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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-12-12, Page 2Atter a Trialosaiwww Consulnlers are possessed with a las th and enthusiasm 'entirely lacking Wore re 'tae quality was aCtual1Y demonstrated. �ae is the best ilavmre�l cl the most economical t ver offeree' for sale. e h : fe tin. But you ) On getti fag the Mast Insist 5 Get uiti ^ 4 ea By hdwi rc Baird. (•IJAPii :i IX. to tak YOU rt illlo"tit 1:1 mnkhs'''s now '1'1::\( 1( I iirrie,Rg ItiLAcH 1T1 s. 1ttookev, knowing a plopitl"ns rrolde a ttiv enc meer•e, whee tike met one, quietly "Liston to me, V1m fed --..1 love THE HOMELANDwithdrew, eloshig the folding d�mrs you, dear, 1 want yeti to be my v7,0 e. Arelt t you going to marry I e ' bellied her, She abandoned the Mil - Tem meietened his lipo. LAST MESSAGE " in' heels tJ nl;zht. tering entenee and, hiding her IIaee I'm g l ainet thought, perhaps -•1 vat" t, s:?e •af (1011 1M' headl11lnld til doan,7usly liocl-� yen wouldu t go home with 1440,'"• • Oaside hi the .'oven yy .treat the. For all his eervousnes, there Was were; flowed en l>:eee,,e4seleshd A thrilling inflection In his voice higgiedy piegle'l n sordid, self-' which e•ansed her to lower her yees,leentred t1P1:41 of 4' 041 and misery, and the warm blush in her cheeks and the everts Uel, pursuit of' happi mounted higher and higher still, un noes. But to these' two, ,:clone with til it bathed her white hew ub n their let , tele tented was a pnt•a-� on rlood, tide, t cRt�l4y per" and perfect rs r' l; 3 , !t y, t l tete. l e- ted ' • were uct.,ru7 iu a el: i i • 1 1 Put 1 't t ,1 ��Sf r«�. f hodarrived ..:� !'.. n t 103 C t (, •eat h Tl]0. L 1 illi-.::- ' �A 1:lin'uv and th 1 T1. �! � ry most m t t , _.._r 'lt J a - Tie +wan ikt r..cw.citi..:z+„t..vw,� Ile loved lee], _ heti 1' we: like a dream come truer petted manner, And r t, -wlho all fathom the! 'rem heard a familiar voice in the. tweet of t girl?• •-site did 14144 answer •hall asking for Miss Henrietta Plum, hie question, then, Instead, shu anct 110 strr,do to othe folding doors' askod• enuther—a quostlon so whol]y i 041(1 geunYocum-1'00m,e a who boh had, unexpected that it left him gasping' I violent argument, inveighed t;gaitlat in utter bewilderment. !hasty marriages! "Do you happen to know if that un -I If Tom, on beat•! net Yocum'4 voice, Our Children's Health—Or Lnliealth? Here are a few extracts front the report of a physician on conditions as he found then in a certain Stale to the south of us. Do these condi- tone ondi i cause site was chilly. land also prevail afrl ht our own Phis The doctor draws the conclusion who eeels strangely drawn to come - is I ani afraid they do, This is what he says: from his experience with parents try life, and I was wondering— Am "Not to • bringupa child 10 the,that medical inspection and care of I ,talking ridiculously like a matte. - way 11e, should go, physically, men -1 must be made compulsory, menial re reau?" she tallking like' an angel i" he y p y est as was found necessary in the tally anti morally, is a terrible sin of j Why boldly declared; and he was think - omission, I matter of education. not? ing: -"By George! Wouldn't it be im- . "That the hpysieal condition of our: Surely good health in oar coming mense if old Yocum should take a children is deplorable appears in the' citizens is of as great importance as notion to marry!" However, he was statistics of every medical 'inspection l education. In fact, there can be lit - that has been published. i tie education without good health back "Who aye we that seventy per cent, of it, for diseased body means also of our school children should nate a weakened mind. rotten teeth? Who are we that! Your child and my child may be thousands of our children. are born! getting proper care. But are our of diseased parents? Who are we neighbors'? Their tubercular chil- that thousands of our children, on ac ren are a menace to ours. Isn't it count of vicious environment and our right to see that they are taken wicked neglect, are allowed to be core of?---D.H. you an account of :t march with full through moisture -dimmed eyes see diseased and refective? Who are' nlaching order, as you might like to his legs, the heels of his boots seem we, that because of forcing bad air,' Helping. Out Returned ellen. 