The Clinton News Record, 1918-1-17, Page 6▪ '• .46,-JaS, NORMAN HA. .
CHAPTER IY,--(doeisel) one was in harness, atanding:illehtlY,
Dei,inge ell the journey ei.ore expeetantly, in his plaee.
come; we had eeen, on every eide, eve, "Charge magazines!"
Melees of Chet woederfulle• organized The bolts elicited open with the
breech of the British IneliterY sYetenli limed of one as we loeded air eilles
the Ais my Serviee Corps. Froefesee! With bell =Mutation. Five long
1.1age at which we detrained,' -every,' shiny cartridges were sliPeed down
thing it Englise. Long lines • of the charger guide into the magezine,
motor transport lorries were parked and the cut-off closed,
alosig the sides of the eoaee. There "Move oft' in volume of route, lA.'
were great ammunition bases, commis- eompany leading!"
seriat sepply depots, motor repair ' We swung into the country reed in
hops, Wheeleveigld and eblacksmith the gathering twilight, andetereed
hops, weal% on -mealy none but khaki- ' sharply to ow left at the croesroad
clad soldiers engaged in all the nom.' where the signboard read, •"To the
combatant businese essential to the Firing -Line, For the Uee a the Mili-
rnainteineee of large -armies. There , tary Only,"
were long lines of transport wagons coming into tho treeehas. for the
loaded with supplies, travelieg, field- first time when the deadloek along the
kitchens with chimneys smoking and western front had...become seemingly
kettles ;teaming as they bumped over unbreakable, we reaped the benefit of
.the Cobbled roads, water earth", Red the experience of the gallant little
Cross carte, Motor ambulances, bat_ remnant of the first British Expedi-
-Melee of artillery, London omnibuses,denary Force, After the retreat from
painted slate gray; filled with troops,. Aeons, they had dug themeelves in and
seemingly endless columns "of infantry were holding tenaciously on, awaiting
on foot, all moving with us; along the long -heralded meival of Kitchen -
parallel roads, toward the flringeine. er's Mob, As the =its of the new
And most of these troops and supply armies arrived in France, they Were
columns belonged to my ewe division,sent into the trenches for twenty-
one small cog in the Britieh fighting our hones' instruction in trench war -
machine. .'" fare, with a battalion of regulars.
We advanced toward the war zone' This one -day course in trench 'fighting
in easy stages. It was intensely hot, is preliminary to fitting new troops
and the rough; cobbled roads greatly into their own particular sectors along
increased the difficulty of marching., the front. The facetioes pubaIterns
in England we liad frequently tramped called it "The Parapet-etic School."
from fifteen to twenty-five miles in a:Months later, we ourselves became
day witheut fatigue. . But the roads menthers of the faculty, but on this
there were excellent, and the climate first occasion we were marching up as
moist and cool. Upon mir first day's the meekest of undergraduates.
march in France, a journey of only It was quite dark when we entered
nine miles, scores of men were over.. the desolate beltme country known as
come by the heat, and several died. the "nee eelee.n• Pipes and cigarettes
The suffering of the men was so great, were put out and talking ceased. We
in fact, that a halt was made earlier exthnded to groups of platoons in
than had been planned, and we fours, at one hundred paces interval,
bivouacked for themight m the fields, each platoon keepieg in touch with the
one in front by means of connecting
files. We passed rows of ruined cot-
tages where only the scent of the roses
in neglected' little front gardens re-
minded one of the home -loving people
who had lived there in happier days.
Dim lights streamed through chinks
and crannies in the walls. New and
then blanket coverdir would be lifted
or doors, and we wined see bright fires
blazing in the middle of brick kitchen
floors, and groups of mee iittirig about
them luxuriously sipping tea from
steaming canteens. They were laugh-
ing and talking aria singing songs in
loucl, boisterous voices which contrast-
ed. strangely with out timid noiseless-
. •
Life with a battalion on the mareh
proceeds with the mune orderly rou-
tine as when in barracks. Every man
has his own particular employment.
Within a few moments, the level pas-
ture land was converted into a busy
community of it thousand inhabitants.
We made seevithable little dwellings
by lacing together two or three water-
proof ground -sheets and erecting them from apertures that rad been windowe
on sticks or tying -them to the wires
, of the fences. Latinos and refuse
,pits were dug under the sepervision
of the battalion medidal officer. The,
sick were cared for and justice dis-
pensed with• the same _thoroughness
as in England. - The clay's offenders
agamst discipline were punished with
what seemed to us unusual severity, nem I was marching. with one of
But we Were now on active service, the trench guides who had been sent
and offenses -which were trivial in back to pilot us to our position. I
England -were looked upon, efor this asked ,bim if the Tommies in the
• reason, in the light of serious crimes. houses were not in danger of being
, He iaugeee ee. ther's arms when, aefragment of shell
Daily we approached a little nearer heard by the eresny.
