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Jelly by be per- Quite a number of people find por- ridge made in the ordinary way most unpalatable, but here is a hint that will make the mixture one of the most sought after breakfast dishes. Put the water into your pan. Add a beaten egg and mix well in before sprinkling the oatmeal. Then boil aid salt as To destroy the smell of paint place pails of cold water-which should be changed daily-in the rooms that are being painted. It lessens the annoy- init smell considerably. If you live in the country and can get hay put a handful of hay into the water, as this also helps to absorb the smell. The best and simplest way to test silk is to cut off a small piece and burn it. If it burns out quickly, leav- ing a clear, crisp, grey ash, the silk is pure; but if it smoulders and leaves a heavy, reddish-brown ash, the ma- terial has been treated with (hemicals and will not wear well. Macnroni Cutlets--Cook a half cup of macaroni broken in small pieces, drain and make a sauce as follows: Melt two and a half table- spoons of butter and add one-third cup of flour. Stir until well mixed. l Pour this gradually into a cup of hot milk. Add one-fourth cup of grated cheese, and season with salt and pep- When the butcher has cut the roast too heavy, ask him to out off thin slices for steaks. Have the pan very hot, put in a piece of suet to make the pan greasy and fry steak quickly, The meat has a very good flavor. Tar may be removed from any washing dress by spreading butter on the tar. This should be left for an hour or two to soak well in, and should afterwards be washed in the ordinary way, when all trace of tar will be gone. Cane chairs that have become slack can be tightened by rubbing them with salt and water. Turn them up side down and put them in the sun and air to dry. They will be found to have tightened up like new articles. Before washing lace curtains run a narrow strip of muslin or tape along each outer edge. This will keep them perfectly straight, and will keep them f rum stretching at the edge. Sugar forms about 70 per cent. of honey; it is derived from natural sugars by inversion, and is more easily digested in this form than cane sugar. A large glass bottle makes a good receptacle for buttons. By shaking the bottle you can see whether you have the button desired without tak- ing all out. Glass or china can be safely pack- ed if damp straw or hay is used for packing material. Good milk, eggs and butter are necessities, not luxuries. \ Salt in cold water will remove blood stains from linen. A tiny pinch of salt added to eggs makes them froth more quickly. A lump of sugar drépped' into milk will prevent its turning sour, it is said. Cheaper cuts of meat always re- quire more cooking. Coarse salt is an excellent cleanser of irons. per. Cool and shape in the form of cutlets, roll in bread or cracker crumbs, dip in beaten egg then in the crumbs again and fry in plenty of hot Cat to brown nicely. Baked Macaroni with Cheese.-Boil the macaroni in hot water as directed. m should first be broken in inch lengths.) Put a layer of the maca- roni in the bottom of baking dish, then a layer of grated cheese, add pepper and salt, repeat with another layer of crackers and cheese. Put hits of butter over the top, add enough milk to nearly cover the food and bake in the oven until a rich brown. Serve with crackers or toast. Macaroni in Variety. Macaroni with White Sauce. - Break the macaroni in one inch pieces, three-fourths of a cup, wash, roll and cook in salted water, then drain. For the sauce, melt four tablespoons of butter in a sauce pan. When it begins to fry add four table- spoons of flour and stir until well blended. Then stir in gradually while beating two cups of scalded milk, bring to the boiling point, add salt, the macaroni and let simmer for a minute before serving. won it to furnish richness. Also ndd a small piece of beef wet. Heat an iron kettle until it is hot enough to sear the meat at once, then drop the suet and the meat into the kettle and turn over from side to side until the whole is seared so that the juices will not escape. Do not let the roast burn, turn often enough to prevent that but let it roast to a deep brown. Add no water for the meat will cook thor- oughly in its own gravy. Do not have too hot a fire. Three to three and one-half hours of slow cooking should do the meat to a turn. If it is desired to serve browned potatoes with the roast, remove the meat when cooked, add water to the gravy and drop the potatoes (either Irish or sweet) into the gravy and let them cook as usual. Season both meat and potatoes to suit the taste. Household Hints. , CHAPTER XXII. i "Mr. Scarlett Trent, the Gold King,‘ . F left for Africa on Thursday last on . ' the Dunottar Castle, to pay a brief Wisit to his wonderful possessions 'there before the great Bekwando Min-i lling and Exploration Company is or. , fered to the public, Mr. Trent is al- I E ready a millionaire, and should he sue- . reed in floating the company on thei ibasis of the prospectus he will be al , multi-millionaire, and certainly one ofl [ the richest of Englishmen. During b his absence workmen are to be kept F going night and day at his wonderful 1palVe in Park Lane, which he hopes) to find ready for occupation on hisi , return. Mr. Trent's long list of tin- "uncial successes are too well known' 'to be given here, but who will grudge wealth to a man who is capable of j spending it in such a lordly fashion? We wish Mr. Trent a safe voyage and ."