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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-8-23, Page 3•"="-.—„ p_ . 411:1-0Q-0a043-oo4e0oocr YOUNG FOLKS paoo-ooq oaoa000-o-o•oaoaaop WILLIAM'S POST CARD, It was a lithe town. .Theodore and Dorothy and Lhrlr little mother had come 'to it because We air was dry and smelled of pines, arid all last summer nt rho $hore Dorothy hall had hay fe- ver. The morning wos very warm. Theo- dore and Dorothy had been to the store with William --you slim! hear about William soon -and now sat ata table 1n the arbor, with a pile of postcards and their paint boxes beside them, You could buy only three kinds el picture post cards at the store -Alewife Brook, Round Top Mountain, and the Town hall -and these were nut colored, but It was just as well, Inc IL was such fun to color them yourself. The children had done Round Top Mouutain in pale green for spring, and darker green for summer, and in differ- ent shades of red and yellow for autumn, Now Dorothy was doing Alewife Brook In summer, and Theodore was painting the Town n Hall. William sat between them, watching a part of the Unto, and part of the time looking mad the ad at the small white house which was his home. His mother had told him that very morning they would have to sell it. It had looked strange and different, somehow, - since. He tried not to think of selling it, and turned back to the pictures. He had lived In Lha title white house ever since he was born. "When I get this finished" -Dorothy spoke very thoughtfully, for_ she was trying to put the blue on the brook with- out spreading it over the edges of the stories -"wouldn't you like to do -one, William?" "I don't believe I could do it well enough," William euid. "Ole yes, you could. It's easy." William was a very nice boy. He was fourteen -almost grown up that seemed to Theodore and Dorothy. He had taken them up Round Top Moun- tain, and over to the ledges, and out on the cove in the boat. Almose every day he took them somewhere. And he was very careful, so that their mo- ther could trust him, and they had beau- tiful times. They couldn't have had nearly such good times without William. \Vhen Dorothy had finished she got up from her chadr. "There now you can take my place," she said. "And you must choose whichever card you like best, and whether you would rather lave it spring or summer or autumn," William drew -hack a little. "I'm afraid i'll spoil it," he said. But Dorothy told him that she was sure he would not, and spread the cards out on the table; and William chose the same picture that Dorothy had just been painting -Alewife Brook --only he de- cided to color his light green for spring. Dorothy rubbed some fresh paint on the plate for him, and showed him how to begin. "i think you do it very nicely, Wil- ltanl;" she said, after she had watched him for several minutes. "Isn't it fun! Theodore and I would 111ce to paint all the m lime if we didn't have to go to like totoschool?" school, Do ou l e go Y William held his card up before him and looked at it. "0 yes," he said. "But I'm not going any more." Theodore and Dorothy both looked up with puzzled faces. "1I you like to go, I should think you would go," Dorothy Said. "1'm going to work." William straightened back his shoal dors and tried to make his voice sound like a man's. Nobody would have guess- ed that he had cried that morning, es be came through the woods, because lie could not go to school the next term. Not even his mother. knew that, for he had not shed a tear when she told him, but had said that he thought a big boy like him aught to go to work. That afternoon Theodore and Doro- thy wrote the addresses and put the stamps on the post Dards, for they were going to send them all away. Theo- dore had nine, and Dorothy eight, be- cause she had given William the one - he had colored. When they had fin- ished they took them to the post ofi}ce, William went with them, and dropped his in the box, too. And wesn'e Dorothy glad afterward, that she had given William the post card! And wasn't William glad that he had sent it away instead of putting 11 bra his scrap -boob, as he had thought of agoing! For something very-plea- snni happened. Ono afternoon, just a wrote later, Theodore and Dorothy came running in - Lo the arbor, where their mother sat sewing. They were both out of breath, and their eyes were shining. "Guess who is at William's house!" cried. Dorothy. "Yes. Guess who is at William's house!" repeated Theodore. And then they both said together, "William's uncle!" "And he hasn't been here for years and years!" said Dorothy. "He acid that when he got the pic- ture of Alewife Broolc, that William sent him, it ]rade him want to come," said Theodore. "ile used to go fishing there," added Dorothy. "And he's bought the lhonsel" said Theodore. "And he says William