Daily British Whig (1850), 13 Sep 1915, p. 22

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Io OE OREN 43 THE DAILY BRITISH WH Gofllewaet Glatier. ' (3) ORmbing Mount Resplena dlehdent. (4) Moraine Lake 16, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1015. : (near (6) Lake 'in the clouds (mear Lake Louise). (8) Alpine Olub at Lake Oesa. T and expeditions. The. main camp will be close by Phacelia Lake, No more beautiful and interesting spot than, the Valle: Buch names as "The Wall of Jericho," "Merlin Castle," features within easy reach of the C eolotiring in 'the bright sunshine. Several geod Post Mt, (9,650 1t.), From fis 'camp climbs 'can be made of the Black Douglas (11.015 (9,405 ft.), Mt. Multifold (9,996 ft.), the routes Indicated; noticeably: "5 X | tem what supporting wounds were like, but 'the pus organisms have 3 Bs Bh WOUNDS OF THE WAR i. become aggressive, and more : oe > supporting wounds have been seen AN 1 UMINATING ARTICLE OF | by British surgeons in ten manths SIR WILLIAM OSLER. { methods became general. The na- $ de | ture { than in the forty years since Lifter's An Old Veteran Told Him That the | gheil and shrapnel favers infection, Side With the Strongest Nerves and, in spite of early first-aid dress: > {ing, the germs are carried far into B Si Win hie War, : , | the tissues, and suppuration is inevi- Po the truth of the saying that dis- table. 'Trench warfare can mever ease, not 'battle, digs the soldier's|{be aseptid. The uniforms of the 'grave, 'the campaigns of the nine- | Man are caked in mud, which in fteerith century bear ample witness, | Righly cultivhted districts always he says contains dangerous micro-organisms, Today's 'lieavy casualty lists! The usual pus germs, streptococci should be réad with a knowledge that a very large proportion of the wound- ed get perfectly well, and that up to date some 60 per cemt. have return- ed to duty. 4 The returns for disease are not yet avaliable, but, when the analysis is completed, we shall find that coughs and colds, pneumonia, rheumatic fe- ver, brobchitis, and muscular rheu- matism, particularly what is called trench rheumatism, have been res- ponsible for a large proportion of the sickness, and everyone harbours less imports ant forms, so that any Wound, how- ever, slight, unless treated immedia- tely, may become infected. The one bright feature -has been the frequency with which the high velocity bullet sterilizes its course, so that many pérforating wounds of the chest, abdomen and limbs recov- er without suppuration. The torn and bruised shrapael wounds invari- ably become infected. , . _ Where Are The Soidiers? Shell Wounds. From 1 to 4 and even Syper cent. In civil life we Nad almost forgot- of the 'men in home camps ave invali- HE 1915 canip will be held from July 12-26 in Ptarmigan Lake Valley, eight miles north of Lake I peaks close to the side of she Camp offer excellent ¢limbs, viz, Mt. Of 'these the first three named will be accepted as Graduating climbs. An outlytng camp will Ye placed in the Red Deer Valley, near Little Pi ft.), the White Douglas (11,220 ft.) Mt. Drummond, Mt. McConnell and others. A splendid two-day expedition ean be miade from the Main Camp via ( thenee up the' Little Pipestone, over the Pass to Camp on the headwaters of One-Trés Lake, Lake Myosotis, the 'Wall 6f 'Jericho, "In mkny 'other @lrectivns (here are 'delightful one-day expeditions, viz.: of the commoner wounds due todd and 'staphylococci, are ubiquitous; of over 7,000 feet. "Tilted Mountain," "Mt. Multifol d," "Lake Mxosotis y are dottéd with "harming. little lakes, some seventee Richardson (10,115 ft.), pestone Pass. where the velley of Baker, Lake joins the former, It will be the latter, a dificult peak, dominates this . ° Ope-Tree Pass and Lake, and a branch of Little Pipestone Cree the. Red Deer, where the might will be spent. Thence home via Baker and Merlin Lake and Castle, Lake Castilleia and the Glacier of the Rie --td Fallen Mt, Pinnacle Lake, Heart Lake, Mt. Brachimopod, k between {ded for venereal disease. Though 'we know the germs both &f gonorr- { hoea 'and of syphilis, no satisfactory j measures of prevention have been | j ised, either in civil or military life. | { The incidence is lessening through | frank and free education; and the fdisability is much less protracted ow- +ing to) better measures of treatment The terrible nature of this scour- | ge corhés home when. ane sees it, so {to speak, wholesale, Passing { through lines of tents in an outlying | portion of a camp, impressed 'by the | silence and loneliness, I asked, { 'Where are the soldiers?' At com-| mand a bugle sounded, and out of {the tents came between 500 and 800 {victims of the disease, stricken in one { of our pest-haunted sea-ports. It was | a tragic. sight, the sorrow of which i was heightened by the knowledge | that thé offender's cross is not borne | by the siamer alone. The gonococcus is' a germ of ter- i rible_ social 'malignangy;~ while the spirochete of syphilis, transcending! | the imagination of Ezekiel, visits up-| i on the ipnocent mother and children | | the iniquity of the father, perhaps af-| {ter long years of bitter repentance | for 'his trespass that he hath tresgas-| | sed and for the sin that he hatlnsin- ined' "But there is a silver lining! to the luetic cloud, in the steady fall Army and Navy, and in the greater eflicacy of treatment since the discov- ery of the germs. -- While infection with germs of var- fous Kinds is the most serious factor jin war, always-more fatal than the enemy, ipefficiency may come from many other causes, among which mental strain stafds first. I asked an old veteran, thin, brown anc worn from twenty-one days' continuous Thghting in the trenches, what would answered, 'Strain. The side with the strongest nerves will win.' Neurasthenia, mental breakdown and forms of insgnity are common re- sults of the nerve-shatiering experi- ence of the war, - . The Angels At Mons. When the German armies in over- wheiming numbers swept down on to the British forces after the Battle of Mons, when our brave {roops were in imminent peril of annihilation, ow- ing to the greatly superior Sumbers of the ememy, a great vision of an- gels appeared and stood in- the way of the advancing German host, which turned and fled. The daughter of Canon Marrable knows both officers, who themselves saw. the angels who Lotfse statiom-on the OC. P. R. The club house at Banff will open on June 1 below Ptarmigan Peak, at @n altitude of Ptarmigan and Baker Lakes ean be seén. "Pinnacle Lake," "Fallen Mountain," amp, sound most attractive, The valleys of tiié vicinit Fine peaks are all arpund, within easy reach. mn of which are 'withih the area to be travers Pika Peak (10,815 ft), the Wall of Jericho and 'Skoky Mt, hardson group, Tilted Mt, 'and in the incidence of the disease in the! be the deciding factor in the war. He | 5th, for the scason, Following is a list of the climbs "Lake Castiliela," "Oyster Peak," and "Wonder Valley," all of which are 8d, and sparkle like jewels of rich Ptarmigan Peak (10,060 ft.), Mt. Redoubt (9,610 ft.) and distant from the Main Camp about six miles, section of the region; also of Cyclone Peak (9,530 ft.), Mt. Pipestone or by the Skoky Valley further west, many points of interest tg be visited along 1 the Ger-| BETTER WORK IN PLANTS. mans, when they came right upen | them. They expected annihilation Is What and they were almost helpless, when, |! to their amazement, the Germans | {#iood like dazed men, and never | touched their guns, nor stirred, till | we had turned round and escaped by | {Some cross-roads, Miss Marrable | says one, who was not a Christian, {told her he saw the troop of angels | {between us and the enemy and he {bas been a changed man ever since. | The other said that when his com-| pany was retreating he heard German | cavalry tearing after them. They iran for a place where they thought ia Etand might be made with Some | hope of saféty, but before they could workshop in the country. § eaking sreach it the German cavalry, were! , "0 trade unionist, and a DE upon them, so they turned and faced | of the Amalgamated Society of Engi- {the enemy, expecting instant death, | neers, 1 am borry to say I do not be- when, to their wonder, they say be-| lieve that has been done." tween them and the enemy. a whole] James O'Grady, another troop of angels. = The horses of the | member who recently Germans stampeded in terror, and | " . | kore away in any direction from our! 