Exeter Times, 1908-08-06, Page 6CHOPS NOT QIIITE SO HEAVY
Conditions at the End of July Are Not
So Rosy.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Crop conditions at the end of July
arc perhaps not quite so rosy as
mane expected them to be. In spite
of all the rain that fell in Juno,
and which wade many people worry
for fear that the country was get-
ting tun much, there is a very gen-
eral complaint of want of rain, and
this has undoubtedly lessened tho
average yield, to what percentage
only the thrashing machines can
tell. Careful reading of the re-
ports shows that while the harvest
will he much earlier than last year,
it will not be a very early harvest,
fur although on light land consider-
able wheat will be cut on and about
August W, There will not bo much
general tutting until the week of
,lugust 15 to 20, which is all the Ccurgitw }fay purrs :n
Nu. 1 uorth-
way from a week to ten days later ern, t>l.lOjs ; A`o. 2 northern,1.
than either the year 1906 or 1905. ern, No. 3 northern, $the%.
Taking the country frou, end to end, Barley-l\'o. 2, 58c to$l 61M, out
l owever. conditions are decidedly side; No. 3X, 56c to 57e.
better for reaping, without damage,
}Iran -Quoted at 816 to.$18 per
an average crop, so far as yield is ton iper
n bulk, outside; in bags,
concerned, and much more than an
average crop for quality.
An average crop, on the acreage
now in, means at least very consid-
erably over a hundred million bus'u-
cls, though how much over, it is
difficult to say.
HIE WORLD'S MARKETS' CONDENSED `EBS I INS
REPORTS I'itOM Till: 'JADING
'l f,.1D : (ALN tithe.
I1.1PPI:KINGS t'IU)M .11.1. OVER
rilh (.Lodi:.
Prices cf Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Telegraphic Briefs [rum Our Oen
at:d Other Comities of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
Other hairy Produce at
Hume ar.d .1b:oatl.
BItEADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 4. -Ontario Wheat
-Old fall wheat quoted at 83e to
84e ; new at 81c to 89e.
Manitoba Wheat -Quotations at
TIIREW MAN OVERBOARD...
Heartless Action of Mate of the
Steamer Standard.
A despatch from Kenora says:
During an altercation on Monday
afternoon on board the steamer
Standard, a work bora of Sutton &
McArthur, a Swedish foreman in
their employ threw overboard a
young Scotchman named Robert Mc-
Kay. All means were taken to res-
cue him, but without avail, and dur-
ing the excitement that followed the
Swede disappeared. A search for
the Swede has been instituted.
LUMBER 1S LOWER.
Big ('ut in Prices Announced in the
West on Wednesday.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Considerable reduction in the price
of lumber was announced on Wed-
nesday. Shiplap and boards have
been reduced $5.50 per thousand,
making the new price $17 per thou-
sand. There is also a reduction in
the price of dimension lumber of
$3.50 per thousand, which brings it
down to *19 per thousand. This
applies to all lumber from British
Columbia and western points.
87,404 ALIENS NATURALIZED.
Have Become British Subjects Since
1902.
A despatch from Ottawa says : Ac-
cording to returns received at the
State Department, 87,404 aliens
have taken out naturalization pap-
ers as British subjects in Canada
since the Act went into effect in 1902.
During the period between July 1st,
1900, and Dec. 31st, 1907, the num-
ber naturalized was 17,714, of whom
7,279 were from the United States,
and 306 were Japanese.
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GAVE BiRTH TO TRIPLETS.
Occasion Celebrated in Great Style
in Lachine household.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Mrs. Bertr- nd of Lachine gave birth
to triplets on Tuesday. All three
aro hale and hearty. She lias been
married six years, and has seven
children. The house was decorated
on Wednesday in honor of the event,
and all and sundry were made wel-
come.
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A FATAi. SI1O('K AT (XEBEC
Percy Daniels Comes In Contnet
With Live Wire.
