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TULTUr AS S
IN AFRICA
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before the Royal Colonial Inetitute, Titan lee
since on January 13, 1014, SPeakingTrinlAITE mark indifferently a* tin) caee mayl THE "M, S. V°
EA :PCANTEN'ERS DUTCH TO RECLAIM.
Prof, Moritz Bonn of hiunieb boaeted: I e GARNERS "net may he so," he replieo, "but i Fight for Health in Trenches is DietY Tiny Craft Thet Sweep the S.41
AGOOD CROP r:e.11: zer croinilt i M"Itlinr 11"ecten Around the Brbaleth
"We /nave welved the native probe!
lem by smashing tribal lifer I
Timis did Prussia rePitY. the Here I
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tieoThe selepee of $anitsitien Auld by- After feur jean Pressmen are pe-
. TO the Hull that of the Sweet.'
eros for voluntarily piecing theeaddened countennce
, ta the . giene ia, wetneitt doubt, the chief faa. witted. tte,tell something, of the Work
Of a a
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ee tor in maintaining the eplentlid phYsl- a the A.S.D.-the Admiralty Salvage um HAND STORY OF GERMAN _votary, Darnaralandt in Southweet OLD., FOLK AND CHILDREN AND French soldier. The tragedy
ATROCITIES
WIDER ZEE
Africa, under Gentian protection, PRIMITIVE- TOOLS. ° war ..haa traelemuted thee once Mare' i eat condition of our ehldiere. . Departnienteehut few ea yet Wee
, The foularlatione of GermanY's . .........., =Darkness of our infantry, But the sintt"utita, et:X:4415i 0°Ane olacear •wirigitta: Inuti:gw*Q, boutxtthy: throntlant
TO EnSlaye a World, felloW. Tey lack, too, the outward ,
eon W Borrow eve I end twenty -Ave other rants, Imown Sournalistee
other African eelonieS was ala0 laid Utter Destruction of ItIontdidier- spirit is th3nee.
Tho Powers -that- Be seem to have
in blood, crz to a eoldiee in passing, Ile lighte as a Sanitary section. Every man et
this little unit is invariably a trained gone out of their way to commandeer
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up at once. "That is. the perfect 1
The Hunt; . now have the supreme Siteleten - of Morelia - Nit.
' se.
fad Colossal. impudence to declare re French Spirit Unquenched. word, Monsieur," be say a with a anitary inspector, and has to under- the tinniest of hips for salvage work
through DrSolt their Collinial Min- i go a thorough training in general Tiny they must be,. for as ranch of
The return 1
. of Germany's African awe, ethat the African eolomes must The French people have a wonder- ,
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. IBM'. ....61--..., ....-o•-•• li, fled fr: an Mat! on before be is permitted the salving is done in shallow water
. : f• • grin
colonies would not only be the creWn- TWILIGHT IN FRANCE ' ; to take up his duties ae a militarY a light draught ie neceesary. Some
14 returned to Germany, even if Bel- Ail crop, and they garner it lie the - .
inV crime t° the 1°ng list °t' crimes ghlm and occupied France and Al- eame spell of fine weather that luta 1
et -t
Showa Why "Allies Never Can Return
Colonies to the Kaiser, Moat
Cruel of Slavedrivers.
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1 eanitary inspector: ' t a the steamers 'engaged in saving
, the African, biet it would cause a ria» 'sace-Lorraine must he given,' up hi -enabled 115 t(s. Iceel) the hell fruits of The Hour of Preyer in- a War. The duties of the military sanitarY stricken ships displace no more tban.
our victory, says O. Cenadian Press Stricken Land. inspector are many and varied. He twenty „or thirty tons. ,
committed by the white ' man upen
exchange therefor. . " is reeponsible for providing an adet Before the war their working area
. tive rebellion from Cairo to the Cape ep" Germany'a future Position as correspondent. But they garner it,
Through tt(
gh the magnifieent rose wine
(puWater supply for drinking and , was the cenals of Great Britain, or nd enidanger the life of every white e. etottd rower _ eeeveeeeeteeee.eceeeelte WWI', eld inmeand--wereen arid- chile glow ,of, *tear. peewee ‘;‘,„4 heeeee vv -04- 4,iwaing inurr404:14. enalle,w,--/blipewthey._,nret.eq-orti.A.T,_; It -le b.„:as-rbe,,,,,
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, limn between; says Ida Vera Skeen- behind, op With her colonial future. et diem The young women are in the i derful rays" of colorpierce'the dim...edge ,of yew enalt,..sieeis of para- thing of a surmise te see one of
tote African traveller rind student.- ; . ; This balance of per ere- : war factoriee, .doink their 'eteint far I nos of ti lofty -aeteeet- tt.4eltege to ,
Mount importance. During an ad- ' these boats \coming- into port adier- '
VOr Germany's actions. in Africa se
. teed in the coleniai field will, by re- France. They garner with bent backs the altar. shedding. a ., glery there- vance or retiree/lent', the work of ob- •• tieing roundblier hvill a famoue brand
outbarbarizecl the most barbaroufe . . . i
. zum,i/ig ,reiture poesibilities d con- and stumbling feet, and with the All throughethe day "cOme women taming good drinking water is diffi- of 'candles or soap: .
