The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27
1.-THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE
SOUND OF GUNS IN WORLD WAR
The Most Extravagent Imagination Never Depicted a
Struggle SO Vast or Battles so Terrible or Valor so
Shining.

est in each Of these small paid notices
An irate Englishman paid six shillings
to have this Inserted
TO the constituencies d~espoilers of
fhelms and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is
mine; will repay, saith the Lord
Romans, xiii, 10"
n IS from the personal column
OF the Times of September 22:-
'Gentleman unable to go to the
front himself has a service revolver
winch he will give to any officer who
Will promise to send him in exchange
a German helmet"
m this is from the same column.
September "a
proprietor Of service revolver who |
advertised 1T in this column on Tues
day In exchange for a German he'll
met regrets that overwhelming num-
Der of offers renders it impossible for
him to reply individuality"
German helmet kindly promised in
exchange for revolver offered in this
column last Tuesday.-X., officers,
mess, Sixth London Brigade, r. f. A.,
Hemel, Hempstead."
1 now turn to the Morning Post.
Where is Major w. r. Chichester.
Third Worcestershire regiment, re-
ported by War Office seriously
wounded? Can any officer or soldier
give information to Miss Chichester,
Calverleigh Court, Tiverton, N.
Devon?"
Lady Esher will be glad to hea
by letter from any relations Of the
London County Territorials who,
owing to change of circumstances,
may be in any difficulty. All letters
will be read by Lady Esher person
ally"
Lady Wolseley will be very glad
valid chairs, easy chairs or air cush-
ions for the convalescent wounded
discharged from the hospitals"
MRS. Robinson Embury would be
glad to receive scarves, handkerchiefs,
pipes (new), tobacco, chocolate, or
money to buy same, for Royal Engi-
neerS."
For Sale, in aid Of Belgian Relief
Fund, Brussels Chiffon dog puppy
(black): price f5. Also younger pup
pies. Apply by letter Mrs. Charters,
Grosvenor Hotel, London"
New York Crowds Out War News.
Here is a copy Of the Evening Star.
In its four pages it has but one item
that does not deal with war. This Is
a Reuters dispatch from New York
which says that Miss Nell Kenny, an
Australian swimmer, swan from the
Battery to Sandy Hook in nine hours
and twenty-five minutes and "she is
!, the first lady to accomplish the feat
[ / very much doubt if Miss Nell Kenny
, would ave had her name in the
newspaper were she not al Austria
liam.
. The Pail Mall Gazette has on one
I Of its back pages a heading genera
paragraph under that heading tina
Q does not in some way relate to the
5 war. Staring at you from the centre
the main news page Of any Londor
). daily you will find a notice something
I like this:--
3 '"The - will be glad tO re-
ccivc and acknowledge gift of
n blankets for the army and to
Orwar them to the proper quar-
ter"
There are tobacco funds, blanke
funds, the Red Cross fund, the Bel
II gian Relief fund, the Nurses fund
the cologne fund, and, Of purse tow
ering above all, the Prince Of Vale
fund, which now teaches the enorm
c Gus total of nearly fifteen million dol
&c lars.
In the columns Of display advertise
3 ments you read about Bacon's wa
d maps, the Weverley history Of tn
great war, Jelks' in War Time (Jelk
s. hand furniture), while all the sho
De dealers, tailors and h~aberdashers OF
l. fer special rates to soldiers going t
the front.
r N theatres nave the war spir
We n patriotic, catchy songs are give
Or in all the music halls. The motto
picture theatres have no attraction ft
n the masses unless they can produc
d. some drama on the film that will sa
Us isfy the patriotic ardor. In short, a
England, like the rest of Europe,
III literally given up to war. war
IS their business, war is their life. "
think war, we see war, we smell wa
pc we taste war, we dream war, we i'
way.
,Ia King George Puts on Khaki.
or Even the King today appeared
D. khaki. In a field uniform he pr
ceeded in a special train to his dal
review of the troops who are gettlI
ready to move toward France. IL
r., King has been penaVins Win -
&C, dignity. Many have criticised GeorI