- speedy return." i, l The paper slipped from his fingers) 1and he looked thoughtfully out sea- ovard. It was only one paragraph of: Imany. and the tone of all was the _ same. Ernestine's words had come! Ltruewhe was already a man of note.' ‘A few months had changed his life in the most amazing way-when he look- , ed back upon it now it was with a sense of 11tTtality-surely all these‘ _ things which had happened were part of a chimerieal dream. It was bare-i ly possible for him to believe that it was he, Scarlett Trent, who had de- vcloped day by day into what he was _ at that moment. For the man was changed in a hundred ways. His grey flannel clothes was cut by the Saville ,Row tailor of the moment, his hands: land hair, his manner of speech and carriage were all altered. He recall-' ed the men he had met, the clubs he had joined, his stud of horses at New- i market, the country houses at which he had visited. His most clear im-, pression of the whole thing was howl easy everything had been made for him. His oddness of speech, hisi liiiiiihir1G, his ignorance and nerv-l iousness had all been so lightly treat-I ,ed that they had been brushed away! :almost insensibly‘. He had been able l? do so little t at was "i/Gai-Circ) mistakes were ignored or admired as, loriginality, and yet in some delicate |way the right thing had been madei iclear to him. Ernestine had stood b I his side, always laughing at this swig; ifu1fihntnt of her prophecy, always en- ,couraging him, always enigmatic. iYet at the thought of her a vague l sense of trouble crept into his heart. He took a worn photograph from his pocket and looked at it long and i searehinttlr, and when he put it away she sighed. It made no difference, (if locum, but he would rather have found her like that, the child with I "And you would like," he continued, "to be one of the rich ones-to take your place amongst them on equal terms. That is what you are looking forward to in life'." She laughed gaily. "Of course I aml If there was the least chance of it I should be delight- ed. You mustn't think I'm dif- ferent from other girls in that respect because I'm more independent. In this country there's only one way of enjoying life thoroughly, and that you will find out for yourself very soon." He rose and held out his hand. "Thank you very much," he said, "for letting me come. May I---." "You may come," she said quietly, "as often as you like." 1 "Yei," ishe answered, “I am one of tht, P"."' young sy.or1tenPt society.” - A certain restraint crept into her manner. "Yes," she answered simply. "I have been told," he said, "that you have given up these things to live your life differently. Th' t ymi choose to be a worker. You have rich rela- tions-you could be rich yourself '." She looked him steadily in the face. "You are wrong," she said. "I have no money. I have not chosen a profession willingly-only because I am poor!" "Ah."' The monosyllable was mysterious to her.. But for the wild improbability of the thing she would hive wondered whether indeed he knew her secret. She brushed the idea away, It was impossible. “At least," he said, "you belong to they: people." . life? "And you," tie" said, "you too think that these things you have mentioned .ale fle things most to be desired in Mdnty's: words wer'e "ringing Gek in 1: his cars. After all, pleasures could be l boetthtr--but_htyminisys.r - 7 l, "I want to ask you this," he said. "What should I be the better for it all? What use have Ifor friends who only gather round me because I am rich? Shouldn't I be better off to have nothing to do with them, to live my own life, and make my own pleasures ?" She shrugged her shoulders. "These people," she said, "of whom I have been speaking are masters of the situation. You can't enjoy money alone! You want to race, hunt, en- tertain, shoot, join in the revels of country houses.' You must be one of them, or you 0?" enittnothing.", - 7 He was unmoved.' tri/hate/f-tio-G, at her with a grim tightening of the lips, “I wish I knew what you meant," he said with some hesitation. She laughed softly. "Don't you understand," she said, "that you are the fashion.' Last year it was Indian Potentates, the year before it was actors, this year it is millionaires. You have only to an- nounce yourself and you may take any place you choose in society. You have arrived at the most auspicious moment. I can assure you that be- fore many months are past you will know more people than ever you have spoken to in your life before-men whose names have been household words to you and nothing else will be calling you 'old chap' and wanting to sell you horses, and women, who last week would look at you through lorg- nettes as though you were a denizen of some unknown world, will be lav- ishing upon you their choicest smiles and whispering in your ear their 'not at home' afternoon. Oh, it's lucky Pm able to prepare you a little for it, or you. would be taken quite by storm.” CHAPTER xX.