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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-10-09, Page 7SPECIMENS UNLABELLED NATORR STORY 4.0"42P4144$ 4itobvrg4 $cettmatt) Soale satd that be belonged, Others thet he was a praetical joke let loose by seMehedY, and yet ()there agent that he Was len "escape." A few thoettlat that Ile Might be the result of a ehipwreeke while one or two al- lowed that "nobody knoved nutleite," whittle was Quiet the only truth Seokete Aza Ulatter of fact, be In be practical. but was mot ne jeike, and it seems pretty el heionged ler not, over a mlar century had elelletni and tw had eon* to We end eillee th ids kind had glided in the Wet% the moor to the eadi Wood;. NoW, hoWever, Joke, or shi survivor, or escape, or -Mutt y there he was, sure enough Motienlees on the edge of t gloom, Up to 'will& the heathe Bite te sea ot splerdid Duro clean-cut head was up, show siteekless white ehirt front, hi broad forepaws, like models en ture for the paws of a Bog Planted upon the earpet of p ay have eerthinly ear that, ter or A. o reigne e last a myttight ug pine- pwrecle, cm will, etanding he pine V wept a His lug his s abort, —firmly ine be- ne bine along the ground, w fine, nuahy tail curled partly ro Suddealy, ae he stood, he w nutlet upou his tail as if a hor stung him—there may have be nets there, but none had stung and galloped—y0, gallopetl up a etre** eron-herd pine tree,ll use fem. telephone -poles, .as nunnhereatures are satisfied to upon 'Mother earth. There was nag that a mere tame human could beve seen to make him c Matinees, and be had given no log. lint just as hho new was hne the tree, as if he had touched a a long, eippling creamy shape w ahead of him like a rocket. The creamy shape was a squirrel, and it had been invisible till then, be- cause all save its nose and one eye had been mad ou the other side ot the trunk', But what's that? I guess "creator is right, or pretty near; erealte-yellosv would be more exact. m nu.squirrels are red. Tree. And thet, it what would have made that sgtureei a goyim sovereign In gateekeelter's pocket, if he could have caught him. He could not, however, at teed not up to date, and the pine rtein tooked like cutting in ahead of shim on that game, for there is a !bale -to ,racing up even the tallest ' if you do it at that :apptilelog pace—you waist come to the • tote And- that *as just what the squirrel ded-e-had been doing all his life,' in faciteen.elle came t� the top with the lea -Marten three feet, one and a half 1„nehrett.,thellind him, and—HU But ettere*as no stopping him. [e calrn- .Iy tiellad put into space, and floating parectnite-Wise, landed almost at the . hese ,if the next tree, spread-eagled Upon the gnarled bole, and wonder-- ' cheet would have thought that mas- terpiece of trapezing acrobath would . Ve nm eenough to short -week fo. And so It was—any foe but, . nine Inarten. He specialised in sq rei bunting. He did not parachute to -the spot exactly, however, but bp did pretty giddy stunt, all the sense. Ile ieapt—ntyi but it was •grAnd to see that flying, mierring leap, way, way tip ailiong the twig traeary -against the thaely clouds—from the tree be was On to next—a. long, long Way, it vas—and then he came dowo. He (1*n-fall, but he did the next thing ftt quiekne'es to falling, and he seemed to sleeve at the bottom Mend one wink- behind the sgairrel, wed the *hole thing did not take longer than tinder the apperitIon% off forepaw. AG a matter of fact, the rabbit had burst, with eyes starting and witiskers on end alai without warning given, out of the bracken, muck into the stayer, and lie—well, be had, Vieth one awlft stroke of his spotless, gleam - mg fangs, talten with thanks weal the gods had 30 kindly out, Now, the apparition was a pine marten, which is a cousin of the Voce* marten, and the poleeat, the th skunk and e ferret, and the big relatiOU of the weasel. In Matt be wan to all intents and purposes, a beautiful, inagniffed, glorified king of the weasels, and— Mates what. If you know the great clean weasel, or have ever bad a ferret hung coyly apd with nis teeth well locked home from your thumb- nail, you vtill understand. 