The Kington Times - April 1917
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Kington Times 14th April 1917 - Page 7
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| Date | 14/04/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 14th April 1917 |
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A CK . f satis- s with t your you to you are e the return gdoín , r will price EYTON ON EVE . d ] .. I.A. PRIEST , A EVANS , ied at Eyton in 1917 . their lives , and in not divided . " 11 Easter Eve were we were sad at the NO who had lived who had lived so me time , how fitting they who had lived together should be , in Holy week , be he peaceful church- church which they for a few minutes its festal white for one Easter times at how anxious Mr. ices should be real he numbers at Holy in their high level ; ed herself , not only the Churchr for the e carefully practised the musical part of h that all should be thought , too , of the ad for the religious andard in the parish . derful example they gh - minded Christian example they set of We all knew her er husband , and his for his wife , an ex- ese days . Some of s of their home - life , with family prayers , ld life inspired by orn and baptised at -four years ago , and arishes as Rector or at Eyton , the home eventually became oted himself to the e of the parish . He 1 priest of the old- school of thought . ing sound Church generously all our ocieties . We shall out way in which he church , and particu in which he read the a thorough specimen sh gentleman , kind , d On the death of a Bishop asked Mr. of Leominster , but advancing e offer . years deal of Church work t we have , especially 1 she did for mothers anery , through the the Girls ' Friendly years she organised work , and thus ob- Additional Curates ' in many other ways and womanly part , her , rejoicing in the with the sorrows of lived . st of the Resurrection to rest . They had years , the pathway and at last , full of ad come to the gate- path , and , at their hey had gone practi- ther through the gate ce , and life immortal . e upon them ! we leave them ; God receive them . JOHN DAVIES . EMORALISATION . ? ANCE LACKING . morning papers give ory to Field Marshal l'Allenby , and Gen- their portraits with much The British offensive best results , despite onditions and enemy . On the 22- Givenchy and Henin and in the centre , attack brought them presented an advance seven kilometres , and econd line . The de- uns is very great , and ot finished . he same paper writes s become incapable of on . The proof of thi of the failure of all It no longer possesses to put up a passive hours it has yielded pth of positions long d lost 11.000 prisoners . ES FOR FOOD . ol greengrocer , was on d costs on each of two otatoes at 30 price ex- A woman purchased oni the defendant , for nd paid 2d . a pound . to the second lot of were sold as seed , and m a quantity of other as they were " full of however , stated that , and in fact had eaten selling potatoes at 1d . a , but told the custom- copper or two extra for N BY FOXES . ecently found that one forried and killed while nd the lambs had been , he reported the mat- n their advice a watch ht . At eight o'clock eating the carcase , and were no fewer than . Inquiries show that the district had lost e lambs taken by foxes . 4 GO TO MARCHANT BROTHERS FOR the Best Selection of New MILLINERY AND Ready - to - Wear Goods In All Departments . Children's and Millinery Baby Linen A Speciality . 1 , BROAD STREET , LEOMINSTER . Night Wings . BY MORICE GERARD . Anthor of " The Red Farm , " " Love in the dull roar against the barrier , then flung itself back with a deep , reverberating sob , sugges- tive of disappointment , rejection . Sylvia had stopped immediately she issued from the window , not giving Charteris space to pass to her side . He could see the dim Purple , " " The Pursuer , " " The Heart of a outline of her figure against the night , look- Hero , " " The Unspoken Word , " etc. ing almost a ghostly form , her shoulders draped and shadowed by the wrap with which his hands had enveloped her . CHAPTER X. Charteris had one more dance with Sylvia van Annan before the one which would entail his acting as escort to her for supper . But whether he was dancing with her or not , his thoughts were absorbed by her throughout the evening . He paid sufficient and courteous attention to his other partners to prevent their thinking him preoccupied in any way , THE KINGTON TIMES . APRIL 14. 