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The Clinton News Record, 1917-12-13, Page 6,V0 1 a 1 ,,.f.�•l�ti'd��lrer ..:02',V J LIS. NORMAN HALL,. . d: author or our new serial le a oltize!1,ofr the United',fftaes Prdlt111! 11 Inc present nt 4 1t410 lousto ie for the war wets 00 t1�. n, lisle Fd0(llel'ti it i"TO'T0mmy et thet, Ore ! (lin nest sWrleI "J:tliol0 10 yet 'tal'l sten.loathe name of Atkins,'? The aufber write afro in le adding, it with lel kraft I t an outsider, which makes his 1, from the Waldo, but Ins hunterni°l it11 ohmic or Tenuity ,A•tains espeo ally ,No el er the t11 iiitiinri terosting awry hie t of gees, No reader ah0U1Q 'lnlas n slllglei i17e 1'al Uel eat are this pace 1 wb3 CHAPTER I. , Joining Up, 1 "I(itchener's Mob" they were called in the early days of August, 1914, when London hoardings were clamor- ous with the first call for volunteers, Tho seasoned the first regulars of . British expreetionary force said it patronizingly, the great British. public hopefully, the world at -large doubt- fn11y. "Kitchener'S 1VIob, • when there was hitt a scant s]xt; thohsanc the British army in cane thia should pot expatriate me; I had, in feet, de- layed, hoping that an Amorioan legion would be formed in London ere been done in Poria, The announcement was received With Borne surprise. __A brief conference was held, during which there was much vigorous eliaking Def heads. While I awaited the decision I thought of the steamship ticket in my pocket. I remembered thatt boat was to sail on Friday', I thought of my plans for the future and anticipated the joy of an early home - coining. Set against this was the prospect of ate indefinite periodTle re dior,�'ng among strangers, „ years or the deration of the war were t1 • e noterms ofthe . enlistment contract. I had' visions of bloody engagements, of fe trishinights s in hospital, o fen end- less year n;home ,for disabled sol- diers. The conference was'ovsr, and the recruiting officer returned to his desk, smiling broadly. "We'll take yon, my lad, if you want to join, You'll' just say you are an Englishman, won't you, as a matter of formality?" Here was an avenue of escape, beckoning me like an allure ring country road winding over the hills of home. I refused it with the same instinctive swiftness of decision that had brought me -to the medical inspection room: And` a few moments later, T`took "the King's shilling," and promised, upon my Bath as a loyal British subject, to bear true allegiance to the Union Jack. During the completion of other, less important formalities, I was taken in charge by a sergeant who might have stepped out of any of the "Barrack - Room Ballads." He was true to type to the last twist in the s of Atkins. He told me of service in India, Egypt, South Africa. 7:Ie showed .me. both 'scars and• medals Reith that air of, " Now -I -would- n't-de--this-for- any.- one-but-you ny-one-but-you " which is so flattering to L11(10. :ring vt+" ,,ILc,ns yx11 to c "Kitcltener's Mob" it remains to -day, fighting in hundrede-of thousands in }!ranee, Belgium, Africa, the Balkans. And to -morrow, when the war is end- ed, who will come marching again, old oainpaigners' lv-'ern armies? remnants of onto mighty- "Kitchcner's Mob." ' It is not a pleasing name foe, the greatest volunteer army in the history of the world; formore than three mil- lions of toughened, disciplined fighting men, umeed under one flag, all i Ss of one magnificept military organiza- tion, And yet Kitchener's' own Tonz- mies are responsible for it, the ranlc and file, with their inherent love of ridicule even at theix own expense, and their intense dislike of "swank." They fastened the name upon them- selves, lest ,the world"at large should ._think • they regarded themaelves too highly.: There it hangs. There it will hang fu' all time.- It was on thel8th of August; 1914, that -tile mob spirit gamed its mastery over i 11. • After' theme week' of soli- 'tary-trampirfg in the' mountains` of North :Wates; I - walked suddenly into, the news: of the great *at and:Wentr at once to London, with, a longing for home which seemed strong enough. to;carly: me .though the week of idlen'eesntitil•my boat should sail. But, in a spirit of adventuire,. I sup- pose,. I tempted myself with the pos- sibilltyi of assuming the increasingly• the novice. He.gave me advice as to papular:alas, ektleins.