11 not, I fear you won't. The great clan wea- sel runs in size from the forty-three inch otter and the thirty-six inch badger, down to tee eight and three- quarter inert weasel lady we:gelling 1 oz. 10 drs„ but whoever, wherever however it be, it very, very. seldom ith nis nines a fight,' and—ween cernered, und. it nearly always "plays the gazile." binned For that we like it—being British. net had The pine marten looked. back over en hoe- els shoulder at the. fox—he did not hiln— start, or crouch, or ebow surprise, as great, one of the eat or dog tribe might ke they eave done. His tribe's nearest rela- sgialynoaps tione are the bears, end they are an noth• bebag lo this warn - ay up sprIng. ent off unemotional people. The fox ect the pine marten with prick frank, and doglike interest. .A he mistook him for a glorifie n cat-ee had met one once, and :taken no good impression away---tili his nose told him that this beast of lithe graee, robed in the eolor of polished mahogany and tarrying about with hint 'the inimitable scent of the pines, was not to be Mixed up in the sante boat as the polecat, the vile•stnelling fOuhriart. Then he, • for a few brief moments, thought that eee might be some very long, low. new sort of• a cat—this because the marten's fur was beginning th swine on end—but Ile knew that cats "preparing for ac- tion" crouch, not bold their heads erect and ineolently defiant, after the fasbion of this beast. Finally he gave it up ,and allowed he'd be wise to move circumspectly. All the same, he wanted that rabbit. By all the taws of the wild it was his, yox know. One Can never tell whether a wild beast will fight or will not, but per- n.ans• the other fellow can. It is uot neceesarem y a atter of plUeli much as policy. Reynard has n putation as a pugilist, much, but, more "nifty with nig mate" many people think, and if, as the wile folk averred, this one had once tac- kled a wild cat, then—why not a pine marten? Wey not, indeed, for it Is pretty certain that, of the two, most men would prefer to take on tee mar- ten to the eat, but--vvete, one never any knows in the wild. The fox began negotiations with uir- the f"bluff," just to get the measure of the - tele, having never met one up to date. bbe flashed in, chopped and flashed out agate, after the immortal form .01 attack of the wolf people. He -had meant to follow it' up with. much growl- ing, and effective display of white teeth and bristling "hackles," but the pine marten wasn't there when he -.chopped, and when he nulled beck he tyt a stab of ,fire in his left flank that told him—and indeed the beast had moved almost too quickly for eye to folloev—where that pine marten had got to instead. Now, it is an ,awkward thing, when you mean to bluff le fight to b tak 4 .0T A1..L Miff BLAME PRINCESS MARY TAKES THE SALUTE FOR THe FIRST TIME At Redford Barracks, •Edinburgh, recently, Princess Mary thepected the let Battalion Royal Soot's, of which reale meet she le colonel...in-Chief. Photo sho we the mareh poet at the saluting, Wise, ally, I telt* one of thmm e. ade bl der, drove a bluff home too elos Ti to next negbt the rabbit died via soznething, and-ewe:I, tlaere they were, stoat, ad was never seen by mortal rolling Over and over, and whirling • man again, though it had front teeth of their own of round and round, In little maelstrom which curled over 11.4heacl and was Yeit At ow leaves, oz neeelleee-even part of the great wool- antie pine city, I regret to state—and, yen just a little fur. What was happening no one -could say, but it certainly couldn't happen long. It was too strenuous to la,st• even if the jay, who had invited self inquisitively, unseen, to that 1.11 a way jays have, had not let o file -harsh equawk, simultaileously the sudden silly yell of an equnsuspeoted and apparently inter° green woodpecker which Inlet' 1 worth keeping. for a elecin Oth The nhe ext night tfox YU: e rare Wok belly swain ueross a neighboetae river one Um) t"0 many, aim was Inver seen. by human being more. And oe the next atot, the eine mar- ten, etalking _palsied squirrel upon a 0 4 ( -.lank In e thundeestorm, ve,its t struck by lig ithing„imi—thera was to to,; notiro g left except a spin and siiiver ;iI nt ea cocestump to see. 11::?)(31. . A • VENYETili- regard- two compatants apart es if they lied eared, been "shocked." t first The fox bad taken one leap and had d pole- gone out, as a spark goes out, among the pale yellow -ochre bracken. Tbe pine marten had taken one leap also— to a low -hanging whorl of a apt fir, and had gone ont and Ina., a the fashion of a rocket. Nelthet them said anything, or stopped explain why one moment they had been a fighting vortex, and the moment—nothiugi The jay and green woodpecker had explained for them. Soxneone was coming. o And somne did come, very slowly, Very quietly, a ,double-barrel gun-- loaded in both barrels with 1-10 oz, of shot, trod may be sure—under histarm, and keen. eyes under his peak -cap. Ite stopped and stared round, almost upon the spot where, rive seconds he. fore, the two beasts had been riglit- Me with their lives for sale. He saw the eeatt rabbit upon the growl& 1-lesaw the alood—like little coenleon shiny Meads it was—and thought it was the rebinds but he saw within. , so else. o re- The aleles of greeted treeoraalcs, 115 1.4 the shade religious