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1 and eggs are placed entirely beyond
the reach of the average eltiaell. A
=Man filing some butter into a aeal-
IN
GrimANy esre'sface, thus opening th
Seizing bone radishes and carrots,
men and women, salesmen and am-
.
towers, bombarded each other with
Traring-WAIT ALL NIGHT FOR these missiles with such force that
, blood began to flow, Some of the
MARKET OPENING. I combatants danced a war dance amid
baskets of eggs. A horse, harnessed
' to a market wagon was deliberately
Aged Men and Women, as Well as smeared all over withibutter. Lump;
Children, Clamor for Soldiers' of high-priced butter were stuck by
the rioters in the hats of well-dressed
Leavings. women who had come to buy that
In spite of the official assurance of commodity, with cries that: 'If we
the German Government that it is are unable to eat butter and eggs
able to cope with all problems grow- neither shall you.'"
ing out of a shortage of food supplies,
neutral travellers declare that the
food crisis in Germany is most seri-
Breweries May Close.
Tho Muenchner Neust Naehriehten
ous, says the New York Sun. The says that the ruinous prices of malt
shortage in necessary articles of diet and other materials required in the
is acutely felt throughout the empire,
production of beer, "Inav compel the
brewers to close (Iowa, 'According to
and riot of grave proportions are
occuring in the leading cities. These the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, the Prue -
statements are borne out by the Ger-
man newspapers, The Berlin Vor-
waerts, the leading organ of the So-
cialists says: "In Berlin thousands of
shin Government is about to issue
comparative orders intended to stop
the waste of milk and cream. The I
Government also will take the butter I
market in hand.
persons are battling daily for a small' According to the Tageblatt, the
quantity of meat and lard. It is a commissariat arrangements to supply
battle when persons are compelled to the German troops at Gallipoli have
expend time and strength all through broken down hopelessly.
the damp, cold autumn night waiting 44
for a scrap of meat. Yet what hap- I•VHY GERMANY HATES US.
pens to the thousands who day by day —
wait outside the shops in the munici- The Rage of Them Is the Rage of the
pal centre for the sale of meat and Cornered Rat.
fat? Masses of people crush toge-
the Ayrshire (Scotland)
places. As soon ----------------- says
ther long before the opening hour of "We all know that Germany hates
WAR HAS ENDEARED THEM TO ,ITALIAN PEOPLE
FOOD
The King of Italy is at the front. The Queen is taking a very prominent part in hospital
Work and other patriotic effort. The young Prince Umberto recently was taken to the war zone,
where he was permitted to get a glimpse of war. The Royal Family of Italy has become more
endeared than ever to the people by their unselfish devotion to the interests of the nation.
opened they nearly tear the clothes Post. "It is Germany's way. She
off one another's backs in order to get does not do things by halves. She is
always in the right, She has been SHOT AND SHELL.
the coveted treasure.
able to persuade herself that she is
Pointed Facts and Figures Concern -
the lamb in the midst of the wolves,
that she has been forced to fight for j ing the Great War.
her very existence. Likewise, that. Blue was the color of the seaman's
what would be crimes and dire dress in the time of the Saxons.
offences if done by us, or by the The Union Jack, in its present form,
French or Russians, are virtues of was introduced in the year 1800.
the highest order and approven of the No presents of wine or spirits can
gods of the Teutons in the highest be accepted by soldiers at the front.
degree when they are done by hera The area of Japan is more than
As for her venom -spewing against double that of Great Britain and Ire -
Great Britain, we have got so used to land.
it as to be able to regard it on its; The majority of French soldiers there has developed the biggest pure -
higher side; as an evidence that Ger- have received new uniforms of stout ly agricultural exhibition in the Do -
many has substituted for any sense blue cloth.
