Exeter Times, 1915-12-23, Page 3FROM QLD SCOTLAND
NATES Olive' INTEREST FROM HER.
BANKS AND BRAES.
What Is Going On in the Highlands
and Lowlands of „i l d
'4 Scotia,
Sterling Town Chamberlain Is to
insure the town's property against.
risk of damage by hostile aircraft.
The Forfar parish council have de-
cided not to insure any of their pro-
perty against' damage by aircraft or
bombardment.
Iiamilton Town Council, on the
suggestion of Provost Moffat, has ap-
proved of a proposal to establish a
soldiers' club in Hamilton.
At Glas rotiv` Munitions 'Tribunal a
worltrreiti who disobeyed the orders of
his fore ian and left his work, thereby
rendering 100 men idle, was fined $10.
Dunblane ladi4shave opened a
place of rest and entertainment for
the soldiers billeted in the old armory
and it is being taken full advantage
of,
Eight sons, five sons-in-law, and
two grandsons in the fighting line is
the proud record held by the Elgin
town.crier and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
James Simpson.
Owing to the dry summer and
autumn and to the increased quantity
of water that has been supplied to
shipping, the Kirkwall supply is now
almost exhausted.
Lord Hunter and Professor Scott
have conducted an inquiry at Aber-
deen into the circumstances connected
with the recent increase in the rentals
of small dwelling houses.
As the result of a serious outbreak
of measles in the Carriden district,
the schools in that areahave been
close
d for -two weeks. In Blackness
- 4ietrict there were also some cases
reported.
The workmen employed in the var-
ious flooreloth and linoleum works in
Dunfermline, who have been agitating
for an increase in wages, have been
granted an• increase of 24 cents.
Six motor ambulance wagons, the
gift of the Scottish Licensed Trade
Defence Association were formally
presented to the Scottish branch of
the Red Cross Society by the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh.
Mr. F. C. Smith, Master of Works,
Dunfermline, reports that the esti-
mated value of public structures pas-
sed by the court for the year ending
November 5th, was $656,520, as corn.
pared with $304,660 last yeax'.
At a Meeting of the Kirkcaldy Em-
ergency Committee it was decided to
stop the ringing of the town bell at
8 p.m. and also to recommend that
church bells be not rung on Sunday
or any other evenings. -
Ayr town council has agreed to
snake a
grant
of ,
2
500 'r.
from the
,
funds of the defunct Merchant Corn -
'Any, which have fallen to thea town,
to the Carie; " ie Library, for the pur-
pose of builaing a children's reading
room and library.
The death has occurred at Ardking-
; las,rgyllshire, of Sir Andrew Noble,
sin -}recently chairman of Sir W. G.
nistrong, Whitworth & Co., and
formerly secretary to the committee
en Rifled Cannon and assistant in-
spector of artillery.
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LATEST WIRE TOY SOLDIERS.
A Woman Has Devised Something
New.
THEY ARE STURDY
AND GOOD-NATURED
BRITISH ARMY NOT MADE UP
OF RAGAMUFFINS.
A Correspondent of German News-
paper Describes a Visit to Bri-
tish Prisoners.
Describing a visit to British pri-
soners recently captured by the Ger-
mans, Bernhard Kellermann the spe-
cial correspondent in Flanders of the
"Berliner Tageblatt," says:
Western 'Front, October;
They .hadbeen captured in the Bri-
tish attack in Givenchy and Loos.
The courtyard was full of them. The
winding • leggings (puttees) are Un-
bound, rubbed between the hands,
washed, and hung up to dry. With
pocket-knives the crusted mud is
scraped off the uniforms. One lusty
fellow stands in his shirt, beating his
clothes with a stick. No one would
credit the amount;: of clay dust that
can stick to a pair of breeches. And
these men have sat in the mud of the
trenches for weeks.
A couple of lanky I-Iighlanders, in
their short Scottish skirts (sic) ` are
standing at the water tap washing
their bare legs.They had fought
splendidly, the Scots, firing volleys
from the erect position, and charging
like demons. But it had availed them
nothing. Only a few of them are
here; the rest -we can see it in the
eyes of these survivors—lie stark
outside. All are busy at their clean-
ing, without laughter, with scarce a
spoken word—with the seriousness of
men who have nothing left to think
about. One sees that they are habi-
tuated to cleanliness; that slovenli-
ness andi'
d zt are hateful to them;
that they set great store by their per-
sonal appearance. Yesterday—taken
in the battle—these English soldiers
looked a dirty, ragged lot. To -day
has been cleaning -up day, water and
the razor have changed their appear-
ance. To -morrow they march off into
captivity—their part of the contract
finished. Often have I seen French
prisoners, three days after their cap-
ture, still in their rags and filth, sunk-
en in misery, careless of their ap-
pearance. Their contract is never con-
cluded.
Sturdy and Good -Natured.
