tho brown dog. If only she could get by the Har- vey gate without being seen by that dog! Bobtail did not have three good teeth in his head, and the would not loved to nip Cornelia’s _ make ‘her fun, and she always tried] Once safely past, “Sixty white, breath. That was her way of trying fo remember what she had been told to buy at Darby’s. Cornelia was very! absent-minded. She was always so busy “making believe” that she wi likely to forget common every-day matters. So she kept repeating) “Sixty white, sixty: black,” in a fun- Even when she she took up her funny droning again Cornelia was breathing Tae 1? she pant- had gone racing off, with himself. Mrs. Bell’s face was inte ies “Spilling spools?” nae “echoed| faintly. She looked down. The two still under her “arms; but bag! The handle poked one hole, and Bobtail’'s heavy foot had made the other. "Cornelia turned and looked back down the road; che grew scarlet to the tips of her ears. As far as eye could see the dusty road was strewn with spools! She bowed her shamed head in silence. briskly. of the aye ied Reser orps to} deafening fire from the right flank of the remai: fell. Finally| SETS ABOUT IMPROVING ce LON: ‘Any further dicies. to rea through was at the time out of the question.” In fect, the enemy was only pur- suing his usual practice of searching ‘for a weak place, starting north and working eee and everywhere had failed. Meantime he was pulling out his the Ninth Reserve, the Marine Twen- tysixth Divisions, the Landwher and| group, at first of five divisions, later ‘| of nine infantry and four cavalry di- visions, is formed “as a strong, new| army of attack between the Fourth’ and Sixth Armies for breaking; through the front from Werwice to Warneton, south to Ypres.” . To Von Fabeck’s operations we owe fighting there is particularly welll told and full “credit as given to the o! bricks in the villages before aban- e DON ESTATE. — Saale the battalions - had to fall back to > rally.” And they did “not come on again. No higher praise could be teahwe: for the supposed machine guns there “being at most. two. in. .each battalion) were ordinary rifles, and the artillery must have got the full- England’s Oldest Circus Clown Des- - eribes Proud Episode When He “Recelyed Royal Visits. = The Prince of Wales is setting an ex- ary wire. pee who formed the bulwark. Se TANKS FOR TOWNS” to pay a visit to some of the poorer 264 to be Presented by ‘the British] districts, “it is simply damnable,” the The part “played by “Tank banks” in raising money in Great Britain to bring the war to a successful con- clusion. is pens. recognized Fis fis to 264 ree @s an ee of the successful efforts made by their citizens to procure investments in National War bonds and War Sav- ings certificates. The tanks have been awarded by thé National War Savings Committee, who have kept exhaustive records of the results ob- tained from each area. The War Office, with the consent. of the Treasury, has undertaken to mminion because ee ‘its weiter num- | bers. || but te ‘on by some / ‘The regrettable feature of it all is ,|ineited to action and , formed ‘into their alleged abuses,—not in any spir- them up in no time at all.” She did not ask any questions. They walked slowly back down the and went on. Before she reached the ene the deliver the tanks to the towns as soon as practicable. ~The first batch of tanks, is already on its way back doning them.” Passing over the further attacks telling about this proud episode in his eventful career said:—" “The Prince made a previous visit a Pe See has its ~ ~serious” gee Not the least of these is its foreign Toronto, c e production ay distribut contentedly under the laws and reg- goods and ates ulations of these respecti nit abolish ieee tam of By re) means they make? If we may judg | from what we see, om and read of are known. they seeks to ¢ i-| the coings of these f ing methods and standards economics and morals. : rare Bae of that these malcontents are so readily organized masses they ‘challenge the vate’ property indicates : difference between. the ‘native ability, the ae | it of helpfulness—but utterly in the wrong; so that those of us who be- lieve in our country and its establ- Sa oe ditions eh we have failed to gras] the situation, for. such distinctions spools. seemed a _great many; why had not her mother reminded her to bring a basket, she wondered