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your grocer sells h873 green tea have yot tried it the tiny rick- flbvored leaves and tips are sealed airtight finer than any japan or gunpowder insist upon salada heroes of the vc queer things by paul t omunson the last friday of january was the beventleth birthday of the victoria cross the most coveted of all decora tions for valor in the british empire and indeed in the whole world the victoria cross was lntttuted ou january 29th 1s5c and is awarded for conspicuous bravery or devotion to the country in the presence of the enemy about 52e crosses had been given before the outbreak of the great war and 5s1 including two bars were awarded in the course of that gigantic strugglo this number may seem s when one thinks of tho forces it ho bold i blue to during tho war but the vc was only awarded for absolutely outstanding acts so meidea of its relative value may be gained from the fuct that out of 17376 awards gazetted dujlng ona period of about five months in 1916 there were only seventyseven vcs winning the triple honor at first the vc could only be won by white men belonging to the ser vices but it has been open to indian robinson for bringing down a zeppe lin raider near enfield hugo crowds saw the great airship fall to earth a j flaming wreck and the fact that a victoria cross had actually been won in england added greatly to the in terest of the award when awarded to any rank below that of commissioned officer the vc i carries a pension of 10 a year ande f oxtraordnarny tho vc and bar one of 15 it is also part ii i sure said roberts before any after twenty minutes or so the j one etse could speak story finished i sauntered into tho wel resumed copley a few smoker my acquaintances were seat- minutes later the train was in the ter- 1 ed at tho far end of the car playing nrinal and i was one of the crowd threehanded bridge i drew up a surging toward the exits when the chair and sat down to watch themhttle sandyhaired chap came up be- the little chap still wore his wistful smile and he greeted me with it as i joined them the big feow flashed j his white teeth pleasantly at me his friend gave me a sharp look from be hind his big spectacles and merely nodded my redhaired friend was playing the dummy and once again i was at tracted by his hands as he reached across the table for tho cards really they were the hands of an artist a female artist at that with long tap- whit- they semed to have a personality of their provided that if a recipient of the own individuals instead of merely hands vc is reduced to poverty by reason of old ago or infirmity his pension may bo increased to 75 a year the victoria cross ribbon is now- red for both army and navy and the sido me where do you go from here he asked home i replied east c3rd st taxi yes i said can i ride part way with you thats my direction yes indeed i said to tei the truth i was delighted because i was curious to hear details of the game we got a cab and pros- j ontly were threading our way uptown through tho traffic how much money did you lose finally 1 asked as soon as we were j comfortably settled was finished and myj hundred and eightytwo he re- as definitely as if they wero the hand i redhaired friend was set two tricks i too bad said the big fellow doubled too i cross itself is of bronze with a scroll j hows tho game going i asked bearing the words for valour pre- our friend here is not having vlous to august 1918 the ribbon was much luck so far said the big folow the navy i hes had pretty poor cards the littla sandyhaired chap smiled his wistful smite but offered no com- ruskrns letters jment he was starting to shuffle onoi i do not look to my correspondence tf nson as a duty to bo performed but as thej caught 23fe soldiers 3iuco 1911 and it may now bej sheet won by women including nurses or civilians of either sex when under the direction of naval military or air forces the story of the deeds that won tho vc is one long record of daring and heroism of which our race may woll be proud sometimes too you will find the coveted distinction won by two memmbers of the sanio family for instance major congreve the first oflieer in the british army to win the triple honor of the vc dso and mc eral very best mode of entering mcte7y j the cxt surely time is generally ten thousand nal times more wasted in the common- 1 s aready said coxe re place of the tongue than in selecting j marked cnspy such pieces of our mind as would be shsh hissed roberts let him glad of sympathy and folding them in go on with his story if paper for our friend if ij rd at all i like him on i the big fellow continued copley like a friend at all i like him on asked me if i didnt want to make a paper fourth evidently he hadnt quite be- thus writing to a college friend at lieved my statement about not play- tho ago of twentyone did ruskln ing i repeated it however formulate a theory of epistolary friend- 1 oh i forgot was all he said and ship which he was to carry through