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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-08-02, Page 7O The Honest Woodman. From the Fable of La Fontaine. There was a poor woodman who) worked very hard in a forest. One day this woodman was chopping down a tall tree near a rives', "Chop! Chop! Chop!" rang out his ex, as he brought it against the tall tree trunk; when suddenly, as he swung his ax up high over his shoulder, the top of his ax flew off and went splash into the wa- tea, As it was made of steel of course it was very heavy and it sank clown to the bottom of the river. The poor Woodman locked sad and said;,' "What can I do? How can I earn My daI1y bread without my good ax to help me?" As he sat there grieving, he saw a ripple of light upon the water. IIe rubbed his eyes. "Am I dreaming?" he said. But, as he looked again, he saw a wonderful fairy. She was dressed all in a shim- mering gown which seemed to be every color of the rainbow, and on her long golden hair she wore a crown of seaweed. She came toward the wood- man and spoke hi a soft voice, that sounded like a rippling river: "My good man, why do•you look so sad?" "I have lost my ax -my strong, steel ax !read," he answered. "It fell into the river and I. know not what to do, for I can no longer chop down the trees to earn my daily bread." "Do not grieve, good woodman," said the fairy, "for I will try to find your ax head," find she went clown into the water and soon she came up and held out her hands toward him, and in one hand he saw an ax head of solid gold. "My good man, is this your ax?" she asked, He looked at the gold and answered: "No, that is very beautiful, but it is not my old ax. Mine was a strong steel ax head." "Very well," answered the fairy. "I will look again:' So she put the gold ax head down on the bank and disappeared in the water again, and all the woodman saw was a ripple of light on the river. Soon she came up, holding in her hand an ex head of shining silver, "Is this your ex. head, my. good man?" she asked, "No, no, that is very beautiful, but it is not my old ax. Mine is made of strong steel," "Very well," answered the fairy. "I'll put this silver ax head down on the bank and look again for your ax head." Then she went out across the water once more and sank from his sight, and all the woodman saw was a rip- ple of light on the river, This time, when she came back to the woodman, she held in her hand his old steel ax head, "Is this your ax?" she asked. "Yes, yes, that is my very own ax head!" he answered, "Thank you so much for finding it for me!" Then the fairy took the gold and silver axes and said: "Did you not know that these other ax heads are far more valuable than your old steel one?" "Yes," said the woodman; "but the gold ax was not mine, nor was the silver one. I am sure they are worth a great deal of money; but how can I claim them when they are not my own?" "Well done, honest woodman," said the fairy; "truth is far more precious than silver or gold, and because you have told me the truth I should like to make you a present of these two ax heads, for they belong to me." Than the fairy placed the gold ax and the silver ax in the hands of the astonished woodman, and she was gone across the water. And all he saw was the ripple of light. The Foundation of Good Health. Good health is a quadruped. It has four legs -diet, water, exercise and fresh air. The diet should be varied, well -cooked, well -masticated and well- balanced -but not overattractive. Most persons eat too much. If they cut their food down one-half they would be much better off. It is not the amount we eat, but what we do with what we eat that is of consequence. Variety should be attained by changes from one meal to another, rather than by a multitude of dishes at each meal. A wilderness of attractions is likely to lead the average mortal to a line of ac- tion that is ruinous. Spices and other stimulating acces- sories also tend to lure one into the same deadlg snare. An appetite that has to be incited to action by stim- ulants•or an array of fine dishes needs. a vacation, needs rest; needs a course of treatment, in which starvation is the chief factor. It is a foolish notion many persons have that they ought to eat at con- ventional intervals whether they de- sire to or not. Food is poison to a System that loathes it or is indifferent to it. An appetite is not natural un- less plain whole -meal bread and butter or plain bread without butter tastes delicious. (Starvation is one of the very best remedies for a large class of _human ailments. It enables the eliminative organs to catch up, rest the overworked stomach and refreshes the whole system. Absolute starva- tion is not necessary. A diet consist- ing of fruits, bran, lettuce, celery and