The Exeter Times, 1918-5-9, Page 7tit
PATHETIC FIGURE'
AMONG THE CHARRED RUINS
OF' HER NATIVE NILE GE,
Named La Dame Indomitable, After
Great French Gun, for Iyer
5rorlt for Soldiers.
to charred village they call her
La Dame Indomitable, Not a bad
naan,e for her, either. There is a great g
i
un l t £1 l, im 9e m. galled I tom
.: ....
arable., 1 T 12e enemyila5 trained its ,
heavy weapons on this giant cylinder iTHE CLOUDS'
�s r„. +i
s , ti io_Ibut old :Indomitable"
of dot ,t �
still belches its deadly hail upon the 1
Puns, and so the old lady of -- was
11arned after this famous gun, says a
° torr s ondent
war � e p
I saw her the other day in the
constructed ruins ofher once c
fortblc house.
Two atal .a - w o
i_ce
re •1dy -�1.C8" of
—American—have billets with her. ;
t.lle
She takes care- of their rooms, shines! Telis of Thrilling Experi
their boots and leggings and puts on 'c On Western Front.
a button now and then when they
know nothing about it, g 5'Flying is the neatest gnroe.
The Only Inhabitant. „ is. I think the `thrillingest' afternoon
Then, when she is not busy at ever had was on the western fro)3t
home, she washes dishes for the Sal. he time when Major William. Thaw
vat•io'i Army` canteen or erfnrms and I' were having a little Boche hunt,
nlore laborious service for all sof wwhieh It was the trip when Thaw as
she receive, ten rents 2,1 hour. `;hat wounded and with a „mashed arm
is ettough.She doesn't need much, managed,
I�aa_t, l w c^>.`.9.f.E'2?'v'.i'pi'tQ
cap -„e'7; to guide lE3S f'it'L£'lCt
Sl.e begins her daily routine at five a_ety," saysr Il,
i^ the Dilor xina and finishes s rat seven boy in the French Flying
model
PURGATIVE tailATER
which flushes out the intestines and ensures :normal beteel aellen o
causln+ colic, eranx e or d'iecoinort,
g P
On Sale everywhere. 25 eantir,to bottle,
iltGA PURGATIVE WATER CO. 'iOt4TR A!
GREATEST GAME THERE!
IS," SAYS AVIATOR,
ygyR
s,
CCCriS
cea
ere
rni3cs to, 213
if bread, and
her "boy's" are in
throws herself on
old cloth' with ono
c+tag, and sleepy
T.1; lanae Indomitable as
habitant loft in the villag
tee f
Thor! $l' , alka two .e had gime serir.cage
p
..-.
get he:' aslowatme I the 4,90-te airmen haat day, and' bay(
a
:d�Ee$' tG'li1 o'clock, 1tt,eA� i «ww'a;Ys thought it was my taut tlta`
t asleep. o'ho,Thaw was hit; also, that Throw ar
eel of boners,. cagy late They certainty, were aftea
l: ,laet for vov,I ° lfe, ti, eat of them, away gala there
above nice, Loft cloud, which aco`.e
;• only iii»'ialca to ;fall on,, but had ma bottom
It lag tae "»
Chi clarexa—gait who,as li€iw all 1 Storied eat together.
» 1 v age1iit hail 110001100 0 a1'te01.11 tilxs drift -
ago. The til wpm, I was cruising along about
frinn 10gd00 feet up, with nothing on ra;Y• •
nf;i,aalxld laced XUY :holtanof, 'when wliu
hitt S should drop out Of ft cloud above 'mate
be but three of the WAWA WA little• 0
filed inert tfiers $010, Ora suNV» They dl
ma i lOOlc little to tinct thepgla. They t
as, the biggest Frits binds 1 over
+
and I. said to rayselft 'Be" you
glad when •h s xtillery peened,.
