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the sergeant, "but you will get used to it after a bit. ‘l{tn, hear that ?" Tom listened and heard the screamâ€" m# of a shell in the air; the note it made was at first low, but it rose higher and higher and then dropped again . _ ‘When the note gets to M-‘l know it‘s soon as it ues es us 0 i en mEtOe‘ eke ~Heeneh UUK, Hockne out every cook and bottleâ€"washer on the show . Lots of our men were fresh to the job, too, and had never smelt powder, or felt the touch of steel. â€" But, by gosh, we :et ‘ecm know! Four to one, m; boy, and we ticked ‘cm, in spite of their Vig gunâ€" and their boasting. _ Aren‘t you proud of being a British Tommy?" â€" YTom discovered presently that his!d°.', destination was the Ypres salient, one t of the most "unhealthy" places, to use h the term in favor among the soldiers, the in the whole of the English battle line. 2 Here the most tremendous battle ever y%u fought in our British Army took place * > â€"â€"indeed, one of the most tremendous K battles in the history of the world. A 5K sergeant who was in a garrulous mood described it to Tom -3. great deal; of s#irit. | ul el:’”lhlf said, “yofl have c:emc to an unhealthy spot; still itmay be good for you. 'Fbe blessed Hurs thought The they were &:ing to break through m here about last September when the Hi8 battle of Wipers was fought. They bhad six hundred thousand men to our A Ic hundred and fifty thousand. Then that blooming Kaiser made ug bis "Ip mind that he would break through our , lines, and get to Calais. Yes, it was "Th a touch ans g with us. _ Fancy four, € to one, and they had all the advartage in big guns and ammunition. _ You Hell think those big guns? Wait till you : have heard Jack Johnson and Black I‘m , Maria. Talk about hell!‘~ Hell was j never as bad as the battle of Wipers. omne I thought we were licked once. Ipvevas I in the part where our line was the thinnest, and we saw ‘em coming toâ€" Knov wards us in crowds; there seemed to‘ 1 be millions of ‘em; we had to rake Give Towards evening there was anothâ€" ¢i restingâ€"time, and each man gladly threw himself full length on the grass. For a moment there was a silence, then Tom heard a sound which gave him a sickening sensation; he felt a sinking, too, at the pit of his stomach: it was the boom, boom, boom of guns. "Look at yon‘ airship in the sky!”l cried one of the men. _ Each eye was turned towards it, then they heard . the boom of guns again, after which there were sheets of fire around the | aeroplane, and afterwards little clouds | of smoke formed themselves. ‘ "I am getting near at last," thought | Tom. _ ‘I wonder nowâ€"I wonderâ€"" | h CHAPTER IV.â€"(Cont‘d.) They spent all the nig#t in the troopâ€"train, which was crowded almost to suffocation. Where they were goâ€" img they didn‘t now, scarcely cared. Sometimes they were drawn up to a siding where they would stay for hours, then the train crawled on lÂ¥in. Presently the morning broke and Tom saw a ffat and what seemed to him, a'!ter Surrey,“an uninteresting piece 8# soor going ”“Vi'fall',";nd-; i’t m'tfi'ffa 'fi. mn.md t’.}u and TS a up. E‘z kitled ?"" asked Rone blends. Every leal is fr;,sl\, Ea;ant full of its natural deliciousness. Sold in sealed packets only. B 107 UV Onty Fine.‘Flavo;:y Teas the s a good lot of casualties CHAPTER v are usedâ€" E1 Pils of gao‘s sw e o2 t â€" 9 CTe EP OFCCWOn will get used for 1914â€"1915 amounted to }1’,064,205,- , hear tht?”.ooo pounds, with a per capita conâ€" d- t&“’:”{l'“flm of 11.34 pounds. This was ; a°t° iC) increased in the 1916â€"1917 crop to 1,â€" ‘but it rose! $ P it .4 then dmmd:m,soo,ooo pounds, with a per capita consumption of 17.33¢ pounds. The QW.‘ large increase in consumption during 2 may|the past year undoubtedly has direct ;.!lnn and ‘:: relation to the high price of potatoes m:"""’. » _|and wheat. The rice crop;of India for E.dm the past year showed an increase of of casualties | 1,255,000 tons. 7 Author of ,"An for a Scn;“of FPaper." "Dearer Than lg Life," _ ege. blished by Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, London and Toronto __ V.