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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-1-19, Page 3MAW "Tor Tea You Can't -feat Lipton's" The Q,nly Genttino HAS This Signature ell. the package r�"meq gi'Vt4'.•'n ,:G; •2 ill% 14 "'"/ '..j I MERRY OLD ENGLAND :REP'S UT MAIL ABOtPI' JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. ;4useeronces In the Land That Reigns Supreme In the Com. mercial World. Two men were killed and two Madly injured by a fall of rock at Rotherham main colliery, Bother -ham, The Mansion House Fund for pre- siding a memorial in London to :King Edward now amounts to )221,500. Out of a gross water rental of 113,795,000 the Metropolitan Wa- -ler Board paid in rates and taxes last year $2,152,000. Weighing nearly 22 ewt., a fat bullock, sent by the king from his •Sandringham stock to the King's Lynn market, fetched $225. As an excuse for not paying & 'debt a man told the Registrar at :Bloomsbury County Court that he was suffering from "Cuba golosh- es." A'labarer walking home tierces 'fields neer Reading struck at what -he thaught was a hare crouching in She grass and killed a. 4=10. otter. It has been definitely decided to :Gold the Imperial Exhibition in London in 1915, and the Advisory .Dommittee is arranging a guaran- tee for organization expenses. Two persons from Wandsworth 'have been admitted to the Grove end Fountain Hospital of the Met- -rropolitan Asylums Beard suffering, It is believed, from spotted fever. The King has sent a letter of con ,Iratulation to an aged couple nam- ed - am -•td- Jones at Barton -on -Humber, who have just celebrated the sev- entieth anniversary of their wed - ling. Mr. Charles Addington, who has :been in the service of the Great Western Railway since 1876, has been appointed to succeed, Me, Jos- eph Morris as superintendent of the line. Judge Smiley, at Bow, made an .order against a married woman, who was sued for borrowed money, )o pay a debt of some $80 at the tate of 24 cents a month -an order which will extend over 25 years. The only occasion on which she -received medical attention was for e cold at the age of 22, was the evi- dence givn at a Wandsworth in - .attest on a widow, named Buck- land, aged 94, who died from heart failure.` Queen Alexandra is living very auietly at Sandringham, spending much time in the society of her :daughters, the Queen of Norway end Princess Victoria, and her ,grandchildren, Princess Mary and :Prince Olaf. Scaffolding is now being removed :from the 'British Museum exten- sion, and its imposing facade ex- posed to view. It . is anticipated :that the building will be practical- ity completed, except for the fit- tings, about` the middle of the sum - At an inquest at Tooting Bec ;Asylum on Eliza Collins, an in- mate, aged 79, it was stated that during October she slipped on a polished fano, and though she man- aged to walk for some time after- wards, her leg was subsequently found to be broken, Mr. Robert McVitie, of the firm of McVitie & Price, biscuit menu- Saoturers, who began his business :career as a baker in a small way, deft, in addition to real estate of an ,estimated value of about $20,000, `.personal estate valued at $1,157,- t70, Eight shillings have just been re- .reived by, the Alexandra Palace trustees, from a resident in Mel - :bourne, Australia, a letter explain - :Mg that the amount is double the scat of three books the writer bor- rowed from the Palace reading room about 1878, and failed to re - Mien, A REMARKABLE DREAM EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE AT A LONDON ENQUIRY. Saw a, Man With a , Sword, and Left. the Vessel at Durban as a Result. Those who hold that dreams sometimes have . significance will have their belief strengthened by the evidence given by one of the wit- nesses of the British Board of Trade enquiry into the loss of the steam- ship Waratah, now being held in London. In July, 1909, the Wara- tah disappeared somewhere be- tween Durban and Cape Town. while on a voyage from Melbourne to South African ports. She car- ried ninety-two passengers and a crew of 119, and not a trace of, any one of them has since come to light. Claude Sawyer, the witnessin question, told how he booked a passage aboard the Waratah from Melbourne to Cape Town. ' Soon after the voyage began the behav- ior of the ship raised doubts in his. mind as to her stability. She wob- bled about a good deal, LISTED TO STARBOARD and took a long time to right her- self. He had already made up his mind to quit the ship at