we ie mee p. beaten. He took off his hat and be- gan to mop his heated forehead. "Whew! Who knew this.was here!" he said, as he viewed.the weedy rows. | "That's what a fellow always gets when he tries to cheat somebody else," remarked Ruth. "If you'd been will- ing to share the long rows at the other end I might have shared the hard ones at this end with you." Just then the children's father came: | through the field, sizing up the rows. | How Robert Fooled Himself. Robert walked up to the path to where Ruth was waiting. He had been to the lower end of the field, and there was a shrewd look on his freckl-! ed face. "I" tell you what!' You take the first three rows, Ruth, andj I'll take the next three. We'll pull by threes all the way. There aren't near.y ag many weeds in the first} three rows," he added magnanimously. "Huh, it's just as easy! Ican pull threes, are you?z : three at once," Robert boasted. j this end, didn't you, son?" Robert! against the Turks.--British official p But it doesn't get the roots out looked ashamed. 'See here! I have) clean, replied Ruth conscientiously. | an idea." Father Reynolds put his| Yes, but _what's the difference?" hands in his pockets thoughtfully. | __ Robert questioned. "It all looks the "This onion patch will have to be gone Thrilling Description of Feat Accomp- The children had undertaken to; "Who did: the three long rows at! weed out the onion bed, and they the farther end?" he asked quizzical- Boa wate were to get ten cents a row. ~ |ly. "Uh, huh! TI see!" Working by : = ; Drew a lemon at German Naval Gun Captured at e repaired by British artificers for use t. in Mesopotamia and Crown Copyrégh Ramadi hetggreph one hundred miles an hour. After I had looped I flew on to the spiral field at the end of the course, although we are not supposed to spiral until You. see, I had figured the thing all out and knew how to do it. I was making myself prove to myself I was no four-flusher. A gust threw one of LOOPING THE LOOP. |DEMOBILIZATION |GREAT 'BRITAIN ALREADY 1S "AFTER THE WAR PREPARING. Comprehensive Scheme Adopted For Return of Soldiers With Pay and Insurance Good For One Year. Although the end of the war may be far distant, projects for demobiliz- ing the British army when the prope time arrives are -well :under way says a London despatch. The mili tary authorities, acting in conjunctior with the Ministry of Labor, are per- fecling the scheme by which the sol-. diers will be returned to civil life with the utmost celerity, and at a camp not far from London there has already been a rehearsal of the methods to be adopted for dispersing the men. . "Big as was the job to get men into the army," said an officer engaged in the work, "it will be a bigger job to get them out of it. But the country may be sure that everything will be "My rows look as well as' over at least twice more. Now I sug- lished Making a World's 'Record. . st that you each keep on as you lan' t,may look just as well, but it have begun--Ruth take the first three| é a. na eur we a down & be ms Ruth persisted, firmly. "Pd! rois, and s0 on, through the field. At) perience has a ub in despair &e "Bt +e to cheat father." the end of the season, when the onions -oi56 of the peatite » seaianaas and ut it isn't cheating. He never! are pulled, I'll give a prize of five dol- inadequacy of words wie him they ap- we have had ten hours of flying. I put her into a reversed control spiral that is, banked over nearly vertical, when your flippers bécome a rudder, and rudder flippers. I shot down in my "wings up. I looked down and realized how far it was to the ground, how delicately balanced I appeared to be, alfhough perfectly safe; and then I gritted my teeth and shoved down "! , done to enable the soldiers to reach their homes and get employment with the minimum of friction." The scheme is far reaching. The authorities have had to consider not only the situation at home but also | | { said we weré to get out every 1 one cf the roots, and anyhow, 1! get ten cents apiece for my rows, just the same as you do," taunted Roper'. Anrious to prove his dexceritv, he soon passed his s ster, and was work- ing at the cther -:! of the fizld when Ruth had progressea sufficiently to see why Robert had been s9 anxious for her to take the first three rows. They were considerably longer than any others in the field. But there was one thing he had rot seen--he had not gone over the entire field, and did not know that the last three rows, which, counting by threes, would naturally fall to him, had not n worked with the rest of the field, and, being nearest the fence row, were unusually full of grass and weeds, and that the ground was hard and full of roots. : ast | 1 ars to the one of you who can get the most onions out of any gingle row you have weeded." "But how about those extra long rows father? That wouldn't be ex- jy 7? "Well, if Ruth did the extra work it scems as if she ought to have the ad- vantage of it." He looked at the children shrewdly. "No, it