The Clinton News Record, 1918-1-3, Page 62
•Vvl 42,),•"7 NO4MAN HALLe. 74,
• CHAPTER ea—(Cone'd;) I firing :from the civiiian Minden:mite,
111.,ro of bard WOrk M the open air It is true Unit the men lied 'fewer op -
b. rougbt greet and weletiMe ehanges. PortunitieS for misconduct, and they
The men talked of their fond, anti Were fighting in a friendlY oonntinn
ciliated it with a zest which came from Even so, active service as we Amid it
realizing., foe the first thing,:the joy Wa8 by )10 reealle free from tcraPtu-
Of! being gfnuinely hungry, They1 Cons, The admirable restraint of
watched their muscles harden with the most of the men in the face of them
satisfaction known to every normal was a fine thing to see.
man when he is becoming physically Fremient changes were made _in
efficient. Food, exercise, .aud -rest, methods of training in Englund, tO
taken in wholesome quentitees and lit correspond with changing conditions
regular intervels, were baying the of modern wakare as exemplined :in
nee& excellent results. For my own the trenches, Textbooks on military
Part, I had never before been in such Lactates and' strategy, which were the
splendid health. I wished that it invited gospel of the last generation
might at all times be Possible for de-' of soldiers, became obsolete overnight,
mocraciee to exercise a beneficent Experience gained in Indian Mutiny
pateralism over the lives of their wars or on the veldt in South Africa
citizenry, at least M matters e health.' was of little value in the trenches in
It seems a great pity that the pin. Flanders. The emphaeis shifted from
ciple of personal freedom shtfuld be open fighting to trench warfare, and
responsible for so many ill -shaped tied the textbook evhich our officers studied
ill-sorted physical incompetents. My: was a typewritten serial issued semi -
fellow Tommies weve living, really ...weekly by the War Office, and which
Jiving, for the first time. They bad was based on the dearly bought ex -
never before known what it means' perience of officers at the front.
to be radiantly, buoyantly healthy. I We spent many a starry night on
, There were, as well, more profound the bills above Folkestone' digging
and subtle changes in thoughts and trenches and building dug -outs accord
habits. The restraints of discipline ling to General Staff instructions, an
and the very exacting character of 'many a rainy o.ne we came t
ereImmo1 e_e_ov
military life and teaining gave them eved with mud, but hampneeliifli
self-control, mental alertness. At 'thought thaet weeeegre 'ariproximating,
the beginning, they were individualee,:eke Ilas could be, the experience
no more cohesive themso menee-grains' of the boys at the front. Boznb,throw-
of wet neat-- After nine:mcinths o1'ing squads were formed, and the best
training they acted as a unit, .obeying shag in. the battalion, the men who
• orders with that instinctive prompt -had 'made -Marksmen's scores on the
nesse ofw
. action hioh is so essential eifle ranges, were given daily instrue.
on the field of battle When men think tion in the important business of snip -
scarcely at all. • . But it is true that ing. More genercius provision for the
what Was their gain as soldiers was, training. of machine-gun teams was
to a certain extent, their less ..as in- made, btut so great was -the lack in
dividuals. When we went on aative England of these important weapons,
service I meted that men Who were ex- •that far many weeks we drilled with
celient followeee warenotin frequent- wooden substitutes, gaining such
11' 'oat when celled upon for inde end- knowledge of machine gunnery as we
ent. tietani. They had not been train- •ain- could. from the study of ouv M.G.
ed to take the initiative, and had be- manuals.
come 'so acCustomed .haVing their These new duties, coming as an ad -
thinking done for them that they often dition to our other work, meant an in -
became confused and excited. when creased period of training. We were
they had to do it for themselves. imp tient to be at the front, but N'Se
Discipline was an all-important fac- re d by•this time that Lord Kitch-
tor in the daily grind. At the be- el 'as serious in his demand that
ginning of their training,- the men of t n of the new armies be efficient -
the nesv ra.mies were gently dealt 1 led. Therefore we worked with
with. Allowances were made for a apd at last, after nine months
civiiiaa frailties .and shortcomings. of onotonous toil, the oeder came.
But as these adapted themselves to We were to proceed on active service,
changed conditions, restrictions be.
came, increasingly severe. Old pri-
CHAPTER' IV. •
vileges disapPemed one by one. sin -
Ordered Abroad,
dividual liberty became a thing of the
past. The 1n811.' reCented this bitterly
„for a'time Fierize hatreds of officees
and N.CsO.s were engendered'
and Aldershot for the last time. Every
therenvarneuch talk of revenge when
man was in full marching order. His
•
lee satanic] get to the front. I used to rifle was the "Short Lee Enfield,
ook forward with mthat misgiving to at Mark IV," his bayonet, the long single -
day. It seemed probable that one eight edged blade in general use throughout
in the trenches would suffice fem. a the British Army. In addition to his
wholesale slaughtering of ofricers. Qid arms he carried 120 rounds of ".308"
scores were to be paid off, old 'gruages caliber ammunition, an intrenching-
Wiped 'eat with out first issue of ball tool, watet-bottle, haversack, centain-
ammunition. Many a fist -banged ing both emergency and the day's so -
board at the -wet canteen gave proof of tiens, and his pack, strapped to shoul-
Tearnesthess (lees and waist in such a way that the
"Shoot 'im?" \you'd say, rattling weight of it was, equally distributed.
the beer glasses the whole length of Hie pack 'contained. the following
the table with a mighty blow of his articles; A greatcoat, a woollen shirt,
fist. "Blimy! Witel That's all you two or three pairs of socks, a change
got to dol Just mete till we get on
the other side!"
