New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1917, Page 6

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TELEPHONE CALLS. erald has been appearing be- readers during the last few & more condensed form, ten ing the rule for each edition. ws has been covered up to the d insisted upon by this paper | been | pveral methods have vhereby to conserve a certain of space, paper situation ) be utterly impossible during ing year to set enough news per to run the usual editions. jper company with which the does business is not able to us with the news print pa- t is necessary to: carry s for the year, providing the of business is as large as it even at the present The amount contracted for B 'cut heavily over last year re is, as yet, no signs of let situation. | means that the Herald, with all newspapers, has | much space, or so much aper, to use daily during 1917 R use no more unless it Is to suspend publication when ount for which it contracts is d. Naturally we are unwilling his xiid must take every possible ssave every bit of paper we pur news service has been a jof pride and we will continue ) it up to standard or make it than before. With the nec- ount of space allotted to he adyertising columns will ly be ‘cut down iIn space. . the only method of saving exists. Our advertisers are that there will come days hich it will be impossible to odate their ads or it will ‘be to cut them down in size. ‘have just 50 much space each day. If it is used up | have to turn down our cus- ‘despite the fact that we re- do so. p will be a new schedule of ffective here February first, jrill possibly result in a slight oft of advertising matter, gerchants are asked if possi- it the Herald know as defin- they can the amount of jhey plan to use daily and the ount for the yvear. If this is e will allow for their space ing contracts for national ad- g and they will not ind them- lebarred from advertising be- If our lack of paper. Natural- JHerald prefers to do business e local merchants if possible. incerely hope that the paper will improve by next fall so may be able to get more pa- ‘here is no sign of it now and we do not dare to put '@ papers, run over the of our contract by Novem- d suspend publication because of paper. on in [E DEATH OF DEATH. bing the tip of the world firmly ngle formed by the thumb and ger and forcing Father Time pirouette from East to West, it cult to imagine Ye Scribe of e Age chronicling, with his nd mallet, the record of New for the past year. Standing & cliff, he chips, bit by bit, the the fight between Life and for the .twelvemonth whose on would not cause the slight- on the brightest of mirrors se to its lips. foust is on. Life dashes onto b, pulsating and throbbing with eager ‘for the battle. With aglow and lance held firmly, around, for his. opponent. Si- jnters Death, breathing malevo- parclessly fondling ' the shaft handle is notched with the of victories won in the past. Ind fear of defeat siruggle for acy on the face of Death. They h the center of the field. Steel on steel. Sparks fly. Life into the encounter confident of come and forces the fighting. made wary and cunning by perience, allows his youthful ist to assume and maintain tiatlve. Finally, Life ‘scores kit that makes Death staggmer. bw is quickly followed up by a slash that lays Death low. Life Clrculation hooks and yress ' | by thirty per cent. | the credit fairly, it is is such that ! high | b Qg T8 ] gazes around the forum and sees'New . Britain 2 Herald. Britaln wita her thumbs down. Death dles. Ye Stone Age scribe dusts off his chisel, flicks a few chips off his mal- let, gazes with satisfaction: at the lat- est edition printed on the cliff and retires to his office and his corn cob. Fortunately, in this day, it is not necessary for the people to crowd to a palisade to read the news. The busy press of 1917 brings the latest hap- penings right to the home of every- one who would read. Thus it is that we are able to chronicle the approx- imate results of the battle between T.ife and Death in New Britain during the vear 1916 and a perusal of the figures shows that Iife was the victor This is a record of which the city might well be proud and while it is difficult to distribute not probable that anyone will challenge the state- ment that the defeat of Death was in no little part due the efforts of Health Superintendent T. B, Reeks, whose stewardship was dispatched so oon- scienciously and so capably that there is no room for doubt as to the best health officer in the state. Efficiency has been the keynote of the health department and thers are many who suspect that the superin- tendent’s real name is T. Efflciency