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• NIKPAMIATIONAL LE8$0140 In Lady Inglis& narrative of her
IPSBRUART 13. " eaperienceit (twine; the siege of Lnelee
1%0W, Ulf * MOST *got nOthlrog
caught the attention of the public
VII. Ifelielaled aat Exalted. more generally than her deeeription
of how ,quickly the ehildren in the be -
Pk& 3. 141. 0014** Tenteee leliguered residency became accuse ,
I ears ILL • tinned to living under fire. They lost
all fear of bullets, were only Memene
Wily startled by the cresh .of a shell
Ohne at hand, Mid need to beg hard
for the privilege of leaving the more
Shelteredwomen's quarters to play in
a little inclesed warden, despite the
fact that their swing had been ear.,
:
certain and is hardly translatable asried away and their pet goat slaen•
It Attends; the omission of single let-
ter in one thrice -repeated little weed
makesall cleer and gramulaticals and
suits lionie ancient 'evidence. Exhort.
Olen in Christ --The preacher who
• ocheere. his peolde is speaking in
divine atmosphere `°..r.14 is Vining the heated rooms, :were not a
round him and -within hunr 09, "I". whit less eager for tag and hopscoteh
his words are not hia own. Commis. in their dangerous playground.
tion of Live -When Love lies bleed -1- row, indeed, werc the children •who,
_Inge it is only LOV9'.. Olat ;- Can heal. Bharat the perils of that time,.com-
s Fellowehin--For We can never onjoy parse yaw shoo endangered injured,
' the Spirit alone: the Gift is "forever and Slain in thelearful European war
' aurae forever *hole,,,", as Whittier',
Of to -day. Leaving aside -atrocities, or
, rays. '• • • ' intentional injuries to, children, --of
'• g. :Make fullee-Pent bas 1)104" ja. Vrh$411, gene can scarcely .bear to, think, •
out - of the PlitlipPline church than e -the 'Agencies, of warfare along so
front any other,: But their very ear- *my hundred eniles of trenches, run-
, nestnesshadindeced, an eteraelit, • of ning-through so many ruined and**
• strife; :and Paig. dOala, with this z one ruined villages, have . brought- many
danger:* Of the same Mind--Lihe the scores of 'children within- the (hinter
etronier phrase at the .endeof the .zone. Often they become, like the,
verse, this was never riteant to for- Lucknow Children, ' quite fearless,
bid honest' differences of Opinion. learning to disregard the Most terri-
the .word does not include mental tying sights and sounds. They help
processes: it refers to the heart, and their .mothers to work inthe fields uns
` not the head . 'der firequite as 'a matter of course;
3. The eure of partisanship and
vanity is to be Always looking for
other people's virtues and our own
faults. This does not mean blindness
•to our successes, If we are .mindful
to set *ens all down to the indveelling
'Christ.
4. The word each of you, on its
second occurrence, standing.- at the
end of the verse in the ' Greek, may
possibly he transferred to eerie 5.
,s. Which was -It seems impossible
to ,get "Whictewas" orit• of the Greek,
• which compels: us to supply you have;
' Ire Christ Jesus will tlius. have: the
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me peofoundest theological Mt-
nealtion Fenn writings gets it*
supreme, importance from ite, prikee
tical end Camel nature, Pitul teachee
WA to' bring the coMmeneet thing.0
into the light of the InCertietien, •
Verse 1. • The-Greeh IL•
there by MIAMI fire, while bullets pat-
tered frequently against. the walls
that it had ceased to he fun to run
end pick them• up while they were yet
hot. Before the siege 'ended, some of
their little playmates had been killed
and isorne wounded; but the survivors,
.and it is their sfrequent tendency,
with the natural curiosity of childhoods ,
.rather to approach the.litieg line than'. "
to keep away from it. Despite Tures, ,
and • orders, they occasionally reach
the ;second, and even the first line of
defense, and pay Sureeptitious visite
to the soldiers in the trenches, Theta.
they are both scolded and weleomed,
In some Cases orphan waifs have beei/
practically adopted as individual, com-
pany, or regimental pets and mascots.
