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,,, revlotis to tne war one seemed GUNNER fflmcNt Oppressive Silence Followed tht vGreat Craste i>-i ALBERT N. Ex-Gui*rier and Chief Petty Officer, U.r3. Navy ^€ef5iDer of th*? PoF^g** • 4-uiin> of France: Captain Gun Turret. French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre OoprrtxM, 1918, by Belli; »od BrttMB Co.,TVr«ro*t» PpacSal Awmwiwi witti the G*or*e lUtftW Addana 8*-rlc« •llllllltlllllHllinilllllllllllHIIUIUIOimtllllllllllllllllllltlllllfKVIMIIIIIMIIUIUIIIIIMIIIIIIIUIIItlllllUllllllllllltUIIUlUllllllllllllllliiilillillltlllllUlIUIIIIinilltlHIIllllllll CHAPTER XXII--Continued. --19-- The day we wefe transferred to the tegular prison barracks four hundred Russians and Belgians were burled. Ilost of them had died from cholera, typhoid and Inoculations. We heard from the prisoners there before us that the Germans had come through the Camps with word that there was an epidemic of black typhus and cholera «hd that the only thing for the men to do was to take the serum treatment to §vold catching these diseases. Most of the four hundred men had died from the Inoculations. They had taken the Germans' word, had been Inoculated Mid had died within nine hours. Which chows how foolish It is to believe a German. None of us had any doubt feat what the serum was poisonous. The second day that we were in the ffegular camp the Germans strung fcarbed wire all around our barracks. They told us we had a case of black typhus among us. This was nothing Iftore nor less than a bluff, for not one af us had typhus, but they put up the Wire, nevertheless, and we were not allowed to go out. One day when I was loafing around §e fe t'*' ' '• «mr barracks door and not having any thing particularly Important to do, I packed a nice hard snowball and land-, *d It neatly behind the ear of a little •entry not far away. When he; looked aroynd he did not blow his whistle but feegjn hunting for the thrower. This Was strange in a German sentry and I bought he must be pretty good stuff. ."When he looked around, however, all lie saw was a man staggering around a« if he were drunk. The man was toe one who had done the throwing, all tight, but the sentry could not be< sure •f it, for surely no man'would stay Out In the open and Invite accidents like that . But still, who had done it? So I just kept staggering around, ' and the sentry came up to me and looked me over pretty hard. Then I thought for the first time that things „ might go hard on me, but I figured J that If I quit the play actlog It would all over. So I staggered right up " to the sentry and looked at him drunk- •X . «*nly, expecting every moment to get \/ |>ne from the bayonet. Bnt he was so surprised that all be ft?1. could do was stare. So I stared back, ' ^pretending tb«t I saw two of him. and • otherwise acting foolish. Then I guess ~ lie realized for the first time that the { ' chances of anybody being drunk in ^ "i that enmp were small--at least for the V. prisoners. He was rubbing his ear ! • all the time, but finally the thought jk; peeped through the ivory and he began - to laugh. I laughed, too, and the first ^ ' >. thing you know he had me doing It ~ I igain--that is, the imitation.\ One . inowball was enough, I figured. ier I used to talk to him quite often after that We had no particular fere for each other, but he was gamer than the other sentries, and he did not (all me scbwelnhund every time he saw a>e, so we got on very well together, n -.His name must have been Schwartz, I 1 guess, but it sounded like "Swatts" to l^r/ 'lne, so Swatts be wdfe, and I was >i\' '"Chink" to him, as everybody else tailed me that . One day»he asked me if I could .#peak French, and I said yes. Italian; Russian; yes. No matter what language he might hare mentioned 1 I!-/' *?ould have said yes, because I could - 'pmell something in the wind, and I Was curious. Then he told me that If 1 went to the hospital and worked &! •" there, I might get better meals and jT;;, < -would not have to go so far for them, --and that my knowing all the languages I said I did would help me a great ways toward getting the job. Evidently he bad been told to fcet a man for the place, because he ap- '^pointed me to it then and there. He put me to work right away. We went ; over to one of the barracks, where a case of sickness had been reported, ' and found that the invalid was a big Barbadoes negro named Jim, a fireman from the Voltaire. At one time Jim must have weighed 250 pounds, "but by this time he was about two '^ pounds lighter than a straw hat., but Still t>l»ak and full of pep. Light as he was, I was no "white hope," and It was all I could do to carry him to the hospital. Swatts kept right along behind me, and every time I would stop to rest, he would poke me with a broom--the only broom I saw In Germany-- and laugh nod point to hir ear. Then I thought it was a frame-up £££'/ and that he was getting even with me, but J. was in for It then, and the best |p, I could do was to go through with it P||- But I .was all la when we reached the hospital. The first thing I saw when we got in the door was another negro, also from Barbadoes, and as