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If :hcre is one thing in the world which proves that a man's first youth is past it is when he begins to reckon and calculate to determine to clear the path before he does this thing or that. Youth, thank God, has nought to do with such reckoning or calcula- tion in the office and affairs of love, therefore is there still some remnant of the happiness of Heaven left upon "You ask what I am doing? I won- der whether you will laugh when I tell you. I have no gift for nursing, besides I could not be equipped in time to be of any use, and you know that whatever I try to do must be ‘top-hole,‘ as Billy says. By the by, the latest about Billy is that he went to a recruiting office miles from Cray- fonl Heath and lied about his age. They suspected him, however, and he has been rejected again. Mother lives in daily terror lest he repeats the ex- periment and comes back a soldier. I am writing this from Erith, so per- haps you can guess I’m making shells. Yts. honestly, and very good shells, :m. I know that I am of use. If I Eicl nut. believe it was any good noth- in; would keep me here. There are sr-mz- to whom it is merely a new sen- sation, and who won‘t keep on, but tn me it is workâ€"God-given workâ€"â€" whirl: is going ‘to help the great sum We are going to reckon up soon. "Soon! Oh, John, if it could only be Soon. We are so tired of waiting, and so many are going every day, going for good, I mean, ‘west‘ as they say in the fighting line. When they told us it was going to be a three-years’ war none of us realized just what that Would mean. I don’t believe that we shall be able to stand it for more than half that time. the It was not a pleasant revelation; the truth has no time for embroidery when it really comes out to slay the unworthy and the false. His cleanâ€"cut, brown, resolute face paled a little, and his eyes became troubled. The call had come! He knew that he ought to be at home, that there was work for him to do there, grimmer work than manipulating great army contracts which were put- ting money in his purse. he would not have admitted it, was a f ew lines in a woman’s letter he had received from England that very day. He took it out presently when he stp- ped into Sherry’s for the cup of tea which his English habit made his in- ner mam call for at a given hour each afternoon. a dreary earth. He had left England without saying the decisive word to Grace Babba- combe. and had kept on writing dila- tory letters to her right through, pay- ing just sufficient attention to her to keep her heart stirred and her mind diverted from othersâ€"in a word, he had stolen and kept her youth with- out giving her anything in exchange. Some poignant note other than that struck by the poignancy of the fate- ful hour which had struck in Brit, ain's destiny went to the man’s heart at the moment, and he saw himself, but only dimly, as he wasâ€"selfish to the core. Hitherto he had heard it only dimly and in secret places, chiefly because he believed that he was doing his duty where he was, and indirectly helping the cause of the Allies 33x means of the great commercial ma- chine to which he was attached, of which, indeed, he was already one of the honored heads. The deciding factor, though perhaps His brothers? Already one had helped to dye red the Dardanelles sand with his blood, and it was because of that the call had come to John Ren- frewâ€"a call so loud and insistent as to be almost startling. His actual age was thirty-nine, and he had looks of a kind, a well-knit, alert figure, of which, catching a sight in the long mirror of his hotel that morning, he had suddenly pictured in uniform with an odd thrill at his heart. He was not a soldier, nor had any of his family ever done anything in the soldiering line. But now they were all at it. Even his old father, who had been retired for six odd years in a Sussex manor-house, had got into some clothes approved of for the Vol- unteers, and was doing Sunday route marches of fifteen miles a day. John Renfrew, sauntering up Fifth Avenue, New York, in the hot glare of a June afternoon, suddenly made up his mind to go home. He had been out of England just three years, and had never felt home- sickness so acute, so oVerwhelming, so unbearable, as now. He was one of those persons whom the novelists love to describe as a strong man, and his looks did not be- lie the part. He was not. very young, though he had taken some pains to preserve the youth which accom- plishes so much in the world with so little apparent effort. He v." “Good-bye, no, not good-bye, it is a loathly word which ought to be wiped out of the book of remem- brance.