took a great lead of my mind, end u�yi�
of the Boches iamnediately turned
tle and soon w+,as disappearing on to
last dive, :Vere
One I3ocite %leaped„ #little,
ttr laocidg
-
I'hen the other two opened up 011 Iia v oil
Thaw, and ,it wasn't long before; I
saw he was in tt'ouble, k -Ie drppped eeazts.
another one of the Boches, but not.
b
e_
fo the Fokker charhad haraeuh.m
Ski' Ilii urn 'bu ;?�u`ett�i 'iv voh IHiic`,
a3ftes he wwas h t, and all I cou:d gra
for z3y rescuer was to try to at-
tract the other fellow white Thaw
tinkered With a damaged engine and.
tiled the machine at the sante
"It was conic afternoon and I have_
ways been sorry I couldn't have
Lured that last Eoche, Ile ee.
Iy was annoying.?'
le; of haw' +:U�ti.°nd {+.
he.. had at o been, shot
T Ili a'IIE 'F OT.
hen Landscapes Could Be
By the Piece,
as a not ,ebaraeterisi
xtusr3:,
present century-
were
enturywere not always immune ;f:
habit. The 2
ssir .. aa -ea, ten
-; actor
S Echo, was 'a
lrchased
of the
ncestorg
t1a
ww€dac.t ba ily "ed his
but an ear piece e s
y ol, ed in a pilot#: he
41 there for n oC tall
to a pcieti. of hia brae? sht
re many I*ors
;for the Sa4j
#i No. $184
to 14 ear
tux g in
si e of an Q
d IIS
s
e.
dif"tculty,
rain ry" ° See �to
fluhl g ar+dlce if
paint, • real garden
t' }pirM a fee, to
ou can 40
T .
hoadda's Sugar I'iatltS►rl ,.
city pPdaeop'sle s;i5r know rathat x14kfiR?
tion goes'
giil.eti in Lady Cynthia Co?-'
villa's crecheat Roxtan, says a. Lon
don weekly.
On one of his excuz°signs to the East
End to see how the rationing scheme,
was working, Lord Rhondda was paar.
ticular,y struck ith the attitude of
the poor° motlh.ers wwwhor he ehcounter'-
ed there, and he decided to make some
Practical recognition of his apprecia-
tiara, It took the form of yielding up
most of his sugar a.iloww-ance on behalf
,
o -f their children.
His sugar is made into jam for the
tike ones who spend blear gays in the
sx series while their mothers are at
ch of -:hic
0Se�-oae f`€A1
7'4 le for
as ready to gin painting 9'�4?.`. call
153,`: a.,cc ist<'3ait*k clo�nde„ a
to inti , sueedily lir g t the desix
a, ish a, thi
red
the
here
e grnsr!" A
a
ffn
thirtyland „c;i,':
for
poi. Vaai4Pr 't
br"rrsh7. (IOW,
to the canwu
strokes
eloi
i. 'wilt
re
at
every Child' fi..:S
Iaossible,
A gape;
e? y 4
t',r
olx,
doleg
e
LLE ' COMPANY I
TO ,ONTO, OM1":
AwC2a3R'
is now
Anybody who diseove
astn of food may n?#f3'the
T` '
ti. �t-es, who have ID;i�'l�'dr; wn.ies
w Oder, to tai e 4etlon. �a5`ilfui
relesv waste has bee!nle ;llegal, tilt
ateiparities who secure the convir-
oo" ,• half the fine, while : ro-
r.� ,s secz rA+.g time cot:wrictiou
lige ha 'Lbe "-tin , eY. ."?e prOvrude,
e
Rani
e:
root
tS;
Q ,mete ens V
,e, o, •
is
1 x<titine" kft tong, l
'dd folks dragged a we
the humble, aged stone birth
which they and their'axtcest
lived for many ,t enerbatiop y
h udreds of tirS, Selcliers
the town, nett 'the Germans
"three times the quaint villages
tn1 u and i t`xlcen. The gnat xe
rants of the ra1d, dwwellings could toll .;i tum' Eela Keslta.w1 y again -1001r
aalra 001
frightful stories of slaughter and l+er in uta.'