A despatch from Quebec says :
While installing a muter in a cold -
storage warehouse on Wednesday
Mr. Percy Daniels ieeeiied a shock
from a live wire, al a result of which
he (lied an hour later. Deceased
wa-s well known in Toronto, where
scars years ago he worked for the
General Electric Company. He was
a nephew of Mr. It. B. Angus, di-
rector of the Bank of Montreal, nn
Englishman by birth. about 30 years
of age, and unmarried.
PLAGUE SWEEPS RUSSIA.
Condition of Towne Opens Way for
Cholera harvest.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
says: The cholera that has made its
appearance in Russia this year is
most virulent. Out of 19 cases in
Tsaritsyn there have been 11 deaths.
According to investigations made by
Deputy Von Anrep, who is a dis-
tinguished medical authority, the
sanitary conditions in the Volga
towns aro horrible. The absence of
a sewerage system and water works
puts the inhabitants at the mercy of
the epidemic, and the cholera will
reap a full harvest.
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NOVA SCOTLI'S CROPS.
Government Summer Report Esti-
mates Large .Average.
A despatch from Halifax says:
The Nova Scotia Government's
Summer Crop Report has been issu-
ed. Compared with the average
crop of a normal year, the depart-
ment makes the following estimate
if six leading crops this season, one
hundred per cent. being taken as an
average. Hay, 90 per cent.; oats
and other grains, 97; potatoes and
roots, 105; apples, 100; plums, 90; tens and oases; hams, niediuni and
light, 14%e to loc ; hams, large,
12%c to 13c; backs, 17%c to 18c;
shoulders, IOc to 10%c ; rolls, 10%e
to Ile; breakfast bacon, 15c to
1e•'/,c; green meats, out of pickle,
lc less than smoked.
more.
Corn -No. 3 yellow, nominal at
65c, Toronto freights ; kiln dried,
82%e to 83c.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, nom-
inal, 41c to 46c outside; Manitoba,
No. 2, se, lake ports; No. 3, 46%e;
rejects, 45c.
Shorts --$20 to $21 in bulk out-
side; in bags $2 more.
Flour --Manitoba, . first patents,
1+6; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers'
Lord Roberts will go as far west
as Banff.
\Woodstock ratepayers defeated
the bylaw to prorate funds for a neva
school.
It. S. Price, a farmer of Otonabeo
township, is a cousin of Lord
Roberts.
Fred Howe, a (•le, k in Hamilton
City Hall, was lined $ 1 tar loitering
on the sidewalk.
A. 1}. Pridy was arrested at Win-
nipeg tor robbing the mails. He
was a postoflice employee.
Lindsay council has aut.hoeized a
$10,000 issue of debentures to pur-
chase an ozone filtration plant.
Hamilton Board of Health want
milk dealers to place their eau► s
on bottles, sed be responsible for
the contents.
Isaac Scigiiano. the Italian, want-
ed at Sault Ste Marie for the mur-
$5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- der of a fellow-countrynuui, was ar-
oma, $3.20 to $3.3u. rested , Michigan and brought
COUNTRY PRODUCE. back' i:
Nova Scotia is sending tie Prin-
Butter-Reccipts are still large Cess of Wales a mink coat with fur
and still the market keeps strong.
Creamery, prints .. ..... 94c to 25c
do solids .. 23e to 24e
Dairy prints, choice .. .. 23c to 24c
do ordinary .... .... .. 21c to 22c
Dairy, tubs .... .... .... 21c to 22c
Inferior .... .... .. ... 17cto 18c
Cheese -12%c and 13c for large
and 13c to 13%c for twins.
Eggs -Prices are easier at 20c to
21c.
Beans --Prices are $2 to $2.10 for
primo end $2.10 to $2.20 for hand-
picked.
Potatoes-Ontarios, 90c to $1.15
per bushel; Americans, $3.35 to
5:3.60 per barrel in car lots on track
hero.
PROVISION MARKET.
Pork -Short cut, *23.50 per bar-
rel ; mess, $19 to $13.59.
La:•d-Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%c;
pails, 12%c.
