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Hints for the Farmer.
There is big difference betWeen.
oconomy and titinginess.
We have seen a man treat a $100
horse as though' he was worth wily
• )1.50. .
The telephone cannot take the plaee
• ef a hired man, but it helps wonder7„
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Crowe eat 4041 beet1OSA caterpil-
lars, hugs, on:limn etc., 'which do
'MUch damage, • • • ••
'Charcoal in .a granulated form
-Should always be 'kept beim() fowls
of all ages, . •
u. get' white cauliflower 'tie the
• leaves over the head as soon As the
head is formed.
A bog in a good pasture or one that
• is fed. regularly seldom' does much
dainage by „ropting. .
Scald the drinking Vessels • in the
poultry yard often so' they Will not ed to plant an orchard and shade
• harbor !neon() germs • . k trees 'while they lArefe young waste
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Countries adapted. to sheep raising more time now .wishing they had them
' becOne large consumers of .mutton as thart,it would take- to plant them in
theY.inereaSein size. , • • , the beginning.' - • r. .
-A ,ar en IS lapre, bgalc`r thf411 'It IS Use:the spray pnitiP to 'Vitt OF9fOlV
• WO#4. un1e.s you 4st•-frobs -ancrie4e„ yonr, Poultry house,' • , Malra a good
-ciables‘that are really 'better thail those. whitewash, , "adding little .carbolic
can bny, ' add; and.spray the building thorough-
• • ly, covering every Int of the surface,.
Makeit a Point to have some choice and the house will, be wonderfully
• 'male lambs to sell to your neighbors sweetened. • •
Who would like seinething- better than In
they now have. cheoSing a'breetl'of cattle or any
ether, class of live stock due
When setting any of the bush fruits ation shouldbe given to the question
the ten should bs pruned to SPrua- of enVironnient Where. One-
,-eonshird:-
d•' •
' Stet& to the feet pruning the plant would bii.a failure another 'would per-
, • gets in transplanting. haps be at success. • •
It.. is about as Profitable to try to _Tire silo is not the only way of pre -
do two things at 'once as it is ,to try, venting the usual loss from the corn
to raise two crops on the same piece fields, but it is the only way and the
of ground at the same time.
The wise dairyman will keep his
best cows, and net let the buyer tempt
him even with a good price. The bet-
ter the Caws the better. the profits.
-If the onion' are not well;
•It little nitrate ofsodaor hen manure,
11•11111.1111111.1.1111111•6=MINII.
ognie
sown ,broadcast,, before or during a
rain. often helps them to fill. out.
The cows udder should be well
Washetl and dried With coarse clotk
before milking, ,and 'the milker's
hends.should be washed after every
vow.
Warm weather is the timeto maim
owth-in.tho•-hoga. Push: the. shoats
alenggiving them good pasture
range and feedingail they will eat
uP clean. '
-There are many rough hillsides And
pastures Which •ftre now bringing no
returee that could be made profitable,
were they Planted to nut tree's, es-
pecially walnuts, .
Celery, cabbage, and „other.. Plants
of this sot do much better if trans-
planted once Or twice before 'going
into the field. They will form a much
heavier root system, which is desir-
able in All plants', *. • •
A good manr •farmers who neglect-
4:- TRH PHONE IN WAR. *
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**Mir' * Battle In Whkh, Wke 09e$
Not Perticipate.
The role prayed, by the telephone
:wires in the war,. te say -nothing of
thebarbed variety that protects near-
ly BOO miles of battle front, is prod*.
ious. With -aircraft the telephone
wire: has largely replaced reconnolting
Parties And vedettes. There is scar-
cely a ekirmish, battle or artillery at,.
tackin'whic1i. the wire. docent pad
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ciliate, sometimes in co-pperatian
with aerOplanes, sornetbnes withent.
Every cope of the French .soreit
hass' certain iMinher of metorcaV
telephone eltopa, each equipped, with
two complete installations with four
res of -Wire and -an ad -equate number
ground stakes and forked pickets that
may be Steck in the bayonet socket of
a,,rifie, serviig as a temporary pole.
Each of these outfits haS also its
wireless equIPMent, with antennaes to
reacIi a height of 60 feet, and ikdyna-
reo- connected with the motor of the
car to set up the wireless outAt and
put it in operation. The enemy's
artillery , is. constantly • on the watch
for these. motoring wiremen, and
occasionally gets them, ,
Projectors and aircraft ordered from
Ypres by wireless preyed a great role
in the trat battle of Ypres. The air-
men were able to ascertain just whit
troops the germanewere bringing np;
while the projectors arrived in time to
discever the. Prnesiair. Guards at-
tempting a surprise 'attack,' end ,tb
enable the l3ritishto cutrthent' tip. •
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• ORIENTAL MENDACITY.
