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OR, A DECLARATION OP WAR.
CHAPTER II.—(Centel.)
`'Another piece of imprudence, prob
ably. And now they'll expect you t
sit up all night, and perhaps even ti
up their wounds. Poor, dear father
But you've really got'yourself to
thank for it, you know, fo. making
yourself too cheap. Now mind
you're back before we are, unless you
want mete come after you and marc
you home, Really, I'm sorry for tha
great lump of an Adam. What ea
he have been after? Here's you
! them it was too late to throw down
the barrier—or so it seemed to bin.
During the two years since Ella's
• death nothing had changed between
e; father and children; he continued to
{ look at them yearningly, but from
a distance; and to them he remained
"poor father," an object of more or
less tender veneration, tinged with
: that half -contemptuous pity with
"l which so-called "healthy -minded" peo-
n, pie regard those who differ from them
• in the appreciation of visible goods.
And yet his memories of Ella were
not entirely bitter, They ere even
touched with remorse, Was it so
completely her fault that she had fail-
, ed ed to come up to the ideal companion
he had pictured? or not rather his for
having expected of her more than she
was able to give? It was this gees-
e:tion which, throughout all her foolish-
ness and peevish deterioration of tem-
°f per, had kept him patient.
On one solitary occasion had peti-
t ence failed him. This had been dur-
ing the smallpox epidemic which had
raged at Ardloeh some eight years
e after his marriage. For some days
there had been sickness about, to
ll which an incompetent doctor had not
been able to give a name. But on
that day an Oban authority had pro-
nounced the terrifying word, and a
summons arriving in John's absence
had been promptly suppressed by Ella.
, On his return he had indeed observed
e an increased nervousness of manner,
and had been closely questioned as eta
the people he had met on the road;
but no suspision had awakened in him
until next morning, when a second,
e and this time fearful, messenger burst
- into the room in which he was pre -
ad paring to breakfast. Charlie Robson
e had died in the night, it appeared,
-' and now his wife was sinking so fast
that she felt it needful to see to her
d soul.
r "Charlie Robson?" repeated John,
e thunderstruck. "Gone already? Why,
e' was I not called?"
t,' (To be continued.)
Have the kitchen shelves placed a
half-inch from the wall and you will
find it the greatest help in cleaning.
• cloak, Ponella, and the machine i
waiting. Now, mind your flowers!
But Fenella, for a brief moment, had
forgotten her flowers. Her brow
eyes remained fixed a little wistfully
upon her father's face, sympathetic
ally epe:ling out .he disturbance writ
ten thine. A second sharp repri
mond from Julia was required to re
call her to more urgent matters.
The next few minutes consisted
those rapid movements, that agitated
collecting of gloves and fans, tha
feverish draping of wraps and tucking
up of skirts which, on such even!ng
as this, nark the final stage befor
departure. Even before the prepare
tions were quite finished, John ha(
silently withdrawn': He was aware
of being not only a superfluous figure,
but also a discordant note. Though
those three young people were his own
flesh and blood, they had no use for
him at this moment—nor he for them
"Que diabie allait-il faire dans cett
galere?"
CHAPTER III.
It was long past midnight whe
John, his body weary, his soul bleed
ing with the pity of the things he h
seen, entered the small bedroom h
had inhabited since Ella's death. In
to a shabby easy -chair he sank down
before the grate, in which, here an
there, among the dead ashes, an embe
gleamed, like a bloodshot eye. Of th
revellers, no sign as yet; and, sine
someone would Lave to sit up to le
them in, it might as well be he, seeing
that the pictures so vividly filling his
mind would be sure to keep sleep at
bay for some time yet. It was to
this consideration that Janet owed re-
lease from her post.
As he sat there, gently though un-
consciously rocking his head from
side to side between his hands, John
was aware of a pervading sense of
loneliness. Ever since the evening
on which he and Ella had discovered
the truth about each other, the sensa-
tion had been latent, to become period-
ically acute. To -day the sight of the
man he loved as a brother, mutilated
and apparently dying—perhaps also
that of his own children, rigged out
so bravely in the livery of fashion—
had brought about one of these mo-
ments.
Though he had been a widower for
barely two years, he had been practi-
cally alone for twenty-four.
