The Huron Expositor, 1916-07-07, Page 7JULY 7 1916
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:exalt '!93"
['tonic.
extpreele tette health
md scalp we will
)u.use hi the tatti.
egell"er Hair Tonic,
erays,, then if not
'mane and tell us and
mead back your money.
ale is pleasent to use,
le odor and. is sold at
t exclusively. soc. and
ioseoo Bute is realm -
rhair- ciewi, soft and
reflTecF r Woltz:Med' rr tlia Ersa
ssaultt
"It was a terrible battle from thet
ommeneement. The enemy had
riased a large ameant of heavy are
illery and -imply blew the trenehea
may, and put the supporting batter_
es out of business before they as-
4ulted. 'The division was supported
ot imperial artillery. The artillery
lombardment is said te have been ther
rorst ever. t During the night foliose-
ag_ reinforeemertts were brought mit
nd a eonnttemaattaelt made, whidh re-
overed a large portion of the groUnd
aste but some remains yet to be re -
ken. You will see the Gerinexia
//Is,' claim 1150 unweanded prisonera
nd when you compare that with the
atezaity lista whielt will have been
ublished before yGu receive this,
eu will understand how our infan-
m stood uo to their work. One bat -
Won went in 9-00 strong and 350 re-
tained after the fight.
After our troops re -00k the
rowed that had been temporarily
iat they found at one point the
odiea of a 'big sergeant -major of the
Lounted Rifies and two men of the
rincess Patricias, Around them lay
is bodies Of 12 Germans killed with
bayone before they had been
done in."
The Germans showed more decency
lam an foeuter occasions, notably
ringonon stretcher bearers. On a
ar men was wounded and captured,
ad the Wurtenburgera gave hini
an of coffee, and said to him "cheer
a, old man you will be over in Rag -
in a few days."
This probably alluded to the vain -
/various accounts then in circulation
tgarding the naval battle. However,
le wounded Canadian watched him
lance and slipped intoithe bush and
it away from his captors. He was
tught again, but again escaped and
:turned safely to our lines.
A young Ottawa boy nana.ed Bruce
ill, who cable out as gunner in ray`
Id 1st Brigade and had since got
commiseion distinguished him -
df by reraaining in his forward ob-1
adation position after the Germans
id charged past and kept up corn-
unication by telephone with his bat-
ry for several hours until the wire
as eat by shell fire. He waited until
mit and made his way back, carry -
his telephone instruraents with
m. Unfortunately net day .he was
amide a but 1 upderstand, slightly,
,s tediedted before. the prormeeta
maid fer ti busy summer, (tepee-
ve tied pert of the line.
Scientists Offer Help.
riddith the object of offering this ser -
s s 'of the Royal Society of Canada
alit!. Dominion Government for the
Mite, of ; furthering industrial
entiltie research, a strong depute --
rt cif members of that learned body
'tell upon ,ii George Foster, Min-
ce. nf Trade and Commerce, recent-
ai4 laid the proposals before him.
Tie.. suggeetion was made that a
it
k..t t'; 1 committee or conunisitdon be
eft', ted, on which the FellOws of
, :
i satiety eould act in ied advisory
alit. i
- a
adee of silver has risen so
d1yiiurin the last few month
et it di difficult to keep track et
asmal illi-V*21Z.,t, in the value of
eme never mines which the in-
--1 sellem pri a. has made. In
Onhitia's output was 23,73O-
1 iu
at imago selling price
eth ts. Silver is now seal -
le :its higher than the
for 1915< The inereased
rat if th,,n115 output had been
se itie price would be over $4,-
preimwrivamossimagnswimein..1
tacst ease owing to the
scattering of fuel and
to spare come in and ru
this splendid furnace,
sos
ry Edge
BY
AD
BL. NEAJ
Copyright, 1915," by the Sebbs-tilsr ili Co.!
miindreds of thousands of women
Maniere lavishly than in peace times,
then the husband drank or Palais-
Now he is with the cetera
iand sends borne the pay he cannot use.
landlords end creditors truly wait for
•their'money. Societies, clubs and pri-
vate people open their purses. What's
for dimier? Roast goose, apple pastry,
`unned asparagus, fresh fish, chocolate
and cake.
"Them away goes the woman to the
,stores, bargain hunting, looks in at the
*shine teller's on the way. After this
n` visit to the kinema and sees near
:Dun Dance,' 'The Guardian Spirit of
ehe Submarines, 'The Latest War
:rime, This is not an uncommon
:worainds day."
The officer enjoyed it immensely.
