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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-5-30, Page 7QUEER 110 1(111i0 COSTO wo11Eisps WORK AND TUE EVER IllEIsPFIlis People. From Aleneet Every' Coun- try in the World Are Found Ili the COInliY. A peculiarity of •the Iferigkong eolony is the anomaly of the men's mitt' weinen's oceupationi--accorcl- ing to our English ideas. The wo- men. work jtist like the men ; they drag huge loads harnessed like horses, carry' heavy weights trung over their shoulders as yokels carry ilk cans in the country. hey stagger up the peak for Out 100 yards, whea they lay wn their burden', go back, pick a new lot up, carry this up to the first demping place, then take the ,first load on a few yards further, and so on, all under a. blazing sun. All the bricklaying, road mending, coaling, de.'is done equally by both sexes, but, perhaps the most • curious sight, writes the Hongkong vorrespondeat of the Westminster Gazette, is to see a woman ,straining Lt an. oar or at the steerage of a • amp a n If the boat be & TerY heavy one twee of the women will work an oar together, one pulling one way and the other leashing, while a little baby is perched on. the backof each in a sort of eradle or papoose ar- • rangement. On the other hand, up on the Peak, which is the European settle- ment, one often sees a Chinese boy walking along sedately. PUSHING A PERAMBULATOR, while the English nursemaid walks empty handed by his side and su- .perintends operations. or course • all the housework is done by • The net point is the very cosmo- politan nature of the, place. This was most forcibly borne, in upon me the other day when. 1 vas walking • with an American on. one side, and an Australian on the other. Just in front of us were a couple of Ger- mane, a Parsee stood at the door el his shop, a Japanese girl followed by two Portuguese boy's passed us; and a moment later a rickshaw went • by in which sat a Spanish maiden. There were cf course Chinese scattered all over the place as us- ual, eo that here within. a hundred verde of one another at least nine tionalities were represented. It would be hard to name a country which coed(' not produce its type here. A contingent of the Baluchistan • Infantry is here.; we have Sikh:po- licemen; Indians of all kinds are officially in the civil and •police.courts: next to the "Chinks" I think the Germans predominate; there is a large sprinkling of lila- lays and Lascars, heaps of French- men and Swedes; Italians, Turks, Portuguese and Spaniards, all have their place in the colony; the • SCOTSMAN AND IRISHMAN vett suggeet splitting the difference The tears etand in hie eyes'. You aro ern o I tend ult r eaeon ale le. Al you step `outSide there is a groan of anguieh. You turn. `11aelece," he moans. "Can do," He 134°4 up for you,fastens it, seale it, el, with a chastenea a' ir as of one wile has, been Tebbe& ofhis ewe lamb against his will—and all the time he is making at least 50 per coat. over the arenseetion are herean large numbers' and then -somewhere at the end ofthe list_ come a few straggling Englishsearr: It is an interesting experieace to go shopping in the _Chinese quar- ters. The other del a friend want- ed a piece of etatackwood furniture for a weddird preeent and we ran- sapked soXe of the more likely shops tearend it, and interviewed the eveyopri tors_ ey betray no eagerness to sell, . hut puff slowly and sourly at their tremendous pipes containing one email' pinch of tobaceo, or perhaps opium, and allow you to pull about the articles exposed for sale as much as you please—it saves them trouble. Some, of them speak prac- tically no English. but they usually have a small son who has been edu- cated at Queen's College here, a large Anglo -Chinese boys' school, and he acts as interpreter. The more you bargain the more lethargic the shopkeeper becomes you feel you are boring • him to death, and stammer apologies which • he accepts gracefully. No, he's not got what you want." "Will he have it later on?" He ean't say. Perhaps, you suggest, tentatively, he may have the article in his go - down. He doesn't think so; any- way, the gocloverftf locked up, and it's too much trouble to bother dasg about opening, it. Then you are Nir afraid you must go somewhere eke. Tie thinks it might be as well, and then he and hie assistants can all go to sleep. THE NEXT. SHOP you call at you find n more wide- awake man ix) charge, who has marked you down