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Durham Review (1897), 14 Oct 1915, p. 3

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ate ast in His pilgrimage, which the from seaf. stake to thinks we ken i life is greatest as his h+ ler in hand 3 conâ€" it out thing th so Who the k it y to vner ked. ige the i1¢â€" )eâ€" â€"~ TURKS RUSHED TO BULGARIA _ TO DEFEND THE PORT OF VARNA news agency despatch from Athens says that Turkish forces have started for Bulgaria, and are moving toward Believed That Provincial fruit inspectors at Vanâ€" souver, B.C., condemned many cars »f peaches, sent from the State â€"of Washington, because they were inâ€" ‘ected with San Jose scale. In June, 1914, the Lake Louise, R.‘"., hotel served 6,000 meals. In lune this year it served 16,050 muls.] A despatch from London e wasted I + tThree diamond drills ar working | _ The yoke of care is worse than the lll‘..n;wv- Mountain, near ePrincetorfj' yoke of men; yet he who hath shaken C., and more than 6,000,000 tons ()f,f nfl'Ptl:e :-m;; bears the other patiently. arm im aige â€"Petrarch. l’l'P‘\"~‘ \”,‘.u'r"‘:';; acreage devoted to| The authors ot"a nation are like an owing vegetables in B.C. was 17,â€" |advance guard, pioneers of friendship ). All but 2,000 acres were devotâ€"| 2nd intimacy, who accustom other io arou ifiz imtatoes. ‘lands to ideas and peoples otherwise The w(-mpl.wei of _ the Dominion | remote.â€"Mr. .i.\rthur L.’ Si.\lmon. ( ernment ;irc"tlging' fleet in B.C.' Compulsion is only justified Whenl lc rg have given $7,419 to patriotic the experience of the country has' s s l l :; Mn 5l 1 _ ’proved that uniformity in individual T2 "rek one wor started. Te conduct is necessary for common well-J \r. Hodder of Kaslo, B.C., is theibe' nd national progress.â€"Mr. ner of a geranium 12 feet high.‘ng aM donald, M.P C1ess: y se foliage covers at least 9 fee;| hamsay Mac s | ccording to the Kootenaian. “ oi im | ‘osberg and Carlson have a con-i SERBIANS BRING DowNn | t to build 32 bridges on the westâ€" GERMAN AEROPLANE: end of the Kettle Valley, B.C., | 4 acccang, | way. They have already built 26| a despatch from Nish, Serbia, says: | the number. ®; | Seven aeroplanes flew over Kraguyeâ€" |â€" plant to utilize the byâ€"products | ya;, recently and dropped 30 bombs.|. coal will be built in Fernie. It is ; Sharpâ€"shooters of the Prince Regent‘s | : mated that every year in Bâ€"Câ€"| Guard hit one of the aircraft, which | ; 000,000 worth of «i1 byâ€"products! tam .15,,. .3 1. _ _ t IFeri & hat freig I‘h [} \t Cranb Iway has 1ew 1 wHAT tHur FROM SUNSET COAST k thi e Bl « k i the fires, The city ferries of North Vancouâ€" {e *r are losing $50 a day. % A big find of copper ore at Jones‘ MANXNY TYPES OF BOMBS ake is reported at Hope, B.C. se J. C. Edwards is Vernon‘s, B.C.,| Handling of "Cricket Ball" Expl w city clerk at $125 per month. , Requires Cool Head. The market is growing in England| The various kinds of bombs r B.C. frozen salmon and halibut. ]being used in France and Flan The apple and plum crop in New | are described by an English office nver will be the largest in years. ta latter from the front. There Cranbrook, B.C., hospital had six; he says, four main typesâ€"the "} erations for appendicitis in one : brush." the "arinlâ€"ak hal ) sb . aâ€"o & rogress of mi u. ... __ _ . C FtOfrad says: The only parts of the Russian front that display any great activity now are the Dvinsk sector and the sector on the middle Styr in Volhynia. At Dvinsk, despite unceasing efâ€" forts, the Germans are still held at gunshot distance, and whenever they make a vigorous attack they suffer repulse, with heavy losses from the Russian artillery fire. Yet Gen. von. Huslow is takine u.c3 " 0k YOn +1 Teutons bein AUSSIANS HaVE uppeR HAND _ \â€" â€"â€" ALL ALONG FRONT OF BATIEE xpected that by the end of smelters at Greenwood will nearly 15,000,000 pounds of vear. inowsheds on the Kettle Valâ€" .. railway wil require 900 : of material. eing drunk and disorderly, a at Revelstoke, B.C., was sent or six months. anbrook the Canadian Pacific has raised the wages of all to full scheduled pay. i »tal apple yield in B.C. this estimated at 600,000 boxes. r it was 684,000 boxes. | * Old Dominion Mine near. B.C., silver ore has been| ‘at is worth $400 to the ton.,' lairmore Enterprise â€" states ght over the Crow‘s Nest : is the best in two years. cargoes of lumber, totallingi 00,000 feet, were ordered, mperial â€" Government from | re terned aliens at Fernie, B.C., : put to work on the roads in age that weighed 25 pounds ntlykshipped from Creston pairs despatch from Petrograd fosKw l c o% s uin ha City 18 ‘mi of the Great West Told In a Few Pointed Paragraphs. ferries of North Vancouâ€" t Russia Contemplates the Landing of Large Forces at Once , citizens are now| Nothing brings people together 000 a month for pat. more closely than a common grief; it They have also two| is the great bond of sympathy.