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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-10-14, Page 6National Duty in War Froin The Round Table. II. Service For AIL Loudon, Eng., Sept. 22.—The first and most obvious step is to introduce a new spirit into the conduct of pub- lic affairs. In ordinary times the real ruler of the country ie public opinion, slowly evolved under the ceaseless hammerof political controversy, and slowly passed into law through the Ponderous machinery' of Parliament,. The Government of the day is come. posed of party leaders primarily con- cerned to carry into effect a certain programme of reform, and re ppeople eeople obey them because they the constitutional machinery rather than .because they command any au- ' thority in themselves. War intro- duces us to a new world. Speed and a efficiency, secrecy and the withholding to m obilige the whole available man - of the country for military par - of information useful to the enemy, poses, ere essential to success. Public opin-poses, s of enlistment? resort tocompulsory mpulsory ion he therefore, dethmaterial for w has tion there can only be one answer. tthis ques- xoiformulat nor material with which Whether or not it required the Gov - imposes upon sound judgments. This ernment,which knows the facts and people upta both Government and the neealone can decide. But if it people a totally new set of responsi- the Army itself, where the leaders re- cognize that they, and they alone, are responsible for policy, and issue or- ders knowing that they will be obey- ed, and the rank and file realize that they cannot stop to discuss the wis,, dom or otherwise of particular in- structions, but that they must obey them promptly, however dangerous or exacting they may be. In this war the larger half of the army is in, the mines, the workshops, and the fields at home. If the national effort is to be successful as a whole. it will be because our leaders are resolute and strong and because every section of the people, at home or in the field, carries out that 'fraction of service Which falls to its lot with loyalty and determination to the end. - This raises at once the contentious ubioet of military service. In order bilines. It requires of the Govern ment-a new quality of leadership, and of the people a new kind of loyalty community in the matter is and obedience. force the hand of the Government one The Government for the time being make it is in the position e. Its of ed from derstand that it is willing to accept judges such a measure necessary, then we have no option but to give it the powers it asks. The function ofthe • of dictator. It alone way or the other, but to c un - criticism cull of the s s freed any method of enlistment for military, of the usual destructive and service which it considers necessary embarrassing kind. Unless it takes to win the war. uponx itself o act on itsa own initiative, There has, in the past, been much unless itproposes, regardless ardless rf pope- misunderstanding about national mili- er o which outcry, any and every mea- sure it may consider necessary tary service of this kind. On the one to win the war, unless it insists on hand it has been treated as though it Condemning prompt and complete obedience to the involved the permanent introduction have recently appeared in the field.of failing to discharge of Continental conscription. The mea- aggerated tales brought home by !British journalism several interesting nationalefntaw, it is f g which tourists regarding the damage done and audacious newcomers. These are Inc functions of a the primary alexdutyiv of sure ompletenthe mobilization of arna- in England by German Zeppelins, The the newspapers published bg soldiers In time of wetis p over& duty is ptheto • partWall Street Journal "What unthetrenches d sailors at sea A the Government to govern, and this is a responsibility which it can neither escape nor share. But if the Government is to act as it should the people on their side must Above is a view of Petrograd, the great Capital of Russia, toward which' the German armies in Poland are now heading. WAR AND HYSTERIA From The Toronto Daily News. the readiness of Amer- icans to swallow the hysterically ex - JOURNALISM IN WAR. Newspapers --Published by Soldiers and Sailors. Despite hard times and the' dis- couragements of censorship, there GERMANY SEIZED BRITISH AIR IDEA AMERICA'S CAUSE IMPROVED AEROPLANE URGED TWO YEARS .AGO. Germans Took TTp Idea, and Now Have Triplane With Four Big Engines. C. G. Grey, editor of The Aeroplane, London, discusses the German and British aeroplane situation as f'ollows: When the official eye witness was permitted to make known to the peo- ple of England the existence of a big German biplane with: two fuselages or bodies and two engines the exis- tence of such a machine aroused a considerable amount of interest in this country, . Now a report comes from Switzerland that ,the Germans ' have actually put in the air a "zriplane," which is a machine with three pairs of wings, one above the other, driven by four