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Selected Recipes.
Apple batten—Cut out the cores
and centers of one dozen apples. of
uniform size. Place in a baking pan
and fill each .apple with sugar and a
ittle grated nutmeg. Now make a
clear batter of one cup of ugar, one
*tablespoonful of butter, one cup of
sweet milk, two eggs, two teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder and three cups
of flour. Beat this well, pour it over
the apples and bake. Serve. with
sauce.
-Chicken prepared as follows is very
geed: Butter a plate, place the breast
or other tender parts ef a chicken on
it and sprinkle over with salt and pep-
per. Cover with another buttered
plate, or with the lid of a muffin dish.
Lay over the top of a pan of boiling
water and steam for 40 minutee,
until the chicken is tender. Serve on
a hot plate with the juice around the
chicken and a little mound of cooked
spinach at the side.
Apple Poreupine.--Take eight or
tele- nice firm apples and bake them
slowly: Fill all the cavities with su-
gar and spices, with a touch of butter.
Arrange on a mound or a dish for
serving, putting quince jelly among
the apples. Cover with a meringue
Made of whites of four eggs and a bit
of powdered sugar. Press blanched
almonds into the meringue, put the
dish on a board m the oven and brown
slightly. Servo with boiled custard
sauce. .
A very good dark cake is made
from one cupful of moeasees, one-
half cupful of sugar, one-half cup-
ful. butter, one cupful of milk, three
cupfuls of flour, two eggs, one-half
pound of raisins, one-quarter pound
of citron and a teaspeontel enth of
cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, one-
quarter teaspoonful of cloves, three-
quarters tempbonful of soda. Bake
in a large deep tin for two hours with
a slow fire.
Salt Cod With Macaroni.—Dave
ready cooked macaroni in inch lengths,
also en equal quantity of flaked salt
encl. Freshen fish by covering with
cold water, bringing, to boiling point
and thee draining. Make wbite sauce
by thoking one tablespoon of flour in
one tablespoon butter and stirring in
one rap milk; add to macaroni and
finked (lib; season with a little pep-
per, Turn into buttered baking dish,
sprinkle with crumbs and bitine:ps of but-
ter. Bake until top is well breel.
Yorkshire Tarl.--Line bottom of
duce baking dish with pastry and
spread on it layer of p0081) proservee
or Peach jam, mixed with a tittle
preserved ginger cut into. small pieces.
Weigh two eggs and take 112,3(8weight in sugar, in butter and in flour,
cream butter and sugar; add to there
eggs, VI -ripped light; then flour, mixed
with one-half teaspoon baking powder.
Poe!. this over Preserves in dish and
bane Lo nod beereee eeee.
taking _dih serem oven rub top of
pot e" with butter or raw egg.
Ai cream of Cheese soap is Very
delicate and nutritious. Scald one
quert of milk with two tablespooneuls
each of onkel 13)1(1 rareet cut in small
pieces and a blade of mace. Melt
0215-30)111(2 8011 of butter, add two
tableepoonfuls of limn. and stir eil
et
well1 leeneed; then pour the hot milk
011 gradually While teaming tonstant-
ly. Bring to the boiling point and
81111); add one-half Cep 01' grated
niillIthsese and ,etir, until the cheese
luis molted Season with salt and '
pepper 011(1 odd the yollts of two
eggs iteaten slightly. Servo with
croutoes.
Carrot Chowder.---Twb cups diced,
carrots, one cup diced Potatoeeg
half cup dived onion, one -Melee 003).1 iee.1 raw lemon, two tableepoons
flew., two cups 11)11801' 0110 81113ena-
mel ntilk, two 381)8p00111(sal1, dash of
pepper, one tablespoon fresh or dry
(eesley or 02115)y top. Put 8103)11'1111))()()t11111311)011 to 0081)h1 three CUpS
bailie water runt boil forty-five min-
eites. Add milk, and bacon and onion
fried• to. light beown. Mix flour with
a little cold water until smooth. Add
boiling water and the bunch of herbs.
Cook for two hours, turning them fre-
quently and basting often. Put the
chicken in a bot dish, boiling the
gravy down to half -quart, skim off
all the grease and pass through a
sieve. Poet over the chicken end
serve.
