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Roses for her, with boyish grace outflung!
She caught them joyously; her happy eyes,
That had not known, the depths of sacrifice,
Looked proudly into his ; their glances clung
An instant ere he marchod upon his way.
I could not but be glad, they were so gay,
elle and her ruses.
Roses? No, not these!
Roses would never wanton in the breeze
ze
Or toss their merry faces to the Auu.
Poppies, of course, poppies! Mad with mirth,
Now nodding gayly a 5'l to the fragrant earth,
Now straight and bold, their frolic never done.
They could not but be gay, for he who lied
Within that sacred earth is brave and young,
Aye, young and frolicsome as they -and wise.
I wonder is his careless arm outflung
Above his tousled head? I always crept
At night so softly, softly, as he slept
And tucked him warmly in against the chill.
No, No! I must not wonder so. I will
Not even think. Roses, every one,
Not poppies; roses, waren as is-ilER son.
I will be young and gay; my lips shall smile.
The friendly night will come each Little while,
And none need know that I and i'veak and old.
Roses for her -for ire a crimson leaf !
DEVON AES HEARD
DRAKE'S DRUIT
THE DAY THE GERMAN FLEET
SURRENDERED,
Devonshire Sailors Believe Great Ad-
miral's Drum Beat in Channel
on November 21, 1918.
:Of the Dons sight Devon; I'll quit
the port of !leaven, an' drum them up
the Channel as we drummed them
long ago,"
Every Englishman knows the pro-
phecy of Drape's drum as Sir Henry
Newbolt seta it forth in his West
Country song, and Bile is the talo, told
by Mr. Arthur election in Tho Outlook,
of how Devon men heard the great
Admiral's Arum on November 21, 1918,
the day of the surrender of the Ger-
man fleet.
"Ono of the ships was the Royal
Oak, chiefly manned by sailors of
Devonshire. She was flying on that
day a magniilcent silk ensign made
for her by Devonshire ladies. On her
bridge, GO feet above the top deck
was a group of officers: Admiral
Groat, Capt. illaclachlan of the Royal
Oak, the commander, and others, It
was soon after 9 o'clock in the morn-
ing when the German fleet appeared,
looming through the mist. Admiral
Grant saw then, and waited; he could
scarcely believe, ho says, that they
would not instantly open fire.
Heard the Drum.
"Then the drum began to beat on
the Royal Oak The sound was un-
mistakable; it was that of a small
drum, being beaten 'in rolls,' At first
the officers on the bridge paid little
attention, if any, to the sound, so in-
tent were they on the approaching
enemy But when it became evident
that the Germans were not to show
light, Admiral Grant Welled to the
captain of. the Royal Oak, and re-
marked on the boating of the drum.
The captain said that be heard it, but,
could not understand it, since the ship
was cleated for action, and every man
on board was at his battle -station.
The commander also heard, but could
not understand, and seat messengers
all over the ship to investigate, Twice
the messengers were sent about the
ship --about all the decks. They re-
ported that every elan was at his sta-
tion, Yet the drums contiullod to
beat, 'then the commander himself
made a special tour of investigation
through the Royal Oak. He, too,
found that ove'y.0414n was at his sta-
tion,
When Drum Stopped,
"All the while the British fleet was
closing round the German float, cot.
Ing to anchor i11 a square about it, so
that the German ships wore hennaed
in, And all the while that this was
being done, the noise of the drum was
heard at intervals, beating in rolls,
---------
All who heard it are convinced that
It was 110 sound of flapping stays or
any such occident. The ear of the
naval officer is attuued to all the
noises of his ship in fair weather and
in foul; it makes no mistakes. All
who heard knew that they heard the
rolling of a drnm.
"At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon
the German fleet was enclosed and
helpless, and the British ships dropped
anchor, so7110 fifteen miles off the
Firth of Forth, Tho utter, irrevocable
ruin and clisgrace of the German navy
was consummated. And at that mo-
ment the drum stopped beating and
was no More heard,
"But those who had hoard it, ad-
miral, captain, commander, other of -
MY MUSEUM
OF FRAUDS
Ilj
FISHING CONTESTS, J j
orit�rtP er s .a
A Common Event in the Rural Ole'
telate of England' An Atteleemtiee teereleint once had It wan a horse lane of (wilt and
Three hundred angtere stead or s11 P11 u lleatere tied neetlti '''..t hint life ! plate giose, with an uhf fusbioned
^^^ on the bank of the cariel in the glare life. This 014, ('itmc. I'11s114. wall have: ver Indian loch.
