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The Brussels Post, 1910-7-7, Page 6IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY 1LAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL A.NA HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in the Land That o Reigns Supremo in the com- mercial, World, A new cot at the Charing Cross Ho pital, which was dedicated the other day, will be supported. by Bee Scouts.' A robin has built its nest on the drawba^k plate of a traction en- gine that is in constant use on a farm at Bounger, Essex. At Coelpit Heath, near Bristol, three deserted ehiekens are being well eared for by a oat, which is also rearing two kittens. Th. Queenonother will spend a good deal of time at Sandringham, where King George will take over the shooting and the farms. A pair of thrushes built their nest on the crown of a cabbage stump on an allotment at Tolworth. There were five eggs in the nest. The King has approved the re- eonstttutien of the Royal Commis- sion on Mines to inquire into the health and safety of the workers. The King's Arms Inn, Hilton, a famous fellside hostelry, situated on a spur of the Pennines, near Ap- pleh'• has been burnt down. A banker in the Army Servioe Corps named Joseph Andrews was overcome by the heat at Southsea, and diedwithin a few minutes. A street clock, bearing the words, "Votes for Women," in place of the hour numbers, has been put up at a shop in Charing Cross road, London. In honor of his golden wedding, Sir James Whitehead of Wilming- ton Manor, Dartford, Kent., has erected an institute for Wilming- ton working men. Several •acres of land near West- minster Oathedral have been se- cured by the Church Army for use as garden allotments by people liv- ing in the neighborhood. For stealing twenty-nine part- ridge eggs a woman was fined $10 at Hitchen Petty Sessions, Herta, yesterday. It is believed that the eggs are being sent abroad. Giving evidence at Clerkenwell, a detective said he asked the pris- oner how he came into possession of some trousers. "They've drop- ped from an airship," was the ao- eueed's reply. A skating rink and electric thea- tre was opened at Chichester re- cently. It is the first place of amusement the city has had since tho abolition of the old theatre more than half a century ago. Jou Linn, a Chinese lad, aged eleven, who stabbed a schoolfellow named Ernest Hart, aged thirteen, with a pen -knife during a game of football, was sentenced by Man- chester magistrates to four strokes of the birch. One of King Edward's last acts was to send £2 to Mrs. Keasley, a Galway peasant, who recently gave birth to triplets. A letter contain- ing the postal order was posted in London on May 6, a short time be- fcre the King's death. A pair of robins have built their nest and are rearing five young ones in a class room at a Dover school, where 40 to 50 children assemble doily. The birds show no sign of " fear while feeding their young in the presence of the class. The King has awarded the Ed- ward Medal of the Second Class to Mr E. Owen, Mr. E. Davies antd Mr. W. W. Turner, M.B., for bra- very after the explosion of coal dust on Oct. 29 at Darren Colliery, Deri, by which 27 uersons lost their lives. The Peva J. Birch Reynardson, rotor of Careby with Holywell. and Aunsby, South Lincolnshire, is probably one of the oldest benefic- ed clergymen in the country. He has been the incumbent for sixty- six years, and his life links back to the reign of George III. ABOUT ALUMINU1t. So Pliable That it Proves Useful Textile Material. Though aluminum takes first rank among metals for lightness, combin- ed with toughness and durability, it is hardly what one would expect r,> prove useful as a textile materi al, but the articles now made from it include neck -cloths, pompadoute, shoes, belts, neckties, shawls and hats. Straps and lacings for shoes areamong the newest productions Sieves or screens from aluminum have proven especially valuable in sugar -refining, as it quickly be• comes coated with acid, resisting oxide ; and it can be woven alone into fabric for other purposes. The best results, however, are obtained by employing the alumin- um yarn—smooth or twisted. -its warp, with colored silk threads for weft. When this cloth is made into cloaks or theatrical costumes, the effect is very striking, and the body of a beautiful woman is said to look as though dipped in silver. Febrios and cloths from glass and sink threads woven together at- tracted much attention whoa exhi- bited le Paris plane years air.