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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-2-4, Page 6to., ktl nut Vie, 4 A Cowboy rforeatior lifts, Foster and her eoang hrother-in-low, Sem, did not hear the sound of running footsteps—ur, ?,pcaiin;g, did not heed them. A mo - "spent !later . there was a hurried serazn'ble of email feet aoross • the ilorali, and Johnny -Sears, z'ed-faced and 'breathless, burnt in upon them, slamming the screen door behind tine, , "O --•Miss' Foster ! A bull's got teacher and the kids held' up in the schoolhouse 1" he panted, "Please, ma'am, have Mr. Foster •go down and strive him off 1 They can't get cub=:" "Held up—in the schoolhouse 1 By" a !hull f' 'began Mrs. Foster, nu- comprehendingly. "Yes'm. Abig Sar .J,' bull," as- serted Johnny. "He was there when Mies Kline let out school. Some of the fellers tried to drive him off, • but he got mad and clruv 'eel back inside ! Miss Kline let me out one of the windows at the back—while • the other fellers kept the bull nwatehin' in the front. Then 1leg- ged it! I was plumb seamed:" said Johnny, without any 'False brava- do, "I reckon I.11 have to go down to the school and help 'em out," said Sano Foster, as he rose from his chair. "1 wish I had Rooker here :" "Take Tom's horse, Sam. Juni- per's in the corral, and Tom's sad- dle's on a peg by the stall!" ex- claimed Mrs. Foster, eagerly, "All right: I'll run him off in no time," replied the young man, and he hurried out toward the back of the house. Sam Fester was one of the head cowpunchers of the "Circle S" cat- tle entail; up north of Cochise's stronghold hi the Sulphur Springs va`.ley in .lrizi,iia. He had come d ,vii to Black Diamond that day to have iiia favorite horse, Rocker, e! 4 by the hlaelcamith at the nine, of his efiurs into the bull's side and belabored its flanks :whin stick: The bull seemed 'detzled tby the strange weight en its bade, the sting of the enure, and the .pain of the blows. He set out at e, lumber- ing gallopacross the mesa, jumping and plunging in terror, Sam had no difficulty in keeping hisseat; the trouble was to dis- mount, He did not doubt thab he could drop off the bull's neck suc- cessfully... But would the. animal go on—or turn and attack him again I£ he stayed on the bull's back, there was every reason to think'that the frightened bull would plunge into one of the deep coulees that furrowed the. hillside. Such a fall might ,easily be fatal to both beast unci rider. But in this Moment of stress, luck turned Sam Foster's way. A soli- tary horseman, riding lazily up from the lower camp, appeared, and took in the situation at a glance Wheeling his horse from the road, he gave it :the spar, and went flying toward the bull. Sam gave an eager gesture for the horseman to close in. The rider came on toward the bull's flank swiftly, "Keep him going when I drop off!" shouted Sam, and the strang- er nodded. Sam grasped the hair of the bull's neck, slipped his leg over the bull's back, and swung himself safely to the earth. For an instant the bull slackened its pace as if inclined to turn. But the rider whooped shrilly. and came rushing on. The bull's nerve weak- ened. With a final snort of terror, it quickened its speed, and disap- peared from view with a. flying plunge down the steep bank of a coulee. The Mitra.illense Auto. The picture shows the armed oar which leas been ed often mentioned in war cables; These quick -filing and swift -running engines of destre tk'n are something new in this' war, anti the allies have used them ' with great effect, The paeture allows I"renoh ears on w read in Eastern France. FROM 11ERRY UID ENIIl.A J NEWS IIT 31A11, ABOUT .1011N Itlad. AND ITIS PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supremo In the Com • merelal World. Londoners are moving into less expensive dwellings just now. Two sets of triplets were born, in Swansea, Wales, in one week. Sergeant J. Hogan., Victoria Cross leer°, was married at Oldham, Lancashire. British Labor Exchanges found When, a moment later, the pursu- work for 1,100,000 people last year. ing rider pulled up on the brink of Two children christened at Guild - the declivity, the monarch oe Bar ford, were named Louvain and Dor- J, was galloping wildly down therim bottom of the hollow, headed for the A German seaman of Hull was freedom of the open plains. given six months for registering as "IIEA.VIN G TILE LEAD." a Swiss. A seventy -year-old taxicab driver — was charged with drunkenness in London•. Owing to the cost of fish, British Catholics .ars absolved from Friday abstinence. A Dutch merchant in London was fined $500 foe selling cocoa to a German firm. Thirty men have been promoted from the ranks of the British army since August. Leyland Motor Works, has raised its men's pay 50 oents a week on war contracts. 