. -atrocities of the savagesthat inera- filet; constitute one of the best guar- cradest appliances. Here and. there
1 there to pray. ,
. planted in the Afticalf end new that .. - • i but everywhere is the swish of the .. - -
'"fivieeningtide sees women kneel in' tic.7a"nZirdeamnegnef9iniA913.561ciNgthsiarStGeemr: . end ''sloteeh. No more than fort Or
elicable hatred of the German is inn- lilt ere they are -small, dirty,
antees of lasting world neace!" i is a bindee, and more often a mower,
tn little side chapels, filanY with rticaliv poisoned all witer eupplire. fifty feet'in length, one tell mast in
1 .. he ta •feeft of GerMan ' barbarity and. ' , Ger:Heine- eves never mo:e br etallY ,
and ivenkly Prussian than when -this scythe, and even of tb,e sitetle, ,alid shopping -baskets ee, eeet sides,
versed in. European warfare he ,will .1...r...... -aa....,......,, ,.......r . am. example.
pedagogue this 'nrioutheikeie of ' fhe women folk:king binding sheaves laden s
,1 the fore part of the vessel, winches
• w'hisPer their devotions, piously When the troops have finished: and hawsers galore, an open bridge,
;never again voluntarily sahmit to Al! Eigltest and i AM rest of the Pots.- . with straw plaits, just as *did the far -
'Prussian rule. . cross themselves, ,then (Mt again into their spelle la the trenches, the fu- and sturnpY stern. Their bows are
ite feeee-e4t1.7eilX-1019-wefront-nlY--- Terlierrewna darn gang so . put himself on record. mers of Ontario and Quebec :a gen- .the sunshine of the cobbled cathedral Jepectore _in cottoperationewitleethete_eor_oeteetheeeehteraneeTtrelneei
- .9-Sh"las-givell-fatiler-liotIce41i411"1-ag4-'-'---;---- '-'-‘:..-112117-1fh
-- s e or e Work orthe day. 'There visional sanitary ofaer,-hars -to hr- through the seas
eibservations in the African colonies .
her idea, of a' lasting peace is one There are no blue -coated soldiere
is a happyseireedeni from self -con- -•range a bath and a clean change for Their crews are a motley lot, drawn -
,.' I heve seen youth alai old age *here she ,tritimpliant, will control working in the fields of France. They
•chained neck to peck, ankle to ankle, seithistess about their worship. h •
eac man.
the -rest of the world and Make it reap silently in other fields. , . from all sorts of maritime pursuits. '
and waist to waist, with sha des I One sees them at morning in the In the early days of the war the , The skipper takeee the remit of Lieut.
reminiscent of the Middle Ages, goad- • 4,
. - el dance to her bidding. . ' 1
* . The Show at Roye. ' ; flower -market buying. little gifts of baths were inveriably breweries, he- R.N.R.; his first '.Mate of Sub -Lieut:
I flowers. Sometimes it is an exquisite cause of the neerness of water and. R.N.R. His crew rank from warrant
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VI/ORK WILL PROVIDE 4-80;000 AC*
RES OF ARABLE ii,AND.`"
Many Other Benefits to Accrue, and
Operation Coating $100,000,000
Will Pay For ItSelf.
'rae c ave ec e o ra
Zuyacir Zee, and on June 14 last Queen
placed her' signature upon .
the hill authorizing the work. By dile -
act Holland is etaeting a great engin-'
caring task which. itab4or its ultimate
purpose -eke reclamation ,-at"-'rplite---80f1
square mtleet of amble lend.. -
' Unquestigireblythe shortage of food t • -
ca:used by the present War has brought -
the project to the poin.t of actien and '
made it apparent to the- nation that
the draining of the inland sea should, .
be hastened. The scheme In Melt is •
not new . because the Dutch for decades
have had the 'matter in mind. * .
• Pa order to realize what the scheme
of the topographical peculiarities of
_./eYf.dYeee-i,tela.neecft.fiarY--te-Xereallihgrtee--e-eee._-eee,e--!
the Netherlands and to bear be mind •
that a very large pert of the countn7 •
now cultivated and inhabifed is below
the sea level. But for, an elaberata
system of dykes the salt water would ; •
inundate these sections, and even to-
day it is a constant struggle between
the privilege to see something of it Another very important item in the generally by a more stately' trawler the indomitable Dut h . the
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hold tb.e hard won
c man and e '
-dant on the land that 'he'd been theira" I , * arranges it 'With a spray• of fern. - .
