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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-5-30, Page 6Runaway Julietta By Arthur Ilenry CHAPTER. IIT..-..(Contel.) 1"Not Wpri, contract ? It'a not cane "Yes. Curious, ien't it?" He rate Celled?, "I 0 ered them fleal thousenei del- fidence. "Say, a fellow nevla er knows jag, how to tahe 3,,,,, Mas Dare, peelags path U. cancel it. TheY refused," Imo huying here for the Pest yeare Juliette stared at hint M wondering and -well, of course were seen A incredulity. t ,ea greet deal a each other, haven't we ?"I sweado you aln, Thiele Patel? "Yes," the girl spoke almost re. You're not joking/' gretfully. Perkis hitched hie chair "Girl, you're a human wonder, 'pon closer. my sold you are! now ever did you "Not SP much as I'd like, just the get that contract?" same. No dinnerbies, no shows "Never miaci that," she retorted r pe --nothiecl If a guy wants to see irnpatientlY. "Tell me what's hap, y_oa ites-eight, here. Well, here I am,' pened, won't you?" You know me, Al; you know how 1, He leeched in the old hearty way, stand, you know my rating, you know and Juliette began to feel that it was pretty much All about. Me, and since, nothing so teriable after all. you'll only see rne here I'll call the "Those ,Taps are the trickiestelittle buff, I went you to do something for beggare on earth," he made answer. me, if you will. I "That contract was signed the even.- "Yes?" Juliebte's smile belled her , •ing before you sailed?" thoughts. "Something in the credit "Yes." Juliette took a paper from ... department?" her bag. "Here it is." Mr. Parkis barley repressed an ex- Morrow disregarded it. claniation. "Well, they slipped the word to the 4 on. "No. Something person -al. I'm a shoe combine that we were to get the "A coastal motor boat had visited • business man, and Pll be brief and to contract --understand? Before It WAS „her and hung a flare in her slack and the point I want you to marry me, signed, before I knew about it. Of rusty rigging, and that eye of un - Miss Dare-" course, the minute I got your cable I steady fire, paling in the blaze of star business woman, so while I went after the leather for that million shells or reddening through the drift of smoke, watched the whole great • enterprise from the moment when it hung in doubt to its ultimate triumph- ant success. , "The planning and execution of that success had been entrusted by Vice -Admiral Sir Robert Keyes to Commodore Hubert Lynes, who di- rected the previous attempt to block the harbor with the Sirius and Bril- liant. Upon that occasion a corn- binabion of unforeseen and unforesee- able conditions had fought against him. tied on, and <meekly regained bie eon -I Hie eyes twirdeleds LAST HOURS OF THE "VINDICTIVE" A PITTING nl'IP FOR BATTLE- • SCAftliBD CRUI$1::Bw Admiralty Story of Ostend Operation le Thrilling Account of Heroic Deeds of Naval Men. The Admiralty has termed the .fol- lowing graphic story of the Ostend operatien: "Denkirk, May 11. -The Sirius lies in the surf some 2,00treyards east of the entrance to Ostend arbor, which she failed so gallantly to block, and when in the early hours of yesterday Morning the Vindictive groped her way through the smoke screen and headed for the entrance it was as though the old fighting ship awoke thank you for the honor, I must do - cline." Parkis stared blankly. "I said, marry me," he repeated. shrinking from the realization. You The words and air brought a steely mean-" "The trust was tipped off in ad- vance. The contract was signed. The trust controls the tanneries --and we cannot get enough leather to fill that contract." Julietta's cheeks whitened. "But, Uncle Paul! Pll cable my friend the baron, and he'll have the contract cancelled. You know, I wrote you from Tokio about him-" "Poor little girl!" Marrow leaned forward suddenly and patted her hand. "You may know our kind, Juliette, but you don't know Japs. I thought of that when the trap pinch- ed, and I cabled the baron at once. Here's his reply." He took a cablegram from the desk, Juliette held it to the light, saw that it was signed by the baron, and ad- dressed to Paul. Its message was brutally curt: Unable cancel contract or extend time. Must be filled. "You see," went on Morrow, a world of ,sympathy in his voice as he saw Julietta's lips tighten, "it as a rapher. ;Juliette turned again to her slick game from the very start. They letters, staring at them with unsee- never wanted the shoes, but this baron pair of shoes. Well, there was no leather." "Eh?" She frowned, 'her brain /11 1 11. 5. 11. 11% 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. h 5.5. 1 5. spark into Julietta's blue eyes. "I heard' you," she returned coldly. "I said no." Parkis hesitated, rose, and stared down at her. A slow, dull red flood- ed his face. 