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B324 the 1- Wdert . H Vwu wuufb W "`;um:" . 3 The rector was 'praymg ., please, Thee to -havei lousy on a11'men, and the `ridicu- me "9? _of that_ prayer broke. upon to-1 `hmk of gt! ,If I asked you vourlflne mr3 011 your. own _b0Y-J -inst knock me down. Another` `*`3_0 `Of her nonconformity to declaellglous eonventions lies in her Georratloni -`I never` prayed for peonige IV; I always thought that" could Were Ver3_7,` very good who". Pray for him". It was at - won_-V 0 me how he .co1`11d:possiblyj.b'e igliworse if nobody prayed .fo'1f an *1 prayed a li1'.:..'fhi~ wiI1;.m'| an iv vvubu IIKIOIBLIILJ UV big; Worse 1;obody prayed for ~IV_- F10 pgiyed a 1ittl_eI fog Willigmj ed Withr ra;tu3;_`:1,Tg V1<;tor1a.I- noihgt chose the higher call, `*. come % to eve`ryA` ', th1s ' The a1-mourer Sergt. and assist- M ants repair all ries and collect- ed all` .su1'plus ones. When the _men came out of the trenches, all kinds 0;" repairs we1'_e' required. When matt. took. the `trenches, the 3,-mourcrs repaired and cleaned._all Sm`])l11>f ries. The postman oecu- pimoxio of the -most {responsible posts in the Batt. He held the rank of c01'p01':`tl and `usually had held a. post oico position in civilian life; he had an assistant. Each day the post corporal went with a limber. tol 1...:......1n hn-,ulrnmrf.m's- harm the }n~-a ' ,LxIv. No.40 _ W}-|o "L 1-nompsou cncw. ruaLu;Ln:u'." WITH THE 4:1. BAIT. FIRST CONTINGENT. THE TRIP RESUMED By Sergt; W. S. Robb 3 MAIL DELIVERY I place where the p. 4-. __, (No. 40 WHOLE N6. 4201} Ink] CHEW- PIJBLIIHEH , Later she writes: I am thirty} !now, the age at which the Chritt [began His mission. Now no more childish things, no more` vainthings, no more love, or `thoughts of mar- riage; Lord, let me think only of |vThy will.n ' - x ' ' U1. IICI 1JUl.U.o I She prepared for her life-Work,` She had but a vague vision of\ her preparations; she only knew that :God was `moulding her mind and 'hands for some sacred task. The Caliph Ali said: Thy `lot or por- tion in life is seeking after thee. Therefore he at rest from `seeking after it. Emerson put it even better for our ` Occidental `under- 7standing: If you will._but be readyl ;for it, something is sure. "to turn up` `in time. ' She stopped dreaming 'of the future and `went to work. She bemoaned the "necessity of; her social routine and adds :_ But why can t I get up in the morningl `She began. by mingling with the lowly and heavy-hearted, . Bereaved T woman, I want` to: say? as` kindly as possible that-you should visit - other- `burdened ones oftener than V. you do ~ .the cemetery, Nurse! `people, not sorrows. ;Do.good. ` ;Scatt.er seeds of kindness j for your` reaping` by. and `by. Do not have ah" vnothing-but-V leaves _.life.' _ Do not . rest /contenti with say coddledrbaby .ca.reer;. `T , t.his d,;a%*;nchu ch .greatbi:7v3W61cQIi19?:@d" * V-17`re'rr_1"that day she poured out her` whole vial of ointment on'the feet :A of ber Lord. / 1 n 1, _Q_ 13.0- __-__1_ day she` had an ever-present call tol be up and doing in some iphilan-E thropic `Work. Suitors for her hand were many, for she had beauty, Iwealth and social position. The lmost persistent of these Wrote re- lsignedly when he heard of her vol-I unteering for the Crimea: You lcould undertake this, when you. Ecould not_' undertake me! To a friend Who advised marriage she answered: I will be the mother of (a thousand nurses. Knowing her |destiny, she Wrote this signicant [prayer in her diary:- Cleanse all my love from the desire of creating an interest in'another s heart. r-:~vv vvutuc the people receive you W_1th open arms and give you all; kinds of drink_ tree". To -be honest, i the general, opinion of the Tommies` at. the_front, is that the French near l the