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It Is one of the delicious ‘‘good things” that oa & real food value, _A Slice of your goo ~a perfectly balanced food, with “Crown Brand”, ourishment. aoa Rerakes got that is preclaly a all ni yn biscuits a porridge if they w: att. You'll like it, too, o: ", forms. on their iddle Cakes—on Blane Mange and Baked Apples. ‘And you'll find i the most economical sweetener, use, for Have your husba 5, 10 or 20 Ti MONTREAL, » et s, Cookies, Gingerbread and Pies. nd ae a tin, the ee fide tals th pound tin—or a 3 pound glass jar. CANADA STARCH GO. CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, ae“ Nae rarer MITED FORT WILLIAM, Starch— a 80 town— Our newreoipe book, “Desserts and Candies”, will show you Bi ‘Voie for. s.260r our Montreal Oftice. “A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN.” The jangle of the old-fashioned door-bell stirred May Dundas from her reverie. The door of the rool was opened, and a maid stepped in a pace or two. “Lieutenant Fraser has called, Miss May,” she said, “Shall I nsk him to come up?” May nodded, Left alone, she turned towards a hrighily-polanity sliver shield which hung over tie mantelaieee, and served as a ghite effic eianicca fatisfied that she was ‘presentable, she seated herself again, and was ju: picking up a book when she heard the creak of the door-handle. ‘Twisting round in her chair, and letting the book slip trom her fingers, sete leaking, frank ot rvice kit & the Strathmore ‘Highland ers, he came into the room with a swing, and walk- ed towards the girl. The door closed softly behind him, Halting beside May’s chair, Alan took the a that she put out: and held it firm! For some siary Suto ences but in the serch ing eyes ach lay.a score of. m terious sted tender, iar speeches, aching fear: It was the man who spoke first. “fm glad I found you alone, May. I was hoping for that luck. Your is out?” Sit downy won't, yon) Alan? alk.” Bie dayreren" ht eyes, then, and did not look at him again for. some mo- “Any news yet?” she asked, nee lee ad quite steady. ‘appily. Me we are striking camp in a day or two. shine to be at the front fe a weel ym now, A little, falferushed sob came from her, and a strange mistiness clouded her eyes. : ae soon?” she said, in just above za r. is and, May, that’s why‘ I’m go- ing sey tay something now ne ae I wouldn’t have had the courage to say for a tate time, if we bad kept in this country. Look at me, dear. want to see if there’s any hope me in your eyes.” Slowly her head was. raised. She ‘met his gaze, and a glow, half-aweing ‘in its power, but v eft to her, sur; through hen! g. She oat heard his words; thers was ~ no nee nt at know whys Ive never told you before, dear. heart all the time, ut T neve: because I couldn’t think * for hi adm; x told you it possible love—my little, grave-eyed | sweet- heart!” ‘Stooping, he put his strong arms -about her, ang-in their shelter she lay trembling, but happy beyond belief; and, with her mouth on his, knew that ae glory of love. had come to her for ec. at if an a ‘tater they said their brave good. “You ei eatibath: to'7n0) Alan,” "she re her small, hot hands on his shi “Before so very k? Say it, itl” ee co curse: Mic come As he an- , swered, his voice Bete Christmas-time— ae Pil come ea "But, May—” say. “Oh!” co possibly he'll ask you to marr had thought. * Hn Taide choosing his éalled on May and asked her to marry , Warrelled, 0: bound to Eanken, eae i $0 On| seereti sult rendered vith thooke ithe baniaorne rather dissipated- looking “sh man at her side. Jw me that?” sl know Oy a is an insult?” oe me by sort of eS oie bate asked you first?’ Shi bitter resentment, hatred of his ri ks Sra then to be at Alan Fraser’s and his he: = aia the past six months er ip at Sheik by 2 But, “Yes ?' “There’s just one thing I want to It’s about Roy Davidson.” “You mustn't mind my mentioning ow how he’ here knows it. Once ‘I’m me pestering you. She laughed—a’ broken, pitts little laugh. “There's only you in the she manage “Roy is nothing. T could never like him—never. ee fasted towards her. “It ‘ood-bye, sweetheart,” ” he ai eae en's only au revoir, ler matter to be Ete than * When the Strathmore Bighlendexty and the paahihe autumn was still bright, Roy hour carefully, him. At first the surprise of the’ thing the girl wordless. vss he “You! "How ean you dare to ask) e-excinimed.. “Don't-you'| His eyelids narrowed re a nerve in his esa started throbbin; “An insult?” he apace: “What @’you mean, Ma‘ “You don't think in- | mry ju, when you know. ‘that. I “a engag- he va Bre: king ei to another man? was a tense Lara and ond e sh in with a dim how the, a ates hands clenched at unclenched serie , in mutter, a * didn’ t, oe: aa to