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Please DaAYS Grodek. lis six HAGUE LEAVE SOLDIF bown NOTES AND COMMENT s How fi:'rut Danish butter trade has suff from the present war and why little Denmark is the world‘s biggest butter exporter in normal times is shown in the following stateâ€" ment, prepared by the National Geoâ€" graphical Bociety: "One of the many strands in the wonderfully complex web of world commerce that has felt the severe strain of war is the Danish butter trade. Danish bum;knmiiin caviar, French champagne, Norwegian sarâ€" #rench cnaimpagne, Norwegian sarâ€" dines and Strassburg pate de fole luxuries that fate dispenses only to her favorites. The butter of Denâ€" mark has been famous around the world, and heretofore it sold everyâ€" where that people were to be found with wealth enough to develop tastes. The war has largely interfered with this rich industry. "Denmark‘s butter brought the highest price in fancy markets and it was considered superior to that of any other nation. It was used by the epicures in North and South America, South Africa, ir\ the East and West Indies, in Egypt, India, and throughâ€" out Europe. Good Danish butter has always sold at $1 a pound. "Danish butter is proof against all climates. _ Butter, when _ shipped through the hot zones, melts and reâ€" mains in a liquid state as long as it is exposed to the tropic heat. Danish butter goes through this test, melts with the heat and hardens with the cold, and still retains the wholesome sweetness of its flavor while other butter loses its sweetness and flavor under these changes. "The Danes do not explain the suâ€" periority of their product. They asâ€" sert that there is no secret in their process of butter manufacture, but, nevertheless, they are reticent about taking strangers through their great packing establishments. SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD. Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow toâ€"dayâ€" Life is fading fast away; But, my darling, you will be Always young and fair to me; Yes, my darling, you will be Always young and fair to me. When your hair is silver white, And your cheeks no longer bright With the roses of the May I will kiss your lips and say; O0, my darling, mine alone, You have never older grownâ€" Yes, my darling, mine alone, You have never older grown. Love can never more grow oldâ€" Locks may lose their brown and gold, Cheeks may fade and hollow grow, But the hearts that love will know Never, Winter‘s frost and chill; * Summer warmth is in them still; Never Winter‘s frost and chill Summer warmth is in them still. Love is always young and fair What to us is silver hair, Faded cheeks or steps grown slow To the heart that beats below? Since I kissed you, mine alone, You have never older grownâ€" Since, I kissed you, mine alone, You have never older grown. _ By Prof. Creelman, Ontario Agriculâ€" tural College. Statistics go to prove that the most successful farmers are those who keep their sons and daughters at home and interested in some phase of the work. s One‘s own folks, of course, take a greater interest in the building up of the farm and the farm home than can be expected of mere hired help.‘ Also a man or woman can plan work and carry it out better where home folk only are engaged in the transaction. Then why not make a special efâ€" fort this year to interest everyone in the old homestead? It may not be the glamor of the city that steals our young people, but rather the desire to carn wages and save money of their very ownâ€"wages or a life partnerâ€" ship might de. s g gg + Times are very bad in cities now.‘ Perhaps your boy or girl would come back if you offered a partnership in your business. Perhaps a good farmâ€" er in your locality has been spoiled by trying to run a street car or shovel snow i1 some large town. Perhaps your girl is tired, so tired, of trying to make an honest living, working for reople who have no personal interest in her welfare. Offer her a tenâ€"dollarâ€" aâ€"monthâ€"andâ€"board chance to live with those she loves best, and then plan a poultry or dairy bee campaign to get the money back. I have not much confidence in the ery "Back to the land" when it apâ€" plies to men and women without ruâ€" ral experience. I have every conâ€" fidence however, in farm boys and girls coming home to familiar work. If you have no boy or girl to bring back, just stop to think of, some neighbor‘s child whose parents are perhaps dead. Write to such a one, and I am greatly mistaken if you will not find such a response as you never anticipated. 1. 