can go le, sohooll" said Dorothy. And then they both ran back to Wil- liam's house to tell him again how glad they were, and that mother had said yes when they had asked her about the walk over the ledges that afternoon. SHOWER OF FISHES, A remarkable phenomenon of a rec- ant thunderstorm wee seen hi the State of Queensland. In the midst of the rain there suddenly tell from the skies e large number of young flsh. The fish fell at first in twos and threes, but sub- sequently came in dozens, until a large area of grouncl was strewn with live fish measuring from :1 % hMoile5 to 8 Inch- es, It is -thought that Use storm goner rated a waterspbue in one 0f the rivers,, sad that the 11811 were sucked upeby 11 and herded by the tiiytd some long dts- tglte-eefore lfeing• theletped. GREAT BENEFIT SOCIETY TILE HUMBLE ORIGIN OF "'TUli HEARTS OF OAK." Has Grown Into an Organization With a Membership of Three hun- dred Thousand. In a room over the Bird in Hand, a small public house in London's hong Acre, twelve men mot ono night in July, sixty-four years ago. They were sturdy British working men, and had as leader, John Hadley, e. carpenter. The men formed themselves into a sick benefit club. -that is, a society from which any one of them could draw phoney in case of illness, They called it "Hearts of Oak," that was the general term of the period for the British sailor. Arnold in his "Death of Nelson" im- mortalized the term : "Our ships aro British oak, And hearts of oak our men." The dozen men pledged themselves to enrol es many friends as possible, The room over m ov r LhoP ublic house was rented for one night each week,by and the time a year had rolled along the mem- bership of a dozen had grown to one of one hundred' andfifty-four, a re- n ur and Y serve fund of nearly $900 had been es- tablished. To -day "hearts of Oak" has three hundred thousand members, and the reserve fund Is over $16,000.000. The annual Income Is over $8,700,000, and 85,600 is paid out 1n stele and other benefits every working day of the year. This phenomenal growth and success has, however, not, been reached without much hard work, much hard fighting, strife and turmoil, and the assistance of at least two men with big brains and great. executive powers. One of these was Evan Evans, a Welsh artisan, and the most hated man in the annals of the society. The other was Thomas Mar- shall, nephew of the Marshall famous In the history of the Bank of England, and unquestionably the man most loved and revered by "The Hearts of Oak." Both are now dead, but their memories still live. A SOCIETY OF WORKMEN. Evans joined the society two years after Its Inception. He had a master mind and Boon grasped the possibili- ties of such an organization. He quickly ousted the originator, John Hadley, and became secretary. In England it is the secretary who holds the reins of gen- eral manager, not the president. It was he who threw aside the local environ- ment idea and said, "We will take in the British workman. throughout Bri- tain." He did. Advertisements were inserted In provincial, Welsh, h•ish and Scottish papers, setting forth the bene- fits of the society and members flocked to its standard. Evans rented the room over the public house by the year and soon afterward the remainder of the house. Hero he brought the member- ship up to 0.000. The old rules of the little local stele benefit club proved entirely inadequate to the needs of what was now a big national society, so Evans became a Czar,i iown committee ofelected his c omm tt management,emenL and ruled with a strong hand. Fqr ten years all went well, but in 1854 the storm broke„ the members revolted and the next ten years were ones of storm and stress indeed. For nine years Evans refused to pall a gen- eral meeting of the society, and, more- over, allowed no member access to the books. 13y 1802 the society had risen to a membership of ten thousand, and the offices were much too small to Iran - soot the business. So Evans bought a four -storied building In Greek Street, Soho. It had also a very commodious basement. To this building the society was removed. It was its first "own home," and was a splendid move, for In the eleven yea's' occupancy, the mem- bership grew seven -fold. HOW EVANS WAS OUSTED. There is no success without a revolu- tion. The history of the nations of the world has proved this. And so with the "Hearts of Oak." In 1805 a great Re- form Committee was elected, and the courts appealed to. Evans was forced to produce the books, and the commit- tee, thus getting at the membership list, sett out a call for a general meet- ing. This was a huge success for the Reformers. Twenty -charges were brought against Evans, and he was ousted. Thomas Marshall was elected In his place, and for the next twenty- six years devoted himself night and day to the work of the