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The Brussels Post, 1916-12-14, Page 6ow----.--.---,—.------ [ The Passing of Peter The Quaich brawled merrily in summer sunshine in the peaceful ley of Glen Gollach; but for here there a wounded hero in khaki 1 bling down the village street and 'Sunday bulletin displayed in the w dow of the little .post office, th might have been no war within a lion miles. True, provisions w rather dearer than of yore, but G Gollach was largely self-supporti every cotter had his garden and hens and his pig, and most grew modest boll or two of oats, which ground into the staple oatmeal Andy Greig, the miller, at a price little exceeding that of pre-war da and, moreover, there was no get r quick willingly at your poor nei bor's expenee in that bonny glen. It was early August, and one ni Peter Tamson sauntered by Qualch with Tinny McTavish, Pe shouldering his old ,12 -bore, for was after a rabbit for supper, a Tinny bore his big greenheart in t dubious hope of ensnaring a str salmon. As the keepers had go to the war, Lord Peat had given p mission to these two to shoot and fi for him, with the proviso that th might retain for themselves eve fourth salmon and every tenth grou • the rest to be duly left at the "Roos for his lordship. The twain sat and watched the fi rise in the Fir Park Pool and smok krNI the firing, bad arrived on the scone, and Peter shouted to him to burry up. ' "Hao ye a bit 'tow' on ye, Tinny?" "1 hae that, Peter," gasped the as- tonished tinsmith, and shaking with flight though he was, produced the bunch of thick curd. val- Tho Germans were meanwhile nurse and ing their wounded members and eurs- ob- Peter volubly. "You damn fool, the why you did shoot us, you had not in- shoot we give you much gold for ere petrol," niI-; "Ye clamed scum, I'm nae traitor ere tae my country; an' Pm in twa minds len whether I'd no' better jeest settle ye rig, here an' now. Gold" (with ineffable his scorn), "gold, d'ye think there's a a Seotchman in the land would touch was yer dirty gold? Here, Tinny, help by me tie up the pigs an' gyne awa the but the village for twa or three stoot men ys, an' the policeman, an' we'll hae them ich 'gyled' in a twinkline" gh- "But they'll maybe harm ye, Peter," ' said Tinny, only too anxious b de- ght part. the "Harm me!" .roared Peter. "God, ter they're welcome if they can duel — he awa wi' ye." nd Tinny needed no second bidding, he and raced off down the riverside. ay I "We bleed, you pig of a Briton," ne quoth the Huns rather feebly. ere! "Pigs yersels an' ye can damn w sh bleed. I'd no trust ye wi' a baub ey Bleed till ye faint, an' syne I'll tie y ry wounds up—ye'll no die that wye. N se, doot yer maister, the De'il, has som • thing else in store for ye." Peaceful smile came over his face. gripped janeVe hands tightly in and with no further word sank d on her breast. The sun phone bravely as the sim coffin was carried to it last res a place in the little grey stone wa kirkyard by the side of the river, day the musia of the sun -k -is Queich was hulled and gentle, bees droned drowsily as the mini With throbbing heart and eyes bed med with tears pronounced the 1 solemn words of the burial sere The glen had lost its best belo man. No one would ever MI his pl —Peter had passed.—J. L, pickle Country Life. THE FAT MAN'S WATCH. Those Belonging to Heavy Men variably Gain Time. A watch is a very delicate piece machenism—far more so than t He own ple ting fled To - sed the ster est ice. ved ace in In - of he average watch -owner realizes. Fe instance, the balance -wheel vibrate at the rate of five beats to the second or 18,000 to the hour, The wonder is then, not that watches lose or gain but that so many keep such goo time as they do. Consider the jarring which al watches have to put up with. Theh wearers run jump, ride, and take al eel ee. tion of the body of the wearer is er ae bound to influence the delicate ma- c- chinery of his timekeeper. It is notorious that watches belong- ing to big, heavy-footed, weighty men e invariably gain, while those worn by e women and light-footed or quietly- - moving men usually keep good time. GERMANY HAS 4,500,000 MEN THEY ARE ABLE TO CONSERVE THEIR STRENGTH. Military Writer Says Allies Must Strain Every Nerve Next Year. The Military correspondent of London Times writes as follows the question of the man power of allies and the Central Powers: " many's wise economy of her yo contingents and her constant re amination of the medically unfit the refusal to consider the claim the 'conscientious