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The Huron Expositor, 1934-11-30, Page 7mow 1 .:AL ion No 91, JOIE #'UGGARP. l PAWe Solt' k:itor• Notary Public, Etc. Bye pipet - - Seaforth,l. Ont. HAYS„& MEIR ; F Succeeding R; $:. Hays' Barristers, SoEieitors, Conveyanicet's and Notaries Public. Solicitors fee the Dominion Bank. ,Office in rear of tete Dominkm Bank, Seaforth. Rey to loan. JOHN H. BEST Barrister, Soluleiitor,, Eta Seaforth - - Ontario VRTERI ARY JOAN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor gradhiate of Ontario Veteran - say Colle,ge. A!11 diseases of domestic animals'treated. Galls prormatly :at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a. specialty. Office and residence on Goc�erich `Street; one door east of Dr. Ja,eitott'g office, Sea - By Gilbert ,Frankau .f� Rorngnce ©f Marred Life he pointed to the map, "are marked' (Continued bon). lost' week) in red; the Northdown i:n blue." .:'T•hanlc-Cadessak t'h t wilt"; "'Toa' -far back -it' - commended the anewe':red the soul of Second Lieuten- ant other scrutinizing the colored [lots, Pealibd the shaded ares which „showed their The Mind came back to the soul.; apiyroximate mages. "What the hell happened?" asked the "The/ seem to have done the, best. boy..._ they could under the circumstances." "Whizz -bang, sir. Thought you The circumstances,' known to both were gone that time, sir," answered the speakers, did not bear overmuch the dirty little man tt%ith the dirty .thinking of -being on a par with the rifle. "Taii't no use .agoing hover a- •;political situation' w'hicia, by a (pre - gain, sirs We've been hover three 'mature announcement in !Parliament ;times•", •. • of the capture of (Hill '.7th, was fore - "Get me another rifle, you son of ing them to attempt an attack both a gu'n," said'Peabody curtly.' Semler- knew to .be in the nature of a very t'h'Thg cracked like a whip -lash in the forlorn hope. went on air; he felt a terrific kick on his left 'The Gunner General de - ear -drum; collapsed to ground. tailing his plans: "I shall put, Stark For a second the boy lay perfectly in command of the Left Group. He's still; then, to his utter amazement, the only regular Colonel they"ve got." he realized that he had not been t''Good man?" asked the ,other. killed. • 'Yes, sir. Very sound. I've known The shock of that Second whizz-: 'him; for years: stuck pig with him, in bang seemed to have cleared his brain. ''India. . o . We're very short of He hauled himself up very cautiously ammunition for the hews." -Peered over the edge of the shal- +"T'hat's notching unusual. ,Allen - low 'trench. by's 'had to chuck it altogether in the 'Just above him . the ground rose- Salient. What about eighteen -noun two hundred yards' of ground -litter- ders•?" ed with &brown heaps-sameof them "We can 'just manage a two -hours' moving -at the top of the slope, more beimabardmrent. When do you propose bodies -hundreds of them --hanging attacking, sir?" grotesquely in the 'air. He dropped: ''9Day 'after' to -morrow." The sen - dawn again. air General glanced atlas watch, saw "How many of us got back, Had-: it was past midnight. "As you were, d'oak?" • tomorrow. Some time in the after- "Dvmno; sir. Old Lang, 'e''s just,, 'noon. round the corner, sir." § 2 "Well, you stop here. If you see, At last Peter Jackson slept. anything coming, shoot at it": All through that long afternoon of The -bee bent down; crawled along sunshine, the eighteen=pounders of the trench; ran his head into a mans the Fourth Brigade had been silent. knees. "'Heasy on there," growled Round the outside lip of the chalk Long Longstaffe, "heasy* on. Then, tsaucea, attaole and counter=attack had looking down, "Sorry sir. Didn't 'died in exhaustion: Only, at its ex - know it was you•" ' treme left edge; under' the shadow The boy gave his instructions; •of .Fosse Eight, in the Hohenzollern crawled on. Private Longstaffe ar- Redoubt, kilted men fought out the rarnged his elbows in the dirt; kicked light, hand to hand, with bomb and his long legs behind him; cuddled the bayonet and grenade. In front of rifle -stock to his cheek. "Caret miss• Loos, the saviour cavalry watched the the sods fro:' re," be said to him- silent woods and the hill whereon self. And then, suddenly, death waited. • he saw a cautious dot bob up on the O'Grady, had come back at dusk to near sky -line. report the situation. 