A Little Thing Like the Truth Is of
No Account in Egypt ..
If Orientals have one fault more
than. another it is a disregard for
truth. In the. early.daysof the En
lish occupation of India, the Englis,h
Judges were astounsled at the conflict?
ing stories told by witnesses, and they
min learned to set them all clown •as
• urnebrthy of credence.. . „
best .way for preserving the ' feeding In American courts it is also well
elements- of the corn Plant, The silo known that the Chinese are very
penurious of the .truth, and that to
oath, *ill prevent them from giving
-false -witnesd. --In. Egypt is. also.
very easy to gebnative witnesses to
swear to' anything, true or. untrue.
For instance: Ahmed, a native of
.adds nothing to the feedingontrir,
ments. Oh the other hand, there is a
slight loss 'through ferrnentatien, but
it does, increase _ the Pelata•bility
•greatly. -
tasseFrat6friarovgavimssialas.
THE ARCTIC MAIL
But, -for the triped of poles it would
have been impossible to findit-
He cerefully _chopped the ice. from
round the letter packet and lifted out
_ • . . the Whole in A. solid block. Ho re -
The the grambpliene in like man -
Alberta, The mail 'servieete , the hinderlind
. ner, 4.1eaded everything on the dog
' although . it still leaves
Much to bedesired in the way Of
sleighs, and eari•ied everything on to
,
•,kegtilarity, hies improved a great 'deal the fort. Of the tw•
enty-three letters 'that
• it ten,. years. A decade ago there tante to me; six had been throne' the
•iltres only one . WW1 , a year—that con- ice ordeel. d "They were Written, with
\weby the Hudson Day winter p
• , • a blue, ink that ran. And -tow it did
• .- ket. Passinctravelers (in the sea- ac-
run! A Entear of blue was the ad-
, son, of Open navigation) who werb dreo on 'the seaked-apart envelope;
, -• houghtfuLou3o.. _take 2the
several blue smeara, like the oceans
' treuble might bring in -infrequent laza on a mai), With a. few disjointed WordS
• ter' mails, but magazines, never ran between, formed
the gauntlet of picture -hungry trad- the body of the let-
ter from home. • -
ars and roustabouts. They were ap- 46n inquiring at t •
he fort I Was told
• 'propriated en route; and newspapers
that the block of ice• containing • the
'accumulated wherever these volunteer letters had been •
Plaeed -by- the fire
..• :Mail.carrieraAmppenecitoi_drop_them._ i
., and- Inc fast-as:Ahoy thawad-,7theilet..
•. ' Vii ink- f,oiiiiiiiiiii, tiieliOhlliii f011f•Tteri. were One by. one peeled .off. the
Writes a Youth's CoMitanion contribu- lump. The gramophone, except for a
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or, I found, piled in the .corner, of a spreading of the dovetailed corner's
.16g:walled house, at-the-westP.m: end of the box, -was not - injured:, in -the
' 'Of, Lesser SlaVe Laker a collection '''.0... leaat.
thewSpapers.'Knowing what a treat
• Abeic would, be to the isolated settlers,
• I packed the ' whole bundle into a
!getiny: sack fitchthreve;le on- top of
-.. _Ply wagonload._ At. peace, Wier' Cies-
shig; / arranged ,for my Passage down
the river three hundred Miles to Fort
. Verthilion. The •• craft :was a huge
..aft,, then loading „in Shallow' water
about fiftyfeet troll' the shore.
. The next day we pushed' Off and be-,
• gen our long drift down stream and score of officers were at the table and
-'4,------two--m-thr4e-dais-later71-thought .
' ...the . mail, which, was no where to be the pastor, dinner was brought in, and
-seen. An anxious' search . followed, consisted of the f-ollowing courses
, and citlaet from under a pile of hay
at one .end of the raft, We. pulled a
• soggy, dripping Mass—my, preeious
mail sack. The spot had -beet .dry
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A SQUARE MEAL., •
it• Author's Experience' at a Dinner
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in Madagascar. "
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The longest and noisiest that
Mr. James Sibree, Jr. 'AR anther • of
"A 'Naturalist in Madagascar," ever
attended was giveri. by We. goverhor
of.a'toWn called Aiduirana. About a
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eA,
Cali°, had A slave who peeped over a
wall into Suleiman's harem, and ..the
ladies considered theineehres insulted.
