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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-9-19, Page 6Economy the Watchword! 11 70- gives greatest, tea -value for your money. Yields many more cups to the . pound than does ordinary tea—and then you, have -that Y dl delicious flavour! 13443 Pdflt rortunately for Two Small Boys, Filth el BirdC!uteges Itis Mind Regarding the Color toe Fences, By Mabel Dlll. ` a . Petri h I'Swha't I call a fine day, I don't think Mother Bird, having finished her m"cjt of these eold days --gimme a nleC warm doll Any times 'Course I senil•tveakly batting, wee mopping' ain't fat!" bluedly the kitchen floe]', Her twat softs, "Well;, s'lotigl" Ricky rode off at 7.'arpin and '['hemas, (core hey cote- this insult, .7'he painters painted on, h• • the fee - the a t C s vas a o ut Jh m s s. . ter u ]s 'mei) C 7e] 'c e sal T 1 hadIre 1 o ti t 1e bo desired t Ysgreen paint ort the two sults of over mother a adestion, i ells and on the faees of the • twins They had asked it and been tins' strange, smeary woodland saepes Werod an now Thomas gave tt petulant were debaubin themselves, The Melt ]tielc-at the rounds of his three-legged gntltusictsm of their interest, some of stool. "Wen, ma-a—I don't see why -yl" i the fun of the thing, had worn off was his nasal complaint, "It's awful but in their Place was a cifep sense of cheap! We have to cern the suits self-satisfaction, Unwontedly kind ourselves." thoughts fatherward filtered into "Don't whine, eon," Mother Bird ad- their boyish hearts. They recalled monislied. "And that's enough their father's painful progress up the cookies! Tommy, you'll. have to sit' street that morning, his groans when some place else now; I"wAtrt to get In he sat down, in or rose from a chair,P here. You know you boys might, the difficulty he had picking anything just. as well stop teasing. No 'use up off the floor• It was good to be getting after me to join the Boy doing something for one's ather: who Seohts. If your father says you had the lumbago, can't, why, you can't and that's all "Must be fierce to be getting old!" there is tq it. Besides, if -your ruminated Themes once. ARRANGING A BALANCED DIET: father refuses, its probably because The sun scorched clown upon their A sensible and easy method of ar- a patriot for you will be saving beef he's got some vett' reason for refus- cheeks and throats. Thera was not a breath of breeze, not a leaf 'of ranging a balanced bee easily and to "Good reason]" Turpin sniffed. He shade where the twins stood at the sheis be evolved by the housewife 1ife had been carving surreptitious des fence. They worked silently, dipped she is willing to devote just a little t 0 1 orations on the back of his chair but and painted and smoothed, reached time and thought to this subject. It - now he desisted gloomily, closed his and bent and rose. They had no will enable her to feed her family on h knife and slid' it into his pocket„ more callers—all the,boys of the food that will make them 100 per cent. a "Good reason nothing!" e neighborhood save themselves and efficient and at a considerable reduc-d "No reason 'tall! was Themes' Fats had gone down the river to the nic Eon in cost" for a person, more.so dark addendum. "Has he, Turp?" I Presbyterian raffairs had of latelyearscbe than if she depended upon an inetfici- "New!" Turp resteda pessimistic i come sadly anemic. Now they, be- eat maid or planned upon the hit -or- chin on his chair. "Just refusing miss plan for the daily subsistence of the family. ' First of all, blrs. Housewife, you must know what the human body re- quires. It needs a protein, which is a material found in certain foods, that will make bone, tissue and muscle. The .foods that contain this vital ele- ment are milk, eggs, cheese,.poultry, fish, meats and legumes. Then there are carbohydrates or starches and sugars, which are the source of heat and energy, and which supply ue with strength to perform our work, walk, sleep and eat. Fats are needed for the same purpose as ,the starches'and sugars. Mineral salts, which are found largely in all fresh fruits and vegetables, are needed by the body for bone structure, muscle and tissue and to purify and keep the blood stream pure. Nearly two-thirds of the total weight of the body is water, and for this reason it is vitally necessary that plenty of good, pure drinking wa- ter be used daily. Now that we may balance our menu, we must know that we should