'At nine 'o'clock § 8 the imlen sleeping round the guns had "Blast it, o'h, blast it. Get me a been awakened by a (vast crackle of line." . rifle fire away on the left, by a tor - O'Grady; binoculars to eyes, could rent of white lights spurting up inky see the gray figures crawling through skies. This they had watched, as a the wire; could hear rifles crackling dog too tired', to bay watches the just belew him. moon; watched and slept again -all The man on his knees tapped key save the weary sentries peering to- frantically. "F. X. Don," tapped the wards the lonely tree, and the weary man; "F. X. Don." •signallers in the trench by the tele - More gray figures crawled through phone. DR. W. C. SPROAT the wire. On the left 'of the wire, up But Doctor Carson might not sleep. Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, a little white road with trees on each All had thrid het f ter cos bandan his ged mend tilt All University of Western Ontario, Lon- side, calme another line of gray fig- P don. Member of College of Physice could see flamerfromsthe theirrifles;toy dorady at wn thet lopes; came;staggering agwhile lace and Surgeons of Ontario..Office staggering on with a "Thank yer, in Alberhart's Drug Store, Main St., smoke -puffs. "F. X. Don," tapped the man. "F. doctor," towards Vermelles. The doe- Seaforth. Phone 90 X. Don." The gray figures by the tor was fifty-one and a specialist, but road were on their feet, running. bending over those piteous men he "F. 0. 0.," throbbed the plate at did not regret his abandoned consult - the man's ear drum. "F. 0. 0." . ing room in Queene Anne Street - "Got ,'em sir," said the man to even though that which he accoma- O'Grady, "will you speak?" liti'hed for them scarcely required as 'O'Grady grabbed the receiver, and imluch skill as he had possessed in his said, speaking very slowly and dis- medical -student days. tinctly: "Fis.ses-.0•Esses. Do you ale felt a little lonely, there in the understand?" shadowed darkness, watching the "Esser=0-Eases," throbbed the plate lights leaping all about him; and at his ear. when from the Vermelles road, there came other men, tramping steadily (Private Longstaffe, wrenching fran- together, he enjoyed the modulated tically at jahrrned 'breechbolt, heard a voices which asked him: "I say, this whirr as of homing pigeons over his is right for Loos, isn't it? . Thanks head; was aware of white smoke- so Imaich." puffs bursting amona the gray figures These voices, when he inquired who all along the slope in front of him they might be, all replied with one The breach -bolt shot home at word: "Guards"; and tramped. an last, but when he lifted the rifle to through the night. • - his shoulder and peered through the 'Later, there arrived a car, with• a V of the backlight, the gray figures•Staffoffcerwhothe inquired doctodirected for Colonel a had disappeared. trench covered with a waterproof PART XVIII sheet: under wi)'i gh, after a moment, THE SUICIDE CLUB showed the 1'ieW of a candle. The § 1 Staff Officer with a "Thanks. Feels At midnight between 'September 2'6• like rain," departed; but the candle and 27, 1915, two men faced each still shone. And after about an hour other across a chequered French table another car arrived, with another cloth in the bare salle-a-manger' of Staff officer. an estamdnet at Beuvey. Doctor Carson, seeing blue smoke • An orderly stood outside the door, curling up against the candle -glow, DR G. R. COLLYER an orderly with tiny highly polished thought to himself: 'Hello. They've grenades on his shoulder straps, and woken P. J.' below the grenades two winking brass They had; and Peter, note -gook in letters -the second of the letters be- hand, was squatting on his valise, ing 'G,' Outside the estaminet a car peering at two maps, copying little waited; and past the car filed steady red dots from one to the other. The columns of tall men. These men, too, original :neap from which Peter cop - bore a winking `G' on each shoulder- ied had been sent from Betray; and strap of their excessively clean tun- thet last note iG.O.Cn his book ds read, " "RLe e- ics. porRutoire Farm, eleven a.m." :Said the first of the two at the § 3 tab;e. a broad shouldered, quiet man, (Weasel Stark's preliminary instruc- ig of bfel 'en my face, steady,amanf eye, tions, given in the candle -lit gloom of wore of brown moustache, a who a dirty trench at three o'clock in the the crossed swords and star of a 'Major General; "And so we have morning, confined themselves to few the job of cleansin'g their Augean words. The problem, of his new con- stable for them. As far as I can hand considered, firstly, secondly, and make out, the position is this." lastly in efficient communication. Pet- er awake at dawn,, got busy on it. As primary difficulty, he encountered Purves. .Said Purves, yawning: "As I un- derstand things, you and the Colonel are going off to Le Rutoire. I re- main here as Adjutant to Major Lethbridge, who will command the Brigade. 