1,000 children whose fathers were at the front, were given a treat at Windsor. Castle, 'Nottingham has abandoned its scheme to deepen the Trent and be- come a port. Shoreditch cabinet making fac- tories in London 'had an hour's fire that cost $50,000. December was the wettest, month ever known .i England; only . five days were rainless. The Y.M.C.A, has opened one of its London institutions free to the army and navy. Cardiff woonen are not allowed unaccompanied on the streets after seven in the evening. $25,000 of the Paince of Wales' Relief Fund has gone to unemployed miners of South Wales. Worcestershire breweries say trade has fallen off 35 to 48 per cent, owing to the war. The giant molar of a mastodon has been found in London ; it is over a million years odd. When asunken Liveapooi tug was raised the engineer, Edward Smith - ere, still gripped the lever. A move is on foot to give Victoria Crosses to the brave British mine sweepers who elear'the seas, Harland and Wolff have launched the largest Belgian loner ever built, •bhe-Belgenland, of 33,000 tons. Watch chains and trinkets are not allowed to be worn in such a man- ner as to be seen when, in uniform. The ;new British cruiser Caroline, due in May next, has already been delivered from Birkenhead yards. A thirteen -year-old West London servant was awarded $5 compensa- tion for a foot scalded by coffee, Sgt. C. Lindell of the lgth Lan- cersng., died on his Christmas leave; his five sons are also in the army. At the London sessions it was stated there was a 50 per cent. dimi- nution in. crime in the oaunty. Whitstable Urban District Casio- cil will pay 25 per Dent, above the usual rate 'to employes volunteer- i The Board of Agriculture will spend 830,000 to kill the limpet de- stroying Essex and Kent oyster beds. First-class cruisers are oil -burning ships, and make practically no smoke to act as a warning to the enemy, William Shakespeare, a farm la- borer near Atterstone, has been presented with three more Shakes - pores by his wife. Lieutenant the Earl of Leven and Melville, Scots Greys, has made a remarkable escape from German territory, and is now in London, The Special .Committee appointed to watch the conditioner of distress in London , states that the last was the best Christmas for the last 30 years. Pieturesgne Process Width. Has Not eche was an expert farrier. Been Wholly Displaced. In his hos rhea's corral, Sam r;oickly threw Tim', saddle on ''Heaving the lead" looks easy Juniper. "This outfit Would last enough, and anybody who is aao- ai,eut three days in a round -up," castomedto,doing it will say that it he .n:d to himself, as he drew up is quite simple; but it takes a long the light, vheap cinch straps. "But time before a man becomes a pro- f reek•,0 it does all right for Tom's ° riding " Range cattle are s„ accustomed to beim, herded and driven by men on lee eask that they almost never sn.a.. ;uny stand against a mounted man. But hulls are of uncertain temler. This Bar J. bull was a fierc • fellow, and the efforts that the teacher and the pupils of the Bleck Diamond school had made to drive him away had roused all hit figh rinspirit. f'r,ei e.fore, when Sam Foster turn- ed in from the road, on Juniper, swinging his hat and giving the shrill Hy -i -i:" with which the cow- hovt, start" the cattle, the bull did nit run. He hesitated only a mo- ment, and then, with lowered head ani lifted tail, charged straight at the astonished 'Juniper—and scarce- ly less astonished rider. Sam's skill was just sufficient to sate the horse from being impaled on the animal's sharp horns. But rs ss Sam tried to swing Juniper egnen.toward the bull, the horse re- volted. He had had all he wanted of bull fighting. As Sam's spurs touched his flank once more, he suddenly swelled hie body and made a lively "'buck jump" into the air. The slender, cheap cinch straps gave way with a snap, and Miss Kline and the school children, watching eagerly from the open windows, saw their would-be res- cuer 'fly saddle and all, from Juni- per's back, and pile up in a heap OD the ground.• The frightened horse at once bolted away, • By bane gaud luck, Sam did no serious damage. Although shaken and chagrined, he was able to scramble to his feet ,before the bull ene'id make another charge, Then he caught sight of a stout mesquite stick that some boy had left on the playground, He caught it up and faced the angry animal as it pre- pared to charge. As the bull rush- ed at him, Sam stepped lightly Aside, after the manner of a mata- dor in a :Spanish hull fight, and de- livered two swift iblows as the ani- mal passed him, one on the muzzle and one on the flank. The bull bel- lowed with surprise and anger, Shook its head and charged again. Sam set himself to sidestep the bull's rush, and at the same mo- rnent deliver a good heavy blow cremes the brute's eyes. But a loose stone slipped under one of hia feet; he