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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-2-26, Page 3e •weeee,"'"era,"''T'a— The Elephant as a The elephants are our chief etandby ht. Stem and 'Without theen tea% could elea IM WI:irked, all it grow e M tech izet flee/Male 111nees that no heeling xne. chine coula ee firouget near tee treefi, *atm a welter in ABia. Elephante can clime like eats, It is mervelous toteee them Pick their WeY np wee dove steep elopes, but eontetimes they lose their foothold. One of oue elephante tell down a steep river bank Met Year, hit her head egainet a rock and broke her neck, The work" of the elephants eonsiets in clinthieg to. the fallen - trees and puahing or Tolling them down hill to a spot where it le level enough foredragging chains to ee at- tached. ' Then they drag the logs dowe to the nearest fioating creek, often six or Seven miles dewy. An elephant can handle front fifty to seventy logs per season, which lasts from about the first of June till the end of February. Then it becomes too hot for them to work and they go into rest cainpe un - .111 the next rains. The elephants ' their work in floating stream, work- ing the timber with the °emote re. leasing logs from jams and rolling the stranded loge back into the water:aim' elephant drivel's have a special "ele- phant" language which the animate ettetesettessestet • tintliteatand—a speetal Voettbelery with teleh Orme as "push elestWeYe," "rola" "pull ena," "atop," "Bit yonr ohatiftet Itis Verg.heteresting and exciting to watch the elephants at work in high water. They iere magnificeut ,ftwini- mers, Ween they men from beak to Muth, heraine the logs that require their epectal attentiou, you foe nothing of them except the hoe of their trutete through weld' they breathe, 'and the mahouts; or driven's, who aro generaBY Ili weler ep .110 their weiste, if it big stace or jam breaks euddenly whore elephants are woeltieg, they Imew the danger of being overtaken. They trumpet anaecifar off to either Mina or swine downstream as fast as they can go, I once sew an elephant working at theehead of a jam elle CM a rook into deep water and get swept under the stack, We all believed that he was a goner, but every now aud, then we were surprised toeee his 'Clink comes up thamegb the loge; Buck In a long breath and aliseppeer, The trunk *Mild reappear each thne ter. tear downstream. He finally emerged at the eoot of the jam, very xnuch blown, but otherwise none the worse for his accidents But he would not go near a pile of timber in high Water Lor 11 year afterward, This particular work is called "hounding." , CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE PIGMIES SCATTERED OVER' MANY PARTS OF THE EARTH, Afeican Pigmies Are Fierce and War- like, While Those of Madagascar 1 Are Very Ti1111d. A most interesting puzzle to anthem Pologlets are the piginete Apparently of a eingle metal stock, they aro scat- tered over many parte ot the world; and nobody cart give a plausible guess' as to how their distributioxi. was ac- complished, 'Wherever Mune. they Boom to be the earliest people—verhable aborigines— and all of them are mime alike physic - elle, ethough different somewhat in - complexion. They are seepectea to bo more ancient than any othererace eow surviving on the globe, To this ace belong the so-called "monkey men" of the mouutalnous 111. leder al India. Likewiee the pot- bellied natives of the Andaman IP - lands, in the Bengal gulf, who are said to "look like babies WI their lives." Those latter wear their hal, tvizzy tufts and edam themse1va. ntneck- laces made from the bons and teeth or defunct relatives. In Madagascar are the Balmy, black dwarfs; who when purseed jump from tree to tree like monktlys. They are so timid teat sometimes they clic of friget when captured. Once a Nurneroes People. In Ceylon are tonn8 the erecitlalis, oI whom not more than 2,000 aro now left alive. Few of them are able to count up to three. They are of the same pigmy race, and unquestionably they were very anciently a nurneous people, lehabiting that island when visited by the earlieet ot prehistoric explorees. TM bonds of pigmy people eete plen- tifully found on the island ot Formosa" where doubtless the last of themevere wiped ont by the Malays some center- ies ago. But, if you will look at the map, you win see that P01110511 15 really a north- ern member oe that great archipelago 'which we call the Phillippines, though separated front the latter politically. Hence it is not surprising to find dwarfs of the same race to -day inhabit- ing Luzon and Mindandit where they are called Aetna. Like all of the great apes and minor monkey tribes, the pigmies every- where are tropical residents. The sta- ture of the MOD is about