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Exeter Times, 1916-12-21, Page 6• TWO HUNDRED WIN VICTORIA CROSS INVESTIGATION BEING. MADE OE HEROESLIVES. 1,•••••••.•114, Alm of Every Station in Life Rave Won the -Coveted Honor. In the coarse of the great \vat near- ly 200 13ritish and colonial soldiers • have won the Victoria Cross, t greateet honor that can come to a man who fights for Britain. Recently the British Intelligent Service an- nounced that 195 officers and men of • the land and sea service had proved themselves worthy to wear the V.C. Since then at least two mare V.C.'s have been won, both by aviators who accomplished the most daring of aerial feats,. the destruction of German. Zep- pelins. The statement announcing the num- ber of those who have won the V.C. recited some of the gallant deeds fox which the medal was awarded. Not a few men have lived to wear the de- corations; to others, it was awarded posthumously for acts that cost them their lives. Material is being accumulated in Englend to enable students of nation- al characteristics to work an many engrossing lines of thought which the development of the war has revealed, and an attemptis being made to trace the life histories of men who have especially distinguished them- selves by bravery with the idea of learning something of the psychology which counts so heavily in the stress of fighting. Between the men who have gained the V.C. by fighting Zeppelins in the air and the simple boy hero of H. M. S. Chester, who, although badly wounded, and sur- rounded by dead and dying men, re- xnained standing by his gun "in case he might be wanted," there is a wide range of types. The V. C. reaches no one merely because he happened to be of distinguished family; indeed, in this war most of the awards have gone to men of humble station. Two of them began life so doubtfully that they "completed their education" under the enforced discipline of refor- matories and industrial schools. Others were quiet -living working- class folk before the war. Heroes are Sportsmen. But it is curious to note that near- ly all of thent seem to have had a SCO of the English love of games in their natures—the games in which 'they learned to be fenrless of physi- cal jaiiken and careful only for the achievementseof what they had in view. Take the case of Private James Miller, V.C., of the Royal Lancashire Regiment, of whom it is said: "He was a great believer in keeping cool. They called him a plodder, and when he eelayed football he suffered from "lack of devil." Once he gave a good hiding to a bigger fellow who had fouled him four times very badly. He was a silent man and there was nothing in his life to suggest that he was anything more than a very re- spectable, hard-working paper -mill laborer." But this is what he did: "Ordered to take an important mes- sage under heavy shell and rifle fire and bring back a reply at all costs, he succeeded in spite of a gaping wound in his abdomen, which he compressed with his hand, and falling dead at the feet of the officer to whom he deliver - id the message." One of the new V.C.'s, Private Veale, of the Devonshire Regiment, once earned a reward for valor in civil life. On the battlefield, Veale coolly went out to a wounded officer, who was lying hi growing corn within fifty yards of the enemy, dragged him to a shell hole, went back for water, returned, went back again and brought assistance, and after several attempts covered an approaching en- emy patrol with a Lewis gun and sav- ed the officer. • Other V.C.'s. When King George was at the front reeently, Private Thomas Turnbull, of the Worcester Regiment, was called out of the trenches to be spoken to by the King. Writing home to his mother he said, subsequently: "I can- not- tell what passed, I trembled all' over." A few days later in the middle of fierce fighting he remelted with his wounded offieer for three hours under continuous fire from machine guns and bombs, and, although at one time completely cut off, he held his groeind and finally carried the officer into the British lines. He was a painter and paperhanger by trade, and an enthusiastic cyclist. A young Yorkshire man named Donald Simpson Bell was a school- teacher at Harrogate, and a footballer. He was a leader of young men in the Harrogate district at school, and in the army it was the same, Ile was just a big bay in his play and in his relations to other e outside his work. During an attack, in a heavy enfilade •fire, he crept up a communication trench, followed