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\ ee Indian Summer. In a little town of southern Ontario there lives a black-haired girl named Doris Brooks, who knows where In- dian summer got its name. Some persons have one story to tell about the name and some have another, but Doris, as you shall see, has every rea- son to feel sure that she has learned the true secret of it. Of course Doris believes in fairies, but in all her life, although she had in all day in the woods when she learned the secret of Indian summer. It happened one Saturday afternoon in early November. The day did not seem at all like a November day, with Christmas only. a few weeks off, for-it Was 2s warm as June, and yet was not at all like June. The fields were brown, instead of green, and there was a soft, smoky haze over them and over the forests, where the scar- lets and crimsons of October had fad- ed to dull shades. It was so still that even when Doris was crossing the field toward the woods she could hear a squirrel chattering away in them. errand and was trying to scold hard enough to keep her away, for, as you should know, Doris was going to the weeds in the hope of finding some acorns and beechnuts. She felt sure that there were enough for the squir- rels and@forsher, too, When she set out for the woods she was not think- ing about fairies-ab all--Indian-sum- mer fairies or any! other kind; but when she reached the edge of the woods, and before she had picked up a single beechnut or acorn, the thought came to her that it was just the day, so still and soft and hazy, for fairies to wander through the woods. It may be, of course, that the fairies were friends of the squirrel and that they whispered that thought into the pink ear under her black hair. Anyway, when Doris thought of the! Ske was full of her adventure, but she| selves to prove that we were not | fairies she straightway forgot all about the beechnuts and acdrns and sat down at the foot of a great elm that grew close beside a little stream; and looked carefully all round. Not a fairy was' to seen. Not a liy- ing thing of any kind, except. the squirrel that was, still chai in ~ ils treey"aud) not s-moving thing of pt a few dead tenses any kind, exce that' were drifting slowly down the}: little stream. , "I know what the matter is," said Doris to herself. "The fairies see me and are afraid. I'll put a powdered fern leaf in my shoes and that will . make me invisible. My cousin Louise told me that it would, and she knows | all about such things." Clese beside her grew a cluster of ferns, brown from the early frosts.! mother laughed at her story, and it Men and children, all the Arabs about Doris powdered one of the'dry leaves in her hand and put a bit of the d:st into each shoe. Then she leaned back against the trunk of the big elm and waited. She waited very quietly for along time. Perhaps the powdered got a bit sleepy as she watch- ed, and shut her eyes a moment or two; that also is possible. The next thing that Doris knew. she was suddenly leaning forward, her bright eyes had grown very big with amazement and a little ery was trying to get through her lips. leaves drifting down the stream were not dead leaves any longer, but a fleet The dead w of fairy canoes manned by Indian fairies! . There could be no mistake about it. The harder she looked the plainer she saw the Indian fairies--some in the canoes and some on a flat rock in the middle of the little stream. Some of them had bows and arrows, and, i she looked, one of the Indian fairies on the flat rock shot an arrow at a bumblebee that was buzzing its way overhead. The others on the rock waved their bows and chased one 9n- other as if they were playing tag. None of the Indian fairies had the & fairies wore; fairies do not need wings, as other fairies do, since the feathers that they wear would bear them upward if they desired to fly. But these' Indian fairies did not fly. They paddled their canoes down the stream, wholly unmindful of Doris, even when they passed very near her or landed on the flat rock and played there. Doris saw it all very plainly. She never saw anything more plainly in her life. Then, just as quickly as she could wink, everything changed. There was not an Indian fairy or a fairy canoe to be seen--only a few dead leaves floating down the stream an drifting against the flat rock. Her eyes grew bigger than before and she looked harder and harder, but not a single Indian fairy was there--only drifting leaves. "O dear!" sighed Doris. "They must have seen me and got frightened!" Then she