SP TAY Sr EI Te eetees sei mu nw ye Ho Tee career. One of his bullets grazed my Lp gegen Homey rough a throngh the litt!a win-screen just. in front of me. Thie ».s too much} '80, leaving my pursuit of the first ma- chine, I turned and paid attention to FIVE TO ONE Bae 2 ' ' No. 2. DASHING EXPLOIT BY MAJOR w.! evident! for he kept flying away as fast as he A. BISHOP, V.C., D.S.0., M.C. aaa An kag Ge the ascend | chine I chanced to find myself in an' ideal position, and my first burst of fire sent him spinning in an uncon--- trolled nose-dive, which ended a"few seconds later in a crash just beneath » e. One of Canada's Heroic Sons Relates a Thrilling Experience In His Flying Carreer. Easter Sunday was one of the most; -- "Clearing the Alr.'" beautiful days I have ever seen, and |* If that by this ti th _ we felt that at last the gods-of the MS sap aio poll yoo tari, Hee phreages were going to smile on a Bri- §)) of them diving for me, firing with lish offensive. ° . all their guns. There was no time for PMs the great attack scheduled - |any choice of tactics on my part, so I wn the next morning, we went at pongeq for the enemy machines, and our work on that Easter Sunday with | flew directly under them, managing to an added zest. At nine o'clock, just | got in & good burst of fire upward at had the leading two-seater, that seemed | after the early-morning mist been driven away by the mornizig sun, | particularly anxious for a fight. He' | wasn't so anxious as I had thought, | | L was due for an offensive patrol--in | other words, there were six of us go- ing over the lines in search of trouble. { Our squadron commander was in the | ch perlog EE CRE SORT: flight, and he had been leading us in- . side Hunland for about twenty min- other two remained on the and did, jnever be forgotten in British Hun No. 1, in the meantime, ' goals. y decided he had had enough, ' great raid upon that strongly fortified port last April is once more empha- sized by the distribution of Victoria Crosses and other honors to those who took part in it. The plainness of the official language moves us than eloquence. and self-control. Some of them we al- ready know by name, utes before anything happened. Then | a two-seater machine, with the enemy ; markings on it, appeared underneath | us. Our commander dived at him like a hawk and his first burst of fire' clearly hit home, The enemy machine ; dived towards the ground; but, think- | ing this might be a trick, I cived after it, firing all thé way. I soon saw, | however, that the Huns actually had . been hurt, and were doomed. So pulled my machiné out of the dive, and , looked around for the rest of the pat: | rol. They had all disappeared. 'A Running Fight. | A moment or two later I sighted a pair of our machines engaged in a helter-skelter fight to the left of me, and had just started in their direction, when, seemingly out of nowhere at all, an enemy scout dived at me. I turned, quickly and avoided him. Then for several minutes we had a running fight, firing occasionally, but neither one of us being able to manoeuvre into a position of real advantage. Finally, the enemy flew away eastward and es- "field" of battle. I estimated by this, time that I had only about forty rounds | BRAVERY OF BRITISH GEAMEN: | led Contrast Between Their Spirit and F That of the Germans. Zee is a name which will naval | The heroic quality of the more These men risked incredible perils with perfect calmness The "most con- spicuous gallantry" of Captain Car ris AR DUCTS AND CRYING. make 4 pretty fair river--a river fre tears salty? of. For the same that perspira- tion is salty. All of the wastes of the body contain sal t. 'Our tears fiow all the time in small quantity. Without them, we would goon go blind; for they are required for the purpose of keeping the eyes penter of the Vindictive--his qualif- cation for the most cherished honor of ' all, the Victoria Cross--was cele- brated at the time. "He set a magni-| ficent example," we are now told, all those under his command. by; bis calm composure when navigating mined waters; . ' he showed most conspicuous bravery, walking round the decks directing yhowever,-for-efter-the first-exchange ;operations-and--encoureging---the---men } in the most exposed and dangerous positions." Not less the bravery of Captain Bamford, who landed on the mole and led an assault on a battery "with the utmost coolness and valor," or of Lieutenant Dean, whose "courage of ammunition for my guns; but again there was no real choice for me. I had either to fight or be attacked in @ very nasty position; so I fought. My two adversaries had seen the pre- and daring" saved many valuable