The Brussels Post, 1915-4-22, Page 2A
Mots for the Home
and ,Ge.rzuan governments made an
Lagreement by 'which Germany en -
IN gaged to recognize a protectorate
o£ Great Britain' over the islands of
Zanzibar and Pemba, and the do-
minions of the Sultan of Witu end
the adjacent territory:up to Kisina-
yu; and Great Britain engaged to
cede He'lagoland, to Germany, The
Weeds were fortified in the days'
of the British occupation, but the
Germans have greatly strengthen-
ed the works since they got posses-
sion of them. They have replaced
the British batteries by armed tur-
rets mounting guus of heavy call-
ber, and they have spent largs sums
on the harbor works, Heligoland is
one of the strongest strategic de-
fences of the short but marvelously
protected German coast on the
North Sea,
The sea, however, is steadily
wearing Heligoland away. In 800
A.D. it was 120 miles in eircum£er-
ence. By 1300 it had decreased to a
circumference of forty-five miles,
and by 1649 it covered only lour
square miles. At present it is
scarcely one-third of one square
mile in area,
The Galilee
Selected Recipes.
Eggs with Tomatoes,—Chop one-
Ira1f of a pound of fat mutton, and
fry it rare with butter. Add: one
pound of tomatoes that have been
peeled and cut up. Season the mix-
ture with salt and pepper. When
the meat and tomatoes are almost
clone, acld three eggs, and cook the
whole a little longer,
Sand 'Pests (Peanut:).—Ru'b' ane
heaping cupful of 'butter into four
cupfuls of flour• and two cupfuls of
sugar. Moisten the mass witch, two
eggs well beaten. Roll it thin on a
tin sheet, and brush it over with
egg. Sprinkle it with sugar, cin-
namon, and pounded peanuts, Cut
it into squares, and bake them un-
til they are brown. •
Puree of Dried Peas' with Sam
sages.—Put the peas into cold wa-
ter the night before, In the morn-
ing put them into a pot with one-
half of a pint of tepid water, and
season them with salt, pepper and
thyme. Add an onion and a little
bacon; or if the bacon is not at
hand, use buttes. Cook the mix-
ture slowly one-half of an hour,
crush it, 'strain it, and serve it
with small fried sausages.
An Army Stew.—Scald one red
pepper and remove the seeds. Then
chop the pepper, one small onion,
and a clove• of garlic together fine,
and mix thein, in a pan with one
tablespoonful of butter. Add three
tablespoonfuls of tomato catchup,
one tablespoonful of Worcester-
shire sauee, and one and one-half
tablespoonfuls of water. Make this
mixture into a thick gravy, add cut-
up cold meat, and heat thoroughly.
Soft Cakes.—Rab ore -half of a
pound of butter and one-quarter of
a pound of sugar into a pound of
flour into which two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder have been well
sifted, Add one teaspaunful each
of ground nutmeg and cinnamon,
and currents or raisoins. Stir in
a very little milk, and enough pre-
serve juice of any desired flavor to
make a batter that will just pour.
Bake the calces in small, shallow
pans in what oven.
Seallop Chowder.—Use one quart
of scallops par'boi'led twenty min-
utes in boiling water. Take three
slices of salt pork and two onions
cut up very fine, and fry thela to a
delicate brown. Pare six good-
sized
ood •sized potatoes, and slice them thin.
Put the pork, the onions, and the
potatoes into three pints of milk,
cook them until the potatoes are
tuft, add two tablespoonfuls of but-
ter; salt aid pepper to taste. Add
the scallops (which, ]•f large should
be cut into small pieces). When
they are cooked remove the dish
from the fire, pour the chowder in-
to a tureen, and put browned but-
ter crackers on top. This recipe
will make about three quarts of
chowder.
Pal stint Soup.—Take three doz-
en fresh artichokes, peel them, and
put them at once into cold water.
After they have stood a few min-
utes place therm, in a stewpan with
four anions, the outer sticks of a
head of celery, and three pints of
white stock, Let the whole simmer
gently for an hour. Remove the
onions and strain the artichokes
and the liquor through' a sieve ; put
the puree back into the stewpan.
and when it is hot, stir in a pint of
hot cream, or, if ,yon prefer, a mix-
ture of ereaan and milk. Season
the soup with white pepper, salt,
and a little nutmeg. Let it simmer
fur a ininute or two, and, serve it.