provide one part protein, or' body beilding, food to every four parts beat and energy -giving foods. In oth- er words, we. should eat one part meat, or its equivalent, to four parts potatoes, green vegetables, breads or cereal and dessert. Do not serve two kinds of protein food at the same meal, such as meat, fish, eggs, cheese, dried peas, beans' or lentils. Use only ,one of these .foods: Serve only . one starchy vegetable. Serve a green vegetable every meal, if possible. '.Have salad for luncheon, if possible, and always for dinner. Celery, let- tuce, endive, corn salad, watercress, scallions .or young onions will provide an abundant variety: When planning to have a dessert with a meal, reduce the protei content one-sixth . and the caibonhydrates about one-fourth, unless the desserts --are fresh fruits alone. Learn to serve soups at the begin- ning of a meal Clear soups have little or no food value, but they cause the digestive juices to flow .free- ly, and thus make for perfect as- similation of the food. Do not serve a creain soup with a meal containing meat or its equivalent—rather use it for luncheon. <Use feuitsoups and cold bouillon during the warm weath- er•. pang, for far -soar nit; to Turpinhad done five pickets and grange of molasses wellies, Anyway and wheat and butter for overseas. Here are some "don'ts" for storing: Don't le the fr at injure the crops before you take them into the cellar. Don't bring them in'while they are in moist condition, Don't cover roots with damp sae if the cellar is hot. They will - start to grow if you do so. Dont let cold winds dryout your potatoes. if you do a bitter taste will result. Don't try to store onions, squash or pumpkin in a°cool cellar.- They will keep better in the attic. Don't forget to watch your storage room and aort out any decayed speci- mens before the trouble spreads, Don't forget that a cheap thermo- meter is a good friend in a storge room. If it is impossible to provide a special storage place select the part of the cellar farthest removed from the furnace and where the mos; air circulates. ^^'^ - DUMPS! You Will Find Only One Kind at the Front. • "Dumps" here! "Dumps" there! The France of to -day is filled with. them. At the northern French ports—our bases—the vastness, the immensity of the stores is bewildering. For several acres wooden boxes containing tinned meats stretch in one huge rampart to the wharfside, while near by a moun- tain of biscuit tins extends right away to other yards, where timber or shells are stored. A steady procession of A.S.C. S -ton loiries worms its way between the lofty stacks from dawn 'to sundown, to their allotted "duns," where working -parties are ever busy in loading thein. With heavily -laden bodies the lorries race away to the road which leads to the line. Another stream of lorries pours in; but now they deposit their contents, then tear back to their base, leaving to horse-drawn limbers the task of carrying the goods further along the road which leads to the line. In the towns or villages nearer the line all available spaces are utilized to "dump" the stores brought from the bases in the lorries. Where it is considered advisable in these places, the stacks of foodstuffs or munitions have above them green -netted cano- pies for camouflage purposes. Not so extensive, bet perhaps more varied, are the "dumps" on the out- skirts of the trenches— the R.E. "dump," with its miscellany of drums 'cause he knows he can refuse. What's he know 'bout the Scouts—what they do an' what it's for an' all?" "Son, you're disrespectful!" Turp lifted himself, chair and all, out the mop's path, "Well, what do they do?" "Dodoes of stunts!" Turp muttered. "Go on hikes—an' campin trips—an' —aIt'—" Thomas took a hand, "An' learn how to swim—" "An' carry the wounded--" "An' make bandages—" "An' light fires 'thout matches-" "An' -an' you hafto do one kind deed every day!" Thomas said it with an air of virtuous finality. Mother Bird was careful not to let them see her smile. "Don't need to be 'a Scout to do kind deeds!" she commented. To this the boys found nowenswer. Tom's mastery argument had gone wrong. It were hest not to press the point. "Plenty of kind deeds lying round!" said Mother Bird. It seems to the twins that she said it with most un- necessary emphasis. She went over to the sink and began _to.rinse out her pail. "Lots of things you boys might do right round the house here for Cousin Emma and me and to help