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HOW TO APPB.OACII A STRUes
CLING. PERSON.
Valriable hints Which, if Aden,
Upon, May the Means
of Saving Lives.
The annual iidviee to those who
gc near the weber either with or
without knowing how to swim is
Pew in order, Seine expert infor-
mation on how to deal with the
drowning in afforded by Recreation,
which cautions would-be saviors
against attempting a rescue fully
dressed,
"It takes but en instant to re-
move your outer clothing and
shoes," says the writer, and this
will mere than be made up by your
being able to swim faster in getting
to him and freer in carrying him
ashore. Proceed immediately to
undress and while so doing think
fast.
• "O: coarse, my advise to be de-
liberate is not intended to mean
that you should lose any time. 1
have known men to wait after the
person in danger had disappeared
from sight, under the impression
that a drowning person comes to
the surface three times, That tra-
dition is senseless and has been re-
sponsible for many fatalities.
"A drowning man may rise a
dozen times or go under once and
never be seen again ; there is no
telling. Make up your mind, there-
fore, that when a head sinks the
situation is critical and not a sec-
ond should be lost. If the body is
visible under the water there is no
difficulty in securing it, but if the
water is muddy, more especially if
a tide or a current is running, use
judgment, for you will need all your
faculties to be successful.
WHERE TO DIVE,
"Take your first dive from a point
above where the body has last been
seen, or bubbles have indicated its
location, and work down stream.
Thus you will not tire bucking the!
current, nor will you miss the body
if it has caught some submerged
obstacle; while if it is free you will
soon overtake it by swimming.
"On reaching it, if under water,
try to seize the clothing at the
beck of the neck; in the absence
r'f these lift by the armpits, the
ebin or the hair. If the bottom is
rocky or sandy and you are near
it, take a good pushoff, but if the
water is too deep or the bottom
soft and muddy swim to the sur-
face, using legs and free arm.
"Now, before describing how to
carry a victim ashore it will be well
to touch on the most dangerous
phase of life saving, the rescue of
persons made frantic by fear.
"Water polo players have re-
cently developed a system of breaks
and holds that has been adopted
by scientific life savers and has been
of invaluable assistance to them. Its
most simple features are within
reach of any one and will enable
you to handle even the worst cas-
es with comparative safety.
SECURING A HOLD
"In approaching a struggling
person de so warily, and if possible
from the back. If he shows any in-
tention of grabbing wildly keep him
off with your foot until you can
seize one of his wrists. In doing
this use the right hand for the right
wrist and the left for the left.
"On securing a hold, swing him
quickly ar and and throw your free
arm around his neck. This places
him in your power, and no matter
how he struggles you will be able
to carry him in safety.
"Another good way advocated by
water polo players is to approach
the man boldly, and as soon as he
lifts his arm to clutch you to plant
your open hand squarely under his
armpit, allow yourself to sink, turn-
ing your body outwardly, and then
shoving him over you come to the
surface. If this is done correctly
you will find yourself behind him,
looking at the back of his head,
when it will be an easy matter to
place on him any hold you want.
"Professional life savers often re-
commend splashing water in the
face of a struggling person on the
ground that it makes him turn from
you. My experience has been that
it only increases his terror and ex-
citement.
"Leg holds are the great fear of
life savers. Let a powerful man
encircle yon with his legs and nine
times out of ten you are a goner.
To be naught either by legs or arms
from the rear is also generally fa-
tal, for back holds are almost im-
possible to break, Against these
two dangers you should guard care-
fully,
CARY1NG A VICTIM.
"There are several ways et carry -
nig the victim of a drovvuing acci-
dent ashore. If he is only exhaust-
ed let him place bout hands on your
ehonlders andthen swim either
the breast or back stroke.
