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FRENCH

-.-,,~,, ; ,, ARMY DURING WAR.

,~. MS, April 15.- The inssea of _ armies in the present war up'to>Februsry 15. ,are estimated un-

ollcglly, as follows: Killed in action 150 _i wounded 245,000; prisoners

_I disabled 25,000; permanently

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STR, ST. GEGILIA

` _ FIFTH TO BELGIUM.

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‘ MONTREAL, 'April 14.- When the steamshlp Bt. Cecilia, now on her _way to Canada, arrives next Sands-Y st,rts_ius;, it will be the mst or the five’ , ' seels sent to fake from Canada the gods collected or bought by the central committee of the Belgian Re- lief.Fund for the sufferers in the land of the Belgians. which has not been sent by the British Admiralty. ‘ This vessel has been arranged for by Chair- man'l;Ioover‘in the central committee at London, and. like the others, it will take the goods to Belgium free of al_l charge for freight.

ln anticipation of her coming” the

central' committee of the Belgian Re- lief Fund here is buying 100,000 bus- hels of wheat, and they are 3,000 tons of'goods already in Halifax awaiting the new_`boat’s arrival. -This will give the St. Cecilia a cargo of 6,400 tons. which isiitsicapacity. The total cost of thig- cargo_,_will be $460,000. Part of the 3 .Q00 tons of cargo already at Halifax” consists of.19,000 bags of flour which have been collected from all over Canada.

When the St. Cecilia sails from`

1-_ia1lfax`in' about a. fortnight. Cauadg will have sent a total of 30,000 ton of goods, worth $2,100,000. This is a remarkable showing, and evinces that nowhere has the plight ,of the Belg- ians touched the hearts of the people of the world more than in Canada. Canadians have sent two and half times as much as the United States in proportion to population.

After Sunday, about a. week will be

consumed- in loading the St. Cecilia. After that, preparations will proceed for stocking a sixth steamer.

V, span. _c.m.-ins MONTHLY.

_ "England doeen't win because ber soldiers are braver than any other. soldiers _is tus world," runs the om- snying,»__-“hut because they're brave five-minutes-longer." - And that im- preision' ol the solidity, thc stabili- ty, the unexciteduwe, of British cour- age; the tea-drinking, joke-making, 'Tipperary-singing type oi bravery is what you get when you read “Letters ol an Englishman to his Son in Can- adii,/’ in thc .April issue of Canada Monthly. ‘

“Some Slums, a Rector, and Helen

Mary, gives Frans rt. Adams e chance to picture a very naughty lit- tle girl when she wakes up the next morning after discarding her limous- ine in favor of her conscience. One can only hope that Mr. Adams will give ue another glimpse of the fas- cinating' Helen Mary and the rector who*-wa.sn’i'. little and grey haired, and that once more he’l1 get Freder- ic Grant ,to do the illustrating. “Ghosts of Lost Ships," by Freder- ick William Wallace, begins with Fri- day the 13th and lines up all the deep-sea superstitious, clear through toi Carey chickens and black cate. If you aren’.t superstitious, it is at least interesting to know what you'd be superstitious about if you were to get the. germ. The author is evident- ly in the' “can’t-account-for-it" posi- tion himself.

“The Hubble Bubble House" by

Beatrice Dillon-Lawrence, is a creeD7 little tale of drawn blinds and gut- tererl candles in the Syrian colony of ess or our big towns. Neisu is ss ex- otic, as cbamlng, as_ far- foland yet heart-catching in her witchery as though Jack Carr had come upon her in .a dim by way of nld Damascus.

If you want a grin and then anoth- cr grin, and a third to hyphen the first "two, read "Jobs That Pass in The Night," in which James J. Lark- in tells the miseries of an Dut-of- 'work who' finally butted in. .