,to our goal, sleeping, at night, in the inaeiously at this, whereupon one of sliced off the woman's head, leaving
open fields or in the lofts of great OUT officers, a little second lieuten- the child unscathed; another was
rambling farm -buildings. Most of ant, turned and hissed in melodramatic found at the cold breast of a woman
• these places had been used for soldiers'
billets scores of tines before. Tlle
walls were covered with the nemee of
men and regiments, and there were
many penciled suggestiorie as to the
best place to go for a basin of "eoffay
oh ]ay i" as Tomlny called it. Every
roadside cottage was, in fact, Tommy's
tavemie The thrifty French peasient
women kept open house for soldiere.
They served us with delicious coffee
and thick slices of French bread, for
the very reasonable sem of twopence.
They were always frieddly and hos-
pitable, and the men, in turn, treated
them With courteous and kindly re-
spect. •Tommy was- a groat favorite
with the French ebildren. They- climb-
ed on his lap and rifled- hie pockets;
and they delighted him by talking in
hisown vernal:elate for they were
quick to pick up English words and
phrases. They .sang "Tipperary" and
"Rule Britannia," and "God Save the
King," so quaintly and peettily that
the men kept them at it for bours at
a time.
TWOBELGIAN, . . ,ipiiii:d7:11,ontsts eniong the Younger
' ORHPANAGES th.ught.
, . ti,:nse 0:::::.:Lnien vt1),:.00::::aigtee':
Ore involuntarily toward
i lirWe been enable to accommoditee —
.•_ the ehildree who still eelet in the sore
HOMES ,FOR CHILDREN •FR011e deli thattered villages behind the
THE BATTLEFIELDS. • treadles.
w ^ " •'+, Life Ansidst Death.
. —
a
With the children of Belginin rests
e.
Noble Work.Being Done Ileer Three the dubioes future ef an expunged na-
tion. It is not well to have tee minde
fiendeed of Belgium's Little that will rectuld that future depeeved in
Martyrs. their formative stage of all schooling,
It weete duri.ng lefarele 0th
f 1915, at things,
al) ambition, all thought of finer
Worse than any dePrivatien
the project to provide orphanages for i$ the environment in widish they are
the suffering children of the battlefield developing. Aide from all nearsieal
villages of Belgium was pet into me -
danger, it is hard to COnceiVe any sur-
leion, On March 2e, 191e, a nucleus of emunditee more thoroughly destructive
orphaned girls were taken from the than this atmosphere of long-continu-
zone of battle to the chateau at Wes- ed Stationary warfare.
•Om A feW Weeke later 8 Sinlilar In" To appreciate -properly the 'noble
etitutierefor 'boys was opened 41.1 ,the work of the orphanagee) you must
eeighboring village of Wizernes. have wandered among the charneerub-
It was a crucial time. The secorid Web heaps that the villages whence
battle of Ypres was at its maximum, the children came; you must have
and batches of tiny children, -paralyz- sensed the !spirit of depression and
ed with terror and Offering) kept death that onfolde that funereal land;
flooding in much easter than the above all, you Meet bave known' the
equipment necessary for thee.' etlfl' children before and iftcr they have
went sleepless; but at last chaos sub- been provided with the 'advantages
life slowly evolved. . e • while. stIn the midst of Death they
provised clothing, beds and bedding of Belgian civilization. That their
vPioil'alegeslerfoonoia neighboring b ca).,ienciguisfiatli•omnsed, Ind
most high-handed manner, arid the en- to carry 'forward the dragging banner
were stratling to look upon Fur many lives have been saved is the least that
days the staffs' et both orphanages has been done for them They have
sided, and the present ordered waYs df that alone Gen make those lives worth
, Three Hundred *eyed. - entered this_e_unlas*sunines retreats.
Here are three hundved who will be fit
are in Life.
.. .
There are close on three huncleed
TESTING FOR HONESTY. .
children in the orphanages at Wis-
geese' All are drawn from shattered —
towns and villages close behind the How a Bank Cashier Tested a Would -
thirty miles of trenches that are now •
be Borrower. .
the eastern frontier of Belgium, Pre -
During a business thip to the Pacific
vious to their salvation they -bad ex -
Coast, Mr. Henry Blake of St:Louis,
isted under conditions that beggar all
descriptive powers, Many bad lost tnerireigvieadmin, fSoaret;eemigelle liaolueils foundolurg'il_
both parents, either - by • death or by
ing him to relearn immediately to the
separation from them during their
bedside of his little son, who had bed'
flight before the • Germans. Scores
seriously injured in an. automobile ac -
were living in viliages that were bom-
herded daily. • They stayed because cident,
•
their stunned little minds knew no ale "I must confess that I Celt pretty
keenly -the position of the 'stranger in
tereative, because they had ne means
of escape, Oftetewe have found them
aelsitlinligstrange
ecsittoy
y;". s
a"i
i
d
haMdli
releready
houses,
living in the cellars of shatteeed t
money, and bad pranned. to go on -to
houses, their only 'feed the fragments
and waste that they could beg or steal.