Durban, the first port of call, when his F•er- turbation was increased by a dream he had one morning. In describing this dream the wit- ness said,• "An extraordinary fig- ure, dressecb as I have never seen anybody dressed before, came into my cabin and stood before me bran- dishing a blood-stained sword. It vanished and appeared again—and again for the third time. Each time it was exactly the same, and I took particular note of it and its extraordinary dress and the sword all covered with blood. "In the saloon at tea -time I told my dream toone of the ladies and asked her if she could interpret it. She replied that seeing a sword in a dream MEANT A WARNING and this strengthened my resolve to leave the ship at the first oint she touched. I' attempted to persuade two ladies—Mrs. and Mrs. Hay to leave also when we arrived at'. Durban, but as my protestations caused something of a squabble be- tween mother and daughter, I said no more about it and they went on. "A second dream followed after this a few days before we arrived in Durban. I thought I saw from a distance the whole ship riding in a rough sea. Two huge waves dash- ed over her. Then a third rolled up bigger than ever, and the Waratah turned over and disappeared for eves. "When .I arrived in Durban I took a ricksha to the Marine. Hotel, and from the balcony there on a perfectly calm evening I watched the Waratah's light disappear over the horizon as she steamed away." That was the last that was seen of the Waratah from land. T 4. IMPROVING THE CAMERA. German Invention Prevents Waste of Plates. A new German camera comprises number of new features. When. the box is opened` the lens spring instantly to universal focus and the camera is ready for exposure. The plate drops down from the magaz- ine before the shutter moves and is returned to the magazine again after exposure, The plates are numbered auto- matically as they are exposed so that they can be identified during development and afterward, and thereis no danger of developing' an ' unexpected plate, nor can plates be Crested by forgetting to. expose or uninteni:ionally drawing the slide when the Ions is uncover- ed, 1 urthermore, if the operator has forgotten to wind the shutter or draw the slide, the camera be- comes inoperative until these are attended to,' -t 4 Why let that headache spoil your day's work er *satire? Take 25o. a Boz at your druegbl'ts CuArahteed to'neatatn no morphine opium or ofhe hp 0p e atloesi nee set etie issi Com icor of Moeda. 1.kelm�, r : ems. LONDON'S UNRRMED GODS THEY 00 NOT CARRY PISTOLS; ALIEN CRIMINALS »o . A. Romana That the Policemen Shall Be Supplied With_ Revolvers. Recently . a Loader! (England) policeman, suspecting that some- thing was wrong in a small Hounds- diteh house witch backed on a large jewelry store, went for helps In a few moments he had coltectod four other policemen, two of them plainclosees.Dien, In answer to their knock the door was opened and the policemen, who were armed only with' their truncheons, were received with a fueilado from auto- matic revolvers. One fell dead on the spot, two died shortly after- ward and two others were badly wounded, One of those killed was wounded by eight bullets. The mur- derers, four men and a woman, got away. All four wore Russian aliens. Last year two armed men in broad daylight attempted to seize a bag of gold outside a Tottenham rubber factory. Foiled in the at- tempt they rushed off pursued by police and civilians, at whom they kept up a running revolver fire. In a few minutes a policeman and a boy LAY DEAD ON THE ROAD. Eventually the fugitive boarded a tram and compelled the driver with a revolver held to hist head to drive on, After a time they left the tram, and one of them, having only one cartridge left, was corner- ed and shot himself. The other was brought to bay in a cottage, and was eventually shot dead by a policemen with a rifle brought along by a Volunteer. The desper- adoes were found to be Russian physical force anarchists. Alto- gether three persons were killed. and twenty-two wounded in .the pursuit. These two outrages have had the natural result of calling forth a de- mand from public and press that in future the London police should carry revolvers when on duty, es- pecially in parts of London known to be the resort of dangerous for- eign criminals. They have also caused an agitation for more strin- gent application of the foreign im- migration regulations, which at present are practically a dead let- ter. THE ENGLISH, CRIMINAL very