FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1913.
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THE DAVIS CUP.
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COUNT HAYASHI.
Lostos, Jely 11. Reuter's Tokyo correspondent an- In the Davis Cup semi-finals, Powellnounces the death of Count Hayashi,
LONDON, Jely 11
LONDON TO FARIS..
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MOTHS AND LIGHT
Why Insects Bush to Certain Death
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM JAVA.
Canada, boat Borman, Belgium, by who it will be remembered, def soutien gata way. Following an burnt by it, again and again until they are
Sete to 1; Schwengers, Canada, bent hinted the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Watson, Belgium, by 3 sets to 0; Williams, Amerion, beat Krevzor, Ger amany, by 3 sets to 1. McLoughlin, America beat Froitzheim, Germany, by 3 sete to 2,
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LONDON, July 10. The Scottish Temperango Bill has -„passed its third reading by 284 votes) 166. Thie is the second passage | nder the Parliament Act.
THE BALKANS WAR.
HEAVY LOSSES.
THE CANADIAN WARSHIPS
FAILURE TO RECHUIT CREWS.
OTTAWA July 11.
The British contingent of the crew of His Majesty'e Cuundian ships "Niobe" and “Rainbow” are returning home, they found it impossible to recruit crews to cruising strength in Canada.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS TRAINER.
Propound. Reduction of the Journey. The Question of Speeding Up.
The reduction of the time occupied In the journey between Indon and Paris
Ons of the most striking instances of a writes The Times," is a after tha bouches very nearly the comfort and habit or behaviour which persists and convenience of a large number of people dominates the lilo of wild animal to ita in many parts of the world. Long bolors own Injury and destruction in that shown Kent became die Garden of England, at by many moths and other inspots, which landed at Dual, it has always been Itaan opon are), and fly into it even when all oventa since the day when Casar first are attracted at night by a lama (a lamp or
immemorial line of dight of migrant birds killed, writes Sir Ray Lamonster in the Daily Telegraph. á burnt ohild draads. the Bre; but a burnt moth ur ichneumon y seems to enjoy being burna, and borczica more and more excited by its dashes into the fame until it finally drops with shrivelled wings to the ground." I's owner told me same years ago of the verandao of a house in Java in which an open lanp was lit every night. Regularly two sets of animals, driven and guided by the action of the light on their nervons mechanism, acrived on the scene: Swarme of moths, bostles, and flian dished in and out of the fame and foll, maimed by the
Continental travelers to and from the
South have naturally used the shortest and most dircet routes, from Dover to Calais or from Boulogne, to Folkestone, in preference to any other. Though it is only a year or two less than a century nincs the first beomotive and the first steamship wers made in England, ik was, of course, nos till much later that any approach to the journey as it is now arranged was possible. There are people still living who can remember the days when, after landing at Calais, it was the
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The death is announced of George Daw son, one of a famous family of trainers whose names have long baon bonourably Associated with Tarf history. George Dawson was the eldest son of the late John LONDON, July 10. The wounded already arrived at Bel-Dawson, of Warren House, Newmarket, grade exceed the total for the whole and nephew of Matthew Dawson, than from Paris to London in less than seven mony;”, a valuable guide to nutrition;
whom there has perhaps never been s mora accomplished master of his profession. Brought up under auch auspicos it is natural that George Dawson should have been successfu},
"Turkish war.
TURKEY AND BULGARIA.
hours is good, but not enough. For whilst the. fam-seeker's impalso is at- to Englishmen Paris is not only the gay suredly a "disharmony-a dofeos in ad. city of delights, but also an important justment, leading to death." business pentro and the main junction for Marseilles, tho Biviets, and the Far East. In the eighties he had charge of the Any unnecessary delay on a journey that has become so ordinary an incident of Duke of Portland's horses, and gained a
Pending the arrival of this perfect air. number of classic victoris When the everyday We his breate intolerable. Duke's horses were sent to Kingsclere he retired, and has sincs boon living at Cam-ship, ordinary mortals who wish to cross There is warlike activity in Con-bridge. His sister, married Fred Archer; from one country to the other must be
the famous jockey. atantinople, resembling that at the time of the war in Thrace.
The Bulgarian plenipotentiary. M Efatchevitch, has arrived in Constantin- ple for the purpose of discussing the Porte's demand for the evacuation of the <erritory,
CONFLICTING REPORTS.
It is oilicially reported that the Bul- garians had successes Festerday all along the whole front, repulsing all the Servian attacks with enormous losses,
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CONDITIONS.
