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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-13, Page 3ILocker Lampsmes Armored Cars' Work . 4-0-e-genteee-g++++4-.4-4-0-.4-4.-teet-aa. And now it ie the rubber tired ea,Valry, The horse that eats poplin., that requiree a o tether, no lariat and pa COOting dOwit at the end Of the day, ha a Come to take a new, Unfeane end ineportant place in the rained art et killing POOPle at wholesale that Men have for many ages &rifled under the tiaras of war. In all of the chapters UMen war, trout the time ot Philip at Macedolit 410W11 to Perehing, there is nothing thet offers so intereeting a etudy as the armored ear. It emu° late its own or the first time in Galicia, but a few days ago, Front thia tie 01.1 the ntili- MrY ilieltrnetetra Will have to revise their teaehinga end their taates to fit the innovation. It is true that the arraorecl car came along In Belgialn in the early days when the forts at Liege were preventing a speedy re- making of the world's map, 'taut they came then aa independent factors, which played about the fringes a the war game without definite place. In Galicia they 'were' regularly fit- ted, into place aa co-ordinating uaits in a general echente, es powerfal aide to the infantry and as the inoet impor- tant protection for stranded artillery that the brain a man had as yet de-, vised. It was no fault ef theirs that the meter ears did not gave the Rus- sian artillery. They dia tlaeir part. Tbey did it wonderfully well, with the most ecientific accuracy .and. with re- sults that have made old array officere revise their ideas about rear guard fighting. Had the Russian infantry been faithful to its trust the arraored car g would have saved every gtill. The diatance to Galicia is great. There are men on the battle fronts closer to home who are cloeer to heart. So the popular mind has paid little attention to the performances of the motorbecause It did not Us - vel far enough from the more familiar stenee, the more familiar names and the men who are more closely con- neetee with oter Western life. Amera can thought of Galicia, chiefly as a Ian t that contained small towns which had gone amuck In the alphabet seek - lag names that auggested the arrange - sant of it ea of block in an infan- tile asylum for the Weak minded. The fact that three entire armieri— armies in every sense of the word ex - opting that they lacked a concen- trated command — were advancing over a front as wide as from New York to. Baltimore did not /were to snake much impression in this coun- try. But it fell to the lot of this ad- vance, the first that the Russians made after Alexander F. Kerenelcy Came to the virtual dictatorship of a ehaotic realm, to prove to the soldiers of all lands that an automobile with a game chauffeur and a proper arma- ment Is worth its weight in real gold. Nobody seemed to realize that any particular attentioa lie.d been paid to the equipment of these new Ruselan armies. The public read the names of unpronouuceable towns which they paased on their eastward sweep with languid interest. Suddenly the name of Locker Lamp- oon beget to trouble the wine. Lamp- oon eurehr bore no anuseian patrony- mic, What could he be doing along the line with men whose names were formed of coneonants an a spree? Largpson had brought along the Brit- ish motor cars. They were of small use on the western front, where the armies are deadlocked in trenches with the Attlee trying to squirm out of a system of fighting that the Ger- mans wished upon them at the out- set. Even the British, who developed the American idea, did not attach any great importance to the scheme, Cavalry horsehad been eating their haute off without any chanee to add to the gayety of natione, and cavalrymen had been doiag dismount- ed infantry duty. And now a rubber tired cavalry has come to make a new place in man tial study and In war history and fiction. Regardless of the fact that three Russian fronts were in action, that a !Macedonian front claimed seine attention, that Mesopotamia offered some 'attraction, that Egypt and East Africa and the Holy Land were still on the map, the reading public settled .back to consider the French front with its stalemate as the one spot on the face of the earth worthy of consideration. Out of it all ehugs the Motor ear; with engine going full tilt, with the pilot pushing it over heavy roads to protect a routed army, and with guns Of considerable size checking infantry aeid cavalry until the field artillery of the Germans might come to life. The purpose of a rear guard in Suell a ease is to protect the retreat of the Main body. It West Check, b.pld up, harass and delay the advaneing foe. In any orderly army the rear guard for such a large fighting forte wOuld have held all three arms, the infantry, the artillery and the eavalry. But the infantry of the Ituasians was in panic. Artillery without sup- porting troops is as helpless as a babe, The cavalry teas by no means sufficient for the task before it. The commander-in-chief sent for Lamson. "They have cut through our lines on a front of fifteen miles," he aid. "If they are not checked the will get behind our flank and cut the line �f retreat, and that spells ruin for us— and for Russia," That is where Latinism, jumped into the fifteen -mile breach to make a name for himself and a plitee for all future wars for the armored motor car. Ilia scheme was ample, He picked the best roads leading toward the entnny, Well knowing that the ad-, vetoing e0111rans would pick the beet and most direct routes. Then he ran bis motors straight back for the