1917 . Don't Buy your Spring Suit J. or Costume Until you have seen our New Patterns , which comprise all the Newest Designs . Our work has an all - round excellence in style , good fit , good work and the best possible quality at the lowest possible prices . It is very important that early application should be made , as there will be a difficulty in obtaining materials when the present stocks are exhausted , WELSH 3 West Street , LEOMINSTER . FOOD , AND HOW TO SAVE ( 4 ) Take care that no waste is allowed in IT . By E. I. SPRIGGS , M.D. , F.R.C.P. ( Written at the request of the Food Controller ) VIII . POTATO SUBSTITUTES . When potatoes are not to be had their place must be taken by other foods , as was the case before the potato was brought to this country . Any food giving the same fuel value will do , but the balance of our accustomed diet will be interfered with least if we can use a food which , like the potato , is mainly carbohydrate . Such foods are the cereals , pulses and vegetables . Of the cereals , passing by bread , which we must spare , and macaroni , which is also made from wheat , the most useful is barley . When barley is milled the husk ! is taken off first leaving the whole grain , sometimes called pot- barley . This , when ground , gives barley meal . With further milling or rubbing off of the outer part of the grain , a medium barley is made and last pearl barley , which is only the centre part of the barleycorn . The unpearled or pot barley contains all the nutritive matter and should be preferred . more An average helping of potato is six ounces , though those living chiefly on potatoes would , of course , eat much more ! Six ounces of potato , weighed raw , gives 162 calories , with 3 grammes of protein . One ounce and a half of barley will give about the same value and a little more protein . With barley at 1d . a pound the calories are also obtained cheaply than with potatoes at 1d . a pound . An ounce and a half of rice gives the same food value . So does 1 oz . of dried peas or beans , and supplies also 10 grammes of pro- tein . Other vegetables have lower fuel values than the potato , and the amount of them which would be required to give 160 calories is in most cases inconveniently large . A fair This is the weight of an average sized carrot , two - thirds of a parsnip , or a quarter of a turnip . The following list shows the number of Charteris felt sure she was looking out sea- calories which half a pound of the ordinary column gives wards , with wondering , apprehensive eyes - vegetables gives . apprehensive of what ? the number of calories bought for a shilling He wanted to help her , to express his sym- at the price named : - pathy in words , or by a caress , but that was Calories bought for obviously impossible ; in fact , he believed for the moment that so great was her concentra- " I had forgotten the sea , " she said , in a deep undertone , as if speaking to herself . " It seems impossible to get away from it . " He did not know how to reply . To say any- thing seemed to trespass on her inmost thoughts ; something was evidently moving her strangely ; he could feel the vibration of it , the vibration of spirit , not physical con- After a pause she advanced a few steps , until she reached the parapet of the wall which bounded the hotel from the esplanade . She rested her elbows upon it , her face be- tween the palms of her hands . such seeds as those of cauliflower , as the sup- ply will probably be short next year . But large gardeners might remember that a few dozen seedlings ( good varieties of cabbages and savoys are often a welcome gift to the smaller gardeners in their neighbourhood . ( 5 ) In an ordinary year the seeds of scarlet runners , broad beans and peas ripen perfectly well in this country , and growers of these plants should save a fair amount of seed from their own gardens . Anyone who has parsnips , beet , carrots , leeks , celery , or cabbages sown last year should let some of them go to seed , and if successful the seed should be saved . Home saved seed should be protected from birds , should be allowed to ripen thoroughly , should be harvested when ripe , all the bad seed picked out and burnt and the rest kept away from the air in a cool dry place . risk of disappointment in some cases owing to a wet autumn is well worth risking . JURITAN SOAP The Soap of NATIONAL SERVICE PURITAN SOAP The GREAT BRITISH OFFENSIVE . FURTHER SUCCESSES AFTER HARD VIMY RIDGE . GREAT CAPTURES . OVER 11,000 MEN , 235 OFFICERS AND OVER 100 GUNS . REMINISCENCES , AND GAY . 7 GRAVE " Reminiscences of a Literary Life " ( 1799- 1858 ) , by C. Macfarlane , 10s . 6d . , Murray and Sons , obtainable at Leominster Printing Co. It was a rare find when Mr. Tattersall pulled those two old volumes from the shelves of an antique book shop , and a happy idea that he should re - publish them . Yet in his introduc- ( 6 ) Another thing which amateurs would well to remember is that mice we very fond FIGHTING AT NORTHERN END OF THE of certain kinds of seeds - certain peas for in- stance the seed therefore should be slightly moistened and mixed with a little red lead ; it is then left alone by vermin . Remember also that birds are very apt to pick and destroy seedlings , particularly on Sundays when no- body is about . Where netting is not available BRITISH REGIMENTS ADVANCE TO THE tion , which would be improved by being fuller , three or four strands of black cotton spread birds away . over the rows will often serve to Keep the AGRICULTURAL NOTES . CAVALRY TAKE HOWITZERS . a slight fear is betrayed that these Reminis MUSIC OF THEIR BANDS . cences will not attract . He need have no The British offensive continues to go well . anxiety on that point . The book will secure a On Tuesday heavy fighting continued , and wide and admiring public . Why it was brought us further important successes , as re- allowed to drift to the shelves of an old - book ported by Sir Douglas