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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-2-17, Page 3L►DON - TO - PEKINGWIRELESS SERVICE A F ACT IN NEAR FUTURE 1 A Chain of Stations Being Established by Chinese Government to Link Peking With Kashgar, Which is Within Reach of India, and so With Countries Farther Afield -Scheme Opens Immense Prospects for British Trade Re- lations With China's 400,000,000 Inhabitants. A despatch from London says: -It will soon be possible to send a wire- less message from London to Peking, owing to efforts being made by, the Marconi Wireless Telogr ePh Cern- my to the order of the Chinese Government. One great high power station bas been equipped at Urga, in the Provinee of leaflets, 800 miles Chinese Government, according to from Pelting, and thee(' two places Henry Barnes, the Shanghai cones" are already in communication. Urge Pendent of The Daily Mail. is also in touch with Shanghai and There is a fine spirit of enterprise Hankow and messages can be receive and a touch of romance in what is ed from the long distance stations in being done. A chain of wireless eta: America, tions is being established which will Another 'similar stati3n is •being es - link Peking, the seat of the central tablished a thousand miles farther op, Government, with Kasligar, 8,000 at Urumachi, and, all being well, it miles away, in Chinese Turkestan, he will be in operation in about three says. Kashgar will then be within months' time. Subsequently the ter- roach of the wireless stations in India Minot station of the series .will be and -so with countries farther afield. erected at ICas•hgar. The wireless chain may be said to Thus a stride forward is being follow the line of a great trade route made in the opening up of China. which -was -ancient before the Romans Modern methods of communication landed in Britain. For thousands of will •,assuredly be extended in other years dols track has been a highway directions. It is permiesible to hope from the uplands of Central Asia into that railways will be developed on -China, and has been trod -den by count- a big scale in the. near future, and less races and tribes of 'men both in therein lies unlimited scope for Brit - peace and in war. ish enterprise and the advancement The scheme, which is boldly .plan- of British trade .relations with the ned, is being carried out by the 400,000,000 of inhabitants of China. aoyai Winter Fair Beady Next Fall C. F. Bailey, General Manager of the Royal Agricultural Winter .Fair, To- ronto, who told the Swine Breeders gathered at Toronto that he expected the institution to be ready by Decem- ber next. NO PRIVILEGES FOR THE' MENNONIT'ES New Colonization Scheme Be- ing Carefully Weighed. A despatch from Herbert, Sask., says: --Should the Mennonites of 'Sas- katchewan and Manitoba decide to settle in Mississippi and Alabama, ac- cording to plans which have been under way for some time, they need not look for any special territorial or religious privileges, recording to the statement of H. A. Emerson of Yellow Pine, Alabama, who addressed a large audience at Herbert recently. Mr. Emerson, who has a controll- ing interest in more than half a mil- lion acres of fertile agricultural lands in Alabama and Mississippi, has been negotiating with the Mennonites for some time, with the end in view of establishing a colony of these people in the South. So far none of the old colony Men- nonites nor any of the Sommerfelder Idonnonites have actually settled in the South, although a tract of 125,000 neves has been selected for. purchase. and an option taken on 100,000 acres more. The communities affected in the pro- posed trek to the South arc those at' Rhineland, Man.; ,Swift Current, Soak.; Vague, Sask.; .and Rosthern, Sask., and a few scattered families in the south district. At the close cf the meeting no one seemed particularly anxious to leave the country without first giving eare- fuI consideration and counting the coat. Tho number of families affected in the. new colonization scheme is ap- proximately five hundred. Lord Robert Cecil Heads Economy Party A despatch from London says; - Lord Robert Cecil has accepted the Chairmanship of the group of mem- bers of Parliamen tfavering economy. This action means the organization of a new Opposition party, with Lord Robert as the Leader, at the opening of Parliament next week. The new party`is expected to have about thirty members in the House. Cecil is an ahie and energetic Leader, who has been looked upon for some time as a possible su0eessor to L1oyd.George in the Preimiership. He is ,opposed to imposing harsh terms on Germany. Dusting Trees Better Than Spraying A despatch