The Brussels Post, 1918-2-14, Page 6e.
Between Cousins;
OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR,
CHAPTER XX.—(Conte1.1
"I ean well believe that it lmold
put you out., Mr. Albert, end you with
such plaits le peer •hes•el, Bet it
certain that we shell trenele you 1
it were no'; for father,1 ele,e1,1 ee
leaving the eeniery--- Id le!
•casier for Mise Fenelei hers ef; bet I
came,' leave him in hie
'1 hi tone of quiet eeetireiess ;eel
that 'eye" as the leet 41ron in th
eup tif At tes wretle
descent iete deteile $eored to 1 tit a
seal of ,e.redate. epee e thing wheel
he edit eer :eted tieekting tepee the
level ef tiV,re leeeey.
"Yoe ere n hlreeeseer 1." be-
tween be elosodt. t1t, y.:z peeiely en-
ough, e hile by les eides• hie heels
nerveteey elesed.
"Are you are --hr brother. else pm
might well 'teepee to ehohtt anoit that
wont,.
Tht flee of the cider man lied
green deek end herd. bet scareely
disks ini:oseti.
With craned neek and starting eyse,
his hends still tlenehee 1.y his eieee,
his body taut end ready, Aleert etood
close More him. One movement of
Dimean's would inevitaely have. pre-
cipiteted a physical voile:eon, sleet old,
original way of settling quarrels, to
which, in moments of elementary pas-
sion, even Les-ill:sel and even educated
Man oeeasionally reterns. But Dun-
can, although hi eye held that of Al-
bert in a grip that in itself was • a
warning', moved as little as does a big
dog when a little dog is snarling into
its face. His hands were in his
pockets, nor did he even take the pre-
caution of withdrewing them, and as
bele as there was a preparation of
defenee, as little was there a provoca-
tion to attack.
For the epace of a few breaths Al-
bert's tense attitude persisted, then
gradually relaxed, and with the re-
laxation came a rush of smarting
shame. The boy's impotent fury felt
itself silently rebuked by the man's
mature self-mastery.
To end the interview with as little
further loss of dignity as was possible
seemed all that remained.
"Oh, it is no use talking while you
are in this pig-headed mood," he de-
clared, gathering together the frag-
, meets of his initial haughtiness. "But
you will think better of it, and so will
Fenella; I will make her think better
of it. And, in any case, this pre-
posterous thing shall not happen.
What am I here for, I should like to
know?"
And without waiting for a retort
which was not ecimieg, Albert flung
away down the lane, his brain seeth-
ing with wild plans of action, his
vanity smarting under the conscious-
ness that the advantage of the inter-
view had not been nt his side.
• CHAPTER XXI.
Upon its deaeh-bed of withering
heather and yellowing bracken, the
Ardlnrh summer lay. beautifully dy-
ing; and from ihat very bed, as from
a bed of birth, autumn rose up, with
in her face a sadder, milder, more in-
sinuating bemuse more suggestive
beauty.
For Fenella this season of passage
was a passage in more senses than
one. These stormy autumn weeks held
for her both a new bliss and a new.
just like young cats- eertein to be
ef ce Lee eiestseet. At
11 etse a flee lump f Neel; is immesh
to :strike any ef them silly. if eho
eeeeet oeseeetem..e. ehe'd pre!sably f;el
elek at the el,a merrying a inan
web a tee:stag on his Meese*
Meet eleee not eeieg. to marry lin,'
heel lle eeee..inee :knees, nes eery
nien,,aatiy tee, h 1 t;.eeesee.ies; hie
1:‘,•'1 taunt 111 thiA nbe.0 hrol,k1
!tee „ T,eseiee: einee, ceuree,
end it's the eteenees
r1,1i.o.11 03 '• • -It. prevem her
Ir lie. Truest
i' that! mele.• imeoeeible,
' .eneseew; eet rineem bile 1 think you
°eget'. te %nee- h• w metiers, etend.
eoneleering .t t. vonnee-
• tins, v 1 the family."
"letenehl"
Me.
1eerre71, ee-tine in hi, eirlee_
thair, before a tible pile! with ledgers
inte a rewn ..t iv. whew -depth,
ies ra eole eeetni 111 his 1; et. -brewed,
thiek-lereet tnee.
