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HUBE & SON With Words URIOSITIES of figures are fairly common, but word-fun is equally interesting, and quaint and curious are the results obtained br ingenious ar- rangements of letters. \ Words and sentences that may be iread either backwards or forwards j with the same result are called “‘pa- lindromes." F One of the best is, "Snug and raw was [ ere | saw war and guns.’’ An- other good one is, ‘Able was | ere I saw Elba."’ which is said to have been coined by Napoleon. ap is, ‘‘Did ’ is another. The name Such words as ‘‘Noxon” and ‘‘Oxo” read the same upside down and from end to beginning, as well as up and down, thus: \ N oO | Oo x ! x ie) : Oo | N A topical palindrome is ‘Warsaw was raw.’ ord of three letters with the same initial and final letters spells the same Parkrarcy, and for- did,” “ev “Bob, etc., and any word of four letters with the same initial and fin- al letter and a double letter in the centre _Sives the same result, as “noon,” “‘deed,”’ ‘‘peep,'’ ‘‘sees,’’ etc. By arranging such words in cer- takn order, we get peculiar results when they are read backwards or forwards, as ‘‘Bob sees Ada.’ Ada returns the compliment if we read the words backwards. The same fs the case when ‘‘Hannah sees Eve ” 5 & One of the best of reversible sen- tences is a Latin couplet, the trans- lation of which is ‘'We go in a circle by night and are consumed by fire” —a reference to mot The phrase, in Latin, is as follows, and it reads the same backwards and forwards: “In girum imus nocte, t consumimur ignt.” It is doubtful if any sentence in English, confaining so many letters (32), will make a palindrome. One of the most interesting forms of word-fun is the making of ana- grams, an anagram being the trans- ‘formation of the letters of a word to form a new word, all the letters be- ing used once and once only The best anagrams are those in which the new word or words have a relation to the word or words from which er are made. Jam , of En gland is said to pia be been highly delighted when his jester made from his name, “James tt " the sentence “A just mas- 7 partbular appropriate anagram has been made from ‘'Florence Night- The same letters, re-arrang- “Fut on, cheering angel.” “tournament’’ wiN appro- priately enough make "To run at men.’ Both lawyers and astronomers can describe themselves in anagrams, for from “Jawyers" we get "Sly ware,” and from “astronomers” “Moon-star- ers,’ and “No more stars.” | From two well-known Noncon- formist bodies two good anagrams | have been constructed, the letters in :’*Congregaltionalist’’ make “Got | scant religion,’’ and from ‘“Presby- terlan’’ we get ‘Best at prayers." | The anagram “Great helps’’ de scribes what ‘‘telegraphs’’ are to trade When everyone was talking of the Tichbourne trial, someone made a very long anagram from “Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichbourne, Baro- ' net.” his was neatly turned into 1‘*You horrid butcher, Orton, bigeest rascal here.”’ The proverb, “Rome in a day,” will make ;do wants time,” | verb, ° was not built “Any labour I And from the pro- ‘The hoary head is a crown of | Slory,.”” may be made “Art can dye | grey hairs. How, O fool? When Gladstone and ‘‘Dizzy’’ were ‘rivals. the part et = _ Dizzy made the “G, leads ! not.”’ Disraeli ! Horatio Nelson” tion's hero!"' From Gladstone's full name, ‘William Ewart Gladstone,” {has been made A man to wield great wills.’ From ‘‘the Marquise of Lans- downe™ may be made ~Lansdowne's ‘oft squeamish,’’ and from ~ Alfred | Tennyson, poet laureate,” we get in la double sense “Neat sonnet and seer. tearful lay.’ | lead. sir." we get The Dead Sea. | Swimming in the Dead Sea is re ‘freshing sport, but swimmers hare to be careful mot to get water into their eyes. In a ton of water from the Caspian Sea there are 11 pounds of salt, in a too from the Atlantic Ocean there are 31 pounds, from the Mediterranean, 85 pounds; bul in a ton from the Dead Sea there are 187 Pounds. Contrary to a prevailing be- lief, there are plains on the shores of the dead Sea that are so fertile |and well watered that as soon as one crop ie harvested another can be Planted; bu! as a whole the basin is a dreary region. Quill Toothpicks. Qujl] toothpicks came first of all from France. The largest factory In the wortd is near Paris. where several miliion quills are dealt with yearly. The factory started to make : quill pens, but when these went ont of genera! uee it waa converted into | @ toothpick mill Iriah. Mrs. Murphy (to her neighbors): “She said mine was a knock-kneed cr pie so I refused to bandy words with her.” Admiral Sir Percy Scott Is Opposed to Buildin x Oi Floating Fortre:se- AS the ‘day of the floating fortess passed? Will the surface warship of the fu- ture the smaller and swifter destroyer, armored