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The Brussels Post, 1915-11-4, Page 3Oyster Dishes,. Fried ()Niters 'Creole. --Allow six oysters to each person. Drain the oysters, salt and pepper to taste and ro11them in bread crumbs. Drop in a frying pan of boiling lard, having. ' sufficient lard to allow the oysters to swim in the grease. Remove when a golden brown and place on brown pa- Vinegar and water will destroy nits 'Per to drain. Serve on a of fried in children's heads. Parsley, as given below. Vinegar and granulated sugar, mix Fried Parsley for Oysters, Meats, ed, will stop hiccup. etc.—Pick off the delicate leaves of i Vinegar, diluted, will keep meat branches of very young • parsley,' fresh in hot close weather. wash well, drain and put in a frying ; Mu'sta1d rubbed on the hands will pan in which you have placed n table- at once remove all smell of fish. spoonful of lard, medium hot. Fry I Vinegar rubbed on discolored steel - slowly and use as a garnish or as work ensures a quick, easy clean, needed. I Powdered alum added to ordinary Stewed Oysters.•—Talcs about 4 , stove blacking adds to its brilliancy. •• dozen large oysters, and drain in a Mustard mixed with soft food for colander.. Mix 1 tablespoonful' of flour fowls increases and quickens the egg and 1 of butter together. Put 1 pint supply, of oyster liquor on the fire= and add Mustard, to obtain the full flavor, the flour, and butter blended. Have should bn mixed with salad -oil and ready in another saucepan a pint of .not water, rich, hot cream. After 5 minutes, Mustard -plasters will not blister if ' add this to the oyster liquor, stirring mixed with the white of an egg and constantly to prevent burning. Salt hot water. and pepper to taste. Let it boil up Vinegar and bran make an excel - once and then add the oysters. Serve lent poultice for all aches, pains, and after 3 minutes, This is a well-known . bruises. Southern delicacy. I Vinegar added to the rinsing water Oysters au Parmesan.—Brown one will revive faded red and pink cotton cup, of rated br'eaderumbs ina little fabrics. butter and then butter a shallow dish i Vinegar—a teacupful—in a warm end stew the oysters with the bread- bath, will take away all stiffness crumbs. Drain the oysters and dry ! after cycling, etc. with a clean towel, season highly, and I Vinegar, diluted, applied to furni- place them, one by one, on the bread- ;ture before polishing, ensures a bril- erumbs, strewing chopped parsley liant polish. over, them. Then grate one or two I .A steak cut from an inch to an cupfuls of parmesan cheese over this, inch and a half in thickness is about using your own judgment as to the ne- 1 right. cessary amount. Now sprinkle this lightly with another coating of bread - crumbs and pour over this a gill of white wine. Place in the oven,. which should be very hot, and let this re- main about 15 minutes, until quite brown. When it is removed pour over it a little drawn. butter, garnish with lemon and serve, Steamed Oysters.—Use as many oysters as necessary, allowing at least six to each person. This is a favorite old Creole dish, and formerly it was the entree 'which accompanied many Saturday meals, like the good old baked beans and brown bread in Boston. Have ready a .pot of boiling water, drain the oysters in their shells and put them in a shallow pan, the bottom being perforated. Cover and put them over the steamer. Let them stand about 10 minutes, then remove and put into a hot dish, sea- son with pepper and cayenne, and serve with drawn butter. Those who prefer the natural taste of the oy- sters steam them in their shells. This is done by washing the oysters thor- oughly on the outside, placing them in the steamer and cover. Let them remain about 15 minutes in the steam- er, until the shells open easily, and -serve. The steamed oyster must be eaten very hot to appreciate its flavor. meal this will be found a goo for a humble pie, . Things Worth Knowing.Mustard and water is an " easy and mild emetic. Vinegar, hot, will remove paint marks from glass. filling Humble Pie. - Humble pie is still met with in the rural districts of England, Scotland and Ireland. It is not merely the pros verbial dish which the proud must sometimes eat. Originally it was a meat or game pie made for the serv- ants of noblemen and furnished an appetizing and economical method of utilizing the less desirable parts of animals brought in from the chase. After a prolonged and successful hunt, a prodigious humble pie was made, sufficient for all the retainers on the estate. This was eaten in the great kitchen after the nobleman and his guests had enjoyed the choicer portions. The pastry used for this huge pie was originally made from the drippings from, the roasts of veni- son .or game, which increased the savory flavor of the finished dish. The modern humble pie can be baked in a deep fireproof