From a material point of view, Ella
had lost nothing by her grudging sub-
mission to John's will; since, less than
two years after the crucial scene, the
three thousand pounds in question
had, by one of those subtle ironies in
which Fate delights, found their way,
after all, into her ready hands; the
relative whom Mrs. Watson had select-
ed as her heir having died intestate,
close upon the heels of her benefac-
tress, and Ella proving to be the near-
est of kin. So, as far as the figure
of her income was concerned, the bat-
tle with John had not been crucial at
all; and yet it was by far the most
crucial thing which came to either of
their lives, either before or after.
Although to outside eyes nothing was
altered in their relations, yet nothing
had been quite the same again after
that evening. The reproachful,
martyr -like airs by Ella somehow
completely failed to touch John's not
usually adamantine heart. Neither
was there much talk of the "assist-
ance" she had once dreamt of giving
him—as, indeed, how could there be,
with maternal duties multiplying? Be-
sides, their ideas with regard to "rais-
ing" the native speedily proved not to
be identical. When Ella spoke of
"raising" she evidently meant improv-
ing their manner's, and incidentally
also their taste in dress, while John
used just the same expression for a
field of activity not embraced within
her horizon.
Yet his patience never failed him.
The form which his disappointment
took was not irritation, but a slowly
growing reserve, in which hpman
pride undeniably had its part. Every'
glimpse of his inner self which he had
granted to this so inadequate confid-
ant now struck him as es a humilia-
tion. Or, the evening of the discov-
ery he had understood that hencefor-
ward he would have to go on his way
alone; and alone ho had gone ever
alone, always with the wound of his l
disappointment upon him—but not
actually unhappy, since his work never
failed him, The work itself had its
disappointments, its frequent and bit-
ter deceptions; but the spiritual has
this great advantage over the material
worker that the effort in itself satisfies
some otherwise unquenchable craving,
and that even failure fails entirely
to depress, since it is but visible fail-
ure, and he knows himself to be work-
ing in a field of invisible harvests.
Under such conditions even the shovel-
ling of earth into an abyss can he ac-
complished with a whole heart.
The growing up of hie children
around him could, under the given cir-
cumstances, only accentuate John's
virtual loneliness. From the cradle
on they had been taught another
catechism than the one he would have
loved to instil. Without an open
struggle there was evidently no means
d leading them into his own grooves
of thought, and from the idea of
domestic disharmony he fearfully
shrank. Iiere, again, the inherent
reserve hac! triumphed, He stood
Aside, seeing how, year by year, the
intangible barrier whidi stood already
between him and hie Wife was growing
up between him and his children,
When at last he was left alone' with
•
"The Stately Hollies of England.'
The stately horses of Engh nd
How stricken nowthey stand,-
The cottage homes of England
Are lonely through the land.
And Flanders from her riven side
Sends seagulls in with every tide.
The Tilade bloom in England,
But their fragrance breaks the
heart,
The hawthorn glows in England,
But it has a poisoned dart,
And Flanders with her crimson flow-
ers
Has stained the tender hue of ours.
The nightingales of England
Still dry from hill to hill,
The cuckoo sings through England,
But other songs are still,
And Flanders from her fields of red
Sounds us the Last Post of the dead.
The sad waves cry round England,
The sad clouds tower and break,
But brave man smile in England,
Brave women work and wait,
And Flanders from her deathless pyre
Waves high her torch of holy fire.
The stately hones of England,
How glorious now they stand!
Oh, the cottage honies of England,
How great they are and grand!
And heroes kiss the sacred sod
Of Flanders and give thanks to God.
—S. M. Smythe.
His Other Copper.
Macdonald's dog was in the habit of
going daily to a baker's shop. His
master would give him a penny, which
he would drop out of his mouth on to
the counter, receiving in exchange a
penny bun.
One day his master said to the bak-
er: "I should like to know how much
my dog really does know, Try him
with a half -penny bun to -morrow."
When, the next day, the dog drop-
ped his penny, and only a halfpenny
bun was given to him, he sniffed at it,
turned it over and over with his paw,
then in a dignified manner walked out
of the shop, leaving the •tun.
In ten minutes be returned, accom-
panied by a policeman. -
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First Lesson—Food Constituents.
The secret of success in successful ing tissue. They also furnish heat.
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carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Fats in
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world—become a practical and seienti- heat than starches. They are used
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The five principal elements of food amount of fat must be used during
necessary to maintain the health are: cold weather than in hot weather, for
Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral the heat radiating over the surface
salts, water. evaporates more quickly in the cold,
Proteins.—The source of proteins � 01, in other words, the cold oxidizes
are meat, milk, cheese, butter, eggs, this body fuel.
