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Susie Spider. "Now, dears," said Mamma Spider, as she tied on her bonnet, "you must all be geod children." "Yes, mamma," said Susie Spider and eighteen brothers and sisters. "Ap soon as grandmother is well again, I'll come home," said Mamma Spider. "Give Auntie Ant as little treuble as possible. It's very kind of her to look after you while I'm gone." "Yes, mamma," said Susie Spider and her eighteen brothers and sisters. Mamma Spider kissed her nineteen children good-by,--did you ever hear nineteen little spiders crying at once ? ~--and Auntie Ant put on her spectac- Jes: ready to take charge. "First," said Auntie Ant briskly, "we'll have the spinning lesson." So Susie Spider and her eighteen brothers and sisters crept into their corners. And the eighteen little brothers and sisters began spinning at their little webs, just as they did every morning. But just as she did net every morning, little Susie Spidor did not. "I don't want to spin," she said to herself. "Mamma doesn't make me. She doesn't know when I run away. And I won't spin for Auntie Ant !" So she waited until Auntie Ant's ack was turned. She was sure that she would not be missed, and she Auntie Ant sat at the head of the table and served the plates. She atill wore her spectacles. But for some reason she did not see very well, for there were plates for only eighteen little spiders, and she could not see Susie Spider at all. "Please, Auntie sat ' Spider, "you forgot "Where's your wath 7 asked Auntie Ant. "T haven't any," said Susie Spider. "Strange !" said Auntie Ant. "There are just as many plates as there are webs in the spinning room. I counted twice to make sure." Susie Spider wished said Susie 'that she had not come to the table, although she was dreadfully hungry. If she had had a web in the spinning room, ) Auntie Ant would not look at her like Va that. It seemed that, after all, there | EN vessels of the was some use in spinning. By and by the eighteen brothers and sisters finished their dinner and helped Auntie Ant with the dishes. Susie Spider helped, too. But she was not a bit happy. She kept thinking about the web that was net in the spinning room. The dinner that was and some of these are of the Canadian army a surface blind, because her periscope- tip was under water, and oblivious of the danger that threatened, a German net in her "tummy" made her think | unterseeboote slogged along her pa- about it. tient way, intending presently to The rain was still falling; so Auntie | carry out the task appointed for her. Ant took her knitting, while Susie | Suddenly she stopped, and sank like a Spider and her eighteen brothers and , sain to the ocean bed, keeping her sisters curled up in their beds for ay propellers going slowly, 50 that she) stole out into the sunlight. Susie Spider danced on the tip o dandelion. She listened to the cote | ets, and she watched the bees go in and out of the clovers. Oh, but it was} pleasant ! By and by the 'elgliteen brothers and sisters finished their lesson and came. eut, too. Auntie Ant came with them. | She still wore her spectacles, and | Susie Spider noticed how bright her eyes were. And they looked hard at her. The eighteen brothers and sisters began playing a new game. Pgs climbed to the tops of the tallest grass blades, and they pl rope Jadders and swung on them. "TI want to play. tco," Spider to her nearest sister. you lend me a rope? "But you have to spin it while you're said Susie "Won't swinging," said the nearest sister. "It's lots of fun. See?" "Why aren't you. playing, Susie' Spider?" asked Auntie Ant. ----t._think- Fm_ tired," said Susie Spider. "Perhaps you've been working too. hard," said Auntie Ant. Goodness, how sharp her eyes were! Why, they looked right through Susie | Spider! The eighteen brothers and sisters eHmbed and swung and did all sorts of | things. But Susie Spider hid under al plantain leaf, behind Auntie Ant"s back, and watched, It seemed that, after all, there was some use spinning. by and by the eighteen brothers and ; sisters finished their play. Besides, it was beginning to rain. So they went in to dinner. And Susie Spider went with them Auntie Ant was busy stirrlng the batier cakes. She let the elghteen wrothers and sisters set the table. There was some confusion about the napkins, but by the time the cakes were off the griddle everyone was ready. They s shaking them hard. her up to the | nap. | Ant' oeeey them climb with Then she | haze of mud, The seaplane saw something rou oof. i" All round was water! The rain | upwards--saw it break surface, ever | had stopped, but the flood was creep- | 50 slightly, and then bob down on the ing up the sides of en house; it was|current. A swift word to the port de- coming to cover the ro stroyer enabled her to alter