12 Pages 4 Baily YEAR 85. NO, 173 Eisic inthe The Music of War. With all fitting respect to the pipes, the drum and the fife, the music of war to-day is produced' bythe gram- ophone bands may bray gloriously in back areas; you hear "sonorous metal blowing martial sounds" i the neighborhood of rest billets, 2 in the dug-out under fire it is the gramo- phone that uplifts its intrepid voice. What Kipling wrote of the banjo might be written of the gramophone Could the lordly grand piano find its way along a communication trench? Yet many a eompany headquarters, lit by a couple of camdles flaring in bot- tle-necks, sub-let to countless rats in ever-present danger of flooding 5 cheered and brightened by the in ing music-box., fhe gramophone has times without number proved its value as a tonic for . morale. If you are in a dug-out which is being strafed, you will be much happier if you cannot hear the "overs" and ' 'shorts" arriving, = The dear old phrase "Where did that one go?" soon palls as a catchword hel you are huddled under a sheet of cc rugated iron and two sandbags. Under . conditions such as while the candle is repeatedly extin guished - by the concussion of the "Five-nines" that dare looking ior you, some resort to fatalism, some to lev. ity, others console themselves with A A rn The Telgmann School of Music Plano, violin and other stringed instruments; elocution and dra- matic art. Pupils may begin at any date. Terms on application. Engagements for concerts ac cepted. 216 Frontenac Street. Phone 1610. these the reflection that in the event of a direct hit they would never know anything about it. But a grame- phone, the louder the better, is a great source of comfort. Through its lusty song you may hear explosions, and certainly feel the shaking of the earth but you are saved the nerve tightening whoop o the shells as they omplete their flight. There are old trumpets pre- served in high honor for the sage the dents they won in action but who shall commemorate or praise the in- gumerable gramophones which, in t war, have been destroyed certain tunes regard- ed as unlucky, by units. 1 know one battery in whose mess you were frowned upon i you called upon the "NR gramophone to give you Teddie Ger- rard's song "We' re 'glad to see you back, lady ' Invariably, they told you, it/brought a bombardment upon them. remember one what we find dear winter night, in "peace position" guns mn nplacements on one side of a country road, officers' billets in the cottages on the other side. Four of us were playing bridge, the fith seated "O.€. Gramophone" for the evening--was rx ng the record of "I'm happy, happy, happy all the time." Half-way through, the Boje commenced an intense gas-shell bom- bardment. ~ The gramophone operator stopped the machine, and, with the others, masked and dribbling in his respira- tor, stumbled out to his post at the guns, It was dawn before the final flight of whining, poisonous projec- tiles came over; but no sooner had the strafing stopped than some one set off the gramophone where it had been arrested, and through the stinking, freezing air of the winter morning that metallic aptimist declaimed again its enduring felicity. The record "When you tome home, dear, all will be fair" will always re- mind me of winter mornings when the 3 can¥ima Spring Overcoats. $15. 00 To $28.00 Tweed Rain Coats. Large stock of all wool and worsted suitings, Indigo blue dueable. them in all sizes and ; at right prices. t be knocked off by dogs. ails ave sak cover is Whom : have * " cormandsry Pages 9-12 tish Whig KINGSTON. ONTARIO, FRIDAY, jyLY 26, 1918 war was at its best. It recalls break- ast by candle-light before going to n' O.P.--porridge and tinned milk, with my back to a blazing wood fire; the mess waiter hovering near to see 5 when | was going to be ready for my eggs and bacon. Smeh a breakfast, 1 found, went very well to that song, and the record was-regularly on duty or me. But there are records with less hap- py associations, We used to endure with jeers poor old Jimmy's favorite, "Every little while"; but poor old Jimmy was killed at Messines, and now, if one of the new subalterns, un- knowing, puts on that record, it seems to the old members of the mess that of i they hear again Jimmy's cheerful and discordant accompaniment. Superior people may "crab" the gramophone, but it has proved its worth at the front, and fears no rival here. W. H. K. "Tommy Atkins" Likes Music. A well-known concert party recent- ly completed its fourth month _in France with a record of ninety Cc certs to its credit--three- auarters(of a a concert a day, on the average, for a hundred and twenty days. Despite the fatigue incident to unceasing ac- tivity, the work was so delightful and so exhilarating that the artists 'consid- ered their concertless dayspas scarcely worth living. Nineteen of the con- certs were given in British camps. There is nothing slow about "Tommy Atkins" when he goes to a concert He is there to be amused and, give him half a chance, he extracts the maximum of enjoyment out of it. H¢ sees all the jokes promptly; he en- joys the sentimental songs and laughs at the comic ones; he joins lustily in the chorus when you ask him to do so. "Indeed we can imagine no more re- sponsive audience than those we found in the British camps. "The American army and anybody who re- presents it are mighty welcome in France 'nowadays, and we found "Tommy" especially enthusiastic over our programme," said a member of this party. There are many contrasts between the British and American soldiers, buf, considered merely as concert au- diences, theer is not much difference to note. Both of them like poems of homely sentiment set to simple, straightforward music; both of them enjoy a story, song, especially of a comic or melodramatic character with a bit of action added to the interpre- tation. : ---- A Serious Mistake. Concerning the value of music in maintaining merale, this episode is re- corded as having tiken place at