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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-7-6, Page 6Going Out Again to tha Firing Line Scene in a Dig London Railway ,. Station, but elle only said, brickly, with no change of tone: ",jVI. ind you send mea postcard di- rectly you get out there, and write when you can," "That's all right," he said. i Then, as the train fussed noisily in, they kissed .each other, and she put her hands on hia broad shoulders J to pull him down and kiss him a They emerged from the booking of- second time, just in a good, motherly , flee as if they had been harrying, and: fashion, and without a flicker of emo- the elder woman looked round for the tion an her comfortable face. station clock. I "Annie'll be too late," he observed, "Oh, plenty of time," she said. "An. • leaning from the carriage window. other eight minutes yet." "YON silly thing, Never mind. She The girl who was with her made no; said good-bye onee. I'll say 11) again response. You guessed they were for You, and she can writs," mother and daughter. The mother was I He took of his cap and waved it a hearty woman nearing sixty, with a as the train carried him off, and ruddy, good, strong -featured face and hung out waving it as long as he was a managing, reliable manner. She within sight, "Good-bye," she shout - was not poorly dressed, but service -j ed, and "Good Luck!" and stood sturd- ably, as one dresses who has to count il.' in the middle of the platform gas - her money more than once before she' ing after him. She did not take out spends it, Her hands were roughened j v handkerchief; r hief; she waved, and kept with work; she wore a sensible plaid g, • one ofher rough hands, but shawl, for there was snow on the rail- when the train had gone so far that way lines and on the fields beyond ,Ishe could have been no more than an and capping all bhe houses round i outline to the other's eye, her lips about. The daughter was a slight, were quivering and tears streaming girl of some seventeen, pale, anxious,' unheeded down her cheeks, and I preoccupied, seeming rather as she turned away. were hurt and suffering, and shrank from being noticed. "Look here, now, Annie," said the mother, speaking firmly and swiftly, "if you can't leave off crying, run back home at once, like a good girl. TO DODGE THE LIGHTNING. A Metal Bed Is the Safest Place Dur- ing a Storm. "Meat Takes Allot Jump "—a familiar h line in your daily newsp But why worry about cost of something you d need? The most expen foods are generally the 1 nutritious. In Su health and strength co from a meatless diet. Shredded Wheat 1 disc heated in the oven, co with berries or other and served with milk cream, make a compl satisfying, •nourishing mea a cost of five or six cents. All the meat of the whole wheat. Made in Canada her 'JUTLA D HAS A ead- apel'. the SCENE OF THE RECENT GREAT LONG HISTORY on't NAVAL BATTLE,. sive ; east Germany Took Part of the Peninsula rnnit r , In Famous Seven Days' me War. Two 1 Jutland, or, as the Danes call it, melts.Jylland, which the recent naval battle has bs•oughf into such pominence, is vered : well described as, the continental por- i tion of the kingdom of Denmark, fruits i Fifty years ago, before the famous Or Seven Days' War, which ultimately +resulted in the Ions of Schleswig-Ilol- ete, stein to Germany, the whole peninsula bl dt D e onge o ennnarlc; but since then 1 at the southern r o tion has tea Ger- n n man territory, The Cimbric penins of the ancienb geographers, Jutla extends northward from Lubeck one shore, and from the mouth of Elbe on the other, for a distance some 270 miles, ultimately tapering off to the promontory of the Skaw, which reaches out toward Sweden, be- 1tween the Skagerrak and the Catte- NDi gat, THE BLIND MAN LEADS THE BL! 1CANADIAN ORDER OF FORESTERS FROM OLD SCOTLAND 37th Annual Meeting of the Nigh Court --.(Over Five Htlndre Delegates Present. The 37th Annual Meeting of bhe the fund at the present time stand - Canadian u Tuesday ftern Foresters ot20th n- 171 The Genet ral Fund is also in ri eatise of June, in the Weenie Hall, m the factory condition, Many special City of London, Ont„ at 2 pan. Dole- charges, connected with the war gates are in attendance from all parts and the arrangement for carrying of the Dominion, every province being enlisted members hereafter referred re2resented. to, have been arranged without any The following officers of High inconvenience to this fund. Court were present at the opening In respect to membership, seb- session: J. A, Stewart, High Chief stantial progress was also made; the Ranger, Perth, Ont„ in the chair; T. membership at the end of the year A. A. Brodeur, High Vice -Chief Ran- 1910 standing at 