your father. Sometimes I think you forget your father -isn't as young as he used to be. He's been trying to get at that front fence for a month but his lumbago's too bpd. There's your job right .there—if you're look- ing for kind deeds." She dried her hands on the roller towel and went into the pantry, the same thought struck them, Dad The boysn remained silent. There might be very glad to have the fence Tar nothing say. Thomas sent g Turpin an uneasy glands or two; painted but would he be so agreeable. Teepee watched his mother. about a fence left halfway, painted? There was ostentatious disregard of They gave the fence a squint. It Boy 'Scout matters during luncheon. did look patbhy. .A. layer of green However the seed was rooted in the over an old one of brown is not really boys' minds, the same idea occurring thoroughly and they had forgotten to both Turpin and Thomas; if they to do the edges so that the pickets painted the front fence, might not Presented the appearance of a row of sufficiently impressed with theirtheir father be sufficiently softened, faded maiden ladies beautified as -to ' de- cheeks and chin but with ears and servingness, as to relent in regard to neck sadly neglected. the Scout memberships? (To be continued.) Turpin approached his mother. --"'—• "Where -is the paint?" he inquired. fully impassive. RAG -PICKING UNDER FIRE. Mother Bird kept her face beauti- _ "Down in the basement, Turp. Yost Wealth From the Battlefields of know—back there with those old car- France and Flanders. pets and things," But Thomas had, found it. A modern battlefield is -the great - "The green or the white?" he •est rubbish -heap in existence. Yet, yelled up the stairs. at the same time, it is a veritable "The green, Tommy." Mother gold mine. Unexploded shells, mud - Bird took her hands out of her dish- caked rifle's dropped by the dead or wounded, grenades aband$ned during flight, damaged canton and other bulky weapons, helmets, pieces of leather, pieces of clothing, and debris of every description go towards the swelling of this scrap heap. A great deal of this debris of war.. is salvaged by veteran soldiers known empty one, two Paint brushes and the as rag -pickers, who must have a overalls, knowledge of the material value of "Now roves real nice!" "If various metals discovered. The scrap Bird hustle casually, youd ie sorted and classified. That which boys hustle iron can get through and surprise your father when he tomos is worthless this evening. Bless their hearts!" she smiled as they slammed out of the front door. On the front porch• sc boys donned the overalls, resemblin •, when they of their country. had assumed tient, loosely wrapped The work is certainly not devoid of packages about to come open. Care- fully they divided the paint, selected clanger, for enemy sharpshooters are each his brush. A bucketful of green ever on the alert to pick! off the mels Cooking Weights. One pint of butter equals a pound. One quart of sifted flour equals a pound. One large pint of sugar equals a pound, Nine large eggs equal a pound. A. pint of cornmeal, 1O"1 ounces. A pint of rice, 15 ounces. A pini: of tapioca, 12 ounces. A. pint of bread crumbs, S'% ounces. A pint of raisins, 9 ounces (lightly measured), A pint of currants, 10 ounces. A pint of brown sugar, 1.9 ounces. A pint of maple sugar broken into crumbly pieces equals It/c pounds. _ An nonce• of buttes•, two level ten- —a dump. Gracelessly they are spoonfuls. handed their tine, their bread; their An ounce of'flour, four level table- cheese, with which they fill their spoonfuls, sandbags. Then, with bulging sacks An. ounce o£ granulated sugar, two over their shoulders, stumbling, sink - level tablespoonfuls. ing into mud, and still grumbling, An ounce of grated chocolate, three they return to the trenches. leveetablespoonfuls. •D An ounce of salt, two level table- A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. spoonfuls, An ounce of cinnamon, four and a }low Australia Has Given of Her ,Sons half level teaspoonfuls. At the Empire's Call. An ounce of cloves, four level table- spoonfuls. 