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S..%v J* ..J3*i- You cannot begin to measure its goodness alongside of others, the quality being INCOMPARABLE. e529 or M^fc 1 Sealed Packets Only. Thu Hcst-Koom at Ueverly. j next winter. "Are you KoiuK to town this after- hope?" Mrs noon, Bert?" gc.-j Anne Walton to her husband, who waa leaving the dinner tabic rathor huiriji'Iy. "Yrs; wane to fix up the children ar,,I oome along?" 'I'm not cujfur to go but I ought the room Think there's any Tompkins looked For tlie rest, the Gravesend men Uavo around the gro.ip for a sign. analyzed the record of the corps and "Sure there's hope." The indom- pre^iented a report on the work ac- Itable Mrs. Saylor chook hands with couipILshed during the war. everybody and carr.ed Anne off to / lii:d Bert and confer withjum about '^""'k Extra Licenses. I. ^.>^'':^ Arljwir Staivvvood Pier Cocyj uaiiton UlS)ln CouiDau/ liT •psclal orraniBmoat wSUi XUo«. AU*a Tozoata to. How soon must v/e bs r^iudy?" "Oh, in half i.n hour or so." The Gravesend pilutu ai-u proud of their record, and may fairly claim that it will rank among the foremost of CHAPTER XLI.â€" Cont'd. / J "You're capable of anything that's: normal and human, Jerry. Just anj'- , thing. You're capable, too, df any' sacrifice. Put yourself in my place. If I go out into the world now to ; earn a living, in two or three years,! provided 1 sh'^w intelligence and ca- ', /pacity, I ought to be earning a bet- /ter living. On the other hand, if I allow you to support us and to i=end me to collego, I may sutideiily dis- cover that I'm mpedirng your life and that some other woman loflks on Betty and Peter and me as blocking her happiness. Of couriic, as soon as ' I discovered that, I should at once have to break away and stand on my own feet, an<l I should be less fit to do it then than I am now â€" or shall be soonâ€" bi'Etdes hav.ing lost the time when I might have been getting a start. Now s'lpposG this .shouldn't happen. Don't you know that I should .'•.Iways suspect that just be- cause oi us you were not letting it happen? For you see, Jerry, I know you pretty well. And I know you're capable of any sacrifice." i "You've got me all wrong, Kate. I'm not self-sacrificing, and I'm too selfish and too comfortable, just as we are, to fall in love. You sec, I'm urging you to do what I ask because it would be for my satisfaction and comfort â€" not because it would be a fine thing for you." i "I'm not going to le.t a keen law- ' yer draw me into an argument." Kate gave his arm a linal pat and dropped â-  it. "I don't doLibt, Jerry, that we'll! leave you and your mother with tears in our eyes, but it's got to be done,' and you and she must make your ^ plans for April without reference to ! us. By April I expect to have a job."| "I had no idea, Kate, you'd be so i difficult to manage." Jerry's glance \ was half reproachful, half admiring. "Oh, I can be granite when I have to be," she answered with a smile. | When Mrs. Donohue returned from; visiting Mrs. Bennett, she found j Jerry pacing the floor and dictating notes for a brief to Kate; Peter and Betty had already gone to bed. "Now I hope to goodness you've got it all fixed up," said Mrs. Dono- hue, and her tone indicated that in- deed she had no doubts about the matter. "No. it's not to be fixed up," Jerry replied. "And the worst of it is, she's convinced me she's right, so I can't do anything more by v.'ny of persu- ading her," "But I can't understand!" wailed Mrs. Donohue, and she gazed from one to the other in amazement. "Jerry, child, couldn't you make her «««. Don't you know we want you, Kate?" i Keluclantly and without pretend- ing to comprehend the reasons pre-' sented to her, Mrs. Donohue bowed to the superior intelligence of the young. I "What must be must be," she said with resignation. "But it certainly will take all the pleasure out of mov- ing â€" which is little enough â€" to feel that we're losing you and Peter and Betty, my dear." Pai-tly because of this feeling, partly because Jerry had very little time for ho'i.io hunting, the (juestion what they should do in April dragged on from week to week unsettled. And the longer it dragged on, the less dis- pcsition there was to settle it. "Perhaps Kate won't get a job right off," Jerry said to his mother. "We can stay on here as tennanta at •d'M, and we'd better do that until Kate feels that she and her family must leave us." Meanwhile he and Kate were help- ing each other professionally; often he brought work home at night and : dictated to her, and she presented him with typewritten copies of his utterances the