Alan Fraser, of course?” “nd yout love him?” id I have had a. chance) if: he e shook her head. ‘Gentle as a t tule, she felt no gentleness. towards this yhom she arg | muh that was evil and but little that wine?” a said. sipere would never ave been a chance, yuld have cared for the ie of man who keep you from joining the Army, and yet you don’t join. —a coward!” You are a cowar His face was dark with a sudden, with a passionate ‘ival. His hands were 80 ‘Tam a coward!” he said, his voice ard: y | the may be a coward!” ith a numbing pain in a went from house, and back to the little estate where for he had been eek May heard nothing of fie, “iar ect eae pier note: ear 0 fear ll of Cease bullets, I tare joi never | to : - aie stoonie jon An ed the 2nd ene: of the 'Strath- ES and: ‘hay this, and Pl be mnseritg our friend Fraser soon. “He will be my superior Mea but that Sane matter. I don’ ite know which is the Ri se ny wee tor him or my “The Coward.” With the torn pieces of this note in world,” bitter than any German would be the enemy whom he would have in |own Biola seshs in. his | compan: a] It sae not until some weeks later that May heard from a and then | his letter contained news, the receipt ii cna Gio surecnes mst] draft came out to us, and one of the privates joining my (comp: e | Roy Davidson. It won’t be news |you that he is at the front, jagine his being in my company! That to was {was forgot \ther ae td come As blows, Be shere wasn’t -ti little dose ight_my. country’s bat= : tles, not Ti bi [a"Devidion has: bean incastion thre }times-with us isin vs and Tl s this—he has been rave. (He doesn’t seem to ae we he does with bial cof | fe lows ‘ever seems to touch them. Yes; he’s a good fighter—Davidson—and a good jhater!’ He and I wilt have to settle things some day——” e| This| was not all of the letter, of course; but the rest was. for Mu: after day she scanned with , fear-touched eyes the dread Hist in the daily paper, where |soldier’s name meant the broken heart of some. woman. who had ratte hopefully, helplessly at home. was just at the ginning of Beiember this item in the “Scotsman” facet her eyes: “OFFICERS. “Wounded. / “Braser, Lieut. Alan J., Strathmore H.” She did not faint, when .she read} that, nor ery out. Tears did not come} wide eyes. She just sat hold-j ing the paper crushed between cold 1st Batt. : there | might be thee awful phrase: “Since died of we Bowepuldcehe live Hintil alld ke? How ne gould she face the grey days of torture ahead? | Two days infor Chris ae empty ‘sleeve to An ad ritain, brought by May’s aunt to the door of e room where the girl was waitin; “She is expecting you,” Miss Dun: das said. “It was far better to warn her. Just go in, Alan, Tive minutsh apts ie magic joy of reunion was ove e first soft | tears shed upon nes hero’s ~ empty sleeve, May sat listening to him while he said with you because another gave his life for min ing to give details of that engagement when I went down; they’re too ghastly. But just this yo Ea Ting man who saved ile he was ere) himself, LN mea half- mile under fire into our own lines and ied, was Roy Davidson. May, don’t start Hee that. You must be brave, too. “T thought we were hoth done for then, byt he had strength enough _ to whisper, an T ia stx-ngth enough to hear, his w Ts for har TI did/this,’ he told ae ‘I loved her, and I’ve saved you r her. Love was stronger, after all. Seat understand. You'll see her again, Fraser; I won't. rel her—— “That was all. I can’t say am, more. oe not able. I can’t forget his eyes.” eae moments passed, and she daw him so that her wild heart- tage “urilled him. Something — wet was shining upon her check. e. t last: “He e, then,” she said, 50, “looking past tat te the fire, ‘Alan er He ar d for us. ee: soul! Lt” k Then he bowed his head 7 wi ‘her staxting ceases to be required. . 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For the actual mone; saving as well as for peréus appearance id far qolemenss should be a recognized part e year’s work.—-D. in Conserva- tee ps Sb lee 4,500,000 Pieces ‘of Mail Daily“ ie Tae soldiers correspondence jow amow nearly, 4,500, 000 | | pieces per pies They receive an aver- ‘age. of 4,000,000 scaling eters: | 800,000 registered letters, 10,000 post: }00 | ployes at the Genteal postoffice: \in Paris. LISTER She name that stands for | Quality in Farm Machinery {| LISTER ENGINES ARE BRITISH BUILT S7E9HP. On Skids or Truck. th Tensi Mi to Igniti eR Ciena lations f 2 Hi i i Lister Silos, Ensilage Cutters, Threshers, Sprax Dees Electias ‘Tg? tle THE LISTER A GRINDER: one farmer | gether from ‘oe ree improvement, §| means to the farmers a large outlay. |s This investment should be protected._ tn de ae athe see rest ioe tae lected on a piece of paper laid fat pee the steering- DRINK HOT WATER Physician's payee ay toe suffer wind or Harulonse: Stomach acta, oh te. Atorach acidicy and termeutetion of; the food’ contenta of she stomach eambined With an-insufficlent, blood supply: £0. the tl x deli | ly © succes: cides preferable to the use ‘ot artificial. aiges- a Aiea medicines: for BRITAIN’S NEW MOTOR CHIEF. 