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NOTES OF SCIENCE
Iworld, whieh is attributed to their
diet of bhe larvae of certain 'beetles
i • practice drinkingsea
and the r roc ce of
P
water. •
A GEO.MIETRICAL VICTORY.
Daniel O'Connell's Combat With
Biddy Moriarty.
Ina recent article on "Old Dub-
len Streets," Mr. J. H. Halloran
draws en amusing picture of the
notorious Biddy Moriarty, keeper
of a small shop opposite the Four
Courts. Her spirilt, originally high
and frequently reinforced by the
other variety termed ardent, and
her extraordinary range of piotur•-
ersquely vituperative language,
made her the terror of whomsoever
she denounced, and the delight of
the audience that always rapidly
ass:embied•. She never met her
match but once. There have been
many versiiane of the( meeting, for
the victor was no less a, person than
Daniel O'Connel, whose friends laid
a wager that he could reduce her to
silence; but they all appear to be
biassed on the name narrative, pub-
lished about the middle of the last
oentury by Draniel Owen Madden.
The encounter opened briskly,
with a taste of Biddy's tongue,
promptly administered upon 0' Con-
nell venturing to object :to the price
she asked for a walking stick.
"You old diagonal" rejoined
O'Connell, amiably. "Keep a civil
tongue in your head 1"
Suet an epithet, incomprehensi-
ble but cloubitless deragiaitory, did;
not tend to imcrsase the terma-
gant's civility; and although fur-
ther advised—first as a "radius".
and then se a "parallelogram."—
not to fly into a passion, her anger
steadily increased, rising to a cli-
maax of infuriated Billingsgate
when O'Connell, refusing to weibrac:t
what he had said already, accused
her instead of "keeping 'a hypo:the-
nueo in.ibhe.house."
"You can't deny the c'harge," he
affirmed, with apparent indigna-
tion. "You caan'ib—y-ou miserable
sabmultiple of as d ip:licat,e ratio I
While I have a tongue I'l'l abuse
you, yon most inimitable,eripher I
Look at her, boys; 'here etre sten is
a oo•nvicted perpendicular in petti-
combs.I There she trembles with
guilt, down to the •ex,bremities of
her corrolaries. Ali I you're found
Out,. you rectilineal antecedent and
equiangular old hag; you porter -
swiping similitude of the bisection
of a vortex I"
It was too: much. Abendoning
words, Biddy snebeihred up a eauoe-
pan to hurl .at the head of the per-
petraltor of such en overwhelming
onslaught of geometrical verbosity.
A bystander deflected its, courree,
and O'Connell prudently retreated;
but 'he had won the wager, With
Euclid for his ally, he had van-
quished the virago.
Cause for Worry.
"What ie Owens worrying about,
his debts?"
"No, because he is unable to con-
tract new ones."
Wallpaper made of rubber is an
English novelty.
Strong ammonia will remove
iodine stains from clothing and
flesh.
One quarter of the area of the
Kingdom of Saxony is covered by
forests.
Egyptian cotton is being profit-
ably grown on irrigated farms in
Arizona.
India expects to' have the greatest
production of jute on record this
year.
A little turpentine in warm wa-
ter is the best thing for cleaning
windows.
Pumping engines in a large sew-
erage plant in Australia are run by
sewer gas.
'China has about' one physician
trained along modern lines for each
600,000 inhalbitants.
Active mining of pibch'blende, •bhe
chief source of radium, has been be-
gun in India near Bombay.
Cut flowers will keep fresh longer
if their stems be placed in damp
sand than if placed in water.
An English aviator, using a new
type of folding parachute, reeently
dropped 2,000 feet in safety, •
The Chinese government is plan
ning to spend $10,000,000 for .a num-
ber of high-power wireless stations.
The matching of colors has been
brought down to an exact science
by bhe invention of a machine for
the purpose.
Wireless messages have been sena
and received at a rate of more than
100 words a minute by apparatus
icventece in England.
Woad, the plant from which an-
cient Br rteins made a famous blue
dye, still is cultivated for that pur-
pose in some portions of Tn.gland.
