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THROWING
STS' WEA1PON BECOMES
RICHLY RESPECTABLE.
eit*rp Work With Odd Ste1, Short
Voreapott Preferred, Follows
Target Practiee.
It W*e at * bombing 'whoa on a
French farm, where chosen soldiers
brought back trent the trenchwere
being trained in the use of the guars'
Wises weapon, which has now become
reepectable as the rine. Specialism
develop* eal the war goeo on. There'
are no MB. degrees for Master Bomb -
ere yet; lost that may corn% cell' clan
writee a correspondent at Britieb
headquarter& •
'Present was the chief instructor, a
ything Seotelt , subaltern with blue
eyes; a pleasant smiles and a -4'04i of
• the north" spirit. Re might have
been 20 years old, thought° did not
look it. On his breast wafrthe purpe
and white ribbon of the new erder'
.of the Military Cross which you get
for doing something in this. war
which would have won you. a Victoria
Cross in one of the little. wars.
Aisapresea was the assistant in -
strudels a sergeant of regulars -and
very much of a regular-swho had
three siblena which fleshed wonin
-previous campaigns. He, 'too, had
• ,bilie• eyes, bland blue eyeS,"• These two
understood each ether-
you ..aloret drop „it, mitt ,it's all
•right? eaidibe` sergeant. "Of coarser
- .
'Vire did not drop I.
"And when you throw it: sir,. yea
utt look Out and not hit the man be-
hind and knock the bomb out of your
band. That has happened before now
to an obsent-minded fellow when you
throw bombs,"
"They say that you Sothetimes pick
up the' German bemlni and chuck thein
back before they explode,” it was sug-
gested.
"Yes, sir, I've read things like that
in some of the aecounts of the report-
ers who write from 'Somewhere in
France.' You don't happen to know
where that is, sir? All 1 Can say is
that if you are going to do it you,
must be quisk about it. 1 shouldn't
advise„,delaying your deeision, sir, or
Perhaps when You reach down to pick
it up 'neither your band nor the bomb,
would be there. , They'd have. gone off
together, sir." '
"Have you ever, been hurt..33 your
' handling of bombs?" one asked. Sur-
prise in the bland, blue eyes.,
• Being Courteous to Bombs'.
"Oh, no, sir! Bombs are well be-
e an that raises man above the well-fed
rate cattle or the comfortable sheen. This
hayed if you treat them right, It'
in being thoughtful and conside
of them!" '
sloes. It's ne
big.*
Net * ensile front him or tin timbal -
tern all t,he tune. They were the kind
you wotild like to have along * *
tight center 'whether you had to fight
with knives or Asts or 1.7-Inelt howits-
era,
The sergeant took u* into the store -
holism where he kept his supply of
WO*
Wires if Verinim *bell should
etrike your storettoOse?" it WWI aug.
gestecl.. '
"Then, air, I expect that most of
the bombs would. be exploded. Bomb*
are very. peculiar in their habit,,
What de You think, Sir?"
It WAS. XIQ •troube to. show stock, as
the clerkat the stores soy. He
broughteforth all the different Rinds
of bombs which British ingenuity hoe
invented -414, no, not all inveated.
These would mount into the thou-
sands. Every Britt*, *Venter Who
knows anything about explosives has.
tried hia hand at a new kind of bomb.
_One means all the kinds which the
British :War Office has cenaidered
worth a practice test. •
There were yellow and green and
title and black and striped bombs,
egg-shaped, harrel-ghaPedp efi.nical and
concave bomhSituMbx-that. :were ex-
ploded list polling a sting or pressing
13Uttorp-all these to be thrown by
hand. .without Mentioning grenades
and other bigger varieties whiell Were
thrown by Meclianleal MeMIS which
would have made a :Chinese warrior
of Confusioust time or a Roman le-
gionary feel at home.
