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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-7-29, Page 2SAILORS ARE KEPT BUSY ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING RY MEN ON BATTLESHIPS. • Britain's Pride Keeps )ten Huey All the Tiiiru—All Manes Find Plenty to Do. "How many men 'are there on board that ship?" was a question recently asked of the representa- tive of the London Globe, His'in- terlocutor pointed to a first-class battleship lying at smelter in a bay ou the Irish coast, "Counting everybody, officers and men, some seven hundred and fifty," was the answer, "Then 'what," continued this man of the inquiring turn of mind, "on earth can they find to do all day long; do they sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for an enemy to come along with whom they can fight?" The man who asked for this information was merely typical of other "shore -go- ing" persons, who naturally enough, consider that seven hun- dred and fifty men confined in a space of roughly .440 feet in length, 85 feet in breadth, and 9 feet in depth, must be principally employ- ed in falling over one another ; they do, but it is in their anxiety to get on with the next job. THE CALIBRATING RANGE, There, on the southern coast of Ireland, where the land stretches league -long fingers into the sea, and where the sea has eaten its way in the course of the countless ages deep into the heart of the land, is the calibrating range, situ- ated at the head of one of these bays. Calibration may be shortly described as the means used by the modern naval artillerist to sight his guns, so that when the sights are fixed for a certain range and the guns are fared, the projectiles from each separate gun will strike the same identical spot; in the ver- nacular of "the man in the street," this "takes a. bit of doing" ; but, • like most other things committed to the hands of the navy, it is done and done well. Also, it is one of those things which prevent much twiddling of thumbs on board. Blessed is the sound of "the eight hours day" to the trade union agi- tator and persons whose principal preoccupation is to do no work at all; such folk had better steer clear of th.e modern navy, where strenuousness is the note all the time, and where, strange as it may seem, no one seems the worse for this upsetting of a cherished theory, that no one should work for a longer period than that hal- lowed by the conditions of those just mentioned. On board a bat- tleship the work is done when it is finished, no sooner and no later, and the great difficulty is to find sufficient time in which to do all that has to be done. SUB -CALIBRE FIRING. At 5 a.m. the hands were turned up, at a quarter to 0 the great gray battleship had dragged her six -and - a -half ton anchor from its muddy hold, and was steaming down the bay, while yet the mists of the morning floated in pale blue wreath over the hills, now turning from black to orange -tawny in the light of the morning sun; present- ly it was full daylight, cold and clear with the promise of a lovely spring day in the air, but condi- tions were, not exactly as could have been wished by those respon- sible, as half way down the bay her forefoot was lifting perceptibly to the tilt of .an incoming swell. Outside the wind blew keen and fresh from the west-northwest, and in from the broad Atlantic came in rythmic succession those great rollers which may be the heralds cf the coming storm or the belated battalions of one that has past. The target, a small wooden plat- fcrm with two upright posts upon it, to which, by the four corners, was secured a scrap of red hacking, some three feet by two feet, was swung over the side, and from this ridiculous contraption the great ship • steamed solemnly away. The firing was what is known as sub, calibre, which means that a three - pounder or six -pounded is fixed in the axial line of a twelve -inch gun (the projectile of which weighs 850 pounds) or a 9.2 gun (projectile 550 pounds), and that while the actual big gun is pointed and aimed the e shot which is fired is the inexpen- sive three or six-pouiul one. THIRTEEN HOG11t1' WORK. For all her 16,000 tens, the swell had gat hold of the ship, and there was what is known as "a good deal of motion" ; but this had no effect upon the carrying out of the prac- tice ; hour after hour the vessel circled around this absurd scrap like a red pocket -handkerchief, which half the time was invisible between the crests of the waves, and the tong lean guns