Exeter Times, 1907-04-11, Page 2FSROT HIS TWO CHILDREN
Awful Act of Young Butter Maker
in Quebec Village.
A despatch from Montreal says: A
Terrible tragedy occurred on Tuesday at
the small village of SI Charles, three
miles from Hudson Heights, on the Ot•
tawa River, about 30 miles from Mont-
real. William Simpson, a young dairy-
man, shot his lou children dead and
hien attempted to take ho own life. Ile
is now in the Notre 1)amu.11ospital, Ibis
city, in a serious condition.
Tuesday horning Mrs. Simpson, 011
corning in to the house, was met by her
bushels! waving a revolver and threat -
cling to lake her life. The woman inl-
n:ediately fled to the home of her hus-
band's father, Mr. Adicks Sintpso,n, who
laved nearby, and told of what had hap-
pened. The father hurried at once to
his son's residence. When he reached
there tie found his son lying on the
floor, with a revolver in his hand. There
wero two ‘wounds from bullets, one in
the chest and the other in the jaw, and
in an inner rornn were found Ila bodies
cf Simpson's leo children, one aged i'
years and 2 months, a girl, and the
other 2 months, a boy, both of whom
had been shot and killed.
1t was at nest thought Hist 11
defer was dying, his meowds
desperate, but he afterwards
and Wednesday was in u condi
bo taken into Montreal and bra)
Notre Dame Hospital. So fur, i
of all efforts to get him to give
planation of his c induct. he h
sislently refused to give tiny re
his awful deed. 11 is gent rally
That the murder wus tete result o
den attack of insanity. Titer
other assignable motive.
Simpson was a prosperodS
maker, and he lived very hupp
his wife, and to whom he had
tied only three years. They w
very young, he being only 24
22. Simpson had never sho
signs of insanity, but had bee
ally regarded as an intelligent
conducted young man. Sing)
a serious condition.
A TREE'S FORD.
Made by Tree Itself with Aid of Light -
Practical Bearings of this Fact
on the Work of the Forester.
Plants have to manufacture their own
food ; animals, on the other hand, de-
pend on plants for their food; for, al-
though a wolf may eat a sheep, yet the
sheep fed on grass, and so the wolf in-
directly depends on the grass for its
food. This food is made by the plant
from water, taken from the soil by the
roots, and carbonic acid gas, or carbon
dioxide, absorbed from the air by the
leaves; these two substances are com-
bined in the leaves into a substance
known to chemists as a sugar, though
not much like the sugar we ordinarily
know as such.
Every plant, from the tallest tree down
to the smallest of the algae, such as
dorm the scum on standing water, has
this power (except a few plants, such as
fho fungi, which feed on other plants).
Ln some cases -in very tall trees, for ex-
aniple-there are considerable difficul-
ties to bo overcome in raising the water
1r the leaves, in order that tete food may
be formed there.
When the under surface of a leaf is
exainined with a microscope , one finds
there certain very small openings from
the outside into the interior of the leaf,
these are known as "stomata." Through
(hese openings, and (hence into tho in-
terior of the leaf, air is continually pass-
ing, and this air contains a certain
amount of carbonic acid gas (carbon
dioxide). in the interior of the leaf, in -
aide telt cells of which it is composed.
are a number of little bodies called
"chloroplasts." These take tho water
from the roots and the carbon dioxide,
anti combine them to form this "sugar ;'
and from the leaf the "sugar" is dis-
tributed again to the different parts of
the plant.
But these chloroplasts work only while
tt is day. When darkness comas on,
'trey cease work, resuming only when
',gilt returns. So the plant must have
light in order to form its food.
To the forester it is this last fact which
t i important, namely, That the tree
must have a good supply of light in
order to male, its food. If the needed
ttghl. Ls cut off from ono part, the tree
will do its best to reach out in some
other direction and get tho light in that
quarter.
In any thick forest, whether large or
small, trees naturally lend to crowd each
ether. One of the forester's duties is to
regulate this crowding, and see that each
tree. ns far n.s possible, gels the amount
of light it needs. It Ls to this end that
•11iinning-.." which form so important a
part of intensive forest management,
are made.
Moreover Inc forester knows that by
case planting he con eventually cut off
the light tomo the lower parts of the
trees, thins forcing the trees to grow up-
•tard in order to seem, the light; and
thus he will obtain Intl, straight stems,
'stele the lower branches. hawing their
Intl eel off, will die and finally fall off.