â€"-Your faithful and repentant lover, John Renfrew.” “I am sailing on the Minotaur next Wednesday. They are warning us, of course, on this side, but there is no terror of the sea big or cruel enough to keep me from you. Good- bye, my love, my dear! If it is any satisfaction to you to hear it on pa- per there never has been any other. It is my wife I'm writing to, the wife God gave me, though I have been so slow at awakening to the pricelessness of the gift. The boat sailed duly at the schedul- ed hour after the company had shorn themselves of all responsibility by is- suing explicit warning. She had an uneventful voyage across the Atlantic, which for once was kind and sunny to the verge of extravagance. “I won’t write more, because if I once let myself go there will be no damming of the flood. Love youâ€" how I love you! If only I could see you at this moment! I should make you know and believe it. - It was when the low green shores of Ireland hove in sight that the ter- ror came. It was in the full light of a glorious afternoon, when suddenly a few hundred yards away, up popped the wicked little periscope of the sub- marine, and the deadly torpedo was launched. It was all over.in ten minutes, and as John Renfrew struggled in the wa- ter a shot from the submarine de- stroyed his last chance of life. It was all over, then, he thought confusedly as he sank into the great nothingness, but, thank God, Grace knew! your rich store, there is the other call. I’ve been among the slackers, dear woman, though I have called myself by a higher-sounding name. And I know that you have thought so, too, and it gives me courage to face you, that before I come I’ll have fallen into line. He had partly redeemed himself, given his life, such poor stuff as it was. Perhaps somewhere God, who knows all of human weakness, would be pitying and kind. Her face, like an aureole, shone upon him as he went down. -Grace Babbacombe is still making shells. and if those who work by her side have noticed any change it is only such a change as makes her more and more a miracle of sweetness and indomitable industry and high re- solve. They do not know that inside the bodice of her gown there is a talis- man, the letter John Renfrew wrote in the silent night watches in the Hotel Astoria at New York. Her lover’s letter, the lover who is nearer to her now than in all the years she had known him, the lover she will meet again where all the terrors and alarms will be forgottenâ€"on the other side. Canaries came originally from the Canary Isles, where, in their wild state, the birds were not yellow, as we generally know them, but a dark olive green. “Was it your craving for drink that brought you here?” asked the sympathetic visitor at the jail. In Shakespeare’s time the parts of heroines were taken by boys, there be- ing no female actors. That is why the poet makes so many of his heroines disguise themselves in male attire. “I know now that it has been dust and ashes all through. I’ve missed the best. God send it may not be too late to come up with it yet. Couldn’t you have done something to show me the appalling magnitude of my folly and selfishness? It is greater be- cause I have loved you all along, and only waited the convenient season. What happened to the man in the Bible who kept on waiting the con- venient season? I seem to remember something about him, but you who read it so constantly will be able to put me right. Side by side with this overwhelming desire to see you, to hear your voice, to beg a crumb from “Great Scott, ma’am! Do I look so stupid as to mistake this place for a saloon?” There were others to step into that breach. He had a fighting arm, which he had been taught to use, and his place was in the trenches. To the trenches then he would go. “Sixty hours after you get this, my dear, you may look to see me face to face. I will come straight to Erith, because nobody except you will know I am in England. Do you understand what that means, Grace? It means that I want you. Heavens, how de- sperately I want you! I can’t set it down in words. But before I dare ask you for the word which will make heaven for me out of a very troubled and, up to now, unsatisfactory earth, I shall have to be at your feet. I have been wrong, my dear, wrong all through. What I ought to have done was to beg you to come here with me to help build up the new life which is as dust and ashes in my mouth at the moment when I write. The rest of the day was spent in calls at steamship and other offices connected with his journey. There was a boat going out next day, but he could not be ready, and must wait till the following Wednesday. Late