PAGE THIRTY-SIX THE DAILY BR!TISH WHIG TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1910, To he 2 re ED DR WES THE WHITEST. uf adr gh x] 1] SAA ETT EEE A Small Figured. Wife (reading): Big checks fer dresses will not be in demand this season, Husband: Thank heavens.--Car- toons Magazine. The Mohammedans of North-eas- tern Persia and Turkestan are rising against the Bolshevik because of re- sentment over forcible conscription; according to a despatch from Simla, India. SINCE da I 303:FSCOUGHS COMMISSION « THE SOLDIERS' AID Ras been tnodrporated by the Frovine: 88 Ontario for the purpose of assisting 85 reinstate discharged ofoers - and men in civil life. We sordlally invité the co-operation of the public in the important work of Jecurs employment for soldiers whe ve een discharged from military service, 5 VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Classes for the vocational re-educa fon of soldiers Who have beén so dis 4d as 00 prevent them from resum. former og¢cupations are pro ed ree of y soigler oh add dition, She support of the soldier epead- an led during the period of retrMining, and for one month after. rther Infermation as to courses In be obtained W. 'W. Nichol Ever tendent a Renin 118 Cel Street, Toronto. . RELIEY FUND. a ons for the asststance of sol families 2 temporary distress will be thankfully received and ack gowleq and should be made payab.e the order of the Commission. Head OMecet . » TORO! Me COLLEGE STHEMT. 19 hp '| the 'June fighting 'od aa. the battle of DISPOSES OF A LEGEND THERE WAS NO BATTLE OF CHATEAU THIERRY. ; Frank H. Simonds, the Most Famous American War Correspondent, Says That tho United States Army Did Not Save Paris and Win the War In a Battlé That Never 'Was ¥ought. N a special despatch from Paris the most eminent of American -- War correspondents, Frank H. Simonds disposes of the legend that the Americans at "the battle of Chateau Thierry" rolled back the Huns, saved Paris, and won the war. Mr. Simonds is the foremost Amer- fean writer on the war, and he de- Berves a great deal of credit for the manner in which he has handled this case, going into the facts thoroughly and setting them forth explicitly, In doing this he knows what a legend has. been built up about the battle | of Chateau Thierry all over the Unit- { ed States, and how painful it will be to his countrymen to have to aban- don the fancy that in that fight the | Americans "saved Paris" and rolled { back the German host "After Every- | body Failed." But Mr, Sknonds de- cided that it was in the best interests of his country that the truth should be told. He visited the scene, he interviewed the various American ofs ficers engaged in that sector, and he Seis forth the facts. After doing so he says there was really no "battle of Chateau Thierry" unless the name be applied to the whole operation be- tween the Aisne and the Marne, since, except for the action of the i machine gun detachment of the Third | Divisiod on June 1 of last year, no fighting took place in the immediate vicinity of Chateau Thierry itself. He adds: -- "When the Second and Third Divi- sions arrived on June 1 the great Germdn advance was almost at an end. The 'victorious Germans had been 'advancing for six days. They had outrun thelr artillery and their Supplies. The best proof that the advance was about at an end is found in the fact that the Amerifans were never attacked on the lines they took up, save as the Third Division parti cipated in the general German offen- sive six weeks later. "It is therefore inAccurate to as- sert that the intervention of the Second Division on the Chateau Thierry saved Paris, stopped the great German drive, or did more at the moment than to support and to relieve the exhausted French divi- "| ions and conceivably halt the Ger- mans a mile or two short of the posi- tion they might have reached before they were compelled to abandon their advance." The fighting 'of the Americans at Belleau Wood was, Mr. Simonds says, "brilliant, 'magnificent, but a highly localized affair in which the 1arines and the Ninth and Twenty-first In- fantry gave a splendid indieation of the fighting qualities o our new troops." And he says: "The capture of Belléau Wood did not materiaily change ithe situation, nor dfd it sup- Ply a vantage point of any particular value