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I'VE got to learn a few steps. 30
that ! can dance at the wedding
OF my grandson" Clemenceau

II declared 1eW DAYS ago, anu
get ready enough work to keep
me out of mischief during my annual
sojourn at vendee. So / can't deny
such nonsense"
This was by way of denying reports
in the press that he was seriously Ill,
not able to receive friends. etc.
His whims are strikingly original.
He will not light cigar unless there
Is a box of them at hand. He Will not
write by electric or gas light, but pre-.
fers an old.fashioned oil-burning lamp.
He loves the sea with deep affection
and had his house built on strand in
Vendee, almost entirely surrounded by
water. and he writes there. overlook.
ing the blue ocean. Flowers in pro-
fusion bloom on his property. but he
will not have them tended by other
hands. He conducts various horticul-
tural experiments, but without as.
sistance. He hates newspapers and
the Petit Parisien.
He will write only at table shaped
like a horseshoe, at which he 81 COM
fortably. surrounded by huge piles OF
papers.
He loves dancing. Recently he at.
tended a "soiree" at the home Of old
family friends. A number Of young
people who were present made the
phonograph play so fast that Clemen-
ceau, tr ing to keep pace with 1t, soon
was out of breath. So each time he
passed the instrument he pushed the
button which reduced its speed. and
went on dancing. Each time the young
people passed they restored the button
to ito former position. etc. us the
music too fast for you?" one OF the
young ladies' asked. He said: mo,
but when I learned to dance I was
taught to do 1t as though enjoyed it.
and not as though were running to
catch a train!'
Near Vendee the peasants tell many
stories about the former premier.
They marvel at the number Of cigars
he smokes and tell this tale: Once
he rode ons horseback to a village
store and, without alighting. bade it's
proprietor fetch him a cigar He
smoked it and said. Fetch me an.
other" After smoking this one he
asked that another be fetched, until
six had been smoked in this manner.
Then, with an approving countenance,
he hitched his horse to a post be.
fore the door and .alighted. saying;
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him at last to no better end than a
oeIense or impudent quackery.
Empty he Is, as few of my cotempo-
rarleS are empty, yes; but he echoes
most sonorously In his own cathedral
like emptiness. and his outward effect
Is striking and entertaining, not simplv
to himself, but to us all. He resembles
an lrfdescent film upon the pool of
HE. and Pavloff, a great stona built
IN and built upon and so COMPLETELY
Incorporated that his name, has become
hardly more than a name, widely for
gotten. To the future Shaw will have
contributed nothing, and yet hemay be
harder to forget. We can know what
PaVlof knows now if we will do the
necessary reading of him. but. a hun
dred years hence Industrious students
may still be discussing whether Shaw
meant this or whether he meant any-
thing at all. Unless, that is, still more
Shavian Shaws, still emptier, still
more resonant and preposterous, have
swamped their attention by that time
and obliterated him altogether.
y y ~
Empty and sometimes intensely yex-
atious-and yet / think that, like Bel.
loc, he Is playing a very necessary role
in the intellectual world. Scientific
men are apt to forget their obligations
to the general intelligence of mankind.
Though nobody acknowledged the in
debtedness, it was Belloc as much as
any one who shook up the biologists
at the recent British Association to
tell us less mumblingly than they have
done for some time how matters stood
with them about natural selection.
Darwin and the origin of man.
And while I find reading Shaw is
like shooting rapids In sunshine, Paw
loft -Anrep. though, as Baedeker puts
1t, 'rewarding," Is very heavy going.
a deep dark gorge Of thought. I wish
men OF science would express them.
selves better. Scientific inquiry takes
its workers into remote and lonely
places. where they do a little to lose
the faculty of ordinary speech, Our
interest in scientific work and sound
might fade out altogether If
the mental irritation of these expires.
sionists did not keep our attefl:.s.s
alive.
And with these few remarks. which
| hope may prove helpful, | will hand
the life belt TO the reader and repudi-
ate any further responsibility in the
matter.
Copyright. 1927 by the New York Times Co.,
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My Philosophy of Life ''::: ::::'s:'"

