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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-6-15, Page 2x , tarsi z .$1.• N, 'fin1,1S.S•nLr!y. is packed by automatic naachiin• ery in strong white cotton bags and cartons at the refinery. Tide is far safer and more sanitary than sugar packed by hand in a weak paper bag •which breaks at a tomb. No hand touches L 1NTIC SUGAR until yon open it your. wit'. just cut off the corner of the carton. and Pour out the; sugar as you need it. 1 2 and 5 -ib Cartons 10 and 20 -ib Bags , EXtraq Iry ` i i Escotssist "The dill-Pierpose Sugar" `_ -r z01at$. • Pure Cane 105i. Pure Cane ra Quality Tata]! ate# a Vii£,. .i �'.... 3ri,'i'•si.;rS,s.w uw"`'^s, av7'i�°,, y'+ -,t` „""'.,', ge'rg^+.u•r9fi rwC�v rn"'.aa p9< stare of genuine siti•pr'ise: So this writ why she said that Margaret Ryan haud. still to prove that her hams wets clean of brook:! • 1 "You believe that ?" h. asked. I "Yes," :said Elm, "I think 1 Op prove to you that you are wrong•,"•said. Sc.irboro?.igh, tluietly,' "I know that the place where she tnet your father— met him accidentally, I believe—was ten miles from the place where Mr. Davis saw the Bonded wo- man following him." "You have only her word for that;" • said Elsa. "Anti you think that be - I eause she says she was bicycling in the Furnas district, it is impossible that she shouter, a coupfb of hours let- ; er, be masquerading in capote and capolin near the Sasa Davis and the Caldaeir de Monte. Why it is impos- sible? I believe that it is a fact. I think that she was the last person who spoke to my father in life, and I do not acquit her of responsibility in his death. Ile died of over -excitement gli,7n t: * or over-exertion. How do we know ' ,s,yyr+_ that it was not the excitement of his it If the diamonds can be found, I mean . that she shall have them; but that does not mean that I believe for a moment what she says." "Will you tell me what it doe mean?" t "Merely, as I told you before, that i maga since I cannot prove that my father! .7: was innocent, I will do all that I can! CHAPTER XVI,—tCent'tl.l ', there was a cone`ant noise of break -Ito atone for his guilt, by giving back', 1 where I can. I used to take pride in 1 y interview with her which killed him? AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY Y RO AN10E BY WEAT1-iERB ' C 1ES.NEY S, "'Was that all?" ' ing water. It was hardly likely th f the thought that one day I. should he could hear as well as see. +bei him to clear his Warne from every "Yes, except a few lines directing "Do van know who he was?" asked : p that the manuscript was to be sub- Scarborough. l stain. I cannot do that now,—but mitted to the judgment of :lir. Davis, , "No. I thought that most probably though 1 loved him.—perhaps because ought if he approved. was to be pub- I loved him -1 shall take pride in try- Pphe was a chance visitor, who was im-; . lished. My mother tore it up anti pelled by no motive more unexplain- Ina to reverse the evil that he dill." threw it into the sea."1 She said this with an earnestness able than a simple curiosity to know "What? The note, you mean:" ex- : what we were going to do there." which was almost fierce in its inten- claimed Scarborough. Scarborough shook his head, say-; city, and Scarborough recognized that "The manuscript," said Elsa, inn, I she meant every word of it. Her de - Scarborough smiled; but there was ' :•'Did'irs. Carrington think so?" termination to restore her property to no amusement in his smile—only pity. "No," said Elsa. "Mother seemed to the girl whom her father had robbed ,,, was due to a simple pride in doing the over that manuscript, had made it "I think I can see why," said Scar- thing which she thought to be right. his hobby. perhaps had dulled the ' borough. "She had a document on, gnawing of conscience by doing what 4 her possession which was valuable,? Has Margaret I?` an ever explained he thought was useful work. His wr- ; and she was nervous about losing it, what the mysterious business was dose ame, and she threw it all into ' Also it looks as though she had some' which kept her from performing in the sea! : reason to think that there was some-'• the circus the night my father died? It must have been something more im- wishes in that than she did in another - be dangerous. Had she read that let- portant than a simple bicycle ride. thing en which he had set his heart," 'ter.• which you showed me just now?., 'Has she said what it was?" sail Elsa. "She read me some of his ' "Yes," said Elsa. I `She refuses oto do so." letter. It was an earnest appeal to . "Then she probably interpreted it as j Fell, then? said Elsa. her to keep me hi ignorance of his ; I do. There is someone who knows! Scarborough shook his head. "You guilt. Her answer to that appeal was ; about the diamonds, and has already are wrong," he said. "'Will you come a sneer and a jibe. She took away made attempts to get hold of them." I with ane to see her? Ian: o f duty for every shred of my ignorance, cared "Do you mean the hooded woman?" ,the rest of the day. Will you ride to nothing that he had loved me, and I Elsa asked. Ponta Delgada with me now?" laughed at nae for having had the ii "Perhaps the hooded woman will ! 