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Exeter Advocate, 1915-1-21, Page 6• THE INVADERS tesaesteiterWrseltie They come,, suddenly, on a little es'owd of fleeing women .and ehil- dree, who scurry,, sereeehing, into the ditch and bushes. A beeardecl. -Mien heads oft an old wen an who is e rrj,:ing a child. He bends to her from his tall 'horse. "Why do A village ie Belgium,. Its; name'? you all run, mother ? Call- RV Ally {ane ee •a, score, It is ai, village Reek off foolish geese together, old that has changed in • a"day and a woman, and telt them to) go 'ora night, -.less than 30 hours, from boldly, in God's' naeme, lite are suznething unspeakably dull, un- not man eater's. Is it thy grand- speakably insignifaeant, to some, chid there? See, little one ! Come Chang tragic. to me :" Re stoops and sowings the child It is a '? sge whose breath has out of the trembling woman's stopped.1i"hen that breath comes 'arms, "When thou growest - up, aarin it will hurry the blood shalt .tell thy sweetheart that once through the brains of ellen who ne an 'hag kissed thee." He kisses loMg a are stolid peasants. the baby, "Ansi here : Art a brave They are standing bewildered chocolate ! That shall just fit the new. .heipless.In the fields and the • little mouth." He gives the baby -elicit e of reads stand their farming baek. "I have one just like that'" imp'ea it'nts, their carts. These in- ; he says to the grandmother. "At amine t Things seem bewildered, home in Leipzig. Farewell, oke 'so - g -, like the Hien. (.n the vi age man. Accustom thyself to it, to. see street lie three obiects—•a eap, serest Germans. There are many behind mea.t 'exp bread tied iu a yalloev us, and there will be mans pnany h;si.a c�rchief..'tnd a clay Pipe, 'Yes- ; more." to rata sue:: wicked cahe lessness :" minion. lana li the ether w =ar ,Y I:aye cants. d serious gossip g aei?.?.: t it'ee ?e i' a who are so frac { lll.^..ne, and ,canter on. wt: that; they p=el; up pieces of They enter the village- These se °ae� To day even- Pierre Lanier,`e;'mpletely open; completely- empty thy mess ira3ga'; man in the vi"..:age houses, do not lure them, as the: (i.eee ties : so much ete leek at -;hemi ,, simple peasauts had expected. They The men ,are gest ieu".a.tillg around ride swiftly but cautiously. When I' t ^r: Laniere Ile, their make, ° they tonne in sight of they stone mese knee- Seenetleset. 'Fain fur'heuse, they halt, A. moment's in - him it, held tett his lands, palms _spection shows them that it is den up, in mute ',hew that he looms no s get' ens. Louis grinds his teeth mere oxine, thee. .Has not eleseee wen an Uhlan points his lance at' here seen a marline that fees, and; it, laughing. is her nut sure that it had Prussians! One soldier gallops back at top in it Ii's :t:et , l:tatt ii e—°•kiele,1 speed along the rind by whieh they.• Maurice : t.° rte forward, then :"•---' have venae. The others encircle the seen peen running wies saki that our house. They leap their horses over trv: cps, t ur heave trsseps, had been ; hedges and walls, they ride through &reeled ' What then : Did the gardens, always remaining out of geveraament lie to uS when it told shot from the stone house and al- ie that thou ae cursed G=ermans would ways keeping it in view. driven back into the R}eine i Havvingexaminee it irom all sides, r•haeald erns be the mire, and: they sit at rest. They sit, straight knew el i ding : Or is it that he !is: and sedate, as if- they had been itfra.d to speak : Answer then, in halted en parade Voter den Lin - the na'n i•f heaven: den A hall hour passes. The lm - 1, ismer shakes jai: bead, slowly, , ' mobility of the Uhlans, their pas- na:"ciie • : siunlese, inexhorable watch, is drier - '`1t -e Vidal.! Tiaev one all at itig the peasants frantic. More : ;t if fr. nt the sky, and spi ar than once Louis has to growl at a t=•. , y ie= (is r 1 neva p,;edy. 1 telllt tau ! ; Haan litho wants to shoot. "Would 1eeb eat t'i1Vreu. Leen declares;you waste a cartridge? Every bul tr tei ii;s word- ae ;1n honest mean, let we have must kill a German.' 