'1 Ito tree will grow out around the stub
that is left, and. after that is accom-
plished, will begin to slake the clear
timber that Ls so much valued.
I ittelleville carpenters are asking an in-
crease in wages.
NO iRAILROAD STiRIKE
Difficulties on the Western Line
Adjusted.
A despatch from Chicago sa
differences between the west
roads and the members of the
Conductors and of the llrothe
Railway. Trainmen were linnlly
e,n Thursday. Tho men conc
demand for a nine -hour work
the railroads promised an adva
their previous proposal as to
of haggagemen, flagmen and b
of 81.50 a month. The orl
mends of the men were for an
of 12 per cent. and for a n
working day. The managers o
increase in pay of 10 per cent.,
dined to grant the nineehour d
agreement was reached mainly
the efforts of Chairman Knap
Interstate Commerce Commiss
Commissioner Neill of the Unit
Bureau of Labor.
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TO CUT SLICE FROM ONTA
Movement Inaugurated to Form
• Pron►Ioce.
A despatch from Fort Frances
says: A big mass meeting of bo
heel parties was held at Emo 0
nesday evening to Initiate the
merit in New Ontario for secessio
the old province with the object o
ing a new one, embracing the
Nipissing. Thunder flay, and
River districts. After a nun
speeches had been made by the
of the several municipalities an
leading citizens of both parties a
resolution, moved by Dr. F. H.
:secretary of the Distridt Cons
Association, and seconded b
Price, a leading Liberal of flu
dorsing the movement, was car
a standing vote. A strong oo
was also appointed to confer
other districl6.
THEY DID IT FOR FUN
Three Chicago Urchins Set F
Boy.
A despatch from Chicago says
boys, whose ages range from t
fourteen years, were arrested o
nesday charged with setting 11
clothing of Michael Lacoco. a se
year-old boy, while the latter la
in a hallway. The boys gave th
of Lester Hall, Walter Leona
Jaynes White. According to the
tete act was done for "fun." T
bought a bottle of alcohol, whi
poured over the sleeper's clothi►
lighted tine blaze. Lacoco l'uuhe
the street, "and finally fell uric°
His condition is said to bo serlo
PHILLIPS NOW A Tali O
Ex -President of fork Loan Assl
Shop in Penitentiary.
A despatch from Kingston sn)
septi Phillips hits been assigned
tailor shop in the penitentiary, a
work edit needle and thread.
the other hunk manager, may g
blacksmith shop.
TWENTY ITAbIANS1llR
disastrous Fire in a San Franca
Hotel.
A despatch front San Frnnei'tvi says:
'twenty men were burned 10 droll, ate'
haute others injured in a fire which de-
atre,yed an !talion hotel at Seventeenth
and Connecticut Streets, in the Potrero
esolnrl, early on Thursday. The injured
sore of the laboring class. end were
ael.'ep in their moms when the lire
alerted. Before they could be aroused
Ns llamas had slimed 1hre,ugh the build-
ing. The walls fell and the inmates
enie buried in the ruins, twenty being
tali, n nut dead and dying. People from
ether hotels in the vicinity rushed to the
ansa. tnnre of the buried victims and
sirrtrecrdnl in rescuing all of them from
Ins. 'flaming timber.. Teams were bur•
welly harnessed and automobiles
lion ig ll into service and the injured
eashed to the Potrero Emergency Hospi-
tal, where several died while awaiting
treatment.
Ike Ilio treat destroyed Ike Genera
Hotel is believed to have stetted
kitchen, and had gained great h
before It was discoveretil. Ties.
over 1(51 lodgers in the building
burned like tinder, and most o
who Iota their lives were cnngh
asleep and roe aeJ 10 death. So
did the; lire spread that it nits
sable to do much In the way of
and even when the fire nppara
rived, the blaze wns so . flerce t
tirenmen were hardly nble to place
against the walls. They did, however,
manage to save a number of people on
the very top stony. In the work of res-
cue \V. A. Cele, a fireman. was thrown
from a ladder, and it is believed fatally
injured.
The majority of the injured were hurl
in tenpins from the upper windows. ,1
number of women are reported to len,
been in the building, rind all of (hent are
beiteted to Ise 0 I °id,e.1.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS FROM -ne LEADING
THAI E (*.NUM.
iilms •l GUI*, Grain. Cheese sad
Olat Fair. PrM.rce at (loom
and Abroad.
