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1 -LIEU('. -GOVERNOR hillyi)ItIE. routine of Parliament ranking hawk
in his chair and watching with the
New Governor a Mail of Few }{'orale attitude of ono 10 whom al.l thiz
Bat•
of Nadi Decals. was an old story. But wlhile Col.
Hendrix has watched in silence, he
"The Silent Power," a man who hes also, worked, .and now the her-
/ wins great ends with little outward reek.
sign of effort, who has passed In the military world his ardor
through many stages of social, poli- was felt for enema. His first activity
ileal, military, and commercial sac- came when he linked his interests
eels, is now occupyieg the premier with the 4th Battery of Canadian
I seat in the attains of the Province. Field Artillery, ill Which company
1 It was no surprise to !those who he had risen. two the rank of lieut.-
Ihave been watching the careenof colonel when he retired in 1909. In
the man when Lb. -Col. John Strath- this time of was it is interesting to
1 earn Hendrie, C V.O., M,P.P., was mute that Col, Hendrie has always
ekovated to the social distinction .of been an advoembe of compulsory
Lieutenant -Governor of the Pro- military training. In private life a
vinee of Ontario. It is one of the fondness for horses hes bean one of
e•sisential steps in the crowning of a his features, and he has dame anuch
oareer'which has given great pr'o'm- to promote that sport. He is we, e
Ise ever einoe the youthful days past president of the Canadian he -
when he starred out upon the earn- tillery Aasooiatdon, the decoration
ing highway of life by carrying a1 of C.V,O. coming daring his ram-
rod and chain for all engineers'mind of the Canadian Artillery at
gang on railway construction. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Of the physical type which gives in 1897.
evidence of latent power, of ,the
mental capacity whioh has enabled
him to graap great problems in the
eommereial world, of the mixing
type which has permitted him to
gain many tokens of the popular
esteem of his fellow -citizens, of the
political oasts which has won the
silent approval of his fellows, John
Strathearn Hendrie as now reaping
the harvest of his earlier industry.
There is but one thing ladling in
his aosaial adornment, but that is
doubtless on the way, that being the
clanking of the King's sword whioh
will make hien a Knight to the end
of his days. To him will fall the
distinction of opening the magnifi-
cent palace on the Don, the niillion-
dollles Isitrnoture, in which is to be
found the chateau lead the French,
,commonly known as Government
House. '
Still Young in Years. .
Colonel Hendrie is still young in
years for a man who has gathered
about him so many of the world's
good things, his fifity-seven years
sitting upon him lightly. Grizzled
of hair and motustaehe, there is still
a youthfulness about about his fea-
tures which bespeaks many more
years of nsefulnass, even !after he
(steps down from ,the vice -regal
chair.
Perhaps there is something in the
man's descent which guaranteed for
him a future independent of has
own efforts. There is Scotch bleed
in his veins, both parents having
emigrated from Ayrshire, and being
of Huguenot descent. His educe -
tion was received at the Heaniltom
public and private schools and at
Upper Canada College, after which
KINGS AT THE. PICTURES
ADAPTING THE FILM TO THE
NEEDS OF ROYALTY.
King George and Queen Mary Have
Ordered "Command" ,Per-
formances.
The-kinemra is often called "the
poor man's theatre," but "the pic-
tures" could, with equal justifies-
tion, be termed "the amusement of
the rich," and they aright even be
called "the pastime of royalty,"
says London Answers.
Within the last twelve months or
so both the Kaiser and the Czar
have made oomplete kinematogra-
, phic records of themselves and
their families in private life, and
the films are occasionally exehanged
- between the -relatives of these and
other reigning monarchs who have
also sought pictorial immortality
through the aid of Mr. Edison';
wonderful invention.
Filming the Kaiser.
Of all the royal personages who
intimately interest themselves in
kinematogrephy, the most enthusi-
astic is the Kaiser. At Potsdam,
and also at the Castle of Fursten-
berg, he has had construobed hand-
some little private theatres, and
here several "command perform-
ances" have taken place, two of the
most recent being associated with
"Antony and Cleopatra," and
"With the Greeks in the firing
line." The latter series, dealing
with real war, were taken by the
special command, and with the per-
sonal assistance, of the King of
Greece—another sovereign who has
shown enthusiasm for living photo-
graphy.
