Zurich Herald, 1916-06-16, Page 7NOTES AND COMM NT$
When at the high tide of the G
man invasion of Russia, last Septe
ber, Grand Duke Nicholas was reliev
ed from command of the Czar's dce
fenand sent to the Caucasus, t
assumption was that he had been s
rificed to royal displeasure, So
military experts thought his etrate
had been brilliant in retreat, an►1 y
it was easy to understand that in En
sign. eyes failure to stop the invad
might have outweighed the intrin
merits of hie performance. He h
baffled the Germans, he had saved
Russian Army from capture or d
struction, but he had lost Poland a
the greater part of rich Lithuani
The Caucasus was far away a
seemed then an unimportant theatr
have changed the a
pect of affairs. The Germans we
hardly any further into Russia. Th
"eastern front" is almost the same a
when the Grand Duke left it. Th
fighting has diminished to a minimum
But in Asia Minor large events ar
taking place.
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From his Caucasian bases the Grand
Duke is driving a pronged fork into
Turkey. One prong, sliding along the
edge of the Black Sea., is aimed at
Constantinople; another is penetrat-
ing a very mountainous country in a
central southerly direction and is in-
tended to cut Turkey's transverse
communications, and another, pointed
straight at Bagdad from the north-
east, has already pierced the Turco-
. Persian mountain barrier almost to
Khanikin, 110 miles from the Holy
City, on the plains of Mesopotamia.
The operation is somewhat like driv-
ing a fork into a mole hill. The Turk
may either be impaled or trapped
between two prongs. In the case of
being trapped he might escape by
lateral ways, in a westerly direction,
across the dessert, but that would
mean to abandon Bagdad and all of
Mesopotamia. It would establish
contact at once between the Russians
and the English coming up the Eup-
hrates River from the Persian Gulf.
The character of the Grand Duke's
operations is determined by the ex-
treme difficulties cif the country
which is very mountainous, in all ap-
praoches to Mesopotamia, with few
and wretched roads and scanty sus -
small, wretched roads and scanty sus -
to go in thin columns and rely en-
tirely upon their distant bases for
supplies. The difficulties of trans-
portation must be enormous. There
are military experts who think that
when the history of the war is written
in perspective, this Caucasian cam-
paign will be one of its most interest-
ing and important chapters, provided
it succeeds.
It is now possible to believe that
when the Grand Duke Nicholas was
relieved from command on the east-
ern front it was done with a view to
the importance of Asia Minor• as a
theatre of war and his special ability
to perform there a task of prodigious
proportions. If that is true, the
Russian foresight and strategy de-
serve to be very highly thought, of
for undoubtedly the Germaes were
unprepared in Asia. Minor and taken
off their guard.
Feed the Young Foal.
Are you giving that young foal
the proper care? To become a strong,
sound horse when matured the foal
must be well nourished 'and given
every advantage possible.
At this tune of the year mares arld
colts are allowed to spend at least
a part of the time in the pasture: The
foal should be, taught to eat grain
very early. By placing the feed box
from which the dam eats her grain
low, the foal, at about two months of
age, will begin nibbling with the mo-
ther and will soon acquire a taste for
the grain.
A ;pen built in one corner of the
field made high enough to keep the
mare out and allow the colt to pass
under will make it possible to feed
the foal grain with very little diffi-
culty.. Allow the mare in the en-
closure with the foal for a few times,
and it will soon learn to go in itself.
Keep a liberal supply or grain,- pre-
ferably oats and bran, and perhaps
some cracked corn, in the feed box.
To induce the dam to loiter about
with the colt, have the pen near a
shade tree or the salt box.
By weaning time the foal will have
become thoroughly accustomed to
eating grain and will wean very easily,
beside being in better condition as a
result of this additional feed.
Try this plan this year and you
Will be surprise to find a sleek, fat,
well -grown colt at weaning time.—C.
St, Anderson, in Farm and Dairy.
Eeon.omical.
' "He inherited a fortune."
"Did he take good care of it?"
"Splenclid, The first thing he did
rafter getting it was to deeide hot
to spend too mirth money for a monu-
aieat
to the Ilett uncle who left it to
aims"
WAS BRITAIN'S MILITARY IDOL
NEVER .FAILED IN EIS SERVICE
Kitchener Was in Franco-Prussian War Before He :Entered
British Array—Most of His Life Was Spent
in Foreign Climes.
