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By FRANK HA 'UPTON FOX.
PART Il. 1 A sudden surge on the line drag -
"Please see," he said, "hat ail of i ged them all down into the deep
the children ah their wraps but + snow. Clement felt his way back
toned up tight and their 'mittens fas- i along the line as fast as he could.
tened on." , Gus Anderson had fallen forward on
"What are you going to do?" she + his face in the snow. Early
asked. Iin the march Richard had
"We're going to try to reach your ; given out; without saying a word
house; it's the only thing that can be' to the others Gus had lifted the lame
done. We can't remain here any t lad to his shoulders and pressed for -
longer." I ward. Next a little girl gave out
"I know it. Something has hap-: and he took her on the ether shoul-
pened to Pete or he would have been I der. 'With this double load the big
here an hour ago." + fellow had struggled forward until
Gus returned with the thirty feet' he fell unconscious from •exhaustion.
of new bell rope, and half a dozen, Clement and Mr. Vogel lifted Gus
girls carne with their jumping ropes.: up, and with Clement's help he was
"Line up in the middle aisle, facing able to walk. Big Ben led the way
the door," Clement directed. I to the house, JimVogel holding to
"Jimmy, take one end of the bell his collar with one hand and to the
rope and stand by the door. Richard," ! rope procession with the other. •
adore ng the crippled lad, who was; "Oh, my babies, thank God you're
Jimmy's age but only half his size,' saved," exclaimed Mrs. Vogel, as she
"take the ether end and stand here began removing wraps and pushing
by my desk. Hold the rope up under the children to warm places about
the right arms of the pupils.' 1 the big hot stove. "I feared when
Clement quickly cut the shorter Pete didn't come back that I had lost
ropes in pieces, handing them to Gus my last child, but now my awn and
and Blanche, saying: "Tie the long all of the children of the district are
rope securely to the: right arm of ^afe „
each pupil with a sh:�rt piece of rope. j �"Hampton, you're a wonder!" ex-
F astern the rope close to the shoul- ! claimed Jim Vogel, after 1.e had re-
ders of the smaller pupils, and just moved the icicles from his long mous-
above the elbows of the taller ones.", tache, "I sent Pete at one o'cloe'
While they were carrying out these Poor fellow! He has perished. At
instructions, he stepped outside the' five I started out with Big Ben for a
door for a few moments to test the guide, but we couldn't tell where we
force et the storm. When he return - ,were going; we wandered around and
ed he moved quickly down the line to ; came back to the house twice. • We'd
make sure that they were all se- , set out the third time when Ben be-
eurely fastened to the long rape.' gan to whine and creep forward, and
Turning to Gus, he said: I when he recognized you he gave a
"I want you to bring up the rear roar that made me feel good all over.
and see that no one falls from ex-IThis is wonderful! Tell me how you
haustion or breaks loose from thea did it."
rope. i "That's what I want to know" put
"Teacher, this is a bad storm. I'm' in Blanche. "I was sure your were
bigand strongand should break the
way for the rest." i going in the wrong direction. What
"I need you at the other end of the' listened to mewould have 2" of us if you had
lino, Gus." I "It „
em -
"I'll do whatyou say, teacher," was is a matter s science, have had
ent answered modestly. I had
the ready reply. some experience in surveying. When
Richard, Gus will be right behind I started West I bought an excellent
you, and he'll 'help you if you give pocket compass, and to -night before
out.' i leaving the schoolhouse I cut a little
"I'm not going to give out," ars- notch in the brass rine right where
wered the lame Iad proudly, drawing the point of the needle should be all
himself up to his full height. ' the time to guide us straight home.
blanche, you step right in behind Then with my finger lightly touch -
Katie; she'll be between you and Jim- '
my „ i ing the needle, I held the compass in
"Teacher, I should go first," ' my pocket all the time. That is the
Blanche protested. "I know the Ray;1 way I thakept's tehe
right course."you
for I was born and raised on these "So the reason refusedyu
to put on your mitten and kept your
prairies," left hand bare!" exelaimed Blanche.
