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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-11-29, Page 3STORIES FROM TIIE BATTLEFIELDS KILTIES STRIKE FEAR INTO GERMAN HEARTS. Tale of a Highlander's Bayonet Charge to Revenge His Fallen Brothel'. A. Scotsman with a rather bad wound was telling me that on the Western front the very sight of the, kilted Highlanders strikes fear into the herrt of the average German sole dier, eltys a London correspondent. The Itfities are the terror of the Huns, believe me!" he said. He had been in the' thick of the fighting from Festubert of immortal memory, on- ward. His regiment is ,known the whole world over. "Our colonel is' the gamest man on earth," he said. "One day the Fritzes had just massed, and were beginning to top their parapet for a charge, when, to our utter amazementand consternation, the colonel sprang up the ladder, and in a trice was out on our own parapet for all the Germans to see. - "Before we could realize what had happened, he raised his arms, shouting at the pitch of his voice: 'Come on, Gordons, Camerons and Seaforths, come on!" "For a moment we didn't under- stand, and then we let out such a yell, and let drive such a terrific volley that the Fritzes, to a man, turned tail. an;1, before you could have said ,' .k`Rob- s inson" every mother's soli of them was back again in the trenches—the charge was 'off'—and the colonel stepped down, smiling. "It was the colonel's wit that had tved the situation. Those Germans must have thought that all the clans of Scotland were at his back. As a matter of fact, had they come over they would have found only a handful of men to deal with. A Bayonet Battle. "We had one awful bayonet battle in a wood. Beside me there fought a young Scotchman whose brother had been killed noticing before. He• griev- ed most terribly for 14 brother; and his one thought was of revenge. 'Not the revenge of the bullet,' he would say, 'that's too humane for these dev- ils. It's the revenge of the bayonet I'm going to have.'" "He would finger the long glittering steel almost lovingly. He bided his time patiently. And one day his time came. "I 'went over' beside him. I knew he would excel himself, and he. did. "What a fight! The Germans were determined to hold the ositio . We p n swept right past their machine guns, toppled them over and soon were in the thick of the bayonet battle. "The man beside me rushed at three Germans. One at a time wasn't enough for him. I never saw such bayonet work as he did. The cold steel whirled and struck like lightning, ac- curate every time. It was everywhere and everything—a rapier, a crashing bludgeon. "Next I saw him fighting six Ger- mans, single-handed, and the look on his face was pure delight. Revenge was very near.. In quicker time than it takes to tell you these six Germans were lying at his feet—and beyond the help of a doctor, too, each man of them. "They gave' that Highlander more elbow room then. They literally flew in front of him!' I believe he'd have taken on the whole garrison single- handed in ingle-handed.in his consuming strength and rage. "He got through all right,' too. We drove the enemy back toward a swamp and soon the poor devils were com- pletely at our mercy. They were sucked down by the mud and shouting. 'Kamerad! Kamerad!' The Highland- ers had won the day." • "SHOUTING TELEPHONES." New Device•For Direction and Control of Field -Batteries. The United States War Department has recently made some interesting experiments with "shouting tele- phones" for the direction and control of'batteries of field guns. Such gunfire, of course, is 'h'lways directed by a battery commander, who ordinarily phones his orders to Subor- dinate officers, for repetition to the - gunners. Incidentally to their repetie Con mistakes are sometimes made. But the shouting telephone throws out sounds loudly and clearly enough to be heard without holding a receiver to the ear. Attached to the receiver is a megaphone horn, and the spoken words, issuing from the latter •are clearly audible at a distance of twenty feet or more. An idea under consideration is that of attaching a receiver and horn to each gum of a battery, the object in view being to, permit the several can noneers to settheir guns (for range 1and elevation) direct!y from the bat - tory commander's orders. It is thought that such an arrange- ment would be of special value where dile several guns of the battery were lobated in emplacements at consider - Ole distances apart, as is conlmon- ly the case in presenteday Warfare. • Apples, cored and filled with chopped dates or figs, then baked, make tun eXegllent breakfast dish, Don't say "Breakfast Food "—say "Shredded ,Wheat"—for while you no doubt mean Shredded Wheat, you may get one of those mushy porridges that are a poor substitute for the crisp, delicious shreds of baked whole wheat—that supply all the nutriment for a half day's work. Two Biscuits with milk or cream make a nourishing. meal at a cost of a few cents. Made in Canada.'