So neinerbus are the children ' who
haunt the lines in gettainregiOne that
the soldiers have nicknatned them
same meaning- as elsewhere, the .mys_ trench " .
.The online they had Yin Not alWaYe to the poor -little 4.`Tati-:
Chriet" was a perpetual hese, bite-eschliehnscathed from their dein-
'
mindednees: thie reign alees gernns insl`s4'
the en
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their relations with one another. But
the only way of attaining- is as y
Christ's living Over age in us his
• liumin life of utter obedience. Renee
the .significant addition Of Jeeue„ and
the,emaetatestrehee of the appended
picture of that supreme life on earth.
6. Discussion of this problem verse
being impossible, we will ennoly
ex-
pound the view that seems most suit-
able Since the purpose of this pies,
•• age is to commend humility by
• Christ's example the central thought
must be that the earthly we of Jesus
was. one in 'which self-assertion bed-
--110 parts He -counted_ not his equality:_
with God a reason for grasping Whit
he was entitled to. • He Was always
- surrendering seven e' the eleittenterY
• rights of. amen born in lowly station.
• And he did thie because he was 'exiSt-
ing in the form of . God, and was
• therefore. embodying ,life
• God's own activities, •who Wes' not
• face, bueloye, to win his Vey :vithe
*7. Emptied Itimself-"Oe ell' but
. love," as -Wesley adds in his great
• hymn. ' To become a real Man he must
leave behind all divine attributes in-
• . compatible with •huneanitie-ornnipree-
ence, omnipotence, omniscience; but
ilot love; for Godeis Imre, . And sipee
• is-the-easence-of-th- • When *lend, nns,enr
The- "self -emptying, Is described as
taking the fain of servant: ,the
King' otleings becomes the subject of
subjects. Likeness -As in Bone , 8.3,
e Nut is • thinking .of hurnan.nature as
it is,„Which Makes him' put in the
---- word that suggests. the :immense dif-
ference lieteieen Jesus and other
Mese. The phrase in fashion (verse
• '8) .similarly hints that, while: the -r
semblance vas deep and real, it was
temporary. • • e
"S. ' Ilumbiede-The keynote again,
for "lowliness" in verse 3 is the same
"Greek word. undiluted
flail* Of meanness in non-Christian.
"Greelq.whicli used it only for grovel-
ling, but in the life and death of the
N azarene Menefound-thate
tient& selfeeffacement was the path
, to empire as the world never
saw. Obedient--TirtheeFtither, as in
E els. 5-.8.• it is in this perfect human
obedience offered to God for the first•
aline in history', and crowned eby
death itself,' Width was accepted he-
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- SHAM TRIM BuTenzist
eseese
"Rights"' of Telegrsph Mid Telephone,
Linemen I. * Fiction. ...
For yeara the people‘of Ontario
'TOD EKE or TIM
Where Barbed Wire Fence Divide*
lIolland "and OernnIMY,
•
.A; correspondent Of the London
have permitted theniselvee to vie. Timea who has been tritvelling n HO 4
thniZed kr all sorts of specious claims land writes to his Pawl* acmc intr
regarding the rights of telephoneand '•esting observations. coneerninsr. the
telegraph lineMen, centiac- Curious conditions diet Prevolli WOW.
tors and others to destroy or mutilate the frontier between neutral Holton% . .
