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LAWNS
No garden is complete without a
lawn. This really sets off the shrub-
bery, trees and flower beds which sur-
round it besides furnishing an ideal
playground for the children and their
elders. A well established plot of
grass will stand all sorts of wear and
tear as is evidenced by the golf cours-
es and bowling greens we find every-
where. But note that the term 'well
established' was used, which means
the following of a few simple direc-
tions. In the first place, one should
remember that the lawn is a distinct-
ly permanent affair. We are planning
something that is to endure year af-
ter year and something when once
established is not easily corrected. We
can reduce or add to it, but we have
a very difficult job indeed in remedy-
ing any original mistakes in regard
to appearance. For instance, it is
far, far easier to make a lawn level
before we sow the grass than it is
afterwards and, therefore, we should
cultivate and rake the plot over as
much as possible the first thing.
Where the top earth is composed
mostly of sub -soil from the cellar, as
is the case in new locations, it may
be advisable to resurface with a two-
inch layer of garden loam. When this
is done, however, it is best to allow
any weed seeds to germinate and then
cultivate them out thoroughly before
we seed down. Now, with our plot
level and ,the top soil rich and fine,
the seed may be sown. This should
be done as early as possible in the
Spring, after the above information is
taken into consideration, as grass is a
cool weather plant and makes its best
growth during the Spring. The work
should also be done on a day that is
not windy so that the seed can be
sown evenly. Remembering again
that our lawn is to be a permanent
affair, it is essential that we select
not only the very highest quality of
seed obtainable but also seed especial-
ly recommended for Canadian condi-
tions. Cheap m'.xtures are composed
of cheap seeds designed to make a
show the first year only, while good
seed, Government tested and approv-
His Friends Remark
How Well He Looks
SAYS ON'%ARIO MAN AFTER US-
ING DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS
Mrs. W. Brierley Suffered with Kid-
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the Bladder.
Port Elgin, Ont. Mar 8 (Special).
—"I feel I must write just a few lines
to say what a wonderful medicine your
Dodd's Kidney Pills are," writes Mr.
W. Brierley, a well known resident of
this place. "For over •a year I was
very sick and took all kinds of medi-
cines. I suffered with Kidney trou-
ble and Inflammation of the Bladder.
Was just on the point of going to
the hospital when I thought I would
ti.•y Dodd's Kidney Pills as a last re -
tonne. They seemed to do me good,
do 1 continued and have now taken
Boxes. •I feel like •a new man and
shall fie'ver agnibe-without them.
Ivo reominended them to several ofI
#►il+ frieiirls. theyall notices how well
Iii after being so sick an,
ailelt to ;enjoy new health
ggyy'' afl over' the body, give
id>tio Pine a trial. f
ed, is sold for permanent re sults. It
is a careful blend of from six to a
dozen different varieties, ,.many of
them very expensive, and includes a
nurse crop to protect the expensive
varieties the first season which come
on and give that satisfactory perman-
ent result, a velvety, uniform sward
year after year. It is necessary to
sow thickly, one pound being suffici-
ent for two hundred square feet. A
light application of commercial fert-
ilizer is advisable at seeding or short-
ly afterwards. This fertilizer has an
;advantage over ordinary manure in
that there are no weed seeds in it.
Special sheep manure is also recom-
mended for this purpose as any weed
seeds in it are killed by the pulveriz-
ing and steaming process to which it
is subjected before bagging. After
seeding, rake lightly and roll pr pound
well. New grass should be cut with
a very sharp mower, especially the
first time, a dull machine pulling out
the new shoots, and should be cut at
intervals of about a week during the
growing season.
Vegetables Worth More Attention.
There are many new or little known
vegetables which are worthy of more
consideration in Canada. Many of
them will be found to fill a special
place such as providing salad mater-
ial at a time when the ordinary gar-
den is very deficient in this respect.
