HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1923-09-13, Page 2C. FairBy Mary
for
though the
best known,
exhibitions;
in the Lakes
that they walk to
it may take
to cover the
mountains.
in having a
He Cleared.
The head of a large shop, while
passing through the packing room, ob
served a boy lounging against a case
of goods and whistling cheerfully.
The chief stopped and looked
him.
“How much d-o you get a week?”
demanded.
“Five dollars,” came the brief
tort.
“Then here’s a week’s money; now
clear out ’
The boy pocket the money
parted.
“How long has- he been in
ploy?” the chief inquired of
partmental manager.
“Never, so far as I can remember,”
was the unexpected reply. “He has
just brought me a note from another
firm.”
at
he
re-
Never Beyond the Pale of Justice
Why Farthest Canada is Safe for Pioneer and Native—W ork of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.
Democracy on Trial.
The dalesmen of that land of pcet-s,
the English Lake District, are keen
sportsmen. Every dale produces
wrestlers, fell ra-ce-rs, high jumpers
and broad jumpers, and many of them
are very good indeed. Every year at
Grasmere there i-s a meeting
sports and games, but,
Grasmere sports are the
they are not the only
many cf the other places
also have th-eir yearly meetings for
enjoying -the sports of the mountain
country. One of the most strenuous
contests at all the exhibitions is the
fell race, an event for which the young
men begin -to train in every dale as
soon as the weather becomes suitable.
The course of a fell race is more
suggestive of ropes, guides- and alpen
stocks than the fine
track, for it covens-
half or three miles
tain country. The
sure-footed,
cind'er® of
some two
of typical
racers
leap forward at a swift
a bound they clear the
fence and speed over a
before they reach the
leys are remote from the railways,
but the motor car and the motor char-
a-bancs enable visitors from all the
centres of the neighborhood to attend.
Many of the dalesmen are so keen
about the sports1
Grasmere, even though
them two or three day®
great distances over the
Eskdale is fortunate
miniature railway that runs through
its beautiful valley and brings many
hundreds of people for the sports held
yearly at the Woolpack Hotel directly
under Scafell. The railway has the
reputation of being the smallest work
ing railway in /the world. Besides- car
rying man excursionists in the sum
mer months, it carries- goods and mail.
The gauge of the tracks- is only fifteen
inches. The passenger engines are
beautiful scale models of the express
engines on the great lines; there are
also two good engines that bear the
names- of Ella and Muriel. It is a very
up-to-date little line. It conveys its
pasisengers almost -to the foot -of Sca
fell, where the railway company has
a restaurant and tea room; for in
such a remote spot it is difficult for
travelers to get refreshment
they come in large numbers,
train can carry from one hundred
fifty to two hundred passengers;
you can charter a special train
one pound.—Youth’s Companion.
and de-
our em-
the de-
I
when
Each
and
and
for
Her
I’m
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Reward.
“How old are you, Marjorie?”
“I’m five, and mother says if
good an’ eat all my crusts and lots of
porridge, I’ll be six next birthday.”
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The estimated weight of the earth is ,
6,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
.The departure recently of two small 1
parties for northern Canada explains -
why, even to the farthest confines of
the Dominion, the pioneers in all lines
of industry—farming, ranching, min
ing or trading—are able to carry on
their work without let or hindrance
and to lie down at night in safety.
This event also tells why there has
never been any “wild and woolly west”
in Canada, because in the sending
forth of these parties there is the em
bodiment of -the idea that in no part
of the Dominion is any one able to
get beyond the pale of British justice.
The
cial
the
One
Baffin island and the other is proceed
ing down the Mackenzie River to Her-
chel Island in the Arctic ocean. Both
parties go forth to try persons held for
1i
and
the
for
are
two parties in question are judi-
groups sent' out under escort of
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
sailed on the C.G.S. Arctic for
RippHngRhymo V
' -"W
or
the
in the insur-.‘How could he?
ance business.”
“Jack’ll never set the world on fire.”
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Sumatra, in the East Indian Archi
pelago, has the greatest variety of ani-
1 man and vegetable life of any place in
the world.
a race
and a
moun-
must be
swift on the level and
good jumper®'of wnalls, fences and wire;
they must also be skilled crag climb-
el's, clear of eye and sound of -wind
and limb.
