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The Brussels Post, 1915-7-15, Page 7usewifeY �oriter• SEASONABLE DISHES, Fried Cod Steaks. -Clean steaks, sprinkle with salt and pepper, Dip in granulated cornmeal, Try out slices of fat pork in frying pan, Remove scraps and saute steaks. Serve on a hot platter, Hamburg " Steaks. -Chop fine one pound or more of lean, raw beef, Sea- son well with salt and pepper. Add a little onion juice. Shape into cakes. Put in a well groused pan. Brown first on one side and then on the other, Succotash. -Take hot boiled fresh. corn cut from cob, or canned cornus you like, Add equal quantity of hot boiled shelled beans. Season well with butter and salt. Reheat before serving. Boiled Tomatoes. -Wipe and cut in halves lengthwise. Cut off a thin slice from the rounding part of each half. Sprinkle well with salt and pepper. Dip in crumbs, eggs, and crumbs again. Place in a well buttered brpil- er and broil for eight minutes. Baked Pears. ---Peel and cut the pears in halves and pack as tightly as you can in an earthen jar or casse- role. Put in enough sugar to sweet- en according to taste,, Add half a teacupful of water for each pound of pears, a :few cloves and two or three bits of lemon rind, Cover the dish carefully and bake in a cool oven for five or six hours. Serve with whip- ped cream. Cherry Salad. -Wash two cupfuls large cherries. Take out the stones and fill the holes with chopped nut meats. Lay : the cherries on white lettuce leaves. Put over it a dressing be given just a moderately thorough made of cherry juice, a little lemon application, so that nearly every leaf juice and plenty of sugar. will be lightly covered. Write for Chocolate .Pudding. -Use one-fourth either Bulletin 227 or 289 for further pound of unsweetened chocolate with information. four cupfuls milk. Stir in the yolks Pear Slug. -Troublesome on both pears and cherries. The small, black- ish, slug -like larva' feed on the up- per surface of the leaves, causing the foliage to present a brownish appear- ance. They can be easily controlled by spraying with 2 or 3 lbs. of ar- senate of lead to 40 gallons of water, whenever the slugs are numerous enough to warrant it,, unless the fruit is beginning to ripen, applying the spray to the upper surface of the leaves. If you have only a few trees dust them with hellebore or air -slak- ed lime. Brown Rot of Peaches, Plums and Cherries. -This disease annually causes great loss to Ontario fruit growers. For peaches spray with self -boiled lime sulphur about one month after the fruit has set. (Write for Spray Calendar or Bulletin 195.) If the trees have been well pruned earlier in the year, so as to admit plenty of sunshine, and a free circu- lation of air, the disease is much easier controlled on both plums and cherries as well as peaches, as it thrives most in a close humid atmos- phere. If rot starts to develop as the fruit of either plums or cherries is ripening, spray with ammoniacal cop: per carbonate (copper carbonate, 5 oz.; ammonia, 3 pints; water, 45 gal- lons. Write for Bulletin 195 for full instructions in making). Go through the orchard after the fruit is all harvested, pick or knock all diseased fruit from the trees and bury or plough under. These "mummy" fruits if allowed to hang on the trees, serve to carry the disease over till the fol- lowing season. Pear Blight. -This disease cannot be controlled by spraying, and the only effective remedy is to keep the diseased wood cut out. Throughout the growing season watch for and re- move promptly all blighted twigs or branches as they appear, cutting well below the diseased portion, Disinfect pruning tools and outs at once with corrosive sublimate (1'.ta.l1,000). • Ontario Department of Agriculture. A very band apron to wear while, making bed's has two large pockets, into which you can elip things to carry downstairs or from room to room, An apron like this will save many steps. If you grease the rim of the kettle the liquid cooking in it is not liable to boil over. This is well worth re- membering in making syrups or candles when you cannot stand and watch them constantly. Pour boiling water on oranges and let them stand five minutes. This will cause the white lining to. come away clean with the skin, so that a large quantity of oranges can be quickly sliced for sauce or pudding. If' a few beans, either lima or string, have been left over, make them into a salad; add a few chopped olives, a few capers and some Spanish red pepper. French dressing is pre- ferable to mayonnaise. FRUIT BRANCH CIRCULAR. Some Fruit Pests That Can Be Con- trolled Now. Cherry Fruit Fly. -If you are a cherry grower and have been troub-' led in previous seasons with white maggots in the cherries, spray just before the blush begins to appear on the Montmorencies, using the follow- ing mixture: -2 to 3 lbs. arsenate of. lead (paste) to 40 