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The Brussels Post, 1914-1-22, Page 2Lt 4nt•110,'.,., oritixa«riRl iria+ll ail TO GUARD AGAINST ALUM IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL,AND THAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODiG ALUMINIC SUL- PHATE IS ,NQT. ONE OF THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN- GREDIENTS I8 NOT SUFFI- CIENT. MAGIO BAKING POWDER CDSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS. FOR ECONOMY, BUY THE ONE POUND TINS. IttAlrilf i. BISCUIT.CAHL,tIG LDet$ECYVdilda,f gun BAKING THIS ISCOMPOWEOOFTHE FOLLOWING !NORM ENTS AHD HONE MDR PHOBPKATE RI•VARD, GHAOFSOIMRM t�erg, C0NTAIN11 NO unin pour^ E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEGTORONTO, ONT. l woo gootulxmilmogoolorr` oloommoromoo i, not_ MONTREAL CHIEF OF A PIRATE. GANG MISTRESS CUING, CHINA'S NOTED) FREEBOOTER. Had Long Reign, Amassed Wealth and Codified Piratical Laws. Writers have made quite a to-do recently about the feminist move- ment in the Republic of China. Chinese women, in the last few years, it is inferred, have "emanci- pated" themselves. They wear No. 6 shoes, tight skirts instead of pa- jamas, attend teas, have culture clubs, want the vote, and every now and then smash a window just like their sisters in more civilized, if not so polite, nations; and all this quite recently. But that is all wrong—that is the "recently" part. The militant femi- nist movement in China began when Mrs. Pankhurst's great- grandmother was a baby. To be exa-et, the first Chinese campaign, to, verify Mr. Eipling's much-quot- •ed philosophy, became noticeable in 1506, and one Mistress Ching, a piratess of gentle mein and some repute, was its most active cham- pion. In the beginning, Mistress Ching was an uncommonly good-looking daughter of a man in Hupeh Prov- ince, who operated something akin to the modern Spindle game. She attracted the fancy one day of a. business friend of her father's, one Ching-yih, a promising and ambi- tious pirate of the south coast. Ching-yih paid the father the equi- valent of 540, the value of Chinese girls in those days, and the daugh- ter, already in love with the hand- some young pirate, went gladly to his piratical ship. Declared Herself Emperor. guilty one's ears split for the amusement of the law-abiding citi- zens; for the second offence, death. That sante simplicity in punish- ments was noticeable in all the code. There was no haggling about the chair v. the gallows. Theft from other pirates was un- lawful. All slandered goods mus': be turned i_ito the general pot and redistributed in kind or cash. Each pirate was entitled to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. And all public services were to be owned by the State. Feminine laws was etriet, a5 might be expected. Thus, no pirate could retain for his own any woman captive. He couldn't even Idss her without obtaining, first the super- cargo's, and next the lady's con- sent. All women Captives were turned over to the general fund, just as other goods captured. Then, on Saturday half -holiday, the pi- rates were allowed to buy which ones took their fancy. The usual plan was to parade all the women. As one pleased a pi- rate he indicated her to the super- cargo, who then crcditod that pi- rate's account with one woman and debited it to the prevailing price. As soon as all the women were cho- sen each pirate l;d his bride, or brides, as the case -might be, to the chaplain's office, where they were duly and truly married according to both t nines° and pirate law. There were no affinities in Mistress Ching's piratical kingdom. So piratical life hummed merrily onward. And they lived long and prosper- ous, and were happy, and two little pirates came to bless them. Ching- yih even declared himself Emperor of the South. And his chief wife no doubt added Empress to her title of Presidentess of the Ladies' Piratical Auxiliary. But, alas, for the beat laid plots of men and mice, as Bobbie Burns has it, Ching-yih fell, was shoved overboard one night, and some 40,- 000 pirates awoke the next morning chieftainless. Each captain immediately offered himself as a, successor for the high Admiral,' andi each one cleared his decks and prepared to fight for the honor. It looked as if the pirates would start a bloody family quar- rel when Mistress Ching-yih, with the polatacal experience of the La- dies' Auxiliary behind her, calmly took command. She appointed one Paou, an orphan boy, her husband had reared, as chief lieutenant and Prime Minister. Then she sum- moned all the eaptains and called upon them for loyal support. Like the Hungarian nobles did • when Marie Theresa appealed to them, the Chinese piratical nobles yanked out their swords and swore to mur- der for her, and her only, as long as she -lived, Thus was the first feminist move- ment --of a military character—in China launched. Mistress Ching (she dropped the yin part) had wonderful success. Her force rapidly grew to 70,000. the "Pirates' Own