The starting point is at the inclo-
sure in the valley where the sports are
held. As the flag fall® the lithe, agile
competitors
pace. With
wall or the
field or two
rough ground at the foot of the moun
tain.’ Although it is often boggy and
the going is heavy, the lightly clad
figures- flit over it at an astonishing
pace. On the lower slope of the moun
tain they reach a sea of bracken
■waist-high where rabbit holes and con
cealed boulders make pitfalls and ob
stacle's tor the unwary. Several of
the racers are sure to lose their places
and fall back, but most cf them smash
their way through. With a leap the
leader is on the face of the crag up
which lies- the nearest way to the
hairn at the summit of the mountain.
,There, a lonely figure silhouetted
against the .sky, a marksman waits to
take each man's' numbered ticket as
lhe rounds- the pile of stones-, and it is
for him to see that the runner® do not
attempt to cut corners in passing.
1 The speed of the fell racers in the
crags' is something -to marvel at; from !
rock to rocJi they scramble, as sure-;
♦ footed as goats, as agile as deer. One
after the other, sometimes- two
three at once, they emerge from
crag® and sprint along the top of
mountain toward the marksman
the cairn. As they swing pest each,
without pausing, gives up his- ticket,
and then at a terrific pace dashes
away for the descent. They do not
■hesitate. They leap from
liedge, from tiny foothold
crack, some of them with
raised to keep their balance,
and the leader is in the bracken, but
he slips on a hidden stone and falls.
Though he jumps quickly to hi® feet,
the next man is past him in a flash; I (
he has lost his place and never re- i cumstances in t
gains .it. Then they splash through i them n.Q chanc.e> but who through the
the bog and over a wire fence into a
field,
place;
strands of wire when he should have
jumped them. Over the last wall they .
leap gracefully and sprint desperately .
for the tape.
The average time taken for a fell
paoe of the best class is from fourteen
to eighteen minutes'. The training Is
thorough and hard; during the sum
mer in the dales all over Lakeland
the young men evening after evening
run practice races up some mountain
that their trainers- select, or sprint i
short distances on the flat in order to
get speed-. At Grasmere you can see '
Uli the best of -the fell racers, and i
every dale hopes' that its own cham-1
pion will be the winner at the contest
at that place. In 1920 the winner was
a youth of seventeen years- from Lang
dale. Though there were more than
thirty -entries for the race, which was
run over a very hard course, the lad
was victorious.. Moreover, he won ten
subsequent fell races after his sensa
tional victory at Grasmere and -was
not beaten until the last race of
season.
Every year the attendance at
Lake Country sports meetings
larger than it was on the Last. __ __
scenery of the valleys- where they are terprise. It is certain that the condi-
-held is so attractive that people from " 1 l~
every place within reach come by j
motor, by train and by bicycle,
mere on Sports1 Day is -a sight
hold. There is scarcely a bed
had in the neighborhood, and
visitors frequently have to spend* the
night on a heap of bracken in some
00w siied or stable. Most of the val- ’
lfe*
ledge to
to mere
arms up-
A bound
US
Then another man loses his i
ha has crept between the
THE LONELY ONE
I walk through the streets of the village, and list to the voice
of the throng; the farmer is talking of tillage and proves that the
weather is wrong. The merchant is talking of taxes which rob
him of all he can gain, and bitter and wrathful he waxes; it’s
grievous to hear him complain. The statesman Is talking of
dangers which threaten our lives and our rolls; to safety we’re
bound to be strangers, until he wins out at the polls. And every
one’s talk is devoted to him and his little concerns; no voice in
the clamor is noted discoursing of Shelley or Burns. I long for
an earnest discussion, when tired, at the close of the day, of Tol
stoi, the thundering Russian, of Shakespeare or Bertha M. Clay.
I’m tired of the things that are sordid, of men who get rich in a
night; I’d like to hear merit accorded to Milton and Harold Bell
Wright. There’s no one to talk of the sages, of Hugo and A.