'shade trees. • and helligerent Gerniana god Beigilmh
As matter of Ontario law, no oue . There is, one extectordinorY Viere2
he
other than A sPecielly deputed: Mini- anYs, where, the frontier runs up the.
eipal officer has the "right" to remove middle of the strect,,so that:Patch and
or trim a Shade tree.' Linernen* con. Oerman shops .fnee „ea,* Other across
tractors, etc*, have art authority barriers of barbed wire. On the far -
whatever in Snell matters and cannot ther side of the street runs a tetnn-
legally remove . any part of a tree Warr "WhiCh .is in Germany. I had
without the permieson of the owner . been told that I theuld !see Wealgn
Or municipality. few legal contests Condit:etas, leuttllate-vialtsnet-4eWTheese
such as have recently occurred in the conductors are .soldieis Who have been
United States would impress this fact Weuntled and are net fit for iserVice.
once and for all time upon the shade ,Semerated from the tramway by a
tree owners of Ontario, they a few bight .Wire fence, a strip . neutral e
Months ago a contractor Was obliged ground twelve. feet wide rime down
kY an American eseurt to pay nine , the•middle of the Street- Then conies
hundred dellarilefor cutting ,down:twc0onotbor .feneer:--9f barbed Wire this'
time, -and the narrow bit of road an s
PaveMent. on the near side are Hole
land, The passages between' the re.
epective territories are narrOtr, ()Pen,
ings where the streets cross. . They
are guarded by 'sentries of the two
countries on either eide, , It is • eebney
street; Op; and ,down Which the •ordie
114rY ,t01•Vn, liiVikir'S.contiouoilaly; but
an ode pavement all the- soldiers who
Stroll Ahopt are dresiedinsDatcli
ul-
twOus rorellry 44'socl#11•1. WWI
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The Visitor "What crime brought , you. here 1" •,
'The Man in Stripes:'1 .burned down a fifty r
bee" itor: -Great Scott 1 We settlers, burnede'dOwn a inillfon dollar*,WOrth ..t.contario'S
; forestS. last suramer .nied no NIIr if:
.(1treviapeper note.: 4‘Bia4tY-five out Of every hundred: -forest 'fires in Ontario. during 191
were • einsed by careless settlers. . Unlike .13eifthh Columbia and Quebec, settlers ikr this
• rovinee have 'ne supervision of their etearin fires during the ,danger 'season.") '
rn soeiating •with their soldier Alums.
rided-,childrem-are_not_common.
yet, •unfortunately, they are not very
rare in the hospitals titter the front.
Whentheyare brought in, it nurse has
testified, they are often!' clinging tight-
ly for consolation to the toys cone
trived carved •for them, by their -
grown-up playfelloWs in the trenches,
In the monotenous hours, of- waiting
between assaults.
One little lad, wounded in the feet
by shrapnel, went under ether to have
his mangled toes removed, still cletch-
ing tightly in his e woolly lamb,
made for hime by a „Britislr "Tommy"
from a -scrap of his own torn sheep -
akin ,goat and a fen)* ‘ittil" of -Whittled
Wood. As the child's fingers relaxed,
lywas-rernovedamdleargottell..33ntno
sooner had he recovered consciousness
than his first inquiry and demand was
'"Where is my lamb? , I *ant my lamb,
that Monsieur Tommee made for me"
' The lank was fiiand; but it had
been allowed to fall to the floor, And
the white fleece, was stained With,
bleed. :The nurse offered to wash it
off; but the little fellow was nee will-
ing to Wait.
•"Let me have -My, lamb now;" he
begged; • "Yon Care tie • a 'bandage
round and I will play- that We
have both been woMided by the wig.
mail was made in , God's' image 'love mies of our country."t Man • ,
"M ' Torn-
mee •Atkins,' / and "Monsieur Tom-
mee's" comrades heat* about at, they.
made a 'timelier of other 'lambs and
sent thern to the hospital,' so that the
boy'sconvalescence was. cheered by
shepherding a noble fleck, of which he
never tired, among the hills and vaV
leys of the "Land of Counterpane." -
BRITAIN HOLDS, THE DOOR...
•
pees, porabined with some nice corn
stover (stover is shindy ,the stalk
without. the ear, and May be used
whole or• shredded) will make a.setise
• factory roughage for feeding young
• heifers.• ' •
. limited amount of silage mei he
fed with satisfaction to sheep -say
aqui ten Pottpds• per heed each day.
