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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1917-08-16, Page 2es.•, •11. '11''',1111.111F You May May Net Reeve.. with s. coor &iice of waste. It •, If you use an mined over tor your 'grinds the dirt into the 'media and tweebe euro you put it all eight side will ruin ,the finish in short time. Up. Sonwtnnes wu find unu put uu Hove the car washed, it you want the wee& dewy* whieh will %tree it to finish to last. ° held the vein instead ef ihn eddig it. It slieuld be remembered that in Riven weteh on the *whet of the the event a eunning short of gaso. 'wheel** itteteielly if the ear ta en Oki line in a locality where the supply QM le Whet can be .104" tightencannot be replenistied,"stove naphtha" the bolt* on the taupe et the hub. enil even Iteeeteme il een he emied if ifehey art *NI low* eonsult Wheel- ;nixed with as large a PrePereleil Wright*** eour life may bet endanger- POseible of the geeeline remaining itt eleby the trekking of a wheel. the tank. Do not negleet to telie e few spark The one precaution to be observed plug cores with you on yeur trip. The le to keep the engine Teeming and to Metal parts of a spark Plug. will last keep it hot, even if running with a re- almest indefinitely* but the 'cores tetrad perk Is necessary.% order to Must break in time* and that Melly prevent the cylinders from becoming Means buying a new quirk plug. As too cool to vaporize the charges prop. the cum ten be bought for a fraction erly.0 uf ,.the cost Of a new spark plug, it Difficulties with tire ,mixture are meatus economy to cerry a /eve With Sure to occur, but can be remedied by you. Also carry a feW extra geekets. careful attention to the regular ad - Occasionally the interrupter bejustments comes loose, and it iniportent that Remember that chains ,are needed the beginner eihmed learn -to see it. in isithimer ae" well as in winter. A This trouble lieshown by the fact that heavy rain will soon make the streets the engine will not start when crenice end roads dangerous. Some people ed, but givesonly one or two explo. carry only one chain, on the right rear dons. Where an engine, has been run. wheel, awayefrom the curb. Two are ning properly and the.ebove trouble better, both on the rear wheels, but develops, inspect the interrupter it*: it is best to use four and have one in inediately. reserve. Spark plug procelaine crack from 'All new cars and those wich have it, variety of eatiees. A chance blow been run a few hundred miles should from a wrench while tightening, pull. have the cylinder oil drained from the ing too hard on the ignition wire,. crank case. It is good economy to dropping the plug or a defect in mann- have this oil drained after the first facture are frequent causes. But 600miles, on account of the accumula- the usual trouble is from ecrevring tion of grit, particles of carbon and • theft too herd into the cylinders. Asdirt frembearings in the oil. This the plug heats up and expands it grit le kept in circulation and Acts in . crackil the porcelain. • . the same manner , as ornery,. cutting Do not wipe dint from your car the bearings. • ,P.11mat..••••••.•••••••1•0 WOMEN'S WORK IN THE REPLACE SOLDIERS . IN IVIANY • ' DEPARTMENTS. t• Altogether' 27,000 Are Doing Moipital e Work as Doctors � Nureee- • • and Oeeerlies, •• When ;mat broke out there were • 290 Moses in the Imperial Military elereing Service and 178- he reserve. Besides theee, 800 were celled up it once fromchan hoepitals for duty with the -expeditionary force. Small as this number now seems, it was eullicient to etaft the twelve hospital unite which vent 'overseas with that first army, and also the -permanent e---militaryterespiteils in-eGreat •Britaiee Behind This regular nureing service was the lerritorial Service, the -se- cond hospital line. .All its enurses were in eivilian work and drawing no .arrhy pay, but were pledged at tha outbreak of war, .to to the call of the State, . eitich were the preparations for war already nuide in thine of peace, and they were complete' and ample for the old army. But the nursing Service,' like the army itself, had mid. 