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The Herald, 1911-09-08, Page 4liNISITIO THE Q lER 1 p1ainecl, nto. only detention need be one i All the great military centres in the United Kingdom have their ce de - la ,Igo, �rA•�r demon,' IS DEALT tendon barracks for the r e ption of soldiers under: punishment. These WITH IN THE ARRYa barracks are separated and walled in, in a similar manner to acivil prison, There the soldier lives and works under a strict discipline. His food is graduated according to the length of time be has to undergo detention, He does the ordinary drill parades that he world do with his battalion, but in addition he does e kit inspection and marching order daily. During his period of detention he receives no pay, and is con- fined to a cell, which must be kept scrupulously clean. If he shirks any of these duties he is put into a punishment cell, which means bread and water and solitary confinement tiany Faults and Crimes for Which He is Compelled to Pay the Penalty. A soldier, when e joins the Brit- tsh army takes an oath that be will serve his King and country for a 'certain number of years. Under this agreement, therefore, he never gets the "sack," unless a very seri- ous crime, or a long pried of bad soldiering causes him to be dis- charged, says London Answers. Now, Thomas Atkins, being un- der a; strict discipline which punish- es every fault, is by no means in- fallible, and so commits himself by many faults and crimes. These can come under two headings—viz., ;minor and serious offences, each of which have their separate punish- ment. "LOSING HIS NAME." Minor offences are the mistakes which are made in the daily rou- tine, such as clothing, accoutre- ments, etc., dirty or badly cleansed for inspection or parade, faults at 3ri11, or, as might be if on guard or picket, by omitting to salute an of- ficer; by walking in a slovenly mau- ler whilst doing sentry -go, or by lot handling his rifle in a smart end proper manner. Short ab- enoes up to about an hour also owes under this heading. These minor offences Tommie ails "losing his name," and he as to appear before his company fficer at "Orders" to answer for The company officer, or captain of company, is vested with the pow - to punish a man, and he can Bard any punishment up to seven iys' C.B. (confinement to bar- ,cks). The men who have "lost their Imes" are paraded, at "Orders." to officer reads out the offence ainst each man, listens carefully the defence, and then awards :atever punishment he thinks is •riled. y:. SHARKSG eleeete c lightsy isnighat very avo to f BATING "° ararissement of the Melbourne people here. For those hardier souls who prase the embrace of "the great sweet mother," untrammelled by the restrictions of a picket fence— even _though the fence is sharkproof --there is Sandringham Beach and Half Moon Bay, a few miles further along :the coast. Here people.have theirbathing boxes and bathe in the open with a wary eye open for the .appearance of the dorsal fin of DANGERS OF SONS AUSTRAL. IAN SEASONS RESORTS.. Mixed Bathing at .Sydney—Proper Dress for New Zealand Beaches. Heats vary. Itis not hot in Duro ban till the Zulu rickshaw man is too warm to prance between the' shafts, and goes along with you at a jog, When that degree of heat. arrives you wouldn't change places with him for a rubber mine. Ade- laide, the capital of South Austra- lia, has a breathless, white, star- ing summer heat that last for weeks at a time. It hurts the oye•sighte a•s .t1 'SHARK IN THE OFFING. A man who was fond of bathing off Sandringham assured me once, when; I asked• him if he wasn't fri htoned of sharks, that a shark would never taekle you in water if you .splashed;, and kicked up anoise at its approach. „ I never tried the efficacy of the remedy myself; nor did he, for, on PAYING THE PRICE successive teams of English crick- thefirst occasion on which he and eters have found out to their cost, a slt k took, txie water together he He can earn remission of his sen- but is o-.terwise not unhealthy. was -out and dressed and had bor- tence by good conduct, and very One of the most uncomfortable rowed a rifle before the :shark saw few fail to take advantage of this places in the world on a really hot hi • Sharks would, however, find privilege. day is Melbourne. The sun blazes it • ery diffieult matter to seize with an intolerable glare, and the a 'stfel bather in Port Phillip There are only two offences by which a soldier is punished through his pocket, and these are absence and drunkenness. For absence he forfeits his pay automatically, a day's pay being forfeited for six hours' absence, and two days' pay "brickfielders" (a scorching north wind) sweeps along the city's wide streets thick with dust and the smoke of the distance bush fires it has brought down from the country, from whence it whirled with the for twelve hours, provided the lat- velocity of a hurricane that morn ter breaks into two days. For lon- ger periods aday's pay is forfeit ing. The smoke gets into ; your eyes and make them smart, and ed for each day or part of a day the dust and other refuse make absent. your clothes filthy and .get down: our throatDrunkenness is punished by a no nostrils, eve�ryw into ur ears,, your scale of fines. For the first offence London heat, writes Arthur J. there is no fine; the second, 2s. cd. ; Rees in the London Evening•Stand- l» the third, if over six months since ard, resembles the heat of Auck.