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"Northeaote," j 4ss at an angel a Te ------ * | PARADISE A A DESERT _ IRRIGATION = SCHEME FOR iN : MESOPOTAMIA Is Tarkey=----It{ Been the Being Considered by to Haye Garden of Eden. . is Supposed Prehistoric for the hiifpap race an the world tha supposed to have been the p Garden of Eden, stands now, in its history, a fair chan of 'reclamation. Up to thé present Abdui Hamid has never permitted anything that wculd really further *s% in that country and has al- ways teen opposed' to any movement i would in any way tend to be.re- al "Governmental « has greatly benefitec ] conditions th and Sir. William Willcocks, the most cele brated irrigation engineer in Europs, working on plans for the restora- tion of the ancient irrigation system "that made Mesopotamin, one of the richest coungries in the world. In an- cient times Mesopotdmia was especiahs ly noted for its rich and fertile agri: cultural 'lands. = In the land lay the secret of the great wealth of Babylon 'andl Ninevah, vr through the evelu- tian of the centuries the land has suf- fered from neglect and that which once furnished luxury to the denizens of the Babylonian palaces is now a desert. ~ Bir Willidm proposes, by dams and canals, to store the floods that are brought down from the mountains in the spring, in enormous reservoirs fi nse during the summer, and has cated locations for at least five, will, he believes, answer every pose. At least two of these locatiqns were used as reservoirs by the Baby- 'lonians and probably by previous civi- lizations, and Sir William will 'adapt to modern use the same canals that were then used to distribute the water over the plains. Several dry river beds can also be made available and thus economize the cost. After the 3,000,000 acres that well be firs reclaimed have been sold and set tled the area available for agriculture | can be doubled by the expenditure of $15,000,080 additional, and. ultimately the gain would be 6,000,000 acres cap- able of produting annually, according to his estimates, 2,000,000 tons of wheat, 4,000,000 hundred weight of cot- | ton and fabulous quantities of other exportable products, in addition to whatever food will be nccessary to | support a population of a million peo. Jo In addition to the agricultural pro. ducts he promises pasturage for mil- lions of sheep and goats and hundreds of thousands of cattle in the delta, and he would build a railway from Bagdad to Damascus with branches here and. there to tap the harvest fields, The total length of this road would be about 550 miles and, accord- ing to his estimates, it could be con- structed for between $10,000,000 and | $11.000,000. The Turkish Government falters and hesitates about accepting the re- port. They do not seem to be able to grasp the magnificent 'scheme, the vastness of which bewilders them. This attitude cannot be permanent be- cause in a little while the agricultural syndicates will become inte srested and in spite of Ottoman lack of courage will carry the scheme to a successful realization and the "Garden of Para- dize" will be reclaimed from the de- sert, Mesopotamia, cradle of place in -- Japan's Gorgeous Fire Brigades. The fire brigades of Japan are or- ganized into companies, and each of these companies carries some striking emblem as a kind of rally banner. Glorified drum majors' sticks, gigan- tic clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds, balls, cfescents--all kinds of strange signs--are borne proudly aloft by the standard-bearer of the detachment. It is the duty of this functionary to stand in the thickest of the fire, amid smoke, sparks 'and hissing water jets, ow where his company is at work. riiling tales are told of modern Casabiancas among these men who have remaines too long at the post of duty and have been engulfed in a fiery furnace upon the collapse of a roof.--~Wide World Magazine. How Timber Is Selected. Timber was formerly selected ae- | cording to its external appearance. The diameter and length of the piece, the straightness of grain, sometimes the weight, sufficed to determine both its commercial value and its destina- tion. The diversified industries of the present day require a corresponding diversity in the wood employed. For one purpose the important quality is | hardness; for another, elasticity; for | a third, ease of working or resistance to aitack by external agencies. The" compound microscope is now used for the minutes and careful examination of longitudinal and transverse sections of a specimen of timber.