The man with the hungry heart is

‘tbe<hci'0 of “The House That Jack B,m¢.»»~ by Auce Brown, The nicest part of it is tbat~it isn't a high- brow, give-'er-up story. Jack .not on- 1y.builds-the house, but he lives in fit-but wi musn’t give it away. _“Through-the West by Water" (Alib- rey Fullerton) is the sort of out- o'-doors 1',al‘tlcle you need to turn yqur"soul~'qway from the considera- tion-p{`__I{rupps and euds, and “Dis- appointing Dad,” (Winuifred G.- As- tle) ,ls a. fiction story of the same

sort. - _ ,‘ _

Having. gained poise by readln8

-them,'y n can then turn to B. D. 'l‘hornle£'s "After the Deluge-What? ‘ which ip a consideration oithose things which the poet-helium Cana- da may from the laboratories ol that Eatberland whose mllltocracy

for its science. “The

of Cap-

Car-

Fatbsr Laconzbc, Beautiful Soul";

win silgsunis I

_- -‘DOIN £97 Per annum covers the maintenance and cost of a Russian private in times of peace.

If our wee yina do not like the

name Bantame, why not call them them the Mighty Atoms? '

Stood in a single line, a million

men would extend from London to Newcastle.

The Kaia|r’e visiting cards, meas-

uring six_inches by four, are the lar- gest known. - ` 'l‘wo months is the average "life" of a horse at the front.

The German Army has been trying

to unnerve Chapelle.

"British Capital Abroad" says a.

headline. They arel

lliottovfor the -captain of the U29:-

"Ahthing of booty is a joy for ev- er.

’l`he oillcial communique shows that

there is some "fizz" in the Cham- pagne nowl -

About eleven thousand patients are

daily under( treatment by the Royal Army Medical Corps. The swan song of the Dresden-"Oli: in the Chili night ere slumber'a cnain had bound me."

The British Government receives

over a million pounds a year in div- idende from its shares in the Suez Canal.

The waltz is a national German

dance, and was introduced into Eng- land by a German baron a hundred years ago. , - _ Scottish soldier in Egypt, ou see- ing the great Pyramid-"Man, Jock, what a lot o' mason work no' tae 'be bringin’ in ony rent!" » In the Japanece Navy the messing

allowance is the same for alll ranks. A vice-admiral and an ordinary sea- man get alike the modest sum of live shillings a week.

"Will this colon run?" asked the

lady- “No, ma'am," replied the smart stores-girl. “1t’s khaki shade. Notbingin khaki ruue."

The Mayor of Douglas says that

preparations for-holidays in the Isle of Man are in a. forward state, and, with the Continent barred, a highly successful season is anticipated.

Outside the British Empire, the ou-

ly great nations that have voluntary military service are the United States and China.

When many shell splinters are found

in the body ol a wounded soldier, they are drawn out wholesale by a huge electro-magnet.

During the war, members of our Royal Flying Corps have _flown a distance approximately equal to four times around the world. -The Kiel Canal, which is just over 61 miles in length, is the second lon- gest canal in the world. The longest is t-he Suez.

Sir Edward Grey is the ilrst For-

eign Minister to sit in the House of Counuone since the days of Palmer-

ston.

Bluejackcts in the United States

Navy get eggs and bacon for their breakfast, and are alloued as many

belpings us they like.

Before the coming of William the

Conqueror, all freeman in this coun- try between the ages of 15 and 60 were bound to bear arms unless phy-

sically incapable of doing so.

"What shall we name our new sub-

marine?" asked the head of the Sub-

lime Porte.

“U names seem to be the favorites. 'Thore's the U29 and the U1-i, you

know." _

"We haven't paid for ours yet.

Suppose we call lt the I 0 Ui"

The Prinz Eitei- Freidrich is stated

to have one side painted black and the other side painted white, the idea being that this shepherd _tartan may lead to her being mistaken for a Dundee whaler ' that has taken the

wrong turning. ~

TI-IE GERMAN ARMY.

