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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-04-12, Page 7TL 12, 181$ ilIll11111111111111111illiti r You? pace, and not itouthpiece of kiving the instra., ork. to speak into, [ when your lips by speaking dis- Outhpiece, and id delay. [ JO*, shovel. losing three out of sixn , me rew, we managed -to set; up hine gun. One ef the legs of al was restingeon the chest of iried body. When the gun was gave the impression thatthe as breathing, this was `caused xcessive vibration. or four feet down the trench' hiee feet from the ground, a t protruding from the earth; it was a German by the black boot. One of our 'crew used t to .hang extra bandoliers if Lien on. This man always was fellow; made use of little -tat the ordinary person would ienutans made three counter- st-hich we repulsed, but not Reavy loss on our side. They re'red severely from our shell hine gun fire. 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Williams' Pink Pills." - SPRING COLD Winegarden, Delhi, Ont., t s =ri rig my daughter' Ruby n with a bad cold. She seem- ed a censtant pain in her 1.v pale, and as the remedies end in caees of this kind did • we feared she was going deeided to give her aea' Pink Pills and got six ise,re ehe had used them eeeie eell and strong. The leFt, h a-, she had a good pain in her side disap- :i re rosy color had re - 1 have therefore to eptak warmly in . 'Williams' Pink Pills," [1 tiaue.e, there has been no a Pills. They can be had or :ix boxes for $2-507 fa- The Dr. Williams' Medi- 11111111111111111101111111111filillnI11111111011111111111110111111111INIMIMINIIIIIIIMM1111111111111111111i FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED § L.00k, Mother! if tongue is coated, E: cleanse tittle bowels with "Cali- re fornia Syrup of Figs." f 7.-.7". Mothers can rest easy after giving . nCalifornia Syrup of Vigs," because ird a few hours all the elogged-up waste, Ps; sour bile end fermenting food, gently moves out of the bowels, and you. Nave_ B well, playful' child again. = ver ieTop lawaimaimbirawasiv By ARTHUR GUY' EMPEY CRIPPLE FOR THREE YEARS — Helpless -In Bed With Rheumatism ! ITIMMIIIIIIIIMMI11111111111111111111111111111111M11111011111EMININIMIMIMMO Sick children needn't be coaxed to take tbis harmless "fruit laxative." (Continued films our last issue.) Millions of mothers keep it ' handy. hes ' - eause .they 'mow its action4on the atom- When the garnblers tire of all other stela liver and bowels is prompt and sure. games they try "Banker and Broken" Ask -your druggist for a bottle of . I spent a week trying to teach some "California Syrup of Figs," which con- of the Tommies how to play poker, tains directions for babies, eliildren of but beeausa I won. thirty-five francs all ages an& for grown-ups. their declared they didn't "Fawncy" ; the game. I Tommy plays few caid games; the i general run never heard ' of poker, 1 1 euchre, seven up, or pintichle; They • I have a game similar to pinochle called i "Royal Bezique,' but few knew how , to play it. '21 2 Generally there are two decks of lean. ; cards in a section, 'and in a short time they are so dog-eared and greasy, you i can hardly tell the ace of spades from the ace of hearts. The owners of these decks sometimes condescend to lend them after Much. coaxing. So. you see, Mr. Atkins has his fun mixed in with his hardships, and, con- trary to popular belief, the rank and file of the British Army in the tren- ches is dile big hapnv family.: Now ip Virginia, at school,' 1 was fed on. oid •McGeffy's primary reader, vhich gave me an opinion of an Eng1ishan about equal to a '76 Minute 'Man's backed- up by a Simi Feiner's. But I found Tommy to be the best, of 'mates i and a gentlemanthrough and through. l He never. thinks of knocking his offi, cers. If one makes a costly mistake and Timmy'pays with his bleed, there is no general conde-mnation of the offi- cer. He is just pitied. It is exactly the same as it was with the Light Bri- gade at Balaclava, to say nothing Of Gallipoli, Neuve Chapelle, and Loos. Personally I remember a little incident where twenty of us were sent on, a trench raid, only two of us returning, but I will tell this story later on.,- • I said it was a big happy family, and so it is, but as in all happy famil- ies there are servants so in the Brit- ish army there are also servants, offi- cers' servants, or "O.S." as they are termed. In: the American Army the common name for