'What shall we gain by seeing folly to believe in him. I think l turn out to be the person I mean," said j herPerhaps she will tell us what we mother is a wicked woman, Horace.Scarborough. "I don't know. But I, In one part of my father's letter to I am sure that there was ' ;,.eieone who t want to know." her he said that she had driven him , was threatening, your father. In hist "Very well. I will come." into crime. She read that to me, too,1 letter to you he speaks of himself as Scarborough had a double motive in as though it were true and ; going to meet a known danger for :making this suggestion. Iu the first as though she did not cure j -our sake:—'I shall be engaged in a' place he thought that if Margaret whether I knew it or not.. Cer- k wiliest with an enemy who is well Ryan knew that they were working in tainly she did not deny it. I must he- ( known to Hie; an enemy who of late ;her interests, she might be more lieve that it was true. But there was has taken to using. threats.' Those : ready to help them. She had refused one part that she did not read. It was are his words. "What do you sup--; before, but that was because she re - the part in which he told her where j pose they meal.?" I sented the implied suspicion which the diamonds were. I think she diel ; "I took tin mto refer to his physical she thought that her questioner felt. not read that, because she knew net ` wealenes. --the anei'ri m which killed Differently approached, she might be I would prevent her from getting him." sail 1i 1sa, :willing to say what she knew; and them, if 1 .poi's." •'I don't thiel. su'° the young man . Scarborough had seen signs, in the "One moment," said Scarborough, replied. "He speaks of that after last interview he had had with her quickly. "How do you know, that the ward-, in a different connection I that her attitude towards himself had part whleh she did not read contain- • ,o . t the tai a thrn„5 ase the ch raged He remembered too th ed that information" Did she tell you so?" ,:Then how do you know?" "I don't know. But ire blamed me for having left the stone jar where I did. She said that if anyone else hal found it, she and I night make up our minds to he paupes, and that r be know he n t h a ad m it would my fault. She said so crave only a vague warning. I think t , g 1 ei se � am y h more than once.The last time �; as that it i� obvious that there had aI- troduced him, and the cure had been when we found that <•',nieone had Leen really been some attempt to take the complete. Perhaps in Else's case too watching us all the time that we spent ! diamonds from him. and the expedi a fuller acquaintance with the girl lit the Ring -Rock." Ir tion he speaks of was rendered neces-, whom she suspected would be the best Then Elsa went on to explain that sere by that attempt. The thing means of killing the suspicion. when they were drawing near to the which we have as yet no clue to is ; Val B. Montague had taken a house Ring -Rock a mall boat with a man ' the object of that expedition." :in Ponta Delgada for the use of his in it had shot out from the opening, I "Surely to hide the diamonds," said troupe until the Sea.Horse should be and that her mother had said that if ' Elsa. � ready for them again. Scarborough the etune jar was not where Elsa had ; "He might have done • that near : and Elsa went there, and asked for hidden it, :ass man must be pursued. home, without endangering his life by j Mona de la Mar. Afterta ee cls . in the excitement of what making a tremendous physical effort. I She received them graciously, and foliow:•d, they had both forgotten It seems to inc that he went to meet though Elsa responded to her ad - about this man, and thy sailed someone. 'For what reason, 'we don't 'vances coldly, she refused to see that away from the Rock without thinking know; but it may have been to ar-e she was snubbed. Scarborough told cf. him again. T?c;.'