The Clinton News Record, 1919-1-9, Page 6e
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Not thc Mcaficst Man
By 0, Courteney Savage
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• • PART Le
"As for John Thompsou, he is the
entheest man that ever lived, Any
mew thee could ace the way he doe
' to hie mother would do 'Most ernY-
thine .
Nettie bed notieed both women as
, they took the omit behind tier en
he interubaa -Loney. 'Dee mention
o.t a ;Wither name made her sit up -
eight. She tva$ not lietioning but
the leighepttehed voices, salmi ahove
the imm of the hareying Jolley, car-
• weed theie etory to he.
"I, unclothes -Old they've got eons -
patsy to spend the summer with 'them
suppose John has 'it figured out
,that he'll nye money on the extra
LOP bired." e
er has lived here on the term so
Many 'Mere and she's worked so
lima. When she toldeme that she
would like you to wfSit bet this stuu.
mor I isepecleyoe could and that may-
be you'd make thipgs easier for her."
"Why eon'e • you have a hired wo-
man do moth oe the work?" the athect
"Mother dthen't want aims"
Nettie made no reply. In her
heart she felt thab Joan we not tell-
ing the truth.
After ;11. While John talked of the
Leinbard'e• to whose home they are
going; of he man's success; as a
farmer and of the yoseng .people
aivay at college. It was a happy
picture he drew and Nettie wile not
surprisccl When they readied the
Lumbard's home, •to, see the eyeteeth/it
geouncle, the big clen house, the
n't modern furnishinge, the eleetric
,"It'S 4 wondee hie mother dthe
lights and the plumbing.
'revolt, dolag all the workyou speak
•of and having such a poor place to
weak. in.'e
"I don't suppose that the poos wo-
man can revolt—not against john
Thompson, Why—" the rumble of
GM wraith it passed over. a long
baidge shut ,ole the angry tones of the
first -epeaker. When "the ear again
'reached a solid roadbed the ,t-wo woe
•" men were fm longer itiscuseing John
ThernilSOn and his mother.
•Nettie leaned bath in her that,
wondering if there could be two
John Thompsons who were te have
company .for the summer. '
She did not know either John
Thoinpson or his mother .though she
• had seen photographs of Mrs. Tiff:ma-
son, hey mother's closest friend in
school days.
Nettie bad been teaching in Ottawa
.fer two years and wee delighted with
the invitation to epend the vacation
months with -the woman who had
been so near and dear to her mother,
NoW for the first time, a eleadow
came over her visit- After a mo-
ment's thought she scolded herself
for thinking sena a thing possible:
When she finally. stepped from the
ear, ihe looked muckly at the group
of people Who were waiting for pas-
sengers or desired to go from the
little settlement to the cities that
lay at either end of the line. Her
first glance showed -Nettie no person
she would pick out for the man she
, expected. Not until the car de-
parted did ehe. see a tall man coining
• around the other of. the waiting
room.
"Are you Miss Ransom?" he ask-
ed as he raised his hat
• In that instant Nettie felt that
this John Thompson could never be
Moen; that he was capable of no-
• thing unfriendly to any man.
"Yes. You xnust be John Thomp-
son."
He took her proffered hand and
shook it gravely.
• ."The horse is 'round back of the
....shed. He's young ,and I hardly
'dare allow him to stand alone when
• the trolley copies: He's apt to shy."
He ,piolced up her bag and led the
They talked little on the way home.
It eves the end of a warm day, and
a little breeze that came out of
mowhere, swayed' the growing grain.
Th.e sun was making,- long shadows
of the trees and touching the farm-
houses with a magic kiss that trails -
:formed them. into fairy palaces.
' • Nebeleatas itereniseed at the houses.
'.1iliezee were •large and fine—not at all
like the plaees..she had known ire
the district 'Where she had always
spent her summers with her mother's
people: It Was exhilarating to
think Of living in such a home!
She was al:measurably thocked
when they turned' into a great un-
kempt driveway that laci to a small
'house in need- of ,paint. Her quick
• Ores lietee _the 'hem beyond—far
more Imutisinee than the heath. John
stopped tees home, at the cl-oorand
a (mishit •ffid women came bustling
oat • '
"My dear, dear girl!" she whisper.
ed in Nettie's ear as she held her
close. Then stepping back she sur-
veyed the girl freer head at) foot.
"Just Re your mother at her age!
'Fresh as 55 souther morning and eyes
of the violet's blue!" ,
She led this way into the house, in-
• sisting -that the bag was not heavy
and carrying it all the way' to the
front room that was to be Nettie's.
Hee welcome was most hearty.
"Now, dearie, just rest yourself
end when you feel like it, coxne clown.
I'm gbing to hurry supper and after
that there'll be einie to -talk."