Suleiman wanted revenge, but he
could not bring his wives into court
to teetify, so it*as. agreed that Sulei- •
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A IT
itussrA±sT' REGIMENT
BIRDS AT THE !EMT.
Sound and Fury of Battle Incite
Nightingale to Song.
The sound and fury of luittle
probably the last thing to soare away
• or silence nightingales and .other
birds of the "warbler"' family, alaql US
Willow wrens,. garden warblers, and
blackcaps. On the contrary, nothing
more incites Owe birds, notably.
perhaps the nightingale, to powerful,
.constant song thaii loud mdse.
Night-
ingale;', which, by the way, were .still
' singing in West -Sussex on June 20,
never sing with grater possion and
,strengtbi :AAP the Saturday ItCVIeW,
than on A railway embankment, where
the ground- roam under the -rash- of
heavy goads trains or fast exprePefit;
and people '".whe have studied or 'kept
warblers in Leridert had ether crowd-
ed cities know that their Often sing
best when there. is plenty. of. sound in
the Streets immediately without. •
A Correspondent has sent Us a let-
ter from French officer now at the
front *Inch: gives some freskand Ae.
lightful notes On wild, life and natilre
on and around the battlefields in
northern France. Writing in English,
• thls'AlffteireerlesaavYlusg,;: Flanders 43,%e• were
sent to another part of the, front to
lieldtrenchea; and here. we. have been
.sOMe days, at a mile's clistalice.rfroM,
the 413cTliesi, I , cannot ..understand
yinribnyatehteoy phi;eveefin'ot ts.inaltahie;T:tlieooltitqt,cle_
'•;.__tkaorcliiii.047 We,: I can. sure • 'Yaa,;
ZalliWniitne311411.::wn :13C1feaeffunafdirYacli)4. a'Ydaefral
away from the enemy's trenches; and
have pleasant' little dinner with
brother officers at 50. yards from the
German Outposts, • . •
"As regards birds and nature
()rani, it strikes inc often what little
impression we. can make -.on. her.with
our most powerful instruments of de-
struction. 'Here we are not heavily
bomberdedt but still there is •Ek good
deal. of noise going on in .this little
valley,. our own noise mostly,' several
batteries being placed in the neigh-
borhood. I shall always remember.
that when, .iftier climbing over the,
hills,. we came down lato-the little
val-
Iey just opposite the enemy's- posi-
fiaa-,-the Sineing:
beautifully in Spite of the big 'booms'
that filled the valley. It struck me
then as omething very unusual' •
.itse inctere stews Men of the Fonogorijski Itegiment of Moscew in 0,'•
Shallow, hastily constructed trench at the front,.awatting orders to •
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advance, This regiinent is regarded I'S the best in .. the Russian,..,
army, and is one of the two Russian reghnents accorded the privil-• w
ege of marching with rifles at the ,acharge."-. •
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man should accuse Ahmed's cannel of ,
• walking on Suleiman's land. • A crowd•. was
AWS GAY
cif witnesses came forward and for '
the land,' until the English Judge _dee-
'BOW
two days testified about the camel and
eided in favor of -Suleiman. •
It was not until a week afterward
that the Judge discovered, to his great
surprise, that Suleiman had no ground
and Ahmed had no eamel. •
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- POWER FROM VOLCANOES.
Italians Axe, Using' Steam From
Craters to -Generate Energy.
pewest_produer_ electric
-energy from -volcanic Steam. Not
far from 'the little city of Volterra, in
Tuscany, is a region , of volcanic . hot
springs that for a century have been
a source of boric iteld;-itit that in
addition' supply heat for drying the
crystals and for the power needed in
preparing the material for' market.
Borings, of 30 or 40 feet are said to
yield an Unfailing' supply of steam
at'pressures up to, more than tlitee
atmoSpheres, and .of temperatures up
to more than 700. degrees • Fahren-
heit The steam has been siastefully
used in small engines of sin.brd; mole
condeniinglype, 'but recent ex-
• First, curry; seeped, goose; third,
pigeons and waterfowl; fourth, Chick-
en cutlets, and poached eggs; fifth,,
beef sausages; sixth, boiled tongue;
tneugh' When the sack had been 'seventh,- sardines; eighth, pig's trot
thrown there and inadvertently eov- ters; ninth fried bananas; tenth, pan-
ed-with--hay,-but---the-subsequent- -cakes; -- eleventh,--nianioet---,twelfthr
loading had., completely submerged dried bananas.
•that end of the raft „ And lastly, says Me. Sibree, when
I was advised to tie a rock to the thought everything Must have been
sack, sink 'it; and keep "Mum." What served; came haunthed of roast, beef.
