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OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR.
CITAFTER XVIII.
It was the sun-god in per -on wht
kissed Albert from out of on
Of those dreamlessspells of ohl v {ot
from which memory, and even rhe
sense of identity, drags itself Mit
slowly. That omethieg is.td hat,p, u
ed, he knew long before he knew what
that stencilling wa . Betweensates
terday and to -slily seine big rent het
been made, some anent es been opened--
of
pen .d
of this he was confusedly aware; bu
even with the ,tun in his lyes, isle rea-
son of It all still escaped him. 1'h
sunshine itself made recollection more
difficult-. It seemed to belong to so
different a world from that in which
that strange than: had taken place -
fnr the snn•nl had at length raged
itself out, and maltase. hilt the rags
of elonds, r,f which a brisk breeze was
busily : weepin a hear the vale blue
sky—that and the still leapt:o waters
of the loch- .ixte of yesterday's
tumult.
This equare t i movieg 'iter it. wag
framed in the small window, which
brought ecelietie,n to Albert.
Already, in feverish hate. he •,vas
dressing, his mind filled with mt.
thought alone: the attainment of that
eertainte Prem th .e ileus
ion a ecus d ay thew nisi t fumes,
s, L
nervutie exattatlo•i had net
nor yet that fury and that nate.those
crisie had preceded it. A rising panie
had tutmergeti them. lie v:.ts ready
to forgave Uitne:tn anything, to con-
cede him + erythimr at h.. ,:e 1 i4,
of bean .!live.
Barely drr s F i and nor novae,
breakf tee+, be beveled t, the lancl-
ing-st , •e.
Several of thenc a t.c i e . -Ache d
there in lows parley.
"Ice's been are took the wrong
boat, after ail:" Donald's sheat n+t
him rather shrilly.
'Sure, net!"
There was a fair ehow of , se tern e -
tion hi both mien sou one •ne had
kept Ilii head quite suffieieet!y inr
that.
In order to avoid comments upon
the probable fate of the boatman, he
ave cur and peremptory g t p e tar seders. The
p s
men were sent back to their work, one
of them only being picked ant as oars-
man, for he meant to be at Ardloch
before two hours were passed. To
the grave head -shakes with which
they obeyed he was purposely blind;
and when he ordered Duncan's uwn
• boat—recaptured by this time—to be
got ready, and someone muttered
ominously, "He'll no be needin' it
again, I'm thinking" he did his best
neither w hear nor to shudder,
As a boatman, he had chosen the
man who he knew would speak least,
but this taciturn person annoyed him,
all the same, greatly by squinting
continually to the right and to the
heft, scaiming the rough surface of
°he loch, almost as though he were on
the look -out far something that might
be floating there, there were all
sorts of poss{tlilities. Even unsound
boats often got across all right—"in
fair weather;' eempleted that little
piping Voice of inner consvioueness.
Whereupon the howl of yesterday's
t mpe t 1 in tilled the ears of hie
fancy, nil for a moment. the hair
bristled .en ibly upon his head.
It was n reachieg dry land that
the tr i l tion of impending certain-
ty was upon him attain. Ile would at-
tain it q t l •s+ no doubt, by truing
straight t , the P dory, but it wee
towards the glen that 'he turned his
steps). Fenellahe would r thee• net
face just ;vet. As a me ,wormer,
Adam would du as well, and better.
With his hand upon the cuttage
latch he paused to listen intently, One
trine of Dm -teen's deep voice would
have caused him to drop it again, --
1118 visit prove,, superfluous. But the
voice width reached him was not Dun -
can's; it teas a weak and waiting wo-
man's ogee, unfamiliar to hi ear.
With a jag: of •r._..olution he lifted the
latch.
"Dimeau? It's you. Thank God,
my lad! At last!"
This time it was Adam's voice; and
at. the haste of the quavering tones
Albert's heart tuned suddenly to
lead.
"It's no Duncan ---it's ;sir. Albert,
father," said Bessie, leaving risen
from the bedslde, and speaking in the'
empty tones of disappointment.
" It is 1, Adam. I came to—"
"Mr, Albert? God bless you! It's
news of Duncan you're bringing us,
to be sure. He spent the night at
the loch -end, no doubt, and thank God
for it, for all that I've been in an
awfu' lash about ]Lim. Is be with
you, Mr. Albert,'
"I have not brought news --I came
to get some" said Albert, wondering
the while w�iether any crime was lug
enough for the punishment he was
bearing as he spoke.