i ho didnt try again with untiring enthusiasm for overl fifty years endowed with a nature overflowing with affection and with express itself he had plied calmly aw i said thats a darned shame i hope you had it to lose i had an even 200 on mo he said eighteen wont go very far in new york i laughed trying to make things cheerful can i loan you any he didnt reply at once ho took a package of cigarettes from his pock et extracted one lighted it and look ed out of tho window for a moment then suddenly he turned toward me for the first time i noticed that his smile was absent listen ho exclaimed youve been awful nice to me you tried to keep me away from them two and just now you offered to loan me some money i want to tel you something go ahead i said youve been awful nico to me lie repeated and im going to tell you something he didnt waste any time about it either and his voice was hard and tense my mother was the finest woman that ever lived lie said j diamond dye any garment drapery just dip to tint or boil to dye eucu 15ccnt pick- age contains direc tions so simple any woman can tint soft delicate shades or dye rich permanent colors in lingerie silks ribbols skirts waists dressoj coats stockings sweaters draperies coverings hangings everything buy diamond dyes no other kind and tell ycur druggist whether the ma terial you wish to color is wool or silk or whether it is linen col ton or aixed goods eagerness to many friends and he liked them all on paper once he told norton that he was writing fifteen to twentyfive was the son of lieuienant-gen- letters a day a slight matter for the w n congreve vc who was j modern business man surrounded with e expression on his face betrayed not i i thought said copiey to his four the slightest anxiety i couldn t make t1 r t friends it aiso explained why i had t him out athough for a long time i in u been puzzled about him and unable to decorated for conspicuous bravery in stenographers and dictaphones but a saving tho guns at colenso j creative achievement of some magni- major coiigrovofl cross was award- l whp one lias like rijlskin some- ed after his death and ws presented j thing significant to say the result by the king to his widow who was a j was a correspondence which in exten daughter of mr cyril maude the fa- j s well as in abiding worth can hard- j ignored my magazine and sat watch- mous actor but in the early days of j baeqiialled in the nineteenth cen- the landscape and thinking about the vc posthumous awards were tin- j fury his letters to charles eliot nor- tou rank together with those carlyle and emerson as the memorable transatianti ence and more of his letters ileve have been printed well i watched the game for half j my filther was a crook p an hour and then went back to myj there was nothing he wouldnt magazine i had watched as coselyj well i both of th6m on as i coud but i couldnt for the ifo al the same time sometimes im of mo see anything that looked sus- j honsst citizen and sometimes im picious still the utte redhaired a crook there sccms to tw0 pc0 chap was losing steadily and i wt p insice of me lighung all tho time morally certain that he was being j and somc one is on top and some- ileaced he seemed unconcerned about umes the other 1m a kmd of dr it for the wistful smile played un- j amj mr jivde i guess interruptedly about his mouth and the irr t i that expamed tho evil look i known chosen by thsir comrades one of- the most daring of the sol diers who won the vc during the war was lieutenantcolonel freyburg who has alsobeei awarded the i1so and two bars and who was prominently in j the news a few months ago in connec tion with a plucky channel swim ex- plolt mon during an important action on though he had been four times wound- j ln him i couldnt make the other two of j out either although i had to admit mosti to myself that if they were card correspond- sharps they certainly ranked near tho be- 1 top of their profession i than in tiie os tssse wm tmm mich publication ho od was the last to object for he once de clared never wrote a private letter to human being which i would not he remained in command of nls iet a insticker chalk up six feet high hyde park wall and stand myself piccadilly and say did it kaufman in the north amerl- somctiiiiea a gallant and daring act i ca h is performed not by an individual but by a body of troops or saanion in such i a case all the men concerned may de serve the vc but not all can obtain the distinction so the officers who nurvlve select one of tholr number for the award and tho ncos or petty officers and men each do the same mere boys have won the little bronze cross for valor jack cornwoll for i iijtance was under sixteen and a half j years of age when mortally wounded during tho battle of jutland he re- i niained at his post until the action was i over and so won the vc when the airship fell the story of drummer walter rit chies vc is also an inspiring one during a critical moinont in action when some or our troops hud lost their