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The Brussels Post, 1914-10-1, Page 3esetaaelalaeltallialeatalaseeekaaatattaa Young Folks An Enemy at Twin Maple Lan. Twin Maple Inn was the name Yen to the birds' food tray that Tunny and Billy had helped Uncle Den hang in the tree, The boya had kept it well filled •with scraps And seed mixtures for they liked to see the ;birds come and help them- selves. One morning, while they doted m the door, watching for something to happen, there came a rush of great wings, a screaming of terri- fied sparrows, and a violent flight over their heads. One sparrow, chased by a large bird, flew' to one side. The boys had barely time to see the hawk's feet strike and clutch his victim; with no slowing of speed, the hawk flew over the meadows into the woods beyond. It happened so quickly that the boys could hardly 'believe it. and they were greatly excited. "What was it—did you hear it?" "What was the big bird? He grabbed the sparrow with his feet!" exclaimed Bunny, in one breath. "It was .a Cooper's hawk," said their uncle. "Did you notice that his tail was round2 "Because he is 80 bold, Cooper's hawk is the most dangerous enemy of little birds as well as of chick- ens and hens. That hawk could not have been fifteen feet from my head when he flew over as. I have heard stories of hawks swooping down into a hen yard and seizing a hen from under a farmer's hand, and getting away with it. "That hawk was keen I He must have skirted the edge of the woods, and sneaked across to the apple tree in front of our house, and then made a sudden dash round the cor- ner nearest to us, so we had no time to spy him out and prevent him from seizing his prey." Bunny was silent for a few mo- ments, and then asked, "Is this the hawk that we used to hear cry- ing last summer in the wood lot2" "No, that was ti smaller bird, the sharp -shinned hawk. He looks like the bigger one when he is up in the air, but the end of his tail is square." When the boys walked down the lane, they saw the frightened spar- rows huddled together under brush piles or the thick branches of low slhru'bs. They did not fly out and away even when Bunny and Billy stopped to look at them. Youth's Companion. A VICTIM. OF WARS. Germans Till the Son as,Tlhey Did the Father., 1Vha.t is surely one of the most poignant tragedies possible to ima- gine is sent by a Dutch eorneepon- dent. The truth of the story ie vouched for by Lambert'e Hurrel- brinck, of MYlaastricht, Holland. "During the F rano-German War of 1870," he says, "the Germans, by their invasion of Alsace, spread un- told miseries among the villagers whose properties they claimed. A certain well-to-do farmer named Hauff .beeetate to much enraged by the plunder of his well -stocked Laren that he shot ,clead two Gelman sol- diers. He was immediately taken outside his house and executed.. In .vain his wife begged for hie life. She ,afterward found their little boy crying on the dead body of his father. "'Heather,' the child. said, when I grow up I ,shall revenge father and shoot Germans.' "The widow, finding further' abode in Alsace under German rule unbearable, esnigraited to Belgium, and settled near wise, where she, took another farm, "Her boy became a man, the far thea of a family, including two boys, and for forty-two years his mother shared with him and • her grandsons happy family life at Vise, Thencamethe present war, and two weeks ago. the German troops ar rived i'n Vise. '..I1he Belgian inhabitants lied just before destroyed a bridge over the Meuse. For :this they were se- verely punished by des±vuotioe of their houses, Folmar Haeff wit- nessed .these outrages and, beside himself with distress and remember- ing this promise over his father's body, shot one German invader dam; • 4b o ,ee a slumber of sol- diers seeved hien ,and dragged else from his house his two sons. "All three were planed against a wall and summarily executed. "`Itt was thus the fate of the poor widow to see 'her husband, her son and her two grandson shot before her eyes," His Feet Were Olean. Billy, the grocer's boy, was lum- boring up the kitchen stairs at Mrs. Clal ko s, with. his arias filled with parcels. "Boy," called out Mrs, Clarice, somewhat sharply from above, "ars, yotn' feet clean?" "3}ea'h," was the