course Susie Spider and ee eighteen | just in time to avoid the ed brothers and sisters did not have time sphere, which was a mine, and to be frightened. As Auntie Ant told jo allow a second devil's egg to eee them, it was another game. They | past her hull, still unhatched, ' should spin their little ropes and The destroyers got busy. The swing out over' the water to the fine| spread themselves wide apart, And the | | steamed slowly towards that stile vas ae ready to heip them, too! te submarine. A wire stretched be- and sisters | And the wind them safely to the mufiein And only Susie Spider upon the the 'plane's observer saw it =| under the rounded conical fore Another swift word, and something round was attached to the wire. It slid downwards' swiftly, bumped against the submarine's hull. Then followed a pause, another wirelessed -- a spout of watey suddenly rose in hitherto quiet sea. ed with a dull roar as the unsown ' swung _ opposite. | w a with Auntie Ant roof. Sete, Susie Spider!" cried Auntie | Ant. "You must, child." } "But will you do?" asked "Never oi me," said Auntie Ant. t portion of 1 ["1 promised your mother to keep you A second folldw- safe. The wind will catch you, Spin, child, and go!" mines inside the U-boat exploded -- Then little Susie Spider did @ and the sea rushed in, to make the 'curious thing. She spun a bit of rope submarine a steel tomb for ead crew. | --not very fine and not very even, for "Good!" snapped out the 'pla it was the first that she had spun in! She wasted no more time in weed her careless little life; .but it was Those deadly mines were bobbing) /strong. And she fastened one end to , down towards a sea-lane much used by {the chimney. merchant shipping, and if allowed to) "Come with me, Auntie Ant," said pr would almost certainly wreck | eats, Spider. "Or I'll not spin any | something before they died, The pilot; | slid downwards once more. The ob-| { maete, child !" cried Auntie Ant. I | promise to follow, if you will have it) jnto his machine- -gun, and, from a so. Only spin!" | height of fifty feet, carried out target So little Susie Spider spun her rope. | practice, first on one mine, and then The wind caught her and swung her , the other. The bullets, fired from close safely to the mullein plant opposie. range! punctured the mines' air- And following her over the rough and | chamber, and they sank, unhatched. knotted little rope, came Auntie Ant. | Knew the Game "After all," said Susie Spider, "there | . is some use in spinning.--Abigail Bur- ton. | seaplane had been awakened for. | watching patrol, far away, had told! | Britain of a flock of enemy ee THE NAVY THAT F NEVER-ENDING WORK FULL OF : PERILOUS FEATS. A Description of Two Jobs Allotted to the Royal Naval Air Service of Britain. She looked like a gigantic and tired moth, taking a rest, as she lay by ed side of the hangar, her wings folde back, and the propeller at her fore ond | appearing like the antennz of an in-| sect. She seemed tired--very tired; she had but just returned from a scouting trip over the nearer seas, and: wanted a rest badly. But there is no rest for men or ma- chines in time of war, and_ scarcely had her pilot and observer eaten their breakfast before the wireless installa- | tion attached to the station com- menced to crackle insistently, calling | the tired moth to further life. Into the Water. Come half a dozen overall-clad mechanics with oilcans and spanners, | exceedingly and swiftly, deftly, but carefully, felt her all over, and fed her bearings with lubricant. awakened moth, she slowly unfolded her wings, and commenced to, purr as her engines were tested; then relapsed | into silence as her crew of two clam-! bered to their seats and strapped themselves in. She was ready. The everall-clad mechanics ranged | themselves at her tail, and pushed her! and her carriage down an inclined slip | Two got into a_ boat,! and attacticd a rope to her nose, tow-| to the water. Like an! [ing her round till she was headed in| | steering a certain course, and vi- | | the right direction. Then they cast | dently intending a raid on London. 