Flesherton Advance, 7 Sep 1916, p. 7

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' * storage Batteries Generators Magnetos Starters Send thant for itrosipt B«p«ln to CAWAJiiAir a T o B A a E BAXTEBT CO.. LIHITBD 117 Blmco* St., Toronto. WUIktA AttntM. %m(^^^.'.-^^i BOMBING TRENCHES ON BRITISH FRONT ENGLISH OFFICER DESCRIBES SOME INCIDENTS. Machine Gun Fire Falls to Reach the "Bombers" in Their Shell Hole. One of the most unusual tales of trench warfare Is told in a letter of an officer of the new armies serving In France : "It hacpened like this. I was look- ing out from what was a little shelter- ed spot alongside the entrance to what we call Stinking Sap, through a very fine new telescope some one had sent to our C. O., when suddenly I spied a shovel sticking up against a little mound, and close to it was a gap in the wet grass. "I stared jolly hard, and presently the whole thing became clear to me. The Boches had run out a new sap fully fifty yards from their fire trench, which at this point is over 250 yards from ours. It was right opposite our Stinking Sap, and not more than 100 yards from the head of it. "I walked around to company head- quarters and Informed the C. 6., who swadelighted. I decided to take Cor- poral Slade with me, because he's such a fine bomb thrower, besides be- ing as cool as a cucumber. I also agreed to take one other man from my own platoon and one man from each of the other three platoons. Ready to Attack. "The ('. O.'s idea was that we must reach that shell hole close to the new Boches sap as soon as possible after dark and before the Boches resumed work there. As it turned out. we were 9II lying in the shell hole for three- quarters of an hour before a single Boche made a move. There was a fine rain all the time and it was pitch dark. We lay perfectly still and flat, hands covered and faces down. "By and by Slade gave a little tug at my Jerkin. I listened hard and just made out footsteps. Two or three minutes later six or eight Boches came shuffling along the sap. carrying picks and shovels and jabbering away nine- teen to the dozen. 1 gave the signal with my left hand. There was a bomb in my right. "I could distinctly hear the safety pins come out of our six bombs and could even hear the breathed murmur of the man at my shoulderâ€" a pug- nacious draper. 'A hundred an' one, a hundred an 'two, a hundred and three I he was timing the fuse of his bomb, exactly as I'd told them). "And then they all let go. Our six Dombs landed, one on the edge and tho other five plumb in the sap head be- fore us, right in the middle of th- six or eight Boches digging there. Tv;o seconds after they left our hands tbey did their job. And when the rentSing row was over we heard only one Buche moaning, so 1 knew that at lea.^t six or seven would 'strafe' no more Engli-sh- men. Bullets Fail to Hit. "We again lay absolutely still while Fritz rained parachute lights, stars, flares and every kind of firework, and, just as I had expected, swept his sap head with a tleast a thousand rounds of machine gun bullets, not one of which so much as grazed us, where we lay in tho mud of that shell hole. "Get your bombs ready,' I told my fellows. A few seconds later we heard the Boches streaming alonK their nar- ! row new sap. They took It for granted we had cleared back to our lines, and I they made no attempt to disguise their coming. We waited until the near end of the sap was full and then we gave 'em our second volley, followed im- mediately by a third. It must have been a regular shambles. "A few seconds later we heard a S fresh lot start on their way down the I sap, and the draper and I let 'em have our last two bombs well to the left, I and ourselves made tracks like i greased lightning for Stink Sap. The : luck held perfectly, and Slade was I hauling the draper over the parapet of I Stinking Sap before a sound came from the Boche machine guns. "And then, byjove, they opened on us. They holed my oilskin coat for me as I slid in, and spoiled it. But not one of my crowd got a scratch, and we reckon to have accounted for at the very least twenty Boches, may be twice that number. Altogether a splendid job. "And the best of it is our artillery has registered on that sap this morn- ing, and this afternoon is Just abo«it going to blow it across the Rhine. -*- \ Two Fellows are trying to get ahead It's easy to see who'll win. If you have any doubt about tea or coffee holding some people back â€" in fact many â€" leave the hesitating class, stop both tea and cof- fee ten days, and use POSTUM This delicious pure food- drink, made of wheat, roasted with a bit of whole- some molasses, has a de- lightful, snappy flavor. It is free from the drug's in tea and coffee and all harm- ful ingredients. Postum is good for old and young, and makes for health and efficiency. "There's a Reason" Canadian Poatum Cereal Co., Ltd.. WIndaor. Ont PALE, WEAK GIRI5. Grow Into Weak, Despondent Women â€" How to Overcome the Trouble. Healthy Girlhood is the only path to healthy womanhood. The passing from girlhood to womanhood