leaders and become disorganized he j made his way to the parapet of an 1 enemy trench and repeatedly sounded j the charge another notable nvarded to lloutciu chap but after all i had tried to warn him and if he wanted to throw his money away it really was none of my business i dismissed all three of my lunch aquaintances from my mind and started to read another story id read about a paragraph when the little redhaired chap appeared in the door way of the car he caught my eye as he was passing my chair game over i asked him no he said im going to get some cigars out of my bag how are you making out i in quiredrather an impertinent ques tion i thought afterward not too well he replied his wist ful smile brightening for a fleeting instant he put one of those tapering white hands on the back of my chair coat he drew forth a lwn and leaned over me they ve got m w ard he it fm my inspection see that he asked that belongs to the big guy with the white teeth it has my hundred and eighty- two in it and i dont know how much pu make him out this noon the little sandyhaired chap continued i was an honest citi zen now before the afternoon is over im a crook believe me said copley i shouldnt have been surprised to have tho muzzle of a gun jabbed into my ribs at any moment and to bo tod to hand over what valuables i had on me i rapidly regretted any sympathy i had wasted on this curious young man sitting beside me he had stop ped talking for a moment and was puffing his cigarette and peering out at tho street signs i decided that the gun was not to make its appearance as yet and thought it a proper time to ask a question if youre a crook i demanded somewhat nervously why did you let thoso two cardsharpers trim you so easily he turned and faced me again the wistful smile was on his lips once more listen ho said and thrust his hand into the inside breast pocket of a decidedly new frock new york and palm beach agree on the chic of this decidedly new long- sleeved 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want enclose 20c in stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to pattern dept wilson publishing co 73 west ade laide st toronto patterns sent by return mail vhat she wanted an elderly american couple had never known anything but drudgery they lived on a sandy farm of a few- acres which was too poor to cultivate profitably so they eked out an exist- once by cutting down scrub oak id selling it the wifo did most of the cutting while the husband drove mo wagon and sold the wood an oil company drilled a well on their land and struck a gusher this raised tho pair to the millionaire class the glad news was told the man in town and after disposing of his load he hastened back to toll his wifo she might have been expected to drop her axe with a sigh of relief but instead she said well i wish youd buy me a new axehandle he told me in a low for 95 so far voice and youre going back 1 claimed yes i think i will he said for the second time i had an idoa to look that there was something sinister well sir you could have floored about the look in that eye with the me with a wisp of straw said cop- caet but his smile was so disarming loy then the humor of it struck morebecauso i havent had a chance c was thati william ieefe she im rigiil at home on the ice t r mo n 1 think youre an ice that i forgot it almost instantly and me and i began to laugh i would sons of my feeling of pity for him returned have given a good deal to see the big worus do it i urcrcd him as felovv with his whit- teeth when he and i this t hush the sun the false dawn hushes and the woods tremble with expectancy la uioir moods waiting for that far dim blue line across the salt marshes to give somo sign and to slant its first earthpointed beam to catch them and to gleam on their sedges jeweled by the night waiting to tell their beauty to the light their joy is secure for here bursting a criinsonod galleons sail of sheer magnificence conies a spear of gold and caressing the fringes with still cold fingers leaps on and ou and speeds willi its days greeting to tho fringe of trees then with more roseate approach the high herald and his cohorts now encroach upon bronzing water crests and lav- ing all shores hi gold flooding the meadows j to fall in scintlllnnt glory on the wood and awaken her ecstatic qulotude j shrill rise the calls of all the birds i effect of hot water entering her sittingroom one even ing a woman saw ouo of her curtains ablaze it having come in contact with a gar jot she called to the cook for a pail of water but tho latter did not arrive on tho scone until the man of the house had rushed in torn down the curtain and stamped out the flame why didnt you hurry they asked the cook hurry sho repeated wasnt i hurryln as fast as i could i had hot water in the pail to throw out and then get some cold water you didnt want me to come in and throw hot water on the fire and make it worse did you thanks rich to the wine of living sweet is lifes broad lo me gladness and