•On two succes- my best method of procedure when I sive mornings I joinedithe long line of should go' to I•Iounslow Barracks to. o£ - a before the pi•o'pec.nves recruits 7.10,x• '1 iat was evidently the Mehl, ion eif iily.ow01 Plateau sergeant, 1 r.ernenlbeled, Word foe word 11113 ed brevity end coipointechleee,�odolirere4 while w.3 stood awkwardly at atten- tion en the barrack squarer • "Ligon 'ere, you inenl 11ve Devoe saw rtuell. tt raw, • satin' -shouldered batch o' rookies in fifteen ye'ti's' sor- vice, -Yer pasty -faced nn' yet tlt n - chested, Gaped 'elp 'Ie Majesty if it ever lays with• you to save 'line 'Ow - ever, we'te 'ere to do wot we can with wet we got, Now, then, upon the eQmmand, Ferm'"Fourai I War/Da see the even numbers tyke a pace tothe rear with -the 1et1 foot an'one to the tight with the tight foot. Like so: 'One -one-two!' Platoon! Form Fours! Oh! Orfull Orful! A$ y' were! As y' wore!" If there Was doubt in the min& of any of us as to our rawness, it wits quickly dispelled by our platten sore geants, regulars of long standing, who had been left in England to asalst in whipping the new armies into shaper Naturally, they were disgruntled at this,. and we offered them Buell splen- did opportunities for Working off over- charges of onion. We bad come to Hounslow, believeing that, withi 1 tt few weeks' time, we should be fighting in Prance, side by side with the mon gfthe first British expeditionary force. Lord Kitchener had said that six months of training, at the least; was regard- ed This statement we e r i, ed as intentionally misleading; Lord Kitchener was too shrewd a soldier to announce Ms pians; but England need` ed inen badly, immediately. After a week of training, WO should be profici- ent in the use of our rifles. In addie tion to this, all that was needed was the ability to form fours and march, in column of rout%, to the station where we should entrain for Police - 'stone. or Southampton, and France. (To be continued.) fives at Great Scotland Yard, witli- drawing 'each'•tiine, after moving a convenient distance' toward the desk of ,• the recruiting. sergeant. Disre- garding the proven :fatality of third times, I joined it. on another morning, dangerously near to the head of the procession. - "Now, then, you! Step along!" There is something- compelling about a military command, givenTby a military officer accustoined to being obeyed. While the doctors were thumping me, measuring me, and mak- leg an inventory of "physical pecul- iarities, if any,rl I tried tie analyze my unhesitating, almost instinctive reac- tion to 'that stern, confident "Step along!" Was it an act of weakness, a were; of character, evidencedby my in- ability to say no? Or. was .it the blood of military .forebears asserting itself after.many years of inanition? The latter conclusion _being. the more pleasing, `I ' decided '-that I was the grandson .of my Civil War grandfath- er; and the worthy descendant of stal- wart warriors. of a yet earlier period. I was frank with the recruiting of- ficers. I admitted, rather boasted, of my American citizenshipe. but expres- sed my entire willingness to serve in YHE Re i l flicSick Children College St, Toronto ITS elfitniMAS. MiSSAGE join my unit. . " 'An 'ere! Wotever you do an' wot- ever you- s'y, don't forgot to myke the'. lads think you're an out -an' -outer, if you understand my meaning,—a Brit- isher, you know. They'll tyke to you. Strike me blind! Be free an' easy with 'em; -no swank, mind youl—an! they'll be downright pals with you. You're different, you know. But dont put on no airs. 1Vot I mean is, don't let 'em think that you think you're different. ,See wot I mean?" e I said that I cite. :"An' another thing; talk like 'em." I confessed that this might prove to be rather 'a large contract. "'Ard? S'y! 