4 2. NC GL >\ dessnom an duction. ® No Terror. "Have you thought of the expense of living if you marry my daughter ? Have you considered the bills ? "Bills have no terror for me, sir." "They haven‘t? Why not?" fiF o+ Afremmir eA TT C\ Li The man who clings will never sink very low. wWHERE EVERYBODY HELPS. “'.l"il-:y haven‘t? Why no! "Nobody will trust me, sir. â€"Eben E. Rexford. ns are proud and ey will suffer in siâ€" nearly starve before many a one writes to an ideal A very obstinate (and yet nonâ€" serious) form of cough is that comâ€" mon in middle and later life; and caused by elongation of the uvulaâ€" the little protuberance hanging downâ€" wards at the border of the soft palâ€" ate. Sometimes this courh is very NNi trl ids Aiornirnlitiredsatnd + Snd ate. Sometimes this cough is very troublesome indeed, and necessitates a slight operation; when the doctor nips off the extra bit with his scisâ€" sors. ‘The condition may be rococ-] nlsu.l by absence of trouble when you are in an erect position; only coming on when the patient lies down and the lengthened uvula then tickles the back of the pharynx. Avoidance of heated rooms is a prime condition of lessening or doing away with the trouble. Then you have the short, dry, hard "bark" of pneumonia, acute inflammaâ€" tion of the lungs, when the sooner you call in an experienced doctor the better. Pleurisy, heart disease, zyâ€" motig fevers of almost any kind, misâ€" cell#heous affections of the thoracic organs, fall within the same cateâ€" gory. The cough does not result from ia local throat condition, as from irriâ€" tation of the pneumoâ€"gastric or vaâ€" 'gus nerve; but is symptomatic of a 1more or less grave general bodily condition, which admits of no amaâ€" !teurish tampering.â€"A Physician. To help to purify the air of a sick room place a bowl of clean water in the room and change it every day. A paste of common baking soda and water spread on a burn will stop the pain and inflammation almost imâ€" mediately. Mc Here are some remedies for noseâ€" bleedingâ€"Keep the head elevated and cool; warm the feet and hands by plunging in hot water; apply ice over the nose. Wet the end of a handkerchief with vinegar and inâ€" troduce into the nose. If the bleedâ€" ing is severe, a profuse flow of blood, send for a physician at once. There is nothing better for a poor complexion than plenty of wholesome vegetables, such as onions, lettuce, celery and carrots and fruits, espeâ€" cially apples, grapes and oranges. Bananas and fruit of small seeds are not so healthful and are generally constipating. * _ _Anything that will set the bloodl into active circulation is good for a cold. Bathe the feet in hot water, and drink hot water or hot lemonade, on going to bed; take a salt water sponge bath and reâ€" main in a warm room. Bathe the face in very hot water every five minâ€" utes for an hour or so. Abstinence from food for a short period is a very excellent method ofi treatment for dyspepsia and kindred digestive disturbances. A raging sick headache disappears after giving the stomach a restâ€"by omitting to eat\ only one or two meals. It is common knowledge that a day or two of starvâ€" ing every two or three months enâ€" ables one to do better workâ€"more mental and physical work can be acâ€" ‘ complished without fatigue. It is adâ€" visable, however, when on a hunger strike to drink water. Copious libaâ€" tions of hot water, several quarts during the waking hours, will contriâ€" bute to the feeling of wellâ€"being. The water may be taken a tumblerful or more every hour or two. Those perâ€" sons who eat at irregular hours and partake of foods poorly cooked or of such a composition as to cause indiâ€" gestion, will find the mild form of starving for 24 hours or longer a practice worthy of trial, for the reâ€" sulting after effects of the experiment will be gratifying. The rest (when one is on a hunger strike) given the digestive apparatus strengthens it | and thus aids in conserving the i health. A general feeling of rejuvenâ€" ation invariably follows a few days‘ lfasting. § Have Lost a Great Number of Men In the War. A London despatch says the French Foreign Legion has been doing brilâ€" liant work in the fighting north of Arras. The casualties in the legion have been very heavy, and a letter reâ€" ceived in London from a wounded member states that in his company of 250 men only 60 are left. The letter says: "The legion had the honor of being chosen to be the first out of the trenches and to take the German lines with the bayonet. This was at a point be;;ve.el; 'S:;u;:hez and Carency. Preâ€" vious to the attack, there was a terriâ€" ble bombardment of the German posiâ€" tion. "French guns of all calibres were firing together for two hours without interruption. It was like an earthâ€" quake. _ Suddenly, punctually at ten o‘clock in the morning, the firing ceased, and the ‘Charge‘ was sounded. . "We