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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-7-15, Page 2NOTES AND 'COMIVIi1 NiT$ Flow was It that you chanced to Mae ane such a inlet/eke the oilier day'? It was embarrassing and almost inexcusable, only that something or somebody brought it about. • Iiow did it happen? Probably more in- genuity and mental effort are (ex- pended in explaining the causes leading up to mistakes than are re- quired for the task out of which the mistake itself arises, Uncon- aoiously the young man at large is led to feel a necessity for explana- tions in such emergencies. After a few 'experiences of being held up himself as the cause of others' failures, it i.ecomes easy to adopt the policy of "standing from un- der"—if he can, At the same time it remains unchallenged that in this effort to shift the burdens of blame in the business world, one of the most destructive and wasteful of all organization evils is involved. When every detail of the whys and wherefores of the circumstance has been canvassed and accepted, it is no more than an explanation. There is nothing constructive in it. It is no more to the point than is the preverbal "crying over spilt milk," At the same time business methods may demand the explana- tion. The question is, "Where are you going to place the blame?" For this question of placing the blame is of more concern to the young man making the mistake than he is likely to suspect. Mistakes always have oharacteriz• ed the human agent. A machine which operates to turn out a pro- duct distorted and out of propor- tion is "out of order." The man who docs a thing short of his pur- pose simply has "made a mistake." But just as frequently in the man, as in machine, he is out of order— incapable, ineffective. One mistake may he a mental or physical lapse of a moment in the man, but any- thing which minimizes this one mis- take to the man making it must serve as an encouragement to other such shortcomings. As he finds ex- cuse for himself he is the less pre- pared for the next chance at error. In two ways this search for excuse show why he didn't succeed. Could anything be more absurd The truth is that in so many cir- cumstances involving mistakes the man who is called upon for the explanations so rarely does more than invoke himself a little more deeply. "I took Jones' word for it," he says, "I took it for granted that he knew what he was talking about." Yet in using Jones' name for clearing himself, he is willing to leave the inference that Jones is one of the least dependable men in the world. Why, then, did he make such a mistake as to depend upon Jones in the first place? It would have been a piece of constructive genius if, suspecting Jones' know- ledge and authority, he had ques- tioned both to the end of saving the mistake and turning the possi- t bility into a best possible result. THE PLAICE WAS T00 GREAT The Rich Man's Difficulty Before Jesus Is Here Bisouesed; Jesus saki unto him, go sell what- ever thou heist and give to the poor; and Dome, take up the cross and follow me.—Mark x. 21, Here, wo have a drama that al - mese merges into ,a tragedy, It is full of power; it quivers with in- tensest interest. Two young men face each other, Tile distinguishing quality in one is the bearing of a cultured, well- bred gentleman, The distinguished quality of the other is the strength and dignity and beauty of the soul thab shines in every feature of his face. In the face of the one is a great expectancy; in that of the other is the strong reserve power thab invites the ctj of human need, The one is a pupil, the other is the Master. Jesus took his band and, lifting him up to that level where man looke into the eyes of man, said : "Put away, sell those things that are be- tween you and your fellow man and take the same pathway I am taking; then you will truly realize the vision that has come to your soul." These words created conviction, for they voiced the message of- his own soul. Fe felt that was the door through which he must pass and that on the other side would be NEW JOY AND POWER. But the price was too great. In a silence as of the grave he turned sadly toward home, This is no condemnation of riches. There is no moral quality in mere money. Our saying that money is the root of all evil is only partly true. It is true in so far as money awakens the worst forms of selfish- ness in us; it touches springs and sources of soul poison as nothing else does. If there is anything else that will touch a deeper depth and awaken a worse foi,n of selfishness, then that is the root of all evil. Jesus enunciated a great principle and did not tie up mankind to a narrow rul,e. Life must have a vision, an ideal. A vision is an outline of possibility, "To live," to "truly live," is to bring every energy, every activity, every thought to bear upon the filling in of that outline, it is to see a "gleam" and follow it, To see that melon is to see the purpose of God, To set out co realize it is to feel the presence of God in the life. This gives tine bigness to the soul and