'Ere! 11 I 'ad you„fer ' a,�. My, I'd 'ave you talkin' like a born Lunnonerl All you got to do is for- get all theist aitches. An! you don't want to s'y 'can't,' like that. S'y 'cawrnet. ” - I said it. "Now s'y, `Ger hlimy, 'Jerry, 'ow's the missus? " I did. "That's eight! Oh, you'll soon get the swing of it." - There was much more instruction of the same nature:' By the time I was ready to leave the recruiting offices I felt that I had made great progress in the vernacular. I said good-bye to the sergeant warmlyy. As I was about to leave be made the peculiar and amus- ing gesture of a man•drinking. "A pint o' mild an' bitter;" he said confidentially. "The boyo always gives me the price of a pint." "Right you are, sergeant!" I used the expression like a,born Englishman. And with the liberality of a true sol- dier, I gave him my shilling, my first day's wage as a British fighting man. The remainder of the week 1� spent mingling with the crowds of enlisted men at the Horse Guards Parade, watching the bulletin boards for the appearance of my name which would mean that I was to report at the regi- mental depot at Hounslow. My first impressionu• of the men with whom I was to live for three years, or the duration of the war, was anything but favorable. The newspapers bad been asserting that the new army was be- ing recruited fronyth& flower of Eng- land's young manhood. The throng at the Horse Guards Parade resembl- ed an army of the unemployed, and I thought it likely that most of them were misfits, out -of -works; the kind of Alen who poin the army because they can do nothing else. There were, in fact, a good many of these. I soon learned, however, that the general out -at -elbows appeararee was due to another cause, A genial Cockney gave ane the hent, Ave you joined u11, matey?" he asked. I told him that I had. "Well, 'ere's a friendly tip for you. Don't wear them good cto'es w'en yoai gees to the depot, You. won't see 'cru again likely, an' if you gets through the war you might be a-iwaintin' of 'em. W' the worst rags you t" I .rotted p the advice, and when Dear Mr. I7ditora— Thanks for your kindness In allowing me the privilege of appealing to your readers this Christmas time on behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, the "Sweetest of all Charities," which has as its mission the care of. the helpless, the sick, the oriypied and the deformed. There 000el' was a year in the Ms - toil of the Hospital when funds to. carry on the work were more needed than now. - You purse is the Hospital's Belie. Your money lights the candles of mercy on the Christmas trees of health that. the Hospital plants along the troubled roadway of many a little life. So I sin asking you for aid, for tit open purse of the Hospital's friend If - the < the hope of the Hospital at Chrielmlls. mercst y islithelhope oflof tlie ihttleichleiree throughout the. year. Calls on genereue hearts are many in these times. Calls eli'.the 'lloapltal are many at all tines, end especially when food and fuel and drags and ser• vice costs arc•• soaring high. YOU know the high cost of living. Do you know the high cost of healing—of helping the helpless to lumpiness? What you. do to assist is the best ht- eestmett you will ever make, Do you Tomlin what this charity is doing for sick -children, not only of Toronto, but for all Ontario, for out of a total of 3;740 hl•patlents last year 646 came from 25e places outside of Toronto, The field of the Hospititl'ii service covers the entire- Province- from the Ottawa to the far -oft Kenoris —from the borders of the Groat Lao to the farthest northerly district, Tile hospital is doing a nla•1'elio'aa work. If you could see the children w th crippled limbo, club feet, rind other deformities, who have left the Hospitai with straightened limbs and Perfect correction, your response to our appeal would be instant, In the prthopedle Departments last year e total of 880 in•patlents were treated; and in the Out.Patient Department there wade 1,046 attendances. Let yens money and the Begetters =espy lift the harden of nileery. that ur es. elle il,ves, cripples the limbs sa�d9ne tee. mothers of the out- fit Iittle gildren, • i�oppey