were out of the trenches like lightning. It was wonderful. We were like a storm. In ten minutes we had won the first line of German trenches. But there was no stopping us. We kept it up hammer and tongs for an hour and a half, taking three lines of the enemy‘s trenches and driving. the enemy in front of us. "By this time all the officers of our company were either killed or woundâ€" ed, so a sergeant took command, and EHRepeentl ECCCE i gl oo ed, so a sergeant took command, and we entrenched ourselves as best we could, but finally had to retire about a hundred yards. "Here I got two wounds. Four in every five of our men were either killed or wounded in that fierce in 1786 In the sixteenth century dictionaries were chained in the schoolhouses as Bibles were in the churches, by reaâ€" son of their costliness and rarity. "La â€" Marseillaise" obtained â€" its name from the fact that it was first sung in Paris by a band of revoluâ€" tionaries hailing from Marseilles. tionaries FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. Umbrellas were first used in Lonâ€" m by a person named Hanway, The Cough of Old Age. HEALTH Health Notes. k Bs S udn B o ioesdenaieet irmpin n ue .50« 10. 31. 08"| While the United States has an unâ€" K:“iprecedonted volume of foreign comâ€" gjmerco which is greatly affected by ‘t‘}“ )the present European struggle, it is ;-true that most of it is carried in °£jforeign bottoms. In previous great _2 | wars as that of 1812, for instance, ® ) the great bulk of her commerce was 3 l carried in her own ships. By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colo. Publicists generally, and those patriots of every nation who are ready to sacrifice lives and wealth to maintain the inviolability of commerâ€" clal intercourse, would do well to study that primitive fragment of inâ€" ternational law which Catharine of Russia laid down as the solution in the 18th century. She ordered what is called "armed meutrality‘" to proâ€" tect peaceful commerce, and it scarceâ€" ly admits of question whether our so called advanced civilization has not irotrorndod when it denies, by }Hague treaties, this salutary â€" safeâ€" guard to public safety. Privateering, which, up to the time of the Crimean war, was generally practised, but at the close of that struggle and the treaty of Paris, a declaration was made by the various nations interested, that privateerins should no longer be permitted, an specific rules were then laid down looking to its absolute extinction and the protection of neutral comâ€" merce. Among the rules is one to the efâ€" fect that the neutral flag covers enâ€" emies‘ goods, with the single excepâ€" tion of contrabrand of war, and that neutral goods, with this exception, are not lHable to capture under an enemy‘s flag, and that blockades to be binding must be effective. The United States made objection to some of the provisions of this treaty, claiming that in assuming to abolish privateering they were mereâ€" ly strengthening the nations having powerful navies. Mr. Wm. L. Marcy, our Secretary of State at that time, proposed on behalf of this country an amendment, that private property of the subject and citizen of the belligerent on the high seas should be exempt from seizure by the armed vessels of the other belligerents, except it be conâ€" trabrand goods. This proposal was accepted and incorporated in the treaty. If the Lusitania carried contraâ€" brand of war, the vessel should have come under the same international rules concerning the treatment of such cargoes. That is, the big liner should have been captured and taken intp port, and the case presented to the prize court. Everybody knows that these rules have been disregarded by Germany, but hitherto, very little was said on the subject and the protests made have been mild, and in fact conciliaâ€" tory, until the attack on the Lusiâ€" tania was made, and real damage inâ€" flicted upon American commerce. Yet here is presented a case where not only property was sacrificed but many neutrals were murdered in cold blood, because, we will say, of the presence on board the vessel of some contrabrand goods. There is no precedent governing the case in international law. The Alabama case is perhaps the nearest approach to it as involving the obliâ€" gations of neutrals, but the Lusitania was a British vessel carrying neutral commerce, while the Alabama was a Confederate boat preying upon Norâ€" thern shipping with the aid of the British. This would seem to place the U.S. in the position of upholding either the provisions of the Paris treaty which provides that neutral goods (except contrabrand) are not liable to capâ€" ture under an enemy flag, or of reâ€" verting to Catharine‘s "armed neuâ€" trality," in the protection