By ERNEST ELWOOD STANFORD. Il. On Dotena's return an enormous Bab With an! bulldog trotted behind her. - involuntary start Marcellus. calculated the distance to the nearest tree. Dogs out a perch for the night. Come el!" ieniiccolty Marcellus his captor into the house. WAR ACE oa followed | "L ain't ever let any 0' "my stock SVEMENT OF BRITISH NAVY MAGNITUDE OF NAVAL "TTORT COMING TO LIGH. , ~_--_-- Notable Feats in Meeting the Emer- gencies That Were Created by a pase & ' eritters to the table before," remarked), Dorena, "but jit's too much work t' set ye one by yourself. Fall to!" Marcellus fell to,, slowly at first, but, like all falling Lideta, with rap- idly increasing velocity. Some twenty 'were one of the two things he feared Great Conflict. more than women. » "Don't mind Babe," said Dorena re-, assuringly. "He won't bite 'less I! tell him to. Now about these Wealthy |. appl gine ; : years of strictly masculine cooking, The consultation was eden Aniahed| broken only by an occasional "church' and Derena and her adviser turned, » looked out Sf the past in Ea | Gradually the world is coming to realize the variety and magnitude of Britain's naval effort in the war and how it developed along lines quite un- expected in peace time. There are three important branches 28 homeward. Marcellus peering back- _ ward ation or oftener at the harmless, Babe, who trotted, tongue out and| teeth bared, uncomfortably close to! dream of; deincately browned chicken! with dressing pungent with Araby's | between the best, flanked by onions steaming in orchard rows disclosed the farm-! savory "cream"; coffee odorous of the y the Bradley heels. Presently a vista house. "Where's my team?" 'ejaculated' eil short of Paradise itself! For the shadow lifted from the "T told him, too," interrupted Dor-! face of Marcellus, leaving its reflec- "Sent him home with' tion by the way on that of Dorena. Maréellus. "I told Sam--" ena placidly. it. Marcellus' mouth popped wide, but -no sound issued, Somewhere in his cranial interior the ideas had suddenly |. jammed. "Sam wa3™getting through to- night," ccatinued Dorena, 'so thought you might's well begin right snow,' "B-hegin?" "fevbly. "Of course. After supper you can 'milk' the cows--" "B-b-but----" \ "Well!" Derena's voice took on a tinge of sharpness. 'When you sold out to me you didn't expect all play and no work, did you?" . "S-sold 'out ?" "Of course." Dorena waxed down- right impatient.. "When you loaded yourself onto that load of trashy hay and weighed yourself in it and signed the receipt you sold yourself for 'twelve-dollars a ton, didn't you? I eal'late you cost me 'bout eighty-cight cents--mebee ninety. That's pretty much--f'r a man; but I guess mebbe Yll get my money's worth. I gen'ly lay out to." Pf "Doreny!" Marcellus' voice «ame back with a wheezy whistle. "Ugh-ah- Oh" "Don't look so like a born idjit! admonished Dorena sharply. "Reach up and pat your hair down! I won't hurt you if you're reasonable." ~The idea. rebounded * a yy? "B-but--" Marcelius' ashy face and_| knees betokened his dread of shaky the worst--'"I won't. marry--" "Marry!" ~The sounding aisles of the dim orchard rang scorn. "Marry! ~I should say not! No, Babe, you needn't bite him--yet. But.'f you say 'marry' just once more, ™Cellus Bradley, I dunno what will 'happen to you. Marry! You!" Marcellus bent beneath the storm, but in his humility a certain relief was 'mingled. "Quit foolin', Doreny," he begged. a FS < Dorena stamped her foot. "Of all the aggravatin', thick-head- ed critters, give me a human male f'r the agegravatin'est and thick-headed- est. You sold yourself to me, Mar- rellus Bradley, same's if you were a cow or horse. own free will, put trash in the hay. I've got witness- 2s. You'll stay, and you'll work, jest: like any other. 'bought livestock." "But--but. I-- "Oh, you needn't say I ain't got aj I make no doubt you've} vlear title. sold yourself often enough before, but aobody' s claimed you. The only party *% ever will 'll wait till I'm through with you, I guess. about your soul, weigh nothin'." 3 . "But 'tain't legal!" With a mighty fort Marcellus exploded a whole sen- sence, Dorena shrugged carelessly. "J should worry--me an' Babe." -"But--" Marcellus quailed before a aew terror overmastering that of wo- nen and dogs--'folks'll talk." "Let 'em. Twon't be me they'll 'augh at. Come and eat-- You've salked more'n enough." Marcellus obeyed. He was no man axe) gainsay an insane female with a ferocious bulldog. Woman, a dog, and: ridicule! His trinity of terrors loosed, on him at once. If ever this got Suto When his avowed owner's back was turned he took a desperate chance. He Io reckon it _ slipped through the door, whisked out) the key, and locked it on the outside. Then he fled on terror-winged feet. _ Dorena threw up a window. Babe ~ went through the screen like a circus hoop. Marcellus "gained a timely but dubious sanctuary in a limber sapling, "Look here, 