BTR SS ee ae ee : abliged to bave an armed night- _migt chapter in his “‘Decline and Fall of hes any property has not only to lock ia ty Anticipates its exquisite in vou: Send us a postal fora free Bee on ny one wee ess eronto. eenor Mixed " sample. Please state the | Black, Gr Sodom and Gomorrah Have Nothing “On Turk Capital As It Is Today}: BEDLAM RBIGNS IN CONSTANTIN- OPLE UNDER MISRULE OF THE ALLIED MISSIONS — “BAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY,” POL- =. ICY OF FOREIGN OFFICAL 1s RESPONSIBLE. ' (By H: M. Storrs.) Constantinople, Nov. 13.—Sodom and Gomorrah and the wicked Cities of the Plain could have had little on Constantinople as one finds it in this year of grace 1920. Those in America who knew the Turkish capital in pre-war days would be aghast if they should come here now. The ill-famed cor- ruption and cruelty that prevailed while Abdul Hamid reigned was as nothing to the positive Bedlam of today. And now Constantinople is supposed to be under the govern- ment of the Allies!—supposed to bé, but js not. In the last paragraph of this article I shali make the grim prediction of that which I expect in consequences. Eat, Drink and Be Merry. Not that there is no government in Constantinople. There is too much—at least five different kinds —all bad. The city’s state is scan- dalous. | ! Nominally, the British are respon- sible. In reality, however, the French are trying to govern; the Greeks and Italians claim some rights and make sufficient efforts to justify large pay-| rolis, also while a remnant of the! Turks contfives to exercise some; measure of authority. | Most of the officials of these many flags seem to think the deluge which burst upon the world in August, 1914, was just a heaven-sent means of en- abling them to eat, drink and be merry. As a consequence, at no time anywhere, even in the worst days of Paris, has there been more looseness | and immorality than affronts one to- day in Constantinople. And there nev- er was worse stewardship, grosser in- competence. If Gibbon were alive we ht have a pendant to his famous s the Roman Empire.” Let Loose in Cafes. Many of Constantinople’s cafes be- fore the war were bad enough but now it seems as if hell itself had deen let loose in them. Thousands of so-called Russian refugees have taken possession of Constantinople, and hundreds of Russian ‘‘countesses"’ and “princesses” have opened what they call Russian cafes-chantants, witb Russian dances, the dancers being both women and men, who have nat- urally brought with them all the bes- tialiey which largely prevailed in Russia before the war, and has in- creased during the Bolshevik regime. These supposed titled Russian wo- men cater especially to the man of ‘the army of occupation, and among the attractions which they have to of-) fer are many gaming tables which are under no control or supervision whatsoever. The result is that many an officer and many a soldier has been led to ruin, and even self-de- struction. The white slave traffic as it now, is conducted here, cries aloud to heav- en, for many of the victims are mere children—some girls as young as 12. years—who are sold to the highest) bidder. Yet there does not stem a | be any authority capable of interven-| ing and puttiag an end to this scan-; dai. While mowsaniis of people literal-j ly are dying of hunger, some of the! most costly and extravagant food is| being served to others, who seem nev-) er to lack money to pay for it. { Street Fatalities Common. | Other signs of luxury are not want- ing. Nowhere, either in Paris or in London, have I seen so many private automobiles as in Constantinople to- day. Every official belonging to any of the so-called allied missions drives a motorcar. Even some of the Red Cross and Relief Missions are crowd- ing the city with their autos, not merely when they are on relief work, but for ‘joy rides.”’ One result of all this congestion of motor cars is that not a day passes without a number of people—men, women and children — being killed just as if they were so many hens, in ‘the streets, and nobody is ever about to indict anyone for manslaughter or murder. Most of the perpetrators are officials, and therefore exterritorial in any case, Most of the display of garish extra- vagance and worse centers in and about Constantinople’s Broadway, the Grand Rue.de Pera. which runs along the ridge in the European quarter, ‘and is indeed the only street that counts. ‘ Europeans may go over to the Bazaar in the native town on the, other side of the Golden Horn, where | 4s Stamboul, but no one trusts him-} self there at night as it is notoriously; unhealthy. | Watchmen Make Night Hideous. Housebreaking and other thieveries become so common that everyone who r everything at night, but is watchman outside so as to be assured of‘some protection against being mur- dered during his sleep or being rob- This watchman, to assure his em- ployers that he is not asleep, must beat with his stick on the pavement at short intervals throughout the night, and the result is that it is al- most{impossible to sleep at