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Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 001 inch, Total since 1st January, 62.68 incher, against an average of 48.91 inches.

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REMARKABLE STORY OF A VISION WOMAN.

A correspondent at Nice writes to a Paris paper as follows:--

For a fortnight the entire valley of the Var has been occupied solely with the' reports of the mysterious apparitions and revelations which have occurred in the

THE " LAST POST.”'

A TALK ABOUT BUGLE · CALLS.

[BY PRED. I WYNNE.},

Alt bugle-calls are dificult to memo rize. Listening to them constantly one gets an impression that their apparent irrelevance is deliberate. In the dim and distant times when they originated

THE LIFE OF THE BLINDED UNITED STATES VIEW OF

SOLDIER.

ADMIRAL BEATTY'S TACTICS.

HIS PROGRESS IN LEARNING TO. WORK AND TO PLAY.

(UY SIR ARTHUR PEARSON.]

People who visit St. Dunstan's, Re- gent's Park, London, N.W., where men who have lost their sight in the war are

The first belief in American that Ad- miral Beattty was taken by surprise and

wittingly rän

the German upon Dreadnought Fleet is changed to almost extravagant landation of his courage and superb corifidonea in his men and s' ips in engaging a vastly superior force. "Admiral Beatty's tactics in joining.

conmune of La Croix (Alpes-Maritimes) this difficulty may have had some pro-being taught to be blind, are always par battle when he might easily have avoided

At nightfall groups trom every direction were to be seen on their way to the field where the visions took place, in order to be present at the strange phenomenon Many automobilists from Nice and the enighbouring cities

among tho number.

were

One of these is the cheerful spirit

facility with which the newly-blinded which pervades the place, the other the men, among whom are several. Cana dians, Australians and New Zealanders, acquire proficiency in the occupations they learn.

only dejected people at St. Dunstan's are It is no exaggeration to say that the

found and perhaps quite wiss connecticularly struck by two things. tion with discipline and training. Troops have always nemorized the essential ones by the aid of mnemonic rhymes, many of which ve always been familiar even to civilians. t the days before the war. Ascording to the reports, on May 20th,

And there are other rhymes, I find, two little girls of the Hospice des En never known by me in the days before fants-Assistes, J. M. and A.B.

lived comps, and never likely to be aged seven and eleven, respectively, were made known ratside the limited exist tending as usual their gouts in a stony ence of naturally profane interpreta field at the entrance to the village of La tions of Reveille, which calls men backvis tors, any of whom arrive with wor Croix, shove the main road, when they to the renewal of routine, or it may be cone countenances, evidently expecting perecívezi nhovo a neighbouring olive tree to the stiffening of an exhausted nervous to find a collection of dejected and a magnificent, marvellously gentle, white system to withstand terrors and hard-miserable mon calling for their tearful lady surrounded by a luminous cloud. | ships and abnormal exertious.

sympathy. Some visitors seen almost She was desconding to the earth toward

hurt to discover that there is no morbid Anyhow Rescille can never be a wel dejection at St. Dunstan's. them, and after an instant she vanished

The blind come sound to the soldier, whether it in a golden cloud. Several times that drags him from the mid-blanket stupor community as any to be found in the met there form as bright and cheery a day and the following day the children saw the lady in the same field or farther following a mis-spent evening and night world. Kindly sympathisers are far too off. They told their story in the village, from hours of weariness and stress and of a very pitful afliction. This idea is or from the truncated duze snatched apt to view blindness only in the light where they wore called mad. They were horror. Shattered men in hospitals have not permitted to permeate St. Dunstan's advised, however, to ask the lady to tell told me it was worth it all to hear Re-at all. The men who come there are at her name. -

veifle suunded in the distance, and ce made to realise that their loss of At the next vision the children entered slowly realize that they could ignore it,sight is merely a handicap which can be into conversation with the mysterious to remember that for them it brought overcome to a surprising degree if it is unknown, who said to them on leaving demand for effort; only a folding of the faced with ** Come and see me every evening until hands to sleep, antroubled for a time Patient resignation has far too long been courage and resolution. the end of the month. We will talk, and then I will tell you my name." Some even by the prospect of the daily horror regarded by people who can see as the to be lived through when the doctor came une essential attribute of those who can at these first conversations. The children with the Sister, and the dressing table not. To a point it is good to be patiently questioned the lady about the future, then castors, pushed along by an orderly, resigned to blindness or whatever other issue of the war.and the fate of missing and those bowls of stinging dressings, and blow, the fates may deal, but in my soldiers, and obtained surprising answers, the syringe, and the long probe that the opinion courage, fortitude and deter several of which were confirmed by events ductor never took up without a routine ination

the handicap a few days later.