foe. The guns mounted on Ms care had more range than the infantry could make. The machine guns the car- ried Were poison to any ttdvattee eav- alry. As the long field gray eoltunna hove in eight Lampsoit let loose the guns from his chugging Machines, which were kept going like the reathines that our New York gunmen nee when taking tart in a triminal affair that tequires a speedy getaway without un - tette notice to the police. The German infantry went to cover along the road, and signalled for a light battery to make the going hard for a rubber - tired eavalry. But the gasoline horses -could out- run the hay burner, and When the artillery got around to the head of the eolutrin the 'motor ears had joy-rided back to the fleet station where the ad- vanee could he held up. Once a Ger- rattn cavalry outfit raft afoul ot WI Machine gune and little 644 precipitately. SO the eight -cylinder mounts, keit pluggtng away all aling tie royale, Until they had so delayed the Germans that they coula not Use the fifteen - Mile gap to its full ednantage. The, probably cheated Germany out of 60,- 000 prisoners. As tor the Russian guns, the fleeing Infantry etit the gun horses out and psed there for flight. If the infantry bad deem ita part the artillery conid have Milled back jt e guts under the rear guard protective of the motor Ca. The whole etory glares to the world a new war picture, a new element in the fighting game. It puts the auto - Mobile makers along with. the Krupps as factors in army equipment. And, ineklentally, it. puts Locker Lampsen along with ltlarehal New as a rear guard commander whose work 'Will in later years interest the readers of war lore. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. The bat is the only animal which bees. There are 102,530 autos in. New York city, •••••••• The Young condor is year old before it flies. It is said that the Chinese used natural gas 2,000 years ago. On a train going out of Chicago, hot coffee is served in paper cups for those who want some refreshment without visiting the diner. A. tree which is said to shed water In abundance from its leaves and branches grows in the Philippines, where it is known as "acacia", in Hawaii it Is called "monkey pod." A front bicycle wheel, equippedwith a suitable nandle and a cyclometer, is now employed In a number of the national tomato of the West in measuring trails. A ocientlfic instrunlent named the "tur- bidimeter" haft been invented for the pur- pose of measuring the turbidity of spinal fluids, with a view to aiding the dicta - nests of mental diseasee. A flower which grows in China is white at night but red in the sunlight, The Chinese Government is about to open an aviators' school at Canton. A. Western bungalow has "folding rooms," which greatly economizes apace. London weddings during 1915 number - ea 58,854, compared with 43,373 in 1914 and 41,409 in 1913, rn a California. felt factory cotton is blown from one department to another by means of compressed air through pipes This method le said to be cleo.n and rapid. One of the electric locomotives employ- ed on a Western rallwa.y reeently mule an exceptional run of 939 miles without receiving any special attention en route. The time saved by the use of the mcchanleal milker increases with the in - erectile in the size a the herd. Thus with. beards of 15 cows or less the aver- age time required to milk a cow by hand it a fraction under tive minutes. With herds of over 50 cows it takes slightly under seven minutes to milk a cow by hand and but 4.15 minutes by macbine. They are making very geod sauer kraut in Germany out of white turnips, instead of cabbage. • Steps are being taken to establish a plant in Columbia, 8, 0., which will manufacture starch frem.sweet potatoes. 'Material for making good paper, it is said, can be produced from refuse hops that have hitherto been thrown away in breweries. The world's total production of gold last year, though nearly equel to the rec- ord output or any Year, 'was less than the amount Imported into the -United States irt that period. Consumptitm of aluminum in the 'United States in 1916 is estimatedat over 121,000,- 000 pounds. Title is an increase of more than 21 per cent. over the coneumption tn 1915, During the last cold snap of the sea- son the water consunaption of Looisville, Ky., rose from 24,000,000 gallons per 24 hours to 72,000,000 gallons, there being few houses in the city equipped with meters and the average resident merely turned' on hls faucete to prevent freez- ing. /What the Germans . are Saying In the first weeks of AO the Germane were confident that the Attlee had made their great effort for 1917, and were now going to walk until next year, when the Americans would be ready to help. IVIajor Moraht, one of their most competent military writers, 'writing In the Kreuz- zetung of Jelly 10th, even discussed Why the Germans themselves did not begin an offensive. He quoted a. brother military criticie—"One thought seems to be Putt - fled" heavever, that the High Commands of the Centre] Powers might be able to exchange the debutante which they have so far observed for it oppoelte." He a& raided that "attack th the German de- sire" and said that "at home we watch for signs of attacks and hold our tlaas ready". After discussing at some length the general situation, he remarked: • "We do not care for attacks 'which do not have certain prospects of success." If our High Commaud lute not so far de- cided on a great °Hensler° in the West, It Must be hecause they have eoncluded that our general situation does not yet require a. decisive offensive by land. Our Navy, ta -waging an offenelve War With really destructive and thorough mitosis, Nor do we require for political reasons any hurried °Hence. This would be a gamble, atul the Gorman people eltn only be grateful to its leaders for their 'sense of responsibilite in the sparing of Ger- Man livee." Teri dayslater in the Deutsche Taos - Zeitung, the same evrIter had plainly changed Ida mind and was thoroughly ma easy, "It Is thno" he wrote, "that an •44444.