_PAGE TWELVE { OLD LOVE After he had eaten supper Jo fil ed his pipe and smoked len? This wasn't altogether usally takes about two years fade the romance of marri Jo and Jenny had been married e There had been two children,~who| had died deaths her first unsual rose had helped Jenny freshness. And even when | love and youth had been hers she| had not been pretty. Now at 28,| she was almost ugly. For g week she had been canning] fruit, doing fine laundry for a woman | in the better part of town and help-! ing clean house for. anather woman | Jo's wages at fhe factery had strained to meet the expenses of tlie| two funerals and sickness of him-| gelf and Jenny. Moreover, they were paying for the cottage. Too | much skifping and hard work had| left traces in nerveS$, looks and tem- | per. Jenny was cross a great part] of the time, and tonight she was crosser than usual. Her hair was disheveled, her dress soiled, her| hands unkempt Perhaps if she had | known that Allyce Johnson had come back. to the ugly factory town of her girlhood . | But she didn't know. And' pres- ently, when Jp had smoked his pipe] and did not refill it, but surreptitious ) ly jerked his tie straight, whipped a) brush over his shoes and sauntered " down the street, Jenny was relieved | at his absence. It gave her a chance to straighten the kitchen and living| room for fhe next day, which would | include another 10 hegrs of launder-| ing. Jo sauntered down the street, down another, up again, back, cross ways back, and ended, he had known in the beginning that he would, at the small cottage where] keep | been | Wake Johnson, Allyce's brother, lived |e Before he married Jenny, been engaged to Allyce him over for a drummer of grooming and salary. Now | was back--and a widow. | And she was a pretty widow--| | | 1 Jo had] who threw better she _ prettier than sh® had been nine| years before. Jo had seen her walk ing past the factory that afternoon. | She was clean, trim, with finger nails | manicured and every yellow hair im- | maculately in place. . Jake laughed meaningly when Jo, paused with a casual good evening.! Jo reddened, but affected not to no tice the laugh. Didn't he often well, not often--but once in a great while -- stop to gossip with Jake ? They had worked together for 15 years: Presently Allyce came out and sat | down on the porch, 'She wore a pink dress. and somehow she managed to put| into her smile a coquettish knowled- ge of Jo's admiration. 2 | It was nothing worse than admir-| ation. Not a word was spoken that | evening, nor the two evenings suc- | ceeding, to which Jennie could have: taken exception. There was nothing but merry impersonal talk. Yet, Jo went home with a guilty feeling. And) then feeling of guilt vanished. Jen-, nie's tired, cross face on the pillow was such a contrast to the fresh, gay face of Allyce, whom he had just left, that Jo began to feel aggrieved. He found it easy to go a step fur- ther and become peevish. Why need Jennie look so undesirable? When | he married her he had been quite content and sure that the wound in- flicted by Allyce was quite healed by: Jennie's restful face and dear ways, but now he found it incredibly easy to slip into a belief that Allyce al ways had held first place in This heart and Jennie had been nothing but a substitute made use of because she was willing. Very soon she was nursing a fairly goodsized heartache. It was not long before. Jennie, gray faced and quiet, came home from a day of housecleaning and sat | down to the nearest chair to cry soft-| ly. And the next day, when she met | Atlyee, and. marked her attractive-| ness, she.came home and cried again, | taking care, however to wash alll traces of tears from her eyes before Jo came home. Nor did she say any- | | | | { Neither time nor these] ! |e | fellow!" looked in the : rie hair, at : $ and decided ening despair that it was useless. 1e had heard of the power of affec- its own. Perhaps if cross and di Then a rush of She flung up make no attempt him go! ,done her part, granted that she was ngt so attract- , that gave him no license 1c £ ne her before the town, to ad- vertise to all that no longer thought her desirable. And that evening when Jo, again looked 'at her with cold, critical eyes her he that took in every unlovely detail] from lusterless. hair to lusterless shoes, Jenny no longer cringed, but flung him batk look for look. Jo was stagtled. "What's the mats ter? he asked; involutarily--and im- mediately wished that he hadn't, "Oh, nothing," said Jennie, wear- ily "Except worked too hard lately." Jo took it as a reproach, though as a matter of fact Jennie had spok- en sc because shé did not know what! else to say. "You don't have to work. 1 make enough to keep us| two." Jennie 'was very proud. her proud way of holding her chin had gone far, a long time before, to recompose Jo for Allyce's defection An wow suddenly, she lost all the p ritation, the peevishness and we =s that poverty and hard work had inflicted upon her. She war merely a dignified woman who would not be disdained. "Perhaps you do," she said. "But I can alse make enough for nn I am going back to the fac Mon- a x 3d