of her help.are act a\u2019 fi at 1aclined to resstea | er fn ~jously.Flionheth niceta with many die- ravcanensante, Me M.er = te grow mare eMfurate mifh opp ri ton.On the ave 0° the day when the re ment (racter ia comin: te alan i Ms park Yanda.he her te oh watoù and'Abctaton Vas ve Wi te give It entrance.Me wilt ER te rentpa: cpparentir asthiag that The old relidble remedy for rheu- matierm, neuralgia, sore throst asd sprains.Best Liniment Made RB.LADKDRY, EDMONTON, writes = pd received Men froma SE » out I Tien fe the best mest made,\u201d Minerd's Liniment always gives satis faction.For say ache er pain.It wives instant relief.Minard's Liniment Co.Limiud «© Fermouth, - - N.8, Elizabeth can say wilt move him: but tu the eurly dan El'zubeth sess a thin, queer ligure stealing over the grass fowards the gates.und next morning the family awakes to tind disappeared.It is in the final catastrophe, however, whea the soldior-son fs aluln, that the\u2018 whole household vi\u20aclde to Elisabeth's good influence: Mannering is à changed man and Elizabeth comes Into her own at last.The story closes ut a most critical period of the war's history, the spring of 1918, and the narrative reflects the suppressed auxiety, and the tension of the times.ant the progress of the story, char- and plot develop naturally, without the least jarring note.The book (= oke which œu- {soarcely tail to please.Mrs.Dumpbry Ward.Price $1.50.Dodd Mead & Company.Publishers, New York.A GREAT INVENTOR.(The \u201cEvening Post.\u201d New York.) \u201cGeorge Westinghouse: Mis Life and Achievements.\u201d By Francis EB.Leupp.Boston: Little, Brown & Co.$3 net.The skepticism that many persons feel about the ro of business must be lost in tie face of a career like that of Weqtinghouse, treated hy one so skilled in interesting narrative 88 Mr.Leupp.Wectinglouse was not merely a great inventor, but a great enterpreneur.and the author of this biography makes all sides of his lle equally appealing.First place and Baturslly the chief space have to go to the airbrake, which Westinghouse brought into being at the end of tne sixties.and upon the sucoass of which he built his later activities.Mr.Leupp hag worked from materials so ample\u2014 he was a close friend of Westinghouse \u2014that he is able to dramatize, mo to speak.the crucial parts of his story, reproducing the very conversations which led Westinghouse te of his Invention.end in es he ar- Horrou for the trial of his device, \" « Taming Hy Bide ot controlling th rH Trig h compressed air WTF rat suggested to him\u2014after several odors for utils ing drawchains and steam had failed-\u2014 by reading in \u2018LitteMss Jetving a of its employment 1e ans Cenls tunnel.no nl x f = firat train aurais SAD air- brake vas instrumental 1 saving a lite.It was not the earliest invention of young Po 9 hed previously devised a Jinn or, repiscine derailed cars on * tack und a durable track-frog\u2014amt if was the first to make him famous.«Its iatro- duction in this oguptsn as Nr.Leupp makes plain.was nof, difficult, byt ita adoption in England was obtained only after years dt'yorätnat labar by its inventor.Tu The latter part-sf-the oek la given over chiefly to West use's activie ties in promoting the use of natural gas in Pennsylvable.and in developing the electrical industry of the rm- lion.In the very ard of his Pittsburgh houss ho opened up the first of a series of gan-wells that furnished the city with ight and fuel fer a number of years.He, with hig brother Herman was led into the clectrical fiald by degrees, but he soon became known as the chief axponent In the world of the alternating-current system as ope posed to the direct-current nyaterm which Edison supported.Ilow he Justified his faith In the niternatineg «urrest.and in the electrical devions and developments that he took up le a lopg but never a dull story.ft Dae {ts humorous aspects, one of which Mr.Leupy rceaîls to the readiness of the newspapers of the period (the lale cightjes), tq believe that the alternat- Ing current was some demoniacal und uncoptrollable force which was lively to kill men by the hundreda and to net whole districts in Names, An episode upon which Mr.Leupp touehes in his assumption of the.contract, (or Ught- ing the World's Fair at Chicago tn % price; hier face of may 1503 ht a remarkébis i he carried through ia ohatacles, The nore general activities of Westinghouse are not slighted.Particular sitenyon is.given to bs, unselfish labora in A the reconstitution of the life Wisurance cole cerns impertlled by the Alsslosures of 1005.His emplayess\u2019 warm regnred for Han.and .reasous for it.are em- phesised: and n list ig given of the honors showered upon him in Ms fast dayr.As one infimiate with hint, Mr.loupp 4» naturally ahle to prevent an attraative, as wall as trustworthy ag- uai of.hig home and of.Me aTarter is ss down Ne Jatio The Lindman Truss Montreal, Loa 4,47.B Lingus Regd, Gentlemen = 1 am lever @ to alata that after ant: forine tar ox monthe from runture, § june fitof with a \u201cTindman™ trues.which hag Ann.mately red Mme.0 ORRINN.NIM Ob Domintane 84, Montres! 2 Cult on motte frs purtirntane : Oià Cologe Are, Messe, Que 16 ge Co that the Lurricades have myateriousiy | thy pink y / THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, DECEMBER 3, 1918 OUR HOME CLUB J THE GREAT The Red Cross lived= And from îte magto birth There sprang a forge hat .A million minds and hearts Fasy to leave for Jove Of man whe, for hls Visions from ubove, Gave of his all ts fight, The Red Cross theughtde And of the hurtling shell That of God's earth turnod The Red Cross wrought\u2014 Wrought with consummate skill, Until both land und sea their deeds did fl.Wives, sweethearts, fathors oùd, Mothers whose love can burn while suns grow cold, Men from a thobsand lands Who fought and worked and prayed ut needs\u2019 domands\u2014 All felt the fashioning Leapt to its shrvies, counting other arts That good may come, pd with it freedom\u2019s light.With thought intensely deep OF all the Lemefits grim War would keep From many s needy home ; Of death that lurked \u2018neath the broad sweeps of fowm, \u2018Thought of the needless pain Caused Ly the German's lustlul fight (or guin.REQ CROSS.circled the whole earth.tu 4 raging hell: Of noble things rom spiritual divining.The Red Cross dreamed And lo).dreams crept to Hfe: It seemed that Peace bud \u2018prisomed fearful strife, And reared un aitar rare, Bullded with sacrifices, gaunt want, bleak cure, Which bare Bearth's offering In life and blood and limb te Marcy's king; And as the incense rose Te bpaven's pure nir, Wars Gates were made to close.By GUNNER J.T.COWAN, RCH.A.\u201cC.' Battery, Witiey Camp.England.to the Ottawa Branch, C.R.CS.Sent in August, 19 WORTH IT ALL.Hometimes the quiet.reserved speech of a man seefiis to tell more than the word pictures of war correspondents.Here Is whut a self.controlled Scotsman wrote just before victory came: \u201cThe news these days is good, I happened during the past few month to wonder If after all the hardships we suffered were worth ft ull.That - was in the old days of trench warfare.Now towng and villages out of the Ranue to \u2018tres people who for four years have lived u-life of hell.Gratitude we know now.These people cry with joy, and cannot do anything ton good for ux.We had to drink about twenty cups of coffev covery day when maar them.After all compared with them mwone bf © you know there's a war on.T am sorry for the \u2018and fit men we don't eee, Tor they arc either in the French army or prisoners.Of the.ireatment to the females, that is as had as we feared, 1 think.But cough said.The war won't lust long now\u2014iho apuing nt the atest, 1 think\u2014then, und only then, will ve know the hole téuthf ans st WHEN 0K ROSE UP renaggus taf TET 201 GUtiulaien Peck.) an?bad staste 5 - \u2026 Læais \u2018Pattéraut> started eo Violent.Wht Hof fit, Musband\u2019s compan.fon, thd Th Berdle Inside the mock.tng mm.\"as forning sisbbod her tin.cet.s.Tht \u2018min Wire again!\u201d she muttered, us \u201cpi Ihphtieutiy wiped away the (ust-requrrig (ed drop, \u201cWhat's he got now, I'd lke to know: Hier werk slipped: Crom suddenly idic bande, and she Watebed the two men walking about béforc the great red bards across the road, her husband Ustening with\u2018 evident eagerness to the \u2018spesch oF & dXpper young man who pointed hers Jagd there with cloquent fiagere.As ube watched, & wave of detertei- nation awept across\u201d her face, hardening the lines about the brow and com- pi ng the lips.The mending fell forgotten 10 the fleor as she rosa with swift resolution and turned tu the ladder-like stairway which led from the torner of he sitting-room to regions above.She went with the confidunt air of a perfect housekeeper who knew she could put har finger on anything in the hours.Bhe stood on Upto and drew from under a folded comfortable on the top shell a black box.The key was extracted from swbther hiding place, and she sat down on the tdgo of the bed to open it.She turs- td its coatonts over and over.Khe poured over little yellow books.Bhe wrote lines of figures on à paper and laboriously added them.She gased tiaslly upon the substantial total with wide eyer.\u201cAll that?\u2019 she muttered, \u201cAll that?Lut 1's been years.\u201d The fittle books drepped ia & beap on thn bed while the woman sat sad thoupat and thought.- \"L'aey:.Why, Liddy! [Is anything the matter?Ain't we going to have any ruppar tolght\u201d* 7 Hes husband's aoxious voice roused her nt lust from her long reverie, ho gathricd the scetiered papers into à barré} and carried them (a hee apron 10 {fin sittingornom.Matthew Patterson looked upon ner with auxietr.guocosocceuces ERE FROM Ley WESTER! WOMAN.There are few mere import: ant subjects, and few needing mere immediate attention than \u201cPublie Health\u201d whish forms as ward No think and werk along the fines sugested.+ + + ° + + + + + e + + + : 068000002 000000 FORCEPS 02000 Dr Fre been - 1 ! i could write & book on all that has « Sometimos we were inclined Wwe actually tuké the of the Hun and enter the towns old people, but of course the young \u201cYou ain't sick.are you, Liddy?t dort knows ! cver knew supper mot to bo got.before.\u201d \"No, Mutthew.I'm not sick.Tre been thinking.It won't take à minute to get supper.It's mostly ready now.\u201d \u201c : They ale and drank silently.After = long pause, which weemed somehow big with portent! the woman gave utterance to the words which for the last two hours had Leen eating their hard way to speech.\u201c[ waw that city man round with seu ugain this afternoon, Matthew.What's he liere for now?The man with the forest of gray hair and bushy eyebrows lemned back in his chair with the sense of comfort und well-being induced by a satisfying meal.It hud been a good supper.even though somewhat tardy.\u201cWhy, sou know I didn\u2019t finish out that Job we begun last year.carrying water froin the crick to the barn, and he's como to see \u2018bout going on with it.And while we's abou\u2019 It we thought t'would be a good thing to put down concrete floors in the cattle barn, and a few little things fike that.Bay, Liddy! He's got some new contrap- tons in that book of his that make you sit up and take notice, now.I tell you.There's hay stowers and grain threshers and focd mixers and I do\u2019 know what ull.You wouldn't believe what you can do with m'chinery now's days, He left mo à caterlogue.Yew sest read It all over.It'll make your eyes stick out.1 can\u2019 tell you\u201d Lydia Patterson pushed back Mer chair with a suiff and turned to ~ the kitchen.he moved about with swifl.1y silent stepa until there remained ne trace of the finished mea} She gathered her laden apron from the couch tn the corner and joined her husBand at thé tablo in tha middie of the sit.+] ting-room.\u201cMatthew.\u201d she apoke with cried decision.\u201cMatthew, Jay paper « fhinute and pay aitention to me.I want you should hear what I've got to sey.\u201d The man tosked over his spectacles with à Martled air.Mer tons wan strange, and the expression of her fase quite foreign to her usuai placia calm.Me pulled the gluesse slowly from Before his ¢)es and watched in léwildered silence ns she sorted and eptesd out the baskbeeks and figure covered papers.She looked up suddenly.and threw s question into his (ase, \u201cMatthew, de you know how long it is we've beens married 7\u201d Me put his spectacles on aguin amd looked aaxiously into steady eyes that biased with mew-kisdied fires.Abe looked quesr enough, but moi down your hy A matter nr \u201cYes, Matthaw.Its twenty-five Yara, come summer, When we [irs come here to tive you said | was to bave all 1 could make out the poultry.\u201cThat's go, ain't It, Matthew?\u201cWhy, yes.© course It is, Liddy.AWC you hud it?It's all there, What you wefing so queer about 7\u201d \u201c\u2018There\u2019! Yew, IUs here, MatUiew Patterson,\u201d she burst ot with à uusl- den shriliness (hat de him jump.\u201cPut much good i's\u201d cver done me, tuent ft \u201cWhy\u2014why, Liddy! What's the mutter of you?M's yours.Aln't vour uaine on the bankbooka** \u201cYes bla there all tight.and It might Just ns well be In\u2014in Tunket.What rood is it, I'd like to know?\u2018What go's it «ver donc me, ) bought ona Vlnch ilk dreus fon vears ugo, amd ln een rade ver five times, And me runhin\u2019 down ceflur Por © - drop of sat} und scrap of butter.And Ruvid\u2019 fo lug waler 10 wadlt with fr'm the well and havin\u2019 to cmply wanh.tubs\u2019 thut \u2018most Lreuk my hack, while vou and thal man spead yoGr Lino Fixih® up schemes to make things flo for tho outtle.Matthew I'nticvron, uny's the time ve wisht 1 was a row!\u201d : Tter voleu broke with z queer Hite choke.The man Hsiened with open.mouthud umasement us the flued of speech ruiled on ugaiu.\u201cWhat would you have said if l'a spCAU thet money thut Was mine, l'a of twenty odd years, uln't i women of America In un address st like to know.But I'm goin\u2019 to now.flgurin* up.Uve made about ône Hundred dollars a Year.sometimes more, sometimes less for twenty-four yewrs.Now's that's a - whole Tot of money, and it's gain\u201d to; worl Tor me now.Tve worked for it, yearn enough.I'm goin\u2019 to draw me out five hundred dollars, and go to the city \u2018and spend il.Fm guin' to Cousin Lucy's and Ret her to show a di the new fwigled things thers iv for doir* work\u2014work for folks not cattle, und I'm goin\u2019 to have every single one of \u2018em.And if It tuken more than that, you've got to take out some more and send it to me.And I'm roin\u2019 to have me a new dress that uir't binrk.I don't cure whether it's serviceable or.not\u2014and a chain lo hang round my neck.I've wanted une ever wince I was born.And ( guess that chicken money is mine by right, ain't it, Matthew Patterson?What you got to ray about 1t7\u201d \"Yes Whs, ses Liddy.O course.Le Maithew Patterson had never heurd of Medusa; but If-the little stragrles of tron-aras- hair about his wife's temples had turned suddenly to_writh« ing serpents he could not have looked more frightened.Twenty-four years worth.of pent-up speech is a good deal to Héten to at one time.He made æ pretenss of turning again to the perusal .of: the.\u201cCounty Newa\u201d but stole many glaneg toward the strangely ultered face across the tuble.\u201cWhen was you thinkin\u2019 of goin\u2019, LiGty?\" he asked timidiy.after many abortive attempts at spesoh.- .\u201cJust \u2018an soon\u2019s T van get you baked up.Maybe Set'd\u2019s afternoon.The soôner than better, I guess\u201d \u201cHow fong was Tou thinkin° of heln* gone.Liddy7 \u2018Twill be sort o lonely.\u201d The question was piteous, the tone that of semoone who feels the solid rock slipping, slipping from beneath his feet, Lydia Patterson looked up quickly, With the sight of hig bewilderment was born ih her woman's soul the sense of power.\u201cOh, 1 do\u2019 know.\u201d she answered carelessly, \u201cMaybe _a fortnight, way- be more.\u201d Lydia Patterson was true to her word.A letter to Cousin Lucy wan despatched the next day, and she net about preparation for her, journey.\u201cWell.good-by, Matth There's plenty to eat in the house\u201d The woman, sitting unusually ereet, spoke as iho buggy drew in sight of the mus- tard-colored station.The drive from the farm to the village had been a silent one, each shunning the speech which would have sald too little, or too much.\u201cLiddy, ain't you goin* to kiss me E00d-he7\" The question brought an added color to the faded cheeks, pink now with excitement.\u201cWhy, of course, Matthew.\u201d The man held tightiv te a cotton.gloved hand, and bent to press n fumbling kiss upon her upturned face.Matthew Patterson drove slowly home.\u2018The work he did before sup- per-time was aimless and unprofitable.From the well to the teakettle, up snd down, back and forth he passed, gathering together viands for hia volitery repast.*viosh wit hemlocks!™ he muttered as he seated himself at last.\u201cI'm tuckered.Who'd have belleved it tpok so many steps to get a meal of victuals?Ev'rything ready too.\u201d He medithiod upon the subject over his paper in the sitting-room Which seemed so oddly empty without thé délieately faded cheeks across the table, \u201cBy Jinks\u201d he slapped his knea suddenly and poke aloud, *T'Hl do it! Bet she'll Be good and surprised.Let's woe now.\u201d He found a paper and stubby pencil fn the desk and began to write.\u201cWater, first thing.