A eet soa rn a EE THE DAILY BRITISH "DR. FOWLER'S" =e SO s the whole history of Weary poets and literary men of London dom when have (tramps of land Oxford have been fascinated by own volition and just for sia La performances, have even roared [when thrée bears eame trundling {down after supper was over, I ap- proached ome with some bread, which {he very gently took from my fingers, : | Saved the Lives of [and I scratched his nose and put myself on speaking terms. Four Childrer | 'Cuttous," sald I to Vachel, is it 'Amusing Story of How Stephen Graham and Vache! Lind=- say, Two Literary Vagabonds, Got Tired Feet, Blues and Scratched Bears' Noses in Glacier Park. By Prof. W. T. Allison. not?' These are the same bears which {used to figure so Jargely in adventure |, stories of thé Rocky Mountains. It {follows that they are ready to be good citizens of the forest if treated Diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera in- fantum and summer complaint are responsible for more deaths, especial- "good." ly among children, during the sum-| B . 4 "A vn Fp than any other form of You'd have had a different exper- disease. According to statistics, in ience had they been grizzlies, we the City of Toronto alone, in the past | were told later. five years out of 1008 deaths of child-| Maybe. But St. Seraphin himself ren, from diarrhoea, 757 died during | did not tackle grizzlies." . the Tous summer postha n there As a result of these experiences ore ooves every mother to lv "Vis: after her children on the first sign | Yale vivte 4 poem, oy do vy f any looseness of the bowels by us- | . ¥ ' ih Dr. Fowler's Extract of wild fed at Graham's sleeping form, is Strawberry, a remedy that has been [Supposed to be speaker of the last on the market for the past 77 years, | nine lines: and has been proven to be the best So we've met the bears there is. The bear has snuffed at us Mrs. Harold Sellers, Pennfield, N. | And wondered what we were, B., writes: --"Dr. Fowler's Extract| Humans with a forest smell to us, of Wild Bepewberny saved the lives of No doubt quite game; four of my children when a other remedies failed. It stopped the |. Sleeping out ary quietly. vomiting and terrible diarrhoea with | D » x which they were troubled. I will al-| Dare one, dare a poor bear take a ways recommend it, and now always | bite? have a bottle on hand in case of | Would they mind? emergency." I've bitten most of the animals in Price, 50c. a bottle; put up only the wood by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, To- | Except them ronto, Ont. In my time. * ----. of the thing gone mountain c refrains with great gusto as he mbing? Invariably Tomato Cafi¥ied them in' th& manner' a singing arite and Haystack Tommy like io | leader at a camp meeting. It is a in a level country where pleasure for me to be able to chron- houses and hand-outs are |jicle the news that this very interest- too far apart. But to the dis-|ing and highly original troubadour of Vagabondia two noted {is going to visit many of our Canad- ips have smashed all traditions |ian colleges this fall. As we listen f exultingly marching up and down [to him, and if our dignity will per- p Rocky Mountains and the longer | mit, join with him, fn his Congo p climb the more they seemed tO phythms, we'll be thinking of that it. While engaged in such het- | disreputable song which he compos- px activity they retained somo ed once upon a time as he marched their habits of the ancient craft 0 | gaily through the corn fields of they belong; for example, Towa. It commences thus: larder was constantly low and | Why don't you go to work ir raiment as free and easy and Like other men do? 