Love-" he went on. denotes a
concentration Of tender feeling upon
one particular person, most common
" the affection existing between
parent and child. and that affection
between two persons Of opposite sex
which forms the normal basis Of mar
riage. It manifests itself in desire
for the welfare of the beloved object.
in a longing for his presence and
delight in his approval, and sorrow
at parting. No word has SO little
an elasticity of definition. Leibnitz's
definition that to love Is to be car.
ried away, to take pleasure In the
well.being or happiness Of the loved
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They're not so bad-guess I'll 80 in
and try some!'
what is lover" I asked Clemen.
ceau. "It has been variously defined
by thousands Of people. but what Is
your definition"
Love-" he said, and his eyes be.
came fixed far away in pensive re.
fiection, 'is whatever gives one legiti-
mate contentment in life, without so
contenting that it makes one feel
there's no need to continue striving"
And within a few moments he had
given expression to his view Of love.
with an adequacy and precision which
are not found in the writing or
any other philosophers.
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Director. Department of International Ship
pirg, Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service.
!" HE recent Geneva Arms Con-
ference gave great prominence
H to the question of merchant
i shipping when it became a
p" paramount issue and startled
The world as to it's relative significance
as a contributing factor toward sea
power. 1t brought home to the Amer
lean people the deplorable deficiency
of the United States in this respect,
both from a standpoint of national
defense as well as commercial COM
petition.
In order to understand more thor
cughly our position in international
shipping, it is necessary to turn back
to the conditions prevailing just prior
to the World War. when we carried
less than 10 per cent Of our commerce
in American ships.
Our overseas tonnage had dwindled
away to almost nothing since the
glorious clipper ship era, when Ameri-
ca outbuilt and outsailed ships of its
competitors and carried the greater
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From the figures just quoted. 1t IS
apparent that none oT these nations
are neglecting their sea power. even
in the face of their economic handi'
caps.
The postwar trend has been toward
cargo liner service-that Is, port to port
service, in contradistinction to tramp
service. Seventy-five per cent OF the
worlds overseas shipping is now en-.
gagged in this class of service. Prior
to 1914 1t was 25 per cent.
Our competitors were quick to rec.
ognize this trend and have either
built or acquired modern tonnage with
increased speeds and other. economic
advantages.
The table below of present tonnage
will disclose our weakness in this re-
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UP the isles as a very little thing.
| It Is He that sitteth upon the circle
| of the earth, that stretcheth out
the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in. (xl)
Here at last Is monotheism, and the
prelude to Job, and the introduction
| to Spinoza, and the preparation for
science; here is the first clear view OF
the unity of the world.
X * X y
Yet the spirit Of the prophets is not
| the spirit Of science; il is rather the
stern voice of Jesus and Paul, of
| Luther and Calvin and Knox, of Mill
| ton and Carlyle. The prophets were
Puritans; they were the first to en-
phasize the idea of sin and to brand
worldly pleasure as 1niqufty; they
were the first Protestants, and it was
the Old Testament, rather than the
New, that made the Reformation.
Perhaps because their nation was in
the throes of mortal combat they
found no place in the good life for the
joys of the earth, and their influence
so strengthened the ancient prohibi-
ton Of craven images that their
people have been until modern times
almost completely sterile in the plastic
and pictorial arts. And like all NOR
alists, and even while denouncing
tribal theology, they betrayed tribal
narrowness and dogmatism in their
more bitter moments; Jeremiah de-
nounces to death those who differ
from him. and some say 1t was
through his influence that those ter
rible passages We're written into Deu-
teronomy (viD, Furnishing heresy with
death, which were copied verbatim by
the leaders Of the Inquisition.
So far they partook of the habits
and perspective of their time, but in
other regards how far they saw ahead,
and how profoundly they spoke! They
did not come to the intelligence and
lberality of the Greeks, but they rose
far above the Greeks in their concep-
ton of the brotherhood of man. They
began the exaltation, even in mill
tary age. of those virtues OF simple
ity and gentlenesS and mutual aid
which Jesus was to make the essence
Of His gospel; they prepared for Him
by announcing the coming of
saviour; they transformed a tribal god
of war into a universal god Of love;
they were the first Christians and the
first humanitarians.
The voice of social revolt sounds in
diA tHclI SptcCu. IHcy UclGVcu With
a later Jew that quick riches are sell
dom innocent: they looked upon large
fortunes as morally indecent and
politically dangerous: they denounced
usury. slavery and violence: they
made God the father of all men, in
order to make all men brothers. They
made the Jews stand in history for
fraternity. as the Greeks stand for
intelligence, and the French for equal.
ity. and the English for liberty.
Greece had culture, but no heart;
even its philosophers made little pro-
test against slavery: 1t created science
and 1t perfected art, but it remained
for the Jews to formulate the con-
ception Of social justice and the rights
Of man. Through this faith little
Israel. crushed between the jaws of
brutal empires. won to victory in the
end. and today the peoples that con-
quered 1t in the flesh bow to it In
the spirit, pray to the gods 1t created
and aspire to the ideals which 1t gave
to the world.
n n
The Philosophers.
Half d century passed. Across the
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Note: This 10 the third Of four articles
in which the former premier Of France
fpveala through his friend. .Constantin
lived and proposes to die. Tho Anal ar
ticle will be published next Sunday. In
the Editorial Section Of The Sunday star.
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Which to Drown: Pavloff or Shaw?
Continued from First Page)

