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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-7-17, Page 6BELGIAN WHO DARED, FAILED, AND DIED WHY THIELT HONORS MEMORY OF ALOIS VAN KEIRSBILK. Planned the Kaiser's End, But Chang In Schedule Mnde the Air Raid Abortive. He was condemned to death on Feb, 25, and thou the Germans created afid applied as devilish a sohe41p of meatal torture for It hu0uut being' as eelad ba devised. Alois had awn children, and a third was to be born soon. "On the day that new life enters Your horns your life will and unless you speak," said the German Inquiet. tor. Undoubtedly Alois thought of his wife, who would be calling for hint on that day more than aver. Perhaps he thought of the now baby also, Never - Undoes he was still true to itis name, "the Silent." Firm to the End. THE. BATTLESHIPS them at present, limy the dlflhculty will be overcome is still a puzzle to OF THE FUTURE unval men. But torpedo experts (who Ip8A1>tq�JIB am the uaturnl enentky oT Ftutal say that it doOsu't utntter, bet:Huse tri, elan creasing range and sareaess of the torpedo will mala- it possible to parry PROPHECY BY A FAMOUS NAVAL ft,tver grins thlt at present, an11 to put WRITER. A Glimpse, Through the Eyes of an Expert, at the British Navy In Ten Years' Time. I was corning eolith front Selma terpedo-tubes itbovo the water -line In Targe numbers. Already etent> of our big ships have perfect nests of tor- pedo -tabes on their upper decks, To .get a perfect flying -off plat- form;' with no obstructions, we must, as we have seen in the Argus, get rid of the funnels. Is that to be dune by running pipes aft under the eaves of "Aloe; pan ICeirsbilk is t, be buried On the 51h of April a little girl was Fluor the other day with the Bettie armor roof? to-ltulrrow," horn In the Van Fiait,hillz home. It Cruiser Squadron, and us we sped Perhaps. But it is not impossible This was the message which on might seem unbelievable, but evident- along 1 ora. chatting to a shipmate that we play do away with funnels 111- April 25 last spread like tna: is throughly the Germans had waited for the about the beautiful dellen of the Re- together if the marine engineers can the Belgian town of Thio :, and the event. On the same day they seat et - which which was one of the ships of produce a satisfactory motor ear en- People10opte Prepared in silence t ,pay their ficial! word to "Madame Vast F>:etrshilk the squadron, writes "Tarpaulin." gine which will take the place of the last tribute to their 'kern martyr.” that if she desired to see her husband We're getting near to the end of present steam • driven turbine ma, Alois Van Kelrbiltt was the idol of still alive, ShO Could see hint that day vvarshi is as we have known theta," he chhnet•y, But they have te big task in at 3 o'eloek in the prison at Ghent. rl 1 Think. for l.e ora, the nun who "al- said, "beauty afloat le supposed to i front of them. High speed is Meliora- te trilled the kaiser with hundreds arcif el neighbor nurse saw to it have died with the Easing of sails. I tive for warships, and high speed of his (nighty crawl" when the Kaiser that the then message did out reach the ".sit until you see the battleships of moans terrific hu1'se•povver in the en. visited the town in 1914, while it was . mother,then nursing her new -horn tau years hence. Then you will realize 'groes. I know of 0 ship that has as the headquarters of the Duke of \;'urtt- b:,t;,•, ieetead true eldest girl, 10 years thateven the mastodons of the Great mach as 140,000 horse -power to drive to the prison to see her emhel'g, Alois of the Fourth t r..n .ti. was ,ettt War were things of beauty compared • her propellers. Army. Alois Vain l:elrshilk was chief: F,: er Full of joy, in her happy with the novelties." d the railway bete; x , :'d' t Thielt tut R: ,t the first vessels we sighted, as we Chief of a se l.,t ,011.0).7,,7_ :., \ '- a little sister. and net Produced that total Yet in one in - c > 1.c, I-_,; t ;, vs it to you. Come steamed up tha Firth of Forth to our stalitution. In our new bug submarines had only one c anchorage at Rosyth, was the Argus, boys and d . ath to the et i. .,...; Ind the Argus is no tiring of beauty. the K class, for example —we have organization v '.e 1(1 r... z:1( :... r ao,.d t. -+i relne. He press. had to give up internal-combustion for �I:e Ss an aeropano ship, built with a' anal with true Belgian :army thregig t spies :,1 1.1s ht::e girl in his arms. He could the main propelling maehinerY, r (leek extending from herJ>ow to her who made regl:l It • a r t1t: t n. could never see stern. Her smokestacks, Instead of have installed a small edition of the ae:•e ee the "cable 01 -lead:; • An.i nut , ,- - • again -„r t. wanted to spare. the being funnels, are long pipes that run turbines and 610010 boilers of our des- a C1• rn...:n ph:n au «ah' S .