of humor she ever had, self-righteous j The expenses of the Austrian army, At first only fat cattle were pro-
eufficiency h t etifiee everythingelse on a war footing, work out at $4,- .vided for. The classification has been
with which it comes into conflict. She 000,000 a day. enlarged from year to year, including
has torpedoed it, the same as she did. It has been suggested that mile- first sheep then swine, later a dairy
the Lusitania; bombed it, the same as hong cemetery shall be instituted test and poultry were added. In 1909,,
she did eome Londonere and some for those who die in the war. a horse show was added, and this year
London buildings. This lilted hate,A notice in a Glasgow office win- a start is being made with breeding
however, is not without its own res- dow runs: "Business as usual during sections :for cattle, sheep and swine.
son. It comes not only from the ' alteration of the map." The judging of poultry will be cern-
superiority of the British Fleet that piece of wood, or hide, placed under and prizes placed on the coops, so
that visitors will be able to note the
A Sample Episode.
"The crush at the corner of Eldena
and Them: streets is tremendous.
Here the municipality sells lard, fro-
zen meats and fresh mutton. Numer-
ous women, though repeatedly knock-
ed down and injured, wait for hours.
Thousands of would-be purchasers
mostly women, remain, some fainting
with fatigue, during the whole night,
braving the cold and drenching show-
ers. On the afternoon of Wednesday
numerous women assembled to be in
good time when they opened Thurs-
day morning, but they were driven
away by the police, and were not al-
lowed to assemble again until even-
ing. There were hundreds supplied
with stools and hassocks, which they
placed along the walls. Here they
waited the livelong night.
Thousands Not Served.
"The booths were opened and the
sale went on until ten o'clock. The
police let the people through the bar-
riers in batches. At 9.30 there were
about a hundred persons in the
booths.. No .one is allowed in after
these have been served. About a
thousand still remained outside. These
unfortunates had waited in vain all
night in the street. Numerous wo-
men told us that for three or four
nights they had been waiting patient-
ly for the doors to open, but could
never get forward in time. They had
to go home each time with empty bas-
kets. They complained of the unfair-
ness of the methods employed in dis-
tributing supplies to favorites.
Women Fall in Fainting Fits.
"In another district in the northern
part of Berlin, called the "Wedding
City," there also have been establish-
ed selling places for bacon, ham, fat
and lard. At one of these the crowds
gather early, though they are refused
entrance until 5 o'clock. Owing. to the
length of time they are obliged to
wait women collapse on the pavement
and fall in faiting fits. When the
doors are opened the multitude sim-
ply stampede to the stalls where the
fats and lard are stored, like a wild
mountain torrent. The other day it
was announced that the sale would
take place only at '1 o'clock in the
morning. Most of the women in the
district did not know of the change,
and assembled at the usual afternoon
hour. There were hundreds of them.
They would not go away although
they were told of the change in the
hour. Thus many waited all through
the night. In half an hour every
scrap of bacon and lard had disap-
peared from the market."
Leavings of Dinners.
The Taeglische Rundschau says:
"Can nothing be done to end the piti-
ful spectacle of which the Berlin mili-
tary depots and barracks are con-
stantly the scene? Towards noon,
day after day, a motley crowd assem-
bles at the doors composed, not of
soldiers, in field grey, but of shame-
faced drahmen and women, ancient,
wrinkled, shrivelled little grand-
mothers, old men, young women and
children armed with the most gro-
tesque receptacles. They wait pa-
tiently for an hem and a half, some-
times in a pelting rain, until the cook-
house sweeper appears carrying a
huge tin saucepan containing the leav-
ings of the soldiers' dinner, pieces of
fat meat and bone, bread, potatoes,
and table offal of all kinds, an un-
speakable, sloppy mess."
Butter and Egg Battles.
Further details of rioting at Aix-la-
Chapelle, at Cologne, Coblenz and
Treves are printed in the Itheinisthe
Westfalische Zeitung. We want no
more butter -and -egg battles such as
have disgraced the public market-
place in this ancient Rhenish city,"
the newspaper says, "notwithstanding
the provocation excessive prices of
food may cause the average house-
holder. At the present rates, butter table.
