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---- genies and draw until the edge,
Lie flat, This :mace the holo titin -
pear smaldsr, and at will 'b+s muoh
Hints for the Home easier' • mend•
"When washing scrubbing or heir
brushes, if they :are put to dry with
the brietles downward they will lest
twice as long. If turned the other
way the water soaks into the wood
and rots the bristles.
The hest way to warns up a roast
of meat is to 'wrap it in thickly-
greased paper, and keep it covered
while in the bean, By having it cov-
ered the etea:m will prevent the
meat from becoming 7gvrd and dry,
and it will became heated through
in less time,
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WAR vs. INVEN"TIVENESS.
A. Frenchman Perfected a Process
• for Making Margarine.
Salad Suggestions.
Ilo►oain laid AsparagUe Salad.-
Wadi and chill Mender romain
iinaits �hollowiandle treeepoui a, few tea-
:spoonfu'ls of chiffortade or piquant
•dressing over.
li'ax Bean Salad in Onion Rings.
r•Perboil the wex beans or use can-
ned ones. Skin'andelioe large Spa-'
nieh onions, then steam or boil care-
fully in flat dish, When tender
..drain and remove hall of the centres
,of each 'slice, Pince on plates or
on salad pliatber. Dress the beans While war is undeniably the
with Fz•eech dressing or mayonnaise' greatest curse .to civilization, tis
and pile incentre of ea,ch rung. not without Boma connpeneetlons.
'This Is nice with cold meats and. It acts as a decided stimulus to in -
French fried • or eauted potatoes. ven'tive effort, not necessarily in the
• Potato and Onion Salad.—Pere interest of deattuetion, but of ee4
• antl But potatoes into thin slices, nomics. One of the greatest boons
parboil ,until done but not mashed. of to -day, synthetic butter, or, as
Drain and pour on a shallow dish. it is more oommnonly called, pier-
Now :bake centres• of the bowled on- garine—was directly attributable to
:ion rings from the wax bean salad, war, Napoleon III., realizing the
ma:ah with a fork, ;add a .sifting of position of las numeroue poorer
malt and pepper,. then mix with subjects, and the feet that they
dr
•enough •boiled easing to make a couldnot •afford to purchase but-
smooth, rather thick emulsion. Sift ter, oonoluded that it would be bet -
salt and pepper over the potatoes, the for them to consume at whole -
then cover wiith th•e dressis ng and let some and nutritious substitute in
:it stand for .an hour to ripen, This preference to a dangerous and
fs .a nice hinclieon dish anal can be adulterated article, The outcome.
served with rings of hard boiled of this was the concentration of the
eggs, curled bacon or boiled ham. efforts of Mega Mouries upon th•e
Flower Salad.—Separate, wash solution of the problem, which eel -
and drain a nice white cauliflower, minated in the perfection of a pro -
•drop into a kettle of rapidly -boiling eons for the manufacture d nuar-
water and otok until tender. Take garine from animal fats. To -day
up carefully and tool on a platter. one is able to appreciate the signi-
For each helpicng have a blanched ficance and •economic ' valine of the
cup -shaped lettuce leaf. Place es illustrious Frenehhman'e 'discovery.
many of the little sections, floever Margarine is in favor • throughout
up, as will form .a pretty imitathen the world, and its produotion is one
:of a flower, sift lightly with a little of the most prosperous industries,
salt and pass a fancy dish of:thick The manufacture has undergone ex-
boiled cream dressing to pour over traordinary development, and has
at the table. led to still further remarkable con -
Boiled Crean Dressing.—Ingredi- quests of science, especially the su-
-ents: Two tablespoonfuls of flour, persediing of animal fats by net
two tablespoonfuls of yellow mus- oils, whioh ;have been rendered
teed, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, tasteless and odorless. At the pre -
one teaspoonful of salt, yolks of sent time there arepossibilities
three eggs, one cup of milk, six ta- quite as golden as those in 1870.