lives. | Bqual honor goes to Able Seaman Me- i Kenzie, who was severely wounded vious combats, and when I showed | "while working his gun in an exposed fight towards them they seemed none position." There was indeed "glory enough for too anxious to prolong the fray. I all." Signalman Bryent, the only one had just finished my last bullet when | lett on the Iris, endeavored, though the two of them dived away in opposite | both his legs were shattered, to ans- directions, and left me "lord of all I| wer signals, "behaving with great for- surveyed." titude while in considerable pain." When I turned in 'my report, es-| Petty Officer Youlton averted a satas- pecially the part dealing with the trophe by stamping out a fire set by a bursting sheli In a pile of boxes con- taining fused bombs. As character- istic a story as eny is that of Able fight with five enemy machines, some ot the squadron looked on me as some sort of wild man just escaped from the Zoo. The colonel telephoned up and Seaman Lake: : said that I had better not fly any more| "This Able Seaman formed one of that day, so I was given the afternoon the seaman storming party. His com- "off. manding officer reports that when the SSS ees Iris Il. was hit by several shells, he RURAL FIRE PREVENTION ing a fire under the forebridge with --- |gand, under very heavy shrapnel fire. Canada's Farms Suffer An Annual Regardless of his own safety, Able found Able Seaman Lake extinguish, | 87° caped i. ' Loss of $4,000,000 In the excitement of the fighting I In the past, fire-prevention work | had not noticed it before, b r looking downward, I saw ig ic has been almost entirely confined to, sausage just beneath me. I plunged cities and the larger towns. The time' has come when the campaign must be carried to rural communities and the jfarms, The demands of war ave | 'made the protection of food products | 'from fire an essential undertaking. | The Canadian farm is the focal point; upon which the future of civilization | largely depends. firing at the big bag; » a8 n smoke appeared, I gathered I ha either missed it all the while, or my bullets had failed in their duty as "firebugs." I had dropped to eight hundred feet Seaman Lake assisted his command- ing officer to throw overboard Stokes and Mills bombs, which were quite hot. Hé then took the wheel, and act- ed as quartermaster for six hours." The record is full of deeds amazing in their resourcefulness and courage. England may well be proud of her navy. No reader of the record will fail to note the contrast between the spirit : Also to wash out intrusive particles of dust cr what not. bs fluid {is somewhat complex c y; but, speaking in terms not attictly scientific, it is composed of | water end salt, both of which are sup-' plied to the tear glands from the blood. Behind each of your eyebrows {s an | almond-shaped gland that secretes the tear fluid and dribbles it out in a small and steady stream;Hvery two seconds you wiuk. Why? Simply for the pur | pose of distributing the fluld over the! eyeball and keeping the latter moist. - | If you will examine either of your eyes in a handglass, you will see, on the lower lid near the inner corner, a! tiny hole. This is the opening of a! little pipe, called the. "tear duct," which runs down and empties int your nasal passages. _The pipe is meant to carry off the ffuid. if, as occasionally happens, it be stopped up, the tears run over onto | thé cheek, creating an uncomfortable | condition that may be remediable only | by removing the obstruction with a. It isn't at all a plensant per-| formance. When one weeps, the quantity of salt water that comes from the tear glanis is eo great that the littie pipes cannot carry it off, and the finld spills over. We call this "shedding tears." If we laugh hard enough, it makes us shed tears Sympathy or other gentle emotion will brfug tears t j eyes, Thus we cry over a be ae- times, or at the play. W- .en often weep because of mere vexation. "There are actresses who can weep eal tears, on the stage, thanks to a gontrol over their tear glands which ordinary folks do not possess. Lower animals have tear glands like ours, but they do not weep--if ex- ception be made, perhaps, of the croco- dile. That reptile possesses remark- 'ably large tear glands, and is some- times seen to shed copious tears, pre- Bumably for no other purpose than to Qwash away. foreigi~particles that col- 0; which controls the British nayy and} that which controls the German navy. No doubt the German officers and sea- i h Special fire protection for elevators 'lata gp. Cormaa r09pe one coe flour mills, packing houses and stock | way oo toWwards : 51 pport | reserve nes yards; abl " wm b se nt at the front. Evident @ lines | save the' $4,000,000 worth "of "grain, | C) t. Evdestiy thoy were pie: and livestock 'which' afe an-| pecking for our assault- The way our artillery had been going for a week past left them little-room for doubt. I flew about watching these troops for some time, despite the tell-tale rattle of the machine-guns on the ground, but at last I decided I had better get | out of it. I saw a cloud some dstance | above me, and decided to climb into it and lose myself. nually destroyed by fire in rural dis- tricts in Canada. Up to the zresent, | little attention has been given to fire | protection in the village and practic- ally none to fire protection on the farm. As a result nearly every rural | fire is a loss. The common causes of fires country districts are #ightning, spon- | taneous combustion in barns, ace:mu- | lations of rubbish, carelessncss with | matches, lanterns, kerosene and gas- | olene, sparks on shingle roofs a>. prairie and bush fires. In the cities, | 95 per cent of fires is reached by fire departments in time to extinguish them while incipient and thus serious | enemy, immediately seeing his advan-| damage is averted. When the farmer tage, dived after me. He was using | discovers fire, all he can do is tocar- explosive bullets, and I could see them ry a few pails of water from a well burst near me from time to time. One 'or cistern and throw it on the flames. hit the machine abcut three feet from | In the majority of instances, such ef-| where I was sitting and exploded, but |forts prove unavailing and the fruits did no material damage. A little more |of industry are carried away i. smoke dodging from these ungentlemanly|and flames. Every farmer .. Canada. missiles, and a little more work, and| owes it both to his cov' ..y and to my gun was right again. So I turned himself to preserve hic .ood products upon my pursuer iby preventing fire. We fought round and round each | eee other for a seemingly interminable time, when at last I saw my chance, | darted behind him, and gave him a! short burst of fire. No effect. A| second later I got him within my sights again, and this time I fired very care- fully. His machine gave a shiver,'in Moscow, says then began tumbling toward the earth, | probably the completely out of control. 1 followed | church in the world. in) | When hiy Gun Jammed. I had just reached the edge of the cloud when another enemy scout de- cided to have a go at me. I had fired about a hundred rounds at him when my gun jammed. I dodged away to have time to correct this, and the >-------- RICH LOOT FOR_,HUNS | per and Gold. Stories, is, magnificent Its five cupolas | men can fight bravely enc Le, sab and chivalry. Driven to en warfare, they are warring on the help- less, firing on men and women in open boats, sinking hospital! ships, and breaking all the laws which other sea- men have been proud to uphold. ------------¢------------ -- BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST TOMMY. Youthful Veieran is Now a Red Cross Worker. In describing how he managed to get into the British Army despite his 17 yoars, Tommy Kehoe, reported to be the youngest British veteran, ant Who has since his discharge become a pro- minent Red Cross worker in Britain, says in Boys' Life: "I meant to get into that war though I was tco young. lh . too good to miss, and there might not be another in a life-time I had blown a bugle a few times just about enough to make a nulse through it--and I thought if they weren't very particu- jar about hew the music sounded I ven King's Liverpool Regiment, where Billy Clegg, who lived almost next door to us, was u rifeman. That would ; ; , be tep to gett! 2 ng | he Morcow Cathedral Has Dome of Cop- lg ep to getting into the fehting 175, "Ll managed it without much trouble, The Cathedral of the Holy Savior and went with the regiment to Camp, ust ou Oswestry, the training camp near Car- | camp diff. Nobody asked me whether I was much of a bugler and there was no to within a few hundred feet of the|are covered with pure gold one-half reason why | should tell them. They ground, and as it was still plunging inch in thickness. Its internal de-| would find out soon enough. And they helplessly, I turned away. The sky |coratiors are magnificent and very | did. The Colonel sald I was the worst around me now seemed entirely de- costly. This church is the nation's | bugler in the service of tho King, and serted. It gave me time to speculate thank offering for the deliverance of what the bandmaster said was even ns to whether I should climb up a nice, | Moscow from the French. It teok. worse. safe height of about two miles, and, fifty