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TO PROTECT CEREALS AND COARSE FLOURS IN SUMMER.
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Which .eMews`'the At hide:,uf Our Seuthee n Ndil;hber At the Bt ginning of
the Wee, and ..low elle 11'eluiblie's'Neble.t Some' and Daiiglitere
Rose to the Occasion,
By Edith Tiro wi'i Kirkwood,
CITAPTER III, f "Nothing. -_--except, titer he was go -
"A. heap of fellows who have mote- iiig, That's all,"
keyed around the hone garage fee that ' "'Oh!" said Marjorie in a low tone'
fun ar the •ebing have found they were and again was Went,
propel -Mgt fd,;• sonething'.wot th tv11i1e, I, "Said fed Spree lecture had set
'ChapmanPed hadsaid when (Deane him to thinking,' Mr, Men went on..
had gone to him with his plan "Pre- "Ted surely started something if he
destine time as :a belief, is somewhat started Crane,';, Ho chortled in sp•
out of date hut peepareticn has been predation of hie own joke hut,stopped
the angel entertained unawares by a •whore be caught his wife's eyes fast•
lot of huskies."' 1 oned with undeeetaunding on him, Ho
When Clinton 1ettened thpt 'Crane was not nt ease but he determ'inee to
' Theleoarse flours a id cereals are The stove that I have had the best
)pecially susceptible during theowar'm 1 success with has u short drum—that
sr seasons of bhe year to the attacks I is,, one in which the blaze is near to
srinseets, particularly small beetles the cooking utensil: Long burner's
and their grubs, which: may cause the • ere not advisal, because the food to
loss of•valuable foodstuffs, not so be_cooked is too far from -the blaze.
much;by What 'they actually destroy A' portable oven as large as a cool,
hurt by rendering such infested food-; stove• oven nn'ay, be purchased for
Stuffs undesirable as human food: 1 about .$G, and after a little practice
Millers and manufacturers realize, the.h,usewife can use it for baking as
as a rule, the importance of handling well as the range oven. In choos-
such food productsas rapidly as Posse ing ah oven it is best to get Ione to
hie to prevent Insect infestation, and cover two burners, as thereby the heat
Rho know how to deal with such radiates better and one gets better re -
pests. The retailer, And consumer ,are sults;';ii baking. ,- '-
chiefly concerned ihotlie'rea ter of lire= I' often cook several things iri our
tecting such foodstuffs. oil -stove oven at the same time, as
Retailers should keep their stores beans, potatoes, tapioca pudding., and
free from insect infestation or eereals custard, and I find the .oven ,e ceellent
in sacks; or even in sealed Packages: to keep food warm. It is also handy
will become infested. 'In addition to to heat the irons on the oil stove in
such preventive measures, every ef- the middle of summer when there is
fort should, be made to avoid large much laundry to be done..
stocks and .to d}spose of 'deal pro- Covered .looking utensils, especial-
duets rapidly. Care's1tould'be taken ly for the oil stove, an'e now manufac-
to avoid the breaking or damaging, of tured• I 'believe they are .generally
packages. called triple pans. They come in
Consumers should only purchase various sizes in tin, aluminum, or
small quantities•of cereals and worse granite, and are useful because they
flours. Sealed packages which have save oil.—E. H.
been damaged shouldlie avoided. If •_,
cereals are bought .10. sacks they
shpuld be heated when. •,received at
home to a ten•lgeratuie"of from' 180
to 150 degrees Fahrenheit, and then
left for nearly an hour in the oven
while it cools off. This treatment
will, kill any insect eggs or grubs that
may be present. As many of these
pests enter the 'house from out-of-
doors, great care should he taken in
storing cereals and wheat substitutes;
whenever possible they should be kept other occasions for the bestowing of
in tightly closed tin boxesor other in- gifts, that can happen in the course
destructible receptacles that can be of twelve short months,
tightly closed. If' duo precautions If it isn't a wedding, it's a chris-
are taken, a very considerable saving tening; and if it isn't a christening,
in the aggregate' of foodstuffs -will re- it's a twenty-first birthday. And all
sult. the time and every time you are ex-
pec'ted to do something handsome. •
' To Remove Stains.. You are also familiar with the dif-
To remove stains -successfully from ; ficulties of selecting suitable and sp-
all kinds .cif fairies without injuring propriate teddy bears, silver .rattles,
the fabrics themselves, it is necessary! salad -howls•,, handker hiefs, and you
to know that animal Tares are readily: make frantic searches for "the pres-
destroyed by alkalies; while vegetable ent that's different."