Some of these include Cos Lettuce, a
lettuce that comes on during the hot
season; Spinach, an early and satis-
factory green vegetable which can be
grown anywhere in Canada; Aspara-
gas, easily grown, permanent and very
early; Cress, one of the first salad
materials; Swiss Chard, the stems of
which are used as a substitute for
Asparagus from August on, and the
leaves as Spinach after the Spinach
season; Endive, a late Lettuce sub-
stitute; Kohli Rabi, a cross between
Turnip and Cabbage of a very deli-
cate flavour; Table Squash, drier and
more easily handled than the ordinary
variety; Broad Beans, which will fur-
nish a change from the ordinary green
bean, being shelled before cooking,
and green sprouting Broccoli, re-
sembling Cauliflower in flavour and
management but being easier to
grow. It is a good plan to go over
the new seed catalogues each year
and read up the developments in this
type of gardening and descriptions of
some of the more uncommon veget-
ables. Build up your vegetable gar-
den as you would your flowers by
adding one or two new things every
year.
Pruning.
This is the usual month for prun-
ing in the garden and orchard. All
of the dead canes should be removed
from the raspberry patch as well as
the spindly ones of new growth. Some
of the older wood should be cut away
from the gooseberries and currants.
Grape vines must be pruned very
early to avoid excessive bleeding.
These. vines are best cut back to a
mere skeleton as fruit is borne on
the wood grown the same year. Fruit
trees should be. opened up to let in
sunlight and air, branches that rub
together removed, and perhaps the
top growth headed back so that one
will not have to use an aeroplane to
pick the fruit. Late blooming shrubs
should be pruned in the Spring, but
the early bloomers not until Fall.
Weak and espindly growth among the
climbing roses should be removed at
this• time, er perhaps' a little later.
THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
Some hours 'by steamer from Cay-
enne there lie a group of islands, the
Ile Royale, Ile St. Joseph, and Ile du
Diable. On all of them thers are
convicts, and it is on account of the
last named that France'sa penal colony
in French Guiana has come to be
known to the world as Devil's Island.
Actually the bulk of the convicts are
on the mainland; some six thousand
are distributed between St. Laurent
du Maroni and Cayenne.
Though I am a professional writer
and I went to "La Guyane" especial-
ly for copy, I wrote nothing -about
the place except an article or two.
There are some things that are too
horrible to write a book about. Devil's
Island is one of these.
Even now as I close my eyes the
scene of our arrival comes back to
me like some ghastly nightmare. We
were lying at the mouth of the Mar-
oni river, waiting for our tide. A
rusty old launch came alongside, man-
ned by three ragged -looking wretch-
es and carrying two armed men in the
stern. The launch was bringing us
cur pilot, but it was not the pilot nor
the armed officials that held my at-
tention. That crew—those three ema-
ciated, tortured -looking men! In-
stinctively I knew they were Devil's
Island convicts.
When we had made out slow way
up the river, a little group of white
uniformed officials awaited us on a
rickety, wooden pier. Nearby a gang.
of men were lined up between officials.
They were sprucely dressed in clean
shirts and trousers, with numbers
painted in black upon their shirts, but
had no boots or socks for theconvicts
are not given these. One guessed
they were a show party brought down
for fatigue duty in connection with
the arrival of the boat. I might have
thought no more about them had I
not noticed one look up at the boat
where we lined the rail, laughing,
talking, excited, and saw tears start
into4eis eyes. The tricolor flew from
the stern of our boat. He was look-
ing at the only bit of France that he
would ever see again. a
On the left of the quay there was
another group of men. They were
not well dressed like the fatigue party
nor washed nor shaven; the majority
wore nothing but a pair of tattered
trousers; their bodies were emaciated,
their eyeballs yellow from fearer• in
their eyes that terrible, stricken look
of men who know they have been left
to die. These men were the litres,
the cruellest feature of the whole
system of this living hell. A libere
is a convict who has served his term
in the penitentiary and is condemned
to spend a certain number of years
in the colony, usually the rest of his
life. No food, nor clothes, nor shel-
ter is provided for him. He must find
work and earn these things for him-
self. But how can he in "La Guy -
ane," where there is no work at all
except the forced labor of the con-
victs, sweating in the timber yards?
