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Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer an
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I CHArorgit XIII
I My First Official Bath.
R,iglIt behind lour rest billet was a
large creek ,abOut ten feet deep and
twenty feet across, and it was a habit
of :the company to avail themaelverr
, of an opnortunity to Ake a swim,
and at the same time thoroughly wash
ithemselves and. theitaunderwear when .
on their own. We were having a spell ;
of hot weather, and these baths to us
; were a luxury. The Tommies would
! splash around -in the water and then
come out and sit in the sun and have
what they termed a "shirt hunt." At
• first we tried to drown the "cootie,"
3.-M. BEST. I but they also seemed to enjoy the
Barrister, Solicitor, Coeveya er • bath.
and Notary Public. Office upsl rs
elver Walker's Furniture Store, divan
Street, Seafotth.
PROUDFOOT, HILLORAN AND
COOKE.
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub-
*, etc, Money to lend. In Seaforth
ea Monday of each week. Office m
Midd Block W. Proudfoot, K. C., J.
Killoran, H. J. D. Cooke. ,
VETERINARY.
HARBURN, V.S.
Honor ,graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary ,inember of
the Medical Association df the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
all domestic animals by the most mod-
ern princiales. 'Dentistry and Milk Fee-
." a specialty. (Office opposite Dick's
Hebei, Main 'Street, Seaforth. Af r-
ises left at the hotel will re lye
prompt attention. Night calls re
tad sit the•office.
S
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VE, V. S
Honor graduate of Ontario Vet:al in -
airy College. All diseases ol dbmiestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a spectalty. Office
end residence. on Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
forth.
MEDICAL.
,
DR. WI. GLANFIELD, M.A., M.B.,
Physician, Et. Honor Graduate
of University of Toronto, six years'
experience. Brikelield, Ontario.
•
DR. GEORGE TIEILEMANN.
Osteopathic Physician of Goderi L
Specialist in womhhi's and Childrene
diseases, rheumatiem, smite, chronic
and nervous disorders; eye ear, nose
s
One Sunday -morning, the whole sec-
tion was in tile creek and we were
having a gay time, when the Sere
genat-lidajor eameared on the scene.
air
Medicine
uvx ST.> Thldae, Qua.
, my opinion, no other medicine
fete so good as 'Fruit -a -tires' for
Indigestion and Constipation. .
i Per, years 1 ,suffered with these
dreaded diseases, trying alf kinde of
treatments until 1 was told I was
incurable.
Owe day a friend told nae to try
'Pruiteadivesi. Tb my surprise, I
found this medicine gave immediate,
relief, and in a short time I was all
right again".
DONA.T LALONDE
50e. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c.
At all dealers or froth. Fruit-a-tives
Limited, Ottawa.
just spent his time adreinstraing to
the wants, of the wounded lying on
stretehers waiting to be carried to the
rear by ambulances.
The chaplains in the British Army
Hee Fame to the edge 'of the creek , are a fine, manly set of men, and
ram ordered: "Come out of it Get are greatly respected by Tsmmy.
your equipment on, 'Drill order,' and
fall in for bath parade. Lookelively
my hearties. You have only got M -
teen. minutes." A howl of indignation
from the creek greeted this order,
but out we tame. Diselpline is dis-
cipline. We lined 'out front of our
billet with rifles and bayonets- (why
you need rifle's and bayonets to take
a bath gets me), a full quota of am-
munition. and our tin hats. Each man
had a pieceedf soap and a towel. After
an eight -kilo march along a dusty road
with an occasional shell whistling ov-
erhead, we arrived at .a litle squat
frame building upon, the bank of a
creek. Nailed over the door of tis
building was a largeesign which read,
"Divisional Baths." In ta wooden shed
in the rear, we could hear a wheezy
old engine pumping . water.
