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MYSTERY OF MARS.

PLANET DRAWING NEARER

TO THE EARTH

Dr. A. C. Grommielin. Assistant at the Royal Cheervatory, Greenwich, writes:-

Hamn is already visible as a morn- ing star and will steadily draw nearer to the earth till the middle of Jane, when it will be closer than it has been

aince 1909.

INSECT MARVELS.

ANTR THAT CAN KILL GIANT ANIMALS.

Remarkable stories of ants are talď) by Mr. William Bebe in his naw book, "The Edge of the Jungle" (just published, Witherby, 12, 6d, net).

Mr. Beebe is not only an accom- plished writer; he is also famous dr zoologist; and his observation more; Station maintained by the New York made at the Tropical Research

so that he speaks with no little Soological Society in British Guiana, authority.

General Chang Tso-lin, in an open belegram which has just reached

Unfortunately this proximity will Shanghai, atates in part:-

be offset for English observers by its The republic has been established being so far south that it will bo only admirable study of wild life in the for 10 years but China has been divid-18 degrees above the southern hotiran. tropics are the accounts of ant com- The best things in really ed for a long time and there are Serious work must be left to more minities, watched through a strong tmables every year. The country bassouthern observers, among whom glasociaties which keep homepaäč been divided into section by, deram

political parties who are out for their Prof. W. H Pickering may be ants to "tily up," and massen anta wa bereft and who work under the mentioned; te has mounted a power The fiercest and most dangerous ars cloak of acting in accordance with the ful telescope at Mandeville, Jamaica, the army ants in their 'great bat- to mb the fighters' tired muscles. law. Militariats treat the places specially for planetary and lunar work. talons: which they govern as their own per- sonal property.

From recent observations it i No creature in the world could stay "Chins was the centre of interest evident that Mars. like the eartill an insect or a great bird would re- in the path of this horde and live. To during and immediately following the has warm and cold year, for the Washington Conference. Should we polar show capa sometimes melt to a continue to fight among ourselves, greater extent than in other years. foreigners will treat us as a laughing-It is inferred that the supply of stock. I, therefore, am extremely water the planet is scanty. It is sad on this account. I, who have likely that warni and cold seasons on bean a militarist for more than half Mars are more closely related of my whole lifetime, have suffered much and have undergone many troubles, but when I look at Chins today my agony is by far bittertr than ever before.

to

variations in the sun's output of heat than is the case on earth.

other surface features are the large Besides the white polar cape the dusky regions formerly considered to be oceans, but now considered

death of a jaguar or a tapir would mean only a few more. I could not help quire only a few minutes, and the

thinking of the certain, inexorable fate of a man who, unable to move trem Lis hammock or to make any attack. There could be no help for defire, would be exposed to their

word back to the rank and file. him if but one of this great host should scent him out and carry the

SURGICAL ANTIR.

Most highly organised are the atta

except vota.

"Being afraid that China, like an aged house, will tumble to pieces if zo renovation is made, and realizing many people to be tracts ants, or leaf-catters, who, it appeats, how unhappy the people are, I have covered with vegetation Observers can da pretty nearly everything resolved to clear away all obstacles to are agreed that the large orange re-unification of the country by lead-tinted regions, which give the planet ing my troops into Faking as the first its characteristic reddy colour, are step towards setting our house in or sandy deserts, similar to our Sahara der. I hope thus to use military force but covering a very large portion of to bring about national unity.

the planet's surface These are crossed by the intricate series of dark streaks generally known as "canals," though the term "channel" is really more appropriate.

If there are any persons who unite to injure the country and harm the people, if there are any who break the laws of our country and who rob the people by commandearing their money and property, we shall treat such as obstacles in the way to national unity for not, only I, but the citizens of China will rise and drive them away. Most people, I am sura, will agree with me.

GOD KNOWS MY HEART.

The nights on Mars must be in tensely cold, owing to the thinnese and charnces of the sir.

Attas are such unpalatable crea~ tures that they are singularly free from dangers. The occasionally make use of their trails when they are deserted, but when

ANDY arts

the two great races of ants meet each

anteuses the aura of the other and

tums respectially aside.