to the life. The Ivan who is too big to consider shall things is also too Small to consider big things. We must have telescopic men and men with telescopic minds. Too many are microscopic men—intense upon little things without seeing. their interrelationship or their relationship to a center, In religion the order must never be inverted— it is vision,. that wo may see how the parts relate to the whole; outlook, that we may helpfully and truly get inlook, WEALTH NEEDS VISION, and this Jesus gave this young man. Vision finally changed him. Tradition says the young man fol- lowed Jesus later. This is easy to believe, for no true soul oan'ever get away from its vision or from the love that awakened it. Both were here. Every beggar he met, every struggling workman he employed, every ill -clad, ill -fed child he -saw, every tired -looking mother and every form of sorrow or suffering would daily awakrn his vision anew. It would be with him as he rested on his own luxurious couch, as he sat at his own richly laden table, as he put on his own comfortable garments, as he balanced his weekly accounts —the vision would pour in its light and suggestions on these. And so this vision, this love of Jesus, would follow and a} -peal and plead until the heart and life became shot through with the Christ spirit, sel- fishness was driven out, his soul set free to follow the gleam, and the true joy of ennobled manhood be- came the young man's possession. REV. DR. JOHN. R. MACKAY. OILING TIIE WAVES. Valuable Aid in Wearing Ship in a G ale. When the captain of a wave -beat en ship pours oil upon the waters he does not empty a barrel of kenos• ene over the side. He stitches up three or four cotton bags, which he fills first with oakum and then with oil, usually equal parts of fish oil and Kerosene. The bags are then tied tightly at the tops and pricked all over with a sail needle to permit the oil to exude, and are hung from the boat davits and weather chains to drip their mollifying contents on the raging billows. The bags must not be allowed to get empty, but must be refilled every two hours. For six bags ten gallons of oil are used in thirty hours. Some- times, if it is very cold, the oil con- geals and will nut run out through the holes fast enough, and the mouth of the bag is then loosened to let it escape in that way, Its effect is magical on a rough sea. A huge comber will arise threatening- ly to bury the laboring vessel under ons of water, but will strike a patch of oil no larger than a com- mon dining -table and subside in an instant into a smooth, round swell, which the ship rides like a cork. The use of oil is also a valuable aid in wearing ship in a gale anti high seas. A few gallons of paint oil over the lee quarter enables the vessel to perform the manoeuvre in perfect safety without taking a drop of water on board. When a boat ships so much water that it is impos- sible to get the oil bags slung into position without running the risk of being swept overboard, an or- dinary hed sheet saturated with paint oil, tied to a rope and allowed to float, will soon calm the seas sufficiently to permit men to move about the decks safely. Paint oil is agreed to be the best to use, rape- seed oil and porpoise oil rank next, but kerosene is not satisfactory unless mixed with some other oil, .4 OIL AGAINST COAL. The advantages of ell fuel for stationary and marine boilers are receiving much attention in Eng- land. n -land, Although the total cost is greater for oil than for coal, oil: has the advantage of greater con- venience. simplicity and cleanli- ness, It is also more efficient, since a pound of good oil is found to have a calorific value about 35 per cent. greater than that of an equal weight of coal. It also occupies much less space. and in that respect is very snitabie for ships. Many improve- ments have recently been made in the methods of spraying and burn- ing the oil. 4• LIFTING GRAIN BY SUCTION. At the Millwall Docks, London, a new installation of grain -hand- ling and storing appliances has re- cently been put to work, including pneumatic elevators which draw giain out of the hold of a ship at the rate of 75 tons per hour for each elevator. Four work simul- taneously, each dipping into a sep- arate hold. The grain is lifted through flexible pipes to an eleva- tion of 80 feet. Band -conveyors, eleetrically driven, having a total length of 2,I/t miles, carry the grain to the granary on the quay. — "I understand the Neweds aro having trouble," remarked the spinster. "Some people take her part, and some others side with him. And, I suppose, growled the bachelor, " there are a few ec- centric people who mind their own 'minces 1 JAIL-111Rl) PLAYED COtiNT. Il.is duke Got Him Expensive Din- ner, Also Another Tern. The French correspondent of the London Telegraph•relates the fol- lowing amusing story of a jail -bird's joke. A man in rags and list shoes stopped a motor taxi near the Arc de Triomphe and said : "My name is the Count d'Abbevilie, I have just wagered fifty louts that just as 1 am now, I will get dinner in a smart