of peaceful commerce. If the latter course is adopted, Germany will probably find the American navy prepared to act in convoying of American commerce to Britain in British ships, a step which no doubt Germany would construe as an unwarranted and unneutral act. But why should Germany complain, when she herself sets the example of violating every rule of the game, and the law as it stands does not cover the sinking of ships carrying citiâ€" zens and neutral commerce. Hence the armed intervention policy alone would seem to remain for American adoption and enforcement. The situation is momentous in the extreme, and America must soon take decided steps, one way or the other, to protect her commerce and safeguard the lives of her citizens against the rapacity and bloodthirsty policy of the German government. It will be remembered that when the Titanic was sunk by collision with an iceberg, the U.S. sent an armâ€" cruiser into the field to warn others, and to protect shipping as far as posâ€" sible in the danger zone. % p The Republic is now confronted with a pr:?lem far more serious than the loss the Titanic, where Gerâ€" man submatrines deliberately destroy in neutral waters, not only property but American lives, and glory in their bestial inhumanity. The danâ€" ger zone, as mapped out by Germany in the neutral waters of the Atlantic, is purely artificial and arbitrary, for, with the same abandon of reason, she might just as well have included the whole ocean expanse, while she was about it. The U.S. government refused to acknowledge the rights of Germany or any other nation to make a law unto itself and arbitrarily mark off parts of the ocean as being within a soâ€"called war zone, and notified Gerâ€" many that she must not take Ameriâ€" can civilian life whether under a belligerent or neutral flag. s Disregarding this warning, the high German â€" officials ordered the submarines to destroy the Lusitania, and over 100 American citizens were deliberately murdered. The U.S. merchant ship Gulflight, flying the American flag, was also torpedoed with loss of life, similarly by Gerâ€" man piratical submarine attack, and so with others under circumstances more insulting to national honor than the sinking of the Lusitania. It would seem the duty of the U.S. to patrol these neutral waters, or deâ€" clare war against Germany and avenge these insults. AMERICA‘$. DUTY. Styles Notes. Ostrich feather ruffs, short, round, thick and in colors are seen in active ‘competition â€" with ‘the malirigâ€"made styles. C f â€"~ Every one wears a neckpieco of some sort. Summer furs, «satin throws, maline niches . and feather ruffs, take your â€"choice. & 2 COMLDp MVE 'vu& CORTCTUEY The black velvet hat is "in" &gain. It antedates its last year‘s debgéb: two â€"months, and is likely to be 8 seded this year by the black satin hat made in upturned sailor style and faced with white. Hatter‘s plush, in colors, is another motif in millinery which appears in crown effects supâ€" polrted by straw brims in contrasting color. * De Lange, in "Women‘sâ€" Wear," writes in her Paris letter:â€"-“me. Margot, the well known manikin, ds wearing a one piece dress which is made to simulate a jacket and skirt. The dress is made of fine navy serge and buttons down the side front with ball shaped buttons the size of a hazel nut to slightly below the waistline. On either side there are simulated pockets outlined with buttons placed just below a belt of patent leather. The skirt of this model measured at least five yards around the hem and escaped the floor by at least 16 inches." One of the smart oddities in neckâ€" wear is the one, two or three inch band of velvet, with an upstanding frill of tulle attached to the upper edge. This is worn around the neck ‘wit.h low necked blouses and dresses and gives them the illusion of being high necked. One of the prettiest seen was of cerise velvet ribbon about an inch and a quarter in width fasâ€" tened at the back by a flat cravat bow. The upstanding frill was about three inches in width and was a flutâ€" ed ruffle of stiffened illusion. Anâ€" other was of twoâ€"inch black velvet, with a black lace bock pleated frill. It was wired in about five places, to hold it in a sort of upstanding ruched frill. Anecdotes Which Show the Calibre of British Gener#s. A friend of mine, Mr. de F., who since the beginning of this war was attached to the "Mission Francaise," near the British headquarters of Sir John French, and who followed the fortune of the British army, related to me an anecdote showing the calmness and selfâ€"control of Sir Douglas Haig in the face of a very great danger, writes Mr. Paul Balbaud. This was during the retreat towards Paris, when the British army was closely pressed by the