Toronto, April 9. - Fiour - - Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. patents are quoted at
giiz.65 to 82.67 in buyers' sucks outside
for export. Manitoba that patents, 84.50:
seeeend patents, 81, and strong bakers'.
I 1
re un -
teed nt
rail
hard
No. 1
quoted
niadiart
reights.
20 out -
at 822
offered.
. ered at
nter at
mixed
lc bid,
No. 1
, with -
le, with
yc on
P.It. or
,c out -
cent.
c on a
53c bid
stock,
81.50,
to 12c
.50 per
812 to
0.
at 87
r bag
to 81
13 to
alive,
to 7c;
, 9 to
at 24
Its, 21
to 28e,
10 to
and
un -
.30 to
11%c
1 to
; do,
Iders,
aoon,
2%c;
1 out -
o im-
uoted
, and
store.
50 to
t pa -
83.55
0; ex-
itoba
ton ;
824;
uillie,
, 828
t cut
.75 to
24.50;
half -
long
plate
86.25
beef,
ound
sa to
hams,
16c ;
fresh
0 to
Sgs-
tober
nomi-
27 to
(:ash,
-May,
No. 1
.boy.
NS;
irst
s. I;
n--ln
No. 1
rn. 80
No. 1,
0 73e:
ah, 52
ti:tri1,
north-
, cep.
nds of
A snle
$1.tei
,1. , g.wlel
exporters' cattle brought 81.50 to $t.:4)
per cwt.
in butchers collie. save the' hest
classes, buyers neve inclined to delay
Irnneacting tee -mess oft ing to the heavy
supplies brought fel e set. Picked
butchers'. $Leal to Reim; ,,tedium to
goad butcher -• cnitIv. xi to .1.5t); crews,
s3 In $1.25; cemmiiaen, mixed. 81.75 to
s.t.25; canners. ileac to al !,ga pet• 4'%% 1.
\ demand t .us r•cpwnt,d fear short -
Seeps and feelers arid stockers of good
quality. Shutt -keeps, 8440 to 81.75;
:(esters, 8;1.81) to 8t_35 ; stockers. good,
X;4.4(1 to $3.130; do, uustiva, 82.75 to
8.1.25, per cwt.
Sheep end Iambs were steady. Grain -
k's? lambs, 87 to 87.S1); common lambs.
$5.50 to 86.50 per eel ; spring lands, $5
re 88 each ; export ewes, 81.75 to $5.:5 ;
bucks. 83.54) to 81.50 ; cull.. 83.50 to 81
per cwt.
Select hoes sold at $t;.60, and lights
and fans at $6.35 per cwt.
MAY IttlrouT MINERS.
dominion (Arad Company Making Con-
tract With C. P. It.
A despatch from N.`~., says :
It is understood that the Dominion Coal
Company have completed or are enter-
ing upon a contract with the C. P. It.
for the importation of labor from the
United Kingdom. Tho Goal Company are
et pay a stated sunt per capita for the
labor brought out and landed in Glace
Ray. The immigrants are to be of a
superior class, and adapted fur the com-
pany's work in Cape Breton. The first
batch will probably arrive shortly. Al-
though negotiation to this end have
been going on for some considerable
lime, and long before lite trouble now
pending was thought of, it is believed
that this contract will have a determin-
ing influence upon the settlement of the
labor problem now lkonitig up at the
mines.
CABINET'S INCREASED PAY.
Premier Whitney Brings In a Long -
Expected Measure.
A despatch from Toronto says : The
salary bill introduced by Premier Whit-
ney on Wednesday provides that each
executive member of the Cabinet is to re-
ceive an increase of 82,000, bringing their
salaries up to 86,1100 a year, In addition
to the sessional indemnity of 81,000, or
87,000 in all. Premier Whitney, who is
also President of tete Executive Council,
has at the present time a salary of
$7,000. Under the new bill he will re-
ceive as President of the Council 86,000
and as First Minister 83,000 per annum,
in addition to his sessional indemnity of
$1,000, or 810,000 per year.
A TAX ON WHISKERS. •
Bill Introduced Into the New Jersey
Assembly.
