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1 Loves The Greatest of �. 1 Q s Is the La ire of
Humanity,
"He thatlovoth his brother abid- to whom they cling in times of
ate) in the light,"—John ii., 10. trouble like limpets to a rook. They
There are some people who make
!brave professions of intense love
far all the human race with whom
ie is nevertheless exceedingly diffi-
cult for individual representatives
of the race to live. It is always an
easier matter to be filled with a
lofty sentiment of universal £rater-
nity than it is to exhibit even'or-
dinary patience with the znan who
steads beside you.
That love for man which is the
beat evidence of one's love for the
Most High may be a much simplex
and a much rarer quality than we
sometimes think, Itis by no means
certainthat it is all summed up
and expressed in foreign and home
missionary offerings or even in re-
form and charity organizations or
than it is the exclusive property
of those who write and sing about
the brotherhood of man.
It is really an easy matter to
Iearn to love the ideal and fictitious.
man, the creature of the poet's
imagination. He makes 00 assaults
on your nerves, olfactory or others,
and when you get tired of him you
can just shut your mind to him;
he will not shiver on your mental
doorstep nor vex your philosophic
soul with querulous intimations on
BREAD AND HANDOUTS.
Some of the most selfish people
in this world take ,perfect delight
in dreams of the federation of the
nations of the world, when ell the
peoples shall love one another, all
the flags be furled and the cannon
be converted into flower pots. But
that universal fraternity would be
quite a different matter if it be-
came practical and affected the in-
terest on government bonds or the
price of furs and feathers.
Some of the most disagreeable
people in the world are prodigious
reservoirs of emotional verse and
phrase on brotherhood and the love
of our fellow beings. But the fel-
low being sentiment leas not made
to embrace their servants and
neighbors who would be quite hap-
py if one of such angelic ideals
would take an angelic habitation
permanently.
Then you will find some ordinary
people, rough, perhaps, on the ex-
terior, and even sometimes seem-
ingly untroubled by high ideals,
about whom their fellow beings ga-
ther like iron filings to a magnet,
may have heard quite nothing of
poetry on brotherhood; they are
simply brothers, that's all,
Thorn are others who seem, as
we say, to have a faculty for get-
ting along with all kinds of folk;
they make friends and they hold
them, They are fennel amongst all
kinds of people and in all walks of
life, but they are the comet of so.
elate' everywhere, They are not
often brilliant and they are never
burdened by theories of social im-
provement, but they are just bro-
thers, making us all a family.
Now, there is nothing mysteri-
ous about this power that some.
have to win friends and to bind us
all together. It simply means that
they have learned to look for
THE ESSENTIAL THINGS
in people; they like use for our own
sakes; they set their hearts on the',
souls of men, the real self in each
of us. They get along with the he-
lm because they see through his
rags and with the king because
they do not see his regalia.
The trouble with many of us is
that when we talk about brother•
hoed we mean we would take all
men into our family if they would
acquire our tastes and habits
When we look at the other man
we are thinking how unlike he is
to what we .are and therefore to
what he ought to be. We miss the
man himself because we cannot see
through hie conditions and clothe,:
While we are seeking to save re-
ligion from evaporation in senti•
went shall we not seek to save f -e-
ternity from the same fatal Bre--
therhood means many a hard les-
son, means doing many a diffic +lt
thing? means paying a big price.
But it means finding a great re-
ward, it means the discovery of
humanity. It means learning to
live with other people and so find-
ing the greatest wealth in the
world, that which lies in human
hearts and minds.
A man learns to love books by
reading and songs by singing, but
the greatest of all loves, the love
of humanity, of lives, is learned
just by living with people, by tak-
ing time to find out what is in them,
by stopping long enough in our
mad business of making a living to
realize that the best things of life
lie in the love and life of others.
HENRY F. COPE.
$100,000,000 roil NAVY.
New French Minister Demands
Drastic Measures.
