HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-09-02, Page 7GREAT WORK OF
RRtTISH MINERS
SAY A PRAYER AND BLOW UP
FOE'S TRENCH.
No Slackers Allowed in the Trades
Unions Now -Nobody Need
Be Idle.
Great Britain is proud of him. He
believes in dynamite and the sign of
the Cross. He says they can win the
war. When he has laid the one he
makes the other. A button'is pressed
and there is a flash and an explosion.
A German trench is blown sky-
wards, writes James Sherliker,
The man who has done it turns
away with a prayer for the repose of
the departing'souls; his sense of duty
has not affected his fine, sympathetic
nature. Until a few weeks ago his
life had been spent down a coal mine
not far from Birmingham, and, like
Most men who work in the hiding -
place of Death, his thoughts are often
of the hereafter. Hence the whis-
pered prayer and the love for an -en-
emy.
You will hear little about him, al-
though he and his collier comrades
from the Midlands are doing wonder-
ful work in the war. They are men
of the mysterious underworld. "Eye-
witness" never describes their doings,
and I don't suppose he will until` the
struggle • is ended.' 'Then he will tell
how eagerly they came forward,, how
valuable in trench warfare was their
knowledge of drilling and blasting,
how they wormed their way to ' the
Germans as. they had wormed their
way to the black diamonds at home,
how unerring was their sense of hear-
ing and' of locality deepdown beneath
the surface of the battlefield. I hope
he will give us a little of the human
side, a little about the collier soldier
who sings in the Midland chapel at
home, and who lays his wire of de-
struction all the better for humming
a hymn; a little about the man who
blesses himself as he plants his pow-
der and who sends men to the Beyond
with a prayer for their salvation. For
colliers, I am told, are far from being
all cursers and atheists, and out there
the men who do the best work are the
men who find comfort in the unseen
and the unknown,
Saving Tommy Atkins.
Many a German trench has been
blown up by these coal miners from
the Midlands; many soldiers in the
British trenches have been saved by
the same men. When that strange
underground rumbling is heard and
Tommy Atkins turns to his pal and
mutters, "Did. you hear that?" and
thinks hard about his wife and his kid-
dies at home, the miner from the Mid-
lands lies down on his side with his
ear to the ground. He listens. Very
soon he knows where the drilling is to
within a few yards. And our men
are saved. Yes, a clever man is the
miner from the Midlands. He, looks
funny in his khaki because he is not
as upright as a man who works where
there is plenty of space. But he is a
'•t' groat fighting man, and he is sorry to
have to kill, but duty has called him.
Success to his wriggling and his drill-
ing and his exploding. I am proud
that I gave his little 'terrier a bone.
The Midland district is doing well.
It has sent a large proportion of men
to the front. A terribly large num-
ber have laid down their lives. Wid-
dows and orphans are in nearly every
street, and a few minutes ago I wit
nessed the funeral of a slum hero
who died "here after returning from
the war. Nobody is idle here. The
great munition works are busynight
and day, and'I am assured that much
of the extra money earned is being
devoted to the war loan. I have been
asked half 'a dozen times in one day
if I want work,
"You can do a bit of laborin' if no -
thin' else," a'man remarked kindly
to me.
No Slackers Now.
He took me firmly by :the wrist.
"Look 'ere, mister; if You could see
the stock of shells in just one place
you'd swear there was enough to blow
up yl Europe. We all '.thought so,
but, as ti matter of fact, our boys at
the front can use up a lot like that in
a week. . It was a'bit of a' shock
to us, but when we were told it there
was no slackin'. .Now, what do
you say? Good wages wait -
in', mind."
I reminded him that a man had
been proceeded against in court for
neglecting his work in a munition fac-
tory,.
"They should hang every one of
them," he said, grimly.
I told him that at one place in the
north a trade unionist workman had
objected to a fellow -worker earning
more than a certain sum.
