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Hodder Stoughton, Limited, London and Toronto the New Year came 8 vee re-| fr P bag i ne’er ionghe bairn 0’ who have sacrificed every- thing. 45 de thelr great cheer arose from the Bes ence, and Tom baaat ‘easing What ne was doing, shout lose,” continued the ermans break our nd, if we are beaten, to whom shall we owe it? Who i It will be the shirkers, the cowards! Look, you ied passionately, ands of our bi i ,|the trenches: fighting, poeie oy ning. Places off amusement on’ you, realise that you are mscripts, n who come out cheerfully, willingly, pldly Sis do thelr duty to their King, Country, arid God. Wee will Be the first?” d on the: ‘latform waiting amidst breathless silen Will you wait until. io are fore- “No! By God, no!” ssid Tom, and starting to his feet he walked to the “Tha doesn’t say so?” he | mother when, se night, he told her hao ie ad don a " “Then thowst goin’ for a’ sodger.” ‘Ay.” Say Martha Pollard looked at him seconds without speaking. nm a few Bidentiy she found af aia to find words to express her “Weel, Tom,” she Bait presently, “I thought ‘thee’t’ got low 1 eno’ when inkin’ and p Sake beie inlk as. low, as that. Wer’t’a baan Be goin’ to tell Polly,” said Tom. un, be. sent. to Laneaster England hang back, if they fail to septa, sald 4 es Pola ove. thelr’ country, t-< they Gare *n07 thing about the honor or sacredness CH Fant: I. of womanhood, #f they prefer the pd his Wrage Va Ee une id own ease, theit awn paltry pleasures, |-7pj Pepe Bat wad intorned “that Bolly before duty; if they would rather go | would not be home until eleven o’clo to cinema hang around He therefore wandered about th town OWS, ublic-house doors than lay the game Fike Englishmen, this, rend more than plac The England be a in chains, while our wo- fest ba the oe of inhuman vils. That is the problem which 2 tk oa alwa, “The tome “of. ‘the brave and free, Who will ve been our saviours It will be until that time, and again appeared a the public: house door. Se ee ewalve. ‘orelock that’ Polly de hee epautie aegApything: the matter, Tom?” she et chy, , T have joined the Army. vine ou’! ie noan Le ane a Thor “ 4 Tom, “T couldn’ Polly Vea ted: Se vue See angrily, he said: “If y ee i hat do about it for? orrow,”” oe ied I must report ‘at morrow morning at tan o'clock. > 7 it KC all Between Detroit, Sarnia, 8. - Bxoellent meals, olal train. ~ dancing ev ar certs, after noon ‘teas, etc., all included in ‘Train connections Detroit, Sarnia, S90, William and Datu nA 1600 Mile, ‘Six-Day Detroit-Duluth. Cruise comfortable staterooms, east and west at Port Arthur, Write for Craise Booklet to EW. wes "General Pasconser Agent SS S. Marie, yaluth © con- your iloket Fort Northern Navigation Company 3 Sarnia, Ontario " | For Information Ask Your Local Ticket Ags wi er he speaker made his last ap- rr daid Tom's | si British Shrapnel said | stri a ye rant o-opbak| G “Where will you Bee she saad “I don’t know,” said Tom. “Well, what are you waiting Gok “I thought,” said Tom, Rona is— thought as 1 was going a1 ard ook here, Pallas you are going to keep to me while I’m away, aren't y I never x thought much of soldiers,” said Polly. “De you think you might get a com- esitated a seeand then she rue a te In, ‘The next morning as Tom was mn ing his way towards the Town Hall he met Alice Lister. At first he was going to. pass her out notice, but when he saw the look on her face he stop} She came towards him with ym,” she ad “Y've heard about |}; ee t ples, and it was Avlepale: of you. ‘lad you were the Tam led scores of o! “Have you Heard Sot 8 said Tom. “I.pever thought of it.” heat iies od soldier, Tom. We: are.all proud of ‘ou, and—and we shall be thinking about you, and fi f 5) vin ‘or you.’ Tom laughed uneasily. . “I thought oa nas forgotten all about me, ee Cay should you think so?” 