by tveo men, rushed across the open under heavy fire, shet the machine gunner, destroyed the gun and personnel with bombe, saving tally lives and insuring the euecess of the attack, For this he got the V.C, He lost his life Ave days later in a alanilar act el brevery. z THE LOWER DA,NUOE., Beautiful River 'Mighty Barrier Be- tween Nations, "Fighting in the Dobruja" would mean more to most of us if we had a more definite mental picture 'of the lower Part oa the Dannbe River. For a good part of its aeurse below Bel- grade R forms the boundary line be- tween kingdoms. It washes the shores of five countries—HunggrYi • Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Rustle, --because its waters constitute a na- tural barrier. Its wide channel and difficult banks have again and again made it impossible to nations at war. • At C r ia.voda, where stands the only bridge below Belgrade, both shores belong to Rumania; but once the bridge is rendered. useless the river becomes as baffling a military pro- blem le it was old, At Cernavoda the river flows in two channels, one eight hundred and fifty yards wide, the other five hundred. Between them lie eight miles of swaznp, with here and (here a village on an oasis of solid ground. It is no wonder that, although General Mack- ensen penetrated into the Dobruja, he did not succeed in getting his army across the river. • But although the Danube has always acted as a mighty barrier between na- tions, it has of course served to unite ; them in the irresistible ties of com- merce. Up and down that highway, from the Bieck Sea to Bavaria, the nations of Europe have sent their • trade ' ' g volume. The • mouth oa, the Danube is a delta, a marshy area a thousand square miles , in extent, and the deepest of the three : principal channels, the Sulina, was originally at few points more than • nine feet in depth. To that miser- • able channel, twisting inland through wreck -strewn sand banks from an open seaboard, were coming by the middle of the nineteenth century trad- • ing vessels at the rate of two thou- sand a year. Even in the best weae • ther, three fourths of them were oblig- ed to land most of their cargoes front , lighters. Such was the state of things in 1856, • when the powers met in Paris to set- tle the map of Europe after the Crimean War. One of the best pro- visions of the treaty was the one that organized the European. Commission of the Danube, composed of repre- sentatives of Austria, France, Russia, Great Britain, Prussia, Sardinia and . Turkey. That commission, continu- ed ever since by the addition of new ! members as death made additions necessary, has straightened and short- ened the Sulhia channel by cutting numerous canals, and has deepened • it as far as Braila, a hundred miles inland, to twenty feet. • Thus, Europe has recognized its common interest and its common rights in the great waterway; and the volinne of commerce from the seven kingdoms along its 1750 miles has justified the half century of interna- tional cooperation. But now all that is as if it had never been. The com- mission vanishes, the world trade stops, and. the Danube again resumes its age-old function as a line of de- fense against the invader.—Youth's Companion. SIR HARRY LAUDER. Famous Comedian on New Year's Honor .List The way the world rewards those who make it laugh is seen' in the an- nouncement that Harry Lauder for his irrestible waggery and its pro- ceeds, largely contributed to war re- lief, if. set down on the King's list for a title at New Year's. Kipling has told us that a band is the first aid to the recruiting officer. Harry Lauder made $100,000 of good money go to work to keep an orchestra of pipers in motion, attracting volunteers, as well as to pay for hospital supplies and trained hands in the ministry of relief. Moreover, the profit of many concerts has recently been given by the minstrel to the war-ehest. He still has money enough left, it is true. But though the King's jester went out of • business centuries ago and "hobby -horse is forgot," the popular humorist is welcome to toast his toes, figuratively at least, by any fireside. With so much that is depressing, near and far, good fun never soared so high above par value. Those men who fight, to whom Lauder has ministered in person and by proxy, set all the rest of us an example of heroic good cheer. With the best reason to repine they are the last to complain. The extrem- ity of suffering has hid a splendid courage of the hospital ward not to be less. extolled