"MINE SWEEPER NO. 25--A TRUE STORY| RISKING LIVES THAT OTHERS MAY ESCAPE. -- The Dangereus Occupation of Clear- ing the Seas of Mines Sewn By the Enemy. Mine Sweeper No. 25, of the French Coast Patrol, backed slowly away from her moorings and headed for the open sea an observation balloon returning are dangerous things for the Southland was absolutely intact, Fogg could any cause for the explosion 'ound. Bae or on the water no sign of an en- emy could be seen, and after a quar- ter of an hour or so the men went to their dinner. They were just ios the tables when the Jeokout sang out, "Boat ho!" and in a few minutes an everturned boat drift- fed by. Then another was and the Southland ge gy through considerable wreckage of xi! kinds. "Well, there's the oe of that fexplesion whatever it was," said the officer of the deck, "and from the look of things | I think that it was a mine sweeper." -------- " QUEEN WILHELMINA. Beloved Ruler ef Holland is World's Only Female Sovereign. Wilhelmina, Queen of the Nether- | lands, who nppears to-day in an inter- | national crisis, is the only woman in the world whe is 2 reigning sovereign =\"JACK" AT THE JUTLAND BATTLE! ° in her own right, 2 position she has/ held since 1890, when, at the age of | ten years, she escended the throne at! She is! encounter, therefore Mine Sweerers No. 25 had promptly received orders to go out and investigate the report and pick up whatever she might find.|the death of her father. Only the week before a ship ran thirty-eight years of ege. against a mine somewhat further r up| The dominating female figure of. the coast and had in consequence been | Europe to-day is a very badly disabled. The harbor au- | built woman, who is indifferent to thorities had no desire to lose any, the arts of her dressmakers and finds more ships if it were at all possible | thorough pleasure in personal charge, to prevent it. of the affairs of her country. s a beautiful morning, with the sun shining brightly over the low | kindly eyes looking straight at you in hills surrounding the harbor, The sincerity and confidence is that of a fields--some green, some brown and |y-jice woman. some white, of many shapes--all! The sovereign lady of Holland has a neatly outlined by hedges or ston€' wil] of her own. She has the firm chin walls, resembled an old fashioned} jof the House of Orange, but she is, as erazy quilt, while here se there an' 'they say, totally lacking in the walt orchard or cluster of roc made & |:nown characteristic which gave the! dark, iregulzr snot like # rent in title of William the Silent 4o the most the ratiern renowned of her ancestors. 'Two French Sailoy Lads. | It is, however, in the East Indies Just te be alive was a happiness on that Queen Wilhelmina has her real such a morning, and the sailor men | empire. lt is larger than the German tung as they busied themselves in; 'Empire.' In 1910 the population num- | wetting out and rigging the tackle; 'bered 42,000,000 souls. Batavia, the. which makes up the equipment of j capital of the Dutch East Indies, has | boats whose duty it is to clear the, one of the finest harbors in the East, channels and waterways of danger- and the Dutch colonies are among the ous obstacles. richest, if not the richest in the world. | Raoul and Jean were brothers. Both Her Majesty is the richest sovereign had entered the service of their coun-;i7 Europe in her own right, her in- try at the very outbreak of the war 'come being cnormous from the crown! and Ly diligent study and hard work had attained a r vast income is used for in the mine sweeping servive, Raoul, her beloved Dutch subjects, in the way , oe "ae A the elder by searcely a year, had of public buiidings of every kind such as hospitals, theatres, lecture charge of the handling of the tackle; end of hooking on the mine. while his brother Jean saw to the actual work of lifting or Jaying those balls of steel that if let slip just the least bit can do so much damage. On this particular morning they of the entire crew were not singing as they went about their work. Thei home was in the city that they eek leaving behind them, and as they had sat at supper with their mother and sisters the night before a messenger had come telling them that their fa- ther, with the army at the front, had heen wounded and, suffering upon the field, had heen stabbed to death by the ebarging Huns. Now this morn- : i ing us they were going on to prevent, popularity with every class of her if possihle, further bloodshed their 'subjects, and