Reecks. “Thumbs down' has heen Dr. Reeks' signal and that signal meant the defeat of Death in New Britain, NO END IN SIGHT. There should be no criticism of the ¥aiser’'s New Year's proclamation to troops what though it is hailed by any as a taunt to the peace pro- posals. Those who are not in sym- pathy with the doctrine express a dis- like for its spirit of bragadocio and claim that so long as the Kalser and his advisers keep preaching the doc- trine of Hohenzollern, just so long will the war last. The Allies will not | be given to discuss peace terms based on the proposition that Germany is victorious. Tt is conceded by fair- minded reviewers the world over that neither slde is victorlous at the present moment. The Kaiser would indeed be un- grateful if he did not send a congrat- ulatory message to those brave men at the front who have fought the battles of the past two and a half vears. Whether they were victorious in all engagements is not the ques- tion. They displayed the spirit of self sacrifice that knows no bounds. They offered “their lives on the altar of their countr: And greater devotion than that has no man. It is to these warriors that the Emperor of Ger- many directs his message. It is for him to buoy up their spirits with a review of their greater accomplish- To this end he must tell them they were “victorious In all theaters of war on land and sea.” Ostensibly, if the Germans had been victorious in all theaters of on land and sea there would be no need now for the Allies to reject the peace proposals. . The Allles would be forced to accept whatever terms Ger- many offered. he New Year offers of relief for the soldiers on the var- ious war fronts. It is doubtful now if they get out of the trenches by next Christmas. Diplomacy has falled be- cause diplomacy did not go after a completion of the war in the proper fashion. The bombastic utterences of the German diplomats called for the same tone from diplomatic offices in the enemy countries. A peace based on such a flimsy ground as that pre- sented could amount to nothing more than a truce. The nations would go back fighting again because of the ments. war no modicum | apirit of brag and bluster, if. for no other reasorn. That is why the war will probably be fought to a finish. One side or the other must ac- knowledge defeat. France is pre- pared to be destroyed before giving in. Germany through her ambassador in this country announces she will fight for twenty years more if neces- sary. Russia, Italy, Japan, Great Britain hold to the same attitude. Only a miracle can now stop the war under such circumstances. There should be no surprise at the opposition of Colonel Roosevelt to the proposed League to Enfarce Peace. The Colonel has been fighting for so many years that he is unless he is never happy something or He' is living on the Euro- flaving somehody. pean plan, The high cost of white paper pre- vented many from turning aver new leaves at the beginning of the New year: And another year bit the dust, FACTS AND FANCIES. Marshal of the Marne would be the better title for the former French commander-in-chief.—Lynn Item. It was the 2,000 votes in California out of Wilson’s more than half-million plurality that counted most. Efficien- cy engineers should find some way of NEW BRIl elimingting ghe waste ot popular plur-' alities.—New York Evening Post. Pirate song. Fifteen men on a trol- ley corner. An hour passed by, and then there were forty-seven.—Newark News. f —_— Uncle Sam should offer a prize for the best name for the Danish West In- dies when we take them over.—Al- bany Argus. For the first time in the history of the national banks, their surplus and undivided profits equal the total cap- ital-—Brooklyn Citizen. It looks as though the British em- pire had gone in for the commission manager plan of government, too. And probably not too soon.—Kansas City Star. In view of the present price quota- tions it looks as if this country needed a good deal less advice on salesman- ship and a good deal more on buying. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The last survivor of the squad of Union soldiers that captured Jefferson Davis died in Ohilo ‘c week, But it 1e nothing to worry about. There will be a new crpp of them next year.— New Orleans Times. The Soociety for the Prevention of Useless Noises might profitably sive its attention to some of those newly elected congressmen who have been’ arriving In Washington with their pockets full of remedies for every trouble on earth.