With elaborate precautions que of the atta nesta was opened up, and proved to contain a great artificial fungus bed for the specia! kind of whitish mushroom growth cultivated by the ants,

The leaves (which they cut and car- can there be war? The Fentien ry into the nest) are chewed thorough. headquarters in Peking should be ly and built up into the spon, e ar "Apropos of national unification: demand this..

abolished, and the people should dens. being need neither for thatch I have no plans to make. I have

nor for food, bat

88 fertiliser. "In connection with the peace and The spores nothing to say in this regard, for safety of the Capital, (which excuse liferate rapidly, and at the end of

sprout and Ilears it to the elders, the upright the Fengtien army gives for its pre-exch thread is a little knobbed body pio- and the patriotic citizens of the counsence there) the police and the public filled with liquid. This forms the try to decide how and when the cor- organizations can maintain such with sole food of the ants in the nest. The ference shall be called and how the cut the interference or the assistance fungas is quite unknown outside the laws shall be fixed.

of Fengtien. Therefore, if each mili- nesta of these ants, and in an artificial "I am not supporting any single tary commander will hereafter control as a banana. person, nor am I supporting any and guard his own jurisdiction, act in political party, neither am I a men accordance with the orders of the ber of any political party or an enemy Central Government and maintain a so any individual, for God knows peaceful attitude, it is unlikely that what is in my heart, but I am an our Chibli troops will travel to the enemy to the enemies of my country." north of Shanhaikuan and fight.

WU PEI-YU'S BEFLY.

General Wa Pel-fu, in an open telegram received in Shanghai, states: "Ever since the days of old, there has been a saying in Chins that if there is warfare, it is very dangerous, Now many will ask why I do not act in accordance with this teaching.

"I have attacked Liang: Shih-y (the Peking Premier) because he is danger to the republic and because

a

mechanical, vice-like grip" of the Mr. Borbe STAM that the jaws of the fighters among these ente is used by the Indiana in surgery.

In place of stitching up extensive wounds, a number pí these giant attas "If we can no longer maintain are collected, and their jaws applied for us to do, then of course it will be drawn together. The ants take hold, patience and if there is nothing else to the edges of the skin, which are necessary for us to protect ourselves. their bedies are saipped off, and the and then who will be responsible for row of jaws remains until the wound is know and you can answer yourselves. wariare if it breaks out! You will all healed."

Of the ways of the vampire bat ke MILLIONS OF DENTE AND YET MORE, gives a reasuring account:

"China's troubles of to-day date

Great bats as large as small herors

back to the time when Yusu Shih-swept down the long gallery where we

Lai attempted to make himself worked; but the vampires were long

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he is a traitor, selling our national monarch. And who was his chief in coming, and for mantha we-neither rights to foreigners.

supporter? Lisig Shih-yi. Loans saw nor heard of one. They attacked "Apropos of the Fengtien army, I have constantly been contracted our servants and we took heart and have already made a statement. and to-day they amount to thousands night after night exposed our toes a5 Everybody knows that I have given of millions of dollars. The people of conventionally accepted vampire way much to General Chang Tso in the country cannot pay back these bait. With a soft little tap Our Chibli troops have up to the debts, and their sons and grandsons vampire alighted on my chest. present not been moved & single foot, will have to be responsible for their It was seized as it began to bite, hat the Fengtian armies have been con- repayment. But Liang still thinks but it did no more harm than barely tinuously passing south of Shanhai- there is not enough debt, and Chang to break the skin, though this was kuan and are becoming a menace to Teo-lin is still supporting this robber because it was interrupted in its us. Who is in the right and who is traitor) who is injuring the country operation of blood-sucking for peace, the people themselves can

and the people and selling by sa tion the last rights of the Chinese people.

"These two now are trying to use

see.

CHIALI SZZZS NO WAR.

BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN.

DURING the summer months children

"Many telegrams have been. rebend their knees to them. When we military force to make the people ceived during the past few days urging look into their actions, we shall find fel attention. As soon as any unnatural are subject to disorders of the bgwela and should receive the most care us not to resort to arms but to at the bottom of their hearts, they loose-of the bowels is noticed maintain peace. But if the Fengtien are only working for their own kerosdy should be given. For lie, by troops rifrain from coming south, how selfish interests."-N. C. Daily News,ll Charts and torskeepers.

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