ugnificent tabs oP vui,or» So eninz elRc+tislro ll�arfaar
l Dnuu ,Indomitable. Birt vire saes € +,lilaat its oft aaaxteo iiiid tail
Ilttls:»
She dust works. She ants to Y�li>gib, whuh �aaa aaa do is ,t
hsslla
ranee. Officers 'told :her a long tui ka• Niel port biplaaaie. sant
•she cell:14'go ai��rwwh ra slie they missed me coli 'OM Nw�ay' 7Op
the grandenrs of .Itairla though their machine gangs
to her in, 'rho hope Mat like thunder to MO and my wings ,,�
nwvxi
est of fill ba+
'if met a
fAt) feet up..
triost crashed head,
;tract after manoeata,„rile
It,
hut my ballets
gine, Ile eiimbed .ap
gbt €if kris len0, lr
n phew 1 was through, .
iiooti nn eoaaee °.aas�al..It •wad
aa.t ,af 7iaititiiail, thea,, and, 1 was ori
at • t ut his I iwsaatl4U't'
laasrg tat lite eche*
a•ed p
,god mo
wit o were
4,- scrt.li e place that tl
teswvas e alio#
ie machine about 1
If was hazy and we ak
W aww, iii 011'
let him have;
rattled on
riga I felt the
ight arm ww'eri
.le oers
- conn
lwaec
chao
rp_
tflae-d3 "t�k 4i�'
e
irlM lal,e
otottr
' alae 'aalht be Bared from the abode of
it anger' in %Ouch she resides.
But why should she go?
"No, I'in not old,' ;site says.
only sixty-five or maybe seventy.,
a strong woman yet, but when 1; cur
water this long, lona distance za
then'walk to tbQ bou`Iaaigerie for brea;'
Sometimes my heart beats too fast,
maybe, but that's all.”
So there she stays. She has been.
seen away up .on the brow of The hill'
locking down on the German field:'
territory. One does not need glasses
to see it. She trudges along shell
fiwept roads when it is necessary, las
it often is.
"A shell may hit nae ---yes, perhaps,
sometime. But we all have: our work
to do"
Cherishes General's Letter.
Waves of deadly gas sweep from
time to time, La Dame 'Indomitable'
hats her mask,, An officer gave it to
her. It is the best. The officers see'
that she gets the best. Her two
American artillery officers hurry to,
their billet when the gas drifts into
the village. They have nothing to do
there. They just go to make sure
that their hostess is safe. I had a cup
of chocolate with her in her house and
learned her story. I do not think she:.
ever told it before.
"When the war was just at the be-
ginning," she said in French, "I bad
three sons. They hurried off to get
their uniforms and rifles. Then I-
waited, One day our soldiers came
pouring into the town. They had
been driven back by the Germans,
Many were injured. I took as many
as I --could in my house and made cof-
fee for them. You see my house was
better before it was struck by shells.
',While I was making coffee a big
shell struck this house and killed
seine of the soldiers. Another one had
both legs takeli off. I helped thein all
I could, but they went away and the
Germans came. They are cruel, but I
"ale", am old, so I am alive. Tlien our boys
came again and I made my house a
hospital. It was struck twice more
and I was hurt a little, too, but not
much. I don't want to leave. I have
lived here all my life and here is
where I shall die."
The eyes of .the old lady glowed
ander the spell of a thought she had
not yet expressed.
"A French general came grid thank-
ed me for what I did for our soldiers,"
she said. "Then, long after, he wrote
me a letter saying I was a `brave wo-
man and had brave sons. 1 have the
letter—you nay see it."
Plant plenty of whatever kind of
nut trees will, grow in your locality.