"If he is unconscious turn him on
his back and use the back stroke
,yourself, sustaining him by placing
;yon, arms around him and your
hands en his chest, or seize him
under his chin, or hold him by the
elothe.s at the back of the neck, or
by the hair, A struggling person
is ,rade helpless by the fret hold
mentioned,
"Upon reselling terra firma the
MIGI.II EASILY HAPPEN
Arse object should be to expel from,
the lungs of the victim any water
HOSTILE AI1L,Sl ll? COULD DES -
TROT' LONDON' 11Y FIRE.
that may have been taken in. Do
not stand ,him on his head, as do
so many well-meaning but ignorant
people,
"Begin the loosening er remov-
ing clothing from waist, chest and
neck, then if there is 'anything
round to be had—like a barrel or
`a log—place him face down on it and
roll it gently back and forth so that
it will press on abdomen and sto-
mach end force the water out. If
nothing round is at hand make a
small bundle of clothes or use a
chair or stool and press the water
out with your hands,
"When the lungs are free it is
necessary to apply artificial respira-
tion until they have been restored
to natural breathing, First, care
should be taken to clean mouth and
throat thoroughly with a handker-
chief, towel or cloth. Next seize
the tongue and either tie it just bo-
yond the lips or hold it there, so
that it will not be drawn in with
the intake of air and obstruct the
passage.
"In many cases the application of
smelling salts or pungent herbs
to the patient's nostrils or the tick-
ling of his throat with a feather will
at this stage be sufficient to start
respiration. If not you should use
either the universally taught Syl-
vester
ylvester method or tongue traction."
AT THE MARRIAGE MART.
Two Thousand Bachelors Visited
Ecaussincs.
Two thousand bachelors from all
parts of Belgium, many from
France, and some from Germany,
swept down on the village of Eeaus-
sines-Lalaing, Belgium, to find
brides at Whitsuntide. It was the
sixth yearly marriage mart as es-
tablished by the maids of Ecaus-
sines, and the proceedings were a
great success.
The men began to arrive early in
the morning, and by noon they were
arriving in trainloads. There were
all sorts and conditions of men. One
man of 72 had travelled all the way
from Luxemburg to find a wife, to
whom he promised a dowry that
would piece her beyond want. There
were tradesmen, clerks, mechanics,
miners, and laborers.
Gay banners of welcome, show-
ing hearts pierced by arrows, were
to be seen everywhere.
At noon the bachelors were for-
mally welcomed at the gates of the
village by the Spinster Committee.
Last year's president and several
members of the committee are now
married in consequence of the fes-
tivities twelve months ago, and
others had been elected in their
place.
All marched to the Grande Place,
where there was an open-air con-
cert. The bands played nothing
but nuptial marches and love songs.
At the close an adjournment was
made to the town hall, where the
young women took their places at
tables on which stood bowls of pink
roses, with such mottoes as "Hope
on," "Love," "Be trusting," and
"Have faith."
A vacant chair was left beside
each girl, and at a given signal the
men with matrimonial intent made
a rush to secure the seats. Then
coffee and a sweet cake were served
followed by a bon -bon tasting of
liquorice.
When this was ever the lady pre-
sident made a speech on "The art
of pleasing man," which was wild-
ly applauded. Dancing in the open-
air ended the programme of the
festivities.
MAN THROWS AWAY GOLD.
Berlin Merchant Astonishes Vil-
lagers by His Iiberality.
The per -capita wealth of the little
town of Cunnersuorf, in Silesia,
Germany, has been suddenly in-
creased as the result of the visit of
a Berlin merchant, who sought to
cure a temporary fit of mental de-
pression by throwing away hand
fulls of money and precious stones.
He arrived from a neighboring
village in a cal, which he die -
'Merged after heeding the driver a
£5 note. A two -penny bridge toll,
payable upon entering the town, he
discharged with a fifty -shilling note,
refusing to take any change,
Upon every person he met he
forced either a ten or twenty -shill-
ing goldpieoe. Among others he
distributed his gold watch, his dia-
mond tie -pin, his pearl cuff -links,
and other articles of jewelry.
Reaching the market square with
several pockets still full of cash, he
drew forth handfuls and threw them
into the air, with the result that
the square soon became the scene of
wild scrimmages among the teens -
people,
At the tavern where the unknown
benefaetor took lodgings for the
,light he explained he was suffering
from soul -storms in consequence of
the death of his wife. IIe said lie
had got rid of £150 in coin and of
jewels worth the same amount.
WAGES 1•IIGIIER IN BELGIUM,
Belgium has heretofore been
classed as a low-priced enunl.ry, and
the low cast of living attracted therewhich could this simply be brought
e largeclassof foreigners, who
lived almost luxuriously on modest
inenines which in other lands would
barely have covered absolute neces-
sities. Now, however, prices and
wages are rising.