biespoonfuls of cider vinegar, Max The man who succeeds in reducing
•all dry ingredients, adding the well- the cost of manufacturing sugar,
beaten yolks, and when smooth add, even by a cent per pound, will bo
milk gradually. Cook in double appreciated by humanity at large.
boiler until smooth and thickened. If he can evolve a practical and
Add vinegar gradually and cook inexpensive maanos of manufactur-
•only until at boiling point. Remove ing thiscommodity from the com-
from stove and beat with is, revolt'- mon root vegetables he will have
ing beater until partly ceded. achieved a greater success; while
Iletl Witte Vinegar Dressing.—In- the discovery of ,a synthetic •sugar
gredients: Ono teaspoonful of so- which can be sold at hall the price
gar, ono -half teaspoonful of salt, of the natural ;article will bring him
a tremendous fortune and an im-
perial -table record en the roll of
fame. The ,discovery of a non -in-
toxicating beverage that may be
scald profitably at one-half the price
of the ordinary beers, and yet heave
the chaaaeteristi'e flavor of the lat-
ter, will also bring undying ;fame.
Mercerized cotton has wrought a
wide-spreacl revolution in' the tex-
tile trade, and an equally striking
effect will be produced by the man
who perfects the means of pm -eh -m-
ing ,a ohe•ap artificial wool. The
margarine of to -day is as dissimilar
from that of 1870 as chalk is from
cheese, a result doe to the wonder-
ful coneentr•ation of energy for
whioh the achievement of Mega
Mutinies was directly responsible.
CLASS DISTINCTION.
What the War This - Done- to Make
Britain Democratic.
one teaspoonful of onion juice, two
tablespoonfuls of olive oil, four ta-
blespoonfuls of red wine vinegar.
Method : Rub first four "ingredients
together until smooth, then stir in
the vinegar slowly, beating all the
time.
Useful Hints.
Beans ai'e the most nutritious of
all vegetables.
Whiting and ammonia, are best for
cleaning nickel.
Every collar 'haulm he aired and
canned often.
As a rule meats containing much
fat are not wholesome.
Dates ,can he stuffed with cream
cheese filled with nuts.
Potato water is good to remove
mud stains from cloth.
Good mutton should be bright red
in color, with firm, white fait.
Fine net of the sort used for cur-
tains can be cut up for boudoir
caps,
If you sprinkle salt on mushrooms
before they are evoked it will bring
out the juece.
Nice little rounded ,aprons may be
out from the goal book of a man's
worn out shirt.
To keep white paint blight, rub
it with a *lean kerosene cloth after
the ordinary cleaning.
Sprinkle the top of the pie with
cold wate=r b•efor, baking; it will
make the crust nuor•e flaky.
Water in whioh potatoes have
been boiled is the best thing with
wiheeh •to sponge and revive a sills
dress.
Remember apple jelly own be
made at any time through the win-
ter, and is particularly good in the
children's school sandwiches.
Tongue forsandwioh filling should
be mixed floe and rubbed to a paste
with maelied boiled eggs, seasoned
with vinegar and butter.
For milk that has become scorched
the taste eney be restored again by
standing it in a pan of .cold voter to
which a pinch of salt has been add-
ed,
The quickest way to stone raisins
is to pias the 1 'sins Oen a tin in
the oven until they are heated
through, then split them open and
the stones are easily removed.
When ironing circular centre-
pieces or tablecloths see that the
iron moves with the straight gratin
of the cloth, for it is in this. way
only that bhe edges will be perfect-
ly flat,
To render pork •sausa'ee more di-
•gestible, thoroughly prick the sau-
sages and plunge into boiling water
for five minutes, after which they
may be fried in the usual wry.