'have an idea of what it means. These to be coming back to you but never bad fond and bad sanitation upon our. Writing on "Invisible ;Wounds' marches, however„ are not all as Uad getting any closer; he is plodding 1• a s that your feelings. This is bad enough. Also his description of a primary room he visited in a city school where a consumptive teacher had stopped up the ventilation system be - attache,; foreman on your ranch is had been unable to believe his er-•s-- suaeeptibfe?" and he had been so astounded—Yocum "W-why—what oil earth! Yotl could scarcely believe his eyes: surely don't— What do you meas], Had you been a diligent reader of anyway?"he demanded, staring at a certain Chicago newspaper you her with Heaven "knows what wild might have learned, one autumn day;' thoughts in his mind. that marriage licenses were issued at -She could meet his eyes now, smil- the county building 'in Chicago to Mr. ingly. Having succeeded in perturb- Thomas McKay and Miss Winifred ing him, her o'w'n palpitation prompt- Snow, and M'r. George Yocum and ly subsided, Miss Henrietta Plum, But you 1 lues only thinking," she said, would have vainly searched, in this or "of a very particular friend of mine einy other paper, for details concern- ing the wedding, which was perform- ed for the four' of them by Rev, Philip Webb. Myst ,Stookey and 'Mrs. Buckle and the rZuckermans and Dora Kirk were among those there. And the little minister still tells' of the splendid donations—checks of four figures each, no less -which the bridegrooms made to "the cause." too intent upon his own 1Qve affair ' (The End.) -IN FULL MARCHING ORDER A Soldier's Vivid Description of An Army March. Was just thinking I have often spoken of marching, and I will give The Courteey of the ':British- Seidler is Shown .311 Ills Gait, of a Vallee C04111•ade'e Treasures. sz I 'was warned for a bombing -raid that was likely to prove a "forlorn hope," Therefore, I wrote a certain latter, putting on the envelope, "To be for- warded h1 the event of my d0 4111," and handed it to a chum to take r are of—he wits not going on the •t aiti, "I understand," he said, That letter did not have to be sent, for I was 0111111., A Fallen Comrade. We were waiting near a dump,' An officer of another regiment came up and mild; "There'sea poor laddie of your regi- t]tentrlying out on the ridge yonder. 1 thought you might like to know," I followed his guidance and found the body. 1' felt in the broast•pockei and found an envelope. It was a fearsome task, but 'when I read in the brilliant moonlight the words, "In the event of my death kindly forward," 1 was glad I had found courage to do it. Later two comrades were killed, and for several daysi. moved about a battlefield carying those three pre- cious letters, and in danger of "going -West" myself. I did not worry about the safety of the letters. I knew that if. I "stopped _ it" othel:s would take and cagy them until the chance came to send them to the loved ones in Blighty. one place and increasing it in an- Some' weeks later I was wounded, other. g and came hone. For four months a has reached now that dull state comrade carried a packet of old let- Oein which e has but one desire, and tens, which I had left in my pack that -to lie down and get off that when 1 discarded it on the battlefield. awful burden, anywhere, anyplace. When he at last achieved leave he But the man in front of you; you can brought them to me in England. I knew they were personal, old chap, and I wouldn't trust 'em to the post," he said. Those letters were doubly precious to me after that. children they take on tuberculosis and Capt. A1'tltur H. Samue s, s y as I'll paint this one. die in early life? and, Capt. greater percentage of soldiers First, we are warned to fall in at '•Ignorance is not our excuse and, passing through reconstruction ten- X o'clock, in full marching order. Let we are not ignorant. On the con -1 tees are suffering from internal rath= me tell you what "Full marching traty,we know, but eve seem not to! er than outward surgical injuries,_ order" is. The skeleton equipment; understand, and certainly are not; injuries, men who are suffering from that on which the various articles sufficiently practical to make use of shell