According to M. Mariani, Berlin re-

presentative of the Milan "Secolo,” the numbers of the German Army to- day are as followaz-

rn-st snectivss . . . . . . 3.000.000 Yeung recruits . . . . . . 320,000 Reserves at the depots 100,000

Last Line of the Lands-

trum 810,000

'retsl . . . . . . . _ . . . -1,230,000

_YA.\'K1;n~nUonNaiss. _

For a long time American music

hall artistes visiting London have been admitted as welcome guests to the Vaudeville Club, and English nr- tistes in New York haks had extend- ed to them the hospitality of I.nmb’s Club. A fortnight ago a famous Eng- lish public entertainer attempted to visit the _New_ York club, but found pasted on the door the following no- tice: “Your Kiug and country need you. We don't." It would be hard to beat this for sheer, downright rude- noss, particularly at the present fmo- ment wheu there are many ,American music ball stare in London. \

,' , A arson Pxosnnn.

Sir Henry Bessemer revolutionlssd

of Ontario.

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the manufacture of steel in the di-

Princess Mary Toilet Set and Exquisite Bracelet Watch'

to recall, of clnerimcnts made with a view to obtaining stronger mater ial for guns. Bessemer use prqqessd a scheme for preventing ses-sickness, consisting of a swinging saloon for vessels, but it was not a success

A. LOGIOKL DEDUCTION

Heard in a city school Teacher-

"Now, Tommy, tell us what you would think if you saw 'the Union Jack waving over the battlefield?" "I should think," ‘was the logical re- ply of Thomas, "that the wind was blowing."

KEEP YOUR EYE ON ETAPLEB.

Keep your eye on Etaplcs, a fishing

town in the Departments of Pas de Calais, about fifteen miles south of Bonlogne, says "Reynold’s Jeep- nal." This town is likcly to play a most important part in the war,

ODDFELLOWS.

‘ You would be amused if you saw lbs Highlanders (says a British pris- oner who was interned in the Ger- man camp at Gardelegen). They had trousers given them, and when on parade they have to wear the trous- ere with the kilt over them, and as some of them have French and civil- ian clothing, they resembie a lodge of Oddfellows.

A "STIMULA'I`I;‘\`G" STATEMENT.

- No alcoholic drinks stronger than red wine and beer are supplied to our troops in the field. We may leave it t_o the English to ply their soldiers with rum and whisky. They need the strongest stimulants to make them forget the disgrace of a dishonorabie cause. Our men und their stimulant in their patriotism. `-So says the “Lokslanzeiger."

'I‘0MMY'S ONLY TERROR.

Life in the trenches is crowded with

hardships and deadly perils, but it has its coneolations. A Liverpool Territorial, who has been at the front for several months, finishes up bis letter to his young wife in these words:-“It’s just about as tough as it can be at times; but, thank Hea- ven, auyway, I shall miss the spring cleaning this year."

A ,LETTER TO THE REGIMENT.

"They are very patient, these wo-

men of Franco," says Philip Gibbs, correspondent of the Loudon Daily Chronicle, “and immensely brave;" and there isea -great deal of that some brave patience exemplified in a letter which he translates for his pa- per, from a little Parisian working- girl to the odlcers and men of a French regiment. With its big, child- ish handwriting, asserts .the journal- ist, "it might have been written -by ,any one of the girls whom I see working, through the plate-glass win- dows of the ouvoirs in the Champs- Elysees." It ie singularly character- istic of those same "little big girls" ‘of whom we know so little in this country-the "midinettes.” The let- ter is addressed to "The Gentlemen of the Regiment," and begins: I do not know one of you. So I write to all of you and ask you what you know of the death of Cesn M--, and cf his last moments. I should be very grateful to you, gentlemen, if you would write all that to me, with as many details as you can give. We know nothing, nothing, of that sad fatality. "lie is dead." But where? How? There is nothing about all that. So I write to you, his comrades.

1 am his little cousin, so tell me

everything, and do not be afraid of causing me pain. I am brave he- causc you set me the example.