in the later offensive." In cpn- cluding his article Mr. Simonds says: "I have found in the United States a general notion that in some fashion or other the marines saved Paris in in the ,Belleau Wood engagement generally describ- Chateau Thierry. This is, of course, an entiré miscon- ception of the size of the fight, the numbers engaged, as compared with Foch's great counter-stroke and the final battles along the line taken as a whole vast engagement." In exploding the "legend" which sensational writers at home had built up about Chateau Thierry, in defi- ance of the facts as all Burope knows. them, Mr. Simonds is doing his coun- try a service. The Americans fought splendidly at 'every opportunity in the war; those who got intg the fight- ing showed in every instance such qualities as made the presence on the side gf the Allies of huge American forees a reserve power that the en- emy recognized as an overwhelming menace. The Germans had adhered to the senseless theory that the Americans, having no experience, would not fight when the test came, Their experience with Canadians should have taught them something, but evidently it did not. When the test came the Americans proved to be hungry for all the fighting they could get within reach of. They ate it up, But while this is true the legend about Chateau Thierry, about saving Paris, and rolling back Hindénburg's hordes "After Everybody Failed" is i matter, The legend was gely due to stay-at-home sensa- nalists, like Wesley O. Howard, Court judge, Third Judicial THE GARDEN, OF EDEN. The First frrigated Area In the World, | "And the Lord God planted a gar- den to the eastward of Eden. And & river went out of Eden to water the garden; and it was parted imto four heads." --QCenesis. Sir Willlam Willcocks, who, in be- half of the British Government, had charge of the wonderful irrigation works in Egypt, was assigned not long Ago to the duty of planning a similar large-scale enterprise for the restor- ation of ancient Babylonia to its fore mer agricultural productiveness. Thus it happened that he located, to the reasonable satisfaction of archaeologists, the veritable site of the Garden of Eden. For repsons Wholly practical, he thought that the best way to begin. 3 Starting from the spot where Jew- ish tradition placed the Gates of Paradise--the word paradise mean ing *'garden" -- he followed the traces of the four streams men- tioned in Genesis, which, as thérein named, were the Pison, the Gihon, the Hiddekel and the Euphrates. The Euphrates (known by that name to-day) flowed through the great city of Babylon. The Gihon is Dow called the Hindia. The Hidde» kel is the modern Sakhlawia, which Sows into the Tigris at Bagdad. The Pison has gone dry, but is represent- ed by many-armed channels "'encoms passing the whole land of Havilah" (see Genesis), which lay between Egypt and Assyria, The Euphrates enters its delta a few miles below Hit, there leaving the desert and debouching into a vast alluvial plain. In this departure it has a considerable fall, with a number of cataracts, and along & narrow valley giant water-wheels lift water to. irrigate the land on both sides of the stream. The entrance to this valley, accord ing to Jewish tradition, was the gate of the Paradise in which Adam and Eve dwelt, and from which they were expelled for disobeying a divine com- mand. There the traveler first meets the date palm, which is a "tree of life" (see Genesis) to the whole Arab world. Along the valley garden succeeds garden. It is to-dily a veritable para- dise, orchards and diate groves check ered with fields of cotton. The cli mete 18 everlasting summer, so tha! three or four crops a year may b grown: Ancienily the cataracts were muc higher, and water-wheels were Wu: necessary, the water being led off b ditches. The Garden of Eden, indeed, gail interest from the fact that it see: to have been the first irrigated ar in the world. ------------------ Sun's Heat Forecasts Westher. The little town of Calama, Chi is located in one of the driest glons on the face of our globe. after day, almost without bre throughout the year, the sun shin from a 'cloudless sky. Weather this sort certainly has no appeal [ the average man; yet two scientis from .the Smithsenlan Institution o Washington, D.C, find it ideal. A might be expected, their