in its stleace even `at mideclay, the fallen. branches going hack to the earth from •whenve the had ono . even where they fell, theant stifling, stagnsilence, told him so word. No sound broke the stilluetts, but the shell-like sough of -tee moon land breezes, spending themselves like waves upon the' dark tops of the ser- Hti pines,ethe soft, whisperieg "seethe" of the disturbed ants' nest, and the infinitesimal stretching of a beetle under foot, It was to Wan a closed book, this world of the wild, and the drama. upon vvhich his coming had rung down the 'curtail' could never be unfolded to his eyes. Aye, and he was a man of understanding, too; hie preserves were not to him Just 00 many head of game upon the game -register. Only 'silence he heard, and only the -mask of Nature, shut clown in blank- ness', he saw; yet flat to the ground, hidden cunningly by the bracken— that mist of pale green -yellow ochre, pure copper, and oldegold, so filmy, but which. knows how to hide so well —the fox lay—nine feet three and a, quarter inches In a parallel line trom the grinning barrels of his guu; and, Platter still tO scaly bark, hivisibie behind aacurtain of dark, tasselled pine sPraYs—those sprays, so forbidding, earl:, 'and mysterious, whech -conceal no much—the pine marten crouched, fifteen feet six and bwo-third inches in a, vertical line above the staving rings of his gun muzzle, They Were th r iN DETROIT - Lea de of One Faction of Camorra 'nee 10 text just tite .As He- Was Leaving a Bank. Cuffileg a eigarette Mite. . With ix reboutndIng leap he • caugli t 'ee,n earnest. The pine marten took the ing fox in earnest, foe he came of a deadly ere and earnest race. eloreover the fox's the the squirrel just off up anothee and the two come clown in a whirl -heap together, Then—well, then bitivas nothiag to be heard except spieled of tne pine marten, lapping blood, and presently he posed on; to stand again, at the brink of the wood, stareng ' out, a little carmine -stained about the tips, but otherwise as ,if nothing had happened. It wasquite still in the pine -wood --but not so still as in many lowland weenie, where no air stirs—and he could- hear every little souud Mevery- body who raoved thereinback behind !elm; he did not need to look. He • neared fon Instance, the argumentative jay, the needle -stale of the titmice, tee quick tap -tap -tapping of the wood- pecker- that tells not whence it comes/ he heard evep a mole working under- ground, the low, hollow murmur of the upland breeze in the tasselled velvety pine tops, end the tinytu- ninit of a great wood -ant city hard by.. But he never hoed the fon. What on earth possessed so secret neronage as red Reynard to risk Whitegipned brush abroad before eleff the bat set free the night," and svtille yet the sun sat crimson Above the ridges, the vocal himself alone knew, but it was only not playing the genie quite. Nobody looked for tern in that hour, and when. the Jere midden nuthaeg-grater tweed' warted tee wild to leak out, nobody believed tbat the jay, the official jeeter ot Nature,Wag doing anything Oise but pleyitig the fool, Wherefore it happened that Rey - Wird, -driving's, swift and silent rabbit trail tbrough the Wood, hard from north to south, ettnie througb the bracken to suddenly eon the apple. How still stiteding there silently un- der the Pine gloom, that in order to e„vold collision, Itti had nothing eIse to do but to sit on $.114,1 tail and elide on Ale forepaws. It Was rather an undignified intro- duction, especially as the rabbit in the ease hapeetIed to be -elle could see the, white epttiell of the upturned belly k Mang, but otherwise dead, .„. • bluff did not frighten him. It takes a very great deal to frighten, even a little ntneench weasel. Goodness 'mows how much precisely it ,take to trighten a thirty -inch pine naartet. In- deed, feareelt seeme, was very nearly r left but when nature planned tele strange wild tribe of weasel people; very nearly, but not quite, lest the all get themselvee incontinently slain. But YOU inust not Mix irefear and ilia elation in the wild, you know. The pine marten held bis ground and the rabbit. The fox skirmished around, all guns "run out," se to speak, or all teeth bared, and brietling, if you like, executing some rather fine spun tuns of the eigli jump now and then, to make thinge lima more impressive. Out the pine marten was not im- pressed. It the fox was working himself up into a temper, like a turkey•coek that stamps upon the ground, rr a bull— Well, let him, For Me part, the pine marten found no need so to do, tetaper, in his tribe, being alwaye Very near 11e surface, Ile stood. tHe bristled, He rnade :ibises, strange and uncanny little devil's noises. Hie bristling was cat- like, which Blume' the cats eld not, aa nany think, Patent it, the weasel people being older than the cat tribe, tts object is to leolc larger.and more terrible thau you are. 