+") sheen aw) \ "All for a Sera Life," ete. Autho CHAPTER XTI.---(Cont'd) | Presently the service was over, and! Tom made his way towards the vesti- | bule of the church. Scores of hands! were held out te him, hundreds of} greetings were offered to him. Many | congratulated him on his bravery,| and on his distinction. | Then suddenly Tom's heart ceased | to beat, for standing before him was! Alice Lister. | Tom felt his tongue eleave to the! roof of his mouth. He could not) speak, while Alice seemed almost as | much wrought upon as he. | He looked around as if in expecta- tion of seeing Harry Briarfield, but Harry was nowhere present. What did it mean? Afterwards Tom wondered at his| temerity; wondered that he should| dare to speak to her at all. But | some power which was stronger than} himself compelled him to'do so. He} held out his hand to her. | "How are you, Alice?" he said. | Alice gave him hér hand, but did, not reply, save that /her fingers} trembled in his. } A thousand Wopes. fancies, and| fears flashed through his mind heart; then Alice shyly lifted her eyes | to his. 'May I Alice?" walk home with you, } he stammered. } "Yes, if you will, Tom," and the two} walked away side by side. | They walked up Liverpool Road to-| gether for some time without speak- | ing a word, On every side*the crowd passed them, but Tom did not heed, | his heart was too full for words, his; mind too oceupied with wild, turbul-! ent fancies. Presently they passed into a quiet lane where they were ap- parently alone. "Alice," said fair ashamed of myself, I ec lm just "No," and Alice interrupted him, | "you are a hero, Tom, you have done, wonderful things." "Ah, but that is nothing,' was Tom's| reply, "I could not help doing that, ! no decent lad could, But the other} ®now--ay, Alice, IT am ashamed of} myself. If was such a fool too!" Alice did not speak; perhaps she was delighted at Tom's self-condemna- | tion, or perhaps, which was more like-! ly, she was eagerly waiting for him to! say more. | "Is it true what mother told me?"| he asked, after what seemed a long) silence. "What did she tell you?" "That you are engaged to Harry) Briarfield," ; "NO!" replied the girl eagerly, "I never was!" io "Then is it that young parson?" 'No, Tom; who could have told you a Liew 72) 3 : ashife people are very unde-| ive in their love-making, as' St of their things, and although, was nearly swept off his #eet-with Foy at what Alice had said, he still} waiked on by her side quietly, and for| some seconds did not speak again. "I never really cared about Polly} Powell," he said presently, "even at! the time J----r--" ; "T knew, Tom," and the girl almost sobbed as she spoke, "I knew all the! time you could never really care for her, and--and that you would come} back to me. That was why--' "Why what?" asked Tom. "Why there was never anybody else! but you, Tom," > YUL "Do you mean it, Alice? do you! really mean it?" and Tom's voice was| hoarse and tremulous, -- "Can you| forgive me? _I chucked Polly Powell; long ago, and I let her know it yester-| day when I came home. She met me! at the station with the others, and I never knew what a fool I had been till I'saw her just as she was. Ay, I} must have been mad!" | "fT heard all about it," replied the girl, "but it didn't need that to tell me that you would come back to me, Tom." "Ay," said Tom, "but I feel $0 ashamed. I feel as though I have no-} thing to offer you. lam only a poor Tommy with a bob a day, but will you wait for me, Alice, till the war is over ?--and then if God spares my life I will work for you night and day, and { will give you as good a home ag there is in Brunford.' "T can't help waiting. for you," sob bed Alice. "Can't help! Why?" asked Tom. "Because---because-- oh, you know." {ft was not until an hour later that Tom and Alice appeared at George Lister's house. During that time Tom had told Alice the story of his life! since he had parted from her. Told} her of the influences which had been at work, how he had been led td pray, and how his heart had all the time been longing for her. In spite of Alice's repeated questions he had said very little about his hour of peril,! when he had risked his life to serve! his country; that seemed of little im-!