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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-5-18, Page 3ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. number a petitions were presented, among them beim; oee from the corporation of the city of Tomato praying that High School trustees be elected the mime as Pub- lic School ttustees. Mn Mir, in moving the aeon n ed - Ing of his bill, raid that it appeared to be the desire of the Home to get down to business on this question. At the very outset he was met by the objection of the ,Attorney.Generah who wanted to know why the provisions of the bill were notmore .extensive, and why wholesale dealers Were not iuoluded as well m retail dealers. He would sly to the Attorney -General and the hon. members that if the bill Was allowed to go to committee he would M committee 'be prepared to astent to any reasonable amendment that would be calculated to make the bill more stringent and airwave. He thought thee both eides of the House ishould join hands in sepporting his meassure. Ile was further advised by others learned in the law that this bill was within the pro- vince of the Legislature. H had been in- fornied that they had not the right to deal • with the svholwale traffic. The Liquor License Act that was now in forceprohi- bited 399 out of 400 persons in Ontario from entering upon the actual sale of liquor. If they could do that, why could they not prohibit] the 400 from wiling ib? Then, if the Province possessed the power to prohibit the traffic part of the time, suoh as on Sun- • days and Saturday evenings, he contended thab it had the power to prohibit the traffic all the time. • Mr. Fraser—You close every store on -Sunday to prevent any one following their occupation. Mr. Marten in conclusion, moved the second reading of the Bill. Mr. Giltson (Hamilton) presented the • report of the Drainage Commission, and a return of the names of purchasers of timber berths at the sale of 1890. The following bills were read a third time• ; Respecting the railway debenture debt of the village of Exeter—Mr. Bishop. , To contolldate the debt of the oity of Se. ‘Catharines—Mr. Hisoott. To consolidate certain debentures of the city of Heathen—Mr. Gibson (Hamilton). An Act respecting the Sarnia Consumers' .Gas Company—Mr, Maekenzie (Lambton West). Respecting the Sault Ste. Marie & Hud- son Bay Railway Company—Mr. Tait. To amend the Act incorporabing the Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company —Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) moved the House date Committee of the Whole to confirm .zertain orders -in -Council of February 27th, '1893, to grant aid to hospitals. Mr. Meredith desired to cell attention to the very rapid Muerte in grants under this head since 1874. In that year the total amount of grants for all the &argon covered by the item of hospitals and oilcan ties was $43,220, and this year the amount was $164,949. The time had come when there should be a revision of the system. It seemed to him a bad feature that the Gov- ernment should establish rival institutions In cities or counties. The cost of mainten- ance varied greatly, in seine cases being as low as 11 cents a day and in others as high as 80 cents a day. Sontething should im- mediately be done to improve upon the manner in which aid was given, and also to stop the rapid increase in the number of the institutions aided by public funds. Upon consideration of the resolution to eionfirra aid to the Refuge of Our Lady of .0harity, Ottawa, Mr. Meredith_ said that the grant asked for 1892 was exorbitant and entirely out of Proportion to the number of inmates. In 1891, with 119 inmates, the grant was $798, while in 1892, with 129 inmates, the grant asked was $3,105, which was more than -quadruple, with an increase of only ten patients. Such a state of things needed 430M8 explanation. Mr. Bronson said the refuge was formerly known as the Convent of the Good Shepherd, and placed in schedule A of hos- pitals. Additional accommodation had been supplied by the erection of new buildings, and adults were separated from children. By this change the institution was placed in schedule B. Mr. Meredith thought the explanation entirely unsatisfaotory. It was formerly .entitled to only 2 cents a day per patient from the Government, but in the newaohed- Ade it was entitled to 5 cents, and had eactually been receiving 7 cents. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton)—No, no. Mr. Fraser moved the House into coni- :mittee of the whole on a resolution to „authorize the transfer from the Parliament buildings account] of $30,000 paid for the -old hospital premises and $17,876 paid for the competitive plans for the premisee to .the ordinary revenue fund, as well as an „additional $15,000 till to be expended on the buildings. One million three hundred thousand dollars would cover the entire cost of the buildings. The following bills were read a second time : • Respecting the erection of new provincial lunatic asylum at Brockville—Mr. Fraser. Relating to the ereebion of the new pro- vincial buildings—Mr. Fraser. Mr.. Gibson (Hamilton) moved the House into committee on his bill for the 'proven - then of cruelty to and better protection of children. Mr. Meredith asked the meaning of the words " recognized" and " organized" • before "Children's Aid Societies" in the bill. Mr. Gibson (Harathon) said the first gneant societiea recognized by the Govern- ment, which would be duly incorporated. Organized societies meant other childreine societies engaged in the work. It was the • intention to have aid societies in all large. • centres duly incorporated. These would be tolerably uniform in their methode and -aims. Mr. Meredith thmight children ought nob to be developed by running them all through one groove. This method was a mistake, . and tended to destroy. individuality. He wished to know what was meant by a Children's Aid Society. Mr, Gibson (Efamilton) promised to con - eider the eughestion and add a clause de- fining the society. Mr. Meredith objected to the claw° which •provides that a magistrate may issue a warrant of search for chilclreit supposed to be ill,treated and kept out of the way. This clause was modified by an amendment pro - poised by the Attorney-Geheral. Alvan loacess. Mr. Clancy said thab it was wrong to • permit anyone other than the parent to in- flict punishment upon children. On a clause providing that Ohildren inust • not be on the streets after nightfall, Mr. Clency said ib was a barbarous pro- vielon, Mr, Meredith maid it Wee nonsense to pat ouch a clause in. It was ridiculous to sup- • pose that a boy of 18 and a girl of 17 • could not walk ebout the streets after night, • fall.' Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) pointed out that the clause was not compulsory, but rested With municipal councils to pare and enforce. He had not received each hearty Wintnentlittion for any oboe° hi Bill as that. Mr. Meredith ObjeCted to the assuming of control of children by the Provinoe. was }surely enoilgh Oust the Province take charge of neglected ehildren. Ili was not in the intermits' of morality thet this curfew bell almuld be rang. It woeld be more in the intereete of the public if the bell was rung for bald-headed men. (Laughter.) Mr. Mowat said the proveion was largely supported by pimento. Mn Megmlith thought the parents were well eine to exercise proper restraint upon their children. The children would only run out again efter being tient in. The Attorney -General might as well paw a law to milk° all yoeng men go to ohureh twice on Suedam (Lauglatisr.) That certainly would be a good law. Or he might as well legislate to make all young men in the couetry go to bed at half -past ten o'olook. It certainly was bad for them to sit up later when they bed to be up so early in the morning. (Leughter.) This was the logi- oal result of this kind of legislation. The committee rose and reported the bill to the House as amended. Mr. Harcourb moved the second reading of his bill to amend the Health Acte In view of a possible outbreak of cholera it was important thee several amendraente 'should be made giving municipalities the right to erect hospitals if necessary for in - factious cases, and to issue debentures for the payment of the same without submit- ting the by-law to the electors. Mr. °lamy said that he knew of an in- stance where the Health Officer had de- stroyed a lot of valuable prop:Fey in disin- fecting in a ease of diphtheria, and there was no remuneration given. Dr. McKay said that there were means of diainfeoting property without destroying it, and an officer that would destroy property overstepped Ms bounds. Mr. Wood said h was only right where the State stepped in to destroy property that there should be compensation. He knew of an instance where a lot of property in a store had been destroyed. Mr. Meredith said that in a ease of small- pox at London'where some property had been destroyed, damages had been collected. The bill passed its eecond reading. Bills were introduced by Mr. Garrow—To amend the Municipal Act. Mr. Waters—To amend the Ditchers and Watercourses Act. Mr. Maokenzie—To amend the Assess- ment Act. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton)—To consolidate the Aot respecting the protection of game and far -bearing aninaals. Mr. Fraser said he would second the first reading of the bill on condition that he was satisfied with its provisions when It was brought in. (Laughter.) Mr. Tait—To amend the Watercourses Act. The following bills were read a third time ; Respeoting the Sohool of Mining and Agriculture. Bespeoting the Chatham Waterworks Company. Sir Oliver Mowat, in answer to a ques- tion by Mr. Barr (Dufferin), said that whilst the matter had been under consideration, still it was not the intention of the Govern- ment to introduce a bill during the present] session for the puipose of taxing mortgagee, as requested by the deputation of the Patrons of Induatry. Mr. Waters moved for an order of the House for a return from the Treasurer of the Medical Council, giving a detailed state- ment of the SUMS paid to each member of the 'Medical Council during the past five years for travelling expenses and hotel accommodation while attending council and committee meetings. Mr. Wood (Hastings) asked that the ad- journed debate on the motion respecting the representation of the city of Toronto in the Legislature be taken up on Wednesday next, which was agreed to. Mr. Meacham said he would move the second reading of his bill to amend the Medioal Act, provided the Government would grant him the privilege of naming a spaded committee. Mr. Fraser said "No, we won't do any- thing of the kind You will have to divide the House for this committee, and it is understood there is to be no division to -day, so you had better Mb it stand." This ad- vice was taken. Mr. Barr moved the second reading of his bill to amend the Real Property Limitation .A.ot. He said the Petrone of Industry were very anxious for this measure. He explained that many oases arose where the agents for imple- ments traded implements with farmers, giving the latter to understand they owned these implements. After a time the manufacturers would come along and make the farmers pay a second time, because they claimed the agent had no right to dispoae of the machines. His bill would put a stop to this. • Sir Oliver Mowat raid thee there were several good features in the bill which should become law. The bill was read a second time. Mr. Meacham, in moving the second reading of hie bill to amend the Pharmacy Act, said thab the clause making retail dealers register sales of Paris green was a dead letter, and he wanted the claim struck out. The bill was read a second time. Mr. Gilmour, in moving the second read- ing of his bill to amend the Municipal Act, said his bill proposed to increase the majority in the cote where a bones was granted to railways from one-half to two- thirds. • 'The bill was read a second time. Mr. Rorke, in moving the eeoond reading of his Bill to atnend the Municipal Act, said that the Bill provided for the reduc- tion of the representation in County Coun- cils. He explained that the expenditure in salary and mileage in several instances in the province for the Clounty Councils was greater than the other controllable expendi- ture. He hinted that the meetings of the County Councils were of a picnic character. Mr. Fraser aid ib would be an idle thing to reopen aquestion like the one his hon. i friend had ntroduced, It was not a de- sirable ohmage, and he thoughb the Bill should not be read a second time. • Mr. Rorke said there was a demand for t'ne measure. It was restoring the municn pal system to the original basis and equal- izing the mietern of representation. Mr. Clancy said the bill involved much more than appeared on the face of it. The bill Was declared losb on a division. , Mn. Bishop moved the second reading; of o hill to amend the Municipal Act. The bill provides that the maintenance of bridges shall be by townships. Mr. Waters oppooed the provision. He would not oppose the bill going to com- mittee, but would fight it there. Mr. Bishop said it was unfair that a township with seven bridges under 100 feet each 'Should contribute 40 per cent. towards' the expenees of anotber toenship with only three bridges over 100 feet eeoh. Mr. Fraser urged the hon. gentleman to withdraw his bill, and not re -open the whole question unfavorably. The bill was lost en divielon. Mr. 1VIoLenaghan moved the oecond read, ing of a bill to amend the Municipal Act providing for the giving of bounties not ex- ceeding si per head lot the deetruotion of Nees and other wild aulmaile. Tfa bill read a second UM°. Mr. Balfour's bill to amend the 14tlniciPal Act was read e second time. The principal provision of the bill IMpows a fine of $200 on each member of env munielpat Ootilleil that negleebe to see aside a, oiultieg fund an. natilly Where it is neCelIeary to Melte suoh provision te Meath° peyrnent of debenturee failing due, Mr, Dryden'e bill to enable the corpora- tion of the Cowley of Ontario to issue cer- Min debentures Was pawed in committee. The Hones adjourned at 6 p,m. TUE eueW Menneercia. Mie First Assignment and the Tragic End it Mad. It was near the end of a busy night and, the night editor looked up wearily as the telephone bell rang, says the Chicago News. "Wonder what this is 1" he murmured, as he picked up the receiver, "Hope there's nothing more to -night." Bub as he listened he grew attentive and jotted down a, couple et notes on a block of paper. "Yee, I1I send up right away - Thanks for the tip. Good -night," he shouted, and turning to the Weepy office boy, cried: "Sand in one of the reportero. Who's out there ?" "No