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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-6-20, Page 2Copyright Houghton D1ttflln CnmpnnY by special arrangement with Thos. Allen. Toronto CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd.) 1 His disappointment was somewhat. "Your committee feel," he continued, her epired over by loving neradinel ivolcus, "that: the only course left to us is to, her decorative Bahl was no ntness h 1 strike. We recommend, therefore.; decorative little girl; witness her talk that a vote be taken to mill a eneralgoing work in nyder to support generale the family.. That was lila:, his moth - strike 'throughout the words at mid-Ier; she was a girl with character as night on March 31st. You must re-; well as charm. He tried to let her member that if you vote to strike, you ; see that his admiration was must all stand together. You must greater than his disappointment, fight your own battle. You can look that she shone more brightly 0 o i organization i tel support. t n coxal on far 1 or st o g A I His ttitide than Ove • his heroine, I a a p a t s Because we've had higher pay orad pleased her• she said "Oh, you don't T MA worked shorter hours than union ]fro, think lea as splendid as that, Jerry!", A we shan't now get any assistance from And when he assured her that he did, union labor. In order to win this she sighed contentedly, "Well, we must' fight, we've got to be willing, not only make what sacrifices we cane. To to suffer ourselves, but to see our begin with, they would have to sacri- wives and children suffer. We've got flee the pleasure of declaring their en.1 Cream eluted i t SWEET OR CHURNING CREAM we supply NUM pay express rharg$$ and remit aline, matuei Hairy and creamery Po, 7434 Sing 8t. Wept - Toronto Loehr and climbed the stairs. `•Kate,• y"u and Betty Gran lie on the big bed, and Peter, he can have - the little bed," swirl Mrs. Ihntohue, ",rust. take ole your little shoee now, sand st.r ten !nook at these two beautiful patchwork quilts to cover you with. km't they handsome? And they feel as nice at, they look. Now dust snar ie dawn and cln:ae your eyes." Soon she reported to Jerry, who had waited below, that. they had dropped ori to sleep. "We've gut to take care or them from 110W on, Jerry," she said. "We must watch Jim; he's not him- self , " (To be continued.) to be willing to help every one his amment. The news of it would, in neighbor, even whin we're at the last aalipthe circumstances, afflict her par-' gasp ourselves. Your committee ents bitterly; she felt that she mustn't! want you to look the facts in the face add to their troubles—and she di,ln'ti before yuu take action,' want them to add to hare. Jerry In the back of the hall Jerry Dono- acquiesced—with less enthusiasm. He huerhad s.at and lien ted withlness grave' could not declare himself in sympathy! he had nursed than omehow things with the sensitiveness of her parents, would come out right had received is and he would have liked the stimulus. death -blow. In its place arose a de- and support to be derived from public, sire to take hisart in the stru gle• raeognition of his success in winning; he did not think of Nora, he did not I\"ra,, heart. "Oh, you don't think' think of his mother; be was animated there's any glory to you in it!" laugh only by eagerness to give his service to ed Nora, when he explained what he the common cause. He tried impati would he sacrifieing; and she gave him ently to get the chairman's eye, but a kiss because he asserted emphatical-; others were recognized and made halt-,IY that he did think think jest theta ing nr Eery speethes, all in favor of The days of idleness grew into resistance to the oppressive order; at; weeks, and meanwhile the discipline last he was given the floor. : maintained by the strikers discouraged "We can't just loaf round here idle,,, the occasional strangers who came to he said. "I say we keep on in our. the Purroy hills seeking work. Al_' three shifts just as we've been doing--; ways there was a patrol in front of the, only, in stead of working in the mills,' gates; the advice to strangers that let's patrol the mills. There's a they should not try to enter was usual company of us that's been drilling here ly heeded. Sometimes one more tem. once a week. Let's have each shift erarious than the rest would walk upt organizers to do regular patrol duty. to the line and attempt to push hare them drill regularly every clay.' through; he would be hustled roughly It will keep us out of michief—and it out into the street. "No violence,". will help to keep other fellows out of which had been the fir: t watchword of the mills." 1 the strikers, was changed after a The proposal was greeted with ap month of privation to "Aro unnecessary, plause. Dobbins rose and said,--- i violence.' The six policemen of the "It's a good idea, that of Jerer tenon were not disposed to interfere Donohue's. But I would advise that with the operations of the patrol. 