shock, for instance.h TSe Sloop fasten, consists of a wide, heavy, fit. "It will be difficult,"1 e says, µ.ebbed, canvas belt with two shoulder many instances for the business man straps; in the front, attached to the eager to open his door to the return -,strap, are the cartridge pouches, hold - ed fighter to understand why men ing120`ronnds of ammunition; on the who look hale and hearty enough will belt on right side are the bayonet, be unable to go into certain jobs in- entrenching tool handle and haver - volving heavy indoor work. They sack; the last contains your shaving are largely ignored. In cities, the must not be passed by because their outfit, cleansing and eating utensils, conditions seem a wee bit better, forsacrifices are not obvious." No small etc„ one the right side is the water there typhoid is less, tuberculosis is I part of the ]keen intuition that knows bottle. Thenn comes the real load: perhaps less, and the death rate, how to sympathize by silence and the pack, a canvas valise slung on leaving out accidental deaths, is less, unobstrusive 'helpfulness and that i9 the back by straps round your shoul- In cities, people.., more thoroughly so absolutely necessary in the great ders. It carries a greatcoat, sweater separate themselves from their sew- work of helping these men to "find coat, extra underwear, socks, 'band- age and the bath is more in evidence. themselves" rests with the women of kerchiefs, ground sheet and house - Adenoids and (tercets of the nose and every community. If the returned wife. Then add to that the box rase throat are more prevalent in the man 'becomes discouraged and out- •pirator, or gas mask, on the chest, country- than in cities, and this despite the purer country air. It still may be said the reason country air is so pure is because the farmer keeps the liad air inside. "As in the city schools, we also find in those of the country the larg- er proportion of children are neglect- ed. Bad teeth prevail to such a de- gree that we express surprise when a good set is found. Coughs, colds and catarrh get every child one Or two times every school term, and seine sniffle through every day of the year. "Cases of catarrh, weak and wa- tery eyes, and running ears are found, many dating from the time the help- less youngsters had measles or scar- let rash. Emaciation from actual our knowledge. "Nowhere is there greater disobedi- ence of the laws of inheritance and the laws of health than in rural dis- tricts. There, mating is wholly, en- tirely and absolutely haphazard. And there Iaws of health and well-being classed after leaving the reconstruc- tion centres the fault will be found to rest almost invariably with the wo- men who have sympathized in unwise rather than helpful ways. Open tom miseration is often nothing less than refined cruelty and is never the best sort of help. Thus there is added another phase to women's war work, study of the best ways of helping un- obtr•.1sively. Breakfast Cereals. This is now an appropriate time to addthe breakfast cereal to the morning menu. The body for the one may chat with his al next six months will require conside is to say, Y p era'bly more starches, sugars and fats on left 01 right, sling the rifle, instead to maintain sufficient heat and of carrying it at a slope, and smoke, although it is bad policy to smoke, you need all your wind. One period is usually threeequart0rs of an hour with a ten minute rest after. The first five or ten minutes all goes well; you trot along humming or chatting, making more • or less humorous comments on the various, entrenching tool at hack on belt and your rifle, and you are ready, The "Fall in" alwd'ys 'entails a seemingly unnecessary amount of standing around in platoons, which is rather trying. While standing, a good way of easing the load is..to place muzzle of rifle under the pack, butt on the ground, and let your shoulders down. You have only then to keep the pack balanced. At last we get the word and start off. One's sensations and forms of mild torture experienced are so varied that. I'll describe them to you. First of all, we march at east, that starvation is not occasional. In one energy. An ideal manner of supply- ing school of twenty=seven pupils, I breakfastthis ncereal eed land milk, ll be found