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The Exeter Advocate, 1920-4-29, Page 2Bees That Could, As Gloria ended leer lecture on.con- 'Men lloleb. arrived at his grand- duet �a setting hen said, "quit, quit, father's farm he found his grand- quit!" and old h%uffieehop, the rooster, • xtiother mi-xing some of her wonder- said, 4`T -a -1-k, t -a -1-1:i" in a guttural The most striking thing about Pa cul biscuits. "Grandfather," Bobby voice. The young pullets looked wise land is its optimism. Next is its mar- aa1d, "don't you think honey would but said nothing. venous national consciousness. Its taste good on those biscuits?" Gloria sighed. She loved all the people are so Intensely patriotic, al- He had heard about the beehives on fowls in the barnyard, but none of most hysterical about it. They seem the farm, and he was eager to taste them so dearly as she bad. loved Gold- so full of life and animation, which, the fresh honey. feather, the little hen that was no coupled with their pride lu their new Grandfather stroked his beard. longer there. Goldfeather was jet - POLAND ARDE °f #trying to round into �I cape a new re- Burglary. Doesn't Pay. jealous neigh- when the man in the street reads es. that the thieves g Sea Otters. public surrounded by Prohibition of the killing of sea of bora and .former enemi h b STRICKEN i4 4�Ihax: ha went to Paris to plead the cause t Poland before the peace .,_....-. conference he had to talk to inen who didn't believe the Poles were com- OUTSHINES ALL LANDS petent to govern themselves, who IN OPTIMISM, thought the Poles were divided and al- ways would be victims of their own intrigue and petty jealousies. Only the Poles themselves understood the sacrifices made for them by Paderew- ski, and they give him the largest share of the Credit for whatever pres- tige they have with the European Powers. Only time will tell how last lug this ,prestige will be. The visitor to Poland to -day notices the quiet, confident complacency of the people in their belief that some- how it will be all right for Poland. Ile sees lacking among the leaders of the Government, the Cabinet Ministers and heads of departments, a certain power of direction and command, an ,. ie es of away with jewels ters In Alaskan waters es been. ea valued at $25,000," he often thinks tended by the U.S. secretary of com- that crime Is probably worth rise risk, meree to November 1, 1925. It is for one good burglary like that would hoped that in the meantime this vain- time. a reasonable nian for some able fur -bearing species, which: was- time, pursued almost to extermfnatiou, will Now if Veers is one thing certain in gain somewhat in numbers, this herd world it is tale; "Crime The fur of the sea otter is the most doesn't pay, beautiful and most costly of ,all pelt It's only the big and spectacular, ries.. Long before the discovery of. burglaries that get reported; The Arteries the mighty tycoons of ,japan average criminal Is like the average man in the street. He earns little, and he runs a greater risk than if he were honest. 'Here are a few figures by an Eng- lish prison chaplain, who gained the parted with for a trifle, confidence of many hundreds of pri- soners. Out of 488 burglars. the average ` gain from their burglary was $04.66, ,.-•--�-� and it mustn't be forgotten. that for dangers ie, helps to Mind them: to the p this paltry sum every single one was people grove about with a brisk step absence of force ie d surround them. Thed serving a senteueeE - ceiling a goes- One man, who had the reputation of and have a purposeful air about ahem ttion, things which are not conducive to a powerful Government. But he is told that this is due to lack of ex- perience x perience and to years of rule by others. The Pole, he is reminded, didn't have a. chance to deeelop under Russian rule. The big men were not given a voice in the administrative af- fairs. "Give us time," said e. Cabinet Minis- ter. "and the energetic resourcefulness characteristic of the Poles will assert itself. We now have a country as large in territory as Germany and a population of 25,000,000. It's a big job for beginners to tackle, but give us time." Poland is easily one of the impor- People of New Republic Burn With Patriotic Zeal Despite Hunger and -Disease. "Getting honey in broad daylight is black, with one yellow feather