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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-8-8, Page 6„s• A -Positive Luxury iNlinfusiotv Pure Tea, without admixture • of Aay Kind, fortignjo its growth, .•,..41M91•TIF PRINCE OFWALES Curtly of a job at headquartere van” rest till he bad got bineselt ettethed ginfatallad 110 would net • M DEST 'RETIRING wn tu a !Wilting divisiou, had 00110 duty Iii the trenolos, and hud leerned et SLP a AWAY TO BATTI-EFFIONT Oat _hnd 'what It is to be shot over, rotwn wlm know Iffee best tell ine UNANNOUNCED. that the °blot (Mange wrought in nim by -_-- the NM` 1P an added couildeeee and Selarellunee. And Yet on one fike my - Heir go British Throne Passed His ear, giro It I. , . t, me t hl m, 8 °MY receu iy in, the lira imPreesiou be Makes te that aVacetIon" in InspectIne War Plaets. of being yoneefor hie years, The last Crimea of hie boyhood show them. ""rlie Prince of Wales," said the solved in a certain diflidenee of 108t1 - Court Circular, "ettended by Captain neis a diffidence, bowever, delightfully the Lord allatul N, Hamilton,' (Orem,- in keeping with his fresh young taco, his frank geze, and a total lack or any tiler Guard), bail left the Palace on hie , kind of efrectation, Tbe Prince will return to the front," The event, and the ,anuolincemen1 of he none the worse roe maturing late. tie has, f should judge, an obseyvant it only Otos 11 had happened, were characteristic of the way the members mind tied his father'e habit of think. in eir Isttigwflyor 11%111;1)1f, leaanidn 1111 all letibitemsmolifee of the roeel faulty go about duties, sari a Leaden correepondent. If ever these was 1111 occasion that thoroughiS._,0 lent itself to imputes' appeal this as- suredly was one, The thought of the A SEEMING MIRACLE, 13y Arthur Henry Gooden , CH AinER XV.—(Cont'cl.). I log grimly, and from. his peciset drew Julietta teak from her blouse the a typewritten paper deed, as yet unrecorded, a ) " • . rasned proem crisis or Brittsb histcey 5 e• "" thI , Burt.'1 heir to the British throne in this, su- g' . "I'm glad, Uncle Jim," she said, her What dye mean? Burt, voice trenibling a little, 'that—that his ariii savagely. "Come—open all 1 turning to the front Ip , resume his that to do it --P11 be ruined!" gotshare ot the perils of the mightiest I was right in thinking as 1 did about Your gatee, you men ! You've Maggie has no right to call this place . e "We don't nate a hg if ye are, struggle in humau annals Is one to you. Auntie 800111$ to think her hohe extended the Paper t0 me but I think she's mistaken. ruined, snarled Dsan. 'We've saved move all men's hearts and imagine - your worthless hide—that's all. Sign Hons. Had the people of London Wurrell, quietly. 1 thiBs hisurmurewe'll in limp sur- • S • "Will you glance at this, please 1 1 render, then scrawled his name under It's a deed showing that I have trans- those of the ranehers. ferred all my right, title, and interesti, When. he finished he looked up, a in this ranch to Maggie and her baby. . 1 terrible expression on his face. It's perfectly legal." I "Did—" he licked his lips nervous - "I'm all shook up," murmured Mrs.: ly and went on: "Did ye see Jake Rob- Wuerell, and fainted. bins? He went by us down there. In the parlor a little later Worrell The water had him." relinquished the baby to her mother,. Juliette turned away, to find Clay's known beforehand that he was go ng they would gladly have thronged the streets, to give Ulm a send-off that, while local in form, would have been national In the realms behind it. The Prince, had he cbosen, could have driven from the paten to the station between cheering and eanuMastic crowds, the central figure in a popu- lar pageant, and could have started on his momentous journey with the good and sat down heavily. protecting .arm about her. the ranch, Lizzie," he said chilly. wishes of his fellow countrymen ring - "I'm glad you—you found out about t At the late brealcfast table next t "I've aded like a crook—but—but it morning Wurrell came in and gave tag in au aara. Juliette, weary and heartsick, a yel- come on hatisnot,his v by degrees; I never just I low envelope. th:uv,t,atyoriteihjoussy 11 is eaowindsnmo.!: thought how it'd seem—well, there Tuliette took the telegram, and felt a load off in rey mind, girl. don't a5 though a cold hand had clamped ll, is not the British