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oc to 1 WV + â€""CALADIAR" Lieutenant John Hobart Sears, famâ€" Hiarly known as "Johnny" Sears, was Tecling lenesome. =:â€" _::__‘=‘ _ With his feet on his desk, his chair tipped precariously on its two hind leps, and with a pipe in his mouth, Johnny was thinking of home, the white, bright lights, and the almost eavally briwcht eves of the girls he had white, brigh equally brigh known. | T EB N TT s Wheo! : then erg« then "u'l"hev;::v;n was crowded with people, but suddenly the young hostess went forward to welcome a newcomer. _ Have You Ever Thought of This? â€"That a Cup of ~ > e . T k Bss1 ‘properly infused, is one of Nature‘s greatest blessings as a harmless stimulating beverage. fair €h ab &n wte char Natalie March was having a studio tea at the place she was pleased to eall her "digs." She was looking very lovely this afternoon. Happiness irâ€" radiated every movement of her long, lithe body. C s ce h _ "Let me introduce you to some of these people," said Natalie, "but please stay and we can have a talk." ;;7&"5 o Corfine ninoetty breily and e was loo unusually pretty much more qngvuted than hner usual bored air of languor often permitted. She stayed, as Natalie had insisted, a #} was scanty conso ation. He wishned he could talk to Natalie. She was always so entertaining, alâ€" ways the life of the party, always on her toes with the sheer joy of living. Her turbulent redâ€"brown head seemed to appear through the haze of tobacco smoke. and her brown eyes to glow tenderly upon him. The more he thought about Natalie, the more he felt that he wanted to keep in touch with her, to keep her from forgetting him, away here in a mudhole in France. _ _ _ o "‘s"u"d?i;fll'y' he smiled broadly, and, reaching for a pen and paper, began to write rapidly. _ _ _ "I‘m delighted said Virgmuf g A) w "My dear Miss Wells! I‘m so glad to see you! I was afraid we would never meet again, now that our Red Cross class is di_s{undod." es 1 th awr pC 4b if W oRDER NOW The D. PIKE CO., Limited, 193 King St East, â€" TORONTO The Height of Inefficiency ; the evening : ennui increa a had only serv distance betwe g and everybod ) see and do. I Virginia was inty conso atio ‘he evening wore on, he ennui increasing. Writing had only served to accentuâ€" tance between them, and and everybody else that he ee and do. Reflecting how /irginia wasâ€"and Natalie ‘v conso ation. He wished Paradise enow ar once again. get me, dear. 1 » day! In the too lonely, I‘ll uild castles in every room! it, and God bles old pipe clenche Iohn Hobart S« ir and reread th was legion, but, & or two faces sepa m the crowd and y room! d God bless you! Johnny. ipe clenched between Hobart Sears_tilted 1 reread this effusion, rile illuminating his to see you ltory corresponâ€"| dence. I, too, had a letter from him written to him|this morning!" e two-«\'irginia" Natalie‘s smile became one degree known in his‘ more fixed. in the {ashionâ€"| _ "Did you? I wonder if he was feelâ€" e she had led ing as blue and lonely when he wrote cunzer set, and you as he was the night ke wrote By MORRIE B. MORRIS nt acquainâ€" | me : re artistic.' "He was rather ; ingâ€"these| see me," laughed V vn, but in than ulu&l,ie sai ’ Natalie ‘fuekmd etty face,} "He said one co expression, the thought of a . he stared| a man under some . She had said. defensively. re he lelt;l "That‘s what he erious, she plied Virginia fain cious, amli Natalie‘s eyes fla | a sudden humorous earth with‘ deepened in her se ed for pen| pale, haughty face. dear little] "Tell me, xiias V and blue; ed, "did he by any long letter| the thought of you from forâ€" courage to go on? ’ Virginia nodded |from the depnths of hbow â€" the! ‘"Where is the le meantime fill the old the airâ€" but, as he m comin e "wildâ€" to abuse again!" w hom ated emâ€" saw : "Those who speak of forgiving the : Hun should visit Noyon, and they | should remember that the story of | Noyon is only the story of countless |towns and villages. No description | can create the imnression of what one sees one‘s self. In a sense the town gives the impression that you get in a quarry. Light railways ran through | what remains of the streets. Wooden | shanties that have sprung up here and | there suggest