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This narrative of a typical day iu
the siege warfare that has been go-
laini
r on so long France n :13e1-
ad -
g ulrn •comes from the letter of an
English infantryman Yman
omhe firing
g
that
printed. in
he L
opdo
n
Times, The fleeting . is laborious
. and monotonous work; there is lit-
tle of the .p:ornpor the .glory of .war.
abed 1�ea i
n successful ac-
tion, the infantryman is principally'
concerned with keeping under over
and getting his, rifle, to .work.
"Wo had been digging trenches
all clay, in heavy soil after a hard
fight the day before, ,and had been
persistently shelled, Only one-man
was killed, but we had lost three
,af our horses,. including two from
• our 'cooker,'
"We had hoped to be able to get
some sleep, but at midnight were
rased up and had- to march off a
Mile : or so and start digging again.
It was a ease of a race:against time,
for' at daybreak we were certain to.
be shelled. We dug hard all through
the night, and when the dawn came
we had got down about four feet,
through the stickiest clay I have
ever had the misfortune to have to
shift. We 'planted turnips all along
the paxapets (it was in the middle
of a root field), and then sat down to
try to get some sleep. The trench-
es were not big enough to lie down
in,
"The shelling soon began, and.
lumps of earth began to come over
from where the shrapnel was hitting
the ground in front. One of them
burst just on the parapet of our
small trench, and half buried the
men who were in it,but they were
pulled. out unhurt. That was the
only'damage we suffered, although
nearly or quite sixty shells must
have dropped very near us.
"We werenot allowed to hava
Much rest, though, for in another
hour we got the order to advance.
The German :artillery now began to
leave us and search for our guns on
the crest behind, so we got out of
our trenches in comparative peace
and•advanced in open order across
the fields. . In another half
hour we had got to another ruined
farm, behind which we waited for
the rest of the line. Soon we saw
them advancing to our right, and
got the signal to carry on. In little
parties we left the farm ;and crawled
along the ditches untid'we lined at)
along a hedge another,quarter'•of a
mile on and here we came under
very heavy shrapnel fire, Every few
seconds the shrapnel came whistling
and tearing through the tall pop-
lars of the hedge, behind whose
trunks we crouched. A bit of shell
as big as a brick went over myeighht
nhotelder within an inch of my ear.
It was only a matter of time before
we should lose men, of course, so MAY BE TEA or ''QFiI�E
when we had got breath we moved
off in file to the left up a ditch that
led to .some out -:houses, and lined That Causes all the 'Trouble.
out at five paces' interval just be- When the house is afire, it's about
yond it. the sarne as when disease begins to•
"The rifie fire now began to make show, it's no time to talk but time
itself felt, .and as we contig ued our to aa—delay is dangerous—remove
advance I noticed, in a kind of cas- the cause of the trouble at once.
nal way, little heaps of khaki, and "For a number of years," wrote
saw wounded men being tied up or a Western lady, "I felt sure that
leaking their way to the rear. coffee was hurting me, and yet I
"Soon the prisoners began to was ,so fond of it, I could not give it
come in, and before long we hacl up. At last I got 'so bad that I
more than we could do with. We made up my mind I must .either
sent them back in little parties un- quit the use of coffee or die.
der a few men, using the slightly (Tea is just as injurious as coffee
wounded for preference. Some of because it, too, contains the health -
our inen had taken ,a.treneh or two destroying drag, caffeine.)
with the bayonet. "Everything I ate clistre.ssed me,
"With about a hundred [men we and I suffered severely most -of the
got along to a. burning farm a little time; with palpitation of the heart.
to our left front, and from. there I frequently woke up in the night
had a splendid field of fire at the with the feeling that I was almost
enemy's position. The farmyard gone: my heart iseesmed so smother -
was full of burning straw, but ed- ,and weak- in its action. My
round it were playing is litter of 'breath grew short and th•e least ex -
little white pigs. Soon a shrapnel ertion set me panning. I slept but
came and knocked over a couple of little and suffered from rheuma-
theart. I Belt 'so sorry for them as tis(ln.
they lay there; they had been so "Two years ago 1 .stopped using
full:; of fun chasing each other all the coffee and began to use Postum
over the 'place—such a contrast to and from the very first I began to
what was going on aboett them." improve. It worked a miracle I Now
I can eat anything and digest it
without trouble. I sleep like a
baby, and nay heart 'beats strong
and regularly, My breathing has
become steady and normal, and my
rheumatism has left me.