as she entered the store. I do for you, ton,” replied Cornelia\ prompily. “Frye dozen white and five. doxen black, Mr. Darby peered at ‘her over the top of his spectabies. “Sure you hhaven’t’ got sometking wrong?” he road and gathered spools. as they Cornelia used her short skirt reached the Harvey gate it was near- ly full. When the last spool had b been res- hened, and Mrs. Bell still had asked no questions, Cornelia felt that she herself should say something. faltered. Mrs: Bell locked surprised. took two spools, ‘a white and a black, from Cornelia’s skirt, and looked at them. “But why did you buy so. many spools?” she wanted to know. singen was organized “for a decisive attack to begin November 10.” German Admits Defeat. “His task was to drive back and group of General Fabeck 4s to main- said:—I shall come and see you again.’ Jdidn't know when he Was going to’come but this afternoon there was a knock at my’door and when I went to see who had called there was the Prince standing outside with number of people. Brought the Queen. “May I come in? he asked, and as manent memorial of the town’s fin- ancial effort for the ware SP Ee Ge THE ORIGINAL CAMOUFLAGE Art First Practiced by the North American ' Indians. tain’ its position west of the canal, asked. Cornelia. - hurriedly _multiplied ant my mother sent me for,” she said firmly. Mr. Darby still looked over the top of his spectacles. “What number?” he demanded. Cornelia felt somewhat confused. sixties mixed up in the matter. Then she added, “My mother is doing a week.” “She must be,” said. Mr. Darby. a regiment, I should there are ten dozen spools of sixty] cotton in the, whole store,” he added crossly. But there were, and Mr. Darby pul Cornelia’ ticked a bag under each arm and reised her pink -parasol “Charge ’em to my father,”| ? “Humph! 1) don't know what your pa will say about it?-shé heard him grumble as she left the store. Cornelia did not notice him, for she had caught sight of Miss Rose Meadows in the distance, and she wa: busy imagining herself a young lady with long skirts and a flowery, hat. ‘As she went up the road she minced a little, and tilted her parasol. over her face, and so forgot entirely to) keep her eye on the Harveys’ gate.| When Bobtail rushed at her like whirlwind he nearly knocked her nipping joy fully at her heels as he went. Cornelia stated at the two peels, spools that she was supposed to buy! She lifted her miserable eyes to | cheeks and splashed into the dust: below. “Q, Mrs. Bell!'? she said. times a hundred and ee ve Bix dollars T've added to the bill in- She choked, and two other tears ran down her nose. Mrs. Bell looked sorry. Then all at ‘once she laughed. “Look here,” she) said. “I shall need at least ten dozen! ope: Lae repay |lot into my bag. then run back. and tell Mr, Darby I say he's to charge he spools to me.” Five minutes later a ted-faced lit at home and p én the table. | the spools. black,” she said. “Good, Cornelia But, child, what’ made you stay so long?” | “Mother,” tell?” “No, I suppose not,” her mother said, smiling; and Cornelia crept away comforted. When Bobtail ran at her the next day she told him that she was not one bit afraid of him; and she was} not, somehow. And the next time she went to the store she looked Mr. Darby straight in the face, “I did buy too many spools,” she said. Darby shook. with 1.ughter.! said Cornelia, “must I take a lollipop,” he said. THIN KHAKI LINE ~ FOILED PRUSSIANS OFFICIAL GERMAN ACCOUNT ADMXTS HUN FAILURE Drive for Calais Beaten by Haig With Few Machine Guns and Lit- Ammunition for Artillery. The first official German account of a battle on the western front has been published. It is an admission of tle ended Germany's hopes of winning speedy war, indeed of winning the war at all. ot has been known that by sheer ard diy have carried it through | line of muddied khaki. But the im-| nartative, with orders of battle and good sketch maps in which the dis- positions even of regiments are some- times shown. Germans Sought Calais. The story is graphically unfolded. new Fourth Army under Duke Albert of Wurtemberg. His directions as the 1914 campaign.” The Fourth Army pushes jin, attacking on the front jine from Ypres to the sea, assisted by the Sixth Army on the left. It makes special efforts to cap- ture Dixmude and Nieuport, but fail-| ing in these places gets across the Yser between