San Francisco and there cash my com-
p_ pany's check for one hunched dollars
They were vermirsousefilthy and hel
that I carried for my return. expenses.
less, told some of them were so terri-
fied that 'they lacked the faculty of It--hhgeugnh," having g littooll7e; sent by
ele ra of t els some
speech.
Mismess eouse in San Francisco that
The bread ported of the old chateau
knew our firm, of the many ways that
looks back on the'coiniege and goings
money could be obtained. But every -
of five bleodstained 'centuries, yet the
one of them would take Sl) much time
Dark Ages never created .histories
more terrible than those of the small au"
ast.1 ,should miss the first express
te
mortals who have • found. snE
etuary• •
"Finally, I left the hotel and march-
bere of late. One baby was in its mo -
ed into the first bank I Sew. It with
near the eloping hour, but the cashier
listened respectfully, accepted my ex-
planation and consented to, accommo-
date me. He studied the cheek for a
moment and then, instead of sending
Inc to the teller'e window, brought out
the cash himself and • laid down in
front of me a small.pile of bills and
two gold pieces, I counted the money
carefully and found the =meet incor-
rect. Again I went over the bills, and
found that he had given me ten dol-
lars more than the check called for. I
passed back a bill and remarked,
'You've given Inc ...ten dollaes too
much.'
" know it,' he replied, and I caught
a twinkle in his eye."
Anti so, during e week of stifling
heat, eve moved slowly forward. Tee
sound of the guns grew in intensity,
from a. faint rumblieg to a subdued
roar, until one evening, sitting in the
open windows of a stable loft, we saw
the fee -off •lighteeisegs of bursting
shells, and the trench rockets soaring
skyward; and we heard bursts of rifle
and machine-gun fire, very faintly,
like the 'soiled of chestnuts popping in
all oven. •
undertones, Silence 311 the larks
there! Where do you think you are!"
Officers and men, we were new to the
game then, and we held vathee exag_
who had been killed by a stray rifle
bullet hours before. Yet a third play-
ed on the kitchen floor while its mo-
ther rested quietly against he wash-
gerated notions as to the amount of
tub with her brains spattered among
the soaking clothes. There is a little
girl with a bullet in one eye. Gradu-
ally she is growing totally Meld. And
teeth are records of mauy tiny unnam-
ed children who reaceed the shelter of
care to be observed in moving up to
the trenches. s .
son!" whispered the teeneh
guide, "you might think we was only
a couple o"unnerd yards away from
Frazteis trenches! Were a good two
an' a 'Ref miles beek 'ereAll right the orphanage only m tame to die.
to be careful artier you gets closer It seems useless to recount such in -
up; but they's no use wespethe me= eidents wben Europe numbers their to -
you aih't even in rifle range." tidily by hundred thousands.
With lights, of course, it was a
ferent matter altogther. Can't be, • Wisques and Wizerues.
toe' careful about giving the enemy
artillery an aiming mark. This was
the reason all the doors and windows
of ethe ruined cottages were so care-
fully blaaketed,
f`Let old Fritzie see a light,--"Ellee
'e says, 'blokes in billets!' an' over
comes a 'are -dozen shells knockin' you
all to blazes."
(To be continued.)
BRITAIN'S NEW SEA LORD.
Sir Roselyn Erskine Wemyss Succeeds
Sir John Jellicoe.
, The orphanage at Wisques bas a
'tnost charming situation, with a broad ee, VEATHERED_FOSTER 'MOTHER.
outlook on woods and fertile fields and
The Unselfish Public Spirit of 0 Com -
gently undulating hills. St, Omer passionate Hen.
lies in a distant hollow, and at sunset
the last dying eays fall caressingly Hens have long been known to be
about St. 13ratin's tower, seeming to generous ei the matter, of adopting
linger on Hee ruined Old -World splen- motherless chielcs and incubator or-— ,
dor. Whenebn a soft geeing evening plums, but Mr. R. S. Walker tells in Levies Subseriptions For Carrying on larger propOrtion lif the naval strength
and shipping emu any other nation,
the full moon rises glorious behind Our Dumb Animals of a hen whoseun- the War,
/ and has done this front the beginning
steep gables and pointed turrets, the selfish publie spirit wins her distene-
This means Of aroustng enthusiasm or the war. This has also neeessIta-
old thateau becomes the very birth- tiorenyen among her compassionate
over another of Germany's numerous tea bearing mostor the =Mei attach -
place of romance, and the great tower, sisters. She played the part of foster "One oreoer scouts brought into levies upon het' citizens' resources is ed to the bloelcade which Iran for the
beneath whech the babies dwell, mother to a litter of kittens, with the
camp cine day the news teat an enemy an interesting illustration of bow (101'- general benefit or all the Allies as
breathes forth that poignant mystery apparent cement and approval of their 'sausage' was ancluirk about six man Public sentlinent hi &Iliad and de. wall as England.