Ithein was the almost total extermina-
tion of all the well-to-do young men
in the city, whom he collected toge-
ther under a false pretense, and then
butchered in cold blood.
• ta
THE GUELPH WINTER FAIR.
The Largest Live Stock Show Held
In the Dominion.
From a small start in 1884 as a fat
stock show for Guelph and vicinity
a rope to prevent c a ng.
her oversee dominions to vanish like
mirages, but from the suffering that; All the parks and gardens and I prize winners. The dairy test will be I crowded harbor and dropped anchor
available open spaces of Vienna:re to completed and cards showing the re- I with the eyes of thousands riveted on
the lack of any foreign trade has
be laid out as vegetable gardens. suit posted on Monday. As each , her. No one had ever seen the like of
made chronic to her. Hamburg and
i Military obligations in Russia be- elan of horses, beef cattle, sheep and; her before. Sensation followed sen -
Bremen, gnat pre-war sea -ports, are
gins at the age of twenty, and is not swine is judged, cards showing thersation. Her crew began to bathe, ap-
closed and dead, the docks are idle,
concluded until the forty-third catalogue number and the prizej parently all possessed of the divine
the big steamers are laid up, and finally
awarded will be put up on the :tall I power of walking on water, for on
the rage of the cornered rat.' Count- year.
"In no crisis of recent times have or pen so that the ideals of tilt? judges !descending the ladder instead of
'the consequent rage of the people is
the public beerf so calm or free from can be followed by the visitors. MI1 plunging into the waves they walked crowded minutes of the:ether regions possibly for fear of nvealing Ins post -
less factories and workshops are ' the Shannon was strucby 158 shots, tion to the enemy, who were not many
• Panic," is the view of the London beef cattle and dairy cattle will be along than by the side of the moni-
police. stabled according to classes and I tor, and, having thus distributed her rival by 362; each vessel was yards away. Corporal Norman Fry
closed, the bread of the people is a
little flour a.nd a big compound of "shattered to splinters." Then, with had met a similar fate while going
potatoes, and it cannot be had with- Firing at its highest speed, a sheep and swine according to' breeds.'themselves, proceeded to dive in.
French battery would take thirteen The comfort of visitors has received "We set off in boats to investigate a follow me who can, "Broke leaped over to no
trench for rations.
out daily bread tickets, one for break -
minutes to cover every square yard considerable attention at the hands of this phenomenon. Just below the sur -1 "It is no cinch searching out ra-
fast one for lunch, one for dinner. aboard the Chesapeake.
Before the sweep and thrust of Bri- tions," continued the 'returned hero.
" the Fair Board, seating accommoda- fan the monitor's sides jut out some i
tish swords the American sailors fled "I will never forget the night that a
10 feet and then curve under,- form-
ing a platform, just washed by the panic-stricken, some leaping over- comrade and myself were tolled off to
boaed others rushing below, no man get them. We had to tramp for miles,
pausing in his terror to obey his dy- and you must never forget that the
ing captain's order: "Blow her up; mud was up over the ankles, and
blow her up." In thirteen minutes the every time you put yarn. foot down
battle VMS won, and the British flag you had a job extricating it again
was flying meiudly over America's from the fastness of mud."
Asked as to how he found German
marksmanship, Pte. Hennings told
how they would lie in the trenches
counting the shells as they ffew and
exploded overhead. On one occasion
HUGE NEW MONITORS.
British Craft Astonish the Turks at
Dardanelles.
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett describes in
the London Chronicle the new moni-
tors employed by the British at the
Dardanelles. He says:
"One afternoon there appeared at
the entrance of Kephalos harbor an
amazing looking object. She could
hardly be said to steam up, but ra-
ther wobbled into Port like a huge
goose primed for Michaelmas. It was
impossible to tell at the distance whe-
ther she was 'broadside on, shelving
her bows or her stern, for she seem-
ed to be quite round. Her high sides
held aloft an absolutely flat deck, on
which nothing showed except the fore-
most turret, from which projected two
guns of enormous girth and length;
while rising from her centre like a
giant of some Californian forest was
j a huge striped tripod bearing aloft a
i kind of oblong box.