navvies‘ huts. Great | open spaces, which have been cleared ‘ of rubbishâ€"that rubbish was the z wreckage of what were once beautiful iho\uos“make it hard to realize that Noyon is a town. Men, women and l children are living in these ruins. until they could have a chat together, and it was over their second cup of tea that she remarked casually:â€" Nuta)'ge smiled bright]{. "Indeed, I do! Isn‘t he a darling boy*" "Yesq." Virginia‘s voice softened to a lower note. "I‘ve known him for yearsâ€"since he was a cadet." "You‘ve known him lots longer than I have," said Natalie, wistfully; "but we‘ve ‘been awfully good friends. I had a letter from Kim this morning." “B{ the way, didn‘t you tell me that you know Johnny Sears?" _ _ _ _ "It wouldn‘t make much difference whether 1 would or not," replied Natalie, pulling a similar envelope from the pocket of her frock, "since you‘ve already seen it! That prince of duplitity has written us exactly the same letter, my dear!" An eager scrutiny revealed the awful secret. Except for the name at the beginning, word for word, comma for comma, to the final tender "{iod bless you," the letters were Talk of Forgiving the Hun Ceases After Visit to Noyon identical, When they had finished, Virginia was too angry to speak and Natalie was shaking with gusts of laughter. "Isn‘t it too ridiculous!" she gasped. "He was rather pitifully anxious to see me," laughed Vtrginh; "even more than usual, ze said!‘ Natalie puckered her brows. "He said one couldn‘t realize what the thought of a girl could mean to a man under some cirecumstances," she said. defensively. "That‘s what he said to me," reâ€" plied Virginia faintly. Natalie‘s eyes flashed angrily. ‘l'hen' a sudden humorous twinkle 5rew and. deenened in her scrutiny of h'gdnia’sl pale, haughty face. "Tell me, Kdiss Wells," she entrut-’ ed. "did he by any chance tell you that| "Where is the 1 she demanded, a mirth in her voice my seeing it?" ly was an adjunct to the cathedral. Inâ€" stead of the great organs that were the pride of the cathedral, there is a harmonium that would pass muster for a village school. Of the aitar all that can be said is that it is decent in Its simplicity. The old glass windows 'â€"‘;;fhe Bishop of Noyon has improâ€" vised a place of worship for his people. It is a simple conventicle thpt formerâ€" of the cathedral have given place to common glass. Beauty Destroyed. "These may seem small matters beâ€" side the horrors of the great war, but they are not, for they are one phase of what is borne in on one at every stage of such a jJourney. At each step one is haunted by the feeling that beauty has been frrevocably destroyed, and it hurts the more to know that as often as not it has been wantonly destroyed. "From Noyon to St. Quentin, the long panorama of wreckage continues. Culscard is a heap of ruins. Ham is a hean of ruins, village after village is in the same condition On this road again there is another hideous e donce of Hun frightfuiness and Hun wantonness. "T(}-c;rhnny had as its objective not only to conquer France, but se to damâ€" Virginia straightened herself. _ "Did Â¥ou’.’ That‘s a funny coinciâ€" nce. I, too, had a letter from him in de in the London Morning ribing French reconstrucâ€" odded, pulling a letter ths of her handbag. the letter he wrote you," d, a note of hysterifal Wells," she entreatâ€" chance tell you that : had given him the if vou don‘t mind "And I was so pleased! I‘ve been running around all day with that letâ€" ter in my pocket. Oh, I‘ll get you for this, Johnny Sears, if it takes ten years!" Virginia smiled unwillingly. "Iâ€"I simply ate it up," she conâ€" fessed, with an unwonted lapse into slang. "I think he‘s abominable; P never write to him again as long as 1 live!" Natalie bit her lip. "Yes, you will!" she cried, suddenly. "I have itâ€"the very thing! We‘ll give iLieutenant John Hobart Sears the surâ€" prise of his life." \ T am waiting with an impatience I ‘can hardly restrain for your return. | I feel that I know you so much better |than I ever did beforeâ€"and we will i Johnny Sears fulped and reached a ‘trembling hand for the sheet of blue | notepaper. It couldn‘t be! They had ‘never heard of each otherâ€"yet this | war had brought so many unlikely | people together in