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v THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1927 JUNGLE PRISON COULD NOT HOLD THIS CONVICT The Utory ot Eugene Dieudonne, Whose Third Attempt to Escape From French Guiana Was Successful-- How He Sailed Away in a Cranky Boat Paris.--Eugene Dieudonne, the cab- j straight across the mud bank at high lnet worker of Nancy, who spent ; tide--an extremely dangerous project, more than twelve years in the French I They now had two additional pad-prison in tropical Guiana and made , dies, made, like the first, from thwarts three attempts at escape and finally,of the boat. They leaned upon them succeeded in reaching Brazil, will, it | with all their might, pushing them is expected, scon be pardoned by his t against the muddy mottom, and the Government. Recently he was im- | boat went on in the moonless nigh prisoned In Rie de Janeiro, but later |At this point.there is a gap in tli was released, his attorney advising j letters of Dieudonne. But he co: him to place himself at the mercy of itinues the main narrative: the French Ministry of Justice. "We are gliding beside a forest ( Dieudonne was convicted of at-, mangroves, sinister trees that stretch tempted murder in connection with a 1 their meager arms upward and dip robbery in Paris in 1913. Many doubt j their exposed roots in the millennial that he was guilty. There were other j mud--a forest none but shipwrecked considerations, too, that lent support' persons would attempt to penetrate, to his appeal for clemency. For one ]In spite of our efforts, we become fast thing, twelve years' exile in Guiana is j in the mud again. The three weakest regarded by many as sufficient penal-1of us begin to moan, fearing the death ty, in view of the fact that the man that flies above these Dantesque Dieudonne is said to have attacked j places. finally recovered. "The next day, the rising tide does The convict's wife, who works in not come up to us. What can we do? a Paris department store, and his son I Shall we stay there, in the mud? have elicited the sympathy of many "The negro'asks us to go overboard Parisians by their devotion to Dieu- into the mud and push the boat a hun-denne and their insistance upon his • dred yards to the point that has been innocence. Moreover, the romantic j reached by the rising tide. A half aspect of the case and even the phy- j day of effort, hours of doubt and fear, sical courage manifested during the; The mud has made filthy, strange three days and nights that Dieudonne . beasts of us, no longer in the least tpent struggling with tropical seas ' like human beings. Finally at 8 and mud in a fight to win freedom,1 o'clock in the evening the boat takes -- impressed the French and re-1 " Is Milkweed of Value? I Treat Your Farm Machinery Right An Iowa chemist, Dr. Gerhart, making a plea for milkweed. He fiuas , Af retlred Iast year> after that this much despised plant has farmlnK *fc manv nrnTniRlnir vt-r*ii*>« AnH what . . round icted i Whi his fan; seek 1 many pica pe from the horrors of the tropical prison camp, most of them die in the attempt. Those that survive are usually recaptured. Letters written by Dieudonne to his attorney and friends in Paris revealed the details of his daring final break for freedom. The- French Guiana prison colony consists of the three lies du Salut-- Hie notorious Devil's Island. He koyale and He St. Joseph--a grpup of Isolated jungle prisons on the mainland and two larger mainland camps, Koia-ou and Cayenne. Dieudonne, at the time of his escape, was in Cayenne. This camp borders on the quarter cf the town of Cayenne in which live Hie "liberated" convicts. These tnon who, having served their te of hard labor, are forced to live exiles in Guiana for a period equal to the expired term, if their was less than eight years, or for life, If their sentence was longer than tight years. Men such as Dieudonne, whose sentences have been communt-ed (Dieudonne was rescued from the guillotine by the clemency of the President of the French Republic) ere permitted a relative degree oi liberty in the prison camps. the water. Long shouts of joy and enthusiasm in tho tropical twilight." Boat Turned Turtle. Once more at sea, they raised the sail. But tho soa was heavy, the small craft made heavy weather. They shipped several waves. "Steer to the left!" cried Dieudonne to tho negro, fearing that the waves would drive them back to the bank. "She won't answer the rudder," replied the pilot. The sea grew heavier and heavier. A wave washed completely over the boat, then a second, third and fourth. It was too much for so unseaworthy a vessel. She teetered as she shipped more water, and finally, like an overworked draught horse giving up the Dr. F. G. Banting Of insulin fame, who makes indictment of the Hudson Bay Company for alleged unfair treatment of the Eskimo. This picture was snapped on board the C. G. S. Beothlc, on which he Journeyed to the near-Arctic regions. [ struggle, turned The men jumped. Dieudonne, in ' the water, found himself caught in the rigging. He struggled violently to free himself, but seemed only to entangle himself further. To make it e of the other men, thrown against him, seized his arm. He tried :o cry out, but a mouthful of muddy vater half strangled him. In his struggle Dieudonne struck his head against something floating. ; It was his bQX containing the meagre property of a convict, which, In the hope that ho could escape and return "Eoo'.leggcrs of Men. to France, he had'carefully guarded T!