assurance that it was not going to hurt which has been placed upon one are paltry time-honoured He

qualities of far greater import to the sightless

cúrious persons were present as amateurs

ter overcome

And so, in place of dejected introspec tion, St. Dunstan's is led with a fine spirit of pluck and resolution: The men there in very truth show courage of a Ligher order than that which the bravest of them displayed when engaged in the war which deprived them of the most precious sense of sight.

1

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t." said a naval officer of high rank at Washington, "was not the rushness of

but true seamanship, and the result a man who throws discretion to the wind, justifies him triumphantly. In the mili tary scufes losses are weighed against the losses of the enemy. The German losses are actually and rulatively heavier than side which is no less important than the those of the British. There is another material value, of which every com mander knows. It is the moral side. For almost two years your men have been longing for the very thing that has happened. They have been on edge to. fight the German Mary. Not merely cruiser duels ur flotilla engagements, but out and in the open sou take or give they wanted the German Navy to come punishment, so that it right be known whether they would stand up before the how well the Germans can fight, and big ships of the British Navy. your men know, and their confidence has proved that, man for man and ship must be greater than ever. The battle for ship, the British Navy has nothing Bans are willing to risk battle when to fear from the German, that the Ger- they are in superior force, but not to take risks when the lids are against then. The effect of that knowledge on the men of your Fleet must be tremend ous. They know, non fuit Cermany' can- not wrest the control of the sea from them, that in any engagement that is yot to be fought with anyting like an even.. chance the British Fleet will win, that their officers have been tested in the only way in which offeers nan be tested, that is, by the ordeal of battle, and have proved their courage and seamanship.”

Now

In

Here are some examples:-The soldier Xhad given no sign of life since

AT THE LED OF THE DAY. December 1st, 1015. On May 25th the lady replied: He will soon begin

Reveille needs ui rhyine to stamp it on writing. On May 24th his family re-

the memory; it is to insistent, too un- ceived from the softer a postcard dated plensant a factor in the life of the camp. the evening of May 25th. No news had And wherever situated, the rest of the

sympathisers are well grounded and the If the boasts of Berlin and Berlin's been received since April 1st, 1916, of the soldier's day, dull or dangerous, strenu

German Emperor isAdmiral of the. soldier Y The lady replied on May us or idle, is punctuated by buglo-calls.

Atlantic," 25th: He will arrives sou on fur-t is only the old soldiers that know

says the York Sun, the facts will be presently disclosed. With lough." This soldier arrived, in fact, on them. The youths of our new armies furlough on May 30th. Without giving pick out those that concorn them and soon

am dictating these words a Gormany in command of the sea, Teu- her one, an unknown woman caused the learn to remember them. But always at secluded corner of the beautiful grounds tonic commerce will rate its ante bel vision to be questioned on the fate of her the end of the day there is "Last Post of St. Dunstan's. The men have just um fredom, merchant ships tied up in. husband, whom she knew to be dead. The public knows the sound of it because finished their work in the class-rooms de neutral ports will load and sail and ves-. "Your husband is with me," was the is sounded at military funerals and voted to the teaching of Braille and type gels idle in their home arbours will set answer she received. The white Indy so has acquired a certain sentimental writing, is the workshops, and on the forth on their accustomed voyages.

I hear their merry the resumption of interrupted trading. replied in more than sixty cases, and value. But its message can only be up- poultry farm also on her own initiative she spoke very preciated when it has been heard again laughter as they find their way back to and not lists of warships sunk and sailors well on various subjects. All her replies and again in different surroundings, the house to meet friends and relatives killed will be the pred of the German were noted and duly written down by among many sets of friends over many who are to take them out for a brisk walk contention. Until necomplished several copyists.