mob lizeti the powers or help np bea oil the liosliltal's drive the troches Plat' and n 't last h n nd� against q risers disease and lin and death s all th4 lives o! the f�ttle open r r' gu scribed �b t e nicety Loan Tat, opens the dirisons ap pain and tiro B stl f t see, smi toeoemit Will yon send a dollar, or more it Yon cam, to , Dogger 'Davidson, crO' tersh'leesut•er, o / .e, ROSS ROBERTSON, Chairnlan of the honed et Trustees, r ,tee t n om Bei tl�I�,, evdoi t dollargiven' pital is a a p ilea o to 641' t 11tt1' birds fro d 3reathe 11110 ,pare air, and rejoice A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE COMPLETE IN i'VVr , I?N (. 'r1'Y-FIV LESSONS. Lesson X'KI, Buns and Roi:e. Rolla and tea biscuits'. make a de-- lightful addition to' the daily 'bill. of ;fare, The regular bread' dough miY be used In making thein. Parker . 'ease .00hs Use • the recipe for. white bread, the sponge method. When tee broad le ready for the pan, roll on a slightly floured 1 carter thee pastry board ane <1, th'elc, 'Cut with a four -inch cookie cutter, brush them with melted but- ter, then fold over in pocketbook style, pressing firmly,.Set ern a'.w 1' -greased pan two inches apart. Set to rise for pan teem Then brush with egg and milk wash., Bake for eighteen minutes in a bot oven, Q tickly brush the tops of the rolls upon their ar- rival from the oven with melted but- ter. Tea Biscuits `'Prepare the dough as for the Park - 01 ei Houser Roll i one-quarter Q11. t inch thick, then brush with melted Otter. Fold over the dough and beat with a rolling 'pin 'for three minutes.) Cut with two-inch cookie cutter. Set board and knead well for twenty me- in warm place .to rise- for eighteen' mutes, . Now brook off pieces weigh - minutes. Then brush with egg wash. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. Cinnamon Cake Use the recipe calling for straight dough Method in the bread recipes. for thirty minutes. Lift with a When'tho dough is ready for the palls, s atula or cake turner and.put them roll it three-quarters of .an inch thick. one inch apart upon the upturned bot - Cut the size of the pan. Place in a tom of a baking pan. Use a little well -greased pail and set•to rise for•sifted flour to cover the top of the 'THE ROLE OF BRITAIN'S NAVY; World's Commerce Would Have Been Paralyzed Without Its Aid. Mr. Lloyd George, in moving the resolutions of parliamentary approval, rightly characterizes the British navy as a. great anchor of the Allied cause. It has held feat when other seemingly secure resources on which the firmest dependende wee placed, have given way, It•has done its 'work largely •tin silence -olid always under conditions of extraordinary stress and strain: The recital of the navy's service, re- duced to its stmplest terms, is in a Itis due to impressive. hi h degree g this bulwark of the empire that in defiance of the U-boats some 5000 ves- sels are entering or leaving British pens each week. There have been transported 13,000,000 men with a loss of about 3500; and supplies to the amount of 130,000,000 tons have been carried, in which 51,000,000 tops of coal and oil and 25,000,000 tons of ex- • beaten eggs, one teaspoon of salt and one tablespoon of melted bitter. Form in bulls, roll in Fleur and fry in deep fat, Or make in small calces, dip in f10ti1' end fiaote 111 a, atnell. alfOAnt of fat, . Serve with syrup or strained honey. Thie dash conserves butter Bed sugar, Parched Corn Meal Blsceit,--Put a half eon of yellow Born meal in the oven until it le a (Wolfe brown. Heat one and, one-lbndf pups of water, one teaspoon of salt and one cup of,peanlit butter, While this is hot, stir in hot meal, and heat thoroughly, The dough should be of the right cenars'eney to pinta acompA7n1M ' 'u fQr •' t _ - - - ---- each other. Set to 1'1011 as directed deo from a a loon, Bake in shall bread for forty minutes.. 