1 the patrniling be done without weft-, For a time the workingmen held to - pons of any kind. I understand that gether, firm in their purpose, alany when the boys have been drilling here,' of them owned -or partly owned their they've had firearms. Let's leave it houses; to these the winning of their agreed that they are to be left at fight was a vital matter. Others per - h the I unanimous sentiment of the, sisted from a sense of loyalty or from' The meeting crystallized in formal antes, inertia; to start out and seek work will always be for some men less easy providing. that a general strike should I begin at midnight on March 81st, and, than to sit and wait for it. that thenceforward the approaches to' But as time drifted by and reserve the mills should be patrolled, night and funds diminished, the number of the day, by unarmed squads. The chair_ men who stayed to fight dwindled.' man named an executive rammitiee of. Their faces were sharpened and anat. five; Jerry Donohue was the youngest ous. They had begun to feel the pees. member. Then, before the meeting; sure of hunger and of hopelessness. adjourned, Dobbins made one mere; 'Tames Dobbinswife collapsed proposal. i under privation and died. Her three "To get this strike started right, I children lay awake sobbing.rr throughout say that on the morning of April 1st must of the night after her death, but we march in a quiet and orderly, James Dobbins, sitting by her side, parade through the streets of thisshed scarcely a tear. In the morning town carrying the American flag." i when Jerry Donohue and his mother That proposal was executed. At came to offer their help, Dobbins paid nine o'clock on the raw April morning,I no heed to their worde. The skin was when the accustomed clangor of the drawn tight over the sharp bones of mills was etilled and the accustomed, his face and looked dry and livid, In smoke no longer ascended from their his feverish eyes there was an insane chimneys, the parade of the workers malignity. He spoke in a husky, was organized. Dave Scanlan headed monotone. it imps tently as flag -bearer. .Terry, "It'sgthe women that. suffer. They, assisted Dobbins to form the men in' to heaven. 1410et men go to hell.` line. Volunteer musicians arrived with We men that kill women. She'd have: fifes and drums, anti to an inspiring lived longer than ine—much longer—. march that already proclaimed victory, but they've killed her; I helped them, the procession started. Un and clown She's got three children; only one is a the muddy, hilly streets it marched,' boy' There will he two for her in. while wives and children and well.diaa heaven." posed ;shopkeepers stood upon the side -I Jerry stood scared and silent, but his, walka, and waved and cheered. Jerry' mother placed her hands on the man's' marched at one side, casting a keen' shoulders and said:— eye on the ranks, calling out orders,. "Jim, do you mind how you tried to; receiving good-natured chaff—"Right; comfort me when my man died? You; you are., General"—"Keen step teeth' must let me do the same by you now,' the Colonel.'" He saw his mother on' my poor boy, Come into the next' her doorstep, a sturdy, sober -faced lit-; room, where there's a bed for you tot tle figure; she did not smile as he.' lay yourself., and I'll sit by you. Come,' passer., but only looked more sad. Healma i saw Nora Scanlan, black -hair, dark-; He submitted and let her lead him eyed, slender, fluttering a handker-' out through the door. Jerry went' chief to him from her front porch, downstairs and found the three chil-, hnd for one wild, ecstatic moment .ren in the kitchen, Ile drew the while he marched by, he felt that he ova er little girl and the bo to him was a soldier going to the front, Natal- one under each arm, and began to talk. ing for the last time the girl that he They were all coming over to his loved. Then he glanced at the shamble house for linter; they were going to and the fact that he is a leader, who ring, rough battalion and down at him- make him and his mother a visit. even in the British navy, where the soli, and all the romance shriveled. Their father was coming, too, and his standard of energy and courage is CHAPTER VI. mother had made doughnuts—the kind high, has always been noted forhis In the neighboringcity public opine they always liked; lots of them. combination of coolness and extra- Kate, the oldest girl, stood at the ordinary daring, ion did ftot exert itself very heal tilt on window unheeding. She was a browns behalf of the strikers Most of the hatred,slim little creature, wibh Served in Afrdea, newspapers were owns. by capitalists Cheekivory pale and features sensi- • As a midshipman he