" tof all.that ? been said of the won- 'gy, : PARLORS * a pped by! of, 2 Ges cag ts " : supplies, But they saw light car-{ : <i b UE 4 the surgeons of the Allies. a so $ ee i jionably, mankind in the a IE wes ; ea long run will se greatly benefit by the * ie oan oe Ot } OF WAR-BORN MEDI-' strides made in medical and surgical' AS SEEN BY A pis se ga ok Pele "AL, SCIEN uring.the war that this pro- SPONDENT IN- a » esha "cous acl ase longation of the war will. hate : me i - Tee ON ee worth all it will have.cost. The pea-| _ St ee eet eae Vgc arte Be hs ples will recuperate-in 2 century, let"; ~# v ' Country" Would Break Down Much |. say! the effects of this new knowl-! #¢ @ Wax," Say the French in Sooner if Surgeons Didn't Restore [sie will be felt for a thousand years. Light of Their Sufferings A ink of its application, for exemple, ; ee 'Fususands of Wounded. j.to the industrial accidents se common | ae es: ; %. Medical science, advanced by 2 in modern life." = The philosophic spirit of the Qvar, rates to prolong it. But. in -- ae ar no matter where I ; th the cae run the benefit to humanity} THE NEGLECT OF OUR ROADS. me, writes Ellen Adair from amazes from this wer time advancement of London. medicine and surgery will abundantly make up for the prolongation. These are the opinions of Dr. F. H. Albee, Major in the United States _ Medical Reserve Corps. Maintenance of Canada's Highways is a Necessary War Measare. ba -At a meeting of the American Asso- ciation of Highway Officials a numbe: a of resolutions were passed all i "Germany," he explained, "appears the building and proper maintenance to be breaking down, But she would} o¢ highways as a necessary war meas-| break down much faster if her sur-ure; the association maintaining that, many geens were unable to rehabilitate £0 the highways must be regarded as | Suffering, personal loss many wounded men and send them! part ef the country's transportation | cial reverses. ; ; - back to the front in shape to fight. Of ' system, particularly for freight (if | But they are invariably cheerful,: zourse our allies and ourselves are do-' less than car load'lots) and fer short: smiling and reconciled. ing the same thing, and, it is safe to haul freight. We in Canada, with| "Que voulez vous, mam'selle?" they say, doing it fully as well as the en-' ihe exception of one prevince, have|say with a philosophic shrug of their tmy, if not better. taken an entirely different view and; expressive blue-clad shoulders. "C'est "The point is, however, that as looked upon our highways and streets 'la Guerre!" Sermany's man power dwindles with; as a luxury to be dispensed with dur-{ One of them has endured physical pur own increasing against her, she! ing the war, says the Canadian Muni- | disablement, the complete smashing up van continue to put up an effective de-! cing) Journal. The consequence has ; Of his excellent business in Paris, the fence a great deal longer than sheipeen that for the last three years | loss of his wife and child--a loss which would have been able to if both sides' practically all highway and street im- | might have been prevented had he had ; _had suffered propertionately the na- as a waitress, ef cul i 'where I am comes re nch "! >: since wat. 4 provements have been stopped--even the money to send' them7to a ages "his two. tural wastage of man power that oc-: maintenance has been neglected--with | sanatorium--and the loss | of eurred in the older wars. lamentable results. While it is true j brothers, 3 Army Diseases Eliminated. to say that évery dollar is required} Tears spring te his dar "Let me remind you, in the first|for the one purpose of winning the | he speaks of his wife sn place, that the diseases which used to; W8!,-it is also true to say that our;--"C'est la Guerre!" he repeats, ar ravage armies had been very largely | highways, roads and streets are just though the words held comfort. A eliminated when this war began. Ty-|88 Much an economic necessity to us; brave and enduring race, the French, hus ('jail' or 'spotted' fever), the, #8 those of the south of the line are | Mistaken for a "Baby Killer." - iysenteries and ucapitad aise to the people of the United States, and | I - . are cases in point--three dreadful ; the least the Canadian authorities can In London we must all state oy scourges which no longer exist in the ,40 is to see that they are kept in pro- exact age on our sugar cards. And armies of the