91,046. ger, Montreal, Qua,: Robert Elliott, Besides the ordinary benefits from High Secretary, Brantford, Ont.; Dr. its life insurance and sick and funeral II. M. Stanley, Chairman of the Me- benefit departments, special provision dical Board, Brantford, Ont.' W. G. ie made for assistance to those of its Strong, Superinbendent of Organize- members suffering from tubercular tion, Brantford Ont.; W. L. Roberts, trouble of any kind. A special grant is First High Auditor, Brantford, Ont.; made exbending over a period of six 3', P. Hoag, Second High Auditor, To- ula ionto, Ont,; W, A. Hollinrake, High nd IA. Galpin rLondon, Ont.; r and On., I. H. the Davidson,1Truro, ;peggA, Man.; rriigh , To - of ronto, Ont,; Dr. E. W. Moles, Nor - Don't upset him. I want him to go The fear of being struck by light - feeling cheerful and comfortable I ning is both a very real and a very SIR ARTHUR PEARSON IS DOING' about us.' ! sensible fear says the Philadelphia. In- ! GREAT WORK. 'I'm not crying,"the girl protest-quirer. I ! f ed feebly. But lighting can be avoided like all' "You are. You know you are, And other evils. It will strike in certain I won't have him upset. Don't be places and it will not strike in other I Blind English Publisher Devoting His unkind to him—just run off at once. places. There are seasons for its be -1 Life to Helping Sightless He'll he here in a minute." • havior in both eases, for nature never Soldi "But—but he'll think it so funny operates by chance. di re, —..-- The girl struggled with her A. steam engine or a railroad coach I have seen them by the dozens, in words. is as safe as anplace in the world as' London and in Paris, led by their "No, he won't, I'll explain. I'll y friends or groping their own P , far as lightning is concerned No one way about uncertainly—blinded vie• t maks it right. It's much kinder to has ever been struck by lightning ` tlms of the war. I have seen them by him. And you've said good-bye once, while he was aboard a train. I the dozens and they are in London by th when T was hoping you wouldn'b come. The business part of a citylike- hundreds, writes Mr, Edward Run home now,there's d Marshall. . a dear, and wise Is never struck by lightning. In the tea room of the Ptecadill b leave it to me." # * Neither are tall skyscrapers ever hit, gathering place e It g P ear isa maofficers tiliac matter s ofo recordsome one,e thatof isu- She r puth a hand themore of m on the gill's arm once companies never have any losses friendsandrelatives, them a women a to urge her towards the door, and,, from lightning strikinganybuilding dorm after a momentary hesitation, she g g groups are nearly always centred s with metallic sides and framework of about same blinded youth. o moved with quickening steps and die- iron and steel Out at St, Dunstan's H appeared into the bookingoffice.She ear for A steel battleship is also safe from Bonded Soldiers there is one really h was running her hardest over futhe rther herlevel u l!the bolt from the clouds, as is a steel, happy blind man, whose happiness t crossinga hundred p windmill tower This is because every ay be said to have grown out of the a the line, as a bronzed young soldier one of these objects is its own light- great conflict. Mists Are Frequent. Strictly speaking, of course, t northern portion of the peninsula is island, unless the bridge thro across the Liim fiord at Aalborg c be accounted a true connecting lin At Aaalborg the fiord is narro but before it reaches the 0 cathedral city of northern Denmar its busy port and markets, Liim fiord passes through man phases. From the point where th sweeping line of sand dunes is broke through by the North Sea at Thybor he fiord, as it spreads itself eas nvidens out into great lagoons, lap e shores of many islands, little an ig, and creeps g, a round ni p many e ns P las. It narrows into a channel at oen Glyngore, then widens out into a wall, Ont,, members of the executive committee, In addition to the above D. Creigh- ton, Dist. H.G.R., Brandon Man.; John Murray, Past Dist. H.C.R. Ha- miota, Mau., and D. E. McKinnon, District High Secretary, Winnipeg he Mens I'epresentatives from the an I District High Court for Manitoba, were present, wn The annual reports of the different an officers of this Order are of a very k. satisfactory nature showing that the ow steady progress which has been its id experience since its inception in 1879, rk, was continued in the year 1915. the This order confines its business en- tirely to the Dominion of Canada and e notwithstanding the tremendous handicap imposed on the work of the n society, as a result of the war, the n, year. just closed shows splendid pro - t, grecs, s The increase in the Insurance Fund d during the year amounted to $465,- u_ 500,31. This is the largest sum added to the fund in any one year in the his_ tory of the Order. The standing of this Fund at the end of the year, after h the payment of 592. Death Claims, - amounting bo $592,179,88 allowed o funds on hand of $6,205,868.32, the ow amount at the present time being $5,388,754,58. The yearly revenue derived from the investments of the aOrder now constitute a very substan- tial amount of the annual income. Interest earned on investments of In- surance funds during 1916 amounted et to $2551,436.51, and paid 42,45 per e cent, of the total Death. Claims on I the Order. t In respect to the matter of invest- ments, it is interestingto know the Order con w that fides the investment. of i its fund to Ggvernment Bonds and f Municipal and School Debentures in o the Dominion of Canada. During'1 th ! last two years, with an exceptional ! f market in such direction from the in- i I,. re, Hotel, London, which is the aftern great lake stretching fifty miles Hort nd south, narrows again ab Log tor, widens once more beyond, and s n to Aalborg, and through a narro some thirty miles to the steel nue waters of the Cattegat, Thus i he water -way complete between se nd sea. It is of little value, however s a through passage for shipping. In sank places it is less than twelve fo eep, and, on the western side, th eaward banks of the Iagoons are equently broken away, and who channels there are through them are nstantly shifting. The western coast Jutland has but little that is hospit- ble to offer. Low and sandy and indswept, shallow waters are the le everywhere, and the mists spoken m of in the accounts of the recent great; of naval battle fought off its coasts arae familiar enough to the dwellers on Hite hungry land which looks up on to thee as North Sea, as the Romans might hatice in khaki came from the booking of- fice and joined the old lady on the platform. "Well," she greeted him breezily, "everything all right? Got your ticket?" "Yes. That's all right.." He'' was buttoning something into a breast pockeb that was over -full. A tall, personable fellow, he carried a rifle, had a prodigious kit strapped on his back, and a water bottle and divers tightly packed small parcels hanging from his waist -belt, "They'd take me for Santa Claus, only it isn't Christ- mas," he grinned, surveying his bur- dens; then, abruptly, "Where's An- nie?" "Oh, she's all right," said the mo- ther easily. "I had to send her back. Silly thing! We forgot and left the gas -ring alight, and I don't want the house burnt down. Hope we haven't forgot anything else." She fingered the tight parcels critically. "Be sure you put these oilskins socks on over your other ones when you go into them damp trenches. And mind you wear the thick new vests." She shook a warning finger at him. "You want me out there to look after you, you're so terrible careless!" They both laughed. "Annie and me are hard at it knit- ting you some more, and if you don't 'windows are open or closed. Light- tinually seemed so to me, becauseoe wear them I shall be very angry with ning can get in under any circum- the memories of other days that you." stances if it wants to• o•owded in my mind, "That Is an e, Ill wear 'em, you bet,"he aggeration, said, „Blindness is a "but don't make too many of 'em. great iso. "DEAD" SOLDIER REVIVED. but it isn't death and It ran'. thing which is worse than death. It's The Surgeon Massages Man's Heart and just a handicap," Ile smiled, "And you'know the greatest joy of all 1 Restores Its .Action. that Which cones from getting on 1 A wanderfut case of restoringthe spite of handicaps, dead to life has just come to light in the pinstruction reat sof the es a blind, been made ethn the case of Lance -Corporal Mayes of old days, and not in days so very re - Queen's Westminster, who had part of mote at that, it was held that a blind his rightarn '-'- Sir Hing rod and needs no further protec- ous Sir C. Arthur Pearson, world tans- a tion that the can publisher, recently knighted, was n y give themselves, blinded, as was America's great news- d There is another Iist of things which paper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, by s Iightning will surely strike. It will overwork. The fact that he is blind, fr strike a country house or a house however, surely has been a vast good in the outskirts of a town. It likes 1 fortune for the men who have come co to hit a barn, church, school -house, 1 home sightless from the fighting. tree, stack or animal, especially if ft' He is a tall man, not over 40 or 46, of is near a wire fence. with full of energy as he ever was, but a I with an expression upon his delicately w As for a house the safest place in chiselled face which is very different ru a lightning storm is your iron or ' from that it w o ,ruen I knew hi brass bed. It is very dangerous to1Years ago and he was in the. thick stand near the bed because you are great newspaper competition, taller than the bed. The reason why' Fighting the Handicap, you are safe when lying on it is that 1 He sits at a desk in what once w the bed head and foot extend above• the drawing room of the great man your head. The current will not Sion, which he has changed, into S leave the bed to pass through your Dunstan.'