objectors' and r of the civil seriice, her success s restoring to the colors a high pro , tion of the German wounded, the , of prisoners in factories and , farms, the forced labor of the po d lotion of the occupied territories finally the trap she has baited to ea 1 the Poles, all enable her to main • in the field units of full strength m 1 longer than any one would h WAR BRINGS NEW DISEASES ARE NOW BEING INVESTIGATED BY COMMISSIONS. Dr. Hugo Cabot Tells of "Trench Fever" and "Trench Nephritis." the The horrors of war have been aug- , on merited by two new diseases—"trench the fever" and "trench nephritis," the Ger- latter somewhat similar to Bright's ung disease—according to a report re -ex- ceived at Harvard University from and Dr. Hugo Cabot, who is in charge at t• f the flie.uounte.th Harvard Surgical Unit siso ' Both diseases are subject to investi- ation by commissions appointed by puosr;• g the British Government. Eight thousand wounded and sick pu- on soldiers cared for and only nineteen and died is the record of this unit during its three months of service at its tch tain semi -base hospital "somewhere in France," Dr. Cabot says. More Wounded Than Sick. uch ave sorts of violent exercise and the a c-• thought possible. National Discipline. the pipe of peace. "Aye, Tieny, am hopin' the Ar Sinner is geyan near the end o tether and the Grand Push wull hu they barbarian devils back tae the ain country, aye and smite them ther • By God, I'd gie me ither leg t mairch intae Berlin wi' the Allies, a . I'd make nae peace that didna inclu that mairch. Weel, weel, there's a fis risin' heed an' tail. Awa an' pit y eagle ower him, an' I'll up the th whinny brae for a rabbit an' jine y in the gloamin'." Peter limped away, and when h reached the whinny brae found rab bits scurrying in all directions. II shot two right and left, and as cart ridges were dear in these days, sho no more. He sat down and filled hi pipe. Ae he sat there reflecting o many things he felt a curious uneasi 1 To make assurance doubly sur sh Peter fired a couple of shot into th ed planes of the machine. He did not be lieve in taking any chances. He kep 431' the morning.. By so doing the spring ch an anxious eye on the riverpath f 'e the aid he sought and another on th rl captives bound. Presently he saw th le relief party running up the glen. e. Tinny and Robbie Dunn, Sandy ae Glen, and old John Ferguson, the su n' perannuated policeman who had Coins de to the glen to take the place of a h younger man taken for the war, came er dashing up and none too soon. e The bullet which shattered Peter's a wooden leg had in its course struck the stump and, tearingit open, h e had bled freely without noticing it _ during the excitement of the capture. e But now, faint from loss of blood, he _ was collapsed on the ground, and one t of the Huns had crawled to him and s seized the revolver Peter had confis- e cated with the intention of putting _ him out of action. Luckily, the aged A watch should always be wound in e will exert its strongest power during e day. When a watch is wound at night it has only a weakened spring to offer as resistance to the jars and - jolts of the daytime. I The pocket in which you keep your I watch all day averages a warmth of •77 degrees Fahrenheit. On a winter's night the temperature of the table by I your bedside will probably be from40 Ito -45. How can you possibly expect 1 so sensitive a machine as a watch to stand a sudden drop of between 30 and 40 degrees? Your motor car will not go without oil. Nor will your lawn -mower or your sewing machine. A watch, I though to some extent air -tight, also ' requires oil. At least once in t wa years you must take it to the watch- - maker's for cleaning and oiling. - No watch is completely dust -proof. , Particles of dust work in, they mix 1 with the oil, and presently begin to fact like emery -paste, and wear out the working parts When you consider that a watch ticks 432,000 times a day you can compute the gigantic nature of the task which it performs in a year, and realize how necessary are regular cleanings and oilings. The best watches of to -day made that they are proof against or- dinary magnetic influences; but the average watch will be entirely Upset if worn during a visit to a power -sta- tion, and even the magneto of an or- dinary motor car may affect its , working.- eeping, I_.