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The Seaforth News, 1917-09-13, Page 2tipa *WieJfL Woof/49r Author of , ".All for 11 Scrap or Paper," "Dearer Than 11 Ito" etc. Published hi 33022e1' & Stoughton, Limited, I4ondon and Toronto ' SillOpae FrOoeding ceavtexe uounce, these French people, and you :Tom Pollan!, a weaver of Branford, nave to pronounce their way else they Latuatehire, aged 23, has fatten to china, wouldn't understand what you war largely through the 11110)08) of P0111', • Powell, tiatighter of the proprietor of saying, and you nave to get a g4); • the 'glom .and Thistle. Toth 10 diVi2e0. 't unc1evstiinI wha e Lister, a named, wn e-eaucatea gill they are 'saying, I can conjugate in h allegiance to het and to . • twenty. 031 the first Sunday in June, the verbs " added Tom proedie, "but • 1931, ,thee demanded that he Make the when they speak to me in French, to the inset 01100 of Bony, Then came coulee P011 teemathat's anything like a long sentence, nd sum get mixed up, While I'm getting hold of the first part oi wluit t ey saying, I forget the rest; but I will master It, What a French chap can learn a Lancashire chap can, "Do you know, sir," went on Tom, "that the Y.IVI,C.'has got no less than six huts hero; each of them will hold thouetand men, and they are jainfull every night, And all the workers are so friendly too," "And do you go to any religious services, Tom?" I asked. "I been to two or three." replied the war. navvy 11,aterman, who lit been educated in tlermany told Tout that the English would neyvr conquer the caimans. At a Now Year recruiting' meeting, Tom enlisted. One of his • friends teas Ale,. Met'intil or the Mule Watch who agreed with Tom that Ito- : • ligion and Teetotalism wore 1)111)0• foolish.. ltohert Penrose persuaded Tom , to join the Y, Al. C. A. In AMY the LoYal North Lancashires were sent to Surrey Camp, Whore Tom met Water- man Wearing a Lieutenant:0 uniform, ,.........—_ CIIAPTER III.—(Cont'd.) One thing made Tom feel very sad, and that was the loss of Penrose. He had been m Surrey only a few clays Tom, "but I don't hold much wi re - when he was gazettecl and was remov- ligion. Still they're grand people, ed to needier camp about four miles and you may ask any man in the camp, away. Still he made new friends and from the sergeant -major down to the was on the whole happy. He found, newest recruit, and they will all tell too, that even the men, whose conduct, you the same thing. The Y.M.C.A. was anything but praisesvorthy in is a fair God -send to us." Lancashirewere sober here. Only a I found out afterwarde that Aleo dozen public -houses existed within the McPhail had not followed Tom's ex - radius of almost as ninny miles; and I ample. Alec had discovered a ways as the rules of the canteen were veryside public -house about a mile from strict, there were few temptations to! the camp, where he and several others drink. Discipline was far easier,of his companions spent most of thier and on the whole the men were bet - I snare time. ter looked after. "I'm noan religions," said Tom reth- At the end of the second day in this. er boastfully; "but the Y.M.C.A. Surrey camp, he was going with a showed me that I was making a fool message to the officers' quarters,' of myself, and they have made me see when he stopped suddenly. ' that a soldier ought to be a gentleman. "Ay, can that be yea?" he said, We're not a lot of riff-raff in the aloud. 1 Army; we have come at the call ci our "What do you mean, mY man "1 King and Country to do our bit. And And then Tom saw that the Person what I say is that a chap ought to whom he recognised wore a lienten- live up to his job; we have got . a ant's uniform. big, grand job, and we chaps as is to "I beg your pardon, sir," said Tom, do it ought to be worthy of 0111. job." saluting, "but—but—yes, sir, it isi (To be continued.) you." "Oh, is that you, Pollard? I see you have enlisted, then; that's all HEROES AT REST. right. You'll know me another time,1 — won't you?" 1 They are not dead, they only sleep, "Yes, Mr, Waterman. That is, yes,l For death can vanquish only clay, sir. I hope you are well, sir." 1 And kindred spirits should not weep and the officer passed on. "Yes, Pin all right. Good night,"1 For more than living dust were they. "By George!" said Tom to himself,' They are not dead, they only rest; "I didn't expect to meet Waterman, So rough the road, so far the goal, here, but there's nothing to wonder' about, after all." God called the halt and He knows best When to relieve the weary soul. CHAPTER IV. It is not my purpose to give a lengthy account of Tom Pollard's stay in the Surrey training camp, althouth much of interest took place, and his daily life there would, if truly report- ed, gladden the hearts of thousands of fathers and mothers who. have givenI their boys to their country at is: time. 1, who have been to this parti-: cular camp, and have talked with the lads there, can testify to this by per- sonal experience. As I have before! stated, Torn found the work