years to build, and its cost has "By that time some of the riflemen then fly home, or whether I should | been estimated at $160,000,000. j wanted me as a mascot to bring them streak it across the trenches as I had| In the Cathed: | of the Assump- luck, and they did their best to help done the day before. Recalling some tion, situated i- ide the Kremlin, is me get Into the ranks. I weighed only | incidents of yesterday's adventures,'the most sacr-d Ricture in Russia,'/96 pounds, and my helght was only | however, I decided to climb. "I pro-|the Virgin o° Vistimir, said to be four feet ten, so it was hard to con- ceeded upward in wide, sweeping painted by St. Luke. The jewéls/vince the Colonel that ¥ -was big circles, looking all the time for any | which adorn it are valued at $1,260,-| enough, but the more he heard me trace of my missing comrades. They , 000, one emerald alone being said to bugling the more he seemed to like were not visible, even at ten thousand | be worth $250,000. Napoleon took j the idea of my carrying a gun. At last feet, so I fiew around a bit more, in| from the church five tons of silver dhe :aade ao rifleman of me, I had to ths hope of finding them. /and 600 pounds of gold, but its most throw in three years to my age for A Near Thing. precious treasures were concealed good measure. I hope I may be for- My search was rewarded, not oy [Sree pe the French invasion, and | given for that one, for my mother meeting my friends, but by the 'sudden | = re phe Os a | be-aght me up to tell the truth. Any wapuarance of tee Eitin rethinns fy. | Nearby is the Cathedral of the An-| way, it wae in a good cause." 1 ing in the direction of our lines. Draw: | pele, -- saviiead of cai! -->- ing a littl | ee mite sare ge a e to one side, so as to have 'and jasper. The celebrated icon of | a good look at them, I discovered they | rene Sugar Conservation Urgent were being escorted and protected by bes bi am Se BNO 2h ; att three other machines flying well back a. iH of and above them By quick thinking 4 : I estimated I could make a running' w attack on the lower two before the up- per three couldget into the affair. I closed in, and fired' a burst at the most etrograd, from which the Royel- jists) fired machine guns difing the 'revolution is the most conspicuous | object in the capital. It is covered) jwith copper overlaid with pure gold, is absolutely necessary in-order reenyet poe: gel Pg second one .no less than $1,000,000 of gold being. gvaileablo pusply of sv sarateie, cope ie ot -- thee ac-! melted down for the purpose. e i id until the new crops atery, me of the most total cost of this cathedral is esti-| available and that it be equitably dis- vnconmtortable moments of my fighting ted at $125,000.000, tetbuted ; a ect in its eyes as it floats on the sur- lace of the water. © Naturalists in early days declared 'that the tears of the crocodile were Meosersby, who} % within reaching distance of its jaws. "J weep for Lotvain," sald the Kaiser, after that city had been deso- lated Heo always tears--true "crocodile tears." icineemimanarontfrictenes seraniss MONEY MADE IN THE TRENCHES The Possessors of These Emergency Coins Are To Be Envied. The soldiers in Southern France were, in the earlier stages of the war, paid in franc notes which had actually been printed within ear-shot of activities. Strange as this may appear, it was by_no means a unique happening, for money has been coined on the battle- field even so far back as the time o the Battle of the Boyne, when James 'TI. ordered "gun money" made from | cannon melted down--to be minted during the fighting in Ireland. If soldiers ,enduring hardships in a campaign, have no money with which to buy little comforts, there is 3 ;might get into the band of the Fifth trouble. | During the Boer War, President | Kruger realized that if at all posible 'the men must be paid regularly, and at once saw to it that the ¢ ld nes of the Rand were worked free- ily, and an improvised mint was built tside Ladysmith in the Boer There golden coins, the same size.and weightYas the British pound | and half-sovereign, were made in 'great quantities ,and as they are now {comparatively rare, the possessors of Kruger coins regard themselves as being very fortunate. Notes and surch |alsqymrinted dr amps were Boer War,bu ' v thi @as ° iege of Mafe- | king. st "makeshift" | money _a useful enough as it pr .. hand to hand amongst th. sesleged garrison. During the American Civil War of 1861 ,a tremendous amount of battle-| field money was turned out, both metal coin and notes. Thero are 'thousands of the latter stil! fn exis- tence, but as a me * exchange 'and bart they ar- alue, except jwhen regarde. .. 