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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-9-18, Page 6ffe1.155,50 tion oX about 15 per cent., which indicates mieration to better conditions, but helplessness and ignorance still THE lotto m HEyloiv induce scores of attelupte to extract a living from soil never meant to yield it. Plans for the reouperatiou of the aiea, most of which it anitaWk only for timber produotiou, have been prepared following. the ettivey, Perhalis when these are Cheap Living, But No Mien. maniterian side of the question may give brought forward for consideration the hoe orhe increasing east of living is a world- tle problem an interest it would never wide phenomenon, but there are spots that possess as a niatter of Mere reforestation, have reniteined unaffected by it. A Brit. ish traveller infertile an eager world that the cheapest plaeo to live in le north. western Syria, and espoly Autiooli, He lived there a whole winter on a pound a week, though he had a fire house and ser. valeta. A friend had told him that, cue could live there emnfortablY on 5200 Year, VernY, with eggs at 2 cents a dozen. fruits and vegetables for g ridiculoualy *resit Olin) a week, mutton at 7 emits, An- tioch ie an ideal place. Yet you need not, 1 n n immediate ENGLISH BOMBAY CLUBS. m a MillCustoOperatives of Lance - shire, removal to An. During his Lancashire tour King tiosh or vioinitr. fear a ruali and sam. George had an opportunity of wit - Antioch ie all r t, especially in winter, noosing one of the most interesting . bet there is no life there. We are nob , after cheap living, but after cheaper ea slams M the world. Ile SSW Lon,ca- tros right where we are, where we work ..1.,;„e. opermives holidayanaking, etot neer and enjoy (metal and political d' aesthetic advantages. There's uo and there is no one who gets more an Place liome, if we can afford to etai I hearty enjoyment out of his sojourn there and pay the bills. Wonders of Future .journalism. . by the the sea than the mill heed. For fifty or fifty-one weeks in the year en a residential address a London edi- tor spo e glowingly of the future of the he puts a little "braes" M the daily aper on ite technical and cow- going -away club, 0.314 then when his 014 e. Papers will be distributed hy pneumatic tubes; editions will anneal' holiday Week or fortnight comes hourly; lazy persons will not need to re round. he has a grand time, o really even the headlines, for the gramophoende will below the news to them ni their of- j011y holiday, caring naught and Ikea or TOoma; reporters will carry tole- wirelees system; and so on. the end of his money; for to return spending freely until he comes to phones with them and send itanta .-8 riy MeD a ter men No, opo not entop. home with any of his savings left is All this le quite possible. Yet there are sisette over t is striking picture. Some. not the way of the Lancashire lad thing that is not in the pieture is present or . sane. "Th' mon," they say, in their minds. They like to think of the great newspaper es an educator and nut- "who mime, blue, his 'wake' brass veyor of news that cannot be bellowed at Ionen esui. women. They like to think of would borrow money !rem. you to the quiet enjoyment of reported debates, put i' th' batik." correspondence articles, reviews, editor'. . ale by men and womenIt who love things ofis not an uncommon thing for the Intellect and of the spirit. a family of operatives to spend £20 What of theae readers? Teohnical mar- vels are not nearly so important m them. or £30 in the course, of five or six as truth. acouraey, dignity, intelligence days' h*B„day_Ittitking, and one rani_ and responsibility in journalism. But how „.„ they would rejoice in a technical invert.- lay has been known to save as much tion that automatically kept out of news.as :047 fer a "wake,” and. return 04301474040 the yellow sensationalists and from their holidays without a, single the relent Trade of the Country, In spite cf the financial stringency Can- ada% trade le more than holding ite own. 'The returns for the last four months of the current dace' year show time substantial increase over the same time in the Pre- vious year. The total Canadian trade for coin left. This, Thowever, is but typieal of the mill hand who works hard and plays hard. Every mill has its going-oway- club, and it is estimated that this year they have shared out half a the four months ending on July 31st, wee A /SEW PORTRAIT OP BUDYARD ROLM, '(81444414. 