'disreputable as any tramp could How can we work when there's Sh: but {t seems almost certain no work to do? Stephén Graham, Euther of - S---- ) ping- with a Poet In the 1 Down oc jes" (D. Appleton and Co,, New ob I ural Sion J and Vachel Lindsay, the poet-f, , 1010p of his strong voice p with whom he walked and|_, ~~ he and Graham got well into d up crags and down precipiess, (a) ono Park. He was ap- be expelled from the Interma-}, .,, .' "Lap of corduroy trous- I Tramps' Union as havingputa |. "rot out at the knees, and wore ble blot on the escutchion of =o. . , handkerchief round his languid body. However, thelr| o.oo does not describe his ern ought to take into consld-| "1 thine more than to say that Hon the fact that Graham and |, .;.4 on the same hob-nailed boots y ate itovary frame. ae in which he once tramped across mer, a lean ghiander, © UE" | Russia. When they reached the to for his bread and butter in many | oe toi gree Soi ivy where Ti pilgrimage in Russia and the |. perfect cyclorama, as Vachel Land, as his seventeen volumes called it, the poet from Illinois "bal- the Tater, Sue Sturdy anced on his toes, and half closed verse singer of Springfield, 1i-| pg eyes in his half-upturned faca, 8, has gone on long tramps in |ang turned round and about like a own country sid as Proved hat testotum. Last time I had seen him can earn his bread and 10dg- {qq tnis was on the carpet of a Lon- BE by reciting his verses to Amer! | 40, drawing-room in Anne's ; Barmers and fael) vis. iy gate to the strains of "Let Samson r visite @ Rock'es together, Ihe a.coming in to your mind*" Af. j8srs. Graham and Lindsay wore ier the ecstasy on the summit _-- i-fide tramps, but the hard work | ¢pe difficulty of getting down on Sey did among the mountain tobs, | the other side, for these care-fres I fear, disqualified them from | tramps followed no beaten path, no For Breakfast 'BAKER'S COCOA | N O matter what your taste prompts you to drink in the morning, give the children BAKER'S COCOA. They need a and wholesome drink that has real food value,--nutritive qualities, not merely stim. ulative; and Baker's Cocoa will answer all their uirements, You would do well to drink it yourself, for you would find .that its delicious flavor and aroma would be most pleasing and its food properties sustaining and satisfying, MADE IN CANADA BY) WALTER BAKER & CO. LIMITED Established 1780 Mass. CANADIAN MILLS AT MONTREAL) oo Booklet of Choice Recipes sent free It takes more than a mountain to do het: Crossing The Canadian Line, Long before the two tramps cross- 2 i ed the Canadian line the poet had é : Th repi i A Bear Buatls 2 e Sleep * | become rather used up. The long I can believe Mr. Graham when he | logs ot Stephen Seanam. . 2 assures us that for days he and the |TUC¢d for him; he panted to keep poet lived on olack currants, wild | UP» constantly inveigling his compan- gooseberries and raspberries, but |l0% to halt by exclaiming sbout the when he begins to write about en-| ®2Uty of a particular scene he wish- counters with bears I am afraid |®d Dim to take time to study. Then many readers will be sceptical, | 00 day, while descending a precipice However, friends of mine have told 199 Basy, Vachel sprained his suk me that in Yellowstone and other | = s was more ef Sone flay al national parks bears have become | '¥ ons o e Sesnety n Jutsibg a quite tame through having been left i Hon ein shpat vy of Gri unmolested by hunters for a pertod | 0° PY the time 50-40 was reached, of years: It was fortunate for|'2chel Was once more getting up these literary tramps that the bears | 3°81. The excitement of finding the in Glacier National park have ceas- | ihe refreshed him. The tramps found ed to look upon man as a mortal |e line unguarded; no patrols, no enemy. For Mr. Graham tells us |°XCiS¢ or passport officers, nothing that one night when he and the poet | Put - Simteen-jogt s¥athie cut in the were sleeping near Heaven's Peak, [+C co» & rough glade, an alley a bear visited them. "Vachel and 1," | tRrough the tall pines. They discov- REGISTERED TRADE MARK A Ne ! of "Canadian Girls Nursing Uncle [big republic to the south of us, tells B England and America, EE oe ered frontier post No. 276. Graham s v y 8 t he says, "were lying close to each stood on Canadian soil, Vachel on national. | Vagabond Vachel, America's Troubadour. Before proceeding with the narra- 'of .this eccentric piece of wan- ring, I wish to explain to readers © have never heard of Vachel dsay (his name Vachel rhymes h Rachel, not~with satchel) that is the most origindl product of g-singing America since Walt (hitman sounded his barbaric yawp the rooftops of Camden, New . Like Whitman, he is