-.eie hovers about French Guiana land carried with him. He seized the » mysterious but apparently well-knit I b°x, which was sufficiently buoyant to organization of bootleggers of men, {give him support, and with a final ef-rhose business is to help convicts es- !'ort pulled himself out of the rigging, capo. Its members are mostly Chinese Floating clear, Dieudonne turned to tnd negroes. The Chinese bargain ' And the comrade, Lebreton, who had with the prisoners for the fee to be seized him in the water. He sent at the attack on the messenger. On the strength of the victim's asserted recognition, the jury convicted him, but the President of the republic commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Apple Storage Pointers A well insulated storage house, a damp floor, and a fan to force cool night air into the house, are found to be the essentials of successful apple storage on the farm. The night air, on an average, Is approximately twenty degrees cooler than the air in the daytime in the fall, when the apple crop is put in storage. many promising virtues, he says should < study of the plant to learn if the possibilities he suggests may not be realized in a practical way. • In the first place, this chemist states that the milk from this weed corresponds closely to that of the rubber a^n'^V1 ^ ^ ^%MtUre',PTZ° twen* br™gb a domestic source of this valuable mU, ,w W1 w,n , product. According to his tests, the milkweed will produce, in the wild state, from two and cne-half to three per cent, of rubber. Further, an acre of the weed will produce around 550 rounds of cotton i j navg floss. This is a greater production tools than is had from the cotton fields. A superior quality of upholstery can be made from this floss. At#the same time the blossom is producing the floss, the stem of the plant is growing a fibre of high tensile strength. The fibre of the milkweed runs the entire length of the stalk. This chemist states that it would make an excellent substitute for hemp. In strength it compares well with manila hemp. The fibre of the plant also produces i excellent quaitity of paper and wall-board. The long tough fibres make this possible. In producing \^all-board, eighty-eight per cent, of the plant was used. Another product is the seeds. From ! fifty-five to sixty bushels Sunday Schoc? Lesson Gold- neighbor's machinery had always had the best of care, and the surrounding farmers knew it. Some of them had Review, borrowed tools from him at different times, and knew they were always in perfect repair. As a result, a corn binder that he had been using for jse for fifteen ki^'fS^1^8 of the ear]y years brought $28, and a grain drill &H'^tttH that had been used every -year for have learned and what you ha eighteen years brought $40. Other er as a result of the Quarter machinery averaged as v.-ell, and all . Some groups are finding- it of vested from a worth the price they brought. small farm, and all the j Education fo: need for the size place I have, i a y*ar and I consider my eighteen by thirty- work: foot tool shed one of the best investments I have ever made. When I finish using any piece of machinery that requires a bright working surface, from a shovel to a disc, I clean it thoroughly and then give it a coat of harvester oil, with a small paint brush, before it is put in the shed. After the metal parts are so treated I give the wooden parts a coat of linseed oil and then a coat of paint. It costs but little, requires but a short time, and pays big In the long run. My tool shed is nearer the fields than of my other buildings. That it is as near the driveway that Is to the field, as possible, so as to make it convenient to leave the This compares tooJg rj ht where they belong, 0ver. favorably with yield of corn. These head , keep the d ghovel nan(J contain about twenty per cent. :rakes> £orkS; an dotaer hand tQol of oil, and from thirty-five to forty per and k them wn protein. The oil compares in quality with cottonseed oil, and the protein should make an excellent stock feed. About the only reouire-t in getting the seeds to reproduce is scarification. This persistent plant, which all ese years has been a liability to agriculture, may some time be placed on the other side of the ledger. Extensive research should be made promptly along the lines of the pioneer work by Dr. Gerhart. they belong, it is not necessary to hunt for a needed tool when in a hurry. Cleaning and oiling them after using keeps them all Will Rogers Would Make Every Golf Course an Airport To Edit. Washington, D.C.--Bobby Jones, Atlanta, Ga.: Bobby, you can be the TheIdr" howe'ver,' is not'damp"enough , ^ff"s._of_EaJ,in£ a„lot othrim&n l^es. to keep the apples from shriveling. ' This is remedied by keeping the floor paid in return for a helping hand toward freedom, and the negroes do the hard labor of piloting the evaders to the border. Dieudonne was able to get in touch with members of this land. The prison camp at Cayenne is on the northwestern side of a little peninsula, which is one of the relatively tew high-and-dry places on the coast. For the most part the territory between the jungle and the open sea is neither land nor water. It is alluvial mud, brought down by the great tidal rivers and flooded at high water. There is so much mud and debris on the coast that tho sea for fifty miles out is tinted yeilow Escaph victs must cross the mud flats. Last