as • "a euro thing," and greets you with an oily smile, "Yes, plenty stuff have got. Yes, he savvys what you want." "How inuch7" An absurdly extor- tionate ainount is warted. You euga gest a third of this price, whereat he laughs pleasantly,- and skilfully 'changes the conversation and ehats of the weather'and inquires "How , long you haveIlongltotig been." You return to the business.in • b hand and begin to bargain. u are a great nuisance, but he will humor yea. Heeslightly reduces .the original price. You tell hire you aro not satisfied in the rich 'flowery lay liege of the Orient. Ile be- , OLD RACING DAYS. L'os English Horseman's Remilite- cenees of Good Old Times, Of all the itaiovatioes' that have taken place of recent yeara, on the turf, wribee an English horseman in Baily's Magazine, not one strikes an old stager like myself ee much as the style 'of riding now adopted by the jockeys. ` Not only is the crouching seat most unpleasing to the eye—one celebrated amateur horseman goee eo fer as to characterize it as peel- tively -indecent--but very few of the jrickeye seem to have mastered ite difficulties, with the natural conse- quence that, swerving and boring, not to mention accidents, are of far more frequent occurrence than for- merly, Fordham, John Osborne, Wells, Tom French, Fred Webb, Custance, Tom Challoner and Charles Wood were all names to conjure with in •the past, but for elegance of style and perfection of seat and hands' commend m.e to Tom Cannou; while for dash and nerve in getting out of a difficulty Fred Archer had no su- perior, Few, for instance, who witnessed it will ever forget his riding of Jan- nette in the Leger of 1878, when, apparently •hopelessly- shut .in, he took advantageof a momentary opening to dash' through and win. Fred Webb, who was Archer's great rival latterly, always declared that the latter not only wa,rited to be first, but second as well. _The only time Lever saw a horse fairly get the uppe'r hand of Archer was in a Ailing race, at Newmarket once, -when a two' -year-old belong- ing to the Duke of Beaufort fairly bolted With him and ran to the top of the town before he could be pull- ed up. So easily did he win that •there was a are competition for himwhen. put up for auction; but strange to say, the colt neverdid any gdoel afterward. Newmarket after all is the place to see rating at iti best, and enjoy- able as it always is 'on a fine day it was never more so, in the;View of the old turfman than in its more primitive state before modern im- provements set in, when a heckewas a necessity, and if Oae wanted a glass of sherry you were dependent on a friend with a. drag or a dog • cart; as the case might be. At that period there wereemany niorerpicturesque figures en'the turf than •at the prese.ntatirne, when everybody dresses more or less alike, and nowherfe did one see them to greater peele,6tion than at New- market. The/Massive figure in dust celoeed freck coat and high jack boots, with an antiquated drab coloreehat on his head, who jogs pa.saelin animated converse with his otel friend, Peter Price, is easily 'recognizable as Edmund Tattersall. y Astley, perfectly ha,bited usual, comes along just in time to pick up her "Mate' as he mounts the okl gray horse, his faithful com- rade of the Crimea, who is in wait- ing for him outside the rooms. On his old favorite's decease •at an advanced age what more appro- priate than that his epitaph should be written by his sorrowing master ? Accordingly the following , Which though perhapsnot quite up to the standard expected from a poet laureate had the, merit of ema- nating direct froneithe heart, were duly inscribed on the hertelstc)ne: *Under this here arid • Lies my poor old quoel. He. was very fond of me, And so was I of he, you see. The United Kingdom, the United States, and „Germany account for about 80 per. cent. of the world's._ total output of pig iron., Coalartineri in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -entered into a bond not to strike, Ionia combin- ations, or unions, or absent them- selves from work. , **IMMO. WAS TROUBLED WITH HEART DISEASE AND NERVOUSNESS SEVERAL DOCTORS COULD DO HER NO GOOD. THREE BOXES OP MILBURN'S HEART AND.,NERVE PILLS COMPLETELY CURED HER. Miss Mary Lebeau, Edison, Sask., writes:7--"I was troubled ,with heart disease • and nervousnets for over two years, and was so bad at times I had to sit up at night being unable to breathe, and every little noise would 