The Brussels Post, 1919-10-23, Page 2A Motorcycle Pointer.
Do not neglect the rim of your
Motoreycle. If you happen to lose n
Spoke or two from a wheel (and there
areefew of us who are se foetunate
to escape the lees of spolete in the
nurse of a year) do net think that a
couple of spokes more or leo make
no difference to the wheel. If such
were the case the eantrfacturer would
have left them out in the first pine.
Replace broken spolcce rts 00011 ws
poseeble, if yen wish to keel your rim
straight and true, *Test as soon ei
Ocke L. broken the rim will have a
tendency to pull sideereye at the mint
where the spoke was attached.
The same thing atipliee to leoee
ookes. It is surprising how quid
the spokes will looeen up, and the
rim warp in eonsequenve, if the wheels
are not inspected and spokes tighten-
ed frequently.
After et rInt has been warped for
.sonte time, due to unequal tenelen of
Spokes, it is eractieelly impressible to
straighten it by tighteaing the lease
spekee. It seems to get a permanent
warp, and a new rim is the only intro..'
I do- not convey the idea that it
is dangerous to nide a motereycle with'
loose or missing spokes. for a wheel
with one-third of its etie414e7 raiesing-.
if net all in one place -will carry the
rider with perfect safeta. If you have
an resident and rip out some sneeee,
do not hesitate to nide home, but if
you wish to keep your 13 heels true,
replace the .spckes as soon as..peetsible.,
It Paid Cs To Haul With Truclej
Any 'practical way that a farmer'
can save both time and money repre-:
Gents an enemy. T. has been pointed
out that the ado time of the motor
truck or the ferieation of a motor
express would be an economy to a
large number of farmers. Here is a.
concrete illustration:
During a period of warm weather
we had left front a herd six head of
fat hogs which we desired to send tell
the local peeking house. The psteking
plant is about four miles from here,:
and to ,send 11.- hogs in a wagon would
require the better pert of a morning
for a team and hand, St.) we called in
a mo or Luc's, t e charge for the trie3,
being $1.50.
On our home scales, before leaving,1
the eke head weighed 1,244 Kends.
At the packing plant they weighed
1,280 poen s, the shrinkage on the,
trip being 14 pounds. The time be-
tween the farm and packing plant was:
about twenty minutes.
If we had taken these hogs in a
wagon the loss from shrinkage, as!
peet experience has proved many 1
tunes, would have been between four
and six pounds a head. Taleiw four:
pounds as a fair basis, the total Ioss1
would have been 24 pounds. The!
truck, therefore, saved the difference'
between 24 and 14 pounds, or 10
pounds. The hogs brought 1744 cents
a pound, ao the 10 pounds repreeented,
a saving or 81.72, and the truck man'
charged $1.50 for hauling. We made
22 'cents by hiringt k and tbe
work was all over in len than an:
hour. On looking at it in a compare-
th-e way with the wagon and truck:
Wagon Charges
Team, 11 day at $3 30.75
Driver's time, % day .75
24 ths. shrinkage at 317.25 cert4.14
Total charge ir.5.64!
Truck Charges
Big English Estates Airplanes May Hep
1 Being Sold. Farming.
Melly of the big t
esates of English It may happee in the future when
I -
I no iced. due t•O the intereet in thiege
41181131 the e•ay.
Nt night there is the constant
ught that some ol,etecle or sharp
lute mae• be lurk bite ehtettl,
sei mely you :hive Mire s14,w1y,
The meter bas a lenereage of its
• own that ,o very ceey teelereteni
if me will but give it his oar. Here
are eeme of the things it will be say -
to you: •
(eve me feed and ileink 441 modera-
te: :; don't 4' 11)111 me. Give me a tree i
digeetime so I can thoroughly dieeet
me eeed. whieh is the gee mieture,
aII thue show my beet petier.
eDe not give me too :'oh mintures
of feed and a weak eperle for 'that
Rade 3111? lo. ard econ I tell le, all
eiteled up with verliert 411,1 lieve n
bad liver and heart, and 1 will pant
eenee .::01:11; up the bille. lIctier give
?no 1014s gas, mere arel r. nole hot
spar& which to censume it, In
t1131 E'ay iny eyeeelere will keep (dean
anji I won't be afraid of the 11111$.
