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The Brussels Post, 1916-5-11, Page 6MORE WARSHIPS FOR BRITISH NAVY FLEETS MUCH STRONGER THAN SIX MONTHS AGO. d- a - the e- on fps n e o- s- c - at 1- e I, t t' s! s' s' shows that the new capital ships, up on which the debate hinged, shoo about like this: The Queen Elizabeth headed a etas of six dreadnoughts provided hi th estimates of 1912, namely, Queeit Elizabeth, Warsprite, Valiant, Bar ham, Malaya and another unnamed They were of 27,500 tons displacement making them among the larges dreadnoughts afloat, with eight 15 inch guns, as against the guns pre viously used; 12 to 16 six-inch guns 12 anti -aerial guns, and four sub merged 21 -inch torpedo tubes, The Queen Elizabeth, standing at the head of the six monster ships, became the representative of a type, and the Queen Elizabeth class is now a fami liar. reference to ships of this new and formidable character. The Queen Elizabeth and her sister ships were duly com- pleted, the first two, Queen Elizabeth and Warsprite,. being finished in Oc- tober, 1914, and the Valiant, Barham and Malaya in 1915. The Queen. Eliza- beth has been beard from during the Dardanelles operations. Beyond this, however, little is known, and there is rarely a reference to these formidable ships, although it is officially definibe they were completed at the times.stat- ed, and must now be somewhere afloat with their formidable 15 -inch bat- teries. These ships were not primar- ily the ones under discussion in the recent, debate, as they are completed, but the Queen Elizabeth was referred to as the type of later ships around which the debate really centred. Two more capital ships of the Queen Elizabeth class were provided in the 1914 estimates, namely, the Agincourt and the Renown; and two more of the Royal Sovereign class, with slightly less tonnage, namely, the Repulse and the Resistance. The first two were to be 27,500 tons, the others of 25,750 tons All were to have 15 -inch main batteries, with 12 to 16.6 -inch guns, anti -aerial guns, etc. The Agincourt was to be built at Portsmouth, the Renown at Fairfield, the Repulse at the Palmer yard, and the Resistance at Devonport. These were part of the ships under discussion in the debate. Excepb for the foregoing known in- formation as to their authorization, size, power, etc., nothing more is known of them, officially or otherwise and quite properly as a matter of necessary reserve. All that is known is that the Agincourt and her big sis- ter ships were provided for, but no further reference has ever been made to them. Five More Big Dreadnoughts Admiralty Debate Reveal!, the A ditioit of Several New Dreadnoughts, The recent sharp debate in Peril meat between the First Lord of Admiralty, Mr. Balfour, and his pr decessor in that position, Winet Churchill, as to whether capital sh• were being hastened to completes) thwith sufficient rapidity to meet t menace of the German building pr gramme, was obscured by the nese soy reserve in referring to the a *nal dila de of capital ships, so th few ret =•,'e. of the naval experts un deratood the bearings of the remark ee the remarks made by the Admix- alty chiefs. There is much information avai able, however, which explains th status of these big ships. This infer matien is official and semi-officia open to the public, and therefore no within that cautionary reserve, as 1 was permitted to appear in Jayne' summary of the status of the navie of the world appearing last fall. Thi except fol the foregoing known de- tails, ' Without asking details on the pro- gress or .eompletion of the foregoing ships, Mr. Balfour in his recent speech declared generally that "the fleets are much stronger than they were 12 months ago, and their excess over what we possessed 19 months ago is still greater." • A BRILLIANT EXPLOIT. How a Small British Vessel Captured a Spanish Frigate. A recent writer, Mr. J. J. Edgar, has retold the almost incredible ex- ploits of the Speedy, the first com- mand of young Lieutenant Cochrane, afterwards Admiral Lord Dundonald, inventor, fighter and strategist. The little vessel was absurdly small and ill- equipped; an over -manned and under - armed craft of 168 tons, carrying• ninety Inert and fourteen four -pound- ers. Nevertheless, she soon became so troublesome to the enemy that a Spanish frigate was especially dis- patched to hunt her down. But young Cochrane, foreseeing trouble, had pur- posely shipped a Danish quartermas- ter; and instead of avoiding his formi- dable foe, he dressed the Dane in his own uniform, disguised the Speedy, with the