and heav- ily gunned? Controversy is raging to-day over this question. For Bri- tain must, to meet the efforts of oth- er nations, reinfarce the fleet. What manner of ship is it to be? Mindful of how the big ships wee obliged to hide“in harbors mos of the time throughout the war, only venturing out behind protecting screens of small craft, the average layman would vote for the destroyer Half a dozen destroyers can be built | for the cost of one modern capital ship. And from the landlubber’s standpoint they certainly seem more effective. A battleship or cruiser, costing 45 million dollars and carry- Ing a crew of 1,000 men can be sun in a jiffy by one well-aimed torpedo What good then are her 15-inch guns © and her walls of armor plate’? Nevertheless it would be absurd to deny that the big ships were a mighty big factor in winning the war Bottled up though they were most of the time, behind mine barriers, in Flow and Rosyth, the big ships were the m@nace that kept the Germau High Seas fleet in port) The battles of Heligoland Bight and Jur- land showed the Germans that thet SIK PERCY SCOTT. big ships were no match for the Hrit- ish big ships. Deprived of her cruisers and battleships and equipped with only the number of small craft she had, Britain would almos! cer- taimly have been unable to prevent the German navy from sweeping the seas and starving her ou! That breezy old salt, Admiral | Scott, doesn’t dispute it But this man who ten years ago begged the to develop the submarine Admiralty reiterates his conviction that as against submarines the big ship ts useless, and thal if the Germans had had enough U-boats and destroyers they would without big ship have defeated Britain in the last war. Consequently Sir. Perey Scott is Alled with sarcastic rage a! the British coterle which, headed by Lord Sydenham, of Kent and_Toron to, is agitating for the con#ruction of more capital ships Follows. in part, the galfant sailor's letter of pro- test to the London Times: “All I want to know,’ says Ad- miral Seott, “1s what roie our batile- ship is golng to play if we are at wal with a near enemy, says, France; a medium-distance enemy, say, In (he Mediterranean, or a far-distant emy in the Bast? “These three ety and many othe: phases of war must have been dis cussed and thoroughly threshed ov before our Admiralty decided to build a new fleet of battleships cost ing the country £9,000,000 each Our Admiralty and foireigh admiral fies mus! know ‘what is the vse of a battleship.” The public of the United states and Japan wois' know the use of battleships or they would not have subscribed the money 10 build them The British public have not been told why (when we are 80 hard up) our already taxation to the limit should be increased by spend ing millions on battleships, which a midshipman tells me are no damned good “The lordships the Commission- ers of the Admiralty, whose business It is to decide what units our navy shall consist of, have, [ understand, referred the decision of thle very im-- portant but purely nava! question to, the Committee of Imperial Defence This committee ts, | am told, com- posed chiefly of lawyers These gen- tlemen may know all about the effec! of the shape of the earth on a gyro- scopically-coptrolled compass of a battleshipsthe biow-down valves of a submarine aod all the scientific and lechnical sides of the navai oMeer’s profession If they ure well rersed in all these subjects, they can with reliability anawer and al the same time tell the corn- try ‘what the uee of a buitleship is' “You muet admit that the domi nant arm of the war wae tue aiub marine. You must admit tha: ou! belief before the war that the sub- marine was only a toy resulted in our coming to the brink of lusing the war, You must admit that [his erron- eous idea before the war resulted in our blunder of building the wrong Weapons to combat the submurine " London, Eng., consumes fourteen million tons of coal yearlys in England using a single ; the midshipman, | i about * 2. ee oe oe) f= a cr, > — eee oC ww oat roy | OLICE records all world prove that tne detec- | tion of forgers, like the | ropnding ‘ip of criminals of | other classes, is a work beet handled | iby those who have made a iife-tong ' istudy of the varions phases of crime land have learned to forecast the | , next move of the man who is pbilot- ting against the banks Professional detectives an immense advan- | tage over thuse of the amaieur fety, im thar they orgaolzed— |that they are affliated with other de tectives in all sections of the country, ‘and that It ts impossible for a marked ‘man io travel as fast as the news of | his fight is flashed over ihe telegraph over tne | have var- are wires This ts enlarge true when the matter is*one Witch con- i cerns oank fraide Bit, ‘in spite of the theere::ral advantage of the