'dimly to grow beyond all that had ever beenexpected' of It with this difference, that while the first of the new itemise were set to train.them- selves le six Menthe, and in that tune had Income tioldiets, no nurse was tweeted unless she had had three yea* of ,service in a large hospital. : • 13;000 -Trained Even with this standard set the needs' of the greet armies time been _ inetoind.leale lifter two: and . half Years of war, that service of 800 With its 170 in reserve, and tee 800 civilian nurses attache to it hue ...grown . to close -on 7;000, and is stendilk grow- • Mg; At the sable tune the territOrial nurses -have increased ;to elose en 5,- • e eakiteevetreerew,--Tateet for service only le the .hoepitals of Ghat Britain, ere 0- a the trente. , • These *Mem numb; thirteen thou - Wind ill ate altfully mums, but besides them it leis been found advisable. to e viola . certain numbei of partly trained and ueereiiiie eci womee ;who work eieder the nurses 011n 'woo • ••••••••..• E 8 RUSSIA'S MOST ORILLIANT 'GENERA With Premier KerensIcy He Ocinott- hates the Mainstay e't Ru ;la's Share in World War. Gen. korniloff bas lost no time in aPPleing the "'blood and iroe" Uinta SQ sadly 'needed by' the Russian armies. Re is said to have turned his artillery Ott one division that showed coward- ice. The armies ufuler him, will have either to. right the Germans, or fight each other, but 'Horniloff is deter- mined that they shall fight. This brilliant soldier, who was al- most unheard of outside of Russet un- til a. fewweeks aga• heestitetee with • Kerensliy the hope of the Allies thet Russia "Will continue to do her share of•the common task. He has the con- fidence; of his men and tho confidence of the loyal element everywhere itt • Russia. Kerensky believes in him. He Is the most brilliant of the generals who under Ityussiloit conducted the sensational campaign last Summer. His own • recent drive in Galicia re - suited in the capture of 35,000 .Teu- tons, and according to the usual aver- age, this means 100,000 were put out of action. Comes .of Fighting Family are in the Army Nursing Services, but there are abroad, besides, those -trained nurses, some in British hos- pitale, some in the hospitals of the other allies, who work under the Red Crime and the Order of $t, John of Jerusalem. These two bodies have under their joint, control all those nurses who are riot wider the War . Office; inee there, Bice the army, in- sist, in theirchoice' on a• full three years' tabling andtakeonly thosei who are fit for the week, . For, in the fil'st enthusiasm' of .the war, unauthorized Inas had gone abroad often hastily equipped and with staffs belt trained. " Such un- tried workerseerekeunder the strain. 'It wa found the more necessary to have vigorous fists, as the Red Cross Was &cosh* Women not only for hospitals at home; but the most ardu- owl arta difficult teork• overseas, , for Serbia, devastated with typhus, and for the army in. Gallipoli. For such work. only thejest would sem. • ' - - It wee .a little later that the War Office decided to employ women in place of men.in many of the duties of the army hospitalsees clerks, as typ- ists, aS telephonists, as store-keeperil, as Iabeeatory assistants, as X-ray at- tendants, as cooks, as dispensers; and • as cleaners. . • All,these were dales that had be- fore been performed by the 'orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps. But since November, in 1915, ndt a man fit for serVice at the front has been enlisted in that corps, unless by reason of ,eome Special -qualification, and now, neither itt hospitals et home, nee in the base hospitals over-: seas, eor on the lines of communica- tion are tiny men, fully fit, to be ern- ployedit is by the:service - of -we,. men' that this has been made possible. There are now' 6,060 in the army hos- pitals taking the places of men. ActOVEM—thISAMPI'naP Mid tha t of the work !women' are doing in the army. There are the hundreds who work in the 'Army-, Postal" Service; there are the thousands who work' in the paymasters' departments; there are the trained-maiseuifes 11080-ti1e eeeeeleirieeatifteleatele.