\" he muttered, \u201cih the mink end set tubs.Broke back!) And a leanto out back 0 keep things out the cellar.Maybe there won't be time to finish things, suppose she comes back pretty quick, Put the beginnin'\u2019 would he somethin\u2019, Ray\u2014\" he talked to himself\u2014\"T bet you we coulé have a bathroom.That (eller maid « windmiii'd do the trick far the barn.(Wisht she was a cowl\u2019y 1 can't wtand that!\" All through the soft Sabbath quiet of the following day he measured and figuréd.And Monday morning found his plans ripe for action.He save to his regular work that morning what he called \u201csn lick and a promise\u201d He drove ul an unusually rapld rate into thn village.interviewed the local plumber, telegraphed an windmill constructor, communicated with the electric light, company in the next town.called upon the village telephone con- orn, corralied s oarpenter, stopped at the timber yd on his wWay honte, i vnder the stress of excitement.but the « i thelr men vo in just us eesentia! und ! arriving fimadiy at hie doserteé abode, siek, ne he could seo.\"Whgwvrhy, res, Ldéés.L guess vo.obû and the various workmen had been | gixcited before excited and Nappy.It wis a dull me &ppeuled to by the offer vi à bonus for à quick job, They fell to work with 4 will.- The brown earth yawned for pipe lines, , Ismpediox branches fell to make way for telephone mnd electric Hghi wires.The farm hummed with the Voices of busy mem.the muster of whom strode about with the mion of a conqueror.The Words (but mung in hin brain from morning to night were nlways the agme.\u201cWon't she be tickled\u201d \u2014 bathroom and ul!\u201d The mal brought him almost daily word Irom Lydia, She told him of the wonderful things she was seelug and doing.Mhe spoke of the marvels of lubor-saving devices which she wus purchamas with Juvish hand.They Vegan arriving shortiy, boxes and bar- rele, large und small.\u201cDon't sou open a thing til T come\u201d she wrote, \u201ct wunt 10 show them lv you myself\u201d \u201cI've got lola fo teil you, Matthew,\u201d the lmd letter ended, \u201cand I'm coming homs Monday.\u201d The remainder of that week saw a regular frenzy of accomplishments on the farm.{Tu be Contivued.) \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WOMEN RETAIN SENSE OF HUMOR UNDER FIRE.Lloyd ticorze\u2019s statement thut omly 8 percent of the final victory will he dite tu the Army and Nuvy wos Miss Kuthieen Burke\u2019 message lo the the Conference of American Lectures mn Washinrton \u201cWa ace all interest.\" Miss Burke sald, \u201cip the deeds of Cony and daring done at the front moral courare here at home which must\u2019 surtain women who have seen Jost us admirable.\u201d Misa Hurke told many sturles of the | resotrrefulness and bravery, the ability and bomor of \u2018women under (ire.One was of the women of the East Erd of London, who remonstrated with Lloyd George for sending aerd- planes to protest.thén instead of rendit = the planes to the front.She told of the xirl munition worker who, after being blown up.three times, insisted on coming to work hecause \u2018t would make the others see \u201cit wasn't xo bad to be blown up.\u201d Miss Burke could not say enough of the spirit of France us evinced through Ite womanhood Bhe recounted the story of a French peasant woman.who sat In the ruins of her house, bargaining with a soldier over the pifoe of butter.* The soldier, in cxasperation, at length exclaimed: \u201cBut the next time a shell hita here, your house will come down.\u201d \u201cWelt,\u201d said the woman, looking at him im- perturbabiy.\u201cmy house inay come down, but the price of butter will net.\u201d tii THE SPIT OF INVESTIGATION.ment -From earliest \u201cfutaney the chia displays à spirit of ipvastination which it is well always iovgrmeny:\u2019 Te possible, never leave his questions \u201conan- swered.If you Jack the information.say that you da not know but wil find out and tell im: and Resp your trora.Few parents realize that they typify to the child the spirit of omnisclence which Ged typifies to them, and that it behooves them comstantly to strengthen such faith.The child who finds that he can depend upon what his parents tell him is less apt in his turn to deceive them, and the peed of mutual understanding end confidence is thus sown, te sprout snd bloom for all time, The spirit of investigation often leads children into the habit of touching every object they see.This is not siways naughtiness and should not be A baby's attention to #0 stimgatized.can be diveried front one object another, while older children will d sist from investigztion as soa as the! curiosity Is satisfied.But if they are told unqualifiedly that a certain object must NOT be fouched.they seen Impelied by nn irresistible force to handle that object in preference to all others, It is well to keep in mind the advanlage to be gained by positive suggestion.Divert the child's mind by mentlomng something which fie MAY do.rather than strengthen his determination by .e perempiory commazd as to what he may NOT do.HOME COOKING CURING, KEEPING \u2018 AND USING PORK.\u2014\u2014 Dear Sir, \u2014I havo often found this department of sour paper of great help.T will be very glad to know from vou how best to we pork, or rather.the entire pig, both salting und smoking.Will it be injured by being frosted while in the smoke house?How lonx should it keep?I smoked (salting it first) some carly in the spring: part of it has becom: unusable, What part other thas hams, sides and back ure fit fer food.and how sre these trested?In salting.should water ba used, dr ahould thn ait be rubbed on and the resulting liquid that collects In the bottom of the tuti be poured off?(This, in any case, scarcely covers thé lôwer pièces.) Can it bo cured without smoking\u201d Thanking you in advance.Sincerely yours A.THONSON.TP vou want the delicious nutty cuts of bacon or ham that Gre to be had from the highest grade of preduct, care must be exercised iB the sclec- tion of the animal av Well ax in the handling after butchering, and you oan buy a pig.or half à pig, even it you cannot raise it.or have chosen for you hy & Man who knows, a young hog that Is fattening rapidly, but nol one that is excessively (at.One that han been property fed on » baianced ration will give @ better admixture of lean and fat.The best weight in from 175 to 300 pounds.The highest quality of neat cannot tw made trom stags.Tunts or worn-out Do not feed & ford for % pou be- Tore mica.shébsé not bu nan LS] cause poor bleeding, With finally a meat that lacks tha proper flavor ent polls easily.Kill on a clear, ould day; scald in water at 166 to 176 de- ; clean off hair, remove integnal orguns, open widely and wash clean with cold water, doing ull this as rapidly an possible, Keep at à tempéraluie of 2G to 40 degrees for 24 to 30 hours before cutting.He careful that the meut does not freeze, as frozen meat #poiln easily on thawing, and meat frozen after aslting does not cure evenly.When cut up, rub well over with sait and slluw to stand for one lo three days, As to the parts which may be used.it Is the houst of packers that they utilize averythigg but the soucal, Tha hlaod enught I clean vesselsa and stirred to revpent clotting, and strained, may be made into black sansage.The fiver may be cooked in all differ.ont ways umd for beef or calves\u2019 livers, and the tongue bolled ix a de.Neivus morwal.The kidney mukes a tasty kidney stew: hraine uy Le fried and heurt roasted, and the head turned Into headcheeme, pois or serap- ple; trotters will go best boilled or pickled, or may help out In a dish of Leann: the apare riba muy hi boiled or roasted.the loin éut in chops for frying, or {n plecea for sduming.The Jowls may he removed for Gime am salt pork, alue the fat hack strip, Tho hams, shoulders and bacor strip may be cured and smoked.All lean trim- niings an made into sausage, all fat trimmings into lard.Keep the leaf lard separate for ou fine Clavoret pastry far.Trying ont the fat from \u2018the intestines with the (ritnmings for other purpoxes.The feat.snout und ears ure Lotled and pickled.The crisp brown cracklings used often to be made Into soap.but thev are delicious for frying with potatoes or if chopped, seasoned with pepper, © sait and à Httle enton may he pressed | into moulds or bowls.When cold thists a favorite morsel for the woodsmen to eat with their bread.The wholes family will relish it to cat with hot holied ut haked potatoes instead | of Lutter.Even tho larger intestines cleaned; and put through innumerable soak- Inge and scrapings were served as; chitterlings, boiled tender and covered with spiced vinegar.Curing Suggestions.\u2018There ure many eatisfactory ways of curing eat.one of the simplest, surest and best being the brine method.A standard formula for brine is! made us follows: For each 100 pounds mest use 12 three pounds brown sugar, three oxs.; sattpeter, siz gallons of water.Mix, | boil gently one hour, put in à perfect- 1y clean vessal, weight down the meat and cover ut least 2 inches deep with! the brine.Examine the brine for ropiness once n° twice & week.correct ropiness remove the meat from the brine, adding common cooking soda.The ropiness should 1mmedi- ately disappear.Jf it does not, make up a new brine and put it in after tharoughly cleaning and scalding the easel.Email pieces of meat are sufficiently salted in 30 to 38 days, small hams in 40 days and larger hams In 50 days.If a mild cure is wanted, keep the meat in the brine a few days |.Sess than in called for.Remove the ment from the brine, hang up and allow to drip for three days and thea apply the wmoke.The smoke should be made - from non- resinous woods, hickory or.corncobs being the most widely used, though 1here is no special advantage in them.The fire should he well smothered to prevent the meat from being overheated.The best method Is to have the fire outside the smokehouse and led in through pipes.Where there ir no smokehouse, amoke led into æ tight barrel or hox is quite satisfactory.The meat should be smoked eight hours for four days or an equivalent amount.There Is.no advantage lv flavor in smoking at intervals, but in summer this may help keep the flics away.If the meat is to he used before the winter is over.and it is kept in a drv.rool emokehouse or cellar, there is no need for rovering if the temperature is uniform enough so the ment will not freeze.When it ir kept into the spring.wrap well with newspapers, then wrap in burlap or canvas or sack weil (as flour sacks) and bury In ashes or grain.thus excluding insects and gaining a uniforn temperature.To keep the me} indefinitely, a aurer plan is to sack all the meat after wrapping in paper and hang it so that no twe pieces touch.Coat well with a thick whitewash (lime and water) to which a little glue han heen added to inake it stick, Another method is to rub the picces | over with ealt, let stan over night, then rinses clean.Pack in a jar and pour over a hot pickle.Make first a brine strong enough to float a fresh egg (4 gal.to 100 Ihe.of meat), then add ?pounds of brown sugar, 2 oxs.saltpeter, and spleen to your likine.Boil this one hour and pour over the pork hot.Let the meat remain in the pickle (well weighted down) for three to eight weeks, then take out.drain and haag to dry ia dry place.Smoke or not, an In convenient.Virginia Dry Salted Ham.\u2014Have i vermin-proaf box or cleah kez.Put in an inch layer of strong.coarse salt; on this pack the trimmed hams, fili- ing in ail ehinks with ssit.Put the shoulders next ant the sides and sowis last.Fill in all tight with salt and add a gemerous layer of sall, evenly spread.on top.Close hox tightly and leave from 3 to § woeka depending on size of hogs.coldness «f weather, and amount of salt used.When taken from salt rinse well in clear water, dry ang brush over with black pepper and molasses.Wrap In paper or hay, tie in heavy cotton bags to keep out insects, and hang In smokehouse.Smoke with hard wood until meat (s à rich brown.By this method it is claimed the rich juices are not extracted from the meal.and the snioking makes it more.digestible, Ham For Summer.\u2014In cases where tt is not possible to smoke the ham, or where thers Is no proper place to store it, the two ioliowing wneihude may be used.In packing ham for frying immerses the slices in very hol deep fat \u2018or few minutes.When thoroughly hea'- ed remove to draining basket to drain well, then pack into trocks while il warm, weigh heavity until cold, then cover With melted lard.With two or three kettles on the stove the ham in quickly dope and Is not aa hard as when fried.When slicing the hams trim off part of the fet and try this out for frying wad packing the neat, Poiled ham can be used in many wa in which the fried product le not sati factory.Tt I» uiways ready for sind- wiches asd is delicious served as à cold meat.Poll Lhe hams for cansing \u2018 4 poundu common salt,\u2019 Toj ' before packing the fried ham.thas sacuring fat for the trying.Put the i ham (nto cold water sou very slowly bring to Lolliag point, Dmin und again cover with cold water.Fat may be skimmed from this first water if aliowad to cool.Let hun simmer untit bones can be removed.Cool in the stock, and eut futo convenlent chunks for packing into jure, Pack solidly Into tested and sterilized wide-mouth- ed jarr, filling all space poasible.For packing meats a wooden potato masher in most convenient If cut down tuo mize that will just slip into the dur.It is unnecessary to add water or stock to the meat in jars.Adjust covers dn: jarw, using new rubbers of rood quality, but do not clamp dow.Place jurs on rack iu boiler or cooker, wld water to reach nearly to tops and aterilize for threes hours, then weal and «tore in & cool dark pluce.The ment ts easily removed from jars if first sliced entirely te hottum of jar, eut- ting thiek slices, then cutting once through the middle of siices, Mausage.\u2014 The preparation of the mausage in simple.The main thing 1s to have the fat and lean blended in correct proportions.For a lean rausage mix in the proportion of onc- third of fat to two-thirds of lean.To the acraps and trimmings, which ure mixed in tha proportions given ubove, may be udded the heart, from which the cartilages have heen re- nioved.The whole In cut into strips ur pieces, small enough to readily run through the meat grinder.Have the ineal ground rather fine, ag it is then much easier to have the seasoning caually distributed.For seasoning add one-half pound of salt.two aunces of pepper and two ounces of allspice to, each 30 pounds of meat.Sage, thyme sr summer savory may he used to vary i the flavor.The whole is then thoroughly mixed together.Unless thé seasoning Ir equally distributed throughout the meat, tho flavor Is not } 80 good and the keeping qualities are { considerably impaired.| That part of the sausage which will be required for use this winter pack i In crocks, peuring a couple of inches of hot jard over it and set in a cool + place In the cellar, \u2018The part that is | required for long keeping may be | packed firmly into sealers.and melted i lard is then poured over th» top.It In { necessary to have the sealers as hot | ' a8 peasible when pouring in the Yard | | 10 preveal the heat from breaking ! \u2018them.When required for use the sausage is tuken out and formed into small cakes, which are slightly } Mioistened and fried in the usual, \u2018anunner.That for summer use .nav he canned.Makn tnto small cakes! and vonok shaut two-thirds enough for { the tahle.- until all the water Is out.; Pack in the cans while still cooking.| fill them full of hot lard and seal at | The home dressmaker should keep A DAINTY SET FOR DOLLY.2273\u2014Here is a nice \u201cone-piece\u201d dress with 2 smart sailor collar and stylish pockets, a petticoat and combination undergarment, so that dolly may be dressed both up-to-date and comfortabi It will take just a few of mother's patches\u201d to make any or al \\! £273 all of this outfit, Lawn.cambric or muslin is nice for the underzarmente, The dress may be of satin, silk, cam- bide, percule, linen, town or cashinern, The Pattern, which Includes sil styles ilMastrated, In cut In 6 sizes: Vor dolin 16, 18 20, 22, 24 and 26 inches In length.The dress requires 1% yard of 27-inch material, the patiicoat 1 rd, and the combination © yard, for an 15-inch doit.A pattern of thir filustration mailed ta any address on receipt of 15 cents in sliver or stamps.A SMART TWO-PIECE SUIT.Coat \u20148540.Rkirt~ 2052.Comprising Ladies\u2019 Coat Pattern 2684, and T.adies\u2019 Skirt Pattern 2653.Brown wool velour, or blue velveteen wontd be nice for this.The dont is made with waist and peplum portions.The nkirl Is à new five-gore model.STEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS THE PICTURE or ihe to see My just thres Sieedman's Powders.end | asiways found them not only cooling.but ol and refreshing 1 used to se them on the same day each week, ned to mise, she was tra\u201d and rettul She aut all her teeth without my knowing, thanks to those pricsiess powders Tottonton Sept 2004, iBI6.1 | THESE POWDERS CONTAIN E E NO POISON.\u2014 once: or it may be stuffed tightly im muslin bags, then the bags roiled In melted paraffine, which should be heated in a large flat pas.Liver Sausage~\u2014Boil the liver with about an equal weight of head meat, including the fat.After it lu fairly well done, run it through a food chop per while yet warm.season with salt and pepper, onion or a clove of garlie, and pask it in a crock or into role.It should be skiced and fried for use, \u2014 There is still another pronueeia- tion to the word that has come te our notice.One good citizen was 2verhead calling it the \u201carmstick.