Smoked and Dry Salted ,Meats -
Long clear bacon, 11'/,c to 11'/.,e,
small fruits, 90.
WELLIN(:'l'ON'S ORDERS.
Iron Duke Wrote Orders on Asses'
Skins, which were Returned. ..
It has been stated that the Duke
of Wellington wrote his orders on
horseback. On this point Priscilla,
Lady Burghe:;h, questioned him and
received the following explanation :
"Ile said it was his constant prac-
tice in action, and peculiarly latter-
ly, to write down the orders he sent
by his aides de camp. Having found
that the verbal orders were either
incorrectly delivered or not compre-
hended, he adopted the practice of
carrying in his pocket loose sheets
of asses' skin of the size of a large
card (such as the invitaions from
court ar3 printed on) and a pencil,
and when he had an order to send
he wrote it with his pencil on one
side of those sheets in his hand, the
aides de ennui standing at his
horse's head the while."
As an evidence of the Duke's
frugal mind it may be added that
after the action was over the asses'
skins were returned to him to be
cleaned and used over again.
Let us conclude with an interest-
ing note concerning the young
Queen Victoria. "Yesterday, com-
ing nut of town, we met, the Queen
driving in an open carriage ; and I
saw her so well ; in a white chip bon-
net, very pretty and neat, smiling
and looking pleased and happy. She
was quite a pretty girl, with a
peculiar sweet and intelligent coun-
tenance."
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We never know what we can do
till we try, and then very often we
ere sorry we found out.
THE MICE WERE OFF BUT
Their Absence Froin Ship Almost Caused
a Naval Disaster.
A despatch frc m Londoe says: might occur at any time in any sub -
While the Brit 1,h sabrnarine flotil- marine, was due to the failure of
la was mania -tit ring off Folkestone, certain springs to work properly on
No. 9 was seen to be falling be- account of the rolling of the boat.
hind, rising a signal of distress. :1 These springs are connected with
rescue party ens organized. and the the vales by which the noxious
crew. consisting of two officers and gases are expelled from the boat.
nine men, were found unconscious 1t had been the custom until re-
in the boat. centiy for British submarines to
It seems that the, officers were in cnrry white mice in the well. These
the conning tower. and, noticicig little animals are per:rliarly suscep-
that no attention was paid to tl.c title to the fumes of petrol, and
signals they sent below, descended as the henry gas int ales the well
the hatches and saw the crew lying first their squeaking serves as a
about unconscious from the Nines warning in the ease of an accident
of se t rol, to which they. ton, fell ljke the recent one. Several weeks
\ i( tines. The Hien were finally re- ago the British Admiralty ordered
snscitated on being br••iight to tie that the mice should bo carried 110
open air. The accideut, which 1longer.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 4. -Flour -Mani-
toba spring wheat patents, *6.10 to
$0.20; second patents, $5.50 to $5.-
70: winter wheat patents, $5 to
65.50; straight rollers, $4.25 to
$4.50; in bags, $1.95 to $2.10, ex-
tra, $1.50 to $1.70.
Holl d Oats --$2.50 in bags of 90
pounds.
Oats -No. 2, 48e ; No. 3, 47e; re-
jected, 46c.
Cornmeal -$1.85 to 81.95 per bag.
Millfecd-Ontario bran, in bags,
$20.50 to $21.50; shorts, $23 to $24;
Manitoba bran, in bags, $22 to $23;
shorts, $21 to $23.
Provisions - Barrels short cut
tress, $22.50; half barrels, *11.50;
clear fat backs, $23; dry salt long
clear 'melts, Ile; barrels plate beef,
$17.50; Half barrels do., $9; com-
pound lard, 3a"c to 9'/,c; pure lard,
12%c to 13c ; kettle rendered, 13c
to 13%e; hams, 12%c to 14c, ac-
cc.rding to size ; breakfast bacon,
14c to lee; Windsor bacon, 15c to
16c ; fresh killed abattoir dressed
hogs, $9.75 to $10; live, $0.85 to
$7.