one way or lnogher‘. bef. Entering the office, his eye fell upon the letters piled on his desk. Two zersonal ones, addressed in feminine ands, greeted him _p}ea.s‘nntly. & Dear Johnny,â€"You can‘t imagine how pleased and surprised I was by your letter. It was so sweet of you to write me so beautifully about the inspiration I have been to you. Beâ€" lieve me, dear, I appreciate to the full every word you say; you don‘t know how thoughtfully I unde_rstang. i L LC NR â€"14.0 h mt Pnscc ePA es e vanatns d He o;ened Virginia‘s blue envelope with the dark blue crest first:â€" _ _ ETe Pn en e m Cns t I am waiting with an impatience I can hardly restrain for your return. I feel that I know you so much better than I ever did beforeâ€"and we will have so much to say to each other, won‘t we, dear? Yes, dear, we wiyl Thank you for telling me that the thought of me has fiiven you the courâ€" age to }o on. I value this at its true worth, Johnny, and I‘ll never forget it! Good night and Godâ€"bless you! Virginia. Dear little Virginia! _ Apparently his letter had made her happy. He opened Natalie‘s creamâ€"colored envelope with a warm glow of pleasure. _ sls wA f PE CCC Dear Johnny,â€"You can‘t imagine how pleased and surprised I was by your letter. It was so sweet of you to write me so beautifully about the inspiration I have been to you. Beâ€" lieve me, dear, I appreciate to the full every word you say,; you don‘t know how thoroughly I und?rctand.! $ is d uit o1 13. 40c 2u0 4P â€"Wh cccant cb ranag Johnny straffhtened up and stared at the letter before him. Those words had a strangely familiar sound! He read on:â€" _ e j C o PNLE CY OmE T O elcnes s t He read frantically to the end of Natalie‘s letter:â€" Thank you for telling me that the thought of me had fiven you the courâ€" age to fo on. I value this at its true worth, Johnny, and I‘ll never forget it! Good night and Godâ€"bles‘s' yog.! hav; ‘so‘ 'rr:;xci‘xmto- 'aâ€"a';; _to each other, won‘t we, dear? Yes, dear, we will! Natalie. He compared the sheet of creamâ€" colored notepaper and the sheet of blue. Except for the name at the botâ€" tom of the page, word for word, comma for comma, those letters were identical! Dejectedly, Lieutenant John Hobart Sears tilted back in his chair and moodily contemplated the future. _ age her that there should be no reâ€" covery. I passed through mile after mile of what had once been orchard land. For no military object the Gerâ€" mans cut down the orchard trees, and today one drives through country which is strewn with tree stumps that have been sawn off close to the roots. Farmers Respect Graves. "The story of the orchard trees is the story of the wrecked French mines, of the determination of Gerâ€" many to wage war with France long after peace had been declared officialâ€" ly. It would be well for those who have a feeling of kindliness toward the sufferings of Germany to rememâ€" ber that the German people knowingly and deliberately planned that France should be subjected to such a fate. "Much of the havoc caused to the soil is already repaired, and on the road it is often not easy to trace out what has been the line of the trenches. With amazing industry these have in many cases been filled in, and all that can be seen of them is the irregular patches of lighter soil that follow the line which represented a portion of four and oneâ€"half years of hardship, heroism and gallantry. The graves reâ€" main. Sometimes the dead lie side by side in vast cemeteries, each grave marked by a cross. In other cases they have been left where they fell, sometimes lying in the middle of a field, with only a cross to mark the place. In all cases the farmers have respected these lonely graves, and the plow has been turned from its course to respect the rest, whether of comâ€" patriot or ally or enemy. Plain of Dead Land. "After passing through Noyon, Guisâ€" card, Ham, St. Quentin and Cambrai, I thought I had little left to learn of the meaning of desolation, but the last stage of the journey, the road from Cambral to Araas, brought a third phase, which in its way was even more terrible thanâ€"the preceding one. The villages all along the road were wiped out of exisience, but by repetition one "I might have had better sense, rpestueninmesemmemca~~~ |" he The Nervous Child. Some children are as stolid as Comâ€" anche Indians, and some are little bundles of nerves that shrink from an unkind word. Nothing is more pitiâ€" ful than to see the sensitive child with a stalid mother, or a highâ€"strung vitâ€" ally alive mother with a Comanche child. The nervous child is very seldom created nervous; she is made so by environment, and the cause being reâ€" moved, she is very apt to prove only the sensitive child after all. Never refer to the peculiarities of| a child inclined to be nervous. If she! draws down the corner of her mouth ignore it; if she puts her finger in her mouth, ignore it, unless the habit seems forming, and then the wearing of a finger cot will remedy the trouble without need of reproof. If she has an unpleasant way of walking a step behind you, to your anxiety, ignore it.| Better any of these little things than a child who, from frequent chiding: becomes superâ€"sensitive or whose overâ€"taxed nerves bring on an attack) of St. Vitus dance. | said, gloomily, "than to pick two girls in the same town. I call it the height of inefficiency}" _ _ __ One very sensitive little child beâ€" came suddenly much worse, losing flesh and starting at the slightest sound. She slept in the same room with her parents, in her own little bed, and her mother, being of the same temperament, discovered that an alarm clock standing on a dresser not far from the little bed had a peculiarâ€" ly loud and insistent tick. The clock was removed to another reom and the child began to gain within a few days. The light from a corner street lamp falling on another child‘s face was proving alike mischievous when the trouble was discovered and the poâ€" sition of the bed changed. If a child becomes suddenly nervous look for the cause. It may be a teasâ€" ing companion, some little misdeed unâ€" confessed and unforgiven lying heavy on the wee conscience, a pair of unâ€" comfortable shoes, even a heartily disliked hat that maternal authority says must be worn. Before resorting to medicines, search out if possible, this primal cause and nature will work wonders in restoring lost . nerve equilibrium. A Housewife Speaks. Since the amazing changes brought about by the war, and since women are holding so many responsible jobs in the industrial field, I believe we housewives are more than ever inâ€" clined to feel discouraged with our lot. We pick up a paper or magazine and find pictures of women who are holding unusual jobs. That is, under past conditions, the jobs would have been unusual, but now it has grown quite common to find women in almost gets used to that sight. I had got used to seeing acre after acre of land withâ€" out a cow or a horse at pasture. "It is over twenty miles from Camâ€" brai to Arras, and the impression left on me is of one unending plain of dead land. Trenches score it in all direcâ€" tions, filled in so far only by natural subsidence: It is land that has lain untilled now for years, that has grown a hideous, dullâ€"colored, rank, grayish vegetation. "Live shells lie buried all over the fields, and the plough has scarcely touched any part of it. It is hard to say whether one is affected more by the idea of the dreadful monotony that the men who defended that country must have suffereod from as month gucâ€" ceeded +to month or by the present state of the land. Tract of Desolation. "Perhaps it was partly imagination, but it seemed as if in this tract of nightmare there was not a bird or an insect. Certainly there were no sheep, horses, cattle or even fowls, and we passed scarcely a living soul. . The general air of neglect extended to the road, the worst long stretch of road that I have ever travelled on. "That is a picture to be borne in mind when one thinks of the economic condition of France. A glance at the map is apt to make one consider taat, after all, it is not so very large a porâ€" tion of France that has been ravaged. A visit to the district itself makes one realize how appalling is the extent of the devastation. France is so near to England that in the press of other world events one is apt to forget that there is this tract of desolation within half a day‘s journey from our shores. Minard‘s Liniment used by Physicians. "Nearly a year and a half