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.
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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
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'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.
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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,
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Sun, past and rodel,�quuiickly
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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
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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..
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Rheumatic Aches
Drive them out with Sloan's
Liniment, the quick -acting,
soothing liniment that penetrates
without rubbing and relieves the
pain. So much cleaner than
(mussy plasters or ointments; it
does not stain the skin or clog
the pores. Always have a bottle
in the house for the aches and
pains of rheumatism, gout; !unt-
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and all muscle soreness,
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