For a paseing moment Nettie felt
ashamed that her friends should live
She talked with the women of •the
family-, admiring the house Lie they
showed it loom by them. Silently
she compered it with tbe roof that
was sheltering her for the summer
months. When it wee time. to go,
one of the older hoys took them home
in an automobileit. •
"Wage fine ;home," she told Mrs,
Thompson the next day. To her
stymie:es she found thatealthough the
houses were less than a mile apart
Mrs. Thorium= had never visited her
eeighbor's house.
"I tever seem to get tithe, (Marie,"
the older woman explained, "but
some day I'll run -over there." •
Never had time to visit! The older
woneen iseldom left therun-down
-farmhouse even to "go to the stable.
That was -what the woman on the
trolley meant. John Thompeon waa
the meaneet man—and his mother
had so great a love for her son VW
the was content to slave for him!
A ,sudden change in, the weather
brought stiffing heat that seemed to
dry up the world and wilt all that
grew. At the end of four such days.
Mee. Thompsth.was pale and. her
eyer were lustreless. ..A.s -she and
Nettie were washing the dinner
dishes, she fainted'.
Nettie half caeried, half dragged
the unconscious woman to the porch.
Placing a pillow mider her head she
bather her face with water. ,When
there were signs of reviving life she
ran to the barn for John, His smile
welcomed hale
"Your mother is M. COMO
quickly!" was all she said.
He hurried into the house. 13e-
tween them they helped Mrs. Thomp-
son to her room. Nettie undressed
her while' John telephoned for the
-doter.
Dr. Allen made a thorough exami-
nation of his patient.
"She has collapsed because of
working in the heat," he told them.
aI would advise keeping her quiet for
the rest of the day. I'm going to
leave soriee Medicine but my chief
prescription is rest and if possible a
change from hee daily steamed:jugs.
Also I recommend less worlc if she is
to eentenud 'wall and etrong." In
his eyes was a light that made his
meaning very ttlear.
The news of Mrs. Thompson's ill-
ness .spread' rapidlythrough the
neighborhood and before night sev-
eral women called to know if they
could be of assistance. They were
womenly women Nettie found, big,
hearted and °tiger to help. Eaoh
brought some emelt ceinfoet to the
sufferer,
(To be continued.)
CALIFORNIA SENDS LADYBIRDS
Millions of Tiny Red Bugs to Destroy
Insects in Devastated France.
An army of millioes iss'io be sent
irons Southern California -els fight the
Hunnish hordes in northern. France.
The first battalion were shipped the
other day, carefully packed in orange
leaves.
The army will cousist of healthy and
hungry 'ladybirds," the tiny red bugs
that thtive emelt sores of insect pests.
Those arebeing sbipped from the
Southeen Branch Insectary at Al-
hambra, of the State Commission of
Horticulture, to similar institutiens isi
northern France. The omnivorous
pest destroyers will be incubated until
spring- and then liberated in the fields
that have been without cultivation
diming the war and which are expect-
ed to be the prey of all sorts allspice
destroyers. ,
Am:mg-made for !sending ever the
in an untidy place though inside the seas the famous California ley -birds
house was very elean. The call." 'were made several months ago when
on the beds was spotless; so were thetheFrethb Agricultural, Commission
pihiows
"It's rot the 'kind of home either( visited California ancl purchased large
of them ought to live, in" sho said quantities of nursery stock for rester-
olotee, ..elen ea if suddenly !wen_ ing the devastated orchards, Call-
ed by •thelosity, she went dowastaire, :Correa is credited With leading the
Mrs. Thomas= was busy in the United States in developing natural
emends of fighting pests.
LIEUT.-COL. E. F. HARRISON
Who Defeeted 'German Poison Gas and
Saved Many Lives.
kitchen. It -was a small, room, a
stove oecepgeng inost of• the Wall.
The breath of heat that met bar as
tete 'eepened the door wa.s ceverwhohn-
ings geld ehe knew ate.once that the
place was nee properly ventilated,
-"Don't stay in here, dean IVs
too hot," Mts. Thompson told her'
but Nettie insiated that else be al-
lowed .to help.. .
There was 06 eumeing Water in the
hope. Nettie took the big piether
to the well Mrs. Thompson pointed
. out, When she filled the pitcher
See went to the dining nom te fill
the glathes.
She had tot been in the dining
vowel -before' •and its appearance sure
atised her. Tim cloth on the table
wag clean but very worm The
china, glees and ailvcee were old and
Oman.
The pineh of poverty was hasiging
over the house, yet she knew the
Tbonspeoris Were rich. :
She helped pee the meal An the
table. There was plenty of well-
aboked fooel. As she glanced :from
the edibles to the dingy walls she
wondered if after all John was roily
anean—too meiie to Make this home
comforteble.
Durbig the (Mist week Nettie studi-
ed' the bousehold. One evening &she.
-announced that he had to walk ever
to a eleighbor'8, 1l1 mothet sug.
