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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-9-26, Page 6tszmo MADE. IN CANADA Eani.ClLi T'' CO. LTD, ionir)CANADA WlNNl�ltYtlONYnC'AI. .Adept no Substitu Insist upon t1 a genuine 1 None other is so (av6',$d?SLtSSll'kAi6/iAl i1Cli uie or so delicious in flavour. e4-14 111Y SUMME If there is anything on dile farm, that I could not, do without, it is our "summer; kitchen," the little two-. eisr log house in width my husband 1 I started_ housekeeping. As the years passed and bur family increas- ed we neededmoreroom so we moved it back to make room for. a modern two-story house, It is now connect- ed with the house by a broad covered platform that is shaded and almost covered with a -wild -grape viae, Both rooms have outside doors; the little old tyindows were made' larger` and several new ones added. In the larger room is a large zinc- covered table and`a smaller one fast- ened to the wall that can be lowered when not in nee. Across one end is' a oupboard reaching to the coiling with large drawers at the bottom; a smaller cupboard stands on the oth- er side; then there is an old kitchen stove that burns either coal or wood, a new three -burner one -stove with a large oven, two straight back chairs, and a comfortable rocking chair. Here the laundry is clone all the - year; and fruit and vegetable can- ning and most of the cooking during the summer_ If I wish to boil a ham, roast, bake or• cobk anything • that requires a long steady heat, I always go to the summer kitchen. It is an ideal place inthe winter for making- sausage at butchering time and I can cook turnips, cabbage and sewer -kraut without any odor reach- ung the house to offend some fastidi- ous member of my family. - In the smaller room is a small cup- board, where I keep all the vegetable' and flower seeds I gather for next year's planting, Ilere too are my garden. tools and a well-equipped tool: chest, with nails of .all sizes. Many's the bit of repairing I de myself. 'My summer kitchen is often turn- ed into an emergency, hospital for motherless chickens; more than one tiny pig here has been warmed, fed and allowed to grant and squeal itself back to life; and here, in a corner, is a piece of an old buffalo robe where Tabby can raise her family and purr in safe comfort. e There is always room in the summer kitchen for any- thing that it wanted near the house but not in the house. Every spring the little building is whitewashed inside' and ont; it is such a clean, `cheery, home -like piece that no one ever passes its open door without stopping; father lingers to chat with mother; the hired men look in as'they go and come from the fields; and company always takes an enjoyable peep. Stately hollyhocks grow in profu- sion near the doors, and one end of the roof is overrun with a sweet - scented honey-sucicle: ,•a clump of golden -glow peeps en at the window where the tomatoes on the sill ripen in the sun; great clusters of hopvine shade the south window, and here is a bed of parsley, .mint,; sage, -thyme, chives and dill, with a great mass of pink and white hardy phlox for pure joy, The summer kitchen is my kingdom where I reign supreme! I think a summer kitchen, on a farm, is as necessary for the work of a farm family, as horses and plow are for eultivatinnt of thefarm,--L.C. efelliful Kitchen Hints. Many steps to and fro in the kit - Chen can he saved by using a large R KITCHEN, ^, work table foie your mixing, etc,, and having ready on it a dozen two .quart preserve jars in n row, Containing tea, coffee, cocoa, flout•, eager, salt, cornmeal oatmeal eke and two or three wheat substitutes" Q11 vine- gar, Spices, flavoring exeraets, de, all have their special place and are right at hand as you ,voik. The table &sever contains jcnives, spoons, forks, egg beater and other imple- ments required. The glass measur- ing cubs and mixing' bowie of white agate have their special, corner of the table, and the pots -Intl pane are hanging conveniently nese.. It is thus easier to , keep order. Using the jars has the double advantage of keeping cereals dry and 'rash, did, being glass, it is- casy. rte see at e glance when your supply of anything is getting low. With pad andpen- cil, always on the table one does not forget to order what is_required;' A small asbestos mat to .rest• -hot pote ou saves the oilcloth. Always save the inner paper from your empty cracker boxes, it is ease- ful in a hundred ways. Use the sice'tvers that come in. your roast beef for testing cake, bread, etc. If it does not stick and eoiFies out clear, you know the cake is thor- oughly cooked. If yo ; wash peas before shelling them a iourlshing soup con be made from the pods. If