of fifes and the crash | 66 the squeal with or a@ concert by the divisional band as ; xi SCENE ON 'BOARD ONE OF HIS. more ecmeteries have been gouged OFFICER. a recreation. raat AJESTY'S SHIPS Ad i lacerated by shell fire. "Homes Sunday afternoon is a great day in * KX which were the pride of many of the : -- France for "shows" (in the strictly ae oh Ws villages 'have been ripped and torn peaceful meaning of the word). Ty Graphic have been to aquatic sports, football Little Pen Pictare of Except in the Fighting Line Sunday in France Retains Many Char- ' by high explosives. path "Request" Time on a Battle- The Green Wigwam. It was like following & oo i matches, horse shows, boxing compe- z ; to go down those GETTING "THE HOOK" titions, and athletic sports behind the Nat and Hazel Berry and their lit- ee ee a ge Frage _ acteristics of the Day of Rest. {1s i, France. Indian: cavaley ship of the British Navy. je sister, Bunch, looked up at tong black camp on the hillside. It was black because it was covered with tarred paper; but it was a fine play camp, and most of the boys and girl3 used 'to give famous "Tamashas," as they were called, or sports which in- |cluded the most marvelous displays of trick-riding that it has ever been my privilege to see. The French Army, y ACESS The First Step in Promotion in the It has always been an odd fancy of Royal British Navy mine that Sunday has an atmosphere Before an A.B. in the Royal Navy' ofits own. The fact of the matter can gain promotion, he must qualify ia, probably, that the seventh day for the rating of lead hag been the could see ony ae ing much higher t above them a glimpse of blue sky- "Jf I-should get Jost in here, bie would have to find me," they hea Two ranks of men extend along battleship's quarterdeck, faced b third rank of petty officers and Jead-~ jing hands. Here is an artificer in a boiler suit grimed with. the black the y a and two of the teachers were up there i ' ing seaman, a S : now for a Waele. dav vot fun. : {Bunch say to herself. 'Only I don't procedure known to the lower deck centuries that practically everywhere shies ae such Bere -- grease of a turret's roller-path; there. "If we pick the rest of Mrs. -Hale's| know whtre he is; do you, Nat? as "Passing for the Hook." lin the civilized world you will find serineoree pa used nordina' ad stands a stoker who is up to be rated corn," said Hazel slowly, "we can't] Tops was their little dog This consists of a general all-round local customs distinguishing it from | inter in the sports of pee n| leading stoker. Further down the cavalry, and each "Tamasha ed a large attendance of French staff | and cavalry officers, who came long distances in order to be present. Many of the towns in the war zone boast a bandstand in the "Place," or public square, i line are half a dozen hoys who have rezched the age of eightcen, and are now to be ra men. At the ex- treme end of the line stand the Mar- ines. » Quite a Formal Affair. Enttenched behind a pile of ser- test of efficiency. It may be very' other days. formidable or fairly easy according} Now, war is no respecter of cus- to the formula adopted by the exe-'toms. Though the Rhine towns ap- cutive, and, ofcourse, to the intelli-|pealed for and were granted a truce gence and adaptability of the candi-| on g Church holy day, that did not date himself. prevent the Hun bombarding squad- His initial effort is with the bo'sun,! rons from attacking the British Red who ustally gives him-a wire-splicing | Gross hospitals at the Front on the job, such as fitting a "strop" to a! Beast of Corpus Christi. On Sundays, "block," "reeving" new derrick "top-' as on weekdays, the business of war- ping-life" and "eye-splicing" same, or! fare goes on. In the front line the one of the many jobs "Tommy Pipes"| sentries man the parapets, just as and the old black cat had at the children's heels all now they had suddenly vanished. "Gone up to the Black Shanty {6 "a lot of people will miss hot corn {fer oes' - ager aed." stews this winter. The corn will be; And then he stopped and peered too hard for the canning factory if through the corn. Toroate me vais hoes smarae ada The two ---- 'ay can pick as much as' you can,". Tight in the m st 0 said Hazel. "Where are the baskets?", 'go up to the Black Shanty at all. Dick Swan says there are four whole rows and parts of two more rows still to be picked." ; "If we don't pick it," retorted Nat, | which is the nerve- centre of these places. Here division- al bands often give concerts on Sun- ¥ day afternoons. You may then wit- ness the entente cordiale in its most eloquent and realistic expression. The j tion, stands the captain's clerk. 