similar coarse things, avoiding fats and protein, taking chiefly uncooked fruits, will change the intestinal flora and eliminate the mischievous germs. Two meals a day aro better than throe for those not engaged in hard labor. Wateris the great solvent and puri- fier of the body. A cold bath followed by a vigorous rub is the best of tonics, and a hot bath is the most marvelous of all poultices for the relief of inter= nal congestion. Such exercise as walking, running, rowing, wheeling, chopping, playing, mountain -climbing, skating, garden- ing, punching the bag -anything that stimulates the lungs addheart to vig- orous action -is of benefit. Exercise should be earnest and whole -cooled -something that will set the machinery spinning and leave the body vigorous and dynamic, Outdoor exercises are by far the best, But. indeed exercises are immensely super- ior to none at all. It is not neces- sary to have a lot of apparatus. It is not necessary to have a real pig- skin in order to punch the bag nor a race -course in order to run. If you are really in earnest about it, you can punch metaphorically) a spot on the wall punch at it -and run while -re- maining in the same place. No person can be permanently well without fresh- air. Even the poor birds and monkeys die of consumption after a little while when they are shut up in the devitalized atmosphere of our homes and menageries. A plenti- ful supply of fresh air is a normal necessity of every animal. Open the windows and let it in, day and night, Stop 'a minute between exercise num- bers and walk around a little, drinlcing in great deep lungfuls of luscious oxy- gen. How luxurious, simply to breathe, when the air is fresh and pure and cool and goes far into the utter- most cells of the lungs! tfr- England is Saving Flour. A decrease of ten per cent. in the consumption of flour in England in dune is the claim made by the Nation- al War Savings Committee as a re - suit of the "eat less bread" campaign inaugurated to conserve food. This saving, it is stated, is in excess of all expectations, The success of the edu- cational campaign in England, it is stated, is shown by the fact that in March the saving was but two per cent,, and in April four per cont,, as against ten per cont. for June,• The committeesays that it expects an even greater increase in the future, and gives much of the credit to the intel- ligent co-operation of women in their homes. Love is the aroma of life's boiled dinner. Our Commander -in -Chief and France's Minister of War laT17W and exclusive photograph of General Sir Douglas Haig, (left) com. mender of theBritish forces in France, and M. Painleve, new French Minister of War. This photograph, which has just arrived in this country, was made at the British headquarters on the French front. PROVIDING FOR HARVES T HANDS Phe Quantity and Kinds of Foods Required for Harvesters as Estimated by An Expert in Household Science. For an accustomed cook, the work of preparing meals for the extra harvest - hands, presents no special problem. It is a matter of assembling food and promptly preparing it in appetizing ways. To nearly every farm woman, how- ever, comes an appalling first time when she finds herself faced by the question of how much she must pre- pare for a given number of men. To this question is now added our national duty of economy. We are asked to prepare for our tables not so much what we best enjoy as what will most acceptably and economically nourish bodies for the work they must do. In view of this situation, many of my readers may welcome an estimate of the amount of food needed for one meal by one man employed at severe work such as threshing. I am reproducing here the table which gives in ounces a balanced ra- tion for a man of one hundred and fifty-four pounds. A little study of the table as a whole will help the housewife to understand how this bal- ance is preserved and how to estimate what she will need to furnish for five men or twenty-five. Man at Severe Work Kind of Food Ounces Breakfast: Apple sauce 4.00 Oatmeal 2.00 Cream 2.15 Sugar 0.56 Sausage (pork) 2.00 Bread 2.60 Butter 0.50 Potatoes 4.00 Tea (1 cup) 0.40 Sugar 0.28 Cream 1.07 Total 19.56 Dinner: Boiled ham Potatoes Carrots Turnips Corn bread Bread Butter Cold slaw (cream) Pie, mince Tea (1 cup) Sugar Cream • Total 3.00 4.00 4.00 4.30 5.20 1.30 Supper: Dried beef (creamed) 1.00 Cream 1.07 Fried potatoes 2.40 Bread 1.30 Butter 0.75 Apple sauce 4.00 Ginger bread 4.00 Milk, skimmed 9.40 Total 23.92 Total for day 73.11 Feeding the harvest helpers is hard for the woman who cannot have suit- able appliances and has to depend on makeshifts.Among the helpful utensils is a three or four gallon double boiler for making soups, gravies and pudciings; also a large steam cooker whichtwill take