'So, off, the pilot waved his hand, and al-| the one incident concluded, the airman | most immediately the engines com- 'raised himself once more, and watch- menced to drone again, the resonant 'ed, whilst he hovered in huge circles. note swelling in volume till it sounded Presently, from north and south and like the bass of a cathedral organ east and Tt -- other 'planes, The propeller swished round s0 rapid- «| who greeted = in Fgh oon Pecnloe ly that it seemed but a patch of whiz-| |fashion. At length the squadron was zing haze between the upper planes. |complete, and sallied forth to meet | de " »| the enemy. Swiftly she commenced to "taxi . . . lacross the waters, running in a zig-| These came into sight some ten min- zag course so that she could gain way utes later, flying high and® in battle | enough before rising. A dip of the formation. Immediately they saw the Brit rudder, a lift of the planes, and--still ' | ike a gigantic moth--she lifted, and er, seeking to obtain a position from he d off out into the sky over the whence they might drop their bombs. | SORES SF SS y But the R.N.A.S. knew the " A Wireless Warning. j See had often played it. They, é | Right up she went, the decks of the | ls ena came into action like half ' steamers plying below her looking like million typewriters. so many clockwork toys. Occasional-| The enemy replied, but beyond 'ly the observer, seated behind the | punching neat, round holes in the fab- | pilot, spoke into a navyphone at his) ric of wings, they achieved little. And | en ry aon a | then, deeming a Per better so that he might investigate some suS-/ part of valor, turned and for home picious-looking object in the ---- |? | Then, satisfied once more, the climbed, and as they climbed the Lew- | a were wakened by Auntie ' might cover herself with a concealing | } | poh 4: | | | part. | | | | server slipped a drum of cartridges | ; | | But that was not exactly what the: A 0, never in vain shall ne: ish squadron they rose still high- | The game; i | He wee ig quits too, | ' i | and safety, only -to fight a second bat- | | met ea- | | tle ere they got back with another ¥ec- | 'of the body, War Shipbuilding Operations in Progress at Famous Shipyards most modern type are under construction at the Polson Iron Works, Toronto. They are being 7 _ built for fisheries protection, and work on them is being rushed. Six of the ten have alread pay advanced towards complet The Their length is 140 feet, is eadth 23 feet, and depth and mould 13 feet 6 inches, been launched, ulien, Vimy, Ypres, and Mesa' frail fioats underneath the machine are all that serve to keep her afloat till help comes, or until defects can be remedied. More than a few times naval pilots have been picked up by patrol-boats, as, in the last stage of exhaustion, they clung to their floats, waiting for the wrecked machines to take the final dive. >-- WIN THE WAR. und | i detach itself from her hull and float , Dedicated to the Wi ids the War Cam- y RL. Werty, Montreal. When i heard the call to war She was busy in mart and mill, | But she gathered her sons from near and Her a pty in the ranks to fill; She offered her best for the task and And the heroes' part they played; On aa hee to Calais they made a in And ihe 'Kaiser's plans delayed. Chorus: | Then, up, ye men of the maple leaf, If true to your sires ye ar 'Carve high your name in the 'halls of fame, Come in and win the war. There was just one thought in the na-J mi One_pulse in the n s heart--- One great ambition its manhood stir- ed r In the war to do its part. O, Canada's sons were Britons then-- And Britons to-day they are-- Bull-terrier grit won't Jet them quit Till the day they win the war. Cho. Yes, Canada's sons are proud of their name And reason they have to be; No act of cowardice brings them sham In fighting on land or sea; in peace or | Her spirit's the same trife 5 And nought shall her record mar; She is giving the best of her love and life-- And service--to WIN THE WAR. Cho, our Mother For help in the time of stres: Nor the heart of a sister extn 'bleed With no one to bring redress; The "slacker" may hide in a safe re- trea Or stick to his pleasure car; In khaki the true Canuck you'll meet Determined to WIN THE WAR. Cho. Yes, Johnny Canuck is a warrior bold, A natural "son-of-a-gu He was never afraid of the foes of old Nor yet of the heartless Hun; reddest of blood flows through his; He is true as the northmost star; 'till, he conquers | HE Is IN to WIN THE WAR. "ho, August 4th, 1917. ai panies Armor For U.S, Fighter. The armor provided for United States soldiers consists of a steel hel- From armpits to walst | | plane whirled around in wide cinciea,| ition of the Navy that flies--at Dun- | the armor goes clear around the body, 'searching her particular quarter of | kirk. or Jers sea for enemy submarines Never Ending Work, . nes, And this is a description of two jobs |' allotted to the Royal Naval Air Ser- vice--the Navy that flies, thé Nav whose job is never done; whose stations are somewhere on the } mr Suddenly she put up her tail and dived downwards, on a long slant and at the Same moment her observer tapped out a message on his wireless key. A destroyer, apparently steam-| Coast, whose battle-grounds are ing aimlessly a little to the north-| among the mists and storms which | ward, turned in her stride, spoke to al ryle over the North Sea. Their day consorting sister, and sped down till! has neither beginning nor end; the y! she was below the 'plane. Then fol- fight