--- you will bat we rely absolutely and quality to make yo We will even offer to give this first trial free if on the inimitable flavour ua permanent customer. Toronto. y Bits drop us a postal to se aetna = ILLU By Henry * (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) SION Morton. mig Rev. -.rthur Smith and his young wife stopped simultaneously, horrified, in the market place of Travancore, A crowd of Hindus had gathered about a man who lay, with a placid look wen his face, on a bed of sharp-point- ed nails, After stretching himself out as if he were on a comfortable mattress, the fakir rose up, smiling, and held out his copper 'bee for alms. pice of-the populace clattered against the sides. : '* When the bow! was. thrust out to the missionary he turned away with a ; oe and drew his wife's arm through 8. : : "Sometimes, Mary, I doubt whether these people can be ctvilized," he said. . in Des Moines, that "What a disgusting exhibition! they call that a holy man!" Mr. Smith was only a year out from the.theolezical-cetegs in Jewa-~ He had felt a call to act as missionary among the heathen. He was a young man of ardent mind and intensely in earnest, but a little narrow, a little in- capable of entering into the life of the Indians. Nevertheless he had accom- plished a great deal of good in Travan- core, and of the people whom he was inclined to think unamenable there were many who spoke with good will of him. ; It was three days later when he was surprised to see the fakir confronting him in his study. How the man had ' got in he did not know, for his native servant had not admitted him. "No," said the missionary sternly. "You not give pice to poor fakir?" asked the man, smiling. "T am here to heal men's souls, not to encourage such barbarous exhibi- tions. Do you suppose you can do any good to yourself or others by those self-inflicted tortures?" The fakir looked at him gravely. "There are things you know nothing of, young man," he answered. "The time may come when you will be glad of me." \ "I shall always be glad of you, as you call it, if I can get you to come to our meetings and give up your savage ways," said the missionary, with feel- ing. 'Don't you feel anything within ; you that urges you to anything high- er? Do you suppose lying on a bed of nails leads to a better life?" "Yet your own prophet has taught that the body must be crucified," re- sponded the fakir, in excellent English. Mr. Smith stared at him. "Then, if you know that much, you know enough to reason," he said. 'Come to our meeting next Thursday week and we'll have a talk together." : "T shall come to you next Thursday evening, and we will have a talk to- gether," the fakir responded. 'Sa- laam!" ; Mr. Smith rubbed 'his eyes. The fakir was gone, apparently through the closed door! He called his wife and told her. She was positive "nobody had entered the house: She was afraid. ~"T wish we'd never come to this _ heathenish place," she sobbed. 'These people are devils. And with the talk of an uprising I--I wish I were back do!" Days passed and the rumors ofa na- tive outbreak increased. The gar- rison, depleted on account of the war, was insufficient to overawe the} fanatics who paraded the streets, threatening death to all foreigners on the occasion of the great annual festi- val that was to take place the follow- ing week. The Europeans were advis- ed to leave. Smith, wavering be- tween the double duty, at last decided to take his wife down to the coast. xe ae They were in the midst of packing when the storm broke. A distant murmur rose into a y A mob arm- ed with swords came rushing through the streets, burning and looting. The - native servants had fled. Smith hurried his wife into the lit- tle garden. A glance showed them that their escape was intercepted. As the bearer of the hated tidings of an- fury of the rioters. groped toward was the fakir, torch and sword in -- With a yell the ~ waited for the end. other faith, he was marked for the The crowd swept though the garden gate. At their head, his eyes alight with fanaticism, »hand. . : ' "Kall! kill!" the mob shouted, . Smith very simply placed his arm - about Mary's waist, and together they "Witt fakir raised his sword and thrust. Smith saw his wife . _ fall, pierced through the heart. Red , Swam before his eyes, and he rushed - upon the savage with clenched fists. _ But he saw the sword bright before _ him, felt a blow on his breast, and, 'un- conscious of pees realized that the _fakir was withdrawing the hilt from his own body. In a swoon he'toppled to the ground. And he remembered, with strange incongruity, that this was Thursday. 