Here is an excellent way to keep
'8arniehed paint bright and glean
looking : Dill. a oheeseolabh bag with
flaxseed and .state it in water for a
few 'hours. Then wipe the paint
with it,
One certain result of the war will
be a more democratic Britain. Oon-
stitutionally we have been subject
to the will of the masses since 1882,-
but
882,but the plass spirit has survived to
an amazing degree, and this war is
going to end it, writes Ella Hep-
worth Dixon.
An army in which everyone has
volunteered, from 'colliers and
shopmen bo members of the Bache-
lors' and the Wellington, in which
all these heterogeneous elements
are fighting side by side and shar-
ing good and evil alike—this army
is not coming home again with.
quite bhe same ideas as when it
started. The poor will assuredly
lose some of their absurd preju-
dices about the rich; the rich will
be more understanding about :the
difficulties and temptations of the
populace, You .cannot lie shoul-
der to shoulder :with another man
in a wet trench ,for days and nights
on end, ;facing hourly death, with-
out finding out his good 'points.
The classes and masses, Britain
and India, the home :country and
the Dominions, ere being brought
together in the hour of trial asthey
have never been before, There is
now bub one Empire, and we sheuld
be able to forget our class distinc-
tions as well + as the divisions of col-
or and race.
It is the same with the women at
home. They have given of their
beet, and have shown a care and
sympathy for the women. of the low-
er olasses • which would not have
been possible a few year, ago, when
charity and district -visiting were
the only form of social service which
we practiced.
It le not too much to say that in.
1915 'we :shall find ourselves in a
different •world.
When darning ,bookings min a Two heads are 'better than one—
thread round oadh bole ;before be- 10 a Waiting nabob,
CLIMATES ORANGE)).
How Some Countries Dawe .Altered
Their Weather,
One of •the•diffieulties in the path
of nee oeunbr]es is that vees, often
tikue, climate is not juet the sunt
needed for successful agrietylture.
But •balance is altering all that,
Climates ae being changed every Les*<on V. The. Birth " of Sa'rrison,
Year,•'graduadly but surely, ;Judge 13.8.16; 24. 25. Golden
The 'meet; common difficulty is
ussually'too small a•r;•ainfall, Many Text, J"dg. 13, 4.
oountries have each severe droughts Versa 8. Let the elan of God
that if alto tiny mineral es the were veliom thou didst s'e'nd come again
just an molt or two less. the soil
would be impossible to cultivate, unto u•s, and teeth as,•—Manoah is
and- the who's country weuld be- .eartionbarly cooceibned about the.
come a d'esenit, visib whioh hie wife, received frcan'
It is in Gases like these that the the 'angel •of the Lord•, Ile is o tie-.
climate=maloer steps in. Where lack vout.man. His faith as stirred; He
of rain is the trouble, he is .usually has" a real desrh':e to learn more
the Government's botanical or for- about the wonderful :thing that is to
estry expert. Has seldom is to happen. 1 -le dices not doubt that a
plant' trees, For, strange as it may child will be born unto ;him and hie
seem,trees Merewee' the rainfall. wife who wi11., take a prominent.
Thy do this. in two waye. The P1aoe in the history of hie people,
leaves of trees are always—owing and he wants to know, long before
to their chemical snake-up—cooler the earningof the child, bow he is
than the surrounding atmosphere, to be taught and what particularly
and so help ;to bring down whet, is to be•done that he may properly
moisture there is in the, air; much fulfill the functions that ;are to be
as a old mountaintop brings down line. • Thishns desire of the future father
earn. cmThen, too;- the roots help to to be thoroughly :inform•ed, so that
keep the; moisture in the, soil 'when when the time arrives he will be
the rain has :actually fallen, instead ready immediatelyto begin the
of lettingit' besuekedit a cineby traaiung of the ohrild, Is a splendid.
p g instance of the import'anoe which
the Jewisih fath:e•r placed upon his
duty to his ohilelren, and also shows
the implicit faith the ancient He-
brews had in God, who is the tree,
for of all human life.