- the previous offence, 5s. ; if under land, New Zealand's most northern.;? six months, but over three, 7s. 6d., city. It is humid, dose, sticky and if under three months, lOs. pressive and above all, dense. These fines and forfeitures of pay Auckland has what London are inflicted in addition to any pun- —a beautiful harbor that ishment which may be awarded by you cool to look at it. The the commanding or company officer. call the Auckland harbor V meta, which means ii angels. e wing to the gradually shelv- ing -0.114;h and shallow water for s3nie . °•fence out, The proof of tine ihe few fatalities that have tient d to bathers there from snail+ The casualty list in the de*ep1. r, waters of Sydney harbor has bei mach' heavier. Bail the great sight in the way of se' bnithin> M Australia is the sub, surfing caenival at Sydney. remark able spectacle. If u' go to. Sydney do not miss dart by tram out to their beloved 1 Bondi to get ,a little browner be- fore the isu.n sets, Sharks do not bother the surfer much. The shark in the open sea prefers to let the deadly undertow sweep his evening meal out to him, Inside the harbor he has to fend for himself, That is why there are so many more shark accidents inside the harbor than in the surf. - They •surf bathe a bit in New Zea- land, but not the •same way. The New Zealander takes. life different- ly to the Australian, and mixed bathing' is only tolerated there under severe restrictions. Both sexes have to wear a hideous neck - to ankle bathing gown which swathes you like an Arctic explor- er's winter's outfit and makes graceful surf bathing impossible. Public feeling is still somewhat AGAINST MIXED SURFING in New Zealand, but it is indulged in to some extent at Lyall Bay, a strip of black volcanic beach near Wellington, with fairly good break- ers, and at Brighton, a suburb of Christchurch, the capital or the Centerbury wool kings in the South Island. When I was in New Zealand last year .a few of us used to go out of a morning to Island Bay, a beauti- ful wind blown piece of sea a few miles from Wellington, on the shores of Cook's strait, from whose towering green headland on a clear day you can see the summit of the South Island cliffs turn from pearly white to pink and back to white again through some prismatic effect of sun and ocean, and have z snly or Bondi or Ooogee some fair surf bathing from a ht - '4 places all within an tle baby rock -surrounded beach as of Sydney—were the there. With the arrogance of our ur wa i high re. el and orae human kind we got to think that bi„ glad al't'o their mer- nature had designed this superb anssbeer„s cttr, +dwellin people bathe desolate stretch of narrow beach smany s, a and thundering ocean specially for ourselves, but one morning when a great southerly gale was sending the breakers galloping in from the ocean in great style (you could :see them racing like huge crested - whales from the sky line) we got an unpleasant surprise. The subsiding gale must have rag- ed out in the deep witn such force as to .shift things from the bottom and we found the shallows squirm- ing with all sorts of nasty slimy things from the oceanbed; the wat- ers ' were alive with wriggling. masses of repulsive blind eels with protruding teeth and sgtielchy bod- ies which were being slowly driven ashore. We discovered their 1tttCrinost„ presence through Anne es our party. oth, scree --a •,d'iving head first into a pulpy mass ether ---go down to THE LABR AD OR HEN. Doctor Grenfell's Experience With a Noisy Rooster. The ferocity and persistance of all parts of the city -from'. the Eskimo hogs mate the keeping ap the of tie dazzling ty-f m of li3 e stuck out of the question onspots sh the Lateader coast; but a few wiz- forget-me-not blue spread, h t: "GLITTERING WATsii, and the sparkling blue of th;t,v, rano guarded bay holds you its 1 v, er while you are in Auc'.iand—au ever afterward. It is t'' e nailer o forget -nae -not, 'and yon never forget it. You see the, harbor'ft. pv'aer •seen anything that the joyous abandon, °ayety of Sydney surf beautiful stretch of the an: breaking in, with a i?u a•.white beach. Then t, the stretch of ocean ale with thousands, yes ;,NDS OF BATHERS T. A. AS CHARWOMAN. enact hens are occasionally seen in foie you, at of cis Zus t it is considered that the man is crates beneath the bench on which i rippling violet glancing s zntirel r at -'fault the offence is the family sits in the kitchen. •In !you as you turn the ea tier crossed out, }or the. man is this haven the are preserved Froin; of Auckland's winding . :s noniahed. Otherwise: he is