3i,' Telltmlcer. that it was SO in the Suddenly the tension ceases. leen ee•1 l:1s-i;111 War, They are 'tiT F There chines a strange. ',Teat onu- nesed 1't'r . these Germans. It is nous sound. It might be thunder; f r this that the regiment of their if thunder could grow and grow like o e. g len prime wears a death's head t enormous music. It might be ari- ,,n it, :a.tifrornl—a ghs tly head. • e', let a t•+1 Vaek The peasant who spe oke shakes his fist in the mire's fates.. roar. So lees this rumble swell ;1s; in Pierre 1-:inier shakes his +en the ears of the men in the stone Wad. He is a man net far past house. • mildly.age, and his hair still is ' "They come says Louis hoarse - Meek. but there iS a great, slowlv. It is hard for hum to speak in- p;O if i=.!•e in his face that makes hint i telligibly. The defenders are all h:-.1.; of lei "' totes Maurice. "One l violently- thirsty and they have for - "Beheld to bring in any water. c' 'tees!" They come indeed', They come Ths 4eee Ow ee.rmes is a man on a along the great highway that leads meter teele. Man and machine are through the far end of the village. s., ",•e.atef1 with dust. with sweat, ' Though it is far out of range of the e it!i lend. that even without war inj stone house, the peasants can see the !and and one, would stare at this =them plainly. They are mounted thine tieing sae desperately, one j men, cavalry. "Now!" says Louis, little woman. See ! I have some ver flood, that but now was a murmur .afar, and approaches with; a rumble that swells into a slow' week' wait with eyes and lips open fit. learn 'what frightening message it carries. Mae. mud, rearing motor and their brother pillar of dust crash bet. The man has disappeared be- fore the slow brains realize that he ha waved an arm at them and streamed ••Uhlans!" '.Guns: Get your guns:" It might have been the voice of all. -We will barricade ourselves in the stone house, in thy house !" criee a young man, sholdering for- e and and addressing the maire. He is Lanier's brother Louis, sturdy, hetelsonie, ferocious. • Listen !" says Pierre. "My neighbors ' My friends: You have no right to fight." "What `!" the peasants scream. "No right to defend our land Art thou crazy, Pierre Lanier?" The patient man shakes this head again. "No !" he answers. "That wt , civilians, men' not of the army, men net in uniform, should take .airirs and fire from ambush—that is against the rules of war." "Then curse the rules of war !" cries Louis. "Art thou a coward, then '?'> --The moire reaches out and touch- eslaiti brother's arm. It is secret, almost a timid act. Louis throws off the appealing hand. 'Tell me not that thou lovee st' , me !" he yells. "If thou art coward and traitor, I damn thy love through alI. eternity! Again! And for the last time ! Wilt thou fight7" Pierre raises his hand, appealing dumbly to the man. They howl at him and rush away. He stands still, looking on while they gather guns, pitchforks, clubs. "Open , all your houses wide !" shouts Louis. "Let them see ;that the village is empty. Thus they will come to our trap ?" While some do this, others under his orders barricade the windows of e the tone house. Have case cries , "Nothing- insist show . The house must look innocent from with- out! ; Ha'l We shall kill .Prussians this , day!" He is foremost in everything.g eyes - are bright - with pride. "Go, • arrow,. my brother, and eet thy. beloved Germane!" he bellows atPierre, when all'is•done. Pierre without a word, enters the 'stone house with the rest, Some 'miles away, half a dozen Uhlans canter over a ridge and ex- ainiue the 'village through ' field glasses-, They study theg rounad. foot; by foot, almost inch inch. nch. `liken they toot onward, his eyes shining. He watches for the waiting Uhlans to call their comrades to attack; The Uhlans do not stir. The, Ger- mans move along the -road. They do not turn on to attack the house. They do not even turn their heads to look at it. This infuriates the peasants. Horses, horses, horses! Helmets, helmets, helmets! It is advance cavalry, but not the advance caval- ry of past puny wars. They pass and more come on, and still more. If the men in the