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M * n iT $ 544 Old Dan wiped his eyes and blew bis nose. Then his eyes rested upon a flag draped above the delivery window, and his shoulders straightâ€" «ened and he whipr.d off his hat. "I‘m a menanderin‘ old fool!." he uttered. "Ms, the father avy Danny gcCutx‘! W* al) must do our duty to the dAag. TH thmi Jimmy‘s her, and thin Pll tl me girl. Mm:‘gm. frierds. ‘Afi-‘rfi-‘. Hinry. There‘s worse things than bein‘ kilt in action." | _ Then something like a sob shook him and ho turned away from the others and walked with a wavering step towards the door. "Who will tell Mrs. Thompson? Bhe should be told. Poor woman! Her only son! And she a widow! Mary McCarty, too. Jimmy‘s sweetâ€" heartâ€"old Dan would attend to that all_rightâ€"but the widowâ€"whoâ€"*" The gathering centred its eyes upon Dan, who was slowly folding and unfolding his paper, a crease of n newly showing upon his foreâ€" ead. They had relied on Dan beâ€" ore this. "Kilt in actionâ€"Jimmyâ€"â€"" Old Dan half whispered the words as if his breathing were difficult. For a moment he looked in a dazed way at his paper, then put it in his pocket ::d passed his hand across his foreâ€" ad. "Yis, ‘twould have been himâ€" yis, yie." "Killed in actionâ€"James Thomson â€"nearest relative Mrs. Sarah Thomâ€" son, Typica." "Jimmy Thomsonâ€"â€"" The name was whispered here and there in the lobby, and hands clenchâ€" @d involuntarily and opened again. Then suddenly talk broke forth in a torrent. And thenâ€"â€" The day came at last. Henry Bronâ€" aniuud the name first, then repeatâ€" t. This sertiment did not meet with general favor in Typica, openty at any rate. It was somehow too exâ€" treme to fit well: with the gentle, easyâ€"going spirit of the vill.:ige, and yet it was a story told and retold during the weeks of the great battle, and as time went on it nestled nearer the inner heart of Dan‘s neighbors. i "After all, you are never in doubt as to where Dan stand3," said these good people. "He likes and he hates" with equal intensity. He is a rough man but he has a ‘ean of gold and a tongue that stings like a scorpion or _ soothes like a sammer breeze." ' Dan‘s reading of the news was jerky and explosive. There were times when he had gotten barely started on the list of names when a| sigh of relief ‘nvo notice that the | others had finished. At these times Dan‘s wrinkled face iirhted and he hastily put the paper in his pocket, glad that the strain was over, alâ€" though he was brave. | Old Dan stopped. "Yis*" he said. "Somebody must tell his mother." "Meanin‘ me, Hiary *" Xfi".fifl. Hinry. There‘s worse "Dan." It was Henry Bronson who McCarty. Old Dan is the man who said to his son on the day the bor left for the training camp, "I see in the papers now and thin, me son, a story av a Canadian bringing in a Hun prisoner. Don‘t niver let me hear av your doin‘ thotâ€"damn‘ ‘em!" And still another in local parlance the "roughnecks," gathers about Dan There is a fast train which at the close of each day rushes through the village of Typica. But it does not rush so mitfiy that an alert mail clerk fails to toss a small pouch of mail to the station ilatlom. This pouch of mail is picked up by the station agent, who hurries with it across the square to the post office, where it is being waited for. | f,’," fl‘,;‘fi““ } Sealed Packets Only. You cannot begin to measure its goodness alongside of others, the quality being INCOMPARABLE. McCarty Breaks the News the the mist of pain about her, that he lboou k ag an old man palsied. Jm and Jason Cloud Mpdm a lilac bush sulh es k amken Taor Ihe n zoui\; Mrof Mr:‘.) Tfl&'mor:;, for the ne it to go ary an 'u: me thafs mns;t takgo-it. *oo} ’it- tle girlâ€"‘twill almost break her heart. Good night, brave mother." He attempted to draw his hand back but the widow caught it and pressed it to her trembling lips and held it there until it was wet with tears. "God bless you, Dan McCarty, old friend and nesgbor!” she sobbed. "I â€"I1 gave the boy u{) when he went away, for I knewâ€"I knew it might beâ€"and I am already reconciled and proudâ€"so proud." ‘Tig mu!.’g said Old Dan. “11 must be goin‘ now, Mrs. Thomson. A long, long silence. _ Old Dan‘ reached over and placed his big rough hand over the thin wedding band on the widow‘s slender finger. "I tried to git ye to see it as gintâ€" ly as I could, Mrs. Thomson. I‘m