Continued from First Page)
his abstract thought assures the ex.
cellence Of his plays.
X y -
People call him a thinker. I doubt
any consecutive thinking at all.
Most intelligent men have their ideas
in some sort Of grouping. and order.
even If 1t Is no more than the order
of a patchwork quilt, but I do not
| find even that much conference in
| Shaw. His ideas are a jackdaw's s
| hoard, picked up anyhow and piled
| together anyhow. Knowing my Shaw
| fairly well and knowing his sur
| roundings, ! think / could trace to
some quite near personal influences
| nearly everything he has ever held.
This he got from Samuel Butler and
that from Webb: this he expanded
from a chance remark by Haden
Guest and that was loaded into him
by one Of Mussolini's sedulous prop
agandists. The worst element In his
mental makeup Is q queer readiness
to succumb to the poses Of excessive
virility. His soul goes down before
| successful force. He exalted. the
| maker Of enormous guns In MAN and
Superman": he has rejoiced in the
worst claptrap Of the Napoleonic
| legend; now he Is striking attitudes
of alteration toward the poor, vain,
doomed biped who Is making Rome
horrible and ridiculous to all the
world. When it comes to the tor
ture Of intelligent men, to vile out
RACES on old women, to the strangu-
lation Of all sane criticism and an
orgy Of claptrap more dreadful than
its attendant .cruelties, this vitu.
perative anti-vivisectionist becomes
an applauding spectator. So he Is
welcomed to Italy and feted in the
sunlit streets along which other less
fortunate intellectuals have been hur.
ried through the darkness to an ig-
nominious death.
y &k
What does, 1t matter to him that
the shadow . OF destruction creeps
closer and closer to so great a man
as Ferrero? What does 1t matter
that the soul of whole people Is
dishonored and bowed and bent? To
him 1t does not matter. because his
thought Is too trifiing to apprehend
the threat this triumph OF base vio-
lence conveys to the whole world Of
man. He Is taken and subdued by
posturings that outdo his own, and
his political thinking. like his think.
ing about life and medicine. brings
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7,S93,1lS

The above figures show that Great
Britain outbuilt US, as to /; Germany,
10 to /; France. to i; Italy. to J..
and Japan, to /.
Nor have our competitors, with the
exception Of Germany, Stacked up
any in their naval building activities,
in keeping with the spirit of the 1921
Washington Arms Conference. This
s. very evident from the table below.
Naval vessels laid down on appro'
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Note.--ln the tenth installment Of his
next Sunday. DR.. Durant will tell Of the
age OF Homer.
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Government chemists. who began
studying ways OF making use of pea
Inut hulls in 1927 have found five
possible commercial uses for them.
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ADEQUATE SEA STRENGTH
- URGED AS NATIONS NEED
Plight of u. S. at Outbreak of World
War Cited as Proof of Necessity
for Good Merchant Marine.

priated for, built and building as Of
farch Al 1927.
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The PHILOSOPHERS

The Philosophers.
Half d century passed. Across the
gulf from Chaldea another empire
rose to wealth and power, and sent
out barbarian armies to lay waste
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ME temple brought into the re-
ligion of the Jews centraliza-
ton of power that reflected
Il the consolidation Of the mon
II could not
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BY ALFRED III. HAAG.

Director, Department of International Sh
ping, Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service
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What is the result? We have been
completely outbuilt by all Of them.
At the present time we are hopelessly
outranked in modern type Of ships TO
meet the keen competition in over.
seas trade routes.
A striking example of nation re-.
trieving her shipping is that Of Ger.
many, which now has a modern feet
Of merchant ships of over 1850, 600
gross tons.
Shipbuilding activities Of the princi.
pal maritime nations from 1922 to
1927 are disclosed in the following
table:
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BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