'Mere bluff, you see; the world is tell of IL Even King Lion blinself is a master bluffer. Suddenly they ehot together, Why? Goodness know, And who atteeked it was imPoesible to say, You never really quite know what the wIld folk are going to do, Or WItY, or when. At lost, I don't, anyway, ahd I base knowu them longer than yesterdaY, These two Were simply together, somehow, and fighting like wild ereatures, for 'When, your wild folk ' e Ma e up thends toirmi• bey fight, do not do it by hatvee, Person ************wIt ibetroit Report — Sam Giannola, the reputed leader of one faction of Sicil- ian blood feudists, was shot eleven times and killed this afternoon. The assassins escaped. Glannola was leaving the doorway of a branch of the American State Bank, at ;Monroe and Russell streets, when the gunmen shot from the street. Eleveu bullets entered Giannola's body, one piercing his heart. He stag- gered back into the bank, where he fell to the floor dead. Giannola had Just cashed a cheque for $200. As he turned to leave three unidentified Stcilians opened a foil- acie with automatic pistols. In his Pantie efforts to reach shelter within the bank, Glannoll sraashed the glass in a large door. 'Cashier Gallant', who had just cash- ed the check, and :Wise Susanna Brad- ley, witnessed Glannoll's death. Petrolman Loggins was half a block from the scene of the crime when he heard the shots. He drew his revol- ver and -started in pursuet of three men running north on Russell street. The men were lost in the crowd.which Colleted, The police are unable t� get any information on the shooting from erg of the Italian merchants or residents of the •neighborhood. Everyone adopt- ed a -policy of silence, as is generally the ease in feud affairs of this type. The scene of the shooting is a bank operated for many years by Ford Palma, former polio -department de- • tective, and of late years one of the eity's wealthiest Italians, Five minutes previously the bank was visited by two patrolmen on bank detail. They noticed no suspicious characters around at that time. This was the first time Giannoll had been in the. bank for four months, in - 'dictating that his assailants had been following him. Glannolds 'brother was shot and kill- ed in similar faahlou here last winter. ee.e, • neither 01: them having had any time not from choice, but froin necessityei, sHoRT trEme to get further without risking being " 13_ Been in motion. And he never knew they were there. And he would have even a month's Pay if he had, for— mark thls—the ptue marten was said to be extinet in that land these thirty to lefty yeatt endthe fox .4'.. 41,, ihe only other bItecktbellied fox in the land, and a -collector had offered him nearly a month' pay for his skin. Then a ,peculiar thing happened mei. The rabbit got up mid ran away! • Tory Whip in Legislature zatio The marten's dagger -like 'canines, eating in at the back of the bage of Defeated in Fight For 1 lilla has I' the brain, had merely temporarily Nomination. , omen Paralyzed it. The keeper was so ainezed that, though a good shot, he miseed with both !barrels. DEMME'S WARSHIP The pine marten was so amazed, , not Itt the rabbit, the probably lee was OF THE NEWS OF THE HAY the pereon of Rev. Dr. Henry Schae- fer,' of Chrtet Church Chestnut Hill, ,Pa.. The LtheraleConeervatIvas of Epee NIplesine nominated Mr. Harry More ell as candidate in Um coming Pro- vincial election. Sonnet% during a labor demonetra- tion by 15,000 pereone itt the Berlin :dueller Strasee Thursday, firee into the crowd, killing one civilian and wounding tea othere, The _Geneva Tribune eaym it learne that 07 eighlY Placed personages, lit - chiding several former Ministere, have been arrested in Poole for having protested againet. the Anglo-Perelan convention. Vice -Admiral Sir David Beatty, of the. liritieb. Navy, will Holt the Unitea State e soon, aecording to Captain Geoffrey Blake, weeny appointed pave al attache to Great Britain% lent- bassy at Weehlagton. The Berlin Government has eelected Castle Oels as the lettere home of the Crown Ptincess, es her former abode is eonsidered numb too large and pre- tentioue for her preeent eireurn- stances It is reported then the Common- , wealth ClovernMent be considerin • plopoeal to pay war gratuity to- all members of the Auetralian expedition- ary force, involving the expenditure of some five millions pounces sterling. There Is sufficient butter in cold Storage in the warehouse of the Mani- toba Cold Storage Company and the Win. Davies Compauy to meet .the demand at Manitoba's home consump- tion for nearly five Mantle. A