. THE CRUISER'S BEAR. Government Surveyors Encounter a Full -Grown Bruin. In The Log of .a..;rimber Cruiser Mr. W. P. Lawson gives a striking il- lustration of the dangers that the hardy government surveyors not in- frequently face. The crew was run- ning• the line down a narrow ravine at one side of the forest bpundary. It was late afternoon, says Mr. Lawson nearly time to knock obi work. Con- way walked fifty yards or more in ad- vance of the others. Wetherby, at the moment, was helping Wallace with the plane table. At a• sudden, unusual sound in the brush to the left, Wallace turned aside to investigate. The next in- stant he came back at full speed, with his eyes popping and his legs working wildly. Ten yards behind him, snarl- ing and fighting the brush, lumbered a full-grown cinnamon 'bear. The beast was in a towering rage, caused by a steel trap and eight feet of heavy chain that trailed from his prisoned hind foot. Had it not been for this drag he would doubtless have caught ,Wallace before he had run twenty feet. As it was, Wallace reached an oak tree a few strides ahead of the bear and "shinned" up the trunk. When Wetherby saw Wallace with the bear in his wake he at once follow- ed a natural and compelling impulse to climb a tree. Conway, warned by. Wetherby, also sought a convenient oak, But the infuriated bear began to climb after Wallace. Wetherby, they only one of the trio who carried a re-! volver, immediately el left the limb on which he sat and called out to his be-' leaguered chief, "Sit tight, Wally! I'll be over in a minute!" To go gunning !for an angry bear with a thirty-eight caliber pistol is a risky business. Wallace as well as Conway endeavored to turn Wetherby from the attempt. "Go back, Wetherby!" yelled his su- perior, as the axeman approached. "Shoot him from the tree. He'll get you sure now if you wound him!" "I haven't moue) cartridges to waste any," was all that Wetherby replied as he ran under the tree and took careful aim at the beast above. A shot sounded, and the bear's head snapped to one side as if it had been struck` sharply with a club; his great muscles relaxed and he slid scramb- jingly down with his heavy claws rip- ping long, deep grooves in the bark of the tree. Wetherby circled about, excited but alert, waiting to put five more soft - nosed bullets into the wounded animal. A moment later he saw that they were not needed. The first ball, entering behind the ear, had penetrated the thin coating of muscle there, broken 10 GREAT WORLD GRAINS are combined in the perfected P ready -cooked cereal Grape -Nuts This appetizing p p blend ofWheat and -Barley is over 98% Food. ECONOMICAL HEALTHFUL sDELIGHTFUL through the skull and pierced the! brain. It Was a perfect shot, "Good shooting", old boy!" cried Con- way, as he slapped the delighted marksman on the back, ' Wallace's way was different; with a silence snore eloquent than a torrent of thanks, he grasped Wetherby's hand and wrung it fervently. A PleNNY PROBLEM. UniformCurrency and Coinage Throughout British Empire. Financial exports are concerned about the English penny, says a Lon- don paper. Experts in currency re- form contemplate an alteration in its value; but the problem is whether the penny is to be worth more or worth a little less, It is by ino means an easy affair to decide. Railway and 'bus people want a new penny which will be worth more, so that they will thereby secure additional revenue without increasing penny fares. If the penny is decreas- ed it will upset their arrangements, for they will lose money unless they increase fares, and they can hardly; put on a farthing, and an extra half -1 penny would place much of their traf- fic in peril. As is known, the Dominion Royal Commission advocates a uniform cur- i rency and coinage in the Empire,! based on the tleeimal system, The gen. eral view is that the sovereign must' remain the essential unit, and divided into a thousand parts or mils.. This would allow the present half -sove- reign, florin, shilling, and sixpence to; remain, but the copper money would '• have to be altered. Here comes the , point. The penny must either be a four -mil piece, which is 96d., or a five - mil piece, which is 1.2d. It is a nice problem for finapcial experts. As a matter of fact, not, very long ago the British Government was seriously thinking of minting three -halfpenny pieces. COMMUNICATION DURING • ATTACK HOW THEY DIG TRENCHES. Steam -Driven Ditching Machines Will I3e Introduced.. The trenches en the battle fronts in Europe havebeen dug almost wholly AN INCIDENT OF 'I'HN BATTLE by hand Luber. The work, of course, OF THE SOMME. has been of an extremely laborious' description. In the aggregate it hast doubtless far exceeded the labor that; would have been required to dig the How Miscalculation on the Part of Panama Canal with pick and shovel. Range Finders Meant Loss to It is now proposed to use steam - driven ditching meehinss, and con - Attacking Troops. serve energy for the business of fight - Communication during an attack is maintained by signal flares, runners, aviators and the telephone, says Cap- tain David Fallon, M.C. Each officer before he goes into action 15 provided with a Very pistol and colored lights. If the attack is successful and an en- trance has been made into the oppos- ing trenches the officer in charge of that particular sector will fire two green lights in quick succession. This signal, seen by the artillery observ- !ing officer, tells him that the attack has been successful and that he has now to lift his barrage fire ahead of the advancing troops and so cut off any reinforcements which the Boche commander might contemplate send- ing up. The gunners then raise their sights a few hundred yards and con- centrate their flre on the Boche re- serve lines. Signals of Distress. Should the attack fail, as often was the case in the early part of the war, when we were outnumbered in arms, men and guns, the officer in command would send up two red lights in quick succession and try to get in touch with the observing officer through run- ners and the signallers operating the