Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Oct 1919, p. 13

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J re hn ~slephant will foam no more in the . ditebes- and wallowed in Wi DNESDAY, OCTOBER. 8, 1919 POPP ETPPLOPIGPLDIGDODG ODS The African Elephants Are to be Exterminated ; To Protect the Setters BABA AALAND ADDDL v oP oe POLOL0 F the settlers near Port Elizabeth Cape of Hope province, Africa, had taken to estab- lishing wonderful irrigation ditches and farms at this point, the tlephants of Addo Bush still might 00k forward to attaining a ripe old Age, say a hundred years or so. bhe- fore they buried {hemselves quietly beneath the ooze of a tropical forest ind went to the heaven of all good slephants But as it is, one of the greatést tlephant hunts of modern times is about to be staged in Addo Bush, and unless Providence, in the shape of the British ly angust proclamation, intervenes my lord the Good not Ab imperial mandate f Empire or some sir torests of South Africa Civilization has and Around and about in Cape of Good Hope province until now it has made its last demand upon the wilds, and that demand is that the wild ele- phant shall be exterminated The provincial council has listened tp the demand last and has decreed thats the Addo Bush elephants must go Strolligg out of his forest in jade Bush, where for years he has dwhit in freedom under the profection of the British Government, the big fellow has discovered the pleasing works of the settlers. In the first place, there were de- lightful mud and water baths in long rows in every direction Now, an elephant likes bathing as well as any human being, and he loves wallowing in the mud Natur- ally, on discovering the series of baths which the diligent settlers had opened for irrigation ditches, the herd of elephants resid- Ing in. Addo Bush took advantage of the find. They bathed in crept up the irrigation the soft mud, and incidentally they broke down the dams, in the construction of which the settlers had tolled for many weary weeks. After they had gone back to the forests the settlers crept out from their homes and look- ed ruefully at the damage. It was a case of rebuilding dams and redig- ging ditches many, many times But this isn't all the fun that the with the settlers. When by dint of faithful tending, | splendid | MORE BIRDS IN ENGLAND British leles Swarming With Them After Year of Absence. One part of the population of the ritish Isies has increased out of all reckoning since the spring, says an English exchange. When winter was known since The frosts had multitudes both native birds migrants. 3 the countryside swarms with native birds. The nesting sea- son was ideal, and seldom, if ever, were so many big clutches success- fully reared. Some birds nad progue- ed two families before the dro.th broke, and are producisg a third. There are fruit growers who wers prophesying terrible plagues owing to the absence of birds, but are pow saying that they wonder whether too many caterpillars are not a lesser evil than too many birds. It is hard, though you know the benefit is greai- er than the loss, to see your rasp- berries vanishing as they ripen A rather inexplicable fact nay be noted in'respect of some of the sum mer visitors. In general they have been very numerous, but there were exceptions, of which the most notable was the apparent absence of fiycaten- *rs. They have now unaccountably re- appeared in many haunts where they had been missed. Was there a latéd migration or did the birds prove more than their usual skill in evading de- structive frosts Back to Topper. From the town of Hyde, part of a district near Manchester, where for many years hat making has been carried on, says the London Morning Post, a correspondent sends the following The silk hatting industry has been spoken of by ill-informed writers as & detadent trade, but so remarkable has been its revival of late that old men who had gone into ret ment in the Denton and Stockport distriets are being asked to come back and give the trade the benefit of what little productive energy they possess There is talk in hatting cireles in the Manchester district of a special new brand of topper, to be called the "Vietory Derby" in commemoration of . the great event lately, when nearly every man on the stand at Epsom on Derby day, from the King downwards, appeared in orthodox dress with a new-style silk hat. Those who have noticed the trend of the fashions in men's headgear cannot have missed the tendency of late years to follow {he continents! style in both silks. bowlers and straws. The lower conical-shaped elephants of Addo Bush have had | CTOWN Of the SUK hat has replaced | the pre-war style, which had | Nno- ticeable curve like.a bell, and obser-: Ju was a lineman before the war. It was difficult to find a uniform broad enough across the shoulders for. him when he "joined up" in 1914, Jim found army discipline hard at first, but picked up the "war business" very quickly. He was one of the first of the "trench raiders," a Canadian contribution to the art of warfare, Jim seemed to bear a charmed life. Time after time in the dead of night Jim jumped into a German trench, spreading fear and disaster, and returned safe and sound. : But one fell night his luck gave out. He stepped, into a stream of machine gun-bullets. PAGE THIRTEEN nw 3 the messages over the wires that the other fellow put up, So under the direction of the D.8.C.R. telegraph instructor Jim studied and perfected himself as an operator. This ac- complished, the D.S.C.R. quickly found him a position. Jim is all right now. He's contented as only a man who works can be contented. He is earning more money than before. His én- thusiasm is high for the D.S.C.R., which gave him the training whereby he is again an in- dependent and prosperous citizen.