Send it to the table with fried
bread cut into small dice. The
quantity is .sufficient for six per -
suns.
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The Northern Gibraltar.
It only a quarter of it, century,
writes a. contributor to the Field
since Heligoland was an English
possession. A British force seized
the barren rock in 1807, during
hostilities with Denmark, which
used to own it; and such was its
strategical importance that Eng-
land insisted on keeping it at the
end of the war.
Heligoland is opposite the mouths
of the Elbe and Weser rivers, and
is twenty-eight miles from the near-
est point on the mainland. There
are really two islands, and they are
important because they command
the approaches to Hamburg and
.Bremen, and the entrance to the
Kiel Canal.
The main island is a huge rock
about a mile in 'length by some five
hundred yards wide, with steed red
cliffs that rise two hundred feet
above sea level. A channel a quay-
ter of a mile wide separates the
main •rock from •a little islet called
Sand Islet or Dunen-Insel, The
landing place is .at the .south-east
corner of the island, where a sandy
spit;oalled .the Unterland is con-
nected with the tap of the tc'liffs, or
Oberland, by a long flight of steps
and an elevator. There is a resi-
cient population of nearly 'four
tho•tisand, and during the summer
menthe forty thousand holiday meat.
ors visit Heligoland for the'bath-
ing from the 'done."
The German occupation dates
froie 1890, le that year the British
New is the time to/tend to our
dahlias. If you already have the
tubers, bring therm out of the sand
in which you stored them, put them
in a light, warn; place and water
them.
In a surprisingly short time there
will be dozens of sprouts. There
are two ways of planting the
sprouts, and both have the stanch-
est supporters.
One is to cut a sprout about four
inches long just below a leaf joint
at an acute angle, stick the cutting,
or sprout, into sharp sand, keep
well watered until it is rooted and
then plant in a pot of rich earth,
and never let it get too dry.
The other is to cut a piece of the
tuber, allowing it to have only one
sprout, and plant it in a pot of half
rich earth, hall sand.
While the second method is a, lit-
tle the easier, better success may
perhaps be had with the first meth-
od.
Keep the pots in a sunny window,
or, better still, in a cold frame.
When the weather is warm and set-
tled, usually from the 10th to the
20th of May, plant your dahlias
where they are to grow, setting
them deep in the ground. Drive a
stout five-foot stake beside each
plant. Break off any side shoots
that appear until the plant is about
eighteen inches tall, then let it
bi'a•nch as it will•
Tie it firmly to the stake, culti-
vate it frequently—that is, stir the
soil around the roots of the plant,
water during the dry season—and
you will be rewarded with a wealth
of bloom.
Nothing in literature is mare
fascinating than a seed catalogue,
and the descriptions of the different
varieties of dahlias is like seeing
some oriental pageant all glorious
with color.
Do buy a few dahlias this year,
even though s-ou have many, for
each year they grow more beauti-
ful; and if you follow one of the
above methods your dahlias will
be really as beautiful as the cata-
logue descriptions.
4•
The Royal Fusiliers.
No regiment in the British army
was more favored with recruits on
the outbreak of the war than the
Royal Fusiliers. The regiment has
Aq honorahle history. It was rais-
ed in London in 1685 by command
of King James II. to guard the ord-
nance of the army, and its members
being armed with a firearm known
as the fusil, the title of Fusiliers
arose. In those days the Fusiliers'
coats were of scarlet, faeed with
yellow, the :breeches gray and the
cap tall and of yellow cloth.
In its early clays the regiment
underwent many changes. Three
years after its formation it ceased
to perform its special duties in con-
nection with artillery and was rank-
ed among the infantry regiments of
the crown. Later the- Fusiliers
served as marines, and as such
fought in the 'battle with the Span-
ish fleet of :Messina in 1718.
The ,peninsular war provided the
Fusiliers with an opportunity to
prove their merit. The names of
every important battle during that
campaign figure on the, colors of the
regiment, It was the individual
gallantry of the Fusiliers at Al'bue-
ra which won a victory for the Eng.
lish, although the Britishers suffer-
ed terrible losses. The second bat-
talion of the regiment had to be
sent home to England to recruit its
thinned ranks, but the first batta-
lion remained with Wellington• and
added to the laurels of the Fusiliers
at the victorious battles of ,Sala-
manca and Vittoria.