your cheese is too fresh and soft to .grate, putit through the potato ricer. Wipe the eggs 'Which you use dur- ing the day with a damp cloth he.foeo breaking them, then you can drop the shells in your coffee pot and it will help clear the coffee next morning. A slice of fresh bread put hi the cake box will keep the cake from getting dry and stale. A little saucerfuleof charcoal will keep the icebox sweet. -- When peeling onions hold them in a bowl of cold water and you will neith- er weep nor keep the odor en your hands. - Teach Theut Young. It is one of the duties of tsar to make' bhe kiddies useful little citi- zens and the most enthusiastic little canner in the world is_the yotngster who Is being initiated_ into the art. What she learns.at ten she evil know thoroughly ten years later. So -en- list the kiddies and show then how! Teach-- them first of all to make jam and jelly. For grape jet y boll 4 pounds of grapes without the su- gar for ten minutes, or until the quantity is reduced; Meat the se - gar ovenand actd an very hot to the liquid, so that the tempera- ture will not be - eatly reduced. When all is dissolved, bring to a boil again and continue from three to five .111i nutes. • Test, and when" done, re- move and put away in unsealed jars.• When .cool, seal with melted paraffin. • green Pain h'ertumtte!y tot' Two Smell Dope Father !Bird Gbange Hie 1)111il1 liegercliug the Color fur Ferto4S. I3y Mali 01 .Dill, Peet Rite boys arose. It way nnneees- earyfor either to exphrin They were adept et "mind reading, All that was said was whet Turp said, complete satiefiation, Dad 115(1 done petty well but -it ,Second Coat! I'eiher ]3ird somehow eensed the Strain, Ile added a last- offhand item. tense. Tee goi're' to ggt Inc anothcr'dr7luc "- And whet& the job's ail done" said 'fore I begin. What you hafto tag Father, "You --•I reckon We'll have after Ole ell the time for?" fiercely, i to see whet we can do shout the "Stay where you're tet --I'll bring yew Scout memberships, I've been think" a cla•init yo:u're so tbhe ars all ing quite a long Nemt'hi't there isn't that!" anything mach bettor for a fellow Thomas sebmitted, It :scented to than being 4 Scout. , MateMian him 'he had never been so warm,, Ile bravo, y'. know, teaches hint a lot of felt his. shirtwaist front, his collar`praddeal things and that business .band, his sleeves, Then with a de- doing a kind deed, each day --well,. Rant hand „Ise reached at'otuid anti un- that's trite right kine] of atufe." fastened his overalls., Thd boys gave a whoop then, The "Don't care ii! I clo get paint on clond 'of . depression lifted for good— tne," he grumbled, "I'm going to a world of sunshiste flooded thole pull the old things oft!„ souls, Father had spared himself, He slid the overalls down over itis Father was all right. They raced teat, e haling s luxuriant breath (sr far' the front gate and charged down bliss, the street, "Zowiel That 'feels good!" He Mother Biel saw them from the leaned against the fence, gazring idly dining-rypm' window. She knew uP the seer et. what that .meant—candy, iceraream Suddenly his apathetic gaze tigh- cones,' chewing gum, pickles, peanuts, toned irtto recognition. A figure was ginger ale—sato appetite 'for supper, conning towards hien, 'Along the side- But she held her peace„ - walk -r -his father, two hours anda hale abend of time. "Viritoo-oof! Jimini crioketsI" Tom threw a glanoe at bhe fence. Then, "'Trp!" he hissed. . "Tar-rp!" This was tragedy. The 'swelled surprise was altsquashed in the head! "Turps" again. • Tom made for the gate; started on a dead run for the house. In his haste he neglected to look beforel1e:leaped, Turpin's bucket of paint stood immediately in his path. and over it- Tom stumbled and fell. Green paint flew up in a glory 'of spat - tet -ever the content walk; green paint spouted and splashed in full baptism over all the pansies in. Father Bird's favorite pansy bed. ,Before Tom could rise from the ruins his father Was upon him, evi- dencing, by the speed with which he reached his son, the •truth of the statements as .to the supremacy of mired over matter, that a ).lack is a mere nothing where large,,],• issues are concerned. ee Father Bird elut ed Itis son. "You xottng roast le he exploded. "What do you mean ?,e- Is there any shells or guts, or even rifle bullets, devilment on the face of this earth without nipkel. The same is true of youeboys don't think of? I ling armorpTates for warships, From 3 what do you means" All those fur- t63 1/2 per eeneees.e.eesilred for harcl- ther things which b ether Bird -longed But there is very little ,nickel to say but was forbidden by his pose-'ening' in Germany and not mach in Norway, from whose limited