But all these threats were forgotten
. months before the time game for car-
rying them out, Once Tommy un-
derstood the reasonableness. of severe
discipline, he took his pueishment for
Royal ,Bank of Canada
ETS
ASSNEAltilvY DOUBLE.TTAL
O
1111111i/E, YEA.Rfi ACO,
l'urefiese of .ftueitec Iteitit Adds 20
Ineaease During
191 7 ie 82 Millirem.
The Roy& Bank .of :Caneda's state -
Ment shows a continuanee Pt the rue
pid growth that has marked the re -
°4111; bistinrY of .the institution, a
.growth aecelerated in the past year
by •the absorption of the Quebec: Bettie
January litt•ieet,
, The purchase of the Quebec: Bank
:added etimethieg .like 20 Millions to
the aseei,e of the. Royal, That, how-
ever,' Atm:nits fee a relatively amen
pert of the expansion, I! or the inceeetee
in totaltweets as compared with Nov-
ember, 1916, arn•ounts. to more than 82
milliens, In the past theee years the
bank has practically doubled ,the re-
sources at its command .they are ap-
proximately seven times the total of
only ten years ago.
Suceeeding statements' of .• the 1 in-
stitution continue to give every indi-
cation that the progressive policy 'Of
the Management has also been charac-
terized by sound jedgment. As the
bank has gone feewerd, pertly under
the stimulus of successive absorptions
- of mailer institutions, and pertly at
O a natural result of growth within its
exifetineaelseisiteete- it "-position - bas,
el been rapidly consolidated and
th
strengened before the next forward
movement.
: Evidence Of public eonfidenceas ap-
parent in its deptisit ricceunts. These
show a growth. of 'm
53 illions' in the
Oast year and of 416 millions in the
past .three years. Savings deposits,
taken, separately, are about nine times
the total .of ten years ego.
The statement of prefits continues
to show succeed& direction of the
bank's affairs. A substantial gain in
the past year carried the figures - to
the highest level yet wittched, with a
showing of slightly better than 18 per
cent. earned on paid-up capital against
17.8 per cent, the preceding year.
As the Quebec Bank' e record as an:
earner had • been inferior to that of the
institution in which it is now absorbed,
the -showing in that respect is -highly
satisfactory.
Profit land loss •figuves for three
years are' coinpared in the following
table:
11115. 1111.5.
One Sunday morning in Mo1at. we as-
sembled on the barrack square at
of underclothing, a housewife,"—the
scildiers' sewingskit,--a towel, a cake
of soap, and a "hold -all," in which
were a knife, fork, spoon, gazer, sheen
ing:bresh, toothbrusffeand comb. All
of these were useful and. sometimee
essential articles,particularly the
his offenses without complaint. He toothbrush, which Tommy tegarded as
teenied, too, the futility of kinking tileestlittle instrument for cleaning
against the pricks. In the army :he thernechanisro of a rine ever invented,
belonged to the. Government body and Strapped On top of the pack was the
eoul. He inight resent its treatment blanket roll wrapped in a waterproof
of him. He might .behave like a sulky ground sheele, and banging beneath it,
schoolboy, disobey order after order, the canteen in its khaki -cloth cover.
and break rtile after rule. In that Each man wore an identification disk
intSe he :fennel himself checkmated at on a cord about his neck. It was
every turn. :Punishment became more stamped' with his name, regimental
And'more severe. No one was at alt number, regiment, and religion. A
concerred about his grievances. He first-aid field dressing, consisting of
might become an -habitual offender an antiseptic gauze pad and band -
iron sheer stupidity, but in doing so, age and a small vial of iodine, sewn
he inured no`one but himself. in the lining of his tunic. completed
'A 1' eV of these :incorrigibles- were the equipment.
diseharged in disgrace. A few follow- Physically, the mem were "in the
the lead of the Boer warrior. pink," as Tommy says. They were
After Malty 'threats which we -despair- clear-eyed, vigorous, alert, and as
ed of hi, even carrying•out, he filially
',greased off." He was immediately
posted ae a deserter, but to our great
jaY was never captsited. With the
disappearanee of the'malcoritents and
hard as nails. With theia caps on,
they looked the well-trained soldiers
which they were; but with caps remov-
ed, they, resembled so many uniformed
convicts less the prison pallor, "Over -
incorrigibles the battalion soon reach- sea haircuts" were the hien tonsorial
cd 0 high grade of • efficiency. The cry, and for serval days previous to
nhesicale iecompetente were likewise our departure, the army hairdvessers
enthlessly weeded Mit.' All of tis bad ,had been busily :wielding'. the close -
passed a. fairly thorough examination cutting clippers.
