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DON'T IT JEST BEAT ALL Ro Colone]'s Orderly Has an Altogether Unfiattering Opinion of Fraach intelligence. Red, the colonel's orderly, stood in the doorway picking his feeth. Red is glx feet two inches tall, and dispro- portionately narrow. He is 8 member of a regiment recruited in the Middle { Wast, but he hails from the Panhandle of Texas, and betrays the fact every time he opens his mouth. At the mo- | ment of our approach he was address- |ing_ an unseen and presumably a sym- athetc listener beyond the thresh- Me, um' outdone with these | ex people," 1 heard him i. "Here we've been camped Wmongat 'em fer goln' on four months nd they afh't learnt English yet. ou'd think they'd want to know how {to talk to people in a reg'lar honest-to- | God language--but no, seein' seemin'ly {not a-tall. I'd be ashamed to be so ignorunt and show it. Course oncet in a while you do run acrost one of I'em that's picked up & word here and there; but that's about all. | "Now f'rinstance you take that nice. | lookin' little woman with the black {eyes and the shiny teeth that runs that there little store in this here jast | {town we stayed a spell In before we | come on up here. I never could re- | | member the name of that there town | iit was so outlandish soundin'--but you | | remember the womsgn, don't you? Well, | there's a case in p'int. She was bright | eneugh Sok but she was like all | fhe rest seemed like she Jest } couldn't id up enough reg'lar words ite help her git around, Ef I went In Her place and asked her fer sardines | | she'd know whut I meant right off and { { hand "em over, but ef 1 wanted some | cheese she didn't have no ides whut ¥ was talkin' about. Don't it jest beat al?" --Irvin 8. Cobb. i, AaRT TE mi MANY USES FOR SANDBAG | Soldiers Employ it in a Number of Tf Ways Besides What it ls Offi. ! clally Intended For. i The sandbag is one of the most use- ful pleces of military equipment found anywhere and the soldier puts it to manifold uses. Their official use, of | course, is to be filled with sand or clay | | land built Into ramparts, barricades land trenches. Their unofficial uses sre 3 Heglon, | The infantryman always uses a sand. 'bag for carrying and storing his ra. itions, for patching and re-enforcing his® clothing, for lining and curtaining his dugout, for muffling mallets and stakes when putting wp wire in No IMan' s Land. They make excellent gal- ters, belng tied on over the puttees ae fn farther protection against mud and damp. They make cozy mufflers in had weather, They are used to cover shrapnel helmets to prevent reflection, and they are frequently In demand for rifle covers, i Many soldiers siways pull two sand- bags over their feet and legs when go- ing to bed in billets; in other words, the sandbag is Tommy's pajamas. The {warmth and comfort of a burlap sand- i bag when pulled over chilled feet is i astonishing. The postman's mailbag at the front fs nothing more than an empty sand- bag, and the water carriers also use two sandbags, slung back and front over the shoulder, each containing = petrol tin full of water "The war will be over," a soldier wit once sald, "when all of Belgium and France has been put into send- bags." CIEE RICICIRBEECICICICISIRSS CICRIBICIGISICIORISE Ln IN 2 1 BUY WATCHES TO GET GOLD rosperous 3 NC Ya V4 Pb aE Sy 24 Ta PS Ingenious Bcheme of Central Empires to Increass Their Supply of the Precious: Metal. ' It is an oddity of the world war thed 'the jewelry trade is flourishing. A ses cret article in the Revue Suisse d'Ex- portation of Geneva gives an interest ing view of this situation and also sug- gests a method by whieh the central empires undoubtedly have increased their gold supply---namely, the impor tation of gold Jewelry to be melted in to bullion. In the course of the crisis provoked by the European war we pass from ons surprise to anether, says the Revue. he bs ap Sundries, one after an- A x iors, while those for watches of high and low prices are few. trade has passed Everything went well so lang' 3 there were ne abuses, but the time when jewelry, especially héavy chains without much workman- ship, began to be exported to the Orie 'ent. High prices were paid for these, [/ articles. Gold (fine) in Switzerland is Be & 5 bd DC BC NEN re PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- cept their food much the same as they breathe the air They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a thing as this affecting their own diuner table never enters R¢ their mind, and it is the fesponsibility of The Observer $7 to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- 2A less something is dome, in another yoar, they will not be oh reading about the hunger in Belgium but the hunger in = Ontario, & Tlie following shoull be memorized by every reader of 25 Tur OBSERVER Under the Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Conferi\ 4 ence of all interestod in food production was held in Th: oO fn route on Monday, May 7, / ' AAAI KERR CS BT - CAUSE AND CURE OF CRAMPS Yoo High Blood Pressure Frequently Brings Thom On--Remeved by Vigorous Rubbing. Iz this srticle we shall discuss only the local muscular spasms that affect most commonly the calves of the legs, but that sometimes occur in the thighs, the arms or the wall of the abdomen. Internal cramps, or colic, swimmer's cramp and writer's cramp are affec- BRITAINS NORM 4 sudden, painful and very strong con- - Ti clo1rs pothies a Pa usorey: a YLT tent in the effected lMmb, for to do 452795264 Ibs NETEXPORTS that a eofitraction of nearly the entire muscle is necessary, and then we have : 6.993100Lbs what is called a spasm, ot a convul- slom. The contraction is involuntary, al though persons who are subject to PE, i NE GLBRITAINS SHORTACE A} " dur to WAR RC a sleep, and the iotense pain awakenS§ } 8 SA the sufferer with a start. The affected RS AGO part of the muscle forms a hard knot, if a large part of the muscle {8 involved the limb may be draivn up. Children and the figed suffer more often with cramps thati do persons fn middle life. In children the cause Is | usually violent exercise, stich as run- ning and jumping, but in the elderly a tendency to cramps Is often caused by Incipient hardening of the arteries, When the blood pressure is high, 380 sites occur, but they ig o the pressure is Persons