tall and thin as Jim had once been short and fat This black boy und I made a great team, but 1 never knew what his name was. I always called hlnj Kate, because night and day he was whistling the old song. "Kate, Kat<v Meet Me at the Garden Gate," or words to that effect. I have waked up many a nlfeht and heard that whistle Just about at the same place as when I had fallen asleep. It would not have been so had if he had known all of It. I took Swatts' broom and cleaned Up, and then asked where the coal or wood was. This got a gtffeat laugh. It •was quite humorous to the men who had shivered there for Weeks, maybe, but to me it. was about as funny us a cry for help. I got wood though, before! had been there long. THfcre was a great big cupboard that looked more like a small house, built against the wall of the hospital barracks In one Corner of the room, and not far from the stove. Kate was the only patient able to be on his feet. mo I thought he would have to be my 'chief cook and bottle washer Cor a while; and, besides, there was something about him that made him look his whistling yet, so Siim looked to be the right name for liim. "Slim, what's that big cupboard for?" "How'd I know? Nutttn' in it" that would make a fine box for coal or wood, wouldn't it?" "Um. Whar de coal an' wood?" "I'M going out and take observations, SUm. Take the wheel while I'm gone, and beep your eye peeled for U-boats." So I sneaked out the door and began looking around. If you look at the sketch I have made, it will not take you long to see that next to us was a vacated Russian barracks. did not take me much longer to s*>e it, too. Back to the hospital und Slim. "Slim, what barracks are next to us?" v "Russian burrocks, only dey ain't dere now. Been sick." "And you mean to tell me yon don't know where to get wood?" "Sick men been in dem burrucks." "Sick men here, aren't there? Let's go." That <Md the trick. The black boy would watch from the hospital windows until he paw the coast was clear, then we would slip Into the barracks next door, and he would watch again'. When there was no sentry near enough to hear us, crash! and out would come a dividing board from the bui^s. When we had an armful apiece, and had broken them up to the right lengths, all we needed was a little more watching, and then back to the hospital and the big cupboard. Later on, our men told me they used to watch the smoke that poured from the hospital chimney all the time and wonder where on earth we got the wood. We got the same kind of food in the hospital that was served In the other barracks, and I would noit have had any more than I used to» except that sometimes some of the twenty-six patients could not eat their share, and then, of course, it was mine. One day, though, we all had extra rations. Two Russian doctors came to visit us each day, and once they were foolish enough, or kind enough, to ask if we had received our rations--we had received them earlier than usual and they were finished at the time. Of course, I said no, so they ordered the Kussian in the kitchen to deliver twenty-eight rations to us,'which was not quite three loaves of bread. We were that much ahead that day, but It would not work when I tried the trick again. One day a German doctor came to the hospital barracks. He would not touch anything while he was there-- not even open the door. "All"of the patients had little cards attached to their beds--charts of their -condition. When the German wanted to see these charts the Russian doctors bad to hold them for him. I was having a great time «t the hospital, wrecking the barracks next door each day for wood, along with Kate, and getting a little more fooii sometimes, and was always nice and warm. I thought myself quite-a pet. Compared,.,to what I had been up against. It seetaed like real comfort. But the more food I got, the more 1 wanted. And It was food that brought me down, after alL Across from us was a barracks In which there were English officers, and somehow it seemed to me that they must have had a drag. Every once in a while I saw what looked like vegetables and bags of something that was a dead ringer for brown flour. So I told Slim, or Kate, as I was calling him by then, and with him on guard, I sneaked out , , After two or three false starts, I got over our barbed wire and their barbed wire, and In through a window. There I saw carrots I And graham , flour! i* * I took all I could carry, to divide up with Kate, and then started eating, so as not to waste anything. It was certainly some feast--the only thing besides mud bread and barley coffee and "shadow" soup that I had to eat in Germany. Tiien I started hack to the hospital. I got over their barbed wire all right, and Kate gave me the go-ahead for our entanglements, but Just as I was going over them a sentry nabbed me. At first I thought Kate had turned traitor, because we had had a little argument a short time be* fore. But later on I figured that he would not have done a trick like that, and besides, he knew I was bringing him something to eat. So the sentry must have sneaked up without Kate seeing him. Who got the carrots and graham flour that I was carrying I do not know. The