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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-08-02, Page 6HIE RUE -••••',X1p.e.r. 10 CENT "CASCARETS FOB .LIVER AND BOWELS 00•••• Cur o Siok Headache, Constipation, Ellkusness, Sour Stomach, Bad -fireath—Candy Cathartic, lid radii iio-w bad your Were stomach Or bowels; how much your head &chef(, how miserable you are from, constipm tion, indigestion, biliousness and slug- gish bowels—you. always get relief with Casearets. They immediately cleanse and regulate the stomach, remove the sour, fermenting food and. foul gases; take /the excess bile from the liver and L'.arry off the constipated waste matter and tpoisou from the intestines and bowels. A 10 -cent bOx from you.r drug- giet will keep your liver and bowcla clean; stomach tweet and hes& clear for months. They work while you 'deep. •••••O LEdAL; R. S. HAYS. Sarrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and. Notary Public. Solicitar for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Money tO loans MINI•••••••••••••1•1 J. M. BEST. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and. Notary Public. Office upstairs over Walker's Farniture Store, Main Street, Seaforth. • - PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND COOKE. Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub - Hey etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth On Monday of each week. Office in Kidd Block W. Proudfoot, K. C., J. L. Moran, H. J. D. Cooke. VETERINARY. F. HARBURN, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- w College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Vsterinazy College. Treats diseases of In domestic animals by the most mod - principles. Dentistry and Milk Fey - Int is specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All or- ders left p at the hote14, will receive prompt attentionlNight calls receiv- ed at the office. 'JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ery College. All diseases ol domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich street, .one door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - forth. MEDICAL DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN. Osteophatic Physician of Goderieh. Specialist in women's and children's rheuraatismacute, chronic and nervous disorders; eye eier, notes and throat. COnsultabion Iree. Office. In the Royal Hotel, Seafcirtia days- and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m. C. S. W. HARN, M.D. C.M. • 425 Richmond Street, Loticlone Ont., Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Urin- say diseases of men and women. Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR . Physician and Surgeon Office and residence, Main Street, Phone '70 a Hensa DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons Ontario;Licentiate of Medical faun- a ef Canada; Post -Graduate Member: of Resident Medical.Staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office', 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, Hansa% Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence, Goderich Street kaat of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and College of Physicians and Surgeons Ann Arbor, and member of the Col- lege a Physicians and Surgeons, of Ontario. C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin.• lty University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS. Graduate of University of Toronto Vacuity of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pees graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England, University Hospital, London, ICirgiand. Office—Back of Dominion Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night Calls Answered from residenceVic- toria street, Seaforth AUtilIONEERS, THOMAS BROWN Lieensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Cerrespondece arranemments for sale dates can be made by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth, or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- erate and satisfaction, guaranteed. It T. LUKER Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales 4tended to. in all parts of the county. Sevea years' ex- Perience in. Manitoba and Saskatche- wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No. 175r.11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R. It. No. 1, Orders left at The Huron Ex- positor Offiee, Seaforth, promptly at- tended to. Odedeleddlethlelethildhalelefeintletieltd40,14014 Viscount Rhondda Used Nis Talent as Organizer To Save Nation in Crisis 644.14.0"8.4444.),44.4.04.0044.0 VISCOUNT . RHONDDA, the Welsh peer, who before he received, his title was David -'Alfred Thomas, passed away on Jiliy 3rd. Viscount Rhondda was the Man who rut England and most , of the United kingdom