served in one averse to approving the course ee • With the two others � of England's petty wars in Africa, As workingmen who disputed the decrees I,00 and clear. of their employers, 1n defending' Jerry noon at him n perplexityly. Then ales, hiseutenant he conduct during the into 13oxe fltrebel the action of the men Trask made lit. tieimpression. Railroad officials, 1 Donohue came clown the stairs, went lion. Of him it might be said that he bankers, manufacturers were nn_ over to Kate, and kissed her. has done nothing without putting sympathetic with his arguments: "This' `Your„father's sound aMeep” she forth all his strength, and that, like Is America;" they rem indrel hha. ! said. Poor Iamb, you e all' tired his immortal predecessor, Nelson, he "We're all workers here. This isn't out. And the little ones too. Aron t h 1 tet thing done WHO INSTEAD • . cry Canadian is urged by the Food hoard to enlist in the campaign to sine sweat.. As a nation we have nhva.y., ci:.d more sugar than we realty needed. This Awakening to the uee of other forme of sweet to our diet and cooking will not injure our health and will he of great service to our Allies. Among the sugar substitutes ice haves the syrups which include mo- lasses, corn and maple syrups; honey; maple sugar; ied fruits which in- clude dr a 1 elude figs, raieins, dates and prunes; joins, preserves, jellies and sweet can- ned fruits with their juices. Corn syrups, molasses and honey all BLOCKED U-BOATS F 10E -ADMIRAL SIR ROGER J. B. KEYES, C.M.G., D.S.O. Made Record in Boxer Rebellion and Decoyed German Cruisers Early In the War. • Roger Keyes is his name, Vice -Ad- miral Roger John Brownlow Iieyea, and he found fame by raiding Zee- brugge and Ostend with the gallant Dover patrol. He is young as Tice -Admirals go, only 45, and he has the vigor and air of youth. Years ago when the Boxer rebellion in China was 'at its height and it was me much as a white man's life was worth to show his face in- land he took a couple of destroyers up the Yang-Tsei-Hei and boarded and captured four Chinese torpedo boats, Then he landed with about a dozen men, seized a Chinese fort which threatened trouble and despite the garrison blew the place up and with- drew his little party without a single casualty. That is one of the reasons his capa- bilities are so highly thought of. That xf E >w Vice -Admiral Sir Roger Heyes of Ostend -Zeebrugge Fame. a place for a man who isn't willing to You, desires? Yes, there, thorn.' as always counted nn work his hardest." Instances were Kate had auddenly flung herself into while aught remains to do. given of various rich men, rairoad of-; Mrs. Donohue's arms and safe in their For his services in China Lieut. fiends, hankers, manufacturers, who embrace had burst into passionate Keyes was promoted to the rank of had died young in consequence of their, `veePing'• Than started the two oth- Commander, was mentioned in de_ magnificent industry. "Twelve hours er children crying; Jerry, distressed spatches and received the praise of a day; I work twelve hours a day my.; and sympathetic, vainlp strove to the Admiralty. A few weeks later he self," declared the editor of a news- comfort therm It was 'Date who, still again disldnguisheci himself by diving paper. "Why should those fellows sobbing, brought about a slackening from a height of thirty Poet into the expect easter terms than are made in' of the wails, for upon hearing any other mills?" 't lamentations of the younger she rae-n Peiho to save a midshipman from Meanwhile, the mautagement re- solutely detached herself from Mrs. drowning, frained from taking any aggressive' Donohue',s clasp and coming over with In the years before the present war measures. Times were dull; the cum.' a little moist ball of a banditerchief be specialized as a submarine and pany seemed content to have the mills wiped her brother's and then her sis- torpedo officer, and for his Glaring and shut down indefinitely. I, tee's eyes. "Don't cry, Peter; don't eenterprise was chosen to command the In a situation so unsedtlorl. so IIn- cry, Betty," she besought them; anal British submarines, In the operations promising, Nora SeanTan told lorry then with a certain dignity shed turned ire , ,, against the German high seas fleet that they mist abandon their plants, "We can't get married while you're' not woofing anything," she A/Ad i "That would be foolleh, Beeldes, got to do something to help my family pretty goon. After the term at the Colleen/artery closes I must try too find workk, So w� it just have to postpone Mingo, Jerry. ' "Yes," he assented, "I suppose we Must." to Mrs. Donohue and said, ' They re awfully tired, and maybe if you'd help me to"ut them to beat, they'd get sumo sleep," "Indeed, I'm going to put ceery last one of you to bed," said Mrs. Donohue. "And when you wake up, there