So when the boat comes in, which is
once a month, with an occasional car-
go vessel in betbveen, the liberes come
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it wad flute. to go ashore.
nay, hoping for ' a felvr
yment, dandling cargo,
op in their trac)lts as theY
ave seen
jab when
slipped a
small, camera into my pocket, and al-
so a 4un,, T had no pertnission to
visit Devil's Island and was not sure
of ipy reception. And, at night when
the, liilerrS, like starved packals, are
prowling the dark streets, most peo-
ple who are not convicts, find a gun
a comforting companion.
MY moat useful asset was a box
of cigarettes. The• first man, doing
time for murder, to whom I offered a
few cigarettes to pose for . a picture,
was a cheerful looking bloke. The
next made me put up my camera. He
was a, shhttered wreck, half -blinded
by n 1tr atment, and he trembled all
over when he thought T was going to
give him ,a cigarette.
I wag ,glad to get back onto the
boat. There the Governor of the is-
land and his staff were assembled to
meet us,„and the old gentleman was
rather more tickled than annoyed to
think that a British writer wanted to
write up Devil's Island. He promisee
to show me anything I wanted to see
when we returned, a few days later.
,Men who have actually been on
Devil's Island—and I have talked with
twos --tell me it is the awful loneli-
ness of the place that tries them most.
There the island stands, just a rock
on which a few cocoanut palms grow
and which a man can walk the entire
way round in twenty minutes. Day
after day, month after month, the
prisoners (of whom there are about
fourteen on the island at the momen-
ent), five there with nothing but the
roar of the ea and the sharks for
company. Some are eventually driv-
en mad by the never ending sound of
the weaves beating en the rocks.
France sends those who have been
convicted as traitors to Devil's Is-
land. Twice already a grievous error
has been made: first Dreyfus and then
Hlenri Bellon. Bellon spent five' years
on the Ile du Diable. I talked to him
about his experiences all through one
never -to -be forgotten night at Cay-
enne.
Cayenne is a shameful town, run
entirely :by slavery and the slaves are
white. Many of the liberes come to
Cayenne when they have finished their
time in the penitentiary. They arrive
with an tiny. flicker of hope in their
bruised and broken hearts. They
think they will be able to make a
fresh start; they will find employ-
ment; they will • earn enough money
to pay their passage back to France
when their time is done. But the cit-
izens of Cayenne are for the most
part half -cast. They have formed
themselves into the strongest employ-
ers' union in the world—every mem-
ber is sworn to one object—to see that
no libere shall ever earn enough mon-
ey to get back to France. Cheap la-
bor is convenient, it costs nothing to
bury a man out there.
On landing I made for the Cafe de
Verdun, which is the local Ritz, kept
by a mulatto woman. Though a
steamer had come in, I noticed that
not a soul had booked a room there,
and the strangely deserted air of the
place did not encourage me to stay.
especially after the Arab waiter told
me he had been sent to Cayenne for
murder. I then betook myself co the
hospice of Les Soeurs de St. Paul de
Chartes, as brave a band of mission-
ary women as exist. There I found
three parties of Belgian gold prospec-
tors, none of whom were on speaking
terms, a Chinese and a young French
mining engineer. The Chink, the
Frenchman and myself shared a room.
A queer little Frenchman who was
the hospice orderly, waited on us.
Late that night the young mining
engineer and myself sat down to write
some letters by the light of a candle
in a bottle. The orderly sat between
ns. Both of us were writing to our
wives, and as we wrote, we chatted to
each other of the home -coming that
awaited us. 'Suddenly I noticed that
the orderly had ,put his head in his
hands, his shoulders were shaking
with terrible, dry sobs, The engineer
laid a hand on his shoulder. He got
up, sniffed and stumbled out of the
room.