Haig on Tuesday night . shop is the question it forces . It may not Up to the time of telegraphing over 11,000 cause a revival in Macfarlane as a novelist and prisoners had been taken - these including 235 historian , but it will in him officers - and more than 100 guns , some of them along through many counties and gossiped his as he jogged of heavy calibre , had fallen into our hands . way through the best literary and other At the northern end of the Vimy Ridge , circles of his times and who tells all sorts of which the Germans are apparently making the good things about a host of men and women most desperate efforts to hold , we have gained of whom we are always glad to hear some new further valuable positions , and the British line thing . Pepys sought select society to gather has been advanced also in the thrust towards spice for seasoning a diary , " Mac , ' as lis Cambrai . Tuesday's official messages were as friend's called him , was there on his merits for mutual pleasure . He moved among the " lions " with easy intimacy and wrote of them with gracious familiarity , telling excellent stories , offering criticism and giving useful data . Most biographers succeed in proving that their heroes were geniuses , but artists like Boswell and Lockhart record of theirs the one - and - all events which filled their lives and left the gemius to take care of itself , which it does by everywhere appearing . In this book twa brother Scots . " but all the time one portion of his brain , and tact ; his sympathy for her was the transmitter helping of them is half a pound , weighed raw . were sent , though sometimes men recovering . follows : - the all - seeing glance of his eyes , were cog- nisant of Sylvia . He watched her curiously ; he watched her with one question trembling on his lips . Was her relationship to himself different as re- gards the sympathetic atmosphere of the dance from that obtaining with other partners ? He could see she loved the exercise for its own sake . The joy of the movement was con- tinuously expressed as she glided round the room first with one man , then with another . But , nevertheless , something quite other than vanity told him she was a different person when in his hands from the Sylvia van Annan who accorded a similar privilege to other men . music . Just before the time came to claim her for the supper - dance there was an interval in the It happened that Captain Grennan and Charteris were standing together , while the two girls in whom they were most inter- ested were on the dais with Mrs. Howard- Vance . Grennan was looking at his fiancée with intense satisfaction , the satisfaction of individual achievement . She was his , in a sense , which had not been true a few days earlier . Charteris felt the friend's satisfaction . Rose was a girl any man might be proud of ; yet , in his eyes , her personality paled before the vision of the beauty which her guest pre- sented , bending down in the foreground of the picture to speak to Mrs. Howard - Vance , the position showing , even more than when she was erect , the contour of her shoulders Grennan turned " It is to Charteris . curious that two so absolutely unlike as Rose and Miss van Annan should be such friends . I do not mean in appearance only , but in and neck . temperament . ' " Is not that the true bond of friendship I expect they between both women and men ? Have one point in common . " " What is that ? " " The quality of the heart . I should say they were both as true as steel . " " I think that , too . " Yet each was really only thinking of one , and that one not the | tion on some inward vision , something with Potato which the sea had to do , that she was actually Artichoke oblivious of his presence . Parsnip Afterwards this scene came back to him Beet , with all the vivid recollection of a study in Carrot grey , the figure of the girl slightly stooping , Turnip the long parapet of the wall , the whiteness Greens here and there of the foam of the sea , as a Onion wave , larger and more impetuous than its Rhubarb fellows , broke against the barrier some twenty Tomato yards away . All these indications of the lighter side of life only served to act as a foil to the solitary figure before him . In her youth and beauty she struck him as exceptionally lonely , stranger in a strange land . Was the sea , in her eyes , a barrier separat- Was this the ing her from one she loved ? key to the mystery , to the darkness , which he felt at that moment environed her , contrast- ing with the brightness , the zest , the joy of the dances they had had together ? Jealousy stirred in him , jostling the sym- pathy which had mastered him before . He felt he must have an answer , yet he could not frame a question which would not seem to him , still more to her , an imper- tinence . The second Calories in a helping of / at the price half a pound . named , per lb. 213 1d . 182 1od . 3,416 438 121 2d . 107 2d . 1,452 1,290 . 79 1d . 63 d . 62 3d . 58 4d . 52 3d . 