• We lined up in front Of the baths,
soaked with perspiration, and. ailed
our rifles into stacks. A Sergeant of
the R . A. M. C. with a yellow band .37,
round his left and on which. was
P. "" (Sanitary Police) in black letters,
took charge, ordering us to take off
our equipment, unroll our putteet, and
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unlace boots. Thenretarting from the
right of the line, he divided us into
_squads of fifteen. I happened to be
in the first squad.
We entered a small room where we
were given five minutes to undress
then filed into the bath room. In here
there were fifteen tubs (barrels saw-
ed in two) half full of water. Each
tub contaihed a piece of laundrie soap.
The Sergenat informed us that we had
just twelve minutes in which tee take
our -batha Soaping ourselves all ov-
er, we took turns in rubbing each
other' backs,' then by meane of a gar -
end throat. Co
den hose, washed the soap off. The
In the Royal &ultation free Office tea Seaforth, Tues- water was ice cold but felt fine.
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days and Fridir, 8 a.m. till 1 pm. Prety soon a bell rang and the
' water was turned off. Some of the
•
slower ones were cevered with soap,
C. 3. W. BARN, M.D. C.M. but this mede no difference to the
Sergeant, who chased us into another
roam, where we lined up in front of a
little window, resembling a box office
in &theatre, and received clean under-
wear and towels. From here we went.
into the room where we had firet un-
dressed, Ten minutes was allowed in
which to get into our "clabber."
My pair of drawers came up to any
chin and the shirt barely reached my
diaphragm, but they were clean,—no
strangers on them, and io I was sat-
isfied.
t the 'expiration of the time aL..
lofted we were turned out and finished
our dressing on the grass.
When all of the company had bathed
it was a case of march back to the
billets. • That march was the most un-
congenial one imagined, just cussing
and blinding all the way. We were
covered with white dust and felt
greasy from sweat. The woolen ant
derivear issue was itching like the
mischief,.
425 Richmond Street, London, 0 e.
Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Ur 1.-
-ary liseases of men and women.
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• Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR
Physician and Surgeon -
-Mee and Residence, Main Str t
. Plume 70 Renee
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DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate Of Faculty of Medict_
McGill University,. Montreal; Member
of College' of Physicians and Surgbons'
of Ontario;Licentiate of Medical Cuim-
ell of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
• of Resident Medical Staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 191445; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 56,
Himsall, Ontario.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Godericb street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County a
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.
fty University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario..
r•-•••sindileft...Cm
DR. H. HUGH ROSS.
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate comes in of
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital,' London, I ing.
rifle, revolver, or bomb he is carry-
Ingi He has something to protect
land, University Hospital, London, hi
E flice—Back of ' Dominion he
with, something with whieh
ngland. O
an inflict harm on the enemy,--
Dallk, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night he in dther words, he is able to get his
Oalls answered from residence,
vic-
toria street, Seaforth. • o b ck
,
After eating our dinner of stew,
which had been kept for us,—it was
now four o'clock,—we went into the
creek and had another bath.
If "Holy Joe" 'could have heard our
remarks about the divisional baths and
army red tape, he would have fainted
at our wickedness. But Tdmeny is
only human after all.
I just mentioned "Holy jae" or the
Chaplain in an irreverent sort of way
but no offenee was meant, as , there
were some very brave men among
them .
There are many instances of heroic -
deeds performed under fire in reecuirig
the yrounded that it would take several
books to chronicle them, but I have
to nliention one instance performed by
a Cbaplain. Captain. H'all by mane, in
the Brigade on our left, because it
particu1ar1y appealed to me.
A chaplain is not a -fighting man;
he 's recognized as a non-combatant
and carries no arras. In a charge or
tre ch raid the soldier gets a feeling
onfidence from contact with his
CHAPTER XIV
Picks and Shovels.