ring line -treat them shabbily. She vbYS '00mP18lI_l about I being I soaked, for anything they bought, that._t_hey- were looked `upon with suspicion wherever they Went, From ,my own ekperience I think a great deal of friction was caused by_.tbe men and the natives not under standing each other. - That in some cases we were soaked for goods lwas correct. We certainly had to lpay for evertyhing we got, but af- ter comparing prices in Great Bri- tain, I must admit that in the ma- Jority of cases we. were not over- charged. With the exception of two cases I was treated good in the different billets I was in. `The two exceptions were cases where the lpeople did not want soldiers roundl .the place and they certainly made it] las uncomfortable for us as. they] possibly could, not doubt with t the idea of making-_us.move. While in Belgium We were treated splendidly. We still paid for all we got, but we were welcomed from the start by the inhabitants. 'Well, so much for! that. Soon after` falling in the Batt. got the order to move. On the way we foundthe remainder of -the 1st Brigade in billets.'_ They had arrived a day` or two ahead of us. T We arrived at our destination, the village of Outtersteene. four miles from the station, at 5.00 p.m'. Sunday afternoon. A billeting offi- cer had gone ahead and arranged `for the billeting. Consequently each platoon, half company or com- pany, as the `case might have been, had no trouble in nding their bil- ulets. Some of the Batt. were billet- led in houses, some in a school, and` some in farm buildings. I was bil- leted in a _room 24 ft. by 12 ft." in the school house. In the same room Werethe armourer Sergt. and `assist- ants and three. Sergt. of B. Co. The room was bare of course. At one end was an open Jreplace: Over the mantle piece was a crucix. In all `rooms in France you nd a crucix.- Most of the windows had. been broken and the Walls of the building showed signs of bullets and shrapnel. The Germans had been through Outtersteene in the .early part of the war. . We came iacross quite a few cases, of, the {Hans kultur. I I l . VLI9. UL vanv va\4n.a\an_v uuvvu Ivvvvo UZvE7lQrn_c Nig11t;nga1g Twent 6 a] [16 people receive you gn ():17n 1"... .11 I L uunvon o \l ua. vs; uuu uuu v uu HALL head to keep "out, the vermin. The. only reason we remember those doctors names is because they criticized Florence Nightingale. A How they `laughed when she set nurses to work scrubbing the lthy oors and killing rats and vermin ! How they frowned when she broke `open the nailed-down ` windows to 've the sweltering" wounded fresh air! How they stormed when she demanded hot` water, not cold, in which -toswash the bed linen! They had laundered six shirts _a month; she had: seven thousand shirts in the rst -fortnight s-u washing. . rm.- -....-..4.9..,.a.L-...1.. ....... .c..u. LILDII LVI. llbasannv vv saunnasceo The expert s: thuch was felt every- where at onc.' After_ ajvful Bala- clava; on a half-hour s notice, she . had mattresses stuffed and blankets "ready for seventeen hundred maim- 2 ed` arrivals. 7We had the men ` washed ~ and :?put to bed in eight ' hours, she wrote home. We. had four miles of beds, eighteen inches apart. ..It,. is good to be here,`though St. Peter might not say `so in this case. V We are drenched in blood ` to-"night." We are very lucky in our ' medical}; heads. Two` are ,bru,tes',~ fourrare. angels. As for the assist- ants they are an `-cubs.` and will, while 1_ 9. s man1`ss breathing his .-last: the; knife; ~lame_nt`%` the . bei ' cal - fis I Never did a position and -an ap- lplican-Q so t into each other as ,Florence Nightingale and the great task "awaiting her. She read - the Times exposures and wrote to Syd Herbert,_ secretary of war, oifefri g her services to the Govern- Iment. Meanwhile Mr. Herbert, Whose wife knew much of Miss Nightingale s work, ' Wrote her, of- fering her. the position of general superintendent of armyenurses.