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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-8-13, Page 6HOUNDING THE CRIMINALS Terrible Punishment for Even Youthful Prisoners in Early Times To secure as far as possible that blood spitting, and not only would no one under the age of 21 years convicts horribly maim and retail - should be found inside of a prison through a Combination of probation, super'vi'sion, and Borstal treatanent, says London Tit -Bits. That is one of the salient features of the new crimes bill which Mr. McKenna, the home 'secretary, is piloting Brough parliament at the Present time, This "most Christ- ian crimes bill," as it has been ate (themselves in all manner a ghastly ways, but it is stated that men would often inflict grave in- juries on fellow prisoners upon the latter's urgent supplice tion. When, too. we remember thee she greatest number of lashes it is now possible to inflict upon a prisoner is 38, ib is amazing to read that in the early days of Queen Victoria's termed, strikingly illustrates the reign local magistrates were sen - progress we have made in modern times in regard to the coneideration and treatment of criminals. It seems almost incredible, indeed, that in the memory cf our grand - /ethers, boys of from twelve to six - keen years of age were whipped, flogged, and herded together on hulks, the floating prisons in the Thames. On these hulks young and old -- "criminals, "cri'minals, lunatics, feeble-minded, and outcasts of all kinds, were 000p - ed up for periods generally varying (between one and seven years," says George Ives, in his striking book, History of Penal Methods. "About 1824 (according bo Mr. Ives) they appear to have -placed the boys on a specimi 'ship, 4he Biu- • ryalus, and there the youngest 'vil- lain,' was nine years old, some of the boys, the inspectors reported, 'are so yoitng that they can hardly put on their clothes.' " Horrible, indeed, was the runish- ments meted out eo young criminals at the beginning of the last century. "The gallows load was heavy; an instance appeared in a Times para- graph, January 18,1801, which tells how a certain Andrew Branning, a luckless urchin aged only thirteen, bad 'broken into a house and oar- ried off a spoon. Others were with him, but they ran away, and only he was captured and brought to trial. His story ended in two 'words, which were short and customary 'Guilty—death.' " There was, however, even in the days when the ,petty thief was tran- sported for -fourteen years for steal- ing a loaf, and both men and women were flogged in public at the tail of a cart and pilloried and ,branded for minor offences, a certain humor in the poetics punishments meted out to dishonest.tradesmen. Lancing prisoners to no fewer Mhan 300 lashes. One lad of only eight- een •received this appalling sen- tence, but after 76 lashes + had been laid on the sufferer apparently col- lapsed. He died some years after- ward while serving a sentence in a penitentiary. Witohes and lunatics were also subjeoted to terrible ereatment. The imputation of sorcery was enough for a death warrant, and it is esti- mated that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 30,000 alleged witdhes were hounded to death in this country. There was no proper treatment or humane treatment for lunatics, even royalty -being flogged and ill- treated while insane. And one of the most amazing incidents in the history of this country is the man- ner in which Icing George III, was treated when he became insane. "His body was immediately in- closed in a machine which left it no liberty of motion. He inc some- times chained to a stable. He was frequently beaten and starved, and at last kept in subjection by menac- ing and violent language,: . . All hie troubles were intensified by ill-treatment. They left ,him to be knocked about by a German ser- vant, and bhe first doctors kept him even from his own children. . hush was the orthodox treatment in those days app' lied against the high - eat in the land." SORROWS OF LIFE. "For instance, a baker, who cold loaves which were short of weight, was shown with the bread tied round his neck. A fishmonger, who' had been selling' had fish, was paraded with a collar of stinking smelts slung over his shoulder. A grocer who .had been selling much adulterated spices was . placed in the pillory and had the powders burned beneatk.'his nose." Reference might also .be made to bhe trial by ordeal in the old days. There was the consecrated barley cake which was •supposed to choke a perjurer if he tried to swallow