will be something good for you all to east; mind now, that there will." So the children obediently accom- panied their friends to the house next carried out by the British navy on August 28, 1914, he was once more conspicuous. Hoisting his flag as Commodore in the Lurcher he set out tvith eight submariners which were used as bait to decoy the Germans out. Trap Proved Great. Success. The trap worked so successfully contain about four-fifths sugar and one-fifth water so that in using any of these we obtain about four spoon- ful of sugar from five spoonfuls of syrup but as the syrup contains mois- ture, more flour must be used or an equal emeunt of a flour, such as bar- ley flour, which takes up more mois- ture. In substituting corn syrup in a re- cipe calling for all sugar, we may use one-half syrup and one-half sugar by deducting one-quarter cupful of amount of liquid in original recipe, for each cup of substituted syrup. -In preserving, part syrup glues ex- cellent results and manufacturers as- sert it is superior to all sugar. One part of syrup and three parts of sugar is the best proportion although equal parts are often used; this reduces the consumption of sugar one-third or one- half. Unfortunately the cost of the sub-. stitutes is so high at the present time that it does not lessen the cost of a recipe to use them in place of sugar but it is our patriotic duty naw to do s0. We can easily do without sweet drinks, candy, sugar frostings and su-i gar on our cereals. The following suggested desserts re- quire little sugar and should find a I place in our menus at this time: Baked apples with raisins or dates.' Apple dumplings (made of wheat substitute such as barley flour) saucer • sweetened with honey or molasses. Gelatine desserts with fruit juices and canned fruits. Junket or Irish blancmange with ! coconut or jam. Cornstarch puddings with dried fruit or canned fruit, and sweetened with fruit juices. • Shortcakes (made of wheat sub- stitutes such as barley flour) with canned or dried fruits. Steamed puddings with molasses or corn syrup. Gingerbread with cream cheese. Raisin or brown breads with cream cheese. Hot barley !deceit and honey. Ice cream made with sweetened fruit juices and served with maple syrup,, honey or marmalades. OF SUGAR, Lemon Pie with Corn Syrup. -1 cup- ful corn syrup, 1 cupful milk, 3 table- spoenfuls cornetarch, 2 eggs, 1 table- sponufui orange juice, 2 tablespoon- fuls lemon juice, grated lemon rind, ,pinch salt. Cook the milk, syrup and cornstarch in a double boiler for fifteen minutes; acid the well -beaten yolks of eggs and stir until smooth. Acid the orange and lemon juice and grated rind, salt and cook a mine.te longer. Bake one • crust f 1 area of the s o sir on the bottom t pastry P inverted tin and when done, place in tin and fill with the lemon mixture, Beat the whites of the eggs stiff and put on top of the pie. Set ir. a hot oven to brown the meringue quickly. If the oven is not hot, the meringue will be tough, Part cora meal may be used in the pastry. Plain Ice Cream with Corn syrup.— 1 quart plain cream or 1 quart plain icustard, 1 cupful corn syrup (white), Ii teapsoonful vanilla. Either the !cream or a plain custard makes a nice cream. Add the corn syrup to the cream or if a custard is used, add to the cold custard, also the \entile. Freeze and serve with nuts, fruit or chocolate sauce. I Corn Syrup Steamed Pudding,—efi cupful butter substitute, efi cupful' 'suet, 1 cupful corn syrup, 1 egg, 2% cupfuls flour (substitute part barley,) corn or rice flour), 2 teaspoonfuls bake; ing powder, 1 cupful currants, 4 table- ;Pr ?t teatspnonif e s -cin - grated nutn g, 2 tea poonfula na i mon, 1 cupful raisins. Mix the short-. ening and corn syrup together, wash the fruit and add to the flour which h to cornstarch,: has been sifted with the corn t spices and baking powder, Add the wet materials to the dry, beat hard,! pour into well -greased molds and steam three hours. Corn Syrup Buckwheat Cookies.—las cupful fat', 1 cupful corn syrup, 1 egg,; le teaspoonful baking powder, 1 tea spoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, of teaspoonful salt, 2% cupfuls buckwheat flour. Cream the fat, add the corn syrup then the well -beaten egg. Sift the dry materials together, and add to the wet. Roll the dough: thin, cut in shapes with a cutter and bake in a moderate oven, Corn Syrup Spice Cake. -1 cupful, corn syrup, 1 cupful brown sugar, efi l cupful cooking oil, 1 cupful coffee, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, grated rind of one lemon, to grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda, 3 cupfuls flour (one barley, two of wheat), 1 teaspoonful ginger. Mix the corn syrup, sugar and oil, then heat the mixture; acid the well -beaten eggs and beat thoroughly. Adel the hot coffee, anal the dry