aid of paint and canvas, as a Danish brig, and ran up the quaran- tine flag. A few questions were ask- ed, to which an unmistakably genuine Dane, apparently the captain, replied; -,and the hoodwinked enemy continued d peacefully on her course. Some months later, however, they s met again, and an encounter could not e be avoided. The action that follow- ed was unique in naval history. The - :Speedy made no effort to escape. In- stead, she boldly attacked. She had ' at the time only fifty-four men, and , her scant crew and fourteen four- - pounders were opposed to the thirty - ;two heavy guns and 319 men of her six -hundred -ton opponent the frigate i El Gamo. Coming swiftly to close !quarters she ran in under the frigate's ;broadside which hurtled harmlessly above her, while every shot from her own guns told. A moment later the -+vessels touched, and Cochrane, at the head of his crew, actually boarded and f F th m h carried the frigate, which struck her flag after the first rush. Between these two exploits the Speedy visited Valetta and Cochrane! njoyed a little adventure a"shore. A ancy-dress subscription ball was be- g given, under the patronage of! reedit Royalist officers, and this he attended, selecting for his costume' e ordinary dress of a British come on sailor. A Frenchman, mistaking im for a genuine jack -tar of dubious! obriety who was intruding among his, etters, ordered him out. Ile refused{ to go. The Frenchman collared him; he knocked the Frenchman down, and. the next day they fought a duel on the sands. Cochrane received a ball through the trousers and the French- man one through the Ieg after which they parted gayly with expressions of mutual esteem. The Speedy's career ended at Last in capture; but although she surrend-1 ered to one vessel, the French battle- ship Dessaix, she had been gallantly, ale, sprmaree wise scars, tney look fighting against several at once. The. like an. immense dra on movingaloe chivalrous French captain declined to. the slopes of the hills, g accept Cochrane's sword, saying he; Naturally the passage of such could not "deprive of his sword an of-' heavy weights along the roads soon ficer who had so many hours strug-� wear them into ruts and make them gled against impossibilities." , impassable were it not that the engin- The Pallas Cochrane's first really sets of the territorial reserve always adequate ship, did not achieve so many are on band to repair the roads as fast as they threaten to deteriorate. near -impossibilities as the little This wonderful trucking system has Speedy; but her return to Plymouth; shown itself to be more flexible than after her first cruise was marked by, the railroad, more elastic, slower but a uniquely brilliant touch. She had, surer, and therefore more regular in taken rich prizes. Among the booty) discharging its abundance at the were some wonderful great golden front. The system has excited the candlesticks from Mexico. They were admiratipn • of every one who has s b A Bessemer Furnace at Work Preparing Steel, The war is being fought in the steel foundries and armament factories as much as on the field of battle. Mofe than any other war has ever been, and on a far vaster scale, it is pre-eminently a struggle erf guns and muni- tions. Our photograph shows one of the earlier stages in the making of cannon—a Bessemer furnace ab work preparing steel, The Bessemer pro- cess, so named from its inventor, the late Sir Henry Bessemer, consists in the eom'ersion of cast iron to steel by oxidising the carbon by means of a current of air blown through the iron while molten. The air oxidizes the carbon to carbonic oxide and carbon monoxide, and ab the same time main- tains the iron at a suitable high temperature by this oxidation, until prac- tically the whole of the carbon is removed. The pear-shaped vessel used in this converting cast iron to steel is known as a Bessemer Converter. Some of these vessels are seen in the photograph here reproduced, one being in operation, A WILD ELEPHANT. The Monster Nearly Wreeked 4 $nail A. . Steam Gunnell.. The strongest opponents to the ad. Vance of civilization in west Central Africa, says Bishop Lambeth, the Methodist missionary, are the wild elephants, They break down fences, trample gardens, pull up trees and even telegraph poles, for no other apparent reason than because they object to anything in their familiar haunts, One savage monster near- ly wrecked a small steam launch be- longing to the mission on the upper reaches of the Congo, The boat, with three white men, in- cluding the bishop, and a crew of five negroes, had