all for bracy, wears cynically loose-fit- clothes, indulges in flowing igms, and admires Abraham n and William Bryan. Strange say, howeypr, he does not admire fitman, for he is conventional en- igh to be moral and even religious. best-knpwn poems, "The Congo" "General Hooth Entefs Heav- * have gained wide currency both In fact, bond Vachel has received a I'm welcome not only in the farm of Kansas but in the colleges uliversities of two continents. nts of American colleges have .me how thoroughly they have Joyed listening to his sonorous § 3 janting of his free verse, and even Bridges and the most proper on for membership in the In- | regular trail: their method was tc | make a bee-line across country, tak. | ing the mountains as they came. It |1s a wonder they were not killed, {for they made tobeggans of broad, | flat stones and thus cascaded down | long inclines of silt and shale. Ani | as they climbed up or tobogganed { down, they kept on talking. "At last, | however," Graham confesses; "the mountains «silenced us, They out- stayed us and will outstay us. They ate up our provisions, and swallowed our breath, and bequiled us decen- tively to climb higher. And we al- ways expected to get to the top in on hour. We finished the coffes, wo finished the milk, we finished the bread, we finishced the sugar. We got down to a rasher o* bicon a day and tea without sugar and milk. Then even the much-loathed bacon ot finished and the problem was to find a "camp'" and get more sun- plies. So we sat ourselves seriously fo the task of finding a nase over the range." At the close of this melan- cholv recital, Vashel sunniies a sna- posed noem. (his nractire at the close of each chapter of the book). The greedy old mounains have been to our knapsacks They've swallowed our breath and silenced our speech. And eaten up most of our food. But they haven't broken our hearts. | other and both had our blankets | over our faces, for it was cold. Vach- | el, as he told me afterwards, was | awakenel by something and lay! listening to my breathing. He thought to himself, "Stephen is cert-| alnly making a terrible racket: he must have a cold; and then he thought again lazily and unsuspests ingly, "Stephen surely must have caught a cold to be snuffing and snorting that way." Then he thought again, "He seems to be moving alout, I wonder what he's doing." Then Vachel put his head out of his blank- et and what should he see standing beside us but a big black bear. As for me, I was sleeping like a babe. and the bear apparently had béen snuffing at me to see whether I was live meat or dead mieat. Vachel gave one terrific shout. "The son of a gun," said he, and I wakened up. "Wake up, Stephen; it's a Lear," sald he. At this brother bear walk- ed aeross from my side, where I had a pile of boiled eggs, which he had scattered, and leisurely began to knock our tin cans about on tne oth- er side and try and find the ham which we had bought the day before. In a most unsaintly way we drove him off." Vachel's Bear Monologue, "On another occasion, however, Neng American, and they joined their hands on the top of the post to sig- nif; the amity of the two nations they represented. It was one of the happiest: moments in their journey. Vachel facetiously remarked that now, hie supposed, once they had en- tered the British Empire, the huckie- 'berries w. i be more pléntiful, the raspberry bushes larger, the trees loftier, and the air purer. Graham soberly chronicles the fact that at any rate theré was a change of scenery. "The gradeur of the mount- ain; Uncreased upon us till all was in the sublimity of the Book of Job and the Chaldean stars, There was nothing petty anywhere--but an et- ernal witness and an eternal sil- ence." They did not go far north into British Columbia. Evidently the mountains were too high for them to scale. So they @werged on the southern Alberta plain, and Graham takes up most of the rest of his space by describing visits to the Doukhobors and the Mormons. Per- haps he is saving the Canadian Rock- ies for another book. It is to be hop- ed that he will tramp there with Vachel some future summer, and that he will recocord their impressions and