'The i i here 4 ij "In the barn," said Bunch. "I'll get ee ng he gente stalks andjhas "up his sleeve for prospective fgr in the rear the labor gangs un- parses tere vl ics gaibrendors master-at-arms is hovering about v-ith them while you lock the doors." ing them off for the cows. Those | P.O's. . . id ships. ' a all anions in cave wovided the request-books, despatching shin's Mother and father and Grandpa a Sod not had time to carry off he| Having "tucked" his "strand"(" 3.) save actually in the fighting ar cclcas a ty in tho sane corporals right and left :o unearth Berry were away for all day, and the children had expected to be up at the Black Shanty; but Dick Swan, who worked for Mr. Hale, had told them about that corn, which would go waste if it were not picked at once. Dick was coming with his horses to haul the corn, but he would not have time to pick it and haul it, too. "If we work hard, we can have a the wagon," said Nat as he led the way down into the big corn piece. They began on the long outside row. It was harder than it looked to break off the ears, carry them out jn baskets and pile them in heaps on the grass ready to be loaded into the cart. It was past noon when they finished the four whole rows; that -had made into bundles, and to keep 'the bundles from being spoiled -- by {dampness he had placed them ina half circle, with the tops of all of them leaning together. , "Just like a little green wigwam, cried Bunch, "and away in here where yo think no one could ever But there's Tops and the i oor." Sure enough, there were the two strays, looking as if they lived in the green wigwam. ey seemed to be standing guard over mething. "Jt's a little oil sto and some matches and tin plate and a bottie of cocoa and some biscuits and a no from Dick Swan," reported Haze] as she bent to look \ ' suceessfully, our A.B. is subjected to a severe questioning on seamanship in general and "top" management in| particular, until "Tommy," having ex- hausted his by no means small list of queries, expresses himself as satis- fied, and duly makes his report. Our candidate is next put through his paces by the navigating officer. Thi3 is usually a theory test apper- taining to navig@tion lights, compass, deep-sea leads, etc., on completion of which the tested one finds himself before the first lieutenant, or possibly the commander. This is, perhaps, the most dreaded ordeal. How to manage boats of all kinds in a seaway or tideway, how to take advantage of bearings ashore, when to reef a sail, the management The note read: "J Jeft this where left only two half rows. you'd find it when you got through and laying out of anchors, are a few of the subjects dealt with. "They'll be all through the camp dinner by the time we get them pick- ed," said Hazel. "But we shall have to finish before Dick comes back." Dick and the cart had just started off with a big load of plump ears. "O my, I'm hungry!" said Bunch; but she seized her empty basket and reached up to break off an ear of corn. "I'll pick one of these half rows if you and Bunch can handle the other," picking. I knew your folks had gone off, so I thought you'd want 0 have a corn roast all by yourselves. I told your dog to keep an eye on things till you got here." "There'll be a lot left for the hun- gry people next winter if we roast as many of these big ears as we want! said Nat. "Who would want to have dinner at a Black Shanty," cried Bunch ,"when With a further practical test in the handling of boats, the examination proper terminates. Now follows a period of probation, during which the future petty-officer is expected to show his mettle. Afloat, as may be expected, there is no lack of oppor- tunity to do this, especially in these stirring times. Thus, one fine morning some few weeks later our carididate finds him- line, Sunday at the Front still pre- some of the particular char- of the Day of Rest. If it lis in any way possible, the padres of the different religious persuasions arrange services. I say advisedly "if it is in any way possible," for in thes days of long-range gun shelling, and -bomb squadrons raiding the bac areas Pes expedient for large bodies of men to assemble together in the open. But where it is feasible, the altars