•ever, when they range a compromise, or even to pay her shortly what had happened, ex - were <& ,ut half a mile away from it. hlaekmail for immunity in the future. plained that they were now working they ease him climb down its outer The key to the riddle may, as you sub for her, and again put his question flanks and gel into his boat. He hal got, be the ide-nity of the hooded wo- : about her business on that night. evidently wva'ted till they were inside, marl:' I "I have given up all thought of re - and held `hen returred, landed on the Elsa said nothing for a moment. ; covering what was stolen from me," Dutside, end climbed up to a point Then she looked gravely at the young! she told hint.. "Even if you could of - from which he could watch them. The man, and said: j fer me those diamonds to -day, I am The guilty man had spent two years be afraid of him. I don't know why? Presently she asked: "She showed no more respect for his : one in the island who knew enough to think. . same. Besides, he hints that he is' she had said that she liked Elsa, in being shadowed." !spite of the scorn with which Elsa had "By somebody in the circus cpm -'treated her; and she had even wished pany—Margaret Ryan," said Elsa. him God speed in his. wooing. g.'he circus company had only just' His second reason was that he re - a[ iveci, and there is no reason to : membered that when in the beginning suppose that he knew anything of its he had himself felt inclined to sus- membsrs. The 'Danger—circus' cable' pest, Varney had angrily declared that gram came only the day before, and the best cure for that folly was to • IT MAKES ROUGH HANDS SMOOTH There is no better remedy for chapped hands and liras than Trade Stark rholi Ice Keeps the skin smooth and soft, sem la bandy metal boxes and tin tabes at chemists and general stores everywhere Refuse Substitutes. duo:)et on re: quest 7: i(:3,114 CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. (Consolidated) 1880 Chabot Save.. Montreal ON THE FARM 1' 1 or a mixture of whole oath and bran . (:r :torte • rile iinportant points are strict re- gularity in time of feeding•, quantity. and temper'atur'e of milk, which should be from 98 to 100 degrees F. From the first of June the skim -milk shnuid lie pasteurized so it will nut get sour. It hats been the general opinion ' among farmers that separator shims milk was not strong or` nutritious feed and that a large mess must be '`given to make up in quantity what, they supposed it lacked -in quality, end r . the result was that erlvee were over- fed and indigestion was produced, 1, which wasfollowed by scours and bloat. Feed the,,Young Veal. • Are. you 'giving that young foal i the proper' care? To become a.strong, sound horse when matured the foal I must be. well nourished and given every advantage possible. At this t'me of the year mares and colts are allowed to spend at least I a part of the time in the pasture. The foal should be taught to eat grain very early. By placing the feed boa from which the dam eats her grain low, the foal, at about two months of age, will begin nibbling with the mo- ther• and will soon acquire a taste for the grain. A pen built in one corner of the field made high enough to keep the marc out end alio* the colt to pass under will inalce it possible to feed the foal -grain with very little diffi- culty. Allow the mare in the en- closure with the foal for a .few times, and it will soon learn to ga in itself. Keep a liberal supply or grain, pre- ferably oats and bran, and perhaps soriie cracked corn, in the feed box. To induce the darn to loiter about with the colt, have the pen near a shai•le tree or the salt box. By weaning time the foal will have become thoroughly accustomed to eating grain and will wean very easily, beside being in better condition •as a result of this additional feed. Try this plan this year and yoir will be surprise to find a sleek, fat, well -grown colt at weaning t'me,—C. S. Anderson, in Farm and Dairy. 1 Sprays for Potatoes. The Colorado potato beetle and the cucumber flea beetle are the conunon- est insects which injure the potato tops. - The former can be readily kill- j ed with Paris green in the proportion , 'of eight ounces to 12 ounces to a 40 gallon barrel of water, or with arson- j I ate of lead in the proportionof two to three pounds or 40 gallons of j water. Paris green kills quicker than • !arsenate of lead but the 'latter ad -I heres better. than Paris green, hence a mixtfbth tt t' f' . eight ounces of Paris green and one • and a half pounds of arsenate of lead to 40 gallons ;of water will kill quickly j and adhere. well to the foliage The poisons mentioned will, to some extent, check the cucumber ilea beetle, but in addition to them, a better pre- ventive is a covering of Bordeaux mixture, on the foliage. The Bordeaux mixture should also lie used to con- I trol the early . and late blights of potatoes, the latter disease causing-, 1 rot. These are two of the common- est diseases. • To control- the early and late blight ' of potatoes spraying with Bordeaux mixture should be begun before the 'mixture appears and the plants kept coverers until autumn. It is safer to starts spraying with Bordeaux mix- , e .when sprayingsfOithe potato bee- ltles. The poison•of the latter may be mixed with the Bordeaux. From three to four sprayings or more will be re- quired, the number depending on the weather. Taking the average of three years, the increase of yield from Ispraying with •Bordeaux mixture was at the rate of 94 bushels an acre. In some years it is much larger. The importance of keeping plants • I growing as late as possible is well il- lustrated in an experiment where the Itotal crop of marketable potatoe:i , per acre when dug on September 1st I was 234 bushels per acre, whereas in the same field the same variety yield- ; ed 353 bushels marketable potatoes i per acre when left undug until Sep- tember 22nd, or in three weeks the Icrops had increased by 119 bushels per acre of marketable potatoes. ; Bordeaux mixture is made in the pro- portion of six pounds-bluestone, four pounds lime and 40 gallons of water. Spraying mixtures should be used at the proper time and thoroughly, if good results are to be expected.