x i A Spirited Driver Living Thing. » By Walter Joseph Delaney. Locomotive Engineer Who Considered and Loved an Engine as a | ----) Doc Newton was out of a job, and that situation was becoming chronic. Never a brighter, brisker, more ac- commodating fellow than he, wi friends everywhere; but the railroad company did not seem to 'want him, and the young fellow began to wonder if there was a black list, and why he had become its victim. The roundhouse foreman could have explained the situation, ~ but h thought too much of Doc to hurt his feelins. boys on the dog watch could have enlightened him, but the rized his company, and sincerely oped that things might take a turn for the better. i The.truth of it was, that Doc got "wild" every time he touched a loco- motive throttle--just as men go music mad when they hear the sextette from "Lucia." o him an engine was living thing, a vital steam horse that loved to show its paces; and never + a there a more spirited driver than 0 c. Once he had run No. 24 on the wrong track where the depot girders cume low, and knocked off the smoke- stack. Later he had dumped loco- motive and tender into the turntable pit. Finally, he had disregarded a signal, smashed up a grain car, an there was loose corn in the vicinity for all the chickens in the neighbor--' hood for two months afterward, "Was never a second late, clipped right along, and always claimed the right of way," explained Doc daunt- lessly, deeming mere 'trivial incidentals. oc believe go on duty for a whole month. He came down to the roundhouse every morning regularly. He was there the last thing at night. Then it began to dawn upon him that luck was against im. "Tell you, Ruth," he said to the fair devoted girl who was the one star of hope and beauty in his firmament, "T believe I'll try some other trade in some other town.' Ruth cried for a time. Doc's determination. That ended He went back to the roundhouse grimly There was Cee Ts a RAT eas They Ran the First Ten Milés Fourteen Minutes. a gleam of light next day, but he re- fused to see it. Je was offered a job as fireman. ! "Once an engineer, always an en-' gineer,"" claimed Doc proudly, but he| Was not sorry that some kind of a chance offered to remain with the} road if things came to the worst. Then, nobody was working one long- to-be-remembered Februrary night. It has been a hard day for railway service. A heavy storm of snow and slush had set in at daybreak. y night the great Southwestern system Was tied up tighter than a drum. Trains were stalled all along the route, Nothing was sent out from Crofton, but at seven o'clock, on regu- lar schedule, Doc walked into the doghouse with the business-like air of a man ready for work and expecting it "What did you wade way down here in the snow for?" inquired Foreman Bross. "I can report for duty, can't demanded Doc. "TI seem to he only one." "Yes, the others are glad to snuggle down at home with no risk of a hurry call this glorious night," observed Bross. | i a the open. He had just arrived. The fore. | man recognized him and touched his | cap. "Bross," spoke the official sharply, "T find from the dispatcher that the old belt line, the coal cut-off running | to Springfield, is partly out of the' storm belt. Everywhere schedules are cancelled and wheel running except this end. Wire that a special is, coming and fix me out. I must make! the junction at Clay City in time to | stop the night express on the North- | er Give me your best locomotive, | a shallow caboose and a hustler, and/| do it quick." Gunns ShuoxGetx Fertilizer not a th|no other operator in call, however. y| the minor mishaps | } he was still on the' "extra" list, but never got a call to} "]"m your man," spoke up Doc promptly, rising to his feet. The foreman hesitated. There was Five minutes later the. outfit was ready. Facing the drifting wind and the pelting snow, No. 101 started out on its journey. "You'll have to fire," announced Doc laconically, taking his place at the leve: "I did it once--I guess I can this time," replied the official They ran the first ten miles in four- , teen minutes. Then a vital hour fol- 'lowed. Facing peril, grazing death, he @¥ men accepted their mission staunchly. The snow came in great sheets, the wheels crunched and slid, ,the -pilot threw up ice and slush in | cascades ey struck a trestle one-half a | foot under water, and blocked with drifted wood. With a sickening slew qualify THE MO ES CO, 15 YONGE 8 "TORONTO The Transports. Out into the night they slip, Silent ship by silent ship, Dim and gray, dim and gray; And the fog droops low to hide them, And the wind springs swift to guide em On their way, on their way. Soft, ah, soft, the ripples lisp, Break the bubbles, silver-crisp, "Neath the bow, 'neath the bow; Swirls the snowy wake behind them; So we lose them; who shall find them, Ask not now! Ask not now! What the freighting that th Gold or pearls or jewels rar Over seas, over seas? Yea, the Jewels of a Nation! Yea! a People's consecration Goes with these, goes with these! 