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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-5-7, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS "How nnienc lecher is a man than 8 sheepl" is 8 perfectly rate:eat eseluma• !ton, taken from scripture, but from un - Other point of 'view it would not be 8U - surd to exclaim: "Mow much better is sheep than a man!' That is to say, the lower animals, In some things have Ile advantage of men, They have bete ((1 health, ,totter ,physical organs and ,, !greater lreed'am from meatal worry, if dhe hardest worked horse could bo transformed for a single day into a hard -worked business than, with a per- fect memory of his horse life, he would no doubt regard it as a ruinous ex- change, xchange, Tho reason of it Is that the tower animals lend a porfeatly objec- tive existence. So far as can be learn- ed from thee, notions they aro Incapable gf refleetlon and least of •alt of self-con- sciousness, It is Incredible that a horse, far instance, aver reflects that he is a .horse and ono particular horse, He never ruminates on les' past or his fui- t wa, on his r1Chts or his ,wrongs, on his advannlgee or disadvantages. He iooles outward all the time and never f award, This objectit'e life of the horse is what gives him such a tine appetite, such army sleep, such steady nerves and such firma and powerful muscles, If be spent as much tine thinking about him- self as men do he would not emerge from his stall in the morning refreshed end invigorated as at present, but a fired and dejected animal, without one. half of bis present working power. This 3s a world of compensations, awl if the lower animals are dented human entolligence they are exempt from the ,greatest of human sufferings. Now it is not possible nor desirable that a man should practice as litre intros -pec - ton as a sheep, but the peace of mind :and the physical health which a sheep enjoys ought to teach a man to think teas about himself and to lead as much es possible an objective life- Most buena beings think about themselves nine -tenses of the time, and the effect en their health and happiness is fax snore destructive than hunger, cold or severe ,physical pain for the. same length of time. The beautiful season Is now at hand which encourages a man to live outside of himself. In the dreary winter there Qs nothtng to look at or listen to, but now it is something like an ecstasy. to sec the sun .rise, to listen to the warb- ling of the first birds, to watch the first buds ,and hope for the first flower, and to watch the antics of the overjoyed ehhidren at their play. hien and wo- ,men ought to drop the cares of the shop and the home, put on their best elolhes, take a long stroll and forget for a few hours, anyway, their own be - Ing. For one sweet morning or after- noon they ought to live the life of sheep and horses and delight in the glories of nature without the slightest discount .on account c1 their own being and identity. Their superior intelligence makes it .possible for them to extract more pl-asure (ram the ob;ect_ve life than the lower animals even. Away' then and take a glad day oft. GALLANT RESCUE. Brave Sailor Who Rescued Another From a Shark -Infested River. The Royal Humane Society of Great Britain has presented the Stanhope med- al for the best rescue of this year to William H. Parr, for the following gal. lent action: A boat with James Moore, A. B., and some thirty naives on board was swamped in trying to reach the steam- ship Illovo, of the Aberdeen Direct Line, then at anchor in the Inhambane River, East Africa. Instantly the frantic natives clutched Moore, dragging him under the water. Parr, observing this from the ship, and knowing the extreme danger from the numerous sharks which infest tate river, sprang oveieloard. After liberating Moore from the struggling natives, Parr swain away with him, but owing in the strong tide it was impossible to reach the ship. A boat was lowered and the men were picked up, after being 20 minutes in the water and drifting half a mile. HOW OLD IS NIAGARA? This question, always interesting for the light it throws on the past history of the earth, has had many answers. The latest is that of Dr. J. W. Spencer, who, from recent studies on the spot, ,finds that the mean rate of recession et the falls et present is 4.2 feet per year, and that ties has been the rate for approximately 227 years, But ow- ing to the fact that originally the waters of Lake Erie only were discharged over the ions,giving but oneelftecnth of the g g c present water -supply; Ilk rate of reces- son was at first men slower. A sud- den widening of the gorge above Fos- •ter's Fent indicates the