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An Metering Incident Created a
"Kind of Ritual."
One day, writes Lawrence F. Ab-
bott In World's Work, while j was
seated In Mr. Hootievelrs private
office, which wan a fairly good-sized
rsion. kis secretary anpounced the
late Senator Carter of Montana. The
Senator was shown into the room.
He was dressed, as I recall it. in a
gray frock coal and hit round face.
surmounted with red hair, shone
with pleasure. To my totemic amaze-
ment, 1/r. Roosevelt leaped out of
chis chair, seized the Senator by the
hands and they began dancing back
and forth 'across the room, chanting
the following doggerel in unison:
" h, the Irish and the Dutch
ey don't amount to much,
ut huroo for the Scandinuo-vian!a
-After Senator Carter left, Mr.
Roosevelt. amlyted at the look of
surprised interrogation. on my face,
volunteered the following explana-
tion: "Tom Carter is a good friend
Of mine, although we have often ills=
agreed radically on political prin-
ciples and issue. Soule years ago
during a political campaign he and I
•here scheduled to speak on the same
Occasion in a town of the northwest.
When we came out of the hall and
were walking along the board -walk
of the little village to our hotel, we
met a huge Swede or Norwegian; who
was somewhat exhilarated from pour -
Ing too many libations in honor of
the Republican party., As he zig-
zagged his way along the . narrow
sidewalk, we had to step aside to
avoid a collision. He was singing at
the top of his Iunyit•that sang abodt
the Irish and the Dot* Now, Sena-
tor Carter is Irish and I am Dutch
and we thought i1 was o, very good
yoke on us. So every tlmWwe have
met since, unless there are too many
people about, we are apt tgreet
each other as we did just no 1t
-las become a'kind of ritual."
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1 nate &rid bear to you on
ristmas Day
that will be moreecial by them than a rortra.t of yourseii: Why
worry? Ore en pictures will take care of one dozen friends. That
much off your m . All pictures taken .ap to Saturday, December 20th,
will be finished or :hn►tmas.`
J. T. FELL
The Dawn 1n Belgian Africa.
The time has bee when news frOm
Darkest Africa in he Congo region
was dark indeed; b t the present and
future of the tribes that embrace, all
told, something lik 5,000,000 human
beings, scattered er a tropical ter-
ritory almost as arse as Europe,
looks full of pr mine as one reads
the report of r. Frank, Belgian
Minister of the olonie•s, covering the
period of the War and laying out a
program for the future. During the
war there has been practically no
trouble in the Belgian Congo, prob-
ably sa a result of the lines adopted
tit tiff adminbttyhogr i. any idea
TEMPLETON'S
RHEUMATIC CAPSULES
FOR
RNf UMATISM, NEURITIS. SCIATICA
LUMBAGO, NEURALGIA,GOUT ETC
ASURE RELIEF FORTH MOIST IE401t, f
Ms, PER BOX
TEM►LETONS L" rkeeatIlant SEW 110100111
Humanity Sas lacked a practical rheumatic
remedy nnce time began. Fortunes are .pen
year) at hot springs. electric b,tha and h..ei
Isla to obtain relief, yet better rteelta are
achiesed rightist home by asilsg 7.111.0 't "the
Common Kase treatment." Just compare hat
sad re.ulta with ear other treatment ,mil
you will be convinced. A.k you; drurrut
or write us for our new booklet; It If iotuest•
logand Costs you nothing rremplelonl til
Hing se.. Toronto). we mail esyster,as
receipt of 111.04.
S.,h• ngoul 1„r H. 4', Dun-
lop, Phut It , i'hwui'i uud Drinti;t.t,
of forcing The natives into an uncon-
genial mold has been abandoned,
and the country is being governed
by adapting methods to local I.rndi-
tions. "Not only must we decentra-
lise our administrative organization,"
runs the report, "but we must con-
tinue to study and make the beet pos-
sible UFO of native instituttOii, re-
specting and developing them in all
respects, even 1f they offend our
WHY DO W M t;1.EKP?
There Is Much Yet to )M !nown
About 1t. •
Solas• of the Most usual things are
also the most wonderful, but just
because_ they are familiar it never
Occurs to us how wonderful they
really are. •
In alt the eomples. arrangements
and\Inter-worjkings that go to slake
up huttan life, there is, perhaps. none
more remarkable than that by which
at regular intervals our consciousness
is blotted Out, the activities of our
bodies and rstlnds cease, and sleep
alone possesses us. Yet since this
miracle happens in the ordinary
every day of his e, the wonder of
it never strikes us. We do no Rtup
to ponder on it and co ask what is
it that happens. when life is thus
almost completely.Interr pted.
Why du_wa sleep, and Ore, why
do we wake again!
Like most natural phenom a that
appear so simple the explanat n is
hidden• from us. The physio) ist
tells us that 'sleep is a "synaptic d
social ion. of neurons." ,It may be,
but we are tut much the wiser fur
ideas and moral conceptions, do 1618 that, even if we know both what is a
as they do not offend against. the\
essential principles of humanity and
justice." Economically and Industry-.
ally, the Congo may reasonably be- 1 w
neuron anti what happens to It when
it is synaptically dissociated. No, we
"not- know just what sleep is aor
y it happens,
come important and prosperous in ae. 1 .1 . lI_i,ed (0 be thought that sleep
cordance with, those essential fetttda- h"pp"i ed �uw the circulation al
mentals. One may hope to hetar far blood t1�rough the brain grew so fee -
different and better things from the bl.• that this, Ihe seat of eoneriuhs-
Congo than one has heard in th.• past. 'ftss, cull win k no lunger and sleep
toot the pple. Many years ago. in -
Da Vinci Thougist of Tank. derd a surge i studying Illy subject
watched fa'1 it circulation of the
Italy has just celebrated the. brain through a hole in the lull of
fourth centenary of Leonardo du r a sleepinc aniiital. Yet 'tkt's- is only.