10, And 'the woman made :haste
and .ran and: told her husband.—The
wife of Manoah did not desire, to be
alone when the angel spoke. She
knew the conoern of her husband
and oleo. the anuportanee of the duty
that mxould,be laid upon iter; hence
she oeaxi.$ed Manoah,to be present,
So that he, too, could hear and
Would .be able to ;help her in the
days of preparation for the coming
of the child and his proper nurture.
11. And he said unto him, Art
thou the man that .spaJ:est unto the
woman 1.— Manoalt wanted to be sure
that it was the same visitor. He
wanted to have the same message
direct from him as his wife had re-
ceived it.
12. Now let thy words come to
pass: what elhald be the ordering of
the child and• how .shaill -we do unto
hinl—Manoah insisted that the
whole story should be retold; the
inatruotion should again be given
with explicitness, so that he, too,
would know •w•Ihet had been said• in
the first instance to •his wife. •
'13. And the angel of Jehovah said
unto MMlanoah, Of all that I said um
to, the aointun let fuer beware,—The
THE SUNOA Y SGII031. STUDY
INTERN ANN NAL LESSON.,
JAN VARY 31,
the •bot ,pun, •
The eucalyptus,• or gumtree;' is
the great weapon of the rainmaker;
and it was recently announced that
the Central 'Pacific' Railwayc,'whioh
passes through- a,huge, fiat desert
east of the Rockies, has had gum-
trees planted for hundreds of miles
along the line to lessen droughts.
Malaria and mosquitoes are two
other plagues in hot climates. The
eucalyptus tackles them, too. The
tannic acid in the roots drives m;a-
larin away, The mosquitoes just
disappear.
The planting of trees—afforesta-
tion-it is ealled—is done by the cli-
mate -maker for other Purposes.
Tree' make a climate' milder and
shelter exposed regions. Spain bas
for centuries reeklessly used up. its
Creat forests till it is now bare,
with titre result that its climate has
become very extreme, Spoilt being
nowadays scorchingly hat in the
summed; like the Sahara, and very
Bold in the winter.
Drainage is another weapon of the
man who makes climates. The
draining of marshy ground not only
adds great tracts to the agricultural
wealth of the country, but raises
the tempej`ature of what, is other-
wise a moist and unhedlthy region.
The reason is that water or ma.reh
sloes net ,Treat up ander sunshine as
dry land does
The object of t} large scheme of former rnersage is have assumed,
drainage is as often to make the rind the warning given that all that
climate healthier as to benefit agri-
culture. Marshland means ague
and malaria.
There are exceptions. - The bogs
that cover eo large a part of Ire-
land , are
re-land,are quite healthful, owing to
the .amount of tannic acid they con-
tain. So experiments are being
made in different parts of the world
shame sheshould take heed bo ob-
serve.
14. She may not eat of any thing
that oometh of .the vine, neither let
her drink -wine or strong drink, nor
,'eat any. unclean thing.—These sae
the outstanding things that the nu-
lled commanded and which he
as to. the effect, on uncln•ainable again emphasized particularly.
swamps, of injecting huge quant'- These were nit all of the things,
ties of tannic acid. however, which he bed said to the
But if Ireland's bogs were .scion- wife. He :adds again, therefore,--
tifiicaldy drained, that cauntr ail that I commanded her let her
world, according to an Australian observe.
climate -adjuster, have summers five Samson was to be a Nazirite, as
degrees hotter than she has now.
Samwee Eater aa (seeSean. 1, 11).