I did do' was to put the Sack where Claret ii.ent abinit very,,freely; And at
-it , Would -drain,' and on -rectehing my sera "aidehstronger liqiior;
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journey's end to open every paper out and the healths of the .queen "Our
, to shies sheets and dry them. They friends„ the two foreigners," then
were very wrinkly, to ,be sure, and those of the prime .miltister, chief-
' the operation used all.the floor space secretary, ,and thief judge, were all
„ in my WOOS hells* for Some *days, drunIctwiee over, the governor's com-
-:!')Mt- the six -months -old news- was so ing last;andeach by
eagerly devoured by -the Setleri that =Sitar and dried:Chem:it's:
' •we •felt well repaid. - -There was a big 'drum, just Mitaide
•• ." Sonie two we after ,after left-tite- an the veranda, as well as two small
• ' Crossing; a Hudson Rai Clerk airivecr -dud-Ages, and-
frolia_Spotlatd with his bride; also these were full' play almost all the
• bound for Fed Vermilion. . The sea- time. Then the room was filfad • y v.
'son was late. Daily the freeze-up crowd of servants and aides -de -lamp,
, Wits expected, but Tom'Ctirr hurriedly and the shouting of everyone, from
built
built hie little -raft and started' down the governor down, was deafening.
the river. Besides himself , arid his The old geetlernan directed every-
• wife, their camp outfit and food; their thing and everyone. I Nyag grad -when
•'.6aly 1044 was a late packet of letters, could take my leave, after' two
,,brought . direct. from "tan:1014ton, and hours' Sittiags but I was not to Telly&
gramophone for the factor. ;Shore 'quietly. •The governor took me thy
• ice' had formed,and daily pushed its the hand - and escorted me home,'while
• edge farther into the current. Ice the big drum was. hammered at ahead.
Varying in 'size:from, tee .plates dens all tile •WeYt- •
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The Only afe Way.
•• •"`-\\ '`te blade diskte,fiftileet across, drifted
2,7f.., withthestreanw - liourly , thei-grew
• In size, jostling each other, crushing
..:' Viciquidy,egainet the, advancing shore ' - Don't sleep on your left side, for it
- ice aa- they fought their way down causes too 'great a Preagilfe on Ilie
. ''''•,;. ' the curent Then came a day when .heart. Don't sleep on your stomach,
'the lee pens jammed and froze into for, that interferes with the respite -
a Solid mats. . tion • of both lungs and realm breath-
•` As Seen as it vas safe to do so, ing difficult. Doe't. sleep on' year
• Tone and his wife made their way to back, for this method of 'getting red
• shore, where he mude a cache of the is had for the nervous system. Don't
' 'Mail packet and the gramophone. sleep sitting in a chalet for your body
•'Above the cache he placed a tripod of falls into an unnatural pdhition,.arid
• poles to identify the Spot when; lato you .cannot get the necessary rela-
In. the 'winter, he should pass that tion. Don't sleep. 'standing up, for
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iway. ' , Yoti leitlY tennis; over and drack your
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The seventy,five-mile tramp back to skull. Don't tildeP.
• th$1, Crossing was very trying, And '
•
. 1Virai Carr's "attire" EihOe‘Were fit
'shreds when they trailed wearily into
• ' the settlement Then; late in rebrii,
• lary, with his wife in A, eariele and ac:0
• COMpanied by the annual Hudson Bay
packet dog -trains. Tom once more sot
',ibis tate 'northward. Arrived at the
•'. "lathe, *hat was his dismay, to find
•. Ithat, 'after freeting,the river had
. 0. ,ithavited, risen seiteral . feet, flooded
•oYSOt Illts-toell4antiltezeti ,solid itgaid.
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• , Condetting News..
Prnfessor of •dhemistry—if any-
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thing should go wrong in this experi-
ment, We, and • the laberitay' With
Us, might be blown sky' high.. Como
closer,' gentlemen, so • that yon • may
be, better abre to fellow me.•
OitnetleS sing $00 in the auhldned•
light
SOMETIIIING . ABOUT -ITS LIFE
AND BEAUTIFUL PARKS.