---BveMenee,--ii eteeteene 6,000 who are required by the Royal itying Ceres. enich weee the num- ber grows. • . Korrilloff• is in his 47th year. He was born. In Siberia and, it is said, in a log cabin. From. this it must not be inferred that he belonged to the pea. •pant class, for the log cabin style of architecture is popular in Siberia. Korniloff comes of alighting family, for he is ft grandson of Vice -Admiral Kornliolf, one of the most illustrious 'of `Russian Sailors. It, was Vice4d- infra Korniloff who ovas entrusted ith the def c f Sebald° ol in the Crimean War. In the neck of the bar protecting %is vitt he sank the five warships under his command, and, taking les men ashore, laid the founda- tions of that defence Which held out for; nearly a year • against the eom- General' Kerbiloff, 17" ^RIPIrT7F,411. " • e. the preeent win' broke out, and wee NEW GtRMAN DEcEPTION put in command ot an Infantry 61014 the *nue ma* which has welt Which Imre*** the Digficulty great fame iu, Oda war, the noted Forte-eiglith, 'called by the enemy the Fighting the SidnUarine. "Iron Division," Tide division took The whole eaMpeign against the part in the meMOrable sweep through German submarine is becoming hi. • the Carpathians under Itussky and ereasingly difficult because of it Brueelloff in September. 1914characteristic succession of decePteene The RUSaana beld" their positions now widely practiced by the eneMY. 'Went the WIllti3r, but by the -thee It has cost the British Many elilee and the *now began to melt the shortage Wee to find oUt that the Hun stops at • of anumunition had become acute. nothing to make hie Muleraea opera - Battery Commenders who fired more tions ruthless anti Succ,essfilit. than half a dilezen shells a day were First of all is the new, practice .. called on for explanations. The RUS- rigging up a submarine with se.4 9 stair position woe • undeubtedly well as to give the' vessef the look ane cbare knowe In Berlin, and SQ Mackensen water of an innoceht and respectable seized tbe opportunity for Mk famous craft. - In more than one instance an drive. When it began at least one unarmed merchant vessel has 011COun- 'the Great Barrier, which is one of the Russian; division, 'tee Twelfth, bad ere(' this trickery *anon the seas and principal defenses of .the Allies' vital . Penetrated the DuttlaPees, and bad was on the point of giving a.friendly Channel traille against the visits ef , hail when a torpedo shot out from be- the German' submarines, neath the -canvas, bringing death and - The "barrage," they- call the bar - destruction to the victim, of the trick. rier in riaYal phrase. It consists; ' in. One Of the latest German. deViees general Mimi), ,Of a series ofiobstetic- •t' - - calculated to lure ships to their,' deatle Mons" stretched .:, from huge steel is o eat lifeboats,manned by dumbuoys, shore 10 Shore, twenty odd rules, adrift in the open seas. Of miles. Any creft which strikes one of course, the moment an Allied VOSeel these obstructions straightway ex - Sees these boats a course is steeredplodes a group of mines which spell for them. Humanity could net dict- finis to the intruder, , • delaying actiona he fought- He hung ate otherwise. • It is then that the A whole fleet of naval sleppine is on so long that on April 28 a part of inhuznapity of the submarine deserts constantly engaged . in maintaining his division was cut oit and captureditself, for no sooner is the victim and patrolling the great barrier. Its Korniloff was made prisoner and sent started •on its mission of mercy than existence is no Secret to the Germans, to an internment eatini ibout 500 the .submarine arises from beneath the for they are constantly sending over . miles from the Russian frontier. Here he remained until ,last.Septem- her, when he escaped with the help of a Bohemian soldier. This man gave.ifake $ 0 S messages. The captain of hie life for Kornilofe, for be tlarew a, certain American passenger vessel himselt • between the fleeing general: showed the' writer the transcript of and his pursuers and his own body such a radiogram which was after - stopped the bullets that otherwise ward proved to have been sent out by would' have brought Korniloff down. • a German submarine. It read, "S 0 He ••.