| portance to him. flis one thought was to make Alice know that he was ashamed of himself for wing her, and that he loved her ail the: time. "Ay,' said George Lister to his! wife when Tom had left the. house, "our Alice is a fool." "*Appen she is," replied ter, "but yon's a grand lad, a grand lad!" "He may be a grand lad,' retorted; her husband, "and I don't 'deny that! he has behaved vary weel, but how! can he keep a wife? What sort of home can he give our Alice?" j "A lad that can do what he has, done," replied Mrs, Lister, "will make | is way anywhere. If God spares his! life, he will come back when the war's| lover, and you will not have any rea-, : ashamed of him is not) Yo $ d, Mis. Lis-| fair a} eon to do : to be fove is ass you put Tom in en the war's lad, as you icky the way he { y and got the he King thinks e Lister filled his ere was a look of mt to her room that "and he is coming ning too!" : Y said Tom when he have made it up with TOMI Rie Remar yearns RDF roatee PT "8 enema rs OH HOCKING of Paper," ublished by Hodder Stoughton, Limited, Lendon and Toronte ja bit afraid. Tarry she sobbed for very, : | - Women are always being asked to God, thank God,", make sacrifices; that is why they re- wartime. It 'gurely is time now to begin harping! y of men in the matter of | ane r of "Dearer Than "Tha' néver ses!" and Mrs. Pollard's voice was very caressing. '"That's one for Polly Powell, anyhow. $he wur $9 never thy sort, Tom--a lass wi' a mother like that can never be ony good." 1916, "Ay, and she's the finest lass i'| ebruary 21--German drive began. Brunford, is Alice ister," said Ezekiel contentedly; "and is she will- ing: to wait for thee, Tom?" om laughed joyfully. "Maybe they will make an officer f thee," said Mrs, Pollard. "No," said Tom, "I shall never be an officer, I don't belong to that class; ° C BATTLE THAT COST ONE MILLION MEN FORT DOUAUMONT, "KEYSTONE OF VERDUN." Changed Hands Four Times And Is the Scene of Unparalleled Devastation. May 24--Germans take Douaumont, October 24--French take Douau- mont. Shell-torn almost beyond recogni- perhaps I will be a sergeant, or some- thing like that, but that's as may be; anyhow, V'll do my bit." When Tom's leave was up, George Lister said he had business in London, so Alice accompanied him. / Truth to tell, the business Which George had was only a secondary matter; he saw that Alice wanted to accompany her lover as far as she could, and the business was a pretext. I also made my way to Waterloo Station to see Tom off; that was only a few days , ago, and what I saw and heard is! fresh in my memory. But however long I may live, I shall never forget and! the look in Tom's eyes as he stood on| war, for it the platform with Alice by his side. | A great light was burning there, the light of love, and duty, and faith, and| and hiold the line along the ridge com- chastened joy. "Don't fear, Alice;' said the lad, "TI will come back again all right." "You-----you are sure you will take care of yourself, Tom," and Alice's voice was husky, although she was evidently making a great effort to be brave. "Ay, that I will," said Tom. Crowds of soldiers thronged the platform, while hundreds of their friends who came to see them off made mies were shouting and cheering, while others found their way into the carriages as if anxious to be quiet. "They seem splendid fellows," said Alice, "but some of them are very rough, aren't they?" "Just a bit rough," replied Tom, "but they are all right. Some of those very chaps who look rough and com- mon are just heroes, you know; they would face any kind of danger to doa pal a good turn. Perhaps you may not think it to look at them, but their hearts are true as gold. This war has made a wonderful difference in them." Alice pressed his arm <onvulsively. "You know that book you lent me the other day," went on Tom, "that book of Kipling's where there is a story about a ship that found herself. It means a lot, does that story. That's what this war has done for a lot of us chaps, it's helped us to find ourselves." The guard blew his whistle, and there was a slamming of doors. "Good-bye, Alice," and Tom held her close to his heart. "The war will be over soon, and then, please God, 1 will come back again." "Yes, yes, Tom, and--and you know I will be always thinking of you, and praying for you." "Ay, lass, I do, that's why I'm not It's not good-bye, Alice, it's only au revoir as the French say. You will be brave, won't you?" "Yes, Tom," though her voice was husky; "and and, Tom"----this with a sob--'I shall be loving you--loving you all the time." Slowly the train left the station. At the carriage windows hundreds of men stood waving their hands, and shout- ing. They were going back to the grim, cold trenches, going to danger, and possible death; but they were going with brave hearts and the light of resolution in their eyes. Amongst them was Tom. He, too, was waving his hand, although his lips. were tremulous. "God help me to do my