5 : _ He heard the yelling mob sweep on- _ ward, and with his last effort he is wifé, found her hand, and held it. And then con- sciousness forsook him. | Somebody was bending over him, stroking his forehead. He opened his eyes. He saw his wife kneeling over : "Thank God you Vested td Arthur dd s) ewhis é "Are yo ce _ He sprang to his. feet, staring at h 'in bewilderment. There was not a wound upon her; and, looking down, he could see none on himself, ne _ "Mary! What has happened?" he _erfed. -- a - eS she an- SAT don't know, Art swered, a at him in equal aston- ought I saw ; h are | Bake toc And you?" he cried in wits A . eee that both had been a the fakir's illusion; that ad paved them, either by ind, or by accomplishing those illusions that the The! And) _\ment. \fakirs perform for the entertainment of their audiences. They fell into each hte arms. In the distance were the dwindling cries j of the mob. Their house was unin- jured. And, as they stood there, they saw a troop of cavalry ride down the 'street, driving the mutineers before \them, cutting them down with their | swords. | "At least, I did not desert my post," , Said Smith. And with sudden grate- ddelters Smith Looked Up With a Start. fulness to the fakir he took Mary into his arms again. They had never felt so near to one another. Smith looked up with a start. He was back in his library, and before him stood the fakir, still holding out his copper bow] and whining. "You no give pice to poor fakir?" asked the man. Smith looked up over his shoulder. When the man had entered the room the clock had pointed to twenty min-| utes past ten. " Now it was still twen-! | ty minutes past ten. And the sentence 'that he man was speaking was the same as that with which he had en- tered the room, Tn less than a second the whole of the episode had been implanted upon his mind by the art of the beggar be- fore him. He sprang to his feet. called. "Did you want me, dear?" answer- ed his wife, entering with a placid smile. "How. did this man get in?" "Why, I just let him in. You know you said you would see anybody--" Smith threw three pice into the cop- per. bowl, and the fakir, saluting gravely, turned and made his dignified exit. Smith turned to his wife. "TJ think, my dear," he said mildly, "that in future we shall try--try to get to know a little more about our people instead of--of shutting our- selves away from them. "Mary!" he 2°, ° CANADA'S FIRST MODEL TOWN. Commission of Conservation Has Mapped Out Modern Scheme. Canada's first model town will be built on the Upper Ottawa. A splen- did site overlooking Lake Timiskam- ing has been laid out according to modern principles of town planning by the Commission of Conservation, through its town-planning adviser, Mr. Thomas Adams, who has acted as consulting engineer. Building opera- tions will be started shortly by the Riordon Pulp and Paper Co., who are to erect a large sulphite mill and pa- per plant nearby and for the accom- -modation of whose employees the town is intended. A contour map showing the levels of the site was first prepared and the streets were then laid out so as to se- cure easy grades, directness of route, and absence of sudden deflections. If the usual method of rectangular sur- vey had been adopted, the most im- portant streets would have had grades of from 10 to 18 per cent., but, under the plan, the maximum grades have been reduced to 3 and 5 per cent, in most cases, with a maximum of 8 for short lengths. ; Before any buildings have been erected the line of each street has been blazed through the forest so as to fix the best street locations and to secure the best aspects for the dwel- lings. Areas are being set aside for open spaces, social centres, churches, schools, etc., in advance. The main approach to the town will be by a street, 80 feet wide, passing through a square on which the stores and pub- lic buildings will be erected. : It is proposed to make the town a model of its kind, as it is recognized by the promoters that healthy and agreeable housing and social condi- 'tions are of vital importance in secur- ing efficiency of the 'workers, and that large employers of labor have a direct responsibility in providing proper liv- ing conditions for their workers, -- % . by the recent impos 'license by If labor and equipment are not made to serve to their full capacity through- 'out the year, the output of the farm will be lowered, and the profits cor- ¢ : a. French Colonel Describes Episode '| nished room he bade us welcome and '|there must always have been wash- osition of an export sy the United States govern-| ---- WHERE THE GALLANT FRENCH | MET THE ENEMY. cee NS -- Su Near Chemin-des-Dames, or Ladies' Walk. The French colonel, with a few of. his officers, received us in a peasant's modest 'house, a simple house of a story and a half, with the typical sloping roof of the French country districts, writes a war correspondent from France. Here in a scantily fur- without ado led us to a table on which a map was spread. And in quiet tones he told of a recent encounter with the Germans. "We stood in the trenches in Para- dise wood on the Chemin-des-Dames, opposite Courtecon, still in the hands of the enemy. You know the Chemin- des-Dames. It is or was, until torn to pieces by shelifire, an ancient Ro- man road elevated above water level, through a low section resting upon a) height, rebuilt in the Napoleonic era on the plateau rising north from Sois- sons and northeast of Rheims about the village of Craonne. A Veritable Inferno. -HOUSEE A COURSE IN es Lesson XIV." Wild fruits formed an important part of primitive man's diet.. fruits were easily obtainable then, but civilization has destroyed many of these wild fruits, except in the forest and mountain regions, so that at pre- sent the only fruits known to us are all cultivated with the exception of huckleberries. -- : Of late years modern methods have eliminated from the house much of the drudgery and work that were formerly considered most necessary for the suc- cess of