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Fritters Worth Eating.
This foundation batter may be used
for nearly all kinds of fritters with
but slight variations:
Plain Fritter Batter. -One cup of
flour, half a teaspoon of baking pow-
der, quarter teaspoon of salt, two
eggs and one cup of milk. The dry
ingredients should be aifted carefully
together and the eggs beaten before
they are added to the milk, then the
whole beaten until it is very smooth,
Sweetbread Fritters, - Parboil,
blanch and chop fine one pair of
sweetbreads; Add to them a small red
pepper and half a cup of mushrooms,
also chopped fine, one small grated
onion and a tablespoon of chutney
syrup; stir into the batter and fry.
Serve with -a horseradish sauce made
as follows: Take four tablespoons of
grated horseradish, one teaspoon of
sugar, one of salt and two of mixed
English mustard and half a teaspoon
of pepper. Add enough taragon vine-
gar to make the mixture the consist-
ency of thick cream. When thorough-
ly mixed add four tablespoons of
sweet cream, set into a double boiler
and let it get hot, but do not allow it
to boil. Serve at once with the frit-
ters.
Vegetable Fritters. -Make the bat-
ter in the usual way. Take a small
bottle of macedoine of vegetables and
drain them; add to them a halftea-
spoon of salt, saltspoon of pepper, tea-
spoon of sugar, a grated onion, tea=
spoon of finely chopped parsley and
toss them lightly in half a cup of
whipped cream and stir all into the
batter. Fry the fritters and serve
them in a napkin garnished with le-
mon quarters and parsley. Serve with
them fennel sauce, which is made of a
half pint of melted butter and a table-
spoonful of carefully washed and
chopped fresh fennel seed. Let the
butter come to the boiling point, add
the fennel, simmer for two minutes
and serve hot.
Beef Fritters. -Chop enough cold
roast beef after freeing it from fat
and gristle to fill a cup, add to it one
grated onion, a teaspoon of chopped
taragon leaves, a teaspoon of mus-
tard sauce, teaspoon of Worcester-,
shire sauce, pepper, salt and whip it
light with the white of one egg beat-
en stiff. Add to it the batter as quick-
ly as it is light, mix thoroughly and
fry at once. Serve the horseradish
sauce with these fritters the recipe for
which is given above.
Lobster Fritters. -Take enough cold
boiled lobster to fill a cup and cut it
very flue. Add to it pepper, salt, tea-
spoon of melted butter, two teaspoons
of chutney syrup and add it to the
batter. Fry in the usual way and
serve a tartar sauce with the fritters
or heavy mayonnaise to which a little
whipped cream is added just before
serving, Crab flakes or cold boiled
shrimp may be used in the same way.
Calf's Liver Fritters. -Take one
pound of calf's liver and boil it un-
til tender. Then remove and chop
very fine. Add to it pepper, salt, two,
tablespoons of apple juice, the juice
of an onion and lighten it. Add the'
mixture to the batter and fry. Serve
with the fritters one small tumbler of
melted currant . jelly.
Ginger Fritters. -Take one half cup
of preserved ginger, chop it very fine
and add to it one cup of preserved i
rnirabeiles, add to the batter and after I
frying serve a flavored syrup or a1
boiled pudding sauce with the fritters.'
For all fruit fritters a convenienti
sauce is made of a cup of sugar and a
half cup of water. Melt and boil to-
gether for five minutes and flavor with
a teaspoon of vanilla, pistachio, rose,
almond, orange flower or oil of cloves,
These may be varied with the differ-
ent fruits used.
All .fruit bitters may have the cup
and a half of chopped fresh fruit add-
ed after the fruit is lightly dusted
with powdered sugar; or stewed fruit
drained of its juice and seeded if need
be may be used when the fresh fruit
is out of season. Rather a novelty
among the fruit fritters is one made
of grapefruit.
Grapefruit Fritters. -Prepare the
grapefruit the same as for salad,
draining slightly if it is too juicy.
Add to it six macaroons that have,
been powdered, dust with sugar and
add a teaspoon of vanilla. Mix well
with the batter and fry delicately.
Serve in a napkin with a syrup sauce
flavored with pistachio or with the
maple and. walnut sauce so often used'
on ice cream.
The ordinary fritters are all too well
known to require description here, as
the recipes are given in most of the
cook books, but one Spanish recipe,
which is an emergency luncheon dish,.
is unusual enough to be spoken of.
