YEAR 85. NO. 148 --_---- TREE IS NOW VALUABLE SILVER SPRUCE WAS NEGLECT ED FOR A LONG TIME. It Was Discovered to Be the Best Tree for Airplanes and the De mand of This Resident of British Columbia. Forests Has Boomed i lumber Industry In Tha O-DAY the. silver spruce tree is king. Growing upon the Pacific slope in Washington, Oregon and Alaska and, best of all, upon the islands and the main land of British Columbia, this free i® WED | DUMMY BATTLESHIPS. Suicide Fleet of Imitatiop Dresd. 1 noughts Fooled the Germans, 8 The sinking of twe weeden J "dreadnoughts" by Greeti Bris, some days ago, to form a Breakwater, | © bribgs up more evideals of what dis | position is being made " he : 3 Dover Straits Hide Secrsts RV eree T the beginning of last eon- | 4 fleet of fou bat wi tury, when the name at | which Great Britain foel¢d Soran Napoleon was on the lips of | for some fftsen months AMFRg fy | Rurses to frighten naughty | earlier part of the was. | children, Nelson was given command | This titanic war jest, which wad |r ope "Squadron 3 a Pe recently exposed by Lieut. Hemry C.! - : Foster, with the conseat ef Brig. Service," which was the way in which ish Admiralty, completely deceived the Admiralty concealed the fact that not only the Sermam, ut the Beitish this officer was charged with the de. PD mselves. 0 one poof ona "E, | tence of 'England against invasion, Germans could claim to have x | Mis station the Dawhs: the the Agamemnon at the Dardamelles, | preparations were of ; terror MET GREAT NOVELIST. _ 4 Eliot Impressed Mps. | Ward. One of the clearest memories is that of meeting George Eliot and | How George | Mr. Lewes, at the home of Mark Pat- } tison, the famous sector of Lincoln | College, in the spring of 1870, when | I was eighteen. Ii was at one of | the' Sunday suppers. George Eliot sat at the rector's right hand. 1 was opposite her; on my left was George | Hefiry Lewes, to whom I took a | prompt and active: dislike. He and Mrs, Pattison kept up a lively con- | versation in whieB\Mr." Bywater, on | the other sidé of the table, took full i+ share, George Eliot talked very lit- | tle, and I not at all. recfox was | Napoleon's jtshy or tired, and George Eliot was | in truth entirely occupied in atefi-, ing or listening to Mr. Lewes, I was Pages 0-12 | SI FARIA TIINNINNNY SECOND BECTHON Oxfords when the Admiralty had admitted of- | England. ficially, the sinking of. omly (he Go| liath gnd "some supply ships." * a Germany rejoiced over this eu od sinking of the Agamemaoh, t | this station, and to ignore the ! disappointed that she was so silent, | In these days there is a tendency gpg A haps her quick eye may: have | ve h he R i J] or v ir p - underestimate the importance of ' divined it, for after supper, as we | ly " difi- , were going up the interesting old | pan 1918 lL.adies white canvas long a humble and obscure resident of the western forests, is now the most valued of woods, ' teak and ebony, al Mahogany, these rich and proud timbers of other times, step back, give place asd dof their hats to the giant conifer, foi "airplane builders have found this tree the one and only from which ean be produced lumber which best an- swers the most exscting demands of the man-made bird-machines. All a@sw short months the sil ver spruce has leaped into the lime. light. In former years under the var ous names of sitka, tidewater and glant spruce, this tree, which scien- tists speak of as pices sitchensis, brought $15 per thousand feet board measure, In 1916 from British Co- ~ Jumbla $12,000,000 worth of it was logged. It has long been in favor with box- makers, particularly for those intend- ed for fruit carrying, as the wood is light, odorless, resinless snd taste- less. It was also. largely used for cooperage work and in the making of «__ huge doors for freight sheds, docks "Land ga where lightness of weight and strength of figme com- bined were a necessity. nder the name of silver spruce it" was used much in buildings for framing, sheathing, joints, subflooring and shelving. But now through the war all this is changed, and it has prob: ably forever passed out of this class and for the present is the most de- sired timber on the fave of the earth. Upon the number, strength, speed and lasting qualities of airplanes may victory ultimately depend. But in spite of the tremendous strides made in improving flying machines since the war began the superiority of the silver spruce over all others for air plane construction has beén a very recent discovery. And when the im» mense importance of securing a large n was taken. The British authori ties made known thelr requirements and expert lumbermen began scour- ing the Pacific const, Hundreds of wood veterans took their little blanket rolls and went on long eruising trips throughout the northern wilderness of British Co lumbla. And following' their reports thousands of loggers, donkey engines by the hundreds and all the para phernalia used in the