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01,-.JEIS; NORMAN HALL,.
IV,—(Cont'cl) rime oi the little old watch dogs wot's
Each °etre had eoceived a copY Of kill' 'ein bottled11131"
LordKitehoner's letter to she trope ood old navy! That's 'Were We
ordered abroad, a brief, Soldierlike got 'em bythe throat!"
steteinent of the stanclara of eoncluet "Letie give 'em 'Sens of the Seat'"
ethic h England espeeted of her fight- And they did, They ming with a
ing mew-- opirit a exaltation which Englishmen
rOM to:e ordered, ebroed AS A soldier rare,13' betray, and which convinced
. of the Kin t 1 the sea and England's
g -0 oelp our French corns me now nearly
skies against the invasion of a corn- position no Mistress °f the Sees t°11Ch
11100 01/4Fay. You linve to perform a the Engliehman's heart of hearts.
task which will need your courage, ".801/e of the sea,
your energy, your patience. Roman- All British born,
bei thet the honor of the British ArillY 8ai1ing tho ocean,
• depends upon your individual conduct. Laughing foes to scorn,
It will be your duty not only to set an They may build their ships, my lade,
example of discipline and perfect. And think they know the game;
steadiness. under fire, but also to, Ba they can't beat the boye a the
maintain the most friendly relations' bulldog breed '
. with those whom you tire helping in Who made old England's name!"
this struggle. The operations in which: It was e confession of faith. On
you are engaged will, for the most the sea England can't be beaten.
part, take place in a friendly country, Tommy, believethat with his whole
and you can do your own country no soul, and on this occasion he sang
better service than in showing your,: with all the warmth of religioue non -
self, in France and Belgium, in the vietion.
true character of e :British soldier, Our Channel voyage was uneventful.
Be invariably courteous, considerate, Each transport was guarded by two
MILLIONS FLED
NORTH ITALY
AL AIRMY TRANSPORT BECAME
DISORGANIZE!),
Timely Arrive! of French and !WOOS
Served to Stop Pank-Stricken
:Exodus.
It will be a long time before, the
world at large—indeed, before eVen
Italy ithelf—will realize what the
crashing in of the Mime .milkery
line meant when the Teutone foecea
their way through over the mountains
and threatened the Venetian plains,
It was different from the surge into
Belgium; unlike the 'burst into north"
ern France at the beginning of the
war. The Italian people bacl learned,
from the examples ' of 'Web* Ru-
mania and Belgium, to aear the ins
vaders, for they know what it meant
to be ground Eternity under his heel.
They knew the horrors that follow in
the wake of German incursion, and
the mere fact that German troops
were need and advertised was enough
to intensifY the hothoes of invasion,
GeH
rmans who resent the application
and lend. Never do anything likely, destroyers, one on either side, the of the term un to themselves would
understand why it is applied if they
could realize the horror in which they
are hela by the peasantry of all Eu-
ropean countries outside the. Prussian
to injure or destroy property, and al- three vessels keeping abreast and
ways look upon looting as a dis- about fifty yards apart during the en -
graceful ec.L. You are sure to ineet tire journey. The submarine menace
with a welcome and to be trusted; was then at its height, and we were
and your conduct must justify that prepared for an emergency. The boats
evekome and that trust. Your duty , were swung •ready for immediate league.
cannot be done unless your health is launching, and all of the men were The population of the invaded Ital-
sound. So keepconstantly on yew: provided with life -preservers. But ian areas was terroestricken from the
guard against any excess. In this England bad been transporting troops beginning. Same provinces were sim-
new experience you may find temptag and supplies to the firing -line for so .
iy depopulated by the mad rush of
tions both in wine and women. You many months without accident that
moot entirely resist both temptations,' none of us were at all concerned s,bout the people toward the rear. In others
and While treating all women with per-, the possibility of danger. Further-
more, the men were too busy studying
"TimmAtkins's French Manual" to
think about submarines. They were
fect courtesy, you should avoid any
intimacy.
Do your duty bravely.
Fear God. •putting the final polish on their accent roads, narrow bridges—everything
Hollor the Ring. in preparstion for to -morrow's land- that made up both a great army and a
KITCHENER, ing.
Field-Margreat, peaceful population in additions
hal. "Alf, 'ow's this: "Madamaselly, —
it was all this, jammed suddenly
It was an effective appeal and a avay vu dee pang?'"
constant reminder to the m %
en of the "Wot do you s'y for Ening a tip-
into the roads and fields, scrambling
glorious traditions of the British, peny packet o' Nosegay'?" toward safety, that made the retreat
Armss, In the months that followed, "`Bonjoor, Monuseerr That ain't for rine clays look like a riot.