tied up on the edge of a deep forest in a quiet bend of the river. A stout plank was Laid as gangway SOLD BY ALL eefeal SHOE DEALERS from the bow to the 'bank, and the mint ; _, crew worked until nightfall cutting and pilling firewood for the boat's 77 SHOES for ever"?' SPORT !l>Q EATION Worn by every member of 1)W -family ly furnace; then they came on deck for THE"�1 H1TE LADY their evening meal. The three white _� �3 men were yellfrodym het awhen a OF HOHENZOLLERN fearful yell -from the natives brought them out of the cabin to see a large elephant viciously attacking the wood- • pile. The blacks shouted and threw STORY Ole BERTIIA, THE WOMAN missiles, and two of the more venture some even went ashore with firebrands TRE;I{A1SER FEARS, snatched out of the eookstove to drive the monster away. But he paid no attention to them until he -had de- Credited to Have Appeared Before: niolished the `woodpile, when he whip- Many Sovereigns Passed ped one man with his trunk heels ✓ .' :t:c a 1`ekest#rltt ail. aaf.0lit:2.'F:'pi Before the 'Charge , ibS2�..2!cbi3{�eS;e,€i��r:4sec3,&:3.ctal';e!3tiUa'w ' One of the features of last month's Cornhill Magazine is a finely written war sketch by Mr, Boyd . Cable, en- titled "The I�'ear of Pear," an incl - dont of the trenches' which will be react with great interest, and from which we take the following; "How are you feeling?" Halliday asked, leaning forward and speaking very quietly, "This i$ your first charge, isn't it?" "les," said Toffee, "I'm all right, I -•--I think I'm all ,right:" ". The other moved slightly on: the firing -step, leaving a little room,. and Toffee took this as an invitation to - sit down. Halliday continued to speak in low tones that were nob likely to pass beyond the listener's ear. "Don't you get scared," he said, '%You've nothing much to be scared about•" `He threw a little emphasis, and Tof- fee fancied a little envy,'into the "you., "I'm not scared exactly;" said Tof- fee. "I'm sort of wondering what it will be like," 'I know;' said Halliday, "I know; and who should, if I didn't? But I can :tell you this—you don't need to be afraid of shells, yott don't need to be afraid of bullets, and least of all is there any need to be afraid of the cold iron when the Iiotwitzers get Into the trench. You don't need to be afraid of being wounded that only means home ant a hospital and a warm, dry bed; you don't need to be afraid of dying, because you've gob to die some day, anyhow. There's only one thing -in this game to be afraid, • of, and there isn't many finds that in their first engagement. It's the ones like me that get it" Toffee glanced at him curiously and in some amazement. Now that he looked closely, he could see that, de- spite his easy loungefnl attitude and steady voice, and apparently indif- ferent look, there was somethink odd, and unexplainable about 'Halliday; some twitching of his lips, a shade of pallor on his cheek, a bunted look deep at the back of his eyes. .Ever- ton tried to speak lightly. "And what is it, then, that the likea o' you get?" Halliday's voice sank to little more than a whisper. "It's the fear o' fear," he said steadily. "Maybe you think you know what that is, that you feel it yourself. You know whet I mean, 1 suppose?" - Toffee nodded. "I think so," he said. "What I fear myself is that I'll be afraid and show thateI'm afraid, that I'll do something• 'rotten when we get out up there." "There's plenty fear that," admit- ted Halliday, "before their first ac- tion; but mostly it passes the second they leave cover and can't protect themselves and have to trust to what- ever there is outside themselves to brings them through. You don't know the beginning of how bad the fear 0' fear can be till you have seen dozens of your mates killed, till you've had death no more than touch you scores of times—like I have." A MODERN SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. Brave Conduct of Sergeant Raynes, Royal. Horse Artillery. PROJECTILES FOR VERDUN. The French Have• a Splendid Trans- portation System. Never in the history of the world were so many combatants, such a1 large number of horses and so great a' quantity of guns massed in, such a' small space, declared the French' critic, Polybe, discussing in the Paris; Figaro one phase of the battle of; Verdun. Food and projectiles are be- ing sent into this narrow lozenge' shaped area in quantities heretofore' undreamed of, even in this war. Night and day automobiles are moving along all the roads converging j on Verdun taking food to the men at the front, fodder for the horses, and' above