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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-10-04, Page 741 111111111111111 ■ }He a&4 \He / he e» a fee wee w as # o& )4e } ad - i #0»y (ami }res mal- t- his e re- ritish , was' Eba arIA CAN itade 064 wit geell 11.1 ovalw Rift o ak Wi▪ t sunnyz U13A2TERN, NNW 116. Wilet SIM 11.08 ASO Mal IMO 11.610 mILLIE's LETTERS FROM FLANDERS COULD NOT STIP THE'llEADA DES loth She Trid fruiii.a4lves" Made From Fru Juices hated from our last issue.) • save ghastly geeen ones 'that cause everyone to resemble an olivein cone - Then we stayed up one night till plexion; and the bussee and taxis four and went at flee to Covent Gar- creep along with no headlights, and den Market That was a disappoint- rdn the side lamps which mast be ment tho' as eVerything was dark, so dil,tshrouded, so that for a poor pe - we only heard ithe noise and smelled . es riati to cross a Street is a den - the smells. What, oh! that's sufficient. gerous ?alder -taking, But to look up I rode on top of a bus just for the at the steely sky is the sight: Rib - experience, whieh was some and look- bons, deerningly miles long, shooting ed down on humanity. Then we went in. every direction as height as _the to Whitehall and saw the guards chan- brightest Northern lights; the anti -air teed.. That is the only regiment net in craft searchlights That is indeed a kbaki; the guards there still being in wonderful sight; .-the opaque little eold, red and tin plate. Being an glimmers that surround one on the Officer I received a regulation salute. sidewalks, and those only on main Hal Ha! streets; and ma above, as one. would We also gave Bucldngham think for miles these powerful search-, the "once over" and went all through lights sweeping across the sky, and the Park. Buckinghate looked very then the slow moving crowds, for -they nice, but you Itmew over it all are saunter leisurely along at all thnes; huge bomb nets for protection, which I 'and :the continuous nerve-racking gaess spoiled the appearance. Then honk, honk, honk, Of cars punctuated 'did what everyone does, I guess by- the thrill whistles of 'theatre and got lost in the Ceeil Hotel, and sooner' restaurant doorkeepers calling taxis, than ask I wandered into forty differ- which are at a premium in the even ent rooms Tor fifteen minutes. Gee! trig, all impressed me wonderfully. that is some shack for size. also And then to . step into the hotel- ro- learned that all the coal used to heat bandits from nearly abyssmal darlaiess Landon went into a4shute just outside and a veritable babel -of harsh sounds my window at the Regent Palace HoteI —into a brilliantly lit rotunda, reson- where I stayed. At least they started ant with heart laughter, male and fe- just after I got into bed and never male, encrusted as it were by orchese hesitated till I got up, the din being tras, is some transition, I caniassure accompanied by raucous swear Words you. To walk in and' see the women and trite repartee from the navvies.. is e gorgeOusl gowned, and the officers in The hotel, which is a new' one, khaki fro tWe army, and naval blue some hotel, la-• the way, 1,030 rooms, and gold, one almost forgets that 150 and they had 2100 guests for New miles away there is a war- until sud- Year's. It surely is the last word denly, direct from the trenc,h, in walks in hotels. A winter garden, lounge, a soldier, mud from toes to• crown, a Louis XVL room, a palm room, a begrimed and laden with heavy march- grill,- and everything else you ever ing• order, jostling his way tip to the heard ef and a bt no One ever did, desk through the immaculate throng. and reasonable too, six shillings for That' brings it back, as does also the bed and breakfast, a swell big roone sight of a poor fellow On crutches or and fair brealdast, but never let it without an arm- , but it scarcely seeins be said that London is eheap. I can attest that the idea is erroneous And what a studY in character is for it sure cost a pile of money to i there in a cosmopolitan erowd. Here step around that city. However, it is London at night that a festive young lieutenant, there a should like to tell you of, if I can. florid faced naval man, yonder a pa.un- You understand practically no lights chy Major, all