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moderate prices. With this in wind
we feel that our stock will meet all
requireraents as the partial lid here
will Worts you.
Cutlery
There is no bigger or better stock of English cutlery in Huron County -a
stock that cannot be replaced at any, price. The goode. are reasonably
priced,, first class quality, and make an ideal gift. Carving sets in cases
Sheffield goods, , ......... .. . ..$3 60 to $10.00
Table Cutlery, knives and forks, per set of six ....... ? ..$2,80 to $ 6.00
Sfiver Knives and Forks . . . . .. .$2.25, to $11.00
Meat
Cutters
Are a househokl necessity and partic-
ularly useful this year., as they make
mammy possible in various ways.
$1.S5 to $3.00
OVedar Mops
Nielele plated
Sad Irons
are used every week at
least. No household is
tomplete without one
and a poor set, brings
serrow to many house-
wives. Diver iron e with
cover.
Mrs. Potts
CARPET SWEEPERS
"Need no introduction for saving ° labor
an Bitola -anis, hardwood or painted
Soors 4.00 to 1.50
Nickle
Plated
Teapots
Are an ornament in themselves', do not
testi the tea and are in service when
others are destroyed. ..$2.ea to $3.35
save many backs, speed up the clean-
ing of the house and are practically
everlasting . $3.25 to $4.50
Roasting
Pans
saves the flavor and weight of either
fowl' or beef, fits the oven or can be
used on top of stove. .. $1.50 to $2.75
Get an Oil Heater now and save fuel -no smoke, *o- odor and ablsolutely
safe $5.50
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.I.V.SILLS;SeafOrt
The McI1 ffitiva
70-6 Ingu e Co
iirtado : Seaforth„ Ont.
DIRECTORY
OFFICERS.
j. Connolly, Goderich, President
Jae. Evans, Beachwood, Vice-Presider
T. E. Hays, Seafezth, Secy.-Treas.
AGENTS
Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed.
Finchley, Seaforth; John Murray,
Brueefield; J. W. Yeo, Goderich; R.
G. Jarmuth, Brodhagen.
DIRECTORS
Nifilliam Rhin, No. 2, Seaforth; John
Btnnewies, Brodhagen; James Evans,
Beechwttod; M. MeEwen, Clinton; jas.
Counolly„ Goderieh; D. F. MeGregor,
B. 11. No. 3, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve,
No. 4 Walton; Robert Ferris Harlock;
George McCartney, No. 3, Seaforth.
G. T. It. TIME TABLE
Trains Leave Seaforth as follows:
D.0.65 a. in. -- For Clinton, Goderich,
Wingliam and Kincardine.
53 p. ra. - For Clinton, Winghana
and Kincardine.
11.03 p. 111. -- For Clinton, Goderich.
g...51. a. in. -For Stratford, Guelph,
Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and
points west, Belleville and Peter -
bora and points east.
1.16 pan. - For Stratford, Toronto,
Montreal and points east.
f....ONDON, HURON AND BRUCE
Going South S.M.
Wiingliam, depart .... 6.35
Belgrave ..... ....... 6.50
Myth 7.04
Londesboro 7.13
Clinton, 7,33
Brucefield 8.0
Kippen 8.16
Hensall 8.25
Exeter 8.40
Centralia ..e. . ... - 8.57
London arrive 10.05 6.15
wAs TRou.BLEct.,WITh
IIDIGE$T1 11
COULD, KEEP NOTHING
ON STOMACH,.
Indigestion is one of -the worst forms of
stomach teouble. The sttenach becomes
upset and you have a raw debilitated
feeling in it.
Ittesis not necessary for you to be
troubled with indigestion if you will only
use that old and well-known i.emedy
Burdock Blood Bitters, which will regu-
late the stomach so that, you may eat
what you wish without any 1, ill after
effeets.