•. FLOATING OVER LONDON ItED1ABRA.BLE /MIGHT OF BRITISH ARMY AIRSHIP.. Flow Ronald St. Paul's—Could Ea* it Have Made Trip of Y. 200 Miles. Theremarkable fii h flight over Lon- don of the British army airship Beta is described in a recent issue of The London Daily Mail, The Data, says the report, bas achiev- ed the finest night flight on any airship. At the trillion 'factory, ' upon Farnborough common, no one knew the day before, except the chief officers, that aflight to London was planned, Instructions were not issued to the men of the Royal En- gineers uptil late in the evening to low. Ab 2,000 feet above the ground make ready, and in consequence her engines would scarcely be, only a mens handful of spectators heard. "Even if a hostile airship was seen, a city would be powerless against it. At our army balloon factory they have contrived a para- chute device for the dropping of ex- plosives, by means of which the airship could .avoid all risk of being injured by the concussion from her own missiles bursting below her. CITIES' ONLY SAFEGUARD "The only safeguard for cities against attack by night -flying diri- gibles would be found in numerous searchlight stations. Even then, if an airship was discovered it is long odds against stopping her with gun - UP A THOUSAND FEET. ' fire. Remember, too, the Beta, which could have destroyed the cen- Up. in the car of the Beta only a t few lights were carried. A five- sly of London by small droppingr vessel candle-power electric glow lamp glycerine, slneecoulcl is leash do a journey was fixed above the maps of the , , y couetry to be crossed, while each; :'f 200 miles, the distance being lim- one of the crew had a little portable ` rte by her petrol -carrying cepa-. lump fastened in the lapel of his I city. The big dirigible—probably ccat, the better to be able to ex - she will be called the Stork—which, as Mr. Haldane mentioned, the amine the recording instruments, Steered by the line of the railway, l balloon factorywill construct will be able to cover upwards of 500 the Beta was soon above Woking, I miles in one flight. and here the shunters in the goods "Airship work for attacking an yard saw her above them, a faint enemy will, in future, he less den- dark shape with little stars of light, serous to the mon employed upon at the height of 1,000 feet. it than submarine naval work." A TRAIN BELOW. travelling towards them at high speed. She was'zuanoeuv.red round eine° and then floated to earth out - aide the shed, And so the Beta Dame home, looking at her own front door in the early morning af- ter a night of wandering over Lon - d0'. The actual time on the crow country journey of seventy miles was four hours, with a stop ov0 x Welting of half an hear. The great- ast speed reached was about twen- ty.five miles per hour. COULD HAVE DONE DAMAGE. It is easy to picture the destrue- tion that could have been wrought by the Beta sailing in the night over sleepiaa London, A military expert, in speaking of the lessons taught by the flight, said : "If the Beta had been a hostile airship she could have done enormous damage. She carried a small electric light, bus this could easily have been dis- p.'need with, and she could have been made quite invisible from bee was present to see the Beta towed nut of her shed at half -past eleven at night. Col. Copper, R. E., com- manding the army aeronautical see- tion, with Mr. T. Ridge, one of the civil heads of that department, and Lieutenant Waterlow, R. E., climb- ed aboard, and at 11.35 the Beta was set free. She rose quickly, and with her prow turned in the direc- tion of the railway at Farnborough Station, made off into the night: Within two minutes by the watch she was lost to sight. and a motor- ing party told off to follow, recog- nizing that the chase was futile, wont straight to London. s She hung above Woking for near- ly half an hour, with the propel- ler at first revolving slowly to keep her head to wind. Some little in- terruption had been discovered in the petrol feed of the engine, and this had to be remedied before the journey could be continued. Then she proceeded on her route, keeping the railway still below and meeting a soft night breeze that varied in force from five to ten miles an hour. Brooklands and its racing track was passed, with the aeroplane sheds in the centre, dark and deserted. Below sped a train, but neither engine -driver, guard, nor passenger caught a sight of the Beta, then about 800 feet up, and to the left of the line. _.1 WHY THE DOOR FELL IN. Traveler Tells of Poor Building in Inn of China. Some of the inns of modern China are badly built. The correspond- ent of the London Times in trav- eling across the country