one but that new matt," yawned the youth. "Well, send him in right away." fl The boy fled, and the new man was soon in readiness. "Julie got a report of a saloide out on the west side, near the --- street station. A woman ahot herself. Skip out and get a good story right away, for I don't think anybody else has the tip." "Why, that's right near where I live," said the new man, as he disappeared out of the door. It was his fiat day on the paper, and he was anxious to make a record. .Ar- rived at the police station he hurriedly in- quired for the lieutenant in charge and ex- plained his mission. "Yoe, happened half an hour ago. Don't] know the woman. She was well dressed, and had just moved, with her husband, into a flat at 50," was that functionary's reply. "Why, that's where I Live! Where's the body," asked the reporter, getbing inter- ested in the case. "Up ab the house. I'll go with you." When elle officer stopped in front of his door the reporter began to wonder. "Haven't you made a mistake ?" he in- quired, breathlessly. " No ; this is the place. The stiff is in there," said the lieutenant, in the tone of one accustomed to such things. Pallid and trembling with anxiety, the reverter followed his direction. The door of bhe room was open, and through the window the moonlight streamed on an un- turned face splashed with blood. The white light glinted from the barrel of a re- volver that lay in a red pool, marks as of rust showing here and there on its polished surface. With a moan bhe man fell on the floor beside the corpse'hie hand striking in one of the little rivulets of blood that stained the carpet. " Mueb be new at the business," mad the officer to himself. "He haen't any nerve at all." He bent down to piok up the prostrate man, but the body was etrangely limp. The officer turned the body over and attempted to restore consciousness. There was a moan, then a shudder, and the practiced hand of the policeman slipped to feel the beating of the heart. It was sten, and the lieutenant hastily arose and ran over to the station for help. The night editor was fuming and swear- ing. The paper was just going to press, and no word from the west aide suicide, which was to be a scoop. "That's what comes of having to send oub new men. Old Billiger might get drunk, but he always got hie stuff in before we went to press." And he turned and swore lustily at the unoffending office boy, who was sound asleep in a waste -paper basket. Saddenly the telephone ben rang sharply, aggreseively. "That's him now, I gases. Just when it's too late," murmured the tired newspaper man. "Hallo V" ne shouted; "who's that ?" "The — street station. Did you send a man over here to get that suicide ? ' a long time ago. What's become of him ? I've been expecting to hear from him." "Well, I don't think you'll get any oopy on that matter. You see, it was his wife." That accounts for it. I suppose he is all broke up over it ?" " Well, rather—he's dead." Then the nights editor shut] up his desk, woke up the office boy with a kick and went home. Fer Cleaning Fabrics. When the washing of an article in soap and weber is out of the question, sponging wibh some substance that will remove grease and other stains is the next best thing. Naphtha or benzine is excellent for this pur- pose, but at times something more is re- quired. A cleaning fluid that has been tested and recommended for silks and wool- lens is made as follow° ; Pab into a large saucepan two quarts of weber, half an ounce of borax and four ounces of white cordite soap, shaved fine, and stir frequently until the soap and borax are dissolved ; then take from the fire and add two quarts crf cold water. When the mixture us cold add one ounce of glycerine and one of ether. Bottle and put away for use ; it will keep for years. To elean an article, first brush thoroughly then spread on a table. Sponge with the cleaning fluid and rub hard until the stable disappear. Spots can be removed from car- pets in this manner. When They Are Ahead. "There s one advantage the polheman has over other men," said Minim, the masher. " What's that ? " asked Slider. " Why, women go up and speak to them without an 'introduction. If I were a policanutn I would always wear my min form." Write at Once. . The best time to frame an answer to tha letters of a friend 18 the morning you receive them; thea the werinth of friendship and the iatelligence received twat forcibly no- operate.—Shenstone. A scientific Vagabond. In midwinter—One tramp to another -- Yeo, thy dear sir, I have COMe to the con - °hewn that out ecientifie men are right and that our planet is gradually growing colder each year.—Journal kniuscrint. GIESONS' TOOTADHE GMII mite on a tenrporary filling and stop° toothache in Wangle Sold by druggists. A testa for books is the pleasure and glory of trey life. 1 would not exohange it for the riches of the lndieu.