•elered on foot for three weeks, a American vessel sinking. Latitude living fa} the most part on, herbs and —, longitude —." • Wild berries. On returning to head- Under: ordinary, circumitances this quarters he at once resumed 'come skipper would have turned his boat mend ofa division, but wassummoned about and rushed to the scene. Had to Pettogmd to take charge of the he done sO in this instance he would military garrison. when the revolution. have gone to hie deathe . By this pro - broke out - cedirre the German not only violates - Synipalhetie though he with the every tradition' of the' sea, but serious - revolutionary movement, he saw that ly interferes with the rescue of shiPS the action of the Werkmen's and Sol, in, actual distress whose appeals for diers' Committee, was bound to de• - stroe the diselpline of the army, so he • resigned, and begged to be given a command iit the front. He was sent to Brussiloff, whose armies' still retained more. ef their diecipine and at the be one. ship. has bed,. lured to her grave ginning of Ally began the sensational by' responding , to these signals of adeance. toward, Holtz, , .: e . - • ' trouble . 0 . .: • , - ' 1. . . SUB. BARRIER IN • ENGLISH CHANNEL TEE BARRAGE IS CONSTANTLY • PATROLLED. Series of Obstructions Stretched From the British- to the French v ve, • Coist. • . Across the eastern mouth of the English Channel there still stretchee adveneed -write 20 miles Leong the. viable of Hungary. Had there been plenty of anunuaition the whole Res - seta army woule have itreenied .after it, and the end the war would beee. been in sight. , • , Captured by Austrians . However, there was nothing for It but retreat, sel again leoriiiloff die- tinguished by the desperate water and chseharges its torpedo., emplanes to chart the buoys and mark A third device which has proved to any changes that may have been made be successful is' the sending out of since thein last visit And changes are constantly being made, Futile ,AttemPts to Break Through. Here and there along the line' are secret° openings through which naval peets. may guide legitimate craft • on their way, but these opeeings are fre- quently altered, and not.even the air-. plank eye of the German can tdll which lluoy marks safe' passage and which marks destruction. If his mine. laying submarines wish to enter .the chapnel they must take their chances.. submerged, for the iTfhethyeymuesstcacp-ems-tshectroaps while sub - patrol boats are on constant duty.:, and 'Merged it can only be said that an - help are legitimate- $ 5 signals other miracle has happened. A further evidence • of • German el., explosions -are heard at night from. Some- cannoto fe n be safely heeded. ti mSeuscht wmicirea cal ews week, osmpmheatpipmeens.. treachery is the sending up of fake the. distress rocketa at night, More than great • barrier, indicating' that "something" has touched off a group. of mines, Immediately the patrols • hurry off in the directiOn gf. the 'ex - :plosion. ,,,,-WhatA they. find-thereeis- :a well-kept'secret ' Last week theGermans tried a new plan to break the barrier: They Sent over three' Seaplaries with orders to descend low. over the barrier at • any risk and shod their machine's into the buoys thus sinking them and the bar- rier with, them. But the Patrol boati. were on hand, and two of the three seaplanes ney_e,r-re_terned to . theere German heinee- • FRENCH WOMEN ECONOMIZE. Aristocrats Of Paris Still Charming in e Their War Poverty. • 31ld-r,esidence *raters of Paris there are hundreds of women of aristocratic connections and moderate means who before the -war had several servants and