night in Constantinople now; and those who need Sleep must take some during: the day. There may be no technical bolshe- vism in Constantinople, but in reality Bolshevism of the worst kind prevails throughout the city, I do not hesitate to state that it would be impossible to walk along the streets of Constan- tinople even in day time, without be- ing robbed if not murdered. Clashing Interest Create Muddle. Though Admiral Sir John de Ro- beck is British high commissioner in Constantinople, he has not complete control, The acatrs of the city are administered by the Inter-Allied Mis- sion, and the clashing interests ac- count for the muddle. The French, who are here, seem to consider themselves as competi- tors with the British for influence, and it is darkly ‘hinted that many former Turkish officials are paid by the French to work for French in- fluence. Since the Greeks arrived, the French have been trying to secure their co-operation, and have them on their side, while the Turks, who after all, are not whoily to be blamed, for some of their former officials are ab- solutely penniless, are ready to sell to the highest bidder. British and American merchants long resident in Constantinople de- clare that they cannot even get in- surance companies to accept policies on their goods, owing to the thiev- ing that goes on in the custom house of Constantinople; and when they are advised of the arrival of certain goods at the port, they have to be present to personally superintend them through the customs, or never get them. Thievery is Widespread. Even in Constantinople hotels, kept by Europeans, if a person leaves his bag unlocked, everything disappears out of it; and if the bag is left lock- ed but unguarded the whole bag is stolen. That some people steal is really not to be wondered at, for Naturally the state of the place does not tempt anyone to open regular works or factories in it, and the re- sult is that tens of thousands of peo- ple have nothing to do and nothing to live on but that which they can steal. Owing to the high cost of living men who kept large harems in pre- war days are now compelled to turn some of thetr wives adrift. The trag- edies which the Turkish women have undergone as a result of the war are worse than those in other countries, because the women here are utterly helpless through lack of any training which might enable them to support themselves. As it is they are being forced into | employment which was never regard- ed as proper for Moslem women, be- ing even employed as road-sweepers. Imagine the one-time favorite of a rich harem sweeping streets! There has been a great outcry against Mos- lem women accepting employment which forces them into association with men, especially Christian men, ' but the economic pressure has been so strong that religious prejudices have had to make way. Out-Parising Paris. On the other hand, thousands seem to have become rich during the war. A shopkeeper importing very expen- sive articles of any kind, is sure of a market for them. The finest Amer- ican, French and Italian motorcars, are constantly being imported, and al- ways are bought up the moment they arrive. As for women’s dresses, or what serve as apologtes for such, they out-Paris Paris. The worst of them are sported by the demi-mon- daines who are not Turkish womén, of course, but for the most part Rus- sian. Only one newspaper is printed in English. There is a rigid Inter-Allied press censorship and now and then some Turkish paper is suppressed for a few. days, for, shall we say indiscre-| tion? As for the.mob of Constantinople. they care nothing about who reigns. If you speak to an ordinary Turk in the street, he says: “We don't mind who governs, let anyone do so so long as we get food at a price which we can pay. To us the French, the Bolsheviks; or,the British—it’s all the same. One thing we will not do now, and that is, we won't go and asht. We have had enough of that.” Fearfully In Constantinople od nitary- ver has been a health resort, but now Be is a breed- ing ground for d and lask of sanitation Geotail to such an extent that it is very difficult to live/ flagt here without picking up ‘plague or something = equally unpleasant, Ie (By Sidney Rabbits) {Union (Press Bureau Special) hard winter in England.. There are walking the pevaments: And in 7 of this the prices of n not falling. Food is execrably high. The government is devising a com- rehensive plan to take care of the nemployed as well as to provide vwork. The government will provide ‘half the money for public building enterprises, if the municipalities will find the other half. The Premier announced thatthe government “are going to empl ex-service men on building and {fj the building trades object to it they must take their chances.” Important arterial roads are also to be built, in order to keep the workers employed. At the same time the army of the unemployed is swelling and, these walkers of the street are in an ugly mood, many of them, as the recent riots in this city have shown. It is said, too, that many who are unable to earn