a bÂ¥underin’ old fool but somebody had to lit ye know. Yisterday Jimmy gave all he had to give to his counâ€" try. ‘Tisâ€"‘tis one av the fortunes ay war, as we say, and ‘tis like I, kick in the face to git the news all at once from the papersâ€"that !l know." "Till me now, Mrs. Thomson, would ye rather have a b‘y that would do his duty to the last, even if it kilt him, than one that dod[iod and shirked and held back to save his own little life? Would ye, P say? I would twinty times over, and I‘m silâ€" fish as the divil, which ye are not, Mrs. Thomson." | "I have a pain that gits me now and agin," he explained, and smiled into the mother‘s faceâ€"an odd, brave smile, made with lips that turned downward. "Jimmy‘s had his name in the paâ€" pers," he announced presently. "He‘s a b‘y that would take big chancesâ€" too rickliss and yitâ€"â€"" He paused again. _ O, the pride in those gentle eyes! Old Dan saw it and groaned. "It is merely one of the fortunes of war," said t?\'e widow. "He had an opportunity, I presume, that the others did not have." I "P iWoatitsialhint mt "atssstiss & Rsitccrs | MeCarty ?" ! Old Dan indirectly evaded the question. "It comes to me, Mrs. | Thomson,. that â€" your Jimmyâ€"your ;Jim‘r;\ym" He gulped and stopped. beisiy * 30 t antiPigtsmeaied Audsinint P i calitesied dncb Th 4 "He‘s stopped usin‘ rough words, andâ€"and he‘s promoted. He‘sâ€"he‘s lift,the others behind, Mrs, Thomâ€" son." | _ "Ay course," said Dan. "I‘m in the same fix. They‘re fine b‘ysâ€"a bit | wild, I dunnoâ€"but fine b‘ys, the two av thim. I‘m thinkin‘ the war will change many a b‘y into a man who | wouldn‘t have been a man ilse for a long time, maybe niver." "O, Mr. McCarty! As if I thought of anything else but those boys over thereâ€"your boy and mine!" Mrs. Thomson laughed. "What‘s the news, toâ€"day, Mr. MeCarty?" she asked. "There ‘is big news, Mrs. Thomâ€" son," replied Dan, fidgeting in his chair. "I‘ve come aâ€"purpose to bring it to ye. Ye know, me b‘y, Danny, is over yonder." . | ‘ "Just the same," said Henry Bron-' #on, "it is not a thing that you or I {could do, Jase. We haven‘t the way | of the tongue that Dan has. God' , knows you are not afraid, nor am I, , onlyâ€"well, how would we do it?" ’ "I reckon I‘d just sort of blurt it out," said Jason. | "And I. It wouldn‘t do." | _ Old Dan shuffled to the front door |and knocked. A moment later he was! seated in the parlor listening to the[ widow Thomson‘s comments on the weather. ' |__"Yis," said Dan, fingering his lips nervously, "tis dryâ€"I mean wit.| E7 §70 Lo T TV Tess l "ITwould be, I‘m thinkin‘, & good bit so cold warmer ifâ€"it wasn‘t so" coolâ€"yis, when I yis." in This, coming from him who had al-;, f:,:‘:t ways had to have his word, fortuneâ€" toâ€"day ately passed as an attempt at humor,[ i i which it was not. | € ou lli?_ve heard from Danny, Mr vily and went slowly nlclt, neither looking & another word, and â€"noted, even through dn " ce s """' "Oh, the roads have been so bad we! ng his lips| haven‘t been anywhere and I dreadll mean wit.| coming to town. The children get | & good bit so cold and tired and it takes so long, " coolâ€"yis,! when Bert has business to attend to.| !Sometimes I think I‘d rather stay at,’ :!h°f;‘:‘t“]l:el:;home. How much are eggs worth“ at humay [ to«lny I" 1 ElA e 2o AFegI 2 s 1 He staggered and woulid have falâ€"| len but they held him up and gently, helped him home, the bravest heart among them ail. Â¥ O, Danny, Danny me h‘z} where they had been waitini‘this comâ€" ing. Esci; put a hand lightly upon o on eithe hig bo;ud bac}; and walked on either side of him down the street. "Dan, old friend, we didn‘t knowâ€" we didn‘t find Danny‘s name in the list with Jimmy‘s until after you had gone. Weâ€"â€"â€"" "I s&W it."" said Ald Tian wrslw1.. i Conintindsrabaivas Phacsi is d t iscc od I think one table ought to be fixed up for a writing table. Half the time I don‘t have as mapy minutes to myâ€" self all the week as I spen in fidgetâ€" "We ought to kave a co iple of tables," suggested Mrs. Brownell. "Each of us could bring a few magaâ€" zines to place on a reading table: and Â¥ ars . - P 8 ‘"Well, let‘s tear off a little of this wrapping paper and write down what we‘ve got to start with," and Mrs. Tompkins took over the secretarial work. ‘Round the group she bustled, and before the tardy husbands appeared plans had been made. | others "Well, I‘ll come in one Saturday out of the month and build the fire, if the rest of you will take turns." Mrs. Earlham‘s quiet voice put conâ€" fidence in the group. "I7 come. too!" chorused savaral "Why," replied Anne, "Bert owns an interest in that building, and he said the other day it would just stand empty this winter. I know we could have the use of it. There‘s a stove in it already." "But why couldn‘t we have such a room to use on Saturday? Maybe Beverly could do more than it does if we women could wake it up. Since Mrs. Price‘s store has closed I don‘t see why we couldn‘t fix that up. I‘ll bring a couple of rockers and a rag rug." _ Mrs. Tompkins had caught fire from Mrs. Saylor. | "Who‘d pay the rent?" This was a poser; the enthusiastic ones knit‘ their brows. I "Well, I don‘t want to see anyâ€" thing or walk anywhere," remarked | Mrs. Lane. "My feet are ready to ’drop off. I don‘t see why they can‘t have a few more chairs in this store fwhen there is no other place for us to wait for the mn folks. I‘ve had ’my trading done for an hour and Sam‘s getting the horses shod; no]‘ _one can tell when he‘ll be through." "That‘s just it! Why haven‘t we| somewhere else to wait? Over in Stevenviile they have a regular restâ€", room in the City Hall, with chairs and | couches and little beds for babics, nndl magazines to read and desks to write on!" Mrs. Saylor forgot her temporâ€" | ary embarrassment and stepped out, from hiding with a swing of the | hands that suggested all the comforts | that were lacking. | "Yes, but Stevenville i:n‘t Beverâ€" ly," said Mrs. Lane with the inflecâ€" tion of a fatalist. ‘| _ "I heard some one tell Mrs. Tompâ€" , kins they were thirtyâ€"eight cents," | volunteered a woman who stood at 'the edge of the circle. "H‘m; my | cousin in the city writes that they‘re ‘paying sixty cents in the city right | along," contributed another. _ "We‘d ibetter save up a lot and carry them | to the city. I‘d like to walk throug‘hJ | one of the big stores right now! I 'hate the mirrors, thoughâ€"those longi | ones that let you see how your |kirt‘ j sags and how shabby your shoes are," and Mrs. Saylor edged behind Anne' at the thought. } seldom see yau an; ,mâ€"c;;;; where have you been keeping yourself?" said one of the women. T ( _ Anne and the youngsters unloaded at the general store and Bert drove off to look after his own errands. The store was crowded with farmers,‘ their wives, children, bundles and tobacco smoke. Bobby and Ber:haf wriggled their way to the big red stove, while Anne waited at the counâ€"| ter with the butter and eggs she had brought to trade. A halfâ€"dozen other| women were similarly waiting. l "How do you do. Mrs Waltan 1 come, too!" chorused several it," said old Dan wearily. lg_‘av the folx:tu.r.n'u ay war, nce OLLSO@z ren g‘etl| "I like going to town lots better so long, now, don‘t you, mother?" whispered tend to.} Bertha, as Anne tucked her and Bobâ€" stay at| by into bed that night. "I‘m tired worth| but I don‘t feel so cross as I used to ‘nei:her does brother." [ _ "There 15 the case of the Ruler of Pilots at Gravesend, who was torpeâ€" | doed on three consecutive journeys | down Channe! with valuable boats, jand on each occasion by sheer deter.â€" | Work in English Channel Called for i Great Resourcefuiness and l Scorn of Danger. | The German submarines, which, in the dark days of the war, preyed on shipping in the Downs and the Engâ€" lish Channel, have been brought, score ‘ }by score, to Harwich for surrender.. Their menace has been removed, but the men of the mercantile marine, who, on voyage after voyage, cheerâ€" fully faced the yeril of death at sea, will never forget the anxious watches passed in the danger zone when "ruthâ€" lessness" was in full activity. And if the sailors, who, after all, enjoyed imâ€" munity from attack when their ships reached the further seas, bave much to remember, what must be the memories of the Trinity House pilots, whose duties kept them continually in infested waters* 2,000,000 MILES COVERED IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE. BRITISH PILOTS‘ DARING IN WAR , In Alberta the study of Child Welâ€" |farc is concerned with the preparaâ€" tion and serving of hot lunches to lrural school children. The Departâ€" ment of Education for the province has issued a booklet containing a number of recipes and practical sugâ€" ,gestions