• wort. or c sanitary inspector is the which with lonfe-hke bovvs leaves menacing seas to
' Stores Coveted by the Hem. ' 1 under -the guidance of a chatening ! .
- But amulet is the popular hour feir prevention of the eeread of infectiOus her charges in the lurch many a time:. acres. Despite his efforts he' is not
from time out of mind! ' • The . GeenThe hth command is,.•,Fr: enelb officer of intelligerieu, . Roye 1
e •disease.• eleee he is responsible for. ''. The deolut of these little salvage always successful in this' and every
• Flee seen, youth and old age drop, ' 1 .have just come frem th
dead in their tracks, theii "'bodies eager to eaPttife Rheims because of • lies low down in the valley, and from i prayer -
the flat plateau on which We ,stand , cathedral chnliane as well as soidiere, . craft, many of them well-nigh half now and then storm waves breach his
dragged on 13y their helplesse corn- it strategic value. tint the rank arid Old' men are there workmen with When a case of infectious .cliseas, a century eld, are dirty and wet, and sheltering bulwarks of sand and. "
panions in agony because the German file of .the Hun army think longingly r7tirig..can be seen but the smoke : gnarled hands and lined face, wear- ' ocean- he tmust thoroughly invest'', there ie very A little protection for the swum) In UPon wide expanses of his
o ursting shells in its high northern:
overloiels wraild' not lit them rest of the. hundreds' of millions of bottles '
quarter, where already the Frencti , in g the familiar blue cotton pat
M f ' d'bl gate the matterand.make a full re- ere*. s. . fields, Submerging his crops killing •
long enough to remove the dead body ,of champagne 'stored in the 'getters of
• • from its shackles and give it burial!. the city. '
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ed evith title butt and bayenet point,. 'tteet-4;t--- , Our good emighbors, the French, ,
flogged with the -that-that FAMOUS CHAMPAGNE CELLARS were putting on a little show of their Posy, often it is a few sous' worth of tilsusefelnese of the large vats as , officer down to A.B.
blossoms. Madame, the florist knows They go unarmed, but are protected
dreaded lash of rhinoceros hide -and • ,
e it is intended as she deftly
I own in front of Roye. One had for w_ a.
• forced to labor from sunup' to Sun- Rheims and Epernay Have Vast
. i have •won the. eatlway station, The eranyo theml say no look
i e pray'- port to his C.O. He must ,personally But there are other salvage vessels,
battle itself is in pregress below us 2; vkthey kneeamilootowards t e euperviee the disinfecting' of the bil- bigger one, and specially constructed
I've seen youth and old age, wo- ' " The great eathedrat is a hopeless
in the ;marshy, ' tree-stndded valley ,. cross tth adumbfaith, an unspoken let occupied by the infectious patient for the work. They are a floating
,..- men and 'tittle children; after tie dey, euin, but the wine is safe under -1 Stolid faces gate as if numb and its environs. The clothes and kit mese of derricks and raising machin-
'. of the hardest kind of labor road, ground, Rheinfs, and EPernay (the : of the Avre, the Main attack being , Inee•
dtrected agaihae sY h
thtrongleld i and drenched' wlth the soei•ow of the of the patient are then placed. In the ery, and proudly beast of a stern gun.
making, jungle clearing 'aiid Warkinar city whik eLudendorff tried so hard ' cant world, unable to divine. the Meaning- special army fumigator, , Their Work; however, would- be con-
• village' of St Mard-les- Triot, We
'huge barracoons without windows or principal centres. of the chainPagae, i see nothing of it; save for an oBea-l'.
ofwiisiu: b
h' suffering and. sacrifice yet
lind faith in tittlinate. d'er ' One of the,greatest problems of the , siderably hampered. were it eta for
timber -crowded for the night into to reaCh a few weeks ago), are the,
of 1,, Sional rocket marking, the progress et'. military sanitary inspector ie the ex- •the Aid of the auxiliary craft, as dirty.
beds; filthy and vermin ridden' beyond producing district, and the stocks Wrinkled peasant women in then , termination of vermin. Ateach large and diareputable ,a lot as ever run
of the infantry, signal for the bar-
. ° description, veritable hotbeds of eon- aazie kept on hand in those tvi./.0 quaint White caps lead in ' grand- camp a single yet moat effectiVe ex- from port.: And though they seen ,
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Mans, of the enemy shells along the caildrn, nnd the, shadow of the -
! rage to lift,' and for the angry. explO; .
tagion and disease and charnel lions, :nieces are enough to supplY•the nor- terminator is constructed. A. large . vier little thinge, with . their tiny
es for more wretches than could be mei weeid's demand. for hitlf a dozen • - •
t
• renc p , ng . pp great grey pillars they till their pit dog, , and converted . into, an funnels and lurid advertisements on
11 e ru rn across the o o-
, . h t.site pleteau, where presumably are beads and plead fel- their sons. ,
. a r g
-ti ht underground chazeber, the their hulls, they are really drank.
