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The Clinton News Record, 1919-1-16, Page 7Ropkurniomint•zIonmTiF,:emi'oimeskotimileiSnetreigimitomaNsoloitiia Not lc IVIcaricst Mall By C. Courtenay Sewage 5 netifenenstientnimnientiMattinselMatiSfai*leivasiitinientententinttMUMEIngeni • PAItT II. The folloyeing memling 'Mem Themp. min remained in bed until she- had finished breakfast, Nettie refused te allow bermeav the 1iOfl. b-Yote heard wtht the doetor Satti :About resting?" Nettie nelred. e1 don't went to rut but somehow 1 feel amthe le right, Vi netting old, Nettie. 1 Wall I realized ft for the First tinto this morning." i'hbitttornoon Netele tiathessed one 'Of iho berme and took Mm. Thompson to ettil on the Lembarda, They etayed more than two bourn 'Mrs. Ltunbard showilig John's moth- er the homes with MII its modern equipment. When they started home, 'Mrs: hommion's eyes, wore brighten us if what ehe imid semi had niece belt a broader outiocns en life. "That'e a nery Omar:amble porch," was the wily comment she made, "I think I could take more reet if I had a place ar; nice as that." That evening after the supper dishes were washed, Nettie went to the barn M search of Joh. She was deterMined to speak to him on this matter even if she hnd to leave his home as a consequence. "Mr. Thompson," she began her narrative with no introduction, "I want you to give me fifty dollar." 9Fifty &Hare?" he said quictaly. • "Yes Your mother has to spend several hours 'a day resting and she needs clean, bright surroundings to take her mind from herself. I shall take the money over to Mrs. Lunt - bard and ask her as a favor to go to Rockland and buy three wicker rheas, some cushions and a rug like those she has. They're for the porch. Then I want you to let One •of the hired men paint the porch to- morrow and clean up the front yard, path and all." • Alm looked at her with wide, star- ing eyes. "But my Mother--" he commenced. Nettie cuthis words short. 'The doctor -told no both . what rest and pleasant, surroundings would do for her and it must lie done. If you haven't the money in the house, can't I have a theque? If you won't give mo the money, I -I think Pll have to use my own. • She turned and looked out the big vulture, the "eagle" of Scripture, to deorway, idly watching a Passing the sparrowhewk, are a feature of the mitomebile. For several minutes there ivas silence. When she look- ed again en the man she imagined she despised, knoweldge that overwhelm- ed her came rushing intother heart. ' Pity to settle dawn te her whiter labore. In the bush on twilight, she and John reedited to the knoll where the new house was to stand. The founda- tion was neerly finished, The ground Was Illitered with rough boards. At one end of the lot Stood en ordertY heals of Madsen -the upright posts that would soon go into place. Fon a minute they stood in silence, eepb. pleturima the completed bone. Perhaps 'when it's Waned mall ask nos to some and see MI- I feel irf it were mine, au if every bit -et wood nind stone were pent Of my being- Queer, isn't in how you 000 really love a honse?" "It's real love, Nettie." John took her Minds in his and drew her close to hint, "When you wrote dint you were coming here, I prayed -that you would be just what you have been -an angel to unlatch the door that led to my mother's happiness. The house will be finished at Ohrintmae. My I,Corite for you then? May I bring, mei here? I love. you, Nettie, love you .beyond 011 the world." -"You-you-dearest man!" she sob- bed and buried her head on his shoulder. (The End.) A PARADISE FOR BIRDS Palestine Abounds in --Features of Scientific and Religious Interest. Swamis of European bade visit Palestine in winter and many breed there, The cranes, as in Dante's fine line, still epass in winter, "trailing their long -drawn line across the sky," and in the spring the voice of .the turtle is heard in the land. , , The Holy Land is appropriately a stronghold of the pigeon family; turtle doves are found, thewood pig- eon comes In myriads in winter, and tho common pigeon, the true dove of Scripture, is still abundant, both will and tarno, 'throughout the country. Aa a contrast to these, "every raven after his kind,", the crow tribe- of several species is in abundance, and birds of prey, from the great griffon cc entry. In the deep tropical Jordan valley we find a sort of aviarmof real tropi:` cal birds, which found there a refuge Two tears had. coursed their way from' the last glacial epoch -the love - down John Thongssonte Min -tanned ly little seabird, or "Jericho hummin , g cheeks. • bird," the land -feeding white -breasted .'Nettie -Nettie! You