TAKEN WITHOUT OPPOSITION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 16, 28 February 1913, Page 3

TAKEN WITHOUT OPPOSITION.

A very good story is told of the Island o! Sark. It is said to have been once taken b> the French, who, however, held it but t short time. One morning a peaceful-looking merchan ■.hip, bearing a flag of truce, appeared o ;he island, and, sending off a boat, the office in command told the Frenchman that one o the crew (a native ofthe island) had da d on board, and had expressed a wish too;- bunet in his native soil, and he asked i..at tin deceased's companions might be allowed t carry out his desire, 1 The Frenchmen politely consented, anaccordingly the ship’s crew soon appoarei. bringing with them the coffin, which the carried into the little church. They then requested that they might i permitted to perform their own scivk over the body ; and this was also grants as the English jailors were unarmed, an therefore gave rise to no apprehension. No sooner, however, had the French h the church than the coffin, which was hill i arms and ammunition, was opened; and : the church commanded the town, the islan. was taken almost without opposition. WHAT THE BABY CAM DO. It can,wear out a five-shilling pair of 1. 'hoes in twenty-four hours. It can keep its father busy advertising i the newspapers for a nurse. It can occupy both sides of the hr., esi lizccl bed nmnuiaclured, sinuiltancon.F,. It can cause its father to be iusultei; n every second-class lodging-house keeper ; the city who " never takes children,’ whim in nine cases out of ten, is very fortunate c 1 the children. It can make itself look like a fiend j when mamma wants to show " what a pi ..... baby she has." It can make an old bachelor in the roo , adjoining use language that, if uttered on ih street, would get him into gaol for six w pa-',. It can go from the farthest end ol tl room to the foot of the stairs in the ha below quicker than its mother can just so into the bedroom and out again. It can go to sleep " like a little aiv.cl.” unjust as mamma and papa are starting '<>r li theatre it can wake up and stay awake-lii the last act. These are some of the things a baby can do. But there are other tilings as veil. baby can make the commonest house tin orightest spot on earth. It can lighten the burdens of a levin,, mother’s life by adding to them. It car. flatten its dirty little face against the w indow pane in such a way that the tired father cri see it as a picture before he rounds the corners. Yes, babies are great institutions particularly one’s own baby.

FADS IN FIGHTERS. AN AMERICAN VIEW OE THE P.R. For quite a while, says the cTtor u( Peek's Sun, there was a decidedly British tinge to pugilistic circles, and it was the propel thing for the slugger?, to 1) ,: "quite English, yer kpow.” It remaina: for Professor Sullivan to knock this school out with' his elegant Delsartean in ivement of the right duke. He simply said " Lie down" to the English school, ami it became a comatose reminiscence. 15m the fashion inaugurated by Processor Sullivan was by no means an improvement over English school, excepting that it was de cidedly American in its method ol gctiiip,there. There speedily sprang up a large crop of mammoth bruisers, beefy and heavy, whose sole idea of the art ot sell-deknc. was to knock the other fellow’s head oil ii the first round. Professor Sullivan re mained at the head of the school, and tin fact that he declined to allow any othe. man, no matter how big or two fisted, t.> become one of the faculty with him caused the school to lose popularity finally. The supply of pupils gave out, and Prpfesso. Sullivan remained solitary and alone In higrandeur. Then Mr. Jack Dempsey became the rage, and a decided improvement he was over th Sullivan type. It was his system to toy i. a neat and graceful manner with his nents, have his meals brought to him duiin, the contest, and gradually to wear out ami exhaust his adversaries. He avoided harsh methods, and was a sort of ethical culluri.' with small gloves. Dempsey was a tnu; ouilt man, and behaved in a very modest uid gentlemanly manner both in public an 5 private. He was represented as being quinielicate and inclined to pulmonary troubles md this idea caused a great many consumptives to lose the other lung while abouring under the delusion that they wen prize fighters. Still, as pugilism goes the Dempsey s ffiool was a big step in advance of the Dosion school of pure brutal force and ruffianism But he has fallen, and the country is now threatened with anew style. If your hoy is a big, loose-jointed sort of a critter, keep your eye on Mm. He will want to be a prize-fighter. But let him go. Some redneaded, freokle-faced boy not half his height, out whose neck is as big around as your hopeful’s body, will convince him that lie lias made a mistake. That fellow from Australia, Fitzsimmons, according to the newspaper reports, is put up a good deaf tike a gaspipe: the biggest where he has joints. He looks like a kangaroo with the jrip. He is a freak, and be really belongs ;o a museum instead of the prize ring At east, Dempsey wishes he had been in the museum instead of where he was. For several hundred years the Anglo-Saxon race <as been manufacturing prize-fighters, and o-build one on the lines of Mr. Fitzsimmons vas contrary to ail rules. He is a freak, ike the slab-sided, rubber necked nag i hat ■an trot like old Harry occasionally. Tin.) tre the exception and not the rule. But this fact will be overlooked, and ‘very big-jointed fellow who measures nine nches across the chest and 12 inches across he soles of his feet, and who has to shut aimself up when he enters a tramcar, will 3e ready to make his debut (deboo) as a prize-fighter. There will be an awful Slaughter for a little while, and then these fellows will go back to bill posting or doing inything else where along reach is desirable Seriously -speaking, however, the recent oruta! contest at New Orleans teaches a lesson. Mr. Fitzsimmons (we always say * Mr.” to them when they win), is a much nigher type of a man than the prize fighter we have had to endure heretofore. He never drank a drop of liquor in his life, and ne doesn’t use tobacco. He doesnh strut around, and use foul language, and call the ather fellows names, and he is married and nas a very nice little wife. He became a fighter accidentally, and stuck to it because he discovered that he could make a good deal of money by pounding the lining out ol 1 lot of fellows who ought to be pounded. He found this was a very easy task, because he kept whisky out of his stomach, and lec 1 decent and respectable life when he wasn’t actually fighting. It isn’t pleasant to have 1 fellow that looks like a patent medicine cut of " before taking" come over from any such place as Australia and whip Americans, but when the stranger is a pretty decent fellow, and the American has been destroying the magnificent physique which God gave him by filling it up with alcoholic poison we can’t feel very bad, patriotism 01 00 patriotism. Q Many a tramp would be thankful for cold ham, but none of them relish the cold ihouldet