from Boston says: --Dusting trees is better than spraying then as a preventative of pests; the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association was told .by F.. H. Dudley, State Hor- ticulturalist for Maine. Dusting has been proven by tests in Maine to be quicker and more ef- fective than sprawing, he said. A crew can 'dust 300 trees in fifty-four minutes. The material used is arsenate of lead, sulphur and tobacco dust. Cost will de- pend on the proportions of the mixture. The Provincial University. The occupations of the fathers of the 1,833 students who applied fox admission to the University of Toronto in the session of 1919-20 are as fol- lows: Fanners, 351; retail merchants, 218; artisans, 144; finance, 124; the church, 116; whoresato merchants, 106; manufacturers, 106; medicine, 81; teaching, 62; railway employees, 56; Dominion officials, 41; law, 40; engin- coring, • 36; municipal officials, 21; journalism, 17; pharmacy, 17; Provin- clal officials, 14; lumbermen, 13; den- tistry, 10; soldiers, 8; art, 6; veterin- ary, 4; library, 2; fishermen, 1; not specified, 240. The homes of the 4,777 students in attendance daring the same session were distributed as follows: Algona, 24; Brant, 90; Bruce, 96; Carleton, 108; Dufferin, 26; Dundas, 24; Dur- ham, 41; Elgin, 56; Essex, 68; Fron- tenac, 14; Glengarry, 9; Grenville, 14; Grey, 03; Haldimand, 49; Halton, 57; Hastings, 46; Huron, 1.25; Kenora, 8; Kent, 58; Larebten, 67; Lanark, 40; Leeds, 48; Lennox and Addington, 22; Lincoln, 64; Manitoulin, 6; Middlesex, 121; Muskoka, 14; Nipiesing, 28; Nor- folk, 36; Northumberland, 39; Ontario, 112; Oxford, 79; Parry Sound, 12; Peel, 72; Perth, 135; Peterborough, 66; Prescott, 4; Prince Edward, 14; Renfrew, 27; Russell, 6; Simcoe, 189; Stormont, 13; Sudbury, 10; Thunder Bay, 15; Tomiskaming, 11; Victoria, 56; VSraterioo, 81; Welland, 64; Well- ington, 142; Wentworth, 169; York, 182; Toronto, 1,828. Attention fs drawn to the wide representation of all parts of the Province in this dis- tribution of students, and to the fact that the homes ireni which they cone represent in a re-marl:eble way almost every vatiety of occupation in the Province, 'These iigi.res show . how thoroughly democratic is the char- acter of the student body. A coat of dark sea otter fur, claim- ed to be the only ono in Europe, was recently offered for sale at $206,000. • SEEMS TO BE SOME SLIGHT DELAY' BIC OIL DEAL ON PROSPECT OF DOWNFALL OF BOLSHEVIK REGIME British Oil Interests Buy Title to Caucasus Oil Fields from Russians Who Held Tit le Under Rule of Czar. A despatch from Paris says: -The Shell and Royal Dutch oil interests are reported on good authority to have concluded a rather remarkable poli- tical -commercial bargain -' which amounts to betting that the Bolshevik regime in Russia will fall within ten years. Under this arrangement, which, it is understood, was consummated in Paris, the British oiI interests have bought from Russians who held title to the property under the Czar's re- gime the rights to oil from the Grosnyi district in the Caucasus. The basis of the agreement is a payment now of from five to ten per cent. of the estimated value of the production from those fields in return for which' British interests are assured the ex- clusive control of all production of that district. There is a time limit of 10 years to the agreement -in other words, if at the end of 10 years the old owners are unable to regain their property the deal is off. Naturally, if the Bol- sheviks fall this year and are replac- ed by a regime which recognizes the old property rights, the British inter- ests may get the oil quickly. Considerable secrecy surrounds the deal. But it is learned it is of• such magnitude that lawyere who handled the deal here got a commission of several million francs. The payments made by Shell and Royal Dutch are said to run into many millions of francs, gold. A number of Russians owning pro- perty in the Grosnyi fields are refu- gees in Paris and are engaged direct- ly in the negotiations, it is said. It is a common report in Russian colonies here that a number of Rus- sians recntly have had much money to spend -men who didn't have so much a short time ago. Negotiations are said to be under way by both British and French oil interests to make a similar arrange. meet for the control of oil in the Baku district. This district is now under doubtful control, being held by Soviet organizations of Azerbai- jan, whose subservience to Moscow appears at this time doubtful. A pipe- line from Baku to Batum on the Black Sea ,built by the Czarist Gov- ernment, runs through Azerbaijan and Georgian territory. This is the richest oil