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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-07-19, Page 6You can.kee.p the fine natural color in-Raspbera yy Preserves IF You MAKE TaET4 WITS frPure and Uncolored" Long cooking fades raspberries. You can•avoid this by using LANTiC SSUGM which dissolves instantly on account of its "FINE" granulation. LANTIC is the best sugar to use for all Preservingon accotfnt of its purity and high sweetening power LANTIC. is a pure cane sugar equally good for the. table, for general cooking and for preserving. 10, 20 and 100.1b. sacks; 2 and•5-1b. cartons. • ORDER FRODI YOCUR GROCER BY NABIB' IN THESE FULL WEIGHT ORIGINAL2'r1CK4cEs PRESERVING LABELS FREE—Send us'a red ball trade=mark cut from a bag* carton and we will send you a book of 54-ready.gummed printed labels. r Athntie 1� aa.:Refineries, Limited ' Power' Building; "Montreal 147 leialliagniatev`'ENSIIIIMIIIM A COURSE IN HOUSEI-100) SCIENCE COMPLETE IN TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS. Lesson IL --The Function of Water. Wrier is a necessary -constituent of health is to boil the water when there is the least doubt as. to its.purity. Be- cause water looks bright and sparkling it is not always safe to conclude that it is therefore free from impurities. Every care should be taken that the source of water supply is uncontam- inated. The reason. that boiled water has a flat and insipid taste is because the oxygen has been driven off by the boil- ing. Stirring will incorporate air and restore -oxygen. A glass of water taken before meals prepares the stomach to receive food. It is especially beneficial to drink a glass of hot water before breakfast,. Drinking water with the meal is not harmful if taken when the mouth is. empty and not used to wash down the food. It is likely to cause an increase in weight in fleshy poisons. A glass of water after meals aids digestion. Drinking very cold water is harmyful; 45 to 66 degrees Fahren- heit is the right temperature. As a rule people do not drink sufficient wa- ter to maintain perfect health. saucepan and stir until starch is dis- solved, then bring to boiling point and cook three minutes. Remove from the fire and.add:'one teaspoonful van- illa, one-half cupful sager, stiffly beaten white ,of ,egg,' . Pour in small pudding molt],- geisain cool place to mold.. Turn' the pudding from the mold, cut with sharp knife. in one -inch slices and place on fruit platter, Cov- er with crushed and sweetened berries, Currant -Gooseberry Jam.—To " a gallon of 'gooseberries use one quart of red -currant juice prepared as for jelly, and six pounds' of sugar•, Make a syrup with the currant -juice and the sugar; then add the gooseberries that have been stemmed and tailed. sim- mer slowly until the berries are a pret, ty clear red color, then fill into glass jars. Boil the juice down to the jelly stage, and pour over the fruit, and seal. the blood stream, as it forms three- , fifths of the total weight of the human body. Water .acts as. a• carrier throughout the body, and is a very necessary agent in the process of digestion and elimination. The presence of water in the blood regulates the temperature -of the body. It acts as a distributor of heat- where the blood flows from the warm interior to the cold exterior of the body. The proceed of digestion. is carried on by the aid of water. For this rea- son it is necessa;•y to take a laveamount, at least^two quarts daily, in order to preserve I?ealth, Besides the amount required for purposes of diges- tion, itis necessary in hot weather to drink' an extra amount in order to counter -act the loss' of moisture oc- casioned by, sweating. Pure thanking water and an a und- ance of it is therefore absolutely s- sontial to the iireservation of horith, Disease germs are 'often present in water And the hest way to safeguard Seasonable Recipes. Strawberry Charlotte,—Malec a cus- tard of one .cupful of milk, two yolks of eggs, two- tablespoonfuls 'of corn- starch, two tablespoonfuls of water. Dissolve starch in water-. and add scalding milk. Cook for three min- utes. Remove from fire, Beat' in yolks of eggs and pour in a dish lined with sponge cake. When cool, cover with meringue made from whites of eggs beaten very stiff, with two Ounces of sugar, and one cupful of crushed strawberries which have been folded in after the eggs are whipped, Cherry Roll.