permits, or in some large hall or barn if the weather is unfavorable, and thither come marching the different units of the brigade or division be- hind their bands. The Religion of France. In the villages and towns to Mass. Stolid old peasants, wrinkl- ed of visage, gnarled and bony, at- tired in rusty black, plod churchwards hugging great prayer-books, or drive in those old-fashioned hooded carts which seem to be the universal ve- hicle of the Continental peasantry. There is a pleasant Sunday quiet about the village street. High in the of the army in the field, it is 'little cafes which surround the 'Place', the table between the group cf sa ut- the! church bells are ringing the people: i t ' ' j are set up in the open if the weather | 1 of sun-burnt and delighted British| soldiers. e y complains that' the more or less stationary services, | like the A.S.C. or the Postal services, | have all the luck with the girls,-be-| cause they remain for long periods in the same place. Tommy Atkins, Gentleman. Officers throng the terraces of the a.id sip thin French beer, or inocuous "sirops" (syrups), or vermouth-and- soda whilst the band conjures up dis- tant memories of the Piccadilly grill ov the Alhambra. : The outstanding feature of these cpen-air concerts at the Front is, in' ny opinion ,the exemplary behavior | officers out of turrets and transmit- ting-rooms and torpedo-flats to speak to the captain in favor or otherwise of the men for whom they are res- ponsible. At length everysne is as- sembled, and the commander disap- pears down a hatch to report to the tain. "Request--'tschun!" As the cap- tain steps on deck. and walks up to ing officers, the line of waiting men stiffens to rigidity. "James Pudner, staker, Ist Class-- to be restored first good conduct badge," calls the M.A.A. The captain glances at Pudner's record in the ponderous tome which a ship's corporal holds up for his of the men. You must remember that inspection, while the aspirant for a the vast majority of the audience at, badge successfully achieves a smug these concerts have only recently turned their backs upon conditions: of unimaginable discomfort and priva- tion. The natural tendency on com- ing out of the line is toward uproar-| ious *high spirits, in the same way | that the Varsity crews on Boat Race, night used to celebrate their release from the rigours of training by put- ting out the lights at Earl's Court Exhibition and ducking policemen in e lake. | expression. For he has been six months®clear of any offence whatso- ever. "Restored--and keep it this time, Pudner," says the captain, looking very hard at the man. "Remember that a gay young-spark becomes in time a silly old fool if he doesn't mend his ways.' A Word in Private. Nat said to Hazel. "Then we shall| we've got a dear little green wigwam | self standing before the captain. The air, maybe, the dull drone of aero- ies man, to be char ur all get through at the same time." | of our own!" - |genior officer sits at a table on the/Manes winging their way out over caer the behavior of the men at' shinjings and elevenpence." IS eh Gre $8, NTR NE Si * : .. | euarter-deck, with. a. retinuesef off-|\{iegenemy lines re s. Perhaps pre re Pala: Os el decider ome@nat ironical that close to the house into a veritable cers about him, and batches of pape lp Siéally ; vier ri = _ and when the: history of the) ard; who® had the misforte me"td' Toe © . -. | books, etc., to his hand. In a few/® m clang of gun-| 8tea rial his railway ticket turning fror THE MARK OF THE pit of machine guns and automatic well-chosen words he déclares "A.B. fire. But presently, _above these | will have to dwell on the part played: leave, and had. mataraity: n6 Boney 6 HUN IN FRANCE DEVASTATION THAT PASSES rifles, and waited. The Americans advanced into Cierge. The Germans had meantime filled the place with poisonous gas and retired to the hills to the north and to Bellevue Farm. Fighting here lasted all one day and James Ducks duly promoted to the rating of leading seaman, Rejoining his messmates forward, the newly-made "leading hand" is con- gratulated, amidst subtle hints as to the possible "wetting" of the event. noises of war, there rises the har- mony of voices singing the old Eng- lish hymns, acompanied by the divi- sional band. Ever and again the caprice of the wind wafts the sounds away, or they are drowned by the}. by the natural tact and courtesy of | pay for another, should have to "re- the British private soldier in welding quest" to be charged the sum of two- the entente cordiale. OH When Nobody's* Boss, and-elevenpence for which the rail- way company is dunning. The next case takes longer: "Herbert -Patient, cook's mate, 3rd POWERS OF DESCRIPTION. night, and when it was over the Am-| Thus is begun the upward climb|thunderous. rumble of a train of am- einai is an ig Mare the day's' 41.5s--to top allotment." . 