propellers, each driven by an en- gine of 200 -horsepower, so that, the whole machine has 800 horsepower in it. This shows that the Germans are going one better than the Russian Sikorsky, which has about 400 horse- power in it, consisting of four engines of 100 horsepower each driving a sin- gle propeller. Incidentally triplanes were built and flown successfully in. England by A. V. Roe in 1910 or' earlier. Recently I have heard from officers who have returned from :France that the Germans have of late put in the air several large biplanes which, al- though they have only one body apiece, like an ordinary tractor bi- plane, are driven by two engines, each driving a separate propeller. British Negligent. From Erin's Creep Isle NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAND'S' GREEN SHORES. From The Toronto Daily News. Mr. Benjamin A. Gould, an Ameri- can resident of Toronto, who from the first has ably championed the cause of the Allies with voice and pen, has a letter in The New York Sun in which he outlines the purpose of Ger tional army by far greater tree ourna says: in enc es an sax of which is already voluntarily en- derlies this hysteria? What is it unique venture is the Maidstone many, and expresses deep dissatxs ac - listed, ought not, and indeed cannot, that causes us to take seriously the Magazine, with which is incorporated tion with the action of the United have anything to do with military talk of such men as Hearst, Bryan, the Pandora Piffle and -the Alecto Ar- States thus •far. He sees in Gere or anization after the war. That is Stone, Hoke Smith and the like upon-gus, whose editor and contributors many's efforts an attempt to impose Ger- organization v on the world a dynastic autocracy; a and obedience, and that an entirely separate question, and ittthe war and the way to secure peace . are all officers of the Eighth Sub - give it loyalty is one which will be determined noThe psychological reason can be found doctrine of might, a philosophy a antarily put g marine' Flotilla. It contains 'a little force. He sees in it an assault upon means that they must Sub- ' the end of by any Acts we may pass now, but in ourselves. After fifty years of news and a great deal of jollity and , the theory of democracy, to the devel- opment of which the freer nations have given the best part of two cen- turies. He sees that every neutral over-estimate the sanctity y u nation is vitally interested in the life, as our criminal waste by pro stead of diving under them. Several things for which the Allies are fight- ventable accident shows. It is that papers have 'appeared on different ing, and will suffer the loss of much we do not realize as our grandfathers of their freedom unless the'Allies did, fighting for principle upon the ships of the battle fleet. In one, the h is byno North Sea Times, a contributor, ` Mr. win. Gould insists that Germany has field of battle, that de thing in Clinker Cole from the stokehold,"pro- struck at the ideals' of the United II'appenings in the ,Emerald Isle of Interest to All Teue Irish- men. The death is reported at Youghal, Cork, of major -General Bir Thomas Dennely, an Indian 'Mutiny veteran. A middle-aged farmer named Jo- seph Anderson, of Baliyrogen, corn - milted suicide by shooting himself. Tho number of depths from tuber - by ,in Ireland during 1914 were 8,089, being a decrease of 298 over 1918. At the general market in Ballymena a quantity of hay was commandeered by the local agent for the Govern- ment. roved of the 11, M: the King has app appointment of Lord' Londonderry as Lieutenant for the County Derry. More than 6,000 people watched the games of the Na Gael at' Celtic Park, when Kerry defeated Kildare by one goal to one point. Cars have been designed for an electric railroad in Ireland to be run by a gasoline -electric generator which they carry. James McKeown, a well-known resi- dent of Dundee, was knocked down and killed on the main line from Dub- lin to Belfast. officer at Capt. Balfe, recruiting Castlerea, has sent several farmers' sons to the 16th Division, Irish.Bri Bade and the Irish Guards. One of the new branches of Kitchen- er's army in training now in commanded by in • London is an Irish army, by an Irish general. William Neill, a lighterman of Bei. fast, was drowned while working on a barge at Carrickfergus harbor. A small sailing punt owned by Mr. M. J. Healey, was found bottom up- wards floating in-Youghai harbor. Nothing has been heard of the crew. At a meeting of the County Done- gal Insurance several members urged the adoption of a scheme for the home treatment of tuberculosis cases. At a meeting' of the Derry Corpora- tion a. recommendation that a war bo- nus of 28c per week bo granted to'all Corporation employees was defeated. At a meeting of the Grand Urban Council, Mr. Brahayen presiding, a resolution was adopted expressing their opposition to conscription The Senate of Queen's University, Belfast, has decided to make it com- pulsory for all male students to at- tend classes for military training dur- ing the war, Louis Weiner, a