I had opportunity to learn how deep so dusty, Freckle, wot?"
Stampede of Civilians,
and lasting was the impression made "Let's try that Wiercelase again.
uren them by Lord Kitchener's first, You start it, 'Arry." In truth it was never so nearly a
and I believe his only letter to his "Let Nobby. 'E knows the sounds riot, militarily, as it was made to ap-
soldiers. . . betteen wot I do," pear by reason or the stampede of the
The machinery for moving troops in "'It 'er up, Nobby! We gotta learn civil population. The withdrawal of
England works without the slightest that so we can sing it on the march."
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friction. The men, transport, horses,the armies ould have been compare-
"Wite tfll I find it in me book. All
commissariat, medical stotes, and sup- right nett.— Lively simple but for the submergence
all of half the people fled in panic. It
was this frightful jumble of civilians
old and young, with soldiery, sup:
piles, broken military units, congested
•
plies of a battalion are entrained in
less that halt an hour. Everything,
is timed to the minute. Battalion
"Atkins infants dee la Patsree,
La joor de glory is arrivay."
after battahon and tram after tram, Such bits of conversation may be of w
we moved out of Aldershot at half- little interest:, but they have the merit g
hour intervals. Each train arrived of being genuine. All of them were a
at the port of embarkation on schedule jotted down in my notebook at the ta
time and pulled up on the docks by the, times when I heard them.
side ef a troop transport, great slate- The following day we crowded into n
colored liners token out of the mer- the typical French army troop train, la
chant service. Not a moment was eight chevaux or forty hommes to a g
. lost. The laet man was aboard and car, and started on a leisurely jeer- g
the lest wagon on the crane swinging ney to the firing -line. We travelled I
up over the ship's' side as the next all day at eight or ten miles an hour,
train came in. through Nelanfindy. We passed e;
Ship by ship we moved down the through plensenf" towns and villages ie
harbor in the twilight, the boys crowd- lying silent in the afternoon sun- te
ingthe rail' on both sides, taking shine, •and seemiuglY almost' deserted,
their lot farewell leek at England— ami through the open country fres
home. It was the last farewell for grant with the 'scent of apesle Mos_ th
f merely military affairs in the a \WO
haos.
The zone of oprations wan crowded
ith refugees from the invaded re -
ions, _dishauded seldiers exhausted
fter the hardships of the great ems
.eat from the Isonzo and reinforce -
lents both Italian and Anglo-French
ished to the front. Traffic was cons
estede march discipline lost and a
rat deal of confusion was inevitable,
n such circumstances it was natural
nit the inhabitants of the towns and
ties behind the lines should assume
tat invasion- was imminent and hes-
e to seek safety in flight.
As it was impossible to make use of
e railways which served exclusively
. .
would be given to neneeonthrttartts aria
the nuenie for transpeetatiert te Safety
would be tiniely provided,
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11001S5 FOR TUE 0, s014nE4S,
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Children Do War Scgork In Making
nooks 1)f OliPaings.
The schoel children of Canada and
the United Stettni have, essembled all
the literary lights from George Ade
and H. C. Witwer with their "Fables
in Siang" end barbell stories to
Honey James in the little collectiens
of storiea which they have pasted into
paper' booklets fee the 'use of T. 13,
soldiers in the sanatoria of the Mili-
tary Hospitals Commission.
.1 he question of keeping the men af-
fected with tuberculosis supplied with
auflicient reading matter 111 a problem.
Every so often the books i service
meet be burned for sanitary reasons,
and to destroy valuable books in this
way seems a great pity.
Tee effort of the children to supple-
ment these libraries which must be re-
plenished ever so often with reeding
such as soldiers like, is one of the
most appreciated supplementary ser-
vices which any one hae yet thought
of rendering the boys,
Teachers have supervised the sakes
tion of etories, and the collections are
varied. There are love stories, spat -
ging tales,, adventure, detective mye-
twice, humorous essays arid poems,
evemet ing bright and eheerful that
can be found in the present day
monthly publications.
Pasted on heavy white paper and
stitched clown the back they are vesr
'fine little books, In each one is a lit-
tle letter from ttie child who made it
hoping in his best copybook form that
the soldier will enjoy it as moch as he
did in making it.
They ?cane in loth to the sanatoria
from points even as far distant as
Spokane and North Carolina, and
some of the children engaged in mak-
mg the collections are as young a
eight years.