A despatch from Trenton, N.J., says :
Assemblyman Cornish, of Essex, intro-
duced in the House on Wednesday a
hill which provides a tax for wearing
the hair on the face as follows, to be
paid to the tax collector yearly :-Ordi-
nary whiskers, 85; side whiskers, 88;
Van Dyke beard, 810; mutton chops.
815; "btltygoat," 850; red whiskers, 20
per cent. extra. The tax collector Is to
receive 25 per cent. for collecting the
lax. Speaker pro tem. Elvins sent the
bill to the Committee on Fish and Game.
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TERi1OR AT SHANGHAI.
English-Speffking Residents of the Dis-
trict in Danger.
A despatch from Vancouver, 8. C.,
says : Advices received by the Oriental
liner Empress of Japan oro to tho effect
that the Englislispeaking residents of
Slinnghai district are In terror. Pirates
and desperadoes aro roasters of the situ-
ation. One despatch describes that sec -
lion of China as n "seething hell." A
missionary in a leiter tells of livers hav-
ing been cut out of dead bodies and
eaten.
WIPER LOST 1115 LIFE.
Was Burned to Death in Fire in an Oil
House.
A despatch from Vermillion, Alta.,
says: George \Volker, an engine wiper,
lost his life, and a companion was ser-
iously burned, In a fire which destroyed
the C. N. 11. oil -(house at this point on
Tuesday night. The origin of the fire
cannot bo learned at present. An in-
quest will probably be held.
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KATEN BY (:.tTs.
Weil -Known Resident of Vancouver
Found Dead on the Floor.
A despatch Brum Vancouver. B.C. says:
Iierbert Lobley, a well-known resident
of Central Park. was found dead on the
floor of his house, on Wednesday, with
his face and hands- eaten off by cals. Ile
had not been s , for a week. His bro-
ther went to the house and found his
dead body on the floor, with three cats
in the sane room.
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FOUND DEAD ON TIIE PRAIRIE.
Saskatchewan Man, Missing Since
Christmas Eaten by Wolves.
A despatch from Saskatoon, Sask., says:
The hody of Janes Hosier hos been
found on the prairie. 35 miles from here.
He had been missing since Christmas
Day. Wolves had eaten nway pnrt of
the Incrand the upper part of the body.
Hosier was 50 yenrs of age and left a
widow and tarnily tri Manitoba.
ROY FROZEN TO DEATH.
Ills Wandered from home and Lost IHs
Way.
1 tlespnleh from Kenorn says: A boy
named McMillan, aged about seven
years. strayed :le fly from his horse en
!Welt street on Wednesday evening,
and was found next afternoon by come
Toys frozen to death. The little fellow
had evidently started to wnik ower the
rocks toward town and got lost. The
family had only been here a short lime
from Scotland.
1'A S OI'INh.N.
Lillie Willie: 'Say, pa, whnt is an
open. winter ?'
1'n : "Any winter. my son. They are
all open to crilicimr.t
!SEEP 11111 PROMISE.
Trixie : "Tees. she promised to
him. and make him happy "
Teem : "Ila you xuppxi.e she will?"
Texie : "Marry hint? Oh, yea."
mem
FOIIRTEEN SEN INJURED
Furnace of the Dominion Steel Com
pany Exploded.
A despatch thorn IIalifax says ; 'Thurs-
day morning .at 4 o'clock aft explosion
look place at the open hearth furnace -of
(h-? Dominion Iron & Steel Company al
Sydney, which injured fourteen Of the
workmen iii the building. At the lime of
Mc: accident the Hien were en 'agelh at
No. 5 furnace pouring in month% metal,
when suddenly tt terrific detonation was
heard and the bricks of the fur•nuco were
thrown about in ulI directions. Six men
were thought to be badly injured and
were taken to the Brooklyn Hospital.
After having their injuries dressed, four
of them were able to proceed to their
homes.
Six others received contusions from
flying bricks. 'Tear of (hese were taken
1,, the 1111Spital. but neither is seriously
d:wtugeJ. The explosion was due to the
ladle of molten metal Lung emptied into
the furnace on top of sonic cold metal
already in tho bottom. 11 will be some
time before Tho (latitude(' furnace turns
out steel again.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS FIIOM ALL OVER 11,11
GLOBE.
Tekgrapht Oriels From Oar Own sod
Other Countries of Recent
Events.
CANADA.
A silk manufacturing industry is to be
established in Toronto.