Aluminum is the most abundant
of all metals, .being an essential
constituent of all important rocks,
except sandstones and limestones.
Recent official figures show that
Ireland has a .steadily increasing
deathrate and that the number of
marriages and births is decreasing.
An elecitrical machine that gets
its power through a cable from a
light socket has been invented to
Denali 8,000 square feet of a floor an
hour.
Drawings of human beings and
animals 'In .ancient eaves in France
are regarded es ,proof teat man was
right-handed as .far back as in the
Stone Age,
Japan private individuals own
only, :blre surface of the band and its
products, all mineral deposits be-
neath the siirfa:ce being the pro-
perty of the government.
In Petrograd there is a clock with
95 epees that mark the 'time in 30
cities in as many countries and the
Movementsof the earth, planets
and other heavenly bodies,
Bulgaria plans to •convert: much of
the territory acquired from Turkey
into -a vast tobacco field, producing
some of the finest and •highest
ipr%eel tchacco in the world.
"Testis of e, recently ,patented fuel
for internal combustion engines,.
oonipoaed of naphthaline, water and
a motet ingredient,indicate that it
is more ,porwei+.fu% than ,gasoline.
:lige natives of New 'Chines are
the elieettet lived people in the
"Wilhelm Rex"
Yes, by gum]
Wilhelm wrecks
Bel.giurn.
"Mrs• Nurich is getting very par-
ticular." "I .should stay alhe is 1
Why, she won't use oil in her auto
lamps unless it refined."
PROSPERITY OF DIMINiON
l'AN:1.DA. WILL .P11ODl1CB 0V1ilR
• $600,000,000 1N GRAINS%
The Area of Land Sown Will De
Much Larger Than, In
Previous Years.
One of the most important fae'tors
in the re -adjustment of Canadian
trade eondi:tions when the war is.
concluded ' will be, according to well
informed financial men, the 1 -
creased agricultural production of
the Dominion. The movement in
various parts of the country to put
more land under cultivation fcr
Wheat, oats, and other field crops
is progressing. Thee outlook for
higher grain values in 1915 is based
upon authentic ealculatioes as to
the world's supply and demand. The
probability that the marketing of
the 1915 •crop will more nearly put
the position of/the Dominion on the
right side of the balance of trade
is voiced by the meet conservative
business men.
$163,000,000 in Wheat.
Canacla's wheat crop in 1913 war
valued at $145,302,500, and the
yield during the present year has
probably brought from $160,000,000
to $175,000,000 of new wealth into
the Dominion. The wheat yield of
1915 may increase the wealth of the
Dominion by $185,000,000, allowing
conservatively for an expansion of
the wheat area, but ahouid the
hopes of some of the men engaged
in the business materialize the
amount will bo more likely $200,-
000,000.
The value to the, Dominion of the
oats, barley, hay and other field
crops dowing the year 1915, based
upon the estimates of recent years
and .allowing for only a fairly nor-
mal increase, will be in the neigh-
borhood of $450,000,000, making a
total production along with the
wheat, of something like $630,000,-
000.
$226,668,000,
Root and Fodder.
Root and fodder crops tri. Canada,
consisting of potatoes, turnips,
marigolds, alfalfa, fodder corn, and
sugar beets, a total area of 9,070,-
700 acres, as compared with 9,243,-
000 acres in 1913 and their esti-
mated value ie $226,668,000, as com-
pared'with $197,988,000 in 1913, and
the outlook is that in 1915 there
will be a, greater area sown and a
greater monetary return.
Comparative Values.
The comparative valuers of some
of the fmlpoaitent field crops of Can-
ada in 1914, as compared with 1913,
are as follower
1913.
Wheat $145,300,000
Oats 125,300,000
Barley 17,700,000
Flax 17,770,000
1914.
$160,000,000
140,900,000
19,600,000
10,800,000
All Available Acreage.
A few days ago Hon. Robert
Rogers, Minister of Public Works,
summed up the situation as follows :
"Reports that I have received
while in the West indicake'that far-
mers have all available acreage in
grain next spring. There'wae never
a time in the history of Western
Canada when it was more impor-
tant than to -day that a huge acre-
age be added, and I believe the
• farmers are alert to this fact. When
farmers, from whatever cause, are
unable to provide their own' seed
grain, the Government will see that
no ,acreage remains unfilled on this
account.