endeavoring to thor- oughly enjoy -life for six days. And are allowed. Stores, etc, pull down blinds and only a ray peeps out ete the women! Oh the women! . Hereto - doorways. There are no street lights fore lied been under /he impression that English women dieinot know how to dress, but the frumps we see are "1 feelI mitt tell you lid thegreat 1 hive been a sufferer" for many • years from Violent Headaches,' and tt coeld get no permanent r lief. A friend advised me to ke 'Fruit- ' a-tives' and I -did so With great ' success ; and now I am entirely free of Headaches, thanks to your splendid medicine". MRS. ALEXANDER SHAW, 50c. a box, 6 for k2.50, trial size 250.'1 At all dealers or sent on receilit of price, postpaid, by Fruiteatives Limited, Ottawa, where we are now, and Suneay night I wee on fifteen minutes' notice, sent over t'o Aldershot to take en advanced Signalling course. 'Softie movement for yaur one and only, and, if you were that it presages something, and that something is ,that we are to move to France as soon as we can be equip- ped, which is about the third week in February. Of course, dear, 1. know that that doesn't just appeal to you as strongly as it does to me, but it is really the best bit of news I 'ever wrote you; from my viewpoint; for, dear, it bespeaks- much: first., that we are a well -disciplined and trained reg- iment; secondly that we are physical- ly fit to go; and when you consider that it was only in May last that we started and that there !are 45,000 troops over here frem Canada, and we with three others were I selected to form a new Brigade in the Secend Di- vision, you'll understand that we are proud. Just think; we leave the —th ,—th' —th, and all those others formed lix months before us, behind, and so I say again thatwe, as a battalion, have reason to be proud; And yOu, my dear, dear M,other, . have also reason; not just -because I'm in the battalion, but because your son was paid a great compliment. An Imperiat Army Ser- gearit-Major from Aldershot who was in charge of the various latoons foe v,c some time, and one of th -se old-time. regular army fellows to hom discip- line is a god, teld thoColonel that my no criterion, "Lord lunime!" but they Platoon was the best disci lined one in 1"."'"'"'"'""4"'"'"*"*"'et sure do dress Radiant blondes i di- the battalion and exceptionally smart; ather in my omplirnenta our Signal- , profusion that 1.t is staggering. They hag Officer has peen rare Brigade . less of calss. In the Carlton tea room and one of our Majort is „Acting Bri- one day a ravishing.creature who turn- gade Major, and likely to obtain the ! beauties, sat rubbing backs nearly - . ed out to be one of England's first I Place' permanently, and 'air Chaphein has been made Brigade Chaplain; all *th I ' I to 1 i of which reflects great credit on our battalion, and we're trying awfully hard to live up to our reputation. Now, aren't you proud ? One of ..-Ceriada'a premier battalions and your son ,a d'hossifer" in it! I don't sup- pose, deal-, that gazing I adown the vista d years to the tim Of my baby- hood you ever dreaMed that I should one day stand where I am now. I sup- pose mothers like yon ean. sing "I didn't eaise my boy to be a soldier;" but since he is raised and is a soldier, I do want my mother to e proid of me. .For, after all, dear, - although I have /levier notched very 4etp hereto- fore, and, I know, not ust accorn- Billy. Plishecl what you'd have had me do, still I think that with y ur love for success, and' the top of Ole ladder, you'll be proud that I'm I at least a good lieutenant, for oh, dear, I've tried very hard. And so we are going "over theree'- perhaps 'Soon after Jou get this letter. I want you at once to send me on a card, if Possible, obtained from the Bank of Montreal, your 4gnature, as a joint one in both our names, either to draw cheques. This will enable you ,to draw out at any time anything to my credit, and avoid the expense of litigation or probate, s ould they bump me off. Send the s'gnature di- rect to the Bank as pe enclosed cheque-addreas and rill arr nge it here. Don't delay a day. The cheque you will keep so 'as to have i by you, to 01 YES! MAGICALLY! + CORNS LIFT attr. WITH FINGERS 1' You simply say to the drat store man, 