eatin amie THURSDAY, OOTOBER 23, 1010. > Elsie Takes Command " By WILL T. AMES (Copyright, 191%, By ths MeClure News. paper Syadicats.) A ferry boat locd of the shipyard men piled il-mell over the whart cross the raliroad tracks and onto the malo thoroughfare of the town, at the foot of which lay the makeshift slip. They were rough!; clad and grimy and Ktrong, and, many of them, hard-look: ing. There had been a crap game on the boat coming over and it had not gone Smoothly. Three of the men among the thousand showed the marks of it, for they were giore or less bloody and still white with anger The three, each with a friend or two, Stopped at the saloon at the foot of the Street to wash off the stains of the raw. The rest of the workers paid no heed but hurried on homeward, There was littie laughter dr joking What conversation there was among them was unsmili and it was plain to be seen tha¥ the yeast of discontent was at work, At the street corner two blocks from the wharf a girl stood by the curb, watching the passing throng and look: Ing for son y and by she caught sig ! toughly fash- foned young fellow w thick hair that looked flaxen by contre burned skin. He spled the girl at the same In stant, said a brief word to the com: panions of the moment, and stopped beside her, automatically reaching Oly, that's what we've got. for the bundles she carried. The girl's eyes were shining. "What do you know, Billy? I found a place! an honest-to-goodness apartment, Mrs. Elis heard about a couple that are go- ing out of town---somebody she knows. She's a good old thing, after all, Billy, and she went right down there and got them to keep still about it till we could get a chance at the place. "I've been down teday and engaged it. I'san oid house, Billy, but there's three rooms and a bath-- and only one other familly, the folks that own it; they live downstairs. I guess they're boosting the rent two or three dollars But we should worry--with your pay It's our lucky day, isn't it, Billy?» But Billy Nexon dida't respend to the happy mood of his young wife nearly as she had anticipated, While Elsie lay in walt for him there she had ex. pected that he would throw up his 'hat and sheut. Places to live--te really live and keep house like regular civilized people-~were simply unobd- talnable In the town. The Noxons had been "light housekeeping in a single room for four months, like hundreds of others, v "Don't know as there's any ude in fussing about it, Chick," the boy finally replied soberly. "We're likely to have to get to blazes out of this man's town any ting now. The gang's pretty sors ang they're likely to tie a can, any time at all, to the bunch of grafters that then, when we hit them for a lousy dot jar ty raise, to help pay for the Eg prices on the grub we est the hoot I poking very steadily anc t her big husband, "Well" he rat out of breath iy resumed, "it's about al Ss going to be some hat right quick. ) while fot us 1c @ room to three. May n the middle of a bard n 8 week oF two---ané kind of a dacent or nothing at ail than slavery" The mily at & passing tour : ns boy stared 'ag car. The girl was abeut an Inch above five feet----her husband about an ined above six Her eyes had been grow ing bigger and bigger as she listened to his dour speech. Now she selged him by the sald: "Billy Nox on, you ¢ hot th me, straight. "And do sou speak--or eves think--a wo I 1 tell you to," The somber face of the boy thawed inte 8 sheepish grin as he permitted himself to be marshaled along six city blocks to the piace where they lived in Mrs Ells' furnished second floor back. Not until they were in their room with the door closed behind them. did Elsie speak agnin "Now," she de clared taking the bundles from Billy and putting them on the table. "I've got something to say to you, you big boob! You've been | to those darned bolsheviks in! You sit down there and answer me a couple of Questions:" and she pushed her husband tnte the Nmpy-legged mqrris chair. "First--How much money! ¢ Wwe have after two years when we quit Roxbury and came here? We had $140, didn't we? We've been hore four months, and how much have we got? We've got $480 of new money, And it's clean money, Billy, honestly earned. I'd rather have that than a million that was grafted. We're not getting along so badly Maybe somebody else is getting a whale lot more that doesn't deserve it half as mach. But I guess these things will be straightened out If fellows like you don't go looney and spoil everything. Anyhow, you never had so much money ahead in your life, Billy Noxon, and I knew it. "Now, who's the head devil over there at the yard in getting up all this LW. W. sentiment? Is It a black-mus- tled fellow they call Saunderson?