deposits the Kais- er has drawn to the utmost possible extent, .,yNot until 1863 was nickel seen or l ui',vn--in quantity anywhere in the world, though things had been thinly plated with it by electrolyzieg a sul- phate of the metal: But its that year Joseph Wharton, a Philadelphians, dis- pvoprnate thunderungs and fled. covered a process for obtaining it in leather Bird put hie -hand to itis the mass from ores at Gap, Pa. back and gazed at the (once, at the Great deposits were later found in walla, at the pansy bed •where each New Caledonia, South Pacific, which little pansy lifted a piteous, green- became the principal source of the freckled face.' Then he went out to world's supply of nickel. But in 1893 a vastly larger yield began to be de- rived from fabulously rich ore bodies in •the Sudbury district of Ontario, which previously -lead been worked for ,copper. Since then nickel has gone down greatly in price, the market quotation being now about forty cents a pound. It is the only motel that has not sky- rocketed since the war began—Prob- e "The white paint?" She•sat up on ably because the British Government the side of the bed. "You were go- 'dad not wish it to beewno too expen- ing to paint it white` again, Samn, sive. after all that trouble we had that Up to now all the Canadian ores time before? I particularly told have been shipped in the form of a them the green! They 'were doing concentrate ( mixture of iron, sal• it to surprise you," she added. phot nickel and copper) to Bayonne, "To—what? Rage still choked N. J, to be refined. But huge refining him. tants arc: now !nein erected in Can - "'Co rpri suse you because you had g the lumbago. Been out there nearl "Little scamps!" she murmured af, feetionately. "Myl—that fence the painted surely does look an Keefe sight, thought" ' (The end.) .:'• 1 NICKEL AND THE KAISER, So Scarce is This Metal That Wag. meats of Shells Are Collected. The merchant submarine Deutsch- land on her return to Germany took back -with her a cargo consisting al- most wholly of nickel. It was more precious than gold teethe Kaiser. Every shell fired from the Attlee guns—every fragment, that is to say —is to the Germans a thing of value and is picked up or dug up when found, for the salce of the nickel it contains.- Women by 'thousands are employed at this kind of work behind the lines, It is impossible to make best -class tvrrrV CHEATING THE TIN SHARKS HOW BRITAIN I5 01,ITWIx'I'I110 TILE II.IlN pu A'TEs. Admiralty. Announces That 417 Yes- sels Iiav4 Been Recovered and Again Put Into ;service. Mastery of the Bea,/with all its iasaination mid romtmchas become za passion so strongly bred in the'bone o1 the Briton that he pref14ees ever to cent'ess defeat when a'problent of the ooeares depths confronts hien. , So firmlyimbetled in itis natnre.is this trait that he simply could not accept the record of his losses in steamships by German submarines. -.as final, even when hie ships had been sent to the bottom of the green waters that sur- round ids isles. He started in ettetll- eilically, with the dogged pluck and inability to confess defeat which have shown in his character so markedly in this war, to seek practicable means of. recovering at least part of - what the enemy had taken from him Y. by the torpedo and the under -water 1' • tae, What has been accomplished forms one of the most amazing chapters of achievement in the history of all hu- man endeavor. In one year and a half since January 1, 1917rthe British Ad- miralty ,nes raised from the depths 41', cargo steamships and has suc- ceeded in recovering more than two- thirds wo thirds of the freight they carried:" Scme perishable portions of the car- goes were ruined by their long im- mersion, but one giant steamship torn front her ocean -grave for a new lease I of usefhil life had been laden with merchandise valued at $16,000,000 and every penny's worth of that loss was recovered.. Another huge vessel tt raised and a $10,000,000 cargo re- covered. Mon as Sunday -School superintend- ent, 'seethed In bis eyes. Thomas tore himself loose, His blue eyes were two flames. Usually a mild, nice little boy, he became be- fore his father's eyes a savage young demon; "What --what do you mean?" he choked, "What do yon mean your- self, catchin "hold of a fellow an'—" Helplessly Thomas struggled for tip - the walk and creakingly picked'up the overall Then he hobbled- into the house. e Mother Bird started up from the bed where she had been tryingeeo take a Ilap. "Why, Sant, what you doing home?" she inquired, "Is your back worse?" ' He began sputtering explanation bub Mother ]3ird interrupted him in theheart o:f his fmrst sentence. }' fila to handle this industry, two hours, working like