German troops. Sir Douglas Haig was with his offiâ€" cers in Landrecies. It was dinner time, and all the staff was at the table when the general was informed that Germans had reached the place with motor cars and the headquarters was in a very critical position, risking beâ€" ing surrounded any minute. Sir Douglas Haig quietly got up, gave his orders for the defence of the place, ordered the barricade of the streets, and probably knowing that the forces the Germans had brought hurriedly were not important enough to prevent his passage, sat again at the table and continued his meal as quietly as if he were a hundred miles away from a deadly danger, though the fight was going on and the bullets whistling all through the streets of the city. He was right since he passâ€" ed and is now in command of his army in the north. According to my friend, the bravery of Sir Douglas Haig has been very often proved during this terrible war, where bravery becomes so difficult in front of an enemy, who most of the time remains invisible and under the pouring rain of murderous shells. Once, not very long ago, some-} where around Ypres during the first: battle of the Yser, one of the roads of communication between two towns occupied by the British troops was under the enemy‘s shells and it was most dangerous to pass along it. Sir Douglas Haig having to go to inspect his advance troops, rode towards them on horseback, and seemingly imâ€" mune from the terrible danger, went on as quietly as if he had been on a morning ride at Hyde Park. My firend, who was in his limousine with the French mission, confessed that he would have liked very much to pass at full speed across the dangerous secâ€" tor, but taken by the sight of such bravery, he followed the general withâ€" out increasing his speed. Men of that sort in our days are real leaders of troops, as men would go anywhere \When they have confidence in their chiefs. Don‘t Lick Enve\opes. The practice of licking gummed envelope flaps is as widespread as it is injurious. The same remark apâ€" plies to the oréina_ry postageâ€"stamp. Perhaps it will startle you to learn that the gum used on postageâ€"stamps and envelopes is obtained from any old refuse, such as bones and hoofs of dead animals, which may have been, in all probability, diseased. $ These essential articles of business life are manufactured from all manâ€" ner of rags, and, after being fashionâ€" ed anew, are handled by many condiâ€" tions of people. Fortunately, the practice of stampâ€" licking has proved fatal in few inâ€" stances, but that does not necessarily minimize the danger. Thorough as the sterilizing process is in the manufacture of these artiâ€" cles, there is no doubt that many germs are not exterminated. A good plan is to moisten the finger, and rub this along the gummed portion. Children especially seem to be liable to the sucking of pencils, pens, etc. This should be as much discouraged as the licking of gum. No Trouble At All. Mrs. X.â€"Do you have any trouble in getting a cook? Mrs. Y.â€"Oh, no; I‘ve got as many as ten in one month. Fashion Hlni‘. “ . % SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. HOLLAND WILL ENTER WA Since the Invasion of Belgium Holâ€" land Hgs Made Steady Preâ€" paration for War. BRITISH ARMY WILL HELP HER INVADE GERMANY. In Paris I met an American friend of many years‘ residence in Holland. He had just come from The Hague. He said: "Dutch anger is red hot. Politicians. won‘t be able to keep the lid on much longer." An Englishman who had just come with important despatches from Lonâ€" don, said: "Watch the Dutch!" The positiveness of this laconic method of giving no information was getting on my nerves. I devised all sorts of excuses to talk again and again with the Dutch Minister, writes John Martin, an American journalist. In one conversation he incidentally remarked: "Yes, we are stating offiâ€" cially that we have but 250,000 men mobilized, but in reality we now have 400,000 on the frontier." m t That was enough. I determined to leave for Rotterdam on "personal business" as soon as I could get the forty different types of passports neâ€" cessary to leave Paris, to cross the Channel, to get into and out of Lonâ€" don.and to run over to Rotterdam. It was a long and tedious journey, but it was worth it. iR Everywhere in Rotterdam I found an air of suppressed feeling and of intense activity. The Beurs Station was packéd. The Grotte Barket was crowded with people and produce. . At Utrecht the old Rhine and the Vecht (the two rivers by means of which the Rhine empties into the sea) and the two great cangls were all crowded with commerce boats sunk to the waterline. I met Von Hoorn, who simply _ reâ€" marked: "We are ready." _ s Holland is a beehive. All