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a story of ik war rlflo fire but new another was upon him wound in the arm caused him to drop his rifle ducking to evade a bayonet thrust he seized tho officers sword and plunged jt into his adver sary- here the eoldler jumped to his feet it was colonel shaw himself who frantically shouting and waving his first told mrs saunderson the story of arm yes yes i remember now i how ber boy had died in flanders i remember it all now he got tho col- that was just six months after the onel over bis shoulder and tried to get death of her husband of course sbc back then a shell burst in front of had received the official notification them and down they went together hut not until tho colonel was invalided tho colonel was picked up but rob home and she heard the story from was left for dead ws own lips did sbo learn that herj he seemed calmer now but con- boy had fallen while saving that galtinued standing there was dead lant officers life silence for a moment then with a naturally the story told by the col- s2lo he said but rob aint dead he onel went a long way toward softening was taken prisoner the mothers grief had he lived not dead said mrs saunderson the colonel concluded i would have rushing forward and grasping the made mm independent but the col- hand of tho soldier and speaking with onel did not confine himself now to an eagerness bordering on hysteria verbal praise and promises ho went o man tell me tell me how it is further and showed his gratitude by possible dont deceive man dont presenting mrs sanderson with the deceive mo as you expect to meet title deed of a bouse a portion or your maker dont deceive a poor which was available for lent thus heartbroken mother but tell m ho provided bread and butter for the sbal i see my boy again fairjy before the war she had been no no said ircuo rising from her almost a stranger in the city her seat ho does not deceive us thats scottish nature kept her aloof conse- rob himself 1 know him i know quently her friends had been few but now it was different the story of private sandersons heroic death wa3 published in tho newspapers and eho became quitn popular especially in military circles tho khaki was the open sesame to the sanderson home every returned eoldler was welcome there often in tho cozy parlor the family and their friends would gather and listen to the tales told by the remnants of the fighting 14th but of all the tales that were told there was one of in terest to the griefstricken mother nothing pleased her better than to hear the story of how bob had saved tho colonel except it was repeating of it when she could find a listener there was one constant visitor to that bereft home who did not wear tho khaki but often wished she could irene johnson never missed a sunday as the clocks were striking three shei was in the parlor there mother and him mother mother tho soldier cried dont you know mo dont you know mo even if my face and voice are changed my heart is still the same for you james f napier montreal in scottish american mailed fist vs csannel tunnel again advocated war proves how useful it mould be now would help in military way and in peace connect with european railways the advocates of a channel tunnel nonmilitary figure in england during between england and france say tho bishop of london discusses war and religion great britain is the instrument of gcd in this great struggle undoubtedly the most picturesque these war days is a distinguished clergyman the right rev a v win- nington ingrain bishop of london says edward marsha an american writer he is the church militant in carnate and has been ever since the war has thoroughly proven its need nothing but the hostility of the coni- mittcc of national defence prevents the house of commons from demand- ing in 1907 that the project should then be proceeded with if the house official picture of maraetz after capture by british new healing method salt water treatment for wounded soldiers surgical dressings says the london lancet are now thingb of tho past wounded soldiers in military hospi tals are being treated by saline ir rigation a3 the doctors call it re cently invented by sir almroth wright this saline irrigation consists of solution of warm water with from five to ten per cent of salt in it it girl would sit and talk- of bob one to be kept at anormal standard of mourn a son the other to mourn a v in an ordi thermos eto fended above the bed with would read the newspaper clippings i rubber tubo conveying the fluid to a telling of bobs death while tho elder small glass tube woman would sit and listen this was thus the new means of wound-heal- repeated every sunday and now iheyjing here is what a doctor has to had every one of them off by heart say 0i its app they had read them so often they could repeat them in the dark l a a a dressing- one sunday just before dusk the surgical dressings lint bandage and two women were together as usual wool are not being used except of the regular routine had been gone j course during the transportation of a through scarcely a word had been wounded soldier from the field of bat- spoken for nearly an hour none but tie whe hi d t b ewl the afflicted knew the solace or con- eolation these women found in this client converse the converse of the heart their reverie was disturbed by the entrance of a tall young stranger cjad in wellworn khaki whose empty sleeve and scarred face told a tale of woody battlefields his bronzed face tar c with s tmr ipirir beard plainly showed traces of suf fering giving him an appearance of age far beyond his years i came expecting to meet sergeant robertson he explained as mrs sanderson placed a chair for him hell likely be here later she re plied its hardly his time yet irene moved her chair to obtain better view of the stranger as he re plied to a query from the elder woman i belong to the victs i went with the first contingent oh then you knew my son who was killed at