With Every One !•)'ging to Escape
at ()nee Dieteticlion V'1'ottld
$a! Appalling.
T. G. Tullock in the current issue
of the Nineteenth Century • deals
with the Aerial Peril, leo draws a
lucid picture of London's unpre-
paredness in the face of the present
and prospective progress in the
science ee aviation
"Consider the Thames from, say,
Hammersmith bridge down to be-
low Gravesend," he writes. "Every
day within the space of about fifty
miles lie, either in dock or stream,
many thousand merchant vessels of
every sort, size and description,
from ocean liners to `dumb' barges,
whilst the river's banks are honey-
combed with wharves, docks, canals
and basins, round which are group-
ed millions of pounds' worth of
factories, warehouses, stores, gas-
works, oil stores, etc.. and last,
but certainly not least, there is
Woolwich Arsenal, containing the
Royal Gun and Carriage factories
and the Royal Laboratory, forming
one of the chief resources of sup-
ply of warlike material for the em-
pire. The latter department alone
is practically the only place in the
United Kingdom where the cart-
ridges for our navy are made up,
without which our Dreadnoughts
are useless. Hard by lies the Royal
Torpedo factory, and not far oft
are the huge magazines containing
hundreds of tons of cordite and
other warlike explosives. And
yet, with these millions of pounds'
worth of civil property and vital
supplies of warlike materials, all
of which are singularly susceptible
to destruntion by fire, there is
NOT ONE SINGLE FORT
or defensive work from London to
Gravesend except, the solitaryanti-
quatcd Tilbury fort, of revered
Elizabethan memory. The supposi-
tion is, of course, that the forts at
Sheerness and -in the vicinity thereto
would suffice to keep an enemy's
marine fleet out of the Thames.
But suppose they came via the air
in their ariel machines, what then'?
This whole fifty miles of concen-
trated essence of empire lies at the
absolute mercy of even a single air-
ship or aerial machine which would
plant a dozen incendiary missiles in
certain pre -selected spots, 1 shall
not metnion such spots, but I would
guarantee that given a certain wind
and certain incendiary missiles, I
could undertake to have the whole
riverside, including ships, wharves,
warehouses, and the arsenal in a
blaze in a very short time.
"One a certain number of selected
centres were alight at about the
same time, not all the powers of the
London fico brigade, nor any num-
ber of fire brigades, could deal with
such a conflagration, and with an
easterly wind (which is just the
most favorable for an attack by air-
ships coming from certain parts of
the continent) and a rising tide, the
smoke and sparks and burning
ships carried up the Thames would
soon render the principal portion
of London untenable and eventual-
ly enguly it in
THE GENERAL HOLOCAUST.
Any one who has been to a fair-
ly big fire well knows how practi-
cally the whole ot the available
strength of the fire brigade is pile ot some-
times concentrated on one
t
building alone in an attempt to
isolate the fire. 'What would be the
result if say even only a dozen fires
were well started upwind at spots
which had been specially selected
from a previous knowledge of their
susceptibility to combustion, their.
effect on the subsequent spread of
the fire, and by reason of their posi-
tion being such as to hamper the
concentration of fire brigades
whether afloat or ashore'?
"Suppose for the sake of ex-
ample, there existed, on the banks
of the lower Thames stores con-
taining many hundreds of thou-
sands of gallons of oil, and that an
airship carrying a small well -armed
crew descended upon this store in
the early hours of the morning,
blew ]toles in the huge oil -contain-
ers, which stanch up, usually well
above ground, like gas -holders,
thus allowing the contents to flow
into the Thames. A single match
does the rest, and there eve have,
with a rising tide, a river of flame
from bank to bank (oil spreads very
quickly and burns, floating on top
of water, surging up through the
commercial heart of London, de-
vouring everything that comes in
its path, ships, wharves, ware-
houses, stores, elm. In a few hours
the most important part of London
is a furnace. Of what, avail then,
even at the start, would be the
fire brigade 1 Nothing could stop
such a fire, all caused by a party
of fearless, resolute men with the
help of an airship and one match.
The, basin reels at the thought of
THE AWFCIL DEST 11UCTION
about. There are many ether ways
of att.aining the same (Meet which
the reader can himself ,uggcsl:, all
rendered easy by aerial machines,
"TLink of the leas of human lives,
apart from the rain el aur own -
;Perm ,which would ensure. It
difficult enobgh even now to' his
.get
away from London during a holiday
time when there aro crowds at a
station; but try to imagine London
ablaze and .evei•youe.trying to es-
cape.