.. H -, put it. t. `- e Jutlanders. oaua, dna aCrlvely euoar- body. The walls aHyl the floor of the vises the whole management of the room may be ripped to pieces, but you great enterprise, devoting his odd 1 th will be safe as long as you lie still in moments to searching the literature's your bed. of the world—through eyes other tha Feather beds offer no protection bis aw1r, of Course—tor new id whatever from lightning unless they which may help him to help his fel-'to lie on a metal bed. If the bed is of low unfortunates. ' Eu It was impassible for mo to mention; Th wood and the spring are steel the the old days to him; but he spoke of • am wood of the bed may be split to pieces, them himself apparently without re- but you will nevertheless remain un- gret, and then plunged at once into a I tri harmed. discussion of the Worst which he Is an During the day the safest place in doing and the work he hopes to do for B1a a house is In the centre of a room, the blinded victime of this war. i eau I have heard blindness called th The history of Jutland is, of course, e history of Denmark. It, no doubt, upplied its quota to the hordes of n Northman which, from 800 A.D. on- es wards, caused the name of the Dane be a terror throughout northern rope for nearly seven centuries. ere were Jutlanders, no doubt, ongst the men who built the wicker dge across the Liffey at Dublin, d who called the place Dubhlin, or ckpool, and amongst those "rho sed Fingal to be called bhe coup- e I try of Fiona Gall or the White Strrn- e, kers, There would be Jutlanders, too, el amongst the Danes around Canute, and so on through t..e greatness and provided there is no stove near. greatest tragedy of the war," said h Contrary to popular opinion it with that smile which was not in tri makes no difference whether doors or least patiietic, really, but which You've got enough to do. Wish I could get you a bigger allowance—I don't like you taking in that blessed washing." "Nonsense. I'm glad to be doing something." "If you can't let the rooms," he went on, "I'd sooner you sold some of the things and went into some lodg- legs." "I shan't do nothing of the sort," she insisted. "I'm going to have the home welting there ready for you when you come back, don't you fear, I'II manage." Ho grumbled vaguely. "Now, I tell you you're not to fid- get about me and Annie," she reprov- ed him. "We're as right as could be, and there's no need. I'm nob worrit- ing. Your father went all through the Boer war and came back safe, didn't he? Very, well, then, and so will you, I only wish he was still alive -he'd be out there with .you. I know that, I sometimes get a feeling how angry he must be now because he cant got' "Ali, he was a good plucked one, he was," said the soldier. When I geb'your medals to hang alongside his I shah be as 'proud as ne s on in a dog with two tails,." the side of the patient and inserting * " " * * * his hand and lifting the diaphragm, They both laughed again, but his reached the heart and gently massa - high Wes not so cheery, as hope, I3e ed the organ with his fingers. Theg was restless, uneasy, as if the strain heart responded to the action and be of parting was telling on him, but she grin to beat again, The patient had was as uncanaerned and as practical, been restored to life when all other ee if he had been merely going up to means would have failed. an offioe in town and would ho home again, as usual, in the evening, when Nepet• judge a man by his relatives the gates of. the level crossing swung instead of by his companions. Bela - epee, and we could hear the train ap- tives. are brut upon him, but cone- . proaohleg, ons felt there was even ,S pen10ns arc usually selected by binl- touch of relief in his "hero it conies," salt, • obacuriby of .Danish history. misfortune HISTORY OF SUGAR. 5 S n e tory et Jeri 1— and f elcirt, Sharktu's. It was in India, I apparently, that cane sugar in the dry, ,granulated state was first prepared. 