restaurant. There will be fi:.' hoofs for you if you help me t; eh( the bet." The chauffeur entr,,,1 ;lite the fun of the thing, and P, no the "count" to an expensive ret.taur• ant at Montmartre. There he gave the landlord the tip, and the "count" was served with the tit - most deference, not a waiter ap- pearing to notice the state of his clothing. When the time came to call for the hill the "Count, d'Abbe- ville" said: "I have not a sou. I have just come out of Fresnes pri- son on ticket -of -leave. Take me to the police-staiton." The landlord, the waiters, and the chauffeur roared at Monsieur le Comte's good joke, and, to keep up the fun, all went with him to the police -station. There the joke was found to have even more point in it than they thought; but a different one from that which they had expected. The "Count d' Abbeville" had been very humorous at their expense in a lit- eral sense. He proved to be one Jules Duval, several times convict - eel, and he was perfectly correct in saying that he had not a penny, and had just come out of Fresnes pri- son. He has now gone back to jail. In Republican France anyone seems able to swindle anybody by calling himself a count. _-..--. SCIENCE of WORN BOOTS. Character Reading By Boots And bhoes. Palmistry, phrenology, grapho- logy, and all the other methods of judging character seem destined henceforth to take second place to cothurnology—the science of the boots. According to Dr. Garre, of Basle, worn shoes give far more reliable indications than the lines of the hand, the features of the face, or the style of handwriting. If heel and sole of the shoe are equally worn after two months' wear, the wearer is an energetic business man, a trusty employee, or an excellent wife or mother. If the sole is worn on the outer edge the wearer has a marked ten- dency for adventures, or a bold, obstinate spirit. ' If the wearing is on the jnside edge it is a sign of irresolution and weakness in a man, modesty in a woman. Dr. Garre has put his views to practical test, and on one occasion, having closely observed a stranger entering his house, noticed that his slime were worn on the outer edge, the tip of the sole being roughened, while the rest was still new. He was convinced that the man before him was a scoundrel, and on the very same day the individual was arrested for theft, 4, WHERE THE MIRACLE CAME IN Dr. Walter C. Smith, the popular Scotch poet -preacher on one oc- casion tried to explain to an old lady the meaning of the scriptural expression, "Take up thy beet and walk," by saying that the bed was simply a mat or rug easily taken up and carried away. "No, no," replied the lady. "1 canna believe that. There would be no miracle in walking away wi' a bit o' mat or rug on your bo.lk." 14.414+00Nr41rsit Erg flannel APPETIZING MEAT DISHES. . Creamed Ohiolren with Mush- rooms,—Boil until tender one six pound chicken, Take out bones and pink the meat into small pieces. Then season with salt, pepper, and a dash of two of cayenne, Add the juice of one lemon, one fair sized onion, grated, one can of mushrooms out in halves, one quart of cream heated, one-balf cup of butter and half cup flour rubbed together. Mix all together nicely and put in a buttered•. baking dish with cracker crumbs over the top. Bake half -]tour, Barbecued Chicken.—Take a fat, tender spring chicken of roasting size, Clean and wash well and salt inside and out. Sprinkle over with. flour quite heavily. 'Plage in a kettle with heart and liver and two cupfuls of boiling water. Let it boil well, as you would for a pot roast, and baste often. When about half done, or so that it scarcely resists the fork, add one-half cupful of vinegar, boil until" done, and take out. Chop the liver and heart and serve in the gravy, Chicken is de- licious cooked this way and served cold- The rich gravy can be used as a dressing for lettuce. Recipe for Suet Pudding.—One, cupful suet, one cupful raisins,' one-half eupful citron, one-half cupful currants, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, and soda, one-half teaspoonful of nutmeg and, salt, one cupful sour milk, one cupful New Orleans molasses, three and one-half cupfuls flour. Add one-half tumberful of good brandy, Steam in cane. Keep in airtight box. They will keep and may be used when needed: Steam three hours, Meat Loaf.—A good substitute for veal loaf is the beef loaf. Take two pounds of round beefsteak and one-holf pound of salt pork ;_.put through meat grinder,. Salt and pepper and a little nutmeg, one egg, and enough dry bread crumbs to mold into a good solid loaf. If taken out of tin while warm, a fine thick gravy can be made. It should bake in a moderate oven nejrly an hour. This is much more economical than veal. CLEANING AND CLEANSING, Furniture Polish.—To one-half gallon of raw linseed oil add two and one-half ounoes of balsam of fir. To remainder of container add enough pure apple vinegar to make up the gallon and shake well be- fore applying. But a little polish shuld be rubbed on well and dried as much as possible. This is an ex- cellent furniture polish. To Remove Paint,—To remove paint from any kind of cloth use common paint remover, which can be had at any drug store, pour it on the cloth, and let stand a few minutes and rub with dry cloth, Cleaning Silver.