pro- fessional detective, the amateur scores—is was proved tir the Arthur L. Moore , The first intimation whirh the bank officiais of Denver reretvedt of the activities of a man wee appeared (oO be exceptionally clever with his , Pen, Was when two cheques, for sev- eral thousand dollars #ueh, Were re turned from Chicago and Gonaha with the notation “No such aceon rch! of the cheques pressim.iuly tore the endorsement of the person whe had cashed them, bit, when neriteed that the cheque had been retcernmesd each of the endorsers looked at the <:gRa- ture in amazement ane emphutweally diselarmed any knowledge of the transaction Careful exsir nation fo en- dorsements proved the froth of thetr statements The signatures tail been Written on the bark of the cheques by someone who evidently belonged fo the most dangerts verity of forgers- a member of the free h, nd fratermity.” who depended npon his akill to reproduce the curves and shadings of the original. rathe: than being bound by the rubber-stamyp out- lines of a traced signature After a number of cheques of a similar kind had been reported, the) ‘matter was placed in the hands of ' delective agencies employed by the American Bankers’ Assocation. and word was flashed throughour the United States to be on the lookout for a new penman who appeared to be able to imitate any style of hand- | writing, at will Less than a week later, as if in de flance of the precautions taken by the banks, another financial tnsti- Tulton in Denver found that t: had been swindled Someone come tn, | presumably during the rush hour Just, before closing time, and had presente | ed a cheque which precisely wiped ; oul the balance of one of the depost- tors The next day, when a smaller cheque came through, the maker was informed that his arcounl was over- drawn, and it was only upon expert comparison of the two. signatures! that the larger cheque was found to be fraudulent Three other similar | cases were reported on the same day, and matters reached such @ point that no paying teller tn the city | would cash a cheque for more than a hundred dollars without referring the matter to his siperiors These successful forgeries atl took Place early in November, and either because the forger had 9 secured enough money for his liomediate needs, or because he was fearful of | detecliuon, no other cases were pe ported untth the day after Christmas, when $1,000 was obtained on a cheque so“tleverly written that the m@n whose name appeared on it could mot swear that the signature was not really his This incident proved that the forg er was stil] in Denver, and i! also led Paying Teller Kretsehmer. of the International Trust Company to hope that he might be the one fo ef- ; fect the capture of the elusive hand-! | Writing expert The police of the cily and the detectives assigned to the case by the various banks’ pro- tecllve associations were frankly at their wits’ ends They claimed that comparnson of the cheques showed , potbing in common beyond the fact that the swindler was addicted 10 the use of even figures probably be- cause it took the celler less time to count oul the money — and that tt Was next |o impossible to spot the forgeries in advance They, there-| fore advised grea! care in handling any cheques made on! to “Cgsh,”" the way in which the fraudulent orders had been drawn, and also reported! that they were doing everything poa- sible to locate the criminal | Kretschmer accordingly kept his eyes wide open, and during the rush which preceded the closing hour on New Year's Eve, spotted a slip of the ben on a cheque presented by a man. whom he had never seen before The signature Was apparently perfect— but the cheque was made out to “Cash” with a distinetive ‘h" an | there were two lines under the extra ciphers. The paying teller waited for noth- ‘img more, He was convinced that he had the man for whom the police | had been searching for two montha, | and the sharp clang of the alarm bell i flashed the signal to guard the doors. “The man in front of the teller’s | but a gance inside the cage showed him that bis move had: come too late. Kretschmer had him | covered, and an instant later, de- tectives closed in from the rear, ef- fectually.ending the career of Arthur L.., Moore —-a master forg soon Iwas free of pain, headaches and that miserable feeling that acchbmpanies Dyspepaia. I continued to take this splesdid fruit medicine and now I am well, strong and vigorous”. ROBERT NEWTON. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 250. At all dealers or amt postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. Summer Styles We have a large range of Strap Slippers in the newest spring styles, black and brown kid. aiso brown suede. Prices from $5.00 to $8.00% Where Quality Me Vin W. A. 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