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Possibly some of my tenders may consider this yar

a-triflo tall" (szys Mr. Douglas Gördon In an article on the Canadian West in "Conihill"), but it is true in every | Agunta detail, and there are several men

A somewhat unusual action wa before the English Courts recently. Mr. Stephen McKenna, the DOVE- list, appiled for in Injunction Sir John Simon-has-most-of-the against the Refire restraining qualifies that go to the making of a them from cutting novel which is great statesrúan. He has learning, appearing serially in that Sunday he has visiop, he has courage, and paper. The inner secrets of the he has in a remarkable degree the business side of authorship are gift of speech. More than all, helittle known to the majority of living who can vouch for Its has character. In many ways he readers. Arthur Machan, who has accuracy. resembles Mr. Asquith. He has the twenty-six years, said the other day of corn being cut occupied a frag been writing delightful books: for: _It was reaping time, and the piece same keen analytical mind, the that he made in that period the meat of a section lying between same sense of the value of words, patherically inadequate sum of some extensive birch woods, and the same apparent aloofness, the £600 from that literary out the lake. Barely half an acre re- sanic surface coldness, With a put. How, then, little more fire and passion be astonished

asks the mained standing. The blader was reader, does would make a great loader.

the making rapid headway and-just- wretched man live! Here is the as if it had been athome-all inter- The Bo'sun Bird.

secret: journalism. But there are est was centred upon the last few many novellats to-day who con rounds, for the spot was full of harps trive things better. A world. Land bush rabbits. There were two famous writer not long ago, guns with the party, and these had arranged for the simultaneous been posted, at likely points to publication of a new book in bowl over runaways making for England and America, at the price the woods. The other men wers of 4s. 6d, a word. This form of ranged along the tower side publication, he said, netted him nearest the lake, so that any game considerably more than the actual which chanced to be there might book sales. This is a great change be driven in the right direction. from Victorian times. Oulda, for] Suddenly there was a heavy rush example, made a fortune out" of book rights alone; and as for Mrs. Braddon's "Lady Audry's Secret" it selle even to-day in hundreds of thousands, and at the humble price of six-pence,

Spider Silk Stockings,

and scramble the corn, standing about seven feet high; was con vulsed by the passage of some biz animal, who evidently intended to break. Expecting a Wolf, several men ran to head it, shouting and falling, when with a final rush a a brown bear lurched forth into. their midst.

noise, the shaggy old Fellow Terrified out of his wits by the shulled off uncertainly: He wast

The fact that the men from the wrecked Trevessa'saw the "Bo'sun bird," and that after every visit of this bird of evil omen one of the crew did die, is one of those strange coincidences which keep superstit ions alive even in the twentieth century! Superstition, by the way, is by no means confined to the poor and Ignorant every class of society is riddled with it, and ap parently plways has been. A thousand years before Christ the Chinese were obsessed, by the superstition of figures, and no one, from mandarin to coolie, started any undertaking without its aspects being worked out and approved by the figures in their celebrated "Book of Chance."

Although the manufacture of stockings from spider silk has been What is Your Number?

suspended, there is talk in France An old English almanack for the of reviving the industry. Apart year 1559,

by Lewes Vaughan, from stockings, the silk is a neces made for the merydian of Gloucessity to the makers of theodolites ed to get to the woods, but the ire," has the following notes: The and other surveying instruments and his objective, so he made for machine was working between him tymes of weddings when it in these instruments, two lines of begynneth and endeth," Jan, 14 spider silk cross the centre of the the shore instead. The nearest Weding begin, Jan. 21 Weddinge glass at right angles. Formerly for their lives with one exception, workmen, meanwhile,were running goeth out. April 3, Wedding be. there was a factory in the South of Amongst the party was an old April 29, Wedding goeth out. May France where delicately woven Irish emigrant of gipsy extraction, 22, Wedding begin" Many of spider silk stockings and other these superstitions have to do with trifles were made, but it failed as wildio appearance and character numbers. The Arabs claimed that on

account of the difficulties as the wildest Redskin in the Pro- vince. Mad with excitement, he too every letter meant a number, so which attend spider farming on ran, but after the bear, brandishing that, if you would take the trouble a large scale. Spiders cannot be to arithmetize your own name, you penned up like chickens, but ref demented. The bear, more