Centinerciailly, Warsaw Is One of the
,
Most Important Cities of
iusnian Empire. -
If -cities had faces - -Warsaw :would
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have the mask of a woman with a costume,. withe blue scarf around the
laughing painted mouth and 'seinbre waft. - L•
tragic eyes. The citadel of Alexander • Commercially Warsaw is one of the
the. subdrbe , on the Vistula w'
built in 1632-36' a punishment for
the insurrecti 1,831. Although it
has been rena, led from time to
time, its usefulness( under modern con-
ditions is inconsiderable, for its .six
forts are All, too near Warsaw to give
the city any protection. Its only'u,s_e-' • 300 German Factories.
fulness might be in affording a last
• For the last twenty years there has
pretectiore to -the railroad bridge been esteady increase in the German'
Which here crosses the Vistula: directly element in all tlie industries, particuz
.1 larly banking and manufacturing. At
periments the heat• of the springs-- But this citadel •was the beginning the beginning of the war it was said
on account of the. impurities contain- 'of the works which have made War- .that more than 300 factories in War-
ed—is. mede-th-generate-steant- from
fresh water, and this is employed , in
lbw -pressure • turbines for driving
electric generators. The large area
to be served with , electric -energy
from. the earth's own heat, if present
,expectations are realized, will in-
clude the neighboring cities , of Vol-
terra, ,Siena. _and Leghorn.
.,
• Along these two streets flows the
life of the city. The street traffic is
considerable and: lively, fel- the. cab-
bies of Warsaw always drive at top
speed, with a Atte disregard for the
condition of the paving: Flower girls
m 'every corner cafe. • • . •
crowd. the streets and orchestras play
I As regards the , other ..end, more corn- -.' Many people believe, that German
'Here all afternoon and:dnring the
mon birde, the greenfinchitthe yellow smilers in the employof British Cab-
warb.'filet Ministers and British generale
early evening swarm the caxriages Of j:_.
heminer., the -chaffinch, garden have been themostimportant agents:
the aristocracy, a little dingiperhaps,
ler, Melodious warbler, whirethroat,
if they belong te.Poles„ but sure to
they simply teke, no -notice whit'ever for conveying military information to
be -occupied by women of unusual
by way. I have taken a few notes and their, guests at Actable, they listen -
Standing Silent .and die -
of the big reports, and do not inter- the enelnY.
beauty. - Gorgeous among the car- creet . behind their eniployere awl
rupt.their song in any perceptible
riages aro the Russian ,equipages, ai-
may publish them. ed to many military secrets, and the
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ways occupied by officers driven'
'coachmen_ in_the long black natignal.
' .f,Still -meta _striking,: on-ateenia-ot 1.geflierifig • Ji-ifOrmationi „:.,.--- - - , ----
' also had other opportunities for
the Inman element in it, was the ease -
Catching ' a- .Butler: ••
of that nightingale which was • sing- , • • - • -. •
law se beautifully_ in _the moonlight ' vile of the'fair 'hierehere of the
-just in front of our -men in -a -,-high eommIttee -dined -one eiening at they, .
hedge separating Use French from the house ,of an English general with
apart. ' ' • ' -
'• 1 in military and. •official- life. When
smell:party of 'p.ersons highly placed .• ,_
Gersten 'trenches only, a' feW yards
"So, after ell,- you • gee; nature and
ter. shy children, the birde, are not drawing-roop after dinner the 4fael-,,:„
very much impressed by. our strug- cinating "spy . trapper• " . dr•ew hire,
gles,°a\ad to see 'them remain so un-• asicle and said: ' •' ' ." ` .
• f'But since have had ample oppor-
tunities of seeing more. In the weed,
in the immediate teighbethood of the
battery, within a, radius.ofa „hundred
yards perhaps, the blackbird and the
thresh were singing; while in the tree
tops the wood pigeons, Were cooing as
if they were enjoying the quiet of large
forests. , little 'further away irx the
same wood a, pair of carrion crows
had built"otheir nest. In. the early
morning the golden.lirjale, that. shy
bird, Could be heard almost:invariably:
NOBLEWOMEN
TAKE MANY SPIES
•COlWMITTEE ORGANIZED BY
leADY- c6)1.0ANI/SE.
"m'a,enee
Feunoua English Society lisionten A*
Trappers of 'Getman
Spies.
ZverYhodY has heard of he tre-
mendous ramification s of the -German
military spy systemi.whieh has Brit.
ain'a army and, navy under observa-
tion, ?writes an American CorreepOrat,
ent London,.
Englishmen Were too careless. to
„shake oft this spY 'danger, Which
penetrated into . every branch of.
na-
tional life, but .English took
up the matter, brought the most den- •
goons sPies to trial,. put the. others
Under armed guard, and in various. ^.
ether ways° Made the lives , spies
and suspected spiea a burden to them,
They have proved thatovomen ,are°
the only efficient ."spy trappers."
The leaders .of the undertaking are
women Of title, for they alone would
have the autherity, 'means, and pres-
tige to carry otzt. difficult and far-
reaching work.