\u201d USED PIANOS IT WILL GIVE UB PLEARCRE to send you a list of our pianos and organs that have heen used and which will be sold at specially attractive prices.Five octave organs $40 up; pianos $50 upwards.Write to-day.: National Piano Co, Limited Piauo Manufacturers.266-268 Yonge Street, Torento.| The Witness Pattern Service To obtain these patterns Ali in coupon at foot of this department, send it to us with fifteem cents in stamps or silver for each pattern wanted, and they will be sent to your sddress.Allow ooe week margin beyond time necessary fer return of mail, as orders are bandied in rotatien, à catalogue scrap book of the daily pettera cuts.These will be found very useful to refer to from time te time 26, 38, £0, 42.44 and 46 inches buat measure.The skirt In 7_sizes; 26.28, 30, 32 86 inches waist measure.It will require about § yards of 44-inch material for a medium :ise, for the entire suit.The width of the skirt at lower cdge with plaits drawn out is ubout 2 varde.This illustration calls for TWO separate patterns which will be maîied to uny address on receipt of 15 cents FOR FACH pattern in silver or mampe.AN IDEAL BED SUIT.z2662\u2014Your little Toy nr third will iw very snug and comfortable with a sleeping garment like thin model.It is good for camhric, crepe, Manne! or flannelimte, The lag portions may be guthered in Kaicker style, or finished loose at the lowcr edge.If the tong slesve seems too warm or uncombert- uble, the shorter slenve will be just right.This style is made with à fau back.The garment closes at the oen- tre front.\u2018The Patlern is cut In 6 sixes: 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years.Sie § will require 3% yards of 36-inch material, À battérn of this lilurteation mailed to any address on receipt of 15 cents in sliver or stamps.PATTERN a Pattern Faboere.\u2026.0\u2026.\u2026.20RK DONGALL & SON, Praueneus.Morvamas Pense a\u2019 = IL.nn a i i ue \u201cdu revsé toreutth ¢ -) ROMO.eonsrrirsrassmmscssersessassarense Per ie 4 orm Ow 0 lr The coat puttertr is cut in 7 sttes: 26, \u2014 BJ THE MONT REAL WEEKLY WIT 8 WORLD'S WELFARE NESS, DECEMBER 3, 1918 ad D CHINA'S NEED AND OUR PRAYERS Among the many changes the War has brought into tive hearts aod lives! of all of us, is a marked change in the character of our prayers.\u201cUntil he was wounded,\u201d said someone not long ago with unusual self-revelmtion, \u201cI always began my private prayers with my own requests.and mentioned other people's needs afterwards.But sow ! have simply reversed the order.I pray for all my friends first and for myself last.\u201d The change was significant.And not alone have our private prayers tean so affected.a now spirit has crept into our public prayers, too.Exercise discernment as you listen to extempore prayer from platform \u2018and pulpit and in prayer-meeting to-day.and you cannot fail to notice the dit.ference In the worde of the average mac and woman.There Is \u201cless of self and more of Thee\u201d \u2018The afternoon meeting of the China Inland Mission, which quite filled the Lecture Hall at Kingsway, wag largely given up to prayer, but there were ahort addresses too.Words of praise for Qod's faithfulness in the past, and trust in the face of present difficulties: were spoken hy Miss E.M.Smith, who has recently returned from an extended tour In China.Dr.Stuart Holden, the Home Director, and Mr.J.N.Hayward.the new C.LM.co-secre- tary.also spoke.cach dwelling upon thé rich gifts of human life with which God hax blessed the Mission In the past, and \u2018the need of still looking to Him for reinforcements.It was a ! ! Le «lose und eversono felt it good to time vf very Throue, de there.\u201cWo ash that every worker in Ching may feel an initux of power as a result of our gathering hore to-night\u201d prayed Dr.FE, A.Neathy, at the be.Einning of the evening meeting in the Kingsway Hall, when « large company gathered, drawing Mr.Napshall Broomball, the Editorial Necretary, in a masterly ude dress.dealt with the condition of things in China to-day politically, of the effects of the War on the vital mutters of reinforcement and on (i.nance, and (he difficulties of neves- sary propaganda.\u201cWe arc perplexed,\u201d he asserted, \u201cbut we ure not in despair\u201d he added optimistically, as each of these things were passed une der review, He quoted Mir.Sherwood Eddy, whose recent evangelistic work in China is well \u2018known, who says: \u201cAfter visiting many of the pro.vineinl eapitals throughout that great land, | an driven to confess that I have never seen a nation tn mach desperate crisia as China to-day.\u201d \u201cBut.\u201d said Mr.Broomhull, \u201cGod is making the wrath of man to praise Him, and the most hopeful feature of all is the way the Christian Church tn that land is itself taking up the work of evan.gelization.And as for money, we must not forget that wealth ia not that which we carry in our pockets, but that which we have in our hearts\u201d There was somethieg humbling tn the prayer that followed, by Mr, Sharp.\u201cHelp us\u201d he said, \u201cto le low, to get bolind Thee.and to exalt Thy Name for ever.\u201d There was stimulus too.\u201cGrant that we may do more pre «ver did before.Stir our hearis to greater cnthusiasm und diligence | and earnestness.\u201d And he wus voic- ink the desires of the whole ussembly.A good story was told by Mr.© Falrclough, of à xoung Chinaman who had come under the intluence of the Gospel some years ago, but had subsequently been lost sight of, us is not tmcommon.Mv.Fairclough niet him.in New York recently, and discovered Iumbia University, a Doctor of Phito- sophy, and that he purposed going back to win his own people for Christ, Very iniprossive wus it when the five missionaries, who are shortly returning to Ching, rose, and Dr, Holden commended them to tod.\u201cWe pray Thee.\u201d he pleaded, \u201cthat each one of thetn may have laid upon lim afresh the ordaining Gand of Jesus Christ, that cach may experience a new baplism of the Holy Ghost, and that In tbe heart of each muy be kindled ancw the fire that burns with love for Thyself and for the world for which Jesus died Naturally, onc thought of tho anxious hearts of the women nt home, and joined with Dr.Holden as he further prayed: \u201cHiess the loved ones who are letting them go.Give them Thine own consolation and compensa - tion,\u201d A Miss FE, M.Smitt: was aguin fisten- ed to with deep Interest.as she told of her extended travels in the Field.\u201cThe Lord went about doing good,\u201d she end.\u2018and that is our work as missionaries.\u201d Emphasizing the need for workers, particularly for lady JESUS AND TEMPERANCE (By W.H.Hamilton, M.A.Preached in Westbourne United Frees Church, Barrhead.) $o0000000000000g © \u201cBehold a man gxluttonous.© © and a wine-bibber.\"\u2014Matt.xi.© + 18 + + * + \u201cHe would not drink.\"\u2014Matt.© xzvil., 3.$qteecccccscneed When one 1s asked in these days to address any temperance organization, or to speak about the Temperance Cause, one nearly nlways feels that the text is chosen for one without any \u2018search.The circumstances of our time, the callous misconduet of our rul- ere with regard to the clamant need for liquor prohibition, the threat of famine and disaster.all plead the one msn, and provid: us with & thousand tongues of indignation to utter it.To-night.however, I am not inclined to reiterate here the truth that we all already feel and urge along those lines.We do crave sometimes to turn aside from the hot and dusty thorough- (ares to the quiet meadows, away from the strife of tongues and argument, away from the strain of controversy.Bven propaganda cannot feed on itself alone and Jive.Without some time of meditation\u2014even of worship \u2014 our work may easily come to lack life in spite of all the force and noble fury we put into it I thought, therefore, that it might be not unprofitable if we wers to look for a few moments to- might in the light of our Temperance Mission at that serene figure of history who ts\u2014however much more He 1a ~\u2014the example and pattern of life at #ts bravest and humanest, to see, if we ean, whether we may not in this great enterprise also learn of Him in whose service, and for the make of whose Bominion, most of us are leagued together as temperance advocates and workers.Now the Old Testament cer- fatnly contains much philosophical as.mes towards abetinence and modera- Sem\u2014usually from a commonsense point of view: it is based on a self- eomsidering \u2014 though not sordidly selfish \u2014 foundation.The worldly wis- Som.grave and worthy, of such a book as the Proverbe amounts to.\u201cIf you want to succeed in life, to get on in the werd.to be honored of rmeu\u2014éo this, or don't do that\u201d It is a counsel of sespectability, but it is rooted in a con- æsption of duty that is much more anxious that à man should not make a oeil of himself then that he should make & bere or à strong saint or a martyr of himself for an unselfish end, and so create something new, something tiving, in the moral world, It ls hgh, relatively to lisence: but it is of low degree, relatively to the passion of Christianity to redeem.\u2018When we turn to the New Testament we find in the letters of St.Paul a much keener sense of the tragic rela.Memships, the social results, of intem- pergnce.There is agony in his cry to Qté lapaiax converts of Corinth, that Æhey \u201ccannot drink of the cup of the Lord and of the cup of devils,\u201d and grief over the havoc their sin hax wrought; there is & moral earnestnets which Bolomoa in all his philosophical glory never knew when he urges that it is wood neither to eat flesh nor érink wine, nor dn auitht wherehy one\u2019s brother is caused to stimble or ls made weak But when we turn back to Jesus and to the gospels proper\u2014thone aarratives of His days and deeds in the flesh\u2014our quiet for enonuregement in strangely met by somewhat meagre and momentarily sdisconcerting results.The, no doubt.ie partly due to the aheaenoe from His Palestine of our groblem in anything like the dimen.and cursed animalism which It for us of Britain to.day.The wine, which was the general and only unfe\u2014and nearly natural\u2014beverage of Mie age and rece, waz probably as in- mocent à Concoction as many & flcot- tah housewife makes by a slight and artificiel fermentation of the rasp- Berry every autuma Dark and dread- then and us If i i 3 g i f 2 i 2 in ways perhaps even darker were we to gain prohibition to-morrow: but.ns a matter of fact, glaring drunkenness was not one of those vices then prevalent.Yet it was no: unknown\u2014far {rom thet.Jesus snd the Blask Sheep.And whea one looks minutely at the Gospel resord.one circumstance, in connection with this and all other moral questions, is liable to daunt a zealous prohibitionist\u2014namely, that Jesus felt far mere at home amongst the world\u2019s black sheep, and thought far more highly of them, than with a great majority of the respectable and religious folk of unexceptionable conduct.In one little rhrase about a deeper matter still He xives us a light (probably without meaning it) on this.In St.Matthew xi.He contrasts the sombre ssceticiom abstinence of John the Baptist who \u201cwent neither eating nor drinking\u201d\u2014which the Jews had rejected as the mad theory of a moral crank and faddist, a \u2018\u201cteetotal fanatic,\u201d an \u201csquapuritan.\u201d an \u201cantisocial kilt-foy*\u2014with the geniality and gaiety of His own kindiy human epirit and ways, and reproaches them that in their determination to keep religion off at all ocosts\u2014whether humanist or ascetic\u2014they have slandered Him in turn as & \u201cglutton and a drunkard\u201d because He did go eating and drinking.Now, isn\u2019t there something challenging in that pleture\u2014Jesus, quite unaffectedly, going eating and drinking with company that the decent, respectable (but not really strait-laced) people of the Church and community regarded with horror and disgust?Jesus\u2014in all earnestuess (and by the good.pious sort of persons like ourselves)\u2014called.and believed to be, a drunkard.and told that a man must be judged by the company he keeps?Jesus\u2014evidently quite careless and unconcerned to let any one wee that He was not as they eith whom He ate and drank-mot ashamed of à reputation for \u2018\u201cjollinesa\u201d and righteously imdignant with the epirit that may only too essily charne- terise you and me in our attitude as formally pledged temperance reformers it in our noble crusading seal we forget to love\u2014and to love without patronage or condescension\u2014the worst and most wanderinæ of vur fellow-sin- sera?Temperance and Tolerance.I am quite sure that Jesus would be with us In our aime to-day.[do net think He would be really angry with our methods either, so long as the spirit of \u201cBe ye separate\u201d and of exclusiveness in not brought near them.and so long as we love human lives that should be His far more than we care for decency and order.Yet perhaps Jesus might sometimes smile a kindly smjle\u2014parhaps a little ruefully\u2014 and, without scolding us, might just go off in silence and show us another way.1 am sure that compulsion, coercion, of any sort but that of moral persuaston (usually nilent) is utierly foreign to Hiv mind and will.1 hardly like to sy He wouldn't have been a prohibl- tionist.because (1) we have no picture of Him in any political relationship, and (8) T think He would have been, but if He had been He would have riven it u better and truer name, would have called it emancipation, or deliverance, For He was ail against compulsion.Why, with the exception of insincerity in religion, He was not greatly oon- cerned to denounce any sin.Rather, He was such a Man, His was a presence ant parennality so powerful and so pure, that evil was ashamed of itself in His presence, und died down; and He was usually content to leave (t at that.And a multiplied presence snd per.nonality like fhat\u2014gained by our keeping Hin company and following la His steps\u2014would.| am sure, do far more, and do it quicker, to rid Barrhead and Bootland of her liquor curse (and all the rest), and to redeem the \u201cpublican\u201d and the \u201c/'\u201cner\u201d alike, than ail legislative measw un and all coercion and all our mighty preachings.This ! say mot to weaken us in our political aims\u2014far from it\u2014but to put in a ples for a perhaps warmer and deeper fellow.feellhig with the victim of drink.We want most, 1 belteve.to Tove the drunimed ® intensely that he w will stop drinking because it hurts us who love him so.Without that, scolding him, preaching at him, restricting him, blacklisting him, probibiting him, will all have a slenderer spiritual value and effect than they might have.Iam Bot advocating the abandonment of pro- hibittom.nor the dissolving of our à lodres and clube and churches, nor any Precipitate invasion of taverns with these secretly redemptive aims by any or all of us, but perhaps a sell-spend- ing, self-forgetting, self-sacrificing aim at tenderer fellowship with some victim of the curse of liquor whom we know might be a gain to him, and to us, and to our work.An organization at the best 1s a cold thing.Patronage or pious adage is\u2014well, it is enough to drive one to drink rather than pull one from it.This close friendship way, which Is to cealing the example, is far more delt- cate than any such courses or means.It is the expression of the Divine Jove in us that longs to redeem.and to do it without obtrusion or superiority, or any ælf-consciousness at all.The Methed of Sympathy and Tact.quarters\u2014in men | knew and loved per- sonally\u2014till my University days.There was certainly a little of it to he seen there.And towards the small set of mostly lovable men who, in high spirit nr bravado or what not, were wont to! i Indulge, there were two muin attitudes among the less misguided men.Ome Was that of those who in our Christian Unions and Total Abstinence Societies did what we could-\u2014denouncing drink, counselling temperance, and, 1 am | afraid, in spite of our well-meaning, | becomil g rather disagreeable and setf- righteously prigxish people.1 wouldn't have stood it myself, now that E look back on it.The other attitude was nearer the heart of things.Some men kept in {touch with.got alongside of, (hese others.They had a keener realization and imagimdion of the hattle we were demanding «of them.If anyone knows how hard it is to give up tohacoo, let him reflect how nerd to drop opium jor alcohol! Where this way too often came lo grief was that it just vapoured away into mere amiability, and no moral progress was scored.That was perhaps from lack of personality, or it may have heen from lack of Inve and the self-control and restraint that such delicate work requires | Hin spirit in us we can.My time in gone.1 have only touched on the social side of the Mas- terra example I had intended also to turn to ils personal side.But I will only mention the insiance that revonis that est to me.There wan in Jerusalem a guild of good women who laid upon themselves the office of providing for criminals during the slow agonies of crucifixion an intoxicating drauzht to mitigate the torment\u2014a rude kind of chloroform.a stupefying narmotic in which grief and pain could fur a while be drowned and numbed.To Jesus as He writhed in mortal pangs these came with thelr opiate kindness.And Jesus, with parched mouth, gasped towards the cooling drink, as He thought It.Hut when He had tasted it, and knew what it was He would not driok.Even then He would not cloud His spirit, even yet He had sober work to de for God and man, even s0\u2014as Cure was out of hope\u2014He would not descend to shun mere n or he a sensualist ever wo slightly.And from this supreme and solemn renunciation we may surely learn what had been His habit and example in the lesser trials and temptations of His earthly life.And to one who knows and gloves Jesus there is, I think, no pepmof of any merely comfortable gence so severs.and yet so gentle, as the re- membrunce that in the unspeakable torture and heartbreaking shame of death by erueifixion \u2018He would mot anak\u201d striking chapters,\u201d overwhelming vision of One\u2014a consciousness of twofold iden- ication.