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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-26
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doubles together"
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Il am not quite sure, John told MIN.
u only arrived last night"
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nothing better to do" the young man
suggested. Wnere are you hanging
OUT.
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told her' as ne nlled ner glass.
IF we were alone" she whispered,
Il should want you to KISS me
The stem Of the wine glass in Johns
fingers snapped suddenly, and the wine
trickled down to the floor. A passing
waiter hurried up with napkin, and a
fresh glass was brought. The affair
was scarcely noticed, but John re-
NAMED disturbed and little pale.
''Have you cut your hand?" Sophy
asked anxiously.
"Not at ALL" he assured her. "How
hot it is here! Do you mind If we go?'
go" she exclaimed disconsolately.
81 thought you were enjoying yourself
so much!'
$50 am" he answered, ''but don't
quite understand"
He paused.
Understand what?" she demanded.
Myself, if you must know"
She set down the glass which she
had been in the act of raising to her
lips.
"How queer you arel" she muir
INJURED. "Listen. You haven't got a
wife or anything up in Cumberland,
have your"
"You know I haven't" he answered.
"You're not engaged to be married,
you have no ties, you came up here per-
fectly free, you haven't even said any
thing veto Louise?"
"Of course not"
"Well, then" she began.
Her words were so softly spoken
that they seemed to melt away. She
leaned forward to look in his face.
"Sophy," he begged, with sudden and
almost passionate earnestness, ''be
kind to me, pleased I am just sim
pie, stupid countryman, who feels as
If he had lost his way. I have lived a
solitary sort Of life-an unnatural one,
you would say-and I've been brought
up with some old-fashioned ideas. !
know they are old-fashioned, but I
can't throw them overheard all at once.
I have kept away from this sort Of
thing. I didn't think it would ever at
tract mel suppose because I didn't
believe 1t could be made so attractive.
have suddenly found out-that it
does !"
"What are you going to do?" she
whispered.
"There is only one thing for me to
do" he answered. "Until I know what
I have come to London to learn, shall
fight against it,
"You mean about Louise?"
II mean about Louise" he said
gravely.
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Do you think that Louise has
been too close a friend to the
prince? And Is John Strange
wey, with his oId-fashioned ideas
Of rectitude, a fool to be letting
himself fall head over heels In
love with her?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

relieved from the big tent show up at
the Somme and sent to u side show
in Belgium for rest. Also it was sus-
pected that artillery was being with
drawn for the Somme. Especially we
were anxious to bring back prisoners.
In civilized wal a prisoner can be
compelled to tell only his name, rank
and religion. But this is not a civilized
war, and there are ways of making
prisoners talk. One of the most eff
fective w~ays-quite humane-is to tie
a prisoner fast, head and foot, and
then tickle his bare feet with a feather.
More severe measures have frequently
been used-the water cure, for in
stance-but I'm bound to say that
nearly all the German prisoners l saw
were quite ~loquacious and willing to
talk, and the accuracy of their infor-
nation, when later confirmed by raids,
was surprising. The iron discipline
which turns them into mere children
In the presence of their officers seemed
to make them subservient and obedient
to the officers who commanded us. l
mean, Of course. the privates. In this
way the system worked against the
fatherland. CAPTURED German officers,
especially Prussians, We're a nasty lot.
We never tried to get information from
them, for we knew they would lie, hap
PLY and very intelligently-well in
structed in the art.
At last came the night when we We're
to go "over the top" across No Mans
Land, and have a frolic with Fritz in
his own happy home. I am endeavor-
ing to be as accurate and truthful as
possible in these stories of my soldier
ing, and | am therefore compelled to
say that there wasn't a man in the
sixty who didn't show the strain in his
pallor and nervousness. Under orders,
We discarded our trench helmets and
substituted knitted skullcaps or empty
mess tins. Then we blackened our
hands and faces with ashes from a
camp fire so as to avoid being seen as
long as possible. After this they load
ed us into motor trucks and took us up
to ''Shrapnel Corner" from which
point we went in on foot. Just before
we left a staff captain came along and
gave us a little talk.
''This is the first time you men have
been tested he said. You're Cana
dams. l needn't say anything more to
you. They're going to be popping them
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
BREWING Tea.