lays a j new tax upon the blood. It is the I overtaxing of the blood that makes growing girls suffer from headaches and backaches, from paleness and weakriess and weariness, from lan- guor, despondency and constant ill health. Unhealthy girlhood is bound to lead to unhealthy womanhood and la life of misery. Nothing but the blood building qualities of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills can save a girl when she undertakes the trials and tasks ' of womanhood. That is the time ' when nature makes new^ demands . upon the blood supply. Dr. Williams' i Pink Pills actually make new, rich- ; blood to meet these demands. In this j simple, scientific way Dr. Williams' I Pink Pills give growing girls new health, and makes their dawning womanhood bright and attractive. Miss A. Sternberg, Haileybury Road, New Liskeard, Ont., says: "I have much reason to be grateful to Dr. ; Williams Pink Pills as they re.??bred me to health, if, indeed, they did not : save my life. In 1914 I beg^an to feel i run down, and the doctor who was called in said that mine was a bad case of anaemia. 1 lost flesh, always felt tired, and I got so nervous that I I could scarcely hold a cup to take I a drink. My heart would flutter alarmingly. The doctor did not seem â-  to be able to help me at all and my family and friends all thought that . I was in a decline and could not re- [ cover. I was in bed for some weeks , when an aunt came to see me and urged that I tiy Dr. William.^? Pink Pills. My father got a supply, and by the time I had taken three boxes I there was a noticeable improvement, and from that on I steadily progress- . ' ed toward recovery. I continued us- ing the pills for some tim-e longer, and they restored me to my old time health and strength. I shall never ! cease to praise this medicine, and to : urge all weak run down girls to give I it a fair trial, as I have proved in my own case their great merit." j You can get these pills from any I dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. SENT BY ERROR TO WAR ASYLUM bye gratefully and took up the route for Epinal. The train guards looked , at him oddly on tho way, but he thought nothing of that. At Epinal he knocked at the door of the hos- : Pital. I "Come in," said a guard. ' r I The door locked behind him with I a spring. The guard examined his I papersâ€" with a lifting of the eye- [ brows due to his .surprise at a mad- I man coming in without a keeper â€" and crooked his finger at Dowd without , a word. Afterward he learned that ; the guard thought he had given his keeper the slip â€" had perhaps murder- j ed him â€" and by an insane freak had come in alone. Another door snapped shut behind the American. He was In : a room absolutely bare, save for j benches bolted to the wall. On the benches sat Insane soldiers. They were quiet and motionless. Still j Dowd suspected nothing. His treat- ment was odd, that was all. I "Usually Frenchmen are kindly and jovial," said he. "These men did not j look up or speak to me. But 1 did not know they were mad. I That night he was locked in a ward I with six insane men. His clothing , was taken from him, with the ex- ception of a brief undershirt and a I packet of clgarets which he managed to conceal under his pillow. He asked permission to keep his razor, but the guard refused. "If some of these men got hold of a razor," said he, "they would cut their throats or yours." "None of Them Are" Then Dowd awakened to the situa- tion. He told the guard that he was not crazy, and the guard laughed. "None of 'em are," said the guard, as he locked the door. 1 The six Insane men sat on their â-  beds, silent. So did Dowd. The elec- ^^^O^^k. The Lat« D>inni4 Dowi, AMERICAN IN FOREIGN LEGION CONFINED IN MADHOUSE, Herbert Corey Tells an Interesting Story of French Forces. "I had rather go tlirough the battle of Champagne over again," said Den- ' I nis Dowd. t I Dowd is one of the young Amerl-! jeans who enlisted in the Foreign Leg- Ion at the beginning of the war. A graduate of Georgetown University and a practising lawyer, he felt very deeply that as a believer in liberty and democracy he should fight for; France. After the battle of Cham-; pagne. in which he was wounded,' there was little left of his regiment of: th* Foreign Legion. Dowd felt he i had had enough of trench fighting. He put in an application for leave to Join the aviation arm. writes Herbert Corey, from France. Just as he was about to go back to his regiment he received word that his application for a change of ser- vice had been acted upon favorably. He had passed the very severe exam- ination to which aviators are sub- jected with flying colors. But red tape unwinds slowly, and when the time came for his return to the trench he had not yet received the coveted paper. "My hand is not completely well," he told a sympathetic army surgeon. "Give me two weeks In a hospital." . To the Madhouse. "There," said he, as he struck It on Dowd's papers, that will give you two weeks at the physiotherapeutical in- slltnte at Epinal." It was the psycholherapeutlc