won!dn't be fair," Ruth de- cided liberally. "We'll just cut off the ends of the long rows when it comes to harvesting." "All right," father agreed, proud that his little daughter was so just. When it came to a second weeding Robert saw where Ruth's thorough work had given her the advantage of him. The weeds that had not been thoroughly pulled but only broken /off 'at the surface, lost no time in spring- pear to fall short of the mark, To the reader, however, those same despised words often seem inspired. Vividness and thrill are in their very letters. The young American aviator who wrote the following account of his first experience in- looping the loop doubtless found words inadequate. to express his full sensation, yet they cannot fail to thrill the reader whose imagination, like the aeroplane, is ready to take flight. In knew, of course; that I should loop before my flying career ended, he says, but the test would be so much harder in the early stages that I want- ed to see if I could make it. Lampke, a clever fiyer, who flew for Carranza in Mexico, tells me that I have made a world's record for looping with the} least number of hours' practice. Pre- |: vious to the flight in which I looped I ; Hi } 1 | still farther down and reached 1950. a corking spiral, and came out of it' just at the right time to shoot back ! in front of the station, land, and rush | on the flippers. Such a rush of speed I have never how the project will fit in with the convenience of France, Italy and the experienced. I shot down like a dead overseas dominions, and with trans- weight pulled on by the motor. [| to the beach. port facilities from Salonica, Meso- watehed the tachometer, which regis- |potamia, Palestine and from' other Poultry Diseases Responsible for Big 1 orts of the world. How long it will National Loss. _. [take to demobilize the millions of At least fifty per cent. of the chick-' troops is a question to which even I was going about ninety miles an'ens, younr ducks and turkey2, and those occupied in the t2sk are not hour. Then I pulled back on the flip- ten per cent. of the adult birds, die prepared to give a definite rep'y. pers and here was the nose of the each year from diseases, many of, Qyt of Work Insurance Policy machine coming up to meet me--up, which are preventable. This is 21) Pichteen dispersal depots are to be up, up! I was hunched way forward | annual national loss of probably mil- tablish di 5 i nd, Scotland ad in the seat up against the cowl. We | lions of dollars that should be avoided W. i = "Eves i Fs =" be corked poised, absolutely without movement, to a large extent. ales. "ig 8 a a8 "io 'worke there. 1 was virtually upside down.| rar conditions make it imperative eae a all = send rd a si What a frightful, delightful sensa-| that farmers and poultrymen as far as y tomt Then the nose swung over and | possible should stop this enormous slipped a little to one side: my mo- jeak, To do this every brecder should tor'stopped for a second, then, as the | Kay strict attention to the general nos@ swung down straight toward! oonditions of his flock. When any- earth, picked up again with a roar, thing unusual is noted in a fowl, it! ters the revolutions of the motor, climb to 1680-1700. Then I shoved her { be ;persal depot closest to the locality from which they joined the army. {Each man will take*with him his en- He was of a sociable nature, and ing up again, and in a few days wer had had three hours an and. we were plunging straight down tire kit, including his arms and per- M Sienna is advisable to place the affceted in- , dividual in separate quarters. If within a short time recovery does not take place, it is unwise to destroy the fow] without first ascertaining the cause of the disorder. The prevalence soon tired of working-ahead of Ruth, almost as riotous as ever. Their and fell behind, so they could talk. istrong roots doubled themselves in "You see how easy it would to beat vigor, and when it came to a second i ft wanted to," he boasted grand- pulling Robert found it almost impos- ly. It would make my arms ache sible to get them out of the ground; at terrific speed. I 'gradually pulled the Mippers up, which I had eased for- ward as we passed over the top of the utes of solo flying. As a-matter of fact, the loop is a very simple stunt, but the first time is hard--mighty hard. I was flying alone at thirty-five hundred feet alti- doop, and gradually we came into rigontal flight. to work as slowly " i "Well, thay don't, vad te ach toa thee sie vill Ge one ara chee| tude. The motor was torsing ayer Bay 'we" because it seemed as if! (¢ disease is more often the cause of my account," Ruth retorted hotly. = oa rRcsigaentage half i a heer fourteen hundred and fifty revolutions |th® machine were a very obedient, jiure than the lack of prac- 4 ave rted. . 