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The Brussels Post, 1908-9-10, Page 3NOTLAS AND COMMENTS Thirty-six deathsentences were pronounced in Russia last week. This is a melancholy record even if allowancebe made for the fact that European Russia has 110,000,- 000 inhabitants and that there are nieny criminals among them. The oret of it is that the number of death sentences seems to be in- creasing, This year's record has been darker than that of last year. These proofs of unhappy eonditiona are multiplying so rapidly that pro- vincial papers have been ordered rot to print statitstios of executions' and death -sentences. Certainly they do not make agreeable reading. Russian justice moves slowly. It is possible that soma of the persons whose execution was ordered last week may have been in prison fur a year or more, awaiting trial for offences committed while the revo- lutionary fires were blazing. Bet this does not hold good of all Some -were found guilty of crimes of a more recent date. War against the government is still going on, though on a- comparatively small scale.. Attempts are still made to assassinate chiefs of police and other officials, and sometimes they are successful. There are still oc casional attempts by revolutionists to seize government funds on rail- road titans or elsewhere and fill their own lean treasury. There is still some agrarian crime. Rus3.a is gradually quieting down and the stormy days of a few years agomay never return, but peace has not been completely re-established. if it had been there would not be so many death sentences. 3�— WHAT IS SUNSHINE'? A little gold amidst the grey— That's sunshine; A little brightness on the way— That's sunshine; A little spreading of the blue, A little widening of the view, A little heaven breaking through-- That's hrough—That's sunshine. A little looking for' the light— That's sunshine; A little patience through the night— That's sunshine; A little bowing of the will, A little resting on the hill, A little standing very still— That's sunshine. A little smiling through the tears— That's sunshine; A little faith behind the fears— That's sunshine; A. little folding of the hand, A little yielding of demand, A little grace to understand— That's sunshine. PUZZLING THE JUDGE. If legal phrases are sometimes puzzling to the untutored mind, certain colloquial expressions may be equally puzzling to the legal mind. -At an examination before a fam- ous judge, a witness exclaimecl, "I was up to him." "Up to him," said his lordship. "What do you mean by being up to him 4" "Mean:, my lord? Why, I mean 1 was down upon him." "Up to him and clown upon him,": said his lordship. "What does this fellow mean?" "Why, I mean, my lord, that as deep as he thought himself, 1 stog- ged him." When Ms lordship still insisted that he did not understand what was meant, the witness exclaimed: "Law, what a flat you must' be l" "If he had only said `on to him,' " said the judge later, "I should have tumbled to him." WHERE TREY ARRIVED. "Finnigan and Moriarty got into an argument the other night," re- marked O'Flahorty, "Indeed!" said- Murphy, "and what did they arrive at f" "Oh, well, shure Fin- nigan arrived at the hospital and Moriarty at the police station." EXCEPT FOR GASH, Little Willie—"Say, pa, when two nations are at war, what is meant by the strict neutrality of another nation 1" Pa—"It means, my son, that the other nation will not supply arms and ammunition 'to either of the contestants—except for cash." ABSOiiUT> LY NECESSARY, "What prompted you to rob this t,, p p man's s till asked the judge of the prisoner, "My familyphysician, sir,„ was the reply; "he told me • it a ab- -whitely necessarn that should havettlittle ehage,” "Talk about animals haring no intelligenee1" exclaimed an asser- tive member of a club, "My clog' Rover eannot speak, I admit but nt he has as ureh sense at hive." I "Vert likely," admitted a listen - ex', "but that doesn't prove that the animal is intelligent 1" SAVED FROM FEAR TOFAITII Fear of What Might Be Only Flinders, Faith in What May Be SubliwelY Helps. "Who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a sal- vation ready to be revealed in the last time."—I, Peter, i, v. If a man steps up to you on the street takes you by the buttonhole, and inquires : "Are you saved 1' between surprise and resentment you hardly know what answer to give him. Yet, if it be true as we are still told, that without some definite, marked experience called "Salvation," we aro all in immin- ent peril, the wonder is that the question is not asked more often, There doubtless are many to whorn the question has thrilling im- port, They live in a world.of fear; for they aro only partly delivered from that state of savagery in which the whole universe was peopled with demons, with spirits cruel, :malig- nant, and malicious. They walk in trembling dread of devils that as- sail in dark places, of yawning hells waiting to ingulf them. If thi't' world is so ordered as to oppose our good, if the universe is, our foe, we do indeed need to be saved, to be delivered from it. But it is strange that those who sing most loudly ofthe goodness of God should also insikt so strongly