"No, Blanche; the fact that you do "And I was afraid that an educated
know these prairies is against you fool couldn't make good on these
in t how
tested this
it storm. and I know hat something u d prairies!"
evert getd s Gus m Vogel.
nderson to do
Blore than a knowledge at the coun-, what he did? Think of the way he
try is necessary to enable one to lead carried crippled Richard and the
these children through this terrific Irl!"
storm. 1 may not have strength to i 8 "I gave Gus his chance and he
breast it all the way. If I drop, don't' made good."
stop to pay any attention to me. Jerk i "You certainly called out the best
the rope loose, take the lead, and do , that was in him," said Blanche.
your best to reach your father's; "Teacher, an'I too old to go to
1iAitse" I college?" Gus inquired, as Clement
It was a strange looking proces- ; bent over him where he was lying on
sign that :parched out of the little; the Bouch resting from his exhaus-
schoolhouse and started on that per- I tion.
ilous journey. The driving snow cut "No, Gus; men older than you have
their faces; the intense cold chilled gone to college and become well -
them to the bone; the whirling wind educated filen." •
made conversation almost impossible "Then I'm going. I called you 'an
and it was a grim, silent procession educated fool' because I didn't know
that floundered through the deep 'what a- thinking man could do. Now
snowdt'ifts after their intrepid lead-
er. know." When they had pressed forward `
for some time, Clement felt a jerk on flow We Get EarlyPotatoes.
the rope and turned to see what was
the trouble. Potatoes being a perishable crop,
"You're going in the wrong three- they lose in quality in the spring, and
tion,'" Blanche declared. if there is not a new erop ready to
"L know where I'm going," he de- dig and use, many of our farm tables
clared confidently, and the �t'recession are some weeks without potatoes.
again struggled forward. Alter half
an hour there was another surge on
the rope and the line was brought to
a standstill. Some one, they said,
had fallen; but Gus gave the word
to go on. Others were stumbling;
some protested that they could go no tract is heavily manured from the
far"Thisther.
will be t' to funeral march cow and hog stables—neve' horse
Yoe res all, riles help comes soon,'' manure, as that invites scab.
declared Blanche, as she and J'.i n'r y Just ltd eon as illi opaYi day in
lifted Katie bet'Eveen then'i.
A muffled sound came through the
storm. Clement thought it was the
roar of the storm, but he was mis-
taken.
"That's .Uig Ben," cried Jimmy,
"he hearts us." The big watch -dog
came floundering through the snow
to meet them, with Jim Vogel hold-
ing on to his collar.
'
'Have you got the children all
with yen? Blanche. Jimmy, my boy,
and Ka i a•• ai e you all there?" he
erica
"Yee " r sate the feeble response of
the half frozen children.
To get around this trouble we be-
gin in the winter months to plan for
our potato crop. We select a piece
of ground somewhere about the farm
which is naturally well drained. This
winter permits, we plow this tract
deeply and coat it over with more
manure. Earlier in the spring than
you would think, we can get on to
this piece of ground, mark it 'out,
plant it with tubers which have been
started to shoot sprouts by the kit-
chen fire; and we have early potatoes
many days before the old stock be-
gins to decay and wilt.
In Italy the day begins at mid-
night and is reckoned on the twenty-
four -hour system,
ADVENTURES ON
K43OATS
DESCRIBED BY THE BRITISH NA-
VAL WRITER, "TARPAULIN."
Stories, Grave and Gay, of Whal:•'Hap-
pened on Britain's Mighty Ships
in Harbor and at Sea.
The navy was flooded by initials
during the war, and the mania spread
to the ships. There were P -boats and
CS -ships. Submarines in the early
days were called E -boats, but as our
inventors progressed other letters of
and
in the
the alphabet came into use,
last few days one of the closely-'
guarded secrets of the trade, the K -
boats, have been publicly described.
I happen to number among my per-
sonal friends in the Service several
young submarine officers, and from
them i have heard many good stories
of the adventures of these large
steam -driven, heavily -armed submer-
sible cruisers, more remarkable ex-
amples of naval architecture than ever
the Hutch -boomed Hun . shipbuilders
thought of.