—Make a plain pastry of one cupful of flour, one-half tea- spoonful salt, oneieaspoonful baking - powder, four tablespoonfuls shorten- ing, one --quarter cupful of water. Mix dry ingredients, rub in shortening, addwater; nix to dough. Roll ono -quar- ter inch thick on well -floured pastry board, Spread with cherries, stoned, and chopped fine. • Sprinkle over the cherries one-half cupful of brown su- gar, roll the dough 'like a jelly roll. Place in, a well -greased and floured pan, pouring three-fourths cupful of water. and: four tablespoonfuls of su- gar over the roil as you place it lit the oven, Bake in moderate oven How Eggs Are Spoiled. Most eggs when laid contain very few or no ,bacteria that would cause decomposition, and the entrance of these micro-organisms usually, takes place because of carelessness or ne- glect on the part of those handling the eggs. One of the chief; sources of (€Tz 1):(J1)1)1, 5K. „�.., tis y k111\16'f1. Novelized from the Motioti Picture Play of the Same Name the Universal Film Mfg Co.lec,N.yl, /ele,NM NAn' Nn.T .,.r rpt 111 1111. SIXTH EPISOD1I Tho queen's Necklace. Crackling flames were devouring the tinderlike superstyucture of the air- plane, before it had fairly landed in the tree -top. The terrifying position they were in, compelled the three pas- sengers to act with extreme prompt- ness to save their lives. Phil Kelly, who had been stunned by the blow that knocked him onto one 'of the wings of the machine just as it began its ascent, was now regaining con- sciousness, Pat hauled the Sphinx from his re- cumbent position on the burning wing of the airplane.- Then she clambered into the branches of the tree herself. The girl 'crawled down to the low- est branches anti jumped to the ground.” Kelly followed her, and there immediately appeared upon the scene. a group of excited and astonished farmers who had been attracted to the scene by the brilliantly burning air- plane. - Willing hands, assisted' the girl into a nearby house, while others carried the partly unconscious detec- tive into another farmer's home. Pat soon recovered her composures and aside from a few scratches that would soon be forgotten, discovered that she had escaped miraculously' from a terrible death. , Then, re- joicing in her good fortune the girl left the friendly shelter"p, her good Samaritans had provided and made her way, in the early dawn, to the hangar where her automobile was waiting. When Kelly had collected bis senses and started to investigate, he found, in"the room where Pat had been shel- tered, only one sign that she ever been there. On the sofa was a purple mask. Wooled again, 'and by this slip of a girl," Kelly said' -to himself as he started back toward Paris, walking to the nearest railroad station. That morning safelyat •home, Patricia re- galed her stunt with an. incomplete version of her adventure. But it was several weeks before Pat again entered a contest of wits with the Sphinx. However., unknown to the beautiful Patricia, there were certain conspir- ing elements at work that would soon bring her into activity—that would give her a chance to exercise her char- itable instincts and do something in the interest of the oppressed. Pat's fame had extended beyond the con- fines of Paris-. She was becoming known, among certain classes, throughout France. In the principality of Dufrane there were certain conspiracies fomenting. King Fergus ha aroused the enmity of his- people, by appropriating for himself a necklace of great value that his queen, upon her death a few months before, had bequeathed to a fund she intended should be used to relieve the distress of the poor. These were the outward conditions when there came one morning to Phil' Kelly a message from King Fergus to appear at once at his palace. Taking with him his two most trusted assis- tants, the Sphinx set out immediately for Dufrane. King Fergus had de- tailed his son, Prince Angus, to meet the famous detective and have him brought at once to the council"t`liarn- ber in the palace. "I have come, sir, at your com- mand," said Sphinx Kelly when he was' ushered into the presence of the king. "What are yourefurtherorders?" • • The king fixed his steel -gray eyes upon the famous detctive and said;. "The life of my dynasty is threat- ened. The :people are conspiring against me, and I want you to fathom the plot and report to me your find- ings. Prince Angus, who has brought you here, will give you the full de- tails." Then the king indicated that the audience was at an end and Kelly, accompanied by/Prince Angus, repair- ed to another -room in the palace. Prince Angus proceeded to impart- the details of the plot against the king. IIe spoke rapidly, and was evidently ill at