pudding dish of a size to meet the needs of the family. Line the dish with plain crust and place large pieces of ' raw potato here and there, so that the crust shall be weighted down and not lose its shape while baking. When partly cooked remove from the. oven,. take out the pieees of raw potato and fill with a hot mixture of whatevermaterial is at hand, such as remnants of cooked veal, beef, liver, ham or fowl, enriched with bits of finely chopped suet, highly seasoned with onion juice, minced parsley, pep- per and salt, and moistened with gravy or broth' Stale bread, Gut in dice, cubes of potato or other cooked vegetable may be added if the supply of meat is scant. Smooth the top of the filling neatly, 'arrange, strips of trust in lat- tice fashion and return to the oven until the top is well browned. • This dish somewhat resembles the econom- lcal shepherd's pie, which is topped Mustard sprinkled in boots, and covered with two paper socks, will keep the feet always warm. In cold weather, rag rugs are nice in the kitchen, as they can be taken up and washed. Vinegar will make a new gas - mantle last "much longer. Soak five minutes, dry, and burn off. Vinegar will prevent old potatoes from going black when boiled, if a teaspoonful is added to the water. Vinegar and stale bread, applied to a cornus a poultice, nightly, will cure the corn in three nights. New tinware will never rust, if greased with a little fresh lard and baked in the oven before it is used. The cedar one uses for moths, sprinkled• on the range will dispel the bad odor from anything cooking. In washing, remember that all white garments should be hung in the sun, while colored clothes should be hung in the shade. If ink is spilled on the carpet or table cover, cover it immediately with salt. Renew the salt as it ab- sorbs the ink. A paste made of fuller's earth mixed with water and rubbed over the spot will remove all traces of the grease: It well to make the second application, Put just the least amount of cotton - batten in The tips of children's gloves and it will keep them from wearing out in the fingers. WAR EXPENDITURES.• $600,000,000 le France's Bill For War Goods. • France's growing effort to accumu- late artillery- and ammunition is shown in an analysis of war expen- ditures. The total for 14 months shows more than 3,000,000,000 francs ($600,- 000,000) spent for cannon and ammu- nition, at the rate of 106,000,000. a month in 1914, 265,000,000 a month` during the first half of 1915, and 370,000,000,a month during the quar- ter ending September 30. The expenditure for artillery and ammunition are exceeded only by the item of . food and forage, which amounted to 4,250,000,000 francs. Next in order come the clothing and quartering of the troops; about 2,- 600,000,000, and the pay of the troops, about 2,000,000,000. • Vehicles, including automobiles,. were bought 'to the amount of 223,- 000,000 francs, and a billion and a half was paid for horses and mules. The sanitary department has cost 647,000,000 'to date, an average of 38,000,000 a month .during 1914, and 63,000,00 a month in 1915. The total' expenditure for distinctly military operations from July. 31, 1914, to September 3, 1915, is about 16,000,- 000,000 francs, making up 78 per cent, of the budget during that period. A billion and a half has been spent for the relief of soldiers' families and Workers thrown out of employment, while 100,000,000 have been spent for tho feeding and sheltering of refit - gees. The subscriptions to the national defence bonds and obligations have with mashed potato instead of crust furnished 60 per cent of tine funds eel.; and which does not have anything be- the total ee tenclitur'es of 22,000,000,-! tween the meat' filling and the fire- 000'. during l the 14 months ending, proof dish. September 80, the established taxes. Either of these dishes makes a hearty mealif served with gravy' or tomato satire and affords an econom- ical and easy method of utilizing left- overs of meat or vegetables, Where Irish stew is loft from 'a previous have produced 16 per cent. and trio' remaining 18 per cent, hus been ad-' vended by the Bank of France, The salary of the Archbishop Canterbury is £15,000 a year, of 19465—This narrow floral border is 1 inch wide and 0 yards long. It is illustrated on negligee 0088, which cuts in sizes 32 to 46. Transfer 10 cents, negligee 15 cents. 13540.—A neat finish for negligee 0086, which cuts in. sizes 82 to 40, is this scalloped border. 