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Freed After 11 Years in Exile Innocent Convict Ordeal Ends of Retrial by Court $200 COMPENSATION Evidence in Murder Case Led to Fresh Investigation Paris. â€" A dramatic scene occurred a« Ha^rre recently when a f Jtner Mar- seilles hairdresser who had been â- jopt ic chains to Devil's Island (the no- torious Frencn renal settlement) in 1915 on a charge of having betrayed his jfiuntry, stc-nped from the ship a frei? n^an, cop-rletely rehabilitated by the higrhest courts of Franf-e after having been kept a prisoner tor eleven years. The man, Henri Bellon, now aged 3'c , was the victim of an incredible drama every bit as stranprp as that of Captain Dreyfus, '.ne of the most rttorious instances of a niscarriage of justice ever known. NEW TRIAL. In the case o: Henri Bellon the es- tablishment of his innocence is due to a murder trial in Paris that had no connection with the hairdresser^ alleged offence. It was evidence ob- tained at this murder trial that se- cured for Belon a new trial which ended in his acq'iittal. Bellon's case is ono of the most extraordinary in the history of mili- tary and civil jurisprudence. He had been invalided out of „he army in 1914 scrii)usly wounded, a;id rejuned his profpsiion of hairdrtsser and wig- maker, lie wjr.t to Geneva to buy â- wrmpn's hair-nets. Thera he met a naturalized American named Stanley Mitchell, a Pole by birth, who was working in Switzerland for the French counter-espionage service. Bellon helped Mitchell to write hi.-* reports in French. One day Mitchell was suddenly arrested by the Swiss police as a foreign spy and expelled. Mitchell reported to his chief that Bellon had denounced him. TREASON CHARGE. When Bellon returr.ed to France he •was arrested on the charge of treason, tried before a cour'.-roartial at Mar- seilles in the latter part of 191S, and on Mitchell's testimony, which was entirely hearsay, was sentenced ' -> Devil's Island for life. Bellon protested his innocence, and â- wrote hundreds of letters of appeals to the Ixiague for the Rights of Men in Paris but the War Minister refused to authorize a new trial. Years passed, and one night in the autumn of 1925 Bellon was reading a tliree months' old copy of the Paris "Matin" by candle light In his hut in the penal settlement .\s his eyes glanced down the columns of the newspaper a cry escaped him. He was reading about the trial of a Paris caretaker. Lazare Tissier, for the murder of a bookmaker named Bellay in his cellar in the heart of Paris. The murderer afterwards took the body to the Bois du Boulogne. PERFECT CASE. The police case against the care- taker was perfect except that they had not the slightest evidence to show how the body had been taken to the Bois. At a critical point in the police investigation Stanley Mitchell, who had h long police record in France, suddenly appeared and declared that lif had seen the caretaker hauling the body in a pushcart. Mitchell stated that he had been released from prison the previous day, had spent the night in Montmartre, and then had gone to the Bois. where, waking up early in the morning, he saw the caretaker pa^sin.;? with the body. When Mitchell told his story at the trial he was under a warrant of ex- juilsion and made such an unfavor-l able impression that he was driven from the court by the judge. Ho svas allowed to remain In France some month? after that, and th.-n fi;!al!y expo! ed. Ill tonsequcn.'? of .MItchel'.'s role in *his ;fse. Bello.i wss granted .'> new trial by the French civil court in l'J-(i. i Th? Public Prosecuto- announced Ihatj there had been a judicial error, and asked for Bellon's complete rehildlita- tion. This was granted, and he was given damages amounting to i'lO. This sum. however, wsii not sufficie't to j-av the passage of both himself and his wife to France, so he returned home alone. •> Growing MincL \\> are endowed with mliuls «ui never, strictly speaking, grow up at] all. They retain a cerl:iln biassed | quallly of youth, the more active they are ihey retain It all the better, ij should be very sorry ttir any man or i woman who tliiiik.'* that their educa- 1 lion is acliievod, is a Ihlus (liiishedi and diine with. M seventy and aj irood ilea! more. I am learning things which perhaps I ou.nht to have learn- ed at seventeen. But t am exceeding- ly thankful that \ did not learn them at seventeen, beause It h.is left me a chance of learning them all through life, and in the eveniitg of life especl- j allv.-Sir .\lfred Ewlns K.