it. A hest tried with .hot water, in which a stone had to be pinked out of boil- ing liquid without the arm ,being scalded. Another test consisted of inserting the hand into a glove or hot iron without being burned by it. The horrors of theleranaportation system were ,almost as bad as ilhe terrible punishments of medieval times, and Mr. Ives relates how sit each and all of the penal settle- ments in Australia and New Zea- land the prisoners committed de- sperate assaults, often upon each etcher by prearrangement. "from absolute weariness of their lives," in order to get away from those dreadful places, if only as witnes- nes, or even as persons accused of murder. "At Macquaire Harbor, on one occasion, three prisoners tossed; one was to be slain, another was to strike the fatal blow, the third was to the a witness of the planned deed; so they would get a respite— s grim 'holiday.' At Port Arthur one man murdered his own parbiou- lar friend and companion, that both might get free from it," Convicts in bhose days were not even allowed to sleep properly, and after working on the road and in quarries for ten or twelve hours in chains, whicli weighed from six to seven and sometimes nine pounds, they were herded together in parties of twenty in four strong boxes or shanties built of thick timber. "So emall was the cubic area of these places that the inmates could • not all stand or sit ,together at the smite time unless with their legs at right angles to their bodies; often the width of floor on which each conid lie was only eighteen inches per•prisoner." Even in this country as late as the 70's, the life inour prisons was 80 bad that to gain admission to the itjfirmary, which was .well named "the,jail :paradiise, convicts mote - ed et desperate de - Vices,. 1c11 Irritating colored matter, molt as bits of wee or stitches (from u ettrieent, were, often introduced be- melee•'flhe` akin to set upartificial sores, Poivdeted glass wee Wine - times sws lowed arc as to brilig en It Is Useless and Irrational to From Them. Every one has his Gethsemane. Per- haps it may be the most vital, the most precious part of his experience, to which all life hitherto has an introduction. There are been some mly be se- cured byalterations suffe ing, becausensuffering is ke fiery becomes heat, just enough ironto mould, so the character or disposition or soul becomes soft enough to be reshaped; for there are certain moral states, and those by no means in the worst peo- ple, thatresembles deformity, the blindness of.. insensibility to spiritual. truths if not to spiritual fact alto- Shirk IIIST.012ICAL ACROSTIC. Present War ltecells First.Siege of Belgrade by Austrians. The news from Belgrade recalls one of the most famous alliterative poems in the English language, The aubheriship of the poem is clothed in doubt, but it is believed to have been written by Alexia, A. Watts, Jr., the subject being the siege of Belgrade by the Austrians, during She war ,between that eountry and Turkey. • As will. be seen, the initial letters of each line form the letter of the alphabet in proper sequence, in a sort of acrostic, Hundreds of other famous alliterative poems have since been modeled on this muster- - It is as follows :— An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Bel- grade battery, besieged ba Kell,, �by Y, grade; 'Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's doom; Every endeavor engineers essay For fame, for fortune, forming fur- ious fray; Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good; Heaves 'high his head heroic hardi- hood; Ibrahim, Islam, Ismail, imps in ill, Jostle John, Jarovitz, Jem, Joe, Jack, Jill. Kick kindling Kutosoff, king's kins- men kill, Labor low 'levels, longest, loftiest lines; Men marched 'mid moles, 'mid mounds; 'mid murderous mines. nature nods. Opposed, opposing, overcoming odds. Poor peasants, partly purchased, partly pressed, Quite quaking, quarter, quarter quickly quest. Reasons return, recalls, redundant rage, Saves sinking soldiers, softens •seig- nors•sage. Truce, Turkey, truce, truce, treadh- erous Tartars train I Unwise. unjust, unmerciful Uk- raine I Vanish, vile vengeance I Vanish, victory vain 1 Wisdom walls war—walls warring words. What were. Xerxes, Xantippe, Ximenes, Xav- ier'? av- ier 1 Yet Yassy's youth, ye yield your youthful yest, Zealously Zarius, zealously zeal's' zest. everlasting gather, which is found insome admtr•. able characters. Sorrow, like all. thugs it, sinks inthas o sadness, then Bus rhythm; it d-. away,. darty, with .gathered strength, it re. turns and overwhelms us like a flood. What a pity we cannot preserve the. sweet'and:supple temper developed be heartrpfercling.sorrow, or even its ap- proach. If it is separation that looms: before us, what are we not ready to accept, to welcome, from our dearest. Their very buffets in the shadow of this fear are a happiness. A thou- sandth housandth part of the devotion they in- spire then might carry us ' smoothly through the frictions of daily life.