* of whose "graves it has since been the

or a row on the lake in Regent's Park, the rulership of domus cannot be said It can be conceived that the event made a only; requiem In a large camp where I hear the sounds of piano, mandoline, to have shifted from the Island King- great sensation. Every evening there was many units are stationed there is a great guitar, and concertina, for-this is the dom to the Contral Powers, an unbeard-of gathering at La Croix. independente in the matter of time, and hour at which music lessons are given in The crowd, at half-past seven, went to if "Last Post" fixed in orders for different parts of the place. High above the field of visions and listened to the 10 pm, ne may lear its strains taken the other sounds come the clear notes of oracle for an hour. On the evening of up and repeated a dozen times in a long clarion, playing The Sunshing of May 30, which had been fixed by the lady austr perspective, before the whole Your Smile" with a taste and accuracy for the revelation of her name, more camp is persuaded that ten o'clock has which makes it dificult to realise that than 500 persons were present at the really come and gone and it is time to the blind boy who is blowing out the notes to live in the country, particularly when colloquy. And on May 31st, the limit of sound. Lights out," which starts, ike had never attempted to play any musical the apparitions, the crowd could not be a feeble echo of the great call is reflec instrument until three weeks ago. numbered. Bom prodigy was expected.tion, and is repeated, like it, all down But someone-it is not known why the staircase of the wind.

brought the sance abruptly to an end. The Sub-Prefect, policemen and detec

So the day enca-here in Egypt the tives were present. The inspector of the hot, glaring day of the desert and the Enfants-Assistes had caused the elder of orderly on duty comes to the mosquito the children to be taken forcibly to curtain covering the opening of my tent. Pugot-Theniers on May 28, and on the with his tatoo report"--"Lights out and morning of Jane lat, the younger was all correst, sir.” “All correct? Good taken away at the time fixed by the white lady for the realisation of a miracle.

THE ORIGIN OF INCOME TAX

À GREAT TỰNE TO. DIE TO.

He

And. I remember that on the back of the chair on which 1 am sitting are writ- ten these words:

is

"The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the bird for mirtli, Our is nearer God's heart in a garden.

That anywhere else on earth.” And this saine cheery, optimistic spirit

cannot be overcome by an intelligent and persevering popil is an ideat form of employment for a blind man who wishes combined with a knowledge of joinery, basket-making,

t-making with. which to fill up spare sine.

In one of the class rotas the prelimin- ury stages of massage are being followed by an attentive and intelligent class. Sets of bones are handled, and an exact knowledge of the position and function of each in the human body is mastered. As pupils become proficient in anatomy and physiology they are passed on to the

night, sir, and sound is at liberty to just as evident in the work of St. Dun-massage school of The National Insti- turn in. But the melody of "Last Post"

The tute for the Blind, where there is every ingers in the mind, and one finds that stan's as it is during play time. after eighteen months' familiarity it is workshops resound, not only with the convenience and facility for the acquisi et impossible to whistle it through sound-of-the-saw-and-plane of the joinertion of this the best of all occupati The oposing bars remain in the mind, whistling and vocal choruses. The work

and the hammer of the cobbler, uni with for blind people. and the last strange call and the carious is all the better learned because it is the National Institute. It is another of Telephone operating is also taught at interval separating the final note of all from what goes before are unforgettable learned in the cheeriest possible spirit..

the apparently mysterious accomplish- Although a graduated tax on incomes But the rest is a medley that one re-

Joiners who are learning to make tea- ruts of the blind which in reality s fron certcia nxed sources was levied in monberg but cannot recall at will. Itrays and picture fruines, corner cup-surprisingly easy for them to acquire. England in 1933 and again in 1450, it have failed to learn anything from sol boards, and ornamental tables, to say may be said that the income tax in its ciers or civilians as to the origin of this nothing of solid useful articles like rabbecotas proficient, divers, and one wit

Some of the blinded soldiers learned to present form dates from its introduction composition, but perhaps someone knows bit hutches and ammunition boxes, gain has passed through the training course by Pitt iB 1705,granting to Hisite history.

the mastery of unfamiliar tools in a man- IN at Majesty an aid and contribution for the

present

in ner which surprises themselves even more operations.

occupied

salving prosecution of the war." This act of 1998

than those who see them at their work. pedoed by a German ainarine off the (1) a sap which was tor- merely increased the duties of certain There is a tradition and, a convention The mat-makers learn with amazing South Coast of England. assessed taxes, which were regulated by in the music of bugle calls, just as there rapidity to fashion mats which will serve

