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Ivangorod BattiCield.
the
•battalions, . regimeats, :mid' eve -P ate... • goltilerY , as they ,r.oliklit. their-.
brigades,. were absolutely eta, aft Way Torwa-rd nr- defended, teen, e.;
-from allcomeattitication'.: None treat. This battle is e''',.eti mat...and
knew •'what w.aS, giiing un anywhere it ie. a eleai....stiushiaa day in the,
but a ;few 'feet in: front, AU knew fall. - All ia peace and harmony and
that, the: 41)nly thing required : of the little bugs aee (trawling aboilf.
them evaeitti keep aelvaneing, .Aud and thseete hamming in elit! 61.11)-
010y did. Pea ,by foot, day lefte.r shinet. it seems ineredible that any-
-day, fighting hand to hand, taking bod.)141 all this serenity could want
and retaking. position .after ! posi- tetekill anybody else. Yet. at every
-of forest, I venture to eeey thee
tion, For ell of this ten kilo:me:9: •setoerp1,8!;:uhlt-iteb(lreaacress the gha.stly
. . d lying- with glez-
S'eWleat I lasVe sein in. Poland•baR 1 good-natured ,61..s.sliftianeeie asa hardly an acre:Withal:it its trenches, ed eye e staring -into the blue eland-
: rifle -pit, and • now graves. ITere leee beavene above them, • Now .01
• ,be.ena.revelation to ene Of thearme ees.adenese sigeaeaptsthss necessary in.
. . . . une seesewhere a dozeu men mad a, is IkerellP and quiet, and save for
qi New Russia, writes .Stanley a .eauSe the-genered nature ae which
little. fort. all theii, eels, andfuusss the igeelle murmur of the wind in
WaShbetria. Until I went to Poland Most of them understarisle".1The Rats-
furiouslv -with -theelieney a few le!eb the treetops there ie -not a sound bo
• t had not daring 'ale' war heen aet-sian.soldier is,to me the most Philo-
awa,e in .'a .eineilar 'poSition, Day ,af- break the seillness of it. :all. And in.
,. i.fally 'in the life of thearmyitielf .3 sophical. individual' in, the' •svorld. I
ter day it ' went oil and day alter •eaeli: ghaetly remnant of a human
,. of :the effioiency of the ." Gerinan have. seen him in the hospitals with
day troops were led into the 'Rus- being that one sees is the path,etae
ArmY., licleaellre.d hy the terrific areas and legs one, hea,d mashed
'Siam Ride of the wood and day after story of some human life. Here
....blows that it had been ,striking, we in, sgbastly wounds of all sorts, and ,
one' the internlittent eraCk of rifle alone, unwashed and unloved, lie
'seen knew, Of the Russians we knew if he has the strength to epeale at
fire and the rear of stiatillesvhaele the letet earthly remains of 'men
!little. save o:E their Galician cam- all he whispers '‘Niehivoi'elle ing shells int -o- 'elle Wood -could be each of whom, •soraewhere, has „a
• ,paign. But now. at last fin 'it4e equivalent of Which hi English is,
heard 4for mile, But the artillery' wife or sweetheart, mother or sis-
first day we entered the sphere of "What •differenee does it ena.ke any -
inlayed no very great part, , for the ter who would give half their life
active and inunediate operations way /" • ' the 'possible
of the forest made it ien- •to •have this poor inangled body
we had' the ehanee .of .,forming an After getting a gl lin p se of the
'possible_ oesible to .get an effective range. that lies here rotting in the woods.
opinion as to the soldiers of,. the men and the munitions that PeA- Yet the fire was kept up and the 'Anil in -eaelt dead body is (Inclosed
'Osair,—an opinion :telii.eli in• two meate the life behind. the .army one
forest for miles looks as though. e 'the Story tef the fight and thepatla
days !became awns-it:lion, and that is not .siteptised .at the feats that
hurricane • had a wept , through : etic effort ofthe stricken man to
was thatthis army had :Ibsen 2 Com- these same . 'Men, 'backed by their
Treeestaggering froni their • shat- stave off the inevitable.
nletely reorganized in ten . years organization and, transport, ars'e tered trunksand litnies haegiag Here men were iseattered about
1 eeowhere the -shraps .apparenly fighting one another in
t
.and that it was under fall steam perfornring every day on the a.ctual I
e
with a: niomenttun end efficiency field or battle itself:. While.' itt is! •:‘srywheee how
nel have 'beenbursting. isolated groups, and there must
-which was alnio s I:- ineredible to true that .-many of the resent tic-
fadse that had seen it ten years a:go dons have .3e:ten rearguard affair,. ,,, ,.
