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Clinton Newa cord.
xue. morn co roes commitusion reeve
'Wooed three plans, the first for cons � N lea l iti and reeking offensive warlike pn (, j� �j
al g m.ic >i 1. �1�����V THE
pigs
opezationa, the s"econd one of which
experiments would be required before
WAS a satisfactory conclusion would be ars
OF iT,, rived at," and the third a combine -
tion of the first and second `for the
purpose of hostile operations." It
was not desirable, the corernission
added, that any experiments should
be made ---they could not be carried
out without divulging the secret.
The commission considered in the
next. place how far the adoption of
the proposed secret plans would "ac-
cord with the feelings and. principles
of civilized warfare. We are of un-
animous; opinion that Nos. 2 and 3
would not do so, That is why the
plans were never put ito operation..
Their znhumani y wastoo great.
Lord Duudonald's own opinions. of
his plans were downright and confi-
dent. They would,. he said, totally
change the aspect of war and supers
sede every known system of warlike
operations. After their disclosure not
a man would be found to engage in
war except for defence of his coun-
try. To use theta in defence of order
and civilization would be praise-
worthy, but to let the world know
that we are. at all times prepared to
use them against aggression would be
a protection of the best interests of
mankind, no less than of her own.
Such knowledge; can only be danger-
ousthosewho have au to
onsav cause ..fear
to
it, but "to those possessing it it is
power, strength, and safety," He was
not entirely convinced that disclosure
would be altogether harmful. It
would, lie maintained, show the ince
eureity; of coast defences and other
"stationary asylums," and it would
have the effect of "binding over na-
tions to keep the peace
• A French journal of high author.
ity" remarked that "should a war
arise: between Tngland and France,
the latter Power would bring warlike
engines into play to which rifled can-
non were a trifle. "
COCHRANE THe DAUNTLESS
THE .INVENTOR
intrepid Tenth 'Earl, of :Dundonald
• Presented the. British. Government
With an Invincible Attack Nearly
Century Ago, and It Has Lain
Its, the Archives Ever •Srnce--•Gist
• i of It Has Never Been Published.
The .security of the Empire is a
aub)ect sof ever-increasing interest,
and at the present juncture its ode-
Iquacy has take.e a foremost place in
(the arena of topical discussion. it
;May not, therefore, putting on one
'side the merits and demerits of the
present controversy, be Tut of place
to draw attention once more to that
famous "secret war plan" to which
alight referenee. has been made from
time tp time, and which should now
be reposing 'in the official archives
of Great Britain. Very little is known
regarding it, although whether or not
it Es now as "secret" as it was when
its 'inventor submitted it to the eon-
'deration of.the Prince Regent is an'
Open matter. , .
Its inventor, as no doubt most 'e'en-
.
eeee know, was the brilliant tenth
Earl of Dundonald, better known, un onald, na , per-
haps, as Admiral Lord Cochtene. He
entered the naval service at the age
of eighteen, and soon distinguished
himself by his bravery, being almost.
continually engaged in the retest dif-
ficult and daring enterprises. He was.
only twenty-five years of age when
appointed to the command of a sloop -
of -war, and in less than twelve
months he had captured thirty-three
vessels and assisted in the capture of
many others. It is not, however, ne-
eesbary to follow his brilliant career
in ` detail. It need only be mentioned
that his sturdy Whiggism brought
him into disfavor with the Liverpool-
Cttlereagh Administration, and led
teethe temporary annihilation -if the
phrase may be used -of his prospects
of advancement in the service of his
country. He sought and gained em-
ployment in the service of Chili, Bra-
zil, and the Greeks, and on the return
of the Whigs to power in 1830 he was
reinstated in his command in the
English navy, and, dying in 1860, was
buried in Westminster Abbey. As a
daring, brilliant, and successful naval
commander he has been ranked with
Nelson.