'Huh! Been leading me on for my trade, eh?" "Good morning, Mr. Parkia." Juli- ebta turned to her letters and rang for the stenographer. Parkis moved toward the door. "Because you're old Marrow's pet, huh!" he flung back over his shoulder. "Got him pretty strong on you -ain't t true? Soft old gink, yah!" ,.The door slammed. Tho steno- grapher entered, and was amazed to see Miss Dare seizing an ink bottle as if about to fling it. Juliette set the bottle down, her cheeks flushed. "Please have a sample case made up for me immediately. It must be ready by to -morrow, because I'm tak- ing the Satsu Meru for Japan next Saturday." The door closed behind the stenog- Ing eyes. A disturbing incident was Mr. Parkis; a cruel, torturing incid- ent -but only an incident, •after all. Another woman might allow_his blunt words to dwell in mind, might argue from them wild theories, might un-. consciously allow the seed to bear un- happy fruit, but not so Juliette Dare. Resolutely she would sweep from her mind all thoughts of that petty man- forget•his words absolutely. Yet- yet-. "Iie nasty thing," she murmured, "hinting at such a thing about Paul Morrow." Her cheeks burned, she bit here lip. And suddenly again flashed upon memory's screen Clay Thorpe and his half -shy, half -defiant declara- tion of long ago: "-and.. then I'll marry you-". Juliette sat for a moment tense, resentful, wistful, then, with an im- patient, half -angry shrug, she turned her attention to .the day's work. CHAPTER IV. She Learns Some Hard Facts About Big Business Juliette had been sure that Paul Morrow would meet them in San Francisco upon their disembarkation. Both she and Mrs. Drake had ex- pected to spend a few days shopping in the Golden Gate city, but when no Morrow showed up and no word from him took his place, they boarded the night train for Los Angeles. A great urge drove Juiietta-an urge to be at her desk in the old brick buildipg in San Pedro Street, to hear Morrow's jovial "'Pon my soul!" again, to get back to the business which she loved. That had been a gorgeous moment some day make un to you for this when she had stepped into the cable office at Tokio to send Paul the new -this awful thing-' of triumph; second to it was her anticipation of the moment when she saw him again and heard hie con- gratulations. She had bound the Trufit Shoe Company to deliver one million paris of elms, and it was breath -taking to contemplate. Juliette felt that she had "made good" beyond all dispute. But why had there been no word from Paul Morrow? A freight wreck detained their train at Mojave for an interminable four hours. Toward the end the impatient Juliette sent Morrow a telegram, but they had started south again before any reply came. It was nearly noon before a taxi- cab deposited ,Tulietta in front of the big brick building in 'San Pedro Street. She paid the chauffeur, throwing in a fellow was in cahoots with our trust. If I had received the centred to sign I would naturally have arranged for the leather first. I should have done this anyway,but I did not think you'd land the business." "Then what -what does it means, Uncle Paul?" Morrow spread out his hands re- sinedly. "It means, -my dear, that we are sued for huge damages, or else we sell out to the trust, at their own price. We'll sell out of course, and at least escape with honor." That meant ruin for Paul Morrow, Julietta's face worked; the final word stung her with remembrance. "It's all my own fault," she said lifelessly, staring before her with tear -wet eyes. Her restraint gave way. With her arms about Morrow's shoulders she wept as she had not done in years, while he clumsily attempted to com- fort her and quell her tears. "Oh!" she cried out sharply, bitter- ly. "Swear at me -don't be kind, don't! Say something! Swear! Tell me what an ungrateful, silly lit- tle fool I am -I've ruined you-" Morrow placed his hands on her slim shoulders and looked into her eyes. "You've not ruined me, dear Juli- ette," he said, his voice deep and soft. "We'll hang together, my dear, and you can't ruin me ,so long as your eyes hold the old love for your U'nele Paul. And now tell me -do you want to go back to the San Joaquin and see your real folks, and Olay Thorpe?" "Never!" cried Juliette vibrantly. "I'll stay with you, Uncle Paul, and Morrow laughed, and cursed the leather trust with a more cheerful heart. (To be continued.) MUST FIGHT BRITISH NAVY. e so it was impossible to being her fur- ther eround. "After working the engines wane minutes Lieut, Cretehley gave the meter to elegy the engine rem and abandon ship, according to the pro. gremnie prevlouely WIDE FIELD FOR AEROPLANES. , • Many Are the-Usee to Which They • Will Serve When Peace Comes, Surprise Perfect. "Upon this, the main problem was to secure the effect of a surprise at- tack upon an enemy who was clearly, from his