Then I will purr." •
First Aid For London
• Streets.
The Eaglieh have elweys pritled
.1enneelves et, time' yowls and those
eho he driven eers over the eobble.e
of not Lbern ['ranee 11111414 ofion peayed
for the old Sortie Reeil egain. aiost
of London streets were excellent be-
fore the war. but during the struggle
,,arit - of labor preveeted them from
l'PvelviEr. Droller 1,tittiiiion and the
liettry truffle severeiy damaged the
eurfaee,
In this field. at any rate, recenstrne-
that has begun hi earnest. Great
314115 ef weed Weeks tine the pave -
mems of Oxford Street and the repav..
ing that Street is well under way.
Oxford Street is the first to twelve at-
tention, but all the principal streets
of the West End are going to be re- ,
paved,
As regards to wood paring it is in-
teresting to note that while most people
think it v thing of reeent invention,
it waft 1118(1 in London as long ago as
1S39-hexagenal blocks of fir wood be -
1 WII 11.11 llii.VO given to the wt• want raht that we will get It by
otetutryside tereat Illetein that mettes of airplanes, sap; a Landon
; charm of old-world atmosphere 1414111011 intigagille. The disreVery thst
nlr-
1 made it et) attruettee to tenriets, planes ntight he used to (guise clouds
:tee (10014(401, ,)(4'(t1.1 te London newe- end so rain, was made quite aecident-
papers. if the preeent 144)1) )'Y lo the ally on the weetere event _tiering tee
real estate 4414 1'1&'t In the P,ritieh lsles war.
80144 1001 O',) fine morning, with not a Outlet
Heavy taxellon. :eventing to these In sight, long 1.•tilling /donde suddenly
papers, hue eempelleti many old main- began to appear. 'Weather experts,
files to dispose of their vaet tierce, notleing these eurioue long, cicalae ale
end while tee eetates are belie; eager- peering when the sky should have
ly bought. in few eases Is an etTert been perfeetly clear according to 81414)'-
11137)184 by the now owners to J'88'3 14 casts, saw that some (111,ttmet, ahead
them in their entirety. Ae a result, tif each eletitl an airplane,
leralane bide fair to temente in the tad What happened, was this, The air
distant 7'() 111,')' a 110t1( '11 small land- always eentaine a ecrtaln amount of
101'114.weather betenues
.tly fateillee of 111,, three 'estate cooler water fuel if thtitle water forms into ('14)0)114331111031 e
i\e
ctoss, while retailing pert 1,1 intimately fulls as rain. Tim /lila
their property. Imre found it neves- plauee !Leiria about, when the weter 10
story to eel op other pttrts Ito entail , the aht is otsoitosivo., set Up 18141,1 ciltr-
itortionts to sell. Others hart:, sold teats whioli oeol 4118 air und 1140 fortu
outright to itiontbors of the elass olorils,
eeeent rleh eretetee 111.i, war, Who Oliteri fainters have been expect peg
theniselvee heve theeoeeti of parte o1 rein mut ail the eigne have foretold
the accptiree eetetee to 1411)1! 1414 ewe- It ie (muting, but it. Just won't fall; A
ors. row airplanes, bowever, flying at the
The old-style squire, it 10 3)ght time, may bring the rain down
preeicted, 7')') '3 will 1,e a rarlle. or will end cheer the farmers up. There Is no
entirely have ilieepeeeree. • The type doubt that will tell ns a vast
of country .,:e.-teeeinee, 14. (0 took 11 per- I timeline, about the we:alter '7140 13), pre-
sensl int40"0..t 411 his tiietint-s Will he gent done miderstand, and In the
00 e illage 1iIO eell be eme• l future we shall 1)e able to mitre! end
pletely• eharged beenuse of the new prediet weether much mere truly than
teaee. of tenants. we (71' 14 new.
incidentally, it is repelled that the 1
cherished institution of fee hunting is House.Buildi
ng in Australia.
being spoiled. Sinee- Many emelt
The Federal Housing Commiesioner
farmers own their lenils outright,- and
of the Commonneelth of Anetrella
shiee these lands repreeent to them
etates that operations for building
tIIeiv !iruig, 1118(1144')' 11'fl1.410g to 1't
houses for retuened soldiers and (111'
1118 hot:nth; .incl riders paes over tlull
penitents of deceased soldiers will be
fields. And -as the hind Is beeemine
commenced very soon and will be
more tool more cut up into slPtill
cels. the huna
ters re 1111 14143, thinn• Pushed as e"Pid1Y as P""Ible' Th"
selves more and 411010 restricted. ehortage of dwellings is serious and
there is an unfortunate Beard ty of
building materials.