Soon after his return from the Med-
iterranean in 1811 he laid before the
Prince Regent plans of a "new and
most formidable method of attacking
and destroying an enemy's fleet, and
of performing other warlike opera-
tions on a large scale." The prince
was greatly interested in these plans,
and they were referred to a secret
committee, consisting of the Duke of
York, Lord Keith, Lord Exmouth,
and the two Congreves. This commit-
tee gave it as their opinion that the
mode of attack proposed 'would be ir-
resistible; and the effect of the power
and means outlined infallible: They
added, however, that if the plans
were divulged the result might .be
fraught with peril to our colonial pos-
sessions; "an observation," com-
ments Lord Dundonald, "masked by
no little foresight, for had the same
-plan been known to the rebels in the
Indian Mutiny pot a European in In-
dia would have escaped." The .inves-
tigation being secret, no official re-
port was made, but the opinion's of
the committee were conveyed to Lord
Dundonald by Lord Keith. The in-
ventor was commanded to secrecy,
and it speaks we'll for his patriotic
character that throughout all the
trials he underwent, and in spite of
the fact that he entered the service
of foreign countries, no indication of
the nature of his terrible invention
escaped him.
Soon after the accession of William
IV., who was a practical seaman him-
self, Dundonald submitted his plans
to him, and "His Majesty at once
admitted their importance." in 1846
when the suspicion of the British
Government was excited as to the
motives and intentions of the French
Government, another investigation
was made into the value of the plans.
Bad Feeling in House.
The outburst of temper occasioned
by the alllnight sitting at Ottawa is
likely to delay prorogation. Some
members think they have already
earned their $2,500 which a tolerant
public pays them for 'their ability to
perform the gentle operation of do-
ing nothing. The naval bill is strand-
ed high and dry, being docked for re-
pairs. The insurance bill which is
so bulky a document that whenever a
member .wants one, it takes the unit-
ed efforts of two page boys to bring
it into the House, has- made its aps
pearance on the order paper after
taking, up all the time of the Senate
so far this season. 'Unless the dove.
of peace begins to hover about the
precincts. of Parliament soon it will
be well on to midsummer before pro-
rogation 'guns boom from Nepean
Eauat. -
The Smite.
We talk of a smile of defiance
There is really no suet) thing. Such .a
so called smile is nothing more nor
less than 'a. snarl, a survival of the
way our savage ancestors had of •show-
ing their teeth in order to strike fear
into the hearts 'pf their enemies. The. •
real smile of pleasure begins with
slightly opening the mouth. and is. ot
course, traceable to the joy of Moe
same savage forefathers of ours atthe
prospect of food
Making Sparow•s Into -Canaries.
Some strange ways of "raising the
wind" are adopted,. and the, following
case is • certainly one of there. One
day recently 'a dethcti.e noticed. two
Dien named Hall and : F rtitiklin, en-
de.a,voring to sten what appeared to be
a tine gold cinch in the street at
Kiug's Cross, London,asking half -a=
crown for the songster. When he
melte to IIall the latterthreat/ the,
bard into the air, but the bird. killed
itself by flying. into a shopand was
Picked up by the officer..
"It was actually a greenfinch;'worth
ad.," said the detective at the Police
Court, when Hall and I+ranklin were
renianded on a charge of loitering.
"Hall's pockets were full of color used
to convert sparrows into canaries, and
he also had some ochre, which he
used to bronze birds''heads like those
el mule canaries."
R.N.W.M.P. ARE GOOD MATERIAL
FOR THRILLING TALES.
Recent Report Gives Some Idea of
What Intrepid Riders of Prairies
Are Doing to Keep the King's
Peace on Edge of the Untouched
Land -Furthest Off Post 13 Fully
2,SCO Miles From Headquarfere.
U a copy of the report of our Royal
Northwest Mounted Police should:
fall into the hands of a genius ---a
Stevenson or Kipling, for instance-.
he would And in it abundant mater-
ial for as thrilling tales as were those
Written about life • in the . garrison
towns of India or on the balmy is-
lands of the South Pacifle. .1n that.