"Bow ne et Meestilvrae of Roeke;
eed? Bee, juet been making fools
f you all, 1euenose. If be had come:
to the reiet this couldn't have hap-.
Meted. Tien. would has fined her up,:
you bet :"
Here, ale° making a virtue of neees-
site,. Albert confessed the truth, whose!
primeey result was to cause the man;
ewer toia.tind in his chair in an almost
sive-It-cock fashion.
"What! Refused him? Decidedly,
you'd better hand her over to the near-.
' est asylum. Preferring a quarryman'
to a landowner—why, it's not even dee'
eent! A flee connection, indeed, ha,'
hal—end I who have been saying to,
Julia that Mr. Maegilvray's influence
would probably be able to get me on
a better jrh than this!"
Ile eet deem again, drumming 1w -
patiently with his thick fingers upon -
the arms of the chair, and lending only
half an ear to Albert's soothing atee
surances.
"How do you mean to prevent it ?"1
he ungraciously inquired.
"First by gaining time, His father
is against it, mercifully, and he is ill;
that will delay things anyway through.
the winter; and during the winter it's
ten to one Fenella will become ration-:
al."
"And if she deeen't?"
"Then something else may happen,
—will happen, in fact. I don't know:
- what, but it's just got to."
"I know whet would happen if she
was my daughter," and Mr, Berra]]
disclosed his large teeth suggestively.'
"Bread and water and solitary con-
finement until she came to her senses.",
Not without a touch of regret Al-
bert pronounced The arrangement un-,'
feasible.
"How about buying him off ?" sug-
gested the manager, after another:
gloomy pause. "A hundred pounds,
goos a long way with a man who earns
! thirty ',billings a week. And I
shouldn't mind teeing halves if it rids
ns nf him,"
Albert shot his head, with in-
creased decieion. To Duncan's in-
terlocuter of the other day Mr. Ber-
rell's proposal seemed almost humor-
' nue
j "Ale high and mighty, is he? That's
. the worst •$ort to deal with.
taste of Yes, I through the critical eyes of a stranger,
might have known it—had a ,
the eyes can usually endure more than
him in spring. A. regular pig-head-
ed, cantankerous fellow; and always
ELECITICITY FOR CROPS,
Beitieh and Freeeh Experiments Sheet,
Am:using R.:emits.
So eueeeeeeed have been the English
expel, imente in inceensing (Tope by
eleetrieel eherges that Franceis giaeg
into the wore with great energy and
a tremeneous tempo, Le Journal,
one Of 'the leading Parisian llkwyss
apere, gives ili reeulte of the fiest
trial f the aseeerimeat at Er e.
Thirteen tweet: without other fertilizes
timi Were fed by electric theme,
emaneting from t erenty-one parallel
wires :ening on six and one-half foot
este eereee ice eeeenee. 90,00e volt,
re shot throne:1i theee wires, strie-
eee at lee ;meet eltervele belleilte in-
tesrupt..se eteeitehish they Ile eh
old sparele •. Aetemi inch stow
Tee. el,- tel iITut etimeletee th.,
srowth et ihe see,l.
The mite. ,.nWn 11 the nth te' elareh.
,Ip on A-ril 18 erel the cure et
was. fod it theneef;;rte. From the
1 Oth of eleis• i n netieeable difference
in the erowth of the °Me in the
and ethers net trentes1 by electrieP
(mold be noted.
On Awe IR the eleetrilled oats were
inches high, while the oats
not fent ed eo were only forty inches
le inte ht. On dune 25 the compari-
e; vets eoveiev-three agalnet -fifty-
six itches and on July 8, 1111 against
iety-three.
Aegtiet 1 th t charge. were dis-
eeutinued. Oil Sept. 12 the (-rata Were
thra:dled with the following amazing
rosette. 'rhe cleetrilled erop Meantred
108.5 larAtek 10 the heel in',' (two
neroS), sehile the other crop came
only to 72.5 busliele. The straw of the
former crop weighed almost double
that of the latter.
Prank's aro one of the best fruits to
rve on whcaties.; days, SLIM) they
tply item es does whole wheat.
