The Kington Times - January 1918
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Kington Times 5th January 1918 - Page 4
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| Date | 05/01/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 5th January 1918 |
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4 A CALL FOR ECONOMY Ministers ' Messages . The Nation must be Saved . Economy in Food is Imperative . THE KINGTON TIMES . JANUARY 5 , 1918 . LORD MORLEY'S RECOLLECTIONS . " ( Published by Macmillian & Co. , 25 / - . Obtainable at the LEOMINSTER PRINTING CO . , ) . LEOMINSTER BOROUGH FOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE . MEAT PRICES QUESTION . ORDER FIXES RATES FOR FAT CATTLE . BUTTER SUPPLY : COMMITTEE'S ACTION . Mr. Enoch said the fault was partly their own . It was clearly laid down that the deal- ers should only give 2s . 3d . The Chairman said that one of the difficulties which was insurmountable was that no foreign butter or margarine was coming in . There was very little butter in the market on Fri- day and unless they could stop the dealers going to the farmhouses they could do nothing . The Mayor said that some members felt that That was their work was a waste of time . not so . They were appointed to carry out an important duty . They must bear in mind that they were breaking up new ground . The While Lord Morley has not written of him- self in detail as did Wesley or Pepys , it is not improbable that some in posterity will regard his Recollections as his best Life . He was A meeting of the Food Control Committee born in Blackburn in 1838 , in that grade of society characterised more by culture than by for Leominster Borough was held on Saturday wealth . A school , a minor college , Chelten- evening at the Town Hall , when there were hain , Oxford mark the steps in his academic present : Alderman George Page ( in the chair ) , training . We wish he had told us more of the Mayor ( Councillor J. B. Dowding ) , the steps they had taken would go a long way to his Oxford years , but leaving us to fill the Deputy Mayor ( Councillor J. Watkins ) , Coun- deal with the question . Mr. King asked if they could not get at picture it is enough to say that there he had cillor J. J. Biddle , Mrs. Jarvis , Mr. T. J. new visions , and drifted from his slender moor- Enoch , Mr. C. A. Turner , Mr. E. King , with the Food Committees in other towns to pre- vent these high prices being given . Mr. C. O. Mapp . Rations is to orthodoxy , to the rationalistic position the Executive Officer ( Mr. W. T : Sale ) , and Don't diminish the Fighters ' Rations Foods which are not Rationed . Specially written for the Ministry of Food , by E. I. Spriggs , M.D. , F.R.CP. In a previous article we saw that the Con- troller's rations supply about two - thirds of the food we need , leaving one - third to be made up from the non - rationed foods . We saw also non- non - rationed foods . that potates and fish are the two rationed foods which it is most important to make full use of at the present time . Every worker , indeed , every healthy per- son , and every growing child over 12 should Pat a pound of potatoes a day if possible . This is four fair - sized potatoes . Of these two dr three may be eaten as a vegetable , and one ( or two ) used in making potato bread , potato scones , pies or other dishes . When buying it is of great importance to keep in mind so far as possible which foods are the most nourishing . The list in Part 1 gave the food values of a pound and of an ounce of the In the following list the comparative values are shown in a different A list of equivalent food values of the non- rationed foods . The weight of the food in every case gives the same food value - that of a pound of way . bread . he has never abandoned . science . SUPPLIES OF BACON . At the last meeting Mr. H. Bach applied to be granted an additional 50 per cent . in his supplies of bacon over The Mayor said he took the same view that he took on the previous occasion , that they should assist the tradesmen of the town in getting a supply of bacon for the people . He was decidedly in favour of granting the ap- plications . The Chairman said that when high prices FRIPP'S TOILET SOAP Recalls the Fragrance of an Old World F. Carden EXPLOITS OF A BRITISH AIRMAN . SEVEN ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN IN TWO DAYS . FEELS IT IS " MURDER TO ATTACK A SINGLE BOCHE " Paris , December 31. - The correspondent of the Havas Agency on the British front tele . graphs- For some days the German air service has been particularly active , but found itself up against something for which it did not bargain . In one of their flights yesterday our airmen were joined by one of the crack British flyers , the man who in one day last accounted for four enemy machines , two in the morning and two in the afternoon . I have heard since were given it was not by legitimate trading . LEOMINSTER VOLUNTEERS . that the same airman , whose name I regret I The maximum price in Birmingham was 2s . 6d . per lb. A man could not come to Leo- minster and buy butter at 2s . 5d . per lb. and pursuit of a literary life his first engagement was as reader for Macmillan , the publisher . But in iS67 higher honour and greater re- sponsibility came , when chosen to be Editor 1916 on the ground send it to Birmingham to be sold in the shop of the Fortnightly . For fifteen years he now buying at 2s . 6d . per lb. They hoped to trace the directed the course of that powerful Review that agricultural labourers were and surely few editors have had the pleasure imported bacon , having given up pig feeding butter to its destination and would have the or receiving , or run the risk of declining , owing ot the scarcity of meal . The Commit- services of a detective in Birmingham to make contributions from tee were favourably inclined on that occasion , enquiries there . So many who now are Mr. Enoch said there was a lot of talk . but the matter was adjourned to give the safely placed in the history of literature and other traders an opportunity of making simi- about the dealers taking all the butter when Swinburne , Huxley and Myers were lar applications if they so desired . Similar it was plentiful , but the dealers did not use only a few of the mighty host . became the captain of the Pall Mall Gazette , Messrs . Gough and Co. , H. Reynolds , and Later he applications had since Le . received from to trouble . It was the grocers who used to take it . which he steered to some purpose in the dis- Saxby and Co. , the increase applied for vary- This concluded the business of the meeting . turbed political waters of that time . One of ing from 15 to 50 per cent . the new connections which that brought him was with W. T. Stead , whom he eulogises to an