prompt reply, as he continued climbing the stairs, "it's only s e; shoes that's dirty." .............................. . Sciatica Vanishes Instantiy If Nerviline Is Used CAN YOU0BEAT THIS CASE? No ordinary liniment will even re- lieve Sciatica, Nothing but the most powerful kind of a remedy can pone• trate through the tissues and finally reach the Sciatic Nerve. You can al. ways depend on the old-time "Norvi. line," Nothing made today is as good for Sciatica as Nerviline was when first produced, about forty years ago.. All this time the sante old "Nerviline" has been curing Sciatica, Lumbago, Rheumatism, and is considered to be without an equal in relieving pain or soreness anywhere, "'Nerviline' couldn't be made stronger or better," writes James E. l,dwards. "The way it cures Sciatica is to me simply a miracle, Per years 1 suffered fright - Italy, I ruined my stomach with in- ternal dosing. x rubbed in gallons of oils and liniments—none were strong enough. One good rubbing with Ner- viline relieved. I kept on rubbing and shortly was cured. My fattier cured rheumatism in his right arm and mother cured herself of chronic lum- bago with Nerviline. Our family sim- ply swears by Nerviline and we are never without a 50c. family size bot- tle In our home. We find that for ex- ternal pain, for coughs, colds, earache, such minor ills it is a veritable family physician." dt BROKE IN THE WARS. How Wounded Aro Cared for in Present -Day Battles. The proper care of the wounded in war is a comparatively modern innomation, dating from the time of the Crimea. Before that things welye left pretty much to ollance. First aid was unknown. Those bad- ly hurt were often left to die or re- cover as best they might. Its nucleus, so to speak, is the advanced field -hospital. A modern battle may extend over a front of thirty of forty miles, or even more upon 000asiom. All along behind this far-flung line, directly in rear of the advanced infantry, and close to the great guns, the advanced field-lwepilais are to be found. One field -hospital of this descrip- tion is usually attached to each bri- gade, going forward with it, as the case may be. It consists, es a gen- eral rule, of a small central mar- quee, constituting a combined oper- ating room and dressing station, with a number of bell tents around it, capable of accommodating fifty to one hundred men. Above each tent floats the Red Cross flag of Geneva. Four or five or more miles in the rear, out of the enemy's fire, are the stationary field hospitals, as they are called, to which the ad- vanced field hospitals act as feed- ers. They are much the tame in ap- pearance as the • others, but the operating marquees are larger and more commodious, and the number of bell tents is far greater. It is when a wounded soldier is passed down from the advanced field hospital that he first tomes in contract with the nursing sisters. Women are not allowed to servo with the advanced field hospitals, their place there being taken by male orderlies. A wounded man's stay in the ad- vanced field -hospital is usually reckoned by ]tours only, while he may remain in the .stationary field hospital for two or three days, or a week. Sooner or latter, however, he is sent down the line of communication to the base hospital, there to re- edier or die, as fate, and the na- ture of hie wounds, may direct. If permanently disabled, he is inva- lided home. Of coulee, the woe -aided man in one of these establishments presents Here's a Happy Hunch== Post Toasties and cream for breakfast, lunch or sup- per. Choice white Indian Corn, rolled into thin flakes, and toasted to a rich golden brown—delicious 1 This food comes in sealed packages, always fresh, crisp and sweet; and ready to serve at a moment's no- tice. Post Toasties make a mighty satisfactory dish at any time, —sold by grocers. Cana NatiT'oettlm Cereal; Co,, Ltd., Windsor, Ont.. IMPERIAL GUARDS REPOR'TIZD ANNIHILATED ECZE �s RASHE5 The picture shows the crack German regiment when on review a raw lemonths ago by the Kaiser. A despatch printed by the London News ars that the regiment under the Crown Prince Frederick William, declining to surrender, were annihilated byBritish , rltish and French near Paris. a, very different spectacle from what he does when the stretcher-bearers