'nuke me Shake and shiver. I tried several doc- tors, but they Were unable to do me any good. A neighboe then advised me to try a box of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. As soon as I began to take them I began to feel much better, and by the time I had used the third box I was com- pletely cured. I would advise anybody suffering 'from heart disease atutnervous- ftess to try these pills. They will save quite a bill in dodoes fees," • Milleirft's Heart ad Nerve Pills cure all .r.art and nerve troubles by their restorative influence on every organ and tissue of the body. Price 50 cents per box, oe 3 boxes for conies Pained, one might almost el.,25 at all dealers or mailed direct on say shocked. , receipt of price by The T. hiilburn CO., Hones seemed to have paesed and , 'tad, aorooto, Ont. 11011iITESS MU FORGET rEOM illILLME,RY STORE TO A PALACE. • Lady 'Dudley, the Woman Who Has Restored Cottage Lacemaking in Ireland. Over in Irelauel, from Glengariff to the Connemora coast, thea speak her name in 'reverent, alereest awed tones. Around the peat fires, ofwinter nights, when the old Senachies weave their artful tales of the good little. people that dwell in fairy reties and dells; in the ' warmer months, when happy parties scram- ble over the beetling crags or lovers' wander by the rairrowing lochs, there is one name that is never for- gotten, never left unsaid. s In the gray masses of the horning day the prayers that arise omit not the fervid blessing upon the one that is loved and cherished. Pover- ty -ridden Ireland does not forget kindness nor fail to see the beauty in the life of a woman' who came was poor, who rose to the greatest heighte a affluence, who looked down, understood—and then went back to where her sympathies and her ideals lay. Before her face they speak of her as Lady Dudley, wife of Earl Dudley, Viceroy of Ireland. But among themselves, their faces alight with gratitude and thanks- giving, they eall her the Countess Who, Didn't Forget. And the life of the eountess who didn't forget has been one of re - mance. It was in a millinery store that her real course of life began to shape itself. Her father, a bank- rupt, and her mother had separ- ated. It was necessary for her to EARN HER OWN LIVING. And this she did 'willingly. Nor- was she so intent upon her own poverty that she forgot those around, her who were even less fortunate. Per- sons who had been aided by her knew her as "iVliss Gurney, the good little girl." • One day there came into the mil- linery' shop Lady Dudley and her son, Lord Dudley, known as • the Plunger. He was one of the richest young men in. England. He also was one of the most rapid. His gambling, his vices, his escapades, forraed aories for all the selectolit- tle gossip parties,' His, passion for gambling was intense. There was nothing he would not wager a small fortune on. There was nothing he would not risk to appease his gain - Wing appetite. • YoUng Lord Dudley did nth know that when he orossed the threshold of that millinery shop he changed the whole course of his life. A little later, however he began to realize it. He gazed Into a face that en- tranced him. The creations about him., the furnishings of the place faded. The words his mother ad- dressed to him went unheard. Lord. Dudley felt that he was looking into the eye a of the woman he wanted for his wife. And, despite the en- treaties of his mother, who had seen a great match ahead for her son, despite the possibility »of more gos- sip than ever,LordDudley set out to win Miss Gurney. Then came the difficulties. The Duchess of Bedford saw the young Miss Gurney and liked her almost as much as Lord Dudley had. She took her ,out of the millinery shop and into her own home -where she dressed her in WONDERFUL GOWNS,. 'introduced her into societa and made her one of. the belles of the London season. Rivals there were in plenty then for -the hand of the beautiful young woman who had once been. a phopgirl. There were xnen ef millions who sought her, men of exemplary habits and hand- some faces. Miss Gurney was be- wildered by offer after offer of mar- riage. • And all this time Lord Dudley was working for her hand just as hard a.s anyone. He had drepped his dissolute habits, he became as famous for his solidity of character as he once had been for his loose- ness. And Lord Dudley won. The mother, who had seen for him a marriage with some famous femi- nine member of nobility,. wept at the