ease. "My mother diecl a. few months ago, and willed to the peasants a valuable necklace—the jewels to be sold and the proceeds to be placed at thedis- posal of the People's league for dis- tribution among the needy. The king, my• father, has decided that he shall keep the jewels, and has locked them in his private safe." . "I mast know every part of the story," said• Kelly, "or I cannot pro- ceed with intelligence." "The fact is," Prince Angus re- sumed, "Duke Hester covets the throne, and lie is very popular with the people, There may be alt uprising at any hour and the king may be de- throned. This would bring Duke Hes- tot into power." - "This Duke Heston" Phil began— "does he know the combination to the safe?" "les,lhe does," the prince replied, and, unfortunately, he and the king are the only ones who can open the door to the vault." "If the duke were able to ',procure the gems, could he sell them readily?" was Kelly's next question., "Yes, indeed," was the immediate answer. -"Only a short distance from he palace there is an immensely ealthy banker who has made it -own publicly that anyone who will mg .:am the gems may have the oney." • "Wino is the lhacler of the People's ague ?" the detective next asked. "They have never hoer a real 1•eador nail this very week, 'There is a'thys- •lons woman among them now, and e is immensely popular. Her pres- et,ce caused the Icing to send for you. fhe is working the peasants into frez- s of enthusiasm," "How long did you say this woinn has been here?".Kelly ihquired, his keen interest being shown in voice and manner, "Only a day or two. She has come here from Paris, whore she is known for her charitable deeds and • her inter- est in the poo' and oppressed," Kelly, sat for a moment silently con- sidering the outlook. "You may tell the king that X will fathom the ,plot, r said the Sphinx, While Prince Angus and Kelly were discussing the problem that Confront- ed them, the girl leader of the Peo- w city -five minutes. Serve with fruit infection is clioty'o.r damp nests. Eggs, bi sauce. • like milk, make an excellent place for m Deanna Cake.—One-half cupful su bacterial growth and development and le gar, yolk'of one egg. Cream until a they spoil very readily when kept in t light lemon color, then add: five table- dirty ar unsanitary conditions,The spoonfuls, shell of the egg is porous to water, three-fourths cu fullo p admit the feu flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls passage of air in and out, but it is eh baking powder; Beat well to mix, coated with a mucilaginous matter then carefully fold in the stiffly beaten which prevents the entrance of bac- white of the egg; binke in an eight- teria unless it le very old, wet, soften - inch layer cake pan eighteen minutes od by moisture, or rubbed off, There- in a ]lot oven. Cool, split and 1111 with fore, eggs should not be washed, held Brushed bananas, in damp, musty- places, oenhandlod Strawberry P adding.—:One and one- More than noeessnry, and should be Half eo duls cold water, five table- marketed or preserved 'as soon after bpoonfuls cornstarch. Place in a laying ds pdssible. A spring harness has been patent- . No single item contributes more to- ed, whichattached to the shoulders ward economy .in the prepai'atien of and hips, aids in supporting the spines food than the spatula for scraping of men Who are obliged: to stoop in bowls, If possible two siSee of this. their work, _., - " , , flexible teVo-sided knife are desirable, Ale's league wes holding a secret ses- sron with plaice Iiestor• int eutther TWA of the palace. "'You Must take lne to the room Where the vault Las been built. Then give m0 the combinatiMI, and I will ,get the jewels. They belong to tine people and they meet haze then,,"! rile girl was saying. T can uliderstaed why you- are tine idol of the poor Parisians, Miss Patric era,"• said Duke Hester with ancon- sealed admiration, "They told us you would dare anything in behalf of the poor, and that is why we Bent for you -)out I had no idea you would face such danger as stealing the jewels might involve," "The danger moans nothing, if I can accomplish the purpose th$t these poor people have intrusted tb me," the grl respohded, we Arid as she Was speaking Duke. Hester wrote a series of numbers' on a piece of paper and held them ,before Patricia's eyes. " "Memorize those figures," the duke said, "and you have the Combination." Over and over egaiai Pat studied,tho figures, and when he wasoassured they were fixed in`her'mind, Duke Hector tore the slip of paper into small bite