â€"(Cont‘d.) | every day, but not so to produce the fIamous may be added to the cereal, when " ::B::"'t, )rvr(n)?”'hat:aiysmt;:: as:‘:fx;l;“;:?- cooiing, for the sake of variety. e ‘em? ; h :\ "well, I don‘t know. _ Mind you, they| . tl mtp'roxln:'i]y tcot;)ked cereal;hwlll causle | are fine soldiers, and brave men too,| !Mtestinal disturbances. e cereals _or at least they seeni brave; but* it‘s nnsmorrtrtng | discipline does it. They are just like Preserving Garden Products. machinery. . Once when I was right Lebanon Chowâ€"Chow.â€"One quart of ‘in the middle of it, they ntuckgg in corn, cut from the cob, one pint of ‘close formation, and we turned ouril. ,be t ;. triny beghs ‘machineâ€"guns on ‘em. _ Ever seen a MA beans, one quart of s Te fi}" » mowing machine in a ‘wheat field? jf°“' red peppers, cut in one‘inch ever seen the wheat fall before the blocks, four green peppers, cut in oneâ€" \knives? Well, that‘s how they fell.‘ inch blocks, ten cueumbers, cut in oneâ€" Hundreds upon _ hundreds; but still inch blocks, two heads of cauliflower, they came on. Just as fast as one lot broken into small flowers. â€" Place all was killed, the others, knowing that in a preserving kettle â€" Cover with they were going to certain death,| 1d ter 4 k yent! til th |'came gn, t}!:inking,tl!;:y would wear us ::get:l:l:: :(:r):defen ’i);:;nn “;! down by sheer numbers. McA# * A ‘_ "Did they ?" asked Tom, !cover with a weak vinegar, adding: "No, that time they didn‘t," replied one pound of brown sugar, two ounces! the sergeant, "but another {lcrfira I of mustard seed, two ounces of celery was in they did. That is their p >‘ seed, three ounces of mustard, two | \yV?lank;;.OZI;C(::e(;Z itter;:)b:zs cho:‘t,z,”but | tablespoonfuls of whole cloves, two ! "Have you been wounded at .ill?", :able;z%on::ls Ofbw,h"lf allsplcc..Berg l asked Tom. 9 * i & DOH ANUA andile Pn Hvessecge c llls l i. ened you.. The house went down as thougi it were cardboard, and other houses around fell as though to keep it company, while others caught fire. Ay, ‘they‘re sweet creatures, are those ‘German swine." ( P Lo ICP PSpPmCy TTE o great bomb caught it fair in the face; it seemed as though the whole wor‘ld| was shaking, and the noise fair deaf-" ened you.. â€" The house went Anum as s Te CC CHC trees around, how theK are twisted and burnt? That house there I saw shellâ€" ed mKself. I had got a bit used to the shelling by that time, but I tell you it gave me a turn. It was the bigges‘f hoLuse in‘ the Square, and a ® o_ % YMevege |fou‘d not break our lines, and they’yery nittle. â€"Oats is the richest cereal had lost a hundred and fifty thousand|!" protein and fats; wheat ranks secâ€" ‘men, so they turned their bifi guns, ond to oats and cornâ€"comes next. |upon the city. _ ‘We can kill Belgian Cooking. % women and children, anyhow,‘ they L s & & | said, ‘and we can smash up the old ong, slow, continuous cooking is town.‘ _ Are you a bit jumpy ?" | necessary to thoroughly soften , and ‘ _ "No nâ€"nâ€"no;â€"that is, a bitl” uid"fe'ldel' the cellulose easy to dig‘flt. Tom. __ & a & |The starch, which is present in the _ "Ot, its quite quiet now," replied| grain, is enclosed in a cellâ€"like strucâ€" th‘zhsc;g:ainft' s “Im\:’;"a:;":hz}:o‘;ggi' ture, therefore long cooking is necesâ€" wi 0 u + . round. This is the great square; one':;ry to soften this cellulose, so that of the biggest in the world. I saw it thC digestive juices may act upon the! before it was bombarded; the Cath.] C0oked sta.rch. Following is a table | edral and the Cloth Hall were just of proportions to be used in preparâ€"| wonderful; see what they are now! 1mg breakfast cereals: { | knocked into smithereens. See the R y arl L DUUCRCC INLQ NC s e OCCCC CE BeARCUE ICL UBC have heard the women screaming, and; "XKCt 2re @lgo one of the deterâ€" ’ have I;loard thle women ;cre:}:‘m_ngl,i ’:sd'mi}ng Featiires. ing for their lives. Whois stikete af Rouaes were Sorning. ’ ereals may be coarsely ground and and all the time shells were falling Contain a large amouht of the outer and bursting. How many people were coat of the grain, or they may l_)e fineâ€" killed here God only knows, but there ly milled, with the outer covering reâ€" must have been hundreds of women moved. Corn, wheat and oats contain and chldren. . But what d"d fl!