anything! --- .. It's an awfully hot day." T} E 1'12EST\T7'-IrxtY 13 IIU \TLl' Ito you mean to tell are, Nell—do you expect me to believe that those "It is too bed.about your.,pctnsies," --'- young--" Employed With the ltilie by,. All the Mother Bird went'to the mirror and Fighting Rifles: took down her pretty gray hair. The arms of the infantryman of "That was an accident, though. of all nations are the rifle—and the bay - course." once. Despite the progress of, mech- Suppose the overalls were an ac- anical inventions and all the improve- cident, boo," Father Bird remarked meats in weapons, the oldest wca- dtyly, He sati:here•for a while then rose von of all—the. spear or Ifike—for with a sheepish senile. that is what a bayonet t eally is--re- "Wol]—it's up to ins to apologize!" mains the beat for close-quarter'fight- he confessed, "Etit you'll have to ad- ing. Most nations use a long, single - edged blade, but there is a wide var- iation in .tlto.,preciso length deemed Most suitable, for the design of the bayonet is regulated by the length, weight, and poise of the trifle to which it is to be attacked, Thus the Bri- tish bayonet is longer than the Ger- man to compensate for the shorter barrel of the British ` rifle. The' French rifle on the other hand is longer than either -the British or the German, yet 'its bayonet is also mit, Nell, that judging from the past I could hardly have been ,prepared for such consideration on the part of my sons! Where do you reckon they've gone?" - "Oh, -I don't know --they won't comp back till supper time now." Moti'ler Bird stuck in her final hair- "They'll stay clear of here.' You see, they'ee trying to gee, into the Boy. Scouts," she added answer- ing his defense. The twins did "stay clear" until six o'clock, Then they came fooling slowly up the walk and lounged on the front porch. longer. It has no cutting edges, but Father Bird was reading !n the is siinply a slender diamond sectioned parlor. When he saw theist he put stiletto of special steel. This light - down his paper and stole to the nese and length makes the French screen door where he stood out of rifle and bayonet a very dangerous eye range and listened. weapon to encounter, and ives it an You might 5ust's well tale vhat's advantage of longer resell over the shorter blade or sword type bayonet of the Germans, It wee in 1647 that Puysegur intros dueecl •at the siege of Ypres the'°idea of a short dagger blade sot in a wooden plug which could be inserted in the, muzzle fo the musket, thus converting it to a pike. This invent - lion hailed .from 'Bayonne evhencc the name "bayonet,' which 1155 ever sieve been applied to all white weep- ots used in C011,1b117at0O11 with a fire -e xrm; The early bayonets were usually" Irian eller it sectionand uteri with t all )l w blood t unit 1 no 1 ; cover, designed to Mein n serious and disabling wounct. In wrenching the weapon clear, however, it was no unusual thing for it to be- come detached and remain in tiho body. Te prevent this Sir John Moore lit 1806 designed it bayonet socket fastening with a spring clip so that it could not ba easily removed by ac- cidont, This and the triangular bay- o11et remained as standards in the British service until the magazine Cilie was adopted and a epeclal short sword bayonet, the predecessor of the prescut name, was designed to int it. "Only the brave know how to for. give, A reward never forgave -•it is .not' his nature,"_ -..Sterno, PRISONERS SHOT IF TOO WEAK BRUTAL TREATMENT OF WAR CAPTIVES IN HUN CAMPS Prodded. With Bayonets and Rifle Butts, Starved and Refused Medical Attention. 'Che brutal treatment of prisoners of war by the Gernians is described he a wounded British prisoner, res patriated from Germany, who has arrived at The Hague. All prisoners are badly treated, and are an virtu- ally starvation rations, The prison camps at Settee and Cressen, in Prus- sia, ere reported to be in particularly evilcondition, Belgian prieonere, who were the moat numerous in the camp at Sol.' tau, were'approttched several months ago by two civilians who claimed to be Flemings. They were introduced Is y the commandant, with the object of inducing rho Belgians to side with Germatly, They-, however, stoned these ensissarles and made . things unpleasant for the eomnlandalit, • wltli the result that the whole camp was visited with punishment for it fortnight, The condition of Rtnesiart prison•, bre throughout all the German damps, from which these British ineleeners :had coma ie deelaro'1 to bo Mtiahlo, Thera had leen many lc cases of death from starvation among the Russians, some of ,,whom had been .shot end beaten when they were unable to perform the task,e imposed on them, Several of the British