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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-12-26, Page 6{ i 'REWORKS FOR ROYALTIES HOW $DILE OF THEM ENJOY- ED TELE DISPLAY. ll amoua Pyrotechnist Chats of the Milan Rulers He Ras Enter. tailed. The first Royalty I ever xnet wale the ruler of Ratpntana, Northern India, at the clip}tai of .whose realm I spent a very happy two months. This was in 1875. I was in India for the purpose of arranging the fire- work displays iii connection with the late King Edward's memorable Indian tour when he was Prince of Wales,writes Mr. -Arthur Brock in London Answers. . The ruler was so pleased with my work when the Prince visited him that before I left he presented me with a valuable necklet of pearls and emeralds, with a massive gold pendant. Our party was conveyed one even- •ing from our camp on State ele- phants, and the presentation was made during an entrancing Nautch dance by the famous Nautch ladies attached to the palace. Tattooed In Blue. My next meeting with Royalty was with the unfortunate King of the Maoris. I forget his name, but remember his face very well, and, indeed, I have good reason to. vll• In honor of his visit to the Crys- On each occasion we actually tel Palace, T had to produee a por- fired ear 0 inch mortars right at trait of the Maeri King, among members of most of the European other set pieces. The difficulty was dynasties, a most exciting form of how to . portray in lines of fire a fireworking, and one calculated to brown face tattooed in blue, our try the nerves of any person, seeing usual teethed, of course, being to that there were present on each °c - show white or colored lines of fire against the black of night. We are not so easily b''aten,• but we found the task of faithfully por- traying his Majesty beyond us, and so we turned him out as a white man, with blue tattooing. At this period the Crystal Palace was not lit by electricity, nor had we the means we had later of firing parts of the display by electricity from the Royal box. Thinking, however, that the King would be the more impreseed if he lit his own portrait. I fixed up an arrange- ment by which, en pulling a hal- yard, he ignited a rocket, which sped along a wire to the set -piece, and fired it. The poor old man was not in a good mood to enjoy our en- deavors to honor and please him. Oneen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales. He was obvious» ly pleased when, on touching the electric button the arms of Persia. 60 feet high and 100 feet in length, stewed up in lines ef dazzling geld. Tho most demonstrative distin guishecl person I ever met was the great Chinaman, Li Hung Chang. He Taube t., the Crystal Palace in 1896, and seemed to speed the dura- tion eif the display in ecstatic ap- proval. Then, through his interpreter, he demanded; "How did I do it?" "Where had I gpt it from?" and so on, When the last bouquet of rack- ets had faded away, and the electric light had been switched on, he turn- ed to me and said : "You meet come to China, and do it all there 1" No Risks Taken. I felt proud and elated, remeni• Bering the good old wheeze that we owed our pyrotechnic art originally to the Chinese, and that I was speaking to a "anaster of the art." But I am a commercial man first. a sentimentalist afterwards; so I got out my pocket -book, prepared to make arrangements for a eon - tract for an unprecedented sum. I asked when and for what amount; but, alas! someone else took the stage, and I was left re- eretfully to elose my book order- less. My most interesting Royal enter- tainments without doubt were the four annual daylight firework dis- plays given by command at Buek- ineham Palace for King Edward The Tight Boots. Torture. f,artorically he presented a 'gro- tesque appearance. He had re- fused to wear the shiny silk hat pre- sented to -him by an enterprising firm. Further, he had kicked off his villainously tight patent -leather boots, And so. when he entered the Royal box, he wore the dilapi- dated . wideawake of the Palace press official and a pair of very old carpet slippers. When, through the interpreter, I explained to him what was to hap- pen, he scowled ominously, evi- dently thinking that' here was some fresh annoyance of the tight boot and high hat variety. The moment for firing his portrait arrived. The King pulled the cord. and, as he did so, the quick -match snapped back across his hand, a few sparks falling on it. Further irri- tated by the sting, and startled by • the roar of the rocket, his Majesty, I could see, was considerably upset. Britain Led Onec More. But when he saw his features in white, and possibly