'Cellus," said Dorena in a voice of iron, it *t a patient woman, and I'm plumb wore out with you. Next time you pare that you pick I to Dorena's' You done it of your; too; I didn't ask you. | | You can't say T didn't warn you you'd | I ain't worried} don't | | | Supper, 'amaze. Fluffy biscuit--happy pre jn. the progress on which light has just been shed. They are typical' of | war day--crowned with galden picts many others, but the facts now pub- uu {such as the "creamery" may blessed isles; pie--mince pie, nonpar- moment the "You be a master cook, Doreny," 'chair when man could do no more. | "TY do well by all my critters," vouchsafed Dorena. pigs. You en go milk now. bother to foller you up, but tee do. If I was you I wouldn't pe fynny business: That dog's.t 'in'est_male ertter I ever did s he's some like me, too. hard to pry him loose im anythin' he once gets a holt on.' \She watched her eee down east again, plod away dowrthe path, turned back to the devastated table, with a certain softening in her eye. mured Dorena. 'SS (To be continued.) eRe SAILORS' SIDELINES. ' rae Increases His Income. Navee supplement their incomes both novel and interesting ways. clothes. couples, and charge Usually the men altogether dobeying washing. Then. there are the moneylenders, ' by the uninitiated. sailors who men--sailors who, in their spare time are also tailors. own garments--theugh There twelve or barbers ing and haircutting. some warships amateur best paid of all "extras." shaving clubs on board; i Every ship, toc has its | shoemaker and "snob," 'of other men. 'rather unprofitable time of it, when port. is stop running about 'shoemaker gets busy. ing game, too, and rugs from oddments sailor's accomplishment, and no unprofitable 'occupation. Other knitting, fretwork, and crocheting, ete. plement their wages. Sal OR IR Appropriate Boats. happy people: Transport. gentle people: Tender. pen and ink artists: Liner. dogs: Barque. surgeons: Cutter. barbers: Clipper. kissers: Smack. Yor jokers: Jolly-boat. For tramps: Bum-boat. For poor people: Dingy. ior For For For . For + For "Sok For grave diggers: Dug-out. ~The Ex Kaiser': § Peculiarties The ex-Kaiser will be brought to trial by the Allies for his public ac- tions during the war, but. Mr. Poultney - Bigelow, the well-known , American - author, brings against him accusations of petty meanness almost incredible' - In g monarch of his pretensions. They : were personal friends and companions in their younger days, but Mr. Bige- low, in his recent book, "Prussianism and Pacifism," makes the German Emperor practically a kleptomaniac. He was the owner of a valuable minia- ture | of the famous Queen -Loulse, ~ which was a gift to him from the aged Queen 'of Hanover, whose hus- 'band was" dethroned by William I. in 1866. William I. "manifested such an intense interest in this miniature that Mr. Bigelow let him have it to look at, -mentioning how much he valued it on account of: the circumstances under which he acquired 'it. "Never was that miniature handed back to me," says. Mr. Bigelow, "although I spoke of it earnestly to the Emperor' s prfnci- ~ pal 'Aide-de- wie 'the late Gem. you. Zitzewitz. a. claim upon one who was. evidently once come under his hand." in a canoe. to be expert canoeists. lost my matchless "Caribee," says Mr. Bigelow, of a Prussian S sacreuat sighed Marcellus, pushing, back his "Specially the) TI can't |} It's dreadful Babe trotting close behind. Then she "The pore starved critter!" mur- How the "Handy Man" of the Fleet Many of the handymen of King's in On every warship, for example, there are a number of men who earn a good bit of money by "dobeying'--that is, do- ing the washing of the other sailors' work in an average of about twopence per garment, so that is quite a profit- able sideline--for the men who like "Jews'--not as might be supposed The Jews are the make clothes for other Most members of the feneral public are quite unaware that all sailors are supposed to nike their in reality a very small proportion of them do so. Another way in which some handy- men add to their incomes is by shav- are on eighteen among the ship's crew, and this work is among the very Some of the 'barbermen run sort of haircutting and charge so much per month per man, and give as "many haircuts and shaves as required. or cobbler--the sailor who devotes his spare time to mak- ing and mending the shoes and boots When a ship is out at sea for a long spell the snob has a but touched--and sailors barefoot---the Mat-making is another sailor's side- line, and frequently a very well-pay- The making of mats is quite a some very fine specimens are often made by them.