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• Noon it •Marbach, a village near
the Black Forest, Gernianny. A
churchbeli drones twelve, very
sleepily. Steep, sun -haze lies on
the fields. Bees hunt, The orderly. l
village, the orderly fields, the or- t
derly line of distant weeds and blue'
hills are hushed in the peace• of
pas.ing sun )mer --a peace so utter
that. it might: have lain on the land
fs•r a thi:usard years. There is nol
sign of war---eseept one. The men
whe are returning from the fie°ds
are few, and there are no young
alrrt• Ui'aurog theme in the village it
a', so still that t'ne can hear the•fi
e-ateps of the women ia all thet
the h:uees and the ,clattering oft
tete and dishes.
[rt :ali:liel H.uber's luause, Frau:
Heber. a little old weluan, is stir-
ring a pat. She is very Kase. very
rive. She ie bright-eyed, too ;
wipes s the bright t^} es often with
ti earner of her aprt,n.
Miei-tel enters. Re ie about tial
r,* > . neer:1y. s h . HF )
t e dawn at the fable Weil old;
a P ' he saye. -Tae w rk went
saeee badly. Am not an a ind mita
e t ; She bring in the harvest.
even wielutut Itop,'" h: st i etelie
$ s arms 1' a :ta.cll" .e
His rife heels :it him. "Then :art
strung, thein. And how hungry
thee muse be : One ere vara., anti
the eating ,`sal'• be ready. ::,tae= -
t hin g that thou h;vt .t. man. .1 pt,-
tet-.' `•+31st : '
'I>=•tn n °r.s>tt,a•That ie. 'lead '''
..t c jl:<.Iet,l
heir fled! -'fit lt. thou dear
t i ' t:lt lana Hubereight; and
eptedii ser herself. ••If gray 1 kneed
teat aur ,lar.= at this moment swill;
a pail ! 1 1:;1 t tit Where he
ler,_. Salt .t d1ea, .t like thio
New at the Beard grave
b"..Irma a ♦ r3 ,all ,seri'
at -Rorie Site
be„ ale . ?l, nae". titr..> tam,
;A y.<t,• °•Pu.t 1;
, e
ie ;.y his
'Ase
1 a z ee'ininee. But teir
he- tea 1:n+ < ,n:e .aiBarr :'
Ile , r. '!tett e ° He s:::i net fear
.t
i r .., tN" t's''caicis the {tanPe'r to the 1 ?�. in which the men lived. It was about 50 yards in the rear of the line 01 trenches held by the Moya, Scots
t t 'lt A* ,
Fusiliers. 1 spent myself eleven days there, and although eve were exposed clay and might to showers of
heed : And the German man shell we had only one man wounded." On the right of the picture is a German prisoner.
':t'iw Cave-D\tellers of the Ilritihlr Army in Northern Prance,
Lance -Corporal Jarvis, V.C., Basal Engineers, describing his experiences to a London Graphic
ist, eaid : `tally company spent three weeks in .a. large and deep sand -pit, with three tiers of dug -outs
teal fear t,+ leek it in the-
, it w .eni. be thwart' He
t',; it_ telt+:. ret ,Tenor And fur son to the Fatherland, that is a much like you, George," says Lath
,n.et ,tear Hans is in the ad great thing: And if he shuu1d-4f Harwood.
;ai elev. ties, cam imether: he does not come back to us---" Sir George stares at the picture,
•a re t•thing. n - l 'i .'s
'1':).., r• :a c.,:t. io ,., • - 1 1 •r i over his wife's
t ahead he stops, and turns away. He ads an a n +�
el the :t nap• :' Then he whirls around. He puts shoulders.
