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NOT OALUYS Of MIN
• "IMMO" Or TOTD,AT
• OCEAN .14INER •
Geiiiian PriSoners in thaland
Oe-
cupy Very 'Comfortable
Qnarters.
'Net only the homelesS• who train')
4116 W104"41.VePt grnbednkraent 4.)r
• who sleep an the stone pavements of
-1,40-ridel4,1?0,even-theaVerage work-
_ „Inman of England might well envy
▪ the teniferts which -the aeritian-pri-
-seners in England are iecavnig.
After visiting several phiees of 'de.
• "teation. on hoard 'ship I Might Say
. that if 1 were "broke" end:friend-
less it waillti be a atropg temptaa
'• don to- declare myself an alien
enemy" owl' be interned, writes an
Arnertean oorresponclea f Ion-
-den. ..— • , •
• •',4,short *bile ago one of Lon'i
-don .Papers published . a paragraph
which urea phrased, *"The ,tlerMaif
'44Fi'S"ero-it.W0iirY have been re-
movedto bulks etonth,coaSt.?'
'This hilmediately conjured se, vieiOn
' of the dank galleys of fiction -.Or
aboard the Scotian teet *floY,f.n;
sistence on the part of the BnS115"
but on the part of the Germans
themselves, to whoni mile is rank
whether in the fighting line or in
deteated
At Southanipton there aro two
detention places aehore, One ill at
Shirley, one of the imbhrhs; where
a large skating rink -has beert turned
into a, receiving station.
At lievois, Mount House, in an-
other suburb ef Southampten, fa. a'
pla,ce for *German bfficara•
'GREAT AGE OF TUE Eitwril.
spud' :01,104 Vorined. Front :110000000
- • 10.-4(401,9004-Yearb
In order to •estiniiitO, the age of
the earth "different phenomena may
be deed. First, the separatiou of
the moon; aebondly, the sblidiffea,
tion'of the earth's ernet, then the•
coadeesatien di the aqueous vapor.
;tad the formation of ocellny, The
quantity': of salt dissolved in these
0.0640$ and the thickness of the
geOlogical laYers, '„especiallY , those
a• calcareous -nature, afford:fur-
ther arguments,:. •• '
Aceording te „c4eo:rgt 1)0.474i:the
TRA0f1fS Of Yi
LO
GREATEST OF ALL MISTOBICAL
MYSTERiES.
flarth 114,5 Seen- ,Greate
Stanghters Than That of
• Oretient •Vfar„.,
'There' no ti6nht but that the
present En-a:mean war will he elaaa-,
ed among Oa) greoteo+. of this Pa"r"
•
career Aitila and his men elaugh-
tered several millions of human be-
ings, the conservative elitimate ere-
diting with,' 2,500,000 in eight
Months. 'On the Plaias of Mahlon
Attila left, by aetual count 100,000
dead updn the field.
Tho Crusades for the recovery of
the hay 'tomb from the infidels be -
gap in .the year 1096;, and eamprise
one et the most terriblo dramas in
the histOry of the world. his esti.
mated Oat, no fewer than '0,090,00)
litima,n beings were killed daring
tbese crusades. •
Durlug One Crusade.
tacular- work) ss, tragedies, but 'there it was 'deeided -40 „send in90051nt'
have been 'otlitaaa-ManY, in. fact- children JO aeoarati.lish, the deed
worSe-Abln the _slaughter which.gailtY men ung‘ht not _ablea
Europe. . • to do. All As a result nib® children
Man,ha,lived ibis. planet at • were lost': At. 'Bea/ while an qua1
least 1,000,000 years. What man, number were killed at made slaves
olid a million or half- million /Vara 'PP' land. • '
ago we have no Means of • Babonie plague appeared in Eit-
knoWink. He may ; have :written tape in 1302. It had started in Asia,
long •detailed „historic:a •his deed*, ,Wheri 'mere than 200,000,000 of Ini-
lint: time is a rigid destr,oyer, and Man. beings Perished. After, Teac,h-
the only thing we Can do le tit) etndY- ing gnrope the plague lasted twenty
tire few relics WI*1). have Ween.Pre- years, end dUring. that period it
se rv ed from ravages 'of the, ele- carriedoff 40,,.0.00300persoris. Wheh
ments and.he satisfied witlathel,ittle it began Norway. had ,a „population
'actual knowledge gitea,„ when We .0f ,,500,000, when A pada(' - this
And the bones of Maw 'alongside. tiT fa:41;;PtIllaalihii°3h0.9h,0114z1).e.,,en.,ITe64.u, c7d.;
• thick death becadne ePidei#
Asia and Europe, in 1425, a, few
years -this black death -had- car•ried
off 25,000;000 persons in Europe and
85,999,99p in Asia, In streets and
roadways the. dead decayed Where
thei happened to fall:. During e•s,tles
-80o yearsi up to this 'peried the
plague id estiMated to have killed
more than 000,0004)00 hunian beinas
ip Europe and " • .
When, the -Jews lost the upper
hand- in Spain thete were 4000,000
of them livingin• that country. They
, Heir to King of Belgilatn•-
,
,
.11001.E. WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND 'lila*
USU. COLUMBIA.
•
tents From Provinces!, Where Many
Ontario Boys ;n4 Girls Are •
• Living.