and thrust the particles into his pocket. (To be. continued.) TIIE ANTWERP ROAD. In October, 1914, henry Van Dyke Witnessed the Scene He Heirs Describes. Along the straight, glistening road, through a dim' arcade of drooping trees, a tunnel of faded green and gold, dripping with the misty rain of a late October afternoon,, a human tide was flowing, not swiftly but -slowly, with the patient, pathetic slowness of weary feet and numb brains and heavy hearts, Yet they were in haste, all of these old: men and women, fathers and mo- thers -and little children; they were flying as fast as they could; either away' from something that they fear- ed or toward something that they de- sired. • For that was the strange.,thing — the tide on the road flowed in two di- rections. - Some fled away from ruined homes to escape the perils of war. Some fled back to ruined homes; to escape the desolation of exile. But all were fugitives, anxious to be gone, striving along the road one way or the other, and making no more speed than a creeping snail's pace of unutterable fatigue. I saw many separate things in the tide, and remembered them without doting. A boy straining to push a wheel barrow with his pale mother in it, and his two little sisters trudging at his side. A peasant with his two girls driving their lean, dejected cows back to some unknown pasture. A bony horse tugging at a waggon heaped high with bedding and household gear, on top of which sat the wrink- led grandmother with the tiniest baby in her arms, while the rest of the family stumbled alongside—and the cat was curled up on the softest cov- erlet in the . wagon. Two panting dogs, with red tongues hanging out and splayed feet clawing the road, tugging a heavy laden= cart while the master pushed behind and the woman pulled at the shaft. Strange, antique vehicles crammed with passengers. Couples and groups and sometimes larger companies of foot travellers. Now and then a solitary man or wo- man, old and shabby, bundle on back, eyes on the road, plodding through the mud and the mist, under the high archway of yellowing leaves, All- these distinct pictures I saw, yet it was all one vision—a vision of humanity with its dumb companions in flight—infinitely slow, painful, pitiful flight. I saw no tears, I heard no cries of complaint. But beneath the dumb and patient haste on all those dazed faces I saw a'question: "What have we done? Why has this thing come upon us and our children?" Somewhere I heard a trumpet blown. The spikes on the helmets of a little troop of soldiers flashed for an. instant, far down the sloppy road. Through- the humid dusk came the dull, distant booming of the unseen guns of conquest in Flanders, . That was the only answer. SAWDUST. STOPS FIRE. Forms an Effective Blanket Tintt Shuts Off Air Front Flames. Recent eyperiments went to prove that sawdust is useful as a fire ex- tingGisher. It was found to be very successful in quenching fires in oil, and much superior to sand for fires in tanks of inflammable liquids. Ex- periments were conducted with tankd of burning lacquer, though the same principles appear to- apply largely to tanks" of burning oil., The floating sawdust forms a blanket that shuts off the air front the flames; and saw- dust itself catches fire only slowly, and then does not burn with a flame. The sawdust blanket was completely successful in putting out the fires in these tests. It made no difference whether the' saeydtrat was wet or dry. The efficiency of sawdust is greater on viscuous than 0n thin liquids; as it floats more 'readily of the former than On the latter. The sawdust itself. is not easily ignited, and when ignited it burns without a flame, and the burning embers, have not suffi- ciently high tempeeatnre to re -ignite the liquid, Mixing sodium bicar- bonate with the Sawdust increases its efficiency, mater, ially, Illiteracy in Spain, In many villages and small towns in the interior of Spain no one knows how to read of write, Theiw' aro in Spain thirty thousand lural` villages without schools of any kind, and Many thousands Which can be reach- ed only by a bridle path, there being no highroads or railway communica- tion ofn a y kind, Attendance at ecltool is voluntary not obligatory, Seventy-six per tent, of the children in Spain are illiterate, , When a man knows his own impels. .factions he is just abut as perfect as it is possible for a man to be, BARRIERS ON ' THE ROAD TO BERLIN PRUSSIA,NS ADEPTS IN THE ART OP CONOEALMENT, New Type of Machine Gun Emplace merit Represents Fresit Phase .. in Defensive