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Bradshaw, Manager, oi, VAN'S FRENCH PILLS 0. dresn or Women. $5 a box or three for 1 or mailed to any after | | pretty girl, 1 : Lg BERG, OUR HUMUROUS ARMY TOMMIES ' ALW YS SEE FUNNY SIDE OF "ROUBLES. |A Canadian Chaplain Tells of His : Obseryations at the Front, Where | the Men Are Free and Natural | and Where Laughter, -Chivalry, and Pluck Are at Their ] Best, | } ERHAPS the rhost signal ser- Neen | vice that "Punch" has ever { : rendered to the British Em- | pire has been its delightfil | portrayal of the humorous 'side of the soldier's life in this anything but humorous war. And the most popu- | lar light artist of to-day has attained his popularity by creating laughter | for the folks at home out of real or | imaginary incidents at the front. But ii | neither "Punch" nor Captain Bruce Bairnsfather has ever been more humorous than the men who have given them inspiration for their brush and pen. The humor of the British soldier, indeed, is indescrib- able. You can no more do it justice by description than you can. the beauty of a flower or the face of a And, by the same token, you cannot exaggerate it either. "Tommy" is not made to appear hu- morous; he is humorous--as humor- {ous as he is brave, as humorous as | he is chivalrous. Everybody "will have read by this itime Mr. Alfred Noyes' delightful story of the two stokers who, in the heat of the battle of Jutland, found time for the discussion of a little domestic tragedy, and' how one of them calmly delivered his judgment that "the feller ought to 'ave maf ried "er!" And everybody probably allowed something for journalistic coloring when they read it. But those of us who get the humor at first hand know that there is no real exaggeration. What Is put on in one place ig lost in another. The condi- tions, the situation, the time, the | 8pirit--you cannot describe them {all, and give them all their due, and, {at the same time, make the incident {Appear more humorous than it really | was. { The beauty of it all is that the {humor is so spontaneous--as pon- |taneous as the merriment of a little {child, as free and natural as the {laughter of children at their play. {And just as it is the capacity for laughter in children that makes life {more of a game for them than a solemn task, so it is the capacity for {laughter in our soldiers that makes {them face this most serious task of {all with a iightness of spirit that is at once the astonishment and admir- ation of the world. Indeed, it is not {too much to say that their spirit of {humor is the secret both of their en- {durance and their triumph. A car- | toon in a recent "Punch" puts the {whole thing i lite! 841-3 Princess St. It's only us keeping so cheerful as admirably, "What a No rest, n~ beer, no nuffin. pulls us through!" There is nothing that this spirit will not lead them to do; there is no task s0 miserable that it does not transform, Here, for instance, is a quite typi- tal example of what the humor of our men will do with the most trying conditions imaginable. We received orders, one miserably wet morning, to move from our rest billets to a point nearer the front line, where we should be in readiness for an imme- diate call to action. I wag the Chureh Militant that morning, and went on ahead with a billeting party tn secure what accommodation we could for the men for the night. And we discovered that the bnly ac- commodation possible was a plece of open ground already running streams of water and up to the boot-tops in mud! - This, we were assured, must be our shelter for thé night. Now all the material we had to make that at all liveable -was a waterproof sheet to lie on and a waterproof sheet that might be manipulated as & covering overhead. There were, in addition, some empty shell boxes lying about which could be utilized in one way or another. formation ready we awaited the ar- rival of our respective battalions, If we were soaked through ourselves, they were a thousand times worse, and arrived in a sorry condition. It would not have been in t surprising if théy had -expressed themselves in words such as I have known them often use, and with far less justification. There they were, poor fellows, wet though to the bone, and the only thing before them for the night a soaking field of mud! But, will you believe me? the only soung I heard from all around, e men went swinging along wi water to their boot-tops, wera the ER -- With this in. ; a okt a Tn the sky ars EE ER ARE or EAE Ia Fis fields. scenes. 