---e-_-_-- BRITISH FOOD DICTATOR. Lord Faringdon Is Chairman of Com- mittee of Inquiry. The Rt. Hon. Lord Faringdon, bet- ter known as Sir Alexander IIender- son, who has been appointed chair-, man of the British commission to en- quire into the food problem, has long been known enterprising rail- way magnate. He has been chairman of the Great Central Railway for the, last 17 years, and under his guidance the officials of the Great Central Railway have acquired a reputation for keenness and business acumen which they thoroughly deserve. 1 Born in London nearly 70 years ago, his father and mpther were na- tives of Dumfries, Scotland, and after f receiving a private education he en tered the office of Messrs. Deloitte & Co., the accountants of tbe Great Western Railway. Having acquired a r thorough grounding on the commer- cial side, he went through the en- , gineering shops. Young Henderson I was destined for a brilliant career, I s and his pertinacity and unceasing s nergy soon brought him to the top 1 f the ladder of success. In 1894 he a Was elected a director of the Great i 0 entral Railway. Not only is Lord Faringdon a re- ! a arkeble organizer, but he is also a ' t ever nancier, and he greatly as- ' ne fisted in raising the large amount of tlo apital required for the London ex- , tw ension. This new route gave the ed ublic much better facilities and ad- ' gr antages when traveling up to the we idlanda and the north, I wa Lord Faringdon was made a bar- slo net at the Coronation of King Ed. her and VII., and was honored with a U cony this year. He is a keen politi- f gra an, and his Parliamentary career 1 dos tes back to 1898, when he was all eied mem er for the west division • ago Staffordshire in the Conservative end terest. Subsequently he represent- , age St, George% Remover square, um. ' reco yschiefly la South Arrierica, he is f read his elevation to the peerage. M es fee a great interests In rail. don eeiy connected with the coal ande flea ii industries of this country, HIs' Cap in Major H. G. Henderson, MP., lel usln wall -known sportsman, and is Mar. ' Beg d to a daughter/of the Earl of, Cot rnwatb, hag 4 A Chinese philosopher sage Were be Mince of wisdoni at the root of i I ree gray hair. 1 a en ness, a sort of semi -prescience tha something important—he could no tell what—was about to happen, an almost unconsciously slipped tw efresh cartridges into his gun. Al was still save for the gentle murmur of the' h and the occasjonal call of the cock grouse. He puffed away at the old clay' pipe, listening—he knew not for what. The light was failing a little. Presently he heard a whirring sound far, fee away in the t Policeman was in time, and a well t directed blow on the head nearly fin d ished the representative of Kultur. o Tinny was now despatched for a I; cart, and eventually the party reach- . ed the village, the three combatants much the worse for wear. The whole village turned out to greet the arri- val, and Peter was tenderly carried home and laid on the big bed in the kitchen, while the doctor was sum - monad to attend. Ile dressed Peter's ' wound, a nasty jagged one, and then proceeded to the police station to at- tend to the wounds of the Germans. • Peter was once more the hero of the day. Representatives of the Press came to interview all concerned, and photographs of the starwart Hi h !antler who had done so bravely ap- peared in all the illustrated papers. 1 The King graciously sent a telegram,1 which delighted Peter's heart, for he to the backbone. was a King's man and his country's I thoughthe could see over the purple hills a birdlike thing moving'•kl • "What wud airyplane be daein' here—it aanna be! By gum, it is though," for the whirring got louder and more insistent, the birdlike ob- ject became larger and more distinct. "There's something wrang wi't, he's hobbling terrible. Where on airth can he be tryin' tae gang tae? May- be's he's lost his wye. God, he could- na, surely, be a German in Glen Gollach; but fags, ye never ken what'll happen neist noodays. I'll just hide a wee an no scare him awa an' we'll see." Suiting his action to his words, he lay dowo n er some loom bushes and watched. Nearer and nearer came the aeroplane for so it was, hirpling along in a 'lame duck kind of fashion, now falling like a stone hun- • dreds of feet, then soaring a little. but it was evident that it could not •keep aloft much longer, betokening either shortage of petrol or genuine • trouble of some kind. Was it Ger- man or British? At that moment I think Peter would have given all he had to know as he lay there still aS a stone, gripping his gun fiercely in case it should be the war engine of the Hun. Down it planed; then the whirring i Ceased altogether—the engine had stopped. It must come to earth, and quite near to Peter. As it was but a j hundred feet up, he heard the guttural c, accents of the pilot, and knew it was g the hated enemy. If ever Peter curs- It ed his wooden leg he did so now. Gracefully the aeroplane glided w down and touched earth fifty yards t from where Peter sat. The pilot and lae .7 observer clambered out and began t gesticulating wildly and jabberingto eaeh other in a language which not N even Peter could mistake for any- 1 re thing but German. He now cautiously I h Vale and approached the enemy. 