Conan Doyle; but men,, in their fatuous rages, are talking of
wells' shooting oil. The lawyer is spieling of leases, the copper
is drooling of crooks, the uncle is cussing his nieces, but no one
is speaking of books. And so I am lonely and friendless, I’m
bored by the twaddle I hear; the talk of the people is endless,
but it is a grief to the ear.
British Children on Our Farms
the murder of white men or natives.
Each party consists of a judge, a pro
secuting counsel, counsel for the
defence cf the accused and an inter
preter. Judge Dubuc, of Edmonton,
i heads- the Mackenzie valley party
Mr. L. A. Rivet, K.C., of Montreal,
Baffin Island party The counsel
Crown and defence in each care
experienced barristers.
The eastern party will try the al
leged murderer of Robert Janes, a
Newfoundland trader, who was killed
in March, 1920, near Cape Crawford,
on the west shore of Hudson Bay. The
western party will try the alleged per
petrator of several murders in and
near the Kent peninsula and Corona
tion gulf in 1921 and 1922. A disturb
ingly large number of murders have
happened in recent years among the
Eskimo, and it is advisable to impress
upon these people the sanctity of hu
man life.
Far Flung Police Patrols.
These two parties are being sent out
thousands of miles to give a fair trial
to ignorant and uncivilized natives.
The men will be tried according to
due process of law and they will be
defended just as if they lived in any
of the organized provinces. The pro
ceedings will be interpreted and ex
plained to the natives who assemble
at the trial® and it will be made plain |
to them that the wrong doer will be
punished whether he be white man or
native. Viewed as individual trials [
these will, of course, be expensive be-1
cause of the immense distances over
which the courts will travel, but con
sidering the security which this
course bring® to thousands of people
scattered over a quarter of a contin
ent the total result is in every way
most economical as- well as just.
But the remarkable thing to those
to whose attention such matters are
brought for the first time is not that
the Government of Canada should con- ’
duct these trials-—that has always
been the practice—but that on the
shores of the Arctic ocean or Davis
strait there should be posts of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accu-
pied by perhaps two men, and that
from one of these posts a constable
should go out to a point five hundred
or eight hundred miles distant, should,
single handed, conduct an investiga-'
tion, recover the remains of a murder-
; ed man, hold an inquest, arres-t the
suspected person, and bring him back
to the post for trial. This is all in
the day’s work of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and it is one of the
things which have made newer Cana
da safe for the pioneer.
BY DR. J. G. SHEAR \R.
In our former article wfc emphasized
the necessity for a high standard in
mind and morals on the part of the
citizens generally if democracy is to
prove in practice an efficient form of
government.
One of the points at vxhich demo
cracy is tested and in consequent dan
ger is at the ballot box. The secret
ballot is a safeguard of honesty and
freedom in this expression of political
manhood and womanhood. It makes
possible an honest vote. It is not suf
ficient to guarantee it. There are
sinister influences at work. One of
these is the purchasing of votes. The
effort undoubtedly is too frequently
made in keen party contests. In many
cases it is successful. An honored
member of the House of Commons is
authority for the statement in my
possession—a signed statement—that
in his constituency, a rural one in
Eastern Canada, 70 per cent, of the
electors were open to receive whiskey
or money or both, and 50 per cent,
would importune candidates or work
ers for money or liquor or both. There
are cases on public record where pro
fessing Christian men were the agents
for distribution of corrupt funds and
liquor. It would seem that many who
are honest in business have no con
ception of honesty in politics. The
president of one of our old universities
tells.that when he went to vote in a
certain general election he met an
official of a rural church of the de
nomination to which he belonged and
in conversation was informed that
that man had two sons voting for the
first time at this election and that he
the father had thought well to give
them advice about their duty in the
exercise of their new power of man
hood and had said, “Boys, take all the
money the Tories will give you and
take all the money the Grits will give
you—but, vote your conscience!”
What did this man mean by “voting
your conscience”? Simply “vote your
party ticket.”
But aside from cases of rigid party
electors who will take money but not
sell their votes the party system lends
itself to the buying of seats in Par
liament, Legislature or municipal
council. In each 1,000 electors in a
close constituency there may be 400 of
one party, 400 of the other, 100 inde
pendents and 100 purchasable voters.
