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M. Raymond Poincaré bas' now been in office on Premier of France for about the length of time which foreign observere thought he would last if he induled in the bellicces policy for which his name was accepted as a synonym, says a home paper. But so far from having arrived at the end

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"THE SEA'S INHABITANTS. VARSITIES BLUE BOOK

▼ FLOWER-LIKE ÁNIMÁIS OF

THE OCEAN.

In certain regions of the shore- waters of the ocean, the bottom is covered with a luxuriant vegetation wholly unlike anything to be found o land. In those marine gardens exist animals whose strange and weird beauty is in happy agreement with the plants among which they live. Of the many strange types of life on the floor of the sea, nons, perhaps, is more striking or picturesqns than those which are plantlike in appear ance, but which in reality are living animals. Bo perfect is the resem blance, both of form and colour, that

COMIC RELIEP IN SERIOUS ТОМЕ.

CHINESE NOVELS.

OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL

If evidence is needed that Chins

Those who wish to know something is, and has been claimed until the of the strangely complicated interior economy of the Oxford and Cam- bridge Universities will find masses of interesting evidence in the Blue Book just published, containing the "Ap pendices to the Report of Commis Bioners."

phrase in thredbare, a land of sharp contrasts, it may be gathered in a comparison of the extremes of Chinese literature, says a contributor to the

China Press.

There is, for instance, the story of Zab Tow Ches, alias King Nosh Yuen, the tale of the boy who was born with a piece of jade in his mouth. It is a love story of the purest type and de. ¦ seribes the home life of a family of

CONVICT WINS FREEDOM. in many instances it would be hard scholarships, etc., are given, with Manchu peerage. The son, born with

HEROIC DEED GAINE

REMITTANCE OF SENTENCE.

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A convict, sentenced to penal servitude for life, has won his liberty by an act of heroism which thrilled the nation when the story was told.

Thomas Gray, who has spent 15 to be settled down comfortably in the murder of a Glasgow woman, is of his little day, M. Poincaré appears years in prison under life sentence lor hin gilded armebair at the Quai to-day a free man, says the Daily d'Orsay, with the air of being there News of July 20. for a very long time to come. It is He bas been released from rather perplexing, says the London Peterhead jail as the sequel to periodical. Those most intimately in gallant attempt which he made to touch with the situation are the most save a drowning fellow prisoner who puzzled.

At the moment of his taking office ended his life by leaping into a

waterlogged quarry hole. M. Poincaré appeared open to attack on both wings. If he tried to give effect to the aggressive policy which seemed certain that he would isolate tenced to ten years' penal servitude. France without obtaining from The length of the sentence evidently Germany anything more tangible then preyed on his mind, and on June 16, bad been accured by his predecessors. while working with other convicts at The belief having been created by his Stirlingbill, be leapt into a disused writings that he was the man who quarry hole containing 55 feet of could make Germany pay," it was water. certain that his head would be the

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It deals with nearly every phase of college life from the amount of dia. count allowed to Trinity College Cam- bridge, on purchases of dried haddock, to St. Hilda's Hall and its urgent need of playing fields.

Details of the various exhibitions,

for an untrained person to distinguish their limitations. them from a delicate flower in bloom. Jesus College (Oxford), for example, jade in his mouth, when he grows to Curiously, some of those creatures bas 27, limited to Welshmen or Chan-manhood, falls in love with a connin•, belong to that popularly despised ael I-landers. Trinity (Cambridge) His parents oppose the match for they group of animals, the worms; but the has three, limited to lineal descen- believe she is of weak character and great majority ara members of a dividante, of the Haberdashers' Company, sion of marine animals known by the or, in default, to Staffordabire men not a good housewife. They suggest for his wife another cousin who, as a scicatilo name of coelentorates. studying divinity.

A certain amount of comic relief is child, was presented with a gold look provided when Mr. A. E. Towle, by a monk.