stamp he had affixed to Dowd's papers by mistake. An institute of psychothera- py is a madhouse. Dowd said good- trie light snapped out. From the six beds came animal-like noises. One man talked to his wife, waited for her replies, laughed, coaxed his little ones to come to his knees. Another raved incoherently. He heard their bare feet paddling up" and down the board floor in the darkness. Two fought to the accompaniment of the mindless laughter of their mates. Dowd smoked his clgarets and waited for the morning. "It will be all right," he assured himself. "I will tell them a mistake has been made. I am not mad." The doctor in charge made his rounds each morning. Dowd gave up trying to convince him of his sanity. The third morning the doctor shot a question ni. him suddenly. "What did yoii mess around at when you were at home ?" is a fairly literal translation of his question. "I was an advocate," said Dowd. The absurdity of the answer struck him. Here he was. masquerading be- hind a dense growth of beard, clad only In a tiny undershirt, sitting up in a bed in a ward filled with insane men, and insisting that he was a lawyer. It seemed to strike the doc- tor In the same way. "Ah, said he, "a lawyer â€" in a var- iety show ?" They laughed together. Dowd had tears of real mirth in his eyes when the door closed. He laughs yet when he thinks of it. The humor of It â€" the .\merican ability to see humor under iiny conditions â€" saved him. Next day the doctor's assistant put him through an examination. "This man is not mad," said he. There was still red tape to be un- wound. Days passed before he got out of the madhouse, but he went through thetn cheerfully. ♦ â€" GER.MANS SET MAN TRAPS. Also Distribute "Tortoise Bombs" in ' Abandoned Trenches. | Philip Gibbs, in a despatch from British headquarters in France, writes as follows: "The German is beginning to leave a lot of little things behind him, even if he abandons a trench in a hurry. This is a new dodge. One inven- | tion which has come into his fertile imagination is the mantrap, which THE NATION'S FUTURE Depends Upon Healthy Babies Properly reared children grom up to be strong, healthy citizens Many diseases to which child- ren are susceptible, first indicate their presence in the bowels. The careful mother should watch her child's bowel move- ments and use Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup It is a corrective for diarrhoea, colic and other ailments to which children are subject especially during the teething period. It is absolutely non-narcotic and contains neither opium, morphine nor any of their de- rivatives. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Makes Cheerful, Chubby Children Soothes the fretting child during the trying period of its develop- ment and thus gives rest and relief to both child and mother. Buy a bottle today and keep it handy SoiJ by all ./â- â- :ii;i^jtj in CanaJu unj ihraushjut the -tor/./ he sets outside his parapet or inside a shell hole on the way to it. .-Vs soon as one of tho British soldiers sets foot on it it closes about his leg with a terrific bite and brings him down like a log. ".\nother little device in deviltry is the "tortoise bomb." It looks very much like a tortoise if you happen to see it, which you do not in the dark, and it stands on four little legs. They waggle a little, but should it be unwarily touched it may detonate a bomb and blow a man to bits." WHAT AIR PILOTS MUST KNOW. By .Means of a Chart Dangers May Be .4 voided. To the ordinary observer the air may seem (juite guiltless of dangers, but, in reality, this is by no means the case. Aviators rarely make a flight without encount)ering some invisible, and therefore all the more dangerous, peril. During the earlier days of aviation these dangers often proved fatal, but nowadays an airman, by means of his charf, can avo d, or at least be prepara '. for, them. A considerable amount of time and money have been expended on these I charts, which are of incalculable ad- i vantage to airmen. I From towers in various parts of 1 Europe kit-ss. b>earing with them ap- paratus which records fluctuat ona in the strength of winds, are constantly sent alott, somet-imes to astounding heights. On these towers, also, are placed special instruments which re- cord the force of tile wind nearer Ohe earth. From the data thus collected experts are coastant'ly preparing new air charts. These charts show where the d:s- tjrbed areas exist, at what heights they are encountered, an i what is the maximum force of gusts over local- ities known to be dangerous during various strengths of wind. Aviators themselves play a big part in the making of air charts. 