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The Brussels Post, 1916-4-13, Page 3ffia usewifeY earner Cheese Dishes, Cheese Roll.—Take an ordinary long French roll and cut into slices remov- ing the crusts so as to leave round pieces of crumb. Butter each slice and cover very thickly with grated American cheese; then pile the slices one on top of the other. Boil a half int of milk with pepper, salt and a attic grated nutmeg and when it is oiling pour over the ez tl a bread and cheese, malting sure to have it sonic into every part. Place in a well -buttered deep pan and hake for 15 minutes in a moderate oven, basting four or five times with the juice that comes from it. When cooked the top should have a golden brown crust. Boston Roast.—Mash up the con -1 ' tents of a pom7C1 earl of ki adding half pound of Y Deans, and enough b grated cheese mbs to make the mixture stiff enough to handle. Knead and make into a roll. Prepare the. roasting tin by heating and. putting butter and water in the dripping pan; then when the butter is quite melted end the pan hot put in the roll. Bake for about 15 minutes, basting with the butter and water, and serve with tomato sauce. Chopped oniony may be added to' this dish if desired or a' delicate flavor pf the onions can be given by chopping them and cooking] in the butter and water that is used for the bash ng, Vanderv'alle's Cheese Souffle.—Take two good soupspoonfuls of flour and mix it with half a teacupful of milk; melt a lump of butter the size of a filbert (about a quarter ounce) and add that; then enough grated cheese to your taste and the yoke of four eggs, Add at the last the whites of the four eggs beaten stiffly, pepper and salt. Butter a mold, put in your mixture and let it cook for ens hour in the saucepan, surrounded with boiling water and the lid on. Then turn out the souffle and serve with al mushroom sauce. The sauce is a good white sauce to which you have added already -cooked mushrooms. Clean them, first of all, chop them and cook them till tender in butter and their own juice; then throw them in the sauce and pour it over your souf- fle. Emelie Jones' Cheese Souffle. Grate a half pound of Gruyere cheese. Mix in a cup of milk a dessertspoon- ful of flour; beat four whole eggs and add first the cheese and then the flour and milk mixture. Season with pep- per and salt and put all into a mold. Let it cook in a saucepan of boiling water for an hour and a half. Then at the end of this time put it in the oven for half an hour. Sheese Pudding.—Boil up a pint of milk and pour it on to one tablespoon- ful of rice floor, which has been mix- ed with a little cold milk, put back , into the pan and stir until the mix- ture thickens. Remove the pen from the fire and add four ounces of finely - grated cheese, a pinch of salt and cayenne, two ounces of butter and the yolks of two eggs. Mix all well to- gether znd then add the beaten whites of the eggs. Butter 0 pie dish and pour the mixture into it and bake in a moderate over for 20 minutes. Sprinkle grated cheese over the top before serving. Savory Cheese Pudding.—One-half pound cheese grated, one ounce of but- ter oil, pepper, salt, one teaspoonful of strong mixed mustard, an egg. Mix all and bake it in a buttered dish 20 minutes till set. Serve it very hot. Chinese Corks.—Mak-e a thick white sauce and when it has gotten cold add the yoke of one egg and a few drops of lemon juice. Sprinkle in a slice of grated stale bread and enough grated chess to flavor it very strongly. Then leave for two hours to get quite cold. Shape into small pieces like corks, dip them into the beaten white of egg and then into very fine brendcrumbs. Have ready sone hot fat in a deep pan fry your corks until they are a golden • From the semis source comes the directions for making cheese balls. Cheese Balis.—Take two dessert- spoonfuls of flour and blend with a little milk; acid the yolks of three eggs. Grate two ounces of Gruyere cheese and two ounces of Parmesan and add to the flour and eggs. The cheese should be grated as finely as possible. Heat the mixture, stirring well so as to keep the flour from lumping, and cook for five minutes, thou add the juice of one-half a lemon and a little• dust of cayenne pepper. Set aside to get cold. Then snake into small balls and roll in egg and bread- crumbs, Fry in boiling fat until they are golden brown, drain and serve at once on a hot dish, to Lot 1 vpeau. Walls acid Ceilings. C hi the care of all woodwork there is one caution never to be forgotten --to clean off spots just es soon as they appear, If dirt and grease are allowed to stand on woodwork it means that severe measures must be taken to remove the dirt, and usually where extreme methods are used the iinieh is removed with th dirt, Status should be removed from un- fhiished wood before washing. (;reale stains are the const common. The grease should first be wet with cold water to prevent spreading and then eerubbcd with a strong -washing sod or lye solution. 