â€" | Globe. _at Kelowna was fined oting four ducks out of a head to take parts of the Russian front E WESTERN 7EOPLE ARE DOING. runs for over 20 miles, funs and ammunition are ht up continually to the German force immediateâ€" S Suffering Setbacks Dvinsk and in the V day labor for the cit will be given to mar It the enemy‘s front is pushed back towards alm_qgt daily the Rusâ€" says: A s first motor ime from â€" Nelâ€" > take cattle ew Denver, a England| The various kinds of bombs now alibut. ]being used in France and Flanders in New | are described by an English officer in years. ’a latter from the front. There are, Ks ue <Bu OR w n Y on Varna, on the Black Sea, to assist in preventing a landing of Russians at that port. The despatch adds that Bulgaria has asked Turkey for more troops. Lo vatz recently and dropped 30 bombs. Sharpâ€"shooters of the Prince Regent‘s Guard hit one of the aircraft, which fell directly in front of the palace. As it fell the fuel tank exploded and the machine and both of its occupants, who were German officers, were burnâ€" ed. Kraguyevatz is some 50 miles southâ€"east of Belgrade. It is a town of 15,000 inhabitants and has an arsenal, a powder mill and factories for the making of arms and ammuniâ€" . tion. I [ ee ce ‘proved that uniformity in indi conduct is necessary for common | being and national progress.. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.â€"Rousseau. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Sincerity is the way of Heaven.â€"Confucius. The surest way to be imposed upon is to think oneself cleverer than other people.â€"La Rochefoucauld. w Temperance a real physicians . tieularly to the sportsman, as ment of chance enters largely successful use. It is timed to about 10 seconds after the lig the fuse. It is, therefore, un throw it too soomw .me iMeaad _ id cdiistanntatihseas d cict L( â€" â€"say the back of the trenchâ€"when throwing them. "The cricket ball works by a time fuse. The removal of a certain pin releases a spring which lights an inâ€" ternal fuse timed to explode the bomb in five seconds. You take the bomb in your right hand, remove the pin, and cast the thing madly from you. The jamâ€"tin variety appeals more parâ€" ticularly to the sportsman, as the ele-l ment of chants smikamm Keucsdicc as : uotigh 2 ARRTEDUITT ncb lt 1 47 : he says, four main typesâ€"the "hairâ€" ‘ brush," the "cricket ball," the "policeâ€" : man‘s club" and the "jamâ€"tin." Bomb throwers are alluded to in trench slang as "anarchists." E "The hairbrush," explains the wriâ€" ter, "is very like the ordinary hairâ€" brush, except that the bristles are reâ€" placed by a solid block of high exploâ€" sive. The policeman‘s truncheon has gay streamers of tape tied to its tail to insure that it falls to the ground nose downward. Both these bombs explode on impact, and it is inadvis~! able to knock them arainst anukhin_ backs in Fighting, Both at the Volhynia Region THOUGHTS FoR THE A wildcat was shot by Nelson Goldwin within 100 yards of his house at South Westminster, B.C. It had been driven out of the forest by the fires. Four years ago 58,000 packed. The salmon run in the Fraser River this year has been below exâ€" pectation. Not more than 45,000 cases are expected for the season. Four years ago 58,000 cases were an indication that tourists are ginning to discover B.C. From the Viliya to the Pripet there is effective skirmishing all along the line. South of the Pripet the sting has been taken out of General Puâ€" halio‘s temporary success on the midâ€" dle Styr, and his army, for all that it was reinforced from the neighboring armies of Generals Lisingen and Macâ€" kensen, is being propelled back intol the swamps. 1 80. 