bit, and then take me back to her," he prayed. Will he come back again, or will he be one of those who give their lives for the defence of honor and home? This I know: he with a great host of others will fight on, and hold on until victory is won, the victory which means peace. ' (The end.) : hs Se | QUEER. BEASTS OF LONG AGO. | That Did Not Survive Because Not Adapted to Environment. Nature seems to have made a whole she spoke bravely, al-| \tion, with great breaches in the orft- lines of her once sturdy walls "and ihuge shell craters scattered thick | within the broken ramparts, Douau- imont, the centre of the battle of Ver- | dun, lies to-day a mere wreck of the | powerful fort it once was. But it is | still under the tricolor and its battered | walls mark one great point of German | defeat. They also tell the tale of the icollapse of the hopes of the German i Crown Prince to go down into history fas one of the military geniuses of the | Neier cinee OC. ttme ak tibet - 5 c Pebruary 26--Germans take Dou-| prance and Italy are in the fighting aumont. : z line, and, obviously, cannot be food P 99 Wy . ak $ May 22--French take Douaumont. | oducers. In normal times, these FAMINE OR FOOD? Starvation, Always a of War, Threatens Fighting Countries. Corollary { Famine has always been a corollary of war. Even minor conflicts "have in- variably brought about more or less serious want in the nations engaged. At the present time, world famine is within measurable distance. The tre- mendous waste, coupled with a great decline in the production of foodstuffs is rapidly depleting available supplies and if the war continues for a _ pro- longed period, nothing short of superr human efforts can prevent the nations participating in it from going hungry. Millions of the men _ in Britain, countries were dependent on _ other | countries for much of their supplies of foodstuffs, but now they are more than | ever To outline the situation con- cretely: It is estimated that the pro- duction of wheat in the United King- | dom, Belgium, France and Italy this year will fall short by 500,000,000 bushels of the pre-war average. It should be remembered that in the three years before the war these countries imported together about 750,000,000. bushels annually; also that war conditions make any marked in- crease in production within the next | few years difficult, if not impossible: | This deficiency in wheat has its paral- | 50, r. 7 . < 'a ey" | . . E was here that Genin Fel in meats and dairy products andj} | Petain defeated the attempts o 1€ lonly the most careful management 'flower of the German army to take |} |manding Verdun. | Douaumont, therefore, marks one of | i the high points in the war, not because of its strategic value, which is small, | but because the victory came at a time jwhen the morale of the French people needed strengthening, in order to face | }with courage the awful strain of a} | struggle against odds which were little | short of overwhelming. And as the Tom at length, "I'm| it difficult to move; many of the Tom-! effect of the defeat ofthe efforts of | the best German troops to take and | 'hold Douaumont were stimulating to! | the French people, so the result of the |eonflict was depressing to the German ination. It was a battle the ultimate effect of which was more far-reaching | than the mere military outcome. | The fort of Douaumont lies two |miles north of Verdun-at an elevation fof about 1,200 feet. While never im- | pregnable, ax modern forts go, still it Iwas a well built structure, with sotida | | | |masonry walls of fair height» and lamply capable of resisting the artil- lery which was in common use up to| \the time of the present war. Its arma- ment was presumably that of the Eu- ropean fort of its size and class. One Million Casualties. Termed by the German Kaiser 'the Verdun," this fort of | the one of the fiercest struggles military supremacy that the world /known. It was the storm centre of a battle that lasted ten months and cost of 'keystone of Douaumont was scene of for has ever 'the opposing sides 1,000,000 men, i which it is estimated that 400,000 were French and 600,000 were German casualties. The fort changed hands four times during the battle, and prob- lably more shells were exploded upon its surface than upon any other piece in the world remarkable of ground of s*ilar s It passed through some scenes, but doubtless the most extraor- dinary moment of the ten months' fight was the afternoon of October 24, 1916, when the French retook for the last time the fort which the Germans had captured. Since that day it remained in