next day. It wag good I practice for her, because it familiar- leed her with legal phraseology; Jerry profited by the ajTangemeiit^ for it enabled him to turn out more' work than ne otherwise couu! have done. He found Kate almost as rapid â- a his office stenographer and a good iBffln Tnore l,iU!l!i^?pti sometimes she' ventured a hint ^r a crltlctsm, ^n^ iH ' was always worth considering. Th6[ more he worked with h&r, th« h'.urc| «>r)fidsnce tie came lo have in herj judgment, the more respect ff>r her| character; more and more <ild he fee) i that nho -vas a good person to work ! with. That she had a reciprocal feel-' ing about him was suggested bv the! rapid improvement in her work; Jerry was himself amazed by it. Such facility and cleverness, with fingers •n.-i -ith mind â€" he saw it davaloniDKl almost magically under his eyes. And as he became more inH)ressed by this, his senses awoke to other aspeots of the girl; she \m% good to look at in her tibsurbed moments and ii.;jpirit- ing when she was aroused; some- times there was deep Ihoughtfulness In her eyes, sometimes there was admiration, sometimes raillery; as she was d'-'ft vsith ber fingers and quick of mind, so was she swift and lissome in all her movements; and the more that Jerry watched her, the more did she amuse and please and interest him. On an evening in March Jerry came homo to hear the announcement that he had knov.n was some time inevitable. Kate had a position. ,*3he was going to work the following Monday in the office of a stockbroker who had applied to the school for a stenogi-apher. Although she was very cheerful about it, Peter and Betty were subdued^ and Jery suspected that Kate might be less exuberant really than she seemed. It was a stormy night, with wind and rain beating against the windows; but the little rooms were cozy and snug, and the little family, sitting together, en- gaged in their separate taslcs, formed a circle which it was hard to think was soon to be broken. As if by tacit consent they all avoided a discussion of the subject that was uppermost in their minds â€" where and how Kate and Peter ami Betty would now live. "Haven't you some dictation, Jerry?" Kate asked. "I need all the practice I can get before next Mon- day." Jerry produced papers from hi.s green bag, Peter and Betty with- drew to another room where their studies should not be disturbed, Mrs. Donohue continued to knit. But she grew drowsier and drowsier while Jerry, pacing to and fro, delivered his slow monologue, and at last she gave forth unwittingly sounds indi- cating that for her at least it was bedtime. So Kate and Jerry made the folding bed ready and went out to the kitchen to finish their work. They were still ut it when Betty and Peter called good night to them. "I guess that's enough for this evening," Jerry said at last. "Tired, Kate?" "No, not a bit." She sighe<l. "I wish my now employer were a law- yer; my training with you would be so much more valuable jf he were. I I don't suppose"' â€" she spoke hesitat- ingly â€" "your office needs another stenographer, does it, Jerry?" "I don't know about the office. But I need you, Kate." Jerry slipped his arm round her and gave her a kiss. "Oh, Jerry!" "Yes, I do." He kissed her again and laughed, her eyes were so wide and shining, her lips were opened in such a circle of wonder andâ€" yes, of happiness. "You're the best little helper any man could have, and I can't have you living anywhere else than just with me." j Then he felt both her arms round him, felt her lips softly brush his cheek, and hoard her say in a break- ing voice, "Oh, Jerry, my darling! And 1 do adore you so!" CHAPTER XLir. From the Donohue's new suite of rooms it was only a short walk to the boulevard fronting the park. On Sundays Jerry and Kate usually took a stroll among the park gardens, and each time they would note with inter- est the progress made in the building of the new house on the boulevard, at the corner of their street. It was a large and handsome house in the Georgian style, built of dark-red brick, with buff trimmings. "But I'm sure the people that are going to live there arn't as happy as we arc, Jerry," said Kate as they passed it one day. She gave her husband's arm a squeeze, after glancing round and making sure that no one would see. "I should say not," declared Jerry pi-oudly. "And however grand they are, I don't believe they have anvthing nicer than our new parlor furniture." "Espciially when you think of the new tall clock." Jerry glanceil at Knte with a twinkle of mischief in (lis eye. "Yes," she admitted. "I must say I'm getting resigned to having it. For it does look awfully well Of c:'urse, I never a.Vi like Sirs. Mngiiiro - but it was a h.iiulsomc present just ;i.e saiiic.J- (To be cont'nued.) Two tons of ammunition were used for each soldier killed, captured or seriously wounded in the war on the tvestern front fJround heather is being used as a fodder substitute for cattle in Den- mark Throughout the week Beverly won- dered v.ho was moving into Mrs. A merry (.crumble with the chil- Price's slio;). On S:iturday niornjing Brituin's seafarinjj achievements. Ov.