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The Seaforth News, 1919-03-13, Page 3BORMG ENGLISH CHANNEL TL WILL BE GREATEST ENGINEER- ING ENTERPRISE, Will Connect'the Dover -London With the Calait-Parle Ry. and, cost About $80,000,000: Already plane are being prepared' for the carrying out of one of the. greatei,t engineering enterprises ever. underte.lten by man—the boring of a tunnel to i;onuect France with Eng- land --and it will doubtlees be begun as soon as the mass of war has been cleaned up. The digging of such a tunnel ,be- neath the British Channel. -"making direct undersea communication be- tween Dover and Calais have been ad- vocated for a century. Beginnings of it were actually made a few Years ago at both ends. But the project was defeated by the fear of conservative BB"•ltisbers lest the hole under the strait be used by the French, in case of war, for an invasion of England. Of course, this was a foolish idea; for nothing could be easier in an emer- gency than to block the tunnel, or even to blow up a portion of it, ren- dering it impassable. The great war, however, has taught a lesson. If the tunnel had existed, troops and supplies could have been sent through it from England to France in an endless stream, safe from submarines or other enemy at- tack, while releasing much-needed ships for other purposes. Wounded and side soldiers would have been car- ried back by the sante route without peril from the murderous Hun. Floor of Solid Chalk. Incidentally—and by no means of least importance — England would have been wholly safe from the star- vation which the Huns hoped to in- flict upon her by the operations of their submarines. The mistake Is riot to be perpetua- ted. The tunnel is to be dug, and in accordance with plans long ago ade- quat-ly developed—though, presum- ably, with some 'modifications. If the floor of the Channel were of soft material—say, of silt, such as of- ten furnishes the make-up of river bottoms to a great depth—the engi- neering problem involved might be one of utmost difficulty. But, happily,. the fact Is quite otherwise. Currents flowing between the North Sea and the Atlantic keep the bottom of the strait scoured clean, and its floor is of solid chalk—stuff almost Imper- vious to water and easy to bore through. This chalk stratum is more than 200 feet thick. The distance from Dover to Calais is only twenty-two miles. But actual- ly the tunnel will be thirty-two miles long, connecting the Dover -London railway with the Calais -Paris railway, and thus enabling a passenger to get aboard a train in the British capital and travel direct to Paris, dismount- ing from the coach at the station in that city. Electric locomotives will do the hauling. It is estimated that not more than four years will be required to com- plete the project, digging from both ends. The total coat is reckoned at $80,- OD ,000, and the expectation is that the investment will yield at least 6 per cent. per annum, MARVELLOUS SURGERY Making Use of Toes as Fingers and Thumb. Some marvellous cases of the sur- gical art are described in the Medi-. cal Supplement, compiled by the Medical Research Committee, and is- • sued by the British War Office. In one case a soldier had his thumb shot away, and, as the hand would be almost useless without it, the surgeon substituted the man's own big toe for the lost thumb. In another similar case the thumb was replaced by the second toe. "The patients obtained in this way mov- able thumbs that .in every respect were practically useful' and natural in appearance, especially in the case of the great toe; since this was ex- ceptionally small and dexterous." Even more wonderful was the re- placement of four lost fingers by four toes. The toes were partly cut through, and the stump of the hand being attached, the periosteum (the „ fibrous tissue that covers the bones) of the •toes was sewn to that of the finger stumps. The tendons, soft parts and skin were also , sewn to- gether, and then the hand and foot were fixed in plaster of Paris. For a month the patient lay in a very uncomfortable position. At the end o!' that time the toes were completely separated from the foot, and seen after the patient had a 'useful hand. At the same time he could walk almost as well as ever "with •a strong and freely movabe great toe." When there Is no winter there can be no spring. The gloom is the gneasure of the light, --Ernest Thompson Seton. mile recorda of the Indian Head Experimental Farm show that with proper care and attention a number of kinds of bush fruits can be grown successfully on the Western prairie. land. • • ED, 7, The Weekly Eas1.2iont A neat dress with three-piece skirt and high waistline. Attractively em- broidered with soutache' braid. McCall Pattern No. 8025, Ladies' Dress. In 8 sizes, 34 to 48 bust. Price, 25 cents. Transfer Design No. 811. Price, 10 cents. Overblouses are exceptionally smart, and this one is developed in black satin and worn over an equally smart plaid pleated skirt. McCall Pattern No. 8672, Ladies' Blouse Vest. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. No. 8320, Ladies Straight Pleated Sliirt. In 6 sizes, 22 to 32 waist. Price, 20 cents each. These patterns may be obtained fora your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. 1 asgl Digested If jour usual Food. doesnt digest easihi and 'you want the satisfaction of a ready to.. eat cereal dish that will provide easily digest- ible nourish- ment t low Goat, tr eN • ar uts mess PD 10500 uCCn5! ISSUE CANADIANS I I UN � g9 f� P ".,J, N S .APALLING TALES FROM GOVERN- MENT RECORDS. Repatriated Soldiers Bring Back Ac- counts of Deliberate Brutality 'in- flicted on Dominion Soldiers. The following stories are taken from records now being compiled by the Canadian Government regarding the treatment of prisoners in German camps:— Pte. A. J. Debenham, 4th Canadians, was captured June 2nd, 1916. He was put to work at the Babcock and Wil- cocks boiler works. 'On one occasion his work did not satisfy the authori- ties, and he was ordered • to do two hours' overtime. He refused, and was attacked by a sentry with his rifle and by a abrgeant with his sheathed sword. The civilian overseer seized him'': by the throat and kicked him about the body, laying him. out. At 4.50 o'clock one Sunday morning in April, Pte. F. Ferns, of No. 2 Cana- dian Tunnelling Company, was order- ed to do the work of a German civil- ian as well as his own, and he re- fused. Two minutes afterwards he was struck on the back with a hard- wood bludgeon, the effects of which he felt Por a long time. He was put on. double shifts. He saw Imperials forced to work when they were phy- sically unfit, and one of them he saw become insane through this treat- ment. Slept .in Wet Beds. Pte. H. Fretwell, 7th Batt., said that an officer who inspected the barracks at Friedrichfeid camp complained of the condition in which they were kept, and as punishment ordered the beds to be put out in the square outside at 6 a.m. This meant rising at 4 a.m., and in bad weather the beds were soaked, and at night it meant sleeping in wet beds. Several men who had suffered from influenza died as a result. Pte. C. W. Greer, of the 75th, came from an Ontario village. At Lille the barracks in which he was imprisoned were so crowded that there was no room to lie down, and it was so cold that the men could only sleep through sheer exhaustion. There was no ven- tilation. The only light was from two dirty little windows, high up. The only sanitary convenience was a bar- rel in the corner of the room which was left unemptied for days. Rush for Bread. "My head ached most of the time 'I, was in." says Pte. Greer. "I worked on•a railroad behind the lines.for six weeks. We had to get up at four o'clock and march for two hours. We got back at 7 p.m. All the food we had was a little bit of black bread about the size of a man's fist every evening, and a mess -tin lid full of tur- nip and cabbage soup. One day I fell from exhaustion while on the' march, and was carried to the side of the road and laid upon the grass by a couple of my companions; Sometimes the French women would coffer us bread, and the, Germans would drive them offwith their rifles. Once a French woman asked if we could not stop to have some coffee, and the guard said "Nicht cafe fur schwein." The French used to leave bits of bread for us along the road, at the foot of telegraph poles, and I have seen half a dozen men break ranks and rush for a piece of bread, and the guards would follow them and hit them with all their might on the head with their rifle butts." Sick, Knocked Down. Pte. W. Harrison, 4th C.M.R., was captured on June and, 1916. The fol- lowing February he poisoned his in- dex finger and reported sick, He was told to continue work, and he refused. He was knocked down by two sen- tries, and forced to return to work. The next day he reported sick again, and 'was again knocked down. The third day he was allowed to rest in barracks. The fourth day he was taken to Dorthland Hospital, but was refused admittance by the abbot, It was seven days before he was admit- ted to another ilosopital.