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Patterns, 10 and 15 cents each'for embroidery and dress patterns, re- spectively, can be purchased from your local Ladies' Home Journal Pat- tern dealer, or from The Home Pat- tern Company, 183-A George Street, Toronto, Ontario, ROARING FURNACES OF HEAT. Something About Volcanoes and Earthquakes. The name volcano is derived from Vulcanus, the god of fire of the an- cient Romans. They are gerisrally divided into three classes—active, in- termittent and extinct. Stromboli, in the Mediterranean, is a good example of the first class, making a fiery bea- con light for sailors on the neighbor- ing sea. Etna and Vesuvius are good examples of the second kind. To the popular mind they are the chimneys of the vast roaringcfurnaee of heat in the bowels of the earth, and un- doubtedly serve as vents for the powerful gases that might, if con- fined, create a total destruction to the crust upon which we live. There are supposed to be some three hundred and over of these chimneys upon the face of the earth, two-thirds being situated upon islands. America has about one hundred and fourteen of these, and more than any other geo- graphical division of the globe. Earthquakes appear to befromthe same causes as volcanic eruptions, the energy of vapors and gases in the earth struggling to find a vent. The, same night that the city of Lima, South America, was shaken down, four new volcanic vents were found in the Andes. Soon after the earthquake in Lis- bon in 1730 there were some of the most violent eruptions ever known. ' After the destruction of Caracas the volcano of St. Vincent became active, and at the beginning the earth was shaken for a. space of nearly twenty- six thousands miles. The movement of the earth during an earthquake may be vertical, hori- zontal or -whirling. The most destruc- tive shocks are generally the shortest in duration. That of Lisbon, Nov. 1, 1755, lasted about six minutes. ; The three shocks that reduced Caracas to ruins, March 26, 1812, were over in a minute, and most of the damage to the city of Conception, Feb. 20, 1835, was done in six seconds. At Lima, Peru, an average of nearly fifty shocks in a year are expected, and in some parts of South. America over sixty have been counted in a year, not reckoning the slight ones, which are' still more nu- merous. The permanent elevation or depres- sion of large tracts of land is one of the peculiar phenomena attending these' convulsions of nature. During the earthquake at Lisbon the new quay subsided and the spot was cover- ed by water six hundred feet deep. Many other remarkable instances are on record. They have been terribly destructive to life as well as property. A. visitation of the kind in Peru, 1746, stilled 3,800; 1797, from a similar cause, 1,600 Peruvians perished. At Caracas, 1812, 10,000 ellen were des tr'oyed, 60,000 at Lisbon in 1745, 40,000 in' the New Calabrias and Sic- ily in 1783, and 20,000 more by sick- ness resulting from it. Ancients Used Gas in Warfare. The earliest else of deleterious gases in siege warfare is recorded in the his- tory of the Peloponnesian wars from 431 to 404 B.C. During this struggle between the Athenians and Spartans and their respective allies the cities of Platen and. Delium were besieged. Wood saturated with pitch and sul- phur was sot On fire and burnt tinder the walls of these cities in order to generate chocking and poisonous fumes, which would stupefy the de- fenders and render the taste of the at- tacking. forces less difficult. A DEVASTATED TOWN. French Village Received 9,000 Shells in Six Days. The village of Sermaize-les-Bains will have the double honor of figuring in history as the extreme right of the position of the 4th French army in the battle of the Marne, and of being the first of the completely devastated towns to rise from their ashes. A year ago it was a local sugar refining. centre and a watering -place of charm- ing cottages and villas and some lux- urious mansions; its population was about 3,000. The 12th of September there remained not 40 of these houses erect, and none of these were undam- aged. There was no fighting in the town itself, and no soldiers were ever quar- t tered there, yet it received 9,000 shells lin six days -10 for each building and more than three for oath inhabitant —during the week of the battle of the Marne. There were few casualties among the civilians, for those that had not evacuated took shelter in cellars. What buildings remained erect when the Germans retreated were set afire. To -day there is a "Hotel de Voya- geurs," filled with guests, a "Grand Bazaar," n dressmaking and a mil- linery establishment, a grocer, a butcher, a barber and a dealer in garden seeds, doing a thriving busi- ness. The Quakers have erected 58 tem- porary dwellings, and here and there more permanent structures have been put up by the inhabitants with funds loaned by the Department of the Marne. Seventeen hundred of the inhabitants have returned. 