` The letters `crossed! ` She Was soon on her way to Scutari with thirty-eight nurses. A difcult task was to con- vince the people. at home that. it was a mistake toimagine that it takes nothing but a disappointment :in love -or the losing of a fortune to make -at good nurse! n-I tremendous, The medical corps felt insulted. The chief question Was, "` When will the `bird get disgusted and go home? One ._doctor wrote back: Our birdy has shaved her .`l....-.1'L- 1-..-.. -...J. 1.1.. __-_...-:__ 99 m1 , The opposition to` her work was It was the Crimean War which turned up, In 1854, when war had been declared against Russia, the Fr_ench_ and British armies promptly invaded ' the Crimea, and defeated the enemy at Alma. Great suffer- ing .was endured by the wounded. There- were neither supplies nor hospitals. Then it, was` that the Times made the exposures of con- . ditions at the front that earned it the name of The Thunderer. ? It i denou_nced conservatism and red tape, even as it had lately done. Army ambulances were rejected by |Sir George Brown because he him- |self, when wounded in the leg. had `greatly enjoyed being hauled away in a straw-palleted wagon, and what was good enough for him, etc., -etc. `It needed eight signatures of oi-` .cial_s to secure one blanket for al wounded soldier. After the sick `fellow was frozen stiff, or had been sent. home to England, the blanket usually, arrived. `Red ,tape is the `foe we need to fear. General Geo. B. `McClellan was a ne executive, a great engineer, a magnicent dis- ciplinarian. He ,` moved in every direction but - against the enemy. ` He could waste a tremendous amount of time -over details. It is `told--simply as a story, let us hope --that he, sent ' this telegram to Washington, D.C., one day: Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the - United States, commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States: -Sir,' I have the honour to report that `I have captured --six. cows. \Vhat shall I do with. them? George B. `McClellan, major-general, -com- manding the army of the Potomac. ` The answer came promptly; George, ilk them. Abe. Miss Nightinga e asked to have the meat boned, so. that one convalescent would not get all the gristle and an- other all the meat. The general re- - sponded that It would require at new regulation of the service to {bone the meat, and to secure that the matter would have to be refer- red to the War Olce in London. ` There were no nurses`, no bandages, no linen, no instruments, not enough ` surgeons. - ' i unuUuCBUS' scnooi at Aaiserwerth, on. the Rhine. - The proprietor, Pas tor Fleidner, i had received his - in- spiration from. ` Elizabeth * Fry at N ewgate. How the nationalities need each other! God . grant that we` may ire-discover this. She was taught visiting, relief Work, bandag- ing and /nursing. A great joy lled her heart. This is life, she wrote home. In a Paris hospital she completed her training; in a London hospital she took her rst position as 5a superintendent of nurses. She threatened to resign unless Roman Catholic patients were ` accepted. Herrfame spread. .Still she Waited for her real Work to turn up. deaconsses schodl at Kaiserwerfh .nri H... In.:.... m1_- ___,_ .. > f COUNTY OF. SIMCOE AND THE DOMINION OF CANADA OUR CRITERION. -4`):/\/Ls`, uuuuv} UL IMLG WUUILUCU. 