11.41, 103.041.1.100001 meanest compared with . million sterling. Saving clubs of the oorreeponding period ut 191.2. This Bolton ba,ve paid out over £50,000 makes 70 inoreaee of nearly mecum There was an increase in tbe imports of and the banks £20,000 more, and about $16,600,000 and in the exports of fromOldham Bl kl3u-n, Preston about 710,000,000. This year's -figures, it - the same progress is anything like mai.. andBurry come the same tale of tained, will 044 about $total trade at the oeuntry. But it -can hundreds of thousands of pounds 1.00,000,D00 to the be necessary to wait for ft couple of being paid out by clubs to the hap months before one eon safely eetimate up- , on the year'e business. So tar the results DY-Heeillotey mill hands, who from are better than anticipated. July to September invade mostly the northern seaside resorts. During the lost two of three years, however, they have varied the usual holiday at Blackpool or Douglas by going farther afield, and one finds them holiday -making at such places as Folkestone, Deal and Dover, Torquay, Weston -super - Mare, while many of them indulge in excursions to Holland, France and Belgium. Blackpool, however, is still first favorite with the majority, and it is estimated, that that popular re- sort is invaded every week by at least 50,000 operatives. Were is no place like Blackpool in their eyes, and .apparently in the eyes of other people, too, for it is a bad season for Blackpool when its total lumber of visitors is fewer than 4,000,000. The mill girl is even more enthus- iastic in regard to saving for holi- days than the men, and no Matter what she may earn or what her weekly expenses are, she will find ways and means to put by a little for the going -away club. It may only be a few coppers but it all "mounts up," as they say, and she generally finds herself with £3 or £4 for herself when the holiday week conies round. Pure Food. As eternal vigilance is the rice of erty so it is also the price of purity. If the people will Insist on all occasions on avoiding what is doubtful and upon being served only with goods that have been proved again and again to be above sus. Piclon, a change will soon be brought about. In thia way adulteration will soon cease to pay an,1 ceasing to pay will soon amuse to be prectMed. The Government. through their Inspectors and analyses, are doing what they can in this matter. but their efforts can be only partially anaemia. till unless public support is accorded in very full measure. British Crown Colonies. According to a report presented to the British House of Commons by lir, Levrie Harcourt, the Colonial Secretary, the Crown Colonies are growing and prosper- ing in a most. satisfactory manner, and are everywhere sharing with the Halted Kingdom the present wave of material proeperity. The trade and commeree of these colonies are particularly eneourag. inc. Exports are rapidly growing, new industries are developing, and wealth is increasing. The growth of cotton in the Empire is one of the most notable Indications of tbo rapidly increasing prosperity of the solo. nies. A few years age Lancashire cotton mills were wholly dependent for their ma- terial on foreign countries; and the bulk of the supply came from the Milted States. There were regions within the Empire suitable for the growth of cotton, but they made no attempt to cultivate it, un- til a subsidy of 950,005 a year was granted to the British Cotton GrowersAssocia- tion by the British Exchequer. That wrought a great &nage. In seven years the exports of raw cotton from the Crown °cicalae have almost, doubled, while the exports of cotton seed have increased in still larger proportion. Africa takee front rank in thie new in. duster. Gotten -raising has oleo taken a hold in Ceylon e.nd the West Indies. Now the Empire may be paid to be producing Ito own raw material for the mills in Lancashire. In rubber produetion alone the exports from Ceylon and the Malay Straits have risen, between 1905-12, from six million pounde 10 attr-one million pounde. Tea - growing is a new enterprise in Hysteria. land. There is also a satisfactory export trade in bananas. The whaling in the South Atlantic also shows a progressive spirit in the colonies. You have read in haw ,013g, dream of the Retgn o A Thrifty