swung to one side, but his movement barely carried him out of reach of the sharp horns. :Sam staggered, and leis outflung leer hand swept against the brist- ling hairs on the bull's neck, In- voluntarily he clutched them, and the animal's momentus swung him against ibs body just back of the shoulders. Mounting a horse at full gallop is a well-known trick among the cow- boys, A sudden instinct told him that he must swing himself on the bull's Tack, or go down for a heavy and perhaps disastrous hall. Be .leaped, and in an instant was fairly astride the Bull's hack, with the mesquite elub still grasped in his right .hand, He dug the rowels fieient leadsman. A novice is apt to be frightened at the whirling fourteen -'pound weight on the end of its line, and if he loses heart and omits to give it that peculiar jerk which brings it,flying round in a circle, it may fall perpendicularly in close proximity to his head. Heaving the lead may be all right enough in good weather, but in the winter, when it is blowing hard, raining or snowing, it is anything but pleasant. The driving rain and snow searches out every por- tion of the leadsman's anatomy, even though he be wearing oilskins, while his hands get numb with cold, until there no feeling left in. them. The deep-sea leadline, which was invariably used for deep -water work before the introduction of patent sounding machines, and would still be used if they broke dawn, consists of 100 fathoms of line and a 28 -pound lead. It is marked up to 20 fathoms in the same way as the hand leadline, and then at 25, 35, 45, etc., fathoms• with one knot and at 30, 40, 60, etc., with three, four, or five knots, and so on, to the greatest depth of the line. The ship is usually stopped when making the deep-sea line, for it takes a considerable time for the lead to reach the bottom. The .patent sounding machine con- sists of 800 fathoms of thin piano wire wound on a drum, and to the end of the wire is secured a 24 - pound lead, with just above it, a perforated brass sheath fitted with a cap. Before sounding takes place a glass tube, open at one end and coated on the inside with a red chemical compound, is placed in the brass sheath. The wire is then allowed to run out until the lead is on the +bottom, and as it descends the presure forees the water lip the glass tube and turns the red chemi- cal into a milky -white color for a certain distance up it, The lead is then hauled in by hand, or . by a motor, and the depth is ascertained by comparing the line of demarca- tion between the two colors in the glass tube with a wooden scale marked in,fathome, With these simple but extremely reliable machines soundings can be obtained at greater depths, and with the ship traveling at far great- er speed than with the hand lead and line, though, as already stated, the older method is always head in reserve, A Gran' Thing for Him. .An amusing, Story was told in con- nection with the appointment of the Emperor of Russia as Colonel -in - Chief of the ,Scots Greys, who, it may ibe mentioned, fought in the Crimea during the war. Atter the appointment had been duly promul- gated an enthusiastic eubaltern of the regiment communicated the in- formation to his soldier servant. "Donald," he said, "have you heard that the Emperor of Russia has ibeen appointed Colonel 0f the ceginiene " "Indeed, sir;" said Dnnald, "it'e a verra gran' thing for him," Then, after a pause, he inquired, "Beg pardon, sir, but will he be able to keep •baith jobs?" Superfluous Bxpenees. ' T.athee--,Son, can't you possibly cut down your collegeex/melees? Srin---I might possibly do without any 'books, HIS LIFE SEEMS CIIAII3LED, Miraculous Escapers of a London Scottish Soldier. The seei•:•tgly charmed life of Private 1 oroce, el the first bat- talion co th London Scottish, has attracted etezeicierable attention in England; according to letters re- cently received. ,Private Leaske has been invalided home with a severe flesh wound in the thigh, rind, not- withstanding his desperate exper- iences, is now reported to• be re- covering. When 'the .war began Private Leaske was in business in Antwerp. There he remained until the invest- ment of the city by the Germans, and refused to leave when the ham baidment cammeneed. A German shell destroyed the 'house in which he.ilived, and when the fortress fell. he heat a hasty retreat to England. Having served in the London Scottish he re-enlisted in the first battalion, with whioh he was sent to France loiter, During an en- gagement when the regiment wits first under fire, three bullets pierc- ed his great eoait, but did hien no in- jury. The following day, however, a fourth bullet wounded him in the thigh and he was carried' off to a hospital. It appears that the engagement was in Belgium said that he was taken to a field hospital near -Ypres. The Germans shelled the place