believer] it kingfiaher and a species of gregarious tore Re placed his hand on her thruth. shoulder anti looked into her eyes. "I'nt not the meanest man, Nettie, even if they say so. On the coast is found the great Hem m my Indian fishing owl, and among the' barn 1 have every modern equipment rocks of Marsaba the monks hove while my. .house is old and habby half tamed the orange -winged black - It isn't my wish to have it so. 1 don't bird, which is really a starling of African type, as much out of his lett- ing every meek of terror, and the want my mother in the kitchen doing submarine was made hurriedly to g hired girl's work. 1 tude as the hyrax. Crtfe of the birds dive. Everyone was in re, state of "She and Father -were poor for peculiar to Palestine, the pretty little high tension. There come a formid- yeais-but very, very happy. When pygmy Mobite sparrow, which lives , riches came to her. , Mother wits in reed bedsis one of the rarest birds able explosion, and a tremendous afraid to change her manner of live . h li shock jarred the submarive from end CAPTIVES IN A GERMAN SUBMARINE • 1."1".!'' HARDSHIPS OF TWO- BRITISTI N.AVAL OFFICERS Their Ne r Ye -14001M Retnerience and Their Reseee 14.• a British Man-ofeWar. Being on a defeneelose numehant ship at the iriemy 'of an enemy eels: marine 14 thrilling 'enough but to be captives in a German U-boat, with -the possibility of being sunk any minute by the guns of your men countrymen, is, to say the lent, nervemaelcing importance. --Such was the fate of two officers of the little British steamship, Ilanna Larsen,' whose hardships emPlinal eeeape Mr. L. Cope Cranford .describes in The Merchant Seaman in Ware On a dark night a submarine at- tacked the ship with he11 fire and damned her so bitchy that the crew had to take to the boats. The U-boat soon approached, and theMommand- ing °Meer ordered the master and chief engineer abetted and set,the rest adrift. The !meter_ subsequently learned that his ship was plundered and finally sunkby the explosion of bombs inside the hull. As the two Officers entered the long, rounded cell crammed with myster- toes mechanism and watched their captors going about their murderous business in the dead of night, i1. seemed to them that their situation was hopeless. The German command- ing officer told them that he had al- ready sunk eighteen ships, and Mould sink thirty before he eetureed to port. Events were soon to interfere, how- ever, with his prophecy. After that encommming converser - floe the master and chief engineer occupied themselves, in trying to guess what was happening on deck. As morning came the sabmarine was cruising on the nsufsface, end front tinte to time came the report and the vibration of firing. Meanwhile the inen below passed up shells, to the gunners on deck. After one of these attacks a Gorman brought down be- low a, sextant, a chronometer and n Norwegian flag, and proudly exhib- ited these trophiesto the prisoners. Between Two Fires,. The .prisoners saw• only, two pos- siblb outcomes of their. adventure: either to be taken to a German priscei camp or to be sunk with the sub- marine by a•British ship of war. In those waters, off the English coast, it seemed probable that they ewould be sent to the bottom without a chance of escape. About two hdurs lateo there was firing on dock ;mann and the next moment officers and men crime tumbling down below, exhibit- . ing. She felt that if she were to; . Reptiles abound, and even the Nile have luxuries, happiness might not! - aorrie with them. She had always crocodile, the leviathan of the Bible; been happy at her week -she wanted lingered long enough to give Tristram to stay that way. When 1 wanted the chance of obthining a specimen to put running water at the house. nearly 12 feet long, while in addition • • to the African cobra, we find the maim. Mae swiftly to the surface.' Milo captain, followed by the offieere and the crovs, nan up the ladders, leaving the engines sunning, Outside, shot •after shot raeg out, and pieces of the conning tower crasbed down buy it herself.' ' teresting to note that the. Sea of theThielatmerstaZ. and chief engineer, de - Would she help? Together they - ... etaniee is still packed with them, and 10 - weer each detail of the new that the commonest kinds are qf an eided to die, if dies they must, in the Afrinen family, .an .interesting IlIns- open, So up they went into the clean e house. Nettie- made it dean practical , , , , , suggestions, carried away with the -,- air and daylight; and there, ranging to mid. The top plating ..was burst open and the water iiouited into the vessel. . .