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EARTH AND SUN TO

FUSE

RIVER WATER AND VITAMINS.

The possibility of the earth; the sun and tho planets ohanging from a solar systom into h giant star of two or more parts whirling about a common centre of gravity was discussed by Prof. W. D. Mae- Millan, of the Astronomy Depart ment University of Chicago, at the closing session of the National, Academy of Science.

JUGO-SLAVIAN PROGRESS.

BELGRADE BECOMING MODERN CITY,

:

shoes, which kept the otherwise Inn, the hun, which has a huge picturesque woven leather pat courtyard for the reception of the tern of the upangis, only the shoca | numerous wagons. After they were made much-narrower and have sold their crop, they start the toas more pointed, and also shopping in the market. the heelless opang! was supersed- od with a new heeled specimen. I The Bulgarian is not a goud

The slogan "Serbian shoes for merchant his Serbian neighbour Sonbian women" way sounded, shows all the better conimercial and he captured Belgrade by quatibles. The talent for Luying storm, The Vienna shoes lost all and selling, as well as for driving their vogue. But not only did he after the other. Tumblers are a bargain, scams general succeed In breaking. the competi- considered in these parts as use- among the Serbian pesants. Ittion of Vienna; he is now sup, less requisites. The slivovitz

to be

DOMINIONS AND EMPIRE.

THEIR SHARE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

This needs, encouragement in the form of the consumption of

Quita one of the most interest- considerable quantities of slivo-ing of the series of meetings vitz, a spirt distilled in Serbia of regularly organised by the Royal plums, which they buy in small Colonial Institute, at which mat- pint bottles, emptying one bottle tors of Imperial importance are discussed, was that at which recently the Rt. Hon. Sir Hamar on "The Oversons Empire : and- Greenwood delivered an address

Foreign Affairs." The speaker, himself a citizen of Greater Bri- tain, was the last to hold the office of Chief Secretary of Ireland be. fore the cutablishment of the Free State. This, by reason both of his birth and of his experience, the relations between the Mother his views on matters affecting Country and the Overseas Dp. minions deserve very careful considoration. He pointed out that the British Empire may be said to have reached the zenith of its unity in power and au thority on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

is recorded, that before the war plying Vienna and. Paris with makes them sing lovely old Ser peasants often bought a huge these dainty looking products blan songs, and they arrive at the lump of rack-salt from the Govern, and, copied in New York and Lan-market singing these tunes. mental stares, broke it into pieces don, they have been the ragé of, Prof. MacMillan did not appear and then sold the fragments af a

The merchants in Serbia are two seasons.. to think that the problem of the high price

mostly Serba,, in 16, other villagers.

Bosnia and earth becoming part of the sun need Moreover, truling was

In Belgrade nothing is stabiliz Herzegovina very often Jews: always cause any immediate worry, how-looked upon

ed, yet in a rapidly developing The Mohammedin Bosnian is not "honorable" ever, for he placed the possible occupation, whereas in the neigh of trade cannot be established.as his Serbian brother in the old town the possibilities-and chances such an accomplished merchant change neveral million billion boring Austria and Hungary Zagreb again was and is a western kingdom. The merchants, again, years in the future.

gentleman could have started trade without losing his social position.

European city. It always was, work with nioro and looked like an Austrian town, methods even in the small places. In fact, all the heroes of Serbia with dainty shops, nice buildings, They order their goods generally were good merchanis Milosh old-established firms. The Servo- from Vienna, and are in corres Obrenovitel; the founder of the Croatian feud hampered, much pondence with the Vienna whole ill-fated Obrenvoitch dynnaty, was the chance of trade, in Zagreb and ealers. Many merchants in re a wholesale cattle and for dealer. Croatia, but now that the agreemote villages do their corré. At one time he almost monopolizment has been reached between spondence alrendy with the type-

Dy complicated mathematical formulae and the application of natronomical laws, Prof. Mac-

Millan sought to show that the size of both planets and stars grows through accretions of such sly wanderers meteors and

that the distance between sun ond planets is, according to mathe matical laws, decreased as the bodies grow.

The day when vegetation of lakes and other large bodies of water yield vitamins and people drink river water without fear of germs that produce disease may Roun {dawn, it was' indicated.

E. A. Divge, former president of the University of Wisconsin, told of recent investigations made by him and Dr. C. Juday in the crganic content of Wisconsin lake water, including Lake Michigan, through which the field is being opened to a possible discovery of a new food supply for animal life

waters. Frederic Power, ackntist, Df Washington, in discussing Dr. Birge's paper saw a possible vitamin supply in vegetation in water from the fact that it has been found that oil from cod contains vitamin of one of the recognized classes."

mer-

01.

little from that of an Austrian

some

up-to-date

of the present dynasty, Kara expecting ed this trade. And the founder.Pasitch and Raditch, everybody is writer. The Jewish merchant in George, was also a dealer in hogs.

boon in Croatia. Bosnia starts with very little The Croatian peasant is intelli-cupital, but is able to amass a ing statesmen of Serbia in the last and sells with Europeat methods, he does not only the retail bus!- Illa Carashanin, one of the lead gent, he is organized, and buys considerable fortune very soon, as century, who started Pan-Ser- The farmer goes to town once or negs with the peasant but buys bianism, was originally a

twice a

week. As a matter

the harvest products, too. After chant.

fact, life in Croatia differs but he has saved

money he generally leaves Bosnia, and with Jugo Slavia, since it became the lading Balkan Power, has gone

province.

his newly acquired capital tries through a rapid and

start business either in amazing

Budapest or Vienna. change. A few years ago there was hardly any difference be- tween Belgrade and a small vil- age of the Morava valley. But in the last three years new houses have been erected in Belgride, and hotels. hanks, shops and offices opened.

