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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-8-22, Page 7CORAUNDER, wo Popular THE ENEMY'S t I A i DefSLw;'I1s I !TOW THE HUMAN MIND ADAPTS I'1S14'Y TO CIItCUMSTANCES, Che Su!rject of a Soldier's Senoatioes in Battle is litre Diecuesed by a French Gunner. What is eteirtitte•? Are men nnel aurally brave ? What are the reac-! tion~ meter lire? These questions aro persistent, and here is how Pauli Wittier, a French gunner, answers them, in at story he has written, with; the title "My 75." "I was struck by the marvellous, favulty of adaptability which forms the b is s of human nature. One be -I rnmee ucustomed to the most eruct! privations, or to the. uncertainty of the morrow. Before the war I used to wonder how it was that old men near -1 !ng the extreme limits of existenee'. could continue to live undisturbed ini the imminent shadow of death. But now I understand. F'or us the risk' pnsrc,,r.,, of death has become an element of daily life with which one cooly reek-! one, which no longer astonishes, and! lime, over very large areas, destroyed ' The shell that stru -k this house saved the making of a door fora `i leave to begin at noon the officer took terrifies less. Besides, a soldier's This attractive little model owes its the farms by allowing the rainfall to ,British canteen the air and within thirty minutes en - terrifies f courage.' rush down the hillsides in the term of E,�r Countered flue single -seated g FORESTS AND CIVILIZATION I NO UNFORESiTED COUNTRY HA9 E''BR etECOME GREAT. 1` I The Effect of Deforeetrtion le to ilen• der a Country Desolate, Unfcrtile and impoverielied. Former: end civilization are le- see:trebly boned teeeteree Not all l fttrest ed teem tties. havo ren tea a'. 'high degree of eiviliz.'tion, but no ' 1 witti cstnd eountry hue ever rcenehed u state of culture. Egypt, Babylon, 1 and As yrltt eine l„r mentioned as est options, but the pr ,Lability le Imo, they were, all forested at the i i•reuith of their progress, and tint; their decline Inns he direetly attrib- ' uteri to the disaouc'tr'ance of their 1 forest wetdth the whole north coast l of Africa, Palestine and China were xt Otte Bout well forested. and, with the vanishing of the trees, these 1 eivillzatitme wetted turd are now at a low ebb. China is probably the best I example of deforestation which we have. Originally a country of great i wealth, both in timber and atgrieue tura' lands the removal of the woods I III1Ns SND f'' Ar P? TION ARMY Ta+ ° sFl .T TCD? h ti:eer Wipes Out Organization of t ` w I Mercy Operating in Genneny. 1 A earl, of mere which „was begun! silty }care oleo ill Germany has been: slee•hed by Ilit • mot 10,1 fist. of the lealser, not , nl;; becatee the Salva tion Ariny we,.. funded in England, but be•eaune Sok adroit 1.s from all over the earth ere in the t.rrn bee fighting I uittler the eseiomt flags of the Allies.'. There are more than Oita hundred thousand t+ativatlonists now in the trenches hettliiig update, the Hun for world fro/slum. This fact coupled 1 with the birthplace of the Salvation Army, England, so angered the Kafs er '.bet he. gave the word to disband the org us tion.. and eizeall its prop r r ,y, In order that there weld,' be R'xr Tanks .2,000 Years C)Id r r Chance of a reorganization the ; Is the war tank not a brand new military authorities of Germany and inventthe was one of the questions Austria scattered the membership of that came to the editors of "2,000 each unit, and it is feared that many Questions and Answers About the families were broken up. _ Great War," Probably 0013 people out One of Major Bi hop's Feats. of 1,000 would answer `ryes" unhesi- tatingly. On the staff of the Review T° shoot down five German air- I, ir- of Reviews, which produced the book, planes nut of a patrol of six that .at -30 there was, however, a specialist on tarkerl on a flight beginning at 0.:10: aneient wears, and he spoiled the whole o'elock in the morning, to luneh at the thing by answering that the first war I airdrome by noon, and to sit dawn to tanks were used exactly 2167 years ' in early the in Landon that even- before they made their appearance ing, was the recent experience °f the British -German front. It was aviatr. Bishop, the