- The commanding officer 'issued sharp orders to the men at their stem Mother objected. When I begged Mons beside the valves, and the Sub- terogea g.,, .b and told me that she was still able green snake among the harmless to do her own work. She's been in species, mid the wicked little horned a rut all these years and is afraid viper lies in eneit, as in olden times, to got out. Can'te you help her? to bite the heels of the horses. Dont ask Mrs. Lumbard to buy the furniture. Take Mother and let her As for the fish, they are as abulide ant and varied as ever, and it is in- enthustasni with which John describ- ed his home. 'During the next few days Mrs. Thompson was frankly annoyed. of all countries. Purposely in her hearing, Nettie coin- • pla.ining nbout the lack of facilities. SIGNED IN GOLD BOOK ration or 010 amen e lr1t*l'est winoli alongside, was a British num-et-war, unites with the religious to make The Germans, with hands uplifted, Palestine amongthe most interesting Gradually, however, after she had heard Nettie wonder many times • how it would be possible to work year after year in such a manner without becoming too tired to live, Mrs, Thompson, foe* the first time in her .1ife, looked back over her toil -filled years and questioned if she had not - been doing enemies:airy work. "Nettie,", she said suddenly one evening, "I've been 1,Vond‘ring if it would make a lot of work to put run- ning water into the house." "Of course it wouldn't," John ans- wered before the girl could speak. "Whae if it did, if it would make you more comfortable?" 'Gradually. very gradually, Nettie and John swung the totwersatIon tO - the point where not only running water was beig considered but ale° a now stove and bathroom. '"If necessary, you -and Nettie could take a trip while the work was being done and I could get it woman to do the hotiaework," John suggested, "A trip? No, thank you. I'll stay her and see they do it meetly.. It's my kitchen they're, fixing over. Two Canadian Meer% Had Signal Honor on Entry Into Mons. Writing to his mother, who resides in Toronto,- on Nov. 15th, Signaller H. T. Sears, 42nd Battalion (Montreal Highlanders), says: "NO doubt you will have read about the taking of Mona. I an pleased to say our bat- talion was the captor, and naturally I yeas in the little stunt. We came into tile outskirts of the towd at 2.30 in the morning. Not a move going on except old Frits firing a few parting shots. Daylight brought with it a wonderful reception. Our °Meer with another and four other fellows and myself: started out at daybreak to the city square. The people ran out of their houses, and at {bites I had four or five banging round msr neck, Mus- ing me, and binning out ton and coffee. When we reached the square they flung• open the doors of the town hell and in we weet, just with our Bet that idea ot getting a women to trench clothes on, and right -into the help with the 'work isn't bad, foe I' really art tired and I dot t want Not - Ile to work. She's here to vest." Nettie erged that the work be done at once, for oven if John 13'uilt the council chamber, where we were re- ceived. by the mrdmor arid all the eity authoritlen. The two officers signed their namee in the big gold book of house lie planned on the rise of the town, the first for fout years. vetted a quarter of a mile away; the Then I went back and ran a telephone old farmhouse could be used as a line into the town hall, on which was tenent house and needed repairs, eeceiVed the, font news' of the thilebe ' John was quick to see the argil- of the - menet: "1 looked all 'over Sm. a suitable The new work was fieished in less • ' than two weeks' time met ems. Christmas present for you, but there Thompson adMitted that she was hi abeolotely nothiug. Whatevev stack . Move comfortable than ever beforethey did get, the Beebe tool" BY a word have and a word there, John and Nettie sounded Mrs, Thomp- son on the prospect of tt new home. At firet she laughed at the teen bub in a few weeks she had come To think that some deg they might build. Before the end 01 anothev week .1ohn showed his mother the cherish- ed plans. Hie enthusiasm crept inte ohis ther's heart as it had into Not - The Raven's Warning. . Tradition has it that all the 13)5) 115. Mies which dog the footste.ps of the ill-fated Austrian Royal family are foreshadowed' by the appearance of a raven. When 'the Avehdeke de. tie s. limited for Mexico -and execution -a "Then it's decided, Mother? WO ranee followed hint oil the path; mid' Juan build up there on the knoll?" when the Archduchess Christina left "You may build a)1 onee-enly bulil fov het nehappyerife in Spain it Moen well, my eon, build