At Sas,katoon, over $e,0,060
taxes .was paid in December.
The oleic. budget'of $01cateou for
• ;915 ii1.7° iiimi9,042/ legs ;than in, 19i4.
There is a .searcitY' Of 'calves in
•tbe...Selkirki.,Manrc diatriet, thiers
• At Deerwood, Man., Mr. Blaneh-
aral sad his halt section of land Lor
$1000.-
Erpto the end of December, 24,50. !Wild the feettaaLreely had 'to have
i b en' e i4ered, ' em• ' •
„
••••
"The laager I iiver with, m/
--arid its goial onto fifty years now
-the less I underetand 'bout the
workings Of the female mind," re-
marked Obed I/Oliver, as he mated
naturally into the..4frele-Of idlers in
the Dilttanith poet offiee„ "You
take a MAWS idea of Wbat makes
payire day, and carapare it with *
ivon4047s, and You'ir • .1
d'icaow jest what'you Will•And, if
you -come-to-that. -'• •
"Frainstaneta y_esterday mOrnhea _
hooked up the old 'boss to go -
town. I wanted to -haul in 1004
of track to sell, and there*was 'howl;
a dozen things I needed to *WO
enera es a e ro
or • at Wiatiipe& - • ) • .- '•, -When "I get ready to start, MY
• -
started at Morden; 3),Igna',,,hy . the 840 ,gove.,.*6-s, list Of things that '
An experimental feria Will be w,_11, :came out to the liv*gon,:fand
. , Dominion iclevernment'.-1,4„,•_, . .. she'd NIT.Stae'. off; and she charged
' •Ceehrane, Alberta;,' gave, -a na,r. The ovet'n over ,not to faille: get
hpad. of, buss for war parpoSes,' also ,*.a., ',Mime ,she needed °yeti one of -
' OVer,88,000 tii.difterent ti'ina, . . ... ..eui• ,Sol put her list in with.mille '
.
In Saskatoou ' (hiring i91,4`, 'bp' M MY i'Ve.gkitiWICt and . started off. •
men aad women 'were .:<trai ed•'in • "'When T was ,j0ggin' by BoWler'e -
hailed iron 'Your wife wants
,pgi ,1,t41. beop, et ir t .3-6;ti n.:1,11,0:h4.Lththrone.90ut:ft t.h11.0r1 youth -
u1
r.
•
meen•wa,s-separatedf,rore our gIohe thOse!of. aorke "' wonderful ..boaa-
about 46,000,000 years ago. The.age Fihdi/ig Ogee.' eentreit of
huge •rocks, laielts winch • nature
must have-falten-age&to-iiiake5,-vie
concoct a story of the early days of
mon, but that all.,
AEfilAk. TRAM. „
One of the Meet, Inapreselve Bights in,
• home nursing and first aid work. Plage,. MI's' Itowler eCnie'Xo the'doer
. afied inthehorrible AnstraliallTedu- At Sundrex Alherta,_. Neil Grant Pe • •
placee orebnAnement like that UPA,'..
viet ship. , • •• . ; and Um. Siddon -exchangel 'sisters you on the teleplidri-ei4--the: gays. Zo
' Gruesome imaginotieu—'wita re- as brides on the same day. - 1 fot out of the. wag.on. and went in. '
- placed by a mere surprising sensa- Melville, -Sask. has a rink that `Seenas that while Vol •bega get-.
, .
: don when 4...leaimed that these, acconimedatee 1,400 people ••-•. or tin' freta my place down to Bow -
"hulks" consisted of the . Cunard, about the Npulation of the town.. let'a,. She'd thought of six or seven ,
liners taxonia .IVernia and Ascapia
p - Ifomstead..entries in..Suska•telle.-, more things_ that $he couldn't --ado
and ether liners such as the Scottan, wan, for Deeetaber fell off to /less withont, and;•she vatted me ta get
Canada end•Maititoba. • than half of what they were.iii 1913, them too... I hadn't any • pencil '
MY -first visit was to three of the. ...1.The Moose Jaw polion-fresii. has with me to lot4em.;dcuir.-with, but.'
t "hulks"' at T,101rtsmontli, Atichored been reduced hy: 1 our dismissed and 'r thought I Could charge my raind• I
well up in the inner harbor were the a, sergeant Cut down to the ranks, . with 'em so'enot to forget.'em.
Meanie, Manitoba, and, .Scotian: erate-sized continent, said to. have 'were given three days in which to The Live steek aisoCiation, of Man - • "Wal, my truck sold's° math bet.
The. Scotian is Teserved, for military 'been west Of the • Straits of Gibial- leave Spain -or suffer death: Of the ttoba urged all ; farmers: to -tidier. teen I expeeteelothat, about all the .•;•...
• Pekboners--therothora-heing-used_for, tar. One clarit Was teeming with 1,500,000, only about 20o,000 were their' stock,: and not sell on the pre- things Itiliy wile wanted,garde out of - ,
,
_ • •
of the eohd -crust .has been calcu-
lated taaPOrd-Itelvin-freto
, crease of the temperature 'in de$p
mines,. .In.sonla regions the te utper,
•ature seen to increase ahout one' • An.Aitful., Disaster.