rarely resists arrest with vin- fence. If he sees a fair chance of getting away by doing so he may use his hands and feet, or perhaps a stick or a jimmy. But he seldom carries or uses ee gun. More often than not he goes away quietly with his captors. ,But the foreign crim- inal, it is pointed out, carries a revolver, knows how to use it and does use it. In Paris, every policeman -ex- cept those engaged in regulating traffic, carries a loaded revolver and a sabre. Every member of the Berlin police force carries asword and an automatic pistol. Inthe west end of Berlin they do not as a rulewear their revolvers in the day, but always at night, and the sword is never discarded, In St. Petersburg the police car- ry mauser automatic pistols- in wooden cases, which can be con- verted into stocks, making a pistol a repeating rifle, The police of Vi menu, carry revolvers and sabres, in New York they carry: revolvers, and in Rome revolvers and sword bay- onets. It is nevertheless unlikely that the London police will be armed with anything 'beyond their 18 inch truncheons, carried in the coat tail pocket and seldom used. The view generally held by the chiefs of the police .forces in England is that it would be undesirable to serve out revolvers or any arms to the forces as a whole. ONE CHIEF OFFICER. explains that some revolvers are kept at most police stations, and if a constable is sent to arrest a;man known to be dangerous he may if he likes to apply for one and has had revolver practice go armed to his job, This regulation is of no help in a sudden emergency; but as another high official explained, "That is a risk a man must take if lie zeins the force." This same official pointed out that it mfgnt be dangerous to the public if the police carried revolvers, that tn any case the men would have to e instructed and have practice in the use of the weapon --the argu- ment apparently' being that this would cost too much time mad'mon- ey—and that the occasions on which revolver We necessary were very few. It mast be added that the pollee themselves as a whole do riot favor. the carrying of revolvers by the whole forcer At most some of them advocate the :arming of a few of the older and most experienced men who have been trained in the use of ifrarms. Raw ' potato dipped .in hate -brick will remove stains on knife -blades and other steel articles,' r' ALL EUROPE IS FLOODED AND YEARS OF RAIN STILL TO COME, SAS.' SCIEIS'TISTS.. Changes in the Sun and Doforesta tion in America Among Causes Suggested. It is a long time since a year has closed with so much of Europe un- der water; England is waterlogged, so much so that' farmers think the soaking condition, of the soil will seriously affect the next harvest. France is suffering even more. The Seine, Loire and Dordogne have beenin a chronic state of flood for weeks, and the streams that onto down from the hills have inundated large strips of the narrow Riviera plain. Visitors to the Azure Coast complain that it may with more jus-. ties be called the grey coast, In Spain all the rivers from the Ebro in the north to the Guadal- quivir in the south have overflowed their banks, and the latter river is threatening Seville. In Madrid they have had abnormal rainfall. Newspaper cartoons represent the' inhabitants going about in diving dresses, The Manzanares, an in- significant stream, is new a raging torrent. - RAILROADS TED UP. Italy is no better off. Washouts and landslides have tied up several railroads, and the swollen" Po threatenstheexposition buildings at Turin. The news from Switzer- land is that it has been raining practically without stopping for the last week in all parts of. Switzer- land. Lakes and rivers 'have risen sev- eral feet, and much damage has been done to roads, quays and rail- roads. The Bernina route is block- ed by three large avalancaes, and it will take weeks to ,cut through them. In certain districts in cent- ral Switzerland the weather is so mild that people go about their work in their shirt sleeves. All central Europe is suffering from excessive moisture, and the latest addition to the flood news is that the River Dnieper, at Kieff, Russia, has suddenly risen twenty feet and that many river craft have been wrecked and villages have been swept. away. Nor is that all. Heavy rains have interfered .with the big cricket matches in Sydney, Australia, where it ought to be dry Summery weather. Advices from Buenos Ayres say that the weather is "the same as in London," which is nothing to boast about. Colon- ies