PAGE TWENTY-TWO DISFIGURED 4 YEARS! Such was the misfortune of Mr, A. B. Whicker, of Paradise Hill, Sask. Writing to the Zam-Buk Co., E he says: | "For four years 1 was a Shock Ling sight--my face was simply cov- E ered with. pimples and blackheads, FSNIthing 1 tried--although I used numercus remedies and blood med- jeines--had any effect. Finally 1 heard of Zam-Buk and gave it a trial. By the time I finished the i first box 1 realized I had found a b cure. I continued using Zam-Buk f until the pimples and blackheads had entirely disappeared and my E skin is now perfectly clear and smooth." § Zam-Buk gives just as satisfac- E fory results in eases of eczema, scalp sores, ringworm, ulcers, boils, pod-poisoning and piles and is the 'best "first-aid" in cases of cuts, Fburns and scalds. All dealers or rigs Co,, Toronto. boc. box, 8 p $1.25. 'ill course, to Uncle Sam. i Sg . AAA te 1! Fo AITERS n All the New Colors From $1.50 to $3.00. Wy Shoe Store 12 Princess Street. Phone 159. AREA IFE TOO ILL FIS04305000 0ReTRINNt Nicknames Given to Fighters a] PVP VER since the United States entered the herofe but unavailing efforts have been made to nvent a nickname for the American soldiers. Invent- ing a nickname is much like bidding gpirits from out the vasty deep, for it is useless to invent the name un- less it will 'k So lonz as it sticks it doesn't much m™~tte? whe- ther it is complimentary or the re- verse. It was observed the other day that the First British Expeditionary Force, or rather those of its members who survive, are proud to be known 4s the "Old Contemptibles," in al- lusion to the Kaiser's remark about General French's "contemptible little army." A Winnipeg battalion boasts the name of the "Little Black Devils" which it was given by the enemy. No nickname that come: to mind was carefully prepared in advance; the nickname is the happy result of some Occurrence, it may be heroie, it may be ludicrous, of some sudden {inci dent, and an equally swift flash of wit or imagination on the part of an observer, At present the members of the American Expeditionary Force ure battling gamely against a fond if mistaken desire on the part of var- lous home folks to call them "Sam- mies." It is said that when the first of them reached the port in France where they disembarked, some French girls called out, "Hello, Sammies!"" the allusion being, of When, this news reached home, some admirers of Colonel Roosevelt thought that if a Christian name was to be worn by the troops generally it ought to be "Teddy," and therefore there are numerous adherents of the term "Teddies." Hundreds of others have been suggested, among them "Jimuniies," the reference being to a necessary we:pon of a burglar, and perhaps a means of entering Berlin. "Amexes" is obviously adapted from "'Anzacs." Somebody else suggested "Feathers," which he thought would be a suitable companion piece for "*Tars," by which the sailors are known, and calculated also to give a hint as to part of the punishment that awaits Wilkelm of Prussia, when he reverts to the status of an ex-alderman, Canadians are called "Canucks," but most of them do not like the name. However, they are honorably known by it all over the world, and it seems destined to stick. The French soldier is called a poilu, meaning a hairy one, and the name was given In the early desperate days of the 'war when the French. soldier had no time to shave, and reverted more or less to a condition of nature. How the English soldier came to be called a "Toramy" is well known. Many years ago each regular soldier in the British army was provided with-a little notebook, in which he was supposed to record various per- [Bonal details, such as age, term of enlistment, and other necessary mili tary information. In order that the soldier might properly fill in the blanks a model was printed in the book, and whereas in legal docu ments the name "John Doe" is used, in the case of the soldier the com- mon name of "Thomas Atkins" was chosen for the purpose of illustra- tion. The marines are called '"'Jol- lies" because they were held by the regular sailors to be about as rela tively important as a jolly boat to. battleship. The Black Watch has got its name because the regiment was originally recruited of companies of Scottish watchmen, and the dark plaid of their tartans, black, green und blue, suggested the adjective. The Fifty-third Foot was known as the "Brickdusts," because of the color of regimental facings, Similar- ly the Twenty-fourth' Foot was call- ed "Howard's Greens," in honor of a famous colonel and the trimmings of the