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Outwitting the Fox
Of all the tee -bearing animals the
fox itt erebablY the most dieleult to
cetcle He Is, very cunning and elty
end only the ince deeetviug sets will
catch bine
Feet be sure that three are staying
or traV01 theeegh the Meality where
you make your eets, fer it is of no use
to melte set where there are no foxee,
The Yellowing water set 1 a geed
one before freezing Weather seta in:
Find a email Peed ad place same bait
in the water about a foot from the
fatore. A. wild duck is ideal. It can
be lad on a stone or other support
which should be about two inches be-
low the surface of the water. This will
bold the belt partly above water and
melte It look like it M fleeting, Now
set a trap midway between the bait
and the seem Have the trap about a
half-inch under water and place a tut
of moss on the pan. It shoula be
thick enough ea that it will come a
little out M the water, A fox in at.
tempting to get the bait will use the
tuft of mess as a resting place for its
root, and thus will step right into the
trap.
Another good set Is made by taking
a live rooster whites 'should be put in
a cage about three feet square. Hang
it outin the woods about ex feet from
the growl& Now your traps ahould
be in a circle around the nage, from
eeventy.five to two he -tiered feet away.
The traps should be set so that the
cage Oen be seen from them. U. p0s.
table get the trees on top of little
levels end 0%3 on atumite. The ground
should be dug out, and notches should
be cut in the stumps so that the teem
will be flat Welt the surfaee. Aad
over them with dry materiel which
matches the surroundings. 'rho toot-
er being ione will do much crowing
and this will attract then from a long
distance. They will be suspicious of
the cage and will not go up to ti. But
they will circle around it and try 1.o
find out, what It is. In doing this they
will get on the biglieSt places they can
so ste to get a better view and will get
caught In the traps, which you have set
there for there.
it you know of a dead horse or cow
which has been dragged out 111 the
woode, keel) watch o It If foxes are
feeding on it set traps. inthe pathway
which leaa to It. Dig the ground out
also for these sets end cover the traps
with dry vase or leaves.
The best Ume to makoe these tests is
in the evening jug before a light fall
of snow. The snow will sever all ma-
terial which may get disturbed by
melting tbe set and it will make the
whole serrate:sling look natural. The
traps. ehould be smoked in a smudge
made from green boughs. Gloves
should be worn when handling teem
so that they will not. become tainted
again, as a fox will stay ;sway trout a
set which is scented with human odor.
Bits of Canadian News.
To encourage finishing cattle in the
Edmonton district for the export
trade, 1.1. P. Kennedy, president of the
local stock yearde and an extensive
shipper, is offering $1,000 in prizes for
the beat flashed cattle brought on the
market in certain quantities. Mr.
Kennedy has declared that Alberta
cattle are equal if not superior, to
those raised in any part of the world,
and be is strongly in favor of finishing
process being effected at home.
Four prominent labor men in Cal-
gary have provided the necessary
fuuds to build a Live -room modern
bungalow to prove that such a house
can be erected for ;3,000. The house
is nearing completiou and tbe builders
are well. within their original esti-
mate.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, ,Jr., of New
York, has purchased an estate near
Victoria, and will spend a part of each
year there. The beauty M the country
and agreeable climatic conditions de-
cided het selection of this Pacific
Coast home,
Some thirty plater reining claims
nave recently beers staked along the
rest eltore of the Big Smoky River,
oat of Grande Prairie, Albrta, by
feraters resident in the vicinity. Dis-
coveries of platinum together with ,
traces of gold in the sandstone are re-
sponsible for the initial activity, but
a new siguiticance has been added by
the discovery of tungsten deposits in
beds of clay back from the sandstone
cut banks of the river. Samples of the
latter analyzed disclosed tungsten 63
per cent., plattnum 8 per cent., and
also metallic iron.