event September canie stviftly nthile the busy work of exeavating and laying the fourichteion foe the new home %Vent, forward, In the swamp land, , the soft maples Wove turning rod; it , the ercharcle the feint Wan faet ripens ing for at pleneeous havvernee Nettie •inte plekatien, to 'fe8 beak 0000 to tho 11110 g , A whole flight of ravens ia said to have hoverell over the evownieg el the late Francis .1ciaeph, and olio ok the illsomeneol deelted a pearth tier0111 the hand ,t)t ,11e 'Empress Elizabeth tho (ts,y, 11410011' eht, tefil latitdeted et Geneve, . stood ranked arcing the heeling deck, like a row of mechanical toys. The Map -Of -War Wee getting a beet away, and, perceiving that the aumender was accepted, one of the Germans went below and stopped the engines. As the British boat came alongside, the master hailed. "We are two 'Britishere: token prisoners last tight!" he bellowed. "Jump in!" said .the officer as the boat drew abreast the tilted deck of the submariem ' As for the commanding officer of the submarine, his days' were ended. He had been first on the conning tenter after the explosion enclwas killed by a shell. So he did not sink thirty ships, after all. THE VICTORIA CROSS lirtit Cross 10 Moulded, Then Finished by Runde • The bit-MI(81c value of the Victoria Cross is a few coppers. Apart from tbe immortal honor, it carries with it a pension of 110 it year in'the case of uou-commissioned officers and men, 15 being added •Cor each bar. 'Unlike the ordinary imedal, which is turned out by the thousand by means of a steel die, obeli V.C. is made scpavately. There is no die in existence, the buena, part, of some of the Russian guns teetered in the Cvitnea, (being weighed out to the workmen as carefully ns if they -were so retch gold. Tho first Victoria Croas was model- led hard wax, and after the design had bee,1 npproved a model patted) was cast, This is prosevved with the greenest cnre, and frore it sae merle the mouldfrom which every otheit Geese is cast, The bronze is heated In a play crucible up to a teniperature 'Of 2,000 degrees, and then peered into the mould through the little tube left for that purperse, Every drop of spilt Metal 10 carefully saved. When it Reines out Of the Mould the Cron is rough at the edges, the design is flat and al, and the coley that of a dirty pettily. Skilled workmen do an the finishing by hand. The edges am) filed, ,and the design brought up by the "elittedig" whe Make with wirtallspunchee end a light hemmer, The Greene When fthiebed, le sent to tite War Office :rug Ineneetiefif And ite eibinen 1s ettriehedi prrisll WARSHIPS IN KIEL CANAL REPORT OE' COMMISSION' IN. SPECTING GERMAN )3ASES Ports Wore isited..and on Every Mind Evasions: and Obstructions Wore Encountered. . • •Boeing an allied emendseiou whieh italleeted Gerrenfri navel . bases • And 'Airship and Seaplane etations 'under the terms of the an:140m the Britiab battleship I -Temples has eeterned to her home port: During minip fraught with peril, many, German porte were visited end preliMinery arrangements fw.oerrooilercionder of German warships •u. A •dralnatie epiesele of :the voyage wasthe passage of' the Kiel. Caum 'on December 18, AccomPented by the British. destroyers Venten. Stud Vice, rey, the Hercules gave the Gernlans along the hanks of the canal their first sight of the British flags since 1914, when light British crelsets pas- sed through. Germans who watched the ships were, for the most part, in, differently' curious, but not hare-. quently women and children waved their hands at the %thong There was not tho slighted response from the ships( - - Breach of Armistice. • • .BRAVE TARS :FIGHT • As. RR Expings prib,1,14 ORENY' OF DUNRAVEN UN1"TI4PS 1.5.130.0 TILL AID COMES Sulbinarine Quits on Apt/moll of Brit- Isb end Amerieen Deetroyere, Who Rescue the Wounded, The loss of the British decoy shin Duneavert in a clespetate brittle with a German pubtramine, the story of which Imo now been mede public by tho British Admiralty, constitutes one of the most daring nncl hemit epi - ods orsjilm antleubmarine war, With their vessel ablaze, the boXes of cor- dite arid shells exploding every few minetes, the aStev-teun crow stuck to their gun until the magazine eeplotis ed and blew them and their gun into the air. Meanwhile the- battle with the submarine was fiercely waged. This action took place in Angina, 1917, The vessel 'wee one of the de- coys winch waencommauded by Capt. Gordon Campbell, who bad previous- ly won the Victoria Crbss by heron) and succeasful work in decoying sebs marines to theta destru'clon, In her role of an armed Britiah merchant ship, the Dunraven waa zigzagging