*.e.64,4444.4.4.44.44.44.44..• DRS. 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Refuge must wore tut It ell as hands. The Kaiser, in the wade of his great ancestoa "ever the runt servant or bis reople," or at least of the military sec- tion of his people, has responded to the appeal, and on Aufteet laSt Dotted a re, sotelAlIns' Ploclamation. Hie words are defiant: "New natiene continue to enter the wee against us, out that does not frighten us " "Thus 'wee stand erect at tho Weise of this year, Intineyable, Victorious, Intrepid." There is however a subtitled note: "We must still continue the fight awe turniett arrnS tor It, but our People may rest aseured that German blood and German zeal are not being gambled with ter the empty eheclow of ambition or for schemes et gonquest and eubjugation, but et defence or a strong and free Fimpire in wnleh our children may iite In security." "Unfortunately the Kaiser, like his now Chancellor aod like 1110 old Chaneelloa prefere general phrases to exact state - Merits. The defence of a strong, free and secure Empire seems a reasonaOle proposition, unless the words be inter- preted in the way Germans have inter - Matted them in the petit. The War against Denmark in 1804 was salci to be a war ot defence; the 'war against Austria in me with eald to be a war of defence: the wa.r against Frolics in 1870-71 was said to be a war of defence and yet each of (hese resulted In the territOrial aggran- disement of Germany and the eubjugo,- teen of unwilling peoples. Take the ease of Belgium alone. The Morgenpost of July 24t1i wrote; "How stands the German government towards Belgium? What Is the meaning of the Chancellor's words about Ger- many's Hantiere 'which must be for all time assured'. Ono must concede that Precisely here, as formerly in 13ethmann- Hollweg's apeeches, many constructions are possible, and the English Prime Min - litter can, appeal to the contradictory cola structions of the sentence to be _found in the German Press. The ' advocatee amongst us ef far-reaching frontier ree- tifications, aa well as the majority which supported the peace resolution, have ap- proved the speech In the Reichstag. How Should a foreigner be able to to form a clear conception of the views a the Int- perial Government?" The Vorwarts is even mere clear. "Safety of frontiers'', it says "generally means extension of frontiere, and in this way German an- nexationist Press. If safety, that is to say, extension, or frontiers Is an impel,- ative necessity, then extensien of terri- tory is necessary, and it must be ob- tattled by force." When the Kaiser and the German Chancellor have succeeded In stating their 'war -aims In terms that are intelligible to their own people, it will be time for the Allies to take their pie:a:estate:ma of defence seriously. KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother knows how fatal the hot summer months are to small (thin dren. Cholera, infantum, diarrhoea, dysentry and stomach troubles are rife at this time and often a precious little life is lost after only a few hours illness. The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tablets In the house feels safe. The occasional use of tlie Tablets prevents stomach and bowel troubles, or if trouble comes suddenly —aa it generally does --the 'Tablets will bringthe baby safely through. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine, Co., Brockville, Ont. Dou'it Cross Your Legs. "Every time a man crosses his legs he gives his heart that much extra work to do," says William Muldoon. "You know what happens to a stream of water when you squeeze the garden hose." This widely known physical instruc- tor attaches great importance to Prop- er training. He told me of the trou- ble he had in making John L. Sullivan breathe properly, and he dwelt on the harm that /lumbers of Aronricaus do themselves (witness the prevalence of catarrhal affeetions) by the bad habit of mouth breathing. "Keep your mouth shut. Breathe through your nostrils," he is always saying to hie patients. • If the nostrils are stopped up he ex - plaint; bow they may be made to func- tion properly by simple cleansing ablutions, and he insists that these be performed regularity. "We need filtered air just as we niz STATELY ELK. It is the Most 13eautiful of Our Re- maining Wild Animals. Now that the buffalo survives only in a few preserves the• elk is the most interesting as it is the most beautiful of our remaining wild animals. ' In this day of Anterieanisra it 'would be a fine thing if this typical American animal should come to be known by Ms Indian tame of wapiti. The wapiti is the largest of the red deer family and closely resembles his smaller brother, the European otag. The wa- piti is not properly an elk, as the Eu- ropeati elk is more closely allied to the American moose. The wapiti Is now numerous only in the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, though nearly 4,000 head are thought to remain in Colorado, and consideranle numbers are scattered through western Canada, The Camp- fire Club of America and other organ- izations and individuals are working - for its preservation. The