HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-4-24, Page 3°.BOW THE CANADIANS STOPPED TSE HUNS
AT TEE SECOND BATTLE 4E YP ES
.tirSt-Hind Story, of the ])body' Battle of St, Julien Where
1lliNiCii Tr99SS Won ]illppefijSllttble Fllene in a,(,'ileie Gallant
fofelcee Of the Eoad to Calais.
(Sergeant E. Outlet, anther ot't11e By 4 o'clock that same ;afternoon
• vivid description of tho 000ond battle we were ilring at 400 yard range direct
•oi' Ypres printed below, enlisted on tiring (open sights). We oould dis.,
• .August 30, 1014, as driver 1» the p'iftb Cern the Germans mil/fleeing on a
'Battery, Second Brigade, Canadian ridge in the distanee, while our guns
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'Field Artillery, and as among tiro were popping away like machine guile.
first or the Canadian troops to reach We could dearly see our shells burst -
:England. After the third battle of ing among them, scattering them and
Ypres in July, 19&6, lie. teas -sent home driving them back. We kept this up
.suffering from shell 'shock. Out of until dark, every animate expecting to
:the original 144 {nen ;in the battery be taken priaonet's and to have our
'Only twelve were left]', - grins captured: by tete Rims,
I will never forget marching through Sunday evening, April 25, saw us
Ypres to take our place .,'at 'St, Julien; again in the saddle waiting for dark -
which was then tho head of 'the M. Hass to screen,onr movements while
limit It was a' glorious flay in.. the we took up a new position, about half
'middle of April, 1015, Business Vitas a mile'In front of Ypres.
;.going 00 as usual in the city and the An incident occurred haat afternoon
inhabitants turned out en masse to which will serve to show the 'hair-'
give us 0 Welcome and a "bon voyage," breadth' escapes that 4cappon on the
One could hardly think that war was battlefield.
.so close at hand, Now and again one Our draught horses were Booked to
could' hear the occasional poem of a the ammunition wagons ready to take
gun, ,but up to this time very few the ammunition tb the guns. The Hien
:shells had dropped. into Ypres, all 'slept underneath the wagons, Per.
It Was a beautiful city then, with its haps you cannot understand how men
magnificent church and schools and are able to sleep at all m the midst of
'beautiful residences. But wbat a unceasing bombardments, butone
change a year later, when we were de- 500n gets aecustomed,to the noise, es-
-tailed to take up a position in front of pecialIy when very tired, • and ,tired
Ypres again, ..Not a house was 'left men fall asleep very easily.
:standing, everything was raid low. and A shell burst among the .six horses
the shells were stiil dropping, big ones attaghed to the tiring battery wagon,
.and little ones, from the enemy's -killing four outright :and wounding
"little Willie's" - up .to their fifteen two so badly that I was later obliged
inch `,Ypres expresses." to- shoot them.:, But strange to say,
Sudden Bombardment Begins. this
a man was touched. However,
this was. enough for -us, and we beat
Our guns were in position at St. it,.placiug our horses and ammunition
.Julien; the horse and wagon lines at in the: garden of an Ypres banker,
Wiltje,a hamlet between St. Jelin andStabled Horses Ln Conservatory.
.apt. Julien. The distance, from the
:guns to the horse lines" was about one It seemed, a cisme to dig ourselves
and one-half miles. Everything went into these beautiful grounds, breaking
smoothly until the evening of down grape vines and tearing the con-
-along.Apri1 22, about 5 oclock. servatory all to pieces; as a matter
We were seated at supper, when all of fact, we placed some of our horses
at Dice a terrific bombardment in the conservatory; it was the only
Com-
menced. In the distance we could see thing to do, We dug a largo number
n.
green smoke rolling along the of holes. The men slept in these
:ground. We . couldn't make out what
it was at first, and while we wore
watching it the Buns commenced
.slii,ening every road, ammunition
duips and horse lines.
Very shortly the Turcos, who were
holding the line on the -left, coo-
•zneneed coming through our horse
.lines Ln twos and "throes, some help-
ing along a comrade, and all looking
US if they were scared to death. Soon
it became 0 regular retreat, and every-
where they wet° retiring. We thought
they -had `cold feet' and were running
away, and I ani afraid some of them
were roundly abused by .the Cana-
dians, but we soon found out how mis-
taken we were .when a French officer
who Was wounded in the arm same along rather quietly compared with
.along and told us that the Germans what they had boon previously. Then
were putting over a poison smoke and Again all at once the Boches made an -
Shat -tlie _ Turcos were lying dead in
thousands in the trenches.