stone house could see the other roads of their land,, they would see each one so filled with a silent, steady, implacably moving tide. Suddenly, from nowhere, e, little party appears before the house. It wheels, long before it is within reach of rifles. A shining, glossy little thing points ,at the house. It is .a rapid-fire gun, sleek, beautiful. An Uhlan rides toward the house. He.has a, white cloth, a flag, on his lance, and waves it.. It is the bearded Uhlan who kissed the child on the road. Louis thrusts his gun through an aperture. His brother, who is un- aarmed, grasps the barrel. "Thou must not! It is a flag of truce !" "What is a flag of truce?"' de- mand's ;a peasant. "It means" that the soldier has- a message for us. They will not at- tack us while he ca'r'ries it." The Uhla,n approaches and: halts.. "Rolla!" he •cries. "Within there !" Louis rips the gun from his ::bro- ther's grip, runs to another win- dow, and fires. The Uhlan falls from. his hose without' a quiver. He lies on the.ground like abundle„, Along the highway the- cavalry army moves silently, steadily. No man has; checked his horse for so much as . an instant at the mound of a shot. Horses, horses, horses !. Helmetshhelmets! , elmets, The machine moves on. It moves on, "•:' n, eyes front, while"the -captain commanding the little' gun snaps a sharp order. . It moves on, ' h horses and.,lielanets bobbing opt of g sight ahead, and. bobbing past, and bobbing•onfrom behind, while the gun crackles with explosions that dwindle to a steady snore of noise. The stone house as if it were afire, spouts clouds of swirling dust and; powdering 'stone. Ina moment it is a fragment that stares phantom like through the cloud, somethingthat seems . to be looking with horribly expended eyes at the gun. In /tenement it is noth- ing. If the besieged 'have fired, the The "Scrap of Paper" German Chancellor. "I did not want this war," "We Germans do not cherish hate." "I have labored steadily to develop agood understanding with England." These are some of the striking statements made by the Imper-iul Ger- inan. Chancellor, Von Bethanaun-Hollweg, in a long interview on the war, its causes, and its probable results, The ravages of war have not spared even the "Reichkanzle:r," In bis uniform of Lieutenant - General, with grizzled, close -cropped beard, he seemed much older than the scholarly., frock -coated statesman of Reichstag debates. Only recently his oldest son had been wounded on one of the battlefields of Poland. As a reward for his efforts the Kaiser has presented hint with an Iron Cross which is suspended from the ribbon inthe third buttonhole of his coat. The chancellor is firm and obdurate, and in spite of many reverses is firmly confident of ultimate victory for Ger- many. men at the gtfn do not know it. The little steel beast had drowned their tiny efforts in roar and fire. They have passed as a breath. The soldiers .advance to the ruin. A half wall is standing, jagged. The rest is a mound of dirt. Nothing living is in there. The gun and its men join the horses and th.e .helmets that are flooding Belgium. . In Germany, in the city of Liep- zig that night, a mother guides her child's hands to clasp themselves in prayer, and make it repeat after her : ! `Lieber Gott iia Himmel, behute meinen Vater im Krieg." The captain of the little rapid- fire gun, as he lies in his blanket, thinks` of his home, of his people, even of his dogs. He does not think of the stone house. It was an epi- sode Under the ruins of the stone house the women of the village that night find their husbands. They find their maire. His face is more patient now than ' ever. Perhaps that is because he has his arm around his brother. DROP GLADNESS ON YOUR PATH. Dr. James' L. Hughes, - Toronto. Drop gladness on your path Where 'er yon go; ▪ It will take root to cheer Hearts , full of woe. • Plant the sweet flowers of joy Where you find tears; • ' Perfumewill rise from them .ry Through all the years. Pressed fiowera of happiness Stored in the breast, When sorrow conies, or fear, Bring hope and' -rest. ' : ° January 1915.' • • Quite .the Contrary. "The boss accuses you of being blind drunk:" "Well, the bosh'S. mistaken. I'm sheein' twice as much as I she when I'm sober—twice as much, inner-. stand'?" Austrian Adjutant—Our ,equip- ment is no good. Gen rax—So much the better ! When the Russians get it they can't use it. Mrs. Newlyrich, having come into a fortune through -a lucky strike. set up a country home near a big city, where she lived in style. One.