:degree for every 00 meters rin eta- Coining t: down to the his
,
ers, -hOwever, one degree Or 100 perfod we 'first, eame to one of the.
meter & • On the average the eon- greatest all historical mysteries,
sideratione :Of Lord Xelvio -gime an, the destruction of Atlantis; the .to":
dge of 20,000;00Crte.:10;000-$.000.-Years. fel disappearance of an entire con,
„in the aolid crust of the earth. • Anent, with 4 loss Of 26,000,000 hu -
1. The' quantityofsalt obviously in- 1218.41 beings. Atlant*s. was a mod -
creases in the oceans On areeount of
the salt added by the rivers and of
_theapora_,tion of the water, The
total quantity of this sa, t een
`calculated and the quaatities of the
ateaaly. supply. ot_water•:.are_knowto
w
It Is Impossible for one Ifhe has
seen only the ' common Mete ewafie,
Boating about in the artiacial lakes
Ot:.otty parks to linkgine the 'grandeur
of a .flock of the great whistlers in:
their wila-stste,...ln, "wild. Lite and
the Camera," Mt, A. B. 1:_ingnicre saYs,
the sight iirone7efTithe ;nest impressive
In nature. AS the tinge birds rise into.
the air it seems AP if an aerial regatta
were being Setied overhead, the swans,
each With a whigt spread Of• or
seven feet; Playing. yachts ender
full •• •
‘, .
Once, the swaps are fairly under
fa mazin nearl a
human beings' the rTeirt-darit- le-totee-within the 72 -hour -a)... --an Sent IOW Market.'
„
that extrv cash, was•pretty, well
as • • • A crew of six With the waicl Mainz stink Completea into the ocean. This all the *there were. slaughtered... _ alindred rale§ an hour, and ;that, too, Parta,ge La, Pra,ale, stamps p ease h my day's .work-geta
• civillabs`. • •
.-on. their hat bands- rowed me__ont. suppqsed
. • P re 0 • f r at 'the lbear post office were tin'iny truck 'there the nick of
. with no ap a xit efe rt o the -slaw' 'sold
h,aVe • happened at '
'from the Admiralty pier„ the milt- for all the larger ,streams, as. well east -10,000 ,ears ago;'-beetuselt is wing .rnationYla Tery.,-December, • 1914 • ---time'-and -gettize- -top-pride for't,
..• tat-Y-tii..114h7heing -provided bar „a as their percentage ; of salt ,.• For mentioned in the EgYPtian Book of ' 110LEs• III: .Wil'iEs7' : : „ „endurance.' is ' ail surprising are their.. _ ,..., ,
speed, for they are said, to. tra,Vel a, than for the Same ,m0ath in 1,91,. 411.„ •tIg.A,r04 14 tW0, three =Pre i
bs 11)T - ' ' •2';'' • ' a '1 - , -ler."' - '-'-' th - tt
"Tommy . Atkins" seated _in the , these data we may calculate the an- the Dead, and that particular Bible • . . thousand miles Without. alighting . e The customary dog races held on good • trades in the, things, rd .
at 'Cable Of t e Woodneeket in' Killing
,nuel increase 9f- salt •in the oceans hi knekWn, to have been • written . , . The „docks are usuallyled b -an' to. the streets T of , Regina -every New bought. Take*tall round, i,don't
h
. . . wbou you waw along a, 00‘,a1;try and experieeeed. swan, and • itIs said Year's morning.were called off this .:know when I've had ,i,„• .biter vbv.41_ , .,,,
and ii.d how many years would be least previaus to the year 7350 B.C. • , Inseetil. .
required for our present rivers to The :Submerging of the •continent. is_ .. - that as one becomes tired lif leading, year owing o liekof interestday' so I was feelin' rather hetter'n
or it might he called aerial. trail break. •
aceumirlate all the 'salt now foand also. mentioned in .the Assyrian
. .. . . , . . • • road at the. eds.:1'0f a piece of woods, ing, his place
in die, seas. According t*. 01y, is taken by another
hooks -el 6500. 13, C . , , likewise in chi- nxid,e, :_.
°me to a wild apple tree or a
a -15 -4 -iii 96-actib-0...,,gar.0 ii-onid-b-e -46.\ . ne§e'-hotili-s- of loocr R,0:- Later, a e7i-itiiiig, iituthi. frorii. which14 fl and who.se•-,trensth-ir pqual,'-tortbe.latki-
ann. so they continue untia they retch
,• e rivers .
• • : our period referenees to the awful branches have fallen, you will efOrt their destio Wu, the southernfeeding
eessary. But obviouslyth
disast r were made b Hoxner llor- - • '
mu' st exhaust. Inc. 'grounds Which' Y 2 see • ilo round hole in it balfwaY 'UP '
Stern 4\VIth a loaded rifle. The men
were survivors of the Mainz, ehhic
in the fight off the Bight of Ifeligo-
• f; land., "Fine fellows," said one of
• -the English 'officers o -me after-
' warda.' "I'd 'beaW'llifig-to'haelothem-
, ;against any boat crew in, the Eng-.
• fish navy'' • • , '
. Prisoners: Have Regatta.' •
Incidentally this crew jitst walked
'
.away • with two. other prisoner
, crews in one of the mest peculiar
regattas in history. On Christmas
• Day a boat crew, ,cbraposed pri-.