because of this she can zi do almost anything, in the way of ee- halls, gymnasiums, public bathhouses, and so on, to say nothing of charming and numerous parks that rich and poor alike may cnjoy. Do you won- dev Holland adores its Queen? When her neighbor, Belgium, was lion refugees. They came. They are there still, cared for in every way, fed, clothed and housed, and the en- ormous bill cheerfully paid for this by the only woman who sits upon throne in Burope--Whilhelmina, Queen of Holland. She enjoys a prodigious personal hearts were loaded down with grie ie their thoughts were of hatred and centricity, that would not always he tolerated in another Queen, the boat neured the locality of | . . ~~ ~-- suposed mine the feelers were CLEMENCEAU AT WORK. eut and tke search was hhe- amen gun ; Puts in a Good Day's Lahor Kefore Vietim of 'Third Mine, Breakfast. Bacio and ferth, again and again, If there is one man who has more they went across the fairway and af-ito do with the policy cf the Entente ter nn hour or so their search was re- : to- -day than any other--even than warded, fe beneath the Lloyd George--it is the Prime Min starfire of could be seen ter of France. France more nearly the to. ef amine. As they drew eau- is under a single dictator than any Lin near the rew of projecting! other country in) the war; French herpes, any one of which needing only; Gover:mental policy is clearly detin- to le pressed a litthe to cause at once ed; and it is diMiult for Kngland er aAomighty explosion, could be plainly the United States effectively ta ch Fee! part from it. Po yebe Raaul's direction a hook It is not without pood reason that wird tack te s fastened into the ring Clemenceau is called the Tiger. As Vou he top of the mine and gently he sits in his offte one is reminded the Lh. hall was lifted from the wa- easily of the big cat tribe, so in te the deck of the boat. itense he is, so. qt uel, so lithe. As \toouce Jean and his helpers set he crouches there his 75 years look abeut very carefully to remove the like 6%. As he hep from his -<@at f fter which, the mine, now com- and hurries across the reom his rarstively aafe, was lashed firmly to movements are those of a) ciyraretis the rot out, of the way, while the: man of 50) He by no means pty veeper proceeled in search of an-, gests a man with a grandson hi: th other War As their search carried them fur-; One pictures habit of i ther and further out, the sea be- far as I] know, hes no eon omade camo ro ii their work was made publiv. Tike mans kers were dificult and hazardous. © he makes an car fart Liaw Soon another: mine was found and, George has many of hie m yy- it was ifted from the water and portant meetings i fist taken ca { like the first. Lord Reading, befor } e ove Abeut dinner time they found a umn Stade rea v4 : third, Raoul himself had the hook s work in helping the Govern ihis time and, leaning cautiously over ment administer itse hefure oh the rail of the boat to the water, he! staxted his chief justice fume cions grasped the ringbolt projecting from Clemenceau alse puts jaa grond day the ton of the mine and inserted the) labor) before regular bu-iness hour: Mr {begin. He'has an old house! ye bright, hoist awuy." he said,and; who knows how to make a seup of the mine began to emerge from the which the Prime Minister "is fond. water. Every night this soup is made hat The Minesweeper Lost. put ina stone jug, and the jug The steamship Southland was near-| Placed between the sheets at the! ing the i of a lor ig trip from - foot of the bed, where it serves for other of the ove an, and her crev v, hot water a8 until about 2 a.m., much relieved to be hearing harbor when the husky Tiger awakens, drinks the soup and goes to work. and safety, were loung} ing about the | ck wi oand laughing together | i . vhil ks pre ameat dinner. The Life of an Airplane. a _ as the di ear fed began tO; The number of German airplanes there was ring the ies a loud explosion, and _ destroyed by the French aviators and] the sound of the dinner bell was'the members of the Lafayette esca- changed te the general alarm bell, i drille for the ten. months ending Oc-' At the explosion the ship almost tober, 1917, was 120 over the French | seerned to lift and shook from bew to , lines and 897 over the German lines-- | dow stern, Then all was still and she pro- | ceeded on her way apparently none thy worse. Cereful iavestigation proved that | own water will need no sugar, jal total wrecks. large, heavily- But the | een's face, with its strong chin and | lands and from her vast colonies. That | the benefit of . invaded by the Germans last year, she, r| telegraphed King Albert that she had ; room in her country for over one mil-! all ~~ Prunes cooked very 'slowly in their} pipg in boiling water, and they SOME NEW YARNS Stery of 2 Nevel "Holiday" When « Hairdresser Got a Glimpse of Big Things. are desirous of a change after a long spell of isolation "Somewhere in the Nerth Sea" even the landiubber can realize. The weary wait for Fritz to | come out to give battle is a sere trial, i to their tempers, which are not im-} 'proved by the monotony of the daily ; routine and seeing the same old faees. 