... counted! • ' • years. .
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• - ' The Lash of the Slave-briver. - Once upon a inie--4 t a ;
messed French reserves.
. , . ' yeie. 1604-e-ae Feench• monk named , . _ • .. _ . _ e e ,..•
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• I've seen mothers, tee minutes perignon hit -upon the idea of using • - Ardent: Voice of 'France.
. after the experielme a maternity,
hurry 'piteously to catch up with the cork for .bottle stoppers ' 'Previously N
.. It doe e not matte.r. In . these
wads of cloth"or hemp steeped in oil. ! bright weeks villages such as these
caravan of which they were "te part
to avoid the sjinnboking they knew , had been employed for .the purp.ose..
-so recently impregnable strong-
.,Ithe grape -growing regions °-f - hold -are stet Med every day. ' Of
,' up ,the Victims of German soldiers; , bottling, and his invention of the cork the difficulties ak the attack up the The pallid light . Of the burning . subinarine) a buoy of' neevest pattetn
1 valley; past. hidden machine •guri po-
; er 0 • f d b t
candles -falls on earnest, upturned The smooth- arid rounded •thythm will be -placed thete, with Mushroom
• porting some the corked o olive faces, on moving lips and ' clasped the hills;
sitions of steel and concrete. anchors to hold it fast.
• - ; ties to see how the wine in them was he hands -trusting,. imploring, pleading, The rugged rhyme. of Mountains;
•-•" -• • • sub -
For the cowardly Hun hasn't the hardly hoped to suc.-ceed here" It will . be a "gas whistle arid s •
t 't is .a." demonstration in ,preading. the strong flow ` marine bell buoy," and its operation'
g'etting on, Ile found, to. his stliprise
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Girlseare :there prayitig for lovers, roof consieting Of eorrugatede iron, Some excellent wOrk in keeping clean
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of the poilu shows anteing the .lerk the hola. Two stoves,' with vertical_ k • k
garb of the waren, and here and . chimneys, ate placed in the cbarnirr. THE GAPE HA.TTERAS 'BUOY
wives for husbands. The blue umforn, .coyer.;:d with the earth taken from the seas, , •
there the 'khaki of our own men. .1 The fires. are fed through the clum- . . .
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Among the kneeling women are • neys ()aside the chimber. Veri:1)- .
several W.A.A.C.'s,' and ip one- quiet ridden clothes are placed iin
nside the" Wonderful Mechanism That Almost
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would be theirs ef they „and their ,te`rance since time immemorial wiriet chamber, and thetheat kills all the , emus o ave. uman n e gen e
. loads hd not arrive at a given 'fee- Making has been the most important greater intexest is: the spirit of the. corner sits an English mother, a relae
was French soldier, the ."poilu," from pests, without damaging: the. clothes.. To take the Place of the Diamond
a
tory ,on.a given day! • • t. tive of the wounded, wii'd arrived
I've known girl children of 5 industry' of the monasteriei, It hose elthe ardent '
ose so speaks e voice some hours after her boy had passed . I Shoal lightship off Cape Hatteras
Yean Perignon's business to attend to the • of- France. Our guide is explaining to his long rest. .
Securftyt • . I (destroyed the ether day by. a Hun
, • i've seen girls 'still in childhood set lee to an aen more valuable. chseove
' adrift in the hope that they end•their •
. * • young might perish! '
eftee of Euro -Africans, a, race that ng where it will be so intelligent as to amaze the
--efferveseent--thanks, of eourse, tO He is •yerong, for later in the after- THE ROMANOFF MYSTERY. „
aid of our advance further south.", • • • • Of the epic rivet', sweep'
courage of his crime4.
ITh 'feared a that'thi contente were sparkling and
° entutered landernan.
noon " '
die good news comes that the . L The brook's light lyrie. straying to : Upheld sixteen feet above the
' would in• time . become prayerful
• fermentation under air -tight stopper -,i
• village is stormed. "Yes, they have Various VersIoes of How ate Czar and fro; I way.es is a lantern with an arrange-
- - enough to exact. ret bution. AnY , • , • • ,
babies who survived Were blinded, it Wes that
a Russia Was Killed. All the clean cents of flower and ment of lenses to augment its 1
• mediated Thus given us a toggh corner, but then,
• and Prasoned for lie with of champagneoriginated..- orignated.. But for a
the manufacture
someone. has to have it?'
