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Cae as bie) O SILK WORM OF THE SEA. oad Te Fasten itself Toa '- Rock, worms live in the sea, and mem are very beautiful Which latter fact ought to ing to ourselves, inasmuch as F naturalists who contend that est ancestor of the human a marine worm. e so-called "silkworm of the designation being purely and poetical--is a bivalve properly known as the "pin- ative to the Mediterranean. a silk so beautiful that in an- the fibre was reserved ex- by the weaving of royal gar- is spun by the mollusk to anchor-line, by which it Felf to a convenient rock, mely fine and very strong. fried and passed through is reduced to delicate threads lustrous brownish-yellow hue, will be inverted until forbla and charged ac: | aclecrshant | Notary Public | eal 2 never the "hail-fellow-well-met" FIELD-MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG | EVERY INCH A MILITARY MAN OF DISTINCTION, ng ommander-in-Chief of British Forces \ in France Has Striking | Personality. A graphic sketch of Sir . Douglas | Haig at General Headquarters is giv- en by Isaae F. Marcosson in Pearson' s | Magazine, | | I found myself in a presence that, }even without the siig@htest clue to his 'profession, would have unconsciously | 'impressed itself as military. Dignity, listinction and a_ gracious reserve mingle in its bearing. I have rarely seen a masculine face so handsome ;and yet so strong. His hair and mous- 'tache are' fair, and his clear, almost | ( t unkindly. His chest is deep, but scarcely broad enough for ithe rows of service and other ribbons that paint a mass of colo? against the background of khaki. The Commander,in-Chief's cavalry training sticks out all over him. You ;see it in the long, legs and in the rounded calves in per- | feetly-polished boots, with their jingle 'of silver spurs. He stands easily and | gracefully, and walks with that rangy, 'swinging stride so common, enough, to men who ride much. He was a famous fox-hunter in his under- graduate days at Oxford, and never, save in time of utmost crisis, does he forego his daily gallop. To him the | motor a business vehicle, never | meant for sport or pleasure, Although inarticulate about him- iself Haig has always. favored the frankest publicity about his army || and the performances of his men. The! || brief and business-like reports of joperations that emanate each day from his headquarters. (they are al= jmost epigrammatic) are eminently characteristic of the man whose name 'they bear. | The Haig Personality. | 1s But underneath all this poverty o expression lies a mine of unexplored Sir Douglas Haig. human material, whose richest vein jis the real per sonality of the man him- | i self, Most people know that Haig a} | Fifer, but what most people do not | know is the very illuminating fact that ifrom his boyhood he aspired to be a} jsoldier. This ambition took definite | is ldent at Brasenose College. He was sort | {of person. Reserve was his hall-mark. | But he was always an out-doors! man, {and he spent all his leisure time in fox hunting. | As Haig { galloped through ily countryside that lies adjacent he} ; was often pointed out. His colleagues parenid say--"There goes young Haig. |He's going to be a soldier." This, then, is the type of man who ; sits at the flat-topped desk at General | Forstlassinngs with his finger on that battle pulse, responsive to its utmost | quiver. The marvel of motor, tele-| / graph and telephone enables him to be 'in constant touch with every unit of |his command. Follow him through his day's work and you see how the game of war is played--a war that, having tested the resources and the resiliency of all Europe, has now ex- tended its dread domain beyond the of America. No written account can convey an) adequate impression of the huge hosts | involved, the widespread scope of op- erations, the "immense problems of | transport, all the process of that! throbbing zone of conflict which, if employed for peace, would populate and perpetuate a kingdom. And when this moving picture, more animated than any imaginative play ever thrown upon cinema screen, has passed before you, you realize even before a single shot is fired that dy- namic energy and organization of the highest order have been tested to a well-nigh incredible extent. steely blue eyes search you, but not} broad and| shapely lines of his } oddly | the ; streets of Oxford and across the love- | reaches of the Atlantic to the shores | he finally fotind. Incident in the Halifax Tragedy. The Field-Marshal's Day. Into every detail of daily life at /General Headquarters the Field-Mar- 'shal's character is impressed. lunch, for example, he spends an hour alone, and in this period of meditation the whole fateful panorama of the wa passes before him. When it is the wires splutter and the fierce light | ;of the coming night--the army does | notebegin