care of fifteen or twenty loaves of brown bread or steamed puddings, at once. A good. homemade fireless cooker will help in cooking ham or boiled beef. . Beware of trying to fill up hungry men with foods that take much time to' prepare. One should not try to serve pies oftenunless there is plenty of help. Rolling crust is slow work even for a swift pie -maker. Three gallons of tapioca cream can be made at once in a big double boil- er, almost as easily as one quart. When milk is available, it is no more expensive than pie and is as nourish- ing. In the same way, a large quantity of berry pudding may be mixed once. A shortcake is more quickly handled than pie crust. When it is possible to buy bread from a bakery during harvest time, the women of the farm should not be expected to make it. Doughnuts re- quire considerable handling but lit- tle more than biscuit or muffins, and usually are more satisfactory. The main thing to guard against is taking proper care of the food.•in the 0 hot weather: For that reason it is best not to keep much over from day to day. The more variety we can give in the grain foods, the less meat will be re- quired. Try to serve biscuit, dumpl- ings or squares of pie crust and stuff- ings with meats and fish to make a c less quantity satisfying, s Food must not be greasy. Bake t s and broil and steam meats rather than fry them. By planning ahead and e starting in season, the tougher por- tions of meats may be cooked till ten- der. u b h 0 To render boots and shoes water- a proof in damp weather rub a little o mutton suet around the edges of the is 'Soles, Beeswax is just as efficient. ce AN OPINION OF GERMANS. By Chas. M. Bice, Deaver. ^ Mr, Carl W, Ackerman, a distin- guished representative of the United Press, and a very trustworthy corre- spondent, filling the important station of chief of staff, was stationed at Ber- lin from the beginning of the war and until diplomatic relations were sever- ed with Germany, He had unusual opportunities of observing how thingsi shaped themselves in the IIun capital and throughout Germany. In the introduction to his book "Germany the Next Republic," h says: "At the beginning of the war was sympathetic with Germany, but my sympathy changed to disgust as Watched developments in Berli change the German people from world citizens to narrow-minded, deeeitfu tools of a ruthless government. I saw Germany outlaw herself. I saw th effects of President Wilson's notes, saw the anti-American propagand begin, I saw the Germany of 191 disappear, and the birth of a lawles Germany take its place," • This is Mr. Ackerman's opinion of the Germany of to -day. The seeds of democratic thought which Wilson sowed in Germany are nevertheless taking root in her soil. If the imperial government had not frightened the people into a belief that too much thinking would be dan- gerous for the fatherland, the U.S. would not to -day be at war with the Kaiser's government. Only ono thing now will make the people realize that they must think for themselves if they wish to exist as a nation and as a race. That is a military defeat, a defeat on the battlefields of the kaiser, von Hindenburg and the Rhine valley am- munition interests. Only this will shake the public confidence in the na- tion's leaders. Only a destroyed Ger- man army leadership will make the people rise up and overthrow the group of men who do Germany's poli- tical thinking to -day. Mr, Ackerman's views confirm our estimate of the Ger- man spirit and our conviction that there can be no safety or•security for the world, and no true freedom for the German people until the criminal and futile folly of Prussian militarism has been crushed by a decisive victory for the allies and democracy. Thank Heaven, the prophetic role is becom- ing a thankless, if not a perilous one, in Germany. The imperial govern- ment insists on optimistic interpreta- tion of all augurs and omens, but is notably inefficient in providing veri- fication for prediction. It was pro- phesied that the U-boat war would bring Great Britain to her knees by July 1, and that the retreat from the Somme would pave the way for a bril- liant and decisive coup by von Hin- denburg. That the allied offensive was at an end on the western front. That the U.S. would not participate in the war beyond the mere lending of money and sale of supplies to the al- lies. That Russia would make a sep- arate peace, and if not, she would dis- integrate politically and economically, and would never steike another blow on the Eastern front.These are a few of the prophetic ventures of the inspired oracles at Berlin, and every one of them has fail- ed. How long will it take the Ger- man people to discover that they are being fed on lies? Only the most rig- orous censorship of all unfavorable