-- dren ensued, and forty min'i*os later ' it displayed a sign which read "Hov- lug to the danger.,, both of ordinary the family was tucked a\'..:y in the erly Kest-Uoon-.â€" Come IriT" and dar- navigation and tUoso create.i by war old sleigh, and Prince -and Kate were inj^ the aft<irnoon and evening pr;ople cunditions, they were lecjuired to take making the slippery journey to town, came in, a 'little shy at first, but up a new Admiralty license, ns far The winter wind was raw and chi'.l, • finding friends and -eighbors they and by the time they reached Bev-' stayed to chat and rest. crly thf (hildran'3 faces were purple' Mrs. BrownsU luxuriously wrote with the cold. ' five postal cards. Mrs. Lano knitted "Can't we go seme place to get'^'-hile she rested the feet that had v.'arm, mother?" begged Bobby .toZ'"""w«".°„n'''t?o'';t'°fho.»^"thMp Saylor built block houses; Bobby and sets as far as IJ^rwick. As a rantter store. We can wait there ^^hde j,^^.^,_^ ,^^j.^^j ^^^ wonderful pictures of fact, it Is noled in the report, and drew others yet more wonderful. Gravesend men have conducted ships Mrs. Tompkins thought of a dozen as far north as Scapa Flow to Frcncli, | improvements for the. rest-room, and-Wutch and Irish ports, and to Liver- i Mrri. Earlham read tv.o stories and ' pool and the Bristol Channel coiitin- i copied a recipe. I ually. Measuring outward;; from sea- ' ., . . , , , ,, ,1 I like going to town lots bettor their wive.'j, children, bundles .and' west as Plymouth, and er.couraged in addition to go ns far as Barry Uoads and the Bristol Channel. They were also asked to undf^rgo, voluntarily, an examination for tlie whole of the east j been re^^dy to drop off the week be-' coast, and a large number responded 'fore. Tcmmy Teasdale and Richard and v/ero duly licensed to couduct ves- daddy goes to the bank and to the. blacksmith shop." ! Anne and tho youngsters unloaded, at the general store and Bert drove off to look after his own errands. The store was crowded with farmers, I , , r, , T-. , now, don't you, mother?" whispered tobacco smoke. Bobby and Bertha , Bertha, as Anne tucked her and Bob- wnggled their way to the big red i ^y into bed that night. "I'm tired stove, while Anne waited at the coun-. j^^^ I don't feel so cross as I used to ter with the butter and eggs she had: neither does brother." brought to trade. A half-dozen other 1 . , women were similarly waiting. "How do you do, Mrs. Walton. I seldom see you any more; where have you been keeping yourself?" said one of the women. "Oh, the roads have b^en so bad we i haven't been anywhere and I dread Child Welfare in the West. Child welfare is occupying a large share of attention in British Colum- bia and Alberta. Early in December there was held at Vancouver- the first aunual convention of tho Child Wel- fare Association of Brit.ish Columbia. coming to town. The children get -pj^^ program included discussions on so cold and tired and it takes so longj g,iu^.atJo„.,, ,.eforms, juvenile delin- when Bert has business to attend ^.Tj^g^j^y^ ^-^M mortality and diseases Sometimes I think I'd rather stay at.,,; children. Vocational training was home. How much are eggs worth wards of the Edinburgh ligluship, and taking no account of tho waters of the TlKuuea between Graves ;nd and that point, tho men covered from August 4, 1914, to November 11, 1918, a total distance of 1,811,320 miles. Several iiulivldiial pilots have alone covered more than 30,000 miles of unprotect- 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. Thirtj'-two have been mined or torpedoed, four of them on two oc- casions and two on three occasions. Few have not had many close con- purely from a strict sense of duty, Knowing tiio importance to the nation of quick dispatch of shipping, when they would sorely have liked to rest. Work With Transports. "Some in the earlier days were largely engaged with the hospital shlt-3 when first commissioned, some at cable, laying, others 'trooping.' Twelve went to Dover and were en- gaged with transports under the King's harbor nia.ster in taking men