• Only local anaesthetics were used during the operation, which was intensely pain- ful. Paper bandages were supplied, and were changed only every four days, A sister cut the cord of his fin- ger while treating it, and laughed after doing it. The finger is now use- less. In Terrible Condition. Corp. MacCharles, M.D., 4th C.M.R. tells of the condition of the wounded who came into camp at Langensalza, from March 27th to April last. From five to six hundred came in, and their condition was terrible. Only a few— from ten to fifteen per cent—had had any kind of medical treatment.„, Some had been lying in hovels behind the lines for a month, and in many cases gangrene had set in. Their clothing and wounds- stank. "We buried on an average live or six every day," he said. "They were given no attention for two weeks, and then some Russian. Jew orderlies at- tended to them. Seventy live per cent. of them were walking cases, but they were so *eak that {ve had to help them along. They had no blank- ets." In this camp there were some two hon an. t s d Belgian civilians s whoer w e literally being starved to death. They died at the rate of about twelve a day, Their bodies were cut up by medical students, and they were piled in a common grave, stark naked. The story of a Highlander who took punishment rnthel theft pert with his kit, io.thr,t of 1'te. G."G, Sawyer, of the 18th Battalion. .0n his refusal to part with hie kilt, he was given twen- ty-eight days': conhhehhhent, ,,Re was again ordered to put on trousers, ;lend TwoW Caldwell Water Tube Boilers, 225 H.P. each, Infor- mation on request, or may be seen in operation 'at Firstbrook did another twenty-eight days for an- Bros., Ltd., 283 King St. E., other refusal, He was then told that Toronto. he was i tob dl 11 going . e _ uta ca y: ex- amined, and was ordered to strip. When he had ills clothes off, one of the gnarls snatched the kilt and threw it out of'the window. A pair of trousers was then given him. "Teo keep warm at.allo" ho says, "I had to put them .on," It Works! Try It 0 Tells howto loosen a sore, o, tender corn so it lifts out without pain. e a a 0.—Y Good news spreads rapidly and drug- gists here are kept busy dispensing freezone, the ether discovery of a Cin- cinnati man, which is said to loosen. envy corn so :it; lifts out with the fingers, Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone, which will cost very little, but is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soreness is relieved, and -soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with- out pain. It is a sticky substance ' which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin- ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou- sands of deaths annually from lock- jaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. Longest English Word. In the discussion that has been go- ing on concerning the longest word in 'the English language, the latest candidate is "antitransubstantiation- alistieelly," which easily outruns "honorificabilitudinity" and "anthro- pomorphologically." Such words, however, are more likely to have been used by an individual, as the word "antideses,babiishmenttanlanisni" is said to have been used by Archbishop Benson, than to have got permanent- ly lodged in the dictionary. We have been using ItIINARD'S LINIMENT in our home for a number of years and use no other Liniment but MINARD'S, and we can recom- mend it highly for sprains, bruises, pains or tightness of the chest, sore- ness of the throat, headache or any- thing of that sort. We will not be without it one single day, for we get a new bottle before the other Is all used. I can recommend it highly to anyone. JOHN WALKFIELD. LaHave Islands, Lunenburg' Co., N.S. A. carload of horses sold recently at Roland, Man.,' realized from $475 to $600 per team. )Unard's Liniment for eels everywhere. WESTi IN&TER ABBEY BELLS.' Celebrated Victory Over Spanish Ar- mada, and Will Ring Hun Defeat. The six old belle of Westminster Abbey are being restored and aug- mented to take part in the celebration that will follow the signing of peace.' The old belle are of great historic interest. All except the treble were cast at the old Whitechapel Bell Foun- dry—the tenor, weighing 114 tons, in 1738, the fifth la 1593, the fburth and second In 1743, and the third in 1583. The treble was cast probably at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the •fourteenth century, and must therefore have rung out to celebrate the great victory over the Spanish