The great war has brcieght prime- of which fairylend is made. ,
tions and distinctions to Ant- Roselyn The old chapel that the Benedictines • Both tee mother cat and the hen
real mother,
miles behind the tiring, line. (You ceived. Five thousand 'crouch and From tee beginning, Mee, they have
should know 'sausage' 15 the name we English prisoners of war were as- furnished Mere ninnei than anY ether
Erskine Wemyss (pronounced Weems) bent is now the'girls' main dormitory; often sheltered the kittens jointly. The give to a dirigible). The Germans sembled at the outset of the campaign nation.
who has just succeeded Admiral Sir ineala are served again in the refee- real trouble arose when the kittens
anchor one of these 'sausages' to the and taken by train from one city to ip the firsttwo years of the war
eohe Sellicoe ai First See Lord of the tory of bygone 'days; classrooms, opened their eyes and began 10 wan- ground by cable, then let it go up it another. . they did not furnisls as many men as
Admiralty. Rear Admiral Wernyss workrooms, theeel, infirmary and kit- der about, This pleased the old hen, couple of thousand feet, from which In each we were exhibited as a =bee Prance or Russia, but at pro,
became Vice Admiral Sir Roselyn chen have beep installed with remark- and just as often as the mother eat point they report movements in air -single batch or pvlsoners takeis in one !sent the Bridge army In Prance ie.
. • CHAI"2F,R V. since the war began, as a reward for ably little improvisation, Now all the left to go in imarth of food the hen and on ground for miles around, When Germ= smash on the west front a ' about lie large as the erased,. The
distinguished dervice with the fleet, rooms are bright with pictures, and would take the kittens off for a stroll,
The Pavapet-Etie. School. • one of our craft gets too near for the few days previous, says a Canadian 1 British have. besidos. an army in
He served as commander'oT the squad- brightest of all, because of the kinder- She learned to hold her brood together
"We're going in to -night." ion at the successful and hopeful land- garten . decorations that adorn its with her "Cluckl Cluek!" and became eneinY's Safety,. the 'sausage' drops pz.lsoner of war, As a matter of face i Egypt, another in South Arelea, (as
down to earth with incredible' ewiele net one of us had been In durance ' licive'n 15e the French). and anothee te
The, word was given out by the 1,15' of troops on Gallipoli, peninsula, walls, is the creche, where the babies so fond of her hairy, fourefootee del- nese. How they do it IS ,a mystery; vile less than three melees. And, as : Mesopotamia. Moreover, the Heiden
orderly sergeants at four iii the after- in April, 1915, an operation that later live., dren that She eventually became bold
neon.. At 4.03.every one in Canty haCi passed into one of the tragic issues of Perhaps it'is only flitting that the enough to dare the mother cat to in- we_ have tried and teled to, secure the 1 arterweed learned, at the very time ; bdes bare furnisliod vs many mem in
same speed en bringing our balloons Leis "evidenee of victory" was tusking proportion and siarered as great lose -
heard the news. Settees of miniature the war. But before the failere at Imys' eneironment should be less pie- terfere with bor adopted family.
hand laundries, welch were doing a , .,.., to earth, but as yet without success. a circuit of Gerteeny, the Hun eines in : es es any or their eolonime Inmates
thriviug bushiese down by the duck tne imeciatenes ne Was called to Lon- tUresque. Their buildings are in the She was a good mother, and there
'Wee, the colonel strat me off to get, the west were reeling and retreating !putting furth on extramelinary 'Indus-
poucl, immediately shut up shop, Damp don, to be Second Sea Lord or the Ad- village of! Wizernes, on the Route Na- would have been eo serious objection
and doubtfully clean ration bag% =ratty. He was or.esteil a knight in tionale from Abbeville to St. Omer, to bele earing ;for hoer new children had
them ilt-illiieee f'osoraeu. tsette:zileol.l'Inets I, ointlyt(eilwsaao%-iielranio:pitite,lenrunti,croskft. .
before determined British and French 1 trial effort.