. • soners from each of the three ships;
raced ever. a mile .caurse. In each
• -boat was an armed sentry -urging his
• orew' to the •utmoseefforts.
_
-Aboard the Asania, which is the
flagship of- the fleet; I found 1;00
-.prisoners. Her transittlantiO steer,
aaeuceommedation--is--3.-Aqui: so -she
• • ca;p hardly- be called overcroWded.
• The prisoners have the entire' run
— • of the shipasitve-the prome-
nadenpper-
- deck, whieh.is-teserved for the
English offieers'and Soldiers. ':'"This
• also applies to the other ships. ,
The bulk of the prisoners are ac-
commodated ill' the. ordinary steer-
age manner Save that:they have in
• their •benks.a superior sort of mato neases of these reeks and on . the
tress, a soft Pillow and three warm other the yearly supply Of lime from
'blankets. . , • the rivers. ,He concludes that 86, -
There is tio aitint of either steam 000,000 er•45,90,0;000 years would be
heat or eleetric light. lathing fit- •required to produce the whole, of
4 :aides are (extensive, and there is this system.
•-practically an unlimited, supply of
, 'Man., rabbits are so eon:am when I drove antra:the yard
iti...terotis that they are a pest to last night':, and „started to unhitch. •
+he farmers.'Thef.litife-:•cleatiOYed •••-014 Wife Caine:out to thc wgon
hundreds of 'fruit bushes in the gar- while, I Was takire theliese Out, and
dens. t • • • ••',Ae,begati• to peke romici after the
The xiiiam, Alberti, pekile..have things ,shekti sent for. I'd- taken '
decided that their, Water system is; most �f tely things that. ra got for
insufficient, •and are .actotdirigly • -the. farmaand barn out �f the „wag-
proceedingto have the town well re, ilad, to before could ,get out
noVated, „ •• for they was piled all over mei-
A' man named Bedford, .atr•-•. am. they made a pile as big as 14, .
tested, drunk on the street at Win- • small cock • of hay. So she - didn't
nrpeg, was taken to the police sta-
tion and dead in his cell three
hours later, • •
Prof. lledford, Deputy Minister of
Agriculture -for_4„Manitoba,___says.
Prospects for improved agricultural'
grounds of t • winter, or the -northern
htherovyedbreaeiiiii, manudebforrmieebre4r.thinese smos..t..,
the greatest ,mysteriei in all human
ace, Plata and others , It is one of
This. eonsideratioa must. lead us'ut:O ace= where
,. history, ' but the contour 4 -,if ' the
diminish the -• ember ,Of qears_ re- '• t •
the continent is sup-
posed to have Wen, gives tcolor to
quired in a, very sensible manner. ; the belief that siich a continent did
• The age of the geological strata • .
sink in that locality. • ., '
haos.‘been deduced from their th'ek- The flood of. the.liebrews.Was sup.
ness .and the yeloeity_ofate process posed t,o have happened in the year
of. sedimentation. _Sofia's estimates 3338 B;C:i. and to have destroyed
the total thicknestrof about Be kilo, more than 100,000,000 human beings.
meters and the, ayeiage rate of (16_ _ Ia_the. year 089 l3.0:. .lerushlem.
,potitioti of the layers ••at 30 ceiiti Was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
meters per '-eentury. From these and the less- of life totalled more
nunibers-We4may•-fin&an-u,ge-01-20,T- than '500 -mo., --,- - - - .
000,000 years for the collective de- . In. comparieg_ great bailee -the-
position of all its geological layers,. attack Of Xerxes against Greece in
Calcareous rocks. have been _built 4$1 . B.C.- is -ea:Aided-tor-- ran
by, organisra0 and mainly by coral's Xerxes in'arched:Viokard with- an
and molluscs. •• These have •made 'army Of 600,000 warriors and a navy
tise :of the linie added to the sea by di :4,200 shrps. When the battle was
the rivers. Dubois has calculated ended 'Xerxe,&fiad only 58,000 men
on the orie hand the whole thick- left. The loss" of life in this war.
amounted to more-than:1,000,00Q:
' Darius III. of:Nrsia, fought the
•
Greeks in 34; R.Cla at the battle of
Granious. In- that One battle' Dar -
hie lest more than 100,000 warriors,
and slew more than 80,000. Greeks.
• • '',195Aillien Pehale. Died.
hot and cold fresh and salt' water. . .
The daily 'Consumption of fresh wa-
n, ' • • '
' • N•.
ter othe Aseania is froni seventy 'WHEBlOVITY WON
to 'ninety; tons. • • •
The only eomplaint about the food 1101% a Salesman ,Seeured• a Largc-
was that whiteinstead of black Order. •• •
bread area 'seiVed.`•• Comparatively
A travelling 'Salesman fells thefew_Ciermans save those who have
for many yieiro following story.in-the Suuday Maga._
lived in Engtid
. , •
:•-eare for .whito read so an. the t eao ain-C-:"Af ter. a discenragineartaiglit.