-t head -1 . tt:cl. who had to lire fur the child, trovers. 1i il ad, th e1 's� :c ' 1•• Not a v.1(•n• S did he say. One • horizontally' from the centre of the Another tiring that would interfere moaners 1n Thiele ship to the :titer end, and discharge activity of Alois and his melt. Y,i and the big prison gate enc+sed with the clear run along the deck the smoke over tate sea, ]lite the ex- Ptanned to 'CI! the Kaiser. atter the ,Mild, while her father I,re• would be the navigating bridge; but =1(w h s , lr + d it•t l .1° to die• h:ntst•piye of a luofor-ctj. She is Just that is a difficulty which We have al - It was not loner' Mui chanee fur a hie . tl t.. The Kaiser was coming' to Titi,rlr. ,',n ti:e. first of November. A desperate attack was to be tnafle against t11.` 118101an foreee 1 conductor o:+The Vanishing Bridge., As if t0 bear out his words, one of s. Also 11 1 : • ust cn11)8 homeInternal-combustion engines have His '1.d e me meat morning at half- a humped -up art o a ship. ready learned to get over. Tho Hi And that, they ssy, is what our bat- bast five in the ".:our" of aha prison,' bridge becomes simply a hydraulic He refused t+, be blindfolded. "Let ably fps of ten Years hence will prob. lift. When you want to navigate the silly bolt like. you send the lift up from its rest• lent a German hand 1,,uch me in this There are three reasons for this, ship , and from th:re au emu - solemn n 11J:u.rnt when 1 die for my ing-place on the main deck, and, eont- along the Yser and two of them are lessors we learn- n 1011- 1— 1 L:n c n.:, r'•::re : y,nlr bol- plate with chart -house, compass -plat - 114 )10 st Ypres and i)1c111•il and Wil- :lit+,., the Bel;;iaar. heard that he said. ed during the 1131(1'• form, steering -wheel, communication beim II. in person was to u:=;,F 1 to end er.et lie waited for the momentWhere Armor Is Needed, pipes, and everything else, it rises to preparations when h . :, +ay casae t,> an end. The first lesson was that armor in its position. Hill the aiser and the war ,13:11 be In ill;, afternoon of the ealtlle day a future wonid have to foram the roof of Then there comps the need to send fir over, was the m 0ctivictleof Mole Gec1310 sn11 1 knocked at - the door the ship rather than the sides. Every- up an aeroplane. The officer in charge and his friends and 1119, relt to work. of tile "Widow Van Kiersbiik" and body knows that the Queen Mary, the touches a button, the bridge -lift drops Alois acquired all the information that delivered a parcel to the devoted Indefatigable, and the invincible blew gently down again, and the roof of the organization could procure as to the . neighbor who was caring for the new up at the battle of Jutland because chart -house forms a part of the aero - movements periol asci 1$4'ilschedule11 1) the int baby and it. mother. The woman heavy s11e116 from the German guns plane platform. filling up the gap that Aerial visitor. and seat all the details 1 opened it, and with horror found that fell out of the skies, as it were, on top would otherwise be lett by the sinking to his agents in the Belgian fan army, it contained the suit of clothes of the • of them, and found an easy entrance of the bridge, ith the request that alum+>n he sent uuhappY master of the house, That to the vitals of the ships because the at the opportune nlonlent to 1.111 the Kaiser." The big dinner at which the Kaiser and his staff were to gather around the table, and for which all the hest silver in town had been requisitioned, was to begin at :'. e'coek, At that moment anxious eyes watched the sky toward the west. Would they conte. the airmen with their bombs to do the deed that would finish