People. great emotion w1. transform a Terror, including the trial of him - sae facility with which the Canadian man's countenance; how a poet's self before the, Revolutionary Tri rrhaps A. SID AMARENING. Why Everyone Took Such Interest In This Loser. Favorite Poet of the English People. A popular London penny newspaper recently asked for a vote Of its subscribers as to their nominee for the office of Poet Laureate, .with the result that Mr, Kipling obtained 20,000 votes and all other poets pet together did not receive as many, This represents where Mr. Kipling stands in the eyes of the multitude. Mr. Kipling's intense- ly anti -.democratic feelings'however, made it impossible for him to be considered for a moment -by any Liberal Prime Minister. The phot no- eas tarrioll, too.(1 for ilto Lonacin Sphere. OW1105E4. SLEEP AND NOISE. A. Special Form of Bad Dream for Each Sleeper. Both Bismarck and Pepys found that noise enhaonoect the value of a night's rest. Bismarck confided in his old age to an interviewer that he could "never sleep in Berlin at night when it is quiet, but as soon es the noise begins, about 4 o'olock in the morning, I can sleep a little and get my rest for the clay." Pepys records in his diary on September 23, 1681, that he slept tut Welling, "and still remember it that of all the nights that ever I slept in my life I never did pass a night with more epicurism of sleep ; there being new and then a noise of people that waked ree, and then it was a very rainy night, and then I was a little weary, and that be- tween waking and then sleeping again, one after another, I never had so much content in all my life." The probability that we got snatches of sleep a.t odd moments when we suppose ourselves to have remained continuously awake is supported by the phenomena ofdreams.dreas, dreams. Calk Twain accounted for his otrlt "disappearing visitor" by the belief that he had unconscious- ly had a, very short zap; and many have explained visions of ghosts as due to dreams during suoh short naps. For nothing is better established in connection with dreams than that an apparently very long one can occur during an almost infini- tesimal time. Alfred Maury had a inunigraut Rude prosgeritv much due to the ha it of thr ee saso• fate, in the beer of inspiration. bums,' and his execution; and was quires as to the opportunities offered him sets the sparrowseinging on the able to show that it all happened in the way of employment, though aa' thralls, the two are closely related. Luz. hosetops; how that of & M8.11 sud- during the moment of awakening • ruine Evid causes unemotional by the fall of a rod from the bed l; or euperffuous pleasures, le not ye ury, whether In the form of extravagant dmv • eapp ng the vitality of the nation. Tthe horses to stagger. My own features canopy upon his neck. b tor a rainy clay vrete recently do. are of the common 13 -ace 4-Pet—no- To sleep, perhaps to dream. Most of us have our special form of ba,d dream, born of ill advised and ill digested slipper, uestally. The commonest of the smaller night- mares is the experience of facing a drawing-roons or a public thorough- fare without cloehes. Bub I suppose we all have our special horror on the edge between sleeping and wak- ing, My own is the belief that I am irk Lor my finals at Oxford, and have not yet looked at Aristotle, and simply can't get him into the time 04my dispesel. And when I really wake to the cereal/sty th.at I have pasted all my examinations until the 'Day of Judgment, that is the most joyous moment of clisillueion. Mr. Gladstone once confeetted that only twice in the -whole. course of hie career had he been afflicted with sleeplessness. The first 0000,-' Bien was during the fatrnotton of his first Cubing, when he lay awake one night trying to think out how certain Ministers would 'agree with one another. His second eleepless night wa.s due to a 'gale of wind. Ile had alreog cut through the trunk of a, largo chestnut that afternoon, but lad bit, the tree standing itt cyder that Lord Napier, who was tensing next day, might flee iti hearing the wind, he lay lepeSillatinff what were the rhances of the tree remaining standing. Sailors and dma ogfire, perlmps, eagerness of working people to pia a little e inonetrated at Vancouver. A local paper offered a pocket savtnge bank and a first depoeit of fifty cents to every per. on who eared to apply for the dame, on