way, There was "Never mind, TJnele Jim. Now 1 di4w1A-al.01:Pe°1,11a aVer heart. With trembl-ino display, no bid for applause, noth- know--" opened it, and was not ing that could even remotely suggest about—" 1 surprised to find 11 a lengthy message, eelf-advertiseinent. The 'Prince slip - "That ain't all," he continued. "I 'ent with utter disregard of chasges: i ped away unannounced and unnoticed, got a note Andy Burt give your dad 6 Just like any ordinary o111001', and the afore he died and it rightly belongs I once told you that I would some i public did not even know he WO.8 go- ing until he wee gone. to youi I'll go get it for you 001V, clay have my own y'ay with you. This He rose,but Juliette caught him in time your Uncle Paul wins. Helen a swift, vigorous hug. Drake and I were married this even - A little after eight that evening Ing. We are leaving immediately for two cars drove into La Vine. In the 1 Honolulu. Wire us congratulations foremost was Clay Thorpe and Worst at Frisco. rell. In the second sat Dean, Juliette,' Uncle Paul. and another rancher. The petition had been duly signed, and the 0om-1 l'Bad news?" demanded Wurrell, • mittee appointed by the ranchers was , iously. losing no time in presenting it to I "Look out, she's gong to faint!" Andy Burt. • I cried Mrs. Wurrell. "You do the Wild's', Thorpe," said • Julietta shook her head, end slowly Dear; grimly. Cis'nbdded and pounded vigorous - rose. "What—" she paused, then a smile ly at the door. It was opened by an broke over he face, and the color Oils seat In the House of Lorde; he old woman, 13urt's housekeeper. flooded into her cheeks. "What did: has become Inevitably a public agave time we held bini in bed. ITIS cora "Is Mr. Burt in?" you say the Thorpe ranch numbed in whom rdl are interested; these Is stant remarks were: 'Where are niy "No." The woman eyed them nod-was,l Uncle Jim? I—I want to call I a keen desire Lo arrive at some de-, boot? Where is my gun? 1 want to finite impression of his character and kill those de—(1 Bodies.ternpe' r ment "As he became clearer he was told No one doubts that the Prince is that he never could go back to the shaping more than well. ft would be treadles, as he had only one eye and soup, make another good filling. i t customary allowance on fruit, cereals. odd if hs were not. Born into one of was deaf In one car. But he rejoin. another is cucumber chopped with the and desserts. Ordinarily we use 1601 11 naturally a fight. The strongest Ole happiest, least ostentatious, hard- ed; 'if I had two eyes, 1 should shut est -working households in the land, one to look down my gun and shoot.' the son of a rather whose whole life is He was so set on going back that, governed by a sense of duty and of a seeing the circumstances, the King granted. him special leave to return.ss 'Since then he has served two clearly as in these grim days, he began years in the front line of trenches, life under the soundest and most been wounded and In hospital twice, wholesome auspices. Itis education but always returning to duty." continued and confirmed the good him. "There ts no Place in the world," PAY FOR Ml?NDING ONVN SHOES., tomato paste (such as is used with hill Canning Centre, which donated', reign triumphant? start that birth and heredity had giveu gal . no 1 epaghetti), sardines pounded to a for shipment overseas and local mine: "Life M war—all of life that is. ' tar hospitals $4,500 worth of canned healthy. Peace is only sthiving foe goods, and the Ontario Department of ' mastery with other weapone. Thnt Agriculture has worked out a conerete I is the law of nature." Osborne and then at Dartmouth, into e plan similar to the one tried at Perk -1 "So every one will light until every 1110 strict democracy of the British Germany has become very serious. A' It has been discovered that flies hill lent year. In each case a com-: one is de dr navy; and the lessons in orderliness, substitute for - leather is now used! are very sensitive to certain odors mittee appointed by the executive of i "Theweakest will go under. They self•restraint and duty that a boy which 0 a composition of wood and! and that they will take pains to avoid the local Women's Institute will be in are the disease. The strongest will there learns—apart from Lhe supreme old and used leather, but even this has l places where they prevail. charge. The Provincial Government