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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-11-23, Page 7STORIES FROM t. THE FIRING UNE HA`Y11AKING ON .THE 'BATTLE- FIELD. Stories of .Hardships Suffered by British Prisoners of War. Life on the firing line at present Seems one long record of cold and rain and oozing mud, of wounds and bombs and big advances, says a London cor- respondent. - In London yesterday I met an old friend, fresh from Fence, and on one week's leave from the firing line. He was oneof those curious and lucky individuals who has actually come through unscathed. "Been blown up four times and bur- ied six times," he remarked ""airily, "and T. haven't had a touch of shell shock!" 'He told me many incidents of Ger- man cunning, of various traps that "F" frequently employed. Don't say " Breakfast Food'' --say " Shredd•ed Wheat" ---for while you' n'o doubt mean Shredded Wheat, you may 'get one of those mushy porridges that are a poor substitutc-. for the crisp, delicious shred:' of baked whole wheat=that supply all the rlutrimexit@for a half day's work. Twc Biscuits with milk or cream make a nourishing meal,, at a cost of a few cents. ritz "Had a curious experience along the 'Henn road," he said. "We had taken a big stretch of trench. It struck us as strange that there were so few Ger- mans in it, and stranger still, that there were so few•dead lying about. "So we were on the lookout for a trap. We weren't disappointed, but the Germans were. Haystacks Behind the Lines. "In front of us we saw a line of haystacks. It did seemqueer to have stacks of hay behind the first line. One of our chaps was so much im- pressed with the queerness of it that he took a shot at the nearest stack. Immediately a yell came from behind that stack, and out darted a btinch of Germans. They saw us coming to- ward them and bolted like frightened rabbits. "We were after them like hounds, and when wegot of to the line of hay- stacks we had an explanation of the German zeal for haymaking. The stacks were hollow, and in each were parties of . the enemy, waiting with the intention of. cutting us off when We least expected it. "We thought it as well to go in for a bit of haymaking on our own, and we soon tossed all that hay up in the air with our bayonetgs. "Of course along with the hay we tossed a few Germans up as well. In fact, when we had finished haymaking there weren't many Germans left. "One would have thought that would prove a lesson to them. But no! They actually tried ; the same old dodge again the next day. "It was worse for themsbecause we now knew what to do. We advanced toward the stacks with the idea of having another bout of haymaking. "That was the moment selected by the Huns for getting on the move with their liquid fire outfit. Something, however, seemed to go wrong with it, for the stuff fell short and set fire to the stacks of hay where their own men'°were hiding. Whole parties of the enemy were set alight as they sheltered in the hollow of the stacks. "There was tremendous yelling and screaming, and some of my men were so sorry for the poor devils that they rushed forward and helped to ex- tinguish the flames. "But what do you think the Ger- mans did? I could scarcely believe the evidence of my own eyes. Thougt, they knew we were trying to save them, they didn't scruple to fire on our -Chaps. "That settled it. We let their men look after themselves, and got busy on the treacherous crowd who had fired on the rescuers. We got the whole bunch of them, too—and served them right! . Experiences in Germany. r have met a good many returned prisoners of war in London recently, and heard from them at first hand the story of their experiences in Ger- many. Those experiences were cer- tainly not enviable. I know that hitherto the press has often been accused of misrepresenting facts concerning thetreatment of pris- oners in Germany. With the return of many of these then, however, all doubts as to the veracity of report's 5'- ve been removed. he man with whom I talked had. ned in the Munster camp in During a period of nearly he had sampled many prisons, but Mun- e hated most. a starvation little food we knife, fork or sits of "rusty use Made in Canada. shut himself in his private suite; sur, Applied Mathematics rounded by literature of all kinds--. I sometimes wonder what's the use classical works, novels, magazines and .Of squaring the "hypotenuse, Or why, unless it be to tease, Thj=Iigs must be called isosceles: Of 7eurse I knew that mathematics Are mental stupts and acrobatics, To give the brain a drill gymnastic And make gray matter more trestle—. It that why, Euclid has employed Trapezium and trapezoid, I wonder?