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How To Make
Our Soldiers

Happy

A Doctor writes: ‘If you go to any of the military hospitals

where they bring the wounded, the first thing that strikes your al-

> the the bed. The

a man's speedy recovery un-
lips.”’

tention is the packet of cigarettes by side of
nurse: knows it is useless to hope for

1il he has the taste of tobacco on his

“The best and surest way to make our troops, wounded or un-

wounded, happy; the best way to make them, think that Canada is
not unmindful of their great courage and fortitude, is to send them

enough Tolfacco.

In the trenches, or in the hospital, a packet of Tobacco is the

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most acceptable gift in the world.

Do not delay, send a contribution to-day to

Canada’s Tobacco Fund

(Organized by the OVERSEAS CLUB)

Send your contribution to the Editor of the Sidney and Islands
Review, the nearest post office or your banker. If you send to the
_-Isditor..ol-the Review we will acknowledge

into the bank for you.

your gift, and pay it

Be sure to specify that) you are giving to Canada’s Tobacco Fund.

How a Canadian Scout Capture
a German Machine Gun

First Canadian Contingent, was told | through hurry ,or neglect, and that is
by a wounded Canadian now in hos-|exactly what such scouts as had been
pital in England. out and come back safely again told

“No, I can’t tell you much about}us they were. Somehow or
Jake before I’met him in the train-| Jake had got it into his head that
ing camp out yonder. Jake don’t) these pegs were in Some way connect-
talk much but from remarks he has'ed with the fact that the Germans
made now and then I gathered that, not only knew our men were out but
he was born somewhere in the Dom-|also exactly where they were. It was
inion, that he has tried everything, to test this idea of his that we crawl-
from bank clerking to ranching, and|ed cautiously up to one of these pegs.
that he has trapped and hunted every ‘We examined our side of the peg
thing that carries fur during the last | with minute care without touching it,
seven years. He was out hunting| but could find no trace of wire or, in
when he first heard of the war, andjfact anything. Jake then crawled
he just left everything except his gun| away to one side of {he peg and
and came in to Join. wormed his way forward inch by inch

‘Jake has great ideas on guns, and|until he could see the other side of
has fitted up his weapon with one or|the peg which was toward the Germ-

other |~ From the office of

two little inventions of
When the

his own.;an trenches.
brigadier-general—at least |sight of it

Ile had no sooner got
than he gave a gentle

that is what I think you call him—|laugh, and I knew he had found out

was
for France he
lation weapon, of which he has but a
poor opinion. The B. G. sort of ob-
jected to the look

it behind.

feel him keeping back his dander
the insult to his beloved gun.
‘Is is loaded?” asked the B. G..
“No, sir,’’ replied Jake.
‘‘Then let me look at it.’

at

looking us over before we left|something. He
spotted Jake’s gun, | and
which he carried along with the regu-| lines.

of the piece and!the peg was
told Jake it would be no good where| paint, and they could thus spot any-
he was going and he had better leave | thing which came between the peg
I was standing next tojand their
Jake at the time and I could sort of|of the pegs the rest was easy.

crawled back to me
signed for us to return to our

‘We did so, and then Jake explain-
ed the enemy’s dodge. Their side of
coated with luminous

view. Knowing the range

Jake asked me to do the necessary
reporting, and while I was away he
set to work and made one or two
‘‘poffer’? traps—Canadian rabbit traps

‘Jake handed it over, and the old| With these and his gun we once more
man squinted along the barrel and |crawled out from our lines. Just be-

tried to pull the trigger.

But he | fore

we reached the first peg Jake

couldn't, not even when he tried with |drew me close to him and breathed

both hands.
‘Why, you’l never be able to shoot
anything with that, my man.”

into my ear his plan.
“Arriving at the peg Jake carefully
placed his trap on the ground in front

THE “ORIENTAL LIMITED” AND “FAST MAIL,” TWO MODERN UP-TO- Jake took back the gun wie ane of it and pegged it lightly down. We
: remark. ‘I don’t let’ any fool nose |did the same at the next peg, and

round with my gun, sir; try now.”

then crept away until we arrived at

The old man took the piece again, |a point right opposite the position of
and the trigger worked at the slight-|one of the two troublesome marhine

est touch. Jake had a fixing of
own for locking the
which‘ he dould release at a touch.
‘‘No good,’’ said the B. G.
[cher won't go at all, or it goes too

his | guns.
mechanism, | to the

‘“It{and the enemy’s line.

We had now approached nearex
German trench, taking care
never to get between one of the pegs

‘We trailed along with us a ligh

suddenly. Besides you can’t aim with | cord connected with the goffer traps

‘ these sights.”’
‘‘May I show you, sir?”

and when Jake judged his position to
be about right he looked carefully to

- Jake got permission, and before we/his gun and then requested me to pull

quite redlized what he was after he
had stuck a five-france piece against
a tree, walked away fifty paces, and
planted six shots straight into the
coin. '

arm to be able to shoot like that.
Take it with you by all means.”
And that’s how Jake ‘got leave to
take his gun to France, and good
work it has done there, as I’ve seen.

offer of a commission, but Jake says
be couldn't live up to it.”

* e e
What had Jake done to bring him
the offer of qa commission?

ings, the last in which I'll be with
him for some time, I’m afraid, for it
was in helping him that I got this
German bullet in me. .
“We had been sending out small
scouting parties from our side cach
night after dark to try to find out
one or two things we wanted to

in front of us.

from two German machine

Somehow or other the Germans
ways got to know our parties were
out, and, queerer
able to drop right on them with thelr
machine guns even in the inky dark-
ness. This completely
folk. At last Jake told me on

ed to their trick, and asked me if qT
would go out. with htm.