Figures publisi.ed by the Census
bareau show a bealthy growth in many
Nova Scotia towns. Bridgewater, with
3,152, has grown by 14 per cents;
Darts:meth. 7.904, 5$ per oente Inver-
ness, 2,952, 9 per cent.; Kentville,
2,717, 8 per mt.; Liverpool, 2,263, .8
per cent.; Lunenburg, 2,786, 4 per
cent.; Sydney, 22,527, 27 per cent,:
and Trenton, 2,837, 132 per cent.
A lack of apples in some part of the
U nited States has resulted in in-
ereatted shipments from Ontario across
the line, in spite of the fact that the
duty Is now 30 cents a bushel as com-
pared with 10 cents a bushel last year.
Shipments from Kingston to date aro
Tallied at 5150,000, as against $5,000
last year.
A now ledentrY, which will add to
Ibe development of the town of Drum.
tuondville, Que., will soon start upon
the building of a plant which, 'when -
completed, will give employment to
about 150 men. The Dominion Silk
Dyeing Manufacturing Compeller has
itiet, bought 15 acres of land adioin"
tug the leant of the Butterfly Mastery
Contritely, Lbnited, and the building
of the plant, which wil Mart in about
o meath, will give employment to over
a hundred men.
Four Regina girls, all of whom
served oversees with the Canedlan
tortes, have left the city to take up
work in the time prairie provinces
under tha direction LA the Department
of Indian Affairs. Each will be allot -
tea a. district and will visit homes
schools and other institutions caring
for the sick and paying ;articular at-
tention to tbe betterment of condi-
tions among the Indians.
The Family Vslew.
A notorious war profiteer was talk-
ing to a group of young men on a golf
club verandirh. "Look at me," the
profiteer said. "Twenty years ago a
poor boy, ,working like a dog and to-
day—" Ile chewed violently on
his dollar cigar. "Look at me!" he re,
peatod. ','See what I've done for my.
self." The young men looked at him
curiously and then one of them said:
"Your motive's good, of °terse, but
doesn't your family object 10 your pos-
ing as a horrible example in this
way?"
" His Very Best Mutligans.
A country clergyman was once
preaching on an obscure joint of
theology, which he elucidated in an
original and striking nianner, anise -
Ing by saytng, "This is entirely my
own view. Commentators do not
agree with ma."
The next day he was informed that
one of his parishioners wished to see
him. Going into Itis study hea''ivas
greeted with ordiality by one of his
sidesmen, who happened to be a mar-
ket gardener.
"Morning, sir," beamed the caller,
"Heard you say yesterday as common
taters didn't agree we ye, so I've
brought a sack of my best. Hope
you'll get on better with them."
A New Version.
The Sunday -school teacher was
talking to her class about Solomon
and his wisdom.
"When the Queen of Sheba came
and laid jewels and flue raiment be.
fore Seamen, what did be say?" she
asked,
One small girl, who evidently had
experience in such matters, replied
pnomptly: "'Ow much d'yer want for
the lot?"
Circumstantial Evidence.
The Bingville board of select men
had held many sessions and finally
formulated a set of auto laws that was
the pride of the county So the con. -
stable felt no worrtment when he
stopped a motorist.
"Ye're pinched for vielathe the auto
laws," he pronounced.
"Which one?" inquired the traveler,
"Burned If I know, but ye certainly
Ilene oome all the way downaelain
Street without bustle' one of them."
Irish cm:les:tugs to the number of
4,388,109 lett their native shores for
other lands between May, 1861, and
December 81st, 1920,
Tragedy of a n Avalanche
An American officer tells a moving
story 1 audden and swift destruction
in the U. 8, Northwest. It happened
on a February day, -when -a warm sun
and a Chinook wind from the Pacific
was melting the snow, 411 along the
+lin Officer 9.n4 is party
wound up the mountain sitie, great
masses M. snow seemed to everbang
them, and more than once the officer
noticed how anxious the grizzlyshared
old guide seemed to be. Only a nar-
row, ,path had, been cleared through
the snow, and tho twenty mules fol-
lowed one another in single file.
Ltalieway up they Game to four
eabits occupied by miners. Iliac
brawny men in red shirts stood at
the door of ono of the cabins talking
as the party filed past. Salutes were
0m:hanged, but the (iffiest% party had
no oerssion to halt.