favorite home of the elk le the Yellowstone National park, where he has no rifle to fear and where cougars, coyotes and timber wolves are kept " under Control. In the park and its vicinity are probably 50,000 head, distributed bit tWo main herds. During the summer months the' elk live high up In the mountains, leen. orally at an. elevation of 8,000 to 11,- 000 feet. The grassy plateaus offer an ideal summer rattge. Even on the wooded sides of the highest ravines there are parklike glades where the elk tate In the afternoons came out to feed. It a, difficult to imagine a more beautiful sight than is then afforded by these stately and graceful anitnels. Although their number in the park ratty sontainies reach as high as 60,- 000 head, it is rare for visitors to see a single opeamee. Visitors are ta- ken in stages around a regalar route arrahged for viewing the natural plienoineaa of that great outdoor mu- uTniht; elk dislike to be pursued by tourists with canietaa and keep away from the stage routes. If vial - tors would leave the highways of the Dark and seek out Ito byway, either on foot or by pack and saddle tripe, they Would have a Marvelous oppor- tunitY to sandy the greatest exhibit • whielt survives of our mountain wild life—not only the elk, but ineuntain sh.een, deer, beaver and Many Other All Pure Tea sealed packets Ooly 1 ..........„. Free front Dust 114.11110WM1010044404114000M144 1 Never Sold in ritak LAD 51ack—Mixed—Natural Green. R 213 444 -44 -4 -404 -0-0,400-400-4444.00-444-44-4-41-44-4,40-4+4+4++++4.44-4.44+ The Scottish. Troops In France ++10-14,140-44-4-4-4440-40-4.444,0-44 •-• 4-4 •-•-enes-0-0-•-•-•-.4-4,-+4-•1+ (By Philip Gibbs.) I have beard one question aaketl bY English .officers, and I have asked it myself, not once, but many times ant here in France, Are there any men left, in Scotland? Surely there must be a great loneliness in many Scottisn streets, And in many fields of Scotlaud, and women's ears Ilitist hate the ea- lenee Which was once filled with the footstep a of the boys. For three years -Scottish soldiers have come tramping .along the road to France to those fields where the flower of youth has to pass through flarae, et.fter three year of battles in which Scottish troops have taken a great and heroic share of fighting, often InIfferIngmost tragic losses because they go forward against all odds and hold on under the most frigatful fire, their numbers have not lessened, but increased. As the months have passe& and an the losses have piled up and great gaps have been torn in the ranks, Scotland has gout more and more of her sons, the Younger brothers after the elder brothers, new battalions of boys, new drafts of aplendid young men, to take, the place' of those who have given their blood. to the soil of France so that to the ending of the world these battlefields evill be sacred in not - tisk history Wherever I go—and I go. long journeys up and down the linea— 1 see battalious of Scots. Through the white dust of sun -baked roads there are Highlanders on the march, their kilts swinging above knees as brown as their khaki aprons or as the gas- bags whiny they wear for sporrans. Their pipes are playing—playing at the head of long winding columns, or in fields behind French farm houses and barns where these men are billeted be- tween their spells in the trenches or between the battles. The music of the pipes is now as mueh a part of the great orchestra of this War as the 111. - Cessna rumbling of distant guns, as the swirl of traffic along the transport lines, as the singing of birds above No Man's Land. I have heard it in the queerest places—amidst the shell- fire of the Somme battlefields, in vil- lages 'where oily a few broken walls remain to show that men and women lived safely here in times of peace, and once, not long ago, I heard an old Scottish tune being played in a great loneliness of ruin. It was in that coun- try which the Germans deatroeed be- fore their retreat from the Bapaume and Peronne. Once there was a noble chateau here, one of the greatest in France, but now when I came to it It was a rubbish heap, with broken statues of Greek goddesses and bits of old French furniture lying about, the avalanche of masonry. I saw no sol- diers about. It eeemed as lonely as a desert, but somewhere Scottleh pipes were playing "Highland Laddie." Then saw a piper. Ile was standing on it heap of stones in the centre of all this ruin playing, perhaps to eomfort his own soul, and in these surround- ings he seemed to me the strangest figure of the world. So in all sorts a odd nooks and corners of the war zone one hears the music of the pipes, stir- ring even an Englishman like myself With old -haunting memories and giv- ing it sense of romance to the war which, is a very grim and foul bus!' ness And where there are pipes there are Scotsmen—Scots everywhere from the' sea to St. Quentin; in old French market towns; among the booths and the pigs and the poultry and the old women, 'whom they chatf in the broad- est of Scotch; and in Flemish villages, where these brawny Jocks, very good wives at home with flaxen -haired terrible in battle, play as gently at the bairns; and in camps behind the fight- ing lines, not beyond the reach of long-range shells; and up in the trenches, where death is very close to them, There is no part of the bat- tle front where one does not find them, and whenever there is any dirty work on hand—which Is the soldier's phrase` for hard fighting—there the Jocks are sure to be. So it has beea from the very start of this war. 1 met the British Army first on its way down from Mons and Le Gateau when they were hard press- ed, and among a strange MixtUre of battaliens—dirty, ragged, wounded, sleep -drunk men—who had marehed day and night in a fighting retreat, who had been cut off from their own unite and joined any .small body of troops who happened to be marchifig down the same road or volley firing from the same ditch, there were many Scotsmeil of the old Regular .regi- ments. 