‘l;’setlarge proportions of fats; Fice containy ?(";% z‘:’);"%r‘;zkc:fi:’l’;:eg‘":;‘ a thg: | yery little. ~Oats isâ€"the richest cereal L. j j _ _ _~3 __fok SuP HHES, l M s omese ce Cus ’was at the second battle of Wipers. That was fair terrible. You see, the Germans could not drive us back nor break our lines. That was why they started bombarding the city. I was‘ here and saw it. Man, you should have heard the women screaming, and | seen the people flying for their lives.| Wh'ole“str:ets of houses were burning, SATAN QUITS HIS JOB. (PS be continued.) id. That is their pfim, is terribli' costly, but eds it works havoc." been wounded at all?" much as there JJ Wasps prey on other ifigects ‘which they use as food for their larvae. 0 00 t We Ee s C would naturally wear a Found one. Obviously, there would be no conâ€" ventional impropriety in painting a portrait of Wilhelm the Wicked in a square halo. His Plutoniz prototype _ The halo was originally a pagan symbol of power: Thus it is not so very surprising to find Satan represâ€" ented, in medieval paintings, with a halo. JIn that period it was customiry to depict living personages of great auâ€" thority with square halos. | Saints, in pictures, are usually repâ€" resented with halos. Angels® likeâ€" wise. l Why? Ask the rnext man you meet, and you will find him guessing at the reason. C ! Most people suppose that halos were not worn until within the last 1900 years or so. But that isn‘t true, Rotnan emperors and even consuls were pictured with halos long before the birth of Christ. And, if history tells of them truly, they were neither saints nor angels. n Painters ‘ZVver inis Spread a layer of dill. Place then w a layer of cucumbers and then cover | with oi the cueumbers with a good layer of | husk or dill. . Repeat this operation until the | can be tub is filled to within four inches of | keep. the: top. _ Have the top layer of dill | of corn one inch thick. _ Over this place a ) taking c thick layer of grape vine leaves. Make|each ot] tne sun to dry. _ Sselect mediumâ€"sized : Cover with cucumbers. Wash, to remove the ‘tion until th sand, and now rlace a layer of grape er on top vine leaves in the bottom of the tub.| with two la Over this spread a layer of dill. Place then with plrtis 4304 Al heodidecnlas <A4 , one pound of brown sugar, two ounces of mustard seed, two ounces of celery seed, three ounces of mustard, two itablespoonfuls of whole cloves, two tablespoonfuls of whole allspice. Bring to a boil and cook for twenty minutes. Seal in allâ€"glass jars. This may be made a mustard color by adding three level tablespoonfuls of turmeric. Dill Pickles.â€"Use a lard or butter tub. . Cleanse thoroughly and then: scald with boiling water and place in the sun to dry. â€" Select mediumâ€"sized Aumsguls 00 OO Pe > Time ll cupful cupful teaspf. | Cream of wheat i 1 g 50 min. | Wheatena ... .. i 1 50 min, : Rolled oats °... 1.3 1 4 60 min. i : Sfakon. thale 14 g 60 min. _ Corn meal ..... i 1 60 min. Hominy grits .. . i 1 4 60 min. Coarse oatmeal. i 1i 4 90 min. ’Cream of barley i 1 4 45 min. | Use a double boiler for cooking all | cereals. This will also prevent them from scorching. _A fireless cooker is ‘ideal for the proper cooking of all ‘grains and ‘cereals. Dates, nuts, raisins, figs, prunes and dried fruite ’may be added ~to the cereal, when cooking, for the sake of variety. Improperly cooked cereals will cause intestinal disturbances. The cereals 206 m ce S ture, therefore long cooking is ne sary to soften this cellulose, so the digestive juices may act upon cooked starch. Following is a t of proportions to be used in pre ing breakfast cereals: _ ond to oats and corn â€"comes next. Cooking. ‘ Long, slow, continuous cooking is necessary to thoroughly soften , and render the cellulose easy to digest. The starch, which is present in the grain, is enclosed in a cellâ€"like strucâ€" kwees. 