the ports, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Schieden, Delft, and Hoorn show an activity never before seen in Dutch cities. All western Holland is one gigantic storehouse filled with everything neâ€" cessary for the support of the Dutch people; with a surplus sufficient to meet the needs of an army during a nine months‘ campaign. % All eastern and southern Holland is one great armed camp from the most northâ€"eastern boundaries, opâ€" posite Emden in Germany to Bergenâ€" opâ€"Zoom, north of Antwerp. Ready for War. Holland has imported during the last eight months many times the amount and manufactured materials she usually imports during a similar length of time. It has been supposed in Norway, in Sweden, and in America that this surplus of materâ€" ials was being secretly sent to Gerâ€" many. While it is true that a large quanâ€" tity of copper, cotton, wheat and medical supplies have found their way down the Scheldt and down the Rhine, yet the portion which has crossed the border into Germany is indeed small compared with . the amount that has been placed in storâ€" age within Holland itself. Not only has Holland prepared u‘ far as supplies are concerned, but earthworks and trench fortifications have been constructed along the west bank of the Meuse from Mook to Roermond a distance of fifty miles, and on the east bank of the Meuse from Roermond to Maestricht, a disâ€" tance of twentyâ€"five miles. But even Germany is realizing that Holland is conserving within her own limits much of the produce which Germany expected to have passed on to her. It is for this reason that the German Admiralty gave instructions in December to the Germanâ€"Ameérican friends in America to ship supplies to Bremen rather than to Rotterdam and Amsterdam. It is for this same reason that the German Admiralty Office gave orders to its submarines to sink neutral supply ships coming to Holland either from Norway or Sweden or from America. Germany finally realized that if those products of Norway and Sweâ€" den were specially intended for herâ€" self they would have been shipped from the various ports in southern Sweden directly to ports in northern Goermany, under the convoy, of Gerâ€" man cruisers controlling the Baltic Sea. Holland has arranged four great centres of supplies, one for a northâ€" ern army, one for an eastern army, one for a central army, and one for a southern army. Then there are great general supply centres at Amâ€" sterdam, Leiden, Delft, Schieden and Rotterdam. And what can Holland do? Can Pierce Germany. The northern army can move east from Groningen along the railway line toward Oldenburg, Bremen .and Hamburg. In this way, any German forces at Emden and Wilhelml-l haven will be kept engaged so that: they cannot be sent south to interfere | with the intended activities of the| eastern and central armies. l The southern army can remain inâ€"4 trenched all the way from Bergenâ€" opâ€"Zoon to Endhaven, while the left wing of this army can move from behind the trenches at Maestricht, and descend upon Liege, both by railâ€" way and along the Meuse, thus preâ€"| venting Germany from sending her| troops from Belgium to interfere with the action of the central army. In this way the southern army would | menace all railway communications between Liege and Germany. i The eastern army, of which a very large division is stationed at Felden,i with great supply quarters at Zwolle, can move along three railway lines into Germany and also by water down the Rhine in the direction of: Munsted and Wesel and on toward. the great Krupp Works at Essen, only a few miles further south and east. The Krupp Works are strongâ€" ly fortified but it is not necessary to take them. If the lines of communiâ€" cation between Essen and the westâ€" ern army are severed, that is suffiâ€" cient. C i s “vfi;anwhile the central army diviâ€"< sions are stationed at Arnhem, at the junction: of two railway lines, and on SOLDIERS WELL WORTH PRAISING Physicians, Scientists, Explorers, Social Reformers»: Champions of Truth, Prophets of Right. "A good soldier of Jesus Christ."