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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-3-13, Page 6Ta Prove Our Claims A Tea -Pot Test is better than a page of Advertisement. Is rinest wooed Tea � lr� .47sioney can paralase. ova Fill Idle Minds and Hearts. "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do," was the maxim which an old Scotch schoolmaster used to hurl at our heads. Viewed with the judgment of maturer years I've wondered much, why he didn't null it over to himself, and visit our homes' to impress dt on our parents. For if anyone needed the saying it was not the youngsters who got into the mischief, but the adults. who fail- ed to provide proper fir and inter- esting work for the active children committed to theirs care. Children naturally must be- busy. So well accepted is this fact that when a r;1n,ild sits down quietly we instantly decide he must be sick. And yet we fail to make provision for this immutable law of child nature. The baby' from the time he creeps until he passes out of babyhood, is the' most 'strilcing iIIustration. We say every day, "Wouldn't you think he would get .tired and want to set down and rest?" But he never seems to. Ali day long he trots about in- vestigating, and mothers, recognizing the principle of keeping him out of Mischief by keeping him interested, coax him from the things he. should- n't do with a promise of a ,different amusement or a new toy. The very young child is provided for, possibly because it takes so lit- tle to amuse hint, A,.string of spools or buttons, a box of clothes pins, a spoon .ancl a sand pile, a ball made out of twine, these will furnish the young child amusement. But when he grows older, passes into school days, learns to read and to play with his fellows, we lose sight of the basic principle that he must be kept always busy unless he is to get into mischief, and then mischief is indeed begun. The Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor has published some interesting findings on the effect of this lack of supervision. Out, of one hundred and eighty-five Child%en who were guilty of delinquency, only about thirteen were mentally defi- cient, it was found that these normal- ly bright children were led into trouble because of "lack of opportun- ity for moral and mental training, for recreation, and leek of variety of in- teresting occupations with promising futures." Few normally bright children de- liberately go wrong. Idleness is one contributing factor. _They have no- thing to do, and as a result delft into mischief, not malicious mischief at first, but idle mischief which little by little leads to deliberate wrong -doing, destruction of property or perhaps theft. Wholesome recreation is thus pro- vided for the school child, and in ad- dition night schools in winter and vacation schools in summer offer a "variety of interesting occupations with a promising future." The boy and girl are -given every opportunity to make the most of the life so far as schools can help them.• Ancl best of all, they. are supervised. Instead of being left to grope lin the dark, their efforts are directed by the tbachers. Public playgrounds, gymnasiums, swimming pools and skating ponds are still in -the future for most rural children, But conscientious parents can supply their place if they make the effort. When you give the order for concrete pens for your porkers and watering troughs for your stock, go a step farther and order a swim- ming pool for your children, Children rightly handled are a more paying laves -talent than lave stock. Fit up the parlor or tho "spare" bed room, for 43,gymeasdum. A punching bag horizontal bars, and boxing gloves costibut little.. and pay fer themselves a hundred -fold if they help keep .the boys at home and out of mischief. Plan for games for long winter even- ings. If you are opposed to playing cards there are dominoes,c checkers and chess, flinch and a dozen other games. Recognize the fact that the child must bo amused, Fie must have fun and he is going to get it some way, if not a lawful way under your eyes, then unlawfully. , Keep bit in- terested in work or play. But above all, keep your eye on him. Not op- pressively, of ^course, Don't snoop nor spy but just the same, know what your boy and girl are doing and who are their friends and pl'uythates. Wholesome receation suitably, sup- ervised is the crying need of young folks, espetially'in the country and small towns. , The young folks of cities fare better in this respect than country children, in spite of the ad- vantage of outdoors. For what is, the use of the outdoors if there is nothing to' do, except to work, from a child's point of view? Cities have their public playgrounds • with swimming pools, swings, sand piles, 14ty-poles, base ball. diamonds, tennis °Mutts, everything for wholesome sports, with the added advantage of a super - Vigor. in winter there art the skat' p ; . roads