*XVIdently it expressed his own senti-
tweets-
I had attended all the men and was
:Pet leaving the ward when an orderly
mane to Say that Colonel S. wanted me.,
There I found half a dozen of the
Asir, including an inspector general ot
licopitals, who had just arrived, dis-
pelling the inadequacy of the first aid
Otitis:es.
Tbe worried inspector said he found
Oat in our service there was no lire,
brandy, no splints, no morphine and
Wen -very little dressings; that we
idepesided too ofteu on simply getting
WOunded to the hospital. It the
lasenedied en route--tampisl
"Of course I know that in the last
*WOO he said, "the wounded are
*July burdens, The fighting men are
the maTh. thing, but I personally think
'ilds poor economics, apart from any
'Moo= of sentiment. I want our sys-
Anira to be more like that which the
ItiltIsh maintain"
I had been sent for to know if I
could at leest in part furnish the ma-
terials for such work -immediately, as
there was att.:frays a certain delay in
getting supplies. It was just a ques-
tion at expediency. I would be paid
for them, he hastened to add. France
was 'willing and able_ to look after her
men, the inspector continued: euly
things moved so swiftly stores were
- sometimes inadequate.
I hastened to assure them that 1
(mite understood and was only t. o
happy to put such things as I had in
Paris at their disposal. We at once
equipped three portable dressine son
tions along the lines nearest ns. and
the good results were immediate and
hurpris In
The next few days were desperately
busy ones for us. Fighting was heavy
around —, and day and night the tiei-
bulaeces came hurrying in with their
burdens of heman freight.
The wounds were of all kinds and in
every conceivable condition. Those
made by shell often tear whole litubs
away, for shells are not Intended so
much for the destruction of people, as
of things, fortified buildings. trenches,
eta Shrapnel is for liuman beings and
is a metal case containing dozens of
bullets, perhaps a half inch in diame-
ter, packed in by hand, which carries
a charge of explosives timed to burst
at the moment it reticles its destina-
tion. The bullets are smooth and
round, and it they go through soft tis-
sue do not do great injury, but if they
strike a bone they flatten, and then the
harm they do is incalculable.
Rifle fire at short range is far and
away the most murderous. And after
I had been at the hospital a veeek or
two I understood the gravity of the
oft repeated charge on both sides of
dumdum bullets.
The ordinary bullet is encased in
nickel, has a lead core and make a
Clean perforation, `even piercing the
hone with little damage. In dumdum
bullets the nickel casing at the tip is
cut or removed and consequently, when
It strikes the casing, "mushrooms" and
does fearful damage.
These bullets were forbiddes by the
Geneva conference.
Every wound was poisoned when it
icatne to es. At first I could ret be-
lieve on seeing them that any of the
men could live. Where every opening
wR8 tilled with earth, manure, freg-
fsents of clothing, there must be im-
mense sepsis. But I did not reckon
on the fact that the microbes were not
so deadly as those of the crowded city.
One afternoon. imnsediately ufter
lunch, Dr. Saud )u asked me to be
ready in ten mint 'es for a rather long
ride. In fact, he teide "I have just re-
ceived a message esking us to go fifty
kilometers away and bring in the
wounded that the raiding uhlan.s have
left behind. We will go with Lieuten-
ant as we may have to pass close
to -the German lines and so need a cool,
firm hand at the wheel. With the lieu-
tenant driving," he said, laughing, "it
will take a very superior marksmau to
hit us."
I was delighted that I had, on ac-
count of speaking German. been cho-
_ ,ST, _OR IA
one Masa
InUsereregarraYears
thwiperaa ,..-rmyww,ffee
°Weft*
sen as tee one surse to go, ana we ere
off in ten min tes..
Our way ay through num rous
French. outpos .s, wnvre we were me-
timesheld ut ue a a higher ol cer
prim ins the IS Mt iot way. We p ssed
many botehsitwil villakee. to so e of '
white! the' poo • dwellers had reel' ed
In tit ar ruins Iiet one. a place that
once uust leo e intent home to 1 ',000
or 12, 00, was in mist) a elate of ti vas- •
tation that no one had returned; save
two nuns. They teal stayed. thah the
altar might no be desecrated. A, one
place there bid hien a large fad ory.
Win Twas left of thernachinery pt1 ved
it to iave bee s powerful and mq 1 ern,
but even Lie tenant F., who sva an
engineer, coul not decide what had
been manufa ured, the ruin vis so .
compete. - Onl one house in the i
place was lef standing. On its,
was ivrIften i German. "Do not!
or pil age this house," and signed and ,
sealed by one Captain Reuss. It was 1
empty.
We wonder a good deal what spe-
cial eonsidera on had prompted the
captain to lead his august prote tion
to thiS insigni 1 cant clwellittg.