--London Telegraph. - - A Naturally Formed Punch Bowl. At Kenmare Castle, Ireland, is an enormous cockleshell, weighing 120 | pounds, brought from the South Sea Islands. It 1s moulded into a most | fantastic form and exquisitely ela- | borated by the hand of Nature. In | the olden days of baronial hospital ity it was "us as a. punch wl. | When this gigantic natural bowl, fill. ed with ite ocean of choicest punch, was placed on the oaken table in the vaulted hall of the castle it is record ed that the effect was very pleasing. An Artist's Criticism, Probably nd two artists ever criti- cised each oer more severely than | did Fuseli and Northcote, yet they | remained fast friends. At one time Fuseli was looking at Northeote' vl painting of the angel meeting Balaam and his ass. "How do you like it?" | asked Northeote afters 'long silence. replied Fuseli prompt- | ly. AS is gc) 42 98 388, but an | I Nipped. "Put," asked the defaulter, whos u was arranging for transportation to Mex tor ns you something phos 2. xo. teplied the ticket agent. "Pardon me, but I have," chimed in the opr. 3ppeating, at toad mo. racelets; thy steel bi : iecial jor i mited. Tthe™ | time that lors | against 3 { order when | lawful | serious accidents." f fo } Ex i pr | cal country, € continent by a strip of land that | | has since disappeared, but the boggy | lands { the | they THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, _-- eins = 3 asa : OLD-TIME FOOTBALL. 1175 the Game First Came Into x Popularity. Football owes. ils origin to "he Ro- mans, who played with a ball of cloth or leather stuffed with flocks, called arpastum, or with a windbag, called He, = ) ~ "I i8 not possible, says an writer, to produce direct evidence of the progress or popularity of the game in to the year wlasively estab football goes ures further am Fitzstéphen, i n prior back cricket, wr his 1 the fact the young men 2 the city to y 'at the well-known game of bal! i dinner. And there can be no doubt that this gare was footfall, but what tstanding features were can only be a matter of guesswork, The ganie was confined-to the lower sses; no rules exis for its con- the contests seem to have been. re in the natar= of general seran- the goals being placed at either end of a town or sree; and the num- ber of players etilions liabit of its au sted trol; 1 bles, Tr asem it met with op- authorities Ed- forbade football an- soument, owing to + Although popular, position from the ward 11., in 1314, der pain of impr 'great noise ir hastling over larg: Hany evils might forbid." The gain, atl: In 1315 Ydward his sheriffs to sup ress "such idle practices, becarse "the skill at woting" with arrows was almost to- tally laid aside for the purpose ob various useless and unlawful games But so persisient were the popular classes this almost national pas- Richard II. and his success- to continue. 'to proclaim 'tennisse, footballe, and other | This determined persecution effect, however the game they James 111. necessary to arms balls, from which arise, which God nevertheless, pro- in had games had no appreciable The peoples persistsd. in loved better than the law of Bcotiand also ou it quarterly practices of ved down and not to be used Played almott exclusively by t norant and I ugh, tabooed by the up- per classes, fccompanied by frequet deaths and serious injuries occasion- ed by the excesgive brutality and ruf- fiunism displayed, football was as de- scrvediy persecuted in those days as j= aneouraged and patronized by royalty to-day. That the game was still unlawful e time of Elizabeth is evidenced by the fact that a Mid- diesex "jury drought in a true bill against a number of persons. who "with unknown inalefactors to the number of 11 asseusbled themselves urlawfully and played a certain un- game called foote-ball, by of which unlawful game was amongst them a great af- result in homie dep and in tl means there fray likely to Afiatomy of Abuses in the Realm of Fngland," describes thall as a devilish pastime, result ing in brawling, murder and great ef- fu ion of blood. Yet so far the game was more baudball than football. The gradual refinement. and regulation of the game resulted in a decrease of its popularity, so that at the beginning of the nineteenth century the game al- most d appeared altogether Then the leading public, schools took up the game, sac h in a wn particular style, In the Blackheath and Rich- mond clubs were [ormed, and in 1883 tho Football Association. number of players was reduced from 2 to 16 v Htoubbs, in his ** Mammeths In England. The discovery of remains, appar- ently those of a hippopotdmus, a bison and other great beasts, in the peaceful County of Gambridgeshire, England, is an event of some inter. est and perhaps of some scientific interest It is well known, of course, historic ages the mammoths land. Many remains of early inhabitants of our isles been found and more be found when further ars made Iu particuar, we remark in pass- ing, that the great plain at Aldershot seems to offer good opportunities to the scientific enquirer, have examined it in pre- those time an inland-sea, and this view supported by berhood. Be that that the as it may, the hippopotamus - made his ho in the neighborhood pt the sent University of Cambridge' ems" conclusive, although he pru- dengly disappeared long hefore to distarb hig haunts by the venient scientific enquiries that oe. casionally embarrass the modern un- dergraduate England was i ar those days a tropi- ridently joined to district need not otherwise have changed much until were drained, for the marshy soil and pools would offer a suitable home to the hippopotamus. An English Jockey's Fortune, To make a fortune of £250,000 as' a jockey is a feat which places the late Tom Loates at the pinnacle of his profession so far as mere worldly wealth is concerned. Of course the | fees in those days are much greater: | than when Fred Archer, who left £66,000, . and. Fordham, worth under £3,000, were in the | { prime of their racing careers. But: | then it is, not every ome who has a' Leopold de Rothschild to adyise ir | the matter. of investments, of the Pen ticularly favored. --London . Globe. ------------ An Artist's' Fad. 