six inches over four feet, and the women are four or five inches shorter. They go all but -naked, have, as a rule, no perman- ent dwellings, sow no seed and grow no crops. ; Barnum's famous "wild man ot Bor. teo" was.a pigmy /rein the Peillipines. No wondei. that he excited pdpular in- terest, for nobody had seen his like before --at all events not in this coun- try. But the historian Herodotus, 2,500 years ago, described the African pigmies which he located near' the source of the Nile. • Described by Stanley. Heroclotus, for once, told the truth, for 11 18 in that region that modern ex- plorers have found them. Stanley de- picribed them 00 having huge fitomachs and short legs, and as "leaping about like grasshoppers." One specimen he BILW WaS a full grown young woman, three iuches short of three feet in height, but "perfectly formed and of a glistening sleekness of body, with ab- surdly largo eyes." The African pigmies are tierce and warlike, and each little fighting man carries at his belt a bottle of poison (for arrows) SO deadly, that the slight- est woundefrom a weapon envenomed with it will kilita man. Colonel Reese. vele while on his famous Minting trip, lent some of these arrows to, the Smithsonian Institution, with a tag at- tached seggestiug carefulness in hand. ling them. These dwarfs build dome-ehaped houses in a circle, tee chief's. resi- dence M the center, and at a distance of J 00 yards from the village a sentry box big enotigh to hold two little men is placed on every path, with a door - wily looking up the trail. WATER CARRIED 96 MILES. Winnipeg Has Completed One of the 1Morices Blg Engemering Enterprises. Winnipeg's new, water supply sys- tem, a concrete cenduit 8 feet in di- ameter, 96 Miles long and costing n5,- 000.000, has just been completed and the water eas been turned into the city mains. The aqueduct has been Pronounced one of the world's major engineering, feats. It was begun en 1914. Only four cities in the world have gone further for their water. The aqueduct brings 85,000,000 gal - bus every twenty -tour hours from Shoal Lake, an arm of the Lake of the Woods, the famous haunt of sports- men, southea,st of Winnipeg, Shoal Lake has an 'area of 107 square Ilittes. The Lake of the Woods has an area. of 1,500 square miles. The lakes are 300 feet above the level of the city: Reel the pow of water is sustained by pee at The conduit tunnels under the Red River, Whiteniouth River and several smaller fitments. It passes twenty feet beneath the bed of Red River through solid limestone. The length of river siphons and preseure sections is seven nilles, Winnipeg, in its early history, ob- tained its water from Red River. Pia teen years ago, after several typhoid epidemics, a system of artesian wells was established. But while excellent for drinking, the tutesian water wasso hard. It ruined boilers, water tanks and oity basins and had to be chemically eoftened for household purposes, - To build the:aqueduct the city con- structed its ow/11 standard gauge rail- way and a telegraph line. The city also operated its own grayel Pita, rock quartos and cement plants. A S7:1;"Ittey'Watah. "Like a lift, eSr?" said the country- man civilly. as he overtook a footworn traveller on the road. As theY Jogged along they chattect about all sorts of things. Presently the old cimp pulled out a watch of the turnip variety. "Can 'ee toll me the telme, sir?" he asked. "Certainly. It is exactly three o'clock," replied the other, as , he watched the driver adjusting his watch. Then he stopped him. "I said three o'clock, not twelve," he added.. "Oh, that be all eight, Sir" aid the carter, an he slipped his timepiece into hie pocket, "Her% soon make that oop. leer be a wupnerful goer" Smuggling As .a Fine Art Trade and inclastry In mid -European (*entries may be at a low ebb at mad sent, but there is one branch of com- merce at least which during and after the. war has mttained heretofore un- dreamed of heights of development. hi fact, one cannot speak of smuggling as a film trade any mord--it has become one of the ihie arts, even though Itis more commercially pronteele than the rest of them. The glories of war-tbno smuggling of neeeimitieee-food, cloth - Ing, shoce, soap and the Ilite•—were of- ten sung before this. Cale particular branch of the ,..-4411/111 We call it science?-- hew oprung into full blossom only Weer the conclusion of the armis- tice. We mean the wholbeale smug- gling of. fortunes. Ever 311100 last l\l"01/131/1110T--alla per' baps earlier than that—from Germany to Holland and Seanclinavia, from Ger. 111;.ny, Germatieltustria amid Reweave \I;ti Switzeillintl, there was goWinft 11 steady stream Of geed, tieettrittes, leetele and nli other kincle of valuables, all privately held, thole owners being (teamed with but one thought-amfe- ty. Fear of conllecation thvough tome Noe necessitated by war indelhilltieti fureighed time motiVe 'Simmer behind tele onoalie of. rielette, Evellebedts emegglea aryl eyeeything Vette deluge glee, ie scene ot very geVere epode! tegislatioe In tee coentriee thee being drained. 