Bacon rinds are good boiled with cab-
bage or string beans.
• If eggs are boiled in salted water
• the shells, will peel easily.
Use the raveled threads of old lin-
ens to darn tablecloths and napkins.
Milk puddings are the most whole-
some dessert for children, btit they
should be varied.
Always line a cake pan with med-
ium weight yellow paper. Grease the
paper, not the pan, except the edges.
Before baking apples make a small
slit all the way round each with a
knife. This will prevent their split-
ting when cooking.
If a mother can invent little games
to play while the children are being
washed and -dressed those processes
may go off more easily.
' New blankets should be shaken and
soaked in cold water overnightto
take out the sulphur dressing and
make them more easily washed.
Window shades should be taken
from the brackets once a month, 021 -
rolled their limit and carefully wiped
clean on both sides with a clean dry
cloth.
The careful cook always breaks
each egg separately into a saucer or
cup. Then if one is bad it will not
spoil the other ingredients in the dish
she is making.
When the tablecloth is too worn to
use cut it up into squares the size of
napkins. They will be handy for the
picnic basket and 1
napkins in many ways.
When velvet becomee mashed from
pressure hold the parts over a basin
of hot water with the f the
• article next to the hot water. The
pile will soon rise and assume its
original beauty.
When 1 have
become too dry for ironing use warm
water. It penetrates more quickly
than cold, and less of it is vequired,
so that the ironing may be begun
sooner.
To bleach straw hats wash them in
pure water, scrubbing them with a
brush. Then put them into a box- in
which has been set a ,saucer of burn-
ing sulphur, and cover them up so
that the Armes may bleach them.
In packing rugs when moving
sprinkle with powdered alum and fold
a few moth balls in when rolling them.
Then, if not used immediately, as
sometimes the case there is no danger
of their being destreered" eeeteli pests.e
-reedeted the -e -shine on ellithes
lightly sponge with a solution ebtein-
ed by dissolving an ounce of hun am-
monia ancl half an ounce of Castile
soap in a pint of hot water, and use
a little ef, the ,mixture slightly warm,
This is excelleet for cleaning men's
blue 1108310 suits, and it makes a ehiny
.suit look quite new.
iC1 Mil:1MT end boil for five minntes,
Add Rale pepper and meeeley, dust
with paprika and seven.
A Chicken Diele-sellect two chickens,
orm.qualitedi -pound of nice bacon, one
forret cut fine, one onion, abio cut.
fine; ono quart of broth or water and
one heel) leateuele Chem the ehickeno
and trutra for roeetine. Dredge 10'
10(1)end outside with salt tied pepper.
Cut tho tarion into vt?ry thin 1
(11,01 thii width of a inutell,,and
11,2 hetilortt of the dieli with them.
Lay ti•ver thit; the, ritirrettl and 0111001, I
F.:nett:ft 11111', and, put another layer of e
salt ineat over tense, Put the ehielc11
-
ens in this and cotter well, settenp;1
THE BELGIAN ARMY.
King Albert's Gallant Forces Are
Thoroughly Reorganized -
Writing from the Belgian Bees,
Lord Northcliffe sends 13 grephie de-
scription of the gallant little Belgian
army aS it DOW facethe Germans in
its sector al the Allied trent. He says:
"This glorious .little army that at
first arrested the rush of the awe
mans, the army that gave the Al-
lies invaluable breathing time, hae
been fighting longer than any oe
"To -day it is the eeme ermy hut
even theugh renewed, has no great )
reserves to fall back upon, because
e 31008108 the part ot the le 1)05
beeo imprisoned. The Wise men who
Administer it ereler the effeetionate
care of King Albeit, thereena, while
getting into the ranks every poselide
waget;le Belgian of military ago,
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A Tenuenoot s vvoomg
By CLIVE PHILLIPPB Wol-LEY
(Author of "Goki, Gold in Cariboo," Eto,)
CHAPTER VIII, (Centel.)
Ab the very last the .hale -breeds
stopped and consulted. Those two
men, am if time was of no value, cen-
suited and argued, and then one of
them went to the house for a saw.