'Oomsnunulcatians will of cour," be arranged by Divisional Sig- nalsse Growled Peter, shivering in the misty dawn: "For God's sake forget 'Training Manual Signallers.' How tmluch wire have we got on the tele- phone cart?" Purves sent for Corporal Waller. Coriporal Waller said he thought they had four and a half miles of 'D 3.' Peter pulled out his map; showed the Corporal what he wanted done. Purves sulked in the background. • IAt 5.15 Seabright and Pirbright, carrying a red •drum( between them, set out to find the Third Brigade. At ten minutes to six a very sleep bat- tery commander of that unit protest- ed rotested dawn the wire that he had no in- structions as to taking orders from the Adjutant•of another Brigade. At five minutes to six Weasel Stark A.•R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate sd ensitof yntario Veterinary of Toronto. All • Colilege, ge, diseases of domestic aninroalsp• ed by the most Modern 'ped Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly, attended to. Office ori Main . Street, Hensoll, opposite Town Han. Phone .116. Breeder of Scot- tish cottish , terriers. Invernesis Kernels, Hensall. overhearinig the long range a*rangle' --eallne testae 'phone and explained he ail atio i. at some leln'gth :of blas' pheaty. Throughout breal fast,• -eat en squatting on dein clay, .similar conversations took place. • 'At- 8.30 !Corporal Waller reported in a far Whisper that he couldn't find• any trace of the First (Southdown cries ba ra to the us-' ' batteries Which--- oantry ual procedure in I itichener's Army consisted of fourafive howitzers. The Corporal further reported that he was being heavily shelled; and pre- sumed the brigade must have moved out in the night. At 8.45-JConporal Wailer 'being' no longer in touch, --there appeared a cyclist of the , missing brigade with information that Major Darnell had established a new headquarters at Fosse Seven. Also, that they were running their own wire tro Colonel Stark in Vermelles. Ordered to run his Wire to Le 'Rutoire Farm, Major Darrell replied, at 9.30, that Colonel Porter had now re -assumed command and refused to accept orders from Colonel Stark's adjutant. At ten' o'clodk--iMurchison'.n delay- ed orders having apparently arrived --the tangle straightened itself. At 10.30'CorporalWaller again telephon- ed. He had found the Second Bri- gade was tapping into their wire. Al- so, he had nearly run out of wire. 'Slee that. he gels some morel," reaped the Weasel to Purges. "You and I must be 'off, P. J."• They Invade their way on foot down a sodden -road, • towards the huge gut- ted farm. . They were , not alone an the road•. Men, apparently aimless, stood about smoking. A four horse telephone cart passed them at a •trot -spattering":them .with mud. Fol- lowed a motor=cyclist; two cars; a motor ambulance; a mess cart. Round the red shattered walls of the farm itself they found more men, more ve- hicles. As `they passed under the great archway, into the- crowded court yard, something eadplode,d with an earth-shaking-cencussion. "Six-inch how," said the Weasel. A stainless orderly detached him- self from the crow round a disused pig -sty; quivered hand at ear in the Guards' salute; informed "0.0. South- down Don Ack" that "G.O.C. Guards Don Ack" had been called elsewhere; would return at two o'clock. As they were turning away, a very tall young subaltern, with carefully upcurled moustache and tiny bronze buttons on his tunic, came up to Peter, saluted the 'Colonel; and said, "Hallo, Jack- son, haven't seen you since you left. Come and have a drink, won't you?" :Peter introduced 'Sandland of Im- pey's' to his Colonel; and the young Guardee led downstairs to the foul cellar they had visited on the night of the twenty -+fifth. It was no longer a charnel -house. Down the middle of it a long table spread with a white cloth testified the imminence of lunch. About the table, talking quietly, stood other tall men, all in identical tunics, all with the same carefully up -curled moustaches, the same modulated voices. . They called each other by nick- names: "I say, Bunny, what about those smoke -bombs?" "My dear Trousers, don't panic." "Where's the General?" "He won't be here till lunch-tiim+e." "Is Muggins about?" Sandiland produced gin and •n•er- mouth. Questioned by the Weasel, he replied deferentially that "of course he was only attached to the Staff" - Peter had by this time discovered the charnel -house to be an Infantry Bri- gade 'Headquarters -"but that as far as he gathered He seemed to have gathered a 'considerable a- mount of information. "Of course," he confided to Peter, "we should have preferred our own artillery. The Lahore artillery, I should say. Still He left the vague impression that the Guards didn't very much care whether'' they had artillery to support thein or not. 