' oe Bing in. Heart --Gleaning Belle. - + The. gleaning bel may still heard in some coun' /England. Probably to London where it is still rung is Farnham, in Essex, where the' tens bell of the church is rung at 9° a.m, and 5 p.m. as goon as the harvest 1 well advanced. A penny is paid © the bellringer by-each family _of- 'parish that goes gleaning, % At some places quite ihe aan gider ones still were suspicious ~Tndian Children. 'but the pecple. Father once took 'Where we walk to school each a7 ie white Indian children used to play jme to ahaa on the reservation, an E i All about o + native lan ae 'y yamember that all the old women ° a 1 ried vrais (lions fine black broudeoth shawls oF crier's bell, followed by the proclanii Where the shops and houses stand. | We!" t Heels, though 1t "The reservation was governed by, tion that any person found gleaning? in the fields beyond the customary) chief's, one at the head of each tribe, BOUrs, or damaging fences, will be who met together someti hing as the: 'Prosecuted. But it seems a waste aldermen de in a city council. Their, Hme and ringing, for nobody is ever: finetings were called conic tov.|Prosecuted. And it is a mistake te? Sometimes 'these meetings were held: paige va that nobody ever _goes- dra Was summer. And the trees were very tall, And there were no streets at all, Not a church and not a stseple--- Only woods and Indian people. OF DOVER CLOSED TO GERMANY. = ste or Nearly Four Years the Enemy 'Has Been Vainly Endeavoring To Break Through. gAt the beginning of last century, when the name of Napoleon was on the lips of nurses to frighten naughty . children, Nelson was given com mand of the "Squadron on a Particn- with the Sidekce of England against} Only wigwams on the grou And at night bears ewig 'round. What a different place to-day Where sve_live -and-work and play! in the council house, which was near, }B g, for they-do; it is also a mist tha centre. atthe reservation, some-|*? conelude that it is ities they were out in front. Work of the machine rake which vant." jreduced gleaning on the cou rdae : ---- «Ip your front yard?" It is the gradual disappearance of the! The Council Pipe. 5 "Yes. Everybody that knew him , country mills driven by wind and wa- Hal bad been bragging a littic about | trusted my grandfather, and the Indi-! iter where the gleancrs could get pear how he meant to go west some day'ans often came to shim for advice. | little store turned into our. and fight Indians. He thought that Sometimes cone or two would come, | "Binging for Gofer" is a uniq he was very brave and noble until again there would be all the leaders. , Custom confined to Newark aria Krandma said gently, "Isn't it a bigger Then it was that they held their coun- Church. It has lasted 300 years. It thing than fighting Indians to teach cil in our yard. They would sit in a's said that a wealthy merchant nam-: them to trust you and be your -cirele on the ground, just as you have €d Gofer lost himself in the aur friends? That is what my Grand-' seen in Indian pictures, and grand- j which then surrounded Newark, and father Plastron did." 'father was always ane of the citele,. aS he carried much money, and the, "Tell us about him, grandma," said Wait a moment and I will show you, forest was infested with thieves, he Hal; and the others came crowding up More council pipe." Grandma brought! Was in danger of his life. Suddenly, to listen. from her room an old long stemmed; he heard the bells of Newark, and: "Your -- great - great - grandfather ibe. at which the children stared in| Was guided home by their music, Plustron was my grandfather, you awe. | Oo commemorate his eseape he know," said grandma. "He lived with' "You have read how th» Indians|left a goodly sum to the church on: us from the time when I was 2 baby,' passed the pipe from one to another condition that the bellringers ran end owe loved each other very much. while they sat in ihe counei! electe. for "Golfer" every year on Sunday srandpa was tall and thin, with white have ofsen watched Urem through the. nights in October and November. hate and the kindest face Fever saw. [lac bushes ac the cornes of the house. Although the curfew is still rang His room wis upstairs at the front of Grandfather kept the pipe beside a tin, &t Bodmin and several other places the house, and [ liked nothing better hox that contained tobacco and a mix- temote from London, yet even in the: than to be sent to call him to. supper. ture of powdered wild