Pe IN A FRONT LINE TRENCH UN- 'Slight Relief Obtained From Mental. és Exploding Shells. ; 'bombardment the most trying and | Lieut. W. N. Bickle, 48th Highlanders, a Tanna --Yaftter he had been buried, and layin | ' . ENEMY - \}him down by the parapet, but so far Se PLAC area 'as he or any thought of him is . con- ee B MBARDMENT <° after that my mind is a perfect a \hlank. I remember the man beside me & spas elas speaking to me and my answering 'him, I remember exactly what was "said, yet I do not remember ever Nno- DER FIRE. ticing him crouching near me. Such is a bombardment. Any one - who has been in the front trenches in France will recognize the truth of this description. I have never yet met a man who became hardened to the bom- bardments; rather they seem to wear a man out more and more the longer he has to facéthem. I have seen men go completely off their heads during, but generally after, a heavy bombard- ment, and I can only regard the .sub- conscious state in which one lives dur- ing shell fire as the reason that any man can keep his senses after under- going a number of these terrible ex- ---- Tension That Comes From IT have no hesitation in declaring a nerve racking and the best hated part of a soldier's life in the field, says C.E.F. In an attack, a raid, a working party, a fatigue or the hundred and Transform Silver Into Gold by Chemi- traordinary amount of attention. It is. certainly a wonderful metal. gold with such anybody save a skilled chemist would be deceived. ~ It assumes the color of 'gold, all of the brilliancy of the lat- ter and even its lustre. : ; trick could easily have made incalcu- lable money into this seeming gold for the benefit of greedy get-rich-quick persons. The | Baron de Retz (original of the storled Bluebeard), who murdered scores children to gain the help of the devil, would have offhand. PROPERTIES OF SILVER. eal Action. Silver just now is attracting an ex- At a pinch it can disguise itself as convincingness that Any alchemist of old' who knew th by transforming -- silver of the schem?2 "fallen for" To transform silver into gold alb one other activities of the trenches you have the excitement or the work of the moment to carry you through, In a bombardment, as I shall try to ex- ; periences. you have to do is to take green sul- phate of iron, citrate of soda and sil- ver nitrate--a 30 per cent. solution of the first, a 40 per cent. solution of the READ, PAREN CREWLESS RAIDERS. ------ * ; yasoline Boo Jith Speed and Steer- plain, you have -- practically nothing} an onte Wate Spee a1 but what native grit you are possess- | ing Gear Controlled From Shore. t ed of to sustain you, You can only do} Once more the Germans have sprung your best to grin and bear it. 4a surprise on the allied forces, t Reasons for Bombardment. a in the shape of a crewless raider | a quarter of that is electrically operated through a Niquid. As a rule the enemy will open a: heavy bombardment on you for one Qe. A : ' : of four reasons: First, in preparation | Scientific cr ge aE th aed ate ee for an attack by themselves; second, | Of eat oe = Sesintacare athe to defeat or break up an attack they | by rot ae ay A te ot think you are about to make; third, in. el gia COR UY ee Te 'Ted of retaliation for a 'bombardment you writing all such attacks have failed o ro , sated have given them; fourth, to break up restilt, : i . We learn from statements of the a working party they think you are sof 2 - ; : A ° ' " AAmirs rt ase "pew= organizing in your trench. (British Admiralty that these crev 'Yess raiders are electricay-control- cable from a shore station, says The last of these is the one least : - 7 alle we ine expected and therefore hits you the led boats a a oe . : ! hardest# #0 3 Will Telate-s tvypivadi In-| engines, patudlly ~ Cusea. ny and i capable of travelling at a of speed. Fach raider drum with between Stance of one as an example of a Boche bombardment. We had worked all night strength- | ening our trenches, and day dawned | ° ; ' 3 on a very tired lot of men who were|'® paid out in the we Re lsel and through which preparing to sleep the greater part of | doen 4a eeriielted: "Prow the day. The enemy had either heard ae? + hs Scanian 2 us working during the night or saW | harge ae hich explosive probably | ight that we had improve nt - 3 Me ia dies Sat pe Brg ererone