'Peter recognized the atmosphere. It *as merely glorified Eton. Every- body trying their best toassume that facts didn't exist: that emotions did not exist; that they knew little and cared less about the job they had at heart. It was over twelve years since Peter had lived in that particular at- mosphere; but he sniffed it grate- fully. His :voice changed to it. He said, "Oh, really. Well, of course, I don't )know much about gunnery," knowing perfectly well that he knew considerably more about it than Sand- iland-and, n - iland-and, "It's been veryquiet round the batteries" -feeling that no- body had ever been quite so heavily. shelled as the Fourth 'Southdown Bri- gade. The Weasel, who happened to have beets at Winchester before going on to Woolwich, felt suddenly and im- mensely superior to everybody on earth. For, en that point, all old English public school men feel alike: which is what makes them at times so insufferable to outsiders. If an outsider had asked any of the men in that cellar why he was fighting, MEDICAL • DR. D. E. STURGIS Graduate of the Faculty of Medi- cine, University of Western Ontario, and St. Joseph's, Hospital, London. Neater of College of 'Physicians -and Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Oa • fice at Dublin, Ont. 3493 ofe ax a R4d1e, tell44 eietual's offct tai d pia r 4, tkrnrt YOu 'know, *4•0:334A'49 e iLu ./Ylzere is z b 'edd tap•:' ingliah pone oohools ,heist 17' tarain lora to Ilse men, DR, GILBERT C. JARKOTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.Mem- ber of College of Phys} and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 God- erieh Street, West. Phone 37. Successor to Dr. Charles. Mackay. The Infantry 'Brigadier, arr;vtng •. bout lruid••day, declared 'to 'bis $rt,•, gad e- ' ajor: "1114r dear fellow, the 'whole cotlnr: try' side looks like lokenvpstead l+Te, th,Travis; -siorrneone •go --oust and -4e4444 up, please. I' really can't 'halve men wandering about all over the sky - The Brigade -Major, strolling acro the room, said: say, 'Bunny, wish you'd take eat, 'Peep round and see what we're to do about these fel- lows wandering about on' the sky- line."•• Sunny disappeared, and did not re- turn • till after lunch. 'Meanwhile, Corporal Waller, emerging with mud from a disused trench he had discovered for his wire, "was in- form1ed-1on1 'belying to oomimunileate through a stalwart Mess corporal with Petery -that "he'd better report liimiself to the signalling sergeant ." IMr. Black, the Regimen- tal :Sergeant-Major followed by the /Mess -cart, four of the Headquarters .Staff signallers, Bombardier 'Michael; Driver Garton, and a scratch collec- tion ..of cyclist: orderlies from the af- filiated brigades, found himeelfor once --at a loss for dignity. He and his party existed coldly, in the shel- ter of a wall, till found and rescued by Peter. Nobody - in all that farm seemed in the least degree excited about any- thing. Work was not done -it pro- ceeded. Stark and Peter, •diverging to the outer air, watched the proce- dure. It had begun to rain, vaguely, un- pleasantly. At one minute to two a limousine, nudespattered from roof to axle, tore down the road, pulled up slithering before the gateway.. From it sprang a' tall aquiline eyeglassed man, "who said: "Hello, Stark. Sorry to be late. Leak here"; drew a very dirty map from his pocket; and swept one fin- ger over a blue semi -circle. of it. Stark, drawing an identical 'map from :his 'packet, copied' the semi-Tircle ; asked: "Any particular instructions." "No:" The aquiline one was ob- viously working under extreme pres- sure. "You'll get those from Trench later.' This isn't as much fun as pig - sticking, is it?.' He leapt back into his car; whirled off down the road. Two minutes afterwards Peter - note -book on knee -was writing from Stark's dictation: "Orders by Lt. Colonel D. Stark, D.S.O., Comlmand- ing Left Group Artillery, (1) The Southdown Divisional Artillery, sup- porting Guards Division, will be known as Left Group Artillery. (2) 2nd Southdown F.A'B.'wi11 cover zone from H26 a 10 through the 2 of H 20 to the P. of Puits 13. (3) 3rd South- down F.A.B. will cover zone from P. of Puits 13 to B. of Benifontaine. (4) 4th Southdown F.AlB. will cover from B. of Beni•fontaine to H of Hulluch. (5) 1st Southdown (Howitzer) Bri- gade will