BULLET •GOES BOTH WAYS. s
Newest 5Iodel of Trench Mortar Inc
1.3y the Allies,
The Irish rookie who, when discov
ered trying to poke a cartridge dew
the muzzle of his gun, explained tha
he was "afther gittin' there in me ow
way" would not be laughed at as mute
to -day as when that elaseic jest wa.
young. For a gun has been thecae
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in which it is perfectly good form to
poke the cartridge down the muzzle
In fact, this particular firearm ca
be fired in no other fashion. It is
in short, simply a tube of tough stee
with one . end closed. This is th
slightest .ahd simplest form of th
trench mortar, says Popular Science
and declared to he far Mere effectiv
than the large and complieated Ger
. "illinnenwerfers." A trench mor
tar is generally elevated for firing
at an angle of about forty-five de
grecs. The inventor hit upon the !w-
ilry idea that the weapon required no
carriage or caisson, as Mother Earth
herself would hold 'flire molten. fast.
So one end is stuck in the ground and
the gun is propped up by two or three
, small rods. The shell is dropped in
the muzzle, It slides down to the
closed end, strikes a small knoblike
projection and isefired by the impact.
The shell that has travelled in one
direction immediately retraces its
steps with greater speed, finally de-
positing itseb! in Fritz's trenches. The
new mortar can be carried on a man's
shoulder, yet the Charge it throws
would blow tweety nien into eternity.
1)0 DOGS THINK?
eceuse Animals Have Memory They
Must Possess Power of Thought,
When you are thinking you axe real -
trying to eall Upon memory to help
you. You know the thought of one
thing calls up another, and this leads
to something else. This association of
ideas is the faculty which enables us
to think consecutively and accurately,
ft is the business of the mind to re-
ceive .the sensations that enter and
arrange them in their proper places.
That memory of. past sensations is
the important part of thinking is
proven by the fact that when we have
forgotten a thing we are unable to
think whet it was.
For this reason if animals have me-
mory they should be able to think.
This makes us pretty sure that many
animate think,
A dog will recognize his master even
though he has not semi him for years.
We might think Ile does this by his
highly developed power of *smell, but
if his master has come from a direction
opposite to that from which the dog
first seee hitt he could not have tracks
ed him by his smell, A dog will re-
cognize his master from quite a dis-
thyme, so he must have to a certain
extent the ability to 'remember or the
power of association of ideas, which
amounte to the same thing.
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The Laughter of the English.
(New York Sue.)
England, we know thee better now,
Unutteved all thy sorrow;
Y hmenr wears the stern day out;
Ind mocks the grim to-marrolv.
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A COURSE iN OOSEHOLD SCIENCE COWIPLETE
TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS.
Lesson XXV. Sneteing Meats.
Sueteing of meat le cooking. meat in
a small amount of fat. It is virtually
impoesible, salmi cooking meat in this
milliner, to prevent the ineat from ab-
sorbing the fat, thus malting it dif-
ficult to digger. This ie perticulerlY
tree during the warm weather and
therefens this method should be elimi-
nated then,
Butter should not be used foe cook -
Mg meat. By this method, owing to its
IN
:guy to cook moat in e fat, it Should
be protected by e (meting euch as egg
and hreederumbs, or bit dipping in
flow and then placed in Very hot fat
to brown, The meat can afterward
be conked - et a lower temperature to
finish it. lads method prevente the
rneat from absorbing the greaee,
Do not ASO A fork te turn the meat
during process of cooking; the Prongs
ow- inning point, the fat particles juulictehse tfo°11 ecsPeaupp:,tutrhetti:' lessoning tiht:•
burn and decompose, when subjected feed value. The escaping juices do
to high temperature. Sueteing meat
has nothing to recommend it to the
housewife. Pan broiling. will produce
a hatter tasting food and eliminate
the digestive disturbances,
Pan broiling is also e much easier
methocl of cooking. You simply heat
frying pan and place in the meat, turn
and eear the other side. Repeat this
every two minutes until meat is cook-
ed, using same test as in•beeding. it •
is taleo necessary that all fat melting A layer of fateshould cover the over -
from meat during process of pan laying muscles. The fat should be
broiling be drained off. When neces- creamy white and of firm texture.
not remain in the pan; the he: causes
them to evaporate,
Follow these points when buying
meat;
Shortly after the mat is cut it
should be a bright red color.
It should be firm when tonched and
have a pleasant meaty odor, .Do not
purchase meat with a strong disagree-
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WAR AND FOOD SERIE
Sugar as an element of diet is ith-•
solutely necessary to the human body.
It is a generator par excellence of heat
and energy and 1± 15 easily assimilated,'
. But the.use of sugar has been great -1
ly abused. People have formed the '
habit of consuming it in various forms
to an extent wholly uncalled for by
nature. Especially is this true in
Canada and the United States.