\u2019 fsuinh realized that his life was Lound up with Godin « new way, and with the life and service of the nation also.have the force of example while oon- ised t! confidence in God, he said: the nation rises to this commission, I sever saw drunkenness at ciose it shall be renamed according to character.occurred to you that the Lord has for you n name expressive of character, your life, your attitude of faithfulness or unfaithfuiness to Him Dees He knnw you as one who is enduring and seif-sacrificing.one upon whom He can depend emergency ur for any service?tutional prohibition for campaign for world the ; Wilh such capacities as we have than doctors, she made an owinest appeal a * \u2018 for China \u201cYou may all have part,\u201d she said, \u201ceither by your in- lercessiona, or by your gifts, or by the dedication of yourselves to Him for service in that land\u201d To the hicurts of the many young people present her words must have gone home with arresting power.The Chairman's closing address was based on Isaiah 62, which had pro.{viously been read to tho mecting by that he was then a graduate of Co- ( \u201cIt Is one of the most said Dr.Holden, \u201cin the whole of Isalah\u2019s prophecy, recording as it docs the result of an the Coming Colonel Winn, For.from that lime on, \u201cIf you and 1\u201d said the apeuker earnestly, \u201chave seen in fulness what Isalah saw id suggestion, then must be the consequence in our lives -\u2014a new identification with the pure poses of God; our lives bound up with the Will of God, and with tbe work of God in His world\u201d this inextricably He went os (uv point out two lines of thought suggested by the prophet'a declaration.ception of the work which henceforth claimed hin Mle, and the lle of his nation; which sustaimed him tn regard to that work \u20181) Isaiah's con- (2) - The confidence in God Drawing attention tu the early verses of the chapter, Dr.Holden remarked on the prophet\u2019s first oon- ception of the work of prayer.\u201cA great many people\u201d he said, \u201cexpress themselves in prayer as though they had to overcome some reluctance on the part gf God, and had almost to woo Him into doing what they think should be dons.\u201cBut,\u201d be erled.sweeping away so low a conception and lifting up something high and noble, \u201cprayer ia a million times removed from that Prayer is mot strife with God, but harmony with Him.It is human co-operatitiyl with the willingness of God, in His Covenant.It s reminding the Lord of His faithful Word, relying upon It, aligning ourselves with the declared purpose of that Word, and putting ourselves utterly at His disposal, bending of His Will to ours, but the blemding of ours with His.\" It is not the Io referring to the call to \u201cGo through the gates,\u201d and the open door of service At le there implied.Dr.epaii ébor, whether to à land \u2018ob t4' ef\" Individual Hite, is à definite \u2018ehallénge \u2018to faith and to consécration * of every open door in China.This is the meaning In referring to Isaiah's supreme \u201cWhen its I wonder if it has ever your in any \u201cAnd we are not only renamed by God according to character; but according to our witness we are named dy mec also.\u201cThe Jledeemed of the Lord, \u2018A Holy People.\u2019 the inwardness.of each redeemed one is given the service of declaring God in terms of lite understood by the people, what people see of @od in the lives of those who are His that tells for\u2014 or againgt-\u2014Him.\" They shall cail you \u2018A People Sought Out.\u2019 And this Is that to ns This thought took prominence in the closing prager: \u201cMay we never be satisfied with \"any work which does not lift Thea; and never have up- am sure iL is the better way\u2014thoush|on our lips aly other message than one need not despise the other by any : essage=' means-and the way of Jesus, But the ternal M Behold the then He had personality and love, | lamb of tind!) May the nams Thou Really, friends, (here is nothing for It] wilt one day \u2018grite upog our fore.but that we should become lke Jesus heads be a ; that shall bring to \u2014an little self-righteous, as little re- \u201d rot criminatory.as little gushing, and anf \"7° shame Bo resvs | strong and seif-forgetful as He, By| [t.Wasa Id meeting im every sense, and in the impressive hush at Its close.surely the eldest prayer of many must have been; Nothing but Thy favor Ny soul can satisfy.\u2014M.C.in the \u201cChristian.\u201d WORLD PROHIBITION With the near approach of consti.the United States, and coincident with the close of the world war, November 11, 1918, he- lleving the time ripe for an intensive ibition, Miss Anna A.fjordon, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and ong of, the homorary secretaries of the World's W.C.T.U.rallied the forces of this great organisation to renewed high endesvor by sending out from Evanston, llisols, this stirring proclamation: Proclamation for Werld Prohibition.World demeeraey.World peace and world patrietiom, demandé world prohibition.' Repressating'the National Weman' write prohibition tn ft constitutional law, we hereby call \u2018upon thy paupten of all faiths and of all organisations tin the world's mnlly of nationg, to clasp hands with the World's W.« T, U, and lo help bring to full fruition its hope and ita horvic service of thirty-five years on behalf of a sober world.Ncience declares against al.«ohol, Health.conservation and business prosperity demand total ub.atinence and prohibition.Together jet un agitate, educate, organize and logis.late, untit the cxolted vision of the founder of the World's W.C.T.U.Frances KE.Willard, 1» realized: until the Gospel of the Uolden Rule of Christ is worked ont in the customs of society and in the laws of every land.At the close of the devastaling world war.in the white heat, of the limitiesæ, unparalieled opportunities of a new internationalism.depending upon the help of God and of all who, love humanity, we hereby proclaim, by the vear 1926, the triumph of world prohibition.\u201d Rest Cottage, Evanston, Illinois, U.B.A.Nov.11, 1918 The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1883 by Frances EF.Willard.It te organtred in forty nations, with a total membership of over half a million.In 1884 Frances E, Willard, (he prophetic leader of the White -Riblion hosts of the United States, sent out from her home office in Evanston, Tilinois, uddresmed to each government of the world, a wonderful appeal for total abstinence, purity of life.and against the manufacture and sale of opium.with this clarion call for world prohibition: \u201cWe come to vou with the united voices of representative women of cvery land, beseech- lag you to raise the standard of the law to that of Christian morals, to strike away the safeguards and sanctions of the Btate from the drink traffic, and top rotect our homes by the total prohibition of this curse of civilisation throughout all the territory over which your government extends\u201d This \u201cpolyglot\u201d petition, as it has been termed, ta historically significant, for it is the first world-wide proclamation against the legalized liquor trafic.It marks an epogh ia the annals of the temperance reform.It was endorsed by seven million people,\u2014 Catholic and Protestant, Gentile and Jew.Hindu and Mohammedan.In the reconstruction period following the war, World's W.C.T.U.representatives will present to governments not heretofore reached, this great Magna Charta of the home.In 1911, nearly thirty years later, when half the people of the United States were living in prohibition territory, Lillian M.N.Stevens, then president of the Mationa! W.C.T.U.of the United: States, lamied « great Proclamation for national constitutional prohibition in the United States, with these closing porographs: \u201cIn the name of the World's and National \u2018Woman's Christian Temperance Union, we hereby make this proclamation for a great crusade to carry the vital truth to the people in all lands, and through them to place prohibition in the organic law of all nations and ultimately in the organic law of the world; and to this high end we invoke the guidance and blessing of Almighty God and the co-operation of the men and women of all lands who love their fellow-men.\u201cTo América.the birthplace of the National and World's W.C, T.U.we hereby proclaim that within a decade, prohibition shall be placed in the constitution of the United States, and to this end.we call to active co-oper- ation all temperance, religious and philanthropic hodies, all patriotic, fraternal and civic associations, rnd all Americans who love théir eoun- ter\" With thirty-three Htates of the United States having Voted for Rtate- wide prohibition.and with national constithtional prohifittion® assured, it is most timely that un November 11, 1918, with the beginning of world peace should come this bugle biast for world prohibition sent out by the president of the National! W.C.T.U.Miss Anna Adams Gordon.The pre- ple from every land will gladly respond and prohibition by 1938 will become the slogan of the entire worté.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE VIGIL QF PRAYER.Lord of all worlds! whose wisdom nover falloth, § Shadows of earth Thy purpose often veileth, But through the gloom the faith which o'er prevaileth, Vouchasate Thy children.C in this hour, when death, its harvest reaping, May we be found our sacred vigil keeping: With Christ to wait, and pray, wateh unelesping, Patient and fearisns.Bitter the taste of this dread chalies given, Ken as we drink with hearts In anguish riven, Give us to know the healing touch of heaven, And sins forgiven.Guide us through life, Thy saving truth bestowing: Grant us the grace from Thy pun presence flowing: : Kindle the hops În brighivess ever Slowing, aad PN ARS her us ewes : TL HEV, 4 \u2018steps \u2018willing, Chustened by worrow, Thou dark pes- sions gilling, - TI wo delighi Vhy purposes IR fulfilling, \u2019 Thiough Christ to love Thee.\u2014Rev.William Mulr Auld.a \u2014 A MISSIONARY'S TRIAL OF FAITH.- A missionary of the China Inland Misaion save that one year, as it drew towards Christinas-time, they had in their house just a littte four and some potatoes, and a few other things, while they had not a cent of money {te buy anything else They expected some supplies and cash by steamer.\u2018The steamer came, but no supplies or cash.The missionary then said: \u201cNow you wil wee how that day, the Lord having shut up one source to try our faith, opened others.Before dinner- large piece of beet and said, I want You to accept this as a present, TI have reveivod a great deal of medi.vine from you.You have done me good, und yeu would not take any money.Will you please to take this\u201d I took il, and thanked God for it.Soon Rfterwarde, in came - another China- man a gentieman, with @ coolle walking behind him with a large bambos over Rip shoulder, and à basket hang- Ing from each hand.The man put the things down in the reception-room, and 1 was asked to come down.1 went down and opened the hasket, and found in it four hams and some little things besides.He sald, \u2018I want \u2018ou to aucept this us a present.\u2019 The usual thing with a Chinaman is to expect you to take a little of what he brings und give him back the rest: but F saw that this man intended me Bo may we tread Thy path with foot- | time a Chinaman came along with a God for it.In cume unother Chins man with a fat pheasant.and somx chokens and a baskel of egzu- and ha asked me to accept\u2019 these: +i did no cept them, and thanked God for them Fut that was not all.-Hefore évezing a European connecthd with thé con sular- mervion came along, -bringias with him a ecoolis carrying nu huge turkey.He said, \u2018Hee, [ huve boet ferding-the turkey for you fer sty months.Will you .amwpt HT You see that: the Lord knew.siz months before that wo were ging to be short on that dey.and He provided for us Thus we had an abundance of feod for the whole of us, altheugh.ous usuel supply was cut off.Several other things: also came in.Y~\u2014\"Chris.to take all, and I did so, and thanked ! ian Herald.\" JOSEPH FORGIVES HIS BROTHERS.(Genesis 48: 1-18.) December, 15, 1918.Golden Text:\u2014If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will alse forgive you.Matt.6: 14.Joseph was God's missionary lo Egypt.In Potiphars house, in the prison, in the presence of Pharaoh, and as ruler of the land, his whole life in Egypt was a testimony for God, and he was never afraid to speak of God as the supreme ruier of the world and the controller of ail forces.When he forewarned Pharaoh of the fargine that was coming in seven years and that was to last for seven years he dia not, speak of (t as simply 8 natural phenomenon, but said, \u201cFor that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh terfce, it is because the thing is established ty God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.\u201d (Chap.41: 32.) And when his brethren had at last been brought to a recognition of the folly and sinfuiness of their treatment of him, Joseph said, \u201cBe .not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye solid me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life\u201d That was a splendid exhibition of magnanimous forgiveness, and it was also a remarkable exhibiton of faith: Joseph saw the hand of God in all the experiences through whicis he had passed.It wad the Devil that put It into the heagls of Joseph's brothers to sell him, and then taught Potiphars wife to fie about him and have him ment to prison, but Joneph sav, that God had allowed le Devil to have his war in- these matters in arder that out of these evil actions He might bring yvod resultæa That is à truth which we find iHustrated again and agnin in .the Bible, but which is not commonly ud derstood.Ono would have supposed (hel \u2018as soon es Joseph found litmself master of Egypt, \u2018he would have sent a message to his father to tell him of his safety and of (iod's goodness fo him, snd his failure to do so during nine long years weems like & blot on hia charactér, but it is possible that he may have thought ft the best course to pursue.Perhaps le was Dlanntig from the beginning for just what did Papen.Evidently he \u2018wanted to waken the consciences of his brothers and make them feel the sintuiness of their conduct toward him.and he may have felt that th policy which he adopted was neces- mary to the attainment of that object.That his stern treatment of them did make his brothers think in evident from Reuben's remark.\u201cRpake | mot unto you, eaying, Dp not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?(Chap.42: 22) - In his concealment of hig identity and in his apparent harshness toward his brothers as well as in his fres forgiveness of them Joeegh\u201d (Muatrates God's way of dealing with planers.Joseph showed: great Ingeauity in his treatraent of his Wethren.testing them to see how their characters had developed.fimeon waa the worst of the batch and he put Simeon in prison.(Chap.40: § and 5: 24) But Judah was the strongest charno- ter, the natural leader, and it was Judah that had proposed seling Joseph: 50 Jomph tested Judah by his triek tu putting the siiver cup tn Ben.amine sack.Mo wanted tr ste What the others would do when No threa.* toned to tread Benjantin av o thief and x - °° Sunday School Lesson let the rest go.And when Judah offered to become a slave in place of Benjamin, Joseph was satisfied, and he could no longer pretend to be the stern judge.He loved these brothers in spite of their sin against him.They were his father's sons apd he loved them for the father's \u201csake.Ben.Jamin, the son of his mother.he loved for his own sake.In like manner, God loves the disciples of: Christ \u2018for Christ's sake.God's promise to Abraham was, \u2018I will bless thee, and make thy name great.And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.(Gem.12: 3.) And aguin: \"AU the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.