"With great difficulty and steering
vilely, she made her way through the
, NO QUART= ASKIDD.
Belef Stery of Some Famous British
Sea Battles.
There are no more thrilling stories
hi naval history than those of great
sea duels, in which one ship has
fought another until, with shattered
bulwarks, the beaten vesSel's ensign
has fluttered down as signal of defeat.
Such ri grim battle was that of the
sturdy little frigetea Phoenix, with
France's proudest warship, Didon, one
August day in 1805. Thrice, the Di -
don poured in her shattering bread -
VERY FEW LEFT
OF PRINCESS PATS
"CAN COUNT THEM ON YOUR
FINGERS," SAYS ONE. ,
Private Hennings Describes the Life.
of the Troops in the Trenches
of Flanders.
sides before a single British gun Still suffering from the effects of
spoke; and it was only when the ships
the life in the trenches of Flanders,
swung parallel, a pistol -shot apart,
Pte. Oscar 3, Hennings is at his
that the gallant little Phoenix opened
home, 797 Manning Avenue, Toronto,
fire, and broadside answered broad -
and lie recounted to The Daily NOWII
side, sweeping the decks with a tor- , some of the thr.....ng
un exploits through
nado of destruction. 1 which he passed as a member of 'the
When, in the fury of conflict, the
first detachment of the PrincesPa-
two vessels crashed together and
tricias that left Canada early in the
neither could bring her guns to bear
on the other, the Phoenix's men drag-
ged their aftermost main -deck cannon
to the cabin, and, through an =pro -
can count them on your fingers. We
vised porthole, swept the Didon's deck left
in. an impression on the Germans
had a hard time of it, but I guess we
again and aga
raged fiercely until the Phoenix at
Thus, for half an hour the battle that will be lasting."
"What do you think of the - Ger-
mans?" he was asked.
"Man for man, they are not to be
compared to the British. ,They don't
like the bayenet, and they squeal like
sides again and poured in such a de- r
luge of shot that within a few min
utes, the Didon struck her flag in
acknowledgment that she was beaten
and could do no more.•
Equally gallant was the Arethusa, a
stumpy little British frigate, when
"There are very few left of the ori-
ginal Princess Pats," he said; "you
last broke away from the deadly em-
brace, a shattered wreck, her masts
gone, her decks swimming with
blood. Then she opened her broad -
pigs when'the British steel is bearing
down upon them:" --
Had Hard Time of It.
Pte. Hennings has had n most un-
fortunate time of it. Like thousands
of others, he contracted septic poison -
she tackled the Belle Poule, of twice. ing from standing in water waist -high
in -- •
her size and crew, off Brest, r
1778 - in the trenches, and doctors say that
For two hours the Arethusa hung it will be two years before he will be
doggedly to the heels of the French- i
i fully restored. His blood circulation'
man, who -vainly tried to shake her , is very wes,t,
1 and there are moments
off; fighting every yard of the way i when parts of his body become be -
until her masts tumbled a tangled numbed.
wreck on her deck. 1 Twelve operations in the hospitals
It was only when the Belle Paula of France and England have material -
struggled, like a broken -winged bird, ly assisted him, and it is possible that
into the shelter of a French harbor, he would have been further advanced
that the Arethusa cut away her
wreckage, and dragged herself re-
luctantly away from her prey.
As long as the British flag flies, the
fame of Captain Broke and his stout
along the road to recovery had he not
been stricken down with combined
attacks of pneumonia and acute bron-
chitis. He was far from being well
when he went into action, and more
little ship, Shannon, will be imperish-j than once fell out of the ranks and
able for their gallant victory over -the sought rest under a kindly straw
stack.