great scientific nations Per repair. For the last three years the cantankerous people wig belon vag in the field. {less money has been spent on our pub- state their ages will get no sugar! - "Then certain ailments and injuries |lic thoroughfares than in any one! Hence there are many lively peculiar to this war, and formidable at | ¥eat for the decade preceding the out- heated complications. i, first, have now been pretty effectually | break of war. While it was necessary! No act of Parliament says that th met. Trench foot, for instance, is met'to curtail some of the ambitious road | Must state their ages. But no act. by improved drainage of the trenches, ' improvement schemes that were ready | Faxiament gives them sugar if so that the soldier does not stand for 0 be carried out during the spring; won't! The ages are needed for th considerable stretches of time in ice ad summer of 1915 it was quite an-/ system of checking. : water any more, as he had to do three , other thing to go to the other exe -- prion nea. aie oP rk ptt years ago--and by providing him with! treme of not only giving up sep beats of Atty whe looks: forts: ould : 'the improvement schemes, but a plenty of proper footwear, expecially | ly neglecting to maintain those roads! about it, not hide it, no matter ki eyés- when. child. But f = vhange i kings, | : t hi . . pe op). eval aon NG: | and streets already built. We believe: which sex he or she belongs. BS "Then gassed . patients have become | t#&t the provincial and local authori-/ An amusing scene occurred theo ties would be well advised in voting day at a London railroad eomparatively few, in spite of the fact German: gases btler | i : : - baer kinds. 'This is Seecnice of ;Public thoroughfares in proper repair,!was wearing his long gray over ; Iution of the a the! ahd even in certain Jocalities to go in, which looks so much like the the evolution gas roaeghaan e for: § i of improvement | ys, egies and to sigants,|@uring the 'coming season. "Hind » a r-of German prisone gas is coming in| amettpOh - 'ated meta) the mask which | #BC® since, much of our present diffi-/the station, hoping to see the G will neutralize that on ---- culty of transportation would have) prisoners. The moment she saw. th: pi . ibeen met, with great te the! Guards officer-she rushed at him, hit Majority Surgical Cases. citizens in the lessened cost of food-'him violently on the head with her | stuffs and fuel. ; lumbrella, and shouted - loudly, "Baby "It follows that a preponderance of : ---- the cases are now surgical, and--of -- i - | Killer." a ; i these, thanks to our constantly bial WHY JAPAN IS CROWDED. | Luckily the British Guardsman had} creasing skill at reconstructive sur-' A Great Part of the Country's Small /a sense of the ridiculous and could; take a joke, even though a somewhat .( strained one. But I think he will feel | hospital lately, a thousand were able' When we grasp the smallness of more disposed for the future to avear| after convaleseing to go back to ths' Japan and the size of its population! the khaki garment known as a "Brit-' trenches and fight. One reason is the we readily understand why the land is ish warm" than the overcoat which has' large percentage of the bone and joint go crowded. Japan proper is a narrow & German aspect. and similar minor but disabling in-'and diminutive country. Its area of: The "American" Juries. For such, the modern ortho-' roughly 150,000 square miles is some- pedic surgeon, by bone grafts and!' what smaller than that of California, a piher operations, can often do a great while iis population is fwenty times as: C8" language- ~"good United States, | deal, Eighty per cent. of the surgical | great. Moreover, like Italy, Japan is! ae 3he 13 spoke' ----is nrouning immense: cases invalided home to Canada were 'chiefly a country of mountains and its: @etight and interest in Londoners. | bone and joint injuries. 