extent which will not be questioned by But while Lord Morley Cheese , 10 oz .; currants , raisins , honey , 12 those who knew him . was guiding high journalism , he was also ad- oz .; dried figs or dates , 13 oz .; dried apples , Biography was his forte , 14 oz .; prunes , nuts ( shelled ) , 1 lb .; syrup , ding to literature . The Chairman said the Committee , were 1 lb. 1 oz .; sardines , 1 lb. 4 oz .; tinned and and the subjects chosen , Didecot , Voltaire , recommend the Food Control Office salted fish , 1 lb .; salmon , tinned or fresh , Burke and others , allowed him to expound and asked to 3 lb. 2 oz . plums ( fresh ) , pears ( tinned ) , 34 illustrate ideas and principles , which , to ob- that these traders should have these addi- He was anxious that the : lb .; milk , 3 pints ; potatoes , 3 lb. bananas , serve , was he believed , to draw humanity tional supplies . fresh pears , 4 lb .; parsnips , artichokes , 5 along an ascending path . It is said that he bacon should be supplied , but the point was Ib .; fres straw - took his style chiefly from Burke , if so , he does that if they asked for too much they might fish , 5 lb .; apples , 5 get none at all . berries , 6 lb .; beetroot , 6 lb. carrots , no discredit to that master of language . While thus engaged he felt a leaning to turnips , greens , 9 lb .; oranges , 7 lb .; onions , tomatoes , 10 lb .; rhubarb , 11 lb. politics and in 1883 was elected as one of the Do not conclude , after reading this list , that members for Newcastle , which city subse- fresh fish is a poor food because 5 lb. of it quently suffered from the strange delusion that it was worthy of a better representative . What are needed to give the same food value as one Calories . pound of bread . In the first place , the weight he learnt in journalism of the secrets of here given allows for the waste of the skin , parties and the tendencies of thought , plus his fins and bones , and represents only 2 lb. of integrity , at once made him an asset to his the actual flesh of the fish as eaten , or , with party and an object for the respect of oppon- herring which is especially nourishing , stillents . less . Secondly , we do not buy fish for its food value alone , but because , like meat , it supplies body - building material . Here is an example of a diet which has ac- tually been eaten . The quantities of the non- rationed foods in this diet are suitable for any man or woman doing light work , that is in classes 2 , 3 , or 5 . A diet taken by a man doing sedentary work . The Controller's ration gave this man ( Class 3 ) per day - Bread , 10 oz .; cereals , 1 oz . oatmeal , 1 oz .; nice or barley meal , oz . ) ; meat , 4 oz .; margarine , 1 oz .; sugar , 1 - one- seventh oz . These supplied 1617 food units or calories . He ate also : - Potato , 1 lb. Fresh fish , lb. ( one good - sized her- ring , kipper or bloater , or 4 oz . of tinned salmon would give about the same nourishment $ 311 171 Greens , lb. 62 Apples , lb. 110 Jam , 2 oz . 118 Milk ( for use with tea tud porridge only ) , 7 oz . 140 Value of non - rationed food Value of rationed food Total 912 1617 2529 The meals were as follows BREAKFAST . - Bread , 3 oz .; margarine , oz . porridge ( from oatmeal ; 1 oz . ) ; fresh had dock , 4 oz .; milk , 5 oz ( for porridge and tea ) ; sugar , Oz . The quantities of the non - rationed foods which will be required differ , therefore , to a certain extent in each class , but not greatly The variations in the amount of bread allowed are adjusted to fit the needs of each kind of worker with reasonable accuracy . meal of fish , with potato to supply starchy food , some margarine to give fat , and some fresh greens , is a meal containing all the food- stuffs that the body needs . IS IT CRICKET The Mayor said that a great many working people had not tasted bacon for some time and he was prepared to do all he could to see that there was a proper supply in the town .. The price of feeding stuffs would not allow poor people to feed pigs as they used to . The Deputy Mayor said the Food Controller would not send them more than they deserved so that they might safely support the appli- cation . Mr. King said the reason in each case was the same , which made the application a strong Mr. Enoch said that it was evident that if Mr. Bach had not put in an application the others would not have thought of it . On the proposition of the Mayor , seconded by Mr. Enoch , it was decided to support the applications . His power in the House , and parlia- mentary skill , cannot be measured by the rank of office he held ; had he been an opportunist olle . Indeed , a he would have gone farther , but he was content to serve where placed , having as aim the use of politics for the general good . There was little of the spectacular in his career in the Commons , bue he generally succeeded in what he attempted . As Secretary for Ireland his record at least shows that he won the confi- dence of a people , who for centuries have justly suspected most of those England placed in authority over them ; and while holding a smoothed down the ruffled feelings caused by Many regretted at presumptuous autocracy . the entrance of such a great Commoner into the House of Lords , but he was not swerved from principle in an atmosphere so conducive to change and in the crisis between the two Houses , took a part which yet will help the widening freedom of the people . " Rations don't worry me , " said the farmer " I grow my own , and I see no reason why shouldn't eat what I grow myself . " He He was a fine well - built mau , but evidently corresponding office for India , somewhat gram from Lord Rhondda to the effect that if not tall enough to see over the hedge which He had bounded his own little plantation . plenty of meat and vegetables , butter and cream raised on his own fields , therefore he saw no reason why he should stint himself in The fact that outside his boundary hedge there were other people going short of the food of which he had such plenty was no busi- He grew his own food and he any way . ness of his . saw no reason why he shouldn't eat as much We may now enquire : What are the foods as he liked . which are not rationed and may be used to supplement the allowance ? They are : - S FISH - fresh and preserved . POTATO - and all vegetables . FRUITS fresh , tinned and dried ; nuts . EGGS . JAM - marmalade and honey . MILK and CHEESE are also in this list , but they must not be used by those who can do wtihout them Fish is especially valuable because it can supply the body - building protein instead of meats , 1 lb. of it is equal , when waste is allowed for , to 1 lb. of meat . Everyone who can afford it ought to buy fresh fish when it is available because it will not keep , and if not used at once is wasted . Dried fish should also be used freely . Dried herring a mack erel give the food value of an equal weight of meat . come when the farmer But the time has MUST look over his hedge and see what is go- ing on outside . The time has come when he must realise that he is not just a farmer liv- ing safely and comfortably on a well - stocked farm , with a good supply of food of his own growing to draw upon , but that he is a mem- ber of a nation at war . The realisation of such facts has come more slowly to England than to any other of the nations at war , but the time has come when it has to be realised by everyone in the land , that , as Mr. Prothero said , " We must play for our side , not for ourselves . " No one has the right to eat more than his rations , even though he grows a hundred times the amount . Every bit of food grown must be towards the common good . Those who have more than they need , should pass it on to those who have less . common Of the vegetables , the potato is by far the And it is not only amongst ourselves that most important . It shoukl be used as a veget - food must be shared . There is a able , for making bread and scones , and in Front of Food now as well as of battle . We the many other ways which have been des- and our Allies are one in this matter ; we are cribed in the Press of late . Those having a all bn the one side ; and the man who does store of potatoes should look them over regu- not play for his side against the enemy , is larly to see that the ones which do not keep helping the enemy to win the biggest game well are used first . Next in food value after the world has ever seen . the potato comes the artichoke , and then , in order , parsnip , beet , carrot , turnip , greens onion , rhubarb , and tomato . FRESH FRUITS are important to health , but their natural food value is not great The dried fruits are valuable foods , especially currants and raisins , figs , dates and prunes . All these , however , are imported , and can only be had in small quantities , and at a high price . VICTORY BEFORE VANITY . Carry your own parcels and help to defeat the Hun ! What possible . connection can there be between these ? you may say . There's a lot ; just listen . By carrying your own par- cels home you can free for war service or work of national importance men and boys who have been employed in delivering your purchases . These men and boys can liberate men for the firing line or help make ships , or aeroplanes , or shells , all essential to achieve victory and a worth - while pence . By carrying your parcels you divert for military purposes corn and petrol now being used to feed and fuel horses and motor - cars used for carrying your orders from butcher , baker , grocer , and draper . These same horses and motor - cars use it as little as possible . can in turn be pitted against the Hun . The CHEESE is another very nourishing food , horses can be used to pull field - guns , and the containing a high proportion of fat and pro - motor - cars can be transformed into military tein . At the present price it gives more than waggons to take shells to supply these guns twice the body - building material for the money The carn and the petrol will thus be used for than does meat , when bone is allowed for , Army horses and Army waggons . and more food value than any meat except bacon . Unfortunately there is not enough of EGGS are very nutritious , and rich in pro- tein , but the supply is limited at présent . Powders made by drying eggs without adul- teration have a food value as high as the eggs from which they were prepared . MILK is , of course , of the greatest value as a food . It should be given to children and invalids , whilst healthy grown - ups should cannot be with - held . Two of his earliest friends of influence were George Meredith and John S. Mill . From the This The The order As from INSPECTION OF LOCAL PLATOONS . cannot give , brought down on the following day three other enemy machines . The airman has now 37 victories . to his ONLY ONCE WORSTED . of the Herefordshire Volunteer Regt . , on Sun- credit , five fewer than Ball , who was killed There was a large muster of local members day , morning at Leominster , when No. 5 in the battle of Arras , and ten fewer than- Platoon ( Leominster ) and No. 6 Platoon Bishop , the British crack of cracks . The ( Kingsland and Brimfield ) of " B " Company crack of whom I write is in his 22nd year , a were inspected by Col. Nugent , D.S.O. , who fair - haired , slight , shy , and delicate - looking this duty in the youngster . Before getting his commission ne has been carrying out was a mechanic in the Flying Corps . To - day Western Command . Col. Nugent was accom- he commands a unit . panied by Col. Foster , in command of the Regiment , and Capt . T. W. Meats , second in command . The officers on parade were Capt . Richard Harington , commanding " B " Coy , German aeroplanes for the loss of only two- Since August his unit has brought down 61 and Licut . W. M. Ellwood , in command of machines , one pilot wounded , and one missing . Leominster Platoon . The N.C.O's . on parade Altogether since its formation in May last were C.S.M. Carwardine and Q.M.S. Dalley the unit has put 99 enemy machines out of ( Company N.C.O.'s ) , Sergt . Crimp ( Platoon action , and no doubt it will do its best to Sergt . ) , Sergt . Edwards ( Bayonet Section ) , reach its century before the end of the old Sergt . Craddock ( Bombing Section ) , Corpl . year . Storr - Barber ( Rifle Section ) , Corpl . Bentley The young officer spoke with the greatest en- ( Machine Gun Section ) , Sergt . King ( Kings- thusiasm of his men and nis mechanics . The land Section ) , and Sergt . R. Mann ( Brimfield men , he said , were splendid . When he was Section ) . induced to say a few words of his exploits When I attack a single Once and once 44 IN PALESTINE . SERIES OF BRITISH SUCCESSES . ADVANCING ON JERICHO . The War Office announces as follows : - Saturday . General Allenby reports that on the 28th his troops continued to drive back the enemy , and advanced their line The inspection took place on the Grammar he simply remarked : to a depth of about two miles on a front of School Playing Field at 12 o'clock , when the Boche I feel it is murder . " thirteen miles . This advance has given us platoons were inspected and the sections after- only he was worsted in an encounter . the high ground of Ras Arkub es Suffa ( four wards put through the various movements . laconic explanation was that the other man miles from Jerusalem and one mile north of Addressing the platoons afterwards Colonel was better at the game than he was . the Jericho road ) , Anata , Erram , Kulundia Nugent said that having seen the whole of favourite amusement seems to be to hover at ( the