French hands. The scene of devastation which met when } nas the eyes of the victorious army the last German had been captured or driven from the battered furrows t which were once wooden-lined trenches can scarcely be imagined. There had been very complete and jtance of Australia | 39,000,000 acres in | field crops. | be met by a much larger use of women will save the herds of those coun- | tries from serious, if not ruinous, de- | pletion. | Such a situation can mastered | by two methods only. First, by con- serving existing resources; Second, by increasing production. Both these remedies are receiving attention in the countries at war, but the shortage of land, labor and fertilizers presents al- most insurmountable obstacles to any great increase in production in Eu- rope. Further, the shortage of ocean going freighters and the great dis- from the market largely eliminates the Commonwealth as a source of supply. \ Canada and the United States must, | therefore, in large measure, meet the | difficulty. In 1915, slightly more than | Canada were in In 1916 the area had de- creased by nearly 4,000,000 acres. | Whetker oriut-inigs decline i: an shortage of labor, it is a serious f4ll- ing off in time of war. If men are not available, the labor problem can be ta on the farms, as well as by the use of | | larger and more efficient farm machin- } ery. In Britain, many thousands of women have left the cities to work on | the land; better machinery has been procured, in some cases by the Gov- ernment, by whom it is leased to the farmers at reasonable rates. In this | way Britain has greatly increased her production of foodstuffs, in pite of the tremendous drain that the war has made on the man-power of the coun- try. Canada can, and doubtless will, follow the lead of the motherland. DECREASING MOOSE. THE Growing Scarcity of Once-Abundant Wild Animals. The moose once ranged over the whole of our northeastern woods. Now, Minnesota is the only state in the United States where there are en- ough moose to be killed, not very many there. Maine, which most thorough and best enforced game with any state, a close season was put in effect in 1915, for the simple that there were too many hunters. Along the southern frontier of Canada where the country is brought under develop- and there are In the state of has had perhaps the laws regard to moose of reason /member that surgical cleanliness is the | at this period that the mother must jchild should be furnishec | that will provide growth of bone, mus-| | their palates. ig | wheat modern trenches inside the fort before ment, and where the moose once! the French made their successful re- roamed in thousands, you will now | t 2 i€ ' i bi . CCEsSs , ; 3 : a V iturn attack, and the barbed-wire~ en- seldom find enough moose to make. it | away in f the fort, to any as tanelements, stretching far front of the solid walls o were deemed impregnable worth while to hunt them. It is worth while in New Brunswick, because there they have been thoroughly protected. 7 a eee abt Soe ee oe = a : sault. The defenses of the fort had They are scarce even in many out- been made as strong as German effi lying districts as, for instance, the Peace River valley, until recently re- ciency could make them. But this attack had been preceded garded as remote but now thrown open | spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake lin a hot oven about ten minutes. Fx at experiments fat wets ap Very. by the heaviest artillery fire that the | t° eeoen ett m Ain, Wie, Denver successful. There were -- the Titano- | wench had vet delivered. The great| Indians were half starved, because | theres tints 'huge heasta'!) for guns, which were to compete so suc- they could not get enough meat to | example. abe ie pes oh nearly | cessfully with the heaviest German keep them alive, and one band of as big = oe _-- sah Rie be-| ordnanceghad been completed and sent aniaa® 6 aaa 190 miles up- the cg Pon one es : .. |up from Paris, together with an un- Liard river to hunt moose. Yet a . They passed out of existence'a mul- | jimited supply of ammunition, and) sportsman's magazine printed a com- jlion or more years ago, and such} j ons of the largest shells wére poured munication entitled, "Game in the knowledge LS Ee Pita i pts to-day into the German defenses. More than| Peace River Country | Unlimited," Ss neovee =, their. bones, 'Qag. ou 1,000,000. shells were expended by the} Which drew a glowing picture of of the hocks aid une heen pa of French in their preliminary bombard- | Moose, deer and antelope roaming the | North America. They were of many | went, and the destruction wrought by woods in countless numbers. Where | ; species, and undoubtedly in their time | 44m showed how accurate was. the| did the writer ever see an antelope were very numerous. dogs four times the weight of a St. Be) "n those ard there was a land- days bridge across Bering Strait, and ani- been churned "pv over and ey ee ther t isan electric, telephone or guy sals migrated to and fro between Asia| by the shells which followed. , One. wire In an emergency, remove a "and North America. Our buffalo came credible correspondent sigh sisal ash € with an-insttument equipped | from Asia (say the naturalists) by Douaumont with the victorious French Ware ww 0eken handle, keeping the | that path; and it was by the same army declared that on the WHE 1 age full length 0 the handle between route that the Old World obtained, there was "not a space as big as the. yours and the wit from this continent the horse and the| palm of a man's hand that had ae ase camel. been flung into the air arenes Suspended Walls. | But the Titanotheres failed to sur-| flung up again and again by the s! One of the queerest structures inj |vive somehow. Perhaps they were ceased entirely to exist, being re- | placed by other herbivorous mammals | better adapted to ; ronment. | eG Aa rn third of the land Fully one 'the House of Lords. spond so quickly in on the ; personal sacrifices. | wiped out by bear-eats and other big'| carnivores. Whatever the reason, they | the American envi- in Great Britain is owned by members. of | range obtained by the attacking gun- pounding of the huge iron mis- yove them had steady esiles and/ the ground | with which the French p attack." i Ta RR ee An investigation is being conducted under the direction of the Food Con- troller into the poultry situation. A study is being made of such questions as the cost of producing eggs and poultry and of the cost of feeding. { -- A system of monthly returns from | all wholesale dealers in fish has been | instituted by the Food Controller and will be the basis for reguiar statistical | market information, which is expect-| ed to be beneficial to the fish trade of, the Dominion. | erful 'walls bear no weight wha roaming the woods? It The Museum of Natural History, in ners. It is estimated that, as at the; people do not realize the peril con- New York, has made great collections battle of the Somme, one ton of metal | fronting our animals. of their osseous remains; and many was deposited on every square yard of | ----------~--__--- of the skeletons Sols cen are 0 | the objective. Gavakc Pinch rearly cc ate the ts experts are = . | able to cake: ie Pege oration 'of Com peta Wrecked. Some safety hints for the wise, the creatures, "showing what they After the bombardment, no trace | which are intended to guard against looked like in life. of the barbed-wire entanglements or | serious accidents and a possible loss They were contemporary, in this | of the trenches themselves was to be | of life, are being sent out broadcast country, with horses the size of mod-:seen. The outlines oe 2 Sud 7 by the electric light companies. From ern foxes, tapirs not much bigger, too were shattered nto Meg = a then may be selected the follov camels no larger than cottontail rab- | Which indicated only in a cu 'Re, et aaa electric globe w bits (which seem to have been exceed- | here it had stood. une sins sie be or cloth. It may start a fire. ingly numerous in the plains region of | and the tret ches had a toe ete . not hang an ordinary lamp cord the West), bear-like cats and giant. pletely disappeared. [The wire had); over a nail or metal work. Do not becn blown deep into the earth by the leave*a cord connected when you are through with it. Do not touch any wire that is down on the ground, whe- the world is an electric-station build- ing at Cristobal, in the Panama Canal | The roof is supported by central columns and the zone. pow- side ver but are suspended from the eaves by means of cantilever beams. On one side of | the building, the wall is made fast to ithe foundation with anchor bolts. This unique construction was adopted to prevent the building from settling at a dangerous angle should an earth- quake tremor shift the: foundation. j 'i Po ea ane een Tt is much easier to clean windows ona cloudly day than on a bright day shows that } |deny that the Brit 'heavy weight in the war, not only DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME Twenty-Fourth Lesson--Children's Food The baby who must depend upon} bers have no place in the small child's the bottle to supply nutriment to diet. ® maintain life needs good care and at-| Good home-made bread and pure tention. j milk contain the necessary elemen's That this baby may thrive, the|that are of 'vital importance for the | mother should' have the physician] successful growth during childhood, | prescribe a formula that will agree| That the bread contain all the neces: with the child. Cleaaliness is a big| Say elements of the wheat, it should factor. It is impossible to keep lit- be made from whole wheat meal or tle bodies, Clothing and the utensils| flour. This gives the child the valua-| . ble vitamines that are contained in Re- in which food is made, too clean. 