The Brussels Post, 1916-12-28, Page 7YOUNG FOLKS
.The Sky, hichen,
This story tells he: a fluffy little
yellow chicken became .a member of
a fleck of white chickens, and how it
got the strange slamo that it is still
known by after a whole,summer has
passed.
Ono day'
to early May Lector Wood
and .his sister Rose went out to feed
Lady Redwing and her family of ten
little h' l
1F ALL WERE SIIIRKERS,
' "The Perfect Day" is the
day when you work in bar-
rnony with law. Health
comes from Harmony. ' Get
-� in harmony with Nature's
i e c Jc tens. Lady Redwing was
sting herself in the middle of the
way, -a thing Rose had often
ed her that it was very unsafe
, on accqunt of the automobiles,
when she saw the children cam -
he called loudly. to the ten white
is, and all of them came hurry -
to the yard. Suddenly Lady
ng stopped •and . acted very
y. She fluttered round with
wings outstretched, uttering
nge cries and looking up into the
ester and Rose could not under -
d what she meant, but )he ten
to chicken were quick enough to
erstand. They knew that it meant
er, and they darted to Lady Red-
's side and gathered under her
ge,
en Lester understood.
is a hawk, Rosen Look! Look!"
cried, pointing upward.
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BETWEEN THE TRENCHES.
French Ceasing Firing to Allow Ger-
mans to Rescue Comrades.
Sapping deeper, the French engine-
ers had countermined their fres, and
very early in the morning, with a
thunderous explosion, they blew up
Rose looked, and saw a large bird the German position. Many Germans.
with a hooked beak just above them. were killed, but some escaped and ran
"Go away!" she screamed. "Youyflortheir nearest trench. The French
shall not have our chicken!" ea pe
d then embankment and dashed
Lester shouted, too, and waved his forward to occupy the crater that the
hat; and the hawk, which had swooped explosion had made; but the enemy's
very close to the ground, suddenly fire drove them back. So, now,
changed its flight, with a great flutter- French and Germans faced one an-
other not thirty yards apart, with the
o demolished trench between them,
neither army able to occupy it.
t None dare show his head above the
trench, for sharpshooters watched with
o keen eyes and ready rifles from the
e opposite positions. A great silence
t reigned, broken only by the agonizing
f cries of the wounded who were unable
o to crawl back to their lines.
_ GradualIy the cries of these 'un-
_ fortunates ceased, all except one,
whose piteous wails filled the air:
e"Hilfe! Hilfe! Um Gottes willen!" he
, repeated over and over again, But
8! none dare go to him.
The hot sun shone down mercilessly
upon the half -buried, suffering man.
IIie was severely wounded and pinion-
' ed beneathethe fallen timbers of the
ing, and mounted upward again.
As the hawk, rose, something fell t
the ground close, beside the children
but in their excitement they did no
notice what it was.
Lady Redwing was as quick t
know that the danger was over as sh
had been to see it coming in the firs
place, and before the hawk was out o
sight she was cheerfully clucking t
her family, and they were all eager
ly waiting for the dinner that the dill
dren had brought.
Scarcely had Lester begun to fee
them when he exclaimed. "Why,
thought that all of Lady Redwing'
chickens were white!"
"Of course they are!" said Rose, and
then she exclaimed, "But there is a
yellow one!"
"And there are eleven instead
ten!" said Lester, more and more ex
cited. "Where did that new one corn
from?"
Sure enough, where could the lit(
yellow chicken have come from'?
There were no other flocks of chickens
on the place, and the nearest neighbor
lived a quarter of a mile away. The
children looked hard to make sure that
their eyes were not playing tricks on
them, and they thought and thought.
"I know!" Rose said at last. "The
hawk brought itl Don't you remem-
ber that we saw something fall ?"
Of course Lester remembered then
but it was not easy to believe that a
little chicken, caught up by a hawk
end carried far through the air, could
be as sound and happy as that little
yellow fellow appeared to be.