Mrs. Wm. C. Smith, Marshville, Ont.,
writes: -"I cannot speak too highly of
Burdock Blood Bitters;- it is worth its
weight in gold. I was troubled with in-
digestion, and was so bad I could not
keep anythiog on my stomach. A
friend advised me to try B.B.B. which I
did, and I never felt better in my life."
Burdock Blood,Bitters ha's been manu-
factured by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, -
Toronto, Ont., for over 40 years. You
do not experiment when yon buy it.
CARRIAGE FOR SALE.
Two seated Gladstone, natural wod, as
good as new and easy- running, com-
fortable family rig. Apply at The
Expositor Office. aforth. 257841
P3.1 SUFFXRED WITH
3.36
3.48
tN HACKING- C01101
4.33
4.41
4.48
55Z PHILO NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT.
be . Going North a.m.
London, depart 8.30
Centralia . .9.35
Exeter . . 9.47
Henson 9.59
Kippen . . 10.06
Brucefteld 10.14
Clinton 10.30
Londesborn 11.28
Blyth.4...........11.37
Belgrave 11.50
Wingham, arrive 12.05
pan.
The constant hacldng cough that sticks
4.40
5.45 to you in spite of everything' -you have
5.57 done th relieve it, is a souree of danger.
6.09
6.16 The longer the cough step, the more
6.24 serious menace it is to your health.
6.40
6.57 It is easy to cheek a cough at the out -
7.05 set with Dr. Wood's NorwayPine Syrup.
7.18 If you have let it runthough, it takee
7.40 while longer to cure, but Dr. Wood's
Norway Pine Syrup will bure it even
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
GITELPIZE & GODERICH BRANCH.
TO TORONTO
a.m.
rsoderich, leave 6 40
Myth .. . ..... . ....7.18
Walton 7.32
Guelph ..... 9.38
FROM TORONTO
1.35
2.14
2.20
4.30
Toronto Leave 7.40 5.10
Guelph, arrive 9.38 7,00
Walton 11.43 9.04
Blyth ....... - . 12.03 9.18
Auburn . ... ...12.15 -.9.3O
Goderich 9.55
Connections at Guelph Junction. with
Alain Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon-
don, Detroit, and Chicago and all. in-
termediate whets,
then after other remedies have failed.
Mr. J. Henry Landry, South River,
Biirgeois,.N.S., writes: -"I received such
great, benefit from Dr. Wo 's Norway
Pine Syrup that I cannot h p expreb.sing
my thanks. I 'suffered wit a hacking
cough for over a month, ard could not,
sleep at night I used Many kinds of
remedies but they didn't do me any
good, until I used 'Dr. Wood's,' and
found great relief right from the start.
I only used two bottles, and was -com-
pletely cured. I will wirer be without
a as long ftS I live."
' There are a number of substitutes oe
the market for De. Wood's Norway Pdee
Syrup, so when you ask for it seo that it
is put up in adyellow wrappet; three pine
trees the trade mark; price 25c. and 50c.,
and that it bears the name, The T. Mil-
burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
watt ExpoottO
EAFORTIT, Friday, Dec. 21st, 1917. , A
, ,
•
THEAVIO OF FLAI4DIERS °
•
n't the foe that we fear
-zt isn't the bullets that whine;
It isn't the businees career
Of a shell or the burst of a mine; I
It isn't the snipere who. seek
To nip our young libtets in the bud;
No, it isn't the,, guns,
And it isn't the Huns --
It's the MUD, MUD, A/IUD.
It isn• 't the melee we mind,
' That often is rather good fun.
It isn't the shrapnel we find,
Obstrusive when rained by the to.
It isn't the bounce of the bombs
That gives us a positive pain!
It's the strafing we get
When the weather is wet -
It's the RAIN, RAIN, RAIN.
It isn't because we lack grit,
We shrink from the horrors of were
We don't mind the battle a bit '
In fact, that is what *we are fr.
It isn't the rum -jars and things,
Makes us wish we were back in the
fold,
It's the fingers that freeze
In the boreal breeze -
It's the COLD, COLA COLD.