All the materials for the myth or .w.• et cal; deoewrnthp our ,sa sti.aight
I Gas is co;npressed in a reservoir in
• f '
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the hotly. of the beoy passihg up to
ig ht.
'But the German's bestiality wan
s, long time the art of making it wes We- have called Itim captain; 11°4 legepd of Nicbelas II. are at hand. 4, , -.summer raiw
'Ilia' lantern through A small tube.
' germs..
; kept secrete -and ...manyefables he le 'only a• lieutenant. • simpl
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not cenfined to his 'treatment of his When . the Czedio-Slovaks captured Day's flamiag delitn, cool Dewo s Th. lights itself when night
circulated in regard to it. By some it , e uoy,
, half-caste children. • To overcome the. was
declared that -the Evil One -had a break of the war was a wine mer -
soldier, Mons'eur, who at the out- Yekatermburg they searched_ter the „. -- more tender birth, comes and puts itself out, at daybreak
, chant in Burgundy. I have served my . And Noon's unchanging blue; and .-this being accomplished with the
Euro -African doge': '" the Govern-.• hand iii the production of this inYet ex•Czaiesehody, rtout found no trace) of '
ment; wider' the pretence of offering , so one Of their officers reports to ;
. lucrative. positions as :barniaids, typ- , terious wine that bubbled and fizzed three years of course and joined
, - Ambassador Francis. in the lane . help of a bit of Selenium wite, which
,, gene,rally credited at Yoltatorhiburg - . birds.; • -
The Tumor ntost TaIlefoxgloves, roses and the singing
. . . Bottles of, champagne have ite 'be ' '- ''.• ..... '
1 as a sergeant. Now. I have cnarge .
, ists and telephohists, lured • Young .. t metal is a Conductor of electridity
,
very. excellent glass to resist the of the intellieence of the regiment,
, healthy German peasant , girls to the. eI • ' : in the daytime and. a nonconductor
1,,p essure of the cerbonic acid gas gen- ' Hie . eg. - . . • *,,a,s that the body had been taken to . The .whispered music of the river- . • . . , ,,
r 'anent is quartered in ela- . •
the deepest pit in .a coal mine and side; • - , - . • at night
colonies, and, -denied matrimony, they a
were-forped to live with German sol- erated by fermentation. It amounts, _borate German dug -outs. It was over'
there deetroyed. • That is enough. The pleasant milky smelt of eirening,1 ' The whistle is' operated by the
, battle surged last March. n y - a . . • , . , 1 waves: , A twelve -foot tube of steel.
diers and farmers. • 'Many ei these, in fant, to seven or eight atmospheres .this very field that the Waves of
and one 'gets a netiOn of its power ' 0 .r Nicholat4 Will take his place with • ' herds;- -
' • .. women .and children, 3,000 of them, ' Louis.ttV11., Nero,. Marshal Ney, and And, over all, the jade hills eee:els,, extends vertically down tint!) the
from the explosion that' arrives whim , few milie to the northwest lies the'
: •. water, the rise and falr of which
.. 'if memory . serves, wereefleserted hY. athi coik is drawn. . Lill . the. Other historic diameters who wide; ., • • - •
the Canadian cavalry and machine never died. For the next forty years These *ill I, seek, that they •m _
' forces -air through the whistle and
•their men when Britain and Boer in- , The finest champagne is produeed ' village of, Villers-Bretonrieu*, where
niakes it toot .
traded Southwest Africa in the pres- • • at least he will be seen one day in :. • shed on -me - . . .
, , i in e gun briode made their wonderful ....
- ' ' The submarine bell (likewise ae-
th Merne district, where the out-
s m the nett in'MississipPi, a day or ,' The peacefulness of their security.
tuated b --------- wavisuspended be -
k ThaTT t is ia
ent war. .
' • , Accustomed. to • the inhumanity. of a • If h ' ' ..two later in Sotith Africa, and for half -Dyneley Hussey, Baeut. 13th Batt.; ;
• those formerly •in power over `them - . neath the buoy. 'It has a striking
, gallons annua y. Mac of it. it ex- ; a name . to be
' I ported, of course, but France imports . 1 . e d in •Canadian
.a century or more after that old men . . Lancashire Fusi iers.
