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LETTERS FROM 1 n5 SOLDIERS A Word from ungemarck The following are excerpts from a letter to Mrs. W. D. Mills from her son, Milton, who took part-in thesbattle at Langemarck. He was 3 Durham boy until a few years ago, and his experience will be interesting to a number at our readers: -“ A AAA- Dear M’othe ° VVw- -â€" Just a few lines to let you know that I am still well. Bv this time you will know that me hme been in the big scrap that} was pulled off here. Believe me, it was sure some scrap. The first two or three days were the worst. I won’t forget it in‘ a hurry Ray Ansell got a little ran with some shrapnell but it did not do much damage to him. Herb Fair- field also got scratched but is still mo‘. ing around. I have had shells burst as close to me as I w ant them. Another fellow .and I were ly- ing in a small dug-out when a shell exploded near us and near- 1v bfiriec-l us. The concussion shook us up quite a bit but that was all the harm done. “Fe have lost quite a number of horses and several of our men were wounded, but I cm’t tell how many yet. The first night of the attack we“ ha?! to leave our billet in a big‘ hurry, believe me, or the Germansl would have been right upon us‘ We had to leave our kits behind us. I saved myhaversack with my shaving outfit, but some Ger-1 man is now \vearing all those; good socks you sent me. How do you like sending socks for the Germans, eh? I also lost some nice souvenirs I intended to take home °with me, but such is life. I was talking to some German prisoners the other day. Two of them were mere school boys One could speak English and he told me he zind his chum were just 1'.’ years old Thex all seemed quite satisfied to be prisoners Three of them xx ere Hessians and the others were Saxons The Canadians are being highly praised in England. Don’t’c Worry about me, as I am in the best of health, and the weather is perfect. The following letter has been'str receixed i1 'om Cecil \\ olfe and is; C dated at \\ ardian Camp E<g§pt, the April '34. Hes says: lea: “I have IHGCC’ixé’Cl. no mail from] we home since befo1e I left Lngl1nd21ng and I suppose I shouldn‘t grum- of ble: it would be nice if I could get some. It takes such a timei 2% for a letter to come from Canada.l 11:1 to Egylmt and possibly then get dr lost on the \v'.a) The same appliesl . to mine I semi you. so dont helm worried if you receive no mail for} “y possibly a month or two. Ilth don't know how soon we will“ sk move from here but I hope it’fl will be soon. Troops are 1ea\ ing c1 eveiv (lav for the. Bar anelles and' T 119 heard they had effected al. a lan'li 11g 1 1t Enos. There is going to z it be lots of hard fighting before WEe get the Turks on the run. but 1': believe our 29th Division 11 ill show 1“ them all hmt to fight. The King :1 rex 1e\ve(1 the 29111 Division before t leaving England and I will sendi: you :1 cop} of his remarks on them. I have been highlg. c0111 viimented on my 1101'}; \xith In) animals ‘m' the director of ve ter-z: inst? scnices, Lieut. -COI Taylor :1 It is a great country for heat. 11; think it would just suit you, fath- '1' er. At the time I am writing this‘ it is 9'5 bv the thermometer, and} that is in the little bit of shade'; afforded bv a tent, and they telli me it hasnt begun to get hot vet. Another officer and my selfi uent o1er to another camp about, three miles a“ ay, testerdahi astride two camels, bv a cutâ€"throat lookinog Arab riding another, and I u as \ery glad to get back to our camp. Rid- ing a camel is just like bei g on a ship in a storm at sea. The moâ€" tion gives yen a feeling of sea- sickness. M) brother officer was very sick and I was not far from it. I shall ride my horse after this instead of camels. I am trving *0 learn enough Arabic to make m3“ self understood by the nativesifmt Lieu: Wolfe sun in Egypt Your loving son, may 3, 1913. Milton. ferred to above are as follows: Buckingham Palace. Message from the King to the 29th Division, March 12. 