the war? Would they be in time? At 2.15 there wa,s a speck in the blue sl;y. It grew bigger and bigger. and soon the watchers distinguished three flying m: eh les, In hate Alois com- municated :1:1311 his friends. Barely had those 1,b , w,•rt> warned taken shelter when tl:c' first explosion was heard. Then for a Peva minutes the 1)011 of Thlelt sio iderad as 11001b after bomb exrdod+•,a It was a we0l-!au 1. :,:d raid and the daring, airmen escaped in safety, but it was all in vain. There had Leen a sudden change, in the Kaiser's se1:e- dale and the evar lord had lift Thle"-t at 2 o'clock sharp. During tee bom- bardment his motor cars were -' cad- In Norway, a husband and wife who can hope to see the fall of the shells ing along the road to Runge:, and his wish to part have first to apply to a accurately, however high up on the life ora+s safe. magistrate. who sends them to a Can- utast his control -tower may be. "Spot - Bat the nom:na l:der +>f the Feertl: r!l:;,t _un R „erd. a sort of Kiss -and -be - ting" will lave to control-tower e done by aero - German Army raged in hie private of- Friend.- (',nnuttttee who try to recon - Planes, and 1111(1 means that every ship nee at the kontnlamlatur. The secret rile the r'nIpi", and persuade them to that carries Uig guns will also have to of the visit had plainly got unt. The try- :ac;::i1(. 1f tate :attempt does nut sue - carry a couple of aeroplanes that can Kaiser, the idol of efeee eee (;armens, tear they are granted a separation kip and scant had barely. eseepcd deell1. The guilty u i r thfly i'y e enemy ship, from the ship male to control the And another advantage would be was the German announcement of his armour was all on their sides, that the roof of the bridge, like the death. We put armor there before the war rest of the deck, would be well armor - The sad news had at last to be because, hetberto, guns had fired eel. "Safety first" is a motto which broken, and the widow of Alois began shells at short ranges, which meant stands g000d in the Navy as else - a time of lonely misery only broken that they travelled in an almost direct where. by the struggle to keep her three child- litre from the mouth of the gun to the --.. ---- ren fed and clothed. side of the ship. But when we started FIRST AERIAL STOWAWAY. Today the Belgian flag flows again firing guns at seven, eight, and nine from the tower of Thielt and the thrif- ty people of Flanders are busy re- building their homes. Many of the men are missing; some died on the battlefield, others to prison, but all died fighting for the small strip of land they called their own, and those who retrain cherish the memory of their heroes, They will tell their stories to their children and grandchildren. thus adding auothler page to the glorious history of Flanders, and 001000 those stories will be that of Alois Van Keit- bilk, who tried to end the war by end- ing its instigator. turd who failed and died silent. Where Divorce Is Easy, miles' range, it was necessary to point the gun upwards, and send the shell towards the target in a curve, with the result that at the end of its run it fell downwards at a sharp angle, and hard- ly ever hit the side of the ship, but crashed of the deck. This method makes for more difficult marksman- ship. Nine miles will be considered a very modest range in future. We hear gun- nery experts talk of 30,000 yards (or fifteen sea miles) as an everyday list, was one of then, Determined not thing of the future. So it will be no to be done out of the great experience use having armor en the side of the by adverse fate, Ballantine became ship, where no bit will ever he made, the first aerial stowaway the world and leaving the deck to Consist of five-. has ever known. eighths of an inch of steel. It was not difficult for him to con - The second lesson is that, at those ceal himself aboard R-34, for he "knew extreme ranges, no gunnery officer the ropes," Here is how he did it:. 