Book" says, and there wasn't 's, sea 'coast city in China but what could boast of a visit or two front her. As one Chi - tees writer paradoxically puts it: "Tile. .blackened ruins of burned elites sprang up like loatheeoine Scraps With Government. Now and then the Imperial Gov- ernment would send out a fleet to fight the pirates. That always af- forded the pirates a few naw guns and several fancy uniforms. Ever and anon the pirate fleet would sack a city, and oftentimes it cruis- ed the seas and raided peaceful merchant ships of all nations. Sometimes, just for diversion, a few captives were retained, Among these there happened to be a Mr, "lasspoole, an Englishman, to whose careful diary most of the in- teresting facts about the Ladrone pirates are due. He was retained several months but finally Mistress Ching traded hint for a hale of cot- ton cloth, a gun or two and several thousand real dollars. Much of the success of the Admir- aless was due, Mr. Glasspoole be- lieves, to her thorough and efficient organization. She was orderly, it might be said, as a housewife. All her ships were divided into six squadrons, the red, tho black, the yellow, the blue, the green and the purple. One notices the deli- cacy elicacy in leaving out white. Each of these squadrons, commanded by a trusted Commodore, ranged the seas in various directions, and add- ed what they could to the piratical treasury. A few times each year the whole fleet was assembled for some large and daring raid, usually when one of the larger 'cities was sacked and burned. How long Mistress Ching might have ruled as a piratess will never be known, for, after several years of successful operating, she began to weary of the ceaseless pit -pat of the plank walkers, and daily swish of the snickersnee knife. Also Paou, as zealous as ever in her in- terest, started a quarrel with one O-po-tae, who, rumor had it, was a bit thick with the Admiraless her- self. Anyway, Paou and O-po-tae fell out, and O -iia -tae surrendered to the Government on promise of general amnesty. Later he became a high official. Mistress Ching and Paou saw the lesser chieftain's rise to ethical fame, and they too, began to han- Tile Navy and lei .o•niy at It itdsor Castle. Rt. Hon. Winston Clhurchill, First Lord -of the Admiralty, and Rt. H'on. Col. Seeley, Minister of War, attending the Royal Reception at Windsor Castle to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. KEY TO THE PANAMA ?�Al, I foree crthis level and hold it there flowers in her wake." ker after less bloody plaudits. So Codified Pirate Laws. In many. ways Mistress—or, ra- ther, Admrraless 'dew ---Ching' wa.s quite an finprovement on the pirati- cal chiefA,' of that day. As Napol- eon was doing about the same thing in Eerepol .she assembled a few piratical' Sages and began a eodifi' cation of the piratic lairs. Even yet the Ching Code is reputed to. bo the best collection of piratic. laws extant. I+or instance; she made it a crime for any pirate to leave the terri- tory under pirate control -11 sort of. ,null' Japanese occlusion act, one might, say. 'l'ho punishment for brieI;i:tg rules :res to have the GREAT GAMS DAM COULD BE DESTROYED BY ENEMY. Built to Last for Ages, Though Construction Is'Very Simple, Few people realize that the suc- cess of the Panama Canal will a1 - ways depend upon the . ability of the great clam at Gatun to hold back the waters of the artificial Gatun Lake, writes a correspond- ent of The New York Times, In case of a war with any country which might desire to destroy the usefulness of the canal the blowing up of this dam would end the value of the big ditch for many years. There is no question about the abil- they opened negotiations with the Mandarins, and finally quit the piratical business, Paoli became a sub•allandarin, and Mistress. Ching took a home in Canton and lived to be a respected and revered old lady, "Why, Willie, you do't; seem to be enjoying yourself, No, uncle, I'm having a miserable time, Aun le told me to catas much as T wanted --and I cant, Meonma--"Johnny, I shall . have to tell yoltr:, father what a naughty boy you have been, Johnny--"I dad's right when he says a woman can't keep .a thing to her- s'elf,". Many Ridiculed Plan. It was believed by some reput- able engineers that the valley at Gatlin was a light silt which would not support a dam of the necessary size ; but investigation by the bor- ings method showed that the foun- dation would be suitable. In order to overcome any doubt on this score the dam was made very large, with a broad, flat baso, so that in a sense it is floating on the under- lying mass, It was thought by others that such a dant would not hold the great lake behind it, 166 square miles in area, containing 206,000,- 000,000 cubic feet of water; but the size of the structure -500 feet at the top, 2,000 feet at the bottom, 300 feet at the lake level, and 105 feet high—is believed to overcome this objection. It was oven said that the whole river basin was por- ity of the dam