celebrated Canadian during the gigantic siege by Rome and aviator. After arranging for a brief her allies of Carthage, the "Queen of 'n ]e -seated and one everyday life is n scree or coca charm to its simplicity. It is one THE COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT Familiarity with the same dangers lace from shoulder to hem and has torrents, carrying itch amounts of — two -seated German machines. He sacci and gravel Mitch have covered ' but he could not trust himself to wake eventually 1 t] h nimal P � Shot down two f the Smaller ma- th newest tall feature the collarless 1 destroyed the arable lands at the end f h h Th African CSt Thomas Times -Journal) u 1 chines and chased two others so vise eaves to Oman a c o the our. e o unmovei. One's nerves no longer e n up an n rite 1 i' r - :u seines and constant ef- nock. McCall Pattern No. 84bfi, ,Po -Clay China Is x desolate, treeless could not tell time., but the captain de- I Some of the overgrown papers sa' ori ly that the machines collided and auivez ; the conscious Misses' Dress. In 3 sizes, ? G to 20 terminad to depend user him, never- i fust to izeon control over oneself is country, forced to use dung for fuel' the hi cities note the passing of successful in the ud. Therein lies Years. Price, 20 cents. and to carry on Cha moat intensive theles. Showing him the dial of his g the larger Bishop then shot dawn form of agriculture a order n wring I wrist watch, he explained that he wish-', many country weekly t e passin and the the ]agger machine, while the sixth the secret of all military courage. Men', ``r ed to be waked when the long hand . many eoun ionof dailies in some of the got away are not barn brave; they become • a meagre sustenance from an im- reached there, and the short hand, smaller cities and are deluding them- ,� brave. The instinct to b@ conquered I ;L�w p it selves with the belief that this is is an � LEMON JUICE I3 i more or less resistant—that is all, v WhenForests Are Removed evidence of the gr g Moreover, one must live, an the fieldf h h 1 be Ith mete politnn sheets. of battle ,lust as elsewhere; it is nee- essury to become accustomed to this new existence, no matter how perilous' or harsh it may be. And what rend -d ers it difficult --more intolerable—isI fear, the fear that throttles and para -1 lyzes. It has to be conquered, and,; finally, one does conquer it. averishtnk so I there, Then he lay clown, with arm , o - growing influence of FRECKLE REMOVER , extended, and t e negro crone ec In time they _..._ Where timber is removed from hilly side him, •with his eyes on the dial. e F and mountains by lumbering, fire of j Exactly at the right moment the say, the big dailies will cover the -en-104.1s! Make this cheap beauty lotion most always Follows and horns not'sleeper was called; and as he opened tire field and the country correspen-' to clear and whiten your skin. only the timber but also the soil, his eyes they fell upon the African, I dent tubo now writes weekly to the I _ right down to the soak. If the forma-', precisely the soma position, with , press chronicling such facts as that 1 Squeeze the juice of two lemons in - tion is not rock the situation is far something strained in his aspect that john Smith has finished his newborn to a bottle containing three ounces of worse, for the soil Is washed down suggested inquiries. It appeared that or that Sant Jones has purchased a! orchard white, shake well, and you year after year into the fertile van• car will pass away for all time. I have a quarter pint of the best freckle leys, the curie • ho i s the city newspaper ger at vary, very Harder For Infantry I "It must also be confessed that this' training in courage is far more easy for us than for foot soldiers --the' least fortunate of all the fighting' forces, A gunner under fire is lit -1 erally unable to run away. The ( whole battery would see him his dis- honor would be palpable, irretrievable.' Now, fear, in its more acute mani-I festatimts, seems to me necessarily to imply annihilation of will power, Ai man incapable of controlling himself' sufficiently to fare danger bravely will' in the majority of eases be equally in -I capable of facing the intolerable; shame of publie•flight. Flight of this' ]rind would