photographic can- vasser, of Belfast, was ordered to three months' imprisonment for try- ing to elicit information on the move- ment of the Ulster Division. A flag day was held in Belfast un- der the auspices of the Union Jacic Committee, and it was stated that up to date the Ulster Women's Fund had sent 300,000 cigarettes, 800 pounds of tobacco and over 8,000 articles of clothing. The death has occurred as the re- sult of wounds received in action of Lance -Corporal Walter Newel, son of , of Belfast. He was Mr. tachhed to the 6th Battalion, Black Watch. Two more bbodies, victims of the Lusitania outrage, have been washed ashore at Kilcummin Strand, near Castlegregory. One is thought to be that oi' Mr. Vanderbilt, but the other is not identified. The clerk of the Lurgan Town Council recently paid a visit to the Dublin Board of Works, asking them to grant a supplementary loanof $6,000 to complete the Council's.arti- san dwelling schema. At a Red Cross meeting at Bal- doyle, valuable assistance was given by followers of the Irish' Turf, land the handsome sum of $8,500 ,vas col- lected. In the Red Cross Plate, the jockey, John Doyle, was severely in- jured, and the favorite, Captain Bloomfield's horse, Deposit, was killed. themselves under orders t byour success or failure in the war the war. No body of men can co -peace within our own. borders, we operate for a common purpose if each itself. The one thing which would have deteriorated in a most vital re - one is free to work or not as he make conscription certain would be spect. We attach an exaggerated im- chooses, and to choose what work he the triumph of the Prussian ideals of portance to death. It is not that we should do. They must elect an execu- force and war. t't of human tive committee and give it the power On the other hand, compulsory ser - to allot the work between all accord- vice has been objected to on the ing to' a single plan of action and ac- ground that it is inconsistent with the cording to their several capacities. free principles of the British Consti- Each must then do his appointed task tution won in long centuriess based on a rugmis- faithfully and punctually. Only so gle. This objection i can a machine be made to work, whe- apprehension. It implies that what is ther it be human or of steel. Only so can an army manoeuvre so as to de- feat its enemy. " And only so can a nation make war to the utmost of its capacity. If it means business in the war it must freely and of its own accord, submit itself to the irksome restraints of national discipline. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking on July 29th, enunciated this principle with great clearness:— "We have [he said] but one ques- tion to ask ourselves—eve of all ranks, of all grades, and all trades. Are we doing enough to secure victory, be- cause victory means life for our coun- try? It means the fate of freedom for ages to come. There is no price which is too great for us to pay that is within our power. There is too much disposition to cling to the amen- ities of peace. Business as usual, en- joyment as usual, fashions, lockouts, strikes, ca' canny, sprees — all as usual. Wages must go up, profits must also improve, but prices must at all costs be kept down. You will for- give me, I am sure, for speaking quite plainly. No man must be called upon to serve'the State unless he wants to; even then he has only to be called upon to do exactly what he would like to do—not what he is fit for,. not what he is' chosen for, but what he himself would like to do. A man who could ed in the len run render more service by turning out may be pg nonsense, including an amusing par- ody of Lewis Carroll—"Alice ' in Eighth Flotilla Land." The undersea journalists are rival- ed by those who ride the billows' in - means the most aimportant xng testing against the uneven distribu- States, at those things for which the life. There,tZre many worse things hi tion of fighting chances, perpetrates a pun that is so bad that it is pose- Republic has always stood, at Ameri ca's sacred traditions, at everything lively pre-eminent. that raises man above the well-fed "Well, I dunno, but some blokes cattle or the comfortable sheep. This seem to scoop in all the luck wot's clear -thinking American continues: grin'," he complains resentfully. "Yet against this purpose of Germany, "Every time there's anythink dein', against this -attack on the soul of the newspapers. The better class press that 'ere menagerie squadring you of the United States is holding the know, the Lion and Tiger, and Indorn pacifist and pro -German elements 1 ita(bull), whatever kind of animile throughout the country pretty well that may be—always gets a look in in check. and does something, whereas the re- mainder of us merely takes the part of aujince."' Even the Voice of the Benzine Lan- cers—motor transport—makes itself heard through a special' organ; and more than one enterprising little Brit- ish sheet, published just behind the trenches "somewhere in France," con - proposed is that an arbitrary Govern - life than death. The