'1'
they put no faith in Gen. Botha's , mote' wine • (taking all kinds togeth- • insory.
will confidee on theie deathbeds the I mechanism, and its ringing is heard
. stern order,' given when his troops , er, Are t e. ermans mime ' -"".--"-^-------- ' Aiwa passing vessels by the help of
occueied Windhoek, the • capital, for I, ) than she exports Her total yeat- '-'s - . tact that the schoolmaster of the tele-
. SEEING BY EAR specially contrived port and starboard-
ly Output of winds 15 more than 1,- . ,. "You have very gallant men," ,he ' graph operator, die farmhand, ' who ".
a 000,000,000 gallons; yet, to meet the Said. "You are.fresti and full df ge. , died .in their towns,some years before . -e-- • • . microphones below the water line.
the scriipulous protection .of every t i - •
t 'German woman,arid child. - • French Scientist. Invents Machine of These connect with a telephone; and
• domestic demand, she draws upon Al- We. have been at it. so lqng we are was the nx.ezar "The late •Dauphint" - •
I put is finin • ., stand in those bitter
e Togolend Town Looted . ; , 1
1 tional 100 000 000 gallons. . . we see before us' at the last the end . him, eeekomes Nicholas to a journey • , There .1s a machine, the inventive
w ' r Flim' kin described
Huckleberry ry s g , .
Great ene
B fit t Brad
o i . • ' by switching the instrument hack and
forth the listener learns on -Which
by Trotnis gena and other sources for an addl.- tired, our hearts ate sad, but. no as
: A.,Colortial official . was escorting . ' ' 0 side the bell is. All United States
' . , and we will see it through. Alas, lengthy as that of the Wandering of • Fournier Dalbe, a French, scien-
me'_through a', native town in Togo- r -----c------- , warships, and Merchant craft quite
. for the poor people ftif ...this country, 1 :few.- . • , - tist, whereby blind persons are in-
; -. stricken place I ever beheld, the so - • gen,erelly, are now provided with. this
apparatus
. land. It was the most ' poverty- ',WHERE THE HUN GETS POWDER • I was at Montdidier then, and the ' The *verehin enf NJ -Cholas' death . abled to reed an. ordinary printea'
• , ,e,hei ' Diamond Shoal has been Called the
-- , , -..-1 women of the town crowded , round which the Czecho-Slovaks stmt. to pageofa beak or- newspaper. •T e
7-7.-"dierd having robbed 'it of everything .... . re r a -4...A...
Deprived cm Cotton, He 'filakeS . Gun- i us. "Are • the Germane amine' I Amba.ssador Francis fs very different idifferent -.letters are distinguisnea by ,
cotton Out f."Wited Pulp. I they aslc. "We do not know, but it . from the
o . Bolshevist version, :which fe. , the tea'tler through' a telephone re- "graveyard of ships." It extends thir-
teen miles into the ocean,and experi-
. • . , they could carry away and destroyed : , .
' what they ceuldn't. , ' :.. is better that you should, move out." i presented him as collapsing in the face ' ceiver which is attached to a little mental borings (inade with the idea
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. An old woman, howevet, ad sec- ,. When Geimany, ear y -------- w ' I 'i -nen comes the question: "What lot a firing' squad. This. netv version' instrument that may he moved at
ment made of • bamboo and cotton- emany people wondered how the Kais- . i of n posible lighthouce) ehovied that
)eted a bichi, a mall Musical instru- I was out 'off from suppliee of cotton, „shall we take?" . What can they ; represetts that the Red Guards re- wnl over the printed page -
., Wood and Was plaYirig upon, ,it in her ei- would 'numege to make smokeless I are all hi the army. . They take :fused to kill the ex•Czar, that a Let The vital principle nutde wie of in ' there was nothing solid to A depth of
I take? Their men, mid their horses
. - cheedess hut I. • • ' I powder. . , , . next 6 nothing.. And in n few days tish firing., party was sumxnoned and ; the construction of the instrument is , 100 feet bele* the sandy bottom. The
* !Tau ligar?": raged • the. Hun.; Cetten is a -Yery pure form of cel- • that in turn refused to fire, and that ! the peculiar property of metal some, , deeleer . the 1?ortngs went the leaser
the Boehe have destroyed everything,. and more fluid the material' seemed
"These miserable black hogs, they i luloee, and to other material had ever thereupon the Soviet commandant'a : ium in strengthening or diminishing
• WantonlY, where their-shellingehas 7 to be, -The whole titea, in fact, is a
' . • claim. they have nothing to pay their I been wed in the manufacture of sailor "drew his own revolver and I at electric current passing through
taxes with, Yet there's a bichi, a ;. smokeless powder, vvhich is produced way back go and see the ribs of the Bolshevist account was invented 1
Nicholas dead.'' If this is true, I it according to the amount of light
. • I vast quicksand.