necessitate an exercises - _ earth up on mule -]hack to start the "" until each will-- almost a kind of bravery, For the girl who is interested in out on the clock face the proper rela- ivdces of humanity. No country cor-!afternoon, saw Bo y g consider it has no equal. I would not "Tu remain under Ara is by no sports, here is an ideal costume. It nucleus of a furore protective forest, tion of the two hands to each other dish of newly baked tarts. T31s work in connection • with drifting at the moment he desired to he called. respondent, with a warped idea of j „What aro you doing, Bobby?" she! start nn a voyage without it, if It cosi means easy, but to keep cool in the features the sleeveless jacket which is sands has been most interesting, es his duties, ever attends a magistrates'' a dollar a bottle, heat of a modern engagement is hard- so popular this season for sports wear•' pecially where the sand had coalmen- ,The ignorant native steward, who court and essays to make jests with asked sharply, mother." I CAPT. F. R. DPuSJARDIN. er still. At first fear makes one, McCall Pattern No, 84b8, Misses' cod to invade a village, burying the could not tell time and could not learn human derelicts as his subjects, a line{ "I was just wondering, perspire and tremble. It is toaster Dress. In 4 sizes, 14 to 20 Years•' houses in the aur orbs, Wattle' Fences : to, was yet sufficiently observant to of endeavor that h subjects with. "Wondering? You haven't touch- Schr. Starke, St. Andre, Kan -tours -slur. 1] The place and remember the calls correct g d witnes ' ed those tarts, I hope?" Iwas just wondering if they're nice ® SIC 1.4 Africa." After many months of as- ' sault, which ended only in mounds of Roman dead under the fatal walls,the besiegers suddsnly approached under enormous armored tanks shaped like tortoises. Safe beneath these huge wheeled shields, the Roman soldiery labored to breach the walls, unmind- ful of the rocks, spears, boiling water and oil, molten lead and liquid fire 1 which the desperate Carthagenians ,poured on them. Before that ancient siege was ended the Romans devised super -tanks -- genuine land - dread- noughts. It will be worth while tie watch for some such development thiel, year, i r mora', Linment Cures. Distemper. i No Use For Them The Irishman came home beaming. 1 "Bridget," said he, "Oleve got a job'P "Glory bel" said Bridget, who was tired of supporting the family. "I shall want a new suit," said Mur- phy then. "An' yez can pawn me nightshirts to get it." "Your nightshirts!" gasped Bridget. "Shure," said Pat. "An' what for should I be wanting them when I've I got a job as night watchman, and can i only sleep in the daytime?" s destroying them completely. In he had not dined look away during The country correspondent, at, and tan lotion, and complexion beauti • whose expense er' er small cost. the Cevennes and Pyrenees districts "For sure him clock trabbed slow, in France 8,000,000 acres of farm land 'massa," he explained. "But s'A°se man affects to make merry, has his I Your grocer has the lemons and any were destroyed by floods, and a huge him stop go'valkce, walkee? S'pose own place in the world to fill. Lr his; drug store or toilet counter will sup sum of money had to be spent by the ?„ limited sphere he is just as much of a ply three ounces of orchard white for him go jump, jump I community builder as the funny man a few cents. ;vlassage this sweetly government In reclaiming them. Upon a river steamer in Africa M Mar K g y in the urban centres He records the. fragrant lotion into the face, nee happen around him arms and �Vliare Porosis are removed in sandy Kingsley the English ex- � 'est hands each day and see how country the wind soon stripe the and plorer once heard other passengers, events that app of rite meagre d for mil cover and giving directions to the native stew- as the cit journalist does, and any- freckles and blemishes disappear and carries the sand for miles over the nd in the adjoiningmain saloon: thing— someone whose name escapes stow clear, soft and white the shin surrounding country, converting it in- ,.You savvy six o'clock? When (us has said that Providence is not' becomes. Yee! It is harmless. d to allow to happen, no news Miss y to a desert. This happened along the