on the diabolical- character of the world he has created and ordered. It isnot long since we wore prac- tically all in a bondage of fear. Even little children were made to dread their beds lest they should die` before morning and find them- selves unprepared in the presence cf an offended diety, while strong men carried around the tormenting question, AM I SAFE IF 1 SHOULD DIE 1 Something within us has always turned against these conceptions of rmust cower, a god before.whom we o , of a universe contrived to damn us, and of man as a lost being, ship- wrecked on the tides of eternity, who might be snatched from his doom if he would but acknowledge his intellectual subjugation to cer- tain philosophical views of histori- cal data. As man has come to understand the universe better, as he has learn - el to subdue nature and harness her powers to his purposes, along with growing wonder at this world has come increasing confidence in the beneficent ordering of all things; fear has given place to rev- erence, reverence for law and rev - ereneo for the good that seems to be the final goal of all. Superstition retreating before sci- once, fear has given place to a Con- ception of a world ordered by in- finite love and we have come to ask a new question: After all, is there anything in all the universe to feari Does pot every opening page of nature's great book dis- close unvarying law working out purposes of immeasurable love'? The great question for us all is not whether we have been rescued from hordes of savage, hidden de- mons or snatched from imminent' hell; the question is not whether we area ready to die because we have bargained for heaven; the great question is whether we are saved from the old life of fear, of dread, of cowardly sinking through the world into the full life of faith, into the life in harmony with God's universe. SALVATION IS A PROCESS and not a place; itis a life and not a legal arrangement. It is continu- ous; it ontinu-ous;'it may be that it never will be completed, for it is the leading of a life out into tits fullness, into harmony with its universe, into un- derstanding of all its relationships, into effieciency in all its service. Wo need to think perhaps not so much of what we may be saved from as of what we are saved to- ward, toward the highest living we know, toward full and perfect har- mony with all being, here and ev- erywhere,. human• and divine. Only by faith in a world ordered for good, only by faith in the great life in which the move and have our being can one come into --such full- ness of life. Men are saved by faith, by faith in what they may be, by confidence in the right, good, orderly working of the world for the best, by simple trust in the great love of the infi- nite Father, by living on the work- ing axiom that goodness and truth and Irindness—the things that are best -are the things that are mighty and dominant. We need to be saved from our- selves, from our fearful, abased, God libeling selves into our better, higher, aspiring, God loving selves by the faith in the goodness of God, a the love that Lies behind all law, iu the high possibilities of ourselves and the good purposes of all men. FrrNRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 18. Lesson XI. Da' -id Made Icing Over Judah sell Israel. Golden Text, 2 Sam. 5. 10. Verse 1. After this—That is, after the death of Saul and his sons. This removed the danger to David's person and also left vacant the throne. There was no reason for remaining longer in exile. David inquired of Jehovah—By means of the mysterious "Ephod" which Abiathar . the priest had brought with him when he joined David's band in the wilderness (1 Sam. 23. 6). The Ephod may have been similar to the Urim and Thum- mim, or sacred lot svhioh was cast for an expression of the divine will: David' s dependence upon Jehovah le seen in his waiting for his -ap- proval before he takesthefirst step toward the kingship. Shall I go up 1—From the hill country,: directly south of Judah, where he had been living. Hebron—A place `ftwenty-two miles south of Jerusalem and twen- ty miles 'north of Beersheba," which was admirably suited to bo the capital' of, Judah. It was com- mandingly situated on the highest level of the Judean ridge, and from the .earliest times had. been a cen- ter of historic and religious inter- est. The patriarchs from Abram on. lived and some of then died there, before Israel entered the land the Oanaanites revered it as a &brine, it became cue . of the cities of re- fuge, and being on one of the trunk roads of Palestine it was always a thriving market city. From now on it figures largely in the fortunes of the Hebrew kingdom. As verse 3 shows, Hebron was 'a district as well as a city. The word "city" usually meant the town with its outlying country. 2. His two wives—The two whom he took to himself during his years of exile. Before this he had mar- ried bLichal, Saul's; daughter, but had been deprived of her by the king's command.' She is returned to him later (2 Sam, 3, 13). For a more complete list of the wives David had at Ilebren see 2 Sam. 3 2-5, Some of these represented political alliances. These polyga- mous tendencies later caused David and -his sons much trouble and suf- fering. Jezreolitess . . Carmelite—Not from the famous valley of Jezreel and Mount Carmel to the north but from tsmall towns, Yozroei wo and Carmel fn the southaru aotlntry 1 over which David had been rang- ing. Abigail—The story is exquisitely told in 1 Sam. 25. 