The erms of the blind man in the
bed, stretched hungrily forward, fell
back upon the coverlet. from the livid
pallor, slowly spreading, the thick
stains, left by the action of•the pow-
der, stood out in startling contrast,
"You're sayin' that he did not sleep
at the loch -end?" he asked presently,
in a sbaking whisper.
"He would not stop. He left last
night, I hoped to find him here."
Begsi° beak° the short silence which
followed by throwing her apron over
°r head, and beginning to wail be-
hind its shelter,
""The corpse lights! The corpse
lights! It was but two days ago that
Maggie bluefish spied them! Oh, the
black day! The black, Black dairl"
And site rocked her slender body to
and Pro in a very ecstasy of grief.
"lies Fenella been here?" came
Albert's precipitate question.
P
t
t
t;
"•Ail --before daylight ahnest._..tt
ask our news,"
"And he --she was very anxious, I
seenese +
"Rhe wouldn't let on that she. was.
Leastways she spoke a lot &Out Dlnl-
+•an'.a rowing, and nl,u it the stoutnc• s
of our hunt, and mere things of the
sort,"
"I see." said Albert pressing the
nails Into the -!alms of his hankie.
"I -,-I taaresay she is right. It. would
1 toullsh to- deeps' s" soon."
"Inquiries must be started at once
--1'm off!" he declared nt lust, uneble
to bear those sightless eyes any long.
er.
Before he reached the doer. the call
he feared had (oile.
"Mr. Albert," said the quavering
voice; end with his teeth grinding
hard againttr each oth he returned
"Me allert:" •
The wortewer'n hand; were groping
th,,,,+ end in a sort of desperation he
' met, theta.
-you will tine him :for ale, won't
yo l i u
iron t t iv, him bre carried
out . , t. t? T have bad brut one
boy.. r dhim net en the Island. would
. li,t ,l:•;• p , S:-hnte•7;t .11, I sec
w^v to do •,•cin••. Ile was a gond
nl t
r. tl .iaa en. ,r,t'i i that matter of
last i' i's•+t:--.raid Ihr,m,h he w t ,u
presumptuous a:5 to raise his eyes to
aliee Fenella. you'll ne 1•e grudgit.'
iiia! his Clvisti.tn ban ud bemuse of
!last, I'm this enta"
"I'll tied bim t l et.u, and I'll l tint;
him to v ,u—„n ha Peet!" came from
Albert nimest to a cry, as,', 'wrenching
• hi legal fron tate trembling. fingers,
he e mute out 4•r3111 into the glen.
He had not taken a hundred steps
down the village street, when the
news met him full in the face, like a
squarely planted blew: Niel
st
. t
"t had leo
! l, 'Aralea
wreek, just below Ardloch.
Ile had been en his way to the
beach; but now, after a few moments
of half -stunned reflection, he abrupt-
ly changed his direction. The rescue
could wait now, since there was no
ereo but only a thin to
longer n t g
s, r
be rescued. There as
to much more
urgent need pressing upon hint --•that
of dieburdenment. ,c
At all costs, he
`inust free himself o the load that
weighed upon his srtul. If the seeret
of his guilt was to be borne, he must
• share it with another. Confession
must be—not. to Fenella—that thought
still remained as unbearable as the
guilt itself. And yet he was walk-
ing towards the Rectory. Within its
i walls he saw but one room --the
humblest it contained ---and in that
room a face, old and mild, smiled ati
tuo often in light-hearted mockery,'
now transformed in one instant into!
that of a judge. What gave him;
the knowledge that there alone he;
would find understanding—and per-'
haps eren mercy—he could never say.,
It was the first tune in his life that
he felt the need of his rather, and l
felt it with an urgency which would:
not be denied.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
In the little square froom with the:
windows to the tack, father and sun
sat opposite to ra.h other in a silence
vehieh still thtel,hed with the \verde
Ijust spoken. The ministerts long. thin'
figure was huddled into the depth: ef.
the elbow chair in an ungoverned,
awoken -beaked fashion, whicll shrunk
it to halt its eine evhile his bewilder-
, ed Oros fiol'oF,5, in en agog,} of
,inquiry at the youth who sat. there
!with his head 'between his hands,'
+ Several timee John's bleached lips'
'moved befure they succeeded in tram-:
intr a question.
,"Was it a bad teal' ?fight he net
have managed—" •
IAlbert shook his head with the hid
den face.
