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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13809, 25 August 1913, Page 3

A man agod 61 recently effected his seventeenth rescue, from drowning by plunging into tho Tweed, fully clothed, and bringing ashore a schoolboy who had fallen in.

among the trees and boulders of a mountain, but it cannot carry the mountain itself away. It will uproot giant forest trees, suck tho water from wells and streams, twist and demolish iron bridges, and carry tip houses, but the mountains are proof against the mighty force of the wind. Until we know how to control the tornado or find some means of baffling it, its menacing danger must always be, a source 'of-Considerable' uneasiness an tho great plain sections of the! country. But, like earthquakes, tho tornado and cyclone do not como every year, and sometimes they defer their visit for ,a decade or so, for which we' may be thankful. ,