of 'Great Bri- tain on rations and won the grati- tude even 'of the people whose food supply he regulated; Before lie achieved the .task it was generally •regarded as all but impossible. : Food was running short in the United Kingdom in June, 1917, when Baron Rhondda was appointed Fopd Controller of Great Britain, The Gill. - man U-boats were sending ships to the hottora of the ocean, and Great Britain was supporting a tremendous army in Fra,nee. The ciellistne at home were beginning to feel the pinch. Long queues of men, women and children stood for hours at the food stores in scores of British cities, and there was a loud grumble from, the public. • l' The man who, as David- A. Thomas, had been managing director of the great Cambriam, coal combine, appar- ently undertook his task with many misgivings. "I have a suspicion;" he told his Welsh friends, "that Lloyd George conscripted me for this almost im- possible job because he knew I had the hide of a retin.oceros. "I am going 'there," he added, "as guardian and trustee of the consum- er and. particularly the poor consum- LORD RHONDDA. er." He declared that lie was de- te,rmined to stepprefiteeeleg and speculation in food. - "If it is necessary to put the whole country on compulsory, rations 1 will do it without compunction,"" he gave warning. Then followed a series of orders and regulations that a y -ear hwo before would have roused the Briton to Wrath. The new Food Con- troller took over control of all the crops for 1917, and within a few -months announoed the formation of tnter-allied food council to pur- chaSe in the United States rood sup- plies for Great Britain, France and itaiy in co-operation with. Herbert eloover, the American Food Adminis- trator. The purpose was to ,eliminate eompetition and stop speculative • advances in -the prices of food. By fixing the prices e put tato effect a policy of cont lling the profits of food ,dealers fromthe pro- ducer down t� the retailer.' Traesportation in America; was snowbound for weeks duriom tee winter of 11017, and America cfailed re ("dieter to England the food she had promised. Rhondda met the crisis by fixing' the amount of food o be served. every person in 'hatels, restaurants.' and boarding houses nown to the minute fraction. It car- eied England over the crisis and re- eulted in his elevation teditecount. But the new viscoun seemed to aave fallen a victim to over-devotiOn to his qwn. theories. He had boasted that he was living on a far smaller ation thanhe had imposed -upon the dritish public, but in April, 1913,, euffered a physical collapse that was Mtributed to his short ration. The queues had disappeared from •he British food stores. Prices were mtablished, and, while stories of the tufferings of Geimany and Austria leaked pat the, censors, the Briton milled and !masted of what Rhondda :ad accomplished for him. There was food enough, and each obtained eis share; the coal kingahad won thh tight and the applause et his countrye ei OIL. Before undertaking that task ahondda had in 1915 organized the British munitions buyiag inete.e Th. S. and Canada, and put it on a business basis. THE FIRST DUG -OUTS. . 4 Modem( Methods of Warfare Develop- ed on the Aisne. The Aisna looms large in the his- tory of tee war. After the battle of the Marne and the stopping of ,the first _German rush, ;the enemy fell hack towards the Aisne. On Septem- ber 12; 1914, the Boehm( were clear- ed out of the valley of the Vesle. The itiztoric story of the next days is eraphicaliy told by Capt. C. A. Brownlow, R.F.A., in his ••The Breaking the Storm." r tin September 13 andtfer the en-. suing three or four days bhe British army crossed the Aisne and fought fiercely to advance further, but with- out success. Gradually the front crystallized into immobility, ' and itere our troops remained for three weeks. During this period one can trace the beginnings and „growth of the methods of trench warfare which are now familiar to so many. *'The trenches, first begun by the individuals of etc firing Mime scoop- ing eaeh for eiraself a hole in the ground, grew apace into a network of excavations, while away behind the tiring line there appeared systems of reserve; trenches, eited and dug un. - der the directions of G,14..Q. "With the ever-increasing remit]; eatione a the treaches began the fleet dug -outs, 'which were small caves burrowed into banks, Or 'widen- ings of the normal trench, roofed in with such Material as was to hand and covere,d by a layer a earth suffi- cient to give protection against splin- ters. With the propingaity a the opposing lines it was neceseary to get accurate artillery fire close in front of our firing trench, This neeessitat- ed meet accurate observation, and this in tura necessitated forward