That was the most insufferable five
minutes of all to Kitty, and oven when
the saw Mt through, and the ends ofe
the log were free, the log dld not ris
an inch. Another cut had to be made
and all the agony of waiting endured
again. Even when a six-foot length
had been sawn out of the pine those
two imbeciles could not lift it, a log,
which Jim would have carried on hie
shoulders.
It was well for Anstruther that they
could not. 13ut for the broken limb on
the underside which had buried its -
self many feet deep, and held now
like a tap root. Anstruther would
since have learned the great secret.
Thanks to that bough he was heir
as in a vice but not crushed, ,as Dole
glum crushes what it falls upon. With
levers and bars and all the intermit
of practised loggers the men at las
pried up the log sufficiently for theta
purpose, and drew out their man, stil
uncertain whether he was dead
alive.
mouth, when the girl mirang from he
And stood with lips parted and heat
bent foreva•rd listening.
"He hem, Mary," she cried. "He has
I can .hear the beat of the hoofs.."
nut Mary Bolt, looking out into th
blizzard could neitlaer hear nor se
anything, •
Not yet, dear, I am afraid, but the
cannot be more than another day
nowee and her own heart failed her
wondering whether it was all wel
with her own mat.
But the great honnds, chained nee
the stable, contradicted her. First a
low growl, and then a chorus: Glory
Lupue and Venom, ,bayed their wel
milted the , Boss, who had followed
Combe out of the siek room.
• Jim carne back from his dream with
a start, and tented a very white and
hagard fade to his old friencl.
To Soda Creek to fetch Reotheroe
if you can spare me,"
• "La, yoU can't go yet You haven't
had e bite of food to -day, and after
Anstruther's injuries do not ap-
pear to be so very serious."
"Can't tell. She might lose him."
There was something' strangely piti-
' fill in the way in *hick all Jim's
mind turned upon what elm might
suffer, the woman who had just dealt
• I him the hardest blow of his life.
el "Oh, nonsense, ITIRD, the has got
to take her chance like the rest, I
insist on you having something before
you go."
Y "Well, if you insist, Bees, replied
' Jim, with a queer laugh, "you can put
{ some eold grub and a little whiskey in
a cartridge bag for me. I can eat
when the horee plays out."
"What do you mean to ride? We've
ridden the tails off the best of the
' etock, Will you take that big hunter?
come, as dim. and 'distinct from the
driving. sleet, half a dozen horsemen
emerged and dismounted in the corral
and before Mts. Rolt could reach the
door Kitty, all he evayWardness for-
gotten wag alleging to Jim Combe's
arm and dragging him towards the
i home.
- For the others she had no word, not
even the Boss, but only, with wild hair'
Y flying in the storm, sbe clung to her
!! old friend, crying:
' "Oh, Jim, Jim; you dear old eirn;
1 come quickly. I want you so badly."
And Jim fell into bie. old place. at
Onee.
Ante:leer's?"
" o. take the young roan. He's
the only horse that could make it."
' "That devil! He isn't broken and
never will wgirlibnee.".
d "May be," ho said,
"this will break him. wit break him
or me," and he went over to the
stables calling to the men to help him
saddle a beast which no one elite had
attempted to handle, a young stallion
as beautiful ae Lucifer and ae tract-
able.
(To be Continued).
.1,
With gentle strength they unclench-
ed the long white fingers from the
fawn's collar. Poor beast. It at any
rate would not come in again from
that storm. The tree had broken its
'beck, and a merciful axe stroke had
split its graceful head from end to
end. And yet Kitty, who at another
time would have wept for a day over
her pet, had now no thought of it.
On Le rude stretcher, improvised by
the Chinaman whilst the Indians
chopped, Mrs Reit and the three men
carried Anstruther to the house and
laid him in the warm, firelit room on
the Bass's bed, and then the greatest
terror, the only one of ranch life,
faced those women. As long as all
goes well to those who are country
bred, there is no hardship in the en-
forced separation from the town and
its thousand and one conveniences.
Every difficulty is a joke to be laughed
at, a puzzle which natural ingenuity
will delight in overcoming. You can
do without the shops and the theatres,
you can hold service if you want -to,
and the strong man needs no police-
man to protect him; but the time
comes when even he cannot do with-
out 'the doctor, when he would give
all that the world holds for someone
who could tell him what to do to
save one dear life.