their living honestly are turning from the straight and nary row path and swelling the already large array of criminals. {London Fogs Every one has heard of the ro- mance of the London fogs. But sci- ence has-now turned its attention to them and all the mystery is to be shaken out of them. The Advisory Committee on Atmospheric Pollution has now perfected a system by which the fogs can be measured, weighed, and analyzed. A fixed volume of fog is to be forced through white-paper, the déadliness of the ‘fog to be esti- mated by the relative discoloration of the paper. It is hoped to show that there is a great deal of harmful + dirt in the fog, and that this has an important effect on the déath rate. It is also expected that a large ele- ment of smoke will be discovered, showing an unnecessary waste in fuel efficiency. Americanizing England In connection with the complaint which is being made here that Great Britain is being Americanized, the announcement by a number of the leading hotels that quick lunches would be served in future, has at- tracted attention. Even the Ritz Ho- tel is making this hertofpre unheard of innovation and declares that it will serve what it calls a “lightning lunch in the American style.” A ra- ther bizarre contention jis made by the restaurant-keepers here to the effect that the war has depressed people so that they do not eat what they used to. “Gas” Gets Cheaper The price of petrol is falling con- siderably in England, and as a result, a new fillup has been given to motor transportation, the passenger lines which now compete with the rail- roads being especially stimulated, and everybody is riding the ‘ehap, a 1918, when, after the armistice, the British first reaghed Constantinople. ahd appointed medical inspectors, both men and women to enforce them. Especially do I remember one Brit- ish woman medical inspector, about 6 feet 6 inches tn height, who was the terror of the famous—no, infam- ous meat and fish market. The mo- ment her head appeared among the crowd in the distance, there was a scramble to cleanse the market. With the disappearance of that giant woman doctor and with the ar- rival of the French , Italians and Greeks, things have become bad a- gain. . In all this chaos it is the women sufferers. As an English lady long resident in Constantinople remarked to me: “The wonder is that fire does not come down from heaven and consume the whole place, like the cit- ies of the plain of old.’’ An English physician’s comment was: ‘If things continue to’ go as they are now go- ing, the world problem of Constanti- nople wiil not be political but: medi- al.’ Getting There or Away No Fun. @s for traveling to or from Con- stantinople at present, no one should do so for pleasure or for anything but sheer necessity. Only an © official whose expenses are paid by the Gov- ernment and who travels with a diplo- matic passport can acord the expenses or avoid unpleasantness. Asa rule the passport examinations at the various frontiers are mere for- malities, but in Constantinople people ° grace. On leaving Constantinople the regulations for getting a visa for an ordinary citizen are not more pleas- ant. The consulates are beseiged by huge crowds of people, some of whom have been standing waitimg for days in the hope of getting at’some Bum- ble or other. When they do so, it is perhaps only to be sent to an- other department in another part of Constantinople. For women to faint as the result of prolonged waiting in these queues is quite a common thing. The fact is that officials who are supposed to be the servants of the public act as if they were the public’s masters. If Bolshevism, naked and unasham- ed, becomes prevalent in the east, it will not be entirely ee the ef- forts of Lenine, Trotsky, or Radek; but at least partly through the fumb- ling of the Bumbles of all the Allied Missions who now are .misruling in Constantinople. If the Allied Govern- ments have really the interest of man- to send an. independent commission made up of men of. good repute, not officials and not party hacks, to “in- vestigate matters Otherwise, and I say this very sol- emnhly, herr Pes arise such a con- the east as not all the wate tingt * London, Nov. 16.—It looks like al Fe going to be plenty of “out-of-works”) | ddeefa efacfocfnefe afecleofeafoafeclerts eJeeleefnofealssfecterts oleefeahecfoals | they introduced sanitary measures; and children who are the innocent} are kept in queues which are a dis- kind-at. heart, they ought immediately’ : of Ethiopié will be able to ‘éx- aish. é banc.” The fall the price of pot is thought be the. result of deo os public, and something had to be done to pacify the “poor as rt and si- lence their storm of protes t of The criminal dens of London's East. End have -been raided in vain by the police for clues‘to the gang of clever} forgers who have been flood the’ country with spurious. notes of the Bank of England. ge numbers of the notes have been cash Dub- lin, Belfast, and at the recent race- in the larger cities.» It is the theory of‘ the police that the notes were made on