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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-5-9, Page 6OUR FOREFATHERS fluvrxiartry, uotet but efficient popery.' eke PURGATIVE WATER flea out the biteistines tient awnless nornilii bevel iietieriewithent -chasing ecelo, ()ramps or diseomfart. On Eale everywhere: 25 °onto the battle. RIGA PURGATIVE WATER CO, MONTREAL. .w=w....W.i..w....vt=.saoaxw2xrnwapgmapx.uw4t.vtmaoawvawomwms t • Itz1. WAR AND FOOD SERIES, ARTICLE No. 15—WASTE AND HOARDING • If there is one phase of food cora servation more than another that comes within women's immediate sphere it is the question of waste. When she is saving on the little things and straining every nerve to make the most of what she has, wholesale, and indiscriminate waste of foodstuffs through- hoarding or storing natural- ly incenses her greatly. • It is now against the law either 'to hoard or to waste. The Canada Food Board has put into every woman's hand a weapon to light against these war -time menaces. An Order-in-Coun- eil has been passed Which puts her in the position of bringing within the grip of the law any firm, dealer or individual whom she knows to be hoarding or wasting foodstuffs. Again, the Baked has the power from time to time to make orders prescribing the amount of any kind of food that may be purchased or held, irrespective of the purpose, and if the amount is exceeded it may be seiz. ed and sold. This law should make it possible to prevent food which has been stored too long from having to be thrown out or destroyed. It is now the duty of each munici- pality in Canada to enforce this re- gulation within its municipal limits. Where conviction .is obtained a fine not exceeding $1,000 and not less than $100 or a period of imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both fine end imprisonment, will be imposed. The fine will be paid to the treasurer of the municipality or to the provincial treasurer, according to whether muni- cipal or provincial authorities institut- ed proceedings in the first place. The Food Board expects that the women of Canada will be useful agents in bringing culprits to jiistice. Wherever they have reason to be- lieve that waste is going on as a re- sult of hoarding or improper storage they can notify the provincial or municipal authorities and the case will be investigated. Two Ways to Preserve Eggs. Surplus eggs preserved in the spring will supply the home with good eggs in the fall and winter, when eggs are hard to get and aro high-priced. Eggs to be preserved must be fresh, and should be placed In the preserv- ing container as soon as possible after they are laid. One of the bot me- thods of preserving Is by the use of water glass, a pale yellow, odorless, syrupy liquid that can be bought by the quart or gallon teem the druggist or poultry supply man. It should be diluted in the proportion of one part of water glass to nine part of water which has been boiled and allowed to cool. ' Earthenware crocks or jars are the best containers, since their glazed surface prevents chemical action from the Bolution. The crocks or cans should be scalded and allowed to cool be- fore they are used. A container holding five gallons will accommod- ate fifteen dozen eggs and will re- quire one quart of water etiass. Half fill the container with the wa- ter -glass solution and place the eggs in it. Eggs can be added from day to day as they are obtained, making sure that the eggs are covered by about tivo inches of water -glass solution. Cover the container and place it in a cool place where it will not have to be moved. Look at it from time to time and if there seems to be danger of too much evaporation add sufficient cool boiled water to keep the eggs cov- ered. Eggs removed from the solu- tion should be rinsed in clean, cold water. Before they are ,boiled holes should be pricked in the large ends with a needle to prevent thein from cracking. ‘Limewater also is satisfactory for preserving eggs and is slightly less expensive than water glees. A solu- tion is made by, placing two or three pounds of unslaked lime in five gal- lons of water which has been boiled and allowed to cool and allowing the mixture to stand until the lime settles and the liquid is clear. The eggs should be placed in a clean earthen- ware jar or other suitable vessel and covered to a depth of two inches with the liquid. Remove the eggs as de- sired, rinse in clean, cold water and use immediately. HUNS COMPLETE RAZING OF RHEIMS FIRE FINISHES RUIN BEGUN BY ENEMY SHELLS. --- Cathedral Falls Stone by Stone and Nothing Will be Left of Magni- ficent Structure. Rheims, which has been on fire for a week, is now nothing Mit a great pile of smoking ruins, writes a corre- spondent on April 19th. During the last week the Germans have fired more than 100,000 shells into the heart of the city, according to the cor- respondent of Le Matin, and flames from the burning buildings can be - Seen by aviators