Irishmen like to claim Lord 13'
ener as a countryman of theirs
the ground that he was born ab Gu
borough Villa, County Kerry, on J
24th, 1850, But although his fa
Col. Henry Horatio Kitchener,
migrated to Ireland from Leices
shire two years before the birth
his son Herbert, the family is E
Anglian, Even before he entered
army in 1871 he had had a taste
actual war. While , still a Woolwi
cadet he was staying during a va
tion with his father in Brittany,
the Irish estates had been s
France's lash desperate strug
against the German hosts was be
fought out by brave but ill -organ
armies of hastily -raised levies. You
Kitchener offered his services to
Freneb, was accepted, and fought
der General Chanzy in the operati
around Le Mans.
Learned Value of Organization.
In that terrible winter campai
Kitchener saw miles of stalled frei
cars loaded with war material; s
diers freezing for lack of overco
stored in plenty half a mile away,
which there was no one to issue, a
starving for food that rotted becau
there was no machinery for its distr
bution. That is why he later fou
the Dervishes with Nubian track -1
ers and American bridge builders a
hemmed in the Boers with blockhous
and charged wire. His.first campai
ended by his catching a severe co
after a balloon ascent made when h
clothes were wet. In three mon
he was near to death with pleurisy.
With British Army.
He joined the Engineers in
spring of 1871 and began the Ion
hard toil that England exacts fro
the men who serve her. For thr
years he worked ab Chatham ai
and then was detached
work in a semi -civil capacity on
Palestine survey. For four years h
passed up and down measuring th
land of Canaan and learning the way
and the speech of its people. I
Palestine, in Cyprus, in Egypt, Kite
ener managed to adapt himself to th
ways of the natives. He acquired n
only their language but their very i
tonation, and could live among th
Arabs as safe from detection as Ki
in the crowded streets of Lahore.
Making a Mummy Fight.
England acquired Cyprus in 1878
and Lieut. Kitchener was placed in
charge of the exploration. He •had
neither money nor powerful friends,
but the maps and reports he sent back
to London were models of their kind.
In 1880 he was made British Vice -
Consul at Erzerum. His real chance
came in 1883.
After the bombardment. of Alexan-
dria England had to reorganize the
Egyptian army. Kitchener volunteer-
ed and was one of the twenty-six men
chosen for the work of raising a force
of 6,000 men for the defence of Egypt.
The Fellah does not come of a fight-
ing race and the job seemed hopeless.
Capt. Kitchener was told to lick the
cavalry into shape and was attached
to the Intelligence Department. He
proved that the Fellah was like a
bicycle, incapable of standing up
alone, but very useful in the hands
of a skilled master. In ten weeks
after the arrival of the first batch of
raw recruits 5,600 men went through
the ceremonial parade movements as
practised by the British Guards in
Hyde Park, and they did it with un-
usual precision.
14 Years in Egypt.
For fourteen years Kitchener serv-
ed in Egypt. He was with the Gor-
don • relief expedition in 1884, and
stayed till the hero of Khartoum had •
been avenged. At Handoub he was
severely wounded by a bullet that
shattered his jaw and buried itself
n his neck, and he was invalided
ack to England. In 1888 he returned
o Egypt as adjutant -general to head
he First Brigade of Soudanese troops
t Toski, where he led the final charge.
ime and again be was mentioned in
espatehes. From Governor-General
the Red Sea littoral and Command-
nt of Suakim he was made Chief of
olice at Cairo, and on Lord Cromer's
commendation was promoted to be
rdar in 1892. He was only a colonel
en.
Slaughter of Dervishes.
Four years latex he began his re-
onquest of the Soudan. The Don-
a expedition won him the rank of
or -general, and the next year,
7, he started to avenge Gordon's
aril, I•Iis first step was a railroad
cin Cairo to Khartoum. It had to a
s the desert from Halfa to Abu
mel, 280 miles of sand. Exerts
fired -at the idea; it was Absurd;
Sllyd;
entire carrying capacity of the:d
train would be taken up by the water •
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But Kitchener built on, and as • he
built he bored, and he struck water in
the sands just where he needed it, and
the work was finished on October 81,
1897. In April of the following year
Kitchener won the battle of the At -
bare, and .on Sept, 2 caught up with
the Mandi's forces at Omdurman and
sealed his former victory and the.