Just then Mr. Wood came from the
field, and when he heard the story he
said, "No doubt Rose is right. The
hawk was not satisfied with one chick-
en and tried to get another. You
frightened it so that it dropped the one
it already had. It was too greedy,
you see,"
And that is the way the little yet-
, low chicken -they called it the Sky
Chicken from till day joined Lady
Redwing's family. It had suffered
no harm from the talons of the hawk,
although the journey must have been a
Iong one, for Lester and Rose could
never find our where it had belonged'
Lady Redwing always treated it as
one of her own brood. Perhaps she
never knew that she had an extra
member in her family, although even
if a hen cannot count she really ought
to know a yellow chicken from a white
one.
And now that the Sky Chicken has
grown to be a handsome young roost-
er with a very red comb and a strong
voice, Rose says, "I thing the Sky
Chicken puts on airs because he has
flown so much higher than any other
chicken in the whole town!" -The
Youth's Companion,
Misdemeanor.
For severe'! days. Mandy, the faith-
ful cook, failed to put'�'n an appear-
ance. Her mistress made anxious in-
quiries and fouid to her dismay that
Mandy had been arrested, She hast-
ened down to the Court house to see
what could be done,
"Why, Mandy!" she exclaimed,
"what in the world have you been do-
ing to got arrested?"
"Ah ain't been dohs' nothin' 'tall,
Mis' Anna," was the indignant reply,
"All die bcah fuss is bout a lady
named Miss Demeanor, and Ali ain't
nevah even heaped of her hefo'!"
of, trench. It appeared he must die a
_1 slow and agonizing death, with, help so
8! near, yet so far; with power so close
1 to him, yet so impotent.
le "Help! Help! For God's sake, help
, me!" he kept groaning.
His voice became weaker and weak-
er.
."Water! Water ---oh, give Me -water!"
he moaned. But none dared to help
hint.
iSuddenly, with utter disregard of
the danger, a tall, slim, young French
captain leaped to the top of his trench.
A shot sang past him' instantly, but
he fearlessly held aloft his hand to
command attention, Then he shont-
i ed to the imprisoned German, "Tell
your comrades to come and fetch you!
I We will not fire. We give our word."
I IIe jumped down inside again,
1 The wounded man heard. Sum-
moning his last remaining strength he
raised his voice and cried the message
aloud to his comrades.
I There was a short conference inside
1 the German trench. Then four tall
soldiers in the uniform of the Prus-
sian Guard climbed over their parapet
and advanced boldly into the open,
n ,
carrying a stretcher. They faced a
hundred rifle barrels, but there was
no shot. The' word of honor had
I been passed, and men were acting as
1 human beings, saving instead of de-
; stroying.
I
Quickly the Germans reached their
comrade. ' A heavy beam of the
I demolished trench had fallen upon
'him and erushed both legs. Work -
mg with a will, they soon bad him re-
leased, and, placing him on the
stretcher, they bore him away to the
safety of their trench.
A moment later some sixty Pfutsiat
helmets were hoisted enthusiastically
on rifles above the trench, and in a
mighty chorus there came the shout,
"Thank you, comrades, thank you!" --
The French captain climbed upon,
the trench bowed courteously, and re-
sponded, 'It was our pleasure com-
rades, Now to our duty again."
And pitiless war reigned once more
between the lines.
Rise and Fall.
Officer (as company is temporarily
about to vacate trench which, has been
reported mined) -You two will remain
here, and if there is an explosion yet
will blow a whistle, Yet under.
stand ?
Private' Spode ---Vee, sore? Will we
blew it going up dr coming down,
bort'?"
The only man wnever misses his
tlnal'k is the man who neve a ahootsl,
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Some neopie inetinotively shit their
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medicines,. artificial dlgcstef,ts, eta.
Stat closing the oyes docs not Mullah'
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I'hyatelane know this end that Is why
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Cemeteries Would Replace narraeke--
Man Fewer Will Win the War.