st julien rob sanderson of course i knew him but i did not know that he was dead yes hes dead he was killed while saving colonel shaws life didnt you hear about it 1 well i remember something of it but just about that time i was wounded and left for dead on tho field when i regained consciousness it was dark i crawled along the ground but unfor tunately i went in the wrong direction and was taken prisoner i spent the next six months in german hospitals then at tho end of that time i was strong enough to get around and being no more use as a soldier here he pointed to the empty sleeve they al lowed me to go and now to cut a long story short it has taken me just five months to reach montreal poor fellow youve certainly had your sharo of it said irene are your folks in the city mrs sanderson asked yes my mother is a widow i dont want her to know im back i was a bad boy beforo i went to ho war all tho time in trouble ten you see they think that i am dead anyhow shed never know me this is a new- face ive got my old one was blown off by a bursting shell and my voice changed by tho gas so even my own mother wouldnt know me no no ho said as mrs saunderson attempted to expostulate i would only be a burden upon my poor old mother it is better as it is ill go tomorrow and seo tho colonel maybe hell find something for me to do if you woro only bob said mrs saunderson you bo all right the colonel said if had been spared he up in the old way with lint and anti septics take for instance the case i have here of a soldier who has a severe shrapnel wound on the knee you see that while the bedclothes are ar ranged in the usual way over the upper part of his body a sort of cradle is formed over the lower part so as to keep the wound quite clear from any possibility of contact with the coverings here the salt water is trickling down all the time drop by drop from the glass tube on to the wojnd running day and night with out intermission and carrying off the poison from the wound and helping to clean and heal it the saline irrigation undertakes to clean up and heal most septic wounds in three or four days the salt penetrates the seat of the poison ing and carries it off sir almroth wright says of it the salt draws out from the infect ed tissues the lymph which has spent all its power of resistance to the poi sonous bacteria while it draws into the tissue from the blood stream the lymph which is the enemy of the mic robe on the other hand sir almroth argues that the ordinary dressing in clines to become a barrier to the free discharge of lymph from the wound though it is contrary to truth to say that nurses allow dressings to stick and cause bleeding on removal uz burns e doctor says the french have discovered a most efficacious method of spraying severe burning with paraffin canadian axemen book and mark the stump and the butt of the severed trunk with a blob of red paipt to show that their work is done sawyers then cut the stem i according to the fitters marking j and the sections are ready to go to i the mill they are dragged there by their speed amazes english i horses over deeplyscored trails and sloopways and take their turn to observers historic english forest being con verted into railway sleepers and boards if you would know the lumberman of canada and how he works says a writer in the london times go to the edge of windsor great park where the crossroad from virginia water come under the saw the keepers daughter wept the mill itself is a stoutlybuilt proud of the french british officer writes of armys de termination to see this trough the dogged characteristics of the british are vividly in a letter frcm a british officer and which has just been received in new york this officer is attached to one of the head quarters divisions in france and the interest attached to what he writes lies in the fact that it reflects un war began a great novelist might 0 commons had its way british make him the venerable hero of one wounded soldiers who are now coming of the most fascinating psychological ovcr f i with many delays studies of warborn emotion ever and not without seme risks would bo written making the journey from calais to he has stirred the clergy of the d ur t channel in forty min- empire to the fighting pitch sending utcs and in absolute security says tho hundreds of them most of them as london chronicle there would have fighters to the front all creeds and bcell n0 s disaster and other re- decent classes love him sham cleri- grc incidents in the channel cal or otherwise intensely fears him wo not have arisen our food one sentence as he spoke it to me sup would have been facilitated in his plain residence still rings in my ears more because of the manner of its speaking than because of its impressiveness of wording he did not cast it fiercely at me at he some times throws his words at listening j through to england by tube soldiers but thrust it at me very i bour we hear of tons of french vegetables perishing on their way to us through delays inseparable from water car riage in war time those previous vegetables might have been shot an structure made of timber cut and questionably the atmosphere of prepared on the spot the saws and j thought and sentiment along the fir- engines coming from canada it is the officer is a man of wide practically a raised platform covered cx in european affairs and i by an iron roof but open at the sides ono thoroughly acquainted with ger- a log to be sawn is rolled into position man methods he writes in part on a carriage which moves back- j vou can imagine i rejoined the wards and forwards to carry it arm immediately war was declared grimly very solemnly as if it might be somewhat of the nature of a new declaration of faith made necessary by unprecedented times for freedom of the world submarines cannot enter tunnels and german mines could not have been got into the tube as long as the only two entrances to it had been un der french and english control but stationwkethemtarolkwif