'Co bleach tui unfinished surface made in a solution of one teaspoon- fel to one cup of hot water, may be applied to the entire surface with a brush. This is allowed to dry and then the surface is scrubbed as usual. For the washing, the surface' should be gone over with n wet cloth, then scrubbed with a brush and soap or a fine sand soap, In scrubbing, the brush should always go with the grain of the wood, never across the grain or in a circular motion, After being thoroughly scrubbed the surface should be rinsed off with cleai5 warm water and then wiped as dry as pos- sible with a cloth wrung out of warn water. As little water as will clo the work properly should be used. If a groat deal of water is used the wood be- comes water -soaked and darkens. Thorough rinsing is alsoessential, as otherwise the surface becomes gray and muddy. looking. In washing a wood floor care must he taken not to splash water on the baseboard. In washing a table, the edge and under the edge must be carefully washed. This under surface becomes greasy simply from the touch of the bands. Useful Hints. When cooking beef in a fireless cooker do not put salt on until the White velevt can be freshened by applying chloroform to it after free- ing the velvet of dust. A teaspoonful of turpentine to a pail of water will brighten faded car- pets better than ammonia. Cotton crepe table napkins are -n convenience in the summer cottage. They require no ironing. If you are short of baking powder, silt together' one part of bicarbonate of soda and two parts of cream of tartar. If any boiled starch is left over, save it and put it into the water with which oilcloth or linoleum is washed. It will keep them new and bright. Gelantine pudding can be made more nourishing by mixing it with milk instead of water; but be sure that the milk is not too hot or it will curdle. In making ices in which you ui fresh fruit, let the fruit soak in good sherry wine for eight or ten hours. Freezing will not harden fruit treat- ed in this way. THE HOLOCAUST OF VERDUN. Incidents of the Great Battle Which Fill One With Horror. The world has grown so familiar with the tales of wholesale slaughter since the war began that nothing short of hecatombs of slain suffice to move it to its depths. If the Verdun carnival of lire and blood has not so stirred ib nothing else will. The nar- ratives bristle with points of horror. Here it is of bloody fragments of unrecognizable humanity hurtling through the air where bile great ex- plosives had descended, and falling on the French soldiery in the adjacent trenches, and there of the veil of smoke lifting from the snow-covered slope and showing up the ground, thickly dotted with the corpses of the men who had fought their last fight. The gond to Douamotit was strewn. with dead; whole regiments had been wiped out upon it and the men lay in thousands where they had fallen. There was a brown line that attracted . the attention of the French gunners. They opened on it with their 75's and saw large numbers of bodies spring into the air. That was in the evening. When the morning light spread "the brown mass was a mass of German corpses, that had bean annihilated be- tween the two hills, and the bodies , were so closely pressed together that' the majority of them were standing upright" There was a fierce struggle! for a little wood that the French were ! holding. While they fought for it 1 they mined ib, and when all was ready; they permitted themselves to be drive on out of it. It was immediately rushed by the enemy. Then a button was ptossed that embroiled a series of electric wires. A boom sounded, and forthwith "trees and debris were flying about and there were terrible : cries. The Boches had forever Web- i ed their bawling, and those of our soldiers who had feigned flight were in hysterics of delight." Theis in a long series of grim and lucid word pictures the agonies are piled one: upon another. Relatively, these may i have been small, but in such .a hades as Verdun.,ihas been they can have' been nothing else than terrible. And, whatever be the sorrows and the re-, grets, and the butchery of gallant risen by bho thousand and by tens of 1 t.h.ousaptte, eli that can be said of it's is that war 1s war, and this particular: war 19 more than anything else a aver of attrition, and that bile one and only way to stop the Clermalis