M. Picard, the new non-political
French Minister of Marine, who
was specially appointed to the con-
trol of the navy on the personal
initiative of M. Clemenceau, has
submitted to M. Caillaux, Minister
of Finance, a proposal to spend the
sum of $160,000,000 over and above
the ordinary estimates on the
Feench navy. The expenditure
would be spread over a period if
five years,
M. Caillaux has expressed aston-
ishment at the demand for so large
a sum, but will not refuse it, pro-
vided it can be shown to be required
by the interests of national secur-
ity. He insists, however, than any
special expenditure must be incor-
porated in the budget. Though
officially it is stated that there is
no divergence of opinion on naval
affairs among Ministers, it is gene'-
thatall the 11 understood h Oabinet
a, y
are not agreed as to the necessity
of spending a vast sum of money on
the fleet, and that Ministers are
appreheusivo as to the attitude of
Parliament. The real belief is that
France and Russia are working in
mutual agreement to reconstruct
their navies.
M. Picard's investigations have
revealed a state of anarchy in the
administration of the navy. $e has
discovered that fortunes have been
corruptly made by private indi-
viduals out of the outlay on the
navy,' and that that there has been
an utter want of continuity in naval
policy.
He has reported the prevalence
of a deplorable lack of discipline in
the dock yards, where the workmen
are pervaded with the .evil spirit
of Socialism; Waste and extrav-
agance have been the characteris-
tics of the administration, And, as
an instance of this, he found that
the new sub -marine, Z, had been
entirely forgotten for three years
in a corner of a dock y=a•rd.
Judge—"You are charged with
burglary, How do you plead 1"
Prisoner—"Not guilty, boss; an'
I'll tell yo' why. In de fust place
de chicken -coop doah wuzn't eben
locked; in de secon' place der wuz
no burglar alarm ; in de third place
dar wuz no bulldog ; an' in de fourf
place der wuz no steel traps. Now
dab ain't burglary et all, boss; dat's
jos' "simply f etlen' chickens, an I
lcabe kh tos Yo'self,"
A TERRIBLE SEA FIGHT.
Row a School of Thresher Sharks
Vanished a Whale.
A fight between a great cow whale
and a school of thresher sharks is
graphically described in an article
in The Wide World Magazine. The
old whale was accompanied by her
calf, and the sharks, as though act-
ing in accordance with some pre-
concerted plan, completely sur-
rounded the two whales, but, ap-
parently realizing that nothing was
to be feared from the calf, concen-
trated all their efforts upon she
cow. Again and again they charged
in upon her, their jaws snapping,
tearing at her mighty sides until
the sea was red with blood. Mean-
while the cow lashed her tail furi-
ously, hurling up sheets of red-
dened water and occasionally
crashing down with terrific force
upon one of her voracious oppon-
ents. Maddened with pain and rage
she dashed this way and that, but
the sharks hung to her sides with a
persistency and ferocity that made
the fascinated onlookers shudder.
Now and again the wildly -lashing
tail would catch one of the assail-
ants, driving it beneath the waves
—no doubt killed or disabled -but
the remainder rushed in undis-
mayed, tearing viciously at the
mammal's bleeding flanks or but-
ting her with the force of batter-
ingg-rams.
It was obvious that the struggle
could havo enly one ending, but
the old whale fought on doggedly.
At one moment, by a supreme effort
she hurled her whole great bulk
clear of the water for a moment,
and the fascinated onlookers be-
held the sharks hanging from vari•
aus parts of her gleaming body by
their serrated teeth. Then down
she went again, with a crash like
thunder, and for an instant whale
and sharks were buried amidst
masses of foam, heavily colored
with the poor mammal's life -blood.
Rising again, she essayed another
change of plan, making for the
rocks and desperately striving to
rub off the clinging sharks against
their edges, But the threshers
were equal to the occasion ; while
those on the outside maintained
their grip, the others dived under
their enemy and charged her anew,
tearing at the whale's side in an
ecstasy of ferocity that was blood-
curdling to witness.
)tore and more feeble grew the
whale's struggle, and at last the
great body turned .over and sank
beneath the red -tinted water.
Probably more men would go to
church on Sunday if they had to
sneak .in through a side door.
FORESTS OF ENGLAND
1 ROYAL COMMISSION REeOM«
MENDS REFORESTATION,
0,000,000 Aercils 01 Lead to bo A,o
gaged and That the Whole
Tr'a',ot be Planted to Trees.