in .the found seven anemic, emaciated chile Table for Proportions dren, and •f1 a of them were actually One cupful of oatmeal to four starving. One little wizened girl cupfuls of water: cook for 3 hours. had had one batter cake with mo- One cupful of rolled oats to three lasses for breakf feet, and in her din- cupfuls of water; cook for 2 hours. her bucket for lunch were one soggy One cupful of farina to four cup- and what seem to us, peculiar houses biscuit and one apple, All of twenty- fuls of water; cook for 2 hours. and vehicles„ etc„ 'which we see oil seven pupils in the school needed I One cupful of cracked wheat to lite way. We have apparently for - seven attention. There was nota five cupfuls of water; cook for 2 gotten that we are human pack mules, child that did not have two or more, hours. . Soon, however, one begins to realize deeeyed teeth. Every child had One cupful of hominy to six cup- he is carrying something. Yod feel a heavy or choking sensation, like an attack of indigestion as though your lungs ,are being squeezed slightly. But that is a trifle, you think. You. straighten up, 'take a' deep breath and it is forgotten: In a minute or two the right shoulder begins to ache a little with the heavy backward pull on it. Yeti shift your,rifle to the left shoulder—that's easier for the right, but soon the left starts, to keep com- pany and you cannot shift any weight anywhere el!ie. Then you slip a hand behind you and underneath the pack, raising it and shifting the weight to your arra. This isa great relief, but only mo- mentary as the strain on the arm is too great, and one lets the pack down again. Next eommenees across the back of the neck and reaching into both shoulders a dull, heavy pain, This steadily grows worse. Another way of duping yourself is to slip a thumb under each set of .shoulder straps and raising the whole equipment a little. safe ed from one or more attacks 'of so -cared 'cold' during the winter, and sixteen said they had had colds fuls of water; cook for 3 hours. One cupful of cornmeal to four. ever since school opened in the fall:' cupfuls of water; cook for 3 hours. to I One cupful of barley cup - The rest of the description of the live fuls of water; cook school and teacher kept me awake for 4 'lours. nights for a week, so I omit 11 to save One cupful of barley meal to four cupfuls of water; cook for 3 hours. One cupful of rice to five egpfuls of water; cools for 3 hours. One cupful of rye -meal to four cupfuls of water; cook for 3 hours, For variety add any of the follow- ing: 0nckhalf cupful of seeded and chop- ped raisins. One-half cupful of seeded and chop- ped dates. One-half cupful of seeded and chop• ped prunes. One-half cupful of peanuts put through„tho food chopper... Three tablespoonfuls of peanut butter. Try serving cereals with the fel: lowing in place of sugar: Place one- hall cupful of syrup in a small pity But, as you atm imagine, you can only chef and add two tablespoonfuls of hold it for a very short time. barer'. •• Beat until very -'lot, stir- From this time an it is a series ring frequently until creamy; of various changes and tliiftings of weights, none' of which ralieve you .,,..,.,16.v«. CHRISTMAS will be happier for you if you have provided the first step for your children's future. Begin saving for them now by purchasing good stooks on our X'ARTTAL I'AYMEN'r PLAN • So much laid by monthly aetuallY gives them ownership in arty securities specially favored by You.. Write at once for copy of OUT free booklet telling you all about this splendid saving plant H. It Connolly 8t Co, Members Montreel Stock Excepanae 105.106 Transportation fsullding MONTREAL a QUE. along, and through your mind runs the thought: "He is carrying the same load, full of that sante pain. If he can keep up, I can," and still your legs monotonously forge ahead. I can't explain it, but you area in a state of semi -consciousness like one walking in his sleep. Then you try to think of something pleasant. In my case I try to picture myself at home, and you may not believe it, but it helps a lot. Some chaps have fallen out, but you plod along. To fall out means the extra exertion of step- ping out of the hanks; your legs do not seem capable of changing direc- tion so you stay in your place praying