P N O Y0
1`i°hhe Art fl;fl haiia
ARTICLES DID NOT CONFORM TO or iho suulu,er sun. They :u•o in "ex-
tended order," and etretcrh nearly two
miles. A whistle is blown, Three'
hundred 1'eel•i are lifted up, 3.0 !!(teat
swish through the air and 300 bn1Unl
!looks fall lightly on the water. The i
Mang contest has begun.
This 144 tt remnant sight in the rural
parts of iIIugl'ud. In Yorkshire and
Lancashire !here are thonlanci•1 of
llshing clubs. and every club heel its
LAW'S REQUIREMENTS,
An lnspeotor of Weights and Meas-
ures Lets Us Into Some Secrets
of Fraudulent Business,
My first exhibit Is outside of t110
museum, for the simple reason It is match. Indeed, 1716 match Is runie-
far too largo to go inside it. times the enure of the club's 011141-,
It 1s n home-made wooden nlachlne, once, for men who are not angler3 10141
"lrttely the property of a gentleman," promote a club neleiy for the sake of
selling coals in, the streets of my East the duy in the country the (notch pro -
End district. vides.
It is a good, solid piece of work, The affair is worked on carefully
nothing shoddy about it, and the beaus regulate 1 lilies. A weekly payment
lips to an ounce or so. But it (the is Made fete the club. Prizes are
beam) has title defect --one arm is bought ranging from a caeo of pipes
nearly an inch longer than the other,
, with the resuie that on every quarter
(281b.) of coal this merchant was
making between 41b. to 51b, for him-
self.
Work it out, and you will see it
comes to about 3ewt. in a ton!
The fact that a trader is using un-
true scales does not necessarily prove
fraudulent intent on his part, The
small trader often uses cheap scales,
the balance edge of which is made of
soft eteel, whereas it should be a
to half a suite of furniture, and always.
Including the favored cepper kettle. ,
There are so many prizes that every
competitor may get one, even if 11e
does not attend the match; and some-
times, if the prizes are given out in
money, members may actually receive
more than they have paid 1(1.
The day of the conteet a two-mile
length of the canal is pegged out and
numbered, Competitors draw their
numbers out of a hag and proceed to
their stations. No man knows where
!unto edge of hardened metal. he will fish till he has drawn his num-
' When this soft edge becomes very bared ticket. After putting their
much worn (as in this pair of scalps tackle together they study the rules
stere), t11e resulting un tininess Is while waiting the starting signel,
quite as likely to be agahsst the trader Each man must stick to his peg and
as against the customer. In fact, 1f I not encroach on his neighbor's length.
pop into a tobacconist's to fill my Scouts patrol the lines to see that all
pouch and notice that the scale -edge is fair and square,
is blunt and worn, I shall patronize When the match is over rods are
him again, knowing that I shall prob- tauten down and luckless anglers de -
ably get more than my money's worth, part for the village inn, while those
because such a scale turns slowly. with fish stay at their pegs till the
Most scale frauds, however, consist weighers -In come down the line with
in putting something under the goods' scales and book the catches in terms
pan. The lump of suet is an ancient . of weight and numbers These are an -
but still successful dodge, because its pounced later at the inn.
ficers and men of all ratings, held presence can be explained away as ac- Do not jump to the conclusion that
cidental-it walked along the counter these affairs lack sport or interest,
and got underneath the pan. No two matches aro alike. Some -
A Make -Weight Plum. times a hundred contestants may not
"Accident," however, won't explain catch a dozen pounds of fish among
the discovery under the pan of this them, and a prize of a halt a ton of
tin price -ticket, or, rather, two of coal may go to a man with an ounce
them tied together (the sort used by of fish. Another time the catch may
cheap butchers); or of this table- be reckoned nearly in hundred -
knife, from which I got a nasty cut weights, and the winner may have 10
when both ,I and its owner sinful-, or 15 pounds of fish to his credit,
taneously grabbed for it Also, no
satisfactory explanation was forth-
coming as to -the presents of this
piece of brass foot -rule under a scale.