hard, the discipline strict, and the duties manye at the same time everything was so well arranged arid the spirit of such good -fellowship prevailed that thou- sands of young men were under much, more healthy conditions, both physi-. catty and morally, than they were at home. Indeed, many told me that! they would never care for the cramped life of the office, the workshop, and the factory again, after the free open-air life of a soIcher. Tom, who had been quick to learn his duties and to master his drill, especially after he had—as he termed: it to me—"been disgraced, and turned' over a new leaf," found the work easy and pleasant. "Ay," said Tom to me, "it's very .funley.". "What?" I asked. "The way these greenhorns try to learn their drill." "How's that?" I asked. "Why, yesterday a chap came up to me wi' tears in his eyes. I asked him what -arm' the matter, and he said, 'Ay, have not got brains for it."Brains for what?' I asked. 'Brains for this 'ere drill; a man needs to have a head like Shakespeare to get hold on it, That there formin' fours now: I have tried, and I have tried, and I have bet- ter tried, but I can't get a fair grip on it. Ay, I shall have to write a letter to the Colonel and tell him I shall have to give it up.'" Tom laughed gleefully as he spoke. "Why, it's as easy as winking, sir," he said; "but some chaps are thick- headed, you know—in fact they have no heads at all, they've just got tur- nips stuck on top of their shoulders. I fair pity the young officers some- times when they are trying to knock these chaps into shape. But they are doing it fine; and fellows who came a few weeks ago, slack and shuf- fling, are now straight and smart. It's wonderful what a bit of drilling does." "And do you find the Y.M.C.A. help- ful clown here, Tom?" I asked, "Helpful, sir! I don't know what we should do without it. You see it's ; different here from what it is in big towns where the men are in billets. We're away, ae you may say, from any town that's sizeable, and there's no place to ex; to of an evening, ex- cept the public -house; and if the Y.M. • C,A. hadn't been here we should have nothing to do but fool around. But the work they're doing here is just champion. They have entertainments every eight, and if you don't feel like going to them, there's room where you can read the papers, and write your letters or play games; then they have all sorts of good books for us to read." "And how+ are you getting on with your French?" I asked. • Tom blushed se he replied, "Would , you like to set my report, sir ?" gad he took it from his tunic proudly, "Why, Toni, this is splendid!" I said, • after reading it, "Ay, I have worked fair hard at it," said. Tont; "but my difficulty is get- ! fIng my tongue :round the words, You See, they don't know how to pro - • .• So long the march, so fierce the fray And foul the ways of murderous foe, That when they tired at close of day, He gave them rest Who bade them Their toil was hard, their day was long, But not on earth more envied lot Than theirs, the brave heroic throng Who gave to Freedom all they'd got. Their call was not of earth, oh no, It was the call of Freedom's God Unto His son's to rise and show That man is more than slavish clod.i They left their homes, their children, wives, Their sweethearts true, their native sod; They gave• • lives, . They gave their souls to Freedom's God. But they're not dead; they'll come again When tyrant lords would freemen bind The sacrifice was not in vain They'll come again in future kind. Their hearts Were not of common clay; Their noble deeds in sight of God, Aecoinplish'd in the light of day, Rest not beneath the tortured sod. The story of their fame shall ring When wives and mothers cease to weep; And pens shall praise and tongues shall sing The glory of the brave who sleep. Their missionary deeds shall preach • Freedom to slaves in earth's dark parts Oh, may they too, a lesson teach In nearer lands to sluggish hearts. I deem it vain for such as we For them with Christ to intercede, Since they, like Him have bled to free Their fellow -man from hellish creed. They rest in peace at God's right hand, They live in Wry noble heart; And true men now should bravely stand And take each resting soldier's part, I do believe their only grief— If grief a place in Heaven hath, Is this—that we who need relief Should fear to follow Freedom's path. They are not dead, they are the guests— The honor'd guests—of Him on High Who planted Freedom in their • breasts— They're only dead who fear to die, Cha. Ethelwolci. Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand. Faith of the right sort consists in always looking for' the best whether we are old ar young, rich or poor. We have a right to think each day the best day yet, and to try to make it so by living a little better than wo ever did on any cher day. CIIOWFA VAJIRAYUDIL Slew No. 16 of the ABIOS, Ma Population Larger Than Canada. Yea, it deo sound rather like glorified sneeze, but it is merely the name of the King of Siam -71011g Vajiravudh, son of the late King Chu- lalcmgkorn. I hear that King Vajiravudh has grown very enthusiastic (Ater the War since Siam entered the arena, aays a recent writer. His sentiments are distinctly pro -British, for he spent his early days in England, and was educated at Sandhurst and Oxford, I do not know what hattle-ery he has selected, but it should be one to strike terror in the heart of the kaiser if it breathes the spirit of the usual Siamese harangue. Take, as an ex- ample, the following passage from the Oath of Allegiance: "We pray the 'powers of the Deities to plague with poisonous boils and with all manner of diseases the (Us: heeorable, the disobedient, and the treacherous, When they have depart- ed this life upon earth, my they be sent to terrible.Hell, Where they shall burn with umplenchable fire through limitless transmigrations. King Vajiravudh's father, by the way, had ninety children! The entry...of Siam into the war shows that the revolt against the ruthlessness of mail -fisted Germany has travelled to the outermost fringe Of further India, Siam is bigger than Japan proper— the country is. She has 195,000 square miles of territory, And the high - chested Japan proper is not quite 148,000 square Miles in area. Siam is Only 13,780 square miles smaller than Germany herself. As to the number of the people in Siam, she 'herself • was not any too clear until 1910, In November of that yam' fairly imamate figures were obtained. -as. census fignres go—and published. The number given was 8,. 140,487, It included women. For years the serious trouble with the Siamese census figures had been a startling fact that to them women were no people at all. To be sure Siam can not make much impression on the war finance of the entente allies. Her revenue for the fiscal year 1916-17 is estimat- ed at $28,098,000; the entire amount does not cover just one day's war expenditure of Great Britain alone. Foot Work The late Jack London 03100 1011 be. lundband in a story which he had promised a New York magadne. The editor, after repeated efforts to get the story, at last called at London's hotel and sent up the following note; "Dear Jacic London; If I don't re- eeive the story within twenty-four hours I'll come up to your room and kick you downstairs, and I always keep my promises," London replied: "Dear Dick: If I did all my work with my feet I'd keep my promises, too," I1 your shoe pinches where the 'big joint comes, take it to the shoemaker and have him stretch the leather a bit. If the shoe is not heavy, you can pack it full of paper, crowded -in hard, Leave it so for a few days and you will be surprised to find how much easier it will feel to that sore joint. DOMESTIC SCIENCE Tenth Less Cane sugar is the crystallized pro- duct of the juice extracted from the sugar cane. The cultivation and manu- facturing of sugar was introduced into Europe from the East early in the ninth century. Venetian historians state that sugar was imported by then.' countrymen from Cicily in the twelfth century. • The first European plantation of note was at Valencia in Spain. Since its cultivation at this time, it has been grown extensi ly in every semitropi- cal country on the globe. The Manufacture of Sugar The canes are gathered, freed from all loose leaves, and then passed through hea. rollers, which crush them into a pulp, thereby extracting all the juice from the cane. This juice is of a sweetish taste and muddy brown in color. It is then collected in a reservoir, and there treated by special processes. After this it is rim into large caldrons, where the pro- cess of obtaining the sugar com- mences. While the temperature of tho juice rises, as heat is applied, a thick scum ecmes to the top. This scum is remov- ed by running out all the cane juice through a spigot. In this way the scum is left in the kettle. The juice is further processed until the sugar crystals begin to form, when it is run into prepared vessels and allowed to cool. The surplus syrup le drained off, the residue remaining is the raw sugar of commerce, which must be re- fined before it can be used. From every hundred pounds of sugar cane, about sixty to seventy- five pounds of cane juice is extracted. The Use of Sugar in the Body Sugar -is an important energy -giv- ing or fuel food. It is soluble in cold AT HOME em—Sugar. water, and readily dissolves in hot wa- ter. The digestion of sugar cam- • mences the mouth, and is finaily completed in the intestines. The pro- cess of the digestion of sugar is com- paratively simple. When used in moderation, sugar is beneficial, and a producer of heat' and energy in the body. Pecause of this it should be used sparingly dur- ing the warm weather. This is one of the reasons why heavy rich desserts are injurious to the health during the heated season of the yem. How- ever, it is valuable .n cold weather e - cause it quickly furnishes the required energy and heat. Explorers in cold regions carry large quantities of su- gar. Sugar may be cooked by adding a certain