The Brussels Post, 1919-7-3, Page 7-^,eelte 4,a.
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ENGLISH SURNAMES,
Some Cognomens That Cause a Smile
When Heard.
e,,.�.J°11 a party hada vol,','eto (]null, nu
unkind rhyme, "what mortalwould be
Bugg by (helve?" And yet the pioneer
Bugg teas 0 mall (if 141110l:,1re, Who
dwelt in a (nanny ho11s0, from which
he derived his name. 'rho first Toward
was no p014101nl, but a cow -herd, who
While over at 19111 Morgan's the tended his "0111)'; just fie the first ltae-
other fitly something was said by mo cal wile 00 knave, bet a noun who
about power farming, probably bore some. resemblance to a
"Talking about farm ower„ said loan „lag of rascal; and the original
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Bill, "I've got one of the blameclest Isoles hailed from $evenoak:i, W11080
[Seep Your Eye on the Garage Man.
Getting good. work (Ione on your
elle is a problem. I have been up
against it at Limes when I have been
too busy to do anything on the ma-
chine myself, and I know What it is,
When it comes to finding ordinary
trouble I believe I ant as good a3 the
average. But when it comes to some
part of the car which I have no tools
to fit noel cannot (Ifl'o•d to get them
for what litile work I have to do, I
tun ready to take the job to It garage
elan who is properly equipped,
I have found ways 111 get around
high-priced and unreliable garage
workers, There are 0 (;'nod many
efficient men who fit nytomobiles,
and there aro a lot more who work
on your car to put in time and charge
you for H.
.A. small garage started up in our
town about ten years ago which does
no advertising, and no one would
know It was there except by hear-
say. I found out about it, and had
some work clone and liked it. I (lave
sent other:; there. I ant going there
within a fele days for some valve -
grinding,. Thee non say, he gets
enough to 'do without pdvertieing,. I
once Ind a car run tight in the trans-
mission, I -Ie worked nearly a day on
it. After two (Nye it tightened up
worse titan ever. I got it hack in }lie
shop. He fixed it again, and found
the real trouble. I a -ked him what
I was to be. charged.- He said it was
his fault, and no char;;(', of course.
There are probably such men in
your. town. They usual'y own thee'
01110 building's, and do notbother with
gasoline sales. That takes time from •
a regular garage man, and does not
pay very well. !
Ile •ides this there is another 0,1-I
portunity to get first-class work done
by a gond man for less money—the
private chauffeur. IIe often has time
on hie hands, and is an expert in:
most eases, Perhaps he has room,
for another car, and usually the;
owners do not object to hie making a
little en the side so long as it does
not 'interfere with their own driving
and caro of cars.
Bill's "Hit -and -Miss Engine."
engines you ever saw. I call it 'flit -1 rurrnpcen mune ne uor0.
and -m Ilobso11. a name tit which 1401(1e affect
iss eng'ine,' and the miss is so
much in the majority that I guess
1'11 have to get a new one,"
• "Ilow sloes it act?" I asked,
to scuff, le as venerable as It is re-
4pectnl>1e, for we read of a Lewrlo
llubhe_;une, tt eutecick landowner, In
the days of Edward 11w Confessor;
ALCOCK AD BROWN
WAR AIR VETERANS
BOTH HAVE HAD THRILLING EX.
PERIENCES IN BATTLE,
Capt. Alcock Was First to Bomb Con-
Stantinople—Lieut, Brown Fought
on Western Front.
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• The Vleka}'o-Cloy Iran; atiantie at•
tempt was (1 011"14('144 heramse the 111..
eines and the struefure of the plane
proved as reliable during the flight
as the then guiding the big bomber
have shown themselves in the past.