4 ericans were in possession and the' \»ich may lead, who knows, to very| munition lorries passing up the atreet,| "°°S S aver and the mapper dishen e captain fixes the cook's mate r 1 Germans were retreating well to the giz7y heights! + "Then, when the service is at an| aie Sp pee ingens nobody tome with bis aya This Farmer's Eperienxce is Typical | h--that is, such of the Germans) . = adi a general any more; ne be- ' anys : ' aa came a private when he left the sup-| "Sure you're doing the right of That of Thousands of French Peasants. Sometime before I arrived in France I wondered if the war were not all a hideous nightmare--wonder- ed if the stories of its grimness, its suffering, its misery, its glorious heroism were not imaginative or at least greatly exaggerated, says 4n American journalist. Having just completed a journey which took me over practically the entire region be- tween the Marne and the Vesle, be- None of the Germans who had taken positions on and around Bel- levue Farm retreated. Most of them. were still unburied when I was there; two days after the fighting. I will | not attempt to give a picture of the! scene. The details are too ghastly. | Suffice it to say that within a stone's, throw o fthe Publier home were more | than two hundred German dead. Like a Twelth Century Ruin, | I happened to be at Bellevue Ferm when the Publiers returned. A more rugged couple could not be found, he f i THE WEEK! Then shal] we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the iatter and former rain unto the earth.--Hosea, vi., 3. There is no royal] road to know- ledge. We cannot learn by any quick or easy method, but only as we follow on "to know." The course will LY SERMON. best is the man you work with. day after day. "I know him like book," you say. Well, the help knowing Him better. at the front. through service. The man you know | the excitement of a free-for-all, j a| passes. Bible! Mother and the girls sit on the steps urges us to be 'laborers together with! and porch, while the boys a God," and if we,do this we cannot} fortable most anywhere. per table. To-morrow he may be the court of last resort, but now he is one, of the boys. The youngsters down him if they can, and the dog barks at, i The fatigue of the hot summer day, The breeze is a little cooler. re com-, t A tolerant mood pre- Out in the northwest a bank, If they - That is'disagreed during the day it is all what these boys and men are doing forgotten now. 1 They are laboring. vails: together with God, for this is God's' cf blue clouds comes over the horizon, thing?" he asks, unwilling to. pry into the man's private affairs uninvited. Patient mutters something and looks uneasily at the officers and men standing near. The captain waves his hand, and the officers move out of earshot, while the lines of men. in obedience to the M.A.A,'s order, shuf- e some paces for'ard. Next, Please! f For five minutes the captain and cook's mate stand in conversation across the table. AWhat they say no man knows; but the result is evident- tween Soissons and Rheims, just be- he, tl me hard war, as it is a war for righteousness,!and now and then there are little, ly. Satisfactory to Patient, for his hind the advancing armies, I feel that | sixty-two, she fifty-eight, oth pic- | eee gh Liga oes ne well Place®| humanity and civilization. And by | lightning flashes,- almost too faint face ,as he doubles away, expresses I am in a position to say that all the tures of brawn and courage. They | smooth, through war's alarm as well working with Him our boys aré*get-| and quick to be seen. The family , Telief. stories of the war have been under- stated rather than magnified. France is horrified and sad at the destruction of her villages and cities, but with an heroic patience and phil- osophy which has distinguished her during the four years of war, she grimly bears it. The peasants say: "It is too bad. Our homes are all we have. Maybe the government will pay us something to start again, but (with a shrug of