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The Brussels Post, 1916-9-14, Page 7YOUNG FOLKS The Cave Family. Robert and Sara were greatly ex- cited. They had found a cave in the mountain back of their summer home,. on the side facing the sea.. It was a very small cave,—too small for either of them to crawl into,—bub they could see that it was very deep, What. might there not bo living in it? A dragonperhaps, • or, better still. a real fairy! Indeed, before they found the cave, Robert had seen a little grey figure moving about near by—a figure of just the size, Sara said, when he described it afterwards, that fairies were supposed to be. On one of their visits, which they made on the day when Robert was six years old, they were allowedto take their luncheon with them, and in the luncheon was a little calve baked es- pecially for that day. "Let us leave a slice for the fairy," said Robert. So they cub a slice and left it on a stone jest inside the open- ing to the cave. The next morning the cake was all gone, save for a few crumbs lying on the ground! "The fairly has eaten it," whispered Sara. "0 Robert, perhaps she'll come out to -day!" So the two waited among the bushes, their hearts full of new hope. Suddenly their ears caught sounds in the cave, which up to that time had seemed such a silent spot. Robert grasped Sara's hand, for, although he was a boy, he was just a little frightened. The sounds ceased; then they began again; and then, mit of the cave and straight out to sea flew a great bird. "It's only an old sea gull!" cried Robert, disappointed and disgusted. But Sara tightened her hold on her brother's hand. "Robert," she said, "I don't believe it's a sea gall at all, but the fairy herself in disguise! Fairies never like to have anyone find out where they live. What could be easier than for a fairy to change her cloak into gray feathers?' So the two children went home hap- py, and told thei mother that they felt sure they had really seen the fairy that lived in the cave.—Youth's Com- panion. Storage Batteries Generators Ma'gnet'os Starters Bean them 'for prompt Dousing to CANADIAN STOALCM BATTERY 00.. LIMITED 117 Simco. St., Toronto. Willard AMA,. - ltiP�'d'T;+t7�v�4K BOMBING TRENCHES ON BRITISH FRONT ENGLISH OFFICER DESCRIBES SOME INCIDENTS. Machine Gun Fire Fails to Reach the "Bombers" in Their Shell Hole. One of the most unusual tales of trench warfare is told in a letter of an - officer of the new armies serving in France : "It happened like this. .I was look - i ing out from what was a little shelter- , ed spot alongside the entrance to what we call Stinking Sap, through a very line new telescope some one had sent to our C. 0., when suddenly I spied a shovel sticking up against a little mound, and Close to it was a gap in the wet grass. I stared jolly hard, and presently the whole thing became clear to me. The Roches had run out a new sap fully fifty yards from tlieir lire trench, which at this point is over 250 yards from ours. It was right opposite our Stinking Sap, and not more than 100 yards from the head of it. "I walked around to company head- quarters and informed the C. 0., who swadelighted. I decided to take Cor- poral Slade with me, because he's such a fine bomb thrower, besides be- ing as cool as a cucumber. I also agreed to take one other man from my own platoon and one man from each of the other three platoons. . Ready to Attack. JUTLAND FIGHT MEDAL. Will Be Sold and Proceeds Given to Naval Orphanages. Admiral Prince Louis of Batten- burg has designed a medal to com- memorate the recent battle off the Jutland Bank. It will be the first of a series connected with naval events in the .present war which Prince Louis intends to bring out at short intervals and the entire profits of the sale of the medals will go to the naval or- phanages. Commemorative medals for naval achievements were struck in England in Elizabethan times. After the de- feat of the Armada, in 1588, Queen Elizabeth ordered some to be made in gold and silver, of which a speci- men may be seen in the British Mu- seum. These may have been bestow- ed upon the principal officers—of that there is no definite information —but nothing like a general distribu- tion of medals to the officers and men of the fleet engaged in action was us- ual until a much later date. During the Commonwealth it was decided to issue medals to the. officers and men who had "done good service at sea," • but after that the medals struck were commemorative rather than decora- tive, until