AMEgICA'S tA
,From The Toronto Daily Newt;
Benjamin A. Gould, an Ameri.„
can resident of Toronto, who from the
first has ably ebamploned, the cause
of the Allies with voice and pen,' has
a letter in The New York Sub in
which he outlines the purpose of Ger-
Many, and expresses deep dissatisfae-
tion with the -action of the 'United
States thus far.. Ile sees in Ger-
many's efforts an :attempt to .impose.imposeon the world a dynastic autocracy, a
doctrine of might, • a Philosophy of
force. .Ile sees in it an assault upon
the theory of democracy, to the devel-
opment of which the freer nations
have. given the best part of two cen-
turies. Ile, Sees that every neutral
nation is vitally -interested in the
things for ',which the Allies are fight-
ing, and will suffer the loss of much
of -their freedom unless the Allies
Mr. Gould insists that Germany has
struck at the ideals- of the 'T.Tn'ite4
States, at those ;things for Which the
Republic has always gtOed, at Ameri-
'ca's •sacred, traditions, at, everything
Meanwhile' he Was jerking at some.
kind of a patent fuse set hue shell,
of high explosive. •
"This is a' poor kmd,.Air. It's' been
discarded, but ,1 thought that You
-
might like to see.it, 'Never „did like
It! Always makig trouble!"
-
More distance between the audience
and the, performer.
"Now I've got it, sir -get
The aildience carried out the in-
strugtions to the leiter; as •arnay regu7
'rations re -quire. We got behind :the
protection of one of • the practice
trench, traverses. He threw, the dis-
carded -bomb ;beyond another wall of
earth-, , trhara was a sharp report, a
burst of sinoke, and some 'fragments
L earth Were tossed into the air.
In a small affair Of 290 yards of
trench the other slaiit-vmeestiniated
that the Britigh:' and Germans,,,tege-!!
Ther threw about 5.000 bombs inthis
'fashion. - It Was enough to sadden any
• Minister of Miuntions. However, the
. British 'liept.theirench.- -
the men like' to .beeorne beta,
. era?" one askedthesubaltern. ,
"t showd,say.sO:- it pats -them up
in front. ' it gives them a Chance to.
throw' something -and they don't get
smell cricket in France, you see. • We
, had 4 Pang here last week who broke
..the.,tbrowing record -for-distenene
Was Pleased as ,Punch .with biroSeits-
'A: firsts -class bombing detachment has
,s lot of pride Of corps." •
bbinb became as co ,mmon a. verb
with the army as: to bayonet, "We
boinbed them outnineans a tectioii-of
trerieh taken. As you know, a ttesieh
',lug and built with sandbags i
zigzag traverse,. • In .following th
course of 4 trench it is as if you fol-
lowed - the side's of the squares of a
checker -hoard upend down and across'
oii the,. sanie 'tier of squares. ---The
.square itself is a bank of earth With
.the*eut on either' tide and in font
• it'
• , 'When'n bombing -Party boinba its
west into the .possession Of a section
of German' trench there are Germans
under Foyer Of the traverses on either
• . er an.ht •vatt-
ing around -the corner to shoot the
first British head that shows itself.
"It's important that you, and no
the 1thsches, chuck'the bombs. • over
first,'" explained the subaltern. "Also
a you get theebontbe into their tra-
vote" or they, may he'. as troublesome
, With the liembs bursting in ,their
• fnces the Germatis•who are not put
, Oilt of,:oetiotrare blinded .and ttunned.
e moment when they are thus off
, guardthe aggressors leap around the
Orifers:
-'-"And -theta"'
, "stick !on, sir!" said the matter -of -
feet; sergeant. "Yes, the cold steel is
hest. And do it. first. As Mr. Mac-
Pherson said, it's very important to
*4-O ft first." .
Handy 'Work with Cold Steel.
•
„ it has been*, found that something
• short as handy for this kind of work
Such cramped quarters-ta ditch six
feet deep hod from two to three feet
broad -the is an awkward length
, to permit of •prompt- and skillful use
. of the.bassorret.. '
"Yeas i,, Yon, ean mix it uptbetter
,SoMething handy, 'sirooto' think
. GOldlere. WOUId come,to fighting
as..tastine, oh.," ould the sergeaot
"YOU nr::t be sPry on ouch °Oda" '
'clear -thinking --American continues:
*Yet against: this, purpose of Germany,
against this attack on the soul of the
world, against, this endeavor to poi-
son.not only ourselves but our -future
generatiens the Government of: the
United States has not, said one word.