soldiers came from Stralkowo, in the Pro- vince of 'Neese where' about, 300 British are conflned,e rTh ef weeks ks ago thirty Americans arrived there. Deaths Verne Neglect. At the camp at Crosson, in Bran- denburg, prisoners working behind the German lines were given little food. Many of these then sufeecd• from dropsy and neurasthenia, aed many deaths occurred, hist one time there were in this camp -140 British pl'isonees, captured in A.pr•ii, and ten Americans captured in May, They Were, compelled to week on than rallways carrying heave rail,' and pushing threes for Lwe!,' hours at s etretele Their fond roneleted of Germansone ,ll tom cI, cc Memel. Tf they •fn rl m' ne i,l tltc-lnot'n- Ing quickly 1 herr the teermais called them to Work, ,,they wore prodded with bayonets and hit with rifle butts, It is declared that one man so treat- ed was found dead next morning. !Yost of these men arrived ntth Crosson camp Gni Augnet 24. hi an extremely seeloue-condition, . They were inspected after a few days, and after a few days were set out again. They had been sept behind the Ger- man lines ft•om Aprli to 'the latter pant of, August, The Victoria Crass its susl7oniled by o, rod ribbon when Worn by a soldier, ndi fa om .a. itiito ribbon by 1ailard, coming to you!” 7.tirpnn eves advis- ing in s hard uttclertone, "You'll get yours,' Serve us geed anti .right for trying to be le •dl" ". "Going to paint the old fence svelte?" -Tom's voice now' "I -call that punkt - Wait'll the first rain comes along an' then where'll it be? -Leek 11 heap better green!" :rather Bird opened the .door and stepped out. - "1 don't know but What I agree. with you, son," "Sir 7'Torn arose and osteetabions- ly turned himself fatherward. It is rarely that a boy of any agog he ho eight or eighty, apologizes by weed of mouth, elf there is speech, it 1`+ of the rottndab�tit sort, cuched in el 011 manner AS, 1181 to' involve the speaker• in any aertteat!on of senti- mentality. Generally male creatures net on the pr.'inciple thatnotions are louden titan words. , ways they iindet'stnnd each other.. rather bird drew two shining now (qmatters from his imeket, jingled tlteii1,- "I don't know but green does look better," he went on, "11/fore the color of tite grass and the trees. When you feliow;s got it snnootlted3 up a bit -...a seoen aoat-••-know enybaly yep think 10(10 And any use for these?" i'to proffered cl theaquuarters, boys, after a second's ltesitn- tidn, tools them ,but the silence that hung In the air was not that of. Rescuing a Tanker. One of the vessels raised was of American register. Before the war she would not have been accounted as of great value, for she was the once - despised tanker. But in the condi- tions that have prevailed since 1014 site was a precious adjunct to the great •supply deet needed by Great Britain to maintain adequate fuel stores for ships of the navy, When this tanker, the name of which is withheld': of course, was found to be ie flames and all but a total wreck, tumbling •shout. in the waters of the English Channel, with dense volumes of smoke rising from her hold,. the Salvage Corps went out to her, tools one good _look and then sammened a destroyer:. At the request of the Sal- vage Corps the destroyer fired two shells into the derelict and put all of her hull beneath the waves. The tanker sank in comparatively shallow water. Just as soon as it was reasonably certain that the fire had been quenched divers were sent town to repair the gaps in the hull, torn by the destroyer's shells, and when this work was finished giant pumps were sunk into tate hold to clear the water that held her clown Slowly she rose, foot by foot, a little each day, until after more than a month of labor she was again sutli- eienti.ly above the level of the sea to permit of her being towed to port. But the fire -blasted and twisted iron of her upper works bore little resem- blance of a ship that was yet to have a career o:f usefulness. Has Crossed the Ocean, 4 The apparent hopelessness of the las]l"befere them didn't deter the Sal- vage Carps,,for ti moment. They got the -battered hulk into port and, first of all, examined the oil tanks to find cut if any of the valuable fuel was ; still fit for use. To their surprise and to that of all. who had seen the old tank ablaze out in the Channel more than half of the oil was pumped out in good 'condition, and then expert shipwrights went to work to replace the damaged plates in her hull and to build new upper works, - In less than 'three months their work was finished and the vessel was once more put into commission. She arrived at an American port late in July and is once more in regular ser- vice/ carrying American fuel oil to the British