sixty and seventy tulles away. There are no traces of streets and thoroughfares, which have disappear- ed from view under the accumulation of debris. Ancient buildings in the Place Royale and the market place and the Musicians' House, which dates from the sixteenth century, have been reduced to dust and ashes. The vaulting of the famous Rheims Cathedral, the correspondent says, is tailing stone by stone and soon there will be nothing left of the edifice but the west front and the pitfall. Shelia are still bursting all around the build- ing, Notwithstanding the terrible bom- bardment, forty Paris firemen are still in thecity working to save the furni- ture and portable effects of the inhab- &Rants. Some of them have lost their et' lives. . - Now City of the Dead. Rheims, before the war a city of More than 100,000 eouls, has slowly but none the less surely been falling a victim to German hate, • In their first advance in the 'fall. d 1914 th.:, Ce.,...niteng"held Rheims for several days, but the battle of the Marne stopped their advance and they fell back to a line a few miles north and northeast of the city. Since then the big German guns have been borgt- herding the city and its famous cathe- dral. The population of the city until a, ew months ago was less than 18,000, tit these pereons lived in dugouts or n cellars and the city Was virtually decide The cathedral was one of the Vest magnifieetit examples of early Gothic ochiteeture and was began in 1212. The west facade had three portals, which contained about 530 statues, Up to November 1, 1916, the Ger- mans had fired thousands of shells into the city, 1,000 of which had struck the cathedral. Since then, whenever the German troops met with reverses the enemy guns took up the bombardment anew. German military authorities have attempted to excuse the bombardment of the cathedral on the ground that it was being used for military purposes by the French. 0 • ONE THOUSAND DIE DAILY. Intolerable Conditions Exist Under the German Regime in Warsaw. Conditions in the Polish provinces now undei German occupation have become intolerable. This is especial- ly true of Warsaw, where disease and privations have raised in one month the death rate to 80,000 of a tate' population of 900,000. Two Swiss citizens who have recently returned from Poland, where they have been from the outbreak of the war, brought to the Gazette de Lausanne a very gloomy story of the conditions in Warsaw They declared that all the horrible pictures which appeared hi various papers about life in Poland are far from being exaggerated. A very great percentage of the population of War- saw has been reduced to extreme pen- ury, As an illustration, they give the fact that a well dressed person can- not wait for a street car on the cor- ner without soon being surrounded by a dozen or more emaciated and rag- ged men, women and children, stretching out their hands and ask- ing for a few copeks, with which to buy a piece of bread, The hunger causes terrible ravages among the people, whether directly or through diseases which it brings about. In the single month of July there oceurred In Warsaw. 00,000 cleating, of a total population of 900,000. In the .following months some relief was brought by the harvests, but the aver- age daily death rate continued to be from 800 to 400, There are 10 Warsaw four to live suicides a day. Meet of these aredue to poverty and despair, in cases of people who were oece wealthy. .A. greet many houses have neither win- dows nor doors, The tenants, before dying' of hunger, have used them as fuel for their stoves. Nitrate of soda, three to five pounds to a tree spread under the trees about the time the leaves begin to appear, will increage considerably the yield of fruit, yeg•sses Of 1.4400 Svto Ottibitattion flparantte4 fitAtt:314, 411,6 . 9 Runaway u ta By Arthur Henri Gooden CHAPTER tattle Girl Serle a Dila and Telco a Train . The valley road reauhed out beeore her, ha, cesty, beckoning, Sha walk- ed briskly In the wagon ruts, her bare brown boos rarl'IllW the soli yellow dust, Her age was ten, or f$0 she reckoned it, Her single nondescript garment stopped ehot at the knees, oxplosing ellen brown loge. A faded Lizzie, however, labored under no sunbonnet ended at a tangle of °hest- InlimPirrelrension Whatever, From the nut hale, hale hiding a face that was Platform she behold the stony eyes glowingly ally% In her arms was a and the grim lips oe Mos. Wurrell, grain sock, bulging oddly and emitting and in that fece.she rood her doom, So, furtive clocks ab interval% So heavy wh la her lips mechanically eecited, was it that alt length 'oho came to rest her brain registered just one vivid under a eeeeon wood, even a great thought: "I'll never go back! She'll sigis of relief,. never get mol" In the destimeo a cloud o1 yellow Beyond the schoolhouse was a large duet hovered over the road, drew near, field of rustling Egyptian cara, and on er, and mateelalized into the outfit