last two respectively east and west of the Companies in the Western Command he a height of 20,000 feet waiting to pounce on the Nadlus road and five or six miles north was of opinion that their efficiency was up to prowling German airmen . of Jerusalem ) , and Beitunia . the average , but emphasised the importance of further work in regard to arms drill . Irish troops met with considerable opposi- tion , which they overcame with determina- tion , in spite of the difficulties of the ground . The prisoners reported in the fight- ing of the 27th up to the present number 130. Though the enemy is falling back gen- erally , the rough ground and mountainous nature of the country make pursuit slow and difficult . CHRISTMAS PRIZE SHOOT . His His BUTTER - BUYING TRICK . HOUSEHOLDERS FINED FOR BARGAIN WITH TRADESMEN . Charged with buying or offering to buy butter at a price above the maximum sixty- nine well - to - do residents of the Linthorpe dis- trict of Middlesborough were on Monday fined £ 1 and costs . In connection with No. 5 ( Leominster ) platoon of " B " Company a very successful Christmas Prize Shoot was organised . On Tuesday evening after the usual drill Lieut . W. M. Ellwood distributed the prizes to the winners , remarking that the object was to give a little encouragement to the men to make themselves proficient . There was an excellent array of prizes with The defendants who pleaded guilty , had Sunday . General Allenby reports that on the result that practically all competitors re- agreed to pay 3d . per lb. extra for an agent to the 29th his force made a further advance of ceived an award . The following were the collect butter and bring it from outlying dis- over three miles along the Nadlus road , and prize - winners : 1 , Sergt . - Major A. J. Carwar - tricts . This brought the price up to 25. 8d . after stubborn resistance occupied Bireh - dine ( 39 out of a possible 40 ) ; 2 , Pte . G. N. a lb. Smith ( 37 ) ; 3 , Sergt . R. J. Mann ( 36 ) ; 42 Our aeroplanes bombed troops and trans- port on the Nablus road all day on the 28th with great effect . the ancient Beeroth . Dfirel Kuddis . The Chief Constable said this manoeuvre had To the cast of the road Hiszmen , Jeba , Q.M.S. Dalley ( 34 ) ; 5 , Pte . A ; E. P. Hammond aroused a bitter feeling among the people who and Burkah were taken , and to the west of ( 33 ) ; 6 , Pte . Hancock ( 31 ) ; 7 , Corpl . W. G. had to wait in margarine queues . it tlie ridges Ramallah and Hket Tirch . Storr - Barber ( 30 ) ; S , Corpl . E. J. Paxton ( 29 ) ; A fine of £ 40 or three months was imposed In the centre of our line mounted troops 9 , Pte . G. Pinches ( 28 ) ; 10 , Corpl . G. Foster at Richmond , Surrey , on Monday , on Edward advanced to Khurbetha , Ibn Harith , and ( 28 ) ; 11 , Pte . T. Scandrett ( 26 ) ; 12 , Pte . E. Banks , a Kew butcher , for selling shin of beef at 1s . 6d . a pound instead of 15. 3d . Reginald Hopkins and his foreman , Ernest Freeman were each fined £ 20 for selling shin beef at Is . 4d . , and they were also fined each because their sales during two fortnights showed profits above 2 d . a pound . Harris Silverblatt , a Spitalfields baker , was Enemy troops and transports in the neigh - Pugh ( 24 ) ; 13 , Pte . W. O. Davis ( 23 ) ; 14 , Sergt . H. E. Crimp ( 21 ) ; 15 , Pte . H. Marchant ; 16 , bourhood of Jufna , Beitin ( Bethel ) and El Pte . W. Poole ; 17 , Pte . W. R. Thomas ; 18 , Pte . Balua - all on or near the roads leading J. Harrison ; 19 , Corporal Hoff ; 20 , Pte . W. northward from Birel - were successfully Oxenham ; 21 , Pte . J. F. Edwards ; 22 , Pte . A. bombed and machine gunned by the Royal Monnington . Flying Corps . The following contributed in cash or kind [ On Friday General Allenby reported an ad- to the prizes : Capt . Sir Richard Harington , vance of about two and a half miles on a Lieut . W. M. Ellwood , Q.M.S. Dalley , Corpl . costs for selling an excess quantity of flour , front of nine miles . The capture of Anata E. J. Paxton , Ptes . E. Morgan , J. M. Sharp , and Mrs. Annie Nortman , in whose bedroom a marks a further stage on the road to Jericho , W. H. Batten , the Mayor ( Councillor J. B. sack of 220 pounds was found , was fined £ 5 from which it is distant about cleven miles , Dowding ) , the Deputy - Mayor ( Councillor J. and I is . for hoarding : Jericho is sixteen miles east - north - east of Watkins ) , Messrs . Alexander and Duncan , At the same court Mrs. Káte Benjamin was Jerusalem . ] THE TURKS ' VERSION . Amsterdam , Monday . - A Constantinople communique says : - On the Palestine front the enemy attacked north and east of Jerusalem , and heavy fighting followed . On our left wing we ad- vanced to Dirdasi , repulsing counter attacks . We occupied Hill S14 , and maintained our positions east of Birmabala . We took two unachine - guns and prisoners . TWIN VILLAGE OIL WELLS . at Old Street on Monday fined £ 20 and £ 2 25 . Messrs . Bellow and Son , Ald . Abell , Messrs . fined £ 5 and £ 1 Is . costs for selling half a Ralph , Preece Davies & Co. , Leominster pound of loose jam for 5d . instead of 4d . Printing Co. , Mr. R. E. Scudamore , Messrs . Ross & Son , Capt . Evans , Mr. P. S. Bach , Mr. H. R. Cheney . LORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL WORKSHOPS . COLLECTION BY SOLDIERS & SAILORS HELP SOCIETY . THEFT OF ARMY MEDALS . " Gone away . Please leave letters next door . " This was the notice which Lieut . Amies , Middlesex Regiment , formerly of the Coldstream Guards and a well known shot , left on the front door of his house , St. Andrew's Clewer , when he went to Aldershot a year ago . On nis return the Lieutenant found that the house had been entered , and articles , including- On Christmas Day a collection for the Lord his South African medals and his shooting Roberts Memorial Workshops Fund was under- prizes , had been stolen . At Windsor Police The secretary of the Court , William H. Vickers , who lives two taken in Leominster . movenient was Mrs. E. I. A. Heygate and at doors from Lieut . Amie's house , was charged the premises and stealing her request the arrangements were made by with breaking into The the articles , which were valued at £ 50 . A Mrs. Hammond and Mr. C. E. Adams . effort consisted of an envelope collection and number of articles were found in the house The Mayoress attended at the Town of Vickers . Accused was committed to the Hall on Saturday afternoon to receive the Berkshire Assizes . A feature of the collec- boxes and envelopes . tion was the large number of contributions received from the working classes . MEAT PRICES IMPORTANT ORDER . The Clerk reported that he received a tele- any Food Control Committees had temporarily sanctioned any increase in prices they were to immediately take steps to rescind them . called the attention