"It is needless farther to press
the point I wish to make by piling
up Horrors, This point is that by
destroying the heart the other mem-
bers will cease to function, for it
is inconceivable that, with moll e
chaotic state as would follow the.
destruction of London, any colter-
ent direction of affairs, either offi-
cial or commercial, could continue.
Tho seat of government might
doubtless be removed to another
town, but with the destruction of
the London banks and of all postal
and telegraphic communication it
would be impossible to 'carry on.'
Even suppose the seat of govern-
ment removed to another town, a
similar state of chairs might be
brought about there by a few bold
aeronauts, It is quite possible to
paralyze this country by other
means than by causing a fire of
London, but I do not propose to
'give the shoe: away' by saying how
it can be done. I have no hesita-
tion in stating that it would be
quite possible by secondary means
to render both the navy and army
powerless in a very short space of
time with half a dozen airships act-
ing under a certain plan. I am
not romancing, and I make the
above statement in all seriousness."
A TUSK -HUNTER'S ESCAPE.
Elephant Passed Over Him as He
Lay in the Sand.
Hunting elephants for their tusks
is an occupation both dangerous
and profitable. It involves cour-
age, patience and infinite cunning.
Frequently the hunter becomes the
hunted, and the tables may be
turned fatally. A writer in Mc-
Clure's Magazine tells of an escape,
vouched for by "an Indian dealer
who never lied about anything, and
who claims to have seen this de-
liverance exactly as he reported
it."
Some natives were hunting ele-
phants in the neighborhood of Lake
Budolph, and he was with them for
the purpose of trading cotton cloth
for ivory. Elephants like old
Lunch -grass that has become dry,
like hay, and a herd of them, at -
tented by "dry grazing," as it is
galled, camp suddenly within an
eighth of a mile of the camp.
One native, named Juma, from
the coast, an unskilled hunter, ob-
serving that the wind was in such
a direction that it blew news of
the herd to him, rather than blew-
ing his whereabouts to the know-
ledge of the herd, ran out in the
open with his rifle and aimed at
short range at a powerful creature
which was watering a straggling
shrub with water be had taken in
his trunk from the pond.
Once hit, the elephant was cor-
respondingly furious, and rushed
at Juma, after a deliberate scru-
tiny of the immediate foreground
to discover his whereabouts. Hav-
ing determined where his assailant
stood, he tore along, crazy with
rage, toward the shaking savage.
Juma, with an Oriental's instinct
of prostration before such over-
whelming force, merely threw him-
self fiat upon the ground.
Tho elephant rushed completely
over him, but, by accident, left hint
safe, although choked and blinded
with the disturbed and sandy soil.
The great feet cleared him and the
tusks missed him. _
Almost twenty-four hours passed
before Juma dared- believe himself
alive and sound, and for the first
twelve hours after the excitement
he spoke of himself only in the past
tense, as of one dead.
m '
A CUINI
ESE OSTMAY.
Qualifications for Appointment and
Some Severe Tests.
It is.not only in France that pos-
tal employees are discontented with
their lot, for the Chinese postal
workers are also in a state of fer-
ment, says the London Globe. They
are strongly protesting against the
remuneration which they receiv=e
and which they consider little less
than an insult when compared with
the difficulty of obtaining employ-
ment in the postal service of the
Celestial Empire. The training is
arduous and full of peril. Tho men
urge, and apparently with reason,,
that as it is only the bravest who
adopt the calling of postman the
emoluments should not be in an
inverse ratio to the difficulty of at-
tainment.
A Son of heaven wishing to enter
the postal service must, to begin
with, give evidence of courage,
robustness, power of endurance,
ability to traverse great distances
over mountains and valleys, through
dangerous forests frequented by
wild hcasts and robbers. These
dangerous journeys ,mist be under-
taken alone and accomp,tshcd en e
fixed time. After this the would -he
letter terrier is sent into uncanny
places which are considered to be
the abode of evil spirits.
When 11i' (:'hinayruan has sates.
foci the authorities in regard to
these matt.vrs he is appointed a
letter terrier.