pereertage of water until it forms a hard, clear candy; this is call- ed barley sugar. Heated beyond this stage, it becomes carmen or burnt su- feet. gar Mothers should pay particular at- tention to the source of supply of the candies that their small children buy. Cheap and dangerous substitutes used in candies may srove fatal to the little ones, It is very easy ami pleasant to make at horns the few simple can- dies that the children crave. Beet Sugar ' In the middle of the eighteenth! century it was fouud Ibatsugar be obtained from beets. About 1769 the first factory was established inj Austria for the purpose of manufac- I Ming beet sugar. The beet from! which the sugar is obtained flourishes in moderate climates and is not hard to raise. Other known sugars are fruit sugar, which is found in' fruit; sugar of milk, found in milk; corn su- gar, obtained from corn, and maple sugar from the sap of the maple tree, • THE DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. Only We Natural Phenomeets Are More To De Dreaded. 17 volcanic eruption or great earthquake be excepted, such a "cy. Clone twister" is the most destructive of all natural phenomena, The funnel - shaped cloud revolves at a tate of at least 500 miles an hour, and 1116 forces it develops are powerful enough to destroy any of the works of man. The oddest thing about it is its al- most humorous freakishness. It will pluck thickens clean of their fea- thers, withent hurting them; strip 310111011 afe their %clothing, yet leave them uninjured; empty wells of water, and, fill them with mud; drive straws clean through inch plaeks. But it is no more inspired with a sentiment of mercy than a Prussian. It kills per- sons and spreads wholesale and •utter destruction. This year, 1917, has been e bad tornado year in the Middle Western States, GAPrin The Stomach • is Dangerous Phyoiciane n000mmend tho nue of Mag. nosia. Sufferers from indigestion or dyspep- sia should remember that the presence 13110of 7 sati=hehifInIt;111,K te t br e•-cce-91 ve ttelditY This achl causes the food to ferment and the fermenting food in turn gives rise to noxious gases which distend the stomach, hamper the normal func- tions of vital internal organs, cauSe acute headaches, interfere with the ao- tion of the heart, and charge the blood stream wittt deadly poimens, which in 111112 1111101 i'ula 1110 hoal 113 c RaY that to quickly dispel a dangerous , uccutnulation of wind in the stomach and to stop the food 'fermentation which creates the gas, the acid In the stomach must be neutralized and that for this purpose there' 19 nothing quite so good as a. teaspoonfu of pure bisurated mag- nesia talion in a little water immediate- ly -after meals. This instantly neutral- izes the aeld, thus stopping fermenta- tion and the formation of gas, and en- ables the inflamed, 'distended stomach to proceed with its oric under natural Conditions. Bisurated magnesia is Ob- tainable in powder or tablet form from any druggist ; but as there are many different forms of magnesia it is impor- taut that the bisurated which the physicians prescribe shed be distinct- ly asked for. • "Britannie." Hitherto, says the Paris 'Daily Mail, all inhabitants of the British! Isles, inebeen described in French as "Ang- lais." General Verraux; who writes in the OE , is trying to •rf this.; He tells his readers that Miraumont was taken not by "les Anglais," but by "les Britanniques." The Journal des Debats hvirtily endorses the use of the new word, and suggests that Frenchmen in future should say t"Brittannie" instead of "Angleterre" when referring to Britain in general. --- A Unique Service One of the most remarkable burial services ever held on a European bat- tlefield is described by the chaplain of ' a Western Ontario battalion. It was that of an Indian killed by a bomb. Sixty Indians, commanded by an In- dian lieutenant, attended the funeral. They represented the Mohawks, One- idas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Missis- saugge, Delawares, Iroquois and Black - • I Home Canning September is the best month of the year for the forehanded housewife. This is the real canning season. Now is the time of preparedness for winter. Green Tomato Preserve.—One-quar- ter peck of green tomatoes, three lemons. Scald the tomatoes and then remove the skins. Cut into quarters and put in a preserving kettle, Cut the lemons in half and then remove all the seeds. Chop fine and then add to the tomatoes and also the fol- lowing: two cups of water, three pounds of sugar, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tableepoonful of cinnamon, one cup of raisins. Cook until eery thick, Seal in sterilized jars. Cover with paraffin and then store in a cool dry place. Parboil lemon until ten- der before adding to the tomato mix- ture. Spiced Plums.