Yard by yard the ranks and linea have been hundreds and perhaps
t tee Austrians were.driven back, more who died ,alone in the forest
im the :thstnel plains of Manchuria_where --1: has• b • -)ertectiv .phvions
i'lnat the nearer their retreat With none to care. for their wounds
. . .
Effieiency of Tranaport.. ' that the enenlv :was making a stand:
braieshe them to the cnsen country because none knew where to look
For weeks there have been sua- only long enough topearait him to
w
.esl, of the wood the hotter was the for them And he who has the
gestioes in the foreign press that get- out his itupedimenta at his leis -
contest waged e for each mare in his heart to walk about in this ghastly
R
are, it is equally true that there
ussia has been Moving elowly, but have been -other actions Where lee own mind milk have known hoar place •tan read the last sad mo-
that-
h•er'slawriess wees the prepares
matters .wotild fare -with. the retreat ments of almost every eorpise. Here
tion for sureness is
the answer had not the 'slightest idea in the
once theopen cpuntry without shel- one ;sees a blue -coated Austrian
whieh ;One 'reads on the highways do e
world -Of leaving unless he had to
s, ter 'should - be reached. The last- with .leg shattered lay a jagged bit
and byways of Poland to -day. 1 and kilometers of the woody belt of a shell. The trouser perhaps has
have seen 'the transiporb and the Deaperate Battle of lvangored. are something incredible to behold; been: ripped open and clumsy at-
Cominuedeatiens Of a .huge army in there seems hardly an acre 'that is tempts made to dress the wound,
the. Far East, but never have I seen not sown like the scene of a paper- whilea great splotch of red .shows
. or even dreamed of the things that chase—only here .svi•th lbIoody band- where the fading strength was m
pne sees daily oigthe lines of cam-
-
ages and bits pf uniform. gtill hausted ,before the flow of life's
inunications inPoland. --One ean ..:
there was meagre use for the artil- Oreille could be ohecleed. Here
-
'take an automobile and drive for lery, but the rifle and the ba,yonet again is a body with a. ghastly Hp
hours along the beautiful macadam pla,yed the leading role. Men fight- in the .ethest. made perhaps by limey -
roads of Poland and for a, hundred ing hand to hand with clubbed mus- onet or shell fragment. Frantic
' kilometers pass the almost un.brok- kees and bayonets contested .each hands .now stiffened in death are
en line of transport, ammunition; tree and ditch. But ever did the seen trying to hold together great
and artillery, intermingled with Russians systematically, patiently, *Mende from which life must have
-infantry aocl cavalry, that is mov- steadily feed in -the troops at their flowed in a few great spurts of
ing to the front. The roads are side of the wood. .. , blood: And here it is no fiction
filled foe mile .a,fter mile With allwith about the ground being s
,oakecl
The end .was, of course, inevits
that goes to snake for the execution able. The troops of the dual aala gore. One can see it, ---coagulated
of war. In many places the ,ad 7 .ance could not, I suppose, fill their like bits of raw liver, while great
Nance is made two ',abreast, and I, losses and the Russians could, chunks of sand -and earth are in
thiek it no .exaggeration to say that lumps, held together by this human
Their army was under way, and ae
I have seen on one road in forty- The Russians in Poland D. eol glue. Other bodieslie in absolute
eight hours not less than 1,000 of One sees them these days one feels Peace and serenity. Struck dead
the six -horse teams 'di -awing the. With a rifle ball'ithrotigh the he.aitt
that they would have taken that
elartking, :jangling Caissons loadedor Sonliether dn &tap* Sta.] !ispot.
belt of wood if the-intire peasant
.
wittli, the shrapnel .sliells : for . the populatien-Pf .the Oiar had been ne-
These 116 like men asleep, and an
p
fiekl artillery. As for the wagons. oessary to feet to ;the. maw of that
their faces is the eace of:absolute
';
containing -the miscellany from ghastly Monster of carnage in the rest andrelawatio;a, but of these
! •
' which an •a,rxrry sucks its life -.their .forest. But At last came the day alasthere are few compared to elle
'
. numbers must easily run into the when the dirty, ,grinry, bloody sol-
one's upon whose pallid, blood-
-tens of thousands, cliers of the Czar pushed their an
stained faces one reads the last
And between and around and tagonists out of the fax aide of .the frantic agony of death. And what
a:
about all 'are ever the seething belt of woodland—and what a scene 1 hve written here of the dead is
•
throngs of the soldiery themselves, there must have been in thialovelYonly such as one can write'for of
the
• —ese quiet, good-natured, gray- bit of open country with the qthe more horrible sights of the bat-
uaint
. eo-ated units of the Czar ,with their little village of elugustow at the tlefielel it is impossible .to write,
inevitable fixed ' bayonets, moving cross roads-! Once out in the open al-1dt indeed, very unpleasant to
••
forward in brigacles, regiments, the hungry guns of the Russians, so think at all.