1 was told of a "Fritz" who appeared at a hospital without a sia gle button on his clothing; and on being questioned where (hey had gone his only answer, accompanied by an eloquent sign, was '"'Kamme- rad! Canada Kammerad!" And this is still more humorous: One of our boys (strictly a boy), having taken a Hun prisoner, proceeded to divest him of &is belt. But "Fritz" showed him, he said, that "he had nothing else to hold his pants up with." "But," he added, "I guess he went on holding his pants yp with his hands." » * 1 have sometimes wondered if humor is as prevalent in higher cir- cles, At any rate, I think that a great opportunity was missed - when a certain appointment was made. had occasion once to present myself, in company with anbther officer, be- fore a certain town commandant, | and while we were there a third offi- | cer eame for the same purpose. He | Was l1éan and lanky, pale-faced, and looked decidedly harmless. In a voice 'as anzmic as his face he intro- duced himself ,as "The waterman." And he looked it, every inch of him. And that js where the powers miss- ed their opportunity, and why I fear they hawe no soul for humor, There are plenty of men in the army who could have graced that office with figures rotund and faces like the set- ting sun. The waterman! I can think of lots of men who would pro- vide merriment for a whole division from the mere fact that their special province was water. But the au- thorities did not: see it. The au- thorities, parhaps, are not humorous. But we may\thank God that we have an army of humorous men. The writer of the foregoing 'is chaplaid to the 3rd Brigade Cana- dians, and late of St. James' Cathe- dral, Toronto. eileen OUR "CANNED GOODS NEEDED. Canadian Trade Commissioner Di" rects Attention to Good Market, Mr. Harrison Watson, Canadian Trade Commissioner, London, in his latest report says: "It seems a favorable opportunity for again directing attention to the excellent prospects which should await the coming season's pack of Canadian canned fruits and veget- ables in this market. "While it is true that ordinary commercial transactions are substan- tially reduced by existing import re- strictions, upon the other hand the virtual prohibition of sources of sup- ply outside of the British Empire for at least a considerable proportion of the year obviously gives an enor- mous advantage to Canadian goods, while the avowed policy of the Gov- ernment departments and that jm- portant body, the Army Canteen Committee (which now purchases on behalf of same 2,000 canteens) to give all possible preference to the products of the Empire, offers op- portunities of which it is hoped Can- adian packers will take the full ad- vantage of which they were so unfor- tunately deprived last summer owing to the indifferent yield of so many vegetables 'and fruits. "The big demand for Canadian cannell tomatoes, peas, and pears has resulted from the dislocation of or- dinary sources of supply affected by the war," while owing largely to the presence of the Canadian Expedition- ary Force and their families a de- mand has been. created for goods previously very little used in this country, such as baked beans and sugar corn, "Many of the principal canned goods importers in London and else- where have already been in touch with some of the Canadian packers of canned fruits and vegetables, but the frequent additional inquiries that come in betoken the increased interest which is being evinced in Canada as a source of supply, and while ordinary business transactions are temporarily limited by the difi- culties of transportation in =addition to import' restrictions, Canadian packers, with proper foresight and organization, 'should be able to se- cure, and in certain lines perman- ently retain, trade which was pre- viously done with other countries." In Flanders Fields. In his patriotic contribution to the debate on the selective draft, Mr Hugh Guthrie, the member for South Wellington, quoted two or three lines from "In Flanders Fields." This beautiful poem was written for Punch by Dr. John MacCrae, a Montreal physician and poet, who was born in Guelph, where his father and mother still reside. Dr. x Grae was through the r War. He went oversea early ii the present war and now holds the rank of Lieu- tenani-Colonel. ~In Flanders Fields" reads: 2 'In Flanders fields "the poppies grow, the ¢ roy on y, below. we throw' ae poppies (ke up Our quarrel. with Fn Re Ith ; ik faith swith 'us who A ws THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1917. Letters to the