from' fighting is to kill them offl That is what it comes 10, and if it be so, then the more of thent that are slaughtered the more expeditiously and wholesale it is doth, the sooner we shall have isace. But it is, uoverthelcss, a sorry I road e.i a desirable end, a struggling alonge Via Dolorosa red with human sacrifice towards victory --it may he Alesf sinew 1011411 prey to ttie submarine,1 LOSSES ON tlotably the I!'ormidablc, 114ajosthc, SEAS ARE ALsr IglT Amalfi and Cluiseppe Garibaldi, though the principal field iri wh altichrafficthey are l feared is in eomtnerei.' Ij _ —1• ToILLE YACRE >, I EVERY , I'REi OF, SUBMARINES GREAT. .EST IN NUMBER. A Naval Expert Says Conditions Are Unchanged by Past Encounters. A naval expert, writing in the Scientific American, is inclined to con- sider lightly the loss of 32 major war, vessels of the Allies, which have been sent to the bottom since thebeginning of the European war. He bases his opinion on the fact that while the number of Allied vessels lost looms large, the conditions existing on the sea remain unchanged after close on to two years of warfare. Indeed, as the war continues the grip of the. Allies on control of the sea becomes' tighter and more secure. He states in pit,. "At the outbreak of the war the preponderance of the Allied fleet was sufficient to give it virtual control of rho seas. The Central Powers, recog- nizing the situation, concentrated their. vessels so far as possible in home waters. Those unable to seek this shelter, on account of the hazard in- voleed without adequate returns, cruised in remote waters less efficient- ly policed. Here it was possible to prey on the enemy's commerce while awaiting conflict on more nearly equal terms. "From the first, then, the control of the sea has been conceded to the Allies except for the guerilla warfare of these isolated vessels; and the first stage of the naval warfare consisted in clearing up the ocean of the daring marauders who temporarily disputed the Allied control in remote seas. Losses Light, Considering Results. "The completion of this task was accomplished nob without loss to the Allies. The principal units lost to the British in this phase were the Good Hope, a cruiser of 14,000 tons, the Monmouth, a cruiser of 9,800 tons, in Admiral Craddock's ill-fated squad- ron on the west coast of Chili, and bile Pegasus, a light cruiser of 2,135 tons, sunk by the Koenigsberg at Zanzi- bar. These naval losses inay be con- sidered light for the results obtained. "As the Teutons have not felt in- clined bo major operations, the suc- ceeding Allied operations, with one exception, have been with the object of restraining raids and submarine activity. The exception consists of the Dardanelles campaign, where sec- ond line or predreadnought battleships were employed out of their normal sphere to reduce fortifications which subsequent events proved were more capable of•resistance than anticipated. A modern vessel, the Queen Elizabeth, was frequently mentioned in the bom- bardments that occurred; but it is probable that owing to the range of her 15 -inch guns it was not necessary and presumably never intended that she should come within range of the forts, or that she should be exposed to the floating mines and possible tor- pedo attack in the straits. "Of these vessels engaged within the danger zone, the Allies lost heav- ily. The battleships Irresistible, Ocean, Goliath, Triumph, Majestic, Bouvet and Leon Gambetta were the major snits lost; but the losses also included a number of submarines and • t 1 ar13[f01 S, "From the experience gained in this adventure it is extremely unlikely that important ships will be jeopardized in similar campaigns. "The Allies' problem, henceforbh, became one of repressing an German naval activity. This took two forms,, one, the raid in force, the other, the' war of attrition by the sowing of mines and torpedoing by submarines, Second Raid in Force. "The second raid in force, with a squadron of powerful high-speed bat- tle cruisers and cruisers, encountered Admiral Beatty's battle cruiser squad- ron. This resulted in the loss of the Blucher and serious injuries to other German vessels. "'Important injuries occurred to the British vessels, notably the battle cruiser Lion, in this engagement, but the damage inflicted upon the enemy raiders was sufficient to prevent a re- currenco of raids by seen up to the present time of writing. In this in- stance important results were accom- plisher] without loss of vessels to the Allies. The destruction incident to mines, navigation and the daeigerous explo- sives carried form an important part of the total, and there is a part of the unfortunate losses which