.gested that Neetie, theompany
They took a short; out through the
field's, the path leading them beside
sn seiletly . flowing -brook ilia ininz-
nsured eociably.
•••• "Pm glad -you mime,' John s'aid
eudelenly,
"Gad? Why V'
ellecerme or Mother, 'She needs
eta:swam with her,. You eeta Meth -
The Britith Army and, indeed, the
,whole Army of the Allies has suffered
a severe loss in the sudden death from
pneninonia of Lieut. -Col, E. F. Harri-
son, C.M.G., R.E., Officer of the Legion
Of ' Honor. Colonel Ihogison's mune
is ethoclated with the protection of
the BACA Mel Alileni troems egeinst
gas: Since the thely days of gas ware
fare lee bad occupied a leading pose.
tical in the Chemical Wareere Depert.
remit of Ministry of. letemietone, axle
for over a year he had been in sole
charge of research in connection with
gas defence and of the ernefacture or
aespiestors far tbo armies in the .1Iold.
It is due measly to hie biihliniit efforts
that tbsiottghout this 'War our troops
have been so well protected, and that
Ino new gas has ever been misplayed
ageinse efe for whihti bnisforeeight had
notprevieed an aetielpte. He him bee51
respothible for the manPecuiture of
millions Of respiaators that ha4ze been
iseued to British, American end Italian
troops, erel he bffilt nqa thie thernione
inclusle* elmost entirely from Fenno.
vised means, tbo middle or all VIM
work he lottalsie °Meet -som who was
kilted in Lotion at the Battle of . the
Semen an the 80th of July, 1916;
The end or goVernmenis is the hop
edema; of Ilse pelage, •
wont,.•LIFE IN PETRO
. tickets, eletet lemma how the Ger-
The Bantime Greesve 'Inc Vest. P.ay • " '
''Sinee. Dietricte,
•
rihe geese:Zee are tribe of Pleats
remathebly veried, ineials• earn is
O areeseeethough the everaRe Pev5°11 DT.ISCIUBM ..AS 'A PERPETUAL
might hot Selelnet the ;fad. A Whop-
GI(AD TO -DAY
ping big one, truly, • LIVING DEATH
But the giapt of all the grasses is
the bamboo' -9 pleat with whiell wo
ere ilomedtattvely unfamiliar in this
country, and 'width is fond in moth
Taimerthe varieties in japan and
Chime than anywhere else , isa tlia
World.
Bamboo in Mina and Japan grow
isa veritable forests, which sprend of
their o'wn aceord by Lhe .extension of
roots. A clump M planted, and it
widens over the landscape with re.
nimicalele rapidity. Two feet 4 ()WAS
110t/an unuSUal groweh in heiglit for
4 bamboo, Tim lisegeet attain 150'feet
and a diameter of two feet.
dm Japan and Chin the bamboo min -
Plies a lerge-part of eh° wants Of the
people. It takes the place to a great
extent of iron and steel, The farmer
builds hie house and fences of it; Isis
household furniture is manufactured
from it, while the tender shoots fur-
nish hisn with a delicious vegetable
for his table.
The bamboo supplies framework for
awnings, ribs for sails and handles of,
rakes, material for chicken -coops and
bird -cages, stuffing for pillows and
mattresses, chopsticks for eating,
pipes :COT smolcing, brooms for sweep-
ing, chairs to sit upon, skewers to
pin the hair, hats to screen the head,
paper to, write on, the pencil to write
with, the cup for measuring quantity,
the crab slot, the fishpole, and goodness
knows 'What else..
A score or two of bamboo poles for
joists and -rafters, fifty fathoms of
rattan rope, and an adequate quantity
of bamboo mats for a roof furnish
material for a house in China. .
Once in half a century or so the
basnboos take a notion to flower asset
they do nothing of the kind. This hap -
bear seed over wide areas. Ordinarily le2lY
Cross car carried her 'away. But
attention to her. Later on a Red
penecl in India in 1901, by great good i horseseare not removed. When they
luck; for in that year there was •ti I she on the streets they just lie there,
.
famine, and hundreds of thousands of for weeks, and hungry dogs tear
people were saved from starvation by
the "bamboo rice," somewhat resembl-
ing oats.
When the basithoo produces seed, it
dies soon thereafter, so that the phe-
nomenon is not an unmitigated bless -
peg. Ordiparily the plant is propaiat-
ecl by reot.cuttings.
Bainboos are among the most grace-
ful forme of plant .1Ife, Melding sn
chaem to any landscape with their
waving plumes of delicate green foli-
age. • The "golden -striped" variety
has a golden -yellow stein striped with
brilliant green; its leaves variegated
with bands of green and white.