5 | Sir a Stanley One of World’s lost Able Railway Men. Sir Albert: Stanley, the - managing: nate he the Underground Rail- ways sondon General Omnibus organized. concerns in the world, con- om one part of the great metro- mplis to the other, has_been appoint- ed by the War Office director of ‘the army motor department, which has: - | been: transferred f the Ministry ‘of Munitions Hes: maciecenre siiiee tor position of great statement, etree of the eneiet bes sii remarkable. ae anime young, lect ‘Railways, a post whic he held for nearly twelve — shee name came. prominently befor fore publie in eres with the re- ofbaniatiol of the je Dis- Railwa; d he was | Cae ort agent yy_the Underaround Blectri ‘Rai | way jompany. ‘Albert is a fae? teller in ara at reed and very rarely” misse: breakdown has Freqsentiy een n open-air man and | as knighted ceive the GERMAN SOLDIERS’ PITIFUL dig TELL OF THE HORROR WF AL- LIES’ SHELL FIRE. Allies’ Aircraft Shell Trenches and Convoys Unhindered, Prison- ers Declare. supremacy of the Allies in the | air, Poe baile coral the German able than the last one. I wouldn't soldiers have to withstand during the have believed that a position could be allied: Doibantoieate-on ht and the hardship and wa tomes behind the lines are some. of completely knocked about by gunfire the stories told in letters written such letters came in the aie yester- the e1 iy te \- day to an official of me eet Gov- | ee recovered, eH that is the 9 odd ww in this c thing al Somme” and found un- that clearly. ies must be soon re- lieved.” eutte mailed on a y Genet captured by the British s: |. Another soldier writing Dees, the “Yesterday evening we came right German front near Thiepval says that into. the front trenches; we were re-| “to-morrow “German wanes Letter, The ‘following ‘pathetic letter »<w: m s go up at all tay it are only up for dhe wittee bad: an retire at double ae, ‘time. Our air- men are a rotte A spouted Caeeinny writing - from 4. St. Quentin, to his parents, s write half the company is no longer alive, the number of nae pnw ogee and is safe in a Brit- “38h, priso soon be unable to ‘be ‘any longer. It» ma bring me to hae Tanatic asylum—al dering and slaugh' apne : | ata her in-} | letter written by another Ger would be useless if ; poe of the Sor | German; i FOR INDIGESTION = si ! |agine how heartily sick r | this sort ‘of life, spactaly 4 desing hat Col sites tivo of iti det perfectly {i veying every year millions, of people |.) in the front Soni of amateur golf-|_ os railway man-} an e wounded constantly avin is fright- 4 continual ‘moving of troop: Tal Gunfire “Maddening.” The following is an excerpt from a | campaign. .I don’t like »wniting: « man vie- | how things es in pa field, but Me in ther scolds me s that I must. The vee geek they ay y, are before “Every day we have dead and} Lemberg In Galicia the Aus- jounded. To-night, for example, ie | trians aoe suffered frightful ;jre- Our young men who tal jomme to’ his father sail] - Outpithe: Wope thats was au soon be relieved gives the necessary strength to hold out and stand firm. i should never have believed that men ould ana so ae <2 eWhen wevcame dines dee: the day. Sietore Seitatine en 6 tke with him atlonttoe ei ak that is to nee ae loaves of br two tins of and six bottles ther writing t water, kit and sealing order, which | 01 Somme remarked that consists of a great coat, mess tin,| incredible what depressions it, ete. All “huis: in-addition to the strap equipment. at satan, only a bit of butter a Still another letter from a womal rel rubber products. turned in, including the tires icycles, nded. Writing "eal “the»trenches _Com- iciiee and the last 500 meters from nication tr ci ont eeane over the be shell hole to anot fore fam Gy Hiss again eucheet my company. — we come into quarter. with: which: te many have already Hoe - He Ses one | Also the hostile aircraft have the up- and a half to two neat | per hand here, They come every day denies for as ardently phir ae ti large numbers and throw bombs n be und and boi aes rd our troops with machine ca 5 hope we shall soon go away. “Niner You Mah Called Que a We ive already had enough casual- Writing in the latter part of Aug- ust a veteran of many battles nls that “to-day a lot more have bee! “Tt i is two Md age since we cele- farewell. 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