all supplies of projectiles for' the greedy mouths of the cannon. The big automobile transports follow each other at regular intervals with their heavy loads and two drivers each. One of these dozes or sleeps while his comrade watches. Thus they pass hour after hour without interruption, making such a noise that it drowns the sound of the bombardments. At night the rear of each truck is light- ed by the lanterns of the one follow- ing. Under the clear sky of spring - First it was necessary of superb size and workmanship, and toarrangeall the details in advance; designed for ecclesiastical use; but, then to requisition, buy and bring to - Cochrane found them equally adapted, gether these innumerable automobile to enhance a naval trumph. When,; trucks;. then to recruit their drivers, I at sound of the signal gun, the in- to assemble at the starting points the habitants of Plymouth flocked to the, bread, meat, wine, projectiles and wharves, to behold the Pallas sweemedical supplies, to load them and fin - wharves, to regulate their march until it nobly to her anchorage, they were now goes on like clockwork all dazzled and amazed to see her tall through the day and night. 1 masts aglitter in the sunshine as if Against all this concentration of tipped with living flame. To each force the waves of the German armies`e engirt proudly affixed a five-foot can- are breaking in vain. Professor van 'o dlestick 1 Hammel, editor of the Dutch weekly o newspaper, De Amsterdammer, in' d THIS MAN WANTS QUIET. this connection recalls the converse - tion of a young officer, back from the o Copy of n Letter Sent to Railroad Officials. were provided for in 1914, namely, the Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Reso-, lution, Ramilles and Revenge. These have since become known as the i "Royal Sovereign class." The capital ships were to be of 25,750 tons, with eight or ten 15 -inch gens and 12 six- ineh, The first two, the Royal Sove- reign and the Royal Oak, were actu- ally completed, the fist at Ports- mouth in December, 1915, and the Royal Oak at Devonport at the same time. The Resolution, Ranine and Revenge were, according to the last information permitted in Jayne's sum- mary, building at the Palmer, Beard- more and Vicker yards, and to be com- pleted in 1916. Beyond this nothing is known of the ships of this class, except that the Royal Sovereign and Royal Oek were completed and are now afloat somewhere with their 15 - Inch guns. The foregoing are the ships around which the recent debate centred, and on the details of which ships there is complete silence except on the known facts before given. The rare refer- ences to the ships of the grand fleet usually mention Alpe of an earlier' data, such as the Lion, complebed in 1910; the Royal Princess, in 1911; the 1 Queen Mary, in 1913; and the Tiger, and Iron Duke, in 1914. Admiral Sir' John 'Tellico, in command of the fleet, dated a recent letter to the Times fi from on board the Iron Duke, and this! and the Lion and Tiger are frequently; • referred to. Bub it is over the later.) ships of the »Agincourt, Queen Eliza- beth and Royal Sovereign claire that the veil of complete silence is drawn, 1, tungsten, molybclenite, graphite, oil, shale, mica, manganese, magnetite; talc, felspar, and other minerals there is a field for the profitable investment of much larger capital than at pre- sent. The Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany has technical schools attached to its shops, and at Trail, 13.0., the com- pany has a great chemical and met- tallurgical laboratory and hydro -elec- tric equipment equal to anything on the continent. These are, however, local activities. The railway now aims to secure the mobilization of the' ablest and Most scientific brains of this continent and to associate them with a central organization to direct the activities of all the scientists and experts engaged in research work in all parts of the country. The discov- eries and information gleaned by the central organization, while supplied for the special information of the Canadian Pacific, will be disseminated from time to time by bulletins which should be of great valse to merchants and manufacturers as well as to stu- dents and prospectors. To carry out these views, arrange ments have been made with Arthur D. Little, of Boston, for the establish- ment of a central organization at Montreal for research work. .Mr. Little has been president of the American Chemical Society, and is a member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a director of the Chemical and Engineer department