gallons water, sweetened by the addition of one gallon of cheap molasses. Do not spray the early varieties at this time. In applying the spray the trees should of three eggs and also one-half pack- age gelatin. When cool add the whites beaten well and stir through the pudding. Put in a form. Serve ice cold, with a custard sauce flavored with vanilla. Apple Custard Pie. -Make a quart of strained tart apple sauce. Melt and stir in one-half cupful butter, one cup- ful sugar and cinnamon. Line a deep plate with a good crust and fill it with a pie mixture. Bake in a mod- erate oven. Kidneys- and Bacon, -Cut the kid- neys in halves, lengthwise. Remove all the fat and skin them. Lay them in cold water for half an hour. Take out and dry them. Cut them cross- wise in thin slices. Slice the ba- con thin and cut each slice in two pieces. Place a piece of bacon on a skewer, then a piece of kidney and thus alternate them until you have five pieces of kidney of each on a skewer. Dip the pieces of kidney into melted butter before they are put on the skewer. Place the skewer on a broiler and hold it over a bright fire, turning frequently until all sides are cooked. When the kidneys are broil- ed place each skewer on a finger of toast and sprinkle lightly with pep- per. Put a tiny bit of butter on each piece of kidney and serve im- mediately. A good soft ginger bread may be made as follows: -Rub 2 pounds of sugar, browned, into four pints of flour, then rub 1 pound of butter. Beat 8 eggs, add them to the mixture, add a tablespoonful of ginger, one pint of milk, four teaspoonfuls of rose- water; turn into a shallow pan and bake in a moderate oven 30 to 35 minutes, USEFUL HINTS. Save the rinds of bacon to hasten a slow fire. A bath of soda water is as refresh- ing in the winter as in the summer. Cream will not whip unless•• it is at least 36 hours old and very cold. Clean oilcloth with skimmed milk or milk and water; soap will ruin it. A piece of rubber may be cut more easily if the scissors or knife used be wet first. Sausages can be prevented from bursting by rolling them in flour be- fore frying. To take machine oil out of -white materials dip the spot into cold water while it is fresh. Cotton crepe table napkins are,,.a great help for a busy housewife, as. they need no ironing. To prevent the top of a cake be- coming too brown or burnt, place a greased paper over the top. If you would have whited of eggs beaten very stiff see that they are perfectly cold and not too fresh. When rinsing children's clothes, add a little alum to the water, as this renders them loss liable to catch fire. Try dipping your pork chops and pork tenderloins in flour before fry- ing them, and see how delicious they are. Ilabitual numbness of the hands may be removed by tubbing them for a time in cold water, following with dry friction. Good flour adhere to tit hand, and when dressed tightly, remains in shape and shows the imprint of the lines of the skin: of the hand. To render boots and shoes water- proof in damp weather, rub a little mutton suet around the edges of the solei. Beeswax is just as efficacious. Only the yellow Tied and 'juice of lemons should be used. The white pith under yellow is bitter and care ejtoukl be fatten not to use ee at all, The Loss of the Majestic. The picture was taken at the Dardanelles three minutes after the bat- tleship was struck by a torpedo. A French writer describes the scene: "She keeled over in an alarming fashion till she had a list of about 45 degrees to port. Everything on deck fell or slid with a tremendous din, and whatever was not attached was thrown into the sea. But there was not a single instant of panic. Four minutes after the explosion the Majes- tic turned completely over and went down. It was a terrible moment, but it was also sublime, when six hundred men, facing death, mute and strong, were thrown into the sea, covered and caught in the torpedo nets which ensnared them like an immense cast -net among the gigantic eddies and the profound sobs of their dear annihilated ship. I shall never forget that infernal instant. And yet this vision only lasted the space of a flash of lightning, as we, too, looked death in the face, and in our ship's boats we took part in the finest rescue that the palette of an artist ever • represented." HE SEES WAR WITH- OUT TYPHOID FEVER TIIE NAVY IS DOING ITS WORK WELL • A Cheery Heroine, • Sister Julia (Soeur Julie) bas been decorated with the insignia of the Le- glen of Honor by President Poincare. While the German forces bombarded Gerbervlller she, with four other Sis- ters, remained in one of the very few' houses left standing amid shell fire and conflagration, nursing the wound- ed Prench'end German soldiers, A correspondent found Sister Julia in the midst of oaring for the ills of some returning refugees, Her usual simplicity was quite unchanged by the fame that has