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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-03-01, Page 7HIEN YOUR SKIN WITH LEMON MICE r lotion for a few centst4 t, freckles, sallowness. has the lemons and any toilet counter will supply e °Imes of orehard white Ltse Squeeze the juice of 1)118 into a. bottle, then pun 'd white and shake', welL . quarter pint of the very n whitener and complexiome Ma. 14.1188age thia- fra- lotion daily into the face, ka hands and just see haw sallownas, redness ant • ;appear and how smooth' r the skin beeomea. Year e and the beautiful read* vou. MARCII„1,, OV3 IF YOUR CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED - Look, Motheri if tongue it etiatedi cleanse little bow,ele with "Calk /Arnie Syrup of Fiala" owagmeweem..... lifotiters eaii reed easy after. giving "Oslifornia Syrup of Pigs," bemuse in a few &ours all the clogged -up waste, sour bile -and fermenting food gently tams out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. Sic* k children needn't he coaxed to take *is harmless "fruit Lenitive." Wiens of mothers keep it handy bee cause :they know its aotionmn the stone aeh, liver and bowels is- prompt and sure. Ask your draggist for a bottle of "Cmlifornia Syrup of Figs," whieh con- tains directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups. LEGAL. R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do- minion Bank. Office in Tear of the te. minion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. J. M. BEST. Barrister, Solicitor'Convey* er and Notary Public. Office ups' )'143 over Walker's Furniture Store, Mbi Street, Seaforth. a PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND COOKE. Barristers, 'Solicitors, Notaries Pub. lie, etc.. ;Money to lend. In Seaforth on Monday of each week Office in Kidd Block W. Ploudfoot, K. C., J. tillortun H. J. D. Cooke. VETERINARY. F. HARBURN, V.S. Honor graduate of Ottani° Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats dismiss of altdomestic animals by the most mod - len principles. Dentistry and Milk Foo- te/ a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Rotel Maui Street, Seaforth. - Al- o- dors left at the hotel will ref tve prompt attention. Night calls re :div- ed at the office. ,JOHN GRIEVZ, V. S. Honor greduate of Ontario Vete in- ory College. All diseases ol domestic ausimalt treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet winery Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goclerich street, one door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - forth. MEDICAL. DR. W.J. GLANFIELD, MA., Mel., Physician, Etc. Honor Graduate of University of Toronto, six years' experience. Brueefield, Ontario. DR. GEORGE HETheiMANN. Osteopathic Physician of Goderi IL Specialist in women's and children's diseases, rhetunatisra, acute, chronic and nervous disorders; eye ear, nose and throat. Consultation free. Office In the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, Tues- days and Fridays, 8 a. -m. till 1 p.m. C. 3. W HARN, ed D C. M 425 Richmond Street, London, 0 et Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Ur e- ery liseases of men and women. ••••••._ Dr: ALEXANDER MOIR Physician and Surgeon Mee and Residence, Main Str t, Phone 70 Hensa es...•••••.masorag. boa. DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medici_ ?, McGill University, Montreal; Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons et Ontario;Licentiate of Medical Coun- cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medial Staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 191445; Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, Mansell, Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS • Office and residence, Goderich street east of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY J. G. Scott, graduate Of Victoria and College of Physicians and Surgeons Ann Arbor, and member of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of Ontario. C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS. Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, Ragland, University Hospital, London, Ragland. Office—Back of Dominion Bulk, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night answered from residence, Vic - Urfa street, Seeforth. AMTIONEERS - • THOMAS BROWN. Licensed auctioneer for the eall lee et Beton and Perth. Correspond ize • agements for sale dates can be map by calling up Phone 97, deaf ilk or The liapositor Mee. Merges 1 Mato and satisfaction guaranteed. R. T. LUKER tassomed Airtioneer for the Omit d Mures. Melee attended, to al virte of the Csuaty. Sav a yam' ex - imams in Mainitota amid Baskoishe- *aft Tarns reaseaabila Mae X.. ilksetar, Centralia P.O., 2. Z. No. 2. Oran left at The Rum Ix- weillisr Ogee, indeed', peep* at- • M0)14 EXPOSUOR 11111111111111111B1=111121MENIZI11111111111111111111INIMMI11111111111111M1 Ovet The Top By ARTHUR GUY EMPEY (Continued from our last issue.) how a amid tell from such a die- F *tame .beauHe -the plane 'seemed like a little .b ack Speck in the .aky. I ex- _ pregeed , mytddubt as to whether it , was lisk ,, .French,, or ,..{.4erniari. ' With ok of 'eentenal* he further hewn Me that , the :allied anti -able trait- .13 lis ewhen exploding . einitted white a eke- while,the.430tiMan ,shells gave. 'forth'elilaek • :0100ige,Aindi,‘-as he P* - ItlU 'It intittebe etiaiklleotand nTe*TaleS" Ceorosered 4 Use and I their ha not sir other p your 'we uP the Ji inun One sunny clay in the front line weight trench, I saw three officers sitting- Just outside of their dugout ("cooties" are we were no respecters of rank; I have even mega* noticed a suspicious uneasinesii about ea wan a certain well-known general), one of i hom them was a major, two of them Were 1 I don' exploring their shirts, paying no ate no tention to the occasional sthells wlaich where passed overhead.. The major was galore. writing a letter; every now and then . Take he would lay aside his writing -pad, All search his shirt for a few minutes, get an inspiration, and then resume writ- I wan.t h. ThY ing . At last he finished his letter and when aye eapomeraus are., tang, '111111101illit illeeteket His 'ow our batteries are not off naPPerSandourOWnaplanrees,eanertditillian-Y ; e of adytiee don't chuck ht' abbot until Youive been a e mid learnt something." • • lately quit "chuckiiig nig I ut" from that time on. I ore reaching reserve billets arehing along, laUghing, and.. e of Torn,ray's treacle ditties: to go home, I want to go t • want to go to the trenches re, sages and whizz -bangs are 1 over the fsea, where the 4 can't get at me, don't want to die, - o go home"— ead. came a swish through gave it to his "runner." I WM% cue- . the air •aapidly, followed by three lolls to see whether he was writing to • 'others, T about twoliundred yards an insect firm, soe when the runner to our le,t' in a large field,, four col - passed' me I engaged him in conVersit- *tins of 1,) k earth and anitike, rose tion and got a glimpse at the address into the i and the eliensid trembled on the envelope. It was addressed to from "th epnit,the, 'explosion of Miss Alice Somebody, in London. The four Ge n five_itinefee, ,or ocoaL, 'turner" informed me that Miss Some. boxes. le ohm Imbue. wok ern_ body Was the makes sweetheart and iereediately. Rowed j;;;;;wo s, that he wrote to her every day. Just I rang out- mthe head of our coltunn. tShort one iinagine it, writing a love letter &r- ing a "cootie" hunt, but such is the creed of the trenches. 1 . • 1 NMEMIN*NaMORNO CHAPTER III. Go To Church Up'cin enlistment we had identity disks Issued to us. 'These Were small .disks of red fibre 'worn around the melt by means of a string. Most of Tommie s also used a little metal disk Which they wore around their left wrist by means of chain. They had previously figured,. out that if their heads were blown off, the disk on the left wrist would identify them. If they lost their left arm the disk a- round the neck would serve the pur- pose, but if their head and leftaria were blown off, no -one would are who they were, so it did not matter. .0-n one side of the disk was inscribe4 your d rank, name, number, and hat-, tailors, while on the other was stamped your religion. O. of E., meaning Church of' Eng- land; R C., Roman Catholic; W., Wes- leyan; ik., Presbyterian; but if you happened to be an atheist they le t it blank, end ilia handed you . a ick and shoeel. On my disk was staniped C 'of EL This