leen at the recruiting offices; •: but (To be 'continued.).
many bad physical defects which were
discovered only ,by the test ef• attual _
training, In the early days of the MANY EliPEDIENTS DUE TO WAR
Atar, requirements were much more
evert than later, when England Fuel Shortage. in Italy Leads to Inter --
learned hew great would he the need
.for men.. Mum who ltiter re-enlisted esting Experiments.
le other regonente, were discharged as The fuel -shortage in Italy Ines
"physicall;a &nil for further military brought forth many substances hereto,
service.". • . foe considered waste prochicte which
If thr 'stood"i'0: of 0°11'1" 1° °TY are being made the subject of experi-
battalion is &iy erileriem, then I can _
ments with the idea of secuvilig a
•
any trutIffully that .there is. vevy. lit- .
combination that Iney be Used as a
'tie crime in 'Lord Kitchener's armies
The stibstitute for coal.
either in:•1•Ingliind or abroad.
-"janitors" or defaufters' squad was el- Rice cultivation is one of the prin-
ways rather laege; but the "jankera cipal hulustriee of Italy, particularly
men" wereoffenders against; minor in the Turin consular dietrict, the an -
points in diecipline. Their c times mml. Italian vice production being
were untidy appeekence an pare e, ins about 660,000 tons. Ahhost 100,000
attention in Aye, ranks, tardiness at tons of this amount consists of rice
roll -call, and • others' of the sort, allet is eathgateg thai
there Aro
Within the..jurtecticition of a company 'u s'
officer., Theammebmem, meta eet at present on hand ahouta200,000 tons
varied Anordiog to the seriousness of hulls -from the 1915 and 1016 owe
of the ditenie,' and the past -conduct which °eying to the embargo on ex -
record Of .the offender. It usually portation from the kingdom could liot
congsted 'of from one to ten hes, as in•former yeees, be sent to Steil:,
"C.B."--conflued to barracks. Due- zerlend And Getmany as cattle food.
ing the period of his sentence the of-, With the object of using these riee
fonder was forbidden to leave camp hulls as a fuel, the laboratory of ape
after the parades aor the. day were . • •
phea chemistry of the University of
ended, And in order that be fnight
have no opportunity to do so, he wee To'ln " -0° Pecl"st ar the eXPeri-
c
10011411 station for eke vulture at'Ver-
oMpelled to ansWer his name at the
guard -room • whenever it should be 'celli has Linen up tht; queetion of the
smincied. • heating pewees of rice 1111115 and it.
• Only twice in England did WO have bee made n fieverable preliminary ve-
tt general weft -martial, the offense port,
Jo each ease being aesatilt be a private
heen an and the- penalty
! Warded, three Menthe in the military
pylon at Aldershot, Tommy was
' quiet and lave abidieg in England, his
; thief lapses being due to an exagger-
atecl 'estimate of his weeny :NV bees'.
In Frame, his eencluct, In se fee as agents made briquets 100 ex -
My observation goes, ham beau einem, peneive for praetiral remises. The
(lid 911'01.1811MR. Hnring SIX 111011010 .experimaks, however, are being coo -
115 tne trenchem 1 saw but two en- eineeta ana hi is mired time in the
81•41'S°5
of drU"keum'ss. ,Alt11.1m'gb near futere nerviquet can be mane facv
,
Ih
toOk place .11) wy own batinireze .501,101 tur°d timi• 111 11` 1 11'11
811LK,..dory from an
lieard, the general goesip of niany 'srm1"-lic -
ethers, ries er did see or bear of
)40 WOOdWMit put
a Mel^ • eantine Into the water and
. .1. . help,
1,14.1)81711)1811ALS hit370 £1130 been 1110.(18
with rice hulls in combination with
tlifferentabinding. agents, hut' white the
eesulthig briquets gave every siitisfac-
tien frem the stendpoint of heating,
yet the initial cost of yat•ioue bindieg
Wortian Lrented oiherwiee than court-
uottely. Neither did I see or henr of
tiny instanemi of looting or petty
$
toll-
Psollla • 32,:127,079 , 2,111 .307 1,905,5711
i'rev. 'but. .. S52,3411 • 676,472 014.001
3,100,125' 2,737,779 2,519.595
Less--- ," •
Dividends . 1,540,44. 1,417,207 1.307,2110
Pension 0'. . loteetro 1 0 0.0 1111i 0 1 .11 s e
'Premises .. 2110,000 .250,000 250,000
Wm. tax .. 118,357 110,226 105,166
!Reserve 520,300
Tofal 2,015,961 1,985,483 1,043.165
mamma 564,204 052,346 676,472
1 It will be noted from the foregoing
, that a substantial additien has been
!made to reserve account. There was
also -added to reserve the prennum on
stock issued to the Qiiebec, shareheld-
ers, and total reserve rose from
$12,560,000 a year ago to $14,000,000
against a present paid-up capital of
; The cash and the "liquid". position
of the bank are virtually on a-parit.Y
'With a year ago. The proportion of
cash assets, nicduding with .eaell on
handthe cover in- the Central Gold
Reserve for excess note issue, equals
about 16.4 per cent. of liabilities to
the pi:Cie, against 16.2 per cent, a
year ago, and the proportion of liquid
assets about 53.9 pet. cent. against
53.2 per cent.