11 -Ie wanted to get to the States, and perhaps got a chance to do a bit of boxing fol• a purse, so he sneaked out just before midnight, about two hours before tine R-34 left Scotland. "I hid in the rigging," he said, "No one saw me, and we were off. When the balloon was about 200 feet up 1 changed my position to a more com- fortable one, I hid between the gas bags N0 6 and Mn 7, at the stern of Disappointed in Hope of Being One of R -34's Official Crew, Rigger Gets Passage Unofficially. Because it was considered necessary to lighten the big airship's "live" bur- den a little before starting, two or three members of the crew were dis- appointed in their chances of malting the trip, says a despatch from Mineola, Long Island. W. W. Ballantine, a rigger and pugi- had to betnnr01 and p133 13. A contra -spy nth py syfeein 0 ur hui:ed at 101 e and lar> mals were promised for any bit ,.131 In:r unetio13 Slowly hat .rely Alois was drawn into the net wevect by a most minnto and connplc•,r investigation. 01: F.11. 2 he was sum• mored to the kommandatur ,.m2 taken p:•1:-ouer. it was then that Alois Van Keirbilk snowed the 001)11401, 1311!!eh won for him the thane of "the Silent Hero." He lu: rw that one word spoken lightly At Me endof one year the Ministry y of J -tire i5 b nlud to nick, the 21- firing of the guns by wit•elese news of vorce anal if asked to do so by either where each salvo falls. party. The •ehele proceedings are Guns or Torpedoes. very [heap, the oust ranging from flare Our present arrangement Is that ,billings to five pounds. aeroplanes fly off from a short launch - That cnnplee do repeat at leisure ing platform built over the gun-tur- for parting, aa+ they :.re said to do at rets; but these are only small scouts, marrying in 11 proven by a c1150 ' and much larger and heavier types which happellee a0111e tura ago in will be needed in future, since they Switzerland. where, as b1 Norway, di- will not he undisturbed while they are vorce is easy watching the fall of the shells, but will have to tight to maintain their posi- tions. This type of machine will want more room in which to make their pre - To 211 cracks in the plastering liminery run, and there will have to when painting, mix some piaster of be a "flying -off deck," The Furious, Paris with the paint. which was originally meant to be a The whole world is now to he re - plane but became an aero - built on the foundation of brother- plane ship, has a "flying -off deck" 300 feet in length. Something of the same sort will probably, nave to be pro- vided in all our future battleships. That sort of thing, of course, inter• feces with the gun -turrets, as we know A well -to -de S(slss farmer has re- 1:1p„I1t betray the ,chole of his organ!- cantly married the sante wife for the zat:nn, D.11rl his last word to !cls Monde fourth time, who were still free had hem, "Do not —..-4-- 1,t — y 1,t my ahsenrrt or death .se:u•e roll; hilt Jeep up the wont that we have been doing." After his arrest nothing 0x(11111 indium him to epc•alc even a word. All levices. old and new, were tried by the k nnntardntur- tortures as well us hood among nations, . Let our part in premises,. the mcnlaces•of a cruel death the work b, worthy of our great tra- and the promise of life in luxury, It (li«,tons; marred by no selfish thought was all In vain. Perhaps :11oie thought or act, but single-minded and whole - ht the many dives he had in hie hautls, hearted to restore and reconstruct. Anyway, he remained silent_ pr'r 3?t 3'C Za' ria• 3C 701' Ql How My Chore Wagon Helps Me, Last .Sunday my wife and I decided' to spend the day with our friends, the Chatmans, over on the Deep Fork. After an excellent dinner Joe ands I strolled out to the barn for heart to heart talk, Yort know what I mean' —the kind of a talk we all enjoy, where we get right down to facts and f frankly tell each other what we really beldeve, and in the course of our con- versation I asked: "Joe, what is the handiest thing on your farm?” "Why, that's easy to answer. Come show" e answered and I 11 you, 'h a s v a as we started for the machine shed. "here it is," said Joe, as ho pushed back the roller door, and I saw his handy wagon rebuilt from a light touring car of popular price. "That old boat—she's a 1914 model —is the biggest time saver on the farm. She fills the need which exists between a touring car and •a truck, Last spring she looked shabby, the body was a wreck, so I decided to buy a new ear, and tried to trade this one in at $200 on the deal; but the agent couldn't see it that way, and 00W I am mighty