41L ... ® & 8 NP CC CCE EC CAnVTLY Protein is necessary for building all | bodily tissues, therefore it is a necesâ€" sary food constituent. It is also the most expensive in the food groups. Carbohydrates are the starches and sugars. . Cellulose, which also belongs to this group, is valuablgto the body for its bulk and digestive properties,l | but it has no food value. | Fats are found in various proporâ€" tions in different grains. Mineral salts are found in abundant’ supplies in cereals. | The climate, soil and the quality of | the grain itself are the determining | factors of the actual amount of nutriâ€" ment that is contained in the various grains that are used for cereals. The methods used by manufacturerg in preâ€" | paration of the various grains for the | us ie d > 0s 2 Wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, buckâ€" wheat and barley are the grains from which cereals are prepared. â€" All cereal foods contain protein, carbohyâ€" drates, fats, mineral salts and water in more or less proportion . ORIGIN OF HALOS Used Them Long Before the Birth of Christ. CergalI “'gtgr_ Salt Time DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME Twelfth Lesson.â€"Cereals. TORONTO 50 min 50 min, 60 min. 60 min. 60 min, 60 min, 90 min, 45 min. ||CO ) 1en with a cover of wood cut‘ .Captain Cuynemer‘s greatest day‘s | ’so that it will fit inside the top of the work was on May 17 of this year, When1 ,[tub. Place a heavy stone on this t» he brought down four German ma~‘ jweigh down the cucumbers: Stand chines, two of which he accounted for ;[in cool c place to ferment. Look at in the space of two minutes, havingl ;‘the pickl.., once a week, removing all attacked a group of four. _ With\ only | ‘froth and mold. _ Wash the cloth and three cartridges left while on his | [return it to cover the tub. _ Also homeward flight, he encountered thef | keep the tub filled with brine. {fourth German and shot him down | ‘ Salting Corn For Winter Use. _ |With one of the three remainifig cartâ€" | Use a lard or butter tub. Cleanse "!dges. One of the two victimg he |thoroughly and scald with boiling wa. Shot down on August.4 last was Lieut. ‘ter. Rinse in cold water and place in the Hohendorf, a German aviator, who |sun to dry. _ Now place six inches of flew for a French airplane compmyl | salt in the bottom. Select good sound : before the war and who had shot down ! |ears of corn and place them in the saiy, | twelve French‘machines. | taking care that they do not touch.‘ The fiftyâ€"three CGerman maâ€"ki... | |a brine of water and salt that will 'float an egg, bring to boiling point and add one ounce of mustard seed, three ’ounces of horseradish root, cut in small pieces, two ounces of ginger, cut in pieces, oneâ€"half ounce of black pepper. Pour over the cucumbers and then cover with a piece of cheeseâ€" cloth, then with a cover of wood cut so that it will fit inside the top of the Lil wes 2 Note. Always bake the cookies on upâ€"turned baking pan; grease well and then rinse well with cold water before placing the coodkies on it to bake. , Crumb Crackers | Oneâ€"half cupful cf bread crumbs, oneâ€"half cupful of white flour, oneâ€" !fourth cupful of graham flour, oneâ€" |:t'ourth cupful of sugar, oneâ€"fourth teaâ€" | spoonful of salt, oneâ€"fourth teaspoonâ€" ful of nutmeg, oneâ€"fourth teaspoonful ,of ginger, six tablespoonfuls of lard. | Mix the dry ingredients, rub in the "shortening and dissolve oneâ€"half teaâ€" spoonful baking soda in oneâ€"half cup of sour milk andâ€"add: three table-; lspoonfuls of molasses, one wellâ€"beaten . egg, four tablespoonfuls of finely ’ chopped citron. Mix to dough, then | roll oneâ€"fourth inch thick. Cut and then brush with beaten egg and sprinkle the top with granulated su-;' gar. Bake in hot oven from eight to tne minutes. | ,J?oglfi'os:i 100 B. Bage, * Note. Use level measurements. .A nut or raisin may be placed on top of these goodies. Two tablespoonfuls of shortening and sour milk may be used in place of cream. ’of cocoa, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, oneâ€"half teaspoonful of nutmeg. oneâ€" half teaspoonful of cloves, one cupful of flour. one cupful of dried bread crumbs. _ Mix in the order given, then mold into: balls the*size of a walnut. Flatten them between the palms of the hand, and then place on pans preâ€" pared as described for crumb crackers. l}abe in h'o't oven for ten minutes. 