the home. Men, quick to know the value of canning, preserving, pickling and jellymaking, have absorb- ed this work and made it into a mas- sive business. They handle the feods directly from the farms, so that the housewife has gradually let this most me Uae at art slip from her. he constant advancing prices of food supplies have caused the prudent housewife to view the market with a matter of money, but rather r prud- ently conserving materials withi "It is upon the outlined form of this land dentiled between little vallews. | "Paradise wood is partially inclosed | in one of these valleys. The trenches | of our regiment were in its very cen-| communications. after our occupation of th 8 o'clock in the evening, is sector, at a hail of lines. It was a veritable inferno, great shells sent. toward us and burst- ing everywhere about us, destroying connection with the rear. That meant relay courier system, in which man after man picks up a message and carries it under fire to a given point.) It's life-giving business, and to avoid loss of the message in transmission I, divided the relays into two sections, starting from different points and going toward the objective by differ- ent routes. Sometimes both reached 'home'; sometimes but one. And often. during that day neither. "They Shall Not Pass!" | "We knew an attack would follow the bombardment. Probably the attack would begin in close formation im- mediately after the bombardment ceased. And when this moment should | be announced by a lull in the storm | of shells thrown upon us, our men' stood to take to the open, to leave their deep shelters and girded to the loins, receive the Boche shock. We had only one aim--the aim of Verdun and all the rest of it--'They shall not pass!' "But on this occasion the grena-, diers of the Guard left their trenches before the bombardment ceased, while their artillery was still launching shells upon the territory to be as- saulted. | "Here and there along the line our) defenses were a wreck. Here and there, too, we had no men living to de- fend them. Here and there finally, we held firm, a little group of heroic men standing fast in a hell of fire. One of the couriers sent forward with instructions from myself to Major. saw the enemy's preparation for) assault and understood it was to be something new, an assault with a con- tinuous fire, instead of an assault | after fire. He immediately abandoned | his mission, returned to me and de- livered the information, indicating to me on this very map the portions of our line that were destroyed, the por- tions still holding. I sent him back for further reconnaissance. He never returned. Hand-to-Hand Fighting. "But the information he had given! me enabled me to learn that a mitrail-| leuse squad was pouring lead with deadly destruction into the Boche, and that two companies had counter-at-| tacked with the Boche attack and) broken through, to be immediately) surrounded; that Captain ----, with one company, had come to the rescue) and broken the Boche line. I sent! forward a fresh battalion in counter- attack. They went through the en- emy line like a train through a tunnel and took as prisoners Boche troops | that had held some of their comrades | captive for twelve minutes. | "There was death all about. Hand! to hand and body to body, men fought | and died and won and lost, amid shell | explosion, and bayonet thrust. Later | we found two of our machine guns in- tact and every man of each crew | dead about them. We fought the fight | all night and gave more than we lost. | At dawn we held true to the previous, i night's position, save for a few meters | here and there, and by 9 in the morn- ing we had regained these. Not a foot of our line was in enemy hands. Not an observation post belonging to us was taken. All our line was ours. Our dead and theirs attested why." EE SERS re : Blue Monday "Piano."- Who invented the washboard? One might imagine that familiar) article of household furniture to be! of prehistoric origin. It seems as _if | boards. But not so. The first washboard came into ex- istence in' 1833. Tt was in its way an epoch-making invention, and' the chap who took out the patent on this Yankee novelty was named Stephen Rust. lH Put Stick in Knot. When tying a knot in a rope which must stand much strain, put a stick of soft wood in the knot for it to close' on. When you want to unite the knot, break the stick and pull out. respondingly decreased. both ends. Your knot can be easily co plateau that the front shapes itself at | this section, its edges, of spur-shaped | ter, first, second and third line with | On the fourth day) 'of our grandmothers' days. Boche shells began to fall upon our| re /produeés an oversweet article, which | ll abri and observation, breaking ; : a ee ; 'necessary, but also it has prevented the immediate establishment of Se eas Pee eOne from enjoying rreserv- f, ;fo of sugar, |This is not only necessary for the! | pieces of bamboo. | ment the tiny heap is brought to the reach, but also planning and buying; also using .labor-saving devices combined. with skillful handling of foods; using up-to-date methods and reliable tools and the judgment to avail one's self quickly of opnortunities. Learn New and Better Methods Gone are the old antiquated methods Using the open kettle is as surely out of date as