the tattoo markt incorrectly drawn, the insult was beyond endurance, and, making a sound between a rear and a grunt. the Maori King fled from the horrid scene. The next year—I884, I think—I had the honer of meeting the late Xing Edward for the fret time. This was at Lord Rothschild's. His Majesty was kind enough to interest himself in our methods of producing portraits in fire. He was much amused when I showed him his fea- tures on the framework, and laugh- ingly hoped that we should not give him a green nese or a blue ear. Subsequently, at the Crystal Pal- ace. the Prince of Wales ---as he was then --honored me en several oceA- sions by his gracious approval of - . our endeavors to please him and hit Royal guests. These included most Of the crowned heads of Europe— Tsars, Emperors, Kings, either reigning or to reign. On one oceasion—in 1891-1 was presented to the present German Emperor, The Prince, in present- ing roc, said, looking hard at me • "Mr, Brock, his Imperial Majesty tells ms that at Anlgterdate a few nights ago he saw n. very similar dis- pian given by Deitch nvreteehnists," "Yes, sir,' 'I replied; "His Im- perial Majesty is eorreet in sa.viru' it was a very similar' disnlay. The • fireworks -were supplied by us." The Prince was clearly pleated at this vindication of British Pyl'oteehnie Prestige. As ' for the Emperor, he looked n trihlo taken aback, but quielely re covered, and T heal quite n lame nver'5atten with hie,, In 1903.the late ',twill of Penile 'tithed the Ory tel Pa, ire. ,end fired his own portrait red t1ioee • "If cation the three generations of the British Royal Family. Although this may sound an exeeedingly hazardous risk for even a British monarch and his entire family to run, it is needless to say that such precautions were taken by me as to slake the action absolutely without danger. FORBIDDEN FACES. A Photographer's Experience at an Arab Wedding. Having been invited to witness an Arab wedding in Tripoli, Mrs. Ma- bel Loomis Todd wished very much to get a photograph of the striking scene, and through an interpreter asked permission of the hostess, In "Tripoli the Mysterious" she tells the result: After a moment of interpreting, her meaning was quite clear. There was no objection to my taking any- thing, so long as I omitted the bride. The light, however, was al- ready waning, so that I exposed but three films; and bidding adieu to th, festive scene, I retreated. eat evening, as we were finishing our dinner about eight o'clock, came a distracted Arab gentleman of charming manners but much per- turbation of spirit, bringing as in- terpreter one of the English resi- dents. Talking with great rapidity, his fez very much on one side, his face the picture of woe, he confided to us that ho entertained ghastly fears for his life. It appeared that the husbands of all the ladies who were guests at his wedding festivi- ties had each taken alarm lest his awn wives might have been photo- graphed when I turned the camera on the various groups. "And now they lie in wait for me at every corner," ire continued, hit face pale and drawn. "There will be feuds and family disturbances for generations, and bloodshed. They will have my life!" "That is certainly unpleasant," I said, "and embarrassing for you; but why should they take my inno- cent little camera so seriously?" but a man might 'develop the negatives," he replied, "and so see their faces; or you might show them when you get home, and some man, a Christian, might see those faces. And they will not forgive that it was in my' house those fatali- ties occurred," and the poor fellow almost wrung bis hands in the ex- tremity of his distress. Seeing that it behooved me, if possible, to rescue him from all these horrors, I told him he might have the films from the camera. inst. es they were, undeveloped, Then there could be no danger of my carrying away forbidden faces to any lands where they might be locked upon by the unregenernte. He beamed with joy, pocketed them radiantly, and with a thou- sand thanks bowed himself out, Freaks of Lightning.' A bungalow at 1Joloebage.• Cey- lon, in which Mr. H S. Popham, a planter, was seated with frietd,. was struck by lightning, which. though it left them unhurt, buried n, dog across the room, burnt a heekeover to tinder, melted the solder of a tobatoo tin, cracked it mirror and smashed a china VW to atonia. Fetal lltitidneas. Virst'Terkey—Doesn't he knew he id- fat.1 Second Turkey—No, his is so Heti his Mende only .call him gtont. CHINESE WOMEN IN WAR 8VFFlRAGE LEADER RELATES 1IER EXPERIENCES. 'Mrs, Oita Was Surprised to Find That Women Could Tote In Burma. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt re. coolly completed her trip around the world in the interest of woman suffrage. She was gone eighteen months, travelled about 50,000 miles, visited half the countries in the geography and had 'enough in- teresting experiences to fill two or three books, "If you ask me for the most in- teresting evidence I found of the worldwide awakening of women," she said to a New Yolk Sun repor- ter, "I believe I should go back to something that happened in Suma- tra. One of the Dutch ofiicials told me that the girls of a certain tribe had gone on strike against being compelled to live with their moth- ers-in-law when they married. The strike was on when I visited the country, but it was not proving successful. It was significant, though, that these girls even at- tempted to emancipate themselves. "A most ,surprising experience of another kind awaited us in Burma. When the British took over the country 30 years ago they gave it local self-government. In Ran- goon, the chief city, wo found that for three deeades women have been voting under the same conditions as apply to the men. There is a pro- perty qualification, but as the wo- men enjoy economic independence they hold property quite as com- monly as the men do, Every wo- man seems to have her own pocket- book. ocketbook. Many of them are shop own- ers and carry on their own affairs. Daughters are set up in business in Burma just as eons are. "We are inclined to think that we are the most advanced people in the world. But it is rather a cold dash to our pride to find that The Woolen of Bombay, for example, have municipal suf- frage. It is true that, a great many of them don't exercise it because they live behind the curtain—as they call it in Burma. But the law gives them the privilege. "The story of the Chinese women for the last year or two sounds like a romance. I am certain I could not have gone to China at a more critical time. Never before, at any rate, could I have sat in the gal- lery of a Christian Provincial As- sembly, convened for the purpose of forming a constitution, and have seen ten women sitting as member's of that assembly. "After the Manchoo dynasty was overthrown an election was held in the province of Kwantung to choose the members of this -constitution making assembly. Not oily were women permitted to vote in the election, but they were allowed to have ten members of their own sex sit in that body, I saw them there. I saw them vote on the questions that came up: And while none of them happened .to make a speech that afternoon, we were told that they often did take part in the dis- cussions. They were a fine group of women from 25 to 50 years of age. In that respect they were unlike the male members. many of whom seemed to be mere boys; students, I suppose. "The whole story of the part wo- men have played in the.recont revo- lution is thrilling, They were members of the revolutionary .soci- eties which were active in bringing about the downfall of the Ma.nchaos. In the months which preceded the outbreak they did their share, of the work. They acted as spies, as secret messent-rors, and helped in getting ammunition from Japan and in hiding it Until It Should En Needed. "The discovery of one of the hid- den stores of ammunition caused the premature outbreak of the revo- lution. They caw themselves in danger of losing the war materials they had accumulated. so they 'int. mediately set to work to save it by using it, Thee turned several cities MS their first blow. "At that signal girls in the mis- sion •schools of southern China left in masses and berried to the centres of the revolution. The women de- manded that they be enlisted as eel - (tiers. They said they had taken part in all the work up to thee point and that now •they wanted to have a share in the actual fighting, They were enlisted as separate troops and were used in many ways, but were not sent into the real fighting. The men feared they (the men) would be objects of ridicule themselves if they permitted' that, "But the women were so dissatis- fied sit being kept ottt of the fight that many of them left their own compr.nies, put on men's clothing and joined the regular.' troops. Oth- ers managed to taatc fighting in their own way. At the battle of Nankin, for instance, 800 women soidiere were stationed on a hill near the pity; The captain of this Chinese 800 herself showed us the enol "le, trig the r iicnign,meiit. a (1t+. taehmeint of these. girls ran down the hill and threw bombe into the enemy's ranks. Twelve ef the girls were killed and their bodies now rest in the military eometery which ocoupies the place where they nuide their