Oh, the rain, the mud and the cold,
The Oiold, the mud and the -rain;
With whether at zero, it's hard for a
hero,'
From language that's rude to
refrain,
With porridy mud to the knees,
With sky that's a -pouring a floOd,
Sure the, worst of our foes
Axe the painsand the Woes,
Of the RAIN, the COLD and the
MUD.
\ The mud of Flanders begins at the
sea,where trenches, all ship-shape
confront each other across a no man's
land ----no man's lake, rather, full of
wild ducks, observation.- posts, rats,
drowned Wurtemburgere, a tall blue
heron sleeping on one leg, wrecked
cannon and a vast sour smell. .All
bright and shiny where the sun glints
on the water, no man's lake looks in
the aeroplane photographs..
This is the front held by the Bel-
gians and their ancient ally, the floods.
A foot or two below sea level, it runs
from Nieuport on the Sea a little less
than twenty miles south of Dixmude.
Up where the Yser loops farthest east,
the stagnant waters of no man's lake
-"the haunts Of coot and heron" -
are 2,500 pards apart. At Dixentide
they narrow ti, a bare 25 yards. South
of Dixmude, in the British area, the
mud of Flanders makes •a, muck of
no moan's land and a wallow of every
attack.
Here the land lies a foot or two
above sea level, rising inland to the
merest 'shoulders of ground, to /which
the Germans withdrew in the Hinden-
burg retreat last April. So the Ole -
nay, in many sectors of the Flanders
front, until Haig's last victory on the
Pa,sschendale ridge, still held the posi-
tions that were highest and the trim-
ehes that were driest. In most of the
British trenches facing theman en-
trenching tool would strike water a
foot below the surface, and,. as.
as not, -with a Sat, eiglai)Se, uhdhr-
foot and a "Caw' blimey! Ile,re's a ripe
'un! TaLk about a rotten egg burstin'
on your nose!" -one of the glorious
dead as Nvell. •
Given time the mud from Flanders
sucks slowly down from sight all the
human and mechanical debris of the
battlefield, leaving a surface broken
only by shell holes, some three feet
deep, some ten feet deep, each at least
half full of water and many of them
big enough
Possibly a
the mod --
here people
joined so they form lake
te drown me and horses
bit of ruin stands up fro
the ruin of a church,
used to worship; it cone als a ma-.
chine gun now, and looks, on the lip,
of a big shell hole, like a piece of a
wrecked dockyard. It all resembles
some old drained river bed with that
curous emptiness which is character-
istic of the modern battlefield. There
is nething to be seen -nothing, day
upon day, but the same calamitous
monotony of mud.
It is the same back of the trenches.
Along. the deep roads back to where
the camouflaged aetillery is shelling
the point marked X on the map, guns
and limbers of G. S. wagons, as soon
as they leave the cobbled pavements
of the Flemish roads, flounder in the
quagmire of sticky chalk -and upon
one occasiot, that I know about, • di-
rectly alongside one of those signifi-
cant signs. Doin't Loiter Here. Com-
munication trenches are full of water
and endless mush of slimy, pitted
ground conceals alike dead bodies arid
unexploded shells. Imagine a rain -a
rain for days and nights -upon this
already sodden soil; let it rain cats
and dogs, let it rain daggers, let ' it
Min hard enough to pierce the hard
xnarble; then put a weak, damp sun
upon the scene and think of the miles
of stagnant water, covering a soil as
soft as dough, in which /limn sink to
their armpits by night, in which they
sometimes drown, with. the rest -of
their platoon floundering helplessly 'a-
bout the,m in fact, rollcalls every few
minutes are the only way in which
platoons can get about at night in
much of this mud of. Flanders. Yet
every night there is a bedlam of traf-
fic back oftthe linechunoing up the
treacherous surface of this wilderness
of lagoons, salt marshes and fiat farm-
land.