The son folla ill and during his sick. manager of the Midland Hotels im- pinges upon this academic atmos-nres his parents marry him 'o the phere. Mr. Towle, as a business man. cousin of their choice. When he re catering arrangements at Oxford and was asked to prepare a report on the Cambridge.

The animal nature of the coclonter ates, says Professor William Crowder, whose late paper is quoted, became at once apparent in its manner of obtaining its food. It captures live swimming animals-by the aid of ite proy-usually consisting of email free tentacles. These tentacles are inves- ted with hundreda of stinging celle which paralyse the victim upon the merest contact. The stunned animal is then brought to the mouth and swallowed whole.

Some coelenterates are so trans- parent that the process of digestion can be followed with case; and every The suicide-Alfred Coates, declar-phase of the slow disintegration which ed at the subsequent inquiry to be takes place in the gastric chamber of interesting sights to be found in nature.

rid to the girl be does not love, err he learns not only that he is

Fuat his own beloved has died.

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CAPITAL SHIPS.

WARSHIP DESIGN AFFECTED

BY THE WAR.

Amongst several papers read at the Architects held in Paris recently, says meeting of the Institution of Naval the Naval and Military Record,

our ships reasonably socure against under-water attacks, or from bomba dropped in the water alongside. And decks can be so thickened to with- stand long-range gunfire, or any bombs of weights which can at present be carried, provided that the abnormal weights of artillery or vary naval architect is not celled upon for bigh speeds. With the enormous cost advocate them in these days of tablishment of a central authority for

respective merits of the capital ship the need of having them, and no cach university.

and submarine. Sir Eustace d'Eya experience of the war or since the wat His report, with elaborate figures

court's paper was entitled "The shows that it is possible to do without Tendency of Warship Design as capital ships. All other types are attacked, was rubmitted to the Ox

Affected by the War." ford Buriars and Cambridge Stewar's

TYPES ARĖ DIFFEPENT.

Sir Eustacs began by pointing out ship remains the prime necessity of necessary adjuncts, but the capital for their remarks. Then the fun bepan. The tremendous variance in Orient- As for his figures, the Cambridge ai and Occid atal manners, morale

that the developments in Dave! architecture which were being carried any first-class Navy.

"During the war demande were eible for a vastly different type of academic note:

"No attempt has been made to literature produced by the West and when the war commenced, owing to trpe, tended to get larger and larger. ing the war were greatly accelerated and more protection, so that every consider in any detail the figures given by the East. The Chinese, certainly, the fact bat cost was hardly cou-This is seen in the continually steady in the tables at the end of Mr. Towle's have more play for their imaginations, sidered at all. "Entirely new types i creans in size of light cruisers, memorandum. The Steward of

wern developed and eld ventions or prohibition and marriage improved, and

types destroyers, and submarines. The do- the lessons of Christ's remarks in passing that he or they are ot hampered by con- attaches no value to them at all."

lawa tat allow no man intoxicating the war drink and provide for only one con

were rapidly embodied in дет construction. All nubial partner until the law or death the old types, however, with certain intervenes by request or accident. modifications, wore of great utility. The Chinese enter of best sellers Because it took less time, the develop can safely and comfortably allow his menta in the smaller types were more

He bears his sorrow with typical that of Sir Eustace d'Eyncourt was of capital ships no wise man would He recommended various improve ments which would lend to the adop Chinese resignation, meanwhile etudy the most interesting in, vior of the tion of a unified system and the esing for his degree. When his wife great controversy now raging over the eccsomy unless he were convinced of

presents him with a sun, and he pusses his examination, ha elopes, for he feels now that he has repaid all ob ligations to his family.