whereby the eold lunch will be wholly or partially abolished. It‘ is estimated that more than threeâ€" fifths of the school children attending rural schools in Alberta are depend-' ent on cold lunches and that these are eaten at irregular intervals and under conditions not beneficial. The idea of the Department of Education is that trustees and teachers shall make it possible to serve at least one hot dish each day at noon; well balâ€" anced cold lunches are al«o suggested to mothers. | _ The Chief Diagnostician of the Juvâ€" | enile Court of Seattle, Washington, | addressed the Association on juvenile | delinquency and its dependence on the | status of home training. A low ebb of parental responsibility results in | juvenile delinquency. It was recomâ€" mended that mothers‘ pensions should 'be established â€" because motherhoodl ’should be recognized as the highest service to the State. | l Child welfare is occupying a large Ishare of attention in British Columâ€" bia and Alberta. Early in December ! there was held at Vancouver the first aunual convention of the Child Welâ€" fare Association of British Columbia. ’The program included discussions on educational reforms, juvenile delinâ€" quency, child mortality and diseases, of children. Vocational training was urged in order that children might‘ become helpful factors in the comâ€" | munity. The schools of Vnncouveri were mentioned particularly on acâ€" ) count of the special classes for the: mentally backward children and the| Association put itself on record as | favoring institutions for the feeble-‘ minded. ! _ Mrs. Brownell luxuriously wrote _five postal cards. Mrs. Lane knitted | while she rested the feet that had been ready to drop off the week beâ€" fore. Tommy Teasdale and Richard | Saylor built block houses; Bobby and | Bertha looked at wonderful pictures ‘ and drew others yet more wonderful. | Mrs. Tompkins thought of a dozen ‘improvements for the restâ€"room, and ‘Mrs. Earlham read two stories and ‘icop(i_ed a recipe. | Throughout the week Beverly wonâ€" dered who was moving into Mrs. |Price‘s shop. On Saturday morning | it displayed a sign which read "Bevâ€" erly Restâ€"Roomâ€"Come In," and durâ€" ing the afternoon and evening people ‘came in, a little shy at first, but ‘ finding friends and neighbors they: stayed to chat end rest. | | *"Sure there‘s hope." The indomâ€" itable Mrs. Saylor shook hands with «everybody and carr.ed Anne off to find Bert and confer with him about | the room. ' "We‘ll have to have such things, Mrs. Teasdale. That‘s one thing it‘s \forâ€"to keep the children from getâ€" ‘ting so tired and cross." "We‘ll try it out this way for a month or two and I believe after we get it furnished and folks see what a help it is the town council may provide for it by byâ€"law in time for next winter. Think there‘s any hope?" Mrs. â€" Tompkins â€" looked around the group for a sign. 211 Child Welfare in the West. ' "It is quite impossible," the report continues, "to single out any men for ’ipeclal mention, for it is impossible to ‘get like conditions for different men. Luck enters very largely into it. Some have done firstâ€"rate work in getting their damaged vessels in, others with very big mileage, and many close shaves, have escaped alâ€" together, probably largely through luck, though, on the other hand, the escape may be sometimes due to efâ€" ficient lookout, zigzagging and a gift of doing the unexpected instead of the obvious thing at danger points. It beâ€" comes a pretty problem as to whether‘ a man who has been torpedoed and ‘ "Often the shock transmitted through the water was so strongly felt | on board other ships that people | rushed on deck imagining their own | vessel had"been struck, Two particuâ€" lar cases will live in our memory: One in which seven vessels in twentyâ€" eight hours were sunk, beached, or towed disabled away from one point and another when six were destroyed or seriously damaged at one spot within a few minutes When one knows, as we do, the different escapes we have nearly all had, generally‘ through being too close alongside the submarine, and that we have had so very few accidents with nearly 2,000,â€" 000 miles covered in the hoitest of the danger zone, surely it may be taken as proven that our being there has materially assisted to keep down the number of casualties to vessels. â€" and were duly licensed to conduct vesâ€" 