—Gibbon. } Some of the state novo with a velocity of / 50 milea a send near y c . I o Storekeeper—You won't suit trio if YOU 're hot married. Young Man—Why do you ' 'Meter your Make to be /named? We're- keeper--Beoeuse 1 find the married oboe are never in such a ttroh to close up at night and leave Me AB the single one's are. SAVE IBS CHILDREN. Chicago Judge oil tho Troatoiont of flaxen& °Sidon. • THEY ARE DRIVEN TO CRIME. (Chicago Sunday Posta °tillionlYrjanir stYteaedoti9ra; „.d. and custody of de- pendent of neglected t children are tte only es means by which, in my opinion, the in- crease of the con- atantly growing criminal class wiz be checked. Of course there will always be men and women of vicious natures frorn whom no training can eradicate the taint of criminality in their composition, For such as these permanent restraint is perhaps the only condition. But the criminal °lessee, so called, are not composed of thew here- ditary lawbreakere. The vast majority of persons now in the penitentiaries of the land drifted into crime through, parental neglect, poverty or evil associations. A generation of criminals does nob bet long. In my experience of twelve years as a police magistrate I have seen many new faces in the sad prowesion that paseed be- fore me. I have seen the little boy, 8 or 10 years old, or even younger, brought into court for the first time. He has been in bad company. Evil associates have kept him on the streets. Hie parents may not know where he be or knowing, may not care. He has broken a window'or filched an apple, and has been arrested. He is terrified and to:tu- ba 1 oan do nothing with or for him. If his parents claim him he must be delivered to them. He is released. Within a short time he is brought in again by the polite, charged with some other inisohien At intervals for a few years I see hie face in the dock, each time more • hardened, more violow, more oritninel than before. Steadily he has gone down or up i in the category of crime. Finally he s arrested for robbery, burglary or name similar crime. I hold him to the Criminal Court. I may not see him again for a couple of years, bub when he does make his appearance he is, the officer who arrested him tells me, an ex -convict and a dangerous crook. This is repeated a few times and then he drops from sight altogether—sent to the penitentiary for twenty years under the habituancrimine.1 aot, mayhap for life for murder, or even he may have been hanged. This is in brief the history of a criminal as a police justice seers him. THE DOLEFUL PROCESS OF EVOLUTION. Nine -tenths of the criminals are devel- oped in this ---the product of ignorance, poverty and neglect. Poverty alone seldom makes °Hudnall:, but where the parents are lazy, shiftless, improvident, ignorant or drunken as well as poor, the child has but little before him except a life of crime. Drunkenness is productive of crimes of violence mainly, such as assault. Indi- rectly drunkenness contributes largely to the criminal ranks by bringing about the conditions of poverby and loss of self-respect thab throw children in the way of vicious companions whose lives and fate as criminals and convicts they ultimately share. What is the remedy! Save the child and you save the man. Under a proper condi- tion of affairs the boy or child whom I have described shouldnever have been permitted to take the second step on the highway to a criminal life. When first arrested he should be held by the officere until the drown - stances of his home life had been fully in- vestigated. If his parents neglected him, if they did not send him to school, if he had no parents, the State should at once af18111111.1 the care and cushody of hini. He should become the ward of the State. As itt is now, the justice under the law is powerless. If the child be under 10 years old and has parents he must be released. If more than ten years and dependent or abandoned the oase can be reported to the County Court ; some one of the institutions that take care of such children will be notified ; the officers of the place will investigate the boy's character; if it be very bad they will not receive him. If they consent to take him there will be a great deal of red tape and finally the ohild is committed to b. go- wned reformatory institution. Failing the the child is senb to the briciewell on a fine, or, if the offence be grave enough, he ie held to the Grand Jury. In either case he is almost certain to be lost. One month in the jail awaiting trial locked up with older boys already hardened in crime will ruin anybody. A month in the bridewell will graduate him a profes- sional criminal. To overcome the bad effect of a term in a reform school will re- quire the rest of hie lifetime. Do what he may the feet that he was onoe an Minato of a reform echool will be a stigma on him through life. WHAT THE STATE SHOITLD DO. In the first place, the State should estab- lish an institution in vrhieh children such as I have described can