in her et risky business. young man." he said, dark shiny collar. One day when 'shut VII see what I can do." Gloria was away from home, her Bobby wanted to go with glint to the father, not knowing that Goldfeather that denotes a certain confidence in hives, but grandfather thought it was any different from an ordinary the future. would be better for him to keep away fowl, had sold her along with some All this is so refreshing to see after The little boy was willing to run the other hens. Ever since then Gloria the rest of Europe. Everywhere else risk of being stung, but he took hie had grieved for her pet. She never in the countries of the Iate war one her un clothed themselves with its shimmer- ing velvet. Early explorers found the natives of the Aleutian islands aria the Puget sound region eoxumonl-, wearing sea ottor cloaks, which the,! 'stand obediently at the w ndo,' and lost a chance to hold Goidfeat watched the old gentleman go across as an example to the rest of the barn - the road to the place where the be, yard, hive= stood. "Well, I'm going to make a new As warily as a thief granufatherp:agi:ouse to-:tiarrotir," she told the food but with troubles. They go about r:rept toward the Incv, 'here n fey: folds, ..end when Fin settled I'll give- their business, if they have any, .with, Wes were tel flying t.aort, a ;h1zy you a party. Now, shoo, all of y ou!" a tired, listless aid and seem utterly held his breath as he watched a `'n Bright and earl} next morning, both lacking in what Americaus call pep. reach in and talars out t box of a e e -. Gloria and Goldfeather were. busy set- It isn't any wonder, of course, after Bobby leaned out vg' the wind,, ,.: • :ing up housekeeping, though neither all their hardships, and privation of ''The biseults ore nearly r��tdyt" he• knew about the other. the last five years. cried- But to his. surpr se grendfaher For Goldfeather was not dead, as But Poland went through ail this, Carried the pre4: ,us box as the i, at• Gloria had feared, After she was taken too. In fact, she got a werFe deal than ; a' of a shed, set it. inside ^ hi lett away to the market, a farmer from any other country, first trampled by the door open a creek bef•ate he t;.;rtLCI- the other side of the town had bought one army and then by another, and away. -er, and for six month; she had been finally lett for dead. Unlilte Belgium, `•W c shall have to do whhout :Taney living in a new barnyard. At first she which received relief from the outside for supper," he said. "There etre stat was homesick, but she was of a cheer world almost through the war, Poland .lee.; in the box. We can't make them ful d.:.position andaeon became con- was surrounded by enemies and shut Alone. (carie out. All we ca't Flo i- just to. tent. off; liar first aid came. after the arra- The treaty has been defeated. Of in New Vorl:; Gati;lie, wire robbed tits lases an opening and le...:en: ;,� :. •ire That 'bright spi':nh morning wlat.. 1 tare. It came from England, and the tour: e, its. defeat was inevitable I,iverpocl 13aatlt of \8n0,ada, died is when they feel lake it. Bat cheer: tap, Gloria, was movie, eat, her new play -.'United States and France, It was months ago, in. the inability of the prison•, Juhnrtie Irving. who with Boa. yet; may have honey on eeas house under the cold crooked allele tree, food, clothing. medicines and person• g some cainpanions rubbed a : arihainp- r. v alae for areal:feet!" • i �� a gra, Iter -tin for a good rel from those countries to help in. Sit ate to and any conceivable ferule-, ton bank or $Itt0,00t1, was shot by a ,oh n, , o i Goidfea.l. ea g lee for wIaic h two-thirds of its mem- fellow f i ti �itd dietfellow burghs who died in prison. It can be taken as a certainty tbat the average man .can earn more by honest work, even of the humble:t. nu- ture, nowadays, that he eau hope to by cringe. gets the impression tbat everybody is tired. 