'report he would. And the ground -work
of otories of duty, heroism, unselfish -
nese and brave endurance; stories
worth writing, for they would tell of
lives nobly spent in the service of
country and in behalf of the cause of
civilization.
Some day the writer will appear and
the stories will be written. In the
meantime Canadians should at least
look orand glean-
ing
idea k through the.xep t by gl n
ing here and there obtain some
of its contents and some understand,
ing of the work that that little corps.
is doing -doing so well, considering*
its limited numbers and the compara-
tively small means at its disposal;
and perhaps what is only of second-
ary importance, doing so quietly and
'With an eye single to the demands of
duty and in keeping with the dignity
of the uniform its members wear.
The report should not, in the public
eye,• be allowed to drop to the dead
level occupied by most governmental
blue books, for it is a Dressage . from
the Great West and the Far Northern
hinterland beyond much of which hes
yet to be won to the cause of indus-
try, and upon the winning of which,
to so grand an extent, depends the
future of the Dominion,
One brief glance at the statistics of.
the report, Last year the strength of
the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
stood as follows: "51 officers, 600
non-commissioned officers and con-'
stables, and 558 horses -a gain of 2
constables and 35 horses as compared
with the return of the preceding year.
"In Alberta there are five divisional
posts and 64 detachments; in Sas-
katchewan four divisional poste and
78 detachments; and in the Northwest
Territories one divisional post :and -6
detachmexta; 'a total of 10 divisional
posts and 148 detachments,' . .
The area covered by these detach-
ments is veryektensive, the Provinces
of Alberta ,ltdtd Saskatchewan and the
districts of 11elOenzie and Keewatin
,in the Northwest, Territories. The lar
thest flung detachment on .the . Arctic
ocean is 2,500 miles from . headquar-
ters, and it takes two months to make
the journey,"'
A jurisdiction like t]iat, eictending
from: Manitoba to the Rockies, and
from the internationtil boundary to.
the shores of the Arctic ocean, . sim-
ply staggers an Eaatcrn Canadian ac;
customed to the . narrow • confines of
townships and Bounties or even' of
provinces, for hire is a region
throughout which .law and order is to
be maintained; larger than many an
old-world empire. ,
In the southern 'part of• thio vast
region s'ttlernent is rapidly going
ahead, and although the policeman's
work may in ba increas-
ed, it is, yearly b'aceming less pictur-
esque and adventurous, although not
a- bit less dangerous or neeessary.
That the work has beer; well done is
attested by the high reputation the
Canadian West bears for law and or-,
der, It is the boast slits Canada has
never had a "wild wet," and if the
boast is well founded it is largely due
to those Hien on horseback with, re-
volvers hi holsters ancl•rifles at their
backs who everywhere have stood for
the majesty of the law.
In the Far North the members of.
the • force have longbeen more tban
policemen. • The parts they there have
to play are many and varied, but
each is for" the well, being of their fel-.
m
lowen'whom •ltd ature. the hire of the
fur 'trade or, of the gull. mine. or the;
almost t'QRt,aity wer:n a i'ure of sport
and adventure, have thrown together
in the Great Lone Land. Their smell
and widely scattered poster are the
!melee, or perh'pa better, the expre.-
eions of the Dominion's power, the
finger-tips of Canada's land of sov-
erc'ignty. The police are explorers and
often the guides and givardiaris of
num of science, sent far afield by the
Geological Survey to gain knowledge
respecting the resources of those
tent parte. The police also carry
maile to this northern frontier; they
look after the fisheries and the min-
ing eantp.', and often carry .succor to
Alen whom ill luck, sickness or their
own mistakes, have placed hi eitaa-
tions of great distress and danger.
It i$ from the reports of the in-
spectort, in charge of the different
posts and districts that full knowl-
edge of the work can be. obtained;
and although written in u most simple
and matter of fact manner and with
a modesty truly remarkable in theme
pushful, self-assertive days, these re-
ports afford most interesting and in-
struetive reading.