than bravery tinder fire in the field. He Obeyed Orders. The class was seated ready for re- citation when a young student rushed in and dropped a great pile of books on the floor. The nervous professor jumped up and said aegrily: "Young man, go down to the Pre- sident's office and drop those books just like that." - The youth departed, returning in a few moments, and calmly taking his eeat in the class. "Did you do its X told you?" dee Mended the ilrate professor, "Yes, sir!! "What did the President say'?" "Nothing," coolly returned • the student. "He wasn't there." "We teach the baby to balk fireb," said the grandfather. "Then we teael it to hold its tongue." the blowing up, by the Ituaohins, of a 'railway bridge near alyslowitza in the extreme south-east part of Ger- many, where the • German, Russian, 'and Austrian frontiers meet While the first shots were exchanged be- tween Russian and German frontier patrols at Prostken, two or 'three hours prior to the actual declaration of war. Belt the German, . . BEGINNING OF SOME GREAT WARS SEARCHING THROUGH HISTORY t FOR THE CAUSES. Glencoe, in Natal, on Oetober 20th, Nineteen years and a few weeke previously began the first Boer War, The 94th Regiment" was proceed4ng, all unconscious of danger, towards Bronker's Sprait, the men in colunme of fours, with the band playing a merry tune, when a party of armed Boers suddenly barred their passage, ordering eh + 1 a —ern to .ay sewn their arms, Naturally, they. declined to do any- thing of the sort, but before a.they Some Had Dramatic Openings, Others could get at their ammunition pouches, Had Very Tame before they could unsling their rifles even, one half of the regiment was Sterts. Thera is a claims similarity be, tween the begitiliing of the present gi- gentle armed conflict and the France - Prussian War of 1870, says London Answers. a In the War now . being raged, the first overt act 02 hostility consisted in Similarily, the first overt apt a war in the Franco-Prussian conflict was the blowing up of the bridge of Kehl; followed shortly afterwards by a frontier iacident like that of Prost - ken, when a 'German officer Was shot dead. More dramatic, and far more ter- rible, was the opening of the Russo- Japanese war of 1904. On the stroke of midnight on February 8th, two days before war was declared, the Japan- ese Fleet attacked the Russian Fleet, which was lying outside Port Arthur, and torpedoed two battleships and an armored cruiser, and this action was follbwed immediately by other simi- lar attacks at Chemulpo and else- where, several other Russian war- ships being sunk, with great loss of life., Russia complained bitterly. of the "treachery" of the Japanese in thus attacking her before war had been formally declared; but, as a matter of fact, such attacks have become the .commonplaces of modern warfare. Directly the curtain rose on the Russo-Turkish Wer of 1877, a tragedy was enacted on the Danube that rivet- ed the attention of all Europe, partly because it was so wholly unexpected, and partly because it furnished the first instance of the employment of torpedoes in a European conflict. A Turkish warship, the LuftieDjelia pat- rolling the river, was blown up by one of those terrible engines, and all those on board perished. Front Rocky Fastness. • The war of the Balkan League against Turkey was begun in a dra- matic manner by little Montenegro on October 8th, 1912, the war -like moun- taineers swooping down suddenly from their rocky fastnesses, and an- nihilating a body of Turkish cavalry, lock, stock and barrel. "No prison- ers were taken," reported the Monte- negrin General Vukovich, in a laconic despatch. As a sort of counterblast to the series of drama.tic openings set forth above, may be cited the first act of the great civil war between the Northern and Southern States of America. This was of the tamest possible character, although the struggle was destined ultimately to develop into one of the most fearful recorded in history. Above Fort Sumter, near Charlestown, floated the Stars and Stripes of the United States. Major Anderson, the officer in command, was ordered by a rebel force of Southern- ers to haul it down, and meekly obey- ed. . No blood was shed, na a shot fired. Nevertheless, within a few hours of the news being made known, the tramp of armed men resounded from Maine to California, three thousand miles across a continent. Whilst Unprepared. The premier net of hostility in the last Boer- War consisted in the cap- ture of a British armored