ob- servation officers and telephone wires laid from the batteries to the in- fantry. "And" now began the allotment of a definite seCtion of the front for each battery to cover with its fire, which developed in time to the bar- rage or curtain of fire, the basis of present tactics. "Ta prevent a sudden rush of the enemy, o,bstacles such as wire cut hem fences and rabbit netting from the neighboring weeds Were elected, forerunners of the -vast barbed Wire entanglements which now stretch from Switzerland to the sea. "On the Aisne also began for the first time the ,direction of artillery fire from aeroblanes, which waindone occasionally by wirelesi, but most- ly by tee use a colored lights. Here, too, appeared the first observation bal oon; needless to say, it was the en y who had it. • I It was on the Aisne, too, in those September days that. the British forces received from the Kaiser the immortal title of th.e `contemptible eittle army.' " - Renan's Visit to Oxford. ' Of Renan'sE visat to Oxford I have mingled memories—all pleasant; but some touclied with comedy. He was in love—apparently!— with Oxford, and his charm, his gaiety, played over all that we pre- sented to him. I recall him in W'ad- ham Gardens, wandering tn a kind of happy ,dream—"Ah, if one had only such places as this to work in, in France! What pages—and hciw per- fect!—.one might write here!" Or again, in a different scene, at lynch - eon in our little home in- the paeks, when Oxford was showieg; even more than usual, its piteous inability to talk decently to the great man in his Cava tongue. It is true that he neither understood ours—in conver- sation—nor spoke a word•of it. But that did not at all mitigate our own shame—and surprise! For at that time, in' the Oxford world . proper, everybody, probably, read Fren.ch habitually, and many of us thought we spoke it. But a mocking spirit ruggested to one of the guests at this ..unch.eon party -an energetic histor- .cal tutor—the wish to enlighten M. .ten.a.n as to how the University was soverned, the' intricacies of Convo- cation, and Congregetion, the Heb- domadal Coutieil, and all the rest. rhe other persons preset fell at first oreathlessly silent, watching the gal- lant but quite hopeless achieneure. rhen, in sheer sympathy with a; Eood man in trouble,- mie after another, we rushed in to help, till the cOnsti- union of the. uneversity raust have 3eemed indeed. a thing of Bedlam to Jur smiling but much -puzzled guest; end all our cheeks were red. But M. •trenan cut the knot. Since he could ',lot understand; aud -we could not explain, Whaathe constitution of Ox- ford University was, he suavelytook up his parable as to what it should be. He•drew the ideal university, as it were, in the clouds; eloping his nation, as he went on, in so mueh fun' and so much charm, that his English hosts more than forgot their own defeat in -his success. The little scene has always remained with me as a crowning anstaxace of thetFrench ienius for conversation. Throw what obstacles in the wag you pleas; it, wilt surmount them. all.—Mrs. Hum- phrey Ward. "Unfit for Publication," A letter from Sofia, dated Jan. 22, which M. Politest Menister of Fdreign Affairs, read in the ,Greek Howie re- cently stated that there were then 3,000 Greeks interned there, of whoa( 80 per cent., were in rags and literally perishing of cold and starv- ation. They were heeded together through the bate winter in reed huts hardly fit fa savages, and any atteerepe to .warm the huts by fires tilled them -with emoke. All those who were not utterly worn out were forced daily to hard manual labor , without any pay, while they were continually witnessing the deaths' of their aptiow captives and, the prbati- talon of the younger women, 'who were -often driven to sell themselves for a morsel of bread. Similar hor- rors, were reported from internment camps at Shumla, Lom Palanka, and Gostivar, Albania. One of the documents in this dossier, which M. Politis refrained from reading and merely referred to, but which I have seen, gives dis- gusting details of the atrocities com- mitted on old men, women, and girls who were tortured to death in ways quite unfit for publication in. an Eng- lish newspaper.