telephone. During the attack -on Moquet Farm in the great Somme battle our artil- lery was sending over a hurricane of fire and was supposed to be playing its hymn of hate on the Boche lines. But when we reached the opposing front lines we were met with a terrific hail of bullets from machine guns and rifles. Our barrage had failed to reach the Boche trenches through faulty observation and we found the Huns standing in the trenches with their rifles pointed'at us. I sent up my two red lights, which were then the distress signal, or S.O.S., and sent back tworunners to tell the forward observing officer what had happened, since the signallers carrying the tele- phone wires had been killed. A shell had fallen among them. An Unsuccessful Attack. Most of my men in this attack were killed or dangerously wounded, and how I escaped is still a marvel to me, Seeing the hopelessness of my posi- tion I gave orders for my men to change direction half left and man by man to fall back into a disused trench not far away. Ot the sixty men I had taken into that action only two and myself es - caned unscathed. Eight had slight bullet wounds, fourteen were danger- ously wounded and the remainder were either killed outright or taken prisoners. At night time those that could be moved were sent back to the field dressing station. With a couple of men who had escaped hurt I crawled over the battlefield and ren- dered first aid to those needing as- sistance and removed the identifica- tion discs and letters from those who had paid the great price for the cause. RHEUMATISM CURED In the days of our fathers and grand - lathers rheumatism was thought to be the unavoidable penalty of middle life and old, age. Almost every elderly person had rheumatism, as well as many young people. Medical science did not understand the trouble—did not know that it was rooted in the blood. It was thought that rheumatism was the mere effect of exposure to cold and damp, and it was treated with liniments and hot applications, which sometimes ghve temporary re- lief, but did not cure the trouble. In those days there were thousands of rheumatic cripples. Now, medical science understands that rheumatism is a disease of the blood, and that with good, rich, red blood any man or woman of any age can defy rheu- matism. I can a n be curedkilling by.the poison in the blood e b cod which causes it. There are many elderly people who have never felt a twinge •of rheuma- tism, and many who have conquered it by simply keeping their blood rich and pure. The blood making, blood enriching qualities of Dr. Williams Pink Pills is becoming every year more widely known, and it is the more general use of these pills that has robbed rheumatism of its terrors. At the first sign of poor blood, which is shown by loss of appetite, palpitations, dull shin and dim eyes, protect your -1 self against the further ravages of disease by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They have cured thousands of -people—if you give them a fair trial they will riot disappoint you, . You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.5'O from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville, Onto WAR AND GARDENS. Horticultural Products Not Always Indicative of Peace and Quiet. The Bible tells us that all the trouble of the world was hatched in a garden, sad certainly more than one war has sprung from the same peace- ful retreat. In English history the most famous garden in 1 ''s connec- tion is the Temple Garden, between Fleet Street and the Thames. There the first act of the famous Wars of the Roses took place. This war, which lasted thirty years, and included twelve pitched battles, was between the rival houses of York and Lancaster. One day in the Temple Gardens the Duke of York plucked a white rose and called on his supporters to do the same. The Duke of Somerset, Who stead for the reign- ing king, Henry VI., of Lancaster, plucked a red rose and commanded his supporters to do likewise, Thus did these badges become the symbols of contending forces, and when they were combined in the Tudor Rose it became the symbol of unity. The Man of Sarajevo, whose death is costing_millioes of lives in the pre- sent world war, was a' poseur of the Kaiser type and reckoned to be very yp l y aesthetic. He was supposed to dote on roses, and It was actually In a gor- geous rose garden that, shortly before his tragical death, he met the Kaiser, and amid the perfume of the roses these twe arch -scoundrels plotted this war. And we have it on Mr. Gerard's au- thority that the seed which„grew into the entrance of America into the world war was sown in the shape of a telegram written by the Kaiser "in a little garden, seated under a big umbrella at a small table.” So from Edon to Pored= gardens have not always been fruitful of rest and quietude. PECULIAR IDEAS OF BEAUTY. Opinions Regarding Feminine Loveli- ness Vary Greatly. It is amazing how ideas of beauty vary with latitude and longitude. In Japan, the professional beauty loves to appear with golden teeth; in India she prefers them stained red, but in certain parts of Sumatra no lady who respected herself- would condescend to have any front teeth at all. They are removed the moment they appear, and strictly suppressed if they should try again. In Persia, anything but an aquiline nose is "off." Even quite a decent snub -nose is out of it. But in Uganda a lady is chiefly sought on account of her India -rubber nose. In Japan it must be "tip -tilted," have a heavenly direction, and in Britain any sort of old nose will pass so long as it is not everlastingly poking itself into other people's business. In eastern countries red hair and A GRAND MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES Baby's Own Tablets are a grand medicine for little ones. They are a mild but thorough laxative ; aro ab- solutely safe; easy to give and never fail to cure any of the minor ills of little ones. Concerning them. Ivies, Jae, S. Hastey, Gleason Read, N.B., writes :—"I have used Baby's Own Tablets and have found them perfect- ly satisfactory for my little ono." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The. Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Butterfly Sounds. There are species of butterflies that produce sound during certain move- ments. The "whip" butterfly, when it is surprised, opens and shuts its wings in quick succession and makes a noise like the snap of a lash. Some hiber- nating butterflies, when disturbed, make a faint hissing sound by slowly depressing and raising their wings. The noise thus produced resembles that made when you blow slowly through closed teeth. Other sounds resemble the friction of sandpaper. A large number of caterpillars make sound by striking their heads against the leaf on which they are resting or by swinging their heads from side to side and catching the mandibles in the; MING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALU55. 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When the Prince of Wales gains a few days' leave from the Front he leads a strenuous life in London. Early in the morning, with one of his brothers or another friend, he walks from Buckingham Palace to a West End club, 'where a game of squash racquets is indulged in. Then comes a rub -down and a swim in a plunge -bath. A walk back t. the Palace finds our soldier -prince ready for a hearty :.eal, to be followed by a series of social engagements. In a Bond Street tobacco -shop is a line of cigar -boxes marked "Reserved for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales." The smokes are used as gifts to intimate friends. Minara'a Liniment Cares Colds, 800, Clock Has 52 Dials.• On Beauvais Cathedral there ie a clock which is composed of 92,000 separate pieces, having 52 dial plates. This clock gives the time in the big capitals of the world, as well as the local hour, the day of the week and ,month, the rising and setting of . the sun, the phases of the moon and tides, as well as considerable other informa- tion. Pack glass and china in hay that is slightly damp, This will prevent the articles from slipping about, warts are in the same category; but. LEMONS MAKE STUN coming west as far as Constantinople where red hair is very uncommon, we find it just es greatly admired, and henna used to make it red if it isn't. In England "Titian red," as it is call- ed, is greatly admired now, and any woman novelist who wants to bo among the "biggest sellers" must give her heroine Titian red hair. Yet in Africa a crop of the blackest, curliest, closest hair imaginable makes a girl the belle of the kraal, especial- ly if she be Plump, with piggya es , thick lips, a nose like an India -rubber shoo, and a skin that shines like a cooking stove. •1 In many instances the clearing of trees from a slope has encouraged e washing of soil thatnot only ruins the elope, but also buries the produc- tive field nt its foot, and greatly in- creases the damage done by brooks et flood conditions., Scientists have counted 276 spoken languages and dialects in Africa.' lil[inat'd'a Liniiueat Cures Distemper,' WHITE, SOFT, CLEAR. Make. this beauty lotion for a few cents and see for yourself. What girl or woman hasn't heard of !lemon juice to remove.complexion blemishes ; to whiten the skin and to bring out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beatity 0 But lemon juice alone is acid, therefore irritating, and should be mixed with orchard white this way, Strain through a fine 01oth freshlenon inoa eftVOO! a t the joie 4 1 bottle containing about three ounces of orchard white, then shake well and you have a whole quarter pint of skin and complexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar of ordinary colcl cream, Be sore to strain the lemon juice so no pale gets into the bottle, then this lotion will romalu pure and fresh for months, When applied daily to the face,' deck, arms and bands it should help to bleach, clear, smoothen and beautify tho Skin, Any dtrtlggist will supply three ounces of orchard white nt vers- little cost and the grocer has the lemons. _o_-o—o 0 0 0 0-0-0-0-0-0— Sore corns, hard mein, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be lift- ed right out with the fingers if you will apply on the corn a few drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati authority. At little cost one can get a small bottle of freezone at any drug store, which will positively rid one's, feet of every corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection. This new drug is an ether com- pound, and dries the moment it is ap- plied and does not inflame or even ir- ritate the surrounding tissue. Just think ! You can lift off your corns and calluses now without a bit of pain or soreness. If your druggist hasn't freezone he can easily get a small bot- tle for you from his wholesale drug house. TILT TORTURE firDI ELLANDOlYS 'HEAVEN EAVEN AND HELL"—Sweden- .�1 berg's great work on a real world beyond and the life after death 400 pages; only 25 rents postpaid. W. E. Law, 456D Euclid Avenue, Toronto. CANCER, TUMORS, LUMPS, ETC.. 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