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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 17, 15 October 1917, Page 5

"Is there any way by which we con keep these men with us if they want to' go to the front?" asked the manager of the Nightcaps Coal Company of the Military Service Board at Invercargill on tt'ueaday. It appeared that ono man who was being appealed for—one of the company's most expert miners—had a strong desire to forsake the pick for the rifle. . '"There is no way in which you" can keep such men," said tho chairman. "You can't hold a man from going to tho war. If he doesn't want to go, then you can keep him under the fear that if he leaves you ho will be called into camp; 'but tho willing recruit cannot be withheld." A bullet travels, roughly, twice as fast as sound, so that if a man is struck by a bullet and instantaneously killed at a distance, say, of 1000 yards, ho is dead a full second before the Teport of tho rifle that fired tho bullet could reach him. Pawnbrokers in Now York have had a very good year, and are chiefly grateful to tho Mexicans for tho greater part of Before leaving for the border United States soldiers pawned almost everything, from watch to boots and pfioes, so as to raise a little ready cash. One of the rnewt enrioun facts in. regard to snakes is that their eyes are never closed. Sleeping or waking, alive or dead, they are always wide open. This is because they have no eyelids. The eye is protected only by a strong .pcale, which is cast, off every timo the <■*' reptile changcs its skin.