Warfare, • The goad to Berlin bristles viitli machine guns. Latest reports from the armies in the field which have been advancing over ground long held bytho Prussians show that while they are holding their lines to the last the enemy are preparing, far behind the battle front, to check the advance Of armies by almost-enazelike systems of reinforced concrete defences eheiter- ing thousands of deadly weapons. Since the early days of the war, wherever troops were to remain in position for any length of time both Allies and Prussians have made free use of reinforced 'concrete for the construction of their defences, A re- cent traveller in °Genially declared that at one point in the rear of •the present German lines he knew of a belt of land one mile wide protected by seven successive lines of concrete trenehes and bomb proofs reinforced by steelnetwork much like ordinary heavy chicken wire, which would pre- vent the whole weight of the mass tumbling down even should a large portion of the roof be shot to pieces. The emplacements and protection for machine guise naturally differ ma- terially from those for field guns. Machine. gunge with more or less elab- orate concrete defences more. than once have proved too much for ad- vancing waves of British and French infantry, and the Allies have learned that about the only way' to destroy them or their crews -is to shatter them by heavy shell fire, New Type Called "Mebu," The usual type of protection and emplacement bf machine guns is a small concrete structure rising from four to eight feet above the ground, with a narrow horizontal slit at the height of,about three or four feet through which the machine gun can turn on its pivot and pour its deadly stream of bullets at about the level of a man's breast. In the recent advances by the Brit- ish and French, however, they `have found a new type of.machine gun em- placement which has been evolved by the Prussian engineers. The Prussian name for these shelters is mebu, be- ing derived from the four initials of the German phrase signifying "sub- terraniean eoncreted machine gun pos- ition.a Each mebu Inas positions for three machine guns. Only their roofs show above the ground and they are heavily protected by concrete and steel. - - The mebus are usually wrecked by high explosives before the .troops sweep over the greund so that several -had to be reconstructed before the British engineers could learn exactly how they were devised. Gun crews Remain at Posts. The firing slit is only a few inches above the ground, and beneath the firing chamber is another in which the crew can take 'refuge if it be- comes necessary. One of the most common types consists of three inde- pendent machine gun pits ,the angles of fare from which overlap. Each is coinfected by a subterranean shaft with another underground shaft com- mon to all three. In this chamber large quiantities of ammunition and stores aro kept, so that even. if the gun crews are cut off from comm�oni• cation with the lines they can sub- sist and fight for some time. It is said that frequently when the Prus- sians retreat the machine gun crews are left in the rebus to hold out as long as they can and ilo as much dam- age es possible before they are taken or killed. The only way to destroy those whish escape the artillery fire, according to ono man who ' recently returned from the front, is to get round ha. rear of them and blow them up. In some cases long communicating tunnels give entrance to the ammuni- tion chambers, which in turn com- municate . underground, to the gun s pits. Men turd stores can be moved b safely from far in the rear to the me - bus. The rebus are, said by .British critics to represent a fresh phase in defensive warfare. By means of them machine guars can be fought practi- cally from underground, just as the Prussian infantry bas been fighting from underground. Borne time. Nee the attack 18 stop' ;ped by the drizings of thoasands a of the soldiers clicoppll e can lla `poured into the strip between . the trenches and the wounded men finished off a lelsut e, t A Metall presents a very small tar - got. Nevertheless many of them have been destroyed by direct . hits and scores have been wrecked during artillery preparation. The smallness ofu the curved roof showing above ground malces a menu very easy to conceal with branches, turf or other materials which mingle with the general appearance of the terrain, Some of the, oftener Prussian ma- chine gun covers had much the ap- pearance of the old style blockhouses of American Indian days. The