is how I got it: jTh.e Lieutenant who enlisted me asked lny• religion. I was not sure of the re- ligion of the British Army, so ',an- swered. "Oh, any old thing," and he, promptly put down ,C. of E. Now, just imagine my hard 1 Out of five religions was- unl enough to pick the only one ev church parade , was compulsory. The next morning was Sunda ick. city , ere was sitting' in the billet writing hOme, to my sister telling her of myon -J si. derful , exploits while under fire- all recruits do this., The Sergeant -M jor ,put his head in the door of the b llet and shouted.: "C. of E. outside 1 for church parade!" ,sked, "Ern ey, I kept on writing. Turning to tDrae, in a loud voice, he a aren't you C. of E.?' I_ answered, "Yep.?' In an angry tone, he conaman ed, "Dou't you 'yep' nee. Say, es, Sergeant-Major."' I did so. Somewhat mollified, he ordered, "Outside for church parakle." I looked up and answered, "P am not going to church this morning. ' He said, "Oh, vs, you are!" I answered, "Oh, no, Pin not But f went. We lined up outside with rifles and bayonets, 120 rounds of ammunition, wearing' our tin hats and the mAreh to church began. After marching about five kilos, we turned off the ioad into an open field. At one mini of,the sticking ov field the chaplain was standing in a eyes teeing "NO_ Man's there were these were u (machine- gu step for o to rain. W -theywere e rain' trickled was not lon cold. How never know, occurrence d This was to take 'up' "artillerY forma- tion," W • lidded into small squads and went''to the,, fields on the right ,and ief't o he road, and crouchedon the grown . No other shells followed this salvo It was our first baptism by shell 1r . From the waist .up I was all e husiasm, but from there down, eve hing was missing. I thought I s ould die with fright After aw ile, we re-formed into coluirms off eet and proceeded on our way. ' About 1jv that night, we reached the ruined , lage of H-- and I got 'Iner first si of the awful destruction caused, bve an Kultur. . 'Marchin own the main street we came to tI, heart of the 'village, and took up qui rs in shell -proof cellars (shell prof until hit by a shell). Shelhewer onstantly whistling over the village nd busting in our rear, searehing ' • our artillery. These ee rs were cold, damp, and smelly, and • veiTun with large rats— big black fe ows. Most of the Tom- mies slept 1 'th their overcoats over their faces. I did not. In the middle of the night1 woke up in terror. The cold, clamie eet of a rat had passed over my fAC I immediately smoth- ered m.yself, i my overcoat, but could not sleep fo the rest of that night. Next even ng we took over, our sector of th line. In single file we wended oue way through a zigzag eammunicati trench, tax inches deep. with muci. '' hit- trench wee called `Whiskey est." On our way up - to the fro of berating I ii, the sky a i menth slap on our righ would travel,. se hack and forth with cold. I was soaked with sweat Pen. ROISERT NEWTON. Little Bras d'Or, C. B. was a terrible sufferer from Dys.papsia and ConstOation for years. I had pain after eating, belching gas, constant headaches, and did not sleep well at night. rioat soanuch weigh* --going from 185 pounds to 146 pounds—that 1 became alarmed and saw several doctors who, however, did me no good. Finally, agriend told me to try '.Fruit-a-tives'. In a week, there.was itnprovement. The constipation was corrected; and soon I was free Of pain, headaches and that miseralble feeling that aecompanietAelPeptila. i�nUnuod to take this aplendid fruit medicine and now ,am well; strong and vigorous". ROBERT NEWTO'. 