December a negro bootlegger Df men made an agreement with Dieudonne and five other convicts to pilot them to freedom. The fee for all six was $120, plus $40 expenses. He was to meet them in the evening in a little creek called the Fouille. The convicts, eluding their guards in the daylight, made their way to the rendezvous at 3 in the afternoon. Dieudonne writes: "It is 6 o'clock in the evening, and we have been waiting three hours. Will he come? Will he fail us?" The escort finally did appear and by daylight the party had traversed the length of the creek and entered the open" sea by a passage called the Cannes. Their progress was slow and painful, for the sail of their boat was quite insufficient and the rudder too small. Nevertheless, they went on for an entire day. At ebb tide the boat was carried backward by the current, for its anchor was not large enough to hold it. Back they went, powerless to fight because they had no oars. They were carried all the way to the Cannes, where their craft stuck fast in 'the mud. That night the six convicts and the negro cut a thwart from the boat and contrived to fashion it into a paddle. A cold wind chilled them as they worked. The next day, aided by the flood tide and the paddle, they recovered the distance they had lost. r ith three others, clinging to the keel of the overturned boat. Still holding fast to the box, he tried to fight his way to his companions, but the waves were too much for him, driving him back toward the j Time*, mudbank. Ho struggled mud, dragging his box, and as he went he called, hoping that the others would_ hear and follow him. They hear "dand reached him. Then all headed for the forest, struggling through the mud. As soon as they reached dry ground they camped for the night. On a Log Laft. Next morning they threw together a log raft and set forth once more. With the aid of poles they pushed their raft forward The seas swept over them, and more than once they were forced to swim, but they finally arrived and threw themselves exhausted upon the bank. Only Dieudonne and Lebreton had the strength to continue. The entire distance from Cayenne to Brazil, along the coast, is only about eighty miles, as measured on the map, but it presents terrific difficulties. Dieudonne and Lebreton pushed on, leaving the others, who were recaptured a few days later. Dieudonne settled in Para-Belem, where he pursued his trade of cabinet making. For a long while he believed himself safe, but at length he arrested by the Brazilian Gover: -t, and the French asked his extradition. He pleaded with his friend:; in France to have him extradited to the mother country, not to Guiana. "If they send me back there I'll hang myself," he wrote. Career of Dieudonne. wet to allow the water to evaporate. Evaporation is also a cooling press. The temperature is further cool-1 as the water evaporates. Tho floors must be kept wet continually, observes Mr. Overholt, to keep the moisture in the air high enough, aid cooling by or even a narrow trench filled witi water are not sufficient. a women's discussion at the meet-; ing of the Welsh National Liberal: Federation it was suggested that the1 giving of toy soldiers to children should be discouraged. The difficulty is, however, that no nursery dares to be the first to disarm.--Punch. The wife of an aviator is the only ■woman who is always glad to seo her husband down and out.--Louiseville The big problem of aviation is having emergency places to land. Now you insist on every golf course having one fairway long enough and level enough to land a plane on, all marked with crosses to show it. Every golf club should be patriotic and humane enough to do this. Think what it would mean to an [ator with a missing engine to know every golf course was a life preserver. If they don't do this voluntarily the Government will make 'em do it some day. Nov/ all you got to do, Bobby, is to I Quantitl eay you won't play on a course that won't go to that much expense for their country and their fellow-maa. If you do this you will do as much for aviation as Lindbergh. WILL ROGERS. A Good Crop Rotation Experiments have been conducted on the Central Farm at Ottawa during the last seventeen yeaTs in order to learn whith rotations give the best results under certain conditions, what sequence of crops produces the largest yields and which rotation is most effective in maintaining the productively of the soil and in controlling weed and insect pests. An excellent rotation is, with several others, described in the latest report of "the Dominion Field Husbandman, distributed by the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. It is a five year rotation with the crops in the following order: eorn, oats, clover hay, timothy hay, oats. There is thus one-fifth cf the land in corn for silage, two-fifths in grain, and two-iifths in hay. For the purposes cf the experiments both the clover and the timothy are harvested as hay. Manure is supplied twice, once for the corn crop at the rate of 15 tons per acre, and once for the timothy, top dressed on the clover sod in the winter at 15 tons per acre. These large of manure are applied be-land is not pastured. There is an excellent opportunity of eradicating weeds with this rotation. The timothy sod may be ploughed as soon as the hay has been removed and cultivated during the remainder of the season, and the cat crop may be handled in the same way. The corn crop will, of course, permit of