Three more cases of smallpox have
been discovered at Oneida.
Three hundred new houses were
erected in Peterboro' last year.
Per►nits for building 110 residences
have been issued in Hamilton this year.
An old -age pension bill has been in-
troduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Winnipeg claims to have 110,000
people.
Ely a collision at Mimico the Grand
Trunk station house was demolished on
Sunday.
Deseronto ratepayers voted in favor of
municipal ownership of the water and
gas plants.
Duties collected at Toronto during the
past nine months showed an Increase of
8759,940.07.
A New York life insurance company
will erect a building in Toronto to cost
about a million dollars.
Trade in pottery between Britain and
Canada has increased 100 per cent.. in
25 years.
The amount of last year's wheat crop
awaiting shipment in the Vest is esti-
mated at. 36,739,453 bushels.
Hon. Charles Fitzpatrick and Chief
Justice Taschereau aro mentioned as
likely to receive Knighthood.
Professor B. E. Fernow was appointed
professor of tho Department of Forestry
in the University of Toronto.
•\Villium Lyle was sentenced to fifteen
years' imprisonment at the Portage la
Prairie Assizes for manslaughter.
It is reported That the Grand Trunk
will put on a new train between Chi-
cago and Montreal about May 1st.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is to
straighten the road and reduce the
grades between Toronto and Bolton
Junction, a distance of 23 miles.
An order in Council has been passed
changing the death sentence on Josiah
Gilbert at Regina to imprisonment for
life.
The lobby of Kingston postollice is
now opened on Sundays, and box -hold -
cis are enabled to obtain their mail on
that day.
Judge McHugh has been promoted to
be senior Judge of Essex county, and
Mr. E. P. Clement, K.C., of Berlin, suc-
ceeds him as junior Judge.
Owing to the Inability of the steel com-
panies in Canada to keep pace with or-
ders, the National Transcontinental Rail-
way Commission has withdrawn the re-
cent call for tenders for bridge con-
struction on parts of the road now un-
der contract.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Rayner, the murderer of William
Whiteley in London, has been granted a
reprieve by the Crown.
A petition Ls being widely circulated
in Britain to secure a reprieve for Rey-
ner, the murderer of \Villinm Whiteley.
RI. Hon. Lewis Harcourt, First Com-
missioner of Works in the British Minis-
try, has been prornoted to Cabinet rank.
The British (louse Of Commons on
Wednesday ratified tho Hong Kong snail
contract with the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company.
UNITED S'l t I ES.
Andrew Carnegie tins endorsed Presi-
dent itoosevelt's attitude towards the
United States railroads.
Andrew Carnegie has given it as his
opinion that speculation Is a parasite
feeding on values and giving none in
return.
John Ellnore. the Altoona cobbler who
can burn ashes, has been offered a largo
sum of money by the coal interests to
suppress his discovery.
Indictments charging manslaughter in
connection with a recent wreck have
been issued against the New York Cen-
tral Railroad and two of its leading offi-
cials.
Wiulet Schmidt, a six-year-old child in
New York, on 'Tuesday innocently aided
her father to commit suicide by tieing a
piece of tubing alout his neck and turn-
ing on the gas.
Dr. Jacob F. Ferre of Minneapolis,
Vice -President of the Northwest Nation-
al Life insurance Company, has been
sentenced to three nud a half years in
prison for appropriating the company's
funds.
Two laborers were blown to pieces and
several thousand dollars' worth of pro-
perty was destroyed on Wednesday,
when the Glaze mill of the Austin Pow-
der Company, at Fall Junction, twenty
miles from Cleveland, exploded.
A brutal murder was discovered at
North Oakland, Cal., on Sunday. The
body of Mrs. Martha Sederberg, 61 years
old, was found hidden in a closet of her
home. Erinnd 11. Sederberg, her son, a
stevedore, has been arrested on suspi-
cion of being the murderer. Saturday
night he came home intoxicated and
quarrelled with his mother,
GENERAL.
The Great Northern steamer Dakota,
wrecked off Japan some time ago, Is ex-
pected to be a total loss.
A general strike has been declared in
Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, all trades
quitting work with the chocolate work-
ers.
A feeling hostile to Europeans is said
to be growing in the interior districts of
Morocco.
Tho sealing steamer Greenland, after a
long battle with storm and ice, foundered
in the northern ice fields.