3 1 of ter, one cupful of cooked oatmeal, oneâ€" half cupful of sour cream, oneâ€"half cupful of molgsset, two tablespoonfuls One and oneâ€"fourth teaspoonfuls of baking soda, one tablespoonful of waâ€" Left over portions of meat may be minced fine and added to the cereal beâ€" fore molding. ® Mold the cold cooked cereal ?n glasses, then cut in thick slices and dip in flour; now Brown in hot fat and serve for breakfast. Aâ€"cup of cold cooked cereal may be added to the prepared batte. for bakâ€" ing on theâ€"griddle. Try adding one cup of cold cooked breakfast cereal to your muffin _mixture.© This makes a very good hotâ€"bread for breakfast. should be made into gruels for small children @and invalids, then strained through a fine seive. This method will remove the cbarse cellulose. Cinnamon and nutmeg may be used to flavor gruel. th ~ Oatmeal Goodies. salt. Re}_)eaf_tjl-\; o;era- Cereal Griddle Cakes. x ' "Let Redpath Sweeten it." The fiftyâ€"three German machines,’ officially credited to Captain Guyâ€" nemer‘s record were worth something | more than 1,500,000 frances, Some of t them were"manned by two or three | men, and it is estimated that he acâ€", ;: Credited *With Having Shot Down If Fiftyâ€"three German Airplanes â€" :f and More Than Eighty Pilots. * ©â€"| _ Capt. George Guynemer, the famous ul French .aviator, who is supposed to 4| have lost his life in a contest with the " \enemy on September 17th, is credited & |in aviation records with having shot * | down fiftyâ€"three German airplanes inâ€" °~| side thy German lines and with having & destroyed at least twentyâ€"five more that were uncounted. â€" He was one of A;'the youngest men of his rank in the 'f French army, having been promoted 'd by President Poincare in February last at the age of twentyâ€"two. ‘ At the beginning of the war Guynemer was under®â€"age. _ He tried five times , |unsuctessfelly to get into the army â€"|and finally had to literally break his ~!way into the Aviation Corps. The inâ€" -ifantry refused him because he was {under weight for his height and the} liFlying Corps rejected him because the -iexamining surgeon considered that he | ‘ |was. too nervous. Finally, through| / the influence of a friend of his family | who was in charge of an aviation |school he was allowed to learn to fly. |« He astonished his instructors by his | 1 |rapid progress and coolness and won |: <a flying license, after which the Aviaâ€"|® tion Corps accepted him. 8 j â€" An "Ace" Last Year. _ Guynemer became an "ace" in the|‘ |French Aviation~Corps in August, n 1916, and soon thereafter surpassed'il the record of Subâ€"Lieutenant Jean Navarre, who‘up to that time led with twelve German machines to his creâ€" | dit. In the meantime Guynemer had D received two bullets in the arm at Verâ€" ] T dun. â€" In 1916 the Academy of Sports gt‘ awarded the young aviator a 10,000 | = franc prize for "the best sporting | | event of the year." At the end of the same year, with his Captain stripes, he received the Cross of thel Legion of Honor. FAMOUS FRENCH AVIATOR REâ€" PORTED KILLED. CAPT. GUYNEMER‘S SPLENDID RECORD "$ Ibp >=: mmemiecon $ A J to get from aâ€"pound of tea. But . asmmues®®== that proves the finc quality of (( Bedâ€"Rose Tea, which goes further and tastes better because it consists chiefly of rich, strong teas grown in the famous district of Assam in Northern India. w A pound of Red Rose y E f gives 250 cups. Bre REDROS | M & leny, 39y ; Kept Good by the Q«j T E. uomm | Sealed Package â€" ° â€" § 6it | ~~ ds eP P +0 poppmapnne th Red Rose Te: better because teas grown in Northern Indi: .A pound