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-*^ ^• NELLIE SAV/ THE FAIRIES nv KATB VArCHAN fpv «ajr iho fairies danco here on â- oonllght ntuhu." "Do t^ev?' ra xiTQ anytl^tii^ to • . th«in. I^â- .a^^^e seeing falr'.ss In ;h-> twentte'h '••â- T:fi;r>! and last she And 111: fall Into the water, •i- !' 'i ;.-, !â- .. ; t tho biittom.. • She lay for a moment, wondering why she waa no comfortablo and wliy !b« did nut dto: then f<ho opsiiuJ hur eyes, p.nd when Ehn had done so, a v'JunK Kirl of *P''""'f '" ''•"" '*^c'- There ilras not •*»'•! ten. l-1'mhod n>ai-rl!y, whil.i h'r conir>:<nl.»R, (I little yoiing'^r. lookvd Bomev.hat pinno!. for she was doing the honorr â- â- ' her home to an old school fr!-'i'-, and was yot younK enotish to lovo ta'.o' lore an'l, at all event.-:, to Ilko to bjlleve in their own falry-hnunte.l pool. The two slrls, an lh'?y rat thus chat- water anywhere, only Eho was In a be;, itlful phicc, all mother-of-pearl and-sold: the door wag carpeted wlUi precious stones, tho pattern formed or rubles, rupplilres and diamonds, so brilliant the had to shade her eyes when f he looked at It. Then a Rold- cn door slid open, and tho <iuuen of the fairies entered, followed by a ting on the mo^cy margin of the pool =;'"'â„¢ "' "^^'â- ' 'f '•^«- *'>'.' y"„ ?V dcntly her attend.iut.i, and the little Imp In green who had laughed at her rnisfortune. It Boemed to Nellie that and 1.1 vcd their white hands In tho gurglins water at lis Eource, were all unmindful of a p.-.lr of great, wistful ^ .... brown eye. carlnK at thorn from ^^ J"'» 'oozing michlevously at her amons Ih" leaves of wTld laurel. The brown eyes belonged to a lit- tle Canadian girl who loved falry- now. "Ila!" said tho queen, In a sHvery , voice, "a mortiil!'* | There was a sound like the rustllns was stories, and had been once told br <„t'lB'v^rlB: â- ::â- MchNeu{e'lvi^y was but her nurse, >" .a°-'_*e'; t° ^j^er^eager ij^^ „„,g^ „,^j^ ^y l^^ ,^1,,^, ^.l^^ now crowded round her, looking curl- as to where the fairies qup.«l!ons lived ; "Oh, there are none In this country, Ih. .. ..1 ,.•! lii i'.tigland. I Kuess â€" thou.qh thvy tay there are heaps of them in Ireland." And then, when the found she was to be brought t-j Kngland. although the re:;rctted it was not to Irelandâ€" as they must be eo much more com- mon there- nho yet felt that she was going t) the enchanted land cf her book:). Hut, alas! Fhe had been In Kii.i;Iand now hevoral week.-', and no Kl?n of fairies yet. In vi-ln hid ihf examined carefully every tuft of primroses, to see If fome dainty little fairy did not lie concealed In their cup-j. Such bank» and hedges, and vlolct-spangled moHH, rau-it surely be the home for them! But It was all In vain. Not even a Busilclon of a fairy could the find; and unklndest cut o fail, whuii she asked her now Bifgliiih nurse where the fairies lived she told her "In books ! " And HO she was beginning to fear Bhe would only know them in hooks, and was reading "Itiquet with the Tufl," f')r the hundrcdtii time, when she overheard the young glrLs say this pod wa.f fairy-haunted. Hov delightful It was to think her partiitH had Just come to this lovely pla'.'i-! Of course this pool must be a favorite spot with tho fairies! Th"i water was bo clear It reflected everyihing, from the fringed ferns that waved round Its brink to her own brown eyes as she gazed into Its depths. lously at the little mortal who was among them ,and sometimes touching her garments, which made Nellie very uncomfortable, for she was conscious ;that she was streaming water from every fold on to that beautiful floor; and they all looked so fresh and clean nnd beautiful, Ilko bo cany flowers. As the queeu Icoked at her she hard- ly knew where to p-jt iier head, (or thoush Ko small, tho fairy looked every Inch a queen, and as with one "wava of her tiny hand she commanded her attendants to fall back ed that even the mischievous little man shrank away hastily. "Children of earth," said the little queen, s'ternly, "how camo you here? Don't you know that the penalty for entering our home is death?" Nov.', had Nellie been less afraid It FARMERETS PROVE TO BE GOOD JUDGES Left to Rightâ€" Mary Anderson, Peel County; Wllma Boucher, Peel County; Evelyn Young, Cheltenham; Alice Bacon, Claremont; Ida Qalbraith, Glen Valley, who proved their ability