The Clinton News Record, 1918-11-7, Page 6scale
IS not only the most economical on account
its great strength but you have the refreshing
and delicious qualthes as well. 134 90
Ask your Grocer. ,In Sealed Metal Packets.
Food Savers. flower In the balciug dish. Sprinkle
, Tinder the emend: manful foed
tenattions we have had 1:0 look around
tis for SttN'Ca'S for many of bhe 5taP18
TOUCIS that we have uzed GO OSTOlossly
4111,a abandantly in the peel., and we
find that .traits and vegetables collie
to our reecue-tee Saaers of goveral im-
Per:bane foeas. This simple c1es:411W
"rrien. is g help to Otir thought:
Meat Severe -green- peas, :beans,
(kidney, lhna arid soy.) •
..Cereal and 'wheat .saverseepotatoes,
tweet potatoes, bananas. 'a
Sugar Saverse-Sweet potatoes,
••••• cern, all fruit, melons.
The Protein in beans and peas le
net the eame as in the meat end White
NVO inay •Stlfely,XlSO beans and pests
plentifully in place of meat and to
save the supply ,of meat, yet they can
not :be called a substitute for meat,
When combined with milk the protein
of peas and beam betimes more of a
substitete dish.
Bight or nate ounces or a large serv-
ing of peas and beans supPlies 85
much protein as a serving of .average
beef,
.A small potato supplies ea mach
starch as a slice of bread. Potatoes
may be seb.stlituted for one-fourth of
the wheat flotn. used in bread or Tolls
and in many recipes for whichawheat
flotte is uesel.
The green, succulent vegetables and
all fruits are valuable in the diet for
their eupply of mineral substances
which act as a purifier to the blood,
end aidin forniebing the lmileling Ina -
:cried Of the imely.
Frulte eentain a large percentage
of sugar and may be eaten cooked or
rO.W. Fresh fruit and melons for
desserts take the place of prepared
desserts requiring sugar, time, labor
ard a hot kitchen.
The eimpleet way to serve vege-
tables is always the beet, that is, boil-
ed, steamed -el -baked and served with
a little butter, milkor crease and este,
soning, However, when we ere using
them every day in large quantities we
begin to look for other ways Of serv-
ing them. ss
Cauliflower with Tomato Sauce -1
head cauliflower, 2 tablespoons: barley
flour,"1 cup strained tomato juice; 1
slice onion, 2 tablespoons fat, 1 tea-
spoon ealt, pepper. Wash the cauli-
flower in .s.everal waters to remove
ell the sand, and ;foreign substances.
a few bread crumbs over the top and
bake sheet ten minutes in thO oven,
Serve on platter without breaking the
head of cauliflower,
If snore of the tomato 'sauce is de.
oired, double the ameent and rgserve
half of the sauce and pour around -the
eaulillower just before .serving.
•Dheese sauce is aleo good 101' this
dish,
Spanish Ilash:-1 quart cooked to-
inetees, 1 cup rice, Se pound Hamburg
steak, 3 teaspoons -salt, pepper to
taste, 2 green peppers, 1 onion chop-
ped fine. Peel the -tomatoes and•coolc
them until eat. Wash the rice and -
soak in a large amount of bofling wa-
ter untLl tendese drain and- add the hot
tomatoes. Brown the meat in a try-
ing pan with the minced onion and sea -
seining and add to the tomato enixeute;
add bhe green peppers. Cook slowly
•for half an hour until all is well blend-
ed and the peppers ma clone.
Speghetti or RII(Wal:Oni is good cern-
billed in the same manner in place •of
the rice, (atter the war .wilen wheat
pro:ttzteav ttCVsAoilrG
l::‘-veblaopreg,eel
.,Aloat:oor cper:,n,oe
hibittre).