"Well, I can start it up all right," and the Huggins and Boggs, if they Both men have war rocords and r(•u-
11i11 replier}, "but afte-r it runs about, did not cum" over withthe Conqueror,derail ((11"11 valiant service before
ten minutes it will stop and I can't; at least. carie overwith sone of his !Malty being )rnn!ght doter as prison -
el 14 dining aerial exploits a1111ua all !
g shaduwo-!d b: the by 't.;
li utdll i'a1;e,
11011l', 11 used to be all right and (lottohetl is 110 name to mune at, 11a'L(11'(10us 7(0 (11.'ir urtrve11u1
>4
air'
g i4, lout 1141:ut's ube lin;, '1.,,rnitil in
only went to the had recently. I had for It 114 (1 var'unt of ('uli11)414, which journey t Ar,:; fur ail1(1111 s•}rich If.t1'ry ILiwker ,r•t ant u, blue
llud Simpkins. who works at George' metals "war -bright," a1d t11.1 first .. ('alt. doh( AlIruc9(, Ie,u1er ni' the ex• the North ,lthnitic teal] The L'it'• •+ a-
11r11tsml'e blacksmith smith shop, to come Gotobe(1 was prr,bnblly a 1011ri'ior of POdilfon, is nor. 4,t the cumpa111101•ly Vimy win s e'en+1 is i;7 f"et, w1111•• teat
dawn and loop it 0:m, and he said ill franc. 1liggs is tt synonym for Yew hrtuus wIO, could fl,v btforc the '.4' the Sctiw�ith wail 4'! Let 11 (ruin:
sea, spavined 0r windbroken, I for et' "strength"; and 1Vlldgoose siguifles 011-1)4.ak t>f the aloe Iii; kriuwle;l e•
P g 1'110 ti•
•n•e tike• Li 1tt: tt 1 n is a
Witsch, and that 1 would have to buy • • a "resolute hostage," 1)cv}} 1 merely
a new engine." 1 Ue Ville, of honorableFrench.nces-
Vickers = Vimy, Successful Trans=
Atlantic Airplane, Was Built For
Bombing Berlin.
Both the 6 le k "rs-Vlluy awl true
llandlr•3'•l'uge m (11111('14 were evn-
struet'd In Iinglanrl during the war
with a singlee object 111 view, to rapt
heaths upon (Berlin with the frequ'ney
and terrific destruetlen tett the Ca-
tnaps 11x(1 hoped t, reach ie their !r1,•
pe11n I•a1110 on the 1111(4 ,b capita?.
Their Musta)14hne there, t-'td,tic;
as Moulting, planes, great cruising
rouge, heavy w i ht carry111g t apa''1ty,
reliability and :wilt speed, 1111110 111"111
almost }deal (1111rit111e8 101 the triune
[atlantic flight, toward which true (;„s
Iof British }lying (leu turned wheff the
tree c': slty fur b,m0)i11; elle wee pee.
I 'rte. Cit eer.;•Ci(l;, although ' •t•.
get It 141111`1 Cd again 'for about all, 1'311+O,
"When an hour has passed call you • try, and bears; no relationship to Hell.
?" 1111111, whose ancestor tv:w 11 Metier, 4,r
tart it again without any trouble.
I inquired. I roof•malter, and probably- a geed
"floes offlike a pet lamb," replied (hristhn,
Bill,
"Looks as if the gasoline feed -pipe The Doctor.
might be clogged," I suggested. Lets
look at it,"
Ile went out to the she"} where the
: engine was mounted and Bill started
it on the first turn. True to his word,
' it ran about ten minutes and then
slopped. We disc0nnec^Led the gas-
oline feed -pipe and macre an examina-
tion. Sure enough, it was almost
1•omplelcly stopped up near the tank
outlet, 'IVe trashed it out thorough-
ly and then reconnected it. The whole
oi)crtttion took about fifteen minutes,
'4'e again started the engine and
it ran on past the regular ten-minute
period. and did not show signs of stop-
ping. It was evident, therefore, that
we had bit the trouble. The engine
would simply run till it used all the
gasoline in the cat•bureter and then
stop because it could not get fuel
enough. The pipe was not entirely
stopped, however, and enough gas-
oline would seep through in an hour
to ag1lin 1111 the earbureter bowl.