recently bad this experience: "At only one village had I any difficulty. We were marching late in the dark and I had sent my groom on ahead to find me an inn, as he had often done before. Ie entered the vil- lage and, finding the large inn door ciosed, he called out to tyre people to open it. But his Pekin speech is not easily understood in Kansa, The night, cloudy, was and no one answered him. Then he fairly light, and thoughg air oudf ewrs: knocked, and, to his dismay, the Y gg crazy door fell down. Immediately had no dofficulty in finding their there was a row. The innkeeper way, as they travelled along at and his vociferous spouse shouted out their wrongs. "Everyone came into the street to hear; the whole village was roused. When I arrived it seemed like a demonstration in my honor. As is my custom, a dozen people together told me what had happen - about eighteen 'miles an hour. Af- ter passing Walton Station the rail- rcad was left, and the river was crossed at Thames Ditton. AROUND ST. PAUL. The course steered took the diri- gible over Barnes and Putney, eel, I soon satisfied every one by where the river was followed to first examining the damage and Battersea. Over the park at Bat- tersea over Vauxhall, with Lambeth Palace on the left, the dirigible glided across St. George's circus, where two tramway men and an astonished policeman were startled. by the whirring note of the engine, and sighted the Beta. Again the Thames was crossed by Blackfriars, and half the journey was completed with a wide circle around St. Paul's, 1,200 feet up. The time then was 2.10 a.m., two hours and twenty-five minutes since the start, or about two hours, de - doting the time spent over Wok- ing. As meadowland in June is spangled with buttercups, so Lon- don, viewed by the crew of the Be- ta, was golden with myriad lights. 'Lights were everywhere, sunning on into distance that seemed inter- minable. After the circling of St. Paul's, Feet street, with its newspaper of- fices, received a visit from the Beta. Road men were sluicing the streets, and they heard, but did not see, the passing of the airship, and The noise from the sky was to them a mystery unexplained. then paying compensation in full. I paid 100 cash (rather more than 2 pence), and my generosity was approved. 'The structure thus damaged re- minded one of the jerry-built hous- es familiar to students in Edin- burgh, where it is on record that a lodger once complained to his land- lord that the ceiling in his room had fallen down. 'But how do you account for thatl' asked the land- lord. `Somebody in the next flat sneezed," replied the lodger." NOT A HEALTHY SIGN. Number of Paupers in England le ¥nereiislag. Tho number of unemployed and the extent of pauperism, according to figures being published in the English papers, is simply appalling, Oue person in every thirty-seven in. England Wales is a pauper, accord;. ing to statistics just issued by the Local Government Board. The year 1809 opened with just a little short of 1,000,000 persons in receipt of relief; an increase of 3.4 per cent. over the previous year. There were 145,785 able bodied paupers on January 1, 1909, this vast army of unproductive con- sumers having increased by 18,480 in twelve months. The number of able-bodied men relieved on ac- count of want of work or other teni- poraryceases increased during the same period by 133 per cent. The total number of persons supported or assisted by the community is the highest recorded since 1872, al- though calculated in relation to the increase of population the propor- tn n is lower. The number of casual paupers has inpreased by 75 per cent. since 1900. Sixteen million pounds is ex- pended annually by the poor law authorities, and the distribution of the local authorities has risen to X00,000,000; in London alone some 810,000,000 is expended every year on charity. The outlook for the coming win- ter lie re is admittedly worse than, last winter, when the authorities had to deal with a greaterextent of employment than in any year since the distress committees of the Lt.cal Government Board . took up the herculean task. During the winter of 1908-9 distress,, was twice as bad as in the preceding year, beth as regards the total number if applicants for work and the num- ber of applications entertained. One e every eighty-five persons in dis riets covered by Distress Commit- ,ees registered themselves as out of work last winter. The great major- ly of the applicants were under fifty years of age. LOPSIDED MEIN. Modern Methods are Ruining the Handicrafts. Sir Frederick Treves, among the most notable of