society. Ho was said tic; have never married, and died in har- ness, expiring shortly after a committee meeting. Under his management, the society soon became the leading'work- ing-class organization of England. He created new rules, new departments, and, building on the magnificent groundwork of Evan Evans, he brought the membership up by leaps and bounds to nearly a quarter of a million before death took him so suddenly. KING OPENS NEW PREMISES. In 1872, the Greek Street premises were found too small, and a bloclt of houses in Charlotte Sheet, Fitzroy Square, was purchased and recon- structed. All this cost about $100,000. The membea>shlp, when the new build- ing was tlnally occupied in 1875, had reached Rely thousand. In the next ten years it jumped to over a htmdred and fifty thousand, and in 1003 tuns 295,000, and again the premises were found too small, So a net- Site was purchased on the Euston Road, a block in depth, and the society started in to build its own home. Quite reoently, Ring Edward, accompanied by Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria, opened the new build- ing with all trio glory that the scarlet and gold of royalty and military pan show. All London lined the streets es royalty went from Buckingham Palace to honor the British working man, and thousands upon thousands jammed the streets surrounding the 'now building, Later, the famous Guildhall glittered with brilliancy when the Lord Mayor and Civic grandees gave a mammoth banquet to oelebralo the occasion, Princes, generals, admirals, u3blemon,- distingulshed prelates -and prdless]onal men gathered to laud the "hearts of Oak," and the British worlcing man. And thus is briefly slcetohed the history of the best and premier or'gailieetlon 01 the sons of toil of England. HOW BENEFITS ARE APPORTIONED. The benefits received be, the members of the society nowadays are not merely the sick benefit originally planned. The members pay en entrance lee of sixty cents, and a doctor's examination fee •1 fifty cents, and then quarterly dues of $2.25. lie must be between the ages of eighteen and thirty when he joins, and his wages must be not less than $5 per week. The sick benefit is 84,50 per week for twenty-six weeks, and then. half -pay for another twenty-six weeks. If more or less permanently sick, the member would bo put on the payroll at a suns dependent upon his years of membership. On the death of o mem- ber, $100 is paid to his family for his funeral, and if married, $40 is given to ►his wife. Should his wife die, the society provides $50 for the funeral. For the Illness attending a wife's con- finement, the member is allowed $7.50. The society is affiliated with forty-six convalescent and seaside homes of all descriptions and denominations, and the convalescing member can go to any- one he choose., for two or three weeks tired, and have his travelling expenses provided. In case of fire, and his tools ort e her necessaries arethe destroyed, yc , society reimburses lb. member to $75. Membersw 1 1 0 lose LheSrj obs and whose families are in want or who find the bailiff knocking at their doors with a distress warrant, may apply for help, and it 1s given quickly, and the case thoroughly investigated afterward and more permanent help given, When an affluent member wants ,to buy or build a housa, he can borrow 90 per cent. of Its value from the society at 4% per cent. for leasehold, and 4 per cent. for freehold property. When the working man becomes too old and infirm to work, he gets practically an old -age pension in the form of permanent sick benefit pay. IS RUN ECONOMICALLY. The members' children are also taken care of, for they can join the juvenile department, from six years of age to nineteen, at a cost of from twenty -live cents to a dollar per quarter. Should a member reside permanently In the Bri- tish colonies, the United States, or any foreign country, he loses his sick bene- fits, but is entitled to the funeral and some of the other benefits. One of the marvellous facts con- nected with the society is that it is run on a more economical basis than any government or largo institution of the kind anywhere. The expenses of man- agement are considerably under 5 per cent. of the income. There are no branches or agents whalsoever. Every- thing is centralized under one roof in London. Yet the membership is scat- tered all over the British Isles. The society has a list of doctors in every locality who have agreed ,to examine applicants on the society's behalf. Except for this, all work is attended to by the secretary and his staff of two hundred, which is divided into many departments. The secretary is Charles W. Barnes, and he has for private secretary, S. I-1. Godfrey, the English- man from Devonshire, who, in April last captured the championship of the stenogra- phy. l ra- at Baltimore, Md. In eno