The Lucknow Sentinel, 1916-07-13, Page 70
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•. • Driving 'Uinta !Or the. Meteriat
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VOW tileee ;safety 71ra1t appeal to
/nOtoriStar .14 only from, a selfiah
• point et view 'the nietoriet must be
interested in this. Ver were he in.
'-eollisien With a pedestrian, he . ie.
likely to ba e1arge4 with the .entire
• blame, writes •Xri .geerge Strow-
bridge, • .• . : •
Some "safety- first" hints for the
novice, may prove more. than on OenCe
of prevention,- In .drivilag motor car
•• vgluele4 both hands, ea Well ae both
• feek-and the.'eyes and earS Are' in.
constant loss, and .must be in alert ser-
•. -Vice, • Sone drivers, learn eafemani,-
. Pulation a: Car Alvah more. eaeliY
;than others do. But the wincing'
.• thing te aveid .whert•Iearning .to drive
• la \,to keen.,frorn learning bad•habits.
.-The right way • is alwayli the Slimiest. ..
aCeidents are avoided through
•- ' • •s141fu1- steering!. than by any other
meansTtif :control -at the command of
:the operator, and a• driver :who is
' olever at the. steering • wheel. las,
'‘ therefore,. # great advantage., As Icing
• • as •the:..sor is iii. motion.the. Operator'
!mist- lie• steering, • ••••• This is libe One
control that Mast- be, Constantly bin-
, ,The eperationa of. Steernig-
• eorislat• of watchfulness.* In the '• direc-.
Mu.- in LAvitielf•lhe- motor vehicle •
is
,proceeding, •and constant,'skilful
handling of the steering mechanism,
• Modern motor vehicles are
ped with. what ie termed "a balanced
• . steering .gear," Such 'a steering gear
operate's,. freely, and as a general rule
one hand .is; al1. that is necessary to
control it, The properly trained driv-
er should use his left hand as Much
MO ING
AL
NO ANALOGY IN HISTORY OF
P4$'' Tans
E GIN
• - Told by O. J'a e0, of the. Ontario Agricultural Coileg0.
4-0 P048ible for this purpose, The
Proper resting, place for the right
'hand le on the wheel, where it is
ready to ,eiseist the left wheu nee, -
eery. But booth hands should never
leave the. steering wheel at the same
thne,,. Never allow the arms to be-
ep:me crossed' or cramped with turo-
bag, and where beth heads are :Used
for a (Melt tern, hurdle the wheel in
the same way • as you would draw
• yourself up a rope-7by a hand -over -
'hand Motion* - • • • . ' says,
the 'Wises will reach a total tui -
Never look -down at: the gear Skiftlheard of in the pasL • They will a-
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or pedalo, as thie is an especial -1Y hadrinount to one hundred or one hundred
,lialsit# and one that la likely to cause and twenty billiim dollars, The losses,
troobje, My advice to the beginner occasioned by the.present conflict have
is to thoroughlY master steering,. as Ina analcigy in the, history' ef., past
nothing will so •rplickly get him into 'times. . . .
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trouhle or disclose • his ineXperience • " Aceording to the calculatiens• of
as not being able to preperly handle economists and • statielans • armed
the wheel
Atwther Year of it. win Mahe •the
Total Expenses Reach
$10.0,000,000,000.
One hundred billion dollars will be
the cost of. the war If it lasts another
year, according to. Mr. Jean Pinot,
• who •makes an interesting compara-
tive study of this sublect in -an article
,in the Paris Revue.
"If this war, lasts three Tears," he
•• cenfliets from Napigeon I. to our day,
AnOther importapt Point. well to all added together, have not caused
consider for safety's sake is ta one-half the sums absorbed by, the
sionally pull upon tbe hand brake Present war. The Napeleanio wars,
when stopping, instal:4'0 always us... Properly so called, which are consid-
ing the foot
the metorist familiar with the location tory of past times, • cost only 'about
cf this coritrol, Bo that when brake. •Fotillmiceeps edhe r s ert.most sanguloary in the his.
'ne, $1§,000,0,00,0Iaged twenty
'sity for Ito use as s 0. They
lively found., • • ." The Crimean War Cost,. the • coun-
-
Remeniber another thinges it is inatincihe left -
tries faking part in ft about eleven or
. `
foot has but one duty; it must, rest twelve billions. The civil war in
•America did not cost more than $7,-
'on the chitch pedal.. If the driver
000,000,000'or.$7,600.000,000. The war
finds this uncomfortable, some sorb ef
between Prussia and Austria in me
a heel rest can be arranged, so that
neces
the foot can rest on the pedal at all sitated
times with perfect comfort; • De- $800,08Q,0an expense of only about
0.0,,
Aecording to the estimates of Mr.
chibching is one-belf till operation of
Matheu-Bodet, Minister of Finance in
stopping, and a • fraction of a second
In stopping is often important 1874, the war of 1870 cost France the
RUSSIA BENEFITS
BY MN ON DRINK
. INDUSTRIES 'DEVELOPING IN
CZAR'S COUNTRY •
Econontic Condition. Vastly' Improved
• APd Ciliate is Greatly
Decreased.