spat their tiny peoJectiles far across the in- tervening waste. Four miles to leeward the sea smoked and banged and shattered itself on the shores of this iron -bound coast, for the march of the relieve etayed not, nt all during the spell of the sub -cali- bre practi'o. "Cease sire sound- ed, the ship headed for the target, and its possible three shillings and sixpence worth of wood and can- vas was carefully picked up, fox the navy is very eoonomioal, but with this overture of five or six hour's the days' work had begun, There were torpedoes to he run, but torpedoes have to be peeked up, and for this a steamboat is neves- nary, ana you cannot hoist out a steamboat weighing Afteon tons in a heavy awoll; so the ship's bead was •pointed , shoreward, and she steamed right to the head of the bay again before it bosenie sufiaei- eutly smooth for the boat to be hoisted out, All the afternoon in the .00niparati.vely smooth water within the confines of the bay the ship ran backwards and forwards, while the torpedoes sped to their far distant mark, to be "fielded" by the steamboat and returned and hoisted in; the day changed to vic- ious squalls and peeling rain, but the only .notice vouchsafed to the weather is when it actually inter- feres with work to be done. At 0.30 p.m„ some thirteen hours al- ter she 'started, the ship was at rest again with her anchor down; the ship rested, but those in au- thority were conferring over the programme which they desired to carry out on the following day; the burden of their song was, "So muoh to do and so little time in which to do it." Seven hundred and fifty men had put in •a thirteen hours' day; the only cause for com- plaint seemed to be that days wore not forty-eight hours long, so that they could really and truly do a satisfactory job. The navy costs . lot of money, but it certainly works hard. AN EXPLORER'S HARDSHIPS. Persevered Under Misfortunes and D iflicidties. Samuel Rearms first entered the employment of the Hudson Bay Company as mater of one of the sloops trading with the Eskimos. Afterward the information that he acquired in this way was turned to good account in his explorations. He was still a young man, writes L J. Burpee in "The Sarch for the Western Sea," when he set forth on the expedition which was to make his name famous—the discov- ery of the Coppermine River. Hearne encountered many misfor- tunes. His second' journey had to. be abandoned because of the loss of the quadrant, "which had been up • ward of thirty years at the fort," the only instrument he could ob- tain, followed the example of its predecessor. "I cannot," says Hearne, "suf- ficiently lament the loss of my quad- rant, as the want of it must ren- der the course of my journey very uncertain." While at Great Slave Lake his watch stopped,which added great- ly to his misfortune,. as he was now deprived of every means of estimat- ing distances with any degree of accuracy. Nevertheless, he added materially to the geography of the far north, and it is still a fact that Hearne is the only authority for the to- pography of much of that unexplor- so part of Canada. Most import- ant of all, his expedition paved the way to further exploration toward the west and north, by showing that a man possessed of sufficient perseverance and endurance can safely penetrate every quarter of the unknown west. WHEN QUEENS WOULD WED. Must Make Proposal—Always Leap Year for Royal Family. When a reigning Queen is to be married she must be the one to broach the subject first to her future consort. The same rule holds good with regard to all royal ladies who marry commoners. The late Queen Victoria has told how she managed to "put the ques- tion" to Prince Albert—bow she first showed him Windsor and its beauties, and the distant landscape, and then said: "All this may be yours." The Queen of Holland on a like occasion, simply sent a eprig of white heather, bagging Prince Henry to look out its meaning in a book of flowers and their meanings. The Duchess of Argyll took the foI- lowing means of proposing to the Marquis of Lorne. She was about to attend a State »a:il, and gave it out that she would choose as her partner for the first dance the man she intended to honor. She selected the marquis, who subsequently be- came bet' husband. But perhaps the most interesting of all ways chosen was that of the Duchess of rife, She took the earl, as he then was, to a drawer, and showed him its contents. There he saw a number of trifles he had given her at different times, including several flowers, now dead, he had picked for her at various times. Ho was much impressed at the sight, nor slid it require words on her part to make her moaning plain. WORST. "So your marriage was a fail- HE PASSED. UN' {" said the sympathetic athetir, friend. , where nerves are r ery, had, got el �t r P, i ti n thlc frt;;hi, but the Kaiser r.. ! ,budge: --"You are a freeholder 1„ "Worth than that, answered the 1 t' . 