— Evelyn March Phillips. SOME TOTTERING THRONES "UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN." Many of the World's Rulers Literally Carry Their Lives in Their Hands. "George V. is the only monarch," a high official of the French police said lately, "for whose visits we prepare without uneasiness,' This fine tribute to the affection in which our King is held, and also to the security of the British throne, is one of which we may well be proud. The recent assassination of Austria's pros- pective ruler reminds us once more that Europe is seething with anarchy, says London Answers. Take a brief survey of recent years. They reveal this grim truth. No fewer been than eight European rulers have h � the victims of assassination, In 19 King Carlos and the Crown Prince of Portugal were done to death; three years earlier the assassins claimed the Grand Duke Sergtus of Russia; and other victims include King Alexander and the Queen of Servia, King Hum- bert of Italy, the Empress of Austria, Nasr-ed-din, Shah of Persia, Alexander II. of Russia, and Abdul bdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey. Unwelcome Wedding Gift. But the shadows of past tragedies are very different from the shadows of tragedies which etill hang in the bal- ance. It is when death threatens the still living that our greatest sympa- thies are aroused. Everyone will re- member the wedding gift of a bomb to a bouquet which the present King of Spain received on his marriage. day. A hundred people were killed or in- aumed miracle that the King the bomb, and ries aped.t was by It would be impossible to name all the attempts which have been made to assassinate the Tear of Russia. The Russian Anarchist has developed his calling into the finest art, and his pa- tience and persistence show the inten- sity of his purpose. Here to one example of the extra- ordinary precautions which are taken to safeguard the Tsar's life. When an important journey is afoot, three trains, exactly similar, stand in the station for three days previous to the start. No one knows in which' train the Tsar will travel, and the trains start off at intervals of a few minutes. Passing large stations, they draw level, and during the journey the Tsar frequently changes from one train to another. . MoS-r DREADED DISEASE. . There Is Unnecessary Cruelty In Treatment of Leprosy. Dread and horror of leprosy are centuries old. Old Hebrew laws against it are impressed on our minds by touching incidents in the life of Jeans, and the Bible stories convey the idea that leprosy is the moat -loath- some of diseases. It is usually mutt' lating and disfiguring, but no more so than come foams of cancer, In early stages it so so far from loathsome that it is often supposed to be. some harmless skin disease, until the pa• tient comes into the hands, of a spa - Mallet Sometimes the specialist de- cides that the only merciful thing to do is to keep the diagnosis a secret, for he knows the cruel fate which •is in store for a leper at the hands of the public. Every now and then we are shocked to read in the papers a report from some part of the country telling- of the discovery of a leper and of the extraordinary meanstaken by the communityto protect itself against contagion.. Sometimes a lonely cabin is selected, and the patient put there to pass his lite in solitary confine- ment, seeing no one but the man who brings him food, who deposits it at a distance and hurries away for fear of breathing the infected air. More than one such victim of popular ignor- ance has killed himself rather than endure lite under these circumstances. Yet, if somebody with more pity or intelligence than the general public undertakes to care for a leper he runs the risk of sharing his patient's ostra- cism. A few months ago the Chi- cago papers were full of the story of a young woman who had been nurse in a leper hospital, had tried to come back to ordinary life, and found to her dismay that she was an object of fear to everyone, and that there was no course open to her but a return to the lepers. Leprosy is not highly contagious; it is not carried in the