-- Afterall -- it was for Canada that Jim fought and suffered --and Canada is only too eager to repay Jim weeding and watering their crops the | Yant people can detect the Fy ach | BSUUIeTs were beginning to dream of | Shape here, just as they ean tn the & big harvest and a balance in the | L2PPer crown--very slight and ony bank they were likely to awake some pur sebtible bechuse the Te Sar fine morning to find that somebody | DiEher than before -- When consciousness came to him again, far in the rear of our lines, he was horrified to find > and every man impaired. in body or health through service to his country, - Addo Bush. , herd, between hundred in number, . bors and has be free forest ments, oly sury var & ¥ equal prehensile lips, forming only had been in the melon patch And it wasn't a boy or a pack of | boys who could be scared off by an frate farmer. It was My Lord the Elephant, who was romping and raging about over the green patch which had cost so | many patiept hours. serunching up the delicious fruit which was to have been gathered that ¥ery day, perhaps, for transfer to the port and then to a hungry Europe. { An elephant can get away with a lot of fruits Hf all sorts. He also likes green vegetables of any kind. He ig very adaptable when it corges to diet. The great creatures even like berries of ordinary size and will | most painstakingly devour several tons of them in their patient determ- ination to get a full meal at any cost of time and trouble. So that is what the South farmer had against the elephants of They are a protected one hundred and two and they have long occupied a forest reserve of about six thousand acres in the heart of the bush, a district that until com- | paratively recent a8 possessing little farming value, It Was mostly scrub land, waterless and not fenced off. The farms that were | developed there seemed of little | value. But recently irrigation from | Sunday's River has greatly increased | the fertility of the farms, and. this development has § i Suffered by the settlers from the de | predations of their gigantic neigh- | aroused them to a | determination to win the consent of | the Government to their destruction. A committee which i es of fencing to enclose | the elephant's preserve and that this Water, as there would not be suff | elent within the enclosure, and it is ; probable that they would have to be | Partially fed also. It is more than doubtful if the enclosure would pro- Vide enough natural food. And even if $100,000 were Spent for a fence and a system of Watering and feeding established at great expense to the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, still the elephants would not animals any more. would be simply park orna- Pitiful survivors of the great 'Thee which once trecked so boldly and | freely through forest and marsh, The Addo Bush elephants are said | ples of a distinct - The charaéteristics are very 3 Sirongly arched fore- orelegs and & very hairy . The African elephant has two ® margin of the proboscis. It has : three tods on the hind foot. A very important distinction is in the conformation of the trumk, which | 100ks as if it wera made of a number of graduated segments instead of tapering smoothly, as in the case of natie Ste ant. In size the Afri ophant often surpasses the Asta- ~ elephant, reaching a height of twelve fet at the shoulders. The | gircumference of the forefoot is one. | Balf thie height of the shoulders, Mrs. J. Wallace has sald her resi. ¢ ® and ad) . Eaton, African\. years was regarded ! i Pembroke on a hat of the better quality. The bowler has changed its shape since 1915 perhaps oftener than any other, but until now it has had a dis- tinctly continenfal touch. with its higher and more rounded crown and curled brim, which gives a distin- guished appearance to a tall man. - So very busy have manufacturers been with the soft felt hats and velour hats that they have rejected all attempts to change the shapes and Styles in them, but some slight alter- ation may be looked for next year There is a story going the round of the trade that a special "Peace" hat is soon to be placed on the mar- ket. It woitld not be a surprise to men in the trade if the first head to wear one of these new hats were the King's. It would not be the first time His Majesty had set the fashion In hats and caused a boom fi a par- | cular line. Some years ago a Stock- port firm submitted an advance sam- ple hat to the King. He was seen in it, and. of course, photographed { at a big social function. Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe, The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth, Acoording to an. inventory. just-hasd- 1 ed down, rivalled that of any of the movie stars. A list of | present-day her clothing at ome time included 99 robes, 126 Kirtles, 269 gowns, 136 foreparts, 125 petticoats, 96 cloaks, ap mantles. Designers fash- ioned her gowns from (he richest ma- | terials, including gold tissue, erim- son satin, cloth of gold, cloth of sil- } t, drake-colored | satin, dove-colered velvet; lady blush i ver, . white velvet, is: A forepart of embroidered very fair With borders of the sun, moon and other sighs and gold, silver and Ors, with an embroidered border of beasts beneath. She carried a fan With white feathers and with a gold« en handle set with precious stones, Her slippers' were made of cloth of silver embroidered with seed pearls. She wore a parasol of crimson vel. vet damask, striped with Venetian gold and silver lace, with a handle of mother-of-pearl. -------------- Moving In Prayer, An eminent divine is responsible for the story that when he was a boy he heard the deacons at his father's house discussing the merits of their respective ministers. After many had | "Waal, spoken one old elder said: our minister gives so much tion to his farm and orchard that we get pretty poor sermons; but he's highly movin' in prayer in caterpillar canker-worm time." tire Comprehensive, English rector (to parishioner) -- Good morning, Thompson. I hear you have & son and heir, Parishioner-- | Yes, sir; our household now repre- sents the United Kingdom. Rector How so? Parishioner--Why, you see, the I am ish, wife's Irish, nurse ugiie n . is -- Beajamin H. Trottier, arrested at Th two weeks ago and brought 0 Was convicted. 85 doublets, 83 safeguards | planets of Venice; | silk of sundry col- | tch, and the bady walls, | his right leg missing. During the ensuing months Jim's progress was -- Clearing Station,-- Boulogne, -- Blighty and Home--Canada ! The shock of the operation left Jim pretty weak for a time. He was content to sit idly in a chair in the sun, But this grew tiresome after .a bit, When he began to think about getting 'back to work he realized that a lineman with an artificial leg was rather - impractical. That was his trade. He had spent years at it. And now he was barred from following it. At this critical juncture, the Department of Sol- diers' Civil Re-establish- ment came forward and with knowledge and experience pointed the way out. Total number of men new Total number of graduates in civil sccupations After long and earnest discussion, it was mutu- ally decided that the nearest thing to his old trade was that of a tele- grapher despatcher. If Jim couldn't any more string wires on the poles Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-estadlishment Brief summary of the work to August 3158, 1919, VOCATIONAL Total number of retraining courses undertaken .. Varisty of occupations tawght..... travers Perceatage of re-trained men placed MEDICAL Mumbac ob amputation cases fitted with free artificial * * » * % The records of the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment contain endless details in the matter of re-training ex-soldiers--a disabled farm laborer is now a machinist; a carpenter who lost four fingers on his right hand is now a draughtsman at a good salary; plasterer is now a printer. and interesting "record of limbs or impaired a former So it goes--a long men deprived of in health--equipped with' training and knowledge, now following new and suitable trades. This great nation-wide organization of the D.S.C.R. requires a con- siderable expenditure. To meet its expenses a part of the Victory Loan 1919 is to be used But its maintenance, until everydisabled ex-soldier is fitted with a vocation enabling him to earn for himself an adequate and independent living, is one of the most sac- red obligations that Canada has to dis- charge. Support to the limit of your ability-- 17,449 he could learn to send \ of the VICTORY LOAN 1 "Every Dollar Spent in Canada" Teswed by Canada's Vi, ™ cooperation with the Minister of Finance on of Canada. 919 Loan Committed 4 % charge of He married in per cent, has} The Winnipeg street car men 8d-| To combat smuggling the German 'been floated by the Cho-Slovakia vised the street railway company that Government has instituted a system to the north country, Government. {i the back pay provided fur in the! of control on the border of the whole Joung girl seamed Lillian Fleurie, 20] A rund. already amoucting to $5.-| Mather award was Rot paig by Tues-| territory occupied by the Allies. whom ha Wis 2Rervards married ah 300.008, de Daal falsed at Buenos day sight, they would strike Waa | As Te were ua r : : | nowday, HI Loy & Tew days! ing citvumstances in the case « Trottier eT ht Sols wm pir English college girls are taking up | was wiven two months" Annmeaamant. | anebel as 8 melas. Alvar iom. A real, and- subsequently wie. Some Tew > A second loan at and they intend taking up residence In Athens in the near future. - On Satu Ane death occurred of one o 8 ¥ respected resi. ts of Elizabethtown, James Rol. Pambroke. k He hes been : f nrsamoniag Cr A tain improvement The scarcity of school teachers this petite is decidedly | year will be greater than ever before, | better and he ix sleeping well. [Owing to the smallness of the dverage { Sydney, N. 8 Wales, assembly an- | salary ald them. General Denikene's troops are now | nounces aft Increase in living wages! Owing to the recent {rouble at { within thirty miles of Oro!, on their from $14.40 to $15.00 a week. i Tray, Jugo-Slars ace destroying | way to Moscow, Bolshevists are sur- France now has about 2,000,000 | Jiatian roperty and maltreating al bmniidebing in Tacze Bema i women than there are sen. idan mublivets there. Ey > s

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