7 ° e size o nde What's the matter, sis?" he ques-' those in' Ruth's il : a minute, and the plane was traveling |umderstanding bird, obeying my least |: _4) knowledge and the extreme e. Oh, but I am master of that e! I-can do anything, absolute- ything, with it,. I know you think foolhardy an ent, but at about sixty miles an hour. I looked down at the bay, and could see the|a city of Pensacola to my left and in front of me; way.down on the water & Do! f PW) t a Be importance of keeping the quarters clean; isolation of all ailing fowls and immediate action in regard to finding tioned boldly, a thorny weed. "No, I'm not mad, Robert Reynolds! I'm disgusted," she said with dignity,' not lifting her head. "Before 'I'd die. : stoop to anything s0 smal]l--" | "It isn't the way things look on the Small? How'd you s'pose I knew top so much as the way they feel these three Tows were longer, than down under that counts," Father the rest? | Reynolds explained as he gave Ruth Why, you saw them, of course," her merited five dollars. "Good, con- Ruth remarked dryly; then she refus-'scientious work will always tell, even ed to talk. lif it doesn't show ' Fore I'd be mad about a little It isn't the fact thing like three rows of onions," Robert taunted, when the silence be- came unbearable, "See here! I . er hand with' get out the weeds he loosened many 7" |of the small onions, too, and was obliged to set them back, though he felt sure they would only wither and di x * - 3 (ag eat waa In trying ¢ flicking h Saas ee ad 4 Biological Laboratory, Central Ex- | perimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., a live but sick fowl, or, in the absence of such, a ded bird. In the interval dis- infect the quarters, runs, drinking fountains and feed dishes to check the spread-of any infectious disease. Disipfect the poultry houses by spraying the interior with ime- wash solution (50 Ibs. stone lime.stak- ofthe course, ready to turn south. it was the first time I had been over thirty-two hung: feet--high enough for a safe loop. "Now is the time," I said to myself. If you don't nose her over now, you from the surface. are a coward and no flyer." of things looking} Tight, but of their being right, that .gives us an easy conscience and 'll_ makes us know that things are going; B it s easier, but going over the hump: was | still pretty hard. I was forty-two hundred feet then, and it was a fine- feéling loop and, according to those MORE HUN VANDALISM. Germans Wreak Vengeance in De- struction at Chateau Thierry. | | Evidence accumulates that dering or their brief stay in the Marne satient ! the Germans indulged in wholesale Knights Organizations of Britain The Most Honorable Order of: the g and serv-| Rath is one of the oldest of the row as big as that." matter how much we think we've fool- lon of a good commercial disinfect- job weeding." And Robert hung his head, for he, ™OMey; come ye, buy and eat; yea,' world when all His people should "go! is required it may be peace!" Centuries have passed and pounds of lime to a pail of water, plus = } There are some wonderful chap-| God's word can never pass away and} sky is seldom blue, Who can ever pass over that Seneration succeeding generation, and| with a coating of air-slaked lime and the snow melts drab and chilly as' My people'? In the oratorio of with God as one day. And your life;ing. Rape is a good crop for this acts of vandalism. In a message sent | dawn or noon is grey? "tenor voice he knows that God is love. God is saving individual souls all the | Although these precautions may ap- tage . : | tonduct while in possession of Chateau' And you tramip or sit, or sleep in | ings of the Messiah, and the sixtieth "seek the Lord," they find Him and affecting poultry, which : ; i8 cidedly costly in the long run. rome time and apparently thought! the thrill that comes to you | Lord Himself read at a Sabbath ser- ---- When they found they would have to! "I'm glad I'm home," the beauty of a Christian life as one This fifty-fifth chapter, God's graci- ; . knights organizations in Great Brit- whgegg it, very good-looking. I got up nd revolutions, or about bet you haven't got an onion in your' to work out right in the end. No ed in a barrel of water, plus one gal- "Maybe not," Ruth retorted, "but I ed folks, it always turns out that/ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come! surely appear! Nay, how He de-/ant). Fill cracks and crevices to de- soon will have if you don't do a better we've fooled ourselves-the worst." | ¥@ to the waters, and he that hath no clares the final story of a redeemed stroy mites, lice, ete. If a smaller ' i : amount When they neared the end of the couldn't help admitting that it had come, buy wine and milk without, out with joy and be led forth with' prepared by adding two and ~a half field Robert stood up and looked certainly worked that way in his case. Money and without price--Isaiah 55,| ' 1, yet the fulfillment has not come; but half a teacupful of disinfectant. = -- i ing' t * ' : Keep a crop growing in some part - I'm Glad I'm Home ; | ters in Isaiah's prophecy which have| His promises are "yea and Amen." | of the yards and alternate poultry