Fibreaef
battalions, and. companies. The long yapping ineffectively Without the Russian Soldier.
picture .of the road thab always lin- knowing what their shells were do- I have mentioned this Battle of
gerS in one',s mind at night is of ing, had their chance. Down every Ivangorod merely as a type to fl -
this forest of bayonets as a mabrix road through the forest came the lustrate the suanner of work that
for miles andanilee of laboring cais- six -horse teams with the guns the Russians are doing these days
sons and creaking transport *arts. jumping and jingling behind, with and to make olear the determine -
From the fleet day that one is on their accompanying caissons, heavy tion with which they .are waging
Ile toad 'one feels absolute con- with death -charged shrapnel, and this war. In the terrible chaos
fidence in the fa.ct that Russia has the moment the enemy were in the which now involves all Europe it s
two of 'the great reqUisites of war, clear these !batteries, eight guns to doubt if the- world at large
.—the organization and . the men a unit, were • unlimbered on the (other than the countries engaged)
blieunselVes. The word organize, fringe of the wood and pouring out will ever realize the enormety of
bion, as I use it, means supplies and their death and destruction on the these operations. Even as I write
"the efficient means of transport- wretched enemy non retreating now of the scene of carnage .and
ing them in a re,gular and orderly hastily .aeross the open. And the blood in the -fields at Auguetow
manner. Napoleon. said 'that an plea where the Russians first turn 7 there is in the making about Cra-
army was ,composedsof tee material ed loose on the retreat is a place to cow a bfattle of so antteh greater im-
faCboes and of the moral !oompon- remember. Dead :horses, bits of portance and on so inuel vaster a
ents, and Of these , the latter was met, blue uniforms; .shattered scale that perhaps when these lines
three times as ' ienportant as . the transport, overturned gun -car- are read the action I have spoken
foiemer. ' With every poesible Tie- riages, bones, 'broken skulls, and of will be: tetiteely lost in its omn-
eats*, :and. with the last word in glisley bits of humanity strew every parat it e lusig,nificanee. Pe reo n -
equipm.ent, .an :arany without mo- acre of the- ground. ally, in. my wk I have long since
rale is a motor -car destitute of
.gttiolitte. ,
. . ..
The. Ilinuen Factor—Morale of the
-. • • Troops.
To illustrate what. I mean sl would
refer tothe field of -battle, which
seenn to be known as the Battle of
Ivangorod 1 have asked many peo-
ple in the •last few days -what they
knew of this action. All seemed to
know in a .vague way that is was:£6
Russian victory. Some said it was
a, GermansAnstrian rearguard ac-
tion, but few seemed to know any
of the. details of 'a contest ..w,hich in
any other war that this world -has
ever seen would fill hooks with its
horrid 'details of ..fierce hand-to-
hand fighting. As far as I know
there is nothing in tho history of
•war that can ton& this event t
speak of. Yet a .few weeks after-
wards, other than the inere.fact of
it having taken plaee .and -having
been Won by the Russians, nothing
•Mtuch- is Inewantabout ib.
• •1 a.m nob .going totryto-describe,
the' military or atrabgetic- -.aspects
of this desperate confliet,because if
onelbegine on the historical tela -
tion of •b.attles in this war there is
absolutely no ending. I shall, how-
ever, sketch briefly the nature
the Work that -the 'Russian soldiers
did here; for in no 'battle of the
whole war, an any front, has the
fibre, determination, and courage
of troops been put -more thoroughly
to the test than in this very action.
