Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Mar 1915, p. 11

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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1915. 3 CRIPPLED BY Y. Ave., Whiting, Ind. Jan. 20th. UN iis or Lizdder; sted. pains in the smail of the back, ¢ or hips, your utine will be 1 brick dust or mucus show in the morning, your kles may swell, all due to inactive kidneys which Gin Pills will soo put right Gin You cun rea 2 de in Canada", B0c. a he ~at all de urider be na Trial treat al Drug & sited, Toronto, J to fall into the hands tain, C the of the birds from whence come the highly-prized maraboy feathers. getting boats, and some years ago, when the bridge'eonnecting the wharf with the shore was déstroyed by a tidal wave Supposed to have been due to a sub- marine volcanic unheaval, almost entirely isclated from the out- side world. most powerful' wireless stations KAISER'S LAST COLONY RHEUMATISM| |, OGOLAND WAS WON FOR GER- + MANY BY FREEBOOTERS. it Is Chiefly Famous For Its Mara- bou Feathers and the Great Wire- less Station Which Was Finished Just In Time For the War--Its History as a Colony Only Goes Hack About Thirty Years. The first of the German colonies of Great Bri- Togoland, on the Northwest Oast lof, africa, has an interest for ladies, as being the native home Lome, tha capital, is quite modern. It is a clean little town with well- ldid-eut-stegets, shaded by palm and other trees. "The principal building is the palace of the Duke of Mecklen- burg, the Gavernor of Togo. To over- come the di heavy surf which breaks almost in- cessantly on the low sandy beach, a culties caused by the a third of a mile long has been erected, and connected with a mas- sive wharf or quay at the seaward end, Unfortunately the natives are for- how to handle the surf- Lome was What is believed te be one of the in NOVELTIES IN UNIFORMS. Dress Distinetions of Some British legiments, . There are various novelties, in the way of curious badges, stripes, and ribbons decorating the ordinary regi- mental uniforms of the various branches of the service to which in. teresting stories are attached. The custom observed by the sergeants of the Somerset Light Infantry, of wear- ing their sashes over the left should- er instead of over the right, is said to commemorate the Battle of Cullo- den Moor, when, according to tradi- tion, all the officers having been put out of action, the sergeants took com- mand, and to distinguish themselves from their men reversed the position of the sashes usually worn by non- commissioned officers from right to left, Somewhat similar is the custom of the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars, sometimes known as the "Crossbelts," who wear the sword belt over the right shoulder instead of round the waist. This dates Back to the Battle of Saragossa, wliere the belts of the Spanish cavalry fell a prey to the troopers of the 8th Hussars. Officers, warrant officers, and ser- geants of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers are authorized to wear the "flash," a bow of broad black silk ribbon with long ends, fastenel® to the middle of the back of the collar. The origin of this peculiarity 18 obscure, but a re- port of 1768 notes that "the officers of this regiment wear their hair turn- ed up behind," in what was then known as the "Grenadier fashion," and the "flash" was probably intend- ©d to prevent the hair greasing the tunie. THE SOLDIER'S TEST. Most Terrifying Position Is Silence Under Fire, Every one of us must have won- dered how he would feel in battle for the first time. We may get some idea of how the average man feels in such gircumstances from a study of the psychology of battle, just pub- lished in Italy. Lieutenant-Colonel Mangiarottt, of the 77th Infantry ' carefully examined more than 2,000 soldiers who first faeed fire in the recent war between Italy and Turkey, | and he summarizes their statements | in the Rivista Militare. He questions ed them one by one. Out of 2,000 men 1,700 confessed that their most trying moment in | the whole campaign was when 'they | first heard hoctile bullets whistle about their ears. But almest ll of them said they were much less fright. ened than they had expécted to be, and that the scare diminished with each battle. The average soldier finds the most ! terrifying position to be that of | standing motionless in the from: | rank, exposed to the enemy's fire without being able to reply. ' The order to advance or to ¢harge with | fixed bayonets is then