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wlands of Asld TEREST FROM HER ) AND ERAES Scotia. ving Her a Tip. I don‘t want you “fi mpany. _ Why, you hi ; in a day tham I bare On in the Highlaz perhaps if you‘d try to o agroeable, you‘" J hav®e is as I have." SCOTLAND ind mOflm“ tive of Kii Royal A it their 33034 em upon the ame of Lord neanor of the tiy one of 1@ [ayshal. )een awWal R.M., som nck. h4s t the warded ; to have you have Wellingâ€" quadru bount) in the the sol Houses TTA to n 1t of ned ny UPAPORABIOOZ UOCADZMIPCN UMCSC RUTUCN BUC On a given day the sod is turned in f diers surrendered in great numbers the presence of the public. Three or to their nominal enemies, who were four operations begin simultaneously. , their racial kin, as for instance when A railway is cut to the nearest mainâ€" | the Czechoâ€"Slavys threw down their line. Powerful winding engines are| arms to the Russians and later volunâ€" brought and bolted to concrete founâ€" i teared for service against Germany in dations. A great engineâ€"shed is erectâ€" \France. oed. Pumps are put up to deal with thei The Allies are determined that it vater. Electric light is installed 89 / shall be taken out of the power of that the work can go on day and night. | Germany and Austria for all time to \ huge circle is drawn on the grass, | come to employ these millions as canâ€" the sods are removed, and the pit-ln(m fodder. _ The intention is to atâ€" sinker gets to work. ' tach them permanently, if informally, It is the pitâ€"sinker who bears th€ | ;o the Allies. They will be the buffer brunt of the first two or three Year®. | potween Germany and Western and He follows a calling which is one to Southern Europe. itself. ‘There is nothing quite like it. | Poland is Buffer State. He has to bore his way down, a hunâ€" | Poland is reâ€"established as a buffer dred yards, probably a thousand yards i state between the militarism of Gerâ€" this article is written near a coul-, ;mmy and the anarchy of Russia. Poâ€" miile fis yards deopâ€"through shate, | land has a couple of sweet neighbors. marl, clny, rock. | As all the world knows, the Poles have At first he goes down by a ladder. | never lost their race identity whether As the shait deepens he is lowered in | under German, Russian or Austrian an ivron bucket. When he can no longâ€"| domination. _ They formed a solid er see, eloctric cables are laid down, | block of about 20,000,000 people in the and he works with their glittering aid. ' heart of Europe. But when the task The shaft is cireular, and as he 085 | came of drawing up the new Polish further down bricklayers follow hlm'mm"" a grave problem was enâ€" to encase it in brick. | countered, am§ that was the presence Danger threatens him . every day. ! of a tier of German nationality along: metimes the sides of the shaft cave | the Baltic. These two and a half milâ€"| nd he is buried beneath tonms of | lions are the most German of Gerâ€" Sometimes a huge rock is disâ€"| mans. They shut off the new state of !. and, falling, it carries death tO; Poland from the sea outlet on the Baiâ€" w. . Always there is watarâ€"‘ tic and Poland without a sea coast dripping, dripping, so that he | wourq be in economic slavery to Ger-l \ in oilskins, and even then | many. On the other hand, one of the wet to the skin. | Wilson fourteen points seemed to for: | ally ho taps & wolk 0f 6Y9R | mid the annexation of so great a numâ€" Nean lhel, Atth. despite 21 | mer ‘of glgns as the Bultic Germans the machinery, it "lbv the Poles. naster the water and | At one time the suggestion was dlithy $ !nmde that Poland should be given a ' c lern science deal with | corridor through Germany to the Balâ€" A ithing of cement is too: tic. The objection to this course 'll' is are hopeless; even ftO® | imat it would force on Poland two 11 |iot case the carth and wate? | poundary Hines that she could not do-l hemicals. Then, when ; fend against Germany. So now it apâ€" ho shalft is a mass of ico.:pea,, to have been ided that the’ «. nut round it, the chemtâ€"| Baltic Germans w!ll’:asu to become | ) med, and the ice thl"j l citizens of the Polish state or move n holds wn the wrikew Lal Ye And now," replied the gallant man, "they belong to a deas," Coul is found in curious places. The vriter remembers one pit shaft being unk in the centre of a forest. As a matter of fact, coalâ€"mines now operâ€" to on the very edge of Sherwood Forest, the scene of Robin Hood‘s exâ€" ploits, and there is coal actually beâ€" neath the historic "Dukeries," but the l:indowners are not anxious to annoy the shades of Robin and his merry kreenwood