air; in most cases there has been close contact with a leper over a long period of time before the infection was acquired, and even then infection could have been prevented. A recent bulletin of the Public health service contains a report of a series of studies made in Molo- kai, an island of the Hawaiian group, Which has long been esed as a leper colony. Rev. Mr. Damien first made it famous. Now it 1s under the con• trot of our public Health service, which Maintains physicians and laboratories there so that the lepers are given the best of medical care.. At the same time they are allowed toi live as ordi- nary human beings, with their r hus- bands or wives and their children, so that there fa no isolation, no pest• hotiee systein, r.— A desirable thing to know is how best to .sweeten the bitters of life with mirth. Way ward Traveller ---Pardon, but what do you have your ' mattresses stuffed with1 Tavernkceper---With the best straw in the hull coulltty„ b goah 1 Wayward Traveller—Now, that acoodnes for it! I knew where the Artie came .from that broke the of/Mel'>l ,back 1 POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Hope is the dream you have when awake. Continual cheerfulness is a manifest sign of wisdom. Creditors and poor relations always show up at the wrong time. Yet a man may not be lazy because he tries to do things the easiest way. When the average man succeeds in raising the wind he begins to blow about it. A man's faith in his judgment 'gets a rebuke every time he steps up a step that can't there. Lots of men walk miles to hear a political speech who wouldn't walls a block to hear a sermon. When the wind propels a straw hat it is chased, but the remarks of the owner are nothing that even sounds like that. One might just as well attempt to rearrange the colors of the rainbow aa to undertake the reformation of one's neighbors. 4' Good Advice. The we'll -known English physi- cian Dr. Leader, was in his youth notoriously wild—and as clever as he was unruly. One day the schoolmaster kept young Lestler after school, and talked long and earnestly upon the enter of his ways. The lad showed little interest, and at last the mas- ter said, sternly, "Young man, I shall send a note to your father, and have hien call and see me, "Oh, don't do that, said the boy. But the master repeated Yes, I will, Your father shall come and cite xne to -morrow." "1 advise you hot to," replied. the mischievous youth. "But why noel" asked the teach- er. "Because my father charges five shillings for a visit," Young Leat- her! father Vasa physician. DEEP-SEATED ANIMOSITIES iiON'U7NEGlb1i1 WRITES ABOUT THE BALICF;NS. The Situation Likened to That a Voleano With Three Craters. "Threo Balkan Storm Centres" is the title of an unusually timely article in the American Review of Reviews, It is made more import- ant from the circumstance that the author is Dr. Ivan Yovitchevitch, of the High Court of Control of Montenegro. }Ie is a high official of one of the Slav countries that is counted upon to ally itself with Servia in the present war, and a near relative of King Nloholas. Dr. Yovitehevitch is recognized not only gut abroad, as country, b in his own co y,, a distinguished jurist and financier, and has been decorated by the French Academy. While his state- ment is naturally a partisan one, it is so rarely indeed, that any inhab- itant of the Balkans arises who is competent to make a statement of any sort that is understood by the English-speaking people that his ut- terance is an extremely interesting one. It gives an idea of the deep- seated animosities that have been let loose in the Balkans by Austria's declaration of war. A. Volcano of Three Craters. He likens the situation in the Balkans to that of a volcano with three craters, any one likely to break out independently of the others, and cover the country with ruins. What he says about the second crater is worth quoting in full at the present time. "It is the very great .animosity," says Dr. Yovitchevitch, "which ex- ists between Austria-Hungary on -the 'one hand, and, on the other hand, the Servian people living within that empire and in the two free kingdoms of Servia and Mon- tenegro. This bitterness of feeling dates from far back. • It has been deepening day by day since the Treaty of Berlin, when Austria- Hungary really took over the Serb provinces of Bosnia and Herzegov- ina— drenehed by Servian blood in the terrible wars of 1878-7 against the Ottoman Empire—although these provinces' were not actually annexed by Austria-Hungary until 1808. All Serbs from the