and the S`. M. (1,A,, withi10a tlwim ring 'Gtr *loot lbesobail and,game tod�lea. 1nb ..solea of!Eee ]rooks ‘104 gory tellln, BBO'uns, and churches keep open •house with their gymnasiums. --- Making Making the Broom Lag. The marked increase in the prices charged for brooms has ,caused the housekeeper to regard them with a new respect, becoming more than ever desirous. of preserving them to their last usefulness. It is real economy to choose the best quality when buy- ing a 'broom, for one that is well made will outlast several of an inferior var- iety. One should bo sure that there are at least four rows of stitching across the top of the straws, as this number is required to insure durabil- ity. In the cheaper brooms, three rows are usually the most provided, and they do not hold the straws tightly enough to keep them from falling out with brisk sweeping. It is hardly necessary to say that to stand a broom on its straws is to give ,it the,worsttreatment possible, since its weight will soon cause the body to sa.g to one aide and thus de- prive it of the efficiency which is the result of the regularity of the straws, The Broom shouldhave its regular place on the wall ov in a closet, where it hangs upside down -when not in use. If one has no regular bracket, a home-made device may be found helpful. Two nails should be driven into the wall, two inches apart and about four feet from the floor, and then another pair, about two and one- half feet above these, should be in- serted the.,, same distance apart, The broom is placed so that the straw body rests on the upper nails, while the lower nails support the handle. One housekeeper finds that she can renew her broom by. soaking it in hot suds for a time, then allowing it to dry thoroughly in the bright sun. At this point, it is possible to cut the bristles'evenly'once more so that they will brush over the nap thoroughly. It .is not uncommon to see neat cloth .•covers, fitted to the upper half of the broom body, sewed on securely to prevent the straws frons 3reaking at the tea and thus slipping out be- low. When the broom is past all fur- ther usefulhess, a heavy bag may be fitted offer the entire surface and fastened by a drawing -string at the top, where the handle begins. Such a covering, if absorbent material will make it a handy duet mop for floor -surfaces. Its best feature is found in the fact that the cover may be slipped off and washed much more easily and satisfactorily than may an ordinary string mop. ' Fastidious housekeepers often ap- ply an enamel coating over the hand- les of their brooms, because they find them much more agreeable to handle than those of the unvarnished wood, ,besides being far more decorative• in the spotless kitchen. CAN FLY 300 MILES AN HOUR French Engineer's Device Will Short- en Trip to America. An airplane with a speed of from 200 to 300 miles an hour which will bring Amerioa within a short day's journey of Europe is the prospect held out by the invention of a French engineer, Auguste Bateau, accord- ing to the Matin, The invention of M. Bateau was one of the surprises lin store for the Germans which were about to be revealed when fighting ceased. At the present time, without the invention, the higher an airplane .mounts the less power is required, on account of the rarifying of the air. The loss at 15,000 feet, for instance, is 50 per cent. Mr. Bateau's device, the paper says, is very simple. It consists of an arrangement, by wlnioh the' exhaust from the engihe works a small turbine which compresses the air drawn into the engine to norma.] pressure so that the engine develops full power no Chatter what tho alti- tude. As the resistance of an air- plane decreases enormon"sly at high altitude, the Matin adds, it follows that the higher a machine fitted with the new device mounts the greater will be its speed. This faot,•it pis de- clared, was demonstrated by the Ger- man long-range guns. It has been found that a heavy day bombing machine whose- speed at 15,000 feet ordinarily did not e:!ceeed 80 miles an hour made 140 miles an hour when fitter) with M. Bateau's invention, eta Army Coal for Civilians. To meet the scarcity of coal in England, which is acute in certain localities, an arrangement has been come to betweett the War Office and the Coal Control Depattmoht by Which public needs may be timet tem- poranily by drawing on Arany stocks. Tho errangemeitt provides that where stocks of coal or gas coke ex- ist ilt army eainps above immediate requirements,' assistance in• fuel suP- jollies may be given to the public from such entocks bac. mutual arrangement botwooii leasi Peel Overseer! +and the Officer in eharge of Witt Office stip` lies, ' CHAPTER IL--(Cont'd,) John Denby read the letter Ghee, e twiaei then he pulled the telephone toward him and gave a few crisp orders to James'Br'ett, his general manager. is voice was steady and— to the man -at the other and of the wire -ominously