2000R OACAECCETYY OE ABC I Yiliya. is typical of this kind of fightâ€" ing. The battle lasted several days. The Germans were driven from the trenches, but repeatedly â€" counterâ€" attacked, 0~‘y to be flung back everyâ€" where by the Russian fire. They brought up reserves and succeeded in advancing to within 200 yards of the Russian lines. ~Then two Russian companics caught the advancing Gerâ€" mans on the flank and held them while the artillery dealt with the enemy‘s supports. The result was that the isolated advancing group was annihilated by the Russian bayoâ€" nets. 8, four main typesâ€"the "hairâ€" " the "cricket ball," the "policeâ€" club" and the "jamâ€"tin." Bomb Lo e oeet‘y seconds after the lighting of It is, therefore, unwise to too soon, as there would be action of Daniusuavo, on the 8. Â¥You take the bomb hand, remove the pin, thing madly from you. Sportsman, as the eleâ€" enters largely into its It is timedrto explode and it is inadvisâ€" against anything the trenchâ€"when DAY Explosive ! T h n t uw n Een e P o Py . e oce medium, $6.50 to $7; do., common, $5 to $5.40; butchers‘ bulls, choice, 36.25 to $7; do., good bulls, $5.75 to $6 do., rough bulls, $4.75 _to $5.25; butchers‘ cows, choice, $6.45 to $6.175; do., good, $5.25 to $6: do., medium, $5 to $5.75; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7; stockâ€" ers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $6.75; eanners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Oct. 12.â€"The quotations were:â€"Best heavy steers, $7.75 to $8; butchers‘ cattle, choice, $7.60 to $7.75; do., good, $7.10 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.50 to $7: do.. common: Leather firm. Duluth, Oct. 12.â€"Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1.07; No. 1 Northern, $1.06; No. 2 Northrern, $1.06; Montana No. 2 hard, $1.06%; December, $1.02% ; May, $1.05%. Linseed, cash, $1.87; December, $1.79%; May, $1.83. New York, Oct. 6.â€"Flour unsettled ; rye flour firm; fair to good, $5.25 to $5.40; choice to fancy, $5.45 to $5.60, Hay, steady. Hops easy, Pacific $ons£_, 1935, 13 to 15¢c. Hides steady. uk i ul Minneapolis, Oct. 12.â€"Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.05% to $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.01% _ _to _ $1.06%; December, $1.03%; May, $1.07. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 62 to 68¢c. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 33% to 34!4c. Flour advanced; fancy patents, $6.20; first clears, $4.85; se(:gn_d clears, $3. Branâ€"$19. uet Business in Montreal. Y | Montreal, Oct. 12.â€"Corn, American | No. 2 yellow, 75¢c. Oatsâ€"No. 2 local ‘ | white, 44%¢ to 45¢; No. 3 local white, "‘43%4 to 44c; No. 4 loca‘ white, 42% ‘to 43¢. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patâ€" c | ents, firsts, $5.85; seconds, $5.35; ; | strong _ bakers‘, $5.15; Winter patâ€" .|ents, choice, $5.40; straight rollers, | $4.70 to $4.80; straight rollers, bags, 1$2.20 to $2.30. Rolled oats, barrels, | $4.85 to $4.95; bags, 90 lbs., $2.25 to |§2.30. Bran, $23. Shorts, $25. Midâ€" | dlings, $30 to $31. Mouillie, $30 to | |$33. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots,| | $17 to $18. Cheese, finest westerns, | |14% to 14%c¢; finest easterns, 1414 | | to 14%c¢. Butter, choicest creamery,| |82%4 to 32%4c¢; seconds, 31% to 31% °. | | Eggs, fresh, 38¢; selected, 32¢; No.| ‘,l stock, 28¢; No. 2 stock, 25¢c. Potaâ€"‘ | toes, per bag, car lots, 75¢c. Dressed | hogs, abattoir killed, $14 to $14.25. | |Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbis., | 85 to 45 pieces, $28 to $28.50; Canada | short cut back, bbis., 45 to 55 pieces, | $27 to $27.50. Lard, compound, | tierces, 375 lbs., 10¢; wood pails, 20| lbs. net, 10%¢; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 11% to 12¢c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs.)' net, 124 to 18c. C on ce aus n enty A0 OVA IZC: Lardâ€"Tubs, 11% to 12¢; do., p: 12 to 12%e¢; compound, tubs, 9% 10¢c; do., pails, 11%e. Provisions. Baconâ€"Long clear, 14 to 14%c per lb. in case lots. Hamsâ€"Medium, 18% to 19¢c; do., heavy, 14% to 15¢; rolls, 15 to 15%e¢; breakfast bacon, 20 to 28¢; backs, plain, 23 to 24¢; bonele§s 'lla(.'ks, 25 to 25%e. Foultryâ€"Uhickens, 17 to 18e; fowls, 14 to 15¢; ducklings, 16 to 18¢; turkeys, 22 to 24c. Cheeseâ€"Large, 14% to 15¢; twins, 15 to 15!