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The Brussels Post, 1915-7-15, Page 3Young Folks Magic. Bright Eyes is a fairy who finds play in almost everything, You see, little pebbles, leaves and twigs will provide many good times, if only you know the magic that changes then into other things. When Slight Eyes goes outdoors, instead of seeing walks, roads, and gravel paths, Bright lyes sees a "zoo," On a sandy beach she finds animalsin the queer stones and in the funny, fat pebbles. When Bright Eyes .sees a long, humpy -lumpy stone, she says, "Oh, there is a hippopotamus!"It does. not look like 'a hippopotamus, but Bright Eyee puts it into her pocket or carries it in her hand, for of course it is not a very big stone. 'When she gets home, she puts the stone into water and washes it clean. Then, when the stone is dry, Bright Eyes takea her crayons and marks off ears where ears should be and legs where legs should be, and tail where a tail should be, and eyes where eyes should be. In that way Bright Eyes found an animal in that stone. Stones are of so many shapes that it is easy to discover every kind of animal. In the yard there may be , a real jungle or a zoo. In little stones Bright Eyes finds little animals; in big stones Bright Eyes finds ele- phants; and in the tall stones she finds giraffes. There are other kinds of play that Bright Eyes enjoys when she goes to walk. She looks at the leaves. Of some leaves she makes dolls, or Brownie fairies. Bright Eyes picks up a maple leaf and a little stick. In the maple leaf she makes two holes with the little stick. Those are eyes. Next she makes a hole for a nose; then a longer opening for a mouth; and then she can plainly see Brownie Leaf Fairy laughing. On very warm days Bright Eyes sometimes sits on the porch with her scissors and a big bunch of leaves, and cuts funny Brownie Leaf Fairy faces of many kinds. She takes a lit- tle twig and runs it through a fairy face and another leaf, so that it gives the Leaf Fairy a dress and a pair of arms. Another thing that Bright Eyes sees when she goes out to walk is the fun that lies in twigs. In summer the tiny twigs are all covered with leaves; but the leaves can be strip- ped off, and then the twigs hold ever so many surprises. Of course, in autumn and winter the leaves will not need to be taken off in order to make a twig play. They will show some of their play secrets to anyone who will look carefully. Bright Eyes can find all the letters of the alphabet growing on trees and bushes. When she goes to walk, she gathers a big bunch of twigs from different kinds of shrubs and trees and takes them home. She strips off the leaves, if there are any; she places a newspaper on the floor and snips her little twigs into different lengths. Soon the letter L appears; then the letter le shows where two forks of the twig come one above the other. C is a curved twig, and G is another. She combines other twige to make A. B. D. H, and many other letters. The letters 0 and Q are the hardest to find. You can play the twig game either indoors or out on the porch. If the letters are good, Bright Eyes takes some squares of cardboard, all of the same size, and sews her alphabet to the cardboard with raffia or with bright wool. That, too, is fun for in- doors That is the magic that Bright Eyes has applied to simple outdoor, things; it is realmagic that can turn almost anything into happy play, and 'eau find happiness in little things by the roadside, like pebbles, leaves, and twigs.—Youth's Companion. .14 Shooting Civilians. According to the laws of war, any civilian who is found with arms in his possession is liable to be shot Without mercy. Although this seems a very severe rule, it is absolutely necessary for the safeguarding of the whole civil population. The rules of war say that no men will be recog- , nized as combatants unless they wore a distinguishing badge, which can be easily recognized. If it were not for this,any number of men could at any time band themselves together and say they were belligerents. If this were allowed, therefore, invading troops would safeguard themselves against surprises by killing every man in villages through which they marched. • What She Had, She'd Hold. It was the happiest moment of their lives. He had just proposed, and she had grab—er—accepted him. Then he took a tiny loather case from his pocket and slipped a spark- ling circlet on her finger, while she beamed with pride. "I'm afraid it's rather loose, dart- Ing," he murmured. "Shall I take it back and have it made, smaller?" The damsel shook her head decided- ly. "No, Rupert;.' she said calmly. "An engagement -ring le an engagement - ring, even if l have to wear it round my neck." Don't call a man a fool -he may be foolish enough to fight A loafer never alle,vs himself to get out ,'1f priietice. WHY YOUNG GIRLS GROW PALE AND WEAK The Ahad Supply is Delioient and Unless the Trouble is Remedied Consumptions lag Follow. When ! girls grow weals, pale and miserable, then is the