dome to her. When he observed that she was not wearing her decoration, she replied, "No; this is my working dress, I have too touch work to do to put on any uniform, and so I keep my decoration In a box in my bureau. When Monsieur Poincare brought It to me, I could not believe that such a little man was president of Prance until they told me ho really was," She laughed cheerily at her mistake for. Sister Julio., who has won the heart of Prance, is not a solemn per- mit Through all Icer ordeals she has kept cheerful. If anyone suggests that they will malco a great ado about her'wlcen she goes to Perla, she shakes her head. Her place, she says, is not to make tours inuniform, but here, in her worichig dress, in deer beloved Gabe. vill r wQ ich has to be a14 rebuilt SOME HOT SHOT FOR CRITICS OF THE BRITISH FLEET. American Tells Countrymen That Neutrals Should Take Off Their Hats To It. The following letter in reply to the question "What is the British Navy doing?" appeared in the New York Sun: Tp the Editor: Sir, -The man who reads only the headings in the papers, avoiding all news not pleasing or in accord with his 'own views, is the type of those who 'analyze nothing, condemn every- thing; and want to know what the British Navy has done. Probably be- ing familiar with the non -sinkable boats in the park lakes, he can't form any idea of the North Sea and the. task confronting the royal navy. If this,enan could be aboard a pat- rolling destroyer when zero weather prevails and ice covers 'the vessel like the crust on a pie, with a North Sea gale blowing and only the fun- nels clear of breaking water and with vibration enough to loosen one's teeth, perhaps he would then know. 1- should like to see his face when the shout' of --"Submarine !" is heard and the boat begins to start and plunge, twist and turn to avoid the little white streak that passes just astern or slides beneath its bow. I should like to see him in the engine room or stoke hole of a cruiser just at the exact depth where the torpedo with a surveyor's accuracy breaks through and sends all within to a dozen kinds of deaths. I should like to see him :at the Dardanelles, where obstacles such as Jules Verne's imag- ination could not have conceived are confronted. Alive With Mines. Can he imagine a body of water no broader in, places than the Hudson River, with; a current three times as fast, alive with mines both fiootiug and stationary, a shore lined with modern large calibre guns, torpedo tubes and moveable artillery, with a dozen submarines to aid them ? Probably he would enjoy the gentle game 'of mine sweeping under con- stant fire, or perhaps a dash of five or ten miles up the strait to recon- noitre over mine fields and for the benefit of the shore batteries, or per- haps.a trip under the mine fields to the Sea of Marmara on a submarine. I should have liked to see him aboard the Bluecher when at the un- precedented range of eighteen thou- sand yards shells began transform- ing into a colander the Von Tirpitz looking after the women and children daredevil ship of Scarborough (and es they return. baby) fame. Extol her conduct; and eho says to The men, in the British navy are You, "I only did the Lord's work when blackleg the exits to .the ,waterways It carne toInc to, do, Why should the of the world to the Kaisers fleet. especially in cookery, president make an ado .over that?" They have swept the seven seas of MIRACLES BEING WROUGIHT IN ,PRESENT CONFLICT, Sir Wm. Osler, Famous Physician, Says Inoculation Is True Preventive. There is a knife that kills and there is a knife that heale. One is a soldier's knife and the other a sur- geon's. In a sense the doctor, pene- trating the mysterious malaria and yellow fever, made possible the Pan- ama Canal, His work is altering the whole character of war -war which brought in. its wake the grimmer foes of pestilence and plague. Sir William Osler, the world-fam- ous regius professor of medicine at Oxford, points out that in the Boer war there were 57,684 cases of ty- phoid -an army corps in itself -and 8,022 deaths from typhoid was a more serious enemy than the Boers. Miracles of medicine are being wrought in the present war. Sir William dreams dreams of a comparatively typhoidless war, if due precautions are. taken, In an inter- view he urged the virtue of inocula- tion. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 18. Leeson III. -Solomon Chooses Wis- dom, 1 Kings 3, 4-16: Golden Text: Prov, 9, 10. I. Solomon's Dream (Verses 5-14.) Verse 6. In Gibeon-A city of the Hivites, The "tabernacle of the con- gregation" and the "brazen altar of. burnt offerings" made by Moses were transferred to Gibeon from Nob (1 Sam, 21. 6; 1 Chron. 