Squaw
6 slices a lateen; salt and pepper to
taste. took the ears ef corn ten to
twelve minutes in boiling salted wa-
ter then drain and cut the eons from
tile cob. Cook the bacon in u :fryireg
pan until nicely browned, draia off
most of fat from the pan and add the
corn and seasoning., Stir the -corn
carefully.tes it browns and wheis all is
nicely browned add the bacon cut into
inch pieces 'and serve hot. When
cooking corn on the cob for dinner,
enough may be cooked at the same
time to Make squaw corn without es-
pecially cooking corn for the purpeee.
A cup of. tomatoes •zulcied to the
browned corn makes a, pletaing
change.
Cioamed Carrots, Peas and Potateds
-2 saps cooked diced potatoes, 1 cup
cooked peas, 2 cups medium white
sauce, 1 cap cooked, cubed carrots, salt
and pepper. Prepare the vegetables
by peeling and =thing into half-inch
dice and cooking in boiling water until
tender. Make the white sauce of :two
tablespoons of melted fat, add four
tablespoons of flour and stir until
snencia. Then add two cups of Milk
and stir lintel it thickens caul bebbles
up once. Trein the vegetables when
done, add to the white eauce, add .tha-
Cook ten nensistes in limiting salted wa- aoning to tate and put sato a serving
ter, then dvainewell and. Place in a dish, Spriekle finely minced parsley
buttered baking dish. -over the top of the dish to add a hit
Foe +the -sauce: melt the fat in a pars, of brightheiss and gaenisli to the dish.
Stuffed Baked Potatoes:=Bke, Cut
lengthwise, being careful not to break
skin, scoop out the pulp, put in a bowl
and mash. Add cream, fat, season-
ing and beaten "egg white. Refill akin
with mixture, brush tops with egg
white, return te Oven to brown. Vary
by adding, minced ham or grated
cheese to the mashed potato filling.
Soups and Seesoninge:-Al • -this
time of the year, celery topseparsley,
•mint leaves and many of the season-
ings desired for use in the 4ieter m -ay
be easily dried in the sun and put into
glass jars for fame use. Excellent
vegetable prepae-etions for seasoning
soups May be prepared by drying a
mixture of pens, diced carrots, sliced
onion, beans. celery top -a, and many
'other vegetables •oss. hand. When the
vegetables are thoroughly dry stir all
together well cincIamt into jars, A
tableetoodul of the mixture will nice -
ay' seaeon a serving of otherwise
"plebs'! foods
The Sugar ahertage. ,
Talkeirbout sager being source in
Canada! French -sugar steciles were
never so lowibefore. On May, 31,
1918, the quantity of sugar ir, Perla
wea 'about half What it was on tate
same date in 1917.' Even in previous
wars the French •people neer reached
each a Iow ebb where their sugar sup
Ply, was concereed.
Yet we grumble here because we
have to use a little brown sugar end
becauee we may only have a level
tearepoodul of white ,sugar in our tea
end coffeel
Fish Cheap Everywhere,
add the flour and remove the pan from
the fire While stirring the mixture.
When ernoah add the .strained tomato
mixture which has been cooked sirith
the onion, pepper and salt. Stir
gradually until the mixture thickens
and is sznooth then pour over the•cauli-
Ok
From the War
Zone
,Copio's" the news that
the AutoStrop..8afety
Ra2:01: 1.2 1100111g bffi,
eel's to maintain the
high Mende of the
soldiers.
Price $5.04 "
11
Nothing makes a
sOldier feel more like
himself than a'7' sierra,
,Velyety elme-0-thie it
Only possiblo an
AriiaOalfrop. Beerruee
of ' its eel f-stfoOping
:featureit is the only,
rezor that is always in -
perfect condition.
At itaaint Mart: eyerywho.
01541 ,'4t,4 ad 16s
t94troP
Sofety Itizor Co.,
sfasa BiLke 'Street
Toronto
6040
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There is no eXcuse fof ,any house'
keeper failing to serve flab several
timea a week. It eah now be Secured
at eingularly low prices all over the
Dominion and no matter how isolated
one may be frOln the rest of. the world
it should ae peasible to fhave ob heed
a supply of frozen, flab either front
the Pacific or Atlentie epees. .
