HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-6-1, Page 6CANADCANADIANS AT Toronto's Donation,
IANS This Canadian tent hospital cost
SALONIKI HOSPITAL the people of Toronto o22,000, and
some of the best surgeons and the
most expert physicians on the North
American Continent aro here in Salo-
niki with this twit. It seemed to me
that there was a ,specialist for every
human ailmentor for any possible
sort of a wound. Those doctors pass
about among the patients, each, et-
as tending to hie own particular cases,
and the latter part of every forenoon
is filled with this activity.
NOTED DOCTORS AND NURSES
DOING THEIR "BIT."
Surgeon Performing Delicate Oper
tion When Austrian Bombs
Fell Near Tent.
The London Daily Express has ti
following front its correspondent
.Saloniki:
Seventy-five girls from Czinad
standing among their hospital ten
on a little hill seven miles out fr
Salouiki,looking^into the sky; abov
them a circling Austrian aeroplan
the whistle of falling Austrian aer
plane shells; three terrific explosion
on the earth nearby; a heavy thu
of one shell that did not explode an
that would have )tilled a tcntful o
wounded men if it had—this was m
first glimpse of No. 4 Canadian Hospital. The Austrian killer saile
away. m
Lt the name•of God and huanit
why did he try to kill nurses and su
geons and sick and dying men? Yo
feel these things more when you se
them' yourself than when you rea
about them. In one of those tents a
• the time, not a hundred feet from
where an Austrian shell fell, a grea
surgeon from Canada, whose name i
known and honored among the sur
geons of Germany and Austria, wa
toiling with his knife on the vital
pf a young officer, using all the skil
and science that twenty centuries o
•study have afforded the art of sur
gory, and one of these Austrian
shells might have wiped out the
scene, actors and all.
Toronto Surgeon There.
You feel strongly about an incident
of tine sort, especially if you"are
marked to go on the operating table
yourself the next day. And also if
you are scheduled to spend a couple
of weeks in one of the tents lying
helpless until the surgeon's cuttings
have begun to heal.
You are'escortedto a tent by an
orderly who, you discover later, first
learned his business in Bellevue Hos-
pital in Nev York. A. sweet -facets
nurse meets you at the door of the
tent. Everywhere about you are mon
in uniform or in bed. They are ' all
British officers. Your entrance as a
civilian creates something of a furore,
for a man in civilian's clothes in these
days in Greece is an oddity worth at -
le
at How the Turkish People Honored the
Oonstitution.
IN LIBERTY'S NAME.
a
bs The ignorance of the Turkish
fro masses concerning political questions,
o says Sir Edwin Pears in "Forty
o. Years in Constantinople," is shown
a_ by certain incidents of the revolution
a of 1908. The heralds, or porters,
d in the towns, like the peasants in the
tl'country, when they heard that His
f , Majesty had sworn to be faithful to
Y the constitution, inquired what it was.
Was it a person? Was it a new
d caliph? And very few could give
any clear explanation. The word
y "liberty" and "equality"'meant some-
._ thing good, although they could not
e, have said what. To some they sign -
o ified general license.
d Two English friends of mine were
t motoring outside Smyrna when a
number of Turkish boys set upon them
tand flung stones at them. The Eng -
s lishmen gave chase and caught the
principal offenders. The eldest was
s asked why he had thrown stones.
s "Hurriet var," was the reply.
1: "There's liberty. We can do what
f we like now."
The English replied, "Hurriet var,
' and I am at liberty to give you a
t good thrashing, am I not?"w
The New French Shell Now on View in Paris.
This new shell, which is being shown at the French Ministry of Muni-
tions, is bigger even than the great 42 -cm. shell which so startled manyin
the earlier days of the war; the growth of the heavier monitions of war
from size to size is one of the features of an "artillery war." The shell
illustrated above is almost the height of a man, and has a correspondingly
great girth. Its steel nose raters gra dually to a sharp point.
tention.