-ACont'd). "You haven't any friends," she said softly. "nor any education, but you’re a millionaire'. That is quite suf- tieient. You are I veritable Caesar with un.d.itov.ered worlds before aou.1' P" Or “The Adventures ot ledgard.” By the Author of ”What He Coot Her." HE GOLDEN KEY ‘vn I nnlv HI\UI’II . but TORONTO i "There are three reasons," Trent answered. "First, he may find his 'way to England and upset the apple- cart; secondly, I've only the shreds of a conscience, but I can't leave a man whom Pm robbing of a fortune in a , state of semi-slavery, as, I daresay he i is, and the third reason is perhaps the jtrongest of all; but I'm not going to tell it you." - ,, 7 ' "Da Souza," he said, stopping in front of him, "you're a fool to take this voyage. You know me well enough to be perfectly assured that nothing you could say would ever in- fluence me. There's more behind it. You've a game of your own to play over there. Now listen! If I catch you interfering with me in any way, we shall meet on more equal terms than when you laughed at my revol- ver at Walton Lodge'. I never was over-scrupulous in those old days, Da Souza, you know that, and l have a fancy that when I find myself on African soil again I may find some- thing of the old man in me yet. Bo look out, my friend, I've no mind to be trified with, and, mark me-if harm comes to that old man, it will be your life for his, as I'm a living man. Da Souza’s face was gloomy. "I know it's no use trying to move you," he said, "but you’re on a silly, danger- ous,pvi)dg90se chase.” Trent walked the length of the deck and back. "And what about yourself," Trent asked. “I imagine you have some other purpose in taking this voyage thy? just to, argue with me." “I iun going‘to see," brsour.a said, ','itt,.t"vou do as little mischief as pos- an e. "Your first reason," he said, "is a poor sort of one. Do you suppose I don't have him looked after a bit 't-- no chance of his getting back to Eng- land, I can tell you. As for the sec- ond, he's only half-witted, and if he was_better off he wouldn't know it." "Even if I gave mix} ibijérdiih iiiis," Trent answered, "the third reason is strgng _enough.’f Da Souza blinked his little eyes and loqud twith a cunning smile. "But why do you go to him at all? He thinks that you are dead. He has no idea that you are in England. Why should he know.' Why do you risk ruin like this f" “I don't anticipate parting with half," Trent said coolly. "Monty hasn't long to live-and he ought not to_be hard to make terms with." Da Souza beat his jidiiiis Ga handles of his deck-chair. "You will ruin yourself, and you will ruin me," Da Souza moaned. "How am I to have a quarter share if Monty is to come in for half, and how are you to repay him all that you would owe on a partnershiq‘ ae- count? You eouldn't do it, rent. I've heard of your four-in-hand and your yacht, and your racers, and that beautiful house in Park Lane. I tell you that to part with half your for- tune would ruin you, and the Bek- \lziando Company could never be float- e ." "I am going," Trent said, "to see how much truth there was in that story you told me. I am going to see old Monty if he is alive." Da Souza groaned. "it is cruel madness," he said, "and you are such an obstinate man! Oh dear! oh dear!" "I prefer," Trent said, " crisis now, to ruin in the future. Besides“ I have the, remnants of a conscience. "I will sit down," he said, "I am not well! The sea disagrees with me hor- ribly. Well, well, you want to know why I came here! I can answer that question by another. What are you doing here? Why are you going to Africa?" “I can believe that," Trent answer- ed shortly, "now speak up. Tell me wh_at y_ou want." 7 Da -souza moaned and sank down upop a _vaeant deck-chair. "‘I came," Da Souza answered, "in both our interests-chiefly in my own !" "And a poor-looking object you are," Trent said eqntemptuoussly. "H you’ve life enough in you to talk, be so good as to tell me what you mean by following me like this!" “I came by late tender at South- ampton," he said. "It cost me a spe- cial from London, and the agents told me} couldn't do it; but here I am, you seer. Da Souza’s face was yellower than ever, and he wore an ulster buttoned up to his chin. Yet there was a flash of malice ip his eyes ay he answered: The captain chic up for his morn- ing chat, and some of the passengers, who eyed him with obvious respect, lingered for a moment about his chair on their promenade. Trent lit a cigar and presently began to stroll up and ‘ down himself. The salt