PAGE 8IX SCENTS DANGER At Lost ne i in Ber HE FULLY APPRECIATES THE EFFECT OF THE ACTION IN THE DARDANELLES, Italy Is His Chief Hope--Thinks Al- lies May Find Themselves in Po- sition of Maid Whe Prematurely Counted Her Chickens. March 6,--The Daily Chro odore Wolff, chief edi- tor of the Be 1 Tageblatt, contributes an interesting article to his paper deal mg with the bombardment of the Dar- danelles, from which, the paper says, it 18 clear that he is one of the few Ger man journalists of prominence who a; preciate the sitimtion which the Allies' progress in the straits will create Dr, Wolff says he has no illusion . @hout the intentions of 1} Ailes foramg the passage, and admits that, i they are successful, the results will be of tremendous import. "Fhere 15," he says! "first, Don to create dneasimess mm Consets nople, and strengthen the hand opponents of - Enver and Thlaat, might force the Porte either to co 4 separate peace with the Allies or withdrew 'the ariny threatening the Suez Canal, The sccond object is to Roumania and Bulgaria against the cen- tral monarchy." Von Hinderberg's rec Vietory and the evacuation of Bukowina have, cording to Dr, Wolff, taken the stre out of the movement led by the manian leaders, Take and Jomeseu: but it requires little imagination to see that Roumania and Bulgaria "will sing an other song, presumably a song of wel- come," when the Allies' wacships appear before their harbors in the Fuxine It is Italy, however, which the Allies have mainly in view, Dr. Wolff savs For months their agent has been at work whispering in Italy's ears and warning her that a power which declines to take a part in the conflict cannot expect any portion of the spoils. Italy seems to be Dr. Wolff's chief hope. The [talians are a nation, he says, which reckons cruelly and carefully and it is just possible that the British politicians who are counting on its co-operation, are in the position of the milkmaid in the fable who engag- ed too prematurely in counting her chie- kens. Besides, adds, Dr. Wolff, will not the possesion of Constantinople he decided on European battlefields, and not in the Dardanelles? He recognizes, However, the danger, and: reluctantly quotes from a leading Swiss journal which roundly declares that war is unavoidable if Italy 15 not squared with the Trentino, and that if the Trentino is not ceded, a re- volution is certain as well as war. Dr, Wolff takes a most serious view London icle says that T un inten stiffen ent Rou of the situation and disapproves the 9P-|io this he is unswervingly erthodox, timism of his journalistic colleagues who | smile at the news from the Near East and pooh-heoh the posibility of forcing the straits. He has confidence in the wisdom and restraint of the Italian Gov- ernment, but' fears that the safety door will be opened only after the house is on fire, Between Friends. clan Moore Oh, joy! Oh, joy !' Use lost ten pounds ! Don't worry, notice it at all dearie. "You'd pever "What 15 Found In Exchanges The Renfrew Machinery Company | is to begin at once making shell§. Three shifts will be kept at work, John A, Clute has disposed of a! one-half jnterest in Union Cheese (Md is not necessarily vocal. Considera- | safe to say that the sign or gesture factory to S. C. Shorey. tion $2,500. Hugh Milling, posed of his grocery business to Mes- | urs. Holland and Sproule, who have | Mrs. J. T. Grange arrived in Nap- -anee on Satu er, were whipped. "NEWS OF DISTRICT "he Disiiic Sradually; stirring all the time. Ada Te Tite [a little salt and strain the dip over |ailver lace, and white breeches, while A STRANGE PEOPLE. Wallachs of the Balkans Who Claim They Are Romans, At the southern fringe of the Bal- tan states, fn Macedonia, in Greece, n Turkey, even in Anatolia, is found + hardy race of shepherds, diligent n the care of thelr own sheep, in- veterate lifters of flocks over the bor- men who know that the shep- berds' crook needs but to be in- verted to be an effective pike, They ave a dozen names, each of their aeighbors has a differing designation, hey are best known as the Vlach or Wallachs. But when asked to tell who they are and what their race they show pride of ancestry in saying that they are Romans. Even-when onc is the anachronism of a border pricker, a reever of one's neighbor's sheep and of one's neigh- bor's daughter, it is yet something fine to be able to say 'I am Roman." In the pride we are ready to for- give the larceny, all the moré since these Romans of the southern Bal- kans live where runs no writ of king nor has run for this thousand years. ft is inspiring to remain 2 Roman, >itizen of no mean city, in the midst of the barbarian. The title of these shepherds in their militancy is better than most such proud boasts. The infon of the Dacians with the penin- sular Latinifolk yielded the three al- led groups of Roumanians, South Roumanians and Istrians ' There is nothing of milk and wat- r in their stirring history. When nea fought they fought hard, they fought until 'they were victorious or There is abundance if the shedding of blood, the blow is "quite as often in the dark, the popu- ar bero closes his reign at the point of a traitor dirk. In other words the Balkan mountains have continued the niddle ages down into the 20th cen- tury. National feeling runs strong