Dried nprieots, nrunos of other dried
fruit if soaked for twenty-four liners
'eAteel of overtterht scum to require
lose enger for sweeten:pg. Sugar is
swiree end expenelve.
Feed to prodnee one doeen eggs
costs 10.s. with pullets, 14c, with two-
year-old hens 1114(1 10e, with three-
year-old hers in a three-yeer •feeding
test recently reported by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
•---- has written to millers, wholesale flour
dealers, wholesale grocers, retail flour
dealers and retail grocers, emphasiz-
ing the necessity of discouraging
hoarding of flour. It is pointed out
that the new regulations will not les-
sen the quantity -.available for con-
sumption in the Dominion.
Millers are asked not to sell more
thanthe usual quantities of flour to
bakers and wholesale dealers and to
adviset not to k
heavily with regulqr grades of flour.
'Wholesale dealers ' are asked not to
allow retail dealers to stock heavily
with regular grades of flour and re-
tail dealers are askei not to sell more
than one week's flour to families, ex-
cept in cases where it is impossible for
the customer to secure supplies week.
ly. Millers are also requested not to
!require dealers to take certain
quantities of flour when purchasing
other products of the milt
Mr, Hanna states that it should be
distinctly understood that "millers,
wholesalers and retailers who do not
accede to these requests will be
promptly dealt with and the ship-
ment of flour by or to these persons
will be prohibited."
The letter adds that a date will be
set after whicls bakers will be required
to sell their bread based on the price
of the standard flour. Therefore,
bakers who purchase large stocks of
patent flour may find themselves in an
unfortunate position when the Order
is issued for the production of bread
from standard flour.
The standard flour will be of high
quality and will be quite as palatable
as the patents and even more con-
ducive to health. Samples of the
standard spring and winter wheat
flours will be furnished and all mills
will be required to produce a quality
of flour which will not be superior in
color to the Standard samples. Every
mill must furnish to the Food Con-
troller's Office every two weeks a
statement showing the quantity of
wheat ground and the weight of flour
produced therefroin. Failure on the
part of any of the mills to comply
with the Food Controller's regulations
may result in cancellation of license.
One hundred and sixty-seven Canad-
ian flour mills are already under
license from the Food Controller's Of-
fice. All the remaining mills will be
similarly licensed. The profits of the
licensed mills have been limited to a
maximum average of twenty-five cents
on the milling of enough wheat to
make a barrel of flour (106 lbs.).
Food Coll ol Corner
4 • !Articles Wanted for Cash
miniatures; Pictures: ereemewere:
018 Jewellery: Plate: Silver: Curtest
baoei
C)a (Mina 1 1 01.41I4IiL. S3,0
Standard Meer and Standard Brend
Eor Cunada.
Announcement is made '('9111 1114 s.
flee of the Food Controller that a Mite
would soon he nnmed after which
Canadian mill,: will not be permitled
to use more then Me5 pounde of 'spring
wheat or more than 275 pounde of
winter wiwat to produce 104 notnalA of
-flour. This will give etendard goridioti
I of spring wheet and winker Wheat
!Deur for all Ceneda and no 111 111
' be allowed to menefaeture flour of a
lower es:tenable then the etonderd.
making evailable a larger part of the
wheel: berry for Interns consumetien
and by stopping the menufactere of
petent finer, a eoneidernble towline of
wheat ter export to 'he Allied natione
will be effected. Moreover a uniform
extraction will be esteiblielnel which
may be increased if considered advis.
- able.
The Food Controller is also making
arrangements for a standard loaf of
bread from the standard flour, He
WHAT'S WRONG
"Well, Mother," cheerfully began
Mr. Benton, "what do you want for
you; birthday?"
"Nothing at all!" Mother answer d
defiantly.
"Why, Mother!" faltered Ruth,
"What's the matter? You're not sick,
are you?"
"Yes," she answered, "sick of hav-
ing new things come into the house
when all the time it is the old things
that should have attention. I tell
you, these little annoyances are get-
ting on my nerves and I can't enjoy my
home at all for worrying about all the
things that need attention. The kit-
chen faucet leaks. The dining -room
window s-attla tiltil it nearly drioros
me distracted. Tho. window -blind in
my bedroom refuses to go up more
than half way and the bottom board
on the stairway creaks loud enough to
wake anyone from a sound sleep."