"What did you think of the first
night in the trenches?"
"Something I will never forget.
was standing all night long upon the
body of a dead Frenchman, who had
Chesapeake, America's finest war -ves-
sel, off Boston, in June, 1813. •
When Broke challenged the Chesa-
peake's captain to come out of harbor
and fight him "to the death," the
American skipper jumped at the invi-
tation, a smile of amusement at the fallen in the fierce fighting that pre-
Britisher's impudence on his lips. ceded our coming and which had
wrested the trenches from the Ger-
mans."
How Officers Died.
Pte. Hennings graphically described
Thirteen minutes after the first shots
were exchanged the British flag was
flying over his ship and he was a
dying man.
At the first leaping into flame of
the Shannon's side, her rival's deck the killing of Colonel Farquhar and
was shattered from stem to stern, a the wounding of Capt. Buller. He
hundred men were mown down, and had Seen Captain Nenton shot down
her boastful captain mortally wound- by his own men as he wandered by
ed. Then began suth an inferno as mistake in front of the trench lines.
the seas had seldom looked on. In six When challenged, he did not answer,
So every day the hate is nourished, wiin range.
and there is no chance of its being: French knapsacks •weigh 49 lb.,
whith is considerably less than their
lessened. Not yet awhile in any case.
weight during the Franco-German
When her needs have reached the 'in
extremis' point she will probably be War of 1870.
commandeered into a softer attitude , It is suggested that chewing -gum,
which allays thirst and wards off
towards us. When it comes to that—.
well, it will be time to stiffen om
, the pangs of hunger, is a suitable
backs and to weigh the real hate present for the troops.
against the compelled appeal to our Next Christmas is bound to me -
i duce far fewer novelties than usual,
feelings."
as a large number of these come
- from Austria and Germany.
SURVIVALS IN CLOTHES. King Albert of Belgium visits his
various troops at the front so contin-
Some Styles of Servants' Costumes ually that he has lately been living
Are Familiar to Us. day and night in his motor -car.
By a large number of interesting CITY THAT RULED KINGS.
survivals says the London Times in -
its report of Mr. Wilfred M. Webb's
lecture before the Ethnological So-
ciety, dress illustrates the innate con -
Alexander the Great's Frightful
Revenge.
In ancient days the impudent wit of
servatism of humamty. rer
Among these survivals is the hat- the young Gra Mr.
dandy
band, the original purpose of which ' was proverbial, says Mr. Arthur E.
was to hold a piece of cloth or linen P. Biome Weigall in "The Life and
around the head. A picture exists of Times of Cleopatra." That was espe-
an Egyptian figure dated 3500 B.C„ cially true in Alexa.ndria, whoSe peo-
the headgear of which consists of a ple were characterized by the Emper-
piece of linen, with a band tied round or Hadrian as "light, wavering, sedi- , they sent away from that city its
it that terminates in two tails at the tious, ram, and spiteful, although as most precious relic, the heart ' of
hack, A survival of that is to be a body wealthy and prosperous." Chopin, which had been kept in a cas-
found in the tails of the present-day I No sooner did a statesman assume ket in the Church of the Holy Cross
Scottish bonnet and of the sailor's , office or a king come to the throne there since 1849. It is now in a Place
cap. Again, the clocks on stockings ; than the wags of the city gave him of safety at Moscow. Shelley's heart
were originally a species of ornamen- I some scurrilous nickname that stuck was also preserved in a casket. When
ration put on to hide the seams where , to him throughout the remainder of the poet vvas drowned off Leghorn in
the stuff was joined together. The his life. Thus, Ptolemy IX. was called , 1822 his body was cremated by By -
"points" on the backs of gloves origi- "The Bloated," Ptolemy X., "The , rel,
1 Leigh Hunt and Trelawny, and and wonderful advantages, . . From about, then crept ha& to safety. ' i •
cover the seams in the glovea of early Piper." Seleucus they named "Pick- his heart rescued from the flames by
Hallman, devoid of high lights and ter tells, won the military (Toss for At that time Mr. Tsuboi was au
nally were strips of braid used to Vetch," and Ptolemy XIII., "The an aesthetic point of view the Eng- The same "fighting doctor," the let -1
• humanly steady on his feet, is not too of a German trench where its owner
shadows, coated with drab, and super- apprentice, He became ill of a dis-
tend died in 1320 his heart, too, was ease that baffled the skill of the ja-
times. the last-named.