must be counted upon in the vigorous prosecu- tion of any war. The proportion of. this damage to bile whole is much greater in the present war then it would be in one where the control of the sea was disputed, In this cate- gory has come the principal loss of the Allies, so far in the war, through the sinking of the dreadnought Auda- cious off the Irish coast. The Ring Edward, Bulwark, Natal and Bene- detto Brim were also lost in this way. The remaining method of harassing the Allies, and the one that continues, is hiccough the use of the submarine. "Naval opinions received an impres- sive shook when the news of the tor- pedoing of the cruisers Hogue, Abou- kir and Cressy was flashed round the world. This event tiitdoubtedly molt - fled the Allied scheme of sea patrol. which, has• been harkened, oxalic acid, over with iisahf. ( Numerous other war vessels have Xrrencli Minister of Agriculture Warns Nation of Necessity. The cultivationof every parcel of land in France to assure the maxi- mum agricultural productionis the aim of the French Government, and to bring this about the Government itself will act temporarily as a farmer. A bill has been prepared under bio direction of Jules Meline, Minister of Agriculture, requesting the owners of uncultivated land to begin tillage within two week after notice. • If land is nob cultivated withiln the time specified the hill provides that mayors of communities have the right to requisition the ground and order its cultivation, the towns to assure the funds necessary to carry on this work, The bill further provides for a municipal or ,00 agricultural commit- tee to supervise the cultivation of such land. Minister Melina says that there has been a del -licit in grains of 10 per centein 1915, as compared with 1914. The minister declares that there is nob a minute to be lost if France does not want to be surprised by de- velopments and exposed to the possi- bility of arriving too late on the economic battlefield. GERMAN VALOR A MYTH. Officers Appointed Without Reference To Their Courage. As a result of a series of cross ex- aminations of German prisoners, a re- cent issue of the Journal des Debats, of Paris, prints the following article on actual conditions of the Germau army :— "In regard to the bravery and valor of the German officers, the- prisoner declares that the appointments• of the assists officers from the volunters takes pace without in any way tak- ing into account the actual courage and bravery of the candidates. In i fact, the greater part of the officers thus chosen are notorious for their cowardice. As soon as a bombard- ment starts they quickly seek shelter, The patrols, of which from time to time they form a part, never venture very far. "The prisoner, who on several oc- casions had served on one of these patrols, said that they had always come to an early halt on the pretext that it would be useless to continue further. Especially ,rya this true on one occasion in the vicinity of Hill No, 69, just south of Ypres. An officer had barely reached the outskirts of the German barbed wire entanglements, when he proposed to return to head- quarters and give an account of some fantastical observations that they would have made up and agreed upon. Of course this patriot received an Iron Cross. "This attitude of the officers does not escape the observation oe the priv- ates.."—(From riv- ates:"—(From au examination of a prisones from the 210th regiment of reserve infantry.), A GREAT MILITARY POWER. French Tribute to the British Army and Navy. In the course of a leading article under the title "British Evolution" the Paris Temps says: "Britain, a great naval Power, finds herself to -day a great military Power, and it is not only the numerical strength of her army created in the midst of the war that excites surprise and admiration, it is, besides, the equipment in material- and armament which supplies all these soldiers with the indispensable means to turn their natural bravery to good account." After praising the organization of industries connected with the war, which, it says, extend throughout the British Empire, the article continues: "The effect of strengbhening the British lines makes itself felt even in the epic battle of Verdun by permit- ting numerous bodies of French troops to be spared to break the German on- slaught without weakening any sec- tion of the front from the North Sea to Switzerland. The part to be taken by the Bribish Empire in this war is one of the surprises that the military administration in the United Kingdon and Colonies could not have foreseen, and that needed a particular genius to realize. The naval factor in this conflict plays a part