English surgeons, declares that modern scientific and engineering discovery is playing the mischief with handicraft, once so greatly admired and so patiently trained for. "At the present time not a. year passes that does not ,.add some wonder to the list of things manu- factured. It must not be inferred from this that man as a master of handicraft is becoming every year n. s.e adept. Handicraftsmanship has a limitjust as there is a limit c' the power of vision and of hear- ing. Has that limit even now been oohed. or is it by any possibility d.clining? In response to the ques- tion, 'Are we losing the use of our heads?' I would venture an an- wer in the affirmative and say that we are." A machine shop of big equipmept strikes the layman with awe. He marvels at the skill which has built the mechanisms. Yet there are men working in many of these larg- er plants who are utterly lacking rn hancraft. Some can run a drill ',nese day after day and month af- ter month and never be able to sharpen the tools they use. They get them sharpened from a store- keeper and turn in the dull ones. Men week at lathes who wouldn't know how to go about it to make a cold chisel. Some labor at intri- cate machines at astonishing speed and with seemingly finely trained eyes, but shifted from that particu- lar work they are lost and bewil- dered. Industrialism is to be`blamed' for more than the ruin of handicraft. It has twisted good men and made broadm'nded men mentally narrow and lopsided. 0 MURDERERS MURDERED. Billed in a Cell by Their Prison Companion. Some age a whole family was murdered at Patchop, in the South- west of Russia. Two men named Glustor and Shmakhin were charg- ed with the crime, and, although protesting their innocence to the last, the former was hanged and the latter sentenced to a long term of hard labor. It was subeequently ascertained NIGHT OF WANDERING ENDED that they had been a miscarriage of justice, and the real murderers With the wind behind her, the were arrested and tried by court - Beta was travelling now much fes- martial at Chernigoff and con - tet, but never once were the en- gines, capable of thirty miles per hour, let "all out." Marble Arch was reached nine minutes after the turn at St. Paul's. From here the Bayswater road was followed. .All the way home the route was marked by the main road out of London the airship flying over Chiswick, Brentford, Hounslow, Staines, and Bagshot. At most of these places she was seen high up, but usually policemen wcro the only persons to obtain a view.. At 3.30 the engineers waiting by the balloon shed sighted the Beta self, demned to death. This occurred on May 26, and the three murderers were confined in Cheenigoff jail pending the execution of their sen- tence. Recently two of them wore found dead in their cell. They had been strangled by their companion with a twisted piece of linen. The three' btu] drawn lots as to which of them ebould kill the two ethers and then to an island for a definite time and fulfilled the first part of the bar- gain, but at the last . moment shrhnk from doing away with him - ACROSS OCEAN IN AIRSHIP, ,MADE I N CANADA. ?' YAL l .,CO.i 'fio7P' • ti's' r MOST. PERFECT MADE` Used in Canadian homes to produce delicious home -tread• bread. and a sup. ply is always included (in 9portsmens' and Dampers" Outfits. Decline all imitations. They never give satisfaction and,oaai ,taet as much. i'. E. W. CILLETT Winnipeg Toronto, Ont. Montreal i`• Ateerdrdhlafiahonors at.ell .r. hie. Er orlNsronr. `I p f• .,ti r%t mea It RaellanS OPIVAPOO1.0010MMISUM.P.111.4.4.0101•00MMINIINC.01•1•60/0 ',10111111.01•11W1111 ITALY WANTS NEW PENALTY, Penal Islands are Thronged With Convicts. Italy retains a special form of banishment introduced under the Roman Emperors -known as domicil ,' coatto, or coerced domicile. This punishment corresponds to the Ro- man deportatie in insulate, or de- portation to an island, and like it consists in criminals being confined to an insland fora definite time and enjoying within its limits personal SELBORNE'S DIPLOMACY 1116 WORK FOR SOU711AFRICA. WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. Reconoiling the Boer and the Briton: After the War was a Great Feat. William Maxwell, writing in the London Daily Mail, says: If Lord Selborne had been a soldier instead of a statesman his return from South Africa would have been marked by a great popular demon- stratiop. Yet'no soldier has fought a greater battle or won a greater victory. Five years ago, when he left the Admiralty to be High Commission- er for South Africa, Lord Selborne took upon himself a task that seemed