1 : the wheat. The outer covering of the, grain contains valuable material for bone and teeth structure. Know the source of your milk sup- ply and also the conditions under which it is cared for before it reaches | you. Upon receiving milk, if it 1s} not already pasteurized, then paste-| urize it at once, then cool and store in a place where it will be free from all contaminaticn. Remember that milk will spoil very quickly if it is | kept in a careless or dirty manner, or | if it is permitted to stand in a heit-} 'ed kitchen. Physicans will tell you i that thousands of babies die each year because of the careless manner 1n which milk fed to them is handled. Always wash, if possible, under| running water, the top of the milk) bottle ov jar, before opening it. When | once the bottle is open turn a jelly| glass down upon the top of the bot-| tle. This forms a sanitary covering | that can quickly be removed. Do not give small children candy. Large quantities of sugar overheat the blood stream and upset the diges- price of freedom from much of baby ilinesses. , Plies, dirt, impure milk and in- sanitary conditions are the enemies of childhood. The baby approaching one year o:d must begin to eat solid foods. It is use care and fore-thought. The de- licate digestive organs are easily dis- turbed. It must be realized that the with *oods | { | cles and tissues and also furnish it | with sufficient energy to exercise its body. For growth protein is necessary. | This is found in milk, eggs and cerea for the small child; and in meat, fish, peas, beans and lentils, in addition to the above mentioned foods, for older! children. Baby receives his energy| from cereals, bread and butter and milk. The fats in the milk, butter and yolk of egg also act as energy- giving foods. The juice of an orange! ! | | | may be given in small amounts to the! tion. It is possitively criminal to| ;child under one year of age, with: give pennies to the children and allow! beneficial results. The value of, them to buy cheap candies of unknown) If candy is necessary, make orange juice in the child's diet is of, home and be assured of 'ts a laxative nature. The small chile from one to three years may have the} pulp of a baked apple and prunes in} additio.: to the orange juice. Children from three to six years of age may have cereals, milk, eggs, fine- ly chopped meats, fish boiled and bak- ed, fresh vegetables and fruits. Corn, beans, tomatoes, cabbage and cucum-! origin. t at urity. 2 Plenty. of drinking water | should be given to the children, even the smallest. baby may be given a tea- spoonful of water three or four times | during the day. Do not give small chil- dren ice water; for safety's sake the | water should be boiled and cooled. eoo) COOKIES FOR WAR-TIME. Cookies loom large on the house-|2 cups each brown sugar and . wife's horizon just at present for win- | wheat flour, 4% cup shortening, » eggs, ter is near at hand and wherever there| % cup milk, 2 teaspoons baking pow- are vhildren there must be wrelesonie,/ der, 1 teaspoon each ground cloves nourishing and delicious -cookies to and ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cheer their young hearts and please! nutmeg. Sift the dry ingredients to- ; ether before mixing. Bake in small whole | muffin pans. Bran Oatmeal Cookies (6070 caior ies)--2 cups each rolled oats and whole wheat flour, 14% cups bran, 1% cups brown sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls molasses, 2 eggs, 1 cup melted short teaspoon each In making the weekly supply the! men at the front should not be for botten for they welcome cookies the year round, just as much as did wwhen they were youngsters home with insatiable appetiti es good scheme is to send the caokies| ening, 1° cup Taisins, } a overseas in old baking powder tins. If| salt and cinnamon, 44 teaspoon eacn well sealed they arrive at their des- soda and allspice, %4 teaspoon eact sf aah so Y% cup sweet ilk. tination in excellent shape and if the| cloves