'men, with the 'Germans tugging at! their bridles, This gave them time to save themselves, -- From "The {Christian Herald and Signs of our Times," ' Ptarmigan Lakes. There are ~~ many 'other features of this wonderful region of tHe Takes. AAA AAR A mii, . saved the left wing from the Army in the Field Needs. Barnes, Labor member of Parlia- ment, speaking at Walworthy . last night, said he did not bellevéd there 'Was need for conscription, but it was needed "that the men we had sent out to fight our battles should be supported by the men in the work- shops better than they are at the present moment." tions caused by the war, we ought to regard it as our solemn duty to turn out as much as possible in every visited: the said he had it from the Field Mar- shal : Germany. The thief becomes penitent only] . cl tafter he is at the bar of justice. | Mr. O'Grady, "I say that every man NAA AA bein | WHO iS not doing all he can 10 get Bs - | works | his country, | are fighting | ideals underlying this war," ar A { Will Not Bear Arms. | _ Paris, | War gave orders yesterday that | stretcher bearers who, while serving 'is talse to his mates who | with the auxiliary forces, were cap- | +f tured and subsequently were releas- + ed in aecordance with international | | sanitary conventions, shall not under London, Sept. 14.--QGeorge Nicoll | ' i He continued: "Under the condi- at the front, false to the | Sept. 14.--The Ministry of | 61} REMEMBER! The ointment you put on your childs skingets into the system just as surely as food the child eats. Don't ler impure fats an&thineral coloting matter (such as many of the cheap ointments contain) 'get into your child's blood! Zam- Buk is purely herbal. No pois- onous coloring. Use it always. 50¢. Box at All Druggists and Stores. AN A A A OUR FRESH GROUND COF. FEE AT 40c. CAN'T BE BRAT. Try a sample order and be convinced. NOLAN'S GROCERY, i Princess St, } Phone 720. Prompt Delivery KINGSTON CEMENT CT PRODHCT fles; brick Flower Vases, Tile, Cap { pler Blocks. We also make Cement Grave Vaults. Estimates iiven for | ®ll kinds of Cement Work. Office and Factory | Cor. of CHARLES AND PATRICK. i Phone 730. MGR. H. F. NORMAN. | rm nniiny BUILDERS !! Havé You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? It Saves Time P. WALSH, Barrack Street. | a tt | SOWARDS Keep Coal and Coal Keeps SOWARDS. my "LISTEN" Food when properly Cooked, =~ Can be served First Class, And the way to obtain it is to COOK WITH GAS. Drop a card to the Office of Works, { Quebn Street, or 'phone. 197, and {| bave the GAS installed in your { home, Light, Heat, Power and Water Depts. C. C. Folger, General Mgr. BE LY LS TWO WOMEN AVBID k Labor | front and conversed with Field Mar- | shal French and others in authority, | that this war has resolved ft- | { self into a battle between the work- | | men and mechanics of this country | and the workmen and mechaties of | "In these circumstances," added | | the utmost productivity out of the | Ps of this country is false to | E i ! : §3k.. pi Sif & i : i 0 i § ; LA rE | ADYy pretext be put into the armed | seryice, They are to remain neu- | tralited under the protection of the i Geneva Convention. AN ee -------- | To Be Pink Champagne. { London, Sept. | Pagne is ons of the probable results 14--Pink cham- { ofthe war, owing to the great de- | | Straction' of casks used in maturing { red wine. Casks are being brought from Bu | maturing the mew vintage. { i Word was recaived from Vaneou- . Wonderful Eight-Star Cast in "rilby," at the Grand i Opera House on Thursday evening, Martinette, George MacFarlane, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Lyn Harding, Charles Dalton, Regan Hughston, September 16th---Teft to right: Paton Gibbs, fgnacic and Rose Coghlan. | Yor, that Mrs. Teezel, wite of Justice fas Had dropped dead of apoplexy and Mrs. Teezel hd been staying for | past month." SW oT rgandy and Bordeaux for | at the Hotel Vancouver, where Judge | i

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