of ; the other side of the corn wks the a Chinese vegetable vender. At the road to La Vino, Here, escaping from cottonwood the horse stopped of Ste' the din of voices, stood Lizzie; in her own accord, and the wrinkled Oelestiel hand she elutched two 'silver dollars— peered out with an affable "Iloilo!'" she had won the prlze, was an "Hello!" returned the girl, epoch in her life, thab prize; it open - "Yoe go town?" ed an exultant vista before her; it She nodded mutely. • Elbowed her the lure of conquest, Rite "Reap long way." mellow warmth of victory. And with "Three miles more. .'Tisn't fer— tilis_ mood .upon her she passed only It's heavy," , She indicated the tlsrougd the great white -headed stalks sack, which the allow one regarded of corn and took the road to La Vina, with a knowing g anee. Ten be an age too tender for facing. "What you gat?" Chicken?" the mysteries that lie beyonclethe "Duck," but Lizzie did not falter. Regret and "Duck!" The Chinaman's tone took sorrow crept into her heart, and lone - on life: "You likes sell?" lines. She wanted to say goad -by Again the nodded, The vender to the cows and horses and the black climbed from his seat and peered with- colt In the pasture, and to Clay in the sack. Thorpe, and to Fan the puppy; but she f"I'vventy-five cent," he asserted con- did not falter. 0.A. lump mime into ildently, She ,thook her head. ' her throat, and choked and hurt giNe• strangely. The Celestial drew forth the duck Suddenly she heard the pounding of with practised fingers. a galloping horse. She turned find "Heap fat. How much?" ,saw Clay tearing up the read, his lean - "Fifty cents," said the girl un- -necked roan in a lather. She paused, smilingly. "Nice duck. Young," waiting in the shade of the eaten - "No 'good." The vender turned to wood. his wagon, then looked again at the "Dare!" exclaimed the boy, flinging deick. "How much?" 1 from the saddle. His voice was troubl- "Fifty cents." ed as he met her half-deflant eyes. s A moment of hesitation, and then "Dare, where are you going? 3 saw w urrender. you running through the corn, '01nI "All light." Producing a long lost you." clinking leather pouch, he selected a The lump in her throat grew bigger, coin. "Heap smart girl," he grin- her lips trembled, she turned from nod. "Welly smart. Likee lido him, her slim, brown hands gripping town?" the old rail fence as though strength - "Yes." The girl smiled for the first ening herself against the sympathy time, and without further remark and love in Clay's voiee—Clay Thorpe, climbed up to the wagon seat. The her one stanch friend, her little knight. Celestial clucked to his horse and they He looked at her, anxiety in his moved forward, The girl sat stiffly, clear gray eyes. the fifty cents clutched in her little "Dare," he stammered. He drew hand, her eyes inscrutable. Only by himself up onto the rail fence and her quickened breathing did she be- looked down at her, his legs swinging tray excitement. idly. • Another dust cloud rose behind "I'm running away," she gulped. them. It travelled fast, trailing in "fel never go back. Auntie hates me the still air behind a solitary horse- —ad ---and I'll never go back." man; presently the girl's eyes narrow- "I don't—don't hate you," said the ed as she glanced back, and she bit boy slowly. Color showed under his her Hp as the rider came up. He tan, but he went on sturdily. "When was a youth of fourteen, lithe, dark- I'm big Prn•going to marry you, and we'll have the finest ranch round," She looked up dt him swiftly, then shook her head. "I'm running away," she reiterated, "forever and ever, and some day when I'm big I'm going to do big things— the way men do big things." She looked down at the two silver dollars in her hot little paem. "And you must never, never telt". Again 'the lump rose in her throat as she saw his hurt, bewildered eyes. She turned and began to run. He was after her like a flash. (To bo continued.) rqrs illeen the pleasing had ,cortgle gh'l—a:flosito(1 and leve17 ifbtle girl 111 n wonderful blue silk drese, iseffrie Ifled with fifty gents' 'Werth of blUe rib - bo, wile recited the "Wreck of the gee/Mlle" in a composed and, perfeet- /1, Poised manner, And evoked a wealth of appellee° and Wondering remarks en What a change clothes dud make in children, haired, eager of eye. "Lizzie!" he cried, ranging up alongside the wagon "I—" "Lizzie!" she broke in veheinently.' "Don't you call me that!" The boy grinned. "Where you gain'?" -"La Vina," she returned casually. . "What? But why didn't you—" "I don't want Auntie to know." "Oh!" He grinned again. "Say, get up behind me. I'll take you to town and back." She considered this ProPosal. "Honest? You won't tell her, Clay?" "Honest I won't," promised Clay. She opened her hand, disclosing the coin. "I've sold Whitey. Auntie was goin' to kill him for Sunday dinner, but he's mine. You gave him to me, and I rais- ed him!" Her voice swelled into an indignant Wail. "Sure he's