to fight until most people go | |to sleep--is ordained. | This finished, the brief period of re- | | spite begins. Rain or shine, his favor- | lite horse is brought to the door and he} 'goes for a ride, usually accompanied by one or two young Staff officers. have seen Sir Douglas Haig galloping | smooth French roads, jhead up, eyes ahead--a memorable figure of grace and motion. He rides like those latter-day centaurs--the jalong these | cowboy. He seems part of his horse. That modest establishment is early lto bed, but more than one guest. at |General Headquarters on the way to jhis chamber has passed the office of |the Commander-in-Chief, and seen | him--a silent, aloof, almost lonely fig- | | ure--leaning over a map and begin- | ining the nightly wrestle with the great reaching out from the Ss problem that, friendly house amid the trees, affect the destiny and safety of the whole world. --e HOLY CITY SACKED BY TURKS 'easure of the Church Famous 'Tr & of the Holy Sepulchre Stolen. |. A despatch from Washington, DiGi te | says: An official despatch received |here from France says that the Turks before surrenderi ing Jerusalem to the British brutally mistreated Christian | | priests, carried off the famous treas- ure of the Church of the Holy Sepul- Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotia, srehouy' form at Oxford, where he was a stu-| |chre, valued at millions of dollars, and | | sent to Berlin the church's celebrated | ostensory of brilliants. Monsignor Camassei, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, is said to have been de-} | posed from his office, and Father Pic- | \cardo, an Italian priest, to have died from the effects of Turkish brutalities. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre had remained unmolested heretofore during all the centuries of Moslem ; occupation of Jerusalem. The same despatch told of indigna- 'tion among Mussulmans of Asia Minor over the a 'general in establishing staff head- ; quarters in the great mosque of the | |Gity of Aleppo, near the Syrian, border. a ALLIES TO TAKE oe US CANADIAN FLOUR AND MEAL. A despatch from Calgary says: It lis learned that the purchasing repre- sentatives of the allied Governments have arranged to take all,the surplus flour and oatmeal manufactured by 'the mills of Canada, and that already every mill in the Dominion is work- ing to capacity and will continue to do so until the war is over. | The Calgary mills are grinding night and day, and the surplus above Canada's requirements apportioned to those plants is being turned over' to the purchasing agents for the allied Governments by the managements in the East. EEL eS SO ee > Brazilian Government has decided to send the six best units of the Brazilian r| over | |greatest profusion. L| f | but in the open its crown spreads | Australian ranger and the American! la tangled mass |The fruit is gray 'color, and much of the /nom balls that decorate action of a. German | { THE "BASEBALL TREE,' Curious Tree of Tropical America After | | Whose Fruit Resembles a Cannon-Ball | | In tropical America--even so. far jnorth as the Canal Zone--there is |curious tree correctly known as_ the} cannon-ball tree, but frequently called | the "baseball tree" by the natives of French Guiana, where it grows in its The tree thrives soil near of | best on low, moist ; The public parks in Port Spain, | Trinidad, and the botanical garden in | Georgetown, British Guiana, contain |excellent specimens that never fail to} attract the attention of the observant | tourist. The ¢annon-ball tree springs up quickly and in the forest attains} heights between sixty and ninety feet, out more and does not reach such a height. In March the cannon-ball tree drops its leaves with great suddenness, but its new foliage comes out with equal speed in a few days. The pink, curi- ously formed flowers, with their | strong, penetrating perfume, are very | abundant, and during their bloom make the tree a beautiful sight. The fruit, however, is the chief curi- osity about the cannon-ball tree. It_is a woody, globular pod from six *to eight inches in diameter, and it grows ion long liana-like stems that hang in, from the trunk and the base of the large branches. ish-brown or rusty_in+ the can- | so many pub- from Ze of lic squares throughout the d. The ; French Guianaians--whose imagina- | {tions seem to be moder ges ing its ily ' sha horsehide-like the pe of the fruit, \texture, and espec at. encircles of the flower detaches el fruit, nicknamed the tree 'ks ball tree." | The South Americans of the fruit as they do calabash. After freeing seamlke 1e-c aly x { from the 'bas sear th use the shell that of the the ripe pulp} -- { Navy to European waters Hold Them 'aly !