"He is a convict," explained the
engineer. "He is here for Life. It
was hearing us talk about our homes.
He will never see his wife again; he
has given me a letter to her."
Henri Bellon was a more cheerful
soul. But then Bellon could throw
his head back and look his fellows in
the eye, for the conviction against
him for treason had been quashed and
he was a free man waiting to go back
to France,
On our return to St. Laurent du
Maroni, the Coipmandant himself
showed me over the penitentiary. We
began our tour in the timber yards
where the hard labor gangs were at
work. White men don't do manual
vyork in the tropics as a rule; it is
done by colored folk with white sup-
ervisors. But they do it if they are
sent to La Guyane.. White and black
and copper colored -all work together
in the same gang. It is not a pretty
sight to see a White man working
bare -backed in a mosquito -infested
swamp, with his feet lacerated by
thorns and jiggers.
At the prison itself we visited the
isolation cells first. Here conditions
have been slightly improved. T h e
dungeons, I understand, have been
abolished; at least I saw none. At one
time men of bad character were put
into black dungeons for thirty days
at a time, with three days out so that
they should not lose their eyesight,
and afterwards put back again.
We passed , on to the "cages,"
wooden block houses with overhead
ventilation. 'By day they are left op-
en. At night when the convicts are
shut up, forty men to each cage, very
dreadful things happen.
The French as a' nation alae neither
cruel nor mean and they have no idea
that such a place 'exists. Those who
have seen it, will not mention it for
they consider it a blot on the honor
bf their race.
THE MOST FAMOUS PRIVATE IN
ANY ARMY
The Lawrence legend hits bobbed
up again, this time in connection with
the troubles of Soviet Russia. Ac-
cording to the •Soviet seeret police, it
was "Colonel Lawrence" who took the
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leading part in negotiating the British
share of the Anglo-Frepch war plot
with representatives of the eight
Russian induetria1 experts, whose
trial ended recently. By this time it
seems fairly certain that there is to
be no end to the villainy of this ter-
rible "Colonel Lawrence."
The original Lawrence has long
since been crowded out of the picture.
Eight years ago he fled into hiding to
escape the legend which he unwitting-
ly created in ,Arabia. He is still in
hiding and the disowned Lawrence leg-
end has lost much of its vogue in the
jaded' West. But Asia has now tak-
en it up.
Last Summer, for instance, it was
the Kurdish rising in the eastern
provinces of Turkey which was fo-
mented by "the notorious Lawrence."
Two years ago it was the revolution
in Afghanistan and the enforced abdi-
cation of King Amanulla which were
brought about, by him.
It was in the summer of 1916 that
an eccentric 2'8 -year-old archaeolog-
ist from Oxford, Second Lieutenant T.
E. Lawrence, was transferred from
British G. H. Q. in Cairo to the Arab
Bureau and became "adviser" to a lo-
cal Arab prince, named Feisal. Law-
rence made the cause of Arab inde-
pendence so completely his own that
he became thenceforth more Arab
than British.
As he carried the new gospel of
Arab independence from tribe to
tribe, there were days when he was
so weak with fever that he could
scarcely keep the saddle. There
were nights when he huddled for
warmth against his camel's flank as
he squatted asleep in the freezing
desert mud. And there was one night
when, on a perilous journey alone, he
was arrested by the Turks as an Arab
deserter, given a hundred lashes and
left for dead.
Yet one by one the smaller Turk-
ish garrisons outside Medina were
overcome, and at the end of a year,
having stormed the Turkish garrison
in the Red Sea port of Akaba (and
having refused the British and French
decorations which 'were awarded him
for that astounding feat), he present-
ed himself to Lord Allenby in search
of further British support—"a little
bare-footed, silk-shirted man offering
to hobble the enemy by his preaching
if given stores and arms and a fund
of 200,000 sovereigns to convince and
control his converts."
