Joma DECEMBER 1, 1919. NOT REALLY 'NEW' odern Comforts Weil Known to the Ancients. Running Water in Houses, for In starice, Was a Luxury Enjoyed by Both the Roman and Early ; 4 ¢ Egyptian Civilizations. | Ss ! Many of the socalled "modern Im provements" of civilization, which sa largely contribute to the comfort of living, are by no means so recent in origin as we are disposed to imagine, An eminent archeologist has recent- | Iy declared, for example, that Nero's | Palace In Rome had three elevators, "| It is true that those elevators muss \ LIVE IN FRACTAL SLAVERY pel VERY GALLANT Esthonians Little Better Than /Serfs te the Germans, Whe Own Nine Tenths of Land. Esthonians, or Esths, who have ro pulsed repeated attacks from the Bol sheviki, and gecently drove a force un- der Trotzky to ignominious flight, are described by Dr. Edwin A. Grosvesior In a National Geographic society bil letin as follows: The Esths are a Fiono-Ugriss people, once nage end adventurous, terrifying the Baltic with their piracy, constantly attacking and attacked by the Danes and Swedes. Thelr fina! subjection by the Brothers of the Sword and their enforced acceptance of Christianity crushed their spirit and rendered them serfs to the Ger man masters, The Esths outnumber the Germans in the old province of Esthonia 29 te IMPRESSION Wealthy American Citisen Who Was in Spain, has another side, child's cry; while on several occasions I noticed his care even to avoid al- lowing the bees collected on his cup to drown," is the surprising state- ment, not of a friend, but of the THE DAILY OF RELENTLESS MOROCCAN BANDIT. Held for Ransom Found Himself Commencing to Like the Man Who Had Demanded a Fortune as Payment for His Release, HAT relentless bandit, Rai suli, the Villa of Morocco, whose present raids have have caused a political crisis "He could not bear to hear a BRITISH WHIG _ 0 PAGE ELEVEN LABS Fs) SE TIA F 1 a: QTANFIELD'S has met the test of good under- wear -- best material -- Just Arvived From Shi? unshrmkable-- perfect fit, long service, warmth, and m of movement,-- T0000. So by al To g dealers. fon Perdicaris' own story of the "Moroccan Robin Hood" is interest. . " Mods tn Combinations ami Tivo. piece suits, in full have been hoisting machines of very primitive pattern--operatedy, presuba ably by man power, with th help of rope and counter weight--and it i more than doubtful that they were ever used to carry human freight, Few palaces or other bulldings in antien *F Rome were more than Two stories In 1s divided Into estates averaging over A | height, and passenger "lifts" were for ten thousand acres in extent, nons | that reason not needed. awned by an Esth or Lett but almost { We are accustomed to think of rug | invariably by a German. |" | ming water (n houses as a modern lux: | The Nussian governmeht at times { wry. New York city did not have it | endeavored by agrarian laws to sile ; until 1776, when a reservoir 'was con: | viate the condition of the peasant. structed east of Broadway, Into which | Such efforts failed against the stolid water was raised by pumping it from | resistance of the greiit proprietors. \ wells dug for the purpose. But that | The Esths have clung devotedly te NWS a very primitive arrangement | thair nations! language, the solé In- compared with the sistem of ancient | heritonce from their past. They love Itome, by which water was brought | poetry and song. Their physical har from great distances in aqueducts that acteristics are 'Finnie; their faces were marvels of englueering and that | short, broad, beardless: their fore emptied through lead pipes into thou | heads low, mouths small, arms long, sands of tanks of hewn stone. legs short. Despite their extreme pov- Erected at intervals along the streets | erty education is relatively advanced, Pompeii were pillars of masonry, All but 4 per cent are Lutheran Prot. Pp which ran lead pipes; and on top estants. of éach pillar was a tank, from which Since the sudden universsl awaken- water was distributed by pipes to the ing in 1918 the ESths have been insis- houses, All dwellings, except those of | tent upon national recognition. But the very poor, were thus supplied, and | ownership in the land is theis greftest some Had nearly 'a score of faucets, = geed. | controlled by stopcocks that were much like those that are in use today, | WHEN FLYING IS UNIVERSAL i fe Al many Street corners there were ---- ountalns with stone basins, the edges | m ighly Interesting Legal Prob "| of which even now show depressions 3s ne Highly wit Call . Intellis | worn by the hands of the people who ent Settlement. leaned over to drink. Those fountains o | were fed by the city water, which was