The keen election leaders will concen
trate on the 200, half of whom can be
bought, and the other half must be
persuaded. A purchasable ten per
cent, may decide an election in a large
number of constituencies. Here lies a
very strong temptation to unscrupu
lous candidates and party leaders.
The history of practical politics in
Canada provides all too clear and un
savory evidence that in a certain num
ber of constituencies the temptation
has been yielded to and the will of
the people defeated. Democracy has in
that case and to that extent failed.
Practical politicians not infrequent
ly speak of politics as “the greatest
game on earth.” If it is merely a
strenuous struggle between two teams
for the victory—and glory—if not the
spoils, there is practical certainty
that the welfare of the people will be
a secondary consideration if a con
sideration at all. Politics ought to be
the “science of social welfare;” this
only, this always. All else is second
ary and comparatively unimportant.
The growth of a spirit of inde
pendence among electors and the con
sequent readiness to vote against the
party of their preference is a hopeful
sign of the times. The rugged inde
pendence of the electorate in Great
Britain is well known. The average
life of a government there is not above
four oi- five years. And the life of
governments in Canada would seem to
be growing shorter. Insofar as this
indicates a development of the spirit
of independence in politics it would
seem to be in the interests of the
whole people and to make for suc
cessful democracy.
One of the greatest needs is a
larger number of men and women of
real ability offering themselves as
representatives. To such men and
women this means real sacrifice of
self-interest but it means also the
spirit of service in politics. Service
ought to be the universal ideal not in
politics alone but in commerce, indus
try, the professions—indeed in every
sphere of life.
One thing that would lead more
worth-while men and women to offer
themselves for service in politics is
the elimination of slanderous abuse
from platform and press in political
campaigning which in the past has
been and in the present is altogether
too common.
It would be highly amusing were it
not so serious to read the purely party
organs and to hear some leaders’
speeches fn a heated contest. It is
simply wholesale, unblushing misrep
resentation and slander!
Something for Nothing.
They had been having a tittle quar
rel, and she turned to him with the
tears in her eyes.
“Well, John. e*en though I have
been extravagant, I got a bargain to
day.”
“Yes, I'll bet it was a bargain! You
have no idea of the value of momey.
I suppcse you got something for noth
ing.”
“Well, I got a birthday present for
you.”------------------—
Nobel, founder c/ the Nobel prizes,
owed his vast fortune to the discovery
of dynamite.
Gigantic Water Lily Blooms
at Roman Gate.
The largest Egyptian water lily,
“N-elumbium,” is now growm in the
small lake in the Villa Doria Pamphil-i,
just outside the San Pancrazio Gate, ’
says a despatch from Rome. It covers
th-e whole .surface of the water, le-av- j
ing only a small space for a rowboat 1
to get about.
The leaves of this wonderfully grace
ful water lily are ®ix feet and a half
in circumference, while the flowers are
equally large. In some places1 the
leaves tower above an ordinary-sized
■woman, while the whole surface is ,
covered with pink and white flowers. :
The villa belongs to Prince Doria
Pamphiill, a descendant of Prince
Camillo Pamphili, who, in the seven- .
teen th century, had the beautiful gar- j
den made. It happened that at that 1
time a young artist named Alexander
Agardi, a pupil of Bernini, was- recom
mended to Pope Innocent X. uncle of trenches, was the- result of a woman’s
Prince Pamphili. Dorn'enchino, too,
thought highly of the young man’s
talent, and brought him to the Papal
court, as he was sure that the designs
he would make of -the pro-posted villa
would surely please the Pope.
Agardi was anxious to make his
name, and worked steadily on plans
which so pleased Pope Innocent that
he saw no necessity of changing them.
The wonderful park of the Belres-
piro, overlooking Saint Peter’s, which
every visitor now admires', was' his
work, and every successor to the title
of prince has taken a pride in keeping
the villa as beautiful a® on the day it
was. planned by the artist.
Even the pond, which is- in reality a
small lake, is one of the most pic
turesque in any Roman villa. Origin
ally there were water lilies, but their
state of perfection was not equal to
the plant® now carpeting the surface
of the water.