A soldier in uniform brings you
your tea at five that evening; another
soldier brings you a cup of hot malt-
ed milk at eight in the evening, and
at nine a soldier in uniform—one of
Canada's most noted surgeons, who
has given up his work in the city of
Toronto to "do his bit" for the Brit-
ish Empire—comes to your cotside,
looks you over, and says, "You must
not expect any breakfast in the morn-
ing, young man, because we'll take
you to the operating room at ten
o'clock."
The Friendly Orderly.
"Too breezy for German aero-
planes," you hear an officer in an ad-
joining cot observe. And that remark
brings you clear back to the world;
back to the loudly flapping tent; back
to the war; back to the killing and
the dying.
By seven o'clock next morning
everybody is awake. A very much
muffled -up little nurse with a spark-
ling smile and two basins of steam-
ing warm water enters the tent. Be-.
hind her comes a boy from Canada in
the uniform of an orderly, with two '
more basins. The orderly, being in a
friendly mood, stands in the centre of
the tent and surveys the occupants of
the various cots; a British major, Inv()
British captains, and a British lieuten-
ant. Let it be understood that no ,
British orderly ever addresses a Brit-'
ish officer• first; the advances mush,
come from the officer. But this was;
a Canadian orderly.
"Well, how'd everybody sleep last'
night?" he says.
To your surprise the British offs
cera don't freeze hint. One and all .'
they say they have slept well. Then
you realize that they have been in a
the hospital for some time; that they
are acquainted evith this Canadian'
orderly and his fret and easy Can - ;t
adien ways, :a
Bit of Romance. s t
"Funny people in this world," says d
a Btitieh officer,' a captain, in the ; c
next cob. "There was, a time when
I couldn't understand Ameiicans. One h
day I was walking along a street in
Gibraltar in full rig when an,awfuily b
pretty American girl jumped ,out in 11
ftront of me with her camera and said e
to her friends, 'Oh, look at this nifty • i
One of the boys said yes, he supposed
i that would be so, but he hoped the lib-
erty would not be used The Eng-- SUBMARINE IS LIKE
lishman replied that it would not be
IFE IN A
used that time, but if the offense were
repeated he would use it to the fullest NERVE-RACKING WORK WITII
extent. CONSTANT RISKS.
The wurkmen on a newspaper dur-
• ing that time asked for a large in-
crease of wages.
j "But why?" asked the owner.
"Because there is a constitution_"
Crews of British Subs Are All Volun-
The tramway men struck for higher teers, Because of Dangers
wages, and the only justification that and Hardships.
they put forward was that there was
now a constitution. Yet men of all Many people are under the impres-
classes cheered in the lustiest manner Sion that the crew of a British sub-
marine is composed of a certain num-
for the constitution. Throughout
the month of August smuggled ntlOG'
her of sailors and a cage of white
tobacco was openly sold in the streets
Such used to be the case, but the
a very cheap rate, buyers and rel mice were "struck off the books" long
le
leis alike considering that the c
waterproof clothing was to the men
on the top of bhat structure.
Although you can discern but lit-
tle of her the boat is awash—that is,
traveling as high out of the water as
she can. Presently she gives a heave
forward and every part except her
conning -tower disappears from sight.
By partly filling her tanks the boat
has trimmed for diving. The men
who were "on deck" have dropped
through the conning -tower, closing
the cupola after them, and every
member of the crew is now at his
post below.
And as long as the boat remains
"down" he must stay there. In these
underwater craft there is little room
for moving about. A man may be
at the tanks, he may be at the tubes,
or he may be at any other of the
stations, but wherever he be there he
must stop with his whole mind con -
j stitution allowed men to set arida the on -!ago. In the early days of submarines centrated upon the task allotted to
law that had made the sale of tobacco I mice were carried in them as a kind him. Some boats have.a tiny cabin
a government monopoly of danger gauge. Their duty—and for the officers, but if the men want
they performed it faithfully—was to a nap they must take it on the floor.
EXTERMINATE THE ANT. I begin squeaking as soon as poison- This, however, is no hardship ,to a
1 ! ous fumes escaped inside the boat. bluejacket, who is able to sleep corn -
The Tiny Insect Brings Death andBeing more sensitive to these than fortably anywhere. For sleeping there
i
Sickness to Man. men are, the mice could detect the is no time in a submarine when she is
1 fumes much sooner than the other on the move.