news can be responsible for the state of ignorance of the German people as to the real situation of their empire. But there are signs that the truth is beginning to percolate through to the lower strata, and that the people are awakening, when they demand the overthrow of Ifollweg and others f the war council, if not of the kaiser himself, which rumor persists in af- firming. THE MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS REMARKABLE OUTPUT 01!' BIG BRITISH FACTORIES. Details Given by the Minister in Re- cent Speech in British House of Commons, o Here are some details of the re markable output of the great Stat ▪ Factories to which Dr. Addison, Tari ▪ tisk Minister of Munitions, referee n recently in the House of Commons: We aro now turning out 20 time as many machine guns as we did tw years ago. o We aro now making all the sinal I arms anti small -arm munitions we re a quire, and are entirely independent o 5 outside supplies. 6 At Woolwich we had in August 1914, 10,860 workers, of whom 125 were women. To -day we have 73,571, of whom 25,000 are women. Steel Production. Before the war we produced 7,000,- 000 tons of steel a year. Now we are producing at the rate of 10,000,000 tons a year. By the end of 1918 the figure will he 12,000,000. Home supplies of oil being de- veloped. Twice as many aeroplanes were turned out in May as was the case in December last. During the past six months 1,500,000 steel 'helmets have been supplied to the troops. Waste is being prevented. Cart- ridge cases cost 7s. each. They can be refitted at a cost of 4d. each. T,N.T., which formerly cost is. 9d. per lb., is now selling for 8',c3d. After nine weeks' fighting in France this spring the supply of shells had only decreased by 7 per cent. There are 183 separate operations in gauging every 18 -pounder shell. Scheme being developed for the pro- duction of nitrates. New Industries. WON VICTORIA CROSS TWICE REMARKABLE EXPLOITS QF AN AUSTRALIAN, First V.C. Won In Battle With Turks • and Second In Leading Charge Against Germans, How an Australian has tipped over O British precedent and won the Vic- - toric Cross twice is vividly: told 111 a. d recent report by the War Office, The heroic battier who has earned this s .distinction is l.Aeut, John Jaoica, of o the 14th Anzac Infantry, Of the remarkable exploits of U. I Jaeka, the British Intelligence Office at London says f "First, there ie the account of flow Jaeka won the V,C, the first time, At , that time he was a lance -corporal of the 14th Australians at Anzac, cora mended at that time by Colonel Gourtney. "On May 18, after throe weeks of continuous fighting, during which the battalion had lost 75 per cent. of its effectives, Sanders Pasha made his great attempt to drive the Anzacs into the sea. Ile sent the Turks against the attenuated Anzac line in over- whelming force, and the chief fury of the attack was concentrated on the line from Quinn's. post to Courtney's, Nota Turk got through the Anzac lines. But at Courtney's a number got into a small communication trench, overcoming the two or three men who held it. The wounded officer managed to give warning of the danger, and Lance -Corporal Jaeka rushed into the trench alone with fixed bayonet, and, sheltering himself behind the tra- verse, prevented the Turks from ad- vancing. Some of his comrades rushed to his assistance. Fell on Their Rear Cost of Bread in the U. S. Bread prices in the United States ave advanced approximately 27 per ent. since January lst, according to tatistics compiled from- official ources. The result was arrived at by eking the average retail prices for ach month in 46 cities of the United tates for the period from January 1 o July 1 this year. The. standard nit was 16 ounces of unbelted dough, which is a fairer test than baked read. The weights of baked loaves ave varied so greatly and the sizes 0 often changed that it is almost mpossible to find a reliable standard ther than in dough form. The aver- ge price for the United States for 16 inces of unbaked dough on January t was 6.98 cents, as against 8.35 nts on July lst. 0 75 Water vases and hanging baskets 1,33 thoroughly every clay, preferably late in the afternoon. 4.00 0.40 0.28 1.07 29,63 We have now the plant available for supplying from this country all we need of the following articles: - Potash (entirely dependent on Ger- many before the war). Scientific instruments. Optical glasses (we only produced 10 per cent. of our requirements be- fore the war). Machine tools of all kinds. i Sulphuric acid. Superphosphates. Tungsten (indispensable for high- speed steal). During the first five months of 1916 the working days lost through dis- 1 putes were 1,869,000. During the same period this year they were 540,700. 