A. Tremendous Demand.
"We are naturally optimistic
about; ending the war in record time
after Britain gets her full force in
the field, but even if hostilities
should cerise , to -dray, Canadian
grain would be in tremendous de-
mand on the continent next year at
high price. Aside from selfish con-
siderations of profit, every farmer's
patriotic duty is to produce, as much
foodstuff as possible next year.
"The eplendid weather this fall
has enabled fanners to get much
more than 'the usual quantity of
ground broken, and this will go a
long way toward in•oreasing the
seeding acreage in the, spring, If
we can produce the crop we will
find a market for it without trouble.
Tc this end the Government is coxae
pleting storage elevators es rapidly
as possible and there will be suffi-
cient eap.acity to take care of the
increased yield',
Wheat at $2 a Bushel.
"Canadian wheat' may bring a•s
much as $2 a 'bushel next fall.
Many experts think the price will
approach that figure, for Europe
willproduce little grain next year
and, must look chiefly to Canada and
the States fcr her supplies. Every-
thing produced' ori the farm. wall
bring an increased price next year,
"My reformation is Thee bu:srmess
is improving all over the West.
The high prise of nearly, every-
thing £a me:re have sold• tide halls
and the money being diebributod for
army reontraets in the West, has
contributed in no small degree to•
this •condition."
Market for Everything.
During the year .1013 Canada, sold
$208,642,680 of agricultural pro-
ducts, but with the decreased pro.
duction of European :countries, it is
almost a oertainrty that there will
be an unexampled market for prat: -
Meetly everything produced en the
Canadian farm. Frame, even at•
the present time is in the musket
for 4,000,000 bushels of wheat, and
with .a deolilie in. European stucks
during the winter months will make
orders from other belligerent puw-
ers necessary.
The monthly report issued to -day
by the Department of Census and
Statistics, shotes an area estimated
in the five fall wheat provinces of
1,294,000 acres, compared with the
area sown in 1913 of 1,184,800 acres,
and the area hervestedethis yeer of
973,300 sores, The acreage sewn
for 1915 represents a net inorease
over that eown for 1914 of 9.2 per
cent. Last year the acreage eown
was reported as 7.37 per cent.
The bulk of the fall wheat crop
is grown in Ontario, where this year
the eetinrate is for 1,043,000 acres,
as .compared with 898,000 acres, the
area sown 1n the fall of 1913. Tho
increase under fall wheat for On-
tario, -therefore, is in the ra'bio of
about 16 per cent., sehich should
prove a material ecrre•otive to such
statements, as: "Collections in
rural Ontario are only fair."
Business men realize that there
will be no mercantile difficulties en
account of the condition of rural
Ontario, and manufacturers know
and realize that rural Ontario, and
in fact the rural districts of all the
provinces, will furnish splendid
markets for their output •clurieg the
year 1913.
..--a•—
POINTED PA.IIA0RAMS.
When in doubt bubton your lip.
Even a tailor cannot always cut
out 'his :rivals.
Better a burning kiss them an un-
burned love, letter.
It often pays to lest the other fel-
low talk while you act.
People are unnecessarily active
when they stir up trouble.
Never judge it man by his rela-
tivcs—he didn't select them,
As it tacks collector the pneuma-
tic tire is a howling sneezes,.
Rich people travel when they
will; poor people when they can.
It's easier to purchase a eying
machine than to sprout wings.
•I,
Don'tleave•:too little confidence in
yourself or too •much in ethers.
Teachers of elocution can't do
anything for the voice of conscience
in most of us. -
A woman's team shedding habit
may be due either to, is 'begrimd or
to her fondness for onions.
Father Time probably hands a
woman a new weenkle occasionally
merely as it reminder that she has-
n't been forgotten.