A eotable feature of thee belance
sheet is •an inceease of upwards of 21
millions in holdings of Dominion and
Provincial Government securities and
an aggregate increase of about 26
millions' in all security holdings, The
figures are a measure of the'direct
assistance which the bank has been
giving to. War financing, in addition
to the assistance given less directly
through the financing of the business
of corporations engaged in manufac-
turing war supplies:- The circulation
-
and current loan items both retied
the. large domande of business in the
bank's territory both at home and
abroad.
Leading features of the balaiwe
:sheets for two years follow:
1.1 \1'iLIT1TeS
• • une.. 1015
1)0. sotiOS 'Al8729,g1111175 $1Majlit.i
Do, 1e01d252,987,382 200,227,695
Oirculation esereeesi 1.8,178,228
P
otl.
AssitiTs
5(peen* 16,070,830 16.072,763
Dom. 1101.e0 11)204,444 14,240,110
Cent, gold res. 1.0.000,010) esoterren
Tetra cash 00 854 275 26 801873
Securi ties 00,500,245 :10,506,068
T1£11111100S, etc.. 01,625.776 20.756,839
4 Call Mans Can., 12,040,687 11,076,065
1.1,1711:1411 4,1711.001."
161-031.712f), -111127,5111
1 00520,521
„brg„,,1•: 1MM.,f)1:41.
57,528,027
100.
Wil:211:1Z aggi:H;
CHINESE COWS DNMILKABLE.
Koreaa Will Only Eat 13011e4 Grass—
i-301er Kept Than Children.
Americans who travel through the
interior of China greatly miss "Cow's
Milk and Her Butter," as a :Japanese
sigri puts it, the people or the .
Orient Use little of either. lebn'es e
milk is sold to invalids et a high price, 1.
because the Chineee believe that is
a source of great bodily strength. a
Rut the nativee use cows solely for
draft purposes, apd, having mimed her
twine for yeate in tn mannet , bossy
Mande :upon her dignity whet: A meri-
cane demand milk of her. 're her off-
spring she will give it, but not to man e
if by awe poemibility she van eveld it, e,
In jepan there are non, few t
American bred male, maned by foe- '
°tatters, that tnakc Lilo native eand: r
look like goats, One of these cows
was imported into Korea by n miseine- e
ary, bnt be lied' difficulty in getting A
h' l' • ; ' n
vant was fresh frorn,hic tmentry home v
where he bad beard little and seen
less. took the any for all Olepinint,
end fiet befoee her,
In Koree the little native cow is a 11
petted darling that bee been indulged b
to sitell an extent that, ineredilde 550
it seem, she- yefusee to eve grime 51)1 -
loos it has been boiled,
VERDUN, THE
HEART OF FRANCE
"fitlei'r SHALL NOT PASS" -CAME
THE DEFIANT SHOUT.
• •
•
. /
Theve is prebelfig: no word in th
whole history of the wee which s
quickly arreste ettentioneer PrOVolds
deeper emotions than the name of Ili
velitineFeench a:mitre-4e, A write, re
turning from a vOcent &sit to th
Feeneh and British: fronts, seers tha
.eyere kilometre ef the. Via . Sativa 10
'you drive towards Verdun tells its owl
story, will provide 4 filth for its inn
.nionument. When 'et last, es yon at
nearing Verdun, When you cen see Us
towere of the cathedvel on high:abov
the hanks of the Meuse, you ere show
that little farm where•Petain and hi
generals decided on the last min fo
the salvation of the city, tears ris
irrepressibly to your eyes.
The poilu invented the pbrase, a
he has invented po many 0meg fern
ous cuerent history; but here tha
night, with German shells nurstin
upon them, these brave Frenchmen de
fiantly_shouted, "On no passe pas.'
• • Tfiernitiatt tem:Pass..
Never Was each beauty devoted to
destruction, "Verdun sits in the velley
of the Meuse, surrounded by e, crown
of many hills; but she heraelf •mounts
a scarp of stone rising from the
cent:reef the valley in a bend of the
river, with her cathedral like the orb
surmounting -an imperial crown.
Then after a while Dime comes a
silent drive through her desolate
streets, where never a civilian dwells,
and where on 811 average a hundted
shells a day still fall. We lived in the
citadel as -the guests of the military
governor, comfottable and safe
enough, well fed and well housed. But
day and night there went on the in-
cessant roar of bombardment.