The shops which three years age provided, almost exclusively for peasants are now supplying ́a class of nouveaux riches. They display in the windows dresses and lingerie from Vienna, textiles from England. perfumes and luxuries from Paris, The 21 and more European

That river water might in, the Future be drunk with immunity was forecast by Philip B. Hadley wear more of Michigan, who has made ex-sults, the picturesque pessant tensive investigation near Anndreas becomes rare in the capital. Arbor on the Huron River. This The women, again, are dressed might come about, he said, when like the ladies of Vienna or Paris. rivers are filtered by action of the rivers themselves rather than by

Three years

ago avery other artificial purification.

weman wore opangis-that Jer leather slippers strapped round the ankles with leather strips. The members of the Oldhill an looking fashion is replacing Now a strange but almost Part- (Staffs) Cricket Club sent a novel wreath at the funeral of their the quaint opargis. This is be chairman, Mr. William Edward cause of the business enterprise Gilbert. The wreath represented of an American, A. L. Smyth. a cricket pitch worked in groen moss. The wickets consisted of blue flowers and the bat and bails of yellow flowers; and the ball, of red flowers, lay beside them.

to

upon with

Dealing with the difficult pro- blom of the creation of maohinery for keeping the Dominions con- stantly and continuously in touch with foreign affairs, he suggest. ed that the solution seemed to be in the nature of evolution; that the High Commissioners of the various Dominions should be made Privy Counsellors and

also Ministers of their respective Dominion Governments; that they should have the confidence of their Cabinots and be able, whenever they wished, to see the Do- Foreign Secretary, the minions Secretary, the Prime Minister, or any other member of the Imperial Cabinet.

It is south of the Save and the Danube where another world starts; full of romanticism, with

The modernization of the coun- antiqunted idens and methods of tryside, however, is trading. One must not forget One.

apparent. can find now Banking that the southern parts of Serbia branches in small towns of 3000 were still under Turkish rule 'only,

or 4000 inhabitants, and the use; thirteen years ago, and that is why

of checks, instead of hard cash, is following the address, the Rt. In the course of the discussion we still can find places where the also becoming moro genoval, women' must do the heavy agricul- | thỏugh still looked

Hon, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Chairman of the Council of the tural work as, according to suspicion by the more conserva- Eastern mentality, the man is

tive peasants, The Serbian, peu- many years Governor of Victoria. Royal Colonial Institute and for born only to be a warrior.

Insant is a hardworking man on the dealt with the difficulties sur- these parts we can, see the women

land, but useless in industrial rounding the course of action not only plough and sow but also production. The merchants again suggested by dir Hamar Green- drive to the market and sell the are reliable and thrifty. The wood. He remarked that it is a produce, of the land,

baksheesh system still prevails. characteristic of the British to be And as a result of Turkish tradi- somewhat suspicious of their tions, corruption in big business statesmen and to hesitate before is considered as something handing over unlimited power to natural. This is partly due, in all one individual. There is, more- the remote villages of trackless,dustrial and commercial development. The public of any one of fikelihood, to the all too rapid in-over, the question, of environ- rondless, oak-covered hills.

ment, as well as the survival of the great Dominions might feel Especially in Bosnia, which, after

Turkish methods of business.

that a man regularly resident in ail, was under Austrian rule for

London would inevitably lose forty years, we may find a toler

touch with local feeling and able hotel and

one or two Eur

would thorefore cease to be a opean-looking shops 11 the The death of Robert Shepperd,wholehearted 100% representa- villages. Life surely is the most aged eighty-five, has occurred as tive of the Dominion that had primitive in parts, which belonged the result of an accident. He appointed him. Again, a minister to the Kingdom of Serbia.

was one of London's oldest clock is a politician who has ideals of nukors. He made the famous Party, in this respect differing clock at Greenwich Observatory, essentially from an ambassador, and also the standard time clocks Consequently, in his opinion; Do- vonted a device to inuke Big Ben Foreign Office should be of an at New York and, Tokyo. Hein minion representation at the toll every minute during the ambassadorial rather than of a funeral of King Edward.

ministerial character.

But even in these primitive parts we can make distinctions: places close to the railways are of more European caracter

than

Trading here is not dissimilar When the great boom started into the Bulgarian methods. The Belgrade and the Serbian women villagers take annually their har started to wear modern Viennese vest products to town, driving shoes he erected a shoe factory, there in wagons drawn by oxen where he manufactured women's They spend the night in the village

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