Editor IC bo. A- Political Outlook, tor) : The Moses of Canada, and a man guilty of any corrupt act. "Follow, ways find it in the honor." There is not a man, since Canada forefront of rity, honest in his convictions and square dealing with his fellow man, than Sir Wilfrid. that the men that are lead by him in parliament are still sticking to him! Do they want a Borden with his class, such as Bourassa, Sevigney, Edwards and such agitators to rule Canada? No! 1 say 'No! Dp we want Sifton of party traitor tendencies; a Nationalist of shoot holes in the Union Jack? No; as good British sub- | caonscript-the-wealth and leave enough of the food amd sinew of! PAGE THREE Probs: Friday, showery at first, then soolér. Kingston, Aug. 15.--(To the Edi- ji So Sir Wilfrid Laurier is com- Ji} ing to his own! That grand old man! | Jill that I defy anyone to accuse of being |i my white plume and you will al-'} was Canada who has had a more} honorable career, of upright integ-! JH Is it any wonder |} a Bob Rogers of whitewash fame, a |i jects we want men of win-the-war; iil! Canada here to feed the boys at the [JH front, Conscript the dudes, pool- | room gents, cigarette flends and leave at home honest, hard-working! men and farmers' sons to carry on engaged in, I noticed a recent gathering A counted among hundreds ' of men there,--and I am & fairly good judge bf the men who should go, by hand- ling hundreds of men mow at the | front--and in my estimation there were 376 men who should be in khaki and only 18 men in uniform. What has our good loyal conscript- ionist friend, Dr. Edwards, to say to this? It is allright to howl at the French when here but mot at our tenac and give a conscription speech and tell the farmers that you will sons to go the front, reception ypu would get. You had better take [that dear old Union Jack, that your friends the Nationalists tect your body. The good people of Frontenac county are as loyal a sany in the Empire but they want the freedom of free, British subjects. #2 What about kalsommining, Bob Rogers. Ask him if his partner and friend is not in jail? '"Has anyone here seen Kelly"? No! But Bob is on deck. Where is the speech that W. F. Nickle was to make om conscription? It came not. Where was he when the vote came up in the House of Com- mons? What do the jeople of Canada want? Do they want Dr. Edwards and his friends, Bourassa and his crowd of not-to-support + England, rather be under German rule, shoot holes in the dear old Union Jack, non-conscriptionists Tory graft and neglect of the: returned soldier? Or do they want win-the-war, fair play dier and the boy who wants to feed the soldier or make munitions war; cheaper food stuffs, less graft, no Tory politics in the militia game, proper attention to the wounded and sick men, British fair play and God bless Canada? Which? ~--JAMES TRAVERIS, The Tussock Moth, Kingston, Aug.16.~~(To the Bdi- tor): [In view of the prevalence of the Tussock Moth in the city this year, and the fact that many totally useless of destroying it are being radvocated. it seems to me that a brief sketch of its life-history and of prop- er methods of control might be of some value. - The female of the Tussock Moth'is wingless, and on emerging from her cacoon she lays her 300 te 500 eggs upon it, covering them with a creamyswhite substance which har- dens on exposure to the air, At<the present time this egg-laying may be witnessed ori almost any of our trees. These eggs hatch in late May or ear- ly June, and the larvae, (caterpil- lars) feed, moult amd grow until August, when they make a cacoon of silk interwoven with the long hairs which they pull from their bodies. This cacoon is woven in some crevice and we may now see hundreds of is termed pupa, & resting stage, dur- ing which the insect so Tesem- es a mummy, If cacoons bl ed at this tim 0 to contain which are blackish in colour and pointed at the poster Thought Child Was Dy- ug the good honest work they are now IH were going to shoot holes in to pro-|H to the boy who wants to be & sol-|piy of | Save 10% on all your cash purchases by : shopping + here tomorrow ! We have new fall suits, coats, coat and silk dresses, millinery, dress goods, suitings, silks, cottons, flannels, flannelettes, hosiery, gloves, etc. Now on opening display. home people? Go anywhere in Fron- Ji} be along very soon and demand their lll A pretty} LONDON DIRECTORY (Published Annually) enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each class of goods. 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