1301co in a1 p specie, moderate oven for twenty -fixe mi' cakes in an ungeeased pan.' rfleis'wl11 lr `}lutes, Remove from oven.and g a, with n syrup made of one 001401 of molasses, oneehalf cupful of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of vinegar, one tablespoonful of butter. Place in re saucepan and boil to 220 degrees Fahrenheit, using a cantly thermom.o... ter, r be The yolks of two eggs may added to these. doughs when starting if a' richer quality 'is desired. Old Yorkshire Scones Cooi('a sufficient number of pota.toee to measure one cupful when mashed, and while. hot add two tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfnls of sugar, two tahlespoonfuls of salt, one OP - fill of scalded milk. Beat well to mix, Lot the mixture door to eighty degrees Fahrenheit then crumble in one yeast cake and a'sufficient quantity of flour to make a stiff dough, about three and a half cups. Turn on a pastry ing one and a half ounces, Mo balls. ' Cover a tray' with a cloth: lay the molded balls on the cloth and allow. them to rise for ten minutes. Now flatten them out /Keith the palm. of the hand. Cover and let rise again make sixteen biscuits, each containing' one-sixth ounce of protein, according to United States experts, thirty minutes. Brush the top with egg, wash t...d cover ono -quarter oe an inch deep with one-half cupful of brown sugar, one-half upful of flour, two tablespoonfuls of emir namon, five tablespoonfuls of lard. Mix the dry ingredients well, then rub in the lard until crumbly. Place on the dough in a moderate oven and bake for twenty minutes. Cinnamon Buns Use the straight' dough mixture, scones. Balce in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes. Do not grease the upturned of the baking,pan, b•. = cover it with a slight coating of sifted flour. Egg. Glaze for Rolls • Use one egg and four tablespoon- fuls of syrail. Beat well to thorough- ly mix, then apply to the rolls with a brush. The housewife will find that, if she buys two medium-sized paint brushes Take the dough • when ready for the of fair quality, she will save materhal- pans and roll it qn a slightly floured ly in greashig pans ,and in applying pastry board one-quarter of an inch grave giving the food a better appear - thick. Then Spread ft with brown currants and one sugar, cinnamon and t ounce cf butter to. every pound of dough. Roll 'like jelly roll but in Spoon Corm Bread, -Mix two cups of water and one, clip of corn meal, bring slowly to boiling point and cools for five minutes. Acid two well - beaten eggs, two teaspoons of salt, one tablespoon of butter and one cup of milk, Beat thoroughly' and bake twenty-five minutes in a well -greased pan in hot oven. Serve from dish in wench it is baked. once. Treat the new brushes to a water. - Wash in scalding soda bath well, then rinse in plenty of cold ter. Now dry, and they are ready ocen. slices one and am -half inches thick. for use. Always wash the brushes Place so that the bunsibarely touch after. using. C,c,0NSERVATION SUGG iSTIONS. Eggs in these days of high prices peas over night, and in the moaning arc a luxury, even if you have your pttt on to cook in three pints of water, own. But patriotic housewives can adding more water as this cooks away. When the peas begin to get tender, brown a bit of chopped onion In drip- pings and ache to. peas, and when all are cooked soft put through a sieve, Reheat, with three tablespoons of brat- ter, and salt and pepper to salt. A cup of cream, or a cup of tomato puree may be added. A nourishing dinner dish is made by mixing cottage cheese with mashed beans and bread crumbs, adding cream until of the 'right consistency to form into rolls. Instead of beans, green peas, lima beans, or chopped nuts may be used. These may be served as meat croquettes. • Fried Barley Balls.