Anstruther might be dying for eonie
little help Nvhich they could have giv-
en him if only they knew what was
the matter with him, but they did
not know,
There was no broken bone that they
could find, no bleedieg wound foe
them to staunch, and yet whenever
consciousness returned to him, at the
first effort to move or speak he faint-
ed, and each faint seemed more and
more like death.
The resources of the ordinary
ranch in some cases as this are piti-
fully inadequate. As a rule the wife
knows a little about the treatment
of ordinary accidents and the simpler
ailments, and in the house there is
generally some book which professes
to be a substitute for the physician.
You. have only to turn to it in an
emergency to discover , how little
thee is to tlfclaim
Mrs. Ron read such a volume from
cover to cover, only to Tail each in
despair upon such simple -medics RS
8001(1 enly
give nature a fair chance Probebl
she could have done no better, and
half the doctor's success at leaet de-
pends upon the patient's faith in
but when you good folks at home boast
yourself of your many colonial eos-
sessions he which you take only 11/1
oecasinonal pride and a very little ser-
ious interest, allow something,. not on-
ly for the courage of the men who
hew out fresh dominions for you all
over the world, but something too for
the martyrdoms of women who watch
through the long nights of lone lands,
growieg old. between a sun's setting
and..a sun's rising, whilst rill that
makes life valuable for nein le fad-
ing away under their eyes, foe want
of that which to you is but a natural
accesory of your men every day lieu.
Through that long and eyed night
those two women watched; 'whilst. it
seemed to them that the winds clam-
ored around the home for the grey
which had escaped them.
Towards moteneng, Mee, leolt, who
lad been dozing in a thee.. by the fire-
side asked:
"Ie he eleeping now, Kitty?"
he is pre.teneeng to, but l'.881,11
8011 how his poor 11315 (110 preseed to -
Anther. don't believe he bee got.
once eince they cerried him she
have devoted themseiVes to the work
OE( :refitting and reoegauizieg. The m-
eth; is e perrert little, army of move !!
nen than.' tuti at liberty to sta1e.
"3.1io'ali on to itt.eret 'hal the --
rian preparationii- Were not Stleb 111.11.1
to Drotrioville had urgod, but
vhiepered.
"011, nemeense. He 'Weti sleeping
e ieely through the night while 1,
ve ed."
"He evae shamming, thatf
▪ iihottlir not worry, Tan't it brave
?" end bending over lier head,'
irtilleiti the giallant little array had "
acquirctl irreat proficiency. dotted:tele
minty- the veason of' its assotiatim.
vitli the leveneh. The 13olgients arc
veil' equipped • with geeat eitralon, 11
iig howiOiern, '73's 1)1131)111110 g111111. ttlai
very gun hat; a plentiful aupply of
;hells of every derieription
he presSO(1 110/1 fair head upon Bine
Ranh; ehouldcw to emother the oohs,
vhich 111001: her.
Mita. Rolt'e arm wound round the
311, t druto her gentitt 10 bre ltnee,
calling her geintly, whils1 a very
viseful mothetiy loole came into her
01111 Steady grey eyes.
Thee NV0110411 1111[1 11 right to know
Love when she met hint, foe she had
served him very faithfully, ancl she
knew him now.
Whe Levee had been her dreams for
Jim Cenebe ehe recognized that they
had only beee dveams. Whether he
lived or died, the man lying there
Nvith straieed pale face, would always
olcl the first place Kitty Clif-
orci's heart, so her am held up her
()engem sister 1113(151 110 whispered
her, "Be' brave darling, and we
ill save hini for you. If only God
o011111 send our men borne."
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It was so llama for him to serve
thie spoiled child, who always cam
to him in trouble, that he forgot :him-
self and answeeed;
"What is it, dear? What do you
want Jim to do for you. Can't it
WailVe: no, not a second. Come," and
she drew him away from his horse,
which he would have left standing in
the storm for no other pereon on
earth. "Ob,' Jim, be has waited so
long. I thought that you would never
come. He's almost dead,- Jim," and
her sweet mouth quivered in a way
that made him wince.
"Who is nearly dead?" he asked,
climbing the stairs three at a time
With clanking spurs.
• "Frank. Mr. Anstruther."