trainwith two guns at Kraaipan, forty miles sauth of Mafeking. Here, also, as at Sumpter, no blood was shed and zio lives lost; but three days later, on October 15th, 1899, two British' ir- regulars were ldlIed outside Mafeking itself during a sortie. The first regu- lar battle of the war was aought at laid low by volleys from the conceal- ed enexny, and the unwounded • rem- nant had no option but to surrender at diseretioa. WAR PROSPERS NORWAY, , Much Money Pouring hi Through Wer • Trade. In the principal hotel at Chriatiania, Norway, each evening now •yea. will fidt1 majorityf peopletaking champagne 'with their dinner; though it is obvious that the drink is an un- accustomed one, sags the London Chronicle. In another quarter of the town you May see a string of people of modest circumstances .at an official bureau getting tickets for .cheap bread and cheap fuel, That gives.- a , hint of the eeonomic position of Nor- way. An enormous aniount of new money is pouring into the country through war trade, and is enriching certain circles, and at the same tiine the tretnendonsly high prices for com- modities are pressing heavily on classes Who are on fixed wages fixed salaries, • or fixed pensiens. wages, as a whole is far richer by the war, but the new money has not percolated down to every class and. every indi- vidual. In parenthesis it may be add- ed that many of those who feel the! pinch jump to the conclusion that ite is our blockade which is causing thern! annoyance and inconvenience, Speak- I iag generally, however, I think there can be no doubt that a very large ma- jority of the. Norwegians are better off and not worse off through the war. A general survey of the occupations of the country give a guiding line. There are about two and a half mil- lion people in Norway, of which agri- culture claims nearly a million and the fishing and shipping industries over 200,000. These are, so to speak, war industries, and must be making big extra profits. Apart from these I the wage-earners number nearlya million. Some of these are getting extra money equivalent to the rise in prices, and some are not, but as there is no unemployment and everydne can • t wants ox is able to do it the deficiency in wages is sure to incline towards a rectification. With regard to these wage earners NO. THRILL AT ATROCITIES. 1Frequ, any of Hun Frightfulness Dulls Resentment. I That the world ie hearing; if. not ex, actly with indifference, at least with- out very vehenfently expressed indig, • nation, about the -present expatria- itions of Belgians, ean be explained ! only under the psychological law that 'any stimulus, when too' often and too llong applied, ceases to produce either I nervous or mascular response, eavs ; the ,New York Times, - What is in pewees is nothing less than the eeduction to literal, unmiti- gated slavery, not of, an uncouth and inferior race, but of a people both civ- ilized and courageous andlacking only the numbers that alone, he a war like thia one, make military •prowess ef- fective.. Such things have. been done in the past, and not infrequently, but it was in the remote past, and a re- turn to the ancient practice had ems - ed long since to be considered a possi- bility. But now the old ruthlessness i revived. In a way, the removal of. the Bel - glen workers to Germany, where each , will release from civil employment a man to increase the Kaiser's armies, is an atrocity worse than those that I marked the original violation of Bel- gium's neutrality. The horrors of mas- sacre and murder, are missing in this later exemplification of "military ne- cessity," but the cruelty is greater, the agonies are more prolonged, and the violation of intetnational law is not less. The excuse given for it—a fear Jest the Belgian artisans lose their skill through idleness and be- come demoralized through the accept- ! , ince of charity—are so obviously in - .valid, and the real reason is so ape , parent, that only the callousness ac- quired through hearing for two years of one like proceeding after another accounts for the comparative calm- ness with which the world learns of these removals. Protests, indeed, are made here and there, and, as always, the voice of Cardinal Mercier is heard in bold de- nunciation of the oppressors and ex- ploiters of his land, but there is no general excitement and still less of expectation that tte protests will be effective. It passes as merely another addition to an already endless list, and'the difference it mikes in the full score is