live; and after that the stronger and lesson that being e Prince is not ' become scarce. There was so much i Lavender is one of these odors. Buy Institute, through the Branch will nay • stronger, till there is perfect health." every-thing—are of the kind that last, profiteering in this substitute that the• 5, cents' worth of oil of lavender at for the equipment, will send a demons! "But it may be that Pulsate will and that insensibly form character government has, prohibited shoe deal-; the drug store, mix with an equal grater to assist in starting the work ' keep a few slaves?" along honest and manly lines. Ox• ers frem selling it, and it can now be amount of water and spray from a and will render further assist -mice AS I "Certainly," said tho German. ford and Paris and the specialised In- obtained only at government stations.. common glass atomizer in places occasion demands from time to Hine,' "Those who care not to fight that they tensive training that all in his post- The Bremer Burger Zeitung protests: where flies collect. Further information may be secured: may rule are in their nature slaves." tion have to undergo, completed the bitterly against this prohibition in al This odor, which flies find so ob- by writing to the Institute Branch,. i "I had had enough of it," the officer Prince's education, or the formal part long editorial, and says that, instead' noxious that it quickly drives them Parliament Building's, Toronto. ' concluded. "It was nauseating. But of it, and turned Mut out a good aver- of working for the good of the publicri — ------"----''''' - - •—• - ' - 1 the man was genuine in his beliefs it has really created another hardship.' DESPATCH -RIDING By that time there was enough of it . snd so obsessed by his elementary aboard to neeessitate a month In bos- :11011021 of virility that it was a waste pita', wondering how the road to Hill of time to argue with him. His con- -- would look when I got across a " (-options were quite Millie. and not a saddle again. ' doubt assailed him. The hideous —as-- ' world of his vision seemed to him a 'eas I 1 natural and a gloriony world." Why He Was Thankful. Two Tonunies lied their dugout I, blown in on top of them. Al first It i Birds' Nests For Soup. looked as if they must have been l lcilled, but we worked like demons to I The birds' nests from which till dig them out In the hope of finding I far-famed ChilleSe SOUP is made are them EdiVO. A iter a quartet of a n l built by a species of swallow that hour we mannged to drag them out abounds on the coasts of j eve, Ceylon, covered with bruises and unconscious, and Borneo, and consists of a gola. but whole. We tried artincial reSpira-; tinoes substance obtained from 10141' tion, brandy, and all sorts of things, . ine plants. The Pests are bullet At last they came round, and one of , either in chicken broth or in mins g themegyve had always thought him a : almonds, and the essnit very meal bit a a weed before—turned round : resembles vermicelli soup, except tha! to the other where he lay and gasped; it is far more costly. "Man, yon's gran.' D'yo ken, we've escapit th' afternoon fatigue." . • Remarkable Case of Endurance of the Human Body. • SIMPLE SANDWICH FILLINGS, Sandwiches are in such constant de- away, is very pleasant and refreshing' mend for the picnic basket, the tea to most people, As the mixture is tray and the luneheon box that new harmless to everything but flies (1 11111 kinds, if they are good, are always be sprayed freely firound the dining may peove useful; ' Other odors which flies don't relish welcome, The following suggestions' NOM, on the table linen, etc, Greer' Butter,—Feesh, or green, but are those of geranium, mignonette, ter makes an excellent foundation ma -1 heliotrope, white cloves, honeysuckle Unity'. Beat half a pound of new, un-: and hop bloseoins. salted butter to a cream and add aI .A French scientiet claims that files Nothing in the waris more amazing than the resistance or frail human mechanism to the 11.101it terrible wounds that steel and load can make. An :English nurse 1010 89.W some hard service la a Belgian fleld hospital, througb which streams of wounded were continually pouring, tells Of the remarkable case of Jean Lassoux, brSish maker of Liege, "He' was brought into our ward On a stretther, with his head enswatbed In blood-stathed bandages. A bullet had gone