DIVING BELL INVENTED BY SPIDER
11 W118 claimed that the diving bell
was invented by a spider. At least, we
are certain that if It was 1101 actually
iuvetted by 111111 it lyes used by him
long before our hydraulic engineers
made once for the saute parte ses.
'1'1e diving bel] Is, as is well known,
a cup shaped body with open end
down which Is let luta the water, The
air is caught in the bell and keeps the
water from rising beyond a certain
level at any specified depth and of
course allowing any 0110. Inside to
breathe and act as if he were on (L'y
land. The improvement of the diving
hell known as the caisson to a huge
Pipe w111,11 has compartments, into
which ail' is pumped from above, The
spider's bell 114 1111011 more in frits maa-
ner than in the other.
The name given to these little spi-
ders is very appropriate--tlhe naiads,
of the family of Arac•hnido. A naiad
will build a little house of waterproof
silk held fast by strands fixed to
neighboring blades of grass and stones
several feet under the sealer. He com-
pletes the entire structure before fill-
ing It with air—as if he knew that the
air would tend to make, It rise to the
top 11114 thus hinder the attaching of
the atntc1101'S.
Lint the method or getting air into
their houses in perhaps the most pe-
eulla1 and...interesting of all lifetime
tiro, acts of animals. Their' abdomens
are so made that a bubble of air ('1121
be caught underneath them. This the
nuin,l sloes, and swims to his house
with IL and turns it loose in the airy
0t1•110101'0. The process 18 repeated
several tinges until the little house
is full of a11'. Of course the open end
or this house le clown and this has to
net also as the entrance to -it. In the
little water house the spicier spends
the winter and rears its young. The
house also acts as tt lair from which.
the spider can jump on unsuspecting
prey.
Another peculiar thing about naiads
is that they never get wet. They have
thousands of small hairs on their
bottles which hold and (keep the air
1 from being washed off when they en-
s ter venter and so the air 011011(4 and
we)er cannot approach,
f c• .
I r '..
.,+th.t tests are negtlainted with many
otltel( insect engineers but with none
that approach naiads in intelligence
and skill. The water beetle is prob-
ably the only other one in their class.
It builds a waterproof nest under
water but does not live iv it, It mere-
ly lays its eggs in the nest, seals it up
and leaoos,
The Mason bee, as its none implies,
is a builder of structures of stone and
mortar. The nest is attached to al-
most any solid structure and actually
does consist ofeemall stones cemented
together with mortar: The house con-
sists of many cells of oval shape, and
into each an egg 1s laid. The cell is
lined with silken wobs by the mother,
which gels out of it by a hole in its
1 top. Before leaving, however, she
hermetically seals up the cell and
leaves the youngster to its fate.
However, such are ' the arrange-
msnts of nature, as soon as lie gets to
feeling 1115 oats and consumes the food
I left (nim by his mother 11e finds him-
( self supplied with tools hard and 51111(1,
enough to cut through the walls to
freedom,
A member' of this family found in
England makes 119 own bricks, select-
ing brown clay for the purpose, which
it mixes with saliva, rolls into small
balls, which soon become hard, and
then cements them together, These
pellets are as large as sninll peas and
one bee has boon known to prepare as
many as one hundred and fifty in a
single day.
Could Probably Go.
"She seems a bold, flowerlike girl."
"Wall?"
"Do you think her mother would al-
loy her to go to the theatre without
a chaperon?"
"Why, I think so, my boy, She
drove a supply wagon in. Prance dur-
ing the war."
Two asbestos mats together will
serve as a good flatiron rest.
31 4 ^ ,
He entered; and the eun14(1i11e seemed
A golden gracinustless he brought;
As if the room, from Dyes that beamed
Benevolence. their warmth Lail
caught.
The air, that all night long had been
A fevered breath, became as cool
As Corns that swing, a fretting eereen
Of shade, above a sleeping pool. .