position of the falls when the other Greet Lalcos be- gan to discharge into Lake We, From lei data, Doctor Spencer calculates the entre ego cif '(h0 falls al 39,000 years, The cutting, with the full power of the tour lakes, is estimated to have lasted 3,500 years. SITE ] NEW. "Miss Sharpe-er-Vera," he 9tommer• ed, "you must know why I've been pall Mg hexa so much; why, I alt Ilene in the peeler with you night after right--" "I suppose Mr, Klosemen," the girl in- terrupted, ti's cheaper to do that than take eso shut anywhere," LIFE GREATER THAN DEATH All Bise May Be Lost, But the Fullness and Beauty of Life Is Yet to Be. ':Sorrow nal, as otters which have no hope,' -I, Thess, he, 12, earth swings around to the sun again; the flowers senile at us once more; .the winter is past and gone; as surely as the seasons have grate down Into their cold grave so surely have they come up again in newness of life. And our hearts answer to the gladness of tit) resurrection of nature and hope yet more clearly Bat' the springtlde of the soul's new year. Death drops a veil that we cannot lift. We ask what lies beyond, but none of all our irionds return to an- swer us. Yet the silence of all the cen- turies has not stilled our questiontngs, and with faith as deep and hope as strong as earth's earliest singers wo look beyond dearth's shadows end frust that there is light; we reach out the arms of love and believe that though we may not see their faces our affections t'e'ach them. - The inquiry es lo wlint may lie beyond the grave is not merely en academie one; it affects most profoundly and prac- tically this present, The lee we now live is a terrible mockery if It be all the life for which we may look. Seen by itself every life in many respects Is an enigma and THE FUTURE HOLDS ITS KEY. The pulse of life beats too strong in us all to allow us. to believe that these few days of preparation, this period of learning to Live, tells all life's story, is the aim. and sole purpose of alt this In- vestment of time and tears. Are wo to believe that life's ending Is in its be- ginnings, that infinite wisdom has or- dered such a universe to bring out no more than this fragment of being? The deeper wo read into nature's great book the more clearly Ls it seen to be written that law reigns every- where, that nothing is without purpose and worthy end, that chance and fate have no part In the ordering of the larger movements of life. Then reading the significance of the orderly working of these laws we learn that, whatever Ivo may think of their final cause, here 1s inflriile wisdom and love of work. Nothing is lost; nothing strives in vain; nothing suffers In vain; neither the stars in thole courses nor the child In his play do their hart without, purr Pose; no seed is sown but for some fruitage; no suffering conies in nature's course m' our experience but for some strength and sweetness not otherwise le be had, And shall all this life of ours be an exception to Ihts law; shall these days be in vain; shall experience ripen to bear no fruitage; shall wisdom be gar- nered foe so short an enrichtng; shall pain be borne and no days of power tad peace follow; shall life be lived and its lessons learned only when we are ready for the next school, 'to hear the mocking voices: "There is nothing be- yond for man." EVERY UNFULFILLED LONGING; every only partially developed power of which we are conscious; everyspark of ambition to make lite worthy; every natural longing for completeness cries out against such a concept'on. There, is .planted in us a pas, Son for living that death cannot crush; even when Its hand is upon us we look for more 1110 and pass into the darkness believing we step toward the dawn. There is not a blade of grass or a wayside flower but chords with our hearts in this hope and tells us that life is greater than death. As spring returns, the reason for the winter ap- pears. Nature seems to come back to life again; every swelling bud and springing leaf and radiant flower de- clares that doaths dominion is but for a season. All our tombs are set in gordens, gar- dens where hope blooms and na fiow'- ora die. Our ears may hear the fal- ling clod; but faith sees the breairing sad, the returning life, and bads our hearts defy death, live the -life that is far mere than a day, and seek the life that shall know Its fullness soma day. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 10. Lesson VI. .The MIssilsn of the Holy Spir{t. Golden Text, John 14. 16. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the text of the Revised Version.) Farewell Discourses Concluded. - It was nearly midnight when the little company left the upper chamber and proceeded slowly through the streets of the city W the eastern gate, and out across the Kidron to a secluded garden en the slope of Olivet. On -the way, Jesus continues the discourse begun be- fore leaving the supper chamber. The prospect of soon'being sepa'raled• from Inc disciples leads him to call their at- tention in a still more impressive and memorable way to the necessity of their being intimately united with him in a spiritual sense. This he chooses to il- lustrate by the use of the :beautiful fig- ure of the vine and it branches, in subsequent verses of ibis chapter he points out that the disciples' bond of union both with Jesue and with one Another is the bond of love, and near the end of his prolonged discourse he again calls attention to the comie.g of the promised Comforter and at his tune - eon as one who will reveal to them more fully the things of Christ. The dtsoourse closes with a reference to the great joy which is to follow the sorrow to which for a little while they arts to be subjected, and, with an added final warning and promise. The high -priest- ly prayer oontalned'in chapter 17 be- longs with. this closing discourse of Jesus, a continuation of which forms the text of our present lre°o.n. Verso 26.• Corn torlor-Or. "sdvadate"; oil', "helper," as In the preceding les- son. Whom I will send -The pronoun "I' is emphatic, and strikingly emphasizes the divine consetnusn•eses of Jesus, Proceedeth from -Or, "vette forth from," 27. Ye •else bear witness --Or, "bear ye also witness." The verb in the ore g;nal may be translated eerier as the indicative or the lmpera1ive. The tes- timony of the disciples le placed with that of the "Spirit of truth,' who in reality ottea wiineeses: thlrough them, inepiring their testimony. Prom the beginning -the beginning ed Christ's ministry. 1. That ye should not he caused to etre:l le -In. th0 coming days of perse- cuton, when culled. upon to hear tes- timony to Christ under trying circum• stances. 2. They shall put you out of the syna- gogues -An act of eocl:eslasttcel dis- lranchl,ement, which barred from par- ticipation In the riles and ceremonies of the eslebl.ished Jewish sanctuaries, Think that he offerelh service unto Gild -As in the case of Paul, whose persocullon elf the Christian was prompted by his zeal for the Jetvish tants. • 4 May remember them, how that I 1ni11 you -The rocellceAton that Jesus himself had foretold the things lvhich were to same uport them would sustain them lei the time of great heal and per, These 'thfngs 1 said not Mile you front the beginning -Ho had foretold coming pereettelons earlier to his ossoola'ilon with therm (compare Malt. 10. 10-39; (.utce 6. 22), but now he adds to this .redaction of persecution the promise of the Comforter, whom he hnnsdf will send to than Orom the Father. 5.Wltither goest thou -Peter had,,, tit is true, asked. this very question, but not in tate sense or spirit in which .focus had spoken of rids going away. Now that Inlet sense had been made clear to tlhem by the Master's reference •to the higher and more glorious state of being ea which he west about to enter, the great sorrow that had at first filled their hearts at the thought of his pasting from them is somewhat lightened. 7. It to expedient for you -To your best interests and for year ltrghe.i'aw•olt.- being. 8. Convict the world -Convince men my vindioa•l•Ing Chrest's cause to their conscience. This conviction of the truth, however, docs not necrssaa•ily imply obedience on the part of those who shall be thus convinced. In respect of sin, and of rilghteoaie. ness a-nd• of Judgment By bringing theca into. sharper con't'rast with each other, and thus revealing their deeper reality and significance. 10. Of rlghtoouisness, because I go to the Father -The completed work of re, drsnpt c'n. wrought by Jesus would af- ter itis death and resurrection under the teaching of the Spirit. reveal his obedience and self-sacrifice let have been an example of perfect righteous, ne58. 11. Of judgment, because the pnlnce of Ilies world hath been Judged - The vlctei:y of la-tth In Christ wee to prove to be the overthrow of Satan's Idng- dom en the world. 12, Yet many trin'gs-Concerning aoth the dtmyulttes acid the glorious achievements an the work soon, in be itntrueted to their hands, neither of which they could et this time have un- derstood or appreciated. 