the rigors of t e climate, and from 1 Sydneyharbor beat, girded one or two fatigues, drilla the "Huskies.” Such a bench is will not praise Artetrla ixf a. some corps extra parades), or frequently Doctor Grenfell's couch Sydnc a people it lace if you .tare aayelrra, 3 days to barracks all accord. when he travels with dogs in the a to the seriousness of to eawinter. On one occasion the doe- Ing blue and the lights and si ext tor had no sooner fallen asleep, ; of the Harbur of Glittering: Witter 'unishment is generally paid in after an exhausting day of hill And Auckland's harbor is still afternoon en what are called travel, than a young resister be- ; titre's own—a fifty m.le gulf wile aunishment parades,,' and this is neath him began to make an exas- iffs and headlands are a+raly�d eraiin noise. Speaking to it and a grand and gracious soli ee e. N n the extra parades, drills, and feeding it crumbs availed nothing. advertisements exh.,.t i you tt•r; B. men pay their punishment. In despair, Doctor Grenfell .gulate your liver by the tee n'xtra parades are paid in march reached through the crate bars and somebody's pills st•a:e at you fee order, and after inspection the seized the offender by the throat eft the great, sea worn' re 'ks; no rie1' In is dismissed. Drills are paid festively silencing the di•sturbance.. Jews have built hideously inartisti an hour's drill, or by marching But as sleep overcame him his ,band villas en the grey voleaoic 'Edits ilia nd the barrack -square for one relaxedand the stubburn bird watch the east. Both these thing. tr with the C.B. men. These are continued from where he had left have been allowed to come to 7raa netimes converted into fatigues off, until be was again seized. in Sydney's beautiful harbor... such., lsuit the exigences of the mo- This alternating warfare eontinu- sacrilege) nt. ed until nature won, and the doctor The subject of beat brings its oa 1 fatigues are paid by Tommy do- fell asleep, dreamig that he was turally to the subje;t of Lathing. g charwoman in the different driving a, team of bantam roosters The Australians, particularly those; •ts of barracks—scrubbing floors, through the streets of London. living near the coact, are a bath- tckleading, eleanin windows, At the next neighbor's, fifteen •ing people. The Ani, der n take to tshing pots and utensils,or peel- miles away,the woman of the hut the water early enda�' in ate, potatoes for his more ortunate came out the doorway when Doc- , An Australian boy will spend the E dinner. tor Grenfell drove up. While whole of a long summer day in the greetings were being exchanged, baths, with alternato..splashing and THE C. B. MALI. one of the doctor's Eskimo flogs sand sprawling spells. , All the `Days to barracks" is a more standing near saw the head of a ' State schools have swinanung clubs lious• punishment. It is carried chicken venturing forth from be- for boys and girls, from the young- er in marching order, and con- tvc••.en the bars of aerate Hist est- classes up, where the eh:ldren ;s of marching round the bar- taught t 'Yo d teach 1,k -square in quick time only, and (, of istruetional drill. In mount- hunits two hours' drill per day is penalty, and in dismounted (its four hours' drill per day. 'eh drill has nut to exceed one pur at a. time. Tho C. B. men be also to be ready to answer lir names every time the bugler awe "Defaulters' call," which is Out once every hour, and they e employed on fatigue duties to c fullest practicable extent, with view to relieving well-eonduetcd Idlers therefrom. The C.B. man not allowed out of barracks, ex - pt, on duty, during his period of iniahment, and is only allowed in e wet canteen for his pint of beer ✓ one hour in the evening. The serious offences are long ab- nces, desertion, irregular enlist- ent, drunkenness, insubordina- ea, and the charge which covers 1 sins—"Conduct to the prejudice . good order and military discip- le." For these the soldier is pun- ned by his commanding officer, ho can award C.B. or detention .:) to TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS, remand him to be tried by court- i,rtial. As C.13., or confinement • barracks, has already been ex - es, young. for the most n, light_and airy bathing at gave hill play to an - either in the water or king in the, sands be- ustralia.n 'sun,' all XELPINGI 'YOUNG PEOPLE. Good Work Done by the Children's Aid Societies of Ontario. Sortie of the cases dealt with by the agents of Children's• Aid Socie- ties not only furnish interesting reading, but also give scsue idea of the splendid work that is being done for young people in all parts of our Province. Here are a few ex- tracts : Boy of ten was taken by his father to a number of saloons, the mother being dead .and no one to look after the little fellow properly. The fath- er was charged with drunkness, and arrangements were made for the boy to board with a respectable family at father's expense. A lad frequently charged , with stealing was reported by the par- ents, who asked that some