I -reached . a large in MY
ships German bakers -have been pet
early one, Monday after-
- to work and the prisoners are hap,- 'territory
made a fewcalls°al some
• py.- Among the niilitary prisoners •doPn-7-• I
there were. complaints .that the bill -of the shopkeepers, and learned
of fare did not -include sufficient. that. Peter Cainpbell., owner el one
• -sauiages. and German dishes,- so. of the Most unpretentious stores in
• four Getman ,eoeks, have been put teliti, sold more seap,than all the
' work in • the galleys to add dis- others' put together. •\ ,
tinetive .German dishes. These ) "He supplies about all the mina
Cooks and bakers are paid regular in the place With •seap," 1 Was told;
• Wages- • ' • . .. • • .,,i"but he'xi‘ a quaint , codger,. . a
prisoners -Scotsman, rwhoWas soon waste --a
/15' • _are waters; barbers and. people in &um, as la word. .
His only o jeo-
--•thas or „IeWer •stratkof Those tion to -Thal: tallaaajaa,s man•, with,
•of -a,betteri.elasik have- eablus hid
,whoin-11-oes-a-11---hia.soap busioessr
the food ratieneare unif_jorm. is that he talks tee -Jima."
. What Prisoner9 MAY Recei've. found • Campbell a Man of Bev;
• Prisoners rna.y write two'lettets & entY odd years old. Ile'•waS doing
Week. on War Office note 'taper• aanice little, business:With the sole
There is nb linait num Or of -slitrot-a-:--dhap• of sixteen, who acted
• letters or parcels they May reCeive: as driver, errand boy and assist,
•All letters. sent: and received' are. Ant salesman. I waited until
censored:- All parcels a,re eexamin Campbell had finished tying up. a
before being delivered; but.. aside *bundle for a custanier, then slowly
from' gunpowder, weak", •litl"r, aproached hint. He took me in at
:candies; electric flashlights, and.,•4 toanda; ftalit the top.a..* doze
similar things, there are very Ifew to the tip of iny shoe,. and •the fol -
things that a prisoner May net re- ..lowing conversation. ensued
eeive. As far as menee.is concern
Campbell -Buy?
41 prisoners may receive all their
frirnds sena cominan&j.-• —
"What 1' • •
310,:tv6enhictr4ouuratfigaesinthtleiti,trisoponmeersseinonnt 011
• account of the danger rbbhery, 15atisfieil-IniPel'iiitir •
and urges them to deposit the 'Mao, ter"mileaa rtighr0 PrcmP/
ey in the purser's safe and, draw it
as it aa needed; Imperial II do." .
•. •
After the parcels and letters are • ••mnip order, guarantee sat-
-examined they are distributed by 'isfacti", ikae3r back."'
1
•
the ptis,oners, who have organized See. your stuff." ,
an efAcient post office ottheir own. At Ins last words.,. I ophiied • ray
Prisoners who arrive in ' desk, km and showed himmyattractive
tut' Condition Ina as clothing is line w,itheitt a word. He carefully
•concerned, are more thaAgenerons, handled_ every sample in the case,
ly treated: The authorities furnish smelled ; it, ran it over lace, al -
without .charge heavy frieze tasters most bit it, observed the price with
with „broad collars and suits of an oecasional shrug of his shoul-
simiiar
material. The ,undetwear ,ders and a grunt. Then he abruptly
• - 4ind sockS are wool And the llatn4211- -le t o and Went, inte his. offiee,
tole -ra the wall, with a desk
and hair In it,. .1 `nervously packed
up my easei wondering if by chance
he would give me a good order.
After wait of ten minutes, lie
'returned with a paper in his hind!'
Giving my bank A resounding
whack,. he handed the the lialitIrs
and said; •
"Order2-ruslit-Lconle again.lt
With 4 hasty handshake Wa§
ofkand when, at ti n ,ortier of the
ttreet) Ottt'bi tight, iiiiallrepen-
cd my order, I was situ -gored, It
.a3v01. the wilt:110%dt rot 4nilliff'utectge,;1::1'..,
000{0 01111,108111alt
• ' 'dirt's -tog •Oavernmeat fast• -
under &dollar eaoh wholeaale. The
beetg are heavy and well made.
Conditions .aboarcl the two. other
• ships Are practically the same. The
renting rations ate alilte. The
" Manitoba .has 1;003 prisoners with
certified •steerage ameomniedatien
of 1,603, while the Scotian 11E0 28
.with it, steerage aocommodation of
1,520. . •
On the Stotiart the indo tita the,
ton:onimissioned offiefirs' ottupy
different ,patfis of the ship, the lat
ter ha ing first-altas Oohing Snit
t Amt-Clasil dining' saloon
• Plcir thow vilitary
traction o rank 9 atr
Probably the greatest .trageoly in
the' world began in the year 330 B,
•0;,• when the bubonic plague ap.
pared in Asia and continued Until
it had destroyed the lives of 195,-
000,000 ' •
The Plains of Lombardy ran blood
wilien. the Teutons.were
b the ROmans. 'The Ro-
mans killed inore than Inoi000--war-
riors outright; losing an. almost
equal number. When ?.t° was seen
that the. .Rainane had won; all
women and ehildren; numbering
about nopoo, killed themserves, the
mothers first killing. their children
and then, taking their own lives in
order to prevent capture and worse
from the Romans,. ;
• Mithridates, king 'of Pontius,is.
rarely mentioned nowadays, but in
the 'year 88 B0,wee-t-Wtmor.