An then we were halted and
we c uld not
tion. j We mu
make a deto
the Germans
outgo t 'Jt a
as wp wee
took a rFute
spot we had
of e guns
but fre mome
woui4 turn
awa . And, t
during the 1
spee4ing 118 W
in that time.
a • I we we
Ieasjihan. helf
hole
door -/
urn
1,11
told
o farther in that ee-
t retrace our watt and
of thirty kilom tere;
were shelling a Fe nch
little way on. W did
ected, but in some way
at led us to the very
ed to avoid. The s und
me nearer and n er,
tarily expected our road
suddenly and eb •ly
the firing had ased
t fifteen minutes, and,
were, we had gee far,
On coming to the 1 op of
thunderstruck te see,
a. mile awed', a.' line
II I
Loot
quic
As
the
line
an
and Des ruction Nad Gone
In Hanel.
time a
timing
ring be
aused a
distinct
plainly see th
their sprint u
twenty fest b
the 4ash. I g
of them fall
Once over th
the hill, and
saw [ the Ge
The Englis
I
aci. e and beti
tie s guns so
sat : 'hey mu
.:erraans
tie • eetrified
not -lure th
t
the dtor sa
male -aim, '
over t.
holon. The
for second,
tacheilt of
sarnO. mom -
swept into vi
ter as of tins
was 'ail artill
an instant la
bark of the
had heard it
back.
The doctor
bad better go
The road'w
made up for
lathe we fo
we I ad been
It was a 1
ing in a lit
door was op
were scatter
doz empty
eve a few
overturned;
were all ove
char lay u
brolken and
Idlers filing at dMb1e
ross a ,pontoon ,b die.
ur arrival to a seohd,
n - anew. The ,B 'fish
moment, and we eard
reonimand. We 4ou1d.
meet getting read for
der fire, with a spas! e of
tween each. Them! ante
•ew faint as I saw any
• into the., river lb low.
• bridge. they race up
ar away on its ereSt we
ans begin their edcanee.
fell flat on theirl 4tom-
n firing. Theyew rketi
uldkly that Dr. $o chon
t be hot in their a nds.
carne with a rush. I sat
It seemed as if 1 ould
• sight, when all at once
d in a voice he tri, d to
What do you mak out
ointing to a spot ora the
sun came ot brilliantly
1
nd we saw leiuly a'de-
rench cave. 7. At the
t a French ' aeroplane
w, and there wait a .1 waved waved in the suit. It
ry signal for rang and
exi
er we heard the pe tall'
rench 75. The Gm ans
too. They began felling
said quietly, "I think we
,, •
s empty of troops, $o we
lost time. Half an hour
nd the place for which
earching.
rge country house Stand -
e clump of, trees. The
floor
alf a
and
was
ends
estry
back
A
n. On the polishe
• a deck of cards,
champagne bottl
lied ones. A tabl
igars and cimmette
the place. A ta
de down with its
nee= by the clot
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HEAT FLAS ES
EY, NOVO S
TR RO EXIVSITOB
el hours Demi e. ,
! I felt wiOly excited. Something of
that Strange thrill, terrible and tragic,
that had Veen ever present within me
when I had first begun nursing and
that had Vanished through the curse
or the. b ssitag of getting used to
things agan seized me. ) There is some-
! thing wlth4n us, and stronger than our
Iwills, whicjh adapts tis to every change
of clrcum4tanee so quickly that we
: sometimes resent the adaption. I bad
, -
! found tha1 one csneot continue to be
surprised r glad oil even sorry above
a certain ever War Is like hind and
sensat1ona music, the elfects of which
. thrill an audience only about three
minutes. ' I had grown to belleee that
I had seen so much of the hideous and .
ghastly that comes ;into every nurse's
life at a receiving hospital that my ea-
' pacity for great exeltement had been
exhausted. But out there alone under
the cella bright mem, the air heavy
with perfitme of gaiden flowers. some-
thing of ip all stirred and quickened
my heart to its very depths. I forgot
that my llinbs ached with fatigue, for-
got how ardently. II had been longing
for bed, alid stood there wistfully gaz-
ing down the road, as if eapecting
some dear one.
I do not know. 4ow long I stood
there, but I suddenly became conscious
of a fast approaching motor. In a sec-
ond it wan at the gate, and I heard a
voice that sounded !strangely familiar.
It was the little lieetenant, supporting
in hie axles his canteen. I remember
dimly thinking that War revived- one's
faith agate in miracles. -
"Quick, nurse!" he said to me. "I
won't believe he is dead, although I
can't find any pulse"
Heiwastea Tied Into the hospital and
e
Immediately into the outer room of the
operating 'theater, .where the strong .
lights werie switched on. For a mo-
ment I was dazzled, half blinded by
their brilliancy, and it was only after
I had unbuttoned : his uniform and
bared his breast, that all migbt be /
.ready for the hypodermic of ether and
camphorated oil that Dr. Souchoa gen-
erally gave, that, as:I leaned over him.
