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BRITISH BARLEY

FOR BEER.

SPLENDID CROPS.

BREWERS' HOME, ALE SUCCESS.

FOUR DEAD IN FIRE.

MOTHER, TWO SONS, AND A GIRL

TRAPPED IN BEDROOMS.

LONDON, August 11th.' Four people lost their lives and FAKENHAM, Norfolk, a fifth was seriously injured in a

August 14th.

fire which destroyed the Golden "British barley for British Cross Ina, a three-storey building beer, which now one hears' con-

at the corner of Portobello-road and tinually in East Anglis, following Lancaster-road, Kensington, W. The the special effort of the farmers dead are:- this year to make their staple cereal pay, gains force from the fact that the harvesting of some of the Enest crops of barley grown for many years has now begua, writes the Daily Mail agricultural correspondent.

Six weeks ago a part of agricul tural experts and leading farmers and merchants made a tour of the Norfolk barley fields and found the crops giving excellent promise. The facts were reported in the Daily Mail, together with the farmers appeal to the brewers to make certain of the quality of the harleys in their own land before buying abroad. British barley growers incurred heavy losses last year owing to the huge importe of Continental barley. Mach of this eame actually into the seaports of our barley-growing counties.

In the belief that the weather had ruined the home crops, though no adequate inquiry was made, the breweries took the foreign barleys.

Many Inquiride.

It was determined that no auch tragedy should happen again if the farmers could prevent it. The report of the fine promise of the Norfolk crops brought many in- quiries from the breweries Al- ready the largest brewing firm in this county has placed on the mar ket a brown, ale brewed entirely from English barley.

This beer has proved very popu lar both in Norfolk and Suffolk, and the experiment has been so successful that increased brewings from English barley are assured.

But this is only a beginning. More than 200,000 acres of barley are being grown in Norfolk, this year, and its commercial outcome will be watched with anxiety, brightened by high hopes.

Wheat does not pay, and is gradually disappearing, even on the heavy land most suitable for it.

In East Anglia there is a huge acreage of land really suitable for no other crop than barley, and if this cereal should fail the growers the collapse of agriculture in this part of England will be complete. Hence the intense eagerness of the farmers to get the quality and use- fulness of their barleys recognised in the brewing trade.

"Bountiful Sight,

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To-day the same party of experts set out from Great Yarmouth on a harvest tour of the barley lands along a line following roughly north-west to the King's estarë at Sandringham.

Harvest is in full swing and no more bountiful sight has been seen in this fortile countryside for

many seasons.

Most of the oats are cut and in all round merit are the crop of the year, Here and there cats were being threshed, thus indicating the need of ready money. The wheat also is cut and shocked, and a be- ginning has been made with the barleys.

We entered many fields to-day between Catfeld, in East Norfolk, and Dersingham, the neighbour the village of Sandringham, in north-west, and inspected the bar- leys, putting them to every possible test as they stood.

It is safe to say that, providing the weather in the next week smiles upon the barley harvest, the brewers will find in Norfolk bar- leys suitable for all their puï- ровед

The early promise is more than fulfilled in some fields,, which the merchants declared it was worth travelling hundreds of miles to Grain of the finest quality

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should be available.

first-class malting barley in that county.

Mrs. Rosa Thorpe, aged 49, a

widow, tensee of the inn. Walter Thorpe, aged 19, her sons. Frederick Thorpe, aged 25, and Betty Faulkner, aged 20, of 101, Westbourne Park-road, W., fiancee of Walter Thorpe, Ernest Thorpe, the 17-years-old son of Mrs. Thorpe, was injured, white a nephew, Stanley Lancaster, aged 17, of High-street, Chatteris Cambridgeshire, had a terrifying ordeal, but escaped without serious injury. ། ་

Girl's Warning.

lir. Lancaster told a Daily Mail reporter how the fire, which des troyed the building in three-quar- ters of an hour, trapped the family in their bedrooms. He said:

We were all sleeping in bed rooms on the top floor and I was with Walter. It was Betty who Awakened us, shouting: place is on fire!

"The

We jumped up, In a few seconds the whole of the top floor was thick with smoke. It came rolling up the staircase in a dense cloud. Below we could hear the crackling of fames. It was hope less to try to get down the stair

case. We were trapped.

We opened the windows and shouted for help. Fortunately some Мед were working just across the road in a bakery and, Then Betty called out that Mrs. they gave the alarms.

Thorpe was dying. I believe my aunt had tried to get down the stairs and that the smoke had knocked her over. I tried to get to her, but the smoke was so thick and black that I was beaten back and had difficulty in getting to a window. The room was as black as night.

