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SEVENTH EPISODE.—(Cent'd4
Neither Pat nor Phil Kelly knew
that the other was en board until the
ship was well out to sea. They met
on the comPaelellsWay leading to the
saloon at dinner time. The surprise
Was mutual.
Pat took Kelly's extended hand,and
passed a few little pleasantries, while
her aunt proceeded to their table. Just
at parting the Sphinx remarked:
"You have me completely puzzled,
Miss Montez, I can never quite tell
whether you are working with or
against me."
Pat bestowed one of her bewitching
smiles upon Kelly,as she replied:
"Perhaps, in America, you can make
up your mind definitely." Then she
hurried on to dinner, leaving the
Sphinx more hi doubt than ever.
In the days that were consumed hi
the ocean voyage Pat found opportu-
nity to interest herself in a se that
particularly appealed to her warm-
hearted and charitable disposition.
The discovery was made quite by ac-
\ cident.
Among the passengers she had no-
ticed a young man and his wife who
seemed to be particularly objection-
able, in their manner, to all of then:
fellow passengers. Tie woman was
particulaaly diffident and self-satis-
fied.
One morning Pat was walking alone
on deck, approaching the second class.
Her attention was attracted to a par-
ticularly bright and Winsome baby
that a forlorn -looking little mother
was holding: on her lap.
Pat very soon made the acquaint-
ance of the mother and heard her piti-
able story. The woman had been de-
serted, after the man 'she loved had
betrayed her, and she was now fol-
lowing him to America, using the last
of the fortune she once possessed .to
provide for her transportation.
"He is on board this ship, traveling
first class with the woman who is
wearing pearls and diamonds, pur-
chased with -the money he induced me
to give him when I believed in him,"
said the woman. And as she watch-
ed the passengers walking on the up-
per deck she pointed out to Pat the
man and woman who were so unpopu-
lar with their felloh passengers.
"Philips, John Phillips; that's the
man," said the poor soul as her eyes
flashed hatred. And then she told
Pat her story, in full detail. When
she had finished Pat pressed a roll of
bills into the woman's hand and eaid:
"This is a pert PaYment On What
that Men (MOB you, I'll celleat the
reat, .411 Pay after we get to
AMerrea. "
It was decided between Pat And the
woman that the baby and its :nether
should be euro to remain eut of sight,
that Phillips might not know be Was
being watched And followed.
Oe the night the etearnehip passed
Nantueket Hell:411p, with good Beaux,-
ance of landing ie New York the next
morning, Pea made her move.
The deck was deserted when Pet
stealthily approached the door of the
Phillips stateroom. The night Was
hot and the door was fastened only
with a hook, to keep it partly open.
Pat quietly unhooked the door and en-
tered the room. She soon emerged,
and as stealthily as she had enterea,
proceecled to her own room.
,
She had dressed in her Apache cos -
tame, to give freedom of movement,
And when she threw off her cape, in
her own room, she fished out Of its
capacious pocket a string of immense-
ly valuable pear s.
At daylight many of the passengers
Listened to the Woman's Story.
were awake and moving to watch the
pilot come aboard. There suddenly
arose upon the quiet air N, the shrill
screams of Mrs. Phillips, shouting
that she had been robbed of her pearls.
Officers of the steamship quieted
the Woman as soutras they could rash
to her assistance.
"We are not responsible for your
loss, Mrs. Phillips," said the captain
of the boat. "But we will do all we
can to help you find them."
Turning to one of his officers, the
captain said:
"We have Sphinx Kelly, the famous
detective on board, and it should be
a matter fax him to look into at once.
Have him come to my cabin and I will
arrange matters with him,"
The Sphinx was among the first
passengers to gain the upper deck, as
the officers had prevented others from
hurrying to the scene when Mrs.
Phillips first created the uproar. But
a word of explanation from Kelly got
him quickly past the sentinel.