uniforms, The Seventeenth Foot, which saw desperate service in India, was spontaneously named the Bengal Tigers, but the equally war- like Seventy-seventh Foot was mere- the '"Pothooks," because of the resemblance between the dgure 7 and a pothook. immortal Eleventh Hussars, heroes of the charge at Balaklava, could gain no more glorious name than that of "Cherry Pickers," because at one time some of the command had been captured in 'a Spanish cherry war THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917. GALT MAN SAYS HE GAINED 25 POUNDS 3 | Couldn't Work For Fourteen Weeks -- Restored to Health by Tanlac. "lI have actually gained twenty? five pounds and firmly believe if I had gotten Tanlac six months ago I would have been saved the awful suf- Mering I had to endure, besides the hundreds of dollars ] paid out for other medicines that did me no good." This remarkable statement was mad® by Nelson Sloat, a station- ary fireman, employed by Goldie Mec- Culloch, and. living at 75 State street, Galt, Ont., recently. "When | began taking Tanlae" continued Mr. Sloat, "I was suffer- Big with rheumatism and stomach uble which had just about put me out of commission. My stomach went back on me something less than a year ago. I would bloat up with gas after eating and 'suffer for hours. 1 also had a terrible hurting in the pit of my stomach. Then rheumatism set in on me and 1 got Ix an awful fix. I ached all over and the pain in my hands was so in- tense 1 couldn't close my fingers. Part of the time I was flat on my back. Was so nervous and miserable I couldn't sleep or rest and fell off until 1 weighed only one hundred and thirty-five pounds. The time I lost from work and the money I spent drying to get relief would amount to hundreds of dollars, but I kept getting worse, "The day I started on Tanlac 1 hadn't been able to hit a lick of work in fourteen weeks, but Tan- lac soon changed things around for me. I now weigh one hundred and sixty pounds--have picked up twenty five pounds and have gone back to work. My appetite is better than in months and my nerves are perfectly calm. I sleep good and get up in the mornings thoroughly rested. My rheumatic trouble has left me en- tirely and my fingers are as nimble as they ever werd In fact; my aches and pains are all. gone and I'm feeling about as well as if T hadn't been sick a day. I simply feel like a different man and can truthfully say Tanlac isgwhat brought me out." Tanlac is dd in Kingston by A. P, Chown. --ADVT, A "Thrift" Rhyme. The National Food Commission of the United States, like Silas Wegg, has "dropped into poetry," to express its sense of the need for the preser- vation of food, and its effort has pro- duced the following: From our comstant daily reading We can see the thing we're needing is the stuff for fully feeding folks at home and folks afar. For the daily papers tell us facts and figures that compel us to be wide-awake and Jealoys of the waste we should debar. Bread and butter, beans and berries, kraut and'cabbage, cheese and cher- ries, and the eggs of Tom and Jerries should be saved throughout the land, 80 that ours, the fruitful nation, may prevent the quick starvation of the balance of creation in the troublous times at hand. Though it seems in- consequential, each small slice of bread's essential to keep famine pes- tilential from ourselves 'and our allies; waste of food is unpropitious, sequence as vicious as « swarm of German spies. All our logic and our reason prove it's nothing short of treason if we let the growing season find us idly looking on, not consider- ing nor caring for the famine which is staring in our faces, nor preparing for the days when summer's gone, Let us then do what we ought to by devoting all our thought to saving foodstuffs as we're taught to by the manuals complete which the Nation- al Commission has prepared in large edition for improving the condition of our stock of things to eat. This is something worth your trying, for by canning and by drying all the thitigs that you've been buying you'll not merely feed yourselves, but you'll find, from the beginning that you've helped our troops in winning by the drying and the tinning which have stocked your pantry shelves, Sr, I"---- The Swagger Stick. The use of the "swagger stick" has been misunderstood-by many of the American soldiers coming fri across the line to be trained here. In Canada, recruits, at any time during the last three years, have, in certain stages of their training, almost in- variably carried these little canes when off duty, not through affecta- tion or vanity, but