after the armistice villages remain unbuilt, land remains untilled, cities are destroyed or empty of all save the barest necesâ€" saries, and this, not because of any laziness or lack ef good will on the part of the populationâ€"their industry and their enterprise, on the contrery, are the astounding thirgâ€" but because of the magnitude of the damage." WUN I AMKIVY (The End.) DPE ’E Tpbore|\ TORONTO I» â€" ‘eemeent > any line of work. We read of the large salaries they getâ€"and it makes us sigh. Thinking of these things, knowing that I can never resign, I‘ve found reasons why my work is best of all. It is complex indeed, this job of mineâ€"made up of countless humdrum tasks, for I‘m a farmer‘s wife. I alternately cook, wash dishes, kiss & small bumped forehead to make it well, hoe in the garden, mend socks, overalls, and grain sacks, button a refractory button on dolly‘s gown, and tl& to make 7prospects look brighter to John, who is inclined to get blue at reverses. It surely is a responsible position that I hold. The physical welfare of husband and children is largely in my charge. I influence, perhaps involunâ€" tarily, my little ones‘ mental and moral growth. As to possibilities, there is no limit to them. Possibly, in years to come, our twoâ€"yearâ€"old, who now carols like a little bird, may develop a volce that will thrill the hearts of thousands. Poerhaps our schoolgirl daughter, nickâ€" named in babyhood "Sunbeam," will prove indeed a sunbeam in the niche where she finds herself. It may be that John will be happier, even better, because of me. body, and a pure heart? When the reticent John, at the end of a difficult day, offers a caress, a few loving words of praise? And the rewards of sympathetic, intelligent, successful wifehood and motherhood! Eloquent tongues have enumerated them since time began. But who has words to express all that a mother feels when the child she has borne and reared becomes the man she hoped he might be? When her baby girl blossoms into womanhood with a bonny face, a clean, healthy I am sure our occupation is the hardest, pleasantest, safest, most hazâ€" ardous, most perplexing, and most worthâ€"while in the world. If we fail, our inefficiency will shadow the lives of the ones we love the best, so we‘ve got to make good. All together, felâ€" low workers, homeâ€"makers, nationâ€" builders, let us take up our tasks with a will. The {fashionably dressed woman is wearing a short skirtâ€"and about anyâ€" thing else that she pleases. The blouses are most varied. They hang loose and straight, are tucked in, and are also made looped under to give the bougant effect. _ And there are fetching basquesâ€"fitted ones with a decided nip at the waistline. Sleeves at their fashionable best are short and kimono in style, though many smartly dressed women wear the threeâ€"quarter length bell sleeve. It is rumored that in the fall we are to wear the uncomfortable high choker collar, but at present the neckâ€" line is low. It is cut square, round, in a deep U, or straight across. The ghort skirt varies in shortness from seven to eleven inches from the ground. The younger and smaller the woman, the shorter the skirt. If she is old or stout or tall, then down it should come a little. Think this over and you‘ll see it‘s right. Colors are gay, the loveliest shades‘ being seen. Quite in harmony with the freshness of spring is the vogue for green. All shades of green are modâ€" ish, though the smartest tones are the | brilliant green we are familiar with| in the Italian flag, and the jadeâ€"green| which hasn‘t too much white in it.‘ Grassâ€"green is used as a combination| color, and green with a tinge of blue’ known as grotto. In the new cottons, much red is seen. Stylish ginghams are in red and black combinations. Red dotted Swiss is a novelty among sumâ€" mer fabrics, and yellow and ecru dot-' ted Swisses are much seen. Voile wns] never more fashionable, It comes in: about every design you can think of.