elite, however, insn, are horizontaltead., asof thebeiclefgng dencsverticalare not so much interested in being able to depress and elevate the weapons as they are in sweeping through a wide are. Tommy Atkins has dubbed these blockhouses "machine gun nests," and. the -name is well given. Nesting in among brush and branches, protected from vier by as much vegetation as the pointers can allow to remain standing, these deadly little forts are almost as difficult to find as a bird's nest. HOW MAN BECAME CIVILIZED. Progress Came Through Primeval Man's Desire for Varied Diet. It is a common saying that the way to reach a man's heart is through his stomach, but it is not commonly known that. man reached civilization through his stomach. In the beginning of things man, a wild creature, mare, monkey than hu- man, lived on roots and berries, science tells us, trying first this and that article and discovering by the "trial and error" method which was good and which was not. There is considerable evidence that he kept to this vegetarian diet for many genera- tions, never discovering the dietetic value of meat. Then the change came. Either the stock of herbs and wild. fruits gave out in his vicinity or he got a taste of animal flesh after a forest fire, for he began to eat meat. Perhaps he killed an animal hi cdinbat and ei:- perimented on the raw flesh. No one will ever know just how he ' tsted it first. At any rate he liked it better than the insipid vegetarian 'diet and became devoted to it. When the wild animals grew elusive and hard to kill he began to trap the beasts and hunt them systematically with an eye to providing for the lean days. Following these days the sup- ply of animals began to -diminish and he became a hunter of considerable range. Even the new fields became more difficult for him, and he, hit upon the scheme of taming animals and raising them within stockades or .in prison valleys so that they would be on hand for any day of"need. Catching the wild boars, he within a certain number of generations produced the hog; the wild bovine herds he turned into cattle. By taming he made the modern sheep 'out of the mountain goats and sheep. .Various kinds of birds he caught and transformed into chickens and tame ducks. It was his stomach ' that he was thinking of. Gradually he became accustomed to living near his herds. The next' step was the erection of a more or less permanent abode, a home that he de- serted only when his herds had ex- hausted the pastures in the vicinity. 1 Out of this pastoral ago he devel- oped the agricultural period, adding to the forage of his live stock 'i by, planting for its benefit. His motive in settling down and forming commuhi ties was largely the conservation of his meat supply. Slowly civilization began to dawn: J Thrown in company with others of his kind, he began to talk better, to live better, to think better. Tribes form-' ed. Government became a thing to be considered. Laws were made. Jus- tice was administered. Man had ceased to be a wanderer, a lonely man. .His stomach had tamed him and laid,the foundations for civilization. 1 When he quit making his main diet oft' raw meat and began cooking the ' animal flesh that came into his pos- ession he not only tickled his palate ut ire improved his disposition. He became less savage, less bloodthirsty, more of a pacifist. The very act of raising grain, part of whichhe learned to eat and part of which he gave to! the stock, tamed him, for by it he peg- i lected/his combative instincts, which had been called upon so strenuously c during the days when he fought`' with wild animals, hunted then with spear and arrow. Ports Hard to. Find. The fact that so little of the mebus chews above ground and that the gun slits are so close to the ground level makes .them available only under cer- tain conditions. The ground ahead must be level or a down slope, How- ever, the latest practice in machine gun fighting is to shoot low and try to hit the enemy in the legs. This stops him, whereas with a body wound he may go on fighting for AN IDEAL ISLE OF EXILE, Better Even Than St, Helena ae a Safe Plato of Exile for the Raiser. The idea of banishing the Kaiser to St. Yelena in the event of en Allied, victory is often• it favorite source of imaginative exercise in England, The.. conception ie grouuded fn 'historical precedent, and the remoteness of this little island is still an important asset, as it was in Napoleon's day. St, Hele- na la familiarly regarded as the most. isolated inhabited 'land on earth, As a matter of