to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Dunkirk with a view to strengthenii.g the Ant- werp garriaon, and prevented the fall of that city. Many have crossed again and again to Rotterdam and back at tho request of the AdinlraUyâ€" in fact, most oi' this work has boon done by men of this body. Some, to perfect themselves, sought instruction about submarines at Chatham, before tho Admiralty woke to the tact of its im- portance to us. Others have drawn attention of the autiiorities to various iiieans of saving phips. We have also been able to re;M,-rt unauthorized sig- naling from tho Ehoie, being acquaint- ed with the places where autliorized signaling was to be expected. One of our body detected two escaped Ger- man orricers on hoard a Dutch vessel, and turned back and handed them over to the naval authorities. In fact, as each has been able, every man has put his heart into his work and done his very best in most difficult and trying circumstances, and with very littla sympathy or understanding." Nearly 15,000 acres in Canada are devoted to wheat growing. I , . I lu 1. I ;ij ~,;r.i,f i tacts with the German. One pilot, to ! urtced in order that children mignt ' ,.' ' . _ - . his own knowledge, has seven times eggs to-day?" 'become helpful factors in the com- "I heard some one tell Mrs. Tomp-.^^^jty fhe schools of Vancouver kins they were thirty-eight cents," | ^p,.,. mentioned particularly on ac- volunteered a woman who stood at ^ ^^^^^ ^j the special .^lasses for the the edge of the circle. "H'm; my _j,nta,,y b,ickward children and the cousin in tne city writes that they're | ^ggoj,i.,t|p„ p^j it^^jf „„ record as paying sixty cents in tho city ii?lit ' favor.hig institutions for the feeble- a.ong," contributed another. "'^V*''! minded better save up a lot and carry themj ^j^^ chief Diagnostician of the Juv- to the city. Id like to walk through ^ g^jj^ Court of Seattle, Washington, one of the big stores right now I j addressed the Association on juvenile hate the mirror.s though-thosc long ; j^jinqug^.y ^^^ i^^ dependence on the ones that let you see how your skirt jg^^t^g ^^ ^^^^^ training. A low ebb sags and how shabby your shoes are, ^ ^f p;,rental responsibility results in and Mrs Saylor edged behind Anne, j^^ygnjig delinquency. It was recom- "S.J.r „ r" J . I mended ttiat mothers' pensions should We,l, I dont want to see any- ^^^ established because motherhood thing or walk anywhere, remarked ^^ouid be recognized as the highest Mrs. I.ane 'My feet are ready to , ^^^^^^ j^ ^^^ g^^^^ drop off I don t .see why they can't i j,, A„„,rta the study of Child Wel- have a few more chair.s ,!n this store ; f^^j.^ ;, eoncerned with the prepara- when there i.s no other place for U3|t^„j, ^^^j serving of hot lunches to to wait for the m.n folks. I ve had; ^ural school children. The Depart- iny trading done for an hour andj^^nt of Kducation for tho proviince Sams getting the horses shod; no\ y^^^ ^,,j,^,,, ^ ,^0^1,,^^ containing a one can tell when he'll be through." "That's just it! Why haven't we somewhere else to wait? Over in Stevenville they have a regular rest- room in tho City Hall, with chairs and couches and little beds for babies, and magazines to read and desks to write on!" Mrs. Saylor forgot her tempor- ary embarrassment and stepped out from hiding with a swing of the hands that suggested all the comforts that were lacking. "Yes, but Stevenville isn't Bever- ly," said Mrs. Lane with the inflec- tion of a fatalist. "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, "Why," replied Anne, "Bert owns an interest in that building, and he said the other day it would just stand empty this w.inttr. I know we could have the use of it. There's a stove in it already." "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 con- fidence in the group. "I'll come, too!" chorused several others. "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. "We ought to have a coiple of tables," suggested Mrs. Brownell. "Each of us could bring a few maga- zines to place on a reading table; and \ think one table ought to be fixed number of recipes and practical sug- gestions wliereby the cold lunch will he wholly or partially abolish>xl. It is estimated that more than three- had the enemy close alongside. Once he passed over a submarine oft New- liuven. Every pilot, too, has seen many sad and impressive sights, when ships, large and small, had received their death-blow fivni mine or tor- pedo. It is useful here to quote from the report: Saved Many Vessels. "Often the shock transmitted through the water was so strongly felt on board other ships that people rushed