them. There its hopes of breaking through are dashed to sountry rather than to let it pass. Reserve Divisions Quit. _ st sto ‘would a= The writer considers that “the task} Dixmude ae “further portions of Massines Ridge, often overlooked be-| cause they signified xo little, and when a decisive attack was made east | of Ypres it broke down. ‘The writer rather fails in his des- attack, the story begins. brilliantly, gradually peters out, and ends tame-| Failure is, however, conclusively] admitted. “No break through of the enemy's, jline had been accomplished. His num- exjcal superiority and more especially) | the strength of his positions help up| our offensive. We had not succeeded in making a decisive break through jand the dream of ending the cam- paign in the west in our favor in 1914 had to be consigned to its Strong Points Beat Guards. An interesting fact is given which confirms the impression at the time that the line of small strong points,| ranged like oan. African _ block: houses by Sir Douglas Haig’s engin eers, as thg 3 | more, marke the highwater mark of the guard attack. The Fourth Guards he stepped into the room he said, ‘I've brought someone to see you to-day, I looked around and saw it That the art of camouflage as now practiced in Europe is an American institation and originated by the Am- fs the old gentleman I told you about! “Thad to tell my whole story over again, just as I had done before to the Prince, and she laughed at some of the ground in such a stealthy manner) tricks 1 told her about my famous old + that they were not discernible to the] aonkey Domino | rest of the tribe. “[l tell you what I'm thinking, the Before a young buck could become! 6,54 time the Prince came he came by qualified as a warrior he had to make/imselt; thesnext time he brought his his approach to the Indian camp al- most in the midst of the assembled warriors without being detected. The knows—after that he might bring his wife.” | ‘ (pe To the Lads Returning. All the wonder of your coming and the greatness of your going, In our hearts’ exultant greetings—in is prey or remain hidden without detection. ee Harsh Words. our proudest memory! Best of welcomes seems so, trival as| you come, by battle broken, Back from death—the glory of you coming back to such as we! A widow is the mother of a son who | has given her much trouble. “Tam afraid,” said a friend one day, “that you are not firm enough with Can you read the hearts in waiting, | hushed by prayer loving? All the longing for your coming—all the pride we've had for you? Gratitude beyond our naming—days and nights of awful yearning, And the constant faith believing that to Duty you were true? said the mother, I sometimes fear that 1 am much too harsh, I don’t mean to say that I have réally taken any summary action; but. | “Why, I have spid, “Richard! Rich- | ard!’ and other severe things. ' OPINIONS ON W | BY CHAS. M. BICE, B.A. L | DROPPING THE MILLSTONE. civilization being crushed to earth) by the system. The U. S. entered the struggle late in the day to prevent the success of German militarism that was an insti- gation to war. safe for democracy, he latter cannot prevail) when there is a conseriptive standing army held in readiness to maintain autocracy. Tauern, idalee Mi¥ougl: the abolition of con scription ani disarmament generally; on land and sea. It is to-day in the. greater part of the other continent a question of Mr. Lloyd George,“ whose intuition garding tie thought prevalent among the masses {s exceptionally quick, has seen the issue developing since early in the war. His country will not stand conscription as it is known in Germany and in France, and he doubts whether the English-speaking the last refuge against, him then the great work of the Paris Peace Congress was to put an end at ization. . Anstéad of an army cor 3,000,000 var,—wishing for war was” not aesiets; pe there re-, Take it ete, our-glory.in you, in each ORLD PROBLEMS L.B., DENVER, COLORADO. dred thousand men, Only too willing- ly will the other nations follow suit. To your Canada and ours, for alee: you fought and fell. Keep we reverent remembrance of the silent march of comrades, Who come only now in spirit with you who went away— To the lonely ones who see not faces dear for whom they waited— May you see their Vision Splendid in the Light of Endless Day! —AMY EB. CAMPBELL. re permitted