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"It is ordained that anyone who, after. having received . the Cross, shall again perform an act of brav- ery, .which, if he had not received 'such Cross, would have entitled him to it, such further act shall be re- corded by a Bar attached to the thor. riband by which the Cross is sus- Duck.--1 oup chop celery, ps bread crumbs, 2 cups cho walnuts, 2 boiled rice, ) onion, 11 1 tablespoon of al 8 " Wi 5 add airy and d go} tween sliced bread. Graham--Mix about ful of mustard with : ols of butter and ¢ P=. 8 ok pended, and for every additional act of bravery an additional Ba may be added." t his is the passage in the Royal Warrant of February 5, 1856, 'es- tablishing 'the 'Vittoria Cross, which provides for a 'possibility which has. now been realized. : ,Lieut.,"Martin Leake, who won 8| the Cross for gallantry at Vlalfon- =| tein in 1908, was then serving with -| Baden-Powell's Police, having gone out to South Africa with the Hert- fordshire Yeomanry. He is a medical man, trained ab University College Hospital, and on his' return to "England 'he went into private practice 'at Ware, Hertfordshire. In September last he re-entered. tite army and was | given a cominisgsion in'the R.A. M.O, + It has frequently been stated that : have been won by heroes in "| the past, but the ."Gazette" con: pepper and on lettuce be: "a teaspoo n- "| tains no record of such an event. "The late Sir Charles John Stanley Gough, one of two famous brothers who won the Cross in the Indian Mutiny, was credited with possess- i| ing three Bars. It is true that he was decorated for no fewer than four conspicuous and separate acts i| of bravery, one of which was saving the life of his brother, Lieut. Hugh | Gough, who also won the V.C., but | he was not gazetted until October | 21, 18569, when these various acts | were enumerated, . : Major Berryman, a Crimean vet- eran, who was '"'mentioned" for his bravery on four occasions, was an- other V.C. wearer supposed to pos- sess a Bar, but he himself denied it, Pa EEE a * oh Tf London Starved. Facing the almost, impossible con-. "| tingency of London fheing 'blodk- 'aded, and upon starvation rations, | one wonders whether the animals in the Zoo, at Regent's Park, would be slaughtered, as was the case with all the animals in the Parisian in Russian peasants, or, as to| with climates of the' | shows without disguise; he is ic n the East, an ar regions in the Noi e ical countries in the South -- nd's ally, Russia, , ut the greater part of its 175, 000,000 population, the bulk of the, Russian people, are the 100,000,000 they are generally 'called ~ "the Moujiks." though scattered in a country atest var- iety, they are very similar in hab r.| and customs, and what can be of the Moujik in cold Siberia true of the South Russian peasant. A Child of Nature. : Civilization, as it is understood in this country, has not made its] way yet to the Russian Moujik; he is still very much a child of Nature. | Love, hatred, joy, and sorrow he violent in the expression of any emotion, yet he feels deeply. He isi not emotional, but always inclined to melancholic contemplation ; per- severing, even obstinate, yet eas- ily persuaded and easily led any-] where ; cunning, and at the same time simple-minded, and with & child's faith. é The Slav character at its best can be observed in that big, bearded fellow who believes in God, the Tsar, and his country. y What are his needs in life! A small two or three roomed house, & small field, some cattle--and he is satisfied. If he is not hungry, if he has a shelter over his head without the rain passing through it, he oon: siders himself happy. Greediness, passion for money, is very rare among the Moujiks; all his ambi: tions and dreams are anothér acre of land, one more horse or ox. A' large ; a burden, as évery member, whe- ther male or female, works and helps, Therefore, early marriages, such as are unknown in other coun- tries, are very frequent. Fathers of nineteen and mothers of even & younger age are not rare. The pa- triarchal family life still exists; the father. is head of the family, his de- cisions being indisputable. When the son married, if not liv-| ing separately, he brings his 'wife to his parents, so that the lus band's family is always the winner by getting a new working member. Marriages are still contracted in very many cases thre choice "of the parents, and the parties whom it most concerns are seldom con- sulted. Yet such marriages are no less happy than those in which the choice is given to the young people themselves. With Few Pleasures. The amusements of the Moujik are Very few. Dances in the long winter evenings, where many a love affair begins to bud, x the music of accordeons, or "harmoniects," the Russian national instrument; girls' choirs, or the famous "Kho- rovods" in summer, with ' a few quaint customs, such as masquer- ading' at 'Christmas 'fortune-telling on the eve of New Year's day, that is all which relieves the monotony of the village life. Owing to the vast area of Rus: sia, and the few railways, thous- ands upon thousands of villages are at a great distance from the bustle of city life. The visit of "| nomadic merchant who travels about in his cart all the year round | with a stook of wares to villages in this or that province, covering T {thousands of miles, is quite an | event in 'the monotonous life of the population. The newspaper | & luxury to the Russian Mou: nd all 'news of the } the cheek this | v0 the other side. not | first. family is not. considered' e Russian M will have the quali of his predecessor, without evils: Education and Hoivilization'" il his lued treas: i : § ARYANS Hy "IN DEATH'S DARK VALE." Scottish Privates Prayed as Ger- mans Surrounded. Town. = The scene was in the loft of a 'Belgian house, the charactérs three Scottish 'privates and a corporal, cut off during a hurried retreat be- fore an invading horde of Germans. All that was left for the four men to do was to lie low while the enemy were burning, looting, and killing in the street below, and this tish U.F. Church Record For hours they waited amid all the ter- rible sounds of war and carnage, venturing only to guess as to what was transpiring outside. Suddenly the corporal "Lads, it's time for church parade; let's hae a wee bit service here; it may be oor last.'"' He took out & small Testament from his breast pocket. "Canna we sing somethin Try your hand at the 23 Psalm. Quiet, noo--very quiet," and the four men sang: "Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill; For Thou art with me, and Thy rod And staff my comfort still."' Then the corporal an reading : "Fear not them which Kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul ; but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell, Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground with- out your Father. But the very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear not, therefore ; ye are of more value than' many sparrows." . Shouts, rose from below, doors banged, and glass was smashed, but he went on: "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find + it:"' * He ended, "We maun finish it oot. Let us pray.' ' The corporal stood, the others knelt. Whilé'he prayed a 'heavy hand thrust open the door, and they heard an exclamation of surprise. Not a man moved, and the cor. poral went calmly on. They heard the click of heels that told them a Qerman officer was standing ab attention. For a moment the sus- pense ed, and then came the soft closing of the door. No one else came near them, and ab dusk the four men ventured forth and Lasaged to regain the British nes. said, rem meres HAS BULLET IN HEART. Now in London Hospital, Among the many curious cases of wounds which have been investi: ted by. the X-rays at.8t. Bartho-, w's Hospital in London is one in which & German bullet was found imbedded in the muscular part of a soldier's héart. "The radiographer who located 'the bullet said that it entered the man's left shoulder and burrcwed downward. The amazing feature of the case was that after the ¢ lier 'had been hit he walked for a mile and a half to an ambulance. He did not realize that he was wounded, he said, until he saw a few splashes of blood. The bullet was not removed, and the man lived afterward. = "This is by no means an isolated case of a man living, and even of following some occupation, with & Toren Jou in wa vital part. Two interesting radiographs in the lab- oratory at St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital illustrate this. One is of a German bullet imbedded in the right lung. It measures about one and a quarter inches long, and the delineation: is perfect. e other shows a number of pieces of dhrap- '| nel in the skull cavity at the base "1 of the eye underneath the brain. | The shrapmel i entered one side of and penetrated through ae an 0 Brothers Fighting Brothers, W r says that in war a Swiss mother has [ : who fought in ; of a d ot infrequent, ' wer ! would to-day e 'and ; but the priv ust; be of quik at corum far less rigid. Dry Russell of Yarrow an amazing and amusing picture of the country congregation, human and canine, "There were no doors on the pews," he exclaims, "and nothing 'but a norrow deal as a footboard, as it used to be non a century ago xcite the horror of worshippers no more truly pious than their grandfathers, and in most requirements of religious de. ! "t| was no longer Kirk has drawn 8 5 ; to he came for such pu ould Ss uw or tremble. The fact 'at Samm a Jak friendship with! Saul should heighten their appre hension, 5. Banctify yourselves--The cus tomary oceremoni purification,' which included washing the gest ments (Gen. 35. 2; Exod. 19. 10} Josh. 3. 5). And he sanctified Jesse and his is their story as told in the Scot-| and no separation below between them; and it can easily be imagin- ed that when the shepherds from Ettrick and Yarrow came to church sons--He superintended the sancti fication of Jesse and his sone. This would take place in Jesse's Some Stories of Wounded Soldiers | old, each shepherd was accompanied by his dog and snugly wrapped in his plaid--no matter what the weather or the seasou--what rows were. "On the slightest growl, the dogs If a couple fell out and showed lght it was the signal for a general melee ! The rest that were prowling about, or half asleep at their master's feet, rushed from their lairs, way through below the pews, and among the feet of the occupants, and raised a dust that fairly envel- oped them. Then the strife waxed fierce and furious; the moise 'be- came deafening, the voice of minister was literally drowned, and he was fain to pause, whether in all pricked preaching o ""I'wo or three shepherds had to their unmercifully before the: rout wae quelled and the service re- leave their nibbies sumed." , When the belligerent