13, into all the truth -Or, "wholly ileo the truth.' The great mission of the holy Sph•It to the individual heart and llto is Qo lav' erpret the deep mean. Ing of Christian discipleship. and to snake possible a turtear appre:clatliols of r14ritua1 realities. Declare unto you the things titer are to rano-Not in the sense cif prophetic filuminatr�n of future events, but In the sense al enabl:ing 'them to rightly understand the purpose and meaning of successive present experiences, as (hese .ehall come to them. 15. Whatsoever the Fater Ivaulh,-The ,relat.ton between the F,allh Flee the San. end the Holy Spirit is set forth by Jesus as being a constant and present relation of equality and co-operation. 111. Perceived that they were des)rons to asks Inim---Rightly i,nterprclIng their look of questioning ,end expeencelon. 20. Your sorrow shall be tinned into joy -.The sulsitance of his message at ties ra:hrt he his conversation. 222. Yo 'therefore now hem sorroav- Be0ause of •the impending :seperalion and loss. 23. in that day ye s1ka11 est( nine no question -Or, "aisle sae nothing," 'Their future communion with their L'.rcl is tic 'be a spirituel communion, yet their poliIlons In prayer are not to be ni 1e to .hhm directly, bit el the Fawner, in ben. name. 24. Hitherto have yo easlced nothing In ley name -As devout believers in le- hovel, they tact led a life et prayer, Jesus himself having by !hila teaching enlarged thele oanceptlon, of prayer; but up to this nano it wn.s his personal tnazltming end exempla, rad,her than the thought of line infinttodivtne power and essoobattcn with the' Father, wh.leh had LntueneoeJ their prayer ll'fe. Prom lhisl SENTENCE SERMONS. it they t The oflecltte• Ore never affected, ms thou neprau.rtWtttvc with ,tete leather, Out' lives .are made by the love we lose. Cn whys: mute •their pel•,tons are The Lord helps those who ere Help- ful, humoring our sins will not treat our sinfulness, 'There can be no recreation 1n any dose- oration.. !Egli livers are likely i0 conte down to low Innis, The best way to sy'nlpulltize with some La to stake them. 11s hard getting solid with sin without gelling soiled. Folks seldom fuse together much in a treated argument, It's not notch use praying ter fruits un- til you gat some roots. It is bolter to find freedom through pain than freedom from it. Praying Is not a scheme for making peaches grow on pumpkin vines, heavenly treasures are only saved for ourselves as we share them. Tho nearer home any reform begins the farther' and higher 11 will go. Many think they are bold because they enjoy entertaining the devil. There are ne good points about the character that stales into everybody. There is little of tae bread of life In the sermon preached for bread and but- ler, The holiness that makes no one happy is one of the most subtle forms of In- iqufty. The markets of sin Ore those where many charaotens are sold and yet none are bought. When a man gets to worrying over his crown he is simply discounting an imaginary future. You will not need to worry much about year good nate II you take care of your good nature. It may be a mockery to talk about loving close who need our love unless wo hate the things that harm them. You have the wrong kind of faith when you etapoct the needy to make a food din- ner off a dewdrop of sympathy. 3:- -_ EXTENSIVE IRON DEPOSITS. Discoveries of Prospector in Unsurveyed New Ontario, Some' idea of the great resources of .the unsurveyed parts of New Ontario Is gained from a recent letter of Mr. Nap. Labrose, a well-known ,prospector, to The North Bay Despatch. Mr. La- hroso has been prospecting in the wild- erness north of the Proudfoot base line, about 100 miles west of the Cobalt coun- try, The letter deals chiefly with the mineral wealth of the country, and Is Intensely interesting. "Only three miles north of Ilse Proud - foot line, bordering the township of •Hebert, lie large deposits of magnetic iron," writes Mr. Labros°. "This Iron has been known to Indians for twenty years. It is situated on the exact Iron range which travels from southwest commencing near Loire Onaping, and extending as tar northeast as -Lake '1'emagami, traversing Burtvesh Lake, where considerable development has al- ready been done. "The iron In most ,parts is magnetic, but considerable hematite is also found, including Hutton and Robert townships, In many places north of the Proudfoot line streaks of specular iron outcrop from the bare cliffs of this apparent- ly barren country. No valuable timber except some small black spruce, witb here and there a small, scrubby white pine. Over the iron range, travelling north, are to be found large tracts of diabese lock, and sometimes diorite. Copper sulphite is a very comanon thing In veins of white quartz, in diabese or laterite rock. Calcite was not expected ir, that country; therefore no attention was .paid to this while rock, which was supposed to be quartz. Silver, which is closely connected with calcite, suffer cd the sante tate, as ,placer