K. of K. Strategy.
Many stories of Lord Kitchener
are .being retold at the present
time. One of the most characteris-
tic is related in connection with his
campaign in the Soudan. It ap-
pears that Lord Kitchener 'became
tired of having his messengers snip-
ed by the enemy; he therefore or-
dered that a telephone wire should
be laid across a certain stretch of
desert. As Lord Kitchener had or-
dered it of 'course it bad to be done,
but there was much shoulder -shrug-
ging about it, for it was felt that
after the enemy had got over their
awe for this new device -they would
be sure to cut the wire; and this is
what happened time and again.
Lord Kitchener never complained,
he simply ordered the wires to be
replaced. Later on the s'houlder-
shruggers learned to their inteuse
surprise and admiration :that he hail
caused the real wire to he laid un-
derground.
WON'T MIX
Bad Food and Good Health Won't
Mix.
The human stomach stands much
abuse, bet it won't return good
health if you give it bad food.
If you feed right you should feel
right, for proper food and a good
mind is the sure road to health.
"A year ago I became muoh
alarmed about my health, for I be-
gan to suffer .after each meal, no
matter how little I ate, " says a
Western woan:an,
"I dost my appetite, and the very
thought of food grow distasteful,
with the result dust I was not nour-
ished, and got weak and thin.
"My home nares were very heavy,
for beside a, large family of my own
I have also to look out for an aged.
mother. There was no one to shoul-
der my household burdens, and
come what might I must bear them,
and this thought nearly drove me
frantic when I realized that., my
health was breaking drown.
"1 read an article in the paper
about some one with trouble like
mine being helped by Grape -Nuts
food, and acting on this suggestidn
I gave Grape -Nuts a trial, The
first dish •of this delicious food
proved that I had struck the right
thing,
My uncomfortable feelings in
etomaah disappeared as if by magic,
and in an incredibly short epees of
time I was again myself, Sine then
I have gained 12 pounds in weight
through a ,suammes ofhater, , work and
realize I .am a. very different wo-
anan, all due to the splendid food,
Grape -Nuts,' Name given by
Canadian Poetum. Co,, Windsor,
Ont.
Limed tirefamons little book, "The
Road to Wellvilla, in pkgs.
"There's s .a Reason.
Ever read the anew) loiter' A now ON
endears (rein limo to tlEno. Thoy are
genuine, true, and hitt of humin lnteraet.
•
ARMY CORPS OF WORKMEN
KRUPP P1,.1.N'P linll'LOYS'P11011-
SANDS OF MIEN,
All That Can Be made of SOO
Is Constructed ai
Essen.
The German City •of Essen is
Krupps; Krupps bit Essen. The
erstwhile liable Westphalian Itown
has become one gigantic factory,
dominated by the genius of this one
family whoae t,hvon gen eratio us
built up the greatest cannon and
armor indueery the world has ever
eeen Looking down on the tows(
from one of the pleasant wooded
heights on which Alfred Krupp
planted the ouloniee for aged or
disabled veterans of industry, one
sees a forest of tall oliimneys sand
dozen's of huge, lofty workldhops,
marshalled like forts all round the
habitations of men. On a nearer
approach one discovers that some
sixty factories make up this gigan-
tic organization, Forty miles of
standard railway link them together
and carry (their products abroad ta,
the world, and thirty miles of nar-
row lines are required as auxiliary
for the shops.
Army Corps of Workmen.
Forty thousancl men, with 4,000
officials, make up the staff of this
maze of factories and workshops in
normal times. One eau well believe
how the staff has been irncreaed in
these .anguishing days of war, when
every German, great and mall, re-
alizes that the future of hes Empire
largely depends on the power and
number of 'guns which Krop.p'i can
place at the disposal of the armies-
of Germany and her Austrian ally.
Besides: this army corps of workmen
at Essen, Krupp's have 10,000 min-
ers digging' the earth for •cowl in the
firms German collieries ; 1.5,000
lianas at the rolling -mills of Armen
and Gruson, •and the blast -furnaces
of Rhe•inhausee, Duisburg, Neu-
wuicl and Engers; about 7,000 work-
men athe fr s
shipbuilding yard,
the Germanic at Kiel, and 5,000 ore
miners in Spain. It rs symptomatic
of She immense importance attached
by the German general staff to the
continuance of work at Krupp's at
the highest pressure that the gen-
eral commanding the Rhine dietrict
has expressly refrained from calling
up the Landsturm in order drat the
great national 'work may prgceed
unimpeded in the Rhenish indus-
trial region, where Krupp's is the
leading ooucern.