The words "Alma," "Inker-
mann" and "Sevastopol" on the
calors of the Fusiliers tell of the
heroic part the regiment played in
the 'Crimea. In- Afghanistan the
Fusiliers were part of the force shut
up in Kabul, and were relieved by
the late Lord Roberts,
A Whole Fancily.
"What ata ,you doing there with
the paper and scissors, Elsie?"
'Malting a pig, mamma."
A pig 1 You're making a lit-
ter."
Transporting Pote toes Through Streets of Berlin in Government Traits.
Since the Government has taken hold of the food supply of Germany, there has been a remarkable
economy inprovisions and foods in general, Nota particle of food is allowed to go to waste, By this
means Germany hopes to be able to oonmbat England's food blockade. The picture shows three street
ears filled 'with bags of potatoes on the way to a municipal food- depot in Berlin, •
r�:+rcr..m,� rmmmT; pal
While the Whistle
Blew,
At ten o'clock on a black night in
January Rufe Clemens sculled his
little punt out' toward the dint,
yellow riding light that .showed on
the Gleneoe. The dredge lay in
the middle of Henan harbor, right.
over Sculpin- Rock, or at least what
was left of it.
Rule was Ales engineer on the
Glencoe, and was the only man who
bunked aboard. That night he had,
talcen -supper ashore with his cou-
sin, Jerry Sprague, who had urged
him to stay until! morning.
"Much obliged, Jerry," he. said,
"but I must be getting aboard the
dredge. I've got to have steam, up
extra early to -morrow morning."
It wee a, rough trip out, and Rufe
felt relieved when he at last got
aboard her,
Fifty feet to leeward another
square-sterned craft, with a two-
story deck house. rose and fell on
the seas. It was the drill •boat,
Volley Forge, all black except for
her snow -blurred riding light. Her
crew had gone to bed.
Rufe made his puntfast, and
hastene'd to get into his snug bunk
in the fireroom. Before many min-
utes had passed', he had dropped,
into a- sound sleep.
Some time in the night he dream-
ed he was in an earthquake on the
coast of Peru. Pretty soon the
quakings began to seem so real
that Rufe awoke. The first thing
he became aware of was a loud,
continuous whistling—Whoo-oo-oo!
Bump! What was that ? The
whole dredge shivered; every bons
in Rufe's body felt the tremor. He
started up, and now fully awake,
realized that the screeching whis-
tle was close aboard.
Rufe threw off his blankets and
sprang from his bunk. Without
waiting to strike alight, he pulled
on his trousers. Bump! Ib took
him it, moment to find his shoes.
Once again—bump-anp ! Rufe was
bending over, pulling on his second
shoe, and tie shock sent him
sprawling. He could afford to
spend no more time in dressing.
Jumping up, he ran out, with his
shoestrings hanging loose. He did
not have time even to pub on his
coat.
The Glencoe had drifted up har-
bor, and was bumping the Valley
Forge.
The Glencoe, held only by her
bowlines, hada swung round so that
every sea sent her smashing into
the Valley Forge. One thing puz-
zled'hinm, howetier: not a man was
in sight on the drill boat. Where
was her crew 1 Why had they not
put out fenders to stop the boats
from smashing e.aoh other to pieces?
And why was the whistle screeching
so persistently?
Anyway, some one- oughtto do
something. Rife watched his
chance, and a seeend before the
boats crashed together on a high
sea, he leaped aboard the Valley
Forge and :darted into the, boiler
room.
No one was there, From
in the ceiling not far above
ter gauge swung a lights
On the •dangling end of t
cord, which ran from th
stack through. overhead
was tied a brick. That
the incessant screeching;
was holding the valve op
Bump 1 A slight motion
left wall caught Rufe's e,
Between two uprights of
were piled four or five hu
brick.