Letters Rethal the Terrors of Bolehe-
vist Rule In the Unfertunate and
Stricken City,
The hapless plight; to Which Bessie
has been lereegiel ley the Bolthevis'e
regime aad the wretehedness and suf-
fering of the people art-eketchecl at
first hand fine series ea letters Diet
have in simile way beau sent out of
the emintrY lead ere now in 'Washing-
toss,
authoe of this correspondence,
which affords a threat glimpse of 0055.
ditions now prevailing in the former
capital of the Tears, is a Russian be-
longing to the bourgeeis class, so
celled. For obvious reasons no name
is given, 4$ the Bolshevik leaders are
ruthless and the lifting of the veil
which envelops their reign of blood-
shed, however slight it may he, might
be resented is it ever earae to their
attention.
Polite Die in the Street.
.The first letter, dated Petrograd,
September 16, follows:
"I am •gIed you an tot here just
now; living conditions are awfully
hard. Have you even seen people dy-
ing on the street? I <title three times.
Twice it was men, workmen adpar-
ently, once an old woman. .0ne man
fell down in the Furshtaeltskaya, the
other on the Liteinye, when I walked
home from the office , late Sunday.
Maybe it was from cholera, maybe
from starvatien. The woman died on
the Ussacheff Pereoulok. She was sitt-
ing quite a while on the pavement,
then quietly iay down. Nobody paid
their bodies to pieces.
"I don't think the people (lie(' from
cholera. They were not sick, just
horribly thin Luse pale. It's aweplly
hard. I wouldn't have believed it if
I hadn't thee it myself. These three
cases illustrate to You the conditions
of Petrograd better than description.
People are dying quietly, horribly
quietly, without any groan or cuese,
poor, helpless creatures, slaves of the
terrible regime of to -day. I think
that's really the &fey thing the Rus-
sian people can do well. •
"Altogether, Petrograd is a dead
town now. People are very, very
The Japanese cultivate for erne- arew, nearly no 'oats.' Trams are half
mental purpoaes bamboos artificially I empty, half of the shops are closed.
chseerfed ie pots that confine their. Heaps of offices opened; 'commission
roots. They are among the curiosities offices,' as they call themselves, buy -
of horticulleire.-• ing and selling furniture, tableware,
articles of luxury, etc., of pee-
ple who leave the country or who just
THE MARK 0:6"r1IE BEAST
The Shocking Plight of British. Re-
: turned Prisoners.
One morning last week, says the
London Daily Mail, St. Panaeras Stns -
tion, London, saw a preture which I to be bought."
that fail to embody punishment of tbe 20, follows: '
would steel the heaeepoefaenyprionpaonsttoies•
woman againac
against 11 The second letter, dated September
wem --. To -day Mr. — left
Russia. He was the last link between
your human world over there ancl the
mad house here. We both, — cold
I, feel stow so completely isolated from
vermeil RN; we miss you 'so badly; all
of you. You cannot imagine what is
going on in this counisyy. Everything
that is cultured, wealthy, accomplieh-
ed or edecated is being persecuted and
syetematically destroyed. But you
know ie all through the papers, 3 n't
you?
"lere all livo hem under a perpetual
etrain melee fent' of avrest and eae-
cation, esterday bulletins appeared on
corners of all streets announcing that
the -Allies; and the bourgeolaie have
spread cholerr and hunger all over
Russia and calling to open slaughter
of the latter.
"Do you remember the little mar-
ket on the Basseinaja where they used
to sell foochituffs? It is now trans-
formed into a place where people of
society sell all their belongings --
overcoats, fuze, shoes, kitchenware,
table_ and bed linen, etc. They sell
everything right on the street. The
food question ia terribly acute. Petro-
grad lives on herrings and apples.
Yes, also on azolbet—thet is fish dried
men some of then. One clasped close , xn the sere The size of it Is about the,
a big Michaelmas daisy; another read ' same as a small herring, and it smells
and reasead ins message from the
King as he lay in the ambulance. They
were at home at last, but the brolcon
to show relief or joy. The creeelty and
seuiiestarvation had left the mark of
tho Man boast.' "Damn the Hun
brutal" eays a grey-haired spectater.
"Amen, 0 Lewd,' inmenured a wo-
man in black.
fl
A Riugly King- •
IL is said filet King Albert; of Bel-
gium disregards danger. The Queeli-
is equally unconcerned as to delver.
On ono occasion he. Majesty was in
the froth line when a large licl1 ex-
ploded not very far away. Quite un-
concerned as to where the next a.ould
fall, the Queen took out hey canseva
and snapped the coluesne of peek°
sent up. •
It. is not generally lcuown that;
Eieg Albert is an onginecsr mid me
den -Amide the: construction ef ships
end throplance. Ea has driemn ralle
way trains, and, Inc order to ant'er
more entirely -list° the lives of hie
people-, has even goer end ineuines,•
:Preparing f.s Jack.
