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ae Piracy's Respectable. ~ 'the Royal Navy in distant parts of the world of which the general public hears little or hing. Tt are ~oraull- many wild reglons off the beaten where piracy is looked upon as -& perfectly honorable ocupation, if x Spobriunity Offers, nt Republic of China, where ¢ bi been in turmoil now for nearly = ten years. A good deal of our China ~ trade only continues 'heause of the oA . watcliful vigilance of the little gun St | boats 'that steam right up the great In the South, the West River, near Hong-Kong, and, ; in the centre of China, the great Yangtse-Kiang are . /Amportant arteries of trade. The Civil © [War thas reduced the inhabitants of' many. of the districts along the river »banks to poverty, They pirate and 160t Whenever opportunity offers. Un. disciplined bands of soldiery are an- other menace. ver: gunboats, are small in order to be able to traverse shallow waters, and can only carry light guns. They ... depend more on the prestige of the ' White Ensign than their armament. {Felp ATH ere are Immense British itnerests, ! rivers to the limits of navigation. very. Fleet, not the least of wh of British settiess and ¢ distant parts of the world. But FLonE When the Messina earthquake fog curred a few years ago the first Help jforthcoming was from British war- ships at Malte, which steamed to | Sicily with provisions and medical supplies and were publicly thanked by the Italian Government. When ithe great Japanese 'earthquake occur N six years ago, every available British warship on the China station' was rushed to the assistance of 'the suf- fering inhabitants, and our Navy earned the gratitude of the whole Jap- ancse people. in skittles, even in peace-time. But he has the knowledge of duty well done, and he is usually there when hé 'is wanted. 4 > Seg eo Visionary Apple Trees : Undoubtedly the ap le trees seem more beautiful to us than all blossoming trees, in all lands we have visited, just because. it is 80 common, 80 universal--I 'mean in this west counitry--so familiar a aight to every- . Fighting the Slave Trade. On the Upper Yangtse, above the "rapids, 'are rich provinces where valu- able 'commerce is carried in light craft 'and "unarmed 'merchant ships; and . - "here we have gunboats atsy. When | they ascend the rapids to. the upper reaches 'they engage fiyge gangs of coolies, who assist ths engine power against the strong current hy hauling Om the ship's cables along the river- banks. : : |warhips have to tbe prepared + at'any moment to dand armed parties itr for the presarvation of life and: pro- perty or to receive refugees. But China is mol the only unsettled' part of the World. -on the Borneo Coast, and Arab (ree- booters in the Red Sea. 'The Navy keeps continual watch and ward along the huge length of the Red Sea coast | to try fo gheck , the terrible slave trade, which, despite all endeavors to suppréss it, atill ontinues to a surpris- ing t. Our Best Ambassador Abyssinjan and Somali raiders on the mainland of Africa, even in this ps yeariof grace, seize hapless negroes, l and especially' children; smuggle them down to the coast, and ship them across the Red Sea to Arabia when 'the chance occurs. The naval patrols hav ent this t "for FE de re During the late' War ihey | beautitut kind thau the. others, For however beautiful it may be intrinsi- are pirates! {| bicycle among those deep lanes, with (hedgerow. elms jutting out a view of myself and (again; one from {nf ,-on- which it has more associations of a tender and cally, the greatest share of the: n fs due to the mamories that have come to be part of and one with: ft the forgotten meinories they may be called. For they miostly refer to a far period in our lives, to our early years, to days and eyentsithat were happy . . . which gather to the eyes at the night, of happy autumn fields and of ail lovely sights familiar. from of old, ~ Today, however, looking at the ap- ple 'blooms, # find the most beautity-] Ig associations and nfemories not in: a far-off past, but $n Visionary apple trees seen no longer 'than' last aut. umn! 0 And this is how it cames about: in; this. red and.. Iams apho 'tox. Quite unlike f other countries. . Sawith- adventures experienced in I was on m the unkept sand the great e country, searching one more for the village of Clyst Hyden. And as on the former 'pecasion, years ago it! » I' would not inquire my way, I