As bad outlined in his writings, it mentally defective-had been sen, the animal presents one of the most stewards say, in a most detached and and customs a necessity, is respon out in the years immediately preced-made for more speed, more armament,

penalty if be smashed the alliance without extracting any German gold

TWO METHODS OF REPRODUCTION,

Certain coelenterates, of which the)

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velopment of the last of these classee was the most remarkable of all, and

showed a greater percentage of in-

crease of siza and of speed in the me period than had been achieved in any other type of vessel. It is

are no less curious in their mode of at a les pays taken as a typo. reproduction. Beidee the normal

This is sufficiently crushing but Mr. Gray, who was engaged loading process of bearing eggs, this animal stones, at once threw off his coat, can reproduce its kind simply by 4. B. Poynton, the Bars of Univer sity College, was oven more emphatic. plunged in after him, gripped the building, or separating with

"Mr. Towle's report," be says, in exchange. And it was equally drowning man and made heroic efforts portion of its body which will

Those pearing down develop

"was informally submitted to a clear-to outsiders, anyhow-that he to save him. could not "make Germany pay," for the bole witnessase of a mane. This extraordinary method lawyer, a man of science, two men of her to espouse two wives. However, marked than in the larger. The only a few years since the largest sub tid octet had existed it would have desperate fight, in which the issue was of reproduction can be produce with all its comparisons of things cort of novel is allowed in the very attack made it necessary to par there were submarines of 3,000 tone* affairs, and myself. We thought that, this is all perfectly proper and this great development of under water displacement. At the end of the war life or death. So violent were the artificially for, so wonderful is its struggles of Coates that both he and

power for regeneration, the sea. absolutely disparate, it could impose

been discovered long ago.

THE PATH OF REALISATIONS.

wero

into another

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marine was of a few hundred tons'

But if he sought to avoid this risk/Gray were drawn ander the water, anemone can be cut into several parts on no sensible body of men who beat homes. Besides a well deñned special attention to under water pro-weight and having speeds up to 24 and the would-be rescuer was com and each part will grow into a perfect / valued our work and were conversant! Plot, there are in the best Chinees teation. and it may now be taken as knota; and the British Navy had de-

by carrying on the conciliatory policy

of M. Briand, he opened the floo gates of trouble at the other end. The very name of Poincaré was a promissory note. So insistently had he pointed

pelled to relax his hold and come to individual. the surface.

with our problem."

Mr. Towle recommended, apparent Ferhaps the most curious coelen- Thus Coates went to the doom be tarates, from a structural viewpoint, ly, the hiring of outside labour. This

was too much for Mr. Puynton,

**As to casual helpers," he coldly sought, and Gray thoroughly ex-are the exceedingly small forms re

These are the hydroids." They are: another convict, David Alexander.

At the inquiry Sheriff Laing warmly colonial animals cach individual bervant wust be sober and honest. commended the action of the convicts ing represented by a "flower" on the Hirelinge often have a 'past,' and'

FLOATING HANGARS,

for two years to the path of "realise hausted-was saved from death by sembling fronds, of delicate seaweeds, remarks"in an Oxford college every over again. This does not detract and to the fact that in many cases correspond to the large haugare on

staircases,”

A controversy has raged recently

wish to know will find all the informs ation they need in this Blue Book.

A WAR ROMANCE.

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RANGES TWICE AS GREAT.

keep

novels, paesages of exquisite beauty, an axiom that capital ships must have Troe there is an appalling lack of a great proportion of weight devoted veloped some experimental bouta luxuriance of word images. According to under-water defences. The older carrying a 12-inch gun. to authorities, the phrases that the ships came off very badly when etruck

An entirely new type of ship deve- writers particularly fancy for by torpedoes or mines. This was due foped during the war was the aircraft- descriptive passage are used over sad to the inferior protection below water, carrier. Three vessels, which really tions" that it was thought his advent

their pristine

beauty longitudinal centre line bulkheads land at the back of the fighting automatically ensured to France her:

required to entry thereon. Disillusion under the

who attempted rescue, adding that no gauzy spray which simulates a marina cannot always be allowed on the however. Nor does it alter the were fitted, which prevented chips] armies, are

fact that the Chinese sentimental from remaining upright when Poincaré Ministry was, therefore,

up with our fleets and therefore doubt the fullest consideration would plant. The marvellous details,

novel is replete with refreshing damaged on one side. In this way bound to be more poignant than un