"The captain is looking for you, sir,"
HELP WIN THE WAR
It is the duty of every subject of the Allies to help
win the WAR, and they can best do it by preventing
WASTE and storing up for the COMING WINTER all
food products, especially those perishable foods such as
fruits and vegetables.
This can be accomplished easily by using one of the
NATIONAL CANNING OUTFITS. With the aid of
one of these all kinds of fruits, corn, peas, tomatoes
' and beans can be cooked, which will keep indefinitely
when properly prepared.
Our No. 1 JUNIOR NATIONAL for family use has
a capacity of from 20d to 400 cans daily or glass jars of
proportionate amount. These outfits can be put right
on a cook stove. Price $25.00, f.o.b. Hamilton.
We have larger sizes for hotel use, and still larger
sizes for commercial use.
We have also Evaporators of various elm, for evaporating
eery kind of fruit, apples, peaches, pears, berries, potatoes, etc.
Write for full particulars, giving size required, to
The Brown, Boggs Co., Limited, Hamilton, Ont.
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away for n cornploto ohmage. Malta now ao•
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trirWeekly on tho
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dancing every evening aboard ship, con-
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refresluents, afte-
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Train connections Oast and west at
Detroit, Sarnia, Soo, Port Arthur, Port
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ear heortztatton Ade Yeare.toddl richat Amine
Said the Mate, "Ho Would like to rice
YOU in the eabin," And Kelly etraight-
WAY accompanied the ehip's officer to
the captain a cebin,
When Mutton Were, explained ICellY
ttgreed tp take UP the ease, There
was still several hours in whichhe
operate before the steamship
reached quarantine ell& sifil later be
docked.
I'll do what I can, captain," eaid
the phint when he finished his inter -
View with the master of the ship.
"The woman was foolieh to have ao
reach valuable jewelry about her when
there is a safe place to deposit it with
thc"TPhina.tseIr.hen have already told her," said
the captain. "And we employ you
only beeause we want to do what we
can for a Peesenger in distress.
The Sphinx had no doubt es to who
had taken the pearls, But there was
no proof, merely upon his own sus.
nicions he was averse to proceeding.
He twitched Pat while She was itt
breakfast with her aunt and instruct-
ed his assistants to report her move-
ments immediately thereafter,
When word came to him that Pat
had gone down tp the second cabin,
Kelly waited near the companion way
until she.returned. She was carrying
a baby in her arms and proceeded
at once to her own stateroom.
Kell' waited a few moment and
then, directing his assistants to follow
him, the Sphinx made his way to Pat's
stateroom and knocked upon the door.
There was no anwser when he first
rapped upon the panel, put upon
knocking a second time Pat invited
him to enter .
The Sphinx opened the door and
stepped into Pat's stateroom. His as-
sistants remained outside, awaiting
developments.
(To be continued.)
ONE ASPECT OF
THE NAVY'S WORK
OVERSEA TRADE OF GERMANY
HAS DISAPPEARED',
Our Mercantile Marine Maintains Its
Ceaseless Watch Over Every
German Harbor.
The work of the British navy during
this war has fallen under two main
divisions—military and commercial.
There is the fighting fleet and there
is the blockading fleet, writes Sydney
Brooks. Some day, perhaps, when
peace returns, see shall hear the tale
of what our armada in the North Sea
bas aocomplished in the way of pre-
venting German trade. I am not pure
that even now Canadians teallecaathe
extent of the British 'blocacle. It
etretches from Ireland to the 1VIediter.
ranean, from the Arctic to the Equat-
or, but the meshes of the net are thick. -
est and strongest, of course, In the
North Sea and,the Atlantic.