of the butchers to this and informed them that they must adhere to the original 2d . per lb. or 20 per cent . profit . Later he received a circular on the subject . On no account must maximum prices be ex- ceeded and if butchers exceeded them prostcu- Lord Morley has sketched inany of his lead- tions must be instituted . The Ministry of ing contemporaries and we are also surprised Food was bringing in a scheme for fixing maxi- at the number of his friends as we should be mum prices for all grades of live stock and a to learn he ever had personal enemies . With- better distribution of meat supplies . out the Boswellian ambition to gain the com- could not be brought into operation until some pany of the exalted , he , however , got their by time in January and accordingly the Controller mutual attraction . Then there is their variety . had issued an interim order limiting prices They represent every worthy sphere of British which may be paid for live stock . The dead life , and a goodly number and kind are of weight price must not exceed 1s . per lb. and other lands . High Tories , Labour leaders , a sum not exceeding 2d . per lb. on the weight Parnellites and Orangemen , found in him a of the dressed carcase may be paid for offals . point of contact . He was on familiar terms The Army purchasing organisation would be with the stout defenders of creeds shaken by used in case of a shortage of supplies . his blows . When touring in Ireland , the scale of live weight prices was as follows : official aspect was subdued , if not obliterated first grade cattle , 56 per cent and over 75s . and we feel that parties had the pleasant per cwt .; second grade cattle 52-56 per cent . , Cows rivalry of paying him honour .. Of literary 70s .; third grade 48-52 per cent . , 65s .. men he tells so much and of so many , that 52 per cent . or over , 70s .; 46-52 per cent . , 62s .; it might appear as if with them only he had 42-46 per cent . , 53s . Inferior cattle and un- associated . Even Royalty advanced a degree saleable cattle would be placed in the fourth beyond the courtly civility it extends , in grade and valued accordingly . receptions and measured smiles , to those who provided that as from December 27th cattle are obliged to meet them as servants of the shall be sold only in cattle markets except by Crown . All who come within the scope of license from the Food Controller . this generalisation he writes of as friend and January 1st there would be one meatless day critic , kindly and candidly . Mention of a few per week upon which no meat , either cooked or uncooked , shall be sold . An order would also be made restricting the retail sales of The Ramsey " oil " well is still producing meat , and it was proposed that the quantity oil . More than a thousand gallons of a fluid , of meat sold should be reduced by 25 per cent . locally termed " paraffin , " which gives a steady as compared with October . Committees had continuous light in lamps , has been obtained no power to raise the prices referred to above from the well in a butcher's yard , and local the maximum of 2d . per lb. or 20 per cent . householders have snapped up supplies at s . on the wholesale maximum price whichever a gallon . Mr. Howard Coote , the Lord was lower . of Huntingdonshire , began an the mysterious illuminant onl The Clerk read a paragraph from the same analysis of circular in regard to cottagers pigs , where a Saturday . cottager was The amounts handed in by the various in the habit of selling part of his own use . collectors for the fund were : Miss the pork . In such cases it was not necessary . from a neighbouring tank has been destroyed to register as a retailer , but the price at which by the dramatic discovery of another " oil " Neatby ( West side Hereford Road , South the pork is sold must not exceed the maximum well on a hairdresser's premises fifty yards Street and Gateway Lane ) , £ 9s . 9d .; Miss price in the district . There was also a refer- away . From this source five hundred gallons Sanders ( South side of Etnam Street ) , £ 1 165 . ence to tea , the prices of which would in had been obtained by five o'clock on Saturday , 1od .; Miss Nott ( Priory , Church Street , Vicar- Tokyo , Dec. 27. - It is learned from a ' reli- and , in addition , a substance described as age Street ) , 17s . 1d .; Mrs. W. Rodgers ( Pierre- petroleum jelly . " pont Road and Green Lane ) , ros . 11d .; Mrs. able source that the Chinese commander who H. E. Taylor ( East side Hereford Road and was sent to Harbin ( Manchuria ) demanded the South Street ) , 158. 6d . Mrs. Hammond evacuation of the Russian troops and issued ( Grange , Grange Walk and Pinsley Road ) , 2 fixing December 25 as the time limit for the an ultimatum to the Russians on December 24 , 6s . 1d .; Miss Hammond ( New Street , Cranes Lane and School Lane ) , 9s . Sd .; Miss Bach ( North side Etnam Street ) , 1 2s . 11d . ; . Mrs. Burton ( West Street ) , £ 2 1s . 5d .; Miss Lar - sistance , decided to return home , but the combe ( Perseverance Road ) , 7s . 6d .; Mrs. troops , indignant at the Chinese demand , Adams ( Eaton ) , £ 1 25. 1d .; Mrs. Bullen ( Dish - listed the Chinese troops . Yesterday morning , after an hour's fighting . ley Street ) , 9s .; Miss Wilkes ( Drapers Lane , the Russians threw down their arms and sur- High Street and Corn Street ) , 1 3s . 2d .; Mrs. rendered . The Chinese Governor at once noti- S. R. Taylor ( Broad Street ) , £ 1 4s . 9d .; Miss fied the Consuls of the surrender of the Rus- There is every prospect that the cost of Urwick ( Corn Square and Part of South Street ) , peace and order . The number of Russians pigeons and other farmers ' pests will be con- 4d .; Miss Dowding ( East Side Upper Bridge who surrendered is 2,500 . siderably reduced shortly . Street , Lower Bridge Street and North Road ) , From January 21st the Ministry of Food will 16s .; Mrs. Brace ( West Side Upper Bridge regulate the distribution of sporting ammuni- Street ) , 25. 5d .; Miss I. Jones ( Burgess Street , tion to the trade on a proportionate basis of Rainbow Street ) , 7s . Sd .; Misses Hudson ( Bar- 1916 sales , but special arrangements will be gates and Barons Cross ) , £ 2 2s . 1od .; Mrs. W made to ensure land occupiers getting enough W. Phillips ( Ryelands Road and Westfield to kill vermin . Walk ) , 8s . gd .; total , £ 22 11s . 