and Private Leaske was removed with the remainder of the wounded to another hospital farther to the south. This building also the Ger- mans shelled and the young soldier had a very narrow esoape from fly- ing fragments of shrapnel before he was oauried from the building in safety. Fortunately his next place of re- treat was fair beyond the range of the German artillery, distance be- ing a more effectual protection than. tlhe• lied Cross ensign from German shell fire. There he remained until with several others she was taken to. England. It was believed that then he would be left in peace until his wound was healed. Such was not the oase, however, for he was sent to a hhospital in Hartlepool. He had not been in the institution 24 hours before the German raiding cruiser squadron opened fire on the city. With un- erring accuracy the German guars speedily searched mit the hospital which was one of the buildings struck. Private Leaske then came to the conclusion that he would be much safer on the firing line, and thence- forward he mode progress toward reoevery. He says he will not feel really eafe and comfortable until be rejoins his regiment at the front. FACTS AND FIGURES. Germany's Economic Position Is Not Sound. In the early summer of 1912 a German economic specialist, Herr Possell, lectured to the German De- fence League an the economic as- pects of war in their relation to the Fatherland. The lecture was not published at the time, "because the weak points in Germany's position ; would be made all too clear." It was given access to the light through publicity in Marseilles the other day, and it helps one to realize just where Germany is now in danger of being hardest hit. She requires to import more than 12,000,000 tons of minerals; her ports blockaded, "the whole indus- try would be strangled." Under the same conditions textile indus- tries "oould not live" ; in fact, "none of the great German indus- ' tries could oontinue to exist elf cut off from the sea," If there were a long near, with a consistently`main- tained blockade, "at 'east one- third of the workers in German in- dustries would he without bread," The shipping "would ibe thefirst to succumb"—as 11 has auccumbed, To feed the people imports id food- stuffs to the extent of 10 per cent. of her needs would be cut off, and "there would he not less than six million to eight million people in Germany in a state of want," who would have to :be maintained at a cost of not less than twelve cents per day. These facts and figures speak for t}hemselves. • All the eon- ditioris foreseen byy Herr Possell have been fulfilled, and more than fulfilled, because of the much great- er strain on the national resources than the leoturer was counting on,, FAITHFUL WAIL HORSES. Artillery Driver 'Relates Incidents of Retreat From ilbone . A Welshman, 'a driver in the. Iia- yal Field Artillery, told the follow- ing simple story about his horses in the war :-- I had driven them for three years. I tell you I could talk to them just ELS I am 'talking to you. There was not 'a word I said that they did not understand. And they could answer me—they could, indeed. I was never once at a loss to know 'what they meant, When I was astride one of them—why, I had only got to think what I wanted him to .do he would do it without being told. •Eaztly in the retreat from Mons a shell crashed right into the midst of •the iseetion with which I was moving, A driver in front of me was 'blown to bits. My gun 'was wrecked. I was ordered to help with another, As I mounted the fresh horse to continue the retreat I saw my two horses struggling and kicking on the ground to free them- selves. T could not go back to these. 'I tell you it hurt me. edeldenly a French chasseur dash- ed up td them, Cut the traces, and set there at' liberty. I was a good - way ahead by that time, but I kept looking back at them,. and I could tell that they eaw me directly they were on their feet, Those horses followed me for four days. We stopped for hardly five minutes and I could not get .back to them. There was no worklor them, but they kept their places in the line like trained soldiers. They were following me to the very end, and the thought occurred a thous- and .times, "What do they think of me on another horse?" Whenever I looked there they -were in the line, watching me so anxiously and sor- rowfully as to make tee feel guilty of deserting them. Whenever the word "Halt!" ran down the col- umn I held up my hand to them and they saw it every time. They atop• ped instantly. Whether they got anything to eat I do not know. I wonder whether they dropped out from sheer ex haustion--I hope to Heaven it was not that. At any rate one morning when the retreat was all over '1 missed them. I, suppose I shall never see them again. That's the sort of thing that hurts a soldier in war. The Cheerful British