offensives,. - - I
towels, and shirts which were draped 1016 and received higher flag rank m The dormitory was in more ielgurely she been capable of 'fornishing But the German populace cheered ,
V
along the fences, were eatitily gialeir- 1 916 in Acognition of his smiths in clays the TM
heat unicipalan
, d the with the Proper nourishment, But shemy orael.' caught ear Iexamined inv our oaptore and jeered 115,5011 bought :
ed together and thrust into tise capacie the Neat. . East, Mentioned in die- Auditorium where the eeyet Mem- could never understand why the kit- ensiee_neething- wi,eng there, so e 11101'0 German lionds. The fatherland i There l'll:ehca:veSrl:iildeeitli;e183..
ef seichva
ous depths of Pack -sacks. Members patthes, he was speedily rewardedof was victorious on every front, they the battalion'e sporting contingent geoisie were wont to congregate is tens would not come and remove the
went 011. In a 1815Seconds 'crock
broke ttp their games of tuppenny with the decoratiou of Kluged Com- now lined with cote, and enlivened :fat juicy worm from hor mouth. Each oracle again. This time I looked nii had been assured. Prance was de- that use their web as a parachute to
carry them on long-distanee flighte to
brag without welting for "just one mender of the Bath; nightly by a hundred active, miseldee- time the discovered a :fine worm Or i
more Mind," an . unprecedented Sir Roselyn was born in Fife; Scot- ous, gesticulating little gamins. other dainty morsel • she unselfishly amend methen upNot Me above reeled end desolate, England was new feeclinik grounds. A \mate • in
describes the Right o.r 1.1
!, .
thing. Phe inakerS of war ballads, land, April 12, 1864, at Wereyss Castle. The teachers at Wisques, and Wi- called her kitten children about her; s had Russia had tilready yielded up the ' tarving, Italy was ready to , ettv e ! Courtin Lif e
me, »miring down shots mea.nt for me,
was a .1 -tan. I swooped down from tiny goesamer spidet• that lie had been
who were Allot:sting choruses to the lie entered.the navy at the early age zernes will tell you Ito* thee mental bidding them oat, until her voice grew ander elm a»r1 pointed mne y pladi-
merry music of thernoutliorgan band, of thirtemi years, Ten Years frame, in proceesee of the children have evith- weak,. Then, with a much -distressed ghost. In conversation with an Intel- ' watching far an hour or :so in ..lets
stopped in the midst of theft. latest 1887, he attained his lieutenancy and stocel their pitiable adventures. They mind, she would eitherI learned the reason for the peculiar !SuddenlY
ligent young chap wlio spoke Isinglieb movements round an olcl water cask.
racily uplvard. All tee time ive were
SWniltm the rising WO were 011(101'. constant fire, the spider poised head down -
composition, and reshed off to get his captaincy came in 1.001. He reach -
their marching order together, /At ed flier 'rank in 1E2 when he %vas i I , I th 'Id f
will tell you of children who stop mid- motnel -herself. or leave it 00 the
i ground. . Vo h - a 1 I 1 I
pains,
( en ..s n e mu le o , a game and ., , , tingles at such a thnel Well, he did
. ,
. bloodeffectiveness or Clermah lotte cant. ward and began to produce a fiat
4.10 every one, with the exception of ' - ' ' • thread of web that grew larger and
the officers' servants, wee ready to
, - !made rear admiral and pieced in cum- gaze round with strangely dazed ex- Paul' -melee') See leeed 11'e l<11-teete not hi( us, and we soon got over hini; HerniallY doesn't merely exhort sub- wider and 111000 massed tor I -tingled tin -
move off. Thee we wee „npeeeeoireand of the Secomi 'Battle Sgeatlron, 'emissions; of little mites who wake in with as much paesiou ae if they had In air fielding the advantitge is to tee seriptions. She levies them. Au ens- lel it became a buoyant cloud eis large
ffited. Never before bad we made which he (needed alSO the following the dare screaming horribly at tbe been her own. But the children in, re, __ e finger. "ft
slow higher up, and we bad it. Then ployer must file a schedule of the as the end of one's littl
naste more gledly or less needfully, Yeae. Previous to this he had exeeu- eightmainenemoriee thet have seared name Integre real, in order to SAVO ‘‘,0 went atm. him, find kept, no ohas. 011 tuber of Parsons he emPleys and seemed like nothing. so meth as a little
but never before had there been, such tive experienee for a couple of. years their tender, hinins. I be sappeared
w
their lives, it was necessary that the 1115 a„e eang imp dithe ages paid to each. On fele basis ragged balloon as it swayed lightly in
an incentive to haste. We weee go-, as Commodove of the Royal Navy Bar- hen be put out of reach of the kittens, from iii eli an "allotaneur Of hOlICIS IS nuide te the air, nearly (Mine the spider off
le into the trenchee for the first time. ' reeks. He is a familiar figure at coma
he officers' servants, eowneonly ;alio in his cepacity of lextra Equerry
Mt led "batmen," Ware Unfortunate , to Hie Nine in addition to the le.C1B.