hg pt egham and sunningdale there on standing on the carriage control its movements and the position of the the clock case plantation you will r log by a number of levers opposite see over 150 men of the 224th can- j them stands the most important man adian forestry battalion converting r i i vi of all the sawyer whose trained trees into railway sleeners and j iv- r eye sees at a glance what can be boards at the rate of anything from 15000 to 20000 board feet a day the plantation which forms part of tho lands owned by the crown and administered by the commissioners of woods and forests included a considerable area covered with spruce fir scots pine and larch with an undergrowth of chestnut not very long ago a party of experts looked at the trees with the dispas sionate measuring eye of the under taker and gave it as their opinion that from this wood it was possible to get 3000000 board feet of timber early days of 1914 i was about six teen months with the artillery but latterly have been attached to head quarters of my division it has seem ed strange in some instances where i made of this or that log the hum entered towns here in france of the engine and the screech of the soldier that the last time i was saw would drown his voice so he j there on business for you but what gives his decisions by signs as the a change nothing but battered carriage brings a log back through i ruins remain of what previously were the saw with the bark removed he j flourishing towns will hold up one finger or two and i the machine shops of course have the setter on the carriage by the heen shelled to bits and it is painful movement of a lever adjusts the log to see the scrap heaps of what were so that the next cut shall be one inch once fine machine tools but such is or two inches thick war in these days and it certainly it is all done without a pause for pays no respect to property any- todajf whole tracts tsslrt hours the saw screeches and throws way we shall see this stunt through off a spray of sawdust as it slices up right up to the jag end and you can the logs that a short ghile before take it from me that someone will pay 2 ssss- consttj ii t crowns worn in war king of italy dons his when he re views his troops monarchs no longer rldo forth crowned to battle as did richard iii to his fatal fight on bosworth field nevertheless even today crowns figure in the spectacular side of war more often than is commonly sup posed the king of italy for instance although he docs not of course always wear it carries his crown with him wherever he goes and frequently dons it when he reviews his troops on cere would havo malo bob a partner in the monial parades business what do you think of that then she went on to tell all that had been done for her asking irene to light tho gas she went to tho desk and brought out her favorite clipping this is tho ono tho colonel likes best im siiro youll like it sho said addressing ho soldier now listen whilo irene reads it maybe hod prefer reading it him self iron suggested no no read it he hastily replied my oyes arc baa thats why when the gas is lit i moved ovcr o this corner as irono commenced to read he be- camo visibly affected tho fingers of his only hand worked convulsively then as sho proceeded ho became violently agitated continuing sho read when colonel shaw fell private saunderson leaped ovcr his pros trate body and felled an assailant about to bayonet the fallen officer then two raoro went down before his this is in accordance with the cus- torn and tradition of his house tho crown is supposed to render its wearer immune from harm because inclosed within tho gold is n tiny circlet of iron said to have been made from a nail out of tho truo cross the aged king peter of serbia has tvico during tho present war appeared robed nnd crowned before his armies op tho battlefield king ferdinand of romania who id much rather youd must not be confounded with tho ruler of bulgaria who is also nnmed ferdi nand will probably go crowned to war if he goe3 at all precisely as did his two predecessors princo alexan der couza and his uncle king charles i but then the royal crown of rou- mania is unique in so rar as it forms a genulno badge of tho nations free dom from alien tyranny it is made from tho metal of turkish cannon captured at plovna by tho roumanians in 1s77 and in shapo nnd nppoaranco it suggests tho helmet of a soldier rather than a dladom square tower of the old royal lofge which stands deepset in the wood and which so the story goes by its resemblance to the case of a grand fathers clock gave the plantation its curious name is visible from the roadway for the first time perhaps in a hundred years and still the canadian woodsmen go on eating their way through the wood with a thoroughness that knows no mercy camp ah canadian the lumber camp is all canadian men machinery and methods the men who are drawn from all parts of the dominion have the bronzed healthy look and the easy confident swing which we have learned to look for in canadians the khaki under their blue overalls proclaims them soldiers they draw military pay and they know the rudiments of military drill but first and last they are woods men with their craft at their finger tips every man knows his task and does it with an enviable independence of orders or instructions yet from tho first stage to the last the work proceeds smoothly and harmoniously let us follow the process under the guidance of the officer in charge and the sergeant who is foreman of the bush facing the main road stands the mill home the men generally call it flanked on the one side by piles of logs and on the other by stacks of sown timber walk along the wind ing track of a light railway not yet completed which passes behind the mill until you come to a clearing where burning heaps of brush lop ped from the tops of the fallen trees and pay dearly before we are through fv-e-jsnsawsr- srlheiith it the thought of poor little edges of the