for the welcome words of command: "Fall out"! Perhaps one chap with a little more "pep" left in him informs us that we have ten minutes to go before the rest period. That ten minutes mag- nifies itself into an eternity of time, in your mind, but' here's where the old thought of 'nine so often comes in: "There's an end to all things, and so will be to this march." When the time is up you stagger out to the' right and let yourself down, lying so that the pack forms a back rest and also so that the weight is all taken off your back and shoulders. Then for a moment the sudden flow of blood sends sharp, shooting pains around the .eords of the neck, but that is over and oh the blessed relief then. In a moment: you feel fit enough to reach for a cigar- ette. A drink would taste all right, but .it -is net wise, as you have an- other walk ahead of you, to take one. • kii ! re soup Put in pietlty of vegetables and rice or barley. Evea with poor stock delicious soups C111l 7e 1• r made by aclutr a das1h of ee Pr`] v ? 9 �x !, r1 d q z"a 1cif r -7 e iteeda good F,oard, i loonee No. 19.143 Risk Life to Recover Token. • I wonder if those at home who have received the personal treasures and letters of their dead know that great courtesy of the British soldier? How men risk their lives and crawl into No 1VIan's Land so that a dear pal's wife or mother—it is to his women- folk that the soldier usually addresser that sacred letter—shall have the very last 'message_ he ever emote. Through what infernos of shelling they carry those letters' How they will add to their overburdened kit some token that Bill, or George, would like his "missus" to have, and how they carry such a treasure, and will not part with it until they can find - a certain messenger to take it to the bereaved woman! No; there is no glory in war, but there is love,. CROSSING CANAL DU NORD Flow "Tam's" Enabled Infantry to Rush the Hindenburg Line.' • The floundering of the oarly Tanks in the deep m•ul of Flanders Loused jo•: in German hearts. Surely this mighty e4,g"te of war could be de - footed by a zone of soft earth or by shallow pools c' -eater! Therefore a line of trenches was cut and flooded as defence, and failed, For, while the I•Iuns were chortling and digging, our mechanicians were planning new stunts for their ungainly toy, includ- ing the carriage of a strong bridging - hurdle to repair gaps and ,spats trenches, The great gulf of t11e Canal Food Control Corner Get Government Feed. Government feed et reasonable prices may be secured by farmers and live stock men 'through the Feed. Division of the Lim ,Stock Brunch tf the Department of Agriculture, Ot- tawa, which has established eeeerves at ctifl'erent distributing centres as tol'.ows: Re -cleaned elcea(or sceceni11gs, $56.00 per ton, balk car load lots, Fort William. There is an export embargo •'gin this' came of feel. reed 00") $1.40 per bushc!, f,o,b Tiffin, Ont, Linseed oil cake heal $04.00 per ton, Toronto, and $06.00 ;per ton,f.o.b. Montreal in car load lots, packet in TORY OF THE PINK -TILED TANK. I31U'1'ISH LAND SHIP ON THE WESTERN FRONT When His Mujesty'e Ship "Here We Are" iemused the Tummies mall Terrified the Enemy. Ar Lunmbering, rolling, dipping h.eilvily into shell holes, heaving clumsily out of ,thein, moving with a motion,that can hest be deeerlled as something. .between that of a half -sunken ship and a hailist1•1(ng toad, came His Majesty's ltuid ship "here We Are " Such was the appearance of a British tank that a writer in 1110 Cornhill Maglczine describes. It dipped its nose and slid headfirst into a huge shell crater in ludicrous likeness to a squat bull pup sitting heck on hie haunches as he is dnaie•g'ed into a" hole, and then as the Here We Are's face and gun -port eyes and bent elbow driving gear appeared above the crater tim it still more ridiculous- ly resembled an amazed toad emerge ing from a rain barrel, Fifty yards in its wake a line of men followed to pielc up the pieces and the prisoners. The monster waddled on, lurched,, chocked and steadied, itself with its nose poised over a deep hale, halted and backed away, and edged nervous- ly round the rine of the hole., It reached the barbed -wife entangle- ments and waddled through, bursting them apart and trailing then in lnitg tangles behind it, or trampling them calmly under the churning cater -pile lar bands. The infantry pushed ou after it almost without casualties, for the tank was drawing a huricane of Machine gun bullets that beat and rattled on its armored sides lllce hfiil on a Windowpane: It waddled _ in - 200 pound sacks.