They had gene about three hundred
feet, and were about to make a turn
in the trail, when the leader halted iv
look bask. The guide Wes ahead—the
discos second, The lints of mules vras
struug out for a quarter of *-111i10, and
on foot among them were five packers,
alt halfsloreeds.
The officer beard no signal of dan-
ger, no cry of alarm. With the swift.
floss of thought the snow, five buns
clred fisssts' ss- tho mountalk began to
Move, The width of 'me :.7alanao
,pria_ts desire died,to ,boOItIn print
was about half a mile, and it moved]
very rapidly. There were thousands 'Delors hezawurn FitzGerald
of tons of snow, humsoss of ssess, equally diffident with regard to
hundreds of great boulders. "Omar Khayyam." There is, more -
In a few moments it was all over, (Wal't St°rY, Nrbi°11 t°187 or 111°Y not
and u cloud of ‚what seemed like smoke be true, that Kipling% "Recessional"
hong over the spot, It drove off down Was refloated from the: author's waste -
the mountain after two or three min- PaPer basket,
trtes, and the officer looks4 r his Carelessness a Fine Art,
park train. Some weeks after leaving, his dedg-
X0t Mail nor a mule bed escaped. :Inge Mortitington Place, Hampstead,
e looked far the eabitis, wed they, Tennysen 'wrote to Coventry ?aldose,
toe, had disappeared, /ndeed, the very front Beret:yrs/1, asking tim to call
trail had bean swept down 'into the there and see if he eorsta fiad his "lxsok
valley a mile below, and almost across: of eleffies—a lost:, butcher, ledger -like
it. For a apace of half a nille wide book,' PaistsSse west, std, fe ceps
there was neither tree nor shrub—not boast ;shoe Ten:resets hail kept his
a yard of earth. The
the worst is vet to come
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In Childhood's Magic Land
We never met a ruffian there—except in picture books !
Each man was trusty -hearted, true; each woman perfect
seemed,
We judged the world with kindliess, we'd never heard of crooks,
And noble lads and lasses' walked along the dreams we
dreamed,
Folks always gripped each other with a friendly helpful hand,
And selfishness was blotted out—in childhood's magic land.
There were no people—save in tales—who spoke in lying guise,
There were no people—save in tales—who acted meanly
souled.
The citizens we sojourned with were oh, so straight and wies,
And life was just...a meeting -place for creatures "good as
gold."
The days run on—don't let us join some sceptic hopeless band,
Let's keep some grand beliefs we learnt in childhood's magic land.
MASTERPIECES THAT
WERE ONCE DESPISED
S 0 M E OF BRIGHTEST
GEMS OF LITERATURE.
Regarded So Lightly by Their
Gifted Writers That Only
Chance Saved Them from
Oblivion.
We know on the best authority that
had John Keats never penned that
marvellous "fragment of an epic
poem," "Hyperion," his great con-
temporary, Shelley, would never /awe
written "Adonais," whieh, next to Mil-
ton's "Lyeidas," stands as the greatest
'requiem in the language.
Yet ‚we know on equally good auth-
ority that Keats labored very fitfully
at the poem, and finally gave it up
in disgust, only including it in his last
volume under protest.
The title page of this priceless
volume runs: " 'Lauda, Isabelia, The
Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems,'
by John Keats, Author of 'Endyntion,'
London. Printed for Taylor & liessey,
Fleet Street, 1820."
Among the "Other Poems," not con-
sidered worthy of mention, is not only
the longest poem in the book, but, in
some, at least, of its qualities, the
greatest thdng the poet accomplisthed.
Newman, thought so little of his
"Dream of Gerontius" that he is said
to have condemned it to destruction,
and was only deterred by the deter-
mined intervention of a friend, Brown -
lag, who destroyed every vestige of
his "Iuvenilia," made a desperate en-
leavor to include "Pauline," but, as it
was published, he failed in his attempt.