be cared for, educated and taught a useful trade or occupation. Thio sohool should have about it nob the least trace or taint of prison attribute& It should be entirely above the suspicion of being a penal institution. It should be part of the educational system of the State. It should be an annex to the Public Schoolo. It should be an constituted e.nd so cora ducted that the child placed in it for in- struction will incur uo more odium than the child who obtains hie education at the State's expense in the Public Schools. The State should create a home for the boys and girls found on the street, who will be good men and women or dangerous criminals according to tha manner in which they are treated. In such an institution the children should bo eircemstanced, as far its possible, as they would bo in a comfort- able home. They should be allowed to see their parents frequently. Their love for their parents should be fostered, nob destroyed. Their bettor quail - ties of mind and body, their self- respect, their independence of spirit, should be promoted, not repressed. They should haw cutteient wholesome food —not be half atarved es they are in same ol the existing institutions. They :should he treated with kindneon Frequently I have children broughtt before me who have run away from places to which they were emit to work from somo of therm institutione. The children tell most pitiful take of the treatment they have received from their am- ployere. The latter denies it, of commie aud the officers of the lestitatiou aro on head to explain how bad teed violets this boy is and howgood Mt. Jones woe to him. CHEAPER IN TUB END, 1 LWOW that such an institution with 00.100CitY Of nodommodating domfortably several thousand (+lichen would wee con- aidotable mousy. Bub even at that it woulei be economy. There are diamonds of emener 'Pas 1 4 V, e ''',:lo ,/, ' 0 prieoniani In the jells/ and nelalitentiariee of thie f3ratte Ib wan hundreds of thousande annually. to support ehem and to maintaie the crinunal courts. an fully satisfied that a eYetem of caring for Aleglecte4 and despondent traildren awn as I have outlined would effeot an Wittman) redaction in the number of orb:nine's. The streets are the printery Scheele for crime. Children sholdd be kept oil them. All children below 14 years of age—or a higher Ihnit even might be better—should be compelled to attend school. Where the partnere could not or would not oare for the children the State ellOUld take them in charge. Then rigidly enforce the !ewe armed ehild labor. Increase the jurisdiction of the nolice juatioe so as to empower him to commit children directly to the Stele refuge without the presenb tedious inter- mediary promos. Check the child's firat step toward crime. Each convict in the penitentiaries has cost the State, since the time he was firat arrested on the street a child of eight or ten, more than $1,000. That same $1,000 if applied to the care and education of that child would have made hint a good citizen. Savo the Children and you save the men. Tan CEP T�L EffEEnfl. fame DangerereIlldeTilittehrats. From othe 1185e of wa The to plant its a hardy evergreen shrub, and its botanical varieties do nob appear to be numerous. The differences in the numerous teas of commerce depend chiefly on the selection of young or old leaves and special treatment in drying and otherwise preparing the leaf rather than 0/2 any essen- tial ifotanioal variation. Tim varieties of tea imported into this country are very numerous ; but seldom does any of them reach the consumer unmixed, for the wholessile merchants carefully improve) their teas by blend- ing" The methods employed in pre- paring teas differ in the different coun- tries in which this commodity is grown. In India the manufacturing prooesses are very much simplified, and the greater por- tion, if not the whole is accomplished by machinery; thus the lessee only come in contact with the hands of laborers in the picking. This may also be said of the Jap- anese teas, to a certain extent ; but those of Chinese origin are manipulated almost en- tire' r by hand, and in the cheaper grades the f let are sometimes need in rolling. BLACKS AND GREENS. The names of teas with which the public are moat fe.miliar are simply " green " and "black," which differ merely in accordance with the method of preparation followed. Green tea is not allowed to undergo a sorb of fermentation process which forms the dietinguiehing point in the process of mak- ing bleak teas. It is difficult to determine the value of a tea by chemical analysis alone. A tea may be very rich in theins or tannin and yet bring the same price as one poor in these subsances. The flavor, strength and ap- pearance of a tea in general determine its market value. The flavor is due to the volatile oil, the strength to the proportion of tannin and the appearance of the leaf to its age before picking and the care taken in the rolling