Eggs -Selected stock, 23e ; No. 1,
20c, and No. 2, l6c per dozen.
Cheese --Westerns are quoted at
12e to 121,c and pasterns at 10;c
to 11',;c.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Buffalo, Aug. 4. -Spring wheat -
Firmer ; No. - Northern, carloads,
store, $1.17%; Winter firmer. Corn
--Lower; No. 3 yellow, 82c; No. 4
yellow, 81e; No. 3 corn, 80e; No.
4 corn, 79e ; No. 3 white, 84c. Oats
-Lower ; No. '2 white, 62%e; No.
3 white, Glc; No. 4 white, 00e. Bar-
ley -Feed to malting, GO to 66c.
New York, Ang. 4. --Spot steady;
No. 2 red, fis%c to $1 elevator ; No.
'2, $1,00% f.o.b. afloat ; No. 1 north-
ern Duluth, *1.22% f.o.b. afloat ;
No. 2 hard winter, $1.01'., f.o.b.
afloat.
CANADA'S MiSSION.
To Cement Britain's Friendship
With United Stater.
A despatch from London says : The
Daily Telegraph says Inc Quebec
battlefields will be hallowed ground,
consecrated forever to the genius of
Canadian nationality- within the em-
pire, which will one day play a great
part in the world's affairs. The
highest, mission of Canada is t.+
stand between Britain and the
United States, holding ea••h by the
hand.
The times pays the highest tri-
bute to the smile's of the Tercenten-
ary. it saws Canada has only to be
true to herself and to her great tra-
dit;ons to create a cunin)unity sec-
, acid to none on the earth.
trimmings and with butt ns of •.-
karat gold worth about $8,000.
Brockville boys teased an old man
named Kens- Ile until he picked up rs
steno and struck George Whaley in
the lace, mauling an injury that
will disfigure hint for life.
GREAT B1LITAIN.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is re-
ported to be in a very grate condi-
tion.
A British board will inquire i. 'o
the methods of preserving meat.
Mr. Lloyd -George blames the ex-
pensliture on armament for Ger-
many's distrust of Britain.
Three hundred British members
of Parliament are pledged so the re-
moval of the cattle embargo.
The c'elegates attending the Uni-
vt rsal Peace Congress in London
were welcomed bE the King and
Queen. •
Sir Edward Grey warmly repudi-
ates the idea that Britain's foreign
policy is aimed at the isolation of
Germany.
To prevent further friction with
Lord Charles Beresford, Sir Percy
Scott has been appointed to a new
command.
UNITED STATES.
North Dakota is to erect a monu-
ment to Theodore ltoosevelt.
A negro charged with assaulting
a white woman was burned at the
stake by a mob in the public square
at Greenville, Texas.
GENERAL.
Turkish Moslems are now strong-
ly pro -British.
W. K. Vanderbilt's stepson was
killed in a motor car accident in
France.
A Chinese vessel foundered in a
typhoon near Clanton and 300 per-
sons were drowned.
Gen. Von (ler Goltz, of the Ger-
man army, will reorganize the Turk many, many thousand pnrt.ridges, I gust, 1883, and the great wave that
ish army.snipe, quails, pheasants, grouse, , resulted, over 100 feet high, swept.
!'lark Kennedy, the I:nghshmnn canvasback ducks. They demanded � over the northern coast of Java,
who was captured by Moorish bei- literally many hundreds of thou- drowning 36,000 people.
gands, has been released. sands of Ike lobsters and crawfish, ( Falcon Islam' came into view.- -- of fresh littlenecks, bluepuints and above the Pacific nearly twenty
SENTENCE SERMONS. softshell crabs. They consumed � years ago, sank again in about ten ----
Pertified virtue is but vice. such a quantity of green turtle soup 1 years and once more has come into \\'H.1'I''s :1 VA( 'AT ION t
that the chefs had to use lip 13,407 1 view. A part of Bogaslov on the
You cannot work for God without
Tose for men. pounds of fresh turtle in its making. Alaskan coast disappeared after a A life insurance policy.
