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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-10-18, Page 6h±h Vet Delicate -0 Clean and \Full o! Aroma. is blended from selected hiiipgromin teas, famed for their fine flairoury: Imitated yet never equalled. Its r► j)(itace A Novelized from Vie Motion f Ficttll'e Playof ' the Same Name by the Urriversal Film Mfg.Co. l Vii. CrP/r tAr, lO/6, PP'YriW�'. TWELFTH. EPISODE.—(Cont'd.) Manley, secretary to Johnson hay- ing finished his day's work, •called on his employer to notify him that he was leaving• for the night. Johnson told, Ineen he must be ;on hand at nine - o'clock tc admit Phil I'-'elly to the con- ference, : It was just dusk as Manley _- passed through the front 'door and stainer] across the 'spacious lawn to- ward the front gate. Four of Pat's Apaches were lying in wait for him, and as Johnson's man' passed them on the path, when ander! especially heavy ' and low -spreading branches of a giant ,tree, they felled him to the ground and made him cap-' tied ` Manley was rushed in hasts,to' the Eloise oe Mystery and taken into Pat's chrewing room., . One of the Apaches, bearing a strik- ing -resemblance to Manley, made a close study of his features, By use. of.00smeties,, and slightly changing, the cut *of hie, beard and hair, the Apache presented •an exact "double" of Johnson's secretary. Manley's keys were taken from• him and the hew "secretary" hurried away to per- form bis share in the adventure at - Johnson's home. B, this time it was quite, dark. The Jglinson grounds, immediately sur- rounding the mansion, presented un- ustial aspects. Iurking everywhere were Pat's men robed in purple dom- inos, One group of .active men was busy with picks and shovels, .digging into the "round. They had three hours in which to ..complete a tunnel Iilenned' to lead directly muter Johnsen's treas urs vault:. ,. ^.- Inside the: mansion Jahnson wasAn his oivn apartment, awaiting the ar- rival of the defective. Before him, on the table where lie was at work, were repor=ts from his subordinates, and from time to time he opened a skewer, and counted over hugh piles of currency. ; Phil Kelly and his chief assistant arrived -at the Johnson home a few moments ahead of time, The Apache, made up to impersonate Johnson's sec- retary, mot the detectives at the door and ushered them into the drawing room. Pat's roan went upstairs, and re- turned in a moment to say that'll/he Johnson. would 'see the detectives shortly: Meanwhile they were, to make themselves comfortable in an adjoining room, Where -a light repast had been prepared for them. In thiel ;nem the Apaclim led Kelly and his morn„and gently turned; the key as he passed out of the door'. 'This old gtiy must` have hears of money in that vault,” said Kelly as 'the two detectives seated themselves at the table. "He has a swell place here and this food and wine cant be purchased for a song." The two enjoyed themselves, safe behind the locked dont, while Pat stealthily rambled. through the lower door of the mansion, to make sure that all, her orders were being carried out. The housekeeper had dismissed all of the servants for the night, and the Johnson "ri(ansion was completely in the hands of Pat and her associates. Meanwhile the men who -were bur- rowing• underground worked rapidly and were progressing on' schedule time. When they reached the spot di- roetly under the floor of the vault, their mission wets practicauly`•aecom- phshed. With drills and -bars they began operations an the masonry that foamed the foundation. Every man in the gang was an ex- pert -in his line, Supplied with the best drills and appliances, working safe from fear of detection they made rapid progress. Inside the vault the Apache who had remained hidden when the other workmen !'eft foe the night, was contributing his sharp ta the proceedings. Llnmit dful ofewhat was going on in the rooms below, Johnson retrained absorbed in his selfish. enjoyment, He carefully perused ever.;y report, made surae count of the money and jotted down occasional notes, from which he intended to issue instructions to his ieutenants. - Having occasion to use the tele-, phone, he was annoyed to find that he eentral Pasetag the incident a s an- other annoyartee that so oiton comes Johnson went on with his work. Pat's men had cat the telephone wires. Meanwhile, as the moments pleased, Kelly and his man became impatient. They