thought of his marriage to a- shopgirl, but the weeping did no good. Lord Dudley loved Miss Gurney of the millinery shop, Miss C;herney loved Lord Dudley, who had reformed that he might make himself worthy of her. And so the wedding came, with brillianee and with all the -elegance that the ap- proval society could give it. There was a honeymoon such as only dreams and money ean make, and happiness, ' The season followed in London. It was* ene of superwonderful gay- ety, and in the midst of it was the new Lady Dudley, smiling, happy, and iridulging ia the enjoyment, of it to the limit. The years that he had epent behind a counter were to be angle up for, The days of work were to be forgotten—a'nd Lady Dudley saw that to recess of her raelnoty held recollections of the other days, At least she tried— BUT IN TRYING/ FATT*.,F,D. Poor Lady Dudley could not for- get. She could not steely out the reeraery that else, too, was once poor and that there heal been e time when she wished for thing e SieS eaald not have. $he began to Shia more and more 4 these to wilbin luxuries were denied, even neeessi- ties, Sometimes, at dinners, where the lights glowed soft and the laughter flowed avoend the tables, intermingled with joking and smell Oust : at dances, where the ewiehine of the waltz formed a sort of under- lying accompaniment for the smooth rhymed musie el the hidden orates - tri: at ti,e raees, where rainbow - like colors flared ganclily peacock. like, theretwoulel come to the face of the woman a wistful estpression, almost sorrowful in its intensity. The scenes before her eVere fading, for she was remembering—rememe boring that all was not happiness in the world, that there was eufferiag and privation and hunger, and that the should 'be doing something to alleviate it. She heel become the eountees who didn't forget. Soon the squalid parts of London began to hear of a wonderful Lady Bountiful who clis- tributecl money and clothing among the poor, who cared for the ill and the. des,pondoiet. Soon London so- eiety began to laugh at what it call- ed a, whim of Lady Dudley. Later it began to sympathize and to fol. - low the leader in a work that was good for humanity. And those members of London society also, knowing the story that was back of it all, called her `the countess wlao didn't forget." FREAKS OF BUILDING. Parts of Old London Bridge Distri- buted All Over England. Some of the most curious among freak structures are • those . which have been transplanted. The cease- less change in crowded cities con- stantly brings about the demolition of buildings. The material of which they are eamposed is either sold piecemeal and incorporated in other structures or wholly re -erected on other sites. Large quantities of such stuff are sold for building purposes, though they often prove baa investments. No structure was ever more scat- tered owing to this form of specula- tion, says the Wide World, than old London Bridges which is now dis- tributed all over the south of Eng- land. • Some of the balustrades are round a fountain at Banktower, Sheerness; others are a,t the land end of the pier at Herne Bay; one of the alcoves is a -feature of Vic- toria, Park, in East London; and many of the etones wen.t to build Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, a lord- ly dwelling house which cost a fabu- lous 'sum. Its osvaer said that after he had spent 2100,000' on it he "abandoned the ,attempt to keep the account." Few bits of old London, however, have had stranger adventures than the railings which formerly enclosed the space in front of St. Paul's, and which .cost no leas than 211,200 and originally- weighed 200 tons. These are to -day fragmentarily re- preeented in all parts of the. oivil- ized world. The largest portion was bought by a man for no other reason than that he had; ..when young andpoor, courted his wife near the. cathedral. He consigned his purchase to Americas, where he had made' a for- tune and was then living, With the intention of giving his helpmeet a pleasant surprise. And so he did, though not so soon, nor to such a degree, as he had contemplated. The ship which should have carried She ironwork'safely across the West- ern ocean sankat sea, and only a part of the railings was recovered. That part now surrounds his wife's grave at Toronto. Perhaps the most remarkable scrap of old London out of town is Temple Bar, which 'stands at the entrance to Theobaldts Park, near Whitehall amid the