gold and Iran were the only minerals the pros. pector was loolcing for. But, notwtth- standing Ibis, I located three copper lead and silver ,properties twenty miles north of the aforesaid iron properly, The well reek, carrying as high as 56 ounces to the ton, indicates that there is much to be done to unearth the pre- cious treasures that this apparently country possesses." tante forth, after be las de u'ted from tem tae' ate le hinlc of hint always henceforth 'to, Ise offered, That your joy may be made full - The purpose in all of God's playas for 1115 elekirete A MONKEY TIIGI:. How an Old Fellow. Got Even W'fllt a Crocodile. The nature and cheruolcr of the ince' key are not clanged by any training that he may receive, All the tricks teat may be taught him in captivity will add little le what he is accustomed to prac- tise in his wild state, The chief dif- ference to Kinn is that he has a different set of victims to torment, Capt. 3, A. Lawson, the author of "Wanderings In the Interior of New Guinea,' had a chance le watch the rascals in their native tvllis and native wilderness, and he found them up to the same mischeet• ous pranks es they play here en the street. Ona trick of theirs Is dotseribed. Every little while we passed under trees occupied by troops of monkeys. some of them of the large kind that had given us so much (rouble on a for- mer occasion. They were a little better - mannered at this place. One large tree in which they had established their quarters stretched its branches over the water twenty perils er more, While I was watching 'the antics of the monkeys, two crocodiles showed their heads just underneath, and re- mained stationary with their ugly snouts sticking up in the air, In other coun- tries this is a common dodge of the orocodilts to entice the monkeys with- in reach, and I expected now to see arc or more of the noisy animals fall vic- tims to the goggle-eyed monsters -below, and with considerable curiosity I await - ea the result. As soon as the black -looking heads popped up the monkeys became silent, Presently one big fellow -evidently on1 of authority in this monkey republic - came down to reconnoiter, He returned, and in a few minutes carne down again with a long, thin stack in les hand, and accompanied by about a hundred of his ccmpmklons. They began to chatter and pelt their foes;• -•but the crocodile's book no notice; and I thought they seemed to give a wink of sallsfaetlon at seeing their slily victims coming within their reach, Nearer and nearer they came, until some of them were barely sec feet above the crocodiles; and I was oxperting every Instant to see ant of them dragged under the water. All of a sudden the monkey with the stick leaned ever and drove it into the eye nl the crocodile nearest him. Tho wound- ed reptile sank like Lead, and was quick, ly followed by its comrade, There orae no mistaking the howl of delight Ilhat greeted this sl.rategem and lie success. It was perfectly human In Its tone, and ons taken up with venge- ftd,gleo by ell the monkeys In the nelgh- bc'rhood. The gravity of demeanor with *tech ihs old fellow committed this essatelt was laughable in the extreme, He event. to work with all the caution nr an old lawyer, and when he had in- flicted the poke he hauled himself aloft with an alacrity that showed he could form a very good estimation of the dan- ger which he ran. ->r - — SOME MAIDEN SPEECHES. Ono British Lord Wailed 24 Years for His Chance in Parliament. Ry waiting twenty-four years before leaking his maiden speech Lord Lang- ford has exercised an oratorical restraint as rare as in some cases it would be cam- mendale, says the Westminster Gazette: The Earl of Rochester, in the days of Charles II., was not equally modest, for he took an early opportunity, of address- ing, the House of Lords, with disastrous resutls. "My lords,' he began, "I rise this time for the first time, the eery first time, my lords. and divide my speech into four branches," Here he paused for a few seconds, grew purple and con- fused, and finally blurted out, "My lords, it ever I rlse again in this house you may cut me off, root and branches and all, for ever." Lord Byron was more fortunate, for his maiden effort was declared by Sir le. Bnrclelt to be "the best speech by a lcrd since the Lord knows when." Lord Rasebery's maiden speech, after three years of silence, was a model of modest oratory, opening with a plea for that favor and indulgence which the House alweys shows • to those who ad- dress It for the first time, "even in a larger measure on account of my ex- treme youth end inexperience." FRENCH FAMILY STATISTICS. The number of French families, that le to say, households with or without children, is estimated et 11,315,000. :Cf this total 1,804;720 tamil:es have po children, 2,966,171 have one child', 2,061,978 have two children, 1,648,425 have 'three. 