themt west coast of Frauce, and millions long aim catch them place, and 1 0o prou t arm catch them place you I print them short t Worth It? time," paper should be too proud top . An old friend o to writer, . nor . ut foto I Was I were spent to arrest the devastation,' call me m the morning Jam tarts unlimited was little Bob-, i d P tl it Senor Don . An interval of silence, and then � Print. by's idea of heaven; but since war i I Ricardo spent his iu, lifa Spanish Forester, In many respects the country cor-;flour came in and fat was scarce war Afinard's Liniment Co., Limited. another u savvy five o'clock? , 'When I re ondent can give the eity reporter • hadn't been quite f fond of them as Gentlemen., I have used bIIN- has spent his pe in this work of „ P stemming torrents, replanting denud- _ And so it went or editor lessons in the ethics and the AIM'S LINIMENT on my vessel and ed mountain slopes, often carrying them long an,mnassenaer had pointed morality of the profession. He cleats' beftolother came into the kitchen one 1n my family for years, and for the vith the virtues rather than with the bb azfng at a every -day ills and accidents of life I ible. Death seems inevita t e. Price, 20 cents, had first to be built, and between •he never of them mixed, danger is unknown, and is magnified a These patterns may be obtained these pines were planted, and when ; lY; g theesandfold by the imagination, One from your local McCall dealer, �r the sand had piled tip against the i e chortling overt a sa scenes sed in an insane asylum or in 0. "Not yet, mother; said Bobby. "I CAS-' ualty hospital. The country coltespondeitt describ- enough to be whipped for. ing in his own way a service in a potato Rugs church at the crossroads, or a meet- p grow of potato growers and a ing of the Epworth League, is doing! A infinitely more to develop a sturdy I seedsman were discussing the damage' flashes o me im e, the They were rev brand of national character than is the which had been done by potato bugs the explosions, nor the smoke are about the whale in the third grade and i arrogant occupant of the city sanctum last season. real danger; but they accompany the the teacher was anxious to see how Northern to Lance St. John, m the I § grinding out blood -curdling and cut-; The pests ate my whole crop in danger, and at first one is attacked}as Wroth they had remembered. Peg. al Transcontinental the e Winni- ante ! —° icle-lifting homilies on the political; two weeks," said one grower. "They all theca at once. Soon, ho "What do we do with whalebones?" peg, and see the blackened waste outlook or articles setting the differ- ate mine in two day:; said a second, s' one learns to discriminate, The askacl the teacher. I Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns ar i• armless and the whistling which should be ono of our greatest any hind of a corn, can lta.miesely be Ont religious sects at war "and then roosted on the trees to see smoke s h There was a long silence, thea one with h otherflattering himself tate if I'd plant more." of the shells indicates in what direc- small boy raised his hand. makes no attempts to analyze it. The from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., rest ilea of fence this had to be J ° —0�°—O bursting of the shells and their acrid Toronto, Dept. W. 8 smoke, together with the shrapnel, are the main causes of the first feel -I ' ing of terror. And yet neither the{ Where to Put Whalebones j f l' 't nor the noise of Tl iewing the lesson raised to prevent the little trees from being buried before they could fulfil , their function. Nor do we have to go ! so far afield to see the results of axe and fire. Travel west on the C.P.R.I through Ontario; take the Canadian ANY CORN LIFTS OUT, DOESN'T HURT A BIT! No foollshner-I Lift your corns and calluses off with fingers —It's Ilke magic! inn they are coming. One no longer "Well, what do we do with whale - crouches clown unnecessarily, and only bones?" seeps shelter Icnowingly, when it is "W© put 'em on the sides of our imperative to do so. Danger no nates," he said. longer masters, but is mastered. This A is the great difference. "The actual organization of the artillery also stimulates a gunner's courage. The links existing between the seven men