fibres are attacked by all but tine I Almost every other week you go to
weakest acids, brit are not affected by, your ofiieo with one of your fingers
alkalies. 'tied up in green. cotton, the work .of
To remove • stains from 'cotton and; your loving spouse. When you rave
linen then it is quite safe to use the. bought the silver -mounted jam -dish
rather strongly alkaline Javelle water,' and; got half -way home -With it, - you
This is prepared by placing one -pound, encounter that unpleasant feeling
of - washing soda in a porcelain-lined1which says that wife reminded you
kettle and adding one quart of boiling' to get a set of of fish -knives and
was not to onlit for the trenches, it hold his own,"
smiled anew, '•• '"I feel very proud of Crane, Path -
"I might have kpown." muttered er," Why the deuca didn't she stiolc
Mr. Mann to himself. hclleiftwees to "Daddy?" "Our boys have not
fincl,,the easy spot ... He'll, ga ower ,iulidtteteed` before but after Teres lee -
anti ride around, bringing„the fellows tura the other night they know condi
vi ho have fought and' bled into the tions. and the need of men over there;
hospitals and think h he's: a an's'yet Crane is the only one to, respond,
job!" lit shows he is head and shoulders
Crane found it lierleer to go to Mat above the crowd. I'm very, very
•
Ile1ei'es9 tedthan etoothet telephenoed it vto lea •n bci.I proud of him," u ! , exclaimed Mr,
whether she Would be at home during i Mann. fed
Should you?"
the evening. `Utxfortunately, Father," the girl
"Marjorie;'—he found it difficult', continued with quiet' dignity, "I have
even to call her, by the old shortened no right to feel roud but I do."
nettle of `school ,days— ` if you're go -1 The sharp reply, already . framed,
ing to be in, 1 want to run up awhile. died without utterance 'before the
May•I?"
OUR TRUSTY
.•WAR NESSENGERS
• "PRL+',SENT" TIME
The Art of Choosing the Perfect and
Welcome Present
Perhaps you come of a large fam-
ily, or have one of your own. In
either, case, you are familiar with the
exj:raordianary number of birthdays,
anniversaries; festive seasons; and
1 clear gaze the girl turned upon her
"Something's wrong. 'You never father,
asked to come before. What is it?" "Humph!" he retarnagl, suddenly 00-
"You haven't heard?" cupied with his plate, "Humph! I
"Heard"
what?'"^ Is ...something, trust he'll not make a fool of him -
wrong?" I self,. , I can't picture him on a battle -
The note -of 'anxiety in her voice, field. I don't suppose he'll be caned
sent him sick, suddenly, with °the upon to do much that. takes courage.
consciousness of preciousness ,lost. He's picked'the ambulance 'corps."
"I want to come to say good -by, When Marjorie came from her room
Marjorie. I'm leaving Clinton to- to announce that she was going out,
night." Mrs. Mann. asked:
"Crane!.Then as if to recoverghe self „Shall I walk with, gout" " . For
to No, thank you, Mother.
she added with a pretense of her -old seine unaccountable .:eas'on Marjorie
spirit: felt a new frank friendship with her
- "Why the suddenness?" mother. .• Mrs. Mann, remembering
"I'm going .to war, Marjie. I go her own girlhood, respected,. without
to the city to -night with Ted -Speer questioning, her wish, to be alone. The
and then Pm off for France as soon a$ trate bearing Crane to war and Ted
the boat can get me there. Sudden? Speer -back to his city duties, had
Most of the big decisions of life come gone. Truth to hell, Crane had left
suddenly. I want to come to say his visit to Marjorie as a next -to -last
good -by. May I?" rich privilege, reserving the remain -
Crane noted the quiver in her voice ing one for his -mother, Mrs, Mann,
and he bowed his head on his arm as however, knew as ,well whom Marjore
he listened to her answer: ' was seeking as if\Mrs. Chapman had.