—The Times. Germans !lad Made Plans To flave,Wireless Station . Operated in Argentina THE deliarture of Count Karl von kitexburg, the deposed minister of the German em- pire, eight months after the Argentine Government ordered him out of Argentina, recalls the failure of ,Germany's fondest dream in Ar- gentina — the establishment of a -.wireless station powerful enough to maintain direct communication. with 'the big German station at Nauen. The day after Luxburg, was given his passports, this station was dis- mantled by the Argentine Govern- ment' which withdrew the temporary concession under which it was oper- ating. Great secrecy surrounded thisetatio,n. Early 1a.st .year, the Argentine Gevernment issued. a temporary con- cessimidto enable a German syndicate to conduct experiments with a'wire- less station, on the promise that the Station would merely attempt to re- ceive the Nauen despatches and would not be used for•the transmis- sion of -meesages. It later became know that the station was sendina 'as we I as receiving, Some 'time before the Luxbarg sca,nde the, Argentine Government had pill a representative at ' e sta- tion, de,. keep. it sealed., • Fc SUN BURN nEAT-RASH /31./.5 TERS BI TES CUTS ar. SORES USE OW V amiluk ae=.— Cffessasimg learned that, the station was operat- ing despite the presenee of the Gov- ernment agent, the President, sent a naval officer to diiniantle the station and to remain there to see that it was not reconstructed, The Geimaia station was situated on the estate of a very wealthy and well-known Argentine about 45 miles from Buenos Ayres near Plomer. It was six miles from the raileoad sta- tion but its posts could be seen from the railroad on a clear' day. Some idea of the size of the radio station can be gleaned from the fact that the antennae were stretched along sixteen posts, set at equal dis- tances apaet -and covering two miles. These posts were 70 feet high. The experimenters had a good deal of trouble with atmospheric condi- tions. The operator, Richerd Metz- ler, stated that he had been able to talk without difficulty with Spain, which was relaying the Nauen mes- sa,get, and that it would not be long before he would be able to talk di- rect with Nauen. Hie station *as dismantled a week after he made that statement, and largely because of his statement. Thisentemedise was one of the most important, in the Minds of local German officials, as this station was to have served for the receipt of the German ,propaganda messages. Luz - burg is understood to have been per- sonally reeponeible ftes the enterprise' and ihe station .was located on the. estate of a man known to be his close friend.' Now the station is. dismantled. Luxburg has one and the local Ger- mans, find their propaganda task a difficult one, though they are still doing the best they can with it. Mohammed V. Was the Foe Of Modern Civilization ° Sblie.koined the nitin *X.04414+ ..OHAMMED V., Sultan Turkey, who,. died on July 4th, Was not much loss. to the World, e,nd yet because he ,happened to be la saonarch 'hie life and death were not entirely with- out interest. Mohammed V. thirty- -fifth sovereign of Terkey in direct descent of the House of Osmah, founder �f the empire, came to the throne by a coup d'etat on April 27. 1909; after having beee held for thirty-three years a prisoner by hin brother, Sultan Abdul II., in the royal palace and gardens in Con- stantinople. The scheming Abdul II. intended that his own son, Prince Bureau Edine, described as the most. brilliant and gifted of the princes of. the House of Osman, should succeed hina. But tilts plan was thwarted when Parliament deposed Abdul and - -placed his priso-ner brother, Malaita med Reschad Effendi, on the throne as Mohammed V. • The Sheii-ul-Islam, head of the Moslem Church, drew up the decree of 'deposition, which passed Parlia- ment without a disseating yoke. Five minutes later, Mohammed, who dur- ing his imprisoninent had had no experience in the duties of Govern- ment, being purposely denied educa- tion in sueh matters by his brother, MOHAMMED V. was declared Suleen: The same af- ternoon he took the oath of acidity to the Turkish constitution and 101 gun p proclaimed the new sovereign. Mohammed V. was born in Con- stantinople Nov. 3, 1845: He was of a studious dispositioe and read wide- ly in Turkish literature. Ills long imprisonment, with lack of exercise, and rich tieing, -undermined his health, and several times Ire was re- ported dead or eeriouely ill. His appearaace sh,owe'd the ravages of time and the worries of amunsteasly • throne. By his 'enforced seclusion he was totally unfit for public life, and tis reported to hare said regard- ing it: "During my imprisonment of thirty-three years ray enemies have slandered me and called me a mad- man bordering On imbecility." He VMS ,eharfieteriZed as good-natured, Weak and ingenuous, with an almost infantile curiosity, and of a religious nature. At his accession he espoused the cause of the Young Turks, the party which was in opposition to the forin and ceremony of his brother's reign. Upon the deposition of Abdul, Mo- hammed was welcomed by them as a, champion of freedom. He promised a progressive reign in a speech from the throne read by the Grand Vizier. He was, however, merely a pawn of the Young Turk party, although he