Mans asauage to do it, but 1 IcnOW far
sere that they do. They de it' ale°
Yet'Y milliegly if people get them
geed money in exchango for their
Xerenki, of which they haVe heaps.
"We hare no Pewit whatever of
What is going on in France or North -
see Bessie, Rthelan ampers •juet
briefly state that the Britieh are
quarrellieg with the Alliee in; A.rthe
aegel, that they do aot pay any wages
to Russian workmen, etc., that the
siliosi eeterpriee is falling to pieces,"
• Ho 'further refers to the example
givem by the Red Guard, They showed
that they knew how to treat; the he.
longing of ehe tyrante and oppres-
sors. "After Nikolai llomanoff was
executed," he °esteemed, "Medd sia
hundred nits of liners were taken by
the Red Guard. And they proved
that they cositcl wear them not any
worse than their ,former oweithe."
s
MODERN CATACOMBS
Twentle;th Century Christions Womble)
Underground As In''•Third Century,f
In the third century the catacombs
of Rome were used as churches by
persecuted Christians. The Germans
in the twentieth century have brought
to France' and Belgium mole the
same condition. Men, women anti
choldren in occupied and dews:Mate:I
areas live in cellars to escape death
frees bombs and shells anti they wor-
ship in vaults beneath shattered ca-
thedrals.
c' But it has been left; to a mining
village "somewhere in France" to pro-
duce real twoutieth century catacombs
for history.
Their advent was an accident, of
mune, just Lie the catacombs of Rome
as a piaci) of religious worslm grew
out of the exigencies of pagan oppres-
sion. Themining veillage is a wreck
and -when allied forces occupied it
they found dead 'men and ruined habi-
tations everywhere.
But beneath the ruins lay spacious
vaults and a labyrinth of galleries and
cellars which the Hun had been un-
able to destroy in their entirety:Theee
vaults and these galleries and cellars
were utilized by the church army as
catacombs in the early Christian place
of worship sense of the term. There
eve no tombs.
The chambers nearest the entrance
to the mines were fitted up as therea-
tion and rest quarters fov men just
back from the front line, teed here
they come to bathe and change their
clothes, to eat, sleep and read and
write. Beyond the rest rooms in the
farthest :underground section and
reached through a labyrinth of pas-
sage -ways and Stairs and winding gal-
leries is a chapel, .
The soldiers themselves decorated
the chapel and made its furniture.
The kneeing benches and the altar are
crude and rough; the cross above the
alter was hewn from an olcl packing
box; the. candlesticks were fashioned
mfrohe mbonaona erreewy mew mfmf
from the tin of bully beef cans; the
sell everything they possess so as not altar cloth s a strip irons Tommy's
to starve. Most precious, vulgar or &leaping blanket, and the battered
intimate things ot, housekeeping aro chalece was salvaged from the lamp -
sold publicly. 'sometimes comical, sack of a dead Germap. He had
most times most sad and shthking. stolen it from a sacked chech and was
There seems to be nothing precious talcng it hOme with him,
any more in families; everything is The prayer books there are tattered
and some are bloodstained, and hymn
books are few. But the worshippers
care Idle, for the printeerword of
Fait's. Some one, a young artist once
a member of some company stationed
there and since "gone west," painted
two or three sacred pictures on the
black walls, and these help Tommy
more -than prayer books.
As for the rest,' Suedes's always
Ind the chapel decorated for ethylene.
There aro flowers when flowers are to
be had, and green boughs. Christmas
was celegwaed with extra candles
and red and white paper secured
some how and looped un, and a re-
plica of the stable of Bethlehem was
made out of mud and bits of wood
and bark, the figures being of clay
and draped with bits of cloth.
Hun brutes through whose hands Brit-
ish prisoners of ev,ar have. passed.
Two traitiload sof repatriated Brit-
ish soldiers, sailors and civilians, 581
in all, came in, including nearly four
score who were too ill or hurt to walk.
Most woe% fresh from German prison
came,. The majority of them had
lost a -leg, or an arm, some of them
two limbs, and one poor follow two
legs and an arm. -
."Tbe pity of it is," said one of the
officees with them, "that many a Brit-
ish soldier has been forced to submit
to unnecessary amputation at the
hands of the Huns. Many of the op-
erations were done ao badly that after
the men had been nursed back to suffi-
cient strength a further amputation
had to follow. '
Stretcher-bearers were soon bring-
ing their loads from the hospital cars
to the ambulances. Mess from Dutch
camps were in khaki; those direct
from German prisons wore in non-
descript garb of all sods. Some were
ahnost in rags. Their faces were wan
and waxlike. Sallow Skins and emaci-
ated forms told of inetifficient nourish-
ment. They spoke but little.
Their eyes glanced pitifully rennet
them in the dim light—just wreaks of
ear. Simpson's voice nibbled
through' the
, "Maryl Here's the beleer, llow
realty leaven? irwo, as usual?"