nee a from 800 to 500 pounds which is ar-| ' {us Ve POE SO as we were finding places to sleep the | anges to explode on impact. | é : te és The method of operating the crew- | shlls started fo bute around us, lags aider is f0 start the engine and there, but we thought nothing panne. protected' by this, simply lying low and hoping it) 40) al eas : would soon be over. We knew these carries the mechan- | shore. The considerable a strong i vessel at a distance of from three to first shells were range finders, but we | wee ty BRE Lise a te te | SOR : "pete ifive miles and signals to the shore |*° a ee ee ety oe hited day | operator of the helm. These signals | 8% never lasted more than a tew min- lneed only be "starboard," eh 03) of a utes. | As the minutes passed and still these shells kept dropping at inter- "steady." | | the wireless idea, the vals around us we began to get anx- ious and wondered if we were in for a| Controlled! plan, 'the Germans have Some of us chang- | real bombardment. ed our positions to a less exposed | gasoline craft, and _the made use of the crewless-raider ischeme in a 20th century way They Nace - ; Y ada re pain wal ne pone ee thas not overcome the disadvant- chp egy: hte wtevtad 8 wre ages of a_ trailing cable, to be sure; fast aa rand be a ntil Pa ee Pe eed i but they have overcome the problem uti oe = io at Sa bit Dee 4 of visibility, for the. aerial observer The se ts Pb Me ce ea in the seaplane. which. convoys the nt th was Nothing ich ME se ay 6 a raider is at all times within visual all the bandit od possible, sit tight ak | ouatance: Since power to drive the Jump UP every minute to take a look | «aft is entirely self-contained and across No Mas 8 ries wi see ae the | need not be transmitted through the gis ge eet ma at an attack and eable, the Germans have been able to o pray it woulda soon be over. /use a much Effect of a Barrage: | overcome the difficulties in this direc- Wailé the first range finders were! tion. It is evident that they use a one- second anda 10 per cent, solution of the third. Mix equal i these, shake © this | minutes, allow the stuff to settle for the ike residue, which, if spread on paper, turns blood-red. says a very eminent chemist, soluble silver actly resembling metallic gold, in bur- nished lumps which have all the bril-| lianey of gold. condition with a fine brush over paper, it takes in drying a lustre as high as that of gold leaf. high rate) effect, however, may be a brushing 80 and 50 miles |of clean glass, the result, when the of insulated, single-core cable, which paste has had time to try, wake of the ves-| most beautiful and the men leave the boat. |red, and in the multitude of other | terests has received very \fighting patrol, then accompanies the | clammation. smaller cable and thus | quantities of vigorously for" several an hour and pour off the Tt will leave behind a_ jelly-: "Tn one of the forms thus obtained," "this assumes a shape ex- Spread in a ee a Th fact, anybody sazWd mistake it for gold leaf' The hatter geen by substance over a pla the being a perfect gold-col- ored mirror." a ea ate BIBLES WANTED BY TROOPS. Urgent Applications For Scriptures From Mesopotamia. An event long looked for has occur- little The Cross has entered Jerusalem--the Holy Sepulchre fought throughout the centuries is once more in the hands of Christian peo- ples, says Mrs. Donald Shaw. A few months before I left England, By an obviously clever grouping of , when it began to be evident that our high-speed conquest of the Holy Land was _ only electrically ;@ matter of time, relatives and friends |of officers and soldiers 'General Maude were | eeive urgent applications for Bibles to 'be with to re- fighting amused sent out to them immediately. Never had there been such a run on the Scriptures, the fact being that it had dawned upon many men _ who, though brought up in all ordinary reli- gious teaching, had, like many others, paid very little real attention to their | inner meaning, that there was a great deal more truth in the old prophecies than they had ever appreciated. In all probability these same. men to-day have learned a practical lesson in matters appertaining to Christian- ity which they will never forget, and For the Smail Boy | lesan amos' ze tt = @ a : / " ew Ras y any ; yy, '« ~ aa in- | ac- | playing around us we had