The value of nuts as food is corning to
be better understood; they coinna.and a
fair price and are not so perishable,
while awaiting a market, as fruit,
Even beechnuts and acorns are valu-
able for feeding pigs, making a pork
of finer quality that commands a bet-
ter price. Nut and fruit trees answer
es well for shade as non-productive
trees. q�'utd�ixCal� �'!z xx °a '` 41
r►,
gal
punctured a flew times. Things did
vok any too good for mai, even tboug
bad temporary advantage. 1 show-
ed a• lot; of bullets on the nearest
iehe without malting much iinpres-
and then any gun jammed, an
wwa;s as ease of defentdwa wvarfcire.
4I doubledand dived, and :g;gsagge
all ever that cloud, but the Kaiser'
bays always leeched to be waiting fo:
me, They had spread out, making
rot had t
t;004 0 looking the gun
out for
1 nd then be turned loose and
three -cornered net, We were up abou
umed the 'Beebe. I never saw
15,000 feet by that time and the ri*
vial and tall and break up
was very clear. I was hoping for
One did, I nodded ray head at'
cloud to come along, hut no luck, and the Frenchmen and laughed, although
tl ,1 t • • my arm hurt like fury. We landed
f them began shooting again, and I all right and the observer and shook
could hear the ping of the bullets even
never lenrned his name."
"Suddenly I saw another machine
climb up through the clouds to the
astward: 'Another messag,e froin the OLIVE OIL SCARCE
aiser,' I thought. 'No use, 111 never
The Minietry of Food
dent, An 01'11041
will shortly be oPene
roi of the department
of Vati0115 kinds et
which do not mite w
ket attractive foods made
produets of the slaughter house
have been sirnply wasted—at any ra A
in the south of Englaud—hut
are staple foods oa Ow Continent,
Various kinds ''of sausages will be
umufactured, in which kinds of offul
mt are not in the meat schedule will
be -used, as well as black puddings.
The factory is situated in Liverpool
Road, Islington. It formerly was the
property of Appourodts, who ran a
string of delicatessen stores in the
West End.
The concern will be managed by
company called the National Men
Products, Limited. The directors of
the company will be nominate y
Lord Rhondda. The company hes
been registered with a capital of 25
in 100 shares ottstenty-five cents
each and a called up capital of fifty
cents. A Treasury grant has been
given, but it is to be repaid out of
profits, and all the profits made are
to be put Intel the business. The di-,
rectoas include the meat experts of
the Ministry..
Every slaughter house in the coun-
try is now under the control of the
Ministry of Food, so there will be lit-
tle difficulty in supplying all the wants
of the factory.
In some parts of the north of Eng-
land there are already factories of the
kind. There is a model one at Bir-
mingham, but in the south of the
country such foods have been despised
until the coming into force of the ra-
tioning scheme.
Only One -Third of the Italian Army
Fed.
In Italy only one-third of the army
is being maintained on the battle lines,
the official explanation being that
there is not sufficient food. The
starving Austrian army facing the
Italians is said to have received large
supplies from Russia.
above the noise of the proneller
get beek to old Kentucky.' But then Industries of France Suffer From the
Thaw corning back from Berlin or
.soraewhere. And the Roches were
bezzing around rne like a lot of horn,
ets. They were eo busy trying to get
me they didn't notice Thaw.
Lack of Labor.
Ne co les from France that the
harvest of olives this year will be
three times as great as in 1910.
Nevertheless there will be less olive
Thaw climbed like a rocket after oil in 1918 than ever before. The
those Fritzies, and I certainly was greater part of the harvest will rot
away because hands are lacking to
turn it into oil.
The price at the present time of a
litre of oil is about five francs, that
is, in Canadian values $1 a quart.
The price will soon become six franes
and, what is worse the French will
have to depend on 'imported oil, Ital-
ian or Spanish, which they abominate.