Leaving the strong Turkish garri-
son in Medina to eat its own mules
in peace, he then began cutting its
sole support, the 800 miles of single-
track railway line which ran south
from Damascus to Medina. With the
merest handful of companions, he
blew up train after train of Turkish
military stores and reinforcements.
For two years he and his Bedouins,
raising tribe after tribe as they were
needed, pushed further and further
north along- the railway, finally
swarming into Damascus where Feis-
al was lifted into his promised Arab
throne.
In 1919 Lawrence took Feisal to
Paris and tried to impose Arab inde-
pendence on the Peace Conference.
But the British Foreign Office was
bound to France by a secret treaty
which had shared out Syria long be-
fore it was conquered from the Turks
and Lawrence found himself trapped
and helpless. So he returned his Brit-
ish decorations to the King, because
"the promises made to the Arabs had
not been fulfilled and consequently he
might find himself fighting against
the British forces, in which case it
would be wrong to be wearing Brit-
ish decorations."
A year later the French drove Feis-
al from Damascus and, although Law-
rence helped to find him a new throne
under a British mandate in Bagdad,
nothing then remained of the edifice
of Arab independence which he had
raised. !Sickening of the growing
legend which was attaching itself to
his name he fled into hiding. He fled
from his own name, which he chang-
ed by legally adopting his mother's
maiden name. Refusing to accept any
other rank than that of a private
soldier, in 1922 he enlisted in the Roy-
al Air Force and there he remains
to this day under the grade and name
of Aircraftsman T. E. Shaw.
A story. is sometimes told of his
arrival at his first post. He was
standing at attention beside his bunk
during hut inspection and the officer
commanding the depot glanced at the
little shelf of books beside the head
of his bunk.
"Do you read that sort of thing?"
he asked. "What were you in civil
life?"
"Nothing special, sir."
"Why did you join the Air Force?"
"I think I must have had a mental
breakdown, sir."
It is idle to g-uess at .the motives
that have led this most cultivated of
men, one of the finest living schol-
ars in Greek, French and Arabic, one
of the most distinguished of living
Englishmen, to abandon his Oxford
fellowship, his government service,
even his military rank, and to bury
himself among mechanics in the tin
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les',, that he felt he was losing coin
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tenanted at .all costs to retain it.i
Qthera say that Arabia wore him out
in hady and rabid, and : the politleall
crimes,of the Peace Conference so re
voltedihim as to drive him out of
civil life.. • '
Re is •still a ',private Soldier, hav-
ing refused to accept elven the modest
distinction ai a ; Worporal's • single
stripe. Still' in hiding, he is at pres-
ent stationed at Catterick Camp, near
Plymouth, in'the;vest of England. '
The world 'catches bnly the most
fleeting gltxll l'sea ^of hiin. When; he
was Stationed - at! 41v'vorth Cove aaYlip
he used occhsiohally {p ga. over --on his
Motorcycle tones a .late , Thomas
1 iardys at Dorchester. A few days
ago Plymouth lens F441 1410 out of' its
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wits by the sight of ' Astor, its
most famous' M. P., seated like an
English "flapper" on the pillion -seat
of his motorcycle,
Among the other R. A. F. mechan-
ics at Catterick he has the reputation
of being a glutton for machinery and
baths. He is considerably below av-
erage height, but he is fatter than he
Used to be and physically as hard as.
nails. Many of his mates have no
idea that his name was formerly Law-
rence, and, if they had, it would mean
no more than that there is something
in his past which he wants to forget.
His first term of enlistment ex-
pired last year and he then re-enlist-
ed for a further term of four years.
Unless he re -enlists again he is due
to come back into the world in 1933,
and it is possible that he may then
return to his first love, printing. He
used to have a press of his own at
Chingford long before the war and his
famous book on the Arab revolt has
been a reminder that fine printing has
lost none of its hold on him. He plan-
ned it for private circulation only, but
lavished such expense on its typo-
graphy and illustration that he was
compelled to agree to a' popular edi-
tion in order to secure the advance
on royalties needed to finance his pri-
vate edition.