the sole condition that they would open a savings account in a local bank. The bank in question offered interest at tour per cent. per annum, compounded everY three monthA, the money eo deposited to -be available for withdrawal by cheque et an's, time. Two thousand persons availed themselves of the offer in a sinele daY. The total deposited i71 eavinge banks of all kinds in Canada is, roughly, 7925,000, sop for a population of about 7,000,000, or nearly four times am much as ie deposited in the Poet -office Savings Bank in Brit, Ma, where tho population le Ave times as great. A Bad State of Anairs, ju the fourth annual report ei the com- mission of Conservation there is a brief account of a eurvey of the Trent Canal watershed above Peterboro made 10331 mummer by. Dr.. Pernow, of Toronto vereity, While this survey was for the IrarPode of making an inventory of the thnbet 7550070es of tho area it COnliee• Von with a reforeatation question, the eenditions under which the scattered farme were tilled forced themselves on the notion of the surveying party, In some of the back townehips north of Petorboro the soil coveting over the rooks to 50 thin that tho pocket ferule aro p757,- 1100.107 incapable of sustaining a family, &Ono Of the famines trying to eke out an exitance on there are, it ie atated, ra. Odle becoming degenerate. In 1911 196 fortis were for efue for taxes avereging a rate of 0 melte an mere. From 100 te 500 families, or fterna 000 to 1,000 persona, are living in a state of poverty and often 401)re:tits that woUld Shock the people of erovinee were tbo tall details to some • to lieut. • Of thO troth of What T)r, Pettey ears Pollee ocotcrt tweeds of came of a moo, degrading abernettor from mete emend roams 1,1101611 eloquent ttethnOny. Life te some of ranee emote feembouses hos seek to iv levet tvtfer removed front. more era ettalleni, ttai twisters who halm traversed the dietri iele new, rn tee 1080 ten ytuvrA two 11110 1.,eo11 0 deorosee tn the /metal. body thinks of regarding them twiee,—yet I, too, have had my ex- periences, declares a contributor to Punch. They occurred on the morning when I received a letter from Phyl- lis, which said briefly, "Yes, I think so." Not much in that, you may say, butt when I tell you it was the delayed =ewer to a proposal of marriage, you will understand. Shortly after reading it I stepped out into the street to walk to the office. 1.Vhart, a walk that wee: The light in my eyes seemed to brighten the very sun; the song itt rroy hetet was echoed from a hundred motor - busses. Never have the winds of May wooed so winningly a Febru- ary morning. Every man I met turned his head as ±1 10041) to take his eyes from my irradiated tountenance. Every girl Seemed to take the keenest plea- sure in my happinees, ,s.nd veiled at nro prettily as if infected by ha 0071. tagion. `"Tis well," I thought (in blank vevet), "that Phyllis now is pledged to me, or, by my troth, these flattering glances shot from beauty's eyee might, make my heart unfaithful." It wag only when T reached the offiee and looked in the 'gloms that direovered the large bleak smudge on the mei rof my nose. ^ t tho only people who can always sleep at will. The sailor,aa he will tell you, can "sleep as well on a clothes line as on a feather bed." He simply throws himself down; closes his eyes, and is asleep before say "Jack Robinson." DECORATES HEROES. Men of Captttin Scott's Expedition Given Medals. English papers tell how lds Ma- jesty the King received at Bucking- ham Palace between forty and fifty offieers and meot of the Terra Nova (Captain Soott's ship), the seion- tiets attached to the Antarctic ex- pedition'and lady relatives of those wim loet their lives, in order to decorate them with the Antarctic medal which had been specially - struck by order of MS Majesty, to commemorate the expedition. The men, most of whom were bluejackets itt itaquae, metalled from Caxton Hall to the Palace, cheering crowds lining tho routo. Most of the officers drove to the Palace,. They wore taken to the Grand Hall, ancl thencco to one of the smaller State apartments. The Mies who received modals or clasps were Lady Scott (widow of the commander of the expedi- tion), Mrs. Wilson (widow of Dr, Wilson), Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Edgar Evans, and Mrs, Brieseuclen. Mrs. Oates was to have received Cap- tain Oates' medal, but, being nn - avoidably prevented from atteed- ing, she deputed Commander Evans to receive it on her behalf. The medal is officially known as the "Pole& Medal." It was apecial- ly gruck to conene.morate the Ant- arctic expedition of 1910.173. The medal and clasp were in silver for those Who had served more than one Polar voyage, and in bronze for those who made ono voyage only. In the eaec, of +those who possess the previous Polar medal, the clasp alone was given on this come -ion. The ladies were first admitted, and were presented to the ICiug by Prince Louis of Battenberg, Eiret Sea Lord. Ills Majesiw, Who wore the uniform of an admiral, pinned on the medal in each ease, shook hands with each of the ladies, and said a few words of sympathy o.n the lose Of their brave relatives, but there was nothing in tho way of speoch-anaking. After the hullos load withdrawn, the general eompany wits admitted. A hook had been previously attach- ed to .the breast of each metes uni- form or cost (the scientists were in civilian dreg), and the King per - senility plated the medals in posi- tion, He also in turn ehook hands With oath of the men, The Queen was net present. In the ease Of two men of the crew, W. Lashley and Thomas Cream the Albert medal was also awarded for gallantry in saving .the life. of Commander Evans. As is teal in the ease of. the bestowal of this medal, a brief a:ccaunt of the deed was read to that King by Prince Louis, On leaving the Pabeee, the decor ated sailers made their way hail ie procession be Caxton Hall, Baal were again heartily elersred by the spectators. you Can KING WOO nintlit TO GUARD AGAINST aeess IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LASIEL,AND THAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OP ALUMINA OR SODIO ALUMINIC SUL- PHATE IS NOT ONE OF THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN- GREDIENTS IS NOT SUFFI- CIENT, NIAGIC BAKING POWDER COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS. FOR ECONOMY, BUY THE ONE POUND TINS., 1111$ te. SARIN POWDER e ISCOMPOEin &FIBS PattlWiNd P49671»dP49671»auff3 fileGNIZOIlliii etelliDIATE SICAltfb .21 (BIATEOFHIIIAAND 3014707.7,(4 E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED wiNt4ina, .TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL '.111110410.11,fill/00 11.00.111101011110e1.9 „t1114 IDIgigueiglifeigiroisefspesOWse MOST OARING ENTERPRIg TO TIIP NORT1R POTS BY Alit It EIGHT 110 CRS. .• Count Zeppelin Planning to 01.alc the Trip Next Year In a Dirigible. Count Zeppelin and Prince Remy. brother of the Kaiser, have alreadt. undertaken the first step in makieg their daring dream of going to the North Pole by airship a reality. , Last year they went up as far as Spitzbergen on one of the Germen steamers which makes thitt trip rev ulealy during the summer months. Count Zeppelin had with him as air balloon, and they made a num- ber of ascents to study meteorologi- cal eonditions mar the North Pole.! In planning a clash to the North Pole. though they will have to fig - nee with the wind, they will have easier work than the men who made tho. journey with snow sledges. The danger Tram snow is also un- important, but the rays of the sun will furnish some difficulties, foe the sun is constantly in the heat:. VOUS, and in the pure aten,osphere throws ofi strong rays. Fog, the worst enemy of the aero - matt m all latitudes, is a frequent: plmuomenon in the polar regions in the summer. Naugle during his three years' voyage in the Fraan, found an average of twenty foggy, days in July and August. On the; other hand, the polar fog is never, so thick but it leases the sorface of the ice visible front an airship, and is therefore an obstacle that ceases Count Zeppelin few qualms. la :fitly and August. nothing oorapared with the oast of fitting out a northern expedition. Those who have made a trip in a dirigible say that there is DO mere comfortable mode of travel. Once up in the air and the dread caused by tho fear of mounting, the Benea- tht is perfectly delightful. There is no feeling of dizziness or sea, sickness. Ono has the feeling that the world and its many panorama$. am unfolding themselves slowly. and gradually fur one's pleasure. Tito fleet step has: bean taken, for two ordinary buildings hove been built at King's Bay, Spitsbergen, the station chosen for the ascent. FORESTS OF SIBERIA. fORCii PEARLSTO GROW (11 NTT FT (1 'METHOD BEING TRIED ON OYSTERS. Valuable Gem Originates in a Doad i Paroteite Inside the 'Bi - One of the earliest explanations of the origin of the pearl in the Arab and Hindu legend is that pearls are dew -drops fallen in the sea and received by the oyster. It ha» now been established that the pearl originates in a dead para- site round which the oyster d•epos- ile a secretion in a seriee of spheri- cal envelopes. This parasite has been identified and has a strange history. 