3. Every man with his household —David avoided any appearance- of a warlike purpose. He and his men went up as peaceable colon- ists with their families. 4. They a nbinted David king — anointing Samuel's privatenting. at an earlier time did not interfere with this formal public ceremony; it was probably not known by any but David himself and members of his own family. House of Judah—David's own "house" or tribe. Saul came from the rival tribe of Benjamin adjoin- ing en the north. The men of Jabesh-gilead=For an account of this exploit see last week's lesson (1 Sam. 31, 10-13). sent messengers—A sin- cere expression 61 appreciation on David and also a most litical act of concilia- tion. Respect; Il requite you —A quiet hat his rule extends fax enough t o include their city. hay are, in the very heartof Ish -bosheth's rival king- s capital the nearby town of Man hanaim (2 Sam. 2. 8). hands be strong and he ye valiant—This is the invoking of a blessing suitable to warlike gth and valor were a most desired gift from Jehovah. David imply, too, that their support. fuer. seven and a half years of successful rule at *Hebron.Came—David did not force his authority on the other tribes. but waited' till they sought him. bed of Israel—By their representatives the elders (verse and thy flesh -A. cour- teous introduction to the}r'address. Really true, too; the men of Israel later refer to David's tribe as "our brethren the mon of Judah" (2 lieu—�\ compliment to their new Chieftain whish' served., a doablepurpose, It settled any misgivings as to their loyalty to Saul; oven w hon he was their king red tinder David as out and brouglitest in — A term for military leadership: f my, people—This ifs e of sliophorcl" in a nso in the Bible. It became very common with the later prophets. There may be a delicate allusion to David's s shepherd duties ootre�x�tnt�-With mute - al duties and rights.: Called. "the manner of, the ringdom" (1 Som. 10. 28), Tit is, like David's other . 5, David' the• part of sagacious, p0 Kindness - 6. I also Wi assumption t In reality t ' dom with it 7. Let your times, Stren The words of he hopes for 1, Then—A. All the tri 3), Thy bone ., Stun. 19. 41).. 2. It was thou—A they had ser his general, Leddest Shepherd o the first us figurative so as a lad. 3. Made a acts, was cone before dehovalt, with him as witness, 4, 5. A brief note summarizing al] of David's public life, It anti- cipates his capture of Jerusalem, establishment of the United King - dere with its capital there, and the years of rule which are narrated rn the chapters following. QUICKLY `1'IIE DOCTORS DIE. Report of the British Itegistrar- General. If you would enjoy a longlife you should become a minister (of any religions denomination), or failing that a gardener, a game- keeper, a farmer or a railway en- gine driver, says the London Daily (chronicle. These, according to Dr, John Tatham's report to the Registrar - General on the mortality in certain ccoupations during the three years from 1900, are the calling which of- fer the best prospect of longevity. At the other and of the scale come the general laborer, the tin miner, the hawker and the hotel servant, and about midway are the physici- an, the undertaker and the tobac- conist. As compared with lawyers Dr. Tatham records, medical men die more rapidly at every stage of life, while as compared with the clergy their mortality is enormously in ex- cess. Tuberculosis, phthisis and dis- eases of the respiratory organs are the only causes of death that are substantially less fatal to medical' men than to males in the aggregate. Diseases of the nerves and circula- tory systems contribute the largest. share to the mortality of medical men, due, no doubt, to their, anxi- ous and arduous occupation. A sign of the times is given in the particulars relating to commercial travelers. They fall victims to al- coholism in greater proportion than do all occupied and retired males by 38 per cent., while their mor- tality from liver disease is more than double that standard. But the mortality from alcoholism, gout, liver disease, accident and suicide was considerably less in the last period than in 1880-82. In the previous supplement it was remarked that there was no other occupation in which the ravages of cancer approached that among chimney sweeps. 