to have a high speed, to bave der the regime of M. Briand, always be given to it by the prison however, can be revealed only by the suspect on account of his pecchant authorities. That promise has been microscope. As small as these animals the Oxford manner. Those who really would one find a situation paralleling later ships was ever lost by the notion figing on, with all the special fittings the writers. In what English novel This was improved, and none of our steady platforms for lying off and over what is suppo'ed to constitute į draughts of the super-imagination of many of the older ships capsized. good seagoing qualities, and to be are, they prey upon still smaller forms

this one for instance? for laisser aller. And the Bloo Na-fulfilled.

At Gray's trial it was shown that which swarm the sea.

of an enemy torpedo.

and arrangements necessary to carry tional majority, elected on a wave of

Some marine worma have the

A young man, already engaged, is

out these operations successfully; and horizon blue, was not expected lightly the crime had been committed in a

besought by a young woman, for "The secon I consideration in post large aircraft carriers will in the future to forgive being let down by the moment of passion, when he was aspect of a flowering plant. Con

some reason or other disguised as awer design is the very much greater form an integral and necessary portion standard bearer on whom it had under the influence of drink, The epicuous among these is our particul- jury recommended him to mercy, and arly beautiful worm, Serpula

youth, to marry her. He is an honest

range at which actions are now fought. of any first-class flest. To arrange for staked its last great tbrow.

young man so he tells ber he is Before the war it was thought the the safe flying off, landing, and Well, M. Poincaré has not obtained subsequently the death sentence was dianthes" which inhabits & tube

MUNITION WORKER WHO already booked up. This trivial fats actions would be fought at something stowage of the big machines, has anything from Germany. not even commuted to one of penal servitude which it builds on the shelf of some

MARRIED TITLED does not discourage the maiden who under 10,000 yards' range. Provision given thens val architect new problems promises. Like the whols of the for life. His conduct in prison bas dead molluso. This tube is a calcare-

been exemplary.

ous secretion and is ita parmanent

MAN'S SON,

immediately suggeste herself as a has now to be made for ranges twice which call for as much invantive Bloo National, he had been opposed

home. It is therefore essential that

candidate for the position of Number as great. This is important. At genius as any of the problems of the to the Cannes Reparation figures of

ite food ba brought to it. To this en! The war time romance

2 wife. The act is considered the of aa

ranges under 10,000 yarde projectiles 720 million gold marks, plus 1,450

the worm creates a motion in the attractive looking Stranraer widow, supreme height of nobility. strike at an angle of not less than 1 "Reviewing the whole situation millions in kind. But he did not

The young beroes in the Chiness degrees, whereas at greater range the generally of the tendency of warship water and any organic material Mrs. Janet Nichol, ha had a remark- caught in the vortex is swept into the able sequel. She has just learned that sentimental novel do not years, as the angle may be 30 degrees or more. designs as affected by the war, it mouth of the waiting animal. The she is heiress to a fortune of £25,000, American and Buccess magazines tell At these steeper angles the decke pre-appears that the naval architect bas only portion of the worm itself which left by her husband, David Nichol, it, to be a. $25,000 a year. man, with sent a larger target than the sides, and to deal with an even more omplicated THE POLICY OF A HAME. is visible are the corolla-like plumes who served in the Canadian Forestry a wife, a home and a steady income, with the older thickneses a good shot sot of requirements in the up-to-date

and may be a Ford, with a partner entering a magazine might destroy a warship than ever Berret of this projecting out of the top of the tube. Corpz unprecedented state of affairs-the These are ite gille.

prolongation of the continued "honeymoon" of the Premier and the Chamber, se one French political student calls it 1

raise any objection to the figures when finally adopted by the Reparation Commission. He would have been able to say, bad he been asked, that the responsibility was upon the Re- paration Commission and not apoʊi him. But it was he who pressed for the matter to be referred to the Com. mission when the British wished to decide it in an Allied Council. How ever the great point is that he was not asked anything about the Cham bor of the Senate.

terests

had been defended, the Premier's handling of the negotiations has provoked no unfavourable com-

ment.