2 ey bear? e, Mother's boy and maiden's lover, = o the locomotive swept a curve. | official piled on the coal, which burned | like tinder. The light caboose swung after its groaning pilot like the tail of a kite. Then there was a w ip-| 'lash sway, and the engine cleared a! bridge just as a break in a dam car vied its centre pier away. "We've made it," panted Doc, as' they rounded a hil] and came in sight! of Clay City, to see the Night Ex-! press on the rival road steaming down! the rails a mile distant. "They've! given her the right of way," he shout-| ed, as they neared the interlocking | tower | "You. must stop that train," cried the railroad magnate. | "I'm going to," said Doc grimly. | up on his Squarely across the tracks of the in-| coming train the giant engine, bat--' tered, ice coated, a brave wreck,' crashed the gates to kindling wood and halted squarely, a barrier to the oncoming express. he official jumped from 101, ran to' the halted train, waved his hand to Doc, and the dripping engineer knew | that he had won the day. | It was the talk of the road next: morning. the Night Express was a railroad | king, whom the president of the! Southern had to infercept before he- reached the city. A first interview! with him hlocked a ten million dollar deal with a rival railroad. \ Two days later the president of the road walked into the doghouse. Doc! sat patiently awaiting work. "Newton," called d&t the official, advancing and extending his hand,| "there's a check for a thousand dol-} lars going through the mails for you! from headqarters. You can go to! work to-morrow on the regular list.'"| "What locomotives," asked Doc. "Newton," replied the magnate, speed. | ; iground in early spring due to frost t was known that upon| Husband, father,--over, over, Tell the tale, tell the tale! Heart of gold and soul of fire, Lifted eyes of high desire, So they sail, so they sail. Out into the night they slip, Silent ship by silent ship, Dim and gray, dim and gray, God's own angels fly beside them, God's own good and grace betide them On their way, on their way! --Laura E. Richards, It is necessary to mulch strawberry plants to prevent injury to the roots by freezing and _ thawing ut the winter, and especially The heaving of the caus througho in early spring. Bd recommendation, which was as fol- lows: meal and grain of any kind be forbid- den as feed for cattle at the stock yards; that hogs in the stock yards about to be slaughtered;"may be fed on meal, barley of, no higher grade than No, 4 and oats of no higher grade than No. 1 Feed." This report was adopted. Departmatite-a¢ the provinces with yes of the different Live ---- ae gg ----_ MOVING WOUNDED IN RETREAT. _| Experiences of a British Chaplain in prohibited by the new regulations, Early Days of the War. while only the lower grades of barley} In describing the retreat of the and oats are allowed for hogs. r.| British after their magnificent stand 8. E. Todd, Chief of Staff in the Of-) at Le Cateau in'the early days of the fice of the Food Controller, was pre-|war, Captain Douglas P. Winnifrith sent by invitation and spoke of the; says that the field ambulance hasten- neeessity for conservation, particul-|ed away about six o'clock in the after- arly of wheat. noon, determined that the wagons "We are bombarded with letters re-;!aden with wounded should not fall garding waste of feed in the stock) into the hands of the enemy. The far- yards," said Mr Todd. "These let-|ther they went the denser grew the ters are especially emphatic in re-|stream of traffic and the slower be- gard to wheat. While it may became their progress. To add to the true that No. 3 milling wheat costs a| unpleasantness of the situation a driz- little less than barley, or crushed corn, zling rain began to fall, and in the at the present time brought in from|inky darkness they found themselves Chicago, still the pmce justification in a confused tangle of guns, ammuni- for feeding wheat at the present time tion wagons, motor lorries, cavalry is insufficient. Wheat is the scarcest and infantry. article in the world to-day. The| Progress was painfully slow; often amount available for shipment in the they were compelled to halt for next three months measures the ex- | twenty, thirty or forty minutes, and tent of hardship which the Allied peo-, then could advance only a few yards. ple will have to endure. This matter Fortunately the enemy had suffered should not be a question of price | too heavily to engage in an energetic should think it possible to substitute pursuit. The exhausted infantry lay other grains for wheat." by the roadside and often on'the road Articles Wanted for Cash "At the suggestion of the Food . Curios: Controller, and as a war measure only, Oia Gaines i anentet Wwe recommend that the use of wheat Wetchest mings! Table Pat be prohibited as feed for stock to be _ ame z.3 EINE, Limites 1 > immediately slaughtered, and that tee ane Q noes like herrings in a barrel, covered with ugly wounds, hungry, dirty, weary, they sat in that wagon for sixteen hours without murmur or complaint. And always as the chaplain looked in he saw the faithful wagon orderly keeping watch over his charges. ut one o'clock in the. morning they saw lights ahead moving in the fields and hoped that they would be able to rest. But it proved to be only a bivouac for the infantry, and the general in charge bade them and wheeled tr: as possible. When dawn' broke, Fourteenth Field Ambulance, so far as the chaplain could see, consisted of one colonel, himself and one ambu- lance wagon. Their anxiety as to the fate of their comrades was not There a great reunion oc- curred; straggiers came in from ail directions, and each had a tale to tell of thrilling experiences of that me- morable night. --_--_9--__--___. 