"Two loaves, indeed," replied Mrs.
8impson, "Have you forgotten that
Jack is coming , Isome to -cloy 7"
"Or counsel!" said Mr. Simpson, as
he suddenly remembered hie' moldier
horribly. But Wean be eaten when
properly soaked and boiled. We al-
ways used to knoiv ‘vobla' as a swear
'Word. .Bat now I know it is a fish
and eatable. '
"You know people here are starve
ins in .accordance with four 'cate-
gories. The first category. (work-
men) get a quarter of a pound of
bread every 'Liao days, that is one -
eight of a pound of bread evovy day,
and two herrings. The third category,
'people who drink ,other people's blood
and explelt olfor people's work,' ,that
-is, people who on mental work
(sic), got two herrings every two
days and, no lineal, and the fourth
'category,- also peod
ale who rink, etc.,'
get walling at all, thinetimes two
herrings. , •
No Now; of the
"On you rerneMber the big gores
on tho corm:i, oi Snameneleaja and
Eiroctuneis, alter° soldiers used to
live and whore Dimes were once Xis the
Window heaps of rotten potatoes? The
shop is now occitipicd b n ,cemmis-
eionev's oilleeeewlso sells everything
in the World, and en the -caner there
Is quite a little market, etheisting of
ladies send clinches:II of soelety who
eel! of :Inger at 1.20 rubles a
picot atel thin sliees if black 'bread,
I don'i eeneW at what price. Ansi this
yeas' 'Reiss:tin. has unusually good crops!
People evho have e little bit of money
late esiiny efrom Recede. Thq,
seal evevything they poescrse and jest
rue. Thee' go 'mainly. to the Balite
5055 WaS coming hotrie. "Iiree, Mr. previnee and to TIlivesnes, Ansi you
talker, back YOUr cart isp againet this anow eeec tbe Cierman coneutute there
dorm, rsud tip Iser ups." who' helps them le get permits aed
FLIGHT THE FUTURE
Aiacraft Will 1--)rolathly Rival the
Railway Train and Autoniobile.
Some striking statements were
made by Lord Weir the other clay in
his review of the developmeat of the
British air service during the war.
At the outset of hostilities France
and Germany held a very consider-
able lead in aircraft, both from a
military point of view and in reacted
to industrial training, but his Lord.
.ship was able to pont with pardon-
able pride to the fact that Br'tain
emerges from the was hi a position
of unquestioned supremacy. Great
difficulties handicapped her'effores,
end her success is not only drawing
level well, leut fleetly outstripping her
greatest rival is a sgnal triumph alike
San the organizatien of the Believe -
Meat and for the gallant aviatoes to
whose prowess the Air lelinister paid
generous tribute.
Now that the war is over great pre -
partitions aro afoot /or the use of
aircraft for commercial purpOses, and
it is eatsfactory to have Lova Weir's
assurance that this work will receive
liberal Goveretneut support. As an
indication of the extraordieary (level.
opments eve may expect, it will be
noted that recently an air mathina,
the latethetin'the world, carrying no
fewer Glass forty paesengers, made Le
aneeessful trip round London. There
theme every peospect that -widths a
feev that years everaft will, to no
small extent, take the place now the"
et:select by the railway train end ,the
eutontobile. 'Indeed, the :fetuses of the
air service, if the present rate of
progreee is enaintained, Islamises to
be en :that) starting lines as will
thvow the maginative foreeasts of the
novelist completely in the shade,
Staffer Dales.
.thee the beat dates. Remove the
stones, Fill with portal:its, wffintste,
hickory lints cm any tuts ayeilable.
Parent butter Makes a goo•il flhliiig
thee is difrevene Preece dates inechape
and roll in chopped mite, coo:mote, 05'
a mixture of ewer:- Ised rowdethe
ci nna in on,
Where tee Houeeefly Winteoc. of einntances one-half tablesemonful of
• seemb to 1)c the Prevailing wee. gireeer, Imo 'teaspoonful of cloves one
or winter months as an adult, hiding
11171,, olvritittypnehoositd pfeipo,pilei,vettsiatthtrioseughi jouticie;ilweubtfautl nowt x, four
flour, one citgere'll of
eiling pawcier, one-half cupful of raleinis
four teaspoonfuls of bake
eracks and crevieee in tee wawa ! one-quarter cupful of chopped pea,
portions of the loam, or perupe , nuts. Mix ant: then bake Si eittser
somewhere in the attic. We have 1 loafeehaped pens or In •Well-greasecl
been confident of this because we have ' Muffin pane In moderate oven 'twenty.,
then files about Christmas time, live minutes. ,
crawling around when. the house lie.
thine unustiolly warm, or eve have
.seen flies late into the 'irileter.