'It is still note- worthy that although the mortality from that disease has fallen by nearly one-fourth part, chimney sweeps are still subject to the high- est fatality from this disease, al- though among several other occupa- tions, such as servants in London, brewers, furriers, general laborers and seamen, 'the mortality does not fall far short of that of chimney sweeps. It a subject which, as Dr. Tatham points out, deserves further attention. For the first time in these returns the question of the mortality among women workers is dealt -with ex- haustively, though it is a matter full of difficulty. For instance, the case of a domestic servant, the daughter of a bricklayer who has returned home permanently inva- lided, is given, She is thencefor- ward regarded as unoccupied, and in the event of death will be regis- tered as a bricklayer's daughter, no mention being made of her pre- vious occupation. In the case of a married woman this cause would appear to operate even more strongly, the deceased woman being described simply as a wife or widow, with mention of her husband's occupation, but without mention of her own. It is rather curious that actors, authors and journalists have no place in these tables, even in the index. Even numerically they must be almost as important as, say, costermongers, wigmakers and chimney sweeps, who are all includ- ed. VARIOUS USES OF EISA ELIA ARE SUPPOSED TO P087 SE'SS MANY VIRTUES. _1 Salt•lVitter Fislutrmel Say a Tied Herring Will Cure Rhea- mul ion. DANGER FROM SPRINGS. In the summer, when so many thousands drink from tempting springs in the woods and on the hillsides, a warning recently given by Mons. E. A. Martel, the cele- brated French explorer of caverns, should not be unnoticed, Contrary to a widely prevalent opinion,. Monsieur Martel says that springs of apparently pure water are, in many cases, merely the outflow of surface -waters which have disap- peered through fissures, carrying with them pollution from the soil, and not purified in their passage through the reeks.' He thinks that oven chalk is not an effectual filter for surface -water passing <through it. It's sometimes easier to catch on than it is' to let go. "I haven't got any case," said the client, "but I have money." "How muehi" asked the lawyer. "Ten thousand dollars," was the reply, "Phow 1 You have the best case I ever heard of. I'll see that you never go to prison with that sum, said the lawyer, cheerfully, And lio� didn't; he:went there. broke, Bagley --"All . of " Mrs. Howe's children call her the `mater,' Isn't It nice to see such affection?" Bai- ley—"That isn't affection. She succeeded in marrying off six daughters in six years, and they gall her the mater because they thinki she has fairly earned the tido, The one fish medicine of which modern science thoroughly approves ,s cod liver oil, and this, though in far lees nauseous form than form- erly, is swallowed in tons e'rery year. In oldclaysa much wider use was made of fish as cures for various evils, and some of these practices have- survived to the present day. Some little time ago a boy died of epilepsy in a North Wales parish. The doctor, called in too late, in- quired if the deceased bad been given any medicine. "Oh, yes," was the answer. "We caught a trout, drowned it in new milk, and gave that to the boy." Eels are supposed to possess all kinds of virtues. In the dark ages of medicine a powder made of eels' liver was considered an absolute specific for deafness, and was also employed in cases of ague or fever. A decoction of eels' fat is still used by Dutch peasants as a. remedy for. falling hair. But the most valuable part of the eel, according to popular supersti- tion, -is its skin.. Many an old farm- er wears A, BELT OF EEL SKIN as a preventive against rheumatism and somebelieve that a garter made of the skin of this snake -like fish worn next to the human skin is a preventive, not only against rheu- matism, but also against sprains or similar injuries. Another cure for rheumatism, which finds favor with salt -water fishermen, is a red herring. The herring being the most plentiful of all the sea fish, a number of super- stitions have attached themselves to it. For luck through the ensu- ing year one must be sure to eat a herring on New Year's Day. Fishermen believe that each shoal is headed by a king herring, which is more than double as large as any of its followers. They believe that, when one of the "kings" comes up in the net, it should be thrown. overboard; otherwise, the next day's fishing will be a failure. Herrings, in common with sever- al other kinds of fish, are credited with the power of knowing, twenty- four hours in advance, of the ap- proach of a storm. When they break the surface, feeding furiously, then a gale may shortly be expect- ed. The idea is that the fish are laying up a reserve of food to sus- tain them during the time that the surface waters in 'which they feed arc lashed and DISTURBED BY TA -P WIND. Pilchards, near relatives of the herring, but only found in large shoals upon the Cornish coasts and lis far -North as the Start, can, so ,the fishermen say, be charmed by music. There is a story at Meva- gissey that, in the year 1840, one of :the pilchard boats belonging to Mr. John Furse had singers of the Methodist choir aboard, and one evening, when fish were scarce, the crew began to practise. Soon pil- chards were seen leaping all round the boat, and, of all the sixty boats, in the bay, this and its nearest neighbors were the onlyones to get a haul of fish. Of all the different kinds .of fish- ing, there is none more dangerous than long lining for cod on the ice and fog -ridden Banks of Newfound: land. Nearly all the old-timers carry for luck a bong found in the head of the cod. This