''i' ea ahead:- The old woman his hand on the girl's shoulders, "Fear the hand of his fathers:'` he
I ;. eine -Yes, ahead in a "Attention:" he hays, and lifts his' Lays softly. •
c a.. a +ut,ts� al a&tate among right hand. "For honor! For
Pt rt ' I'erll�z]•�,. this s t-ry° into- glory! For the Fatherland:" With
neat, shining eyes he sings: "La Marseil-
°4 hen cueing up. "Enough, mo -
With :a great voice he sings:
One p.m. in Marston Park, Tient,
lit 1 i',i)lu'r:ate,: Unit ambled be: England, The broad lawn is richly
Fee t:'tt' et sturel the ]thine for green under a silver mist of rain.
thee! ' Great gardens expand around the
house, stately, imposing. Oaks
surround the place, am lent,
mighty, controlled. Everything is
beautiful, unemotional, proud, The
French windows ofthe sombre, rich
dining -room are wide open. A but-
ler andtwo servants move about
impassively.
LadyHarwood and her two
daughters enter,followedSir
George Harwood, evidently just
arrived.They take their places.
"Did you have a comfortable jour-
ney?'
our-
ne -?'' asks LadyHarwood.
He answers lin little details
of has trip from London,They are
all trivial. The ladies, a so, speak
One pan. near Epernay, river
Marne, France. In long lines the
rain drives before'a beating wind
over gray country, The long roads
gleam with wet. The fields are like
shallow seas. Struggling through
the weather are people—people on
foot, people on horse -back, people
in carriages, people in ox -carts,
I' St,- el ewe staidenly. and drips Children are tugging at little va-
t ha•r.<1 en 1) ' ;arms. •`Anti we gat , T ytl ' g gons loaded with poor possessions.
ea croe its; eta. ecru and I, needier ! Everybody bears burdens. All
Me Haile: my eon!" b these people, black, mournful, sit-
ent in the rain and wind and mud,
"4 'ilt an lour after norm in Tre-1 b are pressing toward Paris.
ti e x. en the river Rhine. France. In a sunken road, masked. by
I. is a 'timeline- oland. The sun. pale trees, sit four siders. Three are in
yel!r,•u burning, laughs on vine g by the uniforms of French Dragoons,
yard, ssh se ereip hangs heavy, al- The fourth is an officer of British
ready p.a. e slog. Tidy gardens laugh ed al~ b la lancers,
with !ate bluoin. The houses are bl "Beek:" whispers .a Frenchman,
ae gay in the bright heat as if the 3 d "Germans!" •
village were a stage -scene set for a ,tel ' g 1' 1 d 1 They pull their horses back, fur-
pa tt.+tai play. Bttt there are none Cher into cover.
of the -laughing girls of Frame," 1 Half a dozen German light caval -
There. is nu laughter in the fields, of nothing, but trifles. Unhurried ry canter into view. They approach
because there are no young sten to they eat lunehebn. It is near its almost within carbine shot of the
laugh ui ith, end when Sir George says, as if sunken road. - But in that moment
Jilles Lasaile stands in his door- just remembering ,something: "Oh, aGerman 'catches- sight of, some-
way, as a pretty girl passes.. "Mig- I was at the war office before I le,ft thing in the ambush. A horse in
non!" he. says, sharply. She turns London!' there has tossed its head. The Ger-
to him. "Thou goest about with a Lady Harwood straightens her- man palls up his mount and cries
face of the most intolerable ! Art self a tiny bit, Two girls look quiet- out a warning-
thou a coward. then? And thou a ly at their father. The servants The French party breaks cover i+n,
Fre-calm-Annan , And not only a, wo- move, undisturbed, about their scantly ;and charges. The Germans,
man of France, our glorious, but duties. picked for desperate service, meet
one whose ancestor was decorated "The armies are in close touch," them as instantly, headlong.
4 by the emperor himself! The ern- says Sir George, looking carefully They are into each, other. Saddle
peror, Mignon: The emperor ! at a bit of bread that he is crumb to saddle! Eyes. staring into. eyes!