-Then we are taken out to thie fort
whichewithstood all assaults", or that
fort Which, in the enemy's hands, has
now been recaptured. We stand on
'heights and watch below us the bom-
baechnent end destruction of little vil-
lages. Spotting enemy aeroplanes
come over OUr heads; fired at by anti-
aircraft guns and chased away doubt-
less not before they have taken photo-
graphs and made observations. Large
shells fall often near 'enough to Pro-
voke anxiety on the part of our guard-
ians, Who are giving us unwillingly a
thrill of actual warfare.
Sheer Courage'Saved the Day.
It would be impossible to recount all
the wonderful stories .told of this fort
and that! how, by the miracle of one
little telephone wire which, thrown
along the ground with many others
broken, continued to work and to carry
messages of cheer to a besieged fort-
ress until help could arrive; how an-
other young commandapt of an old
fort with outsofsdate guns, when his
near -by modern neighbor was betrayed
by treachery, deceived the enemy by
making a bonfire of hay in front of
his bastions until, thinking ail his
guns were out of action, they came
running near eneugh to be mown
down by machine guns and lilies, and
halted in what would have beee, had
they only known; an easy conquest.
By the time they had recovered :from
their surprise the tide of battle had
turned, ancl the 'baleo. of hay, like the
single telephone wire, had saved the
day and saved Verdun.
-Here. one sees the pollu at his best.
Here one realigns that this great vic-
tory was won, not withmunitions, and
not with strategy, but with the brav-
ery and determination of these little
men in blue. Here was no great, well-
planned campaign like that which sav-
ed Paris in the autumn of 1014. Here
was zeal and devotion and samafice.
That was intelligence; this was sheer
courage.
• The Marne was the brale of Femme;
Verdun is the 'heart
The armies of Verdun still ca'rry on
the struggle and still push the berbar-
ian further and further back, away
fromelter sacted citadel. New points
of attack are chotien month by month,
and the intvepid poilu goes forward
ancl wins them.
TEN THOUSAND FORESTERS.
How a Telephone Wire iiiid Oille of
flaY Turned Tido of
Battle.
A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE COMPLEXE ,IN
TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS,
LeSSQ11 XXIV, Th(i COOlting of Meats.
Boiling, braising, steeming, grilling, one quart of boiling water and one
broiling, eauteizeg, roasting and bale- tebleepoonful of salt in the tivippieg,
ing ate the various terms ueed to de. pan. This will prevent the fat from
catching fire; it, will also facilitate the
easy i•emoval of thee fat, which when
cold, 01111 be Med with a knife 01'
sPatela.
Meat when broiling always puffs
slightly. This is partly due to the
i . Boiling tie in Soup muck searing of the surface. As the
a The meat is.placed in colcl water and meat cooks this diaeppeare, so that
if. you press the meat slightly with a
knife and it does not feel spongy 11 19
then ready to serve. Do
e brought elowly to a boil. It is then
e cooked for timenecessary to obtain the
Boiling as in, Stewing • not overcook
„
e nutriment in the broth 00 liquid,
✓ each pound of meat,
a usually three-quarterd of ,an holg for meat, It lozes all nutritive value as
a food if it is cooked until hard and
i dry.
e 1 Roasting and Baiting of Meats
O note the methods employed in cooking
, meats.'
O Boiling is a term ueed to denote a
procose of cookieg Meat by boiling in
water. Two methode ime used hi
this process, namely, esoleing meat is
in soup, second as in stewing.
Plunge -the meat into boiling, water.' Roasting or grilling is done before
This causes the albumen to form a
s coating over the surface of the meat, quently, so that all sides may bo cook -
open fire, the' meat being turned fre-
- thus 'protecting the juices. 11- 18 a ed alike, The meat is basted with its
t see/I-known fact that the albumen in own fat. This Method of cooking meat;
g the meat coagulates upon the appii-
- cation of heat. The meat is then cook- used in this country, is used daily in Europe, but not much
iplou! tachated beat is fvequently called in
il it is tender. Time allowance When EX piece of meat is large it .is
about thirty -live, minutes to the meted. Meat cooked in an oven by
Correct Method of Boiling Meat . this country "roasting." It is well
Piece the meat in a eaucepan of boil- ' known- and needs little description,
ing water and then keep, the water When baking meat always use a wire
boiling rapidly for five minutes afte • of
to lift the meat from tbe bottom
the meativie added. •Then place the l i it" pan,
saucepan ifi a position where it will This will insure even
cook just below the boiling poirit for U II
Use t e broiling oven in the gas
the required length f t • C range for roasting, placing rack suf-
ficnently low. Have the oven hot en-
stant'and rapid boiling will cause the ough to brown meat quickly, then re -
albumen in the meat to harden; there-
fore no amount of 1' ft . r ,d due the heat so that it -will cook even -
will sof1UVten the fiber, It will onl ly, turn the roast three lames during
eguse the meat to fah apart withoul the process,
being tender. 1 Allow one-half an hour after placing
vent the delicate aroma from
pan closely -covered. This will pre -
It is important to keep the sauce -1
evapo meat in the oven before counting the
time. This is necessary so that the }
ating. le meat may reach the required tempera- 1
ture to start cooking.
