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Mtn who have nothing left to think 'about. One sees that they are habi- ituated to cleanliness; that slovenli- ', ess and dirt are hateful to them; at they set great store by their per- sonal appearance. Yesterday-tako Lin the battle-these English soldiers s ked a dirty, ragged lot. To-day 't'C; as been eleaning-up day, water and 'the razor have changed their appear- , 4ulee. To-morrow they march off into l c ptivity-their part of the contract 'tj:),'.?',).')',":, Often have I seen French r-‘prisoners, three days after their cap- 'cture, still in their rags and filth, sunk- en in misery, careless of their ap- "earatlee. Their contract is never con- 'Celuded. ti)ttr,ie,g, a visit to British pri- B ers recently captured by the Ger- mans, Bernhard Kellermann the spe- cial correspondent in Flanders of the "Berliner Tageblatt," says: Western Front, October. l They had been captured in the Bri- tish attack in Givenchy and Loos. .The courtyard was full of them. The Winding leggings (puttees) are, un- thound, rubbed between the hands, washed, and hung up to dry. With pocket-knives the crusted mud is scraped off the uniforms. One lusty fellow stands in his shirt, beating his clothes with a stick. No one would goredit the amount of clay dust that 2eean stick to a pair of breeches. And these men have sat in the mud of the trenches for weeks. C a. A couple of lanky Highlanders, in their short Scottish skirts (sic) are Standing at the water tap washing t'rir bare legs. They had fought _ \plendidly, the Scots, firing volleys d trom the erect position, and charging like demons. But it had availed them 'nothing. Only a few of them are here; the rest-we can see it in the geyes of these survivors-lie stark outside. All are busy at their elean- ;ing, without laughter, with scarce a Esmken word-with the seriousness of i Now 'the English soldiers are mus- axed for transporation. They fell in th alacrity, their faces beaming th joy at the prospects of a change. r'h1trryi their ranks a buzzing half-tone Finis heard; msently it swelis into Is. matter of indifference to them. One (year, two years, three years, if needs e; England had money enough, men 'enough. The longer it lasted the bet.. er England's chances. If we have not broken through this time we shall do it next time; if not this year, next GUY As officers they could not well _ ave spoken differently. Whether they tl1vitve11 we should not allow them the At first they are reserved and mis- trustful. put-like all war prisoners -they become communicative when they find anyone to take an interest in their fate. Yes, they had enlisted ecause they had not a penny in the cket, some in defence of their coun- T ry. They are honest fellows, too. Asked whether he were glad to be taken prisoner, or would prefer to continue fighting, one clear cold-eyed sergeant replied: "Of course I would rather go on fighting, and so, I think, would most of us." From several, other under-officers (non-earns.) I got the answer. But many of the soldiers, after a little' fencing with the ques- tion, admitted they were not sorry it was all over. Only one-an artist, who spoke fairly good German-had any idea where they had been tight- mur, or whence they had advanced. "With the rest it was just "the tvenehes;" of the configuration of the English lines they had no conception. But Any artist had got the picture in "his triind's eye; some day he would Fiii, it. The majority of them did not be- 1ft'R, "hat" compulsory military ser- vice would be adopted by England, arurone of the non-comm who would gladly have returned to the thick of the fight, expressed himself as op- posed to the system. "What is the merit in fighting," he argued, "if you are forced into it?" Strange, this English point of view! And the chance of the war? Most of them firmly believe that Germany must ex- haust herself; Kitchener could get as many soldiers as he wanted. A Loud Song. In a neighboring building the Eng- Jieh otheers are temporarily quarter- ‘ed. How long the war might last was Amongst these English faces one sees a fair number of the criminal and the working-class wastrel type; the ofT-scourings of Whitechapel and other city slums. But the great ma- jority look as soldiers should look--- simple, sturdy, good-natured. They Show the characteristic marks of their r'aee---leanness, narrow faces, the shortAe1ipped- moustache, and bad teeth. There are many middle-aged men. amongst them, and many baby- faced boys of 19 or under. But they are good soldiers, all, without doubt, brave