' MONDAY, OCTORER 20 1919. . SHOVPVIVDIVL I OVOIDDNI0OIDIS Justice Hars! to Brave Yout COVOPDNVIB DEN BRIEF despe Canadian paper days ago Taylor, a boy who had ting been . prisonment for life court-martial, had been and would return in t loverseas. . This ; most interesting in ter days of the war of Clinton Taylor for the benefit of h men Clinton M. 1 seas serv . when only ! though he 1 military authorities to He left Canada for ruary, 1915, and all t and up to time of served faithfully in Canac Engineers rly in September, 1 while with Sth Field Canadian military medal for while in the line. Du service up to the tim tice he had a clean except for ome paltry which he was sentenced to days' field punishm€nt, N connection with this offence defended by his company « and a member of his bat n Robinson; has 'written regarding 8 same as follows: "He hac go fourteen days field No. 1, most unjustly, in I From the files of the I of Militia you 'will that during the month signing of armi € € vYéry grave dissatisfaction the whole Third Canadian D n on account of the poor rations, and also on account of the men having to carry their full packs during t march into Germany. The me 8th Canadian Company of FE , among others, refused to y the packs. We quote herewith rom letter of Sapper Taylor to his 1 dealing -with this| incident On the 14th-of Pecemt 1918; my division were marching the road to Germany, and when we got just beyorid Brussels Was a mutiny throughout the divi« sion. Divisional headquarters asked for delegates to come and they would talk to them. Eight of us went ke ed by the men to represent them, I myself representing a brigade of ens gineers, The complaints of the men were at the food was bad, and that tipy were not going to their packs any longer. Well. m er, through us eight being straight to the thousands that we represent. ed, they turned the division around to come home to Canada, but on the. first day of march they arrested t eight of us as ring-leaders of 'a mu tiny. The seven of the eight gave five years' and to me two years' hard labor." This story has been confirmed in practically every detail by Pte. Noel Robinson and Lieut. Hanes, 6f Vane couver, both of whom were in the same battalion at the time of mutiny. Sapper Taylor was sentenced January 28, by FGOM. years" hard labor on the charges: (1) Joining in a ny, and (2) being present and not doing his utmost to suppress a mutiny He was once again defended by his own company commander, and in passing the sentence of two years, the court recommended him to mercy. He was oonfined in No. 7 Military Prison, France. While serv- ing this term his sestence was in- creased from two years' hard labor to life imprisomment, but on April 3, 1919, he made his escape. From a letter written from Minister's office, Department of Militia, Ottawa, on September 23, to : Mrs. Jean A. Taylor, Toronto, we quote as follows: "You are in error in that the sentence of life one dents of the lat- story repeating nlry= and s worth 8 Iellow-co ce he Engineers Noe the there entire P they the on toll the supposing a Bi "3 I might, Wednesday ment imposed He pro- be appre- hende l tired into fully , ETT us that fi n scaped, g of a purely 1 have n a comparatively not absented hime me had he 8 On age Gen Sevent crease of imprison- | a A AA a aso One year ago today, interned in Holland. Find another Dutchman. Answer to Saturday's puzzle: Upsid October 20, 1: 18, 18,000 retreating Germans were e down, nose at arm Keeps the closet clean White Bri¢h ns the bat tens taps h ahd basin Fo Ld IIT 7 TR (0577070677877, rden girl glal t the Opera 22nd. Grand Oet BUOYANCY OF THE AIR. Temperature Has a Great Deal to Do With Buoyancy of an Airship. even t p than Waler-bort erature has {great ¢ to do with thé buoyancy of i air Here, however, we dox; for the officer, carefully shades his thermometer from ays of the sun» re reading ough his 1 going to be exposed to full are m t 10 ar to pr ior the same paradox that gives gnation in average at the close of a broil- he reads the official according to which highest temperature was only He feels positive it was at ired---and so it was over in-baked pavement . The universal practice of taking temperatures in the shade is not perversity on the part of the nan. He would like to be wer the question;- "How the sun." Unfortunately, 18stion merely prompts anoth- How hot ig what in "the A thermometer exposed to sunshine registers the tempera- the glass and metal ¢' which ade, not the temperature of the the report, shaded thermometer "regis- re or less accurately the tem- perature of the air, perhaps the most important factor of weather The thermometer is doubly protected by wooden case Perhaps there is also a ventilating device in the shape of a revolving fan. An alternative to reading the ther- mometer in the shade is to whirl it rapidly in the air at the end of a cord. The excessive heat which the instrument absorbs immediately lost by conduction the Popular Science. \ The St. Swithin Traciion. A "special c&ble déspatch" to a Néw York baper tells that on July Is (St. Swithen"s Day) 'a water spout which burst about Tobermory, in Argyléshire, spread a shower of her- ring over the town and part of the town of Hull. They fell in heaps on the pavements and roofs. Gulls were quickly gobbling them up, and later these were assisted by hens, ducks, is to air. -- | and cats." | talk about | a There has been a great deal of "St. -Swathin" for many years. It turns out that Swithin never was a saint, aithough he was bishop. Every newspaper every | Year reminds people that July 15 is | St. Swithin's Day, and'that if it rains | that day it will rain for forty days. { As a matter of cold, scientific facet, | the weather bureau expert in New | York says that the longest spell of i continuous rainy days known in that | district was in 1907, | days. | there ever' were forty namely, eleven The same expert doubts if consecutive { days of rain anywhere except in the | tropics, and except, of course, the "rainy season" mentioned in Genesis. In connection with Swithin it may | interest those who have not looked { him up in the encylopedia to see the | origin of ihe legend: He was Bishop i of Winchester about 865 A.D. Before | he died, he begged to be buried in the i church. open churchyard and not So he was. in the But after a { hundred years the monks thought to | burying him i honor him and the church by re- in the chancel. They appointed July 15 for the removal, but on that day it began to rain heay- ily. and continued steadily for forty days and nights. The monks took the hint and let Swithin stay where he was, * ------------------ Women War Workers. During the war the number of wo- men employed in the British postal service doubled in numbers, and in other branches of the civil service i they advanced from 5,500 to 107,500, { an increase of 1.950 'per cent. the In tramway service the Increase { mounted to over 1,500 per cant, {| while the jump in the number em- ployed in finance amd banking ad- {| vanced 687 per cent. 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