52 1od . SOLDIER LABOUR . Judging by the reports that we have re- ceived the War Office are now meeting the farmers ' requirements for labour to assist in spring cultivation better than was the case a few weeks ago . Large numbers of ploughmen have been supplied in most parts of the coun- try , and many Commanding Officers have taken real trouble to see that capable men from wounds have not been strong enough to CLEARING THE RIDGE . be of much service . Farmers have generally been very willing to take mn , though while the General Headquarters , Tuesday , 11.50 a.m.- wintry weather continued they could often do During the night there was severe fighting little with them except feed and pay them the enemy had retained a footing . at the Northern end of the Vimy Ridge , where when they had got them . But in most dist- ricts the plough has been working , and work- ejected , and an attempted , counter - attack failed The eastern slope of the ridge ing well , whenever the weather was fit . We to materialise . the enemy and counter- hear that Lancashire took all the ploughmen has been cleared of it could get , and wanted more , and Cheshire attacks repulsed . and Shropshire the same . Our troops advanced , and seized the village Macfarlane is like his The East Riding of Fampoux and neighbouring defences north and south of the Scarpe . The number of prisoners taken yesterday ex- ceeds 9,000 , and over 40 guns have been taken . In the neighbourhood of St. Quentin the enemy has been driven from the high ground between Le Verguier and Hargicourt . Fight- ing continues throughout the whole battle The two spent a day together at Pompei . " We sat on a lava rock with the sea almost took about 500 and the North Riding nearly as many . Essex has absorbed a thousand . Lincoln wanted a thousand , and will want more later , and the Western Counties are taking them as fast as they can get them . Hunting- 1,272 don tried some German prisoners and found 1,016 them very good . On the whole , in spite of 496 the weather , things look ) much better for an increase of ploughed land than might be ex- 420 pected , and in several counties the increase will 125 amount to as much as ten or fifteen per cent . are the WOMEN ON THE LAND . 309 Next to women to farmers . mers can now obtain the services of either front erally unfavourluble weather . He was He handles his human subject as unconven- tionally on paper as he . talked to him at a dinner party . There was no idolatry in him , he saw no Olympus peopled with gods , he kept the gods on a vulgar level , but artfully leaves the impression that they were above it . Of Shelley there is a pleasing reminiscence . He After an intense bombardment the enemy washing our feet . The overpowering beauty made a strong attack last night on a narrow of the place subdued us into a solemn , musing My companion's expressive counten- front south - east of Ypres , and succeeded in silence . reaching our support line . He was immediately ance was melancholy . languid , quite sad . ejected from our trenches , leaving several dead . wrote nothing here , but he thought here those . " Stanzas , written in dejection , near- General Headquarters , Tuesday night . - Our verses , tten in ste operations have been continued energetically Naples " He has much to say of Campbell and there is in most of it the humour that makes We have reached the outskirts of Monchy - le- laughter often recur . Tommy became a sort Preuy , five miles east of Arras , and have of rallying - point " for the Polish refugees in England because of that line in " Pleasures of cleared Farbuf and Farbuf Wood . Hard fighting took place again this after- Hope , " " And Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko noon on the northern end of the Vimy Ridge , fell . " The poet often took a long " Polish in which we gained further important posi- tail " with him to the homes of friends , and tions , and took a number of prisoners and more than once was in difficulty owing to the loss of articles his protégé were suspected of machine - guns . In the direction of Cambrai we have ad- having stealthily commandeered . The Band of vanced our line north of the village of Louver- Hope did not lower his nation's respect for Such counter - attacks as the enemy have aqua vitae when paying a nocturnal visit to his attempted at different points along , our front friend would say " Now Mac , for a glass of toddy- Your whisky is very good and we wil have a craek ( gossip ) . Time was made for slaves , " and assured that only eternity mut- tered to poets , toddied and craeked all the . night and left at noon next day . val . have met with no success . At length Charteris stepped out from the most nourishing after the potato . The artichoke , parsnip and beet window , treading softly in his dress - shoes so them come the carrot and turnip . The pars- as not to arouse Sylvia's attention if she pre- nip , beet , carrot or turnip give the best value Good progress is being made in enlisting come to the help of hard - pressed From the the contagion of his ballroom only in her abstraction . at the prices named . The supplies of all ballroom only a few yards away , just beyond vegetables are short at this time of the year , all over the country . Subject to the arrange- to - day , in spite of heavy snow - storms , and gen- A general scheme has been adopted the small smoking - room through which they and some are not to be had or