"I feel like ianother person, and
it is all due to quitting coffee and
using Postum,• for I haven't used
any medicine and none would have
done any good as ]Fong es I kept
drugging with coffee." Name given
by Canadian Postuna, Co., Windsor,
Ont. Read "The Road to Well-
ville," in pkge
Post= comes in •two forms
Regular Postutn -- must be well
bombed, 15e and 25c paolnagges.
Instant Postcon—:is a •soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful diasolvee qufokly
in a cup .a hot water and, with
cream and sugar, makes a deli'oious.
beverage instautly. 30o grad 50e
Gina.
h�ath kinds are egnnlly delicious, g
and ooet per cup about the erasne.
"There's a Reason" for Po,stunz,
—sold, 'hy Grocers.
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
'THE HOME DOCTOR
No :homy where there: are ,little
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They OwnT bre s .Cihe are a
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the minor ills of babyhood and
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r l arid baby�much aa 1 la � 3ai.
pain.
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Tl
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time our little one is ailing they
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or by mail kat 55 cents a box from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine 'Co.,
Brockville, Ont:
SIMI'S A BR.�4'b ]i FOE.
Their Bayonet Charge Frightens
the Most Fearless fighters.
Zn several respects the Sikhs, who
are with the Indian forces .at the
front in France and Belgium, form
a. unique fighting force. In the
first place, they fill.fully one-third
o£ the . rank 'and file of the native
armies in India. Unlike the Gurk-
has, however, they do not belong
to a single race. There are -sev-
eral types of Sikhs, the force being
divided .into clans. There is'what
is known as the Khattaries, or
Ksh.atriyas clang con'sistingi': of • re •
presen'tatives of the old. milieteery
caste of the Hindoos. They ,are
not such big men as the Jabs, an-
other Sikh clan, 'consisting of tall,
stalwart fellows who are a distinct
og'nbrast to the Mazbis, who are
short, rather inclined to be stout,
and have eery dark skin and irreg-
ular features.
All the clans, however, are noted
for their great . powers off endu--
anoe, fighting qualities, and skill
in handling a gun and bayonet. In-
deed, it has often been said by mili-
tary experts that there is -no more
cool and effective soldier in the
world than the Sikh, who takes to
drill like a duok takes to wai.er,
soon becomes a sharpshooter, .and
masters the use of the bayonet pos-
sib;ly better than the soldiers of
any other nationality.
So cold-blooded and invincible,
indeed, are they in a bayonet
charge that it frightens even the
most feaaless fighters, who lose
their nerve when :confronted 'by the
merciless steel in. the hands of these
dauntless -and debermined Indian
troops. • •
Although, however, there are
various racial differences between
the clans of the Sikhs, there is one
link which binds them together, and`
that is their religion, which is' call-
ed Sikhism.. Without going into
maybesaid •h this
.s
it tat lh
details
faith disdains idolatry.
illortifled.
"I haven't seen Hemmandshaw
for a week."
"No;. lie hasn't been out of the
house Since his accident."
"Was he seriou'siy, inj•uredl"
"No; but he feels the •disgrace
deeply.
"Disgrace."
"les, Alter living in the heart
of the city all his wife, he went to
the oouotry one day last week and
waseran over by a milk wagon,"
Wegemowevav
"Some, of the distinations of life
are very puzzling to me," said Mrs.
Gaddy, . "Indeed,",said Professor
(Pundit; "'i hat, for exaimlple V'
"When you -Waite anything bad and
mean in a man's life in a book for
ever lbody • to read it's 'biography,
tut when yo'ia tell the s,aane things ibo
a •few !people on a front porch, i't's
gC siyp."
JCS MEAT A. I?.um:1NG DIET?
Scientists: Say it Gives Neither
Courage Nor •,Lntlurance.
