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Loan 0 op -- ted by the naval ovese "this work she dodge and floating mines, was "thousand miles by a | ubmarine, drove off anothes ive well-placed shots, was ive bait in a'convoy to trap ine, weathered. an eighty- gale while steaming fowr hour astern with her em- ing 100 revolutions minute on the 'go ahead," ! through it all never had an accident. These are some of the high lights in her very interesting story, whieh is told by her commanding offices, Lieut.-Col. E. Gordon Ratiray, in the Chicago Tribune. According ioc Come ake Ontario was November 20, 1917. Five days later we left Manitowoc for New York in Montreal, on 'the way t® rk, we received orders to pre» even other ships through uebec before we were all as was the last fleet out. en from seven to ten de grees below zero, with the rivers and akes covered with ice. ge Government ice-crushee, Lady Gray, met us to break a way he ice as far as Quebes, ould receive the assimt= other large Canadian Gow ernment ice-crusher, Bell View. The re then to break the fleet owt 0 clear water. was last to leave Two Rivers to arrive at Quebec, smashe r way through seven feet of Victoria bridge. d all night at Quebec. ugh very heavy ice. ; proceeding for ive hours through ice that measured up to twenty f ice-crushers tu back with six of the other 'ships. The Lake Ontario continued bus ing the ice, with the War Fox fel This is' 'where the batthy commenced. © 'All the buoys wee gone for 157 miles in this river, ease ried out by the heavy ice, in tides that ran as high as seven knots pep hour in places. the Canadian We started out tee ut the Lake Ontarfe, we arrived in New York g fitted for naval opes ine-carrier with depth guns mounted fore and the trip from New . Virginia, thence t® . We fueled up twe le there and proceeded West, where we finished our cargo at the naval convoy bound from Nee- yisions, Cn our way to Hampton Roads er the United ke Moor's wreck. ceiving numerous wireless messages from ships being attacked by German submarines, we arrived pton' Roads none the worge i 'It was always every alter passing the ! reland, where sub- Jd mines were very plenrti- - To find our way back home port, we changed our high as three thousand , | When there came along a couple of agriculture gener- ive stock, having he winter in prime vill 'W considerable in- in numbers. J things has souls?' "'We-e-11," drawl- redding took : 7 | They're human bein's. But I'll tell J to go to heaven, sure; far the devil'd iol Strange Story of How They Were Recovered. In 1818, Great Britain and the United States agreed that the 49th parallel of latitude should be the boundary between Canada and the United = States, from Lake of the Woods to the 'Stony Mountains," as the Rockies were then called. West was "free and open' to both parties for a period of ten years. not settled. In 1824 Russia surren- dered all rights to the territory south of 54 degrees, 40 minutes. Time passed, and the country was still- "free and open," but an influx of American settlers began tn arouse Fithe Democrats in the United States was, 'Fifty-four forty or fight!" which meant that the United States made, continuing tke 49th parallel "to the middle of the channel which couver's Island." The commission on the boundary made a map survey, but only got 98 that marked distance. : A few years later, settlers found three lines cut'and two sets of pyra- mids. The boundary was lost. Who could say which was United Stales and which Canadian soil? The Canadian settlars applied to the Provincial Government of Vie- toria, and the query was passed on to the Dominion 'Governmeént. The simple thing would be to write to London, Eng., and obtain the requir- ed information re the surveys of 1857-1861. In his recent pamphlet on the sub- ject, Mr. Otto Klotz, Chief Astrono- mer of the Dominion, says: "Now the extraordinary thing hap- | pened. This final report with the necessary data of the survey was not to be found in London. Time and again search was made by dif- ferent persons for the missing docu- ment, but all to no avail. To add to the remarkable situation, the dupli- cate final report was not to be found Jin any of the Government archives in Washington. circumstance? Two governments are engaged for years on an expensive international work, a boundary sur- vey; the respective commissioners ) sign joint final reports and transmit then to their respective Govern- 'ments, and the reports are nowhere to be found -- apparently vanished from the face of the earth!' "Such was the situation in 1898, when the writer (Mr. Klotz) was sent by the Dominion Government to | London and Petrograd on a special | mission, in which was included the | obtaining of information regarding the records and final report of the above survey. All the offices in Lon- don were visited in which there was the faintest likelihood that the re- cords might be stored, but without result, and no one seemed to-be able to give any assistance. . "It was the writer's first visit to 'Europe, and naturally a visit was 'paid to the Royal Observatory at | Greenwich, as he was astronomer for the Dominion Government. a | "By chance, his eye caught the initials, B.N.A. on some boxes on top of the library shelves. Like a flash those letters interpreted themselves as standing for 'British North Amer- ica.' At his request, the boxes were taken down, the dust of years re- 'moved, and in them lay the long-lost records of the international survey of the 49th parallel." "Bars" To Be Awarded. Canadian soldiers will be awarded bars to the general service medal for the following engagements: 1915--Second battle of Ypres, April and May; St. Julien and Langemarck. 