But the Kaiser's interest goes
arranging in the United States for
the purpose of raising enough mo-
ney to establish the funds of the
Bulgarian hospital (severely drain-
ed by the recent war) upon
A. Firm Financial Bails.
The Kings of Italy and Denmark
are other ardent Royal pieture-go-
ers. The latter sovereign recently
unintentionally played a principal
part of a film drama that would
almost certainly have ended in a
tragedy had he not done so. His
Majesty was witnessing from his
yacht the producing, off Copen-
hagen, of a marine drama by a
famous Danish company, whose
produetions are known to every pic-
ture audience in Great Britain. The
leading actress, while swimming,
became exhausted, and was only
rescued from drowning by E
he
promptitude with which the liftboat
of the Royal yacht was lowered, at
the instance of the King, who play-
ed a prominent part in the filming.
The Pope, too, is a firm believer
in the potentialities of kinemato-
graphy, and in the Vatican Museum
are stored several films of religious
interest which appealed to him.
Among the monarchs who most
enjoy seeing "the pictures," that
very up-to-date sovereign, the Mik-
ado of Japan takes a front place.
The banqueting -hall of his palace at
Tokio has several -times been tem-
porarily turned into a kinemsto-
graph theatre, the most recent of
the perform.anoes having been con-
ducted by Mr. Percy Wark, who
went to Japan to equip several
kinemacolor theatres. Mr. Wark
gives the following interesting and
amusing account of the "command"
performances, for the undertaking
of which he was responsible.
In Far Japan.
"Owing to the fact that Euro-
peans are very rarely allowed to be
in the same apartment as the Em-
peror, whose person is looked upon
muchfurther than that of specta- as sacred, I had to erect an operat-
tor. He has recently appeared on
the films as an actor 1 True the sub-
jects were but trifles, taken for
amusement by his daughter, the
Princess Victoria Louise, whom he
has presented with a Itinerante-
graph camera, but two of them are
being shown pretty- extensively
around the public picture theatres
of the German capital. One of
these represents his Majesty hiding
Easter eggs in various parts of the
royal yacht, and his amusement at
the crew's efforts to discover them.
The Czar's private picture hall is
in the palace• at Peterhof. His Me -
p jea+;r egtaivang the personalities of
--"h---the Imperial family to become bet-
ter' known throughout his vast em-
pire, recently posed with them for
some special pictures, whioh exhi-
bitors will be allowed to present,
on condition that they are shown in
absolute .silence—unaccompanied by
any kind of music, that they shall
be accorded a special place on the
programme, and that the curtain
shall descend before and after the
exhibition of each film.
ing-box in the palace grounds, op-
posite a window in the back of the
banqueting hall. This necessitated
the pictures being thrown on to the
side of the screen away from the
audience, and we had to make it
semi -transparent by smearing it
with glycerine. Several English
dramatic and comedy subjects were
included in the performance, which
must have been very successful, be-
cause the Emperor, through one of
the Court officials, sent me a most
kind and congratulatory message.
So, you see, "the pictures" are
emphatically not the pastime of the
proletariat only. Like novel -read-
ing and cricket, they appeal to all
classes.
The interest taken by our own
Hing and Queen in the kinemato-
graph is proved by the various
, "command" performances of spe-
eial films which have taken place
since their accession.
Prineeas and "The Pietnres."
Indeed, it is generally thought
that King George himself suggested
that eplendid film -record of the
British Army which is just now
proving so deservedly popular all
over the country. Princess Mary
and the young princes, too, also
enjoy an hour at "the pictures,"
,and not infrequently visit the Mar-
ble Arah Electric Palace.
Another sovereign who has sac -
embed to the ,attraction of the
kinemwtegrapla is the Queen of Rou-
mania, famous in the literary world
as "Carmen Sylva."
She has reoenbly disposed of the
Mtn . rights of all hes novels to the
Nordisk Film Company, of Copen-
begena and ie herself preparing the
liesnartos. She also possesses her
own private kinem:a—a beautiful
little theatre, with a seating capa-
eity of nearly 200, fitted up on Pei-'
eshCantle, .pt flinaja.•
Among the most earnest Royal
supporters of kineamatography are
the Ring and Queen of. Iain a
ria,
Her llesty's agents recently in-
atoucbed the Gaumora Company to
secure the neeesseryt films to illus-
trate a lecturinog tour which she is
NOT DRUGS
Food Did It.
After using laxative and cathartic
medicines from childhood a case of
chronic constipation yielded to the
scientific food, Grape-Nutts, in a few
days.
"From early childhood I suffered
with such terrible constipation that
I had to use laxatives continuously,
going from one drug to another and
suffering more or lessall the time.