Braising : Meat is &twee in a htlitt 1 eees
To bake (oven roast) use same pro- I
is cooked in its own juices in a close- one-half hour
saucepan and turned frequently. Start counting time efter ineat is .
using regular oven, I
ly coverted saucepan. in oven and allow ;
Steaming.: Cooking meat ise• Placing twelve minutes to a pound for very 1
in steam bath or steamer: .are, fifteen for rare, eighteen for 1
Grilling: Cooking meat over a hot medium and twenty for well done, i
tiro on a grill made for this purpose. Baste the meat with .the liquid in I
Broiling: A very hot fire is neces- the pan every fifteen minutel. Do ,
envy for this mode of cooking meat. not add'seasoning to the meat while
Oztly the choicest, tenderest and most cooking. It is 0 weil--known fact
delicate cuts. are suitable foe cooking that salt will cause the juices and'
by this method, The strong heat in- flavoring of the meat :tcrelissolve and '
stantly coegulates the albuinen by therefore become lost. Season steaks I
61(
pE IN
For makitig
opera „„
For egietone
Hie water,
Far retrieving
paint.
For alttinfooting
rotrIgoraioro,
sinks, closets,
drains andfor BOO
other ;ourpottos,
reF1.1014 OVISSTITUTIM
-TUE DESOLATION
AND WASTE OF WAR
DESCRIBED' BY A VISITOR To
THE BATTLE FRONT.
Horrors of the Ruined Areas of
France Must be Seen in Order
To Be Realleed,
ft seems that all the illustrated
journals and moving pictures fait to
prepare one for the horror of the de-
vastated area along the battle fronte
of France. The editor of The World's
Work, returning from a recent visn
to the Britian and French fronts, says
that the bitterest tragedy of the whole
scene, once you know the smiling face
of France, lies in the miles and. miles
of upturned, mutilated plaine and hilt
sides. The ruined cities are imposing,
the obliterated villages animating, but
the whole broad landscape utterly laid
waitte produces the most depressing
sensation, provides the most poignant
memories.
It gradually dawns upon you, as the
car rtyhes :forward from areas where
cultivation is mingte, that you have
come to a section where farmers are
not so industrious, and such crops as
are visible areadistincHy of a poorer
quality. Slowly you realize that the
fault lies neither with Nattere nor with
the ever -industrious French peasant,
but with the blighting evil of war.
A 'Veritable Hell's Aere.
For these scantily' cultivated, badly
grown fielde pass by„ and you entei:
, upon a veritable hell's acre, where, as
far as one can judge, nothing profit-
able may ever ,be grown itgain. There
is a strip of land, say fifteen or twen-
ty miles across, running from Ypres
to St Quentin, which had better in the
future be a national park 'tilled with
monuments and memorials for all the
cultivation that will be poseible there.
Trees may prolmbly be planted, arid
woods grow again as of old, to mover
battle -scarred bills and dells; but any
soil fit for .agriculture has been literal-
ly blown from the face of the earth.
Shell -holes and exploded .heine craters
succeed one another as elosely as the
cells m a honeycomb, all filled with
sand, graver and debris.
It is true that most of this ground
is covered with a growth of weeds and
rough herbage; but he' would, be a
brave man who sought to run a furrow
across any of the bard -fought battle-
fields.
No wordsecan describe the sadness
of a day spent motoring fifty or sixty
miles thvough. such a landecape, Here
was once a prosperous farm, there a
happy little village. All of this pock-
marked earth Mice grew crops and
grazed herds. On yonder hill a few
charred stumps outline a wood, even
perhaps a forest. But the scourge of
sear has passed this way, and blasted
for ever the beauty of France.
Horror Heaped on Horror.
Investigate more closely and you
fit& the horrors • accentuated, Dead
tnen's bones, skulls and rusty weapons
abound in every depression, you
are not careful your feet are entangled
in bits of barbed wire or -bruised
against discarded wreebage of gun
carviagea and even machine guns
themselves. The whole countryeide 10
strewn with unexploded shefie, against
t ouch i ng which con st ant Signs warn
searing. it, thus retaining all its juices and chops just before serving, Sett -
and flavor. That this metlied may son roasts five minutes before remov-
be successful it is yeesenecessary that ing from the oven. Always make!
the meat be turned every few mo- elle gravy after removing meat "'rem 1
cooked evenly. : I the pan.
Note: Never dish meat on a cold •
i
ments. This also insure it being
platter. The contact of a cold dish !
Pan Broiling: This is another
method of cooking the fine cuts of with the hot meat will injure its deli- '
fin and elso- less wasteful than any Cate aroma.
England chops and steaks are served
In meiCy portions of France- and '
meat when it is not possible to broil
them.. Broiled meat is more health- '
other form of cooked meat, upon platers set over a utensil ef hot !
I water or a special fuel that cat be '
To Pan Broil I burned in a container that holds the ,
.