} The voiles with wide satin stripes‘. make up into very smart plaited': skirts. Ey the way, the separate skirt| is having a decided vegue of its own.) It is boxâ€"plaited, sideâ€"plaited, acâ€" cordionâ€"plaited, and there are also the very practical twoâ€"piece models with big novelty poâ€"kets. Such maâ€" terials «s cotton gabardine, ratine, voile, surf satin, georgette, and Barâ€" onet sat‘n are all used for these skirts. For everyday wear the smock is looked upon with special favor. It is not only a utility garment, but also an artistic one toâ€"day. _ With dark skirts of voile, taffeta, or tricotine, gay plaid taffeta blouses and basques are worn. These are worn over the skirt, and are firished with wide girdles which emphasize the long waistline. Odd little trimminf touchâ€" es are introduced in these girdles, such as upstanding turnâ€"back frills of picotâ€"edged organdie or fan plaitings of taffeta matching the skirt in color. Taffeta is specially liked for the silk dress, and it is trimmed with ruchings, plaitings, or shirrings. Figured foulâ€" ard is also used to trim the taffeta frock. Many of these taffeta dresses have tunics, and frequently the way the tunic is fastened to the skirt gives the long waistline effect, The majorâ€" ity of these little silk dresses have a very short sleeve, and it‘s of the fabric rather than a transparent "material. But there are taffeta drosses with Dress Suggestions. an= 222 iieee elbowâ€"length bell sleeves finished with a net or chiffon underâ€"sleeve. In millinery and dress trimmings everything glistens. In Paris, ribbons, silks, and hat trimmings, such as flowers, fruits, and wings, have a waxed and shiny effect. Raffia is anâ€" other smart hat trimming. There are silk hats and georgette hats embroijdâ€" ered in raffia flowers. nmmmrmmenmeeffgemmmmammam I:eep Minard‘s Liniment in the house. If you have & friend who is a sailor and his ship is lying at anchor in the Thames at London you may address a letter to him and it will be delivered at his gangway jusrt as your own are delivered at your front door, At no other port in the world is there a mail delivery to ships lying at anchor, though mail will be delivered to ships at docks. SR PDRECT The Thames river is divided into two postal districts, each under the control of a river postman, who makes his rounds in & craft resembling .A fishing boat. In clear weather the deâ€" livery round is accomplished in four or five hours, but if there is a fog the work becomes difficult and dangerous, as ships are hard to locate and there is always the chance of being run down by a steamer. The river posgtâ€" men bave their own uniform, as disâ€" tinguished from that of the mere land posimen. The task of delivering the river letâ€" ters has been more or less of a family monopoly for several bundred years, son succeeding father as a matter of course. In recognition of faithful serâ€" vice George III. presented the family of Evans with the freedom of all ports of the kingdom and a silver medal welghing sixteen ounces. Needless to say, though bighly prized as an heirâ€" loom, the medal is not worn by the Evans men upon their watery rounds. Bulk Carlots TORONTO ESALT Works C. J. CLIFF s TORoNnTo Buy Thrift Stamps Thames River Postmen. sCHOOL OR COMMERCI BANKING MEDICINE EDUCATION Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechasicel and Electricel ENGINEERING SUMMEE $CHOGL _ RAVIGATICK CCHOOL July and August _ December to Aprii ALICE KING, Acting Registrar COARSE SALT LA ND SALT in raffia flowers. Bob Long Says:â€" BOB LONG GLOVES will outwear any other make of Glove on the market, because they are made by skilled work. BOB LONCG BRANDS for farmers, 1 designed fl-"'mmm'.gz‘u..mt want to stretch your arme and ‘"My overalls and shirts are roomy '."! comfortable, and made espeâ€" R. G. LONG & Co., Limited /inniseg _ TORONTO _ Montre Known from Coast to Coast from the strongest glove QUEEN‘S 148 "One good mother is WOrM) & "M"C dred schoolâ€" masters." . The truth of this timeâ€"honored proverb is borne out by the tributes which euccessful men pay to the influence of their mothore. The Rt. Hon. D. Lioyd George. "My mother had a hard struggle to bring up her children, but she never complained, and never spoke of her struggle. It was not until long after that we were able to appreciate how fine bad been her spirit in the hard task of bringing up her fatherless children. Our bread was homeâ€"made. We scarcely ate fresh meat, and 1 reâ€" member that our greatest luxury was half an egg for each child on Sunday