day. Do af you please wilh the cot- tage and the furniture." Jo was offended. Jennie needn't take it that way! But it must be confessed that he was also relieved He thought shamefacedly of a divor- Perhaps it was just as well that Jenny took it this way. Presently he rose and went out. Jennie did not lcoh up from her sewing, but her | chin lifted. Straight to Jake Johnson's cottage he went He felt a mixture -of emo- tion; his .heart beat at the thought of Allyce. But somehow the thought of Jennie's disdain pricked his satis- faction Allyce was sitting on the step --|of three ammunition wagons killed, 1 pink gowned, fragrant, dainty. Jake sat beside her It happened that they did not see his approach. "I certainly am," she yawned. "My, this town's slow." "It's been faster," Jake unkindly commented, "since you've been here. IT must say I think it's a shame the|the hands of the enemy, and | way you've plagued poor Jenny Lar- mon. Spoiling Jo for her," "Well," yawned Allyce; "I shan't I was engaged to tifat gawky, stupid That was all. But it was enough. In one second Jo, conceived a violent dislike of Allyce's charm. And she had actually been making sport of him all the time! He walked to the very end:of the large town and then back. And by the time he had walked that far it was nearly midnight; time enough for him to do some serious thinking. And at the end of the think ing he realized that the proud little lift of Jennie's chin was a lot more attractive to him than "all Allyce's fragrance and carefully nurtured prettiness. "Let's start over again, Jennle," he pleaded the next morning when both were awake. Jennie was still proud, "I don't really think I care to," she replied, boldly. "Why, what has changed you?" : ("Allyce said I was gawky and stu- pid," frankly answered Jo. He could not help a 'shamefaced grin, which proved that, after all he hadn't cared so very much. "How dare she?" cried Jennie, "you're not, She's a cat." Jo slipped his arms around her. "I ain't fit for you." No." said Jennie, wearily. "But 1 I guess I could have been more worth your heing fit for me." Police Logic. A man descended from an excur- thing when he rose, as usual now, | sion train and was making his way and left the house after supper. For several evenings he was home, Allyce had laughingly told him to stay. She had no desire to bé "talked about." He . obeyed sullenly, He had no idea, however, | that Jennie cringed under the, critical look that he gave her. Nor-had he] any idea that she had miserably gong | over and -over the ways popularly supposed to be efficacious in winning 'back a husband's love. ~~ Poor Jen-| nie! She determined once to put; her savings into clothes. She had | heard of wives who had' succeeded by such method. 'And then she had A beautiful insert oh plug. with ea to the street car, followed by his wife | at {and fourteen children, when a po- liceman touched him on the shoulder and said: "Come along wid me." "What for?" "What for?" "Blamed if I know, but when ye're locked up I'll go back and find out. why that crowd was following yer 2 k The direct result of hard work is sometimes called good luck, Business depression may be caus- ed by a labk of attention to it. » Granted , Pm tired, I guess -1've In fact, | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, irror-at her old, tired gan - COUNT JOHANN VON BERNSTORFF. 1 German Ambs sentiment in the United States led to Germany's back sador to Washington; whose advice to Germany down. He is one German diplomat who read aright the signs of the times in a foreign coun- try. en om, > DECORATED FOR VALOR. |Some of the Canadians Who Haye | Won Honors at the Front. { . The following Canadians have re- | ceived distinguished conduct medals: Corporal, now Lieut. R. F. Baker, 3rd | Brigade Artillery, for conspicuous | gallantry and ability on April 22 and | 23, when, after having had the teams | he collected details and kept up a supply of ammunition by hand under | a very heavy shell and rifle fire. | Private E. J. Bushby, Princess Pa- | tricias, for conspicuous gallantry on | | May 8 at Hooge, when he assisted wounded men from a trench then in at- |tempted to rescue men 'partially | buried in the trench, although while doing so he had to keep at bay two She had smiling pink lips, | plague her any mare. My! to think | Germans who were trying to bayonet { him, Previously he made two jour- | meys to the reserves, bringing up | ammunition under heavy fire. | Sergt.-Major J. W. A. Donaldson, | 1st Brigade Artillery, for conspicuous | gallantry on April 22 at St. Julign | and following days near Ypres, when, | being in charge of the ammunition supply of battery, he kept up the supply under continuous heavy shell fire and gave a fine example of cour- age and devotion to duty. Private G. Inkster, Princess Patri- cias, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on May 8 at Hooge. Private Inkster stationed himself at the end of the communication trench and shot several of the enemy at- tempting to come down it. He was alone at the time, He also carried several important. messages under heavy fire and was always willing 'to undertake any dangerous work. Gunner A. W, James, 3rd Brigade Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry and ability at Potyge, when he re- paired telephone wires under heavy shell and rifle fire. He continued to do so after having been wounded tion to duty. Sergt. Jordon, Princess Patricias, for conspicuous gallantry on 8th May at Hooge Chateau, when left in |& trench with one man only he suc- | cessfully held it, aceounting for a {large number of the enemy. ° He | showed a splendid example of cour- | age and devotion. = Quartermaster-Sergt. A. R.