1 'k for '1''lnaird he ulwa3v cuirirtl it t.e no 1 Talesman--"I'es.. sir'; I am,'' Thai the ('xni danger i5 oro ,t � ''liarri,•<I three. years lust Juno. men who win KINGS' LIVES IN DANGER RULERS UNDEER SENTENCE 011' O DATIL "Uttoasy Lies the 111cad That Wears a Oreeel"--1u Pear of ASsaSeination. At the preseut moment there are a number o£ well -know people who move about,, apparently free and without restraint, but who none the less are under sentence of death, a sentence that may' be carried out any minute of the day or night. The Spanish Minister at Berne has notified .his Geese -merit that at a secret meeting of Anarchists, held at Geneva both King Alfonso and his Primo Minister were form- ally condemned to death, and that executioners were chosen, King Alfonso has quite made up his mind that one day or other he will be assassinated, So strong is his conviction that he has become indifferent to danger, as was proved by his foolhardy, but courageous, visit to Barcelona, whioh swarms with adherents of the three great parties that have sworn to have his life—the Anarchists, the Cas'lists, and the Republicans. However, he took one wise pre- caution when be persuaded Inspec for Arrow, late of Scotland Yard, London, to go to Spain to reorgan- ize the detective forces of his king- dom. Te has hitherto escaped scath- less from several determined- at- tempts on his life, but he is fully aware that to -morrow he may meet a more skilful assassin—and THAT WILL BE THE END. His young neighbor, King Manu- el of Portugal, is in a similar situ- ation. Queen. Amalie has bees warned that, if she wishes to save her son's life, the only means is to take him out of the country. If confirmation of the danger were needed. it was found in the diseov ery of a bogus sentry in the Neon sidades Palace. The young King was crossing the Palace courtyard when he noticed a strange awkwardness in the son - ,try's salute. The officer of the guard was summoned, and inqu ry brought to light the fact that the sentry was not a soldier at all. ales rest of the garrison denied all know ledge of the man, who he was, where he carne from, or how he had been allowed to mount guard in the Palace. The man could give no satisfac- tory account of himself. Still more ,alarming, it. was discovered that be belonged to the Society of the Black Cross, two members of which were concerned in the murder of King Carlos and his son, the Crown Prince. The discovery caused something like a panic in the Palace, and trustworthy sentries were posted in all the principal corridors. KING PETER OF SEBVIA has recently been warned that his life is in the greatest danger. Some of the warnings have appeared bold - 13 in the newspapers. The Pravda has informed him that "it is better to lose a crown by itself than lose a head with a." But what King Peter expect? There is no doubt be knew that, King Alexander and Queen Drags had been, in their turn, condemned tic death, for the blood of the mur- dered monarchs was scarcely co13 when the present King was tearing across Europe to make a despsr ate grab at the blood-stained seep ire. But of all the monarchs in Europ i no ono is in such dire peril as the Czar of all the Russias. Evoryooe in Russia is "suspect," from the. common people and the troops to the Palace officials and the Czar's personal friends. And with good reason. A few months ago the Czariaa found a letter on the bed of the Czarevitch. She opened it, and found it contained a death war- rant, condemning not only the Czar, but also the unhappy little Czarevitch. How the letter got there was a mystery. About the same time a frightful story came from St. Petersburg. It r,'as saki that one morning, when the nurse was about to give the Czarevitch his bath the Czari.ra was warned that the woman intend rd to kill the child. It was found that the bath water had been HEATED TO BOILING POINT, enol the Czarina was just in time t.e save her child's life, The contrast between the 'Kaiser. and the Czar in this respect is ra- ther remarkable. Tho latter sur- rounds himself with guards an 1 seems to