Khalifa's doom,. 'Gordon was avenged.
After the fight was won he cut off the
Dervishes' retreat, and as they huddled
around their standards he played his
machine guns upon them, killing abeat
15,000. The Mandi's tomb was the
great shrine of the Dervishes. Kitch-
ener demolished the tomb, the holy
place, and scattered the mummy so
that no part of the body could be gob
for re -enshrinement to be a focus for
future trouble. He gave peace to
Egypt.
Congratulated by Kaiser: 1/
He was created Baron Kitchener' of
Khartoum, received the Grand Cross
of the Order of the Bath, the.thanks
of Parliament, and was voted `$150,-
000; also it may be recalled the
Kaiser telegraphed his sicere con-
gratulations.
on
gratulations. Two weeks after Om-
durman, Kitchener's forces met Mar-
chand at Fashoda with eight French
officers and 120 Soudanese tirailleurs,
and their withdrawal left the whole
of 'the Soudan in the power of Eng-
land. Kitchener at once began to
build up the country.
Boer War.
Within a year the Boer War broke
out, and after the British disasters
Lord Roberts was sent bo South
Africa. Lord Kitchener, while still
Sirdar of the Egyptian army, was pro-
moted lieutenant -general and made
chief of staff. He arrived in Cape
Town in January, 1900, and in Novem-
ber took supreme command after Lord
Roberts had left for England. He went
to work with systematic thoroughness
and built across the Transvaal a line
of blockhouses connected by wires
charged with electricity; sixty mobile
columns were put into the field; all the
women and children and non-combat-
ants were taken off the farms and
eplaced in huge concentration camps.
Slowly and with much less loss of life
than would otherwise have been pos-
sible the Boers were worn down, and
in May, 1902, the struggle ended.
Kitchener was made a viscount, ad-
vanced to the rank of General, given
the thanks of Parliament, and $250,-
000, also the Order of Merit.
Sent to India.
No sooner was peace signed than
Viscount Kitchener was sent to In-
dia as Commander -in -Chief, and in
seven years he revolutionized the In-
dian army, and freed it from red tape.
This stern, icy man put an instant end
to the old round of polo -playing garri-
son life. He made every one work
and thanked no one for working. Just
as in South Africa he had shipped
back to England more than 400 offi-
cers as "useless," he started in to
weed olab the incompetents in India.
He never played favorites.
After leaving India with the rank
of Field Marshal, Kitchener succeed-
ed the Duke of Connaught as Cotn-
mander-in-Chief and High Commis
sioner• in the Mediterranean, and
made a tour of England's colonies to
1 organize their fighting forces. On
' his way from Australia he visited
Japan and the United States, return-
ing to England in 1910. His latest
service prior to the war had been in
Egypt, where he went to continue
Lord Cromer's great work. He suc-
ceeded in restoring the Fellah to the
land, and, with a grant of $15,000,000
from the British Government, created
a great cotton -raising industry.
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When war broke out Kitchener was
in England to accept promotion in the
peerage to an earldom. The Prime
Minister made him Secretary of State
for War, and he•had responded in his
wonderfully efficient way. His first
question when he got to the office, "Is
there a bed here?" He was told there
was not and said, "Get one." It was.
said he slept only five hours out of
the twenty-four and left his post
every morning at 1 o'clock, returning
before 9. His orders to recruiting of-
ficers were typical:
"Never mind about drill; it doesn't
matter if thiy don't know their right
foot from their left. Teach them how
to shoot, and do it quick."
Striking Appearance.
In appearance Lord Kitchener was
ix feet and several inches tall with
a 'brick red glow to his cheeks, due to
years of exposure to the tropical sun.
He was as straight as any soldier well
tilled in calisthenics. "Waiter, have you `for. ?"
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sold In bandy arcual boxes and de taboo at
chemist, and general stores everywhere.
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people had looked on Kitchener's
silent but effective work; they had
never been able to fathom his person-
ality. A cockney non-commissioned
officer, who had seen " much service
under hien, summed up the general
opinion when he said of Kitchener:
"'E's no tacker. Not 'im. 'E's all.
steel and h'ice."