, The economic cendition of Russia
is attracting the attention of financial
• . magnates in countries ether than
those, engaged in hostilities, and ifis
• , certain the end of the war will Mid
her in a very different potation, a
, amigo—lot-Ale better' since 1913,
• which largely attributable to the
prohibition of alcohol, writes A Lon-
• don correspondent. .
• • The sudden departure of•
M. Bark,
•the Russian Minister of Finance, for
• London and • Paris, is the talk of
„financial "circles in Petrograd: The
" Russian Minister of Finance Usually
'-comes west for 'money. But the third
Russian war loan is•just nearing -con-
• elusion and the results are quite sat-
isfactory. • The Government will get
; .
' $1,000,000,000, -46,000,000 being paid
into the impeaial excheqoer a !few
•• days ago by ir0Ap of.hanks which'
undertook its realization. •'
The terms of sabseription have been
- extendek•for.lately-the Statei-
• and, China have, begun to subscribe
large amounts of money. This sum
was considered sufficient to carry on
• .the war for some months. ,
The official•explanatien of M. Bark's
visit is that the. :item •ef credits for
4, payment of ,orders,made by the Rus-
sian Government- itbroad ended on
,0ctolier TV-Tt• seems, however, that
• a number ,of orders were executed, so -
Russian Government is compelled
to ask for an extosion of the date
• for payments. There is little doubt
that other more important question&
,will.be disdussed„ and _especial* as to
• how far Russia can reclicin on the fin --
assistance of Great Britain if
the .war is prolonged.
Closer'Alliance is Sought
• At this moment both Acid" and
private initiatives are directed to one
• aim—the establishinent of the closest
• possible relations . between England
• and Russia.
That Russia after the war will pre-
sent a Most desirable cust'omer can
scarcely be doubted. The Ministry of
number of criminal offences for th
eight Months of war as compared with
the seise period 1918-14, has 'decreased
BY716.8 per cent. In Moscow the own
ber of criminal offences difting the
first 'four months has decreased bii•
no less than 29.5 per cent. The num-
ber of fires, which is chronic calami-
ty -in Russian village's, has decreased
In some places by 22 per cent., some
even by 50. per, cent
At the same time, the well••being of
the people ' has)iflcreased all. round.
Especially in the villageis peasants and
their families are beginning not only
to dress well and wear beets which
they 'belie never done before:but to
think generally about comfort, a thipg
hitherto altogether Unknown.
total sum of $2,499,000,000. In this
State, to the departmente, the com-
munes and individuals. The cost of
paring for German troops after the
„ conclusion of peace and before the
• coniplete evacuation, ainounting to
p.13,600,000, is also included.
": An English statistician puta the
direct expenses of all belligerents
from Napoleon I. to the war'of 1914
$36,000,000,000. to $40,000,000,000.
:" Considering only the allied mania
• in the present war, it may be noted
that the number of combatants on our'
' side now_amounts to about 14;00%000.
If we adniit an average daily expense*
of $4 a 'day for each soldier, including
ammunition; we will have a total eX-
pense of $1,680,000,000 a month, or
about 420,000,000,000 a year. •
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" Imposing array of captured German, guns on review at „the Horse,
Guards' Parade.
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'THE. SUNDAY SIC11001,,
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON
was doubtless thinking rather of the
"day of 'Jehovah," se prominent in the
prophets. , Judge the inhabited .earth
in righteousness (margin),—Quoted
from Pia, 9. 8. In a man—§o liter,
' JULY 16. • ally: in is a regular Greek idiom for
the judge before whom a case io tried,
• Bub Paul was more probably using his
own "mystical in"—whether in re -
Lesion IIL—Paul At Athens—Acts demotion or in judgment, "God Is in
17. 16-34: Golden Text -4 Christ." Ordnined-rThe word Paul
Text—uses- in Ronn-17 4 (rendered "declared)
17. 28. ,, .