13114 total of illegally expcnt. ed private fortunes cannot even be conjectured now; it certainly rune up into tens, Perhaps into hundreds. of millions, meet of it repre,senting not depreciated currency of the defeated !sleds, but gold, Jewelry and foreign securities, lespentally the war pron. toms, ill at ease about- tilde ill-gotten gaine, wales malting haste in gettiug mews tile frontier 'whatever of value Was movable and concealable. Tbe Gelman nelvspapers contain -ilt huninating accounts of the methods employed in Ible fortune emeggling, Thus, on the Swiss -German and Swiss. Austriat border, where it is cuetomary tor worklegreen to emelt over twice a day in pursuit of their Ocoupation, ft wee found that innocent looking din - nor pails Were made available for the puree:10. Neediese to say, the bud. nese has 11110008e lit propeetion to he leeks; commiesions ot 8 per cent, are not reckoned cte etteesfeve, Solne time ago Eittriteerland Invited a Militate' of fat/Belied Alletrialt child- ren foe it vacation in the mohritains, Hendee& of Childree (Wormed the fron- tier and, natively, tweedy thought oe examthing theteetrolt•the Vevenee oft ficeref potet Of Videe, It Wee 6013' kW that the Atiliteiterl alititoritieeciJO eeVered thee milling even tletit 5820811 :111 the oitildrenye clettlett, (elf Lumberman,' ALBERTA RICH IN DRY REGIONS ANCIENT FOSSILS OF HE EARTH aKRI,ETONS OF GIGANTIC 21 TILES ABOUND, Thoesattds of Spades Have Been' neetiebe to Liget, PartiomInely In - the Red Deer River District. To -day we must go to Africa foe the biggest game; but them was a thee Ii tee dee (netted; past when Amorlea precheted animals lamer than en), now living, That 10011 80 long ago that nothing remaine of theee eve:Wives mi - 001)1 their belies, aria they tire teemed to stone, • . The enimale are diameters; tor tee moment we will call them litmeds—not the creeping, crawling _kind but tinge reptiles that stalked upright through the jungles, rivaling 111 Wee the ole- pliant, tbe hippopotamus ana the rhinoceros, e The place is Alberta, Canada, and tletaroag etimeo.or their existence 3,000,990 p Te-day Clare are thotasands of dif- ferent species of reptiles inhabiting the earth and during each of the long prehistoric periods there were prob- ably as many or more different kinds, for reptilian life is now on the wane. New Genera Found. Rarely does a season pass withoet several new genera being nrolight to aned this poseibility of discovery of the new and unknown adds edit to an already fascinating fleI8 of re- search. Any prospect may reveal some new creature of bizarre) form, and we are constantly finding skele- tons of animals gnown before by parts only. • The Edmonton formation (geologic strata, so called from locality in which type was fleet recognized) has been es. peciallyeinteresting, for at least two- thirds of the species discovered in rocks of that age are new to science, Each summer work has been con- tinued from the point at which it ceased the year before and the search has been carried on thoroughly. Diseweere complete dinosaur skele- tons are rare, but in this part of Al- berta they are not uncommon. In no other part of the world have so many cretaceous dinosaur skeletons been brought to light. One expedition col- lected eight skeletons from a limited are L exposed along three miles of the Red 'Deer River. 1100 Large Cases Collected. As a result of the last four Years' work in Canada there have been col- lected 30 large cases, or three and ono - hall carloads of specimens, including twenty skulTe and fourteen skeletons of large dinosaure, besides many par- tial skeletons. This material repre- sents many genera and species mew to ecienee, and defines the anatomy and distribution of the several hereto- fore but partially known creatures, But the field has by no mean(ibeen exhausted. Under miles of p atria land the sante strata are undoubtedly filled with similar fossils; erosion is rapid, and as the river cohtinues to wear its banks away new fossils are exposed. In a few years the same territory can be explored with similar results, and for all time, to come the Red Bed River will be a classic local- ity for colleeting prehistorie treasures. HOW, THE CHINESE PRODUCE 1/2 "WILD SILK" The true silkworm has been so long dotnesticated—the period extending over some thousands of years—that its moth has lost the power to fly. A related species, however, in Man- churia bas never been reduced to any