received as 3 release from agony. Movement, even | into greater petil, distracts the mind and greatly reduces the mental an- guish! Soldiers are seriously affected by | the trembling of their superiors. Av officer who shakes in his shoes is coward in the eyes of the rank and file, although the men know that many military heroes--Henry IV., Turenne, and Frederick thé Great, | for instance--trembled on going inte a fight, ing great havoc to the nets of fisher- men. This species sometimes reaches a length of fifteen feet, a fourth of which measures the "saw" FORCES OF NATURE. What They Do In Providing Power For Machinery, In several ingenious ways the forces of rature are now exploited in order to provide power for machin. ery' necessary for various humap activities. Such apparatus is especl- ally favored by engineers, for not only éan enormous power be obtain- ed, but the running expenses are ex- tremely low." One of the most jn- genious 'of these inventions is that which obtains power from the rays of the sun." The apparatus is at work in Egypt, where it pumps up water onto high levels In thousands of gallons, 5 § This novel device consists of a numbers of reflecting mirrors which concenitrate the rays' of the sun onto a glabs-covered "trough containing water. In a short space of {ime this water becomes sufficiently heated by the reflection from the mirrors to give off steam, which passes into a pipe to an engine of the usual steamy 'variety. = When 'some 30 -or 46 of these heating boxes are boiling watey by means of 'the sun's heat sufficient | steam is obtained to keep & powerful pumping engine at work with a min- imum of expense! / 'Some idea of the enormous power which the sun machine eonveys to the engine éan be ganged by the faét that' 2,000 gallons of water can be lifted 40 feet in dne minute. In many ingenious ways water is now trapped by means of dams, gigantic reservoirs stretches of is startling. dia I 'mostly in the Czar's hands, and a' vast Hne of Russian advance present war as at aly time in the successors. stantinople should be taken and the ascendancy over gained by, fair means or foul; all of them possible as an' outcome of ithe titanic war now in' progress. IU seems almost that 'Russia bas no othér poticy than a determination to e RUSSIA'S GUIDE. Th: Remarkable Secret Will of Petes the Great, Russia's proclamation of the an- nexation of Galicia the other week serves lo recall a most remarkable historical document----the seeret will of Peter the Great-- which, it is sald, is read to every Czar of Russia on his: accession td the thrope. In that will Peter laid out an amazing program of aggression for future Czars to follow, which had as its consummation the commercial or political subjugation of the entire | world. * Nearly two centuries have passed since Peter died. The proportion of his prophecies that have come true Poland has disappear ed; Sweden has been humbled sand isolated;" the Turk has been driven from thie' Black séa; the road to I's: Has spread over northern Asis (6 the Pacific ocean: ' "The guiding hands of the dead Czar may be seen as clearly in the past. England must be made a com: mercial ally, Peter coumseled his All' Slavonic peoples must be molded into one nation, Con- EIDE a ¥ Tt . Are your hsads chapped, cracked, or sore? ve you "cold cracks" which open and bleed when the skin is drawn tight? Have you a cold sore, frost bite, or chilblains, which at times makes it agony for you to go about your duies ? If so, Zam-Buk will give you relief, pa will heal the frost-Samaged 0, Miss B. Strojsa, of East Haus. ford, N.S, writes: "My hands were vo badly chapped I was un- able to put them in water. All remedies failed to heal until I tried Zam-Buk. Perseverance | with this balm completely healed the sores." Zam-Buk heals Cuts. bpras, brutses, cures ecrema. piles, chapped he nds, sores, frost bites, sud all skin diseases aiid injuries. Refuse sub- itutes. At sll druggists and stores, the . Teuton race Three far-reaching' objectives, and make ter's. prophecies come true. He said: "We must make the house of Aus- | 3 and great tria interested in the expulsion of the Turk from Europe, and we must neutralize its jealousy at the capture 6f Constantinople either by preocoun- | Pying it with & 'war with other Euro- pean'siates, or by allowing if a share | of the spoil, whith we can afterward resume wt our leisure," : What conld be more prophetic? Russia's advance along the Black Sea was niarked by the acquisition of Galicia, Bukowina, Bosnia. and