(MV, K U.S. I Man-Made Plant May Prove Rich « Elxperiments Being Carried on in West of England are Promising BIG MEN~BACK IT Would Upset Silk and the Nev/sprint Markets â€" May Be Patented London. â€" If the hopes of its backers come true "brotex" â€" a man-Invented plant like the seedless orange and the loganberryâ€" may give an entirely new and paying crop to the Britisff farmer, and revolutionize the artificial silk industry. Brotex is the result of long work on a 200-acre farm in the west of Eng- land which has been carefully fenced off and which has tor a long time ex- cited the wonder and curiosity of neighboring fa mers. It is a plant evolved by a very complicated series of graftings and blendings, possessing the rapid growing qualities of tropical vegetation and yet capab'" of being grown even in a omparatively cold country like England. It grows from seed and matures rapidly, within 18 months attaining a height of from 8 to 10 feet and a stem circumference of from 8 to 10 inches. Its inventors claiff that the seed makes a rich oily cattle food. From the bark is obtained a fibre fit for all kinds of textile parposes similar to those of flax and jute. From the core ot the plant Is obtained a cellulose for paper making. It is claimed that an acre of thes,- plants will yield .3,735 pounds of fibre ready for hackling in a textile mill; 12,030 pounds of material ready to be made into paper pulp and 5,250 pounds of seed for cattle feed. BIG MEN BACK IT. A company has already been formed for its promotion in England. On its advisory council .its such prominent men as Sir Robert Home, former chancellor of the exchequer, and the Earl of Selborr.e. The corporation now has two big questions before its patent lawyers: First, wh.ther it is possible to pa- tent the plant itself, so that all and sundry may not grow it. Second, the question of patenting chemical processes and machinery specially designed to utilize brotex pro- ducts for textiles and paper making. If the "plant itself can be protected by patent or Ikense it can then be grown only with the permission of the company. If this canrot be done, thi company still expects to make big revenue out of brotex by pushing the patents of the special chemical and mechanical processes involved in mak- ing it useful in industry. .\ subsi- d'ary compan. may shortly be formed in Canada. BIG FIELD. If the plant does all its owners claim for it, there is a big field for development. In many textile pro- ducts now manufactured flax and jute now form an important part. So far the experiments with brotex cellulose liave shown it capable only of being made into a fine quality of paper. So far no work has been done showing wiie'ihor it is useful and economical in the making of newsprint paper. The promoters do not claim It can be n\ade Into newsprint. They con- tent them.selves by saying they are hopeful that further expc'iments may show ijossibilities In that direction. .^ . Rum-Running a National Disgrace ToiHinto Star ilinH: Tlie intimation <ippearln.g iu a Toronto morning paper tliut Ottawa has reached an agree- ment witlv^ Washing-ton that will en- able the I'lVited Stales to deal a death- blow to rumrunuins would be grati- (yiug, if true. Vufortunutely, it is far from the truth, and unless the Gov- ernment o( the country takes more seriously its responsibility for coping with the sc.uidalous conditions exist- ing along the border the neighborly relations between Canada and the Lnitod Slates may become impaired. k Is Sports Like This That Will Take Our Half-breds Interesting Angle On Public Health Knowledge There Is no dllTereu.'e between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what Is good a'^d embraces i It. who knows what Is bad and avoids] It. Is loarned and tetnperntf; but they who know very well what oghl to be done, and yet do quite otherwise, ore ignorant and stupi*:^Socrate». | Civil Service Salaries S;>skatoon Starl'hoeuix tLlb.1: The question oi: salaries in the service is an important one for the whole coun- try. Governments pome and go, but Iho greater part ot the actual work it rnnniug the imblio services is done by the permanent stalTs. The effici- ency o( this army of workers is a matter of moment to every citizen and probably counts for just as much iu the life ot tlie country as the party stripe of the (iovernmcut in ofllco. To underpay employees is certainly not the way to .secure diligent and faithful work form them. ^ . Provincial Surpluses Halifax Herald (Cous.): We hear a great deal aliont surpluses iu the other provinces of lUo Dominion, but it is seen that wi.hout the proceeds ot the sale of liquor, all the provinces have deficits, some of- theia very heavy. This is a fact to be remem- bered when provincial finances are under discussion. s^ Stout woman (to little boy)â€" "Cau you tell me if I can get through this gale to ilie park?" I.ilit' Boy â€" "I guess so: a load of hay has just goua i IhrouglK." IT TOOK PLENTY OF PUSH TO WIN THIS RACE Plnehurst. N.C.. society got lots of ainuaemeut frjm tnis novel wheelbarrow race when couples raced on horse- back to one end ot the field, the man po-shiug his partner back ia a wheelbarrow. The United States otters a great market tor our saddle horses. Find Bones of 10-Ton Monster Largest Animal Known Dis- covered in Gobi Desert London. â€" Life In the Gobi desert. In Mongolia, millions of years ago, and the discovery there of the bones of the largest animal known to science â€"a nion.ster weighing ten tonsâ€" were described to a repcrte. recently by Roy Chapman Andrews, the explorer. Mr. Andrews, who has just return- ed from his fourth expedition in the desert, said: Our greatest discoveries this