which, despite the absence of naval combats, is not less of capital importance in the sub- jugation of the enemy. The British Navy has rendered in this respect in- calculable service." -'I'--------• Is War Declining? During the nineteenth century 586 battles were fought This is exclud- ing all the smaller engagements, which, if reckoned along with the rest, bring the total to 8,102 --that ia, 81 battles per year, or a. fraction over one and a half every week during the full handred years. Our battlegrounds were spread over the following nine- teen countries: France, India, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Egypt, America, Ashanti, Soudan, Afghanistan, China, New Zealand, Zululand, Persia, Abys- sinia, Burmali, Mashonaland, Corea, and the' Transvaal. How ninny battles' will be recorded by future historians for the present twentieth century it is impossible to say But if the great war drags on indefinitely,, 11is very possible that Hist century's total will be eclipsed, This Would be' a happy world if we could only believe eeeeything eve say, NEW POSTMASTER -GENERAL. Two Pease in the British Post Office Department The fact that Mr It., J. Pease has been appointed BritishPostmaster- General in succession to Mr, Herbert Samuel, where he will be assisted by hhe cousin, Mr. H. Pike Pease, who is assistant RM,O., has led to the an- nouncement that there are now "Two Pease in the P.O.D." (Post Office De- partment,) It is a curious foot that the two cousins sit on opposite sides of the House of Commons, for while Mr. J. A. Pease is the Liberal M,P. for Rotherham, his cousin is Unionist member for ,Darlington, J. A. Pease, M.P. As a sportsman and. athlete, Mr. J. A. Pease won many honors, He play- ed football and polo for Cambridge, where he won his rugger "blue," was master of the 'Varsity staghoends, and has also captained the Durham County cricket eleven. His political career began when he was 82. He en terecl parliament for the Tyneside Division in 1892, and represented that constituency until 1900, when he was defeated. In 1901 he re-entered the House as member for Saffron Walden, where he was defeated in January, 1910, and three months later was re- turned for the Rotherham Division of Yorkshire, Commonly known be his fellow M. P.'s as "Jack," though his name is Joseph, Mr. Pease retired from the Cabinet on the formation of the Coal - Mien Government, having held the 'post of president of the Board of Education from 1911-15. He was for years one of the Liberal whips, and, as such was popular on both sides of the House. In connection with his duties as a whip, Mr. Pease tells a good story. At an all-night sitting he thought that a certain M.P. was absent. He was really present in every division, but at other times he was asleep in one of the recesses. Mr. Pease miss- ed him and sent a telegram to his house at seven in the morning: "Come' down at once to relieve guard." The member tuned up at his own house! at eigbt o'clock, fully expecting to receive a warm welcome from his wife and mach sympathy for having been in the House all night. But she said, "Where have you been?" He replied, "All-night sitting in - the House." She retorted, "Now, it's no use you telling me such a thing," and thereupon produced the telegram signed "Pease." This Pease nearly caused a split in that happy hone, but after explainations "peace" reign- ed as before. HOW To GET UP EARLY. Alarm Clock That Throws Man Out' of Bed. A remarkable clock which not only; atvakenec1 its owner fn the morning,± but dumped him out of bed and lit his fire, is now in the possession of the ! Wisconsin State Historical Society'si Museum at Madison, The clock was the property of the late Mr. John Muir, the eminent naturalist and explorer, who made it himself when he was at Wisconsin l University and found it hard to wakes early after late nights. He made a bed of pine boards with i three legs, two at the head and one at the foot. The leg at :the foot was so made that if a peg was released the bed would drop to an angle of 45 degrees, A strong cord, fastened to the peg, led to the clock. Ott the end of the cord near the clock was a large stone. Before Mr. Muir retired the cord was attached to the clock, and at five the clock would do its work. While teaching in a country school- house be used the 'clock to start a fire before he arrived at school. The clock upset a ,tube of sulphuric acid into a mixture of chlorate of potash and sugar placed under the firewood the night before, Instant combustion took place. Trouble, with most handsome wo- men—they think it's all they need. Ethel—Tree? (Holds` out her hand.) You can see for yourself that I am still in the ring. I've made itt a practice to put all my worries down at the bottom of. mer heart, then sit on the lidand smile. -- Alice 1?. Rico, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 16, Second Quarter. Lesson III, --Tho Gospel for the Gentiles—Acts 10. Golden Text : Rom, 10: 12. 