herbs, [ believe, central roar of the Metropolis it may or dinner, | Their place was on a ledge in our cel- 'be heard, and often is heard, by peo-; "I was pretty sure to find him read- larway, and I was afraid of the very | ple who never guess its ancient de-, ing in the arm chair by the window sight of them, because it made me, sign and origin. or else sitting on the high stool in think of seeing him among those fic ree! This is at Lincoln's Inn, where cur- front of his old desk, writing away looking men, few is rung every night at nine, just) with a quill pen. Mother saved whole' "Some of the Indians usually had 98 in the days when all the barristers boxfuls of gocsc feathers for grand- guns or knives with them, and i: was) 8nd students lived in the Inn, subject father to whittle into quill pens. It alarming to see them get angry.|to the despotic rule of Tie Bench-=s, is from that old-fashioned way of Sometimes they showed very plainly, Who made them dress, dine, and even making pens that we get our word how much they disliked what grand-) Shave according to rule. Woe betide, penknife. You would think it a father suid to them; and once in the luckless student who was out af- troublesome thing to whittle all your awhile they would go away frowning ter curfew! To-day it still rings, but pens out of goose quills!" she laughed. end muttering among thems sclves. But No penalties are attached to non-at- "Grandpa would read or write te a they knew that grandfather was their tendance to its warning note. Mould stopping place, then he weuld friend, and they sienge, come But the most remarkable bellring- say, 'Let's be going.' He would bend back to shake his hand and sek mnly ing in London is the ringing of the. down so that I could clamber on his' thank him for his rood advice." i Lutine bell at Lloyd's preceding the! back and downstairs we would go, vis-! "When grandfather died many men announcement of the arrival of some iting away as if we hadn't seen each! and women that none of us knew came overdue steamer or sailing ship w hich: other for a week. I cried when mo-! to tell us of their sorrow and sympa-! had been presumed Jost, ther told me that I had grown so big} thy, and one chief asked my mother to| The Lutine was a frigate and grandpa was getting so old that| keep this pipe in. memory. of: their, first Fx and 1 T must take his hand and walk down- friendship. Tt is one of my freatest) iture, E exe stairs instead of riding." treasures." |take specie to English merchants in "But what about the Indians, grand-| "I should think it would be!' ex-| Hamburg, in October, 1799, and was true ee ma? ?" asked Hal. claimed Hal. BBs sy Mong wrecked at the entrance of the Zuyder. 'Oh, yes. We lived two miles from! father did a thousand times better. Zee. Fifty-eight years after her, the Mohawk reservation, and the In-: than to shest Tadians er ta get their Spec ie was recovered, along with other dians went past our house every day lawl to muke into farms. I'm ne end 'thines, from the old wreck. Since en their way to the village. Even' proud of him And imean tc te such then the } bell has stood in the when Twas a child they were more! a br. ave friend to peaple that he Hbrary er with civilized than the Indians of the weet.twouldn't becnshiomed of nel? chair and table made from the ship's = . rusdiden. ¢ TRENCH FO T lve allow a useful amount of trans. The fifnes: That Ma the a "Soldier Great calla nN, Gara beets confine the per- The things that mahe a soldier great rfuration, the feet amd sock< teceme ind send him cut to die, ' ITS PREVENTION sodden, especistiy after a tons walk, 'Te face the fuming cacaon'. mouth, } and heat is gradually lest to the air, nav ever question viy, \ more slow!y by water, In prinemple, Soe flay a little por: 'hy the row of a. eee ae . . therefore, leuther beuts are worn in 1 GNE OF THE MOST TROUBLE- dry trenches and gum bouts in wet The pennies aul pansies, too, the old SOME OF ARMY ILLS. ones and they are pul oy as nenr the retunia bed, seenee Ment ¢ he wee: : 7 ae . . - fOr lei tain Woot ihe SRE My PO Se The wi plet where his ehildten {The « Lem boats @ ciate aA ploy, ike seces on the wall: Precautions Taken by Authorilics foi ene Ut CE EE ee J th 1! make a seldier great. . . _ : ar ane " az iH Sehting for them all, the Welfare of Treops During rah hohe r ' 7 the Winter Season, jered as the mow oretuen fear. othe Pies ret ths parmp and pride of aia The reog' musth Wet' Pot that Tihast ee 20 Hijet rave; Trereh foot is capable of dk -troy~ powsitde is vemaced by otatho: tree OF totatlepisorce tp the flare that ~ : . : hy oe e-gt ing anaurmy ina very shoré time. are uspended bbe ade vo odrarn a enue . : } FA . 