emotionless. When he had finished talking five minutes later, certain words had been uttered that would materially change the im- mediate future of a certain wilful youth just then setting out on his honeymoon. There would be, for Burke Denby, no "Reddington apartment." There would also be no several -other -things] for there would be no "allowance" after the current month. There would be only the "wages," and the things the wagee could buy. - There was no disputing the fact that John Denby was very angry. But he was also sorely distressed and grieved. Added -. to his indignation that his eon should. have flouted him was hie an3;uish of heart that the old days of ideal companionship were now gone forever. There was, too, his very real fear for the future hap- iiineas of his boy, bound in marriage to a woman be believed would prove to be a moat uncongenial mate. But overtopping all, just now, was his wrath at the flippant assurance of his son's note, and the very,evident con- fidence in a final forgiveness that the note showed. It was this that caused the giving of those stern, momentous orders over the telephone --John Den- by himself had been somewhat in the habit of having his own way! The harassed father did not sleep much that night. Until'far into the morning hours he sat before the fire- less grate in his library, thinking. He looked old, worn, and. wholly miser- able. In his hand, and often under his gaze, was the miniature of a beautiful woman—his wife. CHAPTER III, , It was on a cool, cloudy day in early September that Mr, and Mrs. Burke Denby arrived at Dalton from their wedding trip. With characteristic inclination to avoid anything unpleasant, the young husband had neglected to tell his wife that theywere hot to live -in the Denby Mnsion, He had argued with himself that she would find it out soon enough, anyway, and that there was no reason why he should spoil their wedding trip with disagreeable topics of conversation. Burke always liked to put off disagreeable things till the last. Helen was aware, it is true, that Burke's father was much displeased at the marriage; but that this dis- pleasure had gone so far as to result in banishment from the home, she did; not know. She had been planning, indeed, just how she would win her father-in-law over—just how sweet and lovely and daughterly she would be, as a member of the Denby house- hold; and so sure alms she of victory that already she counted the battle half won. In the old days of her happy girl- hood, Helen Barnet had taken as a matter of course the succumbing of everything and everybody to her charm and beauty. And although this feeling had, perforce, been in abey- ancefor some eighteen months, it had been, very rapidly coming back to her dur'iflg the past two weeks, under the devoted homage of her young hus- band and the admiring eyes of num- berless strangers along their honey- moon way. It was a complete and disagreeable surprise to her now, therefore, when Burke said to her, a trifle nervously, as they were nearing Dalton:— "We'll have to go to a hotel, of course, Helen, for a few days, till we get the apartment ready. But it won't be for long, dear." "Hotel! Apartment! Why, Burke, aren't we going home—to your home?" "Oh, no, dear. We're going to have a home of our own, you know—our home." "No, I didn't know." Helen's lips showed a decided pout. "But you'll like it, dear. You just wait and see." The man spoke with determined cheeriness. "But I can't like it better than your old home, Burke. I know what that is, aid I'd much 'rather go there." "Yes, yes, but—" Young Dehby paused• to wet his dry lips. "Er—you know, dear, dad wasn't exactly—er— pleased with the marriage, anyway, and—" "Teat's ;lust it," broke in the bride eagerly. "That's one reason I wanted to go there—to show him, you know, Why, Burke, `I'd got it all planned out lovely, ho* nice I was going to bo to 1m—get his papers and slip- pers, and kiss him good -morning, and—" "Holy smoke! Kiss—" Just in time the fastidious son of a ,still more fastidious father pulled himself up; but to a more discerning bride, his face would already have finished his sentence. "Er—but--well, anyhow, dear," he stammered, "that's very' kind of you, of course; but you see it's• useless even to think bf it. He— he has forbidden us to go there," "Why, the mean old thing!" "Helen!" Helen's face showed a frown as well as a pout. "I don't care. 