sad fatality took place at Oshawa, when Lillian May, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, 'William P. Temperton, succtunbed to burns sus- tained feom a bonfire. - The ratepayers of Guelph will be asked at the municiphl election in January next to vote a sufficient sum of money to put Royal City Park, situated along the Speed River, In first-class condition. An early morning blaze, the origin of which is not knoven, destroyed four boat houses near the East Pier at Cebourg, and the Gov-erinnent titot.a.ge house teas badly acorched. Several canoes and boats were burned. At the Liberal convention held in Peterboro, G. A. Gillespie, M.P.P., was unanimously en -nominated to contest the election called for October 20th. More than $1,200,000 worth of skins were sold at the two•daye' fur aue- non in New York. Prices of dyed foxes, conies and other furs recorded inereases of to 35 per cent. over August mice& Conservatives of Temiskaming re- nominated Capt. Tone Magladery, The Allied Supreme Couneil decided to hand over to General •Denekine, commander of the forces in Southern Russia, operatine against the 13olshe- viki, the battlealp Voila, which had been sequestered by the BHtisb navy in the Black Sea. After representing Dufferin coestia uency in the Legielature for the last twelve years, Mr. Charles IL Mc- Keown, Chief Conservative Whip, "MIS defeated for the Coimervative nomina7 tion. . The convetion otiose as its , standard-bearer e farmer of alubriur township, Mr. Joint Ileburn, junior, The Northwestern Russian army is engaged in a general offensive move- ment in the- direction of Pskov (near the Esthonian frontiers In the region eouthwest of Petrograd), Despite the stubborn risistanceeof the Bolshevik', eleven village:4 have been captured. The offeesive is continuing. That he has not definitely accepted the Independent Labor Party nomina- tion. was the announcement made by Mayor MacBride, of Brantford lei dance depends upon the •organt• n effected at a meeting oiled fee purpose far. Saturday eight, He might two fights here without an ezation, Izitt will not do it again. -- a.* - • / UNDERSEA 071 LINE. , How Tatleers Lout Tuxliata, A/6de°. :awed 10 this sort ce effect of his sure Pre, but at, the thundering double repert, that he galloped straight asvaY aeress the tree•tops and from bougb 10 bough, as easily ainmet as a horse gallops upon the ground, quite uneon- ecicius, annareutly, of the miracle; and the fax was so amazed, not at the rabbit's re -Incarnation alone, or the heeVy butting reports aione, but at both, that he crashed off through the bracken, -with a noise and suddenness that made the keeper jump, tut the keeper Was most amazed of all the lot, for his eye's, ehiftine fermi spot to spot, beheld the extraordinan iIe imexpected appearance and distne pomace of all three, even while his halide were feverishly roloading hie glint just in CaSe it would not be— thengh he knew It would, and wan-- - too late. A ItTRAtileORIVIN ItLittft1 MUNN WITH FUNtettLe Picture of the KtI2, one of the new MrItialt eubmaringe W.. 'Government of Australia Is Considering a War Gratuity, The Canadian Flying Club was or- ganied at Toronto with IneCoI. Bark - V, C., at Proldent. J. Harry Flynn at a Toronto mese meeting criticised the Ottawa Paella - moiety Committee, Lt, Sas, Wallace and 11 ,C. Schofield were norninated by noutheast 'Forma() Coneervativ es. Hon. W. In MoPheeson and lion. 'rhos, Crawford were nominated by Northweet Toronto Conservatives, John Brunton, sen., the oldeet resi- dent of Allendale, posed away in hie eighty-eeventh year. Peter Sherk, of Bridgeport. Ont., who wad in the milling businese more than fifty years, died in his eightieth Year. • Sir Edward Kemp, Overeene Mett- ler of Militia, reported to the Com- eione that the conduet of Cano.dian noldiere overseae wae meet exemplary and the dtecIpline excellent. The thirtieth annual convention a tho ontitrio Mot:Jetfoil of Arehitecte opened in Toronto. J. N. Niaster‘3, Niagara -oh -the Lake, 1,Vartieuaf Iencoin County, wae en the the Liberal eandidate for the rid- ing or it. Vatharince. The aetivity of the Toronto Donee during twenty-four home Menge the amount of liquor eonfizwated during that period to 2,100 bottles. The Lutheran Seminary at 'Water - hie, Lae engaeril a new profemor in Many of the moat productive oll wells in the State of Vera Cruz, Mex- ico, are eituated near the port of pani, For eome distance from the elaore the water there is eo shallow that few of the large oil stetonships can get into port. The all etopanies hit upon Una idea of laying eubmarine pipe lines to points where the !argot oli tankere can be eonveniently Moor- ed for loading in any state of tide and weather. There are now floe. of these great