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DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 3RD, 1917-
TEACHING OF HISTORY..
Gentle render, will you de me a favour? Will you lay your hand upon your heart and tell me,
far more formidable pirater than there WAR IN NATURE
A tick (Piroplasma bigeminum) causes) Buhalterns and captains, could tall of his
Texas fever in cattle. Ita method of own bat a single circumstance about the demand for Parliamentary reform in the
When Marcus Aurelius declared, that warfare is remarkable: A single female to 10,000 0683 on the ground, and as the cattle pate the young Mr Robert Blatchford writes in the reign of George IV will give odds
against the double event of any one of life is a warfare, he probably little lays from those officers being acquainted with both Sunday Chronicle:-
Sarah Jennings and Abigail Hill. realised that he was stating a great bitisks cling to their feet. The mortality to the United States caused by this tick Who was Abigail Hill, and want did logical fact. Nor was thin fact fully in cattle from this cause is often eighty
lars. There is no remedy but fight. Marines were asked about Francis Drake, without consulting eny book he perdo! If we or the Sorgeant of realised-if, indeed, rit be fully realised per cent. of the herd. The annual loss Nature has given pats a fabulous power or Horatio Nelson, or Napoleon, or even now-unti) Malthus and Darwin alone is estimated as over 100,000,000 dal Moltke of even Cesar and Hannitol, or drew attention to it. Some people still George Bernard Shaw, or Harry Lauder,
single house fy may have two or three the question might have tome distant affirm that there is no struggle for exist of reproduction The numbers of the the blud oky, the warm milions of bacteria parasitlent apon it. practical bearing upon the duty of ence at least as far as man is concerned, common house by are prodigious; yet à journalist or a soldier, og vedl
Look, it is said, at the
It is estimated that in- BOOK de the United States of pesta If you ask me what Abigail Hill has to
wunlight, the verdant meadows and woods. The higher organisms pay a heavy toll to do with the Royal Marines, or with the They set one wondering who those people the waving, corn, the fruitful orchards these creature alone füuse an annual
of reference, what you know about Abigail Hill?
Nothing? Thank you. Then you are nafit to hold a commission in the Royal
Marines.
eligible for promotion to commissioned rank he must obtain the regulation First Class Educational Certifieste.
Where have I heard the name of Abigail
the
Of course, the questions about Abigail; and Sarah have a quaint suggestiveness European War I shall answer with becom- were and what they matter, In fact
own that my curiouty is piqued; and if the beautiful flowers all these things are loo
red Swift well-known lines shout great feas fleas, but they combine to t ing modesty that I do not know. I have I ever have the luck to get back to my symbol of happiness and peace, and 1,000,000,000 dollars, Not only do pesta: never served in the Royal Marines, and own house and my own books will dive indicate the central design and purpose prey on each other, as forehadowed
A LOVATO into the Encyclopædia, and find out some
up a pitiless and deadly universal contack the higher organisms. Thus the woolly aphis acts as pioneer for the cank- I cannot remember anything about thing about Abigail Hill, and the Daily of nature. But this fair, exterior covers, and
and the mosquito not only at gentleman's Courant, and
er fungus Abigail Hill Although the
But that will be too late for me to win flict.
It is said that a visit to a battlefront lacks on its own account, but is the means. name has a familiar sound.
this the war,
malaria, black water favor, yellow fever. Before I proceed any further with LIKE A GAME_OF_SPOOK.
is sometiems dicentive The combatants of introducing the far deadlier pests of d like t
are all underground, some of them poseto subject I should to Ask another
THE FIGHT OF THE HIGHER ORGANISMS,
var in na- question, but feel that it would hardly be It is difficult to take such a historical
Such is one aspect of the w playing the game I should like to ask paper seriously, but yet one may
may be heard singing, while near by the who draws in the examination papers for naturally ask what might its purpose be sibly entoying wing and rivare: the lark
higher organ solster put ap
wer silent deadly, the Naval Board of Education and is If that string of disconnected trivial,
pedantic, and irrelevant questions
and unceasing. be a conscious or unconscious humorist.