'Fed up" is a good English ex- pression to describe their feel;ngs. Everybody seems fed up, not with t being particularly daring and expert, averaged less than $7.00 a week from his crimes'!, it mustn't be forgotten that jewels valued at $500 by the owner won't fetch more than $100 or $150 for the burglar, unless he's exceptionally lucky in disposing of his stolen goods. There is more profiteering among "fences" than among any other class. Out of 443 pickpockets the average amount for which they had been sen- teuced was $22.93, and yet most of them confessed they would gladly give up the game for a certain e8.00 a week! The average earnings of erinxinals, taut new Powers of Enrage, and, like despite the dazzling hauls they are, suppoacd to make, do not average $5 a weep year in and year out. And take the caro of criminals who have made big hauls. Ned Lyons, the bank burglar who got away with over half a million In his career, diel in P. charity hospital ct1i5v t, site le in the ;welting pot of European politics, the probable out- come of which is another story. The United States Stands a that night Bailee ate ra •p .terry jam on his biscuits and toeake.i for- ward *o tate rex• mo r e•* place to 'take her nest. She did not the task a organ ra ons goer would yore, says "Tito Living lilze the Heats in the henhouse, they tion. It continues, but it is a mere Church" aelliote, a' ). American in- �• seemed too common. The dogs naig'itt drop in the oeean of un. cry. sfittitiors have sustained the most 'Meanwhile the bees thi". stitia t e trout}le iter ii : he'rade a nest ender a here in Warsaw, the capital and the seriatt, strain since the Civil War. boat of honey carried away fr')rs: the bush; and several hens were alrea3y mast interesting city of Poland, death That the President and Senate could hive had buzzed the sail ncsS. to every raying in the barn. Goldfeather wan- stalks on. every side,so much so that not, or would not, wort; together, is other bee on the place, ant they ;til dered round a long time, peering into it reminds one of Vienna, easily the bad enough, and would in itself have began to buzz their anger as only *gees corners and talking. to herself. most distressful capital in the world strained our Govurnanenn but that • h f d d I �e at to -day. Warsaw is a city of contrasts. t t find n form of ear. Grandfather, grandmother and 1 mall} s e nun a goo n awl the era a cannot any Beggars, the dreaded typhus and wards that is satisfactory to two - funerals are the things You see most thirds of its members freers the ma- in this city, whose population has been plate collapse of American statesman - swelled to 1,000,000 by the influx of ship at the roost "Waal time in the refugees from all parts of Russia. history of the world. Neither can we These things are emphasized by con- see that any party, group or iudivld- trast with the luxurious hotels and ual that has been connected with the the petit palaces, the latter the affair from the beginning comes out homes of the old native aristocracy with eredit, though undoubtedly there of Poland, are varying degrees of culpability. Pathetic Scenes in Streets. The crowning insult to England in Barefooted beggars chase after you the last of the reservations only adds in the snow covered Novo Swiat, one one more to the series of insults to of the main thoroughfares, and almost each of our former allies that have drop to their knees in pitiful suppli- been features of the long-drawn-out cation. They are of all ages and both transaction. We finally emerge from sexes, but the majority are women and the long uncertainty, the friend and children. Unlike the professional eft- ally, apparently, of nobody but that men beggars to be found in. ether coup- section of Ireland that openly support. tries these do not have to pinch the ed Germany during the war and as - scrawny limbs of their child in arms smiled our boys who landed on Irish to make it cry; it seems to be crying soil after the enemy had sunk the all the time, and not manufactured Tuseania; while Mr. De Valera goes crying, either. Although the beggars home with the statement that he has are to be found in every street of the accomplished his full purpose in coni- city, the majority are outside the lead- ing to America. So there is one part ing hotels and restaurants. The rail- of the world that is satisfied with way stations and churches ,are also what we have done, popular with them. What comes next nobody can guess. Typhus is everywhere. There are We must either drift indefinitely, or 10,000 eases of typhus in the city right ask Great Britain and France to try now: Official figures show that 50,000 to get for us such of the advantages Bobby were safe indoors, and as no the far end of the barnyard stood a one happened to pass