systematic captivity, and its emoone are found attached to the branches and twigs of dwarf mountain oaks, on the leaves of which it feeds, The foodplant of the true silkworm, of course, is the mulberry. From these cocoons, gathered- from the trees, is reeled a so-called "wild ilk," of very excellent quality. Feb - ries woven of • it, and -known eommer- cially as "pongee silk," are qpite beae- tiful. Commonly they are dyed, hat their natural golden browa cold is much atineired, and they wear 0e10e010- a111y well. The Chinese) subject this insect to what might be called a seteldemestica- tion, 'collecting the- cocoons front the• trees and keeping them indoors until the moths emerge. After twentyefour hems (allowed 0 or mating) the Males are liberated 'and haelcds filled with street and -beige ave provided to a, - tract the egg -Meting females. When.the eggs haVe beeit laidepon the twigs aed straw, nee ere hatching or about to hatch, the baskets aro car- ried. to .the trees amid hung epee the 'eremites, in order that tee boilte cater- pillars may feed on the leavee. 31 dtle time they spire cocoons, andelates the cycle is repeeted year ahem year. Like other inseete, the wild silk- worms have enemies, certain biecle and greedy ante beteg the wriest, Aecord- ittely, it, is necessary to keep a den- tinual watch on the eerub-oek lettee, which, •in order • •thet .the •proteetien may be effective, are kept peened r and cut down to it height not exceed- t big six eeet. Women and children I attend to this part of' the work. The cocoons ere gathered by farM- ees and peeked it woven bas- kete. In OM slum° (a basket holding emelt 80,000) they are forwarded to conanissiou merchants- in Aetna and Kalping and eventually fied their way to fadtories Where the eilk is heeled fecin therm • Why Silk Deeests thistle, RFA AHARA IlEtiERT718 THE MOOT ,NOTED. Arable Hee: o temp Docert--Centre ; Atettralle. Berren---Peath Valley of California, ereet noltara Deeertmovers tee (rsajhr poet Of Northern Melee, cm, shiting oe 3,500,000 211)1010mn iles—a 110 'Wiwi as Mega es tho whole of Eu neve Front 300 steel, below 11011 towel 11 11001 In ono lestenee to 8,000 !Wve et abo, :lea Panto of its elevations ere covered with 13110W for three months of the year. 11108t 01 WM' Is it dry, Sandy Wrote, dotted here and there with an agate where "drink" may be secured, The winds are all very hot and dry, while rein ie 8110101 unkriciwn. TM eel:rich, camel, jackal, horned viper and numerotie lizards are the mended aniznals 02 1110 region. Sever. al varieties of hardy birds are also found, while in such a• boieedry terra tory it may be expected that the hu. man population is at a low ebb, Arabs, Moors, Jews and riegroes jotale each other on the caravan routes and the fierce looking Arabs who bring their produce to tee Ear Egyptian markets e probably the robbers and cutthroats In their desert home. Fence of Camels' Bones. It is impossible for travellers to get oft the road, as the caravan routes are bordered with tee bones of countless camele which have fallen by the Way side during.teo thousands of years these trails have been travelled. How- ever, it is possible that the clamors of these dry people will some day cause the introduction of irrigation systems to make "wet" territory of this vast scene of desolation, as it is very pro- ductive where moisture is obtainable. The Desert of Gobi in Central Asia, where bone -dryness has been the fash- ion for thousands of years, is also a difficult place to obtain a drink. Its largest streams either vanish in the sand or empty into salty lakes. Cara- van routes from China to Russia are still important trade channels, for tho Russians insist that a 0012 voyageles- treys the flavor of tea. This great arid waste is 1,800 miles wide and 400 miles deep and the almost rainless years since antiquity bave parched its sands to the dryness that drifts in gyrating sand waves and snuffs out vegetation witheits hot breath. Thermornetee Stands at 135. You will know Arabia is a dty coun- try upon looking at the map and see- ing that almost all its interior is labeled "Arabian Desert." Here the people wear scarf -like draperies on their hats es additional protection from the boiling sun. Many of the rivers never reach an ocean outlet but lose their moisture in the burning sand and dwindle down to nothing- ness. The desolate dry regions of Central Australia. are bone-dry to the limit. One section of the coast does not boast of even a rivulet to empty into the ocean. The lowest parts are oc- cupied by saline mud lakes, baked and cracked with excessive sun heat. Rain- fall is practically nil and scrubby bushes are abont all the plant life seen in these regions. Though not a native of Australia the camel has been introduced as a pack animal in these seretches of waste, for he can go without drink for a week. How Death Valley Got Its Name. Death 271 feetebelow sea level, is an alkaline desert'Wegion in te California, on e Arizona border. It is seventy miles long, ten to twenty miles wialo and is situated between high foothills. Only seventy-flve miles away Mt. Whitney raises its 14,- 500 feet into the air and with other nearby elevations is a terrier to any moisture reaching this parched region. In summer the temperature reaches 130 degrees in the shade, wbere there is shade, enough to cover the thermom- eter, and even the nights are too hot te sleep. 