and nutmeg, 7 cup swes mi ' 1 " ever } ae "nite oats, salt, inds that mother makes" are good| Mix flour, bran, rolled oat £ ; ' 1 "| and sugar. Then stir inthe} at home how much better they are in/ spices and sugar. shea sucet " | raisins and ¢ soda dissolved in Mk. the trenches! | raisins and add sod: " Phsteaoi | i lat-| Stir i lted shortening and add Wholesome, economical and palat-}Stir in meitea shortenine 3 able--these are the requisites for war-| beaten eggs and molasses. rop on = re : : | } Rake in moder time cookies whether they go overseas | buttered pans. Bake In mod t or whether they grace the family table | ately hot oven. unt brown. | ee } (5003 calories) 1% Fruit Cookies nt this winter. { : 1275 leups each shortening and light Whole-Wheat Meal Cookies.--3 cups i 1 x} le whega , i fine whole-wheat meal, 2 cups bread} sugar, % cup who: wheat 4 h salt, cree of tartar flour, 1 cup each brown sugar, short-; teaspoon eacn sail, eream of tartal 2 and vanilla, t poon be soda, teaspoons ening and warm water, baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, % tea-|1 cup seedless ra ns, 2 beaten spoon vanilla. Mix dry ingredients | until light. Cream bu aes and. 31 all together. Then rub in the short-| Add the eggs and then the ate ening and add enough warm water and | gredients Use epee sh a flavoring to make a stiff dough. Roll | flour to make a stiff ese te es oh Ss one-quarter of an inch thick, Cut im) very thin. A ut in enbant: shapes id | desired shapes and bake in a. quick) put ona baking pan. Bake for about oven. iten minutes 1n qu ck oven. oo . Brown Sugar Drop! Hermit Cookies (4626 calories)----3 Maple or Doodles. (3789 calories)---1 cup whole flour, 1% cups flour, 1 egg,; eer wae beaten light, % cup each shortening | raisins and English walnut each dark butter, 1 teaspoon egos. 1% cups each flour and brown sugar, 1-cup each whole wheat meats, "4 soda, % tea and sour cream, % cup | cup _ te la ris brown or maple sugar and chopped; spoon each ol cinnamon and ee Cream the butter and su: and add raisins, %4 cup light brown sugar. V4 ut teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix| the eggs well beaten. 6! drop by dessert-|in the flour. Add the 1 ' 'nuts well floured. Roil medium the soda ingredients and Cut in any shape desired and bake in ! t ie ae . at ae 5 een Ea # Spice Tea Cakes (8773 calories) | quick oven. ; tary. .1 can only liken it to th SIGNIFICANCE line of the football field, where every man submits himself willingly to hard ;mets down, covering the face, |} serves, | But hin. : N | discipline to win the match, and OF DISCIPLI E not for himself but f lobeying instructions, he os agr that they are ri SALUTE AS IT ORIGINATED IN Fighting men must submit. them THE MIDDLE AGES. selves in the same way to Spa 'tan ltraining to meet the conditions ol 'modern war--conditions far more s' r 'vere than obtained in any war evet The Training of a Soldier Means That téaich! i Rbcmen ee io eke. wee He Will Instantly Obey Orders. At this stage of the war no sh have borne a the little army of 100,000 that saved world at Mons but the British army now standing between the world and the Huns of Attila. The most necessary thing to win the Lieut.-Colonel big war is discipline, says W. Applins, D.S.O., of the : i Se army. It hardly requires any expian~ ; ' ation that discipline is the first and last word of modern war. Look at Russia. Comparatively unprepared in 1914, she was able to defy Germany and East Prussia, thus giving us valuable} time to prepare. Yet the moment she lost her discipline she was unable to prevent an inferior force from over running the country. Italy is another example of the vital | limportance of discipline. aa eee Pe If we have learned anything in this are the same thing. If Germany not had iron discipline we should long be /on we are now able to drive k the Germans and capture ground, guns, and prisoners at any time, anywl on the western front, whereas many has not gained a yard of ground or won one military success in a year the fact that our system of discip- i line is better than theirs. 