Peaee and. War.
The private hotel maintained, by
the firm at Essen for the aceoanme-
dation of its foreign visitors is char-
aoteri:stic of elm international char-
acter of the business done by
Krupp's. Here, in drays of peace,
one met representatives of every
civilized nation sent by their Gov
erx snobs to this international arse-
nal to purchase the. arms of war or
the implements of peace:' For half
the Krupp works at Essen are: de-
voted to Whet • the rnormal times
seems to be the peaceful worlc of
commerce but, whaib in war time is
an indispensable .adjnnat to the
•arinies in the field. All that can be
made of ,steel for railways is oon-
strneted here—wheels, axles, en-
gine parts, and rail's. Ati Essen the
German liners, .now the, murderous
commerce destroyeraef the Atlantic
and pacific and Indian oeeenrs, re-
csive 'the, !huge oastings foe stern
post •and stent and cranlc-shafts,
.and are furnished with plebes aind
frames. Fine steel for tools, the
spades, ,and picks of troops en-
trenching themselves, and a dozen
other varieties proceed from Essen.
The Veil of Secrete.
But the foreigner, however ani-
pecable his recommendations and
references, only roes ,as much of
Krup3a a as the firm will let him.
Foreign military attaches, entrance
ed at the. exquieitro couelessy which
is the rule of this famon's house,
Irmo seen the high hopes built up
on the warmth of their welcome
dashed to the ground when i.t has
come to seeing ,over the •hork•shops.
They are e a•rr tied past 'here and
hurried past there, and filially leave
with .a vague sense of vas'tn'ess 'and
method, but reonsci•ou'u of having
signally failed to penetrate into the
secreta of the oonoe.rn. A good ex-
ample of the .secrecy wherewith
Ki'uu)pp'•s manage to eni eliope their
affrara s as 'seen in !bhe huge siege
guns, the cal'ibr'e of which ruaner
puts ,as high as 16 inches', with
which tone Germanys battered down
the forts of Liege and Namur,
Though it is a joint stock com-
pany in which practically all the
rrliares are owned .by Frau Krupp
Von Bohlen and Balbach, the only
child of alio late Alfred Krupp, the
third proprietor, and leen hursb.and,
the present managing direcbor of
the works, Krupp's i:s regarded by
every patriotic German see, natiion-
afl posserssirorn, Wdrile Krupp's ex-
ists Germany will stand, This is.
the firm belief ,Of evea'y member of
that nation in arms.
"Fritz," the Steam Ilinauner.
An a000unt of ra serent visit to
lerupp'c works at Essen appeared
en the "World's Work." Among
other marvels ttericribed is the, fain
ons 'steam hammer "Fritz," the
'giant (if the one hundred and eiet,y •
steaan hammers at wurk 1n the es
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MOST PEPrEcP MADE
THE INCREASED.NUTRITI-
OUS VALUE OF BREAD MADE
IN THE HOME WITH ROYAL
YEAST •CAKES SHOULD BE
SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO
THE CAREFUL. HOUSEWIFE
TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT
FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION
TO WHICH IT 16 JUSTLY EN-
TITLED.
HOME BREAD'BAKING RE-
DUCES THE HIGH COST OF
LIVING BY LESSENING THE
AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE
MEATS REQUIRED TO SUP,
PLY THE NECESSARY NOUR-
ISHMENT TO THE BODY.
E. W. GILLETT CO. LTD.
TORONTO, ONT
N/INNIPEG MONTREA6.
tnblrehmenrt. 'Fritz" teas eon -
striated in 1.860 by Alfred Krupp at
a cost of £100,000. At that; time
Krupp's competitors regarded Iris
intention to set up the giant ham-
mer, which possesses a failing
weight of fifty tons, as a sign of
insipient madness. I7ndeberred,
Krupp continued, and to -day, lifter
"Fritz" has been at work for fifty
years. it is as useful as ever.