I recognized the white and finely cnis-
eled face of Captain Frazer, the Eng-
lishman who had helped me rescue the
Austrian pificer that night on the Lusi-
tania.
The doctor's quickand businesslike
voice brought me abruptly back to
earth.
serious abdorainal wound with
internal hemorrhage," he was -Saying
as he made a hasty exambeation.
"This is the kind of case," he con-
tinued, "about whin]] one raiglit say
the person must little a mission to ful-
fill, as by ati the letv's of nature this
man ought to have been dead hours
ago."
In the confusion est the moment we
had all forgotten the indomitable cour-
age of the boyish lieutenant, and it
was only when we; heard a th d and
something fall. limply to the flo r that
we remembered hint He bad t inted.
An . orderly and a doctor p1cke1 him
up and carried hire out, while -I re-
mained to help Dm Souehon wl h the
operation. .
,
"He is so nearly' done for, urse,"
tho doctor said, "I ,think we h d bet-
tod. try the new anaesthetic, s ivig opt:do.-
geilniel,ii,
:C1.,you feel sure of your elf in
:
"I won't fail you,, doctor," I a swere
ed. Father bad used it for nearly a
year before his death, and I hid of-
ten given it for him.
During the next hone as the 1octor
performed the intridate operatloii with
the utmost skill, 1 worked with no
thought of weariness and with a pray-
er on my lips for the patient. When
It was all over the doctor turoed to
his assistant and said:
"Sew him up. I Will see him in the
morning. I do not mind tellingetrou I
am pretty much all ;in, but I thiUk we
have made a good', job of it, and I
wouldn't be at all surprised if he pulls
through." Tben glancing back and
speaking to me as he passed through
the door he said, "You'd better leok at
his plaque and see Who that chap is."
"He is Captain Frazer," I said.
"Captain Frazer!! Of what regi-
ment?" he asked.
"I, do net know that," I ans ered,
suddenly realizing- how little 1 did
Mrs. Wynn Tells nOW L
E. Pinkham's V getabl
-Compound HO ir ed He
During Change Of Life.
Richmond, Va. — "A ter tak
seven bottles of Lydia E. Hatch
,Veg table
poen I feel li
new omen.
ways ad a head
durinL the Ch
of Li is and was
troub ed with o
bad eelings
mon t that tt
dizzy pells, ne
feelin s and h
fiashe .. Now
in b4 tter h
than I ever was and r 'mmend
remedies to all myfriends '—Mrs.
..
WYNN, 2812 E. 0 Street, iehmond
,7
hile change of Life s a most
lea' preiod of a woman's existence,
ante: Jing symptoms w ch accom
itenay be controlled, nt normal h
rlstoP nkbam's Vegetable Co pound.
red by the timeItr U e of Lydi
tSuch warning sympto s are a s
01 suffocation, hot flash s, heada
backaches, dread of i ipending
tilnidity; sounds in the e rs, palpi
o the heart, sparks be lore the
i egulanties constipati , vanabl
tite, weakness and iquietude,
ziness.
For these abnormal conditions d
fell to take Lydia E. P ham's V
tAble Compound.
di
ng
m's
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nge
also
her
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alth
our
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es,
vil,
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es,
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and
net
go.
cleina cabinet had e dently leen
sntashed with a chair, 'Knives, f rks
air plates were lying In eonfnrion,
▪ th half eaten food sc ttered e
w ere.
t and destruction sad gone hand
in hand. What couldn't taken Must
destroyed.
CHAPTER 1,
Hinges of De iny.
LL day they had een b
men in from the front, wo d -
ed, dirty and dy ng; all y I
had smelled that •eculiar, de -
able odor which I ad learn 1 so
w ll to know in these t few w
a d which an. eternity • U not
to efface from ray ntemo .
any of the men, al ough te •ly
ay unded, had been. so e• hansted t
toj awaken them was impossible.
d not tried- we had let them sl
A. wound that has beel,withont
f a few hours can g one or two
hears longer without tttention, tor
nOthing that man has iivented or sci-
ence discovered can tak the p1ac of
sleep. There had been hu dreds broig1it
In during the last twenty-four h rs,
and one by one they badi been was ed,
their wounds dressed a d then pult to
was so tired that I d mbly wo der -
ed, whether I should ea cumb, as the
men from the front 11a4, to ove as. -
tering sleep when we—t e orderly and
I4came to the last man. We were
prised to find. lie was a Engl.'s' .an.