"A pnominsnt physdlcian whom I
consulted told me the muscles of
the digestive organa were weakened
and could not perform their work
without help of some kind, so I
have tried at different times about
every laxative and cathartic known,
but found no help that was art all
permanent. I had finally become
discouraged and had given my case.
up as hopeless when I began to use
the pre-digested food, Grape -Nuts.
"Although I had not expected
this food to help my trouble, to my
great surprise Grape -Nuts digested
easily from the first, and in a few
days I was convinced that this was
just what mysyetera needed,
"The bowels performed their fume
tions regularity and I am now com-
pletely and permanently cured of
this awful trouble.
"Truly tive power of, scientific Mod
must be uilllmited." Namegiven by
Canadian Posture Co., Windsor,
Ont.
Trial 10 days of Grape -Nuts,
when -regular food sloes not seem to
sustain the body, works wonders,
"There's a Reason"
Loolc in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "TheBroad to Wellville.
Evor read the alloys Iette" 15 hes ono
appears from trine to time rimy no
genuine, true, and raft of Human interest.
Lieutenant -Governor Hendrie.
REAL "DOGS OF WAR."
Used in Old Wars Between England
and Scotland.
"Dogs of war" is a phrase whioh
once meant a thing as real as the
war horse, Dogs Naive played their
part in battles and oampaagns and
in the all wars b-ebween England
and Scotland dogs were used by
both combatants for: pursuing and
killing fugitives after a defeat. it
is related that Wallace and Bruce
each had close escapes from oapture
by English bloodhounds. Bruce is
said Ibo have thrown the English dog
off the scant by the now well
known expedient of wading up a
stream far enough to bnffie his pur-
suers, and Wallace evaded the
hounds by having recourse to a
trick moa+e or less common in 'chose
bloody tames of killing a felilower
and le:avinlg the body in the dogs'
path for them to comae upon. The
dogs finding a body believed that
their task as done and discontinued
the bunt.
In the history of the wars of the
middle ages one finds reference to
the tee of big dogs against cavalry
for the purpose of throwieag the
horses into confusion and not alone
for causing panic but casualties, for
these fierce canine piarbisan:s were
clothed in coats of mall studded with
spikes and having scythes fitted to
their harness.
Instarsees tare recorded where war
dogs with fire brands fastened to
their coats of mail have been set on
an enemy's Damp with destructive
results. Hoary VIII. must have
found dogs useful in mitlitery ways,
because in English history ib is writ-
ten that be offered Ibhe use of 40,000
auxiliaries and 4,000 war dogs to
King Merles V. of Spain to aid
that monarch in his war with Fran-
cis I.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth
when the Earl of Essex enteahed Ire-
land for the purpose of suppressing
insurrection there his army was ac-
companied by 100 bloodhounds.
IDENTIFYING DEAD SOLDIERS.
(tow It Is Done for Information of
Relatives.
he responded to the belief that
there is nothing quite so effective
as a personal grounding in the prac-
tical side of e, life work. }le be-
came rodman and assisibamt engi-
neer on the construction of mull -
ways, working both in Canada and
the United States, from which posi-
tion he speedily rose until lee be-
came telemeter of the Reanilton
Bridge Works.
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BRITISH GUNNERS AT SEA
'P1I
EY ARE THE FINEST SHOTS
IN THE WORLD.
The Tasks and Duties of the Men
Who Deal Out Naval
Death.
The most important change which
has taken place in our naval equip-
ment has been the employment of
larger guns. Our latest naval gun
has caused tremendous consterna-
tion amongst the navies of the
world, says London Answers.
We are pretty well acquainted
with the twelve -inch gun that with
which our Dreadnoughts are arm-
ed. Quite recently a i3.5 -inch gun
was introduced, though its' per-
formances have !been kept secret.
Next came the talk of e fifteen inch
gun, and still later of, perhaps,
even a larger.
The vital essentials in naval war-
fare are to hit first, hit hard, and
keep on hitting, according to Ad-
miral Sir Percy !Scott, the greatest
authority in the world upon naval
gunnery.
It is our proud satisfaction as a
nation that our Navy contains the
finest gunners in the world.
That awful implement of war, the
13.5 -inch gun, is seventeen yards
long and will -strike a blew of over
60,000 foot -(tons at a cost approach-
ing $750 each time it is fired. The
shot is the height of a !tall roan,
about eight times this weight, has a
circumference greater than the man
around his chest, and has a mar-
vellous penetrating power.