men by planting _coalpits whoere these famous outlaws held their revels. Coalâ€"mines may be situated even in little spa villages, in the stretching parkâ€"lands of belted earls, and at least three cases could be cited where they are found at the gates of ancestral mansions; _ and grimy pitmen walk through villages â€"where a generation ago the only diversion was the meet of the local hunt. _ The coalowner, vnce he has determined to dig, is no‘ respecter of the amenitiés of rural life. At a moment when the troubles of the coal trade fill so large a space in the newspapers, it may not be inap~ propriate to sketch the life and work i man of whom little is heard, yet vhose calling is the very foundation of Describing the Methods of the Pioneer, Whose Duty it is First to Find the Coal. THE WORK OF _ l THE PITâ€"SINKER H|S CALLING IS$ FOUNDATION OF Coalmining. C Imining, says a London n@wspaper. ‘his is the pitâ€"sinkerâ€"the man who 4 the shaft, who first bores and vs and cats his way threeâ€"quarters i mile beneath the surface of the th to prepare the way for the ier,. And, as we shall show, his is alling invested with a good deal of imnce, and often ennobled by rare rage and selfâ€"sacrifice. ~l us imagine that a company has n formed to exploit the coal beâ€" th an estate. ‘They want a big ital. _A million dollars is the smallâ€" they may even require two and a millions. ir from the day when the first sod urned until the day that coal is ally raised for sale, two years, 6 years, and sometimes five and years, must elapse, and all that : money is simply running away out a single penny being received Me is Always in Danger. n Lin it ng His nanm could, but for four ye +d failed." ik over it in & .‘ sald the Sweet the piano stpol, "all i once belonged to an er is i They Thought. | is a small country." the event. _ The pit. iwu. He migrates to id starts again. The is ready for develop make passageâ€"ways, os are carried down, lern science deal with hing of cement is too e hopeless; even iron <e the earth and water omicals. Then, when halt is a mass of ice, t round it, the chemiâ€" od, and the ice thaws; is up the water and d reached ie event is at work sending consumption. 10 $ c ten song v "o i comâ€" | Out of the Maelstrom of War Emerge ’ the New Nations of Poland, Roumanâ€" I ia, Jugoâ€"Slavia and Czechoâ€"Slavia. I ’ One of the most onerous tasks of ithe Peace Conference has been the ’erecuon in Europe of four new naâ€" | tions, viz.: Poland, Roumania, Jugoâ€" Slavia and Czechoâ€"Slavia. To those | who believe that the Allies have been | wasting their time on highly idealistic |problems in trying to set these four nations upon their feet it may be ansâ€" wered that the interest of the Allies is by no means altruistic. They are ;1mpened, if not by wholly selfish moâ€" ;tives. at least by the practical conâ€" | sideration of selfâ€"defence. _ For inâ€" | stance, in the late war Germany and. 1Austria were in control of a man-‘ power estimated at 30,000,000, made ! up of subject races that were no more | racially akin to Germany than are the | French. These millions were Poles, I' Czechs and Slavys who had been ruthâ€" |lessly misgoverned by Germany and ]Austrla for generations. When the opportunity occurred these forced solâ€" ’dlcrs surrendered in great numbers to their nominal enemies, who were their racial kin, as for instance when j the Czechoâ€"Slavs threw down their| arms to the Russians and later volunâ€" teared for service against Germany in France. ONE OF .THE TASKS OF PEACE CONFERENCE COMPLETED. THE FOUR NEW STATES OF EUROPE 22 0 000 2060 _JINRS In and h’l’"ite:;:t Prevents dryâ€" mg and cracking. Makes harâ€" ness last longer. Sold in conâ€" venient sizes, ,;,_ â€"â€"P8 lcather full of life and strength. Sinks in and A ten days trial of POSTUM usually does wonders in deter mining ‘whats the matter." POSTUNM When you feel something is wrong â€"â€"â€" better Took into your habits of living.