Here is a cupboardful of weights,
and all of them "duds." The usual
method of manipulating a weight is to
scoop d.hole In the bottom and 01111 it
with putty, cork, or anything soft and
light, afterwards smearing it over
with dirt or paint,
then and now one belief as to that
rolling music. They believe that the
sound they heard was that of 'Drake's
Drum'; the audible manifestation of
the spirit of the great sea captain,
present at this hour of the tremendous
triumph of Britain on the seas. This
Is the firm belief of them all,"
TAXING THE WEALTHY.
Rich People in Old Country Hand
OVER HUGE SUMS.
According to an estlntf$te prepared
by the Board of Inlaud Revenue in
Great Britain and issued as a White
Paper, there are 148 taxpayers In
England who have income of $500,000
and over per year, The taxable in-
come of these few people is no less
than $137,000,000, and they pay in in- This fraud, however, is exposed the
come tax and super tax 966,760,000. moment the weight is reversed -at [lie of Camberwell Grove, which at i
In spite of the high wages generallyleA'et, to anyone at all sharp. one time formed part of the grounds I
Prevailing there are no fewer than Here is a brass weight. Looks all of Lettsom House. John Lettsom, who
2,490,000 people who have incomes be.; right, and is ofilctally stamped on the lived there in the latter part of the
tween $650 and $800 per year, the top. But there is no stamp on the bot- 18th cenury, 4was one of he most ex -
majority of these being rlieved from tom, which, moreover, is rough in- traordinay men •of his day. A Quak-
the operation of the tax by abate -stead of being smooth. er physician and a great philanthro-
meets and allowances. There are In About an eighth of an inch had been Piet, he used to sign his prescriptions'
all 1,940,000 persons so relieved, whit , carefully filed off the bottom. "1 Lettsom," which signature oc-
8,408,000 are chargeable with the 1 Then there is another weight -or, ca.eloned the following doggerel:
rather, the two halves of a weight, for \Vhon any patients call in haste, !,
it was only by splitting it open that I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em;
For the Blood is the Life. we could discover its secret, namely, If, after that, they choose to die,
Prehistoric superstitions, starting a cork core, round which the metal Why, what cares I?
I lets 'em:'
with the idea that the blood was the had been east, Iti
Somewhere in the East End is an was here where the hero of Wil•
seat of life, gave rise to the prepare- "artist" who evidently specializes in !late Blacks romantic novel, "itladcap
lion of draughts of blood and to bath- Violet" stayed, and the cottage and
ing in blood, as medicinal and theca- 2oz' weights.
p90(10 agents to relieve suffering and They are solid, but half an ounce or grounds are fully deeeribd therein.
to erne disease. When Pope Innocent so light. Their only visible peculiar]- The house is Indeed a singular sight,'
ty is that the figure "2" is somewhat and briuge Into London's busy
VIII. was on his deathbed three boys clumsily made --a "freehand" effort. thorouglltares a refreshing suggestion'
aged ten years were bled and their I Whenever I come across one 00 these of the country. I
blood was instilled into the Pope. The r -
peculiar "2�' I know without toating
subject continued to be debated. I it that the weight is a "wrong 'un," A Thousand Years Old.
At Oxford in 1665 direct trausfir The gem, however, of my weights A turtle pleasuring six feet from
siou of blood irgm one dog to another section is this lump of lead, moulded ]lead to tail and five feet across Its
was delle, the clog receiving the blood and painted to resemble a Inc fat shell, the head being fifteen trines in
having been bled previus!)' to syn-
cope. In 1824 a solution of common
salt was used instead of blood, and
by the use of the salt solation it was
found that a dog could be recovered
which had been almost bled to death, transferred to bag or basket. ft age was estimated at 1,000 years,
014(1 whirls would have inevitably disci might be doing duty still had not a The probable reason for the purchase
if the salt solution had not been used, passing policeman, being in sportive and freedom given to the turtle is
During the groat was universal em -
mood, helped himself to it and taken that thereptile is a sort of sacred em-
ploytent of blood and salt solution' re1
Igo !)'curt)' bits! ble
for infusion into the veins of wounded a ni, and Cftinenian who can set
soldiers ham been the means of sav-
London's Thatched Cottage.