And. tender as a clt9dd's caress
His fingers tout.hed the burning siting
With sympathetic tenderness;
And cooled the scorching fire within.
I felt that I could steep; and closed
11y eyes in one long sigh of rest;
And 111110ly, for a moment dozed
Ieke infants et their mother's breast,
Refreshing sleep, a breath's span song,
I had; and dreamed of sunny rills
That romped in radiance, lilting song
To heatllered Moors and brackened
hills,
And sometimes came, from voice or
eyes, •
An influence that seemed to swathe
The soul with hope; like sunset skies
Whose golden calms are creeds of
faith.
I know that, soon, my song I'll sing,
Of joyous life to sun and sky;
And Hear the litanies of Spring
Which gladden as they glorify.
Money Isn't Everything.
"Money isn't everything," says the
spendthrift as lie scatters his wages
to the fou' winds.
Then he reaches middle life, with
old age in the foreground, vainly wish-
ing for the return of the misspent coin.
it may be true that Money isn't
everything, but one tiling is absolutely
('('nolo, Old Mian Money, if 11e is cul-
tivated through life, will not desert
the friend who has cultivated him.
When every human friend has tied Old
Man Money sticks. You can start him
off with five or ten cents a day In ear -
1y life and keep feeding 11in1 that
amount all through life, and in old age
you will have on your hands a rich old
gentleman, albeit a pleasant and high-
ly agreeable one,
If you find the rigors of the north-
ern winter too severe, you clay simply
tap Old Man Money o1 the shoulder;
and he hies you to Bermuda; if you
are sick anolller tap oil the shoulder
brings you the best nurses and special-
ists the world affords. He's an agree•
able old man, never disputes orders
and is always reedy for slaty. IIe
makes the proverbial busy bee and the
equally industrious ant look like
pilfers, for lie never rests, He's one
size when you go to sleep and larger
when you wake up. The older ho gets
the stronger he becomes. If you aro
a stranger in a largo city, with 110
earthly friend to call upon, Old 1-la1
Money opens the doors of the best
hotels and stapes you to the best the
town 11fto'ds.
But money isn't everything at that.
'1
Among all the women of European
royalty none has traveled so widely
as Queen Mary of England, who has
visited every continent, with the ex-
ception of South America, and almost
every country of any importance.
of aviation trade 111111 exceed1110140
valuable as an instructor, when Urn -
titin, unprepared, set out in 1914 to
build up lin air servica t:, repel the
raids of Zeppelins and big German bi-
planes. ['apt. Aleook, who was. horn
in Manchester 111 1692, took out his
tir14t flying license In 1912. Illy prin-
cipal pre-war exploit was the winning
of second place in at great sporting
event, the flight front I.ondnn to Man-
chester and return, which awoke
many Englishmen to the realization
that flying Was a fart and nota theory.
When war 1111111(1(1 out ('•apt. encore(
became an Instructor at the army fly-
ing school at l astl•hnrell, Ili.; sail]
and daring in the air :01111 11'011 for 111111
a more important. if more dangerous
post, that of chief of lite'•14tent'• flying
seetinn. At that time "stunt" llylug
had not been so greatly (iewelepo(l, but
it was 1.0111181341 11111401'111,'1,°s8 that a
pilot. must know how to manoeuvre his
plane ekilif>1lly and intricately to con-
fuse }lis opponent In an aerial battle.
('apt, Aicuck's risky task was to teach
the young cadets these aerial acrobat-
ics, hazardous in tltct11selves, but pos-
sibly the means of avoiding the ma-
chine gun lire of the enemy.
Designed a Fighting Plane.
Later in the wart• ('apt. Alcock was
transferred to the Turkish front,
where he was the 11rst men to bomb
Constantinople. Light scout planes
were not furnished the aviators on
this front, so ('apt. Alcock designed
and built a high speed fighting plane,
This is said to be the only plane built
by a flyer on active service with the
British forces during 1}10 war, It was
whilol harassing the Turks from the
air that Capt. Alcock established a re-
cord for a long distance bombing raid.