A deadhead is almost sure to be a Coming round to the more sill. few years and other land has recent- A smile 011 the face of Father
y r
blockhead. staitial articles of dict it is found lisen in the sane neighborhood. Pinle.
Sighing for a lost laden will not that of fresh beef there were used Far out in the Pacific in 1901, near .1 11 intestntent in the Bank of
make a new earth. 8,311,997 pounds, and of pork and the Bonin Islands, a new bit of land Health.
veal and mutton about three -quer- rose above the sea and the Japanese 'Phe slot into which your sir inge
Easy street is not a thoroughfare
to heaven. tern of a million pounds of rade raised their flag over it and gave it drop.
The double faced man always is Potatoes to go with these weighed in ! the name of Nushitna to their ac- The funny supplement of life's news -
excess of 10,000 tons •a very fair i uisitiun. It has slipped from their paper.
convincing -to himself. q
There is no love in the charity that cargo in itself.grasp, however, for the following The sugar coating to the bitter
dura not mart secrecy. The passengers seem to begin the ; year it melted away to cline feet pill of work.
Many an alliance v ith sin is clay with hearty appetites, ns well ; above Kea level and the last vestige •1n addition in health by a sub
hi..den by a (lefinnce of the devil. as going to lunch and dinner in the of it has now disappeared. traction in wealth.
No father oyer lost any of the Karate blessed condition. They con Ferdinandea, a Mich rose above A rest wherein you work herds'. in
time he spent with his children.
mauled of eggs the Mediterranean in 1831. had a spending your money than you ever
The man with many corns always SiX ANi) A HALF' MILLION. similar history, with the additionof dAid in earning it.
and of calves' liver and bacon an - :
appropriate quantity to supplement swALLowE0
the eggs, and w ith their morningFATAL BosE
toast 216,303 tins of marmalade and
other such sweets. .
As if these figures were not proof
enough that Lloyd's should make a
very low rate of insurance against
seasickness these .lays it is noted
that besides what smoking material
passengers t.,uk on hoard with them, 1�
2,3'27.225 cigars and packages of cig-
arettes were had from the smoking
room steward. It is interesting to
note in conclusion that wh'le the
consumption of herr, wine andA despatch from Montreal sr.ys:1Intel, where he found (fray lying
spiril!uous liquor indicates prett• y The business men recelted it shock c'� I11R bed unconscious. An amhu-
RenemuR !icing, figuring on thelance was snnlmoned, and he was
basin of all the passengers carried ea Wednesday when it ens learned speedily conveyed to the Royal
for the year each passenger consnm- that Mr. Victor (;ray, a protein- Victoria Hospital, where everything
ed after only five-sistl►s of a gallon ent stoekhreker. hnd committed
was dune to save his life, but death
of such cheering beverages, while suicide during the night ivy swal- ensued this morning.
the average consumption of mineral leaving chloral. ile wns despond- Mr. (fray was n n.ernher of the
water was a fall gallon. These cat over heats losses and had been firth of .1. H. Thin & ('onipeny, and
figures (10 not include 70,223 bottles unable to sleep for sone time. Was a member •.E rho Montreal
of sterilized milk. eine,' were dealt Tuesday night be went to a hotel Stock i,xcharige. He wits eleiet n3
out to the children on based. io the (sty and shout 3.30 .vaned up y( ars of age. and a ye tr ago mar-
-- 4•-- - !lir. D. bbin. a friend iu \' e: tmount. rigid Miss Clayton of Ottawa. His
( elehrating a \•ouden we !ding and bade him gels: - I y e. sn'.ing it h•,me was originally- in Halifax,
deesn•t alwa\s demonstrate that the v.ns for the last tit..•Hie friend eller° he has a eisier living at pre -
husband is a perfect stick. Lecame alarmed and Married to the sent.
YEAR'S FOOD, $4.000,000
SI UPRISING FIGURES FROM
A\ .1TLA \'1'l(' 1.1\1:.