We are now being asked to eat less
sugar for the sake of 'the men at the
front and the civilians of the Allied
countries. In doing this we will not
only be helping our Allies but bene-
fiting ourselves. Canada is not like-
ly to suffer for lack of sugar but
Canada should nevertheless use sugar
in moderate quantities, thinking of the -i
shortage in Europe, It is not too
much to ask of men and women who'
have sent their sons and husbands and
brothers overseas to fight.
If Canadians used one lump or one
teaspoonful of sugar instead of three
a . as ing would be sufficient to meet
I the demands of Italy, Great Britain;
and France.
e I Before the war Great Britain im-
isisor.toeadr/s, ugar from various counthies in
itIgle:74f,83o;11;,owing proportions:
76.71 9'7O Austria-Hungary
Netherlands
Germany
1.14e'e Cuba!
Java'
5, No. IL SUGAR.
Great Britain used 93 1-3 pounds per
annum per capita. If the 1)001)10 of
Canada and the, United States used
only thee instead of four ounces per
day pee capita the Allies would have
sufficient: sugar to tide them over. This
would still leave us an average per
capita consumption of 07 pounds of
sugar per annum, which is more than
2 1/e. times as much as the sate of
consumption in Great Britain and 8 2-8
times as much 08 111 France.
No iced cakes, fewer sugar candies
and less sugar in our beverages are
good measures for the present. We
could sooe become accustomed to
these changes and would be all the
better physically because of them.
December and January will see the
release of large quantities of raw
sugar from Cuba and other sources of
supply and it is now that the real test
comes of the willingness of our peo-
ple to sacrifice -a portion of their nor-
mal allowance in order that it MAY be
sent overseas.
About 50 per cent. of the sugar
cOlsumed in North America is import-
ed from Cuba, so that the Cuban pro-
duct is the dominating market factor,
The rnternational Sugar Commission,
representing the Allied Countries as
well as the United States Food Admins
istration and the Food Controller for
Canada, is endeavoring to secure the
Cuban production at a reasonable
price. I3y curtailing consumption in
this country so that the necessity of
securing the Chao crop is pot so
urgent, the people of Canada will be
assisting the ,Sugar Conimission, the
Allied countries and themselves in °tr-
aining supplies for spring and sum -
many of them, but there was no soms. Now and then children waved
martial music, no waving of flags, no
tearful good-byes. Our farewell was
as prosaic as our long period of train-
ing had been. We were each one a
very small part of a tremendous busis
/less organization which -works without
any of the display considered so essen-
tial in the old days.
We left England without a cheer. smile, nodding his head courteously
Then eves not so MUOI AS a wave of but silent to our salutations. Tommy,
, the hand from the wharf; for there for all his stolid...slogged cheeriness,
waS no o»e on the wharf to wave, with sensed the tragedy Of France. It was
the exception of a few dock laborers, a land swept base of all its fine young
and they had seen too many soldiers manhood. There was a0 pleasant
• off to the front to be sentimental about stie and bustle of civilian life, Those
ite • lt'was a tense moment for the who were went about their work
men, but trust Tommy to relieve a silently and joylessly. When we ask -
tense situation. As we steamed away ed of the me», we received, always, the
from the landing slip, we passed it same quiet, .courteons reply: "A la
barge, loaded to the water's edge with guerre, monsieur."
coal. Tommy has a song pat to . The, boys soon learned the me:th-
ee-cry occasion. He enjoys, above all rug of tile phrase, "a la guerre." It
things, giving a ludicrous twiet to a became a war -cry, a slogsn. It was
"weepy" ballad, When we were with_ shouted back anci forth from ear to
in hailing distance of the- coal barge, car end Ye:0m train to trek. You
he began singing one of this variety, ear imagine how eag.er we all were;
"Keep the Home Fires Burning," to how we. strained Our ears,. whenever
those enmity -faced barge hands. the train stopped, for the sound of
Every one joined in heartily, forget- the guns: But not. until the Allow-
-thug all About the solemnity of the Ing morning, when wareached the
leave-taking. • tle village at the end of our railway
Tommy is a prosaic 'chap, This was journey, did we hear them, a low mut-
never more apparent to me than 0pon tering like the sound of thunder be -
that pleasant evening in May when we Yond the hovizon.. How we cheer -
said good-bye to England. The lights ed at the first faint sound which was
of home were twinkling their farewells to become so deafening, so •tertible to
fee in the distance. Every moment us later! It was 1110810 to us then;
brought es nearer to the great ticker:. for we were like the Others who had
thee. We were "off to the wars," to gone that way. We knew nothing of
take out places in the far-flung battle war. We thonght it must be some.