The E -boats are high -sea craft, and
operated with the Grand Fleet, so
their base, naturally, was Scapa Flow
in the Orkneys. In the long evenings,
particularly in the summer, there was
much opportunity for skylarking. The
young bloods of the battleship ward-
rooms invented a great sport. They
formed "K -boat raiding parties." In
the falling dusk they crept up 1
dinghy to the anchored submarine,
where everybody was probably peace-
fully below, with hatches open. The
raiders stormed down the conning -
tower and the available hatches, and.
proceeded to play "rough house" with
their unwilling hosts.
The K -boat men held a council
war. The thing was getting beyond
joke. They arranged a game of their
own which they called "raiding sta-
tions." Now for the sequel.
of
a
ta-
A Bath For the "I3ig Noise."
On the first evening after they had
rehearsed their parts the look -out on
the conning tower reported a rowing�-
boat approaching. It was quite early
in the evening, `hut apparently the
raiders meant to make a night of it.
i So the crews of- the K -boats went to
' their stations. All hatches were
closed. They waited. The senior off
fiver of the flotilla heard soneeonee
scramble from the rowing -boat- iYlr "tc •
the iron plates of the submarine's
deck. He gave the order "Dive!"
Down went the submarine about six
feet, stopped there a minute or two,
and came up. The hatches were open-
ed, and the delighted K -boat leen
tumbled up, roaring with laughter as
they fished their ducked visitors out
of "the ditch."
And then they discovered that it
was a four -stripe captain, a very
senior and important officer, who had
come to pay them an official visit.
More grim was the adventure of an-
other of the tribe which also tried a
stunt that was not provided for in the
Regulations.
The skipper. while on patrol in a
certain area, intercepted a signal that
au enemy submarine was operating
not far away, but in waters that were
outside the K -boat's beat. The chance
was too good to be missed, and the
captain pushed off in the direction of
the enemy, only to be mistaken by our
surface craft for the enemy when he
got there.
He promptly dived to avoid the gun-
fire that concentrated on him, and
found himself in a worse plight still,
for our surface ships put down a heavy
barrage of depth -charges, the under-
water bombs that carried 500 pounds
of explosive, and were destructive if
they exploded 75 feet away from the
target,
Taking Notes About Death.
Fortunately for the K -boat, the
skipper had followed a zigzag course
as he dived, and the depth -charges ex-
ploded some distance away. Our stir -
face craft, however, stuck to their
prey. As the depth -charges seemed to
produce no result, they put down
sweeps, long hawsers that trailed
along the bed of the ocean until they
caught, the obstruction being the sub-
marine. And they found him.
Then, down the sweep they let
small charges slide, but, by the mercy
of Providence, they all went off some
time before they actually reached the
hull of the K -boat.
It was an awful position for the
friendly crew of the submarine; but
the captain, with extraordinary pre-
sence of 111111(1, made a careful log of
all the effects of the explosions to or-
der that the experience might be of
use to our aniasubmartne experts if
ever he came out of the adventure
alive.
lie did.. The pursuers exhausted
their stock of charges. and by skilful
n.avigatigli the, R -boat was at last dis-
entati'gl from the sweep', but she
had to make her way house by guess
work, for every one of the delicate in-
struments on board had been shat -
tered to fragments by the force of the
explosions.
Imprisoned 57 Hours.
Another grim story is that of K 13,
the subnariuo that sank in the Firth
of Clyde while on her trials with a
large complement of civilian experts
on. board, as well as her regular crew.
One of the ventilating cowls failed to
dived,with the result
• she ze
close before e
that the engine -room was flooded, and
all the people there were drowned.
Those in the forward part of the
ship were saved, because the water-
tight bullkhead, in the centre of the
ship, held, and only a thin trickle of
water came through, which was kept
under by an electric pump. It was
after K 13 had been down twenty-four
hours that Commander Goodhart made
his attempt to escape, in order to
guide rescuers to the spot, and was
killed. Fifty-seven hours from the
time of the accident, the first of the
survivors crawled out through a hole
In the bows, which had been hoisted
up above the surface by the salvage
men.