yours!" cried the boy hotly. For a moment the girl's lips tremb- led, then suddenly her face broke into a smile. Site turned to the China- man, gravely shook hands, and scram- bled down. In another moment she was astride the boy's horse, her arms clasping his waist. Oh, Clay, elle said in his ear, "you're always so nice to me!" and plunged the bayonet into the And so they rode down the valley breast of the helpless wounded Frenchman.. But Lieut. Fabre did not die, He was brought in by a patrol that had gone out to search for his body, and Ise subsequently recovered; but his hatred for the murdering German be- came almost an obsession, , One day when he was reviewing new batch of prisoners he suddenly turned pale and, stopping a German officer, asked him if he had been at Cumieres on February 16111, and whe- ther he had gone out on patrol that night. The 'German replied that he had been at Cumieres, and that most likely he had been one of the patrol, Lieut. Fabre could control himself the deep blue eyes, the sunny, uncoe- no longer. Springing at the prisoner, cerned and inscrutable temperament he forced him against a wall and, of Larry Dare. For these things her aunt punished her the more, and gave pointing a pistol at him, broke out her to wear the east -off garments of into a volley of abuse, her cousin Maggie. Lizzie was out- "I hate you! .A.seassini Murdeyerl wardly submissive, but now the great and I will make you pay. ' You do not day had come to hand, the day when remember the helpless blesse you bay - she was to stand forth before all men oneted that night at Cutmeres? How paneldusre.Ve the Wreck of the Hes- many wounded Frenchmen have you • Hence, when Mrs. Wurrell proposed killed ' the? But that to sacrifice Whitey upon a gastrani Hine you missed. and I saw your'face omic altar, the first gun of rebellion in the moonlight. I have hungered to roared. Lizzie had long since deter- meet you, but scarcely dared hope to. mined to get fifty cents for Whitey, Say your prayers, Inc you are about now knew exactly. what s aed to do with that fifty cents. to diet" nd he want- The The German, who up to that mo - curious thing about Lizzie was that »lent had faced the pistol without she always knew her own soind. alinrn, SlSsislsnli remembered that So she went to La Vina with Clay sdght et Thorpe, and came home again, and and fell In osheap kept her own counsel when ,Maggie at Lieut. Fabre's feet awaiting the was being dressed Inc the afternoon's bullet. A group of French officers, entertainment at the schoolhouse. 'attracted by the tumult, had come up Then Lizzie disappeared, and was no . and were silently watching. the drama. more seen by Mrs. Wurrell, As a 1 They knew the story, matter of fact, Lizzie was very busy up in the attic, where for weeks Poregirt that he tried to escape." t "Shoot the pig!" said one. "We will she had been working on a blue silk petticoat that had once belonged ; Itte V rabre'. 5 fing?rtighte"111' on her mother. When Mr, Wurre the trigger. T1011 with an efl'ort he 'hitched up and took his family to the controlled himself and said contempt. se oolhouse, Liale could' not be foend, otionslY: an was thankfully forgotten, "Get up and take your place its the dere threescore parents and re. ranks, You richly deserve death, but 1 fees, assembled in the schoolhouse, t h)11 a Freneli offlecir, not an maw - eget Wurrell failed ignominiou4Y mener,” rt her "piece," and Mrs. Wurrell flush. el Rapti at the indulgent smiles of het neighbor% !Phe name a of ante Iva your house by giving it a Iva was called aloud, and tam wine new cot of paint, hut first consult ei wet „bout to Aso and expithl your Wife to flee what color she pee- *** Lizzie Was not present When fere, 0thsehhsg astounding Imppenea, some. ng that took her breath away and 'left her garim It required twenty seconds for the truth to dove upon Mi'a. Wurrell, The shook passed, leaVing het flitting belt Upright, white outiviged, olenchad of 1111, end exactly What she felt AN OFFICER'S FORBEARANCE. Incident of the Foreign Legion at the Battle of Cumieres. After the Battle at Cumieree, writes Mr. Gerald Brandon, Lieut. Fabre ,of the Foreign Legion was left for dead on the field, During the night while he lay there wounded, a party of Ger. man plunderers spread over the field and began their work of robbing the dead. One of them, an officer, finding that Lieut. Fabre was still alive, snatched a rifle from one of his men together, the dust like a dun eloud trailing behind them, and the Drown mountains that hedged the San Joaquin shot up the 'sky like spears, glorious in the morning sun. It is extremely likely that Mrs. Wurrell—who was distinctly the bet- ter half of the Wurrell paterfamilias —would have evaded the responsibility of the orphan niece had 11 1101 been for the Dare ranch, It was just like Larry Dare, she complained, to break his neck and leave her a motherless habe; so she forthwith accepted the ranch as balm in Gilead, called