'Bishop Taylor Smith; Chaplain - An ounceeof mace, four level table- General to the Forces, prefbhing at spoonfuls. Westminster Abbey, told a story of An ounce of eons starch, three level self-sacrifice, A wounded Australian tablespoonfuls, soldier hi a military hospital, who An ounce of olive oil, two table- was asked about his home and family spoonfuls, gen to wonder whether after all— This was after they had been paint- ing for fully three-quarters of an hour. The first note of revolt was sounded by Thomas. Thomas, very red-faced, straightened up, holding his back. "Say,you know this is some work?" "Bet" Turpin painted on with a dogged hand -for a moment. Then he paused and glared from under his handkerchiefed head across the fence at his twin. "Say, what you think you're doing?" he demanded belliger- ently. "You better not take off those overalls!" "Who said I was taking 'am off?" I'm just holdin' 'em out from me a little ways, to cool me!" Fretfully he resumed work. In a moment he stopped again. "I'm going to get me a drink," he announced. "So'm I." They went in to the house swiftly, returned laggingly. After the dim coolness of the indoors the tempera- ture out here was unbearable. An intense burning stillness reigned; the white'cemei,t walk blinded their eyes; Mr. White's old collie, next door, pante ed as he lay un-ier a tree. The boys picked up their brushes. It was not long before Turpin suc- cumbed, fell flat to the earth and lay on his back on the grass. • "I'm going to quit!" he declared. "I ain't going to do another lick!" "I ain't neither!" Thomas also dropped. They reclined, lethargic, for a mo- ment. Then, at the same instant, THE UGLY WAKE OF VICTORY 'FH MARK. OF THI:r SIItUGGLIII II�Y FRANCE. Writer Describes a Tour of Shell - Torn Region Recently Won' leach From the Germans. ! i tel The ugly wake of victory! Ugly it Is and uglier it will ,grow. For there is +just one way for• an army to drive on to victory and that is to'furrow the Barth, to wreck vil- lager and cities, to strew the wounded landseapo with dead. The days of Waterloos, Sedans, or Plevnas, of Get tysburgs and Antietams belong to another epoch, one which was produc- tive of wonderful military genius and valor; but which knew little of des- truction. Machine guns, automatic rifles and high explosives have taken the place of cannon balls, grapeshot and the ordinary rifle, and the deadly destructive effect is to be seen now on a hundred battlefields—all of which are part of the second great battle of the Marne. • This region, from the Marne to the Vesle, had been in possession of the Germans for nearly seven weeks. They had riddled village after village with their artillery in their sweep. south fiom the Chemin des. Dames and had defiled and wrecked during their occupation many de the towns and villages. and began. the wank of rehabilitation, ',Flee inherent thrift of the French: stands the suffering' people in good stead now, Titore are few people, even In the pboyest seetions, who have not saved enough to tido there over a crisis, ever] as desperate as ie the prosont for many of them. To describe in zniuute detail the ghastly efl'sets of the thunderous hammering of heavy explosive shells upon a retreating army Or upon the people who seek shelter in flimsy structures would be to shock the sen- sibilities, Yet eo common do the sights become that neither the sol- diers nor the returning refugees give more than passing notice to' unburied dead, It is a rough'' war—the Ger- mans willed that it should be—and it is becoming rougher'. - France is receiving the scars on her beautiful fields, cities and villages, but Germany is sustaining losses which will without doubt startle the German people when the full extent is realized. Dotted With Debris. With the furrowed earth still bleed- ing from its wounds and walls still tottering from the blast of German guns, the tide turned. French, Am- erican and British guns began to hurl their showers of vengeance upon the stricicen countryside; and then, in the trail of the new devastation, stormed the strongholds of the Germans, bat- tling in the streets of half a hundred villages, engaging in deadly combat in a thousand wheat, oat and beet fields; clashing in furious fashion in every woodland and forest, leaving the country dotted with debris, both human and material. The mutilation . of Chateau -Thierry is already known to all the world. The devastation of Soissons is history. Fere-en-Tardenois lies a stricken ruin, its homes masses of wreckage from shell fire and the wanton hand of the enraged Hun, which mutilated, hacked and defiled; its business streets look- ing as if a tornado had played among them; its public statues dented by fragments of shells or flying mason- ry; . its leading church frightfully scarred and fractured; its shops and hones looted. of barbed wire, stakes, ropes, tools, water and went to the ]lead of the etc.; the'1 stion "dump," the ammuni- stairs. 