—yet :it seems to hie That :all the plain geometry One needs, is just the simple feat, Whate'er your line, make both ends meet! newspapers. With the -exception of his . personal attendants and -ministers of state, no one is allowed in the im- perial sanctuary .during the Sultan's literary ,"fits." But tliie Sultan is at something of a. disadvantage, says a British weekly, because his knowledge of European languages is limited, In order to overtone the difficulty he employs a translation office, Here there are officials who speak all the languages of Europe and the East. Theyread all the political and illus - hatted newspapers of 'importance and translate extracts from them for the Sultan. There are fifteen superior,. translators, called dragoman secre- taries, in that office, and their pay is from ten to forty Turlfish pounds monthly. -They ado not limit their translations to political publications; they trans- late novels and romances in all lan- guages for the Sultan, and many thou- sand volumes of their work have found their way .into the imperial library. They are all written on thick, white, royal, octavo, gilt-edged paper,- and are fastened together with greejn and red ribbons by the translators themselves. After circulating through the harem they are preserved in the library. The Sultan's favorite reading is criminal romances. He subscribes to all news- papers that contain reports of the pro- ceedings hi the law courts, and there is no famous writer of stories of crime in any language .whose works have not been translated for him. QUEER LAWSUITS. Strange Matters Which Come Before the Courts. A wounded Italian officer recently brought suit to obtain a decision as to the rightful ownership of a bullet extracted from his body: Both doc- tor and nurse claimed it, but the offi- cer contended that it was legally his. The judge gave his decision in fa- vor of the officer. He found that the projectile, once discharged from the gun, ceased both to belong to the man who fired it and to the country that intrusted it to him. The officer dis- covered it in his body. The surgeon, assisted by the nurse, merely brought the projectile to light. Hence the of- ficer was entitled to keep it. When a French abbe left one village to take up work in another the mayor and the citizens of the town that he was leaving lighted a bonfire in the road to speed the departing official, and in other ways showed that they were overjoyed to see the last of him. The abbe thought himself insulted and brought an action for damages; `abut as he was unable to show any, the case was dismissed. A very stout man who bought a third-class ticket on an English rail- way found that he could not enter the a third-class com- he went into ht e doors efused to railway the balance, both that and narrow donr"v fs partment a first-class. of w pay company and the n had the costs,-sfii+ae court decided that this could not have been his first of- fence, and that, knowing that he could not squeeze through the door of a third-class compartment, he ought to have purchased a first-class ticket. After telling a barber to trim his beard, an American fell asleep in the chair. He woke up clean -shaved. His beard, two feet hi length, of which he was very proud, was gone. He sued the barber for a thousand dollars, and received one hundred. RHEUMATISM. 'CURED In the days of our fathers and grand- fathers rheumatism was thought to be the unavoidable penalty of middle life and old age. Almost every elderly person had rheumatism, as well as many young people. Medical . science did not understand the trouble—did not knowtthat it was rooted in the blood. It was thought that rheumatism was the mere effect . of exposure to cold and damp, and it was treated with liniments and hot applications, which sometimes gave temporary re- lief, but did not cure the trouble. In those days there were thousands of rheumatic cripples. Now, medical science understands that rheumatism is a disease of the Blood, and that with good, rich, red blood any man or woman of any age can defy rheu- matism. heanatism. It can be cured by killing the poison in the blood which causes it. There are many elderly people ..who have never felt a twinge of rheuma- tism, and many who have conquered it by simply keeping their blood rich and pure. The blood making, blood enriching qualities of =Dr. Williams 'Pink Pills is becoming every year more widely known, and it is the more general use of these pills that has robbed rheumatism of its terrors. At the first sign of poor blood, which. is shown by loss of appetite, palpitations, dull skin and dim eyes, protect your- self against the further ravages of disease "by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They have cured thousands of people—if you give them a fair trial they will not disappoint you. You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The"" Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE FISHES' SIXTH SENSE. Can Detect Diflerenees in Heat ' and Cold. so. fa' lit Ja�t w T ly, Ta! or; Dij On A NOVEL -READING SULTAN. The Favorite Literature of Turkey's Ruler is Stories of Crime. Although the Sultan of Turkey is reputed to be the laziest potentate in Europe, he is passionately fond of reading. For weeks at a time he will Two GREATWORLD GRAMS are combined in the perfected ready -cooked cereal GrapeNuts This appetizingblend arle pf Wheat andy ys over 98% Food. 