shoulders) how can the government pay everybody? It is too much. It is all right now for Germany is retreating and will be approached haltingly. The scene that met their eyes would have appalled: the stoutest heart. The walls of their, home were standing, but were filled) with great holes where shells ad | struck. From a distance one might | have imagined the group of shattered b structures to be a twelth century ruin, ! The old couple Were silent. She moved on ahead, staring at the wreck- age. Neither even so much as glanc- in their path. The returning pilgrims arrived within a few yards of the ruin and gazed at it in blank despair. | ' ed at the bodies of Germans who lay, ; as through the pleasant ways of pros- perity and peace. Thus in the present strife we ar learning more not only concerning the art of war, concernig history, geography, biography and psychology, ut we are learning more about God, whom to know aright, as the Scrip- tures say, "is life everlasting." How, then, are we getting this knowledge and how may we increase ? First, let us suggest the meth- od in a Bible phrase:--""Be still and know that I am God." This war is making more people books just mentioned show. ately if you did a Jittle more work for Him and got rid of some of your lazi- ness. Make the Cause Your Own ter is to suffer with Him jn a common cause. , diers. They are suffering together, meeting a common danger, fighting in head of the house. a common cause. And cvhat is the ting to know Him better, as these prophet ventures an opinion about the ' } | | | | i immediate weather. Weather pro- e| Some of you people at home would' phets are never disputed: they are) get to know God a little more intim-| quoted. The children tell their troubles, and} the grown and growing-ups chatter and gossip and plan. The neighbor woman Was over; a brood of turkeys Then a third way to konw God bet- ' are missing; kings and colts, dynasties and break-pins, the ends of the earth ij "I'm going to bed," announces the: A growing con-, "gon is crystallized. The boys: Officers and men close up once more and the next case is called. --_---- Why He Emigrated. Sir' Douglas Haig, the Scottish commander-in-chief of the British armies, once said at a London dinner arty: "A Scot bored his English friends by boasting about what a fine couniry That is the reasén for those' are brought together in those after- cuotiand was close personal friertdships among sol-; supper talks. j ; "'*Why did you leave Scotland,' a Londoner asked, 'since you liked the place so. much? "The Scot heuckled. defeated. That is compensation! They went to their stable. The cat-' yogitate. The soldiers on the field,' reason for their cioset friendship| give their last attention to the horses} « «1 was like this, he said. 'In " tle were gone. The hens were gon . "with Kk Ori them intS for the nigh I inutes th é ae en enough. ™ i sous : the parents in the home, men and wo-} With God, -- hs m int® an) for the nig t. In ten minutes there' svotland everybody was as clever as Optimism such as that, falling from also. Nothing remained but death men everywhere are thinking bigger, intimacy, a fe. a relationship \isn't a soul in sight or awake. | myself, and I could make no progress; the lips of an aged peasant whey 08 Be 1 asked te farmer -- thoughts, reading deeper bovks, hay-! that other.' ¢ «ou-d not be possible. | ----a , ibut here'--and he chuckled again-- stands amidst the gaping ruins of his | 2° would do with hi. home, In French ing higher "ideals before them than} "We are heirs of God and joint heirs | Water Wisdom |here I'm gettin' along verra weel,' " home, is surely deserving of rich re- jhe said: ' ever before. They are brought face lwith Christ; if so be that we suffer 'Rebuild it.' : - wt Tye : What an important element water | ward of some kind. oe it. 7 id by th ern-| to face with the issues of life and of _ er ig we may be also glori-| is, yet how sittle the average - person | Aementan. Slaves sf i Y you get paid by the govern-| rery. , not t ther." ' * al i " ; A Farmer's Experience. | ment?" I asked. | death every day and they cannot help oe a The Clery of the Trenches" knows about it! Can you yourself; "yoy cannot enter a house in Diar- Some of the fiercest fighting- in which the Americans engaged too place in the region a few kilometres southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois. Here the Germans had constructed and dug hundreds of machine