'A London artist in lieu of a pieturs | | gallery has a collection of great paint- ford. palettes, some 500 in number, them being Ovit's, Isabey's | ar po 3 re Rousseau's. On many | of the Hes are' sketches 5 the painters who used the A About 600,000 ered from nearby faced in Cape Colony each year. Don't air your family skeleton. Keep! in the closet where it. belongs. Australasia embraces 000 square English than : to have Leen un- | te the city caused by | = ordered | r: "footballe and golie be utterly | 3 { ie ig- | In 1877 the | have | will probably | excavations | for few who | in even a cursory | manner can doubt that it was at one is | the discovery of shells | in. many exposed parts of the neigh- | evidence | the | | first professor appeared on the scene inéon- | soft,' | who was and it is | suid that Tom Loates was thus par. | a, eggs are gath- nds and sold for | ' "IN CONDEMNED CELL. Every Ydulgenee Is' Given to Prison- ers at the Last. - What happens 0 a man, condemned 10 die on the scaffold, from. the time leaves the dock doomed, to the mo- ment the small body of men enter his ell one morning to inform him that tix hour has come for the carrying out of the orders of the law? A condemned man has a few privi- ges not according 10 other convigjs ay be allowed to.smoke, he may ited a little beer on occasions i od may be just as he chooses, bus all this greatly depends on the wernor of the prison. A condemned prisoner i¥'mewer left alone, day ors bg warders are al- ways in the cell, and in the centre of the floor stands a small dable, and on it rests & book. .This book must be carefully written up, for it must con- %aiu a complete account of all the con- i viet's doing, his sayings, his requests, {and so forth. Im phort 1 contains a detailed account o the ¢ vict's life in the condemned cel 4&nd nothing must be omitted. Naturally this book makes very in- ting reading, but. dt is quite im- ible to have a look xf it, for after 1° execution is over tli¢ book is care- | fully sealed, and is-knewn of no more, {unless the Home, Office, for some rea. son, desires to peruse ils pages. A condemned prisoner does not go wnt to exercige with other convicts | he is taken ¢lit: quite alone when no inquisitive eyes may rest on him, and he is not paraded for Church service | with the osliers. He does attend cha- | pel, but he ocewpies a pew by him. iself, and is screened off so that other | convicis may not sea him.- Sometimes a condemned man plays «dominoes or draughts with she ward- ers in charge-of him--it is a rule to in- dulge any comdemmed prisoner so far | as possible, but a daily paper he is not {Allowed 10 have; although may read aswnuch as he likes, but only volumes from the prison. library. He does 'no | work unless he specially asks'for it, | and then he is only give such tasks | as do net necesitate the using of sharp ols In case of any attempt at sul- cide A condemned man may write and receive letters, and he may ses visi- ors, but never alone--a warder is al- ways present, and visitors see the con- { vict through a form of grille--they | may neither touch nor kiss him. On the morning of the execution { the prisoner is awakened carly. Break- jAast is given, and it consists of what the doomed man desires. Afterwards he may smoke, and await the coming of the chaplain. The latier official is always in the condemned cell on the morning of execution. In due time the comvict's ordinary lothes are handed in, and these he is roid to pus on, but no collar or tie accompanies she suit of clothes. They | are not wanted, for the neck must not be covered up in any way. Within a few minutes of eight o'clock or nine o'clock, a small body of men reach the door of the condemn- ed cell---~they are the officials entrust- ed with the carrying out of the law's lemands. They enter the cell; the | convict stands up, and is asiced by one particular official if he is "John Se- apd-so?" On an affirinative answer being giv- en, a document has to be signed by of the officials--this document. is a receipt to the governor of the prison for delivering up to the proper auth- orities the said "John So-and-so's body { for legal execution." | A few preliminaries have to be gone | through with--the prisoner, for in- stance, is asked if he has anything to say, any requests to make. The exe- cutioner is then introduced, and swift- ly the prisoner's arms are pinioned Onee on the scaffold: the business is on over--the feet are placed on the halked-out marks, the legs are deftly pinioned, 'the white cap 1s placed in position, the repe is adjusted with A noose lying behind the left | ear, the signal is given, and the { hangman does his part, and in a min- he i one | pleted. --~Pearson's