Amongst these English faces one
sees afair number of the criminal
and the working-class wastrel type;
the off-scourings of Whitechapel and.
other city slums. But the great ma-
jority look as soldiers should look—
simple, sturdy, good-natured. They
show the characteristic narks of their
race=leanness, narrow . faces, the
short -clipped moustache, and bad
teeth. There are many middle-aged
men amongst them, and
manYbob
baby -
faced boys of 19 or under. But they
are good soldiers, all,' without doubt,
brave and tough, though whether they
would.be as useful in the open as in
trench warfare is questionable. It
was a great mistake to suppose that
the Kitchener army was composed of
ragamuffins and rascals.
At first they are reserved and mis-
trustful. But -like all war prisoners
—they become communicative when
they find anyone to take an interest
in their fate. Yes, they had enlisted
because they had not a penny in the
pocket, some in defence of their coun-
try. They are honest fellows, too.
Asked whether he were glad to be
taken prisoner, or would prefer to
continue fighting, one clear cold -eyed
The children of. Europe are so im- sergeant replied: "Of course I would
bued with the martial spirit that .it rather go on fighting; .and so, I think,
enters largely into their play, and would most of us." From several
even the stories written for present other under -officers (non-coms.) I got
•consumption are for the most part the answer. But many of the soldiers,
about battlesand valiant deeds. To after a _little fencing with the ques-
meet this situation a woman has de tion, admitted they were not sorry it
wised, something in lieu of the time was all over. Only one—an artist,
honored tin soldier, something that who spoke fairly good German had
Will soon relegate the latter to the at- any idea where they had been fight
tic or a like out of the way corner. ing, or whence- they had advanced.
Her idea has been to create minia- With the - rest it was just "the
ture figures so flexible or alive, as she trenches;" of the configuration of the
expresses it; that they could assume English lines they had no conception.
any natural attitude. It took much But my artist had got the picture in
patience and no end of pains to work his mind's eye; some day he would
out these diminutive make believe Paint
soldiers. She finally hit upon the no- The majority of them did not be -
tion of a wire skeleton wound about,., lieve that compulsory military ser -
with thread to represent body sub- vice would be adopted by England,
Stance: This gave her the desired and ono of the non-coms. who would
flexibility, and it was an easy matter gladly have returned to the thick of
then to clothe them suitably. Suitably the fight, expressed himself as op -
n Germany meant .a garb of field posed to the system, "What is the
gray, the color of the uniforms worn merit in fighting," he argued, "if you
by the Raiser's fighting men at the are forced into it?" Strange, this
front. English point of view! And the
f course there must be contending chance of the war ? Most of them
am o give the real complexion of . firmly believe that Germany must ex -
a b veld, and the enemy p is retire- haust herself; Kitchener could get as seated in the uniforms of the Allies. many soldiers as he wanted.
The wire foundation of the figures A Loud Song.
makes it possible to simulate human In a% neighboring building the Eng-
movements to a nicety, and therefore lish officers are leraporarily quarter -
the make believe soldiers may be pos. ed. How long the war might last Was
ed to represent the digging of a matter of indifference to them. One
tr'enehes, the throwing of hand gren- year, two years, three years, if needs
adds, the working of guns, the charge be; England had money enough, men
of infantry, the toilsome ;march or enough. The longer it lasted the bet -
the peaceful atmosphere of a 'camp. ter England's chances. If we have
.�. _. not broken through this time we shall
dolt nett time; if not this year, next
Black C?iirs OscrrGin l'sland, year." As officers they could not well
"The Island of Black Cats" is a have spoken differently. Whether they
name applied to Chatham Island in believed we should not allow them the
the Pacific Ocean, about 730 Wiles time for this was a question which
West of the coast of Ecuador. It Is they left unanswered,
overrun with black cats; indeed, cats • Now the English soldiers are ams-
of no other are_ seen there. These tered for transporation. They fell in
animals : live in sthe crevices of the . with alacrity, their faces beaming
lava..foundation near the coast, and
iiiheist by catching fish `'and crabs, in-
deed of rats and ]nice.
General Alexeieff, New Chief -of -Staff, of Russian Armies
a loud song: "It's a long, long wa
Tipperary"—and they . are off.
With quick, elastic step and swinging
arms they march—most of them nod-
ding to me as they pass—more like
athletics than like soldiers. Very
speedily they have accommodated
themselves to their new conditions,
If t
walk into battle b te
with the same
swing as into captivity they are to
be respected.
ay young of the insect -eating birds. The
result was that insects multiplied so
enormously that the last condition
was worse than the first, and lie is no
more in Jamaica.
He and the Jamaicans are not now
on speaking terms, and he is not to
be invited to any more islands where
he mayeat
enemiesand up a d then prey
on friends because he can find nothing
else to eat.
But in India the mongoose is pre-
cious almost beyond price. There
poisonous snakes kill every year over
20,000 of our fellow men.
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THE MONGOOSE.
Wee Animal Delights in Fighting
Huge Snakes.
Perhaps the greatest tracker in the
animal world is the mongoose or ich-
neumon, the latter name being de-
rived from the Greek and meaning
"tracker out."