[differently through the.. storm and, It would be well for farmers to get I crawling carefully across the German together and order car'load lots of trench, halted halfway over and above feeds before winter conditions sprinkled bullets up and clown its affect transportation. Address or- length to portand starboard for o, ders for corn, screenings and oil cake minute, hitched itself over, steered meal to the Feed Division, Live Stock straight for a fire -streaming machine Branch, Ottawa, gun embrasure,. squirted a .jet of lead Bran and shorts upon which there into the loophole, butted at the em - is an absolute export embargo, are placement once or twice, got a grip: sold through the regular trade at fix- with its upward -sloping caterpillar ed 'prices of $31.00 per ton for bran hand, climbed jerkily until it reared and $30.00 per ton for shorts, Fort on end like a frightened Dolt. ground. William, plus freight and $42,00 per its iiriving bands round and round, ton net cash, Montreal, including and fell forward on its face. Then it sacks in each case. 'Freight will be crnwlecl out of the wreckage, crunch - deducted or added to this puce ac ing over splintered beans and eon - cording to distance east or west of Montreal respectively. There is also a supply of dried beet pulp or sugar beet meal accumulated at the sugar refineries in Western Ontario, selling at $35.00 per ton, f,bib. Chathani, Wallaceburg and Kitchener, plus a charge of $5.00 per ton for bags, which amount is re- funded on return of bags. - Farmers within a reasonable radius of these points should look into the advantages or this feed, as it is desirable to use it up in Canada. The existence of Iarge grain -stocks in Siberia is reported. Recruiting Officer (examining man for the Army)—"How is it you are so .small my num?" Three feet sls— I was brought up on ehortbroad And condensed mills." The ten minutes soon pass and you du Nord was anticipated deep enough pull yourself on your knees, then to and wet enough to stop the British your feet and step into your section rush to the Hindenburg line, Ac - of ,. cordingly, all ,bridges were breached Th11an011 comes another spall of it a and the banks pulverized by shallow little worse as you start endout-tired, mines. Then the enemy retired, Re- but you know that at the end is an hour's rest for dinner, so you "Garry ing the :further bank with machine on." • gun?,', 5 4; 0' 4' ..Next morning the first Tank plung- ed up the shell -riven road, and reach - the infantry, not at all, for I've seen est tie elements of a bridge. The very little.' Here's what I mean: arch "drushed," as was expected, and t 0£ all the units in France the differ -the great steel rooster sat down heav- enCe in corps, etc,, the rank and file ily in the ruins, immovable, the target of the infantry have the most hard- for every rifle and Maxim that could ships, hardest work and absolutely be brought to bear. Under cover of the least comfort, whether in or out a :smoke -bomb, the crow scrambled of the line, and are lowest in grade out of the upper manhole, and took of units. The most credit is dpe to shelter where they coeld in the lee of thorn, for outside of fighting, which the fallen giant. Then a second Tat* all do, they,, as I said, endure the waddled up. There was a halt, and most, •• its team of engineers, rising appal,. The aviators fly so many hours per ently from the earth, deftly reached Say and go way back of the line to down certain steel joists which were a comfortable billet and lots to eat, laid as a pathway from terra -firma to with things ready for • them. The the tortoise top of the abandoned ma - artillery have greater chance for chime in front, • ee sleeping places and for carrying.,grub, With a mighty churning -and grind - The infantry throw their load off their ing, Tankl' o. 2 crawled out over No. chole ,in the i; bumped on to the centro pier of back and probably dig a side of a trench at night and eat out the bridge, made a few more bounces, of their mess tin, which they are and then crashed the crown of the lucky enough to' have, further arch, pinking to the venal., Im not complaining for I've not ex- level. :Tank No. 8 was on the heels perietnced much of it, just enough to of its predecessors, its Maxims and realize that this branch of the service six-poulldors belching shells by the deserve what they Won't get --the string against the enemy's pestle, and most credit after the war. covering the working -party. Again ...