hardly appreciable. e enormous sum of $250,000,000 has been raised in the British Empire for charities growing out of the world confl" • Of this amount more than $100,000,- 000 has been contributed .for•the re- lief of distress and the re-establish- ment of men returning to civil •life. The Prince of Wales Fund. is perhaps the greatest of the public charities dealing with distress. About $60,000,- 000, however, has been raised in fac- tories, banks, offices and various busi- ness establishments through weekly contributions for the assistance of families .and dependents of •employes who have.,gone to the front. Part of such funds is, of course,, being reserv- ed for relief work after the wee. For sick and wounded soldiers and sailors the contributions are estimated at $30,000,000, most of which has been raised and administered by the British Red Cross. • Another' $30,000,000 has been spent for soldiers' "comforts , " such as tobacco, mufflers, pipes, socks, mittens, gloves, sweaters, safety ra- zors, insect powder, needles, sewing i cotton, writing materials, chocolates and sweets. It is estimated that fully, $50,000,- 000, contributed in the Empire, has gone for relief work among the allies, the largest amount going to Belgium. Relief among the Belgian refugees in Great Britain also has called for large expenditures. TRAIN WOMEN CARPENTERS. To Build Army Huts in France on • Government Contract Work. • 1 1 1 1 it must be .remembered that apart1 from commercial activities due direct- ly to the war there are enormous in -1 dustrial developments in Norway. A portion of the war profits has gone towards x ension 02 waterfall power for electricity., and this must pit:wide an increasing demand for le- bor. The trade unionists, numbering 80,000, have secured advances, though not suffcient to meet the deficiency. Still, there are many wage-earners who are sharing inathe war profits. HUGE DEMAND FOR LEATHER. Difficulties ,Experienced in Supplying Boots to Allied Arrnies • • The Government's demand for leather is enormous. There is a great- er shortage of leather than the Gov- ernment anticipated, says London Tit - Bits. Between September 30 and No- vember 15 they required a further 9,- 000,000 feet of upper leather for the Cossacks Also they required 7,000,000 feet for ankle boots for the British army,. thee° boots to be delivered be- tween October 1 and lagcember 30. Sole leather is equally a eerious pro7 enesition. The Russian Government have given the English Government a,n order and are prepared to take up to 40,000,000 feet of upper leather for shipment between now and the middle of November. These figures are far away the biggest, and fairly put any- thing that has eveiabeen heard of be- fore in the shade for such a short de- livery period. This means that there may practically be no civilian leather available in a very short time, it be- ing the Government's intention to put a toothcomb through the market and take everything they can use, whether it is suitable or unsuitable. y • - flis Bit. Small Boy--"Wbat did you do in the great wart daddy?" -"I was one of the jurymen at at inquest on a Zeppelin crew." 4,oeao., :en ahne WAR CHARITY MILLIONS. Enormous Sums Raised in British Em- pire for Relief Purposes. Estimates compteeetedd for the firat two years of the war show that the Nuinhees of women are now being trained as carpenters to assist in Brit- ish Government contract work. A re- presentative of Government contract- ors has just secured temporary ex- emption at the local Tribunal, Lon- don, for an employe who, he Said, was engaged in instructing women in car- pentry. The Government, he said, had given him permission to send to f France as many women carpenters as he could get, 'and he hoped to train two or three hueclred. They had made a start, he 'added, with four women, and 15 others were due to begin at once, having, been se- cured through the Labor Exchanges. They were hoping to train the women in such work as' the construction of hats. In France many women— French and Belgian—were satisfac- torily undertaking such work. GERMANS'ARE From the Middle WesI CONSERVINGF000 BETWEEN ONTARIO A.NB BRie • TISH COLUMBIA. HAVE ENouGri TO PROVIDE FOR ACTUAL NEEDS. • (terns From Provinces Where Nan/ Ontario aeoys and Girls Are An American Journalist Finds Sup- • Living. plies in Germany Are Regina plata to open a bakery and , Sufficient. a ,coel yard to reduce the high cost The following article appears b. the New York World, written by Herbert Bayard Swolte, the World's