- 'Mil- burn, 2nd Brigade Artillery, for con- | spicuous gallantry on the 24th of | April at Wieltje, in bringing up am- { munition under heavy shell fire. He | also saved a wagon of ammunition under heavy fire after the drivers' { horses had been killed. | Corporal O. C. Olsen, 2nd Brigade | Artillery, for great gallantry and re- source from 22nd April to 4th May {In repairing telephone wires under | shell fire, also for acting as a scout and obtaining valuable information | when all the wires had been cut. Corporal A. B. Ritchie, 1st Brigade AAR tm Sach : Plug Wrapped in and showed a fine example of devo- | The picture was taken this week. A A. AAA AAA A AAA AAA ANA, Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 22nd and 23rd of April, at Ypres. During the retirement he went back under heavy shell fire to free men and horses from a disabled wagon and later car- ried a wounded man out of firing line under heavy fire. 1 Sergeant L. Scott, Princess Patri- elas, for conspicuous gallantry and | resource on 8th of May, at Hooge. All officers having been killed or wounded, he collected a party of men and succeeded in holding the trench in spite of a very heavy attack. Corporal R. Stevens, Princess Pa- tricias, for conspicuous gallantry on the 8th of May, at Hooge Chateau. Gunner H. E. Wilkinson, West Bri- gade Artillery, for gallant conduct and devotion to duty, particularly on the 8th and 9th of May, near Ypres. Acting as telephonist, he kept up communication with the brigade and infantry headquarters under a very heavy shell and rifle fire and showed great courage and resource. Dependent on Forestry.* The proper interpretation of fores- | try, and what it actually means. to Canada, cannot be stated too fre- | The future of this country | | depends upon our making exery acre | quently. productive. Broadly speaking, the earth's surface can be made produc- {tive in/two ways only, by producing agricultural or timber crops. of the 60th parallel, about 69 per cent. of the area of Canada is un- suited for agricultural corps. A very large proportion of this non-agri« cultural land is suitable for the pro- duction of merchantable timber. Tha | production of « forest products has | been and will always be one of, our | chief industries. At time forest indusirids supply 12 per cent, of our foreign trade, 16 per cent. of our railroad traffic, and equal in value our annual wheat' crop.-- Conservation, * | A Practical Optimist. Mr. George Bury, the western head | of the C. P. R., speaks out like a man who understands practical psychol- | ogy. His statement as to how Can- ada faces the world economically in [1915 should be taken as a model by | students of political economy of how | to make four out of two and two | without quoting Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill. Mr, Bury has the rail- way man's claar, practical vision of | cattle and hos and mortgages and securities. He believes that Canada's economics are sounder now than they | ever were before. And when he says {8c it is a sample of the kind of | optimism that does everybody good, because it doesn't stick half the truth in its pocket and wink the other eye, | --Cazadian Courier. The penny saving man usually i works dn a small capital. | Foil. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. y bass, ! sunfish, brown trout, speckled trout, South | Separately ~ IN THE RIDEAU COUNTRY. Where the Non-Enthusiast is Liable to Catch the Fishing-Bug. One man in every ten, even in Can- ada, is born minus the soul of a fish- erman--or claims to be. And for every unpiscatorial person of 'that sort there's a sporting chance that some time in his life he may cease looking bored when other, men tell those plump, pellucid fish-stories and himself begin to nibble on the bait which the fisherman has so warily wrapped on his human hook. Anyway, there 1s one man who puts in his summers--in fact he owns an island on Opinicon' Lake, which is one of the fascinating chain of lakes that tangle and twist about the great Rideau. That man lives to fish. . He knows all the kinds of fish that can be found in those spawning opulent lakes of the Rideau country, whera fishing seems to be just in its Genesis stage. He can catch any of them, knows their habits, whether on sandy shoal, in deep water, down by | the wallside of, the big rocks, tucked away among the grea' stumps of the dismantled ~water-logged forest, or just loafing along the lanes of sun- shine and clear water. He knows them, body, bones, and soul---rock h big-mouth and little-mowyth, salmon trout, and ' lunge. He has hooked them all