At Thirteen Miles.
When, in these days of great bat-
tles, in whioh nine different nations
may quite easily take part on the
same day, the layman meads that the
dead are paled up in huge heaps,
he may well be puzzled to knoev
how individuals can be recognized
for 'the information of (their rellar
tirse,
It is managed quite simply, how-
ever, by the issue to each soldier
before he takes !the field of an iden-
tification card or token. In the
South .African War Britde& soldiers
carried with thein, sewn into a little
pocket on the inside of the khaki
jacket, a parclumlemt oertdfioate con-
taining full p.artieulasa of the anon
and his newt -of -kin, and certified by
the company officer. Recently, how-
ever, Britian has adopted more dun -
able udentifioation plates, after the
Oomtinentha1i !fashion.
The Germans carry mall metal
discs on which is eirnply a number
which ,afforda to the Berlin War
Office a oomplete olue to !the identity
of the possessor, should he be slain.
The Japanese troops carry some-
thing very similar in w.ar, there be-
ing, however, two other numbers on
eaoh metal disc, one indicating the
man's corps land another his• bri-
gade.
rigade. Eeoh man ,carriers three disos
about different parts of 'his Person,
in case one should get lost, and the
system is so. perfect that even the
men blown almost to .pieces !at• Port
Arthur were rapidly identified ef-
aerwards,
Hamilton liquored Him.
Hamilton, being Ool1. Hendrie';
home city, bas given him all his
honors, except the last. His busi-
ness enterprises have. ;been diversi-
fied, but it was tot until he woe
chosen Mayor of Hamilton in 1901
that his merits as a citizen were
recognized in tangible forma. The
following 'year •aim him in the Pro-
vincial Legislature, where he has re-
mained ever sines. Recognition from
the Ontario Government Came in
1905 when he macs selected a Com-
missioner for the Hydro-iiieotric,
and the same year saw him admit
ted to the Cabinet as a Minsiter
without portfolio.
In and about the chambers " of
•Psrliamenit Col, Hendrie is -looked
upon •esa sileant men, scanewhat in-
different, and when upon the floor,
of the House no one can accuse been
of verbosity . One who has watched
the prooe•ecliaga of Parliament for
years vouches for the statement that
in the past four zealots he hag riot
made a 'speech in: the House, 11e is
a sdlcnt contrast to the balance of
hit or not, a method which is kept
perfectly secret.
The above shows the enormous
difficulties in the way of accurate
firing ,with big guns at sea, and the
great science ib haws 'become,
3
WORLD WIIE LT SUPPLIES.
Uaiveesal Crop Shortage Canadian
Farmers' Opportunity.
Public officials have been. exhort-
ing the Canadian farmer to sow
more wtheat this year. But it is
doubtful if, even yet, the North
American wheat producer realizes
fully what an opportunity confronts
him. The farmer, of all men, should
not share the exaggerated idea df
the importance of Canada a•nd the
United States as contributors to
the world's food supply, which
leads many persons to Teel that
there eau be little pinch or short-
age as long as the production of
these countries continues unham-
pered. It is rather :the actual axe -
dominance of Europe as a. food pro-
ducer that renders the situation
serious and places a ,premium. on
American supplies. The following
facts are significant
Europe leads the continenbs in
annual wheat production .and, nor-
mally, raises twice as much as
North America, her nearest com-
petitor. She grew over one=half
Of the record-breaking world's
wheat crop of 1913, doubling the
cowibined contribution of Canada,
United States and Mexico. Euro-
pean nations now in arms alone
grew 42 per cent..af the total yield,
while the whole of North America
produced only slightly over 25 per
cent. On the reasonable supposi-
tion Haat shortage of labor, poor
tillage, decreased acreage and
other adverse oonditions will re-
duce the 1914 wheat crops off Euro-
pean combatants by one-third over
half of North America's entire yield
would be required to meet the de-
ficiency.
Europe probably carried over in-
to 1914 a fair surplus from her ban-
ter wheat Drop of 1913. But what
of this year's production? Russia's
rosiesb prospects (before the war
never promised ;within 150,000,000
bushels of last year's total, and the
war must have caused further huge
decreases. Hungary and Italy,
great wheat nations, will show a
combined shortage of -75,000,000
bushels, while India and Canada
tall !behind by 50,000,000 and 70,-
000,000 bushels respectively, as
compared with the 1913 harvest.
How will the deficiency be ane!t1
Canada's exportable !surplus has
been :out in two. The !bumper oxop
of the United .Slates will hardly
offset the shortage of Russia alone.