would be a car drawn by horses. Large proportions of sugar are also legated to the past. This method destroyS the delicate natural flavor of the fruits. This is not only un- ed fruit. The canners realized this, and have r years met this objection by using less sugar. for the successful keeping of fruits,' but it is used to make them palatable. The intelligent use of sugar adds to the appearance and taste of all canned fruits. The many grades on the mar- ket make it necessary for the house- wife to be sure to obtain'a pure grade It is needless to say that it must be cane sugar. Beet sugar eon- tains a larger percentage of acid and does not give the same perfect results. It must be remembered that one cup-| ful of absolutely pure sugar will ac-| complish the work more successfully | than one and a half cupfuls of sugar of a lower grade. ; How to Start Canning } When planning to can, get the jars ready and see that the lids are in per- fect condition. By this, I mean that they should. fit securely, and have! everything absolutely clean. Provide! plenty of cloths for wiping the jars;! a funnel to fill with, and a tray large! 'enough to hold jars intended to be, filled. There is an appliance sold in stores | that costs twenty-five cents, for lifting | jars; and will save fingers from being burnt and many times its cost in pre-' serving hot jars from slipping or drop- ing. Before starting on the fruits or vegetables have a vessel large enough to hold jars intended to be used. Put the jars and the tops into the recept- acle and cover with cold water. Bring to the boiling point and then remove as wanted, drain and fill with the art- icle to be canned. Pour boiling water over the jars rubbers just before using. This not only sterilizes them, but also makes them pliable and éasy to slip on the jars. The Actual Method Sort the fruit in separate dishes. Put all bruised and soft berries in one. | Grade the berries by keeping all large and small ones in separate dishes. suéees of the fruit itelf, but also for the appearance of the fruit. Small clips can be bought for five cents to hull berries with, saving both the appearance of the hands and of the berries. Put the hulled fruit in he | time and trouble of canning her fruits. and vegetables. ; n our: Economy in the home means not only carefulness and watchfulness, ' Sugar is not necessary: 'ping in melted paraffin. t gira tse =o 5 : ESTs = Be ' SHOLD SCIENCE COMPLETE IN TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS. : Canning Fruits. ; a wire basket or colander and pour over it gently plenty of cold water to remove the sand. 5 : Drain well and then pack in jars, shaking the jar so that you can fill in as many berries as possible without crushing'. Fill the jar with hot syrup, put on the rubber and lid, tight- en partly then put in hot water bath and process for eighteen minutes after boiling has started. Remove and tighten the lids as tight as possible. Invert and permit the jar to cool. Be sure there are no leaks, and then store). in a dark, cool place. " To Make the Syrup : One cupful of sugar to every two and one-half cupfuls of water. Put in saucepan and stir until dissolved. Then bring .to boil and cook for five minutes. will have no brown scum to remove, Use as directed, alarm, She may decrease the expenses | The Water Bath materially, if she is willing to take the) | A boiler for this purpose can be Use only the best grade , pose alone. Do not try to do up of jar rubbers. large lots. three hours' work at one time will be as much as you can successfully ac- complish. A few jars done carefully two or three times a week will prove a far greater success than canning a' erate of berries, unless there is plenty of help. This method will can straw- berries, raspberries, blackberries, | huckleberries, curants, cherries and, rhubarb, Remember that bacteria and wild yeast cells exist in the air and soil,' and, therefore in all animal and vege- table substances. The cells are so /small that it is impossible to see them with the naked eye. 'They multiply very rapidly and thus sét up a decom- pe which spoils the article of ood. To successfully conserve food for | future use it is most necessary to com-. pletely destroy these germ cells. This! can only be done by the application of heat in the form of a water bath or boiling. So be positive that the water is actually boiling before counting the time. When once the boiling starts it must be continuous for the length of time given. Do not plunge the jars into the boil- ing water, but rather have the water hot, say at a temperature of 125 or 140 degrees Fahrenheit, then bring rapidly to a boil. Label and Date For future knowledge label and date your jars and also on each put a num- ber so that you will know just how many jars, the amount of fruit and sugar that is In each lot. This will also give you a way to figure the cost. 