them is "dog,rob- bers." From a controversy in the English papers, Winsten Churchill Made the statement, ae far as I can remember ,that the officers' servants. in the British forces totalled nearly two hundred thousand. He claimed this this removed 200,000 excep- tionally good and well trained fighters from the actual firing line, claiming that the officers, when selecting a man for servant's day, generally picked the man who has been out the longest and knew the ropes: • But from. my observation I •find that as large percentage of the servants o go over the top; but behind- the lines, they very seldom engage in dig- ging. parties,. fatigues, i parades, i or drills. This work is as necessary dA actually engaging in an attaek, there. - fore I think that it, would be safe to say that the'all round work of the two hundred thousend is about equal to about fifIty thousand Men who are on straight military duties. In num- erous instances, officers' servants hold the rank Of lance -corporals and they assume the seine duties and authority of a butler. The one stripe giving him preeedence over the other ser- vants. There are rots of amusing stories told of "0 .S ." . One day one of enr majors went into the servant'e billets and com- menced "blinding" at them, saying that his horse bad no straw, and that he iiersonally knew that straw had been issued for this purpose. He call- ed the lance -corporal to ateeount. .111..e Corporal answered, "Blime me, air, the Wa.w was issued e but there wasn't enough left over from the servants' beds infact we had to use some of the et.. `ay to 'elp out, sin' ' It is needless to say that the ser- vants dispensed with their Soft beds that particular night. Nevertheless it is not the fault of the individual officer, it is just the sur- vieal of a quaint old naiglish custeen. Yon know an Englishman cannot be changeci in a day. But the average English officer is et goOd sport, he will sit on, a fire step and listen: respectfully to Private Jones's theory of the way the war should be conducted. This war is grad- ually crumbling the once unsurrnount- able wall of caste). You . would be convinced of this if you could see King George go among his men on an inspecting tour under fire, or pause before a little wooden cross in some shell -tossed field with tears in bis eyes as he reads the ine scription. And a little later perhaps bend over a wounded ;man on a stret- cher, patting him on the bead. More than once in a hoapital 1 have seen a titled Red Cross nurse fetching and "carrying for a wounded soldier, perhaps the one who in civil life de- livered the coal at her back door. To- day, she does not shrink from lighting his fag or even washing his grimy body. Tummy admires Albert of Belgium because he is not a pusher tof men, he LEADS them. With him it's not a case of "take that trench" it is "come on, and we will take It is amusing to notice the different characteristics of the Irish, Scotch, and English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch are very impetuous, especially when it comes to bayonet fighting, while the Englishman, tho-ugh a trifle slower, thoroughly doe a his bit; he is more methodical an4 has the grip of a bulldog r‘n a aptured position. He is slower to think, that is the reason why he never knows when he is lick -ii ed. * Twenty minutes before going over the top the English Tommy will sit on the fire step and thoroughly examine the mechanism of his rifle to see that it is in working order, and will fire properly. After this examination he is satisfied and 'ready to- meet the Boches. But the Irishman or Scotchman sits on the fire step, his rifle with bayonet fixed between his, knees, the butt of which perhaps is sinking inathe mud, LEGAL. R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the . minion Bank, Soaforth. • Money to J. M. BEST. • Barrister, Solicitor, Conveya er and Notary Public. 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"For over three years, I was 1 Iconfined to bed with Rheumatism. - During that time, 1 had treatment from- a number of doctors, and tried •*early everything 1 saw edvertised to cure Rheumatism, without receiving any benefit. • Finally, 1 decided to try iFruit-a- itives". Before Ihad used half a box, noticed an improvemeit ; the Pain was not so severe, and the swelling started to go down. • 1 continued hiking this fruit me- dicine, improving all the time, and now I can walk about two; miles and • do light chores about the place". ALE 'ANDER MUNRO. 