among themselves, and between each at them turd the gun, render any faint-heartedness mere ob- vious, and the shame it bears ointts wake more crushing. One gunners who stick resolutely and calmly to their posts are often able to inspire the whole detachment'vith courage." A. Canting Record. Procure a well -bound, ten -cent note book. Cut pictures of vegetables and fruits from a seed catalogue or mag- azine and paste a border of these upon the cover. If the cover is not plain, it can easily be removed and a new cover, made of gray or brown mount- ing paper, put in its place. Purchase a good gaulity lead peneil with a lit- tle ring in the top alai fasten this with a cord of reasonable length to the back of the book. Put a knot in the cord so that utero will be plenty oe "tether" with which to write and yet the pencil will always be firmly fasts ened in place. Now, divide the pages, allowing a dozen' .far fruits, another dozen for vegetables, half a dozen for potted and canned meats, half a dozen ,tor soups, half n dozen for jellies and con- se'rves, half a dozen for pickles, etc. Cut cut some more Pictures and matte a little heading for each department. The book will be a valuable guide for the housewife to consult, to discover 'tow many cans of peaches or mustard pjrirlrs she had, whether there was en- ough m• she could have used more if she had had them, As a rule, eau. runt, Is more oreless guess work, and guess work never rneltes for economy tor} eomeorvatipm b� d {f rine!? ie+= 1 �t6�� ®f the finest teachers of food values - is pizigits It's britilrr�`ul of N5l,UiAiShPitellft Combines nice- ly with other foods and is Delidous Reoluires lithe milk or cream No Sugar and there's no waste Givg it A" est. Canada Feed 2-020. d Idcenae tourist attractions. On the Lievre lifted right out with the few d if you w t each River thyro is a large tract of tout- apply upon the cora a few drops of while that he is the one man chosen "All that is very rernarknble," said f av try where the hills are of white freezone, saye a Cincinnati authority. quartz, Fire ties passed over it and For little cost one can get a small the rain has washed away the burnt bottle of freezone at any drug store, soil, and to -day seen In summer, Front ! which will positively rid one's feet of a. distance, they look like snow-capped • every corn or callus without pain. scales. There is another hill of this This simple tires dries the ntoul@lit character at Rivfere a Pierre June - tion, on the Q. and le St. J. R. R, At lit is applied and does not even irri- Lachute, Que., and along the lino of tate the aurrounding skin while ap- the C.P.R., near Berthier Junction 'plying it or afterwards. may be seen the drifting sands which I This announcement will interest have swept over several square miles many of our readers, If your drug - of once fertile country, turning it into gist hasn't any freezone tell him to a desert. Fortunately, our progres-'surely get a entail bottle for you from sive Minister of Lands and Forests, his wholueale drug house, the Hon. Jules Allard, through his chief forester, Mr. G. C, Piche, has A Song of the Air begun the work of checking this mon- i This is the song of the Plane— ace, and at Lachute has planted a � The creaking, shrieking plane, Plane— large area with beech, grass, and ! The throbbing, sobbing plane, young trees to hold back the devour- ing sand. TELLING THE TIME And the moaning, groaning wires— The engine ---missing again! One cylinder ey, hol for the Mum! ]:Icy, Ilow Our African Soldiers Watched This is the setts of the Man— the Hands Go Round The driving, striving man, France has many black fighting The chosen, frozen mail— men from Senegal in the field; nor are The pilot, the man at tho wheel, they the only troops recruited from Whose limit is all that he can, savage or semisavage races that are And beyond, if the need is real! engaged in the great conflict. A Hey, hol for tho Mani young British officer found himself ono night. by a mischance to his motor This is the song of the Gun— cycle, un cycle, stranded by the wayside fur The muttering, stuttering gum, from the destination he must reach The maddening, gladdening gun --- at dawn. and with only a little group That chucklea with evil glee of negro strugglers