snatching a pocketbook from the edge
Men of fashion, when they tired of When King Robert Bruee of Scot -
particular suits of clothes, have al- attractive. But for the wearing, tear -pipe, panese physicians, so his master call -
ways given them away to their ser- The pocketbook contained important ed in Doctor Hepburn, an American
had laid it while lighting'his
vents, and the practice has resulted instructions to German troops. The ! physician that lived in that district
in some styles of servants' costumes letter also tells of the youngest sub half a century ago. Doctor Hepburn
familiar to us in modern days. The prescribed milk, one bottle to be
groom, for example, represents a
tion having been provided for seven
hundred more people than in any
former year.
There will be 'judging of horses
every night from Saturday to Thurs-
day. In addition, on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings, there will be a
competition for officers' chargers and
a riding exhibition by the 29th Bat-
tery, which is stationed in Guelph. '
A series of lectures will be deliver-
ed each day of the show upon live
stock, poultry or seeds, and will be so
arranged that the visitors will be able
to bear the lecture and see all of the
judging.
A new feature this year is a judg-
ing competition between the different
counties of the province, each county
being represented by three men pick-
ed by the District Representative.
TREASURED HEARTS.
Wet of Chopin's Is Now in Place of
Safety in Moscow.
Before the Russians left Warsaw
waves. This is the mystery of these
craft in which the naval instructor
has concentrated his ingenuity to de-
feat the submarine. If a torpedo
strikes the monitor's side it will ex-
plode amid a variety of substances
which I must not mention, and the
hull of the vessel will escape injury.
These huge monitors carry naught but
two 14 -inch guns and some anti-air-
craft armament.
"The first time one of these moni-
tors went to the mouth of the Darda-
nelles she gave the old Turk a she&
of surprise. Her guns go off with a
terrible roar and carry more than
three-quarters of a ton of metal 15
miles."
4,
THE ENGLISH DESCRIBED.
Equipped with Victory and Terribly
Tenacious.
Mr. John Galsworthy, the novelist,
has a "diagnosis of the Englishman"
in the Fortnightly Review:
Mr. Galsworthy thinks that for the
Particular situation which the Eng-
lishman has now to face he is "terri-
bly well adapted,"
"He does not look into himself; lie
does not brood; he sees 110 further
forward than is necessary; and he
must have his joke. These are fearful
proudest warship.
DECORATED FOR THEFT.
Soldier Risked Life to Steal Orders Pieces of shrapnel had passed
of Enemy. through his cap and coat, but did
nothing more than caused a swelling
Some interesting sidelights on the on his head.
life in the trenches are given in a
letter to friends in Surrey, England,
by Dr. Charles E. Patter of Thornton
Heath, who is now with the forces Mud Was Everywhere.
in France. He writes in part: collonmte gmetorunpinfishoweweaAvaoknenteod ewxe-
plain. "We had settled in the mud,
"The senior captain is a doctor from , and it was necessary to dig some of
Brixton, who evidently prefers killing the men out. You can realize that
to curing, as he is a fighting man., we had some time looking a e
Having added the Heidelberg M.D. i shells."
to his his other diplomas he knows Ger-
man well enough to detect the locality
from which the owners of the voices in
the German trenches come.
'Many times he has crept out after
dark and crawling on his stomach
FEARED SPROUTING HORNS.
Fifty -Four Years Ago the Japanese
Avoided Milk.