Rufe noticed that the pi
was several feet wide a
than his head, nc long
plumb. One or two bu
would send them tumbling.
m a hook
the wa-
d lantern.
the, whistle
e smoke-
stack
explained
the brick
en,
along the
eye.
studding
nisi flys
ale, which
and higher
longer stood
romps more
Again the dredge crashed into the
Valley Forge. The pile of bricks
wayed forward, and at the same
sera something rolled on the floor
t its foot,
Ho glanced down, tied a sudden,
erelyzi'ng horror 'swept over him,
Wit under the bricks lay what
eked like two big oamdlee, twenty -
our inches long, ,wrapped in. oiled
aper, Rufe ks,ew that they- were
ticks of dynamite,
If the brieks eases deo'wwtln on those
ticks, the impact would explode
the dynamite with shattering force.
toped in the after hold, only a few
eat away,.were two tone :of dyne-
ite, and that would explode, too,
s
a
1
0
S
The drill boat would be blown to
fragments.
Rule took two leaps across the
room, se the dredge and the drill
boat eraehed together, the 'wall of
bricks bowed toward him. He flung
himself desperately forward, with
arms outstretched, and jamming his
whole body hard against the tot-
tering pile, crowded it back with
his hands, his shoulders, and his
chest. The bricks resisted. He
could hold them where they were—
for a time; but he could not push
them back into place.
The, boat heaved. One of the
deadly cyinders rolled against the
engineer's foot, Ile looked down,
and saw that theme were three
stieks now. He did not know what
to do. If he took his hands from
the wall for a single ,second the
bricks might tumble. Would he
have time to pick up the stiolcs and
get away safely? He decided that
the risk was too great.
Where had that third stick come
from? He twisted his head round.
Across the floor an open di naanite
box ]ay on its side, and behind it
was another box. It was customary
to keep two or three cases of dyna-
mite in the boiler room, so that
the explosive might be warm
enough to use in cold weather.
Iiufe saw what had happened. The
upper box had been opened, and
its cover laid' loosely back upon it.
Jarred forward by successive
bumps, it had tipped off and spilled
its contents. Even as Rufe looked,
another stick rolled out. That made
four of the deadly sticks rolling
loose at his .feet.
Then came .two crashes; the first
was made, by the Glencoe's bump-
ing the drill boat, but the second
was caused by something else.
Could the drill boat be pounding
on the bottom? Impossible! Then
he remembered her "spuds,"
The spuds—two forty -foot sticks
of hard pine, twelve inches square,
with heavy iron caps on their ends
—ran up and down through wells in
the 'boat. When dropped on .the
bottom, like a pair of huge stilts,
they held the boat immovable in
one spot, so that the drills could
work accurately. Evidently, at
the close of the day's work, the
spuds had been hoisted only a, little
way off the ledge; and now, in the
dead -'low tide and.the heavy sea,
they were hitting with a terrific jar
every time the boat dropped into
the trough of the waves.
Rule understood everything now.
When the Glenne had begun, to
hurl her lumbering tons against the
Valley Forge only a few feet from
the dynamite stacked in the hold,
time captain and his men had be-
come panic-stricken. They had not
seen Rufe return to the. dredge, and
thought that he was safe ashore..
So, after tying the brick to the
whistle cord to 'hold the valve open•
in order to alarm the tug, they had,
abandoned the boat. The stick; of
dynamite had no doubt got loose
after the men had gone.
A cascade of spray sloshed
against the house. The unlatched •
door slammed open, ,and a cold
blast struck Rufe'e neck. As he•
pitted his strength against the top-
pling bricks, all sorts of schemes
for meeting the situation ran
through his head; but he dismissed
them„ one by one, as impossible. He
could not dispose of the pile by
throwing brick after brick from the
top, for he did not dare to take
away his hands from 'their present
position.
The spuds were hammering hard-
er, lifting, dropping, It mast be 1
the dead slack of the. ebb. The
shocks from the Glencoe camme like
the blowy of a battering ram.
Rufe's teeth chattered. Dynamite, i
was nneertain stuff. It might
stand no end of pounding; again,
any one of those bumps might be g
the last; —
The wall of bricks still- pushed
steadily against him. While he ,b
held it baek in one place, it pressed h
forward in another. He could feel
it surge against hd,s•ohest and force
him back little by able. Ea.oh s
chock from the Glencoe or the
spuis made a slight change in the n
position of emery brink. The, wall
was hard. too 'hold) in place, because d
it was made up of so many separate a
units. Rufe braced imirm•self and
etiffened his body, but he milked
Chet in spite of hien ,the pine noes
in the end come down. The best
he could, hope to do would bo to
delay Oa fell until help ,should ar-
rive. Surely that bellowing whistle
must swan bring the Damocles out 1
If only they could know the need
of lmaetc !