The present prince tor the last three
years- has allowed delicate school
children to play during the hot sum
mer month® in the gardens', but not .
one bloom or plant ever has been dam
aged. '
de-
has
Patented by Princesses.
When Lady Frances Balfour
blared recently that “no woman
ever invented anything worth talking
about,” she made a statement that
hardly conforms to facts, says a Lon
don newspaper. Many inventions of
the utmost importance stand to the |
credit of women.
For example, it was a woman who
invented the detachable collar tor
men. She was- Hannah Montague, a
blacksmith’® wife, and .so tired was
she of having to wash her husband’s
shirts merely because the cellars get
soiled, that she conceived the idea ofj
cutting the collars off and sewing
strings to them. The idea became j
popular, and the blacksmith a.nd his
wife were able to retire in comfort on
the proceeds.
One of the most successful inven
tions of the war, the Ayrton fan for
dispensing gas and smoke in the
I
I
ingenuity. Its inventor, Mrs. Ayrton,
has also made useful improvements to
the arc-lamp.
A way of waterproofing almost every
kind of fabric, invented by Mrs. Em-
■ est Hart, has been used on an exten
sive scale by many Government de
partments!, Including the Admiralty
and the War Office, as well as by the
leading industrial companies. A Misis
Halle invented papier-mache surgical
appliance®, which are greatly in de
mand, while another woman inventor,
Mrs. Wood, discovered a means of pre
venting Incrustation on the keels and
sides of ships, and thereby netted a
fortune.
One of the best-known women in
ventors of the present time is Princess
Stephanie of Belgium, who has patent
ed many device®. Her latest inven
tion Is a cambimed chafing dish and
spirit Lamp.
Another royal inventor who has
added to the laurels gained by her sex
in this direction 1® Princes® Anne of
Lowenstein-Wertheim, who ha.s patent
ed improvements in connection with
ships’ bunk®.
Opportunities Provided Thousands of British Juveniles by
Migration to Canada—Splen did Work in Progress.
By Mr. G. Bogu-e Smart, Supervisor of Juvenile Immigration, Department of Immigration and Colonization, Canada
Select Best Homes.
The importance of these institutions
in looking after these children cannot ■
be overestimated. In dealing with ap-!
plications the societies select -the most
advantageous places for their wards. 1
It is wisely provided that in the event
of a child failing to prove suitable, the
applicant has the right of returning
the child to the Receiving Home. On
the other hand the interests of the
ward are fully safeguarded. As soon
as a child is placed in a foster home it
is visited by a represena-tive of the
agency under which it was brought to
Canada and a regular written corres
pondence is kept up. At the same
time the Department of Immigration f
and Colonization maintains an lnde- •
pendent Inspection of every child i
brought to Canada, until he or she
reaches the age of 19. Thus from
three to five visits' are annually paid
to each child.
The Supervisor of Juvenile Immi
gration who for many years has close-
ly followed the individual careers of t
nearly 50.000 of these youthful Bri- ‘
tons in Canada has found that in the '
services the great majority have ren- ■
dered Canada and the Motherland .
they have repaid many times the en
tire cost of their care and -education. ;
Seventy-five per cent, have remained
permanently connected with agricul
ture. many have risen to positions of
local prominence and all of them, with
the exception of a very small percent
age. have become good citizens
their adopted country,
is ample evidence in the fact that of
the boys sent out by the various or
ganizations over 10.000 enlisted in the
Canadian Expeditionary Force and
hundreds made the supreme .sacrifice.
Splendid results have attended the 1 son chiefly, that there has been a very
migration from Great Britain to Cana
da of children and juveniles whose cir-
the homeland gave
in life under favorable cond-i-
the. Inauguration of this fea-
Canadian immigration, over
.3 of ages ranging
co-operation of the various children’s
-societies and the Government of Cana
da have been given the opportunity of
a start
tion s.
Since
turo of
78,000 boys and g-
from 3 to 18 years have been brought
to the Doml'nlon and placed in agri
cultural employment and domestic ser
vice. At the close of the last fiscal
year 2,638 boys and 975 girls were un
der the supervision of the Department
of Immigration and Colonization and
settled in -the agricultural districts of
the different provinces as follow'®: On
tario, 2,794; Quebec, 456; New Bruns
wick, 122; Nova Scotia, 104; Prince
Edward Island, 2; Manitoba, 43; Sas
katchewan, 31; Alberta, 37; British
Columbia, 24. .