About 8 o'olock 'ye got orders to re-
tire. All this,tin'ie the rifles and. ma for the fir¢t time, and never will I tor -
chine guns as well as tae artillery get the wonderful sight of the Sikhs,
were banging away. The sides of the GurI.has and Bengal Lancers march -
roads were covered with dead and I ing past, going up to the front._
wounded mei{ and horses, and the
stretcher bearers were busy, working Charge of the Indians.
silently, and taking all. kinds of A11 these troops were fitted out with
chances. two revolvers in addition to our re -
At 4.30 a.m. we got orders to go gular equipment as well as a long
back over the same road and -take up
the same poeiti00,
*0- sooner had we got into position
than the Huns commenced another
attack. The range was 3,500 yards.
• All that day, we pounded away just as
• LIEUT.-GEN. JACQUES?, TAKING 3RD BATTALION'S SALUTE
The Commander of the Belgian 'Army, who wears 22 decorations,
streaming like a rainbow across his c hest, is here shown at the march -past
at Liege, taking the salute of the 3rd Battalion veterans as they entered
the Belgian city,
et holes, A shell buret about twenty
Yards in front, of us, killing. the near.
wheel horse aitd my horse, which was
about ten yards to the left of the wheel
horsey . �
You Can imagine r�vttat' happ0neci
when riding at .a full gallop your horse
suddenly drops from ander—you go
sailing through the air. Luckily 1 had
no bones broken in the fall. Shells
were dropping and bursting all around
us while we were hastily adjusting
our horses, but we managed to get
away successfully without further
damage.
In the midst of our' duel with the
enemy:an S 0 S call came and I was
•called upon to go for untmunition.
Fortunately for me, the corporal was
not ready as soon as. the drivers were;
so I took the wagons up while'he rode
to the column. That was the last .I
saw of him, for he never came back
to us '
About two weeks ,,afterward we re-
ceived a letter from`a nurse in one of
the hospitals•saying that the corporal
was there, wounded, but was doing
fine. It appeared that while riding
along a shell had burst behind him,
killing his Horse and ripping him up
the back with shrapnel. Ile crawled
to the ditch, and in his feeble and
wounded condition he was unable to
attract the attention of any of the am -
holes, resembling graves, each just butane drivers. While he was lying
large enough for one man. We placed there another shell burst near him and
old lumber on the top and covered added to his injuries. Later he was
then{ over with about three feet of picked up, and he found himself eight
dirt. This was splinter proof, but not hours later in an English, hospital.
by any means shell proof.
The next morning about 7 o'clock
we got the first direct hit on 13 section
gun, Tho shell 'burst directly over
the muzzle of the gun, killing or
wounding the entire gun crew-, except
one gunner who happened to be on his
knees setting fuses. Previous td this in the fleshy part above the knee, but
the Boches had been very busily try- it was not very Painful, and I managed
ing to locate our guns by the ald of to limp to a dressing -station, where it
airplanes. -At last they succeeded, was extracted. Of course it matte me
and then it became hot. limp around for a while, but it was
For two or three days things went not a hospital case.
For a couple of days my leg was a
little stiff, but I was able with the as-
sistance of a stick to go around among
the horses and attend to those that re-
quired attention. One afternoon about
3 o'clock the Huns shelled us out of
our garden; they had evidently lo-
catetk us• by' airplane,•' -for they'`simply
rained the shells into our horse lines.
We got most of then away, but lost
about thirty horses and five men, be--
sides
e•sides having an ammunition wagon
blown to pieces.
The shelling lasted about half an
hour, and as soon as it ceased we got
busy going over our horses, and found
that about ten horses were killed out-
right.
By this time the Germans had been
stopped and the second battle of
Ypres was practically over.
Evasion.
They extracted thirteen shrapnel bul-
lets and three pieces of shell; and he
is still carrying three ballets in his
body. Bythe way, this same corporal
is a Captain now, and has been -wound-
ed three times since then.
The next.day I got a shrapnel bullet
other attack. 'This happened in the
morning about six o'clock, and they
captured our_newfirst line trenches.