laughed and talked to one another, and unless one burst very close to us had paid no at- tention to it. quire with a grin, "Where did that one go?" As the bombardment became heav- ier our laughing and joking ceased, we looked continuously at one another and when we spoke it was in a half whisper. There was no need now to, try to show the fellows around you | that you felt quite at ease, for each one knew exactly what he was facing, knew that that night a burying party | would be busy at some cemetery a| short way behind the lines, and could only hope and pray that he would not; be one of the central figures at the} burial. The only chance we had to do' anything was when one of the boys | would be buried under a fallen para-| pet. Then we would pull him out. Or | when a man was hit then we would | place him as close to the parapet as/| possible and call for stretcher bearers. By the time the bombardment was | at its height we could only whisper to. each other, and that only when neces- | sary. Our ears had been deadened to | the sound' of bursting shells, our) nerves deadened to what might hap- | pen to us. We kept a constant look- | out on the German trenches. If man was buried there were always! hands to get him out, for we were nervous wrecks and only craved ac- tion-of some kind. The bearers alone had something to take .their minds off the hell we were living through. The rest of us could only lie there and wonder if the din would' ever cease. The sights around the trenches--the dead, the wounded, demolished dugouts--meant nothing to us. Outside of the fact If one burst very close } to us it would make us start, look at | one another in a nervous way and, |be proved. when we found we were still alive, in-| oe | a_ the men. stretcher | egular sleeping car reserved for the | infernal | wire cable, depending on the salt wa- {ter for the return current to complete the circuit. Just how effective the crewless raider is in practice still remains to 'for which their descendants will be ithe better and the surer in the faith. ih EE 1 eae AN IMPERIAL ORDER. } | | Order of St. Michael and St. George is "the Most Distinguished." The Order of St. Michael and St. Cars Provided by M.H.C. to Convey George, of which the Prince of Wales Wounded Across Dominion. is now Grand Master, is not an ancient foundation, but it is peculiarly an im- Many visitors to Canada have : : ee 5 .. | perial one, in the best sense of that praised the hospitals and sanatoria' 4 the Order of St. Michael ex- supplied by the Government through . ~ EAS Sees the Military Hospitals Commission for | ted originally fw oe the treatment of returned soldiers, ee a os ° = a = a and the schools conducted in connec- | URE ye ae d hei BREE Hae. SENS tion with them for the vocational Shay Sint os Bs or Bea sd training and re-education, but the hos-| nee Fitch Keone. Bn Oeder for pitals on wheels, the shuttle-like in-| The epithet of the Gedee or St stitutions which are shot from coast yichael and St. George is, very ap- x HOSPITALS ON WHEELS. | to coast over the rails, bearing the be | propriately, "the most distinguished," | rca Sea back from England, just as the Order of the Thistle is the elude them. : \"most ancient," the Order of St. Pat- In these Sagal complete with wards rick the "most illustrious," and the dispensary, kitchen, and nurses' and Order of the Bath the "most honor- ee cis Sa hs pens (ae ne coanel at the Order ix in | St. Paul's; the cathedral which stands fectly cared for. The beds are stand- | : hice ' ard hospital cots, so spread with white | abe. Site . ating r Sete a Agta : a we ee eh a ces worshipped long before the Norman ite : Site . ._ Conquest. ere, as was said at the Sa -- sik ba yids scary wait dedication, hang the banners of the if Sees ada a Raina ey look sive men "who have built up and defend- ) Gaeta? = |ed the Empire. They deserve all their One car carries all the service fa- ae cilities. There is a space equivalentto| a = drawing room accommodation in the | CONTROL CANADIAN FISHERIES. a | --~fe--- ---- a diet kitchen, dispensary, and | United States Firms Dominate Our | nurses, 1 Lake Fisheries. ;a compartment for the medical officers | | consisting of upper and lower berths.