Tea improperly made is capable OF
doing so much. harm to the digestive
and nervous systems that emphasis
must be laid on the necessity of proper
ly making this infusion. The water
should be freshly boiled and the tea
pot heated so that the water will be
maintained at the boiling point. The
tea is measured ont, put in the teapot
and the requisite amount of boiling
water poured over it. 1t should then
be allowed to stand on the table, not
the range, for two or three minutes,
after which it should be strained into
another teapot for the table and serve.
Unless the tea leaves are strained
off the infusion is apt to continue for
some time, thus extracting the fannie
acid and the bitter principles. In ad-
dition, prolonged infusion dissipates
the volatile oil to which much of the
fragrance of a good cup Of tea is due.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

during their two hour .spell" of duty.
Hanging on a string, at the elbow of
each sentry on the fire step was a
siren whistle or an empty shell case
and a bit of iron with which to ham,
mer on 1t. This, whichever it might
be, was for the purpose of spreading
the alarm In case of a gas attack.
Also we had sentries in Listening
posts" at various points from twenty
to fifty yards out IN mo Mans Land"
These men blackened their faces be-
fore they went lover the top" and then
lay In shell holes or natural hollows.
There was always two Of them, a bay
onet man and a bomber. From the
listening post a wire ran back to the
fire trench to be used In signaling. In
the trench a man sat with this wire
wrapped around his hand. One pull
meant "All o. H." two pulls, I'm
coming In" three pulls, Enemy In
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
HANDY Literature.

Saunderson found it very hard work
selling books. The volumes he had
to offer, one of which he had to carry
with him as a sample, were very
heavy. and nobody seemed to want
them. But he was a persistent man,
and even the stubborn Mrs. Bowling
could not send him away unheard.
1--WE have all the books we can USE"
she said, "and We really can't afford
any more reading matter. Why, l
haven't even opened the second vol
ume of that Roman history you sold
US last spring. Now, if you were sell
ing one of those adjustable ironing
boards "Ive got just the thing!"
said Saunderson c~heerfully. There
are twelve books in this set, and you
can use either one or two or three, and
so on up to six, to tilt your board any
way you want to. And between whites
when your iron is heating you have
good literature to refresh your mind"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
TIPS FOR BRIDES.
How the Powers Are FASH
Joining New Trousseaux.

The couturiers are busy preparing
costumes not only for the trade, but
the most interesting of all customers
the bride or the future bride-and this
work is as important as for a promi-
nent actress, for the costumes receive
almost as much attention.
One suit of silk serge, combined with
self colored charmeuse, had an inter-
estingly cut jacket, the blouse front
continued over this to form a cape,
while the skirt showed a hem and panel
down the front of the serge. Beige
was the color of this charming suit.
An interesting feature noticed on a
suit created by Redfern was the finish
of the neck and sleeves. Deep gauntlet
cuffs were found Of charmeuse, while
the tight fitting part of the heavy silk
serge was braided. There was a high
collar with a turnover Of white linen,
and the epaulet effect over the Shout
ders was carried out with braid, on
the otherwise severe Norfolk jacket.
The skirt was formed of alternate
plated panels of charmeuse and silk.
4hdt VI uCoSi iRbkOE0
are to be worn for spring is an accept
ed fact. One recently seer was most
effective, for the collar cape, which
hung down to the hips in the back, was
a distinctive feature. A wee peplum
extended below the cape collar several
inches, while the front ended at the
waist proper. Wee tabs on each side
of the front looked like pockets.
There is hardly a doubt that has not
been quelled by now that the short
jacket will be very smart for spring.
Short, chic, boxy affairs they are, too.
and very good for the slender figure
There appear on several imported
models ~noticeably high collars, but
whether they will be worn closed or
open is a disputed question. There are
also to be seen several very high turn
over affairs, but these are usually worn
open in the front and are at least CON-
Portable.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