Ww interestin uestions has brought by an aquediict from a distant pen. Series of Interesting ratios place so elevated that the "head" was | that may be expected when the alr is very powerful. That kind of engineer actually used for miscellaneous traf- ing was highly developed in those fic. How, fd example, will the Than i | times. When Julius Caesar first vis- |. O° ground be protected against ited Alexandria fn Egypt he fousd | careléssness by the man in the air, | there so compléte an underground | and what kind of sign can the ain waiter supply system that : the city | plane carry which will serve to identi- : | seemed "hollow wynderneath." | fy it it some earth-man wishes to | In. the year 73:B. C, Julius Caesar | lodge a complaint with the authori- { organixed the fire department of Rome, | ties? Or again, what will be the rights { | It bad & force of 600 men, At that; of the proprietors of a baseball park { time a primitive fire enging had ak if an aviator eviides the price of ade | 'reddy come Into use; it was a pair of | mission by flying about over the dia- | pumps worked by a beam, and the two | mond? Or what will he the remedy Streams united in a common discharge | of the man who is kept awake at , Pipe and passed ont through a nozzle | night by airplane motors? What will #8 t0 our manners and customs, as that could be turfied in any 'direction, | be the limit of the private citizen's When one venerable inhabitant of the "Siphons"--emergency fré extinguish | oo, 1° measured perpendicularly, Tiiage led me gently aside to inquire ers--were commonly kept in honses | PrOPECtY * why we walked so enérgetically up J: Rep OSES. - and how can he tell whether or not a0 ond down the village grees. "For Frequent mention is made of them ip alrman is trespassing? Such questions health's sake,' was my reply. 'In i | Wien ditemiure, but we do not keow-f. {rig (6 FEA; DUTHY MIT REFOUS "dood 7" Bald {he O14 MohAmman, Li | hat they were lke--Youth's Com | i' they mean that the legal prob- 'and may I ask how madly such daily | panion, lems that will come up with the in- turns, up and down, it may require : creasing use' of airplanes will require to keep a Christian in good health?! | =-all afforded matter of interest and ingenuity for settlement. reflection. : 'One day one of his followers ar rived from Tangier, almost breathe less from his haste, to report the are rival of the two American squadrons. I watched Raisulk with anxiety, lest apprehending the landing of marines he might endeavor to drag us te some more distant and inaccesiible retreat. What was then my surprise when looking up with a bright smile, he said, 'Well, I think F can now cons gratulate you.' wealthy American who was held tor ransom by Raisull in 1804, until President Roosevelt sent a fleet of the Esths constitute nearly half the warships and his ultimatum, "Perdi- population, while the Germans sre 3 % " f less thap one-fifteetth. There the land caris alive or Raisuli md, to Mo 1; yet nine-tenths of all the land Is held by Germans. In the former province of Livosia Houland Now [s the time to plant, & Nothing better to jook 4t in early Spring then a ing. 1, knee and elbow length, and sleeveless. "In many respects the man inteér- le Combinations and Sleepers for rowing ested and attracted me in spite of all (Patented) . my npatural motives for dislike, Raisuli was at once so gracious and dignified, not io us only, but to his own wild adherents, who evidently idolized their chieftain, whose posi- 'Stanfield's Limited, i h ed that of the ' ro 's Highland clan In ro des Truro, N. S. 36 T ele . times. # 'He was quick to see the humorous . a & Manin tu the aspect of a situation, while his re- {ot repairs aw g | wand floors all Kin : receive prompt sttentlen. partee was as immediate and to the ae point as though he had been born in wa al rreive In County Galway itself. In fact I dis- covered to my consternation that I Who addressed | regards itself in a state of war with The big carrier Kotcher, from : abolished the names of all newspap- [the Canadian Press Association's | Germany. % was beginning to like the man in : y Sault Ste. Marie, is firmly ground spite of my natural resentment' 1|°rs from what Is known 4s the f conference Friday in Toronto. American foothall during the past ed on the Cedar Point rest in the found myself unconsciously aceepting 'newspaper patronage lst," accord- The Lettish Government has re-| season claimed only five victims, the rads his contention that he was not a/io& to the announcement made byl ealled its diplomats from Berlin and / lowest in years. upper St. Mary's river. mere brigagd or cattle-lifter, but a|* patriot struggling to reseud