- No suspicion until lately had arisen i members of the crew could. There- Remember, they cannot smoke, they
that the industrious ant might upon fore, a close watch upon the little cannot cook anything, and cense-
occasion act as the transmitting agent animals used to be kept. As soon as , quently must live upon "tinned tack,"
of infection to man, says the London ; they showed signs of distress up shot , while if they wanted to talk the noise
Lancet. It was .known that some ; the boat and open went her conning- !made by the machinery would pre -
species, such as the white ant, has tower. vent them from doing so. Enclosed.
very destructive tendencies in certain I Now the skill of designers has giv- in this steel shell they are shut away
parts of the tropics, and that the ; en us submarines that require neith-
bites of some large tropical ants. or white mice nor "potted air" to en -
caused a good deal of general disturb-Isure of the safety of their crews. It
•
in the depths •of the sea, and only the
officer at the periscope knows aught
of what may be happening on the
once, being attended with faintness + has also given -us under -water craft surface.
and shivering and sometimes with capable of doing things undreamed Always Facing Death.
temporary paralysis. It • was also' of a few years back, but it has not
known w
n that some savage races used yet;succeeded in making these pleas- The air in. the boat is warm apd
the dried bodies of ants, beaten into ' ant to live in. Ask a "submariner" ' heavy, and grows more vitiated . and
sleep -dying the longer she stays
down.
made that this insect might convey all right." But if you were able to An eerie feature of this under -
pathogenic bacteria to"man. ; try it for yourself you would soon water voyaging is that although a sub -
The ant is commonly found in and fall to wondering what he- would marine's crew can see nothing out -
around the dwelling of people resin-; deem "all wrong" if he found this ' side their boat, and do nob know from
Mg in the tropics. It is, indeed, a mat- - sort of life "all right." As a matter one moment to another what peril
ter of difficulty to keep this insect j of fact, the "submariner" has about they may be running into, they can
away from food -stuffs in such houses, j the most uncomfortable time of any feel a great deal. Every knock, every
and it is equally difficult to keep the; sailor, though the second nature bump, every scrape outside the hull
ant away from refuse when these are, which comes with us has so accli- is audible to them. And they do not
nob properly disposed of. So that it ;r matized him to it that he thinks know et what moment any one of
cannot he doubted that the ant has lightly of its hardships. !these knocks, bumps, or scrapes may
the opportunity of carrying from in- During their infancy submarines en- mean the end of all things for them.
fected exordia the specific organisms joyed the fostering care of a "mother All the officers and men who man
a paste, as an arrow poison, bttt it is what "life aboard" is like, and he
only of late that suggestion has been `will answer. nonchalantly, "Oh, it's
VISIT TO BRITISH
WAR OFFICE
INSTITUTION THAT DIRECTS THE
CONDUCT OF WAR. -
More Than 4,000 Persons Engaged in
120 Departments of the
Establishment.
Sir Reginald Brade, Secretary of
the British War Office, received a re-
presentative of the Associated Press
and gave facilities, through one of his
staff as escort, to see something of
this huge war machine in full swing
under the pressure of ono of the
greatest wars -with which it has ever
had to cope. It was an experience of
several hours, exploring the laby-
rinths of the vast institution, fairly
vibrating with energy at every point
and yet proceeding with precision and
efficiency in meeting the big part it
is. taking in the conduct of the war.
Sorno idea of the immensity of this
war establishment may be had from
the. fact that its corridors are two
utiles long—a good, brisk walk of an
hour. And along' these two miles is
a good-sized city of people, over, 4,000,
engaged in the infinite details of this
war work, great and small, all the way
from Lord Kitchener, Secretary of
State for War, down to boy scouts and
girl" messengesa And this is only the
central establishment, for the war
exigencies have outgrown even " this
huge building and many outside build-
ings, business blocks and other pre-
mises.have been taken in as War Of-
fice branches. The sudden extension
of censoring as a precaution of mili-
tary defence has called into service
a large army of ,censors, and a number
of large business premises in•various
quarters have been acquired for the
military censors' branch. Three or
four other branches are at other points
and practically the whole ordnance
branch has grown into a separate gov-
ernment department, with a Cabinet
Minister, Lloyd George, at its head.