time for par - tents to -take prompt steps, DOLLY' means danger—perhaps consumption. The girl in her teens cannot develop into a happy, robust woman without an abundant supply of rich, red blood ii her veins. It is the lack of this good blood that is the great trouble with nine girls out of every ten. They grow weak and depressed; lose their appetite, are breathless after the slightest exertion, and suffer from headaches and backaches, When girls are in this condition there is no medicine can compare with Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills.. In the use of these Pills there is splendid vigorous health, with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes, for every unhappy fragile girl who is, struggling on to womanhood in a wretched state of health. This ie why thousands of girls and women, now robust and at- tractive, are constantly recommend- ing Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to their suffering sex. Miss Edith Brousseau, Savona, B.C., says: "At the age of fourteen I became very anaemic. I was as pale as a ghost, suffered from headaches, severe palpitation of the heart at the slightest exertion. I had little or no appetite, and. seemed to be drifting into a decline. I was at- tending high school in Vancouver at the time, and the doctor advised me to atop. I did so and took his treat- ment for some time, but it did not help me, in the least. Upon the ad- vice of a friend I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and in a very short time they gaveme back com- plete health and enabled me to re- sume my studies. I have enjoyed the best of health since, and owe it all to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." These Pills are sold by all medicine dealers or may be had, by mail, post paid, at 60 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE GERMANS TORTURED A SCOUT CUT ONE EAR OFF WITH HOS- PITAL SCISSORS. Heard and Recorded by the Famous Correspondent, H. Hamilton Fyfe. When we came into the hospital ward a throng of soldiers in dressing- gowns was gathered round a bed on which sat a pleasant -faced fellow with his 'head in bandages telling them a story. They fell away with courteous movement to give us room. We saw that the pleasant face and the bandaged head belonged to a young man, who looked older, the Russian peasant Corporal Porfiro Panasuk, who as long as he lives will bear marks of torture and will bear witness also to the savagery, with which Germans wage war. When I read the first account of it I said, although it apeared in an offi- cial despatch, "It is incredible," It was hard to believe that a group of ten officers could have consented to the deliberate, cold-blooded torture of a brave soldier who, true to his duty, refused to betray information -about the Russian positions. Nob until I had seen and talked. to their victim was I completely convinced. Since the beginning of the war Panasuk has been employed as a scout. He speaks Polish like a Pole, though he is a Russian. Disguised as a peasant, he has been frequently within the German lines, and has sel- dom failed, I am told, to bring back useful information._ The Germans when they caught Panasuk might have accepted his dis- guise as genuine and hanged him as a spy if they had any evidence that he had been spying. Civilian spies are liable to be hanged. But they knew he was a soldier. He was re- cognized as the man who had so often tricked them. I have told in telegrams what hap- pened after this brave fellow fell in- to the hands of an enemy patrol near the East Prussian frontier. He was deep in the .Gorman lines. His cap- tors took him to the nearest staff headquarters. 1'I was offered cigarettes, but I said I did not smoke," he told us. "They asked me if I would like a cup of coffee; I said I did not need it. Then they said that if. I liked I could be a rich man and have my own land. They would give me money if I would tell all I knew about the Russian forces and positions, T told them I knew nothing. Then the officer who was speaking to me became angry. He took me into a room where nine other officers were. Cut Ear Off. "They said that if I did not ,give them the information they would cut off my Bare and nose, then hang me up head downwards. "I eepoated that I could not tell them anything beceuso I had nothing to tell, though I could have told them a great deal. 