Electricity hi the Offico
It Is surprising what a large num-
bey of electrical iloyleee are 3.333alayed
in the modern businese onion. OE
0141)189,e, timely every 01110e now has
('114(1114' lights, ('1814811(3('1814811(3fanec
s, eltric!
Call 110115 and bliaSers, to say nothing
01 1118 telephone; but there area num-
ber of important Mlles appliances re-
cently developed which operate by
(411414114111 power,
One of the most important • ()Mee
1111(111111051111(11111105 of to -day is the 11(11111131i11(11111131ma-
chine. Once upon a time 1414 adding
machine Nvoillit du teething but add,
but now they will eubtract, divide 11)1)111)1)1111111 thdy as well. The operator of one
of these machines 111 an 1401 (7111111)131
department begins by noting a ('1
411'
e-
tuers ' old balance, registering the
emoted by touching the 141(11111'operating btu' intend of pulling the
lever, tie Woun
Would Iso eees,tarY 0)4 110101
matellnee. The carriage itutomaticel-
ly shifts under ih
electric Ittinulec to e
next ('011411111('011411111an)! sulitrects the cheques
an they are listed. This wonder Work-
er Will only slibtillet hi the "cheques"
('111:: 113(1 and only add in the ''1184)1(1(11''('011)11111,('011)11111, so that the operator can
hardly make a mistelue An overdraft
is plainly indiceied as 1414(111 1,31 the ma-
chine, '0111(11 designates it "0, D.," to
• g o ie .11100 Teta S,
By, way of a test, one of these elec-
tric! 1111101111)41414,with 111119 keys locked
together arid down and the t0410111))),'faetened down with a (Ted, Was run
for twenty-four hours a day for
eightee-d
n ays. Its, speed was 160
strokes to the minute adding and list-
ing 9,01)9,999.99 at each stroke. The
motor 14144111115.48 were (lot even heated
and the maehine Was ready to repeat
the feat.
Electric multigraphs that print cha
ciders and write letters are 1118)) used.
The two maeldnes are used, one to
G"Id Sil ;
o an ver eetI
es. Before 1110 war, in the city of Mel -
In these deem of gold shortage it is 1 bourne, an average of 75 houses were
interding to know that there are ire begun every week. It is estimated
seets in this world which are said to that the yearly constructiou for the
be gold -producing: The 111081 impede).
. Commonwealth must be at least 25,- 1
000 houses. To build that number of
of the species of beetlee which 1'011t141141'011t14114gold and silver the 31,1114)14 rose- 4 -roomed cottages would require 875,-
chafer. 11 14) a very handsmue, yellow
000,000 bricks, 311111411311111411is more than the
beetle, with a metallic lustre, and its
annual pre -wan production. Hence the
size is about -as big as the end of a
1111111111011t41140 or 1440118 will have to be
mains thumb.
greatly incrensed. It is also estimated
'1411 meet remarkable gold beetles,
that a minimum of 200,000,000 feet of
however, are to be found In Central lumber will be required annually to
America. _et first sight one would relieve the present congestion.
ing employed for the purpose. There
was trouble with the foundations at gold, until it moves, The head and
think the beetle an actual piece ot Soldiers are to be encotmaged to
build new houses rather than to pur-
polished
first, and later when concrete founda- chase Wo acalready built. The deeds
brilliantly
11"s were intr°thiced it was felted vvingeases are
with a lustre like pure gold. It IS will be retained by the Government
that the soft woods then esed were until 26 per cent, of the price bus
very strange, too. that silver beetles
liable to decay and wore away rapid-
ly.