Difficult To Get. In.
Yet the War Office still remains
the throbbing centre of the war work.
Here the larger questions of strategy
and the campaigns in various theatres
of war are worked out; here the Army
Council and the Imperial General Staff
hold their meetings, and here the
many branches of military work
ramify from the headquarters of Lord
Kitchener, General Sir W. Robertson,
chief of the Imperial Staff; Lieutenant
General Sir H. Sclater, adjutant gen-
eral to theforces; Lieutenant General
Sir I. Cowans, quartermaster general,
and the two members of parliament
who represent the civilian branch and
keep the war branch in touch with
Parliament; Mr. Tenant, Parliament-
ary Under Secretary for War, and
Mr. Foster, Financial Secretary for
War, with Sir Reginald Brade as Sec-
retary of the War Office and of the
War Council.
It .is difficult bo get into the War
Office and more difficult to get out
-like the continental railway station.
Guards turn away all those without
papers from authorized sources, stat-
ing a definite purpose for tbe visit
and a fixed time. Passing this bar e
rier, one's name and address is taken t
and a permit issued, and the addresses t
aro
4 alwaysV •
available if Scotland Yard
wishes to investigate the antecedents
of any one making unauthorized in-
quiries.
Within the building there. is an air
of work under high pressure, and with
rigid military discipline, with many
officers in uniform, old soldiers as g
messengers, also: in uniform, the girls i
in brown khaki dress and blouse with t
brass buttons and a brass device on "
the collar.
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NOT�1NG
BETTER
SUM ' EES
WEAR
iWI i y Every Member
Of Om
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of the main divisions, seven in all,
with Lord Kitchener as president of
the Conned and General Robertson,
chief - of staff; Adjustant General
Sclater, Quartermaster General Cow-
ans, Major General Von Donop, Par-
liamentary Secretary Tenant and Fin-
ancial Secretary Foster as the other
members of the War' Council. The'
General Staff, with General Robertson
at its head, makes the scientific
studies of military defence, assembles
all the available intelligence on dif-
ferent campaigns, furnishes the ' ex-
perts and has charge of the military
inter -communication by telegraph and
signaling. The extensive purchase of
American horses, harness and sup-
plies has come under the direction pf
Quartermaster General Cqwans, -who
has general charge of food, clothing
and supplies, land and water trans-
portation of troops, supplying horses,
etc.
A Visit to the Registry Branch
of the War Office gave an idea of the
immensity of the work going on, for"
this branch receives everything com-
ing in and distributes the business to
all branches. Over 100,000 letters
are received every week, and of these
'an average of 40,000 go through the
formality of registering. Once regis-
tered, a communication is an official
record- of the government, eventually
under the control of the blaster of
the Rolls. The mcre registering of
this. vast influx of 40,000 pieces of
separate war business is a prodigious
work. Ten youths were at a long
table engaged solely in slitting open
the envelopes. Fourteen sacks of war
business' had come ire the first morn-
ing mail, and. this was only the start.
Room after room is filled with men
and women workers registering these
communications and getting them
started to the 120 branches. A war
commuication addressed personally to t
Lord •Kitchener or any other official a
is delivered direct, but unless person-
ally addressed it is part of the War
Office business and goes to the sub-
ject treabed. There is no time for
high-sounding titles, and so every
branch and every official is known by
a group of letters and every officer
the service has a number.
This registry branch, under the dir
ection of one of the veteran member
of Sir Reginald Bride's staff, Mr
Pedley, is a model of efficiency in th
handling of the avalanche of docu-
ments which the war burns loose on
very brandi of the War Office. Go-
ng down in the sub -basement, below
the level of the Thames, one could see
he bewilderingvistas s as of documents,
,
tretching for long distances but ar
anged with mathematical precision
for instant reference as a government
record.
Business of the '•Searchets."
THE 'WORK OF A
GREAT SCULPTOR
DERWENT WOOD MENDS DIS-
FIGURED FACES.
One of Most Noteworthy Tasks of
Who Are Repairing Ravages
of"War.