50e. a box.: 6 fo $2.50, trial size 26e. At all dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of price. "ker Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. Mag.0111(1;•=11•111111181111111.11.111111. —the bolt co 't be; opened with ;a team of horses, it is so rusty,—but Ite spits on his sleeve and slowly polishes his bayonet; when this ialsdone he also is ready to argue with Fritz. • It is not necessary to mention the Colonials (the Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders), the whole world knows what they have one for Eng- land. - The Australian And New 'Zealander is termed "Anzac," takings -the name from the first letters Of their official designation, Australian and New Ze6.- land Army Corps. Tammy divides the German army into three classes according to their -fighting abilities. •They rank as fol- lows, Prussians, Bavarians, and Salk-. ons. *hen up against a Prussian regi -1 ment it is a case of keep your nappar below the, parapet and duck. A banga bang all the time and a War is on. The Bavarians are little better, but the Saxons are fairly good, sports and are willing oecasidnally to2behave as gen- tlemen and take it easy but, you can- not trust any Of them overlong. At one point of the line the tren- ches. were about thirty-tWo yards a- part. ,This Sounds horrible, but in fact it was easy, because neither side could shell tiTe enemy's front-line trench for fear 4 ells would drop into their own. This eliminated artillery fire. In these trenches When up against the Prussians and Bavarians, Tammy had at hot time of it, but .,when the Saxons "took over" it was a picnic, they would yell across that they were Saxon's and would not fire. Both sides would' sit on the parapet and carry on a conversation. This --enens"-- consisted orf Tommy telling how much he loved the Kaiser while the Saxons informed Tommy that King George was a , particular friend of theirs and hoped that he was doing nicely. • When the Saxons were to be reliev- ed by Prussians or Bavarians, they would yell this information across No Man's ,Land and Tontrny would. im- mediately .tunible into the trench and keep his head down. If an English regiment was to -be relieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would tell the Saxons, and ininiediaten ly a volley of "Donner und Blitzen's" could be heard and it was Fritz's turn to get a crick in his back from stoop- ing, and the neople in Berlin would close their windows. Usually when an Lrishinan takes over a trench, just 'before "stand down" in -the Morning, he sticks his rifle over the top' aimed in the direc- tion of Berlin and engages in what is knoWn as the "mad minute." This consists of firing fifteen shots in. a minute. - He is not aiming at anything in ,particular—just sends over each shot with a prayer, hoping that ' -one of his s&ays will get some -unsus- pecting Fritz ie. the napper hundred of yards behind the lines. It general- ly does! that's the reason the Bodies hate the man from Erin's Isle. , The Saxons, though better than the Prussians and Bavarian, have a nasty trait of treachery in their make- up. . At one point of the line where the tOmaff, ***wesserli; 4 _ ' 4 W4h-the Fingers! i , . Says Corns Lift Out 1 ; Without Any Paint 1; 4 Liwisoe.4.8..0.*.e.s.0.4p.s.o.i.0-4—*.•.4.8.4.4.0.0.; • Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be lifted right out with the fingers if you will apply directly upon the corn a few drops of freezpne, says a Cincinnati - authority. it is claimed that at small cost one can get -a quarter of an. ounce of freez- one at any drug store, which. is suffi- cient to rid, one's feet of every corn. or callus withotit pain or soreness or the danger of infection. • This new drug is an the compound, and while sticky, dries the moment it is applied. and does not inflame or even irritate the surrounding tissue. . "This announcement will interest raany worsen here, for It is said tb.at the pr sent -high -heel f otwear Is put- ting erns on practically, _every, :womaiVo - U 0 EXPOSITOR treriches were very close, a stake'Wasi driven into the ,ground 'midway. be- tween. . the hostile lines. t At night, when it was hi S turn, Tonmay would crawl to this stake and attach some 1 London papers to it, while at the foot he would palce *ins of bully beef, fags, sweets, and other delicacies that he - received from Blighty in the ever 1 ed-fer rparcel. Later on Fritz Vuld eome ont and get these luxuries. f