of R gives 259 cups Kept Good | Sealed Pac Guyâ€"| PARKER I Hardy plantsâ€"that require it may‘ be taken up, divided. and replanted. | The earlier this work is done the bet-,' ter. i â€"the highest ! sP°Cimen) has a paperilike consistency, | When the inu};lios at night the papery bulb is illuminated. By | what? Nobody can say, except that it | is a phosphorescent light, and the na-j ture of that is a puzzle to science. l But the contrivance is wholly unique of its kind. The front part of the lanâ€" tern fly‘s head is extended in such a way as to form a hollow, bulbous structure that (in a deadâ€"andâ€"dried specimen) has a pn}erlike consistency, sn > in s 21. ! W earth and I lost track of it All that!. To know how to upsét all the fine I can say "s that the machine ®was not | calculations is the whole art of eludâ€" on fire." C | ing "Archie." nornmmmerreretfp mmz | Every Trick Known to the Trade. THE FIRST HEADLIGHT One way is to alter the apparent «*3 ho ues size of your wingsâ€"or to change your Nature of This Phosphorescent u.bq speed or vary your height, and dodge Still Unknown to Science. |hither and thither, no matter how # many other things you may have to Theâ€"first headlight was carried not | s nthar by :« locomotive, but by a witiged in ,d'o at the su:ne time. You _can .:nex sectâ€"the lantern fly. m: Ne en l alke _by fiying . "one «_ Nobody knows just why the lantern | Tok dofwn and «o mivIng a shorter fy carries a lantern. Very likely itis sawjo,, pm l _ NRCline _ Y9u . can for the purpose of notifying insects of | h:::it:ed ;:k utp “:‘-’ downdn couP].e Of like species and opposite sex "of its ed $ Lc ihe mnil. so l P whereabouts. |your speed, too. You can paint in adâ€" i Om s ODRmVC O meaIl Wwhel Lncre i‘they were, a fresh lot, just behind his P,ARm 'tail, sending him bumping and diving » s % all over the place. They had ot his Anyfl.ung in the n.ture of the frange to a hl;’i:e * e cleaning and dyeing of fabrics | _ He "stalled" and turned off at right can be entrusted to Par sef' S / angles to the leftâ€"and there were the Dye Works with thefl.lllls'cur- | bursts all round him again and the ance Of.pl'ompt,.‘ efficient, ‘ and sharp sting of a wound in his cheeck. economical service. | Deserved to Succeed. Ulkelpueglof MM""‘”‘ | _ Things were getting bad. He wm'tmbw“' | doubled round quickly and made a piece, | "". A fi and Mbubypue_@ ,_sudden diveâ€"and there were the "Guynemer must have been hit. His machine dropped gently towards the earth and I lost track of it _ All that I can say "s that the machine %was not on fire." â€" } "There were forty enemy machines | in the air at this time, including ; Count von Richthofen and his circut[ division of machines, painted in diagâ€" onal blue and white stripes. Townrds’ Guynemer‘s right some Belgian maâ€" | chines hove in sight, but it was too late. ~ | ts Chicfly of riCh’ stmg ous district of Assam in Ee % TEA h ?’f‘ufl l , â€" : * "Guynemer sighted five machines of the â€"Albatross type D3. _ Without hesitation he bore down on them. At that moment enemy patrolling maâ€" chines, soaring at a great height, apâ€" peared suddenly and fell upon Guyâ€" nemer. ~ counted for more than eighty pilots, observers and gunners. s His Last Fight. Guynemer‘s ~last fight is described by a comrade, who is quoted by The Excelsior, as follows: Send Them To carly to receivâ€" V%dflfl! receiv= KER‘S DYE WORKSs 791 YONGE STREET or express. We | bursts all round him o :;t' carriage one way. i’“stalled." put one wir Or, if you , send | sideâ€"slipped down 300 fuflleb”m had he "flattened out" Be sure to address your |one more rroun hur.; » m o PR CT ETT CTUET |hither and thither, no matter how many other things you may have to 4 2Ot| do at the same time. You can alter d "‘“your apparent ~size by flying "one wing down" and so giving a shorter ntern f view of your machine. You can it is | "‘switchback" up and down a couple of :ta-of‘ hundred feet.at a time and so vary f ’t'{' your speed, too. You can paint in adâ€" ; _\ @\ | vence a dark band beneath the tips 948 / of your