'The date of the introduction of sugar to England is uncertain, but large quantities of Egyptian sugar were im- ported via Venice in the Middle Ages. In very early times the use of sugar appears to have been unknown. The sweet sap of the Indian weed seems 1 to have been first cultivated in the country extending from Cochin -China to Bengal. Thence it was imported to Europe under the name of saccha- rum, and used in medicine. It was in the seventh century that the art of Cane Was Apparently Used First in India. ugar, which we are being asked to conomize, bears something of its his - in its name, which Is believed It) ve, through various moiiflcations the French lucre, Spanish azucar, Arabic sakkar—from the San - off by a shell in bhe man must given three years 1n which fighting at Ypres says a London cop- to learn a trade and become sen respondent, supPortfng, At St. Dunstan's we are The injury was so bad that attar turning out adepts In productive work the first aid dressings the limb had to "We can from ten to flop a twirl nt to be amputated, He came to Eng- blind typist dinethree&moaiiti s,oand oIn la/vi anti. was in a hospital in the Midi• six months make bim very expert, lands for some time. A short time ago he recovered sufficiently to leave They Won't Leak Work, the hospital and came to London ap. paently quite welt But for some reason infection again appeared in the amputated aria and a further operation was deemed necessary to stop the danger of poisoning, Corporal Mayes was put under any industries are open to the have their advantages,, and dathere t kisgcobbl- ing. I myself am loot in wonder when I learn how expert some at our best pupils become at making, and at mend- ing footgear, , but th r These blind cobblers we aro turn - anaesthetic onths, with a view to assisting to defray the cost of treatment in any of a numbers' of sanitaria in Canada making a specialty of such cases, and the membership is urged to take ad- vantage of such treatment in the in, cipient stages of the malady. NOTES or INTEREST•FR9M TIER BBANlCS AND BRAIDS. What la Going Ort In the Highland* and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. The steamship service between Stranraer and Larne has been sus - I vended till further notice owing to 'labor troubles, The treasury have appointed a committee for the organization of war savings in Scotland, with Sir Charles Bine Renshaw as chairman, The Marquis of Bute has subscrib- ed $6,000 to the scheme for eabablish- ing in the west of Scotland n hospital for limbless soldiers and seinen?, Two groups of, business premises and dwelling -houses in Canongate, 3eclburgh, were destroyed by fire, in which Robert Halliday, fireman, lost his life. The Stewa•ty County Council has is gratifying to note, after a per- declined to spend public money dur- usal of the reports of all the officers, ing war time in rat -killing, as dug - the far benefits that are be- rg derived by the membership in the various directions in which this society endeavors to be of assistance to the individuals composing same. Since 1879, about eleven millions of dollars have been paid out in bene- fits by this society, and, in fact, the whole record of the Order is well worth the perusal of those who per- haps have been skeptical regarding the permanency and stability of fra- ternal insurance societies. These re- ports furnish evidence of careful man- agement in the conduct of the Order's affairs, and reflect credit on its ad- ministration, - A poinb of general interest, as in- dicating proper selection of risks, is the death rate. This for 1915 was 6,50 in the thousand, but if we de- duct the war claims paid, it would have been 6.20, and the average death t rate since the inception t of the Order, over a period of nearly 87 years is 5,31 per thousand. In leaking into the report of the aupermtendent on organization, we ' find he has been able to report the institution of thirty-four (34 new Courts, demonstrating that the Order' continues to establish agencies as new fields for the prosecution of its busi- ness open up. Pa'ticular attention is evidently being paid to establishment of Subordinate Courts only in such , places as offer a reasonable prospect;b of permanency, The treatment that this Order haaltc- corded to those of its members who have enlisted for overseas service has been most liberal. The insurance of all mem- bers who were to the Order prior to the tieted or $overseas4' service, a is hkept cin Orae without any increase In rates, lir afldition to tlds, Por -the first rt months f the war, all tnsuranee,and sick and uneral. beneat' assessments of such members were paid out of the General Fund or High Court. On the let of ebruary. 