'Perrino whirlwinds of heat- ed eands sweep up and down tile val- ley and render it a barren waste, ex- cept for a few . stunted cacti and greasewood. An almost bottomless (telt marsh occupies the centre of the valley prac- tically trom end to end. About mid- way it gots very shWlow and narrows down to about two miles wtdth. At this point a road crossing lees been constructed, Many are tho men and beasts teat have lost their lams en- deavoring to cross this barrem bono! dry waste which gets its name from the rad that in the California gold rune a 1849 BO many proepectors were 105t 111 lb/ :Tule maw. "HOME DISTRICTS" OF BIRDS, • Wntoblive the Mfg retian of !girds in Great eritein. napteme a bird 0121111 the summer et 1 fun .at. Cm endear yoetegardon, mi - meted ie the 1(1511001, (31211 redeemd e egain mtxt Woeld you know gm? • Silk &wises are said to act as good as ante baitonieter far Weather fore- casting, They Tailtle rettch move Mud. ly in dry weatilee beettuee they are al. rnost devoid of moistuee, and the fric- tion between thole Rads is ooneitiee- stble, In demo weather, the ellk is ffaid to abeorlo a portton of the Attie. tole aria beeomee more slleet, h There 15 nothin' that die:table Bo Medi feed value It 40 digeetiele 11 fettle 418 41 f1;0111 egg. Peoliably net. But it is just possible that he might boar an identification mak lu the form of a small ring round his log. About totteemrs ago a 8(9101110 hy wheat tho migyation of beta could be Watched was paunched in the Bri. 1.1511 Iffies, and now some ninety emits - and bircle have been ringed, each bear. leg its own fleeced letters and nember. NeadY three thousand of Berme eave been ideetilled again at it later period, 'either at tette remote quarter to which they halm etnigrated or on Moir return to Britain, , ano tiny wood -warbler, 29111011 was ringed when a fledgling, into diecover• ed twelve months later nestieg iylthln two litnelved Yards at its old epee It had pmeahly travelled thotisands ot ulnae In the hiterval. Othele ringed birds have been toned at Nee Colohy, Nettal lend tee Tettestratil, and 111 Sofia- dletwie, and Betide, 111rde nearly eleven have two "hoito distriete," WA are talthfill 1 11 ture to each, PARTITION OF TURKISH. LAND imAr. PRO131-EM AWAITING SaT, TLEInfiNT BY ALList 0/8/411S13t3 to Frirtiohs of Empire Are Nurneroms end Their ContentIone Conflict In Many Instances. The Intestion of weat seen be clone wee Turkey is one 02 1318 most ditia cult probleme before the Pomo Con- ference. '131ie Turkish delegates sum. =lied to Palle were told to go home 4141 1/111011 beoanse the Allies wore not agreed among themselves on A, course of action as becauee the visitors pro tooted that their people OS a whole woro not ',mental° for Joining.the 0011110.110 ie the great war on civiliza- tion, To this plea the Allem wisely replied to tee effect that e nation -so easily led into evil deservee the geld- ing,eare of a stionger power to keep it -within circumspect bowels. But that dicl not bring the conference nearer to 0 solution of the question, 'which is economic and reillgious en well as Pe- litical. There bee" been proposed the Crea- tion of seven separate states out of the former Turkish empire; Armeeiti, Mesopotamia, the Hedjaz, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia and Constantinople, besides Greek and Itallen eccupation where those populations predominate. The status of only one of teed) new states has been definitely fixed. The Hedja.z, or the kingdom of Arabia, was recognized by Great :Britain and by Franco more than two years ago. She materially aided in the conquest of Palestine and had a representative at Versailles, who signed the peace treaty, Whether a mandate is needed or not, the kingdom will henceforth constitute a deffitte political unit and is quite likely to draw to its allegiance the wandering leedouin tribes ap well as the emirs of Neid and Jebel Shale. mar, in the oases of'the deseet Incidentally, too, this arrangemeut offers an opening for the settlement of the Mahommedan question. One ob- jection the Turkish delegates raised to the expulsion of the Sultan from