"You know you need not ask me to called for her at the door.
come, to my house—ever. I=.I—will (To be continued.)
you come soon?".,
A different\Marjorie stood at the ' MODERN ARTILLERY
gate awaiting him. She held out —
both hands to him while he approach The Soldiers That Mao the Big. Guns
ed ••said there was no mistaking the Must Be Experts
light in her eyes, There was sadness
and joyous expectation as if they Gunnery to -day is as exact science.
awaited words to give reason to their It embraces more problems (most of
light. Crane's heart pounded and his them mathematical) than any other
lips were dry. Marjorie said nothing• n a military art. Whe
Together they went to the porch and branch of thed
sat side by side in the big swing.
They had done this since childhood yet
never before had both been conscious
of the something that sat with them.
"I'm glad, Crane," sine said simply.
"It's hard to have you go—"
DEATIf' IS OFTEN DODtrEI) ,13Y
TOSSING A PIGEON.
•
A' Loft of Heinen is 1 ound in Every
Army and Navy in le cry'1'hoetre
W-IIEN THE POISON
GAS CAME
o1' War To -day,
Iblght offhand, can you think of any-
thing more 'peaceful then a pigeon?
Yet thousands of soldiers and sailors
and "airmen—particularly saifot,' and
airmen—have dodged death ie the
lonely places in witioh thio war is be-
ing fought, by tossing a pigeon,
It is no new thing, this turning of
pigeons to' the mess of• war, 'nor are
these doves of war peeulier to the
Army and Navy o1 Britain. Every
army and navy in every theatre of
war to-dayAies its loft of homers. It
was only recently that General Persh-
ing asked for ten thousand young
pigeons to' begin work in France "as
early as possible,"
There ane hundreds of tales of
pigeon heroism available. Over 1,-
500 messages have been handled by
the Pigeon .Service of the. Royal Navy
alone.
""An Outlet for Patriotism
water. To, this ;add the clear liquid forks. a tear of war.
which separates off when one-half Now, tithe my earnest ctip. Cease Crane turned at the corner and
pound of chloride of lime is stirred in- this nerve-racking business of present saluted. Marjorie stood erect and ve-
to -two quarts of cold water and the hunting. Don't worry yourself over turned the salute.,
mixture allowed to settle. This solu-;the problem of likes and dislikes. Marjorie, longing with all her heart
tion should be bottled and kept. in a Don't permit yourself toeget the shop
would
dark place. To remove stains, dilute : ping headache .when birthdays ,and
the Javelle water with an equal col- gift -days are around. -
ume of hoe; water, and soak the. stain , Buy War Bonds, You 'can'o`'get
in bhe solution until 11 disappears. I them from $8.50 upwards.
Probably the best reagent, for. re- The:liride, the babe, the youngster, shown himself a man and manhood
moving atoms 0i'asn si'ik and tvool is Che wife, the friend—one and all will tete supreme appeal to woman.
"Harder than to have Dr. Bacon
go?"
"What is ;Dr. Bacon to me?" she'
answered simply. ,
"Marjie, you dont mean that I am
anything to—" he gathered himself to-
gether with an effort, "I've got to go.
I must spend some time with, Mother.
How is she taking !t? She's a brick.
Talk about men giving up their pro-
fessions to go! What about these
mothers who give all the •sons they
have—no matter whether it's one or
six? The real bricks o:f war are the
mothers and •
NO GRITA°PER HORROR THAN GAS
HAS EVER legiteN 1INRWN.
A British Officer ives This Very
Graphic Description of a Gas
Attack In Prance, ,, '
Of the thousand -and -one ki td.s of
torture that are borne by solders
France gee Is about the :worst; You
got need to reed, the ""cramps," anal
tete dally deluge of "pip-squeaks," but
gae..Yon will never get need to,.sc long
as a gas -Wilmot 1s the only means of
protection" °says a 13ritisb officer.
In .anz, battery emit" officer Ott one"
Wino dice twenty,I:our hours' , battery
duty 10 turn, comas d'ncsing et 8 p.in.
During hie period of duty Ire aetod as
battery commander,
1t was a glorious evening when I
'"took. over" the battery, not tete kind
of night that oiie expected to be at
war. For a couple of hours nothing
happened, and it looked_ like being a
very quiet night. Over the hill the
Verey lights wore going up regularly,
and with them camp the chatter of
machine-guns: '
Swish and Sizzle,
A Byitish'patrol smack was torpedo•
,ed. at dawn, and what was deft of the
little craft sank in four minutes,
lea l ing the crew. struggling in the sea.