1810 this po11 - gested by the Footi Production Central Committee. Wick Harbor Trust has decided to again approach the Admiralty regard- ing the request to allow herring fish- ing on the east coast during the sum- mer months. The death is announced of llir, Wm, Taylor, farmer, Ashybank, near Ha- wick, aged 68 years. He was one of the best-known and successful farm- ers in the south of Scotland. A young married woman named Maria Reid, or Hill, while walking • along Rutherglen Road, Glasgow, was fatally stabbed by a man who suc- ceeded in making his escape. The death has occurred of ex -Baillie Telfe, at his son's residence, Black- hall, Midlothian. He was the first bona fidelaborrepresentative' el ate e d bo the Edinburgh Town Council. The County Council has notified the Argyllshire authorities that for the third year in succession sheep scab has been brought from Cowal district by sheep wintering in Bute. At Edinburgh Dean of Guild Court warrant has been granted to Edin- burgh Corporation for the erection of the first section of the new elec- ric light station at Westbank, Porto- belly The Congregational Union of Scot- land has decided bo pay a war bonus to certain of its ministers and to in- augurate after the war a Central Fund of $150,000 or $200,000 to aug ment stipends. The estimates for the ensuing year submitted to the Edinburgh Town Council by Treasurer McMichael pro- vide for an expenditure of $2,085,000, against $2,190,000 last year, a saving of $105,000, Mr. Robert Munn, a well-known Clyde pilot, has died at the age of 80 years. For over 40 years has was engaged in piloting new vessels from the shipbuilding yards of the Clyde, Tyne and Mersey. The Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic), who have taken possession of all licensed premises at Annan, are to erect a large canteen and recreation room on Gracie's Banking at Annan at a total cost of about $20,000. At a meeting of the Falkirlc Parish School Board the question of the fur- ther employment of a German teach- er in the high school was under con erabion, and it was finally•decided defer the matter to the next sit - g of the board, Lady Bruce, wife of Sir Charles uce, of Albert Tower, near Leslie, te' point of view, the Executive c G,mmibtee has been able to take very 1 h eebensive advantage of the situation.j Elie Order purchased $800,000,00 of . m the War Bonds issued by the Do -12 'minion Government in the Fall of + p 1911, t t'ie sick and Funeral Benefit Fund t slimes a larger net increase than that t olcperienced in any previous year in t the Order's history, the increase for tine year being $66,398,81. Interests . earned on investments of Sick and ' s Funeral Benefit Funds (these invest -'e ments being of a similar nature to hanged, and, at the present time,wheta member enlists for overseas service e pays his insurance assessments, :at he ordinary rates, so long as he re - alias in Canada. Immediately he leaves Canada for overseas, he is relieved of 11 insurance premiums or assessments, roviding he was in the Order prior to he declaration t$ war. At the present Ime there are about 2,000 members of he Canadian Order of Foresters art- 5 overseas. This represents an In-' durance or $2,000,000.00, which Is being carried by the members In Canada, for ho benefit of those who are serving the mpire, and neither the menthols them - elves nor their beneficiaries, pay one Ont for this protec flat. 4o tar as been received of the death o» nrtive those made of the Insurance funds) ! m amounted to $22,746,91, and after the's payment of 7,472 Sick and Funeral ! co Benefit Claims amounting to $191,-,th 924.95, the amount standing at the oc credit of .this fund was $458,683.68; st ervtce of more than 300 members, This cans more than $100,000,00 of war In- urance paid by the Order,- j As usual on such occasions, a very nslilerablo amount 031' business awaits o attmttto.0 of the delegates, and it le cupyatheirtattentioni till the 123rd In- ant. WHY OF ABBREVIATIONS. "Z" hi Viz, and Oz. Originally Was Merely an Ancient Sign. Viz., az., cwt., dwt., 2 e. d. Do you -know Y wh we write I Y0 t 70s0 everyday signs and what their origins are? asked London Answers, Viz, is derived from the first two letters of the Latin word "videlicet," meaning "namely," The z is a corruption of an ancient sign something like a 3 that in the middle ages was always placed at the end of an abbreviated word to mark its incomplebion. In couree of time this sign became The same applies to oz,, our abbre- viation for ounce. The letters lb., atanding for pounds in weight, aro the first and third let- ters of the Latin word "librae," Cwt. (huuslredweight) and dwt, (penny- weight) die also abbreviations of Latin words, The cis the Latin num- eral for a hundred; the d the initial etter of denarlua (penny), and the wt, is short for the word weigh, The 2 s. d, are the first letters of the Latin words "librae," "solidi" and "denarii," meaning pounds, shillings and pence. 