through his left eye, • dam- aged part of the brain, and come out by the right ear, • "The surgeon said nothing could be done 101' him at present; he meet Just fie still and the bandages which had been applied lu the trench must not be touched. He was profoundly unconscious and breathed heavily. We though he was dying. t. "As he lay there In. tbut pitiful con- dition, the Colonel of the regiment 108.8 announced, with. other officers. Opening a little leather...carte, he took out the highest order of the Belgian Ariny, the "Premier Order of Leo- pold" and pinned It on the wounded MOD'S shirt, placing by hire a long parchment on which were enrolled the eagle of his reghnent, congratula- tions on his bravery, and records of a list of brave deeds which won Idle honor 510(1 dist I action." "Seim WEIS with tut for weeks; bis brain was not normal, even when he left us. Duringathe first part of the Character and Temperament. The Prince or Wales must have listen back With him many pleasant recollections of his leave 111 England. Tho last few weeks have 'brought him as 'closely in touch with the people at home as the last three years and more Wive brought him in touch with the soldiers the front. He bas visited Wales, Cornwall, the Clyde, hospitals and munfficm winks; he has taken • sent4gi 's ere CLEANS-DISINFECTS—USED-FOR SOFTENING WATER—FOR MAKING i HARD AND SOFT SOAP —MI a DIRECTIONS WItli f.P.,,,C11 CAN. "is gill of thick (meant that has been, have an intense dislike for blue, and EgiA CONOIIEST whipped stiff, If the butter Is to be I, that roma decorated in this celor are , used alone, add little salt, mustard I niuell more likely to be free from these and Cayenne pepper; otherwise, leave' dangerone insect pests. 111, unseasoned. Chopped parsley, Another good way of getting rid of chives, mint or nasturtiume rubbed flieti)s to mix a tablespoonful each of into green butter make a savory ! cream, black pepper And brown sugar, sandwich Ailing,. Water eress =Reif I Put this in sEtumennd darken the another good coinbination with the I room except for the one window in butter. Pick the small, green leaves which the saucer is placed. from the Sterne of a handful "of water Pyrethum powder furnishes anah- cress and chop thept in a wooden chop- i er effective weapon to use against files, ping bowl; then mix them with uni Burning a little of this stupefies them seasoned green butter in the proper- ee that they can be swept up and tion of one part butter and two putts burned. cress. For a refreshing fruit -and - butter filling cut an orange into very small Pieces, skin and all, and add smell quantity of sugar. Mix orange and butter, half and half, and stir In a Save The Sugar. • There are still some women in Canada who do not seem to be aware that it is against the law to make ie- unaulterated Prussian -ism 51111 55l5 1 ing from cane sugar. 'It is surely . in the German ranks the conclusion teaspbonful of lemon juice just before • you are to use the mixture, apparent to anyone who is in the habit of one rBitish officer who has inter - GRIPS GERMANS PRISONERS CONFIDENT THAT NATION WILL TRIUMPH. Prussia to Build New and Virile civtlizatimi on the Ruins of The Old. Despite their for years of fight- reas. ing seine of the German prisoners of war gill are obsessed by the German idea of conquering the world. That Picnic Butter.—The following is a good substitute for peanut butter, ;which cannot always be bought fresh in warm weather, Put a pint of pea- nuts and half a pint of almonds— bought ready-shelled—into a dish, pour boiling water over them and bit them stand for five minutes. At the end of that time drain off the water and add more; then dip the nuts out, a few at a time, and remove the skins by rubbing the nuts gently between the fingers. Boil the two kinds of nuts separately in salad oil, and when they are well browned salt them gen- ously. "Ain't come about, the dam, have ye?" "Eh?" qv -aged Clay "The dam? What dam?" "Why, about ten minutes ago a man — come in with word that somethin' was Si ome Po nts About a Diabolical Inven• wrong with the reservoir—Jake Rob-: tion of a German Chemist. bine, I think it was. He and Anclyi hustled off together in Andy's ear."1 Gas, the most diabolical horror of • Up in the hills behind town was the modern war, was first employed by reservoir which controlled the waters the Germane on April 22nd, 