Several hundred—I should say about
800—vessels of all types and charac-
ters, cruisers, destroyers, converted
liners, armed trawlers, drifters and
yachta, make up our blockading squad -
ion. The officers are mainly drawn
from the naval reserve, and most of
them, having served in the mercantile
marine, know all there is to be known
about ship's. manifests and papers and
the inspection of cargoes,
Tireless Watch and Ward
/1 you bave been used to crossing
the Atlantic on British boats, you
would find many old friends at this
moment engaged in maintaining our
stranglehold on Germany in the North
Sea. They' know their job. A -ship
with a double bottom or double deoks
or double bulkheads or hollow masts
for concealing rifles and ammunition
hasn't much of a chance of getting
past them. A neutral skipper with a,
faked manifest soon realizes that the
game is up. They have developed an
X-ray power of detecting copper In
keels and plates and Germans in
SWISS and Alsatians and cotton in
barrels of flour, and when they come
; across a cargo of onions and drop one
' of them on deck and it bounces ten
--Met, they have quite enough intent-
genee to suspect somewhere the pres-
ence of rubber.
Split up into patrolling squadrons,
steaming up and down a beaten track
of open seain total darkness by night,
sharply on the lookout by day for
mines 'and submarine% Most or them
fifty days continuously at sea—and the
North Sea in winter time is probably
the dirtiest, dreariest stretch of water
to be found anywhere round the earth
—now having a brush with a disguised
raider; now warding off a submarine
attack; now launching a boarding
party in a sea that would make even a
GloneeStor fisherman think twice;
now reselling a neutral vessel in a
gale or saving it from destruction by
a German torpedo—ft is so one must
pieture to oneeelt that at and
variegated force, manned by men 01
the mercantile marine, that for nearly
three years has maintained, unshaken
and unthalcable, its unspectacular, un-
inspiring, exceedingly dangerous but
absolutely essential vigil over every
one of Germany's exits and entrances.
Exceptions Aro Few
You remember how, whorl Doctor
Johneen observed that, a certain °rah.
and had no fruit and the irritating
Boswell replied that Ito saw two ara
pies and 0110 pear—you remember how
the sage fell upon him for his untruth.
fin love of truth, his wholly inaecurato
aecuracy. Well, with the same robust,
preference for realties over /Maar-
Mites, ono may say that not a single
ship has boon able to welt its way
through the British cordon Imola.
served; and 0110 -May leave the other
side to jubilate tie it pleases over the
exceptions. They aro so few as to bo
ridiculous. Tho oversea trade of Ger-
many has disappeared. Not a single
German: inerehant vessel dare show
her nose, or, for the matter of that,
been her periscope, out of harbor..
Captains Already.
Evety houeewife will be willing to
enroll in tut (army of economy, Brit
Most Of thein, by reason of long eX-
'mimeo enforced by high prices, aro
qualified or commissions.
It n sprig ot parsley is dipped ie
vinegar and eaten after nn olden no
UnpIetniant odor from the breath can
be detected, ,
CREATION IN
ARMY. RANKS
DURING REST PERIODS DRILL
KEPT UP,
Sports and Entertainments Which Ite.
Bove the Tension of the
Battle I'm*.
It is not true, ne has been believed,
that our soldiers hold their lime for
long periods without relief or rest be-
yond the range of the enemy's guns.
In the earlier etages oi the war, whil
Germany's available man -power w a
much greater on the western front
than that of France or Britain, it was
necessary to keep the infantry in the
front fine, that ie, actually holding the
trenches, and liable to attack at any
moment of the day or night, for peri-
ods of two weeks at a time. In sup-
port, still well within field gun range,
it was not uncommon to keep batta-
lions for a month or more. Thereswas
one period during which all Canadian
battalions in the line and in support
were subjectst? all the hazards of war
for several months, without any rest
periods. Only the urgent necessity of
those days justified the subjecting of
largo bodies of men to such an inces-
sant strain,
As the use of artillery increases and
guns of heavier calibre are brought
forward to smash trenches and other
defence positions the need for more
frequent rest periods for the men
holding the line increases also. Sel-
dom now are they kept in the front
line trenches fax more than eight days.
Often an even shorter "tour" is ar-
ranged. Sometimes en entire division,
after a trying time, is taken back to
rest billets for lengthy periods of re-
cuperation.