1 . ul ' Preventive measures are equally sure md the drying ps fied hed in tt up Pes ctl o well on ef saving an army. As each suc- Tight posities, the whole ; ; ' ue a mn i " \ el Seay ry Se . "2 : a cessive Winter comes round. timely Ine ntv-feur hun Loeyet fey i Ue sanee they see the waenings and instructions are circul-! pi echs per oman ele devia cued ty pace oplet hame, . . . wile ae rs : j 3 } 1 7 ety ated, which, as experience is gained, daily at the tt i rs mble street 5 : r e Fy \ Wren eonstuntly become more cffective. ; in enebance a) ae ee A Irs UN--- . . , . ' ? + q J \ ' . i 1; '4 i " Yi"? 's Ik is difficult, however, for those Ve A i i Listed. the man who who have had no previous exmerience Povitid i ee of a winter or F . ont tafor reer the £ ' . . , , foaowinter on the Western front ta . Ve fe ' h the battle smoke realize on a fine August or Sepicm-} _ a we ber day what is so soon to fall upon) pee efor T! ' i ; the , ' Raval Mustela . iy, the bud- the waprepared, and October general! 4 ' quis: dese i ly produces some surprises; then the ' te et : sary . "| . : i ' ' sack there, eMieaey of preventive organi: fast PE neha \ heir play mo-t convircing, fer the casun <j I 4) ; : sod Phe <3 : i . ; ¢ n iat eniil the sim- spond to it by a fall even more rapid iyt bat \ ! than the rise. The remedy, to the un-! , Wa! f oa ; than the rise The reme y, to th un Pris ' i courage isn't imaginative, presents no difficulties, it linked ta te dome is simply the nivinte nance of dry feet; j to #? pet, witcce'er jt be---the but in practice@it Involves ene of the: ! } wt lod kom ' ' por ¢ cad femme, most intricate problems in organiza- | tien connected with the war, and one ji i} again and all which demands the meticulous ¢o-or- | nets is In there, dination of every branch of the army! give a selo. T} 9 rue! , And her oliiers far away know -~-the General Staff, who must adapt jamong the news re Mites is in the air; the movements of the troaps not oaly j flashed along Mit that othe The + Hips « come to bloom again, "the to. the military situation but to the) Prince of W ad enlivencd a cer Pass once more is green And every all his i man can see the spot where 1s have been. He secs his children smile at him, he amount and temperature of the mud. Many Precautions Taken. ¢ During the trench foot season, be- e bugle call, fore starting on his tour of duty in {And only be h . ' pir hi the trenches each soldier has his feet OO a he's fhting for 'tn ail, ae washed and rubbed until they are + { noes , warm, and Whole oil or anti-frostbite Sarin Bhentia's atnannage asliaiaaanii = tal A. Guest, grease well rubbed into them. This "Germany hopes first to starve the a application results in the comparative ; Old Country by the submarine cam- conservation of heat to the extent of paign, and then to smash her land seven degrees Fahrenheit. The nextj forces. She has failed to starve Us, | duty is to put on dry socks and to re-, and she will fail to smash us, but we; ccive a spare pair, Somptimes two] cannot achieve victory without food, pairs, for future use. ; There never was a time when it was Then the question of boots atises,|more needed. The Canadian farmer Gum boots are better for wet trenches: now has the opportunity to make an and leathyey ones for dry ones, irre- | effective reply to the enemy's press- spective of temperature, e ing onslaughts by bending his undi- spaces in leather boots are non-con- vided~ energies" to" renee produc- ductors, snd conserve heat; they | tion.' = : tain gathering with oa "D'ye ken John Peel?" _He evidently %k rendering of kenn'd" hin, and sang him excellently. hears Santee in France. Song of a fair May morning When the sky is bluer than blue | And the white clouds floating across it 'Seem almost too white to be true, When the air is sweet with clover, | And hums with the busy bee, And acrossethe gray salt marshes, The guns thunder out to the Sea, And the dead lie in rows With their face to the foes ny s _ [Only a mile from me, _ poe rs) ay ds valacedl invasion, his station the Downs. Na- the threat co preparations were the ter- iror of England. In these days there is a tendency |. to underestimate the importance of 'this station, and to ignore the diffi- eulties with which the Dover Patrol! ies to