In a recent issue of the London
Daily Chronicle, Harold Begbie
'Writes:
How things happen!
At the beginning of the war Col-
onel Bruce Porter, of the R.A.M.C.,
made a speech to the Chelsea Arts
Club,. He said it was a finer thing
to mend the bodies of broken soldiers
than to paint pretty faces on can-
vas. .He asked his hearers to. make
a sacrifice of their art,, and, if they
were too old to fight, to accept, the
lowliest service in the ranks of .the
R.A.M.C. Among hi"sr hearers was the
sculptor, Mr. Derwent Wood. A few
months after the making of this
speech I paid a visit to the Third
London Military hospital, on Wands-
worth, Common. As I walked across
the grounds with Colonel Bruce Por-
ter we came across a party of order-
lies rolling a newly laid asphalt path.
The colonel stopped and instrduced
Inc to these orderlies. One of them
was Mr. Derwent Wood.
Now, see how things fall out. Der-
went Wood was soon drafted' into the
wards. He took plaster:casts of dam-
aged limbs.. He became a master of
splints. In the course of this work
he saw some of the saddest sights of
war; he saw the human face so aw-
fully disfigud that a man must .
shudder to behold such: havoc. This,
sight moved the sculptor's compas-
sion. He went to his colonel and said
to hhn: "Leb me see what 1 can do
to those poor smashed faces; let me
see if I can build thein up again."
Gladly did the colonel bonsent.. But
who was to pay for such work? The
colonel has a benevolent fond at his
wonderful` hospital, and out of these
gifts of money from wealthy friends
and grateful pabients he does many
a kind and beautiful action which -
could hardly pass the official auditor.
He said, "Tire benevolent fund shall
Al!
' ' lam►
There was a fine trooper in the hos-
pital, a nier•ried man, whose face had
been broken by an explosive bullet.
I must not attempt to describe the
I. of that face. Enough for you
o know that this noseless man him -
elf said it was impossible to live in
that condition. And of a truth it was
a thousand times better for him to be
dead. Well, I have just been talking
to this man. Across' a room it is im-
possible to detect anything unusual
in his face. At the distance of a few
rn paces you see only a mark like a
scar on one of his cheeks. And he
laughs when he talks to you, and he.
• tells you that he is going to drive a
taxicab, and.he sgys that he can now
e paint his nose'whatever color he
chooses—green if he likes. Ah, bub
he speaks in a ,quite different voice,
and he does not lest at all, when he
tells you, or tries" to tell you, what
his feelings are toward Derwent. Wood.
I saw other men in this' same re-
pairing shop. I saw them with their
masks and without their masks. At
one moment I had to set my teeth as
I looked and at the next I was talk-
ing to a whole man and exchanging
jests with him. A boy would come
forward whose face made it hard for
me to utter a groan. Derwent Wood
pointed. out the bullet's ;work, showed
the surgeon's difficulty, showed his
difficulty, and then said: "Now put
n your mask." The boy lifted a
i
ttle, light, delicately molded'metal
ring in his hands, passed -something
behind his ears, and I was looking at
a brother man whose face was whole
and whose sham eye seemed -to have
as much pride and pleasure as his
real eye. The moulding of. the mask
is as perfect as the painting of the
flesh.
Human Repair Shop.
The room where these wonders.
take place was once the scullery of a
recreation hut. It is small, it is
gloomy, it is without a soul. The
stone floor' strikes coldly'through
your feet; a sink at the .side of, the
walls makes for melancholy; as a
place for the, washing of dishes you
could give ib a fair number of marks;
but as a sculptor's studio it is impos-
sible.- Alterations are to be made,
for directly Sir Alfred Keogh heard '
of this wonderful work,ho not only
relieved Colonel Bruce Porter's Bono-
volont Fund of all such cbarges, but'
with the imagination and sympathy. of
a great organization he gave ordere
that all cases of facial damage should"
be sent to the Third London, And
so Derwent Wood hi to have a studio
and never again, I take it, will' he
pull a roller over asphalt paths.
French Cooks Great `to
"top.