Mineral Salts.—The source of inor-
fish, grains, and legumes. Proteins
contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
sulphur and sometimes phosphorus.
Containing about sixteen per cent of
nitrogen, their chief use is tissue are calcium, iron, chlorine, phos -
building, repairing waste and making; phorus, magnesium, sodium, sulphur
muscle. They also supply the same f and potassium. Salts are used to re -
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Carbohydrates.—Their source is in for the formation of bone and teeth
starches and sugars, and they are structure and appear in tissue build-
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power to do work. They enter, to a and regulates the bodily process of
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THE PHYSICIAN
IN THE WAR ZONE
WAR TAKES HEAVY DEATH
TOLL OF MILITARY ‘SURGEONS.
In Their Efforts to Save Life They.
Expose Theinselves onetho
Actual Firing Line,
The military surgeon, according to
that revised art of war which began
to be on a fateful August day three
years ago, is no longer the neutral
ministrant to the wounded. He is a
leaderof men, for he sustains the
morale of troops, he restores the
slightly injured as speedily as he may
to the fighting line, and he fits his fel-
low soldiers for their trade,
Therefore he is marked for death
by a savage foe just as though his
scalpel were sword and his tourni-
quet were trigger. The military ne-
cessity of Kaiserism demands the tor-
pedoing of the hospital ship, the shell-
ing of the ambulance unit, the bomb-
ing of the dugout where the maimed
are in refuge. Hence it is that in this
tragedy of Europe the.casualties in
the medical profession have been
much greater than in any other war,
for they are relatively equal to the
mortality among officers of the line
and greatly exceed that of the staff.
The army surgeon, whether he be
with troops in the charge or far back
from the front, is exposed to peril,
for in these days of long range wea-
pons safety is not assured by dis-
tance nor by the dictates of humanity.
The surgeon volunteers who are going
from'this country to fill the depleted
ranks of their brethren abroad are
therefore Knights of the Great Ad-
venture whose chivalry is a rally of
self-sacrifice.
The Army Surgeon of To -day.
Thet'army surgeon of the new order.
was revealed recently in a lecture de-
livered by Col. T. H. Goodwin, D.S.O.,
an officer of the Royal Army Medical
Corps of Great Britain, who has been
on the western front ever since the
war began,
"When the battalion is ordered to
attack," said Col. Goodwin, "the regi-
mental medicalofficer should, as far
as possible, keep near the command-
ing officer and move forward with him.
If the attack is successful there will nun
be a certain mber of wounded i
No Man's Land.
"The medical officer should direct
each of these who are able to walk to
go back, taking shelter as much as
possible, until they meet the stretch-
er bearers of the field ambulance divi-
tion who are coming up behind. Those
wounded who are unable to move
should be placed in shelter, in shell
craters or trenches, and first aid
performed as rapidly as possible.
"The medical officer should not de-
lay here. He must at all cost keep in
touch with his battalion and move for-
ward with it. His presence in the
newly won trenches will be of im-
mense moral value. He can forthwith
set about improvising a regimental
aid post, improving shelters for the
wounded and attending to casualties
as they occur. He should take every
opportunity to get in communication
either by telephone or messenger with
the field ambulancebearer division,
which will now, under a pretty heavy
shell fire, he clearing the wounded
from the area through which he has
just come." -
Some one asked Col. Goodwin how
it would be possible for a regimental
officer advancing with a battalion to
attend to so many wounded.
Death in No Man's Lane-
"He
and.,-"IIe can do first aid," was the an-
swer, "but he should endeavor to
move forward with his battalion. He
can, as a rule, place wounded men in
fairly good shelter, and if he can do
that with every man he should con-
gratulate himself.
"If he had fifty cases, twenty-five.
would probably be more serious. He
cermet manage twenty-five cases
without taking at least twenty min-
utes. He cannot delay long, however,
as the battalion is probably going into
the next trench, and he must at all
costs endeavor to he with them,
"I grant that it is difficult indeed,
but we have to do our best. There
has been the suggestion to abolish the
post 'of medical officer with the bat-
talion, but J am personally very much
opposed to that."
Canning Gooseberries.
To can gooseberries, stem and re-
move the tails, then wash in plenty of
cold water and drain. Pack in jars
and fill with boiling water or a heavy
syrup. Place the rubber and lid in
position and process in a water bath;
for thirty minutes, Remove, and test l
for leaks, then store in a cool, dry
place. Label and date.