"No wonder you are nervous," com-
forted Father. "They are startling,
I never thought of them collectively
before. Make out o list of the little
things all over the house which need
attention and the children and I will
give you a shower of 'annoyance re-
movers' far your birthdny. HOW'S
that?"
"I'll begin at once!' exclaimed Mrs.
Benton, determined to grasp the op-
portunity. "I never fell that we can
afford to have an expert come out here
and attend to these little things and
you never have time."
"Tel take a day from the plowing,"
promised her husband.
Mrs, Benton immediately started on
a tour of the house, trying to view it
torture. She had been too used to
eherishing—even though calculating:
—rare, to peaing and approval, to be'
able to bear disapproval lightly. So •
much coldness after so much warmth
could not but chill her to the heart.
How much greater would have been
her happiness had she been able tee
share it with those nearest her!
Without her' father's support, there.
were moments when Fenella's courage
might have tottered.And even his
support was but a passive one.
These weeks of betrothal, full of
secret happiness, were nevertheless
cmpty of ivliat i usuallyoo
as joy. This was as Fenella had
known it must be. Even when, he
the Pass, she had felt Duncan'e hands.
upon her own, and had raised her,
face to meet his, it had heen with an'
overflowing, but not with a light
healt. She had sinned against 000181
law, and met pay the penalty The
very ecene Of their bethrothal—stern
and hard-featured—seemed to warn
the young people of that which lay be-
fore them; no pleasant dalliance, but
is bitter struggle with the prejudiee of
11 easte, Yet, for all the valee of rea-
0011, it remaieed hard to he trekked as
a traitor to a common cage...,
From the fretee public the .ii.uatief;'
still rema i se 1 :,:ereened, lhr en eege_
ment being eo far unpuldielled the
one concession wrung Ly :Mbertfrom
his father. So long ae 11. Ives net an-
nounced it remained poeeible se con-
sider it as non-exieteet; Willett Meant
a gain of time for further meeeeree,
The absence of the Aitertons on a
round of visits truck ekleere :.1.4
providential erraegement, since men
well -guarded eeerete hall awey of
leaking out,
To 141r. Bernie however; it inel been
necessary to speak, precisely fee fear
of this leuising emcees. True, in the
statement which Albert, in some tee.:
pidation, personally made to his lettere .
•
IN THE HOME?
the ear so she listened carefully for
disturbing sounds as well.
1 A squeaky hinge of the swinging
door in the dining-roorn caught her at-
' tendon as she passed'through it. Down
went a memorandum. . The wind was
blowing and the offending window in
the same room began its rat -tat -tat.
"Never mind, you're doomed," promis-
ed Mrs. Benton as she wrote, "West
• dining -room window rattles."
The bathroom door stuck at the bat -
tom and the window had to be prop-
' ped up because the rope holding its
iron weight had broken, One hinge
was missing from the kitchen cup-
. board door and the spring on the back
screen was weals so that the door
could not shut quickly 'enough to keep!
I flies out. The offending board on
the stairway and a board on the back
' steps which needed additional nails
were noted.
i The kitchen stool had a habit of los-
ing one leg at unexpected times. The
iron grate in the kitchen range had to
. he handled carefully lest it fall into
! the ash pan.
At last the list was complete.'
i Though much longer than she had ex-
pected, Mrs. Benton viewed it with
satisfaction. What a joy it was to
know that all these petty annoyances,
were to be wiped out in one day!
What is wrong in your home? If
the items were counted, the sum total
would doubtless astonish you. Induce
the handy man of the house to set a
certain time to attend to all these
little repairs; or be your own "handy
: man," You will be surprised and de-
lighted to see how much can be 1ies1
complished by determination plus glue,
; nails, string and a few simple tools.,
1 Try it.
just he crossing my path." WAR MENUS TO SAVE NV
"And mine as well," laughed Al- Breakfast. — Buckwheat griddle
bort bitterly. "We're in the same cakes, syrup, toaet, tea.,or coffee.
boat, so far as that goes; but sure- Dinner.—Boston roast, corn bread,
ly we'd need to he idiots not to find a apple sauce tea,
way out of
"Well, find a way out of it, It it!"
s
Supper,—Yotato' soup, oatmeal rouf-
your business to do so, since your fins, apple sauce, tea.
imprudence 1111(1 15 to blame."