—Philadelphia Press. The Soldier’s Wife. I lle alone and dream, forever dream Of War and You. Yet sometimes just a * gleam. Of Hope little flitting slips through. You may come home at last, some happy day, To laugh at me— You may return to kiss my fears away, Alive and free! It may be so, and yet, this sullen day, The Winter rain Falls like a curtain, shutting Joy away Beyond the pane. I work all day, but in the night I pray that we may win. And sometimes I can hear the things you say Through all that din. T hear your boyish laugh, so unafraid. Your whisper low In answer to the frightened prayers I've prayed. It makes me glow! Our love seems then so strong and pure a tie And doubt a sin. Such love the very Furies must defy And Heaven win! Ah! Thus my spirit! frail. This Devil, War. Can make a lonely woman faint and quail— Its flame and roar, But the flesh is It is not for her body that she fears. 'Tis for her Love. Could she but fight, dried futile tears! Ah, God above!— ‘all her For Us the festered horror of that Hell, The blaze of Hate; Not theirs the final pang—who fight so well— % But ours who wait! And yet you may come home, serene and gay. To laugh at me. . . You may come back to kiss my tears away. Alive and free! ELIZABETH NEWPORT HEPBURN In New York Times| Why He Knew He was Safe. (Montreal Gazette). A Montreal soldier who succeeded after several attempts, In escaping from Germany, says he knew he had crossed the coundary amd was Dutch tersitory when he met two young 'men on bicycles riding to work. In the enemy land there were no men of that class not in uniform. Germany must, indeed, by this time have all her available male oitizens either on active service or in training. The youths coming of military age each year are called to the colors and none but the physically weak are released. ‘Women have been obliged to seek em- ployment in factories and workshops to earn a livelthood for ' themselves and dependents. They are to be found in munitions plants, in underground raillways, in the tramways and.postal services. The increase of women workers from July 1, 1914, until July 1, last, amounted to 13 per cent. over pro-war figures: in Prussla, 22 per cent. and In Greater Berlin, 20 per cent., according to a Berlin dispatch | ta an American newspaper. The figures indicate the extent of the war drgin on the manhood. The German empire Is suffering in the most vital WaY. in The Trouble With Cain. (Christian Sclence Sentinel.) The first to repudiate any respon- land I went back to bed and almost | posed, does make an excellent flour. sibility for his brother's welfarc was | Cain, the first murderer on record in | the Bible. But after all it was not | because Cain had failed to be his | brother’s keeper, but because he had fatled to be his own keeper that the | mischiet had occurred. Had he kept | hig 6wn thoughts under control of kindness, he never could have com- mitted such a breach of brotherhood. AIN DAILY' . HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917 ARMING MERCHANT SHIPS. " Not so Easily Done as Some Suppose (New York Evening Poft)A Arming merchant ships is not ex- actly as easy as falling off a log. This can be asserted on the autherity of a British admiral, Sir Cyprian Bridge. t is not the legality of thes process that troubles him, or its consequences in the treatment of armed merchant- men by neutrals, but the practical difMculties. He argues that if the arming of vessels is to be attempted at all, it .must be done universally. If guns are an essential means of protection against submarines, they cannot be refused to any class of | merchant vessels. Well, there are at . least 4,000 British steamers of 2,000 tons or more. Each of them,6 must | have at least two guns—some con- tend for four. In the latter case, there would be need of 16,000 guns. Admiral Bridge declares that ‘“‘two sufficiently trained men per gun would | be the smallest number that it would be prudent to employ.” That means 82,000 gunners. ‘In face of these staggering totals the admiral asks a | question which seems to smack of | common-gense: “Would not that| great number: of men and guns be | more effectually employed in hunting and attacking the enemy's subma- rines?” He distinctly favors putting those thousands of men and guns into the classes of men of war suitable for destroying submarines. H Under German Shell-Fire. We all—that is, our party and such of the boys as had not gone off on night duty—went to bed about eleven o'clock. Just before saying good night, Mr. Andrew turned to me and remarked, '‘You had better show me which is your room, in case any- thing happens during the night.” I replied, laughingly: = “All right, but I don't think anything will happen. It will probably turn out that neither the Germans nor the French will fire a