year were fossils. The bones of this new mammal, which lived eight or nine million years ago, show that it was 25 ft. long and 14 ft. high to the j-houlders. It was as big as a freight car. TOO BIG TO PACK. We have the bones of about eight or ten of these monsters and one skeleton is so huge that it was found impossible to pack it, but we hope to recover it next year. This animal will not be named until it reaches the -Am- erican .Museum of Natural History. We also found a giant mastodon- a prehistoric elephant â€" with a jaw eight feet long shaped like a coal scoop. The tront of its face is unlike anything we have seen before. It lived about 6,- 1)00,000 years ago. -Among other finds were four Tita- ncthere skeletons â€" animals that are something like tlie rhinoceros. These have only been found before in Am- erica, and this proves the migration that must have taken place in early times from Asia to America. Another strange find was the skele- tcn of an animal â€" a new type â€" with a skull shaped like a stovk saddle, the I umniel, or its nose, pointing straight up in the air and its mouth under- neath. What it had in front of Its face no one knows. We have always thought that traces cf human life would be found in Cen- tral .Asia, but so far we have not found anything very definite on the human side. We came across remarkable speci- mens of stone age culture, and there were traces that peop e lived there at least 20 or 2.'> thousands years ago. We found that they lived there In mil- lions, and on the plateau there was evidence that they must have lived largely on birds and frogs. j Mr. Andrews said they could only judge by the Implements they found that human life existed there because no sign of caves was found. Toronto's Food WeU Guarded The New Factor ^jondon Daily JIail (lud. Cons.) : We doubt whether it is generally real- ized that when the Flappers come on the register nearly halt" the electors in this country will be between the ages of -l and 35, or just of that age which is most likely to be attracted by the new prolitical evangel. "Youth has always been with Labour. . . . Labour may well look to doubling its last general election vote," the Com- mittee of Industrial 'A'omen's Organi- zations has reported. Tills is the new factor tliat is about to come into play, and it will have a vast and decisive influence on I lie future if the Social- ists are right. Care Taken by Health Depart- ment Should Interest Outside Places He â€" "W'ly did yon faini? She â€" "I thought you were goiug to kiss me." Heâ€" "But, darling, I didu't." Sheâ€" "That's why I faint d." Few, it any. ot the rights of the people gnarded by fundamental law are of greater importance to their hap- piness and safety than the right to be exempt from all unauthorized, arbi- trary or unreasonable inquiries Iu re- spect ot Ihoir personal and private affairs.- Jlr. Justice Butler. Nurse: "Bobby, what would your fatlier say if ho saw you'd broken that branch off?" Bobby: "He'd say trees are not so well made now as they wore before the wa:'." In discussing the question of the ] nve(\ for full-time healt hservice in ! rural as well as urban areas there are ' fome phases of the problem which one is likely to farget. One realizes, of course, that theoretically certain dis- fasos, for example, typhoid fever and diphtheria, are definitely preventable and that with proper attention to children many of the ailments of later life may be prevented. One often for- gets, however, the part that the phy- sician must p'ay in this and the train- ing he must have if he is to be com- pletely efToctivc. Past generations of physicians have been trained in the school of curativa n.cdicine; and in spite of the knowl- edge which makes them effective in the curative sphere, too frequently, if not generally, their altitude has been in accord with that of the general public. The public wait to consult a physician until incipient disease has become se:'ious. And the doctor waits for the serious disease to come to his office, making little or no eflfort to revent it. The physician of the future will pay greater attention to prevention, and in prevention the health officer must be a specialist, trained by special de- partments to do special work: and, when tho physician trained to do this special work graduates from his medi- cal school, there must be adequately paid and responsible positions ready for him. Otherv.'ise he will uot desire t'. take the special training which la essential if he is to carry on in a car- eer which will mean much to the com- munity in which he does his life work.' Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald, Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine ir the University of Toronto, pointed out In a recent interview the significancj of this phase of the question. At present in spite of the work of great philanthropies, such as the Rockefellei Foundation, in founding specia! schools for the teaching of hygiens .Tr.d preventive medicine, the pros- pective health officer has little ahead of him to encourage him to embark 'n a public health career. Training ha can get, if at the end of his medical course there is nothing but a position in Ceylon or China available for him, it is little wonder if he hesitates to depart from the conventional ways parsue<i by previous generations. It is not too much to say that if the county health unit scheme is success- ful the stimulus given to the teaching of preventive medicine will be Imme diate and the number of medical graduates prepared to pursue a pu'olic health career will be Increased. Within a reasonable time the effect on the average health of our citizens will bo far more striking than most of OF VALUE TO HEALTH First â€" Toronto's milk supply, from the standpoint ot quality and safety, is second to no other on the continent. Every quart of milk that has been sold In Toronto for the past ten years at least has contained the necessary proportions ot butter fat and ot total solids to constitute a whole milk as obtained from the cow. In addition to this. 30\ per cent, of the milk sup- ply is scientiflcally pasteurized and then put into sterilized bottles which are capped, all by machinery, so that the human hand cannot come in con- tact with the milk from its pasteuriza- tion until it reaches the consumer. U ot 1 per cent, that is not scieu- liflcally pasteurized is certilled. Second â€" All waiters and waitresses In restaurants ia Toronto, and those engaged iu the kitchen preparing food, are required to furnish to' the Department of Public Health a certlfl- cate from a legally qualifled medical practitioner, that they are not suffer- ing from any communicable disease, and also to certify that thoy have not been suffering from any communicable gi i: o • • • i disease In their homes or in the homes ' slowness or Dritain s Latest us ii'.iagine. A Blunder? in wlifcli they oard or lodge. Third â€" Torontots perishable foods are carefully safeguarded at every point by a rigid system of inspection, j from the producer to the consumer. Fourth â€" All foods that are not pro- tected by a peel, or that are not going \X'arships Causes Con- sternation London. â€" .\ttention has been called in naval circles here to the relatively slow speed of somo of the new ships which, it is alleged, will bo far out- to be submitted to a temperature su£-i ^''^'^"^''^'1 by com'^arable foreig i ships, flcient to destroy all diseaseproduciugi '' '* understood tiiat the new flotilla germs before being eaten, are re- leader Codrington and eight now de- quired to be efficiently protected from ' *'â„¢-^'"^'"*' °f ""^ "•â- ^" "^'^^s arc designed dust, dirt, human and animal contaml- f'"" "•'' ^"ou. The Codri.igtt n will 1 .- nation. .t ship of 1,520 tons, standard dis- •:• . placement, carrying five 1.7-inch guns. The current Aie.vican war seems to ^''* ^^''" *'"'' ''^ practically Identicaj be creating about as nuicli impression i ^'^'^h the Scott class of ten years ago, on tbe hard-boiled worUi as the re- current comic opera affrays in China. A junior clerk was "on the carpet," and at the conclusion of his wlggiug, he was told to get rid ot ihe supercili- ous air. Next mornin.?, he appeared at the oifiee with his hair cu:. Sport Again Becoming Popular in Motherland except for the fact that the designed speed will be 1.5 knots less. Tho destroyers will be two knot! slower than similar boats constructed some years ago. Naval experts are alarmed at thij retrogressive program, pointing out that the now French flotilla leader Giepartl has made oS.45 knots In full power trials. Italy's new scouts of t'..a Condottieri class will steam at :>7 knots. The new British ships will go to the Mediterranean when they are commissioned, and will face Italian cruisers which eoulil outdistance them and blow them from the water The naval corresondent of the Wes- tern Independent, a Plymouth paper, says that attitude of the British naval designers in regard to the speed fac- tor is causing something like con- .â- itcrnaticn. American Capital in Britain Glasgow lieruld (Coiis.i: While Amerii'rt is bliiinod for alteinixing to ohiaiu control of Britiih concerns It would perhap,? be well to examitie the cause (if the prosetit sitnalion before lmpuiiii.5 or appor'inning bliiT!v.>. It this be done It will probably he found ihat lUe r >ot of the trouble lies ia the gHmbliiig mania which lia.s spread over the cr'Ulnents of Kurope and .\merifn during the past year or so, and has done much to hold up trade development in this country. . . . Ar- bitrngo dealing i» an essential part of stock market business, biu it will be very untorliuiate if Us unre.st rained use sboiilii bo instruuieuiai in antag- oni/.in.i; the relationship of .Vmerican capilal and British trade. WINNERS IN LADIES' CYCLE RACE IN ENGLAND Miss E. .\rmstrons. winner, and Aliss Benueit, ruunerup. in the ladles' race which was ii feature of the Msrlborough A.C.'a Easter Monday race meet at Heme Hill. When hridije work is mentioned now you have lo wait and see if it's teeth. cards, or viaducts. â€" Dallas Journal. The .Tones brothersâ€" Weslfv and Davy â€" are nniking life for the rum- 'unnors just one thing after another â€" Washiustou I'ost.