It is interesting to inquire into the probable orgin of this fatal desire for close contact with a source of light, a desirs so atrong as to be entirely unchecked by the deadly heat secampanying the light. The May-flies or Ephemerids are delicato, lit le creatoren, having four not voined wings
content to travel over the surface of land. rarely more than thraequasters of an ineb and sea. But on to important a route across with two or three leng filamenta they have right to expect that they tanging from the tail. Three hendred should be ccarayed in the swiftest boats species are known from all parte of the and trains that mechanical science can world, of which forty occur in the British provide, and without unnecessary waste Inlands. They live na wingless, six-legged of time in the interchange of passengers are in the water for a couple of years and baggage between the steamer and the feeding verneionly. Then one summer's quny. The time allowance for the transvening they very rapidly scape from for at Folkstone is only ten minutes. At their larval skin and By over the water in past Boulogne on the same outward journey,
Mr. G. M. Prandorgar for the and then routing them with counter seven years leader of the Opposition in the 1. It is nearly four times a long, and there' countless, swarms But only for a fou Parliament of Victoria, Australia, is is no doubt that the discrepanes between hour. The eggs of the females are ferti attacka, the Bulgarians being in pursuit making a tour of the world to study the times teken for inoding and unloading lined, snd they all, both males and fomsles, towarda Egripalanka.
| political, social and conditions Interviews is far too great. Delays of this kind when drop dead or dying into the water, where A sanguinary battle is in progressed at San Francis Me. Prendergast they appear to be avoidable, are particu they are greedily devoured by fishes. The -near Kochana, where the Servians were referred to the ory of The Yallow Faril larly irritating. On the ather bard the males are far more numerous than the examination of baggage by the-dovaniera fauales. They arextracted to an extra repulsed with considerable losses. The in Australia, and proceeded: attacks by the Greeks north of Dorian
and Custoep house officers of that ordinary degroo by lights (fi¬mes or electric
Tere repulsed with great lesa,
countries is a necessary evil. But even lamps) set up for nocturnal illumination here something might, perhaps, be done by civilised man, and in some districta to save time, or, at all events, vexation they sza gullected by fishermen in this way
A report from Belgrade states that Ahe Bulgarians were driven back along the entire frontier of Servis with con-
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Greeks as in possession of Strumuitas Defiles and the Bulgarians in full re- treat upon Petritob, after abandoning
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tinual howling of these dismal Jingo probably amount to well oror 800,000, axe are stiract d to one another by the birds, bata, and reptiles. I have "heard a Jimmies.
nid one or two new services are light they produce, as in the case in other story (which I should like to have confirmed My General opinion of the East is that nonmood for the holiday season. lint inminees insects. It seems probable that that in some pests of tropies! Arise a carta. Drink man is a slave and wunan is a beast of bur- they are no quicker than the services the ancestral May flies, of which many re-kind of bird collects half a dozen or so of a den. When a steamer liss to he landed already in existence, and are evenmarkable kinds have been disco cred in species of glow worm and places Leat the work may be said to be done by shade slower than the journey of 63 hours fossilised condition in strata sa far back in the entrance to its nesh, so as to state women. The msn la Chins gets the which is now posible by the train leaving time as those of the coal measures, were nocturnal, animals which might attack reputation of being docile and obedient, the Gare du Nord at four in the after all selfluminous, and acquired an over its oggs or its young. It is a note. and that means he will work as long is do noon. The time has come when a do powering instinét of seeking the light givenworthy fact that point of leht in sired for as little as it is possible to live on finite improvement in the timetable not out by other individuals as a necessary the dark may act in two opposite says on In Japan chate is a growth of a spirit only to be, bus ought to be, arranged step towards sexual congress. In the animals which soo it either it attracts or among Jajanees workin which batoons in the general interests of the travelling course of ages other senses (probably it regola them. The physiologist calls this a desire to get away from the "fetch, public. It appears that it should be permall and touch) have been called into positive and negative phototaxis" (light- but it is sacanced in Paris that the 'bring, and carry" laredom of the pas', ) sible, under improved conditions, of, per being i bring the fattering insects into guidance), And we have the similarly
and they are opening, their eyes to the French Minister at Sous has been nerarity of obtaining better conditions manent way on to English side, to in instructed to adviso Bulgaria is the of existence. Their furts may now be stituto a 3 hours service between the cointion. The power of producing light, positive and negative infuence of chemical said to be in the embryo stage, but they will two capitals. For practical purposes being no longer nooded, has disappeared taste and small, called benotas, strongest manner to come to terms with surely develop, and will keep the antratic Parts in equidistant from London by the from all but two rare species, But the and a similarly-contrasted positirá and the enemy.
Other Foreign Ministers governing powers of the Emperor fally two chief routes, since, though the mile wild erotic instimet, the arious me negative hygrotaxis, or directive in-
employed for many a year. At the present time the labour agitat has a bad time image by the Dorer-Calais mute is twenty chanism, which drove the ancient May ties fence of moisture-pus the movements of
towards the dancing lights of other May are making similar representatious,
eight miles louger, the shorter Boa Turkey bus determined to occupy the Japan.
voyage equalises the difference. On both dies, has remained unaltered in' all the whole of the territory to the South of
route there is no doubt that the train living apader of the group. It is a "the Enos-Midia lino. Troops are already
service in this country can be appreciably disharmony which has not been of quickened. The English companies have ficient destructive importance to be unoying and horses and transport are
not hitherto shown this some readiness cleaned way" or suppressed by natural being requisitioned wholesale.
to realize their duty in the matter of selection. In pro-huma« times, nocturzál
(Wah Tu Yat Pa's Borgies.)