If he returns to civilian life in 1933
it will be as Mr. Shaw and strangers
who inadvertently address him as
`'''Colonel" will be likely to discover
that he has a capacity for devastat-
ing vehemence of which his mild and
somewhat unimpressive exterior gives
not the slightest warning.
S.O.S.
She was newly married and very
inexperienced in the ways of house-
keeping. One day she was preparing
for a little dinner party. "If I could
only remember the recipe for that
scrumptious cake Mother made !"
she sighed. Then she brightened
suddenly, flew to the telephole to
call her Mother by Long Distance.
She got the recipe—and a lot of
helpful advice!
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The Schneider Cup stands for the
air championship of the world in the
same sense that the world's series
stands for the baseball champion-
ship,, with the difference that the
Schneider Cup is an international
race. It came into existence in 1912,
the occasion being a dinner by James
Gordon Bennett, the expatriated Am-
erican who lived for so many years in
France and did so much for both mot-
or racing and aerial progress. Mr.
Schneider was the son of the owner
of the famous Schneider gun factory
in 'Creusot, interested in sports of
many kinds and inspired to some ex-
tent, maybe, by the native juices of
his country, he arose and announced
that he would offer a trophy to cost
$5,000 which would be awarded' in
competition to the team of airmen,
representing different nations, who
developed the greatest speed in an
airplane. Three years ago M.
Schneider died in poverty, but he has
managed to give his name internation-
al renown which will be perpetuated
as long as such races are held.
The first race was held in 1913.
This year's race will be held on Aug-
ust 24th to September 19th, between.
the Ise of Wight and Southampton.
Here is the record to date:
1913, plane Deperdussin, winnei
France, pilot M. Prevost, miles per
hour 45.75; 1914, Plane Sopwith, win-
ner Great Britain, pilot Howard Pix -
ton, miles per hour 55.3; 1920, plane
Savoia, winner Italy, pilot Comman-
der Bologna, miles per hour, 102.5;
1921, plane Macchi, winner Italy, pil-
ot G. de Briganti, miles per hour
117.4; 1922, plane Supermarine, win-
ner Great Britain, pilot Captain H.
C. Biard, miles per hour 146.5; 1923,
plane Curtiss, winner United States,
pilot Rittenhouse, miles per hour,
177.4; 1925, plane Curtiss, winner
United States, pilot Doolittle, miles
per hour 232.6; 1926, plane Macchy
winner Italy, polit Bernardi, miles
per hour 246.5; 1927, plane Gloster,
winner Great Britain, pilot Webster,
miles per hour 281.5; 1929, plane
Supermarine, winner Great Britain,
pilot Waghorn, miles per -hour, 328.6.
The original intention was to hold
the races annually, but in 1921 it was
decitho to hold them every two years
because of the mounting costs. The
war years of course precluded racing,
and yet despite the tremendous de-
velopment of the airplane between the
years 1914 and 1918, a speed barely
exceeding 100 miles per hour was
made in 1920. In 1924, the races
were to have been held at Baltimore,
for the nation which wins the race in
the previous year wins also the right
to specify where the contest for the
following year shall take place.
But in preparing for the Baltimore
races all the foreign competitors were
injured, and the American team refus-
ed to reap a barren victory by flying
over the course. Had this been done
the trophy weuld' have passed perm-
anently into the possession .of the
United States: Since Great Braitain
has won in the last two contests her
pwinning cu
expectations of the out-
right
right are high especially since in
trials Eritis'li'alreien have flown much
faster races. Squadron Leader A. H.