1"Give me a .quarter of an Ionics freezone." This will cost very little but it sufficient ea remove every hard er soft corn from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether cona Fount! applied directly upon a . tender, *Ai coni should relieve the sore- ness instantly, andesome the entire corn, root -and all, driea,,up and can be lifted eut with the lingers. This new way to rid one's feet of corne was introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that, while freezone is sticky, it dries in a moment, and sim- ply shrivels up the corn without in - naming or even irritating the surround - int tissue or eldn. Don't let father die of infection or liockiaw from whittling at his corns, but clip this out and make him try it. $2100.002, to lend on Farms, First, Second Mortgage& Call or write me at once- and get your loan arranged by return mail. No advance B. B. REYNOLDS, 77 Victoria. St., Toronto. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR IA aphanous garbs in greater numbers than- I ever imagined, beautiful brun- ettes and sparkling sorrels in such which is you'll admit a fe •eap, and for which I was ed by my Colonel: Then all loll around in the places irregard- Signaller, which is a bo st for him, I am told it is an every day occurence. ; Anyway, they', all sip tea or cocktails, e smoke cigarettes and display an a-. mount of silk encased leg to cause ) me to wonder considerebly. And do ; you know I, in a . measure, doubted i my earliest beliefs in'the decency of ; womanhood -after some of -the displays that I witnessed. Certainly a shock 1 to my morals and mentality as here- tofore constituted. ; Now, my dear, must elose, will more later, but we have to welcome the Canadian Mechanical Tianspott whce are just arriving. Well, dear, after reading this over Ive found that I haven't told you any- thing; at least so it seems. I can't believe that my thoughts won't come I for I always tried to tabulate every- ' thing that occurred so that I eould tell, VOU about • it, and figured how to ex- press it, but it seems as tho' I can't think of them. When I started this page I thought I could, but I can't However, I certainly enjoyed my trip and the memory, of it -will linger long with me, I tried e.verywhere to buy something for Aunt** and you. But somehow there .seeeind to be nothing for women, except ordinary things. Everyone sells war materials for men and the belly shops seem crammed with nothing but trench clothing, sthokes, alcohol lamps, safety razors and steel mirrors. I wanted to get an antique for the house but searched, and searched: and found nothing r wanted that I could afford; so finallY in desperation crashed into Harrod's and purchased you each a pair of gloves. The thoughts go with them even if they are only common place; you know that, dear ones. However, I did buy a leather ilframe for your picture. That was eelfishness, I sup- pose, but I did want to keep it nice and it was awfully expensive, the frame. nine shillings, but I'll just nip off somewhere else. iThings cost like the devil here and , food is awful. Our mess is something scandalous and I'm enclosing my laet month's bill to let yoa see it. It 'is nearly $37.'75 for twenty-eight daya for food and some cigarettes, whicili is awful you'll agree. We got our410- here, but most of it is gone for a revolver and binoculars. These two sixty' five -dollars alone— then a compass and several- s small things such as map case, fourteen - shillings, etc., and I've yet got to buy several small al -natters for my kit. Well dear. will Close again. Love and write soon. ; .LEMONS WHITEN MM BEAUTIFY THE SKIN Make this beauty lotion cheaply for your face, neck, arms and hands. At the cost ef a small jar of ordinary cold creana one can prepare fiill quar- ter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin softener and complexion beautifier, - by squeezing the juice of two fresh lem- ons into a bottle containing three OUTteee of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a Azle cloth. so 110 lemen pulp geta in, then this lo- tion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener whitener and Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemmas from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hande. It is marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. Billy. Royal Huts Hotel, January 31, 1916 Dear Mother,—I am only stopping here for an hour, and as I have just finished tea, I thought I would improve the shining hour, _ which has- been a CAsT R IA NMveigetstY seensatrtiecplTstfioer ttoh eyloaust wtwe sei I think, dashed off on a typewriter For Lufaate ana bildleen. at Bordon. Since then I've had an N Mild YOU Have lways Bought eventful career. Dates are all messed up in my mind, but a week last Friday we left Bor- t don atter two weeks of awful work and f marched to Witley, twentyone miles. ! Saturday morning, under orders, the 1 Whole battalion left for Bramshot, Bears the tommemommr The Strai!in of Overwcrrk Your work is heavy, and sore, tired museles are a common occurrence.. Each time your back aches you blame, it on your work, and just there the danger lies—for that pain in the back may.,not be from strain,. ,as y,ou sup- pose but the forewarner Of Kidney or Bladder trouble. Por your own interest, it is best to be particular and sure, , as Kidney troubles inevitably pull you down and destroy your earning power. Take note of these syMptoms. Do you get dizzy and have repeated hea.d: aches, painful urination, brick dust *de- posits, or feel drOwsy and, generally, good for nothingl If so, it is your kidneys that are botherMg -you—not work—and Gin Pills are neeessary: No person can *work properly when theY feel sick, tired and dizzy all the tiine. The more they try, the more energy they use up; and tills only tends to aggravate their condi'tion, as the Maus are already tired out with their endeavors to reliev!e -their con- gested state and perform, their furies tion properly. The kidneys are d Beate and vital organs; once they becOree affected through any cause—yon suffer until the congestion is relieVed and 'the cause rem edi ed. Don't let your systerA become Tun down. A box or two of Gin 'Pills will relieve those kidney' coMplaints and restore your old-time Ihealth and - Yew, health is priceless. Don't risk losing it. Keep your kiclUeys in order always by taking Gin Pills. -Sold everywhere for 150c a box. Write for free sample to The National Drug & 'Chemical Co., of Canada, Lim- ita, Toronto, Ont. 172 My Dear Ma ter written fr this morning. Her in the wee of departure ception. Ten of men have b Anyhow-, to -day, being marooned at : Aldershot, and wanting mail, etc., I and was starting back; OT rather 'did start back. The mode of locciniotion is. is No. 41144, Rte. Smith, John,' and if he is wont to imbibe too much of ter -run -when -it -pleases affair. It re- the "cup, that clears today of past re - ben inasmuch as it seats fourteen* but holds thirtytwo. It seems to haire a 9. Co'y who, if he feels he can ad - deal of trouble in breathing, and is eudicete upon the -case, sentences hirn; rheumatic in every joint. I feel Sure but as his powers are limited, and if if its pedigree were looked into,. it the case - deserves greater punishing, would have been sired by the first Ford he remande him to a higher court, and damned by everyone who ever viz.: the Colonel or' Commanding Offi- rode in it. Well, we started out, the - cer. Well, I had to adjudicate upon thirty-two all being resent 'at roll three yesterday and four to -day, all call, each one a soldier (private) ex- for being absent without leave, which cept his breath which Was and still la is , a crime in the army. By crime and likely will be (from the ribald glee I. mean - not as generally ipterpreted, emitting from the bar) an adMixture but. anything for which he can be of gin and beer, (not it ell like the epanished, and the longer I'm 'in this fragrant rose of old England. This game the more I' am . convinced one. is hopp fifty miles lireath when breathed Upon one in coh- that a man can be ' punish - junction with a sweet. scented odor of ed for anything.; and when a you've reall gasoline which leaks through the floor . soldier is 'discharged .after yea& ser - of the bus, only convinces me that vice Without a crime on his record, - between yo all' I did w I have nothihg to fear from German .1 certainlY consider him. a mightY myself, (an gas. Well, anyway, we got tiles far clever chap for covering up his up. But th when the