T -fie next night Tommy would go out to see what Fritz had put into his a ticking. The donation _ generally consieted of a paper from Berlin, tell- ing who was winning the war, some tinned sausages, Cigars, and occasion- ally a little ban., but a funny thing -Tommy never returned with the beer unless it was inside of him. His pla- toon got a whiff of his breath. one niigsjob.he. d the. offending Tommy lest h One night a young English Sergeant i crawled to the stake. and as he tried to detach the German paper a bomb exploded and mangled him hortibly. Fritz had set his trap and, gained. an - 1, othei victirn which was only one More black mark against him in the honk of this war. From that time on diplo- matic relatiane were severed. Returning t� Tommy, I think his spirit is best shown in the questions he asks. This never "who is going to win' but always "how long will it take?" 1- 'CHAPTER XX. "Chats With 'Fritz." We were swimrning‘ in money;from the reecipts of our theatrical venture, and had forgotten all about the war, ierhen an order canie through that our Brigade would ,again take over their sector of the line. • . The day that these orders were issued, our Captain assembled the !com- pany and asked for volunteers tip go down to the Machine Gun SchoOl at St. Omer. I volunteered and waS ac- cepted. . • Sixteen men froni our Brigade left tfor. the course in machinery gunnery. This course lasted, twO weeks and We rejoined our unit and were assigned to the Brigade Machine -Gun Company. It almost broke my heart to leave my company mates. The gun we used was the Vickers, Light .303, water .eoolech 1 was till a member of the Suicide Club, having jumped froin the frying pan Into the fire. I waS assigned. to Section • No. 1, Gun, No. -2, and till first :time "in." took position in the front line trench. During the day Mir gun. would be dismounted on. the fire step ready far instant use. We shared a dugout with the Lewis gunners, at "stand to" we would mount our gen on the parapet and go on watch beside it until "stand down" in the morning, then the gun would be dismounted and again placed in readiness on the fire step: We did eight days in the front line • trench without anything unusual hap- pening outside of the ordinary trench routine. On the night that we were to carry out- a bombing raid against the Gentian lines aga pulled off. This ratidiim party consisted ,Sixty eom- , pally men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis MaChine-glibi with -their -crews. The raid tciek the Boches by sur- prise and was a complete s-uccess, the party bringing back twenty-one pris- oners. • The Germans must have been awful- ly sore, ,because they turned loose a barrage of shrapnel with a few "Min7 nies"' and "whizz-ipangs" einterrnixed. The shells were dropping into our front line like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the prisoners in. the fire trench, in charge of the men on guard and let 'them click Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not treat prisoners that way. Five of them were brought into my duginit and turned over to me so that they would be safe from the German fire. In the candlelight, they looked very much shaken nerves gone and chalky faces, -with the exception of one, a great big fellow. He loolend very much at ease. I liked him from the start. I got out the rum jar 'and gave each a nip and passed around some fags, the old reliable Woodbines: The other prisoners looked their gratitude but the big fellow said in English, "Thank you sin, the ruin is excellent and appreciate it, also your kindness." He said his name was Carl Schmidt of the 66th Bavarian Light Infantry; -that he had lived six years in New York (knew the -city better than I did), had been to Coney Island and many of our ball games.. He was a. regular fan. I couldn't make him believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the best ball -player in the world. • From New York he had gone to London, where he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Russell. Just before the war he went home to Germany to s'ee his parknts, the war came and he was conscripted. He told me he was very sorry to hear that London was jn ruins from, the Zeppelin raids. 