None of its protests has' been based
lipoir,the higher and more conarnand-
ing necessity of • maintaining the or-
derly evolution o , nutions. Nothing
bus been :said 'to show that it '-Would
not regard with equanfinity the,-vic=
tory of the 'German cadge so leng. as
'in achieving it the German methods
did not interfere with 4therican lives
or properties' '
'Writing still ,aa,,• an, indignant
-American, Mr. Goold Concludes: "The
„Lusitania and, the Arabic 'call us in
clarion tones to, abandon- our slothful
ease and vindicate our liberties;: Much
louder and_more resonantly, -although-
perhaps less distinctly, comes the call
.of Mankind and of the generations to
come that we Make the great sacrifice
to secure to them the Conditieas of
freedovi of „individual development to
which they are entitled." Elsewhere
in the letter he expresses the liePe
that his country Will soon be in, the
*Or against the barbarians. This
may net be the general wish of Cana-
dians, but undoubtedly millions of
Americans think with Mr. Gould.
A
•
sp4. FIGHTS L'oNti
Old gee Battles Showed 'High Per
eentage.ln-Killed and Wounded.
People think of the 15 -inch guns
on: .1,1zZie .and ships of her doss as
- I the largest nav_olS ants_ever mode,
ut British war boats carried bigger
guns in the early days of the 'hard-
ware. naroyi,' The old-, Ioflexible had
our 80 -ton guns of 16 hich calibre -
early 80 years age the Britioti /0y
had 110 -ton guns; 16,25 . inches, an
.tobloses atidtliese were theimist pon-
derous shims guns ever made.. But
o 17-incit nayy gait is coming.
That reinizids ars that the world
went very well in the good sad ays
• urnpq liwa at
each other's wooden topsides with
rong, Tom, who was only a round -
t , butted, son -of -es -Inn of e .82-pourider,
'and- Tom's numerous family, long and
ghost, the, smallest member of which
heaved a little thing • smaller thito a
tennis baIV Men fought just as mer-
-initlie,:old-daYstwiretttlid-Whole'
broadiide of a 'three -decker was only
'80 per. cent. of the weight of one
• -shell- thrash •by the "Lizzie" at a
Turkish fort on ariany-hilled Gallipoli.
The old wooden. ships hauled along-
side each other at .-apIose quarSere
-find the , deeski-isiefe 'a fedi deep ip
blood when the fteuppers drake(' with
the ifragieiits of shattered humanity.,,
The -plunging round shot was as caO-
able a projectile, muzzle to musite,
as the nredern shell at 10 Miles range.
A two-peat/id shot could, cut a mansin
two, -and What shell .Could accomplieh
more? The butchery was just as
.SOtiSfaCtOrY proportionately to the
ritunber Of mon owthe ships.. The re-
'tortla of ;the old `Sea battles show
that vessels often lost 50 percent. in
• killed and wounded, and sometimes
as high as, 7a per cent, In somp fights
, off 'shore 'shim; were, stoic or burned
Without tiS Mach as a rat 'escaping. Tir
view of tido, modern. guns and r,:un7. •
nory have hardly made Sea fights an* :
more 'bloody .than in the days of
"stieksland etsings.". • •
•
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SURREN ER
ERMAN SOUTIIWR T AFRICA
THE SUNDAY SCHOOV
PLENTX OF PLAIN ANO WHOLE.
• SOME FOOD.,
How Three Square Meals NY Are
Being 8upplie4 to Every
Fighter.
The feeding of our arnies Is an
even bigger and more coMplex bust -
nese than the feeding of Joel( Tar,
84$ Landon' Answers.'