\u201d (Gen.18; 18.) And yet again: \u201cIp thy seed ghall all thy nations of the earth be blessed\u201d (Gen.28: 18).Yetc-tth apite of his, relirngted declaration that it was 3 xR) B9AR 0 10 use Abraham aod, bla pard, 94.Slpanet through which e a stream of bie; Pa bs i?a.descendants of (Cratiazs | Miienmar allowed themseives ts , heligyp, that they had a monomly of, (hg .faver of God, and that it weg a, Feligique Gutz to despise other peoples, |, .1; There was a sort e{,pxcrhe (or this feeling because.they ware taught te regard themselves ag God's chosen people, and the laws that were given to them were expregely, depigned to keep them entively separate fom sur« rounding nations, -.But; God's thought is always bigger than man's compre« hension of it.He wanted to keep.the Tsraelites separate.from- idolatora that they might be & perpetual witness to the goodness of-His jaws and to Hie kindness to those.who serve Him, They were to be & light tm the midst of the world shiniag for God, and they could only.fuifil! that mishtom by being quite different from the heathen peoples among whom they, ved.A In ita fullest meaning God's promise to bless all nations through the seed of Abraham referred to Christ (Bee Gel.2: 16) Put God's promises ul- ways mean more than the words fmply.and the story of Joseph, and the story of Daniel; and the story of Mordecal and Esther, ind\" also, the story of Jonah.show how God \u201cgid usc some of the\u2018 descendants of Abraham ss instruments of blessing to heathen peoples and as & means of making Himselt known \u2018to natiohe thit were living In darkness.Thégo stories show what God could \u201chave done in that way through Tsradl as a nation If they as a nation had been loyal to Him.In thé time of David and in the earlier years of Sofomon's reigs the fame of lerael's God wits very great.God sent Abraham to Canaan from Mesopotamia as a missionary: ot to preach, hut to practice; to commend his religion by his character.Mel- chigedek- was in Canaan at the same time\u2014\"s_ priest of.the Most High God\u201d If the poopie of Canaan had appreciated the opportunity - which was thus gives them (0 learn abomt God, their deusendahte would \u2018not fave heen destroyed by Abrebam\u2019s descendants.(Ue.15: 16.) No one oan get the full bhesefit of this lesson without reading the threes previous chapters; for the narrative - | ADOPTING A BABY SQUIRREL \u201cLast epring ut New Clit, LI.the writer happined pot fur from the bisat of tho village, and uttractcd Ly several anpurentiy -quiious ipeopte watching a\\tres, fedhvered thst etther ages mischicvons beds or an il.liowe wind had tumbled to the ground w tiny baby nquirbél, surely not more ham \u20ac mrock old.Apparently the nest that hall doused the fellow had been disturbed so that the older : squisrels had deserted it, and wo one appeared about to care for the tiny , animal.A hungry looking dog eyed \u2018the spot of fur on the grass with longing cyes, apd then turned on hu heals, when the writer decided to \u201cadopt the little wait.But how?\u201cThat wis the question.Hufely a lit.tie animal five inches long, covered with fussy hair, a wes tail and hav.fag no sign of cars.qught not to he very hard to hundie, egpecially when it couldn't walk But the lack of bodlly activity wus surely made up by its wquealing when the writer finai- Sy managed to tie it up tm an ordinary handkerchief and bring it to Hs new home\u2014a wooden box, covered with a wire screen, and inside some eotton batting for à bed.Thea came the question of food.\u201cGive it some cracked corn,\u201d said one sympethetic neighbor.\u201cOr some lettuce\u201c said another.\u201d \u201cNuts are the only things for squirrels\u201d sald un.other, But how could a week-old squirrel] eat any of theses things, having no teeth?And so a dolls nursing bottle with milk was tried! But no, that wouldn't do either, and finally the hunger of the little animal was appeased by heated miik, poured down its throat with a tiny after-dinner coffee spoon.Three or four times a day this performance was repeated, each time the littic squirrel cnjoying himself to his heart's coatent, and usually belng mo anxious for the milk, that much of it got spilled over his fussy Nitle face.In three weeks time, the little squire ' 16 had progressed 20 far in his new environment and education that he could lap the milk from a saucer like æ kitten.Then gradually his legs became stronger and he began to walk all around the box, and gradu- \" ally learned to stand on his back feet.Always, however, near § o'clock In the afternoon would be bed time, and burrowing a hole in his cotton batting bed, the little squirrel would curl himself io a ball, pull the batting over him completely and snooss until TX fext frorning.\u201d AYways'lNe Was an early riser, and the\u2019 sqUéhks from the \u201c= wire covered \u2018bx \"slioll became known asthe \u201coh of Whdw,_ day.biking this radu al growing.one of the ge sh things about the \u201c 114408 animal was the appearance of his card!'fttet Ws\"ny fussy pointsand \"then \u201cregular\u201d dain es one little yourigstét terined them.Toward the early part of the summer the diet of the squitrel\u2019 had advanced to broken * nuts when his point: of\u201d teeth appeared, and thé milk was left untouched.\u201cNuts net wanted were tuck.: cd under the batthig in @ veritable pile, patted-In place with tiny paws.By this time the warm weather had .fully started and the little aquirrel \u201cWas put où the upper porch ef the - writer's home which had been wired + §8.: There he raced around and play- + of Hko a kitten.Sometimes he would .fallow the writer indoors and if hand- od -a nut, would promptly tusk it un.«der the corner of à rug and pat it down for safe keeping, Nuts by the score went this way, (he epriy instinct of provident cue sven being shown in such a young squirrel.From the porch the lttie squirrel, who had been named \u201cBub\u201d by this time, learned to climb up the wire netting, over the railing, down lo the roof and finally to the ground.This was all a gradual process of weeks of time, und showed the development of \u2018the little animal.It seemed he puffed with pride the day the writer missed him from the porch and found him in the next yard, halt way up a tree.That was the climb that gradually \u2018Jed to others until the little fellow ® came into his own and raced over the tree limbs and had the most storious time, Always at night he would return just beforv dusk, climb up a shutter on the side of the house, and in this way reach the upper porch.Here ho would make his bed aa of) olé in the first box, or on very \u2018hot sights during the summer would tuck himwelt in the awnings, drawn up for the night.- By summer time the food had become so varied that oné wohdered what next he would est.Chobelate, cake, banamas, crackers, candy, with auto in it, and apples supplemonted his regular diet of nuts.All summer busy carting away nuts, siven now uneracheé, and burying them under hedges, In the grass sad every cencelvable plage.Sometimes would eat them.siting up on his Mod feet, nuts In x front paws, like ld squirrcls.Then one day another lttie equir- was found playing with little Bub, from tha time his heart and ind ssught other channels.The old on the poreh wag forgotten sad aight Bub spent away from home.nights in fact.and ther he re- ons morning for flood Haas wes carrying eway auts teward \u2018 7 jiTAgES Ing hin wuy 10 a certain tree where be and the uther little syulirel wero building à winter nest.: Bub wun getting big and (ni by the early part of the (xl and gradusily he became so acclimated to the woods, his natural home, that by now ha is only seen unce in two or three Weeks or possibly more.He will come to a tree neur the writer's house, squesk in his same imperious why, receive some nuts and kim across the Lrestops to his other Home, pow Just like all the other squirrels.Bub knew his name aad was as affectionate as a playful kitten.Many a time, tired with playing.he would curl himself in the writer's lap, und go to sleep contentedly.Once when the writer allowed him in the house for à brief time, ahe found him curled up in the algeve of a ceat she had left arn u couch, turning for a moment to other thbinga\u2014 Brooklyn \u201cEagle,\u201d mp $++a0000000 GOOD RECITATIONS P0000 COP e SICK OF \u201cMUSTNITE\u201d + Le ° + + + + + Fm sick of \u201cmusti'ts\u201d said Dorothy D.Sick of the \u201cmumtn\u2019is\u201d us | can be, From \u2018early morp till close of day, I hear a \u201cmustn't\u201d und never a \u201cway.\u201d It's \u201cYou must\u2019 lic there like a sleepy .head;\u201d And \u201cYou mustn't sit up when it's \u201cYeu musta\u2019t ory whem I comb sour curly\u201d \u201cYou mustn't piny with JAhos2 nolsy sivia\u201d \u201cYou mustn't Lu silent when spoken to.\u201d \u201cYou mustn't chatier as \u2018parrots du:\u201d \u201cYou mustn't be pert and you mustn't Le proud:\u201d \u201cYou musts\u2019t giggle or laugh aloud.\u201d \u201cYou mustn't rumple your nice clean dresa;\u201d \u201cYou muste\u2019t nod in place of yes So all day long tLe mustn'ts go.Ti I dream at nignt of an endless row Of goblin \u201cmustn\u2019ts\u201d \u201csen That rtare at me \u2018a slwcked surpilse, Oh! I hope [ sha' live tn see the dus When someone will say to me, \u201cDear, you mas.\u201d For I'm slick of \u201cmustn'ta\u201d sald Dorothy D.Bek of \u201cmusta\u2019ts™ as I can be, , \u2014 CHICKENS THAT WEAR CLOTHES A flock of chigkens all tricked out in woollen garments would be « strange sight; yet, on a certain big ostrich farm down in Southern California it ie not at all rare to see scores and scores of ostrich chicks wearing clothes.An entire brood, when first hatched at this celebrated fowl ranch, is often taken from the parent Lirds and placed in a weparate enclosure, where they delight in pecking bits of shells and tiny grave! while runuing over the sand all day, but at night thex are mheltored in 8 big brooding 0X.After being thus Imprisoned about (our days, the chicks are strong pnough to begin to eat coarser food, #0 tho keeper opens the door of the corral and allows the little fellows to run at large in a pasture during the day.The warden knows from experienpe the harm that might result in permitting his young chicks to run about In the ferencon in the wet grass and clover.aa weil as the banetul effects from cool brogses in tho late afternoon, so before he starts them out foraging each bird is caught and clothed in a snug-fitiing tailor-made suit prepared for the occasion.Ip order to protect the almost bare bodies of the tender, motheriess youngsters [rom becoming chilled hy poisonous dews tn the mornings and Taw evening winds, as well as (rom danger of gups and other maladies fn.cident to all chicks, the keeper dresses up, one by one, the entire flock of young birds, in tight-fitting frocks of green falt.One of these little cloaks fs drawn closely over each oval back sad made fast around the slender neck.it is not ut all uncommon to see dos- ens and doxens of young ostriches, for the first few weeks of thelr lives, running gayly about.picking up gravel here and there, nipplag the tender clover tops, each rigged out In a green, fly-uway jacket that keeps his back and shoulders warm and dry.It ls not long.however, before their cloaks are discarded, and the busy chicks are nevermors burdened with tailor-made \u201cclothes; for bey very soon grow a cout of feathers of their own, which gives full protection for | the remainder of their lives.Ostriehes are rare and valuable birds.A single pair ef healthy chicks will soil any day for as much as forty doilars while a couple of full.grown birds, three years of age, are worth three hundred dollars: and aa snceedingly handsome pair, four years old or over, Wilt command « price of sight hundred dollars.The chilly and dewy mornings in early spring.oven in Californie, are a savers trial to the tender young chieks \u2014whess greal-grandparegts for een.Husiea Toampd the.tvopies! where the weather ia het the round=\u2014and thus you see, the with great big time for bod:\" *\" expense of purchasing n few yards of felt or flannels Is never for un In.stunt considersd, when the bird fan.cler knows that cach male ostrish, when grown, will yiekt [fifty dollars\u2019 worth of plumes a year.Considering the high prices of theso rare birds and the costly feathars they produce, it ls small wonder (he owner looks after the comfort of his expensive floek of fowls with such extreme caution.An ostrich egy will measure about six inches through its longest diameter, will weigh three and s quarter pounds, while its contents is equal to that of two dozen ordinary hen eggs.When a baby ostrich is first hatched, It measured from top of his fussy little head to the voiles vf his padded toes, he will be found to stand about ond foot high.He is & funny-looking imp, fe this baby ostrich, with plush- covered neck und head und big pop- ayes, when he attempts to strut about in stately fashion.Kor the first fortnight he looks more like a two-legged hedgehog than any other creature to which he might bo compared, his long neck and prickly back being to the touch much like a Lunch of dry ex- celslor.At the age of threes weeks he is as big as a tyrkey; and for the first aix months of his life the greedy Httle fowl gorges himself with chopped beets, cabibages, oranges.alfalfa buds, and anything cise he happens to find on foraging expeditions and is supposed Lo grow in height at the rate of one foot a month.At one year old a young ostrich Is considered ready to Le clipped of his first crop of feathers, and avery nine months thereafter will grow a new supply of plumes for his master.A full-grown ostrich is regarded as the largest and strongest known bird.as well as the longest lived, and a good specimen will measure eight feet in height and weigh three hundred pounds.\u2014August W.Dougherty, in \u201cSunday Scheo! Messenger.\u201d \"A BEE A GREAT CARRIER ap In a most Interesting article published in the \u201cTechnical World\u201d magasine, Edward F.Bigelow tells of the wonderful capabilities of the bes as a carrier.\u201cThe bees bring in the polien attached to their legs.These flat surfaces are bordered by two rows of stout hairs that remind one of the stakes on the (armer's bay waggon He puts them on the side to keep the lead in place: the bes has these hairs for a similar purpose.In all the meny masses of pollen that I have examined I have never found two kinds on any one leg, although the bee may have come from a Held or garden where there are many varieties of plants in bloom.The bes is a specialist.She devotes her entire attention to one thing and to one kind of pollen, though Inter on she may give undivided attention to another kind of pollen.These masses are so large and so heavy that they suggest the possibility, and indeed the plausibility, of transmitting messages, &s recommended by an Eng.lieh apiarist, by writing them on tiny pellets of paper and attaching them to the bee, thus using the bes as a carrier in & manner similar to that of tho homing pigeon.The bes can carry a comparatively heavy load, but sometimes she stops to rest.1 bave it upon the authority of a trustworthy brother naturalist.in whom T have implicit confidemos, that while he was fishing In \u20ac certain place in Nova Bcotia the bees were flying across the boat on their way homeward.Each carried a huge load of pollen and many alighted on his boat, apparently to rest.On their outward Journey they similarly alighted, and whal was his amusement to note that each laid down = grain of sand, and after resting picked t¢ up and carried it forward.The question arises \u201cWhy curry the sand asd why need ballast\u201d 4s the Bee keyed up to the point of carrying » certain weigh so that it works ,more easly with that weight than without it, or is the act the result of the foros of habit?We can only say thst we do net kno.\" MOTSON PICTURES IN CHINA.AL the\u2019 end of the Ruseo-Japanese War, says the Los Angeles \u201cTimes,\u201d Mr.Brodsky, a native of Odessa, Russia, came to San Francisco.After the great San Francisco fire he left the city with an oN notion-picture machine and forty or fifty resis of \u201cjunk\u201d film.With that he saled for the Orient.The motion pleture was unknown in China when he reached thers with his paraphernsile, and ho ran into many dangers in showing his wares.To the naîtves his camera and projocting machine was @& \u201cmagic Lox.\u201d He had to pay his first audiences to enter his theatre.which.by the way, was only a tent.In that way he finally won The \u20acrowds, Matters were progressing well when Hrodsky one \\day put on 8 wild-West film fn which a dand of cowboys appeared onthe screen, charging straigtt at the spectators and firing revolvers.The, mement the audience saw those shosting cowboys bearing dewn upen them, they rushed pasic-strioken from the tent theatre, cutting their way ost with knives.\u2019 ~ After that the cautious natives were slow to some bask: but finally Brod.aky hit upon the plan ef having à few I.v Chinese come and examine the apparatus, pass their hands over the blank sheet that was the screen, and assure themselves that there was nothing to hurt them.Gradually he established pleture theutres throughout the country, until now there are cighty cr them Once he was thrown into a Chinese ay, but finally made his escape after | getting the whole populace into the Juil to view his motion pictures.At another place he was to have executed as a \u201cdevil.\u201d but he frightened the people and made them change their minds hy telling them that he could easily put them on the acreen and make them work there forever.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 » HARD-WORKING WORO8.