•
' Heat an mon frying pan red hot, platter. When serving -a large steak ;
, then place in it the meat. Tarn it always have a cover of metal 01' an,
constantly until cooked. When using other hot dish turned over the meat to
gas range for broiling always place prevent it chilling.
Sent by Canada Overseaa—Reforest-
ation After the War.
Pour forestry battalions have been
raised in Canada and have proceeded
overseas, in addition to one battalion
converted on arrival in England, and
abont 4,500 men supplied from drafts
from various parts of Canada, All
told. the number of men in Canadinn
forestry battalins totals more than
10,000, besides a large -number of men
already overseas who were fOrMod
into forestry companies. All the for-
estry battalions have been combined
nto a corps, into which retnforee-
mins are drafted from tile medically
berantry.
While exploitatipn and not eonserv-
Lion wee the object of these organ,
rations, it is interesting to note that
number of Canadian -foresters =-
toyed Ahab: thelmical knowledge, in
treat Britain at, least, in coestruct-
ng volmne table, estimating met
praising timber, meaeuring m.ater-
ils and even:mak-Mg forest deserip-
ions mid growth studies,,
In the United Statee, u furestry
ensiment has been ovemnized sis a re,
&tee(' ,co-enevation betamen the •44,01-
st Service and the War Department.
bout one-half of the officers aro tech-
ically-trained :foresters, of 'whom a
me:large proportion are present or
twiner anklets of the !Forest Service.
his regiment haft now proceeded to
'ranco, for service behind the Beitish
ties in supplying the eeeessary tim-
ers for military purpoees, Other
hillier regiments are being raised,
be officered by fovestere end
imborMen,
lenane eve already being laid, it
nil, for a very extensive campaign
f fovest &aniline on non-agricultural
tnds in the. British isles after the
151; IT111/1161,iimobly, 'a very ex teas ,
1'(0Mee:0MM ur retoreetotion
110 bo 1104'0i'8151'5' 11) Femme.
It is ma :annual in vet.y cold wee-
ther.to see n pee cow clothed in a
warm covering, and 0151(021 110)11100 fed e
and :eyed ror than 1110' the ehildren.
AV
Rye Porridge with rieh milk hi ein ei
ea en 1 Moe5 fio 01 CCM:tit . al
WAR AND FOOD SERIES.' No. 1 --Beef.
The vital need for saving beef in will not, economixe are exacting more ,
Canadian households no less than than their "pound of flesh" fromtheir
public eating places is most tellingly fellow -men. Only by concenarated,
forced home by facts and ' figures. whole -hearted and entire co-operation '
These may seem dry boot to the think- gen the situtition be effectively
ing woman they are chargecl with an hat -idled.
electric current that serves to spur her le Canada, since the new regulation
on to unprecedented effort. They came into force restricting the use of
convey to her in the clearest fashion beat anti bacon, the per capita 1011,1
the why and wherefore of the Dentin- ' sumption ff beef in the 33 public eat-,
imawide cry to save wheat, beef arid mg places reporting is nearly 45 per!
bacon. . I cent. lower than a year ago. Toronto I
There is no time tosit and ponder, in October used only 44 per cent, of
asking why. No energy should be; the amount used during ths same per- !
wasted in criticizing measures which iod last year; llalifex used 80 per
are in the national interest. The cent., Quebec 63 per cent., Ottawa 76'
thing is, to get together, to sink petty per cent., Winnipeg, 46 per cent.,
differences, to realize that the armies 'Regina, 58 per cent., malting an all -
must be fed, ft is not a remote round average of 55 per cent,
question to be handled by the military What can be done in public enting
officials sin England and France, places e an be done in the homee.
It has come right down to every The supreme overseer bi the kitchen
kitchen in. Canada add it is likely to at a time like this is the woman's con -I
hoesewife reabsee this the better for only of seven days. There
stay there, so that the sooner the science. Tuesdays and Fridays are
two out
t be u,oce•
herself and the better for her boy
and every other weman's boy who is in
khaki. •
One ounce less of meat a day pe"
capita in North America will make
good the need for overseas. But If
every individual does not sacrifice one
ounce then the others will have to give
up muth more. Those who do not, or
CANADA'S FIRE LOSS.
--
Its Significance Driven Home By the
Following Figures,
Canada's fire loss in 1016 was $25,-
400,000, end it, will be .greater in 1917.
So vast is the amount that it is hard
to realize its significance when stated
in mere -figures. Hete arc eome other
ways' of stating it, which drives home
ite baleful significance:
The Canadian Government pays $2,-
000,000 a month in separation allow-
ances to soldieted wives and depend-
ents. The Canadian people burn pro-
perty valued at $2,250,000 a month.
Canada's annual fire waste is suM-
cient to pay 5 per cent interest on all
the war loans floated in Canada and
provide a sinking fund large einem% to
cancel the total indebtednees in 30
years. -
One you's fire loss in Canada would
purchase 12,000,000 bushels of wheat
for our allies.