Then there are those sunken ser-
,
peetine marshes along the rim of no
•
man's land, to which battalion orders'
are, pleased to refer as ,the trenches.
-Here are soldiers crusted from head
to foot in dried mudouith queer tattoos
worked on their' -faces ,ixtniud,scraping
chunks 'of 'mud ()If themselves as
sculptors scrape chunks 'of clay ofr a
statue in the making. Some of them
spend their quiet afternoons looking
through a periscope, bailing out the
trenches, reading a stray London
newspaper 'fio find out whether the
war is over Yet, or desialtorily watch-
ing a British wallow 1 booming high
and hemeward with little white bursts
behind it like a steamer's wake.
Most of them, hoyeever, are eating.
, and sleeping and playing gramophones
' in the dugouts; for out here, the dead
lie above the ground and the living lie
underground. Here, possibly, one will
find a soldier who has carefully con-
cealed his rum ration all day` against
his afternon tea -and -rum, and now, a
chunk of mod has fallen from the dug-
out roof into the cup that is poised to
(
I and ° when the November- high tides
1 .sent the floods flowingthroUgh Dix-
' '
mude BiXschoote• aliel•-tr:Beesing'he, ,
they backed the Gernieitt4a *Way; to
'
Ypres, .leaving 120,000 dead, and
whole batteries of artillery to sink in
the mud and water. 4
A -network of canals cutthrough
Flanders in a mesh which eonstitutes
the hydraulic ;miracle. Fitted, into the
canals are locks whose manipulation
is a skilled knack Which ira a atingle
high tide can. reduce the little farms
of Flanders to the present swamp of
seashell clay and peat.
Remeniber that Flanders is. as flat
as a flOor. At Ftirnes it is seven feet
below sea level and its highest eleva-
tions are mere Shoulders .which would
pass unnoticed except in such a flat
plain. Fromthe famous bathing
beaches of Nieuport, 3/lidde1kerke,
Mariakerke, Ostend and Blank.en-
berghe---once. gaudy resorts, now
dust heaps 'amid the dunes -back al-
most to Ypres Flanders is today a
Iswamp which swallows men and
horses and grips three armies in a
' strange sort of stOtionarar warfare
that -requires them to waste half their
, strength in an incessant shoring, up
MR. MARRIOTT I . . and bailing out of trenches and corn -
78 tees Ave., Ottawa,. but., raunications. In fact, in some of the
wetter portions of this stinking
;
August 9th, 11915. ,x
sw• tobeabesta:
so r think it my duty to tell yell what, cloned trenches
havelatedphacl
pill
of
on
" Prui t -a - tiv es " has done ftr me. crete substituted. , ; Wrorn the loose
Three. 'fear8 ago,Ib g to feel run- sand along the sea, . where e soldiers
down and tired, and suffered very much MA IlUtilues used to watch each ether
from Liver and Kidney T oubiei,, xaeprreossai.antb.eo:iydelitulut,Ldeetrssicalg
Having read of " Fruit -a -tie 0"; ' I" choked with daaft grass and stagnant
thought I would try them. The result lakes and served, y, rode roads and et
was surprising. During the •8 year S few surviving genes, along, which
pude' havet taken them regularly and. khaki W. D. bargee crew' toward the.
eol, had an icknessfsinee I COm- figIhttiraslininesh. Met. a' just :back of the -
ct:
hour's s
etetildnot. nitelor anything. Mew
lines that I met al certain private of
mewed using "Fit.a-tives" 'ilid I the London high, whom I had known
know now !what I haven't .kn in` for ;when he was a moile Wall com.eclian,
a good manyears -that is, the leasing before he joined up „in London. He -
e a healthy body and clear t inking had just come out of the tretiehes an
lie was wet and &Ad' and hungry and
brats". more or less nerve shaken with his
• • •
TT.* *four day's ordeal. He leaned against
what` had once been, a ,tree with his
• e '''',. • helmet on the back of his heed and a
receipt limp cigarette on his lower Bpi.