the girl Lizzie out of sheer ugliness, and taught her husband how to prosper. It was unfortunate for Lizzie that she had inherited the fair coloring; FLAX A MUCH NEEDED ARTICLE A IfIcHltoY PROFITABLE CROP • FOR ONTARIO 'FARMERS. Each Additional Acre of Flax Pro. vtues wings for st Canadien Arlo ter. Flax film is abeolutely necessary for the constellation of aeroplane wings, Flax, therefore, is an indis- pensable munition of war, Russia and Belgium formerly supplied five -sixths of Great Britainivciernand; now they eupply little, if any. Consequently, and despite the greatly increased acre- age of flax in Ireland in 1917, Great Britain has not now more fibre on hand than Is sufficient to keep the mills runningeone and a half clays a week. To further complicate matters, the flax seed crop 10 Ireland was peril- ously near a failure lust year. So serious indeed was this seed obortage that the ,->ornbere Of 'die' frish linen Industry held a meeting in Belfast last January to consider the situation, Finally it was agreed that £2,000,000 should be provided to plant 10,000 acres M Ireland with 'Western Canada oil seed, as a monster experiment to prove whether or not this inferior variety of flax could be utilized as a fibre crop. The Ontario grown flax is a fibre flax, It is the seed of this kind et flax that should have been used in Ireland, 11 11 had been available. Necessary for Airplane. So this is the situation. Allied fly- ers must have wings, and the supply of fibre flax is short. But it is not a situation without hope—and Canada is the hope. Each additional acre of Canadian flax will enable another Canadian aviator to destroy the "eyes" of the enemy. These vital facts were disclosed re- cently at a meeting of the Agricultur- al Section of the Organizatida of Re- sources Committee of Ontario, called to discuss the flax situation of the world and its bearing upon the flax industry of this Province. Evidence was also given regarding what On- tario already had done to relieve the shortage. In 1917 thirty-three flax mills were opelated, 6,000 acres were planted, and 2,600,000 pounds of fibre and 45,- 000 bushels of seed were prodeced. Our flax business last year had a total value of $2,000,600. Moreover, the seed produced will. accomplish a vital mission abroad, as a large part of it has .been shipped to Ireland to meet the great seed deficiency there. And for 1919 Ireland will require more seed of the Ontario fibre flax. Ontario to Grow 8,000 acres, Excellent though last year's effort was, greater effort is needed in 1918. Already flax -growers are planning an 8,000 acre production, at least. Each of the thirty-three mills is in the mar- ket for all the straw and seed that can be secured, and good prices are assured the grower. This latter en- couragiug feature is made the more sure as a sufficient tonnage of ocean bottoms will be available to transport a greatly increased crop to English and Irish mills. The arrangements made in the past have, for the most part, provided for the easing of flax land by the mills at a rental of from $10 to $15 an acre. The grower ploughed the land, pre- pared the seed bed and hauled the crop to the inill—except where the crop was carried on tbe railroad. The mill operator supplied the seed, often did the seeding, and always harvested the crop. The flax was pulled by hand and the workers were housed in theifielde in tents. Their transporta- tion was paid by the mill company and they received $15 an acre for pull- ing. It took a first class puller three days to finish an acre. As the workers prepared their own meals, the grow- ers were in no way inconvenienced by having them on their farms. Flax a Profitable Crop. While this system is still followed almost entirely, farmers may very profitably grow fiax, doing all the work and selling the crop outright to the mills. An acre of good flax will produce some nine bushels of seed and two tons of straw. The seed sells now for from $7 to $9 a bushel, while the price of straw will be dependent upon quality. It cannot bo Ido strong- ly emphasized that a entail acreage of flax of the highest quality is more valuable both in terms of dollars and aeroplane wings than a large area 01 inferior flax. Quality rather than quantity must be the slogan. In case labor conditions prevent the pulling of flax the crop may be harvested with a binder, the seed sold at a remunera- tive price, and the straw at about 816 a ton, Old sod land is preferred fov fax and any soil which will produce a good crop of oats will be suitable. Wire - worms and white grubs, so destructive to other crops, will not attack flax. The seed ahould be planted not later than May 100 and the crop is har- vested during the middle of idly; thus the soil 18 left in tiichlieht onclition for winter wheat. A thorough discieg, without ploughing, is sufficient pre- paration for the wheat crop. The for that flax is particularly hard on the land is ralfounded, as it does not take