among the South Roumanjans, yet it has not 'ome into the state of national unity. Each village chief is capable of acting for himself and for the men of his valley, war Is a series of raids and repose, victory is satisfied with booty, new. war comes when the need of more booty is felt in the domestic or n the village economy. The visitor to the Balkan cities with their mixed populations has no difficulty in picking out the South Roumanian as he goes straight to his aim, with his intelligent and regular leatures and his freé yet never bold glance, He is readily regognized on the streets by his white clothing, his springy step, breast out, white fez 'ocked over one ear, eyes alert to svery passing event. His family is the great thing to *very South Roumanian, family first. He would count himself disgraced if one of his kin came upon strangers for relief. Beggars there cannot be for each has a family somewhere which will prevent him from the need of asking alms at the wayside. Poli- 'leal affiliations combine with this itrength of family solidarity to attach him to the faith of his fathers with anshakable devotion. This faith :Mances to be the Greek-Orienial rite; iny deviation from the prescriptions of the Orthodox Church seems to him a cardinal sin, Catholics and Protes- [tants he looks upon as half heathen. | The women play a large part in the family life, they are the great ronservative force in the preservation of the national spirit through all the | assaults upon the nationadity of thege | mountaineers which past ages have delivered in this caldron of the bar- sarian invader from the north, the Scythian from the east, the Tartar hordes from Asia, and last of all the Osmanli, who in these mountains won the mastery of the eastern empire of Rome. The tasks of the Wallach wo- {man all lie within the house, she is never called upon/ for field labor. Every article of clothing is her hindi- work. 'She spins, she weaves, she sews from year's end tq vear's end When she goes abroad she never neg- tects {o carry sonvething with which her hands may be busy. Cream Toast. Toast six slices of bread till erisp ind brown, dip in hot, salted water, place in dish and pour over thé fo}- lowing gravy: One pint of milk, let some to scalding point; then stir in a large tablespoonful of flour mixed with a little cold water. © Stir till thiek, and add butter the size. of an egg. When making cream toast, **¥ NWAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. THE FIRST REGULARS BRITISH ARMY DATES BACK TO RESTORATION DAYS. Charles the Second Rewarded His Soldiers of Egrtune by Organizing Thein Into the First Life Guards ~=Uniforms In Those Days Were of Cloth of Gold With Wide Sleeves and Ruffles. The British regular army may be gaid to dated from' the Restoration (1660) when Charles II. rewarded certain cavalier soldiers of fortune, who had followed him into exile, by constituting, them into a regiment of horse under the-name of Life Guards. Prior to this, it is true, there had been a few troops retained on a per- manent footing; as, for insiance, the Honorable Artillery Company, the Yeomen of the Guard, the Corps of Sergeants-at-Arms, and the Trained jands of the City of London who as- sembled annually. r Just now, however, our concern is not with these, but with that troop of gentlemen vavaliers who came a-riding with the Merry Monareh from St. George's Fields, Southwark, all the way to his palace at Whitehall, on that May morning more than two and a-half centuries ago 'when 'the King came to his own again." Very fine and gay and gallant they looked, a rare and striking contrast, . we may be sure, to Monk's dour Puri- tan men-at-arms, dressed some in leathern doublets, some wearing dim- med and dented hauberks, and steel caps devoid of polish or ornament These cavaliers from over the seas, on the other hand, gave to London its first glimpse of the pomp and pageantry of the Continental armies of those days. The officers, we are told, '"wére so richly dressed in cloth of gold and silver that they might have been knights all armored in coats-of-mail of the same." Than this first-hand glimpse, however, nothing further is vouchsafed to us concerning the lead- ers of the splendid cavalcade, but of the rank and file we get a very. pret ty and likewise a fairly detailed pte- ture. The 'private gentlemen'--or, as we should say, "the troopers" --wore wide-sleeved scarlet coats, ornament- ed at the wrists with large silk ruf- fles, and" "frogged all about both front and back with gold lace, a very brave show." Their boots were of, brown Cordova leather, reaching to the middle of the thighs; and from underneath immense felt hats, decor- ated with ostrich feathers, their long "love-locks" floated down over cuir- asses of polished, steel, the latter similar to those now worn Besides the Life Guards, various regiments of infantry were called into being directly after.the Restoration, amongst the first to be embodied be- ing the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards, which were re- |eruited almost entirely fror: Crom- | {well's old "Ironsides."" For thesé, al '80, new and very handsome uniforms | were provided. The officers. were rich- {ly habited in velvet, and smothered { with lace and fringe, which, as well as the buttons of their uniforms, were