Life in the Rest Billets.
Rest billets are a sort of terrestri
paradise for the men who are luck
enough to spend a month in them. On
is awakened there long before reveil
by the horn of. the small boy 05 gi
who sells "latest ' Angliees paper
M'aieu tuppence each." The voices c.
women and children are heard agai
and the voices of the guns, if heard a
all, are but a faint rumble in the di
tance—a noise insufficient to clistur
the nerves of the most "jumpy."
It must not be supposed 1!1T111 res
billets are places where all play an
no work makes Jack Canuck lazy. H
is kept in condition by physical clril
bayonet instruction, musketry exer
cises, and visits to the rifle ranges o
perhaps at the trench mortar or bomb
ing school. Ile is given opportunit
for shower baths, such as can not b
provided nearer the front, and, if ape
cially fortunate, may even' be able t
have a swim in running water, or con
venient pond. Whatever their dutie
the men in reserve or in rest billet
have a good deal of leisure, and ar
built up rapidly by forgetting abou
the front for the time, and beeomin
absorbed in sport and amusement
Baseball and the cinema are the so
promo delights of our Canadians. The
have also adopted the English idea o
travelling concert and dramatic ram
which vary the cinema pro
grammes by occasionally putting on
original plays or operettas.
Plays and Concerts.
Many well-known concert singers
and actors are in the ranks and among
the holders of commissions, besides
mateurs of distinction, The concert
(C
ompany of one corps will occasional-
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A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE COMPLETE
TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS.
IN
Leeson V,. Combutetiblee.
It is necessary for health that the it obteine from the air breathed. Int
-
diet should have variety. All live of pure air is dangerous because it does
the principal elements of food should not contain a sufficient amount of
be present in each day's allowance, oxygen,
though it is not neceseary that each The amount of food required for
meal should consist of all five. We combustion differs very greatly with
have already learned the function of the ago, condition and occupation of
each kind of food. Proteins are news- the individual. The largest amount
Miry for building and repairing of is needed by the Yining and groWiag
tissues. Mineral salts regulate the child. Middle-aged and elderly per -
body processes. Carbohydrates sons require much less. Persons en-
(starchee and Sugar) supply heat and gaged in heavy,out-door work require
energy. .Fats are needed for energy more than thotie of the same age
and lubrication, Water is a neces- whose work entails less physical ex-
SarY Part of the blood stream and foe ertion.
the elimination of waete. A calorie ie a term used to express
It We take an excess of some of food value, and denotes the amount of
these elements into the body, certain heat necessary to raise one pound of
results follow. In the case of pro- water four degrees Fahrenheit. The
tein, the Oody retains only the amount average adult requires daily from 2500
needed and rejects the remainder, to 3000 calories. If food were sold,
which proeess often overtaxes the liv- as it should be, by the calorie and not
er and kidneys. In the case of by weight and measure, we would be
carbohydrates, the excess is stored in in a position to judge whether we were
the form of fat. In the ease of fats, really receiving true food value for
the result is to raise the temperature our money. For example, one pound
of the body unduly in hot weather of rice costing 10 cents contains 1,591
All these forms of food are called calories, while one pound of potatoes
combustibles,'becauae they are burned, at 8 cents contains 379 calories, and
i.e., they unite with oxygen in the one pound of round .steak at 26 cents
body. The blood carries oxygen which contains 890 calories.
Home -Made Pickles,
Dill Pickles.—Select cucumbers of a
medium size, using only those that are
perfectly solid. Make a strong brine
solution that will float an egg. Bring
to a boil and then cool. Line that
bottom of the utensil with grape vine
leaves, Nqw place a layer of salt
al in the bottom of the keg, bucket or
Y crock. Place a layer of cucumbers,
• then sprinkle lightly with salt and
le cover with dill; add six bay leaves.
ri Repeat this operation until the vessel
s, is filled. Now place a cover over
f the pickle, made of cheesecloth or
n, =she; have a cover that will fit in-
t side of the utensil. To keep the
se pickles weighted down, place a heavy
b weight on the vessbl's cover. Now
pour over the prepared brine and set
t aside until needed. Care must be
d taken that the brine does not evapor-
e ate. Cut a root of horse -radish in i
1, thin pieces and place it among 'the ,
- pickles. This will prevent the brine
✓ from forming a mold.