—Moisten liber- ally an old silk handkerchief or then soft, worn siik with kerosene. Rub it over silver and, you will be lelighted with the almost immedi- ate result, dark stains, of how long standing, quickly disappearing be- neath the friction, and the silver will remain bright a long time. If you desire an extra "shine" use another silk cloth and dry rub with polish. To Remove Paint from Windows. —Moisten the edge of a silver coin and rub the spot of paint. The paint will disappear like magic. Mattress Pads.—One of the simplest and nicest things for the pad on top of the mattress is the silence cloth which comes for din- ing tables. Get the desired length and bind the ends with bias strips of white material. These launder nicely and are delightfully com- fortable. 1 UMPLING S. German Potato Dumplings,— Cook eight half potatoes, grate, add a tablespoonful of salt, one egg, three-fourths of a pound of flour. Knead as you would breed dought, Roll out, form into belle, Put in a kettle of boiling water and cook twenty minutes. Those arc delioieus with roast pork, Cherry Dumplings.—Two cupfuls of flour, ene tablespoonful of lard, one cupful of sweet milk, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, one. half saltspoonful of salt, one cup- ful of cherries, one-half cupful of sugar. Sift salt, baking powder and flour together; rub in the lard and wet with the milk. Roll out about one-fourth of an inch thick and cut into three inch squares. Heap as many cherriee as the dumplinge will hold in the center of each; sprinkle thickly with sugar and press together. Put in a ket- tle of boiling water, SEASONABLE SALADS. Cab been Salad --Three-fourths or.nful r,f e, o sit ar. one e tea - 1,' gone sna,rful arourd mnstn.rd, one tea- Faseenfnl bnttnr melted, half e110101 of virmear. Let come t0 a boil and neer 004"' one small head of cab - Lege cut fine. gain Salad. --Out up email bits of boiled ham, placed in salafl bowl with the hearts and inside leaves of a head of lottuee, Make dress - lug tie follows; Mix in a saucepan one pint of sour aneaal, as free from milk as possible, half pint good vinegar, popper, salt, and a small piece Of butter, sugar and a shall tablespoonful mustard mix- ed smooth; boil, add the well beat- en yolks of two eggs, earring care- fully until it thickens to the cons sistency of starch ; then set in a cool place or on ice, and when cold pour over salad and mix well, Salad Drossin ,—Boat two eggs, add three large tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one'teaspoonful of must- ard moistened in a little. of the vinegar, add to eggs, and then add salt and white pepperto taste and one:teaspoonful of sugar, Add two tablespoonfuls of cream "and beat in quickly. Add lump butter size ofan egg. Put in rice boiler and stir slowly until the mixture is a little thicker than thick cream, VARIOUS USEFUL HELPS. Removing Paint Specks.—Moisten baking soda with water to paste and apply to the paint spot. When dry rub, off both paste and speck, To Protect the Hat,—Buy apiece of oil silk large enough to cover the whole hat .and extend under the brim,- Cut.the goods circular and run a casing around the cclge, so that when it es put on the hat, the drawstring may be pulled up lightly. Fasten the bag securely in- side the crown of the hat, and then when you are caught in a summer shower, it can be quickly taken out and adjusted to the hat and you can go on your way in peace of mind. Uses for Newspapers.—To keep burglars out spread newspapers on the floor. Thieves will not etep on a newspaper because it crackle may awaken some one. A well known criminal lawyer is authority for this statement. To fill cracks in wooden floors put one-half pounds newspaper in three quarts water and soak three days. Then add one tablespoonful powderekl alum and one quart wheat flour. Stir and boil till like cake dough. Cool and fill cracks. It will harden like cement. To fill rat holes use above recipe, but add, when cool, a liberal allowance of red pepper. To clean carpets wet a newspaper with ammonia and water, squeeze, tear into bits, throw on the floor, and sweep from one wall to the opposite one. Repeat, beginning where you left off. Use them to cover top of shelves, bottom of drawers for cleaning (dampening them), hardwood floors, other kinds of floor, also top of range after each meal, outside of kettle and pans. ENGLAND'S DEBT TO CONVICT. Fine Ronde and Fortifications Built by Convict Labor. The news published the other day that a well -made road ;has just been completed by convict labor through Parkhurst Forest, in the Isle of Wright, to the site marked out for the new colony of habitual criminals, serves to call attention to a seldom -noticed phase of Eng- land's penal system. Not all prisoners are employed at comparatively useless tasks, such as oakum -picking and stone -break- ing, for example, nor have •they been in the past. But for convict labor the nation would not to -day own the fine docks it possesses at Chatham and Portsmouth, to say nothing of the fortifications on the Verne and on Blue Bell Hill. At other places remind the coasts convicts have constructed fine breakwaters, deepened harbors, nad widened estuaries, The wonderful system of defensive galleries at Gibraltar, too, was constructed by them; and at was they have ex- cavated vast subterranean granaries in the living rock, capable of hold- ing food supplies for the garrison for ten year• ahead. Perhaps, however, the most. stupendous convict enterprise ever undertaken is that now in progress at Dartmoor, where the wilderness is slowly, yet surely, being trans- formed into someturng very like a garden. No paid labor would ever have accomplished this almost miracle, for the simple reason that it could never have paid for it to have undertaken it. The water-logged soil has first to be trenched and drained rood by rood, and almost yard by yard. Then it is treated with white lime, at, the rate of no fewer than five tions to the acre. Afterwards spade culture precedes the advent of the plough and of ordinary manures. And all the tools and other ap- pliances used are manufactured by the convicts; the I.ecessary draught animals are reared by them. Even the warder -overseers drive round in prison -made traps drawn by prison -bred ponies. SENSE OF ART, Homeboyo—"I've read some- whore'that the Chinese will not al- low their women to be photograph- ed." Glo betintt--"Shows their some of art, Int boy, I've been there, and seen sonic' of 'en 1" If we all had our own wayother people would quickly got out oC 14 WRECKERS RS OF IHE SLUMS h'11'3IAIa11 SitYL0C110 IN I+IYBIt- I'0OIl, l;NGLAN'0- Wantons Business Plied by Woman —Charge 1,000 Vee Cent, Iutereet. Almost every week in Liverpool, England, some woman domes up at the Police Court charged either with being an unregistered money, lender er with Dairying on busi- ness away from her registered ad- dress, In nearly every ease the woman le heavily fined, and the fines are always pada without delay. These women are extt•aordinarily. active in . Liverpool, and in the opinion of one who knows them and 'their system thoroughly; they are in some part at least respon- sible for the city's black record for domestic tragedies. ' WRECKERS OF SLUMS. "They are the wreckers of the slums," a London Daily News rep- resentative was told. "How many homes they have wrecked and how much misery they have caused pro- bably no one can estimate: And, despite the activity of the police, they seem to have established them- selves firmly', so firmly that in some districts they exercise absolute tyranny." Their system is very simple. They do not bother themselves or their clients with County Courts and the paraphernalia of the law. Some poor woman, possibly unknown to her husband, goes to one of them for a shilling or two to meet some. claim. She gets it—at an interest ewf 2d. or 3d. on the shilling per week. Perhaps she does not pay for a week or two. Tho debt mounts up at compound interest. She can then only pay off a portion at a time, The rest stays to germinate, and at last perhaps she, may have paid ten or fifteen times the amount borrowed, and still be heavily in debts. The husband must not be told, and so the money -lender main- tains her grip. At last she is un• able to pay an instalment. FEMALE SHYLOCK. Then the money -lender shows no mercy to her victim. The women are all burly. Fragile women do not go into the trade. In the Police Court a short time ago a woman was dealt with who had almost torn to pieces one of her victims who could not pay. She gripped her by the hair, pulled her down in the gutter, and scratched her with a hatpin. This is the usual method of securing payment. "Very often," the interviewer was told, "the moneylender has a general shop. at which her client ,s forced to purchase, paying exor- bitant prices for inferior stuff — a shilling, say, for groceries that could be got for 3d. or 4d. at an ordinary shop. And the more in- terest paid often works out at more than a thousand per ceut. per an- num. A curious point about these women was elucidated a short time ago. For long it had been suspect- ed that there was someone bchr. all these women financing them - a money -lending Moriarity. Recent- ly the police got this man, and he was fined $500. What is wanted is power to imprison the women for long periods without the option of a fine." A LAND 01' OLD TIN'S. Discarded Cans are A.ppreeiatcd in Hayti. An interesting sight into social and commercial conditions in Hay- ti, the blank republic, is contained in .a report from the British Con- sul -General, issued by the Foreign Office. Old tins are in great demand throughout the island. Condensed milk, preserve, butter, and lard tins form practically the bulk of thr cooking and table utensils used throughout the island, Cooking is done in five -pound hotter and lard tins. Condensed milk tins become drinking mugs by the simple addi- tion of a band which serves as a