&Has* ' 'Somewhere in the distance was the
' unmistakable bang of big guns, but
he paid it no atention. In his dismal
disguise of ragged mud, he looked as
though he hadn't laughed in years. .
"Don't you ever laugh any morel"
I.' asked WA.
"Sure," he said dourly, "I lair when
they's something to laff at. I mind a
fella, a civvio, who .came out here Late
'week all dressed up for Gawd knovre
what. The A. G. was shewin"ira
around,' and rim mina)? along, tryia-
to keep dry, like ie thought 'e was at
some tea -fight. Well, fo' all his mint
cin' .aroun', he finally got a speck *Ot'
mud onto his tionsers„ and w'at (rye
think he done? He stopped the whole
shzsoarnadtobheendt
t it
wi
and hisseprettyrteahet
o
pink fingernails -like that. If you'd
seen me then you'd a' Voyglit I wasla
hyena." '
Between keeping out- of the deepest
mud as We walked ethroearh the open
toward his mess, " and listening. to an
note overhead !I
arette I hoeacdanlito
occasional sop
al i dvraeryno
dose attention to
„him. He noted it and interrupted °nee
to explain in connection With . one of
those soprano noises above us, that
"that's goin' a couple o' miles.. over
us," and then resumed the thread of
his talk. As for what WELS to has 'en
presently, I had seen the same epi .:e 0, e
variously narrated elsewhere, usually
in about these words: "We will iow
step aside fosea Moment, as that hell
is coming down at the exact pot
where we are staxiding .” That wa 't
exactly the way my Tommy phrae d_
his warning. In the midst of his de-
sultory talk, a brand new basso pro-.
fundo sort of noise overhead suddenly
stopped him for as much as the split
fraction of a second, and then he
dropped flat into the mud with:
"Duck, damn you! Duck! Get down!
That tun's OURS!"
And the the world blew up.
You want to know what an eight
inch high explosive sounds like? Well.
if you ever hear , one, you will recog-
nize it. And nobody will have to tell
and What it is either. You, will knows
James Montgomery, 'you 'will know.
In a moment's time, we got up out
of the nine inches. of ;mud we had flop-
ped into and ran slipped and sliding,
our shoes throwing out great clumps
of mud behind us, to the nearest cover.
Plumped down back of a litter of
wreekage,,I could see him smiling and
his lips moving, but, although we at
elbow to elbow, I could not hear a
word of what he was saying. I tried
to smile back to him and said SOMe-
thing or other; what is was I have for-
gotten but I remember that my voice
sounded in my own ears like the far -
Has NOillad An flour's Schnell:4a Since
TiadMittt 4 -TWO'!"
DECEMBER 21 1917
ap Well as the skirts. There is no
wife l beating among th.e Red Heads,
but plenty of husband beating. The
lattdr take their, frequent chastise -
me ' s meekly, and patiently and the
weir "reprisal" is never heard on
thei -lips. `i
Thy 42np1os, themselves, both the
-Wo en and the men, in agriculture
and 1theft. They produce a couple of
cro ti -tobacco and durra; the. rest
of heir time is given up tol looting
the Turks' crops and cattle.
eir little whitewashed, low -roof-
ed dwellings, with their Amon un-
gla ed but shuttered windows, are
divi ed. into three apartments, a
kite ea, a guest room,- a sleeping
roo . A few earthenware jars,
abo t five feet in height, 'and filled
with grain and dried fruits ,1 are kept
in t e guest room, and tbe guests
help themselves of the contents ad
libiIn nhl:e centra of every viklage there
is a little circle railed off, and in
this pace there is planted` the spe-
cial r ligions einblem, a small ever-
green. oak. No one save the father
priest
I closed
with
and
NI/ALTER J. MARR
50e. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial
At dealer& or sent postpaid on
Ottawa.
of price 17 Fruit-a-tives
his lips', i 's enough to 'give anyone
a jaundic d view of life! Plastered'
with mud attd wet to the skin "gives!
ine a perlshin"eadache!"-t ey .end
the first clay of their trench dulty with
the pelasa t prospect of getting a hot.
bath and cry clothing as soon s their
four days Of trench duty are d ne, and
not before. But your British ommy
doesn't grumble about the ud - of
Flanders. When he wants to g umbie,
he grumb es about the jam. Po you
remember Bairnsfather's lternal
1
Question artoon, 'When are they go-
ing to make it strawberry?"