magic bone, which is supposed to preserve its owner's life;' is about three-quarters of an inch -long, narrow, and pure. white in color. Another charm which used to bo, and, perhaps, still is, a favorite among the fishermen of North Scot- land and Norway is the dried eye of a codfish. Some fish are said to be poison- ous, and this is, perhaps, not en- tirely superstition, There is, for in- stance, little doubt about the in- jurious effects of the flesh of .THE YELLOW -BILLED SPRAT. In the Bahamas there is a curious belief that all fish caught at the South end of the Island of New Providence are . poisonous; while the flesh of similar fish taken else- where .is perfectly wholesome. • You would never 'get a colored man to touch the flesh of the bar raeouta, a kind of huge salt -water pike, eonlni00 in the Gulf of Mexi- co, Ile believes that the' result would bo that his hair and nails would fall off. Yet barracouta meat, though coarse, is not particu- Burly unwholesome. For a long time tite stories that fish could utter audible sounds wore looked upon by science, as purely fabular. Investigation has proved, howovert that certain fish can pro- duce quite loud sounds. The lung fish of Australia, a great, ugly bittto, which sometimes reaches a length of Dight fent,has a discon- certing: habit of 'leaving the water and crawling over the marshes, making m loud harking .as it (roes: A small fish found off the Texan t—the e "beemulon" makes the ed scientist who had, after much patient endeavor, captured one of these fish, was so overcomewith what he considered plaintive ap- peals for liberty, that 1,e tossed it overboard again ,—Pearson's Week - OLDEST TRADE IN ENGLAND: industry 01 Flint-liriapping for Old Fashioned Gun -Leeks. At: Brandon, in Suffolk, there still survives an industry nearly as. old as creation itself -the industry of flint-knapping; that is, the chip- ping of flints for uld-fashioned gun - leeks and tinder -boxes. The me- thod employed to -day is precisely the same as that which our neolithie ancesturs must have used to pre- pare their flint arrow -Beads and knives. Eighty thousand prepared flints are turned out every week by the dozen or so hint-knappers who still ply their ancient craft at Brandon. The method of working is . as fol- lows: huge blocks of the black flint are split into "quarters" with a heavy hammer; each quarter is flaked into small, sharp pieces; and finally each flake is trimmed .or knapped into double -backed squares with a peculiar sharp -edged strik- er. This is done with the rapidity of a steam -hammer. A single work- er can tarn out as many as 2,000 flints in a day. Most` of the flints are exported to South Africa and West Africa, for use of trappers and dusky war- riors who have no more modern firearms than the flint -lock musk- ets of a hundred years ago. But in former days the British Government was the chief customer of the Brandon flint-knappers, who supplied the whole British Army with gun -flints. And even now the Government occasionally finds a use for these flints; for during the last Boer War 16,000 flints were supplied to the troops at the front for use in tinder -boxes. Many flint-knappers earn .about 12 a week. In the heyday of the craft the earnings were much great- er and there are old men in Bran- don who will tell you of the days when the flint-knappers used to pa- rade the town on a Saturday night with five -pound notes pinned to their caps. There is one very serious danger in the flint-knappers's trade. It, in many cases. tends to produce consumption. The knapper inhales minute particles of flint, which cut into the tissues of the lungs. But the work is well paid, and so long as there is any demand for gun flints there will always be men wil- ling to take up knapping, in spite of the almost inevitable penalty. SENTENCE SERMONS. Self-mastery is half of all mor- ality. Life without difficulties- is but death. It takes a tender heart to do the really hard things. The desired haven is not reached by sailing before the wind. Many are willing to be soundly pious so long as piety is all sound. No man has said. .Amen to his prayers until lie gets busy answer- ing them. He who never said a harsh word of any one, failed in'his duty to every one. The problems of any day are the indications of the keenness of its conscience. Bad' times often come as a result of too much living for good times. only. Cynicism is the atrophy that comes from refusing :to realize our own ideals. Tho needy can bettor afford to miss your gifts.than you can afford tc miss the giving. It is hard to see in what way an imputed righteousness is better than a borrowed reputation. If the man who boasts of always saying what he thinks were honest be would say mighty little, There's a lot of difference bis tureen serving one of these little ones and kowtowing to ono of our great onus. Ha who .only prays Give us our daily bread—with acme butter, too," does not pray at all and be dies of hunger, No man is of much use in this world until ho has found something more attractive. than his personal happiness. It is a, good deal easier to shut oat the sights of the world's needy than it is to evade your answera- bility for