'i nt | other hand, collections of 8 foreign and battlefield at that time. Perhaps the banda -- 9 Le al e mon ng ie r --_ the Lowet Animals Have Teat| __ NEL AND AIR TORPEDOES. Describing Some of the Devices Em- Some Are Brought Back to Life and ployed In France to Clear Way For Action as in the Present Instance. Our Advancing Troops. Most of the devices used at the Front for tearing down the oman de aap' wire entanglements consist of a sor rs id of grapnel -attached to whatever {5-1 +104 been efficient lifeboats; her employed for the tearing down pro--- funnel was blistered and scorched, and ea eh icc dagrgtctnesl Rg ee os jal her deck-fittings showed that she @ propo jf: ae and to this is Attached the grap- |had been the victim of @ devasting to make the Hun wire "sit up." makes towards the wire, suc- ceeds in throwing the grapnel-hook over one part of the entanglement, and en races backwards,By-and-by,-af- ter a few throws and backward move- ments, great gaps are to be seen in the wire, and in many places it is torn --_ The fifteen-foot hole in her side wae the place where a U-boat had managed 'to get his shot in while she was in mid- Channel; the scars on her bow plating were caused by the wire hawsers of the salvage tug that almost miracul- ously appeared as soon as the bensine cargo caught fire, and hauled her to _ the right away. By this means our sol- diers are able to advance and give the benevolent "Germ" his dose of poison. These cars, I may say,"pass over the British trenches on bridges composed of wooden planks. Muzzie-Loading Cannon. Another plan involving the use of the grapnel was brought out in the | Dardanelles affair. On the ship's land- ; ing, and the the boats, an obstacle to the Allied forces. The wily Turks practical safety in her present bed. In the old days before the war she would not have been even a "com- mercial venture" in the salvor's eyes; now, when every ton of shipping was all-important, she was looked upon as a most promising patient. This was evident from the fact that no less than three sturdy salvage tugs were danc- had made extensive preparations for | Nature. the coming of their foes, and the first obstruction designed to impede thelr progress consisted of our old friend the barbed-wire "wanglements," which were eet up in shallow water close in to the land. But in this case, at leas 4tMts3 went one better. Grapne cks were attached to ropes, these {n turn being affixed to torpedo-des- troyers At night the hooks were 'thrown over the barbed wire, tearing it away. The old muzzle-loading cannon has | tj | | i Weird and Wonderful. | he chief of the salvors, who was a quict m2n jn the uniform of a com- mander R.N.R., said little, but what orders he gave were carried cut to the very letter, for upon him depended the ' success of the work that never ended. | His satellites were men of rough es- ready to { so to do, and at all times full of vigor 'and energy | The salvage tugs were simply come in quite handy for the French le 'gmothered in weird and wonderful ap- Army at the Front. The grapnel, nerd i pliances--great air and water pumps, ja long coil of rope has been attache chests of tools, huge pieces of plating. to one end of it, is inserted Into the \And, at the next low tide, the larger 'mouth of the old-fashioned "Archie," |.» thins edged herself in towards the the rope being allowed to He on the -- ocx ti! their hulls were all but rub- ground in S coll. The gun is fired, the ibing, and, getting her derricks to work, grapnel dutifully shoots out, and grace- | slung one of these latter "patches"-- 'ftully embraces Fritz's wire. The rope | .. they were called--into position. which was tied to the grapnel pel Divers, looking like strange denizens , been yiolently dragged with it, but the os the undersea world, hauled it 'ether end of it still Hes on the ground. | chentatit ' Two or three Poilus now take hold of | ence sah ae crite the eaet Slee 5 Site and after some moments tugging | 64 hole in the hull before the tide a decent-sized open space ts made in; back: -And this time there was the up _¥ no laugh urgle of the water as it mockea man HMmorts tO BOI ote The ship was almost whole once more. eae, ~ Then the second tug came alongside ction of Britishers In An Ob- | and servation Balloon. pre dropped over a monstrous-looking fece of machinery that was like the | A British observation balloon, an-| P > i |chored at the Western front, had its | refuse of an fron foundry attached to cables cut by enemy aeroplanes end ja couple of huge pipes, the longest of line balloon soared thousands oft fect | which stuck out from the sea surface, upward into the