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1,.,.,,,,. -Acts
res ia west of the Acropolis and tion of dead men" was a sheer 1 ab -
3.2 Patil had no cbance to develop
figore are included the .losses• to the
Verse 22. Areopagus—The "Hill of .
his argument, of which he had only
delivered the 'opening; "a resurrec-
north of the market place, from which surclity, aria it was useless to yvtists
Paul would be taken by a flight o of more time listening to this Oriental
steps cut in the reek. The ancient fanatic. Those who were too polite
anddignified, court which took its
to scoff promised to renew the bore -
name from its meeting there is be-
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heved to have invited traveling, men suninlabolny ari embe.rzieol
of letters to lecture before them, with eonvepienb day---prc
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33. Thus--•-laike's, restraint here is
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a view to engaging them for regular , wonderful, only surprassed by the yet
lectures. This may have been the Wore tragic Verse of Luke 4. 30. What
purpose With which they asked Paul to i Pahl thought when he could get no
speak. Very religious—Though
•hearing we Shall -read in the
thit ward is eagable also or:meal:tin lesson for July 30. '
iurther
"superstitious," the choice of the other 34. Dionysius—So there were SOMA
Meaning is dictated. to us by- the sim- "wise after the flesh" (1: Cor. 1. 26)
ple con,sideration that Paul was a man who accepted the heavenly wisdom!
of tact, incapable of starting with a Damaris—Read the glorious' stanzas
rough word. That the word was am- in Myers' Saint Paul. The very pre-
biguous, and true in the other sense, sence of a woman in this meeting, in
is probably irrelevant • a town where respectable women were
23. Istription-,-.The existence --..of shut-'-up-a7r1 xleharred. all pubTie -11- e,
such altars in Athens svas abtribut- suggests her previous character:
THIEF.' OBEYED THE LAW.
•— . '
Haw He Implicitly Obeyed ,An Order
of the Magistrate.
• 4' Breaking arid entering" is a rare
aaine on the island. of Mangaia, in
the Cook group, but an- amusing in-
stance of it is described in Rt. Hon.
R. J. Seddon's Visit -to the South Sea
Islands." • '
.The criminal, whose outward de-
meanor was of the quietest, but who,
to a close observer, Was more nervous
than he thought he showed,,pleaded
guilty. The judge, after taking evi-
dence as to his character and. SO forth,
said, "You have admitted committing
a very- serious offence, and ooe that
a--,Ferfy occhr's in the Cook Islands
You have brought discredit. on your --
•Self, on your people and on this
Is-
land; • and you will now pay a visit
to -another, island, upon which you
have n� friends, and 'will have to work
hard." " •
The culprit was 'then sentenced to
nionths' imprisonment on the is-
land of Manuai, one of the Herveir
Islands. \
In extentiation of his crime we were,
told that,-as.often happens,thee was
a woman at the bottom of it. • A
trader had impeded some_ladies'
patent -tent boots of fashionable
Parisian style, With, silver buckles in
front. Several of the young islanders
/whose means permitted had bought
-boots, and presented- them. to their
lady. loves. The sweetheart of the
prisoner -had said, " Why don't You
get me a pair 7" • So, having no mon-
ey, he ,had gone to the store when the
%owner Was asleep, was caught in the
act, owned up like a man,. and had to
do pennanee. '
The visitors asked if there were no
probation act ? But Judge Gudgeon
Finance has'just-published a ccimpens' -said,-` No - •
"Seeing," sakeotie of the visitors,
"that he did not, like Adam, Make the
excuse, The woman tempted me,'
can't, he be fined 7 We will pay the
fln"
"No," :said the judge, "nothing but
deptartationwill meet the case.'
eild
say good-bye to his friends and to
meet ther boat at three o'clock. He
made no atempt to escape, but went
home, sane distance away, and when
next we saw him:he was running hard
to catch -the boi4 for :ha -was little
behind time. Meanwhile ,the cause of
this,trobk has to wait for her boots,
which the swain has promised tabling
_onicentititetUrtibm_prodtetinne ' ••
dium of reports received from.the. tax
• collecting- chambers and officers all
• over the empire as to the effects of
the war on Rusaton trade, comineree
. end the ecOnomic situation generally.
. From this report it is seen that,
••' forced' in Many ways to rely upon her-
. -----stelf,-Russia-les xlmselaned.-initiativ
and.adaptability to •a, degree never
• dreamed of 'before., .From a purely
agricultural country she is fa4t de-
• • veloPing into a Manufacturing and in-
dustrial one:
Theis is a graft dernarid ''..fof all:
• Sorts of textile and jute manufaetures;
as well as those_producing chemleals„.
• drugs, and tlifferent -things -necessary
to the many. The capital has been on his ,return from Rarotonga, .
at the same time 'factories have liten
adapted to the new requirements.
Prohibition Has Helped hiripire .
The prohibition•of alcohol, accord=
Ing •to tbe unanimous verdict of all
reports, has done Tuna in assisting
ta, eliminate the economic' crisis. Be-
sides this it has also. contributed to
• 'Uplifting the social And Moral status.
Of the people. ' in the governments of.
Vetrograd and Ifoscow drinio has de-
* ereaeed lunaxittgly and the detention
. towns at pollee stations are clnPtY. •
l'he Tamboff tax collecting chamber
Moils that the nuMber of .proiseeu.
, tons in courts of all kinds In the
• goVernnient'docreased duiing the first
nine months Of tho war," in some by
17 ver cents in Other# by, 02 per cent.