Farther south in the Arras region,
still in the British area-, no mai's land
lifts to the rolling chalk downs of
northeastern Prance. Here, the dry,
hard battlefields are strewn with all
the battlefield litter -dried bodies ef
dead men, broken machine guns, cart-
ridge clips and cases, empty ei
boxes, bent helments, broken wire, pa-
pers and empty bottles and c cifixes,
arms and equipment and she 1 frage
rn
ents (forhe , on the hard s aces,
90 per cent. o the -perdussi shells
explode, the rest burying" the elves
for artillerymen to dig up an4 calcu-
late the positions of the b tteries
which fired them). Here, ther ' is no
mud to soak from sight the battle-
field's debris. Here we are ou of the
low countries and the mud o Flan-
ders. .
Operas and epics and ten -rel mov-
ies should be made to the nud of
Flanders. Certainly much !sincere
profanity has been dedicatedto it.
Wasn't it the men of Marlborough
who "swore so terribly in Fla ders?"
Iishouldn't suggest the mud f Flan-
ders as a Sunday morning su ject, if
it were merely a matter of a oment's
meaning. But the truth is thai no sin-
aphy of
gle detail of the entire topog
this continent of Kilkenny cats, has,
since Ceasar's campaign ag inst the
Morini in 54 B.C. bogged en re arm-
ies than this same mud.
In 834 A.D., the eGrmans
it and were .glad to get bac
Scheldt. 1111, Robert II
Flanders, fighting the Englis
sank in
to the
of West
a
drown-
edstarted
by Black Meg's son John, cme to a in it. In 1246, the civil wsq: t
sort of game -called -on -account -of -mud
compromise in it. In 1246, the battle
of Crecy was fought in it. I In 1415
Agincourt was an English vietory be-
cause the heavily armored French
sank in it. And there were /the cam-
paigns of William III, 1691 to 1697;
of Malborough, 1702 to 1711; f Staire,
Wade, Cumberland and Iigoniere,
1742 to 1748; of the Duke of York,
1793 and 1194; and of W llington,
1815 -all fought in Flander and its
mud. For the world's, grea est mud -
puddle. is the oldest and mos familiar
of all the British army's caiipaigning
grounds. ' •
Don't misunderstand me.
not slander Flanders. In
regna when it rests between
Flanders is a spotless to
Thousands of American Co
tell you of its scrubbed stre
cient red -gabled houses, it
stone lanes and sleepy can
markets and belfries and
the old seamen's memorial
pert; of the locks of B
Furees; the roodloft of the
the -town hall at Dixmude;
and the belfry at Ypres; t
poplar -lined roads betwe
the small, closely cultivat
that cover every inch o
plains; and in the blue ev
sound of the bells from t
lage churches.
But Flanders today is li
eton of a beautiful woma
mans are back again.
The secret of the trans
that much of Flanders
I would
its inter -
its wars,
n itself.
kies will
ts, its an-
icobble-
lse asf its
rids; of
at Nieu-
ges and
hurch and
he eaarket
e straight,
n villages;
d holdings
the flat
nings the
e gray vil-
e the skel-
. The Ger-
•
ormation is
as made by
away squeak of a mouse. 1 shovedemy
hands into ray pockets so he woulcrnot
know they were trembling and looked
down at myself.
Frain face to feet, I was a, plaster
of mud.
