The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
entirely in many sections of tue city.

look of hopeless gloom is a ques- ton that has stirred up the London newspapers, following an interview with A. c. Carmichael, the Austra- Han politician, who says they. Many charges and defenses of an indefinite kind have been made.
 One journal ha,; sent out a reporter for exact data. After wandering an and covering such centers of life as the Strand and Ludgate Hill, the re- porter discovered but eleven srni1ers. Of the eleven with cheerful faces, three were women of the coster class, two shop girls, two stock exchange eleventh was small boy who was tor menting a horse by f1icking a dirty handkerchief at it's nose.
 The other thousands wore the London scowL" which the reporter defines as a 'tdeep, fverticle frown be- moody glance and the mouth drawn in a tight line, dropping at the cor ners.' 2
 One of the4merry eleven. a. human bankment, said that in his philosophy, he found it as easy to look happy as gluna.
 ..Appy looks II do. a sight more for yer" he explained: If only some of them 'awkers d chuck the dismal line and go in for the merry and bright, they'd soon see the diff ference in their takn's."
 Toe dancing is not a comparatively modern French invention, as is popu- lar1y supposed, since a piece of Egyp- tian pottery over 2,OOO years old, now exhibited by the Institute of Archeol- ogy, shows a girl taking such steps in modern ballet style. sN
 The antiquity of toeNdancing is only one of the things revealed by the Egyptian collection brought from Meroe in the Sudan by Prof. John Garstang. Stones of astrononicaf buildings there show considerable knowledge of the heavens On one stone was, sketched an instrument for measuring angles and taking e1eva- tions, while another drawing tends to, show that an effort was made toS meas ure the circumference of the moon. Certain marks measuring the shad- ows of the sun indicate an effort to get the latitude and longitude of Me- roe.
 An entirely new language, which is at present a mystery, was also idiscov- cred by archaeological. here, in certain inscriptions.
 Berlin, July, 25.-There are many interesting phases of the proposal to, be laid before the Reichstag this year for a revision of the penal code Wh6F6Dy 8 COnV1cLGQs person III ne conducts himself blamelessly Tor a period Of years may completely ab- solve himself from the stigma of crime, so far sas official records go.
 At present statistics show thot every twelfth person in Germany is s'vorbestraft,' that is, has a. crinin- al record The conviction may be for only a petty rnisd emeanor, but after meeting alIS requirements for. punishment under lthe law the gull ty person is made~to suffer in many ways from this blot upon his record. Upon later conviction for crimes they lose the benefit of nilder penalties for persons of blanneless records; and their credEbility as witnesses suffers, and they have difficulty in finding en- ployment While this rule holds. to some extent in many countries, in Germany it is carried to a greater length than elsewhere. A young man l who has been fined for allowing his dog to run loose in a park For in stance, is no-longer a person, of blame | less life within tho statute giving youths ofsa certain grade of education the right to perform their military service in one instead of two or three years. These are only a few of the | disabilities attending a record of con- viction-
 Hong Kong, July 25.-F9 ghting still | continues in Forrnosa between the na.- lives and the Japanese. in spite of the superior arms and resources of the | latter. In one of the recent collis- | ions, a band of 200 tribesmen were | ing a quarter of their number in dead | and wounded. Yet in spite of forced l retreats, the Formosans seem to pre- sent as difficult a problem in pacifica- 1 ton as the Spaniards are facing in Morocco. Owing to the wild and rugged nature of the islands, which l has never been explored by foreign CTS, the tribesmen are able to elude the forces they sovsertously annoy.
 DittinEen, Canton of Bern. switzer- land, July 25.-The cement factory which used to be the pride of this | town,4 because 1t represented the prin- cipaI industry of the place was blown to pieces by it's owners June 27, un- der the supervision of the local po- lice. The great mill had been bought by a syndicate and closed as unnec- essary to the system. The syndicate had to continue to pay taxes as heavy as though the works were in operation, and it was decided there I fore to destroy them. Charges of dynamite were placed, under the tall chimneys and at various places in the walls throughout the manufsctory. The cartridges were exploded sinnul- taneouSly by electric connectio ons. and the whole place became a mess of broken walls and piles of brick. Some
 of the townspeople cried, as they saw the place tumble into ruins.
 Constantinople, July 25.-In proof
 of the new spirit now stirring the
 Turkish people, the foreigners here
 cite the sudden interest taken in the stage. Many well known plays in-
 cluding <'La Dame aux Camelfas, ?
 have been translated into Turkish for | TrNIfi< oSeya.
 Holmes stories are also booked.
 It is comparatively few years ago
 that ConstantinopIe had a few houses
 of amusement of the poorest class, o1
 which the best was a degenerate cir l .1-- a-