The German programme, as is now
well known, contemplated taking
both Warsaw' and Ivangorod and
the holding for the winter of the
line between the two loaned by the
Vistula,. The B.ussians took the of-
fensive from Ivangorod, crossed th.e
river, and alter hideous fighting
fairly drove Austeians and Ger-
mans from positions of great
strength around the qu-aint little
Palish town of Koeienice. From
this town of perhaps ten miles west
and I know not how far north and
south 'there is a belt of forest of
fir and eeprace.. I say foreet, but
perhaps jungle is a better term; for
it is eo dense with trees' and under-
brush !that one ean hardly see fifty
feet- away.' Near 'Kokienied; the Rus-
elan- infantry, attaeking in flank•
and front, fairly wrested the en-
emy's position and drove him back
into this jungle. The front was
itself Ibriatling with guns and I:
tonnted in not over a mile forte --
two gun --poSitious. The taking of
this line. was in itselt a test of the
mettle of the. Russian peasant. .sol-
dier, But thi5 -Was the -beginning:
Once in the Wbod th.e Rnseian ar-
tillery was limited in ite effeet upon
the enemy, and in ;any event ehafew
roads through the forest and the
abise•nee of open plasee made its use
almost impossible. The ,enenay re-
tired a little way into this 'wilder-
ness and fortified. The Russians
!eimplee sent their troops in after
them.
"Battle of -the Wilderness."
The fight aae.iiow over a frent of
perhaps twenty Itiloinets I'S there
was 11,i stratep,7. 1± wak alt. very
In thiS belt • •were Germans
and .Aitetriane. -Theywere to he
driven seult. if it touk a inoutle Then
began t hecarnstee 'Day after day
the Russians letroops in on 'their
-side �f the wood. Thelie -entered
We -se. seen. for a 'few minutes., then
disaPpeared in the labytinth . of
tiletee.naiel'Were -lobtee •Compa.ntesi.
There ..is no question about the
Ruesians to -day. When I first
came to Rtiesia I wrote a story from
Petrograd in Whieh I mentioned the
new spirit alt Russia and the will-
ingness ;with which the troops were
going to the • war. After having
been at the :front and seen hun-
dredsand thoueands olt tho same
Seldiere on the road's, in the
'trenches, and in the hospitals I am
oft -the opinion that what 1 then
wrote i albsolutely true. None of
)these pathetie units in the great
game wanted the war; and 1 0mp-
peso eVerY one of them prays for
its eoneltision, but •almost without
eteoption thee...take it pleiloeophie-
ally and as a, matter IA eeareo.
Their hardships aid their losses.
1-4,1 !their Priv:at-inns and their wounds,
all are ultierited as inevitable. The
4tbsoln te 'ltopelessness whieh <nte
0aiw• on their noos in Manchuria k
mot seen in theee days. The key-
note of their apipear mice wl levy re r
seen ,t-l-tein Ixithis• war is' a.
abandoned any idea of trying to
Enormous Losses on Both Sides. work out thedetails of the battles
A Russian officer who seemed to that are going on. A single one of
be in authority on this gruesoine these covers. such an area and con -
spot volunteered the information tains o many details that even to
that already they had buried at begin a study of a field means a
Kozieniee, in the wood and on this vast 'amount of time. Before one
spot, .1.0,000 -dead, and as far as 1 action is fairly ended a far greater
could make out the job was A long one is already under way, and all
way from oompleted Airben 1 was on that a correspondent can hope to
the field. Those that had fallen in
the open and along the road had
been decently interred, as the for -
eats of erases for ten miles alone
that oody way (dearly indicated°,
but bark' in the woods themselves
were hundreds and hundreds of
bodies lay as they had fallen,
Sixteen thousand dead means at
least 70,000 casualties all told, or
85,000 onet side if losses were eaual •
ly distributed. And figured The soldiers themselves go on f011OWing aloe 'One a!, pintte.PS stockinge. Tho water
on the basis of the mewl, dead al. erne eat:0010A ta. hatestaeed, :from Penny and a Dollar wet. in a man's makes all of therm eont.raet, The
the nuntherl,; ,of he, fallen thee sl 11 They eye their rvrelment8 miiie tlke Ponr1::, and said ttestrri. conies slowee and slower, At !las.
up its cold increases, the 'cireulation
ready .toisied, without' allow ills far I. -Jae scene ae eltrit age t 0 allot her. pocket . Dollar timed
lie about in the •wwids. '" to nothillgi oftieexs de(!imat. • fully : '14i*by, 1 ant ..vorth one hull, enti-relY- P:len
11 eofe wants to get an idea nf theegetauethe teoa, tagagalee 'died of you.' •` 'Yes ' said , the foils and tale feet '(.01.11f. -
This 4 a matter of Seyeree
dead or %%minded, end yet :51101;1 rvpny. 'but knell a:: that. I am it
los
night diey • gableg about their hi. goad hit better than y„u are, go and ean be guarded 41,tpinst.