Were you ever in a country where the been a comfort to Christians in all) Wats and sorrows, life snd death,|/crops, If the runs are small cover a | ages. F : P And the rain just patters ceaseless | beautiful fortieth chapter with its| Still the old world is struggling on. dig up. If the runs are too large to on the clay, 'opening cry, "comfort ye, comfort ye No matter! A-thousand years are dig, plough and cultivate before sow- $ i "The : 7 it flickers out to yon. Messiah" it is the opening hymn, and, and ne may be completed in spite of | purpose. Rear all chicks on fresh And the nights are weird, while, when one has heard it sung in a clear all if only we "trust and obey." For' soi] from Pronehs army eo ae the Where you rarely taste the sugar, And then there is the fifty-third chap- time, and as they "come to the Wa-' pear unnecessary it is the only way correspondent gives details of their | which less frequently you see, | ter with its declaration of the suffer- ters," they are refreshed, and as they of combatting many disease conditions Thierry. . | sticky loam? 'chapter, the great missionary chapter, know Him as their Best Friend. In' themselves will undoubtedly prove de- he Germans were in the town for Then you'll understand the feeling and' and the sixty-first chapter, which our spite of thorns and briars the way : | : clear and beautiful, for He goes be- they would remain there indefinitely.| When I shake your hand and say: vice in Nazareth. No wonder Isaiah | f°T¢.US and we need not be afraid. Oh, } ' é is lled t "a " give it up they apparently determined | is called the "Gospel Prophet. goes on loving and trustin , os ; a . : | ing! to take the only vengeance in their Have you heard the belching cannon ous invitation, is like a great symp- ings out the cause cannot be too strongly ba if left tol are could not be the result of shelling, the correspondent points out, as those houses which suffered most were en- | tirely uninjured by shell, shrapnel or} bullet. He says: "These houses were magnificently furnished, the walls hung with costly ! tapestries. and admirable pictures. | The furniture was of exceptionai ele-| fance and impressive mirrors and' charming statuettes were numerous. "To-day there is nothing that has not been destroyed. The tapestries have been hacked to pieces, the pie tures slit from corner to corner, the leather and other chair coverings have been ripped and all the delicate marquetry and the irreplacable ex- amples of craftsmanship, of past cen- | | is not a mirror which has not been| broken and the glass and china flung; at them lie in fragments before them. | "The costly carpets haye been soiled rent in every possible way and V's flung at the silken papers on walls. fury has extent of veng to SMiasking n and doll houses, The fashion in whieh beds and rooms have have been defiJed is difficult of description. It w weem the work ef lunatics." Pa ' "\ play a ceaseless serenade? Have you ducked in muddy ditches from the shot? Have you known the M.G. whistle or the "s-dang" of a grenade? Have you lost your pal-- and could not mark the spot? Did you walk where death was master and the earth seemed filled with slain, And the law was--kil!, or perish-- on the Somme? And your vermin-eaten b frozen, starved, in Then you'll know the meaning of "T'm glad I'm home." ody was half- ain-- If you've only lived in Canada,where clear skies drown the land And the food you get in plenty keeps in store; Where the sugar's on the table, and the milk is close at hand, And the native bread--pure white-- comes to your door And the great expanding country and the silver lakes and streams, And mountains call you from the ¢ity's boom-- Knee} to-night and thank your Maker * for His gifts and peaceful dreams And the plucky lads now fighting for your home. . --Sergt. E. T. Calloway Hypocrites confess the sins of oth- ers, and overlook tHeir own. hony, singing and pleading and throb- bing with God's love. In the eastern | cities, where water is scarce, men used ; to go about the streets selling water! "and calling out the excellency of ("a | spring whence the water came and ex", 'citing interest and trade by making a | kind of song to advertise the water ; and draw buyers: In some of our. | large cities to-day, where the water is not very good, we can see wagons | | with advertisements ihat such and | such a spring has the purest water; -in the world. The need of pure water is one of our | greatest needs. So God presents Him- | self as one who gives water to satisfy | thirst. So did our Lord speak to the woman by Samaria's well, saying, He had the water of life to give, which, when taken, thirst would never more be known. And again St. John tells us how He cried, "If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink." (St. John, iv. 14, and vii. 87). And in the Beatitudes He cried, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousnessyfor they shall be filled." Trusting and Serving But above ali else, this gracious in- vitation