Of the world. He killed his Own fain -
slaughtered seven differentkingsaand-their coartaa-farnarelted
through Asia, and left' everywhere
trails of dead.. He invaded Greece
and there slaughtered nearly
000 human beings, then he. marehed
against Rome av-ith u carnage.
In his own army he lostonly84,000
men, but he is thought AO have kill-
ed at least•twenty times that num-
her of his eriemies. • • a
- The Emperor Titus was co. -anted
,one of -the, greatest • soldiers ever
produced by Rome, and for his 'al-
most niiracillous slaughter he was
entitled "the joy of the avorld." In
the year 70 Vials Made Jerusalem
ha cholla- MUSA, It is estiinatcd
that 'during the ,siege • •
)Ie 2,500,000 Jews.
Finally the:living behind the all
of , Jerusalem became so weak they
could no longer', throw ,their dead
over the walls, and then Titus
marched in •with his vietorious army.
When the anti tet Tithe had killed
every man, woman and child in the
Place; and hie. soldiers 'actually
waded ankle-deep blood in the
. •
gutters. • • ,
One, and ana-half troops
were engaged in the battle of
Guagamelica, between Alexander
and Darius. Three quarters of both
armies are said to have been exter.
minated. This was -.i31
Burgtorldiatia under Radigaisus
a -Wept -towards Room in 400, They•
termed an army of a quarter of a,
million men,.and. killed every human
eing in their line of march, is
titnated that these Ilntoundians
killed lettat 1,0004,006 men, not to
Mention women itild children.
Stil-
eeho Alget. the gigantic army, then
tenSititing Or 241,000. *amoral an
slew every one of'them.
the Itun, the fieottige of
,Gods.:tstatted front tome 'portion of
Asia in ,the year 4134 WAII tit Arany
of 1,000,000 warriors, They laid all
Uptipe. in waste, and ehroiliclera
elated that during his terrible
itslength, or under a big limb. Any breeding" Plates of the summer. Oc-
rionsioaoaft
Oc-
casionally Lakes
e
on; at orsNot
! S t Ninthinearney-
years ago, while on their way north) a
large plumber stopped above Niagara
Falls, and more than a hundred •were,
by some , extraordinary mischance,
carried over the falls and killed. in the
youngster will tell you at once that
it is a woodpecker's.) nest. It is.
'woodpecker work, n� doubt, bilt•is
it now, or *as it ever, the home of
'a pair of woodpe,ekers7•
Its siie . will give you a fair hint'
a.whether it was made by the big
logcoak, by aaflioker or a, redhead,
or by one of he smaller kinds, like
the downy or the hairy woodpeocker.
surging waters. • ' '
Whether the swans preoarie4n--an3
speCial Way for their southward journ-
ey••is-not known';, but 'before starting.
-Heisealittle-eheekered-felloWrawith•-north -they indulgeanathe_eurioas hate
a broad White.stripe down his back It known as "ballasting," that is to
and a red cap, and he is a conitant Say, they eat great •quantitles,of sand,
P
4Ii•Ut414speidetlie;r- He has
11141-331-11thket?alirlail:5411-13-*ay,•ACI7-ro°tinceOkcile9ail7wfdisheir
breeding place, and it is believed that
tries," for he cleans the, fruit -trees
borers ancl _ _theY__mate_for-iife As with-So_many
(-TitWira;fiffibila TinFefett
.pests. ,
But a Woodpecker's hole is not
necessarilY a nest. The woodpecker
digs holes for other Purposes. Some-
times he has to cut so deeply • to
get at a big grub that the holo,
looks like a, house entry. The downy
also caries out shallow holes near
hia real nest as'ihelters in ivhieh to
Speed steamy days and Cold nights,
for he is with us in winter as well
. as summer: Then, too, wood-
peckers mike a new nesting hole
each season, so you.. May have found
a nest that was deserted long ago
Other:Creatures often occupy
these abandoned homes'. Sometimes
it is a mouse Or a: flying squirrel,
but' more often ,some little bird.
Whatever it may be, it finds only an
empty tenement, since iwoodpeckers
artaconteat-to lay -their -eggs -on
fine, Clean Chijasthat arc left at the
bottotn,e1 their burrows. ,
13y, the way in whichthehole is
fiirnished, you m•ay" guess who, the
new.. occupant is. A mouse fills the
eavitY with grass • a flying squirrel,
with its oast -Off fur and other soft
stuff. If the hole is crammed- with
twigs and bits of snider's web, a
wren has lived there: fine
straw, a few 'feathers and 'so loath,
prehadaliaabluehitelnazit ;
if it consists -mostly of feathers,
wool, and cottony stuff, the occu-
pants art 116 douht-chltkakle or
:Of the water birds, the swans proteo
their eggs with a dovering of &Siva'
scratcliett from their Own., breasts; so
that when the birds jealre file' nest,
the two to six large, yelloWish eggs
are hidden from' the eyes of possible
thieves, and protected against sudden
changes of temperature. •
It is many. years:before. the swans
are clothed in the feathers
late whiteness that make them „such
conspienons objects of beauty,
indeed, .until the fifth year 'sloes all
traces„ of "gray disEinpear._ The iirst
featherh •ire entirely gray; gradually
they -lighten, becoming mottled with
white, the neck and head. remaining
gray until after the body is eompletely.
white.