3 tThe British Government offered a warship to bring her home when the War was over. This honor she declined. She slipped into England unannounced, stole through, London," avoiding a projected demonstration, reached her father s house one Vautumn evening, to rest in her own room after her terric labors. The Queen soon brought her to Bail- moral, and the Lady" of the Lan-I tern used the opportunity to shed a; ood of light upon the ineicient hospital provisions and the great budget of abuses in the British army. The cure of g these ills and the establishment of modern meth- ods of nursing in Britain occupied the `next fty busy years; During! twenty years she `issued her orders! from her bedroom, ` U01 \JUII\J. ILL IJMHI She" never A lost ` {her temper. Said & 4 an admirer: When the fussy doc-' tor said blusteringly, _`It.can t be! done, her soft, silver voice Would respond, `It must bedone. And it usually was done. A L -..- _ a .......L -0A-- " . uuuu LLJ 11 (ED \1UL1Co She sent. home for `increased, authority, and when it came she commanded generals. They began to fear what they called the Night- ingale poWer., Wlienthe misman- agement of the military authorities? --resulted in a strike among the one. hundred and twenty-ve carpenters; on a new Ward of the hospital, she` discharged the men on her oWn_ re- sponsibility, hired two hundred- other men and paid for them her-' self. nJ\.lL.A.0 To the sick she was a minister- ing angel. She was often on duty! twenty hours as day. A soldier Wrote to his mother: Before she came there was_ cussin and swear- in , but now everything is as holy as 3.": church. If the queen shouldj die they ought tolmake her queen, and I s pose they would. At the {battle front she Would` remain` all} day at the foot of a mountain, mounted on ` `her faithful White `charger, giving orders for the speedy succor of the "wounded. I "TL- T\_.'2L3_1, IV last night on going the -rounds. Not one -murmur, `not one groan. The strictest discipline,. the most abso- lute quiet, prevailed. I heard one man say, .`I was dreaming of my friends at home. Another said, `I was thinking of, them all the night `through, and _it helped me bear this dreadful pain. \Al\Uv1\A `_ A4` L--- - r` O 1 ' `Ladies VVsts- iand ~ Drawers, same style as above, 75' per cent. wool ..... ..'..75c garment Ladies Vests and Drawers, same style as above, in ` White or Natural shade ......... ..... .. Ladies >nc White or natural shade Vests and Drawers, special at ....... ..39c garment Children : Vcsfs. and Drawers, long sleeves, Aft` Q Iirghoanolri` 1-Dunn-uu`;;n`b .--- J ----."..LA. * v ------- -->-. w I -. -.--so 950, `nulls.-JIUBVBJ etc., a good we`ar1ng`ga.rme_n`t, good we1ght.. .... ....... ...........s`..' ..-`............f.........25C to 30 Ladies Vts and Drawers, high neck and long sleeves, all pure wool .... ..$l.00 garment Ladies extra heavy Cotton Vests and Drawers, long sleeves and Drawers ankle length .......... .. GE - ...-..... -._a. 'Chi1dren s`h`as/hyweigth wool Vests and Draw- ef$..;7 .... ....%..7.:...._;. ..... ......_ ........ ..A.35 to'60c Boys Sw:._te.t-C:);f:s:;nf-..Pc;'r(i1:e;:with Navy trimmings,--sizes"24t0 34.....__`. 1.25 to 1.35 each Boys Siyeatef 'COdts, L in` dark Brown with ojivg tgimnrmrgs, sizs`24 to 34, `at . . `.$1 .5o `each Kimna Cloths in new designs and best colorings 2 5c yd. G001) WEIGHTS W0- MEN S AND VCHlLDREN S 1 M UNDERWEAR Tweed Suitinlgs in Checks and F ncy Weaves in all the new shades, at 50c yard, 65c yardand 75c yard. _ em-o I\'i;vhti115_;-ale are at the front . -to-lay. Sixty years ago, at the-out- I I I Ten thousand --daughters of Flor- break of the Crimean cWar, not al Woman volunteered as a nu_rse; theyl were not wanted. Florence Nightingl iale changed all this, took charge of four miles of beds, could be seen `m.`1lltl.