'He is mean, if he, is your father, not to let—" s "Helen!" At the angry sharpness of the men's voice Ilelen stopped abruptly. For a moment she gazed at her hus- band with reproachful eyes. Then her chin began to quiver, her breath to come in choking little gasps, and the big tears to roll down her face. "Why, Burke, T—" "Oh, Great Scott! Helen,' -dearest, don't please! begged the dismayed and distracted. young husband, promptly capitulating at the awful sight of tears of which he was the despicable cause, "Darling, don'tl" "But you never sppolce like that to me b -before," choked the wife of a fortnight. "1 know, I was a brute—so I Wail But, sweetheart, please stop," he 'pleaded desperately. "See, we're just pulling into Dalton, You don't Want then to see you crying—a bride!' Mrs, Burke Denby drew in her breath convulsively and lifter] a hur- ried hand to brush the tears .front het' oyes. The next moment. she smiled, tremulously, but adorably. She lee]-, —BY— Eleanor ETIs Porter Comeleht Houghton Millin (10, P,ablisbod by special .arrangement With Thee, Alien, fl'oronto ed very lovely as she stepped from the ear a little later; and Bur4ce Den- by's heart swelled with loge and pride ate he hatchet] her, If antler - math the loge and pride there' was a vague something, not eo pleasant, the man told himself it was only a natural regret at having said any- thing to cast the slightest shadow on the home -coining of this dear girl whom he had asked to share his life, Whatever this vague .something was, anyway, Burke resolutely put it b° - hind him, and devoted himself all the more ardently to the,comlfort of his young wife, In spite of himself, Burke could not help looking for, his father's face et the station. Never before. had he come home (when not with his fa- ther), and not been welcomed by that father's eager smile and outstretched hand. IIo missed thein both now. Othoewise he was relieved to see few people he knew,' as he stepped to the platform, though he fully realized, from : the sly winks and covert glances, that every ono knew who ho was, anti who also Ives the lady at his side. With only an occasional perfunc- tory 'greeting, and no introductions, therefore, the somewhat embarrassed and •irritated bridegroom hurried his birde intoda public carriage, and gave the order to drive to 'the Hancock Hotel. All the way there he talked very fast and very tenderly of the new home that was soon to be theirs. "'Twill be only for a little—the ho- tel, dear," he plunged ,in once more, "And you won't mind it, for a little, while we're planning, will you, darl- ing? I'm going to rent one of the Reddington epartment.' You remem- ber them—on Reddington Avenue; white stone with dandy little bal- conies between the big bay windows. They were just being finished when you were here. They're brand new, you see. And we'll be so happy, there, deauie,—just us two!' "Us two! But, Burke, there'll be three. There'll have to be the hired girl, too, you, know," fluttered the new wife, in quick panic. "Surely you aren't going to make tae' do with- out a hired girl!" • "Orn, no—no, indeed," asserted the man, all tine more hureiedly,.because he never had thought of a "hired girl," and because he'was rather fear- fully wondering how much his father paid for the maids, anyway. There would have to be one, of course; but he wondered ,if •his allowance would cover it, with all the rest. Still, he could smoke a cigar or two less a day, he supposed, if it came to a pinch, and—but Helen was speaking. "Dear, dear, but you did give me a turn, Butilce! You see, there'll just have to be a hired girl—that ia, if you want anything to eat, sir," she laughed, showing her dimples. (And Burke loved her dimples!) "I can't cook a little bit. I never did at home you know, and I should hate it, I'm sure. It's so messy—stidky dough and dishes, and all that!" Again she laughed and showed her dimples, looking so altogether bewitching that Burke almost—but not quite—stole a kiss. He decided, too, on the spot, that he would rather never smoke an- other cigar then to subject this ador- able little thing at his side to any task that had to do with the hated "messy dough and sticky dishes." In- deed he would! Something of this must have shown in his face, for the little bride beam- ed anew, and the remainder of the drive was a blissfully happy duet of fascinating plans regarding 'this new little nest of a home. All this was at four o'clock. At eight o'clock Burke Denby came into their room at the hotel with a white face and tense lips. (To be continued.) LEAGUES OF NATIONS Idea Is Not New, But Had Its Birth Back in 1023. The idea of a league of nations to enforce peace is es old as the bills. There is nothing new under the sun— which is old in itself—and the birth of the idea, so farcas. history shows, dates back to 1028; when Robert II of France, known as The Godly, and Henry II of Germapy, lcnown as The Holy, met one August day on the banks of the River: Meese to discuss universal peace in. a monarchical and kingly manner. After considerable talk, which resulted in nothing tang- ible, they decided to go to Paris the next year to eonstlt Pope Benedict VIII. But the Pope and Henry, doth being old, died before the meeting could take place. .Henry's successor to the throne of Germany was ambi- tious, and ,instead of universal peace, the world had universal war Three hundred years later Dubois revived the sc'hecne, and outlined a