brave daslh. Those girls had probably belonged' to the Dare to Dia clubs, As they were called, which the women had formed before the reNeilution broke out MONO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING BITS OF GOSSIP THE QUEEN CITY. FROM The Munlclpal .Elections -Aro "Good Times" Drawing to a Olose7- -High Cost of I-lving•-^Toronto'% Street Railway. '"Everything has not gone so At the tiro - time of writing no candidate in oppoettlon to Malyer Baotou nue appeal swimmingly with these Chinese wo- ou ou eke horizmr, No sue lu tun y,ru n,nt men as they were led to expeot. council is prepared to take the pumge The men were lad and anti any oppouant mull, thomele&u, 50.na g P Prom outside. Ona mad whose name eon• part the women took in the tavola- tiuucs to bo mentioned an a pusaibla can• proud of the time. Apparently, in the first flush dldate it ler, mharfoa ',bcar•a, Iarmer.y Btedical Iiealth OWepr oE' the city. Dr. of gratitude, .they gave them the 1ilbard le a man of tndepeade„t meal.a vote in Kwantung. But after they and an independent turn el mind, wi;o t one time was exceedingly popular as had become aeevetomerd to a head of elle Medical Department on .to• The Fruits of Victory, count at the way he used to 'talk up" to.the Alderman. Since retiring from of - there bre ss^rrsl times Ghrosted. there was a change of heart which ed to run for something; but hae alwa,a is strangely familiar to their sisters .--... oo tnrouga with tt. in America. • lis Iriands think he would give Mayor "The men had promised at first Itookenhutae a good run, partlou.arly if he off Inc candidature until the Iasi that woman suffrage should be in- neige and 1then makes nguro whirlwindwou a eluded in the provisions of the new get tits antl•temperauae veto. the 'Su. constitution. But they began tt> day elides" vote. the Roman catholic Sa • things which sounded to me vote, a station of tIo Liberal l'ole, ho 3bring a leas prominent Couarrvativo than like echoes from home. They be- Mayor Beckon, and even a goodly aeotion 1• d suffrage but they did not of the orange vote. It to t leve in , Even if' there is no Mayors leers il , think at present it would be expo- that does not mean that Now Yeer's Dny diem. The did not think the time iii not be an interesting voting event. Y Never before has there been such a big was Pipe f01' it. field for Board of Control. Alt the old "The next morning after this members are seeking reelection and now backdown had been publiclyexe- aspirants aro sprtn ho up on au sides. Controller Footer, who hne bean spoken ented the women went to' the build- of fie a possible Mayoralty candidate, will ingwhere the Assemblywas sitting etana on hta platform of elomlomY. Be cony 1>onalbb' head the poll, ove'e in n in Canton ; one woman threw one large arid. Controller Chuck, 1n hie role stone and broke a window, Not a of being all things to alt men, will try bad average for feminine throwing,It glad-hand hie way bark. Controller AfoCnrthy, the only Liberal elected to the was it? That wins all the denten- Board last January, while a diernpoint- stration at that tine. meet in some respects on his year's re- cord, is a ,apable man of business Con, "But a. leading woman told me— troller Maguire, another Liberal, wee and I took vergreat pains to be hes served out Mr. B:ockon•s unexpired Y P term, hae cad his taste of blood and sure 1 got this straight—that she wants more. Then there is Samoa Simp- herself went to the President and son, running as a Socialist, who may not told him that if he and the Assam- Rot elected, bet will non a strong vo'o drawineh as it wflh from labor unions, bly did not carry out their promises church workers, temperance etiolates, Lib - about suffrage the women would fir 1seEx-CoutroUec Fi 8. Spence anti n w ye blow up both Assembly and Presi- a keen student of municipal problems, dent, and drawing upon the sumo support as Mr, Simnaon Otvlth the exception of the "'And you know,' she said, `we C n roileiaJts oto come b ck.anoSo Lib rel- women know how to make bombs, labor champion, and Roman Cathono. "In Japan women are making Ala. O'Neil, another Liberal Raman Catho• great ebrida%- in education. But lio and personally popular, also has his neither men nor women are permit hat ill the ring. Aid.. Yeomans. who tele ted to organize openly for political purposes, so there are no suffrage societies there. "In Egypt we organized .e society amonk the Mohammedan women in Cairo and they will send a delegate to the next meeting of the Interna- tional Alliance, In Hawaii we or- ganized a branch among the native women, In Sumatra, Java and e -e <>engin +.. Y'Crr.aca �'� 