Out and In. a
The class in natural 111.060 .being
sided to 'state the difference between
a deg and a tree, the head bey
islionsptly gave the ansseet:
"A tree IS ONTO* With bark, while
a dog eeeme to be lined With it."
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4 The Double -Walled Secret
By EdW'n 13wird
Ilileileleiffe8191teaMieVelfallstal. valle/119,0ffillrelitalleesasaefeseieenes
CHAPTER IV.---(GPatid.)
"Tide is Wifair." be Obioetect,
can't let yell go (like
She stood looking dove at bins env
gray -gloved hand resting oa the 'heck
of the front eeat, Rey blue gase
W88 very sereue end VerY IMPOrsoll'
el; her poise 'was the soul of cool self -
as 4S;11117illttleyou let no out, Plagge?"
Hee tone was unniletable, 110
could not reieeonstrue it, The ehavi-
featlaid opened the tonneau doer,
and Kelleey stepped out end offered
her his. bend. As 010 fluttered to
the pavement, ii,the and slender and
girlish, he Rise:led her to e.onie rare,
exotic flower. Later lie' was pile -
elect to recallj What bronght the simile
to teied, Ho bad observed, vegpelY,
this t else svao olothed in soft, tones of
gray and blue, and eomehow her
elething seemed an integre( part of
her, harmonizing delightfully with
her,vaite ekin end lovely brown hair.
Her slim hand reetedan his for the
fraetionel part of On iestant and then,
with ft low -spoken, "Thank you," ehe
turned to go.
But he detained hese "It is1 who
should thank you. J haven't foeget-
ten my indebtedtesse :to you."
Her eyebrows lifted inquillegly. He
noticed that the Y nearly met et the
apex of hes: nose, and he cleeided this
was one ef the thing e that gave pigu.
alley to her face.
Re lowered his voice: "I can't for.
get that I owe my life bo you.'
IIer level gaze,- as it met his eyes,
WAS 8t11,1 inspeesopal and •sererie,
"Mese try to forget ib,"' slie said.
"Beenuse," she added, dropping her
eyes, "it will bo hest -for both of us."
With a hurried ft -mew -611, ehs left
hint, She seemed to have grown, 101
at once, vather flustered. Her admir-
able selfecoefidenee had suddenly
flown to pieees. His •eyes followed
her its he lifted his ,hat aricleghe could
never aacount for this -he imagined
her in his home. The fenny vanished
as quickly sus it came, but abruptly
it occurred to him that he had once
before had th.e sante whimsical
thought while -watching her.
CHAPTER V.
A Vital question
Tier words, "It will be •best for both
of us," bothered bins a great deal dur-
ing the next few 'weeks aed increased
his desire to seo her again, The
desire began to weigh on him heavily.
Lie tried to forget it but cobld not.
Why did he went to see her? What
was there ab•out her that a tteactea
him? He could .answer neither ques-
tion.
His malice and 'eister saw' that
something was aeniss with him, Rad
the ran (wee a list of girls he might
an eutocombile, He knew the threaSI
Was a read.
"And perhope,n ran his jabilant
Weight, (04 ie.
The thsnAt Was equivalent to
commend. Immediately he turned MS
Machine toward the ea,st, and as he
followed the moving epee's he drew
gradetillY isomer the earth, The e0S4
sibility that he Was insurring,anOther
encounter with her father heightened
the spice of nneertainty.
It was an automobile, as he bad
supposed, and syhee the whip of hitt
propellemi beesune andible -to its 00'
emends he saw 11 etop, He landed
in s messilew beside the roaclefright-
ening herd of ems into a panic, then
stepped out and walked toward the
car.
It Wee' driven by a man whose dead.
white skin and bulletshalled bead
awoke impleasant memories; but in
the tommau eat Bonnie, alone. She
recognized him es he vaulted the
fence, and for one instent her blue
eyes were radiant with ineffable joy.