- Cucumber' Pickles. — Wash the
y pickles and prepare the crock by mit-
e ting in a layer of salt and then add i
- the pickles; cover with brine that will
o float an egg. Weigh clown by cover-
- Mg with a cover or lid two sizes smal-
s ler than the crock. Place the weight t
s on the cover and let the pickles stand
e for three days. Take from the brine
t and wash in cold water. Place them a
g in a preserving kettle. Cover the top. --e
, of the kettle with green grape leaves.
- Add sufficient cold water to cover.
y Heat very slowly until just below the
f simmering point. Remove and let
- cool, then drain. Now make a pickle
of two gallons of cider vinegar, one
ounce of whole pepper, one ounce of
, whole cloves, one-half ounce of mea -
1 tard, one-fourth ounce of bay leaves.
Bring to a boil and then pour over the
pickles. Weigh the pickles down in
the vinegar and cover the top of the
crock to prevent evaporation. Care
must be taken that the vinegar is at
least two inches above the pickles.
This amount of vinegar will do for
fifty medium-sized pickles.
Sweet Pickles.—Prepare forty small
cucumbers by placing them in brine
that will float an egg, for three days.
Drain, then wash the pickles in cold
water; now place in a porcelain pre-
serving kettle the following: Two
quarts of cider vinegar, one quart of
water, four cupfuls of brown sugar,
one ounce of mustard seed, one ounce
of celery seed, one Ounce of whole
cloves, one-half ounce of allspice,ame-
fourth ounce of bay leaves, four lem-
ons, sliced thin, Bring to a boil and
thdn cook for live minutes. Add the
prepared pickles and cook for ten min-
utes -after the boiling starts. Remove
and seal in jars or crocks. To seal
n crocks, etc., place two thickness of
absorbent cotton over the top of the
ar, then cover with paraffin paper.
Tie with a stout string,
Mustard Pickle.—Prepare twenty-
five medium-sized cucumbers and place
n a brine for three days. Remove
and wash and then cut as desired.
Place in preserving kettle and cover
with cold water. Bring to a boil,
hen cook fax ten minutes. Drain
well and then cover with prepared
mustard. Boil for five minutes after
dding the prepared mustard. Two
upfuls of brown sugar, one-fourth
pound of mustard, one-fourth ounce
of turmeric, one cupful of flour, one
ounce of celery seed, two quarts of
eider vinegar, one quart of water. Mix
the dry ingredients and then blend
with water. Add the vinegar and
then bring to a boil and cook for five -
minutes, stirring constantly. Add to
pickles and cook as directed. Pour
in glass jars and seal. Pour one
teaspoonful of olive oil over pickles
after placing in jars befose sealing.
ly visit the entertainment centres of 11 6 IV "TANKS"
those adjacent to it. There is an even
more frequent intercourse among divi- ARE CARED FOR
sions. The names of these troupes
are delightfully unconventional. Big
posters may invite the passer-by to
visit the "Tykes," which means that a
Yorkshire company holds the boards,
or to see the "Very Lights," or to ac -
rapt the hospitality of the "Rum
rs," or listen to the "Whizz -
Bangs."
