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I have had complaints from ringe of a threshing-machine). And Scouts sometimes that the cost of then we had a first-rate gun. They tracking irons is too great for called it The Wolf." Major Fun
zera was the commander of our them, and therefore they cannot practise the tracking games of deer-artillery, and he superintended the stalking, etc.
making of the gun.
These fellows are not good scouts A gun is not much use, however, yet. You remember that the Egyp-without ammunition, and shells tipus of old complained, that they don't grow on every bush, nor do had to make bricks without being given the straw that was necessary to make the clay bind together properly.
Well-that is half the fun of life to make bricks without straw!
you pick up gunpowder wherever you walk. All these things had to be mande, and out of the very limited supply of materials which we had in the place.
4, 1930.
MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOL ΒΟΥ.
INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE,
Sir Michael Sadler, Master "of University College, speaking to the Charles Fox Association at Oxford on Public Schools and the State, said that Mr. Bernard Shaw and others had recently expressed views implying that it was useless to look for individual initiative in the English public schools.
"
The experience of most people
INTIMATIONS.
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MINING CO., LIMITED,
8% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN. TURES (KAILAN BONDS).
SEVENTEENTH DRAWING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
here," said Sir Michael. "is that
that in conformity with the the intellectual elite of the Laiver-conditions endorsed upon the Deben- sity, with some exceptions, are men
tures, the undermentioned Numbers of Debentures of the total value of who have been scholars at the public schools. But all of us who have to
£24,000 were drawn on the FIFTH examine for college entrance `ex-
DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1090, at
the Offices of the Company, No. 3, aminations know that a large num ber of boys who come up from the London Wall Buildings, in the public schools, although they are
City of London, in the presence of excellent fellows and have good
WALTON PITZJAMES TURNER, One of WILLIAM the Directors. ALFRED judgment, yet are mere, babies in the expression of their ideas on
BERRY, Secretary of the Company, and Nicasio ROBERT JAURALDE, of 9, paper."
Bishopsgate, London, EC., Notary
That was quite different from the results obtained by the German gymnasium and the best of the French lycees, yet on the other hand the English hoy had learned much which the German and the French boy had perhaps no; had time to learn.
Public-School Sport.
and
Public.
The said Debentures will be paid off at Par on the 31ST DECEMBER, 1929, at either of the following places:-
ย
INTIMATIONS.
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The drawa Debentures, with Cou pons Nos. 36 to 40 attached, must be left four clear days for examina- tion.
IN LONDON: At the Offices of
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By order,
ALFRED W. BERRY, ·
Countersigned..........
Secretary.
N. R. JAURALDE,
Notary Public.
LONDON WALL BUILDINGS,
LONDON, E.C.2. 5TH NOVEMBER, 1929,
NOTICE: The following Deben- |ture Bonds drawn at previous draw-
IN CHINA: At the General Officesings have not yet been redeemed
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36
53 07 71
128 174
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1535
1219 1373 1412 1431
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I think that on, the whole terc is less criticism of our public schouls now than at any time with in my memory. My impression is that although heys at public schools care very much about athletics, their interest in athletics is less absorbing than it was twenty years ago in spite of the fact that the Of course for the shells we had newspapers give so much attention To Bonds of £100 Each, Numbered:
to public-school sport, Grent changes again to make moulds of sand of were brought in English public A Mateking Memory.
exactly the right size to fit the bore schools in the past through the
pressure of public criticism, This is how we did it in Mafeking of the gun, and to pour molten iron the change was made in each case nearly thirty years ago. When we into the moulds to make the shells.by the self-sacrificing effort of were besieged there we only had They were made hollow in order head master of genius. It would be less easy to-day for a headmaster half a dozen small guns, old seven-to hold a bursting charge of pow-of genius to work out his ideas than pounders, while the Boers round us der, and a hole was left by which were shelling us every day with all they were afterwards filled with the serts of good modern guns-" pom-charge, and in which a cord was poms (which red a rapid succes.
inserted, which, after catching fire in the fame of the discharge of the sion of one-pound shells as fast að
gun, would burn while the shell was you could BAJ pom-pom-pom- nem quick-firing fifteen-pound lying through the air until it ers, and finally their big hundred reached the charge in the shell, and so burst the whole thing among the pounder gua.
Well, our men didn't sit down
under this and complain that they had no means of getting better gas: they started to make "bricks without straw that is, they start ed to manufacture a gun out of such material as they could find in the place.
The thing to do is not 'to sit down and grouse-set to work. and yet it.