diplomats to the peasants, are well aware of the anti-Servian policy of Austria- Hungary which has taken for its motto "divide et imperil," and which hes always worked toward the separation of Servia and Montene- gro and the disentegration of the Slavic elements in Austria -Hungry viz. the Orthodox Serbs and the Mohammedan Serbs; the Catholic Croatians from the -Orthodox Serbs, etc., etc. This policy of separatipg the homogeneous elementshas had as its object the annihilation of the Slavic 'peoples and ,the extension of the Austrian Empiretothe Aege- an Sea through the- seizure of Sal- onfca. Austria's Plans Miscarry. Of Fair and False! Once, however, the Anarchists suc- ceeded in evading the nce of the sentries who always guard dthe tracks on these occasions, and ` threw big boulders on the line. But the Tear's train had already gone by! • Another time an attempt was made through one of the guards whose duty it is to watch outside the Tsar's bed- room every night. An attractive Rua - plan girl, using her beauty as a batt, caused the Cossack to fall in love •with her. Then, having enlisted his sympa- thies, she asked him to assassinate the . Tsar and Tsarina by placing in. Perna) machines, as sari- as watches, but of tremendous power under their beds. Duty recede `love ..however; in the Cosaek's breaa ,a d„lie inform- ed the head of the guards on the very night in April selected for the crime.. Over twenty arrests were made, but the girl escaped. WW({ 131011,( C,I111110 NI 1 0141.10111 The Kaiser's Escape. Anarchism has always been associ- ated with Russia, but it may surprise some to learn that the German Emper- or—Europe's "strong inan"—has also been the subject of attacks. Just pre- vious to a visit of the Kaiser to Ur- villa Castle, in Lorraine, -. five men were detected burying dynamite in the park. They turned out to be dam. gerous Anarchists, and another tra- gedy was averted. Probably more attempts on the Kai- ser's. life have occurred than are known. Official •instructions not to publish details of the above plot were issued at the time, and this suggests the existence of further instances, the details of which have not leaked out. Italy is another monarchy which in- volves its ruler in constant danger, The late King Humbert was assassi- nated. His son, now on the throne, has nearly lost his life, both before and since his coronation. Two years ago he was attacked while driving to the at the Royal carA man riage, ed Dalba and sprang fired at KingEmmanuel with a Browning. He missed his mark, but wounded an officer in the neck, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that the police rescued him from the hands of the crowd. Surely It is only the unthinking man who envies kings! into flame it is not necessary to follow the author into the argu- ments that show the probability of either of the other two causing destruction. A few weeks ago it was thought that the first crater, in other words, the relations be- tween the Greeks and the Turks, was most likely to overflow. Dr.. Yovitchevitch naturally espouses the cause of the Greeks, and points out that the policy of the Turks is to make life intolerable for the Greeks living in Asiatic Turkey. Something might be said, on the other band, of the policy of the Greeks to make life impossible for the Mohammedans living in the country which has recently come under Greek control. The third crater is constituted by the Alban- ian question. Here the Mohamme- dans might well be expected to es- pouse the cause of Servia, since they are opposed to William of Wied, and this Prince is accused by the author of being a mere tool of Aus- trian aggression. It is to be re- gretted that the present war is not likely to settle both the other questions that have in them the ,.germs of a second and a third struggle. It'would appear that as man is born to trouble and Mexico to revolutions, the Balkan • States are • born' to war, . and upon elle. Stormy' horizon there is nothing'that promises to give the territory per- manent peace. BE SORE TO KILL THAT FLY. EXPERT GIVES 5018111 ADVICE ON SIMMER PESTS, Says It Is One of the Rost Deadly Enemies We Ifeve to Con. tend Wlt.h, The Army stationed at Aldershot recently, received orders to kill, every possible fly on all occasions. A good many people were inclined bo sooff and to talk about "grand- motherly" regulations. Ib seemed redioulous that soldiers, whose busi- mess is to fight the Empire's battles, should occupy their time in "swat- ing" flies, says • a medical expert in London Answers. The scoffers may be surprised