In that four minutes, hdwever, the
skipper scribbled out a message, at-
tacked it to the leg of his Naval
pigeon, and -sentethe bird flying as his
vessel sank under him. But the
pigeon was seen from the submarine.
Shots were fired at it, and the crew
of the smack, struggling for . their low murmur of conversation, the faint
lives in the water, saw it hit. A few glow of ar cigarette, the queer thud as
minutes later it fluttered down on to a 1001b, shell was rammed into the
the deck of a trawler twelve miles gun, and then au ear-splitting roar as
away, bleeding and with five of its the shell went screechiing across three
flight feathers shot away. The tt•ww- miles of country. '
Per's skipper turned to its leg at once, I was squinting through .the sight
unrolled its 8 0 S message, and "dug when one first visitor arrived, It came
out" with all the speed he had. In half with an eerie swish and%) sizzle. Then
an hour the crow of the sunken smack another and another.
were being hauled aboard, and given
as tender care as had been bestowed
on their wounded pigeon.- The pigeon.
recovered.
• And such incidents as that con -
The battery;.` commander's poet, a
built-up arrangement of sandbags and
elephant iron, nestled between two
trees across. it dyke some hundred or
so yards from the battery. The tele-
phone buzzed, and in respoi0e to In-
structions I put te gun on some cross-
roads three miles - over the line 1n
Boehe-land--twenty-five rounds at ono -
minute intervals. I went across to tate
battery' to check the gun -sights. 'It
ivas very dark there, and strange be-
yond imagination—ghostlyy figures, the
Gas' Alert!"
AIR RAIDS 1TH
-DIFFERENCE aur p
A E .N E
DI�� liali`L�
•
LONDON AND PARIS ARE BOTH
EXPERIENCED IN RAIDS,
But There Are Certain Contrasts In
the Way the Bombers Are Met.
The Londoner in Paris was not at
all Interested. He went calmly to his
hotel -room and prepared for bed.
There was a raid on, to be euro. Goth- f
Gall-
as! Bub he was'unimprossed.
"There is nothing to see. I've been
through 'twenty," he said; "so, if it
isn't too noisy, ['11 sleep."
As ho ascended,. the concierge Rano
in with the first report of the new Get-
man toed on Paris,
"Oue; tavions have gores up to fight
them," he said. "'they're burning red-,
and -green lanterns,"
So the Londoner went into Place de
la'Conoorde, and there learned that a
raid on Paris is, from a spectacular
view, vastly different from a raid on
London, '
A raid on 'Paris is a thriller. It is
drama, for it has lights. That is the
chief difference between it and the re-
peatod Loudon raids, which begin and
end in darkness.
Alone the sounding of the alarm—
the "alert," as they call it in Parts,
the "take over,." as they saw in Lon-
don—is an affecting avant; en tire
"Gas!" said the sergeant, and there French capital. Instead of thlte'cycle•
was no. ueed for contradiction. From policeman with placards of 'London,
all directions the nocturnal visitors I we have the hook-and-ladder automo•
titut .the reason for the British Gov carie in. There was no great noise, bile companies dashing, through the
s o just a continuous swish and the hiss streets at a furious speer;. with thin
renmeut'stohrecent rt publish"ed shooting of gas as the shell broke. A sweet horns sounding a rhythmic, bat' al••
pigeons, hunters to refrain front shooting aroma soon became noticeable, the most diabolical scream, and the wheels
in order that no Navy or stent el pineapple. The gasemasks thundering. '
Army pigeons will be accidentally
killed.
young artillery officer has been grad-
They
ra - The Naval Pigeon Service to -clay
meted at the Royal Military College, has 4,000 birds, divided into Continu-
he is obliged to go on studying ons Service and Hostilities Only sec -
special schools for a number of years tions. The 'latter cease numbers some
before he is fully equipped profes- 3,000, lent by their owners, about 300
sionally. British pigeon fanciers, including the
King himself, to the Navy for the
The people at large cannot be ex -
were shifted to the "gas alert" posi-
tion, and men swore softly but not
very vigorously, because lachrymatory
as has little effect other than upon
Searchlights on 'Planes,
The air vibrates with motors'. The
g French aeroplanes ascend from many
the eyes. Still the shells came, and places, and circle the city, displaying
not a breath of wind to drive the sick- great arcs of green and red and gold.