Hark ! Was not another whistle'
blending with that of the Valley.
Foree1 He strained his .ears.
Again came the sound, louder,
nearer. Yes; here was the Damo-
cles at last. Gritting bus teeth,
he summoned every ounce of his
strength in an effort to hold the
bricks back until the inen from the
tug could reach him.
Quick ! Quick ! Surely they'm•ust
be near enough now to hear him.
He shouted hoarsely, "Help! Help!
Help l"
Too late! The pile would fall be-
fore help could come. Its weight
was bending him backward. His
eyes fell again on the oiled ,paper
rolls on the floor. With his feet
he tried to push them gently back
out of the way; but he could not
do it.
Out on the dredge lie heard
voices. Now he wished that he had
let the bricks drop at first; then
he would net have made others
share his death. He tried' to warn
them:,
"Keep off l Beep off 1"
But he •could not make them hear.
His strength was almost gone. Ten
seconds mors, perhaps not so
many! He looked down again.
For the moment the four sticks of
dynamite day close together in an
area sma.11 enough to be covered by
his body. The next bump might
disarrange them. In' a. flash Rufe
saw his chance.
Tearing his hands from the wally
and throwing them up to protect.
his head, he dropped on his knees
and arched his body over the dyna-
mite. Down came the 'bricks in a
rumbling avalanche. Rufe held his
breath. The showering bricks
bruised and hurt him cruelly.
Luckily they did not 'have far to
fall, or they would have kn:ooked
him senseless. He lacy there, half
stunned and pinned down, but
thankful that his body had kept
them from exploding the dynamite.
The Damocles towed the Glencoe
away; and with the rising tide the
spuds of the Valley Forge soon
stopped pounding on the ledge.
Then the crew casae back esu board,
and to their amazement found Rufe:
in the boiler room. He was too
much exhausted cit the time to
make any explanation ; but they
did not need any when they lifted
him from the wreckage and saw
what lay under him.Youtfn's Com-
panion,,
People of Other Lti:nds.
What a strange and interesting
thing nationality is! We see a per
son in the streets, and say—"That
man is a Frei -rob -man; T am sure of
it; look ,at the way he gesticu-
lates." As a Frenchman is known
by his gesticulations, and -an Eng-
lishman by his look of - unconcern
with •everything that, is going Un
around him, so in some way or an-
other every nationality can be dis-
cerned. Very few of us ever pause
to think how a nation gets its char-
acteristics. A great deal depends
upon the climate and geographie'al
situation of a country. The people
of the sunny south are of necessity
more light-hearted and pleasure,
loving than their serious Soothers
an•d sisters of the north. In South-
ern Europe, for instance, men and
women need not work hard in order
to 'live—the neoe,ssaries of life,
bread, vegetables, fruit, are easy
to procure, and as to education
they don't bother their heacle atbout
t—tlmat is to say, the poorer class-
es, In no country in the world are
the people so earnest over their
business as in North America; this
s because life is harder here, com-
petition is great, the climate has
reat extremes, :the cities are
thickly populated; all these things
make life serious. One es apt to
make fun of another, to accuse it of
eing unartistic, having no. sense of
arae, being unpractical, lazy, top
ambitious, and so an, but than is
really because .she does not under -
tend the conditions of the other
titian, Would you he ambitiousif
everything you needed for your
ai:ly life was found near at hand
rid could Abe procured without e£
ort? On the other hand, it is im-
possible to imagine intelligent citi-
zens of large 'cities being unpracti-
eat The, war.is showing what each
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THE SUNDAY SCUDDI STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 25;
Lessen IV, --- David and Goliath.
I Stun. 17. 1-54. Golden
Text, Ilam. 8. 81.
Verse 38, And Saul clad David
with his spperel---A military dress
to w'imiob a sword was attached, It
would seen that Davide was almost
as large as Saul. Otherwise Saul
surely would not have, put hie ar-
mor on the boy. • David undoubt-
edly rattled around in the unusual
and unwieldy corselet and helmet.