'And Tommy—listen! Look tion "dump," and maybe even a water in that long drawer of the carpenter, "dump" where reserve supplies of table and get out a couple of pairs of water are kept. From here the stores overalls of your father's. I don't are conveyed to the trenches, some- want you boys to be paint all times along the sunken road in limb- over you' ars, sometimes by ration -parties. Thomas ascended the stairs thump - Never are these dumps depleteii,•for ingly, carrying one full bucket, one deficiencies made by the evening's consignment to the line are fully re- peired in the morning on the arrival of the Army wagons and limbers. Four soldiers—a ration party— with empty sandbags rolled under their arms, trudge along through a trench as the night clouds gather in the east.. They plod onwards, swearing and grumbling, till near the, sunken road they reach the quartermaster's stores Is Your Iloure a• Fort?' Is you'hou sgoing to. be fortified like thio during the coming winter Are yeti goissy to have dug -ants fl11ed with stated vegetates and attiee lined 'with', helves of Jars and antriee rich with jelly old ;Ism? If you. do our ,y enemy the Ii,Cl, of L iidea ]rave no terrors .foe ,yeti Why should lse'1 Vesicles{, yen eviI be the right kind of those fiousee,ei Ruin Far and Wide. More than one hundred villages— not to mention dozens of tiniest farm colonies—have passed back into pos- session of the Allies since She big allied offensive started, and what is true of ono is true of practically all. 1 might sneak especially of Mareuil, Sajoneye Neuilly-St. Front, Ouichy-le -Chateau, Epoux, Villeneuve, Coulon- ges, Bruys, Dammard, Beugneux and Fismes. Great forests like the Foret- de-Fere, Foret-tie-Rin, Foret-de- Neslos, being from twenty to fifty kilometres in ease, do not show the ravages of the swaying armies, but the smaller woods afford plenty of evidences that nighty forces have been playing or struggling an, them. I have seen scores of small strips of wood, all of which will have a place in the great history of the war, which have neither leaf nor bough left—just trurecs, and these. barked and bare from the incessant and savage deluge of shells which lifted huge rocks in the forest beds and hurled them about as a giant would toss pebbles` Many woodland stretches where tise`trees are from six to eighteen inches in diameter look much as a ripe wheat field looks after a terrific hail storm has swept over it; look as if a herd of man - moths had risen out of the depths and used the woods for a playground, is left to decay. The rag -pickers are formed into companies, and are mostly composed of old -soldiers wino have seen much service, but continue in the service paint is full of fascinating possibili- ties, potent with promise. "You begin at that end and me at this and work toward the middle," Vested T' Sugg nomas. "Nothin' loin!!" Turpin rolled high The •articles which Are of a danger- ous his overalls and tied his handkerchief tenn!s-fahimn round his forehead. "Be_ character, such as defective and gin together and see who can get out unexploded shells, are destroyed. The to the eyed the quickest:" rest, the majority, is sent to the rear "Olt, now, Tur-rp!" A heated dis- in motor trucks and wagons. Hoiet- 005810n ensued. Clever arguments +iing devices are attached to the wag - were advanced by both sides. At ons for tine lifting of the heavier last a compromise was effected, the articles. Ropes and blocks are also boys agreeing to paint one on the in- carried to candor package more se - side, ohne on 'the outside of the fence. cure, Stra vs were prepared, Thmnas drew As Is natural, the work is slow, only the short one' and work began. being clone .in the uncertain light of For the first few moments there was absorbed. silence. Then Thomas catty morning, and fn the shadows of straightened up pridefully. whenever opportunity oflees, After a battle the ground is tleut:- oughly searched. Everything which can possibly be used, such as grenades and cartridges, is used on the spot. SPARTAN DESPATCHES. Laconic Messages Which Have An- nounced Some Paunette Victories. in Aimee:t e, said: evening. "There were six of us ]ails and •I.'haL's going; to be slick] Just its In the rear all the repairable mater- token as a whole, the crops of Franca nice and green