Jim's face contracted as with physi-
cal ,pain, but he controlled himself,
and said no word until he was in
the sick man's room, where Mrs.
Bolt welcomed blin
One glance at that strained white
'face on the pillow banished Jim's
devil for good. Here was a comrade
down, and all the woman in the big
fellow's heart came to the surface at
1°innIlte:i moved now. Even his great
was a marvel how his long loose
Mexican spurs cemed to clank by the
sick bed,
"What's the trouble, parteer. Been
riding Job for ainusetnent?"
The gide mimes eyes smiled, but the
involutary effort to turn sent a spasm
of pain across his face.
"Lie still, old chap, and let me see
what the trouble is. Would you ladies
mied leaving the room. I won't be
rough on him, Kitty," and he pushed
her gently before him to the door.
When they had gone Jim stripped
off the bedclothes and, as tenderly as
might be, felt for the injuries he could
1101 see.
HOW Chtl 1 happen? he asked,
A.netruthee told him.
"I see, I see," he muttered. It was
a foolish thing to do to go into that
bride when the trees were tumbling.
But then he would have done it hime
self for Kitty. That made all the dif-
ference.
"Don't hurt any whilst you lie\ still.
does it? Hu rte (mealtime:Wee wleet gee •
meve?"
The sick mat nodded. To turn did
hurt "considerable."
"Well, so far ae 1 Can see, there
ain't no great damage done. Iles a
bad smash up. Three ribs, or it may
be four, stove in, but so long as the
inside machinery ain't injured you'll
be about again in a week. We'll have
to get Protheroe from Soda Creek to
splice ynu up a bit. You eal1 COMe
ia ladies."
'They came in .followed by Dick Rolt.
"Is it, is it anything very bad, Jun"
whispered Kitty, taking both his!
hande in hers. .
"It ain't no unclertakev's job, if
that's -what you mean, Miss Kitty,"
laughed Jim, ""rwon't Wm so long•
to mend as a broken heart, aucl they
mend eaey. If you'll 'get ate some lin-
en bendages and something still to
inake 81 waistcoat of, I'll cinch him np
so as he can't do no bane. uneil we
get Dr. Ievotheroe to fix him up pro-
perly, Your job is to keep him ettin
if you event 'him te get well 1.1^;11
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hande in his, he led Tier to the (heir
by his eival's bedside rind left ber
tb er a. ,
it WAS iim's act of reinatiation and
he did it, se he clic) everything, quiet -
ly and without peutesb
• • .
CHAPTER lei.
"Where are you going to, Jim
WHY LIVING IS HIGH.
Wealthy Germans Get Profits and
Restrict Wage.
DiscuesIng the depreciation in the
German mark, Sir George Paish ex-
presses the opinion in the London
Daily News that "it is very difficult
to ascribe the fall in German exchange
to ordinary factors."
"Every one knows," he declares,
"that Germany is financing the war
by creating high prices of commo-
dities and thus giving the wealthy
classes huge profits out of which to
subscribe to war loans at the expense
of the working classes. In this coun-
try wages have risen quite in propor-
tion to the rise in the cost of living.
In -Geemany, on the contrary, wages
have been prevented from rising ex-
cept to an inappreciable exbent, not-
withstanding enormous rises in prices.
In the United Kingdom the advance
in retail prices since the war began
bas been 47 per cent, but in Germany
!the advance has been nearly 90 per
cent. Whether or not there will be a
revolution in Germany after the war
will doubtless depend on the results
of the war, but it is evident that un-
easiness in that respect is constantly
increasing, and it would not be sur-
prising, therefore, ff some of the peo-
ple who are makieg such great for-
tune e out of the war in Germany—
the landowners and manufacturers
and the farmers in particulat—were
endeavoring to take precautionary
measures for what might happen af-
ter the war by transferring profit: to
the -United States.
"According to the monthly circular
of the National City City Bank of
New York, about 200,000,000 sterling
was deposited there last year and
some of this certainly came from Ger-.
many. Signs are not wanting that the
German Government is itself nervoue t
about this transfer.