were too wiee in their genera - time to absorb too much of the liquid refreshments, and their appetites had been satisfied- by the delicious 'food. "Old` Johnson must be a busy man to keep us waiting as long as this," skid Kelly, as he looked at his watch, "It's just nine o'clock—we must get some action pretty soon or we will in- vest=gate." ' Kelly. arose from his chair and walked restlessly about the room. Once her stopped as if to reach for the knob that would open the door, but he changed his•mind. He moved leisure- ly to the window, and drawing aside the curtain, tried to look out. "It's dark as .pitch," he remarked. Aiid then he resumed his nervous tramping up and down the room. "'Don't get impatient," said his subordinate. "Johnson will let us know when he wants us. He is ,fust AS anxious as you are." "Well, Pll wait a ' few moments more, then I'll go out and see what's keeping the old man," said Kelly as he again seated himself at, the table and turned out a small portion of wine. This he sipped while conversing on general .topics with his man. At the moment Kelly's watch read nine o'clock Pat was bringing her plans to n focus. The men who were drilling into the vault at that instant loosened the first brick in the floor of the spacious room. In another mo- ment enough bricks had yielded to pressure from below to allow one of the Apaches to raise his head through the opening. The strong -room was flooded with light. On shelves ranged around the walls were bags and boxes known to be -filled with money,, There were also several piles of bills fastened with paper hinders, carefully stacked, side by side, upon the shelves. 'Inside the Johnson mansion mat- ters were progressing at a lively pace. The two detectives, having exhausted their patience started to open the door. When they discovered "that they were locked in, Kelly hurried to one of the windows. As he pulled the curtain aside, two men in purple masks and gowns held revolvers to cover the. detectives threateningly. Kelly and his man rushed to another window only to face alike menace.The four windows that opened from the room were all :guarrled.liy Pat''s men. • Af that same instant Pet was stealthily ascending the stairs that led to the upper floor. Directed by the housekeeper Pat and two of her as- sistants went straight to the door of Johnson's room. It was standing open, and in the middle of the room, with his back to the• door was' Johnson pouring ,over his hoard of money. With her men flanking her right and left, Pat ap- proached with cat -like tread, holding, ready for use a heavy purple cloak. Coming within reaching distance of Johnson the girl bounded forward and flung the cloak over Johnson's head while her asisstants attached them- selves to each of the old villain's arms, rendering him helpless.' (To be continued.) *GERMAN POWER IN TIIE ORIENT: Japanese Forces Aided by Britain Now Occupy All Hun Possessions. ,All of the German possessions in the Orient have been occupied by Jap- anese.troops. Tsing-tao, the port ly- ing on the Yellow Sea, was. captured after a ,spirited 'siege in November, 1914, a combined force of British and Japanese effectives taking the three big fortresses after a bloody struggle, All the German ships''in the harbor were captured or sunk by the cannon fire of the allies, Kiaochou, the dis- trict about the captured'port, was thus lost to. Crermany with its 117 square miles'' and 60,000 inhabitants. The Caroline Islands, east of the Philippines, ',embracing. about 680 small islands,, wereoccupied by the Japanese navy earlier in October. This territory had been' sold by Spain to Germany in 1899. On.the 14th of the same'rnonth the Nippon fleet occupied the Marshall Islands, about midway between the Philippines and Hawaii; Various other lands belonging to the kaiser in the Solomon and Marianne archipelagoes were taken at the seine' time, the total island loss to Germany being 51,605 equare miles and 101,600 inhabitants. - ` ,. The sun's rays, as they pass through snilllens of miles of empty space on thei=r• journey' toward the earth, have no warmth. They are mere vibrations of the ether. When they' get here, they warm the air only very slightly Could not get a connection, even with in passing through it. 