' THE LAND' OF HONEST, IIIEN.
eksoea littens-or.-41041-Ded
rooms. •
A land of almost 'Utopian simpli-
city is described by a vaiter in the
Field who a year ago ,started on
foot from Innsbruck and went by
way of Landeelb to pie Stelvio Pass,
and back across the Tirol to Welsch-
nofeni.• One of the joys of walking
trip in Tirol, he sa.ys, lies in the
friendship of these exceedingly shit.:
hanorahle, and religions pea-.
sante. , • • • - •
They leave 7their agrintiltnial
plements lying all.thight in .tbd_ field
have anything:to bother her, and .
she hauled her.stuff out of the wag-
on, a :bundle at a time, and piled ,it
all on the ground there, tIongside
of her, and it Made a heap•that.she;..
1 k oV r • ' • I
• .
Yiekis and better fa;r0.1nA- 41: • u
Wed were--ne;ver-hrighte-r---- .Wrote out on, the list; and most -01
OhiCrileS113ibOkS,
and several Military Men,
Poustahle the `things she'd held 3me up and •
seized _telephoned 'bout; when all at once
,inote-1 •ah'i--ti. 100 glins,.,rifles and re- .she begun in seritoi...rn.nasi in the
bottom of the wagon kind of anx-,
,ious; began to misr
give me,. although I didn't -know
any reason for',t. - A. •
`14oally, she says; .'Wherd' that
roll of white tape I told you about, •
over the:•telePhone 7 , done tip
With some 9£' these other -bundles,
or have you got,t in your pecketi •
•
Byce, near Sask., were al-
leged to have quarrelled. ,The
lat-
terissaid to have fired a, gun' atilt
°former; who. retaliated by hittin.g
his brother with, an aice;, ,Severely
.wowunindtinitg6thilimi.a. be pa,' 143 $200,000 by
the C.P.R., according to the pro-
mise of the ;company -made August
12, 1907, - to , the ' effect that the
amount Would-be contrilinted to -the*
:city when it had undertaken te,pre-
vide a permanent va,tertupply; and
the first check $20,000 has been
elvers from Austrians and Ger-
mans living around Staartburn,,
-Mrs.
iighted' a fire with coal 'ell on Dee.
18, being severely burned in - the
accompanying expiesien.• ,(7)n. Pee,-
*sim died in a Winnipeg hospital:
Two brothers,Edward and Ernest
. handed to the Mayor. • ,
At the Military -damp riear
gary there was e court-martial 'on'.
a young soldier who had . enlisted
in an infantry regiment. When a
mounted regiment was wanted he
deserted from . the infantry '...and
joined . the cavalry The • Pearl"' wonder how tha.hidis art made
Martial .sentenced. him to be , dis- The 'beat Material. is the tuSks of •
clukrg°41"-''.- cow elePbents.•-.Their toiska:are not
" 'There I' •• 3 says, 'that's .the
`fust• time I've thought of. that tape -
since. you•told ''boutit this inern.,
in' ! I never got it at. all.' And ,‘
when I told her that, she slumped
down on that pile of hiindles. and ,
let her hands tap right down, by,
her ' . . '•
• Good land t says \ahe •'Go
clear to town and ',waste !a..•
day. When .you Might have been
,a.00044.11.ez„.e,..,,to home anyl then for-
git what yen went, aftei l• If that
ain't a Irian all over
"And," ,conclueled toolliver.
rtiefalry,'''I•al-Wfbeen able th make.
her hear reason yit." • .
Malting Bilfiard,ltalls.
'1.5o vett. who play billiards. ever ,
, • •
nuthatehee, coveredawtelareaheievy-cledr,..,aarthe
• ) dew .:is .elislionest_ainong 'these
' hely monntains ai elsewhere, They
W.A.B GOAT: CHEWED 'TOBACCO. have no locks on their barns.' .They
; • - lift. a, etoss with c • • ra e
Story of "Nanny'! and Her sad and the reinembranee God ab
every quarti3r of airline., These cioSs-
' 'li'ate at the ilatiiefront. •
Cook's ,Folly ,Legend;'-
-
One Of the- inoat--pcipitIar legends
so curve • as those- of life-malea and
the fine "nerve passage'.). Cannot:be
traced so clearly. „ When , ivory
dries, say those who make the
it 'shrinks.. The shrinkage is great-
er in width than length, in •
the case 91 thetuak; Billiard ,balls, .
after being turned in the rough, are
k-ept in a warm roe& .11," long'
timei-sometimes for two yeaks, if- .
ter shrinking they are turned again- '
and again and to • the
Whiee-did-llerah 'strike the first -
in the ;c� t15 th* toln-in connea-
tion with- Goek'S Polly, .the reSidett0e,
neat' Brietel, England of the late Sir
Ilerbert, AelinTan. The old ' toNter
.11stand.e_-14-„the-inlitst-44- the
building Was long „iears . ago ;batik hy
a Mr. Cook for :the preserv,ation 'of
• • es mark...the spa- Where aome, poor ins'. son, Whosa..tleath by.74/1olence • be.