~Any Jack Tar who devotes himself steadily to making money by matmaking cin turn out two mats in a month's spare time, and since these will fetch anything from twenty-five shillings to three pounds apiece it is "fancywork" -- embroidery, --are also favorite occupations with seamen, and many of them turn this work to good account, and thus sup- Not' Obie did William rob me of that precious portrait, but his courtiers looked at one another with stupefaction when I made so strange not accustomed to restoring what had all-eoveting Mr. Rigelow Gabeuae some fame as a canoeist and made a 1,500-mile voyage down the Danube, being the first to pass through the Iron Gates n a The Emperor borrowed this canoe, the "Caribee," on the ex- cuse that he wanted his sons to learn "While I have "the Kaiser has broken his word, for when I visited her in 1913 she was hidden away amid other dust- covered nautical curios in an obscure corner of his boathouse at Potsdam. The old guardian did not know who I was, and I stayed but long enough to learn that my canoe had never been used and that I had been the victim 'lished are sufficient in themselves to prove that it was not by self-satisfied easy-going methods that the seas were kept free during the whole period of hostilities. The first subject in question is the arming of mer¢hantmen. In 19138 the Admiralty introduced the practice of fitting a pair of 4.7 guns in the princt- pal steamships on certain lines, chief- ly food carriers, in order that if war suddenly came they might be able to put up a defence against an enemy armed merchantman. Only a handful "ot ships were affected by this scheme of precaution, and so quickly and. ef- 'fectually NES "younded up when «war, broke: out 'that 1 an assailant. Arming Merchant Vessels. © When submarine warfare became rampart the arming of merchant ships entered upon a new phase altogether. It .became necessary to fit guns in practically every class of vessel, and not guns of any old type, but efficient weapons capable of being trained and fired with the utmost speed and pre- cision, Such a widespread need clear- ly had not been foreseen and in, the effort to supply it the Admiralty had to proceed in competition with many other vital and urgent needs for guns and mountings and ammunition, apart altogether from the enormous de- mands of the army. In 1917 there was set up an organi- zation for defensively armed merchant ships, as they were officially des- cribed, with branches in all the princi- pal seaports, and headquarters in Lon- don. It is only now when these branches are being demobilized that the far flung character of the "Dams" organization is realized. Not only was it represented in the leading ports like Liverpool and Scouth- ampton, but at centres like Leith, on the Firth of Forth, and Sunderland, where branches were closed down in June. On July 20 the Belfast office closed. There were also' branches overseas, such as at Halifax, where the office has been transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, and the ranks and ratings previously there for D. A. M. S. duty have been withdrawn. It is stated by Commander R. M. Ta- puteau, senior gunnery oOfiicer in this service, that during the war 8,400 ves- sels were fitted with over 17,000 guns and howitzers. On the. northeast coast of England alone' there were 1,764 vessels fitted with 2,490 guns, the figure including the operation of transferring guns from one ship to another, because at one time the scarcity of suitable weapons was 80 great that there was only one gun to every five ships requiring it. Naturally, these guns required ex- pert crews, and at one period there were 13,000 men from the British fleet on board merchant ships for this pur- pose. The total was nearly one-tenth of the whole personnel of the British navy at home and abroad, afloat and ashore, when war began, viz.: 146,- 047, a total which was increased dur- ing hostilities to 408,316. Work of Repair Ships. A second matter in which war pro- gress can be viewed jn its proper light concerns the resources for dock- ing and repairing ships. Here again it was never anticipated that the calls upon the ports would be so heavy as they proved to be when the German submarines ran amuck and torpedoed anything and every- thing they could find. But when ton- nage became so scarce it was of ut- most importance that any ship which came into port damaged should be re- fitted and returned to sea at the earli- est moment. Thus treated, She was equal to a new Vessel. Even in July, 1918, when large pro- grammes of new merchant construc- tion had been embarked upon to re- , place wastage, it was stated officially that repairs were absorbing a numbef of men equivalent to about sixty per cent. of the total number engaged on the production of new vessels. The Admiralty of course took over all dry docks in Great Britain, and ' those allotted to the Royal Navy, to 235. So efficiently were these worked that the high figure of ninety per cent. of the maximum tonnage within | their capacity was reached. Four new dockyards were opened during the war, and from August, 1915, to the armistice, 47,000 ships were shipped and docked, exclusive of ves- sels belonging to allied nations. In. the