wingsâ€"and hope for the best. ’.l"": Or you can suddenly "stall" your maâ€" to 3| chineâ€"that is, hold it up and throttle .u',the engine down for a few moments, Iried | opening out again before you start to ’ncy'ifnll. This will make the next few *B€ | shots go well ahead. wou can B.y ’ sileâ€"slip a littleâ€"not op you at "|wiu be losing valuable height. ~"4"| _A pilot one,.day who underwent the | horrible experience of being hemmed in by "Archies" almost exhausted may every trick before he got away. He ited. !wu flying along when suddenly the bet“f-f" MHCKHE i aatiem n F2 C% W TD 222 e eeeanan, | _ Like the scales, the otoliths increase !by two rings annually, Each spring }n white zing . is formed and . each autumn a black one. â€" Thus the numâ€" ber of either white or black rings in‘ ’an otolith gives the age of the fish in years. _ In the case of flatfish the latâ€" " ter method has been found more reâ€" |liable, whereas in the case of the cod j the *cales give a better result. Alâ€" though varying much in size and shape Iin different species, the otoliths show |\ a ‘remarkably constancy in the cama P o C C am n Laemee 5J ae steam of boiling water, as the st only adds to its firmness, .. LH4L. 30 COCCCoÂ¥ (Cacn year. ‘ The "otoliths," or ear stones, which llieint\volmon,ei&u-uid.ofthe | base of the cranial cavity, afford anothâ€" Fer means of determination, oÂ¥ C " ]'one more group burst round him. A|l | the time blood was pouring down his | face. As a last resort he "played hit." ,He put the other wing right down |and sideâ€"slipped sheer 800 feet. This | he turned into a "spinning nose dive" and came out 8,000 feet lower. Then | he flattened out and dived for our 'linea. For those few moments | "Archie" was fooled. Directly afterâ€" | ward they were at him again. But he was out of range and wat aua« increase in size by annni_i;-;;o;;;as. two rings being formed each year. The "otoliths,"* or ear stones, which Fok dWC CC Sodtiay d3 It has beenil-ound that the age of fish may, be read from its scales. The HowloTellAteoanlsh. Could you tell the age of a j asked to do so? An env ;w flying along when suddenly the , fatal bursts appeared just ahead. This 'wn only normal. He sideâ€"slipped a 'little and "carried on." ~But immeâ€" \diately there were the bursts just | ahead again and a little closer. He had hardly ‘turned off again when there is out of range and zoâ€"t lmy_. "Archie‘" is "the very devil"â€" Under.normal circumstances they can tell his height to a few feet, and ~] will show you, too, that they know ii by the~way they send up bursts of | "Archie" (antiâ€"aircraft gun). Indeed, | no matter whether you cross the lines +) one day at 8,000 feet and mpother a 10,000 feet and another at 14,000 feet, so sure as you get within range there lf‘" the six slowly widening rings of | smoke at your levelâ€"a few feet ahoad |or behind or all around you. Hun ‘i“Amhiegi' are generally grouped in ;lixu; and though their chief object is barrage and annoyance, men have | been brought down by "sighters" and 7by direct hits at 15,000 feet from one | of those fatal sixes. [ The "Archie" gunner judges height Mn Peen n t CC TTRIRTT iby measuring the apparent size of the _ machine‘s wings as it flies above. He knows every machine at a glance at 10,000 yards distance and farther. He gets plenty of practice. He knows the measurements of every machine and its speed and can allow for it. The Hun "Archie‘" gunner has reason ito be peculiarly â€" efficientâ€"he gets so much practice. _ â€"‘ is powerless unless its posâ€" is conscious of his ability., A pilot fiying over the lines uses a| sorts of tricks to ._d?u've the watch ers below. How the Sky Pilots of War Dodge the Antiâ€"Aircraft Guns by Clever VERSED IN THE ART oFP ELC» * * ING AN "ARCHIE.» elope closed with the white !l\.:u__ __ll. opened by the ~~â€" FLYING CORPS ""~Câ€"mnd there were the all round him once more. â€" He s _the very devil"â€"where get plenty of practice! M d out" again when wing down and 800 feet. 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