had found it then for' wag determined to do 80] 86t out with thie] k e. right direction.' y and I coufd not od 'vaguest iden But i were otherwise engaged, kowaver, and 'this hideous 'but profitable tramc! Sprang ip, : Weare only now gradually ig the upper hand: again, ; A special stéam and safling launches, and even to use ve dhows manned by blueja a Arab sea | seeing it T was in As the number of warships. is limit- ed, the Navy. has\had to oon at find it, and now. Through a | Immediately after] A narrow road' with' a greensborder, which stretched away At rome further than '1 WANTED|, The sailor's life is not all beer and, 20 country. of Devon. old 4 1 poi ¥. war heroes, was. apened by the Queen | Inspecting some of the wards. East Ham's new hospital, in Shrewsbury Rd., memorial to 2,000 fallen recently. Her Majesty is s-~n here Have Many Tricks I 1 Carrier Pigeons Used to Trans-| + port Supplies. of Dope NEW METHODS Many Private Houses Are in » the Guise of Club and: heavily | cuttained windows: bogus West Bnd } night olubs- are : again wiiing liquor; alter hours and.cateriny, for drug ad; digg, Coe ! © Before tha" great' clean» of the London, England, West En. haunts: 'by 'the Mying Squad 'most of these ox tablishments dpeniy*i attracted 'mem: 'bars" by electric sigue And commis. 8 , The, method hes lagged. The {I legal drinking ,and [n some cases the 'trae 'In 'dbbe, "dontiues, but except for 'the people 'fartively 'entering and leaving, "these dew clubs appear in the guise of private houses; . Laughs ter 'or sound of: a saxophone is the only clue... (i, .. Following certain rumors of their reewed activities, I "determined to find what resily Vhs Yapooning in the 'West 'End,' which "after midnight 1s Suppossd to" be drinkldss. But: (he 'new--proprietors are cautious---uew-| 'comers are 'not welcomed as in; the old days, go I started with a guide nnection" with' the business 6" entFy nto every secret haunt in' 'Bonde? © « was: obtatnablé tu five; of them. '| Yoom there Were more women than .| men. "Of mention, as 4t is on the regular OF the six -olubé- we visited 'drink|' "Every drink is Afty cents," the bar- man informed us. When we ordered two whiskeys, he walked to the left, where there was a food hatch leading Into the kitchen, and - immediately two whiskeys ap- peared as if 'by magic. Round the Downstairs in a basement room. several couples were drinking and dancing to a gr I hy Our taxicab tcok us across the wa. ter to one of the most surprising places I have seen. Although it is situated near the city, it Is worthy "heat" of those seekers after alco- -pmany getting to ot" he a ha never occurred to us and it may be tha oe 'months "before WE aucosd in {ster to deal with unemployment, on ot hls departure to Canada to discuss the same forms an extremely valuable contribution to the study of and, indeed, of | [world emigration problems. It is, ft must be confessed, a rather cond d "Only by:some' police be supplied with a definite clue. | There are pany Svuees ° oF Semis 'pigeons in London, all apparen yond réproach, and the task of find Ing the owner who uses the hirds dificult" . night--it was to the most famous club of them all; one which has never attempted to hide its real identity be- or anything else. = Althcugh the prem. Ises were recently disqualified for five years, lights were blazing and a com- misiionaire outside, even at that early hour in the morning. I told two girls in a box-office that [ had only 16s. and was admitted for exactly half of what [ had. Inside I found the same band, the same staff, and the same dancing girls which have always continued here through the worst raids. 1 had previously been told that in a dark upper room, carefully guarded by a member. of the staff, privileged peo- ple could still obtain intoxicants. I tried five ways of getting a drink and the answer was the kame every time. There were no 'drinks to be had "Not for $500, and would a nice fruit cup be just as good? Per haps they knew me. Anyhow, ft was the only difference I could notice in this notorfous' club. Donn Byrne's Gaelic Language is to some extent a key- note of nationality. Our native lan- guage in Ireland i8 Gaelic, which ap- pears to be a rough descendant of an original stock of which modern Welsh and modern Breton are the purer blooded. * To what "degree a Breton and a. Welshman can under- stand each other I do not know, but in both languages I can trace words we