The Roumanian peasants • threaten to
fire the petroleum fields unless the con-
cessions granted those working them are
cancelled.
The Secretary of the Moscow branch
or the League of the Russian People has
Leen arrested in confection with- the
murder of Dr. Jollos.
NUMBER OF ELASII HAIRS.
Different Kinds of Tears --Why Japanese
Eyes Look Slanting.
Prof. Stirling, in his lecture on eyes at
the Royal institution, London, recently,
gave some instruction -in the art of wink-
ing. "It requires a veritable education to
wink," he remarked, "although 'blinking'
1; very simple."
Ile told the audience ninny slrnnge
things about their e_1es. The eyelashes,
l'ir instance, contain from 100 to 150
hairs on the upper and eighty to ninety
on the lower lid ; these hairs are re-
placed about every 100 days. "Rub your
finger outward along your eyebrows,"
he advised, "and you will experience a
most pleasant. sensation; rub in the op-
posite direction and you will have a
revelation of the exquisite sensitiveness
of your eyes."
Tears are of three kinds, he continue(!:
1. Natural tears, the little Ilton which
nature secretes in the eye to wash away
all tete dust particles.
2. Psychic tears, which flow when
tninds are for the moment unbalanced,
and
3. Alcoholic tears.
Tears do not always overflow, because
them is just a little oily secretion along
the edges of our eye.tds which keeps the
fluid back.
"The Japanese have n peculiar over-
lapping fold which obscures the real
edge of the eyelid. That is why their
eyes look 'slanting.' And babies" -all
the mothers in the room bent forward -
"have just the same fold on (heir eyes,
it you look fur it."
UNSELFISH /..K.1L. t►
"li,wwen't you sometimes sncc•ifireJ your
c�.nse ienco in conducting your Trust
op('i'1e l it 115?"
"Oh, yes," answered the billionaire,
"trait a man who succeeds in the world
must expect to Make solute sacrifices."
COYEBEB WITg CORPS
The Roads of Moldavia Are Strewn
With Dead Bodies.
The London Times' correspondent nt
Ruchelest sends the following:-Tran-
guillty has been restored in most of the
revelled desliects. Disturbances, how-
ever, are reported from the latomak itis•
frict, hitherto quiet; also from the Ol-
tunic district. Troops from Mnldavla
have arrived in the Mehedininlzl depart-
ment. where the devaalntlon has been
widespread. The village of Operishoru
has been bombarded.
Rabbi Moses Gaster states that hie
private nitrite, indicate That the her -
urs of the iletimantnn insurreetion far
exceed the accounts given in the press
despatches. Tlie newspaper correspon-
dents, he says, have not been allowed
to go out and set for themselves, but
have been forced to put up with the
official accounts. "i have just receiv-
ed a letter," said Rabbi Gaster, "from a
person who witnessed a conflict between
the peasants and the troops in one of
the Wallach:an townships. Ile writes
mr that the made were covered with
the corpses of peaunta shot down by
the soldiers by means of artillery .1.,
well as with rhos. The condition e.f
pertinnq of Wallachia must D• terrible.
The el erIul optimism of the aufhori-
Le.� does not count much 4.i ale,"
WIiAT5THE FUTURE HOLDS
%HAT WILL BECOME 411 (IU1AT UM,
TAMS HAHIE'.
Figure Fiend Tells of the Future aad
hulls ell the Blinds of the
Mor nin0.
During the yrni- 194)7, there will be
born in the United Kingdom 1,1o1.ti00
chikhrn, a fete hundreds more or less -
says Lundon Answers.
What will become of this immense
number of human ..e,ngs, almost cqulp
1'. the whole population of Liverpool and
Manchester?
The hlr.t thing of any- importance they
will do is commence to die. Within one
birth no fewer than
year utter la:e last I n
155,010 will have left the world. Happi•
lj this terrible death rate esti not con-
tinue, but by the time the children mach
school age over a quarter of n million
will have gone, and sontewliat less than
;iek),000 will remain.
The school age is, curiously, the
healthiest period of a human being's life,
especially tete live years from ten to fif-
teen. Comparatively few will die, and
s65,000 boys and girls will leave school
to commence the work of the world.
SOME WiLI. MEIN' AWAY.