by no one was wagonload of hay. What could be stung. But the more they buzzed better? about the wrong the angrier the bees Goldfeather flew up to the top of became. They swarmed about the the load and stood twisting her neck hive and about the shed, and scolded this way and that until she saw a fine and scolded and scolded. place for a nest. Then she marched The next morning Bobby felt lazy. over to the middle of the hay and set - "Grandmother, won't you please lace tied herself in the warm little hollow my shoes for me?" he asked. that looped as if it had been made "Tut! tut!" said grandfather, corn- for her. - ing in from the yard. "Can't lace your "Crr-rel" said Goldfeather content- edly. Later on a ratan carne walking across the lot with two horses. There was a clicking of buckles and a rattling of chains, and the wagon. began to move. Goldfeather was a little frightened. gay, `I can't'; they say, `I can. And, She craned her neck and said, "Cut - what's more, they do!" cut?" inquiringly; but as the wagon Bobby looked puzzled, "I don't rolled on and nothing hurt or harmed know what you mean," he said. "Lace your shoes and I'll show you," grandfather replied. Bobby's fingers were no longer clumsy. A. few moments later he was following his grandfather out to the shoes?" "But my fingers are clumsy, grand- father," Bobby explained. "Tut! tut!" grandfather said again. "A swarm of bees mustn't do better than a great husky boy! They don't her, she settled down peacefully, Gloria was getting ready to give the promised party when the loaded wagon came moving along the lane. "That's the hay that father sent for," she said to the fowls, which were shed where he had left the box of crowding round her. "It's not grain, honey. The box was still there. so you needn't run after it. Here— "Shall we take it in to grand- coo chick, coo chicky!" She dipped mother?" Bobby asked. into her apron and flung the golden The old gentleman shook his head. corn in every direction. "She wouldn't have any use for that "I wish Goldfeather could share the died of typhus in Poland this winter. of the Versailles Treaty as they care box. Lift it, Bob" feast," said Gloria aloud. The largest concentration of typhus to assign to us, or we must ask Ger- Bobby obeyed. "Why, what makes At that instant there was. a loud victims hereabout is at Pevonsky many very kindly to state the con - it so light?" he cried. "What's hap- squawk in the top of the hay, and a Camp, on the fringe of the capital, ditions upon which she is willing to pened?" little black hen flew wildly to the, where refugees from east and west make peace withus, or—worst of all Grandfather laughed. "About a ground, flopping and cackling as she are washed through Poland on their —adopt the pending resolution de - thousand bees said, `I can'; that's came- Gloria dropped her apron and way to their former homes. This mending that we get every advantage what's happened, boy. I carried oto spilled all the feast. camp was visited recently eby Mine. :accorded to us in the ill-fated treaty their honey last night, and now "It'sfled my e feaeather!" she said. Paderewski, wife of the former Pre- while we assume none of its responsi- they've taken it back to the hive—all "And just as I was wishing far her,tuns who seems immune. andThe hick Leabilitgue or obligations. Als for longtng the Bomb and the box.:I hadn't too!" time call her little mother, thinks League of Nations, if it lasts butt bees long enough to be up to all The man in the wagon drove an, she bears a charm which protects her enough, we shall undoubtedly apply kartr tricks." neverThman ing that ,he had lost a I from the disease. At the largest hos- some time for membership, taking our ita1 here, which can take in 1 500 place modestly at the foot of the na- The man n:Zta can bottle up his temper is a corker. Disraeli was much troubled by literary aspirants sending him their books to read. The formula he adopted ° AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Limited in acknowledging was: "Dear Sir (or AutoStrop Building. Termite,Canada Madam)—I am much obliged for your: 201 book, which I will lose no time in reading." E e Betor,, and "liter Stropping i]IapriAea1, It's the stropping the>t cents - Any razor is soon ruined by unskilled stropping. There is one and one only razor that sharpens itself '-- the