of Technology, Indeed, Mr. Little's fame as a chemist and a chemical engineer is world wide and as an organiser and investigator he has no superior. His activities have extended to every branch of industrial and chemical work, having seventy practical chem- ists associated with him. Lord Shaughnessy ss g y is confident that Mr. Little will build up an organization in Canada which will confer immense benefits on the Dominion,—Wall Street Journal, _ OPEN WHITE TOWER. Public Will be Permitted to Visit Ancient Vaults. The White Tower, or Keep, of. the Tower of London, said to be the old st, largest, and most interesting part f the whole fortress, will shortly be pened• to the public to its uttermost epths, This is in accordance with the policy initiated by the authorities ver a year ago, when the Bloody ower was opened for inspection. Now he vaults and main floor of the White ower have been cleared of the refuse f centuries, and a new field of ex- loration will be open for the student f antiquities, It was during the reign of William he Conqueror that the White Tower as built, though legend has erron- ously connected its erection with ulius Caesar. In the basement it said that a well, probably of Roman onstructior, was discovered a few ars ago, and it is quite likely that German victories in Russia last sum- T mer, who said to a major on the Gen- t era] Staff;— T "Now, all we have to do is to march o Anybody who lives in the vicinity West to break the front on that side." of a noisy railway yard might try , To which his superior replied, shak- o writing to the officials of the road a ing his head:— copy of this letter, sent to officials head:— "My dear comrade, you are young t of a Dallas (Texas) railroad office, . On the West nobody wi11 brere ak n w signed "Unfortunates Why Try to ourselv�es.oUTo succeed r enemies 800 000 men J Live and Work and Sleep in the would have to he sacrificed,�and there is Vicinity": is not general who would dare at- a tempt it,' ye SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH'. "Gentlemen,—Is it absolutely neces- sary, in the discharge of his duty day and night, that the engineer of your yard engine should make it ding dong and fizz and spit and clang and bang Lord Shaughnessy Thinks Canada Has and bus and hiss and bellow and howl and grate and grind and pati and Many Natural Resources, bump and click and clank and chug The time has come, in the opinion of and moan and hoot and toot and crash Lord 'Shaughnessy, When a Canada- and grunt and gasp and groan and wide organization should be formed ti whistle and wheeze and iquawk and for the acieetiflc research of this caul!- a blow and jar and perk and rasp and try's vast mineral, metal, hydro -else- nt jangle and ring and clatter and ,yelp tric and chemical resources, which will in and croak and howl and hum and sriari rowan. lin the practical application fn and puff and growl and Munn) and fore oy a:f many minerals wrath, P fore neglected or exported ;for mane - boom and clash and jolt and jostle and facture to other countries, of by -pro - hake and screech and snort and snarl dote in existing iYidustries and for' and scrape and throb and eritik and other natural resources which were angle and quiver and rumble and neglected ar insufficiently exploited, roar and r'aitle and yell anti smoke the waste of straw, :fee instangce, itt and smell and shriek like —7"Canada's wheat lealds, of flax Mite, of Of coursethe officials make re ( ;' lumber, seventy-five per cent, 01 tee „ , ri Y' .product of which hag been wasted in "It is, i the forest or at the mill, ,while in in the present building stands upon the site .of an earlier Roman one. Al- though it looks loftier, the White Tower is only ninety feet high. It is very strongly built, its walls being from eleven feet to fifteen feet in. thickness. It got its name 'through being so frequently whitewashed., The Tower has been restored several roes in its history, but the greatest iteration to it appears to have been ade by Sir Chrietopher Wren, who, his work of restoration, modernized nearly all oe the windows. It is built in four storeys, including the vaults, and each floor 10 divided into three main 'renes, The lowest, which' is slightly below the level of the ground, is the basement or vaults, the next above is the main or reception fidor, the next is the hanciueting `loos, then comes the Slate or Royal aptlrtments, The vaults Were originally in total darkness, but they have beenlighted riece/J4yeam by windows. over head into the river, and chased Away. the' other back into the boat. Kaiser