The Paris Journal says one pea^,on
the French troops have more spirit
than the Germane is their cooks. A
French officer is quoted art saying this
Iliad had a great deal to do with the
course of the Verdun battle "Under
said thio officer, "the French
cook does his work imperturbably.
When We left to retake Douaumont wo
had Mist. WI Piping hot coffee. The
cooks are largely responsible for our
Uaccess,"
One of the curious requirements
rowing out of the rush of, War work
s the need of a staff of "searchers"
o look up lost documents. The
searchers" make their rounds early
every morning. Very often, in the, o
pressure of many kinds of work, an Ir
important war record will get laid t
The Supreme Head.
There are two outstanding figures
of interest at the War Office just now
—Lord Kitchener, the supreme head
the whole establishment); Lord
erby, whose scheme for increasing
e army has brought him very much
the public eye; while' across the
ad, at the Horae Guards, is Field
arshal French, now Lord French of
Ypres, who as commander of home
efence is now directing home de-
noes in general and the aircraft da-
nces in particular•. Lord Kitcheri-
's windows look out oh the busy
affic of Whitehall, with the Horse
wards across the way, and the bronze
uestrian stat;re of the Duke.of Cern=
idge, in sweeping plume and full re.
glia of a field marshal, at the en-
.
s
n-is are stately, with
ortraits of distinguished War Minis-
rs. But under Kitchener they have
ken 00 en air of the camp, with
maps all about and on the walls
tiieating the. campaigns in many Holds
ritisli operation =in Flanders,.at
alonilti, in' Egypt and Mesopotamia,
d of the Allies' operations on the
ustro-Italfon front, in Russia and
er pointe.
Birt while these main figures of the
ar Office are most before the pub
there is also a vast organization
•ryhig on the innumerable day -to-
y branches of military work Tho
in divisions are the General Staff,
e Adjutant General, the Quarter-
star General and the Civil and Pin-
ce Departments, with Prost of rho
Ordnance, breath now `transferred to of.
the Ministry of Munitions, ndei, ,hr
diose 'maht heads there are some 120
dFVisions, taking in the whole rant''
of military activities, The War Coun. ren
ell is, In effect, made up of the heads it
e food stored in human 'ship when they went cruising. Hay -
dwellings.+ ing now grown up," the submarine unteers. They know that for them D
Little or no experimental work, 1 gebs but little "mothering'; and has there is no escape should mishap be- th
however, had been done to obtain , to look after itself. fall their boat, yet despite its hard- m
proof that ants were capable of trans-; In those days submarines make ships and dangers there is never' any 1.:,.°
milting disease to man, but in 1912 'long, independent trips, and for the lack of men willing to take on this M
Dr. L'B. Bates, bacteriologist to An -1 whole duration of these their crews work.
OD Hospital in the Panama Canal are "boxed up," in the literal mean- 1t often happens that a submarine d
one, undertook a series of experi-;ing of the expression. Even the re- has' to "go under" altogether, peri- fe
menta with a view of putting to the ,laxation of going on deck to stretch scopes and all, to lie on the bottom fe
est whether or not the ant acted as their legs is denied theta, because and wait, chancing whatever may er
transmitting agent of such infec there is no deck worth calling such for . come to her in the' process. At such G
ions as enteric fever and bacillary' the purpose. rtimes the crew are absolutely cut off
ysentery. His investigations were; I from all the world and they can never eq
A Hard Life.
ai•ried out with the large. yellow ants , !feel any. certainty to breathing the g
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which are found in ,and around the 1 A submarine lying snugly along- .free air of the open sea again. Very
oases in the canal zone. side a dockyard jetty gives one no often there are odds against them do -
He fecl.a number of these insects on adequate idea of what .the same boat ing so. All they can do is to wait li
read soaked with cultures of bath) looks like when scuddingthrough the patiently until t is deemed safe to Ue
us typlrosus for five days, killing and waves Watch her setng off on a take the risk of blowing out the to
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xamieing some of them at certain.: trip and you will see only a few hands tanks and'. going to the surface again.,
ntervals, but in . no instance was. he ' on deck. " There will be, perhaps, a In fact, connected with the sub -
little officer.' Then she snapped her'. a
camera and smiled ab me` and went ,f
right away. But you know I got ac- ex
quainted with her:after that, and I ,
found out she was one of the finest,tr
girls I ever knew. If 1 hadn't got ac- ; c
quaint&i with her, whet do you think 11
I'd have' thought of Americans all the
rest of my life? I never would under-
stand them."