Lovers of old-time practices will be
interested to know that, within three
miles of the city, a thatchr is now
busily engaged in putting a new root
on a charming old Camberwell cot-
tage, built well over 200 years ago,
says the London Moriring Post. The
thatched house, probably the last or
its kind in London, stands in the olid -I
tuxes.
plum, ch•cumferuce, was caught by Japanese
It used to repose, with other plums, fishermen and 1'0]eased by Ah Long,
on a coetor's barrow, going into the Chinaman, who paid $50 for the privi- I
goods' pan with them, but being deft- lege of giving the turtle Its freedom,
ly retrieved- as the purchase wets The turtle weighed 800 Ib„ and Its •
•
ing tens of tllonsauds or lives
Paper 'awl the lyVhcel
Who invented the wheel? Where
did this device which revolatlonlsed
transportation originate?
Nobody knows. It dotes back long in-
to the prehistoric, like many other in-
vontions which aro anion the innate,
mentals of civilization.
Who invented the water -oleo], by
whicrt evntel'pewol' was !hada avail-
able, Who invented the potter's
wheel?
The prayer -wheel is a Chinese 111-
ventiou, It is a small water -wheel,
around the axis of which is wr0ppp1 a
strip 00 fabric bearing a written of
Printed prayer. The wheel is plaocd
in a running stream, and oa011 rovoln-
tlon of it le equivalent to a recitation
of rho prayer, It is a valuable Wier -
saving idea.
It in not at all unlikely that all the
above-mentioned ]rinds of 10110010 were
invented by tho Chino:to, They were
probably ih'st to discover tho P115141•
bllftles of wnl.or-powe' for driving
nuwhinery,
The Clhlueee were unqueitlunebly,
the inventors of peper, and operated
Papel' mills donbtless In tho days of
the Phernolle, when tho people of
highly civilized Egypt had nothing,
better to write on than papyrus, made
from strips of recti ---poor stuff, unsuli-
:;trultiai and perishable,
All rho books of the Bible lvet'o
ortgiaally written on papyrus. Parch-
ment was not•known in Remo until
the first century of the Christian era,
No paper wee used 1(n Europe up to
the tenth c n1a1•y, A,D., except what
was importod front Asia,
An itrgenious Chlnamah hit upon the
idea of rednrlig rags to a perp, 111x-
ing the latter with plenty of water,
!louring the diluted mixture out upon a
frame, and pe'mltthlg it to dry slowly
111 sheets, The mime method, substan-
tially, 1,1 used t0 -day for making paper,
With a (dream lend water -wheel to
furnish power, the paper 1(4i31 was a
"gale,!'' COlteel'n."
Long ago the Chinv90 seem to Wee:
Oven 0p inventing things, All trio
Hanle, their 141(41114 110111041 a lot to give
tivltiztttiou its original boost,
Here is a pint bottle of the sort one free In the ocean considers him -
used by dairymen supplying special self especially blessed,
milk for invalids and children. Au interesting ceremony* followed
Faked Bottles For Short Measure. the fleancial transaction, Ah Long
A flue stout bottle -rather too stout, feel the turtle with leveret bowls M.
especially at tho bottom, w111c11 is over sake,tho favorite alcoholic drink of
an inch thick, And instead of a pint, the Japanese, and, accompanied be• ars
it holds throe -quarters, if so much, A many friends ns meld bo ncc0nuno-
peculiarly meat, dirty fraud! dated in two sampans, sailed mit to
Hero is et milk -can, which (accident- Son, The 11(1'110 was 1•eleesed after
ally, of course, Hurst have been sub- many prayer's had been said.
---,e-
jected to pretty rough usage, for the
sides and tho bottom are bulged 111- A Lighter Totioh,
wards, and it gives about los, short
111ea:1111'e,
This next ono Is it milkman's meas-
ure. 1'erhnps his then was too hard
Ono of the effects of weir seems to
be a bettor plltloeophy in the pinging
of genies, 1iujoro young men who
lived tlto ahelte'od life wont out to
up to 5110111), him with a bettor one, light, games were the moot important
Anyway, there le n jagged rent 111 the tilhlg in a gond ninny live., and the
5(110, through which, 00 c00ree, , 010 evil fortunes of games gm darkest. dip.