peoples at war. went should begin to coerce an un- do not suffer from hysteria. It is our willing people by force. That is ]m- returning tourists who read their own possible in a democratic country. No hysteria into conditions upon which Government could survive, even in they are not fitted to pass an opin- war, which proposed to undo in any ion." For plain speaking on Ameri- way the constitutional work of thecan sins we have to go to American last two hundred years and put power back permanently into autocratic hands. National military service in- volves an act of a totally different kind. It is one which only the people themselves can enact. It can be brought into force only if the people declare byes deliberate Act of Parlia- ment that, as a nation, they authorize the Government to take the necessary steps. Such a measure, however, though voluntarily accepted by the nation, and imposed by popular consent, does Yale University, who has lived manY tains, along with its news and non - involve two things. It ends temper- years in Switzerland and is now en- sense, advertisements of concerts, pri- aril the voluntary system, so far as n the Red Cross service, tells a vale theatricals, wrestling and boxing y gaged x military service is concerned, and with touching little story about a French,,,matches, and football games organiz- it the fundamental merit of the sys soldier in Paris who deliberately hid world, against this endeavor to poi- son not only ourselves but our future generations the Government of the United States has not said one word. None of its protests has been based upon the higher and more command- ing necessity of maintaining the or- derly evolution of nations, Nothing has been said to show that it would not regard with equanimity the vic- tory' of the German cause so long as in achieving it the German methods did not interfere with American lives 'or properties.". Writing still as an indignant American, Mr. Gould concludes? "The' Lusitania and the Arabic .call us' in clarion tones' to abandon our slothful ease and vindicate our liberties; much louder and more resonantly, although - perhaps less distinctly, comes the call of mankind and of the generations to come that we make the great sacrifice to secure to them the conditions of freedom of individual development to which they are entitled." Elsewhere in the letter he expresses` the hope that his country will soon be in the FRENCH SODIER AND WIFE. This Touching Little Story Comes From Paris. Mr. Howard Copland, a graduate of tem, that it places the responsibility and let his train go off without him. for judging where his duty lies, and He was ill with bronchitis, had been for doing it, squarely on the individual able to eat nothing for four days, and —a reslmnsibility usually only exec- was scarcely able to stand. ed among the men. In all the papers, anecdotes of the lighter side of mili- tary life abound. Here are a few of them: "The skipper of a trawler arrived cised in national affairs at the ballot I came upon him an hour or so alongside in his dinghy last weelc, box. It also involves a temporary in- terference n- afterward, stretched in the straw, says having a German mine in tow," re- actionio02 theth the normal thereliberey of Mn Copland, the only one in all the ports a naval correspondent.' "The citizen. But are A p of great, gloomy train shed. He seemed worthy man's reply to requestsurgent times when it is necessary a sacrifice not to bring the thingtoo close liberty temporarily in order that it I'so weak that I went to one of the doe- g was, preserve• tors and asked if I could not have him + 11 ht sir. d' r wile has enlisted in this for our hospital. The doctor was furi- Its all right, ' • I've knocked the munitions must be„allowed to go to the front if he prefers to, and the man who would be better at the front must be allowed to stay at home if he feels more comfortable there. Freedom, af- ter all, implies the right to shirk. Freedom implies the right for you to enjoy and for others to defend. Is that freedom? "Waris like a fever, a deadly f e- ver in your veins, and the rules which are applicable in health are utterly unsuited to a fever. Restraints which would be irksome, stupid and unneces- sary when a man is healthy are essen- tial to save his life in a fever. What is the use of the patient saying: 'I Must have meat as usual, drink as. usual, in fact more than usual, be- cause I am thirstier than usual. ,I have a high temperature, so I am more parched than usual; there is a greater strain on my strength, so I really ought to have more than tenni. 