have sunk into a pathetic indifference. The Kaiser hates to think anybody is looking after him, and his guards have a very trying time. The last time the two monarchs met in the Baltic the Kaiser, it p ,t ling out his handkerchief, dragg ,c ont a revolver, which clattered on the clerk of the yacht. The Czar, 'Rhe precautions taken to safe guard hire are extraordinarily al - borate, and sometimes amusi;nng. On one <evasion a gel -Woman went to the Winter Pelee() in response es an invitation frons, the l,rnpo"or himself.' ,lie was conducted frr'n room to Toone and, after belle carefully searehest, was at last per- mftted to speak to the Enapeeer through the telephone l--Pearsoxi s Weekly. MUMMIES TAKE REVENGE. If1-Luck Dogs the Custodians of '1'heee llelios. Various theories have been put forward to aceonint for the decline of the Crystal PaJace, London, in popular favor•, but tlire most curi- ous of tlieni all is that advanced by Golub Shah, the Afghan, who has recently opened au Indian restau- rant in. London. He asserts that the building lies. under a curse, Because the mum- mies, rifled from the temple -tombs of. Egypt, were first brought: the and exhibited, . "Send all. your mummies back to the land of the Pharaohs," he says in effect, "and Fortune will once more smile on your Palace." The idea savors of the Orient, and': of Oriental superstition. Nev- ertheless, it is not to be denied that ill -luck has frequently dogged tine. custodians of those somewhatgrue- some relics, It is, for instance, a fact that cur- tain of the British Museum mum- mies have been quietly'removed, owing 10 the pernicious infiuenco their presence exercised upon the attendants and others. One murn- mied lady in particular caused a mysterious blighting illness to grip bold upon anyone who approached her too closely. Then there is the well-known case of .Franz Hentsch, the famous Ger- man Egyptologist, who died sudden ly some time back, soon after un- rolling a mummy, supposed to .be that. of Sebekhotep VI,, one of the Iiyksos or Shepherd Kings, On examination of the wrappings, a cuniform inscription came to light which, when translated, proved to he a solemn and very comprehen- sive form of curse upon anyone in- terfering in any way with the corpse. Nor .does this particular case standalone. It is only fair to say, however, that medical science supplies an explanation of these somewhat dis- quieting phenomena. These mummies, say the doctors, have, ere leaving Egypt, passed through many hands, in a commu- nity where plague, eholera, and other deadly diseases are always more or less rife. It would be extraordinary, there- fore, they point out, if the wrap- pings did not occasionally carry the germs with them, and these germs would .naturally be disturbed by the unrolling, to the detriment of the "timelier." MAN WHO STOLE MILLIONS. Napoleon of the Criminal World Left Fortune of '$115,000. Adam Worth, the Napoleon of the criminal world, did not die so bad- ly off after all, for his will, which was proved the other day, showed frim to have been possessed of real and personal estate worth.$ti5,0u1. This, however, was but an insig- nificant fraction of what he actu- ally stole during his long life of crime. He was never caught, and upon only one of his many robber- ies did he fail to realize. This one was the theft of the famous Gainsborough picture, for which Mr. Agnew had just given $50,000. He kept it fur twenty-five years; and then surrendered it to its law- ful owners, without receiving any monetary consideration whatever. He himself put clown the amount of his depredations at $5,000,000. But Scotland Yard says this esti- mate is far too modest a one, and points out that several of his big- gest "jobs" brought him in $250,- 000 to $500,000 apiece. Jewels were his specialty, and he was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for most of the big rob- beries in that line which took place within the last thirty years pre- ceding his death. His methods were, as various as they were ingenious. For example, on one occasion he walked out of a bank with $175,- 000 worth of trinkets belonging to a well-known actress, getting posses- cion of them by the simple cxpedi• ant of presenting a forged order for their delivery. His most sensational coup, how- ever, was his theft of $450,000 worth e: diamonds belonging to the pro- prietors of the Kimberley mines, He. paid several visits to South Africa to prepare the ground, and spent over $150,000 while there with the same object. As a result, no single detail of his carefully laid plans miscarried. He even succeeded in selling the stolen gems to their law - fel owners in Hatton Garden, ,with - cut incurring suspicion, u a c lee „ , al.linony; ''it was bankruptry.,, tent teasel? in ease of danger. )tfarric•cl of sasgle'' rani may he hath mtrt fi•„in the 1'n t i eli•aye you farmed or expressed The enhque ns Teti',,, that “fie -1. the lweinian+,n h:5' any opinion?" uses won't 1"e" is a lYil4 fi,r,:reeF •.life that] teat est any eller ( "bot for three ;;ears, your f I speech. tt,lebr1Lcd person. honor.