Better a country of barracks than
what the shirkers would retake it -a
country of Cemeteries, says the Eng-
lish Review,
If we aspire to regulate the bal-•
mice of European power in a sense
favorable to ourselves, which in brutal
truth means our continued existence
as a world empire, it is as a nation
in arms we must pursue the fight to
a finish, To -day it is men, not money
or armaments, that our nearest ally
lacks, and it is man power that we
must contribute if a premature and
inconclusive peace is not to be forced
upon our valiant friends under condi-
tions which they would regard as de-;
testable. For unless Britain can main
tain for another two years or there-
abouts an uninterrupted flow of man
power to the western and southern
fronts our valiant neighbor across the
silver streak will find it humanly im-
possible to maintain the struggle
which has in the last two terrible
years involved the depletion of the
Power of her. manhood.
This was whispered many month,'
past; now it ihsrbeing openly discussed
wherever thinking men get together,
whether in dugout facing the unspeak-
able Hun or snatching a few hours'
leave in the bosom of their families.
"Men; more men," "England must
send more soldiers," are the common
expressions of opinion in the fair land
where already so many of our khaki -
clad heroes sleep.
ST. VITUS DANCE
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A Tonic for the Blood and
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Many a child has been called awls
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1
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St. Vitus dance. This trouble may
appear at any age but is most often
met between the ages of six and
fourteen. The most frequent cause
of the disease is poor blood, aggra-
vated by indoor confinement, or men-
tal strain at school. Under these
conditions the blood fails to carry
nourishment to the nerves and the
child begins to show listlessness and
inattention. Then it 'becomes rest-
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jerking of the limbs and body follow.
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A WEIRD LEGEND
IS RECALLED
GERMANS WERE PARALYZED AT
YPRES.
Frightened by Optical Illusion of
Huge Reserves Behind
British.
Captain Norman Thwaites, of the
Fourth Dragoon Guards in the British
army, now in the United States on
leave, describes a recent visit to a
prisoners of war camp in England.
- Hisestory, published in the New York
, World, is as follows:
I talked with the senior officer,
' whose rank entitles him to rule the
; camp under the British commandant.
He had been taken near Ypres dur-
ing the terrible five clays when the
"contemptible little army," depleted
by one-third, faced the flower of the
German army urged on to Calais by
the War Lord himself. The culmin-
ating attack by two whole German
'divisions was made against one cav-
alry brigade, which lost 40 per cent.
of its total in five days.
I was greatly interested when this
Prussian officer informed me that he
had been separated from his com-
rades. and had run into a trench full
of British cavalrymen. I was eager
for a piece of information.
"How was it," I asked, "that the
Germans dict not get through that
day? The British were retiring
slowly and stubbornly, and a vigorous
pursuit would- have made a sauve qui
pout of it. We thought we were;
scuppered, sure."
Illusion of Reserves.
"Well, I'll tell you," he said. "When
the British occupied the prepared
trenches outside the town we ad-,
vanced in force, but the Dragoon;
Guards held us up a long time. They;
had a good field of fire and we eoulcl
not make headway. They spoiled our
game. Then when the dict manage to'
get some of the French trenches on
the right of the cavalrymen we caw
your enormous reserves and had to
wait fon: our supports to come up."
I was amazed. "Reserves!" I ex-'
claimed. "Why, we had no reserves.'
Overhauling the Liners.
The C.P.R. is gbing to overhaul its'
trans -Pacific liners at the beginning
of the new year. The boats will be
Laid up at cirydock at Hong Kong for
renovation and repair. The Empress
of Asia will be the first to be laid up.'
She will be out of commission for ,
about a month. The Empress of Rus-
sia and Empress of Japan will be laid,
up in turn -the former having a
month and the latter 20 days at Hong
Kong. The big liners are kept in the
best of trim, being all thoroughly
overhauled once a year. The Empress
of Asia and Empress of Russia have
not been completely overhauled since
they were released from the Admiral-
ty aervice, toward the latter part of
last year. The Monteagle, which is
now on her way across the Pacific,
was recently overhauled at Hong
Kong',
Krupps' Works in Danger.