ascertained dispositions ex- pecting him. The Sirius and Brilliant had him baffled by the displacement of the Stroom Bank buoy, which marks the. channel to the harbor en- trance. But since then aerial recon- naissances had established that Ger- mans had removed the buoy alto- gether, and that there were now no guiding marks of any kind. They had also cut gaps in the piers as a pre- caution against a landing, and, fur- ther, when towards midnight on Thureday, the ships moved from their anchorage, it was known that some nine German destroyers were out and were at large upon the coast. Sea Power Would Come Into Play Should Land Forces Fall. "Grave as the military situation may be -whether the enemy offen- sive succeeds or whether it fails, it means that German plans are con- founded by sea -power," says a writer in a London newspaper. "They trusted to the U-boat to es- tablish the conditions of the land upon the Fiea. They risked the interven- smile as additional gratuity, tripped tion of the 'United States on the as - briskly up the steps, and entered the sumption that an unrestricted U-boat general office. She found therein weapon could prevent the latter from ever intervening with success. They would make us sue for peace in three months -in six -in nine. More than a strange air of lassitude, and it brought her to an astonished stand- still Something amiss! Everything in sight spelled it. No typewriters a year lute passed, We are no near- , clicked. The clerks were gathered er suing for peace than we were in in a little knot, or lazying idly in their February, 1917, and American troops chairs. One or two looked at Juliette are pouring into the European thea - and said something below their tor of war. breath; the girl went cold. "The consequence? That the issue At sight of her, 1VIr. Dolby, the of - a„ manager, came forward, Ho w must be decided by a knock -out blow. a stoop -shouldered titan with a wisp And the attempt to deliver that blow of gray hair falling over his green is the evidence that the U-boat cam - eye shane. "Good morning, Miss Dare. You've surprised us." Hie voice was color-, less. • "What's wrong?" Juliebta demand- ed quickly, "Mr. Morrow will doubtless explain, paign has failed in the estimation even of the Germans themselves. "Affairs on the Continent are pave enough. . . An enemy would over- look our coasts. But his power would stop at the water's edge unless he Regarding ehe use of aeroplanes in forest protection, it is interesting be learn that there are at least ten thouand airplanes in constant readiness for use on the Western front, with probably thrice that number of train- ed pilots, When the war broke out the principal European powers had elightly over three thousand trained military pilots. Hefore peace comes, provided the United States completes rte aviation programme, there will be not less than twenty thousand air- planes in comes -4[1 ' 0ton and probably sixty thousand trainedpilots. Is this vast capital investment to be of no value to civilization after the war? Are the pilots to go back to their for- mer occupation -wingless eaglets compelled to crawl on earth when they would fly in the upper blue'? Edgar 0. Middleton, a pioneer aviator, whose book "Airfare/ has recently been published by Constable & Company, and deals in a very thor- ough way with the airplane, the sea- plane, and the airship in peace and war, is convinced that great aerial fleets will be built up after the war not only for the transportation of passengers and mails, but of certain classes of freight, including silks, spices, tea, furs, ivory, and similar valuable commodities. He even out- lines the principal aerial trade routes from London to the East and South, the Western route across the Atlan- tic having still to be tried out: The Atlantic stretches are too wide to permit of airplanes as at present operated carrying either passengers or mails, the entire lifting capacity being required for the petrol neces- sary for the journey. An illustration of the route to Cape Town from London by the West African aerial service is thus pre- sented by Lieut. Middleton: Allowing a minimum average of 110 miles an hour, with light wind, and half an hour for each landing, an airplane leaving London at 8 on a Monday morning would keep the following time -table: London, 8 a.m., Monday. Paris, 10 a.m., Monday. Bordeaux, 1 p.m., Monday. Gibraltar, 8 p.m., Monday Fez, 9 p.m., Monday. Lagos, 5.90 p.m., Tuesday. Loango, 2 a.m., Wednesday. Johannesburg, 8 p.m., Wednesday. Cape Town, 4 a.m., Thursday. Total time London -Gape Town 2 dap), 20 hours. By steamer, via Fun- chal, the time taken is three weeks, which gives an advantage of two and a half weeks. Another route to Cape Town would be London -Paris -Lyons - Rome - Alexandria - Ankobar - Mom- basa - Zanzibar - Bulwayo-Johannes- burg-Cape Town. Night Favorable. 