The recipe for Boston Roast, men -
Through the words there rang a eel's Honed above, is as follows
:—
thin note of warning, appreciated by Boston Roast. -2 cups dry kidney
Albert at its full value, beans, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 cups
Left to himself, the black -haired grated cheese, 3 teaspoons -salt. 1,1 cup
manager remained scowling into space, liquid, 1 tablespoon chopped onion.1
which was his fashion of being de- Soak beans 24 hours
. . Cook hi salt -
pressed. It really would be an awful
bore to have to break off his engage-
ed water until soft. Drain, put
//tent, but it would be a still greater through food chopper, add onion,
bore to have Duncan ISPDonnell for a cheese, crumbs, more salt if needed
brother -m -law, Rather than that he enough of the water in which beans
would let Julia go. At this pointwere cooked (about 1 cup to moist -
of his meditations Mr. Berrell noisily: en). Form into loaf, bake in moderate
expelled the air from his Putted, oven for 40 minutes. Baste
Oe -
cheeks, --bis fashion of sighing. For, eaeionaily
though practieal eunsiderations had with hat water and fat,
been the elilef Motor of his action,
Breakfast.- -Oatmeal pnrridge, bak-
they had not been the only ones. It'
was his reason which had pointed mei ed apples, brown breed toilet, tea or
to him the advisability of "settling coffee,
down," but it was his taste which had, Dinner.- • Fish pie, mashed potatoes,
selected julia, whose large and some- boiled carrots, imp pudding.
what "loud" personality had for him: Supper.—Cream of eelery soup, war!
that peculiar attraction which bright bread cottage eheeee, lea biseuits, I
colors and big patterns have fee cr-Bente. tea
. . ... • • e
• . • , .
tem pinn.tiee rilln b. 111 IS (pinion i The recipe!, for Fish Pie and Cup
she lune outshone her sister, if only'
for the reason that there Was more of .Puddingmentioned above, are as fol.-
. . T,, I'CIIOOIlCO 1101'11001(14
, i lows.— i
tionribly cost a pang; the mere Fish Pie. --2 elms liaised fish, 1 cup
thought of it quickened his spite seasoned white sauce, Mix the flaked
against the cause of thee possible re-! fie!' with the White sauce, put into a '
nunciatien, Sympathy here joined greased baker, cover the top with
hands with antipathy; for despite the' buttered bread erumbe, and cook iii the
suit withdrawn, Dim_11,115: presuin.p.' oven until the erumbs are brown.
-. ' e ' i • ' - - e. 1kl el, I tit ...1
p Pudding.. --Put into each greas-
tlenys would; and this offe•
Meelsee than the fincerst. Ah, butwas he ed
eup I, tablespoon of jam. Cover to
sheeld be made to feel it, just as he one -hall the cup with a batter made
had been made to feel it in summer, es follows: - 2 tablespoons of butter,
Mere yore Ways! and means omelet, le cup of sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup milk,
he 1),'aen praieed! 2% cope flour, 4 teaspoons baking
tTo VOntin11111.
powder. Cream the butter, add sugar
gradually, and egg' well beaten; mix
Shown Up.
and sift flour, baking powder, and
igeorelice, says Dr, MIL Grier Mb- salt; and alternately with milk to first
ben, It to betray ieself. A young mixture. After turning into cups,
comae met a young man in a library, pus 114 the oven and bake,
r d in the retiree of their 0084505(5'
1(8 the Man renlarked that he was a
great reader
"1 ant reading Shalseepeaee now,"
aid Ilse girl. "Did you over read
Romeo and Juliet?"
ese,e reed RontoO," said tlin young
1111,0.
Petme puddings or whips Make
cheap and wholeseme dessertes
brother -hi -law t h" 111(1 (114 itot f • • be
- ' t
ins a fact, but rather as a dariger to
be averted. P.Vell in this modified
shape Julia's flame 1 fa)k, it badly.
