The Brussels Post, 1918-8-29, Page 7MINE -SWEEPING
BY 'MOT
SAFEGUARDING BRITAIN's MER-
CHANT TRAFFIC.
.No Moro Dangerous Work Than That
of Sweeping the Sea -Routes Clean
In Hours of Darkness.
'Chore are n number or phases of
minesweeping which tire poi sot clown
In the hooks, and which are of as groat
Interest as most things; which are sot
cdow•m in the boolcs
Mighty per COOL of Britain's sweep-
ers aro (maimed to keeping the route
for (mast wise morehant 1 elem of
mines.
In the North Sea, where a large pro•
portion or lintalit's sweepess work,
the w inter nights are usually about
fourteen hours long, and the winds
width swoop the North Sea are 50-
ject to (hunger without nottoo. Vre•
intently It will he littft,'S'Irl" fur the
skipper to lake the bridge in the
(Ile or this night Lo combat a sudden
gain which has swept down upon hint.
'Cho vessels have to separate to avoid
the danger of a etillision, end by dawn
they are scattered over a good deal of
the North St•its,
'they then may their bearings to
discover where they are, and. know-
ing the point at whieli they alto to go
to wotic, they stand about, and begin
to c•lings.hug buck to jolt) the rest of
their group. This frequently takes
holt' the day, so that frequently a night
gale will lose hall a day for the
sweepers, as well as keep their crews
on watch all night.
Under Water Explosions.
Ilank who Sather to width the fright.
Ifni globes. ll seeing 1111.1'Htithlft, IOU
WI"' ""W Min" 11'1" "11 AND QIII,EN TRAVE
in UM Moil Kt) 111lt.ii to
the trate for dinner. After this comes
another period of work for the
very oft en p heavy OHO,
111 bititillt”t`t at lit:d despatelical,
their ittajestitio retire for the night,
for both arts Imlievere la the early.to-
betlearly ititrIff0 theory. And though
they grearls• joy the trips they make
to I olustrial ventres, life idioms! the
Royal train Is, for then:, by no moans
Ute care -free pleasure jaunt that emne
!fluty imagine it to be.
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01'12 FARM .8N111ALS?
on nituilter of ocensionscivlibols
WHEN TIIE KING t„i.n to i.n„ train for lunch. By half.
At one o'eloelt their Mainstles re-
past Iwo stanet11111•11 Oft eller, (hey are
L off tat further ;IOW,' Or inepection,
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I dim you red to salve mines tossing
about offshore. and have boeu ltillerl
whielt may keep then; going until six
lu IMO lOWII I Yitiltftei riterlittlYtt H. illtflit
was reported approaching the break
(water one morning, and before; 1110
Weal. COOPtKOOrd (amid V0111O' up ttl
I tali., elltIrKft it hurl gone off, hitting
ta•ven Chili:111A and wounding tawenty,
blotting a great gap in the stone
!breakwater, hurling gruel timbers a
!gunner or a mile inland mid smashing
; glass in cetlages ror ton miles around.
Ily Ude theta ilOWNVor, OM shingles
• or standing idly by, watching twines
(trifling Inshore, have been
vorlised, and nowadays, when it nano
:is sighted. civilians gather up their
; children foul flee to the inland bolsters
of the town moll the mine has been
salved.
,Idatl the greatest dstmage 111111Oti flO
flf the. tittrOOptit'A. 'rho ttoW of naer.
(Mod baffle up and clown the (masts of
Fingland. which Gorman ininee aro In-
tended to stop, has not Mopped; lit
met, has not even abated. 'rhis is due
to Ille ettilifOlOSS vie:Ranee or the little
matt which used to be ashing-traw-
less. but now have been etitivertod into
ntinescycepers. It is terribly danger. -
!offs wurli, but the men %vim are (sissy-
Mg- 011 Mt it have ptOVOTt tholUA,IVON
h011tIVOtiy equal to It.
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LIFE OF YOUR HAIR.
Process of "Turning Gray" is a Slow
One.
Hair the stuff wn mostly wear is,
herring tenth, the most Imperishable
of all things of orgatile origin. After
death, the human body turns to dust,
'even the bones crumbling to powder,
bul Out heir tanusitis untouched by de.
ea).