'o be continued.) Sle i SES ES BRITISH ARMY SAVING FOOD. Men as Well Fed as Ever, But Saving Amounts to 15 Per Cent. The British army in the field is con- suming about 15 per cent. less of month: This. 13 <e, due to any studied dimi- ution of rations, but to a more care- Ty easy for a generous r iuieeera to supply an army with e early vide too much than too little, and the reaching of the exact mean is not a simple matter. The policy of over- supply was well enough when food- tufts were fairly plentiful, but nowa- days, when the result of the war may depend upon the solution of food pro- blems, Hous is being left undone to prevent w: The British soldier is still the best- fed soldier in Burope, b' dey held over and added to the store for the next meal or the next d The private soldier takes more kind- ly to the don’t-waste-food campaign than was expected, for at heart the British-Tommy has an aversion to see- ing good food going into the waste box e|—he never did {t at home, and it looks ee Dek oatuadica te be doing it in a requires no knowledge of higher: strategy to see a vente of the don’s-waste-food taken on the anti-waste Fopuldtiond with mofe cheerfulness and less argu: nent than marked the adoption of the steel helmet or the gas mask. ee ge SHELLS LIKE THUNDERCLAP J) > Explodes Quietly than Does German. Writing from British field head- quarters, Edward P. Bell, says:— Liste! iaeellg. explosior=-con: tinuous as I write—of British ai 1 4] subsequent. sounds are different, those from the an, ies mor. ibilant in quality. a ity votme than those from ee “pritish on yhich eal is the more destructive I cannot 8: G has a sharper, lala aor ie = = fant s is charged thea ballets but with high eile: . This material bursts the eat “chell case so that the whistl- ing noises following are caused by mixture of bullets and fragments of 2 stee ‘The British shell case, on the er hand, does not burst. It? seta ‘fintact and Boia se eee from the lia shotgun «pours its ghot; thus eae the bullets. are brought to bear more effectively in é definite direction. inly British must have some good reason for “geightfulness? shows itself in all he |. doe: There is is probably no doubt, as S RS aoe a @ = Es a is about the hardest man to scare that ever wore a uniform Not To Be Cheated. © Little John had been extra specially | good that afternoon, and’ father felt amiably inclined “Papa,” piped “John, Hean Ihave a anana?” “Yes, corey soonny.” “Papa, was twins would you give the ao boy, a banana too?” “Yes, of course. = you aren’t going t another banana ist because I’m all in ce piece, are you?” The season of the fly pests fame the summer is on; ee ies, nee flies, bot flies, horn flies, stab! and many others unite to cause.a large of the annual decrease in the milk mission nd be an officer?” asked the pe ic never thought about that,” said ni m gla told that your going api, that way {is cal cold water \d- | oug! stuffs eee ype ash it did eighteen st ta distribution and the prevention of | pers More sp ©| Guard at Pots commanders ays must t against among Tae ee ‘Happily for the British army, Tommy Atkins| Starches and sugars have many pro- a Si for the body and energy see a Rane ee in cer- eals, grains anc 3. It is fe oe sconeUBIeT Ie ter and heat is applied. ening heat causes the cell-like structure to expand and burst, thereby ihickening sh when heated It is the basis of Brit- Hate yun anil te fied taeda aiaking library paste starch is heat- bon free. Digestion of Starches most important that all food contain- h be thoroughly masticated. to chew food thoroughly will saliva from ‘acting upon mach for at least half an hour, un- juices. It is foods with other food containing fruit or vegetable acids. stomach — ferments do not act panereatic juice and intestinal femiente complete the final changes which occur and are absolute- ly necessary to convert the starches into soluble Leas mbine starchy foods with re Pods as all excess i sored in the body in the Fane Starches. Starchy foods must be thoroughly cooked, owing to the fact that few, if Win-the-War Recipes. ry time cornmeal is used where ts were mush for breakfast, with figs, di or fruit for variety; use cornmeal in quiet breads, yeast breads, desserts. Omit all wheat breakfast cereals, Use rolled oats for muffins, rolls and yeast raised bread. Cornmeal Muffins—One cupful sour mull one and one-third cupfuls flour, one- fais bale powder, one-halt teashoons ful salt. milk, egg and melted iat and ad re “ngrediene well mix- etnies Pudding—Three-fourths eup- ful ieee aS suena milk, one and 4g 1W04-043 50 one “tal tedspdonttls salt three table- aes = cornmeal as in making m alt and sugar, Turn into sees DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME Sixth Lesson.