'The solution of the problem is best indicated by the chronicle of events. It was a night that promised well for the enterprise -nearly windless -and what little breeze stirred came from a point or so west of north. The sky was lead blue, faintly star -dotted, with no moon and a still sea for small craft, motor launches and coastal mo- tor boats, whose work was done close inshore. "Frqm the destroyer which served the commodore for a flagship the re- mainder of,the force were visible only as silhouettes of blackness -the de- stroyers looming like cruisers in darkness, the motor boats like de- stroyers, and the coastal motor boats showing themselves as lading hillocks of foam, Plodding for Goal. "From Dunkirk a sudden brief flurry of gunfire announced that Ger- man airplanes were about. They were actually on the way to - visit Calais, and over the invisible coast of Flanders the summer lightning of restless artillery rose and fell mono- tonously. 'There's the Vindictive!' Muffled seamen and marines standing by torpedo -tubes and guns turned at that name to gaze at the great black ship seen mistily through the screen- ing smoke from the destroyers' fun- nels, plodding silently to her goal and end. Photographs had made familiar that high -sided profile, her tall fun- nels with Zeebrugges scars, always with the background of the pier at Dover'against which she lay to be fitted for her last task. Nor was add- ed to her the environment of night and sea and the greatness of the tragedy of he l• mission. In Smoke Screen. "She receded into the night astern, as a destroyer raced on to lay a light buoy that was to be her guide, and those on board saw her no more. She passed thence into the hands of the small craft whose miesion was to guide her in the clouds of a smoke screen. "After her control was demolished by a shell which killed all the occu- pants, including Sub -Lieut, Angus 17 MacLachlan, and the upper and lower bridges and the chartroom, Comman- der Goclsal ordered the officers to go with him to the conning tower. They observed through the observation slit in the steel wall of the conning tower that the eastern pier was breached some two hundred yards from the sea- the gun and inflicting tremendous losses. He was eventually killed by ward end, as though at some time a a bomb which blew up both him and ship bad been in collision with it. They saw the front of the town ell- the g44' honetted agnin and again in the light of the guns that blazed at them, The night wee a patchwork of fire and Meals From Eels. PLANT A WAR -TIME GARDEN. Europe is short about 500,000,000 bushels of wheive. The United States and Canada are 84,000,000 buthele be- hind in their ochedule of Shipments from this continua to relieve the thortage. The surplus was used up long ago, Every bushel that we' now use ie snatched directly from people who aro infinitely more needy than we. This veer we must substitute vegetables far bread, We can do it, Canada's war gardens hut year added to the wealth of the state upwards of 80,0Q0,000, It is hoped that the pro- duction will be doublet' tide year. Even the soldiers are making gardens be- hind the lines. Why shouldn't we line up, too, whether we live in city or in the country? It is our plain duty. The beet workman must have good tools if he Is going to make a success of things. The spade, hoe, garden rake, trowel and digging fork are the chief teas needed in gardening. Nar- row hoes and rakes are best for emelt ge.rdens. Have a place to keep your tooleeand when you are through with tlfiin see that you. put 'them away in the proper place. Provide a eoft rag and a box of soft grease like axle grease for rubbing over the blades of THE V.C. FOR DEAD HEROES. Men Who Were Killed Checking As- sault of Germans. Acts of almost superhuman hero- ism characterized deeds for which five Victoria Crosses have been awarded recently. Three of the red- pients are dead. The following in- stances are typical: Second Lieutenant B. C. Cassidy, late of the Lancashire Fusiliers; Dur- ing the hostile attack, when the flank of his division was endangered, Lieu- tenant Cassidy, who was commanding a company in close support, carried out in the noblest manner and to the letter orders that he must hold the position to the last. The enemy came on in overwhelming number's endeav- oring to turn the flank. He, however, continually rallied his men under a terrific bombardment. The enemy was several times clear- ed out of the trench by his personal leadership. The company was event- ually surrounded, but Cassidy fought on, encouraging and exhorting the men until he was killed. Hie moat gallant conduct held up the whole at- tack at this point and undoubtedly saved the left flank from possible disaster. Private H. G. Columbine, late of the machine gun corps: Owing to