It sometime, happens, 11;01
mire is hard to get rid of,
soft
RUSSIA'S GLOOMY COURTbeein the morning with her little
daughters you might suppose she
was some one in charge of thein
rather titan t,roar mother:
CZARINA BROKEN' IN HEALTH, She is tall, stout, and of that
','lily CZAR I%1l fulNO12OLI'. ruddy complexion which is c hent-
ago of the English royal family, In
her siuipledross with white collar
and muffs almost like a trained
Empress Moro Liked Than Former- horse's uniform • she watches her
ly, But Affected by 'frontier ehilchen at play nowadays with an
expression so faraway and see -that
of the Empir'e. you wonder if she' is looking into
The reports concerning the stealth
the future and seeing all the trials
of the Czarina continue to be die- whieh will beset theirpaths.
n , , Sometimes on such occasions she
co iagang, writes a St, Petersburg
Is joined by the Czar and, together
coerespondent. ' Always of -a. melan-
choly theysit in silence. Tho Czar; stoops
disposition, the events of the moe than lie did and looks ehoro or
last few years in Russia have deep, in corse uonce. H is thinner•'tco
cued her depression until now there q e
is no doubt that she is on the verge and the very beautiful dark eyee
of melancholia, besides suffering whiehredeem his face from cam•,
from ills attendant upon a nerveus . monplaccness are shadowed ane
br'oadcclotvr
I t, grave in,expression.
Tho czarina, though site has never ,' ,,;,
succeeded altogether in winning 1lIE Q)1 1I ii tilAl rugs.the love of her adopted people, is
far morn popular now than she was German Professor's Experiments
opts
during the first years of her mar- Whir Plying 'Torpedoes:
sled life. Then the Russians frank- Messrs, Krupp .of Essen, Ger-
ly distrusted and disliked her. Her many, have announced that they
expression at that time was sad and will contribute $2,500 per annum
rather discontented. She was very toward the cost of experiments with
shy and retiring and assumed an an aerial torpedo now being carried
air of indifference, to cover these cut by Professor Woicher•t, of the
defects which the court mistook for Meteorological Institute at Goet-
coldness. began.
Then too she was largely the vie- Professor Weichert has eonstruet
tim of circumstances. The horrible cd amodel of the flying torpedo,
accident on her wedding day when which is capable of travelling
hundreds of persons were killed yards per second, or at the rate of
and injured filled tete peasants with over seven and a half miles a min
superstitious fear of her and her in- ute. Another model of an aerial
fluionce. Lastly, her delay in' pre- torpedo, weighing approximately 80
senting Russia with a male heir to pounds, has also been constructed,
the throne displeased all the coun- and has yielded successful results.
try. These torpedoes are driven by
Latterly she has won friends. small electric motors. Apart from
People have discovered that her driving them at a high -speed.
sad expression does not really mean through the air, Professor Welch
discontent, that her assumed in- cot .is conducting a number of ex
difference masks a kind and sym .oriments for the purpose of ascer-
pathetic nature. The peasants have wining how they can be steered
forgotten the by electricity, In conducting these
ILL OMENED WEDDING DAY experiments, he is guided by the
system of steering submarine tor -
and Russia rejoices in the young pedoes by electric waves.
Czarevitch. The extreme importance of these
Yet notwithstanding this gain experiments from a military point
for the Czarina there is no sadder of view is evident, and this aspect
court in Europe to -day than that of the matter is emphasized by the
at Peterhof. All the world knows subvention which Messrs. Krupp
that the Emperor and Empress have devoted to this purpose. Jiidg-
live surrounded by guards, that ing from the results already achiev-
their food is specially prepared by cd it anuears probable that Ger-
trusted hands and tasted before be- many will soon be in possession of
ing served and that they cannot go aerial torpedoes, which will be un -
from the palace without the great- der the control of those who dig-
est precaution. Yet in spite of this charge them.
the imperial family leads a simple Professor Weichert desires not
home life. only to apply his inve-rtion to the
There is no formality in the re- purpose of war, but also to scienti-
lations of the Czar and the Czarina fic research, for he considers that
with their ladies and gentlemen in fcyine• machines of this type can be
waiting, and though the Empress employed to ascertain the condition
has aged and changed she remains of the atmosphere at high altitudes,
gracious and kindly to those about He is now experimenting with a fly
her while the Czar though deeply ing machine, which he can direct
affected by the trials of his unhappy to high altitudes by electric cur -
country is still at times the gay and rent, and then bring it back to the
delightful host of days gone by. point from which it started.