sentries booted me all the way back to my old barracks. taken away by the Germans, still crazy. .. > Another time an Australian came Into our barracks and very seriously told us that he had a drag with the German officers and that he had been to dinner with them, and had had turkey, potatoes, coffee, butter, eggs, sugar in his coffee, and all the luxuries you could think of. We just sat and stared at him. It seemed impossible that* any of our own men would have the gall to torture us like that, and yet we could not possibly believe that It had really happened. Finally, one fellow could npt stand It any longer. He was nothing but skin and bones, but he grabbed a dividing board and there were just two wallops: the board hit the Australian's head and the head hit the floor. Then half a dozen more pounced onto him and gave him a real licking. When he came to he had forgotten all about the wonderful dinner he did not have. Not long after this the Russian doctors proved to the Germans that there was no black typhus in our barracks and we were allowed the freedom of the camp except that we could not visit the Russian barracks. That was no hardship to ine nor to the rest of us, except one chap from the Cambrlftn Range, , who had a special pal among the Russians that he wanted to see. And, of course, when it was verboten, he wanted to see him all the more. A day or two after the order I was standing outside the barracks door when I saw this fellow come out v'th a dividing board in his hand. I thought he was going to smash somebody with it, so I stood by. But he stooped over and Jammed one end of the board against the threshold of the door, scratched the ground with the farther end of the boar«| and measured again. He Jkept this up, length by length, in the direction of the Russian barracks. The sentry in the yard stopped and stared at him, but the fellow k*pt right on, paying no attention to any: body. Pretty soon he was right by the sentry's feet and I thought any minute the sentry would give him the b'itt, but hfe-just stared a while and let Rim pass. That lad measured the whf)le distance, to the Russian barracks, w««nt inside, stayed a while and calmly strolled back with the board under his arm. When he reached our barracks again tie told us he had found a vino mine. What he had found was something not so unusual--pi boneheaded German. There was a lot of bamboo near the Russian barracks and the Russians made baskets out of it and turned them in to the Germans': For this they got all the good jobs In the kitchen and had a fine chance to get more to Fontaine for not telling us. so we could answer for him and keep the escape covered. The minute they found par count one short\they blew the whistles and a squad of sentries came up as an extra guara. They counted us again, but by sneaking back of the line and closing up again we made the count all right except for one man--Fontaine. A|ye would have tried to cover up for him, except that they had already discovered his absence. Now, we thought, ^Elies will nab Fontaine but will not discover the escape of the others. x But evidently they suspected something, for soon they brought over'a petty officer from H. M. S. Nomad, who bad not been with us before, and forced him to call th« roll from the mustering papers, while they watched the men as they answered. Then they discovered that two hiore besides Fontaine were missing and began to search for them. J'he other two spoke German and had been missing for at least three days and; I think, had escaped by this time. They were not returned while I was at Brandenburg. This was about 7 a.m. They drilled us down to the little lake, where the cold was much greater, and kept us there until 5 p. m., without food or drink. At about eight that morning they found Fontaine In a French barracks and kicked him all tHe way to the lake where we were. All day long we stood there, falling one by on& and getting kicked or beaten each t(me until-we dragged ourselves up again. Two or three died-- I do not*know the exact number. But we had enough strength, when ordered back to the barracks, to kick Fontaine .ahead of us all the way. We did not get anything to eat until seven the next morning--twenty-four hours without food and water, ten of which were spent in the snow without any protection from the cold and wind. No wonder we kicked Fontaine for bringing tbis punishment on us and endangering the two who had escaped-- he had simply strolled over to the French barracks and forgot to return. Now,, the food received was just about enough to keep us alive. I suppose, with true kultur, the Hbns had figured out just iiow much i^would take to keep a man on this side of the starvation line and gave us that much and no more. So we were always famished--always hungrier than you probably ever have been. But sometimes when we were ravenously hungry and could not hold out any longer we would trade rations. » One man would trade his whole ration for the next day for a half ration today. That Is, if you were so hungry that you thought you could not last out the day on your regular share, you w ould tell someone else that if he gave you half his share today