looked down and saw that one of her shoes had fallen off. "That is it!" she cried aloud. "When my shoe came off, the powdered fern leaf fell out and then they could see me. Anyway, I had a good look at them first!" . Doris hurried home, wholly forget- ting the beechnuts and the acorns. did not tell anyone about it until her father happened to say at the sup- per table, "What a beautiful Indian- summer day this has been!" Then Doris turned to her brothér Ned. and said, 'Do you know where piece of cake and said, "Well, do you know?" : "Yes, I do know!" answered Doris. And then she told the story of her wonderful adver. ture in the woods that afternoon. "Indian fairies!" laughed Ned, when she had finished. "You must have been dreaming!" But neither her father nor her was a great comfort to her when her father said, "Ned, are you sure that Doris was dreaming? Those of us who have not seen fairies have no right to say that other persons have never seen them.' And so long as Doris lives, even if she nev-r sees another fairy in all that time, shgp will believe in fairies and rejoice that she got a good look at the tribe of little Indian-summer fairies that were paddling their canc.s down the forest stream on that beautiful November afternoon.-- Marion Hallowell. ! SUFFERING IN THE HOLY LAND | | THOUSANDS FACE DEATH FROM | STARVATION, in, After Two Thousand Years, is Heard the Cry: "Woe Is Jerusalem." : ! Woe is Jerusalem! | Grim war has laid: its wasteful | touch on the land of patriarchs, pro- phets and kings. God's chosen people are fleeing the Holy City as they did two thousand years ago. Starvation s the scourge that is driving them. War's desolation is asweep of the Holy Land. The victorious British troops are at Bagdad, thirty hours by rail from Jerusalem. An army of one hundred thousand Turks and Germans is said to be between them and the. Holy City, every step of the way being strengthened by fortifications of mod- ern type. German and Turkish sol- diers flock in and out of Jerusalem; autotracks with the trappings of war are passing through at all hours of the day and night. Prophecy Fulfilled. In the footsteps of 'our Saviour, when He was on earth to preach the gospel of peace, servitors of war are tramping the sacred ground. In the wilderness and the mountain where He retired to' meditate and pray,' where His disciples and the multitudes followed Him, the Word of God is' be- ing set s: naught by the works of | war. Big guns frown from the heights of Mount Olivet. War has not yet reached the Holy City. Its forerunner is spreading the work of desolation. Want is its ad- vance agent. In the city where Pilate put the finishing touch to the world's great tragedy and whence flowed the prophecy of war upon wars and all nations embroiled in strife, with the end of the world in sight when the earth should be rocked with the tu- mult of battle, starvation is doing the war's cruel work. A forty-two-ccnti- meter gun is the new cross on Calvary. oO THE HERO. We are the proudest family That lives on our street, We want to tell the glorious news To every one we meet With shoulders squared and sparkling eyes We eagerly advance And in a chesty tone announce:-- "Our Jonny's gone to France." Somehow thg people on our block They never thought him much He hung around the corner stave Played pinochle and such, But when he got his khaki suit He also got his chance, And he's the local hero now Since Johnny went to France. --Minna Irving. Experience is a great teacher but by the time it hands a man his diploma ' he is too old to make much use of ' his knowledge. Pat--"Mike, I joined an insurance order last night, and its fine." Mike --'What kind of insurance order?" Pat--"Well, I pay one dollar a week as long as I live, and get two dollars a week as long as I'm dead." + ship spreading out into a fan, swept onj| cornfield in the Mexican | State of he} across the sand in it of our flee-; Sinaloa. as 5a ti Se ing ail gh fae oe i Both of these . Speci are other| "We "had 16 wae MEN OF THE TARA. How the Remnant of -the Torpedoed FIGHTING OUR WAY ~ steel) THROUGH SPACE joe by a. German; x submarine in Gulf of Sollum, and ik,' with) the lbes af 'eh of her ARMOR OF AIR SAVES LIFE ON crew of more than one hundred. The THIS PLANET. submarine towed the ninety-two sur- vivors to Port Suleiman, writes Mr. Rese Lewis R. Freeman in the Atlantic farth is Subjected to Incessant Bom- bardment--Meteors Have Fallen On This Continent. wy Monthly, and handed them over to the Turks, who in turn passed the party on to the Senussi, a confederation