'Then they sent for a pair of scissors such as are used in TYPES OF RUSS IAN SAILORS Tho Russian naval fighters are rath er stolid, but sturdy In physique, and smart -looking in uniform. Russian warsWps carry more men,, as a rule, than British vessels. again, one of them cut off the soft part of my: ear (the lobe). It bled all down my neck. Then, after a time, the same officer cut off another piece. around the edge of my ear. He did this several times. He also struck me in the face with his fist. He broke my nose across the bridge, which makes it stick out still He hit me on the jaw and swore at me. "At last they said I was to be lock- ed up until the m rning. They sent me with a sergeant and two men. I felt that my chance to escape had come, I struck out at tho two men. The sergeant was behind. I ran, scrambled over a fence, and found myself in the fields, Shots were fired, but it was too dark for them to see me. I ran on until I could run no more. Then I hid in a deep hole. "I stayed there for a long time—all the next day I think. Then I went on towards where I knew the Russian lines must be. It took me four days. to reach them. They gave me this medal and sent me to the headquar- ters of the Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief. He gave me an- other medal." Here he parted his hair to show us a long scar. "My ear, too?" he asked. "Yes, if the sis- ter allows." The sister herself un- wound the bandage. I saw the muti- lated ear. It was cut just as he had described. "It is healing now," she said. "Yes; it does not pain me much now," Panasuk added. "I can't hear very well with that ear, but I have the other. It might have been worse." Yes, it might have been worse for him, poor fellow. If he had not es- caped he would surely have been hanged or shot next day. The ruf- fiians had no idea of letting the tale of their infamy be told. How many more cases of torture there have been we shall never know. SAFETY IN TRAVELLING. The all -steel colonist cars built by the C.P.R. fill the bill to a nicety. On the long journey to the West, these cars have to be eating and sleeping and living rooms combined. They must have cooking conveniences, for one thing; and there is always more or less danger when several people are using the stove that accidents may happen. For that reason alone the all -steel car comes in handy, as there is absolutely nothing to burn. Well, there are the cushions on the steel seats; but they could not do much harm even if they did take fire. The seats, floor, roof, sides—every bit of the car -is of steel. The fire stoves are fixed to steel; frames. Every de- tail has been carefully thought out. The cars fill a much -felt want, being, as they are, roomy, comfortable and safe, while for three or five days the life is lived as it would be in a per- manent residence with hardly an os- cillation'to remind one that the cars are on the rails, and that they are running at the rate of 40 miles an hour. '1— Ought to be Glad. Old as the hills was the subject of their quarrel. She had been spend- ing moremoneythan he thought she ought to. "Did you spend as much as this be- fore you married me?" asked the young husband, in the thick of the fight. "Certainly I did," replied his wife, drawing herself up coldly. "Father—" "Then I'm blest," interrupted her husband—"I'm blest if I know why your father made such a fuss about me taking you from him." 'N Adapting It. "Now, boys," said the school mas- ter. "I want yon to bear in mind, that the word 'stan' at the end of a word means 'the place of.' Thus vile have Afghanistan—the place of the Afghans; also Hindustan --the place of the Hindus. Can you get another exampl j" Nobody appeared very anxious to o so until little Johnny Snaggs, the joy of his mother and the terror -of the Hats, pend proudly: "Yoe, sir; I can. Untbrellastan--- hospitale, and, after threatening me the p]aee of umbrellas," NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND MS PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supremo in the Com- mercial World. During the present war there have been 61 Victoria Crosses conferred. A serious fire in Richmond Park has destroyed eight acres of rhodo- dendrons and gorse. Owing to the war, many of the principal agricultural shows in Lan- cashire have been abandoned. Miners in the Manchester district are demanding a 20 per cent. in- crease in wages or a war bonus. Sheffield manufacturers Ere to abandon the trade term "German Silver;' end substitute the words "nickel silver." A new coal shaft 880 yards deep, has been completed at Rossington, near Doncaster, for the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company. Sir H. H. Raphael, M.P., the only millionaire serving in the ranks of the British army, has been promoted from private to corporal. - The war office has been asked by Jamaica if it will accept two or three hundred men, passage paid and medically certificated. The Queen's "Work for Women" Fund has reached a total of $772,980. Another mile of pennies has been completed and realized $1,100. The number of deaths from measles in London during two weeks recent- ly, was 243, as compared to 34 the corresponding period of last year. A hundred recruits for the Royal Air service were enrolled in Birming- ham. Flight -Lieut. Murphy said the recruits were the finest batch he had inspected. A county meeting at Dorchester unanimously decided to represent to the. War Office that a national scheme of compulsory service is immediately desirable. The operatives of various cotton mills in the Manchester district are foregoing their usual picnics this sum- mer and giving the money to local charitable