16, 89, 40; 2 Chron, 1, 8), It was "the great high place," therefore, and Solomon offered "a thousand burnt' offerings , . upon that altar." The city originally be- longed to the tribe of Benjamin (Josh, 18.21-25; see also Josb, 9). In a dream -The offerings of Solo- mon were pleasing to God, as the dream chows. (For a parole' account of the dream, see 2 Chron, 1. 7-18). God is frequently represented as hav- ing made known his will in a dream (Gen. 15. 1; 28. 12; 81. 11; 37. 5; 41. 25; 1 Sam. 28, 6: 15). 6. Great lovingkindness, that thou haat given him a son to sit on his throne -David regarded this as the crowning mercy of Jehovah (see 1 Kings 1. 48). 7. A little child --Not in years, but in experience as a ruler. Uriah was killed about twenty years before Da- vid's death. This would make Solo- mon at least eighteen years old at the time of his coronation. Solomon might well have felt as a little child as he faced his duties. He was of a peaceful disposition (1 Chron. 22. 9). The ordinary difficulties of his king- ship were augmented by his warring and envious brothers and their fol- lowers. To go out or come in -That is, how to live, what to do in the ordinary happenings as well as the great emergencies of life. This phrase was proverbial among the Israelites (see Num. 27. 17; Deut, 28. 6; 31. 2; Josh. 14. 11. 8. That cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude -A hyperboli- cal expression common in all lan- guages -"As the sands of the sea," or "the stars of heaven," Perhaps Solomon was thinking of Jehovah's promise to Abram (Gen. 13. 16). 9. An understanding heart -That is "wisdom and knowledge" (2 Chron, 1. 10). The Hebrew reads literally, "a hearing heart"; patience "to hear" is a prerequisite to an "understanding" heart, To judge -This was one of the chief functions of the Oriental rulers, Herodotus (1. 98) tells us that Delo- ees was made king because of the justice of his decisions, and Xenophon shows that Cyrus was instructed by his tutors how to render judgments. In some places in the Dominion to- day the Mayor (or ruler of the town) is also a magistrate who must preside as judge over the court. In the Jew- ish mind, the prince and judge were closely associated (see Exod. 2. 14; 18. 16, 22; 1 Sam. 8. 20; 2 Sam, 15. 2-6, etc.). Great people -In verse 8 the term "great people" means "great" or large in numbers; here, "great" means lit- erally "heavy," upon the king.' The burden of ruling the people would be great, or "heavy," upon the king. 10. The speech pleased the Lord - Although a dream, it was the per- sonal desire of Solomon. 11. Thine enemies - T•Iadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11. 14-22) and Re- zon the son of Eliada (1 Kings 11. 23- 25), These were adversaries of Solo- mon "all his days." 12. A wise and nn understanding heart --A wisdom both moral and in- tellectual (1 Kings 4. 29-34). It was moral wisdom alone for which he asked. Like thee - Only. one was to be "greater . than Solomon" (Matt. 12. 42). 13. That which thou hast not asked -God gave Solomon all he asked for, and then, true to his nature, added something besides. This is the law of divine government (see Matt. 6. 33). 14. If than wilt wall{ in my ways, to keep my statutes and my com- mandments -All that Solomon was to receive was conditioned on an upright life. As thy father did walk -In spite of David's sinfulness, his heart •was right toward God and his repentance genuine. Opposition is Scandalous. "This campaign against soldiers being inoculated," he said, "is simply scandalous. It illustrates to a de- gree the hopeless- ignorance in re- gard to the one elementary fact that every one with any knowledge of science must admit -namely: Im- munity from certain diseases is granted by taking those diseases. That is to say, if you have scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, or smallpox, your chances of getting them again are infinitesimal. "What has been done is that cer- tain protective substances have been formed which render the body prac- tically immune, so that if it is placed under similar conditions, expressed again, germs do not grow. That is the whole essence of the thing. "These people do not accept the fundamental fact of the possibility of conferring immunity. The question of immunity is pretty definitely set- tled. If you have one attack the chances are strongly against another. Inoculation Succeeds, "In 500 consecutive cases in - which I made the most careful inquiries as to previous attacks, eleven already had had the disease, one nine. months previously. What is done is this - you inoculate a person with the pro- ducts of dead culture (they are not living), and the same conditions pro- ceed in body as if the individual had had a spontaneous attack of typhoid fever. That gives him certain pro- tection. "How long the protection will last nobody can say, because we are deal- ing with human beings and not ani- mals, and they have not the same mechanical accuracy of reaction. For instance, if three men are inoculated, one might have immunity for ten