in West Africa report that they have had six weeks' downpour .in the dry season, an unusual things WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? Sir Norman Lockyer, director of the Solar Physics Laboratory, says that we needn't look for much im- provement until the year 1913 has gone. He lays the blame for the in- cessant rains upon the changes that are taking place in the sun. These changes, he says, directly affect the polar and equatorial regions and indirectly the middle latitu las. lir, Lockyer thinks rhere will be more and more rain until 1913, and after that less and less, perhaps. Camille Flammar'un, the Paris astronomer, is of :he opinion that the present bad weather is in a measure due to the deforestati'.0 of America. Last year the pressu_e of the bar ometor has been exceptionally low, and this has ea.tsc,1 continuous west winds. These winds from tine Atlantic follow a cour,e which dif- fers but slightly from that of the Gulf Stream formed in the Clnlf of Mexico. M. Flammarion con- tinues "On reaching Europe the wind current, loaded- with vapor, en- counters the land regions saturated with water, and thus it becomes condensed in continuous rainy These winds from the west fre- quently touch the earth in America, and it is an admitted fact that they are sometimes delayed or even par- tially obstructed by the land sur- face and the forests and plantations through which they can only en- force a passage with difficulty." This proves, according to M. Flammarion, that the deforestation of America is ONE OF THE CAUSES of the increase of tempests brought to Europe from the United States. The most melancholy forecast is that of Prof. Bruckner, president of the Geographical Society of Vi- enna, who carries his calculations back some 1,000 years. He has con- structed a cyclo of some thirty-five years, during which a'slow average change in pressure, temperature, rainfall and winds takes place. According to him the last dry and warm half cycle occurred, in 1886 to 1902, and since then the 'weather has gradually been deteriorating though normal periods may occur in either cycle. We are now in the thick of •the cold and wet half cycle, and those who put their faith in Prof. Bruogner do not expect; any. thing much better till 1920, Mills will quench a fire caused by an exploding lamp, water only spreading the oil. irgv 7,t1fA'mr' rs . t• Ras been Canada's favorit i i e9,st over a quarter of a century. Enough for 5 cts to produce 50 Large loaves of fine, wiholiesorne,nour- ishing, home-made bread. Do not experiment—there is nothing "just as good." E. W, GILLETT CO. LTD. WinnipegTORONTO, ONT. NJontrase Awarrted highest honors at all Expositions. ..... , STAMFING OUT NATURE FOR WANT OF SOMETHING BETTER TO DO. Nature Lover Joins With the Hunt- er Exterminating Much Loved Creatures. We human beings stand so small a chance of becoming exterminated that we do not trouble our beads about the extermination of anim- als. The only way to chow some people what extermination is like would be for some higher creature to visit the earth and commence a wholesale kind of otter hunt, with humanbeings for the otters. But nothing short of a passing comet is likely to stamp us out, and so we amuse ourselves by stamping out Nature One of Nature's. greatest exterm- inators is the hunter. If bunters didnot exist such creatures as the. dstillbeodo, the Arctic sea cow, the great milk, and the Labrador duck would with as. HOW THE GREAT AUK DIED. The Arctic sea cow, an enormous kind of walrus, •used to herd in large numbers on Behring Island. But in 1742 it was discovered by a passing ship and hunted with har- poons. Other ships arrived after this, and the startled sea monsters were pursned and speared with such persistence that in thirty- eight years there was not one left. The great auk, a northern diving bird, used to exist in the Arctic re- gions also. Now, this splendid bird was seriously handicapped by the fact that it laid only one egg in a season and so could not afford to be slaughtered at all. But 1t was hunted and shot without discrimin- ation. A few surviving hundreds took refuge on a desolate rock far out to sea, but one fatal day a vessel con- trived to land en this rock, and the crew shot nearly the entire rook- ery. Finally Nature herself rose up; there was a, cataclysm, the rock sank into the sea—and that was the last of the great auk„ Several other birds have been stamped out in a like manner, and such animals as the buffalo, bison, lion, elephant, ostrich, giraffe, and