first bring him in to the advanced field -hospital in rear 'of the fighting line. In the one case he is sur- rounded by every comfort; in the other he is dazed, sick, and help- less. He may have been given first aid, or he may have not. It all de- pends. In any ease, it will be of a very rough-and-ready description. In the British Army, during the last Boer War, the favorite method of improvising a field dressing was to first clap a handful of shag tobacco over the wound in order to check the bleeding, and then bind it up with the tape of A. puttee. It sounds rather uninviting, but it worked well in practice, the nicotine acting as a coarse kind of antisep- tic. And it had this one great ad- vantage in the eyes of poor, pa- tient, suffering Tommy .Atkins; he was able later on to dry and smoke the tobacco. THE BEST MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES Baby's Own Tablets are the best medicine for little ones. They are guaranteed by a government ana- lyst to be absolwtely safe and never fail to cure constipation, colic, colds and simple fevers by regulat- ing the bowels. Concerning them Hrs. S. Shannon, Urney, N.S., writes: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets for mytwo children and think they are lush what little ones need. I would not be withoutthem." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail a,b 25 cents a box frown The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. A TI8B'NCIIES FILLED WI'1'H DEAD Line of Dead Germans Stood With Rifles to Shoulder's. "It was as though some blight from heaven' had descended upon the German ranks, smothering them in an embraee'of death," declared a member of the American branch of the Red Crows, who returned to Paris after a visit to thebattlefield near Meaux. He had gone with an ambulance to collect wounded sol- diers, and thus desenibes the scenes which met his eyes: "I caw trenches filled with Ger- man dead, just as they ;had been loft by the French guns, I•t was not so_ much the mere sight of death that was so appalling; it was the outlandish postures of these rigid corpses and the look upon the faces. "Since the angel of death passed above the camp of the Philistines I am sure nothing like it has been seen. It was as though sere blight from heaven had descended upon the German ranks, 'smothering them in an embrace of death. "Dawn was just breaking as I came upon the trenches where the fighting had been broodiest, the grey light rested upon a ghost-like silent company. Cinders of corpses with rigid arms and legs protruding filled the bottom. Along the rim, with rifle to shoulder and head bent along the barrel, stood a line of dead. They had died as they stood upon the firing line and their bodies were held in en upright position by the bodies behind and around them. "Ib was a ghastly sight. Upon the daces of many were no expects. stone of fright or horror, Except for the glaze of dearth in the eyes, one would not have guessed that their souls had pasted the boundary of eternity. Never have. 1•'aeon any- thing so terrible es than oreot, Bi- ter) t i -lent company of still figures in the chill: dawn with the ,quiet of a fresh, early day all about, DOUBLE TRACKING C.P.B. The East Will Be Similarly Treated As the West. While the vast enterprise of double tracking the entire Canadian Pacific system is one that cannot, in the nature of the case, be fully realized for ,years, yet when it is stated that there will be shortly 1,095 miles of double track between Port Arthur and Calgary, leaving gaps of only something like 185 miles—one gets a realizing notion of, the work involved, of great dial- tante covered and of the courage and persistence involved in this large and notable undertaking of duplicating the whole system, whichcomprises some 13,000 miles of track. Of course the chief con- sideration is the West, whose ra- pid development called for this new policy; but the East will be simi- larly treated in time, especially the lines which connect large cen- tres of population, and promise bigger business. The cost will be so enormous as to baffle exact fig- ures at the moment; the double 'tracking, too will be built in a vast. ly different way from the original railway, which was put through in a tremendous hurry. The present double tracking will offer a finish- ed railway, in every respect both as regards the weight of rails, the strength of bridges, and the per- fection of roadbed. Thus applied, the new policy will work out for immediate return. 