But it should be fed in connection with
seine dry roughage, suet:rah' clover Or
alfalfa hey or even. mixed hay: and
In very Cold weather•;,, the sheep
sheutcl. have plenty of 'clover hay or
corn Adder or Miele other roughness
as iS available' on the farm. The ewes•
should be kept in a good, thrifty con-
ditiori in order. that the offspring may
be :healthy and vigereuee- esseess"., -
"
• apostasy, that Paul hnds • the kernel
of the atonement doctrine Poi that
• •Pettect,, Man has now talcen up again
• all the powers of the very • Gee, and
elieetent. live les life of obedience Over
againein his elieelples' heart. Yeesse
The .'cIimax needs no eXpoueding. A
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All German NeWspapern Not, Blind to
• • the Facts: ••
• Itoiy ViSi011a rise before the eyes of
German editorseati they contemplate
that vast tract of territerytrom Bags -
dad to the North Sea Which has eonie
Under ,continuous Tentonie 'control by
the reeent-victories-overegerbilie • New
we are assured Getmapy can get teoin
Thrkey. All the fOod she wants. •
"tiit'therre-idioi. than this: -The
possibility .of the; transit of the pr.o.7
dUcts of our highly'. developed War-
'Ipdostey , Will . enable - Turkey in: eir
in-
creasd de eci tO 'strike \a, blow at the
heart of England's wa d supremacy-
Agairiet Egypt. 'thee, the exchange of
goods between the enemlyers--of the
.neW quadeaple alliance. will acquire
decisive iniportiniee for the .result of
-the ameld-evine"
While -this may be made to sound'
deat..k,77inch was verily .the masters wein Theory, says the EsSen, organ
- or-Aitairreserlixrfor---elev.eiaild- Phti.sthee.asIC;Trigai4.-'i2f.aa.11,rnhnhati:'14hether''
rd -headed
. *proved Methods of Feeding.
The men who had the forethought
to Provide plenty of good carrots and.
mangles is exceedingly well .fixed for
:hringing the farm animals through the
:winter in gbpd condition. '• '
A good many dairymen are feeding
skim milk their cows: The animals
seem ,to relish it; and; as it is. not .6
fattening food,. it does them no harm.
It skim milk is added, to- the- -ration
fed to young- Wakens it will increase
the consumption of other loads given.
Feed which has been Allowed to, get
Wet will ferment or squr readily and
enuse ifitestinardisaders. Don't feed.
it to year stock. ,, '
---,Tiering the years when corgbreughts
a very low price i cattle feeding could
he conducted on very leave principles
and still pay fair profits, but •ecindi-
thins have since changed and methods
Mint be varied to meet thenew- con-
ditions in beef peeductione We, are
forCiii-twadopt more economical nieth-
odd of production.. '
Our whole system of cattle feeding
has been largely built up upon Cheap
grain foods and we have been making
but little use otforage and hay in the
production better niethods of produes
ink their beetand 'not go ont 'of busi-
ness for the reason that .grain foods
• _ _
are high.
Perk production returns to the soil'
the vain food elements that are ,eon -
stinted by the liege bliteclittlean
-
sheep feeding Make possible the use of
clever, alfalfa: and corn fodder and re-
„tetilleetesto-the soil inainannerstleat -
will encourage the growth in the crop,
rotations and thus preserve' the fertil-
ity of the Soil. , •• •
itiffialis, and by the Jewish law laid: Itheinisa. a
n
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titider-i.Tho-special-curse-of God -that then roaecds ,remaric
,Villt th t th e established-, ArocT is" primarily duo to ,
titeOnaltest
on the Rhine is les i then the railroad requires less food for its prothietion
freinht rate from Ruhrort to Berlin. than does fat, for lean meat is a
will shake his head Whenhe bears that evethey tissue compared' With' fat and •
massea of geode are to be thrown to
and fie • by rail from Asia Minor to•
Hamburg. -The • idea that the titillate
and Bagdad railroads can in any way
support the burden of our economic
life is 'a fantasy.- • The. German Em-
pire is not situated on the Dardanelles
or on the Persian Gulf, but on the
North Sea, and it will Oily be tree if
the North Sea 'is- free. • •
"It is not intrinsically and extrie-
sically poesible for us to aneWer toe
day :the question of how ler Eritish
sem domination am be. broken. That
can only' appear the eourse the'
war, but we are fitinly convinced' that.