"The continued heavy fall in the
exchange is in itself a Mgo that all is
not well in Germany; but if it is- due
to the endeavor of the wealthy men'
of Germany to.plece part of their
immense profits abroad es a precau-
tion against the future, it is still Mere
eignificant. The exchange has now
fallen to a diecount of over 1 pee
cent., in other words, Gummier has
now to send out about 127 mavens in
order tcepay. exchange accounts which
before the war woeld have been set-
tled by the rentittance of 100 marks, „
aria of Wenn, the greater the dis- 7')
count the greater the difficulty of
making remiteance.s. Indeed, one 1
would not be suvprised to find that c
the exchange difficulties of Germany 4,
Will, belloet long, bring about large el
gold exports from that country And a e
diminution of the Reichbank's v
accumulated et.ock of gold. If gold is
not allowed to come out it is obvimes
that the fall in exchange will become
inceeasingly rapid. Ote must mg
assume that the financial diffieultice
of Germany Will bring peace in the
near futture; neverthelese, it is obvious d
that they are bringing the end of the \N
War appreciably nearer." c
A War -Time Puzzle,
BRITAIN'S NEW WAR
ORGANIZATION
wffoLE COUNTRY TURNED INTO
AN ARSENAL,
the Ablest Men of Huge Concerne
Working for the Munition's
ic
Dr. A. Shadw°elfflceontributed to the
Edinburgh Review a remarkable art,
icle which will be read with tremene
dons interest. For in it he showe
how Britain has been transformed In-
to an arsenal,
' 'When this war comes to be re-
viewed in proper perspective)" gays
Dr. Shadwell, "Its social and economic
aspects will be found of least RS re
markable as the military events, arid
perhaps more instructive. And
among them the influence of war on
industry on war will take a promin-
ent place
Dr. Sharwell shows that when war
broke out, industrially we had beaten
our swords into ploughshares, as
though "the promised time when ever
shall be no more" hed arrived.
"The German visit to Sheffield
shortly before the diplomatic fuse
was fired. was not a pure coincidence.
Herr Krupp Von Bohlen has been
much hurt by the suspicion that he
came to spy out the land under cover
of hospitality; but he was aceorn-
panied by one of his chief technical
experts who saw all that he could.
He did not see anything he was
tneant not to see, but lie saw enough
to form a pretty good general idea,
The visit was a trick, and a charac-
teristic one.
"If it were repeated now it would
open the eyes of the Germans. For
next to the brilliant feat of the Navy
in wiping out the German submar-
ines --which has saved us ftorn certain
defeat-- our greatest achievement is
the creation of the colossal System of
war industry that exists to -day. But
to gee that M its full extent the vis-
itors would have to sweep the country
from Cornwall to Aberdeen and from
Loch Lomond to the Downs.
They Exceed Krupp.
"When we went to war only a limit-
ed number of establishments were in
a position to accept orders, and as
most of them were doings still more
urgent work for the Admiralty, thy
a large scale by giving up commercial
work, extending their workshops, and
sub -contracting. The most important
could only take War Office orders on
group is at Sheffield, where five
large armament firms have their head-
quarters with other establishments
and off shoots elsewhere.
"Three of them have shipyards also
—Vickers at Barrow, Cammell and
Laird at Birkenhead, and John Brown
at Clydebank—besides other works.
An important offshootcas the Coven-
try Ordnance Works jointly owned
by John Brown (with whom Firths is
associated) and Cammell and Laird.
The fifth Sheffield firm is Hadfield's,
who specialize in pr.,jectiles. These
five Sheffield firma' being equipped
for heavy work ofall kinds, have
played a most important part in arm -
'ng our forces. There are two other
great firms of a similar character
elsewhere—namely, Armstrong's at
Newcastle and Openshaw (Man(1hes-
er), and Beardmore's at Glasgow.
These seven firms have been ancl are
the backbone of our incluetrial army
ie war, They are able to undertake
1301(817 every glass of work, lat.ge and
s
mall, from euses to battleships; and
their aggregate resources far exened
those of Krupp's.
"The Ministry of Munitions is a sys-
tem of organizatiou such has never
been attempted before in thie coun-
try, and has certainly not been elle-
Osed, ig it has been equalled, in,
thers. et is essentially a scheme foz
gathering up many units, both small
nil laege, but particularly the small
lid enabling them to contribute in;
me wily or another. And ib e interest
ies in the fact that (1 12138 raked tho!
ountry with a tooth -comb for all
he spare units obtainable. It is not
(maned to industrial districts; it
eeteattes into remote vegions asset-.
elated only with agriculture ov
sure reemits.