of solid gold, The rank-and-file wore {red jackets, faced with green and trimmed with silver lace; the pike- men, of which there were a number attached to each company, being dis. {tinguished by green coatees, faced 'with scarlet. » Shortly afterwards other line regi- ments, as they then first hegan to be igalled, came into being. These were |Taised for the King by private cava- {lier gentlemen, who commanded { them, and whose names they bore. | Thus the old 1st Royals were known (as "Douglas' Regiment," the King's | {Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) {was "The Earl of Plymouth's Regi- iment of Foot," and so on. Natural- | ly, their commanders, who had no dif- {Beulty in persuading themselves that | they had a proprietary Interest in the {corps they had raised, vied with one | another in the smartness of their ap- | pearance. The army tailors of those {days must, one would imagine, have been hard put to it to please their many patrons, so varied and gorgeous [were the uniforms that were called {into being. For not only was every corps dress- 'ed differently to every other corps, | but not infrequently each of the ten BARBED WIRE FENCES They Were Invented to Warn Cattle and Hogs. When Joseph F. Glidden, a farm- er, of De Kalb, 11, back in 1872, got the idea of making wire fences with barbs on them, he had no more harmful design than to teach horses cattle and hogs, by the pricks they might rece"ve, that wire fences were meant to keep them -in or - out. When Uncle Sam, on December 24, 1874, gave . Farmer Glidden the Christmas gift of a patent on his new device, his idea was heralded to the world. The western prairies, with their lack of fencing materials, (had uied single strands of wire, but they availed little and the whole consumption. of wire for fencing in 1874 was only fifty tons. 4 Glidden's barbs made the cattle think, and the farmers soon saw their worth. In ten years the wire fences had increased 10,000-fold, and in 'tgn years more its growth had been the foundation of the wire trust. But Glidden reaped small reward from his invention until; February 29th, 1892, when the Unit-| ed States supreme court upheld his claims and he was able to collect! royalty on all the fences that had been strung before. He lived four: teen years to enjoy it, and died im his home town in 1906 at the age of ninety-three. Quite naturally some animals in- closed by Glidden's fencing gashed themselves on the barbs. Just as naturally men and boys tried to 7climb over or under these fences and had their yclothes and their flesh torn. These wounds upon man and beast and the suddenness with which | Glidden's barbs halted all living things 'came to the attention of! military men, and the barbed wire entanglements of which we now read almost every day in the war news was born. And it may be said right here that soldiers who have been halted by wire entanglements while mak-| ing a charge or manoeuvring for a new position, say the devil never in-| vented anything nastier. Possibilities seen by American | military students in barbed = wire | were soon carried to the armies of] Europe and engineers in every coun-| try in the world were put to work | devising means for using this new device. Natural forerunners of the barbed wire entanglements had been in use from the earliest times. | Roman soldiers had defended- their positions with abatis. They had held off their barbarian enemies by| felling trees, sharpening the ends | of the branches, and massing them! with their points turned away from the Eternal City. Fraises--gharp-pointed piles--had| been planted in the earth in front! of armies for their enemies to! wound themselves against or to halt! the onrush of a charge till the piles could bé removed or scaled. } Nobody outside of the Europeaa |drmies now at war knows how they! are using barbed wire entanglements jor in what forms they are building them, for the engineers of each! jarmy are constantly devising new | methods, and 'these new {ideas are {not divulged eyen in times of peace. { But the despatches tell of cavalry | {and infantry running heéadling into) | meshes of unyielding steel thorns that rouse the imagination to the {horror of the wounds they inflict. One use for barbed wire that seems to be new is reported from Belgium. There certain roads that it was desirable fo have made pass- able. to the people of the country were made impassable to an army, by building zigzag fences from side i to side. The peasant, going to | market, might pass by travelling | slowly and double distance, but an army could not thread such a { maze and must halt to destroy it.