In the goVernipnit QS X.0 hn erhup
ii
the war by 040:, . tli Pil 0 atto,X0
4oereasect for tilh ktit I entbs ex
nom attribl#4),01 0 OhlOilt 0 0 ahoy.,
titt Of 4100401# •
• . ,0114le of 41,4 fr'briabltij 6 rOtlit t 4
• deordintt to 001014 ler "Aa. to
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PUT PRISONERS Al WORh.
,
Constant Increase
For France alone the budget_ a-
mounts to $6,193,200,000 JearTY;
cording to Mr. Almond, who recently
ed to _the counsel of the Sixth century •"Then I preaehed Christ; and *en
made a report to the French Senatelsage Epimenides of Crete (see vaese she heard the s.sory.--:••:. •'; ••
showing the folloWing credits since 28), who when a pestilence occprrea 0, is such triumph penible to men?
August 1, 1914 :—
Last five months 1914.$1,317,886,850 tshatfitcheey,;bcoonl4e ilportoptie•arced,eiatydv,,i,seideava. Hardly, my King, had I beheld thy
giory
Year 1915' -4,488,319,70' mg the name open. What therefore
First half of 1016 3,096,506,870 —Of course Paul was adapting their
words to a new purpose: he .never
meant to add one more god' to their
crowded -Pantheen! In ignorance—
see verse 30.: • Paul is .going • to tell
'then the little oversight'admitited in
that inscription is nothing leis than
that of the one true God.
Total since war began$8,897,713,422
He calls' special, 'attention to the
constant increase in expenses
Year 1915 $3,083,400,000- $4,483,319,702
First quer- • ,
ter 1916 1,082,400,000 1,535,606,870
Sec. quer- - •, .
• ter 1916 1,163,000,000 1,561,000,000
• At this rate the total .expeuses for
the year would be about $6,200,000,-
000; of which the army absorbs 73
per cent., and the debt, also constant-
ly increasing', more than 7 per cent.
Civil and other Government expenses
are about 19 per cent, aod' the rest,
• something 'under 1 per cent., goes to
boy food for the destitute refugee
population.
Added te. the Above are the suins
paid to allied nations—Belgium, Ser-
bia and. others—which raise the ex-
penses to $18,000,000 a day, $560;000,-
090' a month, �r $6,700,000,900 a year,
England's Expenses , • • •
• At the same time England's ex-
. g o an enemy
•
penses have risen from 317,000,00a a with a handful of men, and .at their .; bound to the • regions of Davy Jones.
day to $22,000,600, and are soon ex- In one of his finest' passages, Lucre -
head fought his way through the en- I Hall first, found the german with 'a
pected to reach $25;000,000 daily, r tius -declares that Deity is "mighty in
ranks until he was sent to the ! shell at even or eight miles'. A
Ornate of the exclusively war expenses ,
$9,125,000,000 a year. A British es- I aitisi.,,c4n: resources, rieeding us not
at igernroYund with a :terrible. blow from a ; broadside from the Queen Mary tilted t
I 26. Of one—Greek as. well hs ke- rifle butt which b d l'i'
of the allies giVes the following itp 1 ' • • °
•
24, • As a Jew, he naturally: drops
into Old Testament langalage_(Exod.-
Irr Isa. 42 5), ubt thp assertion
could be matched almost verbally from
bhe inscription of the Athenians' great
antagonist, the Zoroastrian king of
Persia, Daeus; and Greeks like Eur-
ipides had declared that God could not
be confioed in temple walls. ,Made
with hands—That God's true temple
must he "made Witheub hande was
a declaration, of Jesus (see Mark 14:
58) Which it guaranteed as a true re-
port in this respect by the echoes, in
the Acts and Epistles..
25. Neither he,tei:ved--•-•Compart
Ps& 50. 9. Needed—An acceptance
of Epicurean.doctrine to match the ap-
proval of a Stoic poet (see verse 28).
• Hardly had I known • thine. .excel-
. -knee till then."
HEROIC MAJOR DECORATED.
,
Surrounded by Huns on Dead Man.
• - Hill, Fights His Way Bach.
• The battle of Verdun has been ive
known his encoura'ging smile to batter
prolific of heroic deeds. One o
down -spy' disguises, where the usual
tfillgehtilZ3 round Dead fl-Daetiadc--MeaPnis°Hdielsl-Ofeethur7 third degree Methods would be futile.
red to the West of that position, It takes a .strong Man to talk an hour
where a'French regiment was fa0 to with Hall and not reveal Oneself.
face • with a Pomeranian brigade:
During the botteSt moment a, major 'Felt for,the Enemy.
commanding the Third Battalion ora
[No. 8.4
Mo. operating treubles of the gaso-
line .ssrnsinc- Aro not 1,-:e numerons as.
the starting' .ttoubles for if the /atter,
• are eliminated; then there is not ranch
• danger from the formbr, lflowever,
there are a few that are of common
edcurrence and they will be dealt with
, now, Sometikoes whge.running, the
engine Will aliSS' Are, that is, .the trip
rod will trip the spacker but there
cooling. This seale •prevents •the
water from. cooling tizo cylinder 44 -
should be seraped off oecassiOnally.