contend, says a writer in' the! | Hijustrated London News. In the last! century we never obtained absolute. command of the Channel; swift enemy ships were always active, in spite o measures which our seamen con- certed with fine resource and cour-' ge. The steam-engine had not 'made its appearance to assist an en- my's raiding policy; Fulton's dream f the submarine was nothing more Seat a dream; the know it to-day, had veloped as 2 constant eget charged with he s¢a communications of an islan! bcreses there were no aircraft to en- able the enemy to oversee our opera- tions menace to the keeping open Work of Dover Patrol. Every condition has since changed, except one. The enemy does not ipossess the French coast; but he 'has well-defended Belgian ports as bases of operations. And for the rest, copsider the position. On the one hand, the Germans are uble to use de- stroyers with a speed of over thirty. knots; automobile motor-boats, with high-explosive charges, operated from 'the shore, well-armed submarines; and other submarines, carrying mines, which move stealthily below the sur- face and drop their devil's eggs in the ' pathway of British men-of-war and merchant ships. Before the Germans ad established themselves on the Belgian coast- this country had given postales to fortune by despatching - cops to France. Thousands of offi- cers and men pass to end fro, and vast | 4 a, the Dover Patrol Gee to vaheBherd i "great volume of merchant | 'shipping passing up and down the Channel. We offer to the enemy large and varied targets; and he has the ad- vantage of initiative, speed, and, above 'all, darkness in carrying out raids. It is never known when destroyers or submarines will be sent forth, nor what their exact objectives will be; and all the time the Dover Patrol has to he at sea fighting the clements and protecting the barrage which, as the Germans know. reinforce the activi- ties of our smell craft, Foe Cannot Break Through. If an ineident ovcur, jreeent raid oon the drifters hunting for a submarine, the whole world learns of it within a few hours. No- thing is knewn of the other side of the ledger. When Nelson was holding his station in the Downs he wrote of the "yreat preparations at Ostend." Aeqerean, afterwards the: Marshal of . being in command of that of the Army. "I hope," Nelson 'to let him feel the bottem of "Ta there days diferent ap- j work of the Dover Patrol if we see the bottem of the Straits of Dover. This channel, vith a width of a lita such as the ° by art Ided, the Goodwin » should have a very Sands, preciation of the could : 2 over twenty iles, has he« 7 ization. ' > ving te break through it for bree-and-a-}; "p Veurs - to ge watch aml werd. What the Water. Hide, If some instrament could be it vented to enable us te look throug the water to the bed of the between the Enghksh const apposite shore, we should better-balanced pieture of 4 jn this theatre of war si esing of the stru pnowledge of al! the cesses and partial gueves-es; but th: swift-running waters conceal from view the materia! and life- less bodies which tell the story of his failures. One of the most tantalizing features of the present situation at se is that so much is necessarily hid- enemy's wrecked jden from view owing to the advent of the submarine and the mine, and the character of the offensive and defen- ve measures which our navy has lf the barrage in the Straits could talk, and if every depth ! Yar Service," which was the way in used for making dolls shoes, hats, which the Bend concealed --th2 dresses, stockings, ete. ss was charged! tainable only at prices four times jhigher than before the war, conse- Speemmiemmeeneted fer the discomfort of life in "the 'trenches, GEES Se ae GERMAN TOY TRADE. Doll-Making Now Is Impossible oe to Lack of Material. i The German toy industry is - ghow- ing the effects of three years of war. | Simplicity is the rule in toy shops at present. Wood, which formerly was need only for cheaper sorts..of toys, is now the chief: material gypberieadey coming impossible through the lack of flour (used with cement in making the bodies). Wax, which is employ-| ed for the heads of, the better class {dolls is almost unobtainable; the same is true of the*stuffs and lace janes the prices of toys are higher. | The simple, cheap toys that form- terly could be bought in the stores or ifrom street vendors 'for 10 pfennig: now cost 20 pfennigs or more. Jump- jing decks of paper and cheap picture ;books no longer can be had