The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
Canadian Who Enlisted as Pr-
vate at Fifty-Three, Wins
Another Promotion.
VOICE Is like SEA- Siren
One of the Big Human Personalities
OF War Turns Up in London
Served in United States
Cavalry.

LonuOn.-F OSnOrn' Mcdonald adj
| mitS he's as Scotch as oatmeal" but
what he doesn't have to admit is that
he is beyond doubt the best known man
in the wonderful big army Canada has
sent over To fight for the mother coun-
! Try. Gen. Sir Sam Hughes. Canadian
Minister of Militia and Defense, is not
| Jealous of "tOghOrn distinction. The
! raWeSt rookie in the PearmOSt ranks of
! the Dominion forces proclaimS it on
| the hghting line and looks up to this
| merchandising sciOr of the clan Nc
Donald as shining example of what
| Iowly buck" can do in trying times
! like these.
| For "FOghorn" came over as a pri-
| rate himself just two short years ago.
! Some of his home folks told him he
was Il "darned old fool" to enlist 1T
ntty-three, but "FOghorn" had been a
miner all his days. He had hit the
western trail from sun-baked Bato-
pilaS in the WildS of Mexico TO the
snow-Shrouded valleys of the Yukon,
and he knew what perseverance and
| pluck and courage and sacrifice could
do.
He knew he would make the grade,
and so did d great crowd of his friends
/ who gathered Il day or two ago to
wet that new third stripe and crown
on the cuffs of his khaki army Jacket.
He WAS back from the front TO receive
this latest promotion, and he was tOaSta
cd ,i-,- ,Nfl HI
Voice Is a Low Rumble.
"FOghOrn" was born Neil Roderick
Mcdonald, but there are comparative
~ few who know him by that dstin-
guished name. It's just plain Fog
horn nowadays from one end of the
trenches tOthe other, and one earful of
that low rumbling Notwithstanding
rOck-Shivering voice expIodeS all pos
Sible doubt as to the derivation of the
nickname.
There are plenty Of Germans who
know "FOghOrn," too. In the days Of
the deadlock, when trenches crept clos
or and closer together. he was one of
those who burrOwed beneath the earth
and set off great mines under the en-
envy. He had not been a mining engi-
m2cr in vain. Often his voice would 90
booming across NO Mans Land" hurl-
ing picturesque invectives at the Ger
mans.
Not to know "FOghOrn" Mcdonald
is TO miss one of the Dig human per-
sOnalities of this war. 1t is not diff /
IN yI-hn ne
enlargement and strength he is to the
soldiers at the front.
''He is the sort of officer whose mon !
would follow him to the gates of hell .
itself and walk in laughing" declared
Major Eddie" Holland, longtime
rican war.
'And speaking of hades," he added
there may or may not be something in
the fact that FOghOrn belongs to the
Black Devils" |
That is the name the Germans have .
given the Eighth Battalion, Canadian
infantry, and the battalion has adopted /
as its insignia a small black imp dane
ing in glee. They were delighted with
the appellatiOn and are living up to it !
according 10 all reports from the
SOmme
He's Not Afraid of Any Man.
1t has been said of Foghorn that
hes not afraid of any man-and very
few women His home is in the great
American West. He has lived much in
nj al,
province in Canada can claim him as
her own. His heart is as big as the
world in which he has lived, and he has
a way Of calling a superior officer
Bill or Jim or George" and re-
ferring to a corporal as a ''brother Of
ficcr'' that is quite battling to the Eng
liShman's idea of discipline. Someone
spoke to Fog" about it.
"Wcll, sir" he explained, its a
mans war, by CAD. sir, and l respect
every mothers son who's out there do
ing his bit was full-fedged buck
myself once, and 1 know what they
have 10 20 through"
"Foghorn" served for a time as an
officer in the United States army-the
Third Volunteer Cavalry of the Span
iSh war.
Il think the officer commanding our
regiment had fifteen or twenty million
dollars" said "Foghorn;" 81 had S1.35
myself"
y day or two ago a staff colonel,
fresh from Canada, walked into the
Savoy "Club."
Hello, Foghorn." he called out; 81
heard you a couple of blocks down the
street and came in to see you. Do you
remember me?"
Remember yOu?" repeated Fog"
"why bless your braSs-hatted old soul,
I'd know your hide in tan yard"
A brass hat" is the army name for
all staff officers, and it comes, of
course, from the abundance of gold
braid they wear OF their caps.
Fined SIS for t-cent Sale.
New York.-FOr selling Il sweet po-