to learn that the harmless -looking fly is one of the most deadly enemies we possess, According to avery eminent authority flies have been responsible for the death of more human beings than all the armies of the world. Flies are Nature's champion spreaders of disease. If you were to examine a fly's legs through a suffi- ciently powerful microscope you would see a good deal of decayed animal and vegetable matter and millions of ugly wriggling things, more repulsive looking than the worst nightmare monsters. They are. disease_ germs which the fly has picked up 'in' the course of ,its travels. Diphtheria, enteric, ty- phoid, scarlet fever, diarrhoea, in- fluenza, and many other diseases are doubtless resting on the legs of the fly which may be worrying you even now as you read this article. The Germ Bringer. "The Balkan Wars, however, played havoo with the working out of the Austrian plan. Then the very versatile Austrian diplomacy sought other means to prevent Servia and Montenegro from becoming great and powerful, and determined to find somehow or other it new pre- text for meddling in Balkan affairs. This the Austrians achieved at the confedence in London, when they succeeded in creating the principal- ity of Albania„ The London con- ference was, therefore, a second Congress of Berlin to the Servian people, thanks to the machin- ations of Austrian diplomacy. The principality of Albania, with its soil strewn with the bodies of brave Servian and Montenegrin soldiers, was enatehed from the Serbs. And so the Serbs, conscious of the anti - Serb policy of Austria-Hungary, feel and justify, a very great hatred for the Austrian monarchy, and .a desire, even stronger, for terrible vengence. EARTH•SHINE ON THE MOON. Light From Sun At Timen Reflected 13y Disk of the Moon, When the sun has disappeared be. neath .the horizon, and we no longer receive its rays direct. It also hap- pens that itslight continues to reach us, indirectly and feebly, refleeted'by the whole or part of the disk ftoe moon. Inversely, when a portion the lunar disk is not illuminated di- rectly by the sun, it happens that it is feebly illuminated by the earth -shin that is to say, by the reflection that those Ordains of the terrestrial sur- face which are at that moment ex- posed to the sun. Mr. F> W. Very has endeavored to 'determine the bright- ness.: of the light received in this way by the moon, and has measured the rite tensity er this light compared with the intensity of those parts of 1115 fur disk which are illuminated directly by the sun The result is that the earth - shine on the moon is about 1,600 times feebler than the inean bright - nese oft Portions P ortions ilhimfnated by the sun a little before the first guar, ter. Assassination Inspired. "The assassination of the Crown Prince and Princess of Austria at Sarajevo was nothing but :an ex- pression of this hatred, a hatred deeply rooted in the patriotic and inflamed souls of the two young men who committed the regrettable act. Moreover, the Crown Prince Ferdinand was considered to be the most ruthless enemy of the Serb race. But Austrian diplomacy has found in his assassination a propi- tious occasion to throw discord be- tween the Orthodox and Moham- medan Serbs in Bosnia and Herze- govina and between the Serbs and the Croatians. The "Balplatz" (the Austrian Foreign Office in Vienna) will also try to inculpate the two Serb capitals, Belgrade and Cel-, tinje. But I am convinced that, neither the one nor the other had anything to do with the assassinae tion at Sarajevo. This deplorable event cannot fail to further om< bitter the feeling between Austria- Hungary -and the Serb K.ingclores, and the day does not appear to be far' off when relations will be cmn-. pletely severed. ° Husain, perceives the dangerous situation and is has - DIVORCE FOR THE POOR. Made Possible by a New Order in England.. Every time he alights on your head he leaves a few germs. Pre- sently he will crawl over your food and leave some more germs for you to eat. Perhaps' he will drown him- self in your milk jug. That will suit the germs because they breed quicker in milk than in any other medium. If you are in good health you may not come to much harm. A few million germs won't make much diff- erence. But if you are run down and out -of -sorts you may not be able to beat off the attack of the germs. Ib is to children that flies are most dangerous. Whenever there is an extra, number,ef flies the in fantile mortality always becomes abnormal. In 1906 there was a plague of, flies in August and Sep- tember, and 