you would give him all of yours tomorrow. If he was a gambler he would take you ap. That is, he would gamble on Ids being alive tomorrow, not on your keeping your word. He knew you would come across with your ration the next day, smd like as not, if you tried to keep It from him, he would kill you, and nobody would blame him. (TO BE CONTINUED.) INSECT POWDER GROWN HERE Onfe Man Would Trade His Whole Ration for the Next Day for Half a Ration Today. CHAPTER XXIII. tfe I- • AMiii iftlgAMa. I tod fflflflffliliflri >• Despair---and Freedom. While I was working at the hospital conditions at my oid barracks had been getting worse and worse. Very few of the men were absolutely right in the head, I guess, and almost all had given up hope of ever getting out alive. Though they put up a good front t6 the Huns, they really did not care a great deal what,happened to them. The only thing to think about was the minute they were living In. The 'day 1 came back two Englishmen, who had suddenly goue mad, commenced to fight each other, ft was the most terrible fight I have ever seen. It was soiue time before the rest of us could limke them quit, because at first we did not know they were crazy. When we had them down, however, they were scratched and bitten and pounded from head to, foot. Both of them bled from the nose all that night, and toward morning one of them became sane for 'afcw minutes and- then dlea. 3a» «th«r was eat. But they were treated like dogs-- that Is, all except the few Cossacks that were- in the bunch. The Huns knew that a Cossack never forgets and will get revenge for the slightest mistreatment, even If it means his death. I have seen sentries turn aside from the beat they were walking and get out of the way whtfti they saw a ColWack coming. There were very few Cossacks there, however. I do not think they let themselves get captured very often. We had roll call every morning, of course, and were always mustered in front of our barracks, the middle of the l^ne being right at the barracks door. Sometimes when the cold got too much for them^the men nearest the door would /fuck Into the barracks. As thew left tiie ranks the other men woffld close up and this kept the line even, with the center still opposite the barracks door. Finally almost all of the men would be in the barracks and by the time the roll was over not one remained outside. This seemed to peeve the German officers a great deal, but tbey did not punish us for it until we had been doing It for some time. < For several days I bad noticed that someone else' answered for two men who had disappear^"; At least I had not seen them for some» time. I did not think much bhout It, or ask any questions, and I did not hear anyone else talk about It, but I was pretty sure the two men, a Russian and a Britisher, had escaped. But they were marked present at roll call and all accounted for. Everything went along very well until one day when the name "Fontaine" got by without being answered; >FonHHne was * French fireman from the Cambrian Range and that was the first time he had not been present. We saw what was coming and *1 b«fan |V g«t tsmtr tt Hard at First to Realize Thai Carnage of Four Dreadful Years Sndad--Huns Defect^ but Unrepentant. " . With a slience like that which follows the mighty crashi of a great orga^ i, the great war came suddenly to an end. No longer do the weary soldiers at listening posts strain tbelr ears through long night watches; star shells have ceased to burst and flame over No Man's land; cannons have cooled; machine gnns utter no sound; the exchange of all manner of deadly missiles has stopped. At last peace, which for four slow, dreadful years has seemed afar off like a mirage, has come. The thousand and one activities of battle, Intense to the last ounce of possible human effort, are relaxed. Ships now cross the ocean in safety; smoke from thousands of ammunition plants no longer darkens the sky; tlied workers return once more to their homes; armies are demobilizing; reconstruction of devastated homes and farms and factories is contemplated; the dreadful military debauch has consumed itself; the world draws a great sigh of exhaustion and relief; the conflict is ended. In all history no message ever sped so gladly nor ao fast as the few words flashed through the air, and under oceans, and over land wires, until s round the whole world and to its uttermost accessible parts the news was carried. What wonder that all civilization gave vent to a frenzy of Joy almost barbaric, that men shouted and women wept; and little children witnessed an event which threescore years and ten hence they will relate to other wide-eyed children. In our Joy let us not forget those millions of fathers whose voices refused to cheer, and those mothers and wives and sweethearts whose eyes, were dry, because their hearts were bowed down with a sorrow no victory can ever compensate. The Huns ceased only when physically exhausted; when their, ammunition was Spent; when the war had reached their own borders; when they no longer possessed the ability to murder the defenseless, to gas the brave. Their regret is that they failed, but not one single word of penitence