1 could not con- vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures in one of the German cities of St; Pauls Cathedral. in ruins. I changed the subject because he was so stubborn in his belief. It was my initention to try and pump him for mformatien as to the methods of the German snipers, who had been caus- ing us trouble in the last few days. • I broached the subject and he shut up like a clann After a few minutes he very innocently said: "German snipers get rewards for killing the English." eagerly asked, "What are they?" He answered: "For killing or wounding an Eng- lish private, the sniper got one mark. For killing or wounding. an English • officer he gets five marks, but if he kills a Red Cap or English General, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheel of a limber as punishment for his carelessn.ess." Then he paused, waiting for sne to bite, I suppose. 1 int all right and asked him why the sniper was punished for killing an iEnglials general. With a smile he , replied: 1 "Well„ you see, if all the English generals were killed, thee would be no one left to make costly iniata,kes." • I shut him up, he was getting, too , • • A Are Here Told the Beit 4emedy for Their Troubles: Freemont, 0.—"I was passing -through the critical period pf life, being forty-six years of age and had all symptoms incident to that change— heat flashes, - -ryousness, and was in a general run down conditiOn, •) it was hard for inc to do my work. Lydia. E. Pink- . ne's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me as tc best remecly for my trotinicsonhich if surely proved ,*be. feel better and stronger in every. way since ielting it, and the annoying symptoms leve disap- oichair3e.d."--Mrs. M. Glonnwa, 925 Napoleon St., Fremont, North Haven, Conn.—"Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta. Mei Compound restored hay health atter everything else had failed when passing through change of There is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms." —Itineinennifelt IsRr.r.i.,Box 107, iviortb. Haven, Conn. cee at record f r ths • pners to the rear. I shook hands and wished him "The best of luck and a safe return t Blighty." I liked tha prisoner, he was a fine fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. I ad- vised him to iceep it out of sight, or some Tom.my would be sending it home to his girl in Blighty as a sou- venoinre. 'dark. and rainy night whiie on guard we were looking over the top from the let E. step of our front line. trench, when we heard a noise irnme lately . in fiont of our barbed- \sir The sentry next to me chaAle i.a•4 "Halt, who goes There?" and brought his rifle to the aim. His challenge was answered in German. A captain in the next traverse climbed upon the sandbagged parapet to investigate --- a brave hut foolhardy deed—"Crack" went a bullet and he tumbled- back into the trench with a hole *through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A. lance -corporal in the next platoon was so enraged at the Cap- tain's death thnt he chucked a Milli bomb in the direction of with the shouted warning to your nappers, my lucky sharp dynamite report, a,fla of us, !and then silenced We imanediately sent np two star shells, and in their light could see two dark forms lying. on the ground _close to the wire. A sergeant And 'fa stretcher bearers went out in front and soon returned, carrying two limp bodies. Down ionthe dugout, in the fli kerin ht f`th ee candles we saw the noise us: "Duck lads." Af` e in front gg o r that they were two Gernea.n. officers, brie a captain and the other an unter- offizier, a rank one grade higher than a sergeant -major, but below the grade of a lieutenant. r The Captain's face had been almost Save your Hair! 'Opt a smaii completely torn. away by the borab's of Dinderine right now—Ai explosion. The- Unteroffizier was a- • stops itching emir). live, breathing with difficulty. In a attest geoci. LYDIA LPINKNAM MEDICINE CO..-LYIN.MAIIS. plentiful on their side and that it did not cost them anything either_ About , seven that night the.cOnversation had turned to the "cont,emptible" and the Captain had made a wager that he wou.ld hang his cap on the English barbed wire to show his con- teanpt for the English sentries. The wager was accepted. At eight o'clock the Captain and he had crept out into No Man's Land to carry out this wager. • They had gotten about ,half war a- cross When. the drink took effect and the Captain fell asleep. After about two hours of vain atteMpts-the Una teroffizier had at last succeeded in• waking the Captain rentinded him of his bet, and warned 'him flint he *odd • be the laughingstoa of the officers' mess if he didn'•t accomplish his ob- ject, but the , Captain was trembling all over and insisted on returning to the German lines. In the darkness they lost their bearings and crawled toward the English trenches. They reached the barbed wire and were sud- denly challenged bir,,pur sentry: Being too drunk to realize that the challenge was in English, the 'Captain. refused to crawl back. Finally the Unterof.