Above this quicksand, beset by al -
not completed the ruin. •On your hat
• • to give some apPearanie of 'regularity I to which it is exposed. a most perpetual Storms, floated for
• ' bichi we can sell for a mark! But by impregnating cotton, with 'nitric ,ereeetee,,
We are standing on toe of an ob- to a plain, assassination. The officer ; The delieate ;adjus men o r . , many a year ,the recently destroyed
wait -I'll *ow these tattle how a acid and then soaking it in ether and '''''.
Gernaan deals with deeeit, treacherY, alcohol, or by some equiValent 'pro- servation post, built by the Germans who made the 'report to the Atabassa; lialbe'd device allows of an easy dif- I lightship, ,making,, like the Plying
aleong the trees on the side of the d e - -
or, however, merely gave the aew ver- : ferenttation ,of letters by the varMg ,
, Dutchman. an endless voyage without
'robbery!" . ' cess. Without smokeless powder, the
13 on ea the best a count he mild t. sounds in the telephone reeciver as . t ,S1 was a steel vessel 118-
Evmently Yekaterinburg knows little . the detector is moved actoss.a bright",
- - - a port .- ie•ey
feet•lon , with two hollderstetelreasts
...e • Ile burst into the hut; he knocked, Germane 'could hardly light Certain- -hilt' Below in .the •vallerlies a -that-
ly, 11 eprived o n, ey won aye
-- - .tered 'Village and its vtiined ehurell. .e
about it; evidently, too, the actors in ly illuminated page. Very little prac- carrying wires for powerful electric
had to abandon the war years ago. "It ois • horrible to see all this," one
But the Hun is nothing is not iugen- says, "and to think that'-weein Can- the crime will from tinie to time issue . ficieteY
tice, it 'is said, is necessary for n
Pr' ' lights which, 100 feet ayove the water
ious. Being. witholit cottoe, lie makes ada have escaped root free-Lonly the various and conflicting meinoirS tell- will& is 1;noWn es the "type reading .i.
in the use of the instrument i
t eould be seen at a -distance of eigh-
teen ntiles.
the old woman his
with the
• ivory handle of his sjarabok; he took
the hichi, and vvith what he thought
was Chesterfieldian grace, he actually
offered it to me for my collection of
•Aftfcan tropleies!
Over the length and breadth of
Africa has travelled the news of Ger=
,
his gunpowder out Of wood pulp. livei of our men." "Ah," he says, leg irreconcilable stories and the C • •
Wood pulp is cellulose. But it ia "but Is not sorrow a strength to the
aot the pure cellulose that cotton ie • . . world may never learn bow, hi truth,. '
' character a • commetion of expere. the Czar died. ' I About All„ Ile Did. •
'etophone." •
and to make gunpOwder from it ire -
many s blackest 'Wholesale crime, volves ninny difficultiee. Alec), wood.,
striking terror into the heart Of °Vete" pulp smokeless powder tends to wear '
blaek man,. WOMan and child, and im- out the bores of guns much quiekev
planting ineradicable hatred, of the than the ordinary kind. As a War
' Hun. • nrieasure, it has paid to rob the jtaiser
And that crime was the slaughter, of cotton supplies.
, [wording to aermanes oWii figures, Probably all of the cotton that Ger-
d 200,000 Heretos,. the most cruel, many 'gets hold of these days le used'
• _ 'enee. Shall We not emerge a strong-,
et 'nation- for it all ?" '
, ' "On To Berlin!"
We are in a trench exainiting a
bayonet, a beautiful repier-ilice piece
of polishede steel. "How much more
artistic you are," one cannot help
saying. "This weapon is equally ef-
fective as Our own, but what a thing
of beauty 14' is. Aud your camouflage
Is art, suiting itself perfectly to the
changing aspects of soil and country,
while ours is monotony of rule a
thum-b, which bits or missee the
inniecessary and most systetnetie ext in her textile mills. But it cannot be
termination known to history! Anil much, for a recent Gerinite put:dice:-
While .,Afrieit and the test of the tion a authority fltates that thertde
. • world atoed appalled when tlieytlearn- toW only one cotton mill in operation
. ed 'of it, if remained an occasion of for every hundred that were busy
reJoielfig Germany for a decade, before theewar bogoz. • .
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Salt Mountain. •
1 Palestine possesses a. remarkable
I home oh leave. Feeling a little under ! end of the Dead Sea. The length of
i
; the weather, he ealled, on a doctor, ! the -ridge is six miles, with an aver-
! who gave him a very: thorough ex- i age width of three-quartere de mile,
I , "You tell Me you are troubled with It faenedt. thaThhearlegliat are .pnloatodarwflareornel. 61.3
; arninstion. .
your threat, said the doctor. 1: io:eetrliyin nttiockanrotalisy, btpothsietsm:srse onliatrra
o
I , "Aye,' aye, sir," answered the
seller. *, mountain is eomposed of solid Tiede
' "Did you ever try ,gargling with
salt water?"