The pigment that coldrs the bair is
an extraordinarily lasting substutee.
Hats kept for centuries does not lose
its color. 'The whitening of growing -
hair Is due to a failure of pigment sup-
ply, and not to bleaching. The pig-
ment Ktillifitt have ceased to rut:Mites
and new hairs in steadily increasing
numbers grow out white.
Thus grayness increases as hairs of
normal color are replaced with white
ones. The process is slow, though it
may be atrceleraied by grief' or mental
distress of any kind. Stories of poople
Whose hair has "turned white in a
night." lack authentic, indorsement.
So ease of sudden blanching of the
hair has been proved.
All tlui sweeper crews will tell you .
that their sole envy is the cutter. This
Is tlte little craft which blows lip
wrecks at the bottom or the war -alum-,
nol, The cutter's crew are' all expert !
divers, and W11011 the cutter has been .
run out to where it mined ship has .
gone to tint bottom, the divers are
sent down with dynamite to blow up -
the ship, anti thus losop the Himmel
:deer.
This is ft tit•Islisli job, fur width the !
sweepers tire especially groteful, for
if those it any exigeney which sweep-
s• crews swear over more than any
other, it is when their sweep -wire ;
Parts on it wreek a41 the bottom or the I
war.ohannel.
it is impossible to sweep around a;
wreck, for any way you try to worts
it your sweep -wire will eittels and
.part. tho. the cutter lithos prompt.
care of 1,Vrotliti is, the t•il; III laying
its charges of dynamite earertilly
around it, :old then withdrawing and
Pushing I, ttrisatnit ton. Tho water
bulges upon 10:- surface in a ein•lottsly
silent meteor as the charges go off: ;
taut the !minim or the sea carries the ;
•suund so well that, although it is
Practically intintithlts on the surface,
it convoys the impression to inhabl•
tants ott the shorts that heavy firing
Is going on somewhere mil to sea.'
This completely finishes the wreck,
however, and after one blow up the
brAtftp-Wil'It IKI.SHOA over the spot its
11,111/411 there had never Neon a wreck.
there
Another Hun Crime!"
BM the northeast. reissue which os -
cites the envy of the minesweepers
ror the elates is that the concussion of
the cutter's (iyeamite kills endless ;
quoutitins or fish. just as the ()Id jug-
arablIne trIch used to do in the Wis-
consin lobos before Wisconsin de-
clared II Illegal. Anti the cutter has ;
to do is to r.ttiaut blIVIC where the week !
was, and spools them up off the stir..
fuce. Then it goes heel: to the sta-
tion front which it set out with dyna-
mite an hots before, latleu down with !
fresh. fish. And on the sweepers, al-
though -oecasiontilly they do a little
fishing, they :whinny buy fish nt the
base very often! Imagine a lot of
shernteit aboard aasking-train-ler
buying fish!
I might add thst even when the
sweepers explode a, Mine instead of
sinking It—ist, when a bullet acciden-
tally !knocks off a detonator -horn in-
stead or boring a hole Into the mine's
buoyancy -chemises -ninety per cent, of
the mine's explosive force goes into
the Mr, and it is. rarely that the eon -
mission succeeds in killing any fish,•
Playing With Fire.
A good many mines which littve
broken adrift from their moorings af-
ter st gale over the North Sea, wash
inshore, end, after rolling around in
the shallows, finally go Off, 'unfortuna-
tely killing some of the local Inhehl-
ft.Fittft.marc...ofit
The heir or Alarie Antoinette is said
to have turned white In the night be -
forts her execution. But she had long
been g,•ay the disguising or which
sign of tolvoneing years may reason-
ably lie supposed to have occupied the
attettion of her "tiring women" up
to the time or her imprisonment.
Women, time and time again. have
gone to hospitals to have major
operations performed, and. owning out
with hair turned snows white, have
graterally aveopted the sympathy of
their friouds. or course they have
acquiesced in the notion that the
change was due to their sufferings, al-
though, in truth, it WAS attributable to
lack of the customary supply of dye,
Our hairs aro shorterdIved
than we imagine. 'rho long hairs of
womsm's head last from two to four
years before being replaced: the short
ones, four to vino months. The life
of an eyelash is only three or four
months,
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USING THE LEFT HAND.