yards on the north-east coast of ymerchantmen were dry docked and re- 'paired during the war, while over 20,- 000 were repaired afloat. A feature of this vast amount of re- pair work was the employment of wo- men on it. They, not only painted and coated ships, put even undertook with success the disagreeablé tasks connected with the chipping and scaling of the in- teriors of marine boilers. _, Marvellous Effort of British Subs. A third point is of more profession. al interest, and concerns the building of new submarines and the extended use of these craft. : ~ With so few targets for them to at- tack the British submarines did not create a great stir during the war, ing made are marvellous. . were the German raiders. no liner, so far as can. be "ascertained, ' ig inee oh ae had occasion to use her 4.7's against} > augmented their numbers, apart from | England alone, 7,856 war vessels and | Including battleships, - but revelations of their work new be- There was never a day that some' Would you boat trip. { 'and Eternit CAHADA $ Break the long land jou travel by boat from Sarn the "Soo," Dulu th. Jara of Upper Lake: Cruis Seas. 'of the St.. Lawrence. Port Arthur Write for particu- through the Great Unsaited The tumbling Losstn§ Rapids of the * ee Ver St. Lawre f Mad-Cap ace, joy @ new expehience? Come, "Shoot" the Rapids Would you view the more placid, but equally beautiful scenery of the Upper St. Lawrence, where the river is divided into a thousand channels by the Thousand Islands? They, too, are on the route of tis beautiful You have longed to see Quebec--that city so quaint and so interesting --it, too, is a feature of this remarkable trip. Ag you interested in Shrines and miracles? A few miles from Quebec is St. Anne de Beaupre, where for 250 years the townsfolk and the pilgrims have bowed pete before wayside altars--and in the great church of cures have = 'ganas 2: Would you view the greatest of all Canes? They are higher and more awe-inspiring than Gibraltar--on the \ River Saguenay. This is the final feature of the Niagara-to-the-Sea trip. / A boat trip that commences on a glorious lake and takes you over great 'and beautiful rivers. # a au TEARMSHIP LINES WHEN YOU TRAVEL WEST yet ia lt will exhilarate you--it will thrill you--it will charm you-as it has thrilled, exhilarated and charmed every tourist who ever took the trip we call "Niagara-to-the-Sea."" A trip of a thousand miles, that sustains the lively 'interest of the traveller throughout its entire magnificent length, A 2 that iraculous tion any apes Trinity 'Ask LIM ITEG NIAGARA TO THE SEA trip over ways peopled with tra- dition--a joy and contentment once ere you can. say that you know the beaue ties of Canada. Tickets and informa- "any office, of Canada Steamship Lines, Limited. Dan let, Map and Guide! 9 VICTORIA SQUARE | | MONTREAL, \46 YONGE STREET TORONTO 'water- of journey you must take ay be obtained at icket Office or at for illustrated e3 of | = a= jens =e Route of he 'Trip- : "NIAGARA | i] == dj Jo =B=f = Gi: boats were not diving in or near the Heligoland Bight, keeping the British" Commander in Chief well posted in regard to the position of minefields and obstructions, noting any move- ments of enemy vessels, and always ready to attack. The hazards run are indicated, not only partially, by the toll of fifty-nine submarines of the British fiotillas lost in the war. This great loss was made good by the construction of boats of the E type alone, of which over fifty were produced. But several new classes were also produced, including some by builders new to submarine con- struction. The G class, with a special double bull, the H class of small boats built in Canadian yards; the J type, which proved the fastest heavy oil engined vessel in the world; and, most remarkable of all, the K boats, face, with collapsible funnels--all these played their part in the struggle. Out of the experience gained, British constructors evolyed an L class, and .also an experimental submarine moni- tor known as M. I. them cruising experience British sub- marines were employed upon ordinary patrol duties at certain intervals. But of their more exciting adventures il can be said that they attacked suc- cessfully. forty enemy warships and | 270 other vessels, without destroying | non- combatants. A reminder of their 'suecess against enemy submarines was afforded in the Prize Court on July 14, when bounties were awarded to the crews of G-18, H-4, and L-12, | for destroying German submarines | during 1917-18. ei Ba Weck Scie, eke eo Obliging. A Scottish emigrant, on his arrival at Montreal, stopped for a moment to | examine a coat hanging in front of a clothing store, when the proprietor asked him if he would not try on a -eoat "I dinna kin "but I -wad," res- ponded: the emigrant, consulting his watch; and he went in and set to work. No matter how often he found a fit, he tried on another and another till he tried on about