1911. mother whose warnaheartecluess and practicality have never shone forth so Clay. (The end.) e• — POISON GAS. of buying cakes that substitutes, Had viewed a number 0 re chiefly maple syrup, are now being One of them he describes as "en le- nsed by all the bakers. telligent university man." The Here is a simple recipe for maple British officer quotes their converse - icing which should serve for special tion as follows: occasions, although there is very lit- "I do not wish to insult you, said tle excuse now for any kind of icing the Geeman, "bet you English are on cakes: 2 cups maple or corn syrup, well -intended fools. We W110 govern 2 teaspoons shortening., 1 egg white. in Germany are not like you. We Boil ayrun until it spins a thread. Add govern the fools; the fools govern shortening. Pour slowly over beaten you white of egg. Beat until stiff enough "Your principles are sweeping," Te- te spread on cake. plied the Briton. "To come down to There is no question about it—mere practice what have you to say about sugar must be saved by individuals in the guilt of beginning the war?" erously on a platter. Next, put them their homes. "Guilt?" demanded the German; "it Candy manufacturers have had was a glory. I claim it for Ger- through a food chopper, twice with the' largest knife and 'then twice with the, their sugar allowance cut by 50 per num " smallest. Mix two tablespoonfuls o. • cent. 1 Bakers and cake and biscuit salad oil with the paste and put it, manufacturers have all had restrie- away in small jelly tumblers, protect - 1 thins laid upon them. Limitations ed by paraffin on top. When y.°11 are 1 have been placed on private holdings ready to use the mixture, stir two; of sugar. tablespoonfuls of thick cream into al These measures have been as effec- teacupful of it. I tive as 'CMS expected. But more is Vegetable Filling.—Many common asked of the individual in the way of garden vegetables make delicious fill- volentary denial. ings for sandwiches. ' Asparagus or. is God. There is no other. Press tender green peas mashed, and corn- the use of the sugar bowl. We want will rend the veil of the temple, .but : That is to say --let us be sparing In blued with melted butter, vinegar and she will destroy to create. Against all we can get for the canning season. seasoning make an appetizing. It will help if we stop taking sugar ' Prussian might the werld as it ex - "spread" for sandwiches. Lima beans, ists to -day will fall in ruins, but run through a sieve to remove the ourselves to one level teaspoonful. It . i will build a better and more in tea 011d coffee or at least confine pauss.a skins and mixed with canned tomato vile world in its place, Strength . will also help if we cut in half our 1 on.y I will survive. •The life of men . "That is hardly your official view." "The official view is for the fools." "But you believe in the Prussian purpose behind all this," asked the British officer. Only the Strongest Will Live "I do, as in nothing else," replied the (lemma "The Prussian purpose of Cottonwood Creek. The four men, Thousands of Canadians and French glanced at each other; thenawithout al colored troops were choked to death. word, Clay went leaping down the Nearest, a famous chemist steps, sprang into his ear, and wastPrefeseer gone. at Berlin Univeriity, is said to have Leaving the startled housekeeper , urged the use ot poison gas. crying vainly after them, the four] Another professor — Esther — was clambered into Dean's car. Clay given charge of the gassoperations. self-starter had given 'him a long lead, Ile had been - experimenting in this but after cranking up. Dean whirled direction even before the war started, off hi a cloud of dust; the long road - ----1 Ilis nrobleni ivas to find a gas easily seemed deserted in the moonlight and - . and cheaply made, and highly poison - the car leaped forward madly. ' "Take chances!" roared •Jim Wur-I one. It bad to be compressible, so tell from the rear seat. "That there that it might be transported easily, Robbins means dirt, Dean. Burt was and it had to be heavier than air, so a fool ler goin' off with him--" that it would keep close to the ground. The rest was lost in a wild bounce' There were few gases that met; all of the car. Dean "took chances.": these requirements. Haber decided on Then, with a suddenness that WAS chlorine, of which. vast quantities were