I had- not slept long before the
sweet voice of the Sergeant informed
that "No. 1 Section had clicked for
another blinking digging party."
smiled to myself with deep satisfac-
tion.' was pronioted from a 'digger
had been promoted from a mere digger
to St member of the Suicide Club, and
was exempt from all fatigue. Then
came an awful shock, The Sergeant
looked over in -intr direction and said:
"Don't you bond) throwers think
that you are wearing, top hats out
here. 'Cordini to orders, you've been
taken up on the strength of this sec-
tion, and will have to do your bit with
the pick and shovel, same as the rest
of us."
I put up a howl on my way to get
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beat for our trenches We needed at the some time ietting out the ex -
110 urging; grabbing our tools and etlpeion ` "Gott strafe me pink, I'm
stoopinglove, we legged it tier* bloodye11gassed, not 'elf I ain't"
Maeda. Land, The covering Party. got
away to a poor start but beat us in.
Theft, roust haVk nail wings, because,
we levered the,, recur*
P.a.sting .and lout of breath, we tum-
ble'
blediAtto our. frog% 4ing. trench. to
mY ,handa gtttinit=thiough:- our wire,
but at. the .tunN-diiinttz 'notice it; my
journey was too wrgent.
. err, the roll was called we found'
quickly turned m his direction with
.an inquiring look. at the same instant
reaching for my gas bag. I goon
found out what was -ailing him. One
whiff eyes ebtough and I lost no time
in Wee, pinching my nose. The stench
was 1340.111; The rest of the digging
pOrty ddetiPea their picks mud shovels -
and beat,,it for the weather side of that ,
sentare ipick. The officer came over
thawe bad gotten it in the nose for and inciuired *by the work had aud-
sixty-three tasualties. • denly ceased, hekling our noses, we
Our artillery mit a barrage on simply pointed in the direction of the
Fritz's front-line and .communication sinelL Hewentover to the pick, im-
teettelles arat their machine gun and inediately clapped his hand over his
rifle fire suddenly ceased. ' nose, made an "about turn" irad came
Upon the ce,ssation .of this fire, the back. Just then our Captain came ,
stretcher-bearers went out to look for along and investigated, but after about
killed and *Minded. Next day we a udnute said we had better carry on I
learned that twenty-one of our ,men with the digging, that he did not see
wounded. • Five men were missing; ordor was very faint, but if neceseary
had been -killed and thirty-seven why we should have stopped as the
lost in the darkness they must have he wceild allow us to use our gas hele
wandered over into the German lines, met while digging. He would stay and
where they were either killed or cap- see the thing through, but he had to
tured. report back at Brigade Headquarters
Speaking of stretcher-bearers and immediately. We wished. that we were
wounded, it is very hard for the av- Captains aid also had a date at Bri-
image civilian to comprehend the en- gade Headquarters.. With our gas
&mous cost of taking care of wound- helinets on we again attacked that hole
eo in, general. He or she gets so ace and uncovereele the decomposed body
customed to seeing billions of dollars of a German; the pick was sticking in
in print 'that the sigiiificance of the his chest. One of the men feinted. I
amount is passed over without thought was that one. Upon this our Lieuten-
•From an official statement publish- ant hated proceedings and sent word
ed he one. of the London. papers, it is back to headquarters and word came
stated that it costs between six and back that after we filled in the hole
seven thousand pounds, 30,000 to we -could knock off for the night.. This
$35,000 to kill or wound a vilifier. was welcome tidings tO us, because—
This result was attained by diking the Next day the General changed the
cost .of the. war .to date and dividing dot on his map and another emplace -
at by the ldlled and wounded. m.ent was comaieted the following
_
It may sound heartless and inhuman, night.
but it. is a fact, nevertheless, that The odor from a dug -up, &come
from a militaryestandpoint it is bet- posed human body has an affect which
ter for a man to be killed thani *mind- is hard to desaribe. It first produces
ed. a nitueeating feeling, which, especially;
If a man is killed he is buried, and after eating, caoses vomiting. This
the responsibility of the government relieves you temporarily, but soon a
ceases, excepting. for :that factet hat weakening sensation 'follows, which
his people receive a: pension. But if leades you limp as a dish -rag. Your
a. man is wounded it takes three -men spirits are at their lowest ebb and.