be prepared to vre over en- tire zone." • "Underline the last 'h' of Hulluch," interrupted the Weasel. "I've already done so, sir," said Peter. Dictation went on. At half -past four the aquiline one returned. Peter, instructed to report communication completed, found him closeted with a big, vaguely -seen man in the s•elmii-dusk of yet another dug- out. At five o'clock generals re- moved themselves. Said the Weasel: "What sort of a dug -out was the one in which you found him?" Said Peter: "Pretty good, sir." Ordered the Weasel: better occupy 'it." • • DR.. F. J., R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate an Medicine, University of "Toronto. Late 'assistant New York Opthral- mzei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's . Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At" Commercial Hotel,-Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 6 ;prier 58 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. • DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the United Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. HUGH H. ROSS eradiate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in ldhic'.ago Clinical School rof Chicago Royal Ophthal nie Hospital, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office_ -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. ` Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, VictoVictoria Street, DR. E. A. McMASTER Graduate of the University of To - Faculty of Medicine Me of To- ronto, aCllege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of New York Post Graduate School and Lying-in Hospital, New . York. Of - Om on High Street, Seaforth, Phone 27. R Y � �y r`�j ✓ No doubt about. i1, the In oilier .wards, e. did.sbtioee rtiph lsasa d - • • theghtinsteni providing it'`s 'n ►'t: i3P„ casts u ,Pleasantl3!, n n� a n 4i ;or :eauses. the baby to squint. the regular snapshot ti -- opening. This tinge af..yea'r, of"course maybe more convenient to worki doors. One of the easiest '6t'as take baby pictures indoors, dura . the daytime, is';to get the subject fairly ,close to a big window S7noi necessarily a sunny one),and then use a photoflood -type lam0 to • light, up theside of your subject that's.. away from the window. A photoflood bulb in one of those inexpensive ?re fiectors will be found very handy for this and other indoor ,shots. If _there's a lot of light comingfrom the '. window, you'll be able to use a regu lar snapshot exposure. For surety's sake,. better work with the lens at its widest opening. Wait until your sub- ject .strikes an interesting pose; then click the shutter and the pie- ' ture's yours. Don't forget that you can use supersensitive film to get beautiful action shots with much less light than other films require. THERE' aren't any official statisr; tes that we know, of, so we're perfectly safe in saving that babies. constitute the largest -single group of snapshot subjects. It's perfectly reasonable.that this. should be so. for we snapshoot those things in which we'are most' inter- ested. nterested. For another thing, babies snake ideal subjects, because 'they don't pose., They're always natural. There are baby pictures and baby pictures, of course. Some arouse spontaneous enthusiasm; others are merely records, without much ap- ' peal. What's the essential difference be- tween the good and the merely so-so baby pictures. Usually you'll find, the good pictures show infants do- ing something -crawling, chewing a doll, wrestling with toes, or even indulging in a real good cry. The merely so-so pictures give usonly recognizable glimpses of babies do- ing nothing much at all. Of course, it's possible to take a pict(ue of a sleeping baby and•get a charming result. But to do this, the camera work must be unusual. Very well, what about the technic of baby pictures? f- , first, you'll need to have light enough for action pictures. Pew babies stay still .long enough f r time exposures. Out-of-doors, yo ll have no trouble at all working in open shade or out -in the full light, And let your baby subject"direct" his own picture. Let him do as he pleases, with only slight suggestions. from you. So dying, you'll get real looking, satisfying pictures. And youll alway's treasure them. JOHN VAN GUILDER. - Graduate Faculty of Medicine, versity of Western Ontario. Memlber (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at New York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital' London.Phone: Hensall, 56. Office, • M.G.'s, that if `Major Lethbridge cess of this 'school will result in the couldn't fire with `A' Battery .because foalmration of • county