Much talent is devoted to the writ-
ing of original sketches for the en-
tertainments, and everybody from the
general in command down comes in
for a bit of their satire. The girl
parts are immensely popular, and al-
ways bring wild applause to the
young' bore -faced lads who take them,
a
ided by the illusien produced by bor-
rowing some feminine apparel from
some friend across the Channel or
from the village belle. "Ain t he a
p000h," is h highost
which can be .paid to a soldier -actor
who done the p01tlooab, It may Intel'-
esb the girls at home to know that
the cinema girls, though a porta sub-
stitute ;for their own hveet selves,
are always welcomed. Loud cheers
and audible evidences of appreciation
such as one occasionally hears coining
from the veranda when the moon is at
the full and the daughter of the house
is entertaining company gtect the la-
dies of the emema, and while they
stop runaway trains, dive from tre-
mendous heights or ride hitherto un-
broken hoses, 1110 war is a ver'y poor
second in theminds of the onlookers.
Sports En theta este.
Sports are also followed with en-
thnsiasm, not only by the tootles m
the back area, but well up toward the
front. Not very hong ago the writer
saw a hotly -contested ball game on a
bit of land subject to frequent fire and
?i(1 which the enemy 01101011 15050
able to drop bombs. Sport has done
almost as Much as patriotic ardor to
steady the nerves of the Empire's
sons for the great erdoel of war. Tho
recreation and sport organizationser-
vices have been of incalculable value
in making and keeping the men fib for
duty and in lessening the amount of
mischief idle hfinds aro prone to do
in the field as well as at home,
He Might Be,
Dinah had been troubled With a
toothache for some time Were she
get lip enough courage to go to a den-
tist, The moment he touched her
tooth she screamed.
"What are y00 mokingsuch 01 110150
for?" he demanded. "Don't you
know I'm a 'painless dentist'?"
"Well, mill," retorted Dinah, "incbbe
ie painless, but Ah
SOME INSIDE INFORMATION ON
INTERESTING SUBJECT.
Engines Are Given Preference in Mat-
! ter of Protection—Tank Opera-
tors Have No Sinecure.
Under the shelter of a green ridge
of shell -pocked farm land, about fif-
teen miles behind the present front
line trenches, one may come upon
the encampment of the tanks. A
demi of the monsters are living
stretched out in the warm afternoon
sun, being •'.60mbed and oiled and
secured by their industrious attend-
ants. Over at the edge of the parade
two or three of the big iron horses are
being pet through their paces. Grunt-
ing and puffing, creaking rind corn-
plaining, they mOve along. They
mount a terrace five feet high with the
same chwrisy, complaining nonchalance
that they negotiate a mole hill, and
the steady pace of their caterpillars is
mchanged whether climbing up a
steep slope or clainorieg blunderingly
along the level.
Hard To Be A Tank Man.
The job of a tank 1111111 is no sine-
cure. The interior is not built for
comfort. It is crowded with ma-
chinery and guns and armor, and in
motion the deck swnys and bucks
• • i 1 • taiMe(1, boat in
a storm. Nor is the roof high
enough to prevent danger of receiving
a sound thumping if one is too tall.
Men for tanks are picked for small
stature and slender bulk.
If you would spend a few minutes
on board a tank you must have your
steel helmet with you and your gas
mask carefully encased in its water-
proof bag, • ready for emergency.
Climbing through the manhole re-
quires a little knack of its own. Legs
first is the approved technique, but
one is in danger of placing a foot
against a hot engine case.
Engines Well Protected.
Everything is spick and span,
shining with abundance of oil, but
no superfluous luxuries of brass or
nickel to take away the business -like
bareness and grimness of grey
black armor plate which 'obtrudes
everywhere. As in a battleships, the
preferential position from the point of.,
view of safety is given to the en-
gines. They lie just above the floor,
stretching ie a longitudinal position
through the centre of the craft, while
shafts and 'cranks run under a special
armor casing at the back to the cams
which operate the caterpillars, and the
big push wheel at the tear,
•Artistic Displays.