world g h . The society is overend bya p t' s c y g board of delegates, one from each of 220 geographical districts. One delegate is elected annually by the members of his district. The society has 16s own postomlce and members of its staff have been appointed sub -postmaster and postal clerks by the Government. HAS DISBURSED $40,000,000. The society has over 10,000 letters a day and a million and a half money orders a year. To date It has disbursed over forty million dollars, of which over $27.500,000 have been for sick benefits : alone. In Its new building, it is truly "Hearts of Oak," for all the wood used is oak. The (Aloes are panelled half way to the ceiling with beautiful solid and massive oak, and the heavy furniture was specially made all of British oak The keynote of the society is "s]m- plicity." It is a simple matter to get into the society, simply to pay the, dues, to apply for the benefits, and simply to get thein. There is no red tape, no monstrous delays. It is only a plain working Man's society, run for thele simp3J' and successfully. SAFETY FOR CHILDREN. Liquid medicines advertised to cure stomach and bowel disorders and sutn- mer complaints contain opiates and are dangerous, When a mother gives Baby's Own Tablets to her little ons she has the guarantee of a Government analyst that this medicine does not con- tain one particle of opiate or harmful drug. The prudent mother will appre- ciate that In Baby's Own Tablets there le absolute safety. An occasional acme to the well child will keep it well -ani they promptly cure the minor ailments of childhood when they come unexpect- edly. Mrs. G. Hamlin, St. Adolphe, Que., says: "1 have used Baby's Own Tablets for colic and bowel troubles and find them safe and speedy in their euro." Sold by medicine dealers ar by mail at 21 cents a -box from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Keep the Tablets in the house. WINDFALL FOR A VILLAGE. The little French village of Dampierrc, in the Marne, has just received a "windfall" which is probably a record, in the sense that 1t may be doubted 11 ever before a legacy so, large wee left to a place so small. The place contains 212 inhabitants, all told, and the amount of the bequest is $500,000 The testator was M. Chartrain, a well-known Paris barrister, who Was a native cl Dampicrr•e. The bequest is for the foun- dation of a hospital, of a home for the aged, and of scholarships for pupils anti students. John had accidently upset a 'dish of stewed prunes, "isn't that lucky?" hr exelninied, "What do yell mean by its lining lucky 7" asked his mother, who S ' would hardly have described it, in thin way, "Why, it's ]holey I don't like prunes," explained:SCAM, THE PHONOGRAPH'S USES HAS DETECTED CRIME AND SIGNED PEACE TREATIES, And Has Proved a Powerful Fader in the Advancement of Civilization and Science, The value of the phonograph for ex- ploring purposes scorns somewhat fan- tastic, yet Colonel Colin Harding with- out lis assistance would never have accompliehed his recent remarkable exploration of the wild interior el Ilarolseland and the discovery of the source of tate mighty Zambesi River, which heretofore has remained as un- fathomable as the Sphinx. The journey lay through a wild country peopled only by blacks, who would probably have resented the progress of the white man's party, King Lewanika, however', was entirely favorable to the expedi- tion, but the difficulty was to transmit his feelings to the thousands of sub- jects In the remote corners of hls dominions. The phonograph was brought Into requisition. The Barotse Sovereign personally uttered his com- mands om- m n s a d Into the instrument, and in this. way records were obtained in which theonar m ch exhorted a1l his subjects e J to assist Colonel Harding IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. Armed with these records, the ex- plorer set out upon his hazardous jour- ney. As he 'penetrated into the country the native chiefs displayed unmistak- able signs of hostility. On such occa- sions the Colonel shnply set the phono- graph in action, and the unsophisto- caled natives were almost prostrated by terror when they heard the tones of their august monarch proceed from what they termed the "speaking iron," They looked at the instrument in awe and with gaping mouths, expecting every moment to behold the form or spirit of Lewanika to issue from the "witch -thing." When they had heard the Royal commands they were very obeisant, and proffered their advice and assistance with the utmost prodigality. In this way Colonel Harding travelled over 8,000 miles without the slightest molestation, and never had to use his rifle on 0 single occasion in self-defence against the blacks. The American Governenent also owes a great debt of gratitude to Mr. Edison's invention, since it enabled them to add to their