—Cook one and a: half cups of barley meal in one quart of boiling water in the double boiler at least one hour, Do this at supper time and in the morning add two well_ -plosives principally figure,. substitute them at least onee a week Eager for opportunities of fighting for the sausage or breakfast bacon, in the open, the British navy has' had thus saving her "bit" of pork for ex - the infinitely harder and more wear- portation. Omelettes are more nour- ing task of a vigilant patrol main- ishhng if made with milk, but mote tained while enemy ships remained in tender if made with water, Allow -harbor. Whatever the ultimate critic- one tablespoon of either to each egg al estimate of the battle of Jutland, it used. Beat -the egg -'s thoroughly, then was the one chance the Germans have pour into a fryingpan, the'thinner the given their foes in the North Bedewed better, in which is 000 tablespoon of their careful abstinence' from peovok-- inched fat. Set on hot part of the ing-another battle- like it is all elo- stove a moment; or until the bottom quant commentary on their attitude. sets, then. with a thin -bladed knife It is entirely true, - as the Primo separate the omelette from, the pan Minister has said, that the British and tip the . pan backward and for - ships have kept the marine highways wards so the uncooked part will run clear for the world's commerce, which under next the pan. When cooked without their aid would have been through, roll the omelette like a jelly paralyzed. It is not only the great roll, brown slightly all round and turn vessels of war that have held open the on 0 hot platte'. seas; no tribute 'is commensurate •Split Pea Soup.—Soak one pint of co ri lie merely of pod's sunbTght, with the deser%s of those who, with the mine -sweepers and the various small HUNTED BY. AN ELEPHANT. auxiliary ships, have dole their part and claimed no credit, in a most hoz- Thrilling Experience Described by a ardous and yet monetondus employ- ment. The men at sea do most of Celebrated Ilunter.M, their worse secretly and silently; The hunter and taxidermist, 11Ir. inkling er escapes into the press, The Carl E. Akeley, who has spent a soldier of the land is not wholly cut great deal of painstaking effort'in.pre- off' front reassuring human contacts. paring the wonderful animal groups at The hobos that attaches to the service the American Museum of Natural of the nation in war is great enough History, is known throughout South For the twofold apportionment. Africa as an elephant hunter. He has had many thrilling experiences, one of which he describes in the New CANADA'S AIRPLANE SPRUCE. York Sun as follows: Elephants are no more conspicuous Government Has Prohibited Export in' their own country than jack rabbits Outside the Empire, are in theirs. They are the color of The survey of the forest resources the shadows in the forest and almost of British Columbia, upon which the as indistinguishable. Intelligence acid vindictiveness are two of their most Commission of Conservation has been prominent characteristics. When one engaged for the past four years,. has knows he is being hunted ho will lie in proved of striking immediate value m wait, still as a rock, and looking much the prosecution of the war. The 3m- like one, andwill hunt his huntel• as a penial Munitions Board, whiten has dog hunts n rat. definitely taken in hand the 005110iee- I had cut a Uig bull out from a herd tion of airplane manufacture, found acid was following his spoor, ]cnoiving itself in immediate need of large well enough that he was lying in wait quantities of-aifplare spruce, and the for me somewhere. The big beast, as Commission was able, es a result of it turned out• afterwards, got my wind its survey, to furnish, the Board with iiia I Was stalling him, and was search, information as to the location ing for me, and ownership • of all the letge bodies I must have got within ten or twee- of spruce in British Columbia suitable ty f.,tet of him, because I remembered for that purpose. The fact than: this afterwards that I heoril. a swift rush information had previously been col- bttt did not. catch sight of him eom- lected enabled the Munitions Board to ing. The first 1. ]Drew of his presence Were: i r g got" tette up without delay! the matter of was a quick vision of: his trunk els he p f 1 y 1 1 , i I securing the necessary supplies at. this Knocked is down. •Then t caught one fell in, with the other recruits for the vitally important, mateclnl. glimpse of his 11110c eyes as he curled a and pried Royal Fusiliers, 1 felt much more 1tb Steins are n of taken to ince be- up his trunk out 'of the way l my ease. the 'production of 111,11(1111 