the continent and smuggled in, . They are so deftly made as to dety detection by anyone except an expert. he ee i i a aD ‘ : * + + FEEDING THE LAYERS % + meets throughout England, as well as}. ¢. oe , Listowel (Experimental Farms /Note.) - In feeding for eggs the same as for anything else regularity is es- sential no matter what method is fol- lowed. There are many methods that give satisfactory results. What suits one feeder may not suit another, so that it is necessary for individual poultry keepers to decide for themselves just what system of feeding they will a- dopt. It will be found that best re- sults are obtained where a certain amount of the grain fed is ground. This may be fed either as a moist mash or dry in hoppers according to the personal preference of the feeder The Hopper System. For some years thé feeding of a dry mash in hoppers has been very popular, especially on large plants where labour has to be considered. This system has some advantage and some disadvantages, hut the former greatly overbalance the latter. The principal disadvantage is the waste of feed by the scattering of it out of the hoppers. This can be large- ly avoided by the use of properly con- structed hoppers or by the closing of the hoppers except at certain regu- lar periods. Dependence need not necessarily be placed on any given feeds. So long as it is borne in mind that the various forms of food, cereal, vegetable, animal and mineral, must be supplied, rations may differ widely in make-up. Farmers should depend largely on home-grown feeds, and when it is necessary to buy, those feeds most readily and cheaply ob- tainable in the various localities are the ones that should be used. A ration that proved satisfactory last year may be too expensive to use this year or one that was too expensive last season may be cheapest this. The successful poultry keeper will not only vary the rations according to the prices of feeds. but also ac- cording to the condition of his flock. A hen that is not laying cannot stand as heavy a ration as one that is pro- ducing heavily, neither can a flock of old hens stand as heavy a ration as a fiock of pullets THE LAYERS’ FEED IS IMPORT- ANT; Grit, oyster-shell, charcoal, and | dry mash are’kept in : hopper con- stantly before the flock. res water, and when possible a dish of sour milk is also supplied. In the morning a light feed, and in the even- ing a full feed, of mixed grain, is given in the litter; at noon, green feed and, if desired a feed of moist mash. When sour milk is not avail- able, green cut bone may be fed al- ternately, with the moist mash, or coarse beef scrap may be supplied in the hoppers. The mixed grain usually consists of corn and wheat, equal parts, and oats, one half part, but if any other grains are cheaper or more easily ob- tained, they are used. In cold weath- er, the proportion of corn is increas- ed, and in hot weather decreased The green food consists of roots, mangels preferred, or sprouted oats. Chopped clover is sometimes steam- ed and mixed with the mash. The mash mixture is equal parts, corn, bran, and middlings, one half part gluten and one half part fine beef scrap, or blood flour. For old hens, either the percentage of bran is increased in the mash or the hop- per is kept closed’ except at certain times of the day. George Robertson, Poultry Husbandman. WHEN EDISON GOT RILED s s s s e a Ld s s (D. C. Forbes, in Forbes’ Magazines Thomas A. Edison has just told o¢° what started him on his quest for an electric light that would knock gas and the ‘gas people into a cocked hat. “I was paying a sheriff $5 a day to postpone a judgment on my small factory,” says Mr. Edison, recalling| the days of forty years ago. “T came the gas man, and because could not pay his bill promptly he cut off my gas. I was in the midst of very important expériments, and to have the gas people plunge me into “darkness e me so mad that I at once began to read up gas technique and economics, and resolved I would try to see if electricity couldn't be made to replace gas, and give those gas people a run for their money. I ya to gd search for four years, bnt Iw r an economist that I ABOLISH FINANCIAL WORRY PROLONG YOUR LIFE A CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITY WILL DO IT Gives a larger return for life than is obtainable en bond other form of investment with absolute ee Dominion Income Tax. Rese frogs resident or domiciled in Canada over a age of 5 may purchase, to begin later date desired, an Annuity of from $50 to $5,000, to be paid in monthly or quarterly instalments. Any two persons may purchase jointly. Employers may sis for their employees. at once, or at any Apply to your postmaster, or write, Mention age Superintendent of Annuities, Ottawa, for new tion required. , postage free, to S. T. Bastedo, booklet and other Inet birthday. Ther || A Series of Talks on Music By Prof. C. C. Laugher, Mus. Bac., Sarnia. means to accompany with the instru- ment, or as someone puts it, to add an accompaniment is to add an or- nament. We readily think of the piano as the general +e for the singer or sqloist as an accompanying instrument was made in 1767 on the play bill of “The Beggar's Opera.”” Between the first and second act.