Con- stantinople was that the Moslems look- ed upon the ruler at Stamboul as head of tb.eir fnith, and that to transfer him to Apia Minor would be considered an affront by millions of their coreligion- ists ot India, Egypt and the whole north of Africa. . This plea, it was thought, would stop Britain, France and Italy from taking such ectIon. But the conference delegates in their re. ply pointed out that disappearance ot Ottoman rule had never prevented the free practice of the Mahommedan re- ligion. They might have added that a large part of the Mosilem world has re- garded the Sultan as a usurper of the caliphate. , Sultan Not Recognized. The religious supremacy of the Otto- man sultan has never been recagnizea by vast Mahommedan populations of India, China, Egypt and North Africa, including Morocco. Constantinople never was regarded as a holy city like Mecca or Medina,and its water was considered a usurper. The real call - relate by a, great part 01 the Moslem World is believed to reside in the Sher - if of Mecca, Hussein ibn Ali, now king of the Hedjaz, thirty-sixth in direct line fof descent from Ale the fourth caliph and sonen-la.w of Mehemet. 'Prince Feisal, son of Rine Hussein, represented the Hedjez at the Peace Conference and made quite a sensa- tion driving around Paris with the flag of hie country, which shows a red triangle against the staff, with three stripes, black, green and 'white, tieing from the radiator of his automobile. H. asked of the Peace Conference the complete independence of thsHedjaz, to which he would annex Upper and Lower Mesopotamia, Syria, Yemen and Nejd. These sweeping demands have stirred up both the British and the French against him. The British ndll certainly claim at least a mandate for Lower Mesopotamia and the French want to have charge of Syria. Yemen and Nejd are really of Arab papule. tion. The Syrians all over the world are indignant ,at the proposed transfer to the Hedjaz of a large part ot what they call their country, althougitethey haven't got any of it yet. The nearest they ceme to self-rule was before the war when France forced upon the sul- tan . the appointment of a Christfan governor of Lebanon, Now they are telalming a greater Syria todioneist of Palestine, Beirut, Lebanon and parts of Mesopotamia., Armehia and Anatol- ia, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian border, which it touches for about sixty miles, including Mosul, and thence trende northwest, taking in Diarbekhe Kharput and Sivas, whenge it follows the western side of the ahti- Taurus mounteins and cuts the Taurus range to reach the Mediterranean near Come CM/01CM Thin was the scope of French in. !Memo ender the lertinco-Britieh-Reis- sten treaty of 1915-1 916, according to which Halle and Acre wore to be mado British and Aleecindretta to be a free poet. • Rut since the victories of Gen- eral Allenby on the coast and General letereball on tee Tigris, railed by Arab contingents in the west and friendly Bedonine in the oast, the British have e01110 eo tower the VieWs of Prince Faisal and venial give to the }Weitz itot only Mosul and Illueascus, but teems, Hama and Aleppo, Title would cortette Syria virtually to Lebautton aud tile old Turkisb vIlayet of BOMA, Syrian Contention, The Steering argue that the Gettig of DaltaBOUS weuldlitul its way to Haifa and etere altd the traele ot Mosul add Moped remelt the Meditetwanean Blemish Alekeeidretta, leaving Syria o at in the cold. They coldend that the Mani unite betWeell the Andel and Cho Modem Syrialie is a fietion; •that the latter eve to e Mtge eetent forinee Chrletiens who hunt fear of persecu- t ient have adopted the edition of their O01111110201'S, and that 300,0,00 Arabs in the Hedlee dieted:not he teermitted to over eerily 11,000000 syriatte (11 the vette ot Syria and Mesepotomilt whiett it le elailtied ford part o0 the tie* Arab °entire, Some Curious Old Bibles wilion the eyes of there both were opened, end they Ireew that they Were meted and they eowee filitteee leeefea together and Made thenteehme breeele me" The geotation eensietutee 10'ersiell of the Adam and Eye story ef Genesi, It itt taken from the rareet ef the 0(15 etliticnie of the Bible' 10101011 48 tee "breechee" Bible, peinted in Lon. don in 1015 ey Itoltert Swelter, "Printee to the King's most Excellent IVIages- tio." As if the fact that Adam ane Eve were naked, and had detested to don breeches, Were ineuffialent, a foot. note on the subject ift introduced. It speettles that the breeeleta ,'were things to gird about therm" ' Reterence books said that it was the moot popular Bible that ever apt peered in England and that for 00 years 11 11018 its own agitinet all rivals, contesting the ground with authbrized versions. Two other editions 00 1110 Bible post