'arable land under cultivation amounts, Endless examples of delightful and | "But not only can many of them to only some 25,000 square miles, a ¢*Pressive American slang" are quot-} fight again; many more, disabled per-' farm area less than half that of th: ¢4 to me by Britishers who, for the manently from fighting, can be pre-' single State of Iowa. It follows that first time in their lives, have met an pared to work and earn a livelihood -- Japan is the classic land of intensive talked with American officers. a incidentally to release for military agriculture. Its dwarf farms are not! The other day, for instance, an 'avi- service whole and sound men previous- really farms at all in our sense of the tor from the other side of the Atlan- ly engaged in necessary tasks at home. word, but gardens. There are no pas-' tic. now in England, flew his machins | This kind of. rehabilitation of the vures, no barnyards, but merely little into s British aerodrome, and, march- maimed ix mercy and a blessing, but aquares of land. now covered with wa-'i"& into the commanding officer's hut, it-has unquestionably assisted Ger- ter, now filled with mud drying in the remarked airily: ; a ; many to eke out the numbers of her! sun, and now vividly green with tha; "Say! Are Sh the big noise in this fighting effectives. beautiful rice plants. These little constituency? Guess you are. Well, "The morale, the spirits and cour- patches of terraced and irrigated Jand Wi! ft interfere with your habits if I age of a soldier who has been wound- have nothing in common with our leave my gasoline kite in your pas- ed, rehabilitated and sent back to. 160-acre farms. In Japan the averaga re? . stand up to the enemy, is often quite agricultural family (and there are §,-' | understand that the C.O. sent for as good as it ever was. Agsin and 500,000 of them) vecupy only two and, #" interpreter at once. again we see in the hospitals,' three-quarter acres each. Only ne "Anglophobia, or intense hatred of restlessly impatient to get back and family in ten hes us much as five acres the English race, is a marked feature - gery, more and more are being rehab- ; ilitated. Of 1,350 men in an English! SS Cae, } Language. | The picturesqueness of the Ameri-' di | \ have another crack at the enemy and (two cho}, and over one-third of aj! ef most German newspapers these L go on bearing their part in the jeb rural families have faims of less than days. Beacons of hate flashed through i with 'the boys' they had to leave. one and one-quarter acres. If is mor- them all, like fireworks, and stich ; The Curative Workshop. ;cellement carried {to a tragic ab- Phrases as '"False-hearted Albion,". , "British Scum" and "the vile English," surdity. | _mingled with other gems of persiflage. | "One of the great inyprovements inj the work of rehabilitation after the! -- od a PEANUTS UP A PEG. wound has healed is the curative: er's newspapers. H workshop. When a man has left with' ' ae op t . a stiffered joint, and nerves and f Valushie Feed Endersed Sy Fuel) A Be of Hate." | muscles to re-educate, we used to give Controller. im a course of passive exercise-- massage, the manipulations "In the heart of every German man,} oman and child there must'be erected "I feel sure that the German sur- geons are by no means this reconstr - The a-beacon of hate, the fiames of which | "peanut gallery," thongh but a mem- must be so tremendous that they reach | "This has three advantages. | a, England in her vitals! eupies his mind and gives him inter- | noj-forgo n terms for the cheap | "We have again and again attempt- | est and hope, thus getting his mind! seats at the top of a theatre. Jed to placate our bitterest foe. .-. . off his injury, whjch jg so very i -| But now it is different. The long-' Well, then, Germans, let us cease pertant; the passive exercise simp 5 despiagd peagut is coming into its | dragging our national dignity in the ept bis attention fixed 'upon it. It | own. Tt hus the emphatic indorsement | pire for jhe reater glory of Albion, Ae big york gut the stiffness him- | of the Food Controljer. "Our people,' the he! old Let us~- proceed self, ang as he grows abgorke in arg advised to eat peanuts. | with our hearts aflame, with a hatred | his wor and eager to master it, he; You see, the peanut is not a nui at so intense and consecrated that, lik2} yses the stiff joint unthinkingly, with- { all, properly speaking. It is a kind of a psychic force of divine mystery,*it out ching from the discomfort. And) pea; and, like other legumes, it is! shall co-operate with our good swor if trams him to take his place in the | rich in tissue-making stuff. A paper! and sweep this vile power which has world again; while getting the injur-' bag of peanuts (even nowadays, when | set the whole world against us, from ed lin#) in condition he is learning a}somewhat reduced in size) affords" a! our path to greatness and glory! fairly square meal. | "Let all of us remember we have no : The peanut, however, may be utiliz-| enemy but England; none.of the oth- superior at) ed to advantage in cookery--for soup,|ers count equal to the value of a flea- ustiye operating in spite | fox "(peanut loaf," and in other ways. | bite!" ae oan = er ae ne De i To-my table at the American But, wounds, mu: and big finan® 5 Lehips, but they have fired on our men' }while in boats or while in the water. _adorn the principal pages of the kais- | { '} Bi! ats z : xs | - E V.