The introduction of the Australian
hard woods sateefactorilv solved the
problem of a duraiee wood paving. A Rothchild. They then had a market
secondary advantage of the repaving value rauging from 325 to 8711.
of the stivets is that it wilt free a 'Whilst on the subject of beetles, it
arge supply of old wood blocks which
being impregnated with tar, make ex-
cellent fuel.
exist in the same country. been paid off, when they may be hand-
ed to the buyer. The Commissioner
About twenty-five years ago the
silver hopes to be able to build at 15 per
finest collection of gold and.
beetles was owned by the Hon. Walter cent. below the market price as1e.4ed by
private contractors.
Trunk charge
14 lbs, shrinkage at 317.25 cwt2.41
33.01'
Does a Motor Run Sweeter at Night?.;
DOES it sCe,11 110 you eltat year motor
rune better at night? It IS the imprese.:
Bien of a greet tunny matorlete
it does. There seems 11) 141, leo mieeH 1
10g,and the car ,g1,1cie44 along with the
pleasant, contented etainel that rnakee.
you feel that oven/thing le worknig t
in perfect unison. It is even a pleue-
ure to have the mut:lee cut cut so en, t
to hea0 The even torivie of all the 1
cylindere more plainly. ; el
Experts say that there is more in'
this view then most people realine,; t
tett iliey claim that. sue The ch1,1:
Tc.,.'vlols that the car istriS hot, 91.• 1
that you elo more earefel 11111;n-4. ,
ing the day'Lloir thcto to
twcod, and ele.ee cceeeee, .L!. •Iett
std an oecebeeted cagios are tiro!
Winter Wisdom,
Winter's eoming-a very bad time
or boots. Rain, snow, mud play
havoc, with leather and stitches.
It you rasp with a rough tile the
oles of you* new hoots. and then ap-
ply two coats of oak copal varnish -
the second to be 1)421 011 when the th•st bolshevist,
is quite dry -the soles will be harden- eHe insulted one of our most rev -
oil, and, for quite a month, impervious erenced principles," replied the an-
te wet. The treatment ehould then be archtst. "The first thing he said was,
repeatee. "The meeting will come 10 '011(191'."
For the uppers there is nothing bet-
ter titan mitten fat well rubbed in.
The leather should be warmed first,
In a day or two the boots will shine
all right, and be waterproof.
If you are caught unprepared, and
is perhaps interestingeto recall that
in the days gone by a "beetle -crusher"
Was a prosperous occupation. Men
used to sign contracts to go from
house to house killing beetles, but it
is not recorded that they ever carne
across any gold or silver ones,
Contrary to Regulations,
"What made them fire that chair-
man out of the window?" asked the
Limousine was originally the name
of a etoak worn in France, and prob-
ably originated from Limousin, the
name of an old province in central
France, To -day 1t is applied to the
chauffeur -driven car with an enclosed
compartment. The driver's seat is
outside, but covered by a roof.
Roadster was first applied to ves-
sels that worked their way by means
of the tides. Later It was used for
bicycles. The modern roadster has an
open body and was designed primarily
for two persons, but of recent years
'the four -door roadster, accommodat-
ing four passengers, has met with
popular favor.
Ship Rides o Varnished Cahn
---
A French paper once purported to
you, hoots are wet, do not attempt to
(try them before a fire. That ruins offer a true account of the remarkable
leuteer. Stuff the boots with pleeeS X- el
e 1C nce tr a herench sea captain,
of newepaper. Made as het ita lUtaStble, W110 related his own story. The fol -
Then hung the hoots all near the cell- lowing rorsion is a free translation of
114.14441)114 51141 tar 11.111101,1S: Tho the yarn as it appeared in lei Journal:
beets will le dry in ihe morning, and "Captain of the tlireemiaster Lucien
11 perfect shepe, Cluitry, I set- sail from Boston January
If, n(1:: 11:431 yoer ‚0'l,411 ‚4. your wet 28, 11m9, with ao mu:Naive verge or
mots have been drled,in the old way veralsh. What use tweet* could pos.
wfore tle.• flee. and ioto ilioreforo li,nl, Ably find for 1,000 be reit; of varnish
1 114! 10 elan:dile will Oillolity soften I do not know --and besides that has
'Pour oil upon the seal Certainly,
we thought of it; but unfortunately
eve had aboard only it liter of olive oil,
destined for the mayonnaise dressing
of an occasional salad.