As he approached, -however, her de -
mealier changed, 'awl when she spoke
to him it was in the detathede hoPer-
s,onal tone be remembered too well,
"aft.lieleey, you are making a
grave mistake. Aftest I warn you
again that you aro exposing yourself
to dengaie by )(Letting this neighbor -
heed,"
Keleey, hat in head, smiling up at
her, with pee feet eeeting oh the stela
glanced doubtfully from the tail of
his eye at the ex -convict sitting in
front, and she, perceiving the glance
and placing the right consttuation en
it, said:
"He's a Russian. He doesn't under-
11weed of English. But you
shouldn't do this. Mr. Keleey. It1s
Very unwise, He, eaw that her eye-
brows were drawn together and that
her eyes, were laden with -trouble and
sorrow assd worry. s
luid to gee you," he said.
"Why?"
"That," said young Keleey, looking
into the velvet pupils of her CO3, "is
a question that haetroubled me a good
deal of late." -
(To be continued.)
FRA.NCE'S DOGS OF WAR
Marvellous Services Recogniied in
Official Orders of 41.11 Army.
Frances dogs of war have been
cited in an order of the day for con-
duct rivaling Hint of. their human
HUN BARBARITY
SHOWN AT ULLE
TREASURES OF ART MUSEUM
REMOVED TO GERMANY
Women end Glide Listed Up inathe
Night and- Carried Off Jute
Brutel Captivity,
The first Geemans to euter Lille in
1914 were fieteen Uhlantl, who rode
into the city at night. Next -cense 200
cycliets. 04 October 4, 1914, the van -
mused of tho German army appeared,
with 6,000 men, says a British war
correepondent, Two thouetend Froneh
troops in the. city gave battle, and
after sharp street fighting the Ger-
mans were driven' out, The 'Withal
abgPlain told how his congeogation
sang "Clod flay° the King" while the
Imitate whistled through the streets.
The Germans 'then began to bombard
the city at noon 'Sunday, and from
then until 5 Monday afternoon they
Los' their eontinuOti thieving and mino
brutalities,
iietiens Wore Insufficient.
Worse than the. crimes of violence
wee the riVerbearing, aviemant atti-
tude of the dicers. There was muell
drinking, The people subeilited on
food supplied by the Ifitereatimail
Gorarisissioe, The talents wiiro riot
enough to keep the people in lieeilth
and there eves almeet eimeient hang-
er, the food being barely sufficient to
live on. 'This could be told by a
guns, glance at tho people, Who looked
kept it up. Lille had only four under -nourished.
which were constantly shifted, The
Germans afterward said they thought All "Tee (bit le"r3tlY (135 Gev-
there were fifty. mane were wore° off for food than
d d to 1
dreadful ruzlifa. All aecounte agree
either killed or taken prisoner. The
enemy then worked lute the ;pity th
all directions. heard the tale 'of a
single French soldier who kept his
machine gun going at a street cor-
ner, sweeping the streets until he WftS
Shot. He should have a monument
where the machine gun stood... -
Life Under Hun -Rule.
The German strength increased tl civilianr, the scalers' food being
until the small French forces were all'
After Lille was in German hands
there followed sueceseion of mili-
tary governors; all of• whom except
the first were' bad, Two are threem-
bered with particular execration,
Von Heinrich and Von Graesenit. The
first governor, Von Eberhaselt, held
office four days. 1
The firet promise of reasonable
theatment were soon illusory, The
citizens did not molest the soldiers,
but neither lives nor property were
safe. could get no estimate of the
number of people shot, but it un-
doubtedly NVOS large, Several people
I heard telling the same tales of citi-
zens shot at night. People marched
the streets under gmarcl and never
wore seen again. When ft person
disappeared, that was the ensi.
and two sappers. The box
As regards property, in the first Poral
etage there was universal plundeving bolds postal orders, stemma casls,
of shops and stores. Whatever an load seals for moil boA'sc nth% hooka,
officer wanted he took under the guise and scores of othevitems-noteorget-
of requisona; giying a bond. Need -
ts the brosalitY shown English pris-
who bad ruccessfially hidden five Bri-
tish soldiers from the beginning of.
tbe war. I talked elee to n French,
noldier who had been hidden by hie
wife in thea einee 1914.