that night, in his luxurious bedroom on the fourth floor of the Astoria, he wrote a letter to Grace Babbacombe. Not, Likely. iHow the Many Distinguishing Names . ‘ Originated. I 1 Has it ever occurred to you to ask why a soldier is called a “private”? éIt is not difficult to see the reason. i The name owes its origin to the fuller iterm “a private soldier,” as opposed :to a more public soldier who holds ; other military terms is, however, not gso easy to discover. The name cor- ]poral is connected with corps, literal- ; ly a body, and then, of course, a body i’of men. The corporal is the man in Lcharge of a small body or squad of ) men. The lance in lance-corporal and llance-sergeant refers, as one would gexpect, to the weapon of that name. % “Sergeant” is really the same word as i “servant”; its origin dates back to the ltime when noblemen kept their own {retainers to fight their battles. A Ecolor-sergeant is one who has charge jof the colors; at staff-sergeant is one i that is on the staff of the regiment. . I I Rumam’a’ 3 Queen 28 Loved by Subject? The names of commissioned officers are rather more interesting. Few people will have reflected that the word lieutenant is practically identical with the expression “locum tenens.” The French language is developed from Latin, and the Latin “locum ten- ens” (holding the place) has become lieutenant in French. A “locum” is one who acts as a substitute for someâ€" one else, and a lieutenant was origin- ally one who also acted as representa- tive or deputy. The original use of the word is still preserved in the c0m- pound lieutenant-colonel, which means an officer next in rank below a colonel who is acting as a colonel. Bread made from pine-bark and moss is sometimes eaten in Finland. Just as corporal is connected with French corps, “a body,” so captain is derived from Latin “caput” (a head), which is related to capital and other words. A captain thus means one who is at the head of a number of men. The word major is short for ser- geant-major, which means the major or chief sergeant. A sergeant-major was formerly a much higher rank than it is now. A general is one who has a general command over a whole regi- ment. The origin and history of the word colonel is rather complicated. It is connected with the word column. In Italian, which is very closely related both to Spanish and French, the word for colonel is colonnello, and the word for column is colonna, so that the con- nection between the two is easily seen. A novel use of the aeroplane is un- der consideration by owners of New- foundland sealing vessels as a result of the failure of the seal hunts this year. It is proposed that two experi- enced aviators be engaged to visit the East Coast and the Gulf of St. Law- rence, just before the opening of next season to discover the herds. “A married man has troubles of his own, usually.” A colonel is thus originally one who is at the head of a column. “How is it you always pick out a bachelor to listen to your hard luck story?” The above picture of Queen Maria of Rumania was taken when she was riding her favorite horse at a. recent military review in Bucharest. Queen Marie. accredited one of the most beautiful women in all Euro- pean royalty, is one of the grand- daughters of the late Queen Victoria. 01' England. She is idolized by all Rumanlans. Her mother was a. daughter of the late Czar Alexander 11., of Russia and she is a first cousin of King George of England. while her husband. King Ferdinand, ,is a Hohenzoilern prince.» SOME MILITARY TERMS. Scouts for Seal Hunters. Wise Hobo. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO * { CAREERS BROKEN BY THE WAR. Most Young Men Have Abandoned. Their Civil Pursuits. How much 0f a man’s success is due to himself, and how much ought to be credited to good fortune is al-i ways a difficult problem, says British Engineering. Doubtless there are some men who are entirely self-made,f but they are not numerous. That most are the creatures of circumstances is shown by the way that families re-3 main in the same social plane gener-i ation after generation. Occasionallyl a membengoes under and disappears,l and sometimes one rises to become al source of pride and envy to his rela-i tives; but generally speaking they: all maintain about the same position,l allowing for the variations in the‘ standard of living, which affect the whole country. Every parent shows. his belief in the immense infl‘uencel which circumstances have upon a career by the sacrifices he makes to]; give his children a good education! The man who has been to a public! school will pinch himself to send his? son to the same school or