11 ±11 lives and dies in the oyster and is coated with pearl mat- ter it becormes a. jewel. But if the oyster is scooped from its shell by a fish the parasite remains in the sten-melt of this fish and develops into another stage of life and ve- mains there until it dies. But if this fish becomes in its turn the prey of another speciee of fish then the parasite undergoes another change, becoming a definite little sea, oreature, living its own life and no longer parasitic. 87 Pearls in One.Oyster. In pearl fisheries only one oyster in 30 or 40 contains pearls. But it is on reoord that an oyster -taken in. the Indian Oc-ean held 87 good pearls, and bora the famous Cey- lon fishery came a shell with 67. The finest pearls are the pure white. But nowadays the fashion is for pearle tinged with rose, Bloek'pearls oome from Mexico and from Tahiti. Garnet red pearls axe highly prized among Hindus and Jews. From the Bahamas come rose red pearle, pale., with delicate wavy lines. Pale blue pearls are often found in edible mussels and violet in the ark shell. There is a big shell in the West Indies that contains very beautiful rose red pearls, but a.s they have no layer of pearl matter they cannot be con- sidered tome pearls. At first they are magnificent, but gradually they lose their color and fade. With fine skin and good lustre, or orient, black pearls and the deep shades of red, yellow, eto., are as costly and as highly prized as the purest white. The loveliee,b single lupe pearl is said to be in a museum in Moscow. It is known es La Pellegrino and is OM Indian pearl perfectly spherical in shape, pure white in color and almost transparent. It weighs 28 carats, or 112 grains. 480 -Grain Gem Emma in 1020. One of the most wonderful pearls re.eorded, found in South America in 1620, weighed 480 grains. For it a merchant sold all his estate and brought it home, "because there was a King of Spain to buy it." The omit weight of the pearl is the carat, wbich is equivalent to four grains. And the value of the pearl is proportional to the square of its weight in grains. The twit value varies according to the qual- ity, but is greatest in the case of pearls from fifteen to thirty-five grains especially if they Ane spher- ical. It is lees from thirty-five to fifty, and .still lower for pearls over fifty grains, simply became of their proportional costliness and the dif- ficulty of finding' 'a cuseomer. Twenty years ago the value of the finest pearls was calculated at five times their weight. To -day a real- ly beautiful pearl may go as high as 200 tunes it weight. Many attempts have been made to encourage oysters to produce pearls, The Chinese have done so, with a certain suocess by dropping into mussel 71)ells fragments of nacre., sometimes round, sometimei in the shape of little figures of 13orktha. In time these are coated with pearly matter and are in suf- ficient demand. I$100,006 Smelt in Experiments. Tinther Lands of 'North the Largest In the World. There is an immense and continu- ous tract of forest lying north of the Saint Lawrence River, in the province of Quebec and Ontoeie, extending northward to Hudson Bay and Labrador, a region mea- suring about 1,700 milet in length rom east to west and 1,000 miles in width north and south. By some it is held that a, much larger continuous tract of timber land exists in the Stake of Washing- ton and northward through British Columbia, and Alaeka. But this oontention is limited to North Americo, for, it has been pointed out, there lies a forest in the valley of the Amazon, Eastern Peru, Boli- via, Ecuador, Colombia and Gui- ana, a. region at least 3,100 miles in length by 1,000 miles in breadth. Then, too, there must be ()amid - erect the forest area of Central Af- rica, itt the volley of the Congo, in- cluding the heralwatere of the Nile to the north-eset and them of the Zambesi on the seuttle According to reliable egiauatee, Central Afri- ca contains a