- The Wan Office never anticipated
that it would be ealled upon to feed
such immense armies as it now has to
do. The existing_ arrangements far
the feeding of the Army when the
war broke out, however, sufficed to
meet, immediate ..needsp but arrange-
ments were promptly entered into and
got into working order with Martel..
loos rapidity for the feeding of ho'^
mense armies, • ,
Sir Beavers Buller is reported to
have said that :the feeding of on array
exceedingsa Million of mon Presellted
appalling, if net unsurraountable, difo
Acuities. But these difficulties have
been satisfactorily tackled. -There, is
not .4 British soldier -at home or
abroad "w110`114s. ever had.to 'go a dOY.
without 'three substantial meals,
ex-
ccpt when Actually fighting .in :the
'trenches, •. • •
. , •
Everything,' Contracted
..'TheworiF Of feeding Tommy Atkins
is performed chiefly bYscontract: See-
Arate contracts aref.entered, into for
the supply of all the regulation ,arti-
cies of diet to ''each military centre at
se much per head. 'Under this sort of
contract the contractor has to supply
everything from, say, cocoa to pota-
toes. •
- Nov, Jet us take a Military centre
where say, 10,000 troops, are station-
ed. The contractor has to make daily
deliveries Of meat and vegetables and
ether articles of food for immediate
-consumption, and weekly, Or) possibly,
monthly, deliveries of other articles,
such as tea, sugar, ete,
The contractors for our Army in
France deliver the goods to the quar-
termaster -general at headquarters,
from whence it is distributed to the
different ,units. Not a day or night
passes without ships, eentainhtg,hun-
dredS of tons Of food for our soldiers,
crossing the Channel; and day aud
night tons" of food are being-deshi-
bated to the troops at home by ,rail
and motor -wagons.
• But the collection ond distribution
of *these immense quantities of food
were not the Only difficulties in the
way of feeding the new arrnieg: The
food -or a good deal of it, at • any
rate -has to be cOoked, arid thefind-
ing of a sufficient number of cooks
.
presented a gigantic • problem. .
Cooks By the Thousands.
•
Many thousands of cooks would be
required as the. armies grew. " Clearly
it was impossible to get them from
the civil population; but it was possi-
ble to make, them, and by November
last at least 10,000 'cooks had been
trained uoderthe direction of the
Army OOOkS at different military cen-
tres.•-- What the ifinnbert Of Army
cooks is at present it is, of course,
impassible to say, but it Certainly ex-
ceeds 25,000: At a military :centre
where there .are,. ,say, 10,00,0 troops;
100 cooks wouid be employed, and an-
other 100 general assistants would
thneleittriotiotprPariug the daily 'meals .6f
• In the early days of ;the war, when
the new armies were rapidly growing,
and there was a partialshortage of
-coolissifromrnysweald-Ofteii
undertake to supplement the work of
the cook's department by his own un-
tutored 'efforts, and some invented
dishes that have since ob'tained 4.1440:
rpopularity in the armies.
At a cair.qi in one -Part of the coun-
try, where there were 4,91/0 soldiers
and not more.thans three or four
cooks, the meals were prepared by a
battalion of amateur chefs for some
time. Among these. was a genius
who invented a remarkable dish in
-which-•-cheese--and-baeoir"formed-tEe,
-mahriogredientss '
What Was It Made Of?
• This appetizing dish' is now, kiloton
in the Army- as "Polly,". the nickname
• by which its inventor was known in
his con -monis
All ,the cillinary inventions Of Tom-
my as. chef --did .not -'however, nieet
with suds success or popularity.
A' stela, is, told of ,a corporal
• left to MS 014,21 deOices in a whip kit -
schen; preporkl far Ins company -a
dish that met with a very bad reeep-
thin. Weed. By .unaiiinious, consent
the company -decided that -the 'Corporal
• should be compelled to eat the whole
of the cortipound which he had pre-
pared to satisfy the oppetites of 120
Men. '
The corperal, under compulsion,
Swallowed about ten mouthfuls of the
mess, and then'wEis•mercifelly elbow-
ed to retire to hi -tent. The dish ton-
sisted, 80 .tha corpdral afterwards de-
-clared, a =thing but treacle bread
• dripsupg, and flour; but the general
0/Aniont &tIPPCOrte4•• -a4nClgt-teab4V-J410114.
tatable 'eSiclenee, Was that the cor-
poral .load'smadvertentiy flavored the
dish with a' powder intended for poi-
ishifig boot ts:
The reOultition Army menun are.