morning&." Mr. Thomas A. Ecison, the Inventor. "I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good efâ€" fects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for hber apâ€" preciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, J should never have become an inventor 1 was always a carcless boy, and with a mother of different mental calibre J should probably have turned out badâ€" ly. But ber firmness, her sweelness, her goodness, were peotent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me. The memory of her will always be a blessing to "My Mother Was the Making of Me," Says a Great The Rt Hon. John Burns. "Mother and wife, they are the best friends I ever bad â€" Characier and carcerâ€"all is due to their guidance and influence." Dr. T. J. Macnamara, M.P. "My father‘s medals (he fough! in the Crimea and afterwards went cat with his regiment, the old Forlyâ€" Seventh, the Loyal North Lancashiros, to Canada, where I was born) are among my dearest possessions. . To my father and hbis comradesâ€"great, kindly, generous, tenderâ€"hearted men â€"â€"amongst whom I was brought up in the barracks at Montreal, 1 owe pracâ€" tically everything. They made a man of me far more than many school masters ever did afterwards." Mr. Martin Harvey, the Actor Sir Hall Caine, the Author. "If I were writing an auichiegraphy in the accepted sense, 1 think 1 should be tempted to tell some touch ng «tories of how my father, as a {readâ€" less and penniless hoy, scrambles and starved himself through seven long years that were supposed to be rnooes sary to teach him a trade; fnd as~» after he had married, and chldron had begun to come, starved and scram}lod, or at least pinched and deprivei himâ€" gelf, with the cheerful coâ€"operation of my mother, through the years in which 1 and my first brother and sister had to be sent to school. The worl) went well with him in later years, and his children of a younger brocd knew mothing of his privations; but it ie not for me, as his eldest son, to forâ€" get the stoical unselfishress to which I owe so much." we are accustomed io think that the freezing of any form of animal lifo means the certain death of the y otim, end while this is true as regards he larger and more highly developed forms, mary minute organisms and some larger ingects are not injured by freezing. In general it may be said that a Â¥ caterpillar which normally passos the winter in cold climates can be frozen hard and live, and the grubs of the daddyâ€"longlegs may be frozen so hard that they may be essily broken into fragments, and those not brokoen wili in due course thaw out and }ive The idea that a freezing tempernturo is fatal to all forms of insect lifo is the basis t r the popular beliet that freozâ€" Ing weather is healthfu!,. As a matter of fact, germsâ€"that is, microbes or bacteriaâ€"are not "bugs" at all, snd very few of them will be kilied by a temperature no lower than the (ro>â€" ing point, 82 degrees Fabrenheit, ~24 some are unharmed by a temperature of 50 degrees below zera. To dodge difficulties is |» lose power of decision. Animals Withstand Inte:se d my fai of my that of n his fond The theory that Buddh‘s 1os first visited America : gentury was pul forwars ‘1‘&7 Professor John ®Fr; ‘ eroglyphics have no sovered on the foundation the pyramids of San Juan 1 #n Mexico, which ar slmilar to symbols use language. These lon fessor Fryer‘s beliefs He points out that tr the Chinese classios, : historical, geographical works, altude to a coun far to the east of Ch name of FPusang or us ‘The narrative PFusang is on reo â€"that of Hut 5 hene or Cabul, t missionary acliv The &n the of the woy, and lords was The popular belief that Christopher olumbus was the first to discover merica in 1492, bas had another dow cou the B 61 4t MJ toâ€"4 the dati Lt 1 whis though prelim: ©d for In ans sooked It Largo in Flori for its t s wanp other p: molst n times, i: of the They w« in each overfloy Al The | m joy th His fa may h: send i more i\ such as On : is a la Was Columbus First? relaths« to han« w five o voted to Inch strip portion for Think postma: presen t Postman as Fa Much work ricultural De »rove the c farm tions plantation of rice is gul fevor. 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