June 1, 1794. For the victory of the Nile in 1'198 Alexander Davison, Nelson's prize agent, presented a medal as "a tri- bute of regard" to every officer and man in Nelson's fleet—gold to .cap tains, •silver to lieutenants and war- rant officers, bronze gilt to petty of- ficers and bronze to seamen and ma- rines. No authority was ever given for these medals to be worn, and they were not so intended, but some of the sail ors fixed a ring through a hole and wore them on their jackets at home. Similarly, after Trafalgar, Matthew Boulton, the partner of James Watt, presented a medal to, each officer and man who had taken part; silver for the senior officers and pewter for the junior officers and seamen. Although the naval gold medal in- stituted by George III. at the time of the glorious June 1, 1794, was after- wards awarded for all the great naval victories, it was only given to post captains and flag officers, and it was not until 1847 that Queen Victoria• commanded an official medal to be struck for every officer and man en- gaged in the battle, and to recognize the services rendered by • the fleet from 1793 to 1840. The admitted claims for this naval general service medal, as it is known, totaled 20,900, and no fewer than 230 bars were is- sued to it. ' There are two sizes in which these medals aro being struck, one having a diameter of 1rya inches, in white metal at 1s,, in solid silver at 15s., and in.18-carat,gold at £11 10s. Thd emailor size is seven -eighths of an inch in diameter, and ,this is made With loop and ring, in solid silver. It pays to be polite, but anything that pays soome too much like work for some folks. • The man who brags abolrt his past Cr-'eer of wickedness is Usually a Ir.r:•llb8a c's2I,, - • • _ M1 "The C. 0.'s idea was that we must reach that shell hole close to the new Booties sap as soon as possible after dark and before the Brian"' resumed work there. As it turned out, we were all lying in the shell hole for three- quarters of an hour before a single Boche made a move: There was a fine rain all the time and it was pitch dark. We lay perfectly still and flat, hands covered and faces down. "By and by Slade gave a little tug at my jerkin. I listened hard and just made out footsteps. Two or three minutes later six or eight Boches came shuffling along the sap, carrying picks and shovels and jabbering away nine- teen to the dozen. I gave the signal with my bet hand. There was a bomb in my right. "I could distinctly Blear the safety pins come out of our six bombs and could even hear the breathed murmur of the man at my shoulder—a pug- nacicus draper. 'A hundred an' one, a hundred an 'two, a hundred and three (he was timing the fuse of his bomb, exactly as I'd told them). "And then they all let go. Our six bombs landed, one on the edge and the other .five ,plumb in the sap head be- fore us, right in the middle of the six or eight Roches digging there. Two seconds after they left our hands they did their job. And when the rending row was over we heard only one Rothe moaning, so I knew that at least six or seven would 'strafe' no more English- men, Bullets Fall to Hit. "We again lay absolutely still while' Fritz rained parachute lights, stars, flares and every kind of firework, and,. Just as I had expected, swept his sap head with a Beast a thousand rounds of machine gun bullets, not one of which so much as grazed us, whore we 1 lay in the mud of that shell hole. 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They took it for granted Sire had cleared bank to aur lines, and. they made no attempt to disguise their coming, We waited until the near end of the sap was full and then we gave 'em our second volley; followed im- mediately by a third. le must have been a regular shambles, "A few seconds later we heard a fresh lot start on their way down the l sap, and the draper and I let 'em have our last two bombs well to the left, and ourselves made tracks like greased lightning for Stink Sap. The luck held perfectly, and Slade was hauling the draper over the parapet of Stinklrq Sap before a sound came from the Roche machine guns, "And then, byJove, they opened on us. They holed my oilskin coat for i me as.I slid in, and spoiled it. 