9d . Persons desiring to purchase cartridges or The Committee would like to take this shot will have to fill up a form , to be obtained opportunity of thanking the collectors for the be used exclusively for shooting game or kill- a satisfactory collection . ing vermin . The new rationing scheme will put about 40 per cent more ammunition on the market , and the Ministry will control the price at which the retailer sells . former he received the assistance so welcome to a young man first trying his fortune with the pen . He grew to know him well , and we appreciate the light thrown on the habits and spirit of one known to us only by his books , which , to say the least , are somewhat involved and not much of an index to the inner life of their author . To Mill he ever felt indebted ; for at a time when some of his beliefs were in general , coldly received , or warmly attacked , the Benthamite sanctioned them .. To have him on his side was the support of a master . It is a charming picture of one who has been too much ignored and too little understood ; and who overcame the chilling influence of a rigid early training , and later , the grief from domestic loss , by his zeal to save the masses from false notions commonly held and wrong politics generally pursued . In 1873 he made the acquaintance of Cham- berlain . " They were soon companions , and though in policy they later drew apart the current of their friendship always flowed smoothly . He does not credit him with originality in ideas and projects , but singles him out as a case where these are not more powerful than personality . Chamberlain re- the future be 2s . 4d . , 2s . 8d . and 3s . per lb. The Chairman said that the price of meat was now definitely fixed , as it should have been in the first instance . He had been told that cattle had been through the ring at over 1006. per ewit . The Deputy Mayor said he believed the prices represented a reduction of 3d . per lb. as com- pared with those at the Christmas Market . The Mayor said that the position was that the Controller had now fixed the price of meat . Butchers would now have to act upon the percentage which was laid down and therefore they would require someone to examine the Lieutenant He took away several gallons for The theory of impregnation The fluid from the new well runs from the pump nozzle like water , and a pint of it kept a lamp alight from 8.30 a.m. till 3 in the afternoon . WAR ON WOOD - PICEONS . GOVERNMENT STEP TO HELP THE CAMPAIGN . boxes . 2,500 RUSSIANS SURRENDER TO CHINESE . RESULT OF AN HOUR'S FIGHTING AT AT HARBIN . evacuation . The Russians , knowing the futility of re- re- it to go round , and it should , therefore , be their hardest to kill you by making you go gretted having had no training at Oxford , but books . It came back to Mr. King's resolution . sporting cartridges used for shooting wild 14s . Id .; Miss Winterbourn ( Mill Street ) , 3s . Sians and the removal of further danger to left for those who are poorer . Jam , marmalade , and honey are not rationed , and should be used , though , of course , with great care , when they can be obtained . DINNER . - Chop , 4 oz .; flour , 1 oz . ( -2 oz . bread ) ; potatoes , lb .; oz . of suet was cut off the chop , grated fine , and worked into paste with the flour and a tablespoonful of water . The chop and potatoes were put into a basin with pepper and salt and half a cup of water , covered with the paste , and baked ( or steamed ) for two hours . cellent and satisfying dish . Greens . lb .; bread ,. 1 oz . A pudding followed of apple , 4 oz .; rice , oz .; sugar , 1 tablespoonful . The apples were sliced thinly in a dish , the rice . added sand the sugar sprinkled over . Water was put in and the dish baked one hour . TEA . Bread , 2 oz .; margarine , oz .; jam , 2 o ; milk , 2 oz .; tea . When you carry your parcels home you in directly help to kill the Huns who are striving parcel - less , by emptying the shops and starving he became well equipped for his role in life The Divisional Commissioner had that day you . This is not exaggeration , it is a fact . being " more widely red in books worth sent down a lady representative who inter- Will you remember this next time you go reading than most public men . " At Birming- viewed Mr. Page and himself . All she came shopping and willingly volunteer to carry ham he drew around him a remarkable circle , for was to see if they were enforcing the order your goods home yourself ? Housewives all among them being Carlyle , Ruskin , Emerson , and pointed out that it was absolutely neces- over the country can perform a patriotic duty Dilke and Bright . The following is carefully sary for the Committee to appoint someone by carrying their own parcels . Don't let the measured , hence its tribute : " I have always to enforce the orders . It had been suggested delivery of a piece of bacon , a loaf of bread . thought him , of all the men of action I have that Mr. Mapp should be appointed to carry a cut of cheese , a joint of beef , a hat , a They had been promised the known , the fraukest and the most direct . " out the work . blouse , keep back the men , the horses , the Gladstone could not understand how two , so assistance of the Superintendent of Police . Personally he did not want prosecutions , but cars that can be used against the Huns . This different , could be so attached , but there it to carry out those orders in the interests of the from any retailer , certifying that they are to excellent way they have worked to make such " Breaks could not be avoided , they public and to secure supplies of meat . An ex- is not a time for silly pride - patriotism has dealt that a knock - out blow long since . You have nothing to be ashamed of in carrying your parcels , it is a National duty . SUPPER ( or lunch ) .- Bread , 2 oz .; fish , 8 oz .; potatoes , 8 oz .; margarine , oz .; an apple , 4 oz . You a prove yourself a greater patriot by carrying a parcel of groceries than by toying with vanity bag or carrying a bunch of violets ! - VICTORY BEFORE VANITY ! When you carry your parcels you help feed a gun - and a well - fed gun is the only argu- ment the blonde beast of Europe understands . In this case , as a matter of fact , 5 oz . of the allowance of bread was not eaten . They would give 370 calories , so that the food value National Safety . I realize that economy in of the diet on this particular day was less by the use of all Food and the checking of all that amount and worked out at 2529-370 - waste helps my Country to complete Victory , 2159 calories . The man was , of course , doing and I promise to do all in my power to assist right in saving bread rather than any other this Campaign for National Safety . food . Any household containing people not doing Name heavy work , that is , excluding those in Classes 1 and 4 , would get enough food by following such a scheme as that given above . The weekly food for four people would be , allowing for waste : - was . sears . Fraternal As his end drew were sharp , but left no memories readily awoke . near we sent one another heartfelt words of affectionate farewell . " Too beautiful are such words for comment . The chapter on the " Irish Leader , " is a brilliant analysis of that remarkable man who looks strange even in Irish history and whom for many years the House of Commons could not ignore , was unable to silence and feared to please . Lord Morley knew him better than The Chairman said that gambling in meat would now be stopped and the percentage of profit was laid down . The Clerk said they must have somebody whom they could send to see if accounts were kept and if they were properly kept and if mbt to place the matter in the hands of the police . Mr. King asked if Mr. Mapp would have to go to the market to see that the beasts were not sold over the price . The Chairman said the auctioneers were res- ponsible for that part of the work . The Mayor proposed that Mr. Mapp be ap- pointed to carry out the orders . The Deputy Mayor seconded and said the PLEASE ENROL my name in the League of perhaps his nearest colleagues , yet feels that appointment would be welcomed by the trades- to describe him would need the pen of Tacitus men . They all knew Mr. Mapp's tact and or Lallust . He believes that Parnell was ability . actuated by sympathy for the peasants and hatred to the English ; thus he was no actor , " politics were a vehement battle , not a game , nor the affair of a career . A passion for national liberty disallowed of thought for laurels . " " Again and again we have un- doubtedly to think of Parnell as unique . " He is not sure that he had what is classed as greatness in his personality , but is not pre- pared to contend with those who judge he had . This delineation of his character will always be turned to , and carefully read , by any who wish to know of one who used men who knew his dislike for them , who bore down opposition in some and raised undying hopes in others ; and in winning his battles gave to parliamen- tary warfare new tactics and stamped a " new policy on the flag of Liberalism . " ( Mr. , Mrs. or Miss ) ( 1 ) The Controller's rations according to class Address set forth in my previous article . ( 2 ) Potatoes 2 stone ; fresh fish , 7 lb .; 9 or 10 herrings , kippers , or bloaters ; tinned sal- mon , 2 lb. greens , parsnips , turnips , or other vegetables , 14 lb .; apples , 14 lb .; jam County marmalade , or syrup , 3 lb .; milk , 10 pints . NO MEMBERSHIP FEES . News . " In Class 1 of very hard workers a consider- Anyone over Sixteen years of age may join . able addition must be made , for the 1,000 calories shown above would not be enough- Sign and Post this Curd to " The Leominster we want 1,500 . Another half - pound or more of potato would be added , more vegetables when available , and a larger allowance of jam or syrup ( 1 oz . ) and cheese ( say 3 oz . ) . These yield over 550 calories , giving nearly 1,600 calories from the non - rationed foods . In Class 6 less of the non - rationed foods will be needed than is sat forth above . Thus a woman clerk of average build would get enough food if she took in the day , in addition to her Controller's allowance : - One kipper or bloater or cheese 1 oz . Potato , lb. Greens or turnip , lb. Apples , lb. Syrup , 2 oz . Milk pint Calories . 171 234 62 109 .134 100 810 The housewife should vary the diet as much as she can , because variety helps the appetite . Circumstances also will often compel a change FOOD ECONOMY احال NATIONAL SAFETY Mr. King said it was an excellent suggestion to appoint Mr. Mapp . He had been most kind and patient . The Chairman also strongly supported the resolution , which was carried . BUTTER SUPPLY . The Chairman referring to the butter ques- tion asked the Mayor to state the result of their interview with the representative of the Divisional Commissioner . SCENE IN A COURT . on A CITY DESTROYED . EARTHQUAKE CALAMITY AT GUATEMALA . Washington , Sunday . - Another earthquake Saturday virtually destroyed Guatemala city ( population 100,000 ) . A report to the Navy Department says that everything is in ruins and that 125,000 persons are homeless . " Naval detachments have been ordered to ren- . der assistance . ties . Nw York , Monday . - A telegram from San WOMAN'S ATTACK ON CLERK AND Salvador says that many persons were killed The Government's action should materially Guatemala in the earthquake in Guatemala . PUBLIC PROSECUTOR . The assist the schemes for reducing the wood- City has been completely destroyed . There was a scene in the Haddington Police Colon Theatre there , which was crowded at pigeon pest . Cambridgeshire , Hampshire and other counties are expec . to join in the Court on Monday when a woman named Chris- the time , collapsed , causing numerous casual- who has made an excellent start on his Wor ! sentence of 20s . , or ten days , for being drunk organised shoots suggested by Lord Deerhurst , tina McIntosh , an outworker , after receiving The British and American Legations and the cestershire estate , Pirton Court , Wadborough , and incapable became extremely violent . American Consulate and all the churches were The wood - pigeons are one of the greatest Seizing a book from a bookshelf she threw it levelled to the ground . The hospitals , asylums destroyers of our crops . The scheme is that at the clerk of the court , but it missed its and prisons were damaged , many of the in- on one day every week - Thursday is suggested mark . She then advanced towards the public mates being killed . as the most convenient all available guns in every county should simultaneously be used prosecutor , whom she hit on the head . Being unable to pay her fine the accused to shoot the pigeons as they come into the was removed to undergo her term of imprison- I coverts to roost at dusk . P ment . On completion of the sentence she will be arraigned for her conduct on Monday . MARRIED IN HASTE . AMUSING SEQUEL TO LOVERS ' JEST . Having declared in fun that they had been married secretly , a young engaged couple of Spalding were embarrassed by an invitation from the father of the supposed bridegroom to AN ORGANISED COUNTY . Alderman Adie , secretary of the Cambridge- shire War Agricultural Committee , explained DEATH CAUSED BY SHIRT COLLAR . on Tuesday that the Cambridgeshire shoots to take place on Thursdays will be organised by Found strangled in bed , it was discovered district committees , who will arrange their own that Barnett Anderman , aged 61 , a Bethnel accompany him on a visit to Cleethorpes . To tailor , had tied his methods , but the procedure suggested is that Green woman . handkerchief sustain the fiction the supposed bride , upon a gun should be placed in each covert , so that round his neck , and beneath this was a night arrival , had to register herself as a married the pigeons would be kept on the move and shirt . The neck - band of the shirt , it was stated the inquest on be brought down by other sportsmen outside t Monday , measured 16 The Mayor said there was no doubt a diffi- The committee will exercise its culty had arisen in regard to the supply of the woods . butter and he had received a communication authority to enter woods without permission of sulted in bringing about a sense of powerless - discovered that the young woman was Gradual cessation of blood to the brain re- the owners . market . His estimate of some still in the arena of affairs has value and they will not complain of signed by several working men's wives point- praise or censure overdone , The ability of ing out that they could not get butter in the Lord Curzon is often alluded to , and of Mr. These housewives in the past were Balfour he says what none will be disposed to in the habit of going to the shops . Now there doubt . These two are friends who have for was no butter in the shops and they went to long years known how to disagree . " I have the market place for butter . They were met a liking for Winston , and I often tell him in by the dealer and the producer with the re- mark " You did not come before to buy but- a paternal way , " but what he tells him does hot matter , it is the relationship we like . Mr. ter , " and therefore the preference was given to Asquith , as scholar , statesman and gentleman , the dealens for the butter to go to the large centres . is prominent and ever in a favourable light . One suggestion was that they might But who are the targets of his satire , called 1aise the retail price again from 2s . 5d . to the " apostles of efficiency ? " 2s . 6d . If that would stop this illegitimate Are they the There was trading he was in favour of it . Be it so or not , the chief another point . Some of the dealers were paying retail prices when they should wholesale prices . They did not want to be on bad terms with the producer , but they did want to have a certain amount of butter for the poor people . The lady representative proposed to trace the supplies of butter sold to the dealers so that they should know what partice was paid at the end of the journey . Mrs. Jarvis said dealers were now going round and buying butter on the Thursday . men now in power ? of them finds no place in the greatest book of the season and perhaps the finest in the literature of Reminiscence . Such omission is an indictment which history will remember . GEO . ELLIOT LEE . Visitor ( hungry ) : " And what time do you " Soon as you've gone . " because the same foods cannot always be had . Certificate of Membership together with have dinner , my little friend ? " Terrible Boy : Badge will be sent in due course . pay inches . ness and inability on the part of the man The destruction of rats , sparrows , and rooks is also being organised , and there will be a very considerable thinning of the college he was gradually asphyxiated . rookeries this year . Cambridge Town Council on Tuesday appointed a committee to assist the county committee in this work . V.C. SAVED BY CIGARETTE CASE . Sergt . A. J. Knight , of the London Rifles , Seeing that they had got themselves into an awkward situation , the young people rushed to the registrar's office and arranged to be married quietly . Meanwhile the police had to release the pressure , with the result that spinster , and they summoned her on Tuesday for making a false statement upon registration . Mr. Haddelsey , solicitor and registrar of marriages , appeared for her , and , telling the , Bench that the marriage had now taken place , appealed to them not to spoil the young peo- ple's happiness by convicting hér for their in- discretion . The magistrates were sympa thetic and dismissed the summons JACK'S ROMANCE . AMERICAN SAILOR WEDS DAUGHTER OF AN IRISH KNIGHT . Sailors of the United States flotillas sta- who hails from Nottingham and Birmingham tioned on the Irish coast have been wooing the Pedlar I have a most valuable book te describing the fighting in which he won the Irish maids , and during the last month mar- V.C. , says that he came through a sell , madam ; it tells one how to do anything . " " million riages have averaged about one a day . " Does it tell one how to one chance . " Bullets , he said , literally One which took place on Christmas Eve was Lady ( sarcastically : rained around him . His tunic pocket was of a romantic character , a , soldier named Groff to get rid of a pestering pedlar " " Oh , yes , madam ! shot away , and his life was saved by his being wedded to Nora , second daughter of ( promptly ) : cigarette case , and the photograph of his wife Lady Carroll , whose late husband was a leading thing from him . " and child was practically torn to shreds . His figure in the civic life of Queenstown . helmet was dented with bullets . Knight is to bride made the acquaintance of Groff shortly The Pediar Buy some see the King on Wednesday , and civic and after his arrival in Ireland . They became Prinsed and Published for the Proprietor , by Many wed- social functions will follow at Nottingham and engaged about two months ago . A. T. SOUTHALL , at his Offices , 27 , Drapers Birmingham . Lane , Inominster . ding presents were given by sailors of the Fleet . VOL . Co MO Jan M B THE All Chee The potato is one of ou It is easy to grow , and return of nourishment for it keeps well for many stored ; it is easy to cook by healthy folk . It h that it is not a good food of its weight , as four - fift The potato contains starch , and some salts ; of the substances known quantities of which are growth . The amount o which we need for build flesh , is very low - about 2 is no fat , or only traces , to other foods for these stuff we need most of , warmth and power , is potato supplies abundant able to form a very large diet . Men have , indeed alone , eating 6lb . or mor This shows body cap fit itself driven By need , but must reason for feeding on proper health other foods margarine , and milk must If potatoes are peeled ra is cut off with the peel soaked and boiled a good ous matter goes into the seen that tthere is little stuff to begin with , and should not be wasted . reasons always be baked in their skins , for these ways none of the fo potatoes are much more f kept well . these to are done the water is dra saucepan put by the fire off to let the steam escap occasionally to prevent sticking to it . There sho hole in the cover of the se ing potatoes fat is needed this is a good way to use are a concentrated food : water has been driven off the added fat has a high A pound of raw potato , i by cooking in the skins . yi units or calories , the same of milk , 1 lb. of herrings and meat . The floury food value of about 450 c an average . Apart from their use at t potatoes can be made into for a large variety of dish potato with three parts of bread . POTATO BREAD - Put 6 bowl and make a hole in |