glad. "I kept tbe old car and used it in had weather, when I didn't want to put the new car on the road. One day Frank Simmons came along and offer- ed me $200 for it, but 1s he already o'tvned a car and a truck, I was curious as to what he intended to do with her, and asked hila, "I learned that Frank -intended to convert her into a 'chore wagon, as he termed it, and that set me think- ing. If Frank Simmons could use a handy wagon, why couldn't I? "I dismounted the old touring body —selling it afterward for $15—and overhauled the running gear and en- gine. As the engine compression was Wouldn't take twice that amount and poor, I had oversize pistons fitted. I try 00 do 'without it, for it certainly discarded the front wheels -and re- fills a need not supplied by touring placed them with new ones equipped car nor truck," w'th rims suitable for 31ee-inch tires, the scone size tie used on rear v,'heele. of Coffee Prohibited by Royal 13y doing this, one spare tae Ms all Drinking wheels, i gecree of Chares II. of England "After overhauling the c'hasls, I had in 1664, this light expre e body briilt to order,, It is made of good poplar; light, There is a tradit1011 10 1110 effcet strong, well built, and will stand! lots that coffee was found growing wild is of service. The driver's cab, with roll Arabia some SIX bnndred years ago by side curtains is comfortable in all lladji Omar, a dervish. Iladji Omar kinds of weather, 1 was crying of hunger in the desert, "After the wagon was completed when he found 5ene snail, round hee- 1 tried it out on errands to town. You rips and triad to eat them. They were. know I sell consiiderable seed corn by however, too bitter. After roasting mail, and thin wager proved ideal 'for them he finally steeped them in water delivering a few barbels to the expre s -' and found the decoction ;le refresh- affaee for hurry -up shipments, hug as if he had partaken of solid food. "ln selling by mail, success comes Upon his return to Mokha, he brought to tIite man vvho gets hrs orders filled his discovery to the attention of "tete promptly. When a person sends an W100 111011," who were so well pleased order he expects results at once, and therewith that they proclaimed 11u1Ji is in no humor to wait until I get Omar a suint. orders enough to justify using a two- In the Blhilotbe(Iuo Nationale at ton truck for delivery to the express Parts there is a manuscript written In office; and as the Operating expense Arabic by one Abdeicader, who 1(13013.3 of this utility wagon is merely a frac- that coffee was drunk for the first fifteenth "nu - tion of what it costs to run my two- time in Arabia in the ton truck, I finch it very profitable for tury. Other authorities have it that light jobs. coffee was used in Persia as early as "I•Iarvest came on with a rush last the ninth century, but there le little season, ard, as you know, we were evidence to bear out their contention. short on help. Well, to make a long Abdelcader'e story of the discovery story short, Elsie—she's only fifteen, of coffee is as follows: A certain Arab, you know—accomplished more with ('eutalleclbl, a judge 11) ,\den, while this handy wagon than four men could traveling to l'orsla,--or, us the his. tvia t:s correct the mamtsrript, to THE HISTORY OF COFFEE ARABIA AND PERSIA BOTH CLAiM HONOR OF ORIGIN. have done without A. "While I was busy with the wheat, Abyssinia, -- observed people using- sell sing she rushed tbe cream to market—we coffee as Medicine, Genuliedin so em - she sweet cream to the•ice-cream fay- played it, and was cured of an illness. tory above what is paid for our soar Later on, becoming a monk, he taught cream—brought bark needed •supplies, his brethren in Adam the use of the making the round trip in about a third beery' of the time necessary for a truck, She No opposition Co the USO of colloe delivered oil and twine to the binders, appears to have been offered until the and supplied the hands with fresh cool middle of the sixteenth century, when fromthe even. the Egyptian sultan sent a Hely gown, waternor, Chair Bey, to Mecca, 'l'hiti mover - Nope, (hits'wagon's not for sate. Its actual worth is about $300, but 111o' know 110111 g of the beverage, and became greatly enraged at the sight of dervishes drinking