Spanish Fritters. -Make the batter
in the usual way. Then open a small
bottle of the ready mixed Spanlalr
omelet filling. This is very highly,
seasoned and the vegetables and pep-
pers are all cut in the usual way. Add
to this a half, cup of grated pine,
apple, if at hand, or a half cup of
apple sauce, Add to the batter and
fry. •Serve with a Russian mayon-
naise made in this way. Add enough
Catsup to the mayonnaise to color it
pink, chop together two olives, a
strip of red pepper and a few taragon
leaves and ono small gherkin pickle.
Add 'this to the sauce with the juice of
an onion, These fritters are even
more hearty if served with a ich,
smooth tomato sauce,
Household- Hints,
Old sheets should be made into bags
in which to hang one'ssuits or
dresses.
Save the broken toys for the rainy
days. They are a real source of in-
terest.
A Housekeeper can save, time by
using casseroles of attractive earthen-
ware, in which food may be both
cooked and served.
If there is no ice, water can be
cooled by putting it in porous earth -
ern jars or battles and hanging in a
current of air.
Fried foods this time of year are
apt to incite a perfectly good stom-
ach to rebellion, so wise housewives
watch the daily menu carefully.
To thread a needle when the light is
bad and it is hard to find the eye,
put a piece of paper or white cloth
back of the needle and the task will
be easy,
Sulphur sprinlded about in places
infested by rats or mice will drive
them away.
Sieves should never be washed
with soap, but should be cleaned with
a brush, and a little soda if neces-
sary.
When jelly is ready to put into
glasses, put a 'piece of cheese cloth
over a pitcher, and then pour into the
glasses. This is easier than dipping
it out and gives an extra straining as
well.
Mutton is easily digested and it
makes a very good summer dish.
When cooking newly baked bread
cover it lightly with a clean cloth.
It is difficult to wrap cake with a
soft frosting. Stick several toothpicks
in the cake and they will hold the
paper up.
To make a satisfying hot weather
drink take one part of water, add one
tablespoonful of sifted ginger, three
(or more) heaping tablespoonfuls su-
gar, and rove cup vinegar.
The cotton sash curtain if hemmed
by hand will be less likely to pucker
than if it is done by machine.
Vinegar or yeast should never be
kept in stone crocks or jugs. The
acid eats off the glazing, which is
poisonous.
Grease in the sink is a very prolific
cause of disease. Washing soda is the
best and simplest cleaning agent.
Large patterns in table cloths are
not so durable as small ones, for the
reason that the threads will break
sooner.
Parsley can be kept fresh by put-
ting it into a glass jar and screwing
the lid on tight, then placing it in a
cool place.
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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.
Give not reins to your inflamed
passions; take time and grant a little
delay; impetuosity manages affairs
badly,-Statius.
Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since
you cannot make yourself what you
wish to be.-Kempis.
And the Kingdom of Heaven is of
the child -like, of those who are easy
to please, who love and who, give
pleasure. -R. L. Stevenson.
The max who has nothing to boast
of but his illustrious ancestors is like
a potato -the only good belonging to
him is underground. -Overbury.
An appointment is a contract, ex-
press or implied, and he who does not
keep it breaks faith, as well as dis-
honestly uses other people's time, and
thus inevitably Ioses character.--
He
haracter.-He knows not his own strength that
hath not met adversity. Heaven pre-
pares good men with crosses, but no
ill can happen to a good man, -Ben
Johnson.
If a man does not keep pace with
his companions perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer_ Let
him march to the music which he I
hears, however measured and far
away. -Thoreau.
Hope is the most beneficial of all
the affections, and doth much to the
prolongation of life, if it be not too
often frustrated; but entertaineth the
fancy with an expectation of good;
therefore they which fix and propound
to themselves some end, as the mark
and scope of their life, and continual-
ly and by degrees go forward In the
same, are for the most part long-
lived. -Bacon.
Chancellor's Ages.
In poin of age, Mr. Lloyd George,
who was 45 when he took office, must
be reckoned among the youngest of
latter-day Chancellors of the Exche-
quer, though Mr. Austen Chamber-
lain was only 40 when he held the
position in 1903, and Lord Randolph
Churchill, when he accepted the lead-
ership of the Commons in 1886, was
younger stili, being only 87. Mr.