plan to Philip IV. of lrranee, but the nations were too busy fighting to think of peace. But the icloa germin= ated, and in 1517 Desidorius Erasmus mentions it as a favorable project to "assemble a congress of Kings at Cerebral" who were to "enter into a mutual and indissoluble engagement to preserve the peace with each other and throughout Europe." The Emper- or Maximilian, Francis I o -f Franee, Henry VIII. of England•.and Charles, sovereign of the Low Countries, were to meet, but nothing came of the pro- ject, A hundred years later Eimeria Cruce, in his book "Le Neuvcau Cy- neas" outlined ids plan. It wag pub- lished 11,1.822 enc! called 'Tice Now Cynean" in honor, it Cyncas, the fa- mous Thessalotniae crater, Criice pfe- posed the establiahmont or. a univer- sal union that ehould inejticie Oliina, Ethiopia, the East and Wolk I'Idies and the world in ;general, Ail nations soma to he eopreseetal by ambassadors. wl.o, shoatlti hold see - sloes at a noutral spot, Venice being stlggested as being indfirel'ont to princes. A better work Conch than notue is e wide plank laid about breast high on brackets at ore side or the barn floor. Have a good light over it if yon can, It Makes a real handy the. to work. "ALL ABOARD FOR, SOANGRAl" W11; aN THE A?allORUS ,•.-START'S FLYING AROUND: THE WORLD, livery Patt of This Old Earth Will Be en Open Boole in the 'Very Near Future. "All aboard for Shanghai! First snap, ConatantinopSel Change for Melbourne and Cape Town!" That's the sort of cry we shall hear a little later on in the history of this wonde*ful world, and not $o much later, either, saye a London news- paper. Wo shall be all in the air presently, careering hither and tblth. er like so menet huge swallows mi- grating, The porter who drones out "Put- ney, Burnes, Mortlake, Richmond, St, Margaret's, Kingston," etc„ will have to change his tune to "Brindisi, Cairo, I(ut, Karachi, _end Calcutta,' and a dozen other world routes. Clapham Junction to.Cairo. Distance will dwindle. We shall be able to take a flying trip to Mclbonrne in our summer holidays. The :North Sea;, will become a mere bay of the Atlantic, Belgium a European allot- ment, the Alps a picturesque fence between Italy-andelier neighbors, the Adriatic a' cluck -splash. We shall be able to pop over to Scutari and be back for teal Constantinople, modernized, inter- nationalized, will be the Clapham Junction of the Northern Hemi- sphere, the switching -off place for all kinds of romantic routes. Yes, and certain pliaces, like Tim- buctoo, which have been little more than geographical jokes, may find themselves right in the line of a great air route, and spring up into fine cities with great hotels, pleasure - gardens, and fine shops selling all the produce of the tropics to the constant stream of world -flyers who alight there for the night and may care to break their journey to visit the Ring of Dahomey's tomb! ' Some of the islands of bhe Pacific, too—cannibal islands, perchance— will be alighting stations for the cross -ocean flights, for. the Pacific is a big patch even for a big aerobes to negotiate. This will develop into health and pleasure resorts, and surf swimming on the milk -white beaches and visits to the attols will all be in the orders of the day. No More Mysteries. This sort of timing will somewhat knock the bottom out of romance. Romance depends on mystery, and when we can look down from the -cen- tral blue on Robinson Crusoe's Island, or en the impenetrable forest of the 'pigmies of Central Africa, and fly across the No Man's Land of the banks of the Amazon, and skim across the top of Chimborazo, there will not be much mystery left in the world. Vho ever thought the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, the very thing that Cook tourists see on the adver- tisement sheets, would become a real- ity? But it is real to -day, The ads. will run like this in the near future: "Three-day trip to the Cape. Won- derful panoramas of the Spanish Sierras, the Blue Mediterranean, the Great Sahara, Central] Africa, Rhod- esia, calling at the Victoria Falls sec- ond .day out. 'Planes daily. The Highflyer starts Mondays; the Moon - raker and the Skyscraper Tuesday; the All-Highest—no connection with the German of that name—Wednes- days; Loop -the -Loop ankh Man in the Moon every Thursday, etc., etc., and continuing descriptively. Every Mair -aa -Shackleton. "Every 'plane provided with a parachute for each passenger, safe for descent from any height i.p to thirty thousand feet. Our 'planes are excellent for, observation, elec- trically -heated. Refreshments serv- ed promptly in well-appointed.,dining cars. Joy rides from Timbuctoo to the Sahara Oases, Lake Chad, and the Upper Congo at the pleasure of the traveller." Of course, there will 'be good Eng- lish hotels along all the great Coutes, for travelling will be by clay. There will be one, for ,instance, on the site of the Garden of Eden; another