except is old supplies are still in seek. Metal toys are few in num :pretty toy trains and magic interne ; which used to be so common have heen turned out only by those mannfactur- -ers who also were engaged in muni- tion work and so command supplies .of the necessary materials. Toys which were intended for ex- | pert, but which could not be shipped ,owing to the war, made a_ welcome addition to the supply for home con- / sumption, large quantities of the bet- ter class of toys thus being put at the service of the home dealer. Great dif- ficulties stand in the way of convey- ance from the maker to the large towns, and opiy after long delay do toys rench the oe DIETING IS FASH ION ABLE, In Tunisia, At Least Among the Un- married Women, Nowhere in the world do women de- vote so much attention to dieting as in Tunisia. When young they keep at it all the time: ' And no wonder, inasmuch as in that) country a girl's chances of getting a husband depend at least very largely upon her avoirdupois. Uniess corresponds to specifications in | that particular she has little prospect of marriage, But she does not diet to get. thin. Oh, no, indeed; quite the contrary. No- body in Tunisia wants to marry a _skinny woman. The ideal of feminine pulchritude in that part of the world 'is fat. The fatter the better. 'It is the Pig for the Tunisian to, give to "girl of his} pvisional choice an anklet many ices too large, with a promise to {marry her as soon as she is unable to | slip it off. She is considered to have attained | perfection in beauty if she is unable | to put .on a commolious mother-sub-: bard) gown without bursting the! seams. By dieting she hopes to attain 250 pounds. But a weight of 300 te 30 pe ufhds is not uncommonly achicv- "There is many an American woman, | anxious to grow thinner, who think it would be much easier to "stuff" than to "bant."' But, as 4 matter of; fact. anybody eth get surely thinner by giving up fattening foods, where- as to grow fat is incomparably more difieult for many persons, The Tunisian woman. to make weight, relies largely upon the seeds. of a leguminous plant, called *fenu-: grek,' which are supposed to have a elous effect that way, ---- fe Joffre's Contribution, Marshal Joffre, the late generglis-: simo of the French Armies, and the' hero of the Marne, is much courted in aris, and, like so many great . men, x not always appreciative of effusive compliments, A jady once sailed up with her al- bum and asked for "Just one linc!" Joffre hesitated, but when she pleaded that even one line would make ber the happiest of women, he sighed and accepted the proffered quill, Glancing at his wrist-wateh, which had timed many an offensive, whilst anil suly looked over his shoulder int a wifect frenzy of excited expectation, * » Wrote: 'Ele fifteen p.m." < . oe « To Mend Splintered Handle Weod = glue proves exceedingly hy andy when it comes to. mending 'the splintered handie. The holding pow- ers of such glue are remarkable, and i kept away from weter will retain its strength for a relatively long time. Smezur al] parts of the fractured handle with the glue, draw the parts closely together, and held in position with a cord or leather strap. After several hours the glue will be perfeet- iy dry. hk will be found upen experi- _Mmenting that the mended portion has practically as much strength as had the original handle. Any little slivers: may be removed with a wood rasp. | charge which is dropped could signal , back to the surface the injury inflict-! ed on the foe, less importance would be attached to occasional raids. But, in the absence of anes grideat. the. proof of the success w which the! i Dover Stupits are guarded js to be found in the millions of men holding | he' line in. France and Belgium, sup- plied from day to day with all they require--big guns and small, muni- Butier is selling. in Berlin at $2.25. a pound, sugar at fifty-six cents a pound, ham and bacon at $2.11 a pound, and soap (five ordinary bars): for $1.12. | Machines for sawing wood are get-| ting so plentiful that the old crose-, jcut saw pulls dreadfully hard! No, excuse now for us who have wood on the farm to burn coal. "A good big: | it ever was before after the war, troldiers. iworking at the front husual plain ; mus st do after "RE KNOWS HIS RELIGION AND HAS LIVED IT." Living inthe" Firing the Highest Type 'of Christianity. In Engiand every one is saying that the world wil! be infinitely better than say a London correspondent. ' "The war will sweep away all th: old shams, the snobbishnees, the pride of caste, the false stundards, the hy- pocrisies," they say. "Living condi- tions will be so much better than they ever were before--in fact, out of all this trouble and tribulation a newer and nobler world wil! be born!" There's a certain kind of person who is always worrying eternally over the religion of the fighting man at the front. Such worryings are ridi- culous. : Religion at the: Froat. 