spruce be- ; to inf,ale me with bis tusks. - • When Shoes Pinel, To prevent Dew shoos from ?thole, ing ing lay a cloth moistened in hot wa- ter across the place whore the pees- e euro is felt most, changing the cloth as soon as it becomes cool, This will mice the leather' shape itself to the foot. ' het 'contains The Paltarian' alphabet h 202 letters, being the longest in the world, The average duration .df life in p towns is 38 years; in the'country 55 years. mind oil limilq . previously thought 1 I bad just time to grasp a tusk CIIAPTLlt lI nosaible 1 with my left lunar and twist myself Rookies: This is hue another example of the so that my body wile between the two "A mob" is genuinely descriptive of vital' importance of Qanttdlt's natio f ahafiea of ivory, I felt the impact of the arrary of would-be soldiers which rescreens in twinning the wain. . Many ibis tusks as they dug into the ground, crowdedthe long parade -ground at experts hold that the best prdOpect 1 en eiOhcr side of me, and his heavy Hounslow Ba•raaks during that mom for definitely and ovurwhehningiv1nose dashed against my chest. That orable week in A.11gest, Wo mpintaining the supremacy of the al - lis all I remember. had lost 0111' individua]ity, 11114 it was lies is in connection with the War in j leIy hunter fortunately shot milia to be months before we regained i1 el the air. This itivolves the nuutuleree dead as he was preparing for another new aspect, a collective individuality lure •of mruty thousands of airplanes, f which l 1 o .- w lc. we 10(1100 a 11 ee 11 ng y toward which the most. intense efforts troud. We slarei 0 hoots which across of the allies are being (100011 1. The the baenut for(. in bunts famifelt most suitable species of wood .for this large enough for an entire family of feet. Our khaki service dross inni- purpose is Shiite or silver spruce, of forms were styling° and uncomfort- able. Our hands hung limply along o the seams of u1• Irocketkess trousers. ]'.laving no place in which to conceal them, and nothing ,Eos then to do we tried to ignore them. litany e Tom- my, in a moment of forgotfulnesa, Would Drake a dive for the .friendly lockets..W ich. were 1(1 longer thous. The -look of sheepish (lisappolntreent, as hie hands slid limply down his trouser -legs, was most comical to see, B°fore many ;lays iwe learned the uses B, wawa soldiers' mantis are put. But for the moment they se0med ah51111(17 which great; gtlantil.ies arc to be found on the Pacific coast of North Americo, Canada's thereof this timber is very largo, and is considered $o important lei the prosecution of the war that its export excerpt undo' license, has re- cently, been prohibited by the °overlie 11'ten1: to all clestinntion0 other than the., United Kingdom, llritieh posses- sions end protectorates, "The cepabilily of quiet humor to necessni:v, just the quality that the 0m•ntollntlrlg WO moat have been unl rohmi� ing of many difrioulti s will give a m a. Material from the military point of ---Stewart Edward White, Word. I was unconscious as they carried me to the camp, where I lay for three months, with my chest so crushed that it was doubtful whether or not I should live. Save Ferns front Blight If blight is noticed on the tender growing tips of fern leaves, some- times causing many leaflets along the main stein to die, burn the c1iseased parts aid spray the rest with Bor'•. doaux mixture, Bordeaux mixture is made by die» solving two level tablespoonfuls of copper• sulphate (bluevitriol) in water, and thele mixing' the so1ut1005 7t tt dilating with water to make a gallon, of lnixtue IJ11�,I{p14111WG�l1IVUlWW�"F III� wLll.'Iluyl II�y'uiuiim,i„WulpiJljtl£inin Viii li''Qhtl: Y•l zr R k4�-; l '11i. � r 'rriiiriit.; Very_u �f errs 1r1 hristmas •t Rd �' t 1.�,. r"i"�i`Y-;yFt`'�� t,l �'1' ,�'il'"'.{4" The business of being a mala has its advantages these days as . well as its responsibilities—especi= ally• if someone thil'iits enough about hirn; his needs and his wishes, to choose for his Christmas gift Wig'e ♦��F�7- !'s':e'��, r Most men are practical. 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