'Plitres'r"oal,"i ni}'.. S•igAd �l ,%•o"'„' see See _...FrySER. Vu vailab�le EgeC r. where 1=,vteI•yvii�nexe .As �' Just because there is not a "Parker" Agency near you is no reason why you should do without "Parker Service,' , The excellence of our work is so well known that it need Dole be mentioned hero, ut the convealence of our cervico by mail to distant L'uetomete is not Articles of any tort can bo sent ee either by parceln post or cxpross, and returned in the same mannet, We pay the carriage charges Obit way. .,livery precaution is taken to ensure thole safety in transte So many thhig can bo "rescued" byycleceiing or dye ing that the value of this service will be apparent to 1 everyone. Whoa yon think of Moan* ar,dyeing, Walt of pARk$R'S. fend for 1, Xk.55 coli of on,' rssjlzt and i"ierestieg oak on cleaning nodavr,rill, ife nitro to addroos your liarcel cretirty to resolving dept. PARKER'S DYE WORKS, IlM.iTED 791 YONGlia ST, {r TORONTO t5 M Ei man iaaan FRENCH •SI)LDIE S a i 1'4I; son., Ok' IOItANGl7 eS NEVER A NbLiTUUE, HE SAYS. Looks L orwerd to the. Release of Itis Beloved Land From the Grip of Nis Barbarian. Tho following letter from the trenches was written by a French eels dier who had been on active service since the war began. In civil life the writer 15 a simple atone mason: "I wrote to you only o few days s have a ago, but av I as free moment I am; sending you news again, es. it may he some•time before I shall have an- other chance . "The more we gain upon the enemy and close upon him\the mare he at- tacks us and lays hold uponua,eude- ing in our battalions like a thdusandd tentacles of an octopus, Ahl when bit by bit, at the price of fatigue and sac- rifices that cannot be told, the soil shall have been retaken by us, wrest- ed by ntain.force by the soles and the nails of the boots of the diggers, all the united forces of the • offensive, when the waves of the assault : shall be only a meter from the frontier at the border of Belgium, • she, too; will be impatient to feel the torrent of her sons sweep over' her. Then only shall we celebrate' the feast of the soil, whichshall be ,both her salvation arid her purificatiop. Most Beautiful of Edens. "However, we must be wise: Let us await whatever fate has in store :for us in the decision of our commander, who lays plans, while appearing to be subject to a retreating enemy. We must even distrust ourselves and the snares of our enthusiasm'• and imagin- ation, and without stifling our joy yet us advance only with dignity upon this sufi.'eeing soil, which the barbar- ian, In lieing forced to renounce, ex- hausts his rage upon. in martyring. These mutilations of the last • hour make it only dearer ,jo us than ever. It is as though it whre beaten like an air at double time by the scourges of the` adverse army, or were like an an- vil for the perpetually bursting shells, which leave nothing but the surface, the crust, the outer shell of the earth, the kernel of all the germinations shrunken and nude, ravaged, scraped of, tormented, plundered. Even so, it appears to us the most beautiful of Edens. "All the trenches and their branches cutting into the earth repre- sent to us wide open furrows, ready for, future harvests, both material and moral. The earth is the mine; in it are all, the veins of countless treas- ures; it is the , tufa, the base, the foundation, the solidity, above all the supreme reality.. When one has the soil one has all, Enemy Has Taken Nothing. "The German in his haste cries out that he has.left a desert. He is mis- taken. The -soil of France is never a. solitude, this least of all! It is peo- pled by, a glorious throng, which our enemy is too gross to see or perceive. It ie •inhabited by memories, by the shrides of the dead, and by the living troopsof veterans of the earth, by all. who have remained faithful to it, who, in order to go before us, rise up, stumbling from the midst of ruins and debris, they themselves but ruins and debris, fragments of social classes, and remnants of families. In this fe- cund desert all is ready for a new birth; the children and the grain, alike wi'11 spring up in strength. At each step the furrows open, yawning and. covetous -of the deep, distant roots of the race which could mat be destroyed. They are fotover dried in their pro- found' sleep in the dust of the devast- ated church—in the evenings they rise like the bronze notes of dream bells. "No. The enemy has destroyed all, but he has taken nothing away. The real desert is there, in the mournful waste of his own heart, from which hope is fled." - ,,otxpI;rirs