- >ARIS.-While In its domestic
politics France Is unmistak-
ably drifting toward a renewal
of the combination of the
4 l. Ssnnfaiirfsl HIrhinh
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Continued on Page Nineteen.)
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Behold the Lord God, who hath
measured the waters in the hollow
of His hand and meted out heaven
with the span, and comprehended
the dust Of the earth in a meas
ure, and weighed the mountains in
scales and the hills in q balance.
Behold the nations arc as q
drop Of a bucket; behold He taketh
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Here is a glorious language and po-
etry; and when you reflect that 1t is
part Of the Oldest written literature In
the world-part Of that same Bible, or.
Books (Gr. biblia), which gives us also
the Oldest connected historical nara
tives. and the poetry Of Ruth and the
Psalms and the song OF Solomon--you
begin to understand what O debt we
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CITIZENS SERVICE
LEAGUE TO EXPAND
Dry Law Campaigners Plan
Branch Units-D. c. Mass
Meeting Discussed.

The Citizens Service Association f
Law and Order. organized here pri
marily to stamp put prohibition viola
tions in this city, is now helping or
ganize a similar SANITATION in IAN
other large city," and, in accordance
with previously announced plans, ex
poets to aid in the organization OF
similar groups in many OF the larger
cities of the country.
These plans were made known ioi'
lowing a meeting of the board OF dl'
rectors in the University Club yester-
day afternoon. DR.. F.. NJ. Ellison. sec
retary and one of the organizers OF
the local group. who yesterday gave
information regarding the board OF III
ractors' meeting. stated today that
member of the association is now on
his way 10 another city to aid in ms
orga nization of a group there.
Plan Mass Meeting.
DIR. Ellison declined TO name the
other CITY, stating that the association
had rather keep the public guess
ing" He denied, however, that Bal
timore is the place.
DR.. Ellison emphasized that the
local orga niZation is aiding in outside
organization upon invitation OF cltl'
zens.
The directors met yesterday PR
marily for the purpose of arranging
for a huge mass meeting here, und"f
auspices of the association, probably
October 16. Several speakers OF ma /
tional prominence will address that
gathering. to complete details OF when
the directors will NEST within the
next few days. A committee OF Two
from the local association has been
sent to New York to obtain one OF the
speakers the orSa nization has in mlnd.
Beard Increases Membership.
Fred b. Smith of New York, presi.
dent of the Citizens COMMITTEES OF
900. was a guest OF the directors
yesterday. Two new members were
sdded to the hoe rd. Rev. +. Y. Nicaol-
son of the Rhode Island Avenue Meth
odist Protestant Church and Miss
Helen Bagley.
The local association is headed by
DIR. w. S. Abernethy. pastor of Cal
vary Baptist Church. and was formed
TO assist the police by exposing dry
law violators.
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pany have gone to formal functions
in the height of vehicular fashion.
But when the company celebrated
it's 25Oth anniversary this year as
royal chartered concern. the guests
arrived in imousines and there was
not horse drawn vehicle in the turn
out.
London streets were famous In the
early half of the nineteenth century
for their variety of carriages, which
came In as many fashions as motor
Irars today.
There was the travelling chariot
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MRS. CELIA PEACH DIES.
Funeral Services Will Be Con1uct
ed Tomorrow Afternoon.

Mrs. Celia Peach. 81 years old. ot
1911 Allison street di"d yesterday
sfter a brief illness. The funeral serv
ICES will be conducted by Rev. James
~. Morris of the Church of the Epioh
my at the residence tomorrow after
hoUn at o'clock. Insermcnt will be
III Glenwood Cemetery.
Mrs Peach had been resident oil
this city for more than 40 years. She
eas a charter member of st. Johns
chapter of the Order of the Eastern
Ftar. vice president of the South River
Park. Md. Citizens Association and
Eas a former president OF the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Spanish War Vet
t-ans. Mrs. Peach is survived by hel
Taughte~. Mrs. Gertrude Van Allen
kitll whom she lived.
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Bows Act Led to Telescope
:, The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle

From, the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle,
When the son of a sixteenth cen
tury spectacle maker in Holland
picked up some spectacle lenses in his
father's shop one day and happened
to hold UP two of them, one i'm each
hand. he was surprised on looking
through both lenses to see the wealth
ercock on neighboring church stee'
pie greatly enlarged. Excited by tins
discovery. he ran TO his father and
told him what he had seen
The father Immediately took the
two lenses and repeated the expert
ment. The result confirmed the boy s
report, and the father set to work 1T
once fixing two movable lenses on a
board-an idea suggested to him by
the varying view he had obtained by
moving the lenses in his hands. and
thus the first rude telescope came
into being Shortly after the news OF
this discovery had leaked out. a friend
wrote to Calico in Italy describing the
contrivance Of the Dutch optician. and
it was from this description that inc
Italian inventor built the great tele
scope that made him famous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23
SCIENTIST AID WRITER
ARE MARRIED ON YACHT
William Eeebe Webs Elswyth
Thane Eicker-Society
Toik Attend.