as prize stock judges at the C.N.E. choked back her tears; but, oh, how ; "How could my little girl go to she wised fcr or moter! And then sleep In such a dangerous place? Sup- came another thought: How could | pose my darling had been drowned? sho. 80 big, live in such a tiny place. â-  Vour clothes are actually wet where 'vith such tiny people? She would ' they have dipped in the water!" Nellie notic- ^ave to stand still all the time for fear ' L At first, Nellie clung convulsively of tr -adlng on them. But the fairies j'to ier mother. Oh. how good It was were in no trouble about that, for the to be a mortal again. Instead of a queen said to two of her atendants: ; soullness being, without love or hate "Take off those cloths, and dress her j for anyone! And then she told her as becomes a fairy." mother all about It, at which her Nellie noticed that all the fairies mother smiled and said: I were dressed in flowers, and she began "You dreamed It all, Nellie, dear!" may be that she would have felt In- ,g wonder what flowers would ever he But Nellie shook her headâ€" she clined to laugh at the notion of these f^^^^ i^^g^ enough to make her , knew she tadn't. It all seemed so liny people inflicting death on any one clothes. Why, a peony, the very larg- real, so large as herself, for a'le had had, ^^ ^^^.^ ^,,g ^^^^ ^, ^^^jj ^^^ ^^ ever since she found herself in the ^^^^^ g^y^g^ ,„ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ g^^ fairy palace, an oppressed sense of i ^^e was not left long In doubt, for two hec own enormous size; everything ^^,^,^9 came to her. and one said: around her was so tiny that she felt The CaU The sun goes down beyond the purple fell, A wind has blown the lark into a cloud; One backward look will serve to say farewell To the dark valley that my fathers ploughed. \ The house they built is empty. I must go Vobody Won Battle^ Declares Mr. Shaw Famous Writer Joins in thd Jutland G>ntrover8y London. â€" George Bernard Shaw, add* ing his voice to the long-standing con- troversy over the Battle of Jutland, believes that nobody won the battle but thinks that Germany came out ot the war with enhanced naval prestige. In a letter to the Evanlng Standard denying the authenticity of an inter- view attributed to him by a Vienna journal which the Standard repudlish- ed and In which be was quoted as say- ing that he "liad a suspicion" that Admiral von Scheer won the Battle of Jutland, Mr. Shaw writes: "Nobody won the battle of Jutland land the 'our side won' ot schoolboys in both countries need not be taken into account. What should make ua think a little is that we went Into the war with great naval prestige and Germany with none, though her mili- tary prestige was the terror of Eur- ope. Germany came out ot it with a new and very respectable naval pres- tige, while her military prestige had ceased to exist anywhere." FIjring Fox Pest in Australia The Council for Scientific and In> dustrial Research of Melbourne, Ans< traHa, is finding difficulty in devis- ing methods for coping with the larg« fruit-eating bats, commonly known aa "flying foxes," which are a most ser- ious menace to fruit growers in Queensland and New South Wales. There are five species in Australia, the commonest by far being Pteropua {JoKocephalus. Nocturnal in habit and very gregarious, these animala live in large camps of hundre(b of thousands of individuals. They mi- grate according to season and food like a great gianteaa. I Tho door of tho rcom was so low j she would have to stoop to go through it, and t'.:o turquoise ceiling was only • jiiat above her head. So, when the : queen spoke, we may be sure she did j not feel inclined to laugh; but she did manage to stammer out that sho was I very sorry, she had not Intended to I intrude,, and then told how she came ; to fall Into l.lin water while locking I at tho fairy-boat. "Shrink, shrink, thou foolish mortal Who 'hast rashly entered our fairy portal ; Shrink till Ihou'arl of fairy iitalue, And take on thyself our fairy na- naturc." Publicity Film of South African Railways Johannesburg, S. Af.