highly expert 'work of steam logging were rushed on to the ground. For four months Sow two special trains weekly have gome from the northern part of Prince Rupert load- od with afrpline timber to the lac- tories of ) : And in this year the working donkey en- Munitions they must have wondered why the culties with which the Dover Patrol | turrets and "guns" of the suwken dreadnought floated, for days, to the es. Lieut, Foster states that the dum-~ my battleships were convepled fysm old third-clars passenger ships of the Canadian _ Pacific Steamship Co. which were enrolled in the Bwitish navy. In an Irish port, says Lieut. Foster, the dummy battleships were painted in exactly the same hue as the ves- sols of which they were counterfeits. Canvas was stretched over the decks and painted grey, and the upper decks and equipment finished in every detail to resemble the grand fleet ships so that any foreign #:iia- tor----or any British one, for that mat- tor---fiying overhead, would never suspect he was looking down upon any other than a member of the grand fleet, Turrets and guns were all made of wood, with a careful cxactitude Wm their outer color and finish, There was nothing real about the ships, se far as War purposes were concerned, except the brass irimmisgs, which were kept shining, as on a battleship, and some lifeboats, in which the crew were requived to drill. The ships had neither speed nor defences. Not ome carried a real gun.---¥Papular Science Monthly. Captured Many Germans. How Sergt. Williams Grimbaldeston of the King's Own Beet Bos derers, theugh armed oply with ame He athens, ah say & toeae th @ Sons, » tren mortar, and thereby won the Victories Cross, is thus told in aa official nar- adived tb. bo | left- was being checked by heavy ma- eh n fire from & block- house. He at once collected four rifle-grenadiers, and instructed them has to contend. In the last century | we never obtained absolute com- mand of the Channel; swift enemy | ships were always active, in spite of | the measures which our seamen con. certed with fine resource and cour- age. The steam-engine had not made its appearance to assist an en- | emy's ralding policy; Fulton's dream of the submarine was nothing more than a dream; the mine, as we know it to-day, had not been developed as a constant menace to the forces charged with keeping open the sea communications of an island power, there were no aircraft to enable the enemy to oversee our operations. Every condition bas since changed, | except one. : The enemy does not possess the French coast; but he has well-defended Belgian ports as bases of operations. And for the rest con- sider the position. On!the one hand, the Germans are able to use destroy- ers with a speed of over thirty knots; attomobile motor-boats, with high- explosive charges, operated from the shore; well-armed submarines; and | other submarines, carrying mines, which move stealthily below the sur- | face and drop their devil's eggs In| the pathway -of British men-of-war | and merchant ships. Before the Ger- mans had established. themselves on | the Belgian coast thif country had | given hostages to fortune by de: spatching troops to France. Thou- | sands of officers and men pass to and | | above, she said to me: "The rector i never was that. t books i conscious, too desperately reflective, staircase, made in the thickness of the wall, which led direet from the dining-room to the drawing-room tells me that you have been reading Have you noted how un- a good deal about Spain. Would you | , common corns are nowadays? care to hear something of pur Span- Y - ish journey?" -- the journey which That pained look -- that had preceded the appearance of *"Fhe slipped-off shoe--are not very Spanish Gypey," then newly publisfi-| often seen. The reason lies in Blue-jay, ed, My reply Is easily imagined. The which milliéns Have adopted. rest of the party passed through the | dimly lit. drawing-room to talk and An easy gentle, scientific way to forever end a corn. smoke in the gallery beyond. George | EMot sat dcwn'in the darkness and I beside her. Then she talked: for} about twenty minutes, with perfect ' Those corn-free folks don't ease and finish, without misplacing al pate corns. They don't merely word or dropping a sentence, and I| d them, They don't use old- realized at last that I was in the pres- | tim& treatments, harsh and mussy. ence of a great writer. Not a great| When\a corn appears they wrap talker. It is clear that George Eliot | Impossible for her | to "talk" her books, or evolve her | from conversation, like Madame de Stael. She was too self- § a---- too rich in second-thoughts for that. | But in tete-a-tete, and with time io | choose her words, she could in mono- logue,' with just enough stimulus from a companion to keep it going-- produce on a listener exactly the im-! pression of some of her best work. As the low clear voice flowed on, in| Mrs. Fattison's drawing-room, I saw | Saragossa, Granada, the Escorial, and that survival of the old Europe | It wraps the toe snugly. Steps the pain instantly. 