® "Well, Sauandersoa's the smartest, most independent mas in the yard, if | that's what you mean, and not afraid to speak his mind. The fellows listen to him because he's there with the goods. ™ "I' thought so. I sat behind him and some other anarchists in a street ear yesterday, when he ought to have been at work, and I know what he thinks, I heard him tell the man with him | that it was about time the 'boorzhwa' was kept from wonopelizing every- thing, including Jthe 'mest beautiful and desirable wives'--that's exactly what he sald, Billy Noxon!" { "Well," responded Billy, - rather doubtfully, "he meant that a working | man can't compete with a rich one tor a girl, when he caa't send her are running the tea kettle factory over | the river." "What do you mean, Billy Noxon-- | strike? "It's a heap sight more than just one strike, when the blowoff comes. The working maa has been carrying the tar end of the stick about as long Gowers and give her buza:car rides and such things" "Billy, you're a simp. He meant-- | because he said so---that the women | ought to be nationalized. Understand | that? Made the property of the men { aqually, like the food and the ¢lothes 8s he's going to in this country. | Here's you and me living like a couple of bums in & coop of a room and me sweating my hide off over there on these hulls--and a jot of loafers that don't hit a ship a lick from the time 'she's doped out till she's overheard, and haven't even got a dollar of their own meney in the plant, puiling down millions, "Living in palaces and dressing their wives In thousanddollar furs and swelling around in limousines and play- ing golf while we play on a rivet guo --and all off us! All stolen from the working man and his family! Ane Wash Day and Backache WASH day is the least wel-* me day of the week in most homes, though sweeping day is not much better. Both Saye are most trying on the The strain of washing, ironing and Sweeping frequently deranges the kidneys. The system fs potsoned and backaches. rheumatiom, pains in the Mmbs result. 3 Kidney action must be aroused the liver awakened to action and the bowels regulated by such treatment 2s Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills This favorite prescription of the well. known Receipt Book author will net ! fail voi tn the hour of woed. One pili a dose, We a dex t all dealers, - Baten 4 Cn, TAM. Toners ind the houses and automobiles! He | sald it was too early to spring that idea yet, but it would surely come." Billy tried to say something, but the | ittfe wife kept on. "Billy, I didot tell | | rou before, but twice that black devil | as tried to pick me up on the: street. | Testerday when he got up to leave the ir he grinned at me and winked, and | 1e sald out of the corner of hi wouth 1s he passed: 'Pretty peach?® Billy Noxon, do you wait me nationaliged-- | 'or Saunderson? Are you for the bol- theviks or for me?" { Billy Noxon found Saunderson in the ard sext day, and hammered him tor ive minutes. He told him that he'd | lek him every time he saw him. Wherefore, Saunderson is now agitat ng elsewhere, and there hasn't been wy strike in the yard. Maybe every- hing Is not exactly as It should be \# between labor and capital. but as retweeén Billy and Elsie, bolshevism msa't a look-in. PARAVANE PROVED ITS WORTH No Vessel Protected by That Contri. | vance Is Known to Have Been i Sunk by Mines. : ---- i The oddity of the word "paravane," ! 88 It now reaches the general public, | ; hows how well an important secret {| was kept during the historic years | 1817.18. During those years the in | 'ention, perfected at Portsmouth, | England, was added to some 4,000 | British vessels, and no case is knows 'in which a ship thus protected was | damaged by a sunken mine. Towed | { under water on both sides of the bow, | § the paravane, shaped like a kite, met | the mooring wire of the sunken mine, | deflected the hidden menace £6 a ' distance trom the ship, severed : | mooring, and left it free to come te | the surface where it could bé exploded i by gun fire. Seamen naturally enough | | 00D came to spe.a of the paravanes | | as "otters." and they epabled many a | vessel to travel safely through mine | infested waters. Several hundred { American ships had been thus | 'j equipped at the signing of the armi | | stioe, and it Is a pleasing thobght that . the cessation of hostilities saved about | i { i : : i i i jenibarrassed the Prince of {Wales to! { the blushing point bere Monday af-| i insisted i $10.000000 which the United States want to spend in providing para for American shipping. a ee | AGED INDIAN DOES 1 DANCE WITH RRINGE yi 8] { ---- The Royal Visitor . ~~ Does tie Humor Brantford, Oct. 22. An aged In-| dian chief, name unknown, veftainly | tarnoon when he adctic al % or i i ; : hk