her course in the lanes latunte'd by the submarines when a U-boat opened fire upon her at 5,000 yavds. The Dun- . Discipline on boat'd the German raVeil returned the five with her min-- ships is very low, accomling to al- chant ship gun and reducer! her aers of the Hercules. They foiled, on speed to enable the Hun to overtake the first enerng ship bourded, that hen, To coax him on wireless signale the sailors wore lounging abet:re and weir) sent out reading, "Help! Come the ships in bod condition as a result q.uickly1,,Subzniutine chasing. and shell- . of neglect. The; was in direct 'violas mg me. Mon of the terms of the armistice, and drastic action was taken by the. Ms _ t° -Boat Stealing Up Closely. Finally,.when the submarine's shells epectingeolliter. Ile notified the Ger- belga!' fill141g close, the Dunraven mans that the shins must be cleared ..stopped and the usual "panic party". of sellers, end if his enamel were not- abandoned. The Dunraven was then obeyed he would return. to the Hercules and report that he was obstrum ted. in his work: Fearful of probable conetpiences, the G•eratan seamenleft thein ships at oftee, inspection of airship ard seaplane stations required considerable land eine must explode if be waited, and traVel, which perniitted the. memberthat a gun and a gun's crew lay con- ed the commission to gain famine- coaled aver the Magazine, Captein tion as to the condition of the people Campbell reserved hin fire until the in the interior of the country. It is submarine had ' passed Melte of the repotted that everyone encountered in smoke. A moment later there 'Wait a Germaey, even in such industrial cern ileml explosion ad the Dunravon's tree as Hamburg, seemed as well gun and its crew were blown iuto the clothed and fed as are the people of air. The concussion started the lire France and England. Winter crops; gongs at the remaining gun positions. °win to the ntild season, wore doing The screens hiding the guns were well, and the land is well cultivated , dropped and the only gun that could and fertilised. . - I be bromeht• to bear opened fire. The . Admire' Sir Montague Browning, submarine commenced to submerge. head of the commission, was accent- Knowieg that a torpede would surely panied by the best men from • Allied f ollow, Capt. Campbell had all the notions available for the work. They • wounded brouglee up and concealed in mot interminable objections, obstrum ! cabins. The after part of the Duns Mons and evasions by the Germens, raven was a mass of flame, but the but the 001M/118010n was ultimately crew fought 'the fire with hose, while able to 'induce the Germans to thin wirelese signals were sent out warm - means to fulfil mann- points of the ing all other vessels to keep below armistice whieh they at first flatly the horizon so as not to interrupt the refused to carry Out. Admiral GOette, ' final phase of the •fight. of the Gernd5n navy, seems to be the 1 Twenty minutes later another tor- fat tehnminge for use in cooking. of jesus. • only senior German officer still am! Pedo struck the shin ithaft the engine ' 28--Strign and save all (Tripping:8. We raise the finest tobacco in Skee- t:ending to -his duties.. Admiral:neon room; Another "panic party" VMS 24 -Try te cook only the amount potenna, but we do not chew it or Scheer and Admiral von Ripuer have sent away in the boats, leuving the of food needed for it meal, unlese you emolse cigars. The men smoke Ogees epparently disanneared into the same ship apparently abandoned with the wish 511090 101' a special elapse. and her. guns un- ettes or pipes. Our women do not obscurity.whieb hides General Luden- British flag firing melte. There are no saloons 151 Mese- When Food is on The Table dorif and other form& leadevs, who masked, but Captain Campbell and a 25-ment the bread so, te, table Pr/ preemie. My people make wine, but sought safety in "retirement." handful of officers and men had 1.•e- there will be no extra slioes to be is not the fermented 'kind that you Saw Zeppelin Depot. mained On board -and lay bidden fee "used somehow." nemeses tut, si. beve here. It is only used on 00_ nearly an hour while the submarine 28-Sevve email 27_Give 0 person onortunity to cita.sions, however, and then it is nor Discipline at airship and seaplane commander held off watt:Mina the low second belpinge. Say whether 'rood shall. be served to memidered proper for women to drink stations was better ellen that on the burning ship through' his periscope. it in rePorted. The I Shelled for Twenty Minutes. . him • or not. Do not SerVe any One Gentian warships, foal which he does not like and will ' —se ..