"Suddeoly my eeconti officer was
struck with an inspiration of genfue.
'Suppneet cried he, 'we should pour en
vareleh? Varnish is much 111:e oil,'
" 'Pour on the varnish!' I command-
ed, Ai the arst barrel emptied over
to starboard the waves were visibly
mimed on that side; the second,
hen, nothing to do with thin oh '131. which Ives poured to larboard,
Mad 011011111 alvalye 10, 'NINA off "The 14e1,011(1 oP rebreery, 1n the eeeteeee a like se„eees,
ellen wet, That net only be,a1150 it early mornine, we Were 11,1,1.110(1 b)' a "The rimming of, the next day (I
11 gluier, but hot anso 37.11,1 ef to. frightful tempeet. W:1 4':')' as high 111) helve you to imagine Our etap('factIon)
ee 1,9 not mire. t•lo wife, th• 'end mud • houses beat againne my peer vemsel, we 114)' whet? The varnish, having
-iff, and then, net thn levieh1y, wipe r;111011 strained and groaned threaton- herd:meet leaving the ririht, covered the 1
he beide ever e.ith tin,44.1 1 Nate. We could not enenro much :AN! with it 4:-i11111 er11141 which g118 -
print letterheade and the other large
, math! machine, '011 1018 writes the lett
circulars'. When 1)1.11110d the letter-
! heads are trantiferred to another auto-
; tor and stgen it in hat of a differ, et
color al 1 le one opt:retitle.
After 111e lettereetels are menied
and filled with writing11 • •
RECLAMATION OF
• EOM FARMS
WARS SCARS ARE BEING
RAPIDLY EFFACED.
8`Tted euvelePe8 aud "la t() s°21* One -Fourth of the Devastated
I Mg. netiehlne. This device works at
the rate of 11,000 envelopes an 110)11'.
An , lectrIcally Operated type writer
that will tura out as ma ••
ton letters 1144 can bo written 1111 Rix 1108(1113 they were able to reboil)? 01'
ordinary machines in the same period cultivate their so11, tho 1141411011 peas -
I ef time illustrntes a convenient way 1 "'ad workIlialaca, aided by the
in which to give a circular the appear- government, wer(4. obligee to remove
intim and "hilluence" of 71 personal, he millions of elalhithat had 1(01 burst,
InTallet"oglet•Tt(Prlia 180011117t): gh,3,7:11;,"`61.0‘8':111:4. e‘'CI:V1 17111.15i4:18e1111)1t1;1':?110adu(Itt‘Mve:S.
t11111uCet it soidoin tareseeei ypcu, 1(1131,.111 •
) teqeut1;(11,1n•• infest ed . and 140111111 Ems 41
cons tan t
tit the hands of bnay man. danger to the eopulation• They hat,
The letter writing machine. la a com
Winayasddition, to 141)01)' railroads. water -
highways and rotate, As a ('8'-
1)111111100 nonpearliltitionrnantiii,d, tot; paratury measure the gueernment
11014110 drew up a law 011 Indelnilitloa for
forator, which Is operated like a type- ecurred during the war. Thie
Crelci'eallnegrtti,rettfsrista"e'vennttda ot1Y1 Ptellw,r1 losss in
writer. AB the keys ere struck a 11010
is plineheil on a sheet of paper.
The roll of paper is placed in pool
-
tion. in the "operator," and it is un-
reeled like the rolls Of a player -plane;
the keys of the typewriter tire ntittle
I 4' strike in correspondeuce with the
holes, the result being a peered re-
production of the loiter. Au electric
motor of one -teeth of a 110148e poWer
furnishes the power.
There is also a motor driven ma-
chlne which seals and etamps Petzera
at the rate of 150 a minute, It auto-
matically counts the stamps Re' they
are used, thereby preventing theft.
An electric addreseograph is also used
In some large. offices for mailin31
papers and cireulars.
Ground Now Yielding
Harvests.
Valuable Pearls Starving.
It is sad to think that at the pres-
ent time, when pearls are E10 rapidly
increasing in value, there are some
perishing in the Louvre, the wonder-
ful museum of Paris.