AutoStrop Razor. You can't strop it wrongly— just ron ly—just slip the strop through the frame and a few strokes to and fro -rill renew the blade edge. Any dealer will demon- strate the AutoStrop Razor to you, guarantee satisfac- tion, or refund of purchase. price. Only $5.00 complete with strop and twelve blades in an attractive assort- ment of cases to suit any purpose, "No honey for breakfast!" Bobby passenger, and Goldfeather stopped patients, there was such lack of fuel. mid slowly. "But it was smart of cackling and began to pick up grains that the surgeon, formerly one of the best in the Russian army, was forced them, I declare it was!" Just then grandmother came -to the door with the breakfast bell in her hand. of corn with the rest. As for Gloria, she could do nothing but look at her favorite and laugh. That day at dinner,_Gloria's father "Hot cakes and maple syrup!" she had a. funny tale to tell about finding called. Bobby set off on a run. "The bees can't get that, anyway!" he said. Goldfeather. "And so you see, my children, you must be unselfish and .not always try to gobble 'up.. the best food at meal- time." an . egg in the load of hap that he had bought for his cows. "The driver was puzzled -to know how it got there," he said. • Gloria looked up -with her eyes shin- ing. "Well!" she cried. Then she clapped her hand over her mouth. It was Goidfeather's secret, and she must not tell it. ;suing at Seventy -Eight. The electrical instrument which made the. late Sir James Grant, con- sulting physician to the General Hos- pital, Ottawa, look fifty at the age of eighty-six, was shown to an interview- er recently` by the inventor,. Mr. T. C. Hodgkinson, of Hammersmith:' 14 Ir. Hoilikinson is seventy-three, bet might pease for anything between for- ty-eight and- fifty -..two.. ' His face Is ruddy, his%,, eyes are bright, and his tread. Is firm. He has not a- trace of baldness and ,moves with h the ease of a•' man of twentieftve- He did ' three years' mttn.ition work, putting in ten to twelve hours a day: The elebtro-neurotone, ase the ma. chine is salted, is three eoa four inches !p length and two and a half inches Wide ani9, high. It has a controlling witch toregulate the current and is worked 1»r a dry battery. Applied to the skin, it produces a pleasant tick- Ung sensation. "How does this keep one young?" Mr. Hodgkinson was asked.- • "Sir sked.- "Sir James Grant," he replied, "ex- plained explained it in. 'Montreal Medical Jour- nal' as making possible the building of more tissue, the absorption of more oxygen, and great improvement in nu- trition. A person not only feels younger, but looks younger, for de- fective blood -making power shows it- self particularly in the face. "br. Grant cites the ease of a wo man, aged seventy-eight, who, after neurotone treatment, moved about with the activity of twenty years be- fore and said she felt allnost youth- ful." In China thousands of small pieces oi` paper, each inscribed with a prayer, are .threw' into the ocean when a friend is about to sail, for the somewhat thankless task of soldiers last year. to break up the few remaining chairs for fire, in order to boil water to steri- lize his operating instruments. A Dream Come True. The Polish Diet, or Parliament, is a dream come true to most Poles, but it still lacks experience. The Poles have watched this legislative body during its year of life with a sort of tolerant, passive interest. The aver= age Pole is so glad to have his own law -making body after thinking about it for generations that his good sense tells him not to expect too muchfrom it. To the financial experts who have came here from the United States and other countries of Europe to look over this new republic with a . view to ad- vancing credit, the Pole shows his country's .resources, his timber lands; oil, iron and salt mines, textile anti farming industries. He wants these things developed. As Paderewski said just before he quit his office : as Pre- mier for, a rest in Switzerland, "All we •wPnt is money, and raw materials and we will do the reisst." Paderewski, incidentally; ` worked hard for Poland, He didn't know =eh about naming a goveru.ment. He was an artist and a• musician. Ile was the best known Pole in the world and one who inspired confidence in his own people. 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