from the -firing line, -the -wounded man you feel a sort of hopeless helplessness
and two mento carry bun ,to the 'rear and a mad 'desire to escape it all, to
to the advanced first-aid post. Here get to the open fields and the perfume
he is attended. by a doctor, perhaps of the flowers in Blighty. There is • a
assisted -by two R . A .M. C. men. Then aharre prickling. sensation in the nos -
he de put irato a motor ambelance, teils, which- reminds one of breathing
manned by a crew of two or tbxee. coalegas through a radiator in the
At the field hospital, where be gen- floor, and you want to sneeze but can-
erally goes under an annsthetic, either not This was the. affect on me, suie
to have his wounds cleaned or to be mounted by a vague horror of the a,we
Operated on, lie requires the services fulness of the thing and. an ever re -
of about three to five persons. From curring reflectioh that, perhaps
this point another ambulance ride 'int- sooner, or later, would be in such a
-state and be brought to light by the
blow of a pick in the hands of some
Tommie on a digging party.
Several times I have experienced
this °dot, but oever could get used to
it; the enervating sensation was al-
ways present. It made me hate 'war
and wonder why such things were
countenanced by civilization, and all•
the spice and glory of the conflict
Would disappear, leaving the grim
reality. But after leaving the spot
and filling your lungs with deep
breaths of pure, fresh air, you forget
and once again want to be ''up and at
'them."
my shovel, but the only thing ti a pressses more men in his service, and
resulted" was a loss of good humor one
my part.
We fell in at eight o'clock, outside
of our billets, a, sort of imasquerade
then. at the ambulance train; another
corps of doctors, R. A. M .C. men,
Red Cross nurses, and the train's
crew. From the train he enters»t
party, • I was ,disguised, as a common( base ' hospital or Casualty Cleaniig
labofer, had a pick and shovel, and Stet*, where; a good-sized come of
!
about one hundred empty sandbadoctors; nurses, etc., are kept hew.-
gs.
The rest, about two hundred in an, 1 Another ambulance 'journey is next
were equipped likewise: picks, shevels,, i in order—this time ,to the hoseital
sandbags, rifles and ammunition. 1 ship.. He crosses the Channel, arrives
The party moved out in, ;column of. m Bighty--more ambulances and per-
t
.g he road leading to the ''.. haps a ride for five hours on an Eng -
fours
trenches. Several
es. Several times we had to
Axing out -in the, ditch, to let loam
columnieof limbers, artillery and sup-
plies get past. " • ,
' The marching under these condi-
tions was necessarily slow. Upon
arrival at the entrance to the com-
munication trench, I looked' at my
illuminated -wrist-watch—it was 11
o'cock.
Before entering this trench, word
was passed down the line, "no \talk-
ing, or smoking, lead off in ngle
file, covering party first."
This covering party consisted of
thirty men, armed with rifles, bayo-,
nets, bombs, and two Lewis machine
guns. They were to protect us and
guard us against a rurprise attack,
while digging in No Man's Land.
The corrununication trench was a-
bout half a mile long, a zigzagging
ditch, eight feet deep and three feet
wide.
Now' and again German shrapnel
would whistle overhead and burst in
our vicinity. We would crouch a-
gainst the earthen walls while the
shell fragments "slapped" the ground
above us.
Once Fritz turned loose with a ma-
chine gun, the bullets from which
"cracked" through the air and kicked
up the dirt on top, scattering sand and
pebbles, which, hitting our steel 'hel-
mets, sounded like hailstones.
Upon arrival in the fire trench an
officer of the Royal Engineers gave
us our instructions and acted as guide.