Did be get a packet from me be-.

fore his death, or a. letter, do you know? If the packet did not arrive soon enough, it is for you. I told him: “It is for your comrades." Perhaps he gave you some -of the things I sent?

Ae for my -last letter, it was full of

wishes for all in the trench. It ha_d s grecp_ envelop like this one-so take it. Good-bye, gentlemen; good courage

and good luck. Poor Jean would say as I do. that the sacrifice of B0 many lives may not be useless. Vive la la France! ,

P. B.-I add some flowers, which you will put, please, on Jeau’s grave, if there is no danger of any

kind to yourselves.

OERMAN8 SHOW ABSOLUTE

OONTEMPT FOR DEATH.

PARIS, April 13.-There has been

given out in Paris a description by an eye-witness of the attempt made by the Germans on April 8 and 9, to re- take a small fort at Beauseiohr held

by the French. -

Two companies of volunteers led

in this attack. They showed an abeo lhte contempt for death bht neverthe-~ less they were stopped by the fire of the French artillery and infantry. On- ly a few of them escaped. Another at- tack, in which the Germans paid a heavy price was sdccessfdl in captur- ing the first line of trenches. These, positions were held by two compasies until April 9. The Germans were so thick in these trencles that they crowded each other and iuterferéd with the freedom of operations. into this mass of men the Frenrh artillery fired. Those who escaped the shells were mostly bayonetted by the French

infantry. Only ion 'men survived.

cmsaésus nada...

nw owes. caan,

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hope of getting rid ef` blemishes until the of every trace of uu-

nse of provide it needs

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ROTTERDAM. April 13--(Dlspltch

lng the Fourth Guards regiment, the a Kaiser, according to a Cologne dis- o patch, said: "When God wills it He

THINGS DO PERMIT W

Agency Felix Weingarten will con er

to the London Daily Mail)-Addres- ob

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and magnates rich enough to live

duct and the musicians will play in wn and in the couutr eimultane

mily life.

Who is he that comes home from a usiness trip earlier than he intended d finds the long-haired young man unrecognized genius philanderiug

fx-

tios al the result, it is appropriate* IF WAR AND OTHER iilcatious for successful llusbandliood

e have had recently several Ameri- n problem plays in which the ener-

.- BERLIN April 12-(By wireless to ge Sayville) - The famous Philbarmon ba ic Orchestra of Berlin is preparing to vii

make a concert tour of Belgium early simply because the villain was idle in May. according to an announce- it is not in the world of washerwomeu 'pllshments or a man of leisure, the

s a one. but also in that of yacht own-

tic stick to business, millionaire bus- nd lost his wife to the nearest idle lain before the end of the first act

to Y -

h sly and be away from both homes a

GOD WILL ‘HELP DESTROY' hu

lf oof the year, that the iudutcrious sband is a menace to the success ot

~ f -r

. with his wife? The busy business uxnu.,girl despite her m°m,y.,,m _,mt new

Who is h.e that rejoicee in darned

socks he did1\'t buy; and consumes the best ot custard pies and such delights at a boarding-house kept by his wife? Who but fthe man who has time to cul-

. tivate dignity, a grand air, the accom-

language of a lover, and the confid- ence iu the future that disttinguish Colonel Mulhetrry Sellers? Who but the husband the Indiana law-makers would shear of the attributes whicn endear him to the successful keeper of the boarding-house by putting him at hard labor with rough men much more willing to do such labor and much more fitted to do it well?

And what baclaelor who loves the

tate if be knows that unless he works hard enough to support from two to eight persons, as the case' mayleven- lil-Hlly be. the iron hand of,-tsestate Wm Clem!! upon the scruil' of is-neck and set him down among the beware of wood and drawers of water?

