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"Want to come for a trip in a submarine, de you? Well, you know how striot the Admiralty regulations are upon the subject. And then you'd go writing about it, and get me court- martialled.
My friend the Lieutenant (T.) chuckled heartily, as though the baro contemplation of such a prospect were a joke. After which he undertook to work it for me somehow if I would promise not te "givə bim sway."
Therefore the boat and her flotilla must be Namelesa. Sufios it to say that she is one of the most modern submarines yet commissioned into our Navy.
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HALF AN ACRE AND A HOUSE,
TACK TO THE LAND IN YEANOM.' There is no country in the world where the Yat land is so sub-divided as in France, here, as elsewhere, rays Esuber's Paris correspondent, the large towns are now fimilar phrase
Back to the Land" stantly absorbing the rural population, and the represents a problem which a few thoughtful politicians are making so earnest endeavour
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The latest experiment is less ambitions than the famous Three Aures and a Cow" ides, of which so much was heard in England a couple of decades ago. It is a scheme which may be summed up as "Half an Aore and a Homestead:" Parliament sanctioned it in April inst, but as passed through without discussion nothing was beard of it at the time. The plan is now beginning to come into operation.
What M. Ribot and the other
the Bill
Working men in the towns and labourers in the country an opportunity to acquire on easy terms a plot of land and a modest homestead, arguing that
the measure ́simed at was to give of
shoulders of the Lieutenant (T) acared from this would be a moro practical kind,
out of the conning tower.
All right!" be carried authoritatively. "Come below !"
ON BOARD.
To do this I tiret had to ascend. The sub- marine was foaling light, her grey sides swelling away from the rim of her decks to where they vanished in shimmering rotundity into the green depths. She looked a fios big boat, and yet I knew that I could only see half bar proportions. Gaining the top of the con- sing tower, I followed my friend down the polished steel runge until I stood on the platform at bottom. The interior was fit with the sheen of are lamps; it was a spacious cavern, led with a bewildering complication of machinery, stoidet which fitted several silent, spectral Agures in white sweaters.
"We're going to sea to carry out evolutions," said my companion. "They might have given us a bit of a rost after the naval manteayres. We're getting her into what we call the day's | trim."
for the evening of life than old ago fund. It was, indeed, while the Old Pensions Bill was under discussion that, as M. Talbot has been telling an interviewer, the idea, occurred to him. Some of his constituents in the Pas de Calale had enggested that they would rather invent their savings in this way, and he at once sought to secure them the option of setting aside their prospective. pansions as part payment of the purchase money required to buy a plot of land and a homestead.
The field or garden must not cost more than is, and its extent is limited for the present to twenty-Ave area-n little over kalf.au seru. The intending purchaser must possess 240 francs (£9 12.). If not, he is helped by the State, and the moment he deposits the money he becomes proprietor of the holding. He must undertake that he or his children will cattivate it, and he must also insare his life. The State does not deal direct with the purchaser, but with an intermediary, and guarantee, company formed in each distrist, A capital of £1,000,000 has been I asked what this meant, and was told that set aside for loans at 2 per cent, and each loca! it involved flooding the ballast tanks to a certain
company must have a capital of £8,000, of which point, charging the compressed-air tanks, half is to be held in reserve.
The origion iden-was--to-provide town or and the like.
oountry, workers with a home when they had sixty, bat it will he Presently we started. Threo basta, very reached the age of fifty or similar to the one I was in, formed into theesen that anyone who has saved one-fifth of the single procession-known as lines head, the cruiser purchase money, less than ten pounds, oin at leading. At a speed of about nine kcots we once become the possessor or Half an sera and a Homestead At the ages mentioned the trooped forth into the offing.
family is generally dispersed, but it is hoped that the Rhoral facilities severdad will indnes younger people-soldiers on completing their period of servios, for instance-to settle on the land, marry, and bring up a family. Should the experiment ancaeed, its promoters wille me back lo Parliament and ask for larger credits.
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ON THE SURFACE,
The sonsation was very similar to being ou board 'n motor-boat of the commonpines P. The petrol engine ohugged" heavily, and the rounded hull trembled. The top of the corning tower remained open, for we were ranting on the surface.
"Bound to keep hatches up when we're using petrol" explained the Lieutenant (T), otherwise all the air would be vaporised away in no time. That's engine when we dive by we use the electric
On the white disc of the periscope screen, immediately beneath the shaft of daylight slanting in from the conning-bridge, the panorama of the ses ahead was revealed with cameo-like cleanness, A litla string of
Boarod from the rolling-ral of the cruiser to her yardarm.