, When ti) Regulate' the WO.
Solmetimes after. the engine. haa
made a few explosions it will se,ent
to sniother and then stop, Thialla due .
usually to an overdose of gasoIineffi
Onantities .of. denim black smoke front
the exhaust indicating the presence of
will be no explosion. This indicates tc'.° mueh fuel. 4 raurm4 mixture of
etilcttlinsei: or
waeadkirtbyattespraryk, ipoile. coenwItoh,_ Ilgabglianoefigandimaolftisinivaidalbettesdraboyueatrlapimn
an lingine that is being end dauy,,tbe i the exhaOst. White, .demo smoke in, -
epailc plug ahead be removed owe a I dicates that the cylinder is -getting too
month, the rieposit of carbon on the much oil. • Sharp, hard explosiolle•aem,
pcolunqtac:beap40 jetts,offswmiothotehaeaspiwipieth .ailttndtile. 1 coMpaniect. by frequent eXplosioM lit .
!the inlet pipe indicate that the en...
paper or a fine 'Me. , An aceumula. I gine- is not getting On:MO'', Moline. .
attihndlinolcina.gssitor "mi4nss.i.ethosrePing4Prk°, itItst ij•icesaul:sosi 'Ilil():e:lals114rwiltbeeli. Iv'ilatirfit withoutseems 11°21 .
t hied, but when the clutelt is thrown.in;
uncommon to have the electric current it. balks, slows down, and finally steps.
shorteircuited, that is, some point a Thi.,,,esPoe1411Y IA old: et/010%1'1s dna
the svires becoming bared of insula-' to the 44.9t 010 the*Power a: the ex-
thtioee;enavitiftd -touching ucacliiusnegtbsoemeet,meentialtoPtibtte ieodf .1"eiet's' iheteal at being utili4e4' to
Inhg:e . rw itelr'einvsglia raslrheigu sP clo*,•werk, is
ton 'rings, bearings and - connediens, ,
Wetted in Overcoming frictien. in
lost through tlfe•Wern pis.
off into the ground instead of. reach-
lc:gu:ses TthoePer:overihetrnthaiys augnmerit. ,„ .
.°thre shaft. or bearings that are not In
become over -heated. ,This may badue ' *
F ' ' - •
PPM he examined.
The best •- •• ; • ,
way 'to overcome gaselme•
to the fact 'that sufficient oil is not veniffinn:•tthroeubenlz,nts btOliePearreveetibtefthoermo ttstri.
reaching, the cylinder. The average
size farin engine with gravity feed
Should get from 8 to 10 or 12 drops of
oil per rainute on its cylinder. Over-
heating may also be due to an eccum-
ulation of scale on the Water jacket
of the cylinder, caused by the deposi-
tion ,of lime from the water used in
trouble occurs, It requires but .a.
srnall percentage of the time then,
that.is necessary to correct the ,trOU-
bie after it has occurred, In other
WordS, old as .the hills, yet as true
as gospel, "an esioce of prevention la
worth a pound of „cure." -7C,, W. Jakes
in capachan, Oeunt,r3rman.
GREAT BRITAIN'S
- SECRET SYSTEM -
CAPTAIN 'WILLIAM R. HALL IS
HEA -6711
Combats German System of,. Espion-
age and Penetrate&
Enemy Secret:. ,
Writing in the New York Ameri
an, Augusttis F. Beach says:— •
There is profiably.no more effiCien
officer In all. of Great ;Britain tthan
the man chosen hy Wise Admiralty
heads to combat the German •system
of, eaPionage and to .perietrate at •the
sametinie the German espionage arm-
or. He is Captain William R. Hill,
at the outbreak of the war command-
er of the cruiser Queen Mary, des-
troyed the. fight off Jutlaud, and one
sti! the first British cominander actual-
IY to sink a German inao-o'-war.- This
he: did the first Heligoland battle.
Hall is a new fighter to the finest
type„ ia sailor with the salt 'tpf the
Seven seas in his Veiris and hatred for
no man in his heart. They made him
thief of the Intelligence Division'
of -
the ,Navy, because he, knew men as
Well as ships , and the rest of the
world as 'well' as Britain I h
never think �f Hall ELS a secret
French regiment disappeared. His .t service director without recalling an
men, who worshiped him, became verylincident that occurred on . the bridge
ankious. It was at first reported that ' Of the good 'ship Queen, Mary as she
he was killed and then that he'vvas a raced. in to the death after scoring
them beant !" and the major came in-. the ablest sea fighters everywhere, he
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'prisoner. -• . a fatal lit on a German cruiser .- in
Suddenly they heard a well-knowni.that fisst tussle in Heligoland Bight.
voice shouting, "Bravo,., boys' Give Hall Is -a religious man. Also, like
to view, his uniform in shreds, his face 1 could face death himself with a hun-
I
covered with blood and his left arm -dredfold less feeling than would reach
hanging limp. e had been cut off his heart t* th
• Itiliveedb.est individual Soldier that ever
He yeas awarded an iron Cross for
his -bravery, and soon afterward giv-
en ,the greatest distinction of being
ordered back,to Germany to study and
be examined to beconie a commission:
• ed officer. He finally took the ex-
amination and passed, .