About noon I saw the Indian troops
curved knife called the kukim. They
marched past us, chanting their war
songs. They were brought to the
front especially to snake a charge;
and I may say here that these troops.
are considered as brave as any troops
• •gnickly,,as.tlie gunners .could load and • in the world- when, it comes to making
used up all the shells that the eight a charge and fighting at short range.
ammunition waggons held, as well as They cannot endure shell fire, nor
those on two gun limbers. are they fitted for trench fighting.
On the morning of April 24 our They cannot be persuaded to stand
range was 2,100 yards—quite a drop still doing nothing while listening to
from 3,500, but, as you will see, it the shells screaming over their heads,
dropped a good bit more before we re- They want to be up and doing.
tired out 02 that hole: From an eye witness of this charge
As we were standing to, ready to I learned that they no sooner got to
• limber up and retire if necessary, the the front line trenches than they went
Horses being saddled and hooked to over the top and, Ioosenittg•their web
the limbers, a peeultar thing happen- equipment on the way, threw it from
ed which would be hard to believe un 'their -shoulders, allowing their revol-
less actually seen, We were just get- vers. and bayonets to fall from them
ting ready to move when a shellcame and throwing away their rifles. All'
down not ten yards fromme and land- they had to depend upon, and which
ed right behind the saddle of the near they did depend upon. was their kit;
, lead horse of D eubgun team. This him% They went through the Ger-
shell did not explode until it got inside mans like a pack of hornets, and every
the horse, Strange to say, not a man time they swung their kukims off
was hurt, not even the driver who was came a head or an arm.
holding the horse by the head--- The About an hour after they made this
near horse's mate in the team was
not even scratched, but all that was
left of the near horse was his head
and shoulders, ' - •
Only a Preliminary Calm.
That night was a little 2tlieter, but
It was only' the mem before the storm,
fol' the next morning hell broke loose
again and our range dropped to 1,200
yards. Of course when you remem-
ber that in.1015 the Runs had ten
times the number of guns we heti you
can imagine what we went through,
The Germans knew that if they could
only get into Ypres they would stand"
a good chance to get, to Calais, And
I can assure yeti they- were trying
hard,• Although the 0anedians lost
abort 18,000 1000 out of a total of 30,1
000 all told they very materially help-
ed to stop the Germans from getting
through: 1
(`Pilate sent hint unto Herod." St.
Luke exit.: 6, 7.)
As when a hare, which baying dogs re-
tard
Taketh an opening, and is soon
away,
So Pilate,thought. "Good lneld this
very day
Sees Herod (whom he inwardly ab-
horred)
In Salem's streets," and then, with
feigned regard,
Ordered them thither, for he diulit-
less thought
This was the happy ending that he
sought—
But his fictitious peace full soma wag
marred.
As one who meets by chance an in-
jured friend—
One he had hoped dwelt still in
charge I met about. two thousand of foreign lands—
them coming back over the same Uneasy is, so Pilate when they wend
route. The majority of thein had the Their way to him again: "My hap-
less hand's
left hand hound up in bandages, and
all ware singing and appeared to be
quite 'happy, I fotnd out afterward
that they had caught the Mintny's
bayonets with the leftband anal used
the kulcims with the right.
A Narrow Escape,
The nest clay the klune came back
at us again; /Ivory, one was kept busy
obtaining and delivering ammunition
to the guns. That day I hall been Up
to tho guns seven tines with ammuni-
tion, and the last time, just at dusk,
I got into a pretty tight hole..
After we had unloaded the last
wagon of shells and had fust got on
the gallop to getout of the danger
zone the shells started dropping all
around' us and the field was soon felt
•�' 1,,‘CrilM1i111..1MOZCZ :nm. Kil.zv,..vra ve,„reitm.,,x Ct41.12cv ms ea,, •a- a,. f649,0M
Plate still doth lead! ;,Alts must I then
decide
What -to this: wondrous stranger shall
betide?". "
--Alexander Louis Fraser.
•
Flow to keep d Velvet Dress.
A good deal can bo dote to•avoid
wrinkles in velvet garments by hang-
ing carefully when they are not In
use. Bang them so that they swing
free of walls and doors and shelve%
and so that no other garments touch
them, Thciir very Weight will often
pull smooth their wrinkled surface and
their freedom frons contact with any-
thing will keep them from getting new
wrinkles,
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FROM OM SCOTLAND
`ND
NOTES 01' INTEREST PRCIVI Dion
HANKS ANI) 131tA13.
What is Going On in ,the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
The Military Cross has been.
awarded to Captain 3, Laing, 7211
Scottish Borderers, son of Mrs. J.