for the harm they have done, the sorrow they have caused. Instead they think only of their bellies and demand, not supplicate, the food they have so wantonly destroyed for years; they whine lest the very cars they stole from France and Belgium be returned to their rightful owners. They have been beaten In what was' for nearly four years an unequal struggle, but for any word which has yet to come out of Germany they are the same unregenerate Huns who, casting aside all the obligations of a civilized nation, marched into Belgium In August, 1914. --Chicago Evening Post. • .there was a dreotf ": ..what.: If the American went to Caiwte^^ l^jMtht be conscripted, put in pvlaop^^^' ^MMlsfttempt to cross the border h#^K^; wetild m^et With innumerable dlfhcnK , ^ jtles. most of which, of course, was un-j » true. These untruths were clrcn'atP.-T 'awnmgr mm of the .•--..v .c t i, u f i u mu imerest in to- - mentlng and cheating trouble and dis- , trust between two peoples whose lan-*-' gunge and aims in life should be any-- • thing but of an otifriendly character. The draft law of the United StatesH. States and Canada Wilt Soon Be Signed, Americans Lost No Time,, In Devel- , pjriftg Industry Once the 8eoret Was Discovered. In our grandfathers' day the socalled Persian Insect powder (commonly sold nowadays under the name of "pyrethrum") cost $16 a pound, "'rctty dear for a bug-killer. The stuff was a mystery. Beyond the fact that it.was of a vegetable nature, nobody knew what It was. ' As a matter of fact. It came from Transcaucasia, where Its production was a very Important Industry. Koi centuries It had been widely used »u Asiatic countries, and the source of the material was a secret carefully kept. ' Eventually the secret was revealed by an Armentan merchant, who, traveling through Transcaucasia, discovered that the Insect powder was simply the ground-up flower-heads of a plant nearly related to our Own field daisy. Later .on, attempts were made to Introduce the plant In the United States, but the seeds refused to sprout. This <a8 finally ascertained) was due tp the circumstance that the persons from whom they were bought had baked them. / . At the present time we grow all our own insect-powder in California. Field Water Service. The British had the best system of plped-in water, though the system along parts of the Italian front was admirable.. One sanitary officer Informed me with pardonable pride that the supply for three army divisions was piped from a small lake a mile or more within the German lines! This same officer was able to pipe water after a great battle to the new ground won--three miles, farther forward-- within five hours. English sanitarians devised one of the most perfect combinations of pumping and purifying machines that could be imagined. Its crew could dip its intake pipe into a pond of scum-coyered, pea soup-colored, stagnant water, start the engine, and out from the discharge pipe would flow a steady stream of clear, sparkling, pure, welltasting water, at the rate of 1,000 gallons an hour. To look af the pond and at the water pouring Into the drinking tank is said to have given anyone a positive shock.--Woods Hutchinson In "The Doctor in War." Fine Pearl Necklaces. Of 30 necklaces which hare been made from the magnificent collection of pearls contributed to the Red Cross from all parts of the^Britlsh empire, two are of considerable Interest. One of them is composed almost entirely of the fine collection of pfearla sent from Egypt as a result of the Red Crops appeals, and the other Is a specially beautiful necklace of pearls of the straw-colored tone which Is so much sought after by buyers. The necklaces are not of uniform size; they vary In length, In color and, of course, In value. But all of them are of great beauty, for they consist of th best pearls from many^ famous neck laces, as well as from less well-frnoWn ones, matched by the chief expert* la London. > • j Force of Compressed Air. The effects of air resistance are well known In the twelve and one* half mile Simplon tunnel, where an exceptionally high amount of energy Is required for running the electric trains. The tunnel, which is fifteen feet wide and eighteen feet high, with a sectional area of two hundred and fifty square feet, has a ventilating current of 3,530 cubic feet of air per second, maintained by two large blast fans at the Brig end and two exhaust fans at Iselle. Trains going with this current encounter less resistance than In open air up to fifteen and a half miles an hoar, but at *ilfeher speeds or In the opposite direction the resistance is much greater than outside. Coasting by gravity down the seven per one thousand maximum gradient, a train, even going with the current, cannot exceed thirty-five miles per1 hour on account of the braking by the air. The World Does Move. The war has made many changes In world conditions. None perhaps Is more picturesque thart What has happened In Mesopotamia, the land over which v Nebuchadnezzar once ruled. This year's harvest tells the story. While not busy fighting the Turk and his Teutonic associates, the British found time to dig out a hundred ancient Irrigation ditches and to bring into cultivation 320,000 acres. They have also given to Bagdad electrjc lights, paved streets, waterworks, sewerage, a fire department and a police force. The natives must be rubbing their eyes In astonishment and wonder.