line. • Hero• was Romance lavishly thing adventurous and fine, Some-
offering.gifts deareet to the hearts of thing to make the blood leap and the
Youth, offering them to clerks, bar, heart sing. We marthed through the
hers, tradesmen, drapere' assistants, village and clown the ponlat-lined road,
men wholied newer keown an adven, surprised, almost disappointed, to see
ture more thrilling than X holiday the near well -kept houses, and the
egegesese to the este oe Arno or a pleasant, level fielde, green with
week of .eyeling in Kent. And they spring eeope. We had estpected that
accepted them with ell the stblidity everything would be rums. At this
native to Englishmeil. The eyes of stage of the journey, howevee:we wee°
the world were upon thorn They had strIl some twentewfivo miles from the
become' the knighth-errant of every firing -line -
to -us from a cottage window, and in
the fields old men and women and girls
leaned silently on them .hoes or their
rakes and watched tie pass. Ocoa-
lonahly old reservist, guarding the
railway line, would lift lus cap and
shout, "Viva l'Angleterre!" But more
often he would lean on his rifle and
schoolgirl. They were figures of
heroic proportions to every one but
thentsehies,
. French soldiers are coneciorm of the
Tom:retie possibilities offered them isy
the so -caned "divine accide»t of war." Novel %%Don Heed by (fertility
They go forth to fight for Glorious Aviators.
France, l'eance the . Unconquerablel
Tommy shoulders his rifle and de-
parts or the four corners of the world
on "bloomin' fine little ioliday1" A. en of in recent dispatchee from the
railway journesr and a sea voyage in front, according to Aviation:
enel "Blimel Not 'ail' bad, wet?" gmhe homes axe provided with
Perhaps he is stirred at the thought
f fighting for "England, Horne, mud resilien± hese of leather, robber and
Beauty," Perhaps, he does thrill in- 'We, width 'mikes their' tih-
avardlY, remembering a sweetheart left ward hit° the air of ter striking the
behincl. But he keeps it jolly well to ground, The special ruse attached
himself. He has vend me ineny of cauees the homb to burst when it has
Ms letters home, sosne of them written reached tit* pinnitele of its 110(111(1,
during an engagement which will fig- about six feet in the air.
1100 Y • history of t11,13 "Butts of these clerk! bombs Iviiich
great World War. 1- esn't have been picked up show that all
think of anything more now," thread
;its way through a meager page of
oornmonplaces about the weather, Ids
food, and hie personal health. A
frugal line oa ceoss-marks for kisses,
at the bottom of the pug', is his only
eoncession to sentiment.
There was, hovvever, one burst of
entinielasria ' as we (Anted on our
journey, which struck ine as being
spontaneous, and splendid, and thor-
oughly Unglieli. Outside the harbor
we were Met by our gunrclians, a fleet
of destroyers which sees to give us
safe convoy -across 1,110 Charlet!, The
Now Zealand is consideriug the pre -
moment they :caw them the men broke
otth into prolierged cheering, and dlletiml. of. salt f sea water(
there were gled mhoots ing its emcily available hydro -electric
"There they are, me lads) There's power.
(To begiontineed.)
BOUNCING f3OMBS.
A rubber -based bouncing bomb ueed
by German aviators is a novelty spoks
are provided with a base of synthetic
rubber and are.wrapped around and
around with rope, making Chem res
•
'The bombs 800 weighted so' that
the end with the rubber pad will
strike the ground era. The impact
with the earth sets in motion the
time fuse, which detonates the bomb
o fraetion of a second lathr, 'When the
brie bounded into the air,"
for the transportation of troops the
refugees from the invaded regions to
whom were added those from the
towns and cities behind the lines rush-
ed along all the roads leading to the
west. The strew» of people increased
on the way to such an extent that pro-
gress was practically impossible. The
panic spread and. the utmost confusion
prevailed.
As the danger Of invasion really
existed and the art treasures of Ven-
ice were being removed from churches,
museums and galleries, books and val.
uable manuscripts front publie and
private libraries 'and important docu- B
ments from archives and oflices„every-
body was convinced that the invaders
weee advancing rapidly. It was im-
possible to allay the panic ainong the lY
common people, as the 11'011 to do citi-
zens who had money at their disposal
and could therefore afford to pay ex-
othrtant prices 1011 carriages were
the first th escape. Even thoS0 ad-
thor•ity,whp should have remained at
their posts fled and not only villages
but towns and cities were deserted by
all the inhabitants in the space of a
few hours,
Transport Was Disorganized.