casual- ties Columbine took command of a gun and kept firing from 9 o'clock in the morning until 1 o'clock in the afternoon in an isolated and unwired position, beating back successive en- emy waves. An attack by a low-fly- ing airplane finally enabled the enemy to gain a footing in a trench on either side. The position being untenable, Col- umbine ordered the two remaining men to get away, and, although bomb- ed from either side, he kept on firing the spade and the hoe and the work- ing.pacets of the toots most frequently used. Rust weans out wee tools than use and makes work more labor- . Ona of the first consideratioas of the 'gardener Is fertilizer, The come Mon mieta.ke of the amateur gardener le to place Me vide fettle In iihe com- mercial commodity. Wherever pee- eeble he ;should procure farmyard ma- nure, This is used at the libcperi- mental Farm, Ottawa, with the beat results. In planning the 1018 garden the time thing to Mite into considenetion is *a feet that it is a war -term gar. den and that the vegetables which must receive) primary &tame= are those which are going to ho genuine subetitutes for wheat, The logical substitute is the potato. Therefore, everyone should grow petatoee this year. They repay, themselves aver and over scale). Ginn° an giving them the major part of the tfarden. Every seed shouid be made to count this year because seed is scarce. Every plant in les place is as gold - but every surplus plant is a weed. The amateur gardener has a weakness for using more seed than is absolutely necessary. Less -Wheat Bread. The patriotic duty of every Cana- dian woman is to help nave wheat. This every one can do if we will sub- stitua in whale or in part such cereals as oats, corn or buckwheat are well as potatoes or rice In all receipts using wheat. Oatmeal Muffins. -1% cupfuls milk, 2 cupfuls rolled oats, 1 egg, 2 table- spoonfula moles:see, 1 tablespoonful melted fat, 1 cupful flour, 4 teaspoon- fuls baking powder, % teaspoonful salt. Pour hot milk over the rolled oats, let soak one-half hour. Add the beaten egg, molasses and melted tat. Sift the dry ingredients and add to the wet. Beat hard and bake in well- greaeed muffin tins one half hour in a moderate oven. This makes about one dozen muffins. Super Corn Cake. -1% cupfuls corn meal, 2 cupfuls sour milk, 1 teaspoon- ful soda, % teaspoonful baking pow- der, 1 teaspoonful salt, egg, 2 tea- epoonfuls melted fat, 'Mix together the soda, baking powder. corn meal and salt. Beat the egg and add to the sour -milk. Then add the wet materials to the dry. Heat a frying pan over the first and grease thor- oughly. Turn in the evellebeaten bat- ter, set in a hot oven and bake twenty minutes. Cereal Griddle Cakes. -I cupful darkness. The first war -time eel farm k own- -e Conning 'rower Mt, ed by the Thames Conservancy, who, wheat lends, which for obvious pre - Mile Dare," . . could annihilate our fleets. To sub- "Trnmecliately after passing the not to be behindbend in patriotic on- mane fifty reasons nre left uncultivat- "Then. there is something wrong!" due Jeritain theyhave to fight her en breach in the pier, Commander God- cleaver, have just Plleellesed 800,000 eft, but, 7 tinve not seen any fallow . „ . , ,, , Juliette swept Tata hire and entered the element which lees been her own sat left tale conning tower and -went on (deers,. or eel spawn, to replenish the land which has not been turned over the elevator. milk, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful mei* fat, 1% cupfuls cooked cereal, note - toes or rice, lie cupful flour, 34, tea- spoonful salt, 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat the egg and add the milk and melted fat. Beat this into the cooked cereal, then add the flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together. Beat thor- oughly and bake on a hot, well greas- ed griddle. Preparing For Canning Season. Regulations have been put into force which are expected to effect an annual saving, in Canada's sugar con- sumption of about 100,000 tons. These restrictions sea absolutely nee - easier), if we are to have the sugar with which to conserve our fruit crop duringthe summer period. There is sugar in Cuba but the ships to carry it are required else- where. We have been using far more sugar than we need and, while the re- fetrictions have been imposed primar- ily in order to prepare for the require- ments of the preserving season, a cur- tailment of sugar consumption will in- volve HUN. hardship but will be con- ducive to individual health and, at the same time, will help to reduce our ex- penditure abroad, thus assisting in financing our participation in the war. FRANCE AIMS AT BIG WHEAT CROP UNUSED LANDS EXPECTED TO HELP RELIEVE SCARCITY. Plan to Take Agriculturists From the Army is Favored Though Noe Possible Just Yet. No economic subject is of more