So scarce did it become that Ros-
setti, being unable find a copy elses
where, spent Many laborious, days in
the British Museum Library copying
it word for word.
Scott threw tho original draft of
"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" into
the fire, and was only persuaded to re-
write it by two friends to 'triton: he
bad road it. John Keble, too, WAS
averse to publishing his "Oluistian
Year," yielding only to his father's ex-
"1111"Itaa 1101 blikter and sugar, fomid the book filll
ground its way down to the rocks. lhf yersee It Was the book in which
Tennyson had been wont to inscribe
those "swallow -flights of song" which
we now know as "In Memoriam."
But it was Elizabeth Barrett Brown-
ing who made carelessness a fine art.
It is possible that very- little of her
work would have survived, had it 'tot
been for a devoted lover before and an
adoring husband after marriage.
"Aurora Leigh" was written in Italy,
and, when the Brownings paid a vase
to England, the manuscript 2711s. stuff-
ed into the trunk containing her little
son's velvet suits and lace collars.
At Mereeilles the box was lost, and
there was great lamentation, But was
the tgrief for the lost "Aurora Leigh,"
which critics hailed a few months later
as the greatest poem ever written by
woman since the days of Sappho? By
no means, Mrs. Browning never gave
the poem a thought.
Her one concern was that she would
not be able to display her lovely boy le
his velvet suits and lace callers before
her admiring friends at home! For-
tunately—for literature—the box was
traced to its lair.
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Tell Him Now.
/1 with pleasure you ere viewing
Any work a man le doing,
It you like him or you love him, tell
hint now;
Don't withhold your apprbation
Till the paten makes, oration
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er
hie brow;
For no matter how you shout it,
He won't really oare about it;
Ile won't know bow many teardrops
you have shed;
It you think some praise is due him
Now't the time to slip it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone
when he's dead.
More than fame and more than money
Is the comment lane and mime
And the hearty warm approval of a
friend:
For it gives to lite a savor,
And makes you stranger, braver,
And it gives you hea.rt and spirit to
the end;
If he earns our praise bestow it;
If you like hint let him know it;
Let the Words of true encourage.
raent be sarid:
Do tot wait 1.111 1160 le over
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read hie tombstone
when he's dead.
Just So.
Tont:toy% untie asked him the nature
of May's young man,
"I cal him April Shotvers," replied
Tommy.
"April Showers?" cried his aston-
ished wiole. "Tnolbever snakes you
call him audit a ridiculous Male es
tfluti1"
"Because he May flowers,"
Tommy explained.
The greatest depth yet feund in any
ocean is 82,088 feet, It is at 0. point
Shut forty ntileil mirth of the island
of Mindanao, the Philippine Islands,
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1 Sugar -Mill Waste Yields Building Material LIVES SAVED AND
Orae M0210 22i0liee has turned a
waste product into one of sommenial
value. This new achievement is the
making of building board from the re-
fuse of sugar cane after the Inice
has been pressed 00t 14 the wager mili•
The refuse, known As bagasse, is stbout
10 per cent, of the weight of the eri-
tire sugar -000e crop and amounts to
250,000 to 500,000 tons a year. Its
disposal has long been a problems, and
the original practice was to burn it in
great piles. 11. 10 now being -made into
e. substitute for lumber which poasess-
co peculiar qualities, and for sone pur-
poses is superior to wood.
The first phort for manufacturing
bagasse "In:titer" was built in Now
Orleans, at a cost of 5500000. The
bagasse is baled, as it comes from the
rollers of the auger mill, and shipped
to the "lumber factory." There it is
first cooked to destroy the decayspros
clueing spores and is treated with
chemicals to make it waterproof. It
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that passes! to* beating Machines., CRiNINALS CHASED,
wbach 1),z4it 104 Pella Whan 'cad
mighty beaten, it is passed through
rollers and eompressed into a continu-
ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN
e„
cue sheet, 12, teet. wide, At title stageFOUGHT BY
117 18 soft ad must be dried
AIRMEN.