generally as follows? - -
• or"Strileillinif141-1;e-altsitaera17."d7but.t.ti..4 .1a613111
ljinner: neef, vegani)!..r., in:cn
'reef Bread-and-butter and,• jrrn;
tea. ,
• The food is Main and whelesome,
and there is plenty of it. Indeed,
there is rather too 'much, for it is un-
• deniable. that there is waste, often
considerable • waste, and immense
quantitieeof food are thrown away ur
•destro; sd, But there are some diffi-
Culties in avoiding this waste. '
For example, a contractor may ins,
der his contract haVc to ever daily
stipii,llas to a ,eizrop or:military. cestre
for 15,060 men'. Peitans 10,000 of the
V: at:1:f
it t i! •" '•• ting eon-
tra, •
;1r o arp Many '
it is diffi-
INTERNATIONAL LESSOR',
OCTOBER 17,
47
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, The Upper pfetUre Shows the, actual signing °utile document whIch•surrendered German .Soutlxwest Africa
Seitz ettnhe seen seated twthe tent :signing. thn'fincso*ent. -.Tao lower picture allows 'General '•
. , to the '1Eiritish forces. Tho' picture was taken at Alto, 500 miles on tho Otavi line, His Excellency Dr.• '
laotha's stvdile, after the document 'had been .slitrixi and his -Mak accomplished". ..
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cult to avoid 'over-suplies stod'COn4P7
tinerit waste, ztt any rate, under exist-
ing arrangements, which certainly are
in need of alteration.- - -
They Got' an Over -Dose.
-Large consignments, of delicacies
and dainties are sent to the Front for
Tommy by various people and organi-
zations at haMes but the same -attess,
tion cannot, of Course, be 'paid to the,
delivery of these gifts as is. given to
• the delivery of the regular supplies.
The deliveries of these gifts are there-
fore, attended With, game- uncertainty.
To a battalion of a certain regiment
employed on the lines Of cormouniga-
tion there was delivered not long since
Some eight hundred cases containing
several tons .of Turkish delight. The
men revelled in this delicacy until
they became' so ° sick of it that it was
dangerous, even, to lnention the words
"Turkish delight"- in the presence of
tnne of rbattaiir.—tytesecaseofthe d aCY
Were delivered to the battalion in
question is one Of many"similar mys-
teries Of the war. . The reason proba-
bly -was -thats when-ahesverybusysdeo
partrnent concerned with the delivery
of such gifts to the troops came 'across
these cases; it'saved time and trouble
to send them all to one battalion, and
which one it was sent to did not mat-
ter. ;
Another battalion, in much the same
wastssrseceived_a giftssefstwerity.snves
thousand chickens, and „y011. could not,
have got n.inahla it to touch a chick--
en:cooked in any way atall for a ten.:
pound note for some time afterwards.
Helping, Another %Industry• . '
A
Biit,, of course; the greater part of
the food delicacies sent to the troops
at the frail are properly distributed,
is of necessity almost the same every
clay. •
The feeding, Of the • armies has, it
:may be mentioned, Made the packing -
case industry busier than it has proba-
bly ever been. A quarter of a million,
packing cases of varying sizes, are
treed, every week in delivering the food
supplies to the Artily. The firms mak-
ing these cases are working night and
day, and there, isn't an unemployed
man in the industry- anywhere:
AND IlYST
From The Toronto Daily News.
Condemning the readiness of Amer-
icans to swallow the hysterically ex-
aggerated tales brought home by•
tourists regarding the damage done.
in England by German Zeppelins, The.