He remained in the air seven hours
and flew 400 miles. On one of his
trips over the Turkish lines in a heavy
bomber Capt. Alcock's engine failed
and he was compelled to glide down.
He was taken prisoner and was held
until after the signing of the armis-
tice. He returned to England in the
middle of December, 1915,
His experience with bombing ma-
chines daring the war convinced him
that the two eughle type was capable
of covering much greater distances
than they had matte on raids during the ocean by airplane is at present
the tea', He expressed confidence distinctly a job for an optimist.
that the Vickers-Vimy plane would Lieut. Brown's interest in aviation,
it is said, was first from au engineer-
ing standpoint, when lie was connect-
ed with the British Westiughouse com-
pany, which is now associated with
with a round ruddy face, and Is sturdi- Vickers. Ltd. This is the great 13ri-
ly built. He is seemingly perpetually tisk manufacturing concerti, the attire,
cheerful and gives absolutely no syrup- tion department of which built the
toms of temperament that sometimes big bomber in w11i11}i they fly, and
haunt fliers as well as prima dolmas. which entered the machine in the Lon -
He is never addressee} by his friends don Daily Mail contest. When the
except as Jack, for the formality of
John does not fit his joyful, easy going
d Ispositlon.
Observer In Royal Flying Corps.
The motors are I1ulleeteyce pro•
ducts, Ori are those of all the other
British rent(' ltimts. They are of flee
l.or:;e-power ear11 and are get -meetly
bettered to be 411(1 least reliable Sri-
,
, tisk eirpianc motor at the present
time They (11,111 Ille great foul• -bladed
propellers at the rate! ,f Luise revoile
tions per minute. Th', diameter of
the Tutu'-hladee propellers i11 tern 1'0/41,
FISHING IN THE
GREAT YUKON RIV2R
CHIEF SUPPLIER OF FOOD IN THE
ALASKAN REGIONS.
Traps For Ice Fishing Set in Holes
Dug by the Patient Indian in
Block(' Five Feet Thick.
('h•t Yukon !fiver le the „111' big. out-
etandillg etq,plser of toed i4, 11a14ha.
lite inelles, 14'11'11.ml it the lnellens iuhaletinte the
The engines arc both w•itlt a 0:4810- 'oIl.' :a 1110)10 the love,•( rtreieh e of
line c•n1u11g fitted :,bout Been so tical tau' river w'e,11,1 eitee' 1104(• to 10111e 1.1
they offer the 1,41,1 p: s::00b1:• 1,,,1..1- tate r00st, go further lul:uel toward
allee to tine great rut h of the plan? Ill':• 11eadc}Uitrters of the river or (lie of
t retigb tee :ail' The r;eal:• n' , just. :-t.,u1 niton.
ilrilind the prapell r- are• ereeeenal. 1 i 1Lo, 14111'11 on 411e year 11',11)14 in
'('he e,rc•ut betide r 1:11,1 It'1 trial (tight. the Velem. The summer (tach 0f 14:11,
l4, :Cr•lsfutuullaari 4,u dune 9. .et that mon it f:4,' the meet vele:thee but 1110.
Inti ('4,1,1.:111 ucl:. 001 hi., 1,l :n,e fwd,• 4(14,+„t' u' 1101104g i:, 111,44 l4">-are411114?