shell all night.” I was so exhausted that I went to sleep without even un- packing my bag excepting for the real necessitles. About twelve-thirty ¥ woke up with a start and felt as if the whole house wasg coming down or my head. I reached for a light, but without suc- cess. I did not seem to be thinking at all, and the idea that a bombard- ment was going on, or even that it was the explosion of a shell which had waked me up, did not at the first moment occur to me. But explosion followed explosion with great rapid- ity, and as the whistle of one shell died away the shrill shriek of an- other was audible. I knew at last| that I was in for a real bombard- ment. I do not think I had much sense of fear, but I instinctively made myself as small as 1 could in my bed, and with each explosion wondered if the next shel’ might not land in my room. I must confess that 1 was greatly relieved when some one knocked on my door and I heard Mr. Andrew's voice ving, “Mrs. Vanderbilt, you must hurry up and come down in the cellar.” reached in the dark for my dressing-gown and opened the door. Mr. Andrew was standing there in his stocking feet with a great- coat thrown over his pajamas and a candle in his hand. I did not think of my own appearance at that time, but a little later 1 reélized that my hair was streaming down my back and that I had no stockings on. But three or four shells, some seemingly very near, exploded simultaneously, and, hardly saying a word, Mr. An- drews hurried me down to the cellar. All the boys, Madame Marin, and @ constantly increasing number of French soldlers, who rushed in from houses where there were no cellars, had already assembled there. It was together without talking much except together without taking much except to count the explosions and to watch through a cellar window a house which had been set on fire by a shell. Then when the bombardment slack- ened somewhat we went outside, but not fAr from the cellar door as long as the shells continued to arrive. However, they stopped as.suddenly, as unreasonably, as they had begun, Immediately to sleep, for the ordin- ary silence of the night seemed very soothing.—Mrs. W, K. Vanderbilt in Harper’s Magazine. Corn Bread. Justly dismissing as “a legislative impossibility” the embargo on wheat asked by bakers and millers, Repre- sentative Rainey of Illinois urges a bill permitting the use of cornmeal with flour for a bread-making mixture In interstate commerce. Twenty per cent. of corn, as pro- But American families need no legis- lation to use much more of this na- tive food. Properly cooked, corn is wholesome and heartening in a varie- ty of forms. Ignorant cooks spoil it by too much shortening or make it needlessly expensive by the addition of eggs. A New York that sings “Dixie” has or pretends to childhood memories of corn pone of more Spar- tan structure, fit to rank with the scones of old Scotland as a maker of men. Tt is odd that a food so rich in cal- ories is more eaten in our south than in the north. It is much the same in furope. During the famine of 1847 the people of Ireland did not know how to use corn sent to them. ‘‘Corn- bread” Murphy, patriotic evangel of a nobel food, had little encouragement in Germany, though now they would welcome his goods. In Southern Ttaly and Sicily. where they call it “Turkish grain.” corn 1s more used. Habit is slow to/move. If Mr. Ral- ney's idea could prevail, 100,000,000 bushels of corn rzul(l well replace as many of wheat, the loaf might be cheaper, the people as well and more abundantly fed. Why wait for cruel economic pressure to work reform? Why not eat corn now? \ Mascnline Protest. (Minneapolis Journail.) A young news been selected woman has otary by Con- gressman-elect Rankin of Montana. | but he was careful v of youth, | from this state first made the sugges- | then Thus are the bright vouns men of the west crowded out by female labor, | Lincoln and War, (New Haven Journal-Courier.) The.pride of the American people is naturally touched by the constant references made by Buropean speakers and writers to the war philosophy of Abraham Lincoln. Lloyd George in his recent speech in the house of, commons quoted from . the Lincoln papers, and, though we have been unable to locate the exact quotation, it corresponds so intimately to other statements that are being taken from his public utterances as to make its genuineness assured. Through the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Newman Symth, we printed in The Forum yesterday extracts from the! public utterances of Lincoln during the civil war which have a direct bearing, almost an uncanny bearing, upon the cansideration of