Navy, She is decorated with the puzzling camouflage designs adopted by British experts to make the U-boat's task more difficult and she carries 16,000 bons of oil on every trap she makes eastward across the ocean.. The official report of her sal- vage 'states that the ell recovered from her wrecked hull amounted to nior•e than„8,000 tons., - Another Notable Instance, Another vessel found to be in flares in the English Channel was of British register, She was of he regulation ion steamship construction. not atanker, >• and the problem .of saving her from total destruction wee greater than in the case of the Athericen tanker, for practically all her hull above the water line was in flames. She was laden with a shipment of munit'ions from the United States and the fire had made its way into the mngazinses where these were stored. From time, to time she was shaken by explosions and then 'fleetly the ere,gained such headway that her' ]nt11 wee completely concealed by the smoke. As was done with the tanker,she was deliberately sent to the bottom by a British doss tro er v but before this was Gleno the flames had almost completely des- troyed all of leer structure above the water line, Again divers were sent below The surfame. They made such repairs as tugs towed her Into an tnglleh •har her. 'There; the unexploded a msitfone still in the held were taken out end were emend to amount to 5ltnosk one- half of the entire cargo, Rebuilding work has been eetrled outrapid!y and e steamship is now ready to'go out . again .,to brave the German and his ' submarines. In the fire which wrecked c1 her thirty-one itten lost their lives,- 'Niue. Values involved. Details of the sieving of tlieee:two vessels were made public -try the Bol - tisk Gevoaemotii; so that the 'public might knew the value of the teeke eeeompllshed by the Admiralty Sal, vette Corps, Atitonishing as 'gore the results in these !Ave instanees, it le a fact neVl:a'ilteless, that King George's Ministers regard them as relatively unim o>taab, That is wby puls a t1on was permitted. Of the other facts, such se th saving of one giant steamship, w''hose cargo was valued at $16,000,000, and of another with freight .on board worth $10,000,000, there is silence. To tell what was done, to savethem, where .they wore sunk, or even to tell their names, might give information of. value to the enemy, add Great Britain is not running•that Tisk, TO THE Pi'rl,OPLES OF RUSSIA Statement of the Allies' Att11sa le Toward the Russian Nation. 'i'he following "eclaration by the British Government Io the Peoples of Russia" has' been published by the British Representatives at Vladivos- tock, Murmansk, and Archangel; 'Your Allies have nor"' forgotten you. We remember all the services which your heroic armies rendered us in the easily years bf the war, We are coming as friends to help you to save yourselves from dismemberment and destruction at the hands of Ger- many, "who is trying to enslave your people and to use the great resources of your country for their own ends. "But we wish solemnly to assure you that, while our troops are enter. ing Russia to assist you' in your against Germany, we shall not rtain one foot of your territory, We deplore the civil war that divides you, and the internal dissensions that facilitate the German plans of con- quest. But we have No intention of imposing on Russia any political system. The destinies of Russia are in the hands of the Russian people. It is for them, and them alone, to decide their form of Government and to find a solution for their social prob- lems. "Peoples of Russia! Your very existence as an independent nation is at stake. The liberties you have won in the Revolution are threatened with extinction by .the iron hand of Ger- many. Rally round the banner of freedom and independent, that we, who are still your Allies, are raising in your midst and secure the triumphs of those two great principles, Without which there ran be no lasting peace of real liberty for the world, "Peoples of Russia! We want not only to stem German penetration, but to bring economic relief to your ruin- ed and suffering country. Some sup- plies we have sent, and there are more to follbw, It is our wish to aid the development of flee industrial and natural resources of your country, not to exploit them for ourseolves•—to restore the exchange of goods, to stimulate agriculture, and to enable you to take your rightful place among elle free nations of the world, "Peoples of Russia! Unite with us in defence of your liberties. Our one desire is to see Russia strong and free, and then to retire and watch the. Russian people work out its destinies in accordance with the freely -expres- sed wishes of the people," • THE