anywhere in! At the lest, long drive of the Hun, sight. Ho 'Ares very tired, having had' With its end in (sterility! Hey, hol for the Gut! This in the song of the Air— The lifting, drifting air, The eddying, steadying air, The wine of its limitless space— no sleep for many houre. One of the Africans tallied the pidgin English of a coast town, and this man informed him that some motor lorries would be coming along emu, upon which it would be possible to get a lift. "Soon," in the mouth of an African May it nerve us at last to Clare is an elastic term; but tho captain! Even death with undaunted face! thought he could afford to wait an l Hey, hot for the Airl hour before setting forward on foot I --'Observer, Royal flying Corps. in search of conte other means of 1ltivara' i Llututont t7nraa Diuhtnoria transportation. Meanwhile, he want IScupht Diphtheria. $ ed a trap --wanted it desperately,— D. 7 for the duty o s� from social and religious degeneracy,' potato bugs examining the books to becoming weary un-' our store about a week before plant- sea, sang ing his country the seedsman, "but I save a couple of Two Legs or Four Anna, aged five, was drawing a pic- ture of her sister's beau. She worked very earnestly, stopping every few minutes to compare her work with the original. Finally she shook her head sadly. I don't like it much," she com- mented. "'Tisn't much like you. I guess I'll put a tail on it and call it a dog." Was Luther a musician? Yes, and he ranked music next to Theology. The people are to death of the arroganre of the big ing time to see who had bought party papers that, blind and often, seed. morally halt themselves, are still as- sinning Liniment cocoa cotaa, ata suming to lead the world and to digi- tate to men and women as to how MONEY ORDERS. they shall worship and for whom they I A. Dominion Express Money Order ehall vote. The people refuse to be for five dollars coats throe cents. coerced. They have long since brok-I — en the party leading strings and are, Handkerchiefs able not only to think for themselves but to find their way around alone. I If the handkerchiefs are yellow, the Their is talk of newspaper changes treason is that they have not been. in the big as well as in the smaller properly washed. To overcome this cities. But this talk is not in the lineyellow color, put the handkerchiefs in of emalgamatfon. The union of two cold water in which there is kerosene, rapidly partisan papers would not im about one teaspoonful to a quart and prove conditions, but rather increase a shaving of good lamuiry soap. Let the opportunities for 'working econ- the handkerchiefs boil in this about otitic mischief, What the people want three hours. Take them out, dry in in the newspaper of to -day is a bro:>d- the sun, and they will be snowy er spirit in political and every other white. This treatment will apply to any linen o° white clothing. style of dtscussion, a press that isnot controlled by any faction or tluottl- ed by a particular interest, a press etiaartes Liniment Cures Garget in Cows that will recognize the reading pub- German Dog Whips as composed of 50 many individuals who cannot be led around and made to'"'That the German oiTu ars r tarried --hit; rt. N::hint, t„ accenttmte lingstay �„� s......, �..- .. --. journalistic - ---.- dictator. their com mull• -_given in a soar and bullying tone-- to the soldier. , is one of the many intimate points noted by Captain A. Radclyfre Dugmore in his book,"When the Somme Ran Red," just published by Doran Company. Falling into the enemy's hands, Cap- tain Dugmore escapes, on rather is let go,and then the famous camera hunt-, er of African lions gets permission to go at once into the thick of the fray , at Alost and take pictures of the Ger- ratan Army in Action Ili:; camera is, spotted and he is greeted with a' shower of "German hail." Ile lisek, ahnost made his oseapo•when he was wounded in the leg by n shrapnel' splinter. As an eye witness Captain j Dugmore lays great stress on the wonderful markesmanship of the Bel- gian soldiers. Viei EEKLF NEWSFAP.ER FOR SALD V in New Ontario. Owner going to France. Will sell 42,060. 'vorth cineole that amount. Apply S. A„ c/o Wilson Publishing Co.. Limited. 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