sea-air was a ; wonderful tonic to him after the nerv- ‘ous life of the last few months. He Hound his spirits rapidly rising. This [ voyage had been undertaken in obedi- 'enee to a sudden but g"tg,"ee,r Jimpulse. It had come to im one ‘night that he must know for himself how much truth there was in Da Souza's story. He could not live with the thought that a thunderbolt was ever in the skies, that at any moment his life might lie wrecked about him. He was going out by one steamer and back by the next, the impending issue of his great Company afforded all the excuse that was necessary. If Da Souza's story was true-well, there were many things which might be done, short of a complete disclosure. Monty might be satisfied, if plenty. of money were forthcoming, to abandon his partnership and release the situ- ation from its otherwise endless com- plications. Trent smoked his cigar plaeidly and, taking off his cap, bared his head to the sweeping sea-wind, which seemed laden with life and buoyancy. Suddenly as he swung round by the companion-way he found himself confronted by a new-comer who came staggering out from the gangway. There was a moment's re- coil and a sharp exclamation. Trent stood quite still and a heavy frown, darkened his face. 1 "Da Souza."' he exclaimed. "How on earth SameAoy on board?," - sweet, trustful eyes and a laughing mouth. Was there no life at all, then, outside this little vortex into which at her bidding he had plunged t Would she never have been content with any- thing else'. He looked across the placid, blue sea to where the sun gleamed like silver on a white sail, and sighed attain, He must make him- self what she would have him. There was no life for him without her. P' trent R1l'w,",'iil "If ever this terrible time, which up. e me i seems an endless nightmare, does ' ‘really end," the American wife of an s',fr.sank "ownji'i'lrr,hel'l'; of high social position, said,N am not'who has been loyally working with I with me hor- ( the rest, wrote home recently, "and it want to knew i I wake up to peace and pretty clothes the A Farmer Gives an Easily Applied Preventative Farmers whose barns and outhouses are infested by flies in the summer season may be interested in learning how to banish the pests. Ateordintt to the Bloemfontein (South African) Friend, a farmer who had many cows housed in different sheds saw, without being able to prevent it, the annoy- ance to which the animals were sub- jected. He happened, however, to ob- serve that one shed, the walls of which were of a somewhat bluish tint, was free from flies, snd the cows were unworried by their attacks. Thereupon he added a bit of blue color to the lime with which he covered the walls of his sheds, and from that mo- ment the flies deserted the premises. The following is the formula he used in providing this effective speci- tle against Bies: To twenty gallons of water add ten pounds of slaked lime and one pound of ultramnrine. The wash should be applied twice during the summer. Zine is so essential in war that it has risen enormously in price in the ‘past year. Costing originally only "wo-fifths as much as copper, it now icosts decidedly more than copper, in spite of the fact that copper itself has sharply increased in value. Zinc is a constituent of cartridge, brass and shell fuses, and is used also as a cov- ering for iron barbed-wire fencing. In 1913 the United States, Germany, and Belgium were the leading pro- dueers of zinc. Of the three, only the United States smelted domestic ores. Belgium and Germany relied mainly on zine concentrates that they import- cd from the Broken Hill mines in New South Wales, where, for one reason' and another, it does not pay to do the smelting. France, Spain, and Great, Britain also produce substantial quan-T tities, but not enough to supply their) own needs. Austria and Germany! have considerable deposits of ore in) Silesia, Hungary, Carinthia, and the Tirol. As the zinc-smelting furnaces of Great Britain are not well adapted for dealing with the Broken Hill con- centrates, it buys the bulk of its sup- plies from the United States. Sometimes to lose a self is to find a soul. A Constituent of Cartridge Brass and Shell Fuses. and gay doings, and life as it used to be-sometimes I wonder who it will be that will wake t Not I, as I am now, or it wouldn't be waking, and not I, the old I of before the war; that I, my dear, is as dead as if she had been shot. I want to be happy and jolly again, yet when I think of the old life it seems no more possible to take it up and live it than to go back and be a little girl. I have died, or grown up, or been born again since then-U don't quite know which.' I only know that I am, and must be, different, and that I cannot even wish to be the same again." NEW WAY OF FIGHTING FLIES. Others give themselves, with their automobiles, to the Red Cross, and drive their own cars, filled with wounded, over war-torn roads and half-wrecked bridges with skill and daring. Often they run them under fire, and not