%4c. Potatoesâ€"The market is firm, with car lots quoted at 95¢ to $1 per bag, on track. ’ Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, 26 to 28c; inferior, 22 to 23¢; creamery prints, 31 to 32¢; do., solids, 29 to 30c. Eggsâ€"No. 1, 27 to 28e per dozen, in case lots; extra at 30 to S1c. Honeyâ€"No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 11%e¢; do., retail, 12% to 15c. Combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $1.50 to $2. Poultryâ€"Chickens, _ 17 to 18e; fowls, 14 to 15¢; ducklings, 16 to 18¢; turkeys, 22 to 24c. $1.50 Millfeed, car lots real freightsâ€"Bran shorts, per ton, $2 ton, $25: good feed [ o c un uit NT VS . . VOuE rye, 60 to 75¢, according to sample Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, | i jute bags, $5.75; second patents, i jute bags, $5.25; strong bakers‘, i jute bags, $5.05, Toronto. Ontario flourâ€"New Winter, 90 pe cent. patents, $3.80, seaboard, or To ronto freight, in bags, prompt ship ment. ; _ f Lrol, VarIey, 40 to 45¢, according to freights outside. Buckwheatâ€"Car lots, nominal, acâ€" cording to freights outside. Ryerâ€"No. 2, nominal, 87¢; tough rva BMR i2 me) W Barléyâ€"Good maltin 54¢c; feed barley, 40 to tohfre‘igh_ts outside. outside. C ! Breadstuffs. _ Toronto, Oct. 12.â€"Manitoba wheat, new cropâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.07% ; No. 2 do., $1.06, on track lake ports, immediate shipment. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 48%¢, on track lake ports. American cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 70%e¢ on track lake ports. Canadian cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 70c, on track Toronto. Ontario oats, new cropâ€"No. 2{ xhite, 37 to 38¢; No. 3 do.. 35 to 27°â€" | The Leading Markets United States Markets WHERE THE FRENCH WON IMPORTANT VI SOUCHEZ REFINERY AND REM A INC ; good feed flour Country Produce earlier attacks. , according to freights 1 malting‘_barley, 52 to â€"New Winter, 90 per .80, seaboard, or Toâ€" 1 bags, prompt shipâ€" lots, delivered Montâ€" an, per ton, 322; $2‘4, nmxddlmgs, _per 12¢; do., pails C Noire Dame de Lorette gave the Fr pll:otogrnph itself was taken from the plra per bag, h to tough yOR C EVCE 220000100 Household Department through the Aichi Prefectural Office. On Sunday the cleaning work was started in the reel room. Forty girls wearing white working clothes wore employed. The working girls begar their work in the morning at 6 o‘clock and finished at 4 o‘clock. f The Imperial Household Departâ€" ment has already procured from the Sanryusha at Okazaki in Aichi preâ€" fecture three kan of the best raw silk, with which the ceremonial dress of the Emperor at the coronation this fall will be woven. At the Sanryusha silkâ€"worm weaving room, the selected silk worms were reared with utmost care. The raw silk was reeled and was sent recently to the Imperial in in in BULGARIA, WARRING ON ALLIES, _ MAY FACE RUSSIAN INVASION . j p__ "0 " +PU uhi VC iJower grades at "| from $4.50 to $5.50 per ewt. There '.‘was an active demand from packers | for canning stock, with sales of bulls | [at $3.75 to $4 and cows at $3 to| $3.50 _ per ewt. Lambsâ€"Ontario ; stock, $8 to $8.25, and Quebec â€" at ‘!$7.25 to $7.75; sheep, $4.50 to $5.50 ‘| per cwt. Calves from $3 to $13 each, as to size and condition. Hogs, selectâ€" / ed lots, $9.90 to $10 per ewt., weighâ€" ed off cars, and the rough heavy lots |from that down t<2P$8.75. * , JAPANESE DoGs BEHAVE, Coming Coronation of Emperor Causâ€" | ing Reform A~ng Canines. [ Indicative of the minute care taken by the Japanese to prevent untoward | 1 happenings on the occasion of the corâ€" onation next November, it may be noted that the police authorities have | _decided to kill all vicious and â€" stray | t dogs in the prefectures through which | t his Majesty will travel during the | v ceremonies. All the dogs in Japan | a are, therefore, on their good behavior | and reformed and repentent dogs arej C reported daily in great numbers. The | t« police have already killed 374 irre-]nf claimable dogs in Kyotoâ€"the bad F kiyis of Kyoto. i .q2n shows how Bulgaria will be Sca, in case she throws in her in Montreal, Oct. 12.