have in Gaeli¢. The Welsh "bacr," a term of endearment, is the same as our Irish "beg," meaning "little"; and in Breton "ty," meaning "house," and "ker," meaning "a house with subsidiary buildings," are the same a8 our own words, bolic gaier, "Yo frequent the clubs farther west. i i My guide rang the bell of a shabu. | Icoking house. After & time a tiny grille. was opened and we were ad, mitted. But not before wv 'ad each stood in turn in front \¢ ne open. g With our faces turneg :- the light, his was no bogus examinatic n which! managers once favored f r the pur- Pose of creating local color. When . the docr was opened we passed not into an apartment house, ag I thought, but into a full-size bar with beer pumps and every kind of intoxicant. Many of the men seem- ed members of race gangs from the razor marks that scarred their faces. Several women were sitting together in a rocm next the bar. ---In_the Charing Cross there are two of these secret clubs--without -com- missionaires ,without lights, but with Irge; entrance fees. They are both small, crowded rooms which combine drinking with a total lack of gaiety. One fact struck me forcibly. Dittuks seen to be served at fairly TY ble prices nowadays in these The first was near Wardour street. It was heavily barred and bolted; cus- could see. Then the thatched cot 1ges of. village came into sight: all 'were on one side of the road, and sacks' of vegetables. The slave-traders when'cornered are very ugly customers. = One of thelr] icks ic 'to pretend to surrender, and] then, when a rowing-boat is lowered to take 'possesion, 'drop' their great triangular sail on top of the oarsmen and stab tho Bites use seaplanes and It is - will be forth, uld be of immense, t | extensive sea shores. A i : Then, again, the Navy can always 'be called; upon: by ships in distress. 'At all n 1 of Host ' village Wis 1 ee L*largely uncharted | laughing Suroribied ant crowded road and trees and a shining golden flame. | "1 cried. 'This is my'! found again, and ft is late in the day, for like even the love. lage in Devon than ome in fairyland or in Beulah." ¢ When 1 came near it that sunset splendor did not pass off and it was indeed like mo earthly village; then: people came out from the houses to gaze at me and they too were like people glorified: with the sunset light and their faces shone as they ad-| vanced hurriedly to meet me, point: ing with their hands and talking and an ev In a moment cot -to £ i small fron grill] Here in'a long base- the setting sum flaming through the | nChs Under: the pavement, dancing {trees na ukthea round' me,' tomers were admitted only after the closest "aeriitiny by the' man behind a 'singing' aud drinking goes or. til the small hours of the woining. Wien we arrived, however, there. was. po 'made to tay soma fun from a piano. sign of lite. iy iy | " "Théy closed down a" tew mutes agn--in a panic," a man told us. "But |; they are 'opéning again next week." Next we crossed Piccadilly circus and arrived 'at 'a club 'which, unlike| the ones we visited later in the eve- aing, boldly flaunted an elactric sign on which was written its nhme. Hard to Cater ' monade, "The first 'of The ietor' was unwilling to let|i Here the proprietor has discovered us i; ahd woild cnly do so on 'pay-|an 'new method of importing | ment-of-10s. euch: It wastahout half- Seuss [into London from the Conti- past: twelve now. . The room which nent. ~~ X05 k Ra all the whiskay i in supplies had © Hi 'ple carefully. i ently display. for are being used in this traf-, ahd Tem | fc. * They 'iy from Buropean new haunts Before the raids clubs would demand 6s for a small whisky. One club near the city wanted only the ordinary saloon-bar prices. these two ciubs in Charing Cross bad a alight semblance of-galety, as utloropts were being But neiter the plano nor the listen- ers were really sympathetic. Melancholy reigned supreme at the second one, but it was here that we heard rumors of amazing dope crgies which were being run by a woman whose name fg closely associated with the more vicious forms of lawbreak- tng. their eyes that grave courtesy, that Drugs--By Pigeon we pass from the prison of misery fn- capi- to the palace of Delight.