Demanded Deeds.
His face was that of a man who
neither asked for sympathy nor want-
ed it, He had steady blue -grey pas-
sionless eyes and a heavy moustache
covered a mouth that shut close and
firm like a. wolf trap. He believed
with all his might in the gospel of
work. He had illimitable self-confi-
deuce. For bungling and faint-heart-
edness he was incapable of feeling
sympathy or showing mercy; an offi-
cer who failed him once got no second
chance.
Nineteen -twentieths of Kitchener''s
active life were spent outside of the
British Isles, and for that reason it
has been said of him he didn't really
know England when the war broke
out.
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LORD CHEL.XsFOE,D, G1.C.lat.G1.,.
ibo new Viceroy and Governor -Genf
eral of India.
Dressing Percentage.
The average dressing percentage of
hogs is 75, while of cattle it is 53,
and of sheep 48. Part of this differ-
ence is due to the method of figuring.
In the case of the hog the hide, head
and feet are included in the carcass`
weight, while in the ease of cattle and
sheep the head, hide and feet are not
included: Then the hog is very thick.
fleshed and hale a small digestive
system. Cattle and sheep havo large
paunches and disgestive systems.
Sheep dress out lowest, due tothe
wool and the rather light fleshing of
the carcass.
The dressing percentage of animals
of each class varies widely. This is
due to the amount of flesh, especial-
ly fat present on the carcass, and
somewhat to the thickness of the hide
and size of the heads and legs, and.
to the amount of fill or the amount of.
feed and water present in the diges-
tive tract at the time .of slaughtering.
For the hogs the dresui fig percentage.
varies from 65%. to 85% with an aver-
age of '/5%. For °cattle it ranges
from 48% to 70% with an average of
68%, and for sheep from Oft% to 56%
with an average of 48%.—W. H. Pets
ers, North Dakota Experiment Sta-
tion.
Yet Hope..
During ..Ill the years the British "No, sitz, not yet, sir."
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11.0USEIIOL.D
Selected Recipes,
Tapioca Snow—Four ounces of
tapioca should be soaked in a pint of
cold water, flavored with strained le-
mon juice. Simmer the tapioca un-
til it is quite clear, mix it with three
or four tablespoonfuls of red currant
jelly, pour into a glass dish, and leave
to become cold. Just before serving
Cover with beaten white of egg,
sweetened, and, if desirable, more le-
mon juice may be added,
Broth for the Family. --One cupful
of pearl barley should be poured.into
three quarts of cold water, and then
put into a saucepan and allowed to
boil. Remove all fat from about two
pounds of mutton, either neck or loin,.
and cut the meat into small pieces.
Add to the barley, and boll gently for
one hour, skimming : occasionally.
Grate a carrot, cut two small turnips
into dice,: and add these, with a little
onion. Boil for one hour longer,
skimming occasionally, and adding a
little hot water if necessary to keep
up the required quantity. When
cooked, strain, season with pepper,
salt, and a little chopped parsley.
Serve very hot.
Hot-Pat.—'fake the remains of cold
beef or mutton and .slice it thinly.
Slice up sufficient prions and potae
toes. Put in a pie dish a layer of meat,
one of potatoes, one of onions, season-
ing them withpepper, salt and chop-
ped parsley. Continue this until the
pie dish is full. Put in about half a
pint of water and .a little butter,
coverwith another dish, and put into a
slow oven for one and a half to two
hours.
Creamed Potatoes. -Take one cup-
ful of milk, a teaspoonful of butter,
salt and pepper to taste. Tlie but-
ter should be pat in a small frying -
pare atsd when hot, but before it
browns, add enough flour to thicken,
stir till smooth, and gradually add the
milk. Have cold boiled potatoes
ready sliced, turn them into this, and
let them gradually heat through; a
very little nutmeg grated aver the
potatoes before frying improves the
flayed. More salt and pepper may
be added, if desired.
Cold Meat Pudding.—Two ounces of
suet, three pounds of chopped cold
meat, two ounces of bread crumbs,
two eggs, one onion, pepper and salt
to, season, one teaspoonful of sauce,
one teaspoonful of chopped parsley,
gravy. Hard boil the eggs and cut
them into slices;' chop the meat, onion
and parsley, and soak the bread -
crumbs in boiling milk; season to
taste and mix all the ingredients well
together acid bake in a basin for one
hour; then turn out and serve with
good gravy.