â€"There continues to be a scarcity of good to choice steers, but the offerings of fairly good stock were fair, which met with a good demand and sales wore made at $5.50 to $6.75, while fair sold at $6 to ¢$6.25 and the lower grades at $ "we 4 raca m» 2L milkers, choice, each, $65 to $100; do., ’cnmmon and medium, each, $35 to $50; Springers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $5.25 to $6.25; sheep, heavy, $4.25 to $4.75; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50;y earling lambs, $7 to $7.50; Spring lambs, ewt., $8.25 to $8.60; calves, medium to choice, $7.30 to $11; hogs, off cars, $10.40 to $10.50; do., fed and watered, $10.15; do., f.0.b., $9.80. _A despatch from London says: The Italians record another advarce toâ€" ward Roveret_o, which has so many times been reported as evacuated by the Austrians. On the plateau of Folgaria several villages have been occupied by the invaders, who drove the enemy from â€" the neighboring Many Smal! Engagements Around Gorizia, in Which .__‘__ Austrians Lost Numerous Prisoners ITALIANS NEARING ROVERETO WHICH IS REPORTED EVACUATED f the German famiri@c,, "_ [7"8, of the nowâ€"celebrated of the German fortifications in that sector of the field erâ€"attack have been proceceding ever since the taking ol', French a footing wit hin the enemy‘s line of entrench= he French advanced lines actually during one of the the â€" Imperial MrORIANT VICTORY; AND REMAINS â€"OF VILLAGE )e menaced by Russia on the Ulack interests with the Central Powers, Gold weighs nearly twenty times as much as its own bult of water. One always gets full measure when one acquires a peck of trouble. Ornamental handkerchiefs used frequently to be worn in the hat by gentlemen as tokens. | _ Statements evidently based on offiâ€" cial information relate â€" that King Constantine received the French Minâ€" ister at Athens after the landing of French troops had begun, and made no mention of the incident or sugâ€" gestion of a protest. It is therefore said here that the King has not taken a stand against the landing, but" merely differs with M. Venizelos in | regard to the fixed policy of Greece | in supporting the Quadruple Entente, | The downfall of the _ Venizelos Cabinet is considered here as relating to formalities, rather than to deterâ€" mined opposition" to the landing of French troops. Landing Proceeds. The landing of French Salonica and their prompt northward across Greek ter the Serbian frontier will without regard to the Cabi at Athens. the will of the: ;;eople, as before. The possibility that Greece may try to remain neutral, fearing to stake the nation‘s fate upon the sueâ€" cess of either party to the great war, is recognized in England, although it is considered small, The hopes of the Entente powers are that popular sentiment is with them, and that the: King may find it best to bow before: the will of the people, as he has done | mapko. ul ETT A40ETAUT Greece is to have a coalition â€" ment. After virtually dismiss foremost Greek statesman, E ics Venizelos, from the Prem and asserted personal control Government, King Constantir therâ€"inâ€"law of the German E sent for a former Premier, M. who has consented to form a c Government. M. Venizelos will included as a member, ALLIED TROOP$ _ LAND IN CREECE They Italians. despatch from ‘roceed to Frontier Without Regard to the Cabinet Crisis. h from London says: have a coalition Governâ€" virtually dismissing the ek statesman, Eleutherâ€" , from the Premiership, T CCRACEe oOf sugâ€" st. It is therefore King has not taken the landing, â€" but h M. Venizelos in @_to form a coalition Venizelos will not be French troops at _ prompt despatch ireek territory to Jer _ will proceed the Cabinet crisis x Constantine, broâ€" ‘ German Emperor, Premier, M. Zaimis, of the The inventor‘s reward was a pension of £1200 per annum. The Shrapnels were for three generations cloth weavers at Bradfordâ€"onâ€"Avon. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO war used by the Royal Artillery, and known by the name of Shrapnel Shell." So runs the inscription on a large slab at the floor of the chancel in Bradfordâ€"onâ€"Avon Church, Wilt, shire, where the General was buried. The Inventor of Shrapnel. It is interesting to recall just now (says The Westminster Gazette) that the inventor of shrapnelâ€"Lieutenantâ€" General Henry Shrapnel â€" gained much of his military experience in Flanders. He served 'Wi?. the Duke of York‘s army there, an shortly af. ter the siege of Dunkirk invented the case shot, "a destructive engine of | â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"S._ | ALL BRASS UTENSILs | IN VIENNA TAakKEN | â€" Canada already 'has organize | machine gun battalionâ€"the 86th | Hamilton. A despatch from Rome says: The] citizens of Vienna have received | warning that all brass domestic utenâ€" sils will be sequestered on November: 30, when hcuses will be searched with the object of ascertaining whether the present requisitions for such utensils | are being evaded. | A despatch from London says: British military authorities have reâ€" cognized the importance of machine guns, which have been such a strikâ€" ing feature of German warfare, by the formation of a special machine gun corps with the King‘s sanction. Announcement of the step is made in the Official Gazette. MACHINE GUN CoRPS IN THE BRITISH ArMy Ds on Emt H a large amount of bile is produced, and the typically yellowish complexâ€" ion of the billious person is the result. Neither man nor womon can eat fried food and have a good complexion. Fried food is an armorâ€"plated varâ€" iety of comestible which doesn‘t make anything. In the effort to absorh it a large amount of bile is produced, ow es cte ie s Lt 0e °_ Food is of value to the body in proâ€" / portion to "its digestibility. A food e!that is readily digested is quickly | turned into good red blood, and good | red blood brings pretty red cheeks. The Highland lassie gets her peachâ€" bloom complexion from oatmeal, . And | oatmeal is perhaps the most easilyâ€" ;digested food on earth,. A breakfast | of oatmeal vorridge and milk will be | digested â€" in twentyâ€"five minutes; a | breakfast of fried ham and fried potaâ€" ; ‘toes in about three to four hours. | | _ What, then, is the trouble with | fried foods? It is the grease, When] ;anything is fried the grease makes & | _coating round it, like a piece of armorâ€"plate. And if once you try to,‘ figure out all the chemical chang63| that have to hanpen to that layer of | fat before the digestive acids have a | chance to get in to the food that is inside it, you will see why it has so | little chance to be changed quickly inâ€" |1 to blood. |, You Cannot Look Pretty If You Eat ; It, Says a Writer. l The deadliest foe to a good comâ€" | plexion is fried food. One of the reaâ€" "sons that English and Irish girlsâ€" }in the Old Countryâ€"frequently have | such wonderful complexions, is that ‘fried food there is little used. One | of the printipal reasons why so many | Southern girlsâ€"who otherwise might Ibe beautiesâ€"have such sallow comâ€" plexions is because they cat a great ldeal of _ fried chicken, fried “hogv‘ meat," fried cornâ€"fritters and all thvl‘ | rest of it. I Whether one likes fried fare it‘s a sure thing that a diet of spoil one‘s looks. [ __"renchn side, and even if one of them can be booked as lost already, France will not leave the others inâ€" active behind the front. Enormous supplies of ammunition, supplemented by what still comes from neutral America, and the massine of hanve FRIED Foop vErsUs C Another Important Gain Has Been HoOW THE KHAKIâ€"CLAD "CHEFS* . _ Made By the Frnch in CARRY OUT THEIR worK. Champagae. A despatch from Paris says: Furâ€" F Cooki ther important gains by the Fx‘em:hI told A Is Hard Work, for troops in Champagne are announced Which Only Trained Men by the War Office. The village of Are Suited. Tahure, less than two miles south of | the railway serving the German |_ Throughout the whole twelve trenches along the district between i;;°"““ Ofedthe Eu;o_pga: Wl;r Mm Rheims and the Argonne, has been have passed, no ritish soldier taken by assault, and the victorious IF been able to say that he went ill4ed, French infantry pushed forward and Says London Answers, h reached the heights northâ€"of the vilâ€"| It is a bold statement, but it is lage. These heights form part of the | true, save in the case of stragglers or Germ;n second line. FITE: , pear mary FugakQ® bapste. lik_es fried fare or not tion, supplemented es from â€" neutral masging of heavy organized a n, for which she preparations,‘" 8 BEAUTY it will of 240 warless years. Up to the middle of the nineteentn century it was roughâ€" ly computed that nearly 7,000,000,000 men had died in battle since the beâ€" ginning of recorded