Make Yourself More Efficient by
Training Both Hands Equally,
Why shouldn't yen be atubldextrous?
The almost exclusive ust of the right
hand Its all a mtitter of habit. The use
of both hands Is merely a matter of
training. Men 1»variably put one arm
first throtgli an arm hole. end womon
just the other man. Reason for it.
.1 -Tahiti Women button garmeot, rrom
one side, moo from the opposite, !
Habit, again! ,
Men who shave themselves with en I
ordinary reser use the left hand equal.;
ly with the right. Teaching thein-;
selves after arriving at the age of tile!'
oretion, they have acquired the art of !
ambidexterity, so Ear as this maim-.
lax operation is concenrod, without as;
fort, and prObably without even sloths;
ng it,
And what can be done involantarllY;
can be done voluatarily, your-;
self to bo de.sterously ambidextroes.;
Start expert:net Ling Isscloy. it is
rare tun, And you will be surprised
at the result, manifested in increased !
efficiency and the lessening or fatigue
in whatever job you 'nay be at. 130
left. Don't get left„
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TOURS OF MUNITION AND OTHER
WAR -WORK CENTRES,
Some Intimate Details by Che Who
Has Journoyed on the Royal Train.
The King and Q11001.1 aboard the
'loyal truth during their tollrrt
unfilithm or other warworic rentres,
anti fora practical reason. King
of
01'01%0 is OOP Or the blISIOSI. num In
the great Phapire over which he rules,
Although tudj he I.nmpora•nY
sent from the seat or Government Ito
has to keep In constant touch with his
Ministers. \Vino -ever his itiajesty
goes volumes of State bus:nose fel-
low him. All this has to he clespaish-
ed promptly. tlonsettuently, it. is
necessary that lho King should. as
It were, carry his office with him and
the Royal train fulfils this futetion.
Tho King works as well as eats and
sleeps aboard it. So (lope the Queen,
who has a multiplicity or things al-
ways demat ding, her attention.
Like Ordinary Passengers.
I As to the train itself, it is made •up
of the saloons used by their Majesties,
• whielt arts always placed about mid-
; way, and a few iirstclass carriages,
The train belongs, not to the King,
but to the railway company, aud
! whilst they are travelling on it their
'Majesties pay fares just as on ordin-
ary- passenger would. First class,
with the stustomary mileage mites ror
a special train, is (barged them.
!everybody else, except, the railway
'officials accompanying the train, has
to be paid for also. In fuel, a. special
, train is not an appantuse of -Royalty.
1111ring Peace times any of their sub-
1,jects who care to spend tile money can
teharter one just as easily as the
Sovereign and his Consort. 'Wealthy
people used frequently to do this.
Whilst Oft 011ft Or IIIS periodloal
visits to munition works, etc.., the King
is kept htforined by means of tell!.
grattur•of till war ham:fillings, .1tul as
Moon as the Royal train pulls into a
siding .for the night a special staff or
telegraphists connect up their Olsten -
mantis with 11. and messages begin to
hum to and fro over the wires. Open
telegrams. telegrams In code, replies
to 'Ministers, and the hundred and one
other communications which go to
make up State business are. received
and despatched.
. Coupons Required.
The "Court Circular" is also tele-
graphed front the train csaoli night by
one of lits Majesty's equerries. in
addition to the members of the Royal
suite, all or whom hove their especial
tasks to do, the King and Qtteen eat:11y
two lady secretaries on the trate.
Thess attired to neat tailor-made cos-
tumes, may be seen by the saloou
;windows busily elle-king out the Royal
correspondenve cm swift -running type-
writers. 13oth the King and the Queen
aro very pleasant anti sociable with
their staff. No hedge of divinity
nothmi an atmosphere of aloofness
around them. in their bureaux they.
Ore Illtit a thoughtful. courteous lady
and gentleman, with at lot or wurS to
do and a businesslike method of gel-
ling through it.
Whilst nu the 'Royal train their
jesties live in extremely simple Dish.