While he moves and acts like a
weasel, the parallel goes no further,
however, for he seems to have a
strong strain of the hyena and he is
wild, brave and fierce.
He is found largely in Africa and
India, especially in the latter country.
There, he has achieved fame for his
daring in attacking and killing snakes.
The cobra and many other deadly ser-
pents may make human life weari-
some in India, but the mongoose is
the master of the snake tribe.
A battle between the two is fair, '
for each desires to eat the other. The
snake seeks to bite with his fangs, ,
poison and eat his victim at leisure.
The mongoose has only his teeth as a
weapon, but he is blessed with a I
greater alertness and speed than the'
snake. I
When the snake seeks to dart out
his head and "strike" with his fangs
the little 'mongoose deftly leaps
aside, and then, almost in the same
movement, launches himself upon the
reptile and if his aim is good, as it
usually is, he crushes the snake's skull
in his jaws. •It is said that the fear-
lessness of the mongoose is one of his
best weapons. •
The mongoose and the dormouse
are two of the things the venom of
the cobra cannot easily kill. The mon-
goose even after being bitten will eat
the serpent's head, poison glands and
all.
The mongoose is right where he is;
he may be misplaced. That is what
we found in Jamaica. Great rats,
monsters which might have broken
away from the Pied Piper's charm,
were eating up all the sugar cane,
•uining the planters, imperilling the
ortunes of the islands. After other
xperiments had been tried, mon-
ooses were introduced. There fol-
owed a terrible time for the rats. In
hree years not a rat was left in the
stand. But what was the mongoose
o do then? With his feed supply
gone, he must fend for himself, and.
e gobbled up all the poultry in the
eland, all the 'useful animals, all the
f
e
t
with joy at the prospects of a change,
Along their ranks a buz7:ing half -tone h
air is heard; presently it,swells into i
18TH CENTURY SEERS ON WAR
Union Against "Apostate Empire'
Foretold.
The following prophecies about the
war are taken from a book printed at
Turin in 1858 entitled "A Collection
of Some Remarkable Prophecies and
Vaticinations."
A Swiss w s hermit who died atS t.
Gall in 1760: predicted that there
would be "famine, hunger, devasta-
tions and considerable mortality
throughout Europe in 1915."
An anonymous French monk wrote
toward the end of the eighteenth cen-
tury that "in 1915 the Turks, Heretics,
Schismatics, Catholics, and Idolaters
of foreign nations will go against
each
other with anger and fury," add-
ing: •
"The first spark of the great war
will start from the North. The war
will last about two years and the
armies of the enemies will not invade
the apostate empire, but they will
surround and wait until the rebels re-
turn to their duty. They (the rebels),
howeverwill not make any act of
submission or of repentance, but con-
tinue their excesses, se that all the
Powers of Europe• will be allied
against them.
This prediction ends with a descrip-
tion of Te Deums and thanksgiving
services in all churches and temples
"for the victory of the Allies."
A prophecy made . by a Flemish
plonk in 1772 alludes to two wars
against Austria with Russia's partici-
pation and continues as follows:
"The Turks who will take part in
the struggle will not cross their
frontiers, but the foreigners will in-
vade France."
A Capuchin friar of Genazzano,
writing in the eighteenth century,
predicted the war in Italy in the fol-
lowing terms:
"Serious disagreements will arise
between the Allied Powers and the two
Emperors will be compelled to fight
against their ally." -'
Finally another prophecy byD I
P P Y z
Cumming, a Protestant minister, runs
as follows: •
, "Russia, driven away from her froz-
en trenches, will again return, crush-
ing every resistance and she will even
reach Palestine. England will de-
fend to the very end God, the Bible,
freedom and life until the Pope will
crown with his own hands a personage
and declare him Emperor of the Ro-
mans and there shall be then peace
throughout the world."
Don't think because a man wears a
large hat that he is the head of the
house.
ED. 7.
ISSUE 52--'15
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sir." "Well, what do you propose to
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a yawn, as if 'wearied of the thing.'
"I'm willing to drop the case s'far as
I'm concerned."
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he'd tackle the owner of the dog on
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Mr. Jones puffed out his meagre
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MEMORY IN GIRLS AND EOYS„
Varies, Says Japanese Investigator.,
Aeeording to Ages.
Dr. Sakaki, professor of the Medical
College, of the Imperial ,Kyushu Uxii
versity, who is devoting himself to
tests of the memory of children of
inferior mental capacity, has publish-
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As the basis of his researches the
doctor has carried out experiments
with the development of the faculty
of memory in the case of 1,026 boys
and girls of the Fukuoka normal
schools and elementary schools since
1908.
The result of the experiment's made
over 49,000 times during the first four
years shows, says the East and West
News, that in memory of figures the
younger are superior to the older, and
of the children between 8 and 18 years
of age girls possess superior memory
to boys, while with those ranging
from 13 to 14 years of age the case Barker and Performer.
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being due to the change ' of mental To ctch the notice of the crowd.
and physical condition of boys and
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youth from childhood, as Dr. Sakaki And tries to give us all a show.
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