startling, they swerved around a bend available Frani the German alkali into the great bowl under the reser-i 1 works.' voir, and Dean bore down on his brakes. To carry the gas, stout steel 0y1111 - Flooded with moonlight eveey inch ders thirty inches long, sixty-eight of the scene was powerfully distinct. inches across, were contrived. Forty - Ahead lay the cars of Burt and Clay, five pounds of gas was compressed to T th i !lit the canon a liquid and stored in each. The total solid part of ripe tomatoes and mix- more sugar than we need and thereby ed with butter, vinegar and a dash of 1 lose much of the flavor of our food. It onion. will not hurt any of us to do with less. New Fillings for More Substantial, — S dwichere—For chopped chicken; Community Canning. sandwiches mix two cupfuls of fine-! shopped chicken with one cupful of The Women's -Institute of Ontario I will go with it'?" , crisp cabbage and two green peppers has made arrangements for several' "The old virtue was womanish," with French dressing of oil and virie- province this year. A remarkable the .sisaisdut.ohnegtphri.toner • "The new virtue or canned pimentos. Combine that community canning centres in fill' ismade of cord was made last year by the Park- I "In that blessed future will wax in force and cunning NY1 11V0. "It will be going back to the Flood," said the Briton. "Prussia is the Flood." "And when the old world is drown- ed virtue and all such weaknesses WIlitain P1. an English gentleman like the guar- Ticket of Admission to Shop and Ex-- Paste, and chopped hard-boiled eggs - used to say, "for ma ng ter -deck of an English man-of-war." tra Charge For Material. The Prince was thrust early, first at and leatlher shoetion in Good-bye To Flies. d • ed stee lv into the water-trickl- weight of each was ninety pounds. A age specimen of handy, clean, . iliral L ' ser-Neueeten Nachrich-, • • ing gorge. To the left the bowl sheer- 1 siphon device allowed the gas to be ed. up to the white concrete dam, and eniplted into the air in three minutes, on its brink. sharply silhouetted inra. Two pioneer regiments, officeaed by black against the sky, was the stoop- ; chemists, meteorologists, and other ing figure of a man. "It's Jalse!" cried Wurrell as, he scientists, were specially trained to leaped :From the car. .bandle gas. ! The most favourable wind for gas is Juliette had turned to the right, perhaps by instinct. There, below one moving at about eight miles an them in the filtering light of the hour. This carries gas at twice the - moon -speared gorge, appeared the pace at a man walking quickly, figure of Clay Thorpe stooping overt Before a gas atl.ack, several thous - a bound and =Unless figure—Andy ' end cylinders are burled in the para - Burt! 1 pets of the trenches, In the first at - "Stop hire! Stop jakel" scream- tack the Germans had one cylinder to ed Julietta. "He's cutting the dam." every yard, but the- number has been' The three men turned and dashed increased. madly to the steel) slope. Clay , When the wind and other conditions loolcd up, waved a hand to Julietta, When • with one hand palled the half-, aro favorable, the Gorman infantry' freed Burt to his feet. But it was I leave the front trenches to the gas too late. , . !Pioneers, who attach lead pipes, and Careless of himself, craving only, turn on the cylinders from one to five 'vengeance, Jake Robbins had taken' at a time in each battery (twenty that vegemice in devilish cunning.' cylinders). Luring Andy Burt, leaving him bound i The "smoke helmet" with 'which our in the gorge below the dam, Rob --- --- bins had then one to execute hie' - - task above. The waters .which had . invulnerable to any form of gas. It made Burt's fortune, which had ma- , originated from the idea of a Canadiaa ed se much wreckage and bitternese ' sergeant, who thought he saw Ger. and misery, should take his life, !mans wearing (helm Ile was mis- Staling up, Julietta saw the whole' taken, but our scientists used Lite idea. white concrete face suddenly dieap-; Sprayers, something like those Used pear' in a great burst of dust; there for fruit trees, are used to "kill" gas was a dull, earth -shaking tear, and ageing in the trenches. 