punish- ment be given without arrest or publicity. This was judiciously and- minstered by the agent in the form of a spanking, ansl. the boy promis- ed to be good hereafter. A girl of seventeen, who was drinking at a hotel with young men, was taken in charge and sent to a sheltering home. Moving pictures shows, bar rooms, stations, etc., were fre- quently visited to prevent children loitering around, Three newsboys were sent home because of their tender age. Quite a number of children were reported to be absent from school, and it was found that the assessors did. not furnish the clerk of the municipality with a list of children between the ages of eight and four- teen, as required by law. Truancy work is done by .c.. policeman in his spare time. It was considertd desirable to have this work done by someone more particularly interest- ed in children, and that the duties required one person's whole time. Another agent reports, among other things, having stopped several tobacconists from selling cigarettes to young boys. A girl of twelve was waiting on tables in a restaurant, mother dead and she was living with an aunt. School attendance was insisted upon. As a result Of a friendly visit and advice some neglected children were provided with lothi.ig rind sent to "school. Six boys were arrested for` steal- ing, having organized themselves into a gang for that purpose. Par- ents were required to attend. court •., ani1; to give, guarantees' foe future good behavior. Two -of the principal offenders were placed under the guardianship of the Society' and sent to friends in other districts under supervision. Several boys under school age, were found working in a factory and the manager was summoned to court. He agreed not to employ such lads in future, and parents promised to let them return to school; Decided improvements was re- ported in the cases of several famil- ies. where children hand been absent from school, untidy in appearance and loitering on the streets. xn°haud to swim out breakers. Mother balled ` from these ,sea are conducted with a convention and inno- a from artificial sex re- iaig to see and good iii. Everybody is wel- „open sea, and if you your lady neighbor as ,t back to shore on the o accepts your apologies ae you :tender them. ednctions necessary if ter into conversation. ;the freedom of the sea soon of you for the inside the door. Like a flash of lightning the dog snapped off the head and swallowed it, standing perfectly still all the whi..e, with a -very blast expression on his youth- ful muzzle. The hen began to jump about after the manner of decapitated fowl, so rapidly that the woman failed to see that its head was miss- ing. She could only explain the antics by remarking, "My ben haves a won'erful stummick, doe - torr, sir ; ell' young 'ttms feeds it too much •seal -meat, I 'low." Doctor Grenfell's keen eye had sten the whole performance, al- though too late to stop it. His sense of justice and his involuntary loyalty to the clever dog had a strug- gle ; but when he left he carried back to two of the hospital patients a acanty little fowl, but the only one which had graced their board for months. The woman would not hear of being compensated for her loss. " 'Tis nothing, sir" she insisted. "Sure didn't ye save Charlie's life when 'e drum th' ax into 's foot, an' would would of died o' blood -poison - So a happy woman and a glad little boy in the hospital were grate- ful to their distant friend; but after all, their treat was due to Doctor Grenfell's Eskimo dog. are o swim by b c, - and float, and wait till a member of ars. the life saving .club—there are al - THE SCHOOLS • ways several on duty—is paid out to $ you an ;a life line, have a series of intercl tb swim- Often: the victim of the undercur- ming matches during the summer, rent is carried away too fast to be when rivalry is keen and excellent rescued ,and the Sydney evening swimming results. As a natural; papers dismiss the tragedy in a few consequence of this splendid aye- lines.headed "Another. Fatality at tem most of the Australian boys and Surf' Bathin;." But the girls in the large cities can swim dPI'ALLING LIST OF DEATHS and drowning fatalities are rapidly declining. Beaurepaire, every season is no deterrent to the the world's champion swimmer to- devotees of surf bathing. They go day, learned his swimming as a joyously on with their surf, in no member of the Albert Park (Mei wise checked" by the thought that bourne) State school swimming elub they are playing with death. From and only four years or so ago, as : their point of view the sport is worth a slender stripling of 14 carried off the risk. all the school championships. Sydney .surfing is marked by some They have plenty of sea baths peculiar features of its own. There around Melbourne but no surf bath- is the cult of getting brown, for in- ing such as Sydney people revel in stance, The surfer who can dis- Melbourne's great bay, Dort play a skin of Zara golden brown, is Phillip, is landlocked, so there are