â€" II. Timothy, ii., 8. The confusion of militarism with the martial virtues is one of the most curious and discouraging of psycholoâ€" gical phenomena. Let a man describe war as the sum ofâ€"all villainies and peace as the consummation of all blessings, and at once he is accused of reviling the soldier and ignoring the courage and selfâ€"sacrifice displayed in camp, in the trench apd on the battle field. Indeed, he is lucky if he is not himself denounced as a coward and his peace professions acclaimed as a cloak to hide the shame of his ignoble fear. Than this charge, of course, noâ€" thing could be more unfair. Than this confusion or ideas nothing could be worse confounded. The man who hates war and loves peace recognizes and admires as much as anybody the martial virtues. Yea, he recognizes the worth of these virtues so clearly and admires their essential nobility so deeply that he thinks it an everâ€" lasting pity that they should be monoâ€" golizod in the popular mind by the‘ ideous operations of war. Has courâ€" age no better work than that of slaughter? Can sacrifice direct itself to no higher end than that of bringing death and destruction to a nameless foe? Is there no "good soldier" save him who draws sword, shoulders musâ€" ket and marches away to kill or be ikilled in the shambles of armed conâ€" flict? To believe this is to be ignorâ€" ant of the best heroism that life conâ€" tains. "‘Twas said," writes Richard Watson Gilder in a noble poem:â€" the bank of the Rhine,, at Nijmengen | and at Venloo, and Roermond. These| divisions can move east and south| by river and railway, and sever thel railway communications between Esâ€"| sen and Aixâ€"laâ€"Chapelle. | British Army Ready. | While Holland is a small country, it is long and narrow; the eastern frontier bordering Germany is two hundred and thirtyâ€"six miles long. The frontier from which an advance can be made into Belgium is over sixty miles long. The central army can move in two sections, one down the Rhine, past Wesel and Ruhrort, and the other from Arnhem to Crefeld by railroad. Both the Rhine and the railway inâ€" tersect the German railway between Essen and Aixâ€"laâ€"Chapelle. To the movement of this central army there could be but little opposition. There is not a single German fort along the entire Dutch frontier. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO If the Germans attempted to withâ€" draw any portion of their army fightâ€" ing in Belgium and France, the French, Belgians, and English would have the opportunity they have long been waiting for; and if the Gerâ€" man armies were not withdrawn to prevent the Dutch invasion, the Dutch army, in two days, even withâ€" out forced marches, could cut the four railway lines running from Essen, Cologne and Coblenz to Belgium hnd Luxemburg and two million German soldiers, all of those in the western army, with the exception of those in Alsaceâ€"Lorraine, would be cut off from their source of supplies. C The western Germany army would then find itself with the English, French, and Belgians in front of it and the Dutch behind it. And not only the Dutch behind it, but 700,000 English also. The massing of great numbers of English troops in the east of England during the last few months has not been for the protecâ€" tion of the English coast, but to be ready to aid the Dutch should Holâ€" land decide to move. From the east coast quick transportation to Holland is possible, and thenâ€"a rapid camâ€" paign from Holland‘s eastern border into Germany and toward Bremen, Hanover, and Berlin. To Whom It Is Indebted For Its Phenomenal Expansion. When we look at the map of the world, we understand that the big red splashes represent continents, countries, islands innumerable, which own allegiance to King George. _ _ Who built this great Empire? One of the greatest builders was Captain Cook. Cook was the Yorkshire sailorâ€" man who practically made the Emâ€" pire a present of Australia, New Leaâ€" land, and the thousand and one isles and atolls of the Pacific. Of course, "there were others," as poor Teddy Payne used to say; but Australians look upon Gook as their "only beâ€" getter." t ~â€"It is improbable that King George would toâ€"day ‘be Emperor of India had there never been a Robert Clive, a young fellow who forsook the clerk‘s desk for the battlefield. When he went to India he found a few tradâ€" ing Stations, but he left an Empire. If we turn to America two names spring to our lips, the founder of Virâ€" ginia and the conquerer of Canada. For two centuries it was a tossâ€"up which should be topâ€"dog in North America, France or England. If priority of settlement counts, Britain had first call, for Raleigh founded the colony of Virginia in the days of Good Queen Bess, its name being meant as a compliment to that strongâ€" minded woman. But the French were very solidly settled inâ€"Canada, it seemed, when Wolfe so brilliantly captured Quebec, the Gibraltar of the St. Lawrence. C There have been many . fine men connected with the development of British influence and power in Africa. Egypt was won in an hour‘s fight at Telâ€"elâ€"Kebir by Wolseley; we owe the Soydan to rdon and Kitchener; anx the 'res?oo? Africa under the British flag, firstly, to that missionâ€" aryâ€"traveller, Livingstone, and secâ€" ondly, to that organizing genius and man of business, Rhodes. Teatte &9s Erifice Shiigice in citee probably i at ly ma.m?