ita tl 4 Etat ite, Toten ets Md hh ER | id ; TR Ee ant dhe an tata al ad TE ) ibid ro ¢ i | Fri bioridb bobbie d bres HL Ht ETHIE He ber i be THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 7 AA A -- Every City and District Will Win My Flag" When Edward, Prince of Wales--eager, bright eyed, smiling and sincere--arrived in Canada in August, and when he voiced his great admiration of the wonderful achievements of Canadians; on the fields of battle and at home, once again we. were thrilled with joyous pride. : He asked concerning Canada's reconstruc- tion programme, and when he was told of the Victory Loan 1919, he graciously consented to the use of his Coat of Arms on a flag, which is to be the prize of honour for districts achieving their quota in the loan. "In dedicating "The Prince's Flag" at Ottawa on Labor Day, His Royal Highness said in part:-- "It is a great joy to me to be. associated with the loan, which is the bridge between war and peace, and which is finishing off the job." "I hope every city and district will win my flag." Striking, and beautiful in design, this flag will form not only an unique memento of Victory Year, but a lasting and outstanding souvenir of the visit of Hjs Royal Highness--a visit which will remain 4s one of the most memorable events in Canada's history. + + + +» The reproduction above shows the design of the flag. The body is white, the edge red; in the upper left hand corner is the Union Jack, and in the lower right hand corner the Prince of V/ales' Coat of Arms. The flag is made in two sizes, 4 feet 6 inches by 9 feet for small cities, towns and villages, and 7 feet by 13 feet 6 inches for cities of over 10,000 population. Canada has been divided into canvassing districts by the Victory Loan Organization. Each city forms one district. Other districts have been determined according to population. Each of these canvassing districts has been allotted a certain amount in Victory Bonds to sell. To win the Prince's Flag, therefore, a district has to sell its allot- ment. That is the one and simple condition. Anticipating that many districts will buy far beyond their allotment, the organization decided that for each YN twenty-five per cent. excess of the quota one Prince of Wales' Crest be awarded. Thus the workers in a district doubling its quota will be the proud winners of four small crests for their Honour Flag. These crests will be sewn to the flag. The Prince's Crest--the three ostrich plumes--is shown at the top of the coat of arms. ® To every organization with fifty or more employees, where seventy-five per cent. of the enrollment invests a total of ten per cent. of the annual payroll in Victory Bonds, a supplementaty--Prince of Wales Flag in smaller form--48 inches by 34 inches--will be awarded. The allotment for each district has been carefully considered, and is based on a conservative estimate of the purchasing power of the district. Your district can sell its allotment and thus win the Prince's Flag, provided each person does his or her share. You will gladly do your part and encourage your neighbour to do his. Remember YOUR purchase may be the one that decides whether or not your district is to be the proud possessor of the Prince's Flag. The Prince 's Motto is "I Serve' Will You also Serve? { Victory Loan 1919 | be Ee ae nee eE 2S SRCIUTIRESIVIANY FH WPVM SARaaR aot I SSIEY A -h ' ; : : " tT Sort of native fox trot with him be- like weird-figure from the ankles up. | it must be admitted fore a smiling audience of pulefaces. i % » ------ very boyishly The Prince viewed him for a few | and shamefacedly across the plat- Twenty Fine Elk In Bag. * , n Upper Eik River game preserves. Inf Fernie, B.C, Oot. 23. --The hunt- [addition to these there were a sume The ceremony of making the Prince & chipt of the six nations has just been concluded when this wrinkled, ancient brave waltzed up to the Prince, shuffling and gesticylating. He was a kafsatboxed. tecded war- | Prince | Seconds nonplussed, and thon he be- Ean to blush. Some way or othér the old man conveyed the iden to him i that he was begging the honor of the [next dance. So still blushing, the danced. or ruther he. . form with the redskin still pawing the air with silent torture beside him. When the fox trot ended the ancient indian made a most wild bow swish- ing the ce in the face with the feathers of his headgear ing season for'elk bas closed, and while an accurdte sceount. of the number of ilese animals bagged in this vieinity cannot yet he sscertain- ed, it i estimated that ot least twen- fae specimens were got Ia the ber obtained from other favorite jspols in the nefghbdrhood. Some ;mountain sheep and goats as wel {lbave been brought in, but the y {pority of the hunters have Bot res turned. i