who now have none or perhaps one, says Leslie's Weekly. And to Women of all degree's of wealth there could scarcely be a more inter- esting study than td see how these gentlewpmen and their humble help- ers give a charming touch to , hard economy; • - • Now you begin to see .Why the'cru A FEATURE OF NATIONAL PAIR. sade againse the suhrnarine is attend. . , . ed by hazard and hareship. Yet de - Loading Of Trankports at Quebec' to seite these handicaps the British navy is making headWay against. the pest of be Shown at Grand Stand. • • • • the ses.and aecounting for ore than !ARBREAD POPULAR IN th S. Stale Bread S_oaked, Strainedeand:Re- •• -baked With Added Yeast. In the fdce of a serious food short - Moth scale, with the St Lawrence and age occasioned sby the war. American its burden of battleships and fighting housewives, bakers and hotel chefs are eratt in the foreground. ' • ..,,, discoveting that there are many- satis- The story-Willedeale••withetheinee lattory....wal63. 11ut-king„......beeitte.. by_ century from Conferderaticm . to the which a saying. of 'Wheat flour can be present day, and.eatriotiem and infec- effected. An ' effort is also being tious faith iii •Canada will dominate made to. check America's wastefulness the giant -sized panorama,. which will , in the matter of food products. - Bak - achieve a thrilling. elimai5. when file ers are trying to educate the public to after file of Overseas Troops embark the fact that stale lived is as, whole - on huge transports and proceed down some as fresh bread, and in many the river behind a convoy of, destroy- ers on their, way across the sub- erase came ,. more digestible. At present quantities of stale loaves are col - marine -infested. seas to the battle lectod periodically „from .the bakeries lieints eieeer There." • and sold at a fraction- of • the original .price, asa base for stock foods. With A representative household ie one THE LADIES' ROAD. a , view to Utilizing „Sean .stale bread where the 'regular 'income has en& . in making new loaves,- an organize- d,enly stopped, -hut leaving a little • A National Spectacle will be the is generally believed. 14 • Grand Stand productionat the Cana- dian • National Exhibition this year,. 'fflanned on tt scale ealculated_to write a new. page into the ,history of eatri- ode pageantry. • The Heights of Que- • bec are to be reproduced on a ream- bined cannonade of the British and Femme 'guns. Subsequently, the Ad-, mime died as,the result of a wound in- •. , eurred On Malakoff - The preseet gen'Oral • was deethied fa' the army almost from birth, and after passing 'through the Siberian 'cadet Corps' he picked up • one scholarship after another that made his path easy and' Wittily marked him out for an unusual military career. ' • ' Brilliant Soldier and,Llngulst, He obtained a eommissicin in the Slberbtn_-array, which, was ttt that time a distinct organization: from the Russian .Eurepeati arnly and the array of tke Caucdkus; • bUt when the war between •Itussite and. Japan obroke but t •e S berian ,array was, 'Mken, over by, has 'more than the small Government' al- HoW the Shell -Tern Highway Ga its tion representing leading hotels, , • cisarisedfora a"wthaorr-oburgehads"oaccei!igpeofwihtaiclhe. keeper , and cook aecomplishes won- lowance. The ingenuity of house Romantic. Name. No :doubt -a sgood. many readers wile bread and crusts' in -rater. This base, have seen references in the newspfiL after it has been properly -salted, is pers the fierce fighting between the ' th h fl ' d t French and the Germans along . the Chemin des Dames, or Ladies' Read, have Wondered how that shell -torn highway got its pretty and romantic ders. en many a home butter may now be served mime week, and per- haps With only one emirs% • Perhaps it are added yeast and enough flour to three large strawberries' meet suffice make a very stiff dough. • for each serving at dessert, but they will be served with a grace that makes the eating of them a pretty:ceremon- ial. .s If gooseberries' and currants are in - _expensive they will -combine' remark-, 'ably with other berries for. a com- pote.