Do you know how the soft ooze feels
as it creeps into your skin through
your clothing? how it touches through
at the knees first? and then climbs up'
your chest, and whenever you acci-
dentally press ,the soaked clothing
against your SeildS the goose-
flesh rippling all over you?
:Eta all comes back to, me now as
waitte this. It seems to me my very
typewriter is soaked with it. It seems `
to me that the, very page on which
this is prhated must reek and chill
with the sour mud of Flanders.
FARMING AND THIEVING, 'KEEP
TRIBE BUSY.
The other day there was the re-
port that some of our soldiers on
the Tigris had Iceme across a
loge of Red Heads, writes J. C.
Bristow -Noble in The London Globe.
• Strange people are these Red
Heads. They are the last ,•-• of • the
Baal worshippers. The men wear
red caps, hence their name "Red
harnessing the sea within; dykes. And Heads." They also wear red -knotted
when the sea was harnessed, it was cordel round their necks. The cord
harnessed for instant 4ise. In . the is put' on duriug babyhood ad is
Germans' first rush for Dunkirk in never removed. It is interredwith
1914, the Belgians loosed the good the corpse after deatla and so that's.
all right. Their heads they shave,
except for a tottie patch on the
top and here they allow the hair
to grow long. and plait it into pig-
tails, which hang about their- ears.
They are tall, :Wiry fellows, with .en:,
nahniaOs apnetites for both food and
drink.
The Women, Who do not veil them-
selves, and wko dress simply in nice
loose-fittirig garm.ents, are thin ,and
U spare, but wonderfully - strong.
their homes they wear the breeches
green sea water on theml at Nieuport,
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of the village enters- the in -
ground, which is decorated
mall flags, strings of coins
right colored beads.. Around
and abbut the circle the Red Heads
celebrate the only religions festival
knowia to them, the Gathering of the
New Moon, which takes place every
on .
of the eyebrows or the forehead?
of - the dead and the settling of all:
i
disputes.'
!, On ta couple liecl mina engaged
to be marrierd the bride-to-be spend
1110St, of her time I -cooking dainty
-
and tasty dishes and trotting arouncl
.with them to her lover's home, fol-
lowed by her father /with wine and
spirit. Yet breach of promise " ne
almost unkovrn for 1the youth who*
jilts has his throat cia.t. The lover
of a married wool. is hanged , ont
some remote tree b , the red d'ord
he wears round his ineek, and thee
body is left as a varning to oilers
The erring wife mysteriously disap-
pears, and no questmns are aketi-
A man who deserts his wife is aka,
hanged, while the Woman who de..
serts her husband Is compelled ea,
return to him. / ,
There is a secret ceremony of
initiation which every adult 'Reap
Head is compelled tio undergo on
attaining his seventqenth birthday,
It involves seclusion Jfor seveij. days,
and going without 1ood and drink
for three days. 0n1 the herirdnatitat
Of this preliminary test the youte
1 is taught certain _passwords and
grips by which he may- recognize
' his brethren, and a red circle
tattooed on his brea t The strange
people live on tcrenis of friendsbi
with the whole of their neighbors -
with the exception tof the Turks,.
whom they hate and tat accordinglye,
Directiv a new moon makes its
app
together by a lay priest beating a
barrel-shaped drum stuck ;end ulk
on the ground. Here they come„
the women in long, clean white
gowns, and bringing pots and pans
and vegetables and spices and wine,
and the men, all arreyed in their
.smartest garments, driving, a flock
of sheep before them,. .and carrying
bundles of kindling wood and a
quantity of charcoal.
Fires are lit, the -cooking uten-
sils \placed thereon, and ' the sheep
killed by the priest, who sprinkles
a little of the animals blood on the
oak, and the carcasses flayed and
cut tun- into joints, and the latter
cooked over the fires, before which
millet and wheat cakes are, by this
time, baking on huge flagstones.