'day after day. Love their ships they do, but they are jolly glad to tarn their backs on them when en leave. Back among "civilization," they are 'glad to have a chat with the first Tom, ' Dick, or Harry that comes along. Even ' the officer at the outset of his leave is cager to talk to anyhody and every-} body, and, touching this point, an ex- , cellent yarn is told in "Naval Intelli- | fence 'not a Blue Book, ag the title is inclined to denote, but a collection | of incidents and refiections written by , a naval man. Peep into this "naval: curiosity shop," and we at home real-} ,ize the sort of life led by the men of |the Grand Fleet. 1 'The Hairdresser's H olida y. } But to return to the yarn. Reach-} jing London, a young lieutenant in muti entered «a hairdresser's shop. ; 'The traditional right of opening a con- versition which belongs to the man of scisftors was snatched from him' befeve he could get a chance, and the officer began: "Been some years at the game, suppose, haven't you?" "| "All my life, practically, sir. ] was 'prenticed to the hairdressing at the hage of ten, sir. "And never had a change? Gad, it must be a pretty duli sort of life-- what?" "Oh, cently. ayear. 1 sir." tently," "est aroused. that?" "Oh, very pleasant, sir, ant, indeed! Jt made a nice little change, aS you might say, though If , did miss the sound of the motor 'buses at first, and the----excuse my mention- ing it, sir--the girls. Not that I'm what you might call a ladies' man my-+ I] hac a sort of holiday, sir, re- 1 was away from my work for went inte the~-the Navy, his inter- you Ike said the officer, "And how did } very pleas- ---- ; | "NEWSBOY A BATTLE HERO. "Freg-Faced Tick". Proves His Gal- Frost Arab "NAVAL INTELLIGENCE." [sei That our men of the Grand Fleet, caustic replies eee © | THE BATTLE SONG OF FRANCE.' Hew the Children § Sang the Marseil- "lantry as a Stretcher-Bearer. 'Inise in Their Captured Town. One of the familiar characters of: There are many persons, by no 'pre-war days in London was 2 street-' meawr all of whom are Preah; wie newsboy who sold papers out-' think that the Marseillaise is the very 'one of the hotels most frequent-' finest of all war sengs. Certainly it is ed by American visitors. Delighting 2 great song of freedom as well 2s » "Freg-faced 'Fich," | of France, and is associated historical- | tiie the Sdmication af vinitors as 'ly with the progress of li y ameng a master of repartee, varying his'the nations. Youthful United States --_ refrain of "All the Winners" used it before The Star-Spangled Ban- "'Orrible Murder" with ironical 'ner had been com ; new-born free <iicenta en ee world's events and Russia still sings it, scarcely @ess who | often than its own new national h 'SALVAGE OF THE BATTLEFIELDS VASF SUMS OF MONEY SAVED BY BRITISH TROOPS. Hew Waste Has Beceme 25 Detested An Enemy as the German in Our Army. Huge quantities of goods of all ped uaniy words with him as It binds together in the memory of they passed. iE renehoren a handred thrilling scenes | on Persons who knew Tick Tapley in _ of their country's history; and to this on the old days would scarcely recog-' nize og = in his khaki uniform, ' added as the great war goes fi ribbon on his It is not easy to read unmoved the; bse indicating that he has been narrative of how, although sternly twice awarded the prized Military proscribed, it was sung recently in one | Cross, says ted Press cor-'of the invaded. districts. A refagee respondent at the front. Hi comrades ' told the story to the American navi 'One of his officers, | part of his equipment as his haver- of the London Regiment, moreover,' declare that if he had been awarded - eep the a medal on every occasion on which life of French children what it ought | he has merited it, he would be covered | with ribbon from head to foot of his! - Louise taught a