¢C. HEROES =~ at THRILLING TALE OF. COURAGE ° AND RESOURCE. ~~ = of cargo, and with her 80-horsepowe i Bolinder engine develops a speed of about 73% knots, says the London 'Shipping World. It was found on trial jthat vibration was"practically non- intent, ; well rr Win Battles by Doing the Unexpected Thing at the Right Moment. Sergeant George Harry Mullin of ing the Canadian Infantry peeped over the qualities were' thoroughly tected: antl ;top of the shell hole where he lay and ; "pi " bi . All she behaved excellently. A large hold at se é. pos or ia arranged for, and 7 maximum-sired 'groaning as they sought refuge from hatch will facilitate the loading and the machine gun fire which ripped the discharging of bulky packages. The| a: "Shout them. The "pill box" had cargo will be dealt with by a powerful ; 'tish : ' 'stopped the attack, taking motor winch. The crew's quarters are | nany ves, sad was teow being: ¥en a | narded heavily by the English guns, einforced concrete vessels should ere gy Sor t hhimeral Ri prove valuable assets to those coun- a alls ki ay inl the little tries which have lost vessels during font m RTE Fay On ind that the war. If steel and wood were |{o™tress 7 oe ee his By be plentiful and could be released for omens a cannaine 4 tease commercial work, there is every prob- hell en ad <8 - 4 -- front the ability that concrete construction for cuit b ale and vanes hit ; ae caitian- marine purposes would not have been| P! ; oe » th a mac cecil ne - 2 . studied to the extent that it has been. ed close to the cement wall on "There is one thing I should like to; outside. 7 . {This development will no doubt prove; : esther ria Ei ane ancen to be one of the benefits the allies will ; Captur ed Ten Germans, Preutral. to hein th . ANi | gain through the war. There is a lim- Mullin slid out of the shell hole un- is B tne Sig eae ,noticed, worming his way toward the pare suffered much. Our ships have | seaponed timber, but practically none enemy, and carrying only a bag of The. aL oe Se ~~ "": to the production of cement. {bombs and a revolver. When within a boats have not only sunk our; yore are, of course, ey wears sage of en aie post 7 y industr t so far as can shelter from the machine gun fire in Se ico miaet advices of 'ie rein- | another shell hole, a which he. . {forced concrete vessels believe thsy | leisutely threw bombs amorg. the ir forgive have only one, viz., heavier hulls than ;Snipers unti} their fire ceased. How a _ if steel or timber were employed. But to attack the "pill box" and the ma- »DEN HEI METS, | 28ainst this, it is pointed out, there ;chine gun on the outside was another 'are advantages, such as increased matter. But action was Mullin's char- cubic capacity, cost of upkeep practic- ' acteristic, and an athletic sprint and ally nil, and reduced cost of repairs in bound, made while the external mz- ithe event of damage. jchine gun was changing ammunition Now that helmeis have ""come! For quite a considerable period tug belts, brought him suddenly to the top back," it is interesting to note that owners have been anxious to employ'of the "pill box." Like a cat he the most remarkable ones in the world: tugs fitted with oil engines in prefer- s¢ rambled across it and with his revol- are carved out of wood by the Haida ence to steam engines, on account of, ver killed the two men at their ma- Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands, the reduced cost of running, but so'chine gun. Down to the back entrance off the coast of British Columbia. These islands are a considerable group, forming a nearly continuous strip of land. The Haidas are chiefly remarkable through the fact that, of all aborigines on this continent, they "I read of the food shortage in Eng- land, but do not seem to notice it. Apert from the fact that my supply of sugar is limited, I can find nothing to }complain about. Moreover, I have -been down to the docks, and I &o not think there is much