11.2 mites ail hour, althonitil this, 'd' ,ori glee:, the Indian, variety from
course, was not with tee fell teed. whit what. 14,1111,1 lit/lel-01 18.i he It 8t->ady ,lieu
which 1:..' tu•aa^d .41s(14014. ' of 1i: 1-,1 11 4011. 1:, 1 ling, whitefish,
Lost Wirclees Apparatus. i pi.' -rel and oiler epc a•_' are (aught.
land nia(11111 , ('apt. Abutk 1111 Tho breaking :away nP the pr ,p ller I 1 :,r,r6 1, ',f fee 11411iur vary fa
Lieut. Brown tools 111• >anr• rh'..lcl,? generating current for the %trete; ,, diu'•!.,nt l„osliti.•;, hut the more 1m-
( Hawker, with the exee4Uutl apparatus 80011 after the start pr•--, portent na:.thod ; d'eeeribed (41y trtvel-
a8 (lid ,
that in their rase they lend tWa e:11:11r4 Vented the moll from oulnluuul' (tole 1 re ere pr:,e tl .ecl bet leen Anvil( and
to rely upon and. did drop their 1811,1- with the shot'. %Vitro it 11:1(4”'; • 1 'Tei 1 ea.
hag carriege and wheels 0.1 he did. ,Jn j'Lietit. Brown reeireet that the ptepel- 11 L,le the 1, 1 Is o1111 titin helee ere
the other 11.1.1,1, they eerie,1 no eel.' ler had tarried u',vay with it pact of cut thenig}1 it at the I10+,ti1; ef tee
tupsihle boat, r the etay W1r1,4, (1(11 he did not tell ta1hetarir, el' the, rififen end ilh re
cap
t, Meet.]: and Lime. ib'1;wa sant. (-'al,taln Alcor; until after they had set for the greet 1:211..!41414 ,1441^1:
Bich! by side in tate roun=del nose of landed at ('linden. When Al•relt w,•i he from fifteen t, twefey-live
thea machine. with an instrument learned or the accident. lt:e sat 1: -We pounds.
bowel e,ntluning all the nil, gasolene,; wettlrl lieve turned heck had 1 kno^:n:'.i 'fewer] 110• end ,a' efeev •ntber tete
gee n, 'lllit11 e ` W'.':lthet conditions were 14(41 ,ail ; aunu.al ,ni7^•at7 rn of .':•1-: m1 stre:lal
air and en�fne 141..•.4 a l , 1 i
gauges in front of them. '1'11•• ceekpit during the trip 00/1 Lir It Dylan hal 1404'.'4pin.+• I t.4, '.t;t , 14 lhel1i in 0111
is lst in fr001 of the Wins.,. 0:1 ;.'itite'r to cibub from }lis seat to ere 4,• the of the pi: e,.n equ'' ;e d ,,tt,•rt exeitisg
side of it. mounted lett ween the wings,ice awayfrom tite petro} emote. feeturee or auu.nan Ilf,• :11141140 the
are the two Ro114-Royce . 11gtnes, with j The two aviators 011 :.1 the" Were 11r,• .I rn•,e7•.
than
8111011(ng. invisihl•e, f'ntl'-bladed only once in real danger. when the 1 As the eels are able to move but
propellers in front of them aetine s; mu'lline went into 0 fiat spin 'twin., 10vI (fest .0111 against the swift
trac't:urs. 1 to the pilot being unable to knew how ('(meet, (4)•,1414 of their approach is
Gasolene Instead of Bombs. the machine wall murine,. I ieut. p.4014':i from rill•(;(' to village and
•'rcrew 11(40'1, not1cing that the compass the 11(111(4) are ready .nal waiting fee
with 1
Equipped as a bendier,
of three men, it bomb load of 1,145needle was stringing from side In side 1 them tvinen they approach.
^0 gallons of ,iar11 , and
wets 1114 1,r141 11141, (tion that some- How Eels Are Caught,
Pounds, i. 6.111 n g thing was wrong, mannite 1 to get Cap-
other military mitterial such as a ma- ilio .1lcucit to understand the diRlnl- The li,11' 14 just 11(40( the fee.