1,000 feet longs Here the pieduct is'
drying building is snore than'
V mq,
sasjested to intense heat by means of DiVerS UfiCSI to Which Ai*'-
rojoler.d ''llelhaerafaIpliffheexls 1,P,Itracelacierb4n°49niaeths ptuhet A ^— " n "
planes re oun rut Vari-
in sheets 12 feet wide and 900 feed
or lour five -room bungalows, MO P8111.6 of the World.
long, sufficient material to build three,'
In Nebraska lately, during a regent
It is'
sawed, in -the same manner as ordi. heavy flood, °avel'al loiftes Mere ear'
tied away, and the rivers became bu-
ns:* lumber, into stardardssize sheets,
a:seeable. It was just at this awls -
4 by 12 feet, though of course it may
ward time that a physician was sum -
be cut into any other sizes, I monad very urgentlybe' telephone to
One ton of bagasse is required to
lumber
Perform a difficult operation on a WO'.
realm 8,000 feet of 'so the total
Possible production from the waste of man as the only means of saving her
Louisiana's cane land would be from °f e'
1 The doctor found the river euerting
750,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 feet a high with fetch fury that no boatman
would even consider the idea of cross -
1041. He then thought of the Govern.
year, if there were sufficient =SOU-
fac•turing facilites to use it all.
The Thinker.
Back of the beating hammer
By which the steel is wrought,
Back of the worksltop'e clamour
The seeker may find tbe thought,
The thought that is ever master
Of iron and steam and steel,
That rises above disester
And tramples. it under heel!
Back ce the motors- humming,
Back of the belts that sing,
Back of the hammers drumming,
Beck of the cranes that owing,
There is the eye which scene them
Watching through stress and strain,
There is the mind which plana them,
Back of the brawn, the brain!
Might of the roaring boiler,
Force of the engine's thrust,
Strength of the sweating toiler,
Greatly in these we trbst,
But back of them stands the seemlier,
The thinker who drives things
through,
Back of the job—the Dreamer
Who's making the dream come true!
A Short History of England.
A schoolboy was told to write a
short history of England. His efforts
contained the following:
"Cesar Invaded England in the year
1111 A.D.
"He landed at Runcorn and bravely
defended the bridge with Hareem
against the German Fleet.
"He' then went to Geodison. Park,
where he made arrangements for the
football match on the Yellowing day.
"On the morrow the teams charged
on to the field. In the first stages a
the game, Omar made a splendid run
on the right wing, but finding that Ad-
miral Jellicoe, the back, was charging
him, be passed to his inside -right, An-
selm, who in turn passed to Lloyd
George, a brilliant young centre for-
ward, who acored a splendid goal.
"The next ball Charles 13, sent
down the pite.h, Cesar bit for six over
the grand stand,
"The Britons ompletely lost their
tempers, and pinning the umpire and
the referee to the ground wits the
balls, seized the stumps and charged
down upon the Romans, who, forming
a testudo, were lucky to escape with
their live.
"A few days later thessr happened
to meet an aid friend in Jack Sharp,
when he was buying a ericket bat,
Ater the usual greetings, Cesar asked
Wiliiam if there were any fresh news,
and was told that the Armada had just
left Constantinople. 00112211` rushed
down to Dover and made level Haig
sign the Magna (Marta."
If you don't think co-operation is
nesse-eery, watch what !happens to a
-Wagon if one wheel comes off.
The Grandmother.
Upon ter folded hands the 'sunshine
Bathing their lines and scars of toll
in light,
And they are quiet as the evening
earth
That waits in peace the erarning on of
n Ight,
She has held children's children. in
her arms,
Whose babies 80021 may ile against
her breast;
Now, in the hado of memories with-
drawn,
In the high midday sun she sits, at
rest.
To her, remote, with her eompleted
life
About her eke a garment, age le kind,
For still her children, email and very
dear,
Play in the secret dwelling cf her
mind,
Summed Up.
"What is the secret of euccese?"
asked the 13ph1ux.
"Never be led," said the pemal.
"Be 14 -to -date," said the eraser.