It is characteristic of the way in
which English governmental of
fairs are muddled through that the
most important series of recom-
mendations produced far many
years by a royal commission should
be the work of a commission ap-
pointed to dual with a subject
which has no relation to the sub-
ject reported on. £ fortune heard f 1 t
The report puts forward a series 1 b
of well �oonszdered proposals for
the reforestation of the United Nottingham, England, • It became
Kingdom, which; if carried out, as
known that Reginald Rogers, a
they probably well be, promise to youth of twenty, the son of a
change not only the face • of this wozlcing jeweler, had discovered a
country, but the character of the long -lost grandfather in most ro-
mantic circumstances, and had be -
are managed with ae much care as
the wheat lands And nothing is
wasted. A steady rotation of the
timber Prop is secured by planting
to take the place of the trees cut
down and the timber Is Worked up
ebdg sawmillsy the forests. InoSeatland
there are to -clay, plentsrtions of
spine on land which cost only 25
gents 00 core 00 years ago and on
.whiolz $17 en store was -spent on
TAKING STOOK,
Canada Should Find Qtit the Exe
tout o£ ,!ler Resources).
Moro knowledge is urgently need,
ed 08 to :Canada's timber resotdrese
—knowledge as to the extent of
these forests, the amount of tim-
ber in them, the roto of growth and
all the . other pez'ticulars which
must be known in order to enable
irlanting which aro now bringing those. in charge to know how esueli
in a steady return of $40 an aero timber it is safe to cut without cut -
per annum, ting into the growing stook of the
forest, •'Forestry experts thein-
selves have so far had to depend
A, WILL MYSTERY-- to a great extent an conjecture in
estimating even the acreage of the
English Routh Makes a Romantic forests.
Discovery. It will pay Canada to take stock
Ono of the most extraordinary cf her resources now and use these
with intelligence and foresight.
stories of the forn `attainmentontime
.The people of the United States
c or anevena long ime aro beginning to realize that they
past las been given currency in have been too prodigal in using up
their resources, and the keynote of
;the work of their "Conservative
Commission" has been the "tak-
ing stock'" 0f the resources of the
republic as to forests, mines, 'soil
and water (both as a source of
power and as means of transpor-
tation) and the devising of coone-
mical means of using' them. The
Commission was appointed by Pre-
sident Roosevelt in May last 'et a
meeting of the governors of the
several states, scientific experts
and commercial leaders, and dur-
ing the second week of December
last, the reports of the summer's
work in computing the national re-
sources were presented at another
similar conference.
Canada may well take warning
and, before her national wealth is
wasted to any great extent, provide
for its economical use. But the
first step is to find out just how
much there is. Accounts are
brought from time to time of great
forests existing in Canada's north-
land, especially along the banks of
the great rivers. These accounts
are given by travellers -whose
'routes have lain along the water-
courses, where the heaviest timber
naturally lies. Accounts from
ether travellers who have gone
some: distance from the banks of
the ,streams indicate that in the
drier :regions the timber becomes
much smaller and more scattered.
To obtain definite and compre-
hensive knowledge as to these re-
sources, men .with a knowledge of
timber` estimating should be, sent
out to traverse the entire country,
that. -at some distance from the
streams as well as that along the
water -courses. Full and accurate
reports from .these men' would do
much to clear up the hazy notions
now held as to the resources in
timber of the -less-known parts of
Canada, just as was the case with
the exploring parties sent out by
the. Ontario Government to North-
ern Ontario in 1900.
FOOD CURE:FOR INEBRIETY.
n Ch kilo the
The Use of Sugar i Chet:kiln
Evil of Drinking.
Referring to the manifesto of
the Bread and ' Food Reform
League pointing out the powerful
influence a correct dietary' has in.
reducing the craving for drink, a
London (England) physician stated
"No diet will help the man who,
knowing he will become intoxicat-
ed if he starts drinking, deliber-
ately commences to get drunk.
Most inebriates, however, intend
to take only a few drinks. Then
these few'doses of alcohol excite
such a powerful thirst that they
go on :in the vain hope of quench-
ing this by taking more alcohol,
and so, unwittingly, get drunk.
``This class may be helped -by a
euitable diet. First, they should
'.void all highly spiced articles,'
garlic,' onions, condiments, and
very salt foods. Their meals should
be substantial and nourishing;-
meats such . as beef -steak, mutton
chops., and chicken forming the
principal 'part.