district of the Caucasus. "Benefits" of Civilization. Some of the tales brought south by bold navigators in Arctic and sub - Arctic areas are to be taken with more than a pinch of salt, for there Is none to gainsay the narrator. There is no doubt, however, that the terrors and the tedium of the long, long nights of the north are mitigated or increased, according to the point of view, by the voice of the talking -ma- chine, the "canned white man" of un- cannibalistie commerce. It is perfectly easy to imagine that the voice of the white num now goes to parts of the earth -Nepal, for instance, or Afghan- istan -where, in propria persona, the European or American would be an unwelcome guest. The words of an ambassador night conceivably "horn in" upon assemblages where the emis- sary himself could not appear. Unhappily, along with the made- to-order music there appear some con- comitants of civilization not so de- sirable and in their effect upon the savage highly deleterious. Two wars were fought with China in the name of a Christian land to force the cur;t! of opium, at. a coat of over $6,000,- 000,000 for the drug alone, upon that nation. And where the white men have gone in the North, the reign of Ring Alcohol over the souls and bodies of the natives has often become an absolute despotism, worse than the cruelties of any temporal sovereignty in Ashnntee or Dahomey. The plague of drink makes the vanishing race of the Eskimos en easy prey to anything in the way of disease that comes or the wings of the wind or disembarks from a steamer. Nor can the Eskimo, to his advantage, be cramped into a white man's house or a white man's way of living. Part of the bill of "the heathen" against civilization is for the evils that have entered regions innocent and undefiled in the wake of so-called benefits that hail from lower latitudes and sometimes from lower levels of conduct and of feeling. Briand Without Boots. The fact that he has always worked for his living is a source of pride to M. Briand, who for the seventh time becomes Premier of France. The son of a Paris shopkeeper, he began as a journalist, -and migrated to the law. So straightened were his circum- stances that once, when invited to lec- ture eature at Rennes, he had to reply: "Im- posible to come. No boots," The promoters, rather than miss the lec- ture, forwarded the price of suitable footwear. Manitoba's Woman Member Seconded Reply A despatch from Winnipeg says: - Mrs. Edith Rogers, the first woman to be elected a member of the Manitoba Legislature, seconded the reply to the Speech from the Throne in the Pro- vincial House. E. A. August (DufY- erin) moved the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. ONTARIO PLOWMEN'S ANNUAL MEETING - Front row, left to right: Capt, G. 13. Little, Second Vice -President, Agincourt; J. Lockle Wilson, Managing Direetor, Toronto; A. D. Gray, President, Ottawa; A. B. Rose, First Vice -President, Brantford. Second row,•left to right: W. 31, Patterson, Agincourt; A. E. Wilson, Port Hope; Frank Weir; Agincourt; James McLean, Rich- mond Bill. Third row, left to right: Wm. Doherty, Toronto; .W. 0, Barrie, Gait; F. P. Johnston, Toronto, Treas. The Leading Markets. Toronto Manitoba wheat -Noe 1 Norehorn, $7„89%' No 2 Northern, $1.88%' No, 0 Northern, $1.82%; No, 4 wheat, 51,74%. Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 48%c; No. 3 OW, 44%e; extra No. 1 feed, 44160; No. 1.feed, 4'2%e; No, 2 feed, 88%e, Manitoba barley -No, 3 CW, 83c; No. 4 OW, 600; z'ejected, .68lee; feed, 581/2c, All above in store, Fort William, Ontario wheat.-F.o.b, shipping Pointe, according' to freights outside, No, 2 spring, 51.75 to 51.80; No. 2 Winter, 51,85 to 51,90; No. 2 goose wheat, 51.70 to 51..80. American corn -Prompt shipment, No. 2 yeildw, track, Toronto, 90c. Ontario oats -No, 8 white, 47 to 50c, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting, 80 to 85c, accord- ing to freights outside. Ontario flour -Winter, in jute bags, prompt shipment, straight run bulk, seaboard, $8.50. Peas -No. 2, $1.60 to $1.60, outside. Manitoba flour: Track, Toronto: First patents, 510.70; second patents, 510.20, Buckwheat -No. 2, 90 to 95e. to Bye - No. 2, nominal; No. 8, $1.60 Milifeed-Caslots, delivered, Toron- tofreights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $40, firm; shorts per ton, 538; white mlddiings, 541; feed flour, 52.40. Eggs, new laid, cartons, 62 to 64e; new laid, 59 to 61e. Butter, creamery prints, 66 to 69e; fresh -made, 59 to 61c; bakers', 38 to 46c. Oleomargarine, best grade, 29 to 32e. Cheese, new, large, 31 to 81%c; twins, 811/4 to 82c; old, large, 32 to 88e. Maple Syrup, one -gal. tins, $8.50 Honey, extracted -White clover, in 60 -80 -Ib. tins, per Ib., 28 to 24e; do, 10-1b. tins, per lb., 24 to 25c• Ontario No. 1, white clover, in -21,¢-5-1b. tine, per lb., 25 to 26c. . Churning cream -Toronto creamer- ies are quoting for churning cream, 60c per Ib. fat, f.o.b. whipping points, nominal. Smoked meats -Rolls, 80 to 83e; hems, med., 88 to 41c; .heavy, 38 to 86e; cooked hams, 58 to 57e• backs, boneless, 56 to 60c' breakfast bacon, 42 to 50c; special, 50 to 560; cottage rolls, 35 to 87c. Green meats -Out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Barrelled Meats -Bean pork, 586; short cut or family back, boneless, 546 to 547; pickled rolls, $58 to $56; mess pork 88 to 41c. Dry salted meats -Long clears, in tons, 28 to 26ci in cases, 23% to 25%e; clear bellies, 29% to 30%e; fat backs, 22 to 24c. Lard -Tierces, 22% to 2314,e; tubs, 28% to 28%; pails, 28% to 24c; prints, 24% to 25c; shortening tierces, 14% to 151e per Ib. Choice heavy steers $9 to $10; good heavy steers, $8.50 to 59; butchers' cattle, choice, 58.50 to $9.50; do good, $7.60 to 58.50; do, med„ $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $6; butchers' bulls choice, 7 to $8; do, good, 56 to $7; do, coni., 54 to $5; butchers' cows, choice, 57.50 to 58.50; do, good, $6.25 to 57; do, cam., $4 to $5; feeders, 57.75 to 58.75• do, 900 lbs., $7.26 to $8.25; do, 800 lbs,, 55.75 to $6.76; do corn., $5 to $6; canners and cutters, $8 to $4.50; milk - ere, good to choice 586 to 5120; do, com. and med., $s(0 to $60; choice springers, 590 to 5180; lambs yearl- ings, 59 to $9.50; do, spring, $10.50 to 11.60• calves, good to choice, 515 to 516; steep, 56 to 57.50; hogs, fed and watered, $16 to 515.25, do, weighed off cars 515.26 to $16.50; do, f.o.b., 514 to $114.f15; do, country posits, $13.75 to 4. Montreal. Oats, No. 2 CW 68c; No. 8 CW, 64c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pat- ents firsts, $10.70. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $3.30. Bran, 540.25. Shorts, 38.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lobs, 526 to $27 Cheese, finest easterns, 27 to 27?4e. Butter, choicest creamery, 56 to 57c. Eggs, fresh, 60 to 62c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 51 to 51.10, Good veal, $18 to $16; med., 510 to 18; grass 56. Lorries, med. quality, 12; sheep,56. Hogs, selects, off -car weights, 6.60; sows, $12.50. Tank Attacks Snowbanks In St. John's Streets A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says: -Newfoundland is fighting to beat back its worst snow siege in 80 years, with monumental drifts ,bleok- ing its gates after a four-day blizzard. Railroad, steamer and highway transportation still was suspended on Wednesday night, although the storm had ceased. The first sally from this city againet the besieging element was made by a whippet tank captured by Newfound- landers In the war, which was put to work crunching down snowbanks on Water street, the city's main thor- oughfare, ---err--- Historic Mace for New Ulster House A despatch from Belfast. Ire- land says :-Negotiations are in progress to obtain the old Irish House of Commons mace and Speaker's chair for the new Uls- ter Parliament. They are heir- looms of Lord Massereene at An- trim Castle. The offer of the use of . Belfast City Hall as a temporary building for the new Parliament will be accepted. SOUTH AFRICA SAVED TO •THE EMPIRE BY GENERAL SMUTS' VICTORY Secessionists Vote Totalled 39, While General Smarts' Loyalist Party Holds '73 Seats--•-•Retw'ns Not Yet Complete, { A despatch from Capetown. says:-- General Jan Christian Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and his Coalition of the South African and Unionist parties have won 43 seats in the House Assembly in the bitter election fight against the Secessionists, who had only 12 seats to their credit. Labor had wan nine scant and the Independents one seat, Altogether there are 135 seats to be filled. The returns received to date were mainly from urban districts and it probably will be several days before the full report from the country is available. The followers of Gen. Smuts claim that he ie certain of victory, since the bulk of his strength heretofore has been in the country districts. General Smuts has been returned for Pretoria West by a big majority, The feature of the results, so far as known, is the collapse of the Labor party. Apparently the Labor party will only have nine members in the new Assembly, against 21 in the last House. Col. Cresswell, Leader of the Laborites, was defeated in Treyville. The urban results have been very engcouraging to the South African party, but. the country returns are causing anxiety to the Government. The Minister of