987,392 have four, 580,768 have five, 327,241 have six, 182,998 have seven, 94,729 have eight, 46,728 ]lave nine, 20,639 have ten, 5.305 have eleven, 3,508 have twelve, '1,437 have thirteen,. 554 have fourteen, 249 have fifteen, 70 have sixteen, 34 have Seventeen, and finally 45 families have eighteen or more. ' ilk RATTIER PREMATURE. Husband (on overland train) - "yon Mustn't mind le Maria. if I take sev- eral doses of spirits during the day, from now on. les the only thing that Will out leis alkali dust that gels into ones throat.' Wife -"You won't Have 10 do it to- day, Jelin. I'm been making some en- quiries and 1 fins wedon't strike the ]iznll region fax 500 milesyet." "Do look what a beautiful brooch George has given Me," . saki a girl ee her bosom friend. "Isn't that a lover Jy steno?" "Very pretty, indeed,' honed ter cievioas compatiide, "we have a mantelpiece made of It at home,' TURNING TIIE TABLES. Some few years since there lived a man by the name of I•Iarris whose. great- est pleasure was in tormenting others. His own family was generally the butt of his spout. One cold and blustering night he retired to bed at an early hour, hie wife being absent- al a neigh- bor's. Somme time after, returning and finding the door oldsed, site demanded eelmtltanee. "Who are you?' cried Mr. Meets. "You know who I am; let me In, al's vecold;'' 'Bry egone, you strolling va.galbond; i' wart nothing of you hem." "13111 i must come 18." "Whet is your name?" "You ]rnow my name; it Is Mrs, 'Hor- els." "Begone! firs. Harris is a very likely woman; she never keeps such late hours as 11115.' Mn5. Harris replied: "If you don't let me in I will drown myself in the well," "Do if you. please," he replied. She then tools a leg •ani plunged it into the;vell,.and l'etuarned 10 the side of the dear. Iver, Harris, hearing Lite noise, rushed from the house to .save, as be supposed, his drowning wife.' :She, at the same tine, slipped in and closed the door eifier her. Mr. Ilarris, clad merely fen a, night. shirt, in turns donlattded admittance. "Who are you?" she demanded., "Yon know who I am; let la0 in, or 1 shall freeze." "Begone, yell thievish rogeel I want nothing el you here," "But 1 must come in.' "What is your name?" 'Yoe know My name; 1l, 0 Mr, Hae'. 818, "Mr. Harris le a. very likely man; he clo•esnrt keep such late hopes.' SulTlce tosay, she, atter keeping him in the Bold until she was satisfied, open. ed the doorand let him In. They wore gulls. - SNOWE;I) UP ON TIIE STEPPE. isporienees of Winter Travellers on Siberian Railway. ' When winter sets in adventures by ;rail are frequent and the process of "roughing it' is trying, Often tains are snowed up al lello squalid stations is' rho sLoppq, when the passengers can get nothing but black brad and lea, For hours? Aye, and for days. 11 depends on the eulhorllies hew tang the ill starred travellers shall abide, writes a Landon Standard correspondent, Tires year numerous h'atrns were caught In the snow, almost buried there, and generally on the open steppe fifty or sixty miles from a lemon and a huh- tired 'miles from a beefsteak, The pas- sengers besought the station master, end others to have them dug oul and to clear the line. They ivan telegraph- ed to the Minister of Ways and Commu- nications, and received assurances that the order would be given, 1t was giv- an-and disregarded. Story tolling and card playing in the flickering light of a candle 'were the most serious occupations of the prison- ers on the steppe. In one case that cone under my Icnewledge "he" and "she" met for tato Rest time under these un- common conditions, fell in love over a sausage, a stale roll and a half a bot- tle of wine, welch h0 happened to have and they married shortly afterward. Hem Ls a copy of cite of the tele. grams from snowed up passengers that were sent this season: "This is the sec- ond day that we are kept by snow- driftshere in the lonely station, Pook- hovo. In spite of the energetic tele- gram of the Minister of Ways and Communications the manager of the line Ike taken no efficacious measures. We are <loomed to linger on here for an in- definite period." (Signed by the ,pas- sengers of the international wagon of the Kosloff fest train.) And they ling- ered on for two days. 3e TELLING AGE OP COLORS. Japanese Girl's Attire Merges From One Shade to Another as She Grows Older. There is a candor about Japancso wo- men in which few Englishwomen !would have courage to aspire., and such a cus- tom as that of a girl