This. was due. rather to Ins iuexper-
ienee than to hens size,
39 • I cannot 'go with these; for I
have not proved them — David
knew nothing about warriors' gar-
ments, particularly the equipment
of a king. For the moment hes boy-
ish pride was quickened as the king
put his weapons in hie hand, . But
only for the moment. He knew
that' he could not fight thus weight-
ed down and handicapped. So he
put them off with the respectful
excuse .to Seal that he had not
proved, or tried, such a coat and
helmet and sword',
90. Took his staff in his hand—
Not to fight with, but :because he
always carried it with. him. Even
if Ile did• not lay it aside when he
was ready to use his sling, it would
be no• impediment, but rather a
help to him. The weight in ons
hand w, uld' balance the weight in
the other,
Five smooth stones out of the
brook—He was mire of himself, but
be intended to take no chances.
He would not risk the battle on
quo . throw or two or three. The
'brook near the scene of battle was
full of smooth and' rounded pebbles,
the very kind David bad used many.
timmes, doubtless; in his sling.
His sling—The shepherds of Syria
were all used to the sling. Even
Left-handed men were experts. In
Judg. 20. 16 we read': "Among all
this people there were seven hon-
dyed chosen an'en left-handed;
every ono could sling stones at a
hair's-breadth, and not:miss."
41, And the man than bars the
shield went before him—Goliath
was so heavily equipped that he
could not carry all his implements
of the, battle.
42. He disdained him—See Prov.
16. 18: "Pride goeth before des-
truction, and a haughty spirit be-
fore a fall."
43. Am I a dog?—The dog even in
Palestine is ill esteemed.
44. I will give thy flesh unto the
birds of the heavens, and to the
beasts of the field' The anger of
Goliath syeemed to drive him to the
Me of poetry, Professor Kirkpat-
rick calls attention to Hector's de
fiance of Ajax in Homer's "Iliad,"
13. 831.
Thy flesh
Shall glut the, dogs and carrion
birds of Troy.
45. I come to thee in the name of
Jehovah of •hosts—A childlike faith,
such as could be the inspiration of
the Shepherd Psalm.
46. That there is a God in Israel
—A God who is worthy of Israel
(see 1 Kings 18. 36).
47. That Jehovah saveth not with
sward and spear—This was a con-
viction of the Israelites (see 1 Sam.
2. 1-10; 14, 8; Psa. 44. 6, 7; Hos.
1: 7; Zech. 4. 6). It is ,the experi-
ence of all who trust God. (See
especially 1 Cor. '1. 27, 28).
48. Ran toward the army—That
is, toward the battle line of the
Philistines. David did not wait
for the giant to approach him,
The suddenness, as we'll as the
swiftness, of David's movements
must have taken Goliath at a great
disad'vantage,'
50. Smote the Philistine and slew
hiss—David' must have struck some
exposed part of Goliath's head.
51. And when the Philistines saw
EraaramegmatammtermaMtas
"The Canadians
Never Budge"
The f':rst aeeount of ;the siipe'rii-
eneea of the Canadian troupe at the
front, written by an official Cana-
dian .recorder and given out by the
Minister of Militia, teltls of a speech
delivered by General Alderson, t'h'e
commander of the Canadian force,
jurat before his troops had their
first experience in the trenches,
""All ranks of the Canadian
sion :—We sure about to ooeupy and'
maintain a line of trenches, •You
are taking over good, and on the
whole, dry trenches.. I have :visit-
ed soma miyself. They a,re intact
and the parapets are good. Let me
warn you first, that we,h'ave already
had several casualties while you
have been attached to other divi-
sions, Some of these casualties
were unavoidable, and that is war,
'"But I euspeet that soma of
least a few --could have been avoid-
ed, I have heard, of cases in which
men have exposed •themselves with
no nmilitam'y object, and perhaps
only to gratify curiosi'ty. We can-
not lose good men like this, Wo
shall want them all if we advance,
and we shell want them all if the
Germans adwanee. Do not expose
your heads, do not look &round
corners, unless for a purpose which
is necessary at the moment you- do
it. You are provided with means
of observing the enemy without ex-
poasing your heads.
"To lose your 'life without mili-
tary .necessity is to deprive the
State of good soldiers. Young and
brava seen enjoy taking risks. But
a soldier who takes unnecessary
risks through. levity is not playing
the game, and the man who does
so is also stupid, for whatever be
the average: practice of the German
army the individual shots, whom
they employ as snipers, shoot
straight, and, screened from obser-
vation behind, theelines, they are al-
ways watching, If you put your
head over the parapet without or-
ders they will hit that head'.