"'Ere.. Look 'ere," he . said,
"cum along o' me and I'll show you
somethin ."
Ile took me to his home and pro- i
duced an old report of the engineers'
trade union and opened it at a page
giving a list of members who were
expelled for offences like drunkenness,
chronic laziness, immorality, neglect
of work, etc.
"Do you do the same thing, to-
day?" I asked.
"Certainly. We hate slackers as
much as anybody,' The man who
won't do his duty and help'to save
the lives of men who are helping 'to
save him will get short shrift at the
hands of his trade union, I can tell
you. This Munitions Bill to do away
with strikes and •slackness is very
good, indeed, but it isn't needed as far
as the skilledworkers, are concerned."
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LADY COLONELS.
THE ONLY CURE FOR
A WEAK STOMACH
Indigestion and Similar Troubles
Must be Treated Through
the Blood:
Indigestion can be treated in many
ways, but it can only be cured in one
way -through the blood. Purgatives
cannot .cure • indigestion, By main
MAKING PUNS OF
PROPER NAMES
THE ANGUISH OF THE FIRST
DAYS AT SCHOOL.
Examples From Literature of Some
of the Crimes 'Which Are
force they move on the food still indi- Perpetrated.
gested. That weakens the whole sys- , If the men who would make a pun
tem, uses up the natural juices and would pick a pocket, what are we 'to
leaves the stomach and bowels parch- say of the abandoned creature who
ed and sore. It is actually a causeof makes jokes upon proper names? He
indigestion—not a cure. Others try may not know it, but he is ripe for
pre-digested foods and peptonized penal servitude, says the London
drugs. But drugs which digest the Globe. Everybody with a name upon
food for the stomach really weaken; which punning, is possible remembers
its power and makes the trouble the anguish of the first days at school
chronic. The digestive organs can . when, trembling wretch, he had to
never do the work properly until they disclose his unfortunate cognomen to
are strong enough to do it themselves: bigger inquisitorial bi er boys and watch -
Nothing can give the stomach that q y '
power but the new, rich, red blood ed with apprehension as the poaeibili-
so abundantly supplied by Dr. Wil- ties of the name for word play
liams' Pink Pills. So the reason for brought a delighted grin to the quos
the success of this medicine is plain. troller. And the sorrow's crown of
Nothing can stimulate the glands and sorrow was that every puerile humor-
nothing can absorb the nourishment
from the food, but pure red blood.
And Dr. Williams' Pink Pills surpass
all other medicines in giving : that
new, rich blood. Miss B. E. Johnson,
Hemford, N.S., says: "For months I
was a great sufferer from indigestion;
food of any kind was distasteful to
me, and after eating I would suffer
much. Naturally I. grew weak, and
was but a shadow of my former self.
I was taking a doctor's prescription,
but it did not help me in the least..
Then I read of a case similar to my
own cured through the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills and I decided to
try this medicine. By the time I had
taken six boxes the trouble had en-
tirely disappeared, and I could eat
Several Regiments Claim Princess
Mary.
Now that Princess Mary is official-
ly of "full age" several regiments in
the army are anxious that her name
should be identified with them and
that there should be a "Princess
Mary's Own." Among the claimants
to this distinction are the 6th Dra-
goon Guards -the senior cavalry regi-
ment without the name of some mem-
ber of the Royal Family identified
with it—the 6th Inniskilling Dra-
goons, the 13th Hussars, and the 20th.
Hussars. The Norfolk Regiment, too,
claims that as her Royal Highness
was born in that county they should
have the honor of bearing her name.
To have a royal name coupled with a
regiment is an ambition throughout
the army, and particularly is this
the case in the cavalry. Three of these
regiments indeed now claim royal
ladies as their Colonel -in -Chief. These
are the 7th Dragoon Guards (the
Princess Royal), the 18th Hussars.
(the Queen), and the 19th Hussars
(Queen Alexandra). These honors.
were bestowed by the King a short
time ago.