What is the

Many explanations are offered. The soundist, apparently, is the magic of M. Poincaré's name,

For two

R MANCE OF SAILING SHIPS.

here and there over the seven sena.

Two months later, she attended a

Her

examinations.

FINE FLOWERS SOMETIMES BLOOM LATE.

past.

was the case

MISTAKES THAT MOTHERS MAKE. Many mothers give their children sol'd food at too early an nge and say proudly

In 1915, Mrs. Nichol, or Misschip in his firm as the glowing light ship in a moment. The thickness of before; for, in spito of the fact that Alexander, as she was then, secured a Bald aloft by Ambition. No! His protective decks, therefore, must be the war lasted over four years, J situation in the munition factory in supreme ambition is to become a increased as far as possible, whilst the finality was reached in the develop the romantic village of Gretna Green. Chang Yuen. In other words, he armoured belt must be maintained in ment o' any of the weapons of war wants to he first on the list of tho. the neighbourhood of the waterlins to which were in use up to the Armistice, dence given by Canadian soldiers who have successfully passed their preserve the water plase and the so that the ship design. r is still faced camped in the district, and in the

etability of the ship.

with problems of an unknown obar- The wreck of the French barque course of the evening met the man

"The new air menaco, too, dem- Similarly with regard to the Near

acter which the enormous develop. aude new forms of protection, especiment of science has brought about in East. Before the assembly of the Fears that name has stood for a policy" France," the largest sailing vessel in who was to be her husband.

It w.s a case of love at first sight, JUDGES WHO NEVER WON ally of decks. The naval designer, the ever increasing power of weapons recent conference it was felt that M. which appeared to the majority of the the world, off the French island of

PRIZES.

therefore, has to provide against now of offence and defence which have to Poincaré had an exceptional chance Deputies. So far as acts are concern New Caledonia, in the South Sens, is and in six months' time December 3,

forms of attack both above and blow be provided for in the design of war- of dominating it and securing almosted the name, since M. Poincaré somantic in that it seems to recall a 1916, the couple were married in

water, whichdemand greatly increased the full alsims of the Turks. Was bocamo Premier, has ben the whole vanished ago. It is true that she! Gretna Green Parish Church.

ships." weight in the working oat of the not the British Empire in the bros of the polioy, for even tolerant critica carried a wireless equipment and husband died from wounds received in

design. At the same time he is offered of the direct difficulties? ir. land like M. Leon Bailby now suggest that summoned belp by that mesos, but France, India and Egypt all clamouring lor the Premier has no policy at all. that does not lesson the romantic fact Mra, Nichol returned to her parenta

no compensating advantage, or very Lord Justice Scratton distributed little, in the reduction of aide armour independence at once. Not on, but Seemingly, the name is sufficient for that sailing ships are still wandering in Stranr. er, entirely ignorant as to scores of French newspaper writers the Bloo National majority.

the address of her husband's relatives. the prizes recently at Christ College, or any other item. These considera- So long as that is so all is well for The war, which in so many ways

After the armistico, she became Blackheath, and, in doing so, gave a tions have tended to produce large that their rableseat overy thing that penned articles suggesting that the British Empire was breaking up. the peace of Europe. M. Poincaré put the clock back, gave a renewed bouse-keeper to Mr. Corbett, farmer, little advice to those boys who had and costly capital ships. In view. rown up people du," when such a course therefore, of the need for economy is almost certain to briaz on indigestion Poincaré Lad only to stand foursquare can permit them to let off steam over life to sailing ships. While the at Ervie, Dear Stranraer. In May this not received prizer. behind the Kemalists and the Briti-bauch questions as reservations to the steamers were all being pressed into year she replied to an advertisement He said there were four judges in the enactments of Washington should and to lay the foundation of much

ill-health.