Nothing could be more touching
than to hear the people singing
snatches of the "Marseillaise" end
other French songs which for years
they had -not daeed to sing, cheering
811 shouting, and the noise of shifting
IS in the streets contmeously. our
huralred Germans did not go away,
bee Mk and afterward surrendered
thmetelves as prieciners of war te•
bit eltallan population. They were
taken in charge by the gendarmes
0711(1 ot • troops arrived.
POST OFFICE AT FRONT
—•
Black Box, Not a Building, the Head-
quarters for Mail in Field.
• A Field Post Office is primarily an
iron box -not a building; a black
heavy box, under the care of. a cor-
ting the red and white flag of Office.
ntasteve at the second Battle of the This box may be lodged anywhere --
less to eity,• those bonds remain un-
tfavne. Tw of these dogs saved the honored. Tee, earn, successive pee. in • an open field, a barn, a stable, a
life of a soldier 'who. could not swim tent, cellist, dug -out, or a chateau; but
eleMatione- confiscating goods. First
bY Permitting him to lean upon them -wine, all of which was. confiscated, wherever it is dropped there is the
be intevested in." They eesa„, es as they swam the, stream. The official audnext metels. Squads of eold•iers Field Post Office.
visited each house, stripped it of ell Evesfy F.P.O. hiss certain battalions
they supp.ose•d, upon the one svho was Order ref:op:el:m.1g the Tattle of the
.
responSIbleh for his !miens:holy, and scivvicee of the clogs of the Fourth metal objects and left. Next they and other units attached to it fiu.
they were not alai -Merl 'Tile girl he orieli Atmy reads' thus: began to take such things as bicycles mails. _The mails ate drawn for dis-
dessrable from every view-ix:ht. .So "Three of Kir aog conductors oftribution from a railhead, 01' *018mo-
tlsey said nothing to Keleey, content the Eighth Division have been cited and all rubber goods. Thou all houses
te aill•ow Matted to take their natural hi an order of the- day. .The division tresses
were Stripped of woollens ancl mats tor lorries at established refilling
oe C01.11!30 Ilse girl would All horses were taken points. Accredited 2post orderlies
would not? Everwlexty _knew To
r the Marne ari•ot Vas competted to tries were bee -tight to a standstill by •
The lace and cotton making induce. from each unit come to the place ap, -
pointed, with 'their own wagons , and
accept. him hs the enfla Whet girl e • •
eaurse. :fought on july 15 on the north bank
.,5, . , __ _ . TI
Kekey was one ge the beat eateb,„ hi fall back for a time despite its hernia the confiscation of their stocks and limbers. Little time is lost in distvi-
rons •cl tried to land him and a few "The dog con
•sineters did not -1.7.• :iteheetsroemf vcreale.toEGveeir.ymtrixyg omf,iisaltlaiocebt.. button, because the nsail hags -made
ha
tip at the base post offices in Eng -
Lake Foreet. ' Many maids ..ancl male dacnee•
had neatly succeeded, treat until after they had received from the great museum of the Louvre land and France -ave addressed to
As his erre knitted KeleeY turned eed transmitted to the commanding itself, as the second finest art gallery the talitS &Ceti But a great deal of
leis attention . to the sport that officers the important messages car- in France. The whole building Was miscellaneous correepondenee, includ-
had broken it. He bought a seven- vied by the clogs. These dogs had stripped completely bate. , Ing registered lettess, has to be
tlioue-sand-dollar biplane end,
alter e S ftblis ed and nse n aied comesuni- So the process went onintensified dealt with before the orderlies die-
sevre:1peeeeeeeightswiththetwin.
ter who designed it, he stasited out catior. day and night between the rear by the continued nbuse and unceasing appcay, and this part of the open air
for a Waite parallel with his first a terrific borithavdmena Their feat ystriitpwinh%ttointe. task is a pretty sever trial in wintry
or in wet weether. The reit of
alone aerose Wisconsin. He etrovii army stations ancl the firing line under
one, but he lost ills way. in the air IVA4' 'the mime remarkable because city 61 everything, as other towns
pteirilfteiro•iiingr.
ecAenPtPlyaretletti
the mail is for the staff et the Del-
and when 110 'got home that evening they everei not familial. with the were stripped, gado or the Divisional Headquarters;
Isis gloom was uncommonly pro- emend upon which they were acting ,
and thio is usnally disteibuted at the
flounced. , Woinen Taken to Germany.