One can etteily eealize the enormoue
difficulties confronting the military
authorities on account of this exodus.
Transport services were utterly dis-
organized and neither food supplies
nor ammunition was reaching the fir-
ing line, where the -troops, exhausted
after the eetrent from the Isoezo, un-
steadied by the disastee and hopeless-
ly mixed up, had to confront the en-
emy under -most upfavorable condi-
tions. Food was lacking both for the
troops and the refugees, All the peas-
ants who abandoned their houses
drove theirecattle before them, but
after a rew days not only .oxen Mit
horses and mules had to be slaughter-
ed oil the road to feed theie :tarnished
owners, who often ate the flesh raw.
Practiering one-half of the entire
population of six oat of the eight pro-
vinces forming the region of Venetia,
and incloding besidee Venice, cities
like likeliest, Verona, Treviso, Padua,
and Revitem besides the entire poptila- Th
thin of the two provinces of 'Udine and s
Belluno, which were oectipied by the
owing, youghlg sneaking shout tWO
million souls, either fled or mark pre
peretione for immediate flight, Tht
mount of nroPert7 (.1F.,qtrnywl or dam-
aged to prevent it felling 111 Lo the
halide of the enemy wee eonsiderable
and inenleulable damage WAS ceased
to crepe, ngriceiltural implements and
machinery, weigation eyethre,
trial phints and etoe s of foodstuffs
and other materiaIs accumulated for
the winter,
.What stopped the exodus and allay-
ed the panic was first of.all the resist-
ance opposed by the Italian troops on
the Piave end the mountain .front, and
later the arrival of the British and
French Linens, When the enemy's ad-
vance was (relayed thimediate stepe.
rere Luken to prevent people .from
leaving their homes' in town and court-
trY, Orders *eve is'stied prohibitieg
all the men eimployed tinder Govern -
meet to keva their posts .without a
speelatepcimit; and siaStirances •ffiren
that Invasion Wes ni.st Imminent end
that le ens(' danger•:rimple warning
For while the world said, "Let none
smile;
"there is no mirth hereafter'!"
"golitee lads" of Shakespeere'e
' land
c Outfaced their doom with laughter.
We g1.1 stl h L linseed throes must
shake
The stout heart unbroken.
What griefs lie in the silent deeps,
Whet agonies unspoken.
But all the world heara the quip
That flouts at penic'e rumor,
Where toff and cOckney caecy no
In high intrepid hunior.
-Mamie aml subtle in thy mood.—
pot honoring Fritz to hate him!
Leaving him puzzled at thy jests,
The sewn wherewith ye rate Min.
England, we know theC better' how!
allwough melee belga (ter .
S1M11 thy name, Englend, ring for us
A chime of valiant leughter •
United States
Strike the first three off the list and,
what sources of supply are left?
The present per capita consumption
of sugar in Canada and the United
States is about 90 pounds per 511011115
as .compared with 26 pounds in Great t
. •
mer at lower prices than would other -
vise be possible.
, pounds in Fiance and 12
pounds in Italy. Before the war 1
— -
CANADIANS WINTER AND THE WIND -SKIN.
low the Natives of Tierra del Fuego
Are Protected From Cold.
Suppose that on 0 -winter's day you
'ere abliged to go out with no other
lothing than' a fais-sized piece of
heepskin with the wool on, to pro -
With tierce's 0,11 their quarters and ,
with /lumbers on their hoors,
with the tramping sound of twenty
that re•echoes in the roof's,
Low of crest and dull of' coat, wan and a'
wild or eye,
Through our !anginal village the Caen, s
diens go by.
Shying at a passing cart, swerving
from a. car,
Tossing up an anxious head to flaunt
a snowy star,
Racking at a Yankee gait, reaching at
the rein,
Twenty isw gamulians are tasting
life again:
TIollow-neeked and hollow-flanned,
lean of rib and hip,
Strained and sick and weary with the
wallow of the ship,
Glad to smell the thre again, hear the
robin's call,
Tread again the comilry road they
lost at Montreal!
gate may bring them elute and woe;
better steeds than they
Sleep beside the English guns a hun-
dred leagues away;
But till war bath need of them lightly
lie their reins,
Softly fall the feet or Drain along the
English lanes.
SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN TREE.
Leaves Condense Moisture From the
Atmosphere.