Whose spirit is on us now !'' lin "But no details, of course. Sabres and shortened spears! :Re -
Oh, Father Jules;'' Mignon Except—only that ,somof our affi- volvers, shouts and gasping
:stands before him,clasping her vers oflancers are working far log- breaths! Horses scream! - Hack,
hands. "See: Gladly, gladly, I ward in co-operation with French thrust, stab, ,strike; weapon: hands,
let him go: Did not I help him, dragoon scouts." fists! It is a knot like a ball of
that he might be among the first?" He looks at his wife for perm's lashing snakes:
"Then wear a face accordingly!" siert to rise. She makes a sign to ` It is swift and short.
Titles speaks roughly.the girl's, and they pass ham, Two o'clock in Marbach, in 'Pre-
the"Alas ! I fear so for him! Alas ! "I have told the gardeners," says your, in Kent, in the sunken road.
E love him se!" The girl puts her Lady Harwood, turning for an in- Trodden•into mad lie ugly objects.
arms around the old man's neck Stant' in the door -way, "to change Three of"thena were, a'equairter of
and hides Tier face against his the walk tthrougih the rose -garden, an hour ago, a trooper of Germany,
breast. "And when I thank that he as you wished.' He nods his heal a dragoon of France, .and a lancer
is among the scouts; he that its so "Henry," he says to the butler, of England.
!peeve, so headlong!" after they hav gene, " ronson will •
;r
Lasalle. embrace
s herr with one send some 'port. I ordered it in ,;;
arm. With hie free ha. ,> IN TIGHT CORNER.
nd he taps London.
his ;crest: "Ancl'I,' little Mignon? He lights a cigarette ,and stands:
Do net I love.him—my brave son? at the window azin r into the ark.
For what doaI labor, but 'for him? The cigarette goes out. The- butler
See ! have enough, ` I ! A pipe g
g' , p pe in the approaches with a ,'gait, but stands.
sun, a little to eat, a mouthful : of 'before him without offering • it. He
wins—it is: all that :I need. For coughs behind his hand. "I beg,
what : is alI this, • then ?" He ind.i-George.
your pardon, ,S"�i�i: G org But Mas
cater the vineyard with a, sweeping r? ' heof the
"For ter. Georg�e, s Isone
arm, For lnm•l .A.nd what do I officers that have been sent ,for -
desire ? To see -thee arnd, hila. in the ward/ I'm: sure I beg pardon,
yourp ,
pretty house that I •shall build and Sir Geore." '
George." ,-.
the little.ones that shall came and
`Yes, :Henry, srzvys Sir George,
eall me `grandpere.' Thus, then, and goesout.
my Tittle one, be -is all that I think In the drawing -room he finds
o
of, my good, handsome, brave aeon. .Lady Harwood, and the girls.- They
Yet look upon me! Look, I say, are standing before a :pa/ trait. It
girl ! Dost then see- me sorrowing? is that of a young; man, blond,' blue-
Nay ! : I am proud, I! I 'aria happy e ed finely English, in the uniform
es a king, I! That I have venf the lancers.g " e o e studied the ;surroundings carefull
� of H 1 oke very surroundings u. y.
A llunter's Close Quarters With a
Rhinoeesos.
is
It .years since I first shot one of
these:: survivals' from prehistoric
times," says a writer in the "`.Field,
but even now, when I, gaze at his
horn as it .'boldly protrudes- from
:the wall -o! my den, the thrill eemes
back almost, as vividly,:.as' when T
first , caught as
of' his slate -gray
bulk -:against. a pale background :of
short grits.
It was bur thirdday on the,plsins
when nay gunbearer pointed .oust a
rhinoceros about 150' ?aids distant
Ile was. apparently ,fast asleep I
and selecting a small bush for my
final cover. began to stalk him from
behind. Moving -slowly and cau-
tiously, I reached the bush, which
wasfifty yards from the sleeping
animal, quite easily. Then I moved
out a. few y'Lrds to get a clear shot,
sat down, aimed where the neck
joined the shoulder, and fired. I
pulled down, and only hit him in
the leg.
