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Show ii! , Y.iscellany l An Unexpected Salute. A t o t t n 1 1 , -! 1 1 f on 1 1 1 f v.-rsi Tj.iM of Afri- .i !;u'l cxpr fsel -. O'-Mrp to --".q ur.dcr L:rJ !!: proro-.-tlon. A.. Ik .; kin j c( a )nic" tij'-t of country nnd ;l niun "f -onMdeni'.-il" Irfltifnce. H w.tb i1'"-i.r,i to (And n hina!I T'jlycr i-"P the rl'-f r to r-i- :rf fi 1 '.-f fib:i?l.".i!on ;ir.(! t' MTV j Mit th ;!','iHn; of th trea'y w'.th rror- i-ero!Tn', "ir vt tli officers of the fOllp j !'!' t.r Mory in tho London V. klv T-!f 7.1 pi: : "Ah r.ctiiv of th vrejcl's rw Tore down with f. .-r, v..- rt.'"l f-r ol'iTitf from t'i of; r L-:.t;-3 prc.-r.if : ij :0 U j wf-i.. lntN.f--rr.! t til Puu.-lilP. indj iin.iv v fnt. If tnok n tiii-' :t':" r-Hh ru r df-f. nation. Tl.o a'' tf''T o:ri arrival s ti-d for t'ie .Tmony. .indj a'ootit I' m. t'ir tnni'Vi'p n'-.i o-tt n.i.-Moprr 'in-V'.l. wth -ility in--;i i'.j ri f r.-r .i ir:r. of hor.or. U'e :-t tip a i;ic- tt-nt i;ndr A ti"1' on l!w r --v la nK v.l.i T in t h tr.-mv w .t ; o -f s' Eii'.-I, ;if:d v.- fi -I'-.'-.n tip )n line, two drip, f.t'-lm; t, l,- t'-M. T!.' prn-r:' nint" u. in.-if "t. t .it ."MI...1 of th.- .M'-f tli' rlnp 1 Pl.ould in it. ulr,. .mm MtlviT.-. nr. ! at t;(i- in-ri tni'i'T rrii flioul-) f;lnd at lu'- v. M!i thrlr t'ry. "o far f-o hnl w 0 not r' k- rf on lno li.it, . A hlX TO.Vtl of thrn pr'--d-d tli-- fi.:"f. nu .'ill r.irrlf.l i nni.ikotji f'f tnnr.' or lon niuint pan'-rn. I rm1 In nilijltlon th- hront-nt a i;nud - !.. I j hnrf'd ol po-.dT, Thi'-'l t!iry pU'--.! Ht, th i..r f( Ii -' t'-nt and opfid 'Th'-v wrf Pi ti" '"t or order nnd as soon ;i 1)'.'- .Uuf- t"uri fni'ti Uio fi-.pi i-v .il'o torniu-:i'-' d to hni.c a:v;i- n .til d!r '.-Tlfr;M. Th-v v;vi! 1rv - for v hi. h P U Wi b:tl "f fn .i nd St " i- Mllirr t I 1 tl C tu t '! ttT'.M to 1- t ' to fif.-nid t.-u riv Ht the f..i lull "li'D nnr trau- hut eT- iTioniciit in d.o'k'T of e;ithrnf fl r-i fi. in ii hnrtdnj- iTr;ir- Had. "Th1 v liH hrooiilit too P.rr-1 of T"'u-1.t fr r-f dn i Fti th- ir powdr.rlinrn". :iid no doubt ili.'V Intend. ,1 to ki-p on t'iritn; hi lont; it,j- nnv pourh-r w.ih lTt. lint Mid- dcnly there was a tremendous -xploion. in" of the blacks had fired l( wad "e n into the bun-el of powder. 1 hero was a hnsty stampede on the part of t e el 't 'nnd officers, while we dropped o r in I and rushed to rescue Ihe tent. : ; knocked over and set on tire, bortn. v te i lv. no one was hurt, and the e'llef was nersnadert to no 01, board the ship, vlK.e II, e trealv was sinned in the waiu room." Vouth's Companion. Battlefields of Real Antiquity. We have all been calling "historic-- and crediting viili the sacrcdness lnt W ancient associations the part of Europe where the French and Enslish are fighting fight-ing Ihe Germans. This lias added enormously enor-mously to the sense of loss and the Melius Mel-ius of indignation that have followed each addition to the tales of towns and cU es wrecker) and venerable monuments oe-stroyed. oe-stroyed. And of course it is true hat 4 HOOrt many things have happened In ine course of not a few years throughout Belgium and northeastern France. The oldest of these happenings, however, how-ever, are the episodes of yesterday compared com-pared with the events recalled by another an-other name, now figuring prominently in the war news. Anybody whose curiosity Is excited hv the fact that "the Dardanelles" Darda-nelles" which looks like a plural. Is ap plied to a single narrow strait, w 11 tina himself, should he start an Investigation of the word, taken back to a time when historv hadn't even begun, and what lias come down to us from It Is merely a combination com-bination of legend and mythology. Tha Dardanus whose name is preserved tn the Occidental appellation of the passage was a pre-Homerlc king ana hero, the dimmer ancestor, of the sufficiently suffi-ciently dim Aeneas and we still use a plural' form because the city that may have been his guarded the strait by towers on both sides of It. Squally old or older Is the other classic name of these waters "Hellespont." the Sea of Helle. daughter Af Athamas, a young w-onian whose highly accidented career closed, if tile dawn-tales can b trusted, when she was drowned there. And ever since Ihe days of theee VC.2UG personages people have been living there. Most ol' the lime they have been flllit-i,,y flllit-i,,y there All along the malt were cities ot some magnilicence before I.ouvaln and Khelms had been imagined by ihe boldest of prophets. Asia .Uinor is really oid, and, as competitors with i for historic interest, France and "Bel'ium are ridiculously ridicu-lously modern. New York Times. |