hopeless. The Peace of Vereeniging, signed at Pretoria in 1902, had put an end to a three years' war and to the dream of the clfrikander, but it had left behind the bitterness of defeat and the de- sciation of war. What would Mr. Kruger have acid if he. had been told in 1899 that out of the smoul- dering ashes of the republics would rise within seven years a South Af rican Federation under the British flag. In his own character and conduct Lord Selborne found the key to a problem that had baffled the wis- dom of statesmen at home and in South Africa.. His long association with Mr. Chamberlain had con- vinced him that the root of the trouble was the DISTRUST OF THE BOERS. Lord Selborne set himself to re- move this apprehension by cultivat- ing the friendship of the Boers. He began by drawing together with so sial ties the leaders who for years had been at enmity and strife. When Sir Percy Fitzpatrick declar- ed the new constitution to be the finest in the world General Smuts remarked that to him much more wonderful than the constitution R- alf were the signature at the end of it. And General Smuts was right. For who, even three years ago, would have dreamed of find - ng on such a document the names of Dr. Jameson, who raided the Transvaal to overthrow the Repub- lic, and General Botha, who de- manded that Dr. Jameson should be shot as a freebooter, and had fought to the bitter end against tine British control. Tho recon- ciliation of these hostile and mas- terful elements is the work of Lord St.lborne. And he carried it far- ther and deeper, until it reached the heart of the people. Everybody knows the Boer farm- er's dislike of Government inter- ference and his suspicion of stran- gers. But even these ingrained piejudices gave way to the tact and friendliness of the High Commis- sioner. ommissioner. He was not content with issuing orders and signing papers in Pretoria. He sought the Boer farmers in their distant and isolat- ed homesteads, wandering through the land like their fathers, the vcrtrekers, seeking the kindly hos- pitality of their rooftree, EATING THEIR SIMPLE FOOD, Designer Says Distance Can be Made in Seventy-two Hours. s A trip from England to America by airship will be possible next year, and according to Baron 1 oenne, a Russian, and the design- er of the craft which is being built especially for trans-Atlantic travel, the'craft will negotiate the distance ie seventy-two hours. The new vessel is at present be- ing constructed about' ten miles outside of London, and a group of English financiers are back of the proposition. The craft will be a monster, and will be capable of carrying 38 tons with its own weight. It is to be.one thousand 'feet in length, sixty-five in diameter, and will be driven by sixteen propellers. It is to be a rigid dirgiblo with an outer cover of an alloy called ceronium, the surface of which is to be so prepared as 'to resemble a mirror. This is tobe the pioneer of a fleet of such British airships. In- fluential men are considering the formation of a company to promote the building of an aerial navy and the establishment of a passenger end mail service. drinking their black and sugarless ooflee, and even smoking their na- tive tobacco. He could have, chosen he surer way to the confidence of the people. And he completed their conquest when he discussed with the knowledge and sympathy cf a country gentleman the subjects close to the heart of the Boer fer- nier, his difficulties with his Kaffir laborers, and with; the locusts, and with all the plagues of uncontrolled nature. It was a great thing to have achieved this peaceful con- quest of the people and their lead- eas. But a not less difficult and deli- cate 'task remained. How to give permanent form to the victory; how to build on these broad foundations a Constitution that would withstand for all time the assaults of race pre- judices and bitter memories and ri- val 'interests: This was the great purpose of Lord Selborne, as it had boon the dream of Lord Milner, and Mr. Chamberlain, and of many who had tried before them and failed. The difficulties were tremendous. Through all the controversies about education, labor, railway rates, natives, oustones duties, and farmers' pests ran the same eter- aal principle; The country, des- tined by nature and fitted by popu- lation to be ono, clamored against the barriers of four separate States. Lord Selborne had resole- ed that before he abandoned his task these barriers should be over- thrown. His position made it im- possible for him to take the axe in his own hand. But at least HE COULD ARM ANOTHER. The moment