representing in fact a "walking census" by limiting herself to a particular range of colors Recording to her age would be consid- ered a preposterous idea in this coun- try, says the London Evening Standard. And yet such is said to be the fashion 1a Japan, et girl's attire merging like the calors in a prism from one shade tc the other as the years speed on. Midway between the early twenties and the next decade purple, chestnut and pink, where the kimono is conccrn- eded, arc made to take the•place of the ,pale shades of silver gray or blue Ciel which up 1111 then have represented her color card. White, in addition, is rsniquished -practically at 25, a ruling which would seem arbitrary in Eng- land in. these days when white toilettes are regarded an almost grandmotherly; When in her twenty-seventh year, a Japanese woman acquires a new dig- nity when she takes her fleet step into Ilse important realm of striped -fabrics, which give such an added status to their wearer. As the years go on the wide stripes which proclaimed her initial plunge into •a different category to that M her younger friends and companions narrow with each succeeding year, un- til the finest hair lute announces with almost offensive honesty that she has reached the age of thirty. Pale mauve shades, as well as eine- mon and blue, are her choice as re- gards color until she Is five years older, When without sign or protest she leaves WI bright tones to her younger sisters, and is seen thenceforward in the dull, drab tints of brown and dark gray, until her striped kimono is changed for a checked brown or gray et forl.y-five. This is exchanged finally a few years later for blacks or very dull gray, in which sober garb a Japanese woman continues unttl the end of her life, ' KEEPING FLOWERS FRESH. Cul Stents With Knife to Insure Supply of Moislure to Leaves. "Very few persons understand the art of keeping flowers," says a florist, "and yet by a little attention flowers may be kept fresh for three or four lines as long es people expect them to stay in good condition. "Tho natter is simple enough. It is merely a question, of temperature and moisture, noses, for example, are grown at a high temperature in the greenhouses and are then generally spoiled by ill treatment alter they have been out. Grown in a temperature of 65 to 75 de- grees, they are placed in an Icebox, where the thermometer stands at about 40 Then when sold they are taken into n dining or ball room, whore 'the tem- perature is 75 or 80. 01 course they wilt in a few hours, eometbnes in a few min- utes. Nothing else could be expected. They could, however, be kept in proper condition for a weelc by placing them in water and standing the vise in the coolest part of a living roost. Every day half an inch of stens should be cut off in order to present' a fresh sue - ben surta.ce to the water, If this pre- caution is neglected the stem becomes 'clogged w11h'a glutinous matter some- thing like the gum teat exudes from peach and cherry' trees, the water in the vase, however pure, cannot be drawn up, and the leaves ,and flowers w'ileer tea lack of moisture. "hs cutting off the stems a knife should always be used, never a pair of scissors. The reason is plain enough, • 'rho knife, nmake.a smooth cut, leaving the cells of Iho wood open and unebsh'ucbecl. The scissor blades, no matter how sharp they aro, always compress the woody fibres at the end of the stem and leave them se tightly pressed together that it is al- most impossible for sufi)eicnI, moisture to 03151 its way through to support the leaves and blo.ssorns;" an tales I . hew the wo ret woo tri s tic as west of the bargain Unless She can see where she got mere than her moneys werthe !NEWS OF TML MINES CLAIMS AT MAPLE MOUNTAIN SOLD TO SCOTCH SYNDG.aTT1, Gales Property In James Township Disposed of -Lost 41 Transportation. The strike situation, while not talcen ,seriously by ,some, must be considered a serious pander, as the results of last summers eleilre were disastrous to the mem) so far that a great many proper, ;lee were closed dowry which lhavo not since resumed °purul nil% whereas scene of those at least would have been en- abled to continue development weer but far the general period of depres- sion and the labor troubles, writers the Cobalt correspondent of the Globe. 