4 A azirwtisrn wasthe outcome of mac -
NA VAJOS FEAR THE DEAD. tion :against the disastrous influence
which Canaanibislh heathenism had
Bodies are Got Rid of as (joielcly exercised against the Hebrew reli
as Possible. gime It was particularly a reaction
against the w-ans+hip and eustom•s of
A practice of the Navajo Indians Canaan. (See Num. 6). In later
that promotes health among them, times the prophets looked upon the
however repugnant it may be to us, Nazirites es a class ref men whom
is their '•disposition of the dead., Jehovah especially raised up to keep
says the Christian Herald. In ;the alive in Israel the true religion of
presence of the living the Navajo is Jehovah. (See Amos 2, 11).
without fear, birt +his terror of the 15. And. Manoah said . . , let us
dead is abject and unreasoning. The detain thee, that we may make
dead are believed to be possessed ready a kid for thee.—he Hebrew
only of malevolent feelings towards instinct of hospitality shows itself
the survivors, with unlimited pow- strongly in this passage, as in so
err for working evil upon those who many other similar passages in Old
carelessly place themselves within Testament history. ""
the power of the spirits. 16. Though thou detain me.—Ib
So when any one dies, the only will be remembered how Jacob
anxiety of the surviving relatives is wrestled with the angel, trying to
to get rid of the body as quickly as hold him, and succeeded to the
possible. If -there are any. white point of suffering physical injury.
alien living in the n•eighboo' hood, an It would seem as though here again
effort is . made to induce them to the angel of the Lord indicated
perform 'the offices of undertaker• that he might be detained by Mance
If not, the disposition 'of ;the body all, but even 'though Manoah did
depends somewhat upon circum- press the prerogatives of the host to
stances. If the Bogan—the modern their limit and detain the guest, yet
wigwam.—ia built of wood, it is set he would not -east of the bread which
on fire and burned with the body in should be prepared,
it. If of stone, the body is usually If thou wilt melee ready a burnt -
taken outside, the emtranoe• to the offering, thou must offer it unto
hogan dosed up with stones or Jehovah.—It would seem that a. oer-
sticks, and a hole nnade in the wall Iain seal of :aruthority was to be
opposite to permit the evil epirits• P'la'ced upon the woa+de which the
to enter and depart, and to warn stranger had spoken by the words
passers by that the structure be_ which he now •spake concerning the
longs to the dead, burnt -offering; whioh would andi-
I£ the death occurred in a rocky tate to Manoah that be load been
country, ;the body will likely be to- entertaining a heavenly visitor.
ken to some orevioe and thrown into We read in verse 22 that Manoah
it. It may he left uncovered, to be- became fearful when he discovered
come the prey of wolves and: coy- that he had been in the. presence of
otos, or sticks and stones may be the amgol of the Lord, and he said,
met over it. If the family lives in with great trepidation to his wife,
a sandy part of the reservation:, "We have s lssllen Gsnu sorely-
Butdie
tune iese we
with no nearby,
the
crevices or of ,his wife led her to show more
on
chasms nearby; -chs body will be laid
upon' the eand, a tittle earth and judgment, for she said, "If If Jello
some stones shown open it, and a rah were pleased to 'kill us, he
pile of brash ]aid over all. would part have eeceived a burnt
S. offering and a meal offering cit our
"The sun is all verywell," said hand, neither would he have skuow-
+ ed US all these things nor would• at
the Irishman, "hilt the moon is bluffs the have take saclt thin ae
worth two of it, for the moon al- these," gs
fords light in the night time when 24. And the woanan bare a Ban,
we want it,whereas the sun is with and calleth his name Samsosi Phe
us in the day time when we have " " • •
H*btxw of Sampson is Shlmaftton,
nb occasion for it."
Prince Albert.
A new photograph taken just before
he rejoined H.M.S. Collnngwood,
mesh,"., and means "the sun."
This name given to Samson would
indicate that he ,vas of ai sunny and
happy it&spasition. All, Hebrew
names, as.- indioatecl in 'a former
lesson, have appeliative meanings.
Jacob moans "supplanter"; Be•nla-
nurn means "the son of the right-
hand" • Jerubbaal (Gideon), "Beia1
oontenda." See also 1 Sant. 28. 26,
where the foolish husband of Abi-
gail is named Naba1, which means
"fool." • '
25. Mahaneb -dam. Mahaneh
means "camp." Mahaney-dan,
therefore, means the damp .of Dan.