1915. I was much struck with the steadiness under Arms and match- ing powers of the splendid body of men composing the 29th Divi- sion. The combination of so many ex- nerienced officers and seasoned soldiers, whom I particularly no- ticed will, I feel confident. prove of inestimable value on the Field of Battle. That the 29th Division, Wherever employed, will uphold the high reputation already won- by’ my Army in France and Belgium, I have no doubt. Rest assured that your moveâ€" ments and welfare will ever be m my thoughts. The following letter ’rom Dr- 1' J. J. Fraser. who left Walkerton with the first Canadian contingent“ appeared in last weeks issue of, the Walkerton Telesccne. It was} written to Mr. Arthur Cellini-3.! barrister, w ho has permitted its publication. It is so full of ir-i formation regarding medical work at the front that we take, the liberty .of reproducing. If; v. in Show our readers the dangers the doctors are subiected to. and enable them to realize more. fullv 'than ever the honors of w.ar Dr ; tFraser is r(mite a voung man. a |\\idower since his Wife. :1 cousin! I[of Mr. A. H. Jackson’ 14. died about‘ A 4 (D b‘ 9.) D; (D :5 r+ D" "D ’1 (D H 23 81 (D U) H A (D )4, O .1 3 about a week. and shells had ibeen coming: a few each day, but ‘not doing much damage. On the ‘afternoon of the 215t they began fto come in pretty fast and the {greater part of our unit hafl been ordered to move out and 'open up a hospital on a farm Hour or five miles from town. 'I seven years ago. Dear A ttie -- ‘“â€" __ You will have read before this about the great battle raging- a'bout anes for the past five days in which the Canadians so nobly distinguished themselves. IV“. V. pâ€"v- Two of us. Major Hardy and myself. were left with a small de- tachment of our unit and some eauinmen‘ts to run a dressing station. as there were some troops still left and civilians also being: brought in wounded by our stretcher be arers _ .. ‘-_-‘ Dressing Wounds Amid Flying Shells On the afternoon the Germans began earnest about five were in 23 part of \1 3 LL“ U--- - uu;pw»-:~ on v n --_ it v- - inbout usall the time. You can . s incur a shriek before they explode bY the C- P- 3-: affording thei land instinctively you duck. I gothlghes‘L form (ff efficiencv _ i so I did not mind shrapnel 'so 1ft such ’3 tlrm 11:5 underCCOSSfi-l - . . era ion app 3" 0 any . . .. ;much, b‘g’ one If)? 59‘s)s.\,‘;‘ e1 Agent for full particulars or! :the (11'9“ 0* a, {g CW“ 1 , 9" write 11'. G. Murphy, 1). P. A.l :“Jack Johnson.” VV here thev hght;Toronto. 1‘ l I 1 they leave ;a hole as big as 33 large house and siniply demolish; % everything in Sight They. come; Benj. Cheesman, formerly a > i ! v ' . o ’ 2". . n r la minutes and waning for. , . : _eVe y ‘cluef constable at Stavner, W381 "them sort of gets on: your :nerves l ‘ . Even a cellar is . no protectionthlmd guilty 01' Wilful misconduct E! from them .We‘do the dressing 00' in. office and sentenced by Judge l [l a main floor and if possible place_,‘vance ‘30 pay $145. 1'=the wounded in a cellar until} Joseph Smith. a nationalizetl' r‘evacuatEd- ‘German" 0f Kingston, has receiv- menext morning 01191131de 3°;ed a letter from his son, Pte. .2 ; close that it 3.11309: Wrecked the I Frank Smith“ 23d Battalion, say. y building we were in. We thought 11):: he was slightly wounded, at it was getting 100 unhealthy, 5° Langemarck. Another son gOes ..- evacuated all our patients and ' with the. third contingent. ‘ ' v . D ernoon of the 253m. sbegan she-Lung in at five o'clock. “'9 )art of the city form- gle fiust at :he head .. It has since been Belgium. 9.0-5-15 moved Out. Since then We have been shelled out of two hospitals. We are now having a rest biv- ouaced in the country where we can hear the shells whistling and bursting ov er us, but are out of: danger. ‘We were workiz g night‘ and day for five days after re? ioining our unit, and for 72 hours had no sleep at all. vâ€"â€".