ly odour away. In half an hour the Occailbnaily they go low, and "turn
place was soaked with it, and men's their great Cyclopean oyes—their
eyes could bear the pain no longer. searchlights—on each other or into. I
petted to know anything about so ab- service at sea. Not only do these On went the bos respirators, the' sitar -filled heavens, hanging sus-
struce asubje�t. That have not even owners lend their birds but when the It seemed to be the general plan of pended like new and flaming stars in
a notion of the way in which guns are birds fly home with messages they the Bothe to send with each six gas the low slay.
arranged along the battleline, telegraph tau messages at once to shots at 5.0 non -delay, Probailly with Two or throe are always in eight,
Machine guns are, in effect, small the proper authorities, and tion send the olieect of spreading the gas over and the spinning noise of the. motors
arms, firing ordinary rifle bullets, the birds to the collecting stations a large area. Near by was a farm --makes you feel that there must be
Their place is at the forefront, Stx at the naval bases, whence they are house, stacked from floor to ceiling scores above you --a sky full of them,
of them are now allowed by the Ger- distributed again to the craft usin
g -with 18 -pounder gas shells. As luck
mans for each company of infantry. them.. They also feed the birds ns would have it, one of these accompany-
and
ccompany
But the light machine gun that long as they remain at home, and ing 5.9's dropped slap in the farm -
But
only about a dozen pounds these things they do without'remun- house. The result was appalling. In
and can be fired from the shoulder is eration, because' they know' •they are live minutes it was blazing from 'end
"Other women, Crena: Don't foe rapidly coming into use, and the pros- helping the Royals Navy. to enol. From every crack ands ere -
get the other women who wait." She pect seems to be that before long 250 Miles at a Flight vice d -it issued great, rolling clouds' When the 'plana comes low, times
ere -
smiled sadly. "Some of them have every foot soldier will be provided of y-ellmv-green gas—our own°gas. It I messages are distinct but unintellig•
to wait without being able to tell the with such a weapon. Other pigeon fanciers have joiihcel seemed very heavy, and never as- iblo, and therefore mysterion,;, and
world they're waiting—Crane, don't
o without tellers me thatwyou-y" h4aehine guns are note -artillery. 1,200 Co and are at workvc trainingbdtended -more than twenty' feet or so. raised to greatest importance by the
g Her hands were crushed tightly and Where the ]atter is concerned we Continuous Service birds, the It came rolling over the country like'civilian In the street, Who knows,
with the kiss upon them there fella have to do with cannon, the smallest Navy's own birds. These men wear a mood: • perhaps a message of new raiders, or
drop Marjorie somehow felt was not instructionir for attacking them, or
ft and
perhaps news of a victory over a Hun?
But always in a raid one -Paris there is
activity for the eyo, interest, thrill:;.
Its many ways the French people are
affected by, the' raid like their London
allies.
Though there is more tulle more geee-
tire, more interest here Abell a Lon-
don raid gives pretext Lor to Londen-
ere, there is here tie same solider!ty
of morale,
Some fly fast, others slowly, and the
red and green .and gold lighte are el -
ways changing, sometimes with the
dip and rise of the aeroplanes, some:..
times at the touch of the aviator seed-
ing a message.
calibre of which is represented by the
3 -inch field gun.
The accepted tactical arrangement
for artillery -is in three lines. In tete. have never been to sea 10 their lives. nauseating vapour that seemed to
front line are the relatively light Each of the Continuous SQrvico penetrate even through our gas -masks.
guns, mostly 8 -inch, These may be birds has a metal ring on its leg bear -
With mad thoughtlessness I had
for the words from Crane that it foe supplemented by 4.'7 -inch guns and ing its official number, and in a big brought only my P.H. helmet with me,
have given her the right to wait for 0 -inch howitzers. book is kept the complete record of which is not intended to be a good
him, saw him go without bitterness.