milk escaped freely ns he ladled 14. out. appolntniotits, It is pot that the re-
Mogeuree fqr holding pons, pea11tstH, tllrllel soltlfer is lees keen on genteel
pia, aro i 501511)' n'faltocl" by 10011115 9 f 59 13!0)'1 11044(1, it(1, llldotlrj, ofte(t (11•
" slots im illi+ i k tltelti Ins 1t
f so bottoms, This 1130!1 is Quail p D 0
df•endful disttglilttos, keit 11e seer!]
now to brief li Rotor to41015 to (145113,
Wawk any 00 ()P Immo li (Awe
on suhurbap epulis t14j 041;1(4!3 OS
you will 800 far lens 01509gq, j1j t1P i
you will Inter n groat decal Mare tij1
Y jit
)
tar over feeble tteoltOO, The player
cullfeeeea that So 10 1110110111) pluytnt{
von' !10(11)', 100t01111 oi; blult1111j1 1ilg
pariner, the I1 itt, the court, and 1110
world in 501191111,
nl d y
discovered, but there is a circular
wooden measure which 50illo years ago
111 first puzzled oto offielais.
It le properly sttunpcd close to the
rho, end there Is 110 false bottom, yet.
it holds conehlerebly fess than it
should do,
The too inheniuns owner had re.
novo11 tlu, !mitten and then rn riilv::d
it after tutelar.; ,Theoric •�o'l tee vet,: 41 by
a 50,4(1 inch. 1,1 c, . ,1,, eco n5' 11114
becu a hit oi' 0 rite is eenteii 1,y the
great leo tinlm e i for (( ois 1413 04,10)'
011 "Murder He a Flee _eq."
This men lelethad a„t eluug well
with the mai (41S. 1(111 441.0 of i1114 ':er.
Vents had had ti quarrel ever a :;Irl
whom they had w•,001. The merc,laut
interfered in the affair. The ensuce-
eeesfnl :mite', one Lej, began to fuel
trouble. and hie ri o' 1, the hue1r_nd,
xarnr 1 the a erelai11 etednet idm
Nth• 11, l eeee,ned for ''r[re 115Onthe.
Then the nor, h:o,t went Neel on busi-
ness. 011 his'•rdurn lie Was 101(1 that
Laj had been caught in left, bedroom
and lurke'! un.
In the 1'e et this ux 14044 trouble. Ti'o
notch 1 t called 111: eervanta and hod
a the el:ere 131•,1 11 made of the house.
They examined every trua?t, bureau
and bedstead, 'very picture, ntatne
and crevice In the wall and crack in
the floor, exporting to lied a hooded
cobra or some other poisonous reptile.
They ecrutlniOed every knob, handle
and garment to See whether it had
been smeared with poleun or with
Juices that attract venomous crea-
tures. Tben they seerched the wine
cellar, the pantry and the storeroom.
But they found nail:leg.
The merchant was tired and after
eating went to the cabinet where he
kept his cigars,
I As he- wall ahoy! le 1410.411 the, liey
1n the keyhr,l'. I1'j'4 , nn 5's=Ertl rival,
who had beta active in the (,(01,41*,
died out tint, eon''' (4140 hall been mod..
111(145 with Ili loch.
An c ,nuliwalon of the keyhole re-
vtand trace of Wax. When they
' opened the 0,.41 the 1(Nrrinu,1 f+)oad
Ove ythlnrl 111541'44144 unt 1m hn.l. Five
he: ee (f deers were utiop"nod. Ile
had opened the sixth before he went
away and reword a f _4t cigars, As
holook t!iis box tip 11. noticed 611 it
the in,tl:s of dirty fingers. -
The c tears looked ae If they had not
' been diohlrt, ,d. 11e 101:e about to take through the trill. And, believe me,
one when k n ,t(e•od rt„,t 30,1191 1114,
ts•ni Wtotw with 14'' hal. A eecernl 1544119 is no rnvluns teeet. They must
and e, third were 111:e tele lirst. In give no 1100,1 to breeking their netts
early ft S1011 11, almost Imperceptible and generally flirting with tlelit11, al -
rose t4u',n had been hr erred ant! nn 11100511 it meet be sold. in fairness,
it 'wee a dab of teem: slime still that all 51/10011 precautions are taken
moist. r, lire same color z, 141' tiger. t.0 prevent ,Trcitient0.