conversations in the same sprightly way tuat he has dome in this amusing volume, As p fitting conclusion to this tramps' narrative I qwote Vachel Lindsay's comical poem, 'Tired Feot Blues: A'm ti-erd, yes a'm ti-erd, A got th' bloo-ooes aw-fool ba-ad. Ma feet is sore; You's awful so-ore, Ain't ye, feat? . That fellah over the-erg 's legs is just too lo-ong. Now where's he gwine to pow? Where's. he gwine to now? I"se skeered he'll leave me here a-lone, All a-lo-one. Say, Cap, dean go ou so fa-ar, Say, boss, you sure didn't see that tree, ; You can have no feelin's for the view Huhhyin' on 50 fags--= w, T. ALLISON ' -- Literary Notes. On top of the announcement that | {ed by Willlam B. Parnin, Agent, Na- tional Bank of Scotland, Biggar. The Amercan publsher of Coue's "Self Mastery though Conscious Autosuggestion," makes the sweep- ing statement that "All America is beginning to repeat 'Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'. He brings England into his advertisement by inserting por- traits of Lord Curzon and Countess Beatty, both of whom, he declares were cured, after all other methods failed, by Professor Coue. The haughty marquis will probably have 4 relapse if his eye ever falls on this blazing advertisement. A writer in the New York Times says there is probably no other vol- ume of Kipling .s0 sumptuously bound as the copy of "Many Inyen- tious' owned by Brander Matthews. ol harmoniously marbled paper and vellum corners, and is the work of Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, one of the best-known bookbinders of the age. Brander Matthews was so delighted with the book that he sent it to Kip- ling with a request for his auto- graph. Kipling found the blank pages at the beginning of the volume so tempting that he wrote on three of them---a parody of Browning, a par- ody of James Whitcomb Riley and the following quatrain: See my literary pants! I am bound in crused levants, Brander Matthews did it, and a Very handsome thing of Branda. The editor of the Butcher's Ad- vocate noticed that an American publisher had issued a new book en- titled "Cannibal Land." Whereupon he wrote the following letter," "We have noticed the publication entitl- ed "Cannibal = Land," by Martin Johnson, and request that you send ur a copy of this book for review in our columns. We feel certain that a work of this kind would be of ex- ceptional interest to the people reached - by our Weekly." This burst of unconscious humor ought to make pleasing reading for all ve- getarians. " ~W. T. A. CANADA'S NATIONAL RAILWAYS AND THE RECENT WORLD'S WAR Under, the heading "Canada's Ne- tional Railways and the War" the Canadian Nalional Railways have put out a book which is at the same It has a back of blue moroceo, sides | 8am," by Jean Morison, setting forth the histories of several Canadian nurses who have attained high posi- tions in the United States and have made an outstanding record in the medical world by their efficiency and fine ability, 5 There are many Canadian girla go- ing yearly to the country across the border to follow up their professions and their services are in constant de- mand, as are those of Canadian doe- tors. Some time ago One of the most famous hospitals in the United States Wrote to Queen's University asking for young graduate doctors fram Queen's. The same principle applies to nurses from the land of the maple; they are welcomed, yes, sought, on the American side. Miss Morison's article gives gen- eral figures concerning nursing in the the work of 'he Canadian girls who are nurses there and sketches many Judividual cases of the wonderful suc- cess of Canadian girls, There are a few of the names mentioned of espec- ial interest to us. From Belleville came Margaret St. Charles, Superin- tendent of Nurses at St. James' Hos pital, Newark, N.J.,; M. Agnes Cope- land, R.N., Superintendent of Nurses, St, Catharine's Hospital, Brooklyn; Lavinia M. Copeland, Superintendent of the School of Nursing, St. Mary's ~lospital, Brooklyn. From Kingston there are many nurses in the United States, prominent among them being Helen Farrell Grady, Mabel PF. Grady And M. 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