\'. l-antern in hand, Walking. lh1'0uu'l1 the wards vmarshalling her, e nurses as -the general his soldiers,| drew the attention of the World to her metllods, became the adviser of kings and field-marshalls, received _ The Well done of her sovereign,_ and _finally of the Master of `all the` nicrciful, _ ` I like to "think of this lady With _ il_I0_ lantern because she had in- which somebody said is but another_ word for honesty. It 111`-St out `in a letter written when! She was eight, which she closes- - with : I My love to all except Miss ll`- It developed in her despis- - `"55 early in life, the silly `con- Yentionalities of the high society of the day- It - sparkled in explaining /,Wl1.V. she tittered during a ritualistic lo 'semeo- mm. ..,...L.... `...... -.'....-..:-'.-' :.= :.: DEVLIN & MURCHISON :.::.: k ' ` .3 ti .. K V I . .``"pZ : A (W `"3 FL... I ,.,_!. rf. ' -#2 ` \ , ` 5d2"ai'?;':}i}i Sw_e$.tgr` Co_atsf TWEED SUITINGS _ -v -15 --oa.......... .` ..................... ..25c garment F Ottavha, Oct. 1.-Canadian reven- f ue for the rst half of the scal 3 . year has come. 1n at at satlsfactory li rate. In that period, which began on April 1st last, the total 'revenue i_ of-. the Dominion [as amounted to] ;v $73,243,514.59, or an average "of ]$12,207,252.64 per month. For the [' Whole of the. last scal year, of ,' which four months were ante-be1- L lum, the revenue [amounted to . $133,073,481.73. T Li... L--,].....L ...._..`L _L' '17` `I v \'r.n.\J!J,\Il\l .l.\JJ.OI In his budget speech of February _1ast,= in which the special War tax- ,`es were imposed and the duties of `customs raised seven-and a half -per `cent. up on the general and prefer- lential tariff rates, the Minister of Finance stated that unless additi_on- ` cal taxation measures were adopted the revenue of the Dominion "for the present-scal year Would, on the {then basis of taxation, not exceed $120,000,000, or an average of $10,000,000" per month. He said further that it was "necessary to face the situation and raise an ad- . iditional $30,000,000 of additional revenue, which would make a total lof $150,000,000 for the present year xin order that the nances of the Dominion might be established on a sound basis.` ` IUU. UL Laau ycal. ` ' On the side of capital expendi-l ture, the expenditure remains about` the same as vlastyear, being largely Iuncontrollable, as the large Works and undertakings comprised under `this heading are all under contract. I A-,.. J3-.. ..-.... ._-_Ll..-- ;.L-_,_ 1,-. v A A n u : A v u u L Ana |A:1.\.; ualb IALLLIUJ. uuuu1aUu. I As for War outlay, there has been expended to date $l05,178,369.12i. Last year Parliament voted $50,000,- 000,`and this year $100,000,000, a total of $150,000,000. The amount- unexpended and therefore available` {for expenditure before the next ses- [sion of Parliament is $44,821,630.88. THE ANGEL or I THE BATTLEFIELDJ It now appears that the expecta- tions of the Minister will be real- ized, as the rst six months reven- ue has reached $73,243,514.59. For the rstwsix months of _the present lscal year there is a reduction on ordinary expenditure of $9,244,016.84 iover that of the corresponding per- }iod of last year. i l (W... LL... ...:.Il.. -1.` _-_._'L.'1 _-__-_,,,1' av uvunsu uuuxuu I lCANADA S FINANCES [ I ARE `SATISFACTORY; 7. I9 5 Ladies Sweater Co`ats,Aw, ith high collars, in all colors. ......_ .... .-. ......... ..$l.65 to $4.75 each Men's and[L3;(lie Sweater Men : Sweater Coats, with; high collars, in alvl shades .................... ...,.$l.00 to $4.75 each V` ;_..-- w---w-q r - eWh'ite Blankets, good size, 'a_`_t"2.95 pair Larger size and heavietfp weight .... ..3.9O pair Larger size and all purewool..' ..... ..4.90 pair Largest size, allpure wool .......... ..6.50 pair These Blankets are all made from nice ne wool 1_3L.A_.NKE'_1`S _j_.__- : `--.