one of them has flinehed. I That was in the day when every {gentleman who wu not a priest must gbe a fighter, and could be a dandy ionly by the way. It was many years {later that another type arose. dandy first and fighter afterward: the grue- ful idler, the society fop, suddenly {transformed by patriotism, at his ‘country's call, into a hero. History proved him, fiction adopted him; he became one of the most popular fur- lures in drama, story. and romance. ‘But until now neither fact nor fletion has supplied a corresponding type of Jteroine. i The great war of to-day, although it demands of many of the noble wo- §men who have answered the call greater ability, responsibility, and ‘thoroughness of training than has Iever been demanded of women before, has also offered opportunities of ser- ‘vice to others, hitherto merely women of fashion and the gay world, which many have eagerly accepted. Women used only to organizing balls toil on committees; women who have shone in foreign capitals interpret for hap- less refugees; women who have play- ed with petted children in charming nurseries establish orphanages, care for destitute mothers, or adopt war babies. Other women, of the modern athletic type, untrained in nursing, devote their nerve and muscle to slav- ing in hoispitals,-hastily improvised, ill equipped, overcrowded, under- manned hospitaIs,-whcre they fag for the real nurses, and turn their hands to anything from writing wills and messages for dying men to men-1 ial and often horrible tasks of wash-1 ing, scrubbing and disinfecting. "Three wounds he received in this battle, whereat he laughed; but the Paynim who shore his tall plume he cursed deeply, and rested not till he had, with his good sword, shorn " his head." What Fuhionnble Wo-en Are Doing in the Great Tor. Centuries ago a chronicler of the crusades recorded quaintly of a cer- taiersin and vnlorous knight: He walked away and was challeng- ed by the Doctor to a game of thuifU- board. Da Souza remained in his chair his eyes blinking as though with the Bun, and his hands gripping nervous- ly the sides of his chain. (To be continued.) isn't exactly the centre of civilization. There'. I've eeid my say. The less I see of you now till we lend the better I gbell be pleased." _ . .. Sana. ttdash chntged so much u pn? my _thiqk, and d), qoltl Ceat WAR AND BUTTERFLIES. ZINC IN WAR TIME. Did you ever have a cold you could not get rid of t No-if I did I'd still have it now. The land offered contains principal- ly an ore called sseheelite, yielding tungsten which is used principally in hardening steel. The deposit, ae- cording to mining engineers, should yield 30,000 tons of the metal, worth about $75,000,000. Land Worth $75,000,000. It is announced by the Government that a wealthy woman resident of New Zealand has offered to make the colony a free gift of one of the most valuable pieces of mining land in the island, the only condition being that all profits from the sale of minerals shall be used for the support of wounded soldiers. 7 All of these industries of peace and wealth have been rudely swept into ruin by the war, and Switzerland is reduced merely to the sustenance of life. She must have food and she must have coal, and she must have the wherewithal to pay for them through legitimate commerce. New Zealnnd Woman Gives Mining In times of peace the Swiss em- broidery machinery and the Swiss em- broideries find eager buyers; the Swiss laces can more than hold their own with those manufactured in Not, tingham and Saxony. Importing raw silk from Italy, the Swiss merchants can produce finished products to rival those of Florence and Lyons. Markets Lost. The Swiss watches are the best in the world. The Swiss milk industry produces chocolate so excellent in quality that the shrewd British mer- chants long ago obtained the mono- poly. The Swiss hotel system has tsatisfied the desires of tens of thou- sands of tourists annually. 1 . . all -".""""". _.-eie_-_ . (l',',',',"',',',?,.') Jogt,2trtnti.ro""t nothing! It was less than 20 years after four . male and five female mongoose were Production Small. turned loose in Jamaica that the Gov- Switzerland can produce from its ernment had to appoint a commission (own soil in a year only food sutl'icient to investigate. This body drew up a ‘to last for two months. Most of its severe indictment against the animal, grain it has been accustomed to get adding to his diet not only all birds from Russia. For over a year it has nesting on or near the ground and the beaten off starvation with difficulty. {young of the farmyard, but turtles, Material interest must speak loudly landcrabs, bananas, pineapples, sweet in Switzerland for England. Great , potatoes, cacao and even ttsh, which Britain buys twice as much as it sells he catches with his paws. Worst of to Switzerland, and is, in fact, thefall was the charge that while protect- little republic’s best customer. Thcging the sugar cane from its enemy, German nationality has the maiorityithe rat, he even bit