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+ decoration, with the title 'the Victoria __ger by members of the Navy and the . enemy. Under this head, in 1867, the mow in the museum of the Royal Uni: Led ed the Royal Warrant instituting th Cross." Ss i - "As time went on it was apparent "that to confine this decoration to mem- 'bers of the Navy and Army constitut- 'temporarily acting with the Forces "Accordingly, in 1847, the decora- tion was extended to members of the forces of the Honorable East India Company, 5 1 "Next year a warrant admitted acts under circumstances of extreme dan- Army not in the presence of the cross. was granted to Pte. Timothy O"Hea, 1st Bn, Rifle Brigade, who, at on, "In 1848, also, it was decided to ex- tend the decoration to non-military perons acting as volunteers against 'the mutineers at Lucknow and else- where. "Another extension came in 1881-- the admission of members of the In- dian Ecclesiastical Establishments. The Rev. J. A, Adams won the cross at Kabul, Native officers and men of the Indian Army were included in 1911. "The original cross struck for sub- mission to and approved of by Queen Victoria on fits institution in- 1836 is ted Service Institution Whitehall. "The bronze for the cross. .came originally from a Russian gun and on that source being exhausted, was taken from a Chinese gun, prob- "to the nature of the metal, | this is of intnse interest. * *"Only two bars cr clasps have been won, the recipients being A. Martin- 'Leake, Lieut, R.AM.C., who as Sur- geon-Captain in the Indian Volunteers won the cross when serving with the South African Constabulary and N. G. _Chavasse Captain, RAM.C, attached to 1/10 Liverpool Regiment, who won the cross at Guillemont on August 9, '1916, and a bar at Wieltje on July ~g1-August 2, 1917, where he was kill- "The cross has been conferred three and son, including] "and upon 5 ed hardship to others who might be| DrWMilliams' PI K PILLS Ribbons of Iron It is at all times interesting to the carrying out of importunt enter- prises, From a 'scenic standpoint, save the Bailkal, nothing could be more monotonous than this Siberian Railway to the ordinary traveller, tn the thousands for whom these wild steppes and forests are dumb, yet so many; great is the interest in the rail. way, in the daily contemplation of the long ribbons of iron as they stretch away behind the train, or reach out before it in the expectation of what is to come, and of the fl.al moment when the waters of hb Pacific Ocean will wash the eastern end of Se line--all ment is to be inspected, and a satis- faction derived when it is found that much for the eastern half comes from our own land. . . 'While my father was building the Kansas Pacific Railway it was his cus- tom to send his sons from the East in his private car, which on arrival at the end of the track was attached to the construction train, and there we passed many happy vacation months in summer, an experionce never to be forgottin, and never in this world re- peated by man. How it all comes back to mel! tetoria | rising to the horizon like a bowl . . . . in its centre the crawling construction train, leaving its streaks of iron be- hind it, and ever reaching out mile by mile in front -- a moving town, noisy and humming with the work of construction, guarded by both cavalry and infantry from the hordes of sav- ages whose signals were often seen straight upward in a thin : spiral of smake no matter how windy "| their ad " {pound 1s & Di the day. Michael Myers Shoemaker, in "The Great Siberian Railway." : : 7 BALANCES The balances of God never lose t. With them a ound, and right is right, wrong is wrong, and a soul Is a a and eternity is eternity. --Tal- week-end ac © |die In air crashes: .' | mountain, watch the construction of great works, | PAT Day after day the vastp lains |pilot - JOur newspa; vide you with a recapitulation of accidents in aviation, . Six . Pilot flies into atnpin Boy pilot killed when plane spins. . . . and so on. Such reports have become as regular a factor in the day's news as the weather forecast, or the Sun- day motor death list. "Indeed, we Lave already begun to make our sacrices for aviation's ex- cellent contributions, and life in this crowded age is still more trying. "The noise of the airplane is be- Jooming a disturbing note in this na- tion of raucous noises.' Mail planes, flying low, gre nightly awakening fret- fol children. On the shore, where I spend my weekends, seaplanes and circling land planes have driven out all the peace and quiet the place used to have. Occasionally an interstate passenger plane throbs noisily over, head, but its deeper note is no more than a phrase in the greater, pene- trating dissonance 'of pleasure craft. "Laws forbidding flying bélow "a "|given altitude over certain areas have Jalready been - written into the law books of the more forward-looking cities, but pilots are prone to overlcok them. With {irritating abandon, they sunt and dive over passing sailboats, and over country estates and over ks. Not yet are the airways polic- ed like the highways and, besides, the pilot is yet something of a demi-god, to be pleasantly chided, rather than punished, for his recklessness. It is ad and useless busi "In Garden City, home of the Roose- velt and Curtiss flying fields, this busi ness of flight has brought new nuis- ances. Members of the golf course are are up arms, like the embatbled farm- ors whose apple trees are plundered by wayfaring motorists, It seems that pilots prankishly glide, with throttled motors, across