Consumption must decrease some-
what, but can hardly parallel the
sudden elrrinkage in production.
Canada, United States, India, Aus-
tralia and Argentine will find every
bushel of their 1914 crop required
in Europe next spring to .meet the
shortage of Russia, France, Ger-
many, Italy and Austria-Hungary.
If war is prolonged for six anoniihs,
hindering seeding operations in
the spring and summer of 1915, the
demand will be even more insist-
ent in the spring andsummer of
1916.
The moral to the Canadian farm-
er is simple, Grow wheat. Sow
every .available sore to a crop of
which the world `viii !stand 'badly in
need in the corning months.
The following table shows,, the
respective eontribations of the ten
leading wheat-prodneing nations to
the record crop of 1913. The 'coun-
tries marked with an .asterisk are
either directly or indirectly engag-
ed in the war.
"'Resei:a . ' 837,195,000 bus.703,380,000 "
. 364,000,000 "
.,,000
,231319,717373,000
.,220,311,000
214,407,000
.189,864,000
°kfaieranany , 171,077,000' "
Argentine , .144,000,000 "
• In the CoIbis.
Outside official circles it is not
known yet what the exact power is,
but the existing twelve -inch guns
will penetrate eight inches of arm-
or at thirteen miles. The shell of
the 13.5 -inch gun, (however, weighs
no fewer than 1,2501b., while the
weight of the gun is twenty tons
more than its predecessor, the
range of fire (being considerably
over a mile greater than flab of the
twelve -inti gun,
_ The .advance of theecie,nce of gun-
nery, and the .accuracy with which
our gunners work, may be gather-
ed from the feet that now we have
a higher percentage of hits at 8,000
yards than we had a few years ago
at 1,000 yards. At:a recent trial of
one of our !battleships, six shots
were fired .at a range of nearly five
miles, the target being arbour one-
tenth the size of a battleship. Four
of these shots went directly through
the target, while the . others rico-
chetted through it'
The reader will get some notion
of the difficulties in the way of hit-
ting a, target at a range of fifteen
miles --a range well within the
power of the new gun—the shot
must, to counteract the effect of
gravity. reach a height of 22,000
feet, which is a considerably alti-
tude than the most lofty summit in
the Alps.
HAPPENINGS IN LIAR TIi11E
INCII)1Ni'S AT HOME ANI) 1N
TILE FIIELD,
Brief Items From London Papers
Which Throw Sidelights on '
(heat Struggle.
The Duke of Devonshire's (beauti-
ful Yorkshire home, Bolton Abbey,
is now fall of Belgian relegoes, who
are treated as honored and wel-
come guests.
All soldiers in the English Array
whioh is fighbing in France, carry
a typewritten sheet on which are
the more ooananon French word -s
they may require.
More than six hundred British
journalists, most of them Territor-
ials, are now on active service. Of
these London has contributed a
very handsome proportion.
After the Germans had looted the
wine -shops of Orepy-en-Valois, only •
one wine -barrel was found with
anything in it. It contained it Ger-
man colonel, who had drunk him-
self unconsci
ous.
Brave Boy.
A typical ring of patriotism was
dhown by a young miner it Craig -
teak district in Lanarkshire, Scot-
land. , His mother, entering the.
roam, found him busy burning hos
letters, Suspecting something, she
eleclatimed,"Tam, you're no' for
Chafing, are yo 2" "Why, mother 1"
he°ssiked. "Weal, Tem, I would
Ontario's Cabinet many of whom Bice you to . remain • another ye • r
haws also been praying four higher
positions. One might ,see him saun-
tering'iprtao the chamber hours after
,the deliherations began, apparent -
rue." "Mother, if everyibe y.
with ,
was like iota the Germans would be
on the tap o' us." Next night lie
slept ender the shadow- of Stirling
iy paying little. aa4,te.iobk n ° to the , Castle.
-Slightly wounded officers and
non-commissioned officers who are
not sufficiently recovered to return
to the front are to be allowed to
web as instructors at training cen-
tres for the new army.
The War Office Council have ar-
ranged with Ma•. Ch. J. Bisheuden
Ito give concerts of patriotic and
other better class British music, to
sheer and interest the wounded in
the war hospitals.
The Barbels' Guild of Moscow
has offered to .;'have wounded sol-
diers and tut their hair free of
charge, and at Vilna fifteen hun-
dred cabdrivers have tendered their
services for 'the gratuitous trans-
port of those disabled in action.