Other administer harsh nauseating would agree to their most extreme Washington treaties. Mais politician war service of one kind or another, in a local paper, in which a brother of the highest places of the English be welcomed by the taxpayer, if not

purgatives, and thus make the little ones demands. To secure peace is the enough to know they will gat much old sailing ships were reconditioned ber dead husband asked her to com- Bench to-day who nevar received a by the fighting forces themselves,

fear medicine, at the same time irritaling Fast they would be prepared to go satisfaction out of showing the Amer and sent out over the southern trade municate with him.

priso at school, and who were general ican Senate that the French Parlia- routes. But thoir rvival did not Shortly afterwards, sho was ly at the bottom of their class. Thay "Ars these enormous chips worth and injuring rucic delicate stomachs and Absolutely un mest should be given a But M. Pincaré lid not full into ment can append reservations to pacts outlast the war. Sailing ships are informed that ber dead husband was were now among the most trusted of building! The exaggerated claims of the error. Too much of a statesman just as readily as American Irrecon disappearing from the sea-more's a son of the late Sir Thomas Nichel of judges, and they had been appointed the submarine and aircraft enthusiasts child until it has reached the age of la the ductor. For medicine, all strong to be influenced by anything but oilables." But M Poincars is also the pity--as suddenly as they had sp Toronto, and that she was heiress to because they kept at their work and should not be allowed to carry to mouths, and then only if approved of by

Hor little son of the had developed late in life.

much weight. real ties, be accepted in the main the showing statesmanship in relying sopeated on it again. Every year their the fortune,

Such claims have disagreeable draughta sad oils should be Near East settlement plan prepared greatly on his name. He realises that numbers dwindle. They are obeying marriage has had £12,000 settled on They might think that it was some been advanced for all new engines abandoned and Baby's Own Tablets by Lord Curzon's able body of experts. the Germans are aware that if they an inevitable economic law, but with him by his uncle.

times the finest were that blamed of war, bat experience shows betituted instead.

Baby's Own Tablets are especially Compared with French expect in force him into action be will act. And the disappearance of the last ocean- Questioned as to her future plans, the latest. He noticed one of the that the potency of new inventions onde for children's use and can be givan this represented a whole string of he is not going to waste his strength going barque or schooner a chapter Mrs. Nichol said she had arranged to book prizes was "Redskins on the can always be met by some an- with absolutosafety to even the youngest concessions by the French spoken in empty first shaking.

of romance opened with the dawa of get married again prior to her good Warpath." (Laughter.) He would tidote. It is hardly necessary to infant. lbog 1oduce favor, cui colic min. Remembering the experience Poincaré knows the day of bis civilisation will be closed for avor. fortune, and explained that the lacky like to read it. and he thought par- enter into all the argumente in favour and indigestion, dispel constipation of.th three previous Premiors, one fall will come se it comes to every The sailing ship has outlived her time, man was Mr. Corbett, her present haps that description was a healthy of capital ships, but it is generally allay teething troubles, and promptly would have expected storm of French Premier, but for the present and even the subsidies of the French employer.

sign of the times that a boy should admitted that as long as ships sait on being hesith-giving restful sleep in oriticism axze M. Poincaré's "weak Te reposes tranquilly in the Qual | Governmont, which helped to creato She is only 39 years of age, and at get what be could enjoy.

the surface of the seas the most natural way. Yet, havefor a lonely voica d'Orsay salon. French sentiment a large French sailing Rest, would be the time of her marriage was entirely He supposed the lads thought to powerful surface craft will remain the Chemists well Baby's Own Zablots, or sast post free, 60 entits por vial, by De ber bro and there, sending out a plaialis may keep him there much longer pantiless to keep her alive much unaware of

husband's themselves, "That old buffer is pol principal unit of any fleet. Experi- Will Midi Ine Co., 98 Szechuan forger.-Daily Mail. tive call as to whether France's in-tan his critics had circulated.

distinguished parentage..

ling our leg." He was not. mants have shown that we can wake Road, Shanghai,

on their beaded knees.

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