There aro two ladies in waiting
in immediate attendance always. SEA SERPET RACED SHIP.
Among other requirements is the —
rule that they must be able to play Monster Gave Sailors the Greatest
tennis with the Czar. Her ladies Scare of 'Their Lives.
in waiting were the first of her peo-
ple who learned to love and under- Entered in the permanent log of
stand the Empress and they tell the British steamship Mereddio,
many stories of her kindness and Capt. Clark, is a record of a sea
sympathy. monster sighted while the ship was
THE CZAR IN HIS HOME LIFE en a passage between Penarth and
Santos. Chief Officer Neil S. Mur -
is all the most exacting could wish ray was in charge of the bridge at
—a devoted husband sincerely ad- the time and a Greek quartermas-
miring and deeply in love with his ter was at the wheel. The quarter -
clever wife, an affectionate father roaster, who first sighted the mon-
who plays with and fondles his star, was almost petrified with fear
children. Until th,i troubles of the and was at the point of permitting
last few years and the recent break- the big freighter to take her own
down of the Czarina saddened him course.
the Czar was like a gay schoolboy. "It was like this," explained the
He is not brilliant and his nature chief officer when the Mereddio
is weak, but he has a saving sense clocked at East Boston. "The ship
of humor which endears him mall was 500 miles from Santos. I saw
who know him. In days past he the Greek acting strangely and fol -
deafly loved a good joke and was lowed the direction he was looking.
as ready to laugh es his own weak -"My hair nearly stood on end at
Though the world thinks of him the sight. Swimming parallel to
as a despot, he is anythingsbut that the ship was a monster lizard. It
in his lune. A friend of one of the was as big as a whale. The ocean
ladies in waiting tells this story to fairly seethed as it propebed itself
illustrate how informal are the re- with enormous dragon's claws, A
lotions of the Czar with those in head es big as a pilot house and
his entourage : On the clay of the one coil of the beast's neck were
christening of the last little Princess .aboe water.
the ladies in waiting had many "For a distance of nearly 300 feet
fatiguing duties, and when all was the sea heaved and was lashed into
over this particular lady was glad foam. I think the lizard was fully
to make her way to her apartment the Mereddio's length, and I feared
for much needed rest and a chat for the safety' of the steamship as
with the friend who had came to the creature, mailed in huge, bony
see her. scales of a dark green color, swerv-
Just as they had settled clown ed as if to come alongside, It had
along same a messenger from the a sawlike ridge on its back and its
Czar. "Would the Princess come at girth was fully as great as that of
ones and play tennis with his a whale.
Majesty 7" After the serpent had ,seed the
ship several minute-
"No," said the lady in waiting tes it humped its
calmly to the amazement of her lack and sounded. The awash from
friend, "I am too tired after the uta, commotion shook the ship and
day's duties." sent spray over the starboard rail.
That message w es taken to the I have followed the sea many
Emperor, who apparently did not years and, mind you, I am not gi o
in the least resent rt, en re fancies. That creature r•e so
The days when the Czar tool: rmnressed me that I entered the in-
cident in the scrap log, and later
pleasure in `simple' fun are past. n,acle a permanent record of 11."
Now it is sscion]t to rouse him from The Mereddio's crew substantiate
the demnesnce which has sei,Lled Officer Murray,while the Greek
upon hire since the Cear•ina's health quartermaster admits he did not
has given away. recover from the shock for several
A PLAIN DRESSER, days.
The Empress, true to her English
blood, is bringing up her children
in English fashion, with the simpl-
est of diet and the plainest of dress.
She herself, despite the luxury and
richness of lt•ussian fashions, favors
plain tailor made gowns and only
wears her gorgeous jewels 15115I1
state occasions deemed. To see
"Tour honor," said a lawyer to
the judge, "every man who know
Ina knows that 7 am incapable n
Lending myself to a mean cause.'
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lz'srnrd gsul,lrnuun ,ever lends him
',all' to at moon muse ; br always get
case down,!
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISL.
NEWS DI NAIL FROM JRI1»
LINl)'S SHORES,
happenings in the Emerald Idle 08:
luterest to Irish..
loon.