| phe greater portion of the Canadian | « ve tt ceases _. _ | United States firms, and this is due to | ad ed ee, re = shea = "the fact that more than 90 per cent. i e entrance giving easy accesS 10°) of the total output finds its market in { plemented The remainder of the space is given ' Joke-fishing business is controlled by 4 oin the Home Defence movement for the conserva- tion of food. Help to pre- vent waste by demanding the whole wheat grain in break- fast foods and bread stuffs. Substitute whole wheat for meat, eggs and potatoes. The whole wheat grain is the most perfect food given to man. "In Shredded Wheat Biscuit you have the whole wheat grain made digestible by steam-cooking, shredding and baking. Every particle of the whole wheat grain is used including | the outer bran coat which is | so useful in keeping the bow- els healthy and active. For any meal with milk, and fresh | fruits. | ficde in Conca y A suit to delight his heart is this one of checked worsted. There .are two styles of sleeve, and knee trou- sers. McCall Pattern No. 7406. In 3 sizes, 2 to 6 years. Price, 15 cents. | This pattern may be obtained from | your local McCall dealer or from the | MeCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto. Dept. W. : STUDY AND EXERGISE Overstudy sa of oxéretag] make thin bioodiess children. Study does not usually hurt a child at school unless the studies encroach on time that should be spent in out-of-doors | 'exercise. But lack of exercise and ' overstudy is a combination that brings on St. Vitus dance. If your boy or girl }at school is thin and pale, listless and }inattentive, has a fickle appetite, is unable to stand still or sit still, you must remember that health is much more important than~ education, and ;more time should be given to exercise 'and recreation. | See to it at once that the child does | not overstudy, gets plenty of out-of- | door exercise, sleeps ten out of every | twenty-four hours, and takes a safe, reliable tonic like Dr. Williams Pink Pills until the color returns to the ; cheeks and lips and the appetite be- leomes normal. For growing children who become pale and thin Dr. Wil- | Hants Pink Pills are not only safe but jin most cases are the very best tonic 'that can be taken. These pills puild strengthen the nerves 'up the blood, and assist nature with rapid growth. You can get Dr. Williams Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail postpaid at 50 cents a box or six | boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams 'Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. | $9 | Greater Use of Pasturage For Hogs, Would Lower Cost of Up-Keep. Many farmers could produce pork | lmore economically than they are now | doing. Instead of selling off the last ;bacon hog this autumn, the Canadian PORK PRODUCTION. | | | | | GARDEN COURSE FOR WOUNDED Disabled Soldiers Are Given Instruc- tion in Vegetable Growing Chrysanthemums such as Manitoba gardeners have rarely seen were shown in the recent exhibition of work done by the soldiers in the vocational training classes conducted by the Mili- tary Hospitals Commission in connec- tion with the Manitoba Military _Cot-= valescent directed serch interest te Hospital ia-Winnipeg, anc the excel- fence of the horticultural and garden- ing courses offered. to. the men, The number of prizes which the boys carried off in the fall fairs em- phasized the gardening end of the work, but less has been said about the facilities for horticulture, and land- scape gardening which are available for the men who want such courses. There are fine greenhouses and hot | frames, and under the direction of Mr. Fred Nichols the men are making fine | progress. Florists are turning out such blooms as are not often seen out- side the southern countries. With Canada's ever increasing pros- perity, the number of city people who demand summer vegetables in the winter season multiplies, and the fu- ture for gardeners with hot frames and the proper equipment to cater to \these tastes grows more golden. With this in mind, many of the returned men are planning to establish gardens just outside the large cities with the | intention of supplying the markets in | the summer, and the high class gro- | cers in the cold season with green | salad materials and out of date deli- | eacies which will bring fancy prices. The Commission is also prepared to : | give would-be landscape gardeners the in keeping pace} proper grounding in gardening should