Justice in the Smuts Administration hag been defeated by a Nationalist in Potehefstrom, Sir Abe Bailey, wall known in roc. ing circles, retains Icrugersdorp. Enormous majorities were given the South African party in Durban and Cape Town, while the L'nbor party suffered a severe reverse in the Rand district. In Cape„Town the South African party gained two seats, in Durban three, hi the Rand eight and in Fast Lordon one, The victory of the party headed by Prime Minister Smuts Is attributed to the fact that workingmen votes$ against the secession issue raised by' General Ilertxog, and did not pay much aatention to sectional lsiuo•i raised by Labor leaders. A later despatch frorn Johannes. burg, South Africa, says: -Tho pasi, tion of the parties in the South Afrfd can general elections, now in progress( in that country, at 9 o'clock on Thursday night was: General Smuts' South African party i 78 Nationalists 89 Labor 9 Democrat 1 Tied results 2 This gives the Loyalists a majority over the 'Secessionists and all others of 22 clear seats. Eleven seats aro still to be heard from. WAS OFFERED SPEAKERSHIP. Mrs. Ralph Smith, M.P.P. for Van- couver, ancouver, has declined the post of Speak- er in the British Columbia House, It is the first time in history that such en honor was ever offered to a woman, The wife of a Newcastle miner, Mrs. Smith came to Canada twenty-eight years ago, and it was through helping her husband, who ultimately became Minister of Labor, in his political work, that she acquired the knowledge and experience which led to her par- liamentary election. Many stories are told of Mrs. Smith's tact and ability In controlling unruly meetings. On one occasion a man was heckling her. "Come up on the platform and have it out," said Mrs. Smith. The heckler hesitated. "He's ehy, Mary Ellen, he's shy," shouted a wag in, the audience, adapt- ing the words, of a popular song. "Don't be shy of me, sonnie," re- torted Mrs. Smith; "I'm everybody's pal." The crowd laughed heartily and the heckling ceased. Prince May Tour India in Autumn A despatch from London says: - The London Times says it under- stands that the Prince of Wales has planned a tour of India in October or November next. The Magnet Mystery. The exact principle which causes a magnet to take hold of metals and cling to them oath a force which over- , cones the principle of gravity is, like electricity, one of Nature's unsolved We meirely know that a niece of iron I mysteries. which has been electrically treated will attract and hold various other' metals. The force it exerts we call "magnetism," anti let it go at that. The most logical explanation would appear to be that an electrically - treated piece of iron gives• off a force analogous to that given orf by radium, in that it will affect other pieces of metal without nnaterially lessening its own power. The none "mgmet" is drerlrved from the mineral "nrakrretite," This, In turn, is so called bemuse it was first discovered to Magnesia. Magnetite ie a natural magnet, of which loadstone is one os( the best-known varietiee. 'r The Russian ruble, before the World War, was worth a little over fifty cents, Now it takes 5,000 rtubles to buy a pound of salt pork. The mou- jik owning a hog that would dress at 200 pounds, is a ruble "millionaire." The Past In Its Place. It is a common desire among.man- kind to wish in vain that yesterday might be relived in the light of the experience to -day possesses. Often a nisn is heard to say that be wouki give much to recall the hours of youth irrevocable new. If he could have them back, he feels that he would put them to different and to better, uses. In the years that are not to bell retraced he took many false turns; he' made egregious blunders for which, in many ways, he has since paid a griev- ous penalty. He is tempted, in turning over the pages of the book of memory, to go into mourning at many points; to chide himself bitterly. "How foolish I was to trust that mane" he exclaims. Or perhaps he says, "I should have ac- cepted this position instead of the one I took." Or he is rueful for advice that he refused. He may have made affiliations, in family or society or business, which have brought him lit- tle but care and sadness. If only he could have the alternatives before him' again; if only he could retr.nce the path and be granted a second chancel Now he sees, when it is too late; now, he is wise, but the knowledge cones too tardily to inform and guide his ac- tion. He made his choices; they made his life. The time he squandered, the talent he prodigally flung to the winds, the health he undermined by taking liberties therewith, these are forevermore a forfeit. He cannot