Never Given.
"Pa," said Johnny, who is .a per-
sistent knewledge-seeker, "what is a
law -giver?" "There ain't any such
thing, Johnny," replied the old gen-
tleman, who had been involved in
considerable litigation in his time.
"But this book says that somebody
was a., great law -giver," persisted the
youngster. "Then it's a mistake," re-
joined the father. "Lawis never giv-
en. It's retailed in mighty small
quantities at mighty high figures."
'1'
The Speaker in the British House
of Commons may only vote upon an'
equal division.
Z5inard's Liniment Cures Bums,, Eto.
A man is out of spirits when there
isn't a drop in the house.
AN ICE CREAM BRICK
Solves the Difficulty.
C I VY D.AIRY ICE CREAM put up
in attractive boxes is as pop-
ular with the guest as It is
convenient for the hostess.
it is the ideal summer dessert.
For sale by discriminating shopkeepers everywhere;'
Look
ro •
the Sign.
T ONTOe
We want an Agent in every town.
lye
ist made exactly the same pun; so
that to the indignity of having one's
name made the subject' of jest and.
mirth was added the intense ennui
produced by listening to the same not
too brilliant jeu d'esprit over and
over again. Schoolboys are very ten-
acious of 'anything that appeals to
their crude sense of humor; and the
unhappy new boy was never allowed'
to hear the last of the exquisite joke.
There are certain formulm about
name jokes in the ranks of our regu-
lar army. Every recruit called Mur-
phy is immediately rechristened
"Spud" -the ` derivation is obvious.
Also, in the same way a Lee becomes.
"Gypsy," his comrades feigning to
believe that he must of necessity be -
How to -Awake
Fresh as a Daisy
Constipation Gone!
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Works while you sleep, smooth, silent,
effective. Cures the worst headache
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taste left behind, no furred tongue,.
no more dizzy Spells or bilious fits
after taking Hamilton's Pills. All the
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nervous disorders disappear as a ship
in the night. The appetite is sharpen-
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them, Strength and buoyant spirits
return. You feel good, you look like
your old self again with bright" eyes
and rosy cheeks. The best guarantee
of good health and old age that man
and woman can have is the regular
use of thissfamily Pill. Suited to all
ages, you should get a few 25c. boxes
from the drug store and keep them
hanely. Remember the name,—Dr.
Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and
Butternut. No substitute so good as
the genuine.
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PAPER CARTRIDGES.
Britain Imports Yearly 200,000,000
of Wheat.
A new application of extreme inter-
est at the present time in England of
M. U. Schoop's metal sprinklingpro-
cess consists of the manufacture of,
cartridge cases from metallized pa-
per in lieu of brass or copper. The
advantages of such a process are ap-
parent even to the layman.
A certain independence of the large
quantities of brass and: copper hither-
to required is obtained" In addition
heartily of all kinds of food. More long to the famous Romany .family. to this there is a saving in. weight of
than this I found my general health All Clarks (or Clarkes) are "Nobby," three grams in each cartridge, as a
greatly improved through the use of but the applicability of this nickname result of which the soldier can carry
g y a considerably larger number than
the Pills. I 'can therefore strongly is amystery. heretofore. In the' Schoop Dr. Williams' Pink Pills In Days of Theodore Hook process
Inthe
as a cure for indigestion." and his merryfriends jokes upon pro-
of
liquid metal is crushed by means
p p of compressed air and is then inflated
You can get these Pills through per names were quite the thing; and, by an unknown method into extreme -
any dealer in medicine or by mail, while the auditors grinned, the vie- ie fine particles. Metallized card-
post paid, at 50 cents a box or six tim bore the infliction with as much board or paper. can in this way be-
boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil- dignity as he could summon up. As
Hams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Oct. a specimen of Hookian wit of this kind the following may serve: "A hu- provided with small effort -and ex-
p This saving counts, for England
A CHINESE JACOB.. morist of this epoch (I am not quite has a great army to feed. England's
sure whether it was the sprightly breadbasket in peace times needs re -
Took His Teacher's Advice and Thus Theodore himself) invited to the house filling every ninety days. In war
Gained the Emperor's Favor. of a Mr. Pepper, greeted his host with times the period is shortened some -
How Hsien Feng, winning his fa-
the words: "How happy you must be,
ther's favor after the manner of Mr. Pepper, to see your friends all
Jacob, reigned in his stead and has- mustered!" A better instance, per-
tened the swift decline of the Man- haps, is Hooks impromptu when a
tax collector called Winter was seen
to be at the door:
chu dynasty in China, is told by
Messrs. E. Backhouse and J. O. P.