They (tarry their moat coupons
with thorn just as their subjects have
to do, and rationing Is strictly ob.:
served. No wines or liqueurs aro
served at their .table. where the rare
is always of the plainest. !fere are tt
couple of breakfast menus served rot
oently to their Majesties on the train:
Fried fillet of Mahe, or bloater. 1
Savoury omelette, or tried egPtit•
(trilled whiting. or kippers,
Scrambled or poached eggs.
Only twits-) in this pesticides week,
when 1 was privileged to travel in the •
train. (lift t11011. 1lajestirs Pflt ft meat
meal.
No Pleasure Jaunt,
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Work with them begins early, !
Shortly sifter .7 a.m. the King Is busy,
with his correspondence, A brief in-;
tervel ids breakfast, then affairs chain 1
his Majeety's attention again. NA'bilst
the train is running to its destination
he I his
„ ,
The Queen., during this tinio, reads the
papers and attendds to variotte mat -1
tees that have a claim upon her.1
Usually the more formal part of -the !
clay starts about 10 a,m., when the ;
series of visits to different wol•Its be.;
gins. This generally .menus three !
strenuous hours with a good deal of .
walking from ono place to another.
American Continent Had Few sere'
Animals in tilts Early Days.
We are accustomed to point with
pride to the - many valuable plants
contributed by the New Warld to the
uses of mankind- the list ineludiug
corn, cotton, tobueco, the potato, the
. sweet polatn, the tuflifitO, loOallS, 010
peanut, the pumpkin, the strawberry,
the red pepper, cassava and catetti,
, which yields the chocolate bean.
Before the landing of Cohn:dam
; none of these plants :vas known in the
; Old World. How did people get
!along without them?
: 11 seisms a puzzle, But how, on
the other hand, shook' we to -day gel
along without the animals which the
. Old World coetritrited? Virtually
all of our farm animals are of Old
World origin. In this respect the
' American contisent was, to start with,
; wretchedly poor.
Theis) had been horse, in Ameriea,
'
plenty of them; but they becatne ex -
thud on this continent long before the
. first human inhabitants arrived, There
hail been elephant,: of early types
(mammoths and mastodoris). but they
likewise vanished very anciently. A
most useful beast is the elephant to-
day in parts of the Ohl World.
There had been camels infuntesable
in America, but the last of them was
a fossil ages before man appeared on
the scene. On this continent there
were no useful animals of the genus
Bus (the buffalo being hopelessly un-
tamable), no asses, no avallabie gouts.
no sheep that could bo domesticated,
anti no ehickens.
The only useful animals known to:
the American &nisi -sines were the
liana, the turkey On Mosico), and tho
dog. They did their farming .tecl
other work unaided. All the sigentie
structures of stone erected ins `Mexico,
Central America and Peru were built
from suelt materials as men by their;
own unassisted efforts were able to,
quarry out .and fetch together.
NIAlf.ING A Lit'ING OFF A TREE.'
The Cocoanut of the South Sea Islands!
Serves Many Purposes.
The nearest thing nowadays to the
Garden of Eden is a South Sea island, -
Itlissionaries have persuaded the nae'
tives to Wear clothes, hat .there still
remains the cocoanut.
So far as known, the mils important •
advantage of residence in the Garden
o.f Eden toes that one might dwell'
there without bothering to work. An'
equivalent. privilege seems to offer
'itself anywhere in hot latitudes that
is suitable for planting the cocoanut:
see.
A Polynesian proverb says, "Ile
who plants a cocoanut plants vessels
and clothing, a habitation for himself
and a heritage for his elliblren."
The vocounut yields food, hoth solid
anti liquid ----the latter a very palatable
milk. Its oil, pressed from the dried
"meat." is useful for frying and other
culinary purposes, or- may be convert-
ed into soap and candles.
The hods of the tree are good to eat,•
being usually prepared Tike eabbage.:
From the sap and fruit are obtained,
both "Lemperanee" and intoxieatims.
beverages.
The shells of the outs furnish cups,'
The tessu-se and strong fibre that cot-
eratheM affords material for matting,:
cotdage, lishine. lines and clothing,
The leaves of the tree supply n water-
proof thatch for houses, and, rt.om the
leaf -ribs brooms and brushes are
made. 'rile wood or the trunk ser-
ves admirably for house building' pur-
ee:les as well as for sea -going canoes,
the planks of which are 'fastened to-
gether with (meta:nut twine.