~ Tea or coffee drinking often upsets one‘s feelings, though unsuspected. If tea or coffee disagree, use 66 enfi zge *# 7% *T en : â€" 4i ere‘is a Reason ‘ ess Oiler Commissioner H. B. Thomson of the Canadian Trade Commission has gone to London to consult with the Canadian Mission for the better linking of Canadian trade promotion work. ‘ In 1915 prices in Great Britain for first quality milkers ranged from £24 to £28 15s per head, as contrasted with £50 to £70 per head now. The new state of Jugoâ€"Slavia will comprise $5,000 square miles, and a population â€" approxmating 11,000,000. Poland, with her 24,000,000 populaâ€" tion, and her 98,000 square miles, reâ€" presents a loss to Germany and Ausâ€" tria of some 50,000 square miles and 12,000,000 subjects; all of Czechoâ€" Slavia is made up at the expense of Austria. New Roumania will be made up of almost half" enemy land and population, and Jugoâ€"Slavia will cost the enemy 45,000 square miles and more than 5,000,000 population. In all cases the other kind donor is Russia. The greatest problem of the mapâ€" makers and negotiators was in the erection of Jugoâ€"Slavia, which is to include Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Crotiaâ€"SHavonia, Carniâ€" ola and Dalmatia. The population is homogeneous enough _ despite the formidable array of names, and is made up of the three brauches of the Southern Slay family, namely, the Slovenes, the Croats and the Serbs. The difficulty was that while most of the frontiers of the new state were natural and easily determined, Jugoâ€" Slavian and Italian interests and naâ€" tionalities conflicted in Dalmatia and about Fiume and Trieste. These were accentuated by the fact that when Italy entered the war she was guaranâ€" teed by Britain and France the Slay hinterland of Trieste, then Austrian, but now desired by Jugoâ€"Slavia, ofi which our staunch ally, Serbia, is the controlling partner. At one time this: clash threatened to be serious, but it4 is believed to have been amicably set:| tled, Italy gving up all or most of her! Dalmatian claims in return for Fiume, | which is wholly Italian. | The reâ€"establishing of Roumania was not difficult, since Roumania alâ€" ready existed, and the only task was to define her new frontiers. _ These had already been indicated by the fact that adjoining Roumania in both Russia and Austria, were large numâ€" bers of Roumanans by racial origin. The original Roumania had an area of 53,000 square miles and a population of 7,500,000. Under the new arrangeâ€" ment her population and her area will be doublec by the addition of Sessarâ€" abia, Transylvania, Bukovina and part of Banat. out. Poland is to get her Baltic cofst and Danzig. Czechoâ€"Slavs and Roumania. Immediately to the south of Poland and forming a barrier between Gerâ€" many, on the one hand, and Austria and Hungary on the other, is Czecho Slavia. It is composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and a part of Hunâ€" gary, with a total population of 12,â€" 250,000, and an area of 53,500 square miles. Here, as with Poland, there was a problem constituted by the Gerâ€" man population along the frontiers, and here again it was determined that in order that Czechoâ€"Slavia should have natural boundaries these aliens would have to be included. â€"gives the axle spindle. and hub lining tlnmwh’ filling the minute lgofu with powdered mica. 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It is two or three feet long, plump, with a thick coat of long, grayishâ€"brown woolly hair. The head is large, wide, flat, and rabbitâ€"like, with upper lip cleft, and small eyes and ears; its legs are short and nearly equal ln‘ length, and the feet are fiveâ€"toed. The tail is about half an inch long, nearly ; bare. The wombat is easily domestl-l cated. In the mountainous districts of Australia its flesh is preferred to | | "This Is My Own, My Native Land." | _ "I was under the impression," writes i a correspondent of the British Weekâ€" | ly, "that America had secured the | copyright of the term ‘God‘s own counâ€" \ try, and had definitely applied it to the United States. But I find that our | Colonial troops have pirated the | phrase, and are applying it umblushâ€" i ingly to whichever corner of the Emâ€" | pire they happen to hail from. The | other day in a ‘bus a soldier with a _red band round his wideâ€"awake hat was explaining to his neighbor how pleasant it was to be going back in a few days to God‘s own country. ‘Why, I didn‘t know you were an American." remarked the neighbor in an accent that left no doubt on which side of the . Atlantic he was at home. ‘Who said I was? complained the other. ‘Well.x you claimed God‘s own country as your home, and that‘s America sure.’} ‘America,‘ repeated redâ€"band. ‘Yes, 1| daresay God had something to do with | the making of it. But New Zealand is His masterpiece, and don‘t you forâ€"| get it‘ " | * The underskirt, which is straight and narrow, is a simple foundation for the oneâ€"sided drapery of the tunic. McCall Pattern No. 8902. Laâ€" dies‘ Dress. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 25 cents. & Azk for Minard‘s and take no other. The warm sunny days warn us that it is nigh time to begin preparâ€" ing for the beach. 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