- day while 'she was showing some of het old-time friends about the place they -came to the poultry yard. "What 'beautiful chickens!" the visitors exclaimed., "All prize fowl,?'' haughtily explainedp the hostess. "Dothey lay every day ?" was the next question. "Oh, they: could, of coaXrse," but in -our poli R' tion it is not necessary for them to do ao." IU'I'CHE 1EIt'S NEW ARMY. It Is a Triumph or Demoeraey, Like the Tubes. Writing in the Westminster Ga- zette, a member of Kitchener's New Army says "The New Army," "Kitchener'n Army"—we go by many names. The older sergeants—men who have served in regular battalions --some- times call us "Kitchener's Mob" and swear that to take us to war would be another Massacre of the Innocents. At other times they affirm that we are a credit to our instructors (themselves); but such affirmations have become rarer since beer went up to 3d. -a pint. We are a mixed lot—a, triumph of democracy, like the tubes. Some of us have fifty years to aur credit and only own to thirty! others are six- teen and claim to be eighteen. Some of us enlisted for glory, and some for fun,and a few for ,fear of star- vation. Some of us began .by being stout, ,and have lost weight. Others were weedy and are filling out. Some of us ,grumble, and go sick to escape parades; but for the .most. part„we are .aggressively. cheerful, and were never fitter in oar lives. Some miss their glass of claret, others their fish and chips; but as we all sleep on the floor, and 'only possess one suit, which is rapidly becoming,' very disreputaible, : you would never tell t'other from which. We,sing as -we march.: Such songs we 'sing! A11 'about, coons and girls, parodies of hymnsparodies about Kaiser Bill, and sheer iinadiatlterat= ed. nonsense. We shall, sing ``Where's yen girl? Ain't yr got none?" as we march into battle. Battle ! Battle, murder and sud- den death! Maiming, slaughter, blood,, extremities of discomfort and fear and Pain! .How incredibly remote all that., -seems,! We don't believe in it. really. It is just a great gamewe are learning. '' It "is•. part of the game, to make little short rushes in extended order, to lie on our bellies' land keep our heads down, snap our rifles and fix our bayonets Just a game -thane's all, .and then home, to tea. 'Some,of-us, think that these young g .officers take the game a'blanked. sight too seriously. Twice this week we have, been tale for dinner, and once they r'ou.ted''us out to play it at night: That was :a bit -too ' thick! The canteen was shut when we got back, and we missed our pint. Anyhow, we're Kitchener's Army and we are .quite sure it'll' be all right. Just send us to Flanders and see if it ain't.. We're Kitchen= er's 'Army, and we don't care if it, snows ink! t .ab'111r •e10s4.46 ••gene.' OM1J Wh Fish., To 'i'haw Frozenit1:<islt•-There are two ways' to thaw fish. If they are thawed .at room temperature there is .no -chance of their .losing their flavor, unless they are allowed to stand after they have thawed out, when they will "break down" some- what and spoil more quiekly than a fresh -caught fish, which spoils quickly enough, as everybody know, A quicker way is to put them in cold water, and as this is the method used by dealers when customers demand fresh caught fish, although there is none in• the mar- ket, or those to be had are at :pro- hibitively high prices. Baked Trout Steak. --Put two strips of bacon under the steak and two over it, and then some fresh to znatoes oti top, and bake. It is ne cessary to understand that there i much good in a fish, like the trout that is large enough for steaks, al though we like that species best in the smaller sizes, 'I'o Breit Any Fish Steal.. ---Do