elk' AMAMI,, LIFE, Male Seale Educate Young—Liaarde Can Grow•'New • Iregu, - • .. . nhero lent a Ingle wasp in exist- ence when whiter entre.Late the Pre- ceding fall the warps (nate, Tho stun" ing cold 1weuthor ]ilia 'every worker, and male, white Mrs, Weep hies her- self to a•coi";venient piece and liber- nates, ready to come 'forth in the spring and lay eggs to replenish the face,: • Egg laying and the -raising of the young furnish many instances of striking peculiarity ,in the animal kingdom, For instance, there' is, the case of some epecioe ,of"toads. After the female has de i 9 ted her, eggs the male picks them up, winds them about hie body and goes "• hunting i thewhilefrom hisbody e, . the' heat f o r b dY hatches the little toads. . There iethe seal. When thepower- ful bull seal takes tip quarters' oft a reels ledge, he gathers a harem of 'females, avid fights away every male from his preserve. As a consequence there is an envious roup of less warlike melee constantly skirting the sacred domain. But when the young Seale have been born, these bachelor seals assume the burden of educat- ing them. The -seal being • an air. •b).eathing mammal, does not take to the water like the proverbial duck, but -must be taught to swim. This Is. the task of the bachelor seals, and they exhibit all the lovabillty of a good nurse as they coax the little seals to the water edge and urge them to take their lessons. Butthis rather idealistic family life does not exist everywhere. Some of the crustaceans, to which the lob- ster and crabs belong, live on terms that would lead to the gallows" if practised by men and women. The female is usually larger than the male, and often demonstrates her superior strength by tearing him to pieces and devouring-,liim; if he hap- pens to forget her disposition or isn't nimble enough to get away. RATIONING RECORDS. The Present -Day Food Question Also a Problem in Days Gone By. One thinks twice nowadays before partaking of a substantial meal says an English writer. "Enough Is as good as a feast," we know, but peo- ple's opinions concerning this proverb differ considerably. when Shakespeare\ was asked his opinion regarding compulsory ration- ing, he said: "So distribution should undo et. cess, and each man have enough." The preacher, John Wesley, gave up tea -drinking for economy's sake. He is stated to have experienced many unhappy days in consequence, and sought relief in retiring early for the night, The suggestion has been made that the Food Controller should limit our rations according to our inches. A seven -foot giant, surely, should be apportioned more than his diminutive three-foot brother. When compulsory rationing was necessary a. century ago a famous Scottish giant was given an extra 2s, Gd. a -day for food. New York, fiver to the fame with re- cords, states that ' a worthy citizen who was forced to roam her streets in search of employment for many menthe breakfasted twenty-nine times oil` a sixpenny packet of maize -meal. The only other ingredient was sugar, a pound of which proved sufficient for the twenty-nine breakfasts, A frugal breakfast which might find favor during summer weather, but which 18 hardly palatable for cold, or days, 1e that' of the famous diarist, Pepys. He partook each morn{n •• of, a Wall slice of breed, • a few radishes, and a -glees of ale, • S The grey pareot of Wooten A:eries), le credited with having a greaten power of, imitating the human votes than any bird of the spociee, It has long been 'a favorite and Is the subs ;feet of many stotdes of greater Fir less credibility, But all peculiarities are not con- fined to creatures of•,the deep. Con- sider the arctisca, for Instance. They say a camel goes eight days without water. The arctisca, or water bear, goes six months without it some- times. But ho doesn't do so volun- tarily. In fact,to every outward ap- pearance he dies during the drought. This little creature, microscopic in size, is an inhabitant of water troughs and similar places where moss is apt to grow. , When it rains he is as happy as a clam in high water, but where there is no rain his sack -like body and four• pairs of stubby legs dry up, and the closest examination under the micro- scope fails to show any -sign of life. But it must be only an exaggerated form of hibernation, for when the rain comes again he wakes up and starts in enjoying himself. Which suggests the wonderful pow- er