Iran petite in .dupileate. They are from six to eight inches in diameter, and four of them are nearly a, mile long. They, tormluate in fortyethree feet of water, where it is so deep that the waves have no effect upon them. When they were lake divers fastened e to the end of oath 120 feet of flexible w ON BRITESd WAILWAYtifi g Woad coursa in the Matta And Stiiipari Them la ibsire for iAtter Con- ditions For Workers Lendon Ceble — Two of the pried- feat the sterna)," The Government, 15 cOndenitied bY the ntatist tor witatiotaing memento Hon which wow(' enable the public to tont a correet 4udgment of tee posa don, and believed "a good deal may ie said on both sides." "It is extremely regrettable," says the newspaper, -that bitter leelings iiave been etirred The Preinter atteself uses laueliage which. ought not to come from the head of the Gov - eminent, and the example he has set le being followed by every wretched writer who wishes to curry favor with the peweitful, Mucli has Oen written in ttie reactionary press that is not merely without judgment, but actually wlekecl." The Post, which has been stronglY against the strike, declares the new situation shows that the industrial aspect of the Quarrel was A "pretence from the outset," and declares: "The conflict is actually between the Eng118)2 . Bolsheviki and the coitstitutional Government." It proceeds. to tell of "a dangerous anarchist consp:racy," proofs of whieh, it says, exist, the National Union. f Railwaymen havleg beeu selected Peon) the other members of the Triple Alla mice to start actio, "Wtth a view to establishing a soviet government." • The Goventment's last offer is de• scribee by the Herald, labor organ, "as the grea.teet insult of ell, the truce being suggested to enable the Cabinet to complete its etrike-breaking organization," ne 41 %eeicties, the Statiet altd e Economia, both Wieldiug great Influence, Make notable Woe tor a balanced view of the etrike, advo- cating juettee to the strikers toe a ceesatiou of tne letter language in- dulged fn by sone newspapers. "It le Hoe the etrlice 'ought never to have happened," Gaye the hcono- Mime "but it is by no meat* s Hear, we le too generally Reamed by the well - Lode, that the responsibility lies with .the wage-earners and their leaders. Tee whole position le •marked by an extraordinary lack of cleareess, for which the Government le to a great extent reaponeible. Labor is deter- mined not to rehire to its pre-war Poeition, and Itis perfectly right. To ay nothing on other conelderatione, we caunot afford to prosper at the ex - pantie of the healtn and welfare of a large part of the community. When workers are told there je no margin for them, they point, very naturally, tthoelw.eaneteoenmsee:ttoravbiteganpiceentbye,' Tthhee .affoovv..- ernment and the well-to-do, and say ernment must not think that, becautie tee public volunteered to do all • os - table to meet the intuition, the rail- I wayMen's rause is generally unpopu1 lar, Their method of 01'1/aging the etrike suddenly la almost universallY 1 coedemned, but the desire for a bet- I • ter distribution of wealth is now one of the mot poptiler sentimepts pre- 1 valent. The came of the under -paid workers has many champione among those wan tave worked hardest to de - PR OSA[ FOR SETTLEMENT GF BEIGIANATCH FRICTION • hose. When not In Use the free end of 'the .hose clod and allowed to Ile on the sea bottOrn, where Its poeition is marked by a melt buoy attached to thvhhoene s arrive they moor themselves to the permanent btyanalt tout stea mchf:tht buoy with a derrick, raise the nexible hose to the deck of the ahip 'and at- tach it to the tank openings. By meats of a signal code, the captaine of the ships notify the pumping sta- tion on shore, in whicli are the valves that control the flow of oil through' the pipe line. Generally epeaking it takes about twenty-four halve to load one of the large 15,000 ton tankers, whieh means that the pipes deliver 4,375 barrels of oll• en hour, A PROPHECY • BY BERNHARD! Sees U. S. Fighting. Britain For World Supremacy. And Germany to Take What She Wants. dip elrmoosalf•••••• (From Cyril Brown.) Berlin Cable says—Gen. Bernhard!, the fire eater, utters a prophecy in the Magazine Unser Tag. He writes: "England, that hopecl, if Germany was beateu, to obtain commercial' world supremacy, to -day sees itself 'cheated out of all advantages of the victory by America Anieri .