Cireumst,ances have brought to
light again the- question of nl.alr s
need of a red -meat diet to make laim
a
afihtr
r
i ,
as warrior. fighting 4r. An �advocrate of
meat diet declared some time ago
that the Belgians were losing the3•x''
e' • ,'. a
vital liicicnt.,y be:caus�e they are
roam
of 4non-meat a• ,
e tell: But, .al-
t,
though they. had done no fighting
foe a: hundred years, they have.,
givena
a'good account of them,�e�lves
of .l ate.
Modern • scientists. assert that
meat makes a dog or man irrita
bre, but gives neither courage nor
endurance, both of which are ess'en-'
tial fighting qualities. Attention is
called to the fruit -eating gorilla as
the -most dreaded fighter of the A.fri-
can forest. Not .a: lion. is found in
all the region where this great far -
est man reigns, untamed and us -
tamable, a real king of beasts.
The lion, the traditional king of
beasts, fights when brought to bay
only because he is short-winded and
cannot run away. Every experi-
enced hunter has borne testimony
to the ability of the grass -eating
bison as a most courageous fighter,
with few equals.
Nerviiline Eads Neuralgia
Brings relief Instantly
No Remedy Like Old "Nerviline" to
Cure Pain or Soreness. •
That terrible ache—how you fairly
reel with it—that stabbing, burning
neuralgia—what `misery - It causes.
Never mind, you don't have to suffer
--use
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writes Mr: G. C. Dalgleish, from Ev-
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pain in a minute, My family couldn't
get along without Nerviline. We al-
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handy on the shelf, and use it to end
chest colds, sore throat, coughs, ear-
ache, toothache and pain in the back
My wife swears by Nerviline. For
cramps its effect is astonishing and
we believe it is better and speedier.
than any other household family rem-
edy." .
STRAY HINTS t1'J' PEACE.
Significant References From Lon.
don and Paris Bankers.
While diplomatic and official pro-
nouncements by bellfger'arts are
still fairly unanimous on the point
that the war will be prolonged, the
observant follower of current .fin-
ancial evenats may sense a feeling
in the foreign capitals that peace is
nearer than is generally supposed.
There may be no authority for this.
Once before, since the war began,
financiers thought they detected
signs of faltering which, they im-
agined, presaged early pease ne-
gotiations. They were wrong then
—or rather the signs that were evi-
dent to them dad not work out. But
'some day the financiers will be
right, and if history repeats itself,
when the news does come, the lirrar-
kets will. have it first. For this
reason the financial cables: sent
from London and Paris to New
York bankers during the past few
days, because of their significant
references to a possible pretext for
peace overtures, have been of
great in'teres't. Some of those cor-
re:spondemts who usually write with
a good deal of authority have tak-
en the view that the United States
protest against the German war
zone may yet be used as a pretext
to terminate with dignity a war in
which; most internabionl finan-
ciers admit, it is no longer possible
for Germany to gain a lasting ad-
vantage. The reports of acute
economic difficulties in Germany
and Austria may be exaggerated,
bust financial eomme,n•tators, even
as talose to the scene as Holland,
apparently do not think so.
i to
the sat s6nen are making
Evenrna r g
somewhat frequent references to a
more speedy conclusion of hostili-
ties as witness the threat of Brit-
ain's First Lord of the Admiralty
that the paralyzing force of the
pressure now -being exerted upon
Germany through the navy may
itself decide the issue of the war.
Much Ruffled. '
Lord Lo•vat, the head of the fam-
ous Lovat Scouts, tells a good
'story in reigned to a very much ruf-
fled private who was under arrest
for some offence. Lord Lovat in-
quired of the sergeant as, to what
his offence was,."He's a very
trcnrtles�oane fellow, sir," the ser-
geant replied, "Got too much lip,
oes out witlr:ou•t leave, comes back
when he likes, and gets .drunk
when he likes—just a:n if he was an
affiaer.''
ala says • lip Told
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heart' disease was added to my
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A (lose Observer.
Young Hibbard was exhibiting
some photographs to a charming
girl, 'with ivilom he was very much
•in 'love.
"This one," he said, handingher
a picture, ''is any photograph with
French two trench poodles.. Can you re•
cognize me?"