Ar- mada in 1588. It is interesting to note that the Whitechapel Foundry, which has been working continuously since 1570, has been entrusted 'with the restoration .work and the casting of the new bells. The connection of the old firm with the Abbey, after nearly 350 years, is thus being continued, GIRLS! !IAS WAVY, THICK GLOSSY HAS 9 FREE FROM A ORUFF Save your hair ! Double its beauty in a few moments— try this! If you care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable soft- ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it im- mediately dissolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot have nice, heavy, healthy hair if you have dand- ruff. This destructive scurf robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it pro- duces a feverishness and itching of the scalp: the hair roots famish, loosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily, get a small bottle of Knowlton's Dan- derine at any drug store or toilet counter for a few cents; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this was the best investment you ever made. We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and lots of it—no dandruff—no itching. scalp and no more falling hair—you must use Knowlton's Danderine. If eventually—why not now? "So use present pleasures that thou spoilest not future ones."—Seneca. A TRAIL ACROSS THE ROCKIES The first trip over the Simpson Pass through the Canadian Pacific Rockies was made by Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, in 1841, and formed part of the first recorded overland tour round the world, that is to say across the North American Continent, and by way of Siberia and Russia, occupying about nine months, and the 'subject of con- siderable literature, Jim Brewster, the famous guide and outfitter at Banff, discovered the fallen tree on the sum- mit of the Pass on which the travel- lers left their record. Fired by the ambition to cross this pass, I set out one day last summer, with two guides, ten ponies and camp- ing outfit and supplies for six or seven days. Jim Brewster sent these over from Banff to Invermere at the head- waters of the Columbia Valley, where I had promised to wait for them. Close to Inverniere are the remains of Kootenai House, an outpost of the Nor' West Trading Company estab- lished by David Thompson in 1808. Now there is a comfortable little tourist hotel, much appreciated by motorists who use the excellent Gov- ernment overnment road through the Upper Columbia Valley. On our 'first day's ride we stopped off for a swim at the hot radium -water springs of Sinclair Canyon, where St. John Harmsworth, brother of the famous Lord Northcliffe, and himself proprietor of the still more famous Perrier water, built a concrete bath- ing pool under the springs which pours its naturally warm water out of the rock. At night we found shelter in a homesteader's cabin, the owner of which was away at the war and hospitable enough to leave the latch loose. Next day we were in the forests of the Ifeoteney—a wonderful resort for big game, judging by the tracks we,saw and the animals we even met —two black bear and a deer on the trail with moose paths worn deep like small Devonshire lanes along the meadows beside the river. The Kootenay River had a rather bad reputation. Two parties were drowned in the attempt to make the crossing at the same time last year, and we ourselves had been warned, top ost one tri However,we P P ourp here we did not even ford w have to %wim our horses, and next day were on the banks of the Vermil- lion River. Into the Vermillion pours the raging torrent , of the Simpson, which itself is fed from the melting • glaciers of the snow -clad Rookies high above, At least one cyclone seemed to have swept down its valley, and the river itself had washed away several corners so that our trail had to be made, or found anew on many a mile. - "About seven hours of hard work brought us to the height of land, the hinge as it were between the eastern and western waters. We breakfasted on the level isthmus, which did not exceed fourteen paces in width, filling our kettles for this one lonely meal at once from the crystal sources of the Womble and the Saskatchewan, while these willing feeders of two op- posite oceans, murmuring' over their beds of mossy stones, as if to bid each other a long farewell, could hardly fail to attune our minds to the sublimity of the scene. "But between these kindred foun- tains, the common progeny of the same snow wreaths. there was this remarkable difference of temperature that