C. Laing,' Ibrone
The Military Medal - has been
awarded to .Lance -Corporal Colin
Saxton,; of Glasgow Highlanders,
Paisley.
Lieut. J. A. D. Elder, Canadians,
who died of wounds, was a grandson
of the late Rev. Andrew' Elder,
George Street U. F. Church, Paisley.
Thetotal amount received by e he
Paisley Red Cross fund for the year
1'18 was nearly £10,000.
The deathis announced at Tan-,
glee, Morocco, of William Kennedy,
one of the best known of Scottish
artists.
Five guns captured from the Ger-
mane have been placed on exhibition
in front of the Scott monument in
George Square, Glasgow.
It is intended to, provide a mem-
orial to former pupils of the Glasgow
Hill Head school who have made the
supreme sacrifice in the war.
During the Scottish Rad Cross
week nearly 250,000 was raised in
Lanarkshire for the funds of the Red
Cross..
Mr. and Mrs. William` McConnell,
of Dalhown, recently • .celebrated
their golden- wedding.
The Military Cross has been
awarded to Lieut. Henry Drummond
Brown, son of Angus Brown, Berea'
hill, Wishaw. •
Sir John Stirling Maxwell has
presented to the Glasgow corpora-
tion Greenbank Park.
The death is announced from Go-
van of Thomas P. Logan, who at ohs
time served on the Govan Parish
Council.
A .,performance gjven in Hengleees
Circus, Glasgow, netted £565 for tiie
funds of the Scottish Blinded Sol-
diers' and Sailors' Iiostel at Newing-
ton.'
The Institution of Engineers and
Shipbuilders in Scotland have de-
cided to revive the "James Watt"
dinner this year.
Sir John Lavery has presented to
the Glasgow corporation his famous
painting, Shipbuilding on the Clyde.
There has been a big reduction in
the prices of fruits in Glasgow as a
result of increased shipments.
The D.S.O. has been awarded to
Lieut. James Clouston, M.M., a well-
known Boys' Brigade officer of Leith.
A. 161: Wallace, of Edinburgh Acad-
emy, has been elected to the Modern
ST, JlJs1EN- 915 -.APL 22.24-1919
'A Tribute to the igerriOry or the Brave Boyo of Co°1e FfC'i,orid a»+t
of "The Fighting Third,"
Spino April sun, blew APri1 breeze, -
O'er' the nelde of Flanders trodden down,'
Where 1ho war-5od's winepress trampled Dalt,
For a nation's hist, and p war 100d'0 bout,
The blood of our sone in their fair, renown,
Fatll softly, 3qhewers, along the riffs
Where friend and eq
010 comnlo1i duo
,
But softly, too, where lrl graves raore deep.
Cur dead 11e 012180 in their last long sleep-
Our common gift to 0 common trust,
The gap lay wide for a thousand yards,
'Pwixt the fatal wood and St. Julien,
"Hold' on t111 relieved," the message went,
"Supports are coming,, but hold till then."
"We're holding nicely," the major said,
The shriek of the shrapnel, the deadly gas,
"'Phe thin drab line" must face it till,
To hold the line lest tho enemy pass.
And how they held it! .faee tq'tlie foe.
Through the shock and shatter of two long days,
'"Phe thin line'! thinner, until they knew,
They stood with Death in that bloody haze,
Wounded and spout the captain. limped, '
From man to man of the ragged row` -
"Your bayonets, boys, let us die like men,
Back to back with our face to the foe!
"Remember the boys we've got to avenge,
'Brave Billy' and 'Al,' poor 'Made' and 'Med'",
And the British troops which must come up—
God grant they do e'en they find us dead."
And brave lads fell as brave men should,
Their faces turned to the ruthless foe,
"The rush to Calais" they had bravely, stayed,
Though the I;uns in hordes opposed them so.
•
And "Somewhere in France" the lists were made,
And somewhere at home the lists were -read;
. "'0' and 'D' companies quite wiped out,
Some wounded and missing—most of them dead."
•
Low lay the shadows o'er all the land,
The smoke of guns, where our dead lie slain,
Though the noises quicken, the shadows shift
Into blacker shadows, they now must lift.
See! the East is alight o'er Judea's plain.
Now coulee the dawn! _To the land of/graves,
To the hearts at home that watch and wait.
The Angel .of Peace rolled back the stone
Froin tate prison gates. No longer alone—
Welcome our heroes returning in state;
History Scholarship of Corpus Chris-
ti College.