Bland in "Annals and Memoirs of the
Court of Peking."
Toward the end of his reign, Tao
Kuang, concerned as to the succession,
had almost decided to confer it upon
his favorite son, Prince Kung, a
young man much superior in charac-
ter and intelligence to him who event-
ually became heir to the throne. It
happened, however, that the latter's
tutor, Ts'ao Chenung, knew of the
emperor's predilection, and, desiring
to enhance his own position, cast
about for somemeans of inducing the
sovereign to change his mind and con-
fer the succession upon his pupil.
The emperor, following the dynastic
tradition, had given orders one day
that his sons should go hunting in
the southern park. Etiquette requir-
ed that a prince who had not com-
pleted his studies should ask his tutor
for permission to absent himself for
the day. Haien Feng therefore at-
tended at the lecture room in the pal-
ace and found his tutor there alone.
The prince went up, and making the
bow that ceremony requires, asked
for leave.
Ts-ao asked for what purpose, and
he answered:
"The, emperor wishes me to take
a day's shooting." '
Ts'ao whispered to him:
"A-lco (the Manchu word used in
speaking of or addressing princes,
meaning literally, elder brother), take
my advice: when you reach the park,
sit you and watch the others shoot-
ing. Do not fire a shot, and give or-
ders to your huntsmen not to set any
traps. If the emperor asks you for
your reason. tell him that at this
spring season it is not right to take
life, because both birds and beasts
have their -young to take care of, and
such slaughter is a violation of natur-
al harmony. Take care not to quar-
rel with your brothers, but do not en-
deavor to emulate then. If you,
a-ko, will remember this, you are cer-
tain to win His Majesty's approval,
for I know His Majesty's disposition.
On this hinges your whole future. Be
careful; donot forget."
When the princes returned in the
evening and reported to their father,
only Helen Feng had an empty bag.
To Tao Kuang's questions he replied
exactly, as his tutor had told him to.
do.
The emperor was delighted, and
said, "This is the `conduct of a super-
ior man," and from that day lie de-
cided to make him his heir.
In later years, when Tao 'Kuang had
passed away, Hsien Feng raised his
tutor to the rank of assistant grand
secretary, but he died before attain-
ing' to still higher honors. , The em-
peror wept bitterly, and proceeded in
person to offer a sacrifice' to his ye -
remains, besides conferring upon him
the highest posthumous honors given
to a Chinese daring the last century.
A Cemetery Cough.
An old man was leaning against
the walls of a cemetery not long
ago, and, being tired, he sat down- to
rest on one of the stone seats that are
placed at the gates of a cemetery.
The old man had a very bad cough,
and it was while he was in a bad fit
of coughing that a young man ap-
proached him. Thinking he would
take a rise out of the old man he
Said: "I'll tell you, old man, you've
got a; cemetery cough." "Maybe," re-
plied the old man, with a knowing
Wink in his eye, "but there's lots in
that cemetery that would be glad of
my cough."
Minard's Liniment. Relieves Neuralgia.
Herecomes Mr. Winter collector of
taxes,
I advise you to pay him whatever he
axes.
You had much better pay him without
any flummery,
Though Winter's his name his pro-
ceedings are summary.