I "Don't, fattier!! I've tried all that,
and there's nothing to be got from it,'
I don't know what the leak was like,'
but even the smallest would have
Iserved under the efreannstancee.•
Think of last night's wind! Besides,
T tell von that the boat has been;
found."
+`Found? I had not understood—"I
"Yes, an hour ago. Until then I
had still managed to hope; but to go'
on hoping after this would be childish•'
No, no, I've not e ngied {his thing, be
sure of than"
Under the burst of bitter tau hter i
which came, half suffocated, from be -i
hind the shielding hands, the figure
In the elbow -chair seemed to sink a!
little deeper into itself. i
Preeeutly, with an effort, John
raised his head.
"But, Albert, you say It was dusk,
and you were not thinking of the
boats until ;Net the last moment. May
you not have mistaken---"
"There is no mistake about it, what•
mistake can there be, onee the boat:
is identified?"
He spoke with the sharpness of it-!
citation. These details were but a
torture, With the least poesible delay'
he wanted every alined of doubt clear -1
ed away from the fact of his guilt,'
else the load would be on him again
unsharr_d.
"I know, I know•-eit's not that I:
mean. But the whole thing happen-
ed eo quickly, as you day ---you :nay
not have been really conscioue of what
you were doing; and when you wanted
to shout and did not uo se, may it not
have been the instinctive conviction
that he was not of earshot already
which stopped you? The misfortune,
of course, remain:, the game, but not
the ein—fur sin is only where the
soul gives full consent, 'Think,
Bertie, think! Perhaps you are {n.
noeent after all!"
(To be continued.)) •
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The 'Transports.
Out into the night they slip,
Silent ship by silent ship
,
Dim and green dun o.nd !:•ray;
Alla the fere' et•oops love to hide them,
And the wind springs :mitt 10 .guide
them 1
On their way, en their way.
Soft, eh, soft, the ripples lisp,
- Break the bubbles, cilver•crisp,
'\oath the bow, Meath the how; I
Swirle the snowy wake.:bchind them;
So \• lu.e thug; vvhu shall (tndtI • ,
Ask not now! Ask net now!
What the freighting thrt they bear?
Gold or pearls or jewel:: tare,
Over seas,'over seas?
I Yea, the Jewels of a Nation!
Yea! a People's consecration
Gees with these, goes with these!
,.
Ilfuther's boy and maiden',b \or,
Husband, father, --over, over,
• Tell the tale, tell the tale!
Heart of gold and soul of fire,
Lifted eves of high desire,
So they ;ail, .o they salt.
O•.lt. into the nicht they slip, •
•It shin by -item! ship.
Dim and gray, dial and gray,
God's awn angels fly bele then!,
tleins own hooch and greet.. betide them
On their way, on their way;
•--Laura E. Iliehards.
It is necessary to nieleh strawberry
• plants to prevent injury to the rtkots
caused ley freezing and thawing(
throughout the winter, anti e: pechlly i
in early spring. The heaving of the,
ground in early spring due to frust!
• action is very frequently the cause of
there being no crop that year. Any
time after the ground is frozen, a
mulch of leaves, straw, strawy :na-
nure, chaff or other available material
• ehould be dietrihuted evenly three.
inches deep over the bed. In cases'
where fine straw, chaff, or strawy ma -
f pure is used, the work may be mese:
economically done by using
n au
te
I
spreader straddling the rows.
l,y tho new regulations ulster which
the tiovetnment will supervise stock
yards in Canada, a eensiderable say+
ing• of grain will be effected, Delegates
of the conference held in Ottawa
recently by representative: of the
Live Stoek Branch and Agricultural
Departments of the proviiwon with re -
t114 en`etivee of the different Live
Steel: Fa:change,: and Stuck • Yard
Companies„ testified that feed used to
"till" hots, cattle aunt( sheep before
weighing and a few hours previous to
being slaughtered, was pure waste.
The use of grain for this purpose so
far ns eagle were ciegerned is he-
ing prohibited by the new regulations,
while only the lower grades of barley
and oats are allowed tor hogs, Mr,
el. E, Todd, Chief of Staff in the Of-
fice of the Food C entroller, was pre-
sent 1!p invitation and spoke of the
necessity for conservation, particnl-
arly of wheat.