The lack of labor bee become more
acute in ahnost all the vital indus-
tries of France. The olive oil situa-
tion,is typical and adds force to a
movement that is becoming more and
more popular. There are many sol-
diers of the old classes in the French
army, men 40 years of age or more,
whose usefulness at the front is a
question open to debate. Agitation
has been going on since the time when
United States' participation in the
war made the demand for men less
acute at the battle front to relieve the
old poilus. Early in 1917 the doubt-
ful privilege of an honorable discharge
:was granted to carefree fathers of six
or more children. The real problem
before the Chamber of Deputies is
whether to take up the question of
the old classes in a large spirit or
whether to continue to make slight
concessions to the demands of their
constituents.
At the Factories
is Made
great numbers of the
high -waged. skilled em-
plo3.res buy and drink
A tribute, if you please,
to honest materials and
sanitary surroundings
in manufacture; but best
of all a preference leased
on true knowledge o
its healthfulness an
attractive flavor.
"There's a,geason
Why He Failed'.
"Were you able to sell old Skin -
lint a grave?" asked the superintend-
ent of the Kew Mausoleum.
The ag•ent shol-.),c his heal
die some tinier exclaimed the super -
"But, hang it all, a, inaiahas got to
ntendent,
"He was afraid be mig.ht-hat get tit
u11 of he,explained.
Tit 'ilt1
itt
oy
bl
SAYS .0TY
vtrt ;OW
No Cause for Pride.
Kiltie Are you , the fellow that
dragged rile oot of a shell hole under
Member of the Ambulance Corps
(modestly)—Oh, thaes all right.
what did ye ao Ne4h ma, pipe?
The robin inn
The bluebird Ult
The 040I0t$
And none, sin
'410 14.41110.
10 grass grew gre ner In the lan
The sun shone from a bluer airy;
Tho lark sang yet a sweeter strain;
The selling hawk did soar roo a
qui
The berries ed s
Tbut grow in Ousters ripe
And all the world seemed
when
A Well -sodded ed walks
where needed, lc p 10 dirt out
of the house,
The thumb gets pretty bard usage
when cutting potatoes by hand—all
slit up with the edge of the knife!
Take the thumb of an old leather glove
and draw it over the thumb of your
hand when doing this work. It helps
a lot.
,sort or
shortly
z al
At cost on emit!
bottle o ezone at store,
every corn a t or
hereness or ti infection.
This new ether corn -
%Ind, arid dries the moment it is ap-
led and does riot inflanie or eVen ir-
ritate the surrotmding tiseue. Just; FOR '
Hock or Bursiti
think! You can lift ofr your eorits and
ealluses now without a bit of pain or ;
•eness, If your druggist hasn't
tie r you front his wholesale drug
lams
the Blood
e "Fifteen to thirty drops of
Extract of Roots, commonly
Syrup, may be taken in water
6 pation and bad blood. Persist -
with rneai5 and at bedtirrxe, for
the cnre of indigestion, consti-
ence in this treatment will effect
a cure in nearly every case."
Get the genuine at druggists. 0
tops lanientsr promptly, Does not
er or remove the hair, and horse earl be,
isorked. $2.50 a bottle delivered. soa6 tat.
ABSORBINE, JR., /or mitnkinni,
Oils or Zetivered. Will tot );ou more 11 you wiee.
)Ch nu I IP* 'cell rs a0 Feaalcse
That Itched and Burned.
Scratched Constantly.
'I had pimples and blackheads on
nay face which were caused by bad
blond. They carnet° a head
and were hard and red =us-
ing disfigurement for the
time being. They itched
and burned so much that
1 constantly acratc.hed and
made them worse.
"I -sent for a free samp/e of Cuticura
Soap and Ointrient, and aftetwards
bought more. Now I am conipIetely
healed." (Signed) Miss Josephine A.
Wetrnore, 35 Sheriff St., St. John.
Keep your skin clear by using Cuti.
Clara for every -day toilet purposes.
For Free SampIe Each by Mail ad-
dress post -card: Tutiettra, Dept. A,
Boston, EL S. A." Sold everywhere.
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The looks of the rbadisde is a good
tri