his Berber followers from the tyranny of the corrupt chervefian officials. His charm of voice, the natural poise and dignity of his manner, his self- control under provocation; all betray- ed a superior character. He is in fact a born leader and with a cettain statesmanlike quality. He deplored | the condition of his* country, the feuds which separate the tribes, the many deeds of violence, and the blood so uselessly shed. "In fact, this strange experience while in camp with Raisuli at Tsar adan began to assume an aspect of unexpected and idyllic charm. The life of the natives; the little touches : a of more gentle human character; the i Ji I f tiny child ale, Sftersd me fruit \¥7, i ; | can -= Te which. I at first declined, unt! no- ) 1 SS ANORi RL } EA peopumprenygeegii ticed the expression of disappoint. =A : =D PACU TTT ment and mortification upon the { Ry y boy's face, and then the radiant and A almost ridiculous satisfaction of the little fellow when I pretended to en Joy his half-ripe offering; the many attempts of the wild people about me to propitiate me; their curiosity dren. Write for sample book showing weights and lextures. > Any The new Ontario Govefnment has Premier E: C. Drury, Everywhere-- Chiclets On the cigar counter--at the grocery or confectionery or drug store--in the hotel ---------------- Late's Tribute. As we reached a certain smoot! { road, along which travel daily many | Amivunition wagons, we met a mul | skinner walking, He was going in the "direction of a certain military grave yard, where are buried Americans unc French and Germans. Senegalese anc Moroccius and Tunisians--Christians {and Mohammedans. Over the mul | skinper's right arm hung a French Queen of the Rhine. i A writer in the March number of The Sunday at Home recsils that Cologne, on the Rhine, which is now occupied by British troops, dates back to the year 37 B. ©. In the year 50 A. D. a Roman colony was estab- lished there by Colonia Agrippina, the wife of,Claudius Caesar, and the city was named after her. It has always Were about to pass him our engine died. W----- got out to crank up and been an Important city, doifig a large trade. The 1805 census shows a popu- lation of 428,808, of whom 80 per cent replied. "1 do mot understand you," 1} "'1 mean," answered Raisuli, that lobby or restaurant--at the fair 1} | the mule skinner stopped to watch and | sre Roman Catholics. he presen i i falk to us. Meantime an M. P, strolled Cologne 1s a fortress of the first De ss Ee horiave Yensals will EF | So rank, the forts forming a semi-circle make such representations to . the i "Where you goin' with that, Lafe? | around the city. Being an ancient city, Sultan as may result in his acceding th. the streets are narrow and crooked. to my demands, and then you will be " replied Lafe, with a hitch at | The Church of Ursula is siid to con- able to return to your friends.' e, "there-was a damn fool J| tain the bones of 11,000 virgins, | "The next morning it was still sleep with, and he got his two | sigughtersd, the legend informs us, by Sane hen aL en began loading re en er,8 S00 | the ancient Huns because they would oc POO IIS, Rod wo reached the ow, and I bought this wreath to put | not break their yows of chastity, The tween. us and Tangier. Just a on cross."--Maude Radford War- | great cathedral is ome of the finest sun rose. Never have I atiywhere | ren in the Saturday Evening Post. examples of Gothic architecture In| witnessed a scene of more wild and I Europe. It was centuries in building. Four thousand textile workers are fantastic charm. A slight mist hung The total cost has been about two about the base of the rocks, Whose / organizing a union in London. millions. % 3 and on the train--wherever you can buy something to eat or something to smoke or something for your sweet-tooth, you'll find these "Really Delightful" confections - displayed in the big yeilow and gold box. peaks and turrets were now flecked with crimson or lilac, now shaded with purple, by some pissing cloud. "At last the mules bearing the sil- Yer dollars, carefully packed In | boxes, arrived; but now luncheon Was again served in honor of Mulai -Ahmed, and must be parisien of, after which the bullion was counted in another room. y There | is. something" mighty much worth-while in a confection so .tremen. |: dously popular. © In Chiclets it is a zestful peppermint flavor and a good digestion and good teeth and relaxed nerves and a general, Ho all-round satisfaction with the world. by 04 Bie in fe bay 31d Buel Slag t had learned to look upon me a rn ; N : friend, and that he hoped I a" Et fi di : 4, {an Adams product, particularly prepared. | ~ Sold everywhere--ten for Sc.