Wilhelm may fear no man Thundering after, with red millet y open, tusks flashing and trunk flail -ion earth, but at the very mention of ing the air, he planted both tremend-1 one woman's name ib is said his ous forefeet on the _gangplank. It cheeks blanch. In fact, there has been no Hoban-. bent until cracked under his weight, ,. but held stoutly, although the whole zollern for many a century past who boat careened, and seemed ready to has not held this formidable female in dread. Even Fredrick the Great, In fearless man as he was, would never n another moment the elephant had crossed the plank, and was astride allow her name to be mentioned in it with hindfeet on the shore and fore l his presence; while his neurotic ne- feet on the boat. There he stood,iphew, Frederick William IL, once fell ld afraid to advance or retreat, a gigr she had been n a dead faintnhen s en ns a corwas lidorhat of antic image of baffled rage. In his his Berlin palace, fury he began stamping with those; g great forefeet, and the boat rocked' And, indeed, the Hohenzollerns a,for or crazily back and forth, have ood cause for their fear, f f whenever "Bertha, known as the What might have happened if the; "White Lady," has been seen she has monster had come aboard with all his' always been the harbinger of death frenzied weight can only be imaginer; or some great calamity to their house. for the captain by this time had fetch-1The evening before William I. drew ed the only rifle on board and, risking his lest breath, and the very night all on one shot, had thrust the muzzle; on which his son, Frederick III., died almost into the gaping mouth and, in agony, she was seen by more than pulled the trigger. one, wandering through the rooms of. Fortunately, the bullet lodged in the. the palace in which they were lying. base of the brain. The elephant tum-' bled to his knees and into the water Clothed in White. next the bank, his bulk thrusting the i On the latter occasion it is said the boat aside so suddenly that it snap -;intruder, challenged by a sentry, ped the bowlines and sent the men : walked up to him with such fierce staggering to the gunwale. !eyes and such a menacing aspect that At the next government trading post he uttered a piercing shriek and fell the captain had two splendid tusks; unconscious, to show as the result of his cool dar-' Those who have looked on this ap- ing; but 'to his astonishment, he was!parition that haunts the Hohenzol- arrested for shooting the elephant' terns describe her as an old woman, without a license. It was with great; clothed from head to foot in white, difficulty that the government official; with black eyes Blazing from a deeply - was convinced that the animal had furrowed, corpse -like face, and carry - been shot in self-defence. Even then! ing a broom—a circumstance from he confiscated the ivory. which the irreverent and sceptical h dubbed <bU u ed her the "Sweeper." But the I-Iohenzollerns have no MORE DRUGS USED IN PARIS. monopoly of White Ladies in Ger- Deputy Declares Opium Dens Have'meny, A similar phantom haunts the palace of Hesse -Darmstadt -in - Grown to 1,2000. ! deed, it was from the legend of this The war has incidentally revealed palace that Wagner borrowed the the existence in Paris of opium' subject of his Lohengrin; the Grand smokers) containriaetr o(aHCC 1 Dukes of Baden are haunted by a smokers, cocaine and morphine users,' third; and there are few ancient case which was unsuspected before. Chas.! ties in the whole of Germany which Bernard, deputy for the district of are not the haunts of obher varieties Montmartre, where he is a druggist,; of this spectral woman, mostlrbent estimates the number of opium dens'' old crones, carrying a heavy, tapping in existence at 1,200. walking stick, which heralds their "Even the flower girlsin the street," approach. . Bernard M. says, have been drawn Ghost Foretold a Shipwreck. into the traffic in stupefacients. Re -1 cently a girl in short,skirts and with But the most attractive; -or the a vicious expression offered a bouquets least unattractive—of them all is the of violets to a passerby. The man, WhitetLadywho, for centuries, has wanted no violets, but the girls ex -1 foreshadowed d calamity to the Haps- pression excited his pity, and he burgs—"e pale young woman," she is tossed her two sous. 