itself, if not destroy- Gus, and that no matter how strong ed by some foreign agency, to stand the dam there would be no surety just as it now stands for ages. of the water now flowing out; but Across the valley, where five the finished lake contradicts this years ago the Chagres River wound lazily about past the native town of Gatun, stretches a great mound of rock and earth. As ono stands on the hills at Gatun and looks across the valley it is as hard to realize that a river once meandered there, through a jungle where mon- keys played and wildcats prowled, and past a hamlet of a hundred homes, as five years ago it would have been difficult to imagine the scene of to -day. Much of the dam itself is overgrown with grass and shrubs, and but for the .great mass of concrete that rises hall way across the valley, where the spill- way was constructed, one easily might believe that the great bar- rier was raised by nature, so much it seems a part of the hills. Construction'Very Simple. The dam is a simple structure. Two long parallel mounds of rook and earth several hundred feet apart from one another were built up to a height of 105 feat above the ground, and into the space between these ridges fine clay and sand from the river bottom were pumped by suction dredge. The water was allowed to run off, ' and there re- mained a closely peeked mass im- pervious to water. The hydraulic fill, as the water deposited core is called, was begun on December 4, 1908, and was finished in Octo- ber, 1912, when the haat dredge was withdrawn. Over the top of this core, at an elevation of 93 feet above sett level a covering of rock and earth was placed to bring the whole to an elevation of 105 feet, The side towards the lake 16 faced with hard rock from the Culebra Cut Half -way across the valley a spillway of concrete ents through the dam, and here are the gates that control tho weber level in the lake. One who wishes to under- stand exactly the work that het been done at Pan)tni.a call find a miniature in'tmo mill dam and race near hie home. There,. as in Pana- ma, the dam is the barrier itnd the waste represents the spillway. No part of the look level canal plan has been. aubjeeted fin se crouch oriticlsm. as the dare at Gatun, be- cause it is the factor upon which the success of She whole project de- pen•clS. Out of a f:ota] length of 10 mites, 01 miles will he in time lame level at Alii feel, above sen. level, and theory. In eliort, the dam is what its designers and builders Have thought it would be—water and time proof. The Gatun site for a dam was suggested at the International Congress iu Paris in 1879, but the sea. level project was adopted. It was fixed upon by the minority of the International Board' of Con- sulting Engineers in 1906, in pre- ference to the site at Bohio, seven miles further up the valley, be- cause investigations indicated that there would be less seepage under the darn at Gatlin, Work Began in 1906. Clearing the valley of the village and the jungle was begun in 1908, the construction of trestles for the dumping of rook and earth from the lock site and Culebra Cut was be- gun early in 1907, the construction of the toes or parallel ridges of earth was begun in the spring of 1907, and the hydraulie fill on Dec,. 24, 1908. The engineer in charge when the work was started, Wil - Bare Gerig, loft the Isthmus in 1908, and after that the work was in charge of Major R. M. Hoffman, acting under the division engineer, Lieut. -Col. William Sibert, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. Originally the plan oalIed for a dam with top 135 feet above the mean sea level, which is thee same distance above the river flats at Gatun, This great height was later declare(' unnecessary, end the top of the dam, as completed, is at 105 feet above Dan level, twenty feet above the surface of the lake, at its normal level of 85 feet.. It was es- timated in 1908 that the dam with- out the spillway would case about $10,000,000. The total east was about $2,000,000 less than this. Expressed in engirfcering terms, tho total hydraulic fill Is 10,000,000 cubic yards, and the total dry fill about 11,000,000 yards. The lay draulio filling has cost about 80 cents a cubic yard, and the dry fill- ing about 45 cents. •A.eoolnllflshed. She—Mr, Blick always manages to .say the right thing at the right time, if';o---Yes; he is one of the most accomplished 'favor' know of. DE ENTURES Government and MunIcIpal Present prices give prospective purchasers of Bonds the most attractive opportunities which have been avail- able for many years. The undernoted representative Securities have been aelected from our s guards which experience and as ndconservatism suggest, safe- guards and as affording, in addition, Investments with good Incomes. 