We were to dig an advanced trench
two hundred yards from the Germans
• (the trenches a this point were sia
hundred yards a,part.)i
Two winding lanes, five feet wide,
had been cut through our barbed wire,
for the passage of the diggers. From
these lanes white tae ,had -been ,
on the ground to the !point where we
were to commence werk. This in or-
der that we would not get lost in the
darkness. • The proposed trench Was
also laid out with tape.
The covering party ,went out first.
After a short wait, two scouts came
back with information that the work-
ing party was to follow and "carry on"
with their work. -
In extended order, two yards apart,
we noiselessly crept Across No Man's
Land. It was nervous work; every
minute we expected a machine gun
to open fire on us. Stray bullets
"crackedeiround us or a ricochet sand
overhead.
Arriving at the taped diagram of
the trench, rifles slung around our
shoulders, we lost no time in getting
to work. We dug as quietly as poss-
ible, but every now and then, the noise
of a pick or shovel striking a -stone,
t the chaplain is. empty handed, would send the cold shivers down our
and is at the Mercy of the enemy if backs. Under our breaths we heart -
lisle Red Cross train with its drew.
of Red Cross workers, and at last he
reaches the hospital. Generally! he
stays "from to to six nionths,I or
longer, in this haspitar From herq
he is sent to a convalescent home for
six weeks.
if by wounds he is .unfitted for fur-
ther service, ,he is,, discharged, given
a pension, �r comeratted to a Soldiers'
Home for the rest of his life,—and
still the expense piles up. When 'You
realize that all the ambulancesi trains
and ship, not to mention the man-
power, used in transporting a wound-
ed man, could be used for tarries,
ammimition. and reinforcements , for
the troops at the front, it will not ap-
pear strange thatfrom a strictly. mili-
tary standpoint/a dead man some-
times better than a live one (if
wounded).
Not long after the first digging
party, dur General decided, after a
careful tour of inspection of the com-
munication trenches, upon "an ideal
spot," as he termed it,fora machine
on emplacement. Took his reap,
made' a dot on it ,and as he Was wont,
wrote, "dig here," and the next night
we dug.
Tiere '-'svere flaunty in the party,
myself included. termed with pieke,
shovels, and empty sandbags we ar-
rived at the "idcal spot"- and started
digging. The moon was very Wight,
but we aid not cafe es me weie well
out of sight of the German lines.
We had gotten ebout three feet
down, -when the fellow next to me,
attar a mighty stroke with. his pick,
let go ca the handle, and pinched his
nose with his thumb and fereilnger,
M 50. years of age
THE KIDNEyd NEW/ HELP
,
T. here is no reason why, when
a man , or womau reaches the
fifty mark, he or she should
hnnopt pfieneelssfuliltoifs
true,energy agreaternd
cafe must now be taken to
drive away the lesser ills,
which, if neglected, may de-
velop. Proper attention to
the Kidneys suggests
he encounters them, so it is doublyily cursed the offending Tammy. _ e
bratre for him to go over the toPt I At intervals a etar shell would go
AUCrIONEERS -- - --- under fire, and bring in wounded. Also up from the German lines wed we
THOMAS BROWN. a chaplain is not required by the would. remain ,Inetionless until )the
Licensed auctioneer for the con" les ' .Ki g's Regulations to go over in a glare of its white light died out
ei /Won and porta, correspond 4. cha ge, but this one did, made three 1 When the wench had reached a
▪ =meats for sale (taus can no tri s under the hottest kind of Are, ' depth of two -feet, we felt safer, be-
asite-li caning up phone in, sad la, eac time returning with a wounded cause it would afford us cover. in 1
ro The fixpositoe Office. Charon 1 , xi.. ma on his. back. On the third trip case we were discovered and fired '
Siete and satisfaCtion guaranteed. , he received a bullet through his left on.
i a , but never reported the mttaer
. The digging, had been in progress
1
to he doctor until late that night— about two hours, when :suddenly, hell
seemed to break loose in the form of
machine gun and rifle fire.