peace among the war- ring nations of Burope. It was In June, 1864, that he expressed his wil- lingness to receive emissaries of peace to state exactly what they must be prepared to dis-| cuss. He sald: ‘“Any proposition which embraces the restoration of | peace, the integrity of the union and | the abandonment of slavery, and| which comes by and with an authority | that can control the armies now at| war against the United States” will, be welcome, This was his way of warning that a visit predicated upon ! more hopeful grounds would be a waste of time. In September of the same year he expressed his lack of in- terest In a peace which ‘“could not be of much duration.” ‘Still later in the same year in his address to the con- gress he declared ‘“that the war will! cease on the part of the government of the United States whenever it shall | have ceased on the part of those who began it.” A year earlier he ex- pressed his desire for peace but of a varfety that would be ‘worth the keep- ing for all future time.” ‘We shall be much surprised if the reply of the entente powers to the central powers, and to President Wil. son, does not follow exactly this philo- sophy of the great emancipator. Con- ferences for an exchange of views will not be acceptable: conferences to con- sider an avowal of views will alone be in order. Thus will history repeat it- self in a most unexpected manner. , At the Oathedral of Rheinis. I believe I had thought of Rheims as a city empty and desolate ruined by shell and fire, as are the little vil- lages I had been in near Verdun. But the first impression was otherwise. Children ran across the street, a trolley-car stopped to let off a mid- dle-aged woman, a dilapidated flacre drifted by us, searching for a fare. One felt that there were not enough people about, that there was less life than the streets and houses led one to expect, but such activity as there was seemed normal, and for many blocks I saw no destruction. But we passed very quietly through this part of the city. The cathedral, our destination, of course, may be said to stand in a sea of rulns, except for the unscathed statue of Jeanne d’Arec. The archbishop’s palace gives the im- pression of ,an abandoned wreck thrown up on’ the shore.* Many of the houses have been burned down | to their cellars; in others the floors dhn- gle from the walls and the walls lean against one another. The ruin, one felt, was final, unredeemed, and I was prepared for the same emotions when I stood by the cathedral. The outer roof of the cathedral, which was made of wood, is entirely destroyed, as all the world knows; much masonry has been crumbled by shells; statues have lost heads and hands; the most delicate tracery of the Middle Ages is obliterated; a pa- thetic amount of the patient, rever- ent, inspired toil of many centuries and ocountless hands has been swept away and blotted out forever. But as I stood in front of the great edifice T felt none of the depression and sense of unrelieved loss conveved by the rulned villages near Verdun, and even the ruined stores and houses of Rheims. The famous cathedral— noted architects to the contrary—is for me more wonderful than ever., It still stands in all the grandeur of its magnificent outlines. TIts burned roof, its plerced walls, its broken statues envelop it-with a new nobility, because these scars tell and will tell forever of the great tragedy through which France is passing. The hand of the restorer should never touch the cathe- dral of Rheims except so far as is required for its preservation. History has always been written on its walls, | and the courage and faith in the heart of France today are worthy of this recording. I can only liken the appearance of the Cathedral of Rhelms, as I saw it, to the face of a beautiful woman which has lost the smooth freshness but which has attained a new beauty through the marks that the sorrows and vicissitudes of life have left upon {t.—Mrs. W. K. Van- derhilt in Harper’s Magazine for Jan- uary. Name For the New Coin. (Newark News), Congressman Isaac Baccarach of New Jersey may, through his intro- duction of a bill for the colnage of 214 cent pleces, claim to be the fa- ther of a new word added to English as she is spoken. But it is in the record that a former assemblyman that as a “jitney” is a nickel, the half of a nickel must be a tion e “Tt's true that money talks on Wall street, but in this ease Jersey speaks also In-a small way. Boosting. (Hcuston Post.) “That man says your wife has the most beautiful hair of any woman in the city.” “He's trying to work up trade.” “Does he ceal in hair iotions?” “No; he sold her the hair.” The Patient's