Off he went—away from me, I am
glad to say—at .astonishing speed. I
fired again; but my shot only made
him run the faster, and he disap-
peared over a gentle undulation. I
followed him up, and was able to
give him another bullet. $e lay in
some rather long grass, and was
so quiet that I concluded he was
dying.
I came nearer, down the wind,
and after looking through the
glasses, made up my mind that he
was stone dead. Then I saw an
ear twitch. Nevertheless, I be-
lieved that he was as good as done
for; but it was well to be cautious,
and I crawled on nay stomach to
within thirty yards of him. I could
distinctly see his wicked little eyes.
He was lying with his nose down,
knees beat under him, and every
vulnerable part protected by his
horn. There we lay, each waiting
for the other to make the first
move.', He could not smell or see
me; but he knew there was some-
thing wrong, and onlywanted' a
sign to get the direction for his
charge.
After five nervous minutes of this
suspense, there name an accidental
cough from my gunbearer. With
surprising quickness the huge,
pachyderm rose and charged, like a
streak of lightning. As I had a
single -barrel gun, I knew that if I
didnot stop him with the first bul-
let, he would have me; but I held
my gun straight, and as he came, I
shot him through the chest right
into ,the heart. .I leaped up as I
fired, and the ,enormous beast
crumpled up at my feet, and 'squeal
ed like a shot hare. He was ;a very'
old brute his horn was much worn,
and his flanks were ';badly scarred
from fighting.- I havebeen in more,
than one tight ,corner, but I shall
never forget the five minutes I lay
and watched that wounded rhino.
The British `' Government in the
view of the London. Statist, "has
provided itself, through the great
loan, with the means of financing
the war until Midsummer, " at ail
events: Perhaps in no :respect is
the loan . more' satisfactory than
that so many small people have
brought forth their savings to pay
for their allotments ; very m,any, in
deed, ,paying for them, not by
cheque, but in actual sash."
Anidle rumor is .abode as busy as
a mosquito that works overtunie
Subscribers to a War g,oan.
I
eleaeseneeest,
Winter Desserts,
Custard Charlotte Itusse.---Make
ot-bity an oblong sponge cake and
cut off the top, Remove the inside
—it can be used later for a eabinet
pudding—and ,till the cavity with
thick custard, Put back the top
and spread with currant or quince
jelly and then .cover with whipped
cream. The same charlotte can be
made in individual dishes in this
way, Put a small sponge cake in
each desert dish and pour •custard
around it. On each little cake put
some jelly and pile a tablespoonful
of whipped cream on that.
Caramel Bavarian Cream. —
Brown two tablespoonfuls of sugar
in a saucepan and acid a pint of
cream and the grated rind ' of two
lemons. Sunnier until the browned
sugar is dissolved. Beat the yolks
of eight eggs with as many table-
spoonfuls of sugar in a saucepan
and add a pint of cream and the
grated. rind of two lemons. Sim-
mer until the browned sugar is-dis-
solved.
sdis-solved. Beat the yolks of eight
eggs with as many tablespoonfuls of
sugar and add to the saucepan.
When thick, add a package of gela-
tine, dissolved in a little water. Re-
move from the fire, and when cool
fold in a. pint of whipped eream
whipped solid. Mulct and ehill.
Cream '1'ulaioea.. •— Cook three
tablespeonfnls of tapioca which
have been soaked over night in cold
Grape Juice Whip. --Whip' the
whites of eggs, one for each person,
stiff, and add half a tablespoonful
of sugar and two teaspoonfuls of
grape juice to each white. Beat all
until staff. Into each sherbet glass
put two or three .tablespoonfuls of `
grape juice, and on this pile the,
egg white. Top each glass with al
teaspoonful of whippetreream.
Household hints.
Iron molds for drop cakes are':
among the very best.
If the edges of the saucepan
well buttered the eonteuts will
bail over,
Sltains on knives depart if the,
blade is rubbed with a,- raw potato -
dipped in knife powder.
Suet may be kept fresh by chop-;
ping roughly and sprinkling it with,
a little granulated sugar.