im- portance to the French than that of wheat and bread. Crop conditions have much to do with the tempera- ment of the French workman and cap- italist alike. The French are doubtless the great- est eaters on earth, and this means wheat bread, end white if they can get it, which at the present time they cannot. It is said that the only towns in France where white bread still exists are those in which British and American troops are quartered. Senator Fagot of the invaded De- partment of the Ardennes, a big scale farmer himself, has given to the pub- lic some remarkable observations re- cently on the state of the wheat pos- sibilities of France of the future. Frankly he admits climatological and meteorological elements which are be-\ yond the power of man to control, and, for this reason all the skill of the mod- ern inventor should be exerted to beat nature when it comes to adverse con- ditions. He proposes three Blaine proce- dures to accomplish this: Increase the acreage, increase the quantity of farm labor, either manual labor or tractors, and increase the quantity and effi- ciency of fertilizers used, His own personal views are worthy alt French farmers' consideration. He eays in part: Big Increase Possible. "It is quite possible for us to in- crease our wheat lands in France, as imitable soil in quantity is still uncul- tivated. Driven from my own region by the invaders, I have not been able to learn what might be done there in tine respect, but I have taken the op- poitunity of studying other regions of our belle France, 1 have seen vast foe n. hundred yeats o' more, and deck, the better to watch the ship's Themes, says en English writer. In an effort to produce some sort of a She fouled :Paul Morrow Fleeted in whhh experience in this war has movements. He chose a poeition, and Melly other districts ere following trap where cultivation had been prat. his creaky hairone listlesely on the desk, ,big hand lying is eyea festen shown to be as muth her own as aver. called in Thof rough the elit -the ran- snor it, in der ilia this rich and used bolure, c, --------- "'rhere is no need 10 Anticipate that ning *tower his order to starboard the trieive food should yield tie !Le wiliest 111 is probable that 0118 uncultivnt- the Germans will succeed in 'over- ed. lend is less favereble to admit whehning our armiee, But should growing than the other, which is al - they clo so, the effect will be that sea. reedy growipg grain, end tido is per. power will come fully into play, and haps the chief eritirlam, Dui; till the that; its effeete, no* hidden, will be same these limb sheeld be put Into geed 1814 5000 as potssible, in the near future til any vitte,°' As for the quemtlon ef farm labor, the authority is of the opiniou that ns ninny farmer • tiddlers es possible should he deinohilited to aid the wo- men and the old tones, who 1110 large- ly ensponeible for Emelt tvheat crops its are being grown, Vie admits (het cir- eumatentees of the moment may not. allow this, but &mane,. that the pro - Piet shoulil have. mor- -1 evide.atIori time it heti bad up to now. ed on the window unseeingly. At eight of Juliette, in the doorway he sprang to his feet, "'Pon toy soul! You!" "Yds, me!" cried the girl joyfully, her hands in hie, "Why didn't you Meet us in 'Frlsc.o? Did you get ex& wire from Mojave?" 7 "I --that is.--" Ile colored, and she made haste to beeak in. ! "Oh, I know something has gone ; wrong! What is it,, Uncle Paul? Why 1 didn't you have tune to think about "I did think a lot about you," he ;mid with a sudden laugh, lulietta sat flown and began to To-, ove her gloves. She was conscious .pmi tasty, tincoyA oltstyle. ti sure to hole ironing tablas ref helm. The Vindictive responded and laid her battered nose to the eastern pler and prepared to swing her feet of length across the channel. "It at tl I moment that a shell during these Lan rime Elmore -on -Severn was the pre-war home of many German fish ageda. Their business It was to purchase young eels nt a small cost frown localengem, engem, to despatch them to (humilityforfsttteiiung, for fettelling, and then to re -sell Britain's own produce to Billingsgate ashinongers. A novel Ides, and one which repaid the Gorman anihoritles who financed Ibis schema over and over again, SS much ns 7200,000 n yen being made out of it. Tbat we could °redly "row n111' own oohs" has been proved Iwy Ilie prolific oel centres which abound Nose at 8ucli as In Norfolk and the Pon Coun try. immediately seen, The Germeris will from the shorn hatterieti struck the reach no eleelsiene however victorious conning tower, T.eciet. Sir John Al - their emits may be, until they have leyn end Lieut. V. A. G Crutchley reckoned with and overcome the force were etill within, Commander Gathell which is incalculable to theie gen- erale, "That is the fact which the people of thle country must come to meg- trite, lt they would get ie real mules. standiog of the position." • 1. 