his pitchfork and yelling would know what your number was quire plenty of room, otherwise bewildered than ever, continued and could barmonize yourself with they fight and devour each other. his course towards the lake, and the time, and particularly with the Also many attendants are required not until he had actually reached stars. One had only to act when to feed and tend them. The water and realised that he one's number and the right planet method employed for getting the corresponded to succeed in every silk from the spider requires much could go no further, did it occur to thing one undertook i

time and care. First the astonished him to turn and destroy his solitary With this intent he spider is tossed from hand to hand. whirled about and hurled himself In its anxiety It emits a thread of at the foolhardy labourer. But the silk in order to escape by dropping old man, though well aware that he A kind of widespronged hairwin had been lured into the power of a is used by a winder to gather up Tartar, did not quall. By the free the silk. By the time the spider use of his pitchfork he contrived Has lowered itself by several

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The list of eminent persons mentioned to Mr. Justice McCardie who had been submitted to the in- dignity of editorial censorship might be extended. If Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Chesterton were hundred feet of silk it is allowed to ward off the furred.monster for "cut for the Daily Telegraph to reach the ground and walk off

a few seconds, but it would cer Mr. Wells was mutilated-and

tainly have gone hard with him had Falls. finally suppressed-by the late

not his comrades, inspired by Lord Northcliffe.. 1.do not know

At A fall' is benerally a bad omen, example, come to his rescue. whether anyone ever tampered though: 1wo historical falls would their approach the bear took to the with the written word of Mr. seem to deny it. When Julius Caesar water, and the Irishman, nothing Bernard Shaw, who has an Irish landed at Adramatur in Africa he daunted, plunged in too and, the habit of getting the last word. But stumbled and fell on his face. A moment the heavy creature com- Ruskin saw both his "Unto This shout of horror went up from his menced to swim, pushed it under Last" and his "Munera Pulveris" army, but with great presence of with the fork. When the bear, discontinued the one in the mind he called out: Thus I take floundering and spluttering, rose to Comhill" and the other in possession of thee, O Africa" the surface and pawed furiously at Fraser's Magazine-as too strong Again, William the Conqueror his tordentor, he ducked it again, meat for their respective readers tripped and fell as he landed at repeating the performance until To Anatole France fell the even Bulverhythe, and with a cry the hapless beast was actually more mortifying, experiences of of horror his followers aver drowned, when he pulled it to having his "Pierre Blanche" print-red that it was an evil omen, shore'In triumph.^^ ed in the wrong order. Mr. Asquith.

He may lack some of the qualf- ties of a popular leader. He does not easily catch fire." At times he seems cold and passionless. He

but he exclaimed in a loud voice: "I have taken seisin of this land with both my hands!" The falling of a picture is regarded as a certain sign of death in the family, and this superstition dates from very early days. No, one

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We are 3pt in popular talk to perfect in its way, filial but never pin per dwell on the idea of the Cave Man fulsome, generous, but always dis and his environment as the criminating. He has a true ear for

Intermittent Fapple in all Ride; Mala rudimentary type from which the music of words, and a true Platzieta surlar October 1922 civilisation has been evolved, and sense of their value. His style isContant Supply in al districts: East we meet all manner of half-baked direct and yet ornate, lucid and yet of Arsenal Street only from Jat to th Uctober. From 6th to 8th October speculations and theories as to how picturesque. These qualities come Constant Supply throughtout the City. his ideas of morality and religion out with special clearness in his Reverted to Rider Malos os sirt Cobaber and his economic artar may have speeches. Since he entered politics owing to damage to the Bowen Ros arisen. This habit(says Sir Sydney have watched his career with Conduit. Oliver in the Contemporary great Interest, and whilst I have Review) Is fallacious. There becs opposed to him, again, and Renee demo 296, Kinay killin, Abate roostow were not many caves, and those again, and frequently doubted & Above obema q there were must have been ap the soundness of his judgment, propriated by the strongest and I have always retained my liking most independent families. In any for the man. He never pares case, the European cave dweller himself. His capacity for work and the whole of the Nordic is enormous, his versatility remark peoples are of the adventurers and able, and his energy apparently hooligans who swarmed off out of inexhaustible. For all round abili pargenus recent setters, remote ty he is in my judgment one of the

3/Fall, Supp Jol districts durin descendants the central breeding biggest men in the House of Com October 17illind 1927. grounds and nurseries of humanity monk, and is bound to play a great **The GOTNIARNAU ARA In the warmer middle world above part in the life of the nation. Issat săn quality of the the equator. *

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