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A senthing arraigament of the detective bureau of the New York Police Department in contained in the report of the Curran Committee. In claims, among other things, spood as their rivals on the other side of fires and lights were too uncommon to thas partnership exist between detectives the chamel. There is ground, however, and criminals. The report a police non for hoping that the South-Eastern and use much diguster to the May-ler. But ditions instances a cose in' which a man
Chatliam Company mu to do weir best now that mankind sets up everywhero bl named Benjamin Lery, who wan never convicted of crime, testified that at to remove this reproach to our national octural flares and oppsentrated electric the request of the detective bureas he amour propre by making an improvement lamps, the previously colaportant useless often induced criminals to commit bar in their permanent way, so as to admit survival of an overpowering impulse to glary, so that the officers might secazu & of the employment of more powoda rush to Bocturnal. lighta zavesla itself as a conciation. Lery was strongly corrobor commotivos.
Thero should be no serioms and death-darling "disharmony, "- ated by the evidence of reputable citizens, including one cfficial of an inace.com-nossostry delay in mairing the conditions GET GUIDANOS, pany, a merchant, sad others. The man of travelling on the route between London PERING, July 11- stated un oath that in one care. Dopoty and Pezin worthy of its position ta os of
Commissioner Dougherty, in carge of the The Foreign, Department has request-detective bureau, gave him £5 to purchase the groat highways of the world. ed the Japanese Minister to prevent butzlac's tools for man, and after the burglary was committed gave him another Jopsacno newspapers from publishing E16. City vatchers in Lory's favour fur articles on the division of China, the theme amounts have been found. The re
port states that the hrast is hopelessly request being made for the protection Insflicient, and ebould be roor anised on of the gox relations existing between drastle lines. the two cour
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Although the Conge chief Lapang Vios-Commul Cartets, the ugliest man on cording to the picture drawn of him by earth, he has taken unto himself upwards of 300 wives, 1 each of whom he readily. Lupungu is a rich man by virtus of the pays the State tax of two francs, "For tribute paid to him by his subjects, the Baseng The Vice-Consul made the so- quaintance of the chief during a tour along the eastern border of the Kami district. Lajongu was at Kapirida, a place of much politial importance owing to its being his bome, for he is one of the most powerful alios in the Couro,
We must suppose, on this theory that the other insects such as moths and certain fics (by no means all insects), which also madly fly into noctaml lights to their own destrus tion, have had luminous Ancestors, andIn appearance," says the Vics Consol, * he is a villainous-looking native, having imilar barly history. This i ligiti ab me aye, and a costenizce marred by mnte supposition, sinos these are several smallped from all accounts he is The principal article in the June issue of kinds of insects known as the present ideous Lapang he had extra this Railway and Travel Monthly indes
abandoned by his father, but was afters criptive of addington Station. The day which are luminous at night though onlmary darocks long as a otid he was writer places high commendation on the no existing moths er butterflies are adopted by a sub-chief called Spati genian of Branel for the design of this known to be so. It is true that birds when whose son in Lopuoge's prime minister tation. He says Bruni's was the migrating Ars attracted by the great bril-to-day When quite a young Ka statesman's mind adapted the aphore ol
DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY engineer. In 1854, that in no-riyixty 1 and lamps of lighthouses, and, flying dressed himself up lo fantastic garb, and, years are, while railways were still in their towards them, strike againab their glas persuading the antisos that his blind ove gave hit the power of dealing with the WHEN you falls of chercherlain's Callo, Paddington Station, coording to Brunel'
WHEN you fail to provide your family early develpoest, there was completed in covarings, and at killed in considerable occult, or, in other words, that he was Clinkers and Diarrhoea Romedy at this design, station id est un "so large a numbers. In that cao the ring towed witch docter (even to day hire in feared roen), he soon collected good many son of the year, you tie neglecting style, with such ad ptability of expansion, the eng he booome instinctive, and the by the natives and particularly the wor she be to dangerous malody that today it is fun use with the bright light of the lighthouse neta epan a fallowers About the period he meda pravilent, and it is a improvements in detail which the yours by a majority of thuty votes to be tried with. This is expecially true have found hecary) for all the rentices curtain: pamber of birds (perhaps the less friends with the Arab traders of whom bif there are children in the family. Adussments of one of the larget anil: bustest woll adjusted inciridusia) Do A to call forth thern were number in the neighbourhood the same ragvizes in the dit action of fight at the time, and nesisted by mom, made W. bpon his father whner bo, conquè adi and the Lusuan Minister has been or two this really will place the trouble modern railway Flation in the Metropol noliked that China has agreed to the within opatrol and perhaps wys is life, or Theates of the station is certainly circume that exercised by the emp's globe the Ho was forti hiustalled as chief of the
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