—Rinse the plums in plenty of cold water and then remove the stems. Prick several times with a fork to prevent bursting. Cook for twenty minutes in a syrup made of four pounds of sugar, one quart of wa- ter, one-half ounce of white ginger root, one-half ounce of stick cinnamon, one-quarter ounce of whole doves, one-quarter ounce of allspice, one tablespoonful of blade mace. Tie the spices in a bag and cook the syrup for ten minutes before adding the plums. Brine to a boil and cook gently for twenty minutes. Seal in sterilized jars. Test for leaks and store in a cool, dry place. Ginger Pears.—Use your favorite variety of pears. Peel and thee cut them into quarters if large and into halves is snutil. Put the fruit while peeling in a pan of water to keep it from discoloring, until the entire amount of pears is prepared. Cook the pears until soft in clear water. Drain and use one quart of this water, the water in which the pears were cooked, and also two pounds of segar, thinly pared rind of two lemons, two ounces of white ginger. Cook for ten minutes and then add eight pounds of prepared pears and cook until the pears are transparent. Seal in! sterilized jars and then store in a cool place. All ginger root used in pickl- ing and preserving should be well washed and then sliced very thin. I ' Peach Jam.—Use soft ripe peaches • 6, 4 0o 0 0 ,3 9 of the yellow variety. Peel, slice thin' I• "THAT'S THE eOLISH" and thei, put in a preserving kettle, Acid two cupfuls of water and ten pounds of prepared peaches. Cook until very soft, Mesh with a potato masher and then rub through a fine sieve. Measure and return to the kettle and add one cupful of sugar to every two cupfuls of prepared pulp. Cook very slowly, stirring constantly to prevent scorching, for one hon. Try a little of it in a saucer. e It it holds, that is if it does not spread and run, then (111 11 into sterilized glasses arid cover, with peraffin, Store in the usual manner for jellies. Use an asbestos mat under the kettle to 'invent burning, This jam should be a beautiful golden color. It is a de- lidous accompaniment to hot or cold roast fowl or game and,is equally de- licious with chicken salad, It is most important to use a poreelaih kettle that is in good condition for all pick's ing and an aluminum or agate kettle for preserving ja1X18. UNWITTINGLY A BURGLAR. How a Japanese Poet Helped to Rob a San. Francisco House. Soon after Mr, Yone Noguchi, the Japanese author, came Jo America, prompted by the best of intentions he helped to burglarize a San Francisco house. He tolls how it happened in his riutoblographY While at San Francisco, sometimes I stayed at a Japanese boarding house where I paid nothing, since I made a service of English letter writing for the proprietor, and sometimes at a certain William Street, one of the most insignificant of little alloys, where my friends published a comic weekly. Here I happened to become an actor in a farce that set the whole town to laughing under the heading, How a japenese Poet Helped a Burs gi ar, • One afternoon I was reading a book in the -room that wile merlin, sleeping room and editorial office by turns (we occupied the lower floor; the upstairs rooms were occupied by a Spanish tailor who happened to be out that afternoon), when a young boy, Span- ish, or Mexican, about the game age as myself, knocked at my door and asked for a key that might „fit the rooms upstairs. It was his intention, he declared, to move the things. away by ,the coms mead of the tailor, who had engaged some other house. • "I lost the key on my way here," he said. How could my mind of innocence doubt him? I helped him to open the upstairs rooms, and also assist- ed to move down a few things of some importance. I even offered him my service to help him with the large looking -glass. We had walked some seven or eight blocks when we were pursued by a large, fat Irishman, who took us by force 'to a police station, and duly. locked us up there To clear myself from the charge next clay, I made the first and last public speech of my foreign life. I be- lieve that it was a masterpiece. I said that the incident was a ease of Japan- ese etiquette or humanity -turned to crime 131 Amorica by wrong applica- We have a right to take pleasure in our own development. It should be encouraging to watch our powers de- velop; to know that we are able to do soei:s.ething to -day which we could not do yesterday, should give us happi n - Where there is enough help or Where small areas only are grown the beans may be pulled by ,and. For large crops of beans it is generally profitable to use bean harvesters which consist of the ordinary two - wheeled cultivator, equipped with two fiat knives placed to form a V cetting. two rows at a time and placing both rows into one windrow. The beans may be bunched by handor by means of the side delivery rake, which places from three to five rows together. After cutting, the beans should be kept clean and should be stored with as little weathering as possible. ntarrio Veterrinary C idgege 110 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada Under the control of the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. Affiliated with the University of Toronto. College Reopens