Canned Gooseberries for Pies.—Pre-
pare the gooseberries by stemming
and tailing. Place in a preserving
kettle and add one cupful of sugar for
every pound of prepared fruit. Add
one-half cupful of water to a cupful
of sugar. Place the kettle on the fire
and bring slowly to a boil, stirring all
the time the berries are cooking, Boil
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Gooseberry .lam.—Use two quarts
of gooseberries. Stem and tail them
and place in a preserving kettle, add-
ing one and ono -fourth pounds of su-
gar and two cupfuls of. water, Cook
until very thick and potir into eterniz-
ed glasses, Cool Mild Cover with
paraffin. Store in the usual manner
for jellies,
Gooseberries may be combined with
other fruits when making jams, such
as strawberries, raspberries, black-
berries, huckleberries or currants.
English Gooseberry Jain. — Two
quarts of gooseberries, two cupfuls of
water. Place in a small preserving
kettle and boil until very soft, usually
about one-half hour. Rub through a
fine sieve and allow a measure of su-
gar to each measure of fruit pulp. Re-
turn to fire, cook slowly until thick.
Pour into glasses or pots and cool.
Cover with paraffin.
Floor Fillers.
Cracks and crevices in old floors
may be filled with the time-honored
paper pulp, made by boiling newspa-
pers to jelly, draining, and mixing
with glue, The substance is jammed
in with a knife, then painted over.
But sawdust, mixed also with glue,
is more satisfactory, and saves time.
!Cornstarch, moistened with turpentine
or linseed oil, makes an excellent filler
for porous -grain wood, to be applied
before paint, stain, or wax. If de -
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or lamp black.
Commercial fillers .ready to apply
rimy be bought at any paint store and,
of course, save time and troukee.
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"What about the barrage, Colonel?"
asked one of the listeners.
"You get quite a certain number of
men killed by this barrage fire in No
Man's Land," replied Dr. Goodwin.
"It is going on , the whole time, of
course, but it is astonishing the num-
ber of men that you can get safely
back' through the communicating
trenches.
"Out of a total of 6,000 casualties
you will probably get back 4,000 -to
5,000 right away to the clearing sta-
tion. Sometimes the wounded have to
stay in the front -area all day inthe
dugouts and then when the fire de-
creases at night you get them back,
Sometimes it seems impossible, but
you can manage to do it."
Speaking of the field ambulance,
Col. Goodwin, said that it was largely
composed of newly commissioned of-
ficers with men under them who are
little more than boys.
"They go cheerfully and quietly for-
ward," he added, "into positions which
can only be described as unmitigated
hell."
Dr. Goodwin then tersely laid down
some general axioms for the guidance
of the surgeon in the field and put
especial stress upon this:
"Keep cheery. Your mental atti-
tude will have a considerable effect
upon the men,"
Medical. Corps Heroes.
"Although as. the organization of
the war hospitals proceeds there may
be comparative safety for the sur-
geons at the bases, the ranks of the
profession are being constantly de-
pleted by the demand for first aid on
the firing line. This is the duty of
the regimental medical officers, to
whom Dr. Goodwin refers, and among
these there has been the greatest loss
of life.
When the war began many'of the
best surgeons of both England and
France were sent to the furthest
front. So many of the profession
have lost their lives, that in these
days when a skilled and experienced
surgeon is worth as much to an army
as a Colonel, every effort is being
made to protect the surgeons,
•
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HISTORIC FLAGS CREMATED.
Or Buried With Military Honors to
Prevent Ignoble' Uses.
Britain is the only country which
allows its historical flags to go into
the pawnshop or auction room. One
such flag, after having waved'"oyer
the 39th Foot for three years during
the siege of Gibraltar, was actually
found covering the sofa cushions of a
tradesman's sitting -room!
In 1886 the lst Battalion Gloucester
Regiment recovered from a pawn-
broker at York four flags, which it
had borne from 1796 to 1810 through
the Egyptian and Peninsular cam-
paigns. There may be seen to -day in
the Kendal Parish. Church a pair of
the old colors of the 2nd Battalion
Border Regiment. They were res-
cued in 1888 by Lord Archibald
Campbell from a London upholsterer,
who had advertised them for sale as
though they were mere window cur-
tains.
To prevent old colors meeting with
such fates many have been cremated,
with great ceremony, and the ashes
preserved carefully in a box. Others
jrave been buried with full military
onors, among them being sets be-
longing to the King's Own, Scottish
Borderers and the 2nd Battalion•Wor-
cester Regiment.