of. clinging to life shown by some creatures. The four legs and• tail of a salamander, one of the small lizards, have been cut off as many as eight times, only to grow out perfectly after each operation. DESOLATION OF THE SOMME An American War Relief' Worker Describes Scene of Utter Destruction The following letter comes from an American woman, the President of a War Relief Society, who is now in Paris:— "Two nights ago I 'got back from Roye (Somme), just back of the, bat-, tle line beyond Noyons. The govern- ment has given us a whole canton to 'do,' and after shipping us there by sealed cars, 60,000 pounds of garden and household utensils, food, clothing and a great Moline motor tractor plough, we (four of us) opened a de- pot at Roye in a vast mould=y hall, which had been the headquarters of the German. staff. Rain drips through the bomb shattered roof and five Ger- man prisoners assist us' in our ex- ceedingly strenuous labors,. Then the commandant, after a vigorous search, gave us a wee house, which the German prisoners scraped free of filth, disinfected and turned over to us. "Then it was u`p to four American women to prove ;that miracles can be wrought. We painted it, all ourselves, from top to bottom, papered walls, got together bite of furniture from the ruins, made, tables out of cases, portieres, from sheets, and on the eighth evening invited the command- ant to dinner, with candles stuck in bottles and American baked beans for the 'plat do resistance' We have a bomb -proof shelter beside the door and oiled cotton in place of bullet, broken windows, The first night a bomb dropped in the Indian camp near Roye and killed three men. "So much for the gay side of the picture, There is tragedy back of it. Every able bodied being was carried away by the Huns in carts, standing like cattle, leaving only old age, child hood and illness behind. Those were driven out into the fields, while their homes were pillaged and burned and their walla poisoned, Then they were allowed to return to the still hot aches and told to—live,; How? It is to such desolation that all your workers' things will go, for we never have en- ough. We go : from. one wrecked' hamlet to anothcii in our camian, and unearth these dazed, dumb creatures from their holes, ;carrying every com- fort and moral suppo't we can muster. "Their trees were cut down, as were their rosea and 'harry bushes; their pretty gardens boast mare of e1 crop of shells than anything glee, . Tire whole region is gr,•otoeque ill its utter destruction, The Mayor of Boye, Mr, Mandron owned: one of the ehoW inns oft Fennel He caw hie wife carried off, )ils tbiftyrfous horses taken, his splendid bulldipgs burned, his' crops destroyed or taken, Ger, inan officers' wives came In patens end stole his wife"e clothing and silver, Ile now lives in a wooden shed ie) the court of l=ie former home; sixty-eight years old, ruined! One of thousands," 9,r . TO:e tiex Who eats tell What ware the words of the Angels' Song on Chiristrtms morning? Patriotic Pupil eee'",fhe !Maple Leaf l!oreyeri" 1' • A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD 'sCIE jCE VoMVLE IN ., TWENTY-FIVE IIES$0NS, Loon XIII. Mlllc Milk may be called a perfect food, containing o a ning ae'it does the five necessary food elements required by the body to maintain life. It is the first food for intents; nfanta; it forms also a perfect food for small children, the protein being in t he form of casein, which ch i sre readily digested, The mita requires additional food, owing to the activities. Milk will not supply all the needed elements, The. carbohydrates are in the form of milk sugar and fat; the fat is suspended in the milk in the form of tiny globules,, thus giving to the milk its clear white color. The proportions of fat in the milk vary from 2.8 to 8 per cent. This variation 15 due to age, condition al•d feeding of the cows. Cream. When milk taken directly from the cow is placed in suitable containers and permitted to stand for a period of time, the fat globules, which are light- er than the water of the milk,•will rise to the top and form a coating over the entire surface of the milk. This is called cream. Cream is a wholesome,' palatable form of fat. Modern methods now use a machine for separating cream by gravity from the milk; this eliminates the period of time for standing to permit cream to rise to the top of the vessel. The derivations orby-products