group of children in a disninutive body. Too small to go into the urmy by, eval trials, was accepted as a stretcher | bearer in the London Regiment. At 'the front he quickly became one of the | 'most popular men in the regiment.' in a report to headquarters, said of him, "Cheerful- ness, courage, devotion to duty, and; disregard of danger sre as much a sack and his water bottle. i One of his officers wrote in a letter. a short time ago: "His gospel, whe- jther consciously or not, is the gospel ' of cheerfulness, and in practice it 'works out that bis spirits grow livit- er in proportion as dangers and dis- 'comforts grow heavier. His jests in time of stress provide just the electric spark that.turns the hearts of men from gloomy pessimism into luminous defiance." The ex-newsboy has the reputation from Lens to St. Quentin of being ab- solutely fearless. In his work as stretcher bearer he goes busily about among the falling shelis, always whistling a popular tune, with an ever-ready word of sympathy and en- couragement for the wounded. He is generally tooked npon as one who, bears a charmed life, for he has never received even a scratch, and his very presence is regarded as a mascot. i Tapley won the second of his two. decorations under heavy shell fire in the Chalk Pit, north of Loos, when, single-handed, he bandaged and car-, ried to a safe part of the trench all the wounded of his own company and, self, sir. Oh, by no 'means! But 'I [tke to see 'em about the place. And 'you don't see much of 'em ins ine 'Navy, sir." After concurring, the officer asked: "Then why did you join the Navy instead of the Army? In the Blood. "Well, sir, I've always had a sort of connection with the My father used to keep a whelk-stall in the Old S@it. several from a neighboring battalion. _- OO "PAPI OF BRITISH WOMEN. Government*is Taking Matter Into Serious Consideration. | The man power bill has stirred up a revival of the suggestion that the Government conscript women for ser- vice in those branches of naval, mili- tary and industrial work which have ' Kent Road, and one of my sisters i8|/not appealed to women, says a London housemaid to ah admiral's widow." correspondent. It is pointed cut that What the officer thought of this ex-|g large number of women are avail- planation is not recorded, able and competent to fill places oc- "Well, and what mauc you leave the }eupied by men of military age. Navy, then sy" The Government has taken the "The the Httle affair at Jutland,i ghole matter into serious considera- MIF aewierer the hairdresser, tion and is fully alive to the gravity splinter wound x ey lew, sir. T was lof the prablem. It is understood that hinvalided out, a scheme is being evolved to deal with "Oh yous were at Judand, were jworman power. There is a general fe el rou?" ques "tion do ouUhe customer, "In ing that the time is arriving to make what ship* oy er use of the available woman "In the Rodn sir, Twas one of! what cc the mess-deck fore "Lavy Mac kworth in denling with the party--thougk you wouldn't under- | quest on of woman's partin the great Stars ' n But 7 man- | strug! le, said: "We have a plan to ieee : a peep at what aceom plish the desirable result and to VAS KONs AVM aired then A small; jobtain a maximum effort with mini- hotths Of r | lixir? re petting | mum* friction. We expect the scheme little thin on the tap. sir, if 7 ma it be ready when the. emergeacy rises. Grave difficulties will arise vale suid the if woman's work is made compulsory. . rom his chair, | It is he yped to co-ordinate the three is + uvervoat. "Oh, } existing Women's corps with respect * 1 should like "Ito all arms of thecservice and the ween rece hae | ius reckoning, 'yates of pay. The woman's depart- nous he ml tip inte the bar-!ment has schemes ta deal with the Ios ha t like in shake hands ' whol: emergency. The main idea is BE Nia ss TEN GA ESSE Inot to ask women to enroll in large Jack's Stoching. numbers and keep then en a waiting ; Hist but to ask them to volunteer n Wan} Me : he turn- i ' 3,70 ; . fi. response to ape: ifie ere? Pom WGN o ftel t ished hair- | _- E> 54 *] wi the a:at ship aheac j " of you at dutlaud -in the ol " me aS as ] miele AINE, 4 ' " ' eo eal - pan ia yor: , i"Stern and Sedate" are the Character- Higre as ther story---also about! 6 ak 'i a eT tine Jt yrap---evited tron "Na! istics of the British Soldicr, Wofotellivenece." Ao sailor's leg was | The period we so badiy shattered by a splinter of throuyh is one of gre: hell chat there was nething else to advice to everyone is i do tut it ubove the knee. He optim!