News front Dawson is still inter-
esting, although from its gravel are
not now being taken the fortunes
that a few years ago mode the Yukon
famous. These ' police officers in
their reports give an excellent sunt,
nlary .of the progress of mining dur-
ing the year, and for that alone their
'reports are worth reading; Every
phase of their work is touched upon;
for instance, it is stated, when de-
scribing arms and equipment, that
our artillery consists of two seven -
pounder muzzle loading guns, one of
which is brass and obsolete; also two
efe:xims and a Maxim-Nordenfeldt,"
Canadian Etchers Win Fame,
Two Canadian artists who ore grad-
wally winning fame for themselves in
Euro. to are Frank Milton Arn ington
and his wife, Caroline Helena Arw'
ington. They are both painters and
etchers, and their etchings have at-
tracted stecial attention. A number
of typical specimens of their wort:
have been accepted• by both the 'Srn-
isli and South Kensington Museunte.
1'his secaks voluoies for their work.
:ls all the .world knows, it is no easy
matter,, nothing 's accepted by either
of these institutions unless it is. 'be-
yond reproach and above the ordinary
in conception.
Mr. Armington has also heel the
•honor of being made a member of the
laoyal Society of Painters -Etchers. and
Engravers of England- His work is
false to be soon in the ,Atte Pinokothek
Museum of Munich, and in the Cop-
gressional Library of: Washington.
Both Mr. and Idrs.. Armington are
earnest workers, and are rapidly be.
conrin v known as such. They are
•both ei .rmine _ orsonalitics, and their
ittudio le rn ideal ono. Though a nom -
bar of discerning Canadians have ac-
quired i.':eelinens of their work, it is
a singular fact that etchings are not
claseificrl as works of art, end are
compelled to pay only on admission to
Canada.
seeree -•
Friends In Need.
"1 don't put touch faith in proverbs,"
said llrotrn to Jones. "For instance:
look • at the oft quoted one, 'A. friend
V! •need len friend indeed.' Now. most
of my experience -with friends in ueed
hes heeu that they wanted to 'borrow.
Clive
in the friends thstt are not in
need."
Crafty M. Blanc.` •
Blanc, tbe founder of the :dente Om-
it) gambling resort, was well aware
of the desperate churucter of many
of his customers. Knowing that they
included the scum and.rtffrait of the
world, he took precautions against
them. He never curried any money.
which fact he announced so frequently
and publicly'. that It was known, every
'where' along the Riviera that the mil-
lionaire
il lionaire Blanc never had a penny on
his person, But lie curried in a pocket-
book a draft on red paper for several
hundred thousand francs. payable to
the Endorsee. He feared kidnaping as
much as robbery. and In case of Ab-
duction he .intended to ransom himself '
with this draft. But the tnstrnetions
at his ;ofTree were not to eaSh• a red',
draft with 'his Signature unless a tell.
egram wasreceived from him ordering
it to be done. �.
. - "KITTERY PAINT ELMS.
Each of the Giant Shade Trees 'Coat a,
Pint of Rum
One of the most striking attractions
of the old town of Kittery Point has
long been hor towering elms. Tbey
rise Magnificently above trees of all.
other varieties, and in Sumpter with
their foliage encompass her quaint
streets . in delicious green coolness°
transform the fine old Mace into a ver.
Itebie seashore falrylas.d and last., but
not least, enrapture the summer visitor.
For nearly two miles along the high,
way, whish for the most part follows;
the shore ot the harbor, these splendid
specimens rear themselves at falrly
regular intervals. 'hough the ax has in
times past brought some ot the mon-
archs erasinug to the earth.