danger yet awhile ef England being starved by the U-} 8. "I think the English people should eat more fish. In Norway we have four or five meatless days already. We Nearly live on fish. Then why should the English worry about food, when 'the North Sea is full of fish? "Ah, yes--but there are no men, no 'boats to 'collect those fish. We it to the output of steel and properly- It will be a very long time before the people of Norway forge the Germans for that." . > ARTISTRY IN WOC Haida Indians Carve Most Remarkable Designs, i but a tug of them, to march ahead of the proud weight is essential. A reinforced con-} Mullin to the British lines. are by far the cleverest artists. In crete tug, fitted with an oil engine, Another Daring Canadian. fact, their sculpture work in wood and; Would have a somewhat similar dis- Private James Peter Robertson of slate is art of a very high order, much; Placement to a steel vessel fitted with the Canadian infantry had a "big day" of it being devoted to the representa-| steam machinery. As a consequence, during the recent struggle at-Cambrai tion of characters in the Haida myth-| provided the experimental vessels now He aa in a CC -- aniesed: te ai ology. . lunder construction in this country tack « Hun rtireer age sicd who.were Une © Chief among these characters is Prove a success, tug owners may be able to. areas: WARM . t0can "acme ti ¢ taven, called Yetl, who ~was the expected to consider the oil engine stretch of barbed wire before them creator all things. He gave ba; CORSYors tug proposition on really ajuda: mucteeens hine gun which kind fire, water, fish and game. serious lines. > 5 [killed all. men. out to.< ae ote ~ Geiss wae 401 hed US Yell Sica. ai There Should Be No Waste Land in ae ic be 3 Rag gee ges ; + Tete! z ; ing. . sland far out in the sea. The journey | Canadian Towns This Spring. matipenad through, eseaping the heavy | The Port Arthur Garden Club, which | fire; threw himself on the ground, and ieee ogi a eeneien ee iby fits a ee ae A cap <i » 18 congratula on the hole to she ole, Work is way. to- splendid success 6f its first season's | ward the machine gun company that efforts. According to a report of the | was spraying his companions. President of the local Board of Trade _ "Inflicted Casualties." the products of the gardens amounted} When within a few feet of them hg in value to $26,527; surely a record in. leaped to a knob, emptied his rifl vacant lot cultivation worth aiming | among them. and followed it up by for in| every municipality. During j casting himself like a demon upon last year Canada saw the possibilities ' them. Though they numbered a dozen of apexes it nae -- thou- | they cvuld not overcome him, for his sands of lots throughout t irban lapility wit y 'i centres were turned into Nal ane gardens, and hundreds of thousands of jhurly-burly and confusion he created. ae = «oder -- from So the Huns, not understanding it and them, says the Canadian Municipal !seeing four of their comrades die. Journal. 'But this does not nearly re- dropped their machine gun and "took present what can be done in vacant lot! out for their second line with great cultivation if taken up seriously and ' speed." - so long that nearly all of the! of burning wood he brought back | consumed, so that his beak was ched black--as the rayen's bill re- ins to this day. | | He let the brand drop and sparks ewin all directions. Whence it omes about that wood and stone to- y contain fire, which can be ob-: ined from the latter by striking it d from the former by rubbing. 'e Yet? was victor in a frightful com- t with a giant spider. He threw menster into fire, where it shriv- and shrank, finally escaping as w& Mosquito/ carrying a tiny coal in ifs proboscis. Since then it has been able to suck only a little blood, but- feaves a coal of fire in the bite. The helmets above mentioned are in some cases portraits of important ay LS r systematically. Within the boundar- | Robertson, waving his hand to his members of the tribe, but more often ies of every urban municipality in| comrades as a signal to "come n," they represent ancestral "totems," or Canada are thousands of vacant lots | swung the machine gun about and "in- heraldic crests, of the various clans--- for example, the beaver, the bear, the duck and the frog. waiting for cultivation this coming | flicted many more casualties," as the , season, and given the opportunity and! official report says, upon the enemy. 