„ - AREAL TRAGEDY QUEEN IT IS THE •BOW:A.QEIt IMPRESS OF RUSSIA, Sister of (lticcn Alexandra of Eng., laud Has Sulferotl hl uuh. • No other royal lady in Europe bas more claim to the title "A Queen el Tears” than the Dowager Em- press of Russia, and the brightest mons,ents of her life now are during her yearly visits to England as the guest of her sister, Queen Alexan- dra,. She was lithe more than a child when she became betrothed to the 'then' Orazovibch, bub before the marriage could take place her fi- ancee was stricken down with a mortal illness, Ho summemed the Princess and hie younger brother. to his bedside. "Marry her," he said to his bro-' ther, joining their rands. "It is sny dying request, And you, my dearest, you will be Empress of Russia all the same. Your destiny will be accomplished." A few years after this marriage had taken place, her father-in-Iaw, the Emperor Alexander II„ was blown' almost to pieces in the streets of St. Petersburg. This hor- rible tragedy brought homer to her the daily, almost hourly, danger in which she and her husband 'lived. She resolved, therefore, never to. now her husband to appear in public if she could possibly help it without being• HERSELF AT HIS SIDE. She felt that her best way of shield- ing him from assassination was to give him the protection of her pre- sence, And, indeed, she is regarded with superstitious' reverence by the Rus- sians. Many of the poorer classes are firmly convinced that she is sur- rounded by a host of guardian an- gels, and slip has been spoken es as "The Bomb -proof Empress." Al her' - coronation tears • and laughter wore curiously mingled. When she had had the crown placed On her head, the Emperor, unable to restrain his emotion, raised her from the cushion on which she knelt and pressed her to his heart. Count Pa•lilen, the Grand Master of Ceremonies, was horrified. He hur- ried towards the imperial pair with an agonized cry: "Sire, Sire, that is not in the ceremonial 1" The Emperor's nerves had been so shattered and his health so un- dermined by the shock of his fa- ther's assassination that his 'reign was practically a slow death. Tho unhappy Empress was in despair. Hoping that a change. of air night do good she hurried her husband off to the Palace at Livadia, in the Crimea. At the same time arrangements were hastened for the betrothal of the still unmarried Czarevitch Nicholas. The Princess Alic of Hesse was chosen as the future Empress, and a few days after the dying Emperor had received her, he breathed his last, and the bravo Empress was a widow. THE NEXT GREAT HORROR that engulfed her took place at the coronation of her son, the present Emperor Nicholas. An imperial dole of food was to be distributed amongst the poorer classes of Mos- cow, where .the coronation took, place. Eager crowds began to as- semble the previous night on the Khodinsky Plain, By the next. morning the crowds had assumed enormous proportions, and through the broken ground and the faulty arrangements they became uncon- trollable and a great panic ensued. Nearly fifteen hundred people were. crushed to death and many hun- dreds were injured. The Dowager Empress,as she had now become, hurried from the coro- nation festivities and went round the different hospitals to relieve, by her charity and gentleness, the sufferings of the victims of this aw- ful calamity. On the same evening a much - talked -of hall took place at the French Embassy and, instead of re- questing that it should be post- poned, the new Emperor and Em- press attended in full state. This callous indifference made them vary unpopular, while the tender care the Dowager Empress took of the survivors produced upon the Rus- sian nation a great impression, She has now no fears for herself,. but few can know the agonies she wafers on- account of .het. son and his wife and their children. HIS BEAT. Hungry Higgins -"A woman gismo a hand out die leornin', den had de nerve t ask me t beat a Carpet for her." Dusty Doolittle—"Wot did your say1'' Hungry Higgins—"I tole her dat I wee orful sorry, but I was all tirod out from beatin' a railroad. ' Almost every day a man is com- pelled to submit to some injustice that he once declared he would never stand for, ENLISTING YOUNG MEN INGENIOUS. lli)t`T'Iif00S oli OB, T'AK'ING 1iEURUITS. Koons Adopted to Induce Thom to Defend the honor of Their • Country. 