Gladstone was 43 when he first be-
came Chancellor, Lard St. Aldwyn
(Sir M.. Hicks Beach) 48, Mr, Childers
55, Sir W. Harcourt 59, Mr. Ritchie
64, Mr, Asquith 54, and Mr. McKenna
52.
"Before my marriage I told her all
my past life. Don't you think I show-
ed a wonderful courage?" "Yes, and
a" still more wonderful memory."
AN OPEN LETTER
To the Women of Canada Concerning
the Need for Fighting Men..
By the National Committee for
Patriotic Service.
Hon, President, H.R,H, the Duchess
of Connaught; Ilon, Vice -Presidents,
H.R.H. the Princess Patricia, the
Wives of the Lieutenants -Governor,
Lady Borden, . Lady Laurier; r>resi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Goederham, "Dean -
croft," Toronto; . Vice -President, Mrs.
Torrington; Treasurer, Mrs, Bruce, 8'7
Bleecker Street, Toronto; Secretary,
Mrs. Plumptro, 77 King Street East,
Toronto, and Lady Gibson, National
Council of Women; 'Mrs, Willoug:ay
Cummins, National Council of Wo-
men; Lady Mackenzie, LO.D.E.; Mrs.
John L Davidson, I O.D,E.; Mrs. Dig-
nem, U. E. Loyalists; Mrs. Falconer,
Y.W,C.A.; Lady Pellatt, Agnes Baden-
Powell Girl Guides; Mrs. E. Starr,
W.C.T.U.; Miss M. Maemurchy, Cana-
dian Women's Press Club; Mrs. F.
Mercer, Woman's Art Association;
Miss A. M. Brown, Dominion Oruer of
Ring's Daughters; Lady Willison,
National Ladies' Guild for Sailors;
Miss Mackenzie, Victorian Order of
Nurses; Mrs. Hamilton, Women's In-
stitutes and National Union of Wo-
men's Suffrage Societies; Mrs, Pat-
terson Hall, Anglican Woman's Auxil-
iary; Mrs. Ggprge Kerr, Methodist
Women's Board; Miss Marie MacDon-
ell, Roman Catholic Ladies; Miss
Adele Nordheimer, Girls' Friendly So-
ciety.
A year ago the tj:underbolt of war.
fell upon us out of a clear sky! After
the first moment of surprise and con-
fusion had passed, we asked, "How
can we help?"
During the year that has passed,
that question has found many an-
swers. The trained nurse quickly
proved her value. Other women were
called upon to organize and direct Red
Cross and St. John Ambulance work
or Patriotic Societies, while all gave
time or money or personal service in
preparing supplies.
To comparatively few came the
need for the supreme sacrifice -the
sending forth of husband, son or bro-
ther to the fight. The first appeal for
volunteers was limited and did not ap-
pear very urgent. All honor to those
who heard and obeyed the earliest call
of Empire and whose women sent
them forth with pride to fight in the
front rank of the Canadian forces.
To -day the situation has changed.
We have learnt, after a year of war,
that our task is harder, our danger
more real, than we thought a year
ago. We have "given" gladly: now
we are called to "give -up," and ser-
vice must fulfil itself in sacrifice.
Most urgent of all to -day is the call
to give up ungrudgingly our hus-
bands, sons and brothers. We are
called to create in our homes such an
atmosphere of self-devotion,,that our
men and boys may feel their resolu-
tion to offer themselves in their coun-
try's service is simply what we expect
of them. <
This does not mean that women
should be constantly urging their men
to enlist, for it is doubtful if the pa-
triotic persistence of a wife or mother
would produce anything but a reluc-
tant and resentful recruit. The men
of Canada have not shown themselves
less patriotic than their women; but
it is for us, the women of Canada, to
ask ourselves whether our self-sacri-
fice is falling short of the -supreme
test.
Are we making it hard or easy for
our men to obey their country's call
to service?
Why is the call so urgent now?
The answer is simple: It is because
our existence as an Empire is at
stake.
We went into the war to keep our
solemn pledges to our Allies; and this
reason still holds good.
But there are now other reasons
which did not exist a year ago. Bel-
gium with her ravaged land and ex-
iled people cries aloud for justice.
What do Canadian women say to the
appeals of her outraged women and
mutilated children? They have suf-
fered for us: What are we willing to
suffer for them?.
The women of France and Russia
and the United Kingdom have long
ago heard the appeal to give up their
men, and have responded nobly. What
will Canadian women do?