-- Modern Brotherhood. Observe, thyself as thy greatest en| «my would do; so sholt thou bo th| greatest frieid* ; huillotined High Heels. No one could be at his best without a minimum of four or five miles' walk a day, or some other form of open-air exercise, said Dr. Truby King lately at the National Health society. Before women could take reasonable exercise they woula have to give up absurd high-heeled boots, he added. In the mental hospital to which he wap attached, the first thing done on thf arrival of a woman patient wft tt guillotine her boot heels. ' ' The War is over, peace wflt mAi be signed, the fighting nation); have sheathed their swords, and the day of reconstruction has come. What of It I Hundreds of thousands e§ men, taken from the fields of^htfsbandfy, from the ranks of labor, from the four walW of the counting house, and the confines of the workshop, taken from them to do their part, their large part In the prevention of the spoliation of the world, and In the meantime removed from the gear of common everyday life, will be returned, only to find In many cases old positions filled, the machinery with which they were formerly attached dislocated. Are they to become aimless wanderers, with the ultimate possibility of augmenting an 'army of menacing loafers? If they do it It is because their ability to assist in laying npw foundations, In building up much required structures. Is underestimated. Men who have fought as they ftave fought, who have risked and faced dangers as they have, are not of the caliber likely to flinch when it.comes to the restoration of what the enemy partinlly destroyed, when li comes to the reconstruction of the world the Ideals of which they had In view when they took part In the great struggle whose Divine purpose was to bring about this reconstruction. Inured to toll, thoughtles ot fatlgne, trained In Initiative and hardened by their outdoor existence they will return better and stronger men, boys will have matured and young men will have developed. They will decide of themselves lines of action and thought, and'what their future should and will be. On the field of battle they developed alertness and wisdom, and they will return with both shedding from every pore. Action was their by-word and It will stand them In good stead now that the din of the battle no longer rings In their ears, or the zero, hour signals them to the fray, and It will continue during their entire existence; But if they return to find their old avocation gone, their places filled, the Institutions with which they were connected no longer exist, new walks of life and employment roust be opened to them. It may be that the counting house, the factory, the workshop will have lost their attraction. The returned soldier will look elsewhere for employment ; within his reach there Is always the "Forward-to-the-Land" .necessity. In this lies the remedy that will not only take care of a multitude of those who may not "be able to return to their former occupations, whose desires are not to do so, whose health prohibits them from Indoor life or whose outdoor habits from the past one, two, three or four years have given them such a taste and desire for it that confinement would be unbearable. Farm life will thus appeal lo them, and the Indications are that it will be taken advantage of by thousands. It means much to them as well as to the Continent of America thnt provides the opportunity to the world at large, and to the stricken nnd famished nations of Europe, who. not only today, but for years to come, will require the sustenance thnt can only largely be supplied by the United States and Canada. By following the pursuit of agriculture the returned soldier will continue the cause he so grenfly advanced when fighting on the field of bottle. Both countries have undeveloped areas yet open to settlement There Is little need here to direct attention to the wealth that has come to the farmers of Canada within the past few years. It is not only In grain growing that unqualified and almost unequaled success has followed honest effort, but the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs hns been large source of profit: These are facts that are well kauwn to the many friends and acquaintances of the thousands of farmers from the United States who have acquired wealth on the prairies of Western Canada. Farms of from one hundred and sixty to six hundred and forty acres of the richest soil may be secured on reasonoble. terms, and with an excellen* climate, with a school system equal to any In the world, and desirable social conditions, .little else could be asked. Canadian statesmen are today busily engaged planning for the future of the returned soldier with a view to making him independent of state help after the immediate necessary assistance has been granted, the main Idea being to show In the fullest degree the country's appreciation (Of the services he has rendered. "• But, now