'Toilette, flung to the ground, knew; that the clam had been dyatunitecl. I $10,000 RED CROSS GIFT. For a long moment she could not' — move. She heard the awful rush of New York Flour Profiteer Offers Pro - the descending torrent tie it thund- ered down into the gorge, seep sing' sent in USU. of Penalty, English youth, , His Real Education. ! er of a Family," in which he 'complains I :Acrobats on Wheels Who Carry On 'Mid Gas and Shells. j ten there is a letter signed "The Filth - But the , Prince himself would say that he is unable to have the shoes: that his real education onlY begun ; of his children mended, as shoemakers; If you want ekcitement, try des - He therefore is obliged to mend them i patch -riding on the Western Frout. It 1 is wouderful how eoon one learns In with the war. From the first moment ' and cobblers have no material on Med. fall • off the "old grid" when the of its outbreak he had but one ambin, tion—to get to the front, and the ' himself as best he can, and this hel weeks he speut in fighting Lord.;ands very nasatiseadery. He sees' scream of a shell is heard coming in , no other way out of the difficult§ butt your direction, and what Miracles on Kitchener, and tradition, and a net- 1 yetis officialdom on that point, were to go barefoot. I contortion a.re performed in 1110 effort l to find protection in a six-inch ditch probably the most exasperating in his The Germith goveinment is 110'v es - whole life, A friend of his was des- , tablishing public repair and mending 1 full of water, The man who has cribing to me a little while ago an stations in many of the cities, Oa! dodged shells and raced gas for six months up and .down the lines is a evening when the Prince was dining payment of one main ter a es. g 61 Mon with the guards during the retreat admission any man is entitled to make I past -master in the art of taking cover. from Mons. All through the dinner use of this establishment for repairing' Even taking cover has Rs disad- I vantages, as the following story shows. the telephone was ringng, first for tliis his OW11 shoes. Tools and machinery A. despatchgider on leave Was walk - officer and then for that, and eaeh as are provided for this perpose, bet thej he received his happy summons to the material for •mending must be paid' ing along a London street when a front, made his excuses and went jubi- for extra. These establishments oral 1110101' tiro went off just ahead of him, lantly oft, But ne one rang for the open daily from nine A.M. 10 111,011,0' BY natural Instinct he sprang (IOW 11 the Prince, Aching to serve and prove noon and from two to five o'clock in I open trapdoor of a bakery Mose by, himself, he seemed almost the only the afternoon, " and landed In a tub of yeast which officer present whom the War Office was cooling in the bakehouse, He did not want. Mrith each fresh good-finallY got free of the mixture just lo bye his tontines% his depi'eeslon, his UNSINKABLE LIFE RAFT- time to return to France. apparent uselessness became more Among civilians at home I find a marked. 11( 111/51 he could contain him- Craft is Kept Upright by Water widespread belief that "out there" Ballast, rules of 1110 road aro enknown. P1115 "I can't stand it They . . most 101 me' . b d ' Numerouis desirable features have is not so. Same our enemies in the and a choking voiee, he burst forth, go." And at last (her did. , neon coin ne in a new type of life early days of the war started a metho- dical and sustained offensive to wipe From Boy to Man, Magazine, that makes it distinctive raft, shown in the Popular Mechanical the poor despateh-rider off the face, of the earth the rules of the game have I will not say that the last three end among the many inventions of this varied,sbut they must still be closely the Prince. Al tho runda.mentals of etruetion, the uncle4lele being a du- observed if the despatch -rider is to safely stable his bike and slt down to a, 11011 years have boon the malting of character. The raft is a dual con- 1galii the American Red Crose,hits 110 MIS made already.. I mean that matter 'whir. i Way ' .. , thrownhis food ration at the end or a perfect trees, hurling boulders, a mig ty, character, in all that really matters, plicate of the upper side, so that, no leaping, white -maned freed, Then, as '' t° day. -1. h . e emiernit Welk of mares, because ' giVen proof. of the entitles that every Most, Above and below a central 1 timbers that a your agrld" on a black night into It ie rather unpleasant to be jerked 1 11 hole full of wets% or to Plan she (Mated to her feet