'Summer pruning as a rule does not increase fruitfulness the next year, and is not as satisfactory in the long run as late fall or spring pruning. The best theory is not to prune too much. Cut out only those things that seem to do harm and seek to ave a tree running four or five branches. It was potnted out that wheat has/itself, and had to be roused before the been fed to hogs before they are scal-| ambulances could get through. All| ed so as to increase the weight. But, | night the chaplain sat on the box seat | action is very frequently the cause of there being no crop that year. time after the ' to In the awful darkness it was impos- Any| go into pork and is, in fact, pure, r ground is frozen, a waite, the grain, after the hog is| sible for the other wagons to keep in| i i ld in his as the hogs are slaughtered immedi- of the foremost wagon and he ately, this increased weight does not hands the only lamp that would burn. | | mulch of leaves, straw, strawy ma-| slaughtered, being washed down the touch with him. To have dismounted } nure, chaff or other available material! sewers. should be distributed evenly three inches deep over the bed. | would have been to court disaster) Different representatives declared|from wheels or horses. He could, | } ee t| In cases' that packers paid~no more for hogs therefore, only remain in his seat,| where fine straw, chaff, or strawy ma-|fed on water than for hogs weighed Prod the driver, who invariably slum-| econo spreader straddling the rows, | re is used, the work may be most! off cars and the practice was really , bered during the long halts, in the mically done by using a manure-| without justification. ittee | Tibs, and by shouting, "Please make i: way for the wounded!" get his Basins} on a few yards at a time. was thereupon appointed to bring in a) After that dash three nights since, big as it was, I see that you would make the slowest accommoda-| tion a regular limited. No, you start/ in at $2,500 a year as 'division in-! spector." "Ruth," observed Doc to his fiancee, | an hour later, "the president of the! | road won't trust me with a locomo-! r AIOE ; Can no' see W y IU 18 re sary to spend so much time drying dishes. So I have made a draining board from a piece of grooved plank, two feet long, one inch thick and the ength of the sink. I attached it to he wall at the side of the sink with brackets, with one end reaching over _ | You will trust me with the nicest lit-| _ ingly. In of the ho } and slooping a little toward the sink. After washing, the dishes are scalded nd stacked on this to dry. The next thing I notice, is the num- "Meaning me?" smiled Ruth lov-| ber of steps taken from the work- "Do you think I'm not proud] table to a drawer on the opposite side | tive because I insist it show its paces, ; tle wife in the worid, though, won't " | you?" 1, onor? You showed what real,@ .. per cent. of Russia's anthracite. Her rene deficient to herself, either in ; running was anyway, and you are the' only man on the road that could do | | (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) -- ~~ m H MORE WHEAT THAN CANADA. Grown in Ukrania, Which Also Sup- plies Russia With Coal. | The Ukraine, which is reported to have concluded a separate peace with Germany, is a territory of some 850,-| 000 square kilometres, one-sixth of Russia's area, and of this total over half--53 per cent., to be exact--is farmed, the highest European culti- | vation average, with the sole exception of France, which has 56 per cent. of her area under crop. According to the Winnipeg Press, the grain production of | Free} this 'important Russian province is greater than that of Canada, and amounts to! one-third of the whole Russian out- put. The Ukraine also produces five- sixths of the country's sugar beets, has fifty per cent. of Russia's supply , 'of sheep, goats and pigs, and thirty spoon faster than a man can bring in million head of cattle. The Ukraine stands in | the same | position to the rest of Russia in min- | housekeeping. erals as in agriculture. Two-thirds of the country's iron is mined within her confines, one-sixth of the whole! world's supply of manganese--a most important munition product--and 99 oil wells have been developed by | Anglo-American capital. | The Ukrainian population in Europe | 'is roughly 30,000,000, of which 28,-! our nation needs it to help win the 000,000 are Russian subjects, and, though they have fretted for cen- | turies under the Russian yoke, they | else the! have no love for Austria, and both! economy has amounted to sever: |hate and fear Germany. Should they | on orders from. establish themselves as an entity af-' two covered cans, ter the war and annex the two Ruthen- jan provinces now held by the dual em- pire, then Austria-Hungary will find herself flanked by an ambitious state population or resources, There are a quarter million Ukra- nians in Canada to-day, some $8,000 of whom live in Toronto. Their priest, Rev. J. Boyarezuk, predicts that at least 75 per cent. of them will re- turn to the land of their birth after the war if it remains a republic. f the room for cooking-spoons, par- ing knives, egg