gun nests. North of the small village of Cierge--popu- "Maybe my grandchildren will get ;something, but for me and my wife it! fe necessary that we patch up our; ihome and go on as well as we can. |It is a bad wreck. The Germans are barbarians and some day they will see their homes destroyed." ! meditating upon profounder things. Because of this they are driven neces- | sarily to God's word, and there they naturally learn more of Him, Read the Word of God "These are they -which testify of "The Cross at the Front," and Donald Hankey's impossioned cry just before his death in Flanders and you will find how true this is. "I have seen "J have seen the vanity of the tem- A sa it Gad™ Se osthienes| c nk is ere ae oe aMS; by colour? Water may have a VerY to speak a word to the master whom itell good drinking-water from bad? hekir without finding from one to five | What considerations would guide you? | Armenian maidservants, | Some of the healthiest water has' n unpleasant taste. People drink | it like medicine. Will you judge,then, . even the humblest shop-keepers having, one, who probably in the lifetime of her parents would not have -condescended j distinct tint, yet be quite wholesome. ' she now has to serve to save her life," lation before the war about 250-- = ; me." Read your Bible more if you| poral and the glory of the eternal; I} " é : { x : lived a stalwart French farmer, Then, while his wife stumbled} would know more about God. The have despised comfort and honored | The age preferred ry certain parma anye. the author of "Martyred Ar- Charles Publier, an d his wife. They |2™0ne the wreckage, searching for| soldiers are doing it. Are you?|pain. I have understood the victory | of South eoniah. black. % CONGE=D5: menia," recently published in Lendon. had ten acres of land, which is a things she needed for immediate use, Every soldier that goes out to the of the cross, 'O death, where is thy The smell, then? An_ objectionable "I tis stated that the number of such : i , , : " : . » 6 Sante t nae? 4 d girls in the city is over ood sized farm for the average Publier took a scythe from the wall) front carries with him a pocket Testa-| sting? Nunc dimittis Domine." . women an 3 Erench peasant. Their petidings gutaige and oi sharpening it for|ment. And from my knowledge of| And God, hearing his prayer, made colour will warn ar a. _ ie 5,000, mostly from Erzerum, Khar- ormed a hollow sqiifre about Afty the harvest of the morrow. e|the boys in the camps, gained by|him His heir-and took aim into that however, may "he Pi "_ e te ea put and other vilayets. feet across. The Germans had been scythe had remained untouched | repeated tours, I know that the boys| blessed intimate. relationship where water is going to hurt you. sage in Cierge for several weeks without molesting the aged couple, but early in July they brusquely took posses- sion of the farm, kn as Bellevue, and the old folks went away. Thereupon the Germans dug trenches arc.nd the property, exca- vated pits stout ore feet deep. all aboyt the fields, transformed a quarry through all the turmoil and carnage. The peasant said something in French which I had difficulty in: understand- ing, but which I learned was: ce id not forget us, for He left this, without which we could not get along." One of Thousands. The incident of the Publiers is but are using their Testaments. And they are finding God and knowing Him better through the process. Read "Private Peat," "Carry On." "A Student in Arms" and other war books written by the soldiers in the field and you will find how they are knowing God through war. ~ Another way we may know God ig he now knows ev®h as he is knowm That is the relationship and that is the knowledge which you may have in common with these soldiers if you will only be willing to suffer, deny and sacrifice yourself here at home, even as they do there--that righte- ousness may triumph and the victory be won.--Rev. William Carter. arise from. the death and decay of tiny organisms and algae growths. You may imbibe algae growths dead and suffer no harm. --_----¢ Thin out. strawberry plants when they become matted. Crowded plants will produce only a poor crop next year. . ~! There are 420,000 men British Navy. Every grown person should drink three pints of water a day. - Pot up bulbs of freesias as early as possible. This is a South African bulb which responds to gentlqa forcing and gives pretty and cecatip Eeagrail flowers. in the