Beyond the keeping of our pledged
word, the woes of Belgium, and the
example of our Allies, there comes to
us to -day the knowledge that we are
called on to fight our own battles; not
to send help to Belgium or France or
even England, but to fight for our
own national existence.
We are told by the man who know
that we cannot win in this war with-
out more men.
If we hold back our men we are
courting defeat; and . defeat means,
not a vague misfortune to the Empire
at large, but the very practical result
of a Canada governed by Germans.
Do we want to know what that
would mean? Then let us look at
Belgium, and learn how the yoke of
the eonqueror galls the neck of a free-
dom -loving people. Defeat would
mean for us a period of bitterest
shame and discontent, and then. -an-
other war. Can we risk it? We are
risking it if we do not make the path
of service easy for our men.
But. .the most compelling call for.
sacrifice rings out from the graves of
those who on the fields of Flanders,
at Langemarek, and Ypres, and Festa -
hent, have blazed the trail to :dory
with their life blood,
Can we make their self:,snrrender of
no avail by fielding back the men who
would take up and complete their
splendid. task?
There is a saving which is losing;
Is it worth "saving" our mon from
death if we lose their reapeot? There
is a loss which is gain. Even thpugh
we learn to face "desperate tides 0f
the whole great world's angaish,
Forced through the channels of a sin-
gle heart."
We are called to scale the gleaming
peeks of self-sacrifice, in the company
of our brave sisters of the Allied na-
tions,
What will the women of Canada
do?
.1+
LORD DERBY.
Privileged to Wear Four Row's of
Ermine Fur on Robes.
No one has displayed more un -
wearying zeal in the recruiting move-
ment in Great Britain than Lord
Derby -politician, soldier, and sports-
man. Some time ago he made the
frank confession to 'a number of
schoolboys that he started life with
two ambitions, namely, to be Prime
Minister and to win the Derby, and
has not yet done trying for either of
his ambitions. And, bearing in mind
Lord Derby's keen love of the turf,
his success as Postmaster -General,
and the work he did in other adminis-
trative offices in the 'last Unionist
Government, there seems no :reason
why he should not in due course rea-
lize these ambitions,
As Lord Stanley he was a popular
figure in the Lower House, and his
sporting qualities and love of horses
added not a little to that popularity.
Apropos of his sporting tastes an
amusing story is told of an incident
which occurred when he was first
elected to Parliament. Lord Derby
had invited questions at one of his
meetings and a voice sailed out, "Can
you give us a tip for to -morrow's
race?"
Lord Stanley did not hesitate a
minute. "Yes," he said; "I am back-
ing such and such a horse," and he
gave the name. The horse won and.
Lord Stanley was returned at the
head of the poll.
Very Wealthy.
It will be remembered in 1910 that
Lord Derby took over the ownership
of the King's horses for a season.
His father, the late earl, was also a
keen sportsman, but at the same time
he had a strong dislike to betting,
and always objected to gambling be-
ing so closely involved in horse rac-
ing.
•Knowsley Hall, in Lancashire, the
magnificent ancestral home of the
Stanleys, has long been a strong
Lord Derby
centre of interest in the the world,
and was frequently visited by the late
King, who nearly always stayed there
for the Liverpool races.
The Derby Estates.
The Derby estates are worth about
$20,000,000. The legend over one of
the gateways at Knowsley runs,
"Bring good news and knock boldly."
Certainly the legend seems to have
brought good luck to the Stanleys.
The Earl of Derby, by the way, is
one of the three "Catskin" earls, the
others being Lord Shrewsbury and
Lord Huntingdon. The explanation of
the word "catskin" is that the ances
tors of those three earls were privi-
leged to wear four rows of ermine fur
on their robes because of their an-
cient descent, and that "quatre skins"
(four skins) became changed to "cat -
skins."
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Victoria Cross in War.
The list of awards of the Victoria
Cross brings the total conferred dui
ing the present wax up to fifty-one,
in addition to a clasp granted to
Lieutenant Martin Leake, who already
held- the decoration. Nineteen .of
those who have won. the Cross are`of-
ficera, and thirty-two were either non-
commissioned officers or privates at
the time they won the award. Several
of these have since been promoted to j
commissions. . Out of the total eight
officers and four men are dead, while
another officer has been unofficially
reported es killed,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
SEPTEMBER 12,
Lesson XL-Elijah's Flight and Re.
turn, I Kings 10, Golden
Text: Psa, 45. 10.