task is al unusual one, igvolving daily 'mess urement of the heat reaching Calam. from the sun, 93,000,000 miles away ©SDILe . appearances. the werk | thoroughly practical, as a strikin; correfpondence has beén discovers: between the changing weather o: our little planet and the fluctuating value of this solar radiation. In fac: the two observers already telegrapt their results each day to the Govern: ment of Argentina, which make: them the bagis of temperature fore casts for several days to come; and with such suceess that pi Ar€ now suggested for similar stations in oth- er rainleds portions of the earth, as in Australia, South Africa, Egypt and India. By co-ordinating such wide. spread observations, it is felt that remarkable results could be seéured. --Popular Mechanics. ; eer David Was a Wise Youth. The the rising generation as to thé Bible is often deplored; but occasionally the young men of aptness of comment on Beriptural subjects that is gratitying. Here is an example quoted by a subscriber of Outlook: The young artileryman had said that Germany was a bully and a coward and carried slew him with a the brook.. To for a mo- inte ignorance of some elements of to-day display an' her defeat in her tator Smooth stone from the artilleryman ESCAPED FROM RUSSI: YOUNG SLAY WILL BECOME CITIZEN OF ENGLAND. Remarkable Story Ilhistrates the Condition of the Country Now Ruled by the Bolsheviki -- Girl ' Had Fantastic Adventures and Hardships In Escaping From Her Native Land. HE thrilling tale of a herofe Russian girl who, after a series of almost fantastic adventures and hardships, managed to escape from the scenes of Bolshevik térroriam, and is now safe in England, is told by a correspon dent in the Manchester Guardian. The correspondent writes: -- "I bad just crossed Finland, travel- ling on my way home from the Estho- nian front near the Peipus Lake; and a8 I sat in the cabin of a ship that was thréading hér dificult way through the fcesbound channels of the Aland Islands, a girl, apparently : in the early twenties, wrapped in a long coat of wildcat skin--white with | black markings--eame and sat down opposite me, "Her curly hair was eut short about her head, and she was pale with the pallor which you May see this year in most of the town-dweil- ing women and children of Eastern Europe. " "But none of her fellow passengers Could overlook her beauty; and I, at least, could not miss the charm of the Russian gpeéeh in which from time to time she addressed her companion. "Both of 08 were writing, and fit was more than ah hour before, upon some chince question of hers, we came into conversation together. I found that she and hér mother were freshly escapéd from Petrograd, hav- ing driven forty miles and walked Six through the sfiows of the Finnish frontier. Now shé was coming to gland to join a sister there, and probably to marry an Englishman. "I helped the two of them, as beat I could, through the difficulties of Seandinavian travel; and several times, when her mother had gone to Test between stages of her journey, the girl and I explored the stréets of foreign citles, and 1 listened to her stories of the life from which she had =0 lately escaped. 'So 'the three of us travelled as companions till the night came on which we were to strike the English coast, en it was that she spoke most vividly of the Ife she had left behind her. Little more than a year before she had gone by herself apart to live in a mountain cottage in the south of Russia. A very old peasant and his wife had looked after her, setting out for het each morning bas- kets of fruit for her daily bread; and she had given herself up to wander ing in the mountains, attended only by a great dog that was half a wolf, which she had called upon once only to Protest her from a band of wild gypsies, "But with him she strayed about ihe sides alone, 'climbing after owers, lying and wa animals at' we L Was not really a witch. 