—Starches and ABs ry -| food which aoe sta: e |lessly cooked starchy foods sail pro is in iS beet roots, sate trees and certain eyond the ol transformed into carbon, all the mois-|{ ture being removed setting the car-|; to|and gummy muffins. Mix any, person: oroughly days a itarch, duce intestinal aigisriane, This particularly true breakfast foods. Ualess they are well eoked they should not be given to infants or elderly fireless coker is an ideal method of Soot breakfast foods, and, ing fact, for cooking all starchy foods. gars. y kinds of sugars. The raat stasailiae of them is the cane sugar. Sugar is also obtained from lends of palms. r is also found in vegetables, The greatest amount bling corn. tween rollers, extract-| m; ing the sweet juice, whichis clarified and evaporated until, upon cooling, its crystals appear ina thick liquid, This liquid is molasses. The crystals are brown sugar. ‘The brown sugar, by a process of re- fining, is made into sro kinds of su- gar known to housewiy: Grape and fruit oben are found in grapes, peaches and other fruits. It is two and one-half times less sweet. than cane. Glucose is manufactured on a large scale from corn. _Laetose, or milk sugar, is found in milk. The commerical sugar of milk comes from Siefierland, and is made by ae oe ing the ve Tt ie and the sick. It is less liable to produce acid fermentation than cane sugar ae is more easily digested. Food Value is Banas, Siar is valuable trim easy to digest and quickly: eae) by the body. Cane sugar, in the pro- cess of digestion, owing to the action of the pancreatic es is converted into glucose, and after its absorption it is completely tiled in furnishing heat and energy. Sugar may be used freely during sold weather Githant injurious effects, but only a small amount should be used during hot weather taking ish, Dut dish in pan of water, slowly two and one- halt to pe iia Serve with hard which the poantey was sub; fa in the wai ected byt i have been in a measure obliter- What Denmark Thinks. ‘As long as old Queen Louise lived the Hohenzollerns were anathema ai the court of Copenhagen. But her Mecklenburg- Schwerin; while his next aoe Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by mar- rying ~another German Prince’ daughter of Empress’s the German ‘act, the foothold which ined in Denmark sister. na fa the Kaiser has obtai is a pretty stron; enmark is essentially an agricul- tural country Agriculture is her staple industry, and her farmers wae n obtaining prices such med of agrictun ral produce and of ‘their live! tock to Germany, The merchants, a who have been growing rich by) sélling transatlantic imports to Ger- many, naturally feel a sympathy for) the latter. But on the other hand, there is a very large part of the popu-| 2" lation that is strongly as -Ally. In Sweden, the and Queen} ave been from ae aie iret inane ly pro-German. man Princess ho ° lad lof her birth tothe lend of option Ataf ependd’ al the deo Aint she car in her native grand duchy of Baden or te bai Tee ay. a Stockhoh no ciiaest not fis eat oe ee take up arms for the kaiser, who is one intimate friends enly prefers the] her justified fear that by so doing he would be pro- yoltte a revolution among his sub- Jee Conditions in ere he’ Swediah army 4s’ pto-German. The clergy and the picteanionsl De have well nigh every one of them ceived at any aa a portion of fits education at n universities, of es the extremely reactionary Swedish aris- tocracy is