= tically, t be he time of this writer. It English against Jeciste urgeons were unable whem the Germans ure ng. and to tell hin « of 'theie intentions. Hours gg the Kaiser nienes! f has pat it, the Inter he :ecovered cansci uAneas, and English are "% obstin people." found himself eorafortally tacked up, In cne of t passa of hi with the stun eased and 'besdaged' essay 'Upon : Hastings, Lord When he learnt what had happened, Maeauluay speaks of "that ibborn he burst Iie wn agomized ery English courage, which is never' as i he re's omy lege? For *Evin's stern and sedate as toward the close sake, find my leg, somebody! rt 3 got of gzome doubtful and murderous day." all my money in the stocking!' ye nuther vouches for the truth of. | the story | + > Cream or eggs can be beaten in half 'the time®*if a pinch of salt is added jand the job done before an open win- When boiling eggs, wet. the shells thoroughly in cold water before drop- will not crack. bare the adjectives the English histor-! In-these times we coun t g hatiles by weeks and 1 inot doubt that "the British soldiers 'Seotch and Welsh wut we do! the same inspires English, Trish, Wi ith Cattadians.and Australians to back them. They a not panic-stricken, they ure not even unduly excited. "Stern and sedate" t ee uses, and we adopt them now. German soldiers. are brave and chvieldirig, but they will never break the English: line. iwere half afraid to begin; 'those words that mean France, tage my grave--a_ litile r st, Mrs. Derothy Canfield Fisher: We have tried our best to k _to be. I remember fast year Aunt! 'our part of the town to sing the Mar- | seiilaise. The studio of my high up; and so che thought the chil- ,dren's voices could not be heard from | the street. The mayor heard of what 'she was doing, and sent word that he! should like to hear them sing. The news spread rapidly. When he arriv- ed with the city council, coming in! one by one, ax if merely to make a 'call, they found the big studio full to! overflowing with their fellow clttensind --the old men and women who are fellow citizens eft there. Two or three hundred ef them were there--- the most representative people of the town, ali in binek, all so silent, so old and so sad. The children were quite nbashed by such an audience and file up on the little platform shyly --our | chil-! poor, thin, shabby, white-faced dren, fifty or sixty of them. There was a pause. The children the rest of us were thinking uneasily that we were running a great risk. Suppose the children's voices should be heard in. the street, after all. Suppose the German police should enter and find, us assembled thus. It would mean horrors and miseries for every family represented. The mayor stood near the children to give them the signa! io begin---and dared not. We were si- lent, our hearts beating fast. Then all at once the littlest ones of all began in their high, sweet treble that mean liberty, that mean life itself to us? "Allons, enfants de la patrie," they ane: tilting their heads back fike lit- e birds; and all the other children atipead: "Against us floats the red ; flag of tyranny!" 'feet in an instant. time any of us had heard it sung since--sinee our men marched away. f 'began to tremble all over, so that I Everyone stared everyone's face The chil- could hardly stand. up at the children; was dead white to the lips. dren sang on--sang the chorus, sang the second stanza. Vhen they began the stanza, love of our fatherland, sus- avenging arms." the mayer's old face grew livid. He whirled about to the audience, his white hair like a lion's mane, and with a gesture swept us all into the song: "Liberty, our adored liberty, fight for thy defend- Sacred tain our ers! There were three shouting it out, the tears streaming down our cheeks. Hf a regiment of German juards had marched into the turned oar hundred voices reom we would not have heads, Nothing could have stopped us then. We were only a crowd of old men and defenseless women and children, but we were all that owas left of France in our French town, THE FARTH." "> "THE SCUM OF Attitude Be- and Prussians. Hustrates Difference in tween Saxons War has its anv incident side, and IT re- ruck me ¢ rsing ' Call Of macsiren arly humorous, saye a captain in the straliun ferees, -At one peint, where our trench was buat a few yards from the Germans, we used to I wh evening, and sii the maarte. Absolute lack of het the Germans to call to yer and we'll sing it to- t