A club of nurses from overseas,
dominions and Americans was recent-
ly opened in Edinburgh by the Dow-
ager Countess of Jersey.
The death took place recently at
Edinburgh' of Henry Dambnann, a
well,known violinist who came to
that city from Portsmouth fifty
years ago.
In the latest list of V.C.'s is the
name of Lieut. David Stuart McGre-
gor; son of Mr. and Mrs. David Mc-
gregor, Warrender Park road, Edin-
burg. '
The Military Cross has been
awarded to Lieut Alex. W. Davidson,
son of -the Rev. A. P. Davidson, Edin-
burgh.
Lieut. -,Col. W. E. T. Christie, re-
ported dead in Capetown, was five
times mentioned in despatches, re-
etived the D.S.O. in 1917, and the
O.B.E. in 1918.
Sergi. Joseph Cooper McLean, Roy-
al Scots Fusiliers, has been awarded
the Croix de Guerre of the Order of
the 'Golden Star.
---,re---
Eight Soldier Brothers Survive War.
A most fortunate family war re-
cord is that standing to the credit of
the eight sons of -Mr. J. Broome, an
Eghc'tm (S trey) butcher. Although
several of them have participated in
many of the hardest fought battles
of the war two were among the
"Old Contemptible's," one has figured
five ei'mes in the offieiai casualty
lists, and one was in two aeroplane
"craehesr—all eight leave escaped-
without Toes of life or limb.
STREET CRIES OF OLD LONDON
Flower Girl is Most Flourishing of
All the Vendors of the Curb(.
Although most of tho crioe of -Loii-
don are things ofthe past, ,and the
hawkers' trades that called thein
forth 11ave definitely betaken them-
selves to the more settled ways of
the shop, some 02 them survive,
writes an English writer. The bell
of the muffin num may still he heard
from the first of October to the
thirty-first of March. The . orange
girl still sells oranges outside 'Drury
Lane, end the umbrella mr-uder may
still be found plying his craw" 1» score
secluded corner of the city. 'Che most
flourishing of all the old callings,
howevtr, is undoubtedly that', of the
'lower girl, and the most popular
place for her to -day le unloubtedly
Piccadilly Oil-eds. All the year round,
they group themselves round the
famous 'Shaftesbury memorial foun-
tain, each one preserving her own
special pitch, and jealous of the tra-
ditions and privileges of an ancient
and honorable calling. It is here, in
Piccadilly Circus, very often, that the
Londoner gets iris first breath of
spring. Daffodil's; sweet -scented
narcissi, violets, in March; later on,
primroses and wallflowers, then on
to the roses of June and through the
riot of July, August end September,
to the glorious gold and bronze
chrysanthemums of short November
days.
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A teakettle is a true optimist.
Even when it is up to its neck in
hot-water it keeps singing away.
• England to Prance in 45 Minutes by Proposed New Tunnel Under English Channel
• The Channel Tunnel scheme, which has now been revives; at the Ministry al Ways anti Communications in
England, will enable passengers to bei carried to Franke from England in 45 minutes, and Paris would be but six
hours from the English elleres. The cost of the tumid., which would take four or five years to build, would be
about :020,000,000. An elaborate system of drainage lyould remove water that Haight percolate into the, tunnel,
and cross tun els wbnld be built at 600. feet intervals. The above drawing clearly explains the proposed tunnel,
which would els
,cosi be the greatest and fastest method of transportation of meal and materials hettveon•sh1ilgland
i e o• war.
ala peace r
vc be alike of ale v t oto
and France and'' uldinestimable 1
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NEWS FROM ENG1fND
NEWS 23Y MAIL ABOUT JOAN,
3IULI, ANI? HIS PIOOI'Llli
Occurreeeep 1» the Land That Reigns
Supreme In the Cement*
elal World.
Many large mines were destroyed
off Ramsgate recently, the ekplosions
badly shaking the town.
The Chelmsford Town Council' have
decided to buy a farm Bear the town
as a site for a garden city.
Wimbledon County Council intends
bo'"rowing 213,000 for the establish-
ment of five national kitchens.
In one week there were eleven
211011sand six hundred and ninety..
three cattle exported ffom Ireland to
Great Britain,
There Is a plague of rate at NAW
port, Monmouth, and professional
rat-d1itehere have been appointed by
the corporation.
Mortimer and Washington Singer,
Abingdon, spent 280,000 in turning
their private residence into a Red
Cross hospital..