special staff observer, who recently returner from Germany; a Germany is not .starving, and she does not intend to starve. She is fur- ther away from that danger point to- day than she has been since the Brit- ish blockade tightened about her. Her food supplies are not varied and they are not abundant, but she has enough to provide for actualneeds and still leave a margin of reserve. Nor is the empire s)rffering from a Serious leek' of the necessaries of life apart from food, such as clothing, housing materials paper, Chemicals, coal, wood and the other essentials of everyday existence. Many things that make for comfort are not to .be had, but while their presence might tend to make life 'pleasanter, ' their, absence does not threaten its continu- ance. • Through the marvellous organiza- tion that has been perfected hi all of Germany, her supplies have been reservoired and regulated in such ,manner as to insure sufficient, equit- able and level -priced distribution, and through the remarkable success of her scientists, substitutes have been found for man Y of the articles cut off by Britain from her markets. But for man -power, with all her guns and other engines, she has yet to find a substitute. Live on System. Everyone in Germany, from the highest to the lowest, lives by a system instituted by the Government and carried out with fidelity. Every- one lives by cards that regulate the supply of foods and clothing—every- one but the soldiers in the fields and the invalids in the hospitals. They are given the best to be had, with no other limitation than that imposed by the supply. • Germany's preparation in the way of conserving her supplies is not a preparation for to -day, to -morrow or next week; it is a -successful prepara- tion for conditions that may extend over five, ten or even twenty years; in fact, for an indefinite period. Harvests Are Poor. • The rations to -day allotted in Ger- many are bated upon the crop and produce of 1915—the worst harvests the empire had had in twenty years -1 d the 1 t is based total less than the actual total of that lean year. So it will be seen that even the worst harvest, if re- peated, would still leave a small mar -i gin for reserve. 1 Rich and poor fare alike. All get, the me quantity and get it at the I same time and at the same price. 1 The head of the Department of War Food Supply announced that 1 the average increase in the cost of living between now and the beginning of the war ranged between 60 and 75 per cent. Foods That Are Scarce. From my personal experiences in Germany I discovered that the great- est scarcity existed in the supplies of butter, eggs, cheese, sugar, cocoa . and chocolate,' fats, oils, pork, coffee, tea, fruits such as oranges, lemons and bananas. Vegetables are to be had in plenty, and so are fruits of the sort that ' Germany raises or that she can drawl from her southern allies. Every great staple of life is to be obtained only by a card. One must.I have cards for bread, butter, meat„ fruits, potatoes, fats, sugar, and re- ' cently the system has been extended I to include milk, cream, and eggs. I One may have meat only five times , a week, butter or fats only twice al week, and about the beginning of , October the empire had gone on a one -egg -a -person -per -week basis. Table of' Prices. For the purpose of getting an ac- curate price list of food staples in Berlin to -day,' I had the prices in the varibus qualities averaged. The table allows: Milk, per quait, 8c; rich milk, per quart, 20c; cocoa, per pound, $2; tea, per pound, $2; coffee, per pound, $1; rice, per pound, 121/2c; beet sugar, per pound, 8c; oatmeal, per pound, Ge; salt, per pound, 5c; cheese, per pound, (*); sausage, per pound, (*); eggs, each, lOtac; jams, per • pound, 42c; butter, per pound, 39c. noodles, per pound, 35c; bread, per pound loaf, 9c; veal, per pound, 85c; rum'p steak, per pound, 72c; poric, per pound, (*); ham, per pound, $1.75; 6 2 Must Have Permit to Travel. e No one will henceforth be alioared to go feem the United laingdoen to Spain, Portugal or South ,Ae erica without special permit': eecordira to an announceenent of the British For- eign Office. , Unnecessary inform effort . .."Are you advancing in her ffec- tions?" "Oh, yes! Last nightshe said I was nothing to her whabever; the night before, she said r wag ti,egs than nothing." - a.cort, per pound, $L75; potatees, er pound, laac; white cabbage, per mind, 5c; red cabbage, per pound, e; cauliflower, per head, 250; kohl- abi, per pound, 3e; turnips, per