-- | | New York Times. a Si | . A War's Excesses. | New, York Evening Post. i It begins to appear that the devas. tations of the Russians in East Prus- | sia are the worst the war has yet pro- duced. The Russians themselves | | have admitted that their dofeated | troops laid waste the country as they | | retired. ~The Kaiser has stated that | the destruction was beyond anything | { hitherto known, that the whole East | Prussian country was utterly ravag- (ed. Now we have the word of two | | American reporters, who have cabled | to thé Globe that they have person- | ally seen and photographed "the most | for each cupful of milk allow a or fifthen' or sixteen sompanies into | LeTTible and disgusting devastations | level tablespoonful of butter and | which the regiments of those days | two level tablespoonfuls of Hour +bread--flour); melt butter, -- in the flour and add a cupful of milk bread. Origin of Language. + Language is the vehicle of thought it is language preceded the oral or ri Napanee, has dis- | language and that it was a Jong. time before the latter form of coin- i were divided would be given a dis- a | corps, we find one 'company wearing !eoatees of yelfow sitk- fringed with that next to it would be uniformed (in scarlet shell jackets, pale grey breeches and green hose; and so on | through 'all the various companies. | & im on parade in those days must have presented a } ! municating ideas became anything' like e RB H ere LL that have ony the gesture lang rday, having been ab-| supplemented by the merest jargon of sent four months visiting her rela- words. Beyond a doubt the race be- tives in #daho, Chicage and Toronto. On March 4th, Mrs: Kate Embury, 'wife of William Embury, and daugh- gan its career dumb, just as the babe does, and acquired its vorabulary very { slowly and painfully. . 1 known to war" At Golday the! Russians did not leave a house, store, | or chi 0 i 1 and all the surrounding towns there were similar excesses; every resi: dence being plundered; and the wo- | men, it is positively stated, were not | spared by the soldiery. Thus the! | Germdns have again had brought' home to them what a part of Belgium | has suffered, though they will not. ! of course, admit that the cases are | parallel, since they sist that they, burned only when assailed by the ¢i- | vilian, population. iver the excuse, the world is getting oh all sides a picture of just how bestially | (wicked + out wanton destruetion, the degradation of 'women. And yet! ar fanaties in this country and will doubtless continue to af- | firm that war : an thin, atin | : A Government Report On Clay Taken From the Deposit of the Kjugston Brick & Tile Company -- Few Pebbles Scattered Through Deposit, but Few are Limestones. From time to time of late there has been some discussion by those in- terested about limestone in the clay of the Kingston Brick & Tile Jompany. In order to secure a statement about the matter, and to make an 'in- quiry, a representative of the Whig had an interview with Albert Neal, the manager of the plant, and as a result some valuable informtion was secured. - Mr. Neal pointed out that the little stones that burn white in the clay are not limestone, and added that this was the very point that Mr. Keele, of the government geological survey makes reference to, in a report he has sub- mitted on a sample of clay taken from the deposit worked by the Kingston Brick & Tile Company. Mr. Keele has reference tor the little stones that burn white when he speaks of concretions in the clay. i Mr. Neal has always contended that it was not lime, and last summer Mr. Keele and his assistant, Mr. Miller, paid a visit to the Kingston Brick & Tile Company's plant and , exahined the clay, and on this occasion stated that it was not lime. Later he sent Mr. Miller back to the plant to secure some clay, which was taken to the testing room at Toronto Pavia and made into brick The report of Mr. Keelé upholds the contention of Mr. Neal, and it is only fair to the company that this announcement should be made, for the company has suffered quite a loss in the sale of brick as a result of this opin- ion." The company has a plant of the very best type, the materials turned out in a manner which shows the very best 'of workmanship, and it is to be regretted that this Kingston industry should suffer in this way as the result of a mistaken idea. , The plant has given employment to all the men possible, and as tlie trade increases will continue to incréase the staff. It is up to the people of Kingston to boom their local indutsry. Report on the Clay. The Whig asked Mr. Neal for a copy of the report of Mr. Keele, and he complied with the request. The report is submitted by R. G. McConnell, deputy minister of the department of mines, and reads as follows: "Rather-smooth grey clay, [airly free from pebbles and coarse grit, but contains numerous hard concretions. The working qualities and plasticity are good. The drying shrinkage 18 seven per cent. The drying requres to be done slowly to avoid cracking, but by adding about twenty per cent. of,sand, the drying can be hastened and the shrinkage reduced. "The following results were obtained in burning: Fire Slirnkage: 06 2 17 03 5 9 "This clay burns to a' red color and strong body at cone 010 (1742 oF.) A dehsér brick with better colour is secured by burning to about 1850 o.F. (it is unnecessary to burn to a higher temperature. The concretions that occur in this are harmless in their effect on the burned brick, as they do not air slake, swell and burst the brick as limestone pebbles do. The test brick made up including a large percentage of crushed concretions did not slake in air after three months' ex- posure. Limestone pebbles will usually show up in less than three weeks after burning. Any fail- ures hitherto seen in building bricks made from this clay were probably due to, the addition of a sand which contained limestone particles. 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