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Wolk in a tanyard is most unpleasant, till one gets ac- customed to it, owing to the horri. hie smell, but the astringent prop- ' erifes of the tan -bark aro amazing- ly good for the chest, and render the tan -yard man practically proof i not only against consumption, but the co,m:mon cold. Shepherds enjoy extraordinarily good health. It is not simply a matter of the open air, for farmers do not show a bill of health nearly as clean. Doctors have suggested that the rea.:on lies in the fact that the strong odor of the sheep has an antiseptic influence, and kills off stray germs. Tho odor is supposed a gasworks is a cure for whooping- in,g-enugh, and in a sheep -rearing district mothers often send ailing chi'.dien to play among the sheep when whooping -cough is about. i . Gas For Whooping -Cough. ettaanessa'as s ..,=rrm ra ima= = K:gh Class 5 -Year Bonds that are Profit -Sharing. 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Wham it was proposed to substitute In- fanta the danger to thorn was petaled out, but the girls of the school maintain that the slake ware exaggerated. The doll, it 1s stated, was never dropped In all Its existence and under tho oyes df their ex- peuienceti teachers the girls handle the. human substitutes as carefully. Kathleen and Bolo, 11 appearance is anything, aro waxing • strong 021 the rout- fne of bathing, dressing, and putting to sleep. Kathleen was a little restive the other day and out of sorts. but the atria, after several experiences, are now past mistresses in the art of treating a trouble. some baby, and Kathleen was quickly hushed to Bleep. Only girls over 13 aro allowed to take part in tho training. Besides tending the babies they learn all manner of kindred accompliehmeato, such as how to make a cradle out of a soap -box or a child's bot• tie out of a soda. -water bottle. Prince to Have Model Farm. The Prince of Wales, noting with the Duchy of Cornwall Council, proposes to establish a model farm on hie Cornish estate and a site has been selooted soar Callington. On Umutring at the office of the Duoby of Cornwall at Buckingham Osla, S.W.. a reporter was informed by an offiolal that the scheme had so far materialized that the farm buildings, which were start- coinod loot spring. wero well on the way to ppletion. Tho model farm is alroady star ad with cattle. • Sovereigns to Visit Paris. The intended state visit of the Icing and Queen to Parte will probably be made after Easter between April 21. and April' 26. It is considered unlikely that Prin- cess Mary will go with. her parents. Elephant's Trunk on Menu. Mrs, Dan Cranford, whose book, "Think- ing Black," has created emelt controversy mentioned some extraordinary Central African. "dishes" in the course of e. lec- ture at Aldoregate street recently. Those included stowed elephant's trunk, roast rhinoceros foot, boiled hippo tongue. (stewed forty -Bight hours to make it ten- der), roast wild donkey, stowed monkey roast water rat (head, 'bail and all) and the luscious morsel, which a chief p00. vided as a State delioaey, of a mese of thousands of whits ants, frizzled in their own fat, like a sort of Central African whitebait. Akio there was a special dish, much favored of starchy boiled gvast, green and glutinous." Mrs, Cranford told of the Central Afri- Cau "knuta." Tho young britlegroom elepllaot'ektaiil,, itee and teeth and boa, wh ioli any society woman would envy, of 8qu1r. tel shine, gray and white, the toilet be- 111- completed possibly—for all European garments were fashionable—by one of gra. Dan Orauford's skirts 0p001011y lent for the occasion, Ohlnese Ideal Language. Air William Ramsay, speaking at 6t, Bride Institute recently on spelling re- form, said it wee a pity that we had not from alta beginning adopted the Chinese system of writing instead of our own. The Chinese did not spell, they used sym- bols which convoyed Ideas. The Chinese language had the groat advantage thab it could be read much quicker than any spelled language. It went straight from the symbol to tbo brain as au idea. the Although he would not oupp rb t adoption of a now alphabet on the linea of the Chinese system, he Colt that it wee a pity that three thousand or four thousand years ego our ancestors did not adopt the Mimeo systmn. Sorting Bottles By Touch. One of London's queer trades le that of empty bottle sorting at the London liken a watch is -round tip it goes on. Not 80 with a limited corn - the clans at (latun maul, form the piny. There is nothing whatever in the popular belief that a single visit to a gasworks is a euro for whoopin- cnugh except that, lt8 doctors ad- mit, men regularly employed in eats -corks are singularly free from diacrises of the throat and chest. Cases of influenza, too, aro very rare indeed among gas -works M'ind's the smell 11185 pervades gas- works being an admirable antisep- tic'. Thaa+e bottles acs +r^n faa nt gni ane Tall -yard work, as has been said *wherever cellars, the n ,hips wherever bolt es gO' astray. Whore, malice rine almost proof Every year at lem.t two 1111110a hot• ties, atter mans wart,lcri-+'rs. p^d thee against colds, but there ale two way to the Bottle F,xcra••g<+. Tb•:c ere „eetiratiens