Before tracing out their careers, let us
see how tete gt iteration will gradually
melt away. By the time they become
really valuable members of society at
the age of 25, there will be only 826,000
left. At the start there were more boys
than girls -in round numbers, 596,000
boys and 568.000 girls. By tho age of 26
Tho then and women have become very
nearly equal, but. there are perhaps two
thousand more sten. From some curious
reason the boys, from the day they were
bern, died faster than the girls, and so
it continues rill through life. Before
reaching the 53rd or 5411► year, halt the
men aro dead, but not until the 57th or
58th year will half the women have gone
to tete other world. The result to the
whole of the children born this year is
that half of them will be alive 55 years
hence -850,000 will see the dawn of the
year 1962.
WILL VANISH FAST.
Perhaps by that time science will have
discovered some means of prolonging
life. If not, these remaining 850,000
people will begin to disappear quite
rapidly. fly the year 1982, when they
have reached the age of 75, only 215,000,
just 18 out of each hundred will remain.
These will veritably stumble oder one
another into the grave. Not more (hart
300 out of the vast number of this year's
babies will welcome in the year 2008.
Of the liltlo band of centenarians, 250
will be women, and only 50 men. What
a changed world they will live to seat
People will by that year be living very
different lives from ours.
WHERE TIIEY WILL GO.
in whatever part of the world the pre-
sent year's children will pass their lives,
they will melt away prelly much as de- .ip,
scribed. But a considerable number will
grow dissatisfied with their native coun-
try, and will leave (heir bones all over
the earth.
About 150,000 of them will emigrate,
and of these about 100,000 will be Eng-
lish, 23,000 Scotch, and 27,000 Irish. That
is to say, one out of every nine Eng-
lish babies of 1007 will go to some for-
eign country or one of the colonies;
nearly one in every six Scotch, and one
in every four Irish, babies will do the
same.
The largest body of Ihe.so will go to
find n living in the United Slates, unless
things are greatly changed during the
century. About one-third will settle in
Canada, and the remainder will make
their homes in Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, and to a small extent in
other British possessions find foreign
countries. One thing is pretty certain.
Of the little English, Scotch, and Irish
beings that conte into the world this
year samples will be found in all the
countries of the globe.
FRENCH PEASANTS POOR COOKS.
Know Nothing of Cooking as a Fine .Art
-Filets and Feasts.
\Ve are accustomed to think oPlcooking
as being a universal art among the
French. We seem to have heard vague-
ly of delicious repasts conco;ted out of
nothing with the help of a charcoal fire
and a small put.
Certainly among the boureoisie that
miracle seems sometimes lo accomplish
itself, but in the matter of cookery as a
fine art, writes a correspondent, the
peasant belongs to a differy'pit world.
He knows very little about it‘ctnd dues
not wish to know, because it is regard-
ed as a costly and unnecessnry luxury.
His breokfnst consists of thin soup made
of beans and water, with perhaps a
taste of bacon for tlnvoring, and Brier
slices of bra wen bread to give it sub-
stance. Potatoes and one other dish--
frrrfuenlly n coarse sort of pancake -
fr•rrn the noonday meal. The supper
will be more sustaining. with thin wino
o" elder ns a beverage.
Jacques lk,nhomme has n perfect gent-
ile for discovering things i•hicji nre good
for fond, which yet cost nothing, ureal
sometimes he eats things thnt neem re-
volting to us, though 1 nun quite willing
to admit that clean or unclean, In Ile•
matter of food. Ls largely n question t
inherited prejudice. Ile is very fend
eE snuff. and Fn. for that matter, neo
the priests. 1 have often seen there lake
it even in church.
Normandy is a ricin province. and lea
peasants are Letter fed than new. of
ether parts of the country. There Is a
tradition that in olden dnys meal was
so cheap and plentiful that it was used
In feed it o pigs nt the ntonnsteriee.
They drink n great dent of eider, eepeei-
nlly in the "pays de Croix." andlit MAW
said that this Is the explanation of their
bad teeth. The dress of the peasant
wemen in this pert of Nor/windy is ex-
tremely p'i turosque, edit the long frilled
cloak and the hood which sometimes re•
veils a pretty. piquant Mee.
As a emitrasl to the general frugal.
itv of the peasants' lives, there nre 1h•
wedding fensts and other festivities,
when they eat enormou.,fy, apparently
having the power of laying In n stock
•p irtat tiros of comparative fasting.