'But it's 20 described, "marvellously beautiful, yvith a long, flowing white veil." 1 She was seen by many in the Castle s of Schonbrunn the night before Maxi- 0 u ,mime, Austrian Archduke, came 0, 11 Coco' is the familiar term used his tragic end in Mexico; and in 1889, g in the quarter for cocaine, of whichg h thele was a little paper concealed in immediately before Crown Prince the heart of the bouquet, There are Rudolph died so terribly and rays- g other quarters of Paris also where teriously in the Mayerling hunting s the same practice has taken root.'' 10e was the herald of the ship` The Chamber of Deputies has voted p a law raising the maximum penalty wreck which closed the romanbie for illicit traffics in opium and kin- career of the Archduke Johann V dred drugs troni 8,000 francs to 10,000 (John Orth ), and at the very time francs fine and from two months to a cowardly assassin struck the Em- two years' imprisonment. press Elizabeth her death -blow in. Switzerland, a sentry on guard in the r • Schonbrunn Castle saw the same o ASKS THIEF TO FIGHT. spectral White Lady slowly walking g in the room where he Was stationed. o British Farmer Challenges .Robber p Who Stole Ilia Suet. WAITED ENTIRELY TOO I.ONCi. francs, she said softly. Then, ap- proaching near enough to whisper, she added, `there's roma "coco" inside.' For centuries the world has ap- plauded the deed of Sir Philip Sidney, who on the battlefield, although wounded and thirsty, took the cup of water from his own lips and gave it to a wounded comrade with the words, "Thy necessity is greater than mine.!° Not less ntible was the conduct of Sergt. John Crawshaw Raynes of the Seventy-first Battery, Royal Field Artillery, one of the many unselfish heroes of the present war. At a mo- ment when his battery was being bom- barded by explosive and gas shells, Sergt. Ayers fell wounded some forty yards away. When "Cease fire!" sounded, Sergi, Raynes, regardless of the constant hell fire of the enemy, ran to the help f his fellow soldier. He bandaged im quicklyand then went back to his ost where the order for action called int. During the next pause he called two timers to assist him, and they bore ' ergeant Ayers to a dugout for safe- ty. The gunners were killed almost at once, and Sergeant Raynes then performed the act that won for him that most coveted of deeoratiots, the ictoria Cross. A shell burst at the mouth of the ugout and filled it with gas, As the fumes were rising, Sergeant Raynes an across the open ground in the face f the shells, to return with his' own as helmet, which he quickly fastened ver the head of Sergeant Ayers to tevent the fumes from attacking his mouth and nostrils, "You need it more than 1," he said and staggered away badly "gassed," as the soldiers say. IIe managed to shake off the effects for the moment, only to be wounded the next day in the head and leg, and buried under the ruins of a house that was brought down by a shell, He was the first to be rescued of the eight who fried been in the house and the. cellar. "Never mind me," he said to the rescuers, "Get out the other, fel- lows.» Then, after having his Wounds dressed, he reported at once for duty to his battef•y, regardless of any pain Deem his wounds, One of the most curious offers ever made to an unknown thief was then once made by a. Monmouthehire (Eng- land) farmer. He had °cession to slaughter a cow, and the carcass was plutd in an outhouse.,' Next morning it was found to have been denuded of every partiele of suet, whereupon the farmer issued the following notice: "If the person or parsons that rob- bed my cow of the suet are really in want, I will give them u stone of flair to make dumplings with. Should it be that they are not in want and the thief is it man and will conte for- ward, I will fight him in fair open battle; •if he beats nee, I will give him 5 shillings and let him keep the sir et." The delinquent diff riot accept the challenge, as the farmer's fisticuff ability was well known. Man Gets Black Eye for Delaying Professions of Love. The poor, weeping woman stood be- fore the judge, and the sympathies of the spectators went out to her. She looked muscular, but so mineable, says Answers, London. "You are charged," said the magi- strate, sternly but kindly, "With as- saulting oar husband." Gulping'dewn her sobs, the prison= er wiped away her tears with a brawny hated and replied sadly: "Yes, your worship. I only asked the brute if he would ever cease to love me, and he was so long in an- swering thin 1 hit him in the eye with a ln•oom, I'm only a defeeeel'ess Weenie, she wont on in broken voice, "tied a watnan'e life without love is a marc blight." A man who boasted of having led a blameless life was without relatives, and had never been married. There's only one person in this world it's Worth while being, and that's yourself.