2 _ 1916--Mount St. Eloi, April 3 tc 19; 'Sanctuary Wood, and Hill 2, 'June 2 and 2; the battle of the' Somme, October and November. 1917--Vimy Ridge, April 9 to 13; 'battle of Arleux and Fresnoy, April 28-29, and May 3; Hill 70, August 16; and Passchendaele, October 25 to November 10. 1918--Battle of Amiens, August 12; capture of Monchy-le-Preux, August 26 to 28; Boiry and Cherisy, ugust 30 to September 2; breaking 'of Queant-Drocourt Line, September 8 and 4; Crossing of Canal Du Nord and Capture of Boulon Wood, Sep- tember 27 to 29; capture of Cam- brai, October 19; capture of Deain, October 20; capture of Valenciennes, October 25 to November 2 ; and the capture of Mons, November 7 to 11. It is possible that bars will be given also for the battles of Festu- bert, Givenchy and Hooge. \ A Difficult Question. ~~ One day I was getting dinner in my 'tent and the usual ccmpany of na- tives watching the . performance, men who had just landed and who, evidently, had never seen an Eskimo before. I overheard their conversa- tion, relates Rev. S. Hall Young in his book, "Adventures In Alaska." "Say, Jim," said ome, "just look there. (A pause.) 'Say, do you think them ed Jim, "I reckon they must have, you this: If they do, they've all got never have them around." If Driver. a Sir Douglas Haig y. Haig were on the St. inks recently and engaged i of that to the Paciic, the country. separates the continent from Van- miles of lines cut and erected stone, pyramids at frequent intervals in shooting 'Does history record any similar | LOST BOUNDARY RECORDS. | 68am: 4% RED IX EAR) 25 25 R 2 o. XD 2 2 $ ° Da RS (Belgium), Order of the Crown and i > : Cross of War (Italian); had a habby. DL 1 ion yours nl ey way And that hobby suddenly picked him up in its arms and carried him up to the stars. : : In spite of the blazing streak of ribbon on his left breast, he is not a jealousy. In 1844 the political cry of professional soldier. B he was an engineer, an enthusiastic investigator cf industry, both in the would have the Pacific coast up to engineering and socialogical sense. 'the Russian territory or fight Britain And he h for it. But in 1848 a treaty was ferv military consulting engineer at Niagara, he was a member of an infantry militia regiment. But that line of soldiering --inadequate ing up-to-date. as the hobby. So in due course he began to agi- late for the formation of some mili- tary unit which would have army maps and topography as its medium of service. In 1903, the Corps of Guides wags formed and he became one of its senior officers, He studied the ground. He learn-~ ed to see a landscape in a map, a bird's-eye view from a chart. trees, streams, con- tours, figured out how to defend any plage from anything. He doped out the defence of To- ronto directions. His engineering confreres regard- ed his zealous devotion to the sube ject with deprecatory smiles. couldn't Charlie bend all this energy to something more profitable? Ww intelligenc studied earth, crash, and the major, then in the Corps of Gui ly stepped into his ord staff first contingent, ed into a gold m fare, patrols, near Hoeoge. tion, tack. Chief of Intelli Corps from its He was a wiz boosted the grapher of en ed make air dier's best gu an enemy attack we best of all, he could of' the infantry, Ju tack, Photographs, and t cise, typewritten s the infantry would vanced! and taste--the sen of the corps. Did you ever see the like?" | We Were to bit In October Somme offensive, be General fmp His FERRER vowel ow Mitchell's Hobby Made Him Famous CLI INS role lselerteelsetoeteedeede RIG.-GEN. C. H. MITCHELL, C.B.,, C.M.G., D.S.0., Legion of Honor (French), Order of 204%. 0%.<% "6% Fe) afore the war, ad a hobby which he rode ently, furiously, joyously. And that hobby was the science of intelligence. ; In his younger days, when he was ' TOO MUCH SPEED. Disease In Dominion. The coming census will strikingly some diseases has greatly fallen off, it has steadily and rapidly risen from last few years. } Most noteworthy is the fact that heart disease has leaped to the front as the foremost cause of mortality in Canada, taking in this respect the Place formerly held by tuberculosis. _ There are now as many deaths from heart disease in this country per 1,000 of population as, were at- tributable to tuberculosis twenty years ago. In the méantime mortal- «ity from the latter plague has so far lessened that fewer than sixty per- sons die of'it where it killed eighty in 1900. But heart disease takes nearly eighty lives to-day where in 1900 it destroyed fifty. Heart disease fifty years ago was a relatively rare malady. © It has now become exceedingly common. Why? 'Physicians say that the increase is due to the excessive "drive" of Cana- and an 'annual' eamping trip with red-coat manoeuvres, did- n't strike his enquiring mind as be- And, of course, there . other. " "(as he was des), prompt- ained place as intelligence, His hobby develop- ine for the troops. For besides having an eye trained to see everything of importance in a Diece of ground, the major's enthus- iastic studies had taught him also how to see spies, and more important still, how to grasp instantly the fea- tures of such things as trench war- rganization of intselli- gence branches in small units, A Canadian patrol in No Man's Land captures a German prisoner This prisoner, before going to prison camp, comes before an intelligence officer. to the 127th Landwehr. : long has he been in the Hooge sec- Where was hs be-~ fore that? Down at Arras? The 4th Prussian Guards Reserve ---- ; Ho, ho! says the intelligence offi cer, the second rate Landwehr is pulled out of the line at Arras and the snappy, offensive guards are put in! ; Something coming cff at Arras! Word is sent down, tion balloons watch the German lines 'at Arras for increasing artillery, in- creasing traffic on the roads in rear, new work on trenches and so on. The troops at Arras make a raid and discover from prison thing is "coming off.' So down by Arras, the British put in a lot more guns, shell the roads in rear, put fresh troops in the line. Old Heinie discovers that he has been discovered and calls off his ate Hell has been check Hundreds of lives saved! cause an intelligence officer talked to a Hun prisoner a hundred miles away, but, gathering all his facts to- 'gether, had 'doped out" the situa- tion. Gen. Mitchell wa; 'distinguished of t officers. | an attack. Our observa- ers that some-| S one of the most hese Intelligence . To describe all that the In- telligence Service deals in would take an encyclopaedia, gather everything, ment of enem digging of a new Hun post on a They must the number tain piece o good wells found in a eapture. Gen. Mitchell did great work as gence in the Canadian first trip to the line, ard with maps. airplane as a photo- emy positions. He help- photographs the sol- He could smeH eks ahead. And put in the hands st before an at- from the move- y armies. down to the machine gun quiet sector of the line, know: everything from of enemy guns on a cer f front to the number; of of drinking water to be village we propose to he meatiest, con- ummary of what find as they ad- € eyes, ears, nose Ses--of the body ected the things e off, chew and eat up. thirty-nine per cent. of the total of the Australian Expeditionary Force. If the proportion of ex-service men settled in the land in the other states was equal to that of New South Wales the figures would be for the whole of Australia 2,820 men benefit- ed by the Land Settlement Act up to the date of the Premier's speech. . Up to the 17th of May, the Soldier. ig : g Settlement Board of Canada had ap- ICE CREAM proved 7,900 applications for the Se benefits of the Soldier Settlement Act and a great many more applications were before the Qualification Com- mittees in the These figures wh augmented by the two weeks of Ma ent month show 'lin advance 'of t wealth in providing suitable fa for her war heroes. = he was promoted to Staff Officer gence) of the Second Arm Gen. Plumer. When the chendaele a y &et the splendid info Was supplied us for t ossible task by resumes of p Corps went 'to Pass- few will for- rmation that hat seemingly 28, Mitchell. dian life. The strain to which the heart is subjected is too great. It is the some way with apoplexy, the death rate from which has risen steadily and fast during the last twenty years. And the cause is the same. A blood vessel breaks in the brain, and there you have it. Four people will die of apoplexy this year for every three that succumbed to it in 1900. ! ! Again, it is the same way with kidney trouble. Bright's disease will kill four this year for every three 'that died of it in 1900. : Too much drive; too much strain. Heart and kidneys work together; what affects one will almost surely affect the | Three people will die of cancer this year for every two that succumbed to this fell complaint in 1900. As a killer it is gaining ground much more rapidly than heart disease: Already it destroys nearly half as many lives as the latter, and it is going ahead by leaps and bounds. ] But cancer is a problem all by itself. Nobody knows what causes It, or why it should spread and in. crease in the way it does. It ir a total mystery--which makes it all the more horrible. i The decrease of tuberculosis is due to improved sanitation, the malady being typically infectious. Typhoid (thanks chiefly to preventive inocula-! tion, but also to sanitary measures) has so diminished that only one per- son will dis of it this year for every . four killed by it in 1900. ; The death rate from diphtheria has declined by two-thirds during the same period owing to the use of a specific antitoxin. Pneumonia has just about held its own. It is a dis- sickness. Commonly its germs are present in healthy mouths and throats, waiting for a chance to make following messics, or vis on sy § FIE FALLIS FOOTE CO. | Education. fi | A professor of a Western Univer- sity has evolved a series of test ques- tions for the educated which he avows are the best evidences of a real education. If you can answer "yes" to each and all the questions you are truly educated, the profes- Sor says. Here are the questions:-- 1. Has education given you sym- pathy with all the good causes and made you espouse them? : 2. Has it made you public- spirited ? 3. Has it made you a brother to the weak? 4. Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? 5. Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself? ie ' 6. Can you look an honest man or a pure woman in the eye? 7. Do you see anything to love in a little child? 8. Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? . 9. Can you be high-minded and happy in the meanest drudgeries of life? 10. Do you think that washing dishes or hoeing corn is just as com- patible with high-thinking as playing the piano or playing golf? 11. Are you good for anything yourself? 12. Can you be happy alone? 13. Can you look out on the world and see anything but dollars and oents? ! 14. Can you look into a mud pud- dle. by the wayside and see a clear sky? 15. Can you see. anything in the puddle but mud? Canada Leads. 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