go back. The period of his life'that once was luminous with happy prophecy,' beclouded with no dark misgiving, has become a sombre history. It is a tale of great expectations disappointed; of the best .intentions that never came' to anything of moment; of ruin in place of riches; of defeat and despair instead of victory. But that man is a creature of a poor and craven spirit who lets himself be mastered by reflections such as these. The proudest and the greatest among us, at one time or another, have made a mess of things. The beauty and the bravery of life lie not in harking back but in going ahead. The heroes and heroines are the font of straightfor- ward action in the sun of the present shining day; not the unhappy crea- tures who cannot rise above the de- pression bred in their minds by their own Memories. Yesterday belongs in its place; it is of the past. It may Iinstruct but it must not perplex nor , baffle to -clay. With every dawn that flushes the sky we are given a day that is as new as the first day of the world. We are meant to -begin afresh with it. The years that are to be aro beckoning us away from the thr. ,+✓ mt Of the years that were. It is a mercy and not a misfortune that we cannot go back. • It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken By JackRabbit o •, 1 Snapshots of the Heart. Recent discoveries have shown t`iat the X-rays' can pass through steel and iron, and many engineering firms are using the X-rays to photograph fiawe in the castings of imliortant parts of machinery. This new work has been made pos- sible by the wonderful X-ray invented by an English scientist, Dr. Coolidge, which gives out immensely powerful rays that can pass through four inches of steel plate, Now another wonderful invention has been described to the Rontgen Society of 13ngland. It is a new photo- gr'aphlo plate teeenty tines as mist - five to the X-naye as the plates or- dinarily need, and Is likely to revolu- tionize X-ray wort, as it will nnalco it po;eiblo to take snapshot photo- graphs, of the heart, the lungs, or, ins deed, any part of the body, and oven. cinematograph "radiographs" show- ing the heart beating, or the lungs at work breathing. Only a few years ago it took half an hour to photograph the thicker parts of the Inman body with the X-rays:, with the new hnvention a snail frees Boer et a second will suffice. • The impulse to do our hest,- -ale) hero lies tine secret of all living: • The book of Samuel mentions tine use of forks, referring to a "flesh hook of three teethe' An official Het of the heroes who felt, in the Great War Is boing published to be completed in eighty volumes. Between Juno and Decembor Britlsh� towns adopted stbovt fifty places ift l ranee which had suffered. in t"hg' Great Wan'. yrs Rj ,c EV,--rGl-{A Ltvfe. t poi 1 LoPiNeD t-uk:4 FlFSFVN lOycl'CS ONL`( AhJ HOUR bice ne. .. a A,'c• '~-' „ ctw..v,. d,.1i� 1P % -----,.-010,-;. L DON'T W A�gN TWEN Uc,u DOS°T KNow W1M ,,- ` 2 2Y / Do lot) LA�fs 4OR6 't -- TNS FEt.LoW Wt 'N 'TNS. 6l. ACK CURI.F`i WAR? l °1 "w • ',.f OG C ars NG ,G, 7� vAN .....wd..F '� IF \f1/44C CAN!‘ =--- Col..U.'C `file Mpl- V( ` litg65• AGOUNO o"vRY ... r� lo T.,.. - *' ... _ .. ... y . Y ,.,,•i.. ju� •, 1 Snapshots of the Heart. Recent discoveries have shown t`iat the X-rays' can pass through steel and iron, and many engineering firms are using the X-rays to photograph fiawe in the castings of imliortant parts of machinery. This new work has been made pos- sible by the wonderful X-ray invented by an English scientist, Dr. Coolidge, which gives out immensely powerful rays that can pass through four inches of steel plate, Now another wonderful invention has been described to the Rontgen Society of 13ngland. It is a new photo- gr'aphlo plate teeenty tines as mist - five to the X-naye as the plates or- dinarily need, and Is likely to revolu- tionize X-ray wort, as it will nnalco it po;eiblo to take snapshot photo- graphs, of the heart, the lungs, or, ins deed, any part of the body, and oven. cinematograph "radiographs" show- ing the heart beating, or the lungs at work breathing. Only a few years ago it took half an hour to photograph the thicker parts of the Inman body with the X-rays:, with the new hnvention a snail frees Boer et a second will suffice. • The impulse to do our hest,- -ale) hero lies tine secret of all living: • The book of Samuel mentions tine use of forks, referring to a "flesh hook of three teethe' An official Het of the heroes who felt, in the Great War Is boing published to be completed in eighty volumes. Between Juno and Decembor Britlsh� towns adopted stbovt fifty places ift l ranee which had suffered. in t"hg' Great Wan'. yrs Rj ,c