At the beginning of this year when the centenary of the birth of Jules Verne occurred, a sympathetic writer in a French' review dealt with the scorn and contumely that [was poured upon his writings by scientists. Any mistake he made ax regards ballistics or water pressures or geography gave them ground for huge delight in pulling {to pieces the work of a man why "aspired to da no more than produce tion, yet it was Verne jand nat thoes carping professors who had the real insight into the future. Now to-day we have a on the We ix citing the ornate their interests. He te layin ace "wat ea he dane to simeterien in Hainaiamg auveho were ied Sonally "shaving the: won hat Rene, it will be recal tacher before becoming a soldier There is that about his early pri ion, of course, which leads the ner to scrape acquaintance in addition to stubbly chins, is mixing freely with his is not to be remarked upon, nor is it likely that those who are now we under the Marshal's razor are having any narrower a shave sequence in which his activities are recorded by the Chinese press. One knows Marshal Feng to be versatile, far more'so, indeed, than the above conveys. He is cupable of many more things than conferring farmers, burying the dead, and shaving' the wounded, although, according to statistics of casualties at hand. he is probably kept too busy With this last to be able to do much conferring with mere merchants, Nor is the fact that he once a barber the least il minating of these revelations. is a refreshing variation upon the carly history of the vast majority of China's war lords. It is ideal training for a soldier, teaching strategy as well as the use "of weapon, Was not Olivier Dain, the barber-chirurgeon of Louis Xt, a greater tactician than Campo Basso, Charles of Burgundy's eralissimo? In all events, it is far better that Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang should be engaged in hair-removing, rather than hai vg exploits, The First Atlantic Flight 'A correspondent calls our atten tion to tke fuet that one of the local American papers, in referring to Miss Earheart's then projected fight of the Atlantic [Knowing that it is no long notes which may any day become so much waste paper that they are dealing in, people have less tendency to adopt the boleths of Communism for alleviation of their condition So long as such a condition as we have mentioned existed there could be no possible. incenti to save, and so for some veal one of the leading characte ties of the great French agricultural population has been absent. They were formerly noted aa perhaps the most thrifty people in the world, but the i ventive to thrift was removed because of the uncertainties of currency, and if the stabilization of the frane does nothing more than induce them to return to their former habits, it will have been well worth while.
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