Menday, Oct. 1, 1917. Calendar Sent on Application. E. A. A. GRANGE, VS, Meese Principal ESTAGLISHE'D 11345 A. RAMSAY & SON CO. THE RIGHT Makers of Fine Paints and -4es"' Varnishes se's HI For wear and beauty of color they are unsur- TO PATROGBITu passed. Ask your 1 Ramsay Dealer —or write MONTREAL TO -13LACK-WHITE-TAN- P. IcDalley Co. of Canada, Lid, Houl(1an, eflAr RAILROADS SOLD FOR WAR USE • -1 TO TRANSPORT ARMIES ANI) MATERIAL TO THE FRONT, About 1,000 Miles of Canadian and American Railways Have Been s Laid Down in Preece. The long ancehtmerry arm of war has reached out into Canada and tio Unild States in search of eurplus and anus d railroads and the plains an( junkyards of the two countries have been ransacked of the materials re- quired in France. The tremendous demtind for steel rails ani rolling stocic for the allied armies in Franco caught the steel trade unprepneed, and rather than wait months for the. rail and eqeip- ment factories to catch up England haa gone into the world market in search of old railroads whieh could be dismantled and transplanted in France. Hundreds of miles of railroad'have disappeared completely from the face of the North American continent, only to appear a few months later in east- ern France. Engines, cars, rails, bridges, ties—everything real and tan- gible in the way of railroad property has been running the submarine block- ade for months, and -the end is not in sight. Gooci Prices for Junin Junk dealers have been scampering about thc country buying up all the decrepit railroads they could got their bards on. And as "junk" the road properties have been sold at prices 300 and 400 per cent. above the "junk" market of four years ago. Within recent months approximate- ly 1,000 miles of Canadian and Ameri- can railroads, including all rolling stock worth salvaging, have been snapped up and prepared for shipment abroad. Even hungry junk dealers from Japan have appearel in the mar- ket. Canadian railroads sacrificed many miles of track and much rolling stock for the mother country. Side and switch tracks at small stations, were shortened or eliminated, in some cases portions of double track equipment being taken up in' order that the Eng- lish armies might not suffer from lack: of shells and food. Wherever economy in use of roadbed could be brought about trackage was sacrificed. In a number of cities where street railway and interurban lines were being relaid with heavier steel the old rails passed into the hands of agents who had been collecting such property for sale to foreign havers. Few Narrow Gauge Lines. The transmigtation problem back of the allied armies has become one of the most important issues o1!,the war. The maintenance of the English and French armies has required the use of thonsands of miles of railroad lines and huge quantities of rolling stock and other equipment. Need for this equipment became more and more im- perative each time the allied armies dented the German line. • Despite the papules. impression, nar- row gauge lines are not the rule at the front. To be truthful, they are • the exception, for the huge guns and the tremendous quantities of supplies Which must be moved over these lines demand the heaviest of equipment. Miles and miles of etandard railroad track min eight up to the big guns which etre belching death into the German ranks. Shell holes must be filled up, the wreckage of German narrow- gauge lines:moved to ono side, bridges in- stalled and equipment brought up, sometimes under fire so galling that the work is even more dangerous than trench fighting. NATURE'S TREASURE. BOX. Fairy 'Grotto in Brazil is Lilted With • Richly Colored Amethyst. One of the most curious things in nature is a "geode," It ,is a ready- made treasure casket. • The beginning of -a geode is a cav- ity in rock. Water percolating into it deposits silica in crystalline form. Ages later, perhaps, the rock is brok- en open and out falls the geode—a no- dule of chalcedony lined with beautiful erystals. Sometimes the silica that forms the crystals is stained with oxide of man- ganese, and in such cases the geodes A are lined with amethyst. Occasional- ly a geode holds a gill or two of wa- ter—to be seen through the translu- cent coat of the nochile—which has been shut up in the little box for mil- lions of years, maybe. The biggest 'Mid moat wonderful geode ever discovered was found not very long ago near the German settle- ment of Santa Cruz, in Bratil„ It was thirty-three feet long, sixteen. feet wide and ten feet high, Embed- ded in rock, the upper part of it—the roof, as one might ;say—had been broken through in some .accidental way and a palm tree was growing out of it. The whole inside of this fairy grot- to --for it deserved no less picturesque narne—waslined with richly colored crystals of amethyst, many of them Mt big as a man's fist, and with bril- 'iartt lustrous facets, as if polished bsT O lapidary. To remove this gigantic geode watt imposeible, but it was broken cerefill- ly to pieces without blasting.