This camp wee between Zorah and
Eshbaol. These two places, Zorah
and Eshtaol, were two of the towns
of the tribe of Dan, and they were
far from the sea.
THE CREUSOT WORKS.
Guts Turned Out A- re Most Deadly
in the World.
The guns used by the French army
are turned out by the hundred at
the famous Creusot works. The'his-
tory of these works, as well known
as those of Krupp in Germany or
Armstrongs in England, says Pear -
son's Weekly, reads like aromance.
The first mention of Creusot, un-
der the waane of "Villa de Crosot,"
oecwrs as early es 1253. It was then
a simplefarni. It is now a town of
30,000' inhabitants.
In the sixteenth century Boal was
discovered at C•rensot, though it
was not until 200 years later that
e eompany was formed to, mine it.
Gradually iron works were erected the German war leaders in the last
there and the m.anufaeture of guns
three weeks. That is, the general
pine is no longer hidden.
To understand this one has. to
know by pees-ureaexperiencethe
awful hatred that has turned old
public opinion in Germany into one
c'hain'el and with hutone objective
o-Tngland
GERMANY'S GREATEST HOPE
PLANS TO INVADE ENGLAND
tN
TRENEAR i U`L'U1U8.
No Sacrifice Will Be Too Terrible
by the German People to
ADM!' Their Ends.Merles
Ub rles ht, Wheeler, staff corns
pondemt Of the Chicago Tribune,
leas written a review of the war
situation from Aachen, Germany, in
which he says: „
Military experts,subbaehes, jour-
nalists, authors, shert story writer'
and "Tominies" back from,. the
trenches have discussed the future
of the war.
Ae an American reporter, one
who has observed, the change that
has taken place in Germany in the
last few weeks, permit me not only
to discu':s the new objective of the
German army but to indicate about
where the first great battle may
take plats and what its immediate
results may be.
This forecast is based on things
I have seen, movements of troops,
ehenge of bases, preparations for
the big battle, and the new domi-
nating motive of all general plans of
Nue-German empire—the all com-
prehending motive of terrible hate
for England.
Plants to Invade England.
m
Gerany plans to invade Eng-
land—a plan that will be supported
by a public opinion in the father-
land withoutaegard to, the hazard,
the • ultimate result, or the slough -
ter that must reach a, bewildering
total,
- The date, based`on personal ob-
servations and 'interviews through- operations,
oirt' Belgium and in the frontier Last week one of the longest of
towns of Germany, and a certain I the Olympwc's lifeboats was :wash-
-alleged intuitive sense suggest that ed ashore on Lough Swilly, near
the supreme battle of theconflict, Dunree Fort, and was immediately
beside ,which the clashes already taken in charge by the naval au -
occurring will be secondary, both ahorities,
with respect to the number of men The King lies approved Dublin
engaged and the casualties, may be +Cast'le being placed at the disposal
fought somewh.ere within the tri- of the city of Dublin branch of the
angle described by Ostend an tale 'British Red Cross Society as an
Flemish coast, Calais on the. French emergency Red •Cross hospital.
front, and Lille as the apex. While a number of boys were en -
Plans No Longer Ridden. gaged in a mimic war in a field ad -
To the so-called military experts jacent to the town of Monaghan,
this forecast may appear presume_ one boy, Francis McFadden, son of
tuous. Yet it may be here set down
Mr, Henry McFadden, urban coun-
with perfect propriety that the aver- cillor, was accidentally shot and
age reporter's. prediction of events severely injured.
not far off in this Armageddon is The Norwegian steam trawler
about as good a guess a3 any. Mili- Neva was taken into Fleetwood un -
tory science, as the experts would der an armed naval escort, charged
understand it, in a measure 'has with having been engaged laying
been thrown to the Um winds by mines to the north of Ireland,
A very rare bird, a honey buzzard
(Peru's apivorus) has been shot at
Knock, Belfast, by Mr, Herbert T.