Cinnamon Toast.—Cut the bread
about aa -inch thick and toast quickly,
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whites. Beat light, add a level table-
spoon a
able-spoon,of white sugar for each egg and
five ldtrops of lemon extract. Whip
light and bake brown in a moderate
oven,
• With Strawberries.
Nearly every one agrees that the
luscious ripe strawberry dipped into
powdered sugar and eaten from its
steme cannot be improved upon as a
dessert, but there are times when it is
necessary to make one box of the fruit
go a long way. Some new recipes for
this purpose may be appreciated.
Strawberry Ice.—Boil two cups ' of
sugar and one-half cup of water for
gether, without stirring, for three
minutes; then cool. Add the juice •
from one box of strawberries and the
juice of one lemon, thenadd one cup
of ice water and freeze. When part-
ly frozen stir in the white of one egg,
beaten stiff.
A Delicious Mousse.—Mash one box
of berries. Dissolve one teaspoonful..
of granulated gelatine in a little of
the juice. Boil one-half cup of sugar
and one-half cup of water till it
threads and then pour it on the stiffly
beaten whites of two eggs. ' Add the
gelatine, set the dish in a bowl' of
ice water and stir till it is cold. When
it has begun to set add one and one-
half cupsof cream, which has been
whipped, and the berries. Turn into
a mold, pack he salt and ice and let
stand for three or four hours, before
serving. Garnish with whole berries.
Strawberry Whip.—Soak one table~...
spoonful of. gelatine in a little cold
water for 10 minutes and the dis
solve it in one cup of boiling water.
Mash one box of berries and acid the
juice and two tablespoonfuls of le-
mon juice to the gelatine. Put in a
cool place. When it begins to set
whip with a Dover egg beater till •
light, Serve in sherbet glasses, gar-
nished with a spoonful of whipped
cream and a berry.
Strawberry Cheese.—A delicious
hot -weather dessert may be made by
stirring a few crushed berries into
a cream cheese and serving it with
watching carefully that it may not saltines: This tastes like str..avwber=
burn, Score lightly while piping hot ries with Devonshire cream, and is
and spread with enough butter to sink particularly good for porch teas.
in; then cover over with powdered
cinnamon and granulated sugar mix-
ed in the proportion of 1 spoonful of
Strawberry Sauce. -Bread or rice
puddingmay be made' into areal come
parry dessert, if served with straw -
cinnamon to 2 of sugar. Remove the! berry sauce, made by creaming one -
crusts and cut into fingers; put in e third of a cup of butter with one cup
very hot covered dish and serve .at
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of powdered sugar, into which a half
once. cup of crushed berries is stirred.
Scotch Tea Scones.—Half-pound Make it just before it is to be eaten.
flour; 1 teaspoonful baking powder; 1
ounce butter; 1 cup inilk; 1 teaspoon-
ful sugar. Rub the butter into the
flour, add the sugar and baking pow-
der; mix with the milk into a soft
dough, roll out and cut into three -cor-
nered scones.' Brush over with milk
and bake in a. quick oven.
Butterscoteh Pie.—One large cup of
light brown. sugar, two tablespoons of
flour, yolks of two eggs *eaten light,
one cup of cold water, pinch of salt, Improperly kept food exposes the
two tablespoonsof melted butter family to ptomaine poisoning.
Mix sugar and flour, add egg, water, Use a stump of a candle instead of
salt and butter and stir smooth. Cook a cork for the glue bottle and it will ,;
to a cream in a double boiler; add not stick,
half teaspoon of vanilla. Let it cool A piece 'of fungus broken from an
a little; pour into a baked crust; old tree is alendi,d buffer for ma -
make a meringue from the eggs hogany' furniture,
Strawberry Tapioca.—Hull a box of
berries in a large glass bowl and
sprinkle with sugar. Soak three-
quarters of a cup of tapioca in cold
water for two hours, then drain and.
cook in a double boiler with two and
one-half cups of boiling water till
transparent. Cool and pour over the
sweetened berries. Serve with sugar
and cream.
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Eyesight 50 per cent In O
Week's Time In, an P /fat.
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..re you n v�a}etlni of eyestrain or other eye
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