s tippnreil y f.tirb 0 by t, ety grindey eaurell and ',Sun- rre aftvr the tslir.N5 AM' $i.,;c•IdnIs
it all. One seve them on the road day aloal both, and you never go of the F1'emil -1,” bit
materialle reaneede
the day after, one of these deeper- to either oae.' "
ate figliti vg cheerfully
along, singing songs and laughing
and joking wilh one another, This
is morale anti it is of the tuff that
vi ories are made. And of ench is
the fibre of the Ruesian
scattered °e'er these hundreds of
miles of front ±o -da.'. Be exists in
milliens mneh as 1 have described
him abeve. He has abiding faith in
his companions. in his officers, wad
in his caisse. I think myself that
sooner or later he will win. Time
alone can say when his victory will
come.
sa
DEAFNESS IN CIIILDRiiN,
TY,
Should -Be Thoroughly Treated By'
UL Aurist.
About one per cent. of all the
school children in London, England,
have discharging ears. Mere aee,a
.good many in Ontario .whio suffer in
the same way. Most of this suffer-
ing is caused by .scarlet fever and
measles, which are preventable dis-
eases. On the staff ef every hospi-
tal where scarlet fever -and mea-
sles are treated there -should be an
aurist who can thoroughly supervise
the treatment of such . eases until
they are cured.
Children with discharging ears
who , are at school should be thor-
oughly a,nd 'carefully treated by an
aurist, assisted by the school nurse.
If this were done, a very large pro-
portion of sueli cases could be cured
and deafness prevented.
There are other diseases causing
deafness notice of which should be
required and thorough treatment
given to preserve the child's. hear-
ing. A discharging ear is a very
serious thing; it exposes the child
not only to the danger of deafness,
but to the danger of death.
The main cause of ear disease and
deafness is to be found in the back
part of the throat and nose, with
which the ear is connected by a pas-
sage ealled the Eustaehian tube. If
the end of this opening is blocked
up by aclenoide or by swollen mu-
cous membrane—the, swelling usual-
ly being caused by catarrh, or by
the infection of influenza, scarlet
fever, mumps, measles, or typhoid—
then this part of the ear becomes
unlie,althy, the secretions are re-
tained, the ear becomes • infe,cted
and inflamed, a,nd deafness is the
result. Nature gives warning by
ear -ache, which is often wrongly
supposed to be oaused by teething,
worms, or neuralgia. Ear disease
can ueually be cured,. if promptly
a,nd -properly treated, and in this
way deafness is prevented. The
presenee of adenoids• is u.snaIly
shown by mouth -breathing, snoring
at 'night, and .other .signs; but the
advice alt an &mist is all-important
in eases of ear -ache or slight deaf-
ness.
School life appears to have an un-
favorable influence on children's
sight. It is not hard to see why
when one looks at the lighting of
some school -rooms and the paper
and type in n-uany .school books. Ex-
tra large type should be the only
-kind allowed in little children's
books, and lighting should be very
well looked after in the building
and ye -modelling of sehools. Every
child's desk should be well lighted.
—Helen MacMumehy, M.D., Inspec-
tor of Auxiliary Classes for On-
tario.
Kitty—"Jaek told me last night
that I was the prettiest girl he'd
ever seen." Ethel—''Oh, that's
nothing; he said the s,ame me a
year ago." Kitty—"I know that,
but as one grows older one's taste
improves, y know ."
The professor .was explaining to
his 'class of young women the theory
of the complete renewal of :the body
every seven years. "Thus. Miss every twenty-four hours. Failure
Adams,' he said to a very pretty ea do 60 nal involve severe pagieths
young woman, "in seven years you ment. Since the opening of the
,.,etiltinngollaoreciagbte 41; .skahearan. ,es4s' Tdleie.
'terrible results of the war has been
winter campaign one ef the moat
".5 ell, I the thousands of men turned beak
=rely as !elle aophed.
with "frozen feet." In nearly
sinterely hope I shall not.' with
instanee gangrene had set
_
in. and amaoutation was nedesstery..