‘ for its phenomenal exâ€" pansion,.â€"London Answers, THE BRITISH EMPIRE. "Twas said, ‘When roll of drum and Shall cease upon the earth, oh, then The d‘odg the race, the heroes in the land. But scarce that word was breathed when one small hand Lifted victorious o‘er a giant wrong, That had its victims crushed through ages long; Some woman set her pale and quiverâ€" ing face Firm as a rock against a man‘s disâ€" grace; Some quiet scholar flung his gauntlet down, And risked in Truth‘s great name the Synod‘s frown; A civic hero, in the calm reaim of laws, Did that which suddenly drew a world‘s applause; And one to the pest his lithe young body gave, That he a thousand lives might save. The lover of peace seeks no end of war. He is not unaware‘of the value of the soldier. What he wants is new wars for old, and soldiers of Christ for soldiers of Caesar! Wars against pestilence, bigotry, civic corruption, falsehood, greed, dishonorâ€"these are wars worth waging. . Physicians, scientists, explorers, social reformers, champions of truth, prophets of rightâ€"these are soldiers worth praisâ€" ing. And let it be duly noted that such soldiers in such wars display a courage as lofty, pure, rare in every way as the courage of the battlefield. â€"John Haynes Holmes. In daddy‘s barn there is a nest; nest in the barn, come to no harm. On the nest sits my white hen; hen on g:e nest; nest in the barn, come to no rm. In the nest are ten white eggs; eggs in the nest, hen on the nest, nest in the barn, come to no harm. _ _ Inside the eggs are baby chicks; chicks in the eggs, eggs in the nest, hen on the nest, nest in the barn, come to no harm. Baby chicks are covered with down; down on the chicks, chicks in the eggs, eggs in the nest, hen on the nest, nest in the barn, come to no harm. Baby chicks go "rat, tat, tat"; "tat" go the chicks, down on the chicks, chicks in the eggs, eggs in the nest, hen on the nest, nest in the barn, come to no harm. Baby chicks say, "Peep, peep, peep"; "peep" say the chicks, down on the chicks, gone are the eggs (see â€"nothing but shells!), chicks in the nest, hen on the nest (O my, so proud!), nest in the barn, come to no going to come out!" co John to his sister Ruth "OQ dear, there‘s the rain again, just when I was sure the sun was In some way his mother must have heard his complaint, for there she stood as suddenly as a fairy godâ€" mother, with two saucers of water in her hands. * "Get me the indelible ink," she said. "You may bring two bottles, the red and the black. And you may get me two pens, and a block of fiveâ€" cent paper, for the rougher the paper the better it will be." e _ "Oh, what are we going to play? cried Ruth. John and Ruth placed the saucers side by side on the low window sill, and then their mother told them to drop a splash of ink into each sauâ€" cer. "Now give the water a quick stir with the penholder, and while it is still in motion lay a piece of paper lightly across the top of the saucer and press down gently on the paper until it just touches the surface of the water. Take your paper up quickly, and lay it out flat to dry." The children soon held up their paâ€" pers, and on them were the strangest of course. Even if a great city could | could be destroyed from air, it would \ not bring victory for the destroyer |\ one day nearer. The Germans in | this case are simply seeking to do on | a large scale what they have hitherâ€" | to done on a small. As they revealed to the world when they sank the Lusitania, every helpless woman or child killed is to them a mere _ inci« dent in legitimate warfare. It is hopeless to argue against such a conâ€" ception of heroism as this. The world can only hope that if London is to be raided again and again the monde ments which really belong to all the ‘ worldmyaapethef-tzé’flnuvuh University and Rheims Cathedral figures! --_“â€"(â€")i‘-'- how _ pretty!" exclaimed Ruth. "Mine looks just like the picâ€" tures you see in the clouds." _ 5 "-‘"Aâ€"n;i‘;ei,i I used the red ink, and mine looks like a fiery dragon," said John "After you have a little practice in stirring the mixture," explained their mother, "you can make some very pretty thingsâ€"horses, trees, or the pictures like those that Jack Frost paints on the windows in winter."â€" Youth‘s Companion. Zeppelin Raids on London. Just what amount of havoe the raiding Zeppelins have wrought in London is not revealed. But it must be comparatively small, in spite of the terror which attacks of such sort are supposed to incite. No conceivâ€" able military advantage can follo!r. battle‘s roar Frequently they‘re Not. It is all right.to follow your clinations if they are going in Young Folks A Nest in the Barn. The Cloud Pictures. complained little ’. i8