40,187,381 War Savings Certificates have been purchased by munition workers. Canteens have been provided for 810,000 workers. To meet the needs of railway trans- port the resources of the Empire had been tapped, and more than 2,000 miles of track had been supplied, be- sides nearly 1,000 locomotives, apart from hundreds supplied by the Rail- way Executive Committee. WAR. From hill to hill he harried me; He stalked me day and night, He neither knew nor hated me; Nor his nor mine the fight. He killed the man who stood by me, For such they made his law; Then foot by foot I fought to him, Who neither knew nor saw. I trained my rifle on his heart, He leaped up in the air, The screaming ball tore through his heart And lay embedded there. Lay hot embedded there, and yet, Hissed home o'er hill and sea Straight to the aching heart of me Who'd wnoliged not mine or me. -Arthur Stringer. A little work every .day in the gar- den is better than temporary neglect with later struggles to keep down the weeds. The first self -moving gun carriage was invented in France in 1769. An alarmed clock which awakens deaf sleepers by jarring their beds has been invented its Germany. ep co ma 0.114.20.0; oDd -&a.& 446. ..ydAgetmcei TON, }IOW no `IOU SPELL- Jh RICKSHAW? NOU MEAN 61N-RIcKrN Don''r you? NO, I MEAN JINRlCKSHAW, ONE. 0? THOSSE MAN PULLEP CARTS THE`( USE IN JAPAN. 1-r HAS TWo 1316 WNE1Ls oNS- LET'S CER NO `W M- R- 1-c- ,- No-yOURE 65-1-TISIG it Ntkii'oNG WHM Doral' you sA' rq JAPANH'sE FiiN ika "You keep them here,' said Jaeka to Lieut. Crabbe, 'and I will take them. at the other end of the trench.' Rush. ing around, he fell on the astonished Turks from their rear like a lion, Five he shot down, and two more he killed with his bayonet. Three more were driven out of the trench into the hands of the men who were guarding the entrance, under Lieut. Crabbe. "That was Jacka's first exploit. Single-handed, he attacked ten men in a trench and overcame them. In re- cognition of his astonishing gallantry and of the great service he had ren- dered, he was ;awarded a lieutenancy and the first V.C. won at Anzac. "Now comes the second story, and a part of this can be told in Jacka'e own language. The incident happen- ed in, France_ On the night of Aug. 5, Lieut. Jaeka, with forty-four men of the Fourteenth Battalion, was sent to relieve the Anzacs (who were hold- ing an advanced trench to the north- east ortheast of the village of Pozieres. "Went Right Over Us." "'It was not SO much of a trench. says the lieutenant, as a number of shell holes joined'by some shallow ex- cavation.' "Before they had been there half an hour the Germans began a sort of bombardment which precedes a caun- ter -attack; but they kept it up for. hours. Of the forty-four men, seveu were ldlled and four were wounded. "Then, in the first dusk of early morning, the enemy rushed to the at- tack. 'A good lot of them; there may have been 600', The. Anzacs stood up and fought to stop their rush; fought with all the fury of men hard beset. 'But they went right over us,' They. left behind them only seven sound men in addition to the lieutenant, He was wounded. "'They halted behind us,' the tale goes on, 'and formed up in groups.' 'In this moment the lieutenant con- trived to Send a S.O.S. back for help. In the fight going on behind him the greater numbers prevailed, and the Germans took a considerable number of Anzac prisoners. Then they began to make their way back Charge of the Eight, "The lieutenant ordered his seven men to fix bayonets, and followed suit himself with the rifle of one of his dead men. 'If we stay here they are bound to capture us,' ho explained, and I would sooner be dead than a prison. er. The supports canuot be long in coating up; lets go for them, His seven stalwarts were willing, and at his word of command they leaped far - Ward to attack the hundreds of the alertly, firing their rifles from the hip as they ran. "Some of the amazed Germans at once throw rip their hands, but others were nada of sterner stuff and began to fire at very close range, "Not One Got Away." "'I _. have only an impression of a crowd gathering about us,' says Lt. Jacks, in describing this crisis. 'The cheering thing was that I could see some of the Germans with their hands up and others already running away. Also our men who had boon taken prisoner were quick to take their cue,' and, unarmed as they were, seemed to be setting about their captors,' "At this critical moment the shouts: of the supports rang clear and loud: More of the Germans fled, others sur- rendered incontinently. None got away. The net result was that not 0n8 man of Jzclra's platoon was on the oi'fective list seven lours after' tiro ' took possessdon of the trench. BIl they had bold the fort against tweet times as many Ciormans, killing p capturing thorn all,"