4, HINDU CREMATIONS THERE. Funeral Pyres for Dead Soldiers Are Lit Near Brighton, England. A strange consequence of the war is that funeral pyres for Indian sol- diers are being lighted on the Sussex Downs in the south of England. Major S. P. James, M.D., the head of the Kitchener Hospital at Brigh- ton, which accommodates more than 2,000 Indian patients, stated at the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress that the bodies of the Hindu soldier's Who die in the hospital are cremated on a specially prepared site at Pat- cham, on the Downs. The burning is done on a funeral pyre of wood logs, in precisely the same manner and with the same cere- monies as those performed in India. The eremation is conducted by a member of the same caste as that to which the dead man belonged. In order to preevnt the different castes from "losing caste," eight dif- ferent kinds of diet have to be pre- pared, and there are separate sets of. cookhouses for six different classes of 111511. - 1300 In One Grave: It is doubtful that any place in the war zone contains a grave of such proportions 115 Piotrolcow, Poland. Beside the little Russian cemetery, itself filled with individual graves of both Russians and Germans, is a vast mound, covering' 1,300 Russians who fell in the fighting there last'Novem- ber. 'l.'he grave, which is at 0110 cor- ner of the battlefields, is marked by more than a score of tresses, each bearing the Jnantes of the men lying under it. Young titmice are so greedy that their parents sometimes provide them with no less than six thousand eater - pillars a day. • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 7, Lesson VI.—,Joash Repairs the Tem - pie, 2 Kings 11.'21 tie 12. 16, G. T.-2 Cor. 9, '7, 1. Neglect to Repair the Temple (Verses 4.8). Verse 4, Jehoash said to the priests —Several years after his accession to the throne. In 2 Chron, 24, 7 we have 1n account of the way the sons of Athallah ruined the temple. All the money of the hallowed things—That which was given for the vessels and accessories of the temple service. (See 1 Kings 7, 48-51). For whom each man is rated—See Exod. 30. 12; Lev. 22. 18-23; 27, 2-8; Deut. 16. 10. 5. From his acquaintance—In the canvass for funds, each person was to go to those whom he knew. The mod- ern method of soliciting funds is very like the old. Repair the breaches of the house— The word repair means to fill up, to calk, indicating the sort of holes in the temple walls. 6. In the three and twentieth year —Jehoash was now about thirty years old. 7. Why repair ye not the breaches? —As no blame was attached to the priests by the king for their neglect in keeping the temple in repair, it is presumable that the temple offerings had so_,decreased that there really was no money on hand for the work of restoration. Their honesty was not impugned, for in verse 9 we read they were put in charge of the public offer- ings. Take no more money—The "house to house" collection ordered in 2 Chron. 24. 5 was now to close and the offerings were to be made beside the altar in the temple itself. II. The Chest of Money (Verses 9-12). 9. All the money that was brought —See 2 Chron. 24, 9, 10. 10. When they saw that there was much money in the chest,—They could determine the amount by the weight of the chest. Put up in bags and counted the money—As the money was uncoined gold and silver, it was first tied in bundles, each bundle weighed and counted. 11. Into the hands of them that did the work—That is, it was paid in gross to the contractors, who in turn paid the carpenters, masons, etc. WOMEN DOCTORS WANTED. Salaries. Offered Double Those Paid . Men. Before the War. The demand for women doctors ex- ceeds the supply, according to a state- ment by the London School of Medi- cine for Women. Even the posts of house physician and house surgeon in the hospitals, heretofore always held by men, are offered to women. This is particularly true of the provincial hospitals. Women are also taking the practices of men who have gone to the front. Boards of guardians are so hard up for doctors that, casting aside their inherited prejudices, they offer posi- tions to women at increased salary. Before the war, an infirmary doctor in the Whitechapel district, who was al- ways a man, received only $500 a year and emoluments. Now the same post is advertised for a woman at $1000 and emoluments. The Women's Medical School of London has trained 600 women doctors now. in practice, and has 220 students on its rolls. The class entering the Autumn terms is larger by 60 appli- cants than ever before. 