--1-4—......4 the bridging material was laid, and "Judge not without knowledge, no eight smartly our third Tanic,bump- witheut neeessity, and florae without ed and wobbled across the improvised love." --Alex. Whyte, span of steel, and eame into close Ex -Empress Eugenie of France, action, paving the way for ourin- widow of Napoleon III., has lived oto Pantry to complete the breach, see the day she„17fayed for—the fall Promises to many folks are like pioerust---only made deo be broken. Full silos mean big winter milk, only to the extent oe lessening it in of the Ilohenr.:'earns,• F ri'R 6-MR1.3' AS! Muskrat Coat Loose box c o at effect, with con- vertible collar. Extra well made. Lometh 45". A popular seller. French Seal Splendid coats that look welt and wear better than any other seal, Special price $'112, Persian Lar'nb and Mink ftv.o of our specialtio1in withal we offer exceptional v a 1 • 1(00. CUMMINGS & CUMMINGS logo St: Paul Street, Montreal FLAW FURS; Highest Prices Paid, ONE met Melt 011!8 wltfrom d'osta 47 404,1,6 what. 0 GAM oA At, creta, halting every 11041 and then to spray bullets on any German who showed himself, and turning 'aside to nose over any suspicious looking cranny before it plodded on in search' of more trenches, The illfantryfollowed, rounding eat groups of prisoners who crawle-d white-faced and frightened, feennrlug- outs and trench corners. Suddenly, se trench wall -gave way and the ester - board side of the Here We Are sank below the port. Aftera pause the bands began once more to revolve and to churn out behind- thorn first a cloud of dust and clots of earth, and then a ,mangled debris of clothe ing arc' trench -made furniture. On the mound above,'the infantry"'stood shrieking with laughter while :I# Here We Are pawed out find.hoofed bellied it into the naked light of day a ep:entered bedstead, a chewed -ups blanket or two, the legs, back and seat of a red velvet armchair, ..torn gray rat: and a forlorn and muddy - pair of pink pyjamas 'tangled up :n a field hoot, s When the drivers got their gelp again and the Here We the rolled 1aajesl•I &17. foryvard and up the far- ther side of the hole, one of the sol diets dragged -a longi branch from the debris, slid it up one leg and down the other of the pink pyjamas, tied' the boot by its laces to the tip and a thrust the root into a convenient crevice in the stern of the tank. So beflagged, she rolled her triumphant way up over the captured redoubt and down the other side, with the --boot tip bobbing and jerking and stewing at the end of her pink tail, • . o• Ill""_ FISH OILS IN PAINT Excellent to Mix With Red Lead for Exterior 'Work. Fish oil may be used to advantage as a vehicle for. pigments in exterior paints. For interior painting, how- ever, .t is not satisfaetory, as it gives off .noxious gases for a considerable time after it is. applied, Those Dire which have the ,east of 14110 channel teristic "fishy" odor give the best re- sults, Such oils may be used as vehicles for pigments to the -extent of 75 per cent., the remainder of the vehicle consisting 'ofelinsed oil. Fish oil is superior to linseed- oil in smoked -stack paint or paint that has to be applied to hot surfaces, since it docs not blistery It is also in demand for baking japans where a certain degree of fiexibirity is re- quired. It is used, too, in the mama - tuatara of enamelled leather ende printing inks. When, red lead is mixed with len; -•; sped oil, chemical action follows'' Which causes it to thicken up and, be-' come unfit for use 111' a short time.' T)ie addition of properly neu'tralleod. -gle oil, will, however, prevent thi hardening talon and 1pl0Serve the paint in a fresh •and soft condition. for many months. t .1 The Ottoman Empire is the stuns of the world. --fir Mark Sykes, 0 't