boards and cutting off the ends join in the chorus is it sur prising that the daughter of the keep er of the wood was reduced to tears when she stood by the mill french show heroism soldiers and officers brave death daily before verdun examples of the heroism displayed by french soldiers of all ranks in the tremendous attack upon verdun occur in every corner of the battlefield not as anything exceptional but every day and every hour lieut g although badly wounded in the thigh remained at the head of belgium and the atrocities committed there are quite sufficient for us and ave shall wipe it out in our own good time ah peace bludder is idiotic un til that has been done and most de cidedly the british army will not have any of it and i know i can say the same of our allies the french army has ought magni ficently under prodigious disadvant ages and it is a pleasure to fight along side it as regards the russians you know as much about them as i do for i have read only the newspap er reports i saw american ambulances a whole convoy of them sometime ago and they were doing great work with the stars and stripes flying in front i believe that god is on the side even if the french entrance to the of the allies and that our struggle is tunnel had fallen into german hands a holy one wc mrv he quite sure that it would we are fighting not for our own not have been used for an attempt at profit not for the extension of the invasion it would have been more british empire or of the french re- j likely to be used to enable the enemy public or the russian domain or for to destroy what in the present condi- augmented power or territory for any tions would have been a priceless his company for three whole days and sure did gadden our heartg to see was carried into the thick of the fight- them j remember them aso at ft ing on a stretcher directing his men keeping tab pn the munition supply and even writing a letter to his col battle of neuve chappelle last year and the bravery of their men in com waver one instant and were as cool as cucumbers i should like to have shaken their hands resisted five attacks in four days with out giving way a single inch another lieutenant in civil life in spector of an insurance company see ing a hostile machine gun taking posi tion in a french trench asked his colonels permission to attack al though it meant certain death with a pipe in his mouth and swinging a little cane he led the onset calling out come on boys lets charge like i ss mnswohnrs riv hllllets found lode- i l joys of starvation double china and corporations are disappearing tho london dally mall quotes the iogne gazette food restrictions in germany have one of our governments but for the freedom of the world at this late day i cannot discuss the causes of the wars beginnings he went on the reasons which keep us thrust into it determined upon victory no matter what the cost may be are so very clear to me that i cannot think that any intelligent am erican can fail to understand them in the minds of many thousand englishmen is the conviction that our nation now is being used as a weap on in gods hands these men and women know that the nations which sank the lusitania which betrayed 3nd ravaged belgium and stood by while 350000 armenians were done to death would not have done these things had they not lost their fear of and their faith in god to those who think this out faith becomes more desirable than ever i said he a man of peace and a bishop of the god of peace regard this war as worthy and as necessary the man who long has been a christian and suddenly starts out to fight a righteous battle feeling that upon the 18foot aperture at calais he is a weapon in gods hands will a certainly there would be very hfr- not become irreligious the nation as tlo left for an army foolish enough to a whole has felt a mighty spiritual advance through a narrow tube in uplift which must help it not degrade f 0 a modern gun it war never emphasizes the forms j the chronicle gives this additional of religion to warriors fighting for information the right the substance of religion the tunnel would link all our brit- must inevitably be emphasized no i railway systems with all the rail- means of cooperation between the allies over thirty years ago lord wolse- ley formulated the military objec tions to the scheme which have done duty ever since though the zeppelin and the submarine have modified the problem of insular defence to a de gree of which lord wolseley never dreamed lord wolscleys objections came to this that a tunnel would whittle away britains natural mili tary advantages as an island and would give a continental power he was thinking of france a moro agreeable medium of invasion than the uncertain sea link ah railroads there is provision in the plans for filling a mile of the tunnel up to tho roof with water or the whole of it with asphyxiating gas fromthejy english end and the english ent trance would be dominated also by the guns of the dover forts the french on their side seem tobe quite con tent with a couple of cannon bearing the war will not weaken the religion of great britain it will strengthen it to use the words of a scotch preacher we are fighting for the nailed hand against the mailed fist the mere fact that we engage in such a battle raising for the task a volunteer army representing i be lieve a greater proportion of our male population of fighting age than ever was represented before by vol unteer fighters save perhaps in the two armies of your north and south i engineers is now well known in the days of your civil war before provides for an up tunnel and way systems of europe and so would give us direct communication with all the allied and neutral countries ex cept where that might be interrupted by the relative geography of a hostile country as nearly all the steamship routes of the world now bring us food so would most of the railway systems of europe and asia bring us food by the channel tunnel all roads