—W. T. Macoun, . Dominion Horticulturist, Ottawa. ure o o in re proportion o day was calm, and the movement of water o grin: t the flanks of the rock was lege than usual; but even so "I believe the hooded woman was 1 not sure that I would take them." Margaret Ryan." 1 Elsa smiled faintly, and Scarbor- Scarborough turned to her with a Doctor Tells How T: i Strong thea Eyesight 50 per cent In One Wee. les Time Iany hutlnc s A lire Prescription You ('an Have • Pilled and Use at glome. Philadelphia, Pa. Do you wear giant's? Are you a victim of rye strain or other rye weaknesses? IP.,), you will be glad to know that according to Dr, Lewis there is real trope for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyes re- stored through the principle of this won- derful tree prescription. One man eayk, after trying it • i was almost bbud: could, not see to read at nil, Now 1: can reel everything without any glasses and my eyes do not water any more. At night they would pain dreadfully ; now they ffeei finer all the time: It was like a miracle ttr Par, A. Indy w•ho used it says: The at rnospitere seemed hazy with or without glasses, but after using this preseriptron for 'fifteen days everything seems sleets 1 ran even read fine print without glasses." It is believed that thousands w' r who Seaobtained from Any good dntkelat and rY one of tris very few Able Hine a now rlisrard them in rl 1 reason- p,cparattnna t Teel shnrid be kept on hand far regular use itr able tlnne and multltud.es more Will be utile ,aboartevcryfariMly,•'r It is sold in 'r'oronto by Valmas Drug Co. to strengthen their eyes so as to be spared the trouble end expense of ever getting gttastes. Nye trembles of many cleserip- dens may be wonderfully' benefited by fol- lowing the simple rules, here is the pre- scription : Go to any active drug store Hua get n bottle of Bon -onto tablets. Drop one i;on-Opto tablet in a fourth of it glass of writer. and allow to dissolve, With this liquid bathe the eyes' two to four titres. daily. You should notice your ones clear tip perceptibly right from the start and in- flammation will gniekly disappear. If your eyes are bothering you, even a little take steps to save them now before it its toe late. Many hopelessly blind might have been snved if they had eared for their eyes In time. Note: Another prominent Physician to whom the above article was aumittni, paid; 'lrnn.Opts is a very remarkable remedy, Tor constituent Ingredients are well known to omindnt eye specialists and widely prescribed by them. The manufse: tures guarantee it tc strengthen osteal ht Se per cent in one week's thne In manyInstances nrrefon'1 the money. 11 can bo ough said: "Then you still refuse to help us?" "No. If it will help you to know what my business was, I will tell you. I would have told you at first, if I hadn't thought that you suspected me of complicity in Mr. Carrington's death. My business was with a man who had written tome that he could recover my property for me, and would do so if I agreed ta the terms which he would propose. He asked for an interview." "You gave it hire?" cried Elsa. "Yes." :.And afterwards?" "Afterwar•ds I' went for a bicycle ride, and niet your father." (To be continued.) Econoinical. "Re inheritel a fortune." "Did he take good care of it?" "Splendid. The first thing he slid after getting it was to decide not to spend too much money for a inonu- •-' uncle who left. 'mentta the rich to Separator Milk For Calves. In writing of his experience in calf rearing and the value of separator skim -milk as calf food, in the "jersey Bulletin," Prof. T. L. Haecker of the Minnesota experiment station says: I have made 'calf rearing my busi- ness for over twenty years, and dur- ing the last fifteen have placed nay reliance on skim ;Wilk. For growing calves I consider separator; stein -milk at least equal to whole milk, though calves will not lay -on as much fat as they will when whole milk is fed; but they will make as good growth and be as thrifty on skim -milk. There is nothing in butter fat that a calf can use in building body tissue. Butter and body fat, and nutriment for this purpose can be supplied more cheaply with flax meal, which