From that we may have onoluded
'that the flies peseed the winter lis the
house end theb only as full-grown
adults. Bat selentiste tell us differ-
ently, They say that the house -fly
does 'not etay inwthe outtof-theeway
places in the Amuse all winter unless
a suitable breeding place, where it is
warm, is provided. In warm houses
or in other sheltered places they may
live for a much longer period of time
but never will they pass the entire
edged knife that is swung with both
winter unlese they are breeding in bdsor may be used for throating.
some decaying realm This insect
No sword over approached it in eine
has been found in house as late as the
latter part of January but retrelY lat-
er. Under outdoor conditions house
files are lcilled during the late fall
when 'the temperature* falls to about
fifteen or ten degrees Fahrenheit. It
stands to Magni that the' nuniberless
thousands of flies that come out early
In the taming cannot all be produced
by the few over -wintering thee that
we have observed in the house.
There are o1 -hr species of flies, sim-
ilar to the house flies, that may be
found in crevices in the house due -
METALS OF PRIMITIVIe FOLKS
Probably Copper Was the Earlieete
KnoWn of Metals.
When the Americans uridertook to
put down the Filipino rebellion they
found the natives armed with rifles
to sotne extent, but relying chiefly
upon "bolos"—most effective weapons,
as they learned t� their cost, in fight-
ing at close quarters.
The bolo is huge, heavy and keen-
ciency as an mtheument for lulling.
So well were its merits appreciated
by the Americans that, by the advice
of General Wood, it WaS adopted (and
is in uae to -day) as a supplementary
arm for the Uaited Statee treops is;
the Philippines.
'Ale finest anti most elaborate 'kith,
of many different patterns and shape%
are used by the Mores of IVIinelanao
and the Sulu Islands, wise melee them
themselves. Though nemisavages, the
Mores are thilled workers its iron.
f -
mg the late winter and these are They know how to get -the metal from
its ores, and the production of good
are reeponsibility for our belief that
steel is to them no mystery.
o
ten misteken for the house flies anti
They seemed to have Maimed these
arts originally from the Arabs. But
It is sutprising to find in various pint%
of the world peoples muth more prim-
iteve than the Mons who are Well
acquainted with iron. In the wilds of
Africa explorers have seen naked sae.
ages: .smelting iron ere with the holy
of bellows.
. Iron was presumably known long
before the earliest dawn of human
the house fly roily spends the winter
in houses. IS -11- does not pass tile
winter in the house, where then does
it...hibernate? A3 a result of a
large number of experiments and. ob-
seevations it has been found that flies
peas 'the winter in one of two ways:
either by continuous breeding in some
refuse around the house, is; bakeries,
groesahouths, animalaweeding houses,
or possibly in souse hog houses, cm
they may pass the winter as Le larva history. A wedge =de of IL wee;
(maggot), or pupa in the.manure pile fond in the Great Pyramid—doubt-
015 in the ground near the border -of less left there by the builders. This
the pile. If these piles of manure proves that the motel was. in use as
flies with a alace to epersd the winter moos.
far' back as 1500 B.C. so that it must
spring they will provide thousandsof ,
and from these piles au army or have been familiar in the time 'et
bras
first meal. Even if the manure has, Ise the. fourth chapter of Genesis it .
flies will go to the !rousse
been daawn onto the fickle during the. -
°el! tileiv is meetioned that Tubed Cain was i1
winter filth often breed in the Roil on pioneer in developing the arts -of iron
the the ot the old piles, making ancl s worker:Le.
,
Food Conservatiou.
Many women -begin to cut down
the
it, is true. They balloy of eopper and zinc now called
econohe food allowance w
.lien they plan to
down U!5055 Meat, klibly quoting the - by that name. The "brass'' tempered
mize. Thisseems strimge ut
vegetables. Next. comes butter, -inilk
arcieu,ti; for edged tools or weapons of war in
bronze.
early times was usually a compound
of copper and tin—in other words,
wonderful value of legames and
and eggs and fresh fruit vegetables:, On the site of the famous *statue
These are all used very sparingly. of Rameses the (Meat, in the Nile
But where brass is cencerned one
should realize that this was a Very
indefinite, term among- :lehe ancients.
When spoken of in the Scriptures it is
seldom to be understood to signify the
owing to their seemingly high coat.
Yet health demands alenty of god,
nuetnri.tious food, and finals paeticular-
ly true where threinc growing chil-
ar
At least one peened of meat is nee-
essury weekly for eatheindividual per-
son. New if the portion used! is ex -
Valley, detritus to a depth of nine
:feet has accumulated since the these
when the 'effigy was erected, 3500
years ago. This being dug ttW117,',
follieles of copper have been ,foind
(on further exeavation) seventy-two
feet lower down.