simply because the use of them prevented the young soldiers from slipping their right bands into their = trousers pockets. The finished soldier would not think s |of "putting his hand in his pocket, but 'the soldier in the making is likely, unless constantly on his guard, to be guilty of this breach of the rules. The youths who jauntily and gayly Valcartier, Qu Nova Scotia, sk ago, have si become thé heroes of 5 unpatriotic, pernicious, and has eon-- Vimy Rigee and Hill No. 70. THE HAZARDS OF WAR. ~ Interesting Figures Compiled by Ex- pert Statistician. A short time ago an American writer sought to cheer up readers of military age by pointing out to them the good chances they had. In the first place, there was the chance that they would not be 'drafted; then there was the chance, if drafted, they would not be wounded; if they were wounded there was the chance that they would recover. If they did not recover they still had two chances. Mr. Roger Babson, the noted statis- tician, shows that they have many more chances than these, He calcul- ated that out of 1,000 men about 60 are killed and 150 wounded--in a year, we presume. Of the wounded the great majority are able to re- turn to the trenchés. "In normal times the death-rate among men of similar age would be 8 per thousand, and if these men had remained at home the chance of their succumbing to disease would be much greater than it is at the frohit, where they are regularly and carefully examin- ed. that in this war death from disease is far less than in any other war ever fought. There are also fewer am- putations in proportion to the num- ber of men engaged. Except when men have gone over the parapet the great number of wounds are inflicted in the arms and shouldegs and these as a rule soon heal. Mr. Babson calculates that a man with the heavy artillery is about as good a life insurance risk as though he were pursuing his ordinary voca- tion in a large city. Lieutenants and non-commissioned officers run greater risk than privates, as the casualty lists show. The statistician is also of the opinion that the cas- ualties among volunteer soldiers are greater than among drafted men, his theory being that the volunteers are as a rule men of greater dari-g, while the drafted soldier leaves his enthusiasm at home and carries his common-sensg with him. But the volunteers who survive learn td fight without expoging ghemselves as reck- lessly as the¥/did in the €arlier days, and it is a fact that a man's brains even in this terrific war of machinery can be employed to save his head even when he is performing the most dangerous 'duties. The conclusions arrived at by Mr. Babson ought to be encouraging to young Canadians and Americans who will shortly go to the front, and cannot fail to bring comfort to their friends and kin at home. Airplanes Saved France. "Had it not been for the French air service," says Burton J. Hen- drick in the World's Work, 'France would have been destroyed in the first few weeks of the war. For years the French general staff had expected an attack through Belgium --the strategic railroads which the Germans were 80 painstakingly building up to the Belgian frontier could convey no other meaning. Yet the Frenchmen still believed that the main onslaught would come across the French frontier, and had made their plans for their greatest resist- ance in this region. France entered this war with only about one hun- dred army airplanes, but Germany, which had foreseen the part this new instrument was to play, had a much larger equipment. Yet, a few days after the Belgian invasion be- gan, French aviators, flying near the Belgian-German frontier, saw a sight that immediately caused a 'change in the French operations. The Germans were crossing the frontier in enorm- ous numbers--and the fact became apparent that in this section the main attack was to come. This news, flashed to General Joffre, caused that sudden alteration in his plans that made possible the successful battles of early September. Had it not been for this operation, the French army would have concentrated for the Ger- mans in force on the Alsace-Lorraine frontier, and the whole territory, from Belgium to Paris and Calais, would have béen left open to the German onslaught. That is, the war would have ended according to the calculations which had been so care- fully made in Geramny." Size of Circus Rings. Railway tickets are the same size all over Britain and the Continent and'America, viz, 2% in, by 1% in., and have been so for the last fifty years. 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