Wasted Talent,
"You waste your time iodating ple-
1111'eS."
"You are wrong I sell my pictures."
"Which fact coo, Oleos rho you etin i
sell anything. Why not Mae up in- I
surto-me or motors or something with :
ss
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Slipping is Bad habil.
The person who habitually slip: the:
ehlteh ih use danger,",
says an expert:, "lie inereases the,
wear tenfold, so that filially it willi
hardly hold at all. Then sense day!
he will need it badly to pull hint out
of a tight place and it will fail :•ntire-
ly..
I "The purpose of the clutch is to:
comaim. the engine to the transmissien
and to diseonneet it at the will of the!
' operator. This is necessary, para..
cularly for shifting gears, to provent
grinding or stripping, When allow -
cal to ongee;e, it should always le: done
gently, so as not to break some part
of the transini,ision. This eaution.
appliss portieuiarly to the loa• speed
-when starting the tyir from .1 store', '
ilA thot is then excessive,'
• AA the clutch is engaged the aecelera•
tor pods,' is depressedaslightiy to give:
the engine Suffieient power to carry
the load. As the clutch takes hold it .
must do go AftlOotil.q, F4)00E1114 up
gradually until it move s at the same
speed as !he fly -Wheel. it is evident.
from this that the plutela slips first ,
and holds afterward.
"Slipping in this manses is a trees-
savy evil that PillIFOg the lining to
Weer out in time. The length of
time may he long or short, depending
on the driver. One of the most seri-
tia faults is to drive: with the feat on
the clutch and the brake pedals, The
slutsh is partly released by this prae-
tice effusing almost constant. slipping,
and the ear will lack speed. To over -
rhino this the driver feeds more gas,
can nig the engine to overheat. and
also wasting gasoline.
pi;:gW, Lunit[lsoill'djilritta's'ILI!)%'.1(saishp-
lf.
con-
tinued. It is usually clue to a disin•
clination to shift gears. Thetas is
approaching a Mork in the truffle
which will probably open if we do not
arrive too soon so we slow down
slightly. We have choice of several
methods. lf we throttle down too
far the engine will stall. If we shift
to sceond speed it may delay us, and
then many drivers dislike to shift
gears apparently for no other reason
than that they dislike it, forgetting
that gears were phased on the cars
for just such osstision. A third meth-
od is to allow the ear to (east by
throwing out the clutch and then en-
gaging, it again. This gives an inter-
mittent motion to the ear to which
they object, but it is nevertheless
Superior to the following method (and
the last one that should be employed).
This consists in slipping the ohtleh
and driving the carat a :weed inter-
mediate between high and seeond.
This should neve,- be done. Either'
stay inhigh and stop when the ob-
struction is reached ur etre drop into
seeond gear.
"'rake good care of tbe clutch, pre-
vent slipping either through wear or
intention and you will be repaid a
thousandfold."
A NEW FRIEND, THE SHARK. t TRENCH. DISEASES.
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May Serve Many Useful Purposes in
the Near Future.
The shark seems to be coming into
its own at last. Baying always been
regarded as the principal aquatic ene-
my of man, it is now beginning to be
looked upon as a friend.
heaving aside thu tntportant useful-
ness of its meat las ailvertised by the
U.S., Government Fisheries Bureau) it
has recently developed a special war
value through the utilization of its
hide for the making of sword prigs.
Teas of thousand of sword handles
supplied for the present conflict will
he covered with leather derived from
Florida sharks.
For this- purpose it is particularly
well adapted, inasmuch as it is not
only very durable and waterproof, but
with a hard toughness, being covered
with small toothlike processes set
close together. These proeesses, curi-
ously enough, aro similar' in structure
to the teeth of mammals, having an
Muer portion of dentine covered with
an outer layer of °mime'.
Shark leather-salready used for
jewel boxes, card eases and various
other articles ---is destined before long'
to he much more widely employed. We
may soon see sharp skin shoes on the
market and conunandinga high priee
by reason of their waterproof quality
and durability. The U.S. Fisheries
Bureau. hopes to render fashionable
the hide of the small shark called
"dogfish" as material far the uppers
of women's hoots.