--F. B. Meyer. My education such 23 it is. has flown more along the lines of Greek and Latin than of Celtic tongues. so I can speak with no authority on the analogues of Bretor. and Irish; but that they are very closely akin in be- yond question. My boyhood was spent in those parts of northern Ireland where Gaelic was still spoken; and, having more curiously about houses , dogs and boats than about books, I grew up speaking Irish and English with equal fluency; so that Iknow for a certainty how far apart the Celtic and Gaelic tongues are..,. A Highlander and an Il of outline, would no doubt be gonsider- eh kanes Yi 4s pede he modified. - But-on the whole it Weide only one :move call that constitutes 3 fairly accurate report hind closed doors, curtained windows, ! | th UL 8 and not 'ontirely detorbd review of u Atued re men, his the present igration In Britain, and {ts questionaire form per- haps lends undue emphasis to a num. ber of assertions which, in a broader dealing with sues. It is unquestionable that the higher standard of lite in Britain and, above all, "the expanston of the social ser: vices in the country since the war, such as the unemployment insurance and the old-age pensions benefits, have, in the words of the summary, "adversely affected" the desire of Bri. tish workers to emigrate, To stem he steady decline im the figures of British emigrants to the dominions, which have decreased by over 15,000 in the last two years, the British emi- gration societies would apparently ad- vise that the benefits of these social services should be extended even to those of the emigrants to the domini- ons who could have laid claim to them if they had stayed at home. But more important, perhaps, is the stress they lay on the necessity of extending the already existing training centres for all adult emigrants, portant emigration is- and even chaotic mature of past and thought unecessary. stage in the history of emigration however, Is definitely passing away cal consciousness, creasing sense of take up their new work. the recommendations Is that the task of settling the dominions with British boys and girls who are unimpeded by family ties and who have contributed nothing' to the upbuilding of British industry. "The Government," It 1s weightily submitted, "should recog- nize the importance of dealing - with youu lite as it is now vonctituted in Eogl 1, and make a stidr of over: BORs + recre a nadessare pr: of every chilc's education. Above s'/, child emigration is of paramouitt import. ance." Juvenile emigration from Britain to the dominions is, of course already an established fact. But it may become a nimportant factor in what the Bri- tish press describes as "peopling the Empire. And, indeed, if conducted on proper lines, as no doubt it wilt be, there i8 nothing in the way ot making Scotland speak the same Gaelic as I do, as do that remnant of people in the Isle of Man who speak their native Manx, In Manx, spoken mow I am told bzy not more tha. two hun- dred people, the dialect is that of the County Down, in Ireland. The High- lander and the man of the Hebrides use a less inflected Gaelic than ours There is a vulgar error, as old writers would say, 'that the Baspue language in the Pyrenees has a re- lationship to our Celtic tongues, but that is untrue. I know the Basques, relationship with any known tongue. In that strange book of Victor Hugo's, "L"Homme Qui Rit," the Lord's Prayer as recited by an Irish- tai. is supposed to be understood by a Baspue; but that is wrong. Their passion for handball, which is our Irish game, and their look, as of an belief. But every nation plays a form of ball, and brooding on mountain and sea gives people who are fortu- nate to have sea and mountain by them that rugged face, that depth in distilled simplicity, --Doun Byrne, 'in "Ireland, the Rock Whence I was Hewn," -- ------ SA A Bridge ; The Cross is the bridge by which it a tul, if, perhaps, rather a slow experiement. || | rt It Is, indeed, a curious commentary on the haphazard in some measure, of present emigra- tion that such training has been That unprepared With the developing social and politi- and with the in- responsibility to- ward their own populations, immigra- tion countries are putting forward the demand that, before saHing, emigrants sliould, in every respect, be fitted to A further fact which emerges from emigrants will, fn the main, have to be left to the younger generation of duced from 20,000 to 1 The City Assemblymen mothers to the Mayor, and expect to be treated with special and given personal attention by him, In deciding to reduce the Mayr -g salary, the Council gave as the rea.. 9 that the new Mayor is