another place the Germans had p don sign which read: Australians are the scum) of the ear vik. tt 'h, 1 y wo ' . t rea i: I gians have been tte! by the-scum of the earth." Chik gives vou an idea of the i img between a Prussian ¢old! Saxon. In Justice to the will suy that IT never heard « atrocity being committed by a St x tinscacssntlliasnmssiauesy ei A Little Wooden Cross, No military medal may ce mine, A private's death is listed, not ac- claimed: I fell too soon tl the firing line, Yet of my Jonelness I'm unasham- ed, For now there stands supreme, against the loss, wooden a cousin ; the regular channels, Tich, after sev- 'Jean is at the back of the house and | We were on our depo It was the first' on representing vast sums of are being salved daily from hattlefelds, reads, highways, railway, rozary of patriotism new jewels are | aE orward.' sisal billets, ruined towns and vi!- Special corps of salvage men have formed, duties consist solely in collecting, sorting, and dis- tributing debris which even until quite recently was considered value- the jess and left unheeded. Bully-beef (tins, odd clips of cartridges, broken |soaked--portions of equipment, dam- 'aged rifles, packets of revolver am- | munition--multitudinous articles the mere tabulation of which would re- quire columns. * The Poster Craze. The jatest innovation in the "battle- field ceonomy campaign" is the erec- tion ef netice boards and hoardings /urging saving on everybody's part These notices make up for lack artistic beauty in the directness itheir appeal. | For instance, oppasite the heap of rubble that is all that remains of the once famous church cf Boesinghe may be seen a beard surmounted by a woolen model of 2 twelve-inch shell. of Beneath it in large lettering is ubis appeal: "Shells were made fer Fritz. Why not let him have them? Don't leave shells in the mad. Pick them up and pass them on to the gunners." Somewhat closer to the line in same sector is another 'notice: jy!!! Pick up that clip of cart- The cost of one clip will bil- men for a night." Every Little Helps. On the side of a certain shell-pocked highway not far from Ypres ruins is a hoarding from which looks the head of a horse. The leitering runs: "Don't leave these nails read, They may cause my Nails can be used again, you Put them in this box." Speaking of horses, one may men- the ideas! jet four on the death. know. 'tion that even death does not end the, animal's usefulness. The body is not | buried until the skin has been care- 'fully taken off. The pelt is then clean- -ed and sent off to a central collecting ' depot. The rough pavement of France plays havoc with the tyres of motors "and lorries, and the rouds are strewn 'with rubber fragments. Now, rubber is scarce and valuable. The Army knows it, for everywhere it is: con- fronted with boards saying: "Place that piece of rubber in the sack, Thank yout" These are some of the ways by which the soldier is reducing for him- self und others future taxation. --_--,---.- > oo The Sacrament of Sleep. Thank Ged for sleep! And, when you cannot sleep, Stull thank Him that you To he awake. And pray Him of His grace, When He sees fit sweet sleep to give, live That you may rise, with new-born eves To look once more iate Tis shining ace, In sleep---limbs all leese-laxed and slipt the chains--- draw sweet-close to Him from whom our treath Has life, in His sole hands the reins, fullest faith trust Him or death. This sleep in life -closs to death; And, as ont! the da We we leave In fer life kinsman i3 ee we wake to rect Ss, too, from death we shall with Joy awake To vreet the glories of the Great Ks- say. To- His Gapiied healing sleep He iri : And, unto at awakening from sleep. cach day ois resurrection---A new birth To nearer heaven and re-created earth- To all L ive 's nossibilities---of good h joys and woes endured. -- Or ill : shortest sleep of ail, l et great awaken! from Life's thrall. Thank Ged for sleep! And when you canngt sleep Still thank Him for the grace That lets vou live To feel the comfort of His soft brace, plies eT Caring for Watch. |} <A watch keeps more accurate time if always placed in an upright posi- tion, A small case for holding the "watch upright on the dresser may 'be made from pasteboard an ul cover- jed with cretonne: If the timepiece is | waned near the bed and the ticking 'is annoying, invert a tumber over the watch and the ticking will not he lheard at all. A watch should be wound at the same time every night | or morning to have it keep good tima 2