'During the Spanish-American War a eortain village in the West- ern States was enlisting volunteers; Out ,although many of them 05010 forward, some half-dozen young men who were physically fit, when Delved if they would join the party, hummed- and hawed, and finally made some flimsy excuse. There- upon, so disgusted were they at the young men's behaviours, six of the prettiest girls in the town promptly went in a body to the recruiting sergeant and, in spite of a1l pro- tests, insisted on being enrolled as volunteers, When the damsels ap- peared in martial array, and, as it seemed, bent upon seeing the thing through to a finish, the backsliders came sheepishly forward and asked to be al once enlisted. AN ENTERPRISING SERGEANT. On another occasion an enter- prising sergeant in the Indian Army obtained a number of recruits in a most ingenious way. Being very dissatisfied with the enlistments in his district during the few previ- ous months, and puzzled as to the best course to adopt, he heard by chance that a seance was about to be held one evening in the town hall. Secretly gaining 'admission untler cover of darkness, the ser- geant cried out in sepulchral tones, just at the "psychological moment," that all young men not thinking, of embracing a military career were about to be visited at regular inter- vals . by the unseen world. This done, he seated himself as quietly as possible amongst the audience. Needless to remark, the .whole of the next day the recruiting list swelled rapidly, greatly to the sat- isfaction of at-isfaction-of the officer ie charge. Again, several recruits were once obtained, in a curious :,way by a peppery 'Irishman, Aggravated at seeing to young fellows continu- ally passing his quarters without, apparetnly,'any, specific object, he one day hotly encountered the two and inquired of them why they slid not join the Army. Words led to blows, and a struggle ensued, the result being a severe flogging for both .the young gentlemen at the instance of the representative of His Majesty's forces. Bub, curl- misty enough, the unexpected hap- pened, for so impressed were the youths with the pugilistic skill and physical endurance displayed by the soldier that the following day they presented themselves for en- listment with a view to improving their methods of attack and self- defence respectively. As an out- come of this incident numerous eligible recruits from the surround- ing district, on 'hearing the tale, followed the example of their two acquaintances, WHAT A SPANISH MAIDEN.DID Not long ago a Spanish maiden,. with a view to stimulating re- cruiting in the army, promised to bestow a kiss upon each candidate for a military life. The lady,- how- ever, confronted with an -unexpect- ed difficulty, for the prospective volunteers argued that the favors were• divided, and some jealousy consequently ensued. But the. fair patriot was equal to the occasion, and thereupon gamely offered her hand in marriage to the first man who recruited a stated number of rank and file. The plan worked admirably, as many individuals were, of course, responsible for numerousbride. recruits without being lucky in obtaining the lady as a IN A LOCKED Youth held Prisoner in Private house for Two Years. A young man named Edward Loughnan, of Barrisoleigh, Eng- land, who has been missing for the last two years, has been discovered under strange circumstances con- cealed in a house in Limekiln Lane, nettles. His•mother, who is a small shop- keeper, had given up all hopes of teeing him again, as she believed him to be dead, When he disap- peared he was in business in Liver- pool, Recently the mother receiv- ed an anonymous letter, telling her that her sots was locked up in a room in a certain house in Thur - les; that he was in a helpless con- dition, having no clothes, and that rt would be necessary for her to bring the police with her to obtain his release. Mrs, Loughnan went to the house accompanied by two policemen, but the oc0upants de- nied that her son was there. The police insisted on searching the plaee1 and discovered the young man