About ten in the morning a huge the typhoid bacillus and allowed sifter Probablyall you may be' able to vadat and done 000110 ir4
Canadian nodical ffieer . y trorkp the Ith
nee • r _., rte
through the tent. "This anybody an dishes in .uelti
Y Y y s away that thou foot- white• +
comp amts? he asks:. IIs s rho or -';prints Would lie "cultivatt:d" for bac- heads > in ie an
appear r..chsti•rttly. If you
derly officer of tho day, and if you feria. The typhoid bacillus was ea •• 'I' " > • '
s could anti de.,n from an ... ..ant 'I'M, la .nonny to the man tvls t t
don't like the way the hospital is fly fount) in every instance. This ex- upon this travcring geyser yoe would Ws' 1:'n ; cut a fine,
N
ble to recover the typhoid bacillus couple of officers on the conning -tower : marine service there is no such thing sf
rom the intestines of the ants. The I and one or two men at its base. All as pleasure cruising. At the best it S
periment was carefully repeated 1 e clad in thick' clothing and wear is com artless, nerve -trying,! tin
a}• 6� wearingiA
g- ! sea boots, , Possibly same of work, full of peril, empty of joy, ex -
with like negative results. He then heavy 0th
led to determine if the ant could them' may have donned "lammy" :teat such as conies at the thrilling
arry the specific organiem•r,-:. on its 1 suits, and you wonder why they adopt' moment when a 5000050101 shot has aa
ego er body in a purely mechanical such an Arctic -like rig, A view of the liven mado at the enemy—and that lie
way to human food. boat after she has reached the open colnnenaates for all tlifficultios and 1 ea
To this end a number of the amoeba 1•
c bs sea will make'Che reason apparent to dal; , cis undergone. During ,the war da
oro dropped into a broth culture of you.
13:14.1.11 r.ul,inarfne3 lave braved many me
o passes ward to crawl out and walls 1 over '•�r 'will he u rapidly fnovrr het !trey of which r
P Y g heap r f May at. t yet be told
tenter, amid which one of taro ur.� hinted stun
1
being run he's the fellow to tell about poriment was repeated several ":tithes, find the submarine's conning-towrr It' is es , ca:. • for you
ft,
Everybody'a contented, so he goes and in the majorityof eas eS erto plea to
, as positive :sticking Up the middle of it, and ovtrybedy as it ie for everybody t'
on his way. Iresults were obtained. I would rocogniee how necessary Wartfri please you. y o
aside or covered up on some desk, and
it is the business of the "searchers"
to ferret out every lost record and get
it back again in the regular channels.
Altogether this glimpse of the War
Office and the passing exchanges with
the many officials gave the impression
' of a perfectly regulated machine with
the steam gauge wide open and work-
ing under full pressure, and from. end
to end of this vast establishment,
along with the sure and steady move -
merit, was' the spirit everywhere mani-
fest and. expressed among these war
workers, "Let us do our part to win
the war,"
The Grand Duke's Playful ,Way.
The Grand Duke.Nicholas is not a
man who talks much, says Mr. Julies
'Met in "Soldiers of the Czar,"but he
has a playful way at times. Some
time ago, during an inspection, the
grand duke was standing next to the
Czar, a' few yards from a group of
leeser generals. he ordered General
Ruzsky, then in command of the
forces in that region, to step forward.
The grand duke next ordered a private
;soldier to come forward fund hack off
the general's epaulettes.. We can
imagine the dismay of the other gen-
male a0 the soldier obeyed,
"Now cut mine off," was the next
order. The soldier did 00.
"Now put mine on his shoulders,"
It was the grand duke'e playful way
promoting General Ruzsky to the r,
ghest rank in the Russian army.
'Adam's apple Wal given be him to
tend Win of the' time When he got
in the neck.
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