best can. and may not know that before a meant to disqualify the candidate it is a peasant tills his land. And so the strugure, the war of the lower, against the
plants use
se defensive armour, and masy Our readers
of private or non-commissioned officer in the work, of genius It would bowl me first has in matures masked by an outward.
plants secrete bitter or poisonous juices. seno officient are some of the latter that man uses Har There was one Allan Bill, who We admire the flower like appearance played for Yorkshire, No. I give it up the living coral, the familiar
the
them for the very same purposes and if If the questions are meant to test
sole secreted by the pino The Borson One of the subjects in the examination candidate's knowledge of history they are anemone," for instances but its florets (quinine, strychnine, etc.) the
which effectually protects the foxglove im for that certificate is history. The candi- triumphant example of the art of How bristle with machine guns-things, which he would protect wood, he uses the areo date's knowledge of history is tested by a Not To Do It. Most of us have a larger discharge poisoned arrows.
used by us in medicine. The fruits of number of questions on the paper. If or smaller knowledge of history more D
The struggle in the sea is indeed, sath the apple, crange, walnut, chestnut, ccdit he fails to answer & due proportion of less rusty perhaps, or inexnet, but good
nuti etc., are protected by an indigestible these questions he is plucked; he fails he enough for practical purposes with the does not get his commission.help of an atlag and the Encyclopedia
Now into the,
to the question of whether a bus which of us could answer those ques ciently obvious, and need not be further rind or hard shell or both But the knowledge of history is essential or useful tions? Why should a naval or military illustrated here; but let us take sorucenergy of the foes against which thes more outwardly, placid, than mense. A full grown beech can be killed This creature is parthcho genetic. to military or naval officers I shall not officer be expected to be prepared
Ontes What do you know about plant-life Yet here the struggle is ez by a miserable scale-insects Cryptocacsusz its fabulous power of reproduct predam to enter. To be sure in oficer answer on the hartie, briggst." Who was What is more adword any actangle, higher sexganisms, have to contend, is sma might storm a trench, or sink of the Sweeney Todd What did Mr. Gladstone trtordinarily severe a struggle not marea fug)). T marine, without any knowledge of strategy of Tiglath Fileser or the origin say in 18741 What sort of gaitere did y against adverts conditions of soil and and
French Old Guard, wear in the cam climate, but of plants with each other tion must praise of blame naturg What was the origin of In: there config's there are many casual. In this war the lower organisms, on the are and degraded they culture, though Two thousand pounds, pri
Degraded A of education did drop to a ten rapeel the Carlist Reballion in Span! How ties. It is common to see on waste ground whole, win, Their methods are copardy
on will ever remain czail And although the Kings of Wore the Greek Hoplites armed in the some one species of plant Bearishing and unfair but they pay the penalty.
fight a
UNPROTECTED MANKINDA England were a mixed lot, a knowledge irae of Pericles What enemy did This plant has beaten all the
Now, as man is a part of nature, of all their names has the one advantage Curtius charge, horse and foot
of the Grst Punic War, But culture is the ORDER
일
PIGHTING PLANTBA
T
the worst, If a historical examination is a game dry chalky bank is extremely modest kut of assuring us that we know of spoof one could draw up a list of when placed in good soil is and there are no more of them.