There are many things dropped in
the subway ticket chopper by absent
minded riders besides the little piece
of pasteboard which entities them to a
ride. An eccentric looking young man
and his particularly eccentric looking
wife hurried up to the door Of a Broad
way theater last night. The man
reached into his pocket, handed the
doorman some tickets and, assisting
his wife before him, turned to receive
the stubs. @These are subway tickets"
said the doorman. At the rate of two
pockets per second the young man
searched himself. Then he clapped his
hand on his forehead. Good heavens,
Annie" he gasped, II put the seats in
the subway" And what Annie said
about boneheads was only heard by
herself.-New York Cor. Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

rear for a weeks instruction practice.
Having only a slight idea of what we
were going to try to do, we felt very
Jolly about the whole enterprise start
Ing off. We were camped in an old
barn, with several special instruction
officers In charge. We had oral in
.struction the first day, while sappers
Aug and built an exact duplicate of the
section of the German trenches which
we were to raid-that is, it was exact
except for a few details. Certain
skeleton trenches in the practice sec
ton were dug simply to fool the Ger
man aviators. If a photograph taken
back to German headquarters had
shown an exact duplicate of a German
trench section suspicion might have
been aroused and our plans revealed.
We were constantly warned about the
skeleton trenches and tSld to remem-
Der that they did not exist in the Ger
man section where we were to operate.
Meanwhile our practice section was
changed a little several times, because
aerial photographs showed that the
Germans had been renovating and
making some additions to the trenches
In which we were to have our frolic
with them.
We had oral instruction, mostly DUR
ing the day, because we didn't dare let
the German ayiators see us practicing
a bomb raid. All night long, sometimes
until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, we
vaha ,cnd fhot roi6 i1ct n, 20 rofI11u
as a company of star actors would re-
hearse a play. At first there was a dis
position to have sport out of it.
"Well," some chap would say, roll
ing into the hay all tired out, Il got
killed six times tonight. S'pose it'll
be eight times tomorrow night"
One man insisted that he had discov-
cred in one of u aerial photographs
a German burying money, and he care
fully examined each new picture, so
that he could be sure of finding the
dough and digging it up. The grave
and serious manner of our officers,
however, the exhaustive care with
which we were drilled and, more than
all, the approach of the time when we
were to 'go over the top drove all
sport out of our minds, and | can say
for myself that the very thought of
the undertaking as the fatal night
drew near sent shivers up and down
my spine.
A bombing raid, something original
ed in warfare by the Canadians, is not
intended for the purpose of holding
ground, but to gain information, to do
as much damage as possible and to
keep the enemy in a state of nervous
ness. In this particular raid the chief
object was to gain information. Our
high command wanted to know what
troops were opposite us and what
troops had been there. We were tx
pected to get this information from
prisoners and from buttons and papers
off of the Germans we might kill. 1t
was believed that troops were being
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
The Daylight Hour.

At a little before daybreak came
"stand-to," when everybody got but
toned up and ready for business be-
cause at that hour most attacks begin,
and also that was the regular time for
a dose of morning and evening hate"
otherwise a good, lively fifteen minutes
of shell fire. We had some casualties
every morning and evening, and the
stretcher bearers used to get ready for
them as a regular matter of course.
For fifteen minutes at dawn and dusk
the Germans used to send over "whiz-
bangs,'' coal boxes" and "minenwer-
fer (shells from trench mortars) in
such a generous way that it looked as
If they liked to shoot EN- off, whether
they hit anything or not. You could
always hear the "heavy stuff" coming,
and we paid little attention to it, as it
was used in efforts to reach the bat
teries back of our lines. The poor old
town of Dinkiebusch got the full ben
eft of it. When a shell would shrek
its way over, some n would say,
''There goes the express for Dinkie-
BUSCH" and a couple of seconds later,
when some prominent landmark of
Dinkiebusch would disintegrate with a
loud detonation. some n else would
remark:
Trains arrived"
About the only amusement we had
during our long stay in the front
trenches was to sit with our backs
against the rear wall and shoot at the
rats running along the parapet. Poor
Macfarlane, with a flash of the old hui
NOR which he had before the war, told
a ''rookie" that the trench rats were
SO big that he saw one of them trying
on his greatcoat. They used to run
over our faces when we were sleeping
in our dugouts, and I've seen them In
ravenous swarms burrowing into the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