â€" __ The second night. I took the stretcher bearers out to thei trenches to collect the wounded. How we escaped is due only to Providence. We (searched in dug- outs and old cellars for wounded. The spirit of the Canadians was magnificent throughout. In one trench there were ten wounded {and they were all smoking and [singing when found. ‘I """¢"""c2 I dressed a French commandr‘ ant‘ with a slight Wound in the leg‘, who gave me his ribbon of the French Legion of Honor as a souvenir. He had been decorated by Gen. Joffre two months ago, I also dressed a Sokh, who made me a prince. My name that he. wrote on .a “not dead yet”. card. stretches across two lines and is read from rig-ht to left. A cor~ poral in (my bearers can speak ;their language fluently and in- Eterpreted it for me. - The nearest (I came to a cam- alty was, when walking through the hospital yard. at shrapnel burst just overhead, and as I duck-ed flat on the ground, split :the knee of ‘my breeches. That was quite close enough. I picked up a piece that was red hot. a vicious looking piece. During this time what is des- cx-ibed as the greatest artillery duel in history was going on. It sounded like {the roll of thunder multiplied by a thousand. In be- tween. the rattle of rifles and machine guns made an infernal noise. It is amazing how the boys adapt themselves to circumstances. Everyone of them worked like troians. Many who would have turned sick at the sight of blood. donned the white aprons and rolled'thei-r sleeves. In one‘ 2-1 hours, we dressed over 800 \\ ounded you may realize what it meant. Many hai not haul chthes off for fixe .days, yet \\ hen we all went back a couple of miles to :1 village where we are now camped on a farm, they got out their footballs and baseballs, had their games and then a swim in a pond. We took an ambulance and rode ‘20 miles to have a bath. Have written this letter on the ground. under difficulties,‘ and must close. Sincerely yours, " ”Jo J, Fraser. 'BOMESEEKERS’ EXCURSIONS TO . WESTERN CANADA. 1 1 Particular attention is directed to the remarkably low round-trip fares in connection with Home- seekers’ Excursions to Western Canada Vifi‘iCanadian Pacific Rail- way. Tickets are on sale each Tuesday until October 26, inclus- ‘ive, and are good to return with- in two months from date of sale. ‘ The C. P. R. offers the finest ; possible equipment and fastest! '_ train service .via one of the most 1 scenic routes in the world. _) It is the only line operating 1 through standard and tourist sleeping cars, also dining cars to .1 Winnipeg and Vancouver. All n equipment is owned and operated e bv the C. P. 12., affording the , highest form of efficiencv 9.1 Benj. Cheesman, formerly a chief constable at Stavner, was found guilty of wilful misconduct in. office and sentenced bv Jud:e Vance to pay $145. Joseph Smith. a nationalized' German, of Kingston, has receiv- ed a letter from his son, Pte. Frank Smith. 2nd Battalion,_ say-f A a. - A «"‘.‘m." vr ' '5, ' .. _" - '- . “5‘ 5'” '1. .3» 733 v.1». _ ‘ . H W‘V‘"? In“... .M o ~ THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. .--.â€" A. ........ . Human Levers. All man made machinery runs with wheels. Yet there is not a single wheel in the human body. And the human body is the most perfect piece 01" I mechanism in the world. It seems strange that man has developed me- chanics along all lines but those with I which his own body works. Practically . every motion we make is performed by the direct operation of levers, and living creatures are the only machines so built Almost all these human levers are of one kind. that commonly called the third. There are three kinds of levers: (1) that in which the ful- crum is between the power and the weight, or resistance, as in a pair of lscissors; (2) that in which the weight or resistance ._is between the fulcrum and the power. as in an oar; (3) that in which the power is between the ful- crum and the weight, as in a pair of ,grass clippers. It is true that each of these forms of levers is used in me- chanics, but no great machine has ever been built on the purely lever prin- cipleâ€"New York World'- is a kind of jelly made from rice, of which all Japanese children are ex- tremely fond. The ame seller stops {when the children gather round him, and he amuses them by molding all kinds of shapes, from a fish to a bird, which he sticks on a piece of bamboo and sells to his audience for a mere nothing. He can