"Feed the potential drunkard on
plenty of sweet things. A jam roll
or other, sweet pudding at lunch
or dinner can supply the body's
demand for sugar, the laok of
which is often the reason of a man's
turning to alcohol. Not caring
much for the taste of sweet foods,
many men unconsciously starve
their bodies of this important food
element. A craving for sugar is
thus set up, and an :attempt is
made .to satisfy this by the sugar
contained in , alcoholic ` drinks.
Every doctor has noticed how the
confirmed alcoholic who has been
'scared off' alcohol by n stroke of
!paralysis is very apb during his
recovery to eat largely of sweats.
"Tho wife who thinks her bus
band is beginning to drink too
much can do a great deal towprds
diverting this tendency by furnish-
ing him with attractively prepared
puddings and ices, etc."
4•
Tho old gentleman who was al-
ways declaring that boys. were not
what they used to be stopped in
front of the smart child. "Well,
Tluddy, greeted the 'old gentle-
roan, "how are you to -day 7"
"Very well, sir," responded the
smart child, shyly.. "And do. you
ever think what you aro going to
do when you aro a great big meal"
"M- -no, sir." "Ah, I knew. ib.
pears, ao o heel a an m come heir to a fortune valued at
new industry which itis hoped will $7,500,000.
The story, as ' told by young
Bogers, is that about three weeks
ago he had to travel from Notting-
ham to Sheffield on business. In
the train he got into conversation
with a man who said he was valet
to a very wealthy old gentleman
named Lowengard. The latter, he
said, was lying seriously ill •in Shef-
field.
On the mention of Lowengard,
young Rogers paid that curiously
enough that was his mother's mai-
den name. Her father had been
a Jewish teacher of languages in
London, and he disappeared soon
after she was born, . andwas sup-
posed to have gone abroad.
The valet was much interested,
and telling Rogers that his master
had returned from South America
to seek his relatives, invited him
to visit the sick man and tell his
tale. He did so, and interviewed
Mr. Lowengard, who, much im-
pressed, admitted that he was Rog-
ers' grandfather, and before he
loft handed him a packet of papers
to post to a firm of solicitors in
Lincoln's Inn, London.
A day later the valet called on
him and took him to London,
where the solicitors stated thatthe
documents consisted ofa letter of
directions and a will, leaving a
vast fortune to Mrs. Rogers and
ber sister, who lives in Lincoln-
shire.
Since then Mr. Lowengard is
said to have died, and the solici-
tors have been making enquiries.
They have, however, it is said,
failed to find the house, which was
in the Ecolesall district of Sheffield,
go far toward solving the problem
of unemployment. It is the work
of a commission appointed in 1900
under a royal warrant to inquire
into and report on coast erosion
and to suggest some organized plan
for the reclamation of land that has
been devoured by the sea, The con
mission held many sittings and ex-
amined numerous witnesses, but
its conclusions On -°east erosion
are
STILL TO BE LEARNED.
In 1908 it occurred to someone th it
the question of afforestation should
be considered, and after a little
perfunctory discussion the coast
erosion commission was told that
it might look into that question as
well. The report which has just
been produced is the result.
But as briefly as possible tbecoaz•
mission has discovered that there
are 9,000.000 acres of land in the
United Kingdom available for ai-
forestation without encroaching on
the land devoted to profitable agri-
culture. In other words, this land
is either derelict or unprofitably
used and is eminently suited for
the scheme which is proposed.
The plan is that all this land
should be acquired by the state
and an elaborate system of state
forests created. The land is to be
bought eompulsorily, if the owners
object to sell, and the money is to
be provided by a public loan, the
interest on wheel will be met, at
first, out of the taxes. It is stated
that the most profitable plan" to
secure a proper rotation of the
timber crop is that 150,000 acres
should be acquired and planted to which Rage's says he was taken.
Nor can they discover, it is alleg-
ed, any registration of the death
of Mr. Lowengard in Sheffield.
,each year, and the approximate
cost of this is placed at about $10,-
000,000 a year. The average cost
of the land is placed at $32 an acro
and the cost of planting et the
same amount, with an allowance of
shout $3 an acre for extra ini-
c or
dental expenses. The net deficit
will be $450,000 in the first year
and will rise progeessively to $15,-
656,250 in the 40th year, after which
the forests will become increasing-
ly
PROFITABLE TO THE STATE.