A tree known as the rein-tree—
Pithecollobium Saman—is found in
the drier parts of South America, This
tree grows to the height of (10 feet,
and its leaves have the peculiar: pro-
perty of condensing the moisture
from the atmosphere. So copious is
this condensation that a continual
shower falls from the leaves and
branches until the surrounding soil
is converted into a veritable marsh,
Plaees that would otherwise be bar-
ren desert are by this /neaps converted
veith the most luxtwiant foreste, Many
years ago the Government introduced
this tree into India to eoueteract the
aridity of certain portions of that
country.
Why flatbaed?
Have you ever thought of the reass
on for' the hatband? Its original pur-
pose was to hold a piece of ekth or
linen retied the head.
Egyptians in 3500 13,0, wore head-
gear whit+ consisted of a piece of lin-
en, with a band tied round, terminat-
ing in two tails at the back, and a sum
vival of this is to be fond in the toils
of the present day Scottish bonnet and
a sailor's cap.
Again, the origin of the clocks on
stockings was that they, were a spe-
cies of ornamentation 'to hide the
entrees where the (duff was 'joined to-
gether, 115101 the "points" on the hacks
of gloves were 115001 ±1) cover the SOMAS
in the gloyee nr early limo),
.•
were "
Lerrs tri
mApE IN CANADA
per makloo
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FOY, ePftell•
1//4 Walter.
For romoV100
palat.
For dlolofeothig
rocrlgore,tors,
sinho, aureate,
drains aindforoop
other purposes,
amaxi autalrfunG,
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SAILORS OF
THE SEVEN SEAS
TELL EXPERIENCES 0.1" Tro.vn
09iin nut BRINY DEEP.
•
Menace of the Submarine end the
Even Greater Peril of •
Hostile Aircraft.
'I had my •firet eubmarthe experi-
e»ce oir the Moroccan coast in the
Mediterranetin, says Jeery MacAllissi
ter, able seaman:from Glasgow. I was!
serving as able seaman on the steam -j
ship Tusculum bound from an Ameri-
can port to Genoa. I was doing my,
little/two-hour trick at tlie wheel one'
evening, when about three miles off
the port beam I saw a great brig
bowling along under a heavy cloud of
canvas. ;Just priov to the war a big
sailingehip WAS an uncommon spec-
tacle, but since the war every antique
in the way of a ship's bottom has been
commandeered for the munitions -car-
rying service.
"So the sight of the brig did not in-
terest me particularly until suddenly a
vivid flash 'midships of the ship drew
my attention. There was a terrific ex-
plosion, followed by the noise of splins
tering wood. When the smoke clear-
ed away the brig was nowhere to be
seen. It had vanished completely from
the surface of the sea, and the agency
of destruction was undoubtedly a tor-
pedo •from a submarine, though we
could not see tiny siges of a periscope
anywhere.
An Uncanny Experience.
"It was uncanny, I tell you, to see
a whole ehim wiped out in a twinkling
of an eye, We steered a course to-•
ward the spot Where the doomed vessel
had been blown to atoms, in the hope
of saving g'ome crippled human being,
but there was nary a thing in the wa-
ter, with the exception of a few Heat-
ing bits of wreckage. We tucked on
steam and got away from that spot
as wieldy as possible. Every minute
we expected to see the silvery wake of
a torpedo in the moonlight.
"After that I did not come within
rtinge of the submarine peril for many
months, though I traversed the Tas-
mania Sea, off the west coast of New
Zealand, and the Yellow See on a
rislcy voyage to Shanghai.
"It fell to my luck to encounter one
of the treacherous undersea dogs off
the coast of Newfoundland. I was
an able seaman on the Cameeonian, of
the Anchor Lips, when the lookout .
spotted a periscope off the Grand
Banks, The submarine came to the
surface end gave chase; we jammed
on every ounce of steam the boiler's
would stand and made a run for He
We showed the Hun it clean pair of
heels and soon left him in the offing,
I suppose he was laying for a Cana-
dian troopship."
Charlie Messenger, a Yorkehireman,
teat the windward side of your body.
declared that in spite of the sub -
You would surely freeze. And yet
marine danger he felt safer at sea
than on land.
"The last time I landed in London
1901± up, with my mate, at Janet's Pal-
ace, F1 Well-lieoWa sailors' resort in the
to that of Labrador.