The value of grain and other agri-
cultural produce burned in Canada in
1016 wha equal to the average annual
production of 1,500 hundred-aeve
fame.
Canada's fire loss in 11)101 would have
provided 8,500 aeroplanes or 25,000
machine guns or maintained over 20,-
. We have talked about the humeri -
000 men in the 105111011555fol.. a year.
shy of our, fire lessee for stem's, isn't 1
it time that laws were pass -ed to re- '
duce -the waste? It can be time,
day of the week. Fish, poultry and !
vegetables should be used in greater !
quantities. By the use of all pieces!
of left -over meat the individual a1!
home gives two soldiers their meat I,
ratings.
Sacrifice? No! Rather it is an1
boner.
701.1.
Mcvnoviee of all the vwful lan.1-
000pee that you have ever heard or
dretnned olassa 'mixture cf- Dante's In-
ferno end Goothe's WalpuTgis Heights
--ci*OV,*(1 through your mind as the de-
solate prospect whirls by You. Former
warriors like Sherman have told us
how hellish War is, and other raiders,
like Sheridan, have boueted ef so lay-
ing Waste a country that .11. MU,' (ly-
ing over it would have to ea vry his ra-
tions; Iml, their wars end their (tenet-
ation were Child's play to this.
FOREST FIRE PROTEMION. !
Ontario Has Largest; Organisation on
the Continent.
Ontario has the largest forest fire
protection organization on the contin-
ent. Last year, at the height or the
fire season, its staff Consisted of about
top° men. With the appointment of
E. J. Zavitz ns heed of the forest ser-
vice, a 11510 era has begun in the
teetion or the forests of the pro% thee
Against fire. The Forest Fires Act
has been remodelled along modern
lines, a forestry branch in charge el'
technically -trained men has been or-
gauieed, generous appropriations have
been made by the legislatm.e, whilst
the co-operation of Umbel,. ownewi has
been Nether stimulated by the -Minos -
tion of a fire tax to help cover tin, cost
or protecting their limits,
As for mechanical equipment, five
automobile trUck8 Nvitti fire -fighting
equipment have been provided for dis-
tricts where roads exist, Some 625
miles of on1 thane and poetages have
been cleared out, 60 miles of new, trail
1 and portages built, 85 look -out towore
have been erected, 45 miles of tele-
phone line constructed, and the permit
1 system of regulating eettlers' clearing
fires, which has long proved so effec-
tive in -Quebec, has been put into of -
fel with splendid results. Altogeth-
er, such a reformation has been made
as it year ago could eesecely have been
111'OlIml poesehl e
•
snot nifty be kept ftezeh by chop,,
ping roughtly and sprinkling it ,with
01 little gramilated sugar.
-'to rehnive irm stains worm som(1!
twee slightly and sprinkle it thietle en !
the spot, letters 11 for a 1i1/1C, th011
bruelt it off end apply a 1.0‘,5 111)11 1011'
of warm bran, imittintithie enn il the .
!tern:tote hee been &teethed.
Bees are mity intereeting. Thoee
who have not read "Idle Bee " bv
ligaurive M:teterlieek, eheeld :deem
a copy rrom 118u1r -1 libroxy. 9,
tent not enly he net .1 a e 11111
thr, F.1 ;ening it teeligenee ,aere •e -ens
deer& insects be peeelittein
SAFER veT TH1: vizoNT.
Cbances or Getting Killed in Barna
• Not So Great As inineined.
Ask the next. man you 111Vet whatnot
the proportion of cateeen ice great:
er or less in this then in vevioue
wars, and the odds are ten in one that
he will eromptly reply: ,,Greatew in.
finitely greater," But such a calcula-
Ibm 800,11:1 be quite wide of the Mark
It is estimated that the total death -
rate per annum in thie seer doee not
exceed five per cent, of Um total num-
ber of individuals, engaged, That iv
to say, the ehances getting
at the front, speaking generally, are
only four times greater than the
death-rato in this country, This cam -
partitively low percentage ie largely
accouuted for by the ineroased vest of -
taking life, ft take:: something
-seer tens or project to kill a
single soldier.
Other casualties are [deo consider-
ably leee in propoetion. Of the Allied
soldiers ninety-five per cent. of those
who reach the field hospit reeover,
and of Duna, who reneb the hese hos-
pitals ninetyseight per cent. reenver.
Then, again, the 1111 in of death!: liy dis.
Me hi Only 1050111 0110 to tseenty
Catil 1'1'0111 000111111,' ,11' ill hat t le,
41.11C1'11 Ft 111 f01`1110" 11111',1 the ratio tie:
about 20 0'1i donth,; room (ikonce.
ono in buil 10 ar (tow wound,.
qu,
The 10,e tie-pelt:dee method or
1, illi'g,01 .1 51,1011 ,,')l ,,oil iv if, ',Ise
vvon,,11 frr,i'iver to e'
ritr1Kv,1, and get el•nme in the 1
OP‘';' aos:.ible opportune! •
e.110.