2,588 children, under the age of a year, died of disease carried by flies in a certain Lon - 'don borough. In 1907 there was no plague of flies, and the number of , deaths dropped to 358 for the eor- responding period. .0na of the reasons why there is 'less infantile disease, comparatively !'speaking;- in the large tows. than ee in the country is because =there are. ` fewer flies. The :pigsties,' cowsheds, stables, refuse heaps, and suchlike_. "delights" of the eountry breed ninety per Cent. of the:flies in the whole kingdom. At last divorce is possible to dhe poor man, that is to say action for divorce, but, of course, the first country to make it possible to the poor man is the one where -it- is.hardest tto get. In England anew order has been ,brouglht in whereby persons can bring or defend- an ac- tion in the courts without. 'any means•whatsoever. It is merely ne- cessary for the litigant to satisfy the judge that he or she has suf- ficient grounds for taking or defend- ing action and that he or she is not worth £50, which is increased to £100 under special circumstances, and the case is heard. Already. some 300 'barristers and 400 solicit- ors have made application to place their names on the .roll of those prepared to take cases without fees, and 1,200 applications are on hand to give these 700 men cases. Of these applications for hearings 400 are fbr divorce, so that in England at least the old contention .that divorce WAS only for the rich must go by the board. tering the construction of her stmt. e gic railways and the reorgeniza- tion of her airmy.r, Other Wars Pending, Since thin third Ogee has bursa CALGARY OIL FIELDS FREE MARKET LETTER. Commercial Quantities of i,igh• grade oil in a ns -oven field and tre- meadows development now under Ivey, makes Calgary' the Wont gre01 ; fortune -making centro: Bankers and business anon Prom all Quarters of the world aro sending capital heroto take :advantage of the won- derful opportunities. Wo aro not promoters tied to ora isropostbion, and blinded by pre- .tudie°, but aro free and indopend- ons to recommend or condemn the yya'rfond licorice according to our best judgment Boonuee of our large oxiie_rionool and thorough knowledge of condi. Mono, our reeommen adeps alio eagerly soa,or, Pile 011 Baroneught' ftof lo-dny are the oarl'y lnvostord in new oil fl.elde. 'The opportunitq,le hors 1.15bt how, during the devo opmont period, for both meal, end large !nvsytons, Write rt edav for map of tits dIB• !riot, and our market looter—ti e anthortty on Calgary otoeke—BOI'If HARLAN & coMPANY, Herald Building, Calgary, Alta. Join The Crusade. Last year I attended a man who was seriously ill. It was in Septem- ber, and the man's house was next to a livery and bait stables, Thereis always a nuisance from flies in the neighborhood of stables. Flies` got, into the. sick room. They buzzed distractingly, -and, in' spite of every. precaution, -persisted ; in settling- on -the patient's head and hands, Naturally •they worried him; worry brought a high temper- ature, and he died. I em confident that that man would be alive to -day if he had not lived next demi' 'to those stables. For the sake of our ,personal earn - forts, our own and in particular our children's lives, it is our duty , to "kill that fly I" Keep your rooms clean, cool, and dry. Keep all food in a cool,, dark pantry, and place covers over it if necessary. See- that the lids of your dustbins aro always on tight, and do not allow rubbish to collect in your gardens. And whenever you see a fly, have no mercy, but kill it, Remember that every fly is your enemy, If you don't kill him he'll do his best eo kill you, although he looks so harmless and insignificant. Asa sport fly "swatting" may not be so exciting as fox "hunting, but it is a thousand times more use- Eta. a SWALLOWED 78 PILLS A DAY. And William Jessup Managed to Live Sixty-six Years. Sir Thomas Beecham, the wealthiest of the new baronets, would be even Wealthier if there Were more men like Wiitlliain .Iessun, Who in 1816 was. sued by 1119 apothecary for: his bill. Jessup was one who emeltatieetly did not take Shakespeare's advice, "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of 11." 10 the course of the action it was prevail that between 1751 and 1816 Jessup had consumed 266,984 pills, During the five years preceding the action he had averaged seventy-eight pills a Clay, and in 1814 he swallowed no- fewer than 51,590., Notwithstanding this and the addition of 40,000 bottles of medi- cine, Jessuplivedinto his ;Itxtyrrlxth year, I[1 t - '41,P