Here it was that as saw the ./ 'prentices in one of their annual out- * bursts of altruistic morality, attack- ; 'ing the wasavoury houses and their in- * habitants in Whetst Park; here} was once exhibited the amazing spec- tacle of a Lord Chancellor's Mace and sion by the thieves who had abstract. ed these insignia of office from the statesman's lodging in Great Queen | Street; here Babington and his fellow conspirators suffered death; here Wil- Ham, Lord Russell, was judically mur- | fered, on a scaffold erected on the: west side of the present garden; here ~ the great Duke rode through the square when the mob tried to pull him off his horse, in 1832, and Martin Tup- per (of all people) could-be "heard shouting from the steps of Surgeons' Hall, the words "Waterloo, Waterloo," whose magic had ceased to electrify a _ heedless and gullible populace. £ > "Solid" History » Certainly anyone "writing 'about "the damned distracting town," s&s b work on. As Lord Wakefield, one' of the City's greatest modern benefac- tors, says in his Introduction to Col. Robert Blackham's "The Sovereign City," London is "solid" history in the 5 same sense as the River Thames is . . ssid to be "liquid" history. The Lon- don that Colonel Blackham shows us - is the "wonderful Square Mile which | down the ages has maintained a char-| acter and influence superior to that of any other community in England 'or ; disewhere. He traces its twenty cen- of stirring history, lets us see complicated wheels of government turnton, and talks familiarly of its monuments and bridges, banks and business houses, trees ahd inns, its enviable war . service, its markets, * eharities, and all the parts that go to make up the mighty whole. Yet another aspect of the City Is dealt with In "The London County neil From Within." Here are the ' y years' official recollections of Sir . Parry Hawad, late Comptroller of the L.C.C, and Electricity Commissloner from 1920 to 1930. He witnessed birth of the Council in 1889, having al ready' served for several years in the fice of {ts predecessor, the Metropoli- Board of Works, In a way that _mever becomes dull he lets us see the of the many-sided DrEauise that affects all how the system of ilnis ~ {ration was built up, and giving his own impressions of the y ts and 5 OLason 's Weekly. ee a boy loses go-- les, knives, and copper ountes ply dropped. 'im SNOW, A sorap of paper that & girl : across a floor, 3 lovely broken kmob 8 fiom u goof, wil one Purse being borne in a mock proces-| ope called it, has wonderful material |" 1s & place where all the hips [ rgans, w 'material to accumulate and clog the Rb machinery. Taken every the system. Your bloodstream is thus | Drug. Stores al FREE TRIAL Nm te : rssrved from sontuminalion, Re-{SE0E frodhed ang invigorated, it floods you | occur a new feeling of vitality, a new for activity, You follow the urge, and after about ¥ fortnight that ugly fat forse go. You feel it; your mir- ror reflects it; you make for the near- est welghing- -machine, and very soon know it. = Kruschen Salis is obtainable at all 45c.and 76c. per bottle, OFFER OF LHRUSCHEN 18--French plural article Lower F; Tried By British Railways date in everything, London--In an effort to counteract ot. nr pm on warm , muffled reports precisely like IN THE NORTH SEA. = Fishermen who use the North Sea 7 hear similar sounds. They y in warm, foggy weather Look-out men at Ostend have reported identical noises, very dull and distant but many times repeated, and always occurring towards evening. They con- sider them to be subterranean. 'There are at least three 'places in Anerica where mystery sounds have been heard for many years past. One is that beautiful region, "he Blu Msun- tains of Georgia, where there are rec- ords running back for sixty years or more, reporting heavy crashes and booms, resembling the sounds of a dis- tant bombardment. . These occur at all times of the year and in all weathers. It was formerly suggested that v were caused by bears rooting under rocks and sending them rolling down the hillsides, but today bears are vxtinct--and the nois- es continue. In the hills of North Carolina and near Franklinville, in New York State, the same sort of sounds are heard. They are desfribed as resembling quarry blasts. STRANGE STORM WARNING. Prof. A. Issel, an Italian seismolo- gist, has written a paper on myster- ious noises heard in- Umbria over a lcng period of years. These detona- tions were quite distinct from ordinary peals of thurder. The centre from which they appeared to emanate was Monte Nerone. In the Midile Apen- '| nines subterranean thunder of the same kind is usual. The people call it "Bombio." One of the strangest spots on earth is the Quebrada Encantata (Enchanl- ed Ravine) in the Uloa Valley, Hon- duras. This ravine at times sends forth a loud, melodious sound, which niay be heard many miles away, and is regarded by all the people within hearing as an infallible sign of rain. What is more, the sound is so modu- lated as to indicate by its pitch whe- ther the coming storm is to be heavy ume of the sound. the heavy _ competition offered "by tions 10 mfles apart. first class fares, Some officials declare, experiment will . costly. loss of passengers through the open- Heh and without DE ve iy Krysthen Tree'sh mira by cuir Reon tide OUR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE 6 - 1 1h. : : » 4 # % . 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L grace."--Thomson. L BIR|I|SIK of "Blesgedness 1s promised to the, -{M | petcémaker, 'not to, the conqueror,"--| Quarles. A S IIE Tho need of mankind in this great [3 salt work of establishing ; T C T al glous. or light. The amount of promised |and keep straight along the crooked rain is in exact proportion to the vol- motor travel the railways are reduc h " ing thelr third class fares for the comes more like his father every day. summer months to the pre-war rate of a penny per mile between all sta- The result will represent a saving of a half-penny a mile on existing third class rates and a penny' on however, unless the railways. regain a consid- erable proportion of the passenger trafic recently lost to motors this likely prove very |says an aunt who has lived 21 years New rail fares will still re-| with her stepmother, 19 years with her main above the motor rates. It is not | mother-in-law and 25 years with her considered the innovation will affect | daughter-in-law. 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