the putting greens and then zoom up with ear-splitting sud- |denness. The golfers' games have gone to pot, their blood pressures have reached new highs, and they have sworn to build fences 100 feet high if the aviators do not put an end to their indulgence in this silly fun. "That lowest form of murderer--- the hit-and-run driver--has already had bis prototype in aviation. In the lower bay of New York, not long ago, a seaplane sliced through a motor boat, killing a man aboard, and flew sway into the fog. On the strength of the fact that the pontoon of his boat was dented; possibly in a collision, a has been arrested, charged with homicide, and is now awaiting trial. But he has insisted that he was not the offender. |status of the parachute in aviation has plane could bé heard cheering. dives grew longer--the plane came out of them nearer and nearer the earth. It was not long before the inevitable occurred. This time they rode right in. And that was the end of all of them. - "Then again there is the story of Lieutenant Sweely, who grimly stuck it out to the bitter end rather than for- sake a stupid passenger; and he must have considered himself lucky to be alive, "Sweely flew a passenger across the heavily forested section of California. Motor trouble developed, no landing place was available, and the pilot, after vainly struggling to keep the motor going, motioned to his passenger ~--who wore a parachute---that they would have to go over the side. 'The passenger had been instructed in how to use it before. "But no. The man cowered in the cockpit and refused to move. Sweely first coaxed, then threaténed the man. At last, exasperated, he straddled the cockpit and actually tried to push him out, The passenger just secured a death-hold on the cowling, and held on. "The ship then n to edge into a spin. Cursing, Sweely gave up and returned to the controls. He must have done some serious thinking. A crash was certain, perhaps it would cost them both their lives, It would besa simple matter for him to quit the plane in safety and let the stupid ass pay for his unreasonable cowardice. But Lieutenant Sweely seems not to have been that kind of a man. He stuck with his ship. "With rare skill and courage, he pancaked the ship into the cushioned top of a group of closely meshed pines, which greatly broke the force of im- pact. Sweely was terribly hurt, but lived, The passenger was no more than scratched. Life is like that. "These, however, are individual cases. Nothing is settled yet. The long been puzzling, Here is a safety device that has had a remarkable rec- ord, that has already saved more than 200 lives with a remarkably small per- centage of failures. It is not incon- venient to wear, and is not uncomfort- able to use. "And yet, for years, commercial op- erators shunned it, because, first, it cost several hundred 'dollars, and, seo- ondly, because they reasoned that to compel every passenger to wear one would be an open avowal that even a routine flight has the element of dan- ger. "Fortunately, this ostrich-like atti- tude is passing, 'Practically every mail line now provides their pilots Schools a 1 "And just the day before, th seaplane, sweeping out of fog with dry fuel tanks, shot into the crowded surf at Comey Island, killing two persons and injuring half a dozen more. This pliot, too, was arrested. But of what? Was it his carelessness or was it an act of God? It must have been diffi- cult' to determine; at any rate, he was exonerated by the court, "Regardless of where the responsi- bility rests, the fact remains that the Gasoline Era has introduced a new and, at times, terrifying unexpected risk into the normal routing of life. "Phere is the factor of drinking, again. Heaven knows, the drunken driver 1s a sufficient curse until efvil- jzatlon; but a drunken pilot, in a vehicle capable of travelling over 100 with parachut re p ling their students to wear them. 'What other imprints the Age of Flight will leave upon the nation, it is too early torpredict. If the automobile accomplished the decentralization of cities, and made us a nation of gyp- sies, then it seems reasonable to ex- pect that the airplane will carry out this movement to its logical conclusion, As airplanes become cheaper, easier to fly, as another decade www endrdNI? fly, as another decade or two should establish, more and more people will use them." dhfi n-- JRGPdga Wn(bB TreHd Unemployment Insurance Edinburgh. = Weekly Scotsman (Cons.);: The Insurance Fund is not in present ciroumstances on a sound actuarial basis, It might be if it ap- plied to casual unemployment only, but on Mr. Thomas's figures, 400,000 | th tower of oblivion, and let them is Forgive thine enemies totally, and light years away. | | CLOSE-UP OF MIGHTY MYSTERIES OF BIG DIPPER Striking photograph, taken at Mount Wilson Observatory, Washington, D.C, showing spiral nebula In Big Dipper at what Is believed about 2,000,000 THOUSANDS OF MOTHERS USE NO OTHER MEDICINE Canadian mothers are noted for the care they give thelr little ones-- the health of the baby is most jeal- ously guarded and the mother is al- ways on the lookout for a remedy which is efficient and at the same time absolutely safe. Thousands of mothers have found such a remedy in Baby's Own Tablets and many of them use nothing else for the ail ments of their little ones. Among them is Mrs. Howard King, of Truro, N.S, who says:--*"I can strongly re- commend Baby's Own Tablets to mothers of young children as I know of nothing to equal them for little ones." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Willlams' Medicine Co. Brockville, Ont, -------- "Will you make any New Year's resolutions, Mr, Swift?" "Oh, yes. I'm going to be more per- sistent in proposing to you this year than last year." COMPANIONS A companion that is cheerful, and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as doec not make friends ashamed to look upon another next morning; nor men that cannot well bear it, to repent the money they spend when thay sill be warmed with drink. And take this for a rule: you may pick out such times and such companions, that you may make your selves merrier for a little than & great deal of money; for "'tls the company and not the charge that makes the feast.'--Izaak Walton. WRATH Let not the sun in Capricorn go down upon they wrath, but write thy wrongs In water; draw the curtain of aight on injuries; shut them up in be as though they had never been, without 'any reserve of hope that, er, God will revenge thee --Sir Ishbel MacDonald Greatly Honored Peak in Rockies Named After Daughter of Brit- ish Premier Ottawa. -- Ishbel MacDonald, the daughter of the British Prime Minis. ter, is going to have her name per- petuated for all time in a Canadian Rocky Mountain peak. It will com: memorate her visit to Canada last fall. "Mount Ishbel," as the peak 1s to be called, is located in the Rockies, 12 miles west of Banff, It is visible from Massive on the Canadian Paclfic and also from the roadway between Banff and Lake Louise. The mountain peak has a height of 10,000 feet and stands out boldly among the others. The announce ment was made at the Interior De- partment and the news has been duly cabled by the Prime Minister to Miss MacDonald. Sap i---- REASONABLY PRICED The evening service was being con- ducted for the women of the parish. The parson being a little deat had asked the clerk to give out the no- tices, adding that he was to recom- mend certain new hymn books which had just been published. The clerk began by announcing the hours when bables could be baptised. Then the parson, thinking that the clerk had spoken about the hymn books, stood up in the pulpit and sald: "I would like to add for the benefit of those 'who have none that they may be had any evening between 4 and 6 o'clock at the vestry. The ordinary little ones at 1s. each, and the little ones with red backs at 1s, 4d. ---- en SECOND LIFE Love 1s not to be reason'd down, or lost In high Ambition, or a thirst for Greatness: "T's second life, it grows (nto the soul, Warms every vein, and beats In avery pulse: I feel it here: my Resolution melts, - ~ --Addlson. -- Recent events In Wall Street have made many bulls bare. LUXO ~ FOR THE HAIR Ask Your Barber--He Knows {huge library to explore. The streets t {are the great avenues that lead one on in a labyrinth of brick or stucco, = Then again I think of Paris as a are golden books that keep their sage counsel till we open them-----books of varying size and splendor. The folios for ever, made for the marching feet of the victorious armies of France; the small streets are the insignificant due-decimos, tucked away on the top shelf. Then there are the noble vol- umes enriched with plates, books of history. The Place des Vosges, the Ile St. Louis, the Quais are the manu- scripts, medimval, illuminated. There are streets in Paris which are not streets at all, but little hits of the province that have strayed fate the heart of the town, and are scared and bewildered at nding themselves here. They have silly little shops where you can buy nothing you want ~--village shops, drapers who keep a few kid gloves, all one size, a lace collar, and a woollen fichu or two, Yet this country cousin of a street may be rubbing shoulders with the sophisticated Boulevards. In these small streets one is, however, most conscious of . , . Paris, Some quest may have brought us here--the search for a framer, an antique shop, a small lingere or furrier--to one of these dark court yards where one the concierge churning a little water and mud together with a broom out- side his lodge. Inside it, in a penum- bra redolent of ragout, canaries flut- ter aimlessly in a cage and peck ck 2 branch of millet. Tll-favored buildiuge on three sides of the court form the exterior of a hive of industry, There is no buzzing iutsire it, but inside each storey i* a separate cell in the vast honeycomb, For the bees that have visited the anthers of the flowers are busy distilling their nectar,.--Barbara Wilson in "The House of Memories." m---- eal -- FRIENDSHIP Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be got out of it. When two people apprecl ate each other because each has found the other convenient to have near, they ara not friends, they are simply acquaintances with a bust nesy understanding. To seek friend. ship for its utility is as futile as to seek the end of a rainbow for its bag of gold. A true friend is always use ful in the highest sense; but wé should beware of thinking of our friends as brother members of a mut. ual benefit association with its pert odical demands and threats of sus- pension for non-payment of dues. i -- VIRTUES AND VICE Men have thelr virtues, their vices, thelr heroism, thelr perverseness; they possess and exercise all that Is good and all that is bad in the world. --Napoleon I. We Pay the Highest Prices for DRESSED POULTRY Write for quotations The Harris Abattoir Co. Ltd. 8t. Lawrence Market, Toronto 2 After Skating Rub joints and muscles with Minard's to avold stiffness or ache. Hockey players recom ' mend it. RDEGEN eral SHIP YOUR GRAIN .TO TORONTO