Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1914.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11111, 28 November 1914, Page 4

Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1914.

ACCORDING to a couple of cables

received during the week the Kaiser

Captain Samson Wanted.

very urgently requires Captain Samson, of <the British Flying Corps, to be delivered to him, dead or alive. He offers £IOOO to the bearer of Captain Samson’s'heaa. There is an old saying to the effect that if you want a thing done well you should do it yourself, and if the Kaiser wants Captain Samson so badly ha should set about it himself and save his money. Evidently he need not go far to seek him. The prize aviator is a frequent visitor to William’s premises in Belgium, and he leaves tracks behind that do not require the services of a black tracker to prove that he has been there very recently. The Australian black is said to be able to trace a quarry that has disturbed a leaf on the ground, or turned over a small twig. Bu t Samson’s tracks consist of smashed railway bridges, fragments of ammunition convoys, a few German dead scattered around, and a scene of destruction where William Hohenzollern had been standing a short time previously. It is plain enough which way he has gone, so William should get up a “View Halloa!” and away after him.

WE are pleased to see that the Ran-

The Noisy One.

gitikei Motor Cycle Club has decided to

expel any member who rides without a silencer. It is really time that someone or some body, clothed with authority, should take the army of noise - producers in hand. The people of this country must be the most tolerant in creation. They suffer the shattering of their atmos. pherio environment dozens of times a day, simply because it is too much trouble to . the community to insist upon motor cycle exhaust being made as silent as that of motor cars. All, or nearly all, motor cycles are fitted with so-called silencers, but they are so designated out of courtesy only. The “silence” that stabs the stillness when there are half a dozen motor cycles running together is like that of the sounds of battle, and if explosions could induce rain, as is sometimes asserted, the passage of a “motor cjcle run” through a district would be followed by a gathering of clouds that would be portentious of cloud bursts, water spouts and inundated country. THOSE who have read “Robinson G ru soe ” Crusoe’s Regrets. would recall the fact that the island of Juan Fernandez, where the Germans ‘ have recently made their naval base and erected a wireless installation, is the same old Juan Fernandez which was the scene of Crusoe’s entertaining experiences. If his ghost still haunts his old habitat it has had some experiences during the last week or two that has awakened a vain and belated regret. It will be remembered that when he suffered any disappointment, small or big, he would beat upon his breast and call himself a miserable sinner. It is very likely that, when the defunct R. Crusoe’s shade saw how ships could ha recalled from the vast ocean distances by the little crackling of the wireless, and could compare the efficiency of that with that of Jus old coat hoisted on a pole, it would beat its ghostly breast until it needed a ghostly salve and confess to being a more miserable sinner than ever. It would be quite clear to Robinson that if he had turned his wonderful talent tor making useful things to erecting a long pole that cracked when you touched something he need not havespent such a dull time on a desert island during a large portion of his life. DOT KAISER is gone home to sulk. Nobody will Not Understood. do what lie wants them to do. Only the other day hp struck the proper dramatic attitude and said to his troops “On! On! to Calais!” and even in a little thing like that they failed him. That wa g

enough to try his patience. But when he ordered them to go no further than Ypres, showed them that his proclamation of the annexation of Ypres was already in type, and they only went a little way, and as many as could came back, there was nothing left but to go home and be treated for an attack of bad temper. It is just possible that the bulk of the men to whom he was issuing commands from under that aspiring moustache of his, would have liked to follow his example and be medically treated for a no worse complaint.

A FEW days ago a candidate for the representation | Good Man Lost. of a Welling-

ton constituency invited the electors to hear his views on the political situation, and when he took the platform found himself unable to utter a word on the subject. It did not, however, long remain a Quakers’ meeting. The electors there and then rejected him with much chaffing. But in that they were scandalously in the wrong. He was a political gem. He was the type of man for Parliament that we have all been sighing for—the talkless, doing man, who would .'render Hansard unnecessary, who would wind up the work of the session in a week, and express himself only in useful legislation. If we could find enough of his sort in the country to fill all the seats it would render unnecessary the cruel surgical operation on members that we have all nearly thought of—that of cutting out the tongue of every legislator the moment alter he had returned thanks on the night of bis election.