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  2. WAR NOTES.

    It is estimated that if the war lasts only six months it will cost the seven European belligerents £3,200,000,000. At the end of this ...

    Article : 587 words
  3. FILM THAT FAILED.

    Cabling from Paris to his papers in the United States on September 30, an interesting story is told by C. F. Bertelli, a prominent war ...

    Article : 298 words
  4. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

    It happened some time ago at Bairnsdale. The swain had quarrelled with his best girl, and the latter. refused to relent and make it up. For ...

    Article : 214 words
  5. A COSTLY SHELL.

    A soldier's story of the four days' battle of Neidenburg in Eastern Prussia was told by Christian Schmidt, a volunteer in the Seventy-fifth Bremer ...

    Article : 153 words
  6. POSTBAG OF THE WAR

    Glad of Horses' Feed.—German Prisoner Living on Grass and Oats. Bombardier Barron, R.F.A., writes from the front:— ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. CRYING FOR FOOD.

    Declaring that he has witnessed pitiful scenes in regard to the treatment of wounded, a staff correspondent of the Chicago "Examiner" and ...

    Article : 834 words
  8. The Only One Left.—German Barber Stupefied by British Fire.

    Lance-corporal T. Birtwistle sends the following to his mother:— "Yesterday we had a bit of a dustup, in which we shelled them for over ...

    Article : 239 words
  9. NEVER.

    Even the lack of foreign dyes is never going to make a white flag of the Southern Cross. ...

    Article : 19 words
  10. ANOTHER OBSERVANT CLERIC.

    It is rather curious that whenever there is a picturesque exhibition afoot, some clergyman or other is sure to get a free ticket for the ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. "Eagles" Above Guns.—Lord Castlereagh's Tribute to Daring Aviators.

    In a letter dated September 25, Lord Castlereagh, the member for Maidstone, who is at the front, says:— "The thing that has impressed me ...

    Article : 224 words
  12. AERO TROOPSHIPS.

    Hudson Maxim, the inventor of high explosives, is of opinion that the present struggle in Europe is the last big war in which troops will be ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. BIG RUSSIAN GUNS.

    According to Percival Gibb, a war correspondent with a world-wide reputation, the new Russian cannon is superior to German guns. Writing ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. WHAT CURED HIM.

    Said the learned apothecary, as he handed me his pills, "These will make you blithe and merry, they will cure all human ills. They will kill the ...

    Article : 235 words
  15. LADIES' LET[?]R.

    Our First Contingent soon settled down to shipboard life, and on some of the troopships started a newspaper. The first editions of "The Kangaroo," ...

    Article : 753 words
  16. "A LOT TO LEARN."

    Clad in his oldest suit of clothes and his poorer pair of shoes, young Phillip D. Armour, son of the millionaire principal of the American ...

    Article : 263 words
  17. WHAT AMERICA THINKS.

    "A wonderful wave of enthusiasm and loyalty is passing over India," said the Marquis of Crewe, secretary of state for India, in parliament on ...

    Article : 404 words
  18. Derby Winner's Stable.—Strange Refuge Places for the Wounded.

    Private Tomkins, of the 2nd Royal Worcester, writes from hospital at Sheffield:— "Twelve of my platoon were killed ...

    Article : 182 words
  19. THE RAGTIME MUSE.

    Behold the father in his easy chair Conning of the war news while the meal grows cool. His wife's voice summons him: "This ...

    Article : 630 words
  20. ALL WELL WITH DADDY

    Nothing has distressed the French people—those fighting and those at home—more than the insufficiency of the postal service; but now and then ...

    Article : 236 words
  21. "Jumpy as Fleas."—Earl Describes the Tension in the Trenches.

    The Earl of Kingston, an officer in the Irish Guards, says:— "We had a bad night last night in the trenches, as we are only 800 yards ...

    Article : 162 words
  22. GOES TO STUDY SOLDIERS.

    James V. Carstairs, of Winnetka; Ills., is seventy-five years old and is going to war, He sailed on the American liner New York on September 30 ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. "THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR."

    The London "Times" announces that it will publish an adequate history of the great war of all the centuries in a set of finely illustrated ...

    Article : 330 words
  24. MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

    Shortly after two o'clock one bitter winter morning a physician drove four miles in answer to a telephone call. On his arrival the man who ...

    Article : 204 words
  25. Life for a Light.—How the Aisne Was Crossed Under Fire.

    Pte. Hannah, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, referring to the crossing of the Aisne under the German guns, says:— ...

    Article : 259 words
  26. "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE."

    The following verse, by Lillian Stone, N.S.V., was published in "The Kangaroo," the daily paper printed on the troopship Afric:— ...

    Article : 214 words
  27. TWO WEDDINGS UPSET

    There was a jangle in the wedding chimes when a man who said he was the bridegroom refused to pay a taxicab chauffeur for driving to a hall at ...

    Article : 200 words
  28. SEA "FLYER" SHIPPED FOR BRITISH WAR USE.

    The airship America, which Lieutenant Porte had planned to use in his Trans-Atlantic flight, has arrived shipped in England from America, and ...

    Article : 42 words
  29. Turned the Tables.

    A young fellow clad in homespun was standing near the National Gallery in London, when he was accosted by half-a-dozen genteely-dressed men ...

    Article : 175 words
  30. POTASH FROM SPAIN.

    Potash in immense quantities has been discovered only recently in Spain, and already French and Spanish engineers have discovered ...

    Article : 132 words
  31. Poor Little Drummer.—Shot by Comrades When Captive of the Enemy.

    A new instance of German barbarism—the exposure of British prisoners to fire from the British lines— is recounted by Lance-sergeant F. ...

    Article : 150 words
  32. "EAU DE POLOGNE."

    The example of the Czar, who changed the Russian capital's name to Petrograd to eliminate the German derivation of St. Petersburg, is ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. What He Thought.

    A good story is told of the late Gus Harris and a brother comedian who were comparing the size of their respective chests and biceps in Harris's ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. A SILENT LEADER.

    War Correspondent William Maxwell writes from the "front": "It can never be said of the official news doled out in France that it errs ...

    Article : 86 words
  35. "MOVIE" STAR KILLED.

    Max Linder, probably the moist famous cinematograph artist in the world. has been killed in action at the battle of the Aisne. ...

    Article : 26 words
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