years, one for ten months, and one for not more than a few months. One cannot say definitely, just as after spontaneous typhoid fever it is im- possible to say how long protection lasts." d' German merchantmen, severed Ger- many's communication with the out- side world, prevented the joining of her colors by thousands and thou- sands of reservists, made possible the transportation of nearly a mil- lion British soldiers to France with- out interference. Where is the long boasted and toasted day when the German navy through its superior efficiency and ordinance was to over- come greater numbers and smear Kultur over everything British ? Sup- pose the Navy had taken no part in the war. What Would Happen. What would have happened to the coast of France ? How many sol- diers would Germany have poured through Dunkirk, Calais, etc.? Paris would have been attacked from the rear. What, when the French coast was in German hands, was to pre- vent the Austrian and German fleets from sweeping the Baltic, landing troops in Russia ? What then ? Who doubts but the war would now be over and little Holland, whose lack of decision is a source of wonder, would be gobbled up ? What then ? Neutrals should take off their hats. to this efficient defender of freedom and the unkultured, the British Navy. LEO V. HAWLEY. t Englewood, N. J. ITALY'S SOLDIERS. Alpine Men Specially Trained for Mountain l"ork. Italy has some of the most efficient and most picturesque soldiers in the world. They are divided into four classes; the Bersaglieri, the Alpini, the Carabinieri, and the cavalry. Re- cently the men of the third category were called to the colors. This means that the Alpine troops of the first category, made made up of first- choice men for the regular army, and the second category, men assigned to the regular army, but with un- limited leave," have been exhausted, and now those men are to be drilled obstinacy. Francis, the bank watch - who, exempt .for various reasons from man will mala a lot of trouble for me thenationaldemilitia to be assigned e.o if I' don't get the, start of him. Also, the for home defence, John will butt in and want to do me The Bersaglity. are light infanayy an injury, and Sam, across the lake, of greatonMobility. They are always will be sailing over to find out what's seen on the run, and their pictures - quo costume, with low -crowned plum- ed hat, is a feature of almost every Italian landscape. The Alpini are specially trained to manoeuvre among the northern mountains, and their target practice consists in sharpshooting across the the necessary measures to get out vast open spaces, where the atmos- and trust in a God who will recognize pheric open ons would confuse the his needs and endorse his expedi- e soldiers of the lowlands. As to the cavalry, exports have said that that of Italy is the finest in the world, Besides these unique corps, there are the famous Carabinieri or nation - ad police, who are recruited from the army, and then usually return to it as non-commissioned officers after seven years' service. This eorps is considered the finest school of non- commissioned officers in the world. Its training and administration aro also unique, ARGUMENTS OF GERMAN CHIEFS FROM SUNSET COAST THE NEW YORK LIFE CANNOT SEE THEM IN THE SAME LIGHT. The German, doctt•ine of military necessity is as though a man 'should say: "Here I am in a bad hole. Td,get Me out it is necessary for me to slhoot my neighbor, William Smith, brain 'his wife, throw his baby down the well, kidnap his daughters, carry off his household effects and burn his buildings. It is not that William is my enemy or has done me any harm, but I have got to make myself re- spected in the community, so that my necessary plans can go through. Wil- liam lives next to the bank. If he would let inc through his property so I could get into the bank's basement and supply my needs, it would be all right. But he won't. I know ho won't. He is a pig-headed devil and must take the consequences of his infernal what. I must fix it to kill Francis, and stand off John, and sink his sail modes whereby men expected to boat, and Sam's, too, somehow. And re- ceive knowledge of the divine will." no doubt all the neighbors will raise Came to ,Jerusalem, and stood be - a howl, but what is a man to do when fore the ark of the covenant of Jeho- he is M a hole? He must just take vah-Solomon returned to. Jerusalem after his. vision. He would act upon the dream by showing gratitude to "that the Chinese used then quite God in his sacrifices and by making lately. Anyone who served in the the reality. sof the dream known to China War; of 1857 will vouch for his servants^at a feast in their honor. this, even if he was not serving in H.M.S. Niger. I was; not personal- `�4� � � ly serving in the Niger, and I do not know the chemical composition of the Chinese bombs, Our sailors con - Many