/Wriker° NI11°' In mmn°Ilt-4 of eveal'"eee, he ran nee; after les mime the in -
had sold theme 1 1 t 1 ' - - ' ' ' '
eale a crown per week, The •beteittnei item, M,V.O. end C.M.C., having been Their Audios, their games end them re, 0 1 1 loth= supply Ilse endless demand'
1 n Row littedley-Pege biplane in search of It, After hall' an lione or deer .
duty is to make tea ear his officer • allele Mereller of Ill° Victorian Order protected, sheltered growth, arc gradu- rewarded:. there it wee for merits fot the 11111.111 el war,
which England is constructing in large so wo were
clean his emote, Wash Ills clothes, tuck in 11101 and Commander or • Michael allyeeffacing past teethes and sup -
hies into tea at night, arid =eke him- end George ill 1 91 1. numbere ave matrenoth affairs, ce'p' below ile, hall' a mile or move nearer ,.
pliratime them with a lumpy, hopeful At Oxford To -day.
set/ useful generally. 'Ilse real tot Sir Roeslyn's high reputation both present. able of carrying a pilote'six passen- ground, t tinned off my gas elid
.
of a,g004 batman, IreVeyers, fe les as strategist mid administrates, is Amer% the older , gers aed 700 pounds of luggage. Such derided towerd if, borne on by tile Old Oxforfee walls are gray and wove,
care:Meg eeereete.e., ' M &edition eo lite deemed. In 2,nriclon to fit him see 1 1 elliklee" lee"elee" =Achilles lly from Lelltlen to Pates in memeatuni of roy plane, but mot be. She'linotve the truth of tears,
e e a - tibemy processes of education develop
v • or t e trying post to w it 1 le two horn% without unusual effort. fora I had been sighted. Down seek
Mit to -day she statele with ancient.
otvii neavy Denten ne Aneee eitere vele- I I e e le 1 1 h • ' • ' '
as into remake -sal training The boy5 0
otis artlelee beleertilitriet lila Officer; ' ' - • 1 ' . ' .-30M0 of these Machines are construct- the 'eaustige' mid we after ft. As we
eebreeiee wpm.h.,basitk, eieenee, emote" just been appointed. rhe First Sett lerirn tailoring, carpentry and 'ave.
eeee„ 01 Alvin/lime ,ortten sorvie6 Lord, while eubereinate to the Fleet culture, The older girls care fee the ed to earry`8,000 pounds of exploeives, Cense within range three or foie' nia-
Crbwried with eternal metre.
pride, .
editions of the open Elmilart Musts Lord of the Ailmirally, civilian head eoung ones, end tem to me= end of wov horvors, English experts say beld our own and continued ileing tm. Gone are Inc aone, yet her heart is
enough to give Berlin a tborough taste Milne guns opened are on es, but we
ned novelfette ' t liteepti pitekages of the ,leeYel nivIto 11" toollilleal embroider and to Work et the beauti- that they could make the 'flight fame lite dirigible till it reachee gyrated. •••••• glad
of food; beltee 0 dgarti alieeigavettes, charge OP the handling of the fleet fei art of laceentakiege %vetch haa been 1,ot,don to 1.4 a w yore ill twenty beers, "Then we let go at the eravelline 115 the gime of thole ybuth
--in faCtieet11 o . hie pommel, luggage titans Red the dispoeition of the naval , . r,,.
which• ie hi 0.14034S Oe the elletted !terries to beet advantage, eo motile? Wiped out in till the Valen- guns, and lied it back and _forth ai a
themes district. . , ' The 'dumpling is a particularly lively rate for a few 'ninnies. AL lard
thirty-fiVe Mende welch ie etieried ors
the battalioil tralieliere wageee, , . , .............. There is a geed Plaine eiVing nelior- economical food in wrath= bemuse the Germane deserted thole gun•se Alf
On tels epoelf-elarking day, even the It him been iliecovered that Whon • a tunity for el deal inetettetint; awl eaten hot and combired with gravy Ilite Hew 1 litte been traveling en my
steel-lett= ,is at (ho boithin or the the theme .. elle eriteren and water- itis mere filling than celd evlifte breed
officers' servants Were punetual, When
lee order, "Paten on( 'Fall in!" was oven oyeters eta be suelted rip into color ee. lengliell artist 'have
given, not 11 13511-11 WaS Migsing, !Oven>, it on the vactunteileaner prinelple, eeen . e ,tatlite post -
Wait AND Fool) $1,)_laes—ARTIOLE No, Ile—CORN, •
As in the old Biblical flays Wimple At ell times, It conteles from 4 to
was symbolic ot the frulte of' the 00 of tat and where the whole gram
earth, coi•n agate likely to be is grOUnd, the fat pereentage re-
pel -the in the land. Tee magnitude of mine eo high that it is tee moist fate
the 1,.09) tim United etetes is tend- Inning of all cereale, it is made up
ing to finds attention on tide grain of sevee-tentrai ethech, one-tenth pro -
which May to some exteet take tbe tein, one-tenth 'water anclethe other
place of wheat. The yield- in the tenth hale fat and half orate fibee and
United States its estimated at more mineral subetteicee.