Vile had started to undr ss him hen
he roused up arnd said:
ilWhere is My carnal ? They lave
' left hirn—I loeow they lave left
They thought! he was ead or dlng,
and they have left him 'tit in the old
and the dark. Do not ,touch me I
aril going to find Lim." hnd befor we
could stop him he ba jumped 1 up,
struggled to his feet an was half ay
d Yen the ward. We 'were after him
e a flash and in a mo ient had ver -
taken him, but our comb ied effort did
mit serve to. stop him, , eid before we
realized what was hap ening he had
egged us to the outside door. Snd-
deluly a door opposite oP ned, and Io -
n1 S. stood silhoue 1 against the
1iht
'What is it, my man ' Some
Ini his calm, cool manni. implied au-
thority, and this is the tory the sal -
di r veheramitly poured orth:
j'Iem a lieutenant in the et. i
re ere Oda mornin at 3 tee Oen
w were awakened by night a. • eke
Ai incessant artillery began, and
shielis came thick on top of one t . °th-
ee First they were qu close e us,
-then next to us, then upon us, and
with that there came hideous I i g-
inle sound of the bulle . Short red
ft
flames burst out. T seam
threw its terrible pale gl acro the
h rizon, and the sere g shra nel
fe I like hail on the gro d aroun us.°
E erywhere was the cea eless cra of
the rifle, the bursting of k,thells andi the
roar of high explosiv . , Far ajway
somewhere up the line c me the cl tter
oi the machine guns g tting int ac -
ti n. My God! Our diens fo ght
li e devils, but we w e surro ded.
T ose who, were able =aped to1 the
p rapet and fought on leetil the end.
T e last thing I reniem er dur the.
le yonet charge that ilowed was
bearing a German offl er call ort to
mit- captain, `Englishm U.`, surre err
Seizing- a rifle to encou ge hi,s m , I
heard above the din of iattle his cool
I. ply, 'Surrender, be s—r A he
s id this he fell. I leached o t to
c. tch him, and then I •ew no ore
u4itil I found myself!Jere. No I
must go back there to fi 41 him. I ow
jiist where he is. It ea, ,ot be fa ."
II thought, as he was talking, it ust
have been just the momInt that F nch
c.va1ry appeared 011 6 crest o the
11 and the Germans f il back, o &-
wise be and his beloved captain 4onid
be lying' on the battlefi Id in the ene-
y's lines or. by rare g ed luck, bit the
e emy's hospital. The boy was not
b dlv wounded, and the icloctor de ided
t.i let him go out with e brancar Hers
i d search for his capt• in.
It was a moonlight ni in. and as this
, )ung subaltern, accompanied by the
urgeon, went down the graveled valk
:!rough the garden I ellowed tens.
The last I saw of him as as hes ung
Oenself into a waiting otor with so--
.-ral of the stretcher barere and was
olf toward the battle6 Id where they
., ...m., ..„
1
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know.
"Where shall we tint him?"
orderly. i
"There is no pill: I answer
"Well, this man ust have
quiet and good care," the as
surigeon Said, "or" and he 8ig
his shoulders mea ly.
- For several wee two of the urses
had. been eharing nt; room On th third
floor. They were n night d Just
then, so I; hurriedly sought theta, ex-
plained the situation aid asked if they/
thought we could nannge Som way,
for a night or two.
"Of comae," they both said.We'd
do a greatideal to ske any man a life,.
but all, the more since he is your
friend." ,
"Oh, no," I hastened to explain, "he
—he—isn't:exactly a1 friend"—
"Oh. weIL never mind," one o them
interrupted, "don't keep the raan
on the opirating table any Ion er, no
matter whose friend he is or isn't. We
are not gong to be1 tonight at all, at
all," she laughed, and tomorrew we
will manage somehow — but --4 what
about you?"
"Oh, I'll find a place," I said. `Don't
Worry about thatl"
The place I really found was a lit-
tle cot in ray own 110one—that iti, Cap-
tain Frazer's room—for the pre.sent.
Somehow I could not bear to thknk of
leaving him alone. : In case of 4hem-
orrhage in this coladition. I kiew it
would be all over with him.
An hour later, when I 'went k tat
the room, the sun had come n and
once again that lot, monoto
mY
roll
of artillery filled e air.
window, owing to the clearness of the
day, I could see the city, with ts old
square church towers and red roofs.
From time to time all this was •otted
Id the
erfect
tant
-
Children
FOR FLETCHER'
CASTORIA
out in a cloud of smoke and red dust
eaused by tile failing of bricks and tees.