0 Puzzled the Lawyer. Occasionally in court proceed- ings which some reporter is trying to get into the record some witted will insist on simply shaking his head in answer to questions pub to him by the attorney. There was present such a witness at a hearing recently 'held in the county of L.— . Again and again the attorney was obliged to repeat the answer for the .benefit of the of- ficial court reporter. Presently the patience of the attorney gave out. "Please answer that question," he said. "Why don't you answer the question 7" "I did answer," was the retort of the injured witness. "I shook my head," "Yes," assented the quick-wit- ted attorney for the defence. "I heard it rattle and so did the court reporter; but be doesn't know whether you shook it up and down or sidewise," Absent -Minded John. "John, I'd like to have you wake me at 5 to -morrow morning." "Very well, sir; all you've got to do is to ring, air." Intercourse with persons of de - aided virtue and excellence is of great importance in the formation of a good character. Sone people prune their genea- logical trees by cutting their poor relations. O. IS;ii'l `I Use C{TICI s SO 11 MED The itching, bt rning, suffering and loss of sleep caused by eczemas, rashes and irritations of the skin and scalp are at once relieved and permanent skin health restored in most cases by warm baths with Cuticura: Soap followed by gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment. Cuticura Soap and Ointment aro sold throughout the wend. A liberal sample of each, 5111, 52 -pogo booklet on the ,'aro and treatment of the sklnnad Beale, sent posutree. Addreos Potter Drug & Chore. Corp., Dept. 1251, Boston, U.S.A. PRODIGIOUS WEALTH. All Countries Are Paying Tribute to Great Britain. The Chancellor of the British Ex- chequer recognizes that money is the essential thing in carrying on war suocessfully. The wealth of Great Britain is in the aggregate prodigious. It is in fact practically inexhaustible, and although the oost of the present war will snake great holes in it, and capital will be much in demand to replace present losses, yet its earnings, even under such circumstances as the present, are so large that there will continue to be a large surplus over, available for investment in Canada. It must be remembered that industry and production, which will bo mostly af- fected by the. present war, do not represent the total investment power of a country .like Great Bri- tain. An immense amount of Great Bripain'a wealth is among classes who have inherited it, who live on the proceeds of their invest- ments and steadily add to them, and who are in many ways unaffecbed by the fluctuations of industry and production, or but slightly affected. These classes are directly affected most by higher taxation and the higher oast of living generally. They get back on this by insisting upon a higher return from their invest- ments, which they can obtain in Canada. A11 countries are paying tribute to Great Britain in gold or in produce for the huge rums they have borrowed from her. Are Your Feet Calloused? Easy to remora lumps by applying Put. oar's Corn and Wart Extractor. This purely vegetable remedy acts painlessly and is guaranteed. Ineiet on "Putnam's" only, 25c. per bottle.h LITE BRITISH EQUIPMENT. French Have Great Admiration for Commissariat. The special cos'reepondent of the Paris Temps in Belgium, M. Tillie - beak Sisson, is greatly impressed by the equipment of the British troops, which he finds highly prac- tioal. He remarks that there is no distinction, except by markt in- visible at a few yards' distance, be- tween the uniform of the officers and men. He marvels at the method and calm shown in provisioning the troops at the front. The commas- eariat is really the point that ap- poem to have Blade the greatest im- pression 'upon him after the equip- ment. An interminable line of cov- ered carts and lorries follow the army on the march, and the quan- tity and variety of food carried ap- pears to him. astonishing. There is compressed hay for the animals, oases of tea, oases of