better, while i an acquaintance with undergraduatesl at the older universities shows thatl many of them come from rectoriesi and vicarages of which the stipendsl seem quite inadequate to support the necessary expense. Evidently the fa- ther had saved for years that his son may have a fair chance of taking his place among people of education and culture. All experience shows that the “start in life” largely determines what the career shall be to a very great proportion of humanity, and that 'a bad start may easily be disastrous. These considerations are of special ‘interest just now, when most young men have joined the Army. If con- scription had previously obtained in this country, such a course would have been provided for, and the customs of trade and the curricula of colleges would have developed in such a way a as to allow of the military course be- ing interpolated between two series of civil experiences with the minimum of ; disturbance. But it is entirely new to 1 us for middle-class youths to join the Army for the course of a war. In the past those who entered it did so with the idea of. making it a profes- sion for life, the only exception be- ing during the South African War, when the Yeomanry attracted a num- ber of adventurous spirits for a time. The numbers, however, were compara- ;tively small, and when they returned 'they made their way back into civil , life without much difficulty. The con- ditions are very different now. There are very few young men of education. between the ages of 19 and :26, that are not with the colors, and every day the pressure grows stronger on those who have hitherto resisted the coun- try's call. Now it is just the period between the ages of 19 and 26 which gives direction and stamp to a man’s career. The school age is past, and has been replaced by university, col- legiate. or practical training. we must feel for the capable and confi- dent way. that women have tackled what to them are new occupations. They can turn their hand. as the say- ing goes, to almost anything. On the 3rd. inst. I saw, says a correspondent in the Newcastle, (England) Chronâ€" icle, a very unusual sight in our town, it was that of a woman driving a hears-e, then on the way to a funeral. She handled her pair of handsome blacks with the same ease and com- posure as we have seen a. circus hand manipulate the “ribbons" of a team in the mid-day process-ion. She was a woman of mature years, and dressed in a black bowler hat, which she suit- e-d admirably, and a black costume. she adorned the "box" in quite a graceful way. A Very Unusual Sight in An English Town. Almost every day our attention is caught in the public street by the spectacle of women doing work which has hitherto been done by men. and the more we see of this emergency female labor the greater admiration A Certain Number of Soldiers Have Been Trained to Fly Them. Most people are under the impres- sion that the only aerial machines be- ing used to-day by the armies that are at war are aeroplanes and air- ships. As a matter of fact, ordin- ary balloons and kites are much to the fore, and it is recognized by all the great powers that their uses are invaluable. During the last few years the Ger- mans have recognized the advantages gained by the use of manâ€"lifting kites and a certain number of their sol- diers have been trained to fly them both by day and by night. It is said that the passenger of a German war kite is supplied with a camera cap- able of taking photographs under a]- most any conditions. It is declared that the Germans are photographing some of the positions of the allies with the assistance of pigeons. Herr Neubronner, a Ger- man chemist, some time back invented a mechanical camera capable of tak- ing instantaneous photographs which can be fitted to the breast of a pigeon by means of an elastic strap, leaving the wings entirely free. The camera weighs less than three ounces and is capable of reproducing objects when the bird is travelling at a velocity of twenty yards a second. At regular intervals a. clockwork arrangement opens the shutter of the camera. A WOMAN HEARSE DRIVER. K ITES AID GERMANS. I can do to hold it down. I’m a de- cent enough citizen, judging by the general run of folks, and I don’t know that I’ve done anything wrong. But you caught on and I didn’t. Just where did I miss?” “Don’t forget, ” I says, money costs a man something. I think my money is wrath all it has cost me, but when the bargain was offered to you, you passed it up. I’m not saying you weren’t right, but I've never been sorry that I took the bargain." “ How do you mean,” he says. “Well,” I says to him, “when we were young fellows, you