„,,,_ASTOR 1A 1 the shallow trench, bullets 'knocking
We dropped down on our bellies in
the ground and snapp`m in the
,
adr'blill4 and Children. air, Then the shrapnel butte in. The,
ad You Nava Always music Was hot and Tommy danced.
The covering party was having a
rough time of it; they had no cover-
Juet had to take their medicine.
Word was possed down the dine to
R. T. LUZ=
ILlesseed Auetioness for the County
flustes. Wes attended te in all
pr.rts id the Ceentt liav a yam° ex -
Wanes in Nienitobs and Sestatelte- '
M. Tema seneemelile. ?bone No.
Mal, Moots", Oestvelle P.O., II. Z.
Orders lofts* Enna Zrz. I
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FORTH DititY5
At the first evidence that Kid-
neys are not working proper-,
that is, .if you have pains
ir the hack or sides, twinges
of rheumatism, constant head-
aches and restless nights,
swollen joints or urinary
troubles, take Gin Pills, You
0 will benefit almost from the
first dose. It costs nothing If
you are not benefited, for the
ii;IFI;Ilrenriist:eellopinornielyls 1,:z3ian or§
.,,t atisfied
a box or 6 boxes for $2,5-o.
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CHAPTER XV.
Listening Post.
It was six in the morning when
we arrived at our rest billets, and
we wereorllowed to sleep until noon;
that is; if we wanted' to go without
our breekfast. For sixteen. days we
remained in rest billets, dig.ging. roads,
drilling, and other fatigues, and. then
back into the front line trench.
Nothing happene,d that night, bat
the /wit afternoon 1 found outithatte.
bomber is general utility man in a sec-
tion.
About five o'clock in the , afternoon
our Lieutenant came down_ the trench
and stopping in front of a bunch of
us on the fire step, with a bread grip
on his face, asked:
"Who is going to volunteer for uisL
tening. post to -night? I need two
men."
It is needless to say no one volun-
teered, because it is 'anything, but a
cushy job. I began to feel uncom-
fortable as I knew it was getting a-
round for my' turn. Sure enough,
with another grin, he said:
"gmpey, Von and Wheeler earn dui;
so come dawn into my dugout for in-
structions at six o'clock."
Just as he left and was going a-
round a traverse, Fritz turned loose
with a machine gun and the bullets
ripped the sandbags right over his
head. - It gave me great pleasure to
see him duck against the .parapet. He
was getting a taste of what' we Would
get later out in front. .
Then of course, it began to rain.
I knew it was the forerunner of a
miserable night for us. Every time
I had to go out M front, it just nat-
urally rained. Old Jupiter Pluvius
must have had it in for me.
At six we reported for instructions.
They were simple and easy. All we had
to do was to crawl out into No Man's
Land, lie on our bellies with our ears
to the ground and listen for the tap
tap of the German engineers or gap-
pers who might be tunnelling under
No Man's Land to establish a mine-
head beneath oar trench.
Of course, in our orders we were
told not to be captured by Germanipa-
trols or reconnoitering parties. Lots
of breath is wasted on the Western
Front giving silly cautions.
As s000 as it was dark, Wheeler
and I crawled to our post which, was
about half -way between the lines. It
was. raining bucketsful, the ground
was a sea, of sticky mud and clung -
to us like glue. '
We took turns in listening with our
ears to the ground. I would listen
for twenty minutes while • Wheeler
would be on the i vie for German
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stage in the use of Sunlight.
in ,the washing --for the
work is greatly lightened.
in the iron -
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newness. In
the wearing
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of Sunlight
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He put his ear to the ground and in
an unsteady voice spoke into my ear."
"Yank, that's a patrol and its head-
ing our way. For God's sake keep
still.
I was as still as a mouse and was
scared stiff.
Hardly breathing and with eyes
trying to pierce the inky blackness,
we waited. #I would have given a
thousand pounds to have been safely
in my dugout.
Then we plainly heard footsteps and
our hearts stood still.