to arm ito the teeth; but as Germany was the fountain- head ot the system and the aggres- tresses, hardships and hopes of these poor victims of their mischievous schemes.” see These ignorant dupes of irrespon-| i ble and conscienceless agitators do yotion to its institutions and laws, further, every true Canadian should be, in his life, his business, and his. thought, an interpreter of Canadian’ ‘than he has ‘oye else. ‘Since the aoe was ented some © countries, but progress is hindered by the troublesome elements that are in evidence in all important centres. Z possession arms, instruments . * We have to exercise great patience. |i ion police are now basy following up clues that heve been-revealed through isting laws and though the very atmosphere in which foreigners secking admission is to be enforced. Only last week 36 alleged Chinese students were turn. illusive suggestions. ed back to China because they could condition of unrest is, unfortunately,| not qualify on examination for any meat and drink to the professional) It is also report- with renewed strength to assail every! olutionists. THE WEEKLY SERMON Se ene es Instead of the thorn shall come up| Taught by the greates| the fir tree, and instead of the brier|the race has taken its shall come up the myrtle tree; and| toward permanent peace and inter- it shall be to the Lord for a name,| national fellowship. for an everlasting sign that shall not} The war and events immediately. be cut off—Isaiah, 60, 18. | following have taught the world that, ‘One declares with confidence that] the outstanding fruitage of the late war is not destruction but construc- : Many precious lives have been Suet “before society can reach its) teeificed, but selfich and outworn| highest state. 1@has been said: “The systems of government have been| only force that will bind the nations ‘thrown; attoeracy is a discredit- together is friendship.’ It is the oe all wars, Navies will be reduced, or rather, they will not be permitted to grow. Instead of building huge battleships land great cannon, the associate na- tions will make up the exceptionally heavy losses from the submarine war upon merchant’ vessels. In brief, the keen-eyed statesmen who. are at the peace table, realize | most clearly that the great majority, |by a common consent, demand a new FAMOUS BATTLESHIPS. i “Elizabeth” is a Favorite Name in the British Navy. The name “Elizabeth” is one of the traditional names of the British Navy. There was an Blizabeth in the Fleet as out a break for 250 years. century it rémained forgotten, until 1912, the prefix “Queen” being added in accordance with the fashion intro- duced by King Edward. Strangely enough, former Elizabeths \No great war the peoples who | one, tion at least. future? It, is very doubtful that al | treaty by. evelasting. the Old Adam, w eradicated ing out for the last three centuries of In other ; muonaay had this war ae naval warfare in various quarters of the military spirit, the Chauvinism,| the globe. The first was built in 1546, out of the head of the collective Ger-| and the present battle-cruiser is the eleventh war-ship that has borne the name, To link tp the two would be to, write the history of the British Navy—or most of it. Bin Ratt waa a An Uneducated Dog. ‘The Frenchman did not like the look of the barking dog barring his way. “It's all right,” said the host. “Don’t you know the proverb, “Barking dogs don’t bite’?” “Ah, (yes,” said ‘the Frenchman, “I kmow ze proverbe, you know ze pro- yerbe; does he’ know ze proverbe?” cok etter <? : The Panama Canal was opened to Tiger is another example of the con- nomenclature; praerid rapidly Somehow there was a counterbalance to traffie August 15, 1914, ed outcast. Much. property has been, business of the Paris conference to destroyed, but the ‘folly and loss of| organize the friendship of the world.” war have been established; ambitious ‘The Golden Rule. ions wil] think soberly before they Does the Church see that the world has swung lvound to her teaching? that war has fering and sorrow, shall she live un-' that every § out- one ee ee ey See selfishly and serve faithfully, so that side itself was hostile. To too ee ti tl an extent patriotism in the several insea et ee a sat instead of the brier of greed and sel- rineiores there may come up the myr- ; brotherly ser- please. the pessimist, “no tongue can bad I feel.” )