• el will yet teed Genially so as to b •able to ma,ke a decisive stand againe England. France will become Eng land's or America's slave, according to which side it chooses, "I theerfully admit that, mom- entarily, no possibility , shows for Germany to play a role in this World again. But inistortUne marches fast. A new political grouping in the powers ean give us the possibility to come op again and once we have the sword in hand ag,ain, then we shall help ourselves, Then will come the hour of Germany's resurreetion with the union of all its sons, "There will be plenty of emcee Mons at hand in the divergent sten,- ing of aur enemies. A common enemy held -them together; vietory will all too sOon make them enemies among one another and then, let us hope, we shall have dreamed out the dream which is still holding a large Dart of our nation in the spell of a dream -itzt a League of Nations, which safeguards all inteeests And eternal P8405, "The world war was far from founding a lasting -pease, Oil the eontrary, it will enly initiate A long war aeriod. Our enemies themselves' ihsure MK The hate they sow can be Washed out only In blood, and even then It will be ineradieable." * lelatbileb—EVer try the fighting game? Bensonlairet—Well, I've play- a croquet with My wife, if that's hat you meate—Yonkers Stateeman. Experts Think Holland Will Remain Obdurate. ,parie Cable—Experts Appointed by the cornnalasion examining details of the controversy between Belgium 8,nd Holland have concluded their investi- gation, and will present their report on Monday, when the full commis- sion will meet. The report avers that it is in the interest of 13elgium for the military to use the Sobel& River in times of war, but it is said that it is imposseble to reoncile Bel- gium's claims with the netttralitY whicii Holland Intends to retain in the event of future hostilities. The experts admit the neceesity of de- fending the lite of the Meuse apd the province of Limbourg, but belieVe nonkher Reneke Van Swincleren, head of the Netherlands delegation here, will remain obdurate, and see no Practical means by which Holland may be coerced. It is proposed that Belgium and Ifolland be asked to agree along tlie following general lines: First, an arrange,ment on economic questions where agreement is pessible; second: a Dutch declaration onsidering the violation of Dutch neutrality late in Octobea 1918, when German sit -Idlers retreating from Belgium crossed Dutch territory; third, a declaration In which Hollaed undertakes to at for itnntediate adniission to the League of Natems. 4 " • BROWN el.ND WHITE SANDWICHES . Boston brown bread, white bread, ceeamery- butter, chopped (elves, eel- ery salt, finely chopped red peppers and (elves; work to a paste. Cut the brawn and white bread into thin, even -slices, and trim off the crusts until the pleos of bread are of the e same size; then spread on the butter. t Plaee the slices alternately, first a - white and then a brown slice, until you have five layers. Press these down firmly but evenly and with a sharp knife cut down slices about half an inch thick. L • * • LIFT BLOCKADE ON IYANNUNZIO Bonie Cable eays—Ordere that the bloe,kade of Fiume be lifted have been issued by the Government and Italian authorities in the vicinity of Flume have received an order to allow mail and foodstuffs to page into the city, according •to the Emma. The mine taey blockade against the soldiers and civilians entering the city is all that is now being enforced, aecording to the newspaper, which says the decis- ion was inade after the Government had examined toid discussed a protest from the Fiume National Council. BEST etTeDICINE. "Dhl the dome do anything to hasten your recovery?" Wallace: "Oh, yes; he told inc he was going to charge Inc a, guinea a visit." 4). Use, do not abuse:. neither abstine ono 1105 excess renders man happy. Voltaire, NEW IRJTI8H SUPIER-DREADNOLIOHTS. ARU LAST WORC, IN NAVAL, GONTPWCTION Bone when a nutrober of the •irletat iltritith warships left ' Portland recently to vie" izeattide resort*. LI. Li: 1 omato Recipes BROILED TOMATOES Per dila 810 elms() tomato tte whlob are not dead ripe, Cut there unpoio9s ed in rather tincit elices. 1)1141t wtth pepper, salt and powdered eager, aall in hot Melted butter, tb,ete in finely sifted bread eruenba And brown in A wire broiler Over a enter fens. Thla clish has a deltelouti flavor If In- stemof rolling in butter the alleos of tornatoo are (lipped in Hale all Mayonnaise. TOMATO AND SCRAMBLED EGOS, Saute six tematoeS which have been peeled and sliced. Wnen they are nearly cooked beat three egge siightlY. add two tableepoolua of milk, pepper and salt. Pour 4>ver the thine • at and lift It here and there light- ly with the fort till it eeta, SerVe the egg on a hot platter with the •slices of tomato on top. TOMATO WITH FORCEMEAT LAYEBS. Peel lth e ripe tomatoes awl Out them into half Melt sheen Prepare foreerneat tnixtere made from two cups of stale bread crumbs One telele- spoon of Melted better, one table-. spoon of sugar, a. liberal cleat nt ,paprina, One teaspoon ot salt