of milk are butter and cheese. and Its Derivatives, the location, curing and manner of storing give many varieties.. Cheese is e. valuable food, containing a large amount of protein in the ` form of casein. It is a coneontrated food, and when property eonbinedtvith oth- er. n foadsfurnishe sn scone lezl u r s m fiveiet d Tho bye -product of butter is butter- milk, which ie greatly' esteemed in Europa Many of the foreign+'race Butter. Cream is permitted to stand a cer- tain length ' of time to develop .an acid ferment.. The object pf this is to give the butter a desirable flavor and aroma, or this ferment may be added to the cream in the form of lactic Acid. • ins cream rs the r cnurnea, the put- ter -milk drained off and the butter worked with pure, cold water.' Salt is added to the butter to preserve and improve the flavor. Butter contains about 88 per cent. fat and is a valuable food for energy. Sweet butter is made from fresh cream said is usually sold unsalted. It will: not -keep any length of time, usually turning cheesy. Cheese. Cheese is made from milk by special process of fermenting milk with a lactic acid ferment and then coajulat- ed with rennet. This cheese when used fresh is called -cream and cottage cheese. Many other varieties are made by special processes which, together with contend that the use of butter m lls prolongs life by neutralizing the bac, feria of the intestines, Buttermilk isa m 1 1 so strain .the curd s 1 ed and e at d beaten with a' wooden spoon, then worked' into a smooth mass, This is celled buttermilk cheese and was greatly esteemed by our grandmoth- ers. To Make Batter at Home.' Collect left -over portions of cream in a clean bowl. Permit it to stand' for three or four clays to turn. Now place one, cupful of this cream in a one -quart Mason fruit jar. Add one cupful of warm water, testing.the cream and water with a thermometer. It should be sixty-five degrees Fah- renheit. Place rubber lid'•on jar, Shake continuously for a few mom- n ents, and you will feel. the contents of the jar become lumpy. Drain off the buttermilk and place the butter in a bowl of clear, cold wa- ter. Add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt and work, changing the water un- til it shows no trace of milk, For the butter . in pats and place ire re- frigerator to cool. Care must be taken not to scald the cream by using water that is too hot, A feev drops ,of carrot juice maybe added to give the butter a color. Grate a small car - ,rot and place in cheese cloth and !wring to obtain the juice. This but- ter may be given to small children or to invalids, Let the buttermilk stand a few hours and drain off the water that has Irisen to the top. Then place a piece of cheese clothin strainer, turn in the buttermilk and lot drain for two hours. Now place the cmd rn a bowl and add: One-fourth . teaspoonful of salt. Work well with wooden spoon to a smonus teaspoonful of pepper. One-half green or red popper, chop- ped very, fine, Mold Into balls, and place a piece of nut on the top and serve on lettuce. Sour milk may be used in place of buttermilk. War Menus. The Domestic Science Exports of the Canadian Food Controller's Office have issued the following menus, ar- ranged with the idea of saving wheat, beef and bacon for the men at the front. Breakfast. Oatmeal Porridge Milk Sugar Eggs (soft Cooked) Marmalade Toast Butter Tea or Coffee Dinner. Beef Stew Potatoes Carrots Bread Baked Apples Tea Milk Sugar Supper (or Luncheon). Cream Tomato Soup Graham Biscuits Apple Sauce Oatcakes , Tea Milk Sugar Graham Biscuits. -,-Make, as tea bis- cuits only substitute one half Graham flour for white flour. Cream of Tomato Soup. -1 quart of skim milk, pint tomato juice (made by stewing ripe tomatoes and pressing through a sieve), 14 teaspoon of soda, 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 tablespoons of butter. Salt and pepper to taste, and a little grated onion. Make the milk, flour, butter and seasonings into a thin white sauce. To the tomato add one quarter of a teaspoon of soda, and as soon as.it ceases to effervesce com- bine the milk with the tomato, and serve at once. Breakfast, Fresh Fruit Cornmeal Porridge Graham Bread Butter Coffee or Tea Sugar, Milk Dinner. Mutton Potatoes • Corn Apple and Bread -Crumb Pudding (Brown Betty) Sugar Milk Supper (or Luncheon). Creamed Fish Warmed over Potatoes Baked Pears Bread Tea Milk Sugar Creamed Fish.