â€" The South African Railways has just completed a 7000-foot film which traverses every portion of South Africa, its scenic beauties. Industries and pleasure re- sorts. Starting at Cape Town, where views now that r.h'.' waa alone sho canio out finm tho laurel and lay down at the very iMltje of it. and dabbled her hand In Ih" enchanted water. It (IM not strike her that was rath- er a dangerous thing to do, for she was l/iif'y wondering how eho could manero to g"-t down to the pool by And Nellie felt herseJt growing j from Table Mountain and of the surf smaller and smaller. Her head was 1 bathing are a feature, the various big getting nearer the jewelod floor so towns In South Africa are visited, and rapidly that she looked to see If her In every case views ot the town and feet were not sinking through It. But its special attractions are reproduced, no, they were not sinking; but, oh, lAt Oudtshoohi we have ostrich farm- how small tbey were getting! Her I ing pictures and at Kinmberley those slippers looked like boats, and her of ancient and modern working in the foot was now where her heel alone (diamond mines. These things are had been! And lo! while she wa»|never elaborated so as to confine the _, .11, 1 , , As hhv. Hpok<', the quoon looked at The young girls had passed on, and , , . ,, 1.1 , . ,.'. .,. . . , ; ., L ...» ! her more kindly, nnd lurnlng rouni to tlip Hull' imp in rreen, »hook her linger at him and said: 1 . . , . 1 ... rt!ie-wi» I) this la some of 1 '^^'''''''K' *"* found horrselt smothered {spectator to any one subject for more thy doing." And then Wlll-o'-the-wisp wont into I many oonl(»rtlons, whloii seemed to ! Nollio an oil mlxtuT« of laughter and in R huge mass of clothes. She strug-|than a couple of minutes. It is this gled, and then they were lifted from] variety which must insure the success muoiiilKlit, and womlerlng. If she beg- 1 ged i:iut!ier very much, whether she would I'ot allow her to como down to tho water just for once. Then sho saw something floriling toward her. At tlrst it tiecmed only a white feather, dropi)od from a dove's wing, j and she watched It Idly as it drifted nearer. Then sho looked at it more eagerly. Surely It was a fairy boat, for on it fear, for hn wa.* evl<lently enjoying NelHie's discomfort amazingly, yet ' dare not lisow It for fear of the queen, j who, again addro.-islng Nellie, said: her, and she saw at least a hundred fairies staggering under the weight of her own garments, which, so s-inall had she become, completely smothered her, and she was able very comfort- of the railways' splendid film. Tho beauties of tho Hex River and the Drakensburg are shown from the moving train, while the observation car and tho dining saloon, with their from Idle curiosity, but from what mortals call accident, but which Is gen- erally brought about by this perverse rplrit," and the queen looked dag- gers at Will-o'-thewisp, who twisted Mmself about In laughable confusion. was a 'tiny little '"'flguro. exquisitely i "Therefore we will not punish you; drcs.'cd In a rose petal gown, trimmed l^"' »« ^o think you are a nice little with l.lu..< forget-me-nots. mortal!" here a beautiful fairy trlp- Hor mantle was a snowdrop, all Vi "P and wbLspore^i something In daintily frlnr-id with gr-en, on on h.ri>l>o queen's ear "and very fond nt head -which was titiv a^ her own ! fairies. Joy tolla me, we will pardon tlnl.Ht doll- was a dr.let of dewdrops < >«"'"• '">'n8 here, and make you one of that llaKhod nnd cparkled more bright- ! "8-" ably to hide ho'rself in one of her crowds of tourists, are also In evl- , . . nvortal shoes. But no sooner had she dence. The Victoria Falls are depict- '''â- ''', f!"' "'".' y."" '."''. ".^^._!"'!."'l* ! reached, or rather, shrunk into, fairy jed from many angles, including an proportions than the other fairy step- , airplane perspective. The film ends ped forward and arrayed her In a with a reception of visitors by a na- white azalia skirt, a fringed gentian tive chief which includes war dances bodice, Bivd a blue-bell hat; and then and scenes of domestic lite in the ly tb'i n.iny illaniondH. Behind her back^ing two long, fair braldn; and Nelli<^^otild not help thinkiUK how rery like lliln fairy (iiicen was to that wee I'rrnch dol she ha tlat home. But the fairy queen was not alone. A liiischl'-vous-looklng little sprite, just as smull ua h(!ri:ulf. but who li:iil Nellie's She had, heart gave a great throb. It Is tnie, wanted to see tho queen, waving iher wand, said "â-º"'air, forget thy mortal kin, Kor the heart of a fairy must bum