'When within fifteen yards of them e • they gave him, and instantly whipped out their revolvers and covered him. in But he was too quick for them and, h believing in the adage of shooting ee, first and reckoning afterwards, he wi aimed at the right arm of the taller, ly • and n well directed shot put number ea one out of action with a shattered earn antl a peppering of No, 6 shot in ag the ribs, His companion fired, but du • fired too Iow, and Petr, who recited In and fell, gurgled out "Good luck, it's My %tuner' leg," and, firing quickly, e brought clown number two with a shot p1 h..(n his left choke barrel which pierced the enemy's right hand. Peter hopped up after quickly reloading, • and handicapped thought ho was by Ms splintered wooden leg, managed to pectin both their revolvers, • By tide tune Tieny, attracted by m Days passed and weeks, and Peter's wound did not h 1. greatspecial.1 ist was sent for by Lord Peat, and • wrung his lordship's heart when he said, quietly: "There is no hoe • gan- grene has set in. He has lost so much blood that amputation higher up is impossible owing to his weakness." 1 Peter realized all this and knew his thne had come. The doctor came late one night, and Peter asked him to send the Rev.1 John MeGollach to him at once. The Rev. John came quickly and went into ; the kitchen. "Aye, weal," said Peter, in a tired voice, "it's nearin'the end noo, an', but for Janet I'm no sorry. Man, I'm ; jeest tired, tired; my puir auld body's fair worn oot. Noo ye'il see to Janet. Little Peter all no see, for he's ower n France dada'his bit; but jeest tell him frac me that his feyther, 1 Peter, died game. Man, it's queer yin' here and kennin' that in an hoor ; r twa I'll see whit ilka man must ee some day; what'll it be like up here? We talk lichtly o' the Great C White Throne, but when we come; ithin reach o' 't we wunner what m h' '11 be "These successes are due to tional discipline and complete sub dination of the interests of the dividual to those of the state. 'T militarization of the entire nation presents a remarkable achieveme By a well organized system of subs titian Germany is already able to ta for her armies two batches of half million men each and is in the con of taking a third from the nihniti wor]cs, mines, railways and other sandal national industries. "She has been able to build up 2 field divisions and cannot now safe be credited with less than 4,500,0 men in her field armies. On lines , communication, guards and resery 11, • many is taking, she cannot even now be reckoned to have less than 2,000,- 000 men. Allies Must Work Hard. The contingent, consisting of 34 physicians and surgeons and 75 nurses, was established last June at aa., its hospital, which was principally or_ under canvas, though several corru- •i- gated iron "huts" were available for he the most severe cases. The contin- gent was just in time to share in the re- nt. t work of caring for the wounded from the Somme region, which necessitate ke ed an increase of beds in the hospital : from 1,340 to 2,380. e A most striking percentage of es; inodern warfare," says the doctor, "is the high percentage of wounded es"; as compared with sick. In most for-, mer wars the proper tion of sick to Y wounded has been at least four or 2; five to one, whereas during the sum- merein this war the proportion of °I sick to wounded is one to five -six, and t es in the winter one to one and one- " half." w Proof of Effective Fire. .4g LW SILLS:11 COMPANYUISTED Tosorrro.onr. tiVirmerMi they drain. For this reason they were periods of ;relative calm durin which it was possible to carry o more or less scientific investigation into the riew problems presented b this war. 'FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Clydesdale foals sold at prices ranging up to $1,600 at the recent 1Lanarlc sale. The military authorities are hop- e ing to obtain from 250 to 300 farm g servants l3erwickshire. n One of the most prominent Fife sportsznen, Mr. David Whyte, Kirk, Y caldy, has just died after a long ill- ness. Damage estimated at over $2,000 was caused by a fire that broke out - at Foulsykos Farm, Wishaw, belong- ing to Robert Paterson. 