deep thanksgiving grow to an ecstasy thanks for the joy and sorrow and for the pence and pain for tho hope of each tomorrow for every loss and gain for all the fair surprises that brightened many a day for fairer brighter new ones waiting along the way o father near and gracious for all im thanking thee the loveliness of living is miraclo to me may howo daltln winged thievee pigeons are to bo fought on a con- corted plan by devonshire farmers who find these birds very harmful to their crops minards liniment for dandruff gave him away a husband telephoned to say that he could not get home to dinner iato as it was it would be much later be fore he had finished his business you poor dear answered his wifo sympathetically i wonder yon can get anything done at all with that jazj band playing in your office he yeh i girl delight prayers without mm jolly good fellow i the oldest tune in the world is that to which has been set the popular i toastditty for hes a jolly good fel- low the melody is without an exception in all the quaint folksong of the western races pioneers in north america found that tho red indians knew it and that it was one of the cradle the squaws i the native tribes of south ame i know it to this day as also do alorigiues of australia the maoris urged him as fellow with his white teeth when hcjand in this templed phalanx glory you must know discovered what had happened to him of the oak and pine i construct this dont do it earnestly as i could what they are by this time and whats i wondered what sort of a snarl thej the jse of giving them any more of teeth would become your hardearned money i is smile widened a trifle what makes you think its hard- earned he asked i felt a little foolish the littlo redhaired chap laughed too not bad eh he said and how about this he drew a black wallet j out of his overcoat pocket the guy i story f a dewson in the monitor i know nothing about it of j wit v bi k announced course i said but in any event ii copley looked around the table at cant sco the point in letting lullabies of i choat ollt of the luck may change he said a couple li that all asked coxe almost said copley just then puzzle find tie principal prize list 25 wriet watch 25 camerat 25 clock hundreds of other prize3 lt you con lolve chit puzile uuf win sell 2 prowa perfume t loccachyoucan win on of theaov prizes will yen do thii t u very ety if so just mark the principal with to x and tend it to us at once and if it is correct ire mill send you usa perfume to sell right away stlfut specialty co x wttrfort 0at rica i j exclaimed iuck hasnt cnir loaned forward and tap- tbe part in that game p lhc signaling the driver to well he said ill see you later stop and the arabs i and passed on evidently unwilling to african explorers have heard it discuss it any more chanted to the beating of tomtoms i when he passed me on his way 1 aly street ho said lie gathered up his bag and as i at tho museum kosaniand viewing knights armor i how delightful twould bo to havo j onea heart swayed by so gallant a knight mary jane tea if the tin sheik jthe taxi drew up to the curbjic open-ldid- to ru wlt an lroa iland vhllo visitors to iapland have state i hack to the smoker he did not stop e the door and stepped out he thrust it l t i- r u- i 1 i- moth in that country also this time the back of his head his his hand into his trousers pocket but narrow shoulders and even his way j protested of walking all combined to give thcj iet me i exclaimed still liuigh- imprcssion of some one who had been iir its been worth it tho under dog ail his life i did myj e looked at me with his queer best not to feel sorry for him but try wirrtul smie as i might i couldnt help myself j a1i right he said but take this copley paused he picked up his anyway hut beyond cigar but did not relight it i he tossed something upon the rear i is that all of your story inquired j soa slammed the door and was gone my hand touched something hard i and looked at it it was the end that tho i use lt i the author of the tune is unknown efforts to trace its origin have been un- successful research- however have brought to hfbt hint it was well known to the ancient egyptlann and that uiey prob ably ot lt from habylon that th trail is lost it cmc to kurope through be re- coxe in a rather critical jonc fuming cnibidors who a a matter of thats nil except tho last chap- j pj it up fact mod it a a sort of warfong when ter repkcl copeley do you want m watch i thoy wre boafoclng jenikalem i to hear the end of it 1 on the contrary father yes my boy are politics plural no my boy theros nothing in the world more singular which mattered motorist waking up where am 1 whero am i nurse this is number 116 flcom or call mlnardt liniment for tore throat cabin liners europe famous o ttaimf arc lavorlte among thouaaadf ci dtacritainaiag oavelora luxurf- oua accornjnodeuotj axccutsc cuiaiua atrotiva aervico y lrriilrt illnc rwn iuv cherbourg and seathartiton 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