Thiers bequeathed to thht in-
stitution e. marvellous pearl necklace,
WhiCh Within a few years fell a victim
to the mysterious disease defined by
experts as a form of starvation,
Pearls live by contact with human-
ity, and for this reason Jewellers main-
tain that they should be worn on the
bare strin. If the Louvre necklace
could be worn for a time the pearls
would recover their lustre. Rut, ac-
cording to the will of Mine. Tillers, it
must not be removed from its case,
so the pearls are gradually becoming
more unsightly and shrivelled.
Reflector For Rough Roads.
An automobile headlight has been
invented with a large reflector for use
on rough and dangerous roads and
turns, and a smaller one for service
on straight and smooth paths,
China's Beggars.
101 011100, begging is regarded as a
very ancient institution, and hence
arises the toleration of the people and
the Government.
An the tricks ot the trade are Care-
fully treasured and handed down rev-
erently from one generation to an-
other, The baggers whom one sees
in the 5110 01) areemore often than not
the ,offspring of a generation of begl
the offspring of a generation of beg-
gar," gems to apply with peculiar
force to the Chinese.
The native system of employment
seems to abet rather than diminish
begging. For inetance, no shop or
household would think of employing
anyone without a recommendation or
guarantee from some reliable person
or shop, As the beggar, If he is at all
minded to an honest job, is an outcast,
it stands to reason that he will not
he able to furnish either the recom-
mendation or guarantee necessary to
obtain a position, and the result is
that ho continues to remain a beggar
all his lifetime.
Some Famous Opals
Mexican opals '3110 likely some to
appear plentifully on the market
again, inasmuch as mining for them
has been resumed in the districts
whence jewellers obtained supplies be-
fore the war,
Froin that source we have been ac-
customed to get most of our "ilre"
opal, which are very beautiful and
brilliaut, with flaming hues,? This va-
rioty, however, is less highly esteem-
ed than the so-called "noble" opal,
whichle willtieh, translucent, and shot
through with gleams of all colors of
the rt•enbow.
Remarkably line opals, many of
them "noble," are obtained from the
neighborhood of Moscow, in Idaho,
where they occur in hods of volcanic
ashes. Apparently their material was
deposited by water, while the ashes
Were het, and nasses of cold cinder
when broken open reveal the gem
stones.
°pots aro in certain respects alto-
gether peculiar" among gem stones,
and mom interesting on that account,
Whereas other gems, auch as the ruby,
the emerald and the sapphire, owe
their colore to mineral elements by
which the crystals are stained, the
militant tibia of the opal are clue to
its etencture, ever eo many mluute
melte reflecting light at different
angles from their edgem,
An amethyst is quartz crystal Matte
ed with manganeee. Opal is quartz
oryetal of (mother variety, containing
from 5 to 1:1 per cent. of water. 1300
.11, ',e 3.'3. 81114 3,3„7.,t3 the sky 111) itro- 1,111411 "irit11 irtvPr,siditilde poll:111,
it, of elwrige. We wore In throo-ontE,ter L1101e11 Gott.
lily, 1,4011 every elate:: ()Icel.:ea:a mu. "ry ,-1,00-0ll the i".gisr Of an 111111101010
311.61133o.'o(3 13 0.311, ('-4-0'- 34 3,, 1) import:Able to '40'','' ('1' nilrfor of a upon which, with
14 14.4.14) i( 17'. rit.1411tt3 if ceutenitee Neeietfee:ye:ea, effete, earit
pled tete beanie of
eeehl to th,? .1 tile risteie sun,"
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are formed by the deposition of silica
from water; and it was in this way
that three molluscan aliens trans-
formed into opal, underwent their
strange metamorphosis. The shells
were in a rock; their linty material
dissolved out and was replaced, par-
ticle by particle, with water -borne
silica.