Soldier. A surgeon who has returned from France pays a tribute to the admir- able fortitude of :the wounded eel- diers. He says that nothing could be more admirable than the sang- froid and cheeriness of men and of- ficers alike. Many of them were cold, wet, and hungry, all had more or less pain, some had suffered ex- ceedingly during their transit from the front, and sortie were faint from loss of blood, yet no one really grumbled or made querulous com- plaints. At the most .they asked for something to drink, or for some one to move them.to a more comfortable. position. Many were so tired that in spite of pain they went to sleep on their stretchers. If some oven had their lives to live again they probably wouldn't leave so many dollars for their heirs to scrap over. WHEN 01S1 MARY D OTHERS LANOASRII'S 1FIEil1fl 01' itMIIIEEIV4N 't'Pi►RlO. No British Protest When It Caused FamLic iii Cotton Districts. The London Express has a hark - back to the history of the war of 469 to -f864 in America with e vivid application bo conditions to -day that is edifying, It ear" The oomsalaint of the President of the 'MS. -that American trade le suffering 'beeause of British inter- ference with Americanex;porta, in neutral countries al contra/brand goods destined for p•ermaneeis open to the retort that Aanerica caused far greater hardship to England l)y her interference with the English cotton supply during the Amerman Civil War, At the present time there is rio evidencethat there is any real suf- fering in America on aeount of the efforts of the British Navy to stop contrabrand goods from crossing the Atlantic but there are thous ands of persons in England •who re- member "the cotton famine". from 1860 to 1864. A Lancashire Memory. In Lancashire it is the grimmest memoz'y of those who were children 50 ,years ago, for the famine of cot- ton meant a famine of work and its consequences •— privation, starva- tion, the death of old and young for lack of proper food and the breaking up and desolation of homes, • That ail arose ibecause• the North- ern and Southern States felt them• selves compelled to fight each other t—regardless of the interests of nen- In those days pearly all the raw Cotton came from the United 'States. Lancashire lived ori :America's raw cotbon. When the South -began war on the North, the North did not hesitate to tiny to eripple its enemy by strangling its trade. The North- ern navy established a blockade of the 'Southern ports, and the cotton lay rotting on the quare of Charles- town, while the Lancashire-oobton workers were starving for the lack of •their raw material, Blockade Reimers' Work. British traders tried to smuggle goods inbo the Southern ports anti. to smuggle cotton out, and for some time the bioekage runners made a rich harvest. The goods were first of all carried to and Iroin England and' the Bahamas, and were then rushed across the short sea space between the Bahamas and the Southern ports. In order to stop this the North ern States captured ships between the Bahamas and England and pleaded that although the cargoes were transhipped at the Bahamas they really made a, "continuous voyage"—which is the British com- plaint at the present moment about contrmibrand which America ships, to' various neutral ports, although every one knows the goods are go- ing to Germany. In 1860-4, however, Great Britain recognized that the North had a right to cripple the South's trade, and issued no protest against the terrible injury which the action of the Northern navy inflicted on Lan- cashire. It was estimated at the time that the cotton workers of Lancashire lost $60,000,000 a year in wages, and that the total loss to the trade was $20(1,000,000 a year while the'block- ade lasted. Although a fool and his money may be easily separated they are hard' to find. The proprietor of a hotel hearing of the whereabouts of a guest who had decamped from the Palmer House withbut paying his hill, sent him a note : "Dear •Sir,—Will you send the amount of your bill and oblige. To which the delinquent re- plied: The amount is $8.20. Yours respectfully. DRY IRRITATING BOK INSTANTLY NTLY RELIEVED No Failnre,Cure in E very Case Treeatd by Catarrhozone Catarrhozone can't fail to cure Bron• chitis; it's so healing, soothing and balsamic that every trace of the dis- ease flies before it. When you Inhale the pure piney vapor of Catarrhozone, you send healing meditation to the spots that are diseased and sore. Isn't It rational to apply medicine whore rho disease exists? 