thee three billion bushels. Teis far Despite the feet that such large
eerpassee any previous 'essop and Is • quentities of cord* Hee Availabie ane
curiously oppeeteme, .corninge as it that it SO rich in uutriment, onle
does, at a time when the crops on the 2% of their corn supply is used as
North. Amerieen contieent ere of foodstuff by the Muerte= PeoPle,
paramount importance. The greaten From this it is apparent that there are
corn crop hi the United States vast possiblities in the corn crop and
spiLeivIlooliEs tthoe yfieelild,conisiderably tbat it may yet figure largely as a.
present •Itaisfactory substitute for wheat.
Corn is an ancient and hcinorably The Canadian housewife should wel-
Corn is an ancient and honorable come the more general use of corn,
ed the early colonists on this contra- for the cereal is one which iseversatile
ent from starvation. Its uses were in its,propeeties and can be extensive -
made kuown to them by the Indians, ly used In the preparation of whole -
As 'eivilizetion became more complex some dishes. Cernmeal puffs, griddle
it gave. way to other things but now, ealces and wafrles, cornmeal fritters
with every nerve beleg strained to end cornmeal pancakes—to mention
make tbe most of the natural re- but a few'—aro favorites on the
sources of the country, the time is rine American table and might well eeceme
for it to reappear on the faintly table a permanent !feature of the menu ie
and to come into more general -use. Canada where the, use of corn means
Corsi is.an economical food material the saving of wheat.
AN INSULT TO ASK ANYONE TO PLAY YOUR PIANO Ile THE KEYS
ARE UNCLEAN.
,
. There is something peculiar about waei 'at all. I was aimoyed. This
the feet that many bousekeepees, who lady knows no music, and never both -
are othemeise most media about their era with the keys, 'that being left to
•
house, will neglect the piano keys. the help."
This is more likely to happen where This is really an important matter
the mistress, herself, 15 1101- a player for piano owners. Only the chit -
and her piano is oely, used whee she deer/ use the piano in many, homes;
has visitors. If the work of dusting they practice daily with ••unclean
is. relegated to a maid, she may use hands, the mother is busy, the keys
the same cloth with which she already go without any attention whatever =-
cleaned the furnettraet After ab- til perhapi some musical friend orethe
sorbing all the dust and oil from the children s teacher drops me They are
eurnitere polish, she May run the very asked to play either on the keys as
same ing -over the keys and the result they are, or in some cases the mother
is worse than not cleaning them at all. with profuse apologies will give them
It is an insult to aeyone tp ask them a rub with her apron—a lick and a
to play on an imeleae keyboard, just promise as some people say, but the
as it would be to invite them 'to 'sit promise remains unfulfilled,
down at dinner to use dirty knives and Clean clothe, soap and water is re -
:Corks, 'anti a soiled tablecloth. °Not conimended by one competent house -
long ago I was asked to play on a wife for use on the keys frequently.
grand piano" comments a music This person says "give them a daily
teacher an tide same subject, •Nil a wiping 'with a clean, damp cloth, a
ranee where the housewife herself is weekly bash with Soap and water,' end
immaculate and who prides herself on an occasional wash with pure alcohol,
her faultless housekeeping. The out- the latter -to prevent the keys Worn -
side of the instrument was shining ing eellow." In the latter connection
and dustless. But the keys were sticky she advises that the piano be left open
and my flegers, could make no head- a good eleal of the time.
CANADIAN AIRMAN
GETS "SAUSAGE"
-•-
LAD OF TWENTY-THREE HOLDS
REMARKABLE_ RECORD,
Daring Exproft Is Described by .One
Who Atready Has Won
Decorations For Valor.
The following Incident was told- re-
cently at the Pennsylvania Club in
New York by a Canadian lad or twen-
ty-three who has already distinguish-
ed himself. in the aelation crams. He
eolde tee remarkable reened of hav-
ing brought down forty-seven enemy
plaueseaud three balloons. For his
valor King Cleave° decorated him
with the ribbons of -three orders. So
many boners at one time and do one
so young are a think unprecedented.