"We are bombarded with letters re-
garding waste of feed in the stock
yards," said Mr Todd. "These let-
ters are especially emphatic in re-
gard to wheat. While it lney he
true that No. S milling wheat costs a
little less than barley, or crushed corn
at the present title brought in from
Chicago, still the price justification
for feeding wheat at the present time
is Insufficient. Wheat is the scarcest
article in the world to -day. The
amount available for shipment in the
meet three menthe meneures the ex-
tent of hardship which the Allied peo-
ple will levee to endure. This matter
should not be a question of priee I
should think it possible to substitute
other :mine for wheat."
It was pointed out that wheat has.
been fed to hogs before they are seal-
ed so as to increase the weight. But,
as the hogs are slaughtered immedi-
ately, this increased weight does not
go into •park and is, in fact, pure
waste, the grain, after the hag is!
slaughtered, being washed clown the
sewers.
t
recomnuruc.atu,n, which n•:ls it fo)-
lowa:
"At the suggestion of the Food
I Controller. and as a Sear met Aire only,
we recommend that the use of wheat
he prohibited as feed for stock to he
inunedintely slaughtered, and that
meal aunt grain of any kind be forbid-
den as feed for cattle at the stock
yertle; that hogs in the stock yards
abulit to be slaughtered may be fed
on mea , !a1 et u ltO h g un gtnr c
than No. d and oats of no higher
grade than No. 1 Feed,"
This report • o
7 p tt w•as adopted.
pled.
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MOVING WOUNDED Nt T.
Experiences of a British Chaplain in
Early Days of the War.
jIn describing the retreat of the
, British after their magnificent stand
at Le Cateau in the early days of the
tear, Captain Douglas P. Winnifrith
says that the field ambulance hasten -
'ed away about six o'clock in the after-
noon, determined that the wagons
laden with wounded should not fall
into the hands of the enemy. The far-
ther they went the denser grew tate
stream of traffic and the slower be-
came their progress. To acid to the
unpleasantness of the situation a driz-
zling rain begun to fall, and in the
inky darkness they found themselves
in a confused tangle of guns, ammuni-
tion wagons, motor lorries, cavalry
and infantry.
Progress was painfully slow; often
they here compelled to halt for
twenty, thirty or forty minutes, and
then could advance only a few yards.
Fortunately the enemy had suffered
loo heavily to engage in an energetic
pursuit. The exhausted infantry lay
Iby the eoadeide and often on the road
t s. e
se and d+ b roused before th
It If, . n had i e i e
ambulances could get through. All
night the chaplain sat on the box seat,
' of the foremost wagon and held in his i
hands tate only lamp that would burn.'
In the awful darkness it was impos-!
sible for tate other wagons to keep in.
touch with him. To. have dismounted'
would have been to court disaster
from wheels or horse's. He could,
therefore, only remain in his seat,
prod the driver, who invariably slum
bered during the long halts, in the
ribs, and U shouting, "Please n
a
ke
l„
way for the wounded, get his wagon
1
Different representatives declared
that packers paid no more for hogs
fed on water than for hogs weighed
off cars and the practice was really
without justification. A committeemmittee
was thereupon appointed to bring in a
on a few yards at a time. •
- _ Many times during the night the
chaplain pulled aside the curtain of
the front of the wagon, from the in-
terior of which caste the sound of in-
termingled snores and groans, and
inquired how the wounded were get-
ting on. The tvakeful invariably an-
swered, "Ail .right, thank you, sirl"
One man, doubtless thinking of his
less fortunate comrades, replied, "I
reckon we're in clover, sir," Packed
WHAT I CAN' T UNDERSTAND.
ByAMe
Fh•st, I can oat see why {L is neves,
Bary to spend so much time drying;
dishes. So I have made a draining;
board from a piece of grooved plank,'
two feet long, one inch thick and the;
length of the sink. I attached it to;
the wall at the side of the sial: with,
brackets, with one end reaching over:
and sleeping a little toward the sink.
After w•ashinge, the (lathes are .scalded'
and stacked on this to dry.
Tho next thing I notice, is the num-,
her of steps taken from the work -1
table to a drawer on the opposite side;
of the room for cooking -spoon par -j
trig knives, egg beater and the ninny,
little articles used in cooking.
I have set my wits to tverk and nail-
ed a strip of wood three•fourtlls of
an inch thi k over the work -table
(which stands next to the detain -board) ;
and inserted small sash -curtain hooks'
about three invitee apart, the entire,
length of it. Here the kitchen im a
plements are hung elose at. hand.