The mine weeper let out a groan.
"If should say so," he eaki. "I've
been torpedoed evert tittles." .
• Re *its a mine aireeper and was salt mountain situated at .the south
A Matter of Taste.
'Can any little boy," asked the tea-
cher, "tell me the difference between
a lake and an ocean?" • •
can,' replied Edward, whose wist
dont had been learned from eeperi-
ence. "Lakes- are much more pleasant
to swallow when you fall in.'
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As a result of unfavprable weather.
in June New York's hay crop is a
fifth lese than eepected. ,
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salt, grate of win& is as clear as
erystal.
The most powerful aniniale are
vegetarine„
leis cattle and once in a while drown.; .
Ing some of hs kith. and kin.
'The Znyder Zeo generally, is ex-.
tremely, shallow, and the deeiest '
ter is only a trifle rarer thirteen feet. •
This condition has added to the dia. '
culties '• of nayigation, owing totthe..
tortuous Channels and the shifting na-
tureecif the submerged sand bees. tie
thnes of atorm'the' ehallownesS of the
ZnYder tee induces -a type Of quick'
'following.,waves•which beat with des...
truetive •foece uPen every harrier
staeiding In their Sweep. • • .
• Danger!, ofthe !ea Invasion..
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These are the Seaethat tear away
the dykes bordering this lanclladiced
body • and elmost yearly cause this --
flooding of More or less extensive sec- ,
dens of , land. Not only are crops .
ruined and hoinPs and lives imp,erilled, •
but the Salt water poisons the soil and
dine only can neutralize the effect..
The work ofelie•king the present bed
erthe Zuyder tee available for fields.
.and• gardens is to be achieve.d through °
two broad iladertakings; The first eine • •
embraces the building of .a /muster
eighteen' mile dike from the Island of '
•Wieringen, near the 'coast of the. Pro- •
✓ ince of Friesland, close to the.. town e
of Pia,am. : • -
This 'dike will shut out the North
Sea. With this accomplished four
dams .pr ;dikes. be • reared _
the area of the Zuyde.r Zee and the
confined sections or "polders" will be '
drained and the land. bared for eel.: • .
cutter& It has been. found that more •
than 80 per cebt-of the bottom of the.
Zuyder Zee consists of rith de•
posits, -While the • sandy sections lie .
where the water is deepest and where
channels will have to .be left for nevi- e
gation end for' carrying off the out-
pourings of the rivers which .now feed
into- the inland' sea. The water area
that Will reinain. Will be knoveu as the ,
Vesel Lake. • • . • •
• The 'first step in the building of•the
great dike will be the creation' Of an
island out of 'stone .and brush ,covered ,
With sand and clay. -This islan.d will . .
be Set Midway along. the lime et!
great bulwark which is to'hold out the .
North Sea .• From thieialand construe-. ,
don. will go op simultaneously in both
directicins- toward Pikank pn the north
south.
t.he Island . of: Wieriagen the_ •
''‘.•According to the. engineering 'figures,
the great sea dike will call for an bet -
ay ot $11,25.6,000. Them...Will-be other .--
cenetru.ction work which Will have to •
be tried -on contemporaneously with, ,
the building of the dike,•and the corn- .
bhied cost of the initial phase of the •
undertaking twill mold to $26,632,50e. •
.The GOvernatent expects to receive .
an annual rental of $13 an acre for the .: •
redefined -snit. The average rent paid •
for agricultural end horticultural land
n Boland prior to the war ran about
.$18 an acre. ' • .0%., •
The elitito scheme. will .itivolve a •
total disbursement of substantially
$90,000,000 and will .give to /Tolland
523,440 acres Of new land, of Which
certainle 480,000 wilt eteaceptible. of
cultivation. _The .cost per etere of the . • .
enwatered land will not exceed 8171 .
* The .Netherlands have at present. It .
total area of but 13,000 square ratite..
and the acquisition. of. virtually 800
more .square miles of potentially fruit. '
fut fields is' of prime importance. Ac..
cording to the advoeittes of the projeet , •
the iiew lands will. provide .sliacl
enough for .4,000' larras -farms that,
will be worked. intensively, and .at th "
same time aceommodate, fully 200,00 :-
die -ellen..
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, ' The .Little Deadline.
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• "Madam, 'shouted the angry nelga...,
bor, "3 -four little Reginald has just' ;
thrown a beiek through'eur winker," i
"And Would . you bring 'me tiiit
briek V' beamed Reginalel'e Mother.
"We Ave keeping all the little Mee
mem oe of hie . peenks," • •
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