schools and also 'A' Battery had three guns out of of study circles in each rural corn - action, he must fire with 'B' . - munity, The world famous attack on Hill The school will meet for two sea - 70, when the- Guards went over the sions each day -morning and after - top ('By the right,' as the ulremo- noon at the University. At dinne tional Pettigrew reported afterwards, each evening an interesting t addressd 'just as if -there hadn't been a Roche will be delivered by pr ,within imdles of then') resolved itself tionaldsts and others: for P. J. into a jumlble of buzzes trait= As it''is proposed to limit the nuan- slated to scribbled message forms, a bee of successful applicants, every - pile of scribbled message forms trans- one who wishes to attend_ should send lated to buzzes. (For by that time, in an application now. ' speech on the majority of the sodden Co-operating with the Workers' Ed- lihad become impossible.) ucational Association, in the promo - nes By late afternoon of the twenty- tion of this Agriculturie1snten rs ty-are ninth, when the most incredible oc- the • Ne1w Canada Movement, ed currence of all took place, Peter= Farmers of Ontario, Junior Farmer still ,sitting at the telephone -was tAssociations, and the Co -.ape rati weary to appreciate it. Union.. too It had been a baddish day. Fosse es, will aapart regfrom( living fee of oe ens - Eight seemed, by the accuracy of the dollar. hostile shell -fire to havefallen at Applications should be , mailed last. Major Lethbridge reported twelve suns of his sixteen now out Donald R. McLean, Mvirlth g man of the Organizing Cork, ehair- of actron, the remaining four beinrnanattee, pushed up by hand owing to 'buffer or Drumanond Wren, .Secretary of the troubles. Third Brigade wires ref us- Workers' Educational Association, ed to act. They had run out of whis- University of Toronto. .r; ky. A five -none shell had missed BACKACHE quickly diseppean When the Liver and Kidneys ere aroused by D.,CINASE'S DENTAL DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Silks' Hardware, 'Main St., Seafoa'tr, Phone 154. DR. F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Ot ice over W. R. Ch's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - f. Phone: Office, 185; residence, He spread a big white map on the table; indicated with one finger a semi -circle drawn in thick blue chalk. "On the right, our line runs • from. the Double Grassier, halfway up Hill 70, along this road, in front of the Chalk Pit; and from there it bends back, crossing the Hulluch Road here, just beyond the Quarries, to Fass'e Eight. Whether the 9th can hang on to Fosse Eight or not is pretty doubt- ful. You already know the political situation,"' he emphasized the words a trifle scornfully, "with regard to Hill 70 • Naw, while about those guns? . • •" His companion, a saturnine aqui- line Brigadier General of Artillery, well over six foot, glass in his eye, drew a creased plan from his podket; spread it over the table cloth. As. he did so, his long hands betrayed intense concentration; a concentration not belied by the clipped phrases in which he sipoke. "Ire seen both the Brigadiers, sir," he began, "and as they apparently know very -little of the ground, I'ive arranged to take over both Artiller- ies myself. Our own can't be up for three day's. The Southern batteries, DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Torouito, Office at Hen- , Ontario. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS. HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Sp'eri,alist in farm and household sales. Prices reasonable. For dates teed informatiorn, write or phone Har- 1old Dale, phone o1i 149, eaOffc r th, or ap- ply sit The Expositor • ARTHUR WEBER ` Auctioneer's License Sixteen ye:ams' experience. SaligactIMI guaranteed. Telephone: 1847; §lle'nsall. Write -ARMOR WI>',1BEit, B,. 4. 1, Das'i woad: , ,..t.. „n.. JJ,. •..fi6.F a.S 2.MC hf,�,� 1t,(( [Wi.'a.L § •• In that• flimsy tin -roofed tunnel, hidden away in mud between brick walls, glass-doored at each end per- petually illumined with guttering candles. Peter spent three days and three nights. Incredible things happened in £hat tunnel: equally incrediblethings in the farm above. Our own howitzers shook it till the glass doors rattled to splinters: shells, screaming down out of nowhere, missed it by inches, plunging visibly through the shatter- ed roof of the fermi extinguishing candles, shattering telephone wires. Men came to it -all sorts and condi- tions of men: orderlies and generals, colonels and battery commanders. Coolsdon, the Staff -Captain came, to it oblivious of