P-
By no means the least interesting soul has, died during the wild storms tore he reached his tweiltY-11r8f birth-:
thing about the war is the part that of 'winter. Haw dreadful those tem. day had been foretold by, a. alesY
intillialSare Playing in it; The latt pests are ean be judged from the The boy spent matiVleats in SafetY,
firif birthday
ingl'1)Of
fp liii tWelifj•tewer; bat on . the_
'eV tale is of a; goatilet,one of the fact that we found ,six .such homely 0-110.t. ,-
regimental ones whose presence at weedier' monuments, :, . net one more morn- ',
th anxious father ,_entered to 'nail of the .Ark 7 --On the head.
the front hali led to endless jokes than ten ..,.etirs oId, within • hall a •e'l.
about ."Iiiiits" for :the riflemen, 1)0 mile. • . 11/im ' li . s found dead f •_,I. '
.a-straY .W.,htke .114a1V.LwAli .1 1040 . At 'Le ' • release bi, t irieadwdaer which ad been „,„ ' Sammy Wila not prone to over -ex-. •
ngarone---1•,•hiehi,„,OVe'r the ccediCearet? in some' faggots . pass'al tram) in the claSsr00M4 therefore . •.a.,
beard that came one night right up Italiati--•hotaler-we'discoVercd--That his ritother was both surpriscd- and
to the trenches in which .171, -French 0iir 011001113er, "the best in the 'inn, eve1440' for the lad's tire. • • delighted when he came home one
regiment VeLLS squatti'ng. solflier had its hiek screwed on topsy- •
41 gave if a piece of biscuit arid the titryy, Bo' that it could -not 'bolas- ,its Snian BlickleS, who' died 're-
anitnal jpinped in beside him. For toned. Out In the hallWay I bellow- cently near. Edinhutg, 1.11,, at tlfte
awhile it lived with the men, ed 101 Marla.
She came, ..a1.1 sur- age of 92, had never 'attended a
. one
of whom chtistened the animal Prise.
But the •thonorable Herrltr ramtion-picture show, a cireus Or a
,
"The Matron"" because it reminded cannot have another bedroom , with theatre and had never ridden on, a
a
Min Of g nurse he bad known -1 better leek, for that's the only train or street Car.
'wad so thin, so refined in ;manner
And -so. gentle.
Nanny, however, could chow to -
bike° , like any American country
hetet chair-w•rmer. She had a
healthy appetite, too, for bread, po-
tatoes and carrots, but she more
than paid for her keep, for, every
-thty;----site-yielded-a-generous-auan-
iity ofdelielous creanay rnibk Itiit
she was fond of ber liberty, and One
day, as she was rettirniag td tha
trenches She fell: A Victim to a Ger-
'man bullet. •
• The Prenehmen Were !Pea* 'fini-
raged, and, at night, 'when the
"Rosches" iit2le out with the ohjeot
o seizing "The .afatroree body,
they gob a Warril • reception. .The
Vrenchinea sprang at *heat like
tigersr and, before thoy could beat
retrek, a dozen Germans bit flu)
dust. •I'slannY was -taloa back to the
French treriehes and selenuily
terred' some distance from the
trent.
Lock in the hotel ; theonly one in
the village. The •landloaxlboirglit
Lt- because the foreigners insisted,
but he 'hart never seen a lock before.
If the honorable Herr will Wait
' tO-inoyrow, perhttp-s---611;•hut
eVeryone in town knows the honor-
able travellers are -here; 'bireryotte
,knows.that they go a, long trip. and
must neso no one
could 1)0 wekc1 enough to atteintit
to deprive thelon4rahle Herr and
his. honorable Fran Ckt a thing they
need SO, 1110011."
. Soldier a odd
Three iktrlane gold ?iNes have
been extraeted from the skin of I'd,-
vi4e Bloy in* rang hosintal. A
"Now 4 clitiapnQ piereW the pooltet
of. xi or soldini4 whe had 01110
ho Watt marollmg ahead of
Y.; The 5I11Il fld the otos
in the b * . q1leez6 who
11,0",ri. 4enti'4il h),Th l)WiA
hit VAS WW1
noon -with thcannottneement: '1 •
gee 100 this morning." -
lovely, • Sa'timay I" exclaimed
proud mother; and she kissed him .
tenderly. "What was it un"
"Fifty in reading and, fifty, in 'rith- .
me tie.
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-est
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1111r6a,it VVeaIness. , Bron kti°Wn'
one breath AK tatitrihtiWite 'WOW*
.chiat 6r149 bit, go. cli4utatee oto the Art14, hat is
' attileted" With .catarrh. Relief is in"
• t• ataut-suffering stoat Iit,OAtt"-Oriatt
1•10 dOOtOk attemrts twat* to euro axe destrovc.d.-Ayvery taint of tilitba9S
gernlhle 14Se of eatal" " II4"hittS is. romove4 -Think it over Beriouela.
VXOellt lItatIle 11°2404 "*" Here 1i e reateara that cleats the
atom4okt• eQ030 has h.064 dilaeO*4 threats Wie'VtA liCArSejaceSs loottithiti*‘
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il*" °`)A1.44 °t(A41411-41° Ita.611' eleared 010 intarsed trouthist tuhes
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vpa ftclvatio4 phmeork **gout mtengthens4, . .
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ttea1i xuediftmatto 't Ott a601 • tat* lc two 4.** *
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