to a back room. lie was in a very omioated condition, and for two years was never out of doors. It is believed that the young man's mind is deranged, The if. fair hie caused a groat sensation iti the toga; •, 1100111. PAINTERS FOR SMOKERS I/OW TO GET ENDO .'11U NT 0117 OP T1011AGCQ, 'rhos* Who 86i010 Slowly Get More Pleasure Than by Smoke ing Rapidly. Of the several ways in which to bilges is used, the original one o smoking it in a pipeis undoubtedly i the least harmful, If it is not begun too early in life or carried bo an excess, it is perhaps difficult to prove that pipe- sinokiugg is injurious in any degree whatever, The best pipe is made of briar- root, with a short and straight, or very slightly curved, stem. The mouthpiece should be amber or ebonized gutta-percha, Such a pipe is easy to hold in the mouth, and does not interfere with read - leg.; When breaking -iii a new pipe, it should be filled with cold water for a moment or two before filling and lighting, This should bo repeated for half -a -dozen or more times, in order that the chat' shall begin to form without really burning the wood, It is not necessary or de- sirable to dry out the bowl before every , filling, but merely to turn (, out the water. A GREAT HINT. Another point about the treat- ment of a new pipe is not to smoke up all the tobacco until it is some- what seasoned. The weakest part of a pipe is the bottom of the bawl, and many old smokers make a practise of always leaving a pinch or so of tobacco unburnt in it.. When char begins to make the bowl of the pipe appreciably smal- ler it should be. cut out. If this is not done the difference in the con- traction and expansion of char and. of the wood will cause the bowl to split open. But care must be taken in cut- ting away the char not to remove it all. When it is cut too thin the wood will burn, and make the fact known in extreme cases by frequent cracking sounds. In such cases the breaking -in -process should be resorted to again. FOR CLEANING' PIPES. A long bradawl of medium sixe is the best implement with which to clean out the wooden part of a pipe - stem. When away from home a bit of steel wire of••the size used in nicking bicycle spokes will answer very well, It can be conveniently carried in a pencil -case alangsa le of a pencil. A straightened hair- pin will generally do in default of anything better. But the great point of all in pipe smoking is to learn to smoke slow ly. When this habitis acquired the full flavor of the tobacco wil always be enjoyed, every smoke will be a cool one, and tongue-buruing- will be unknown. It is, however, verybard for nervous people to smoke slowly. We know of cases where smokers have tried for years to cheek their smoking speed, without success. They probably did not begin to make the effort early enough in their smoking careers. WITH GOOD TOBACCO and a root pipe the slow smoker at- tains a degree of pleasurable en- joyment in smoking of which the rapid smoker has not an inkling. Perhaps all smokers do not know that it makes any difference in the Rave): of pipe tobacco how many times a pipe goes out. A cigar which is allowed to go out once has its flavor ruined, and is most appreciably termed a "butt," A pipe, however, tastes, if anything Letter for going Out. Fastidious smokers always have at least two : pipes at hand, and never fill one unless it has entirely cooled off. This isa help towards cool smoking and reasonable life in a pipe. A good test by which to tell if you are smoking too fast is to hold the bowl in your hand. It it is too hot to do so, then you may know that your speed is too great.—Lon- don Tit -Bits, BEAR CAME OFF VICTORIOUS. Fought Three Young Bulls and Carried n G One Off. • A large bear made its appearance ppearanee in, the pasture of Masahoro, Soyo, Kitami province, and attacked a three-year-old bull which was mil ,iching grass. The pari fought to the death—o.f the bull, says the J apan Advertiser. Two other brills which were sep- arately roamng about the pasture wore attracted by the struggle and as soon be their name was killed sprang upon the bear withtheir tee ited strength. A desperat fight ensued for somb time, but unfortunately .it resulted in the fall of the two revenging companions after having sustained severe wounds from the paws of the wild. animals. The triumphant c. monitor then took the first bull in his grip and disappeared: into the valley, leaving his telltale foot- prints in the soft earth. Some people's breakfast is a garb of cereal ataxy,