'Verse 26, 'Sirorsbipped—Wlr110 the word does not in itself imply more than reverence paid to a superior by prostration, it Is clear that no Homan noncommissioned officer' would have behaved thus to a Galilean fisherman: Peter's interpretation of the act was perfectly correct. 26. Even au angel similarly re- pudiated such worship (Rev, 22. 9), The lowly Jesus accepted it (Matt. 8, 2, etc.). 28. Unlawful—According to the rabbis, who had added this and many other far-reaching novelties to the Law, liven to come unto a Gentile was forbidden, not to speak of •close intimacy (join himself), And yet— The etThe latter word has no right in the text; see the paraphrase above. Any man stands M a very emphatic place at the end, Peter has learnt the les- son Paul expounds in Co. 3, 11, Yel- low, brpwu, or black men—to moder- nize his words—must be regarded by Christians as simply Hien, and there- fore brothers, Common—Compare Sark 7, 2. It is the antithesis of consecrated. There is a scavenger class in Benares, the Doms, for whom Hinduism has no temple that will ad- mit them, though one shrine these will admit a dog. Christianity came and took them all in; and at least one Dom is to -day a Christian preacher.] The holy of holies is open to every sharer in that humanity'whlch Christ put on: "God cleansed" (verse 15) all man- kind potentially by the incarnation. 30. Four days ago—We say three, for the ancients counted in the first and last days, and we do not, Sup- pose Cornelius speaking on a Friday afternoon: his vision was thus on Tuesday. The ninth hour—Except in the Fourth Gospel onty the third, sixth, and ninth hours are mentioned in. the New Testament•, with the in the New Testament, with the eleventh for a special purpose. They are absolutely vague, and are best rendered by forenoon, noon, and after- noon, Only the observant John speaks of hours that needed a sundial to fix them. The three prayer times are those implied in the psalmist's Evening and morning and at noon will I pray," - 81. Thy prayer—The petition just offered. Thine alms—The practice o1 charity, the motive of which God could read; apply Matt. 6. 3, 4, and remember that the American Version openly there is spurious. 32. In the sight of God, as in verse 31, makes all human witness pass into forgetfulness. The Lord, on the lips of the still unevangelized Roman, means Jehovah. 44. It is of course implied that this company of earnest seekers—Jews 10 faith because they knew nothing bet- ter—accepted the Gospel of which Peter's presentation has just been summarized. Note Peter's statement in Acts 11. 15, that he had hardly more than begun. 45. Was poured out—So in Acts 2. 33. The gift—A recurrent term. See specially Heb, 6. 4, and Acts 8. 20, We find its source in the Master's own word, Luke 11. 13. How appropriate is that verb that speaks of the lavish profusion of Him who "glveth not the Spirit by measure" 1 Joel 2, 28 might have taught these Jewish Christians to be so surprised. 46. Speak with tongues—See Les son Text Studies for January re Of course this was only the "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace"; the overflowing ecstasy of a Divine possession pro- duced these snatches of praise. 47 The greater has been given— boa' could prejudice itself refuse the less ? See Acta 1. 5, quoted when Peter defends bineself in Acta 11, 16.1 Notice how there Peter emphasize the overwhelming predominance of Divine agency: a few words from the mes- sager who had come so far were quite enough, This verse should be re- membered when eccesastioal pedants would tie the Holy Spirit to sacra- ments and orders and red tape gen- erally. "The fruits of the Spirit" are the one sufficient - proof of His Pres- ence, and when that is manifest, "the water" Is ouly the poor human re- cognition or a fact registered in heavn, 43.eI=1e emu mann;. d --Su Peter• lett the recognition rite to be eondheted by others. Just so Paul was "sent . . . not to baptize, but to preach the gospel" (1 tor, 1. I.7; himself baptized net, but his lir- oiplss" (John 4. 21. In this way from the first was emphasized the second- ary imporiahce or the rite as against the Preaching of Goad Neave. .It was R. warning legalese that purely magical view of "baptismal regeneration" into which the rhurclt so soon fell, and ia.rgely molds to day. 1n the name of Jesus (`hrtsl The invariable formula) of Lha a ria o p t lac ,age, exaopi for Matt, 28. 