1 sels as far as Berwick. As a matter 1‘ of fact, it is noted in the report, s Gravesend men have conducted ships _ as far north as Scapa Flow to French, . Dutch and Irish ports, and to Liverâ€" pool and the Bristol Channel continâ€" _ ually, Measuring outwards from seaâ€" | wards of the Edinburgh lightship, and _ taking no account of the waters of the _ Thames between Gravesend and that ! point, the men covered from August 4, 1914, to November 11, 1918, a total | distance of 1,841,320 miles. Several individual pilots have alone covered ; more than 30,000 miles of unprotectâ€"| ed waters, One of their body was captured by | a German destroyer and has been a ‘prisoner for two years; one lost his life by enemy action, and one died from sickness contracted on foreign service. Thirtyâ€"two have been mined . or torpedoed, four of them on two ocâ€" casions and two on three occasions. Few hbave not had many close conâ€" tacts with the German. One pilot, to his own knowledge, has seven times had the enemy close alongside. Once he passed over a submarine off Newâ€" haven. _ Every pilot, too, has seen | many sad and impressive sights, when ships, large and small, had roceivod) their deathâ€"blow from mine or torâ€" pedo. It is useful here to quote from l the report: mination and pluck, and the confiâ€" * dence he was able to inspire in others, succeeded in bringing the ships to # port. This is but one case among 5 many, and there is little cause for surâ€" ~ prise that the Admiralty has asked for the names of men to whom honors * might be given for theirservices. The © pilots, we understand, or, at any rate, t those working from Gravesend, have Y decided to submit no name except " that of their ruler, Captain H. 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They kept going !ipurely from a strict sense of duty, | knowing the importance to the nation |of quick dispatch of shipping, when they would sorely have liked to rest. â€" Work With Transports. l 4 "Some , in the earlier days were | |largely engaged with the hospital‘ | ships when first commissioned, some at cable laying, others ‘trooping.‘ ; Twelve went to Dover and were en-‘ gaged with transports under tho; King‘s harbor master in taking menl lto Ostend, Zeebrugge and DunklrkI with a view to strengthening the Antâ€" | werp garrison, and prevented the fall ‘ | of that city. Many have crossed again | and again to Rotterdam and back at ] the request of the Admiraltyâ€"in fact, most of this work has been done by' men of this body. Some, to perfect | themselves, sought instruction about | submarines at Chatham, before the | Admiralty woke to the fact of its lm-] portance to us Others have drawn | attention of the authorities to various means~of saving ships. We have also been able to report unauthorized sigâ€" | naling from the shore, being acquaintâ€" | . ed with the places where authorized | . signaling was to be expected. One of | . our body detected two escaped Gerâ€" " man officers on board a Dutch vessel, I 4 and turned back and handed them over | , to the naval authorities. In fact, as | , each has been able, every man has put , 4 his heart into his work and done his “ very best in most dificult and trying g circumstances, and with very little | . sympathy or understanding." ; Razor â€" Strop â€" 12 blades â€" The AutoStrop Razor is a gift he‘ll be thaniful for every day of his life â€"a lasting memento of your thoughtfulness. HE’LL like the selfâ€" stropping razor that gives him a fresh, keen edge each day; he‘ll welcome the simâ€" plicity that enables him to.clean his AutoStrop Razor without taking it apart; most of all he‘ll be glad of the militaryâ€" like_ efficiency with Dominces is said to be the RALiOna) game of ihe Esquimaux, to visit a friend there. When she left in full sight of the governor she carâ€" ried the Scottish crown concerled in the folds of her riding habit, and the sword and sceptre were embedded in her load of lint. Her husband buried them in the floor of his church until Scotland could claim trem openly, and then, when they wer: finally dug up, they were locked in a chest and never seen again for 110 years. 