with all manner of bait and by all means of ancient and modern appliances. But the greatest fun that fisher- { man bas in the world is when he "| gets hold of some unfishing person who is lucky enough to be beguiled into the Opinicon country, or anywhere in the Rideau chain, The fun is to convert that blase ngn- fisherman, by a sort of gentle pro- ess unknown to Billy Sunday, into a real, ardent fisherman fan who | doesn't know enough to go home. That often happens in thé Rideau country. But so far as the supply of fishermen is concerned, there is no need of creating any extras. The real fisher-folk 'of the sporting variety know how to get into the Rideau belt of waters, and they go there from many hundreds of miles; by no means all Canadians, either. This year the fishermen habitues of that region will find the bass much fatter than usual. They spawned almost a moath late and had a chance to get some fat on their ribs before they went into the hatcheries. All summer long, from late spring on into the frosty nip of October, these bass are to be found in those lakes. This year the fall season will be the fattest ever known in those lakes. Out on the sandy shoals the bass will be gorging for weeks before they hike to the deep-water holes-to spend the winter. And when they are, the man from Opinicon, on his wooded | island, goes about like a dream-man, waiting for the men who never fish to come along, that he may make them fishermen. THE SPY. Canadian Nurse Tells of Episode in the Juilly Hospital. | A Canadian nurse in Mrs. Harry | Payne Whitney's hospital at Juilly, in France, told me of the discovery, in her ward, of a spy, "The General," she said, "had come on inspection. He asked me to cut down the dressings on this wound and that, but when he asked me to | show him the hand wound of an Al- gerian in the ward I was surprised, for it was a simple and uninteresting | case." | Hand wounds, it seems, however, the ' present. #9 under particular surveillance by the military authorities, and anyone | 50 wounded must give very clear evi- | dence as to how it happened and have !numerous documents made out for | him before being admitted into a | hospital. Such wounds may so easily | be self-inflicted, and when this is the case, .the soldier is treated -as a de- | serter. ; . | "I was so engrossed with my work," the nurse went on, 'that I didn't look up for some time, and when I did, half the hospital staff | seemed to be in my ward, and others jwere Joining them. 1 went out for | something, and then for the first time heard the whispered rumor: "Spy!" "1 hurried back, and the General asked me to send for an orderly and | bave the patient dressed.. Then, of | course, I knew that there was some- | thing very wrong. "When the gan was dressed he { went up to two or three men in the | ward -- Algerians, too---énd shook | hands. He also held out his hand to | me, and I took it. Some of the other | nurses sald afterwards that they | couldn't have shaken hands with a i Ages are given the next station re- excellent quantity, =~. Continent--and daily use .in thousands Canadian homes. spy. But, oh! fused. 'He was shot at daybreak." To the other patients in the hospi- tal -- many of them Algerians, and splendid, brave fellows--it was ex- plained that their compaunion's pa- pers, regarding his hand, bad not been properly made qut, and he had gone off 0 unwind some more red tape, Bit all oficialdom knew" the | whole story. Found in a little shel- | ter between the lines, but nearer those of Germany, the soldier had explained his presence there by his | wound, Evidence secured later show- ed that he had shot himself when he | saw that he was about to be discov- ered. And so, at daybreak, he died | the death of a spy.--Mona Cleaver in The Canadian Courter. "1 couldn't have re- | i Highest for Oats. | The highest forecast for oats! comes from the Elrose district in Saskatchewan. There the expecta- tion i# for 100 bushels to the acre. Next is the report from the Hanna | district at 90 bushels, The lowest of | all is 20 to 30 bushels. In barley | fhe highest estimates comes from Ardate, if the De Lisle district, and Dinsmore, in 'Elrose district, each estimating 60 bushels to the acre. The lowest is 15 bushels. Strangely enough in each case where low aver- t } | | § | { spector at one of the local railway | ports 'an expectation. for yields of Had to Punch It, "Ticket, 'sir, please," sald an in- stations to a gentleman 0, a8 a | season ticket holder for some time, | believed his face was so well known | that there was no need for him to | show his ticket. i "My face is my ticket," replied the | gentleman, greatly annoyed. id] "Indeed," said the inspector, rbll- | ing back his wristband and display- | Ang a powerful wrist. "My orders f are to punch all tickets." i 2 Sticking Piano Keys. i 80 much rain this season makes | doors stick on account of swelling of | the wood and piano keys also refuse | {to act quickly on the same account. | A very simple but helpful remedy is found in placing an electric light or a small lamp in the lower part of the piano. 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