The organizer and, "eheitInalr Of
the cOallnittee that has been, roun&-
•ing'ap the ivies is Lady' , Glanuslt
wife of a peer and officer;a woman
'et ,beet mind road very.:determine:d,
yet• tactful, pirsonality.
Other members are the Duchess of
Welliegten, 'veho is president; the.
Duehess of Beaufort, the Duchess of
Sutherland, the _Marchioness of
Countess Bathurst, the, Countess Of •
Lanesborough, Viscountess Masser-
eene and Ferrard„,--Visconntesa
" Lady;
Vincent, Lady Leith -of `nWe, Mrs,
Harold Baring and others.
Intuition Wins..
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Among , them . are some . of the
-most notable 'beautiful women in ,
English society, and others who. are '
distinguished by their winning , per- -
sonality.- Perhaps the most striking
beauty is the -Viscountess 'Masse--
reene and Forrard, whose InisPand IP •
thechief of a, celebrated Irish family.
Equally attractive in her way is the '
young Duchess of Sutherland.
Womanly 'intuition -and ' womanly
guile exercised by these attract ve
• spy trappers;" on many social occa-
sions, have ied :mars)? '''Germans- • to ••
make • admissions they would , never
have made to a man.'
-Before thelwar, thousands of Ger-
mans were positions of trust , ir •
England,' ranging from. heads
banks down to such positions as but ..
lers in prominent English families
and head Waiters in leading hotels. -
most 4mportani cities in -the Russian -
pre, an one a ussm can
leastafford to lose te its eneniy. War-
saw is the .centreef the, iron, steel,
and engineering works of the na.
tioh, as Well as of the leather trades
and sugar refineries.
,sew and the nearby strotghold . 0
Novo-Georgievsky two • of the four
first elasa fortifications. ' of the na-
tion.. Beyond the summer resort of
Novo -Alexandra and the chateau is
another mighty fortress' at Ivangoroct
• Nearly a score a forts have been
built protect the city from capture.
In t last centur • Warsaw wasi forces. of :the- factories, have • been
deplete -d --by"
nly to • Paris in ,b-filliancy• serionsbr
portations.
This, then, . Warsaw, . efficially
simply the Chief towni of the dov-
ernment of Warsaw, the residence of
the .GovernprzGeoral of the Pro-
vinces •on the Vistula and at present
tfie eerstre of a large military stra-•
tegys • •
OLD DISEASE MYSTERY. •
• ,British Officer Finds Cause of 4,000
Year Scourge.
• Lieut. -Col. Leiner, of the Lendon
• School orfropical Medicine,has Pat
returned from Egypt, where he had
been investigating bilharziosis,, Mid
has eoniniunicated an important dis-
covery respecting this disease to the
•Royal 'Society .ofTIVteilleine.
The- --digoase-,. which Irai beet a
scourge to the Nile delta for thous-
anclapf_years,...healteen_sliscovered to
have beeti the cense of 'death in mum-
mies dating back to 2,000 ad. '
In his report 0. eiper ci e a
village where 90 per eent•of, the chil-
dren are infected. It has long ,heee
known that the disease as trans-
mitted. by water, but the life and his-
tory of the parasite have reznained on;
established. ' •
Ithai been .discovered that the dis-
ease' is started in e worm which lives
in the human -body. The ,eggs of -this.
worm pass :from the body into can-
als and pools,- where -they enter melt,
lees and there iiiiderge
in.,a form enabling them to enter the
iniman body through the Ain: In this
way the disease is commonly contract-
ed while bathing and washing.
Col Leiper contends that the dis-
ease' can be exterminated by filling the
"WS during the dry seasot.
•
saw and its environs were. 'organized
an contro e y eranans:
" Of late years the •Polish element
have. been making advances. Warsaw
artisans have a fine . reputation as
workmen, but unfortunately they are common wren. One has noticed that and many •notes of an incriminating
also fainous _ as insurrectionists, sP • bird singing with extraordinary .spitit
that from time to tifne the working in the hottest corner Of a beat, with character were foand. The lack of . ..; .
positive evidence that he had -sent.. ,
many ' ges sounding,., 'stops" tap- 44.or-mation--to-Ahe-Gerinaa*Goverim..-7---,.
ping, beafars closing in and shouting.'
men'''saved Ins life, but he was sent '
and pheasants 'whirring, up and to prison with, a host of ether . Ger-
plumping down in all directions. But
the wren,. indeed, often appears to re-
vel in a ,scene like this. •
-
• "I: ."0.
the general joined the ladies in the , •
"General, befere went you -
disiuthed among our agitation gives •
to arrest rite butler and
one a mixed feeling of Peaceof mind
and of the vaniti 'of % hurnen , effort.