11 I want to go out, why should I be confined to that little bed? Freedom above all.' `But you will die,' `Ah!' he says, 'it' is more glorious to die a free man than to live in bondage' Let Britain be beaten and discredited and dishonored, but let no man say that any Briton during the war was ever forced to do anything for his country except that which was pleas- ing in his own sight. Ahl Victory is not 011 that road." If we are to exert our full national strength in the war, we must decide to act mueh more es if we were an turned in disgust and said to the tet - army arm than as ifwe were free and in.. rifled man: -,-"I suppose you're one of dependent citizens obedient. as in them:biokes at home that.. are a1- theNavyare what 'n ri ends C Oea- ways w g a of our own h only to law CC 0•, ea y, i ing. Both Government and, people 1 a -loin' of. Now, were �- well gem. must learn ,tnaething•of the spirit of 1 to she... eu, war has sacrificed his personal liberty, ous at me for cutting in. He said Every sol re it and subjected himself to a most irk- was the man's own fault, and he some discipline,in order that a great' would have to lie there until to -mor - cause may be served thereby; and in , row and another train, and ordered a national crisis it May be necessary me to leave him alone. But I went for a whole people to do the same. back when the doctor was gone and The state itself is not organized on , talked with him. The man fairly the voluntary principle. People are broke • down, and, as well as his aw- not given any option about obeyingful cold and weakness would let flim, the ordinary law. The State, liberty, i he explained. He was perfectly crazy civilization itself, would cease to exist l to see his wife, and she lived in Paris. unless' the law, representing the corn -I Nothing else mattered. Being at last mon judgment about social relations in the same town, he could not get in and social rights and duties, were binding on all. And the State cannot fight a war in whichits honor and its the train that was to tale him away. I got her address from him, but it was at the other end of Paris. I could very existence are at stake unless its not take my ambulance away from its citizens are willing to make military I duty to fetch her. So I tried to get a service of the State no longer a mat -I taxi and pay the driver web to fetch ter of individual judgment, but a duty her, but there were no taxis to be had.. binding by law on any whom the Gov' I rushed out in the street and stop- ped a prosperous -looking touring car passing by, occupied by a rather nice- looking man and woman, and had a good deal of trouble in getting them to listen at first. At last I got them eminent may select, directly the Gov- ernment considers it necessary. Turned in Disgust. Those who have seen them and who are qualified to judge, assume from the speed and climb.' of the machine that these engines are the ordinary 100 horsepower engines used in most of the German machines. In connection with this sudden ap- pearance of German aeroplanes with multiple engines and of large size, it is worth while noting that fully two years ago Gen. Henderson, then and now commanding the Royal Flying Corps, stated on.more than one occa- sion at the semi-public meetings of the Aeronautical. Society that one type of aeroplane necessary for the full equipment of the Flying Corps was a big machine with more than one en- gine. He was particularly insistent on the need for more than one engine, so that if one engine broke down the other one, or others, would be able to keep the machine in the air. Gen. Henderson's opinion was back- ed up by various, other officers of the Flying Corps, yet in spite of this we have the extraordinary position that after the appearance of the first of these big German aeroplanes, Mr. Tennant, the Under Secretary for War, announces that we have multi- ple-engined ultiple-engined aeroplanes in course of construction. It seems fairly obvious that the German authoritiespaid more atten- tion to the opinions of those in Bri- tain who were best qualified to judge of the development of military aero- planes than did the British authori- ties. 'erns off wiv a boat hook.' " • war against the 'barbarians. This Two brief dialogues were sent in to may not he the general wish of Cana compete for the leather medal offer- dians, but undoubtedly millions of ed by a journal published in Flanders: Americans think with Mr. Gould. A discontented soldier complains to 1 an orderly officer about the dust and dirt in his rations. Planned to Reciprocate. Orderly Officer, severely—Didn't „Well, what can I do for you, you enlist to fight for your country? Sam?" asked Jones as the colored Discontented Soldier—Yes, but I waiter who usually served him at the didn't enlist to eat it. restaurant entered his office. The second dialogue takes place be - "I got a chance to change mall tweed an infantryman and a motor pssition, boss. Kin yo' say a good mechanic; word for me? Say I'se honest and Infantryman—Which is your ser- geant-major—that er,- sieh?" grant -major that thin man over. - „I know, of course, that you're a there? good waiter, Sam, but how do I know Friend, of the Motor Transport— you're honest? n No, the other one; him with the pneu- „Well, jes sa yo' think I'se hones'. uratic stummick. pail;. do." "All right, Sam, Ill do that." "Thank you, boss, thank yo' very Always Looking For Trouble. much. When yo' come ovah to moa are of so suspicious a row be sure to sit at mala table. I'll Some people give yo' a shot check." turn