tells us of God's love. How e longs for our salvation from sin and our happiness in life! i , declared commander" for His people would A Gracious Invitation How blessed we are in praying and reading God's word! How happy is the service we render to our fellows even in giving a cup of cold water to the thirsty! I think we should learn | this lesson of the glory of living when | life is consecrated to Christ. | What are the trials, the troubles, the lone- jiness; the misunderstandings when we know that God loves us and will take care of us, and permits us to work with Him? This gracious invita- tion comes to you, dear friend. Read it aloud and change the personal pro- noun and see how it rings with a music all its own. "Ho, thou thirsty one, come to the waters; though thou hast no money, yet come thou, buy and eat without money and without price. Thou shalt go out with joy and be ted forth with peace!" My dear Lord, I thank Thee for this message. Long have I sought for peace through the things of earth which have cost me much, and vainly have I tried to satisfy my hunger with stones and not with bread. Now I come to Thee, and lo! my thirst is quenched, my strength is revived, and I live in Thee. Keep me in Thy paths. Make me brave in trouble. Open mine eyes that I may see all the blessings Thou hast-provided for me. And at last Heng me to Thy holy hill and to Thy dwelling For Christ's sak Amen--Rey, F. W,. Tompkins. Jaen ain. It was established in 1399, fell jin decay in the reign of Charles IL, ;and was revived by George I. It con- , sists of 65 military and 27 civil mem- j bers, exclusive of the Sovereign, Princes of the blood royal, and dis- i tinguished foreigners who may be | ; sonal equipment, steel helmet and box |respirator. Previously he will have been deprived of his ammunition. On reaching the dispersal stations 'the men will hand over their equip- ment. Everything must be given up except the uniform which the soldier is wearing and his great coat, al- though the coat must be returned after the month's furlough to which each man will be entitled. il itted age St lough. In one he will receive a pro- tection certificate, containing all parti- culars regarding his regiment, length of service gnd destination. In another he will receive an advance on the pay still due him, and post office money } orders in three equal instalments for the remainder. On application ,the soldier will ob- ;tain with an "out-of-work" insurance olicy, for a year. This will enable im to receive a fixed sum for a de- finite period from a post office, if un- employéd. j Finally the men will be grouped in. different huts, according to the local- ity to which they are to be sent. Railroad tickets already will have been made out. Then will come en- trainment, and the start for home. --)--------- iP h { The Tongue (Anonymous) "The boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill," declared the reck, "The tongue destroys a greater horde" The Turk asserts, "than deces the - sword." The Persian proverb wisely saith, "A lengthy tongue an early death;" Or sometimes takes this form instead;} "Don't let your tongue cut off . your ead » , "The tongue can speak a word whose! speed, \ Say the Chinese, "outskirts the steed',' While Arab sages this impart, , "The tongue's great storehouse is the) heart." From Hebrew writ the maxim sprung, ! "Though feet should slip ne'er let the tongue." ' The sacred writer crowns the whole, ; nominated to the honorary distinction. The Most Distinguished order of red, exclusive of honorary members, natural-born subjects of Great Britain who may hold, or have held, high and confidential office within the Brifish territorial possessions, and is the re- ward for services.in relation to the foreign affairs of the empire. The Knights Grand Cross are limited to 100, exclusive of honorary members, The order was instituted in 1818 To increase the Canadian supply of substitutes for wheat, the largest mill- ing concern of {ts kind in Canada will be opened in Peterboro on August 15 by the Quaker Oats Company, accord- ing to an announcement by the Cana- da Food Board. Corn flour, oatmeal and oat our will be turned out at the raté of 7,600 barrels a day. Mr. J. R. Short, ma the Quaker 0: Company, and Mr. Geor . o make final arrangeméiits for the operation of the mill, 7 . St. Michael and St. George is confer- | |""Who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul," : cee wiceneen i mereeemenn Used That One . The young housewife, looking very) pretty and workmanlike in a big green| overall, was cleaning out the pantry' cupboard. "Dickie," she called to her young} husband, who was smoking in the spick-and-span little drawing room, "I want you to bring me a mousetra home to-morrow," "But, angel," cried the young man} "I only brought you one home yester- " \ "T know, pet" called back the young bride; "but that one has a mouse in it." --_o---- At the age of 30, Beethoven becam afflicted with deafness from which h never recovered. i