0 Mr. Colin MacCulloch, town clerk n of, Greenock, has intimated his resig- nation to the corporation after close • on forty years' service. c Sir Robert K. Inches has intimated - that he cannot see his way clear to 5 withdraw hey resignation of the Lord t Provostship of Edinburgh. Shell Shock." source of malingering. In the mos severe cases of •shell shock' the men are deaf and dumb, show gross shalci ness and tremors, and in some in stances various grades of paralysis of arms or legs. All the symptoms are easy to counterfeit, and when it became generally known that men with so-called 'shell shock' would be sent to the base the strain proved too much for El considerable numbe of men." "One of the most interesting prob terns was the condition known shoelce more closely allied at the so-called traumatic neuroses see in civil practice than to any other condition with which we are familia! "Just as in civil life trgumati neuroses have been a cloak for de ception, so in military* operation 'shell shock' has become a poten t Clydebank Town Council is to make a revision of the employes' - war bonus system on account of the - ever-increasing cost of living. A. War Savings Association has been formed in Inverurie, and ar- rangements are being made for put- ting i he scheme into practice. Miss Waring, daughter of Lady GRASSHOPPER AND ANT. An Irish Soldier's Experience in the Boer War. It was during the Boer War that an Irish soldier in South Africa, ginger- y removing from his stew as much as e could find of a large, unwelcome rasshopper, was heard to remark, ith praiseworthy resignation to the ays of Providence: "The dhrumsticks of the baste is till in it, worse luck! But if I ate him I must, thanks be to hivin that apes the crayturs smaller than in!" "The situation broadly is that 1:1 allies are faced with the necessity . . Speaking of the character of wounds, the doctor says: "Rifle and s machine gun bullets, on account of t their steel jackets and high velocity, k of cause relatively clean wounds, and h e the same is true of shrapnel. Inter - d estingly enough, during the early hi o- Part of July, at the beginning of the ra, 'Somme drive,' we had a large pro- th e portion of machine gun bullete, due li to the fact that the German trenches w 11 were at least partially intact; were pe still in three well developed lines so ea s raimng every nerve to place- th field next year every man, gun an shell that all the countries can pr duce. "We allies are quite able to mak this effort, and to overmatch Gel many. Wt in these islands have sti between three and four million me oi military age in civil life, not count ing men over forty-one. We are i far better position than Germany t maintain the war. Our gallant do minions have still large reserves o Waring, has returned invalided Irene Salonike where she has been week- ing in the Scottish Women's Hospital. Lieut. -Gen, A. G. Hunter -Weston, K.C.B., has been electet' Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire in suc- cession to the late Col. D. F. Camp - bake Victoria Ward, an important addition to Springburn Hospital, lies been formally opened. The hospital has now accommodation for 285 1patients. The Hon. Eveline Haverfield (Lord Abinger's daughter) is commander of ' the transport section of the Scottish Women's Hospital with the Serbs in Russia. a 1 A new Highland Gii•ls' Club for Gaelic -speaking Hi bland ' I experiences "With Botha's Army,' Mr. J. P. Kay, writing recently of mplies a present-day pendant to e anecdote. He was visiting the nes of the Natal Field Artillery hen, as he records, he almost trip -1 d over a philosophic son of Erin ting his dinner. "He was Irish, and he sat upon an turned soap box and toyed with a sh of something that sounded like mp stew. There was a sudden ise that makee a -own-up sayto child, 'You should put your hand fore your mouth when you do that," d I heard rather than saw the - arranged that one regiment would en -I a Made the other. Thus a section of up O a regiment having entered a second di _ line German trench on the 6th of ca f July was literally wiped out by an no I man power. Russia has still ampl erves and will produce large !1 armies each year the war lasts. Ital . increases and improves the quantity land quality of her armies monthly !and France has been most successfu in drawing more men from civil em- ployments. She now excels in the art of accomplishing great things in the field with relatively slight losses." e enfilading machine gun fire from both a ✓ sides. Later, after the three lines be y of permanent trenches had been blot- an perphilosopher clear his mouth of me objectionable morsel. I looked und, and his pale eye closed with ine. 