'Keep a book to record all your work, the number of jars, the cost, ete. How to Make the Label | June 10 'chance of honor or a war cross. On a food supply sometimes too scanty to keep him in condition the horse incon- spicuously breaks his heart in the mud of Flanders toiling at the heavy guns which make the victories of the British and French possible. For despite the overwhelming im- pression that this war is one of me- chanics and machines, no way to dis- pense 'with the services of the horse and the army mule has been found. They can go through streams that would block any machine man has de- vised, can struggle through the chok- ing muck that would stall the best tractor. ever built, and can tear through storms of shell fire which | daze the imagination. STRAWBERRIES No. 4--Lot 3 To Make a Fruit Juice To each quart of fruit add one cup- ful of water and one cupful of sugar, then put in a kettle and mix well. Bring to a boil and cook for ten min- utes. Mash well and then strain. When cool fill into sterilized bottles. Put the bottles in a water bath and bring to boil. Process for ten min- utes. Remove from bath and cork, and when cold cover the top by dip- Finally, the success of all canning! and preserving depends alone upon) absolute 'sterilization, Work with | care, doing only what can be done without hurry in a clean and cool kitchen, with a supply of good ma- terials and utensils. Many jars are lost each year by the false economy of using defective jars and lids or old rubbers. Always examine each jar before starting to store to see that it is in perfect condition. Fruits can- ned by this method will cost one-quar-| ter of the price of canned goods pur-! chased during the winter. Note--Water in boiler should reach two-thirds of depth of jars. FIRE WITHOUT MATCHES Methods of Obtaining Fire Are Com- mon Amon, Various Races The native Malay method of making) fire is by rubbing two sticks together. | The Malays use for the purpose two One is a hollowed convex strip laid flat side down; the other is sharpened to a knife edge. The sharpe edge is sawed rapidly across the convex strip until the later is penet-ated through, and the du : that falls beneath, rendered incan- descent by friction, ignites a bit of tinder. ; Bamboo is naturally adapted fer th purpose because its flinty coat favors} the development of high heat, while its marrowy pith when dry is very in- flammable. There is, of course, no bamboo in France; but eq: ally satis- factory methods of making fires with- out matches are known to-day to a great many Boy Scouts, who practice them on camping trips, and soldiers and sailors are now being taught to use them. One of these methods involves the use of a bow drill, a simple contrivance that dates back to remote prehistoric 'times. By this means one end of a stick js made to revolve with great rapidity in a hole in a piece of wood. | With a little good tinder ready, only two or three minutes are required to accomplish ignition, =~ The bow drill is in cgmmon use by the Eskimo for making fire. Another method, of Polynesian origin, is that of the "plowing stick." |The opera- tor rubs a groove in a piece of soft wood with the end of a stick of hard wood. of the soft wood groove. By accelerating the move- point of ignition, -- _ Until recent years the | ment of making fire by rubbing two why? Nobody could say, but skill 'The stick wears off particles | and pushes them! |along in a -head at the end of the the accomplish- | sticks together was deemed beyond| | attainment by civilized people. But] -- able exclusively by savages. This idea has been exploded. The civilized Canadian can make} fire in this way just as well as any| savage. All he needs is a little teach- ing, as many a Boy Scout can testify. Doubtless some day he will learn how to use the "fire syringe,". which | may fairly be regarded as the most' scientific of all aboriginal firemaking processes. Its place of origin is the island of Borneo. The instrument is a cylinder of buffalo horn, with a sort of piston closely fitting. A scrap of tinder is placed in the mouth of the cylinder and a sharp, strong blow is struck upon the knob of the piston. Com- pressed air gives up heat under re- duction of volume and thus the tinder catches fire. \ ----~e-- It doesn't require the forecast of a fortune-teller to tell what will event- ually become of the man who habit- If the sugar is pure you! urchased whith has a removable tray. : his boiler will last many years if it is | Economy and thrift are not merely used carefully and kept for this pur- You will find that two or) ! quire about the humble beast who does 'his work and gets killed without the * aes been Ken capa TORONTO. a on TREN | quarter of a century. | Yeast will keep frosh 2 - made with any other, so that a full week's: : ean easily be made _ foaf will be just - ee re. ane = sm Canada's favorite yoast for over a Bread baked with Royal and molst longer than t at one baking, and the as good as the first. toe MADE IN CANADA EW.