—Any leftover boiled or baked fish may be served as cream fish by flaking carefully and adding a ggg�ood, well seasoned white sauce, Grahemp Bread. -834 cups of Gra- ham flour, 2 cups of sour milk, % cups of molasses (New Orleans), 1 tea- spoon of soda, Sa teaspoon of salty Bake in a slow oven one hour, Brown Betty Pudding. -2 cups of apples sliced thin, 1 cup of bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon of butter, crone... mon to season, Butter the pudding dish well. Put alternate layers of ,d u> best yP4st.111•. t1a world, Makes perfect 'Yksle,bread. MADE ye. ,CANADA IN rt • ..OY. ITER Elf( !LETT COMPANY U� T TORONTO, ON w IN1V IR MO'REA EO N1 t THE CAE/ L OF der{r�18 No i. ».- apple and crumb with apples in bot- tom, and finish with crumb on top, and dot with bits of butter. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Cover closely. and bake forty minutes, then remove the cover and brown --- Breakfast, —_ Breakfast:. Fresh Fruit'(Berries in Season) Oatmeal Porridge Milk Sugar Omelet Toast Coffee or Tea ' Dinner. Roast Beef Potatoes Creamed Onions Broken Bread Cottage Pudding with Sauce. Supper (or Luncheon). Potato Soup Crackers Stewed fruit Cornmeal muffins Cookies Tea Milk Sugar Potato Soup. -1 quart milk, salt, pepper and grated onion to testgg���1% cups mashed potato. Add the ' rltato to the heated milk and seasoning, re- heat and serve very hot. If skim milk is used the soup is improved by the addition of a little butter. Cornmeal Muffins. -1 egg, 2 table- spoons dripping, 0 tablespoons brown sugar, ee. cup of milk, 1 cup of flour, ee cup of cornmeal, 2 tablespoons of baking ppwder, 1/s teaspoon of salt, Breakfast. Fresh Fruit Wheatmeal Porridge . Toast Marmalade Tea or Coffee Milk Sugar Dinner. Pork Chops Mash Potatoes Vegetable Marrow Johnny Cake Syrup Supper (ar. Luncheon). Cream of Corn Soup Whole Wheat Muffins Apple Sauce Butter Oatmeal Cookies Tea Milk Sugar Whole Wheat Muffins. -1/ cups of whole wheat flour, 1 cup .of white flour, 1 cup of sour milk, 1-8 cup of molasses, et teaspoon of soda, 1 tea- spoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of melted dripping. Mix and sift -dry ingredi- ents; add the mills to' the molasses, and mix with the -dry ingredients'`Last of all add the melted dripping, Cream of Corn Soup -1 quart of skimmed milk, 2 cups of corn, 2 table- spoons . of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour. Season to taste with salt, pep - pee and grated onion. Make a -thin white eauce of the milk, butter, flour and seasonings, If 'corn on the cob is treed, cut from the cob and cook, and add to the milk, etc. Reheat and serve hot, WEARING OI? BODY ARMOR. Stats Worn by the Prussians Much Heavier Than Those of Allies. An iniportant feature of the wars fare of the present day is the return which has been made to the wearing of. body armor, Quite early in the War the various belligerents realized that some more ofiicient head covering was necessary than the cloth service cap, and experiments were made with shrapnel helmets cotistruoted of steel, It was found that the wearing of a suitable helmet greatly reduced: the number of head and aeafp wounds, The desirability of adding swine light body armor was an obvious corollary tp the use of the steel );elmet, but at the same time one had to' consider the advisability of adding a considerable weight in the lnfantrymgn'eload1, In, d`'ideel efforts bane been made b }k I' puny mamrfaoturors toward 0upply.; ing shields foe Use et the front, Ono company In Tnglend produced a hod Shield which has been found both of ileac ous as a bullet stopper fend egg of adjustment and it is in install de, maid In the treuehee, The Prussian efforts in the direotio of arinwl' have led to the adoption of heavier patterns than anything on the allied aide of the litre. The helmet is larger and reaches furthee•down the .01.00111.4 neck than either the British, French or American, `The body armor worn by the Prussian troops in the field is In three pieces, and resembles in char- aeter that worn in mediaeval days, acid -apart from the fact that i$ takes longer to adjust, 11; is apt to prove weighty and cumbersome in action, During a recent attack," gays are., cont despatch, "the British collected a tonslderable quantity of the new German body rn' poi This appears to be explained by the statement of pris- oners bei tho-rsflect that, in s}tito of one ders, many of the men leave their armor behind them on going into the trenches because itis so heavy, that they are rendered almost helpless b it in the swgmpy ground over which they have to move, In)deed there are cases of peen havie}g been'swalloiwd, in mutt A?