of mind that they are always When the dreadnought Lion went': interested and speeding off rapidly to into action in the North Sea fight the �'address, to fetch the wife for 0110 board whom it was impossible to put he had a number of workmen on glimpse of the poor chap, and ;I at - s I ranged with a nurse to let her in at re givingchase to the German the station gates when she came. offr bete The next morning one of the nurses cruisers. One of these workmen be- came panic-stricken, and kept getting who passed the night in the train shed ailees' way while they were told tie that late in the evening the inthe s Y people brought the wife and the preparing for action, imploring them good to put him ashore. At last one tar little baby, and the couple just sob- bed and sobbed -half in delight at meeting and half in sorrow at part- ing—but that the soldier tools the train early the next morning much better in health, and able to eat for the first time. 'F---. SEA FIGHTS LONG AGO. Old Sea Battles Showed High Per- centage in Killed and:Woundod: People thinkof the 15 -inch guns. on "Lizzie" and ships of her class as the largest naval guns ever made, but British war boats carried bigger guns in the early days of the hard- ware navy. The old Inflexible had four 80 -ton guns of 16 -inch calibre. Nearly 30 years ago the British navy had 110 -ton guns, 16.25 inches in calibre, and these were the most pon- derous ship's guns ever made. But the 17 -inch navy gun is corning. That reminds s us that the world went very well in the good old days when ships of war thumped away at each other's wooden topsides with Long Tom, who was only a round- butted,son-of-a-gun of a 32 -pounder, and Tom's numerous family, long and short, the smallest member of which heaved a little thing smaller than a tennis ball. Men fought just as mer- rily gem- broadside in the old days when the whole mum?„ "This is Shakespeare, a 8rcent.f of ± eo-seeker ofas onenly wonderful poet wlho died centuries s0 per of the weight of one the "Lizzie" at a ago," "Dat him, miss? I've donor shell thrownby Turkishhd fort do mhips hau d along_ tymees o Qr'bodyha seems to ]snow The each ther ships hauled r along- each other at "close quarters" him. 'Deed, 'I done byes- so much side and the decks were a foot deep in 'bout him dat I anus thought he wa blood when the scuppers' choked with a white gemmumc" the fragments of shattered humanity. g _ "-' The plunging round shot was as cap- Earthworms have no eyes, but ably a projectile, muzzle to muzzle, their mouth -end is so sensitive that as the modern shell at 10 miles range. they can distinguish between night A two -pound shot could cut a pian in and day. two, and what shell couldmore? accomplish —_ The butchery Was just as In the France -German War .the. satisfactory proportionately to the Germans fired n off s0 million musket number of men on the ships, The re cartridges and 363,000 rounds cif are tillery, with which they killed _ or mortally wounded 77,000 French, be- ing 400 shots to kill, as compared with 740 shots to kill iii the Crimean War. looking for trouble. A stout gentle -,x•• Not Positive. t t fixing an eagle gaze on man with sharp eyes entered -a little the obran , I see you re- Pete, the hired man, was known the obsequious waitte, y ` One commend' your oysters at a shilling � for his prodigious appetite.cords., of the old sea battles show the dozen!" he snapped. "Yes, six,' morning he had eaten his usual break- that. vessels often lost 50 per cent.' in t d , killed and wounded, and 'sometimes the best, sir.—real natives,; sir," bow- i fast of oatmeal buckwheat cokes, In some fi hos el the waiter. "Then I think 1'11 toast,fried potatoes, ham, eggs, as high as 70 per cent. m g have one." " "One dozen, sir?" ` No; 1 doughnuts, coffee, and the usual trim. off shore ships were sunk or burned I said one, and mean one -one oy-' tangs, and had gone to a n'eighbor's without ae much as 0 rat escaping. In "Theaiter's smile vanished; to help with extra work.: Pete arriv view of this,.. modern guns and gun - and w y had risen from nary have hardly made sea fights any and gl eyed the stout gentleman with.; td before the family h bloody than. in the days of spin Iv as he seised—"With-or with- {tile morning m more y eringly out, sir?' "With. or without what?" : .ell 1?ete P ".'hos itably inquired "sticks and strings.'! .i � "Well, r c "Pearls," snapped the waiter. with I the farmer, "load breakfast' yet?" r eat sarcasm. "Would you like it 1 "Aw," ' drawled Pete in • a whced- St. Paul's Cathedral cosi g ` "k d Or lion pounds to build. • Was Shakespeare White? An old black servant was dusting a drawing -room when she came to a small bronze bust of Shakespeare. "Miss Juliet, chile," she said to her young mistress, who happened to be with pearls or without?" ling tone, in a. , one mil - In India the lowest 'classes ' wear, as shoes, ,a flat bloek with a largo knob, which, slips between tie Arab and second toes. They are so skilled in wearing these that they are able tc iseep them en and walk : err run With groat speed.