clouds. A writer in preg yin iy tes ys de [fe soe Ee geet | watcher immediately and instinctively peers 7 '| knew lectric leads. From the point where. it vanished, hoe | knew to be electric leads says, we presently siw one small This was one of the marvellous sub- i speck, then another, dropping from the é Aylin lelouds. For some hundreds of feet | MARINE sa ugg 9 a | they fell like dead weights, then para- | * hole, oF Eid # nose ig enough for chutes orcned, and the specks, now re- | it to go mai aud you can safely say ,yealed as men, were steadied in their [that it will keep any vesel not actual- earthward course, floating rapidly, but | : oe y herself from the ocean clear safely, to the ground. oF water. After the balloon got free, they had destroyed their papers and instru-) 7.) minutes later the surface of the | ments, clambered over the side of the i gea commenced to boil, and out of the basket, and leaped for life into the | pound pipe-end sticking up from the groat void beneath them, trusting that | sea water gushed out in a spout a foot the parachutes . strapped round their} 14, yt described a beautiful are in waists would open when they should. | 10 air, and thon fell gurgling back to Think of thet desperate spring into i+. parent sea. The submersibie pump the vast, gray vapory nothingness be-|)..4 started its work inside the flooded neath the balloon; the feelings of the. ship's hold. 'men as they made it, uncertain of! guqdenly the stream ceased, and the what would happen; the awful sensa- | pipe emitted hollow groans. tion of casting yourself blindly from |" «suction biocked!" cried the man such an appaling height with the know- |... attended the electric switch. ledge that only a filmsy piece of ma-; 4 man in a monstrously b!outed sult, terial, which might act rightly and) .oaring a copper helmet, appeared on 'might not, intervened between YOUur- | the tug's deck, strapped leaden-scled iself and @ chash into the earth many | boots to his feet, and sid down a lnd- A LEAP FOR LIFE. ; Daring A { The Last Stages. } | thousands of feet below: the tense 'strain of the stono-ltke drop through | before | 'two hundred feet-of the void 'the parachute opened, and then the 'anxious mental query, through the 'later stages of the descent: "What l shall I Heht upon?"--a matter of sup- t reme co:.sequence that chance governs 'absolutely. In this case, the men made e safe landing. | oe | Stop Wasting Sugar | About one third of all sugar used jin the home is served in ten and 'coffee. If arr average of half a ter- | spoonful a cup is left undissolved in the bottom of 12,000,000 cups of tea, © coffee and cocoa used daily in Can-) 1 a . 9 ancient coins set great store by the noe Pag pa ger eae _ hg oo metal money which was made on the a possibility of saving sugar in YOUR home?" asks the Canada Food Board. ---- Must Be No Slowing Down "Only a reasonable reserve has ccumulated, The opinion of f ow moat and who are at there sifould be no of the efforts to save t of Agriculture and Can- i} ard on a mission to the éountries of Europe. uce," Dr. James W.Rob-| } representative of the lder while his comrades through his pipes. The tron spout ceased to deliver water--then, with a roar of triumph, the silvery gout hurled itsclf upwards /again, and the diver reappeared. Black was his originally khaki suit --black and slimy, and the copper hel- jmet was of the same sable hue. Init | mediately a hosepipe swished its full ver him, and the slime sluiced pumped air ! And for three days and nigats the ee we TyDe Hot wer ENTANGLEMENTS THE OCEAN will hold in history the | pamela as rir a unenviable Pechapha he Pare Piet a Sara ised more tears to be shed than any pegrR ¥Y SHIP THAT 18-6UNK 18 NOT ee ee STROYING THEM WITH GRAP- EVERY SHIf at wi = ° and, working under water,' also used her derricks. This time' 'mersible pumps which are at present'! ! pumping went on, and the divers oc- ~ casionally descended to clear a sluice or to strengthen a bulkhead thet had | threatene' to collapse under the water | preseiro. Then, as her holds emptied, j th great ship exerted her natural buoyancy, and began to rise. First her ¢cck-ralls showed above the water at high tide, then the top lot t "patch," ard presently her |v terline. Then, with joyful hootings, the tugs passed their wire hawsers and" | towed the 10,000-ton patient to the bed \in dry dock reserved for her, where 'the skilled surgeons, whose tools are [hammer and drill, and whose modi. | clnes are.steel plates and rivets, woyld take her in hand and complete the work of the salyors--of the men wha oncg moré, had cheated Wyth the Hux in the Unterseeboote ang the bard less ruthless ocean, | i