• Perhaps dessert will be •'a spoonful of jelly with a simple little to cheese, teeing on a new attractive- ness on its plate of green leaves, • Absent -Minded. An'etbseet-minded • man came home proniinent New York hotel has reeettly added to its moue a .bread containneig-ryeeleour-and whole -Wheat Kuroplitliin. The young officer ad- The road', dates from .the time of flout, in addition to white flour. Ane .3,44ced.;.aptilly elle to blue eoe elle King • Louis.. XV It bogin4 :0 ...the other method of seeing wheat flour dangerous task of fighting rearguard ,Paeieelidaubeuge Road, about • ten mike which, ie being well receieed.ia to use actions as Kuronatkin put into eXecu- northeast of Soissons, and crosses the one earti •ef cottensed meal to fotir, _plateaueeofeCraonner A, distance • Of five er six pareseof wheat flour. •A: tlint his--famus-.strategy -of, "luring --• tiiii-rnd of tile watte. was aivarded.'tht, Mobs of St. George of the Fourth 1)egree, and • presented with. a golden sword. •His Of women working undet tee War •. "Office' tiletie as 'doctors, as nurses ne'd'aPlminti"nt wee to the Russian military staff at Pekin, where he nen- and orderlies , there are 27,000, in tinue sudies and incidentally ac. place, of the 4,000 -odd at the begin- iiing of the war. . ".quirPd•the: Chinese language 1t might ,leleae, 'de Narbenne,. every .suininer. ' remarked that the Russian gift of The roads of the region were detest- i welve miles. It then de- United. States Senator not ltili ago -81:.45WrilitkrtlieT'vidre."'—er 1-1- -faiteT "ervO'VRI-efitkilWnftifentmne to -cross -thee Vituelere Woods-to--tha clients- to, severli of his -colleague domain of the ancient Chateau of iWashington, and they seemed Much Bove, near Bouconville, where the leaser' with it, Government Chemists °Princesses- Adelaide,- Sophie arid- Vic- ha i demonstrated that - flour 'can tier°, daughters of Louis ?Cy, used to also e made from peanuts, dried one. eieningheierrip ar., y waving his e t h ti visit one Of their ladies of honor, peas, sweet potatoes, etc., and that tan re laLtd: is.wife;', ' Well, my dear,' such flour can be mixed With Wheat b be said ymi see I didn't leave it any- , . flour teeniike exce:1._=lent bread.. e . "1..seeteleereeardihtheewiteites, only trouble is that' you didn't take, one-from•homa:this morning.'",, _, • ADRIFT IN A • MINE FIELD rimmaxp HELPLESSLY IN SEA OF DEATH TRAPS, On a Stranded Seaplane in the'Midat of Hundreds of Deadly Con- tact Mina. • A • Beitish seaplane observer scribes in the Wide World Magazine ma adventuee that befell hina during flight. over the North $ea. Suddenly, 'when theplane had travelled through'. • fog and haze to a height of twenty- five handred feet above -the water, tire. engine stopped dead, The °beery% arid his pilot meet conipelleol to de', smile • quickly, and when their plane struck . the water they Lad "no' idea where they were. Through calcula- tions they finally decided that they must be at least fifty miles from the shores of England. • What was worse, it was gradually borne in upon thera that they were perilously near, if not actually M, an extensive mine field. , They could. Wet signal, for their wireless apparatus was out of com- " miesion. The heat was terrible and the sea was dead Reim., At least a . dozen times as the day wore on the men heard the roar of engines, but the sound always receded into the' dis- tance again, and there seemed to be no hope of reocue. Finally the wind . rose and shifted the haze a tale, and high .up in the northwest they saw , dropping toward them utied-like ma- -• chine. Nearer and nearer . came, and presently it dropped on the. water beside them. It was a British sea- plane from. their' own base. The pilet of the rescue machine steered within twenty yards of them, and his obsexv- 'er heaved oVeKhoard a huge vacuum • flask. Then, without stopping the gine, they droned along the • surface . and tilted into the air again. When - the men turned to