A dark lerm suddenly loomed up in
front of me, it looked as big as the
Woolworth Building. I could hear the
blood rushing through my veins and it
sounded as loud as Niagara Falls.
Forms seemed to -emerge from the
darkness. There were seven of them
M all. I tried to wish theni away. I
ne,vei- wished harder in any life. They
muttered a few words in German and
melted into the blackne,s 1 didn't
stop wishing either.
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THICK, GLOSSY
n.rsE FROM pANDRUFT:
iris! Try It! fieii gets 144 thelff and,'
beautiftle-Att a *null' bottle '
, of Ilfanderine.
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If you care for heavy heir that ioi
tens with beauty and is radiant with
life; blue an incompanible goofiness and
is fluffy wad lustrous, try Danderine.
Just oia-application -clo les ilia .
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beauty of your hair; Insides 1 imme-
diatelY dissolves every pa 'de of
dandruff. You can not have m heavy,
healthy hair if you lane -dandruff. Thi
destructive. scurf robs the hair ,of its
lustre, its strength and ite rex/ Ilifft
and if not overcome it produces a fever-
ishness and, itching of the erialp; tho
hair root e famish, loosen e,nd ?din, then
the lair falls out fast. Surely' et
small bottle of fielowIteed.
from reay deug,stois *4.04 try it.
All of a sudden we heard stainb:e, eoneneenneei aim •
a muddy splash, and a muttered,
"Donner und Blitzen." One of the
Boches had tumbled into a shell hole.
Neither of us laughed. At that time
days the credit of this floe achieve., `
rnent belong, almost wholly to e .
Macdonald and his men. ' The fit -027
—it didn't strike us as, funny. the owners, and weth the bare * line
, was told with modesty:1in his letterito
About twenty minutes after the Ger- in the scrip leg dihieh ie dept. 1 .
mans had disappeared, something The difficulties overcome were !
from. the rear grabbed me by the foot. great. The crew of lune hands had ;
I nearly fainted with fright. Then a to work a three masted vessel, . of ;
welcome whisper in •a cockney accent. which the normal crew wee. twenty,. i
"1 s'ye !rade, we've come to relieve .a
ove. Macdonald. alone of the meat i
you." - , was skilled in navigation, the others- I
Wheeler and 1 crawled hack to our ,
not having been in sell- before. All i.
trench, we looked like wet hens and ,the work had to be done by nine I .
felt worse After a swig of runt we men during a voyage of twelve and i
were soon fast asleep on the fire step one-half days in. bed weather;
in our wet clothes. By - the eleventh day all the . "MU.
., .
The next merning I was as .stiff as visions left were some biscuits in
a poker and every joint ached like a the locker of the remaining *tau
bad tooth, but 1 was still alive, so it Notwithstanding that the armee* : !
did not matter. meter , had run -down and the tc-6 e ,
,
(To be Continued Next Week) : Passgsi were untrustworthli., , .:
Macdonald found on falling in wit
TORPEDOED VESSEL BROUGIIT a warship that *lie was only Emil'
, mileg out of his rftkoning. o_ '
• INTO PORT. . I Daring the towage -by the F1yin .
One of the most thrilling tales ' Buzzard a head gale sprang u
brought in frorn the submarine zone. With a heavy' sea. 'The towing ba
was told the other day in the Ad- to be stopped and the tug !song
miralty Court in London, England, in shelter. Meanwhile the
a proceeding to award bonuses to - continued to _drift, her sails in n .;
inembers of two ships crews. The jus- , bons. On the 'following morethige,
tice remarked that it was a Wen- with the help of patrol boats, Mr.t•
did record of the courage and re- Macdonald got some sails set, and; ,
sourcesfuhiess at sea of the British 'the Flying Buzzard, retyping, t011im .,
:
sea -faring man. The action concern- 'defied the towage,
ed a derelict, the Ainsdale, a three- The services of the tug were um* -
masted steel sailing ship of 1,825 tons. doubtedly of great service and she
The claimants were the owners and is entitled to a substantial reward.]
crew of the steamship Basuto and the But, after all, the safety of the ship ,
crew of the Flying Buzzard, a Glas- and cargo Was mainly due to the .
gew tug. skill, resource comagee and deter.; .