of Arab tribes. The Senussi, short o food already, marched their prisoners; The planet on which we dwell is over the desert to Bir Hakim, an old' subjected to a never-ending bombard- Roman well in the interior. Here,! ment from outer space. Astronomers eking out with snails and roots such say that at least 10,000,000 projectiles scanty rations as their captors were, strike the atmospheric envelope of the able to provide, the unfortunate Brit-' earth every twenty-four hours. ons, racked by disease and only half-| The slowest of them travel thirty- sheltered from the winter weather, ex-! six times as fast as a rifle bullet, and isted for three months and a half. | same of them have more than twice ood became scarcer and scarcer,! that Speed. We call them meteors, or and by the middle of March death' jf they are good-sized ones, "shooting from starvation in the course of the' stars," But even a minute particle of next few days appeared inevitable.' meteoric dust going at such a rate But on the seventeenth of that month,! would be more deadly than a bullet as suddenly as if dropped from } i : , bombardment would soon de- biles appeared on the horizon. A few stroy every living thing on the earth, ; moments later the Arab guards had' were it not that the latter is protected fallen before the fire of machine guns, | by armor--its air-envelope serving and the half delirious prisoners,' that purpose admirably. - A meteor, on plunging trembling hands into hastily entering the atmosphere, is instantly broached tins of jam and condensed set afire by friction, its temperature milk, were being bundled into Red being raised to something like 3,000,- Cross ambulances for the return jour- : 000 degrees Fahrenheit. Consequently, ney. A couple of days later and they jt js burned up--converted into gas-- -- ha hospitals of Alexandria. | before it can hit the ground, "We had written many letters from' ; time to time," says Capt. Gwatkin- ee Seay seeeees. ' Williams, the naval officer in command; However, an occasional one of these ,of the Tara, "and our guards had as- celestial -- projectiles, exceptionally ' sured us that they would be handed to! !arge, manages, by reason of its size, the Turks for forwarding to England.' to get through and reach the earth. di Most of them were probably thrown Not long ago, in Arkansas, a woman away or deliberately destroyed, but, S@W one fall and smash a tree near by a kind trick of fate, one written by, er house. It was dug out of the 'myself, was taken by the Turks to Sround many hours later, still so hot ' Sollum when the Senussi occupied that | that it could hardly be handled, and 'port. When the British retook Sol-| 88 found to weigh 107 pounds. 'lum, this letter, by a second lucky co-| Many "meteorites" (as they are | incidence, was left behind in the hast-| Called after they have fallen) are very ily evacuated quarters of a Turkish! Small; but that is because they are |mere unconsumed remnants of large Even the biggest one known, h | officer. | ' "About three in the afternoon of | Ones. ' ' | Saint Patrick's Day, which we had Which weighs ninety tons, and whic 'celebrated by making a feeble attempt 88 found by Peary on the north to kill off a few of the snakes that had| Coast of Greenland, may have been! o¢ |recently begun to infest the camp, we of much greater size when it struck |caught sight of the first car, and be-| Ur atmosphere. Its surface shows fore we had finished pinching our-| Signs of fusing by heat. 'dreaming the whole force of forty-one | Ural History in New York city were thundering down on us. The am-| See there this wonderful visitor bulances pulled up and the attendants, as soon as they could free themselves from the embraces of the men, began to shower food about. The other cars, behold the next biggest meteorite record, weighing fifty tons and thir- teen. feet- long, which was found in ° 3 complaint against these men THE DECLINING ZEPPELINS. As a War Machine They Have Proved: a Distinct Failure: *- With the season of maximum fogs approaching for London and vicinity, the i exactly be free from the anxiety as to Zeppelins. But, at least, the protection that the dense late autumn and winter fogs give, coupled with the fact of the dis- aster to the Zeppelin fleet during its home journey on the last raid, proves once more the superiority of the air- plane for aerial warfare in all kinds of weuther and goes far to reassure those attacked that the worst is over. ; Naturally, there may be many things j that must be done by the Allies to off- | Set the menace of the