on deck imaaiining their own vessel had been struck. Two particu- lar cases win live in our memory: One in which seven vessels in twenty- eiglit houts wore sunk, beached, or towed disabled away from one point and anothc when six were destroyed or seriously damngod 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 tho Bub marine, and that wo have had so very few accidents with nearly 2,000,- 000 miles covered in the hottest of At the recent convention of the United Farmers of Alberta, Hon, George P. Smith, Minister of Educa- tion, declared that consolidated schools were the only medium to ex- tend secondary advantages to rural districts. the danger zone, surely it may bo j fifths of the school children attending: taken as proven that our being there i rural schools in Alberta are depend-} has materially assisted to keep down ent on cold lunches and that these the number of casualties to vessels. 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 bal- anced cold lunches are also suggested to mothers. ' BRITIsirSoTS' DARING IN WAR 2,000,000 MILES COVERED IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE. Work In English Channel Called for Gre^t Resourcefulness and Scorn of Danger. The German submarines, which. In the dark days of tho war, preyed on shipping 111 the Downs and the Eng- i Ush Channel, have beeu brought, score by score, to Harwich for surrender. Their menace has been removed, but the men of tho mercantile marine, who, on voyage after voyage, cheer- fully faced the verll of death at sea, will never forget the anxious watches passed In tlio danger zone when "ruth- lessuess" was in full activity. And if the sailors, who, after all, enjoyeej iip- munlty from attack when their ships reached the further seas, have much to renieinbor, what must bo the memories of the Trinity House pilots, whose duties kept thorn continually in infested waters? There is the case of the Ruler of UB for a writing table. Half the timei ^'''o's at Oravesond, who was torpe- i don't have as many minutes to my-'''"^'' °" ''"fee consecutive Journoys self all the week as I spenil in fidget- 1 ''*''*'* Channel with valuable boats, ing around thi« store on a Saturday *"*' '^" «'*'"'^ occasion by sheer deter- "It is quite impossible," tho report continues, "to single out any men for special mention, for it Is impossible to get like conditions for different men. Luck enters very largely into 1 It. Some have done first-rate work in ; getting their damaged vessels In, j others with very big mileage, and I many close shaves, have escaped al- j together, probably largely through j luck, though, on the other hand, the escape may bo sometimes due to ef- ficient lookout, zigzagging and a gift of doing the unexpected instead of the obvious thing at danger points. It be- comes a pretty problem as to whether a man who has been torpedoed and gets his vessel in, or one who has done big distances and never been touched, is most to be congratulated. Our work has been very varied beyond general pilotage, and has comprised all sorts of duties, many of them of a volun- tary nature. It has been the rarest event for any ship to be detained at Gravesend for lack of a pilot, and in the times of pressure men have gone j from ship to ship till nearly collaps- ' ing from exhaustion. They kept going 'â-  JJE'LL like the self- stropping razor that gives him a fresh, keen edge each day; he'll welcome the sim- plicity that enables hitn to i:lean his AutoStrop Razor without taking it apart; most cf all he'll be glad of the military- like efficiency with which the AutoStrop Razor goes "over the top" and removes the toughest "bai-faed-wire" beard without the slightest "pull" or irri- tation. The AutoStrop "Razor is a gift he'll be thankful for every day of his life â€" a lasting memento of your thoughtfulness. Kazor â€" Strop -â€"12 blades â€" $5 i4ut{yStFOp AUTOSTROP SAFETY RAZOR CO., Limited AutoStrop Building, Toronto. Canada 2 afternoon." "Could we have some picture books and toys for the kiddies?" "We'll have to have such things, Ihat^s Mrs. Teasdale. one tKing dt's minatioii and pluck, and the confi- dence he was able to Inspire in others, succeeded In bringing the ships to port. This is but one case among many, and th'^re is little cause for sur- forâ€" to keep the children from get- P*"*^® ">»* "'« Admiralty has asked ting so tired and croag," "We'll try it out this way for a hionth 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 bv by-law lin time for for tho names of men to whom honors might be given (or their services. 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