The Amsterdam correspondent of
the London Trines says that since
French airmen attacked Essen a large
number of anti-aircraft guns which
had previously been removed have
been remounted, Workmen have been
busily engaged in constructing bomb-
proof
ombproof underground shelters, which, it
is believed, are intended for storing
the most dangerous explosives. Re-
garding the reports of disturbances at
Espen, a strike wits threatened, but
the workmen's conditions, which itis
believed concerned the food arrange-
ments were granted.
Gratitude is so cheap that there is
110 excuse for giving it grudgingly.
For every ailment there are a dozen
ernes that don't,
Ito believe that the further advance of
their troops was fraught with danger,
and the trenches held that day by the
'British are still in their possession.
Our conversation was interrupted
by a messenger. A party of newly -
taken prisoners from the Somme front
was about to arrive. A flutter of ex-
citement ran through the camp, "Now
we shall have some reliable "news,"
said the prisoners, They got it,
Early arrivals in this camp had
fumed and fussed at the ill luck that
made them prisoners of war when
their fellows were driving along to
certain victory, This spirit of confl-
denee has received harsh blows in
the course of two years as new
batches of prisoners arrived with dis-
couraging tales of checked progress
and steps of retrogression. They
were to hear sad tidings from the,
Somme, A nerve -racked, disheartened
group of captives, dusty and torn of
raiment, was ushered into the
grounds.
Slowly and with much shaking of
the head, with gestures of despair,
outspreading of expressive hands and
tears of humiliation, the tale was
told. It was a tale of overwhelming,
soul and body -shattering shell fire.
Of trenehes and shelters, laboriously
constructed during months of pa-
tient perseverance, blown to frag-
ments in an hour. Of wave upon
wave of sunburnt, laughing British
Tommies and battalion after battalion
of resolute, bearded Poilus that came
over the shot -torn landscape to over-
whelm the soldiers of the Father-
land, dazed and distracted by the
most terrible artillery preparation the
world has ever seen.
Far into the night the captives
talked. The cheeriest of them grew
solemn during the recital. The elder
men wept. There appeared no gleam
of hope of victory. An ill -balanced
compromise was the best to be hoped
for. The "place in the sun" was
more remote than ever.
CANALS OF MESOPOTAMIA.
Great Irrigation Schemes and Their
•
Destruction.
Great irrigation schemes enabled
Mesopotamia, Armenia- and other
countries 10 the near and middle East
to become the seats of mighty empires
in spite of their arid climates. e' To-
day, says Dr. Arthur Seltvyn-Brows in
the Scientific American, they have fete
cities of any importance. Bagdad,
which has a population of about one
hundred and fifty thousand, had two!
million ten centuries ago. The dif-
ference between Mesopotamia then and
to -day is the result of the destruction
of the canals.
In the height of its prosperity Bag
dad 'had the most remarkable system
of irrigation that has ever been con-
: strutted. The canals about the ci v
measured over three thousand miles in
length. They were well built, sup.
plied with storage basins, locks and
weirs, bridges and loading docks for
barges, and were carefully kept in
good order.
There were others, both north an
south of the city that joined the Euph
rates with the Tigris, and there w:er
several that ran parallel with th
rivers.
The Largest was known as the Chos
roes Canal. It was built in early his
torical tines to connect Bagdad with
the city of Dur, about ane hundrec
north. This canal was extend.
ed by the Caliph Al -Mansur to the city
of Madharaya, the modern Kut
Amara. Later caliphs carried it one
hundred and fifty miles beyond Dur.
Whenever this canal passed through
loose soil it was over two hundred fee
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On the Border.
too nate not even any supports to
amounted to anything. Several days
passed before any considerable num-
ber of troops were able to assist us."
Puzzling halt.