the source of the Columbia showed 40 Eegrees, while that of the Saskatchewan raised the mercury to 53%z degrees, the thermometer mean- while striking as high as 71 degrees in the shade. "From the vicinity of perpetual snow, we estimated the elevation of the height of land to be seven or eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, while the surrounding peaks ap- peared to rise nearly half that alti- tude above our heads." We ourselves found ,the snow all gone and our horses found sweet and ample pasture on an Alpine meadow. As we looked back from the Great I Divide upon the mountains of the Eel - kirks, we had as fine a panorama as any artist could desire—rugged out- lines capped and fringed with perpet- ual snow.'. The fishing, I may say in passing, which one gets on such a trip, is of the very best. Every creek, every pool seems to be stocked with trout,. all inquisitive' about the nature of the fly. Brown Hackle and Gray Hackle are always deadly. The red flies such as Parmachene Belle do not seem to take so well in these waters. There were both Dolly Varden and Steel - head to our credit dit on the Simpson averaging a little overda pound. In the Kootenay the trout ran up to two and three pounds and were very game, though. shy in the middle of the day.— Where Pat Was. In a small village in Iceland . the mother of a soldier net the village priest, who asked her' if she had had bad news. "Sure. I have," she Said, "Pat has been killed." "Oh, I am sorry," said the priest "Did you receive word frpm the War Office ?" "No," she said, "I received word from himself." The priest looked perplexed, and said, "But 'how is that?" "Sure, she said, "here is the let- ter; read it f or yourself." The letter said, "Dear Mother—I am now in the l'foly Land." Active Movement in Tarts. Young Tonany returned from school in tears and nursing a black eye. 0, "I'll pay Billy Dobbs off for this in the morning!" he wailed to his mo they. No, no," she said. "You must re turn good for evil. I'll make you ,a nice jam tart, and ,you must take it to Billy and say: 'Mother says I must return good for evil, so here's a tart for you.' " Tommy demurred, but finally con- sented. The next evening he return- ed in a worse plight and sobbed: "I gave Billy the tart and told him what you said, and then he blacked my other eye, and says you're to send him another tart to -morrow." Another Reason Why They Are Unpopular. Little Robert was calling at a neighbor's house, and he seemed ver much interested in the family dog. ."Why Bobby, haven't you a dog your own?" asked his hostess. "We have one in the summer, but we have to send it away in the win- ter," he replied. "Why is that?" she asked in sur- prise °Vr ell," he answered, "it's a daclhs hand, and my father says It takes so long to go in and out of the door it cools off the whole house." I Noiseless Traffic. "Frances," said the little girl's mamma, who was entertaining in the parlor, "you came downstairs so nois fly that you could 'be heard all over the house. Now go back and come downstairs like a lady." Frances retired and after a few moments re-entered the parlor. "Did you hear me come downstairs this time, mamma?" "No, dear, I am glad yon came down quietly. Now don't ever let me have to tell' you again not to come down noisily. Now tell these ladies how you managed' to come down like a lady the second time when the first tome' you made so much noise." "The last time I slid down the ban ulster," explained Frances. World's Largest Union. The National Amalgamated Union of Great Britain, which has been formed by the fusion of the Workers Union, the National Amalgamated Union of Labor,- and the Municipal Employee' Association, claims to have more than 600,000 members and to be the largest trade union in the world. LY lot PO'OT .TRT WARTED. lit IIUT ALL KINDS LIVE, Poul... V try, pay highest prices, prompt returns, Write for prices, T, Weinrauels & Son, 10.10 St. Jean Baptiste Market. Montreal: Que, AGENTS WANTED. lPORTRAIT AGENTS WAN'r�[NG geed prints; finishing- a :specialty;. frames and everything at lowest prit:es; Quiclt. service United Art - Company: 4 Brunswick Ave:, Toronto. VOR SALE iSILL EQUIPPED NEWSPAPEE - v and gob printing plant in Eastern unterio. Insurance carried 41,500. Will zn for $1.200 on quick sale: Box 4$, Wilson Pebllnhing Co.. Ltd.. Toronto UT'REICLY NEW8PAPIOR FOR IIALSI V V in New Ontario. Owner going to France Will sell $8,000. Worth double' that amount. AaolY J. H.. ale Wilson Publishing Co.. 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