materials sifted together. :Vita quickly until smooth, add the grated rind of lemon, turn into a well -greased loaf -cape pair and bake in a very moderate oven thirty or forty minutes. ✓Vn4ur/tf>°rane. Coude 41 Coloost RA. LONG 6410., LIMITED TORONTO CANADA wsimainicauswowopawoceserein Food Control Corner "As Chairman of the Canada Fond BORN I earnestly appeal to the peaplt of Canada to Nook to understand the spirit as well as the ohject of all food regulations, :file help which we shall give to our soldiers anti Allies will be measured not alone by compliance with the letter of the reguletb+n hub also by observance of their spirit. To evade tho object and the spirit of food regulations is little less than treach. ery to our troops and Allies, "If the slam -Hon be as slated, why is not more vigorous action taken by Hume in authority? IL should be roe cognized that form regulations in that nature can be enforced only with great difrieulLy in a country whose population is widely and sparsely dis- tributed, as ours is. At present the fond problem isfurther complicated Gated by difficulties of finance and trans, por•tation. Moreover, drastic food orders might easily lead to serious de- rangement of important industries and ultimftte harm to the production or the distribution of necessary foods. Use for Dead Locusts. 1 Lpcusts are plentiful in Uruguay, So, too, orders which might with yea- sail the farmers of that republic aro soar be made to apply to certain classes to keep tit a constant war would if applied eneral i compelledP 1 of workers, pP g ly, , against them, Millions et these de- result in aYi esseting of general eirici- structive insects are killed every year. envy. Indrwdual responsibility con - Recently it was learned that soap, not be disassociated from a wise sola - fertilizer and lubricating oil may be tion of the problems connected with Uses for Blotters. Save every piece of blotting paper that comes into your home, even those that have advertesing upon them, for besides being useful in the writing desk it is very practical for absorbing other things about the house besides A piece of blotting paper put under table mats wherever vases of flowers are to be set protects the polish of the table from clew drops from the flowers or any dampness that seeps from por- ous pottery. To press out light grease spots a piece of clean blotting paper placed under the fabric to absorb the grease will cause the spots to disappear, usu- ally, when a hot flatiron is pressed directly on the spot. When the children apply for "paint rags" for water color painting a square of blotting paper is a line sub- stitute, for it absorbs the color and water from a wet paint brush immedi- ately and is less "messy." In drying paint brushes the sante blotter can be used again. In cooking greasy things, such as croquettes, doughnuts and potato chips a large square of clean blotting paper, on which to drain these foods as they come hot from the frying kettle helps' make them more appetizing, healthful' and daintier to look upon. When water is spilled upon any deli- cate table cover an immediate e.ppliea- tion of fresh blotting paper will pre- serve it in good condition. When any liquid is spilled upon the table cloth a small square blotter will absorb it quicker and more satisfactorily than Wiping up with a cloth, that the German light cruisers Ari- adne, Mainz and Koeln were sunk with a loss to the enemy in killed or drowned which was probably 800. Other German warships and destroy- ers were severely pnnished, and any attach by German ships on the Brit- ish transports which were then cotl- veying large reinforcements to France was prevented. Commodore Keyes was again 'fore- most in the air attack on Cuxhaven which was attempted by British sea- planes on Cbristmae, 1914, when some damage was done to the enemy and grert alarm was caused in Hamburg and Bremen, He went to the Darda- nelles when the Government decided to attempt the forcing of the passage and there he served as chief of staff to Vice -Admiral Sir Michael de Ro- hcek. In 1'01.7, after his promotion to Rear Admiral, he was appointed director of a copy of our plains at the Admiralty, a position for PARTIAL which his strong liking for the stren- uous offensive fitted him peculiarly, PAYMENT Be did excellent work in that posi- BOOKLET tion, but his professional qualities and • his special aptitude for exeeutive with its oomprehensive explana- wmlt ler. to his appointment at the tory method for the tlwiftY to 1 p employ, so that their anemia! enol of last year to the command its Position may be strengthened Vire-Admiral at Dover, i Results are Far Reaching, It is not permissible to state what CO.the material results of. this change B R Y A N .0 , D U N N 8r G have. been, but they have been inn- 1?ILgeenete portant and 'far reaching, It call only CaleanlAN PAOIFIc BUILDING be said that his unremitting efforts TdRONTO have made the Straits of Dove' less raw prtvato 'Whos to nt{r pleasant than ever to the German .