'Praise the saints!' he said, Thim ts have no bones into thimr " e out by the extraordinary accurate , su fire of the British heavy artillery, so 1 most of the wounds were produced by ro fragments of high explosive shells m and bombs, and were therefore rag- ged, tearing injuries, removing two or an three inches of the great bones of the thigh or lower leg and producing most hideous wounds. German Compulsion. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger quotes a Frankfort telegram to the effect that all German citizens in good health are to be summoned compute eerily to do work of national import- ance. Berlin newspapers published an urgent official appeal to the women to apply at the war factories for work. War brides are accused of leaving factories on their manlege and taking separation allowances and refusing to continue work. A pro- clamation by the general commanding the Munich district threatens that sel- fish idle pereons who refuse to take vork and forego amusements will be arced to do so in the end, SIGNALLING BY SUNLIGHT. he Method Is More Than Two Thou- sand Years Old. The heliograph, although largely uperseded by wireless telegraphy, is till largely used on the frontiers of ndia and in South Africa, where the ir is clear and signals can be seen ver long distances. Botha's men are using it, and so re his opponents, though perhaps hey seldom think this method of sig- ning by means of flashing reflec- ns of the sun's rays is more than o thousand years old, being invent - by Tacitue. The shields of soldiers, ouped in a pre -arranged manner, re ued, but, of course, the mystem very primitive and transmission w, only the simplest expressions ng possible. nder favorable conditions a holio- ph signal can be read for very long tances, seventy miles being not at uncommon; while fifteen years Major Home, on the staff of Get.; French, managed to send mess- s for niety-two miles—for long a rd. 11 ore recently this has been out- 1 el and the same officer was able to 1 quite clearly signals which were; ti hed from a distance of 180 mile. tain Sadler, of the Carablnier, g A Sin. heliograph from Compass b , talked to Major Heine the!s kacorales lVfouritaln, near Uiten. ti e—a record which remaina beaten. J. woutct e ne ae able jeest the look doon whiles on his bonny glen an' ast'body 10 't, and I c "bit kene but ' e a ooe tae dae t.1 ow, Johne I'm slippin' away, an' I le ust have a wee talk al.' Janet. Gael'', or in." Poor Janet, distraught and tearful,M ante in and knelt by the bedaide, take! o e the now white but gnarled handlw eart. "Oh, Peter, ma' man, if we el hers arid pressing it gently to her ha uld jeest take the road thegither da idna care; but, dear, Pll hae a lone - win tae dree, an aa 11 miss ye of in" in "Jaet, dinna greet, Well meet ad tiM. Sae fat as I cud, I've (leen ma til ty, and nae males expecit o' ony an. jeest wunnerin' if things Wit there'll be ony like in this bonny 0,10 en, Tae me there's nivel, been oily ace on God's airth like it the heath- rie tie er an' the hils, an' the musk o' the Quaich, an' the bit wild floowers — Janet." The grrnd old man raised himself is e ows. ITis eyes expanded in onderment. He saw at that moment ore then earthly eye could see. A. pitals for the purpose have been es-; tablished immediately behind the fir -1 ing line. During the first year of G je lax Harden Points Them Out to the German People. The Amsterdam corropondent • of he London Times writes that in a ew article in leis newspaper, Maxi- ilian Harden condemns German ef- orts to provoke peace discuesions as nsincere and useless. He argues that for Germany to say, we do not want annexation," but to eject the independence of every 'state meaningless. Moreover, the state- ent that Germany fears no tribiMal f inquiry does not mean that Ger- any is willing to submit her, case tb n impartial jury for trial of all auses of the war. Harden urges ermany to understand the real ob- cts of the Entente and says that ey are, first, to bring Germany into inc with the political sYstem of west- rn Europe and to end what the En- nte powers certainly eoneider to e a survival in Germany of belli- se feudalism; secondly, to introduce to Germany parliamentary govern - aria so that the people shall really