sent, out to the world the message that he had always been the ardent Supporter of the cause of libertyen- lightenment and progress. His hand in the Governimesit was never strong. ' Illness, a naturally easy . dispositiou, and weak will- power, kept him continualiy at the mercy of the Turkish officers and the Liberal pArty. He feared deposition during the Turko-Italian war in 1911, and spent a night praying in the various shrines of Constanti- nople: He appealed to the army to be loyal to him and said. that their treasonable demands encouraged the enemy to attack the Dardanelles. He also loet most of his European do- minions in the Balkan wars. The Young Turks invaded the palace in. 1913 when Mohammed was reported to have become reconciled witli his with his brother., - In 1914, at the outbreak of the present war, Mohammed issued a proclamation blaming the Entente with thrusting war on, Turkey. He exchanged telegrams of greeting with the German Emperor, from whom lie later received the Iron Gross. When hiritain and France declared that a state of war existed with Turkey, he arranged to send troops to Germany whenever needed, In return he was appointed Field Marshal by the Ger- man Emperor and received the beton ef that office from Field Mental von Mackensen. ' In February, 1917, in a speech in Parliament, the Sultan promised Turkish participation in the war un- til the end and declared that the al- liance forced him to break relations with the United States. The next heir to the throne, Yus- eel! Izzedune, is the son of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz, and was, there - Tore, first *fluent of Mohammed V. Mohammed's eldest son, Zia Edine, a man now over thirty, is ninth in he line of succession. C17.:434".:****14:464:":"1":"?..4..4.4>•........÷:+4404M:r A Dahabeah on the Nile i'eterefithritenteteratteaceitteedareaceremealeree HE pleasure dahabeah, or big sailing boat of the Nile, is anything you like to make of it, Some Will -declare that its supreme gift is to make life-long enemies of ite, devotees, that life on board it grows iatolerable. Others assert that it offeeetthe most delight ful form of freedom in the world, It all depends. There in nothing parti- cularly exhilarating about dahabeah cruising, and, after a few weeks of floating up and down the Nile, it is just posAible that, in an unguarded moment, you mag turvy the tourists upon the swift, luxurious steamboats that ply between the capital -and the cataract with their feeight of fashion and wealth. But, th,en, the chances are that your regrets are more or less misplaced. The man who leans over the rail of the passing steamer and watches the big lateen map of your picturesque vessel, is likely to feel that the people basking with you under the awning of the prome- nade deck have brought back the age of a Cleopatra to a world grown common.place and commercial. Sud- denly, he has a revulsion against the speed god to whom- he has sIErificed, end, longs for that intimate contact with the past which the slow-moving dahabeah implies. Outwardly, the dahabeah is a long river craft with a low freeboard. that seems to be a sublimated, present- ment of a house -boat and a dhow. There are two masts, one =well nor - ward to earry the huge lateen* sail that is mn uncompromising emblem of the East, and one well astern for. =ether sail. There is a space in the bows for the crew and the galley of the native cook, and another near the waist for rowing, while, bee whole after part is given up to their lords and masters. In essence, an elongat- ed poop, the style of this after art, with its cabins and awning deck, may range all the way from plain simplic- ity to costly maguldicence. It may be the "home," for the time being, of a rich Arab sheikh or oh some Nile tourists; it .may be the permanent Winter quarters of an avehaeologist or an author; it may ,Tbse a prince or anlexplorer; a sopitety leader or a profeesor. But oever its occu- pants,' the poop is almost certain to harbor either a piano or a, victrola. For music seems as inseparabla from the -dahabeah as from the goladola,, though a cake -walk thumped out on • e superannuated instrument, or shouted at you from tee brazen throat pf a "record," are painful and unbearable, anachronisms, not to be compared for the moment with the soft voices 'of the Arab crew, as their haul away at the sails, clianting, their incessant and monotonous "Allah illi Allah," or "Allah ileh Lessee."' The dahabeah, like the quarters of a capligin of the merchant marine, Is usuaM a marvel of 'compactness. The cabins, and even the saloon, with its book shelves, divans, and diaing table, heve. their drawers and clos- ets in unsuspected places. Crockery, glasses, and clothes fit in with a won- derful