This form of pun is no new one,
indeed. Even in the seventeenth cen-
tury it
en-tury'it rankly flourished. During the
protectorate some of the late king's
adherents, drinking together, would
follow a cram of bread with a draught
of wine, and then , utter the pious
wish:
"God Send This Crumb Well Down!"
No follower of Oliver could possibly
object to such an innocent wish.
Even the solemnity of our law
courts has been disturbed by the name
pun. There is a story about a cer-
tain barrister whose elocution was
not always of the clearest, especially
as regards his aspiration. His name
was Channel] Arguing a case in the
Admiralty Division, he left the bench
in some doubt whether a certain ves-
sel he mentioned was the Helen or
the Ellen. "Is there an `h' in the
name?" the Judge at last inquired.
"Yes, my Lord," broke in his learned
friend on the other side, "but it has
been lost in the chops of the Chan-
nell. The most fearsome and com-
plete pun of this kind was made 'by
an examiner who had to tell a certain
undergraduate the result of his viva
voce. The undergraduate's name
was Field Flowers Goe, and he sub-
sequently attained some eminence in
the church. The verdict was, "The
Field is ploughed, the Flowers are
plucked, and you, sir, can Gee!"
There is a variety of the pun upon
a name, however, that one is almost
inclined to forgive, or at' least to re-
gard with a certain leniency. It is
when some familiar quotation is giv-
en an apt twist which brings in
• "The Cognomen of the Victim.
One of the best of this kind is attri-
buted to Sir William Harcourt. Lis-
tening to a long descended baronet
named Knightley descanting on the
antiquity of his family, the politician
was heard to misquote a well-known
hymn as follows:
And Knightley to the listening earth
Recounts the story of his birth.
From the United States comes the
story of an unwilling auditor of Sena-
tor Lodge, who, as the Senatorial elo-
quence showed no signs of ceasing,
muttered to his neighbor: "Oh, for a
Lodge in some yast wilderness!"
James Payn, the novelist and editor,
was notoriously averse to physical ex-
ercise. A •gentle stroll from the Corn -
hill ; offices in Waterloo Place to the
Reform Club was the, limit of his
pedestrianism. So it was not strange
that he showed signs of acute discom-
fort on a ? country ramble. ' As the
party climbed a steep acclivity in the
course of the walk one of them, no-
ticing the novelist's distress, whisper-
ed to another: "The labor we delight
in physics 'Paye."
what.
To fill the breadbaskets of 44,000,-
000 people when the agricultural area
is limited, it is clear that other
sources of supply than the domestic
one must be looked to. There is,
moreover, the fact that the English
people want wheat bread. Germans
may thrive on rye bread, but with the
Britons at home eating wheat bread
has become so much a habit that it
may be classed with other British in-
stitutions, such as parliament and the
limitation of the King's prerogatives.
In peace times all the world is open
to the United Kingdomto draw
wheat and flour from. There are the
British possessions overseas, all Eu-
rope itself, the United States, Can-
ada and South America. These
Sources of supply are ample to in-
sure the average quantity of bread,
since a world-wide failure of the
wheat crop never happens.
In ordinary years it takes about
100,000,000 hundredweight, or about
200,000,000 bushels, of imported
wheat to fill the bread basket of the
United Kingdom, in addition to the
domestic supply. In 3913 the impor-
tations were approximately 106,000,-
000 hundredweight, or about 200,-
000,000 bushels.
Part of this wheat came from
countries which are now allies of Eng-
land in the world tear. Comparative-
ly little of it was from countries with
which England is at war. Russia has
been a bountiful source of supply,
but now it is a different story.
Scot Killed by a Lion.
After the members of the royal
family, the Archbishop of Canterbury
is the first peer of the realm.
He (addressing the little sister of
his betrothed)—"Don't you know me,
little one? Who am I, then?" Little
One (brightly) -"I know. You're my
sister's last .chance,"
EMPIRE GOWNS HOLD THEIR
OWN.