5. u e heat collapsed' ing out will have as much work as sugar -boiling was carried to Chine and ceased to beat The case seemed lthey can do without making any draft from India, but Egyptians taught the to be hopeless and the waiting rata- on public empathy, although that fortune, over 2100,000,.to her coach- tives in a few minutes would have wiki doubtless and should help, But Chinese sugar refining. been informed of hie Ideath, But Dr, they will be good workmen, Lionel E. C. Norbury, the diatin ulah- When they have become expert we ed surgeon who handled the ce a sot them up in sleru with signs say - 4 was ing; "rluls 51107 is run by a blind sol- dier He an from St. I)Unstan'e, They won't laok work, "The accuracy of these blind work - ere le not less than wonderful, even to me, who have to train myself to many naw endeavors, "The important' problem which we all are facing le what . shall we do with the blind after we have trained them? A blind man capable of mak- starve towo lydeath�for week easily ofii -. employ- ment because 01 inability to go In search of it. The National institute for the Blind, of which I am president, f5 to After the Accident up this work for 'them," t)Y1 ',Groat seem Menet wi ai bunt aro Ye turan'?"- Ju,i, ., ,; .. Too many men want to run the country instead of attending to their own knitting, cid PIGEONS EMPLOYED AS SPIES. to tin Many Are Used by the French and Br German Armies. d' g th WC f be Al! the nations at present flghtin use carrier pigeons, boons not onlyfor • 0 car a rying messages, but also for takin photographs. In the equipment o suddenly in Edinburgh, where e family spent the winter. She was e11 known and highly esteemed for r good works in the counties of Fife d ICinross• all the German and French army corps are to be found a number of wicker panniers containing pigeons, special men being told off to look after the birds, • The messages which these birds can• ry are written on fine tissue paper which is generally rolled round the leg and fastened there by means of a piece of silk or small rubber band. To show how useful the French and German authorities regard these pige- ons, it has only to be stated that in France no fewer than 15,000 are re- served for Governmet use, and 8000, according to official statistics, in Ger- many. British authorities, too, realize their usefulness --and a danger—and have made it illegal for any German or other alien to prossess carrier pigeons during the war, for undoubtedly many messages from spies, especially during tins early days of the war•, were sent to Germeny by this means, These messages of from 200 to 300 words Den easily be carried from the East coast to parts of Germany in a day. During the siege of Paris in 1870, when 3633 birds were sent out of the doomed city, one bird succeeded in carrying to the outside world on one trip no fewer than 40,000 messages. This extraniinary feat was accom- plished by means of microphotogra- phy, the messages being first printed In ordina'y type and then photo- graphed. The photographs ware pew duced many hundred timea an to films of collodion, each of which, about two inches square, contained 60,000 words, Sixteen of these films rolled up In a quill weighed only one•tweety-fifth part of an aunts. 7`he tie poples would not stity on 115» IrO rf the measure if there were nes below to hold them up, REFUSED TO BURN BODIES. , German Commanders Hired Belgians to Operate Crematory, Ltii le, —, operative of the Belgian - British espionage department, has made three trips into Belgian, the stricken land of her birth, and three times she has come back safe with information of importance to the al- Bea Bnt on the last two occasions the men operatives with whom she had been co-operating in the espion- 'age work were captured and shot. So she will not return to Belgium—not until after the Germans are drives) out. The Belgian -British authorities will not permit her. In a recent interview she described the German crematory at Serrang, where' thousands of the Kaiser's troops kiil9cl along the western front have been incinerated. "The Belgian 'peasants there ,one forced to handle this work for the Germans, as this is the one thing that oven the disciplined Ger•mah troops refuse to do," she said, "Mem- ories of religion and of the church evidently stir the callous soldiers against burning the bodies of their comrades, as there were inntnnernble mutinies at Serrang when the ire- tnatory was opened and the Land - Oilmen were ordered to burn' the bodies. Belgians who have Seen forced by the Prussian officers to do this work have told me that they Were compelled to wear German uniforms while engaged in it in order that Ger- man sotdlors present might, t, not know that all their comrades hod retuned to perforin the tusk,"