Two we'ek's later the captain was
• notified officially that the man • had
suddenly come :ander the suspicion. of
his instructors•and ultimately cisnfeis-
seri being a British, spy. He. was
Ala, but to this day his German cap--
taia will swear he was the best sOlds
Mr he has ever seen.
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HAROUN AL' RASCHID'S CITY.,
Travellers' .Do Not Speak Well Of
" • ' Bagdad.
•
• Bagdad, the faineua capital of'thet.
caliphs of, the "Arabian Nigh*" is
not to -day the City that poetry • and
romance paint it., Mr. James Walter
Smith says :
Of Bagdad before the war a lot of
nonsense has been written. Most of .
it has come from the fervid, pens oft
people brought up on the ," Arabian -
Nights." •. . . The plain' truth is
that Bagdad is a dirty, common un- •
inspiring Eastern city. A friend a
mine once described it • admirably in ••
a single sentence: "'It tooleme four -
weeks:a. to get there, and ,one day to!
iget t." "
.'A -Bagdad house In the glimmer is
a fiery, furnace, and no one, unlesslila
name be Shadrach • or t Meshach or
Abednego, could • live Within' its four
walls with comfort, and yet the na-
tives have 'made a brave attempt to
overcome the difficufties of their
Situation. Deep in. the ground they.
have Wilt cellars, pr Serdabs, • and
these .serve as Cooling chambers. The
cellars are kept pretty dark: "Tho
• light enters," says one who has lived '
there, " thrOugh .ainall Windows,. or
Openings, where, instead of glasT, ia
placed a lattice of palm filled with a
prickly camel's 'thorn. • Several tirnes —
a day the-ocupants sprinkle water en
these thorns, and the moisture cools`
the hot wind as it passes through the
mains, and gives a coMparatively re-
freshing breeze.. But toward night
hese cellars •become unbearably
to. Ain's 80, 1917 :--.• ' ibrew .. story recognlied the Common
-France. . : ..... ...... J4,175,000,000
Russia '14,000,090,000
Italy ,, - 4,200,000,000
Beltiuni.. , ... 2,700,000,000
Serbia, .,....: . : ... ' 700,000
, ,000, the great prompter in-thejsearch after
Moetenegro •
Portugal
• Total• $51,72§,,000,uoo
. cest te Teutons ' • ''
• On the other side, Gerniany'S ex -
parentage of mankind. SelitOns—
Great . Britain . • . .. .$15,250,000,000
The ages of their rise and fall; and
their Mitt:an& the lands tiley**ere
to make their Own$ • • •
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27: Providence in 'history was to•be
the enemy, and Hall rushed in at full
•
•• speed. Through. his glasses he could
shoulder.
Dragging himself on his hands and oee the German•turning uP on end and
knees for a mile,he had eventuallsr 'her men crowding aft to stay opt of
rejoined his.men, and Ilia first, thought -the water aS long as possible. •
g ous you know, 1 b
bon. The French were tuccessfol in , Hall Said to me, "end I don't- like, s
driving the Germano back, but: the .,1,ta oee. the poor beggars joing_dowit In
' 650,000,000 God. It was the. clearness with which Vrallant major receiVed 'a 'second ;den- I just that viiiy. I naturalTy took or ..io
; gerous wound, in the chest, and had to." Inv eon and said a little Prayer for , 0
.50,000,000 l'Israet's instinct grasped this lesson be taken to the rear: Solexerucioting 1
• that qualified 'him to be God's mis- was the -pain he suffered while being th-ein. I hadn't. got very far with b
• was to lead them once more into ac -..1- or• •
lose, and then the entire. city mounts
o the fiat roofs, where it •dines and
leeps.'''''
Any trian or. woman Who .has stayed .•
or any length of time in 'Bagdad
rings away something else besides
purious antiques, • and unpleasant
emorieS„ ritiniely a good, old-fash-
ned, torturing boil, or what reniains
fit In the' form ore scar. reniem-.
er once asking a man who:had. just
me .back from Bagdad what he
ought of 'the place.' • For .answer he
ointad to•ii pit in his cheek. " it's
1 I remember of Bagdad," he said,. •
and I. don't recall that With any
y. PI
•• .'...,••
rriw,
d wqmpn alike—men ,usually on
eh legs and arms, and women; un-,
rtunately, more often on their faces
and it lasts tong &Sang% to make
e a misery. The disease is common
ewhere Inthe Orient, aridisltnown
o as. the Aleppo button and . the
kra
• penses,. which to date are. about $10,=. I have they made for thee, 0 7eust general commanding his 'unit arrived • Dedgipg a Torpedo. .