To make pork crackling crisp, rub.
well wothen prine'
with fineith saltsalad andil, crook insironkl'
,spider.
A email piece of camphor in the
water An w..hzch out flowers are
placed will wake them last rnueh
longer,
If salt is sprinkled on the stove
as soon as milk 'boils over, the un-
pleasant odor will be oounterted
at once.
A slice of potato is an, excellent
thing to clean white oileloth which
has become disfigured by trot Book-
ing utensils.
Pots and kettles should not be
scraped. The a piece of sandpaper
to remove any burned particles or
discolurations.
When silver has become discolor.
et] with egg, dip a damp eluth
salt water and rub the silver; the
are
not
water in a quart of milk for an hoar stalls will disappear.in a double boiler. Beat the yolks awing, parts of iinc and am -
sugar,
of four eggs with a scant cupful of mania will remove paint from am -
sugar, add to the tapioca, cook for ing, nu matter how hard the paint
ten minutes, and take from the matt' have hemline.fire. Add a teaspoonful of vanilla,
turn into a buttered baking dish,
cover with meringue and bake until
brown. Chill and serve sulci.
make the meringue beat the whites
of the four eggs stiff, add four
tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar.
beat again, add a pinch of cream
tartar and beat again, and then
spread over the pudding. Brown
slowly and do nut put immediately
into a cold or draughty place. Tlw
careful baking cream tartar and
t
t
cupful of fresh cocoanut or use the
same amount of shredded cocoanut,
and to it add three-quarters of a
cup of sugar, a pint of rich milk
and the stiffly beatenwhites of four
eggs. Past an individual custard
dishes,place in a pan of hot water
If the teapot becomes musty, put
a lump of sugar in it before putting
it away. It wi)#1 smell sweet. when
you want les use it.
Keep folded newspapers hands
upon whien to place soiled pots and
pans, and save cleaning smutty
ruarks from the tables.
A 'tub of water placed clear the
house plants, in a room where' yen
are afraid of frost, will "draw"' the
frost and save the plants.
A few drops of ammonia in the
he gradual cooling do much to keep water in which silver is washed will
he meringue puffed and high.
keep it, bright for a long tune with-
t g out cleaning.
C oeoanatt C t►st:lyd.--Grate half a When frying doughnuts avoid
possibility of their burning by put-
ting a piece of bread in the fat. The
bread may burn, but the doughnuts
will be a lovely golden brown.
•Some of the must delicious stakes
are ruined while turning them from
and bake until .firm- Then chane the pan. If the pan containing the
the cold water for hot water,e and eake as set on .a cloth wrung out of
the custards with meringue arca 'warm water and left for a few min -
brown. The cold water prevents rtes the cakes will 'titin out with -
creamcooking and possible curd- out any trouble.
ling of the custard,
Cretan Fritters.—Beat a cupful of
cream and add as you beat the
whites of four eggs. When stiff add
a pinch of salt and two cupfuls of
sifted flour. Drop the mixture by
tablespoonfuls into hot fat and
brown. Serve with cinnamon, wine
or any preferred sauce.
Gingerbread with Creast.—Cream
half .a eupful of butter and add a
cupful of sugar, Mix two cupfuls of
molasses and one of milk, and add
alternately with four cupfuls of
Hour sifted with a teaspoonful of
baking powder, a teaspoonful of
ginger and a quarter of .a teaspoon-
ful of ground cloves. Then add a
teaspoonful of orange extract and
four well -beaten eggs. When thor-
oughly mixed pour into buttered
muffin tins and bake. Serve one to
each person, warm, covered with
whipped cream. Or el''e cut off the
tops, scoop out a tablespoonful of
the soft crumb, fill ,with whipped
cream, and put'
Coffee IeSweetenonthetop' a pint, of
strong coffee to taste :and to it add'
three-quarters of a package of dis-
solved gelatine. Put half of it into
a panful of ice water and when it
begins to harden stir in a cupful of
cream whipped stiff; Pour the rest
of the jelly into a mold and pour
the •hardened, cream -arid -jelly mix-
ture into the centre. It will he
hard enpugh to remain where it is
put in the centre of the bowl or
mold; the jelly is hardened in. Chill
and serve with cream or custard:
Chocolate Souffle.—Soak half a
cupful bf,breadcrumtbs in milk and
wring them dry in a clean cloth.