(By Mary Whiting Adams.) Three hundred words, sc experts in the Kaglish language way, are all that an average person ever uses, from the day he firet begins to speuk until the day of his death.Of course, in reading he will meet and know many more words, but he will-not use them in his own talk.Out of these three hundred hardworking words, nine will do a quarter of the whole verbal work of ap ordinary life.Thess nine are all words of ono syllable, They are: and, be, have, dt.of, the, to.will, jou.Three of these are the great dynamic verbs, Le, \u2018will, and have, which, of course, come \u2018into everyone's dey.Hut it is rather \u2018a surprise to find that you and it are in the list, and that I is not.This { shows that the world is not so selfish | after all Add thirty-four more words to the nine, and the result will be the group of words that make up half of our talk.Here ceme: about, all.us, abut, can, come, day, dear.for, get, 50, hear, her, IY, in, me, much, aot, on, one, say, she, =o, that, therc, they, this, Margaret had bess; watching fer Vance to come | « from uncle Peter's where he had » for some old newspapers, he vas coming up the walk with his big cart piled so high that he had tied the papers with & rope to keep them on.\u201cBee! Uncle Peter gave me some magazines, too, Margaret! I guess the boys will think this is a fine lot of paper for the Junk Drive\u201d he eried.The Danbury boys wers gathering old papers and metal and bottles to sell to & junk man; the money so secured was to be given to the local Red Cross Yarn Fund.\u201cBut you're not going to take the magasines right off for junk, Vance\u201d Can't you think of anything but the Jugk Drive?You know I've been wanting to make some more scrap books for the sick soldiers and couldn't find any pictures for them!\" declared Margaret, \u201cWel go through these magasines and take eut the pictures for the scrap books.That littie bit of weight will do much more good used that way than it could do for scrap paper.You know uncle Peter said using every single thing to the beat advantage for eur brave soldiers is the hind of thrift we need to have.\u201d \u201cI suppose you're tight\u201d sald Vice.\u201cBut 1 can't Dead to cut pg- tures.\u201d .= \"Halon and 1 ill 8 thé Work.The sick soldiers love our tetme books, and if you can't bear Lo oué plotures for your eountry 1 wonder what you'd think of standing fer hours and heurs in those trenches: \u201cAll right, I'm going to help,\u201d said Vance, who wes Tether ashamed of his acifishness.Te toll the truth he had Deen feeling out of sorts because be had soon piles and piles of old magagines ia uncle Peters study closet.AS flesh he was delighted to secure us anrt lead.but the mere he taught of WOR P wines Soft behind the mors he thought unele Peter might have asked him to come + though, time, we, with, write, your.Isn't it queer that he and him are net in this Itet, whilo she and ler are?Every one of these industrious words are almost always \u201cbook\u201d words.They look well on « page, but sound stilted in ordinary talk.Nearly all of the forty-thres leaders are positive words too\u2014words of energy, of doing, of linking up, and moving ahead.Only four have any possible negutive ahout them: but, though, not, und if.Half the speech of the worid, then, Is short, simple, und affirmative, as it vught lo be, and can and will are avticesble in its ranks.\u2014Helected.\u2014\u2014\u2014 WAY OF EXPRESSING IT.UNE Has the writer of this nole learned English or not?Ho is speuking of the vaocination of his child: Dear Teacher Mr.Felt: Sorry that | am unable to attend sour class to-day, tor I and Mrs.Lis wish to go to the government hospl- tal: planting the pox for our baby now, Exguse me, please.Thank jou cver so much.\u2019 Yours sincerely, LIN SHEN KEN.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ° Virtus comes from the Latin word vir\u2014a man.Vices arc unmanly and weakening, us well sa disgracetul.CAN YOU DO IT?1\u2014When !s « ship foolishly in love?2.\u2014When is a ship properly in love?3\u2014Why is an overcest Lhat is too big overy way like two towns ia France?4.\u2014What trade iz the sup\u201d Watch next week's Boys\u2019 Page and sec (f your answers wers correct, Great Grandfather\u2019s Merry Problems \u2014One grindfther sald that if we figured correctly we would find they ate 8.938 apples, but so far | have only found that Eve £14 and Adam 812, making a total of 1,626.(Continued.) \"TROQIQS (Children's Corner SCRAP BOOKS (By Ruby Holmes Martyn.) back for another load for the Jume Drive.\u201cLI help cut out so I can take the scrap paper down this after- 000.\u201d be added, flo out in the back kitchen where the floor was bare and a big table handy, the girls and Vance went to work looking over the magazines and cutting out the pretty pictures and the poems and avery joke they thought the soldiers would enjoy sce- ing\u2014all bright, cheery things for the boys, .\u201cNow we can paste the scrap books evenings.\u201d sald Margaret when she saw what a nice boxful of clippings they had secured.And Vance went away whistling with a cart load of waste paper for the Junk Drive.\u201cIt was most like getting something out of nothing,\u201d ho had told Margaret happily.That evening uncle Peter came to see father.The girls and Vance were pasting at the hig table in the hack kitchen.\u201cHello!\u201d said uncle you got a fine lot of stuff from those Peter.\u201c1 hear magasines.What 40 you think of coming for another load to-morrow.my boy?I've ben irying to find time to look over my old magazines and give them away, but you put these to such good ues I'm willing to int au.other load through your hands.There are things in them worth sendiag tv the soldiers.and what's left can go for the Junk Drive.\u201d Vance went to uncle Peter's side, \u201cMargaret thought of doing 1!\u201d he sald henestly.\u201cYou helped us do the werk\u201d said Margaret.\u201cThem you'll come fer that other cart load in the morning, thrift persons?\u201d asked uncle Peter gaily, \u201cWe will,\u201d promised Margaret.And Vasce promised himesif thet while he was busy with the Junk Drive he would remember to find time for the other things that help \u201cChild's Hous?\u2018 \u2014 -\u2014 THE POOREST BOY IN TOWN.A Christmas Resitelion.Santa Claus.I haug for you Un my bedrall, stockings two, Une for me, apd ono to go \u2018fo a Boy yuu do not kaow.There's an alley in the town You have never travelled down: There's a chimney, low and moan, Smaller than you've ever seen; But to-night you'll enter there, And \u2018ll tind à room ail bare, Poor as room cam be, I'm told, Cheerless, carpeticss and cold.Snuggied in & shabby bed.Look\u2014you\u2019ll see & curly head, But no stockings will you spy Howsosver much you try: For this boy goes down the street With just nothing on his feet.Theres he lisa\u2014you'll watch awhile By bis bed, to ses him smile; Well, he's dreaming of the toys Which you take to luckier boys, And a merry time, it seems, He is having 1a his dreams\u2014 But, of course, they'll fade away With the dawning of the day.Sante Claus, T beg of you.Make those happy dreams come true, Fill this stocking to the brim With yeur choloest gifts\u2014for him.\u2018Then, please, put it in your sack (No\u2014I shall not want it back) And fly off.snd take (t down To that poorest boy in town.What a moment it will be \u2018Whee that laddie wakes to ses\u2014 Lifting up that curly head Such a wonder on his bea! OL, 1 wish I could be there Just to ses him start and stare: Then the smile upon his face\u2014 Why, \u201ctwill brighten all the place! \u2018Then he'll turm the presente out On his bed.I have no doubt; Counting them with wild surprise, Shaking hande snd beaming eyes.Far his hungry (iagers go Searching to the very tos\u2014 There to find\u2014my own Hall-crown\u2014 With this message written down\u2014 \u2018For the poorest boy im town.Yes.you see, I do my part, Santa Claus, with willing heart.Golden dreamm must fade away AL the dawning of the day.Fut if we this Christmas weather, Just agree to work together\u2014 We can make them last apd live We can make them last and live By the gifts that we oan give! + \u2014 Wonderland.\" _\u2014 PRINTING PICTURES.Many childrens enjoy taking pictures with a camers, but few young people know that very pretty pictures may be printed without any camera at all.All you nesd to make these pictures is a voll of blue print paper and & piece of window glass.You cen get the paper at a photographer\u2019s or architect's.Be careful not to let the light touch the paper before you are ready to use it.The next thing to de ia to select dainty flowers or grasses or ferns.Arrange your preity growths quickly on a pisces ef the blue paper, them cover with the glass.and leave them in the bright sunlight.Now you may rest for ten minutes, while the sun does your werk for you.A windew- sill i» a good piace for making these prints.When the clock tells you that tem minutes have passed, lft the glass and remove the flowers.You will see « pretty white impression of them on the blue paper.To make this impression lasting dip the paper in water for a few minutes, then take it out and pin it on a board to dry\u2014 \u201cChurchman.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MADE OVER PATRIOT.Bc a \u201cmade over patriot.\u201d That does not refer to folks who bave only recently become patriotic, but te the kind who show their patrotiem by making over the oi clothes into new.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE WAY OF 17, A Nttle doy made hm à wee anow- ball And rolled it about in the snow; And it gathered the crystals and clung ta them alt, And O how that smowball did grow! O my! You've made ope.of course.so You know.A little bey whispered a word one day Uakind of some one he knew, And each one who heard it repeated his way 5 The stery till © how tt grew\u2019 0 my! And 8 heartache was caused by it, too! Two little red mittens the small ball rolled That grew in such a magical way, And 8 Httle red tongue was the ose that told The tale that grew big in & day.Oo my! Be careful, wee tongues, what yeu say! \u2014Pasilne Franceb Camp \u2014 MARJORIES BIRTHDAY.Nt came the middle of Decomber- just before the Christmas time.It had memes u pity to have the twe; Sift esasons eome Po close together: then.when the Sunday School started the White Gifts for Christmas KR came just right.Of course s child sould have gifts on her Birthday.Then.when the Lord's birthday same it was just right to give presents to others \u201cin Mis name.\u201d After the birthday presents same, Marjorie would go over all Mr ters and books sad find nome-almost es re She had done this for two years asd had enjoyed the giving quits as muth as the receiving.Indeed, her birthe day had given har more tun than ever before.This year Marjorie began to plas for her birthday s whole month before it came.&he knew just what she wanted for gitts: « pair of skates, a big dell in « blue ailk party dress, and a bracelet; yes, and a book, Mumma bad smiled when Marforiv bud told hor\u2014and the smile was almost es goed as a promise.Then à wesk before the birthday, Marjorie came from schoo! very Aboughtful.At bedtimv she wanted to talk (0 mamma Instead of having the usual story.\u201cMamma, there are two little girk fa school who have a birthday the same day as mine, One iu just a year younger.but siw's in my room.They haven't say folk.One works for hee board, the other live with her grande pe They are gver so poor.! woge dared\u2014\" \u201cWondered what, dear?\u2019 Marama\u2019s voice vas and very navet.\u201cI wen if I might share my birthday with them, lave them here to dinner, and the mosey you were soing to spend for me.you get other things.in threes.so all will be eg.actly alike.\u201d \u201cBut there wouldn't bs cmough fer skates and a big dell and-\u2014 \u201cThoss woulda't be things May aoû Helen would Hike best.Ferhaps, some -time\u2014you could make Lucile a silk dress; the rest là lots rather Lave in threes\u2014O, please, mamma'® The birthday diorning was bright with sunshine.Marjorie could hards ly wait for May and Helen to come They went to the playroom and hed such happy playing: then came dinner\u2014a nice one\u2014and then them were three birthday cakes \u2014 with casdles on each one\u2014end the birthe day gifts.There was a book for each \u2014pretty girl stories that they coulé exchange so each would have three tg Tad; there was a bright, fivtfy bow for the hair for each\u2014pink, blue sad white: there was a small box of candy for each.Had there ever been such 8 happy, happy birthday beferet ~The Child's Gem.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WINTER'S FORE-THOUGHT.Out in the woods where nut trees grow With rips nuts beading down, Some busy workers frisk about In coats of gray and brown.And as they work they frisk and res While putting outs away, Enough to last through all the snows Of many a Winter day, Pray, why 60 all these squirrels rum, And can't they stop to play, Or leave their were a DEF +.7 \u2018Thie glorious Autumn day?Why, surely not, dear little child, For all the squirrels know, That Winter days are coming fast, When nuts are deep 'neath snow.Out tn the woods the hollow trees Are fliled with nuta so brown: But all is safe and snug inside, Though snowflakes flutter down.It makes no difference now how cold, With nuts enough to last, They've stored a plenty and 10 spare, Till Winter days are past.Whisk, frisk.run.storing nuts away, Whisk, frisk.run this glorious Autumn day! Whisk, frisk, run, while storing nuts so fast, Whisk, friak, run, for Summer «aye are past.From Song Stories for the Kinder.sarten.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A LAZY FELLOW.(By Margaret WW.Leighton) When cold weather appreaches nearly ail the littio forest people, and some of the big ones.begin to think about their winter retreats, An soon an grains and nuts ure ripe they go Dusily to work laying up their winter stores of food.What do you thiak of one of the wood folk who never hides so much ns à kernel of corm ar en séorn.and never gives a thought to his cold weather snuggery.but just leads a happy-go-lucky lite ail his\u2019days?Such s one is Mr, Hedge.hog\u2014the porcupine.He may be ambling along through the woedr, gazing np the tree trunks as he passes by to see which has the testiest-looking bark, when suddenly Jack Frost drepe down and gives his toes & sharp =lm Even this disturbs him little, and he seys to himself: \u201cWell.after I've swallowed all the dagk I can I'l look about 6 bit for a hellow log, er a rocky cave where I can curl up for the winter.\u201d Tou wee.when sour food grows em every tres and yeu can have it for the taking it seems quite uanecesssry te lay up aay, Mr.Hedgehog never goes unarmed, snd his weapons are the dread of all the other woed folk, Bven the mighty grisly has besa Roown to fal! a victim to the tasy chance of eatistying his hunger.When which work deeper and deaper good as new-that she seul give to others upon the Masters dérthéer, LS THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, Re - DECEMBER 3, 1918 HISTORY MADE INTERESTING AND EASY.(Te the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\u201d) Sir \u2014One resull or this world war œught to be à renowal of interest on the part of our people in the history ef England and Canada, to understand the growth of power and liberty an: the development of the spirit that has come »o triumprantly through ihe strain and stross of the lant five years great many of our public and high @shools throughout the land are closed because of the influenza, but this will be an opportunity to those who would do some special reading.The temptation to idlences ought to he over.vome by the tempting menu that our great literary writers have placed before us.Almost the whole period of English history has been covered bv Uterary writers of the first quality.Those who will may read the grent histories of the Euxlish people.like that of John R.Green.or, if parents wish to read history to their children, they will find nothing better than the history of Englund prepared Ly Messrs.Fletcher and Kiphng and the Child's History of England hy Dickens, #0 far ns that goes But to those who would have pictures of the ages, thril- Nong accounts of the deeds of our fathers, character sketches, that make the men and deeds of those days live before us, permit me to draw their attention to twenty «reat historlea) novels that deal with a thousand years of English and Canadian history, Fér the encouragement of those whe have no library hamdy\u2014a thing which is a nuisance sometimes, for if & book Is good enough to read.it eught to be goud cnough fo buy and tesep\u2014 thesé hooks can be procured In good cheap editions from the houses of Dent's, or Nelson's, Collins: 1.Rulwer I.ytton's \u201cHarold.\u201d deals with the end of Raxon rule.2.Charles Kingsley's \u201cHereward, the Wake.\u201d treatm of the completion of the Norman conquest.3.Reotl's \u201cIvanhoe\u201d same period.4.Conan Doyle's \u201cThe White Com- Dany\u201d tells of the time of the Rack Prince.6.Lytton's \u201clast of the Harons\u201d @eals with the Wars of the Roses, & Annie Manning's \u201cThe Household of Nir Thomas More\u201d Chelsen, 1322.deals with tio: 1636.T.Harrison Ainsworth'« \u201cTower of London.\u201d 1537-1554.8.Kingsley's \u201cWestward Ho.\u201d Times of the Armada.Lady Jane Grey, ete, 9.Scott's \u201cThe lortunes of Nirel™ \u2018Times of James I.of England.1694.10.J.H.Shorthouse\u2019s \"John Ingle- sant.