Empire dresses of very simple cut
are extremely fashionable and will
be welcomed by the woman who does
her own dressmaking, because they
are so easy to make. A pattern that
has the smartest of the Empire feat-
ures is Ladies' Home Journal' Pattern
No. 8989. This has a simple waist
with removable chemisette with high
neck or square outline. The collar is
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• 4.
GASES IN WARFARE.
Are the Most Virulent and Irritant of
Poisons.
That the Germans were determined
to break the agreement of the Hague
Convention by which the powers pro-
mised to abstain from the use of all
asphyxiating gases is evident from
the fact that their patent office re-
cords show that R'rupps patented a
gun for throwing poisonous gas
bombs some years before the war.
The specifications show that it would
throw a 150 -pound bomb a distance of
400 yards, causing the death of every-
body within a radius of 400 feet.
The use of asphyxiating gases in
the form of bombs and other contriv
ances is really a revival of the an-
cient methods of warfare applied to
modern conditions. The gas bomb is
a modernized "stink -pot," which the
Chinese have employed from time im-
memorial; but whereas the old Chi-
nese "stink-pot"
lti-nese"stink-pot" merely rendered men
unconscious, poisonous gases employ-
ed to -day are the most virulent and
irritant of poisons, and few men re-
cover from the effects after they have
Inhaled the gas to any extent.
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A Communication has been received
by Mr. George Sinclair of Knowes
Mill, Prestonkirk, Scotland, from the
British South Africa Company, giving
particulars of the death of his son,
Norman, who was killed by a lioness
while acting as a scout on the north-
west border of Northern Rhodesia.
While riding ahead of a party of na-
tive carriers; Mr. Sinclair sighted six
lions devouring . a dead man. He
fired three times at a lioness;' the lions
made off, and he immediately follow-
ed them. Coming upon the wounded
lioness he dismounted from his horse,
but before he could fire the lioness
charged, and seized him by the left
arm. 1•Iis rifle fell to the ground, but.
he got out his knife and stabbed the
animal repeatedly inthe neck. His
left arm was broken, and the lioness
struck him on the left side round to.
the spine before succumbing to her
own wounds. Mr. Sinclair's injuries
were so severe that he died the fol-
lowing morning.
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Force of Habit.
We gazed pityingly on the listless
drug store clerk leaning against the
soda counter.
"Haven't you any ambition?" we
queried, kindly and all that.
"No," he replied, with brightening
intelligence; "but I have something
just as good."
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lionaire, "Some one has been fooling
you. I began life as an infant. "
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The Peer and the Parrot.
The Late Lord Selborne, who was
of a very pious turn and read pray-
ers regularly at home, had a favorite
parrot which was kept in one of the
sitting -rooms. This bird escaped one
day and was reported to be at the
top of one of the trees at the end of
Portland Place, where they lived. Sel-
borne and his daughter hastened to
try and recover the treasure. When
they came to the. place "Pretty Poll,
pretty Poll, ' come then," cries Miss
Palmer persuasively; but Poll does
not stir. The Chancellor then takes
the matter up. "Stay," says he; "let
me try; he knows my voice better,"
So, in a deep voice ho says, "Pretty
Poll, Poll, Poll, come, pretty Poll!"
"Let us pray!" says pretty Poll from
the tree -top, but does not move.
Helping a Lady.
"Jack, I wish you'd come to see
me occasionally."
"Why, Vanessa, I thought you were
engaged to Algernon Wombat?"
"No; but I think I could be if I
get up a little brisk competition."
St. Isidore, •P•Q•, Aug. 18, 1894.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
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consider it the best all-round Lini-
ment extant.
Yours truly,
DR. JOS. AUG. SIROIS.
•
How She Played.
Mary—Mrs. Delaney says her little
girl has learned to play the piano in
no time.
Alice—Yes, I heard her playing
just that way the other day.
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