and one teaspoon of chopped onion. Better a baking (Italie put in the bottom layer of tomato slices, then a layer forcenaeat. • Continue till the d'eh Is filled. Let the top layer be dines of tomato. Sprinkle thern with thin Pepper and powdered sugar, then cover With buttered crumbs. Bake three-quarters of an hour 1Vor tba first 20 beinidee keep theta covered', then allow the top to brow, TOMATOES WITH SHRIMP TILL- ING. Scoop the aunt from eight large tomatoee and tura oche one apside daWn an a, sieve that all the liquor •may drain from them. Prepare a stuffing; brown two slices •of oeion in two tablespoons of butter, lift out the onion when cooked ant add tee tomato pulp. •Cook till puke thick add one cup ot stale bread cruelbS, lax thoroughly, lift from the stove , and stir into it a, quarter oi 4 cup Of cream, one and. a. half ceps, of shrimps cut into inch pieces and a. seasoning of salt and paprika. Pill the tomato aliens with Ulla eteffing, covered with buttered crumbs, and • bake in a, hot oven till brown, Servo on Mends of Init buttered toast, TOMATOES STUFFED. Cut i thin slice off the tops of . eight large, firtn tomatoes ad wItti a. spoon carefully lift out the pulP. Rub it through a Sieve, discarding the seeds. To the Juice add 'half 4 atm ot stale bread crumbs, two tablespoon of melted butter, 4 dust of salt, pepper and paprika and half a teaspoon of minced •parsley. Stuff the tomato ellells with this, put a bit of butter on • top of each and set in a hot oven for ten minutes. TOIVIATOES FAROIES., • Scoop out the tomato pulp, leaving the shells; aud fill with a stuffing made from •balf a, cup of sausage - meat, tour tablespoons of stale bread crumbs, one teaspoon mbaced parsley, a shred of •garItc, one teaspoon of tarragon vinegar and one teaspoon of finely minced onion, Set the tom- atoes in a baking dia, over with buttered bread crumbs and bake till chestnut brown. Just before sending to the table squeeze over them one juice of one lemon. SCALLOPED TOMATOES Scald and 'peel half a dozeti tom- atoes; set them in a buttered baking dish, sprinkle with pepper, aalt end a dust of powdered eugar, Cover with buttered dry crumbs and bake till brown. DEVILED TOeIATOES. ' For this dieh cook six large, eoticl toznatoee. Wipe, peed and eup In slice half an inch thlecle Dust with pepper, salt and elour„ and saute la brown batter. Iift each slice care- fully with a skimmer who cooked awl lay on a hot platter. Pour over them- e. sauce Made ne followe: Cream half a cup of butter; add four teaepoone of powdered' sugar, two teaspoons ef mustard; half e teaapuon of salt,- a dust at cayenne, the yotke of two eggs beaten 'Slightly and a quarter of a cup of vinegar. White the toniatoee saute put the eauce to ook in a Mewl set k n tea-kettle—ths double baiter thickened, over the ea nod tomato& is,rotolirbootz:erwilTt—iimisdzuarimpt:en S TOWEIN Scoop the inside le' un eight tom- atoes. To .one and e halt eulet of onetked spaghetti and' the toluato pulp ablespoon of benee, popper, saltn alid a few drops of onion eniee. each tomato cover With buttered crumbs and bake till broan. Instead of preparing the spaghetti a left-ovep of spaghetti ot macarol slightly emp- tied may be very savally unfixed for thie dish. BAICED TOMATOES, CREOLF.I 8T Cat into twohii4inlvg' ,es 'crossevise six fine large tomatoes; place them in a tbhuetinterettlwobagkrienegn pl.a4art s Ipirnienikylechoovpere pod, one teaspoon ot chopper!, onion. two tableepOons Of batter in small Morsels end a, liberal teaming of salt and paprika. Lift the Veneto carefully onto muds Of buttered teat; then add to the Bettor !eft in the. bake bing pan tWo tablespoous of butter wed two tableepoons Of flour Melted and breweed; idle well with a wire Whisk; add one cup of cream; let it boil up; then train over the tentatoo and toast PEELED AND CURRIED TOMATOES Cut four lerge tomatoes into nether thick silos, Saute them in ohe tied One-hAlf tablespootis of butter, When AMOY ookell eprinkle with otte tee - spoon of curry powdereone tablespoon of flour, one teaspoon of finely chop- ped onton, a dash of salt arid polio. At the last minute add one ettp ef creain; let it boil up and then etrain le, eVierrouthnedstOolitattlet,.W . Served on eer- TOMATOES IN THE CHAFING DISH, This disk ina,y be Made delicious ili the blazer of a chafing diele or it a epider, as' desired, Cut large tomatoos in slices—do not Peel tbeing-thlet theni with salt., pepper, paprika and peoWdered sugar; then roll In eifted cracker erumbs. Put two tablermaate of butter lit tbe blaaer, and took the tonnttoee till browned. Verve on hot plate, with fingers of buttered beast. "And just to think, It titled to take nearly 24 hoere to emelt the Atlantic!" ComMelat At tke A.Orie Chen.tt 1-• 1. a