1•IC, PFT, IILirte nbllTNtUL BISCUIT cAK1'E criorit"`�, `' Read TNI9 "A6IIISPntYoin Lathbel i800MPD8 134%RE ti lobe? mNOINGREOP E1dTSMO NDNEOTIIEa . Fa40DNATE,t11•i:AR6' ONATEOI'IDDAAHD STARGtI The only 13aking Powder made in Canada that has. all its ingredients plainly printed on the label. incomes received would ordinarily be con- sidered quite adequate. however, no one predicts that there will be any serious break In Toronto's) growth. A Munioipat RaliwaY, Toronto's first experiment In the muni- cipal ownership and operation of street car lines is taking a modest form. A mile or two of railway has been con. strutted on Gerrard street east, a street which the Street Railway Company re- made a specialty of water works Rues- fused to serve, and which was therefore dors. and ex -Aid. Sweeney a brother of open to the city to do as it liked with. the Bishop of Toronto, completes the list As there was no other way to develop at the moment. the district than by a oar line, the city It is curious that in the list of ten can- went ahead. The line is now complete, didates in "Tory Toronto' only four four oars have been placed to operation should be Conservatives. of these fort. and the city is more or less securely only two, Controller Foster and Chur•gi Launched in the street railway business. are regarded as strong; runners." The The fere has been fixed at two canto, or task of guessing the winners is, therefore, eix tickets for ten cents. but, of course, more than usually difficult, to got anywhere passengers Have also to A "High Brow" for Alderman. poo a fare on the Street Car Company's system. - Of the new Aldormanio material offer. Two other similar stub linos in other ing the moat intsreating candidate is Dr, districts are also shortly to bra opened Borneo—which are under Dutch S. Morley Wickett, formerly of the staff by the city. There in no exneatatlon that control— political societies cannot of the University of Toronto, but now en• they can be made to pay. The only guns: Po gaged in the leather manufacturing In. formed. The only thing we could dustry. Dr. Wickett is what. is sometimes d to 11 women member: called a "high brow candidate. Be ie e organization in 1 - Lainaiz University, an stn e a so a self. We did enroll over 1,000 wo- Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Cambridge. IIe e was euro we, en as canned A. of Toronto IIntverSity, Ph. D, of f theHolland 't a did 7 t prominent in the Canadian Mawuiaa men, turers' Association and is greatly inter- isWhite,s and Natives Both, Bated in technical edneatinn, Ile hne written a good deal about the theory of in these three countries. municipal government, but this is his first venture into the hurly-burly of practical "The new countries which agreed pori to send delegates to our meetingThe teat "high brow" candidate Toronto m3 had was air Edmund walker, whoa 1512 next June in Budapest are Egypt, years ago was elected to the Board of Wu - China, British India, Dutch India, ea1fon. Be served one term. and then Burma, the Philipines, Hawaii and ben pveryr deSntely hexplclesii ao has not South Africa. We expect that about Croakers Getting Noisy, 30 countries will be represented at One is hearing rather persistent fore - that meeting. It is interesting, in bodinge these days that our "good times view of the resent war, to know Mein danger of being checked temper parny. Df course, there aro always n t�r- that there is a suffrage society in tan number of croakers who continuous. Prime Minister is the president of g emitter little mora numerous Bulgaria and that the wife of the Iv draw a poor mouth. Present forefoot - than ins may emanate from thorn only, but they seem it than neual. "The women of the Oriental coun- ,aro bsetiry of the lit erpge is that thorchae boon a tooraPiti expansion and tries are beginning to awaken on exploitation in Canada, particularly in thesubject f their own advance real es oto• Tei mush im11»oybllae been s je O - borrow'ed. Too 1 tt.e oP t ae 0en mn o meat just as the women of Europe productive. Then the Balkan war. lieu years e t off the earth. ago. expeot in all cerity and _ if calmnelss of judgment thac t the wo- the sanely of capital available for In men of the western countries will be enfranchised before another quarter of a century has passed and that the Oriental women will reach the same goal inside of 50 years." Mrs. Cate admitted with a laugh that the women of the Orient exhi- bit no particular envy of their American sisters and in fact do not have a very high opinion of them. "Our dress clogs not strike them dumb with admiration," said Mrs.' Cate. `As for our hats, they fill the Oriental