• •I▪ 3arnyard manure his i'vaineoliNthe
farm aside Ifrom that an A fertilizer.
It improves the physical 'conditions
7of-tlie--sail-and-:' makes: it easier .to
handle. Its decay produces heat and
its presence aids chemical • and bac-
terial processes. Moreover, it ail:.
Orbs and hOlda a large amountOf wa-
ter and helps to eerstellie soil. The
benefits of these indirect ants to, plant
growth, are in ,some„cases worth a
much as the fertilizieg power of ..the
'manure. • .• •
• When it „added. that barnyard
manure is worth at least $2.50 a ton,
and that each, farm animal produces
from five to seven: tons per 1,000
pounds a live -weight each year,„it is
• •
A. 'Word in Season. •el -see -et a
The chief flaw in Our. system or pro-
tection
etreeisicithepae%stvoershaivne muVernYiofiepWatslieimli:
ploy, so that menicipalities are. them-
selves responsible for a great deg' Of
the' everyday butchery. • •
, The Ontario statutes give it
muni-
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cipal offieer deleg,dtedleer the MY En-
gineer Dower to Tempt/ea tree Seoul,
1Prytate Or public property on foety-
eight hours' notice, 'but the Owner 4°I.Int3' "0.°J'. the' otherside they are •
Mprnore.cisteinrgee.tohmeptretesed. 'NfeerlPiviaenttiteineg;aunnd. Gernmns• Between they'll eery much
lees within thirty feet ot other te44, like the bars of animal& cages,. run '
may be removed sidewise consent of little Dutch street '''boys talk to the
the owner of the:property', in front of German street boys • through. the,
mtheesheleesi:hle.' him ni Wire:fen cinge andee
. It was down this street that, at the,.
beginning of the war, the Dutch pointy
'Wien watched for font days and
nights the German 'Amy marching
southward to Belgium.
'Many of the villages immediately on
the frontier lead nowadays a confus-
ing existence, with their lieada, as le
were, in one epuntry and their tails it
Ltinother,. and a belt of barbed wird
round their middles. In most of these
places the chief work of the Dutch .
•sentrie's is to 'search the people who ••-
pass, lest' they be carrying illicit pate -
.
of butter or ether contraband in their,
pockete; whereas the Gerinen gnarche .
are .meetly concerned with, keeping at,
lookout for deresters from the German:,
army or for able-bodied Belgians wh
. • ,
easy to gee that as a 'fertilizer- the
meteeial should- not be *opted. , • .
And yet it ie. On the 'average Can -
;dial' farrii only fifty per cent,'of the
fertilizing value of manure ever
reaches the soil.. ' The other fifty per
cent. of yalue is lost by leaching and to private property or passing through
fermentation consequent.' Keen im..1 or carried over such property; 'so that
peeper handling. We have even: no matter how long telegraph or tele -
known Seemingly intelligent faimers; phone wires have been attached to. a
to waste the manure Produced on the tree, the munieialitY or -owneiVif he -
I
farm and. then turn Around. and. huy„ has Property in the tree, could compel.
commercial.fertilizer to make good the l the removal of • the wire." . - ...
drain on their soil. The best practice; Since the law gives Considerable lat.
is , to haul- the stuff directly to the itude to any amateur municiPal officer,
fields from the , Statile. ' 'Where this. it it our plain- duty ee citizens to .ob-
practice is • , riot followed, provision lige our city and town councils to en -
should be made to preserve' all the trust shade tree supervision to, a skill -
_liquid - excrement onek keep tightly ed person, and in the case of latter
compacted' and moist te prevent ler- municipalities to appoint a technicallY-
mentation. • There 15 me more imposts, trained inspector or "city forester" as
nteproblem, at this time of .year thanAm is called in the United States. Mu -
which the tree stands.