'proper encouragement there is no rea-;No sooner were his fellows caught up -- 7 , Son to doubt but what every cultivable with him than further ambition seiz- The Bridge of Ships. Jot will be a means of food production. tad Robertson and, shouldering the Now build a bridge of ships to France! put there must be a real co-operation "machine gun and laughing from sheer Across the ocean's broad expanse, j reining the local garden lot societies glee, he led the men_in the chase of And' let it awiftly forward leap a the council the council must bear the astounded Huns. ; Till it shall span the outraged deep, [ne EXPense of ploughing and, if ne-| The panic of the dispersed Germans P. cessary, tind the seed, if not free, at ®i spread to their comrades with whom The millions of the free shall march ow price. The citizens must be edu- they had sought shelter from this Across the vast and far flung arch; | C8ted to do their part in actual culti- "madman," when Robertson and his The powers of a continent vation. They must be made to see! screeching followers descended upon Across its mighty stretch be sent. | that every hour given to attending them. They fled down the trench for ; ; their lots is so much more food pro- dear life. Robertson placed hig ma- The Hun shali look on it with fear duced for the hoys at the front. 'chine yun on the trench top in full And see his final fote appear, For spelling doon (®fore his eyes It shall become his Bridge of Sighs. -~--McLandburgh Wilson. ----_ fa -- view of strong German positions and One of the results of last ¥ear's cul- | turned the fire on the Huns, who fled, tivation of vacant lots was the lower- ling of prices for garden produce. If sprawling, through the ditch. this garden cultivation is increasec Saved Two Comrades. j twenty fold, or even ten fold, a much A wide sector was cleared and un- | batter guarantee will, be given, not der Robertson's direction the Cana- only in the keeping dgwn of prices of dians consolidated it. Snipers, how- | Vegetables, but of all perishable foods. over. took heavy toll of them until | ee Rohertson. mounting the trench top 'again with his beloved machine gun, This is an indoor game that will clez:ed them out, laughing and cars- always find great favor witk a com- ing amiably the while in a manner pany of young .people. The whole which heartened his comrades to carry amusement is afforded by two bails the fight still further. Two of them, rbout the size of billiard balls,and a slipping out, proceeded to * im- penny. It is necessary to mark out pudently at the Huns, in the midst of on the tablecloth, with chalk or pencil, whom they were located. When a*mo- a circle about three inches in diameter, ment later both were badly wounded and a straight line about two feet Robertson dashed out of the trench ~ from the circle. 7 and brought one of them safely in. He Put one bail in the centre of the sprang on top of the trench again and circle and on its top balance a penny. raced for the second man. By this The trick is to bowl from the line time the Germans in a-wide half circle with the remaining ball and try to were in desperation aiming every pos- knock the penny out of the ring. sible weapon at this strangely im- Simple as it may scem, it takes a mune demon who routed them, ridicul- great deal of practise, for nine times ed them and tore their prey away from out of ten the penny will drop within them. He picked up the second man the circle. The best way to accom- and raced with him to the safety of plish this is to bow] very slowly, and the trench, but as he scrambled down by knocking the ball very lightly the the long-missed bullet caught him 'n penny will roli owt on the.top of the back of the bead and his "vig day" the other ball: ; was done. A Little Red Croes Helper. I'm awful busy working for - The soldier men in France; means to make them lots of things If once I get a chance. < . Move the Penny. I've made 'Tyas lying on the shelf. And I started: ona sweater-- I would have got it done, But Ethel May showed me her scarf, And then I started one. It's brown and very warm and nice; I'm proud as | can be. My auntie came to see us, And she finished it for me. I've started wristlets and a cap, Some woollen: stockings, too-- I think it's very int'resting To start off things--don't you? Maude McGehee Hankins. sited Bits of ham, creamed and served on ben will prove a savory breakfast -. : ----