Wall Street Journal says: "What un -
The number of hten.directly engag- derlies 'thi yateriat_What- is- it
ed-i47014-huiiness of supplying the that -causes us to take seriously. the
_armies with food probably. exceeds 'tall" such men is Hearst, Bryon,
-
150,000. One firma of contractors Stone,. Hoke Smith and the like upon
ploys g20,1100 men in packing and des
the war and the way to neere peace?
livering goods for the Army.-
Then, apart from s the enormous The psychological reason can be found
in ourselves. 'After fifty years of
number of men eniployed in this way, peace within our own borders, , we
there is an army of cooks and assis-
have deteriorated in a most, vital re -
When we bear in mind the faeethat
tants both at home and in \ France. Wet, We attach an exaggerated im-
portance to death. It is not that we
thirteen months ago there was 'no over-estimate the sanctity of human
todumgo:ilionurariev:rrinliyaviltng
thtevrerdP°Ort, -life'-as-c$u"rinzinai-vr
aste-bys pre
veritable accident . shows.- Itisthat
perhaps, more than 250,000 men, one dwied,dofignhottinrgealfter apsr
may appreciate the extent of the dial-, principle
ple grandfathers uponththe
calties encountered in 'bringing into' field of battle, that death isThy no
s'existenteinasfewomonths-the mechins-
ery-by ivhich 'millions of. men had to
be fed;
,Not 'Positive. - •
• ,
Pete, the, hired man, was known
for his prodigious appetite. One
morning, he had eaten his usual -
break-
s' -- .
fast-of-oatmeah,buckwheat--cake newspapers. Thesbetterselass-preis
toast, friedpotatoes; ham,eggs-
-
of the United States is holdingthe
pacifist and •pro -German elements
thronghout the country, pretty well
in -cheek._
Whom the gods would destroy•they
first induce to,marry foolishly.
-means the -most important thing in
life.. There are ouroY worse things -in
life than death. •The peoples at war
do not suffer from hysteria, It is our
returning tourists who read their own
hysteria • into conditions upon which
they are no fitted to pass an opin-
ion." 'For plain speaking, on Ameri-
can sins we have tosssajosAmerican
-4-1111,
the, Syrian, . Golden
Text; Exodue
1. The Little Maiden of ,Ierael
(Verne "1-4).
.VerSe 4. But he was 44 leper -HIS
Io.ProW, as yet, evidently' was not ot
malignant hind. nag 119 been gIeerf,
he Vet' have been permitted: td
IRO .
mumMid army (e.oe Lev., chapterS
18. and 14). ,
2. little maiden -She must hut?'
been so attractive as to suggest 'W.
some Poldier .of the marauding band
that she Would be it welconre gift to' •
the captain, of the host, who in turn!
would he' glad to present her to NAV
wife. ' •
• The Prophet thet is in Sainorlitosat,
Elishiettinalle-had gorse abroad that:
it was not neceseftrY to month:al his.
name. • .
One went 'in -Doubtless one ef
the close Wanda of Nearness who in
rendering a eerviee•to his master Na
•nten would deobtlesa eery* the king,
IL The Letter �f the tifYiiiin King ,
(Verses • ,V7). '
. •
5's Go nowl-oThelttna' would,. let lin
'time be lost in. 'IllIttilig'ibp:prophett'i
.tostheteet .
• I Will ;send '4 letter -The rela.tione4
Of the two kings, .evidently -were
. .
friendly,
.Ten talents- of silver -The accoM,, .
ponying gift, which, according stols
Oriental custom, is always indispenss
•able on smelt oeeludoi* The niiVer
1
was worth about $18,750 in •: our mo- .
hey.. Gold had ..a value of. ten times
that of silver. The "piece" or 'files ''
hie" was worth about ten dollars. •
The six thousand pieces amounted to
about $60,000, making the total gold •
and silver gift about $80,900,, The
ten changes of raiment Were alio
very costly. See Gen, O. 22; 2 Chrons •
9.24. .
7, He rent his clothes -The king of
Israel seemed to have less .faith than
the king of Syria. But he may well
have- isslepresyswassion ins
curable disease, and hence•the requeet
of the Syrian king seemed to be noth-
ing more or less than an -attempt to -
psovokeVilik, - • .
M. The Message of Mishit -
•1 ( \tersest' 8-10,, 14). .
8, He 'Sent to the king-TheneWS
the message front' the Syrian king was
soon abroad and created .fear
Elisha hears of it he assures the kin
•of Israel that God is still potent
through his prophets and that, therej,
-fore, no cause for alarm eXists.
Stood at the door of the house ot
Melia -- This' 'indeed was a kirig131
suite which canna to the unpreteotioms
house of the humble prophet• -.