1 remember Royal Scots and Black Watch and Gordons,, ' among them, and the cotwage of therm men, theft, sturdy refusal to admit that things Were really had, was the first revelation I had of their tough spirit. They fought along the Aisne and died along the Aisne, and they were With the English troops wile came up WO Flanders in the autunan of the first year, and in the first and second Bat- tle a Ypres held their poor thin lines against repeated attacks of over- whelming odds, With only titles and a fent field gang to fire against an enemy with heavy artillery, and had no gas masks nor any warning on that day a horror when the enemy let loose clouds of poison gas act that thaneds elay meany nwgerien cfhtiogkhetdrulanadgobnifienod ud the flaming streets of Ypres. The next thne I Stew the Royal Seote was in it field behltal the lines just after the Battle at Istouve Cha- pelle. There Was another battle In progress, or rather a small attack, and the Royal Scots Were in reserve Welting to be called. They were not waiting . gloomily, and 1 remember how. queer t thought It When / stood watehing a bombardment *Idle down below only -a few fields away the Seats Were playing a game at football 60 that their halatime whietle eotind. ed above the noise of shalifire„ ,After- wards 1 Wont to their baoa'a " ead- tatartere ht 80111e littat jjit 8. n 'was the birthday of one of the young officers, and there 'wits a merry little party round the cake sent out from his home in Scotland. But ono officer took me aside and said;— "I'm one of the 18,st three officers left out of the original lot . • . and I have a queer hind of feeling I shell get pined before many days nano passed, . How long do you think the war will last?" The war has lasted two years and four months slue then, and the Roy- al Scots, with many other Scottish battalions, have been in and out a the trenches under ceaseless altellfire in some of the foulest parts of the front through long dreary months of winter when they lived and slept and died in mud and water, and through leet summer menthe when at Loos, and next year in the fields of the Somme, and Vila year at Arras and Bullecourt, they fought great battles in heat and smoke which put a fire 'in the throat of wounded men. Through all that time I have met the 'Scottish battalions on the battle- field and behind the lines and I have seen the glory of their courage and known the greatest of their sacrifice. One of the little ;scenes, which I shall alwaYa remember because it seetned to me so pitiful and so fine, was in an old barn one autumn evening of 1915. It was full of Jocks—Royal Scots again and Gordons of the Third Divi- sion. They were watching a boxing contest, and I sat near the ropes look- ing down on all that crowd of faces— snrong-jawed, gray -eyed faces, with here and there a shook of sandy hair under a Tam o' Sheeler cap. They were all laughing and cheering as trie fellows in' the ring gave each othe4 some mighty blows, and it seemed din ficult to believe that they had only just corae out of the line-up in the Ypres salient, where they had had many casualties and suffered great hardships in frost and storm. I knew a secret about them which they luta not yet been told. It had. been -whis- pered to me by one who knew, and it was what made me look down upon all these sturdy young Scots with a kind of pity. They had just come out for it rest after many hard weeks, but they were going back again that very night. The enemy had made it sudden thrust and captured an important bit of ground up by St. Riot which these men had held so long, and orders had come for the brigade to make the counter-attack. It was rough on them, and the officers looked rather worried when a message was passed around and they slipped away from the boxing match to get back to battalion head- quarters. That night I saw the Scots marching through the rain back to dirty ditches. They had taken their orders grimly, without cursing too much, and there were many who_ /lever mine back along the road, haw' stayed itt he eternal rest camp, Scot- land has done well in this war— gloriously well—and there is no sol- dier of any British stock out here— English or Irish, Canadian or Alia tralian—who begrudges admiration for the jocks, who will take any ground that men may gain by sheer via and hold it against all the fires of hell. They fight with more passion than English soldiers, and have a grim and stubborn way with them when things are at their worst. The fighting in - stint is in their bones arid blood, and belongs to their ancestry, so that they are very fierce men when they get among their enemy, To me. hating war, and all its bloody •business, it is the spirit of endurance and the heroic self-sacrifice of these Scots that is most wonderful and most splendid, that and the fine simplicity of their valor nich makes them unconscious of th own heroism so that they never Latta of their deeds, but do them as part of a day's job, and then pass on to the next ordeal, They are good frieade with the peasants of France, whom they help in the farm yards and the fields when they come behind the lines, and as long as history lasts the spirit a Prance will salute the memory of these kilted boys