“British children on Canadian Farms”
in a general way describes the object
of British child and juvenile migra
tion. As a plan for providing worthy
life callings for boys- and girls, and as
an outlet for the overflowing popula
tion of young people in the United
Kingdom, migration within the Em
pire is not only a large-hearted but a
I
the-id
the j 1
is 1— — — — • —
The practical and far-seeing Imperial en-
II
Gras- j
to be-1
to be
some
I
tions in respect to the need of farm
and domestic help can be met to a
very large extent by the bringing in of
carefully selected boys and girls, vtfio
have been under training in the vari
ous private an'd state schools in the •
United Kingdom. The supply of this '
class of help is ready to hand in larger ■
numbers than heretofore, for one rea-I
limited migration to Canada of juve- ;
niles from the Motherland for a num
ber of years, as may be seen from the
following statement. The total num
ber of children brought to Canada in
the 18 years from 1901 to 1919 was 34,- J
500, an average of approximately 1,915
per year. ■ The number of children re- '
eelved in the last three years was
2,792, an average of 930 per year, or ]
less than one-half of the average
the preceding -two decades.
Eleven Homes for Each Child.
The first party under this plan
rived at Quebec in 1869 and was
dially received by Government officials j
and citizens, and since that time, with-1
out interruption except during the1
war, parties have annually been i
brought to Canada and settled in agri- i
cultural districts. The number of per-'
sons ready to take these children into
their homes has- steadily Increased, as
is shown by the fact that for the 37,-
292 brought to Canada in the twenty-
one years under review, there were no
fewer than 434,670 applicants, or about
11 for each child. With such a wide '
choice it has been easy to find good -
homes for the young immigrants.
On arrival the children proceed to a '
receiving home and in due -course are '
sent to foster homes selected for them 1
in advance. The following is a
receiving homes in Canada:
Dr. Barnardo’e, Toronto; Mr.
C. Fegan’s, Toronto; National
hen’s- Home and Orphanage,
ton;
Home),
Brookville; Catholic Emigration As
sociation, Ottawa; Salvation Army,
Montreal and Toronto; Church of Eng
land Waifs and Strays Society, Sher
brooke, P.Q.; Middlemore Home. Hali
fax, N.S.
for
. J. W.
Child-
Hamil-
M ac ph ers on -B1 rt (March mo u n t
Belleville; Quarrier Home,
Catholic Emigration
Ottawa;
of
Of this there
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Near the End of Their Rope.
A party of
dertook, for
penetrate into
mine. One of
un
to
English professors
a scientific object,
the depths of a Cornish
the number used to re- ;
late with infinite gusto the following ■
incident of his visit. On his- ascent i
in the ordinary manner, by mean® of ■
•the bucket, and with a miner for a fel
low passenger, he perceived, as he
thought, certain unmistakable symp
toms of frailty in the rope. “How of
ten do you change your ropes, my
good man?” he inquired, when about
half-way from the bottom of the awful
abyss. “We change them every three
months, sir,” replied the man in the
bucket; “and we shall -change this one
to-morrow, if we get up safe ”
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The Master Mind.
“So your husband has given up'
smoking That needs a pretty strong ,
will, doesn't it?” !
“Well. I’ve got one!”
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Thunder-fish, inhabitants of the
River Nile, give a sharp electric shock.
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Useful Discovery.
“Bridget,” said the mistress, “just
go and see if the pudding is cooked.
Stick a knife in it, and if it comes out
clean it is done.”
A few minutes, afterwards Bridget
returned.
“It came out wonderfully clean,
ma’am,” she said, “so I’ve stuck all
the other knives in it.”
Ideal.
1st Fly — “Wot’s
Heaven ?”
2nd Fly—“Lots of sugar and' molas
ses an’ no fly-swatters.”
your idea of
Ceasing to do new things and to
think new thoughts—that is the real
growing old.
IN RABBI! BORO