more from it than any ordinary field trap Spray with the wind (or when there is no wind). When the wind elninges, spray the other side of the trees. Don't attempt to spray against the wind, A good windbreak is ornamental, and as it tempers the wind it helps keep the coal 111 the coal bin and ligh- ens the work of the fireman who has the furnace to attend to in severe Weather, Country ethools and churches should be well protected by trees properly planted to afford shel- ter in cold weather and Wade in hot weather. In planning windbreak plant on the side toward the prevail. ing winde) ntid arrange the trots in groups ,of Mixed species. have Bev - oral rows of trees, including ever- greens, to shut oft the wind as com- pletely as poesible. STORY OF THE MONS .RETREAT ARMY, THAT 119.RCHED WHIM IT SLEPT. 1For One Hundred and Eighty Miles, During Nine Heys end Nights; Suffering From Hunger and Thirst. "Perhaps one of the greatest re- treats in history," writes George W. Crile in his recent book, "A 111echan- istie View of War and Peace," "was that of the 411led armies from Moos to the Marne, • . After a sustained and heavy action at Mons, being over- powered by the enemy, the allied armies began a retirement which con- tinued for nine days and nights -180 miles of marching without making camp is the storyof that great re- treat in which the paee was set by the enemy. Only rarely weresuffi- ciently long halts made for the inen to catch a few moments of resit. Food and water were scarce and irregularly supplied," , But "the paramount interest in that retreat is found in the sleep pheno- mena experienced by these men," says the writer. Sleep is as neeessary to the body as food and air. Animals cannot live longer than five to eight days without sleep, How then did these men endure for nine days, in ad- dition to the lack of sleep, the priva- tions of war—the ecaet supply of food and water, the making of forced marches, the fighting of one of the greatest battles of history? Slept While They Marched. "They did an extraordinary thing— they slept while they marched! Sheer fatigue slowed down their pace to a rate that would permit them to sleep while walking. When they halted they fell Weep. They slept in water, on rough ground, when suffering the pangs of hunger and of thirst, and even when severely wounded. They cared not Inc capture, not even for death if they could only sleep." They marched throkti towns and villages asleep, soldier reeling against his companion M arms as they tramp- ed with rifles across their shoulders. Artillerymen slept on horseback. Now and then a less sleepy man wakened and roused to further effort a compan- ion whose limbs were becoming so heavy with sleep that, he was in dan- ger of dropping by the wayside. Of those who lagged behind the ranks and were captured by the enemy 'all were found asleep. Too Exhausted to Feel Pain. When the wounded of this sleeping army were taken to the hospital they continued to sleep on their sleep of utter exhaustion. In one hopital con- taining more than 500 men there was not a sound, "Not a groan, not a motion, not a complaint." Nothing would rouse these men—food, nor water of which they were sorely in need, nor the prospect of being coin- ' fortably cared for. They slept even while their wounds were being dress- ed, a process which in many casee would ordinarily leave been extremely painful. Yet the men were too ex- hausted even to feel pain, During this sleep of exhaustion the theam of the soldier is always of bat- tie—never of home and of quiet scenes in his past life. Sometimes a sleeper will spring up with a cry and reach for his rifle. Dreams of soldiers under the in- fluence of anesthetics are 'the same, "One day a French soldier in the first stage of anesthesia broke the still- ness of the operating room, transfix- ing every one, while in low, beautiful tones, and with intense feeling he sang the Marsellai:e." 'Straight rows, please! 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Hushed and quiet and still they lie, This silent, dreamless army, While living comrades spring to their side, And the bugle call and the battle cry Is heard as dreamer and dreamless lie, Under the stars of the arching sky, The men who have heard from the men who have died, The call of the silent army. EACH TRAIN HAD A MOSQUE. German Built "Holy" Railroad Was Financed by Turkish Government. The Hedjaz Railway, recently cap- tured by General Allenby, was plan- ned by Abdul Hamid and constructed by German engineers. Its ostensible purpose as a "holy" railway for the conveyance of pilgrims to Medina and Mecca wets proclaimed all over the Mohammedan world, and huge sums were sent to Abdul Hamid towards its cost by Moslems of all nationalities., The officials of the Turkish Govern-. tont were compelled to contribute their quota by means of an annual 10 per cent. levy on their salaries while it was being built. 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