But „this is philosophy perhaps; ce
n'est pas ie Moment de philosopher."
• ' Probebly -What is true of _the warb-,„
lers the finches, the oriole and the
other species, is true *of the great ma-
jority of , singing birclw -shy -and-the
reverse. It is „certainly true of one
Of the minutest species in Europe; the
belongings; He isa: •Gernian spy," ,
she said
"But said the general,
in amazenient,„ has . been with inc
for ten years.. The Man ia-arr ex-', •
' ' • .„.
-"Ne doubtr'saicl the lady; "but he
is else an, excellent; spy. Never„speak •
gain if I am wrong" •
The butler's teem was searelled-
second
Now it is merely 'a Russian Provincial
city. Then' owing to the well-known
fondness ofthe Polish nobles for dis-
play, it had 'a character of prodigal
grandeur, the -deeay of • which- is- dis-
mally evident at every turn.
• Other cities as important as War-
saw have' been the object of the tare
and • pride both of their rulers and of
their •people. But the rulers of War-
saw have had no pride in her, and
her people have not been permitted
peide. Since the revolution of • 1863
nothing -at all, has been undertaken
torthe orelIbe1Rgnt
the town.
: I
.THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.
When e .madman directs, the con-
dna% *ar On end- only irs defeat
1VI'Lone Hamilton. •
--There 4,s:
no use -in :lo-CokiFsg -back, tat
brooding over the past; • forget it,
and apply your energies to the fu-
Trade in War Time.
. Soon after the war broke out, says
the London Telegraph, a friend' called
on an English merchant, who did it
targe" Continental business. • "'this
war Must have hit you hard," he yews
tete& , • ,
"Very hard," field the -merchant,
"I've over $10,000 Owing me in Ger-
many, and it's touch-and-go whether I
ever g& A penny of, it. Still, Wile
got to put up with something for the
country' -
"PM gladyou take it so cheerfully,"
Said the friend.
"'Well, of course' there's profit and
loss in war' tired. .1 owe$1.1)0000 in
.,
derMants. • -
'
Warsaw's history. full- of battle and . no who to foist, to present dety
bloodshed, a capture and recapture; breaks a thread in the loom, and will
is 'IV dismal that it must of necessity find the flav when be May have for -
have a reflection in the spirit of the gotten its cause. -11. Ward Beecher.
people: Like most greet European' In Christianity the . self-cotscious-,
cities, 'the precise date 'a its found- .nese of the spirit it awakened in many
ing is 'not known. The Duke of Ma•=, through snifering;t disease seiritual•
aovia built a castle on the present' site ries even the loWer,animals.---Ileine.
as early as the ninth century, but the Do' not not be -answerable to to -
and' have since been,liberated. There'
was not only a lack of male help in,
, this- work,: tit it- 4:a's :Serielisly ".ceiial,;
promtsed- by- - lack, of -horses; • - -To.
facilitate the work •the Government
sia. The reSultingreign of terror left that edueation which° teaches wdhleo advanced the sums necessary for the
a Welt en the city front which it everything 'except herself-exPt -ce the -teed snd agriettltm,al. implements on-
! . . • . . . ,
hes, not yet recovered. i things that relate to her Ohs pectd\iar anticipated indein_nities.
. -
,
To the ordinary sightseeing tray- wbmanly „ destihy, and, on the plThe creaking,lumbering, tive
ea of
Ode Witesaw at fiest acquaintance the holiness of ignorance, sends hex wheeled carts loaded with carrots,
, cbb. and °thee
eeems justified in its claim to resemb- without a word. of Just eouncil into turnipsaages, Wets
ling Paris. It is a city' of long ave- the • temptations of life—Harriet
nues and pleasant streets, of shady Beeclibr Stowe.
boulevards, brightened -at night by ' ' ' , '' .'• ...l.
. , •
brilliant cafes.' The prevalence of . A Substitute for Cotton Wool.
soldigis and the Pieturesqiie costinnes
d the peasantry add to th&interest of The Red Cross rialiorities in Bri-
the observer in the life Of the streete. tain having, poilited: out the scarcity
The lyest stied in %maw is the ,and ilearnetS of eotton wool for dress-
Ittakowski Przedirilsele; named for ing purposes,„and explained that the
• Crae0w, the eherithed city a Old Pe-
• land, bow held by Austria,.
The Street Life,
•:„. :WOMAN FARMERS::
Are Now, Supplying the Paris Market
_ With Vegetables.