Orlebar now holds the world's speed
record with 357 miles fin hour, and
the 'elrpeetation is that a speed of 400
Mlles per hour or perhaps seven miles
no{gltyyel*S6lfixRtett ~4 $
a minute will be reached is the next .
races, Contrary t the, genegral,
lief the Schneider cup is not fox pom-
peii}tiQn among gpvaRnapnt rA I :.tj
precisely in the same oat:spry; as
races for .the, 4neriea'41 ewi►t' t►t
then the MacDenald Gover me it s n,
pounced that it, ,had no „m oney rr
speAdi on the ,Tagus this :year it Iras
14).RAil y deiioi}ncd, by eoPJeko
seemed �t in'k' . that i ,n s. w ag
ot1. ?inraationt1 o'bljgatwln,
Airplane racing isa sport, and
while governments rather than indi-
' iduals are concerned in improve-
ments made in airplanes it cannot
matter greatly to a government whe-
ther • a °Siamese or an Abyssinian, flies
faster than anybody has ewer flown
before. Or rather, looked at logic-
ally, it would not matter. In point
of fact it matters greatly, for the
flight is a tremendous advertisement
for the machine that makes it, just
as Campbells run in • the Blue Bird
was an advertisement of world-wide
circulation for British engineering
skill and workmanship. But when
for a moment it seemed that Mr.
MacDonald's statement meant %hat
there would be no Schneider Cup rac-
es in England this year, the sporting
spirit of the nation asserted itself
and Lady Houston, widow of Sir
Robert P. Houston, came forward and
offered £100,000 as a guarantee that
all expenses would be met. The Roy-
al Aero Club has taken charge of
the arrangements and the Government
has agreed to lend pilots and equip-
ment if necessary, though officially it
i5 not taking part.
It is expected that Italy will make'
a strong bid for it is building special
machines and is training pilots for
the test. France has already entered
two planes and has three army pilots
getting ready for the event. Italy has
already won the race three times,
while Great Britain has won it four
times. The race has been confined to
representatives of four countries, al-
though ;here is no reason why others
should not compete, the contest be -
ng (Fee to the world. But it is an
extremely costly business t•o build
special ,pleries which might or might
not be of any more practical use af-
ter the race was over than the various
challengers for the America's Cup.
The United States Government is not
building special fast planes at pres-
ent, but some efforts were made to
have an American team entered, pri-
vate sportsmen bearing the expense.
This was not found possible because
the time for receiving entries closed
with American plans in the tentative
stage. We understand that there has
been some grumbling in the United
States on this account, but American
planes will have their chances when
the next race is held. Should Bri-
tain win the cup next Summer, it will
be necessary for another trophy to
be offered, and we Can suggest no
more happy result than that it should
be named in honor of the generous
lady who has made the 1931 c i test
possible.
PRIEST'S STORY OF JOFFRE'S
DEATH -BED SCENE
Father Belsoeur, the Eudist who
administered the Last Sacraments to
Marshal Joffre, and Brother Ferdin-
and, the religious -nurse who cared for
him up to the end, have told a re-
porter for "L'Echo de Paris," of all.
the admiration they felt for the cour-
age of the dying soldier.
Physically, he fought against death
with an unbelievable vigor. Some-
times life seemed to abandon him, his
respiration grew slower and slower.
As one thought he was drawing his
last breath, he would seem to take
hold of life acid resume respiration
with such an effort that it would
sound like the air from a bellows. His
resistance was something superhuman
that baffled the doctors themselves.
When Father Belsoeur came to
Joffre's bedside, the patient said to
him simply: ;'I am happy to see
you," and added pleasantly, "I am a-
lone; my wife has left me temporar-
ily." Then with great emotion the
Marshal said, "How we ,love one an-
other!"
"Will you permit me to pray for
you?" the priest asked.
Joffre took his hand, held it a long
time, then said: "How happy you
make me!"
For a long time it•had been agreed
between the Marshal and his wife
that whichever survived the other
should see to it that the dying one
had an opportunity to receive the
Last Sacrament. When after Confes-
sion Joffre received Extreme Unction,
he held the crucifix tight in his fin-
gers and repeated, "My God, I love
Thee . . . Forgive . . - For-
give . " •
At moments of great pain, the dy-
ing man showed some impatience, but
immediately he would say, "Excuse
me. Will you excuse me?"
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