-Miss Brickler was announced to sing a popular song from Judith, accompanied up- on the new instrument by Mr. Diblin. In London, June 2, 1768, John Chris- tian Bach, was heard in a pianoforte solo, the first of its kind. The purpose of the accompaniment igs to support the principal part, it rhust be independent but should al- ways be subservient to the chief part. An instrument such as the piano, harp, or organ may be used in accompaniment, even a chorus of voices may successfully carry an ac- companiment part. To acquire this art, the accompan- ist must have great care and judg- ment. He must not overwhelm the voice, but must assimilate with \the quality of the voice, taking special care of the contrast. Too often we hear such an accompaniment that is so strong that the soloist is simply an occasional part, and the effect is very ridiculous. We read that at the time of the old miracle plays the were performed by a double lyre, an harpsichord, a double guitar and two behind the scenes, simply to ad musiewl—effect, and even Wagner went back to the old way of hiding the orchestra, Back in the days of 1600, Cavalli arranged instrumental effect of sights and sounds of nature, such as the murmuring of the rivers and the sighing of the winds. Caccini, a great vocalist of Italy, in the sixteenth century, broke away from the old style composition of many voices and wrote for one voice only. These compositions he sung to his own accompaniment, playing on the Theorbo, a pear-shaped in- strument four feet long, with a num- ber of strings of different lengtss. Caccini met with great success. These early musicians aimed only to devise means to combine music with poetry, 30 that the two arts should enhance one another, but when it is understood that the ac- companiment to the recitative and solos were provided only with a figured bass from which to read and play, it was the accompanist at the harpsichord that must apply the de- tails. This weakness and ineffective- No. IV Instrumental Accompani-| ment. Instrumental accompaniment The first mention of the pianoforte) accompaniments | ness would make the music unendur- able to a modern audience. From about this time on, partic- ularly in the matter of accompani- ment, the resources of expression in music was becoming much enlarged and elastic, for the harmony was more richly developed and the ton- ality better understood. The modu- lation now came in as an additional means of effect. Dr. Parry adds—‘‘Waere the words are thoroughly musical and the com- poser sensitive and skilful the music fits the words at every instant and makes the words glow with meaning.” . Both Schubert and Schumann tisha very expressive in this form. mann’s genius showed itself in his power to guggest unexpressed depth of feeling in a few lines. The piano accompaniment and postludes' to many of his songs intensifies this emotional nee sre “PAINT” BARRELS ' CONTAINED “DEWAR'S” a Fined $100 $100 for Delivering her Than Consignee pence Noy. 8.—A consignment of “‘thirteen barrels of paint’ passed through the local G.T.R. freight sheds addressed to a Kitchener manufactur- er. An inspection revealed the fact that the barrels contained bottles labelled “Dewar's Special Whiskey.” The “paint” was being delivered to a barn near Stagatha, when it was discovered, d the drayman paid $100 in Police Court this morning for delivering it to a person other than the consignee named. . Nevertheless It’s Good Advice— It is related of the late Judge Mor- gan.of Toronto that on the bench during many years he insisted con- stantly that any person owning prop- erty should make a will, so that there should be as little trouble as possible in disposing of the property after death. As a probate court judge he set forth his duty in innumerable cases; but when he died recently his relatives found that he had left no will, Human nature once again il- lustrated. “Advertising is no good,” said the man in the old clothes. “It never helped me none.’” The millionaire merchant smiled. “That i use yon tried it John, as the Indian tried the feather bed. An Indian took a feather placed it on a blanket and slept on it all night. In the morning he growled. ‘‘Pale face say feather heap soft. Pale face heap fool, ugh!”’ You can’t expect one little ad to bring in results five or six months after it appeared in the paper. 1907. and Arthur Sales of Toronto, Ont. 80 poo didn" t hurt them at all until lately, be years after ‘having my gas cut - ‘What a blessing for us all that tho, ctoueh me young inventor didn’t have ough ‘gacad to pay that gas bill. This Signature on Yellow Box and on Bottle, Leonard Far Oil Relieves Deafness, Stops Head Noises It is not put in the ears, but _is Rubbed in Back of the Ears and Inserted_in the Nostris. Has had a successful sale since For sale in Listowel, Ont., Canada. by Jas. A. Stuart, 6 peut talet Manilacturer, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City.