funds. Capt. Vilandi, master of the Dan- ish steamer Robert, was fined $50 at Blyth on a charge of having at- tempted to take photographs as his ship- was entering the harbor. Whilst unhitching cows in a shed at Lype Farm, Charlton, near Mal- mesby, Frederick Stoneham, a boy ,of thirteen, son of Edward William Stoneham, was gored to death by one of the animals. The Treasury has agreed to loans of $75,000 to Stepney and $175,000 to Woolwich for extension of the muni- cipal electricity concern in order to meet the requirements of war con- tractors for additional power. At a conference of the National Union of Clerks at the Hotel CeciI it was announced that out of a total membership of 8,118 no fewer than 1,044 had joined the colors. In view of the fact that the Gates- head Corporation are releasing as many men as possible for the army,. they have issued a notice requesting householders and shopkeepers to do their own street sweeping. FD. 6, ISSUE 28-'15. Death. 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Every woman should use these pills regularly, because good health paye, and it's good vigorous health that comes to all who use Dr. Hamilton's Mandrake and Butternut Pills. GERMANS ARE CLOSE TO ROYALTY MANY PROMINENT TEUTONS IN GREAT BRITAIN. Many Titled Financiers in Britain are Also Germans Naturalized and Otherwise. The public rage in Great Britain against Prince Louis of Battenberg and Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein, because of their German birth, touches very close to the throne. In addition there are the Duchess of Albany and the Duchess, of Connaught, also members of the King's immediate family, who are of German blood, as well as the wife of. ex -King Manuel of Portugal, a Ho- henzollern princess, who has become an intimate friend of the King and Queen since she came to London as a bride a year and a half ago. Prince Louis of Battenberg, since his resignation as First Sea Lord, has spent most of his time out of London. Princess Louis of Batten - berg is the eldest sister of the Czar- ina of Russia and the Grand Duchess Serge, but these connections with Bri- tain's ally do not offset the fact, as far as the English people are concern- ed, that she is also the sister of Prin- cess Henry of Prussia, and of the Grand Duke of Hesse, an officer in the German army. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Hol- stein has been a naturalized British subject for thirty-nine years, but he has remained very German in his mode of life, which is now unbear- ably offensive to his former friends in England, besides which his only living son is an officer in a Prussian regiment. The eldest son gave his life to Great Britain in the Boer War, but the younger son, Prince Albert, the heir to the Duke of Schleswig- Holstein, the German Empress's bro- ther, threw in his fortunes with his father's native country, although Prince Albert was himself born in England. His sisters, Princess Vic- toria and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, have been indefa- tigable in working for the British sol- diers. A Disloyal Prince. The Duchess of Albany, who was Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a small principality under the admin- istration of Prussia; is the widow of Queen Victoria's youngest son. Her only son, Duke of Albany in Britain, is the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburk- Gotha, relinquishing the British title for the more important one of a Ger- man sovereign. He, too, is fighting for Germany, and his mother's posi- tion in England has not been made more comfortable by -his outspoken desire to see Great Britain defeated. The Duchess of Albany draws an an- nuity from the taxpayers of Britain of 30,000 a year, which is anything but pleasant to them just now. The Duchess of Connaught, a Ho- henzollern princess, and first cousin to the Emperor William, is the sister of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, who married the sister of the Em- press. Sir Ernest Cassel, King Edward's banker, who alleviated all the Ring's multitudinous financial difficulties, is only one among several German born bankers in London who are being at- tacked. Baron Bruno Scroeder, whose title is German and who has 'a son in the German army, became a British sub- ject after war was declared last Au- gust, as well as his banking partner, Julius Ritterhaussen. Sir Felix Schuster, the Governor of the Union of London and Smith's Bank and a member of the Council of India, is a native of Frankfort, while Sir Carl' Mayer, a director in the Na- tional Bank of Egypt, was born at Hamburg. Sir Max Waechter, a banker and steamship magnate, canto to London from Stettin, a Baltic Pro- vince of Germany, Sir George Albc, one of the mining magnates in Bri- tish South Africa, bails from Berlin, All have long been naturalized as Bri- tish subjects and have received titles from the Government in recognition of valuable political and financial ea - vice. 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