they have sufficient ability and art education to enable them to look to success in this line. The openings for such work are limited, of course, and soldier landscape gardeners will. be exceptional. Qe LEMONS MAKE SKIN WHITE, SOFT, CLEAR Make this Saabty= tkioh for'a few | DONT CUT OUT Bin be2 | A Shoe Boil, Capped} What girl or woman hasn't heard of Hock or Bursitis cents and see for yourself. lemon juice to remove complexion | farmer. should keep one or two of the : ; : | farmer. should keep one | blemishes; to whiten the skin and to | | best young sows for breeding. It will! jeost but little to winter them; in| |fact, they are best kept in thrifty | leondition when not too fat. Next | 'spring, arrangements should be made 'elover, or an i jan excellent and economical place to| raise the pigs. The green feed, sup-| by a little grain, and | |plenty of clean water will produce | thrifty pigs and grow them cheaply to la size ready for quick finishing wit a | ' supply of fats will be the deciding fac- |tor in the war. | increase the production of pork in | Canada. "Some farmers seem to be | prejudiced against those who are urg- ing and working for increased produc- ltion. The present, however, is a seri- | 'ous time, and petty prejudices should be utterly forgotten in one great ef- | fort to win the war. 'can do much to actually increase supply of bacon. for service in this matter, and a opportunity to supply, with profit to | himself, what is greatly needed. | 7 Monsieur: For 15 days in the month of January TI was suffering with pain of rheumatism |in the foot. If tried all kinds of reme- 'dies but nothing did me any good, One person told me about MINARD'S LINI- | MENT: as soon as I tried it the Satur- | bring | the eae for th a: ithis: way. Beg uae ae waite be ey se Tee * | the juice of two fresh lemons into a |during the summer. small eld OL |} ote containing about three ounces | a pte Se se | of orchard white, then shake well and rape or oats and vetches wou /you have a whole quarter pint of skin }and complexion lotion | | { | Only the farmer their attempt to make the foods take the place of those made He has a great field | scarce by the war. rare|says that a sausage dealer in Berlin | | } { out the roses, the freshness and | hidden beauty? alone is acid, therefore irritating, and should be mixed with orchard white | Strain through a fine cloth | at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar | Se sure to} 4 strain the lemon juice so no pulp gets | }& into the bottle, then this lotion will re- | of ordinary cold cream. main pure and fresh for months. When heavier grain ration in the autumn. | applied daily to the face, neck, arms One prominent writer in the oe 'and hands it should help to bleach, | States goes.so far as to say that the , clear, smoothen and beautify the skin. Any druggist will supply three ¢ : Certainly it is essen- jounces of orchard white at very little tial that immediate steps be taken to 'cost and the grocer has the lemons. 2, <o------_ ------- German Out-Pigs the Pig. Having tried a substitute for al- most everything, the Germans, we are told, are stopping short of nothing in certain new The latest report has been fined $500 for selling sau- sage made of macerated rubber, fine- ly ground hair and gelatin. His cam- ouflage product contained no liver, no flesh and no fats. 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SCENES e over! the first car, heavy curtains are drawn We only noticed, in a subconscious jy eold weather. way, when they at last started to| The second car is a complete ward slacken, and when finally the bom- giving sufficient space for 14 cots. The | bardment ceased altogether we woke as froma horrible dream. ' A'few minutes of fixing up the trench, caring for the wounded -- and placing the dead-out of sight seemed to pull us together again, and we "were soon talking about it--I almost was going to say as if nothing had happened, but that would be far from true. We were talking quite natural- ly, but our nerves were still on edge and our talk was about the boys who jhad been hit: We all realized how close we*had been to death and were - 'thankful that we were still able to 'earry on, ; fee : Sass | Curfously I do not remember seeing or hearing one shell explode while we were under the bombardment, and yet J remember every other