A farmer ,named Mark Connetty
was hob dead in the townland of.
lil'upg, Go. Cavan.'
A dew fishing industry has been
established on Lower Lough iErnei-
,vhere pollau are abundant.,
A silver Elizabethan coin of 1,501,
was recently,discovered in a field.
at Stonepark, Co, ltuscominon,
A pike weighing 41 pounds was.,
sought recently on a set -line on the,
ixartylough shore of Arva Lake, Go.
Cavan.
A serious fire broke out in Lurgan
recently, which practically wiped.
out the remains of what may be des
-
eared es Old Lurgan.
The death of "Jim" Connell, who'
was one of the prominent figures•
en the '07 rising, took plaee recent
ly at Millstreet, Co., Cork.
' An old man wlio died in tht Ennis.
:ellen Workhouse Hospital recently
had a deposit receipt for over $500,
and a gold watch in his possession,
John McCluskey, Limavady, who.
recently purchased at a cost of al-
most $10,000 Major Boyle's Mar-
kets, is about to make some exten
sive improvements.
A riotous reception was accord-.
ed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin,
to the invasion play "An English-
man's Home," when produced for
the first time in Ir,,,and.
Stouppe Maginnis, the rate col-
lector for Belfast Corporation, who
absconded in 3907 with a sum or
money, was apprehended in Man -
.:heater, England, recently.
Waterford Shirt and Collar Fac-
tory which has been idle for some -
eine, has been re -opened under new
management, and a largo number -
of hands are employed.
The English postal authorities•
have refused to accede to the re-
quest of the Carlow Urban Conn-
ell to build a new post office build-
ing in the town of Carlow.
Belfast house property is at Ines -
:int at a discount. Sixteen houses•
in a populous working-class district•
were put up for public auction on-
_. -ay 8, and fetched $925.
Derry Harbor Board have again-
iommenced dredging operations,
the cost oeing estimated at $10,000,
Operations began at Ture and wily
. ontinue to Redcastle, and finally
Clooney Bank.
A New York firm recently placed
en order for a quantity of lace cost-
ing about 85,100, and intimated that
further orders would be forthcom-
ing later on.
James Hancock, a Crimean vet-
eran, died in his 80th year at
Newry, County Down. He was in
receipt of au old age pension, and
was taken suddenly ill while on his
way to the post office to draw'` it.
A sentence of a month's impris-
onment was imposed at WateiCord
Petty tlessions, recently, on a -wo-
man named Johanna Morristal, who
was alleged to have made a false
statement in order to obtain an old
age pension.
A terrible double murder was
perpetrated at Draperstown, Coun-
ty Derry, the victims being Ellen
Grill and her infant. The body of
the child was found in a field, and
the dead woman in her house not
far away.
The Limerick No. 2 District Coun-
cil have adopted a resolution in
favor of building a bridge over the
Shannon at Castleconnell, the ex-
penditure, estimated at some $60,-
000 to be borne as a charge on the
counties of Limerick and Clare.
BANISHIN G TRE MOTORS.
Ruled Out of Ilyde Pales, London,
During Part of the Day.
The rule that no motors should
;invade the precincts of London's
Hyde Park during the early hours
of the afternoon and evening is now
in full force. It makes a big dif-
ference in the appearance of the
purl..
Informer times, not so very re -
moth either, every fine afternoon
in the season saw two solid lines of
carriages stretched from near the
Albert Memorial by way of Hyde
Park Corner to the Marble Arch
and back again. Between these
serried' ranks the Queen used to
dr ivo, preceded by a mounted po-
liceman. Every ono was attired in
his bravest and best; in fact the
whole scene, backed by the green
rf the park and the brightness of
the flowers, was quite a kaleida
scope of shifting color. This is all
changed since motors have come
in, and 11201e especially during the
hours they are excluded from the
park. '•.f walked through a clay or
two ago,•' says a writer in the
Gentlewoman, "land found a few
rather forlorn looking broughams
and victnrine trotting Trp and down
in a leisurely manner, bet of crowd -
1 ranks or fine folks in Inccar-
cc r rules
rages there was stone. The anise-
m gtuanco is that the streets c=loser by
eec se blacked with motors and
s taxis that they are practically im-
t passable fur, any one in a hurry,"
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