Zeppelins. And the criticism of the kind of protection, | or lack of it, that London has receiv- ed fr its air fleet may be justified. But the Way in which four out of eleven Zeppelins were brought down jin France, taken in connection with the fact that air power through an ex- .cess of airplanes will surely pass to the Allies in the spring, makes the general outlook very hopeful. And this is true not only in the mat- ter of the continuing aerial invasions of England, but in the more important issue of the relation of air supremacy j to the German defensive on the west- jern front. That this air supremacy j finally is to be with the Allies in all its essentials goes without saying. | Every fact that indicates the value of | airplanes over the Zeppelins is all the| more reason why the best results. should be expected from the huge air fleet which is now under way in the' United States. There are no illusions | among the German air commanders | as to the real menace of this fleet, and | if it were in being now the talk of | mild peace conditions emanating from | Potsdam would take on a positively h ' garrulous character. i i ; In the meantime, the fact that only. THE ANCIENT TOWN . OF BEER-SHEBA VILLAGE OF BIBLE TIMES NOW IN BRITISH HANDS. This "Place of Seven Wells" Was the Scene of a Covenant Between Abraham and Abimelech. Beer-sheba, to give it the custom- ary Bible spelling, has a fame going far outside the regular Bible reader. "From Dan to Beer-sheba" is a pro- verbial expression that has beer popularized in election campaigns Yet few politicians know where the place is. Beer-sheba is the southern extremity of Palestine and is a small. almost insignificant, place twenty- eight miles from Gaza, which was taken by the British forces in March last. The most probable meaning of the word is "seven wells," as seven wells still exist there from ancient times. In the fourth century the place was mentioned as a big village and the seat of a Roman garrison... A num- ber of valuable mosaics and inscrip- tions were found there, but the van- dals of Turks, like their fellows the Huns at Rheims, wantonly knocked them to pieces. The Biblical Beer- sheba probably exists two miles away from the village and is known to-day as Bir-es-Seba. So much for the geographic interest of the place the British troops heve occupied. The Biblical Village. The older Beer-sheba is far more interesting. For those. a growing number, who cnly take their Bible in pellet form from the news prints, it may be mentioned that the politico- . ,'i tor, tells a story of the declining-glory | Any visitor to the Museum of Nat-!} OF} 8 . x eS ate Fea Be peg ea = police pamedl a = ee Biblical expression occurs in Judges | one of the Sake brought ree by the | x 1: "Then all the children of Israel FP h while th v ft | rene out and the congregation was ra gy are oat |store fer fTom Pon (De i, és ' -;sheba." This must have been "some" {lines in the daytime was actually cap-| gathering, equivalent to our "Halifax jtured by a twenty-one-year-old avia- | tg Vancouver" conventions. z | But there is some confusion about . a war a a hopes the origin of the place. In Genesis gag en he ete nda at sa we ef hr ae i ' " pute between Abimelech and Abraham | which was to have brought victory to! because the former's servants, anticip- j her a long time since. Instead, it is, ating the Turkish army of to-day, had jclear the Zeppelins are egregious | «violently taken away" one of the | wells. Verse 28 runs: -* j bombing of women and children and| "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs , hospitals has accomplished in the un-'of the flock by themselves. And |defended towns they have attacked is} Abimelech said unto Abraham, What to stiffen the Tesistance of England | mean these seven ewe lambs? And and = the Allies waitin grim oa he said, For these seven ewe lambs mination now prevailing everywhere | shalt thou take of my hand that they that war shall not end until those who be a witness unto me that I have sre responsible for 'these-hideous poli- this well he EP ce ats 7 - WHY THERE ARE MASCOTS. © ant at whom the care of our party had fallen,| %f those metals is of and we would gladly have inter-' Most meteorites, rendering them so ceded for them if there had been any | hard that they can be cut only with 'chance. But they took to their heels' Utmost difficulty. Discovery "of this |the moment the first cars came in! fact, indeed, is said to have suggested sight, and a panicky sort of resist-| the idea of using nickel-steel for war- ance on the part of a few of them, Ship armor. when they were overtaken sealed the! Famous Ring Meteorite. 