and over the asen. euriched by a goodly sum for Its long before the war began ho had the water, a "right side' floats upper - self, no longer, With tears in his oyes edge of the slope, she saw be ow et • 1 !I • •it 1 •1 Ad 'Matra - foamy waters. With that she plungs gen remit:gms, The amount or the contributIon is $10,000, and the man who donated 11 15 Samuel Eckstein, a flour merchant of Nate York, who was charged before the Federal Food Board 01 selling flour to unlicensed dealers and telling flour at margins of profit in excess of the 75 cents- barrel permitted by Mr. Hoover's organize - tion. Mr. Eekstein himself suggested that the case :.gainst him be closed by a $10,000 donation to he Red Cross in lieu or action ou his Ifeense, The amounareprosente eurn two and ono - half limos 1110 amount of oyercluirgee by Mg Eckstein from January 1 to, July 1, 1018. ed forward, not an roetant too soon. Even as she gripped the hand of Clay, who pulled after hint the figure, of Burt, the main body of the dam, fatally weakened by the exploded hole, went out in another thunderous eoar. Sliding and slipping, the three • struggled up the steep side, to be • p.ulled .over the brink by Wurrell end Men. Oddly enough, Andy Butt was the firet 10 POSOVOr himacilf. "Comer A hoatse ahotit broke front his lips as110 8100d Up beside the exhausted Clay, "We got tie open the gates to every ditch', This'll flood every 1001 0' land 1 got, traps and all," Demi blether' him as ha stetted to the ear. Clay came, to his feet, stnil. went looks and hopes for in his son tincl his son's friends—truthrulnas, generosity, and simpliong a mind and nature. But what the war hoe done for him is to turn a boy into a man. It has brought him experiences other-• 18150 unimaginable. It has thrown Min into intimate contact with all sorts and conditions of men. He has seen life, and he has seen detail, In the roar and at 01080 range. Not since the days of" the Bleak Priime has aity heir to aid British thsone had such school - big., • And it all past a his Maine keenneas and vitality that the Prince bite claimed the right to rue the risks and abate 111 the danger of his brother Officera, Ile could no 'more be a dots frainewOrk or wavy a s ie makes it practically unsinkable, is a low wall eneircling seats for eight or more. Water which washes over the side flows off through drains termin- ating hi valves that permit; an out- ward flew only. In the centre a tho raft are two large metal cylinders, one in the upper sides and one in the lower side, placed and to end, the ad- jacent ends being open and the oppo- site ends closed. Tho cylinder in the underside vapidly fills with water whon the raft is afloat, acting as bal- last, while the opposite ono reniains filled with ith: though partly burner5. od, and helps keep the raft upright, Oare are previded And 11101'0 IS storage space for proviSione. ---4--- Old Roman Coins In the Trenches. Roman pennies inscribed "Nero" with a small flat brush in and "Caesar," were turned up near i brush need not be washed every (lny Coble by Australian troops, who 1 but when it ie washed n strong seal were digging trenches on what was lather and soda should be used so tha apparently an old battlefield. I it may he thoroughly c'eassed. igegnecorogiser=ta=ciecomeacraguezonoxecrestgagretes=xmmots-• • •ans-• . • -ge.- ee,..g. • . . 0. • '3.''gen For greasing baking pans e bow of one of the cheaper 51/1.11000,unselt ed dripping's or one of he 'bettor sub stitutes may be kept in the ice lee 11100 11)113 seek 181111 a Hun airman oat for your scalp. Ilut the acrobats on wheels take such things calmly, and in time a sort 1 or sixth sense enables you to smell shell -holes on. the darkest, tvinter 1 night, and Jerry line lately been too busy running (may from our airmen: to worry us 11111011 with low machine. I can fire from above. Tho greatest trouble the 130143)01311'rider hes to fft'ee is gas, Amid the many stinks of the bettlefleld ono more or less is barely nolteenble, and I have myself been blissfully ignorant of any gas in the vicinity until 'er.! riving at' the mid of roy journey, tl found everyone with gas-maske 051, • wont .1 ...amt. war e.wits rrHal Pure, rich, mellow tone, and the sensitive reeponelvenose 01 111 Ie famotie Instrument torn. Wee to lift It high above the oommonplace. 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