A diver has established communica-
tion with the interior previously by
unscrewing a small brass cap in the
outer hull, and passing a flexible pipe
inside, and down that pipe soup and
chocolate were passed to the impris-
oned men. Then they were asked if
there was anything else they wanted.
The Need of the Moment.
"Well, you might send down a pack
of cards," was the unexpected reply.
A story in lighter vein concerns a
young lieutenant who had clone many
months in E -boats, which are driven
by"internal combustion engines, and
not by steam. He was appointed to a
K -boat. He joined her, and spent the
first twenty-four hours getting to know
his way about the navigation of the
ship, and had little time to devote to
the rest of her topography.
The next day was a "stand off."
Most of the crew went ashore, and
;the skipper took the opportunity of
landing for a round of golf, leaving
the newcomer in command. At
about 2.30 a boat came alongside, with
,,etmeetekteineeriag expert from the Ad-
iniralty, who happened to bee visiting
the Grand Fleet, and thought it a good
, hanee to look over a K -boat.
The young lieutenant did the
honors quite effectively as far as his
own department was concerned, and
then the visitor said:
"And what about your boiler room?"
The officer had no idea where the
boiler -room was, but he paused for
bnly a second before replying:
"Well, sir, you see, the boiler -room
is so confidential that I couldn't take
you in there unless you have a special
permit from the First -Lord."
And the visitor believed him, and
went away satisfied!
Realism.
The new British War Minister, Mr.
Winston Churchill, told a good story
recently concerning a conversation he
overheard between a couple of artists
at one of the sea power exhibitions
so popular just now.
Said one wielder of the brush, "I
received a magnificent tribute to nay
skill the other day at this exhibition."
"Indeed," replied his friend. "What
was it?"
"You know my picture, 'A Storm at
Sea'? Well, a man and his wife were
looking at it, and I overheard the lady
say, 'Come away, my dear; that pic-
ture makes me sick,' "
CURBING GERMAN MILITARISM
France Determined Enemy Shall
Have No Chance to Drill Men.
The decision of the Council of Ten
to I,im•it the German army to approx-
imately 100,000 men probably sounds
the death knell of German turnve-
reins and schuetzenfests, says a
French despatch. The French are in-
sisting that for a term of years, at
least until Germany is admitted to
the League of Nations, her military
establishment must be subject to the
closest inspection by allied officers
to make sure obedience to the Peace
Conference decree, not only .in letter,
but in spirit.
French experts in German af-
fairs, seconded by much British opin-
ion, insist that not only must the
German army be watched, ' but
that all associations of German men
for semi -military and athletic pur-
poses shall be forbidden, particular-
ly rifle clubs. .Such organizations
readily could be employed as a means
of covertly establishing miitarism
and as a means of instilling a spirit
of revenge in German youth, which
spirit will be heightened by the terms
of the treaty when they are announc-
ed.
Already some alarming signs are
seen, as, coincident with the decision
of the allies to limit the size of the
German army and the announcement
of the Assembly at Weimar that the
new military force would be negli:
gible, comes the news from highly
authenticated sources that new "ath-
letic clubs are springing up all over
Germany." For instance, the Koen-
igsberger 'Gymnastic Society has
started recruiting a volunteer corps
"to protect the fatherland against
Polish impudence." This has the old-
time Teutonic ring.
Sch.eidemann has bought training
grounds in many parts of Berlin for
various "athletic" clubs, and another
suspicious fact is that discharged
German aviators are organizing "avi-
ation sport clubs." There is a notab-
ly large one at Tilsitt, where young
men are being taught to fly. It is
significant that along with flying in-
structions they are introduced to the
mysteries of handling airplane ma-
chine guns and in dropping bombs.
The French are insistently asking
why these practices should have any
part in the program of a "sport"
club.
The French de not propose to be
caught napping again. They intend
to insist that the German fangs be
drawn once and for all.