cocoa, oases of sugar, boxes of tanned meat and vegetables, and isnniense jam pots a foot high, • When the camping ground is reached everything is really, and in a few minutes the men aro able to attack a hot heal. The correspondent also praises his own commisssrl ib arrangements, The familiar Paxis omnibuses with. the designation boards Madeleine- Bastil.le, Clicky-Odeaon, Trooadero- Garo do 1'Kst, or the delivery vans of the groat Paris shops, rumble to the front with immense chocks of meat and provisions. On one point, he says, he wishes the French oflii- ecte would iunitate the English, and that is in their treatment of spies.' It is false humanity, he says, not to shoot the spy when he is caught red - heeded, since 11e' may. begin 'again on the morrow, and his activity natty rost hundreds of lives. Maind's LinimentBelievesNeuralgia. l'H1lI.l, BACKS IN BELGIUM. Racial Differences Are Obliterated When Notion is Threatened. Belgium, which proved oo grave a stumbling block to 'the advance of the Germans, is a land of three peoples --- the French-speaking na- • tives, chiefly of Celtic blood; the Flemings or Flamands, a Teutonic people speaking a language that, in its literary form, is nearly one with the written Dutch, and the Walloons, another Celtic people, descended of the Gallic Belgae, whom Caesar declared the bravest of all the Gauls. A line drawn ,(roto Liege south of Brussels to Calais comes near to marking the bottudary between i reneh-speak- ing and Flemish-speaking Belgium, though the upper classes all speak French, whether they speak Mere ish or nob, and there are Flemish- apeaking workingmen in nearly all parts of Belgium, some of whom, even in Brussels, hardly speak French at all, The Walloons, a mere handful, live in the Ardennes highlands, far from the coast, have their own language, and maintain a somewhat suspicious attitude to- w.artls both the French-speaking Belgians and the Flemings. As to the Flemings, although they are in a decided minority, they are in a most tenacious peo- ple, extremely conservative, ar- dently Catholic, and so devoted to their own language that they have been almost ready to go to war with their French-speaking fellow -citi- zens for the sake of preserving its official place in the Kingdom of Belgium. The war of to -day has obliterated for the time being in Belgium, as it has in Ireland, ra- cial differences that recently caus- ed mutual hatred. A Nova Scotia Case of IIIteI'est to III Woolen Halifax Sends Out a Message of Help to Many People. Halifax, N.S., Dec, 15.—When inter- viewed at her home at 194 Argyle St., Mrs. Haverstock was quite willing to talk of her peculiarly unfortunate case. "I was always 'blue' and depressed, felt weak, languid and utterly unfit for any work. My stomach was so disordered that I had no appetite. What I did eat disagreed. I suffered greatly from dizziness and sick head- ache and feared a nervous breakdown. Upon my druggist's recommendation. I used Dr. Hamilton's Pills. "I felt better at once. Every day I improved. In six weeks I was a well woman, cured completely after differ- ent physicians had failed to help me. It is for this reason that I strongly urge sufferers with 'stomach or diges- tive troubles to use Dr. Hamilton's Pills." Dr. Hamilton's Pills strengtnen the stomach, 'improve digestion, strength- en the nerves and restore debilitated systems to health. By cleansing the blood of long-standing impurities, by bringing the system to a high point of vigor, they effectually chase away weariness, depression and disease - Good for young or old, for men, for women, for children. All dealers sell Dr Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut. , 0 Cold Feet. During a marriage ceremony in Scotland recently the bridegroom looked extremely wretched, and he got so fidgety standing first on one foot and then on the other, that the "best man" decided he would find out what the trouble was. "What's up, Jock?" he whisper- ed. "Hae ye lost the ring 2" "No," answered the unhappy one, with a woebegone look "the ring's safe enough; but, man, I've lost ma enthusiasm." ACCEPTED NEILSON'S GIFT. 65,000 Chocolate Bars Going to Valcartier. Toronto, September 21.