!Ilialcomsan, of Knock, It was a
yongditunn:n,ale bird and in excellent
a'nu
Among the many lives lost in the.
disaster to H.M.S. Bulwark, i as
that of Captain Herbert Claude
Morton, R.M.L.I„ only sun ..f the
late Mr. John Ellis Morton of
County Cavan.
Private James Copeland, of the
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, wound-
ed at Mons, has been invalided
home to his mother in Newry.
Amongst the officers ;who have
been appointed Companions of the
Distinguished Service Order, are'
Captain Reginald John Kentish,
1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers,
and Lieutenant Gerald Beige Fer-
guson Smyth, 17th Company Royal
'Engineers, both of Ulster.
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS EY NAIL FROM IRE,
LAND'S SHORES,
Rappenings In the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish.
men.
The 'Berl oaf ,Courtown has just
died at his residence, Courtown
House,'Gerey, County Wexford, at
the age of 91 years.
The Limerick ;Constabulary re- `
cantly seized all eopies of "Irish.
Freedom" which they found at the
various newsdealers in the city,
The death is announced of the
Earl of Erne, the well-known Irish
peer. His suecessor, Vise cunt
Crichton, is se (present a prisoner of
war in Germany. •
Eggs have been sold :by weight in
Ireland for many years, ever since
the Daniell method was introduced.
It is stated that there are now
140,000 Irishmen serving under the
British flag.
Lord Kitchener has been appoint-
ed colonel of the Irish Guards, as
successor to Field Marshal Lord
Roberts.
One Dublin paper has been raided
and another has suspended, in view
of threats to raid it made by the
authorities.
The death has occurred, at his
residence in Cork, of Sir Daniel
Hogarty. Deceased was 65 years of
age and was the first Lord Mayor of
Cork, being installed in 1900.
A shunter at Waterford West
railway station named John Rowe
was killed instantly during shunting
started. •
In 1838 the works were bought by
the Brothers Schneider, and it is a
significant fart that the German
name of Schneider was to _ become
the great rival of Krupp, the great
Geranan gtun makers. From that
date down to the present time the
Creusot guns began to be.comc fam-
ous.
The great superiority of the
French gun lies in its stability and
in the fact that it will stand ex-
treme hard wear. To show its won-
derful stability, it may be men-
tioned that a. glass of water placed
on the rim of the wheel •of the gun
remains unspilled alter the shot has
been fired.
This extraordinary feat; imposssi-
ble in the case :of most guns, has
been made possible by the clever
application of a special recoil brake
which Krupp :alevayss declared could
not be fitted for field artillery. It
was adapted at th, Creusot works,
however, and that is one point
where the. French guns are superior
to the German.
Another feature of the °retieot
guns is what is known as the recu-
perator, which causes the gun to
return to its firing position. The
force used is compressed air, pos-
sessing the advantage over many of
the Krupp gums, in which springs
are used, that it never wears out or
loses its "spring."
Creusot guns were .used in the
Balkzuns, and army offioerss deolared
afterward that the guns were as
good at the end of the campaign as
before it. Only a short time before
the German experts had criticised
the famous gun as being too compli-
cated ' and delicate for use in actual
war,
The accuracy of fire of these guns
is simply marvellous. Once the
angle is set the gum: continues to
belch forth death with unvarying
'rove French officers, too, are en
expert in their use that they can
split a tree three miles away after
a couple of shots to get the range.
Taken ell :around, the Crousot
guns not only fire more quickly than
the Krupp weapons, but they are
lighter and easier to move about.
They ere fee mere accurate and they
Iast longer. There are font Crousot
guns in a battery, eaich• gun firing
an average of twenty rounds a min-
ute.