- fizier convinced his super -fon that they were in front of the English wire. Realizing this too late; the! Captain drew his revolver, and with al mutter- ed aurae fired. blindly- toward our trench. His bullet -no doubt killed our Captain. • Then the bonib came over and there k • • TAKES OFF DANDRUFF, . IN4,R FA4IN fey minutes ,he opened his eyes and blinked in the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been drink- ing lheavily, for the alcohol fumes were sickening, and coineiletely per- vaded the dugout. 1 turned away in disgest, hating to see a man cross the Great Diyide full of Insoze. Orli° of our officers could speak Ger- man and he auestioned the dying man. In a faint voice, interrnpted by frequent hiccoughs, the Unteroffizier told his story. There had been a drinking bent a- mong the officers in one of the Ger- man dugouts, the main beverage be- ing cliarn.pagne. With a drunken leer fresh for a prisoner. After a whi..e he winked at me and I -winked back, i then the escort came to take the pris- o tie Thin, brittle, colorless and iteraggy hair is mute evidence of ft neglected scalp; of dandraff—that awful scurf, ere Is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually .produenag a feverish- ness and itching of the sealp, which if not remedied muses the hair roots to shrink, loosest and die—then, the hair falls out fast, A little' Danderine to- night—now—any time—will surely save your hair. ,Get a small bottle of Knowlton's Danderjne from any drug store. You. surely oan have beautiful hair and lots of it if you will just try a little Dan- &rine. Save Your hairi • Try it! j•••••■•111110111•111•1111•11• he infermed us that champagne was he was, dying,—and a good job tee, we thought The Captain dead? Well, his men wouldn't weep at the news, Without giving us any further in. formation. the Unterofflaier died. We searched' the bodies for identi- fication, discs but they had left every- thing behind before starting on their foolhardy errand. Next afternoon we buried them in our- little cemetery apart, froni the gaves- of the Tonirnies. If you ever go into that temetery you win see two little wooden crosses in the comer of the cemetery set away from the rest.. •• They read: - Captain German ' Army Died -1916 • Unknown R. L P. Unteroffizier German, Army Died -1916 Unknown R. I. P. CHAPTER XXL About Turn The next evening we were relieved by the —th Brigade, and once again returned:to Test billets. Upou arriv- ing at these, billets we were given 24 hburs in whickto clean up. 1 hid just finished getting the mud from.* my lithe fonn when the Orderly Sergeant in- formed me thatesny name was in or- ders for leave, and that I was to report to the °Orderly Room in the morning for orders transportation, and rations. 2 I nearly had a fit, hustled about, packing up, Ailing my pack with souv- enirs such as shell heads, dud bombs, nose caps, shrapnel balls, and a Prus- sian. Guardsnian's helmet. 1 feet, before I turned in that night, I had everything really to report at the Or- derly Room at nine the next morning. I was the envy of the whole sec- tion, swanking around, telling, of the good time I' was going to have, the placewaeld visit and the real, old English beer I intended to guzzle. Sort of rubbed it into them, because they all do it, and now that it was my turn, 'I took pains to get my own back. At nine I reported to the Captain, receiving -my travel order and pass. He (Continued on Page ei,-0 * We've given them up -"until after the war anyhow. There is a far better way to rive you value for your money and we've done it—we've made the Comfoli Soap bar much bigger. Many of the Premiums—books, glassware, toys, jewelry, etc., used to come from Europe. These cannot be shipped now on account of the war, and the prem., „iums we can still get are either so poorly -made or so expensive that the -value simply isn't there. The best way out is to give you all the, value of the premium in the biggest -selling rsoap in Canada—that's Comfort. The ComfoA ba is bigger 139w—zit the same price. 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