I.. Elijah in the Cave on Mount
Horeb (Verses 8-12).
Verse 8. ' Irl the strength of that
food --Compare Moses on Sinai (Exod.
34. 28) and Jesus in the wilderness
(Matt. 4. 2). No man can "live by
bread alone" if he is concerned about
the Lord's business.
Unto Horeb the mount of God --
This mountain, above all others, was
distinguished by the manifestations
thereon of God's power and glory.'
9. Unto a cave --The Hebrew has
"the cave." Evidently a particular
cave was meant; perhaps the "cleft
of the rock" in which God placed
Moses (Exod„ 38, 22),
What doest thou here, Elijah -The
familiar address is used to indicate
that Elijah had an opportunity to
pour out his whole heart. Sometimes
the mere repeating of one's woes, as
the shedding of tears, brings the de-
sired relief. •
11. Go forth, and stand upon the
mount before Jehovah -Nearness to
God would open the prophet's eyes.
Jehovah did not condole with Elijah;
he simply showed him some things.
12. A still small voice -Literally,.
"a sound of gentle stillness." A. great
peace had come upon Elijah. ,In the
calm he could hear God.
II. Elijah's Discouragement
(Verses 13-18).
13. He wrapped his face in his
mantle -The upper garment, a sort of
cloak or cape, sometimes made of un-
tanned sheepskin (compare Matt. 3.'
4). The revelation is too intense for
the unveiled eyes of the prophet.
Moses, similarly, was "afraid to look
upon God."
What doest thou here, Elijah -
Again the same Wallin. address. But
this ,time there is something of re-
proach in the voice. "Why are you
here when there is so much to do?
What has become of your insight and
your power?"
14. I have been very jealous -Eli-
jah naturally would try to justify
himself. And of course he would re-
fer to the great things he had aecom,
plished and the seeming futility of his
efforts.
15. Go, return on thy way -He is
not to escape the difficulty; he is not
to have new fields in which to work.
The thing he was set, to do he must
finish.
To the wilderness of Damascus -
The district lying between Bashan
and Damascus.
And when thou comest, thou shalt
anoint -So far as the Scripture re-
cord goes, Elijah did not follow this
command (see 2 Kings 8. 7-13; 9. 1-6).
18, Seven thousand in Israel -An
indefinite number. Compare 1 Kings
18. 43; Prov. 24. 16; Matt. 18..21, 22.
Although this indefinite number was
undoubtedly small, it was God's holy
remnant, and hence all-powerful.
Hath not kissed him -A part of the
worship offered to false gods (see
Hos. 13. 2). Aswan act of religious
homage, see also Psa. 2. 12.
A BOY'S WORST ENEMY.
A Great American General's Opinion
of Strong Drink.
A friend once said to General Philip
Sheridan: -"Phil, if you could choose
for your little son from all the tempt-
ations which
emptations'which will beset him, the one
most tobe feared, what would it be?"
The great General leaned his head
forward on his hand and, said thought-
fully: -"It would be the curse of
strong drink." Then he went on to
state his reasons, and concluded by
saying: -"Oh, I would rather see my
little son die to -day than to see him
carried in to his mother, drunk."
The General also referred to his
own observations during his 'army
career, and related this incident. One
of his brave soldier boys was a strong,
noble young fellow. Just as they
were going into battle one hot day he
said to General Sheridan: -"If I
should be killed to -day please have
this message sent to my mother: -'I
have kept my promise, Not one drink
have I tasted, " He was killed, as
he evidently anticipated. The General
says: -"I carried that message to
his mother with my own lips. She
said to me: -'General, that is more
glory to my boy than if he had taken
a city.'"
On the Jury.
The lawyer was examining him
concerning his qualifications as a
juror.
"Have you ever served on a jury?"
he asked.
"No, sir," answered the man. "I've
been drawn a good many times, buil
was always too smart to get caught
on a jury"
"What's that, sir?" interrupted the
udge sternly. "Do you boast of your
smartness in escaping your duty?"
"No, your honor," said the man.
"Not at all, When I said I was too
smart I meant that I was' always ex- '
cused- becalm the lawyers thought 1
wasn't ignorant enough."
It is a test of good breeding to keep
your temper in hot weather, Try it,
To be good,according g
to somap
co-
p1e, 10 to be a has-been.