parties to the San Irran.eiseoart, at temptuously' called them "stint: pots;' Fair are {sling in Western Canada r but I have no doubt that modern Ger. the way back to the east and Chicago. man Kultur has considerably Ma - Agriculture sent its commissioner out proved upon them," on a hand truck over the C.N.R. for --eleereeee 7 -- two months to destroy the sow»tbdstlo The Kaiser's eyes 'are stesei-grey in along the tracks, color. WHAT 'AMIE' W7:STERN PIr,01'Xa l A111:' DOING. Progress of the Great West Tol 10 a Few Pointed ai'aplis. .A. new $6,000Parschoolgisto be built this year in Copeland. New Zealand butter' is selling at good prices in British Columbia, Vancouver school teachers solar* les havo been cut ten per cent, British Columbia trappers have had a bad year, owing to low prices for pelts. Kettle Valley railway is ordering 18,000,000 feet of lumber for snow sheds, Grand Forks seeks to get enemy aliens a.t work on roads around its district, A farmers' produce market will be built at Revelstoke by the Farmers_ Institute, Cranbrook's chief of police is feed< ing prisoners at a cost of thirteen cents a day, Phoenix now has 500 men working ' in the mine there, and 180 pupils in the public school. The problem of caring for the unemployed in Pacific Coast Cities is growing acute. The zinc mines of Lynn Valley are to be developed shortly; a trail has been constructed. One of the killed in the Canadian ranks is Albert M. Brown, popular watchmaker of Nanaimo. Work has been commenced on the new Dominion Government observa- tory at Saanich Mountain. The Dominion Government will sur- vey 12,000 square miles of Mayo in the Yukon this summer. Vernon women, fearing the mili- tary concentration camp, urge the ap- pointment of a policewoman. The unemployed mechanics of Nei - son are anxious to go to Britain to aid in making war munitions. Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company contemplate erecting a plant for the reduction of mine by-products. Retail grocers of Vancouver are considering the elimination of all credit accounts in their business. British Columbia lumber interests are informed there is a good opening for exports to the British West In-, dies, Experts are inspecting the potato districts of British Columbia for ex- haustive examination for powdery scab. Barry Kahlembach, barber at Ains- worth, fell from a boat when he hook- ed a fish in Coffee Creek, and was drowned. With Fort George now officially changed to Prince George, C. B. Dan- iels of Victoria, is first magistrate. The idle railway shops at Revel- stoke are suggested by the Board of Trade as available for making shells for the war. A New Westminster Chinaman went to the police court with an artistic scar painted on his face as proof of an assault. Cranbrook School Board has cut salaries of the teachers; the high school principle loses $30 a year and others in promotion. The body of Albert Maxon, a young fisherman of New Westminster, drowned last February, has been found near Port Bells. II. Solomon Goes to Jerusalem (Verse 15). 15. Behold, it was a dream -As in the case of Pharaoh (Gen. 41. 7). "The dream was one of the recognized ents." That is a comprehensive doctrine, but sure to be troublesome. -Nobody will accept it 'except Friedrich, whose own it is. To every one else it will seem that Friedrich 'is taking unwar- rantable pains to save himself from entberrassmont, and that by far the simpler way to relieve the situation is to get together a vigilance committee and provide a rope and catch Fried- rich and hang him to the nearest tree. d• Tinder Boxes for Soldiers. There are many ways in which old. and almost forgotten methods of war- fare have been adapted to modern use in the trenches, the hand -grenade, the catapault, and even armor having been found efficacious in many in- stances. Our soldiers in the trenches, who have the very newest inventions in their equipment, are very glad to go back to the old flint and tinder boxes, because they can't use the matches, for they suffer so much from the damp in the trenches that they aro soon rendered useless. To meet this difficulty, the old flintand tinder boxes are being supplied to thesol- diers and sailors. Another good thing about the tinder fire is that it does not blow out in the wind .as a match does, and does not show•", a flame to attract the enemy's atten-,, tion. A specially -planned tinder box is being prepared for use in the British army and navy. It is small and com- pact, only half an inch deep, and con- tains a7311 inch fuse, or length of prepared tinder, a shaped section of flint, and a hard steel. Inside the lid of the box are printed instructions for getting a light. "Stink Pots" in Chinese War. Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitagorald, of the British nay, writes that the use of poisonous fumes in warfare is very old. "It is certain," he adds,