Figuring on the length of time re -
pensive, there will be :. large loss, due .quired to cover those articles so deep -
to trimming's, bones, etc., for one has ly, it: is recleaned that the people who
only to remember that -there is 50 per made Lind used theni could not have
cent. AvaSte in sirloin eteale and from lived fewer than 27,000 years ago. At;
40 to GO per cent. waste on the fancy so ancient a period, then, was man -
cuts, such as chopie stealcs and image, kind acquainted with copper, which
Them too, these cute are proportion-
ately MO in price.
Where cost is an item to be consid-
ered, the cheaper cuts of Meat nicely
seasoned and weir cooked ley long,
slow, rthist• methods will give far
meter satisfacbion -ror food value
than the higher priced cuts. This is
true than the higher priced cuts. This
is true not only of meats, but also of
other foods, Talccs, for instance, the
ready -to -eat cereal. The test of this
gems to have been the earlseet-
known of metals, unithe gold be en
exe•eption.
—
NEW LIGHT ON THE HORSE
As Deseribed by an Indian Modem,
Learning Eaglish.
First attempts at writing Enlists
are often- amusinig, eispeeially whets
the beginner hes acquired a largo
will be six or seven toles, greeter number of words the exact ;nemeses
than 'Llie cost of the cereal cooked at of which he only vaguely senees. Ie.
home. Theis again, oatmeal, barley, The Awalcening *of India Nm'. Sher -
etc., can be purchased in bulk at a weed Eddy egivos aniusing instances
real proportionate saving that will of the mistakes made by Hindu who
help the aruclent woman materially are learning lingliels. A Bombay
to conserve. high lithool student wrOto the follow.
Take for instance, the purchnise of ing essay cm a horse;
0. pan of mush. While it may be i The horse is a very noble quadeu.
Purchased for less,than twenty nista, i ped, but when he is angry he will
the actual el):4 to. the housewife, ex- not do so. He is ridden on the spinal'
elusive of labor and time that it re.: cord by the bridle, aud sadly the
quires to cook - the' musts, which is driver plass his Looe on . the etirrint
abeitt three quarters of an hour, it . and clivides Isis lower limbs across the
will cost about tor cents. Figure saddle, and Myth his animal to the
it ,out for yourself. One quart of meadow. He has a lossg mouth, and
boiling wieten one toespoonful of set, leis head is attached to the -trunk by
one cuptul of corn meal or corn lams. a long' protuberance called the stole.
And: then (tomato this ina-de at He has two legs; IVO aro in the
lionee with that purchased and note front sides and IA170 aro afterwardni.
the difference. :
How massy women know if they ! TtlitnteenticIr0altslioe'ilwefeeanit)17tincTserfilleeyli elel'!
intend having pork chops for a meat tending those in the rear in a renal -
course if the hone is removed before lel direction toward the foe. But thie
cooking they have pork cutlets? Then ee does :only when in is ewe-et:ewe
remove the excess Tat and place the
bones in a saucepan and add the fab metal. His feeding is generally ginee•
teineett vevy tine. • Then add lust en- teisficr odu gtrhaei va.eis,Illte mien nalosvo wuosIcLuilt ,,t,,,,c
ouell cod water, .to cover the bones
minced fine. . well as some cage. He has power to
and then two tableepoonfuls. oa onion. •-e„„ as ease as leo theraa, Ho hes got
Simmer slosyler for ono Isom' and no Bleep at nighttime, but aleatye
it of meat from them, and then re- horses of short sizes. They do the
standing awaken. Alcco Use VO are
then ammeve the bones, screw) every
- urn the meat to the liquid. Now
Measure...,v.retere should bo one quart
of liquid. Nov acid: Oise toaspoonfel
of salt, One -ball teaspoonfal of pep-
per, one teaspooneul of poultry sena
theing, orte-hate cupful of cornmeal,
one -lade emptul irt buckwheat flour.
Stir to prevent lumping and cook for
twenty minutes- Pour into a pan to
Mold, This will give you a pan of
scrapple that -ean lee used for break.
same as the othere are generally do-
ing. There is no aeistsal like the
tense. No soothe they sec their
guardian or master they always cry-
sth for footling., but it its elways Om
inoreing time. They have got tail,
but not so long as the cow and °thee
euch animate.
Nag contain the food element., con,
'alined in meat,
fast Mid will cort weer little, outeide fa sweet:011ml allY(hliste hap'
ef the labor one fuel ihut is required 1,Y1111) and 11(11f sugar, This is 51
to cook -it. . )55irli:tic and at th.) same Lm c more
lever tey meeting a einem, brend -;..t$ practical than twin( all syrup.
f"17'.11.1 0-110 elePrel: or 000- Iton, DmusnOitsl AllrsIlaii i, que15515 as
heir cupful of water, three table- expressing the opini555 that Pn'ees
o ,„51 Cols r t.to-o og, two tobio, b,,,1 1;:r
or cevoa, ciao tableeporeeeed ye.m.,4;