Marines. He gives four questions, and fore a non-commoners hold that aged by the farmer, but they are not agatos
the bghting line. It fights above this struggle. He is not. He is less pro- Let us return to our muttons questions almost as comic as the one of the first order. Few plants of its sizeant that he cannot be dissociated from quoted in the Morning Post can stand against it. All its energy is POSERS FOR WOULD BE OFFICERS Is it possible that at this time of day round and below and when jo fight red by nature than most buler di A correspondent of the Morning Post? has added to the gaiety of nations by the officials of a Naval or Military Educa
unworthy antagonist of the violet. But a losing battle against them. The naked
mosquitus, hicks quoting in that paper some of the question: Board hold fast to the old pedantic ng mood it neglects even to produce isifócseare legion: and in suite of all, candidates for commissions in the Royal a number of irrelevant facts and figures ercups and daisies are certainly not en skin of the bons from a history paper sent to the error that education consists in learning worthy Let the purple dubretia in no his know edge, he has so far been fighting
by heart? Do the
officer is fit denied, as all children know The leeches, and the like. The vast majority I propose to deal with them, in the befo
defence A sive resource, provided by nature is found. and order of going in" as we used to say at for a commission, he should have studied Lacte (bulbs are types of beauty and of deaths in all countries are probably dite period of history so exhaustively as fragility; yet they are keen and scientific die to parasitic organisms. One defen Old Trafford. Here is the fires over six amiro, wild hyacinth shows in the Hits fell of intruding microbee
plants gocytes), which attack * snorters...
Tily the valley is 1. What do you know of the follow-portant persons or details wi Août
to ally book or map ↑ Or do they serve power of th ingedarah Jennings Abigail - Hill
the
ant persons or detail with its most Wood carpeted by the threely and destroy them
a considerable protection t Christopher Wren, Queen And every pincer to be so completely sertive, and under sultivation; becomes have time to manage DBSible, efore they Bounty, the Daily Couthat, St. John master of the history of the world that rampant. For defence this order depends fatal results traveller saya
****** GAME**
resinous, and poisonous secre
tions, of which garlic, onion, and alor
19
microbe
of tetanus
The human skins nest.may*
the
on acrid,
My experience leads me to look upon are mild examples the jigger
Bulica
nght to hand over to him they are absolutely unconquerable, Every own weight of human blood before it
the
B
(Bolingbroke), and Harley he can answer any trivial question put
ever afflicted Honest confession being good for the to him
curs vin soul, I make Confession and declare that t
And yes there are lar I could not stop more than two of the PLAY THE GAME
Of course, as I said, just now, culture
THE UBIQUITY OF PARASITES.realest curse that he made ¤à« All this in fair fighting, Parasites are, Africa (L. Decle, Three Ye
Suvage Africa), A six deliveries, and could not score off those Christopher Wren was an archi is culture, and if Abigail Hall or Sarah teok, who built St. Fauls and many of Jennings are like the Silent, little coarse
pirates of the vegetable world. They mosquito will quise slephantiasis and the City churches cannot say what boxes containing a heavenly disir, then owever, in a different category Fungi were his politica whether he attended the it were a shame to starve Joe the Marine and other low-grade plant forms are the worse things. A noiratade introduced by hiding those boxes from him. But exist in incredible, anmbers, and, as thes several other fell diseases The tsete fly avery conceivable unfair device (Glarecem phlyinlia) will suck twins its practise tho State Church or the Baptist Chapel. The by
examiners ought to play the names of Abigail Hill, and Sarah Jen nings have a haunting ring, as though
causes death by sleeping sickness. Sir had been hored about them somewhere in the divine Sarah and the Socratio Abigail known plant is exposed to the attacks of bated, and at the same time introduces my youth. Bolingbroke 1 once met on for study and assimilation, and then these peats. The gines and larches are into the victim the trypanosome which we are told that the latch canker the Victoria Nyanza has been the seems of a casual acquaintance, but It is a long question him to make sure that he bad