West End. We turned in at 11 p.m.,
There are 00 ellen 10 Tierra del and about 2 a.m. my. mate 1111(1 me •
Fuego. The "wine -Aline uses by Jo were blown out by a bomb which was
dropped from a Zeppelin. 'The bomb
native of either sex is a piece of
guanaco hide
had fallen into the street right beside
side oot, is alwhich, with the hair had
to the body by a jack's palace. When we could control
our
couple of strips of the same kind of trembling limbs we rooked out at
the window and SAW one of the great -
leather, untanned. No other clothing
est air fights on re.cord. A British
is worn,
flier had flown to a position about 200
The "wind -skin" is shifted front 0110
feet above the Zep, and he began drop -
side of •the body to another, according
to the point of the compiles from
ping bombs on the gaNhog or the air-
:hthe 501101 bl6's, ship. Suddenly the sky wa% illumin-
g"etihI
heer theLsu
e.iiewptil0±0>1 ba atey vivid glare 118 the
s airet'aft
of the natives. fn factpneumonia
burst into flamesi it fell great ball
the native people -of Tierra del Fuego
itee perfectly satisfied with this sort
of weather defense. They dwell in a
latitude (south of the Strait of Magel-
lan) that has a climate corresponding
or consumption has soon,: wiped out of tire' Theusan-1 s of P°1'14°1)11 in the
most of the residents of Tierra del streets were 1°°1111111' neward and
Fuego whom the missionavies have iihrieking with jilY'''
persuaded to wear civilized clothes. No Lerge Bonuses.
The natives are anieng the most In discuseing the lot of the able sea -
primitive people in the world. For man, Messenger declared that the
stories of large bonuses being paid to
seantee for crossing the sulimai.the
.zone weee greatly exaggeretect,
alt alarm a war they Wirt bonfires meeeeee the wa,,,,/, he eehs "we re.
on the mountain tops (for mimic* sig- 1015 0(1 seven pnund ten, or $)18 in
nals), and it was this habit of theirCanadian money. Now We nre getting
that caused the early Spanish ex- eee foe a eeeeee, \oath ime„,;„ be_
plovers to call the region (which is an „uses; the stories of two and three
archipelago) Tierra del Fuego, 0e. hundred dollar bonuses are all wiong.
Land of Fire, The able seaman has a great >1.11 of
reeponsibility and (nuns hil4 money. In
PRUNE' TREES FOR FRANCE. the daytime, in addition 'to his °thee
duties, he hal/ two hours nt the wheel,
end two hours ill the 100k01.1t at night,
The safety of the veseel depends nee»
Five and one half ntillion pounds of his alertness, especially 111 the dangeg
seed beans and 1,500,000 ewe -year-old zone,
, . .
in California •for shipment to Northern
Franc e to eahabilitate the fields Mid moll -of -war, and free
French prune trees are being gathered "All alliPs oavnla: 11 snood of leSA
11111a ±011 1(110±5 are nolvi No.
e'i,..(1;11"Yle(11111b0ye
orchards devastated by the -Germans seen thiriY and rorlY shine in n m-
in their retheat. . voy."
The berme are pink and black eye
varieties, and the quantity is stalliei-
ent to plant 69,000 acres, The prune "Flying. Melia Torpedo,
trees will convert 15,000 acres into weelei i•oreedeee___the bm,„ or 0„,..
hearing arehards within two Years• man submarine 0110‘1,18 and nest -tins
CL:f1hf(%/e1itti'.8S 4stenbilliti'lg0Pyo5tei:11gthrioeri(1.1t1' at:lis1 itite'Phil'.011lese-n1111:('thebierMItitp711.141. es:lfillYeli111.14-
to France, As it WAS 11111, WA/1 /era re•• ral bodies and Imp; air_iing sug,goAt
public that gave the slate its foist the (reply sea ethature, The torpedocw
prune theme 'This WaS 111 155(1 and aee hem up right, in lb, ;CI, And giver
ti111011 that time.. the prune orchnuds a driving rehesse he the „h. reeks
anee which strikee the fins, spinning
them round and round. Contrary 1,
popular 1/11/)1T-Ision,,, evrlahl 1.0111F1S al
houses they dig .holes In the ground.
They are great voyagers, spendi»g
leech of their time in canoes, To give
California is Sending 1.500,000 Trees
and 5 1/2 Millions lbs. of Seed Illeans,
cover 'nearly 10S;000 aeree, end mares
to the weevers more thee ei0,000,000
7001%
lf an average urea is Incised from air resistance speed tip rather than to
the California seed it will moor an rids thediee samee reelecte. Not only the
dition to the food supply or France aerial torpedoes, hut nIt airpla 10
of more than two and Ma) 151>1± flell1111f1 1 bombs ;Ind „we,. „g(1 now m.o., „.
of beans next eummer to oath a (Iv, newel le, weir; in (edifier.
40,000,000 reeidenle, Shipment,: he- hewn geppe1111 1011111IFF ,
41111 early in the new year, 111meted.
weeks'
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