battalion offered. l was lucky-or I'M
lucky-enough to be among the sixty
who were chosen. / want to tell you
In detail about this bombing raid, so
that you can understand what a thing
may really amount to that gets only
three lines or perhaps nothing at all
in the official dispatches, and, besides
that, 1t may help some of the young
men who read this to know something
a little later about bombing.
The sixty of us chosen to execute the
raid were taken twenty miles to the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
The Prince of Wales.

A few days after this a very young
officer passed me in a trench while l
was sitting on a fire step writing a
letter. l noticed that he had the red
tabs of a staff officer IN his uniform,
but 1 paid no more attention to him
than that. No compliments, such as
salutes to officers, are paid in the
trenches. After he had passed one of
the men asked me if / didn't know
who he was. l said l didn't.
"Why, you d fool" he said, that's
the Prince of Wales!"
When the little prince came back
stood to salute him. He returned the
salute with a grave smile and passed
on. He was quite alone, and l was
told afterward that he made these
trips through the trenches just to show
the men that he did not consider him
self better than any other soldier. The
heir of England was certainly taking
nearly the same chance of losing his
Inheritance that we were.
After we had been on the front line
fifteen days we received orders to
make a bombing raid. Sixty volun-
teers were asked for, and the whole
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
"0yFR THERE
The Thrill and the He'll OF
the Trenches. Described
by an American Boy.

Sergeant Alexander McClintock Of Lex
ington, KY, and the Canadian Army Has
Gripping Tale That Every American Will
Read, For He Tells the Facts-Unadorn-
ed. Wounded, a Distinguished Conduct
Medal Man, He Was Invalided Home,
but Is Going "0ut There" Again to Fight
For Uncle Sam and His Allies. An In
spring, Interesting, Personal Narrative.
Full Of the Spirit and Atmosphere of the
Trenches.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
Did You Know?

One woman who is noted for her
practical, not petty, economies uses all
the flour sacks she gets for dish
towels. She rips them open and hens
them. Sometimes. if they are small
bags, she joins two together. The ma
terial is soft and absorbs the water
quickly. The printing on the material
disappears after or two boilings.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
currv Sauce.

To one-half pint of boiling water add
one teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful
of butter, n little onion seasoning, some
chopped parsley and a teaspoonful Of
curry powder. When nearly boiling
add sufficient -four previously mixed
with water to thicken. Boil n min
ute and use Immediately. This sauce is
delicious used with boiled fish.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
No.. The Bomb
Raid
By Sergeant Alexander McClintock,
D. c. M, S7th Overseas Bait,
Canadian Gren. Guards.
Copyright, 1917. by the Bell Syn
dictate, Inc.

Sergeant McClntock Is an American
boy of Lexington, Ky, aoho has seen
service In France, Das decorated for
bravery, qoounded, inUdided home and
nOso is returning to accept q commits
sion. This is the second article in the
series. In the first article he describ-
ed his trGining up to the point Uhere
he reached the front line trenches.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
The Bomb Raid.