like a lamp. (Dusychpla calycine) cannot while since we were on speaking terms collected the heavenly elixir and that it wong the hardest of forest trees, yet Treves (Dino) - This corner
minated Many of these pests are one of the most remarkable battles of Of Queen Anne's Bounty Fknow nothing, culture had lighted him up
great scientific Power on the one hand except that it never came my way But to turn Jo lose on the universe Harley, portaps, was a doctor, or am I to hunt for culture amongst all the legion on pathsay getting a modern days battle fought between p thanking of Harley-street knaves and fools and disards who jostle through an accidental injury to the tree, and a blue bottle on the other. Stranger
The Didalam pest (Uncinulo spiralis) each other in the pages of history, and
has been a rout, since every man concern- As for the Daily Courant Well then to bail him up with the challenge, served among the rise in 1895, still, the blue bottle has gained the Vic
Minor, and Algeria. The Europe
in the conflict has led, and the fly is been a journalist for more than thirtyWrite all you know about Villon and tell yeire it had spread over tory it has been more than a victory-it possession of the field? years, and I know no more about the Darius II and the reasons why monks
left in undisputed be in kitchens," is not cricket. wholesale destruction caused by this para- Derly Caurant than if I had been driving,
▲ man may kapw very little history, site proved ruinous to numerous cultivat A drobsky all my life, on the Russian love to be
Prod led to the abandonment of many FRATULOIDAL WARFAR The Haly Mail, or Steppes If it were t
and a set heve stumbled over the the Daily Sketch or the Daily Telegraphy Pragmatic Sanction in kit desultory read ey I could hit
it it for six. But the Daily
be exter
Was
ed
Courant it has a musty smell. I shoulding, or he may have swotted up the era Fineyards (Massec, Diseases di Cult I might be thought that man bad quite. not like even to guess ita errealation of the frost Reform Bill's in which case troubles. It has a perennial for in further troubles; yet we find that in this
be
write me down an ignoramus I want you loughed. ht lose a good officer duce winter
pro-
Luck counts in war time, especially is much "dry scap, and struggle of a fratricidal nature betwe
the Army
Even a microbe does not attack
worst enemy of men, microbe, and the jiggers and tek.
A malice, or of cruelty unknown at perce with each other but man is there
all the great Captains of Industry all making a little book ritinovca, but the above taken from what elsewhere in pazure. introduced into
of sature, should suffice to
of the Stock Exchange, and the Honpar to perform in public. So I wrote and beneath nature's calm show that for the last 3,400 years there have been able Members of Stoke Poges and Pulse 0 81ccess. before I shouted ha ha! with struggle is ever going on have said none at all. And thus it would
Basociate with war.
vated Plants). The potato has its enough upon his hands without inviting
the potato- disease" (Phyto ase the struggle for existence assure a he would score, while another man with a well known
might
organisms of history.
phora infestans). Other
leaf phase hardly known elsewhernautelsa There is the honest fact, and before you fair knowledge
That would be rough luck,
# perky seab,"
individuals or groups within the to perform two exercises.
bacteriosis. Yet the potato First Please ask yourself what you
bitter; but it is far exceeded by other know about Sarah Jennings and Abigail you spell it with a p. But it counts 6ghts. The stem, Iruit, and leaves are species. Hill and the Daily Courant, and if you also in education and examinations. know anything how you happen to know remember gore years ago an ingenious member of the order to which it belongs, it. Second: Imagine all the members of compiler wrote to me to ask me 10 what such as Deadly Nightshade, Henban the late Cabinet and the present Cabinet I attributed my success. He was, he said Thorn-upple, Tobacco, efe
to any more illustrations might be the toniest newspaper proprietors, all the a great many eminent men.