Vinci's death., . • A�trle,,,'�ilts• brain has leas
beep mentioned durffil ,loud '/aria. it sleeps; it dues not
his prophetic genius recalled. - It --T slevp because it has Ices blood.
Mere reelhtly it hag bl,'n thought
known (hat be intended lo:'build air-
planes for war purposes, bat it is
now claimed also that he was the
first to think of the tank. In his
that s,uring• the active daye ruake;
by the activity of our tits Iles, u
poison which, has the peculiar cyton
letters to 11 Moro he speaks Of arm- of. deadening trental action. \'his
ored cars which could shelter the I gradually gcctEntulates in us iii
occupants and drive 'rfght.'aniongst t the tiuie"thal'keep is due at ni
the enemy's masses, slayingand-bat- ;the brain rM overpowered. This argu-
tering all opposition. tt 11 untor- Ment is supported by the familiar
threw that more Is not known of fart that there are. many ptusons,
Leon'brdo's intenfiops, and of the,way drugs of the "dope" class,. for exam -
1n which he proposed to propel his pie, which are eertalply capab(tt of
/craft hlqul•F might prise� producing sleep. \
been iute`nded, for if a'horse couldSleep is a necessity of life no less
carry less weight than the arl.aired than- 144 food. No man has ever sue -
motor, protection in those days was Beed d in ever keepierk awake for
more easily g t than now. Di:. is, More Than a few days continuously.
certainly very 4ngular to read chat If fie is forced to do so, as in ancient
his cars were to'charge ahead slide Chinese Iurteres, where- conotant
the infantry ,would follow be!.iud- tickling ofyhFtret glade sleep int.
for this is exactly what hat: : -possible, he•%allk at lac' intnacom¢-
four hundred ears ter his ,..:.i;: tore state (rani which he never
--Manchester Guardia .:1'waliens.
'There is no greater misery than as
cc boon than the untroubled sleep
thai nightly brings its fresh and in-
vigorated tai the next• May's task.-
' MIL:, In London Exprcra..
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' A MaMtrr of Style.
Mr. Jytgnith, in his presidential
/His l •. I ho a•,p&l fah_ aista:IA l tun a
ford College. London. surae weeks
dealt with the life and writings
of :xiJ Henry Wootton, the friend of
Isaac\Walton. It was 'by poetry
alone, amid Mr. Asquith, that Woot-
ton still lived, and the reason why
his short Oetie pieces possessed en-
during fro r ofpeal was because
they posses a sovereign quality
of poetic•• y e Style in poetry, even
More than to rose. was an art -
one Might even ay an art Klee. it Ih
was sought out. Nought nut,` and
wrought out. It 4 'd not fetter in-
spiration, though th w might tie in-'
aspiration without it. was at ot{tnttee
a posture and a vehicl inrornmi(fr't-
cable, *Moot indetinah and yet
never to be mistaken, ntong all
the classic poets, whether :reek or
Roman. Virgil was Ihe great ;angle.
English poetry was specialty rich
-the gt•elet--441344.,-e.lItslwee-It4- 4or•
Shakespeare must illw•ays live in. a
eiswe by himsc1t• but with That reser-
tatlon, by faylhte•-greatest ntitstrr-of
tic style -in the 14(41140 ut- _w:hich
# used th"e word. was Milirin. TT1ej
could not open a page of "Paradise
1,014*." "Lyri:►dae," -Comas:" or any
• the sonnets without ending :1
wealth of examples. Keats and
Tennyson picked hp and carried un
the torch. anti he Claimed a plate, 1
evenone tf a subsidiary o;,for Winter.'
SavageTwndor. ,
Wootton was not, either perhaps
as man or as /1/et,\of heroic atatui.'
or of far-reaching range.hit he was
not suffering frothe prsu•iem of
setN-when, u..sn- utd-twhia wdl
ear, thelelity s^enfptd tp tee h a 11,14 and.
often an alai sit -arrogant disorder 1n i
the outpourings of Ihe.'t•onternporaty
tutlts3vli might not belttthit.l-to go_
back now and nynin to ale great
masters of poet to •tyle.
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Thursday, i1 VOrteliPT 41, 1O1o. - 1$
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od e ric h Board of Ttade
At u meeting of the Hoard held 00 \luuelly tit cuing, Ibrr u,1•'
ib, Mr. 1'. 1.. MleNsrf;..01 the Aoalulut Its.ud Varhiwry Cuutpa •,.,
umde a eery frank Land euuipl.le explanation of 111' affair.; of Ifni •t •
1'oml!el sly.
11r• es pia ln d f11/'lr relitti.lus w44111the former 4'o444pu44y, and 11.•
diim.•ulfile that wer.Xeiritnifetrd in taking atter the husilies' fn w
!hem; and also ilt.•`riyawins felr`tbi'ir hating lu awl, the council ,'ed
the {Mrtple
til ',ultimo! The bylaw %hien is tin lie submitted to the
des -torn at the municipal eleetie�_. wnury usktuq for it •'
thin:ince, for a -further eetiMI, of the twiner .ig reivaieal iu req.. ,1
to their tuxes,
We therefuh• *1t''- t--ilo opinion that • tery vitt/Ali int.-ie.ted in
the welfare of IIt#l.•rieh .buuId mike a full intent tg.itl• 11 of Ib.
merit w of this carr before jot-silg ji lgue•nt in Vega rd to it.
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