alike at high lowed an interchange of messages,| midnight. Indeed, with «the result that, guided hy the airman, the two destroyers--the sec- ond o had now come up--com- menced to steer certain courses, and to let down from their sterns a pecu- liar-looking apparatus. The "Devil's Egg." Meanwhile, deep down below the after and strafed a Zeppelin off the; Norfolk coast in his pyjamas, They are ever in danger, both from accidents to material and atmospheric conditions. Should their engines fail} on which to carry out repairs. one incident where a 'naval pilot went him the barrel-fashion, and is secured by a om and buckle. It hangs down in ont, to cover the abdomen, and also | behind. The steel plates are thin, but | | of such excellent quality as to be fair- | ae) {ly proof against rifle bullets or mach- | ine-gun fire. They are covered with | khaki cloth. Nothing New. "] don't think fiying-+machines are noonday arid at |so very wonderful!" said little Sam- there is on record |my, after his mother had been telling story of invention. "Teacher read about one in the Bible the other day!" "In the Bible?" exclaimed his mo- they. "Are you sure? "Oh, yes!" replied _.Sammy. "She when aloft they have no stable land) ltold us that Esau sold his heirship to The ; 'his brother Jacob!" and stee) plates for the protection | THE TROUBLE MAKERS. By Chas M. Bice, Denver, Colo. There are two classes of people who are dangerous nuisances. One class is that of the ostrich optimists who lull the public into a false sense of secur- ity, and the other is that of the frog- pond Jeremiahs who croak gloom and discouragement at the slightest imag- inable provocation. A cheerful idiocy explains the former; a deliberate and really disloyal intent characterizes most of the latter. At the present moment the latter class are the chief troublers. Their insincere lamentations are brawled forth in volume which suggests the chorus has been trained, and is under the competent direction of a leader with a Leipzig or Munich degree. Germany is terribly frightened -- much more than any of the allies, and because she is frightened (and surely she has good reason to be) she is try- ing to frighten us, and she knows that this is the only chance of her success, frighten an ally to quit. The solidarity of the German people is a thing of the past, it no longer ex- ists, The country is torn by faction- 'STORIES OF AERIAL COMBATS ARE NUMEROUS. -- Foolish "Stunts" is Frowned. Upen by Authorities. Many are the stories of daring aerial combats as well as equally reckless and foolish "stunts" perform- ed in the air that are coming to this country every week from-the. great war centres and aviation training schools of Europe. Among the spectacular air combats was that which Robert Mesinger, a noted Germen air pilot, met his death. the allied aviators before he met his own fate. During the fight one of the allied aviator's aeroplanes caught fire, and the latter, realizing that he was unable to escape death, rammed Messinger's machine with the result that both aviators fell to the earth from a great height. A story is told of an exploit by the wonderful French airman Guynemer, who has accounted for so many Hun aviators. In this case the daring Frenchman was indulging in a bit of recklessness entirely uncalled for. He was up in the air trying out a new type of machine and finding that is re- sponded perfectly was ready to alight, Some Wonderful Expleits. He tilted the aeroplane so that it shot toward the earth at terrific speed and at a treacherous angie, aiming for the roof of a hangar. 'Those who stood by thought he had lost control of the machine and was about to meet his death, but when close to the han- gar he changed his horizontal control and the machine just grazed over the roof. To make the performance the more spectacular, he concluded by loeping the loop when the machine was clear down so close over the heads of sev- eral aviators who were seated in their neroplanes that they were obliged to crouch to avoid being hit. Such reck- lessness is not tolerated and the per- petrator of this foolishness received a severe reprimand, s alism, not merely over the methods of making war, but over the question of continuing the war, end the aims to be sought in peace. The unrestricted U-boat warfare is _ achieving its essential to save Germany from facing many thousands, if not millions of | American bayonets. | The foed situation, and the resources \for vital war have been made more ithan desperate by America's restric- tion of exports to neutral countries. The hitherto ceaseless streams of sup- plies from Denmark, Holland, Scan- dinavia and Switzerland are now fast drying up. | On the western front, in spite of the |most desperate efforts to regain the 'offensive and shake the allied V | which closes