50c. a box,6 for $2.50, trial size 25e. At all dealers or sent postpaid on reiseipt of price by Fruit-a-iiTOS Limitedi Ottawa. *a. in a low voice. ` The reply came back instantly from the dark forms: "Shut your blinkin' mouth, you blooming idiot; do you want us to click it from the Voches?" Later we learned that the word, "No, challenging or firing, wiring party outinfirente":11ed been L.iven, .f,o the sel0X7:4a,our-zight, but he had failed , to ee itedown the trench. An officer c ha overheard liur challenge and the reply, and , immediately put the of- fending senteer ender arrest. The t sentry clicked twentyone days on the wheel, that isehe received twenty-one day's Field 13unishrnent, No. 1, or. 4eruciiiidon," as Tommy terms it. This consists of being spread-eagled on the wheel of a limber two hours a day for twenty-one days regardless of the Aweather. During this period, your rations consist of ebully beef, biscuts. and water. ' A few months later I met this sentry and he confided to me that since being "crucified," he hes never failed to pass the word down the trench' when so or- dered. In view of the offence, the a- bove punishment was very light, in. that failing to pass the word down a .trench may mean the loss of ;many lives, and the spoiling of some import- . ! ant enterprise in No Man's Land. ' CHAPTER VI 1 wow= SOUR STOMAC , FLOATING SPECKS '1' BEFORE EYES BOTH CURED BY ULIA.LIVER .1.11.•••••••[• coated tongue, totnhwie es,lugmgviesehtenlivtabta, eleanneytheetim breath, clean away all waete and poison- ous niatter from the system, and prevent se well a:s cure-all sickness arising from a disordered condition of the stomach, liver and bowels. Mrs. Joseph H. Therieau, Saulnete • N.S., writes:—"I was troubled with a sour at omach, and took five vials of Mil urns Laxa-laver Pills, and tley curedi. My mother also used them for floating specks before the eyes. They cured her also aft er heving taken -four vials. 'We both highly re:online:1d them to all sufferers from Jiver troubles." M ;Thum Is I axa-Liver Pills art 25e. per at all dealers or mailed direct on., reeeipt of priee bv The T. MilburntCo., Linaited, Toronto, Ont. i that I had been detailed as mess or - "Back of the Line" a hand.. I helped him m.ake the derly and to report to cook to give Goiag down the commiNicetion trench I him lasted four -days, and then we were ' fire, carry water froth an old well, relieved by the-- Wide. i aingelown the eommanication trench. we were in- a merry mood, although we were cold and wet, and every bone in ovii bodies ached. It makes a lot of .diffOrence whether you are "goitig' in" or "coming Out" • At the end of the conntrunieation trend', limbers were waiting on the road for. us. I -thought we were going i to ride back to rest billets, but soon ;found //out that the only 'tithe. an In- -leanman rides is when he is- , wBligh ye(.1'aThnclesise b°1ingerfsc4ca"titrCibascr QUC.rr. ree,erve. anommition and rations. Our march to rest billets was thoroughly, 'enjoyed by me. It seemed as if I were On furlough, and was 'earl behind - everything that was disagreeable and The allowance was one slice per man.. 'horrible, Every recruit feels this way The late ones received very mean after being 'relieved from the trenches. slices. As each Tommy got his We marched 8 kilos and then halted share, he immediately disappeared m: they would be Testing "seinewhere in numication trench to the ,rear. Soot( in front of a -French estaminett The Captain gave the gorder to ' turn out of thenrmade a,rush to the cook - to the billet. Pretty soon abet* M- on each side of the road and wait his tee'n France" with a little wooden cross over their heads. They had done their return. Pretty soon he came back tuasde,. eTteese rryinelieesg .tstellyuginpledce 1),1 bit for Kine and Counary, had died and told B Company to occupy billets the bacon grease which was stewing 117. 118.. and 119. Billet 11.7 was an without firing a shot, but their sere over the fire. The last min invariably old et.able which had preitiously been vices were appreciated, neverthelessi. lost out. I was the last roam Later on, I found out their names. occupied by cows. About four feet in They belonged to our draft , front of the -entrance was a huge ma- After breakfast, our section carried I was dazed and motionless. Sude nure pile, and the odor from it was ' their equipment in to a field adjoining denly a -shovel was pushed into my anything but pleasant. Using my the billet and gut busy removing the hands, and a rough but kindly voice flashlight I stumbled throngh the trench mud therefromi because at 845 door. Just before entering I observ- aan., they had to fall in for Inspection said: "Here, my lad, lend a hand 'clearing ed a white sign reading: "Sitting, 50°, and parade, and woe betide the man the trench, but keep your head idoeire lying 20," but at the