At the end of 80 years the forests
should pay to the state an annual
revenue of $87,600,000, reckoning
timber at the present prices, which
ought, however, to be materially
enhanced. This revenue should be
perpetual, as the scheme, of course,
provides for planting to take the
place of all the trees cut down.
Looked at from another view-
point, the state will then be in
possession of property worth $2,-
810,000,000, or about $535,000,000
more than the outlay, reckoning
the cost of its creation on the basis
d'
FRANCE'S NEW TORPEDO.
Engine of Death Controlled by
Wireless Waves.
If all that is claimed for this new
radio -automatic torpedo, built at
the Creusot Works, is true, it
promises to prove the most terrible
engine of destruction that the geni-
us of men has 'yet invented. This
weapon of naval warfare can be
worked from shore or from ship,
and can be used against a ship of
the enemy's fleet in motion. There
is no escaping it.
The radio-automatictorpedo is
controlled and directed by the em-
ployment of Hertzian waves, and
by aid of an apparatus which dif-
fers very little from that now used
in wireless telegraphy. When
loaded it would contain 1,000 kilo-
grammes of guncotton and about
of three per cent. per annum at ten times the quantity of explosive
compound interest. charge of the ordinary torpedo. Its'
The most interesting feature of apparatus is synchronized so as to
the scheme is its probable effect
on the timber trade el the world.
Great Britain now imports about
8,500,000 loads of timber it year,
of the kinds that can profitably be
grown in the country. The value
of this timber is about $100,000,000,
and on the basis of one load to the
acre, which is that accepted by
scientific foresters, the country
could produce every stick of tim-
ber that it is now importing and
speed at home the $100,000,000 whit; h
it is now paying every year to
foreigners.
As a matter of fact, the 'experi-
ientc° of private landowners who
have experimented with forestry
shows that the commission rather
understates the case for the affores-
tetion of the country. Thereis
one district in Gloucestershire, on
the slopes of the Cotswold Hills,
where there aro
THOUSANDS OF ACRES
receive the Hertzian eaves from
/the "parent" ship or shore sta-
tion, and to refuse those emanat-
ing from the enemy. It will be
capable of maintaining a maxi-
mum speed of nearly fifteen knots
for five 'hours.
One ofthe most important fea-
tures is the wide radius of its ac-
tion, From its starting point the
operator, bo he on ship'or ashore,
can control its every movement,
stop it, send it dead slow ahead or
astern, and alter its course with as
much ease as if he wore on board
the deadly craft,
The inventor is M. Gustave Ca -
vet, who has lung devoted himself
to the study of the problem and of
the acienee of naval warfare.
NOT A HUSTLER.
A gentleman who was waiting for
his train at a certain railway sta-
of land which were never fit for tion, one day asked n porter, who
anything but the roughest kind of was lying on .one of the scats,
grazing. In the days when the where the statiounlaster lived. The
Stroud Valley was a great woolen' porter lazily pointed to the House
manufacturing center sheep were with his foot.
i+aiserl on these hills, but the wool; The gentleman, very much struck
was poor in quality, and when the by the man's laziness, said,
local industry flied there was lit-� "If you can show me a lazier ac-.
tle demand elsewhere for it. Some tion than that, my good man, I'll.
df the great landowners planted give you half a dollar.
the 11111814es with pine, fix, .el,m and The. porter, not moving an inch,
other quick -growing woods and, replied • "Put it in my pe.ckot
,
fanners in the district now deelarn guv'nor•„
chat after twenty years' growth had --
been attained an acre of woodland The man who does nothing puts Children are so shiftless these
yields a 'better reter;i eviry yearit all over the rest of us in one re-, times, And why don't you give it
than an acre of wheat land in the sprct. Iic never .makes a mistake any thought4" "$—bsoeuse I ani.
valleys. Of course, the woodlands of any consequence. ' is little girl, s i'fi
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NAL 28,
Temperance Leeson. Proverbs 23'
29435, Golden Text,
Prov. 23; 32.
Verse 1. The Improved Mau
with an Improved Character, is the
Essential Means to an Improved
World.—Wecanvut have a he even-
ly city unless the inhabitants era
of a heavenly cbareeter.