Ternitig Nyttarily away from the win
dow. I went slowly over to the 11041
mid gazed long eind earnestly at the
(mud:some. tine face and the memo,
:)thletic body. gracefully out Hee I 1111-
(1;r the coundi linen sbeet. allele' he
lay, a splendid :specimen of thee melte
iwork. helplese. finished, perhaps dy-
ing—and this was war! Ile *as so
white and still 1 gently felt for the
pulse. It wits jerky and intennitteue
1 decided that the doetor had better
see him. I am afraid my rotten. al-
tbough I tried to make it light:, must
have disturbed him, for he (melted his
eyes and looked at me, it seemed for
minutes. with a quizzical. rather wor-
ried expression. Then slowly from his
face and his eyes the drawn. set look
of pain disappeared-, and he smiled up
at me and said with a little of the ring
In his voice that I remembered sic) well,
"Why, you are the little girt from
the boat!" and then relapsed into that
dark borderland that lies between life
and death.
A distinguished officer. .General M.,
had been wounded. Gossip said.St was
the work of a spy. Fioweder it may
have been, this gallant soldier had re-
, ceived a very painful and serious in-
jury, and there - was great ,tinxiettv
among the staff. But all this Was -as
nothing when 'the word went round
that General &are himself was com-
ing to pay hi S wounded general a
visit. There was much specination
among the nurses as to whether we
would be able to catch a glimpse of
him. I decided that in al] probability -
there• would be very little chanc6 of
my having even a peep, "although I bad
been detailed as one of the nueses on
the case. Great was my surprise
when an orderly came to fetels nae,
saying that the doctor wanted tospeak
to me in Geeeral M.'s room and added
in a breathless whisper, "General
Joffre himself le there."
When I went in they were dis4ussing
some phase of the case, and the doctor
said: "Here is the nurse. She Will be
able to tell us." The patient lesisted
on having General doffre shoWn lite
wound. It was a childish wish, btft
then fever often plays strange tricks
with us. To humor him the doetor be-
gan loosening eome of the bailda.ges.
As he was doing so I had a rainute in
which to look at the celebrated gen-
eral. I saw a man of moderate height,
broad of shoulders and wide ot girth.
His gray mustache and overhanging
brows gave his face something of
sternness, but somehow I felt that his
severe calmness was rather a nose -ea
mask—he had adopted. I remetabered
that some one had said of him that he
was the "master of his fate and the
captain of his soul." He looked it.
"Ah, general," said the -wounded
man, looking up at him, "if I had been
as strict with myself as you have, as
tnoderate in smoking and drinking and
kept those good, early hours that you
keep I should be much more likely to
pull through quickly."
"My dear boy," the general teplied,
"you are all right, and it is just 4 ques-
tion of a few weeks' care and patience
—patience." he repeated. with eincere
tenderness in bus voice, for the wound-
" 1 men had been with him during
many campaigns in Africa and Made-
easea r.
It was getting late when he left the
room 11 11(1 he had army kilometers to go,
hut he ineisted on walking throtigh the
hospital saying a word to each of the
tomi there. anticline, to them ae "tees
bravos petits soldats." In one of the
hola there was a Scotehmau The
I spoke to him and said. "tou are
one or the men that Germens call 'hal-
amivelher'" daddies from hell). Quick
as a flash the Scot answered: 'That's
a great compliment. sir. It shoWs that -
^hey think we fight, like devils." at
e heel the general laughed good 'minor-
sely.
For the last few days I had been do-
ing extra work in the Germen prison-
ers' ward. Some way they came to
know that I was from America which
wade their, eager to chat with me—in
fact, so eager that it was only with
difficulty I prevented it interfering
with my . work.. One especially—he
was, I should think., about thirty-five
years old—a noncommisioned officer of
the landwehr who bad risen toia lieu
tenancy. He did not look at al like a
typical German officer, nor were his
mental. processes that of this else. Of
course his •patriotism did not permit
him to harbor any doubt of hie coun-
try's ultimate success, but neither did
he hide his desire for. an early !peace.
"You know," he said to us as We
chauged his dressings and gave him
his treatment, "Germany does not as-
pire to , reduce France to vassalage,"
and when the orderly Siaid something
about Alsace-Lorraine he answered
that there might be some sort of an
exchange' arranged—France take back
Alsace-Lorraine and Germany receive
compensation in colonies. "We are so
misunderstood," he repeated censtinat-
ly. "Germany did not want war noW
—now or at any time—but realized
when she saw France's three years'
military service in full swing and when
Russia had built her endless system al
strategic railroads, with the help of
French money, that Germanyl would
be between the upper and nether mil&
stones."
.----- - CHAPTER ' VII:
Captain Frazer's DeliriuM.
the first moment possible 1
hurried upstairs to see hOW
,Captatu. Frazer was geie, i on.