The municipality shall not be liable
for damage for the trimming of trees
in parks or whose branches. extend
over streets if reasonable care has
been exercised in the operation. •
Any person destroying or -injuring
(even tieing 'a horse to) a street tree
'liable to a fine not to exceed $25
and costs or imprisonment for not
more thanthirtydays, haN of the
to go to the informant. •
'The "'rights" of telegraph arid
tele-
phone linemen to butcher trees is a
fiction. They have no rights whatever
over any. tree on public or private,pro-
perty. This Association Submitted
several questions to the Attorney -
General who \replied: "I think it is
quite clear that the owner would have
the right to prevent a telephone com-
pany from stringing its wires in tree
planted by him in the street, becaAee
under Section 2, of the Ontario Tree
aetingeAstesuchea -tree ne-deeme
to be his property.
"It is also an offense under Section
510-1). of the Criminal 'Code to destroy
or damage a tree in park, pleasure
ground, or garden or in any land ad-
-jet -en% to or belonging_ to a dwelling
house; injuring it to an extent exceed-
ing fivedollars.
"It was expressly enacted by 4 Eclev.
VIL, Clause 10, Section 74, that a tele-
graph or telephone company should,
not acquire any, easement by prescrip-
tion or *there/Lee as to wires attached'
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the conservation of stable manure.-- nicipal initiative the weak. point in
-Farm and Dairy. ' Shade tree inspection; the ..Ontar, io law
is quite sufficient. -Robson Black,
„ nis .. Secretary The Canadian Forestry As-
MATie-Was he on his. Ictieeii when snciatiinC13ttiltlt7-
he - proposed?• .
' Estelle --No!. I was! '
..• • '
• When it comes to stepping into a
fortune Ao mzin objects to,putting his
„foot, in it.
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STRANGLING ON LAND AND SEA.
The Allies ,Are Strengthening Their
• Grip on Germany. •
'Never. boil .sbiled dish towels With
washing powdera or skids, in aluminum
utensils. It will leave blackened
mark. Clean aluminum with paste
prepared for 'it or rub bl ed or
scorched .surfaces With. mi ool
The men who ' tate inosteleteretted
are
ers and make a praetice ot taking the.
very beet- care et their menials. No
Marecan go out and buy. the cisme of .
young feeders that are demanded in
the %wrodeetion bah* beef. .. • •
'S The sadvecatelef :baby beet 'hes as.
his chief argament that 'young and:
'-greeeiiigesellimalee,eeriahesiheeDet• .gAinA •
than citcleiebties Iliateettiteede6
poupd of gain increases with the. •
-ngas-eicit - Iseatesteeeetils-,e•
• eeeseeincesee--eeese-ee--sse:.--s-ss-_ers-_•_e,-._ never- no" er a ' es -es
• 1. IlighlY exalted -- Literally,
"supereicalted," lik "superconquer"
lri"Rom..8:e37-fae--vorite .types -with '
. ,
; Paul. We have alleveed Nietzsche to
translate Paid above., The name-
• ' Compare Acte 4. 12. The supeetnecy
of thet Name is that it 'alone can he
• brought as a warrant in prayer. An-
• •gels and man living and dead Whis-
per his name and era heerd. ,
e IL The Ones% combined with that
" of veree, 10, is taken oVee from Ike
4t.-241,;(eompare Rom. 14. 11). Noth-
ing, coold Mcceed 'the empliaais with
• whieli the prophet etesetves this tri-
bute JO the. one Getl. Paul appropti-_,
tithe it for Jesus and gives no sign,
that anyone would find the appropria-
fion etartling. It is juSt this incident-
al .allusiveness of NOW ,,Testatnent
writers which makes the Mniost . im-
• pressive evidence that the. -1 toolc his
' deity Air gruntedas n truth. that
• .neoded no proof. Jeans Chriet is; Lara
Wag th treed of the ilrat ago, Auf.
fide)*• and •all-inclualve. Compare
toL 2, 01.2 role 4. h; 1 Cole 12e 1),
•
f -envreuhroef•t' Alti-latiV-Lhat-growth-,-aincleint•-rneW-•-•---1"
our leading Moil will recognize what is
attainable and what ts not
• "But the German people must net
be deceived:by, European and lksiatie
fantasies into overlooking. the fact
that our door to the World turndi on
hinges 'which are also attached' • to
Great *IWO' ' • ' •
is a less condentrated predict. Fat
is' the most concentreted animal pro.
duet we have. •• .