folt less than 234 years of peace." He might distinguished novelists painters, poets, was rather backed by the idea of
1 the shining lights being an eminent man, but I did not care appears to be the most peaceful domain the fight. An American writer says that and actor managers, all t
said that I would wait until I discovered a
all that we as appear that, so far from man being There is oven here is moreover, no exempt from the universal struggle, ho
has largely increased and intensifica 20 drawn up in class, add to that stin Kuished circle Sir Douglas Haig, Viscount the other eminences French, Admiral Jellicoe, and Mr. Justice FATE OF THE WINNER law of plants. The least worthy is
persons, excellent in itself, but rounded thing
better than themselves. They seize Darling, and then propound withers
imperfect knowledge that all upon stratagem, sur- they us De inscious What do you know about But that did not snuf bin He replied the most successful These destroy Thers is indeed, a feeling among som
epots; ard the in honeyed terms that man did not Sarah Jennings,
always know when he had succeeded, and prise, elusive tactics, invisibility: We struggle by man, even in self-defence, vis that I was much more eminent than many may farm a faint estimate of what the Improper. This feeling was rebuked long Daily Courant 1 wear tract El eir expenos, kad your SPORTING OFFER who were less eatinent than I and he plant world suffers from these pests if we go by Spinoza At a recent Pacifist illustrious person succeeds in wanted my little piece. So I wrote and consider that, in the plants which are meeting it was gravely dismissed whether **[7]er.%Applet01:2216 4300 Bayanyi eret through the over attribute my success to Luckermally under the protection of man, neace on earth should; he brought about. Al bet you the value of the food destroyed by them by open force or a general strike, neither keeping-up
who
BROWSE of which could be described as a gentle push him down the next ball, which is aand added a private note,
In method FOST CARDIOrionden Cirand Mino
yürker What was the Pragmatic a clean shaven the only eminence
nction is followed by What acknowledges that? And I Was When It United why did the Pragmatic Sanction lead to sne, the book and mud what it was to It is said that in the
by fungi alone amounted to £7,000,000 and Why was Bagland drawn into the which my fellow Szestness attributed o ingle year the loss in potatoes to There is no space here to discuss what
I think I m their success, I laughed; and I
are posts even more destructive than engaged in by far the most tremendous bluebed a little, toa The loss in cereals from the same cause may happen in the future. What we find As I hy, luck is luck-or did I say was very much greater, And, of course, now is that the nations of Europe are that culture in culture-but if I were Jure has cost the State of Mas struggle which has ever been known) and trap of a paper as the one we have been considering, and Sergeant or Cor oral of Marines answered the questions
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Imagine, I say, the effect of those questions apon our ablest and most distin guished men, and then try to realise the Corporal of Marines who, having kop his wood it hole. sa ist, is enticed out of his ground by a googly in the shap
expression of agony upon the face of an examiner, and if I set such ob about £1,600,000 to success not only so, but there has been a recrudes”
ace of the most barbarous methods of седсе fight a single
8 paper species of caterpillars:
Javo which warfare. While such atrocities ag larch sawfly is making among planta Germans have committed are possible, it
Skiddaw,
to go before it can dispense with struggle reform alarm in Cumberland On Ski of a request that he fille Trace the bout Abigail Hill, and Sarah Jennings) ions in the Lake district is exciting great in clear that humanity has yet very far
where the pest made its first appearance, or reach the ideals of its growth of the demand for Parliament in the reign of Georgs IV., and answered wh
I should be tempted to say thousands of larch trees are this autumn Struggle, indeed, we must be prepared
dreams
reform in the reign of George IV. them corren Herbert Spence being elled, and in the last three years for for that which does not struggle is
I saw in the paper this morning a long to that
list of majors who had bean promoted to said to the young man who beat him at the squiber thus secrificed is over 30,000
billiards: Young lieutenan colonels; and another list of
such profetency All the methods adopted to kill the pest
acts of gallantry, or promoted for daring and efficiency in the field.
young officers who have been decorated for argues a misapust
of our have so far failed from Means bile it is Armies in France and Flanders to give
I am not a betting man, but I would commissione to zaen tho deserve them. It
adventure two pieces of sight that not one of those prometed majora, or decorated.
INSECT DEPRIDATIONS
pillars and their ways. But there are is not at all likely that Abigail Hall will A volume might be written on cater
called upon in the Great Pas
not life. Only when mankind universally
passion for nobler things than for has learned to struggle with greater material advantage will it have begun to improve upon the methods of nature.
By O. A Shrubsob, F.G.B., in Literary Guide