The "whale shark" yields as mull
as 125 gallons of excellent "cod liver
oil," quite equal to the product. of the
emifish. It is (with the possible ex,
cent:ion of the basking shark) the
largest of all fishes, and entirely harm-
less, though it sometimes amuses it-
self by rubbing against a passing
boat and upselling the tweet's:Its into
the =e -i
Popular Aire
. A. musician who has occasion to
cater to average andiences ventures
this statement: "I think it is st. mis-
take to think that audiences like only
l•rashy tunes, if there are any such.
But let us assume that what we term
"popular" music is somewhat trashy.
Most of it shows great skill in melody,
and in many cases some ingenuity in
harmonie treatment; and above all,
these tunes, tire written in the common!
chords, so that they are not half as
had as they are painted. The worst
thing about many of the songs of the'
popular variety is the lyrics, some of
thou being ,,c,,Ittc;„ tit to site In;
polite society, ; The words are prob.;
ably to blame for the bad repute of
the music of the so-called popular;
style,"
Maladies That Are Caused By Un-
sanitary ConditionS.
: The insanitary sondltions in the
trenches have been respell:sad() for a
mindeer of diseases that are now, or
now in appearance. to the mettle:0 of -
Seers of the armies. So far four af-
fections seems to he. traced definitely
; to that origin* trench fever, tren...11
foot, treneli leg or [tenet, skin, and
trench hand.
I Perhaps the ntost eloatay detined is
trench fever. it he „ills tilltitiettly with
headache pains in the bones, high
fever and a feeling er prostrattou:
in a few days the very aento syrup.
, toms mf the onset !subsides and then
!follows a period marked by fever and
by the prostration that ay:amp:odes
allY tong -continued ation of tem.
pertiture, That volutittou tams some-
times for severs" tseehs, and then the
fever • 1 ••Its b::>gfus to amb•
side. The period 01 amelioration also
lasts scum) weeks. Nt, one has, satis-
factorily determined the exert nature
of the disease. Some observers re-
gard It as material; others look upon
it. as "rat -bite rover," and lay the re-
sponsibility on the rats that swertn
thentterentn-117):t.
trentinon symptoms of
trench rem are numbness, blueness
and dropsical swelling of the feet.
Sometimes numerous small blisters
fore:, and in the worst crises
there aro more or less extensive to'ess
of gangrene. Tile ttalltitt of this !lis.
ease is the defeetive circulation that
conies from standing for hours In raid
water and unui stet from wearing the
eseine shoes for hays at. a time with no
opportunity to vhange, The condition
is not so cominon as it was lu the ear-
ly clays of the war, for with the in -
(Teased number of soldiers on the
front change of station end of duty
van be made more frequently.
Trench shin, or trench leg. does not
seem to be I, strictly local affection,
as its name would imply. for the
;Patient suffers not only from severe
; paius'in the shins lint also from fever,
headache, chills. lassitude attd malaise.
The cause. like that of treuch root,
seems to be long standing in cola and
wet of the trenehes, although some
army doctors regard as an acute it-
Peetioue disease like rheumatic, fever.
: The fourth of tlIOAO diseases is
trench hand, which is merely stiffness
of the hand and contraction of the
thieves, evidently caused, like trench
tom, Isom long exposure to eold and
west, t rrk+luentdy attacks
sol -
fliers who have had to stand or lle
long hours in a cold rain or snots,
storm grasping a rifle with ungloved
hands
Watches small enough to be worn in
man's mat lapel have been invented,
Ile who steals a watch rnaY do time
big mono) in tl. 'later
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IAIR RAIDS WITH
A DIFFERENCE
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LONDON AND PARIS ARE BOTH
EXPERIENCED IN RAIDS.
But There Are Certain Contrasts in
the Way the Bombers Are Met.
The Londoner in Paris was not sats
.1111 interested. fle wont ealmly to its
hotel-y.0in atid prepared for bed.
Thero was a raid on, to be
rune tlolt-
ar' Rill flf. Whit unimpressed
" Utero is nothing to titto. PVIt ilfotO
through twenty," he saki; "so, if
isn't 101) PeiNy, .1.11 41001).