were a bet- ter sport than I was. The other chaps looked to you, when it came to having fun, more than they looked to me. I was left out of many a good time that you made the most of. But it all cost you money. I lost the good times, but I kept the money." One Lives on Easy Street and Other is Still Working Hard. Sid Thatcher wanted to know how I made my money. He says: “We were boys together and have lived all our lives, in this old burg. You’re on Easy street, and I’m still yorking at my job, ard it’s about all After coaxing a girl to sing, one usually has to do something desper- ate in order to get her to quit. “But a man Eas a right £0 a good time,” Sid says, a little roily like, “and he’s only young once.” ~ One of the most interesting spots to which he led the enthusiasts was the abode of Mr. Fangâ€"the magis- trate drawn from actual life. who sentenced young Oliver to three months on the false charge of steal- ing Mr. Brownlow’s silk handcrker- chief. Mr. Fang was such a thin dis- guise for the notorious Mr. Lang that the gentleman was crossed off the rolls very soon after making his ap- pearance in the novel. Mr. Lang’s offices were in Hatton Gardens and are now occupied by a firm of litho- graphers. ‘That’s righf,” I says. “I didn’t grudge you your good time in the old days.” “And so I shoudn't grudge you your money now,” says Sid, gettmg a little madder. “Well, what do you think?” and I looks him square in the eye. - “Things ain‘t right in this world," he says, “ or a man wouldn’t have to pinch and save at the very time when he most wants to spend his money, and then have to go without because he finds it hard to earn.” We once heard of a man who never told a lie-â€"but he was dead long be- fore we heard about it. “See. here, Sir," I says, “I'm not running affairs in this world any more than you are. The rules of the game may be wrong, but neither you nor I can change them, and if a man's going to play at all he's got to play the rules.” “I could have done just as well as you did only I didn’t have the money for a start." “You didn’t save all your money; you made a lot of it out of the rise in real estate," says Sid. “That’s just it," says I, “the money for a start is what comes hard. You have to pass up a lot of good times to stack up a hundred dollars, and every dollar is so fresh and frisky it’s all you can do to hold it. But they seem to like one another’s com- pany, and by the time you have a couple of hundred herded together in the bank they stay quieter. And they seem to draw othersâ€"you enjoy going to the bank with a dollar when your bunch is beginning to grow. And a very few hundred dollars will give a man a start.” “Of course, I did. And I’ve made lot out of other things, too.” Dickens knew his London with wonderful thoroughness. He was ac- quainted with secret passages and dark lanes, and among them he found much romance. Such is the devotion of his innumerable disciples that many spent the sunshine on a recent afternoon in tracing the devious ways of the Artful Dodger and the in- nocent Oliver among the byways of Finsbury and Holborn. Many of the slums of which 8071 wrote so intimately have (thank goodness,) disappeared. He did much himself to cause their disappearance. But William J. Roffey, the well-known Dickens lecturer, who knows his seamy London as well as the Artful Dodger himself, was able to conduct “No,” says Sid, “but you and I‘havc got pretty far along the road, and I’d like him to know how things look to you now. Perhaps what you have to tell him and what I have to tell him may help him a bit.” a party of members of the Selborne Club to many landmarks associated with the career of Oliver Twist. a-free spender. I wish vou 'd have a: talk with him some day. Do that for me, just for old time’s sake, will; you 2’ “Not to give him good advice,” I says. “I’m not stuck on myself that I feel able to give good advice to any- body. Pilgrimage to Interesting Spots in Dicken's London. “You know my boy Gordon, don't you? He’s a bright lad and has a good job and fine prospects. But he’s Sid thinks for a minute, and then he puts his hand on my shoulder, friendly like,â€"Sid always was a good fellowâ€"and says: WITH THE ARTFUL DODGER. TWO AVERAGE CITIZENS. 