incident that happened. I remember seeing a com- "rade hit, knew just how he fell, and yet do not remember feeling sorry ee = oe or giving him another thought. gemember helping to pull another out : upper berths are retained even | | though they are never used since they | 'provide good_space for carrying linen 'and supplies, and in case of a_ great emergency certain cases might be carried there. By arranging these cars in units of two they may be attached to any or- dinary passenger train or made up into a special train. o_o Mix one-half pint of corn-meal, one teaspoonful of sugar, and one-half teaspoonful of cheese crumbs, rubbed fine. Put this on a saucer and set in the rats' runaway. They' will eat of it readily. Ina few days add plaster or Paris to a new lot of the same mix- ture. The rats, when they drink wa- ter after eating the mixture, will get a hard lump that will kill Ge and scare away any that do nct eat of this mixture. ; ee | '"Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. < 'growing demand for the stretchers so that the patients may | 4},. United States in- | : On our Great Lakes, a very large fishing industry-is carried on, not only, summer and autumn, during © the months, but also in mid-winter, when the fish are taken through the ice, and, owing to climatic conditions, can be transported long distances without | requiring expensive methods of re- frigeration. They are frozen natural- ly as soon as taken from the and are shipped to various centres in the United States, especially in the Western states, although there is a Canadian fish in Eastern markets also. British Auction German Pig. During the battle of Falkland Is- lands, when the Dresden was sunk the German cruiser's mascot, a pet pig, swam until rescued by British sailors, who rechristened it Tirpitz. The pig became the mascot of the cruiser Glas- gow and now has grown immensely fat, so that it is impracticable for a pet. The pig is being offered for sale at auction for the benefit of the Red Cross. Bids are coming in from every section of England. Tirpitz promises to afford the most expensive bacon on record. : - -- ye, "e sugar is put under. the fruit. | % | day night, the next morning I was feel- | yyinara's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows Will accept $300 for immediate sale, although belt is in excellent com ing very good; I tell you this remedy is very good; I could give you a gooa certificate any time that you would like to have one. If any time I come to hear about any person sick of rheumatism. I could tell them about this remedy. Yours truly, ERNEST LEVEILLE, 216 Rue Ontario Hast, Montreal. Feb. 14, 1908. 3 } Aleohol will kill any insect with which it comes in contact and it is not injurious to plants, or to most plants at least. Alcohol, -is clean, does not stain and for this reason is valuable for use in window gardens. fatal. Alcohol evaporates rapidly The alcohol must touch the insect to be| dition and new one would cost about $600. PULLEYS, Large size. 26x66--$30 ; 12x60--$20; 12!4x48--$12; 2 BLOWERS OR FANS, Buffalo make. One 10 inch, other 14 inch discharge--$30 each. REAL ESTATES. CORPORATION, LTD. 60 Front St. West, 12x36--$8. water | lake | ~A fruit pie will not boil over if the His Present. It was mother's birthday and Bobbie was very anxious to give her a pre- sent, but, unfortunately, the recent holidays had somewhat depleted Bob- bie's exchequer. "T say, mother," he ejaculated, "would my drawing slate be any use to you?" "No, dear," replied his parent with a smile. "Well, do you think you'd like to have my tin steamboat?" inquired the small youth anxiously. "No, thank you, little man," answer- ed mother. : "Well, p'haps I could do something for you," he continued, and then a happy thought struck him. ' - "T say, mother," he exclaimed en- thusiastically, "I tell you what, Pll take a dose of castor oil for you, with- out-crying." and unless applied directly to the in- in contact with it. Bee SSE Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, &. sects will evaporate before they come) ; POLO, 4 Hotel is equipped throughout with Automatis Sprinkl Hotcl Del Coronado Coronad Becch, California Near San Diego MOTORING, TENNIS, BAY AND SURF BATHING, FISHING AND BOATING, 18-Hole Golf Course er System. AMERIGAN PLAN \ JOHN J. HERNAN, Manager Toronto - i -- --