The most famous gem of the kind Is
the Hope opal, formerly the property
of Henry Philip Hope, a Dutch banker,
who owned the finest collection of pre -
Mous stones ever got together, He
liquidated the national debt of Brazil,
and took his pay 111 diamonds, which
originally inspired him with his hob-
by, Among his treasures were the
celebrated Hope diamond and the
largest existing pearl, drop -shaped
and weighing -three ounces,
The HON opal (now owned bY an
Amoricaft 1111111onaire) is belieeed to
have come originally from Mexico, but
in the seventeenth century it dimmed
a Benton shrine, It reproonts the
sun -an object of worship in Persia -
with full face carved on it surface
and net supplied by un antigee gold
setting. Oval in shape; it ts an inch
in longest diameter.
A famous necklace of opals 110101131.
Ing to the Empress Josephine, ana
litter the property ot the widowed
laugenie (who parted with it bocan:4o
of a belief 117,3,1 )1 brought mieten tree',
is likowiee owned bye,' wealthy Aeterl-
cen, Ite greet centre] Atmo is called
the Burnieg of Troy.
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law was naosed by' Parliament on Aeell
17, 1019.
A few figure', will be of assistence
in roalizing the gigantic lnbore that
the French have accontellehed by
themeolvee towards the reeonstrue.
tion of their couetry (luring the Met
six menthe, 111 the face of endives
hercielitutt and °betides.
When the artnistive was signed
2,346 knometere of roilromd had to be
built, 2,010 lellontetere have actually
been conetructed at the present time,
1,160 bridges, tunnels and other rail-
road constructiotts were destroyed;
568 have already been repluced.
Out of 1,700 kilometers of cannis
1114111 1104 to be reconstructed after tbe
armistice) 700 kilometere lievo alrea.iy
been put into shape, 8,4011,eep emu oe
French territory were 'evaded by the
enemy, of which 3,000,000 acres ot
farm soil :Lae been made eterile by the
War. A, the present mement 1.100,000
acres are already yielding litti•vene.
80,000 Homes Rebuilt.
91010 than 80,000 homes were rebuilt
and an equal number of tomperary
sheltere erected to harbor the come
ageous populations who have returned
to build up their homes on the ruins
01 111011' former hesrths,
Hire than 1,000,000 of the former
inhablteuts have returned to the re-
gions that have been liberated from
German occupation, and of the 4,000
districts that were invaded 3,872 dis-
tricts have already been re -occupied
In part by their former pepulaee.
Out of the complete ruins of Indus-
trial life, 229 factories have already
begun working.
The government is making a par-
ticular effort to reopen teeeschoels.
Four thousand five hundred and
eighty-three were destroyed by the
Germans. With odds and ends found
anywhere, under roofs erected tem-
porarily to breast 3,000 schools have
already been reopened. Thanks to
the law of April 17 last, mentioned
above, the government has given to
the afflicted more than 1,000,500,000
francs,
Dauntless Spirit of France,
These figures aro startling in their
significance, They show that out of
absolute chutes and ruin brought about
by over four years of wanton destruc-
tion, the French populace depleted 111
number, through its own effort hae suc-
ceeded in much less than a year in re-
storing a vast amount of the havoc
and loss. Nor has the work been
done in ostentation. Silently, unseen,
apart, unorganized, tale one robulld-
fng roof, that one his source of
livelihood with meager resources but
urged on by undaunted courage, each
peasant, merchant and laborer has
contributed the toil of his halide to-
wards restoring hie beloved hither -
and, The result Is astounding,
Nothing could. be more eiwouraging
for those who dream of the ranid re-
turn of France to her previous statue
after the terrible years tereugh which
she has just peesed than thie attitude
of her peop/o, 5( 14) with the same
millet, the same tenacity Sett enabled
her to titmice oft within a tow years
the terrible yoke imposed upon her by
the Germany that thought her crushed
in 1871 that France is now struggling
back into ellape, driven on, howeree,
by the confidence that is derived
from victory atone.
All Her Fault.
Homo men aro born grumbleve,
Joliet]
31110 ono of them,
Tee wail once attic:keel by seNere
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by his wife, who was devoted to hint,
in epite of his fault-finding disPoeition,
Sometimes the sight of his suffering
Overcame her no much that she wept,
Ono day a friend Cittite lit and atiked
011111 hOW he was getting on,
"Ile.dlY, badly!" he exclaimed, "And
Int all my wife's, fauli,"
"impossible!" said his frlend, 114 111)1'
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dampuose Wail bad for are, nod there
that woman sits and cries', Just to
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