'She had made her room, shé said, 18to a garden of changing wild flow. ers; and there between her wander- ings ghe had read a multitude of books. | Bons io. stay with her sister in a Aeishboring town; dnd once, for sev- weeks, phe had ced each night a solitary dance before the Bal- sheviki in the local theatre, black robed but for her red shoes, and won applause and earned money to heip pay fof her journey back to Pet for by now. she had de: cided that hér happy lonely life in min a ek tire ho nts m k to arrange her mo escape to Bngland, "Her frien a her that Petro- grad was full dangers and vio- lence, and that in any impossible for her to travel so 'de! to long, delayi Souraty ful of | "ages" the worm ceasés to eat, but | or so éges; and speedily dies. And refugees across the frontier; and so, after six months' waiting, she and | Ler mother, leaving Petrograd itself with only a small basket, by virtue of some permit to go and-seek food, had éscaped across the frontier and came safely to Hels ors." I 'WORMS CLOTHE WOMEN. Silk Has Been Used for Over 5,000 | Years. | A grey, ugly, ungainly-looking little insect, with 12 eyes, 18 noses. 16 feet, and a vefy strong mouth-- | ath is the worm that plays so im- tant a part in «clothing the fair sex, says Tit-Bits : Silk worms are divided into two classes, domestic and wild. Tha for- mer feed only upon mulberry leaves, and the latter on warfous leaves, but principally those of the oak tree. The silk produced from the domestic worms is naturally superior to' that from the: wild insects. 8ilk worms comes from (he eggs of the silk-moth, Each moth lays about. 300 to 500 eggs, about the size of a pin's head. It takes 440.000. eggs to weigh a pound. Thess eggs are laid in June, and in the follow- ing April they are hatched, a cater pillar emerging from each egg. They remain in the larva or "grub" stage for about six weeks, changing their skias four times dur- ing that period. Before each of these afterwards it feeds with a voracious appetite, When it is full-grown the worm begins to make its cocoon, an oval case of silk threads, about the size of a pigeon's egg. Having wrapped itself securely in its cocoon, it becomes a chrysdlis, and remains asleep for about twenty days. Then it gnaws fits way through: its covering of silk and emerges a winged moth, In a few days, it a female, it depdsits its 300 80 the marvellous process begins all over again, Naturally, only a cettain propor- tion of domestye or specially cultivats ed silk-worms are allowed to reach the moth stage. Their cocoons are taken away in order to obtain the ers ee ---------- Arm eto en a LOEW'S TORONTO THEATRE. FIRST. MORTGAGE GOLD BONDS Payable Canada and New York. 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Care Has to be taksn that the raw silk does not lose its bril- liance; 'that too much of the natural gum and grit aré not reinoved frou its surface, as this would weaken the already extremely delicaté thread; that the threads are dried properly, Bo that the color remains uniform. * HOUSE CLEANING Cadillac Electric Cleaners Easy $32.50, $37.50, $42.50 Rental $1.25 per day J. R. C. Dobbs & Co. Tel, 819 41 Clarence St and so oft. Then follow othér chemi cal and meclManical operarions, 'The row silk 18 boiled, pounced, purged, combed, cut into convenient lengihe twisted, spun, and wound into yarn Twisting plays a great patt in the manufacture of silk. The more it ir twisted the less brilliant, hut th: stronger it becom®s. In the makin. of some gilks that are semi-trans parent and dull (such as crepe). thers 'are. about' 3,000 twists to every yard, but the average 'twist age' to the yard is 650, It Is about 5,000 years since silk was first used, after being discovered and made in Chind.'. During many centuries the Chinese guarded the secret; then Japan found it out, and 80 it spread slowly. over Asia. snd then Europe. It is less than 200 years since the silk {ndustry developed in Burope. To-day the annual production of silk is produced in Italy, from whieh country about £20,000,000 worth is annually exported. About 700,000, $12.00 to Winnipeg, plus % per mile beyond. cent Going dates, Angust 12th and 19th. For further particulars, apply to J. P. HANLY, C.P. and T.A, G. T. Ry., Kingston, Ont. ANCHOR ANCHOR-DONALDSO! egular Passenger Se all Bri to ANCHOR-D TO GLAS FROM Montreal, Saturnin Montreal, Cassandra oe Montreal, Saturnia ...,. " Montreal, Cassandra van CUNARD 1 New York, Orduns New York, Vauban . New ¥ Ordasn New York, Carmanin TO PLYMOLT New Work, Carolin New Ta aor Ane, New York, yal George : A TO CHERBOURG AND SOUTHAMPTON New or Wiuretania Fania Sash 3 New Yo Auret nls | . t. 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