by land as well as by sea would lead to lon don tho plan of the french and eng- it you fonnd it necessary to introduce the draft is i think proof positive that we are not morally deteriorating through the effects of war strange facts of science between them spain and portugal produce 70 per cent of the worlds musketeers six bullets found lodg- wstri u ment in his body before the trench brougnt many uenefits fn thelr was reached the trench was taken tllat double chins anu corporations and the machine gun destroyed havo disappeared from germanv and lieut t joined in a counter attack it has been noticed that the popular cork which succeeded in driving the enemy health is rapidly improving turning the knob even a trifle rings out of a trench he had captured the a wellknown surgeon prof kutt- j a bell in a new lock for residence are filling th air with th refreshing ret germans took with them ncr writes in the german review that doors t f tho nine here and there c ht men of lieut t company as j i as a f th i ii i f sult of he severe plainness of ger- prisoners that would not do for many war dle ailments lieut t who with a single sergeant ani ins are also decreaslng as jumped out of the regained trench j su of abstinence from rich food otenv ui pine here and there through the blue smoke you catch a glimpse of a lumberman in a pictur esque slouch hat a little further and you are among a gang of full ers watch how they fell a tree 70 inches or more thick at the base the felling of a tree a man with an axe kneels at its foot and with a few dexterous strokes cuts a deep notch in the trunk a few inches from tho ground two others with a crosscut saw cut through the stem on the opposite side in half a minute the tree begins to lean and there is a warning shout a second or two later with a loud cracking and rending sound it topples and crashes to the ground without any apparent effort the fallers have controlled the direction of its fall almost to a foot next without any ado half a dozen swampers set to work with the axe clearing the limbs and straightening up the tree simultaneously a fit ter with a wooden rod divides the stem in suitable lengths marking the cutting points with a notch while two other men one carrying a paint pot measure the tree enter th ize in a peppered the germans with his revol ver and brought back his eight men for this act of bravery he was pro moted captain freight t1eup relieved pin by russia sending 200 cars daily over j phls jjke human a frenchman has developed a met hod for obtaining casein from milk by electrolysis an adjustable attachment for a babys chair to hold a nursing bottlo has been patented experiments have indicated to hon duras that it may become an impor tant cottonraising nation down tunnel side by side 29 miles long 22 miles under water 18 feet 6 inches in diameter laid entirely in the grey chalk of the bed of the channel there will be connecting crossings between the two tunnels and a footpath for passengers in case of emergency steam locomotives will bring the trains to the tunnel but they will be taken through the tunnel itself by electric motors sir francis fox the famous engineer declares that the problem of ventilation in this caso is simple compared with tho cases of the simplon and mersey tun nels most of the continental gauges aro about the same as the english the only exceptions are those of russia and spain so that very long journeys could be made from london without siberia route two hundred cars are leaving vladivostok daily for siberia and russia with the result that the freight congestion has been relieved what happens to all the pins scientific curiosity has led a french investigator to look into the old ques- the moscow museum of agriculture chanke of carr the tunnel would tion of the fate of the ordinary brass h oldest in europe has celebrated th iourncy t paris by two steitsn invented for hour at t beings go i handling pickles to avoid imparting cost 10000 000 that the iworkmg ex- meir way ana are resolved into dust a metallic taste o them penses would be 120000 a year and hairpins which the experimenter ob- a vermont inventor has patented the annual receipts 1538000 show- served for 151 days disappeared at blankets for cattle that cannot be dis- ing a profit of 1118000 or seven the end of that period having been converted into a ferrous oxide a brownish dust which was blown away private cargo as well as government by the winds bright pins took nearly supplies is now moving recently eighteen months to disappear pol- thcrc has been a slackness in govern- shed steel needles nearly two and ment supplies consequently the b pins had but goods of commercial concerns have llul endurance moved with considerable freedom many additional slips for ships have been arranged in the harbor but this has not increased the capacity of the port for general trade to any con siderable extent as heavy railroad supplies coming from tho united states monopolize the quays much of the time sriggs sill are clean no stickiness alu dealers jclcbriggssons hamilton iojfcfefe4fc lodged by animals rolling to judge horse races a frenchman has invented a camera that is opera ted by a winning horso breaking a thread a waterfall in norway will be har nessed and made to provldo 125000 horso power for smelting and refining zinc ore for shipping poultry a crate has been invented that folds to a quarter of its extended slzo when empty for convenience in handling per cent the estimate of the re ceipts is extremely conservative but a tunnel of only two lines with single lines will no longer satiaithe probable demands of trafficfiwo ought to have at least four tracks-r- two in each tunnel pretty nearly every man remembers mildred sinco our engagement george has been perfectly devoted to me do you think he will continue that he was once n boy the trouble to love me when i am old clarice is that so few of us recall the kind of really dear i cant say but youll boys we were soon know