1 .A.t the Front, for instance, our air- â-  men are constantly coming in with news of fresh dangers they have dis- covered. The air-pockets, eddy, or whatever the newly-discovered peril may be, is prompt»ly marked down <in the chart of that region for the guid- ance of other aviators flying over that part of the country. Klaard's Unlment S«ll*Toa Venxalda. •>â-  THE POPULAR LAURENTIANS. A Holiday Re^:o^t of Unsurpassing Beauty. Lovers of beautiful mountain and valley scenery, towering rocks, thick forests, pleasant glades, flower-clad ; vales and plains, rushing and placid rivers, roaring waterfalls and bab- bling streams could not do better than to select the Laurentian .Moun- tains reached by the Canadian Pa- cific, as their holiday resort. So pret- , tily situated are all the spots where the holiday-makers make their head- : quarters that it is embarrassing to â-  choose the one that might be best suited to the taste of the individual. , But all are enchanting, from Shaw- bridge â€" the first of them â€" to Mount , Laurier â€" the last. Within easy reach ' of any of the resorts there is excel- lent trout and bass fishing to be had. The rivers and lakes are clear and sand-bottomed generally, and are well suited to tho requirements of the swimmer and bather. Row boat- ing, motor boating, and canoeing are favorite pastimes, and on a fine calm evening it is exhilarating to sit by the waters and listen to the laughter and merry chat of the parties who are on the waters. Golfing can be had at Ste. .\gathe, Ste. Margaret and Val Morin. Tennis courts are attached to .some of the better class hotels. Those who love mountain climbing can have a variety of spheres for this form of activity to select from and the expense of a holiday in the Lau- rentians is comparatively small. Sore! BRIGGS' FliKiRTS PRICE. 5<l= ARE CLEAN I NO STICKINESS ALL DEALERS |G.C.BrJggs&Sons HAMILTON 1 ^?KW'|^^[^Sfc lUjuurd'a Iiinlmtst Curaa SanOraff. She Could Make More. It was at the piano. Mother's darling firmly refused to do her prac- tice. "What a naughty little girl you are!'' chided the mother. "Don't care grumbled the yo'jngster. as she gave the piano a kick. "Now, treasure, you shall have a cent if you'll do your e.xercises nicely," urged mamma. "Shan't*," retorded treasure, getting off the piano-stool. "I can make more than that taking castor-oil." Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Dear Sirs, â€" I had a Bleeding Tumor on my face for a long time and tried a number of remedies without any gooii results, I was advised to try MINARD'S LINIMENT, and after us- ing several bottles it made a com- plete cure, and it healed all up and disappeared altogether. D.WID HENDERSON. Belleisle Station, Kings Co., N.B., Sept. 17, 1904. SHEEP DOtiS IN AUSTRALIA. Dog Trials a Feature of .Vgricultural Shows. In no place in the world are sheep and cattle dogs more in use than in Australia. The grazing estates are so enormous that it would be impos- sible to handle the great flocks with- out dogs. The -Australian pastoralist could not possibly exist without his dogs and that is the reason that sheep dog trials are looked upon as some- thing amounting to national compe- tition. Every town has its agricul- tural show and at all of these shtep dogs' trials are one of the most de- served attractions and the training that the Australian sheep I'og gets is nothing short of miraculous. .'Vustraliaiis are among the chief buyers of English dogs, with the re- sult that excellent specimens can be found there. They boa.st that there has never been a case of rabies among the dogs. Granulated Eyelldii; [ Eyes intlameJ bv expo- ^^ iure to Sm, Dust and WId< K^_ _^^^ qviiclily relieved by MwlM ^^ tf ^"^ just Eve Comfon. At Your Dpjggist's 50c per Bottle. Nortae Ej« talvcinTubea25c. ForDookallbeEjeFreeask Drjggists or Nurioe Eye Remedy Ca . , Cblcafll No "Same Place" Then. "Herbert," said a school teacher, turning t» a bright youngster, "caji you tell me what lightning is?" "Yes, ma'am," was the reaJy reply of the boy. "Lightning is streaks of elect- ricity." "Well, chat may pass," said the teacher, encouragingly. "Now tell me why it is that lightning never strikes twice in the same place." "Be- cause," answered Herbert, "after it hits once the same place ain't there any more." Mlnard'a Iiinlment C'nrea Burn*. Etc. Mary's Jam. Mary had a little jam Upon a piece of bread. And everywhere that Mary went She left L- me, be it said. They found it on the parlor rug. .\nd later irate dad On his dress suit found traces of The jam that Mary had. Get the "Peaches" that are coming to you in the peach season â€" but be sure to eat them en Shredded Wheat Biscuit with cream, a combination that ensures good digestion, health and strength for the da}''s v/ork. Cut out meat and kitchen worry and serve this ready- cooked, â- whole wheat food with the choicest fruit that grows â€" a dish for the up- and-coming man who wishes to keep at top-notch efficiency for work or play. Serve it for breakfast or any meal with milk or cream, with sliced peaches or other fruits. Made in Canada This is Awful. 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All in first class ccnJition, Would be sold lOgcthcr or separate- ly ; also a lot of shafting at a very great bargain as room is required immedi- ately. S. Frank Wilson & Sons 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto. El). 1. ISSIE 37â€" '18.

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