The pleat grinder is used in the pre -
partition of almost every meal but
seemed to be in the way if left attach-;
ed to the table. I solved the problem
by making a strong shelf about a spot
square, fastened securely to the wall
at a convenient height.
re plan
The ice -water pan was always run-
ning over and it was a back -breaking
Job to empty {t. So I fastened a
piece of rubber hose to the drainpipe,
bored a hole in the floor and let the!
hose run through the floor to the eel-.
lar.
Here is another '•discovery." If
you nae gas or oil for cooldng get a
Piece of eheet iron large enough to
cover the top of the range, One
burner lighted, will send enough heat
through it to keep several things
cooking at one time. Less heat is
listl•lhl.ted through the house and fuel
11,I
s thus saved.
Why is, it that kitchen sinks are
always too low? Because a "mere
man" plane and puts them in, of
course! Ile does not have to break
his back washing dishes over them,
If lie did, he would be more mindful
of the height. I could not change the
the sink but I could and did change
the wank -table. I nailed blocks to
the lee, making it high enough so
my wife need not stoop as she works
over it, Also I provided for her a
kitchen chair having a back and of
the right height for the table. In
this chair she sits to prepare vege-
tables, mix cakes and so :forth, She
also site to do most of her ironing.
Flour Economy.
During these strenuuus times we
shall do well not only to adopt the
wheat substitutes recommended by
the Food Controller, but also to con-
serve every bit of flour that comes In.
our kitchens,
"A woman can throw out with a tea- I
spoon faster than a man can bring in
with a shovel;" is a maxim my moth-
er taught me with my {iret lessons in'
housekeeping, It has proven a -vale-'
able aid in my own bousekeeping ex -1
perlence and I find it easy -tow to Prac-
tice economies :which would seem pas
itivelg stingy in ordinary Hume, but'
which under preeent circumstances
savor Of patriotism,
"We should save every bit, of flour i
for human food, In fact, It seems ale
most criminal to do otherwise when I
our nation needs it to help win the
war. This is how I actually rho this'
and have for the past three years,
during which time 1 em positive ury
economy hue :unonnt.ed f.o several
aneks of out. Iu my cabinet I keep
two covered t:nns. Into one I put all'
left -river pieces of cake and eookice'
(tot including those left, at table),1
and all crumbs of either scraped from
'baking tins. . '.allege make delicious I
"bread puddings" with little, if ally, 1
additional sugar,
Into the other can'go all the bread)
ermnbe from the cutting board and
particles of dough scraped front the
mixing pan. These, with all stale
breads, brown bread, corn bread,
gems, biscuits, etc„ which I do not
wish to ase in other ways, go into
griddle cakes. If these breads ac-
cumulate in any quantity they need to•
be dried thoroughly to insure their
keeping until wanted,
When I plan a griddle -take break-
fast Tput some of these crumbs and
'
stale breads soaking the night before
in sour m{Ik ar buttermilk, allowing
about one cup of liquid for each per-
son, In the morning I mash all
lumps, add salt, soda, a bit of sugar,
and flour or corn meal to make Of the
right consistency, These griddle
cakes possess the advantage of hav-
ing a large portion of their flour
previously baked which i believe
renders them more digestible.
Very few baking failures need be
thrown away if their ingredients be
considered, Heavy or sour bread,
even, is not beyond being reclaimed.
Either can be dried and stored safely
for use as needed. 1 have used sour
bread in griddle cakes with perfectly
good results by using a little addle
tional soda in the hatter, One time
a loaf of brown bread was a 'failure
because cornstarch had been nlistalcen
for soda. Griddle cakes made with
sante of this as a foundation were
even complimented by a guest.
1 These are rigid economies, I will ed -
i r ,t1 , ilii•, but they are. It !Ong way ahead of
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like herringe In a barrel, covered with
ugly wounds, hungry, dirty, weary,
they :sat in that wagon for sixteen
hours without murmur or complaint.
And always as the chaplain looked in
he saw the faithful wagon orderly
keeping watch over his charges.
About one o'clock in the morning
they saw lights ahead ntnving in the
fields and hoped that: they would b
able to rest.. But it proved to be only
a .bivouac for the infantry, and the
general lin charge bade them and al
wheeled traffic to push on as quickly
as possible, When date broke, the
Fourteenth urteenth h'ield Ambulance, so far as
the chaplain could see, consisted of
one colonel, himself and one ambu
lance wagon. Their anxiety its tui the
fate of their comrades was not re-
moved until some hours later in St
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HORSE IMPORTANT
FACTOR IN WAR
MOTORS CANNOT SUP PLANT
1IOItt:E ENTIRELY.