and other manipulations. A tea mom be deficient in tannin and still bring a high price on account of its delicacyof fiever, or, by the admixture of leaves rich in tannin, ito streagth may be increased to meet the dementia of the market. In genuine unfaced teas the value is usually 111 a direct ratio with tk,e soluble matter in the ash. DELEOAOY OF FLAVOR. According to one authority the finer the quality of the tea the more thane, soluble ash and extractive matter ib will contain, taough this is not uniformly true. It has been stated that the relatively high price of Indiau maa is due largely to their percentage of tannin. This permits the use of a verymuch smaller quantity of tea ia preparing the infusion for the table. A aeries of chemical investigations has been very recently made by a Russian chemist front which he makes the following deduc- tions: The greater the ratio of theism to the total amount of tannin and products of fermentation the dearer the tea. The more regular the fermeatation the better the tea. The regusarity of the fermeetation is recognized by the relative amount of products of fer- mentation in ten But until a more thorough many of the chemistry of teas has been made the skill of the professional tea -taster And the honesty of dealers in regulating the relative prices must be largely, if not en- tirely, relied upon. TEL ADULTERANTS. The methods employed in adulterating toes are facing, the admixture of spent or exhausted le hvf.s, foreign leaves, foreign astringents and adde& mineral matter. hat nag is th.e treatment of teas with vari- oua coloring matters, with the object of imperting some favorite color or gloss to the teat and always has a fritudulent intent. Prussian blue, turmeric, indigo or plumbago are most com- mealy used.. Oatechu la added 119 a foreign astringent to give this property in a greater strength thee they naturally possess. Aceinig the common additions of mineral matter are koapstorre, gypsum iron salts, metallic iron megnetio oxide of 'iron, rand, pereicles of (+rick and copper. Aa a rule, the adulterants of teas are not such as nem be considered prejudicial to Tne minerel matters employed in facing, ete., with the exception of the salts of iron or copper, are insoluble in water, hence would non be present in the infusion Oopper, wh ich lsprobablyvoryrorolypmeaent, would be vary objectionable even in very email qurt Ilit e. Sulphate of iron is a very powerful satritigent and in the small quantities to which it would be used it would probably not be objectionable. Sul- piwae of iron has rarely been detected. Pacing, if excessive, increases the weight of the tea, but there is no evidence of its being prejudiced to health. The adulterations of teas are thus more to enhance the) value of inferior grades MC- aepb in the ease of lie tea or the addition of foreign or exhausted leavers. The evidence of authorities upon food adulteration shows that the addition of foreign leavea is now but little practiced. Caul Airord the Chariot. Rowne de Bout—/ am told that Carrie ammo earns $800 a week for singing in comic opera. Upton Downed—Would that I could follow Emerge/eel advice and hitch my chariot to a tar I Catching and Hissing. "1 wioh," laid the embarrassecnlooking man, who hatl tried to dance, " that it wasn't so hard to catch a train at the depot and so hard to miss it in a ball-room.—Rose- ea! Int) Proper Thing To Mo. hen the hired Man wined home loaded the proper thing to do is to discharge him. Dogs don't have to bother about the fashions. The Aim' of their pants depends altogether upon the weather. THE BRITISH TARS. ifew They LoereetdNtaevAalniFeart Vyee gm wArtldr titlue.@hdeeseNr.jber; et7em aiPP e a raller:ile tite f the hand: through the atreetta during the great navel review: There was a pleas- ing lack of the COM.. BirririntiPet"taraeb."15Thtehl; Were true to the de- "' scription which Mr.. Kipling has given of them. A sailor led at the head of the line a small goat with a. scarlet blanket covering her and brasa. buttons decorating the blanket. The goat, was as small as a little dog, but showed:: great plaok and a desire to fight every-, thing in her path. She was doubblese tended as an emblem of the spiriti among the sailors. The big mem who walked at the head of the first lot of tars after the noble shipet officer hed gone by was a most eatisfac- tory sample of the email officer that we read about. He has risen from the realms, and said "Heyes right 1" with a Etna, voice and a very clear pronunciation of the "h." Every heart of oak had trousers that flowed around the tips of hie boots and than might have been out into two or three pain from the knees down. ' All wore their blouses well'open at the neck, as thwart the grip had never been heard of, and alh of them had shoulders and cheats that ahowed the expansive effect of out -door life, and plenty of am Some of these men were extraordinarily good-looking. There were