1•erd4ng cunvlured that tire• 03!;010 Ju.;t why the actors should be called
wt;ic7 POisoiled, 1771, merchant, sat,
upon to place themselves in the path
ldwhnal0f 17a(1 n w1r1ote5' a nut • to 11,++ pours.114444 1e1x(4:t3r1e1nnlolty a!bmrrantcoh uondtehr-
e
with Laj under gourd. Thu, merchant acting profession? Why, therefore,
(41.410,1 the case to 1316 0flleor anal, telt, e0neert 1hen1 into acrobats? perhaps
1104 one of t1( r i garee In arled It to L9j the bestexplanation the players give
with the coluuratrd, "Take it and is that they are out to entertain mil-
stnokn 11." lions of picture entlumiests, and the
The man refused. His guilt was best way is to put sensations across
the screen. It 18 111 executing these
Hutt the risks are involver1.
Probably the biggest railway spec-
tacle in the history of motlon•pictures
was recently st9Ked at Milltown, New
Jersey, USA., on a spur of the .Bari,
tan River Railroad. The stunt eves
for n train, comprising one old loco-
nlatiVe and three carriages, to tau. In.
laughs in her sle9ve at his canreit, to the water when passing over aknowrlKlik what e has fore- bridge across a lake.
stalled ing him nearlyall stvery tingshBrave Men at the Handle.
This 10155 accomplished by erecting
a trestle especially for the occaeion.
It joined the main line seventy-five
feet from the shore, and had a sharp
.curve of one hundred and seventy
FACING A •
RAILWAY DISASTER
DARING STUNTS PERFORMED FOR
THE "MOVIE" CAMERA.
Railroad Dramas Asa Anything But
Tame Productions For Those
Who Meke Them.
The pr.,1u, .ug of r railwey thrll]eT
does not end h; tlle. te0514g 0f a
benne!: lime ,1 bract- of loeomotivea,
turd six or seven c. rriuges. Time task,
in feet, has hardly begun, far the
director has yet to put his players
proved.
revetatictn such meesures meet now be
officially stamped inside close to the
bottom as well as at the rho.
Finally, though there are many
other curious things in my museum,
is a whiskey measure, so shaped that
even if you turn it upside down an ap-
preciable amount of liquor is retained.
ENGLAND'S NATIONAL DEBT.
War Has Left a Legacy of Thirty BII-
lions and End Is Not Vet.
AS 15 0(1010 5. 1400110nT1110 VanOae
economic questions stands by itself.
They are all more or less closely re-
lated. The matters of industry and
production intimately affect the car-
rying of the huge war debt, In Aus-
tin Cllmabertain's recent preference
budget it was placed at $38,400,000,-
000. If •there be substracted from this 1
total the loans to allies and the Bri- 1
tish dominions perhaps $8,400,000,000, 1
theannual Interest at 5 per cent, on
the balance 00 $30,000,000,000 is $1,-
500,000,000. Not only must Great Br1- I
tern carry this war debt together with
a sinking fund for the ultimate extinc-
tion of the principal, but she mist
meet Heavy demands arising from the
war, such as heavy pensions, aids to
families of dead and maimed soldiers
and all the outlays of demobilization
and reconstris"tion-in addition to the ,
burden of a normal budget for the or-
dinary expenses of government. 1
This estimate i5 the very minimum
for the future. For 1919.1920, how-
ever, the charge for national debt ser-!
vice is $1,800,000,000, while the total
expenditure is $7,174,550,000. Under
all the high pressure of war necessi-
ties the total income for the same year
is placed at 96,005.500,000. From
taxes alone 94,700,000,900 is counted
upon.
Thus, 1(1 brief, we get a view of the'
prodigious burden placed by the war;
on British industry. Can her industry
withstand this pressure? The war de-
mands can be met only by taking out
of the country's production enormously
greater stuns than was ever dreamed
of in the past. If her productive ef-
ficiency can be increased by greater of.
fort on the part of all the factors of
production, the task can be performed,
But if anything should be introduced
into the -situation which would lower
the output for the same units of labor,
capital and management, then the tasit
may well be regarded as insuperable.
NATURE ALWAYS FiRST.
Well Provided With Equivalent of Al.
most All lelodern Weapons.