only at a high ment of proper housing accommodation , far- had made their exit , came the sound of the price . The least scarce are carrots , onions and bandsmen preparing their instruments for a turnips . There are larger stocks of turnips trained or untrained women . The former have renewal of the music , Through the open than of the others because the swede , tur- passed four weeks at an Instruction Centre , windows of the saloon came the tinklo of nip is grown in quantity to feed animals and where they learn the practical details of farm laughter , the subdued sound of voices in con- usually keeps good to the end of April work . To them a minimum wage of eighteen versation , the words themselves inaudible . Although its food value is less than a third shillings , or the current rate for women , which of that of the potato it is by no means to be ever is the higher , must be paid . Untrained despised . and inexperienced women are also available . If a small quantity of potato can be had it The Government pays for them a subsistence is a good plan to serve it mashed with an allowance of fifteen shillings a week for the equal part of parsnip or turnip . first three weeks of their employment while they When we are obliged to replace nourishing are learning to make themselves efficient . After foods by those which are less nourishing , it that they are treated as trained women , and is clear that every care must be taken to lose must be paid as such . Farmers who have none of the food value in preparing them for the table . The cooking of vegetables must be thorough , because if the starch grains are not broken up by heat many of them will escape digestion . But with the usual way of boiling there is a great loss of food . With potatoes the loss can be almost prevented by boiling them in their skins . Cabbage , however , loses a third of its food in boiling . If carrots are He drew nearer to her ; at that moment cut up and boiled in fair amount of water footsteps sounded on the esplanade . Rooks do good in moderation , but harm in a quarter of the food they contain passes into Bombing expeditions were also carried out , Some- one had come out of the hotel , and was walk- the water . A bushel would lose the equivalent quantities . It becomes therefore a very prac - in which a number of hits were obtained upɔn a large railway station utilised by the enemy , of a pound of sugar , that is over 1,800 calories , tical question how to keep their numbers down , ing rapidly , yet with a step intentionally made particularly when it is almost impossible to and three trains were wrecked . light , so as to avoid attention ; they were the nearly enough to feed a small person for a get a boy for rook scaring for love or money . footfalls of a man who would pass in front of day . Other vegetables also lose heavily . If vegetables are steamed or if they are First of all , owners of rookeries ought to et the spot where Sylvia was standing in the baked there is no loss . The artichoke , pars- rooks be killed , if they do not they are course of a minute or two . nip , and onion are excellent when baked in playing the game , and probably a note to the She drew back with a sudden , swift move- fat and the fat adds greatly to the food value Secretary of the Executive of the War Agri- ment , and , passing Charteris , re - entered the of the dish . cultural Committee will ensure that things The Germans record the violent nature of smoking - room . There she stood , still facing Then there is the question the battle , and admit that their positions were from one to the next , allowing too little time Failing baking or steaming vegetables should are attended to . the sea , listening . The best way un carried . Two of their divisions , they say , with each , so when you have just settled to be boiled or stewed in a saucepan , just cov - how to keep them down . additional resting on his arm of the partner looked more ghostly than ever , her shoulders ing soup ; or they may be stewed in stock . fore they are able to fly away from their of the confession of our success is contained Wellington , then bids you sit by Lamartine , or Now , in the still darket background , she ered with water , and the water used for mak - doubtedly is to shoot the young rooks just be- suffered . heavy losses . Their only qualification talk ) with De Quincey he asks you to meet gleaming white where the wrap had fallen Less of the food value passes into the water if breeding place . All the time the young rooks in the following phrase : " The enemy did not some high ecclesiastic , then elbows you away the boiling is rapid . Another plan is to use are being fed the rook mainly eats insects , succeed in breaking through . " An extension to have a word with Brunel or a famous nov- Charteris turned towards the man , who the water in which onions or artichokes have and it is therefore a real gain to the farmer to of our offensive northward towards La Bassée elist . Altogether it is a most engaging work was now abreast of the place where Sylvia been stewed for making a white sauce in let the young rooks get hatched and fledged . is reported . and will be given a high place among the This method also gives rook pies , which are many excellent ones of its kind . GEO . ELLIOT LEE . same . The slight pause which had occurred was arranged to give extra emphasis to the waltz which followed , and its duration was the greater for the rest which preceded it . Twice when the music was about to draw to . a conclusion the dancers clapped their hands , releasing their partners for the purpose , to indicate their wish that the dance should be extended . At the last something like exquisite physical exhaustion superseded the rapid movement . Charteris had been carried out of himself after a fashion he had never experienced . Now he enjoyed something different - the who had shared with him the vigour and ex- citement of dancing . Directly afterwards the ballroom cleared as if by magic , while the supper - room filled . It was a standing - up affair for the younger people , the dowagers alone sitting at small alone sitting at sma tables . Charteris had secured one corner of the buffet , and was engaged in looking after Sylvia's comfort , insisting on her having a little champagne , much against her will , for her inclination was again for lemonade . After a few minutes she said : " I should like a little air . Can that be managed ? " I must get some wrap for Yes , easily . von first . You would get chilled for the night air is keen , and you are heated with dancing . " There was a protection in his voice which Sylvia appreciated . " Thank you , " she said . " You are very 1- from them . guns . The number of prisoners taken by us since tried women on their land nearly always find the opening of our attack yesterday morning the experiment a success , and most encouraging now exceeds 11,000 , including 235 officers . reports are received from different parts of the them a number of heavy guns up to 8 - inches We have also captured over 100 guns , among But there are touches of sadness , as when country . Further particulars and names of Keats is spoken of and the way the habitual women willing to serve can be obtained by ap - calibre , GO trench mortars , and 163 machine- absent - mindedness of Frere led to the death of plication to the Secretary of the Women's War Agricultural Committee Our aeroplanes performed valuable work Sir John Moore ; and Scott's financial crash . at the county and in a number of cases inflicted casualties . Macfarlane spent much time in travel and town . with machine - gun fire . on hostile reinforce- did the Continent well . He went leisurely and where fancy led , and never experienced the bondage that cripples the modern tripper . Italy was his choice , for everything Italian was enthusiastic . But he got far afield and knew enough of Turkey to write " Constantinople in 1818 , as one of the thirty volumes standing to his name . ROOKS . ments . As a result of air fighting , 3 German aero- planes were destroyed and 4 others were forced not down . One of our machines is missing . GERMAN ADMISSIONS . had stood a second ago . Dim as was the which to serve them . " Turnips and onions light , he felt sure that the stranger was the should be scalded first to remove the stronge.t as good as pigeon pies any day , and that is SITUATIONS IN THE WEST FULL OF foreign - looking officer he had seen for a part of the taste , as already recommended for moment in the gallery of the ballroom . greens , by plunging them into boiling water for a couple of minutes . ( To be continued . ) . LIFE LOST BY SHYNESS . MAN WHO BLED TO DEATH AT THE DENTIST'S . ECONOMY IN THE USE OF GARDEN SEEDS . saying a great deal . But cartridges are bad ta get , farmers are busy at rook shooting time , and if the shoot be left a day or two too long the rooks are away . The next best way is to scare the birds off their nests some cold night after the eggs and laid and before hatching . Beating a tea - tray will sometimes do it and bonfires under the trees , or blank cartridges always . By this method the eggs become chilled and will not hatch out . Farmers ought to arrange at once which method they will adopt and fix things up with the owner of the PROMISE . BRILLIANT STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES . Paris , April 9. - Writing to - night , the Expert Commentator says : ne of the thi Reading this book is like being escorted by a Bohemian whose serious business is to in- troduce you to all his boon companions . But these are so numerous that he hustles you on WAR ON SPARROWS AND RATS . OFFICIAL ORDER TO PREVENT INJURY TO CROPS . Lord Rhondda and Mr. Prothero have de- on rats and house - sparrows by It is most The day belongs entirely to our valiant British Allies , who have gained a magnificent victory , the preparation for which had been clared war seen devoloping methodically for some days . reason to their injury to crops . Our Allies to - day extended their offensive action important , say the Presidents of the Local north of the Arras - St . Quentin line . They Government Board and the Board of Agricul- attacked in the morning the German positions ture , that every practicable means of conserv- from the south of the Ancre to the south of ing the national food supply should be Lens , that is to say for the length of 12 miles . adopted . The arrangements recommended 1or