Now this statement of the prison
commander was of rather weird in -
teres , After the pretty but 1,o
U
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fictitious story of the angels of Mons, 1
which originated in a poetic concep-
tion of Arthur Machete there went
from mouth to mouth the story of the
heroes of Agincourt who had arisen'
from the ancient battlefields where
their bones had lain these 500 years,
and in their thousands had faced the
invaders of France and FIanders. The
wise and nnpootic sneered at the fan-
tastic conception, but some sort of
explanation for the German halt in
the midst of their victorious stride
during those early days of November,
11)14, has still to be offeree]. My friend
the prisoner of war was merely con-
firming the evidence given by sumer- 1
ous prisoners of those strenuous days.
who persistently talked of vast re-!
serves descried behind our thin and
tortuous linea.
Still Hold Trendies.
Whatever the explanation, the fart 1
remains that by some optical illusion
the Prussian commanders were led;
Monsieur:
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11 peewee, 301J oI1
'Mention twelve animals of the
Police' regions,' said the professor, and
the respairing student wrote:
"Sic seals and six polar bears!"
I4:dir, indeed,
"He has a cert' rare disease."
"That so? What is it?"
"Something brought on by uver-
•work. "
55:onsistent-
Teaeher-writer¥, your face is but
half washed,
`Tr iilio-Yes're, but to -day is only a
in width and sre feet deep. Where the "Never!" exclaimed the prisoner, half holiday.
ground became rocky it sons reduced suddenly bursting into tears.
to a width of forty or fifty feet, This "Well, well, den'( ery, my man," said
trunk canal carried a large boat traffic his Honor, consolingly; "you're going
and supplied water to hundreds of to be now."
utiles of lateral canals and irrigation •
ditches. It served many thousands
of miles of most splendid farmingr Tells how To Strengthen
ftZ
country. ��a6-� M �s ���
Sooth of tete city of Kerbelu, on the, Eyesight
Eurphartes, three were great irriga-
tion60 perOne works on what is probably the Time agricultural land is Asia, The e 9J .fin Al ny Instances)
t nc'it''s)
Euphrates has since shifted its bed
about thirty utiles to the eastward, and
the rich canal lands are nothing but
unwholesome, reedy swamps, the
haunts of water buffaloes, cranes and
other animals and birds.
Between Dur and Bassora there
were over fiety trunk canals between
the Tigris and the Euphrates, and they
The fellow who does his own think-
ing is never afraid of what the other
fellows think,
irrigated thirty-seven thousand square
miles of rich farming lands. These
ands, called the "Meadows of Gold,"
were worked to the fullest extent
under the Abbnsside caliphs, and even
until 1258, when the Mongols welted
Bagdad and brought the rule of the
caliphs to an end. After the Mongo-
ian invasion Bagdad was no longer the
capital of the Mohammedans and the
holy city of detain.
Mleord's Santrnoat dares Diphtherts.
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d0rFn1 55000 preacriptian, Cleo mon 081580, after
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A beautiful young lady interviewed
a fnrtnne-toiler on the usual subjects,
"Lady," said the clairvoyant, "you
will visit foreign lands and the courts
of kings nod queens. You will con-
quer all rivals and marry the man of
your choice. IIe will be tall and dark,
and aristocratie-looking,"
"And youngs?" interrupted the;
lady.
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The beautiful lady grasped the for-
tune-teller'a hands and pressed them
hard•
"Thank you," the said, "Now tell inn
one thing More. How shall I get rid
of my present husband ?"
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bottle of Icon-Opto tablet.. lir 15 o cue 15 m -Ona
tablet in n fourthit of tt genes of water cud Otto,,
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to soca thou, now Winn" it 0 1,, lute, Ohre,
hepelveoly blind micht hien been eared if they
had eared for their cyte in time.
Naar: Auechet Prsinteent riles:eam to whore the
nteve moor tries aahmlttcd, sold lton•omo 50 i.
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In coney Inetanre0 0r tibio for money. 11 0510 be
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