For generations English: fartders
have made expensive use of dwarf Es-
sex tape as a stock food. This plant,
may be described as a rutabaga run to
head. The seed it sown like rutabaga
turnips •and cultivated, without thin-
nin
g
.
• periment at the Kansas And
• Ex
(liana stations show that the continued
feeding , of moldy corn to horse:see
causes nervous and intestinal troubles
of a serious nature.
• A ration consisting Of two thirds
corn eild deb meai and one Third berin''
meal May be used to dairy Oweeiith
• • .0
good restilta.
' A feed of roots, modally • carrots,e
' l'S greatly relished. by the eon, ifavliene •
they are .cut up, a little' oil meal
scattered ever there: • I , •• • „,
• .'Good protein hay front clever or tow
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Germany is starving in, consequence
of __the ,cordon of battleships,. cruiders,
destroyers and submarines which Li
keeping her eonirnerce from the seas,
says the New York Herald, , The situ-
ation of het armies may be likened to
blockade by land -to aegreat siege,
Withina circle of many thougaiid
miles the Teutonic and Turkish•foras
are-heiTained- -They -havee -overrun
Serbia, but they have put themselves
inatepocket. Theyetnarsiverrun••Ata-
bia, but they Will do the same thing; the plAtforms on either side, runs •
always actending their fightingline line Of thinner tiles in which are inse
butneVer getting any nearer the ranch the names "Nederland" On brie aid
diaired petite. they • cannot • move , and "Belgique" on the ether. itte-
seath to Paris, they nnot move west ease of very literally "theing the lin,e.'
to Calais they cannot move north sir ' On 'both pelatforms the sentries- of
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east intoRussia,ey cannot move two countr es face ead , oher only -(•
south against the Renting, they can- yaid or two apart.
want to• *ape from German Tule. A
some places an ei.ictric.",etirrent runs
through the barbed-wire fence That. -
is the cps° at th.e extreme' eseittlet,
western frontier, where the Mempt
inakes A beein ary iiiie-biriTeitV
carrying electified wires runs all along
the German bank, and at night search-
lights play up and down the line and,
into the sky,- searching alternately fer
fugitives and aeroplanes. .+ _
• A woman trendies nit to. one O.
these wire fences with a sack of
pies in 'a wheelbarrow, and anothee, •
woman meets her with an emptyi
wheelbarrow on the other. aide. With
the help of the sentries the sack is
heaved acrOes from Holland into Gere•
many, and, after exchanghig few:. e,
vimmOnplaces of the day, the two, wo-
men, who look Iike sisters, depart on •
their respective waYs. Again, a Woe • .
Man appears on the Geiman (or Bel-
gian' side with A percel wrapped in, •
paper in her:hand. An old raan hob-,
ides up from Holland, and the kindly ,
,Dutch sentry once More acts as. gee
• between. The old man unwraps the,
parcel and discloses a pot of, honey -
and a small threcAcornered packet ,of
sweets: It is a daughter, married to
a man on the Belgian side, 'dutifully
bringing "contents!' to her old Dutch •
father. She Ogee it every day; the •
sentry says. •
I have 'visited •also Baarle-Hertog,
which is the Belgian core, Its it were,
of the Dutchlowp of Baarle-Nassau-
a littleslielgian- enclave in the -
of Holland: Here is a Belgian chureht
and a post office that doe S a thriving
business with visitors in Belgian pest.
age stamps. There' is no need of sefl.