beater and the many littie articles used in cooking, I have set my wits to work and nail- ed a strip of wood three-fourths an inch thick over the work-table and inserted small sash-curtain hooks length of it. Here the kitchen im- plements are hung close at hand. The meat grinder is used in the pre- paration of almost seemed to be in the wa ed to the table. aquare, fastened securely to the w at a convenient, height, Flour Economy. During these strenuous times shall do well not only to adopt the| wheat substitutes recommended by| the Food Controller, but also to con- serve every bit of flour that comes in our kitchens. "A woman can throw out with a tea- with a shovel," is a maxim my moth- er taught me with my first lessons in It has proven a valu- able aid in my own housekeeping ex- perience and I find it easy now to prac- tice economies which would seem pos- itively stingy in ordinary times, but! ® which under present circumstances savor of patriotism. "We should save every bit of flour for human food. In fact, it seems al- most criminal to do otherwise when wer. This is how I aetually do this and have for the past three years, during which time I am positive my sacks of flour. In my cabinet I keep Into one I put all left-over pieces of cake and cookies (not including those left at table), and all crumbs of either scraped from baking tins. These mske delicious "bread puddings" with little, if any, additional su ' Into the other can go all the bread every meal but) over it. y if left attach-| kitchen chair having a back and of! I solved the problem the right height for the table. by making a strong shelf about a foot!this chair she sits to prepare vege-| all| tables, mix cakes and so forth. | also sits to do most of her ironing. OUSE WHAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND. cookie cooki | | ! | (which stands next to the drain-board) | | ; about three inches apart, the entire! | |the work-table. I nailed blocks to, would be joyous, | |the legs, making it high enough so) And I wouldn't give | my wife need not stoop as she works | | ferumbs from the cutting board we | particles of dough scraped from the! Many times during the night the chaplain puiled aside the curtain of the front of the wagon, from, the in- terior of which came the sound of in- termingled snores-and groans, inquired how the wounded were get- ting on. The wakeful invariably an- swered, "All right, thank you, sir!" One man, doubtless thinking of his less fortunate comrades, replied, "I reckon we're in clover, sit." 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Becauss a "mere TTD man" plans and puts them in, of) course! *He does not have to break | there was just one WALKER HOUSE In towns along my his back washing dishes over them.) \ If he did, he would be more mindful of the height. I could not change the | the sink but I could and did change | | route, @ Then "drumming" a hoot Also I provided for her a For all the inconveni- ! ence of | In|} The trains that poke so slow, nis. If there was just one WALKER HOU She | In every town I go. and. Say, Fast one big round of solid fun. I wouldn't mind the rain or sleet, Or mud, or frost or snow, If -- mae suet One WALKER s mixing pan. These, with all stale! breads, brown bread, corn bread,! gems, biscuits, etc., which 1 do not} wish to use in other ways, go into | griddle cakes, If these breads ac-; cumulate in any quantity they need to be dried thoroughly to insure their In every town I go. The Walker House keeping until wanted. i en I plan a griddle-cake break-, The House of Plenty fast I put some of these crumbs and Toronto stale breads soaking t'" aight before! { Geo. Wright & Co., Propriet in sour milk or butter/%ilk, allowing te pS FORESACOTS i b ing, thin Vegetable fats and natural flower 'extracts 'give BABY"S OWN SOAP its wonderfully softening and aromatic lather. Sold everywhere. Albert Soapa Limited, Mirs., Montreal Send it to Parker's OU will be astonished at the re- sults we get by our modern system of dyeing and cleaning. Fabrics that are shabby, dirty or spotted are made like new. We can restore the most delicate articles. Send one article or a parcel of goods post or express. We will pay car- age one way, and our charges are | most reasonable, of PARKER'S Let us mail you our booklet of household helps we can render. Parker's Dye Works Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. oronto - When you think of cleaning and dye- ~ 57 about one cup of liquid for each per-! n morning I mash all soda, a bit of sugar, jumps, add salt, ing a large portion of their previously baked which I believe renders them more digestible. Very few baking failures need be thrown away if their ingredients be consideyed. Heavy or sour bread, The Peerless Perfection Fence gad ng! where you put shorn, The oly belo ie atrongest, mos oo "her Seip faa even, not beyond being reclaimed. Either can be dried and stored safely for use as needed. I have used sour bread in griddle cakes with perfectly pet by using a little addi- tional sode in the batter. One time Order Now ONTARIO FERTILIZERS, LiMiTED WEST TORONTO CANADA use for sode. Griddle de with ome of this as a foie pe were even complimented by a guest. mit, but apd starvation for ourselyes, or of deny- ing wheat to our s because we have not the gumption to save.