forest region not lees than 3,000 miles in length from north t0 south end of vast, al- though not fully known, width from east to wog. Tiro question which continent, possesses the greatest forest has been placed in another light by an explorer, This authority haa paint- ed a vivid picture of the vast pine, la•relt and cedar forests of Siberia. Siberia, front the plain of the Obi river on the west to the valley of the. Inclighiorka on the east, embrac- ing the great plains or river valleys :of the Yenese, Olenek, Lena and Tana 11 \WS, is. one great timber belt, averaging more than 1,000 miles in breachth from north to south, being hilly 1,700 miles wide in the Yenesei district, and having a length from east, to west of not less than 3,000 miles. Unlike equatorial forests, the trees of the Siberian talgas ttre mainly conifers, comprising pines of several tqtristies, firs and larches. In the Yenesei, Lena and Olenek regions there aro thousands of square miles where no human being has ever been. The long-eteramed conifers rise to 01 height of 150 feet or more, and they stand so closely together that walking among them is extreinely difficult. The dense, lofty tops exeltele the pale Aretio ,suralline, and the straight pole baulks, all leaking ex- agly alike, so bewilder the eye in the obscurity that all sense of oh- reetioe is soon leet. Eveot the most experienced trappers of sable fore dare not, venture in the dense tal- gas without, taking the precaution of blazing the trees constantly ribli hatchets as they walk Mtwara. If log there the hunter rarely finds his way out, but perishes miserably from starvation 01' eold, The 1111 - them avoid the taigas, and have a name for them -which signifies places where the mind Lo In the unexplored polar districts' lands from airships will be possible, canly on ice flees, which are splene ally suited to that purpose. Thai re-wsoent from these Roes is purely a balloon einginecrin,g problem. The low temperature is of small consid- eration, for in July and August the two "het" months, and the period in which the Zeppelho expeditions arc planned to take place, the ther- mometer is never more than slight- ly below zero. These difficulties are few and easy compered with the trials and hard- ships encountered with sledges and' dogs. The clogs often clic, and, many of blit sledges a•re lost before half the trip is over. With the Zep- pelin airships mew precaution known to engineering skill will be used in their equipment, anal there will be two ehips, the accompanying one to be used inoase of accideet. The important fact is that with a Zeppelin airship, the 540 miles from. Spitzbergen to the Pole can be made in eight hours. Nine miles a day is considered good speed with dogs. Eight hours of amebae with winds and etorme is nothing compared with blinding stems and low temperatures that the northern explorers have strug- gled with for days and daye.at a time. Explorers iit the past have load to endure these hardshipe, suf- fering 11'0M hunger and resting or travelling in darlosees, while the airship can bo equipped with plenty of food los a day'e journey, And will not have to eemhat with total darkness, Cost $200 Pee Passenger. The expense, will, of eouree, be in proportion. A trip in a Zeppelin airship will gest about $200 at pas- eenger. Though this is, a goodly sum for an eight 1101170 anise, ±11 1» Not many years ago, however, a company began .sciontific experi- ments in the Indian Ocean, They place little balls of nacre, weighing from 40 to 50 grains, in a partiouler epeciee of very big oyster, known as the Autralian type. After about ten months these pellets are covered with a beautiful lower of pearl matter and are exactly like true pearls ie appearance. When there pearls come on the market they may ha,vo a great 011e04e85, The company refused 111offer of115,000 for the first 350 shells. It is equip- ped to data with 900 shells and in four s,lvells and ±33 10117 years has epeet over $100,000 in experinieets, Some of thee» expeviments come iso nothing for a outdoes retesoe. The 08,808, in which the oysters were kept were bouracl with iron Wire. The shells became impregnated with this iron and the rake' 01 the pearls was seriously damaged. They are new using nickeled wire, and thos eueoess of their enterprise ap- pears to bo assured. Olt the Contrary. "Did he 7liin1i to success 1" "No, He fell into a, fortune."