Man pats himself on the back about
his newest achlevenleet=, but Neturo
During the war we returned to ar-
Iluonr, Just as eve went back to hand
grenades, 10ng thought to be a wornt-
Iout. device, and what is barbed wire
' but the chevaux-de-friao modernized?
But the rhinoceros wee armour- feet.
!plated millions of years ago, and the qtr expert took charge of the dyne-
! porcupine and hedgehog provided mating arrangements and everything
with barbed-wire defences, not to was carefully tiered. The engineer
mention the tough bide of tho ole- was told to fix the speed at fifteen
phant, the shell of the turtle and miles per hour before deserting the
snail, and the impenetrable husk of cab. The eight camera men, stationed
the armadillo! at different pointe, desired to get a
There is hardly a modern weapon panorama as the train made fie fatal
which the big game hunter cannot - journey, for if the train travelled any
show samples of, taken from Nature's teeter it would blur our the film. But
armoury. The tusk of the boar is a the engineer had evidently opened the
fine dagger, and that of an elephant throttle too wide, for the train slid by
at dcuble the speed. The dynamite
near the end of the trestle exploded,
sending the train and the supports in.
to the water.
The front of the engine came to a
rho great tWro•hamded weapon standstill within a few feet of the
of Goliath. and the tiny blade of the dare -devil operator, who was busily
French fencing -master, filming the wreck on a small platform.
Poison gas has its prototype in Na- Everybody present feared that the
tm•e The spunk "an keep off most locomotive would knock the platform
over and dispatch the young man to
the icy depths below, Although he
was spared this fate, he was simply
i Iii animals of the 'deer and gazelle
type one gets every variety of sword
and lance and bayonet, short and long,
thin and thick, the rapier, the broad-
;ord
Editor Who Became Lieut, -Coronal.
When Lieut.•Colanel David Watson
gave up his editorial chair in Quebec
in 1914 to tike his volunteer battalion
to France he little dreaniod that lie
Would return to his native country as
Major -Gen. Sir David Watson, IGC.B.,
With a reputation second to none as aI
divisional leader.
of its enemies by the terrible effluvia
it can create at will, whilst the poison
fangs of many serpents come under
a similar category. They are methods deluged with sprays of water sent up
of frightfulness in which many in- by tale plunging train. Yet this did
sects take an active part. Then we not deter dram from continuing to turn
Have our own polecat, which is a the handle,
pasttrnaster at poison gas. In the Nick of Time.
Electrified wire defences are an old But this was not all, for Mr. Film -
device in the animal world. as the ray, .Producer believes in getting lila
the Jellyfish, and the electric eel can Producer
worth. Now. for then grand
prove. Even the device of sending up finale. Dynamite was placed inside
a smoke -screen more than
ie as old es the hills,
far than one fish loos this very the engine, which floated on the sur.
thing in order to escape from its lace and exploded unite satisfactorily.
swifter enemies. This nice realistic incident, twhen
seen on the tweet, was dubbed as a
"boiler' explosion."
In the wrecked cars were dummies,
Now that pearls are so rapidly tee' and after the wreck, the twenty odd
creasing in value, it is sad to think' players who were cast a9 the passel'.
that some are perishing in the Louvre. =gars jumped into the lake from a float.
Sime, Thiers bequeathed to that in. There was, however, a genuine ring
etitution a marvellous pearl necklace, about the cries for help and attempts
which within a few years fell e. vie- to rescue each tither, for the water
1111 to the mysterious disease defined was very chilly and they nearly all
by experts ns• a fort it starvation, caught cramp. A skiff was immedi-
ately despatched from the shore, and
Starving Pearls.
and for this reesnn jewellers main- eventually rescue
d the party,
tate that they should be worn on the only in the nick of time.
baro shin. If the Louvre necklace Earle Williams, time star, however,
could be worn for a time time pearls managed to swim ashore with the help
would recover their metre. But, ac- of a bon although several times he
cording to the will of ;limns, Thiers, it seemed to ba on the verge of ainiting.