shells, demanding to know why his 'deficiency r turns'men, hadd not been made up; with shell ,fumes, staggered down its steps, were given gas -capsules, de- parted; the Signalling Officer of the Southdown Division, with a four - horse telephone wagon waiting- out- side, spent four hours in it -at the end of which time having received orders to be of no assistance, he drank a fourth whisky and departed; Murchison the Brigade -Major came to it, sojourned with them two days; a weary battery, commander of the Third Southdown Brigade, who had been shelled out of ais ndposition with twenty men, the loss of two guns dropped down on its muddy floor and slept like a dog, cap under head, in his spurred field -hoots. oathe dark And always, forward eom,partm'ent_ sat by the telephone operator. Men were blown to bits above -(there were one hun- dred and twenty casualties in Le Rutoire daring those three days) : orderlies, sent out on cycles, failed to report, were never hear of again ; men died at the batteries even as he spoke to the batteries; the farm rocked; lights went out; shelling stop- ped; shelling began again. But always Peter Jackson was try- ing to explain over a wire which either carried four different voices or absolutely went dead, that Colonel Stank wanted fire directed here, that the Coldstreams reported twsouthwest field - est guns two hundred yo- of Metallurgique Tower firing full of 24, that the Bois 'Hugo was the bomb store wherein the servants slid the orderlies slept by two feet, killing a horse and wounding three :ren. Murchison slept. The Colonel, just returned from visiting the In- fantry Brigadier in his dug -out a- c:ross the road, had found the Bri- gadier absent; tripped in a sodden trench; looked like a scarecrow; vaae �•� �•� - swearing like a fish -fag . • - which precise moment,. 'Royalty' ap- peared iLONDON AND WINGHAM in the tunnel. South 'Royalty,' represented by a jolly P.M. fair-haired youngster in a darkish , 1.55 rain -coat, followed the missing In- Wyngham fantry Brigadier past the telephone Belgrace 2.11 shelf 'where Peter sat, into the rear Blyth 2.23 part of the tunnel. Murchison mar-Lomdesboro 2.30' aculously• awaking, and the Weasel, Clinton 3.08 with his tunic off, stood up and said, Brumfield5. ' „Sir." 3.41 I Petei t'whb imagined them to be Kippen Hensall 3.611 greeting the Brigadier, found a dark Exeter moustached :ran beside him. Whispered the dark -moustached North A.M. man, taking Peter's knowledge for granted: "I'd rather be a Tomm10.42 Tommy Exeter 10.55 in the front line than. have to look Hens.all 11.01 after hums. Once the Guards are in KippenI 11.09 the trenches we can't keep him away Brucefield 11.54 from them, ,Hle ran away from G. H. ton 12.10 Q. this morning, and he's insisted on Londesboeo 12,19 tramping al lraund the front-line. He ClinBlyth 12.30 enjoys it. I don't! It isn't right, BBelgrav'e 12:60 you know. It really isn't. He might Whngbam ......... remember that he's heir to the throne. Don't you think so?" 'Peter, realizing the jolly fair-hair- ed youngster to be the Prince of , Wales, whispered agreement. The conference in rear of the tunnel broke up• • (Continued next week) (Manitoulin IIslandi will contribute its share ofturkeys again for the Christmas season. A survey indi- cates that the number'• -of birds for market will +be about the same as last year when 50,000 pounds were marketed by the co-operativeeassociia- tion. To Train Young Farmers Under the auspices of the Workers' Educational Association of (Ontario, University of Toronto, a two weeks' school for young Partners has been arranged, c nencing-M anday, . 26th, in the Department Econ- omics, University of Toronto. bleat The object of the school is to de- velop the latent talent for leader- ship among men and women on the Toronto farm so that they may On irltiportant MicNau Waltont • •.,. • •. • • •. • • • ••••.-" places in their respective eosnImusIi- •:• ties in o'evelopirng an understanding :Blyth ..:�•�•:6 of the °econom. ic 'position of agrioul- Auburn t • • ak:0 ture and its relation to the general McGaw field of Canadian and International Hemet • • ••• • .. •..... •.�..,, ..... Economies. It is hoped that the euc- fioderlbh 0„,••r• Goderich Clinton . .. Seaforth Dublin Mitchell ..... . C. N. R. East Dublin Seaforth Clinton ....... Goderich C. P. R. TIME TABLE East A.M. P.M. 6:45 2.30 7.08 3.00 7.22 8.18 7.33 8.31 7.42 8.43 West 11.19 9.32 11.34 9.45 11 9.69 12.10 • •10.25 Goderich Menet McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton • • 11.rcNaarght Toronto • A.M. 6.50 665 6.04 e.lt. 6.4{R 6.62 10.25 A: T1s • f l; i3 s%i