Breaking nuts without injuring
their kernelsis apopular 1
r method
of demonstrating the 'marvellous
delicacy of its adjustment. In the
armor -plate department we sec
huge hydraulic presses, of which
there are: no fewer than eiglity-one
in the works, and under which steel
Woolen: are pressed and 'squeezed un-
til compelled to assume the desired
shape, no matter how large they
may be. A -huge crucible steel
block, weighing 'eighty tens, is
placed under a 5,000 -:ton hydraulic
press; after being mewed, handled,
and formed for (half an .hour it
emerges in the shape of the gigantic
sfiaet of an ooean steamship, ,150
feet long. By the aid of •a speeial
inedienical appaa•atus•, the theft is
bored, the kernel being extracted
in one piece.
Steel Cut Like Cheese.
Other equally famous machines
are the hydraulic shears, which cut
through three inches of solid arinor-
plarte as if itt were ,ehsese. Enor-
mous bending presses of 10,000 -ton
pressure bend armor -plates to any
shape desired wirth infinite ease.
The firm has its own waterworks,
makes its own gas, and generates
its own electricity. The gas works
supply more gas for the fac;tory-
town than is used annually in Mu-
nich, namely, 26,000,000 -cubic m:e-
trese. And yet the 40,000 gas lets
distributed all over the establi.h-
ment do not suffice for illrtmina•ling
purposes, and electricity in the
shape of 3,000 aro lamps and 30,000
in•candesoent lights has to he Press-
ed into service. Over 400 steam
ltoilsrs generate the steam, for the
8,000 different machines and the
2,500 electric 'motors at work.
More than 600 miles of cable and
wire and over 800 telephone sta-
tions and twenty telegraph stations
are required to eacilitiete communi-
cation throughout lube works.
1?A.RIMING IN PERU.
Tilling Done in the Crudest Way
in South America(.
The titling of the soil is done in
the cruelest way, not only in Peru,
bout throngbout thewholie of South
America. Outside of the wheat
frelde of the Argentine, th:e methods
would do 'credit to the Egyptians in
the.- drays of Ilameses. In fact, the
bull -plow, as it is used in Peru to-
day, d•altes back to the Ifings of the
flrsib dynasty of Egypt. The plow,
the Peruvian spade, and ,the grub
hoe, which latter is simply as crook-
ed .stick with an iron :hoe, are the
three implements is agidoulture Lar
Peru Ito -day. No implement in
Found too mush .the hard Hoops of
ground in the plowed iletdv. :fhi:c
is dome by the women enrd..hildren
with a short chub dike a ball bat.
Corn is planted by using a sharp
stick to make 0,4-1011C1 in the ground.
Then the kernel is dropped in the
Thula .and covered by a pure of the
bare, foolb on the softened eia.rriilt
Rada irs not a •neceiasnty in these val-
leys; the natives have made •admir-
able irrigating ditches than convey
an abunclanrce o• water to every
portion of the cultivated fi,olrls. Tito
{vaster moistens the hoots of ±he ecru
0r0rnl clay to dray, or Burned into the
di•tclacs ±haat fellow. the..canc fields it
Internee a potent factor an the .lux-
nriant growth of the ehtgiar came,
Wealtl, may net bring happiness,
hilt it sevee the bill selector many y
emee
FEEDING THE BRITISH ARMY
IT IS A II (Ill '1'.1.51( 1)URI NG
'll til h OF WAR.
What Every Man Is Entitled tet
When on theFighting- lino
or 'i'raining.
In times of peace the British sol-
dier in barracks, apart from breed
and beef, buys Inc own food, being
allowed so much money a dray for
the purpose, The beef .consists of
three-quarters cf a pound, "includ-
ing bone." And I are 'told by sea-
soned Tornmies that upon one's
standing with the company cook •do -
pends hire proportions of meat or
bon o one gets. The weight is a10
right, for ire pie:quet officer of the
day 'sees the food put into the
scales. But the wives of the men
who are anarriecl on the strength
have an understanding with the
cook that the choice cuts are not to
be wasted on the single mien.