--. Nordernty seaplane station is said I to compare most frivorabln with any , 1 During all that time boxes of cur- COST OF WRECK FILMS station of Ito kind in France or Eng- _ed- . ims an, the ere ttladin. . not eat. -- ditn and shells were exploding every • s . . ,. g O8 ---In serving meat, do not :serve Cleaning Up Debris Is Expensive fainwhieh will not be eaten. Cut it pe m epot is r en a ter 0 C. 1 - f V. menu- a te n . was furiously. Eventually the sumnamne , . . bend, while the imeat Nordholz Zee - oft and leave it on serving plate, to • Part ot Railroad Pictures. est in the world. It was from here emerged este= where 150 guns could be tried out later for cooking, S Nowadays, through the medium. el .. that virtually all adman raiders be brought to bear upon her, and steak bones at serving plate. -cve the photoplay, it is por5sible to expeg bound for England started.. One ins „shelled the Dunraven for twenty min- teresting sight was the famous•emme utes. The U-boat then steamed past .211 s,,,,,,,, ,.,,,,,, , „,,,, ,., . ienee all but the unpleasant 00000 - Zeppelin Midi which was succese. the ship 150 yarde off and Garripbell ------nsm't --""s' "'mem:- 15' Hone of a great battle; a 'terrible vain sala51 dreasing. u y onmer os imp erten as man- fired one of his torpedoes at her but After The Meal way smash, oe 0 devastating mem !, . two Zeimeline went completely de- :don. men At that time, two sheds and miagad by a few inches. A -second I torpedo also oilseed. The sublet:mine ., 80 -Save :small arnotiets -of meat The heroism and financial expendi. stromid. , saw it and submerged. A third for sandWielete or to seveion 'se- taro required in the production of At such films am scarcely realieed. Them Warneraunde, where ' re g9 cab i "panto -NAY" wan planning to jump tables or cameral:5s dishes, - overboerd and leave ono nun crew for 81 -Sus left over vegetablee for is one office? eow at the front Witt on fire aft and the submarine closed in to a distance of 400 yards, but was partly obscured 'from view by dense clouds of anioke issuing from the Dunraven's stern. Although he knew that the maga- FOTITY WAYS To NA.YIS FOOD shallow bins, Refove beh g put awe,' plate. they should be 'well Wiled by spread. pieetme me 13051101. m tee mean It pays to fleet them'sover with cave ing them out in e dry, lather shady place for a few bourn after digging( the win -abed garbage mill. ' before otoring, putting aside for Mu Add to this gospel the gospel m mediate use en thone that hove been out or braised' or show ;signs of decay No matter ho' saving you have, been you must be more olgilant, Do not wash them. 1)0±13113 tba 191,,,, ter go over them oceneionally, pinch- ing oft the sprouts. Have Potted Meat Ready Here tire forty ways in which housewlyea may kive Tooth. - liniminete the nourth meal, By cerefel buying. 1 ---Look over 'the noel in your pan- . try and me box before you gomarkets itomr•ev , bi,sylillaigeno to foods on hand be-- The end of mr di a boiled ham01' l beef sorted, berm end gristle. removed, 2 -Do not 'buy more fruits, mien- fat and meat chopped 11110, May yield tables and, parlsimble foods than you more...then could be ueed advantage - van nue within it elniet time. ounly at e single . meal. Heat ft, 8'--03nY sesountable foods because with little water, In its own fat and your faintly needs them, and becainte -pack gelidly 111 jelly temblere or emelt .tii,Illeillerbuenbisaentleinsitlit)ttreds.aving of staples jars. There should be a quarter 111011 of fat 011 top to harden and f orm a 4,—Tti)ce home evevything you buy. seal from the air. With a tin cover Do not leave moat hones Or Wein-deg-a on top, meet thus prepared swill keno fo15 the butcheo. Bonn can. be used several weeks. In soups. Pats can be rendered out; Si:awning may be added as for any Fish trimmings can be used foe ellen,- potted meat. Meat thus prepared, den . Bi-eareful 510001300• both fat and leen, is ready to be used with Pet= twoto four Mines its bulk 5-509t fruits .and vegetables, and of potatoes :a other vegetables fin use the imperfect ones fillet, tto that hashes, or for sandwiches, etc. thee will not spoil, and then have to be thrown out. 5--- a-4M not allow vegetables to wilt. LIFE IN MESOP0TAM144 '7 -Keep mills in a cool place so it — , Soil and ClimN(Se ete Ideal ande o e wi811-nItn"ouvle. meat froom paper end Ras to Work Hard. keep In 4 coofmlace, . Seekers of "soft snaps" arenurning 9 -Keep butter or fat in a covered their wistful optics on Mesopotamia, container to prevent absorption of which seems to have maintained odors and flaV011- Utopian conditions hi 'spite of Turkish 10 -Keep tea, coffee and spicea oppregsion. Prince Raphael Eminan- covered this so they will 'not lone, uel; son of a Chaldean high priest. their strength. who has been lecturing in this cowl - I.1 -Keen ;our bread box clean and Me. is rattily responsible for theit aired so Abet brand will not become mouldy. By careful pre•panttion. 