must not be removed from its case, He wits in an exhausted condition,
so the pearls are gradually becoming Tho railway scenes for another 1(n•
more unsightly and shrivelled, and Portant production, "The Taint" were
must ultimately be loot to time world. tauten in New Jersey by permission of
The Lure of the N � :h Pacific
The cod fisher of the Newfoundland
banks, the trawler of Grhnsby, Have •
been immortalized In song and prose,
but little has been told of the "hall -
butte," the fomiess fisherman of the
north l'ocillc who often faros up into :
the elfadow of the Arctiti to ha've;,t •
cid bank or to search for new ones,
15'),lifo of the halibut fisherman 13
one of chrnee and of hardiness, lvo'
voyage to too I0n1", no paoeng0 ton
dangerous for 111114 to navigate, in
What may spent to 1a11411tihb110 like a'
the sea, The dally thrills, the bade
natter of the game with death he
plays, are calls which he cannot re-
sist, Like the lumbe'jeck, who is al-
1r71y8 going to quit the woods when he
makes n static, the sailor who is 111 -
ways going tri quit the sea nest 00yng0
unit 1140 preslu'etol• who is always go-
ing to (1011 [1114 frills when he makes a
strike, the helibutter always swears
orf whet he hos made a successful
trip -•• and invariably goes back.
The cruise of the halibut boat may
extend from three weeks to as many
littlo toy ship quilt fol' tl)o alelterorl mouths, deaen,ling on the dietance to
venters oe:mule boy or inlet and Aqulh• the batiks, which aro selected aoonrd-
pad evith 13;311 s.tertelee. fey ciorlet+, hug to emote Tho boats are worked
1;1Q1t?llc1415tt11„ t} e'ee Mee, 1',100 l,efu a t;y t)l!p,j.._pits•third to the bent, two.
!
the Wharton Railroad, An engine
was purchased with the intention) of
converting it into scrap iron for the
filet,
Aches and Paine All Over.
The perilous task tile hero had be-
fore trim was to elude his attackers by
letting tire engine rip at a terrible
pace. All went well until rise slding
hove in sight, when the star leaped
over the embankment. The frills hp -
made down that steep bank would
have done eredit to a trained acrobat,
Ho was all aches and bruises after -
1 wards,
The. camera Hann set up .his camera
just a few feet from the ditch where,
the engine was to fall. It enure
east that it threatened to dash into his
camera, but luckily it elided its aourae
just a few feet away, sending stleatte
i of earth and stones over the plucky
operator,
the Wind hied (( ((35' reeve 111,3)' reel' 111!!,!4 (9 they rle}v of from sir to clgis-1 \'I19 quill, will now say that rail -
111e11' 114..0 above the surfatl0, but the • t';:t1 11311*, rneludirlg the ('0011,'11114 spa 1(314 nig 0110 tone productions foe •
ry
tiny nttliiliary achnollord of 17(44 halt. owner of th:1 erat't usually is Its ntlVH• 11(010 171(a melee tllelu?
1?.Ilt 103'1 nllnch 11nt 171(1 lbutr.mr, boeaua0 30;14 It ie n4t, Ito tuerememp tlti)1li tu{'
t1?py (4410 111159(01'S of it }lana!!)'. the t1 144,111 141 retail) 010511 45 cruise tvitll
llililbtlttei' are It sturdy i0t''t110 1071; $b,000 lq 1«1;,0041 114, 00 fi'po11 halibut Whitt makes the lantiicape look se
t frig O( (bSq b )3(4 14 1414).1, nlel lb .n 1 of 0te;nd 1-v on leo i,7 its 14(31(18, T1)191 ,. fair!
ry )) 12
tl)o hili s...afa}rte nt+a4,nl taojl of, too bt'f-itatj a tnalhot Drive of from J.,. �.d -c, bright perfume the
�' , What blossoms ms 1 g pa
t?se's' t}'1ieel of the ' 14,91 311431',a(gi', ' 1.8 cents a 1Otantl at the docks, netting air;
1710 00117lef The lure Which draws the owner o7, tubo lucky beat ubaut
5. r drt , Whitt plant: repays the farmer's tolls'
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ti h 111 141 f l i' t 1 crew 1c Xlti •t n +,
the Xigq,llo,l01, t 1 11 tete l r i, 1.13 •Ari Mill enrich rho worn-out soil/
X119 ralulhow," 11141414 1'.:' 1 '1le;(.ter 1.0 X1,1400 apiece fol' throe months' vv0rit. Alfalfa!