considerable cultivation during the year it is grown. ndto the department of Religious . rf'of a°gear's .1 probably help to {rather up the work of the Quarter if you follow some such lino of questions as the following: How had the tribes of Israel been governed before they had a king? Why did they demand a king? , Why was Samuel apparently so reluctant to grant their request? Estimate the value of Samuel as a public man. Show how Saul's life was rendered largely a failure. How might he have made it otherwise? Tell the story of David and Jonathan so as to show the beauty anJ devotion of their friendship. Describe the character of "David as shown in outstanding events in his life. In how far was it true that he wa3 , man after God's own heart"? Why has he appealed to all generations as a great kin-?? What diid the rei^n of David accomplish for Israel? In how far did Solomon measure up to his father as a man, and as a king? Describe the social cleavage set at work by Solomon's policy. What was the outstanding contribution of Solomon's reign to the life of Israel? Name one gfeat sp.ritual lesson learned from the life experience of each of these first three kings of Israel. Aim--To gather up in review the principles and truths learned from the stories of these early kings of Israel and make them an inspiration to personal righteousness. Introduction--Wh-> was the first kinjr of Israel? What led the people to change their form of government into a monarchy? What did they hope to gain by it? How many kings ruled over united Israel? Name them in the order of their reigns. What prophets lived during this period? Presentation--Describe the character of Saul. Wherein did Saul fail? What lessons does the life and career of Saul teach? Describe the character of David under the following heads: David the shephred; the soldier; the statesman; the friend; the devoted father; the king. The following themes suggest themselves for either written, or oral composition: Killing a Giant; A Great Friendship; Returning- Good for Evil; Nathan's Parable; A Man After God's Own Heart; Solomon's Wise Choice; Rehoboam's Blunder. I In what connection were the following quotations used, and cite the full circumstances of the incidents: "Thou art the man"; "I have played the fool"; "I will chastise you with scor- Locate on the map the following-places and tell what important events wore associated with them in connection with the studies of the Quarter: Jerusalem, Gibeon, Mispah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Shechem, Gibeah, Mahan- YOUNG CANADA ;„ New Perils and Obstacles. r Then they found a fresh obstacle-- ft great mudband that stretched along the coast for twelve miles and into the sea for three miles more. They might have gone around It had their boat been less crazy. As it was they hesitated to put far out to sea. After a moment's hesitation the negro said the best thing to do would be to cut Dieudonne was originally arrested i a member of a gang of bandits who terrified Paris in 1913, robbing bank", perpetrating repeated daylight holdups and killing those who opposed them. The band was captured in a house In which they had taken refuge. The two leaders of the bandits, Bonnot and Gamier, as well as a number of police, were killed in the Dieudonno and the others captured were sentenced to death. The charge against Dieudonne was the attempted murder'of a bank messenger, who, recovering from the attack, had positively identified Dieudonne as the as- ! But Dieudonne continually ! protested his Innocence, and his state- ' ments were supported by notes written by both the leaders of the gang, j asserting that he had not been pro Application--Which of these early kings proved the best and greatest? Which was the weakest and poorest? Which one do you like the best? Why? How have you been helped by these studies? the best baby of « Oslo to Berlin Air Bus Starts Passage Saves 18 Hour3, and Joins Norway to Continental Routes Oslo--Tho German Luft Hansa air iute to and from Norway .has become i accomplished fact. Each morn-g at 7.35 the gray Dornier Wal air bus lifts its wings for a nine hours' flight for Berlin, with short stops at Gothenburg, Copenhagen an;l Stettin, t this last station the hydroplane is ranged for a land plane. And each afternoon at about C.3C another plane ; to land gracefully on the water Graesihoimen, a small island in the Oslo fjord reserved as 'an air sta-and brings passengers from Ber-.8 hours earlier than they could have come h-e-re'by rail or water. The Luft-Hansa is trying this route » an experiment. Its repress illative in Norway is U13 Norske Luftruter A. S., headed by Captain Meisterlin. The Norwegian company has got a concession for two to three months, and hopes that at the expiration of this time the authorities will have recognized the importance to Norway of her connection with the continent by air. The air bus takes five passengers only en the Oslo-Berlin route. Later on it may be replaced by larger machines capable of taking more pas. sengers. The distance f/oni Oslo to Gothenburg is covered in 2*4 hours; tc Copenhagen in 4% hours; and tc Stettin in 6% hours. From Berlin nearly all the capitals of Europe can be reached by air. This route marks the first linking up of Norway to th« great European air routes. Almost daily Colonel Lindbergh gives new proof of Lis courage and fortitude; he has now undertaken to f it through welcoming speeches in seventy-five American cities.