mimed by Carnegie Librery were pub- lished in 1551 and 1557„ respectively. The first, sometimes called the Treacle Bible, is named from its rendering of Zeremlah 8.22! "Is there no 'triode' in Gilead?" it Ake, The word triacle is used instead of "bahn." Ina ly there ;7w—or-7:k c-t—st out for the Allies in Asia -Minor, where three Turkish armies are not yet disbanded, their generals refusing to take orders them Constantinople. One of these is at Almelo., northwest of Sivas, pre- pered to resist any attempt to liberate the Armenians. Tho seconel Is con- centrated south of Xenia and is threat- ening the Italians who have taken Pos- session of Adana on the coast. TM third is fighting the Greeks south of Smyrna, which the Allies permitted the Greeks to occupy, VIRTUES OF THE ONION. 4110.41m4 Highly Recommended as a Care For Many Human Ills. Von eaters, as medical mon have noted, are reedy Ill, and that because onions 'clear, as nothing else does, all the poisons and impurities and germs from the body. Onions, in fact, are strong disinfeetants, and if slibed raw and put about a sick room would gath- er to themselves all the enrectious germs Suet as well as an cipensive dis- infectant wouicl. It is for that reason that it is ex. tremery dangerous to eat a out or skinned onion that has been exposed to the air. It bus cleared the air, but gathered to its raw surface what It has cleared, Medically, onions are excellent 'for Insoninia, and they aid digestion, Furthele an 011100 diet is one of the eures for rheumatism. This is due to the lerge portion of sulphur oil in onions, It is that oil, too, which produces a beautiful, clear, and velvety com. plexion. Bretons, great onion eaters, are noted for etheir smooth skins. Onion-juicee too, gives immediate re- nd from the pain of wasp and ether insects' stings. AN IRRITATING CONTRAST. Between Ruined France and Prosper- ous Germany, says Traveller. "The desolation of the once pretty villages of France ass beyond des- cription," says a war worker just re- turned from the battle zone. There was nothing in most cases that re. zernbled a house at all, but we would see the peasants gathered oVer a par- ticular heap of broken 6brielcs and agreeing after much argement teat this Was the site of their old home. Then they would dig 'away the top layer of the debris, make a shelter with tar paper, and go to work clear- ing away their garden: Before the house was settled they would have a garden planted. "It was in contrast with these deso- late scenes in France that the pictuves of prosperous Germany was so irritat- ing to the Allied Artny of Occupation. It wets but a few hours ride from these stricken villages, with no homes, no food, no coal and no young men, to the well -ordered German villages, with the fat asparegus 'beds in perfect eon. dition and every Ornate plant tied up on its own neat little stick." LOST LEG IN WAR. Brittle Continues to - Play Tennis in 7 „spite of Handicap. The spirit oe) a tennis player who lost a leg it Vattle but continueloto play the gime despite his handicap has won great praise in England. <X O match at Rochantaeon, "The London Times" says: taCaptain Hope Crisp, who did much for the game at Cambridgealost a leg in battie. He determined to keep up dolt and Ittent teimie and is playing in the gentlemen'(tondos and mixed doubles. 31 wee itterestIng to soe how he managed. He is a strong volleyer, and eatmelly half volleys many balls which a two -legged Wager would drive, emhe aeiificial leg is the right; ac• cardingly eerTice is fairly duty, When there is 110 hum be welke with a fair speed, approaching a eue. At other Genes he hops, HM clieerful tempera. meet makes the game a real pleasure to himself and others." *114", "11115 MA 10 1101110 11111.0 111901' 13q1.0,1 AO the OPOT1COO IWO 111) gut of tee hottei Qolete" Dart Job, 2,11111 oimpter, 4e0entIA' Y°170..14 even earlier edition, MS,' pot possessed by the library, the eante passage is Went "It is man that 10 bore to Inieery Rae as a byrd 'fee to nee," Other ourioes eayengs of the same edition aro: 'Vete dove bare an olive leafe in her nobbei" ''our heart earl fleeted lee mailer Is there good stom- ach In any manne;" "and brake his brainmenne." The frontispiece ef the 1557 edition announces It to be "the 101,tioTtlhieltil yio:ytbe11.1: ceouliittht ey:yethge B tit. Bug ei o 1Bd lab: s tlast Meet end the 110100—Sot foorth by ' so caned becatuel of the uso of 'the word "buggee," Psalme *01-5 "So thee shalt not nede to be afraYde for anye bugges by nyghte nor for the ar- row that fiyeth by day," A reference explains that bug was originally identical with "bogie' and has virtually the same meaning as "terror," the word substituted in the authorized version in 1611. It is the rarest of the many