He went to 41 dance that: night and es messengers. sign of t•he. FPO, flag.
danced with the usual girls. Nvho made "Their tasks accomp is se ,
I; 1 d two of Of all the things which ecorched But distribution is only half the
the -usual flirtatious advances. And the dog conductors were compelled to1 . f Lille the deepest scar was marlpersistent correspondenteand every
themselves into the minds of the peo• business. The troops are regular and
s ,
his mother arid sister 'a:serving aim croSs the Marne under the Inc of the e e •o
evacuation of women in 1910. F.P.O. has a big outward despatch of
fureively, bad to reconstruct their enemy. The bridges had been dee- by tli 0
'Prior 05ss14,1104111. His indifference troyed, ...One of the dog conductors It was on . April 21 that •the notice
to the girl they had chosen •thr his mern the stream, his two dogs fol- earn . to Lille, Roubaix and TureSing
wile puzzled them. . that 50,000 people, men, women and
13,u t they wen no more puzzled than
he. Many of these young creatures
palpitating aro.uncl him were lovely.
And get they quickened no fire in hien;
whEe the other -1 He had known
these „girls, or most ..of them, sine
Childhood. About Bonnie (he had al.
ready begue to call her Bonnie in his
thoughts) Ise knew abnost nothing,
He had met; her twice, unconvention-
ally, arsd that was age,
And then, suchienlyrffeleey thought
he Gear the stemma "Yea," be res
fleeted, as he 'one -stepped in the bril-
liant maze of ille and eol•ot and fra-
grance and luxury, "Itinust be immune
sh6'en mysteryilsecause ilude so tne
conventionel."
This however., did not deter him
from trying tb fled her. His noeth-
vilard flights became of -daily occur
renee, It wee cm the fourth day that
he sighted the long-looked-ths spois
A throb of joy coursed through hint
like wine. He dropped to ass altitude
of 300 feet awl, like a mammoth. gray
bird, he circled elowly fsbove
double-wall, He tried to look threlugh
the top grating, but found that it was
noar coveted with thin eoaase
eloth through whieh he could riot see.
He saw the black men in theke ethite
suits working in the field. Then he
saw thee they bail discoyered
°idly he SSW Stryker come from the
hoase, 'stied his eyes agaiast •the 00/1 -
glare and gaze at the .whirring
Keleey was ;half minded to alight,
but the next moment something hate
ported that caused him tet' Impish the
impulse, He easy Stryker lift some-
thing to Isis armpit, saw a spurt of
smoke, end in a little while heard the
report of o.rifle. 11 wae with a 'feel-
ihig of guilt rather than of anger that
Kelcey pointed his craft sitywaad ana
flew away. He felt like a trespasser.
Alter all, he had rie right to intrude
u•pen the ()Id hermit,, and Keltey \yea
liroad-vitioned enough to see time his
arueilpielaitertainse.
eiime.oulld be construed Only as
-
But he went back again the neet
day and at a height of moo feet again
en:Circled the place. From the
gretted his biplane was nothing more
than a white speck in the Otani' 811M,
KO Sky, and the:Tvotee of bis engine
fell fat sheet of the earth, ret
these reasenti he knew he Was allots.