men walking along as cemmon sailors and earning a few shillmge a week that were simply models of strong beauty. Their faces were the color of mahogany and as smooth ae ivory; and they wore curly black or brown beard's that had never beezi out. Simply for their looker they would be worth large sums to any manager of comic opera. The officers of the English ehipa who walked with the men were young fellows as a rule, and fine young fellows at that - Their arms and their legs showed that they had been forced to work hard ever since they went in as middies. Of these same middies there was an intereeting supply.. Some of these were not bigger than half of Inspector Williams' leg and not more than 10 or 12 years old. The crowds lookedupom ' thorn with surprise and admiration, not knowing that great English sea -fighters are made almost exclusively from timber that begins its seasoning at sea at the age of 10. None could have been prouder or more keenly alive to the importance of the woe - Mon than the middies. They brought down their little cutlasses in saluting with all the power of their good right arms and. never Bruited or turned their eyes to the right or left. They were thereto.represene England, and they knew it. ON THE Admiral ECopkins invited a representative of one New 'York Sun to remain on the Blake on her trip from Fortress Munroe to New York, and in the course of a three - column article has the following interesting incident: Before the capes and theses were reached there was a short drill and inspection. Le another five minutes there was sounded the morning bugle call to prayers. This hap - paned at the very time that our Yankee sailors were going through what is called the "getting -up exercise" of einpty-handed calisthenics all along the deck. The Eng - bah matinee were drawn up in two lines upon the quarterdeck, with all the crew not on watch in it double line beyond them. All had their caps in their hands. The eificere stood about in front of the menavith bare heads, and around a eort of a corner was a huddle of boyish midship- men, ads) uncovered. The chaplain, a smooth -faced young man, who wears an - Oxford mortar board atl his insignia of offices. Wood bareepolled with his prayer -book open, close up in front of the men, and commander Brayly, handsome and master- ful, folded his hands behind him and looked down at the deck. Dant. Taylor, a jovial mmiature of tee Prince of Wales, balanced hunielf on tipmee and scanned the faces of the men as if to see whether any of them was not repeating the responees with the others. The musical Eoglish of the ritesi of the national (rhumb took on beauty as it was clearly spoken by all the bronzed men be- side the huge cannon, and the fortress -like steel shelters and cesemates of that stage setting. And very strange it was indeed, to hear the hardy fellows asking was, to de- fend them " in all the assaults of our ene- mies." So it was to hear them utter the elsewhere ordinary prayer; "Grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither runinte any kind of danger." But stranger still was it to know that wb.en thew man, as brave as even us Americans, were thue humbling themselves before Goal as a daily duty, reverently observed, our own gellautt tars, who take rellgeon as if io were a' bath, once a week, were runaing double.quiek areund the decks of the white cruisers, fae mild leen, bees and men'black aud white„ slip -slop, in their lose soft ehoes upon the hard penal:tad 1Le.rds. How- ever, perhaps the difference between ths. rouetne was no greater then tee contrast be- tween the two bodieo of men, fur while aboard tb.e British slims alt the men were Britith, on the white ciuners of our coun- try the orewe were made up of Swedes, Danes, Portuguese, Atricane, Irish, Ger- man; Italian; Oanadians, Japanese, Chinese, Inanakes aud here and there an An'teviee J charali service it good thing 7' an officer ot the Bence is as asked. 0 very. good Wing," said he. "Ib brings them all together, ie sots them to thinking of something better than worldly matters, and it satisfies the Wrong 'senti- mental side Meat every true sailor has." leiginly emoted. What is the precise who expreetsive anger or rage? Our novelists seem hardir to have Settled the point as yet, if we mar judge from tha four passaged below, taken, from a recently published novel: 1—Page 9, "Adrienne suddenly appeared'. her few white with anger.n 2—Pege 29, " The little fellow was trenr.f bling with a blue rage." 3—Page 57, "Albert was choking with passion. He turned green in the face' 4. ---Page 173, "Rodolphe, who was of very choleric temperament, pawed instann teneously through all the colors of the ratan bow."—London Alter the lioneeinootts She (sweetly)--Whatwould living be with, out me I Ile (gloomily)—Oheaper. The word preface used in the beginning of books was originally a word a wacoink to a meal, and was equivalent tO " geed Mi ay t do you'