Put them lea.° a bowl and ,add half
a cupful 'cif melted butter:, and half
a cupful of =sugar. Beat until light
and then add the weli4be.aten yolks
of four eggs, vanilla, to taste and
three squares of chocolate grated.
Beat light again 'and then add the
stiff whites of 'four eggs And pour
into a buttered dish. Bake in a
diately.
moderate oven - and serve imme-
Crean: Cheese T iris. -Make tar t
shells of pastry and fill then' wren a
mixture made of two cakes of cream
cheese, half a cupful of cream, a
cupful of currants, ,three eggs beat-
en well and two tablespoonfuls ' of,•
su: Bake for +bhall an hour.
Fremgarh Pnllts.=--aCreaoitm 'i third of a
cupful of .bunter' with a cupful of;
sugaa'and add two eggs, beaten sep-
arately, a cupful of milk and two
cupfuls of flour sifted with a tea-
spoonful of cream tartar, half .a
teaspoonful orf soda and a pinch of
salt. Bake in patty par's until
brown and serve hot with ample
syrup.'
WHAT SHALL 1 SING 'TO YOU?
By D11,. JAMES L. HTUGHIF,S 'reroute.Sing as the Bah-odk insang of Joy
With his clear and merry tune
,Cheering say heart 'with his song of praise
For the clover fields in June.
Sing as the thrush to his mate sang hove
In the mystic ntterglow,
Deep in the glen, till any 80111 was filled,
With the bliss the angels know.
Sing as say mother of Iloilo .and Faith,
ilud of Gouraee, Freedom, Truth;
Sing as she sang. till I feel once more
The inspiring thrill of youth.
Sing ane these songs and ,they'll wake mi
•
'sowcoers
To nsetousner:s of aright; -
Fearless, I71 climb towards the mountair
top
Tin I reach its shining height.
MODERN FIIILD GUNS.
The Quick -firer Is Used By All the
Armies in the War.
In the Boer War, the British gun-
ners who worked the fifteen -pound
field guns were frequently shot
down by Boer marksmen. Since the
guns of those days recoiled, carriage
and all, about four feet every time
that they were fired, the gunner,
had to jump outside the wheels at
each discharge. Gun shields were_
ie
useless. Then the French inventec
the quick -firing gun, now used it
one form or another by all the arm•
ies in the present war. It has a
shie:ld., of steel to protect the gut
orew, but its great superiority lis:
in -the fact that the gun only recoils,
and so the gunners can remain sate
ly behind. the shield. According tc
a writer in the Illustrated London
Views, the gun itself, when fired,
slides along guides'on top of a stee'
box that is balled the cradle. In.
side the •cra,dle is a piston attached
to the gun that the gen in recoiling
drives into a cylinder filled :with
glycerin, The glycerin' is foicecl
through narrow channels into a 10s-
erveir full: of 'Compressed air,•whiolt
it further' compresses. The friction:
of the glycerin as it is drives
through the -channels (called
ports") brings the gun to a. stead -
still after it has recoiled about foul:
feet, and then the expansion of the
compressed air forces the glycerin
back against thepiston,' and soy re-
turns the gun to the firing position.
The best quick -fining ,guns can fire •
twenty -fire' rounds a minute. The
guns fire shrapnel, end also high ex-
plosive ,shells. ' The high explosive
shell is used •agaiwb hostile batter.
ies. • It is Ya steel case filled with
melinate, lyddite, .or Shimose pow-
der, whish oan be trusted to eeiplod
upon striking a gun, and to disable
it and kill the gunners behind it,
'FN
,Supeeetitious people : ease always
disappointed if it doesn't` happen,