Something within her sounded a via- The arrangement is varied accord- each of them from the time it joins protOcLlon for thick gas, and can sal -
tory even in her .loss.. Crane wheth ing to battle circumstances. But or- up till, the time it becomes a naval tion be worn mare than two hours on
er or not he was to belong to Ener, had dinarily one might expect to find pensioner. The training of them is end
is• the second line (quite a distance in la '&ly a process of simple patience in All the Heide were shrouded with
the rear) composed of 4,7 -inch guns, the development of the bird's intern- gas now. In the battery men moved
the Navy's uniform, and are commis It came ever so slowly, but relent -
,
sinned officers, chief petty officers a lossly as fate itself. Already we had
petty officers, glthough many of them tasted the stuff—a vile, amonutitic,
three per cent• hydrogen peroxide to , welcome them. 'The day after Crane's departure, 0 -inch guns and 8 -inch howitzers. genre, memory, and physical powers,
which is added four volumes of waterlike spectres, and a tall, getsit ilgnre
And you will have the satisfaction Mr. Mann found her at the verandah's In the •tiled line, further back, At the start, the pigeon is taken half ran up against nice It was the skip -
and one volume of ammonia. The of being generous, patriotic, and sen- edge looking into the distance. He would be found 0.6 -inch guns, 14 =inch a mile from its loft, and, in company
per.
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stain should be so:tilded in this -mixture at one fell swoop, waited- for her to run clown to the guns and perhaps 16 -inch howitzers. with its older mates, has to find its A Nightmare Race,
for a few minutes, then dipped in a, Moreover, a War Bond is the only gate to throw it open for him as had A howitzer,ndbythe way,is a short- way back.sNexta es, tate tistitnce is
en per cent, solution of solemn his -'kind present that one can't have too been her habit since childhood but shei "Clear them out, George." he mut-
only turned std met him at the top range rifled tanners, cheaper to build increased to a mile, the day following toted through his gas -mask
h nd so on
ulphide. If the stain is persistent, it much of. And that's more than you stepWith a quiet greeting: than an ordinary gun, to two or three miles, a
may be necessary to repeat this treat- watt say of cruets or salad -bowls. 'Hello, Daddy. I had not realized The front line of artillery is a After a time the youngster is re- I did'nt waste time altar that, but
ment several times, exposing the fab -I Also unlike any other gift extant it was time for food." ' I divisional organization. The second leased ("tossed" -is the word pigeon' sent the sten scuttling across the
tic to the sun .and air between treat-, or extinct, a Victory Bond never Her eyes were unredde�ed but they lino •is a corps organization. The trainers use) alone and made to rely) Hold that sod to the main road. Ouco
monis. reaches that stage whet you want to no longer sparkled Her -manner told third line is an army organization. on its own resources to find its way of the road things became worse. The
Bleaching solutions can beHum apparently conscious of his won
with white goods only, as any res
which will retrieve stains will also re-
move colors. _-
The Summer Shove, umpteen years tone—which is mot o the table with Mrs, Mann, I undo ,have lost at least 1000 of various
Duren these blistering hot August i than can be said for a pink sateen stand Crane is off for the wax." bres,' But these have since been re- u
R gg tineushion, "Yes,"" she • answered simply_ and laced. adverse gale or when the weather Is •The• short span of road between
•
days the tithe oy that the cook ox 1 P
stove. is to the oyenbwdehed conk on was silent.' , __ so thick that they tumor reeolfts.
-- -. ' - Mrs. Mann cast •a hueried, worried1 'j41AICE YOUR OWN !MEL,. the surroundings of their home lofts, where WO stout; and our headquarters
the farm canto; be measored, There look from father to slaughter, She!Fully trained, his Majesty's homing was nuclei a terrific fire; but I had
The Happy Warrior, et s is ors Will (or racing) pigeons are able t cover to get my has resplrstor somehow.
e nothing o equal u for comfort, :considered'
and' had watched, unseen, the drama o,l'
summer stoves should be'. fardered y dugoutby
O S sand the sea Crane's leave-taking, • She knew well; Properly Prepared, er v 1 P 260 miles ata flight, or even m re. As well be knocked out by shrapnel
wives.
elute necessnlnes :for fanners I Of Soros beyond the Samothrace, that Crane was not all that was to be Produce Considerable Heat. as suffocated in a gas15.
tvivos, a desired as a son-in-law,flitanaially and I Ninety-seven per can_, of the mos- I :started to move billetwards, feel.