NAVY'S PLAYGROUND Where Britain's Jack Tars Disport Themselves. There is a little island—somewhere —very dear to marry men of the Bri- tish Navy. It is very small, being only. about five tiles in length, and its breadth varying from two miles to half a mile. It is the playground of the Grand Fleet. Before the war it was a barren, wind-swept wilder- ness, inhabited by a mere handful of peasants, whose quaint squat cot- tages are clotted here and there over the hillside. Now, says a London writer, a full 18 -hole golf course has been made, Rugby, soccer and hockey fields, and near the Y.M.C.A, but a large boxing stadium capable of seat- ing more than 10,000 spectators, The little island, so desolate in peace time, has now become the best known and most_ popular pace for miles around, Every afternoon, dur- ing both summer and winter, officers and morhind from shipss in the har- bor, sense- to play games, others to go for walks, The chief attraction of a walk ie the tea Which one gets at any of the little cottages or farms. Home- made scones, oat cakes, bread and butter and eggs are the :fare. The golf -club house for officers is the meeting -place .for officers of all ships and squadrons, and it is not aC all un- common for one --of them to enter and suddenly find himself confronted by an old friend whom he last saw on sour distant foreign station. • Produce is the Call.• "Whosoever makestt t ocont urs f e e s o1• two blades of grass grow where only one grew before deserves better of mankind and does tittore essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians . put together." -- Swift. PERISCOPE HARD TO DETECT -Only One and Qac -Yale' inches Thick and Appears Momentarily, If the popt}lar conception 'of the periscope and the manner in which it is brought to the surface and low- erod were accurate, chasing submar- ines would be a much easier task than., American destroyer commanders have laid out for them, They do not see a - pipe four or five inches in diameter with Lenses at the top swishing through the water or disappearing during the rather slow process of sub- merging a U-boat. Instead they see, ie_they are for- tunate enough, a slender pipe not more than one and a half inches in diameter shoot up above the surface end disappear within p few seconds. It is the telescopic periscope, that may be operated from a. depth of ser- um] feet. Alt underwater craft are now equipped with theta rather than the old type which, through photo- graphs and drawings, have been im- pressed upon marry persons. The operation of the periscope is controlled to a large extent by a vary delicate instrument which denotes to the U-boat commander the condition of the sea at the surface, 71' it is comparatively smooth, which en- hances the danger of detection, he need raise the periscope only a few inches above ethe surfoce. If it et rough he must raise the "eye" higher, but he really is in not as great clanger as if the water was calm because it is difficult for an observer on another ship to see the small instrument in 0 heavy sea.. The instrument is controlled byi water pressure, which varies with the leedel height and violence of the waves and shows actual surface conditions on an indicator in the ship. In one successful fleet with a U- boat it was estimated that •the peri- scope was visible less than ten sec- onds, It carne up vary close to a destroyer, doubtless a great deal closer than the submarine commander had reckoned. and when 11e realised his peril he attempted to scurry away. But a depth charge was dropped and German submarine power. decree:50d by one boat, Bogs In War. The way in which dotty tire now being used by the French in order to save elan power ami to spare h:Inlan life is one of the most interesting sub- • eats one can imagine. War dogs weer not compulsory in the +Artie, the Gen- erals enerals were allowed to use their own discretion whether they would em- ploy, them or not. To -day the dogs are an integral part of the French Artny. Sheep clogs Orn the most sat- isfactory war clogs, and it a curinv.a fact that purely sporting .11091 aro, es a rule, the least useful. Any mats with moth eal.m idea21 'simply has to air itis opinions, 1S s• .Yrr:. rom.ii�:d `into 6 c � rcaet+L' �• ssc�, t, ma - I t s r o' yyyyyy YryRONb CAk'.e Tette outward beauty A that dlctin0ulahe3 a Williams New Scale Plano Is an index of' Its Intrinelo worth. Ideals are built into every ono of these f a in o u a Instrumento-- ideala of oraftomnshlp untfalow Modelr $450,00 that metro for the most enduring quality. Ell WILLIAM S PIA.! Ci , lump, OSFIAWA, on. Canada's Oldest, andrl.arooe Pianq i4SNicere :.b,.A.«,.u. .. �ueai3'� - ^'-��. a^�iieiai�imL•. fYm'"-r�t�!.'i7[nR"K.Yr