blow up the ame like a glass blower, making a globe ‘or a huge sized ’ animal or fish, as he wills. most fancies. Each object created is painted with a vegetable coloringin lifelike colors, and aim each purchase he gives away a paper flag. He is a pictuiesqne featmo at all temple fos- tivals. «Bulletin of Japan Society. Japan’s Hokey Pokey Men. Japanese children are amused by the rice jelly molder. or amezaikuya, as American children, are by the hokey pokey ice cream itinerant. Beating a drum. he goes up and down city streets with a small box on his bamboo pole or on a small cart, paper flags of va- rious colors decorating his outfit. Ame Bagdad’s Mysterious Scourge. An uncanny, pernicious pest called the “date boil" scars the face of every human born in Bagdad. Children in var'ably have this dreadful sore on their faces. Throughout the middle east this mysterious scourge is known by various names-913mm) d'Alep." “Nile sore." “Delhi button.” etc. Its cause and its cure are unknown. First a faint red spot appears. growing largo er and running a course often eighteen m'onths Ion". White men from foreign lands have lived years in Arabia. only to have this boil appear upon their return to civilization, Where its presence is em- barrassing and hard to explain. May- be it was “date boils" that Job had! Once a British consn} at Aleppo lost almost his whole nose from one of these boils. Nearly every Bagdad. na- tive you meet has this ”date mark" on his face-National Geographic Magu- zine. . Chinese Language. Where the Chinese language, writ- ten or spoken, came from nobody knows any more than they know where the original Chinese themselves came from. But it is probable that the primary Chinese characters existed 5.000 years ago pretty much as they do today. ' __ ___ _ A Gentle Reminder. Eeâ€"Bave you decided what you will wear at the next german? Sheâ€"That depends somewhat on the flowers that are sent me. I have a perfectly dear gown that. mm a dozen jack men. would be just too sweet for anything.â€" mchmOno ’rimwoumpawn. ' The news matte Advertise more. and more of 3 on order houses u ill get less and less busi will get more. EWSPAPERS would be much less enj<-)yable‘, than they are if they contained no adverw read‘t‘ne advertisements quite as thoro The more, :-\dvertisin 9;, the mo: ebuy» the consumption 0: the go MB or 8:1»: More business wnull he done 1- y the merchants Of Durham if‘ they adverâ€" Whit oi Reading Advertisements To the Merchants of Durham is is just as i6 shou‘d be Q . . 4. 0:0. ‘ $+¢é§++++++éé+ééé+¢+++é++§++véw- we. and more of you advertise, and the by, get less and less business from this commumty .0 +§é+wééééé+é. *+%+%+%éé+%+ 0 O 0" %%+€ Q '01 0 A Letter from 4‘ é++++~§rw McFaddens’ 01d Stand Ladies andGenflemen Ladies’ and Gent’s Tailor DURHAM - ONTARIO Having purchased the stock of W. J. McFadden and moved my stock in with his, the store is now filled with Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines and Musical In- struments of all kinds in the highest and We are crowded for room and the stock must be moved out, and moved quickly. This is important news to all House- holders in need of any of the goods we handle. The prices are right. %+.}{'+°}'§'+€"I*+€~§-+++++W If you’ve not now is the time to do it. while our stock is complete. Fit and Satis- faction Guaranteed. Everything New and Up-to-date in Men‘s Wear always on Land. Large shipment of Sp: ing Hats and Caps just- zn'riwd, which you ought to see be fore buying elsewhere. .3”...+:++++.m. +4.?..~+.w.+..~+.,.++.w?€:. Spring Suit and Coat Lised more, and if more of them adver- tised. Much business goes tn the big city mailcorder house; because they advertise. Th'sse hnues would cease m amm hnsinoss from this community city mail-order houses bee: advertise. These hon es m 00 draw buzsiness from this c if they ceased to advertise. 'njm able lPS*1UCt1\ e and valx able no advertisenwnts, Man-3 persons as thorouglfiy as they read the . Snell the Battlefield the bio' city mail- nmunity, and you +1u+~++++++++g +++++.+++4+a%+++z: â€"Seattle Sun. 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