Here is Ids story:
1.410
Food Control Corner
'1'o The- Canadian Farmer.,
leractical farmers know move than
most elasees of -workevs the necessity
for planning well ahead, Seethes in
the fields no less than in the field may
depend on taking "the long vieeve
Canadian fanners, therefore, more
than anyone else may proft by weigh-
ing earnestly the words Of 1111 Eng.
esti economist that, even if war were
to cease to -morrow, normal ethp con-
ditions could not be restored in the
woeld for from three• to six' years.
The stored -up supplies of food have
been heavily drawn upon and in $0100
cases have been actually exhausted,
This means, as ne one better •thau
the femme will compreheed, that
there will be an acute dernand, as
compared with pre-war years, for
food grain crops and food animals.
Should warfare be suspended, of
which there is no sign at present, the -
demobilisation would take months and
in the reconstruction period the • re-
stocking.of farms in Belgium, France,
Italy and Great Britain nmst inevit-
ably be ane froni this side of the
Atlantic. •
Only by the "long- view" can the
Canadian farmer prepare for this, 11-
10 in this season of comparative quiet-
ness in farm life that he will have
most time .to think out the Means at
his disposal. He will see that there
is both kood business and good
patriotism in the advice of the Food
Controller and of the Department. of
Aviculture to produce .more pork; he
Will do what he can to add to the grain
area'see 1918.
Owing to lad:- Of fell:ill:401:S, SO
necessary for the intensive systems
of farming' in the older•laedseand tom-
theeconsegeent impoverishment of the
soils especially of France and Italy,
next year's crops in Europe may _be
smaller than even tho'se recently har-
vested, which fell far -below the aver -
the' cylinders had flooded with oil and-
, age. elateping is net available to
00W refused to work.
carry fertilizing supplies, and labor.
"I. was determined if the Beetles did
is extremely search,: 50 that the
get me they shouldiet have the plane ,•
dinanution of crops for 1.918. will be
exceedingly serious. A consideration
et --these things should give the
Canadian farmer =ace foe thought
so I steered toward the nearest tree,
where I purposed to wreck her. Sud-
denly I heard a `crack,' a differesa
sort or 'crack' from that of the enemy
gun; one cylinder bad 'cleared up; as to what he will do to meet the
then another 'creole; another,. till all shortage overseas aed to derive a
3y, You may iniagine 1 breathed 'a legitimate benefit from his remark-
ebly favored economic position.
nine cylinders were running beautiful.
little more freely:
"I. avoided the tree and skimmed
along over flelde, hedges, treetops, GREAT BRITAIN'S PART IN WAR
gradually getting ,np more and more
speed was high in tile air. hmi Has Furnished Larg-est Proportion:of
the malefaction of seeing beluw me Shipping and Money.
the 'sausage' in flames and the happy Great Britain has 01,000,000 Palmier
feeling of baying undertaken and am eon, 10 contrast with 35,000,000 for
enmeshed something." • Prance, 36,000,000 Per Italy, 175,000,000
•
for Russia. and 100,000,000 for the
HOW GERMANY OBTAINS MONEY linited States.
This 40,000,000 has furnished a far
se that these veal mother might nem- •
Fortunately, tile passing week:4 ace ish ihern. • "Sausage" in Flames.
ecarcity of steel ineidente. Life eon, ei •
"Still Ilse `sausegte wasn't to be
im different; it te gracious lo them. 11Pil 111111'S Ail' MOMS. SP011 SO I contented ecoutine 0) ouumlti
every 0110 capable ef paying for any, his feet. Suddenly he let go hie hold
They are formally "rogileated" t
m on the esith tied up went the balloon,
"meet their obligatione on the pur• spider teul all; into the air, drifting
elitists." Thus wely nilly deem Clayman sidewiee Out of sight high twee the top
of the Masse. Tent spidee beim-mod to
one of' the familiee of the (eniflotiidae
elthough they differ much iss
:form and eabil s, are dist inguithed
from all other spiders by having, in
atelition to Hie :Aix usual mei/molests,
onetime flat, wide, spinning erg=
known as the eribellene together with
the ealtimisleune a sort. of comb on tbw
hind legs with which they dray out
the threads or the flisi„ wide web. It
was Hest web, many times drawn nut
For sho brought them forth to live or and tangled together, he Means of
tegits(Crs tis,i(vilsierterd fig
By freedom, jultiee, truth.
overcome, but they deeteoy countlees
numbers of harmful fintevti; -1101 only
0111111011 11111 noW 1 (1es) slarl my me To keep motile out or ciotheg cap..r na,a, bat teethe and 1.111,01`011110 that
It 111.0iSes all UM nouritiliment er the' gime I tried repoientlie, 1..couldn't boards and Imeise, Ihe Walls and if uneheelicel 'emelt) destroy virtually
Meat, toe, by absorbing its juices,
get 8 smirk, cm the downward flight ; floor with turpentine, • all Yemen lion,