Setved. The strange pleee with ite
queer doublesWalled spread out below
him like a etain on a green elotis, and
while; hai sat looking down, wonder-
ing what Ida next move shessIsl he,
he
OW a they black Katt detach itseit
from the datleatate rinel•Movealeng
White thread' Which' attached in an
easterly direttion,
He Suantiged.theit the Meek epot was due gacinfica may be in vain,
lowing him. The other dog conduc-
tor could not swim. He coupled his children were to he taken to work in
two dogs by their leashes and urged Germany. Nobody was th be outside
them into the water. of Ide proper residence after 9 o'clock
"The brave animals understood and at night. But at the first ringing of
they permitted their master to rest the doorbell all members of the house -
his weight upon there while they hold were to assemble in the woos. -
swans to the south hank and safety. way. Even then until 10 o'clock Mon -
"These dogs haft been left by order day night the unspeakable proceeding
of General Gouraud in the battle zone beginning in the outer suburbs and
when the eneray attacked. They es- working .inward svas carried on.
tablishod and maintained lines of Squads of soldiers presented them -
communication with such success that selves at house after house.
General Gouraud was able, through- From the parties assembled in the
oat the attack, to keep himself fully doorways they picked men, women
ides's-clod as to the movements of the and gilds, without regard to relation -
German troops. ship or to what members ot the fam-
="rhe dogs wove employed because ily would be left, but guided only by
the 'violence of the bombardment made their judgment as they surveyed the
it impossible to make use of homing parties which would be most death -
pigeons or to .maintain the telephone able, Where ,all 'members of the
and telegraph hin household were not present search
"Those good dogs that day were was made and girls of 17 ancl 18,
sewing all the world!" : who had remained in bed in terror,
Were literally torn ?rem, their beds
and carried oft
WAR CALCULATIONS For six nights the city lay snider
-7- 4, the horror of this thing, as from
Something of the Awful Waste of War Monday tietil Saturday night, thvough
Gafileied Frem Ilhese Figures. . '
the hours of darkness squads of mem
went on with the brutal work. Each
A statement has lately been made section of the 'city waited its then
to the effect that the war hos cost 811 and members of every family lietened
the nations engaged on either side for the dread summons.
the sem of £112,000,000,090 (,$160,000,- After the selections all women Were
000,000). Siich a statement is not assembled at the station and there
really impressive, because it coeveys herded together, girl% of gentle birth
very little of actuality to the human it1ifhi Wives of walking men, all of
'Mind. A U.S. paper has, however, whom Were examined Thy German
come to the etscue of poor humanity army surgeons to see if they Were in
wallowing in a slougs of figures and good health. There seemed no detail
expressed this total in comprehens- which eould have made the whole
flat terms, ,thing more vile and repellent to
It seems that the entire cost of the every civilized being that was omit-
Arnevician Civil War has beers dupli- ted,
cated every. twelve wecdss and moll The -method of micleighti`vis(ts and
Ix lice/ of five weeks of the Present the ruthless tearing apart 01 families
war would pay fon the FrOn00.' Pros, was snarl° ase terrible as pogebie. It
sison Wer. These thivSy-two thotteand was the Sixty-fourth Regimeet of
millions stirling would- pay for 40i) -German infantry whit+ carried out
Panama Canals, or would donstruet, this hideous work in Lille end to do
92 world-enetreling rellsvayth some of there justice, sty infoienants
But the cost in human life end linib told nse of seeing sone of the. inen
ie far more tertilde than any mone- in the street the next day haggavd
tstrY costrf ttio proceggion of tile find alost siek of the horrors of the
slain were to march Peet in battle ar- preeeding
ray four deep, ten years would haeS,, Seine calicoes, 11:1:1111fUlly 01' vicd,
and even then the procession wonld ciaid dude hearte bled fer the people,
not be over. If, behind the dead came Two afficeve Lire seat to bleak been
the hest of maimed, dombi and Puniebed foe eefueing to do their pave.
Paralyeed, any ;tithes would berffily Cerepeeed te tlit eulatandilig out-
eetheust the tenable spectacle. Yet, rage nil the etnee leesdehces smeared
unieSe We go on till the tame of this by the people or Lille Milk ewe
aWfill WAr iS rernOVeCh tklat 1554 IThielIlt nifieweeta On the *bole the MISS 01
WO !Int dt,wn PrilSOOri IllilitO4ST11, all the privete Geseasin seldiere lo lief;
war be have Efeliiieed badly ceedept
mails daily. Emily and late, batches
of letters ancl bags and parcels arrive
at the F.P.O. from its battalions and
netts, and the man left in chimp of
the black box can usually and plenty
to clo, selling and cashing postal
orders, taking in registesed corres-
pondence, and stamping, nortig, end
bundling letters for home.