acelamations the people. , To 'the traffie in second hen< building material, are due mani grotesque freaks in bpilcling Stone's, ironwork, °tee, are presset' into 'surfece soxnebow, erhethei they are puitable or not, and the re sults are frequently - amazing. What, for instance, less likely Ix serve as a churchyard gate thanea prison window.? Yet the entrance -- and an odd entrauce it is—to churchyard in Canning Town wat formerly a 'window itt Newgate The biggest orie-man structure itt the country is Stiviehal Church, near Coventry. jamee Green, a native of that city, not only worked the stones used in it, but with the help of a single laborer placed them all in position, and, in fact, con- structed the wholeof it from foun- dation to turrets. How long it took him to aeeomplish the feat is not clear. He is eaid to have beeu engaged on the task for forty years, but the interval which elapsed be- tween the demolition of the ad church and the opening of the pres- eat one vvas only seven years. LORD_PIRRIE. "Respect your parents' eviselom and good advice. At the outset of his eareer a youfig ina,n could not do better than resolve that, by the help of Divine grace, nothing shall enter his life of which his mother would not approve or which would cause her pain," These are maxims which Lord Pirrie, the famous Belfast ship- -builder, advises young men to make the ohief ;cornerstones of their lives. Lord Pirrie considers that he owes most of his success in life to his mother. - Of silver and gold she' had little to give, but she gave him what was raore valuable than either silver or gold in the shape of a little manus- cript book, in -which with loving care she wrote down in simple sen- tences, the love of a lifetime. It was upon the code of laws laid down in this book by his mother that the future Lord Pirrie based his career. The treasured little volume in which his mother wrote down her thoughts and aspirations 515 Lord Pirrie. concerning him has, it is said, never been far from his hand. It has aa- oompanie,d him. on all his voyages. It has lain. snug in his pocket while he has been negotiating deals -with the princes of money and industry on both sides of the Atlantic. With his mother' e maxims in his head, and her inspiring influences behind him at home, young Pirrie soon made his mark. He rose ra- pidly in favor. Be was steady, en- 13- Our daily bread—The suste- ergetie, and pushirrg. He had a mince which our physical needs for head on his shoulders, an observant the day demand. ee-e, and he never spared himself 13. Bring us not into temptation —God does not tempt man to evil (James 3. 13), but he does permit trials to come upon all (Heb. 4.1e). The petition here is for strength -Co overcome the evil one. Many early manuscripts, though with considerable variation, add at this point the words, For thine is the kingdom and the posver and the glory, forever. Amen. 36. When ye fast — Jesus takes for granted the compliance of his followers with many of the custom,- ary religious observances. Of a sad countenance--Hypoeritr- cally so. The Pharisees fasted. twice in the week (Luke 18. 12). Disfigure their faces -- Face and head were left unwashed and un- kempt. indioative of the serious - nese of the mood in which the fast- ing was performed. The whole at- tire of the one thus fasting was in harmony with his facial appear- ance. Their reward—In this case the mere notiee of their fellows, either with or without eommendation, as the ease might be. 17. Anoint thy head—As if for a glad festival. By thtie radically changing the manner in which fast- ing was to be performed, Jesus ac- tually does away with the praetice in its older Jewish form, sinee without tho outward ostentation fading lost its historic character of st public observance and religious f• oil.nal• llity itt. of thy Father s et—Jcsue emphasizes the inomi personal side of religious life, and makes ib clear thab personal reli- gion must be a matter of the inner life. In so tar as it touehes the lives of others and becomes soeial in IHE SUNDAY SCHOOL STIJOY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 2, essoa IX. Hypocrisy and SinCer- ity,.. Matt. 6, I-18. Golden Text, Matt. 6, 1. Verso 1. Take heed—The exhor- tation which follows is a eritieism of Pharasaie religion and an insis- tence upon the necessity of keeping religion free from, ostentation, The lesson passage may be divided into three parts, as follows: Verses 1-4, devoted to _almsgiving; verses 5-15, t,o prayer, and verses 16-18, to fest- bag. Righteousness—Alinsgiving, pray- er, and fasting were conspicuous elements in righteousness as under- stood by the Jews, To be s,make to be ry spectacle to; that make an ostentatious display. The word steed here isethe Greek word from which the word theatre ie deriaed, Jeetts ie warn- ing aga.inst insincere play-acting in religion. • Reward with your Father who is in heaven—This is granted only to thosspeirwith.o are contrite and humble in 2. Sound not a trumpet—There is a Greek phra,se, meaning "to play one's own pipe," which in modern colloquial English has be- come "to blow one's own horn." Hypocrites -- 1,iterally, play -act- ors, or pretenders; that is, those who pose and act upon the stage • before an a,drairine audience. In its nature it must be chastened and both Matthew and Luke this epithet lifted wholly above the plane of is fresinentler applied to the Phari- self-seeking ostentation. by a sense of sacred communion with the Fa- ther. Was SoChokcd Up She Could liardly Breathc -„,e ee see es,„ Bronchitis is an acete inflestimatien of the mucus membrane lining the air tubo of the lungs, aud should never be ne- glected, for if it is very often the disease becomes chronic, toad then it is only short step to cousamption. Oa the first sign of bronchitis Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup should be taken, and thms prevent it becoming chronic. -4 Mr, John D. MacDonald, College Grant, N.S., writes:—"My little girl. seven Years old, caught a bad cold which developed into bronchitis. She was so choked up she could hardly breathe. gading 4.4out youryonderful mediclnet 5r. Woods NotWay Pixie Syrup, decided to Try a bottle, and with such good re, sults that I got another which completely cured her. I cannot say too much in its praise, and woUld not be without it in the house." 0 .2) Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is put up iu. a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price, 2,5 cents. Manufactured only by. The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. sees. , Have received --That is, "infull, They have therefore no further re- cognition or reward to expect. 3. Let not thy left hand knoW-- "Hide your •charity not only from the gaze of others, but from the too frequent recollection of it in your own ecinsciousness." 5. Stand and pray—Standing was the customary posture for prayer. Wherever a man happened to be when the hour for praesar eame, custoin required that he as- sume this' posture. The point Je- sus makes against the Pharisees is that they so arranged their daily routine of work as to be in some conspicuous place. when the hour for prayer arrived, so that all might see, their elaborate devotions. Have received their reward—The recognition or admiration of the populace. 6. Inner chamber—The private place of nrayer. This was usually in the upper part of the house, sometimes being a small room built upon the flat roof. 7. Vain repetitions—The Hebrew Talmud contains this promise, "Everyone that multiplies prayer is heard." Jesus teaches that the Deere naultiplication of the verbal part of prayer is not in keeping with the true spirit of communion with God. • 8. • Your Father - 3r - Some earl mauuseripts read, God your Father. 9. After this manner --The prayer ,which follows is intended to be a model of simplicity, directness, and brevity. A slightly variant pa,rallel is found in Luke 11. 2-4. In heaven—Literally, in the hea- vens. This was a common introduc- tion to Jewish prayer, intended to express the thought that the place of God's abode was invisible. Hallowed—Considered ever sac- red. 10, Thy kingdom—Compare in- . troductory paragraphs to this and the following lesson. Removed from its oei- when work had to be done. By de- Cheshunt. Regrees he was trusted with more im- ginal site in 1879aail la -y ill a heap portant work. When he was hardly disentegrated till 1887, when it was out of his teens he was sent off to given to 'Sir H. B. Meux, who set it sea, to learn the miseries and clis- up anew on its present site h year. is comforts of -sea-travel as they then later. Very eurious, however, existed. And what he hacl to do She gateway of Dyrhana Park, South' when he came back was to take 1VIirams, since it bears- witness that noteof his difficulties and priva- trensplanting London ,structures'in ti the country has. been ,.going on for "s s6 triatinl, 'and so 41'1 -Trove