(leer by the Hall Million Gallons
and Potatoes by the 13.900
'Puns.
It must be the gyroscope atts•h-
nrent on the modern transatlantic
liner, or else the ball bearings on
which they run, which has reduced
DROVE @iII4ES WITH IIEAB PIAN
Gruesome Experience of a Leec1s Cou
Farmer.
A despatch from Brockville says:
Few men have the gruesome ex-
perience of (kiting fur miles beside
the proverbial amount of sea -sick- ;i dead man, but that was what hap -
netts among the passengers. If it bineddet to brut thele Vie'.iei on
shall turn out that they do not have Wednesday. de old in -11 ashen
a gproseope attachment and nevi
gation has nothing to do with ball viekani Davis has arch li.inK with
bearings, readers are respectfully \ William
who is a farmer : t Lillies,ith
requested to supply their own ex- a few miles north of the (
planation. That an explanation is Davis has been ailing or some c..n-
due conies to one's understanding 1 sidcrable time post ant! final!: 1'i k
after only a little examination of cry felt that he could out sr:me
the food figures relating to 1907, the responsibility any longer. picturesquely set forth by the chief Ac-
cordingly he drove the old man into
steward of one of the big lines.
Seasick passengers, no matter
how many of them aro carried, could
not comfortably consume food of
which the wholesale cost was more
than $4,000,000. This is sees at
once when it is noted that the total
expense for caol on the same lino
was but $7,000,000, and of course
none of the boilers was seasick and
their consuming capacity is notori-
ously greater than any passenger,
no matter how good an appetite he
has.
BEVERAGES CONSUMED.
Before noting some of the figures
of food it is pleasing to observe some
of those relating to beverages. Now,
as to champagne, which is said to be
an excellent cure ural for that neat
town for the purpose of having
treated at the General 'lespita
When Vickery reached the ho
pital lie was horrified to find th
I s companion was sitting quietly
in the buggy, his head slightly for-
ward on his chest, stone dead. As
itswas not now a case for the hos-
pital the only course left was to
. ummen the police and the coroner.
No inquest was considered ne-
cessary a •) who was about
seventy yea ,f age, had died from
natural causes. Vickery cannot say
at what ti.ie Davis died.
LANDS WHICH DISAPPEAR
V.1 ST AREAS COVERED' BY
OCEAN ONCE 1►Rl' LAND.
Fortunately the Mightiest Changes
Are Very Slowly Brought
Abou1.
The recent discovery that a group
of little islands some hundreds of
miles south of New Zealand were
once part of a great continental
mass extending in all probability to
Antarctica and South America,
ter a preventive of sea -sickness, paa- which finally sank beneath the ocean
songers last year pulled the plugs leaving only these remnants, calls
out of only a few more than 51,000 attention to the fact that there are
bottles of champagne. When it vast areas now covered by the sea
comes to cla. •t the figures jump so which were once dry land. The pro -
respectably t..at it is seen that a cess of disappearance was very slow.
It involved no cataclysm or sudden
catastrophe overwhelming all ani-
mal and vegetable life, but the work
went on century after century till
great surfaces were a part of the
sea floor.
Events often occur that recall
such vicissitudes. Not long after
Chile's beautiful port of Valparaiso
was destroyed by earthquake on
August 10 1906, the news came that
the island of Mas a Tierra, on which
Alexander Selkirk was cast away for
five years, his unhappy fate suggest-
ing to Defoe the story of Robinson
Crusoe, had sunk beneath the
waves. The story was incorrect,
but it called again to mind the facts
that are believed to prove that the
Juan Fernandez group, to which
this island belongs, was formerly
A I'ARRT OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Land once rose above the wide
waste of waters that now separates
the islands from ttie mainland.