tiger are going fast, and we,. cer- tainly become extinct unless saved by Nature lovers. The bittern, for instance, al- though not stamped off the face of the earth, has been very nearly ex- terminated in Britain owing to the fact that naturalists invariably shoot it for their collection when they see it. SOME BUTTERFLIES are also departing like the bittern. The splendid Large. Copper butter -- fly, which now sometimes sells at twelve pounds a piece, was stamp- ed out by collectors more than for- ty years ago. The Large Blue, another costly butterfly, only exists in a few secret places closely guard- ed by entomologists. Then certain. dealers in insects will deliberately visit a country spot where some rare: moth is plentiful, and destroy it by killing all its food plant in order that the "price" may be kept up in the insect market. It must not be forgotten, how- ever, that Nature herself, as in the case of the 'great auk, is rather fond of obliterating scarce butterflies and .moths by attacks by parasites, floods, blights, earthquakes, and ichneumon flies. But perhaps the greatest enemies of Nature are fashionable ladies. The tender-hearted girl who gives her pet pussie a satin bed to lin on, and who makes love to her can- ary, will sail along Bond street with a muff made of poor pussies fur, and a heron's crest, ostrich feather, a , or the wing of some, jay or pigeon in her hat; Some time ago there was a rage for "bullfinch hats," and time ten- der-hearted sex walked the streets with their"Roads literallybristling with bullfinches, Nature lavers viewed the show with such con- sternation that a movement was organized to put astop to it. Every woman who venturedout of doors in a bullfinch bat saw people point iug derisively. at her, .and all sorts of unexpected and awkward mo- ments she was even hissed at, and hooted. PLANTS ARE SACRIFICED. The result of this-social.warfero against the extermination of the b the bullfinch hat, In the meantime ullfinch was the extermination of, however, the fashions are doing their level best to stamp out 'al- most every wild animal in posses- sion of beautiful fur. • .The only reason that the sable, for instance, is not extinct, lies in the fact that furriers want it to live in order that they may continue to exter- minate it. Even plants do not escape. The rare and beautiful, mountain flow- er 'edelweiss would be stamped out of existence in a single year if tourists and botanists could get it as easily as hunters get at the bis- on. Fortunately'for the plant, it el- ects to grow where nobody knows how to walk with safety—over the edges of precipices. The result is that, while zealous colleotors do their best to obliterate it from the face of the earth, the plant often has the grim pleasure of extermin- ating oolleotors•-Pearson's Week- ly. ROD WENT THROUGH HEAD. Remarkable Cure of Railroad ]liar Who Suffered Terrible Injury. Conspicuous in the, annals of sur- gery is the case of Phineas T. Gage, a railroad man who, while tampl- ing powder into a blast hole in a great mass of rock, was the victim of a premature explosion, the tamping rod going clear through his head. The rod was a piece of iron, an inch and a quarter in di- ameter and nearly 14 pounds in weight. It struck him on the left cheek immediately under the cheek bone and passed up through his brain behind his left eye, passing out at the toeeof his head. The rod made a ragged wound through his brain, at least two in- ches in diameter and nearly six inches long, Yet instead of killing him instantly, the ghastly injury only stunned him He was carried to shelter nearly a mile away, and. then, without assistance, walked up a long flight of stairs to bed, talking all the time to those about him. On the arrival of a surgeon the splintered was trimmed and the wound through the brain was cleansed as much as possible, after which he was given a mild seda- tive. Just a.ne month later Gage was at work again, and, except that he was blind in his left eye, he suffered no permanent injury. He was just as strong as ever, and his mutilat- ed brain managed his voluntary and involuntary functions just as well as before the occurrence. So, too, injuries to, or complete loss of other organs besides the brain not uncommonly fail to re- sult in death, and everyone knows that it is possible for a man to live for years with only one lung. On the same line a man may live with one kidney, or without a stomach, or without a larynx, or without half a dozen other