12 -Do not burn food, M -Make everything you cook mese good' go that it -will be eaten and re- lished. 4-Seraps out nrixhig bowls and cooking utensils, so that good food is not left to go ineo the dish water. wietful attitude. According' to the prince's fascinating account of his native land, the soil is se rich Una it is only necessary to work foist meths in the year. Then there are the additional luree of beautiful cli- mate and' comfortable habits and cue - toms which add a potent charm to inherent laziness. The Kansas City 133011kIlbotottlleeas,,,,etinhtiatsnsor flopoadpeitbagbsThere is e, Star reports hint as saying; 110 0101103'in Mesopotamia 15-lempty entirely sliC13 thingS as There is need for none. We pay ec 11)909111away. taxes, neither do 1‘.0 pay tribute. Ms-auSpastfe '‘..y:ter -whichin r ice and Wheat, bent and skina .aro the onle vegetables have been cooked and use medium of eirehange. We 11(5)50e no for . 17.-13sc outside leaves of' ca'obage and lettuce for "shredded" salada, soups, or "stuffed leaves," policemen, no courts, no judges. The people do not fkeow there ie A war. They would not understand the mean. ing of fighting 1! or libeety, as they 18 -Use apples parame and Corea always have been tree. for apple Jelly or for vinegar. There is no record of time in Mes- 1 9 -Dry rielery leaves and paesley onotamia. We neves. know what day aud save for seasonings, of the week it is end do not care, 20 -Use sour milk in 13aking end Clocks or watches are unknown; um Cor cottage chemo or salad dressing. people would not know what to do 21 --Make pari»gs -feint andwith them. Timii• is told by the height vegetables. thin. Of the sun and servants arise by the 22 -Try out elneken fat and other cock's meow as they did in the days' experimental Mahon was eatablisbed by 'the Germans. the allied CO/111111S- sion met with difficulty when it asked permission to carry out the work of inspection, It was only undev pro- test that the members were permitted to enter, the Germans fearing reeem. tions of what thy had accomplialied. Tho submarine cominission, under Lieut. CommandemBower, pushed its investigations assiduonsiy itt Rains bide., Bremen and otbor points with the rosette that scores of Usbonts, nearly all near completion and hitherto undeclared by the Germans, were found and repoeted. Admired Goette protested to the last; against giving isp these submarine, but at a . Ancleet felines° records would seem to ghat the use of the magnetic noodle final confe....e.enee for clotermining direction it long aini varicit bistory: The principle of the comp:Ise, 05 .158 tho Chinese cell it, the South -pointing chariot, is Mated by Oldnose nett foreign authorities alike to have been diet:veered dining the Siam has a new flag. To comment, reign Of Chong Wang, 11154079 11.11. orate the entry of his country into The. (Demeroy was forgotten in it few tho war against Germany', King Malta hundred years, Then tho plalosopber Veigireavudit decided te modify the ohanr, Hong, new Merl lit 139 Itet, re. flag by adding blue to it, in ender thitt collet turned Ine device. In eaccooding it might be a tricolov like the flags troublea his model was lost and 15)3' 01! ,:(Thielisoinhdedeitias.olilli,e1 'says the royal de- onward great tuteresi was -shown by gotten. nrein the third century A.D. (Mee. "will serve as a token' of equality nthe gbineise sages in the alluelons in and •honesty between Shim and ho r old writings to the mysterious Isloduatilie: allies, for it is 0 sign of the allianee pointing charm chariot, Attempt after at - of the world against barbarism. 13e- tempt wae mute to solve the sides the color blue reca11:3 the birth- and then We read In writings at the day of his Majeaty and is used espec- eleventh century of the compass being tally for him. It Reams good to him in use by mariners, to inake it figure in the national flag." The Chitese southmointing chariot By the terms Of this dectee the was a mageotized needle suspended on new flag has five horizontal stripes a thread, so ae to give freedom to its melted, white, blue, white, red, The width of the blue stripe is three - sevenths of the total breadth, and that of each of the red end white stripee is 01)e -seventh, Thie flag is called the "Thong teal Kong'," and is flown upon MI MeV., client vessels fuld oshore Sineteeo territory. Yeasele in the tioveenmetil: isevvice fly