contains from 30 to 35 per cent. oil. My system of feeding is very .uni- form. When the calf is dropped I let it suck once and then remove it from the dam. If it is removed in the morning I give it no feed until the following morning. I give from three or four pints of its mother's milk twice a day, immediately after milking the dam. A small calf gets three pints and a large calf four pints. This I continue for about one week. Then far one week I give it whole milk half and skim -milk , half twice a day, giving' it only from three to four;, pints. The third week I feed all separated skim -milk, but put in the milk a teaspoonful of ground flax. I gradually increase the skim -milk and flax meal so that, by the end of the fourth month, it is receiving a heap- ing tablespoonful of flax heal and ten pints of milk twice a day' After the :°Ilr3' t month it n has < occas .to a little early-cut'ltiay and a little whole oats, Dressing Percentage. The average dressing percentage of hogs is 75, while of cattle it is 53, and of sheep 48. Part of this differ- ence is due to the method of figuring. In the case of the hog the hide, head and feet are included in the carcass weight, while in the case of cattle and I sheep the head, hide and feet are not included. Then the hog is very thick fleshed and has a small digestive system.. Cattle and sheep have large 1 paunches and disgestive systems.I Sheep dress out lowest, due to the , wool and the rather light fleshing of the carcas,s. The dressing percentage of animals of each class varies widely. This is due to the amount of flesh, especial- ly fat present on the carcass, and somewhat to the thickness of the hide and size of the heads and legs, and to the amount of fill or the amount of feed and water present in the diges- tive tract at the time of slaughtering. For the hogs the dressing percentage varies from 65% to 85% with an aver- age of 75%. For cattle it ranges from 48% to 70%tr with an average of 53%, and for sheep from 44% to 56% with an average of 48%.—W. H. Pet- ers, North Dakota Experiment Sta- tion. ' N9iT�Tli T , V sal it Of Come e You NeedDo 9,4 49 RN ARM Ice Cream comps out 'if the freezer with a velvety smoothness—and a new deliciousness—when it is made with BENSON'S. And It is pretty Bard to ask for any- thing more delicious than a Chocolate Blanc Mange or Cream Custard with Fruit, made of Benson's Corn Starch. Our new Recipe Book "Desserts and r Candies" tolls how and how much to use. Write for a copy to our Montreal Office—and be sure to toll your grocer to send BENSON S, the standby in Canada for morn' than half a century. THE CANADA STARCH CO, LIMITED MONTREAL, CARDINAL, ORANLFORD, 216 FORT WILLIAM. WORK FOR WAR CRIPPLES. German Government Providing Tasks for Them. Germany's prompt and continuing efforts to care for her war cripples are described in the Medical Record by Douglas C. McMurtrie, editor of the American Journal of Care. for Crip- ples. Mr. McMtittrie says that "the manner in which the problem is be- ing eing met is unquestionably sound." Care of the wounded was not dif- ficult to organize on an adequate scale. The other part of the work was harder and a careful publicity cam- paign was made throughout the coun- try to rid people of the idea that a crippled man was useless. Employers were urged for patriotic reasons to re-employ all crippled men possible. The government is setting the example by retaining cripples in the service of the State-owned railways. It has been pointed out that the government can go further and, in placing orders or awarding contracts, insist that a proportion of the work- ers employed be war cripples. The segregation of cripples is dis- couraged. They are returned as far as possible to their own communities and their own jobs. Where the crip- pling has unfitted a man for the same task he is trained for one as near like it as he can perform, the idea being to utilize the training he already has as far as is possible. Mr. Murtrie cites several examples. A young paperhanger, who had lost, his leg, showed artistic ability and is in a trade school studying to be a de- corative artist. His former employer will re-engage him. A baker, whose left foot was crush- ed, is being instructed in bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic that he may enter the grain trade and man- age the bakery of a dead relative. A young farmer, who lost one arm, is studying agricultural science and' learning to write with his left hand. It has been arranged that he shall look after the business end of his bro- ther's farm. Some people are willing to be good if paid for it, and others are good for nothing. When and pain aro certain and disease t Hello QIndigestion.