coffee In the nul(que5. Upon consulting with two i'ercien physicians he (be tied that coffee was a substitute for wine, w111c11 was prohibited by the Koran, and that, therefore, coffee drinking was a viola- tion of Mohammed's law. The result was a decree forbidding the use of coffee, All berries that could be found were gatheroll and burned in the mar- ket Platte. When Chair Bey reported his action to the sultan, It is said that he received this written reply: "Your physinimns are asses. Our lawyers and physicians in Cairo are better informed, They recommend the use of coffee, and I declare that 110 faithful will lose heaven becau?;o ho drinks it," Coffee at French Dinner Party. The honor of introducing coffee into Europe may be cuspated between the English and the French. There is, however, 00 interesting story ab{`ut t1 A doctor tolyl me the other day that distinguished Italian traveler, Pituro he was sorry to see I was suffering della Vaile. Writing from traveler, Putin• from 'Alopecia;' and I was on my ople, in 1615, he tolls a Roman friend way home to net, to (:urn my face to that he would teach Europe in whet the wall and never smile again, when manner the Turks took what lien calls Calve It appears by Le Grand's Vie I discovered that he meant 1 was going prIvee des I+'raucais that the cele - 1)012, braved desThavenot, in 1055, gave coffee Since then I have got hold of a afro' dinner, but that it was mumbler - Putting of ,the til nomenclature, ed to h5 the wlulm of an eccentric, and 1 have had the time e. my life in 511109 neither the thing itself nor its puttlug the wind in people, ncemanner of serving was Inviting, g, Teu 1 met a friend in the train who lad not had time to shave, 1 warned him years late' a Turkish ambassador at of the evils of lying abed, and said Parte macre the beverage highly fash- 11 that he already had `•hlype'triellosis; " fossa' e. An Anglo -Turkish merchant brought but dia not explain that it merely a Greek servant to Englaan in 1612, meant a to doctor'sony of Hair, I think who, kneeing how to 10051 and Urea: he watt a office instead of coffee, opened a ltou5e for its public his own. sale. IIe aunouncecl tiro fact by 15 - To a lesoneighbor with two particularly suing handbills to the following fact circuit: thirty lite 5000, I gravely reported „Tho ve1'tue of the folloe-llrink tics( were originally very few in that his children hall an unclean (110- publicly arable and sold in 101101at111 by number, In the time of -Edward I, thesis, aacl tlto only remedy was a Pasqua Resale, St, Michael's Alley, I was oat of luck. I took sick. Ire coarse oof balneolo It took his mained stowed away until I was on there were only three ""houses of call" gy' Co•nhiii, at the 01St of his own head," the point of becoming delirious from in London; in 1552 forty only were wife ten minutes to get them to the Feb ghoul,ttwenty yeti's niter that legally permitted in the Metropolis, but just after 1600 there were 400 inns in the City of London, "Boudoir' really means a '"sulkery," for it is derived from the French word meaning "to sulk," Thaekeray had a room in his house upon the door of which was a sign: "My sulker," and whenever that door was locked he was never disturbed, '"Dawrng-Room" is an abbreviation of "withdrawing -room;' which was originally the apartment in a house to which the ladies withdrew from the hall, which was the usual living and dining -room. The eastern of with- drawing after dinner is derived from "HOUSE" TIPS? the Norsemen, for the Vikings always dismissed women from their drinking A Collection of Facts About Domiciles bouts. Great and Lowly, Ancient A paper house was once erected In Hamburg, It was used as a restau- rant. Its walls were trade of double layers of paper end water -proof solu- tion. The roof and walls ter, fasten - and Modern. "Villa" formerly meant a farm and not a house, Board and Lodging in Japan is said ed together by lneatis of bolts and t0 have been obtainable for $15 a year, I hinges, so that it was collapsible • The Paper -longings for use on walls I dining -room was capable of luoolding were introduced into Europe from the , 150 people, There were 22 windows, East in 1675, 14 skylights, and the heating was ef- A Persian Carpet has been in use