and tough, though whether they would be as useful in the open as in trench warfare is questionable. It was a great mistake to suppose that the Kitchener army was composed of ragamuffins and rascals. k Correspondent of German News- paper Describes a Visit to Bri., t tish Prisoners. time for this was a question which :hey left unanswered. BRITISH ARMY NOT MADE L- _ Ol? RAGAMUFFINS. Sturdy and Good-Natured. RE STURDY GOOD-NATURE!) The mongoose is right where he is; he may be misplaced. That is what we found in Jamaica. Great rats, monsters which might have broken away from the Pied Piper's charm, were eating up all the sugar cane, ruining the planters, imperilling the fortunes of the islands. After other experiments had been tried, mon- gooses were introduced. There fol- lowed a terrible time for the rats. In three years not a rat was left in the island. But what was the mongoose to do then? With his feed supply gone, he must fend for himself, and he gobbled up all the poultry in the island, all the useful animals, all the, The mongoose and the dormouse are two of the things the venom of the cobra cannot easily kill. The mon- goose even after being bitten will eat the serpent's head, poison glands and all. “ .When the snake seeks to dart out his head and "strike" with his fangs the little mongoose deftly leaps aside, and then, almost in the same movement, launches himself upon the reptile and if his aim is good, as it usually is, he crushes the snake's skull in his jaws. It is said that the fear- lessness of the mongoose is one of his best weapons. A battle between the two is fair, for each desires to eat the other. The snake seeks to’bite with his fangs, poison and eat his victim at leisure. The mongoose has only his teeth as a weapon, but he is blessed with a greater alertness and speed than the snake. He is found largely in Africa and India, especially in the latter country. There he has achieved fame for hisl daring in attacking and killing snakes. f The cobra and many other deadly ser- pents may make human life weari- some in India, but the mongoose is the master of the snake tribe. i While he moves and acts like a Weasel, the parallel goes no further, however, for he seems to have a strong strain of the hyena and he is wild, brave and fieree. a loud song: "ft's a long, long way to Tipperary"-and they are off. With quick, elastic step and swinging arms they march-most of them nod- ding to me as they pass-more like athletics than like soldiers. Very speedily they have accommodated themselves to their new conditions. If they walk into battle with the same swing as into captivity they are to be respected. Wee Animal Delights in Fighting Huge Snakes. Perhaps the greatest tracker in the animal world is the mongoo'se or ich- neumon, the latter name being de- rived from the Greek and meaning "traeker out." The statement is made that thousands Wear eyeglasses who do not really need them. It you are one of these unfortu- nates, then these glasses may be ruining your eyes instead of helping them. Thou- sands who wear these "windows" may prove for themselves that they can dis- pense with glasses if they will get the following prescription filled at once: Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets; till a two-ounce bot- tle with warm water and drop in one Bore Opto tablet. With this harmless liquid solution bathe the eyes two to four times daily, and sou are likely to be astonished at the results right from the start. Many who have been told that they have astig- matism, eye-strain, cataract, sore eyelids, weak eyes, conjunctivitis and other eye disorders, report wonderful benefits from the use of this prescription. Get this pre- scription filled and use it; you may so strengthen your eyes that glasses Will not be necessary. Thousands who are blind, or nearly so, or who wear glasses might never have required them it they had cared for their eyes in time. Save your eyes be- fore it is too late 1 Do not become one of these victims of neglect. Eyeglasses are only like crutches, and every few years they must be changed to fit the ever-in- creasing weakened condition, so better see if you can, like many others, get clear, healthy, strong magnetic eyes through the prescription here given. The Valmas Drug Co. of Toronto will fill the above prescrip- tion by mail, if your druggist cannot. hm m iiliq mm; _ Away Ilia? iliiim General Alexeieff. New Chief-of-Staff of Russian Armies THE MONGOOSE. I A prophecy made by a Flemish monk in 1772 alludes to two wars against Austria with Russia's partici- pation and continues