IT, There is Motorial Enough,
Money Enough, Mind Enough, in
This World, to Make It a Perfidies,
—The money and talent in any civi-
lized city issufficient if properly
used and distributed to make that
city an Eden, an Hesperides Gar-
den, or the realization of any
dream, ancient or modern, of the
Golden Age. All would be edu-
cated, all would partake of the best
things; there would be no slums,
no abject poverty. Everyone
could have all the joy, the wealth,
the comforts, the rights, the school
privileges which he could uae. The
one thing needed is the Improved
Man to make the social transfor-
mation of the world, the eliminat-
ing every evil from the character
of men, till they are restored to
the moral irna,ge of God, when each
one did all he wished, and wishes
but what he ought.
III. The Great Obstacle in the
Way is sin, bad character in some
of its many forms.
The one of these forms, the great
obstacle which most concerns us in
this lesson, is Intemperance, the
rant of self-control over the ap
potitee and passions.
The wise man of the Proverbs
expresses the evils of intemper-
ance by a series of questions,
29. Who hath -woe 1 who hath sor-
row ?—The words corresponding to
the two substantives are, strictly
speaking. interjections,•• es in the
margin,
speaking,
hath. Ohl Who hath
*Alas? The woes are too greataed
too many to name separately.
They are woes of body and woes
of mind; woes in one's self, woes
in his .family; pains, diseases,
poverty. •
Note that other ,people have woes
and sorrows, besides the intemper-
ate man.. Apostle' . and martyrs
have been imprisoned and tortured,
have suffered hunger and thirst,
endured poverty and sickness an,l
pain. We have studied some in-
staneesduring the past quarter
Read the eleventh chapter of Ile-
brews. Read the stories of the
Huguenots in Franca, and of the
martyrs' and missionaries of every
age. .
But the difference in the two
kinds of .suffering is heaven -wide.
The woes and sorrows of Peter
and John, Paul and Silas, in
dungeons and chains, rejoicing
'that they were counted worthy to
Suffer for Christ's sake, with clear
consciences, for the •sake -of the
kingdom of Goch and salvation of
nien, listening to God's "Well
done, good and faithful," and see
ing the crown of righteousness are
almost infinitely removed from the
woes and sorrows of those that
tarry long at the wine, whose suf
ferings are the fruit of their own
sins.,
The other sorrows that flow from
the wino clip mentioned • in the
wise man's questions belong only
to wickedness—a quarrelsome dis-
position—where strong drink in-
flames the passions, and, at the
same time, removes the restraint
of conscience and will, first mad-
dening and then "unchaining the
tiger, grumbling, foolish talking-
where the drunkard's "tongue is
set on fire of hell ;" "wounds with-
out cause;" "redness of eyes;"
,either (or both) the dimming of the
Sight, physical, mental, and spiri-
tual,, or the "copper nose" which
makes "the drinker's: nose blush
for the sins of his mouth."
IV, Anothor Obstacle Among the
Boys -Cigarettes.
V. The Means by Which These
Great Evils Can be Removed are
Precisely the Same as Those which
Produced the Marvelous Transfor-
mations of -Character in the Early
Christian Disciples, Which We
Have Been ,fltndeing.
1. Christ, our Living Leadei, the
power of God for salvation.
2. The Holy Spirit, convincing
men of sin, of righteousness, and
of judgment oto cone; awakening
men's hearts, inspiring them to
better things.
3, The religious life which these
prodnoe.
4, The results, as manifested in
the healing of the body, and the
betterment of the outward life and
happiness, which were .'symbols and
means to a bettor spiritual life.
5. The bantling together in an
organization which created a help
ful moral atmosphere.
6. The courage, wisdom, gene-
rosity, love, peace, joy, religious
spirit, righteousness of life, pro-
dueed in the disciples,
7. Their efforts to bring others
intb these, blessings, and to spread
the good news.
8. The good example of the
Ohristialve
There is nothing Blow about soiree
fellows till you want them to pay
beak is lease
396,000,000 IN EMPIRE
1)Q A WORT,0 S TRAME OC OYER
FIVE BILLION 1)Oi&iUt&.
Britain Consumes Rost Roor Per
Pad.— Canada oiost Spirits
—Australia Most Toa.