"Rub along somehow," said the
eraser,
"Be there" said the knife.
"Never lose your head" said the
barrel.
"Strive to mate a good impression,"
said the seal.
"Make the most of year geed
poises," said the compass..
"Turn all things to your advantage"
said the lathe.
"Oh, shut up. you people!" cried the
door petulantly. And then then was
allenee.
Color Oornbinations.
The following color combinations
haernonize: Blue and white. Blue and
gold. Blue and mange. Blue and sal-
mon. Blue and maize. Blue and
brown. Blue and black. Blue, scar-
let and lilac. Blue, brown, crimson
and gold. Red and geld. Red and
black. Scarlet and purple. Black with
white or yellow and crimson. Scarlet,
Mack and orange.
"The Silent Navy."
captain of a British (ruttier, on
landing at a certain Irish port recent-
ly, was acoosted by an old Irish 120 -
MON who saki to him:
"Excuse me, but have you got
Michael O'Connell on board?"
"No, me good woman, I have not,"
replied the ca.ptain.
"Shure, but ye must hev," retorted
the old woman; "fer didn't the darlint
himself tell me he had joined the Bit -
ties Navy."
Graham Bell's Latest Invention
In recent months a weird -looking
glider, tearing about the peaceful Bras
d'Or lakes in Nova Scotia at seventy
miles an hour, has excited no little
attention and even astonishment.
It is the latest invention of Prof.
Alexander Graham Bill, and the idea
it represents is that of lifting a cigar -
shaped boat hall clear of the water by
submerged planes, which are not part
of the hull itself. The craft uses Ole
denser medium (water) to obtain the
1611., while taking advantage of the
low resistenre to propulsion offered by
the sir,
Prof. Bell has allowed a description
of the boat, which he calls the H.D.-4,
to be published in the forthcoming
Smithsonian Annual It gives the fol-
lowing details:
Steel planes are arranged in sets
like rungs of a ladder, and graduated
frosts large ones at the top to small
ones et the bottom. The faster tbe
craft travele, the more of the planes
rise out of the water, until only sufll-
clent surface to carry the load remains
iubmefged lit ether wends, theta is
an automatic reefing of the supporting
surfaee.
At first glans* the planes seem
rMiculowdy small Iv support so large
a hull. But it should be remembered
that water is neatly 800 times as
harry ea air; so that the area of the
subniergoci "hydrofoils" need have hat
1-800 of the wing area of UTI airplane.
The hydrofoil sulfate Of the 111)-4
support 2,000 to the vinare foot
at sixty miles an hour—which is 200
times the had carried per square foot
of wing area by an airplane.
To 1111 tits hal titter of the water,
the glider must gain a speed of about
twenty miles an hour.
The hull is torpedo -shaped, sixty
feet long, with two outrigger post-
boons'each sixty feet 10 length, con-
sveteed to it by a deck. The deck sup-
ports two Liberty snotona, -which are
mounted on either side, east abaft the
eockpit.
The hull, et:weasel with eanvas, ens a
fuel tank in the stern. It has addition-
al roam enough to acearamodate twen-
ty persona.
The tail hydrofoil set seta as a roti
der, and is operated by tiller lines
runneng to the steering wheel in the
oockpit. The motors are provided
with compressed -air starters, and al
controls are led to the cockpit. Tito
fuel is forced from the tank in the
hull tO the level of the carburetors by
airspressure maintained by a hand
pump'
Seventy miles an hour is the glider'e
maximum speeds Plying 10o dull bus.
Ines compared with +skimming over
the ndace sI -water at that terrific
nate,
The glider staretS off width a roar
(lie motors aro not muffled), and et
fifteen knots one fools the nusthine
rising bodily out of the ',water, Once
up and clear of the drag 041 the hull,
she drives ahead with. an acceleration
that snakes yet': grip your seat to keep
front being loft behinds "The wind on
your face is like the pressure of a
giant hands and an occasional dash of
Ansi spray stings like bincishols But
there is no pound* or jolting. A
slight undulation like ill.ut felt in a
Pullman ear is the only smtsation. She
stoma with the ease of an autontobilm
:mut air -mail station at, North Platte.