Window Ledge. Ordsal Looking out of the window I saw that one of the boys-it turned out to be Fred-had risked his luck and jumped. He was killed. I crept out to a ledge about 18 inches wide, below the window, and waited, half lying on the ledge, half hanging on to the window, until the fire brigado ar rived. I know they were only about five minutes at the outside, but every minute the heat and smoke got worse and it became. more difficult to keep my hold. Mr. Stone, the proprietor of the bakery, said:

While Lancaster, and Walter Thorpe were able to get down the fre escape by themselves, Ernest and the girl were carried down unconscious. The firemen reached Mrs. Thorpe in a very short while, but it was too late.

HOW LEARNED MEN RELAX

READ DETECTIVE STORIES.

CLOCK HANDS OF ARMEN- TIERES.

MAYOR'S THANKS TO HONEST SCROUNGER.

An astonishing tribute to the detective story so frequently scorn-

In November 1914, a day or two ed by so-called "intellectuals" as after the British Expeditionary unworthy of the attention of in- Force had dug itself in, before telligent readers is paid by the Armentières, & British infantry. faculty of Columbia University, man was seen to climb to the clock one of the most famous of all the tower of the principal church in academies of high learning in the the town and remove the hands United States.

from the dial.

What is the secret of the world wide attraction of this class of fiction?

An interesting answer is given by Professor Prescott Lecky, Colum- bia's instructor in the Department di Psychology.

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that enemy spies were using the His excuse was that he suspected clock hands to signal to the Ger-

man

Kunnors. The explanation was accepted, but from that mo ment the hands disappeared.

Armentiéres

A few weeks ago the Mayor of received ኪ parcel from England, and when it was "The good detective story," says inside, with an anonymous note unwrapped the missing hands were the professor, "may be analysed na that they were being returned by appealing to the average intelligent the British soldier who hnd remov human adait by what is known as ed them and had smuggled them to his home. He stated that re- the puzzle mechanism."

morse had overtaken him.

A new church has been built

Life, Love And Business, "Mankind has always been in- trigued by a puzzle. He likes to solve problems, from endeavouring to sander two wretched little steel rings which seem to be interwined inextricably to finding a three- lester word for a clumsy fellow.

“The good detective story pre- sents at the outset a problem or puzzle."

The detective story, moreover, by completely absorbing the reader in the problem pressated, offers an ideal means of escape from the often" more complex but less fascinating problems of life, love and business.

mechanism and the escape from These two elements-the puzzle

reality-make the good detective story particularly, appealing to a person of intelligence.

Another professor. explained the lure of the detective novel na'a modern sublimation of ancient man's hunting instinct, and held the same ineradicable instinct res- possible for the fascination of a good murder mystery" in the daily newspapers, which Charles Dickens found so irresistible...

since the war, and the hands are to be fitted to its clock.

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Frederick Thorpe died on the way to hospital, and Miss Faulkner died shortly after admission.. Walter Thorpe was thought to be compara- tively slightly barnt, 'bat later he collapsed and died from shock.

Thorpe's two youngest children, Elsie (12) and Tom (10), left with stone.. their aunt for a holiday at Folke-

GERMANY'S LAST HORSE "TRAM."

A TOWN'S GOOD-BYE.

BERLIN, August 7th The last horse tramway-car in

Germany has disappeared for good. atil yesterday the citizens of Zerbst, one of the most picturesque towns in Northern Germany, still maintained three tramway-cars and the necessary horses, and the cero-

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way cars was an historic event in good prices. I understand from which the whole town took part. the merchants that there is some

The members of the town band sat in the first car and played. In the The Student's Favourite, second and third came the members On the other hand, the girl of the board of directors of the student who spends the "amali EVE'S ESCAPE FROM ADAM-holders, and an immense crowd dry facts into a tired brain is like- tramway company and the 28 share hours" in a breathless crowding of trotted after the slowly movingly to approach the actual examina vehicles. At the railway station tion, says the woman dean, with At the entrance to Sylvan Grove, there was a halt.

a more or less confused jumble of _on_the_banks_of_the_'Hiver Ver- The musicians got out of their mental material. milion, in Illinois, two large signs car and got into one of the new Many of the women students con- have been erected. One reads motor-omnibusca in which the fess that they put the dean's theory "No dogs allowed" add the other civilians will henceforth rattle to the test with admirable results, through the "quaint streets, and and indeed, during the last few The Grove has been transformed set off again playing a triumphal weeks of the term recently, ended into an Adamless, Eden, where march

the inhabitants of the little colls. some fifty women, wives of local The curtains of the old tramway stead of attempting to memorise

ir. Brooks and Hewitt halls, in farmers, are taking a vacation free

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the fortunes of Sherlock Holmes, fishing.

Monsieur Lecoq, and others

CHICAGO, Aug. lith.

"No husbands allowed.”

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There the musicians in the omni- bus which preceded them played a The husband of one of the wivce, funeral march, and so the city of when asked to-day what he thought baroque houses and bitter beer of the scheme, said: "Wal, I sadly, but with determination, guess we mentolk can stand it as entered the path of modern, pro

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