not have your dealer cult the steaks too thin: :1 steak an inch thick can be broiled in from twelve to fourteen minutes, about six minutes to a side, and a, fillet from the side of a thick fish will' cook in about the sante time. A fillet is a thick, fiat slice of fish without the bone, just as a fillet of beef is strip or slice of muscle or Jean meat without bone. For a single large steak use half a teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of pepper, a tablespoon of vinega and three of oil. Mix these tagethe and add sone slices of onion an other seasoning if you choose, turn the fish over and over in this sea- soning, and let it lie for an hour, if there is time, turning several times. This is an excellent way to season fish, even if you eaiinot let it lie an honer. You will nut taste any of these things, but will know thatfish your fi.h has an excellent taste, as it will not have unless well sea- soned. Small fish need but little seasoning; those of a coarser grain need a, good deal to make them fine. Serve with Hollandaise sauce or plain melted butter and slices nor quarters of lemon, Boiled Fisk t teaks.'- ] ish steaks may be boiled on top of the stove or iii ea chafing dish. A halibut steak of a pound weight can be boiled and used with a sauce, or be boiled and flaked and used as a ealad or for timbales. Cover the steak with boiling water and add a bit of bay leaf, some green pepper, or carrot and onion, and salt and pepper, and cook gently until done. It may: take twenty minutes. Save the liquid in which it is boiled for sauce or soup. If you want to make timbales flake ,the fish, add to it about an equal measure of cracker crumbs, and what seasoning you choose; bind with white of egg, allowing one egg for each timbale cup two- thirds full of the mixture, fill the buttered timbale cups, set then ,in hot water, and cook until the egg is well set, turn out of timbale mold and serve with a cheese sauce. You may decorate the bottom of the mold with strips of green pepper be- fore you put in the fish, or yoii• may drop in an egg which is poached in. thecooking of the whole. Cheese Sauce. -This sauce has many names, but is simply a white sauce made by cooking together a large tablespoon of butter with.one of flour, and then adding to it, stir- ring all the` time, a cup of hot milk. When this.is well blended, cooked, 'and seasoned, add from half a, cup to. a cup of grated ` cheese. ' Too strong a cheese taste with fish is not liked by some people If the sauce should happen to be lumpy, by any accident, put it through a -strainer before adding the cheese. Butter Sauce.—The old fashioned butter sauce for boiled fish , is *still in- favor, although: there is some question about its , being whole- some ; the white sauce is also ques- tionable., This is made-exaetly-'like the, white sauce,• except., that bail- ing "water is used instead of milk, or better yet, the. + boiling liquid in which the fish:was .boiled. Finally cut up one or two hard boiled eggs into the"sauce. in it, then wash them in tepid wa- ter, and finally with plenty of soap and a, stiff brush in hot water. Fin- ish up by rubbing the hands with lemon and rosewater and glycerine, When your kitchen sink is rusty rub it over with kerosene, Squeaks in shoes are prevented,, by dipping the soles ;in kerosene. . The whitespots appearing` in the spring on the lining of your., re- frigerator will disappear if you rub' the zinc with kerosene. Leave the refrigerator open several hours, then wash with water, soap and am- monia. The refrigerator will. then be clean and sweet and all spots will have disappeared. To clean painted walls wipe them first with a cloth wet in kerosene and let stand fifteen minutes Then wash the walls with good, warm soapsuds, but do not raabsoap on the cloth or the paint will be streaked. Rub spots of tar or pine pitch on clothing in kerosene before washing them. Household fluty The home mala ier generally s makes the mistake of using too , many stitches in sewing on flowers' -} or feathers. "Few but strong," is g the rule, Brass polished with oil and rot- ten -stone