On the night of February 5, in a gale mination, of lidie Macdouald and the
and hea-vy sea, the Ainsdale was fired courage and determination, of his
dship awarded:
and the crew were given five 'minutes TO Mr. Ma onald, -12,600.
upon by a submarine without warning men. His Lo
in which to leave the vessel. They ilro each ot ,his eight men, £300.
began to brace up the fain yard in or- To the owners of the Basuto, £1,000;
der to bring the ship to when a see- To the master of the Basuto 1.450;
ond shot was fired, and they hastily To the crew, Aother than Mr. Mac -
left in one of the tvao bohts. donald and his 'eight men-, RM.
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The submarine firtfd. more shots at To the owners and crew of the tug, .
the Ainsdale. The men lost sight of her, £2,630.
and assumed she had been sunk. Next The total award, £9,830.
morning they were picked up by a
passing vessel and brought into port.
The Ainsdale had not, however, been
sung, but continued to drift under her
sails. On February 11 she -was sighted
by the Basuto.
She might have been a deco, with a
submarine in the neighborheod, but
the master of the Basuto, after consul-
tation with his ()Mem, decided to
board her. Voltniteers weraked for
Patrols. , 1 and all responded. Chief li14er Mac -
We each wore a wrist -watch, and 1 donald with a , selected crew 'went on
3nmIntunteesiti.1 I board and the only living things they
rnud. 0
erThoneer.
.oafinussodiakdedovuers
1 wheel -had been carried away and that
.believe pie,
I found were a.cat ,a parrot and a mon-
to the skin and our ears were full of key. They found that the steering
Every few minutes a bullet *void the standard compass was broken.,
crack overhead or a machine . gun A jury wheel was rigged up and at -
would traverse back and forth. - tenmts were made to take the Ainsdale
Then al firing suddenly ceased. 1 I in tow, but these were unspacessful
whispered to Wheeler, "Keep your eye owing to the wind and heavy sea. Mr.
skinnedemate, most likely Fritz has a Macdonald and a crew of eight then
patrol out,—that's -why the Boches took charge of the ship wit*, a,. view
have stopped firing." of navigating 'her to port and the Be -
We were each wailed with a rifle and auto proceeded on her voyage. -
bayonet and thiee Mills bombs to be The same 004ing the chief officer
used for defense only.
and his ere* began their voyage,
.1 had my ear ta the ground. .All which was completed an February 24,
of a sudden I heard faint, dull thuds. when the Ainsdale was brought into a
In a very low, but excited voice, I safe haven me the west eoast of Sete
whispered to Wheelenidid think they land. Except for the important help
e
of the Flying Buzzard on thlast two
are mining, listen."
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41.
Sure! High Heels
Cause Corns But
Who Cares Now
ssesssaussiisessmosssssiiss.ts-sFi
Because style decrees .bat Wemelt
crowd and buckle up their tender hies
in high heel footwear tbor sneer -from
corns, then they cut and trim at these
painful peste whiele Merely makes the
torn grow hard. This suicidal Intbit
may ause looklaw and women ,are
warned to stop it.
4. few drops of a, drug called
one implied &reedy imon a sere torte
gives quick relied and soon, the entire
corn, root and &Ile lifts out without
pain, Ask the drug store =IL f6r
duarter of an ounce of freezone, ideal
costs vcry little but Is sufficient to re*.
move every hard or Soft corn or realms
from one's feet
This drug iiit an ether compound and
Aries in a moment and simply shrivels
up the corn without %limning or west'
irritatlng the =-
rounding ror or,
skin. C ip this out and pia Vst rug
• wife's deems.
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