tiene,i its sig.. who was unshaven, or had mud on his and look OUt for aniPere• One Of the nifieanee did not strike Me. Next imiform. Cleanliness is next to God- Fritz's is a daisy and he'll get you if moraing I asked the Sergeant-Major 'Mess in the British Army, and Old. i what it memit. He nonchalantly an- Pepper must have been personally you're not. catefel." , , acquainted with St. Peter. rising on My belly ,ont the bottom mitered: , line an oecasiopal flare of the trench, I filledsandbagsWith "That's some of the work of the Our drill consisted of dose i or - the sticky mud; they were dragged to vleny tear b3r 'the other men, and the world of rebuilding the parpapet was on. The harder I Worked. the better I felt. Although the weather was 3 Ile.1111.111111Neflellee 411111111101041110111e. of digging. three still, muddy forms on stretchers were carried down the cone- 14 II and fry the bae,,on. Lids of dales are used to cook the bacon in. After breakfast Was cooked, I tarried a dixle of hot tea and the lid fiell of bacon to our section, and told theCorporal thiet breakfast was ready. •He looked at me in conteMpt, and , then shout "Breakfast *Up, tomand get it!" iminediately got wigs to the trench parlance, and never again informed that "Breakfast was served." It didn't takelong fel, the Tommies to answer this call. ,}talf dressed, they elined up with their canteens and I dished out the tea. Each Toni - my carried in his hand a thick slice of bread" which had been issued with the rations the night before. Then , 1 had the pleasure of seeing them dig into the bacon with their dirty fingers, hrapnel would light up we could hear the frag- g the ground above us and left. Then, a Fritz hirs,nitityepeem eiy7 Prentice 11 bullets made overhead. Theebo' A piece of s ell had gone through his shrapnel -prof helmet. I felt sick and weak. In about thirty minutes we reached the front line. It was dark as pitch. Every now end then a German star shell would Pierce the blackness Out in front with its silvery light, 1 wias trembling all over, and felt very lone- ly and afrai •g All orders were given in whispers. The company we re- lieved filed • ast us and disappeared into the blac ess of :the communica- tion trench i ading to the rear. As they passed they whispered, "The best o luck tes." I eat on t fire step of the trench with the re i of the men. In each traverse tw of the older men had been put on guard with their heads 1the top, and with their ; pierce the blackness in Land." In this trench Only two dugouts, and e by Lewis and Vickers, s, it was the fire Pretty soon it started ut on atir "macks," but much protection. 'The own our backs, and it efore we were wet and assed that night I will beit without any unusual er" or machine gun. The Occasionally a bullet would crack a sharp craeking noise . overhead, and a machine gun would I kick up the mud on the bashed -in front • of me named parapet. At each creek I would duck pled up without a word. , and shield my face with my arm. One of the older rnen noticed this action of mine, and whispered: "Don't duck at the crack of a bul- let, Yank; the danger has passed,— you never hear the one that wings you. Always remember that if you are 'going to get it, you'll get it, so never worry." . This made a great impression on me at the time, and from then on, I adopted his niotto, "If you're going to get it, you'll get it." It helped Or wonderfully. I used it so often afterwards that some of ray mates dnbbed me, "If you're going to get it, you'll get it." After an hour's hard work, all my nervousness left me, and I was laugh- ing and joking with the rest. At one e'clock, dinner came up in the form of a dixie of hot stew. I looked for my canteen. It fell off the fire step, and was half buried in the mud. The man on my left not- iced this and told the Corporal, dish- soing out this, rations, to put my share in. his' mess tin. Then he whispered ' to InYeAlways take care of your mess o tin, mate." I 'had learned 'another maxim of the trenches. That stew tasted fine. I was as hungry as a bean We had seconds arrived.' or another helping, because three of and down" was passed the men had "gone west," killed by the and the sentries got explosion of a German