animals re- frained- from interrupting the ser- yice, they frequently went to the other extreme apd participated. in it--joining in the singing of the alms with long-drawn howls, The ediction, as a matter of course, was always® people seated dowgs" ; then, at the first move- ment after it, "a perfect storm of barking brake out as the-dogs pour- ed out of the building ahead of the people,"' It was often inconvenient for the shepherds to leave their collies be- hind, and it was long - before the dogs were excluded by order. One minister gave great offense through placing such emphasis "Without are dogs,' as pointedly to suggest the inference that he considered their o presence within the church distinet- Scriptural up their ears, found r in prayer. places and use pronounced "with "to cheat on words, ly undesirable. ree Mf Valuable Articles 'Are Sometimes FINDS IN THE TRENCHES. ---- Picked Up By Soldiers. From time to time some extraor- dinary lucky finds have been come upon by our soldiers when trench- i t in the Black' Watch informed the writer that two 'of his ' some deep trenches near a ruined peasant's cottage in the neighborhood of the Yser, came upon a big pile of Eng- lish, French, and German gold and the total value of which 'was close on $500. The men divided the spoils between them, and that very night both were wounded, and in three days were sent to Fngland, taking their find 'digging. | iA sergean men, 'when silver. coins, with them. 1880. necklace, trench his company. h from the Germans, an apparently been dropped there by | one of its preyipus occupants. necklace amd know come into, her possession. He told her that it was probably 200 'years a design that was ex- and of ¢ digging there the the the the The peasant's cottage had been in ruins for several years, 'and the coins had evidently been placed . there a good time ago, for mone of them bore a more recent date than out a valuable find. The girl's employer, who had some of. the value of antique works of art, noticed the necklace on the girl, who told him how it-had house and give Samuel an oppor-| tunity for closer acquaintance with Jesse and his sons. * Called to the sacrifice--He told the elders of the city to come with him to the sacrifice. He was care- ful to see that Jesse and his sons would be present. 6. And said--That is, he thought within himself. Samuel well re- membered Saul," who was head and shoulders above the rest of his tribe. So when Eliab appeared, Samuel concluded that he was the Lord's chosen. For he had all the outward qualification of a Line. As the successor of Baul, Eli fitted the requirements. So Sam- uel reflected. But he was soon to learn that commanding height and | pleasing countenance were not the only evidences of kingly qualities. In fact, these were of no signi- ficance if the real qualities were lacking. 7. But Jehovah said unto Samuel --Bomething in Eliab must have | struck Bamuel as unfavorable, and he heard the voice of God prompt: ing him to be careful in 'his ob- servations. Ld 'For Jehovah seeth not as man seeth---See Luke 16. 15; Acts 1. 24. Israel's first king was a man after their heart: large in stature, com- manding in appearance; but their choice of Saul was influenced by the * external' 'appéarance. = Now Jehovah will chopse for; himself and he will look upon the heart. 9.» Shammah--Also called Shim- eah (2 Sam. 13. 8). He was. the third son of Jesse, the father of Jonadab, "a very subtile person" (2 Sam. 13. 3), and of Jonathan, who slew a giant of Gath (2 Sam, 21. 21; 1 Chron. 20. 6, 7). 11. We will not sit down -- The Hebrew has around, meaning "We will not sit: around the sacrifice table until David appears."' - 12. Now he was ruddy--In south ern countries the hair and com plexion were usually dark. One who was ruddy," that is, red of hair and fair of skin, was particu- larly attractive, goodly to look upon. See Gen. 39. 6 for a similar description of Joseph, and Exod. 2: 2 for a description of Moses. = 13. The horn of oil (see vérse ' 1 of this ehapter) and anointed him --See 2 Sam. 24. Just as Saulhad been anointed twice (1 Sam. 10. 1; 11. 14, 15), so David was twice an: ointed. Cal Tn the midst of his brethren -- In the presence of his brethren: It -is evident, from the after history, that David's brothers did not -reall- ize what had happened to him.' It has been suggested that "they may have sup that Samuel * had selected David for a pupil.in his . prophetic school" (see 1 Sam. 19 18ff), And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon ~ David from that day forward--Bo the Spirit came upon Saul at first (1 Sam. 10. 6). So the Spirit came upon the judges (see Judg. 3. 10; 6. 34; 11. 20; 14. 19; 16. 14). Compare Acts 1. 8 a "But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon, you." David means "béloved;"' "or | "darling,"' probably 'in reference. |; of "the A girl typist in a London office' i his bei ni recently received from her brother foils being Wie Youtigest at the front a* gold "and enamel ; which he found in a ad - captured] d which had' i Shree Timely': Tf wou are-one of ate persons to who spring thring*a seri chills you (ini pl following! at least a trial. When ing to a place of wors! -ooncert, or simtler your overcoat on, your arm- y go. The exercise of walking "w Arrived, do; ou are g0- ip, lecture, Woe, car rl - thep | coat flor or scar ik jhe ends in front, reve V opening at the nds to search. The' to search,