The story of the circumstances at-
tendtitn the planting ot the giants, as.
it has been banded down from father
to soon, runs as follows: "Major `More -
as Cutts. ozie of the old town Lathers.
who conducted a fishing business, for-
eign commerce, a store and a tavern
in the famous Pepperell mansion (built
1602), conceived the very commendable
idea or beautifYieg bisnative town by
setting out trees,
"Accordingiy In 17Q1 he gave one
Samuel Blake the contract, Samuel's.
remuneration was nothing more or less
than'a pint' ofrum, doubtless brought
from the West Indies, by one of the
major's pinkies, foroetch tree planted.
There were originally ninety of them,
and they extended from the Seavey
lot, near• where the First Christian
church now stands, to the. 'top of the
Point' or the shore of Spruce creek,". -
Kennebec Journal.
THE SPIDER'S THREAD.
Its UseAstro '
by Astronomers mets In Their Study
of the Stars,
The threads of the garden spider are
deed by astronomers in. their tele-
scopes for the purpose of giving tine
lines to the field of view by which the
-relative positions of starsmay be ac-
curately measured. ,
boy a century astronomers desired
to make use of such lines o1 the great-
est possible fineness and procured at.
first silver wire drawn our to, the ex-
-treme limit of tenuity attainable with
that metal. Tbey also tried hairs one
five -hundredth of an Inch thick and
threads of the silkworm's cocoon,
.which are split Into two component
threads, each only one two -thousandth
of an inch thick. But. in 1820 an Eng-
lish Instrument maker named Trough
ton Introduced the spider's line. This
can be readily obtained 'a fourth of
the thiekness of the silkworm's thread
and has also advantages in its strength
and freedom from ovist,
In order to obtain the thread the
spider. Is carefully fixed on a minia-
ture rack, and the thread, •wgch at
the moment of issue from the 'body .Is
a viscid liquid. is madeto adhere to
a winder, by turning which the desired
length offfirm but elastic thread can
be procured, -bacons graphic.
Henley's Sufferings..
In .tifty-four years of iris . life -be
Wase born in 1819--W. E. fenit'y never
knew what it day's perfect health
menet. When .little •niore than a boy
Lie .was attacked by,.0 disease which
necessitated the amputation of one
toot. tie Was told later by the docs
tors that the sacritice of the other leg
was necessary were he to live. The
trope of . Dr. Lister had reached Fien-
ley, .and, penniless .and almost friend-
tess;. he determined to try .I,dtubni'gb
intirnaary.• Thither he, traveled third
class in physical suffering _Such as few
t
have nnwn.'•and .when he reached
tbe hi lrmary his whole possessions
amounted to a fete shillings. His eon-
tideri'e In Lister was justified. and .his
leg vas•snred. ile was and t'etnuined
.a cellule. but neither bopelese .nor help-
less.- tlis' astounidtng• nimbleness, un-
der these conditions suggested to Rob-
t'rt Louis Sieveuson the physical sketch
•of John Silver:
QQUIRASSA.' : AIDS.
Fighting Statesman and Lieutenants
Are Picturesque Men,
The meteoric career of Le Devoir,
Mr. Bourat;sa's new Montreal daily,
bas been interru;,ted by the departure
from his staff of his two chief lieuten
ants; Mr. Oliver Asselin and Mr. Jules
Fournier, men who The Montreal Here
aid says, attracted libel suite as natur-
ally as water attracts ducks.
"Asselin," says The Herald, "claims
to have been reared below Quebec
and to have come to Montreal, where
he,beean on The Herald in 1809, by
way of New' England. Materially,
there are eircurnstantial proofs of the
claim,. ,but in essence he hails straight
from one of Dumas' novels of the
Fronde. He is a disturber of the
peace of people in high places, be-
cause he is a person of enthusiasms
,who is quite careless of consequences.