•
"That fellow : The troubleteerne
workman?" he i•epeated, in a tone of •
arrogant' tieteeisliment. "Hite ;smile
sister gone off her head : 1T1id t
eheget acqeeinted with him?" ' a
Somewhat dialelefacedly Alber res..,
ploined alma t. the .-ti+.4z-t!al
"Deueedly linpredent, 41' yon to ai•;
low Snell a tiling; Voting give, ere!
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Breakfammt.» Cornmeal porridge,
tease, pear jam, tea or coffee,
Dinner,--Vried haddock, mashed po-
tatoee, creamed onioes, emergency bis-
c.uits, honey.
SuPpere—Pea soup, baked potatoes,
brown bread, rhubarb jam, teas
The recipes for Pea Soup arid
Emergency Biscuits, Mentioned above,
are as follows:.—
HEAT, BEEF AND BACON.
Pea Soup.—Cover a shin bone with
cold water, and bring to a boil. Boil
gently for the whole of two hours.
Then add one cup of peas brose, pep-
per and salt to taste, and a very little
rated onion B f • 1 alf an h
longer strain and serve.
Emergency Biscuits. -1 cup white
flour, 1 cup graham flour, le teaspoon
salt, 2 tablespoons butter substitute,
5 teaspoons baking powder. Milk to
moisten into a dough a little too soft
to roll. Drop by spoonfuls onto a
greased pan, and bake in a hut oven.
Breakfast. Buckwheat griddle
cakes, ayrup, corn bread, coffee.
Dinner. --Baked beans, brown bread,
baked potato.
Suppere—Scalloped. tomato, bread,
stewed prunes, tea,
The recipes for Baked Beans, Brown
Bread and Barley Bread, mentionedabove,
above, are as follows:—
Brown Bread, -2 cups grAmn flour,
1 cup white flour, % cup molasses,
1 4 cups sweet milk, lee teaspoons
soda, I% teaspoons eat. Siftethe
flour, salt and soda, Add the mo-
lasses and the milk, , Poer into well
greased moulds and steam about throe
hours.
Barley Bread. ---4 2-3 cups wheat
flour, 2 1-3 cups barley flour, 2 cups
milk and water, or water, 1 cake com-
pressed yeast, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2
tablespoons fat, 2 teaspoons salt. Soft-
en the yeast in pare of the liquid.
Combine all the ingredients, and mix
i11110 a dough, Knead and let rise to
double its bulk. Knead again. Put
into the pan, and when double its bulk
bake about ee of an hour. This re-
cipe makes two loaves.
Baked Beans.—Pick over the beans,
cover with cold water and soak over
night. In morning, dram, cover with
fresh water, heat slowly (keeping
water below boiling -point), and cook
untileskins burst. Drain beans, throw-
ing out the water. Put into a bean
pot a few pieces of salt pork cut into
cubes. Cover with the beans, and add
1 tablespoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of
molasses, tablespoonseof sugar. For
every evert of dry beans need, add 1
cup of boiling water, and as they cook
add more boiling water to cover,
Cover the bean pot, put it in the oven
and bake slowly :tie or eight. hours,'or
cook in a fireless cooker. Some pre-
fer to add a little mustard.
. o et 1 ou
THE RATE OF TREE GROWTH.
How Fast Does a Forest Rebuild
Itself?
The rate of growth of trees in the
forest is usually exaggerated greatly,
.Dr. C. D. Howe, wile during the past
1 summer made a study of the reproduc-
tion and growth of the pulpwood spe-
cies after logging, in the St. Maurice
Valley, Quebec, on behalf of the Com-
mission of Conservation, produced the
following conclueions;
Over 2,000 trees were analyzed to
determine their rate • of growth in
diameter, height and volume, While
the results of this study have not yet
been tabulated, they have gone far
enough to justify the statement that
within the forest type under consider-
ation, it takes about 40 years for the
little spruce trees to acquire a dia-
meter of one inch; 100 years to make
a six-inch tree, and 150 years to reach
the minimum diameter limit of 12
inches established by the cutting reg-
Ulationsi in Quebec, for white and
black spruce. Balsam grows some-
what faster. A one -inch tree is made
in about, 10 years, and it takes in the
neighborhood of '70 years to reach the
Quebec diameter limit of seven inches
at two feet from the ground.