A hird's-ey view of the popula
tion, trade, and industry of the
British .Empire may lee obtained
from the figures published in the
r000ntly issued Board of Trade
"St
fishatisticalEmpire,"Abstract for the /3A -
Few poople release the vastness
of the British Empire. In the first
pleoe, it includes:
11,332,000 square miles of terve
tory, of which the 'United Kingdom
only has 121,000 square milds.
396,000,00 people of all colors and
races, of whom only 44,538,000 live
in the United Kingdom,
The mother eeentry still possesses
the largest city in the empire in
London, but the Empire outside
the United Kingdon now includes
thirteen cities with populations of
over 200,000. Two of them in In-
die—Calcutta and • .Bombay—aro
closely approaching the. million,
The Empire has a world trade
which in 1907 totalled 21,667,343,-
000. Of this only £430,537,000 was
done inter -imperially. The propor-
tion is thus ;
Per Cent.
Empire trade with foreign
countries . .. ... 74.2
Inter -imperial trade .. .. ., 25.8
IMPERIAL TRADE BEHIND.
In the ten years up to 1907 the
Empire's trade with foreign coun-
tries increased by £432,000,000, but
the inter -Imperial trade only in-
creased by a ;168,000,00. The larg-
est individual trade is done between
the Empire and the United States -
of America, from whom the Em-
pire in 1907 bought £209,047,000
worth of goods, and • to whom the
Empir esold £120;005,000 worth of
goods.
Every year the Empire produces
vast masses of wealth in the shape
of minerals and agricultural pro-
ducts.
roducts. Here are some of the things
produced in -1907:
Coal .... ..
Iron ore . ....
Pig iron .
Wheat ..
Oats
Tons.
304,722,000
17,029,000
10,680,000
Bushels.
412,300,000.
114,200,000
372,500,000'
Dlaize 33,800,000
Pounds.
Coffee .... ... .... .. 45,106,000
Tea ...., .... ....''430,913,000
11,940,000
Cotton . ... .-.1,235,124,000
COAL CONSUMPTION. -
The United Kingdom is the great-
est ooal'consumer, 'averaging 4,14.,
toms per head. Canada comes
next with an average of 2.81 tons ..
per head. The 'Australian eats
more wheat than any other resi-
dent of the Empire, the amount per
head being 7.13 bushels. In the
United Kingdom the amount is
6.07 bushels per head.. New Zea-
land is especially partial to oats,•
the amount consumed per head av-
eraging 12.32 bushels, or three
times as much as in any other part
to the Empire.
The population of the United
Kingdom are tho largest beer
drinkers in the Empire, with an
average of 27.6 gallons per head.
Australia comes next with 11.1 gal-
lons per head. Canada heads the
list so far as the consumption of
spirits is conoeimed, with 0.99 gal-
lon per head, while the. Oape of
Good Hope is particularly partial
tc' wine, consuming 2.28 gallons per
head, or more than twice as much
as Australia, the next on the list:
For ,tea consumption` Australia'
holds pride of place with 8.05
pounds; then comes New Zealand
(7.22), and the United Kingdom
(6.21), there being increases in all
these eases • over the previous year.
During the year no fewer than
2.344,824 tons of shipping classed es
sailing 'vessels. and 10,838,631 tons
of steam vessels were on the re-
gister as "flying the flag,"
SOLDI
A Yankee and a Frenchman
owned a pig between them. After
fattening piggy well up until the
Festive season, they unanimously
deeidod to kill him, for dividend pur-
poses, With his native shrewd -
nese, the Yankee was extremely
anxious to divide so that he should
himself secure both hind -quarters,
sr.. he persuaded his French Dart•
nes that the best way to divide the
pig was to cut it across the back.
The Frenchman readily agreed, en
condition that the Yankee should.
turn his back, end in that position
talcs his choice of the pieces after
the pig was out in two. The Yan-
kee turned away, and the French-
man elide Vieh piece sill you, 'eve
—ze piece wiz as tail on 'im, or ze
piece sob 'ave got rho tail on "on?"
"The piece with the tail!" shouted
the Yankee, instantly. "Den, by
gar 1 you take 'im, en' I will take
zo ozzer piece! retorted •the
Pronchman. On rapidly mini of;
about the horrified Yankee found
that hie enterprising partner had
cut off_: the pig's tail and stuck It
in the animal's iuovie
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