ape something to say in the policy thee country; thirdly, the establish- ent as the central idea of German -eparation, the determination to keep eepeace and not, as hitherto, the terminntion to be ready for war; urthly, to restrict armaments in oportiorx to population; and fifthly, establish real international arbi- ation based upon such guarantees Will Insure the punishment, of the • bellious. Harden indicates that an er to endeavor to fulfil these condi- ns would find a fruitful imsponso fore Christreati. After a long interval since the sus- nsion of his journal, Theodore olff reappears in the Tageblatt, He Lrgeets connectioe between Baron rian's visit to the Chancellor and ace negotiation rumors, hilt warns readers not to over-eatimate the portance of these things, since re are few indications of any in- ation toward peace on the part of allies. the war these injuries were almost universally fatal. To -day between 40 . th and 50 per cont. of the cases operated 1- 1900 recover. .e. Steel Helmets Same 'Many. Lottie—He wore my photograph over his heart, and it stopped the bul- li "The universal use of steel hel- let. mets has much reduced the import- Totti—I'm not surprised, darling; ance of wounds in the heed. Though it would stop a clock. not an absolute protection, they either i t deflect the course of the projectile so Not at Work. as to produce only a stunning injury, or break the force of the blow with Employer —John,, Ieee wish you the production of a badly bruised or wouldn't whistle at your work. 1 devitalized wound, but often without ' Boy—I wasn't working, sir; only penetrating the skull. whistling. "Of abdominal wounds we saw: nothing in their early stages, since, is if these injuries are to be success- m fully dealt with they must be operated o upon within six hours. Special hos- • m The Stopper. gaged at munition work, has been opened in Glasgow by *Lady Helen Graham. The budget submitted at the an- nual meeting of Dumfries County. Council showed the total valuation for the county to be a net !Tierces° of over 880,000. By an extensive landslide on the Moray Firth coast railway, between Portgorclon and Buckpool, all traffic between Bucicie and Elgin was re- cently suspended According to the 34th annual report of the Fishery Board for Scotland more thazi half of the total number of Scottish fishermen are engaged in national service. Mr. David Lawson, stationmaster at Shettleston, has retired after fifty- one and a half years' service in the employment of the North British Rail- way Company. REAL OBJECTS OF ALLIES. • ),..91;e "lame Mat stands for tg_ifilitiy FarmAlezdzizzaw LISTER ENGINES ARE BRITISH BUILT u4 er "A most important part of the work / te of the unit has concerned itself with b. tha management of the dreadful co wounds of the faeo involving mouth in and jaws. This department is under m the management of Dr. Kazanjian, h whose work hag been of such a high of order that all cases of this kind in m the whole area are placed under his care. In this department probably more than any other, the Harvard unit has contributed to the efficiency of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Nearly All Wounds Infected. "Practically all wounds are infect- ed, but the most serious and import- ant of these infections is the so- called gas grangenmecaused by a gas - producing bacillua, From 80 to 00 per cent, of the wounds iofaet�d with this organism, in which, in rap- dly developing cases, the tissues bout thc wound crackle under the tigers on account of the infinite col- actions of gas under the skin. More mportant, however, are the collee.! oris of gas deep in the tissue, where spreads rapidly to the soft parts terally melting away in this neigh -1 orhood and thus producing the most; tattling and most serious complicit.' on, secondary hemorrhage " r Speaking of the work at a semi. base hospital, Dr, Cabot contines: "Work is light or heavy in very 011 eve Tope and advice nver yet satisfied direct relation to the activity of the ans hunger 614 in that section of the front h 2,3,5.76.9 H.P. Skids orTruck.. Lister Silos, Ensilage Cutters, v. Electric Light P ardsffielotte Threshers, Sprayers, Milkers, Creent Separators. THE LIS TER ""i. GRINDER., ee tap ColderaveibDepl. Cr RALI S TER E. Co. Lima tod Teen oarro Pi th de fo Pc to tr as 10 off tio ho pe /3 11 pe Ibis the elii the At nn American eating station an old colored man vras ringing a boll, and a little dog sat beside him howling dis• malty. The old man turned to him and said: "What you hollern' forl You don't have to eat here."