'fate of the lot. Except for a few wo-| Not a few meteorites, however, are _composed largely of stony material. the place succumbed to the fire of the! Of this character, eeiieuaty. was the machine guns, and a score or so of; famous "ring meteorite," now pre- graves were added to those of the four' served in the National 'Museum at 'Tara men we had already buried at Washington. The stony stuff having | Bir Hakim. 'dropped out of it, what remains is a n | nickel-iron ring four feet in diameter VICTIMS DESCRIBE AIR RAIDS. 'and weighing 1,400 pounds. A Mexi- ;ean blacksmith at Tucson, Ariz., was , Harrowing Tales of Death of Women using it for an anvil when an army and Children Related at Inquest. | recognizing its character, | officer, j made a cover - ita and Abraham planted a grove at Beer-sheba." In Genesis xxvi., 26 to 33, however, much the same thing is attributed to } regiment in the army has its own be-| Isaac. Verse 32 says: "And it came loved mascot. This creature is be-; to pass the same day that Isaac's ser- lieved in some mysterious way to vants came to him and told him con- bring luck to the men. It is interest-| cerning the well they had digged and ing to know just where this custom! said unto him, We have found water. originated, and how. Up to thirty-! And he called it Shebah. Therefore five years ago, while there were such' the name of the city is Beer-sheba j things as talismans and luck charms, | unto this day." the mascot was unknown. Familiar to Bible Readers. The word itself was first estondiieee | References are made in other parts into literature by Audran, the French' of Holy Script to Beer-sheba, especi- composer of tuneful comic opera, in| ally those concerning the Divine his work "La Mascotte." The word) manifestations to Hagar (Gen. xxi, had travelled up to Paris from Pro-| 17), to Isaac (Gen. xxvi. 24), to vence and Gascony, where a mascot Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 5) and Amos v., has been kept in every household to/5, In I: Kings, xix., 5, Elijah is said First Introduced Into Literature by a French Composer. Every ship in the navy and every A district coroner has conducted an inquest over fourteen victims of last week's Zeppelin raid, of whom ten were female, writes a London corre- | spondent on O:tober 24th. Seven were ;children from one family. The bomb made a hoie twenty feet wide and twelve feet deep, demolished nearby houses, and scattered metal over a radius of 180 yards. | One woman whose house was demol- ished said a beam fell slantwise and 'eft a small opening which enabled her , four children to craw! out, while she supported with her shoulders a part of a partition until she collapsed, and the partition fell. One of her chil- dren and also a friend were killed. She was only bruised. Of seven children in one family five were suffocated, one died from shock and one was crushed. Their mother j Was injured, but will recover. All the [aig in another house were blown | i into the roadway, and two children were found dead on the other side. H | Tn another London district nine per- sons were killed in the same house, A sirl testified that her two sisters, her mother and a bfother were killed. Two | of the sisters were found in the ruins {still in bed. One was dead and | other badly injured. Curiously 'enough, the one dead died from shock; | the other, who was still living, was! crushed by debris. A piece of this bomb was found 800 yards away. A constable said he found a girl be- 'hind a house on the opposite side of! the street. A physician said her in-! juries were consistent with the-opinion | | ' ' { posite. When picked up she was con- scious and able to talk, but she died in a few hours. o--__. The robin is the last bird to retire o its nest in the evening. It has large eyes, and can see well by a dim light. Let cauliflower heads lie upside own in water for an hour bcfore preparing them--this eliminates dirt and insects, that she was hurled over the house Op-| ed bought it for a-small price. It seems to be fairly well proved that meteors are the scattered frag- ments of smashed-up comets. When the great comet of Biela, long familiar to astronomers, finally went to pieces in 1872, bits of it fell all over Mexico. ------_--->-- How Ringtails Are Caught. Ringtail monkeys, one of the most valuable and expensivt of the smaller kinds, are caught isan _ interesting way. A cocoanut is split in two, and a banana, with a piece of wood run- ning through it, is