For days his • 111 *I e hat
been running high, and he : -., con
-
stoutly deli:In:ions. Now and ,4 a . I he
would utter -Words and t t ••.4 Ili
Sentences_ that made no sense at silt
bat often he talked for hours, 'dug
orperience after experience, sornetimete
with a clearness and sway that were
uncanny. When. I entered te roost
he was in the midst of =eli-
des.
"We an have OM pet avendon be
melon, old. man, haven't we?" he mist
'Nlewe there is Cecil. Loring, whe hate*
a,
tbs taw that makes the t 31.030#4
Tea know we all used to lalatidate
as he bobbed. every bulieti *era
tinge 11P115 Shbnelhistere-he was devtV
isliteeshaken he blah exPlosiveS. JAW
the -other day -Berry said to me: 'Ian,
my boy, you remember that day le len
we were talking to the observe:ion
officer standing on a haystack and the
moment after we left it a shell struck
it? That was a close cal]. Things like
that go to my head!' And then inac-
tion when the bullets are singing and
all bell seems let loose he insists thet •
he feels drunk—as drunk as if he had
been at it ell night It may be a form
of fuuk, be says. but it's truth. Why,
I am laughing all the time at absolnte-
ly nothing, clean lifted out of minailf,
exhilarated.. I feel as if I were tread -
Ing on air, but"—and. here Captain
Frazer dropped his voice in a Most con.
tidential manner and looked up at me
with burning eyes—"as for me. I do
not mind telling you when it is all over
I have that sickening dropping eensa-
tion--you know, as if you were nettle
of lead and :were sinking down. And
then is wbea I like my Sea. Who's
making tea', Give me a cen—no, I
mean mugful." ,
Sitting tim suddenly he called out:
"Put out that brazier4 you fool; the
smoke will give the range. Use a can-
dle," Then be laug,hed, that pecullan
disagreeable laugh of the delirious, as
be said. "By jov-e, that is an ingenious
idea!" and he began talking about vas-
eline and jam jars. Ilis speech became
1171th telEgible, and it was not petit long
after that I- came to khow how thdi
men use vaseliee tins and empty jam
jars filled. with lunnis.of liatia fat and
a rifle rag as an improvised stove on
whiell to make their tem
When he became unusually excited
I bad to sit there by the hour, day or
night, and hold his hand. The warmth
of -mine or something of the electricity
that passes from one being to another
seemed to calm him until dnallY he
would drift off to sleep, Today I sat
beside bine, end. speaking in, a low
voice,' tried to quiet him. He drifted)
off to sleep,but only for a few mire
utes; Ethen be began talking about his
own regiment—the Ludbinna Sikhs,
with mie of the:finest records, both for
braeery and loyalty. of any of the dis-
tinguished regiments of tbe Indian
army. This was a dangerous subject
for him, as he was extremely proud.
)f his men and invariably began to
tight over some of the fierce battles in
which they had been engaged. Tak-
ing his temperature and finding it very
high, I decided to give him an extra
alcohol sponge. An hour later, as the
chili purple folds of night shut down,
be fell nsleep.
This bad been going on foresome
weeks now. He bad grown weaker,
of course. every day and less able to
He Had Grown Weaker Every Day and
ness Able to Withstand the Fever,
withstand the ravages of fever. When
the doctor came to see how he was he
shook his head gravely and saki:
"'Unless we can keep that fever down
for the next twenty-four hours our
man is donetfor."
All 1 day I had given him alcohol
sponges as often as dared, and we
had kept the saline solution going ev-
ery hour, but 1 was becoming fright-
ened, and when Dr. Sonelion came in
the evening I asked Um to leave me
some nitroglycerin.
"And ,won't you ecime as often as
possible tonight, doetot?" I Weeded, for
I realized this was the crisis and that,
we had only a fighting chance to win.
"I will come as often as I can," he
answered, "but wounded are arriving
constantly. I bear an =balance
now," and _he turned toego. Stelae/ea,
▪ the dose, he said, "And I may be
obliged to have you If'—
'O1, Omsk doctor," I itsterrupted
bested:3mb: "don't send for mei I
mustr be here tocuiltr
"4,I do the best I can," be replied
and turn& 013. th3 heel and ran down
the teleepi.
I tried to take my patient's pulse,
but it was so irregular and rapid that
tt was impeadble. Iu looking at him
his eye* seemed already deeper aid
h•power, *wounded, as they were,
by goat dart shadore, and his hands,
end& lay fat on the cover, were so
white that they were onlx dlittlagaish-
able from the roes by the. avere ot
the aupss,
I heard the light i'llethig of a clock
ae the mantle. I felt that Wane, the
tagthve, was slipping by and what itz
passage might 90011. bring. I violently
put the thonkht out oat my mind. 1
comfits -net bear ft. Throush those next
home there antan't a manient but Vett
I wt dein( something—everything
known to ree—to fight off the dreaded
end.