10. Seven times -The usual sabred'.
Man of God -To wash in the Jordan
seemed to be an inconsequential Mai.
aer.,__ Newnan was looking :tor "one
great thing," He was willing to obey) -
however, even to the seventh time. • -
For, doubtless, no sign. of healing ap-1 ;
peared until he had done all that he: -•
had been commooded to de.
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HUMOR IN THE'CATECHISAL
—s.
Laughable Answers to Some Simple)
Questions.
, There must have been some chri
specimene of Seottieh humor brought
'Out at the examinations that the mini,.
• sters of the flock concluded before
ministering the cm:Moonier': • Thus,
• clergyman • asked one parishioner!
"What ldnd of nian was Adam?"
s
• "Ou; just like ither fook,"•he res.
petliii•Te:h:termessieidtptient-I-Veil," said the
inister insisted on a marc'
•
'catechumen; "he was 'just like .4013
Simson, the horse couper."
• "How so?" asked the minister.'
"Weel, naebody get onythiog 137,
laai,ithliShad
Onycome lOSt."for exam•ination-I
previous to receiving his find coin.
rnunion. The pastor, knowing that,
his young friend -was not very pre-
fouod -in his theology, and not with
doughnuts, coffee, and the usual trinia
*inings, 'and had gone to a neighbor's
to help with extra Work, Pete arriv-
ed. before the family had risens-f -
the morning Meal. '
"Well,• Pete hospitably inquired
•the farmer, "had breakfast yet?".
•drawled Pete in a wheed-•
lizig tone, l'kinda." ..
their mouth -end is so sensitive. that Ing t
BerthWorm's have • no eyes,
but from
' Some meli-are se forgetful that they they can distinguish between_night-
ts--__...........
evensfail-to-rem rn h 1
and are greatly appreciated by the •
sokners, especially those who have
been in the trenches,_ Whese 'the foe
• e her t e poor. _ • ',.. so, b
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ir.,•;:fUrV•
4.
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o diseousage him -or keep ilia%
the tablesunless-compelledstestits
egan by asking what hetheu t
o euedian. So he t • ook the
• _a saf
01
Tessoment :and aske-d- Irish hoOS Irian
ssoss.ssooss
„ssuss-oss
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74.•
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Atiovo a view of Petrograd,
ar2h1,6§, roVead 'are' tow heading
tho' great
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ii,:i•waitoy***1•••,.+1.•-••••a...
On,pital of Russia, toward whith
,
the
e
commairdments 'there were. 'After 'a
• little thought the lad put Ide answer
in the forosof a supposition and re-' •
plied cautiously, "Perhaps airurolet."f
" he crei_ynian was vexed, and told,'
him such ignorance was intolerable,'
,'and that the Yoistli mint' cone back(' .
for- another examination when he had ,
learned More. • •
As he .werit away he ,inet a 'friends, - •
'and on learning that he 'alio; wag go-,, _
sings#I. ,thessnlinistersiforaniiialions
die' yeting felloW asked: . .
,"Weel, what will ye say if the ntird-;
ster speera hoo mons; commendmolitas
there are'?" '
"Say? Why, I shall ten, to ha •
s To which the other rejoineds:with'- -7
great triuniph, '",Tenl Try ye him svi'
ten! I tried him wi' a homier, and •
he wane setisfied."
A' better example of an answer to
,
tatethetieal theamitiation was offered
in the: very conclusive reply madby
an old body to the ininieter who
posed' the questiork of the.ShOrtan
.Catechisthi "What are 00. CIOCrOOS of .
,God 9," ' '•
Wisely the oldnian replied; "'Deeds
.•
sir,. He kens that best. Iliniaer,?' „ . 1, . •
Another Anhwei' from a little girt
WAS shrewd and. reflective. Tho ques.4
tion was,.. "Why ,did the Israelites•
make a frohlon.calf ?" and elle replied::
"they trdna as muckla tiller as Wad
I
' biak a co." - • , • , •
.
liof.lt ttwt are tili(i Av..;ifther vent%
1 .,-. stly 'fi...,,-4 when , flier? becomo
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