An old gentleman by the name of
Dr. Tetinoan, of Bourge.s,• wbo-
Page, finding. a young lady's glove
treated many of these :eases, could
do 10 this war is to keep pace with at, a iiapular resort, presented it to
her with the following wordsnot understand why it was that
the results •froaee day to day, send- : "If
from vont' glove yon take the lettee only the •feeb were frozen, and
ing as well as may be the siguille-
hands, :ears' and naves unteatehed.
ant outeonees of wto to thee." To this the lativ hat is going on G, Ye' in. glove is love, which I de -
Bo. with the associates in the
andattemptingwak turned the following answer :
to oout the de- vore-
off Frenth Academy of Medicine, he
tansatall.such ..0,, story as this -:-•
investigated: it was diecovered
muse. be taken merely as a typical . from your Page you take the letter
that what had taken plate was
erd°frlie‘
oss-seetion: of a battle and in no P, YoUr Pa,,,ge is age. and that won't •
eheeking of the blood eirculation in
way an:latterript to make an ecru
-
rate Mete:Heal study of the mill- I.)-tt'o.htgla lesson on elementary
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t a ry .mo Vein e n t itself, eatopesitioe a. little girl read the
FROM ER1 GREEN
'SEWS. las flAIL FOM
LAND.'S
ISIE
Ilapp nines In the lilinerahl Isle tf
laterest to Web.
'Men.
Mise E1l6e Byrne, 4Jf
Newry, has died at the age fif-
Sorne $37e,000 is likely to ,be
Spent to improve the pier at Dingle,
Re rry,
The 'Monaghan and Cavan. latna-
tie Asyluna is conga -feted,. with •034
patients.
Capt. McKeegan, uf Glenarm,
Antrim, lost his ship in the North
Sea by a mine.
Cochrane McLeod injured, while
sleighing at Carthall brae, Cole-
raine, died of lockjaw.
Albert Lear, • steward on the
Olympic, was freed ef the charge of
being a spy at Belfast.
Private Loughead, home to Ril-
leshandra, Cavan, on furlough,
slipped and broke his ieer.
Gribileons Bries.. of Belfast, paid
$300 .fine for trading with the en-
emy at Hamburg, Germany,
Killarney Rural °canon i pee.ss-
ing lo•r better representatilen for
farmers in Parliament.
The Agivey River has overflo•
Derry, and many families were
real danger from floods.
The Munster and Leineeer B.
at Waterford are extending .th
premises at a cost of $25,000.
The 'South of Ireland Commercial
Travellers' Association has its larg-
est membership roll yet.
A loaded gun fell from a. hat -rack
at liallingarry, Wexford, and killed
Susan Willoughby. age.d 16.
,Shoating at a crow, a. young man
bit Patrick Cassidy at Ballina-
gueragh, Tyrone, and killed him.
Patrick Denvira alt Downpatriek,
a young boy, set his clothes on fire
bile alone in the house and died.
The Ora,nmore to Kiloolga,n mail
car was found overtuned in Galway
and Dive Scanlan dead beneath it.
Mrs. .Ellen McDonagh, living
alone in a cabin at Sheridan, Fer-
managh, was burned to death, at
the age of 60.
Jame.s.Rogers, a, fine young harse-
man, died at Leopazdstown from
injuries riding for the Bray Plate.
TheaDun-shauglin Guardians are
hot 'after' the Government for com-
mandeering the workhouse and the:
rejecting it.
John •Keoevn, aged 40, was suffo-
eated by fumes of a coal briquet
fire in his room a,t Callaghan Whea-
nal, near B.elleck.
Edward Connelly. a farm,er at
Raglans, Carrickmacross, refused
to have a wounded hand dressed,
and died as a result.
The death has occurred at his re-
sidence, Reddy's Hotel, Derry. sf
Mr. William. A. Roddy, Fellow of
the Institute of Journalists, and
the Derry Journal. .
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KEEP FEET FROM FREEZING.
Boots to be Greased and Taken Off
Twice Wally.
Thousands of French sokliers are
hopeless cripples to -day whose
limbs mighb have been saved had
the doctors known what to do for
them. This fact was emphasized in
an under issued recently which
amends the military regulations
concerning the eare of the troos •
in the field.
Hereafter it is made computsc •
that each French soldier shall ;
more his s.hoes and socks for n,
less than fifteen minutes twice in
the sEeet. Men in the trenehes have
had to stand hi rater .withoilt be-
ing ,aible to reamve their "shoes,
what war is under these von.riiiion!,
11 is only 13 ecessa ry to .s troll ".,..bat,.1t••
among:the trees and wander ihoul
through the maze of ritle-vik and
thrown up 'hy the {temper