aking of his kind. Young men put no breakers worth • mentioning. in a kb of time lying about in the There is also a further obstacle m scantiest bathing attire letting the the shape of periodical invasions sun elyenor an, their bodies the re - of large sharks, whieh have quisite tint. They deplore the slow - a ealining effect on the en- ness of the process, and greatly thusiasin of those who advocate envy the fortunate youth who has lit the charms; of bathing in night job of some sort which per - the open. Three or four miles from mite hila to lie about the beach all Melbourne is the fashionable mar- day -getting brown. They bewail hie suburb of St. Kilda. which has the golden Hours they have to waste the finest swimming baths in Aus- tralia—half a dozen of tem. of then and coming hurriedly ashore festooned like a. Medusa, POLYGAMY DYING OUT. Turks Find It Too Expensive To Have More Than. One Wife. There exists in Europe a mis- taken notion that almost every mar- ried Turk has several wives, that he is at liberty to marry as many times as be likes, and that it is for him just as easy to divorce a wife as to change an overcoat. Now poly- gamy is Turkey is. the exception, and not the rule,, the majority of the Osmanlis having only one wife. Birt has more than a spark In the metropolis itself polygamy does not amount to five per cent. It r, but thht seems to add to is rarely met with in other big activeness for Sydney moot centres of the Ottoman empire, save carf bathing you swim out among the richest and most power - to s `,.dvancing billow and dive ful functionaries, and even then int za eLit as it breaks -to be swept plurality of wives an exception. xaith abewilderingecstatic °a`.li e legal wives is .of wives is four. rush 'amid the boom of he surf. Only the adishah and khalif are al - But ;1 you are caught in the power- lowed to have more,,being a person ful retreating: undertow you will be beyond and above lunitations and swept out to sea, no matter how restrictions of that kind. The Pro- states , a swimmer you may be. If phet Mahommed had seven wives, that happens, as it.frequently does, and Ali, the fourth in the succession the only thong is to lie still and try of the Yhalifate had nine. One of the chief causes of the plurality of wives being so free among the Turks is that, when the prophet and koran permit the faith- ful worshippers df .Islam to marry four times, they also provide strict injunctions of a. religious and ethis cal nature, which every Musselman has to adhere to if he does not want to be excommunicated from the fold of orthodox Islamism•. Thus, a Turk who is desirous of con- tracting a second marriage is bound by an explicit law to provide for his new life companion a separate dwelling place in . every respect similar to that of hisfirst wife, and an .equal number of slaves, servants and eunuchs. This is done not only for the sake of the principle of equity, so highly pronounced in Mahommedan matrimonial relation- ships, but chiefly in order not to excite jealousy and rivalry. The same principle must be observed in the third and fourth. marriage. Wise is the man who is never as funny as he can be: You can generally tell from a man's neckties whether he is mar- ried or not. Burrawell=-I tell you, it's hard to be poor, Harduppe—Gee 1 I A VOTIVE HONEYMOON. A well known Spanish barrister and a young lady belonging to the best society became engaged. to each other some time ago, but owing to a succession of unfortunate circum- stances it seemed at one time as they would have very little chance of ever getting married,. says the London. {Globe. ' At that time, de- pressed by despair, they both made a vow that if ever fortune favored them and they attained happiness they would walk together from Madrid to the shrine of the patron saint, of Saragossa. Recently it came to pass that .after many tribul- ations they succeeded in being join- ed at the altar, and as a honeymoon the newly wed couple set off on foot from Madrid and covered the dis- • tante to Saragossa of over 210 miles in ten days, thus maintaining the creditable average of twenty-one miles a day. The return journey, however, was made n the saloon of a express train. — TAX ON 'BA(;HELORDOM.' During the period under Williarl: III. when baohelordom was taxed peers had to pay more dearly than commoners .far the privilege of single bliss, says the London Chron- icler The yearly tax levied on bachelors ranged from - £12 11s. in the case of dukes and archbishops down. to 1 shilling in the case of those scheduled as "other per- sons." Furthermore a duke was compelled to pay .£C50 when he mar- ried, 230 when his .eldest sun was born, £25 when every younger son was; born, £30 when his eldest son was naarrie•d, £50 when his wife was buried and 830 vken his eldest son was buried. And the other mem bets of the peero ;e • had to pay in work, and the moment they are find it the easiest thing an the simnel. tamers gepeeeeoe s .n,.eing free from the cares of Alec they world, to their mese e.