• al
000,000,000, it is estimated will be 'at ,,highest and greatest, even- the Cie- zit the hospital; and 'taking the Cross ; "Nothing ••Istrt a fOr ed. ' •
sionary to the world. - operated on that fo.avpitl groaning.he what Iliad t� say, though, when I co
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sort of felt that all -was not well, and ' ti
are two quotations here: '4A. grave of his voice. A, fel,v minetes later the', ,
28, A receot•discovery tells. us there song the " itt the tot" 'cast my,off eye seaward, • ' •P
easts-41.4,000.,0901000---byr-tha...sam
time; ' Austria's about $10,000,000,-
000 ; Turkey' ii $600,000,00Ci and Bul4 an
•garia's $520,000,000, or $34,120,000 for
the Teutonic allies.
• Then, there Japan, Who -issued an
-internal loan 01 326,000,000 at the lie -
_a weys_burs_j.ete.,_,es„.Titus.J. of the Legion of lienor-froln his' own Lcipti_cd....,misiship 1 ...xwit.....1).,taxingg
12). But thou the nob' dead, for to 'Utilreri37-tilrui-eirli. iiii:-I-Ce" iii:casi of , rigTA•there long enough to throw the
eternity thou liVest and stoodests for the brave officer. • ' 4 ship's course over, so as to parallel the th
in thee 'We live and move and have our- • ' , , . , ..;._....2...._..L.„. . course of. the torpedo, if • possible. - fo
beihg." . The verse in Titus is attrib- ._
oted to Enimenides, .who. now appears, , • ' - • ' • „.; Then I took 4,1/1y cap again, and g'inid1.-
11.0YS' IN GERMAN ARMY,. ' a-pra3;sr for My ciwn erew. :We •paral- , Of
to have referred .to the Cretan legend- - - • '•• ---- - Med ler all -right,- -and. she we& !pis
.gmning of the war, and whose . ex- of the burial of Zeus in Creta . Cer.,,Itettzrneti Traveller Says lif.anhecid of, skimming by.,,
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..pens.es_in thectipture . of _Klao-oluni•tail-•,Nitme-137_, Epimentrles for the ear- ; • • • . -Germany Is Uaed Up. -.• ' J This is 1•14111, ;the man who guard's
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And the German Pagifie archipelagos '3 -ler words, the •Cilkian Aratua I 'The Londoo (is.. 'the- oeerets of the. world's greatest
and their acOpation were about $100i- ,1270). a'ng the •Stoic clear:0es (third
00.6,01XL ..•_$an.4laarino,.,A0.0„ has a 4. centtiY). for (he 'latter, " Thet there cripti.on ef:iciefildrittiountain tletritaii.nYf..by g•nottteat... -
and seeks. the -secrets of . the
:several hundred thousand dollars was a tinge of pantheism in both th Ile believes you
in r mom rp..a _
• British raeiners .
". before' the win% II e' :• ,;
days lig° after a, fitay _NOLO. tvg.km loVV eneanes—and. shoot • •
British farrriers• • dubscribed about
.colotab:onS, accerding to their 'author'. u.ring the Franco-German war ,
ereCting` anti-aircraft . defences 0-
' • gainst Austrian aeroplanes. The Al- thought; doe*,. not prevent Pairl's n.:4•••, • ,. No :moo, (ii,•1,•0-N, fit. for ....L.,: '11:1MC iirototype to. ,
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itig. them lifio.4.1:41 htigi,44,11:c in providing .seeds for the
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jy4solo4)1414.6%;te tsvti;flieviceenv:resti„ch peasants. After for- * ommandment, 'Which had .n -sporctne are 0's -fining 'at the milit'arv ;lisping rilli!tinn °f are13% • The
• • . a English avieulturalists
termites n Britain Employed on ,Thelhes thus havespent- Omit $52,-
rteettir-Aant-hrivlintirc-- 000,000,000-,--e:nd-tha- igenidn4.434o,
. . i 000,000 At the end of three years! war.•
Following the Germin
age e p,ng the small French '
Great Britain .ia p„,,tutting 'War •p
. These sums • give a-. total ; of abotzt ., us ration in the Athenian dogsoda, younger hoes too, are „ustUany . ,a.f ' ittaal diff•oreoceq hOtWeen,, farmers, and., thr'ough the medium of
l'iP°"- IS. 88,000,000,0004. 'somewhat. less than 'tion of that whitb diviAo (ras rain f 'the finny. If -ahoy 4 :.;blis and sfro,:,•, wt". • 1.m-1' •aPis ' .'"•• "t. "" 1. s. :the-kgrieultural 'Relief of Allies Fulfil
,
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ers to Work. Th(de are now about
15,000 German combatant prisoners
In the islands.