Several villages were liberated - Neuville Vi- the destruction of the pests are : tasse , Tilley - les - Montaines , St. Laurent , Blagny , The formation of rat and sparrow clubs . Mr. William C. Tyrrell ( deputy coroner for Souchy , Athies , and Thelus - without counting at a fixed the borough of Ludlow ) held an inquest on a number of less important hamlets . Monday on the body of Frederick Hotchkiss first enumeration has shown over 5,000 prison- The offering of rewards to other persons ( 14 ) , a horse driver , son of William Hotchkiss , ers and an enormous guantity of material . at rates which should not exceed : " Such is , the considerable balance of the of Pot House , Hope Bagot , Clee Hill , who 1s . per dozen rat's tails . It is important in the national interest that Following the extraction of a tooth a man named Arthur Richardson bled to death . everyone who is sowing vegetable seeds should He had been subject to bleeding , it was exercise economy in order that no more seed stated at the inquest on Tuesday at Manches- should be sown than is necessary . In ordinary rookery as soon as they can . She ter , and had been warned that the extraction often used with a free hand , but at present the times seed , whether plentiful or scarce , is of a tooth might cost him his life . He laughed . " I can only answer for my- fear of being laughed at he did not mention self , but I should fancy most men would think the warning to the dentist . A verdict of What is your number in the cloak- death from misadventure was returned . kind . Are all men so thoughtful ? " hot him a glance of inquiry . of it . room ? " She handed him a little square which had been inside her glove , bearing the figures 19 . over her shoulders . Grennan who was looking on smiled . He knew many mothers of daughters regarded Charteris TRUTH KEPT BACK . Through are He went off , and speedily returned with a light - red silk opera cloak , which he placed GERMANS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE THE BRITISH REPORTS . Amsterdam , April 10. - The news of the German defeat has produced consternation as invincible . Something told Grennan that this girl , although known for throughout the empire , although experts such an incredibly short time , had found her achieved by the British . doing their utmost to minimise the results way through the armour , and had achieved The papers are not allowed to publish the something which , if it did not amount to love , full British reports of the victory , and avail- was obviously akin to it .. able comment rests on yesterday's communiqué , Charteris led Sylvia a short distance down concluding with the promise " If Germany passage , opened a door which admitted on has to evacuate France and Belgium , the occu- dark room , an extra smoking - room belong- pied territories will be turned into a desert . " he ing to the hotel , only used when the house was full of visitors in the summer . That night it struck Sylvia with a sense of hill and oppression ; it smelt disused , with a faint suspicion about it of the smoke of long- forgotten tobacco.of the " I am bringing you this way because it is Will you trust to me to guide the nearest . You ? " She felt his hand extended towards her , and rested her fingers in his . Thus , hand - in- hand , they passed across the intervening space until they came to a French window . This was guarded by a curtain , which Charteris swung back with his left hand .. Sylvia at once released his right . The stars were shining , but the moon had not yet risen . He opened the casement , then bowed for her to pass out first . The tide was almost at its height . Before the hotel was the esplanade , with the solid , INOSTROLINE FOR COLDS AND CATARRH . No matter how bad you may be with Cold in the Head or Catarrh , you will get immediate benefit by using " Nostroline . " It clears your head instantly . It relieves the irritation in the nostrils , and stops discharge . It gets rid of the germ - laden ucus in your nose and throat . It enables you to breathe freely . It quickly banishes Catarrh and soothes your cold away ! You know that " Nostroline " is doing you good the minute you try it . Begin to - day . Tubes 1s . 1d . and 28. 9d . , most Chemists , or post free from makers- H. E. Matthews & Co. , Chemists , Clifton , Bristol . Local Agents : but not very high embankment wall , dividing Leominster : H. R. CHENEY , Pharmaceutical Chemist , it from the beach . az , High Street . Calm as was the night , the sea broke with a Kington : J. W. CAUNE , Chemist . Presteign : A. R. DAVIES , Chemist , a , High Street . seeds of many vegetables are neither plentiful nor cheap , and it is not only a wise economy , but also a duty to make them go as far as pos- sible . The following hints may be of use in this connection- saucers one of in- BOY'S FATAL GOOD FRIDAY RIDE . He was removed The A professional rat - catcher weekly wage . 3d . per dozen heads of fully - fledged house- sparrows . 