slowly, but surely, in on |two sides, no appreciable suecess has been gained, and the wastage of her men has practically wiped out Ger- many's reserves. The statement made recently crediting her with 4,000,000 reserves is a malicious falsehood. The youths that Germany in normal course would draft for her reserve depots next year are to-day in the trenches--but a good many of them are in English and French prison camps, many teing wounded, and more of them dead. The youths*that would be subject to draft in 1919 are now in the training depots. France has yet to call the class of 1918 to the firing line, al- though it is in training. All efforts to make a separate peace with Russia have failed. It was a The torpedoplane, invented by Rear, Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U.S.N., re-" tired, has appealed to the German aviators to the extent-that they have adopted or appropriates it, and by clever work have demonstrated . that. the American et periy forces will find it a useful instrument with which to invade German naval and submarine bases. The British Admiralty annonnced that the British stenmship Gena was sunk by a torpedo discharged from a German seaplane off Aldeburgh, all hands being saved, but that another seaplane concerned in the attack was brought down by gunfire from the Gena, and the crew made prisoners. In August, 1915, R. N. A. S._ pilots ased torpedoplanes successfully prise several ships in the Dardan- elles. SIGNIFICANCE OF RED CROSS, Used by the Crusaders in the Fight for the Holy Land. The Red Cross has always denoted self-sacrifice and service. It was the emblem of the cross of Christ and was used by the crusaders as they waged war for the possession of the Holy Land. In this early time two great orders were formed, "The Order of the Knight Templars" Knight Hospitalers"' (or Knights St. John of Jerusalem). who vowed to live and fight and die @@ soldiers of the cross, remaining poor ynd unmar- separate peace, and not the necessity 'to force another Russian retreat that | Germany wanted. The present Rus-! sian retreat--serious though it be, is! ! not so extensive by many miles and ; many thousands of troops, as that! which lost the whole of Galicia andj} ' Poland and the Baltic provinces un-|} | der the drive of Hindenburg and Mac- kensen against an ammunitionless, | | clothesless, and munitionless horde o ; ill-trained recruits. | By her paid agents Germany made | a rotten spot in the Russian front,! and punched her way easily through it. But the gap will be plugged and} bef Russian people, aroused as never} beforg.to a realization of their peril, + will become the bitterest enemy with which Germany will have to deal. And this is why the Hun in Berlin | talks of peace, while the Hun in New | York, in Washington, in St. Louis and! in Chicago, through the lips of fool! American newspapers and traitorous | politicians, talks of the hopelessness of the allied cause, the impregr ee | of the German, weljern front, the m lions of German feserves and the | wickedness of sending Canadian and! American troops to France. We do not deceive ourselves by sup- posing the work ahead is easy, but we refuse to be scared into quitting by a braggart bully who is really much more frightened than anybody else has any reason to be. | Fruit juices and stewed fruits are safest for smal] children. j these Knights of St. ried, like the monks. And they chose for their symbol the red cross on a white background. Later many of John helped to protect and cere for the peor people jin the Island of Malta, and ey he- came -- as the Knichts of Malta nd the er has sometimes been called the Matiese eres The red cross ona white bac mer was the symbol of the brave St. | George, and it was also the emb lem of oe Galahad, "the pure in heart.' And as a deep menning to-day, sdieeese we see it we know that it is the badge of bravery, the symbol of service, on a background of purity, and wherever it is seen it should se- cure protection from all hostility. It is a great disgrace to any nation and very dishonoring for any army to break this neutrality treaty by firing upon those under the she 'Iter of the | Red Cross. The | few pumeat 'f love you for your own sweet sake; Oh, marry me, my kindred soul! I love you more than sirloin steak, My precious \ittle ton of cecal! la frantic suitor humbly bees That you wil! share his daily dough. You're dearer than a dozen eggs, And that's ie dearest thing I know. The best way to help others is help them to help themselves. : » A Jersey cow sold by suction in 15s. Two.animals seld for 200 gpuineas which-is said to he a record price for the breed in that country to Practice of Performing Reckless and of the hzangar and then landed on the field. ' Another youthful French aviator, ending an acrobatic flight, swooped i