1ere The Anglo-Saxon Discipline, i Compul German, j whevea the British-- lor i m---1s that of olutely volun- one can } the |§ 3ritish | enter | |war it is that discipline and efficiency | had ago have been in Berlin, and the reas- | Ger- | lerions |Greeks, if the Romans, w hose {conquered the world, needed it, it is when infinitely more necessary to-day millions instead of thousands are tak- i the field and when arms have de- ased from the simple th to the oped and incre spear ated means of destruc word and thousand and 'one compil which make up the modern When one thinks of the means ion ha struction placed at the disposal of the human race one is aghast at the num- ber, size and variety of these impie- ments. Not only do we fight, as of old, upon the ground, but we have 'weapons in the air and under the wa- ter, and to enable us to 'and bring under the direction of single brain this mass of material waging war it that every unit be perfectly ed. Whether it be t 'the trenches, the nan, the tra depar is absolutely 30 tr tm sands of T 2ed, clothe and -the smooth worki chine is humbles What the first jarmies personal man, Salute Means. An American asked day why up_so F + hcer he understood He one For making soap. For soften- ing water. removing For disinfecting refrigerators, sinks, closots, drains and for 500 other purposes. REFUSE BUBSTITUTES, arms. When knights wore armor they rode out with the visors of their hel- When two knights met it was the custom for the new or strange knight to raise his visor and show his face, the other then doing likewise. If you perform this motion you will find that it is the same as that of the modern military salute. That is why, in our army, a man never salutes unless he his cap on. It corresponds to the over the face. Unless this discipline is instilled and instant obedience becomes second na- ture, an incident which happened ear- lier in the war would be impossible, In this case a company overwhelming forces of the enemy lost all its officers and non-commis- sioned officers in an effort to hold. an important bridgehead to enable the rest of the army to retire. Suddenly a young man sprang up and shouléd-s few words of command and the little body of instantly followed him to apparent death. When Discipline Saved the Army. "Through a few yard. of pullets they ran, falling into a drain which "the has visor retiring before survivors | youth's sharp eyes had discovered, En abled to get on the flank of the Ger- mans, they poured a last desperate volley from close rangé into the waiting for the final assault. Surprised and thrown into confusion, these reserves began to retire in dis- order, and before they could be rallied fresh forces came up to the relief of the heroic little band. When the man who had saved the army was called for he proved to be a drummer boy, and he-afterward received the Victoria Cross from the hands of the King. The lesson of this incident is not the valor of the drummer boy, but the magnificent discipline of the men which enabled them instantly to obey the order without hesitation ot tion, although they knew it might mean death. The best, and nothing but the best, will win suecess in this war, and the best begins with voluntary discipline by every officer and soldier and also by every man, woman and child in the nation. re- ques- ae 'a HOW WAS FIRE OBTAINED? Natives of Bay of Bengal Islands De- pended on Volcanoes. that obtained f It has been argued primit man must first from volcanoes. Perhaps he did; there is no telling, ive haves ire one should-remembex that,» man was inally a forest dweller, and |that forests are often set by lightning. There is plenty ning wood at hand on such o Man, originally, did not make fire; he found it. And having found it, he may soon have discovered uses for it. But it is an incontestable fact that the natives of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, depended until s for thei ry recent y 2 upon an active yoicano | These people are t ;men erage no more ten ches in stature, three®inches \n odd t about them 2 *y never seem to grow up; they look like pot-bellied babies all their li The Andamans are a very con - able af lago, comy ing lany ig is, large and small, « of which is the volcano afo oned Visits to the burning mount o ge fresh fire, we not often ne ary, | becau he "little 3" (a | men | them) to ke -/alive almost indefinite lo yf de yed wood. Nothing nished 1s tion ma th uch ¢ oft a ipernatural To use fire is one thing > be able to make it quite another. Ages must } have intervened between tha earliest of the for Oh of 'the latter. The man iscovered how to produce a spark by rubbing two together was the eatest inv sncor in the tory of t world. acne ae STORMS AND TRI | Hickory is Most Unyielding and Suf | fers Greatest Damave, | . It is always interes y » watch the affect of storms anyw! : it in the woods these effects are most varied and remarkable It frequently happens that a tor 3 hi A wi follow a cer tain cou un evel : ; trunk and branck give bef the force i wind t all, he he | y permit the ie hickory, above yield, and consequently 1 against its