young and lacks personal welght, and that the drastic economy required by the muni cipal admint ion i d the cut. Determined to effect reforms, the Mayor apparently is unconcerned over the criticism heaped upon him by the majority of the City Assemblymen and is now turning his attention to a sweeplng dismissal of incapable of- ficials, who were installed through the personal recommendations of the pro- vicus Mayor or City Assemblymen. In order to make room for these men, capable and independent officials were sald to have been dismissed to the deterioration of discipline. Rin- ere officials deplored this sta'e af af- fairs because hard work brought' ao advances unless they had personal connections with those at the head of the municipality. The new Mayor believes that such a condition should not be allowed to exist, and as an overture to the com- ing drastic reform jn municipal ad- : oflice with honest and batd-working officials. ¥. Shimgnaka, a proletarian mem- ber of the Council, denies that person- al feeling against the Mayor influened him in voting to cut 'the salary, He said that the amount: the provious Mayors received were too high and that the reduced salary is sufficient it {Mr Horikirt dose not latend to enter- tain the Assemblymen. In addition to his annual salary the Mayor is e114 led to a social and secret fund. Feminine Toilet Costs Huge Sun French Women Spend $300,- 000,000 Ye: rly on osmotic: FASHIONS IN POWDER Lipstick is Responsible for Greatest Part of Fx Penditure Parfs--The cost of keeping beautl ful for the women of France has Just been assessed by a statisticiam at the formidable sum of $300,000, 000 annually, representing the money expended on lipsticks, rouge, powders, oye-blacking and all the other odds and ends of the feminine toilet, No other women in the world, not oven Americans, spend so much im the quest of beauty, it is declarad. The ubiquitous ilpstick, tiny as it is, works out the most costly in the aggregate, sharing a third of the total. Thus, $100,000,000 is paid out to keep the Frenchwoman's Hps nice- !¥ rouged and bow-shaped. Other items in the bill comp:ise: Varicus types of face ~owders, skin lotions, eyes lotions and ey:-laslh pre. parations, hair lotions and barber's expenses, manicure preparations. These statistics are forthcoming fol lowing the disclosure that manufac- turers of beauty preparations im France rank with autcmoile mag. nates as the richest men in the coun- try, the principal honors for wealth being shured by the auto king, Andre Citroen and the manufacturer of cos metics, Francois Coty. +! Cost is Explained Tad Just why it costs so much for French women to look beautiful fs ex- "The shins of the father are visited on the children--but not on his own," m------ Patient Work Our business 1s not built quickly, but to build upon a right foundation and in a right spirit, Life Is more than a mere competition as between man and man; it 4s not who can be done first, but who can work best; it I8 not who can rise highest in the shortest time, but who fs working most patiently and lovingly in accord ance with the designs of God.--Re: Joseph arker, D.D. : mr ---------- A Humble Man "The humble man of heart Will revel in the grass beneath his, © { foot, And from the lea lift his glad heart to ven, God's Palette. | --@.. Macdonald. Ti ------ Wisdom lained by the continual changes in facial make-up. Fashions change in this respect, largely thanks to the in- genuity of the cosmetic manufacture ers, who must invent new modes or suffer in business. Every olher week a new "back. ground color may be necessary for the complexicn Green is just now the vogue. In this way, women throw out, maybe, half a box of expensive powder to replace it by the newest color, To guard the skin against the latest color, the beauty experts introduces \ new kind of lotion and a new cream and 8o on. A complexion for every, dress is the latest slogan. The big part played by lipsticks im the beauty bill is due to women's exe "{ travagance coupled with the Ture of fresh colors. Nine out of 10 lipsticks are thrown away before the stick is halt used. = The stick bas perhaps broken, become too greasy or mae dam's eye has alighted on a brighter Wisdom never forg What, | resistance we have offered to her ot '|she avonges for ever; the 10st hour rogatlz, wit r nt [Rim Wrong never undone. can never be redeemed, and th are'like atop ministration he is planning to Al his