A bore is a person who talks when
you want to.
HARDSHIPS FACED
BY GEN. BOTHA
AWFUL EFFECTS QF THE HEAT
ON THE TRooPS.
Long-Marefies and Mad Gallops Under
the San and
Bloou.
A lieutenant, who served with
General Botha's force in the cam-
paign in German South-West Africa
hag written an interesting story of
his experiences. In the course of his
letter he describes the night marches
hnd proceeds: -
"After a few hours 'we descended
into a river bed) where we were met
by a single horseman, who kept re-
peating, 'Keepwell into the bank --
mines' (a mule was blown up there
next day, and S hear- since there were
a whole lot there). After crossing a
few stone bridges, we came to an-
other single horseman, who kept re-
peating, 'Keep in single file; don't
stray out; more mines.' We then be-
gan to ascend' a range of low moun-
tains or high hills -the most awful
place I ever saw. The moon was
nearly at the full, which made the ef-
fect all the more ghaetly. Did you
ever look at the mountains in the
moon under a powerful telescope? A
cold, glittering deathliness -not a
sign of vegetation or life in any
form. Suet as if a hot blast had
passed over it or as one man de-
scribed it, 'Hell, with the fires put
out.'"
Galloped On and On.
"On the other side of these moun-
tains we struck an awful streak of
,soft, floury sand, and, as bad luck
would have it, the order was given
to quicken pace, which meant a
hand gallop. This was the worst
we had yet; met." -
In rounding up a patrol of Ger-
mans the writer gives his experi-
ence: -
"The fatigue became awful. I be-
gan to get light-headed. The sky
seemed to become a straight wall
in front of us, and the effect of the
moonlight through the dust made
me imagine I saw great palaces and
churches, with the stars as little
windows. Then I would pull myself
together and look at the men riding
in front, and they would turn into
funny old giantesses dancing in the
moonlight. (I. learned afterwards
that everyone, suffered from these
hallucinations). There was no check
now; we galloped on and on -mile
aftermile--over stones, drooping
branches, just leaving it to the horse.
Those splendid horses! They were
Ear saner than we were, and seemed
to know there was something ahead.
Fusillade of Fire.
"Just as early dawn broke we
reached the top of a ridge . All
at once there was a regular fusillade
of rifle fire and hand machine-gun fire.
I had no idea they were firing at us,
as I was too finished to think or care
for anything but sleep. My horse
started to pull (I heard afterwards
that a bullet hit just in front of his
foot and another over his back and
behind mine). The next thing I re-
member was being in the river bed
with all the others. I don't know how
they didn't hit us, as there were sev-
eral very close shaves: B Squadron,
who followed us just behind, 'caught
it,' losing four killed and one wound-
ed.
The whole little scrap lasted over
half .an hour, but I don't remember
much else. except seeing H. J. bring-
ing two German prisoners up, and
very pleased' he was with himself. We
rode back into the town, but we were
all dead beat. In that last night's.
ride we covered from 32 to 35 miles.
between 12.30 and 6 a,m., most of the
way at a gallop, through thick bush,
clouds of dust and rough ground, af-
ter having already had three days and
nights of perpetual going.
The real work was done when we
cut the line at Wilhelmstal the next
day, and it was comparatively easy
going from there to Windhuk."
WAR CUTS BIRTH RATE.
A Drop of 80,000 Throughout British
Isles for Year.
France has long been suffering from
a decline in the birth rate. Eng-
land, during the last few years has
been steadily following suit, The de-
crease, "war baby" reports notwith-
standing, has now reached the colos-
sal total of 280 a week in London
alone. In the Provinces 1,500 fewer
babies are entering the world in the
same period as compared with last
year.
Statisticians are at their wits' end.
The decline means a drop of 80,000
for Britain during 1914, which'was a
particularly bad year, owing to the
fact that very few children of 14 were
registered in the schools, the Boer.
war having caused a slump of fathers
in 1900. If London be taken as a
lead, the decline of 280 births a week
spells a loss in naturalincrease in
papulation at the rate of 18,720 per
annum in London alone.
Taking boys alone, the decline
amounts to an average of 164 a week,
as compared with the preceding five
years. The loss of boy population to
London, therefore, is something like
8,000 a year. If London and the 97
big towns be bunched together, there
is a slump of nearly 2,000 a week.
From ,tbe middy West,
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI.
TIS#I COLUMBIA.