them. Seine think they must be in the beaten way to heaven because they seem to be so successful' in beating their way there. i f ranee whe- thermakes a lot of d f e you think of religion as a sy- tem of medicine or as the simple life of full moral health. It has always been evident that, it was easier to talk s•bont saving souls than it was to servo for. the salvation of.society. "He's not what your would call strictly handsome," said the ma- jor, beaming through his glasses on an utterly hideous baby as he lay ' "r howling in his mother's dribs, but it'a the kind of face that grows on your," "`It's not the kind of fa,e that ever grew on you," was the FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROlti HER BANKS AND B,lAES, What is Going on in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. There is now $602,625 at the cr•e• dit of d^positors in Galashiels sav- thee banks. In Crosshill police cells Samuel Harhis, a pedlar, fatally out his throat with a piece of the fanlight. The other day while Donald Nicol- son, Luib, Skye, was arranging for his brother John's funeral he dropped dead. The Duchess of Hamilton has not been in Scotland for two years, but is returning to Hamilton Palace this month. The other day a Dundee work- man found a pocketbook and 3120, and gave it up to the police. The owner rewarded him with 325. Indignation exists among the an- glers at the poisoning of trout which' is being carried on in the pools of the Rivers Gala and Cad - don. It has been arranged that the Prime Minister will address a great Liberal deinonstration at Earlston, Berwickshire, on Saturday, October a. The local tweed trade has become much worse. On the 15th alt, two Selkirk firms reduced their working hours by 2% per day with idle Sat- urdays. The Leith ship -owners, James Currie & Co., are making' a num- ber of changes in their fleet, re- placing some of their older vessels by new craft. At Arbroath one great improve- ment is the condition of the roads. This applies especially to roads about the regions of Carmyllie, Cairnconon, Leysmill and Magun- gie Woods. The King has approved the ap- pointment of Sir Edward Tennant, M.P., to be.his Majesty's Lieuten- ant for the County of Peebles in place of Lord Elibank, who has re- signed the office. It has been discovered that' the north tower of the Arbroath Abbey is in an insecure state, large rents having been observed in the .mason - while portions of the stonework have fallen from the tower. Saltooab. has stood the: spitting nuisance until it has thought the best plan will be to shame the of- fenders out of the filthy practice by displaying enamelled notice boards from the lamp posts. The Admiralty have agreed to take from Greenock Corporation the whole of the electrical energy required at the new torpedo factory there for a period of 14 years from the commencement of the supply.. A sparrow's nest with the full compliment of eggs has been. found in an old boot lying on a girder of the bridge crossing the Dunferm- line to Cowdenbeath highway on the railway line between Dunfermline Upper and Lower Stations. Hamilton Parish School Board have accepted tenders for the erec- tion of a new school at Low Waters to provide accommodation for 380 infants, and rooms for manual training and instruction in house- hold management and 'art. The' to- tal cost is 320,000. Glasgow is in luck at last, A. surplus of '$210,000 has accrued to her from the International . Exhi- bition of seven years ago,'and the profit from hor tramways is suffici- ent to pay the entire water rate, and to assist towards reducing the rate levied for the up -keep of the city parks. The twelfth Earl of Carnwath, of a creation dating from 1639, has just celebrated his 61st birt''day. Re is a Scottish representative peer and served in the Cameron High- landers. Ho traces his descent from Thomas de Dalzell, one of the great barons who swore fealty to Edward 1. in 1296. DENMARK QUEEN REMEMBERS Queen Alexandra of England, is still devoted to Denmark and ev- erything connected with it, and apropos of this the following' story is told : Her Majesty was ono day dining with ono of her most inti- mate friends and she complimented her on her cooky "I'm glad yeti liked the dinner, said her hostess. "My cook is a Dane." Hearing that ono of her own countrywomen pre- sided over her: friends kitchen, the Queen insisted on seeing the woman and speaking to bor. The astonish- inc.nt and pleasure of the cook at being presented to her Majesty may be imagined and also how ex- ceedingly delighted site was when the Queen spoke to her in her own language and talked to her about her native village, which her Ma- jesty fortunately happened to know very well. . AWFUL. Dobbs — "There's a man who shaves several times e day.' moan it l I Wiggin ---"You don't should think there's nothing left' of his face," Dobbs—"It doesn't hurt his face at all. He's a barber." ooas t may extraordinary groaning when ii,rlignant.f,.nd ttnoxpeeted reply of Yonm y have n way of four own pulled out of the water. It i.s on the maternal being "you'd be bat- but you need not expect always to record that a cert:tin. tender -heart- ter looking if it had1 have your own way,