A pudding made according to re-
cipe of rice and milk, and in high
favor with :the soldiers, is generally
a grey instead el white or creamy
hued, owing to the circumstance
that the "linea of communication"
between the milk can and :the pud-
ding basin are generally cut by ser-
gearuts. Sergeants are thirsty
souls.
Sugar is screed in tea, but here
again the man e'hc happens ito sleep
in :the cook's room cannot Mete tela
for sugar, whereas the other men
has to take his almost unsweetened.
But when war comes and .the sol-
dier goes off to fight he is put on a
different footing. Now he cannot
be bothered &hoot. his food. He way
have to mins several aneals running,
but when he does get one it is all
ready bought and prepared for him.
Food for the Field Feria.
There are three sorts of meals
for the field force. The man who
gets his feed at the base or wher-
ever there is an army kitchen fire,
a cook, and the necessary culinary
' e l with
utensils receives if all is w 1
i transports the o amunie
the Iran ports and e c n
Mons, food to the value et whole-
axle
hole-
axle prices of Is. 1%d. a clay.
It• is made up as follows : 1X lbs.
of bread or else 1 1b. of biscuit; 1
lb. of compressed ("bully") beef,
or enough fresh beef to yield 1 Ib.
When cooked; four ounces of bacon;
three ounces each of cheese and su-
gar; two ounces. of peas or beans;
X lb. of jean ; it ounces of tea.; f
ounce, of salt; 1 -30th ounce of pep-
per; 1 -20th ounce of mustard, and •
1 -10th gill of lime juice.
The Iron Ration.
There are no green vegetables,
and ne such it lot of highly <oneen-
waled food would be conducive to
scurvy the little dose of lime juice
is introduced as a preventive. Each
maul is supplied with a little per•-
maegana•te of potash to be used for
disinfecting hater.
Bub in addition to this provision
made for lum when he is in camp,
or field training. or can get bo the
bare ficin the firing line, Tommy
Atkins luta tt'hal is known as the
"iron" rali.,n and the emergency
',Mimi. The "iron" ration he car-
ries in his knapsack or valise. The
former (so eald-d became 1•t used to
he carried in a tin, a1thetie''r now it
is held in a canvas receptacle) he
eats whet, he cannot get his ordi-
uary fare, and it comprise* 11, of
bully beef, 12 Ounces of biscuit,
5 -8th ounces of ten. 2 cnnc.'s of su-
gar, :', oiuicesi , f n'rt 3 ounces of
cheese, and 1 ounce of meat extract,
The Emergency Ration.
The emergency nation is rather a
dramatic affair. Only when Tommy
is alt the last gasp, when the '`iron"
ration is a fond memory and the
base is ra very remote paradise,
may be opened the a nergency tie
Which is .sewn insicde of his dunic,
maul then only if he gets his officer's
permission. If there is not an nee .
tsr about Tommy must use his dis-
cretion as to when the emergency is
sufficiently urgent. This ration
consists of 6% ounces of a secret
substance' with .a chocolate founda-
tion • It is so potent that this. small
portion will maintain strength for
30 lomirs if talrcn 02 very utiserly
qua nt itie8,
The first described of these ra-
t:dons is the one to which the re-
cruits now trebling are entitled,
that, is if they have been ".token
over" by the War Ofllee. Soma of
the Territorials are, however, be-
ing maintained by the county ro 'arcs
mations, and their feed is a, (auto
Ile quantity, the living depending.
on the good -(sill of the local au-
bhoaities.
Everything is weighed and in-
spected on arrival at the depots
and woo betide the firm time gets e
reputation for unfair dealing, le,
of IC, means keen en eon•tr•aet,.rs as
well as kicker of Kaisers.
e1
nem) Offer,
First Maid --'The rich young fel-
ler that's courtin' Miss Ethel is
aty(full, stingy," Seconcl ]lilt° -
" %iahat makes you blink so 'i" First
--Why, I heard him say to bei --'A
penny for your thoughts, and he
a millionaire, mind .you,"
Georgie•--"What does the news
paper man mean by calling 12r,
Sharp an eight-bry•ten business
man? Father--' I presume it
Te
he
to nob exactly square f"
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