the United States War College in Wash- ington. A Canad¥an staf officer appeared before the distinguished American RE men." he pleaded, os repeat Canada's. miss take! We permitted our*band musi cians to enter the battle as stretcher- bearers, You know what happened. Our fegimghts were cut up and we lost. most fof our musicians. e ithe desolation of ouf' it was a se- \ "For' G mefi Withdutaheir music; rious matter, gentlemen. » VERY INTERESTING. STORY | HUNS WERE UNOCOMFORTABLY OLOSE TO THIS SOLDIER. Private Wood, Now in Hospital Here, Bears Scar of Bayonet Wound on His Left Arm. (Men in the trenches all have won- derful experiences to relate, but it is not' every returned soldier that has a story like Pte. Walter Wood. It took a good deal of questioning and persuasion to get Pte. Wood, who Is now a patient at' Cogswell street military hospital, to tell how he received the scar which he bears on his left arm. When he said that it was a bayonet wound, it meant that a German must have been un- comfortably close, and finally, "bit by bit, the way it happened was ex- tracted. With the modesty = cha- racterstic of a returned Canadian soldier, Pte. Wood, of Kingston, Ontario, told the following story if the part he played was scarce worth speaking about: 'When out on patrol oné night, Wood and another soldier were at a listening post up in No Man's Land. Just as Frita's patrolmen were coming right toward where the listeming post was, partner became nervous and jump- ed out of the shell hole in which they were concealed, uncovering their location to.the enemy. Wood's patrol party had® reported just ten minutes before, 80 that he was left all alone with no help In sight. When he turned round, Fritz's men were only forty or fifty yards away and he was out in No Man's Land He picked up his bombs amd Two out of You} Wood's | 'of the a : the "0 BELIEVE IT SAVED MY LIFE," SHE: SAYS Former Trained Nurse. Grad- uate of Bellevue' ) One of the most interesting of the many remarkable statements yet made in connection with Tanlac was given by Mrs. Marke J. Howard, who resides at 402 Westlake Ave, North, Seattle, Wash., recently. Mrs. Howard has been a resident of Seat- tle for the past eighteen years, and before her marriage, was a trained nurse and a graduate of Bellevue Hospital, New York. When asked if she would be willing for her state- ment to be published, she said, "Yes indeed, and you may start it by say- ing I believe Tanlac saved my life. "1 have suffered from stomach trouble and disordered liver and kid- neys for tive years and had gotten in such a bad condition 'that 1 honestly felt like I was going to die. Every- thing I would eat fomented in my stomach and the gas formed by fit would cause my heart to palpitate 80 my breath would almost stop. There were intense pains all through my back about my liver and kidneys and I ean't begin to tell how I suf- fer. I had fearful headaches and was so nervous I hardly knew what sleep was. I was often down in bed for a week at a time, hardly able to raise my hand. Then I would manage to stay up for two or three days, but would have to give up and take to my bed again. I would often go for two or three days without eating a mouthful of anything. 1 lost weight right flong and am telling the posi- tive truth when I say"l was in such an awful conditions that I thought I was going to dle. 'After reading 'and hearing so much about Tanlde I bought a bot- tle, thinking if it did others so much good, perhaps it might help me too. Well, it has not only helped me, but I have actually gained twenty-five pounds since I began taking it and have never felt - better in my life. My appetite is good and my stomach in such a splendid condition that I can hardly eat enough and I don't suffer a particle afterwards. All my pain and misery is gone, my kidneys and liver are acting splendidly and my nerves are perfectly strong and normal. I sleep every night like a child, and don't know what it is to have a headache. My husband has also taken Tanlac with wonderful re- sults. In fact, I think it has done him as much good as it has me, and we both consider it the finest medi- cine made." Tanlac is sold jg Kingston by A. P. Chown. In Plevna by: Gilbert Ost- ler. Iw Battersea by C. 8. Clark. In 'Fernleigh by 'Ervin Martin. To' Ar- doch by M.' J. Scullion. ! In Sharbot Lake by W. Y. Cannon. 7 { - --~ADVT, Him, for I saw him fall,' Wood said. "If Ivhad reported him he! would have been shot as a deserter! After seeing seven months' act ive service in France, Wood came down the line sick last October. He was out in a trench for three days with nothimg to eat. Communieca- tion trenches had not been com- pleted from -behind and the con- stant enemy lire made it impossible to gei food across to the men in re- serve. During these days of starva- tion he was also gassed and the two proved too much. After spending several months in a sanatorium in England, he was recently invalided back to Canada. While at present at Cogswell Street Military Hospital he hopes to go to Ontario 'soon, so that he will be neat his home. ° He 'enlisted in Kingston in the 146th Battalion in July, 1916, and trained at Vals 'cartier Camp. During his months in the hospital in Englind he Was taught the art lof embroidering. The Red Cross there furnishes ateriay - "or the boys to work with) K#ify second cushion they make they are entitled to keep, and the others are auection- ed off in "e interests of the Red Cross. Besides making cushions [ Pte. Wood also made stippers and knitting bags. He says the men find work of this nature 'a great pastime in the hospitals over there. At a meeting of the Renfrew Board of Trade it was decided to petition the €. P. R. officials to 'have what is known locally as the K. P. train, running between Ren- frew and Sharbot Lake, restored to the status of a passenger train. That man who says he never makes a mistake probably doesn't know one when he sees it. 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