Thesuccese with women hive aon-
tended' with, the difficulties -of farm-
ing„ is indicated . by a rep* from
the depertreen_t of:.-Meurthe :tied M07.„
selle, France. Of the 60.0 eon -ileums
comprising this department,. 316 were
man' ones. •• • . • ••
It is generally understood that Carl
Hans Lodi, the German spy executed
in the Tower Of London, Was •breught
• to. trial thretighthe effort - .of the wo-
meif,s- committee, although the Mere- -
bers disclaim the achieeement. •
, „
• Seized Wireles.
- The "ladies' committee" •
a down all german head Waiters
em-
pleyed in the principal English hotels -
and, restaurants 'and caused them to .
b_g:reneevest.te detention_PamPS:Theee__.
:mem:own* to the peculiar character
sit -their . work, enjoyed an exeellent
'takersbthe Germans,. . and '171 .of , opportunity - for. meeting - persots of
,thent are still Occupied or are So Close all the important classes of society, .• •
to the fighting -linethetthe and in the free -expansion. that. •••,'
tents have been unable to return arily takes;piece at the table all
the balance of the department Woreen kinds,of confidences Were • exchanged. •
rerilaeing men have succeeded in seed- witliit•their hearieg.. • .
ingtheiell'ecreege, of oats and wheat. ALMS?. .Gerratais of •high social pa, .
-in the-Conununes that Wererlot-affeet- sitionand_greet.Wealth,.sopie Of thezii.,
ed and 70- percentof the acreage.. of natthalit0d Th itith ubjects; have.
the ,eomintates• that were devastated been pursued, by the, relentless "le.,
dies"aommittee."-Trof:.Arther
Schus-
tel, a 'born, GeeMan; but a aaturalit-:
-ad- -IIritisher„., was. :atirprieed
luxtirionscounty•.seat shen a band-
of detectives descended un him and
'Seized' his prieate.,wireless apparatus.
-Olatuak',has, turned the draw -
ink and recoption .rponis of her flue.
,houSe, at Mayfair, .iitte .. offices. for •
the comMittee. . - '
. • -„, •
• ."Owing to •the'. fact," - said Lady •
Giatinak, ."that io teribas effort, has '•
been •rnade by Or menkind to round
up_ the .73,000 antis' .enernies in our ,. •
midst, I felt the tall , stant a pro -
'test by 'wornah, as it it • is womenNelio.: .
are the 'greatest sufferers by
*,husband at& two aerie are „ light. •
,ing.' at the front and . thee:Wide, of •
women tan saivery.inteli the eaniej.
. • .
. •
,erty is m
..not entioni
ed. n annals until .niotrow. Do not' weaken •and distract
1224- , ••yourselthirdeekleg-_forWardAnithings_
• -.In11.90-6,- Wartawi.alwayareatlyArid7 you etitifFitletr tablTWeillt"TatiflilidW
'Staff& .
revolutionary manifestations in Rus- Tree .it is thatone can scarcely tall
. •
MOSS :OA the hIlle is -an axcellent sub-
stitute, the school children in Strath -s
bloke parish have taken the ro er
tin; and, under the dir'ection of
The continuatiOn of thist boulevard shepherds, have, been gatheringmoss
is the Iljazdowske Aleja, which is the I and bringing it. to the sehoel. In
Champs Elysees of Warsaw'. It is ached the MOgg is picked clean. .and
planted With lime trees and lined With sewn up in heap little bags. Air eedy
eafes, clubs, Amicort gardens* and the GOO to 700 of these' lingo have been
little tea and take shops that the pee.. made up, and 076* DOP ar:,in Use hi
140 levee ' 'hospitals in Bono;
• et• •:
vegetables, driven by met: hi capes, re -
cobbling the . Alpitse Chasseur's•
"beret"' that were to be encountered
•in the 'streets of Pelle before the war
are how driven by wailer:. It is due
almost entirelyto them that Paris, is
not • deprived • of the famous keen-
iloWer •froin Chainbourty, • the tele.
brated white turnips of , Creissy.sur-
Seine, the .carrots Montesson and
the delicibue green -peas of Ciamart,
as well as the luxurious asparagus of
Argenteuil.
. ' Honest.
"My• boy, you're a clever lad to
catch such a blg. fish by yourself." •
• "014 I don't mind telling you, sir,
that X gob the worm -to lelp me."
• ,
• • ,
One Divan& Conte True
"Strange," '.eaid the firet. tramp,
Meditatively, "how le* of our youth,* -
fin dreams ever' come true." '
. saidhis companion.
"I renieniber When' I' used .to dream ••
about wearire long pants, and now ,
iguess / wear lein longer titan aoyonit
else. In the .eountry.0 „ t •