\u201d Civil War.11.Scott's \u201cWondstock.\u201d (\u2018romwell fm 1652.12% H.Ainaworib's \u201cOld St.Paul.\u201d The Plague und Fires of London.18.Beott's \u201cOld Mortality,\u201d Claver- house and the Covenanters.1479.34.Blackmore's \u201cTorna Doone.\u201d Monmouth's Rebellion.; 16.Thackery's \u201cEsmond.\u201d Times of William 111.and Anne, 6.Jvalter ~~ Besant's \u201cDorothy acobite Rebellion of 1715.17.\u201cWaverley.\u201d Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.18.Glibert Parier\u2019z \u201cSeale of the Mighty.\u201d Taking of Quebec.1739.19, Dicken's \u201cBarnaby Rudge.\u201d Cor don Riots, 1780.90.Blackmore's \u201cSpringhaven\u201d deals with the time of Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar.Trusting that the abeve will he a guide and an inspiration to seme of our young people.EZ.RYERSON YOUNG, Orangeville.Ont, Nov.25, 1918, PROFITS OF FLOUR COMPANIES.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.Sir \u2014The reply of \u201cOntario Miller\u201d to Rev.Mr.Annitage leaves much to be desired, in that it is not un answer.Wherein the noirs Dusty Miller \u2018a better quaîified to interpret the principles of British jurtsprudence than r SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE Fox Max ave Wours Ur WINFIELD sCOTT HALL.VD.Mevised Édition.allustratest $2.00 value for $1.55 posted, The MONTREAL BOOK ROOM, Limited 38 MatiiLe.CorLres AVE, \u2014a PERFF(T SIGHT SPECTACLES BY MAIL $130, Tot tre and vu nm baer Approval ment today for Free re MONTREAL Traber.Pxtracts from letters amt received : WRIGHT OPTICAL $48 Yonge Rireet the \u201cquiet living minister of religion\u201d is entirely beside the question.According to the miller a jury of millers only should try a miller.1t is clear then that l'otsdem Bill should only be called to ucvount before @ jury of ex- Kaisers and whitewmshed by his peers, with all the facility with which a Canadian politician is post cured hy his loving friends.The miller most ungrecefully sidesteps the issue when he gots over into the shecpfolds of Michigan.Stripped of all unnecessary verbiage, his defence is that someones stole a shew and by so doing justified tre theft of æ barrel of flour by sonieone else.He savs the miller is always up sgainat the uncertain and the unknown.ft might be added with equal truth\u2014and so ts everybody between the cradle and the grave.A voncern dealing in the necessaries of life ts up against the uncertainty of the public belnx hungry when dinner time comes: and up egzinst the unknown number of meals it takes to feed the publie three times a day, What the public would like to know.having in mind the bacon hog barons.is upon what basia the alleged profit of 27 percent ia figured.whether as a dividend upon stock issues or as In- tereat on actual money invested, 1 have heard that about thirty men.hy the system of interlocking directorates, control about #0 percent of the industria! wealth of Canada.When the miller adds the rise tn freight rates to the price of the barrel of flour, he sells the publie, he automatically receives bis «lividend upon transportation corporation stock, ta offsçt thin ln discharze of his liability to the public.There Is a great spirit of distrust abroad in the land of those operating these zchemes: and who maintain that a profit of 25 to 50 percent upon inflated capital is à great patriotic duty when the whole of democracy Is \u2018a Gethsemane.They can only be set at rest by a plain statement of the truth and the application of needful remedies.FRANK A.ROLSER.Spa *pringe, NS.prets CONTROL, THE CROWN OF DEMOCRACY.(To the Editor of the \u201c\\Witness.\u201d) Rir.\u2014The earth, the living creatures and man.are all under cofitrol.One- man power is essential to success in manufacturing and commercial enterprises, in educational institutions and ln every form of democratic government.One-man power.either under or without control.has brought te us cither our greatest blessings or our worst calumition \u2018his view is confirmed by the names of Moses and Nero, King David and Manasseli, Foch and the Kalser.Man renders hia noblest services under the control of his \u2018country, conscience and God.There is a fundamental distinction between democracy and autocracy.The former le and the latter is not, under the control of the people.Democracy which does not control all rulers and the unjust accumulators of wealth, and which does not provide necessary.wages for the home-com- forte of.and for elevating and purifying litérature for the working classes.In out of harmony with the laws of the universe of humanity and of God.\u2018There is a distinction between British and American democracies.In the former the Premier.who in removable, ix under the control of his cabinet and paritament.and in the latter the President.who is irremovable until his term expires.without belng amenable to his cabinet.is under the divisional control of hoth Houses of Congress and of the Renate\u2014of the former in declaring war, and of the latter in making peace, and other treaties, In the judgment of two 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list .creereninsaees dB 4e lémp lenther binding.- stes- iy timp Tes - press a 3 wr per toner Maing Tao, THE MONTREAL BOOK ROOM LIMITED 2% MeBILL COMLBOR AVE, MONTREAL \u2014 can nations who are the torch-bearers of His gospel in the bonds of à moral and epiritual unity, and their allies, should protect the freedom of the world, and that the Christian Churok should preach the Gospel in every kingdom for the freedom of righteogs- ness under the control of the King vf kings and lord of lords.A.H, KIPPAN.Stratford, Ont.DEATH RATE OF PEACE BASIES.(To the Editor of the \"Witness\") Sir\u2014The quotation following in taken from an address delivered by Bir Wm.Osler, formerly of this city, to the Medical Society of London May 14th, 1917.on the subject of the cam- palgn against venereal diseases: \u201cThe needless deaths of peace far exceed those of the most disastrous wars.In 1916.while nine of our soldiers died abroad every hour to save their country, twelve bables died at home in the same time to the scandal of our coun~ try\u201d In closing.Sir Wm.pleads for an educational campaign in which an earnest appeal for personal purity should take first place.The sacrifice of so many precious lives during this war to save our country from Prussian bondage should inspire every Canadiun citizen to join in & camppign for porsonal purity, which seems the only sane and cffec- tive remedy to deliver our people from the bondage of sensualism and Its aftermath of diseases.The only way effectively to meet the menace of Venoreal diseases is to make ruthless war on impurity.Just as fevers originate in had germs, venereal diseases are the harvest of impure thoughts and purposes.Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not dofile himself.Just mo the youth of our country must he led to choose definitely a pure life.Those who so decide wiil reapect themselves and alxo respect womanhood.It is no hardship for à young man who has developed a habit of clean thinking to itive a chaste lite, The very opposite is true.A pure heart, cleanly habits, ubstinence from stimulants, drugs or narcotica, plenty of exercise or manual labor, mcans a healthy hody and a clear head.In such n casedit Is a Joy to live.Temptation has no power over the pure in heart, \u201cLift up a standard among the people\u201c The standard set by Becretary Daniels, of the United States Navy.is the xame for hoth nexes.That ha in right in evident.It ix simply the xolden rule, and no other rule will meet the case.The late Frances Willard called it \u201cThe white Hfe for two\u201d R.A.THOMAS.167 College Nt.Toronto.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ESPERANTO.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitnean\") Bir.\u2014Ta your editorial columns, in the Issue of Oet.29th, under the head of \u201cEsperanto.\u201d you do that language such severe Injustice, that, an active Esperantist of some eight years standing, T cannét leave your statements unchaîlenged and unrefuted.It you will make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the rapid spread of Esperanto, (unchecked even by the disastrous war.which might well have heen expected to act os à powerful deterrent to its progress) yoo wilt find that the choice of an international languaxe has already been made.nnd that choice is Esperunto.1 differ from you, and so do thousands of other linguists, in your statement that English is the most simple of eivilized tongues.Its fantastic spelling alone is sufficient to deny it that distinction.French is mare precise and direct, and.as the language of diplomacy.has a right to preference.Hut we cannot foirt the language of any one nation upon the rest of the world.In order to be succensful.the international language must be neutral\u2014the cn@- mon property of all.The success of Experantn is due to itx neutrality and simplicity.Tt is sccond to nome in flexibility, and is the most perfect medium for translation in existence.The Ianguaxs is often called artificial.The term ln misleading, for it containe all the best clements of the principal existing languages, and has been built, simplifie and arranged, and not ine vented, as muny believe, from pure utoptan, Your statement that Esperanto necessardy lacks fine distinctions.proves that you have not studied it.Ti may he sald to be in fairly common ise nirendy, when the \u201cUnivernsla Experunta Asocia.\u201d x utifitarian body for the assistance of people using the lunguare in travel and commerce.had, sn 1913 official representatives In over 1,060 different places, in more than 50 different countries: nnd 13.760 rervices were rendered.necessitating 46,746 items of correspondence.hur.ink the war, the U.E.A.have been of xrest assistance in tracing missing relatives in the behizerent countries Throughout the war.the Germans of whose efficient methods we have had terrible proof.used Esperanto for (yeir propaganda in neutral countries, and both France and Germany published war reports in the language, while it is in constant ume in Rwitzer.land in connection with the repatriation of prisoners.But | have riven enourh statistics, with perhaps this: Esperanto has becn adopted by the London Chamber of Commerce.(IBm- land) a body not given to bothering Maelf with impractical or visionary schemes.And in spite of ail this use, Faper- anto han not become \u201cloaded up with words real and unresl from all sources\u201d On the onntrary, there is not the slightest difference between the Esparanto of an Englishman and a Japanese: a Hindu or a Prenchiman.\u2018This has been proved again and again, and the language le net only hoidine its own in the world.but making rapid progress therein: and no one, we feel gure, with the cause of (he bry.therhood of man at heal, will turn away from a well-established, thoroughly-tested, simple, flexible, und euphonious language.such a perfect.yet neutral medium of intercommunication hetween the nations, a» that of the late Dr.Zamenhef, one of the greatest men of hia time.And now, my dear sir, | must awk you to pardon the freedom with which t write.Though a comparatively new subscriber tp your paper.| have grown to know and respest through your editorials, and for that reason I want ic nee you among the warm adherents of Beperanto.And Î fool sure that when you know ait that it has done, Is doing.and ali that Moperantiom stands for, 1 feel sure we shall ultimately nen you wearing the groom star: the star of Hope; the Mosel emblem of à movement which di looks forward to helping A BETTER WORLD.WN, MORTON RAYNER.fluna, Sask, Nov.2rd, 1918.tera DAYLIGHT SAVING.te make (To the Rdttor of the \u2018\u2019Witnesa.\u201d) Sir.\u2014In your {esus of Nov.13th your correspondent.L.R.1.Brown, is very much exercised by the inconvenience caused by daviight saving.No doudt conditions are dicferent In the West from what they are in Ontario, but I may say that the introduction of daylight saving caused scarcely a ripple oa the surface of our community life, for the reason that it was practically ignored.The order te move the clocks ahead one hour, was not a compulsory one.There was no threat of a $5,000 fine for aon- compliance, such as accompanied that wonderful registration scheme which we al! so loyally observed last spring.It in true that a few of the farmers advanced thelr timepieces for the sake of convenience, but they continued to be guided by the sun as formerly in the arrangement of thelr work and meals.Much fear was expressed last spring Ly those who wrote in the papers that the hired help would take advantage of the \u201cnew time\u201d as it was catiod, to escape an hour's work.No such condition has confronted us here.The few \u201chired men\" whom we have in this community have heen raised in the country, and are gifted with the rame commonsense as thelr employers possess.They rise at five o'clock and work until dark during the summer, the same as the boss, knowing that this is the only way to keep up with the work 17 the happy time should ever ome when the farmer could earn his living hy working elght or ten hours per day.he might them become an advocate of daylight saving.But that happy periodassems to recede rather than approach, and we will continue to make use of every minute of daylight, no matter how much ix wasted by other classes.The thinæ which has always impressed me most in regard to daylight saving is its utter childishness.It appears strange that a nation of grown-up peopla should not be able to agree to rise an hour earlier during the summer months without having to deceive themselves into thinking that it fa six o'clock when it is only five.However, it is a harmless practice, and no doubt our grandees at Ottawa, who themselves uppear to have enter ed upon their second childhood, if we may judge my some of the wartime fexislation which they have enacted, will continue to follow the lead of our hig neighbor te the south of us, and perpetuate thie ridiculous childishness.1 feel sure, if a popular vote were taken on this question.that it would receive little support even in the citles, and in the country it would be simply buried out of sixht, Aventon.Ont, Nov.| BIBLE STUDY.(To the maiter of the \u201cWitnese.\u201c) fir.\u2014The editorial pages of the \u201cWitnens\u201d commend themselves to the writer as being'on the whole, clear, independent sané reviews of the great q 4 events of the day, and it is meth tn.day to have such an independent and féarices medium always upon the side of justice and righteousness, Next to the editorials, the \u201cfatters from Readers\u201d give perennial Interest to the \u201cWitness\u201d Mans live toplos engage the intelll.gent pens of your readers, but religions or Biblical themes ure dealt with perhaps more frequently than any others.it must be & great satisfaction to the proprictor and editor to know that this argues the fact that many readers of thelr paper are readers, and more or lesa students.of the sacred Scriptures.And can .here to-day be unything more meritorious than a well-directed endeavor to promote such needed study, when just now.as never before, intelligence and Godliness arr demanded as the only safeguards ©\u201d a true democrary ?Now in nn previous time have so many reversnt Christian scholars devoted themscives to the study and ducidation of the Bible as in our dav, and there uw none.excepting the most hidrhevad traditionaliats, but van tenrn from the writings of such.Flonda of light from many sources have been cast on the Noriptures, aidinæ «reativ in their hetter understanding; but how little do the great Christian community know of this.It would mein that there i~ as It were.8 connpiracy among especially the clder of one preachers 10 withhold from the people the newer and truer views on the Bsihle lest foracoth such views should unsettle their faith.Faith In what?No men In any age, nor all men in all nast ages have fathomed nnd formu- Inted all truth on any subject, much lens on the Hible, which ta wm very ancient Look, er rather collection of honk, written at then far apart hy a poople differing immensely In their renius Îife.habits of thought and environment (rom any people on the earth to-day.What in the Bible?is a momentous nuestion.not easy tu answer, even by the best informed, but to seme earnest and pious men easy in the extreme.Ruch will tell you with every assurance that the Bible is the Infallih'e and Inspired Word of God.and hy in.failidility tn meant freedom from ait errer, Verbal inapiration is meurt that term.and by \u201cWord nf dind* 14 meant that the Bible & homengeno whoie\u2014all its parts equally true, equally valuable, equally inspired and equally binding upon the conacien-e, and that any degarture from, or denial of this must he completely subversive of the faith, and place the Bible >n the level of any hook of human production.Well might the great Chrie- tian scholar.Dr.W, N.Clarke, protest hereupon.\u201cYom tell me that thus and thus | mum believe, lest [ lose my Bible.| reply that thus and thus | must not believe, lest 7 lose my Cod.\u201d It le much to know that (he \u201cWitness\u201d In not hy any meana ultra conservative In He theology and views on the Bible.Thia has bean shown by many comments upon published lettre, and in (he Isoue of the paper for Nov.11, these words occur in the first oditoriai paragraph: \u201cLet: un hewars of an OI Testament religion such ox ified hatred, fores and rapine in you the mind of the Lucifer of to-day.and turn to the counsel of Wim who said, \u2018Put ! say unto you.'