The Army Postal Service is an
organization vast rind efficient. The
best blood of tbe Home Poetal Ser-
vice is in it, and that largely act -Aunts
for its magnificent success, It is no
exaggeration to call the Army Posital
Sevviee the commissariat of the af-
fections. The tvoops valise it as such
-and so do the people, at home.
Faces and Beards.
The first Tommy WSS -ruddy of
countenace, with a huge beard .of the
hee politely known as (album.
The second was sinooth-shaveu,
ester havo a beard like that till I
StkW meself in the glass: Then I cut
it off."
Bucthe.bearded man was not dis-
mayed.
"Mach better 'ave left it en, mate.
ustev have a face like yours till I
saw it in the glass. Then 7 growed
this beived,"
ITALIANS 'STARVE
VISON CANN
SUFFER IN (JIMS. al TR EATM ENT
AT HANDS OF AUSTRIANS
-ea
Thirty -Five per Cent. of Ratan -led
Soldiers Aro la Advanced Stages
of Tuberculosis..
Atietrie's eyetematie end unbeliev-
ably cruel treatment of Italian .Nrai.
prisoners is attraeting *wide sitters -
bon.
"No nation that respects iteelf
would oo treat humeri beings, miomi
51,1 0111d :my nation dare lay an ageinet
itself Fut the future euch a debt el
hatred," says Henry Nettie/I Gay. ihs
Americari historian cj certain plaieee
of the war, who bee< made a speeial
investigation into the conditions, 111,11,
has undertaken' to secure better
treatment from Austria of these psi's-
Isere. It is estimated that there are
about; 400,000 Italian pri.SOnOrs 10r'
kustria with somewhat less than tbae
number of Austrian prisoners in Itaiy.
Austria -n prienners in Italy .ave well
imated. It has been charged in Per-
liament that they fate bettee than
Italian soldiers at the remit, In Many
cities the skilled meehanies among
them are given employment in 111O114,.
1:118i esteblishmeets and paid geed
wages, while the others nee used on
the farms .05 in constractional work.
They are neither' beaten 1101.-siAtrved.
and the eh& and -wounded are plaireil
in hospitals.
Centraidesin Cam of Captives.
In contrast to this, Italian peisone
ers are forced to work for is few
cents a day.
They are fitarvea. beaten, wounded .
or killed at the Whim of any guar5.
and, most inhuman a all, it is chasn.
ed, they are forced to svork when ill.
Tuberculosis often develops, mei
death follows. When prisoners re- .
fuse to give military information of -
ter capture they are eterved and tua
tured aud sometimes shot.
Thousands of sworn statemente
containing these facts are cm file at -
the War and State Departments..
They have been gathered from meow.
ers who have escaped or from those
exehauged. By a cenventioe estitb-
Iisised -the Dalian and Awe,
trian Red Crose, totally- unfitantison-
ers are exchanged each week by way
of Switzerland. Italy veeeivee 250
weekly. "Thiety-five per cent. at Dm
men arrive in the advanced stages of
tuberculosis," said Dr. Oswald PO-
manti, the surgeon in charge, e
Senile Diamond. •
-Sam, Lho chore mee, returned from
the eity with a scarf pin that contaie-
ed n "diamond" of no unusual f.tir.O. 11
Wits the pride of lii, heart; ,and th
envy of his village companions. Ile
treated all enquiries from them 0 'Le
its value and its autheatieig, 1:1.11
high seems
Ills employer, after a week of bask-
ing in its raclience, osked Sam 011.11
It; histoey. -
"Sam," he said, "le it n real din -
2)101151?"
"Wall," said Sem, "if it ain't, I've
lost SA71111 ont of a half -dollar."
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