I'm as happy as happy can b , rofessiohally, yet there was driven, What do you do with your old Mena- sages sent by pigeon -post arrive, an
home to her the knowledge that her papers? Throw them away.,,most like- unbelievably high figure, '?when one lug eery way Crow tree to rico. Half -
home the number of elm -
fire.
along I meta perfect interim at
sets over against n I got the wince up badly, and ran
mies (besides German soldiers and back, only to finer the same thing hap -
aviators) to which these mild little
burls are deposed,
Unconscious Heroes
Now that the pigeon service in the
British Army and Navy have more
used give it away to your worst enemy or more plaianjy than words that Crane
; When an enemy• attack `9)reaks home. When 'the distance becomes
gent send it to a bazaar, has kept his promise, and Mr, Mann, through"(as 'ha oned recently in greater, i.e„ above seventy miles, the' derful luck, began to barrage ill the
A War Bond `rows more valuable accustomed to "being_. right m the g PP y I mein routes with shrapnel,
Bond -grows business world; felt n'o pang of regret,' France) a great loss of guns is in- bird is given two lays' rest between My P.N. helmet was getting e anger you keep i , and� ht d a its flights become
th 1 t ing ene ar• 1
tab; Th British 1 Fifth army,his flights, an a.
always 'change !t for hard casually as they
• l the weather, for pt omasing
cath they tie," he remarked
eve e, a rt is I able. I was almost suffocating, I
seated themselves at which suffered the disaster, is said to longer, its trainer begins to keep ant tools it 018, gage a sniff, and quickly
" r- ca e- eye on , Out it on again, :ft was death outside
youngsters are not risked against anal tt hr,hnet'
Gas stoves are is poseioilaw in cities,' Amici I'm bent upon washing my face
but insmall towns and in the cotta- Before I go into any tea; girl loved 'him, that the, love of youth my.
try, whole"there is no.gas, tett., Baso- But the water's so scalae in this land ns made buoyant with precious ideals It is a mistake. You can easily con -
line or oil stoves art' very satisfactory. That we de all our washing with and that ideals are the heirloom -jewels' vert them into a useful and satisfaa-
Investigatnont will prove that they do 1 sante— • I.o1 life. The treasure boz that is tory fuel that, for many purposes, will
"explode," a be efi1
t 1 f women still bU d 1 again m y r
bei expthd Q, as a fia has
Q And we always have sated in our tea. le a early
never, take the place' of wood or coal.
believe. The tarn womenoohes become led—with duplico,tes. I The idea comes Switzerland,
so familiar with the coal -oil lamp that In my fly filled dugout by the sea She divhtecl too that smnething had
, where id late mos from been a Band,
she clogs not fear it. There is no Near Anzac, be and Samothrace,Como to Crane. fIe was Hetet] idler,
more danger'or rliti ictally in rising oil r Yan unprincipled betrayer of a girl's shortage of fuel, eatn
Both the gook and Colonel agree
for cooking than there is in using oil hart Why ,had he gone without' • Newspapers, of course, are madg of
That you must have some semblance leaving Marjorie the word she craved? wood: They. are woodpulp dried and
for tient:ws I of grace • ' Mrs, Mann looked again at Mr. Mann
It shows intelligence] haul common Apparently Marjorie
ready prepared, as it were, for easy
•eke advance a of all the la- At breakfast ,al dinner, at tea, and wondered, App y I bur-n�ng. If properly utilized they
lenss to t g . To prevent you from damning the eyes had no suspicion that her father had make a most excellent fool,
bonsaving, the time--sarin�,anti thQy Of the savage and pestilent flies— played a part in the sorrow Crane's i The way to use them for the pint
confoitt-prochtQtng ya'cci method's at, haul' Ito 'ou nl;.r, shave leets in Your teal leave-taking had brought.1 •tlie10 into compact
and of he many offered none will ex y y"lie told Inc he was going," went
pose is to roe P
r. Mann, "Good thing, He i bells, dip the latter into a tub of wa-
on M11 b tier as koro ter until saturated, a rid then hey them.
le prepared, they may be formed
Into the shape of small logs, treating
them in the sane way.
It will be found that the dried balls,
or.logs, burn beautifully, yielding an
intense heat And 'Meting remarkably
long. They Will enable tho house-
holder to ecenontiee wood and dial,
And, incidentally, he should be mind-
1
ind:-
lel of the fact that, in a very literal
sense, fuel le ammunition—etul1 to
beat the Hun and win the war.