English editions of the Bible, In Genesis 89, line 7, 11 states: ''And the Lord was with Joseph and he was a lucky e felewe." PICTURES MADE OF HUMAN HAIR QUEER CUSTOM OF THE NATIVES OF THE NEW HEBRIDES. e Hairs of the Head, When Plaited To- gether, Are Exceedingly Strong— Human Hair Rope 300 Feet Long. A large model of a 13ritish battle- ship, recently on view at a London ex- hibition of war trophies, had its "wire - lees" installation made from a girl's hair. • Thirty years ago wateleguards made from easomen's tresses were fashion- able, and a few 813001211100 may be men even to -day in some jewellers' shops. In 1883, again, an etchibition 10118 held in London of pletures made of human hair. Thie artietio fad WAS im- ported into Mu country from the Par East, where it has been practised for centuries. Japanese and Chinese artiets work these curious pictures on all manner oO eubetancee—gola, ibvcr, ivory, vel- vet, end hard, sweet -scented wood. The detain: of the workmanship are exquisite, the artists even Bleating the individual heirs lengthwise into several portions for certain very fine lights and shadows. Wedding Dowries. Ie St. Kilda hair ropes are used for climbing the cliffs 111 search of sem bird's eggs. To obtain the material tor these ropes takes »toy years, and they are highly prized by each of the islanders as are fortunate enough to possess them. A. hair elimbing-rope is in the nature of a family heirloom, and is frequently handed 1101211 to the eta. est daughter as a wedding dowry. Similar ropes aro not unknown in other countries, One of the most re. markahle of these is mentioned by Six Frederick Treves in his book entitled "The Other Side of the Lanterm" He describes it as lying curled up •hike a gigantic caterpillar within the great Buddhist temple at Kett°. It measures 300 feet in length and three - inches in diameter and is netle up of contributions from the heads of many hundreds of thousands of Japanese woneen. Long ago it was used to drag the timbers to the building and to hoist them into place, and now it ts carefully preserved, a sacred relic, within. the vast edifice it helped to raise. The hairs of the head, when plaited together, are exceedingly strong, In 1518 a certain Mme. Gobert, who gave an exhibition before the Prinee Ole - gent in London, coiled hen hair -mete - wise round a blacksmith's anvil weighing 400 lbs„ and swung the mese of iron backward and forward like a pendulum. Although neve modes of hairdressing have puzzled tfie human ingenuity to the utmost, savages are most fertile in the invention of hair contortions. Moslems. have been known to shawl away all their hair sone e email dump in the centre, which they think will serve as a handle by which they may be lifted up to heaven, Natives ot the New Hebrides twist their hair into tes many as six hundred whipcords. The person who can show the greatest number of these thin hair cords is regarded as one of impoetame and is reverenced accordingly, Sharks' Teeth Ornaments, Rammer) wear large bones naterig. led in their hair, but Maoris go one better and only ellow sharks' teeth to be med. 'rho Inoleinus, a 21120110 West African tribe, train their hair lit - to a crest rifling hot less than terolve inches in height, and then int it fell backwarde, fan gimped. In 8e1e00 the women <Relit tholr lair to a shepe eemovilint rOsOli111.1111g eigentle roynl (weep. Cm the 1 tp of the OT111.111, 10111011 limeted be tumorous thin Melee et teete, thee plaoe 11 wreath 1.7 t. A wealthy lenale tadre hie beir 111 to a cote, open et the fop, and whet the Engtlieliman Stows away in hie 200(15008 pocket the cleating Kaffir Puts in Its hair, Saucer Lay In i3ea 106 Years, 'rho het 0(13 fishing smack off Bea- med/. Berwickshire, hing.,, brought to the top of the flett recently a blue Delft seem., deeply Merustett with barnacles, Wel which bore a totture of one of the old British owlet and SaW11/1 0e14801St With the W01/4111, "1(01100, 1A111. 5.214 Illithore, Shinning Coy." rts dee, according to reports, had taken on 11 wonderful deep geode, tinged with green, end wee very bean - 12121. The Eclipse was lost id sea 100 ' years ago. No ono survived, no bodies were thrown Me ne Module:0 dentate. ly Mora/lied With iete lost feehooner was ever emshod against Icemen ehored It is nieeli more iireporeent to letve an mergenay elielf in the summer thah 14 the wetter, when tee Pantry 46 Mrs. -Creighton, widow of the for, 111e1' 131511012 of London, Ratio the French tvonget show far rooter dt, pacify than Englith women lit matters: of intend). To 118110111 nil the juices in fuest should be anbjeeted to intense host o)? 42 short time until both sides aro 'wen scored, then the hest should he lows& _ ed and the 000ltiug proneso be eonto »Idea will this 1104