% drowned 111 11tell hole through inability to free their even•, weighted bodies," q.. BURNING -OF HISTORIC PILE A WANTON ACT. Sacred French Edifice is Now a Mute' 1MMonumeiit to Teuton "Fright- fulness." We er barye another deep score to re- membe- when -the Allies c ome to s t Ong with the barbarians, says a war correspondent. I mean the Cathedral oI - St, Quentin, The cathedral stands out a dominate ing thing in'tbe landscape. 'As a burning spectacle it was the true sight of a lifetime, As an evil deed, its burning ranks with the bombard- ment of moref'beautiful Rheims. St. Quentin. I: had visited four years ago when it was my happiness to study French Gothic for a specific writing purpose. It had a splendor and an imposing dimension equal with greater edifices in the same style to be found throughout Franca Its nave, about thirty feet less in length than that of Amiens, and as wide and al- most as high as Notre Dame de Paris, was cut architecturally into two tran- septs, forming thus in whole the out- line of an archiepiscopal cross. This in itself was a rare thing in French Gothic, and as I remember without looking up the historical facts, to be found nowhere else save in the an- cient ruins of the church at Cluny. Frgm without, its high roofs dominat- ed -the town and indeed the entire val- ley of the Somme, presenting an as- pect of great'antigdity in an interest- ing beauty of style and dignity. Pillaged and Burned. St. Quentin was built in the years between 1280 and 1257. Its designing was due to the art of Villard cle Hon- necourt, the celebrated architect of the tame. Its nave was an admirable thing, and the lighting from its win- dows on the same general order as. Rheims. Like the latter, it had pre- served -in the interior sense, much of, its ancient richness in carving, and was ornamented with superb glass dating through the thirteenth, four-: teenth and fifteenth centuries, Many; of its frescoes were pure moyen age,; and a great portion of its interior. sculpture was painted and gilded upon the stone, Time hadgiven this decor- ation a mellowness beyond words. Gothic grills in hand -tooled iron abounded within it, and there were a, number of mortuary monuments, in particular the magnificent marble sarcophagus containing the bones of St. Quentin. For months we have been reading through German papers that the French and English armies were mu- tilating and bombarding the cathe- dral, ancj for that reason its many treasures had been removed to Ger- many, We have thus known it has been pillaged,„ since it is a matter of record that no single French shell ever reached the cathedral, and also, that this was expressly a specific or- der from the French high command, Another Score to Settle. Now, with doubtless all its interior movable beauties carted away, the Bocltes have set it on firm, They can- not blame an allied shell, since the city of St. Quentin has not been under direct fire for months. IL is simply and purely another eviceence , al' Ger- man vandalism, another addition to the many churches, great and email, from Rheims to the meet modest of village houses consecrated to God, that have been destroyed by these evil, invaders from over the Rhine, As at Rheims, nothing in the ewes. shims of warfare made essential the destruction of thls ancient Cathedral of St. Quentin, . Its burning, the great mass of devouring, flame I have loom, ed upon,. it. but added evidence of what the Bache de, and an added 'score to settle at the great. day to come when P•lusslaniem is to be a dead thing at the feet of the Allied ermine, A Forbidden Song, "There is one subject no roan mane Honed at the front unlesieit be ver, casually," says Captain Ralph k Bell in "Canada in War Paint," "Evan then it brings with it a sudden alletict#, There is so much, so very much, in `that little word 'Home,' If a man were to get up at a sing -song and sing 'Homo, Swest Bomehlils life would bo impeolled, His audience would rise and annihilate him, because it could net give vent to its feelings in any othee way, There aro servo tlringg that strike dlreetly sit the heart, and this is one of them," Pregon fl=ee feed on le large variety of" injurious insects,