will have a deep ricll. yellow tone. The whiter, more brilliant tone is caused by acid. Polishes, If you have to peck battles in a trunk, tie in the corks, and wrap them in soft towels, garments, ete.., and place in the middle of the trunk. If the stepladder slips, paste a piece of old rubber over eaeh _sup- port ; this will not only prevent a fall, but it will protect the floors. r 1 If you have casters put .on your r woodhox, it will be much more d convenient to sweep around and under it, or to hove it from place to place. When -cooking mushrooms it is safe to put a silver spoon in the pan. If the epuon turns dark you Iran be sure there is atoadstool in ilthe pan. Excellent school sandwiches are R made of large ripe olives stoned and chopped fine and spread on bread and butter sandwiches with may- onnaise. Apples pared, cored and set into a dish with sugar and water to bake until tender, but not broken. are delicious served with custard poured over them. A double thickness of material, pet shieldwise and stitched under the arum while a dress is being made will prove a great resource when the dress begins to wear out. tses for Kerosene.Oil Here are nine uses to be made of. kerosene oil. Wash 'out your dust- less "mops in kerosene and soak your dusters in kerosene. Let the kerosene dry on your clusters and you will have"dustless dusters! ` A spoonful of kerosene added to a kettle -off very hot water will make windows, looking glasses, and-pic- ture nd•piature glasses bright and clear. Use a small, clean cloth, wring. it dry, and rub it over the glass; after wip- ing down the framework with an oiled oloth. Then proceed to the next -window and 'treat` it similarly on both sides. After that.go back to: the firsf one and wipe it dry with a large, clean, cloth. No real polish: ing is required and the window or glass will look clear and shiny, Kerosene' will cleanyour hands better than anything else after blacking a range or stove. Pour a little inthe water, wash your hands DO A KINDLY DEED. Blest be the tongue that speaks no i11 Whose words are always true, That keeps the law of kindness still, Whatever others do, Blest be the hands that toil to aid, The great worlds ceaseless need— The hands that never are afraid. To do a kindly deed. ECONOMY 1Y INFOODSTUFFS. Comfort in England Depends Large• ly in Prevention of Waste. The London newspapers are de- voting prominent space to the con- sideration of the steady increase in the cost of foods and other neces- saries, which in -many cases are from 20 to 50 per cent. dearer than before the war. Coal has risen 10 per cent. higher. Flour, which sold in July, at 25 shillings ($6), is now 45 shillings; and fish has trebled in price. The middle classes particularly are feeling the pinch because of the limitation of income " owing to the war. The working classes, on the other .hand, generally are all well employed, ,except in certain trades. The editorials urge economy in the use of foodstuffs with which the English households are proverbially prodigal. and wasteful. The `. Daily Telegraph, says .•"The • war., should teach us • th at comfort depends largely.an• the pre- vention of waste. - We shall do well to reform the internal -economy • of our homes wherever it is possible. This war will increase. the ,cost of living throughout. '-the world, in neutral as well as belligerent ;coun tries.'' r; The • Chroniole has, this- to. 'sa y. "Despite the increase, ;bread arid many otherarticles, are cheaper `in • England .than in any other eoii`ntry in the:'world. herefore, we can= 'expect, not 'ex ff '� p amCllOration of the in- crease, due largely to the high shipping rates, which haveuad q . dupled in -five months. Strength to Stand It. Grateful Patie1 t-"B.y the wa,y, 1 should be -glad ifyou would sendin g i. your bill -soon." Eminent Physician -`'Never mind abet that, my dear madam yon must get quite strong first," Maddening Ino nigiity. She (sighingly) I wish "1 . had been born .a man. Ile (gloomily)—Sa do'L Who Would Get the Cores: Teacher -,Mary, how would `'y ou divide five apples among six chil- dren ? MaryMakeapple, sauce.