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IN A FRONTIER STATION.
Peace on Sufferance"
Life in a Frontier station, e0- pecially in one of the larger ones, seems at first sight much the same as that to which Europeans are accustomed elsewhere in Upper Indis, writes the Peshawar cor- respondent of the Times. New comers, however, very soon dis cover differences and restrictions. Racing and polo, tennis and dancing, alternato АН the pivots of gay social functions, and Berm to be the sole interests of leisure hours; but the. barbed wire all round the canton-i ment and the constant challeng- ing of santries at night are re- minders of the strong tidessof unrest, ever ready to break in and ruffle the surface of the secluded pool for that is what station life is—a calm backwater in a. turgid and treacherous stream....
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London, July 12. At u meeting of the British Rubber Tyre Manufacturers' Association, the Chairman, Mr. Clarks, referring to the serious situation created through a French competitor cutting prices, declared that some members of the Association were compelled seriously to contemplate closing down until It became possible to carry on reasonably profitable business,
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Some French and other steamship liner have begun diplomatic negotiations for permission to draw on their seized liquors held in government ware-houses, for medicinal purposes on eastward voyages. Prohibition officials regard the seized liquor as forfeited and express doubts in regard to the success of the negotiations.
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SKUNK FARMS IN ENGLAND.
The Devonshire farm started
break into the pool or an odds of men living under a constant All this may suggest a. plotůro
So great is the demand for Buck down
their one of
strain and of lonely women weep- skunk fur (saya Sir Arthur number at any moment. In the evening hour, between games ing." It is not so in reality. There Shipley in the Lundmark that and dinner, the club Buddealy are few gayar or more delighted skunk farms have been establish- empties itself of men. With a spota to live in, climatically, in Rossshire, Northumberland, hurried Sorry must go-be socially, and in every way, than and comparatively recently, in back as soon as I can," men slip Peshawar in the spring, and the Devonshire, near Teigncombe. quietly from the ladies' room and old "Piffer" stations of "Kohat, the card room. Some one has Bannu, &c. have always had a with a consigament of sixty-six heard the "Alarm" bugle and has reputation for cheerineas and real black skunks, which resched passed the word quietly, along. friendliness. Nor are this gaietly their now home in November Another day, two or three of the and cheerfulness forced. Life is last The farm is hedged about cavalry fail to appear for palo; alf the better for being lived in with a strong wire netting, and
Men and obukkere" are disorganised, and touch with realities. Colonel Xis fuming until it is women who bave passed through explained that a squadron was tragedies and trials together know called out at lunch-time to chase each other more than superfici a raiding gang. As for the officers ally, and know that, though the of the police and constabulary first line of Lindsay Gordon's nobody seriously expects them to famous quatrain ie cynical, the keep an appointment. One well. test is true known figure among them has a habi: of ostentatiously showing up at the beginning of a dance: and being a hundred miles or more away at dawn, rounding up a nest of outlaws.
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these Mare often than not alarums and excursions and calmly or even in bathos... The "alarm" is due to a young Bentry.. seeing bogies, and the raiding - gang way over the border hours before the squadron Bot could gain touch with i ore or twice la the year, some- where along the line of stations, emil and large, a roan finds bimself following in slow time to the heat of crape-covered drume the last earthly journey of the friend who left his glass unfini shed a short twenty-four hours before. The memory of there! poignant incidente remains. Lifel resumes its gaiety quickly, but can as quickly change to gravity when a chance word. a photo. graph, the tablers on the church' wall recall a Fuccession, long in proportion as the individual's service, of such tragic disappear.
ances.
SPORT UNDER ESCONT Nearly every cantonment is the base for some line or other. Men who were at the club yesterday are up the line" oz stuck for outposte for the n.x two months to-day. That meanei separation from wives and children, bitterly resented when it breaks, into the cold weather. which is the only time of the year when families have a chance Lof being together for in the elim
mer the women and children
must go home, or at least to the hills, and the en Cust stay behind. "It a's means leavi Ing the sheltered pool and going out into stream. The outposta and the camps up the line.", aro boats on ships out in the full force of the torrent; the officers must all take their watch, and the crew must be always on the alert fer equalle. None, however strong a swimmer, may leave the ship
without a lifeline, in the form of an armed escort.
To leave this maghor-life in the outposte is "for men only," and it 8 a lifa af constant watchfulneeN by night and There is Įday against, attack,
not the chance only but the positive certainty that any relaxs tion of precaution, any failure to observe one of even the smallest of the rules of the game, will mean the scuppering of a patrol or a convoy, or even of the post itself. There are relaxations, but they are very much on suffer ance. You can play hockey, you can even play, polo or have a race-meeting, if there are enough of you and enough level ground- provided the hills and nullaha are well picketed. You cau go shooting sometimes-with atrong armed escort, or under the protection of a friendly tribe, You can ride a motor to the next camp or nose in the line
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on their first arrival the skunks set to work to put their house in order, and in the course of a day and night all rabbits and mice and beetles that were in the enclosure seemed to have disap peared. They were, at any rate, for the first few days, self sup- porting, and refused the food offered them. The glands which produce the nauseating excretion can be easily removed, by en operation, so slight that when ** performed on the young animal it never mieses a meal. Should this farm prove a success it is: proposed to extend its operations and introduce the silver-fax and possibly sables, the source of some of the most expensive fura on the market,
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