as follows: i "The Turks who will take part in " struggle will not cross their frontiers, but the foreigners will in- ,Vade France." . " Don't think because a man wears a large hat that he is the head of the house. "Russia, driven away from her froz- en trenches, will again return, eruslr. ing every resistance and she will even reach Palestine. England will de.. fend to the very end God, the Bible, freedom and life until the Pope will crown with his own hands a personage and declare him Emperor of the Ro.. mans and there shall be then peace throughout the world." Finally another prophecy by Dr. Cumming, a Protestant minister, runs as follows: "Serious disagreements will arise between the Allied Powers and the two Emperors will be compelled to fight against their ally." A Capuchin friar of Genazzano, writing in the eighteenth century, predicted the war in Italy in the for. lowing terms: V young of the insect-eating birds., The result was that insects multiplied so enormously that the last condition was worse than the first, and he is no more in Jamaica. He and the Jamaicans are not now on speaking terms, and he is not to be invited to any more islands where he may eat up enemies and then prey on friends because he can find nothing else to eat. "The first spark of the great War will start from the North. The war will last about two years and the armies of the enemies will not invade the apostate empire, but they will surround and wait until the rebels re- turn to their duty. They (the rebels), however, will not make any act of submission or of repentance, but con- tinue their excesses, so that all the Powers of Europe will be allied against them. This prediction ends with a descrip- tion of Te Deums and thanksgiving services in all churches and temples "for the victory of the Allies." An anonymous French monk wrote toward the end of the eighteenth cen- tury that "in 1915 the Turks, Heretics, Schismatics, Catholics, and Idolaters of foreign nations will go against each other witlranger and fury," add- mg: A Swiss hermit 'who died at St. Gall in 1760 predicted that there would be "famine, hunger, devasta- tions and considerable mortality throughout Europe in 1915." Union Against "Apostate Empire" Foretold. ' The following prophecies about the war are taken from a book printed at Turin in 1858 entitled "A Collection of Some Remarkable Prophecies and Vatieinations." But in India the mongoose is pre- cious almost beyond price. There poisonous snakes kill every year over 20,000 of our fellow men. 18TH CENTURY SEEKS ON WAR. ISSUE 52-'15 Modest 'uitor--1 have only $5,000 a year, sir; but I think I can support your daughter on that. Father (enthusiastieally)-Support her, my dear boy. Why you can sup- port her entire family on it. "Yes, I did," he replied. “I told Brown that if he didn't put a stop' to it I'd buy a piano and let both our girls take lessons." Jones is a meek little man till he's roused; then nothing stops him. The other night Mrs. Jones and he couldn't sleep a wink all night because of the noise their neighbor's dog made. Mr. Jones puffed out his meagre chest with pride. So Jones declared at breakfast that he'd tackle the owner of the dog on the way to business, and "get this thing settled." "Well, Joseph," asked Mrs, Jones that evening, "did you do anything about that wretched dog?" _ sir." "wsrnTCrhiir-tTrirc"G Jropose to, do about the case?" "We-ll-ll," with a yawn, as if wearied of the thing. "Pm willing to drop the case s'far as I'm eoneerned." 'Willing To Drop It. A prisoner was in the dock on a serious charge of stealing, and the case having: been presented to the Court by the prosecuting barrister he was ordered to stand up. "Have you a lawyer?" asked the judge. "No, sir." "Are you able to employ one?” No, sir." "Do you want a lawyer to defend yfyyuteise"?" "tyt particular, 'suBm.TPD 91p, Jo uomsoa qugma‘L this aim he is taking a census of all the goats in the cpuntry. In the view, however, of the Rev. A. C. Atkins, founder of the new Na- tional Utility Goat Club, the keeping of goats for utility purposes should be more largely extended, and with _ Goat keeping by the small holder has increased considerably since the war, and suburban residents, too, have found the ownership of a goat or two less troublesome and more profitable than pigeons, rabbits or even poultry. This is the time, when milk is dear and supplies for the householder are limited, that the picturesque and use- ful goat takes a higher position in the economic scale in England. 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