NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1915, Page 6

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Private Machins, of the Welsh Regiment, who has been invalided home from the front, states that the German! "poured poison into the eyes of a sergeant who was taken prisoner. This blinded him, and then they sent him back." The officers of the new army at Home receive some queer communications. One anxious mother writes:—"My son tells me that he is billeted in a house where there are two very pretty girls. Could you get him moved, please, as before he went he was almost engaged to a very nice girl with house property of her own." ALL WOOL VERSUS SHODDY. For some time past, especially since the outbreak of war and consequent high prices of wool, there has been ,a persistent effort on the part of wholesale houses and certain retail firms to foist shoddy clothing on the public at very much inflated prices. That there is no justification for this beyond a predatoty desire to exploit the public is evidenced by the factlhat the Melbourne Clothing Company is still selling the folio iving all pure wool colonial clothings at antewar prices,, For instaucc: Men's Kaiappl suits, 29s (id; boya' I'ctonc Norfolk suits, size 7, 15s Gd, to size 14, 18s 9d; men's Petoue tweed suits, 37s 6d; men's P'toW jaddlc tweed suits, ,30s (id; men's Roslyn boxed suits, '3ss j boys' Roslyn sptirt suit?, am B, Os (Id. up to size 10, 22s 6(1. A British explorer aud elephant hunter writing from Bangui, French Equatorial Africa, to a Yorkshire newspaper, makes the following remark regarding the value of radio-telegraphy:—"lt will interest all your readers to know that, thanks to 'wireless' linked up by land services, we -*-in the heart of Africa (over 6,000 miles from Europe)—receive daily reports of the progress of battles now raging in Europe a few hours after each event," Mr. G. Cooke, a young man employed at the Paeroa railway station, has (says the Auckland Star) invented an illuminated sight which can be fixed on the present service rifles at very little expense, The patent has been protected, and has been submitted to t{ie Defence Department. It is understood that Mr. Cooke has also sent the patent home to England to the War Office. Mr. Cooke brought his invention under the notice of the Hon. Mr. Allen, who is arranging a trial with the New Zealand Defence authorities. SEVERELY CHAPPED HANDS. FIRST APPLICATION OF REXOJ& GAVE RELIEF. . ''l suffered for some time with severely chapped hands," writes Mrs. Bird, 602 King street, Dunedin North, New Zealand. "I am in a refreshment and, confectionery business, and an/ constantly washing glasses and dishes. The cuts were laid open almost to the bone, and j nothing I used seemed to cure or give | me relief. A friend, seeing the terrible state of my hands, gave me a little j of your Rexona Ointment to try. The | first application gave me instant relief. It took the heat completely away, audi in a week's time my hands were quite healed. I would not be without your! ointment for the world." Rexona is sold at Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere:

Painful proof of the truth of the German atrocities has been received by Mrs. Galloway, of Kent Terrace, Wellington, who is a Belgian by birth. From London has come to her a letter from her younger sister, who gives a brief description. Her father and mother and sister (with an infant child), and an aunt were among a party which was trying to escape into Holland. When four kilometers from the frontier, they took shelter in a desertetd farmhouse. A patrol of Germans asked them whether they were for the Germans or tho Belgians. On finding they were Belgians, the soldiers fired deliberately and shot 15 dead, including Mrs. Galloway's father and mother, and sister, and aunt. The writer of the letter was in a hayloft with the baby and three young girls, so tbey were not seen, and got away later on.

WHAT DO YOU GIVE BABY FOR HIS COLD? , Foolish mothers dose their babiea with home-made concoctions or something recommended by a neighbor, and perhaps upset the little stomach and make the baby cross and uncomfortable by their mistaken economy. Wise mothers do not experiment with untried nostrums, but depend on a remedy which has been coni|i;!fid from the scientific Description of a famous physician. Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery is this remedy, and mothers may give it to their babies, secure in the knowledge that coughs and colds will no longer rack the little bodies. For croup it lias the most wonderful results. Vyhooping cough is cut short by the use of Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery. For all the family ills resulting from throat or lung complaint, the mother's resource is Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery. Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery is the quickest, safest and best-known remedy for coughs, colds, pleurisy, bronchitis and all throat and chest troubles. It is a remedy that can always be relied upon. Price 1b 8d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere. Professor J. H. Morgan, of London University, who spent some time at the front, Bays when the men go into action they do "not go singing hymns, as some suppose, but swearing most horribly—not all, but the majority. And there is no thought of impiety in this. When going into a hot fight the nerves get highly excited, and what is called the subconscious self gets the upper hand, causing men to use language which ordinarily they do not use. The trenches are, in places, as close togctlier as fifty yards, and one can carry on a conversation with the enemy if so disposed. One of the trenches he visited had been turned into a perfect garden city. As Professor Morgan approached by the communication trench, he met a man riding a bicyclo down it. Under tho parapets he saw men in the dugouts snoring heavily, while shells burst overhead. In the .winter, though, tho clay is like a sponge, and more than one man was sucked down and lost. Now that the men had time to devote themselves to the amenities of life, the trenches were brick and wood paved, planted with flowers and having such things as rustic bridges over streams, with notices up. "Hyde Park; keep off the grass." The dugouts are like suburban villas, roofed in, with tables, chairs, pictures, sevenpenny noyels, and a cat with kittens. j

HER FIRST PIE. They had not been married long, and it was her first pie. He helped himself to a second piece, and smiled-'swcetly f into her anxious face. His health was precious to her, but such heroism stirred her very soul. All doubts of his love vanished for ever. She did not know that deep in his pocket nestled a little tin of Dr. 'Sheldon's Digestive Tahules, which digest what you eat, and go the peace of one happy (iomc remained unbroken. Pie has no terror when Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are at hand. Price Is Od and 2s 6d per tin. Obtaina-hla avirywlyifc "' " "~ "'