"Make it so!" exclaimed the Lieutenant (T.) The routine of getting ready to dip beneath the waves appeared to me to be surprisingly simple. A b-lientenant and two bluejackets, The had been on the topsides of the submarine descended, closing the hatch after them with
a-bang...
AFRICAN SILKWORMS.
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A good deal of attention is just now being directed in one of the laboratories at the Imperis! Institute to the life-history of a silk- producing caterpillar which has been found in Figeria, Uganda, the Transvaal, and other a paper which he parts of Africa. Lord Walsingham, the dis- tinguished antomologist, in read many years ago before the members of the Lino Saciaty, dwelt upon the chief charso We are to change course eight points to teristics of this particular species, but it appears starboard, and prepare to dive," axclaimed the to be only within recent times that ite commercial possibilities have attracted the man at the little steering wheel, squintingstics of naturalists and especially of Horr olesaly into the living ploture..
Kaller, 5 (ferman subject, who has recently been making extensive researches in Uganda
The caterpiliara live gregarionaly, and another interesting fapt is that they spin small cocons which are enclosed in a larger silken envelope of mach durability, and this in its turn is encased in a wool-like nest which is affixed to the bark of certain trees. From an examins. tion of specimens which have already reached England it seems that the outer oocoon is espable of holding from 15 to 150 of the inger coenons, and it is an interesting fact also that all the smaller ones point in one direction, s that the moth has little difloulty in finding an exit. The silk produced can only be used as teore, and cannot be wound off in the ordinary way. It is donb'fal, however, whether owing to the cheapness of the resultant product and the necessity of placing vast areas under onltivation, the industry, as such, is ever likely to prove remunerative; and another circum- stance which is calculated to militate against this passibility, so far, at any rate, as West Africa is concerned, is the fact that the eaterpillar is a favourite article of diet among the native population. Several specimens of the moth have been hatched at the Imperish Institute, and coo species is known as Afcaphe Moloneyi, in honour of Sir Alred Moloney, who was for many years associated with the administration of the Gold Coast Government.
Every man had his station, and seemed to know exactly what to do and when to do it with- out being told. It was an admirable piece of Levers were palled and automatic routine. ganges-studied, all of which to me meant nothing. The action of the submarins began to grow sensibly sluggish, and I instinctively guessed that she was settling. The picture of the sea still lay broad on the periscope sozeen, only that the horizon had narrowed down
considerably.
DAVY JONES LOCKED.
The petrol engine had been stoppel, and the electric motor was now singing its shrill vibrant song. My friend came and stool alongside of
MB
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We're all ready for the the dip," asid he, Our buoyancy has been exhausted to the barest minimam at which the boat will continue to keep upon the surface. Directly the horizontal radder is deflected, down she goes,
And how do you come up again?" I asked not without a qualm of misgiving.
"Stop the engine, and up she pops. A submersible only remains under water, by being forced down all the time."
"Where do you get year air ?" I inquired, that the pent-up atmosphere was already grew. fanoying-and, of cours, it was pure fancy-- ing closer,
“There's he laughed. Don't worry! enough comprosesi oxygen stewed in the dasks to keep as all breathing hard for six hours."
Another flag stresmed skywards on board the
GG.R. Broder, E. Brons, Bandcruiser, and my friend exclaimed: "Now for
Friesland, Esq.
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Frankly speaking, the sensation of diving was absolutely imperceptible. The lapping rim of the sea line seemed to draw closer and closer until I it almost looked as though I could stretok forth and touch the refeetion. Then I was told wa bad dived as deep as we were going, and that, nothing but the tiny hood of the periscopo wan now visible above water.
I believe that during the coarse of the next bour we rose and dived at least a dozen times, like
porpoise disporting itself. Thon great Ag an interesting insident; the discharge of a dummy torpedo at the cruiser, presumed
hostile -represent a warship
to
The submarine seemed to give the faintest possible bound, instantly repressed, as the tor nado fed from the tabs. I imagined that relieved, of such a weight she would leap to the wurface, but a glance at the pariscopo soresu told me she had not varied her trim,
I inquired about white mice ses precautionary measure against mishaps from escaping gasoline, and was told this boat had never carried ap
The best • preventive against being "gamed "- ials the nose," said an artificer drily, and this
seemed to be the-general opinion;
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When the evolutions were over the tanks were blown out, and the boat beo a surface craft again. HERBERT RUSSELL in the Daily Express,
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