es anything, Looity, sal 1s cleaned and repaired, with the in the war regions will be pretty full. mother. We ail enlisted, and left mo- Turps„ excel>Liun of the larger guns, which they alone. It was her wish. She said Turpin peered over, On the autslde There Was a big loss lietw ire the she hoped no boys of hors would ]sole] o.P'tlie leiter Thomas had drawn a it is impossible. to repair outside tt Marne and the Vesle, bedtime the back tivhen the Mother Country nulled, horizont tl and a vertical ]itis, crossing well-eryuipped munition factory. Those Germans were there wean .the crop aro sent to the towns, where they are ripened. They harvested Considerable onAtlteotlsat battlefields ofeve of us el'tslnce, ltindeT tkd at ufilhingniil the four spacer was he enjoy- remade in rectories which worlt itiglit wheat end soot it back home. 711uoh am the only one left." There were a Turpin settled, "Look et you! ttncl day unceasingly. Some time of it they cut, shocked and left Where few Moments of silence and then he Sl0 ping ppaint all over the grass!" afterwards those same guns are re- it stood, duo to the unoxpeoted haste added, "But I have not told you the "1 ehmttd worry!" Thomas was turner) to draWleg a .£ace 11ow. Eyes, nose, worst. When 1 got this wound some- whiskers, hair; geeyr wifely, "Ili one cabled to my mother' that I had here cbtttos Hicky Mice] }I'ie, peel., ' beds] killed, and that telegram killed "H'lol' I,Pats plirlopocl down erem her.'' It[sbi�ityele aid steed rolling exspves- -.A. resident o:£ the small toweshl of aJon]'ees oyes f'i;otts one to the other of pg id teeing. )fats alkesville Adelaide South A.etstr ti tw A was, mount fei the W , a Ha, informs the Londoet Them that in drug store on an errand fee t!s tneth- a small narrow street of the town "il.wfitl hot"day." ]!ars tfngldcl his ship, Marg ret Street, canslsting of bievelo bell with studied] indifference, only 211 bousos, there are at the Front 'pliero was something shout mow ;eV eieree, EATS DIRE CLEANS-DISINFECTS--.VSED FOR SOFTENING WATER—FOR MAKING i HARDANDSOT SOAP —• F UL .F.. DIRECTIONS WITH EACH CAN, VAISONnell SPLENDID VALOR OF CHAPLAINS ONE KILLED WHILE MINISTER - TNG TO WOUNDED MAN, The Spartan conciseness of some of ',File Bravery of Canada's Chaplains Sir Douglas Haig's despatches often appears to the humble Tommy who has helped in the most practical part of their creation sorely disappointing in its brevity. He thinks of the hell that lies camouflaged] in those cool, precise statements of attack and de- fence; and, wonders whether the offi- cial pen is ever tempted to wander into realms of passionate description. But hlstory can handl us the text of despatches from a seat of war that were even shorter. For example, a great Spartan victory was once an- nounced by the brief phrase, "Persia is humbled,"; while a three -word des- patch—"Athens is taken"—announced the end of the Peloponnesian War. John Sobieski tried to improve on Caesar's famous announcement when ing to carry out the wounded, minis - dardssent the Pope the Mussulman stan- dards captured before Vienna, and• tering to their needs, and offering wrote: "I came, I saw, God conquer- wyingat ettlIisregetmentple was ancould s inspira- tion ed. tion throughout the brigade, for the Phere was no nock modesty about role he was filling was quickly pass- Purenne when he announced the vie- ed slang the line. While he was tory after the battle of Duren, which binding up the wounds of a badly resulted i'ii the recovery of Dunkirk from the Spaniards: "The enemy wounded man, a shell fell and burst neer him. A short time later he was caned,' he wrote, "was beaten; T am tired, good night!" senior Zo dead. It is said by his Suvaroff's concise announcement of : colors of the cloth and the rank the capture of Prague he 1794, "ITur_ and file of the brigade he had work- hah, Prague!