fact, however, St, He- lena's seclusion is far surpassed by itsnearest, yet " far distant neighbor, Tristan da Cunha, in the South Adam! tic, Excepting the polar regions, tial' little-known "colony" of England Is the most inaccessibly spot in fny ocean. Curiously enough, a great war, was partly responsible for its present isolation, Tristan, which is one of a group of three small islands, lies' in the South-' Atlaiutic en latitude 37 south and longi tude 12 west.' It is 2,000 miles from, the Cape of Goad Hope, 1,600 from St.' Helena and 4,000 miles from Cape Horn. The first permanent settle- ment on the island was made by Thomas Currie, an Englishman, in 1810. Seine of the latter settlers came from Cape Colony, a few from Italy and Asia and Froin shipwrecked vessels. I1 was Americans, however, . . who gave a fleeting glimpse of pros- perity to Tristan when they used it for a port of call and repair station in the great whaling days before the Civil War. In that struggle, however, the Con- federate sea raiders destroyed Ameri- can pre-erinenee in whaling forever. No regular liners, and even raw tramps and sailing vessels,- call at Tristan to -day; the population, who keep a few sheep and cattle and grow some wheat, potatoes, peaches •and ap- ples, now numbers but ninety-five souls. They navigate between the three islands and are daring sailors. Sheep wool furnishes the islanders with clothing material. Occasionally they are visited by a British ship bringing needed supplies. The islands were discovered in 1508 by the Portuguese admiral Tristan, or, more properly, Tristao da Cunha, on a voyage to India. They rise from . a submarine elevation, which runs down the Center of -the Atlantic, and 'on which are, likewise, situated Ascen- sion, St. Paul's Rock and the Azores. The .average depth on this ridge is about 1,700 -fathoms, .The depth be- tween the islands is in some places 1,000 fathoms. Tristan,. the largest island, has an area of sixteen square mites, is -nearly circular in form and has a great volcanic cone, 7,000 feet high, usually 'capped with snow in the center. On all sides -of the island, but one„rise precipitous cliffs from 1,000 to 2,000 feet high, On the . whole Tristan da Cunha would be a reasonably safe place of exile for a certain present-day dweller in Potsdam. Jape Carry Pocket Stove. Many a benumbed soldier• ofNip- pon saved his life during the Russo- Japanese war by the use of a kwairo (pocket stove). To -clay Russia, pro- fiting by the experience of her for- mer enemy is' importing these stoves from her ally in great numbers for her troops. Delicate schoolchildren in Nippon keep a stove in their clothing during the winter months while in the class -rooms. The fuel used is put up in the form of. a sausage. Itis lighted and forced into a small tin container, which Inas the outward appearance of a metal cigar case. Fuel suffrcient for one loading of, the stove costs about one- sixth of a cent, and will last approxi- mately three hours, giving' consider- able warmth to that part of the body near which it is applied. There is considerable rivalry in the empire to see who can invent the best, fuel for the stoves. It must emit neither smoke nor odor. An efficient fuel is made of hemp stalks, a bundle of them being placed in a bole in the ground, then lighted and smothered so as to smolder without air, until turned into the•desired size and shape, Finally ,the fuel is.inclosed n a special kind of paper without Alicia the fuel would not burn suc- essfully. There is a great complaint about the shortage of help in mnnly linos of e"i fort, but no one hasr'discovored as yet any lack of bosses. t Barriers extending along the ground front en's or both sides of a recently a patented roadway gate enable an auto -l p mobilist to open or close the gate i o merely by running his car over them. 1s More horses, heavier horses, horses • better prepared for work and fed for work will ge far toward increasing and cheapening production per acre or per ton of crop. On moat Ontario farms there aro 0o many fences. On all too many tLore are found fences out of repair, nd in such •a condition as to be aim- ly temptations for live stock to got ver into the adjoining fields to de. troy crops and make tr,v'hl'. 2 and 5 lb. Cartons-•- i0, 20, 50 anal I0011nn Bags. Redpath refining methods produce no second grade sugar. We make and sell one grade only—the highest—so that you will never get anythingbut the best under the name of Redpath. "Let Redpath: Sweeten it,” 9 Cttia .dm. Sugar Refusing Co., Limited, Mo> tr'v..iv, `r -