"The future conies not from beftto're
to meet us, but streams np from be-
hind d us over out heads"—Itandl
w„�, dugout
.,..ue sea
mor stove. Of Saros, beyond Sainothraee ought as we o Over e
Since the ail stove requires frequent i
Im as ha'py a happy tan bre, loin moth—
cleaning and trimming, many women
prefer 'gasoline, ” Even a two -burner
alcohol stove gives some relief during
the hottest part. of the summer., One
o£ tho best aids, of course, 3s• the fire -
lose looker.
;dight .yearsago we bought out oil
etlokstoVe with three burners, paying
$11 for it. We clean the stove two
or three tilnes a summer, clearing all.
the 'all out of the pipes; removing all
the small particles of alit or soot thatIland'ell penises best known by his
have oelleated, tinct wiping oft all oil "Messiah and The Dead March"
Britt may biw•colloeted anywhere iri from Saul, died in 1750, and Wats
buried in W'esltninster Abbey.
Tlio' the shraphei conies flying apace
Over moorland and mountin and
lee. --
For I wish you to quite understand,
Tho the hens have vacated the land,
Yet we always have shells with our
teal
w-112, R. (Anzac).
"IIe _told you he was gong?
W11,,' n?" arjorie leaped forward,
s
"Th other night after the lecture,
Came into my offite—"
"Crane went to your office!" Her
query wee a Wondering exclamatioe.
Mr, Mahn laid down his fofk arid
looked at itis daughter,
"He did, he answered with delib'•
oration, "Xou hilae too I didn't
ea.t �liarjolts
Mrie pi{id no heed to the at-
tempted frivolity.10
"Why -111 lie go to see your Daddy?
The hope in her voice and Iter eyes
sent a sudden mist to Mrs, Mann's
oyes and a into to her throat.,
„peeing all along. There was no way
out of it. T suneune1 up• what little
courage I had left—and it wasn't
much—and bolted full speed down the
read.
than justified themselves, one finds It was a pitiful crowd that stagger -
pigeon lofts in the most unexpected of. ed Into group ;headquarters half an
hour later. 'Three other batteries
were also there, and we all lay down
on the ground and looked Mico dying
there and then. A few mon were car-
ried to hospital, but the rest revived,
and ate a good breakfast later on.
ne the afteruoen we wont back to
1150 battery to collect the done chide -
ens itnd otlior innocent things that
the gaol had killed, A cow had taken
Mule ,in pier 13, i. post, and was meet
etee'llii4 and dost) It took days to get
that ooW- out. She went In the door-
way with two laches toy spare Ort either
side, but twenty-four Moura had he
creased ilei girth to almost double fee'
normal rite, And Involunttan'tly tie
thought ca0tiei "If I iced not boot able
to get my boli reslilratoUt"
j))ough-nuts can be very satisfaae-
tor)ly nude of oornteai or of potatoes
Haid barley•floue,
war spots. Even close ep at the back
of the Front, amid the etinnking mud
of Flanders, one comes across pigeon-
cotes, heed with sandbags and attend-
ed by Tummies wearing 'shrapnel -
proof helmets, where these wise little
binde, with beady, rotund eyes and a
drab calor which no camouflage ex^
pert could better for flying purposes,
take their Army rations of grain with
the same cooing and strutting about
that you associate with those pigeo'rie
in dovecotes where you live,
A Good Road.
I am the road
That carries the load
1i'roth countryside to town.
If you dr a etgerumidm-n Sisvttitiv,n
If you drag me true
8 will pull for you,
And never anise you down.,
No Teo Opinions.
The French people, the, women acid
children and 'old men, the soldicis
home on leave, only have rekindled
the fires of their dcterneentiuu to hold t--lt
'strong -until victory, and the flies of
their hatred for the enemy. surd when
they say "sale Bothe" today the
Americans, who are now in the city,
incl who were neutral critics a ye 11•
ago, can understand what they mean
by "dirty German."
One thing is most noticeable in
comparing London and Paris regarding
a raid sad its aftermath. It is the ab-
sence of a cry for revenge in 1`etis.
And the reason is shnplo. Ropeteal
raids are expected as a matter of
course. a
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"David was the Sousa of Bible days"
says the Literary Digest And quotes
from the Psalms to show .that the
Biblical bandmaster conducted "two'
hundred four score .anal, eight" men
and also possessed a good knowledge
of tone and instrumentation, One of
the best comlerbe David ever gave,
says the Digest, was at the dedication
of Solomon's Temple.
./rnownYront, 444 to C000h
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