"These is another thing. Troops
new to the trenches always shoot
at nothing the first night. You will
not da it. It wastes ammunition
and it hurts -no one, And the
enemy says, 'These are nenv and
nervous troops.' No German is -
going to say that of the Comedian'
troops. You will be shelled in the
trenches. When you are shelled
sit lbw and sit tight. This is easy
advice, for there is nothing else to
do. if you get out you will only
get it worse. And if you go out the
Germans will go in, And if the
Germans go in, we, shall counter
attack and put them out; and that
will cost us hundreds of men in-
stead
n
stead of the few whom shells may
injure.
"Tshe Germans db not like the
bayonet, nor do they support bay-
onet aattaeks. If they get up to you,
ox if you get up to them, go right
in with the bayonet. You have the
physique to drive it home. That
you will do it I am sure? and I do
not envy the Germans if you get
among them with the bayonet.
"There is one thing more. My
old regimmenk, the loyal West
Kent, has -been here since the be-
ginning of the war, and it has ne-
ver lost a •trench. The army says,
'The West Kenos naves- budge.' I
am proud of the: great record of my
old regiment and I think it is a good
omen. I .now belong to you and
you belong to me; and before long
the army will say, 'Th'e Canadians
never budge.'
"Lads, it can be left 'here, and
theme I leave it. The Germans will
never turn you out•"
The Man I�' Loved.
Naturally of a romantic turn of ..
mind, nh hint of presaging trouble
could turn me from my projected
love match. Living a 'secluded and
carefully chaperoned career at
Aldeburglh, in Suffolk, I became in -
that their oh.ampion was dead, they fatuated with a handsome young
fled—In verses 4 and 23 the word fisherman who, was not above add -
used is "Champion" in our sense; ' '
here "champion" means "mighty
man." The strongest man the
Philistine's had. • As soon as he
was dead hope left the Philistines
and they fled.
mug a little to his income by risk-
ing a little smuggling in illicit spi-
rits with certain partzes.in Holland.
I was quite aware of this, but the
spirit of adventure within me made
my boy all the more dear to me
for his hazardous projects. Many a
night I took delight in helping my
reckless lover. Soon it got noised
abroad that I was in the habit of
visiting Fred, and ultimately , it
reached sny father's ear
Fora time a strict 'Watch was
as
Wire Fencing and '.Drees.
Occasionally, in running wire
fences, it is necessary to attach the
wires to trees. In doing this, it is r s.
bad practice to use staples to at- .kept upon' my even snevement
tach the wire directly to the trees, s ,bot
gradwally I learned how to elude
thus ensuring that the wire will be- the vigilant watclmers, and our '
come overgrown and imbedded in stolen lovers? interviews grew mors
the wood. Not only is the tree frequent. Then Fred suggested
thereby ruined or injured,'but, fur- an, e•lops'meatt, I knew the cense-
ther, it is impossible to remove the quences, My father would disin-
feneing without 'cutting either time 'herit his only elti•]d, and my pros-
wire or the tree,
p.esta wound vanes]}, But loved
Abetter way, protecting both the Fred, and one very cold Jaat�ttary
tree and the fence, is first to nail night, during a severe snowstoa'an, I
to the tree a strip of wood- "about gathoaed• my few effects bogotlter
four inches wide and one inch thick and accompanied pian to Baeoles.
of a length to suit the height of the Althougdm mmytfathor never relent-
festee, The wire fence can then be edy and our married life was so•me-
stapled to this strip and will nob in- Ummes a bit of a struggle, my ]mus-
terfere with the tree growth, band `never faltere.ds sri ]u,s allegi-
._. arae, and when I lost • him, two
years ago, I knew T had last my
Not the Sarno. deareat,
Caller—Mardon me sir lout is Given my time over -again, no
max of an elopment watrld deter m:o
there another arid? in brie build- from the undertaking. I am now
earning my own living, as father
would never !kelt art me, but I am
quite happy in the knowledge that
T marniod the only mem I loved'.
nation has and what ahs lacks. Let m
is try to learn. something . of the
heraoters of foreign nations --be 1
t ey friends or foes.
ng?
Artist There is not. There is
mowever, a man on the fourth floor
who paints.