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The Clinton News Record, 1919-1-9, Page 6e VezaeteesesSielleneelteriteillielleii) lardaiNentistreearSallailleeta-V•PleatelelleaT Not thc Mcaficst Man By 0, Courteney Savage • eanereaseeeeasevezaiewoaseesee "erige eae-zawees.e.aae 0ellaaesai eianeenearizei • • 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;