'ONOMIOAL EALTHFUL. ELIGHTFU1 AND MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES y,'s Own Tablets are a grand ff eine for little ones. They are a but thorough laxative ; are ab- ely safe; easy to give and never ito cure any . of the minor ills of ones.' Concerning them Mrs. . Hastey, Gleason Road, N.B., =`I have used Baby's Own s and have, found them perfect- tisfactory for my little one." The is are sold by medicine dealers mail at 25 cents a box from The iiliams Medicine Co., Brockville, rt For a Holiday. ire of the best stories concerning British weather is related by the Bis- ho',`of Lydda. "Once, before I was p, I was on the top of an omni - here were seated some Parsees," d his Lordship. "A man said bis bu rely to sae, 'What are they?' I replied, `Indians—Parsees, you know. Men _who worship the sun.' And the man replied, 'Oh, I see, and they have come over here for a holiday: " lVlinard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemen,—Last winter I received great benefit from the use of,1VIIN- AR;D'S LINIMENT in a severe attack of LaGrippe,' and I have frequently proved it to be very effective in cases of Inflammation. • Yours, W. A. HUTCHINSON. «lass paving blocks used in an ex- perimental way in a French city street lasted less than two years. Mitkflfd+s Liniment Ousts Colds, &o. He Wabbled. At. COIN ',Theenty w, bmking pot r p that does NA1N ptalnh k ty EVJ,GILLET A Riddle. What is it that has over 4,000 mus- cles and can neroot trees, gather grass, lift a cannon or a nut, kill a man or brush off e fly, eat a whole sheep, but prefers a peanut? An elephant's trunk. MONEY ORDERS Pay your out of town accounts by Dominion Express Money Orders. Five dollars costs three cents..,, To' Stop Hiccoughs. To stop hiccoughs give the patient a teaspoonful of sugar and vineger.•H If this does not a :'ord instant relief repeat the dose, nxinnrd's &iii=hent Cures Garget in Cows Protect young trees against mice by tying building' paper around the trunks. "Come out to our place to dinner tonight," said the banker. "'I'll be glad to," said his friend. "Our girl," said the banker, "is studying music—" "Oh, that reminds me. I've a very importantold man, but Il t for to -night. Sorry, can't come." "Can't you? Too bad! Our oldest girl, .as- I was saying, is studying music in Chicago, and we're awfully lonesome evenings." "Oh, I'll cat that engagement and come anyway." Of the many things which make the daily life of a horse miserable, two are 'blinders and the tight check -rein, the worst parts of a horse's harness. How salt -water fish that at certain periods in their lives migrate to fresh water always find their way into • the same rivers is made clear by the in- vestigatioris of two doctors who have recently been studying the reaction of salt -water fish to various conditions of environment. It appears, says a writer in Popular Science Monthly, that herrings can de- tect differences in heat and cold ,as small as a quarter of a degree, or less. They also know when even the slightest traee of acid or alkali is pre- sent hi the water. Some scientists have even proposed that herring and other fish be used, to detect the pre- sence of chemicals in the water, just as canaries are used to discover traces of poisonous gas in mines. The investigators say that sklmon find their way into rivers by means of the presence of acids or alkalis,. which, of course, varies in different streams. Even when they are a long way out at sea they can discover the trace that will lead them to the bay and the stream that they seek. It thus becomes unnecessary to appeal to a "homing instinct" to explain the re- turn of certain salmon to certain riv- ers or the "running" of herring to certain localities. Apple trees -may be pruned with safety at any time after the lecives begin to fall. And there is more time for pruning in late fall than there is iii early spring. INN Granulated Eyelids, Sore E�yea, Ev flan ed by Sun, past and rodel,�quuiickly t In your Eyes & drelieved by MuanB1'Y Eye r NoSnartisgslastEye Cesdorlt Rlea'llne Eye Remedy s'stdties pr,De ` Sym Salvo. In Tabes Rha. For feok df .–Prem. Ask Moshe Eye Remedy Co.. Cbicasa • Fail -plowed soil can be cultivated earlier in spring than that not fall - plowed. It will also hold a greater sup y of moisture for summer grolth. ZVtirtatd'$ Iiiniment dstres Di1 tithor*tt, 'WITH THE FINGERS SAYS CORNS LIFT OUT WITHOUT ANY PAIN 0 _.o—o—o--o—o—o--o—o—o—o—o—o— Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be lift- ed right out with the fingers if you will apply on the corn a few drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati authority. At little cost one can get a small bottle of freezone at any drug store, which will positively rid one's feet of every corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection. This new drug is an ether com- pound, and dries the moment it is ap plied and does not inflame or even ir- ritate the surrounding tissue. Just think 1 You can lift off your corns and calluses now without a bit of .pain or soreness. If your drug freezone he can easily tle for you from house. LEONS MAKE SKIN WHITE, SOFT, CLEAR Malythis beauty lotion for a few cents and see for yourself. What girl or woman hasn't heard of Iemccl juice to remove complexion blemishes to whiten the skin and to brink out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beauty' ? But lemon juice alai. is acid, therefore irritating, and shoal ,,be mixed with orchard white this x Y. 'Strain -through a fine cloth the'tgate of two fresh lemons into a bottle containing about three ounces of orchard white, then shake well and you have :a whole quarter pint of skin and complexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar of ordinary cold cream. 13e sure to strain the lemon juice so no pulp gets lute• the bottle, then this lotion will remain pure and fresh for months. When, applied daily to the face, neck, arms and hands it should help to bleep% clear, smoothen and bedititify the skin, Any druggist will supply . ' three ounces of .orchard white at very little cost and the grocer has the lemons.. OU as Co. 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