Novi- bazar by Austria. It has already lost the latter to Servia, the two former wh! bedome: Russian territory if the . allies win the present war and Ser- vian arms are now ap "dine 'Bosnia. The Welsh Fusiliers, too, observe the custom of having a goat, decked with garlands, led at the head of the drums. On St. David's Day, March 1, the goat, bestridden by a drummer boy, used to be papaded round the mess table with the drums, 'during the ceremony of distributing the sym- bolic leek. The goat of the Welsh Fusiliers was killed during a recent action, but the King has just pre-| sented the regiment with another. The only regiment in the British army which wears a badge on both the back and front of the helmet is the Gloucesters, and it does so to commemorate the Battle of Alexan- dria (March 21st, 1801), in which the 1st Battalion of the regiment, then the 28th Foot, being hard press- 'ed, fought back to back. The 'cavalry regiments having the most individual uniforms are the 11th Hussars and the 16th Lancers. The former wear, in place of the regula- tion blue trousers, cherry-colored overalis, hence the familiar title of 'The Cherubims," while the bands- men wear greyish busbies in 'place of the usual black. This latter pecu- liarity, although it has existed for years, was only recognized by the War Office as recently as 1913. There are other minér variations in the uniform of this regiment, most of which introduces touches of the dis- tinctive cherry color, a shade not worn by any other regiment in the service, the world was completed in prepara- tion for the present war a few months ago, al Atakpame, about [110 miles from Lome. It is the chie receiving and distributing centre fot the Ger- man colonies in Africa, nd since messages can be either sent to, or Colonel Mangiarotti says that of- ficers must understand this feeling. This is especially true for lieuten- ants, for this inquiry reveals thé fact that in battle all officers from cap- tains upward are non-existént so' far piping and converted into power for | various purposes. Many great waterfalls are now har- nessed in such a fashion, two of the most important being the falls of | the Rhine and those of Niagara. as the common soldiers are concern- |. The machinery used to ohtain power ed. They keep their eyes on thelr | frem these great products of hature lHeufénants exclusively. This 'was | is somewhat complicated, but, rough- brought out witen Col. Mangiarotti | ly speaking, huge pipes divert tone asked the men what sentiment ani- | of water from the rapids just above mated them when the bullets were | the falls. This 'trapped water is falling all around them--was it love | then allowed fo fall some hundreds of country, religion, or their oath of | of feet. 3 fidelity to their king? "I 'went! ahead," they replied, almost unani- ; mously, "because my Heutepant went Thought He Was Mad. : ahead." ? The late Count de Lesseps was It 'seems that once the battle is on | traveling on one occasion in a French and the first feeling of terror has railway trainin a compartment with vanished soldiers feel as if set free. | two 'commercial travelers. The fever of combat takes possession | "I beg 'your pardon, sir," said one of them and they think about lof themi~--'are you nota traveler?" nothing else.--Johannesburg Sunday "Certainly I am," said the count. Times. "We thought so! What is your ; line?" \ 2, "Isthmuses." . Some Baby Facts, "Wh-wh-what," asked the puzzled A normal baby weighs seven to | commercial--*"what are they?" seven and one-half pounds at birth, |= "4am Introducing ship canals," fifteen pounds at five or six months | said De Lesseps gravely.s , and twenty-one pounds &t twelve | The commercial travelers ¢ feared months. The baby*should double its | that they had fallen in with a lunatic weight in six months and treble it at Land: were making preparations to es- Bout twelve months. Its length at | cup 'Sen the count handed them his | must (ake pains to establish and elk is twenty to twenty-one inches, | card and put them at their ease. maintaln 'an intimate union with bf oe, 8 twenty-five fo twenty- ' Austria, apparently countenancing length is twenty-eight. to twenty: § 8 * Lure of the Opera. at. twelve moths its schemes: tor future aggrandize- p HAE : t all the while secretly rous- inches. Gains in weight are more ra-' e music of opéras always hag | en pid during the first HH months, The | boas] 1 always will be the lure of 3g the Jealousy ot ne no Staten average weekly gain is about four'| its