'Tho rhino owners formed an assoolaldon re. ornily oath a strong executive board, and, while mottling definite has been learned of any action of ,tile board, ,t ha: been reported that the members et the board would be prepared to meet the, miners in an adjustment that would De fair to both sides. This has been very favorably commented upon In the camp, and it is hoped something will he 40110 to prevent further labor trouble. The leasing system, dl: In operation on a ntmeber of properties, would help to clear up the labor question. Under the lease system a bunch of miners often join together, working for themselves and getting 76 .per cent., of the gross values of the etre mined and shipped, and the mine owner getting 25 per cent, clear, which in the average case 1s greater than the profits made by the !nines themselves. With a number of shiners working on their own account they could work any number of hours they wish, so there steed be no miction over the length of the working -day In the mine. It is calculated that the Napissdng property alone, with its large acreage, is largo enough if leases were given out to furnish work for nearly as many minors as are now veering at all the mines 1 nthe camp at present. ADVANTAGES OF LEASING SYSTEM. In support of the -laming system it might be mentioned that in the aver- age case the lessor Ls himself a Mlle, Lint mining than, who needs no .sup- erintendent over hint., and who general- ly does away with ate assay office and other work which coat the average mining company thousands of dallors per year. The Cobalt camp is spoken of by many practical mining men as being essentially a. leasing camp, will its small, rich veins. It is already a matter of record that in many other camps where high capitalization pre- vails, as in. the camp, when the com- panies find they are unable to been up the expenses of the mine and divi- dends they lease even their slopes to contributors, who pay the companies a royally considered commensurate with the. values of lite ore being mined an,l the conditions under which the oro is being gotten out. Innumerable prac- tical. mining men have commen.ed favorably on the leasing system, TUE BUILDING SEASON. US opened and a considerable amount of work on new buildings is going on, The Imperial Bank is building a fine new building wrest of the Prospect hotel. t, be used as int apartment and office 'building, with ono section on the ground floor being left in readiness for its use in case of flee in its present premises. GREAT COST OF TRANSPORTATION. During the last visit of the T. & N. 0,. Railway Commission to the north, a penton, which was largely signed, was presented by Mr. Tighe, asking the Railway Commission to take steps towards the building of a spur litre into Larder City at the earliest pos- slble date. Chairman Englehart assur- ed Mr. Tighe that the engineer for the Commission, 515'. Cole, would be sent over the road at once to investigate, It is hoped that Mr. Cole will b0 able to melee a suffichenele encouraging re- port to the Commission that the broad may be proceeded with at an early date, The cost of getting supplies .info Larder duning last summer was approxlmatety $80 per Lon, and ons the direct cause 10: the lack of development work on a great many properties lost year. The new find which was reported on good authority to have been natio an the Oleese claim at Silver Lake arida greatly to the enthusiasm In Silver Lake district. The vein is said to be four inches In width of practically solid silver, which can be bagged from rho surface. SALES 1N MONTREAL MYER SECTION The wort on the new sheft at the Silver Bar is progressing nicely, al- though the company is. only working a force of a eleven' men at ipresent, This shaft is being sunk en one of the new veins discovered last summer in trench. ing on the surface. The vein, while narrow, being only from three to four etches in width, is almost solid metal and the ore being bagged will i.,un about 0,000 ounces of silver to the ton, The White claims at Maple Mountain in the romagemi Forest Reserve were sold recently to a Scotch syndicate et a price netting the owner 1250,000. These claims are consideroil very promising. The Gates property in James township woe seta recently le a 'Toledo firth, who. together with their associates, will tin- dortalce the development work on Ilea properly on. a leg scale. 'rho price vied for this claim has not been made pun. It', but Is believed to have been a fancy ora. At the Rl•ght•of Way, work has been completed on the new ore house, and neon are employed installing Lite new :crusher. The new vein found at the 75 -toot level a fete clays ago while cross- cutting to the 'northwest ie ionsiclered equally, as goad as tiny vein on the pro• perry,and is: very rich in native ell- er. From now on, development work on Itisvein will bo pushed '1 spidly, Peony Girl (sentimentally) -- 'There's ,nlwnys something sad elan/ peeling, tent there? 11111 Collector (nhSeni.rnind- ectly)--']'hal depends on wether or ere, you've anteceded In geifmrq Ito money,