women with uncontrollable mirth. And I quite sympathize with them, too. And I eves told that the Japanese men do not want their daughters brought up in Occi- dental fashion lest they become the boisterous, self-seeking, selfish, masculine creatures which our wo- men are, which may a wholesome rebuff to our vanity." and .America did a hundred every other war has eaten up great chunks of capital—wiped d I This, of course, has a tendency to cut o PROOF T'OSI'ClVE. Lawyer—"Perhaps I can get you oft on the insanity plea, Have you any insane sedatives1" Prisoner -"Well, my.tether and mother retained: youtodefend me, didn't they 1" V,lion is 0e to the sire of x1181 deficit. The ora of advocates of municipal owner- ship is that the deficit will not be no large es to discourage the city from taking over the Toronto Street Railway when its Iran. ahise expires in 1921. w FIRE -FREE. Little Damage on Reeky Mountains Forest Reserve This Season. During the season of 1912 there have been no dangerous fires within either the Brazeau or Athabaska, forests of the Rocky Mountains forest reserve. There have been a fete small fires along the new rail- ways under construction within the Brazeau reserve, caused by negli- gence on the past of contractors, but throughout the season the wea- ther conditions have been so favor- able that the danger of serious fires was almost negligible. The Brazeau and Athabaska for- ests are the two northerly divisions of the large Rocky Mountains for- tmont_ Beery autumn there is a certain amount of money tightness caused by millions of dollars being Sent west to pay the farm- ers for their trope as they bring them to market. But this year 11 is just ,a little tighter than usual, and the tear is that t11e stringency may last lodger. The Town tot Speculation. That there has been a vast overdoing of the real estate busiuees is undoubt• ed. One calculator snye that there aro a million and a quarter town lots in Cnnadnon the market. To put a family on each of these lots would mean an ad- ded population equal to the total present population of Canada. Atld to support this additional population in towns and cities would requireat least another 1,. 000,000people on the land, So that to oe- eupy all the town lots now sub -divided would require is Canadian population of some 21,000,000 souls. Then the high cost of living is REARM. ing aerious proortions, If any person bed foretold tett yearn ago what Dente and prices to 1912 would be In Toronto he would have been regarded as crazy, One Living hi the country has little idea of. the straggle to make ends meet that goes on in many Toronto homes, where the CARRIAGE FACTORIES LTD. % FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS ASSETS : Not Assets ,. ,,,,, 52,075,010 Bend Issue ..., .,5ss,00s 51,575,000 EARNINGS t Earnings, 9811 5152,465 Bond Interest ;Charges 30,000 $122,155 SUMMARY : Bond Issue, 24 Ir. o. of Assets. Bond Interest, Earned 5 Tines. WRITE POtt PARTICULARS J. A. MIACKAY & COMPANY 51M!iED Royal Bank Building, TORONTO 1L 1I, 0toneseit, mance/et. Guardian BOlidtnp, MONTREAL miliermieltJtmenZCSICIftezimITEMIlineeMigUll est reserve, and with proposed ad- ditions constitute over one-third the total area p•f the Rocky. Mountains forest reserve on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, or about four and a half million acres. The office of the forest a 1pervisol• of these reserves is now situated with- in the Braman reserve, at Mile 37 of the Alberta Cent Branch, 40 miles southwest of Edson, the first divisional point on the main line of the G.T.P. railway, 150 miles west of Edmonton, During the season of 1912 there have been fifteen forest rangers in all stationed at different points over the two reserves. This, of course, is a very inadequate force for such a large area. • *SECRETS OF RIVER Glasgow an Ideal City. Glasgow is the best -governed city ie all Europe, according to Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, who returned from a tong of Eu- rope the other daty, Maylor Whit- lock went abroad in September es- pecially to study municipal govern: ment asaidmini.etered in Europe, and with the intention of urging the adoption, on his return to Toledo. of what he found that: might be of service to that city. He said that Imbed fennel his ideal of a perfectly governed city in Glascow, where all the public sertlen.utilities nerd frau-• ahitos were mtrnicepelic "wand, Fr•ankftirt-on Itipie anal P .elle ,re other rnnnirrunl lir•: i,', ; `lever Whitlock praised highly. In Eu- rope, ha taid. time is none of that waste in administration whkeh is characteristic al Amorist n cities. Most of les are ,frilly