3 Eo PORCRTC Y MnRTHmVS the castle and were stolen away for Scotland by a minister‘s wife, who with her maid and sevoral baskets of lint for spinning, came with perâ€" mission Of the governor of the castle The "Honors of Scotland" had an eventful history rivalling that of the kings who wore them. They wore held by Cromwel!l, when he captured . Pm 2 m 2 1 sword, and the crown worn by the famous Scottish kings and queens from Robert Bruce to Mary Queen of Scots. The crown of Scotland is the ideal crown of royaltyâ€"solid gold, banked with precious stones of many colors. the one room in which the ordinâ€" ary oitizen visiting Edinburgh Castle lingers longest is the crown room. which contains the "Honors of Scotâ€" land"â€"that is, the ancient sceptre, It was a fine place for a desperate king to retire and defy anybody to come and get him, and it was a counâ€" terpart of the Tower of London, in that anyone with the mediaeval equiâ€" valent of political pull could have his or her choicest enemy absentâ€"mindâ€" edly locked somewhere in the castle --_b;y an oversight, of course. Was Long the Recognized Strongâ€" } hold of "Bonnie Scotland." _ Edinburgh is the heart of Scotiand and Edinburgh Castle is the heart of Edinburgh. _ A truly wonderfu! cluster of stone towers on a stone foundation, it is no wonder that the castle was so long the recognized stronghold of Scotland, in which everything precious to the state, from the crown jewels to an undesirable heir to the throne, could be hidden away and forgotten until wanted. She had attempted to dissuade Kitchener from going on the fatal voyage to Russia in May, 1916. But Kitchener was inflexible against her pleadings. "You have always been one," he said, "to be most loyal in putting duty first. You must try not to dissuade me now. The Czar himâ€" self has asked me to go to Russia, and go I must." being, went to Miss Hutchison with his triumphs and also when he need ed counsel, consolation and sympathy. Wherever he was he wrote her conâ€" stantly telling her al} that was in his heart and m¢nd. is a great future, and you must have as your wife a woman accustomed to a lofty station and to presiding over great establishments. But always to remain one of your best friends is the dearest wish of my heart." Fatal Russian Voyage. During the rest of his life Kitchâ€" ener, called . by the Germans the Bilent Earl, the man whom the world np.rded as relying upon no human laid upon me," wrote Miss Hutch!â€" son, referring to her invalid aunts, "but there is another reason why it cannot be. 1 have become acousâ€" tomed to a small life. For you there Hundreds of letters passed beâ€" tween Kitchener and Miss Hutchiâ€" son during their lifetimes, but at the request of Kitchener most of them were destroyed. A passage from one of the few that were saved reveals the reason that this Scottish lady refused to become the bride of her soldier lover. It reads: "I must deâ€" vote myself to the duty that has been _ Far from being the womanâ€"hater which people supposed him, was Lord Kitchener. A romantic love story was woven about the life of the great soldier, who hard and stern as he appeared to the world, cherished an ardent and lasting affection for a Scottish lady who died less than a year after he was lost on the Hampâ€" shire. The lady was a Miss Hutchâ€" ison, daughter of a gentliéman of independent means who lived near Peterhead, Scotland, an owner of quarries, pillars of whose polished | red granite adorn the entrance of St. Andrew‘s Church and other : buildings in Toronto. _ Kitchener and his lady love met in early youth, when she was a bewitchâ€" ing Scots girl with brown eyes and hair and an outâ€"ofâ€"doors complexion, and the future field marshal a strip}â€" ing of seventeen, not yet entered the army as an ensign. Why She Refused Him. Kitchener later sought the lady‘s hand in marriage, but meantime two of her awnts had become invalids. She was the sole one whose ministraâ€" tions thx would accept, and the last one to shirk her duty, and she felt that she could not then accede to the soldier‘s offers. Great Soldier‘s Romantic Attachment "at to Scottish Lady Who Warned Him Against Fatal Voyage. LADY PUT HER DUTY TO HER OLD AUNTS YIRST LORD KITCHENER‘S LOVE STORY EDINBURGH CASTLE th tC d L K€ be t1 rreat ark rC it that 1 ne en com pu era an making rea 1¢ Th NA #h U m m t w m t} An t whict profit deed pr Th A me the on I know is aske W Addreas «are of The | and answers which they a this paper, mediate repl envelope Le , Will be .aail it rI tP The obje vice of our 4 authority on 1¢ In « The Busi How to 343 th the SA vin Wh; W p eT a la the Th pre