almost entirely pro-Ger- man, owing to the fact that it is com- posed in the main branches of houses of the German nobility or else is af- aes with the latter by intermar- in every generation for hun- died) of yolraevedt: erchants who have sold and domestic produce to mine owners and i found a ‘profitable m: their wares in the dominions of the Kaiser, imported Germany, | egg, two tablespoonfuls fat, one-half cupfuls flour, two tables ee aes eas} eat salt,| teaspoonfuls bal tng wder. Cook oatmeal, using one oi raha to two parts water. A large propor-| ais Gb ravers ekes takes a mush) Mix , oat. | meal, egg and melted fat. Add dry ingredients after sifting them togeth-| et. Bake twenty-five to thirty min- utes. This makes ten to twelve muf- fins Rye Muffins. ~ na-half Hane sable Pe adios and I meal, one tablespoonful spoonful salt, on half teaspoonful Pee Beat all "atop by the spoon in hot fat, or bake in muffin tins. "HUN INFLUENCE IN : NEUTRAL COURTS i ESPECIALLY POWERFUL IN HOL- END, AND SWEDEN, Attitude of the Netherlands and the Scandinavian Kingdoms To- wards the Allies. If there is one thing more than the past forty years, and more espe- cially since the advent the throi of the present eae te is the Bidet: ion of eir country into the confed- | states | diplomatic ii pressure to bring this ab succeeded in Wilhelmina a jilt her good looking ui Pri of Denmark, ho was ae favored by the Dutch people, for the sake of the homely and terribly German Duke Henry of Meck- ag es Schwerin, who was brought f athe Prussian dices: ant peculiarities the Prussian ed all the pre} of ee % oe ‘as Guar ni From the Kaiser. The Kaiser has lavished aver ne emb ith the high Dutch nobility. He has offered the protection of Germany for the great and rich Bast Indian de- pendencies of the Ni ieee against oj lated throughout: whichHolland, with the mouths of ae German river Rhine, was shown eolored as forming. pert at pared ot his em foothold in the Netherlands. and suc- ceeds in his designs their independ- ence, won at a cost of so much Dutch blood two or three hundred years: ago, ny other that the Dutch have feared for he is cad ueing “Queen. i i eat pire. : But Queen Wilhelmina’s subjects appreciate that if ever he obtains a will become a thing of the past, . and that once brought under the economic of Berlin and subordinated to its De interests their prosperity and commercial importance will be one forever. Teuton domination. ‘) the nightmare of every patriotic Hol: lander, and they have Sipe’ treated eir Queens eae estiaede and her whi erman Princess’ te "ats, swith their Maud, duces her Danish wen husband, King Haakon, | °4 who spent many happy years in Hae Hand before his election to the Nor: “wegian brea, { ae peo way as a whole) Py baal aoul ttt Great Aeieatn| France to stich an extent that to ie in Christiana | gether satisfactory i the Allies, The. Norwegian merchants who Lbtks een | amassing huge sicies by sale of imports and domestic ye to. Germany favor the Kaiser. With pore to Denmark it would; seem that at her court at any rate sugar ine melted butter, one table-| an e egg, beaten; one-|ed any pecu e tea. Louie ane mate Oe e likewise in sympathy with the Gentral Powers rather than with those of the es ane the governing classes of ]| throughout ane war a ani- |mosity toward Great Britain and her allies which will never be forgotten and which has foun expression, | among other things, in the exa: ing obstacles of every kind tliat have been raised to the communication of Bee with her allies and with th eutral Powers by meang of the Swed- ish ie ‘oads. the masses “as She Swedish peo- ple, Mike those in rk tion by the steeple high prices of the necessaries of life, are all ombitfat n the kais as thet sufferings SariSnAeE Polied tipaht to Gleega bellion against their respective Gov- the destinies of the nation to the fated, cause of William of Hohenzollern. MERRY MID-SEA CHORUS. Bells on oat of B Engines Rang All Way to France. “The next time I take a cargo of locomotives across,” said the skipper merchantman in port in ed we wading our last trip over we philadelphia path 60 EEN mH encased in huge wooden boxes, in tact | n n have manifested | j, le: | WITH A BRITISH “TANK AT MESSINES INCIDENTS IN THE BATTLE ON ‘MESSINES RIDGE. 