The peinting of the tank is a great
pastime in the eneempment, Modern
protective coloring of battlefield 1
weapons offers a wide 'field for the de- i
velopment of the cubist eat, and the
decorative appearance of a tank go- 11
ing into battle suggests that some I
painter who all his life had special- h
ized in barber poles had suddenly gene d
amuck with mint bresh and color pot. n
MEETINGS ON
THE BATTLEFIELDS
DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH
FORMER FRIENDS
Some Amazing, Others Amusing, and
Now and Then One Truly
Tragic,
The battlefield is probably the teat
place whereone would expect to drop
across a long -lost relative or elusive
debtor. Bat these things have hap-
pened scores of times in the war wbiolt
has broughtmen from the ends of the
earth to the trenches of France and
Flanders,
Not long ago a raiding party from
one of the London regiments "went
over the top." In the darkness one of
the raiders foetid himself separated
from his companions in the enemy
trenches. Dodging round one of the
traverses, he almost ran into a tall
Young German poised ready to fling a
bomb.
At that moment a star:shell went up,
and in the dazzling light the two men
recognised each other. With a gasp
of astonishment each cried out the
other's name.
Tommy and His Tailor.
They had been schoolmates from
their kindergarten days until they had
finally ' left school, about six years
Previously
"Confess that I've got the advent -
age," laughed the Germau.
"I admit it," said the Londoner
dubiously, "but—"
"Righto 1" broke In the other.
"Than rik surrender. Lead on, you
silly old ass 1"
This was perhaps the quaintest
"capture" that has yet been made.
The two arrived safely in the 13ri.
tish lines. There it transpired that,
although English by training and
sympathy, the prisoner was German
by birth. Being in Frankfort at the
outbreak of war, he had perforce to
join the German army.
The writer once witnessed an emus
•
ing encounter between a Tommy who
was something of a "nut" in the old
days and his tailor, to whom he still
owed a big bill. The two were in dif-
ferent regiments, although at the time
they were engaged in the same worla
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Mg -Party.
It was bitterly cold, and there was
an issue of rum that morning. The
tailor was unlucky enough to upset
his mess -tin pa which he bad just
drawn his ration,
He glanced around in despair, and
discovered his old but unprofitable
customer with an unusually liberal
share of the comforting spirit.
"Let's have a mouthful, old son,"
said the tailor persuasively.
"Why should 1?'" asked the other,
with his mouth to his mess-dn.
'"Well, considering that I clothed
you fax a couple of years and never
got a penny for my pains, I don's see
why you shouldn't give me a drop of
rum," said the tailor.
"Good heavens ! You're not—
Yes, you are old Snip !" exclaimed the
other, "Here, take what you want, old
man. Have a 'blighty' cigarette!
And, I say, I'll really settle that bill
of yours as soon as we get back 1"
"Don't bother !" said the tailor,
smacking his lips. 'We'll call it quits
after that drink 1"
Found—and Lost!
During the Somme offensive last
year one of the Shropshires found
himself crossing "No Man's Land" by
the side of an Australian.
"Look out ! Here's a 'Minnie' l"
yelled the Australian, as a big shell
hurtled through the air.
The Shropshire sprang into a
crater; but the Australian was a
second too late. He stopped a bit of
shrapnel in his side, and began claw-
ing up the ground.
Crawling out of the bole, the Sarte(
Shire carefully turned the wounded
man ou his back, and found to his hot'.i
-or that he was a brother of whom he
had lost all trace for some years.
The recognition was
"Hallo, ,Tim I" the wounded man
managed to gasp. They were the last
weTridlse Isreareavpesraisrpeolarea
CI found and lost
his brother in the sancta of half a
minute.
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A cement made by melting alum in
nat water has been found serviceable
n mending broken ivory.
Doetor: "Have you been drinking
of water an hour before each meal, as
directed?" Patient: "Doc, I tried
and to do it, but 1 had to quit. I
rank for fifteen minutes. and it made
le feel like ft 11.2110011."
1034==ram,
has never been offered as lust as good" as sone
more famous brand; fox Sixty Years it has itself
been that more famous brand—and deservedly.
"Let Redpath Sweeten it."
Made in one grade only—the highest !