From 2 oftlioek on every low me -
moles nay ned eyes weght the
1 was tertided et those settfal boars
between 4 mid 7, and, In 1110fte of all
the adneulationel dared teem Ma triton
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tial-elng. Terror overVihe
me, lett me without the power to eonee
bat the imaginings of death. .
In the violet darkness my eyes meg
his, and 'suddenly into them tame
new unfathomable extression. On
drawn white face 1 thought I n
symptoms of death agomes, sy
toms of a dissolution akeady
and inevitable. Efe was whiter tha
the pillow and as motionleee. .&fl nigh
I had been turning it, as- it bee
eonstantly wet with dripping perspit
Um I VMS overeome with a sensatio
of weakness, a sensation of the fn.
ity of what had happened and wila!
was about to happen. An immensti
-weight seemed to be me down. D1.1
en by that helplessness that ofte0
makes suffering hurnsnity tarn tO
a Supreme Power, I fell on my ku
for science and nursing had. fail
There remained only God's suprenie
tervention, 1 prayed as I never prayegi
In my life, In this hour how futile air
ray little knowledge seemed! I
from my knees 'with fresh courage
tight on, ,and a, curious
came to me that far away
another woman was sharing wth
that silent ntght vigil and that le
pcayer--his mother. •
went to the window and looked
to the stadit heavens. How pe
the sleeping world lay, In such
contrast t� the agony with which ma
soul was Wrung!
Xy eyes were drawn
back to the bed. I longed be go
but 1 eta" net take a step. Min
sassed. Thoughts and images futt41
vowed my brake By supreme effort(
I eameared the terror thst held
*act tesillar avant hot tbe hed-
oixtistr bead to touch hts forehead,
the evell to do it failed me.
I be begone hie lips a little tuft
eetton—hele it there with iniratte prate
'caution. The weaving of a thread
showed Ual strength of lota rest&
Au my mud hung on those pa
lips, which between momeets Dalg
render their last breath. I Centro
myself and before trembling p
nay fingera on the pulse. It waS
en stronger. There could be no rubel
take. A little ttate.went by, It scOnNtl
etinealculable. I took the pulseagatan
Sillelleout doubt my patient was better.lj
Looking up I caught with joy thel
lane pale gray nuances a dawn.
the coming of the sunrise Ceptain
VC weakly— oh, so weakly—strive
back to this side of the border'
NAL& men eat life.
Then 1 leaned, balf in a eollaps
stgairtst the tall post of the old
lamed bed and wept gently tears
.lette tor I knew that God had
Tay prayer lead. given me the victoi7eta
* * * * * *
Iliarther over toward BeIghTM a gro
et Frenchwomen were establish.ing
hospital. They had as • their
=Erse a young Illbe. F., who
been edrunitsd in the Pres
hespftal, in New York. Dozens of rye
lOhold PanicAllsestera arriving
she was haorteg some difficnity in raak-e
bar ber untrained French assistan
eirderstand the told bath system o
treataseat far that disease, In, some
way she had heard there was isxI
'American nurse in our hospital ant
had lent a request that this nurse
detailed to be her demonstrate ths
method. The colonel sent for me on
afternoon and showed me Mlle.
letter.
• "I think she must mean yon. /Cleft
Bleueau, as you are the nearest up.,
preach we have to an Ameriean nurse.
I know yofl would be of inestimabl
ealue, bur— and he paused and look -j
ed out across the garden. While bej
had been epeaktne r had MM Yke
person,vrho enddenly tirade 'Ismael; ttt
the edge of a precipice Can it be pool
sible that I must leavol fy thoughtal
were taterrupted by the doctor speak
Ing again: "The truth is are
well spate you. The allim ere
Ing heavy- fighting in the eoisrse of
next ten due. You can go to
F. tomorrow, but you must be
here at Oa -end of the week."
"I do not know -why, but hte
gave the greatest relief, ren
—a sense of acute pleasura.
la the natural course et things
Would be an. hour or two before
&Ales would V.,11 me to Oartsta,
rer's room. Generally Van beats
never long enough to seematalat
that was to be done, but thatday
scarcely passed—it felt drop *
lazily and heavily, But at hat the
ment came to go to him.
TO BE CONTINUED.
—Mr. and Mrs. darnee 11. Hdrburrei
of Staff, announte the engageineret
on 'their eister, : Miss Nellie Viol*
Riley to Mr. Nitilliard Henry Scoieat
of Mitchell.. The wedding will taliti
plane on July f6h4
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