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THE NEW KING
OF THE HELLENES
PRINCE ALXEANDER IS A YOUTH
OF TWENTY-FOUR.
.4 Sharming and Lovable Personality
And a Keen Lover of All
Kinds of Sport.
A sturdy college boy rather than a
soldier is Prince Alexander, Ring
AlexandeL', I„ whom the entente pow-
ers have raised to the Greek throne
in place of Constantine.
A charming personality is Prince
Alexander, inclined rather to reading
history than making it, paying more
attention to high-powered automobiles
than' to all the intricacies of inter-
national politics, preferring the
charming company of sparkling youth
to the grave faces of the military
critics, Alexander, of all the children
of Constantine, - comes first in the
affections of his father, whom he
loves dearly and admires openly. Of
his mother, it can be said with equal
frankness that she considered him a
wee bit frivolous and far less martial
than a nephew of the great war lord
of Potsdam ought to be. But -Alex-
ander has always succeeded in dis-
arming Queen Sophie. He was the
most lovable man in the whole pal-
ace and shared in no small way the
immense popularity enjoyed by his
father and his brother, George.
The Prince, who is now twenty-four
years of age, likes any kind of sport,'
especially football and tennis. His
particular hobby, however, is motor-
ing in all its forms. He simply
wants to drive anything, just as fast
as he can; and he does it, too, in de-
fiance of all the speed laws of the
Athenian police, which is especially
lenient to the popular Prince. One
thing his father usedto tell him often
was that it would be impossible for
Alexander to get a royal warrant of
driver to his Majesty the King.
Neither the Queen nor -her daughters
ever intrusted themselves to the driv-
ing abilities of this princely chauffeur.
A Characteristic Incident:
Incidentally Prince Alexander was a
lieutenant in the artillery, and those
closely associated with him found the
young man an excellent officer. A
curious thin, about it was that So-
phocles, the second son of Venizelos,
was likewise a lieutenant, not only in
the same regiment, but also in the
same battery with the prince; more
curious still, both were promoted to
a captaincy on the same day. Tho
officers of the regiment, desiring to
pelebrate the promotion of the prince,
arranged a small affair with plenty of
champagne and -other accessories.
Then, however, a controversy arose.
On account of an interview that King
Constantine had given to- the writer
of this article, which was published in
America, there appeared in the news-
paper edited by Venizelos himself a
vitriolic attack on the king. This,
by some diabolical coincidence, hap-
pened on the very day when the offi-
cers' spree was to take place.
There, was consternation in the regi-
ment. "It -is impossible to have' the
son of the king and the son of Veni-
zelos at the same table," said the offi-
cer in charge of the arrangements.
"But what is to be done? We cannot
tell young Venizelos to keep away
from the affair any more than we can
tell the prince not to come."
At that moment. Alexander came in
and solved the problem.
"I don't mind drinking a glass of
wine with Captain Venizelos," he said;
"and I wouldn't mind cracking a
couple of jokes with him. If he were
his father, and I mine, things would
be different, but as it is I am not king
and Sophocles Venizelos not aspire
to the premiership of Greece,"
The celebration was held and the
two young men shook hands, to the de-
light of the whole regiment.
Such is Alexander, the present King
of Greece. He came to the throne not
at the. bidding of his people, not as
the lineal successor of bis father, but,
simply because the entente powers so
willed. His popularity will depend
not on the amount of friendship and
confidence that the entente show to
hire, but on the message that his fath-
er will address to the Hellenic peo-
ple, indorsing _his son's nomination.
NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE.
Utilization of Waste - Materials Prac-
tised in Britain..
Britain is finding herself in many
ways owing to the war."'"One source
of much revenue, as well as of a re-
quisite in the preparation of explo-
sives, is found in the camp refuse.
The Yorkshire Post, in describing the
results secured under a process for
utilizing the camp refuse by the
Quartermaster -General's Department,
says:
"While the English -made glycerine
was $290 par ton, the United States
fixed their figure at $1,200 per ton.
During the 'tint month the scheme
wee put into operation, a ,weekly re-
turn to the Army for camp refuse was
made of $9,000. In .January of this
year, the weekly amount increased to
$47,500, representing approximately
$2,500,000 annually returned to the
Army for waste rations. The produc-
tion of glycerine from these wasto
eamp products enabled the Ministry of
IVlunitions to dispense with over 1,000
tons of foreign glycerine at a saving
in cost of $000,000," (Foregoing fig-
ures on basis of. $5 equivalent of £1.),
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