m of patrons; the singing, Bring it to pass that one or the other ounces. The best time to have a baby | too, is frequently brilliant and per | rt Roda hs 01 The ather Yaceinated is in its first Tear. n Rh mid at en pdentinent poh seehes |. Pe Al stek | fon Ort of pen Ithy it, ccinated at the 1 t every- hela or fr the Third oath Roath thing,' however . commofiplace = and | lettorate over the country, which Bulletin. : banal, is' sing, however beautifully, will 'always sadden 'the soul by the Will pave the way for future suprem. |, WESTBOUND Ca : acy." : Ar, hb: TR wery Impossibility und inappropriate ne: yy. e. t and The: sawiish. bi ness of the spectacle. Fat tenors er A AAA Sed ret enn sisi we, REAL ESTATE Insurance, Etc Only best and safest companies represented. W. b. Godwin & Son. Real Estate and Insurance. Phone 424, 89 Brock S¢, Wood's | The Great English Remed Tones and invigorates the whole Dervous stem, makes new Blood ia ol eins, Cures Nervous Debility, Mental and. Brain Worry, was a most important link in Ger- many's world wide 'Intelligence ser- vice, Atakpame is the terminus of the railway, but the Germans have built a good road as far as Sokode about 100 miles to the north, and a large motor car has been provided to sup- plement the fron road for further pro- gress {nto the fine hunting country nearer the interior of the continent. There, however; the ifhabitants | are hostile and treacherous, and have | the disturbing habit of taking pot- #hots at the passing their poisoned arrows. In this little-visited part of Togo are immense quantities of game, Antelope, leopards, and elephants ' abound, and many kinds of birds, in- cy, Hoax.af Energy, Polpitation the cluding the marabou stork, whence Heart, Rulting Memory, Piice $1 per box. six come the greatiy-prized marabou fea- ein Drewil rai cure. peg thers. 1 he rivers swarm with croco- ice. New pamphlet mailed free. THE WOOD | dile, and there are numbers of hip- INE © T ( , popotami. EDIC 0. TORONTO, ORT. (Formerly Winds +) As regards Togo history, this only ee a A tsp SOWARDS extends back about thirty years, at which time the Germans firet occu- Keep Coal pied the country. They found it in possession of many different tribes, Coal Keeps Russia, it would s is' resuming at its leisure. No 'effort should be spared to gain control of : Constantinople, Peter urged. Russia has spared none, Had it not heen for the united re- sistance of the powers of Europe in the' Crimean war it would be Czar- | grad instead of Constantinople now. | He wrote: « { "We must progress as much as. possible in the direction of Constan- tinople and India.' He who can onee get possession of those points is the! real rdler of the werld. 'With that view we must provoke constant quar} rels with Turkey and at another time with Persia. * * = Moreover, we received from, Nauen, just outside Berlin, a distance of 2.450 miles, it traveler with Wé 'can make If worth your while-~when you're ready----<to en. . RAge us. We are simply taking method to get acquainted. That we are Expert Plumb. ers and Steam Fitters, you ean easily learn by Investigation. DAVID HALL, 06 BROCK STREET. this all hostile to one another, the domin. ant tribe of the south-central region, dwelling round about which Sokode now is, being the Tschaudjo. These people were originally a con- quering tribe, lke the Masal and the Zulus, and they swept down from the north, somewhere. about a hundred years ago, devastating the country as they advanced. They came riding on horses, and as these animals had never before been seen in Togoland, the terror they inspired almost suf. ficed hy itself to ensure the defeat of the aboriginal owners of the soil. When the Germans came up from the south, a metley but brave and determined rabble, led by a certain free-lance adventurer named Kerst- { ing, they endured their first real check at the hands" of these wild liorsemen. Impressed by their fighting quali- ties, Kersting, following in a small way the example set by Cortez in Mexico, anid by Clive in India, allied himself 'with the uro--or king--of the Techaudjo, and, aided by him, he eventually subdued the whole coun- try and placed it under the German . The present. uro, an 'old but dignified and amiable savage named Djabo, is the son of the man who fought under Kersting's banner. He resides at Bafilo, near Sokode, in a "palace" provided for him by the Ger- man Government, who also grant him WAS MISERABLE COULDN'T STAND 25 Sia et Testifies She Was Although the bulk of the Togo na- ] 0, J