the Bask they. found that it had floated out of reach into the midst of a school of jellyfish. • ne These nu. h reia e PI or- ify 8 000' eminent- ;fifit'inftli- orieed the cultivation' of the poppy for tongnes is 'brilliantly exemplified in able in those days. Out of consieer. Kornilidenevliciespliaieshinrese-fineoe tem tion-fotqlle-pritiettatilL4V-noW-,:ph languages; besides'Fersian and cuii4 ad road was built along the crest of Ard""‘ and ehe preeluetion-- of opium and -oil for liege. the: plateau ever eiaee_gbastbee These' terentereime thouaand Women doMestic consumption, , 'He was a brigadier.geneyal when called the Chemin des Dames. .. • where to -day. • too many ,for,,presen ,p future needs. , We nwlarjustne quarter :of tho- timber' • - possessed by the United States. China has no forests. . -troisossustairj 13L'hiek ricilaxati cot.' •Ib3bLe' . . 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' 4 ' 0 A411 .,. .-.-'. ...---....,0.- °— ' .2- - - l' *TAitrFirelbsteuk./ ..........• - )4t) . .e . -ea . 4 • • II • The End of a • Long Wait. Then the long, • hungrY, impatMnt wait began Again, • The hours seemed . ,to drag more 'heavily than before. As the tide went down, dark spheroidal : objects began' tO bob up by twds to the , 'surface.. • Through their glasses the • . men conld see scores more of them in the distance: They were deadly contact - 'i mines! The nearest t were • only . half a cable's tenth away, and the sea - phew was drifting toward theme' • on . the ebbing tide. Duting the next-fp& -hours • the • death traps gave the -men. eeterribly anxious time, for there were hundreds . of them. Once or twice they. actually. had to Ward off tbe mines with their •bare hands .to keep them from knotk- ing against the machine. • ' Shortly after six o'elock in the even- hg tEe- mee—eurnete ahnost beaceehie.7 the sun, with parched throats • and ' swollen tongues—heard the sainid ef a propeller chugging away at no eery- • great distance. The throbbing. 'grew louder,' and at intervals the obseryr . fired ,three pistol shots. Then out of the haze ploughed a trim little( Motor - launch. She crept alongside, lowered her dinghy and took the Men off. Then . she made 'fast -line, to .the seaplane -and-took it in tow. It was -long after midnight when the- reached the , English'sliore. • " • TOKIp NEEDS PAVEMENTS. .Stieets 'In Same. Condition as Half a Century Ago: • • - .Modern paving, _ sanitation and , street cleaning are not peaceitied in , Tokio, capital of Japan. The Far 'East asserts .that "in the •cley season theeetreets-are Saliareseef-dustane-in-- wet weather unending iluaginires. The main business artery of Tokio, from Sainagawaettetereelo- Patk, iedietitnee of six miles, ereniaies .it spectacle of neglect and plirt." Along pert of this route payments and gutters ,haVe -- them7elvesimtl.-no attempt -is made at • _Street cleaning. The stre4 are -in .exaatly the same condielen as they were half a century ago, . Another source of Anxiety exists in • the fact that none.; of _the. Japanese buildings, no matter how • imposing have adequate foundations . - What Ile Thought. sitik Itodotick '-nraeitch: An ad- • Miter had presented hint with a shill- ing. 13 ut the coin was too.insignificant to represent lila ideas of Wealth and he determined to convert it into copper, bank Impressed with the magnitude of ttie transaction, he boldly, marched into a ,,sixpennies and twelve ha'pennies ' for a shilling,” he said, addressing the tashier with the nit of, an autocrat. • "You take your shilling and get out of thi" ordered the Money -handler. Little Roderick' s finer feelings were hurt Ile turned towards thirswing.. • door, then drew himself up, and faced round. • . "Ca' yerser a bank!" •hasaidi seem-, fully.. "Ca' yersel' it bank, 'an' canna change a shillin'!" In cases of overproduction` ha the big markets.try to Simi sniall markets where ti better price can be had. • An outbreik of diphtheria in an gugliSh town was traced_tajhohabit_ of school children witting lead pendia in Aseir snouthe. 0,1 •