wltielt are absolutely sorted and returned to their rightful own- ,r.a,f ere, who pay an annual a.ubaer:Fain l as I watt as n few shtlllnge a grree' far return. (l+Ae is salt -mining, the other is ea bot Reared on the bottle. on it weir* n tles. Arctic or Antarctic exploration. sorter at the exchange must boa man of Colds arc quite unknown among keen eye and delicate ton -•h. All that Cx lorcYS in the fCG7.ett world until ho line to guide him in tltonrancls of caeca p ie ?hie: emhessed name on the gl^sa, an•1 they come within reach of civiliza- swiftly, unerring'y and v-th almost nn- tion again. canny deftness he Dirks ottt n bn"tis g which has wandered from Glasgow and Typhoid is getting rarer in this pate it inaibio ease boo come the North. eountry, but even when it was very Salvation comm n, there has never been, a The world's congress of the Army hold in London ten years nen lo to .scientist recently stated, a known be repeated next summer, but en a en•ne- Ca80 of this terrible disease among what larger scale. itepresentatirre of t army from all parts of the world and of all natinno to Lha number of several thousand avill bo present, and in their native costumes will make s picturesque gathering. A big corrugated iron build• ing for the seating of 2,002 p^reons is to be eroded en a vacant site in Aldwyoh, hi the centre of London, for the meet. Inge At the oonolueion of the eongl•ose, 300 of the delegates, ropresonting as many nations as possible. will make a tour of the country. At Nottingham this delegation will take. part in the opening. of the hall erected by the people of that town in memory of the late General Booth. London, Jan. 2, 1914, STRANGE OCCTTP:1.'CI0N. Bottle Brokers of Russia Earn Fair Livia. The sale of "vodlea,'' the national drink in Russia, has been under the control of the government since the edict of June 6, 1894. Of the 50,000 places engaged in European Rus- have no dif eolty in getting girl - aim, more than one-half are conduct- labor cheap. Girls employed in the ed by the state, under the super- resin department of sealing -wax factories are probably the plumpest and healthiest class of girl -workers. Anaemia, that disease from which the majority of^young women suf- fer snore or less, is unknown among thein, except in the case of those who take on the work in order to euro their anaemia. And in these cases cures are certain and rapid. Local doctors recommend the scal- ing -wax cure so strongly that in many eases the girls offer their ser- vices free. This sort of work has alae .oxeellent results in eases of cvanced, onsumlrtion, when not too far act• corper.aniners. If there is rheumatism in your family, it would be a good idea to get your son a job in a turpentine factory. Rheumatism is practically unknown in such factories, and even cases of acute rheumatism have been known to recover completely on being transplanted to . A Turpentine Atmosphere. If you are a martyr to neuralgia or headaches you may envy the people who prepare lavender for sale, Lavender, indeed, is an ex- cellent tunic for anyone who is run clown. - Doctors frequently recom- mend people suffering from nervous breakdown to get a job at gathering er distilling this fragrant plant. Towns with sealing -wax factories vision of the ministry of finance, says arper Weekly. Most of the employees in the gov- ernment vodka shops are the wid- ows and orphans of deceased of- ficials of state. These shops are conducted in an 'orderly manner and no drinking ie permitted on the prtimises. The fao't that a charge ranging from one cent to nine cents is made for the bottle in which the vodka ie sold has given rise to a strange business. Bottle brokers, as they are called, haunt the neighbor- hood of the vodko shops, watching for some thirsty person who needs the loan of one or two kopecks (a half .a cent or a cent). with which to make the purchase of a bottle of the desired beverage. Perhaps the buyer has hurt six ko pecks, and he required eight to get a bottle of vodka, the "broker" lends him the two kopecks to make up the desired amount, and, after the receptacle has been drained tinder the vigilant eye of the broker the bottle' is turned over to him. He takes it back to the shop and sells it for three kopecks, tints making a pr'ofit' of one kopeck.. 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The smell of printers' ink ie a ourioos one, and it has a subtle medicinal effect. Men employed lir factories where 15 is made never contract consumption, oe so a medi- cal lecturer amici recently: And in tropical countries it is a well- known fact that printers always es- cape yellow fever, however fiercely it inay happen to be raging in the neighborhood.—London Answers. Theo What ]happened? Mrs: Murphy --Take in that face and part cut. your pup's. MIs. Maloney—el did this morn- ing, and everybody pa.;isinF by said: "Good morning, Mrs, hLiiv thy. ]!very man is firmly convinced that he gets al] the punisltnrent ho deserves—also a lot that he can't account for.