•
Items From Provinces Where Many'
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
Macleod,' Alta., has decided to go
along with but one policeman, the
chief,
Southern Alberta is worried over a
market fora very heavy crop of pos
tatoes.
Lethbridge wants a stock of fish
put in Henderson Lake to keepdown
the weeds,
Weed prevention will be the bots
tom of a wax to be waged by Calgary
City Council
Jacic Frost, farmer in Moose Jaw
district, had his crops hailed out, and
got $2,900 insurance.
A plebecite on woman suffrage is
not unlikely in Alberta; the United
Farmers may push it.
The demand for binders for the
western harvest this year took the
dealers almost by s,torm.
Interest is being solicited in the
use of asphalt mined in Alberta and
to be used in the .province.
Mrs. Eleanor Tomkins has given a
block to Calgary for park purposes in
memory of her late husband':
Moose Jaw division, of the railway
mail service will give a field kitchen
to the military forces of Canada.
The Minister of Agriculture of
Saskatchewan says weeds caused a
loss of 925,000,000 in crops this year.
Wadena, Sask., is willing to ex-
empt an hotel from taxation in order,
to retain accommodation for travel-
lers.
The Beaver Lake Mining district
of. Saskatchewan is still attracting
considerable attention from prospec-
tors.
Foremost, Alta., employs a medical
man, Dr. Poyntz, on a co-operative
basis, and will build a hospital like-
wise.
Eight men who worked for liquor
interests in the Alberta prohibition
campaign are suing for their pay at
Calgary.
If the fire chief of Calgary goes to
the firemen's convention at Ottawa
he must pay his own expenses; the
city refuses.
Playing with dynamite, 7 -year-old
James McDonald, of Clover Bar, Alta.,
dropped a stick and lost a hand and
an eye.
Economy in the street railway man-
agement of Edmonton has reduced
the city's deficit on the first part of
the year to $75,722.
Ambrose earthy, of Winnipeg, while
walking beside his brother's steam
plough at Niverville, Man., fell and
was cut to death.
Edward A. Hill, homesteader at
Nokomis, Sask., while cutting hay
and having a gun on his mower, was
accidentally shot dead..
Tho Board of Health of Calgary will
try to stamp out the mosquito and
summon those allowing stagnant wa-
ter on their lots.
When the barns of Victor Roth-
well, near Moose Jaw, were seen to
be on fire 100 autos rushed to the
blaze from surrounding farms.
Victor Freytag, Calgary business
man, a German, was interned for
openly' denouncing Britain • and its
King, and wishing the Kaiser' vic-
tory.
During June and July a German
Jew named Rattner, from Winnipeg,
bought cattle in Lethbridge district,
paying with worthless ` . cheques, to-
talling $15,000, and has disappeared.
THE ARMIES IN THE FIELD.
There Are 6,300,000 Germans to
11,500,000 of the Allies.
Mr, Spencer' Wilkinson, writing in
the Field, gives some interesting stat-
istics regarding the probable numb-
bers of troops which the six Great
Powers will have under arms by the
end of this month. He estimates that
the forces of France, armed and train-
ed, will amount to 8,500,000, those of
Great Britain to 2,000,000, Italy 2,-
000,000, and Russia 4,000,000, a grand
total of 11,500,000. The Allies are
further credited with reserves of 5,-
000,000 in Russia, and 2,500,000 in
Great Britain, France and Italy. The
figures are, o± course, only approxi-
mate and therefore not quite trust-
worthy, but they aro interesting and.
helpful.
The original numbers of the Ger-
man armies he gives as 4,000,000, and
the new formations 3,200,000-7,200,-
000 in all, Their losses he puts at 8,-
660,000, and, adding 460,000 to avoid
under -estimate, leaves Germany with
4,000,000. The original numbers of
the Austrian armies are placed at
2,500,000, and their additions at 1,-
600,000-a total of 4,100,000.Deduct-
ing 1,800,000 as their losses we get
2,800,000 as Austria'a strength at
the end of this month. The grand
Austro -German total at the end of
July works out at 6,800,000 to the 11,-
500,000 of the Allies, which is not un-
satisfactory. Some idea of the excel-
lence of the German organisation may
be gathered from a French 'official
statement that the Germans are, af-
ter each three months, able to pus
neve levies in the field to the number of
800,000 mon, or snore than 8,000,000
nron10 a year. .
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