• .1.1 he ascended, the eonsierge
in with the nrst report of rile new Ger-
lteri laid on Ports.
"Our anions have gone up to tight
"They're burning red.
and gr,,en ionterns.-
:to the Londoner won! into Piave fl.-)
( on, orde, and there learned that a
rout Oil rt.iritt is. 1'1'01n a 11111tOtift,Ititl'
cies; vo-a�tiy different from a raid ou
London,
A DIM on rad:, i4 it thriller. II fs
drama. for it has lights. That is the
chief differsuce between it and the Vit-
linittOd L011,101/ raids, which begin and
end in darlioess,
Alone the sounding of the alarm •
the "alori," as they call it in Paris,
fir l.Lt. oN'Alt... as they saw in Lon-
don••• is an tiff..,ling event is, the
Freuell capital. Insie.ad of the bicycle -
policeman with plseartis of London,
we have the hook and -ladder automo-
bile companies clashing through the
streets atsa furious speed, with their
lioi•ns sounding a rhythmic, but al-
most diabolical scream, and Ilto wheels
thundering.
Searchlights on 'Planes.
The air vibtates with motors. Tilts
Freuelt aeroplanes aseend from natty
, places. and circle the city. displaying
great arcs of green and red and gold.
occasionally they go low, and turn
their great Cyclopean eyes ---their
sea rehlights -on each other or into
the star -filled heavens. hanging Huss
melded like new and flaming stars in
,he low sky.
Two or three are always in sight,
and the spinning noise of the motors
makes you feel that there must be
scores above you sky full of them.
Some Hy fast, others slowly, ancl the
red and green and gold lighls are al-
ways changing, sometimes with the
(lip and rise of the aeroplanes, some-
times at the touch of she aviator send•
iog a message.
. When the 'plane eismes low, those
messages are distinet but untuiellig-
lisle, and therefore mysterious, and
raised to greatest importances by the
civilian in the street. who knows;
perhaps a MOSS:Opt Or IlttIV raider.. ur
instructions for attacking them, or
perhaps news of a vietory over a Hutt?
But always in a raid on Paris there is
activity for the eye, interest, thrills.
many ways the French people are
affected by the raid like their London
allies,
Though there is more talk, more gess:
titre, more interest here than a Lou-
don raid gives pretext for to London-
ers;, there is here the AilKl•ttt solidntNty
of Morale,
No Two Opinions.
The French people, the women anti
children and old men. the soldiers
home on leave. only have rekindled
the fires of their determination to hold.
strong until victory. told the fires oe
their hatred for the enemy. anti when
they Hay -sale Roche" to -day the
.tmerleaus, who are now iti the city,
and who were neutral mattes a year
ago, can understand what they menu
by • "dirty German."
One thing is Most noticeable in
(simpering London and Paris regarding
a raid and Its oftesmath. It is the oh-
senee of a cry for revenge in PariA,
And the reason is simple. Reprisal
raids are expected as a platter Or
—
The Happy Warriot.
In my sandy dugout by the sea •
Of Ssros beyond the Samothrace,
I'M as happy as happy can be,
And I'm bent upon washing my face
I3efore I go into my tea;
But the water's AO scarce in this land
. That We do all our washing with
sand—
And we always have sand in our tea,
In my fly flik.1 dugout by the sea
Near Anzac, beyond Sainothract,
Both the cool( and Colonel agree
That you must have some semblance
of grave
breakfast ,at dinner, at tea,
To provent you from damning the eyes
Of the savage and pestilent illes—
; For you always have flies in your tea!
• In my shell swept dugout by the sea
Of Suros, beyond Samothrace,
I'm as happy as happy oan be,
Tho' the shrapnel conies flying apace
Over moorland and mountain midi
lea—
ror X wish you to quite understand,
Tho' the hens have vacated the land,
Yet we always have shells with our
tea!
--X R. (Anzac). •
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, "The future comes not from hofnr0,,
to meet MI, but stream up from be,. :
hind us over our heads."--Rahel, ,
Handel, perhtvps best known by 1Mhi "essiah" and "The Dead IVIttrelt"
groin Saul, died in 1.769, and woo ,
hurled in Weatminator khhey, 1
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