The point we were to attack had been
selected long before by our scouts. 1t
was not, as you might suppose, the
weakest point in the German line. 1t
was, on the contrary, the strongest. 1t
was considered that the moral effect of
cleaning up a weak point would be
comparatively small, whereas to break
in at the strongest point would be
something really worth while. And If
we We're to take a chance 1t really
wouldn't pay to hesitate about degrees.
The section We were to raid had a
frontage of $50 yards and a depth Of
200 yards. 1t had beer explained to us
that we were to be supported by a
"box barrage,' or curtain fire, from
our artillery to last exactly twenty-six
minutes-that is, for twenty-six min
utes from the time when We started
lover the top our artillery, several
miles back, would drop a curtain" of
shells all around the edges of that 100
yard by 200 yard section. We were to
have fifteen minutes in which to do
our work. Any man not out at the
end of the fifteen minutes would neces-
sarily be caught In u W fire, as our
artillery would then change from a
box" to pour. a straight curtain fire
covering all of the spot of our opera
lions.
Our officers set their watches very
carefully with those of the artillery Of
ficers before we went forward to the
front trarOhoc Wa rooahod fho front
at II p. M, and not until our arrival
there were we informed of the "zero
hour'-the time when the attack was
to be made. The hour Of 1910 had
been selected. The waiting from II
o'clock until hat time was simply an
agony. Some of our men sat stupid
and inert. Others kept talking con-
stantly about the most inconsequential
matters. One man undertook to tell a
funny story. No one listened to 1t, and
the laugh at the end was emaciated
and CHASTITY. The inaction was driving
us all into a state of funk. l could ac-
tually feel my nerve ooZing out at my
finger tips, and if we had had to wait
fifteen minutes longer l wouldn't have
been able to climb out of the trench.
About half an hour before we Were
to go owe every man had his eye up
the trench, for we know "the rummies"
were coming that way. The rum gang
serves out a stiff shot of Jamaica just
before al attack. and it would be a
real test of temperance to see a man
refuse. There were no prohibitionists
in u set. Whether or not we got our
full ration depended on whether the
sergeant In charge was drunk or sober.
After the shot began to work n mar
next me pounded my leg and hollered
in my ear:
81 say, why all this red tape? Let's
go W. now"
That noggin of rum is a life saver.
When the hour approached for us to
start the artillery fire was so heavy
that orders had to be shouted into ears
from man to man. The b~ombardment
was, of course, along a couple of miles
of front so that the Germans would not
know where to expect us. At IL o'clock
exactly they began pulling down a sec
ton of the parapet so that we wouldn't
have to climb over it and we were off.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10
SMALL STYLE.

A Thin Frock For Wee Girls IL on
Your List.
White lawn made over a pale blue
silk slip to bring out the tucking and
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

OF at a great rate while you're on your
way across. Remember that you'd bet
ter not stand up straight, because u
shells will be going over just six and a
half feet from the ground where it's
level. If you stand up straight you're
likely to be hit in the head, but don't
let that worry you, because If you do
get hit in the head you won't know 1t.
So why in h worry about it," That
was his farewell. He jumped on his
horse and rode off.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

sight," and four pulls, Sound gas
alarm" The fire step in a trench is a
shelf on which soldiers stand to look
Dr. and shoot between the sand bags
Pp.
addition to these man, we had pa
trolls and scouts out In mo Mans
Land the greater part of the night,
with orders to gain any information
possible which might be of value to
battalion, brigade, division or general
headquarters. They reported on the
condition of the Germans barbed wire,
the location of machine guns and 9TH
er little things like that which might
be Of interest to some commanding
officer twenty miles back. Also they
were ordered to make every effort to
capture any of the enemy's scouts or
patrols, so that we could get informa-
ton from them. One of the interesting
moments in this work came when a
spot. If you moved you were gone.
I've seen men stand on one foot for
the thirty seconds during which a star
shell will burn. Then when scouts or
patrols met in mo Mans Land" they
always had to fight 1t out with bayo-
nets. One single shot would be the
signal for artillery fire and would
mean the almost instant humiliation
of the men on both sides of the fight.
Under the necessities of this war many
of our men have been killed by our
own shell fire.