trench mortar, • re step. Pretty soon, and we ate their. share, but still I was e came along, and it was hungry, so I filled in with bully beef It warmed our chilled ' and biscuits. Then I drained my 1 t tiew life into us. Then water bottle. Later on I learned an- ication trenches came ts, filled with steam- ed two wooden stakes dies, and were car - I filled my canteen limber. We formed, a semi-eircl .a- round him . Over head there wa a black speck circling round and ro d in the sky. This was a Ge n Fokker. The Chaplain had a boo in his left hand --left eye on the book— right eye oe the aeroplane. We T m- mies were Ineky, we had no 'books; so had both eyes on the aeroplane. •. After • church parade we W,ere marched back to our billets:and play- ed football all afternoon. CHAPTER IV. "Into the Trench." ,The n:ext, morning, the draft Was in- spected y Our General, and we w -I assigned t� different companies. boys in. the Brigade had nickna this general Old Pepper, and he c tainly earned the sobriquet. I , assigned to 'Et Company with, another t 1 it from. snY and deank t Amercian named Stewart. ,,, fore I was For the next ten days We "rested fire step. repairing roads for the Vienchins, drilling, and digging, bombing tr ne My ambit Onemorning we -were informed t tern, Front, was in a fro re he The word along the 1* down off th the ram iss a Godsend. bodies and 1) from the co dixies or ir ingitea, whi through the ried by two ches. were back i we were going up the line, and march began. It took us three dans to reach *e - serve billets—each day's march bid g- ing the sound of the guns nearer aid nearer. At night, way off in the dT Id ee their flashes 'Thi U1' tance we Nu s ligthed uddthe sky with a red' gl 'e. Against ithe horizon we could s numerous observation balloons "sausag'e' 'as they are called.. i. On the afternoon of the third &Yds anarch„ witnessed my first aeropla e being shelled. A thrill ran throu h me and I razed in awe. The ae - nlane was makin.g wide circles in tie air, while little puffs of white smo e were burstine all around it. Th e puffs appeared like tiny balls of cot ton while after each burst could be heard a dull "plop." The Sergea4t of my platoon informed us that it was a German aeroplane and I wonder "d s- -h Mu I must h hours, not results fro lows, but t cold, evet, Suddenly and a thun I opened m over -with picking the tom of th my left completely tossed -up lay till. I face, and a .s e, TI p me e 1 lips. sle on t-1. and .Te other maxim of the front line,— go spariegly with your water," The bully beef made nee thirsty, and by tea time I was dying for a drink, but my pride • would not allow me to ask my mates t tea without taking for water. I was fast learning the It was not long be- , ethics of the trenches. p in the mud on the That night I was put on guard with an older man. We stood on the fire ad been attained! I step with our heads over the top, peer - ie trench on the Wes- ing out into No Man's Land. It was oh, how I wished I nervous work for me, but the other sey City. fellow seemed to take it as part of the night's routine. Then something shot past my face. My heart stopped beating, and I duck- ed my head below the parapet. A soft chuckle from my,mate brought me to my senses, and I feebly asked, "For CHA , Ra ve sl the cle e sl nd sh the TER* V. s and Shells pt for two or three efreshing kind that sheets and soft pil- p that comes from er exhaustion. seemea to sna •'erclap burst in my ears. eyes, --I was splashed alle1 ticky Mud, and men were nselve,s up from the bot - trench. The parapet on toppled into the trench, blocking it with a- wall of rth. ;The man on my left rubbed the mud from lily awfu sight met my gaze shed to a Pulp and 6.I • —his head was sm his steel elraet and blood.Gexeprmio .'• 01111drellir Orr 1 ivrieIa.r) FOR fearDeer(Ise MOM I ;ft tT: 'n -wer • 'g onrethe do ble. CASTIO R 1 Ai as full of brains "Minnie" (-trench ed in the next tra- diggininto the a frenzy of haste. arne up the trench ter a few minutes God's sake, what was that? He answered, "Only a rat taking a promenade along the sandbags." I felt very sheepish. About every twenty' minutes the sentry in the next traverse would fire a star shell from his flare pistol. The "plop" would give me a start of fright. I never got used to this noise dining my service in the trenches. 