Hastening there, bit told the officer in
charge his predicament, and begged
to be taken across la one of the spare
aereplanse, The officer had no ate!),
ority to give permieelon; but, aa
lin-
masi: life was at stake, be wire -leased
to Washington, and had a plane
brought out ready to start if the reply
should be favorable.
Real Live "Thrillers."
The laconic official permissioncame
promptly through, and in a very short
time tbe dotter was landed ,in a flea
close to the farmhouse in which the
patient lay. The operation was per-
formed, and the wommes life was
eaved.
There was an exciting race, worthy
of e most sensational film betweeii
an aeroplane and an expreas train the
other week in Germany, The Berlin
police rad discovered an attempt to
smuggle twenty million marks from
the German capital over the Swiss
frailties, a very profitable transaction
which la against the law,
The train had got a good start when
It was learned the smugglers were
aboard her, and three fast aerunlanee
set off to overtake her. In this they
succeeded,, and the smugglers were ar,
rested and the cash commandeered at
Nurenbure
At the fashionable resort or Miami,
in Florida, a negro employed in an
hotel stole a very valuable einmond
brooch, decamped, and tuck ship for
Bermuda. Detectives 41 ore soon put
upon hts trash, and by means of wire-
less it was founit that he was aboard
a steamer whiLl, had Lady left. It was
also ascertained that 'ht' vessel was
delayed by unfavorswe waather ot a
print about tweety miles: off the ,'cost.
Electioneering by Aeroplane.
It was decided to try to bring back
the negro in a hydroplane belonging
to Mr. McCormick, son-imlaw ef Mr.
Rockefeller, the fermes eseteman
undertaking to act as pee- and to
carry detective Slade twee the water
to the ship's side. From totthig oR
to alighting an the water ...lcngside tbe
outward -bound steamer '2132 under ten
minutes.
The negro was surprised and see
rested, with the Eamon1 bromsh im
the pocket a his pants. He was
lowered into the hydroplane. which
then rem from the water and flew
back with the priscner. Threughout
the serene journey the repo V1102 in a
state of abject fear, and spent most. of
his time muttering prayers.
M. Vedrines, the famous aviator. re-
enter put np for the French Chamber.
His would-be constituency was Le
moux, vary wide, and 111113.211h to MTV.
vaes. However, M. Vedrines NVLIS quite
equal to the occasion, tor he visited
the electors in an aeroplane, and
thereby got more notice than he others
wise would have done. leis object in
standing for election was to forward,
the cause of military aviation, so that
there could nut be a more appropriate
object lesson on hie side than Me
unique plan of careening.
A very exciting story comes from
the States. An aviator, in flying
across-eountry after a very severe
storm, accompanied by torrential rain,.
saw on the mapped-eut country be-
neath him e gap in a geese railway
bridge crossing a wide river. With
his bird's-eye view of the landscape,
he could seethe great east -bound ex-,
press speeding towards the bridge,
but still many miles. distant He ha&
tened to land in a field near a Signed-
statem and inform the man of the
brokenbridge, and the express was
stopped.
A Vanishing Mountain.
The extraordinary spectacle or se
mountein dientregating so fast that
the decrease ie discernible day by,
day has been going on for nearly 4
year In the mountainous region near,:
Vienna. The Tussle &sidling, more
than Sive thousand foot in height, le
e !lapsing, Great oones and pintaeles
of rook crash :the tumble; the forests:
lie fiat or move slowly downward, pits
big into the Valley's, and the turf care
pet moves with them. Nearly four
mites of territory are involved in the
movement, which continuee with
gradually increasing ateeleration,
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possible by means 01 s, apecial
, Mr:gement off kites and earaterais des
signed by a Freachansm.. The Walesa
' travelsiup tho kits string by aneatis
speeial lifting planes, while an noto.
miia1i tlming deviee takes pietures at
any height wis!