9n 1 Garlic is allied to the onion family. j Its pungent flavor and acrid smell are due to a chemical substances called allyl sulphide. Onions, shallots and chives also owe their flavor to the same substance, but garlic has far more of it than they have. In a tea- [spoonful of garlic juice there are 'about two drops of allyl sulphide. The bacilli of this disease seem to be ‘ poisoned by allyl sulphide. . Dr. Minchin relates that his atten- tion was first drawn to garlic by the case of a young man who came to him with a very severe case of tuber- culosis of the bones of the leg and foot. He advised amputation. This the sufferer refused. Six months later he met the young man, walking about, with his leg almost well. The youth told him he had been treated by a man whose name he gave, with a poultice which had been known for generations as r. scrofula cure. The man in question told Dr. Minchin that the poultice was composed 01 soot, salt and pounded garlic in almost equal proportions. Dr. Minchin read- ily isolated the garlic as the active in- gredient and began experimenting with it. He was astonishing success- ful. Said to be Greatest Foe of the Tuber- culosis Germ. Dr. William C. Minchin, a British practitioner, announces that he has achieved excellent results by the use of garlic as a remedy for lung com- plaints. It seems that the treatment has long been a favorite one in Italy. Tuberculosis is uncommon' in Italy, where garlic is used universally; the leading Italian physicians in New York say it is alarmingly prevalent among the children of Italians in America, children who do not eat gar- lic, largely because their school fel- lows and other associates ridicule them for smelling of it. Mozart could play the harpischord when four years old, had mastered the violin when five, and was compos- ing music at the age of six. No substance is known that pene- trates the human body as allyl sul- phide penetrates it. You can prove this for yourself in a very simple way. Crush a few cloves of garlic and tie them like a poultice on the sole of your foot; after about twenty minutes ask someone to smell your breath. The odor of garlic will be pronounced. This means that the allyl sulphide has soaked through the skin of your feet, been taken up by the blood and lym- phatics and carried by them through- out the body until the lungs are giv- ing it of? into the air. Two tubes are utilized in the scheme, one for up trains and the other for down trains. To avoid any possibility of collisionsâ€"for mail trains will be dispatched along the tubes every few minutesâ€"the line is divided up into sections, so that when the train has passed over one stretch of rail it becomes “dead” until it has reached another section. This form of postal tube has been used in Paris with much success for some time. The cost of the new tube for London, which is said to be six and oneâ€"half miles long, Will be $5,000,000. Birds of prey generally seek their prey in the daytime, while beasts oi prey generally seek theirs at night. Driven by electric current and con- trolled by switches at intermediate stations, the mail tubes will not need drivers. They will hurtle through the tubes at about twenty miles an hour, carrying the mails from point to point in half the time that motor vans threading their way through traffic in the streets above would take. Parliament recently gave permis- sion to the post office authorities to construct a Ininiature tube raflroad for the purpose of conveying letters and parcels across London in half the time formerly taken. In two tubes, nine feet in diameter, little electrically propelled trucks will run, and parcels and mail bags will be stacked on them. The first postal tube is to be constructed between Paddington and the eastern district office at White- chapel. mg it off into the air. It is known that the allyl sulphide is absorbed principally by the lym- phatics, that system of tubes and glands which runs like the blood ves- sels throughout our systems, carry- ing the serum that supplies the blood with its fluid and bathing every tissue of the body. This lymph carries the allyl sulphide to the lungs, skin. muscles, liver, kidneys, bonesâ€"in fact, it impregnates every organ with it So, no matter where the tubercle ba- cilli may be lurking it gets at them. Our medical authority cites many cases of various forms of tuberculosis. from consumption to lupus, which he has cured with garlic. One case was that of a boy of 10, the bones oi whose hand were so seriously affected that part of one finger had been am- putated and there was free suppura- tion through three sinuses in the palm. Once every twenty-four hours a poultice of crushed cloves of garlic mixed with lard was applied to the diseased hand. Garlic acts as a blis- ter, so at first the boy suffered a ‘itv tle from the burning, but he soon got relief and within a few days was free from pain. Within six weeks from the commencement of the treatment the boy’s hand was entirely healed. Have Been Used in Paris for Some Time. GARLIC FOR LUNG TROUBLE. TUBE MAIL CARS NEXT.