on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza; another commaticling a view of the crater of Popocatapetl; and still an- other on the rapids of the Brama- putra. The motto of these big flyers will mo "Ubique"—we'go everywhere. There will presently be nothing else left to discover except the other end of the Bronnweil road. ssWe shall all know as much of the earth's surface as S'hacldotot ar Peary, and good- old• David Living- stone wile be quite a back number. One at a Time. In a closely -contested case, while ono or the counsel was indulging in n digiti or oratory, a donkey In a yard near by indulged In a loud bray, The opposing counsel rose to his foot, and said 10 the court; "My Lords, is it admissible for the gentle. man's friend to thus nppinUd 1111114" Later nln, when 111(4 011101' Celtlnh3Cl hail rouehod n high paint or oniless I. asm, the donkey 1n!rrioptrd ngtth, iunnediately the olitm' lawyer rano to hie feet null said: "My horde. is 111x' ) clot du mineuet onto to the court"" lieniovo Coffee Stith, Among the most difliruit statue 11 r.• those Made lay ceii'co; With rare, how- ever, the drains our be reteovntl .Croat the most delicate silk or Woolen :Cab. tics. Rub tine marks gently with a little pure glycerine, then, rinse ib in lulcc- warnl water, by a '.loth over the cheap part on the wrong Bute end ]mess with a cool irons lltibil dry. Do not Wet 1110re Of the materiel thorn is ai)s611AI: y nccetsaree HOW ENGLAND MET ud1O f' PROBLEMS GREAT VARIETY OF ANTI -SUB CRAFT TURNED OUT. Shipyards Got Busy and Built Speedy Chasers and Naval Wasps With Remarkable Rapidity. Mucic has„been written about the battleships and cruisers which have been completed, and many of them en- tirely built, for the British Sleet dur- ing the continuance of the war. When, however, note is made er the number and variety of the anti.submarine ves- sels, and those supplied to meet special requirements, a more adequate con- ception is obtained of the gigantic and far-reaching undertaking' involved in the mobilization of Britain's resources for the provision of”' naval war ma- terial. In additiin to the business of con- struction, there was that of converting ships built for peace purposes into in- struments of war. A marvelous re- serve of maritime Sighting' strength was found in the mercantile marine and fishing industry. About a hundred liners were turned into armed cruisers, and many other merchant ships were put to the use of supply, repair, col- liers, distilling auxiliaries and other needs of the fleet. Upward oY 3,000 small vessels were utilized in the various theatres of war as patrols, convoys, mine -carriers, sowers and sweepers, fleet messengers and in the alr service. Nearly all these were ad- ditional to the 500 strips which were added to the Royal Navy since August, 1914. Monitors and River Boats. Not only did the establishments for the production of naval war material work at high pressure unexampled in their history, but those ie the United States and Canada were drawn upon, and supplied their quota in full meas- ure. Submarines and submarine chasers were built in parts in the United States, and these were assemb- led at -Halifax and other places; ,the former vessels crossed the Atlantic under their own power, and the latter were transported in large numbers in merchant ships. The Monitors were among the first. ships of a new type to be butlt. The monitor is a vessel of sltallo „.draught carrying a few heavy guns in armoured Positions, and, from her shape and structure, virtually invulnerable to torpedo. attack. Three snail vessels of this class purchased early in the war proved' to be very useful on the coast of Belgium and elsewhere, In Lord Fisher's building program there were some thirty monitors, the largest of which mounted twin 14 -mach guns in a central turret, while others have one 9,2 -inch in the bow and one 6 -inch et the stern, and the smaller vessels of the type carried two G -Inch guns. An interesting group of vessels was ordered from * Messrs. Yarrow in Feb- ruary, 1915, for service on -the rivers in Mesopotamia. The Yarrow firm was given a free hand as regards time de sign and consbyucltion or these shallow." draught gunboats, which proved to be of the greatest valve in co-operating with the land forces, The hulls were temporarily erected in the Yarrow yard, and the last of twelve vessels was ready for shipment to the Persian Gulf within six months of the order to Proceed. The boats were put to- gether at Abadan, on the Tigris, and the first or thein was commissioned on November 2 and tools part in General Townshend's expedition. Destroyers and Submarines. The needs of the anti-submarine war- fare made necessary an inllnenee num- ber or vessels, and a very diversified assortment or types. How many sub- marines were added to the navy has not yet imeen revealed, but .the desstoy- ers completed for service during the war numbered between 200 and 