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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1918, Page 4

' A Wanganui lady writing to some New Plymouth friends offered the following good advice, "Don't miss Bessie Barriscale in 'Borrowed Plumage'; it's out on it's own." This coincides with reports from other parts of the Dominion and should ensure a packed house at Everybody's to-night when "Borrowed Plumage" will be screened for the first timeThe first of Thomas A. Edison'a "invisible ships" to come to Baltimore dropped anchor off quarantine (says an American .paper). It is a new ship bf British register, and has just been completed after the original plans by Mr. Edison. As she appears in the harbor the freighter looks like any of the other boats at anchor. The towering masts, willi their massive derrick booms, form the chief feature of the invisible plan, for they are hinged at the deck. When the vessel is entering the waters infested by U-boats these masts are lowered to the deck in such a manner that they extend along each side near the rail. The smokestack is removed, and any breaks left in the top line are boarded so that the line is straight. In her neutral colors the ship can scarcely be detected on. tile horizon. The decks are low, and in the danger zone hard coal 13 burned so that there is no tell-tale trail oi smoke-

Astonishing disclosures of the recent achivements of wireless telephony were made by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in a speech to the Canadian Club at St. Catherine's Ontario. "If the telephone has reached its extreme limits, what next?" said Dr. Bell. "I cannot say what next, but I can tell you of something that happened in Washington a few weeks ago. The telephone lias been applied to wireless, and a man in Arlington, just across ttie river from Washington, talked with a man on the Eiffel Tower in Paris by telephone without wires. But that is not all. A man in Honolulu hoard the conversation! From Honolulu to the Eiffel Tower is 0000 miles, one third of the circumference of the globe. Does this not mean," he added, "that we can talk from any part of the world to any other without wire?" ©r. Bell, in detailing the development of his telephone, stated that a few days previously he had whispered a message fr.oin New York to Chicago—a distance of about 000 miles—and had received a whispered reply. Chicago, tho home of Mayor William Hale Thompson, the Chief Executive of the Windy City, who recently gained much unenviable notoriety for his, pro-; German leanings, has i>een the scene of a strange meeting—that is, for that city, judged in the light that Mayor Thompson alleged it to be. Mr. Thompson declared that Chicago was mainly German; but that statement is doubtful. In any case, United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, at n mass meeting. sponsored lr- the State Defence Council, said:—"lf any pro-Germans remain in the United Slates they can take their choice of 'being shot or lioiii' right.'" He followed up this ultimatum by adding: "By God, the) shall either fight for this land or die for Germany. They shall no longer ply their trencher here." Mayor Thompson was not present at this meeting. Picture goers will be delighted with the eight-reel Metro super-feature, "Under Handicap" in which Harold Lockwood commences a three-night season at the Empire Theatre to-night. It is the story of a millionaire's son who is forced out into, the world to make good off his "own bat," and it is the cl'e.ss of pi' ture in which Lockwood simply read) perfection. The committee of the Stratford gift auction sale, by advertisement elsewhere, requests that donors of cash donations forward the amwimt of same to the canvassers of their district, or to the honorary joint secretaries (Messrs. W. J. Crawshaw and A. T. Grant), by next Saturday, 23rd instant. The Male Choir resumed their practices last evening ih the Soldiers' Club, after being in recess since December. Good work was done with Balfe's evergreen "Excelsior," and "The Battle Prayer" (A. M. Storch). A number of the members are siiy holidaying, but it is tfkpectcd that full attendances will soon obtain, as considerable enthusiasm ia being shown by members. It was proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, that (1) SANDER'S EXTRACT is much more powerfully healing and antiseptic than ordinary " eucalyptus preparations; (2) SANDER'S EXTRACT does not depress the heart like the so-called "extracts" and crude oils; (3) SANDER'S EXTRACT is highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable and effective household remedy. Get the genuine—insist if you have to—and be Webs'tir Bros, announce a large sale of fruit at their mart about I.H 0 n.m. to-das.