chine gun, ammunition. etre, the ata•. \ large bele is cut through Cie lee
e Weighed 1"_ Goo a uuh and cooed to rite machine traveled at a tate anel a4 the eels swim across the }toles
chin weigh 1 I of 140 miles an hour at time::, and the
fly at loll miles an hour. The weight the nsha rmeu jerk theta out of the
Pilot once found himself diving water. But little fishing gear is tetees-
of the armament and bombs is now straight toward the surface of the
used for the great gasolene stippl} sortie The Indian makes a acct 0f
11e(•essnt•y. Both the gunner's rarltpit, ocean. Ile as so near the water that Pude hoop. consisting of a slender 14tck
behind the wings, and the bomb etchhe had to "Wsnatch" the machine from about six feet long, at oae end of
have been rep10(11 by groat tanks. � its dive so quickly that it 01100 t loop- which 1-s tied at right angles another
ed the loop. 1-I° 0413-0 the ma411)10(4 .short Stick about five inches tong,
would have crumbled tap had It touch -
mission a sort of capital '•L.”
The f}.shermau passes the a1•111 of
the "1:" under the long eel, jerlks up
quickly with the handle and the eel
is landed, flopping and wriggling upon
the ire, where it sono freezes. The
day's catch is thrown into sleds anal
taken to the village. The run lasts
only one or two days, but in that time
an expert fisherman often catches one
thousand pounds of eels. The flesh is
good for the table, btit the eel is more
valuable for its oil, which is used for
food and tor ]llghtiug purposes.
The 11811 traps for lee fishing are not
set until the Winter is more advanced,
but when the ice is frozen thick the
traps are set in favorable places along
the Yukon and In the smaller streams
which empty into it. These traps are
something 11110 a wire rat trap In c'on-
st•uction, only much larger. They are
from five to ten feet long and three or
Your feet high and cylindrical in shape.
The Ash enters the trap, much like
a Yat, through a funnel like mouth, a
yard or two square. which runs down
to a point in the trap. leaving just
enough space for the fish to got
through. Onue in the trap there is no
likelihood of the piscatorial prisoner
ewer' eocaptilg.
Traps Catch 50 Pounds a Week.
The trap id set with the current and
is made fast by tying It to stakes
driven. into the ice. it is taken tap
every' week o• two, emptied and again
lowered into the stream. The waters
of the Yukon are very muddy and tho
fish cannot see the traps. The ctat.ch
varies from tweaty to two hundred
pounds a weelt. Fifty pounds a week
10 a' trop is a good, average yle}d,
'Traps 111.0 often set under 1co that
is from fnnr to five feet thick. The
gvork of picking out the tele is done
by means of a rude instrument like a
narrow chisel, fastened to the end of -
a stunt pole. Witt' this the Indian,
with tate temperature thirty degrees
or more below sero, patiently, digs
through the. ice.
Besides whitefish and pickerel, the
ling is ono of the more' important fish
caught. It is a large, smooth skinned
fish, similar In appearance to the cod,
and, like the cod, has an enormous
liver which is rich in oil.
;ven 141(11 one engne out e. ,....-
mission t11e Vimy-Vickers could "limp" ed the water at the speed it Was then
along at seventy miles 011 hour, ('alt-travell�g.
trio Alcock, before starting, firmly- ex.;
pressed the opinion that his plane' First Atlantic Postman,
could 11111011 the flight evert if one en- i Capt. Alc•ec•k exhibited a bunch of
gine failed many miles from land. In rain -soaked letters which he had been
any event, he could stay in the air lung asked to mail if the flight was success.
enough to call by wireless for aid and: fu1, saying: "I am the lirot trans -at -
to hunt for a ship hear which to land . lantic postman. and I think that with -
if motor trouble bit the plane midway in twelve months we'll have an aerial
trans -Atlanto service."
In landing in an Irish bog the py-
lons of the centre section, as well as
the main spar of the lower planoe,
inherent stability is such. it is said, j were broken, but the steel construe -
that, being fitted with a compensating tion of the fuselage saved the machine
mechanism, it can be flown upward,Prom further damage. The two engines
downward or on the level without a ,ran smoothly throughout the flight,
}land on the "stick" 111 other words,` and when the airplane landed there
the plane will fly itself, although the were still 290 gallons of petrol left in
pilot cannot, of course, relax his men- I the Bunk, sufficient for a further flight
tal as well as his physical exertions. I of ten litters.