—Suvaroft'," was ans- ed with so faithfully and well that wered quite as concisely by his Soy - the was one of the best Chaplains in es erelgn, Catherine: "Bravo, Field -elate the Canadian Corps. shall—Catharine." For the second time the Roman Few military men have been more Catholic padre of a Western brigade terse than General Grant. ?Ifs letter has been wounded. He was busy in to General Buckner, dated Camp an advanced dressing station when a Donelson, February 16th, 1602, is a shell burst close by. Three fragment; model for such epistles: hit him, and while his wounds are y to be "Sir, Yours of this date proposing inphospltal for ily not serious, time. A., he armistice and appointing Commis- was being carried away he said that stoners to settle terms of capitulation he would take dare that he was not is just received. No terms except an kept away from France as long as unconditional and immediate surrend- he was when he was wounded before. er can be accepted. I propose to move The senior Chaplain of a division, immediately upon your works." whose father was the Principal of The despatch Lord Howard of rf- nn Eastern Canada University, is in flngham sent to Queen Elizabeth when the casualty list. He carte to France the Spanish Armada 'fled is classical. early in the war, rued is admired and It consisted of one word: "Cantharis" Is Conspicuous Even on an Army of Gallant Heroes. Roland Hill, correspondent with the - Canadians, • writing from France, says: Will) the decline of the high pitch of excitement connected with the first chapter of the big battle now raging in front of Amiens, stories cf the bravery of individual officers and then, and thrilling incidess s ate gong the rounds of the Ca.iadians in the front and rear lines. The Chaplain of a mounted rifle brigade went over the top on the morning the attack began, with a party of stretcher-bearers. For hours he worked like a Trojan, help - Harvest In War Zone. Strangely enough, the ruthlessness of modern war methods causes more damages to the villages than to the open country. One would be inclined to think that so savage an artillery fire. as is used by both Germans and the Allies would result in complete ruin of all crops—but it doesn't. Near Belleau there is a wheat field which for several- weeks was No Man's Land. German trenches end wire ran an irregular course through one edge cf it; French and American trenches strung their zigzag evay, through the other edge. Occasionally there were raids, paths wore worn through the f eta, but the wheat grew and ripened. The day' after tate lines were advanced in thin region French poasenteemere ;ii' paring for the harvest. A week after the combatants had taken posi- tions well to the north the peasants, with old-fashioned scythes, calve and gsthered in the harvest. Trenches, Pathways, and a few limit holds had (wised a loss of perhaps five per cent. of the -crop. In some sections where the fighting was continued for morn than a day the fields suffered considerably, but Che"Spanish fly. .. loved by all ranks throughout the corps. A few days ago he was close ,to the front line reconnoitring for a Aerial Scenery. !location to establish a centre, from Nearly everyone is familiar with which to distribute free biscuits, eig- the view from a train, or a boat, ora arettes and drinks, a feature of what 'bus. We have the dimmest concep- is known its the Chaplain service, tion however of aerial scenery, mere- wisest he was struck down by enemy ly making a vague guess at what it bullets, and painfully, but not severe - is like from the birdseye views which ly wounded. are sometimes published In the pa- pers. The chief features of aerial scenery are not to be found on earth, but in the clouds, and it is said .IsIsat no country can equal England' "in this respect, says an English newspaper. "No other country has such color in the air," says one of our aviators. "The magic and beauty of England can only be understood when viewed from the romance and mystery of the clouds. It may be dull November, and a smoky city. We mount aloft, and in a few minutes we are under the bright sunshine and deep blue sky. The gloom of earth is replaced by pearly white clouds, with their Intl- nite variety of shape rimmed with the rainbow." You must john the R.A.F. to get the views! its iduetape, no [ewer than L9- blood Rice which always atousad iss::Turpht relations --•fathers, sons, brothers, an itching antegotilsm, Se new he re- uneles, cousfue--•of the occupants of plied beuequelyt "1 dots t cell tlsis a hot dill the Front to do further deadly work en the enemy, A slight idea of the immense value of Mile work can be gained when it is stated tisat In one month two thousand tons of iron and steel thirty-two tons of copper, one millions rifle eartridges, two thole -geed trench bombs, and one thousand finds forty-three rides write strewn pell-mell across the torn -tip battlefield of one Army shone, with which they were forced to start north. Life Beginning Again. 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