placed gthwise through the nut, the two halves of which are drawn together by wires. Then a hole is cut Jarge enough for the monkey's paw to enter. The mon- key spies the tempting nut from his tree. He hops down, looks it over, sees the hole, smells the banana _ in- side. He is fond of bananas. Putting his paw in he grasps it, but the wood prevents it from coming out. Then the catchers appear, aand the monkey runs for a tree. But he cannot climb because of the cecoanut on his paw, and he will not let go of that, so he is captured, pawing wildly at the tree- trunk. Sand Bags of Paper. Mr. H. R. Christie, formerly of the British Columbia Forest Service, has ,sent to an Ottawa friend a sample of the German sand bags made entirely of paper fibres. In appearance the article somewhat resembles a coarse brown linen bag but_is smoother in finish, each strand being tightly roll- and woven with great exactness. Mr. Christie states that the bags are very serviceable except when exposed to moisture, when they rot. The Ger- mans, he reports, do-not use nearly as many sand bags as the British and French, for the reason that they have more timber at their disposal and make prolific use of it. "The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."--Chamfort. bring luck to its inmates. Apparently | it is derived from "masque," which in| provincial Ffench is synonymous with' "ne coiffe," meaning "born with a) caul." In many parts of Europe, not- | ably in Scotland and in France, good} fortune is attributed the caul, and! high prices are paid foy one. A child born with this supposed charm is not' only fortunate itself, but.also brings | good fortune to those in its home. j In Audran's opera mascots are used to thwart the evil powers of Satan. | So popular was the opera-and its story | |that mascots in the form of watch) charms, coins and other devices were ,carried on the person, and in house-} i holds dogs were christened as mascots , ; to ward off evil. Gradually the idea' , was adopted by sailors and soldiers; jand mules, cats and goats were sup- | posed to have a particularly strong in-! \ fluence in attracting good fortuné and | bringing success and victory. | Sometimes bits of earth are used | as mascots. A small piece of Ireland, was recently | States in order H. Taft might deliver t. Patrick's Day address while standing, on Irish soil. fascots are indeed fortunate crea- tures, for they receive the best care| and treatment and live on the fat of} the land. Every ship in the navy is! roud of its mascot, and every regi-! ment in the army sees to it that its/ mascot is guarded and "treasured.! Whether the mascot really attracts| good luck is a matter of opinion, but} it certainly is true that any animal adopted as a mascot is a mighty for- tunate creature. 4 a To keep our late crop of cauliflower for winter use, cook and can it in a strong salt brine. After it is canned it will turn brown and you may think it spoiled, but it is not. When want- for use, open, drain and place in a saucepan; cover well*with water, bring to a boil and drain again. This removes the curplus salt and restores the natural color. It+is now ready to prepare for the table. => to have left his servant at Beer- sheba while "he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and requested for himself that he might die." What the British artillery grilling of the Turks on entering Beer-sheba may have been can only be guessed yet, but possibly many a heathen Musselman there has heart- ily repeated Elijah's request by now, "for 'twas a famous victory $$ ne ROAD RULES. | Stand straight: Step firmly, throw your weight; The heaven is high above your head, The good gray road is faithful to your tread. Be strong: Sing to your heart a battle song: Though hidden foemen lie in wait, Something is in you that can smile at Fate. Press through: Nothing can harm if you are true. And when the night comes, rest: The earth is friendly as a mother's breast. --Edward Markham. a Value of Education. An authority of education has ar- rived at the following conclusions: "First. That an uneducated child has one chance out of 150,000 to at- tain distinction as a factor in the pro- gress of the age. "Second. That education will increase nearly four times. F "Third. That a high-school train- ing will increase the chances of the common schoolboy twenty-three times --giving him eighty-seven times the chance of the uneducated." a common-school his chance Make a pit and fill it with leaves or make a pen of boards in the garden and fill it up with leaves for leaf mouli