Allies on Western Front Iftr e About
5,000,000 Equine Workers
and ;sidles.
Lloyd Cle"mo recently di+lu ed that
the British have ::,0oo,000 lurse;s en-
gaged in thie war. It is estimated
that on the western front alone the
number of horses and mules in service
is close upon 5,000,000. A high
Lary officer has stated that apart irum
man the horse is the mast important
factor in the war, while another au-
thority line declared, "If we lead 1,00
- )runs for every (airman gun and 100
shells for every German shel'i and our
supply of horses gave out, the Allies
. could not win the war."
Quentin. There a great reunion oc-
curred; stragglers came in from al
direetions, and each had a tale to tell
of thrilling experiences of that me-
morable night.
Summer pruning as a rule does not
increase fruitfulness the next year,
and is mit as satisfactory in the long
run as late fail or spring pruning
The best theory is not to prune too
much. Cut out only those things
that seem to do harm and seek to
have a tree running four or five
branches.
In spite of the great advance of mo -
1 for transportation, the horse has not
been ousted from his position as chief
transport and baggage agent in war.
Motors are usable only where there
are roads to travel, There are no
roads on a battlefield. Motors. cannot
cross fields plowed with shells and
soaked with rain. They cannot carry
even themselves aeross ravine: and
swamps, over hills and thrau ;h thick-
ets. In the !range of shell fire a mo-
tor is most vulnerable, A stray ehot
comes along and blows off ono wheel;
the machine is useless. But if o shot
kills one or two horses of a gun team
the dead are cut away and the gun is
hauled with animals left unhurt. It is
even possible to secure mm•e horses
and hitch them in a few minute;; a
crippled motor may take weeks to re-
pair.
Value Beyond Computation.
Hence there is a point where motor
transportation ceases, a point beyond
which only the faithful horse and mule
may operate. That point usually may
be found about six miles back of the
front-line trenches. Acrossix
1 e hes. these s
miles of danger land every gun must
be hauled by horses, every shell, every
cartridge, every ounce of food must be
carried by horse or mule. War has
restored to the horse his old worlc as
a pack animal, not only in the Italian
Alps, but on every fighting front in
Europe.
The service of the horse in this war
is beyond computation; his value,
worth and usefulness would only be
fully realized if by any chance the
supplies of horses in America should
fail.
Once within the zone of war the
horse assumes a value he never pre-
viously possessed. He is precious. The
army knows what a few hundred
more or less mean in a tight place,
what a few thousand cavalry may
meal, In a pursuit or a lout. And the
horse is cared for at his value. Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Austria—all
have highly equipped veterinary staffs
engaged in the care of animals. And
not only these, but auxiliary organiza-
tions are backing their Governmtants
in the care of animals just as the Iced
Cross helps in the care of the soldiers,
In each warring country these organi-
zations have rendered invahnable ser-
vice. "Only when the full h!stery of
this war comes to be written will the
world realize what magniflceot ser-
vice has been rendere.l to the British
forces in France by the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals," said a high British officer re.
Gently.
'IOW LAPLANDERS BATHE.
Broil in Steam While Attendant
Lashes Then) With Twigs.
In the wide World Magazine,
Frank Hedges Butler describes a
vapor bath in the Land of the Laps,
He says:
"The bath house is a 'small wooden
structure, generally situated some way
from the dwelling house, It is divided
into two compartments, oh
tone in which
to undress, while the other contains
the oven which produces the steam.
The oven is arched with large stones
or pebbles and heated by a fire placed
beneath. Undressing in the first
room, enc enters the heated comparte
ment, After a short rest on a wooden
form or bench, which contains a place
for the head, the attendants come in
and bathe you, Cold water is thrown
over the reel hot stones and the hiss-
ing vapor soon sends up a cloud of
eteam,
The higher you sit from the floor
the greater the heat, As more water
is thrown over the rod hot stones the
vapor becomes so intense that one can
hardly breathe, we were soon gasp,
ing for breath and covered with a pro-.
ruse perspiration which issued from
every pore of the akin,
"Hanging up in the room were ten-
der branches or twigs in a green state
and retaining their leaves. Dipping
these in water the attendant began
lashing and whipping across the legs,
shoulders, Wile and back, till any body
seemed quite red with the switching.
The bastinadoing over, I was then
washed with a soft flannel covered
With soap, after which a jug of the
coldest water was thrown over my
head and body."
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