—,- GOOD DIGESTION-- Mother Seigel's Syrup corrects and stimulates your digestion is faulty, n weakness and nhjmendts which arise organs, the many FOR t^ ?Mr EARS 4SiY � • Tilr STANDAR REMEDY mamrnin sacamn At all Druggists. os direct on receipt of price, 5oc. and $1.00. The large 1lottln contains three 1ime8 a much as the smaller. A. 3. WHirS & Co. LzutrEo, Craid Street Went Montreal. FO R3 STOMACHi,. AND 9.UVui TIICUSLE 7015 18 isealeetereleterMeleinernigie "esei'4' KNITTERS, LOOPERS, PAIRERS, EXAMINERS Good. Positions in our. Hosiery, Sweater, and Underwear Departments. Steady work. Eight hours daily. 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He says that the sanitariums.. for tuberculosis have been able to "educate coughing almost out of ex- istence, so that visitors frequently comment on how seldom they hear one of the patients cough." A large share of the credit of this change, he says, is due to the gentle and persuasive training and the good ex- ample of the other patients. Cough- ing does the consumptive no good whatever, and sloes him much harm by exhausting his strength, breaking his sleep and increasing the danger of ulceration. If the habit can be stopped among the tubercular it is immeasurably more inexcusable among those who can complain of only an ordinary cold. Try Not To Cough. If you have never tried it, the. next time you are tempted to cough or clear your throat, see, how well you can get along without doing so, and after a little practice you will find your control complete. Coughing is for the most part a nervous habit, due to a tickling in the throat brought on by previous coughing, and also by a sort of unconscious imitation. Did you ever notice in a threatre or other place of entertainment that no- body coughs in a highly dramatic or otherwise especially interesting mo- ment? Did you ever notice that if one person coughs a lot of others do, and that the amount of coughing in a public place depends not on con- ditions of throat and lungs, but upon habit, tradition and usage? Annoyed Billy Sunday. The despatches relate that Billy Sunday expressed himself as decided- ly annoyed with his auditors at Syra- cuse recently because they coughed so much. He was entirely justified in this. This coughing was unneces- sary. It may have reflected a Ianguid attitude on their part which they would not have experienced had he made the occasion one of great theat- rical stimulus. But beyond that they had no excuse for disturbing him— except .a bad habit. A Boston physician tells the story of a patient riding with him one day who coughed and cleared his. throat incessantly. As the young man had been learning to run a motor car, the physician offered him a chance to take the wheel. So intent was the beginner on his new job that for half an hour not one sign of a cough or throat clearing occurred. When at last a light rumbling appeared the physician remarked: "You must feel that you are now familiar with the machine," and when the young man asked why, the physician answered by alluding to the resumption of something that only bore evijdence of a mind not fully employed. Much the same thing is true of sneezing. If ib could .become recog- nized that to cough and to sneeze were each alike an unwarranted piece of self-indulgence, both as much un- the, doer der the control of a s the • picking of his teeth—an equally dis- agreeable habit—we should not only get along without coughing or sneez- ing, but' we would take a long step toward arresting the spread of winter maladies. WHAT FRENCH REGAINED. Germans Have Been Pushed Off More Than 2,500 Square Miles. Roughly measured, the territory re- gained front the Germans in France exceeds 2,500 square miles. Its popu- lation before the war was in the neighborhood of half a million. Within the redeemed area are some , of the most interesting places in France, notably Rheims, the place of coronation for most of the kings of. France since the beginning of the Capetian dynasty. The most famous ' ceremony of this character to take place here was the annointiiig of Charles VII., after Joan of Arc had 1 driven the English from before the city walls. It was, here, too, that Clovis was baptized on Christmas Day, in 496. Before the devastation wrought by the present war the grelit Rheims Cathedral was considered by' many critics of architecture the most . beautiful structure produced during the Middle Ages. Amiens, with, a population of ninety thousand before the war, is next in importance among the •salvaged cities. Its cathedral, one of the most impos- ing piles of Thirteenth. Century arehi• - tecture in Europe, was• scarcely less famous than the one at Rheims. Arras, also reclaimed, was .noted for its woollen manufactures before the war. Its medieval days in tepee- try hangings .were so famous that the name of the city was adopted as a common noun for draperies in Eng- land. Robespierre, the revolutionist, was born in. Arras. A Difficult Peat. "Odd, isn't it?" "What?" "To 'succeed. We must deliver the goods yet we mustn't be caught with them. • •