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Dowd is one of the young Ameri- cans who enlisted in the Foreign Leg- ion at the beginning of the war, A graduate of Georgetown University and a practising lawyer, he felt very deeply that as a believer in liberty and democracy he should fight for Franco. After the battle of Cham- pagne, in which he wag wounded, there was little heft of his regiment of the Foreign Legion. Dowd felt he bad had enough of trench fighting. He put in an application for leave to join the aviation arm, writes Herbert Corey, from France. Just as he was about to go back to Ids regiment he received word that his application for a change of ser- vice had been acted upon favorably.. He load passed the very severe exam. !nation to which aviators are sub- jected with flying colors. But red tape unwinds slowly, and when the time came for his return to the trench he had not yet received the coveted paper, My hand is not coinpietely well," he told a sympathetic army surgeon. "Give me two weeks in a hospital." To the Madhouee. "There," said ho, as he struck it on Dowd's papers, that will give you two weeks at the physfotherapeutioal in- stitute at Epinal.' It was the psycho -therapeutic stamp Ile had affixed to Dowd's papers by mistake. An Institute of psycho -thera- py is a madhouse. Dowd said good. bye gratefully and took up the route) for Epinal, The train guards ad , at him oddly en the way, he thought nothing of that. At Epin#1l, he knocked' at the door of the hos- t 'Come in," said a guard. The door locked behind him with a spring. Tile guard examined his papers --with a lifting of the eye- brows due to his surprise at a mad- man corning In without a keeper—and eroolted his Anger at Dowd without a word, Afterward he learned that the guard thought he had given his peeper the slip --had perhaps murder-' ed him—and by an insane freak had corse in alone. Another door snapped shut behind the American. He was in a room absolutely bare, save for benches bolted to the wall, On the benches sat insane, soldiers. They were quiet and motionless, Still Dowd suspected nothing, His treat. nicht was odd, that was all. "Usually Frenchmen are kindly and jovial," said he. "These men did not look up or speak to me. But I did not know they were mad, That night he was locked in a ward with 'six insane men, His clothing was taken from him, with the ex- ception of a brief undershirt and a packet of cigarets which he managed to conceal under his pillow, He asked permission to keep his razor, but the guard refused. "If some of these men got bold of a razor," said he, "they would cut their throats or yours." "None of Them Are" • Then Dowd awakened to the situa- tion. He told the guard that he was not crazy, and the guard laughed. "None of 'em are," said the guard, as he locked the d^or. The six insane men sat on their beds, silent. So did Dowd. The elec- The Late Dennie Dowd. trio light snapped out. From the six beds came animal -like noises. One man talked to his wife, waited for her replies, laughed, coaxed his little ones to come to his knees. Another raved incoherently. He heard their bare feet paddling up and downs the board floor in the darkness. Two fought to the accompaniment of the mindless laughter of their mates, Dowd smoked his clgarets and waited for the morning. "It will be all right," he assured himself. "I will tell them a mistake has been made. I am not mad." The doctor in charge made his rounds oath morning. Dowd gave up trying to convince him of his sanity.' The third morning the doctor shot a question at him suddenly. "What did you mess around at when you' were at home ?" is a fairly literal translation of his question. "I was an advocate," said Dowd. The absurdity of the answer struck him. Here he was, masquerading be -1 bind a dense growth of beard, clad' only in a tiny undershirt, sitting up in a bed 15 a ward filled with insane men, and insisting that he was a) lawyer, It seemed to strike the doc- tor in the same way, "Ah, said he, "a lawyer—in a var- iety show ?" They laughed together. Dowd had tears of real mirth in his eyes when the door closed. He laughs yet when he thinks of it. The humor of it— the tthe American ability to see humor under any conditions—saved hint. Next day the doctor's assistant put hien through an examination. "This man Is not mad," said he. There was still red tape to be un- wound. Days passed before he got out of ' the madhouse, but he went through them cheerfully. GERMANS SET MAN TRAPS. Mso Distribute "Tortoise Bombs" in Abandoned .Trenches. Philip Gibbs, in a despatch from British headqull.'ters in France, writes as follows: "The German is beginning to leave a lot of little things behind him, even if he abandons a trench in a hurry. 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