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P'1 A LOVER OF MEN. re . An Anecdote of the Famous John ne! Muir. In my intimate companionship { with Muir In Alaska, 1 saw many in: Stances of his warm human sym- pathy. One occurred when in 1879 : we were visiting the tribe of Chil- 4 cats. These Chilcats, recognized as [the most war-like and arrogant of the Thlinget tribes, were neverthe- leas so interested in the Gospel mes- sage I had to bring them, that they erowded the house where we lodged, + 8 it full, and prying off planks from its side so that those without hear, and some even scrambled nthe roof to listen through the sinokeljole. The first night we spent in the village, after an all-day's palaver, we were about to retire to our blankets, when a woman brought a baby to us which was almost a skeleton from lack of nourishment, and whose fee- ble cry was most pitiful to hear, The { woman explained that the baby's mether had died, and that they had Respected : NAN ING HE PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ace SRR 4 ne food for the child--none of the Id cept their food : if as the * 1a otha women being in Conition. to £ had 1 much the same as they breathe the air nurse it. At once Muir and I set | : They r sol: ite . about preparing condensed milk for A y eal isolated items about food shortage, but such a the baby. We diluted it with' warm waterfuntil we thought it of the pro per consistency, and fed if to the starving baby. The child was almost too weak to take this nourishment, and if required the utmost patience and gare to feed it. Muir worked | with that little papoose almost all night, rocking it in his arms and soothing its 'eries, and when at last itr rested in a healthiul, refreshing sicep, "he carefully showed the wo ANN thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters their mind, and it is the responsibility of The Observer to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- i ANSINS XK "9s NINN NIST ZINZISZ Sok 3 AE less something is done, in another year, they will not be SARGERAS Patrons and reading about the hunger in Jelgium but the hunger in Ontario. man how to prepare its food The natives voluntarily told me wh a" ¥ were. about to leave that if the . The following should be memorized hy every reader lived it belonged fo me, and i 2 n } 8 J every reader of I'ong Observes would bring it down to me. I th 4 | little of their promise, knowing how | eagily people forget such things; but | five years after this occurrence 1 was | surprised te have me Chileat na tives bring a sturdy and healthy lit fle boy, and formally give him to me, saying that this was the baby whose life We had, saved, and he t belonged to ug, The suing w into our mission at Wran 'baptized him with the x "John," after my Iriend: Young, in World's Outlook 17% --l nN Under the Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Confer ence of all interested in food production was held in Ta. , Sid ZING ZN PARE routo on Monday, May 7, 17\1 Friends SRR SR An Energetic Canadian, 1 Amongs various Canadian women | who have neceéived recognition for splendid war services Madame Chase Casgrain, of Ottawa, has been award ed a gold medal from Marquis de Yogue, vice-president of the Society of Agriculture in France, The medal, | which 18 an unusually handsome one, | bears the following inscription: "Ser- | vices emiment rendus aux agricul- | veurs Francais victimes de a Guerre, 1918.0. . 5 ENIININ NIN 7K 24 oa N RB TH BG AG ZINA INES 1 1 ZN NIN B was th first WO] in 'Canada appealed to to Work for the relief of devastated re gions in France. Through the Made line de Vescheres Chapter of the EO: DE: dn' Ottawa, of which she is pegent,. Madame Casgrain has been enabled to send over $15,000 for this work: She recently returned from a trip | to the ¢ t, covering some 9,000 | miles, lecturing 'at various centres where she told them of the deplor NAAN Not Equal to It They had. not heen murried very long, but she had grown old and list- less: so one evening, fiffer she had | yawned about seveiteen times, ha said: "You seem to be sb cold and indiffer- | MEd 7571 SH able conditions in France 'If the As ent, Malvina: Have you forgotten those east responds like the west we have { 7 happy days when I was paying you prospects of a wonderful fund," said my addresses?" Madame Casgrain. e are looking SiN "I should think I haven't! I should t one million think I haven't forgotten those happy days. I never had less than three fel- | | i | forward to at 1 lows every evening calling on me." { | | francs," Madame grain has gone to France, where © will conduct a canteen under the French Militar Red Cross, where President Marquis de Noailles bas established a © feed the people from the dev HK be 7 iN "But, dear, haven't Vou got me to pay you attention now?" "Yes, I'suppose { have. You are do- ing the best you know how; but you don't 'flatter yourself that you are equal to three, do you?'--Stray Sto« ries. A fatriotic Jap. A Japanese resident of Vancouver regently enlisted in a British Colum- bia battalion, and, before going to | the front, wished to sell a small ma- i rine engine. He wrote to a possible | purchaser, as reported in the Van- couver World, the following letter, | Its English may be unidiomatic, but, | it makes his. meaning clear and his | spirit infectious: "1 was educated in most excellent high school in Japan, and in high hope of my condition bet- tering made my resolution and em- barked for this najion. But things do mot find themselves thus. Bad ti eventuated. 1 have signal honor i ply for this land and am dis- tributing my property before I de- part to encounter common foe, dam Hun, excuse me I beseech you my colloquial phraseology. Price 95 dol lars. Ask for K Te, private." io 0 Price Fixing] The United Farmers of British mbia, in a formal memorial, de- of bor Commends Sallor's Bravery. For gallantry in rescuing from drowning a lad eight years of age Sec- retary Daniels has commended Arthur Otto Radcliffe, a seaman of the United States navy. Alongside of the United States steamship Wadsworth, on which the sailor was stationed, lay a tug. A small boy played about the deck with no thought of danger. Suddenly he i f > fell overboard. Before the warning ; EE ai iR NET EXPO RTS came the child had floated seventy-five wh 12. YRS: AGO yards or more from the tug and ship. Then Radcliffe came into actiod. Jump- FERRE Hoa FZINIR AS ACCICISRIRK RAR & \. ORS hs and brought him to safety. Radcliffe enlisted in the navy in 1915, at Des Moines, lowa. I 7' ing into the water, he swam to the boy "Germ-Proof" Money. To a bank in Spokane, Wash, be- longs the distinction of circulating the tisep CRICK are also engaged in an es- industry, in the majority of 'earn less than $3 per day, ,4by force of circumstances, are ¢ ed to work from fourteen to mixtesn Bours each day; and still or- ganized labor forces are consistently {demanding action by the Canada % . Board in the matter of price- of 100d, regardless of the fact > hat every rise in wages increases the. of uction and of distribu- accentuating the discrep- ent in the above condi- ¢ woney Fifty thousand dollars In bills, pu by the bank, were signed with an ink sald to ccasist largely of carbolie acid. The result is the bills are saturated with an ageney which means death to the most vigorous germ who'd live there. ' uur ATooups. Since the outbreak of the war, Canadians have been constantly an- noyed by American claims that half : : Eo rid force of Canada is composed of 3 men born in the United States, and labor. h Columbia United Farmers ude with the declaration hat 'existing embargo on the intro- white labor, skilled and should be immediately re- on which is harmf 2 d labor, to the farm- > to the general public, and to the ; the nation as a whole." tench descent y : aha ee y ; i 9 ALL HOME PRINT] 7,49 ; 3 Ne : | $ uy : | ee 4 HNERA\ERVER = ios « OBE ] a ; ; p : ) : f Y 'British descent 147,505 ; ) : a BEB 5 o Ro y | Canada, 16,268 Ey : sesssseannen areas raves