001a ill it?" oho demanded calmly. cmforbable 11(4114, Was close to the tower outside, Lieut, Alleyn was stunned by the shock. Lieut. Crutchley shouted through the to the commander, and receiving no answer, rang for port engine full Speed adtern, to help the twinging Ship. By this tine she was lying at an angle of about 40 degrees to the pier and seemed to be hard tied test, THE SACKING OF LOUVAIN. Brand,•Whitlook Describes Dentrue.) , • — Aloe and Murder by Germans. Brand Whitioek, former -Unite States ambassador, says in a rowan article that some of the 1300neil he ha been familiar with in Belgium simpl appal the imagination. Thosio wh read his description of Louvain's fate will -understand his point of vieee. ts "All over the eity the soldiers bel f(an ring Wildly at the faoadeo the closed houtme; the people ran 1. their cellars in terror; the soldier beat in the doors, turned the people into the street, shot them down, se fire to the houses. There ware rider. less horses galloping about; a mad, a blinddertIonaio rage seemed to have iatd hold on the Germ ' ans and they went through the streets kill. Mg, slaying, burning. and looting, tor- turing and manacling, and for thre terrible days the vast and awful tragedy wee enacted. "The people were assembled ini tragic groups between the totteringi walla of burning houses; marcheti through choking, suffocating litres* that were strewn with the dead bodies: of men and of horses, the women and! children weeping, screaming, implor.1 ing, and the soldiers compelling them! to walk with their hands up, or mak-i ing them kneel, or run, or kicking) them, or striking them with their fists or with the butts of their guns,' herding them through the streets, in the midst of -the smoking ruins; while other soldiers, with wine bottles under g ; their arms, went reeling past, cryin out at the captives: 'undl Scheweinl. Schweinhund!' "And so, for another day and an-, other night the madness went on, the, murder, the looting, the sacking, the riot .and the burning and the instil with soldiers pillaging the houses,' bearing the wine in great baskets out of the cellars, to be guzzled in the' street, while men and woman and' children were shot down and their' bodies left to lib in gutters, or on the' smoking ruins, or thrown into foul cesepools." There Was a Reason. A farmer who lived in a certain rural village had twenty employes on his farm, end as none of them were as energetic as the farmer thought they should be, he hit upon a plan which he believed would euro them of their lazy habits, "Men," he said, one morning, "I have a nice easy job for the laziest man on the farm. Will the laziest man step forward?" Instantly nineteen of the men etep- ped forward. "Why didn't you step to the froni with the rent?" enquired the farmer of the remaining one. "Too much trouble," was the reply, Changes Wrought by War. A veritable revolution in the pro- cesses of French agriculture is certain if France is to bring back her wheat crop from thirty-eight or forty mil- lion quintaux to something more than double. Argentinian, and American and Australian crops are keeping the Frenchman supplied with his daily bread at present, but with the diffi- culties of transport and other econo- mic conditions the bread is getting darker and darker every day from the addition of ether ingredients. Butter is the natural accessory of bread, though the French never eat bread and butter as Amercana do All the same, for the average person it was the accompaniment of the morning breakfast roll. Now et too Is absent from the hotel and restaurant Help yourself and yourcountry be table and allowed to be used only for buying War Savings Certificates. cooking in these establishments. It has gone the way of soft cheese& It is still to be found in the shops, as are the cheeees. The argument in this plan of rationing is that the home feeder will have it at his disposi- tion, and if he likes he may take a pat of it to his restaurant, as he does his lump of sugar, but he may not or- der it in a restaurant, not even as a hors d'ceuvre, of which it usually formed a part. The same bread ration of the re- staurant -100 grammes if your meal costs six francs, about a dollar at the present exchange -is supposed to make possible under the present diffi- cult conditions of revitaillement giv- ing every house dweller his regular 800 grammes a day. The war has brought many changes in habits, but none more notable than this in bread - eating France. Poppies are difficult to transplan.t, Sow the seed where the plants are to '11oWer. t 11 itotri Fepoo-mee ittecoing et., I P. P.U. Uortior nualnAlurga ratImolu us wall en moil poultry. 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