organs, just as it is possible to live without eyes, nose, ears, teeth, legs or arms. THE ROBBER'S GRAVE. "The Robbers Grave" in Mont- gomery Churchyard, England, is the grave of one John Newton, ex- ecuted for robbery of which he was probably innocent. On being sentenced to death he made a re- markable speech, concluding with these words : "If I am innoceut of the crime for which I am to suffer the. grass, for one genera- tion at least, will not grow over my grave." According to a pamphlet published some time ago, although many attempts had been made to produce grass and flowers above the grave, every :ef- fort had .failed, and it still remains in a barren state. TOBACCO'S BENEFIT. Aftr the London Lancet's admis- sion that tobacco aids digestion comes the report of a French army doctor whose regiment suffered an epidemic of cerebro spinal menin- gitis. He found that smokers re. crated the disease better than non- smokers and could remain in the eonteminated area without being atta,ekeci,' FROM BONNIE SGOTLANTI NOTES OF INTEREST FRODI HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highland[ and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. A new sheep farm has been starts ed near Inverary. Leith Town Council have gives, $500 toward relief of the unemployc ed. There were 17 contests for tit( various Parish Council in Midlotlu ian. During a recent week 7,320 visit. ed the Scottish Museum in Edin- burgh. Dundee city engineer recom- mends spending $20,000 on civic) im- provement,' Over 60 poor people in Crieff have received the late ex-Prey:est Mo- Rosty's annual gift of coal. Over 8,000 free meals have been already served to children of ua, employed workmen in Wishaw. A tenement of dwelling houses is to be erected in Park Lane, in the Sheuchan distract of Stranraer. The Perthshire estates of Sir N. Menzies, extending to 30,000 acres, . will be offered for sale. Dundee Day Nurseries have at tended to about 30,000 children, and provided 6,700 penny dinners. The Commercial Bank, Edin- burgh, has completed its 10041i year, and has declared a dividend of 20 per cent. The Carnegie Trustees are to er- ect, at a cost of $20,000 a suite of greenhouses on Pittencrioff Park, Dunfermline. At the English herring fishing Burgliead steam drifters earned from $2,500 to $6,000, and sailing boats from $850 to $2,500. Wm. George Mackay, aged 24, of •' Aberdeen, was washed overboard from a trawler, when 130 miles out, His body was not recovered. The report of the Tract and Cor- poltage Society of Scotland' shows that during the past year $134,000 of good literature has been circul- ated. Provost Armour Johnstone: has received a check for $125 from Mr. James Coats, of Paisley, to provide coals for the poor of Johnstone. At a meeting of Langholm School Boardcontracts were intimated for a new gymnasium at Langholm Ac- ademy and other works to the vat- ue of 89,000. Dr. Peter Steven, the oldest med- ical practitioner ie Dundee, died recently. In his student days he visited the Arctic regions several times as medical officer on a whal- ing ship. Mrs, Hardie, Pineshaw, Inveru- rie, died on the 8th ult., aged with- in a mouth of 106 years. The 1 daughter of a farmer, she was born at Dummnagarry, Glenbuchat, in 1808. There has passed away in the per- son of Jessie Ann Shepherd, widow of David Gibb, Ardoch and Cuttle- hough, one of the best loved and re- spected of the old inhabitants of the "Glen." By the departure of Mr. David Arthur for Philadelphia, Troop has lost a well-known inhabitant. For 26 years "Davie" carried on the boat -hiring business during the summer months, The county Territorial Associa- tion has consented to the Terries wearing the feather bonnet trs 'part of their full dress, on condition that no extra expense be thereby incurred by the Association, At Paisley Dean of Guild Court an Wednesday. plans were passed for an addition to Paisley poor- house. The new building, .which will cost 813,500, will provide no- oommodation for 72 more patients,, FARM WAGON HIS HEARSE. In eornplianee with his wish, the remains of. John Long, a farm fore- man at Rowley Hill, Saffron Wal- den England, g nd, were borne to the • grave ina farm wagrru drawn by four favorite horses. His employee and all the employees un the estate followed. Long lied worked on the same farm and for the same fam- ily for fifty-six years, while at:iong c those who followed the coffin were ; six laborers who itul been cmploy- { ed on the same estate between hirty.aven and"forty-sevebt y4ara.,