\u201d TP any one destred te possess him- wolf of, say.a hnowledge of geology.would not sense direct him te the work great modern in- vestigaiors authosition on the .ub- Gein Miller or even Dr.Lyell.who we masters In their day, but who have now for long been suparseded?Aimi- larly, for the best and truest knowledge of the Bible we must go to the books of the great Christian scholars who have devoted their lives to a reverent study of the Scriptures and the earnest seeker after truth can no more dispense with such help than could the Ethiopian eunuch dispense with the help of the evangelist Philip, The writer found the Bible to be im- mensety interesting and valuable in every way\u2014in fact a now book\u2014 through the reading of some of the books of the great modern masters, and if even a small number of the \u201cWithess\u201d readers could be induced during the long evenings to read, weigh and inwardly -digest two or three honks upon the Rible by such men as Dra, Doda, Driver, A.B.Davide son, A.RB.Bruce, Denney, Randay, Occ, Mottat, Sir \u20aci.A.Bmith, W.R.Smith, J'eake-\u2014AIl Britiah-\u2014or our own Dr.Gordon.Montreal, or Dr.Jordan, Kingston, their perusal would certainly auld cubits to the intellectual, moral and spiritual stature of the readers.\u2018The writer has often thought that something like à League of Bible study might he formed among \u201cWitness\u201d readers.with their favarile paper as a medium of mutual heipful- ness In fostering and encouraging such study, and puhlishing names of members with their addrcases, in ordar to privale correspondence Among them.It might be possible through the \u201cWitness\u201d to have the privilege of consulting Dr.Gordon or other competent authority as to the best hooks upon desired topics.Any cost or expenses incurred would.of course, he promptly pald by member.\u2018Is not all this, Mr.Editor, worthy of some consideration from the \u201cWitness\u201d and ite readers?The writer modestly claims some knowledge of modern theological literature, and for an introduction to the newer views upon the Old Testament he knows nothing hetter than \u201cThe Old Testament In the Jewish ©hurch.\u201d hy W.R.Rmith, This hook was written thirty-six years ago, and contalns views that led to Smith's Jdis- missal from his theological chair in Aberdeen.Hut the world moves.fer this same hook was prescribed re cently by the stald Knox College, Toronto, for the B.D, course.More recent hooks covering the whole Bible are \u201cThe Bible, Ttx Original Nature\u201d hy Marcus Dods, late principal of the U.F.College.Edinburgh: and a fuller book by Prof.A.8B.Peake.of Manchester, entitled \u201cThe Bible, Its Origin.Its Significance, and Ita Abiding Worth.\u201d Or if some particular portions of the Scriptures are desired for special study, what could be better than the reading of the Gospels in the beautiful and most helpful \u201cCentury Bible\u201d series.with Dr, Plake's \u201cNew Testament Introduction\u201d at ones elbow?In the Old Testament study the Book of Teaiah, or the Twelve Minor Prophets under {he guidances of Sir fi.A.fmith, who rediscovered and expounded these great hooks to the modern world, and made the men and thelr burning messages live again.The hooks referred to arc not elementary, but for beginuers there 1s a very full literature in \u201cThe Quilé and Bible Class Text Rooks of the Church of Scotland.\u201d And the \u201cBible Class Primers of the U.F.Church.\u201d An excellent monthly magasine for the more ambitious Bible students In \u201cThe Exposition Times\u201d edited hy Dr.Hastingn, and published by T.and T.Clark, Edinburgh.A writer in a Britlah theological Sournal has recently said, only too true, that \u201cno exposures will remedy the pronencas to fancy religions, unless the reverent and reasonable study of the Scriptures, for their own mesa.ago in restored.Here is a tank (hat the church has nol taken serfously.\u201d Is 1x not high time she did so, or else the laymen for her?JAS, GRANT.Mimoas, Ont.Nov.38, 1918.rms.MORALITY AND SALVATION.(To the Editor of the \"Witness.\u201d) Kir.\u2014In sour lasue of the 18th Inst.there in n letter signed A.E.H.under the heading \u201cAbout Everything.\u201d upon which would jou allow me a little space for a few comments?With some of the writer's state- menin { axres, and with a number of hits propositions which are put in the farm of questions I have no fault to find, hut there is at least one aseer- tion that calls for protest.Speaking of morality, It is asserted that on this \u201csalvation depends.and on nothing else\u201d \u2018The first part of this statement may he.In a sense, true, but any one who knows anything of Lhe tench- tng of \u201ctiod\u2019'a Word\u201d must ses the falsity of the latter part\u2014\u201cand on nothing #lsc™ \u201cThere In none other name\u201d\u2014fhe name of Jens Christ\u2014 \u201cunder heaven given among mon wherchy we must be saved.\u201d JOHN McCLURE.Hampton, Ont.Nov.29, 1918.\u2014\u2014\u2014parmmntmem ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\"} Rir.\u20141 have felt considerable \u2018a- terent in the discussion of Eternal Punishment going on in your columns for some time.To me it seems that al! are Ieaving out important Norip- ture teaching which may helpgin un.dersthnding thin much disputed sub- fet.WIth your petwnission 1 shafl briefly add a few thoughts.[think 1 mar Fav we are all seeking the truth: ft wilt help va to begin at the be- mtn\"ins, in the Garden of Eden.When ind zave instruclions to man as to what he should do.and as to what ho must not do, He pronounced the penaity for disohedience\u2014\"In the day that thou natest thereof thou shalt nurely die\u201d Also, \u201cIn the eweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the greund: for out of it wast thou taken: and unte dust shall thou return.\u201d Aguin, \u201cAnd Jehovah God sald.Da- hold, the man le become an one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest.He pul forth his hand.and take also nf the trea of life, and ent aud live forever, therefore Jehavah (lod sept him forth from (he Garden ef Eden 10 {IH the ground frem whence he was tnken.flo he drove out the man: and he placed at the eam of the Garden of Rden the Cherubim and the flame of & sword which turned every way.to keep the way of (he tree of life.\u201d The serpent said.\u201cye shall not surely ate.\u201d From these quotations, whioh are from the \"American ndard Version\u201d we lonrn that what man lost by the fall was life M was net physical life, heoating he continued to tive.it was sternal life that he lost.asd for dust thou art.| receive.ti except in, the Way Ae provides.eonsequantix the Tame ot sword Is piaced to guard the way\u2019 of the tree of lif lest man should pace take of tie tree of life and live forever at enmity with Him.In further prod | that eternal life was what man lost by the fait, | ask your readers to take any good concordance and see how often eternal life Is referred to as that for which we should seek.The shepherd who lost a sheep sought for a sheep because that was what he had lost: the woman who lost a plece of sliver sought the plece of sliver he.cause that was what she lost; and \u2018man is to meek eternal lite because that is what he lost.Without life where ia the punishment?The wicked shall perish.\u201c JAMES SMITE.Yellow Ganss.Haak.ae PEACE VIA PURITY.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Bir-\u2014-Purity means peace.\u201cThere is no peace.saith my God.to the wicked.® Cut it short.You are wasting time, strength, pulpwood.Hepent ot your «ina Receive \u201cthe witness of |\u2019 the Spirit\u201d that you are \u201cborn af God.\u201d Lay your all on the Altar.\u201cThe Altar sanctifieth the gift.\" \"I will keep him in perfect peacs.whose mind is stayed on me.because he truateth in me\u201d falvation means pure hearts.pur© churches, pure trade, purn journalism, pure pelitics, \u201ca holy nation.\u201d - T.A.JONES, Knoxtord, C.C.N.R, Nov.14, 1918.\u2014\u20142\u2014=\u2014ptm=erprmememe REVIVAL WANTED.(Te the Editer of the.\u201cWitnese.\u201d) Fir-This must be well on to the fortieth time I have renewed my aub- acription.I notice that thers ie a lot of discussion In the press as to what the churches should or could do to prepare Canada for the soldiers that come back.Now, from my point of view the first \u2018thing they .should do is to throw that delusion of the devil called church upion on the scrap heap.and get ready to preach God's pel, with the Holy Ghost.sent wn from heaven.God will never use auçh a nugar-conted collection of Mies to build His kingdom on as the Unianiste have riven out as a statement of what they believe and the Bible teaches.Bacauan the Unionists did not know enough to harmonize the different creeds with each other and with the Bible, they compromised them.One of your correspondents laments the searcity of workers.Rut do they suppose God ta going to call workers into the field to preach their diluted.bastard, man-made gospel?Better leave the stations vacant than send out a tot of educated devils to preach les.The preacher of the lant sermon 1 listened to got up and denied the Bible story of Chrisi\u2019n temptation.He said there was no such a being as a personal devil in existence, so that Christ could not have an argument with him.That la the kind of slush that the educated men are handing out to the people to-day.Why sheuld Psopie go to church to he fed out of the devil's awill-barrel?If there in no Gevil, nor hell.and ain is only a die- hse or a mistake (ain In no longer called a crime against God), what room, er une, have they for God's plan of salvation?Fecauge the big- of the theological and sclentific à could mot explain how there came fo be a devil.they Rave gone to the other extreme, and deny that there is a devil.Tt would be too much of a shock to their Intellectual pride to admit that they wera ignorant of the devil's origin.According 10 press reports there has been some marvellously strange teaching handed out to the mem over- wean.fuch teaching will need a lot of sifting when they come home.and 1¢ the church's standards hers at home are not according to Cod's truth, how are they going to the errors taught?Heeling that the mem and women who are overseas are expected home soon, the churches should get a move on and make extensive preparations for a Dominlon-wide revival.Have it in full blase when the crowd comes home.Canada nends (God tg) pour righteousness down frem heaven and to came truth to sgring out tbe earth.Do the leaders in the different churches really know the conditions on which God would sive such à revival?And if they 80 know, will he comply with them?TV have stal- my polet of view.whethac sceept- able or not.DANIEL CAMPBELL Nover P.O, Ont., Nov.34, 1918.\u2014 THE GREAT PEACE CONFERENCE.\u2014 (To the Editor of the \u201cWitness™) Rir,~One memorable day in Christ's life, Me, His own disciples.and John's sorrew-etricken disciples, pushed off into the Inke, neeking à quiet place where thex onuld talk terether vadia: turbed, for where they were they \u201chad no leisure.so much as to eat.\u201d But when they reached thelr quiet place, they found it threaged with mui.tuées.How did our Lord regard these obtruding multitudes?They were not posr.They were nwstly prosperous farmers or fishermen.Bul hew did they look to \"im?He was \u201cmoved with eompamion toward them because they fainted.and were acnttered abroad.as shesp having no shepherd.\u201d Put immediately the Lord had a plan.He fu vf \"quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.\u201d He knew at once what was the thing to be dene.\u2026 He set His disciples to definite prayer for laborers.\u201cPmy ye therefore the Lord of (he harvest that He will spell forth lsborers inte Wis harvest.\u201d This in à tremendous day jn the world\u2019s history.when the (error.stricken, famine smitten, war-broken muititudes «7 Rurepe are \u201cfainting and scattered abroad.\u201d veritably having nn shepherd\u201d |» not our Lord's henri \u201cmoved with compassion toward ihem,\u201d and ia He Lurnisn te we His people with thid same plan to mert Lhair neuf.\u201cPray ye therefore\" the Lord of the pa Harvest thet He will send ladospes into His harvest.\u201d Spire.filled mon.as fully snuipped of God for this work ne the Aposties were for theirs.The great Fence Conference Is mest- ing in à few days.The destinien nf the world are by God's own Providentisl Gonlinge put into ita hand.What wisdom i« adequate to guide its coun- sein?Only the Bye that \u201cmes (he ond (rom the beginnips.\u201d and the clesr path all the way through, ca.Lat those who mow Ged to \u201csheep | What makes 5.obimwey smoke?Why do same poople hate freckles?Why de we get huagrs ! What makes sur teeth chatter?What causes a lump In a porsess threat} THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE Answers Any Question.The marvels of modern Industry and invention\u2014 The Interesting story of commen things The mysterious processes of nature simply explained.608 pages\u201470U illustrations.Should be in every home.An education in itself.Postipalé 8240.The Montreal Book Room LIMITED 85 Medill! College Ave, Montreal.He wil} take the leadership of the Cone ference, fur the men no ~quipped wilt know His will time.I am fully persuuded thut (his te thé way thut the \u201cpecple of the mints of the Mont High shull take the kina- dom, and poasess , the kingdum for ever, cven for efer nnd vver\u201d Wo must learn by prayer tu control the destinien of the world, to \u201cride upon the high places nf the earth.\u201d This, | am persuaded, in the road along which: the: Millennlum-\u2014the kingdom of Christ upon earth\u2014ahail come in its glory to this poor, sin.weary world, ANNA ROMS.Strassburg.Ndsk.Nov, 19, 1918, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOW TO DISPOSE OF THE KAISER (To the Editor of the \u201cWitnesa™) Hir!\u2014T enclose a few lines of rhyme.If you fest Inclined lo give them a corner in the \u201cWitnesy\u201d | will be pleased.We cannot help being n little funny In these pleasant times, ax the lonæ.deadly struggle is virtually over, mnd we feel like drawing a long breath of relief.Your editorial pages are a treat to me; you may be considered a leader of reform.The time in not (ar din- tant when the \u201cWitness\u201d will be more appreciated.as big changes are looming in the distance.arty politics will soon be u thing of the past.and the \u201cWitness\u201d is a leader in that di- ection.I am too old to he very mee tive, as I am verging on my eighty.fourth year, and not having capital at my disposs! tT feel handicapped.But 1-1 can 4o anything to have the \u201cWit - ness\u201d in every home | am rure | would feel happy.The war is now over; claimed; But what thousands are deus, what millions are maimed: Now we ail may rejoice.but hy soma .Jog ix brief, For blended with joy are the stingings ot least.so it in and country te save, Tn landa which are foreign they lin in their grave.Bul the fight is sew fought, and the victory wom: SUN parents will grieve for the loss of a son.Tn a far distant land the heroio une ten; Mistern also have madg the aypreme merifics Fhould the cause of puch gpguish and sorrow The punishment due at the end of à rope?Confinement ut least will be vote of the many.To be fed on old agurkraut and an- ctent bolegns.Hut park: what à sound so unegrthiy Then.- My hair stands on end.but nothing does appear.\u201cBismarck jumps from his grase, shee that terrible yell, Calling.\u201cSend The vile blackhead iat down into hell, If hp gen in 8 car, or puts foo! in the stirrup, ° You may Wen bid gved-byn te the \u201cWar Lord of Europe\u201d Ma! he! That was areut.lat he's mew in the bives: So VI} lay me dewn and continue my anoose.JOHN GREEN.Riddelivale, Alte.Nov.18.1916 \u2014\u2014eremmeseus ; FLAG OF THE LAWLESS \u2014 (N.Y.\"Evening Sun\u201d) TH red flag.which n few feather.heads and a somewhat larger number of t herous or surly ruffiane are su fond of, is the flag of lawtessnces, of ment: Hs upholdern are organtsed enemies of the public peace.* The Mayor han, with the greatest propriety.ordered It off the streets of the city of New York.The local Holsheviks have been unusually quiet for the past month, until within à day or two.Bomewhat overawed by the forward progress of the forcen of liberty and demociacy, thene of all scolal order have walt.od uhtl] everybody in rejoicing over the end of the fighting to liring thelr dlscordant note into the chorus of gindness.Wherever this mischievons fireed lodges ome trouble and anxiety for all good citizens.Within « Tew days crowda of these dangerous mischief makers\u2014whose In.aratitude matches their ignorance, an ususl\u2014have heen shouting sedition ander their symbol of lawiessness.The Mayor done well to order the Police to wateh them earefuily.The wise nid policy of sis.ing uproarious objectors a full chance 10 Mow off steam is not likely te he interfered with, But the calculated insolenes, virulenbe and ouirage of asarchist parades in Now York are not likely to mest with any toleration from private oitisens or publie authority.Wi doce a Ueki bug Lh br\u201d and do His will every | grief For the hrave ones who fell, our foveal.murder, of hatred of chilised govern- à ~ "]