--Phi al rivers. | the |; Two sailors digging for bodies, the one on the left looking for the remains of his wife and two children which of its multitude of seeds, each of which is somewhat larger than a dime, | they make a drink that is refreshing to fever patients. When overripe the , pulp has a peculiarly disagreeable | odor. 2 ee To Youth After Pain. What if this year has given ' Grief that some year must bring, | What if it hurt your joyous youth, ; Crippled your laughter's wing? ; You always knew it was coming, | . Coming to all, to you, They always said there was suffer- | ing-- Now it is borne, come through. | Even if you have blundered, | Even if you have sinned, Still is the steadfast arch of the sky And the healing veil of the wind. And after only a little A little of shame and pain, You shall have the web of your old dreams Vrapping your own heart, again. Only, your heart can pity Now where it laughed and passed, i Now you can bend to comfort men, One with them all at last; You shall have back your laughter, You shall have back your song; Only, the world is your brother now; Only, your soui is strong! --Mar Jo American Potash. tion of potash in the is rapidly increasing, to figures given out by the | tes Geological Survey. The | of 1917, At is stated, will | | probably be in of 25,000 tons, two and a half But this is only laverage normal 'of the country. produc ited States ic onine Jee od Sta roduction Je excess or 10 per cent. of yearly consumption Before the war potash could be bought for $40 a ton, since its importation from ceased it has risen to $450 a ton. icdsiohie 'Public Ledge a Phich are woven into gloves, stock- | ter and other articles. A pair of Seated of this ---- jal to-day costs | S68. 8 When It Rains Over There. *T was somewhere in France, and 19 oe looked like some river hot on the map. Paddy was on guard dn the communication trenches a a was up to his chest in water. Al t came & Tomy, Who inquired of | _ Paddy if he could direct him to A} " Company of the First Blankshires, Paddy's temper was not of the best, . for he had had a long, weary guard, a and was not in form at being ques-} tioned. ; "Hol his surroundings. 'Chuck it! I'm fot he bloomtn' harbor mnaster!" smoke!" he = viewing } TWENTY DOLLARS FOR A DUMB OLD BUNCH OF FEATHERS LIVE THAT IS RIDICYLOVS T in i TOM, THAT PoLIN IS A VERN SMART BIRD E==) | PIECE OF 41 ie i ii AND 1S WORTH EVERY on Nou' Ua ll -- @ CENT | PAID gy SMART Bir = Pap ener . ALL RIGHT z YoURE A FINE "etd |The Joy of the raret Widdemer. times that of 1916. | the } but | Germany | RETUR After Ger The greatest be given a pro- contributor to to witness the to the German they may be, o the last momen and shops that t see again. On the road Cotterets to © took, one golden {the war, two wom 'who were walkin: path that had bee feet of the scores | who had fled bef fadvance. I asked learriage t6 take j with pleasure he ! "We afe going plained the little Germans were ver away, and some 0 ing. For two wee gone from hom bonds; but we ha Germans have gon and so we are goi still have a home. "Mamma," said ithat the candy sk Nero be watching mans take dogs li Nero bite a Germ "If the house i | find Nero," the | the candy shop }open, you may be We passed thre ~ {ed slowly on tow "There!" exclait idenly. 'I [ seg the ; Perhaps it is not house as we fearec | The driver whi horses, for we kne | sity was straining' ;women,/ We rattl | street and passec i church, "Turn here!" th came to a narrow, | The houses were | leaned outin [ae in the road. "Nero! Nero! i her high seat besid A little brown ¢ across the street; ° in the road and, v |barked and tfed coach, Yvette and ] aunt all laughed ¥ eyes. "Stop here!" the "This is our house If En te's: cand} street, it was surel in that ete | While neighbors ¢; welcome my fellow ed gave'the horses iwhip and we moyed ! a A $50,000 FOR HAi A despatch from ther evidences] with the Halifay The Governor-Gen eablegram' from or the Col , Kang had ¢ pou nds "with expr pathy of the colon which has b | The Governor- | ceived a cablegra of British Guian |court there has | dollars in aid off | cable legram addsse lish. Guiana havé | concern of oe: |fallen Halifa> | their neath A despatch fre says: The Taian | £19,000 for the re from the recent h and £1,000 forth iof the Halifax dis Theim Excellenet | Duchess of Devons, | special train for | will visit the hospi | to help the suffere} jgreat disastgrmy Ch ALASKA: iwrdj | | | taster } | Chicago Pribune Ss Corruption | AY ; corruption or pe ras itwas called re lhabitants of th i lying to the west® i; When the Ru% one of the Aleuti.. itold that a vast ci eastward, and th: | Alayeksa. The AY | own island Nagin: | the land lying nea | process of Russian jing Alayeksa, be | Nagun- Alayeksa b i The original A eksa meant 'the the inhabitants off would naturally ¢ tinental region ef and beautiful sce | Alaska has since = name he Doings 6f "the Dut s. cred, i , Nov COST TWENTY potas, (vo Milla - (= You BRAZILIAN SPARR oul oy | - Do YOU THINK YouRE =e WOoRTH iT € ; . 7