adaptability; pegs, harbor guns, and even saddles for the hired donkeys whenever yom go ashore to visit the temples, or to ride into the desert. Nothing, apparently, has been overlooked. The owner may be unpleasantly aware that his boat is always- colliding with other daha- bealis, that it is always having some integral part of ite painted self car- riedamilly away or paying the same compliment to it like; or wasting many of his priaious hours while the crew e endea,vors to pole it off the sandy shallows( He may find that lifd on the Nile see= to be ma4e up of inevitable delays; that the \crew is always sleeping, dawdling, eating,. A -Cup • of Tea A1TGUST 2, 1918 tri Pe Presk From The Ga SealedPackets Only Black—Green or Mimi dens 84-40. quartaing, -or -squatting -11Pott the eternal sands like ifo mamy idides- cent scarabs, apparently without the slightest intention of again Moving froin that moat delectable of spots. He may be confirmed in his suspicion that the boat seems to be more often. moored than en route, and that the real' dictator of life on the dahabeali is, after all, not himself but tb.e rais, or captain, when it does not happen to be that other mighty potentate of the. Nile, the steersman. Biit all these are inevitable conditions of the orientalisni which he frankly em- braced the moment he chose that pe- culiar form, of, wanderlust, a cruise of the Nile in a dahabeah. The men- tal. attitude that takes no thought of time is of the very essence of the contract. Be knows, and is finally happy in the thought that, though below be may have victrola.s, bath- - rooms fitted With. "hot and cold," ice - chests, and the latest kuiek-knack in ctvilized relin.ementat he has done the one thing in Egypt that exactly syn.clironixeS with the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the Ptolemys, with thh skies, the deserts, the tem- plemaand the palms. ,••••••111•111161111.0 "Shove -irons." When it was anrteunced that Jack Ter was to have his chevrons too, to denote valor, one rather wondered what he would make of the word. He has a, good deal of practice in. accli- matizing words,- Partimilariy the names of -the ships in evhich be sails, to the vocabulary of the low.er deck, for Jack Tar considers that names were made for his use, and that cor- reet pronunciation is none of his business, so the Bellerophon becomes the "Billy Ruffian," and the Agamen- non ' the. "A.ggie." Chevrons have straightway besome 'shove -iron." There is a touch of condescension, tom about "shove -irons," chevrons( being new and Jack being "sniffy" about them. Old -Fashioned. "What did you think of the tech- nique of the prima donna last night, Comeup?" "Why, it was an old style. it evea was buttoned down the back." The Messina earthquake of- /908 was followed by 110 less than 1,227 leeTteriaisheZekesritiereatiefeatiefea2Reatta•aentee Members of Old Systein Can Never Rule Russia, Says LiberalGrandDuke aa-eeereeeeteeseeeeeeeeseeeeteaearaeeetet RAND DUKE ALEXANDER MICHAELOVITCH, brother- in-law of the former Russian Em.peror, was interviewed at the end of !nue in Aitodor, in the Crimea, by the correspondent of the Budapest Azest Relating his, exper- idences after the abdication of the, Romanoffs, the Grand Duke said; "We were for days at Dulbar (near Aitodor) at the house of Peter Nicolaivitch, all together. We owe our lives solely to th.at good And in- telligerct man. 'My six sons 'and my- self were on the Bla-ck List, We scarcela hoped to escape with our lives. They took our money an.dpro- perty. Our house in Petrograd was razed to tee ground. • "Fortunately, I have a property with a vineyard in Aitodor, on the produce of 'which my family and my- self can live." The corresponekent atimarked that Russia, might, within the year, again have a monarchial constitution, GRAND MICE MICHAEL. and the Grand Duke asked skeptical- ly if this would be possible. The cor- respondent added that Emperor Nicholas, however, would not again come to -the throne, and the Grand Duke remarked with vivacity: "Certainly not. He is vividly of the old system." The correspondent also relates .a conversation he had with Gen, 'Bel- baroff, who was the Lord High Stew- ard. of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolai- vitch, former commander-in-chief of the Russian army. Gen, Balbaroff gave him details of Nicholas Nicolai- viSch's escape after being sentenced to death by the Bolshevik'. The tat- ter,had declared they would not be content With the edible execution of ) the 1 mperor's relations, but weals driv4 them to death in a speeiatip crue =tanner. , It was a Caucasian officer earned Dsio item!, charged with keenest gua.ed over the Grand Duke's fainibe according to the correseontdhpaeetitidti,aaturz_ho. saved their lives. In order to divert