View, (Detroit Free Press.) “I'm afraid,” said the doctor calmly, “that T shall have to operate.” Afraid!” growled the patient. “Afraid you'll have to operate! You know darn well you're hoping you'll have to.” “The Bayer Cross—Your Guarantee of Purity” Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin pro- tect you against counterfeits. Every package and every tab- let of genuine Aspirin bears “The Bayer Cross.” Sold in Pocket Boxes of 12, Bottles of 24 and Bottles of 100 The trade-mark “Aspirin” (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Office) is a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of salicylicacid in these tablets is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. British Forces Camles as * ‘Washington, D. C,, Jan. 2.—The news that the British forces operating near the Suez Canal have employed camels in some «f their charges against Turkish trenches gives special interest to a communication to the National Geographic society concern- ing these desert heasts of burden and war-mounts. A portion of the com- munication is issued as the following bulletin* “There. are almost as many varie- ties of camels as horses. The Arab name for camel is djemel. Those of Tunisia, Tripolitania and Algeria have one hump and are really dromedaries. Certain breeds of camel can withstand the great heat of the Sahara Desert, and others that of the zero weather of Tibet and China. ‘“The ordinary camels of northern Africa (dromedaries) cost from $30 to 360 apiece and they live on almost anything that they can find to eat by the . roadside; hence it costs next to nothing for their native Arab owners to keep them. Should a European own camels and attempt to feed them with hay and grain he would find that they ate a great deal, and that it would cost a dollar a day for each one. “During the Itallan war in Tripoll the usual price for hiring a camel and its. driver to take food supplies from Ren Garden to the Turkish camp was from sixty to seventy cents a day. “It is amazing to see the rapidity with which a herd of 500 camels will eat to the ground a large pasturage of prickly pear from eight to ten feet high. Leaves, stems, prickles‘and all, disappear like magic. “In many parts of Africa the na- tives keep all thelr date stones and glve them to exhausted camels, weary from their long Snhara march. The camel resists at first, and the date stones, moistened In a litle water, are pushed forcibly by the handful, down the camel's throat, after it has been made to kneel and then securely fast- ened. In two or three dnys the camel learns to eat them of its own accord. The natives say that these date stones make the hump of the camel strong and stiff. “The camel in its long march across the Sahara frequently finds very lit- tle to eat and lives on the fat of its own hump. When this continues dur- ing a long time the hump becomes flabby and almost disappears. The African broad-tailed sheep lives in the same way on the fat of its own tall. “The flesh of the camel is eaten by the natives. The greatest delicacy is the hump, which contains a great deal of fat. “Phe usual welght of the burdens carried by & camel varies from 550 to 800 pounds, for journeys from town to town or on the border of the desert; going across the desert the burden ls less. When & camel s being laden it Keeps up a continual snarling, and should {¢ be overburdened its refuses to arise. Most camels are violous and their bite is dangerous. Hardly a week passes at the large native pospl- tal in Tunis but some unfortunate camel driver, dies of blood poisoning caused by a camel's bite. The grind- ing motion of a camel's jaw crushes to pulp whatever it bites; so that the arm or leg has to be amputated, and blood poisoning usually sets in before the patient can reach the hospital. “In the interlor of northern Afri- ca is a superb race of camels known as the mehara (singular, mehari), or racing camels. The mehara owe a great deal to the care taken in their breeding during the past 2,000. years. Ancient writers speak of camels used by the army of Xerxes, more than 2,000 wears ago, that had the speed of the fastest horses; these were doubtless mehara. “When a baby mehara is born it is swathed in bandages to prevent the stomach from getting too large and is taken into the family tent, where it is nursed and watched over with care and tenderness. When a vear old it is sheared and is known from then on as a bou-keutan, which means ‘the father of the shearing.’ “For the first year it is allowed to wander at will and follow its moth- er. The bou-keutaa is weaned by a pointed stick being run through one nostril and left in the wound. When the young camel tries to suckle its mother the stick pricks her and she kicks the baby camel away. It soon jeaves the mother and learns to eat fresh green shrubs. In the spring it is sheared again and the name of heug replaces that of bou-keutaa. “When it is two years old its train- ing begins. A halter is placed around the head and a cord tied to one of the fore feet. It is kept quiet first by ges- tures and the voice: later by the voice alone, Then the cord is loosened, but should it make a step it is tied again. Employ War Horses” .1 Finally it understands what is re- quired, but the lessons are only ter- minated when it will stand in one place without moving for an entire day. “To make the camel a fast runner the rider whips it on both flanks with a rhinoceros-hide whip and cries out in Arabjc to excite it. A young me- hari is very fond of its own skin, and on being struck starts on a gallop. Thé whipping keeps up and the camel tries to get away by running faster. The long legs seem like wings and it# flies past with the speed of an ' os- trich. It will stop instantly at a pull of the rein; no matter what speed it has been making. “When the rider jumps off, or should he happen to fall, a well- trained mehar{ will stand quite still | and walt, while should the m‘u.ltel"t happen to be injured the faithful® beast will never leave him. ““A mehar) is neyer used as a beast of burden; all it * carries is 2 sad- dle (something I Mexican sgddle, made of gazelles! dyed red, with a « high pommel and a cross in front), two saddle-bags and a rider. The rid- er is buckled into the saddle by two belts. His feet are crossed in front of the saddle and rest on the neck of the meharl. His slippers are usually slung across the pommel, and the me- hari {8 guided by the wriggling of the rider’s toes. “An iron ring passes through one nostril of the animal and a rein of camel’s hair is attached. “The mehara are used entirely by the Arabs when on the war-path, or razzia, A mehari on the war-path: can save three men. Two ride it and’ the third takes hold of its tail and is pulled along. The latter changes places with the rider at intervals. When a war-party has lost so many camels that there remains but one camel for every three men, it always~ retreats. ‘“Mehara are usually fawn-colored, with sofe intelligent eyes. They have pointed ears llke a gazell's. Their chests are very well-developed, and they have a small girth, almost like that of a greyhound. Their slender legs bulge with muscies as hard as; steel. “To run short of water half way across the desert is a very serlous . proposition which ‘the natives over- come by killing a djeme! or ordinary camel, and drinking its blood after it has cooled and the froth at the top, which the Arabs claim is poisonous, is skimmed off. The watcr found in the stomach is also drunk. “A terrible custom used to prevail among certain tribes of the Sahara. Before starting on a raszia or war- path, old camels of not much value were kept from drinking as long as possible, and just before starting out “ were allowed to drink their fill; then, according to the Arabs, their tongues were out or torn out, or else certain tendons and nerves were severed, without the use of which it was im% possible for the camels to use the wa- ter In their stomachs, but they could live for & long time. When drink and meat were needed, one or two of these camels were slaughtered, the flesh eaten and the water and blood drunk. ‘When the camels were killed, the horses are said to have pawed the ground In their .eagerness to eat some of the fresh meat. . “When at full speed a mehari has a most remarkable single-foot or pac- ing step, the motion of which is not at , *4 all disagreeable; and it oan cover 5 quite easily 100 miles in a day without undue fatigue.” Give Him Time, Something of the pride that the English working man has in the abil- ity of his new prime minister is well illustrated in an incident reported by Isaac F. Marcosson in Everybody's & for January. i Y Lloyd George sat one day in tho compartment of & train that was held up at the station at Cardiff. A por- ter carrying a traveler's luggage no-»- ticed him and called his cient's atten- tion, =aying: “There is Lloyd Gcorge himself in that train.” The traveler seemed indifferent, and again the porter pointed out the great man. After persistent efforta | to rouse his interest,' the much nettled, said tartly: it 1s. He's not God Almighty.” “Ah,” replied the porter, “‘rememe ber he's young yet.” Making the Best Of It. (Providence Journal.) Nature instituted winter as a healthful human tonic-—and besides, most 6f us can't aff ' Flor= ida anyway. W’M