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B. rd. a W. ,VITT.CEil
1.1.1.1116,1
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I THE SAFE WAR.
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Percent:ire of E'lled 114 Far Less Than
In 11:11 ef Old.
Despite the ember of death,: in
modern brake, th' lyres ntege of 11(11
('(11 e0 less than in the 1,e,tle es
In the lel 7 spring, drive ‘et' the French
army 15.000 men were killed out in'
aeproximately e00,000 engaged. Com-
pare this figure tont; of th- blonde! e
on the alliee' side) with some StatIS-
ties from ancient and medieval baths.,
At Canon.' ,aua llmnarb: out of
80.000 were killed; at etweings the
Normens, 11109 'h the vietore, tee 14),-
000 out of 00,000, and at Cr ssy 12,-
000 Frenchmen out of 100.000 ,eeiT it
is asserted, killed, without lee:leonine'
the wounded.
When the ilintloek reigned the av-
erage proportion of killed and wound-
ed in ten bnales, beginning with
Zornelorff in 17)18 and ending with
Waterloo, was from one-fourth to one-
fifth of the troops present on both
sides. The heaviest loss was at Zorn-
dorff, where 132,010 out of 82,000 Were
killed or wounded. It was also very
heavy at Eylau, being 55,000 out of
100,000 men.
In the campaign in Italy in 1859
rifles were used on both sides, and
the proportion of casualties to com-
batants was at Magenta and Solferi-
Ino one -eleventh. In the Franco-
Prussian war, when both sides were
armed with breech -loading rifles, the
average proportion of killed and
wounded at Worth, Spicheren, Mars:
le -Tour, Gravelotte and Sedan was
one -ninth, the heaviest loss being at
Mare -le -Tours, where it was one-sixth,
and the smallest at Sedan where it
was oneeleveHth.
WOUND STATISTICS.
Showing the Percentage of Mortal In-
juries on Battlefields.
Statistics of men wounded in trench
warfare have just been published for
the period between January, 1916, and
June, 1910. Seven and eighty-seven
hundredths per cent. of wounded men
die on the battlefield. Ten and six-
teen -hundredths per cent. die later
from their injuries or 18.03 succumb,
a proportion far less than the 25 per
cent. estimated mortality which sur-
geons drew up when the war began.
Artillery causes 54.74 per cent. of
-wounds, rifles and revolvers 39,16 per
cent., bayonets 0.59 .and gas 5.61.
Bombs, which have supplanted bay-
onet work so largely, are classed with
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Percentages for wounds in the head
ptilellarey
n.
and neck are 21.92, for the trunk they
are 21.68, while wounds in the extrem-
ities stand at 56.4 per cent.
Twenty-three and sixty-two hun-
dredths per ‚cent. 'of the wounds are
classed as serious, 63,01 as medium
and 13.07 as so slight that the victims
can return to the lines immediately.
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When my trip heads
that way.
The only other time I was so happy,
Goodness knows,
Was when a kid Dad bought me
Red topped boots with copper
toes.
glz. When other travelers hit that
town,
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5 It'islj°uUstS1RIke staying home."
Whetrheatis tho ONE TOWN where
WALKER HOUSE is? Don't
you know?
Why, it's that good old burg spelled
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QUE 7,N.PECKED
PAN -
MEN 1' REIGNS.
Woman's Rule leloariele ti al Royal
Coulee ue Well as in Mee),
lIntnidcr 110..10a.
10' if Greece cartes fir:: in the
,piottil.ptieked 1..ente, for he
1-- the mum bible roott,&on ,,f pee^
the Inf.re:1i wif.3
thai, r man had.
ot hie of Dollen:whet»), s heart
is eredited We!, km the
Fettled:eel, 1 1 vein, twee' e, ambi-
these, end scliondies woome. e }mei, ill-
thietwo over hor 111111,1 11(1 is ''.1 '1111819.
