The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-04
/" HERE were 300 of us from
Calgary" said a young man
in khaki, with the word

Calgary" said a young man
in khaki, with the word
Canada" in gold letters on
his shoulder, "and now there are not
200 of us left worth looking at"
I'VE were cut up" he said, three
separate times. 1 was called u for
special duty and the man who took
ny place got it right between the
eyes,"
What are you waiting here fort" l
asked him, Hope f. NJ. Ross writes to
the Manitoba Free Press from Lon
don.
"Well," he said, 81 was just waiting
here to see if 1 could hear Big Ben"
6 Tread a story many years ago about
London bridge. In the old days there
was a fortified gate at each end and,
as a rule, there was an array of human
heads in view, placed there, as the
French say, for the encouragement of
the others. The ediice was more like
a street than a bridge, having a row of
houses along each side.
1.-THE old picture was q strange one,
but the people of that day would have
deemed the picture of this sunny sum.
mer morning much more remarkable.
On the bridge today there were
young soldiers of South Africa, of New
Zealand, of Australia and of Canada
There are many English, both sailors
and soldiers men in uniforms which
are not seen in Canada. All these young
men are in Britain and in uniform to.
day in this incredible war.
l told my Canadian friend that he
might hear Big Ben-which, as every.
body knows, is the huge bell in the
main tower of the house of parlia
ment-provided it was rung, but thai
it would not ring again until after the
war.
We looked out from the bridge ovel
the city on both sides of the river ant
/ was reminded of these words o.
Heine, written, of course, long before
the world dreamed of the present de
velopments. 81 have SEEM" said Heine
"the greatest wonder that the worlC
can show to the astonished spirit.
have seen 1t and am more astonishet
than ever, and still there remains IL
my memory that stone forest of houses
and amid them the rushing stream o.
faces, of living human faces, with al
their motley passions, all their ter
rlble impulses of love, of hunger anC
of hate"
The river itself vas peaceful enough
and serene, clearer than Canadian!
would expect to find it and much mar
rover. The Thames is only 900 fee
wide at this point, which constitute.
the reaso why the first structure wa.
built here. Up to the latter part O.
the eighteenth century everyone useC
this crossing, since there was no othel
medium except the boats.
The soldier by my side looked lonl
into the busy pool" but 1 do not thinl
he saw anything except the blood!
struggles of the war. He did not tel
me, but 1 was aware that he was no
thinking of London. Perhaps bi
thought of that little prairie village il
Alberta, out of which 20 young mel
came with the first contingent, and t.
WHICH,, IL ueSlluy 81 Wills IL, not u SIN
gle n will return.
At st. Marsaret's Church.
We decided to make the long jour
ney down to st. Margaret's church, ad
joining the abbey. The preacher o
the day was Canon Murray of st
Johns college of Winnipeg, ant
among the auditors l saw one of tn,
wardens of the st. Johns cathedral
Sheriff Inkster.
st. Margaret's does not make tn,
same appeal that the abbey and st
Paul's do, but there is plenty in thi
historic structure to satisfy the imag
ination. AS the service proceeded, thi
morning it came IN to rain, as the,
say in Scotland, and the church grew
DINNER, the light slowly fading. TIL,
wonderful windows gained in beauty