1 have met thousands of soldier: who have looked death in the face--- yes, for years----who have lived through that daily ordeal of suffering und misery and death which consti- tutes ordinary routine ut the front, and these soldiers realize that religion, real religion, means fei- lowship, * 'playing the game," courag- and self-sacrifice and unselfishness, and every one of those brave fellow< whom 1 met have possessed these qualities a thousandfold. so COUSC Aroul 3} Himgs over He the sa!- spen ! without reli- cannot 3 ys | in the firing line developing the highest type of gion that man ever possessed. He may net be a bit interested in " cronitas* in Bible stories and reli- gious ceremonial, but every man's re- ligion is all right when he is within range of the enemy guns. "He knows his religion and he has lived it," says a very deep thinker. "und no matter how far outside th: arms of the Church he may be, he be- longs to Christ, and the living force of Christ will always be with him, ne matter if he swears like a trooper." I have a very great respect for tha "padres" in this war, not because of the services and prayers they hoid at the front, but for their very real bra- very "and unselfishness and eg and forstheir heroic devotion to t soldiers. I was talking to a "padre"--a Brit- ish clergyman-----in Paris, where he had amet a few days to attend to some and was immediately returning to ihe hottest part of the firing line. "Religion 2" he said. "Why, beside these men of mine, reugh though they may appear to be, I feel like a heath- en. Believe me, the soldier on the bat- tlefield is the finest type of Christian that exists. I wish the people at home would understand that and real- ize that the only use of us military (chaplains is to help the men to make life a little easier for them, instead ef Who are we to, preaching to them. * preach 7" Clergymen Beroes, I know three padres who deliber- wiely laid down their lives to save -l know a great many more who have risked their lives a hundred times on the battlefield for their iaen. This alone is real Christianity. A delightful little Look bas written by one of these chaplains "a boak of un- speaking, too. It inspiring pictures of what the Charch the war. of. what the ( 'urch may mean to the maimed) and broken world whic h the war will leave hehind, The littte book is-ealled "As Sees Us, "To see the Church and 'minister? with the eves of the ordinary man ik not nbways altogether a pies ane ex perience for the Church," writes this "It may, therefere, pleasant for church falks ts what follows. "Rut Fo ean apology thov gh my words should hurt The way forward for us isthe way of facing the truth, and Wf that trath hurts, we must Nist enduregit ill we heen + Tommy sean change it." of haw the Governmont shoutd ya e goes on to speak | chure h and the treat the returned ¢o!} "The soldier will come deck. ha suffered untold things for his- coun- try," writes the padre, "and he will have a that his eountey owes him. more than it didin the old days. We will come back knowing that if he had. not suffered and if thousands of his kind had not died there could have been no security for land oy capital or any home investments. And the soldier will he ing sense right. o--- R Wool for the Japs. Our friends the Japanese cre wor- ried about wool. And no wonder. There are only about 3,000 sheep in the whole. empire of Nippon, and the imports of wool on which, it has been egy ee to rely have been cul of the war. Ses is a country with # climate much like our own. Nevertheless, the civilian population might get along 'without wool somehow. But the sol- diers who are being sent to Siberia tions in confusing variety, food, cloth- | wood-pile helps a fellow to puta smile must have woollen clothing, geod and ing, and all the hundred-and-one things which ¢ffer some compensation | jon his wife's face that's worth going. a mile to see.--E. L. be: ent. 1, 18 pus warm, and how it-is to be obtained is uzzle. PP Meme geet aia "Line Deve'ops tives" -