• About a thousand of these will as-
sist in• building a great dom in the
valley of the Conway, North Wales.
Other. detachments will be sent to do
iron mining on the island of Itaasay,,
off Skye And Wilber cud* in 'In-
verness/7'0)+011in and other plow.
Civilian prisoners Are already at warlt
on the, roads and In the quarries of
the iA10 of Merl, and on 'the 'farms In
Clam Oro,
The zettery and', naval frieenere
01114 t 0 %Weft prescribed by the
1400 00fiVentlea,, •
Irow priSoners will be emPloyed'oa
fatipao •
the estimate of Mr. Finot, but. agree-,
ing with the calculation that the wet
d the Present war is more than &bible
all the Ware df the nineteenth cen-
tury, from those of Napoleon I., plus
-all the wars of the first daze* yeafs
of the present .century. ;
• .
Ataither.A. S; S. One. "
A tcOooltnaster dnee wrote his ini-
tials, "A. 0.1" on the flYleat of one Of
his bOoka. One of the boys, who 'got
hold of the book, added sedoral
but the Master discovered the addlion,
and, ltnowhv It, beg-.
ed tbo book back tbe boy with the
words. ,sr 'wish, you Would not write
your name in py holed. •
into nothing more than • physically he is.31taken, whatever his age. 1 know "Ile'• "110 '''•••11""111•: ,t let I be:Ifctcl Square, W.O.) have gent
beautiful men and wQ2iii;n,• , I of a• boY. of 14 Who • has be • en at the•Ellgihth,; • °"e siv" 1'10 ' ser,N ,ria-implemotis 'of the velue of
(Acts' 14. 16), •: The_ words do not pre- ' a Man-et.,militsrY the_ rities "Bet Seklier" a Spy, I marke'd fel. distribution, When the
.1111 he, Ot1
80. OVerlooked—"Sufferecl all the, front six months. . -In • the sra• llorlethey '" • •
betiveeri 24,00 mid &6,000. to Frithee,
Hut they are ,eiceed-
natIens to Walk in their Man ways"' ; towns it is almostsimpossible to find NO:Y.0117(0. • ege In •• and suhscribed 05,000 in -Mon -4y. ear -
en d to give a full account. of whIC malty mon. inAiniforms are abei oapionage system iiew tittle oomes, 'AitiOliff the fkreers of
God.will do with thOse who are "ignor, l•the only civilians of niilitary a. ,:. are ,preheldy triple its ' peare footing. In ,I Pee*, Serbia; and Poland as well.
anti" through AO fault ;of their , own, I film! in Government officeS;iti,: . `,1:ao., efficiency and nnfabors. Espionage, c
,,., . , AB .
They simply preparatory to. the de- (+flanged ,in financial : find.' his: •a'nee repulsivein as it may be the abstract
declaration that God's Wan Of atilve.work, sinto these are regardIP a milipaky necessity. Assign w !
Ilandseme Prikes IN.11 b e Ohm
........ tlaa...• .41•••••.4.0.••••...., •
1 • • - .
tion is new 6..empiete, 'end ft Is me mai indispenswhic for ceeductiht• 11. fin- 'MI6 British :soldier to 0:9/110119g0 andi The • Managernett of the Toronto
thAt.men ehoidd all bear of it and fie,andel operatiOna of the. einint*.t: All he' .wili do his NV.014C with, o cleverness , kat Stock Show announce thbir iti..
Opt it,Repeat-Tito. word •does n.ot shop-keePta's and MOn.•iniadus: -.ere, .'Lind tenacity that 3'ars or 'Russians, I tention of holdingo. aShow as. di •
concentrate, like the English, 08 mere gene. MY own oPiniOn IR ' ft' .. the suPposedly pitat Masters: in AO Art, ' Union Ste& Verde, Tereate, Dee.
,sorrow for the past; a whol4t 110W k numbed of•CermanY iiiaSed nr . ;hereconk; not excel. Here is an example: her '8th MA W1,1810. Wo iitileta
attitude of triad is the point, . . tura ne re8erVe8 At 'Ole Pr'etIen.•,.'10b1*1 A dertnen offieer, Whom X have mot the :prise 'list Will n61114111. man
' 81, Appointed 6 day,..--14",re fix a day') i eat. Young tviya at school al . .':6ing, mut known no e frfond both' hi. itio. &moo and cad, tinti1som6 pi,
UilltWO Paul tralfiedi?,
a i
, Nene Din' cydion.ry Latin, terin for tn. traised. elitiest ne .reeriiitil-'va• •al hO' lleld and .1,O Berlin, believed for six brOodera And feeders of tame
.innotincieg legal ing
,., Months that la hits oonunttly 4414. Alut begt. . ..,......
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