The European war bids fair to be-
come the greatest inventive period
for military appliances since the
U.S. Civil War, as inventors are
hard at it in European countries to
keep the war up-to-date.
Observers of Russian rural life
say that the closing down of public•
houses and the introduction of
newspapers (in time of peace a
newspaper rarely makes an appear-
ance in a Russian village) have
•completely transformed the Rus-
sian countryside.
The British trade (boom in field -
glasses and prism tbinooulars still
continues. During the current
week one firm alone bas sold more
than four thousand pairs, and by
the irony of circumstance the (balk
of these were made in Germany.
.Leeds
Leeds firms have secured con-
tracts for the manufacture of 36,000
great coats for the army. Mr. At-
kins' preference is for grey coats,
but as there is not enough material
in Yorkshire to supply the demand, .
brown coats are also !being made
up.
During one of the attacks on the
German position on !the Aisne,
Lieut, H. O. Lloyd, King's Royal
Rifles, son of Col. Wilford Lloyd,
private secretary to the Duke of
Westminster, was bowled over by a
German bullet. It struck his iden-
tification disc, which saved his life.
(Sheffield factories will be hard
put to it to execute the War Office
order for 500,000 razors. I,t is the
largest single order on record and
the cutlery works are already work-
ing overtime to keep up with the
enormous influx of orders from
other sources..
Russian patients under the care
of German specialists in German
nursing homes were ruthlessly ex-
pelled when war was declared, and
in several oases this harsh treat -
anent had fatal results. Russian
doctors at a conference in Moscow
passed .a resolution protesting in
the name of the medical world
against the !brutality of their Ger-
maaa. brethren.
A !S.uffolk milks -cart driver lad ,his
horse commandeered—a good use-
ful animal he had !bred and broken
him•self. Some week latter he vol-
unteered, was accepted, sent to
,Shorueliffe bo be trained for the
cavalry—and was assigned the
horse he hate parted from so unwil-
lingly in ,Suffolk.
Whenever German prisoners are
taken by the French thefiest thing
they do, without ibsing asked, is to
sit down, take off their boobs, and
hand them to their captors. It
seems that the quality of the Ger-
man footgear is much suporior to
that of the Frenal, and somehow it
has !become known that the French
always commandeered the boots of
the prisoners, so to propitiate them
they now make the offering with-
out to word.
Over the Rills and Far Away.
,Although the gunner thus has to
shoot over high mouniteine, he must
do it in sua:h a manner that the shot
will drop at the other side on the
exact ,spot where it will do most
damage.
Quite a common range for naval
gunnery is five miles, the distance
being covered'bv the shell in twelve
seconds.
When all these facts havea been
taken into consideration, allow-
ance has to be made dor the fest
that the vessel from which the shot
is fired and also the ship aimed at
areoon•stantly moving, having, a
pertain amount of roll.
Two men are engaged an training
the gun, each looking through a
special teleseope, 'Opo mat 'hold
a wheel, bywkuolt- the horizontal
direetioe of the gun is controlled,
while the other holds a eimilar
wheel
oroontroiling !
the elevation.
By long practice, these men work
the gun practically in the same
Manner es if a single brain were
controlling.it,
Naturaly, the intimation of the
accuracy 'of fire is conveyed if too
enemy's ship catches fire, To ob-
tphn the best results, however, it is
ijeeeesery that an earlier intima-
tion' should be conveyed. This is
where our Navy scores, for it pos-
sesses a method of ascertaining
with accuracy whether the -enemy is
United !States
*India . ........
*France .
4 Oasada .
v'Attist.-Hoag. ,
Italy
*Russia in Asia
"Trout h>isbancl hasp i2oeii Ill,"
said the shier, °
"Yea:" eelrlieil the little, won-
ried-looking women, `She has been
feeling very (badly. to my 'beet to
Please 'hint, 'but nothing seems io
satisfy
`'Is hi ,s con!dation aribioall'-:
"It'', worse than critical," site
answered, with a,: sigh; r alas ,alba -
Expectancy.
Old Man—"What are you fishing
fo , sonny I''
opeay—'11
r•
d
Ma
–
r
ha
tare s
n
•i
s 1"
onny Idon t know, "I ain't
never Caught any yet."
Q.E.D..
"Wtillie," said the bencher, "give
ane three proofs that the world is
actually round,"
"Yes'an," said Willie clreer:fully;
"the !book ,says ee, you say so, and
Ilia sage 50,'