—William Neilson Limited, Toronto, offered to supply the Government with 65,000 bars of chocolate, for use 3a whatever manner the Government should choose. This offer has been gralbefully ac- cepted by the Minister of Militia, and the chocolate is to be shipped to Valcartier, and from there will bo reshipped with the Canadian Commissarialt to Europe. The sev- eral hundred members of the staff of William Neilson Limited, have also donated one full day's pay to the Canadian Red 'Cross Fund, Delicately flavoured— Highly concen- trated, SOUPS WHY WORRY 1 Choose your variety and ask your grocer for "Clark's". - razes POS SALE. N. W. DAWSON. Ninety Colborne streets Toronto. JLFAU, Stook Gjaln or 021ry�g rm. write. H. W. Dawson, Brampton. or int Colborne' St.. Toronto. IC. W. DAWSOS7, Colborne St., Toronro. • NEWSPAPERS POR BALE,. (1 COD WESKLY 1N L1VE TOWN IN 'LT York County. Stationery and Book Business In connection. Price ot;lY i4,000, Terms liberal. Wilson Publish- ing Company, 71 West Adelaide Streak. Toronto. SEED POTATOES. 110EW BRUNSWICK SLED POTATOES. - amount of the war, this fall will be probably the beet time to buy your seed potatoes for next year. Write me for price list of Varieties. 0. Fred Fawcett, Upper Sock ville, N.B. MLSOELLANEO V S1. ISI AI�CER, TUMORS, LUMPS, TOTO., '.J internal and external, cured with- out pain by our home treatment. Writs us before too late. Dr. Eckman Medical Co., Limped. Col'.1nOwood, Ont. They All Have It. The farmer lad who stood at gaze Had one ambition clear: 'Some day I'll quit this job, I bet, An' be an engineer!" The engineer half saw and thought, "Some time perhaps I'll be In luck myself. A little farm Is what looks good to me !" fdtnard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. Blooded Stock. "John," said the gentleman farmer. Yessir." "1 must get some of this blooded stock I read about. Remind me to order one of those Holstein horses and one of those Southdown. cows." Carterhall, NEd. Minard'e Liniment Co„ Limited. Dear Sirs,—While in the country last summer I was badly bitten by enosault- oes, so badly that I thought I would be disfigured far a couple of weeks. I was advised to try your Liniment to allay the irritation, and did so. The effect was more than I expected, a few applications completely curing the irritation, and pre: ventipa the 1 iter from becoming sore. BIINARD'S LINIa1ENTYours tris alsouly, a good article to keep off the mosgnitaie. W. A. V. 1t. Discretion. "Pop what do you mean by say- ing discretion is the better part of valor 2" "Generally speaking, my son, we mean that discretion can run . faster." teinard's Liniment for sale everywhere. Sonndetl Suspicious. "You think our confidential clerk should the watched 1" inquired Mr. Skids. "I've always thought he was above suspicion." "So did 1," admitted Mr. Skittles. -but the other day I' heard him say he could live con- fortwbly ou the salary we're paying him. Granulated' Eyelids. Eyes inflamed by expo sti re to Sun, Dust and rand esquickly relieved by Plotkin Eye Remedy. No Smarting, lust Eye Comfort. At Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Divine E) SalvelnTubes25c. For Book of iheEyeireettsle tiruggisto or Morino Eye Remedy Ce,t Chicago Irish railway guard (to a gentle- man smoking a tiger' in a 'non smoking compartment—"If yen want lo smoke in this compartment, sir, you must either ,put your cigar out or go into the next carriage." Mlmrd'o Lhhirnent Cures Dandruff. T'HOS. BARKER MODEL 12 A E 30 INCA ROUBLE Elm's VALVE AT SMALL COST RRRi, SHOT NM, STORE PRICE W.n" OUR PRICE ONLY How we comp to be able to sell this-. sun atS7,95, will not interest yen. Tho pleasant tact is tun main thing; and we are uo10 to use It to get acquainted, This gun retntisot S12,e0 to 31.4.54 according to locality. Bets ars t1, details; - • Doublebarreltaltc-downmodel, laminated east hermit -left barrel °belie bored. Rebound beck, 81thoo bolsi, circle hemmer, nitro -firing thin. Walnut- finish, pietol'grip smolt, with fanny butt plates.. 4 Charges prepaid if 11,18 ed. is sent with order Money back if you want it, ° - 'this is Inst a sample of monoysa0111' vainesln hardware, mole, hares Seeds, 1laekemitltn'_and'fat. me80 5it'trites in our DIG CATALOGUES SENT FREE ON PECLUEST,, THIe HzALLIDAV Colt PAN'V'a f,.IMl`Te , Successors to $tanley,ttnls & Co. Ault Ordtr Dept. Cstablished 1888. H 4Ml .`TOtf, CntvAO