..
enemy.
Fun
and
It all sounds very easy simple, but to get hard metal sufficiently hot to it into moulds you want something more than an ordinary fire, and we hid to innke a special sort of "blast- furnace " for the purpose. Here again our men made their "bricks without straw." They got an iron house-cistern and lined it with fire- brick.
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it was twenty years ago, because the schools have become so costly to run that it is dangerous to risk losing a large attendance of boys."
Too little attention was given, he thought, in engaging assistant mas ters for public schools, to ascertain- ing whether they had any strong, intellectual interest and whether they were, capable of keeping order in a class and had any notion of teaching. I England became more closely connected with the inter- national affairs of the Continent tem of teaching modern languages there would be a demand for a sys
in English schools, as good as that which existed in many countries of the Continent.
TO AVOID STOMACH DISORDER AFTER QUININE.
A SPECIALIST'S WAY.
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Where would you get firebrick from in your village! They got it from the furnace of a hormotive, Then they introduced "forced draught "—that is, they pumped air into the fornace as a blacksmith does at his little fire-but on a big use. If you usually experience scale, by means of a fan driven by stomach pain, indigestion, dyspep an ́engine through a hose pipe. In gia, flatulened, or cramp after tak
ing quinine, you will be glad to "this way they got sufficient heat to know that all these miserable, and melt the metal into a liquid state. evil after-effects can be completely Then we had to make gunpowderful of 'Bisurated' Magnesia in a avoided by taking half-a-teaspoon- to fire the fun with, and this we little waler before the quinine. did by
making charcoal from This neutralises the excess acid willow-wood and mixing in salt that quinine in any form always causes, and which is responsible for They got a steam-pipe out of anretre (which was used in that part the discomfort so often experiene engine, heated up a lot of bars for the country for washing the ed. In addition, 'Bisurated' iron like the bars of iron railings, sheep) and other ingredients, until Magesia forma a protective, acid- and twisted them while red-hot
resisting conting over the sensitive we made a very fair powder. reund and round this steam-pipe,"
stomach lining, so that distress and "Bang!"
discomfort are made absolutely im- and hammered them tight until
possible.. Eminent tropical disease they made a complete iron énsing to It was a great day when we first specialists advise the Use
of t, and then they put on a second fired the gun. She was loaded and Bisurated Magnesin not only be fore taking quinine. but whenever layer to innke it doubly strong, s ready for firing, and then the indigestion or stomach pain is felt; That made the barrel of our gun, gün's men and onlookers lay down an advice your own doctor will con- the steam-pipe being the "hore" under cover in case she should pre- Then they made wooden models offer to burst rather than send out a big ring with a big knob at each the thell. But she didn't burst. side to form the "trunnions" of She seemed to know what was want- the gun, by which it is supported cd of her, and banged out the shell with a tremendous burst of smoke on the gan-carriage,
and fame.
By means of these wooden models they were able to make a nould- that is the exact shape of the trunnions and ring out of damp sand. Into this mould they poured molten bronze and thus made a metal trunnion ring, which they slipped onto the barrel while still hot, and then quickly.cooled it so that it was shrunk on quite tight.
But the barrel was still open at both ends, so a big block of metal
called the breech **
was made in
the same way in a mould, and shrunk onto one end, and our gun
was complete.
"
Shell
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It was a great success and con- siderably astonished the other side," he thought we must have had a new gun sent up to us unknown to theriselves.
Well, I have told you this yarn. not so that you may know how to make a gun-as in these days where Scouts all over the world are friends and brothers you are not likely to want to fire guns at any body-but merely to remind you that if there is a thing which you want, and have not got, the thing
to do is not to sit down and grouse because you have not got it, but to set to work and get it. There are very few things that you can't make or get if you want them badly
"The Wolf's After that we merely had to bore a tiny hule near the breech through the barrel into the bore, through enough. which the charge could be lit, and At least that is my experience, also they had to add the sights and and one of the first things that "t" mount the gun on a carriage Scouts ought to learn is the making
(which was really part of the car of "bricks without straw."
firm.
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, January 5, 1930: 2ud Sunday afte Bore Kora.
Christmas
Holy Communion at A a.m. Holy Communion (Peak Church) at
8 m.
Children's Service at 10a.m. Sunday School at Peak School at
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Matine and Sermon at 11 s.m.
Preacher-The Dean. Holy Communion at 12.15 p.m. Evensong at 6 pm.
Preacher:-Rev, H. V. Koop,
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