" the A<Snt'fiAfN' t'-t'es
NEW YORK, Septe mljcr H3.-Mar-
ried on a Yacht off Long Island. vii.
liam a. BcslW 20. noted explorer
scientist and u hot, and Elswyth
Thane Ricl.es u VIA writes novels
under the name of Elswyth Thane,
were smiling %ru:h,.ard To-Day for an
unannounced honeymoon retreat
They were travelling ~ the yacht
Warrior. owned by Harrison Will
iia1ns, hacker of several o: the Becle
expeditions. Ti'0" we're married on
Oyster Fay yesterday afternoon he
fore an audience of socially promi-
rent members of the Long Island
hummer colony.
Mr.. Pcebe was divorced at Reno in
1913 from Mary Blair Teebe. lie was
horn in Erooklyn. His bride VAS
horn in Burlington. Ohm. Her fist
novel was dedicated tn MIR. Beebe on
It's publication three weeks ago.
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DUE TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 81.
A n,nrinnn Inrinn-Rlenns Aires
OUTGOING STEAMERS.
SAILING TODAY.

Observation-Disclosures and Southampton.
Observation-Disclosures. havre anu Lon n
Amazone--lnagua Puerto Caoeiio anu -eaoe
Bolivar-Cape Haitien Port all Prince and
Luna-Cape Hait;en ST Marc and Port au
choluteca--Puerto Cortez.
SAILING TOMORROW.
paris-Plyn,outh .nd Havre
Clare-San Juan. Ponce and Mayaguez
San Mateo-Puerto Cortez and Puerto bar
T,fInt ss Cristohal and Port f'mon.
volendam-P Plymouth. Bouiogne and Rotter
acknowledgements Cherbourg and Ant
Observation-Disclosures and GLASGOW.
Drottningholn l--GothenDurs
Colombo-NaDlcs aud Genoa
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ami Liverpool
nuewaska-Plvmoutb and London.
Orizaba-Havan:.
Ecua.or-Puerto Colombia Cristobal and
Dorothy-santo Domingo City. Sanchez and
western WorrI,i-Ria de Janeiro Santos
Montrvi!eo and Buenos Aires; ,.,i.,
Teno-Cristobal. 1auioue and Valparaiso
Fort Notwithstanding.
Silvia-Halife,y aud -. Johns po.,o
Nay&ri--Santiago. Kingston ana ruei'o
.r colGn11lBBhi
Britte-Santo Domingo.
ClOntarf-Pirdeus
Gonland-Monte Christi.
Hypatiw-CaDe Town.
Skanelond-B arcelona.
SAILING SUNDAY SEPTEMBER -.
Alfonso XIII-Curunna santander and Bal
boa -
SAILING MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 70
Dresden-Plymouth. Cherbourg and Bremen;
observation-disclosures. southampton anu
Hamburg.
SAILING TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 81.
conte Rosso-Naplcs and Genoa.
Buenaventura-Port au Prince ana CrlstonaI.
Muenrhnn North German Lloyd
mouth Cherbourg and Bremen.
Suffcren-HGvre.
SAILING WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 70.
Albert Ballin-Cherbourg Southampton ana
Hamburg. ..,4,,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Southampton;
Carahobo-San Juan. Puerto Caoeiio ana
Maracaibo. ,.,, d
Santa Marta-kingston Chrlstooai anu
oranie Naseau-Port au Prince. Curacao and
Perarnaribo
Ccib2-XinGston.
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the interior OF the castle near here
may be rebuilt in its medieval form
Filmer. The cost OF the work is esti-
mated at $780, 900.
The castle is built on three islands
and is connected with each one by
stone bridges. from one of which Ed
ward III hanged a former governor.
Thomas de Colepepper. 1t is guarded
today as jealousy as In the days of
the Conqueror.
Mr.. Wilson-F'ilmer does not want the
work hampered by crowds of sight
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seers. When the restoration is COM
pleted he and his wife. who is a daugh-
ter of Lord Queensborough. will live
there after furnishing it in period
style.
The entire castle has been stripped
and the interior practically demolished.
Among the discoveries is hidden tor
ture chamber in the walls with an
oubliette in it's stone floor. through
which the body of the victim could be
shot into the mOat after the rack and
thumhscreW had finished with him.