ound, 5e; beans) per pound, 15e; este, per pound, 60c; herring, each, 5e; apples, per pound, 15c; pears, •er poend, 30e; flour, per pound, 11c; /lions, per pouna,, 8e; muttoe, per t ound, 65c; eliieken, per pound, 75c; 't oose, per pound, 90c, *No quotation. of living. The Moose Jaw Branch of Can- adian Red Cross Society has 160 merithox's, Threshing in • eeveral districts of • Saskatchewan, has been stopped by, ' snowstorms. • The Trade Unionists of Saskatooei-Atad eare it favor a a woman on the School' Board, At least one n'omaawill he in the field as a candidate for the Moose 4Jaw School 13ourd. L. E. Martin, of Carnrose'boasts of having killed a coyote by running over it with an auto. Frank Pink, of Qu'Appelle, Sask., . was killed by a train while running a hand car into a shed. Dr. C. N. Bell, secretary of the Winnipeg Grain. Exchange, for the last 30 years, has resigned. Wainwright ratepayers voted FA favor of the establishment eafn an • electric light system in the town. . The nineteen -year-old • son of pat • Bowden, Rimbey, Alta., rest his arm in a threshing machine accident. The Boy threshing of Calgary raised the sum of $624.40 for the Bri'i Red Cross society on their annual te day. Driver Shirley, Cardstore of 1 h 78th Battery, was sentenced to 12 months in jaail for attemptededeser- . tion Y.IVI.C.A., Regina, collected $5,500, and 367 new mexnbers have been en- rolled as a result of a recent canvnss. 1 Ice is floating down the Saskatche- wan River in considerable quantityas a result of the increasingly eold nights. , Seventy-tw-o convictions were .ce- cured during the month of October for violations of the liquor act in Alberta. R. A. Burrows' "Red Barn" at Karnsack, Sask., was destroyed by fire and many horses were burned recently. THE WILD HUNTERS. Stirring Scene Witnessed in the Heart of Africa. There is always something appeal- ing in the companionship of man and dog. In a recent number of Outing, Mr. Stewart Edward White tells the story of a stirring hunt that he once witnessed in the heart of Africa, the leading characters in which were a black dog and a naked savage: At four o'clock Cuninghame and got our chairs out in the shade un- limbered our glasses, and amusedour- selves by scanning the plain -below. Some topi and a single wildebeest were grazing about five hundred yards below. Suddenly they ail scat- tered off at a great speed. "Wonder what started them?" said Cunninghamea - Then we saw a black dog about the size of a pointer. Paying no atten- tion to the topi, he took after the wildebeest. The latter loped easily, but the dog fairly had to scratch gravel to hold his own. It looked like a -sure thing fa, the wildebeest, but . the dog hung to it. Farther and far- ther they went until they became mere specks, and we had to take toaenj our glasses. About two miles away -7"rf the wildebeest dodged and .doubled, then ran through -a herd. The clog never lost sight of the one he was af- ter, and paid no attention to the rest. At last the animal turned at • bay, making short lunges and charges, which the dog dodged,/ trying to get in at the beast's hind quarters. Now, for the first time we noticed a savage running like smoke -across the are of the circle the chase had • taken. He was stark naked, a splen- did figure of a man, and carried noth- ing but a bow and arrows. How he could run! We saw him stop and -dis- charge arrows, although it was .o far away to see them, The wildeb hesitated, and we saw the little speck of a dog leap for his, th. t. They both went down in a heap; and Cunningham° and I stood up aed cheered, although we were two mites away and could see nothing without the glasses. • When we sat down again it 11,T• over. The dog was sitting by the c cass, and the savage was headed ie.. a lone bush to get materials with which to cover his prize for the night": When the meat was "bushed," he and the dog started soberly for home, The chase 'had lasted just forty-two min- utes. MO). Why They Are Called "Tanks." The origin of the word tank is itself interesting enough. When the construction of these aemored • cars was first undertaken the utmost se- creey was enjoined on the officers cone strueting them. It was, however, found neccesa.ey to give a name to, the neve department, and this, for pur- poses of putting everybody. off the scent, was described as the "tanks" department," As a consequence, when he now arniored Oats went out, they vont out as tanks, arid the name took l'Ire,y of the "Tommies" and of ean eonnected with them.