He never measures his likes or fits-
likes. He has always a cause to fight
for, and in fighting he puts his own
t{onvenienee last. Like our most dis-
tinguished lacrosse and hockey play-
ers, he excels in breaking the rules
and in being penalized for it. His
worst break was when he struck a
Quebec Minister on the floor of the
Legislature; that and other things
have taken hint behind prison walls
andinto the dock. On the other
hand, a very successful and very
honorable Montreal public man, in
whose interest Asselin had worked
Iiko a Trojan for weekstogether,
after many unencouraged hints about.
remuneration, mailed him a check for
a tidy sum. It cane back by the
next mail, with the comment . that
when he worked for his friends be
worked for friendship, When be has
been really pressed for money the fact
has been indicated by public adver-
tisement of the desire to sell some
valuable books.
"Health he has always treated as
quite secondary. Those whom be has
se relentlessly pursued say be is a
neurasthenic; in the middle of min of
his hardest battles he fell at his work,
the victim of a painful ailment, tram
which, by diet of not giving in ta' it,
he soon alter recovered. His moods
interchange betwc'ett s eedonic bitter.
nese, which he indulges, when some
unworthy act has excited his reproba.
tion, and light-hearted banter, that
bubbles up when.aotneone bus inviie l
contempt. • At St. Hour'. divine the
earnpnra'n on the 'hoard et Contra
referendum, be had the hall Nutt*
ing ler near ea hoar as be portray•
the postures in which the°' alderrate t •
had been tenanted by Judge Cannon,
and, 'then. suddenly. instantly, bite
thin face /it up by a flash 01 passion,
sent a :shiver over the whole audience
with a fiery aside alt't:t the long pro-
ressilon of little white Ec eros in tbe
Summer i neetha.
"In the Fronde he would have been
at borne, end would have broken
himself cheerfully for the canon or
Henri of Guise or Henri of Navarre.
Bern he has forced the flehtiwtg for
mother Henri, who until lately had
not to worry about :tenons in dam-
ages for libel. lie has done as much
as, perhaps more than, any other man
to train and hold to'Ycther the 14-
tionalist team, which has shown
fighting power out of proportion to
its numbers and resources.
"Fournier is like and unlike. He
is reckless, 'but he has a sense of
humor. Understatement has no charm
for him, and be is not s"rupulously
fair, but be sloes put oil with bin
vinegar. Proof against the influence
of mere fact, he is a little proud of
not being sure whether the libel
actions against him aggregate $115,-
000 or $165,000. He loves to threaten
others with the treatment they have
meted out to him, and actually glories.
over having been put in jail for a
political offence. While he was there
be took revenge on hie jailer by
treating him to a,, weekly dose of ridi-
cule. When the municipal elections.
were over and the Twenty-three were'
overwhelmed. Ise summed up the ,
day's work in the line, `If this goes
on there will soon be nobody to write
against.' The queer twists he gave
to political discussion Were a feature'
of thepersonal journalism Le Devoir
:sought to introduce. Once he pro -o
,
tested againstthe severity with why be
Senator David treated Laurier in his'
recent writings, but there was' a foot
note, `this is not serious.' Toa per-,
sorrel question *bother he bore any
relation to a distinguished judge or •
�
his name, his answer was, I am not
is any sense a seigneur, nor kin to
them, near or far; I alai a rotnrfer.'"
which is to say, at the other extreme,
of the scale. Anyhow he has a pleas-
ant. talent, and the bump of comba-
tiveness may flatten out. Ile is an-
other of Bourassa's brigadiers."
Many dope fiends contracted
.. �
the drug habit in the cradle
Certain dangerous drugs were given to them in •
their baby days in the form of "Soothing Syrups,"
"Colic cures" and "infant.;' friends." The harmful
effect of "soothers" containing opium, morphine,
chloroform, chloral, etc., cannot be too strongly
stated. Do not give baby .a "soother" unless
you positively must. 'Nen give it '
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tains iso opiates. It .induces natural, 'healthy'
sleep—gives immediate relief to baby, calming •
the mother's tired nerves—does not putonsoft,
flabby flesh, making the little folks easy victims
'Of childish diseases.
We wouldn't think : of recommending Nyal's
Soothing Syrup. if we were not certain of its
': berneficial effects.
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