She lea& hiro a 1) ''14'') life,
Pea he is as wee in le r •ming
hands, In feet, to eueh et. ut has
the •sergeant-inejored Lis tiey, that
she has now praetiektily ei,et,o,!,ttstSed
her Imebeners ruin,
As an award tor 4!' 341' uw, she
has now to take a back see 1 (4110115'
rnyaltiee, and sointibm• in spite of
Tinos treachery and perii•ly, one van't
help feeling a bit sorry roe a man
ehose weaker half 1:011 'feel ouch
a dance, and who IlteOil meet, than
One 0011151011 made him the laughing-
steelc of Europe.
When Love Holds tee Weis.
• The ex -Tsarina, of voLestt, wielded
an extraordinary infleeeee mese her
husband, who was deeldedly the weak-
er half in that menage, am' !a ;111 his
pictures Micky betrays that. eulehted
and somewhat cowed look NI hieh men
unconsciously assume velem 111 y are
tied to the apron-stringe of masterful
women. '
But here, again, petticoat govern-
ment overrearhed itself. The ex -
Tsarina was so busy keeping her well.
meaning little spouse in °rile.' that she
hadn't time to keep her fingers on the
nation's pulse—and she mune a fearful
cropper, dragging her husband and
family after her, and adding one more
to the long list of women who have
ruined famous men.
Another emperor whose rtNe wife,
though young in years and experi-
ence, has nevertheless the upper hand
in their royal partnership, 10 Zita,
consort of Emperor Karl of Austria.
Sbe is credited with being the driv-
ing force behind the throne, and Karl,
• who adores her, is apparently • quite
!content that this should be so, and
somehow he appears lees ludicrous
than either Tino or Nieholas, because
he Is bossed by a woman win; ss ems to
be inspired more by love than amble
tion.
! Tino will agree with me that it must
be a terrible thing to be queen -peek-
ed by a woman who has loet all 11)180 -
est for you and whom you cordially
!detest.
The "Little" Must be "Geod."
I Queen Ena's husband has often pri-
vately acknowledged her may In mat-
ters relating to their home life and
their children's upbringing, and she is
! a great influence in the came of the
1 Allies at the Spanish Court, where
Gurnee propaganda and Boloism is
said to be rampant.
The Ring of Sweden is another e(0 -
ample. His queen has alwaym been
more or less a wire -puller, and as she
is a German of the Germans, it is not
difficult to guess in what direction she
has tried to influence he butiband.
One curious fact is worth noting
when you survey the royal houses of
Europe.
Nearly all the queens are several
, -
inches taller than their spouses, and'
it is a favorite dodge of the smeller
halves when husband and wife are be-
ing photographed eogether-to stand on,
a flight of marble steps—two or three -
above their ladies.
ATTACKED BY A LEOPARD.
Exciting Experience of a Traveller in
An Indian Jungle.
A seene that to a spectator might
have been ludicros, but that to the
man who took a leading part proved
more exciting than amusing, is de.;
scribed hy Mi', C. E. Gouldsbury in
Life in the Indian Police.
He was travelling through on Indian '-
jungle whet; a leopard suddenly
sprang out and seized the elephant on
which he was riding by the trunk. Mr.
Gouldsbury had no time to think --
much less to raise his gun.
What happened immediately after-
wards, he says, 5 never could quite
tell, for during the next few minutes
1 WEIS not in a position favorable for
observation, All I can remember is
that our movements were extremely
rapid and irregular, bringing mo at
times dangerously close to the leopard,
whites ti1l retained its hold,
The elephant, in its efforts to rid
itself of the tenacious brute, was
(laming about with an agility strange-
ly at varianee with its otherwise so-
lemn and dignified appearance. For-
tematedy, the tussle did not last long,
and the next thing I remember was
seeing the leopard hurled violently
back into the jungle, where it lay,
fully exposod to view, growling sav-
agely, but showing to intention to re.
new the etroggle.
The elephant stood quiet forame-
ment, and, taking advantage of the op-
portunity, 1 put a bullet through the
leoperd's head; then, forcing the ele-
phant .plickly throeseb the serub,
.nde mind the distance between ue,
pot "freseleg" on *else. No