All divers the amount of income of the person is in operatic or any other form of com- to polish the soles which the cobblers are whose whole life is speat thus is apt to work in the dark, and, obviously, a man assessed, provided his income amounted position, and to me "Last Post" always putting on to well-worn boots and shoes, to E60 or upwards. The produce of this suggests the work of a great artist work Basketry of all sorts, from delicate fancy Ends that his work plans him in un- prove more proficient than a man who tax was £3,046,024 for the first year, asing in medium singularly limited. baskets to solid hampers, grow under the necustomed surroundings. compared with £1,80,96, the produce had but one instrument incapable of pro- deft fingers of the weavers in a manner of the earlier tax. The tax was continued dueing harmonies, he had a strictly which forma a constant source of wonder

I have left myself little space in which from year to year with the principle unlimited number of notes, he was hamper to visitors who have been for years wit

to write of the way in which men learn changed but with variations in the rate ed by conventions, and bis whole effort. nesses of the work of blind operatives. to read with their finger tips, in which I until the close of the war in 1815, when it must not occupy more than a few seconds And there is a secret which accounts they master the intricacies of the ordin was repealed. The income tax was re-certainly less than a minute. And yet for all this perfection and rapidity. It lies ar typewriter, und in which they gain vived in 1842 by Sir R. Peel, not as a he has attempted to give an epitome of in the employment of the blind teacher, a knowledge of the system of shorthand war tax, but to unable him to effect in-human life, and when the notes come Handicraft sema hopelessly out of note-taking in Braille an accomplish- portant financial reforms by imaugurat driltag down on the wind across the reach. It is very well for one who put which seems really marvellous; even ing free trade, the sweeping away of tent-l'hes it does not seem that he has can see to say to him that he must do to me. duties on exports, duties on imported failed. There are the opening phrases, this and that and the other; he does I could fill columns with descriptions raw material, and other imports hamslow and serious, recalling infancy and not believe that the exponent under of the dances at St. Dunstan's--the pering the trade of the country.-Straits childhood, and then the wild, triumphant stands his difficulties. But when a blind domino tournaments, the chess matches, Belo.

outburst of youth and adolescence. Then, man, who himself can do the work which the games of cards, and the debates which as passion fades, convention takes the Ee is to learn, tells him, what to do and occupy the happy evenings. reins, and we have some passages of tri. how to do it, he believes that man, for he could I write and or about the row

So, too, viality, the triviality wrapped in conven- realises that his methods of touching are ing, the swimming, the tugs-of-war, the tion that too often besota middle age, the result of his own experience. walking races, and the many other sports and then comes a note of warning, the And even more important than the and pastimes in which the blinded sol- Erst hint of old age encroaching on the blind teacher is the blind pupil teacher, diers take the keenest interest, and find rizour of maturity. It has hardly been for men who have become expert at the the keenest enjoyment.. Izard and appreciated before we come to various trudes teach beginners to follow the last eight notes, that illuminate the in their footsteps. It is dificult to very sketchy iden of the well and happily These brief notes can only convey a Sole thing and make it a work of imagine anything which would put bet occupied lives of the men who are learn- ghius. They come upon us with the ter heart into a newly blinded man making to be blind, I hope that those who precipitancy and aurprise of declining ng his first fumbling efforts to achieve read them may fer a thrill of joy to years, and I know they mean widely some piece of work than to find that is think that the soldiers who so gallantly different things to different men. I sat teacher is one. who himself was blinded faced the enemy abroad are facing au- one evening with a soldier who was dy-only a few months ago. ing and knew it, when we heard what

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In the meadows outside the men whoantry, and are defeating the sombre was indeed his "Last Post," He said, are learning to manage poultry farms spectre of blindness as thoroughly and The end of that thing always says to and market gardens move about among effectually as their comredes who are still me Good night, farewell; see you again the hen houses and garden plots with a in the field will defeat the German

perhaps? That is the agnostic inter- freedom and ease which render visitors hordes pretation, but to other men it means just sceptical es to their blindness. This as strongly The sure and certain hope occupation, which to the unitiated must and particularly the After-care of blind- Contributions in uid of the training, of everlasting life."

seem an almost impossible one for a blinded soldiers and sailors, will be gratefully man to follow successfully, does not in reality present any difficulties which (Continued on next Oelama.)

It is a fine tune to go to sleep with, and must be a great tune to dis to Manchester Guardian.

received. They should be sent to me, or to the Secretary, St. Dunstan's, Begent's Park, London, England.