and of all the Lowland Sots who have gone into the furnace fires of this war to the Music of the pipes, and have fatten in heaps Upon her fields.. A thousand years hence, when the wind blows Batty across the ground where they fought, the sound of old Seottleh tunes will Sound faintly in the ears of men who remember the past, and all this country win be haunted *with the ghosts of Scotland's gallant sons. LATEST PLANES ARE MARVELOUS Oart Do With Vase What Was Xxnpossible, Powerful Motor, Small Wings, the Secret, , The race for improvements in fight- ing planea between the allies and the celltral powers hal been nip and tuck a» the way, writeWill Irwin in the Saturday Flyening Post, Late In 1915 the Germans sprang the first well rec. ognized type of What the British calf a MAU machine. It was the famous leokker, en exact copy Of the Prench Merane—a return to the mottoplane prineiple, Which had been abandoned early in the war. tieing able to fire through it prapeller„ it had supremacy until the Preneh perfected a *Millar device, The Prelich then answered tvIth biplane of greater need and greater practical agility. That killed the tiuileonmo,plane idee.—at least for the tinie have 00111e out so feet that el layman bosdifficiiity in keeping up with the biplane type. The new models being. The lateet machiues aro all of Even the fasteitt, Most agile ine- telltr flattlnytneafir.4Igne' 1b9e10°,11int th°e1 Verdun liector, I watched it squadrou of scout machines maneuvering. They thermselvee like it Rork at owallowe, Yesterday, at an aviation base near the trout, I watched two' aviatore, but letely sent up front school, go through their morning Practice. Travelling across the sky at an inereditable speed, they seemed to turn in their own length; they roll- ed over on their axis as a swimmer rolls over In the Water; they Melted their noses downward and dived; Mao brought themeelves te level with a sharp twist, Compared with those swallow ma- chines I watched last year they seem- ed like hununing birds. For the con- structors, in planning this new type ot nmelaine, made an accidental discove ery; an airplane Is a Motor on wings, Increase the apread of Its wings in nreportion to the power of its motor, and, while you add to its stability at a low MOO and to its lifting Power, you take away from its speed. The art of constructing a fast machine consists largely in giving it the smal- lest practicel wing spread, It; is the motor kicking with unheard a power againet the air, not the wings gliding along the air, Which makes it fly. And this kind of machine, meeting with but little obstruction front Its own wings, turned out to have a mar- velous agility, a rairanulons power of assuming unusual positions and gette Ing itself ont of them. lamping the loop, that maneuver over Whieb. the Pletteer airmen debated for BO long a time they dared make the attempt, is Possible to one of the big wide- spreading observation maehines. It must be done with slcill and caution. however, else the aviator may wrench off a wing; further, it must be done elowly. That is about the easiest thing to do with a scout machine of the new fast type; its flip is like the jump of a trout at a fly. Yon can fly it for several. seconds upside down; and you cial,n, it,na.ke it roll over and over, like a dog. RELIEF AT LAST I want to help you if you are suffer- ing from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Piles. 1 can tell you how, in your own home and without any- one's assistance, you can apply tbe best of all treatments. pitts TREATIeD AT HOME promise to send you a FREIE trial of the now absorption treatment, and references from your own locality if you will but write and ask, I assure yon of immediate relief. Send no money, but tell others of this offer, Address MRS, M. SUMMERS, Box 8, Windsor, Ont. "MINE" GOT HERS AT LAST German Trench Gun Had Bothered the "Tommies," But Third Shot Finished Her Career. Behind British Lines in France, Aug. 12.—(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—"Minnie" is a very forward young lady, who lives as a rule in German front line trenches. She has no pretensions at all to beauty, She is for use, not tor ornament. She is a trench gun, and. her projectiles re- mind one at plum puddinge attached to sticks. They fly very irregularly, but burst very regularly, in that part of No Man's Land furthest removed from Minnie's temporary lodging. Just before the latest push around Ypres there was a particular Minnie located a few miles from 'Ypres, which was more than usuaily a nuisance. The Beitish Wen& was not well sited, nor very well protected. Consequently, when entente was Wive she made things very uncomfortable for the occupants of that British trench, Moreover, site had no regulai habits, she worked on no plan; ladylike, she did 'just about as she wished. The young British subalterns hated her with a persistent, pervading hatred, and eoncocted many scheraes for her undoing, but to no avail. But one night, chance brought into the trench a' very irritable, old artillery alt icer, just as Minnie was active. One of Minnie's puddings soiled his boots, and thereby aroused in him a grim determination to devote himself to her destruction. He stayed in the trench all that night, studying alinnie's location and characteristics, and on the morrow he returned, followed by his ord.erna uncoiling wire as he walked. At the trench end of the wire a temporary telephone was fixed. The far end a Ilia wire led back a, mile and a half to it battery of field artillery, Along about noon Minnie opened up for hen Midday strafe. Promptly the artillery