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DERIVATION OF
S ME FOOD AMTS
PONE IS INDIAN AND CRUZ -LEE;
Is DUTCH.
Tomato Is a Word of Mexican Periva
tion While We Get Our Word
Marmalade From Portugal.
A dumpling is a good old English
dish and comes from the word dump-
en, that meant to throw down sudden -
and the diminutive ending, ling.
Tlie idea was a little cake that was
uun
zntcleVa by er.
throwing raw dough into boil.
1 t
From Portugal we get our word mar-
malade, which was originally a sweet
preserve made from quinces, and
takes its name from marcelo, the Por-
tuguese name for that fruit.
Cruller is a good Canadian dish,
though it is from an old German or
Dutch word, "krullen," meaning little
curled cake.
Pone is a word of Indian derivation
and an early English historian of Vir-
ginia took pains to explain that it was
not from the Latin penis, meaning
bread, but from the Red Indian word
oppone and it was early applied in the
south to any bread made of Indian
corn. „1
What "Pudding" Means.
Pudding in its early form was,nzxdlis'"
of minced meat of some sort, well
seasoned and stuffed into an intestine,
and then cooked by boiling. There are
words in many early languages mean-
ing pudding, but it , seems originally
to have come from some word mean-
ing a short body or inflated skin.
Nobody knows what muffin came
from, but it was probablly derived
from the word muff, and we can imag-
ine that it might have been due to
some similarity between the warm
cake and the hand covering.
Fritter is from an old French word.
meaning to dry or a dish of fried fish,
which conies directly from the Latin
frictus, the past participle of the verb
frigere.
Waffee comes from wafer and wafer
comes from the German word wabe, a
honeycomb or a cake of wax. Origi-
nally wafers seem to have been hot
cakes like modern waffles. The asso-
ciation of the word wafer with ex-
treme thinness is of modern origin.
Origin of Sandwich.
Sandwich takes its name from John
Montague, fourth earl of Sandwich, in
1792, who used to have slices of bread
with hani between served to him while
he was at the gaming table so that he
need not stop playing. To go further
back, he derived his title from Sand-
wich, a town in Tient, England, the
name of which was made up of the
Anglo-Saxon word sand and "wit,"
meaning town—sandy town.
Fricassee has usually been derived
from the Latin word frigere, to fry,
through the French frier, but it is
thought more probable now that it is
derived from the French fracasser,
meaning to break into pieces, or the
Latin fricare, to rub. In French the
word is used to indicate any meat
fried in a pan, but the English mean-
ing is a dish made from cutting chick-
ens, rabbits and other small animals '
into pieces and cocking them in a fry-
ing or other pan with a gravy.
Molasses comes through many me-
diums from the Latin nellad us, mean-
ing
eaning honey like, which is derived from
mel, honey.
Mushrooms get their name from the
same source as moss.
Custard was a corruption of a mid-
dle -English word meaning a pie or
tart and was allied to the modern
French word croustade of the same
meaning. All these words came from
the Latin crusta, meaning crust.
Salad literally means salted, and is
a direct descendant of the Latin word
sal, or salt. The use of salad to mean
the greens from which or on which a
salad mixture is placed is one of only
recent origin. The Italian insalata
and the Spanish salada, meaning salad
in those languages, actually means
salted.
Tomato is a word of Mexican deri-
vation from tomato, the native name
in country for the vegetable. The
origin of the tomato was the "love
apple."
Fixing Up the House.
"Have you no potted geraniums?"
"No. We have sortie very nice
chrysanthemums.
"I must have geraniums. They are
for nay wife,"
"I'ni sure she'd like these chrysanth-
emums."
"You don't understand. The gera-
niuins,are to replace some I promised
to care for while she was away."
Mistaken Identity,
Warrior: from Palestine (whose baby
is about to be christened and who has
a bottle of Jordan water for the pur-
pose) -,-"Eh, by the way, meenister, i
hare brocht this bottle-•---"
Minister—"No, the noo, laddie! Af-
ter the ceremony I'll,be verra pteasoth"
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