tives are; usihus been said, in a con- AR ; E. dition but little removed from bars Vébme of the tribes, neverthe- less, show considerable skill in handi- crafts. Thus, at Bassari and i in the Konkombwa country, ir mined, smelted, and forged into ous articles, under exceedingly primi- tive, though fairly effective, condi-| tions. Es +f Other tribes cultivate cotton, which they weave into 'strong and service- able cloth 'an 3 wooden looms. Beautiful ; raskets palm-fibre, SED.1 261 Tor about half & oot eorece In the far north, the only . Rompe sownes, wangst the Kon, mbwa Tr : will purchase almost anything. only ene. A Quakeress' Feat, The first Englishwoman to have speech with thes Sultan of Turkey was Mary Fisher, a Quakeress, who in 1657 undertook to convert the Commander of the Faithful to Chris- tianity, She traveled by water to Smyrna, and then tramped to Adria- nople--about 600 miles away--where Mahomet IV. was encamped with his army, After many attempts, Mary found someone bold enough to teil the Grand Vizier that "a women was come who had something to declare from. the Great God to thé Suftan. > He arranged for an audience with his master, at which three drago- 'mans were in attendance as interpre- ters, and Mahomet was so Impressed with what he heard that, while un- willifig to become a Christian, he de- ers and sometimes abcends the Wi sired that Mary should stay in his sissippi and other southern rivers, dominions. When sbe insisted on re-} i he siered ior an sacar, add. : poy ) Pe ing: *'I'would not for anything tha Gary & Practi you should come to the least hurt." She got back safely to England, Home Dress A AG Boule Track ute Thé International Limited --Na_1. Daily Toronto .., Servia and Montenegro were pro-|Ar, ormidable wea- in 'flights "of <High Hamilton .. .voked {o war and appealed to Russia |4F Lendon .... expire for aid. 'That furnished the spark pon of killing iu the flat, bony sword, | Cer choruses 3 armed on each side with about twenty : ri Ar, Buffale [Which kindled the War: of nine nu: | Ar Chicaxo | 800 ress various i FE servy 8 ! in "sentime wi Sie tions. Poland once turned to Russia . -< large. bony teeth: The sawiith rushes Sa er ey. ad the es. faye Balkan states dig only yester-(The International Limited -- No. 14 Daily int shoal of - and slashes to i 'who' ¥ y 1 . a % BASTBOUND he. a fo he left." "In sea'| | ia vos A ed ada ny ie Peter' believed that the future Lv. Kingston .......... 0 fights sometimes whales have been' "wonderment; ghiyhi ae > greatness of the Russian race was ei killed by sawfish, and the saw sofe- |" : 'ordained 'v tate. Not westward, but Ar. times has on driven through "the A J 'the star of empire would |. Portland hull of aship. 'The sawfish, Hts colmon i ar f ringhald i about the West Indies, goes into the Prof. Coleman, Ontario Sehool for wend: its way Fem eller 3 jus « Thigh : Ar, Bost ¥ite + 8:05 a.m, ; the Deaf, Belleville, has just celebra "Egypt, 'Chuldes, "Babylon, Greece, 47 fidy ond fe: 33 i i i gulf of Mexico and the Florida wat- Rom y why Laer particulars appiy J. P. HAN: ted his seventy-fifth birthday, Tle has aa spent forty-five years in the institu: a ext? Kismet, Russ +, 'Raliroand Bt, i y 'tion. . y y Rusia, n . met, Russia woul cor, 'Yohnson and ¢ Ootaric Bean Bb Afent "TF 160k on the future invasion of | the eastern and western countries by | Saad by Eee wotement, | 'by pi y : . | mahiner regenerated the Roman na- ton by DAYOAYIRN Thoclons, These | of 'men from the nerth ae Bulk Oysters, Finnan Haddies Kippered Herings Dominion Fish Co. _ PHONE 520. was honored ever after Among her fellow-Quakers as 'she that spake to the Grand Turk." Teflux of the Nile, which Seasons comes to fertilize 'and I A Lesson In Hygiene. found 'Russig Gen. Baden-Powell in his new book, "Quick Trainin dor W pA makes a special point of the ance of health to a 1 older 3 | service, aid quotes a lesson 'given by Gen. Sir William Knox to some new hen who joined his m i Shore Line" ions (of Went. wday, Mareh to irs from F. CONWAY, ©. lee; corner Prin. treets, Phone is tif fH of g fe "1 hea d Mrs. Talky broke her neck git ou ) "Yes. She fell out of a.second "When 1 promise he . ] . rel ENN pL ' 5 . storey window while trying to see you want him to come } ? \ Dewapaper the | : Le of ; ie what kind of furni ture the new ten- consent?" aL : . t the as | : - i . ants have, "No, not my consent; but I ike to bave trot in and ihe suc re sort of feel -§ needed cheering up."

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