'WAR TEACHING ECONOMY. Sunflower Oil is Used in German Cooking. The war as a teacher of economy is scoring new results from time to time even among a people already so economical as the Germans. The Ber- lin newspapers are calling attention to. the extraordinary increase this year in the cultivation of the common sun- flower; it is seen in great quantities in the gardens in the suburbs of Berlin and other cities and along railways everywhere. In previous years the on- ly practical value of the plant Was in feeding the seeds to birds, but this year the seeds are used to make an oil which is pronounced equal to the best olive oil for cooking purposes. A writer is also pointing to Author possibilities of the plant. The oilcake left after making oil, he says, is an excellent feed for animals, whereas; the seeds themselves can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee, l The young shoots and undeveloped leaves can also be cooked and eatonl as a palatable substitute for spinach.: In Belgium, too, the Germans are turning their thoughts toward disco- vering new uses for old and familiar plants, An agricultural weekly pub- lished by. the German authorities there bus just been showing that tett can be made from tender, half-grown leaves of the blackberry and rasp- berry plants, which has all the quell - ties of eta (mous Chinese. cousin without its nerve-dit.turbing effect. DOGS GREAT AID IN FRENCH ARMY FOLLOW GERMAN LEAD IN USING CANINES. Trained far Three Classes of Work, Patrol, Linking, and Ambu- lance Duly. Before the war the French made very little use of dogs for military purposes. The Germans began train- ing them for war as long ago as 1585, while the French paid no atten- tion to the subject until a dozen years later, and then only fox ambulance work, At the outbreak of the war the Germans had 35,000 dogs ready to he mobilized. To -day there are only 1,200 dogs employed along the whole French front. A French author, Aurelien Scholl, describing German manoeuvres, made fun of the company of ambulance dogs: "Before General Waltdersee there passed in review the Second Bulldog , Brigade, the Frst Regiment of Bow - wows and the Second Regiment of Imperial Poodles. Dogs over seven years eider the Landwehr, and all those who have their tails in the shape of a trumpet are enrolled in the band." "Three classes of dogs are now be- ing used at the front," said Secretary 0. Bert. of the French Association for Training War Dogs to a news- paper correspondent in Paris recent- ly. Bert, who is back wounded from the front, was in charge of the de- tachment e tachment of war dogs at Arras last December. "They are patrol dogs, linking dogs, and ambulance dogs," he said, "The first class are always of the sheepdog breed, chiefly from Picardy or Flanders, and noted for their intelligence and sense of smell. Their calm temperament, too, counts. Terrier Too Nervous. "The fax terrier also was tried, but his nervous system was found to be too delicate and highly strung and cosequently his temperament is too excitable. The sheepdog's sense of smell is wonderful; he easily detects the presence of an enemy a hundred or even a hundred and fifty yards away. "The training of the dog for senti- nel and patrol work, when he is al- ways accompanied by soldiers, is sim- ple and speedy. Of course, there is, first of all, a selection of specially intelligent dogs made in Paris, but when the dogs selected have been sent to the front it requires only four nights' teaching to make them fit for their work. The chief difficulty is to make them learn not to bark, but only growl. Violence is never used; a tap or two on the head is enough when they start barking. "The training of dogs for linking purposes—that is, for keeping two bodies of soldiers in touch with one another—requires two months. The course for au ambulance dog is nearly a year. The ambulance dog, unlike the patrol or linking dog, must be taught to bark so as to give notice to the battlefield searchers when he has found a wounded man. Famous Dogs. "In the case of patrol and linking dogs there must always be some one whom the dog knows at the point to which he is to be sent: The dog must have exceptional qualities if he is to act independently; if he is to be used, for instance, for dragging a stretcher out to wounded men under fire, or small portable kitchens on broad - gauge wheels to men in an advanced fighting line, or at a listening post. "War dogs are recruited from all parts of France." "I have already three sons and a son-in-law with the colors; now I give my dog—and vive la France!" wrote one father of a family to the associa- tion when offering his dog. Sonia ambulance dogs are famous. To mention only three: There is "Lou - Ion," the gift of the poet Edmund Rostand to the French army; "Stop," of the Fifteenth Army corps, who has saved scores of lives, and "Flora," of the Twelfth Alpine Chasseurs, who did linking work for four days run- ning under a rain of shell without re- ceiving a wound.MF 4! THE COORTER. Silent is the house. I sit In the fieelight and knit, At my ball of soft grey wool Two grey kittens gently pull— Pulling back my thoughts as well, From that distant, red -rimmed hell, And hot tears the stitches blur As I knit a comforter, "Comforter" they call it—yes, Such it is for my distress, For it gives my restless Bands Blessed work. God understands How we women yearn to be wait, something ceaselessly-- Anything but just to Idly for a decking gate! So 1 knit this long, grey thing, Which some fearless lad will fling Round hint in the icy blast, With the shrapnel whistling past; "Comforter" it may be then, Like a mother's touch again, And at last, not grey, but red, Be a pillow for the dead. I—Dundee Advertiser. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM ITER BANKS ANI) IBRA158, What Is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Most of the bee -keepers in Eerwick- shire have lost all their stock thr'oug'h the Isle of Wight disease, Arbroath is to join Montrose in in- suring the Montrose Suspension Bridge against bombardment risks, Good sport has been had on the moors, 430 brace of grouse being bag- ged on the Tomnavoulin beat 111 one day, Asludie Mansion, recently Pur- chased by the Dundee ,Corporation, will likely be used for sanatorium purpaeas, Investments in the Government War Loan by workmen of Milnwood Steel and Iron Works, Mossend, amount to $8,000. A committee has been formed in Cullen to provide comforts far the local men or for the Naval Brigade and National Reserver The death has occurred of Mr, John Spence, proprietor of Corsefield, ind a well-known Dunscore farmer, at the age of 85 years. There are now some 12,000 soldiers under canvas in the camps in Perth= shire, and billeting accommodation will be found this month, An outbreak of fire occurred at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, and, as a result, the engine -room with some valuable plant was destroyed, In response to the many requests made to him, Lord Provost Inches, of Edinburgh, has intimated his willing- ness to continue in office for another year. The Savoy Theatre, Glasgow, was recently offered for sale at the re- duced upset price of $175,000, but there were no offers and the sale was adjourned. Twenty-five wounded soldiers repre- senting various English and Scottish regiments serving at the Dardanelles and France, have arrived at Gordon Castle V.A.D. Hospital. Sharks have been frequent visitors to the Firth of Clyde lately. One of the Girvan fishing boats recently found one entangled in its nets, It measured over 7 feet in length. The Corporation of Glasgow an- nounce that the sum to be paid to the Earl of Moray for the site of the new reservoir to be constructed at Glen- finlas is $151,250. The ground covers over 400 acres. Mr. Macleod, Central Glasgow, has declined to accept a salary as M.P. during war time. His duties on the Royal Commission and Recruiting Committee may prevent his continu- ous service at Westminster. Blairgowrie High School has beon taken by the authorities for the billet- ing of soldiers during the winter, and the School Board has secured the town ball, public hall, and three church halls to take its place. Owing to the war the letting of shootings in Perthshire shows a re- duction this year of about $35,000 and unlet shootings account for the reduc- tion of $320,000 in the total valuation of the county. About 200 members of the Royal Engineers are to be housed during the winter in the town hall, Bank House and the old industrial school, Alyth, and the Y.M.C.A. have offered the military their premises. The Duke of Buccleuch has handed over to the Dalkeith Tawn Council documents signed and sealed gifting the town and fair customs "in favor of the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors for the use, benefit and enjoyment of Dalkeith." SILENT LOLDIERS. A Correspondent Says the British Aro Quiet. Almost the first thing that strikes you about the British army is its quiet men, writes a United Press cor- respondent. I saw six horses try to ruts away the other day when a regi- ment of men cheered Sir John French after he had thanked them in his quiet, hesitating way for their pari in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. Can- non the horses know. Cheers are strange to them. "Don't have any ceremony; seems_ to be the British army man's idea of doing his job. A young officer was moving about a headquarters room in a farmhouse, up near the front, where we had gone in for some hot tea. He chatted with the officers at the table about various things; about the colonel's little daughter, who was fourteen and had lived on four dif- ferent continents; about a Hiudu who had learned to speak French al- most perfectly within a few weeks; about other trivial things; and all the time he was packing his bag to take his men through a night march to the C'l'enches where he would spend sever- al days, They were talking about their mess. "We ought to have a French cook," he said, as he threw his bag over his shoulder and started for the door. That was his goad -by remark. Ile might never .come back again, saw hien pat the old: tamer's dog on the head its he passed thr rtgh . the yard, and the officers went on talking just as if a fellowman had tot start- ed for death land.