2d per dozen heads of unfledged house- sparrows . id per dozen house - sparrows ' eggs . If schoolchildren are set to work on the ( 1 ) The seeds of many vegetables , especially minating power almost unimpaired for several from injuries received on Good Friday by assault , as well as the disorder of the German if they are of a good harvest , retain their ger- died in Ludlow Cottage Hospital on Saturday first day's offensive , and there will be more such days . It shows the vigour of the Allies ' years . This is true , for example , in the case falling from a horse . of leguminous plants peas , beans ,, scarlet run- The evidence showed that deceased and two army , whose Bavarian contingent in particular ners , French beans , etc. Therefore , before lads on Good Friday went into a field at Clee suffered terribly . The extremely energetic opening this year's seed - packets , seeds of these Hill and caught a horse . Deceased got on it fighting achieved not only the conquest of the vegetables left over from last year should be and rode round the field . He again started first German position , which comprises a whole destruction of sparrows they should not be tested in order to find out whether they will and the horse came back galloping . The very powerful system of trenches . and defensive allowed to claim rewards , unless the work germinate or not . All that is necessary is to line two This is very easily done . lad's legs were seen to go up in the air , and organisations of the first order , but it brought has been done under the direct supervision of he was found unconscious . the Allies to the line of hills farther east . The the schoolmaster or schoolmistress ; rewards with pieces of wet flannel or blotting paper . famous Vimy Crest , where our offensive was to Ludlow Cottage Hospital . for the destruction of rats should not be given A known number of seeds , 20 or 30 , are placed . Dr. Farmer stated that the lad had sustained held on May 9th , 1915 , was carried in superb to school - children . well separated from one another , in style by the Canadians .. Thus the last ob- two fractures of the skull , and there was an stacle fell which barred the plain of Douai , the saucers . The other saucer is then escape of brain substance . He and Dr. Mills where the strategic possibilities are very bril- verted on the one containing the seeds , and and Dr. Gilkes performed an operation , but the saucers are stood in a moderately warm the lad died the next day . The jury returned " The situation in this region is , therefore , place and covered with a bowl or jar or with a verdict of newspapers to prevent drying up . The seeds " Accidental Death , " and ex - full of promise , for this powerful blow gives pressed their deep sympathy with the parents . us the whole line north of Arras in the direc- will germinate quicker , if , before they are placed in the saucer they are soaked over- the day of this accident another brother of British corps to straighten their line to the The Foreman mentioned that two years to tion of Douai , and permits the neighbouring night in water . The saucers should be ex- amined daily , and after an appropriate time deceased had two of his legs cut off in the south towards Camorai . Thus the Allies have the seeds which have begun to sprout are quarry . The grandfather had six sons fight- already effected fresh important progress in counted and removed . The rate of each seed's ing in the war , and one son had won the that direction by advancing their line on a front of over two miles . Between Le Catelet germinating varies very much according to the D.C.M. The Coroner joined in the expression of sym- and St. Quentin they have occupied the hor- kind , so that the test must run on for a time varying from a few days to ten days or a fort - pathy with the family . ders of Le Verguier and Pontru , " night . If a fair proportion of last year's seeds germinate they should be sown , and this year's seeds kept in their unopened packets for use next year . as thinly as pos- ( 2 ) Seeds should be sown sible , but at the same time it must be re- membered that , if sown too thinly , there may be gaps when the seedlings come up . ( 3 ) Some seedlings transplant quite well , 80 that with them thinnings can be used to in- crease the number of rows . HEALO If you have a Bad Leg , Eczema , Old Sores , Wounds , Ringworm . 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To that end he was grinding , out the music , and the crowd , in sport , began to throw out pennies , when a countryman standing near said : " Sir , you ought to have a monkey . " " My good fellow , " said the auctioneer , " so I had . Step up here . " The countryman vanished . " He's not what you call strictly hand- some , " said the Major , beaming through his A man who was in the habit of stuttering eyeglasses on an utterly hideous baby , as he was asked why he did so . " That's my lay howling in his mother's arms ; but it's P - P - peculiarity , " returned the man . " Every- the kind of face that grows on you . " " It's body has his p - p - peculiarities . " " I have not the kind of face that ever grew on you , " none , " asserted the other . " Don't you was the indignant and unexpected reply of S - s - stir your t - t - tea with your right hand ? " " Yes . " the maternal being ; " you'd be better looking " Well , t - t - that's your p - p - peculiarity . Most p - p - people use a s - s - spoon . ' if it had ! " |