Weekly. No Mistake About It. A popular actress tells the follow- | ing story of Sir Henry Irving, in whose support she appeared when he produced the pay, Peter the Great. It appears that at a rehearsal of the play in question at the Lyceum Thea- tre in London a wonderful climax had been reached, which was to be ghiened by the effective use of the thunder and lightning'< The carpenter was given the order. The words were spoken and instantly a noise which resembled a succession of pistol. shots heard off the wings. '""What on earth are you do- ing, men?" shouted Sir Henry, rush- nz behind*the scemgs. '""Do you call that thunder? It's not a bit like it." "Awfully sorry, sir," responded the carpenter, "bul the fact i$. fir, 1 | couldn't hear you because of the | storm. That was real thunder, sir!" A Strange Sea Fish. The angler, or fishing frog, of whieh | a specimen has just been captured { nsar Brighton, England, where common, seems more generally | distributed around our coasts than some -authofities sup The angler is so called from the cur- | jous "rod and bait" formed by a | modification of a ray "of the front /w { forsal fin, which was formerly fancied { to attract small fish; but the entire | hideous body is a marvelous mimetic adaptation of the bottom of the set, | upon which the creature. walks, using ! the pectoral fins for feet. Thia marine { ogre has little value except for mus- i eums, bat the gall is used by: Irish | facture of soap. tp mit "Your Humble. Servant." | appointed a surveyor or i Mr. Jase Worsfold's friend eof gma of a tion who waited on | Lwant 700 to understand soe thing cl 1 », a T i ri a a 5 3brs, the injured. on ovary THURSDAY, though no-~ washerwomen to bleach linen, and in | | Teeland it is utilized .for the maon- | «<4 Hf ramor bs "Anthony Trollope was at one time \ the Outpost. QUI tn | DECEMBER 22, 10do. TRICKS OF WOUNDED WILD rove | Face Death Under Water Rather Than | the Hunter 'Above. ' The cunning exhibited by certain species cf =i'! fowl when wounded is remarkable. Many a duck hunter has 'winged birds from a flock and seen them div: méyer gpparently 10 return to the surfite' again. Certain kinds of 'ducks , which are.cbtuse in their willingness to come to decoys | becpme, when struck by a ballet, lit- tle 'dévils of almost sarcastic clever- | Ness. A case in point occurred not long ago when a duck hunter oh the St. Lawrence showered a big coot with Fae shot from his boat secluded in 3 | ush bed. The duck first attempted Wo Tn but discovering that its win wis crippled, immediately dropped in- toWihe water again and dove. hunter stad up in his boat with his gun leveled for a second shot at bird when it should come to the sur- face, but he waited in vain for the.re- appearance of his game. +The | a | There were few ducks flying to oc: | cupy his attention, to row out and th olve if possible the- mystery of the coot's disappearance ™ water under decoy h w enough for him to weed « overed bottom. eared My i oa see and the surf lear water below boat, he hig Anchored a few feet from the , reed stalk, hanging was, the th the was evident he weed to keep hum 1-rising again to the surface had recei ved beiore the pain ir wounding bullet Rather self up to this strange enemy, to remain at the wings. out limply body of Ison m by tretel a thi ied and aver his back, give coat. W head own ft gEriy hed the' give him had bottom Running: his oar blade into the wat- the hunter tried to detach his game; but so tenaciously did the feet cling that it was only by severing the weed itself that the duck was brought again to the surface. Even when tak- en' into the boat, the bird's death grip remained fast upon the rush stalk. Another instance of the straits to whieh a /wounded duek will resort in evading a hunter was furmished by an Ametican golden eye,. The bird had been wounded among decoys in a small water hole of a frozen lake. When he deve and failed te reappear, the hunter walked to the other side of he r referred or so he determined i 020 28 BIB the hole, and there, threugh the trans- parent ice, was astenished to see his game swimming with both feet and wings along just under the ice. It was evident that the wounded duck, in its fright, had gone under ihe ice, and was frantically swimming about in search of an opeming. The hunter followed the desperate bird for some litte distamce. Then the poor crea- ture's strekes began fe grew weaker, the wing action ceased, and finally the bedy lay still agminst the under surface of the ice. With an axe the | hunter chopped out the drowned duck. Wound Builders. In many Canadian villages the man whe teaches the school is seeond in importance only to the minister. IY the minister is away, the public meet- ing is presided over by the teacher. If an athletic club, debating society, or reading cirele is to be formed, the teacher is expected to lead the way } His opinion carries weight, and his companionship is valued highly by the young men of the village. Ihat's the background for a little ident in which there figured the icher and a "citizen" of a village a w miles from Owen Bound. 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