1. would watch the are described by the star shell, and then stare into No Man's Land waiting for it to burst. In its luried light the barbed wire and stakes would be silhouetted against its light like a latticed window. Then darkness. Pl I Once, out in front of 'our wire, I heard a noise and saw dark forins ,moving. My rifle was lying' across the sandbagged parapet. I reached for it, and was taking aim to fire, when my inate grapsed my arm, and whie- pered, "Don't fire." He Challenged R. A. M 0 (Royal Armyt 'Medical dell formation which lasted until noon. Corps). It Simply 'means that in case . Poring thistime welled two ten -min - of an attack, this billet Will accom- ute breaks for reit, and no sooner the moda,te fifty wounded who are able to word, "Fall out for ten minutes," was sit up and take notice, or twenty given, than each Tomray got out a fag stretcher eases." - 1, and lighted it, It was not long after thisthat I was 1 Fags are issued every Sunday one of the "20 lying." „i morning, and you generally get he - soon Int the hay and Was fast 1 tween twenty and fort.Y. The brand asleep, even my friends, the "cooties" generally is "Woodbine' Soneetimes failed to disturb me. I we are looky, and get "Goldflakes,' The next morning at aboat six o'- "Players," or "Red Hussars." Occas - clock I was awakened by t e Lance- &dimity an issue of "Life Rays" come Corporal of our section, info*ming me Along. Then the older 'Pommies bre- 1. vales;marsisamisma 111.1111111111, vavismarawarsiamosir mediately get busy on the recruits, and trade these for Woodbines or Gold. flakes. A recruit only has. to be stuck once in this manner and then he teases to be a recruit. There is a reasent Tommy is a great cigarette smoker. He smokes under all conditions, excep when unconscious or when he is re- connoitering in No Man."0 Land at night., Then, for obvious resume, he does not tare to have a lighted eigare ette bis mouth. Streteher-beare earry fags for the wounded Tommie,. When a stretcher, bearer a.nives alongside of a Twiny who has been hit, the following eon-. versation usually takes place—Stret- cher-beerer, "Want a fag? Where are you hit?" Tommy looks up and answers., "Yes. In the leg," After- dismissal from. parade, we returned to our billets, and I had. to get busy immediately with the dinner issue.. Dinner consisted of stew made f.rorn fresh beef, a couple of spuds, bully beef, .Maconochie ratione and water, —plenty Zif water, There is - great competition among the men. ti spear with their forks the two lonely Potatoes. After dinrier I tried -to wash out the dixies with told wat9r and a rag, and learned another' marlin of the trenches —"It can't be done." I slyly watched one of the older men from another section., and was horrified to eee him throw into his dixie s four or five dou- ble handfuls of mud. Then he poured in some water, and with his bands scoured the dixie inside and out. I thought he was taking an awful Trak, Sppposing the cook should have seen 'WI After half an hour of unsuc- cessful efforts, I returned my dale to the eobk shack, being careful to Put on the . Cover and returned to the billet: Pretty soon the took poked his- head in the door and gh.outed: "HeY,' Yank, come hate -Mid eleari your dixie!" protesteld,,that I had Wasted iiikalfehOur on it already' and. had used op ray esily remakeing shirt in the attanmt. With a look of ills - dojo, 'he exclaimed: "Blow me, your shirt! Why in !ell didn't you use mar' Without a etord in reply I'got busy with the mud; and-eoon my dixie was briglet and shininee Moist Of the afternoon was spent by the men writing letters home:- I used my spare -time to chop wood for the cook, and go with the Quarter -Master to draw coal. I got back just in time to issue our third meal, which con- sisted of hot tea. I rinsed out my dixie and returned it to the oda- house, and went back to the billet with an exhilarated feeling that my day's labor Was done. I had fallen asleep on the 'straw *hen once again the cook appeared in the door of the billet with: ‘‘Bliane met you Yanks are lazy,. 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