and drank the among the cantons, there being near- I juice of young cane. ly three million Germans to one mil-) In late years outcries against the lion divided between the French, Ita1-:tnortttoose have come from other is- ian and Roumansch; but the German j lands. In Trinidad the Government Empire buys of Switzerland only [ offered a reward for the body or tail about half as much as it sells to it. (of each mongoose. but inrtead of re- But to close the commercial door tolducing the post, it only set some of Germany would be to deprive theithe natives to mongoose breeding for country of some of its vital necessi-‘the reward. ties. All the pig iron which goes into! Prize] have been ottered by an the Swiss machinery, sold in theragricultural society for an effective markets of the world, must comelbut cheap mongoose trap. through Germany. I o---- . Material interest must speak loudly in Switzerland for England. Great Britain buys twice as much as it sells to Switzerland, and is, in fact, the little republie's best customer. The German nationality has the majority among the cantons, there being near- ly three million Germans to one mil- lion divided between the French, Ital- ian and Roumansch; but the German Empire buys of Switzerland only about half as much as it sells to it. Production Small. Switzerland can produce from its own soil in a year only food sufficient to last for two months. Most of its grain it has been accustomed to get from Russia. For over a year it has beaten off starvation with difficulty. I Within Switzerland's own borders, 'smong the twenty-two cantons of the _t,iii:?,iriie,,ii,i",i.,i,i, infiueeteets have been at Arork to break the Government's neu- ‘trality which began their activities before the soldiers had rushed to an- swer the first call to arms. Among the French Swiss were numerous friends of France who cared more for the interests of the sister republic than for those of their own, Among the German Swiss assistance to Ger- many was sought at the expense of patriotism. The Italian Swiss worked toward the same end; to sacrifice their country in answering the call of nationality. Every village was flood- ed with pamphlets, newspapers were subsidized and orators travelled through the land, each preaching doc- trines whose acceptance by the Gov- ernment would have wrought nothing but evil to Switzerland. i A nation of less than four million inhabitants, Switzerland had nn only of over a quarter of a million upon its frontiers before the end of the tint week of Aytrust of last year, all well armed and well drilled, completing mobilization before either Germany or Frnnce. Can Produce Ill?""""'?'?'?')"""""""""""", . "W A v 11111'frPTli:liktit'tti'i ."0oo0"Puo0"0ouommoariiiii'"i BIG GIFT FOR WOUNDEI). Sun Me Would. Exactly. "Pa, what happens when the wind btows mat gum?” "Pa," said he, "how long will it be before I stop gettin' licked for te11in' lies m' begin to get paid for 'em, like you do?” "A weather report follows, my son.” Advantage of Yeas. The novelist’s small boy had just been brought to judgment for telling 3. tib. His sob: having died away. he sat for a time in silent thought. The great value of initial numerical superiority is evident; if Entrland's " dreadnoutthta con brine to action Germany's M, the preponderance of strength of the longer fleet (assum- ing equal units) will be in the ratio of 2025 to 676---thtrt is to any, Em:- land's superiority will be actually more than three to one, instead of less than two to one, as seems at first evident from the numerical pro- portions. But on the water the "terrain" of- fer: no protection, and. in consc- quence,'it is mntheenatieally demon- strable that, assuming equality of units, the "strength" of two opposing fleets "ries an the "square" of the numbers of ships. The question of numerical tsuperiors ity is of extremely great importance in naval turhu--mueh greater than in land battles, says the World's Work. Ashore a weaker force, by intrenchittq and using obstacles, can stand off a much stronger one; for example, the German army in France has probably been outnumbered more than two to one during the recent extraordinary operations, yet the allied troops have been unable to make very much head- way against the strongly intrenched line. Numbers More Elective in Sen Tttart 1 The Introduction of the mongoose into the West Indies some 40 you! ego hes upset the order of nature there much us it he in the Hawaiian blends. Just es in Hawaii. these fer- ret-like snimsls from India not only destroyed snskes and rats in the su- gar cane fields, the object for which they were imported, but proceeded to ole-n out the wild birds of the island, " well as poultry yards, Pitta, kids, lambs, new-horn calves. puppies and kittens. In the West Indies they have also consumed the lizards, with the result that insects hnve increased to an alarming extent. . They lbw Become the Bale of the THE MONGOOSE IN JAMAICA. BRITAIN‘S UREA DNOUGHTS. Land Fights. Irs ill M Their St They I " d u W h