300, in addition to the destroyers proper, there were the fiotilln leaders, their Suctions being to carry the commander of the flotilla and his staff, and by reason of greater speed and heavier armament to afford support to the other destroyers. No definite plan appears to have merited the naming or the flotilla lead- ers, but the nomenclature• of the new destroyers followed the alphabetical sequence originated by ,14r. Churchill. At the beginning of the win' the boats lettered 1', and 11 were the newest completed types. Now every letter of the alphabet clown to 1'.' has its quota, with the exeoptiol of Q. which ap- pears to have been reserved for' the "mystery" 511i115, Motor and Mining Craft It 1e an axiom of naval warfare that each conflict afloat sees the imam warship, In li ttonotan41v01aasofw s 1,ti s war not only one, bat several classes Wore been produced to meet the new conditions. Motor Yesseii or several I[indsearioluding the yabhts which fboir oners so patrlotleially offered at the beginwaring et the war, and the Munnct- es and other Submarine chasers, which leave done such good work In the pat- rol, are prominent in this caneectton. Hundreds of motor launc:ben ware or- dered in America, the part' built in u marvelously ehort t1me, the beat, put together at Montreal and Quebec and then transported across the Ata 1.:• With 1111 their spares and equ,•, , i -I ready for immediate trial on ar"ival Still more excoptonai and quite unique in their way were the C. 88, B', 01 ooastel motor -boats, light, small vee Bels, which move on the water slices than through it, at terrific apeod, with the bows pointing high in the air cued the taffrail deep down in the smoothes' splay. Armed with a torpedo Or with depth charges, these little vessels did admirable `service, and, llke thoh larger consorts, the motor launches have played a conspicuous part among the Frisian Islands and off the Bf+lglan coast. No type developed more rapid• iy than the motor -craft, too water wasps and skimmers -or the sea. The most numerous group of auxili- aries is that which owes its origin to the mine, To combat this menace there grew up a tremendous fleet, mainly composed at first of trawlers and drifters, which Tied actually been engaged in the fishing industry, but augmented later by numerous vessels built purposely to cope with the mines. In and around home waters there were some 1,600 minesweepers with crews of 25,000 officers and mon. Apart from the trawlers and their smaller sisters, the net -drifters, there were several classes of minesweepers in the navy {proper, all, of them built during the war, The above description, incomplete as it Is, for it does not deal with re. pair work at all, should indicate what a gigantic feat was accomplished by the shipyards, the engineering shops and the arsenals which so magnificent- ly answered to the vast demands made upon therm by'the transference of the navy from a peace to a war footing. TAu&ED FOR BLIGH`i`Y A Briton's Heroism and Unselfishness Shown in This Touching Tale. - This story was told to a Reel Cross searcher by one of the young Areri- cans who did not wait for his own Government to declare war, but went as a volunteer back in 1914. IIe had been through the first gas attack at Ypres and was one of the few who came alive through the murderous yellow cloud. "I have seen the Yser when you could cross it clry;hod on bodies," he said. "I have seen such deeds of heroism in action as make any story of old-time prowess seem tame. But there's one thing I saw, not in action, that chckes me up every time I thins; of it, "There were two British lads it the regiment next to us, two brothers They were both fine fellows, but the older one was just about the finest chap I ever knew. They had both loved the same girl beck home, iI seems, and there had been a pretty hot rivalry between them. Well, jusi before they were sent out she de- cided for the younger one. The other took it like a man, of course. -But any one could tall ho was desperately hard hit. We always know from the way he fought when his brother had had a letter. "They both got hit in the same action. There was a system tier (and maybe now, for all I know) of tagging the men for Blighty with a blue tag, let's say, (I think it was blue, but it doesn't natter.) O1 course, only the most serious cases were sent across the ChaeeeI, only the men who were thought too bac] to pull through without the very best of care. It was the older brother mho got the Blighty, His brother, wile lay next him at the casualty clearing station, was tagged to go to a beset tal in France. During the night while his brother slept, the older cat changed the tags. The younger bra thea' went hemp and married the gir during his convalescence. The olden one died before they could rectify the mistake." " When cutting cordwood pile the sticks with the bark side up. 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