Occasionally we meet a man who
]oaks as: if he :had tried to preserve
his dignity an alcohol,
You etan't elw.ays tell. Otcasion-
ally the toughest boy in the neigh-
borhood grows up and ;beeomee a
minister,
About three weeks after ina•rriage
a woman diecoverrs that bhe capital
prize in the matrimonial lottery is
winch 000108 from the word "She- still undrawn.
After New Submarine Base.
Germany Iras announced boldly
that it will stake everything on a
dash to Calais and Dunkirk from
the 'east and south and to Nieuport
from the north with the avowed in-
tention of esta,blieliing a new sub-
marine base at the narrowest point
of the channel with which to attack
the English fleet to whittle it down.
Germany will not fight the Eng-
lish fleet with German battleships
under the -present relative arma-
ment. Germany definitely intends
to pit its underseas craft against
English dreadnoughts 'hoping for
snob successful raids in. time as will
seriously cripple the naval power of
the hated antagonist and bring
about a more nearly equal strength.
To cross the English channel, de-
stroy English shipping, invade the
island, raze the coast towns, reduce
London—to do this the German na-
tion to -day would make any sacrifice
humanly posible. Such a program
may „be untenable, but it will ex-
plain the movements of the last
three weeeks and movements that
will be made in the next three or
four weeks. However, a recurrence
of the daring raid succeesfuily shade
on the Bust coast at Scarborough
and Whitby may be expected or at
least attempted.
Ratted is Exti•itordinary.
The hatred felt toward England
by the Gelnnan people passes be-
yond the mere meaning of the word
as used in the ordinary conversa-
tion. This feeling toward Great
Britain pervades the fatherland and
funds lodgement in the breast of vial
the people in the great family of 70,-
000,000 souls,
POINTED PAI1*UIR\PIIS.
Optimism is a good thing when
not overworked,
But a note never falls due at the
proper time.
A oyuie is a person who laughs
while pretending to shed 'tears.
The more relatives a maxi has the
more .he appreciates his friends.
A man isn't necessarily even a
near -genius beeause he wears hie
hair. long,
The ideal hatband exists chiefly
in the mieds of women who never
married, •
Rich relatives are used lby poor
melt as objects at which they •can
paint with pride and expectancy,
Before a ;wise girl attempts to
manage a husband she first acquires
the art of managing a kitchen,
"DEAD" MAN TURNS UP.
Sergeant Reported as Killed' Comes
Back and Asks For Pay.
Officially entered on the WarOf-
fioce rolls as dead over bus months
ago, Serge. C, Bennett, of the Nor-
folk Regiment, has had to prepare
documentary proof of being alive in
order to obtain his pay.
The sergeant was wounded at the
outbreak of the 'tear. On his dis-
charge from tate hospital he went
home to regain his strength. A few
Keays ego, 'he took a trip to his regi-
mental headquarters and applied
for his back pay. His major, who
knew him well, regretted that he
was unable to do anything, since it
is no army custom to pay dead men.
men,
Bennett is now obtaining affidav-
its from this former employer, his
pastor and the police to convince
the War Office that he is still alive
and entitled to .pay,
Story of "Bobs."
Many stories of Lord Roberts are
cureent to this day in the oaolton-
me•nts of India, Tide is one: The
captain of a, regiment had outrun
the eonetabl•e, and his debts,
amounting to some R,s,8,000 were
reported to the Commander -in -
Chad. There was an interview and
the young officer was told sternly
that enough g at h, o had a-anallth in
whioh to square up. The days went,;
on .and enc was hopeless. He decid-
ed to send in his papers goad had ac-
tually ' entered upon• the formality
of doing.so•when, lo 1 one fine morn-
ing on hie return frons parade, he
found a bulky parcel, awaiting him,
Opened, it was found to contain"
discharged hill, anal promissory
notes. "Bobs" knew his mast and
decided •to save hint. And the man
who. was saved has since died glor
lonely far England,