thirty. Then again looking at his watch, he re- sumed his own garment, and walked off, saying: "Weel, Pve lost time, nae doot, put hang the fellow that'll no' obleege anither when he can!" © 2 Palms do best when slightly pot bound, rather than placed in note that are wee id ct = which were steam driven on the sur-# It is now known that in-order to give ; LN UNUSUAL LETTERS. Some Amusing Samples of Attempts to Write English. A native clerk employed on the west coast of Africa, says an English paper, considered himself to be en- titled to an increase of salary, and ac- cordingly he addressed this courteous note to his chief: "Much respect to point out to you about my salary. As a matter of fact that to calculate my bording and lodg- ing and the other expenses, then it! leaves me penniless always. There- fore I should like to put this before you very plainly, for being given any fibs of excuses, or any kind of sort. And I do hope that you will attempt to see to it, say this month or next. And if there should be no goodings at all, I beg to put same before me at the end of this month, sir. Hoping to hear good result" : That calls to mind an amusing let- ter, written in reply to a circular sent out by a head master who favored the flogging of backward children: "Der Sir,--i hav got ur floggin: sir- kular, and u hav my sanckshun to ; thrash my son Jhon ass mutch as u like. I no Jhon is a bad skolar, his spaling is simply atrochs. i hav tried to tech him maself, but he will not lern nothing, so i hop you will put it inte him as mutch as u can. "P. S. Shon is not my son, he is by ma wife's first husband." The English superintendent of a hospital for Indian women recently re- ceived the following testimonials to her efficiency: "Dear She My wife has returned from your hospital cured. Provided males are allowed at your bungalow, I would like to dv you the henor of presenting myself there this afternoon, |} but I will not try to repay you. i Vengeance belongeth unto God. Yours noticeably, 2) The second lads: ; "Dear and fair Madame. I have much pleasure to inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will no longer be under your kind treatment. She having left this world for the other on the night cf the 27th ulto. For your help in this matter I shall ever remain 'greatful. Yours reverenily, ' S a mf pie tae Se tS, ' The greatest asset of the British Government is its good faith. There is no_scrap of paper to which we put our signature which jis not honored.-- /he onge proposed to me.' Mr, Chamberlain, MARRIAGE WITH GLOVE. Peculiar Form of Marriage in Hoi- land. A form of marriage by proxy is recog- nized in Holland is known as '"mar- riage with the glove." If a girl is yoyaging to the Dutch Indies to join her fiance there as his wife, she can go through a wedding ceremony at home with a substitute for the bride- groom. But for the joining of hands gloves are not removed--hence mar- i riage with the glove." The bride then sails for Batavia un- der protection of a wifely status, and the waiting lover is saved any tre- mors bout those assaults to which even betrothed affections are liable to succumb during idle weeks on ship- board. ----_------ Our Boys in France. Over the wave, our children brave Have gone at humanity's call; Ready to give that the right may live, Ready to give their all. In La Belle France where the foe's ad- vance Had blighted the joys of life, They turned their guns on the cruel Huns, And joined in the awful siriter Land of the West, your Gallant breast, Has nourished a race of men, Whose eager feet will scorn 'retreat, And dash to the fray again. Rod by rod, o'er the bloody sod, The invader's host recedes. While the shell-torn earth attests the worth Of desperate valor's deeds. By the trenches deep, shall widows weep, . Or mothers kneel to pray, For the distant ones, whose dauntless sons Have halpot to save the day. : So Thrust and Parry. 'Panes of jealousy were in Miss Coldfoot's heart when she heard that her late admirer had been accepted by Miss Lovebird, and when she hap- pened to run across her in the bar- gain rush could not resist giving her a thrust. "IT hear you've spate. Sige gushed. "I suppose he never. tol she "No," answered Jack's fiancee. "He once told me that there were a lot of things in his life he was ashamed of, put I didn't ask him what they, were," | eS aie you | 4 Rewarded. A venerable Justice sat in the place -- of honor at a reception. As a young lady of dazzling charms walked past he exclaimed almost involuntarily: "What a beautiful girl!" The young woman overheard the Justice's compliment, turned and gave him a radiant smile. "What an excel- lent Judge!" she said. At least twice a week economical and wise-- housekeepers serve "Qlark's" Pork and_ Beans either with To- mato, Chili or Plain Sauce, f 3 "OW. CLARK, LIMITED ~~ "MONTREAL : Manufacturers of Clark's Pork and ~ Beans and other good things. : ©,289 - ft : Tha as 4 i i xg 3