Among the ruanl proofs of this may
be mentioned here only the two
The recent instalation of the a la varieties of humming birds peculiar
carte system in the restaurants of to Chile that have been seen on the
the modern !!finers accounts for an islands ever since they were first
amazing growth in the consumption visited.
of ddelicacies, such as were seldom It is not very uncommon for vol -
found on even the best ships when conic islands after they have been
the business of feeding passengers thrust above the surface to disap-
was exclusively d'hote. Restaurant , pear again. The island Krakatoa
diners on the liners whose figures ; was literally blown into the air by
are being considered consumed 1
man may raise a thirst somewhere
west of the Suez as well as east. Of
that cheerful and ruddy beverage
the first class passengers consumed
129,209 bottles. That sounds pretty
good, but the consumption by the
third class passengers makes it ap-
pear a mere tipple by comparison,
for those in the steerage joyfully
drank not less than 121,297 gallons
of claret, presumably of the variety
known as petit bleu, about which
there is a song which the Paris stu-
dents sing when inspired with it.
There is something rather appall-
ing to read that of the various
grades of brandy, the passengers
consumed 20,641 bottles and 73,3&4
gallons. But these are after all
trifling nips when we come to look
at the figures relating to beer, for
of that beverage more than half a
million gallons were drunk, and it
is not reported that the quarter-
masters had any unusual police
duty to perforin at that.
FOND OF DELICACIES.
a world shaking explosion in Au -
A HUMOROUS ELEMENT.
The whole world talked about it,
and all the more because England
and the King of the Two Sicilies dis-
puted over its possession.
It came majestically into view on
July 8 and about the middle of Au-
gust it was imposing to look upon as
its broad expanse towered 200 feet
above the sea. But its life was
short. Diplomatic exchanges as to
the ownership of Ferdinandea,•
couched in firm though polite lan-
guage, were still in progress when
the waves closed above the island in
December.
A coral island is sometimes torn to ` "--
pieces by a great storm, shewing
Leat islands disappear in more ways
than one. This happened to the
anatoll in the Marshall group in
1905, when it happened to be in tho
path of a terrible hurricane.
Waves about forty feet high swept
over the hapless speck of land,,
carrying every particle of verdure
and every form of life into the sen,
and not a human being was saved.
The upper part of the coral was
broken off and swept away, and a
few days later nothing but the placid
waters of the ocean were seen where
the anatoll had stood.
But such events are a part of our
modern history and have little re-
semblance to the mighty movements
that have buried wide lands beneath
the sea. North of Europe is the shal-
low Barents Sea, whose bottom
geologists now have no doubt was
once above the water, so that Nova,
Zembla, Spitzbergen and .Franz
Josef Land were
A PART OF EUROPE.
Iceland, southern Greenland an:l
a few other islands are all that is
left above water of the great land
bridge that once joined Europe and -
America, though we find in the sub-
marine ridge that extends all the
way from Iceland to Scotland a part
of the foundation of that land.
It has been for some time conclu-
sively proved that a land mass once
connected Madagascar with south-
ern India and Ceylon, allowing the
passage from Asia to Africa of land 0'
animals whose appearance in the
West was once regarded as inexplic 1
able.
So the reek crust of the earth has
its calamities and its revolutions like
the human •ace that lYi es on it.
Fortunately. I he mightietlL'and most
far reaching of those disturbances
are not cataclysmal and the changes
are very slowly brought about.
wants to go barefoot in the crowd.
People with putty heads usually
like to think that they have brittle
hearts.
Talkin- moonshine shout being
sunshiny does not make this world
any brighter.
Ile eh.) succeeds in dodging duty
is surprised to find how success
dodges him.
It takes more than "Keep off the
grass" signs to mark the path of
righteousness.
Folks who take their time from
every clock are always sure the sun
is off his schedule.
Many are soured on life because
they have been trying to snake its
spice do for the bread of life.
Lots of pe..ple soiled have n gond
deal more faith in the almighty if
he world show more docility to their
wills
When a man steals the honey from
sin he alasys tells himself that he
a ill pad• for it wilt the rein of re
pentance.
It i' ensy to shut our eyes to the
brother eh., is dawn when • .ir
hungry hands are going out to the
one who is up.
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