colonial possessions without recourse to bloodshed. South of the Philippine Islands lies a group of smaller islands, THE LARGEST OF WHICH IS JOLO, and they possess a total population of 1,500,000 souls. \Vhen the United States Government proceeded to annex the Islands the natives rose up in open 1 rebellion, and a battleship was dis- patched to the spot with the object of overawing the recalcitrants and sub- duing them. Trouble was anticipated, but by dint of great persuasion General Bates, in charge of the punitive expedi- tion, at last induced the Sultan to visit the battleship in company with his was In the ruling mother, who reality spirit. While sealed in the Captains saloon one of the officers produced a phonograph to amuse them. The result was electric, for the visitors were struck dumb with astonishment. Not a sound was uttered, and, rea- lizing the situation, General Bates pro- duced the treaty for the Sultan's signa- ture, The phonograph was slopped and the document laid before the dusky ruler. But the Solo monarch immediate- ly became sullen and turned a deaf ear to the General's blandishments. The mother, too, supported her son In his action. At last, however, after much parleying, the dame consented to per- mit the Sultan 10 sign the treaty on condition that the phonograph was pre- sented to them in exchange. Fortun- ately the oflicer consented to dispose rf leis. talicing-machine in the interests of h1"8 country, and the delighted Sultan at once effixed his signature to the treaty end depapted with tiro coveted instru- ment, congratulating himself on having made a great bargain, AN INGENIOUS FRAUD was recently perpetrated in Iiungary, wherein a phonograph was utilized for the forging of a will. According to the Hungarian law a verbal statement uttered by the testator an the point of death in t10 presence of witnesses con- stitutes a valid will. Profting by the knowledge of this fact, Alois Szabo, of Szegedin, when his lather was lying on the point of death, suddenly summoned all the servants of the residence to the sick bed, whence they heard a voice proceeding, by which the testator left all his property to his eldest son, Alois, entirely and absolutely. The rest al the family disputed this pronouncement subsequently in the courts, but Lhc judge upheld the will, Recently, however, the police gleaned information that lite volae which had apparently uttered the teslating words were not. that of the father, but that the son had cleverly prepared a phone, graphic record, which he had cunning- ly placed on 0 machine beneath the bed, so that the sounds apparently issued from the lips of the unconscious man, 'rho authorities promptly raided the son's house, and after a diligent search discovered the record. The son was then arraigned on the charge of leftist, the record offering the most in- criminating evidence. 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"lle's done It with his drink an' his fist ! lie's dr•unic now, ton. The minute she died he 0en0 an' Luk the clothes off the baby en' put 'em up the spout l" -the local slang for pawning them. Miss Booth, following her visitor, went to a cellar, where she found near the body of the mother two children, ton young to talk much, curled up to- gether on the damp floor. Site took them immediately to her own room, bathed and fed them and put them to bed. Three nights afterwards came the father still intoxicated. His amiable plan, as he announced it, was to wring 1a11ss Booth's neck. Miss Booth told him flrmly that he could not have his babies, but that tie might look at them if ho wished. She then ed I'.her room andslowed I um to t him his babies, their hair room, their faces rosy and clean, curled up in bed, exert i tit • fife"nighties,"lilts dr n little tit two angels, or two ordinary happlittle c0es. The man continued to be abusive for a time; then the word's came more slowly. Finally he stopped short, and then burst into leans -not maudlin tears of drunken men this time, but tears mark- ing the shock of an awakening man- hood. "Are them my kiddies?" he asked, finally, In a subdued voice. bliss Booth finished her story by the simple statement -"He never drank again." They Advertise Themselves. -Immedi- ately they were offered to the public Parmelee's Vegetable Pills became po- pular because of the good report they made for themselves. That reputation has grown, and they now rank among the first medicines for use in attacks of dyspepsia and biliousness, complaints of the liver and kidneys, rheumatism, fever and ague and the innumerable complications to which these ailments give rise. Mr. Ghout : "All my money cannot give the health, doctor l" Dr. Bolus: "No, perhaps nol; but it is of inestim- able value, nevertheless. It gives your physician great confidence." 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