within The fairy form; to all else he coldâ€" To father, and mother, and home of old." And then a great change camo over Nellie. The happy mortal child had become an uu'luippy fairy. True, she had forgotten lo long to return In her fnlrloB, but sho had never wanted to ' mother, for sho no longe^ reiueml>ered leave her mol.Ver nnd father and be- her; but there was a terrible pain uU come one of lliein, and she knew quite i through her as It she had lost sotne- pnough from what she had rt^ad, ot ' thing, »he knew not what; and where- (airy folks lo be sure sho would never ihor heart was she felt only an empty be allowed lo belong to h<»r mortal ache kraals. Over the twjlit moorland till I find , supply, but usually retum4o the sanM The breast of eve, where I may learn I camps in successive seasons. In tha to know I day time they cling to the branchea What thing it is that gives men of -trees in dense numl>ers; they ara # # ^ % 4 ♦ i fr *•. * « A 4 t ^ €â-º 1 ' ♦ « U « <» »• •• k •* « 9 4 <% i* â- a i :.> 'U #• A t • e t ^ * peace of mind. The last light trembles in the farther air. This is the night, tha hour I dare not lose. restless and alert and a single gun- shot will put a whole camp to flight. At night they depart in search of food such as fruit, berries, eucalyptus flowers and honey. They are par- whose. â€" Edward Davison. the most Imp.-rtlnent Utile face and I family If she became one of them; Yot all hw foUow-falrles were so and then It was hard lo die so young! merry, so full ot gambols and tricks! The queen's eye was upon her; she Only sho was dull and miserable, and feared to show he r reluctance and they laughed at her,, ntul Wlll-o'-tho- wlsp poked fun at herâ€" and rather rotigh fun, loo. sometimes. He liked to got behind her when they were having tihelr fairy-dances and trip hor up. Then, when they took thoir meals, ho would whip out of her hand lh«*l)Uttorcup. full ot dew, ivhe was conveying lo her Hps, or con- trive that l.ho blossDin.i (»he had wore denuded of their lioney; and tho pood little fairy had a sad time ot It, though sho had no lessons to do- no j tlroBoino duties. Kiir. (hough a fairy | now, she had left her s-oul somewhere. ' and having < nee had It, could not b" happy without, tlnniRh »ho did not know the cause of linr own inl»ery. Of course, none of the othor fairies llkod her. One night the queen said It was mooiillglit, nnd tlioy would visit their favorite pool. Nellie henni hor, but her words stir- rod no reiHembranco in her heart, nor oven when sho found herself watching the others danre on the fringed brink of the pool. Just then \Vlll-o'-(he-wlsp came neer her nnd flnsho.l a flrnfly whioh' ho «t- wnys carried with him at nlght-rlght In her oyn». The glare hlliidod her. nu I sho tojv pled over once more Into the pool, and sho know i»o more. "Nellie! Nellie! my darling, my pre- cious chlUI!" Somnbody was dragRlng her from th« water, aha thought. She open- ed her eye* and aaw hat ntother bend- ing over har, with kolh anna tlghtlr •iaivad around h««k the wickedest eyes t nthe world was rowing her. Ho was dressed In green and wore an acorn cap on his bead. In which wuM stuck a sparrow's feath- er. Ills cloak, which he wore over one Hhoiilder onl^ was a malva flower. Nellie had always expected fairies to be drexred in idlks and satlnH. but on cdhiing to think. It seemed much more likely that they would dre»H in flowers than that they would go, like common mortals, to buy silks and aatlns. Itut Nellie had not much time to think, for the fairy skiff was (|iille near bcr now, and ho eager wan iilie to see Ihc beautiful little people that iihe leaned forward, and nias! alas! foil Into tho pool. Kill' Aas jiiHt conscious of a ponl ot mocking laughter as she rolled i>vi>r, and then the water closed <iver her. Her flrst tlioiiKht was terror of the cold shock! her next, whut her iMior moth'r would say when sho found her little girl was drowned. Hut the wa lor, after all. wan not very cold, and >i - |ii/-i.-|.t cf |,..r mother's grief no â-¼ory snd, that had the water not pre- MiiUMI lirr lelll^l tlowtllg. III) dollbt â- be would have wept her eyes out. Bh« felt herself sInglnL', yet It was not at all unpleasant. The water did not nil her eyes and mcth and ears aa It did when bathing, and began to IhInk how pleasant must be the life of a flah, when sho became roniclnus of the sound of music. /'Perhaps I am drlng," she thought. "and It Is tha music of heaven." BML.rary Coon sha agala haard iMCftor. wlUch iha fait rare waa who had MM ^ttt And She's Still Thinking About It She â€" ".