19, The Triune Name le brit the' logical sequel or the primitive Creed,. "Jesns Christ is Lore." 1.1 IS A MARVEL OF ORGANIZATION AN AMERICAN'S OPINION OF THE BRITISH ARMY, Correspondent Says It Is Becoming Mightier Hourly for the, „Great Puslt." The New York Herald correspond- ent in London cables to that pupal.' as follows: "I have just returned from a five days' trip to the British front in France and Flanders, during which I was permitted, through the courtesy of the British Government, to pass through and along the battle lines from a village near Nouve Chapelle to a point overlooking the trenches, where the gallant Canadians are ce- !meetI meeting the Union of the Empire ing the blood of their heroes. "I have heard the shriek over my head in places where Biibain's gun-. ners are returning two 'tits' for each German `tat'; I have glowed with re- flected enthusiasm as I gazed upon Britain's soldiers marching on the roads and over the fields of France, high spirited and hopeful, toward batblefields upon which the destinies of the world are to be decided, and I have raised my hat in solemn homage to thousands of wasted, war worn, wounded 'Tommies,' each of whom, having done a man's full share in the 'Great Adventure; is returning confident that those who follow after him will wrest final victory from the foe. Britain and France United. "My journey to the front was made while the issue oe the great battle at Verdun was he the balance ---it may still be -and when all the thoughts of Britain's army were with, and its prayers for, the success of General Joffre's gallant French, and my thrills over a few shells that burst within my line of vision or far over 'my head seem ludicrous when I have had time to read and digest the news of the fateful happenings near the gate- way of Lorraine that leads to Paris. "But though that titanic conflict overshadows the sounds of war that grated upon my untrained ears, I feel certain that readers will be inter- ested in the news that I bring as the result of my observations, "First—That France and Great Britain are indissolubly united as a result of their joint sacrifices. "Second—That the soldiers of the French and British armies, from the generalissimos down to 'Tommy' 'and the Toile,' are sworn friends, For the "Final Push." "Third—That the British army to- day is a mighty machine, becoming mightier hourly, a marvel of effi- ciency, and that behind it, as it con- tinues to grow, move forward and fight, is an amazingly scientific or- ganization, developed in less than twenty months, which provides the best of foodstuffs for the inner man and warm clothing and all other es- sentials for the outer man, the while it is ever forwarding troops, guns, munitions and other accessories against that great hour when the final 'great push' comes that will end the year. NEW MAP OF EUROPE. Royal Geographical Society Has Much Work To Do. The Royal Geographical Society in London is a hive of industry these days, not in the ordinary way as one of the conservative old British insti- tutions for scientific research, but as part of the war machine—making maps of the rapidly shifting geo- graphy of Europe, supplying the War Office and the Admiralty with geo- graphical data, and maps worked out with scientific minuteness on land and water routes, topography, moun- tain passes and all the details which the military strategists must have. The scientific geographers are thinking ahead to the time for ".fram- ing and dictating terms of peace," when bile neap of Europe will be made over again and new boundaries laid down—a stupendous work con- sidering the vast areas of territory which has shifted through military occupation, and which ultimately will. have to be settled as temporary or permanent at a peace congress—the fronts 111 Russia, France, Italy, Atte- brie, the Balkans, Central and East Africa, Persia and the Pacific islands and parts, De. Keitie, secretary of the Royal Society and the administrative direc- tor of the institution, said it wag quito too soon yet to outline the so- called "new map of Europe." The areas of occupation were indefinite and constancy sbifthig, and it re- mains to be seen whether recognized and established political boundaries of the past are to be changed per- manently, as it requires something more than military occupation to change them. hid 11M 111.011S. f•.._ .-• --- 'bittndy, is your husband sober and industrious 7" ' No o ltnoclsou'f• "Yes, ma'am, he Shurely is, When Mand, -In it true, dear, that your he's sober dere ain't a 'man 10 do engagement with young Caro* is world will we'k harder lo' de price broker1 MY? or a drink da 1 I n towill,"