--uj 1 .S;ason_ s Prices Collingwood Bulletin-A sad event `of _the Week is the death of Mr. Thomas H. Adams. For some two months he had been laid past by an illness which rather ba`led his physician and which terminated `fatally on Monday morning. Mr. `Adams came to Canada about 30 years ago and lived for some time at Allandale Where he followed his occupation of railroading. About fteen years since, he came to Col- lingwood Where he continued at the same Work and where -he for some years has been night-Watchman for the "Grand Trunk yards. Besides his sorrow-stricken Widow, Mr. lAdams leaves `a family of eight `children. One of these, VVilliam Keith, is married and lives in To~ ronto, another son, Clifford, has volunteered and is in the training camp at Niagara, a third is engaged with Mr. W. H; B. Patton, while the rest of the family, Winnie, Leonard, Horace, Ida and Harvey, are all young children at home. The funeral took place on \Vednesday `to All Saints cemetery. Much `sym- pathy is felt for Mrs. Adams in her sore bereavement. ` ` We will now return to our box oars ontze more. VVe had just ar- rived atithe town of Merris. To slim: our packs on only took us a few minutes, when the order was given for the Batt. to fall in on. the platform. Itswas now that a cer- tain ofcor gave his company a lec- ture on how to behave` in billets. He told them that the people would rec<.i\'o them with open arms; that they would be offered all kinds of _drink, some of it perfect rewater. Well, we are still looking for that] Men's extra heavy ribbed all wool Shirts and Drawers, sizes 36 t9 ..... ..$l.00 each Men -s Cotton `and Wool mixed Shirts and Drawers, good weight. -50 to 75 garment" Stanelcl, 4 lUrlde1.'weax.' in all sizes in Red Label, Blue Label and Blacl<`Label at Standard prices. MEN S UNDERWEAR Women have taken the place of the clerks and others employed in the different department stores and banks in Germany. FORMER RESIDENT OI` ALLANDALE DEAD I N \ L The following will be of interest to the local` sportsmen who wish to know the open season for the var- iousogames: Duck,` from Sept. 15th to Dec. 15th, both days inclusive; geese, Sept. 15th to April 15th; grouse, Oct. 15th to Nov. 15th, both days inclusive; plover and snipe, Sept. 15th to Dec._]5th; hare or rabbit, Oct. 15th to Dec. 15th; black squirrel, Nov. 15th to Dec. 1; mink, Nov. 1st to April 30th; muski-at, Dec. 1st to March 31st. No musk- rat` can be shot or trapped during the_month of April. : There is therefore `abundance of money for raising, training, equip- lping and pa ing troops. DA'r1: s ron HUNTERS {$1.00 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCI: L sme|.: coma: TI-mt: cunts ,0 .e.,.,,mu. .~ .......e.. UU l)1`iQ`{1(l(` headquarters, here the bri-l grade mail had been. sorted. into Bans, After procuring the mail the postman returns to the Batt., sorts the mail into companies. There are, of course, letters, parcels and papers to be sorted. It would do voui` eyesight good to watch him. Tli1'ougli constant practice, the post- a Batt. and what Co. .he belongs to. man knows nearly every man in the livered to the Co. Q.-M.-VS. for dis- tribution. The regulations regard- in: o11t~goi11g n1a_il are as follows: all lettershave to be left open, so that tliey can be censored by an officer; pictorial_ post cards -.must have all names of places obliter- Kl1`(`l](`l10.'~`, the postman. takes letters ated; iiotliiiig must be Written on a. eld service post. card, outside of drawing a. line through parts which do not apply to you. All the above matter goes free. Parcels must be left open to be. censored and must be paid for. Hail l3? collected once a day. Whilst the Batt. is in -the, After being sorted the mail _is. de-; ll`.(`l'.(`2' all parcels being kept otilll the Batt. comes out. The above di-I _e'i'es:~:`ion from the main part of the! narrative will give readers a little! idea as to the working of the tdif-I ferent units. "` V I r A 2 BY Byron H. Stauifer, in Christian| ' Guardian.