A Wonderful System,
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Used for making
herd and soft soapy for
softening Watery for clean,
ing,dielnfecting and forever
OO other purposes,
tissues owls -returns,
MOIL= COMPANY MID
gethere there some, hilp is being
given,
"The Munition* Office is stairec
with paaetical men of the Ugliest
etanding and capacity, The load
committees of business men and en,
gineere at the circumference, delimit),
ed above, have their counterpart ail
the centre at 'Whitehall in such a col -,1
lection of practical men as has never.
been got together before. They' have
lent a number of the largest, most
enterprising, and most eucessfal eon,
earns of differene kinds that we
sess. It would be to much to say
that they have no saperlors.
"None of the knowing critics could
suggest so good a list; they do not
know enough. There is, for in-
stance, the Bombay and Burmah Trod,.
ing Company. It is said to be the
largest trading concern in existence;
and the reader will perhaps be in-
clined to believe it when he learns that
one of the assets of that Company is
f4,000,000 worth of trained elephants
alone. Yet the manager of this im-
mease business content to occupy an
assistant's seat in a sub -office of the
Supply Department.
Dr. Shadwell gives many other re-
markable facts in this fine Pamphlet
for Pessimists. He shows how fac-
tories have been put up by the square
mile, and what difficulties have to be
overcome to find the labor for the
work to be done. And the outstand-
ing fact of all that he says is the
patriotism of the man of science and
of the captain of industry, and how
all their great gifts of knowledge
and skill have been placed freely at
the disposal of the country in hex
hour of need.
RIGID TEST FOR AVIATORS.
Must Ilave Nerves of Steel and Per-
fect Heart and Lungs.
The requirements for admission to
the French aircraft service includes a
number of physical and moral qual-
ities over and above those that suffice
for the ordinary soldier.
To begin with, the candidate has to
'perform satisfactorily a rhythmic and
continuove movement with both hands
the regularity and power of which
is registered on a paper dram. He 313
next seated in front of a clock, the
needle of which moves around tlo
face 01125 every second. As soon tut
he sees the hand begin to move ho
has to stop it by prensing a button,
!the record showing rapidity of syn.
, chronism between brain and hand,
Last of all, he is given a recordieg
[instrument to hold, while °there ars.
attached. to his chest mid pulse to
!register heart and lung movernente,
IHe is then suddenly subjected to some
!violent sometime euch as the blind -
1 ing flare of magnesium) flashlight, 11
;loud report, or n splash 01: ice-cold
)5atet. 131131 8887stl1011g-O'illed 01(1111
'my be able to control hle renwelee
so as to give no oetwerd eign of the
perturbations caused in his mind. bit
ale Machines reeOrd fhe 1,11,1111taot
tremble, quickened breath. or Neter
heartbeat. The model pilot ehould
vemain not only morally, but elneete-
ally imperturbable, and in unite of
fatigete or delegate hie organi 10
should be always ready to reenond
to the almost automatie reflegee whieh
he ecquires in his traininges wen
as to the 0-Ommands of hi 1 win.
'One of the twelve gime ie the
West of England, with Bristol fort
headquarters and feelers that tun
own to Sumerset, Devon, and Corn-
eal Another is Mutt Anglia, whero!
ontributione are levied among the;
roads and bathing placett. Wherever '
wo or three lathes are gathered toe!
A eineparty ,of soldieve dremeed 11.
khaki,- with the handage-like puttece
about their legee were waitingfor
their train 11.1a station in Wile:hire.,
&along the spectators were an old
rountryman and his WHO. :
"1 ony, George," the old lady whis-
pered, "there's somethin' I can't un -
&rented abeue they soignee,"
"What le. it, lass?"
"I can't think how they get their
112)311 into they twisted trousers,"
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pleasant reflectione hi her mirror.
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tie advertised Ort every street
earner. The man or woman
that hail theinnationt and fails •
to keep end use Sloarea
meet 13 like /I drowning mon
refusing a rope."—.4.
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