88, Lieutenant Tells of Adyentures With the Big Machine Under Shell Fire. W. Benjafield, in com- ahd ee a Brlidh tank, writing to his sister, in Toronto, tel Y\ the recent battle oi | yank to pick out a route for his ma- ‘We could. si | ¥ the Bosches RIEL bets ae mean eee |the top and they could. see us. The it ore peenes were up the slope of the ridge an y could observe all our move- “ Be WeSEE OR ridge opposite, eae valley between, 300-400. yards lwide, “No Man’s Land.” In normal jtimes it would be saerata but? there’ | was one stream right ss it, an- | other behind us, the joke vbeth of dry j weather was in-our favor.” the Darkness. “We moved off at half are Aleren le to a point 150 yards eden irst line, "At best of timon |very little from a tank. Naw We were ‘driving at dead of night, igees route jnone of us knew, had been ‘changed at the int Sean e had to drive with our gas masks on, ‘for the Hun put over na shells the ‘iol time, and i terrible, as had to take ue r_roolraors off to seé where we At last we got to eat Tomping off Place fixe minutes before the was sta Ranke commoners. bop ea out to say good-bye friends, but it was ae 30 healthy ‘outside, for the German barrage had come down. Seen by Enemy. | “I think we had. been spotted t minutes before, for a bi mp went up behind “us, and I fancy we were spotted against the glare. Inside ‘our ‘Willy’ “as we call the tanks, {toss about n forward, lumber- ing over trenches “and ahall Holes. ta y great good luck we got Greece their barrage, which was mp. urs thing compared S. jumped the Douve river in ‘No ‘an’s Land’ could see our infantry engaged in hand-to-hand fighting on the ridge, an ‘was sorry our mon- ster was slow. As it was the attack is such a creer that the tanks were not req) We are Masoied Lo anicahars tes infantry are held up, Germans Gaye Up. “Machine oe rattled on the out- side. y make it ‘itticult ae range us. We got to the Bosche front. line and ino? over. yy thi time the ridge was practically taken fh the Germans hardly fought at all— they simply ran. we saw the isoners coming back. The German ba pads beers Lge sel oh aol to the Bosehe second oie thon wa tad the ‘isfortune itch ank in We set to digging out at 6.80. Thea by pigeon, which in_an~account of the Mail Under Shell Fire. “The battle was. are too far ad- to. be vanced for me to. decided to return, And pt was done under ee at crew. worked magnificently. A MBosche aeroplane came over, and spotted us, and.they put up a ter- a barrage along our route, which en pce bat ahaa us soldly our cite Mya Aan ald “Willy” managed t and ready to be taken off the he and) q shell, fortunately we were aise placed immedia tely on the track to! than it is here, and they’ve no time to fit locomotives together there. . “The ve) lew ware WaS as smooth as a way down to ie bay, we the first wavelets het fatrtiek us at the capes’ started some- ‘thing that made me want to take . header off the bridge. Every one o! [the 60 locomotive bells in the hold i gan. toring! And they all kept rimg- ing all day and all | night all one way has retain- ty span of the cruel wrongs to Across is: Atlantic. heavy barrage and got back safely; ae dropped. shells. al around us, ut the luck was Ps Sg njat bey nae commis- ‘ice jeu dion t in the Bri 5 Tea ‘Because of the shortage of sugar and the uncertain len; war, aperanent honey Peductie has been suggested &s an emergency measure. lb. Cartons— 10, 20 $0 Fond 100 we Bags if I better sugar is ever produced than th | a — e. present TH Extra Granulated, you may be sure it at ei made in the same Refinery that has led for over half ~ acentury—and sold under thesame name—REDPATH. * “Let Redpath S » Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Montreal. meeten it.?? 15 steered ten te through a -—