officer verified his observa- tions of the night before, and spoke it few figtiree into the telephoile. A Minute later a loud boont annottneed the arrival of it British shell just acrosa on the other side a NO Mann; Land. The British officer swore softly and spoke again Into, the tele- phone. The first shell had been at least thirty yards off, The second Was perhaps twenty yards oh the ether side. Again the officer epoke into the telephohe, and for the third tints the gun spoke. "Bull's eye!" omit; the officer into the telephone, and pecked up his belongings in bust - netts -like fashion. Minnie was de- eeased, Black Fridays. itt England tho term Mark Friday Was Bret 4111plied to Dee, 6, 1743 the day on Which TioWS reached nonien that the pretender. Charles ledward, into reached Derby. Again on Mn' 11, 18G8, when the failure Of 11 large Istuaisit discounting intaitutiett brought on a Most dieestrota pante, the day ief the nuonension th 13ank Of England related the rant of dim. Ceuta 0 per eent. Wild speoulettioa in gold in wow York fintl other cities cul- minated In O. ItiOnetary craelt on Sept. 16, 1875, that Meet thoneettclie of firms and Individuals Into fittaucial ruin cord eitilied a eemmerelal depreeelon that eX. tettded into thie eiglities of the last cola turyaltence the tweet)) of the term 'Bitten Intone, Itt the United States. e tle-ti en% MADE IN CANAD ...eattee '• ken 4 44104 1:44444,44 .104 WM.+ trf ,;eILLETT COMPANYUSIIE° " TORQNTO riptiT04 .A1 Used for making hard and soft soap, for softening Water, for clean. Ins, disinfecting and for over 600 other PurPesee- RISPUSE SODSTITUTEe. EAGILLETT COMPANY TOR9NTA, Otot 14010141.4. I• How to Dry Fruit at Rome Drying of fruit. itt Greece and the nerthern part of Africa is done on a large nate in the open air; even in the Midi of Franee the pruaes d'Ageet are dried on trays in the open. ' In more temperate and moister cli- mates this process is insufficient, be- cause either the season is too late wherCapples aud pears ripen, or eve, poration is too slow in proportion to the water contained in peaches, apre, cote, prunea and cherries. Therefore, artificial means must be reserted to. It should be mentioned that drying apples, etc., does not re- duce the flavor to such an extent as might be fancied, For commercial purposes the fruit is treated in a din fent way, but for household require- ments it is best to use the baking oven, Apples and pears are skinned, cored and naay be divided into quarters or sixths or cut into rounds, spread on trays and put into the oven. It is alt. solutely neceseary to avoid an mos of heat, because tine would result in oxidization and blackening of the 'fruit, Therefore, it is reconunended to use the oven at such a temperature as when it Is cooled down after bait- • ing, During the first stage of the process, while the fruit contains much water, the trays should not be filled too full. Later, however, the produce of sev- eral trays may be put together, During the whole of the process the fruit must be watched and the oven opened from time to time to let the steam escape. The fruit is replaced in the oven as often as necessary to reduce it to a slightly brownish, leathery sub- stance—this may take several days, because the oven is only used when It is not required for ordinary cooking purposes. Peaches and apricots are cut into halves and the stones removed.' For these however, the drying must be con- trolled more carefully Decamp of the softness of the fruit, It is necessary that evaporation should be very slow, cherries and ordinary -sized plums are dried whole. These latter stand the heat better because evaporation, tak- ing place through the skin, is natural- ly delayed, Before the fruit is stored In biscuit boxes it must remain at least twelve hours in a dry room, ad the inexpert dryer is reconaraended to look at the produce no longer than three weeks after drying, in order to see that the fruit has been, sufficient- ly dried. THE ABUSE OF SOAP. Too Free Use of the Cleansing Agent May Injure the Skin, —rhe oft quoted aphorism attributed to Wesley that 'cleanlinees 15 next to gaille nese' Constitutes an article of belief -among civilized peoples," says the Medi- cal Record. "There is it strong prejudice against dirt in general and particularly against personal unoleanlinens. The erejudice is healthy tl,nd to be encouraged, but should not be allowedto become a fetiele" This is part of a review of at article by Dr. Frank Bavoridt in the Liverpool Aledleal and Chirurgical Journal on the abuse et' soap. Dr. 13arenclt attributes many skin troubles, eepecially in chil- dren, to too much soap. Among these are the furfuractous patches on their faces. Nurses, he says, often use too much. soap on their patients, especially when these are confined to bed, when the "secretion of their skin Is sleggish and the exceasive rernovse of natural gregse leaves the Ain rough and bran- rty, • The delicate skin of newborn habiee th sometimes irriteted by the zeal or De nurse In rubbing with soap sad water, Dr. Barendt says the tnet toilet soap is a combination ot °loath and ytharate of seethe= But even it ishould be used with discretion, The King's Thanks. King George expresses) the gratitude of Great Britain to Cenada in the steps taken to inereithe exports 01 1004 stuff a to the motherland. "I have no doubt that the self-sacri- fice displayed on the battlefields of France by my heroic Canadian troops will find its counterpart JO the efforts of those who, at home in the Domin- ion, are devoting theneselves to this work," a_ Don't Waste, Don't foodStar for —a ti ef r eiyouspwleiinitoynolyf do 'your bit in preventing waste. Demand the whole wheat grain in breakfast foods and bread. Shredded Wheat Biscuit islOOpereent. whole wheat ----nothing wast- ed, every particle utilized. It contains more real nutri- ment than /neat, and costs much less. For any meal with milk and fruits. , FILLED THE BILL (Boeton Tranect Int) She (romantically) --The man I ittaiTY ourt be willeac to go through fire for iie----Then Ini ynti man. The hoes has fired gor wit:phoning yob PO often. SAW., HIS ERROR, (Birmingham Age -Herald) 'When you have served your term, my poor Aleut', 3. boRe you will see the vr. 1(41 ybur ways, said the pileon visitor. "Pat 1 alit, mum: in tact, Wee tit* .ehtly seen de error of We ways. t.rat, glad to hear you say So." "lima gin' t no use plekIn' pocitets when be made in seconti..sterY %tett.