-. Montreal and Nev1 Pea Plasm, , submarines and thus greatly hamper- ed their campaign against the Allies. Admiral Keyes has always been unsparing of himself. The heroic fighting men who man the drifters on the Channel anti-submarine guard are all the better at their worlt because they know that there is no danger of theirs he does not eagerly share. The secretary of. the Admiralty an- nounced on April 26 that "His Ma- jesty the King has signified his ap- proval of the promotion of acting Vice -Admiral Roger J. B. Keyes, C.B., C.M.G., M,V.O., D.S.O., to be a member of the Second Close, or Knight Commander of the Most Hon- orable Order of the Bath (military division) in recognition of. his dietin- gnished service in command of the raid against Zeebrugge and Ostend on Tuesday, April 2,3, 1918." and made sure and that each n - vestment, no matter .tow strati may prove a safe stop forware and upward, is roryuirad b3' every investor. 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It will h 1p our men at the front but little, if compliance with the hotter of the regulations is oracle an excuse for failure to observe their spirit. I appeal to one and all, whole-heartedly, to comply with the spirit of those orders, Let. us begin by measuring our helpfulness accord- ing to the extent to which each of us personally has replaced meat and wheat by more perishable and less needed commodities. "A present paramount need is the conservation of wheat. Substitution ,cannot be adopted too generally or carried too far, until the new crop he•omes available. Oue Allies must have wheat to bind their bread. Let us, therefore, reduce our consumption of wheat and wheat products as much as our circumstances will permit. Generous co-operation has been given and is being given in the adaption of wheat and meat substitutes --but more is required. "May we match our co-operation and sacrifice with the spirit of our men in the fighting lines in Europe. If our spirit be as theirs, we shall not fail." I•'IGHTERS ARE FATALISTS. Conditions of Life at the Front Tend To Make Him One. In every true fighter there is r1 deep feeling of fatalism at the bottom of his heart, and in studying a little closer ]lig daily life this will not star - prise us. His conditions of life are quite different; he does not lite in a house any more, but in caves, in deep dugouts which are considered as a kind of palace. Meet of the time he dwells in a hole dug in the parapet of the trench if not in a shell hole filled with a liquid sort of mud. His brains, his activities are not employed as they used to be; were he a farmer or a clerk; a docker or a teacher, a rich man or a poor man, he will dig trenches and again dig trenches, He will have but one single idea—kill the boche and not be killed by bine. Thus he has been transplanted from his , habits as a civilian, from his ordinary conditions of living, torn away from his family, from his sphere, from his society, and he is obliged to bend both body and mind tethese new -condi- tions. The feeling that this appalling sort of life cannot be changed, that nothing can be done to induce him to dead a more normal sort of life, will work on him and give him the first touch of fatalism. If he be in the trenches this feeling will become an all-powerful one. There lie will have to live in such startling conditions, amid such a gigantic uproar, amid such a tremendous commotion that he will feel himself a poor wretched little creature at a toes. What is he to become in the midst of the fray, with shells exploding all around him with it startling noise? He is per- fectly aware that the tenth, nay the hundredth part of the explosive con- tained in the shell would suffice to disable him. Ire is perfectly aware that one of these shell splinters which are buzzing all around him would, if it hit him, injure him seri- ously if not kill him. He also con- stantly hears the cracking of bullets which pass close to him. And though. ho was not killed and come out of the fray unhurt, how dos he explain this? Because his hour has not tomo yet. On the other thane., be sees a well aimed German missile play great havoc in the billets close to the front among the men who camebock un- hurt after having delivered a very dangerous assault. M Cultivation of vegetables should be- gin as soon as the plants are up, « It should be repeated at frequent int,ere vale, The crust should be broken af- ter every rails, as soon as the ground is dry' enough to work. It is poor economy to wait for weed growth to force cultivaution, Once the, soil is allowed to settle, become firm or to baler: it can be worked only with die- ficurty 1