\m 1 tho only girl you've ever loved?" He â€" "Of course, you are â€" and the prettiest, too." « A hand has bockor.ed me, "1 know not ticularly fond of cultivated fruit, llnd where, the damage th«t they can do in an A voice has ppoken, but I know not orchard in one night is appalling. I The amount of fruit actually eaten is j relatively small; the ground is strewn I with fallen material which has been merely nibbled or claw marked. Many obvious methods of d'3sfruc- tion ha\^ i>een tried. Shooting is ex- pensive. Strychnine poison in the orchard is successful to an extent. Poison gasses in tho camp>s are not effective because of tho timidity ol the bat: it is .ilmost impossible to gnve a lethal dose before they taki I wing. Infection with bacillus typhi marium is sai4 to have cleared Sanxx I of the pest some years ago, but w« I have failed to verify the report and it is understood that Samoa is still badly infested. A omall "flammen- I werfer" has been tried but, besidei being dangerous and expensive, it is not suitable for general use. All these aTtd other methoda hava been more or less succeeaful in killing tho creaturea, but in every case th< scale of possible operations is hope- lessly inadequate. Wholesale elaugh- etr must be achieved if the pest is to hi minimised or even merely kept from increasing. Perhaps the most ©ffecti%-e attack will ba by biological nteans. A Good Suggestion London Daily Mall (Ind. Cons.): An 1 Knglish resident in Paris Asks wheth- er it is not possible for the British I.K»giou to organize a ceremjulal visit ot olllcers and men to the scenes ol i their trial and glory in France. It is [much lo be hoped that such- an organ- ized visit may be possible In the im- mediate future. At the most this country could only send a representa- tive selection ot the men who fought. V « .1 % *- Her Majesty Girl:) are warned by a writer In n flimi ""'""""'"' '' " '*""' ""''"'' ''^''""'' """ '**« '""" ''^ ^'^^^^^ »"'°P-' who from flfst to last were engaged on French or Belgian sail was S,399,- 000, of whom not very far short q( land The Royal Automobile Club ot Lon- weekly paper against a number of 'ion says seltllshnesa, ImpatJfmce, and ! 1.000,000 forever rest in the foreign young men who aro going careL'ssness cause f»0 per cent, ot the • *'^'*^ hthey defended. about pretending to be Arab chiefs, motor accidents. There would seem Actually, of course, they are wolve? In '° be much to learn about motoring sheik's clothing. | besides how to drive a car. Speeding the Mails, Tho postal authorities lUrected Major Tudhope t<i meet tho Kmpruss of France last week at Father Point, pick up the mall bag* and fly back to Montreal, The flrst attempt proved a failure, hut In the future the depart- â- anl bopaa to aava fourtaan houn' on avaraaaa mall tor Toronto. j Air Expectations London Observer (Ind.): Tho Im- I possibility of any country being con- I tent to mark time in aviation Is shown i by the number of frefch enterprises I which are on tiptoe, so to spaak, at ' the moment ot wrlttn^t. Ot these the I most Important and ambitious -are the j efforts to croSs the Atlantic In a west- ; ward dlroctlon-whlch thow that CTOU ithe most fornildablo of .adverse con- .liUiona are conceived by tho airman I and by tho constructor as existing I only to bo overcome. This spirit Is jaa vigorous In llreat Britain aa any- j where, ntid what has to ho sej;,ire<l bjl con.stant vigilance is that public auth- ority eball gtva It full scope and en- couragement. MISSINa EDITOR BORN IN TORONTO Phil Payne, who Is shown above with his wlfo, well known newspaper man of New York, who was born In Toronto, was a pasiengsr on "Old Qlory," travelling with Lloyd Bertaud and James I). Mill. Old Olory and Us three occtipanis are now numbered among the missing. When a small boy Payaa BMvad to Qravenhurst where he started hit journalistic caraar ol tka Qravaa- Inirat Baaaer. H« vUlted Oravaaharst laat yaar. 4v» a I < Should Marry' But Onca. "There'll be man who'll ba uUarly wretched whan I marry." ' "Then, for hamaatty'i sak^ fwi ahovM marry oa^« Moa." ^