bil eaxneetrutiPoolat ' 8WiliStP.C'ellneephteiofilaraslt streeavetreitdy, pceoesdiodnedinunetativaintglastthGeeirrm . • arrIi. ies&ratheminteresting to note that the 'members of the ittohianoff family - t wild, are liberal in their views ream- , nizt [the weakness of the late Grand, Duke Michael has beeare ' for 'Russia, if that courttry ever p mentioned as a possible nioa- •, becoMes a constitutional monarclim Hie great admiration for British ht-, sti utions made him appear an ae- • ee tible Czar after the abdication of Czar Nicholas, but he refused to ae- - cept the offer then, probably fore- seeing, the ettreme incidents of the reemlution that were hound to fa - Iota. Whatever reaction may tonie later on, it now appears practically certain that Russia wil never become an autocracy again, and the Grand. Duke Michael evidently believes that sttch is the fact. -‘ Russia Is Starting. Rev. Joseph Clare, for five year(' pastor of the British -American Con- gregational Ghurah in Petrograd, has Piet arrived in New York city. He said he wasereturning "for obititraft reit-song," **Russia to -clay is starving,' he said, Not because of lack of trent,- ertation facilities, but because the eople are not raising foodstuffs. Tkis is due to the prevailing anareky -Which is opposed to any, pmoductive work. , -I "Last Christmas I had dinner with six friends. We had a. 12 -pound tur- key and it cost us $37. We extrema- entry bought a pound of suganapagm g a10.50. This is a fair example t Of the high cost of living in Russia. "The general diet of the people is . Small bird!, There is almost net bread. The weekly ration per persota, is only 2%, ounces. "If a commission similar to tbe Root tertittliSSiell could be .sent -tam Russia now, I believe it could do (*ea eetivetwork in helping the Russia*mt people to get on their feet. Whem, Mr. Root's commission was thense the _Bolshevist anoveinet yeasegr rig and it was Impossible to atm piish any constructive work," e Buying rreciOus Metals. el It is not generally kneWn that the, United States mint will btiy precious. Metal in lots of $100 or more, but 4uch is the fact A report just issued. *hews that the Philadelphia Miat educed jewellery; and other athered in melting pots into b alued at $,7,000. Tigers of -Insect World. Probably no other inseet has e subject of so many and ' prea•d, legends and eupersiitu 45 the common •"praying• man ntie relagioia. The aneient- rerioWed it With supernatural grs; -the Turks and Aralis'hold "t prays eon,stantly -with its 'aimed towarde. Mecca; the ,-Pronatt- ale call it Pregeteadou (Vie Th i.ind numerous more or fess names—preaelier, saint, nu One, soottsaper'etc-.-are diffused tifieughout Southern :retie. In Nubia it Is held in ;great eattgem, amit. the Hottentots, if re* iiideed wodAhipping the local SPOhiatie as one traveller has alleged, at lewd arepear to regard. its alighting WOO ally person both as a token of Sainte liness And an omen of good dortune. • ; Yet these are "not the saints, bat a the tigers of the insect world," taiga ' writer int the Encyelopaedia. Brine** aka. The front pair of limbo ate t eery peculiarly modified— the eon* being greatly eltingated, while the strong third joint or femur Isearis Olt its curved under side a ceacuiel a. - ed. on each edge by strong =MO* epinestato this groove the stone tibia is -capable, of dosing like th* . Wade of a penknife, its eharp serrate, -ed edge being adapted to cut ant hold. Thus arraed, with head mill4 upon the much -elongated and seat. t erect prothorax, and with the beat' - opened fore -limbs held outatards lee the characteristic devotional Attitttdoe it rests motionless upon the fear Phsterior limbs waiting for pry, tte oecasionally stalks It with slow einem silent movements, finally seizing - With its knife-lkades and clevb it Although apparently pot daring tri attack ants, these insects des great numbers of time grasshoppen* and caterpillars, and the larger Soatk erican species even attack small - frOgs, lizards, and birds. They atd" Isri7oYrdpeluigkr leimious, bsif'leinkeeirtligussawithrs t4witheir - sates," the larger frequently dee veering the smaller, and the females 1 tho males,t—tast Suffolk Gazette, ••••••amoomo..11. Ob patron at a table of anneal lift{ tel ei the mountains who was about to tiackle a piece of dried apple pie, addressing the landlady,, ealdi "Do you think you -could furnish me vals a bit of cheese?" "I don't knoll" if there is any," she answered, in casearon tone of voice, "but if you'll have a. little patience, ru send a waiter to look through the magnet traps," Corrected. "t is"—began Tenuity. "X altar I is," corrected the teacher prom "1 ata the ninth letter of fhfi aI bet," Tannny went on. Florida contains about 4 act* Of land watting,A4*K.