In the meantime tables on trestles,
are set up nd laid with wooden
plates, horn spoons and steel knives
and` forks and soon the feasting
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ranee the people' are called
I,begins. The/ women wait on the
men, who gorge steadily for about
an hour, and then, while their
wives and daughters are clearing
up the little they have left, indulge
in dancing drinking and general
merriment. .
- No religious formality marks the
feast, no blessing or benediction or
grace. Indeed, not at birth- or burial
or niarriag do these survivors of the
Baal
ancient worshippers employ any
formula o observe anything in the
nature of 4 religious ceremony. They
have no Bible, no prayer book, no 1%-
urgYd no place of worship, Their one
and only sanctuary is the sacred tree
inclosure, their only religious - symbol
the evergreen oak. .
Lin a belay being born it is warm-
ly clothed, placed on e large wooden
platter and taken to the priest, who,
in front of the sacred tree, strips
itand lasts, it 'Probably this ac -
comae for, the few Red Wads that
now servive, it bhilig said'tbat their
numbers have dwindled to a mere
seven or eight thousand. For the
kind service the man is given a
shoulder from the sheep which it is
usaal to kill on sucla occasions and
which fories the principal item ,in
the birth feast. Other duties that
the gentleMan has to tarry out is
the cutting of three horizontal cuts
with a dagger just below the level
Happy Ree.,. -irises.
'Some of the nave and miechievous
doings of flusstPa Revolutionists,
whose happiness kn,..Ar no boeutdis
after the overflow o,'. the Czar, are
told by iWilliam G. Mei:herd.- The ,
'following is lreprese tative :
1.
"There Was thai: Teat day in the
village at Got-chi:la, 1or :nstance. 'AO
through the Jong hle of Gotchinat
there stood on its otitskirts a palace,.
surrounded by g o4iids that were
sacred', and inha.blte by high-tora
folks that a Pea3arft must always
touch his cap to ' oen the Wave or
revolution reached otchina; the vil-
lage folk there did jtbeir bit in help-
ing the common logs get on top;
and the 11/1e0711)11011 folks in the pat. -
ace lied. Did GottiLina burn .dowilik
the palace? No,. That would- ha**
been angry work olr alcoholic play.
and Gotchina w -a uoaieoholicalty
and cheerfully pia; til. A peasant
discovered .iii one oif the ouce-satredt
ponds huge dark f rms i hat moved.
about in the cool w ters.
" 'Fish!' The 4aH w‘..at around.
like a cry.of ftre..
"Before the day was oyer, the
peasants, with boos and lines, were
pulling out giant c ,. sr. -,e of the*
a hundred yearff o14, VIP, '1 the high-
born folk of the p lace , and -theft'
fathers before the had been mite-
ing like old wine_
• "On the third nisht the • was suck
a barbecue of gian : carr 1. istill peat
that day down in t e his y of Got -
china forever. 1i was Gotchiliala
way of showbag tiat It had throw*
off the old, yoke. And; V- a. all th6
rest of. Russia, it lei, stead of
frowning with ear sstness.- and was
happy instead of aagry.''-Every-
body's magazine.
The Crisis Passed.
"The Gerraar cmuniques, ay-
nounciue in eamforirtg -tones "Oil*
defeat and that ret. cc.t. and the ether,
surrender, renfind ;Me of the yolinx
doctor." The speaker was the We
Herbert Tree. WI went on: "..k.
young doctor said th his wife, X
Telt greatly worri'7d over Banker
Bond's ease until the climax wawa
passed.' 'Will bl?, De. out soonri
asked the young -wiLe.- hWeli, not -till
the day of the funeral,' said the doe -
tore".
Milions
of Packages
of this famous War -time Sweetmeat are
sent to the soldiers, sailors and aviators
at the front.
If you have afris end.there, see that every
parceli or leiter contains a few bars or a
package of WRICLIEPS, ,the.igtat chew-
ing confection -that is,used around the
world. •
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helpe teeth, appetite, digestion.
, Seated tightl `‘Aftei every
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school, 12th concet
secured the serail
Patterson, of Gale
next year at a sail
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