but busted:- as last she sat crimes. It certainly is a supreme ex- Billy. we jostled out and in here where.I am i the aforesaid Itiq, 41144, Pte. Smith, coaxing would induce her to arise. So convicted and the unconvicted; for if sitting awaiting the arrival of another i went in fa Lendon en 1' spent her,—Your secolid let - February 13, 1916. affair which I trust is more physiclaly . fit than the other eiras. I have no more paper, this being . , be suddenly seized with a violent tick- _ John, while standing on parade, should tee Abbey. An abou As I wrote you ear, we are in the -throes- Toronto reached me. some in my pocket,but must close any- by an application of jujubeeand should ; wax ling of his throat,. such as you allay the story, o nd Sunday is no ex - and address always care,. of Army fully duic : forth into a loud "ahem," he can be spontaneously and ostentatiously burst h:ard the s ell'ng (I think souls is the at the Rifle ra ges, and this Morning. in front of our mess the Machine way. Don't forget all the instructions a day in th 110Tth transept and yanadll adaynuaegr* adian mail leaving Monday. forty of the Army Act, the aforesaid "being prejudicial to gbod ills- ifincaewrsa itenket edit ing' the week, but want to catch Can vcoeurYg hseverely dealt with under section i: st word f ' r ' cipline." So you see that anyane can abnost) !so uis on I am- expressieg back to Canada m rain- coat, also my steat coat or p s buy what they call trench coats, tic; ibly only the latter. We all ha ber ,coats, fleece lined, which cost ev- en pounds 'fifteen shillings, as a g eat eoat is too heavy, and if it gets et takes days to dry oat, so I fear me is not much use. My other goods I'm putting in storage in London and will advise You in regard to them later. We all are busy buying trench ne- cessities, such as high rubber boots, periscopes, Wolseley valises,—a con- trivance holding blankets and clothes, as we are only allowed thirtyefive pounds of baggage outside :what we carry, and 'they must be in these ve- lises. They cost -fear pounds, but are essential, otherwise you can't have anything taken. Suitcases and trunks are barred for obvious reasons. In fact, when I get all dolled up in heavy marching °order which I described be- i fore, I resemble a Christmas . tree that's been having a night out more than anything, and feel sure Richard ' when he uttered that very salient re- I mark, "A horse, .horse, my kingdom ! However, that doesn't explain why I I am at the Royal Huts which I start- 1 ed to in the preamble. Well, last Sun- day the Colonel suddenly walked into the mess and said, "You'll go to Alder- shot to -night to take an advanced sig nailing course." I remonstrated, tha an advanced signalling was a trifi premature as I had never even had a elementary, one, but old Tennyso knew whereof he spoke, "there's n. t to reason why," etc., and so like , a I lamb to Armour's • I hied me on my : Arrived, and the first thing Monday = morning,. they just flung atme through . space, six words a minute in Morse i telegraph code on a delightful inven- same as a dOOT bell run by a telegraph key. In view of the fact that I'd never even been introduced. to one previous- ly, and that I certainly wasn't on speaking terms with it, I failed to measure up, but I went to the Com- mandant of the School and between talking to him and crying at him, in- duced him to allow me to stay, insist- ing- in right good Canadian fashion that as I'd come to take a signalling coupe, it wet patent could scarely go home without orie: I tell you that gift of gettb is jake sometimes. So a sergeant was appointed to give me ele- mentary instruction in the various forms of army communication viz., buzzer, heliograph. ---a sorted Sp'anish- inquisition-looldng-affair, which re- flects the sun from a mirror across the country, a lamp with a shutter in front for sending at night, and also by wig- wagging a flag thusly from here over - to there ,and. from this position over to this other one; a very simple little affair, figured out by some of the rnightiese brains of all time, but re- quiring arms like the village black- smith to pend and eyes like a cat to read. Well, so far rve grubbed along , but you'll realize that tie learn Morse on si xdifferent instruments in four- teen days is not just what in res- taurant life is called a "short order." However, Trn working from 9 a.ra. to 10 p.m. with three hours .for lunch, the indispensable tea and dinner*, and • hope to acquire sufficient knowledge ' ere this week is out to pass out at six and dashes, and find myself going to `. sleep saying dote-t-dOta.