that the war Is ended, and the fact apparent that of all avocations I the most profitable and Independent 1s that of the farmer, there will he a *trOng desire to secure farm lands for chltlvation. Canada offers the opportunity to those seeking, not as speculation but as production. The deepest, interest Is taken by* Federal and Provincial authorities to further the welfare of the farmer and secure a maximum return for his efforts. Large -mrus of money are spent In educational nnd experimental work. Engaged In experimental and Demonstration fatms. and In the agricultural colleges, are men of the highest v^h'nlcal knowledge and practical experlence. some being professors of international reputa- 'lon. flie results of experiments nnd tests are free and available to all. Educational opportunities for farmers are the concern of the Government and appreciation Is shown by the number of farmers who attend the free courses. Agriculture In Canada has reached a high standard, notwithstanding which lands are low In price. Thus upon .the United States and Canada for muny years will rest the great burden of feeding the world. With free Interchange of travel, difficulties of crossing and recrossing removed. Canada may look for a speedy resumption of the large Influx of setttera from the United State* which prehigh purposes had In view by the Unlt-^ red States kept many from going to^- - Canada during the period of the wari^'"? The citizen army of the United States^-'* was quickly mobilized, and contained„V a large percentage of the young roen^tV* from the farms. In this way many . were prevented from going to Canada.'" / That is all over now. There are not^r^ ' ^i' ^ real or Imaginary restriction!; there 1« ^*53 no draft law to interfere. On the con-- ' trary there Is an unfathomable depth' \ of good feeling, and the long existing^; "V.* trw* i ::*h friendship Is stronger than ever. Thisr^ *: has been brought about by the knowl^feedge of what has been done In the re-t cent great, struggle, each vying wlth^S, V • • the other in giving credit for what wast5' " accomplished. In thought and feeling, in language. In alms In life. In work. ¥ -'*",-1' In desire to build up a new. world. ^ there has been bred a kinship which l»W * {j. as Indissoluble as time Itself.--Advep. * u"'. tisement - 1 Jdffre the Silent. *£*fcrry no literary baggage." v confession of Marshal Joffre sums up his laconic habit. He hates wofds. Not long after his great victory on th® Marne he consented to receive a party of war correspondent8.^They looked forward eagerly to columns of copy. Joffre uttered 65 words and then said* "Good morning." STOMACH ACIDITY, ' INDIGESTION, GAS y. QUICKI EAT JUST ONE TABLET OF PAPE'8 DIAPEP8IN FOB IN8TANT RELIEF. . when meals don't fit and you lSefch gas, acids and undigested food. Whent you feel lumps of distress In stomach,- pain, flatulence, heartburn or headadiet. Here Is Instant relief--NO waiting I Just as soon as you eat a tablet of Pape's Dlapepsln all the dyspepsia, Indigestion and stomach distress ends. These pleasant, harmless tablets of Pape's Dlapepsln never fall to make sick, upset stomachs feel fine at once, ^ and they cost so little at drug stores. ' ***». * . . ; ; .-^4 v . Beaten at the 8tirC A fellow said to a famous spfhfiMtf "I'll race yon and beat ^you If you'lllet me choose the course and give m® a yard's start." "Fifty dollars to one that you don't,", said the sprinter, confidently. "Name' your course." "Up a ladder," said the- challenger* Importstd te Msthers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of( In Use for Over 30 Years. Children. Cry for Fletcher's Castori* Located. "What's become of the old-fashioned * man who used to push a perambulator about the streets?" "I saw him the other day." "What was he doing?" "He was cranking his flivver while his wife held the twins,"--Bim^ng" • ham Age-Herald. v ^ TOO WEAK TO FIGHT Th» "Come-back" man was really never down-and-out. ' His weakened conditionbecause of overwork, lack of exercise, improper eating ard living demands stimulation to satisfy the cry for a health-giving appetite and the refreshing sleep e«8entia| "v. / to strength. GOLD MEDAL Haaxlem Oil. ' Capsules, the National Remedy of Holland! " will do the work. They are wonderfully y Three of t'uese capsules each dav will pu^ "- . a man on his feet before he Knows ill* .- whether l\is trouble comes from uric aci« poisoning, the kidneys, grave! or stone V the bladder, stomach derangement or othefQT-'1,,?. ailments that befall the over-zealous Amer» iean. The bent kuowa, most reliable rereiN edy for these troubles is GOLD MEDAIf , ?'i~ Haarlem Oil Capsules. This remedy hat,' ' stood the test for more than 200 year(L * 1 since its discovery in the ancient laooraj tories in Holland. It acts directly an(|. gives relief at once. Don't wait until yoA are entirely down-and-out, but take thenfetoday. Your druggist will gladly refun*k your money if they do not help you. At*;"\ > c*pt no substitutes. Look for the naml' ; GOLD MEDAL on every box, three sizefhv***. * They are the pure, original. Imported Haarlem Oil Capsules.--Adv. No Umpire. 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