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Newest designs white footwear. » in ~ - A ne rnd The little word 'but' blunts the point of many ea good argument. in the new, which one must go to} Spain to find. © Not that the descrip- | fro, and vast quantities of supplies | (oo vas 5 . particularly vivid---in talk- | are sent from England every twenty | ing of famous places John Richard | four hours. In addition the Dover Green could make words tell and! Patrol Jan hic hphera B Eres; vob | paint with far greater success; but' 8 08 Derean PINE bi BE | it was singularly complete and ac- » and down English Channel Ain offers to the enemy large and { varied ; and he has the ad. | . of initiative, . i reviney laine event," sad: | raids; "It never known when de stroyers or submarines will be sent | forth, nor what their exaet objectives | will he; and all the time the Dover | Patrol has to be at sea fighting the | to o as rapid a Greas 0 the block-house, thus or doabic op our trench mortar batteriol, which was also cohegntrating om the same target. "The block:house was open dh devoid of cover. fa v band of rifiemen. v "Under a hall of bullets from the enemy machine guns, o armed with only one hand grenade, hs work. od his way round to the émimasice at the rear of the 'block with this solitary weapon hé" ap peared in the midst of the shemy, and persuaded each gun team ih tum to lay down its arms. "So it happened that Germans, with their six Maching guns and a trench momtar, stpres- dered to one British sold dod a bomb. By his bravery an Adal he was thus responsible for the ture of this stronghold with its de fenders, and at the same tiwe pre- vented what threatened to become & critical situation. Hun Press on Lansdowne. The Rheinisch Westlaelischio Zei- tung attributes Lord Lansdowme's letter to the peace in the east, which permits the concentration of Ged | gratt, | ground between ihe and We | "1p an incident occur, such as the | 'Lbottom of the Straits of Dover. This many's entire foreus in the west, to | England elements and protecting the barrage | which, as the Germans know, re- | inforces the activities of our smAI] 1 ! { tecént rald on the drifters hunting | for a submarine, the whole world | lof the ledger. When Nelson was | holding his station in the Dowas he | | wrote of the "great pre ns at'| | Ostend." Augereau, afterwards the | { Marshal of France, being in com- | ;mand of that part of the army. "I. hope," Nelson added, "to let him feel | ithe bottom of the Goodwin Sands." | {In these days we should have a very | | different appreciation of the werk of | | the Dover Patrol if we could the | channel, with & width of a little over { twenty miles, has beéosme the gate- | way of eivilization. The enemy has been endeavoring to break through {it for over three-and-a-half years--to | surprise our watch and ward. | if some instrument could be in- vented to enable us te look through | the water to the bed of the Channel | between the English coast and the | opposite shore, we should obtain a | better-balanced picture of the events : in this theatre of war since the open- We have knowl- |' Too complished. When it wes done the | effect was there---ihe effect she had mesut to. produce. I shut my eyes, Jail comes back---the darkened | room, 'the lotig, pallid face, the evi- | dent wish to be kind to a young gi ~--Mrs. Humphrey Ward in. Harper's, Magazine. | i Homes for Soldiers, A new plan to provide comfortable homes for discharged soldier in Great Britain by enlisting country people | to act as '"toyntry hosts" to the army men has just been launched by the Marquis of Sligo, himself a farmer made his way across it {nod series of 1opras of it within a few hours. | captain in the army, and Viscount rushes, followed clesely Wy Bis small | Nothing is known of the other mide | Knutsford, long interested in charit- | able enterprises. They have formed ! the Country Host Institution which | "hosts" are urged to join, i The scheme has a two-fold object. | It aims, not only at giving the broken. soldiers a lift but also to quality | them for farming work, thus increas- | ing the country's food supply. : Briefly the plan requires the host | to provide free lodging and board for | the man and a good-sized garden or | farm in which suitable; light outdoor | work can be found for him. The men selected as guests shall be of good character, sober, not saffering from any serious ailments and able to look after themselves. An allowance of fifteen shillings a week will, if required, be paid direct to the farmer-soldier in return for his labor. South Africans Loyal. Minister of Radiways Burton of It is su 1234 g: ¥ engi value. part in your motor. bi oped at high speed operation. high temperatures--insures full delivery of power the year round. 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