-410,811—dash-- = plain why I'm here at Riisal Huts. In • fact, I'm beginning to question if I'll ! ever tell you, •qs I've just remenibered men left to clean up. Solomon said, i "Pride goeth," etc. 7 With Alittnrkdsts'enti to Zuho Mies, AA. rrc) every home theire comes a time when every thought, 1 every hope,. ever/ prayer for the future centres on thc recovery, of one lov,ed In that hbur of anguish, every nurses, .costly treatme‘ n Does ihe price matter ? It may be so great as to tagger the possible. . But does anyone aski " we do it?: Money or no mone they - do it. And somehow they ay. It May mean doing thout things they think they neeld. It rnay 'mean Privations, saclifices, hardships. They make, tt believ- able savings, they achiev the impossible, but:they get the oney to pay. To -day in this critical period of our nationhood, there is inipera-i .of niOey. • Only one. wayi now reniams to obtain it. The nation ,must save; very community, every family,' every l'idividupti Canadian must .s If anyone says 'cannot ve" him consider to :what exteixt be - Mini would pinch himself to relieve the sufferings of a loved obe at home; and surely he would >not pinch less 'for our_ fighting brothers in France. Without -suffering actual priva2 ;dons, nearly every family in Can- , ada can reduce its standard of living, can practice ' reasonable thrift, can make Cheerful sacrifice to enrich the life -blood of the nation. You who read this, get out penal and per NOW. Set . down the items of your living apense. Surely you will find some items there you can do with- out. Determine -to-do wit out them: money so that you may be in a ..pdsition to knd it to your countr : in its, tithe of need. under Idle authority of tho er of Viiiaace Of Canada., feir in this place you'll us will be I was up with the 0. the Royal aed enjoyed We went u 'man. Ther cept a viol sinking sens we volplane get down w face and c There was a slight rocking which You know, . -my dear, that its all tended to p odece mal de mer, or ' very well to talk about writing -to suppose I s ould mai de air, but when this one and that one, but I never get ng along anywhere from a . chance to start a letter till 8.30 o eighty miles an hour p.m., then its usually 10.30 before .its no time to be in fact, finished, and I owe a dozen to diff - s to hang on, and just erent people. ,If I find time write Pie dear old "Maw and but really some nights I'm so tired dcin't tell a soul) I wish- I can't, so they'll have to understand:. e time that rd never gone Love to all. n Mike the Catholic r, so I imagine the only 1 misty air of the west;,.. and while r ver find anything about , 'love England I wouldn't trade one -day anad*n papers. 1 of Western Canadian cliinate with all an earoplane last week -; its wintry rigours for a whole -winter Headquarters Flight at ' here. Tho' I sometimes -cursed-a win - lying School. Aldershot, 1 ter there I now ask pardon and plead he experience very much. ,I my ignorance Alit an excuse, for snow about 2,000 feet and ould enjoy being an air- I 1 : is immeasurably better than the same depth of gooey mud. ahd a violent desire to . some time sr re the air didn't bit one's ill yob. to the marrow. the mess, so d soon as these leave sometime bee twenty-third and will be in Fratiee for going actually into. tt figure I'm in it as ates occur. down figuratively, and no amo nt o ample ad the tw grea c a s confessions eritioned to a soul. aelarday and Sunday in oute from Aldershot 'and miring rain to Westmins- , \dear, there is some - at spot that really is e Empire in a vest, that grips me. I sat February 8, 1916. Dear Mothen—Your two letters written, one en route,- the other from Toronto, arrived en the Canadian mail and was glad to hear that you ar- rival. safely. I also got some letters, last week at Aldershot telling me of the desperate cold. Gee, that was sure some cold, eh. A letter also arrived 'from —last week and one to -day from . I am writing to her to thank for -the sox, alsof,to for the cigarettes. I arrived back here Sunday night from my signalling course and to -day recevied word that I got "Very good" out of a class of forty, which means I obtained layer ninety per cent. and the Colonel is quite pleased and said to -night at mess, "Oh, I knew you'd pull through." Welt, I landed back as I tell you and found that , my Company Commander, or Q. C. Co'y, meaning Officer Commanding Com- pany, was ill, and I was, senior, so had to take charge yesterday and to - Iday of the whole company. That is, hold orderly room which is the soi- 1 dier's court where he is punished for offences. For instance, John Smith in private life is. John_Smith; here he be shot at sunrise for blowing his nose. and listene Howevee, I carried on with the C. 0. them voce course beting away first at Bordoli Coy's work for two days, and of Britain's h rolonumehts then Aldershot was not in touch very • dr, — a fel well.. Then we are being equipped _to go to the front and are changing t et some ,Coy is responsible (not me) for ev- erything, there is -a lot of checking of tgures. However, I am managing ery well so far and haven't done any - tilling I shouldn't have. Them to -day tion, in th hen I VAS in seeing the Major hp Gettge. ed to a gre told me I was to have No. Platoon. That perhaps doesn't convey much to 7oia but it is just this: No. 1 Pia- any oth ofy serves, •tOOT1 is the extreme right one the batplion is in battle and there- bidden can fore its flank is quite important. That 111/ ht pr cent aislee. teuch the order of testimonial 1.1 is certainly a promotion, in its way h mean, for unless I was fitted to have a commantl of it I wouldn't get it. It is quite an important spot and D.S.0.'s are usually won there,- altho' I'm not 0 guring on one, In answer to your e enquiry -as to whether all .the offi- - cots above me on the list were senior, e "yes." tut three officers above ,.ene are being left here, which makes me t fourth senior lieutenant in the bat- talion. As for any notice in the , papers, the place is aboat 200 souls, sunshine a and anyway one battalion more or t circled e snow, nder feet 1 ss doesn't matter very much here. battalion is such an infinitesimal af- hey induce tears.in f that glorious organ the RecessionS. I heard is to think abo Gun class wa As I tell yoti to. again, sitting beside the and statuary erected to' row -minded in this business un4ss, oe , and oh, do you know, you eat, sleep breathe and prespire t e little with creep in *war, its ethics science and the pract- ical applicatio of these, you mgiht busy rattling away. , that's about all there ut. One grows to nar- my name nught go I was so close I could just as well qu rity in those magniii- tatue, "Erected by the n't give one thing but abs to William Pitt, Earl of you, We are i mg and Parliament as a re gns of George II. and France. You will not of course re - e this till after we halve arrived (To be Cfmtineed Next Week). p ion. and, as I say, un- . —Mr, Geor e Spotton sent tile *fol - the -desire that one day lowing letter i eo the Mayor of Wing- ve 'worthy of a wee small ham which speaks for itself; 'Wave my own native land for, ing decided t enter the field as a h, ',Lam continually long- candidate in North Hufon, in the - 11 fight to say it's cald, coming byeeel tion on December 2nd, uddenly take away from 1 deem it in duty to send in my,. hi gs that have surround-. resignation Councillor for the hiklhood, suddenly re- Town of Win ham. Let me express environment that has my sincerest egrets at severing., re- ur i'ery .being and you lationship wi h you .and your' al- b t feel the lack. I miss leagues. It h sheen a labor of love the crunch, crunch of it during my 10 g term ie the Munici- t e glisten of it in the pal life of W ngliam, bet, let me as: d he glint of it under the sure you an your honorable bodyt t ight. I miss the winds that if I am ucceseful in ithe coming th face aed the cold that contest, I she 1- ever and everywhere fr t, and our Colonel does- ueh chance to Ad any- rb warfare. As I told theethroes of depart - told unofficially that ht, are the actual word* olood, *id most of all do my utmo ee, clean, sunshiny un- town." •