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL A$ | THE HORSEIN PRESENT-DAY WAR 'A MORE IMPORTANT FACTOR THAN EVER BEFORE. | ---- ? Sick and Wounded Animals Receive as Careful Treatment As Do the Fighting Men. One doesn't hear much of the horse in war now. The brilliantly swoopine | airplane, the lumbering but efficient tank, the bitter rushes of infantry, and the roaring of giant guns have' made the thrilling "hell for leather' cavalry dashes of former wars which | 'artists deligted to paint merely a, memory. But occasionally in a meagre report} or a letter from some one at the front 'one finds a passing reference to uted choked with dead horces and an allu-| sion toa brief cavalry action which is. buried in the greater battle. And) dimly one wonders what part the horse is playing in this struggle of the nations. That this four-footed servant of man is playing his part in the fight, a part important beyond the concep- tion of any one but a trained soldier, is evident if one takes the pains to in- Horse Hospitals of France. On them in great part depends the continuous supply of ammunition and food to the front line trenches. Auto- mobiles are often impossible to use in the torn up condition of the battle- field, and where trains and motors are helpless without tracks and fair roads the horse will struggle on. So valuable are they that special | units have been formed in France and Italy for the .rescue and care of | wounded and sick horses, and hospit- | als have been built where they are, treated, operated on and brought back to health with all the considera- tion the nalions give to their wounded men. Thousands of horses, broken down under the terrific strain or wounded in battle, are constantly re- claimed in this way. A visit to. a horse hospital is one of the interesting sights in France. It makes it somewhat easier realize the part horses are playing in) this war when one learns that the | British army needs from 900,000 to; 1,000,000 horses constantly, and when one recalls that the time 'a horse lasts under modern battle conditions is only a few weeks the call for horses and yet more horses becomes more under- standable. They are trained as care-'! fully as the men, and a good team of artillery horses in action is a de- light to the eye. They have arrested the attention of the war artists, and the English mag- azines sometimes have several pages | devoted to picture of eager eyed, low; running animals tearing down roads with spots facetiously termed "Suicide Corner," "Shrapnel Alley," or some other name which denotes the sudden death which lurks there for anything which may attempt to pass. Great shells that rip roads out of semblance to what they were intended to be and gas shells which spread subtle death over the land, do not stop them, for the explosives merely make them gal- lop faster, and they wear masks like the men to protect them from the gas. Indeed, a team of wildly galloping horses, animals and lashing drivers wearing the grotesque masks, look like a team out of hell itself. Invaluable in Moving Artillery. to) The men who work with them and are dependent upon them for their ammunition and food speak of the ually skins his land. war is The 'horses seem to catch the de yer ate energies of the men and strain a' their harness when dragging the guns through the mud in a way that would -- be heartbreaking if it were not so ne- cessary. It is very common for ¢ horse literally to break his heart at his work and drop dead from the exér- tion of moving forward, always for- ward, eee Bee The rapid advances of the Engli artillery would be impossible withou their aid, for nothing can move guns se rapidly. The more artillery is used in the battles in which the massing of guns has gone beyond anything im- aginea by soldiers before the war the | more the horses are needed, and when -- the American forces get into action with the great parks of artillery ch they will need the demand for whi A ; robes will be greater than it ever -- was before. It is no wonder that they are con- tinually breaking down under he -- strain; and when a horse falls it is necessary to fill the gap immediately. The sick horses are turned over to the - Army Veterinary Corps to be nursed back into effective fighting animals. So effective has been the work of these ~ units that the losses amount to only 18 per cent. of the total strength at the present time. The mules are much hardier, their rugged -- constitutions enabling them to stand trials that would kill a horse. : When a horse or mule beturwes ill | or is wounded no one at the tront can be spared to attend to him, but word -- is sent to the nearest veterinary sta-_ tion and a man is detailed to get him -- and to take down a fresh horse to fill the gap. These transfers are made at night. : Advances in Veterinary Science. When the horse reaches the hospital -- his injuries are diagnosed and treat- -- ment is prescribed. Operations, often of a delicate nature, wounded are treated as earefully as -- the wounds of a man, hoofs are fixed -- up, and when the period of convales- cense is over the horse is as useful as ever. The effect of battle upon the horse |is as interesting as upon men, for the savagery of warfare seems to fill the ;animal with all the viciousness of his wild ancestors. The mules are partic- ularly fréctious patients, but their trouble making ability lies in a consti- tutional aversion to doing what they are told, not in viciousness. Army men believe that when the over veterinary science will have greatly increased its store of knowledge, for in the big horse hos- pitals where animals are treated for all sorts of obscure diseases which have never been studied before the doctors are getting experience that they would not have taken the time and trouble to acquire before in the days when it was not necessary to conserve the horse. Careful records are being kept of all these studies, and many important discoveries have been made. Aj for the cavalry, that branch of the service is more or less of a mystery. 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