footed by Palm- a couple of isolated stoves. for Shah's 200 years in the main hall of 1 It cost /75 to build, and w the Shah's palace in Teheran. ;lar rendezvous in Hamburg, Coffee-houses were shut up in 1675 , by King Charles II., who denounced tram as "seminaries of sedition" Now Houses, prior to the war, cover- ed some 1,163 acres in London and su- burbs Wan average every year. The ex -Kaiser's palace in Berlin at one time kept 500 housemaids and 1,500 liveried footmen in employment. An onyx staircase in the mansion of a New York millionaire cost over £60,000, and is said to be the finest thing of its kind in the world, 1llosalc floors were known to the Egyptians 2,300 B,C, In Babylon, floors laid with small pieces of differ- ent colored stones set in regular pat- terns, were said to date from 1,100 B.C. - "Perry -built" houses were erected as far back as the clays of the Athens earthquakes, They were attractive buildings ontnide, but the faulty stones the ship. and rotten blocks soon caused a rapid "I foraged some food and water, and falling away of material from the intended to remain there until the end marble exteriors. of the trip unobserved I hoped But Inns g Y Pass the Sinopis, Pleasel fever. "When we were about sixty miles out, Sergt, Watson stumbled over me. The officers couldn't do a thing t0 1)10 then, and I saw one of 'em smile, so I knew I would see the land where they pay $100,000 for a man to get in the ring for three rounds." Ballantine lay for 20 hours lir his hammock with a temperature of 102. After being treated by the doctor, he tools his place and worked his way across. The six absolute necessaries for health are cereals, fresh vegetables, fruits, sugar, fats and intik, WELL pY rM ON TIME -13U1' NO SkiN OF MAGC((E1 SHE'S ONE HOUR ANU A HALF LATE floe ieLwe1T A LITTLE LUN�.tf,t?�• ..--J 'TWO "Hc1Uti" LATE • IC,UESS SWE ISN'T COMIN' SO ('LL GO h1OME. • 4't n D' doctor after I had written clown the the practice of drinking coffee lees diagnosis, and when he translated it vigorously oondeninorl, in 1064 litere to mean that they were constitutional- wag introduced the Wotpslt'a I'el:itiolt ly dirty, and wanted a course of bathe, Against Coffee, In the reign of Merles II. a royal decree closed the enffeo houses for a while, But after a short time the g©neral discontent against this ruling emboldened the merchants and retailers of coffee and tea to peti- tion for pemidsion to reopen, 'noir petition was granted, with the condi- tion that the houses night rennin It was merely the Latin for liquortre open for a certain period muter a se- It ginger, vero admonition that the "wasters" St ging means mustard, but your should prevent all scandalous papers, grocer cis met 15 m he stocks it, books and libels from being react in then, and should hinder every person from aproadrng scandalous reports against the government', she there and then dechlecl not to speak to me again. I-lowever, the boys do seem a little cleaner. The fond mother of a little girl brought her for the umpteenth tine to see us. I was tired, and told the child to accept slevens° and go out and get some glycyrrhiza and ziugl- her, and the mother suspected poison. azereapcsestriiieni 161 1(,1t- ° • .. U I'LL. 41 [�HE OF IS t' PIECE OF M`( MIND WHEN SHE 41Tb l-1OME FOR KElfPIr-1 ME S1'N't0IN ARGU.N°,.` LIKE THAT - , n1( wW`( 0ION'T `(OU MEET ME• LUCkiLV I WAS TWO N0UR5 L.ATE OR 1 WOULD PAVE IhEEM STANDIN4 THERE ALL THAT ,•�. TiM )WAITING \--1, FOR YOU' Kaiser Joke on the Hun. A droll story cotes from the Berlin newspapers. In the last session of the Workmen's Cottecid at Rathonow, in Mark Brandenburg, one of the men - bets drew attention` to the way in Which the tamers had been fleeced by a man who gave himself out to be a special Messenger of the ex•Kaiser.• Well lhress�l and driving a lune car, he appealed to the farmers to send through him parcels of food to their "starving lamperor," In touching words ho described tho short Nimmons on which the Dutch, no doubt at the instigation of the :Entente, kept 1110 woebegone and hungry laa5101', "The K.ai50r begged his Mork Brandenburg - os to sond hint a little footl" The thick always Worked, and the oar drove off loaded With eggs, flour and haat in the direetion of Amorongen. • p7 r.