came in 1900,. when Dr. Jameson inspired the famous de- spatch in which: Lord Selborne de- monstrated that the people of South Africa "are not self-governing in respect of South African affairs, because they have no South African Government with which to gov- ern." The story of the Federation is too fresh in the publicmemory to be retold here, How men and interests that had appeared irreconcilable became re- conciled and animated by a common patriotism is Inman to all men who have watched the growth of this miracle. But to the few only is known the great part played by I c rd Selborne—the tact and skill with which he used persuasion and pressure in private conferences with the delegates and the foresight. and common sense with which he overcame every obstacle. He leaves to South Africa a new and a price - lees legacy, and brings back to his own country a reputation for prac- tical statesmanship to which the names attached to the Federal con- stitution are convincing and amaz- ing testimony. PULLED UP FROM THAMES. Old Relic of Past in Shape of Anci- ent Barges At Westminster,, where the work of building the new County Hall is rapidly progressing, the black Thames mud has . yielded up an in- teresting relic of the past in the item of the remains of an ancient barge in an excellent state of pre servation. The first signs of the vessel were discovered last Febru- ary. and since that time the work of olearing away the slime in which it is embedded has been carefully proceeding. The work has disclos- ed'a boat eighteen feet wide by nearly forty feet long, solidly built of oak. There is no sign that any metal was used in its construction, and the planks, which are between two and three inches thick, are held together by stout wooden pegs. To the lay mind it appears pro- bable that the boat was abandoned after running on the Lambeth marshes, owing to bad steerman- ship or inthecourse of a raid, and that it gradually settled down in the mud. freedom. The penalty is generally resort, ed to in cases of Anarchists, cam- orrists and notorious criminals os persons whom it is expedient to re- mcve from large cities. Its use: has become so general that at present over 5,000 criminals are residing in the Islands of Pones, Ventotene, Lipari, Ustica, Lampedusa, Panto] loria, Favingnana and Tremiti. These isuands have practically be- et me inhabited exclusively by crim- inals. As they are allowed to mar- ry or at least go through a sem- blance of marriage, the islands are go thickly populated' that before long it will be impossible to find place for more criminals. Naturally the deported criminals do not lead an exemplary life and they bring up their children in such a way that sooner or later the chil- dren are bound to follow in their parents' footsteps. Thus the eight islands are aptly called incubators of criminality. An attempt is being made to abol- ish deportation and to substitute a. nen penalty, such; for instance, as agricultural colonies in malarial districts in order to reclaim barren land. It isunlikely that a substi- tute for deportation can be found unless deported criminals are sent to overcrowded prisons or are re- leased. SHAWL PIN IN HER THROAT. Removal of a shawl pin from the bronchial tube of a rwoman without'' tosorting to the use of the knife is bee most recent accomplishment of modern aurgory. This operation is told of in the current issue of the Lancet, the leading medical journal of Great Britain. To extract the pin the doctors used a pair of very delicate forceps and a large tube called the bronchoscope. They were both inserted down the patient's -throat, past the vocal cords into the windpipe, and then to one of The smeller .bronchial tubes before the pin was located. a The sinner is in no hurry to col- kct his wages. Life is short, but many people manage to outlive their usefulness. some of the No eel. Except ere Needed Dishes hot—food well cooked—kitchen cool. No underdone food no overheated kitchen in summer. Everything bot when wanted. Heat un- der perfect control and, concentrated. The blue flame is all heat—no smoke—no odor—no dirt. These are advantages in using the re, Faai+v 4� a� It has a Cabinet Top with shelf for keeping plates and food hot. Drop shelves for the coffee pot or saucepans, and nickeled towel racks. It has long turquoise -blue enamel chimneys. The nickel finish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, makes the stove very attractive and invites cleanliness. Made with 1, 2 and 3 burners ; the 2 and 3 -burner stoves can be had with or without Cabinet. 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