tries here; for the Gerinans cannot
get at Baarle-Hertog, and; it remains
inviolate, the Jnvitsibles frontier. e
ning through the middle of the main
•streets. Fromhere t� the real iron- '
tier- you rim along road that is ',e•
Dutch, whereas the ditch at the side • •
jS Belgian; and at the railway statien;
• which is the Edition of Berate in Hole •
lend and of Wield° in Belgium is the
nioet ,Gilbertian situation tOebC found
•on all the frontier : •
Across etheatoorsof the ticket .office, - -
gutting diegonally through the square
-pattern -ot-the'Ltilink,-anci-out,acros "
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• e •
• not -advance against the intrench-
• fonts which have made the Allies
Masters of the sithation in Macedonia
• and able' to choose their own time 'fin
striking. -
Thee the -pressure is being .aPPlied
and will contirme until. all the -fight is
squeezed out of the ebony. • •
"---f.forres-VecireWeektiee7hltiPleitie Ins --
first smashing blow, which wes fol
lowed by. expulsion' from the Penin-
sula, the -retreat from Miefeceiv,. the
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RACE FOR A ENOIL.,*
Arieiiis Beat ihe Tiitke tie'eCereet",eint
Held It
Wtitingsfrom Gabe epee CaPtitin-
C. E. -W. Bean, official Press represen; ,
,tative with the 'I_Austrellans le
racf
irrevocable destiny is being '1;11°4 d'of a small knob on the ridge extend -
'out. The Allies have been .iflow but
they have been sure, andethe grip will '"*.'".'"t"""""3 "um our uneetolearde •
-Duringethe epaiternisnthetleettiflfrek
terloos •Now tomes every indication' have been ing us or the POssession
strengthen. as t . Tci.:to
intexasses, .On landthe sea near Gabe ptt' That , on
, AttM STUMP (RAFTED ON. ;
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Surgeon suPpiiea- Wounded Offieer
• . . 'With Movable Bone. '
, 1,. new terM Satinet has jest ebeee
graftecrupen the body -of a British of-
ficer, who lest, both arms in action
and „borne beck recently with a group
,-, ."••• of exchanged, .intbionero from:, Ger,.
,.-.
;.... .....‘1. , V /1.4. ,many., His am
rs wer4 amputated SO
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r ,4, ...• ' ••';'.?' , CIOis to, the;shoulclor ds to leave no
. f , ee ,• sturnps. ono of, the most brill,imit of
Lendores, sitrgdone'has no* built °tit.
,
a lidv, stump,. tb „which an cirtificial
e„ftes,-:'3„, teereeeseseseee'eses-
reit MAOttl IN HIS efOiritelee ATKINS" Attb• 1,41a N'ATIV.k UNIPOAM.. • by taking out ti piece of bone from
fereceewhen tie,. get Mt ilr.13114 atp taut or a different ewer, co, .fsehed to .the bone,. CO ',th'e.stUttip ten
ift* Of tile Now Zcal.ititt Stoioti t:oniont the 7t3tiliell'14Pe4itiontity. the Patiett's body. 3i,tuaeles were
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• • . be .Ile dili. this
to '
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sate during the perpetual exteesion Of
the lines by the digging which is al',
ways going on, the Meeks and owe • •
selves have both been tunnelling and •
sapping towards; this piece. Two
Melte ago we got, there first. Th4j -•
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• next day the Turks day our sandbag41
on a ,crest Where before there was
nothing but green scrub' growin 1
around sorno halMorgottett Turkis '
trenches originally built aertiSti Oa ,
landing. Next night they Crept up,. ' -
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carrying eandbage in frontof theeni
to the edge.ef the slope, And placed*
lok.V line of sandbags there tiftee '
yards from our. trench and then she*
era bombs. The Light Verse hot& '
the .post .showered bombs back.,
• was only a mirth affair, but the tW
lines are now for' ttio first timein 4
'dose eontaet on the southern, en
• position as along most of the refit 0
the' old Anne trent.
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