The first Japanese to drink milk did
under the bathed wire entanglements
so with misgivmgs lest he sprout
he has reached the German trenches ,
horns like a cow. That was 64 years
lying under the parapet and listening'
The man that took that big
to their speech. Once, when discover- 1 ago,
chance is Mr. Esuboi, To -day he is
ed, he hurled a couple of bombe to
16 years old and absolutely free from
give them something else to think 1 - -
I '
led -fish Peddler," and in later times
Vespasian was named "Scullion."
When King Herod Agrippa passed
through the city on his way to his in- preserved in a casket It was given
Mg, slow, and dreadful business of
to his friend, Sir James Douglas, to
secure throne, these young Alexan- this war, the Englislunan—fighting of
be buried in jerusaleni. On his way
drians dressed up an unfortamat out to Palestine Sir James Douglas his own free will, unimaginative,
madman whom they had fond in theehumorous, competitive, practical, ne-
f ell, fighting against the Moors in
streets, put a paper crown upon his ver in extremes, a dumb, inveterate
Spain and as he fell he threw the
head and a teed in his band, and led optimist, and terribly tenacious—is
tl man of the beginning of the
gene
nineteenth century, and he still wears
the belt that ladies used to hold on by
-when riding behind on the pillion.
The footman, with plush breeches and
powdered hair, is a gentleman of the
time of George III.; the sheriff's
coachman, with full -skirted coat and
wig, is a gentleman of the time of
George IL; and the Lord Mayor's
coachman and suite are very fine
gentlemen of the time of George III.
In the twentieth century we hand on
our evening clothes to the waiters
who stand behind us at the dinner
him through the town hailing him as
King of the Jews; and that in spite
of the fact that Agrippa was the close
friend of Caligula, theft emperor.
Against Vespasian they told with de-
light the story of how ho had pestered
one of his friends for the payment of
a trifling loan of lx oboli, and some
one made up a song in which that fact
was recorded. They ridiculed Corti -
calla for chiming himself like Alex-
ander the Great, although his stature
was below the average; but in that
case they had not reckoned with their
man His frightful revenge upon
precious relic before him in the
battlefield, crying out, Now pass on-
ward as thou wort wont, and Douglas
will follow thee or die."
Tho heart was found next day by
Sir Simon Leigh, who brought it hack
to Scotland, where it was buried in
the Monastery of Melrose, Scotland.
One Point of VIM.
The One—I cah't understand why
old man Solomon was considered such
a wise guy when lie married 700 times,
The Other—Well, that's enough to
put any man wise.
equipped with victory."
A fresh youth—a spoiled man.
Bluejackets wear their "summer
rig" --white caps and singlets—from
May 1st to October 1st. During the
rest of the year blue caps and jerseys
are compulsory,
When, as frequently happens, there
are several men of the same name on
a naval ship, each is given a dis-
tinguishing number, as John Smith
(1), John Smith (2), and John Smith
(8).
in the writer's trench creeping to the
German lines and "capturing" a board
on which was written, "Warsaw is ta-
ken." All British troops are itching
Lor the word to go forward and long-
ing for the great push," the letter
concludes.
Unseemly Haste.
Joy Rider (atopped by rural con-
stable)—Haven't we got any rights
left in this country? Doesn't the
constitution guarantee us life, lib -
oily and the pursuit of happinese?
Constable—It don't guarantee no
man the pursuit of happiness at 00
miles an hour.
"taken" every morning. The poor
boy, believing that the growth ef
horns was inevitable, if one drank
cow's milk, begged his master not to
make him take the doctor's prescrip-
tiara but his frantic pleas were denied.
There was considerable difficulty
about fretting milk then because, as
there was no demand for milk—the
greater part of the population sltaring
the lioy's belief that its consumption
was sure to raise horns—there was no
dairy or milkmen, Filially Koino was
obtained from 0,. Japanese who cared
for a cow kept, by a foreigner.
Vain- out of the last nine Czars of
Ilursia have been aseassinated.