- 4 4 A NEW BREED, (1410) "what le that clog—a pointer or a set, ter?" "tle's a pointer when there's a beef. steak near, (ma a setter when we're :ut looiting for game." HIS CHOICE. (Louise:11e Courierelournal) "Lea't she it Peauty?" "Sem has more beauty titan settee, my bar.n.i.;.1.4rea.anallteralgtilltiheleYnileeencloIliewdalitt"Iviris TROUBLE AHEAD. (Boston Transcript) "It your husband Up yet?" inqured the telly morning caner. "1. guess lie rer:d the stern wo- o an at the door. "Well, lel like to say a few words to 111.47-t—vo'uld I. Ile hasn't conie borne yet." BETTER STILL. ( "Could vett lend naLirtefte dollars?" "No. l'm going to be marriec4 but rii ee Lo It that you don't get an invita- hiloan111,0 you'll save at least ten dollars bY ALL(ivaTsHhtEngtSoYn MS Pi aTr )1:;1 M S. "Sometimes," mid the patient woman, "I think my husband is getting to be a socialist." -What are the eyraptome?" elle, wants to do ail the' talking and TINA of the work." GOLF AND MARRIAGE. (Boston Transcript) rifles Niblic—I don't think Mrs. Driv- er piay3 such good golf as she did before she was married, Miss Brassie—That's the trouble with utnnaet.rsimaactinnye.. It does interfere so with DAD'S COM E -BAC K. (Louisville Courer-Journal)' "Sticky weather" said the boy, -who was thinking of fishing-. "That's right.," responded his dad. "Stick to business, son." NOT HER .CHOICE. (judge) Ho—I offer you my heart's first freeli young affections She—George, I have often thought I'd like to teach—but I have never cared for ltinderganon work, " GO(BiNartimD0OreWANmeHriteLaL. lo "The last time I saw Jones he looked Lo he going down hill very fast." "Has he fallen la bad health?" "Noahe was coasting on his wheel." 4., A FELLOW -FEELING. (-Washington Star) "I once knew a, mate who went hun- ery in °vier to buy -feed for his horses." "I can understand his sentiments,. Alany's the time I have cut down on meat and potatoesto buy gasoline." • te (BaialiStiUmNorDeEARnTwOri0eaD. n) "Are there any piscatotial tienusements about here?" "No, Mr; nothin. doln' but fishIn'." _ SUTREATMENT. • t)T Caller—Doctor, have you ever treat- ed a patient for loss of memory? Doctor—Oh, yes, indeed.. employ a bill collector quite often. ,ANCIENT ANCESTORS. (Judge) Jamie—Gee, your grandma, is a spry old lady! J ennie—Well, hadn't she ought to be? lier father lived to be a centaur and her mother WaS almost a. centipede. HARD WORK. (Birtningliam Age -Herald) "Youe friend seems to spend his money freely." "I don't blame him. He got it by hard work." "A. self-made man, eh?" "Well, no, ie married it stingy wo- man with a lot of money and coaxed it away from her." THE GROUCH. (Judge) "You own a motor ear, of course?" "No," replied J. Fuller Gloom. "I am one of those quaint and curious creetures Who fcei that they can afford to walk." $500. • (Life) First Surgeon—What aid you operate on patient No. 2 Second Surgeon—Five hundred dollars." 'First Surgeon—You don't understand I mean what did the patient leave?. First Surgeon—Five hundred dollars. • DISSATISFIED. (Boston Transcript) • Millyuns—I will give you My daugh- ter, sir, If you will promise to maintain her aftetwerds. Suitor—Heavens; You talk as though you wore giving away a free public lie Mary. • HIS LINE. (Louisville Courier Journal) 'That emerner boarder of our spends a good deal of time in the dairy. Hoenia to take a. great interest In the separator.' "Well, he's in that line himself," "Hult?" "He's a divorce lawyer." Sneeting Fag to Aviators. In the American Matezina is an eie count of Katherine &Olson, the girl flier, who has perforsiel the meet dlr. ficult teats. ' "When asked le she was afraid she might fall, she replied that eiterafig was the only thing she fearati. Sae de- elares that nine -tenths i)t tal accidents in the air are teased by aviatore W- ing coutrol of their machthee by sneee- ing. " `The aviator,' says allets Stiescie 'Passes through numerous stare of air a different temperatures. Pe often eatches cold and sneezes violently, When you emeege, for the moment you lose all eontrol of yourself. If YOU dia that ethile in the air year ',Heinle ere going to gather up your remains," .44•.44.44.4410 At Objeet Lesson, rn drawing -room a muted centrally ans eltscusehm the always interestin4 topie .of the difference betweeh the Mae. culine and (entitle attitude toward life. "Yang, y'know," the unfledged sub, re- nottked. "It all comes dowle to this. MI women, even adVaticed women, are Vain." ov, Agreed the sWeet young flail* per, "I suppose you're right. Vanity is our elect failing. YOull alWitys find that beauty eaul—Oh, by the WaY, Yon •e'reret Piled ray 'Mentioning it, „but tlid bost Man in the min nun got his lie aver his teller and up on hie le And the %Vat a en. 'IT Mate In the iamb went elllarl--PittabUra