“Jake, in looking over the ground | them, out. He

peared to be some old tent. pegs, or
ipvared to be some old tent pegs, or
halter pegs, driven into the ground in

1 'y sort of haphazard way, and looking

Twice over it has. brought him the}.

know about the ground and trenches) gan -to talk. Before 1 could get

every time, however,|our line I stopped one of the bullets.

the scouts were either laid out or had! That's it on the window ledge there.

to clear back qujck to escape the fire] TI just managed to get near enough

suns. {for them to pull me in before 1 lost
al-|count of things.

puzzled our|some distance

jerkily on the cord. This caused the
traps to flap.up and down in front of
the rezs. We had not long to wait
before the Maxim began to spit. As
soon as the enemy began to fire Jake

“Good Heavens! I’d give my right | moved forward until he could make

out the figures of the men working it.
“Then, under cover of the noise of
their gun and with increditable rapid-
ity, he picked off man ‘after man un~
til the gun had ceased to fire.
“We then Jay . quite still a short
time, but heard nothing and could
make out no movement.- Then , we
crept slowly forward until .we could
sce right into the German’s trench.
Not a soul was to be scen. Jake had

He whispered me to get back to our
line and report the trench empty. I
set off, leaving him there, as he said,
just to keep an eye on the trench. I
had just got past the point where
Joke had lain when he had picked off
the gunners when the second Maxim
‘a little further along the trench be-
to

“T was told the rest in the morning

still, they seemed|as I lay waiting for the ambulance,

“Jake had climbed down into the
German trenmtli and had madc his way
along it till he saw

the} the men round the other machine gun.
quich that he thought he had tumble |

They were just preparing to fire when
get a start and
gun and

somewhat. Then he walked back
the first ‘un, and shortly after

{hen simply wiped |itary serv
marched up to their} the enemy bill an
monkeyed ls meCHAnTSn] the
to|in the

out in amazement, ‘‘It’s Jake Mc-

Gough come back with a Maxim.”
But Jake had done more, for he had
coolly stopped on his way and col-
lected his ‘“goffer’? traps so that the
Germans shouldn’t know how they’d
been had.”’

This story of Jake McG of the} s the ‘y hi ‘en left behi
y of Jake McGough, of the}as though they had been lel behind REMITTANCE TO BRITISH PRIS-

ONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY.

the Chief Press
Censor, Ottawa, comes the following
information:

The Canadian Government has
ceived notice from London that the
Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs has been informed by the United
States Ambassador, that the Turkish
Government desire that in future re-
mittances of money not exceeding five
pounds from private persons, for Brit-
ish prisoners of war in Turkey, should
be despatched to the International
Red Cross Committee at Geneva for
transmission to the
Crescent Society at Constantinople,
by whom payment to the recipients
will be affected and a receipt return-
ed to the International Committee at
Geneva.

Letters and parcels should also be
sent .to the International Red Cross
Committee at Geneva for transmis-
sion. Such letters and.parcels are
post free. Monzy should be remitted
by International Money Order which
can be obtained at any post office and
which should be made payable to the
International Red Cross Commitlee
at Geneva and sent on with full name
number and regiment of the prisoner,
of war to whom the money is to be
paid.

Information has also been received
from the United States Ambassador
that prisoners of war in Turkey are
now allowed to write only one letter
a week, limited to four lines, and that
this regulgtion applies also to letters
addressed to them. Letters of great-
er length will not We delivered.

Te-

THE ‘TIME TO ACT.

The old saying has it “there is no
time like the present.’? That this ap-

plies with telling force to the select-—

ion of good dairy~ cows will be ad-
mitted by every thoughtful ,dairyman.
Selection may be made on the evid-

ence of certain well known external ~

indications of good milking qualities
with special attention paid to the ud-
der, loin, skin, barrel, etc.

But no matter how skilled the ex-
pert judge of dairy ‘‘quality” in a
cow may be, he is not infalliable as
to the amount of hard cash that any
one cow in the herd will earn in the
year. He may be, the ordinary’ dairy

farmer, too, may be mistaken in his .

judgment. One system will give him
accurate results, that of selection. by
dairy records. It is easy to weigh

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cows are best to keep and breed from.

Now is the time to act, prepare to
keep records all season; write the
dairy division, Ottawa, for free milk

Well, Vl fell. you one of his do-|laid out every man around the gun. record forms, either three times per

month, or daily. You will never re-
gret it. .

Frém the outbreak of the war until
January 8th, the recruits raised by
Ireland numbered’ 86,277 according, to
the reports of Baron Wimborne, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, published on
January 81st. He estimates that at
the present time there are about four
hundred thousand unattested single
‘men of military age in Ireland, but
deducting these ‘indispensible for agri-
culture, commerce and the production
of munitions and those medically un-
fit for service,’ ‘concludes that the
single men actually available would
hardly exceed a hundred thousand.

The royal assent and other formality
he came upon them, and he Tet them: Jog" giving~statutory-forcoxto--theumilss Ai
ice bill, the trading ‘with "i

d the bill prolonging a
lite-6f-Parliament=were-condludedwanay
House of Lords on January. ~
our /@7th, when Parliament was prorogu:. hi
line was startled by someone crying ed. ; te : ;

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