UD to now Kentucky couples intend-

IHS to make matches to which seine- body objects--often parents who have practical ideas that clash with ' 'ro- mance-have eloped to indiana to be married. Hereafter Indiana couples will elvvs to Kem ky. sua with me intentlon_of not rzturning to a law- ridden Commonwealth in which o gentleman is forbidden to accept the support of his wife.

will help further to destroy the en- _

emy. This is the aim we must keep before us.

“Until the enemy is definitely con-

quered. no matter how long the

eguggle may last, God help us in t e."

STATE MONOPOLY ON BEER

LONDON. April 13-The Daily Ex-

press says it learns that the solution of- the drink problem which the Gov- ernment is now favoring is a state monopoly on beer.

"The only beer brewed or sold."

says the newspaper, “will be brewed and sold by the Government. All breweries and public houses in Great Britain and Ireland will be purchas- ed outright, ‘payment for them being, made in bonds. bearing four per cent. interest. No strong or heavy beer will _he brewed.”

FOREMAN BURRILL

OF C. P._R. ARRESTED.

FREDERICTON, April 13-Foremali .

Burrlll, of the C. P. R. coal sheds at McAdam Junction, is the second pri- soner arrested in the alleged conspira» cy to defraud the C. P. R. by falsify- ing pay rolls." Word has been receiv- ed' here that Burrill has been caught at Millinoeket, Maine, whence he is said to have gone when C. P. R. De- tectives Bailey aud Ginatelli were about ready to make their round-up of the persons said to have been en- gaged in the alleged frauds. One young l_taliau,_who was arrested at the time, is still in jail here awaiting trial on the charge of having obtained a =check by impersonation. Burrlll, it is claimed by those interested in the prosecution, was the leader in the con- spiracy, and his arrest is looked upon , as an important development in thei case. Hundreds. if not thousands of` dollars, it is alleged, have been wrong- fully maintained by the frauds which have been practised at the coal dc- partment at McAdam. Burrill will be extradited and' brought to Fredericton.

LADY RALP PAGET ALIVE. .

NEW YORK, March 31.- The re-

port that Lady Ralph Paget, daughter of General Sir Arthur and Lady Mary Paget, had died while engaged in Red Cross work in Serbia was denied in a cahlegram ,received yesterday by the Associated Press from her mother, who is in London. The telegram said:

“Lady Paget is most touched by the

kind sympathy of her friends in Am- erica, and cables .saying that the rum- or is false. Her daughter is out of danger in Serbia.

The report that Lady Ralph Puget

had died of spotted typhus fever in Serbia was given out in Berlin Thurs- day by the Overseas News Agency and forwarded by wireless telegraphy` to Sayville. L. l.

Lady Ralph Puget, who is a grand-

daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Parau Stevens of New York, has been active in war relief work, and some time ago she went to Serbia to take charge of a hospital. She was there stricken with a serious illness, from which she is now recovering.

ENGLAND LAYS DOWN '

NEW BATTLESHIP.

NEW YORK, April 13.-According

to a report from London received by the Tribune England has laid down a new battleship of amazing proportions which will be by far the most power- ful craft afloat. it will mark a change in battleship construction' exceeding that which came when the first Dread- nought was built. V

it will necessitate she adoption of

new methods in battleshlp construc- tion by all the nations and will halt the con-struction programme of the United States. ,

lt is impossible, in view of the ah-

solute secrecy surrounding all British naval construction. to verify absolute- ly the facts about this new sea mous- ter but The Tribune's information comes from a trustworthy source. it is said that this great new ship will be 800 feet in length, will carry six 15-inch guns and have the wonderful speed of forty knots.

At present the Queen Elizabeth, now

at the Dardanelles. stands as the most powerful engine of war afloat. She is. however. only 650 feet in length but carries eight 15-inch guns. She is oil driven as the new ship will he. In the craft now planned, armament is sacrificed for increased speed. The in- creased length gives the great boiler and engine room and capacity needed to produce such speed.

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THE LAZV-HUSBAND BILL

(Louisville Courier Journal)

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