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('atarrhozono will not disappoint you. (let the complete $1.0D outfit; t'e guaranteed, Smail 517.0, 50e; trial or sample size 25e. at dialers everywhere. .n,. •o e 11 � '"�fll� Cr( CO Story vu,nn".v. From an interesting article, en - tithed. "Crocodile • B.envnisoenoeve," written by Mr, A, Cavendielh, and appearingin Chanubers's Journal, we quote the following ;-- It is only as few menthe since the incident happened that Iain 'abouib to' relate. My work took me 00 w visit up a Tim to one of those time ber-cutting camps where are felled and rafted the great hardwood logs so valued in the Cli'ineee market. - G., the white xmian in; charge, was a ebs.raoteayisbio old "hard ooze," who heel •started lifo before the mast in a beach -combing fashion to our colony, where, the had been given,. almost in charity, a subordinate bel- let in one of the large timber cis n- pani-es. Arriving in my boat at the •, little jetty or landing -stage I wins assboniehe.d to find G. lying on a rattan couch within a few yards of the bank, with a heavy express rifle across his knees, gazing intently at a rough pager or fenoe erected in the stream. Hanging from this fence, and a few feet above the witer, were the corpses of a monkey and several pariah dogs; while half a dozen ducks, oath tied to the fence by the leg with a long string, flapped about on the water and quacked dismally in their efforts to escape. I was Just wondering whether the whiskey -bottle or too much solitude aoaounted'Ips, this state of affairs, when I noticed that G.'s leg was swathed in rough bandages fr:an knee to ankle. Throwing myself clown near him in the weleome shade I learnt the following story: Tuve nights before G. was sleeping peacefully in lines little palm -leaf house, in a oleahing about twenty yards from the river bank, when in coag began to giowl and refused to he silenced. G. turned out and walked round the hub to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, but seeing nothing, addressed himzself to the dog in Ia., usual lurid and pictuo•esque sailinx- ship language..; and :retired to bed again. Five minutes later he was once -more aroused by a yelp from the dog; lend, this time really an- noyed, he seized a stick ands sailed forth to inflict dire puniebnient •:-n the disturber of his dream Si:d- denly s, dark form glided swiftly from the shadows, and G. felt him- self seized by the right knee as in a vice, Stooping to free himself he (mind be was in the grip of a large ccoco- dile, whose teeth were firmly n - bedded in flesh and bone. Pe eit-- wards and forwards the estrusr-Oe swayed—the croocdile striviegt:. pull' its destined victim to the v a- ter's edge, and 0.. ha :i per^d rte '• • MILS by his ianprisoneel k p h. td. far his life to res:_h �t last the beast, hnrli= at ri t- to the ground with a shake ,,f +.^ powerful head. began to dim,, e..-, swiftly towards the watch. 1'•y.• 0., feeling, as he expressed it. Cm-) it was "all over bar the .hairiest " determined to make ene leot ei? rt for 'his life ; and, 'taking ed. a -Oleo of a momentary halt as. the le -r••• was •steering past a tree stump, 'r+ succeeded in getting both hi. thumbs into the reptile's eye-so-k'ts —the only vulnerable part of a. crocodile s head. The rest of the story is p rhvrs best told in G.'s own wort's ••r. ,i nearly as eireumstarcts (and ]i' editor) will permit. "So soon as I gets my thumbs mads feet in 'ia eyes 'e opens 'is month to ,.hoot an' lets go my leg. Then, fleet t'iietr next morcnin' the coolies, lays 9s breakfast for 'im, as you see, an' .I gets into this chair, an' 'ere I :toys if it's a month." Vainly I tried to persuades G. to come away. ttit'h me to the next station and •'00 a .1'.' - tor. I argued with him, I erep'ee- 1 him, but et was abetilutely moles Ile refused to move from that e i' till he had bagged' his ere:, 1;10: and I was at last obliged to 1 ave him, having dressed his leg,and :x- hausted every known mi a -i., . f p r. suasion short of brute f.: rte. I met shim again a week 1 f _r in a hospital bed, suffering vaverely, but quite happy in the knowl=d", that 'the bones of that croc. were bleed -dog in the sun outside hi; house. Poor old G. 1 Only a f'• weeks afterwards the habit of '• ing creeper* Pram 'his path ie the jungle with the butt -end of his heed- ed and coeke,d :rifle proved fatal to flim, '1'he l?Irs'riune. Everything seekstcontinuity. The seed drops into the earth to e,:t- tinue its kind, Good and evil in habit and in thought tend to con- tinue in their .course. The ' Ii&im e:hoe we think wear their little channel in the 'brain that turn naturally in the same direction, The way w: did a task ycst/orday and to -day is the way we shall do it alinoel un-. consciously to-mon:gee. Love and hatred, like Fruits and fl ler , s, lin, :i their seed within themsalvc:; :.oliva•- petuate their ,w,wth,' There ,persons in the world wi:•, hero. 4a other for no bPttN., r..x •,n t'sta that somewhere its th,: pts„ thee `r- gandoing itanti keep 4; !1 a life of such tend lei . righi 11:ei i• n'ngs are a matter of gate isip• 111100, Some peo•pl•. can't ev.'n lute ex, iperienee without gti;ling slog(changed, i s f