"Why, yes, I think so," replied
the young woman, looking intently
at the picture. "You are the one
with the hat on, are you roti"
British Tactics.
Officer -How did he get into thatcondition ?
Private—He captured a bottle ,•f
whiskey, sir.
Offi(cer—Yes, yes ; but how did he
manage to do that 1
Private -4I think he must Wave
surrounded it, sir.
Sante 'Thing.
"Does your husband keep a
soraplbook 1.
"Not •exactly ; he keeps a check-
book and we have a scrap every
time it is used for my benefit."
So re Absolutely
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the sore spot.
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e makes the corn go
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Not Tactfully Put.
Houseman -4f I'd known you
were going to drop in on us so 00-
expecPtedly. we would have had a
better dinner.
Horton --Don't mention it, old
man; but next time I'll be ;sure and
let you know.
INI'OIt3C.iTI01\r FOR INVENTORS
Messes. Pigeon, Pigeon & Davis,
patent solicitors, Montreal, report
that 217 Camadaan patents were
issued for the week ending Febru-
ary 9th, 1915, 162 of which were
granted to Americans, 33 to Cana-
dians, 15 to residents of Great Bri-
tain and colonies and 7 to residents
of foreign countries.
Of the Canadians who received
patents, 21 were residents of On-
tario, 3 of Quebec, 2 of British
Columbia, 2 of Alberta and 2 of
Manitoba.•
Pat Sees Wonders»
Mike—Phiwat do yez t'ink av the
way they have now av snide.' mes-
sages 'widout wires or poles?
Pate—Sure, it's a great invintion l
expect wan av these day's .they'll
foind a way .t'' travel widout las'in'
home.
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• BOY_ IN EIGIITliNfir
Adventurous Trip to Belgium of 13
year.old London Lad.
Determine, to fight the Germans,
a 13 -year. -old Landon 'boy managed
to reach Flushing and Antwerp. In
Antwerp he was arrested by the
Germans, s, but
was released eaS
ed a
nd
made his way through Belgium and
Flanders home to England.
When war 'was declared he was
attending school ool r
n they.
dayand
working rk ng ]'ax a butcher at night.
More than Once he tried to join the
army, but was too young and too
small. At Christmas he received
$2,50 as a chorister and decided to
go to the front. He took train to
Folkestone, but as he had not much,
money left, the fighting line ap-
peared as far ,off as ever.
Luck was with him, however. He
was seen by a customer when on
the promenade who gave him a mo-
ney gift as a Christmas box, He
bought a ticket for Flushing. Here
he was sent to a home, but escaped,
and joining some Belgians eventual-
ly got to Antwerp.
He was only at liberty in Ant -
warp a day. He was arrested, but
on account of his youth 'was re-
leased and ,w1liowed to 'return to
England as best he could. He wan-
dered through Belgium and Flan-
ders and eventually landed at Tir-
bur;y Docks. Being mistaken for a
Belgian refugee be was taken to
Alexandra Palace, and it was some
days before he was restored to his
parents at London. He is now try-
ing to join the navy.
sl.
Death Nearly Claimed
New Brunswick Lady
Was Restored to Her Anxious Fam-
ily When Hope had Gone.
St. John, N.B., Dec. 15th.—At one
time it was feared that Mrs. J. Grant,
of 3 White St., would succumb to the
deadly rayages of advanced kidney
trouble. "My first attacks of back-
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ago. For six years that dull gnawing
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If I caught cold the pain was unen-
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CAMPHOR, ICE
Mode in Canada
brings sure and speedy relief.
Children especially need Vaseline
Camphor Ice for their rough and
striating hands.
Our new illustrated booklet de-
scribes all the "Vaseline" prepa-
rations. A postcard brings it.
AVOID SUBSTITUTES. Insist
nit "Vascline6° in original pack-
ages
ack-a es bearing the name, CfESE-
BkOUGIH 1V:fANI.T A.CTIJR-
iN G CO., .Consolidated, For sale
at all Chemists and General Stores,
CH1ESEBROUGH MPG CO.
(Consolidated)
1880 CHABOT, AVE., MONTREAL
1111). 7.
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