history, a numâ€" ber equal to almost five times the preâ€" sent population of the globe. From the Christian era till the preâ€" sent time, as statists and historian t':l? us, tiere have geen fewir? Ku# LUXEMBURG PROTEsSTS t BECAUSE OF AIR RAaiD A despatch from Londo»n says: The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, accordâ€" ing to Amsterdam edvices, has proâ€" tested to the Entente powers against air raids over that country aimed at the German headquarters. |he gets. But having admitted the | justness of the claim that he do so he may be surprised at the wideness of the application of the principle that lies at the back of it. The earth pays :for what it getsâ€"the rain and the sunshine, and the breezes of heavenâ€" with fruitfulness, waving grain, buds and blossoms and fruits, and the smilâ€" ing green of fields. It is not a mere sponge, receiving always and never [ responding to the giver. It gives | back everything, with an added someâ€" | thing of its own. The carth is honest, generously hon_est. And a man ought not to be any less so. He is getting every day and hour and moment of his life, getting from all sides and in all possible ways. Any man making a pretence at beâ€" ing honest will try to pay for what the ; An officer who was wounded early in the war stated, when writing home from hospital, that the thing which most heartened the men to endure the terrible rigors of the retreat from Mons was that a cup of hot soup could be obtained at almost any time, and that a plate of "pontoon," â€" as Tommy calls his stew, would be ready at the end of the long day‘s march. _ One of the most amazing features of this most amazing war has been the marvellous efficiency of our Comâ€" missariat and Supply Service, and the excellent way in which meals have been prepared under the most adverse cireumstances. assistants. _ To qualify at â€" these courses of instruction is by no means a simple matter. Each sergeantâ€"cock is properly qualified at a school of instruction, as well as a certain proportion of his vio Ni i atatuaiacts tsas 4 which often necessitates standing for hours in the mud and the rain. Nor have they the strength and hardihood needed to quarter and cut up a carâ€" cass. || The system of cooking for soldiers ’in billets is naturally different from | that restorted to at other times. When soldiers are billeted the meat is issued Juw and in bulk from the regimental | quartermaster‘s {tores to company .?qunrtermasber-sergeants. The storeâ€" Jmen then cut the meat up, and issue it to the men, who take it to their billets, where they cook itâ€"or, as more often happens, get it cooked for them by their landladies. It has been said that women wou!ld be far more usefully employed than men as Army cooks, but that is ridicuâ€" lous. In the first place, women would never bear the strain of field cooking, | On active service rations are proâ€" pared in camp kettles, known in Army parlance as "dixies." These kettles vary in size, and their cooking capaâ€" city is: smallest for eight men, largeag for fifteen men. One camp kettle is allowed to every three officers. Another method of cooking, while the troops are on the move, is by means of "galloping cookers." These are ovens mounted on wheels and drawn by two horses. Beside the oven is a platform on which the cooks stand. The method of cooking food in "dixies" in interesting. First a narâ€" row, shallow trench is dug, and filled with fuel. On either side of this trench are ranged a line of "dixies," surmounted by a third row, which fills in the space between the two rows on the ground. When the "dixies" are arranged the fuel is lit and the food rapidly cooked. c Than 240 Warless Years _ _The "iron ration" consists of 120z. of biscuit, 11b. of preserved meat, loz. of meat extract, Soz. of cheese, and tea and sugar. ‘The "iron ration," however, is strictly reserved, to be used only in emergency, and may not be touched except by the orders of an officer. rations." true, save in the case of stragglers or small parties of men who were cut off from their regiments. Even in these cases they usually had their "irom CAMP COOKERY AT THE FRONT Paying Our Debts "Dixies" Yary in Size. naon says: The mburg, accordâ€" vices, has proâ€" powers against y [3 9 t * 4 E3

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