convinced thee our wrongs trample OD OM' rights. ' died while being medically exam - treed. Heart, failure was the cause :wiener), and the jury returned a for the part of the world, HATS IIAiNY BURIED 'TREASURES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. The Great Seal of England Was Ono Taken 1''rorn Tia D apths, Probably in the whole world .there Fa no river with such historical as- sociations as the Thames. Many are the secrets held 'wrath the tut, bulent waters ef old Bather Thames, and to stand on one of the• grey bridges that /pan this historio river, with the din of its traffic, unceasingly, morning and night, year in and year out, seems to carry the thought back through the ages. Back to the bloody riots of the "eighty" or to that time of ,the ter- rible pestilence of 1005, when all along its water way dim figures moved at dead of night to the awe ful aconmpaniment of "bring out your dead," From a statue, even to a humble coin, from a millionaire's hoard to the beggar's penny, many aro the objects that lie hidden on the thick mud at the bottom, either by ?loci• dent or design. Helmet of Breeze. One of the most ancient, and, strangely enough, best preserved relies, was found in 1868 near Was terloo Bridge. This was a Celtio helmet of bronze more than twenty eenterics old. The state of its pre- servation was marvellova, the orna- mentation being almost as unworn as when the hehnet was first made. In 1856 a bronze shield of about the- same hesame data was taken from the river mud near Battersea, together with a great number of swotdie, spears and other weapons. This sbicld is the finest of its period in the world. It is 14 inches wide and 30 inches long, and highly orna- • mented with curious red enamel discs. It seems almost impossible to realize that the owner of this shield was some barbarian, clad perhaps only in the skins of wolves. In 1837, near London Bridge, which has always preyed a mine of buried treasure, two small Roman statuettes were found, They 'are bronzes of Apollo and Mercury, un- fortunately somewhat mutilated and dinted, but sufficiently well pre- served to show that both were the work of true artists, and probably famous aculpturea of that day. ` Such a great quantity of bronze, silver and gold coins have been fennel in the Thames at various times that it would be almost int- possible to catalogue them. In 1841 a number of gold coins were found by a laborer, who afterwards sold them to a collector, while some twenty -'five years earlier a great quantity of angels and half sover- eigns of the reigns of Henry the Seventh and Henry the Eighth were thrown up by a small kind of water- spout, They were olaimed;by the corporation, but what happened 'to them is not known. - Great Seal of England. kt one time the Great Seal of England found a restifig place in +he Thames. It was thrown there Purposely by Jamas the Second on Alfie night he fled from Whitehall, hut a fisherman accidentally brought it to light some tame after- wards, and it was restored to the Government, , At Queenhitho the Seal of Edward tho Cenfessor for the Port of London was brought to the surface by a dredger in 1810. It is of very thick silver, in perfect condition, and of the moat exquisite workmanship, n, SHOPS OF]N SUNDAY. Employes Must Tlavc One hest Day a Week. Prior to the passing of the law providinga weekly day of rest for French employes, a Die ority of the Paris retail shops and department stores were kept open Por business' on Sundays. The law of July 13, 1900, made it incumbent on shop proprietors, however, that all their assistants should have one day free in seven. The department stores and the smaller shops cont- pplied with the law by closing on Sundays. Mr. Cognacq, managing director of the Samaritaine departmont stores, applied to Mr. I,epine, the Prefect Sf Police, in 1911; asking fox permission to open on. Sundays certain specified departments of hie establishment. He stated that the cuatomere of the Samariteinos, eoPsietcd largely of persons whose time was fully oe eupiod in their vo,rious employ - melte denier; the week, and they felt it a gr,eetehardohip that in pre - eine eircumttanecs they ware un- able to make their purchases on Sendaiys. T•t' based hie petition on article 8 of the, lain, which stipulates that any establishment arreeging to give its employes ono day of rest inrotation in !he course of the wools may open" Sun<iays on obtaining the ascent of the Prefect ef P-nlico, And in consequence all Paris de- patrtrnent etcrot etre anginal/1g to give their attttAL riotbt a weekly day of neat ie. rotation end may, if they SO desire, ?teen open on Oni.•clnya.