Rev. G. C. Lunt, vicar, and Rev, M.
S. Evers, curate . of All . Saints'
Church, Northampton, have each wen
the Military Cross.
The people of Bray, Berkshire,
have protested to the Council against
the burial of German officers win
Cleveden Cemetery.
The death has taken place at
Nuneaton of Thomas James Baker,
who was 'l3'orn in a ,cool; shop, Pic-
cadilly, 1.06 years ago. 1 -
The schoolboys of Folkestone
planted flower seedsbrought from
British Columbia, on the graves of
Canadians at Pllkestone.
Films of armistice scenes in Lon-
don were taken by aeroplane to Paris
from London.
Armor which had been removed
from the Tower orf L'endon during the -
war has been returned to the Armor-
ies.
Admiral Sir David and Lady Beat-
ty were given a rousing welcome
when they returned to their home at
Brooksby Hall, Leicestershire.
Over one thousand children, who
have lost their fathers in the war,
.were enfertained to tea in the
Springfield' Hall, Wandsworth road.
Many horses are being sold by
auction at the Army Remount Depot,
Ormskirk, and are realizing from
850 to $60 each.
The farmers of West Sas$ex have
asked that low flying of aeroplanes
be forbidden for the protection of
their flocks.
The King has told the Football As-
sociation that he hopes it will not be
Long before the national game i5
again in full swing.
King Edward's School, Aston, has
presented a silver casket to Captain
Phillips', V.0„ one of the old boys
of the school.
Two hundred and fifty, British
ship -masters attended a "Victory
Dinner" for the British Mercantile
Marine at the Station Hotel, Liver-
pool,
The King of the Belgians has cre-
ated R. Cross, stationmaster at Til-
bury, a Chevalier of the Order of
Leopold II, for kindness to his sub-
jects.
Friends of the late Charles Froh
man, who lost his life by the sinking
of the Lusitania, are erecting a drink-
ing fountain at Marlow as a me-
morial.
A woman applieed for a fresh bal-
lot paper at a Liverpool polling booth'
as her child had chewed up the first
one given her.
• It is costing, Westminster City
Council nearly 2600 to dismantle the
air-raid.shelters and remove direction
signs.
Kitchener House, in Grosvenor
Place, has been informally ' opened
as a rest and recreation centre for
disabled officers.
More than ten thousand BeitisEi
ships were repaired and returned to
service between June, 1917, and the
end of the war.
One hundred and twenty boys from
the London Police Court Mission
have been righting at the front, and
two have won the V.G.
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The Story of the Bristle. '
Art of Brush Making Has Reached a
High State of Pei'feeti0ml
In Canada few hogs livelong enough
to roach even the middle age of hog-
dom; while still yoltfig they become
pork, bacon, ham and tenderloin, In
the process they shed their bristles,
which are so soft and short that few
of them are made into brushes. They
are.usod.:as curled hair for filling auto-
mobile cushions.
The people of Russia aro the true.
epicures of the world in regard to
pork, which, , to be truly appetising,
must be three or four years growing,
:flogs of that age produce the beet
bristles in the world for hair brushes
and for paint, varnish and calcimine •
lu'gshes. In the cold northorti parts of
Russia and Sibor'ia the hogs praduce.
stiff, elastic bristles that are exrtema-
ly durable, Northern Germany fur-
nislies'brislIles similar to those of Rus-
sia. Beigiunkeed France grow &porter
an& liner, pi stles of splendid quality.
They ,al,e the kinds used in tooth
breeifes anti in artists' 'brushes. Of
'1220 years brush Manufacturers have
gone to China for immense quart -fuss
otoiL
.Bo1oretlethe bristles are int into care
brushes they itecoive iiillc attention
from the brush makers, 'Washing'
with soap and water, sorting colors
and quality, separating lengths and
��''imlxiltry�rF
110 ) ' e ,� Jfi •of.0 Ater." , •,r ."
e 0550 n We WOt•r of pr'pat•
Ing the bristles. Tho est of brtcs!t
nlaltiu hit, igen caned to Argil i
state di pet ec i0"n, there are brushes
exactly' adapted to ail sorts or par,
50500, ? )
Although an immense number of
brushes are. used in the world, there'
are only a few large manufeeturerd
of them, The complexity, of bred).
)lfahliflletilte and the cllfilCillty of ole,
tahing 1nat0rlals discourage etiteee •
front trsiititt matt} %lin tiltsi115I4,
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