111 the journey.
Great strain was taken eft the pilot
in the long journey by the filet that
the machine is exceedingly stable. Its
take 11(011 a0(058 and finish tate Right 111
Ireland with both engines running.
In appearance ('apt. Alcock is typi-
cally Anglo-Saxon. He is fair -hatred
war began Lieut. Brown joined the
university and public school training
corps. After some training he be-
came ettaehed to a Manchester regi -
Lieut, Arthur Whitten Brown, who011(1(1 In 1915. Later he was transfer -
fulfills the -triple duty of navigator, ('ed to the Royal Flying Corps, where
wireless man and relief pilot on the
Vickers craft, is almost the physical
opposite of his companion, although
both are quick thinking and quick aot-
ing, traits picked up, or at least
strengthened by their experience in
the war. Lieut. Brown, who was born
in Glasgow in 1886, is quiet, slimly
built and sharp of features, Hie com-
plexion is dark and his eyes gray. He
resembles his chief in that bo, too, is
of a. cheerful disposition, Indeed, all
the flyers who intend to dare the At-
lantic may be described' as constitu-
tionally optimistic., for the spanning of
le eerie d a.8 an o0set'wer.
Lieut. Brown very early lead au op-
portunity to show his nerve in the air.
While flaking observations over the
German lines the plane in which he
was 'flying was struck by a shell while
eta height of 8,000 feet, more than a
mile, The explosion set the plane on
lire without bringing it down. While
the pilot shot the plane toward the
British lines Lieut, Brown fought the
flames in midair, battling to prevent
them from reaching ammunition or
gasolene or from burning the inflam-
mable wings. The plane reached the
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! British•lines and descended safely, al-
' though most of Lieut. Brown's clothes
were burned off and he himself suf.
tercel considerably. i11 another obser-
vation cruise Lieut. Brown's plane
brought dowel an Albatross, despite
the fact that it was not ollclally a
-1gbting plane.
Accident Led to Imprisonment.
In November, 1915, Lieut.. Brown
get out to a squadron mi a long dis-
tance reconnaissance far behind' the
G inion lines. The earbureter of the
plane went. wrong in the air and the
plane wa0 compelled to glide to the
ground. Brown was too buoy destroy.
11ng important military wipers to brace
himself when the plane landed on
rough ground, and the crash lending
jau0ned hien 00 tightly into a corner
of the cockilit that fro had to be cut
out. Ills thigh and one leg were,
broken and he was badly cut.
After treatment in German hospitals
he was transferred to a Gorman prison
camp and eventually was sent to Swit-
zerland, In 1917 ho reached England.
For the remainder of the war he was
00cupled in technical work for the
Air Ministry,
A field nlars}}Jl never retires, but
remains 011 the active list and draws
full pay till the day of his death,
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"Pill Boxes" as Cafes.
A Be1g1a11 Faluner who has returned
to hie shell -shattered fields near Poet.
*open@ has solved his own particular
housing llt'oblenl by converting an an,
damaged •'pill-bx" tutu at temporary
home for 111111501E and fatally.
"Pill -box" 41,103 alW11y8 all unfortun-
ate and misleading term for these con -
ere() forte. Nearly all wore rectangu-
lar and contained foto or more large
rooms Very litre work wouuld be
necessary to turn them into comfort.
table and everlasting 11011100 Some
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10(1 up es oaifes i0 a (lre10114atiolb03ng of the
tourist parties which will throng the
battlefields as (0011 AS passport and
travel restrictions aro relaxed,
n , e++sb o ri'oload 111 d.*Trrmta i01011E;
Pio chmtnevs to b
china shops for a few' cents -••-will
often save milk from boiling over,
The attune"' should be placed in Y,lUi
centre of the saucepan of milk.
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