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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-9-4, Page 3At the Parade 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' "p 6 r 0 000 7 1•I' .- n i !,t m C n I 41 l i 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. 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