his centuries. It originally played the ' master's ships that these discern - part of a, triumphal arch at the re- fots and disabilities should be storation wheu Charles IL. enter , ed remedied. etarvrammrrre A WEAK ACIlliG BACK Caused Her Much Misery. Ws. W. R. Hodge Vielding, Sask., writes:--" A few lines highly recommend- ing Doan's Kidney Pills. •For this last year I have been troubled very much 'with nasty sick headaches, and a weak selling back, which caused me much taisery, for I could not work, and had no ambition for anything. My kidneys were ray badly out of order, and kept me frons. sleeping at nights. • I tried many kinns of pills and medicines, but it seemed almost in vain. I began to give up in despoir of e.ver being well and strong again, when a kind neighbor advised me to try Doan's Kidney Pills, which I did, and am thankful for the relief I obtained from them, for now I am neVer troubled with a sore back or siek headaches. "I will always say Doan's Kidney Pills for mine and can highly recommend them to any sufferer." • :- Price, 50 cents per box, or 3 boxes for $1.25, at all defilers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The 1"...MilburnSo.„ Limited, Toronto, Out. When Ordering &act specify "Doan's." MUST HAVE BEEN COLD. Two mon were disputing as to which had experienced the great- est cold in winter. Said one :—"In the part of Iceland where I was last summer the ground is frozen so hard all the year, round that when they want to bury a man they just sharpen his feet and drive him in with a pile hammer." The other replied :--"Yes, I know that place. Didn't stay there long --found it not bracing enough for me. Went on to a mall town further north. Tha hotel where I was staying caught fire. My room was on the top storey. Staircases burned away. Luckily kept my presence of mind. Emptied my bath out of the window and slid down the iciele." s HOME EVERY EVENING. Husband—I know a man who has heen married a good many years, and • he • spends every evening at liome. Wife -4 Suppose yea will admit that it's love? Husband—Can't. paralysis. e. APPALLING STATISTICS.- German School Discinline Cause of Hundreds of Suicides. Dr. Reinhold Koerner, a, well- known authority on pedagogy, has startled Germany by publishing • some appalling statistics of child suicides, 'showing how they are erowine in number from year to year. • e " Cominon top, of a work on the e same eubject by Prof. Eulenburg and of an enquiry into school life her Dr. Alfred Graf, of Nurnberg, Koerner's revelations have made a sensation and there is fierce criti- cisra of dermal). school and domestic Last year in. Prussia alone '731 pu- pils or students at educational es- tablishments took their lives. That is alinost exactly two day. The figures for the whole Empire num- ber over 1,000. That is at the rate of 8 suicides per 100,000 children oE school age. In 1883, the proportion was 6% per 10Q,000. Dr. Koerner's analysis shows that 31 out of 100 child suicides are traced to troubles connected with schooling; that 35 are due to faraily or personal reasons, while the cau,ses of the remainder are vague or unknown. Prof. Eulenburg publishes an in- quiry into 1,215 recent cases of 'school, ',suicides. Of these 473, or 3'T per cent., were, caused by fear of punishment, or fear of not passing examinations. At least a third, says Eulenburg, must be put down to the school system. The critics of the school ,system allege too much work, too little play, too official relations between teachers and 'scholars, and the leek of a rnoral. influence in. the school. Owing to these factors, trilling troubles which would 'cause' no ill in England or America, lead in Germany to suicide. Thus a boy, after receiving a slight, box on the ear, made for the nearest window and threw himself into the street, EIGHT DROWNED IN POTO.MAC Exeursion 'Vessel Runs Down Motor Launch Near Washing,ton. A despatch from Washington, says: Eight persone, two of them women and two girls, were drowned 'When the excursion boat Angler ran down a gasoline launch in the Pcitomac off Alexandria oni Sunday evening. THE POOR DYSPEPTIC Suffers Untold Agony -After Every Meal. Nearly everything that enters a weak, dyspeptic stomach acts as an irritant; hence the diffictilty of effecting a cure, Burdock Blood Bitters will relieve all the distressing symptoms of dyspepsia and in a short time effect a curt. Mrs, F. C. 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