the same flag, but with au Whop it wheeI and' a crown, in low, in the tniddle, Thiele of the venni Siatae40 llar/ poxry theitniddle red (lira 00, which, Is a White elephant, wont. out with Ills carmen and Miner( a _final betempt to sink the Usboat salads, DOWD Or seas -omens. when British and Ainevican deetroy- 112 --Sate fruit Juices for icee, ge!a- the creeping barrage of his Mr artillery. It Is not surprieing that in eve arrived on the scene. Tho Dun- tine deseerts or puddings, renen's wounded were transit -tend 88•-Seve fent vegetablee carries two wound sttipee on bit her gunners recalled and the fire am for88358:11:445,;..: olesve tinguisherl. The DatraVen, in a sink - left over biscuits, muffles The filming of railway ."thrillers" 15 -crumbs front bread board, lug condition .was taken in tow, 'but distly rather than daegerous. tSr or biles of bread, Dry and make great is theedemand for this type at the weather grew worse and on the molts for baking or for scalloped film, however, that just before the following morning ehe sank with her c ceders flying. (115160-tSaIT cake crumbs for war there - were at leant two railway or dark cake. puddings 87 -Cook ewe eggs until herd and use in =lads, eaedwiches or with pm tntoes. 85 -Save cold cereele for thicken, lug aoups, for pueleings. Muffins, bread, or to be aliced Mimi cold inat "581V-Setve bite ef 'Omit foe Mutt salad or mixed Melt denecrts. 40 -Pot anat. all left. otters dire- fully SD Os to prevent Spoilege. THE MARINERS' COMRASS. Mt Instrument Which patee Back a Thous:Inn 'Mare Before Ching, SIAM'S NEW FI,AG . Changed DIM Tri -Color to Com- memorate Joining Allies. Your Sifireieltim Dave your sten:morn as far Mote the furnace as pessible, and Hee that it hoe tit Most em5 window. window should be Okliiy to open and 'teen I N `111c Rermaav to Enter at Third -Final should be closed during the day 111 The central. Powers win not be al - 1 Alt e elan, and for proem. rentile Non 11, • wave weather and epened 8t night, mitted to the Peace Congress early co -meanie ein America who made, from $110.000 to $200,000 a yenr in staging train wrecks fer the movies. One film company sindmits organization has Pnrehaned and demolished mot gh renters stook to fit out n prosperoris branch line. Arranging it railway wreck n simple matter. Cleaning np tbe de- bris is quite another. A train may esteem conmeteatively unharmed in real life. In "reel" life the film evitios me -not satisfied uttleas it is "limited up," FOI SI'AGES OF CONFERENCE In cold =ether it should he opened during the day and cloned at night. Collett your boxes, barrels, oaten and baelseis a.nd. eleau them well. .irhey should not be put on the floor, in the negotiations, according to an outline given the Midi by a French 1191011101, who is engaged in frontlet tho program of the preliminaries to the cougress. The reticle eault but refried on slats zo that Stir ean "The early entry of the enemy pow - circulate freely , on all Wee; them evs into the aegotiations need not be beets, parsnip's, Mirnips, 'minify, eel- expected, as there will be fttre em- ery, celeriac, cabbage, onions and ceding stages. The first stage will be preponsitles..ft see= The common vegetables with :few apples may safely be rstorod in therm a meeting between France, Gant north ancrsouth Britain, Italy and the -United Statee not to Immo boon used by the Chinese exemptions are best stored in a tem- tor the 'formation of it united diplo- matic command, The second sfitge will be a plenary meeting of all the allies, ut whieb the entailer state Nsvtialgl e,adliere to the 9000110 of the firat 11110 third titep will be the Peace Congrese vvitli the admission of enemy plenipotentinees, The fourth stage W111 he A conference of pli the natiens, " ieeluding neutrals, for the :Venn:ion of ri Seelety of ithitiona 1111 teemed woe by the leading nilled novas." forMavigatIon, but solely as an tested. 1310111 tor geographers, It is probable that the Chinese junk captains et early (lays found it a needleee Inteiry In their ehore hugging Saul river haViga, lien. • Expernrietrimi aro now tieing tervied out in ritociCholut lo1e1 pigs on eelluiotie 153 order to alleviate the beton ticareityi perature ranging from 85• to 45 de- grees rillmenbeit, lest the roots will be Rafe between 32 mid 50 degrees. The air should be Moist mill should circulate freely. A pan of water set in the cellar 10 a great help In keep - leg Vegetables front *wing iil n told Mgt, Onlorie abould be stored in ft tiny piece with the tomporatere just above the :freezing point, Do net eters, thein Were cOld Worithev sets 18, Potittees are best -atotott bo rr","--,.. .•••-•