handle. Old petroleum tins are used for storing and carrying water, and even a cook in a well-to-do family prefers old tins for cooking purpos- es to ordinary saucepans or other kitchen utensils, CURE FOR POISON IVY. In the summer season it is not uncommon for persons going into the woods to be poisoned by costa t with dogwood, ivy or the poise oak. The severe itching and semi Ing which is thus produced may ur. relieved by first washing the parte with a solution of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, and then applying cloths with ex- tract of hamamelis. Take a dose of Epsom salts internally or a don- ble Rochelle powder. The cure is immediate, • IN SUBURBS. ."How do you lik your new neigh - hovel" "I haven't palled on them. I didn't like the look of their furni- ture as it was being carried in," RAID OF MALAY PIRATES EIGHT 01? A CITWJ1SI1 JUNK'S • GREW THEIR L1YJ1S. flung np the Steward and Forged Him to Disclose Location of Valuables. A rousing,pirate story emelt from the vicinity of Singapore. A large Chinese junk left Singapore for. Hainan, but found the winds unfavorable and next night dropped anchor between Pule Tolcong and'. the mainland of Johore, not far, from the " Sultan's Asian Monte Carlo. The crew of fourteen and four :passengers were aroused at, midnight by the barking of the junk's dog, but the alarm was speedily .silenced by A MALAY KNIFE. Two prahus had come alongside and inthein were ten men. some Chinese and others Malays. They proceeded to strike right. and left among the sailors, laying several low. Then they seized the chinehow and proceeded to hang him up in buccaneer style to force him to diseioso the location of the most valuable cargo. This he did( and the pirates having secured a-. the booty they could make way with departed as silently as they had Dome. The booty was not immense. 1t consisted of $4 in money, gold leaf valued at $80, raw ehandu valued at $90 and six boxes of per- sonal effects. When the survivors came to count losses they found five dead on the junk, two were missing, their bodies having been thrown overboard. and four were wounded, one of whom died later. His deposition was taken at the General Hospital at Singapore. Seven of the occupants of the junk were. PRACTICALLY UNHURT, and these started to bring their vese eel back to Singapore, the chinchow coming on ahead in a sampan. When he 'arrived a police party put out in the launch Lady Eve- lyn and met the junk off Tanjong Katong. She was towed into port. and the injured men were convey- ed to the General Hospital, and the five bodies landed for burial. The survivors turned over to the police four weapons found on board af- ter the pirates left. These may help in identifying the criminals, who escaped unscathed, 'The weapons are two long Chinese knives with narrow blades and hone handles, an axe with a short ion handle and the heavy murderous fighting blade with which the greatest execution was 'wrought. —,F RIUBIC OF TIIE TELEGRAPH. The Bears Think It Is the Buzzing of Bees. Everyone has put his ear to a tele- graph pole to hear the wires hum, and most people have assumed that the wind was entirely responsible for the sound. So it is, in many cases, but often the note is heard where not the slightest movement of the air is preceptiblc. A recent French investigator tells us that the sound in this case is due to the ex- pansion and contraction of the wires from variations of temperature. As the wires are not perfectly uni- form, they rub against the insula- tors, making a slight noise, which is amplified by the post acting as a sounding -board. Another investi- gator is sure that the sounds are due to electric waves, but he fails to explain how ordinary telegraph wires should be able to serve as wave detectors and in what way the electric waves are transformed into sound waves. The other theory; seems more probaole, Some curious stories are told of • this telegraph wire music. In Siberia the bears thinly that: it in the buzzing of hese, and would tear down the poles to look for honey if the constructors did not pile great stones about them to prevent this. In France on the south side of the. forest of Fontainebleau, the tele- graph sounds are regarded as presaging rain. This is because the south wind in this region brings rain, and the forest shuts off the north wind. In some districts the noise is popularly supposed to he due to the passage of messages, but it is hardly nocessary to say that there is no evidence to support this V iew. `;OUTS POLAR MINERALS. One of the results of the recent r•'.ploration of the Antarctic (on- :.ent is the discovery that that :one and distant land, with its bur- den of snow and ice, is able to fur- nish minerals of value to the eivi lized world. Among the minerals is a very good variety of coal, Pro- Mem: David, one ,of Lieutcntuit Shackleton's companions, who climbed Mount Erebus, expresses the opinion that there are. many minerals en the Antarctic C'ontin- ont that could be profitably worked from Australia. Did outukemefor n fool whim Iei r. ,y you married rne'7" cried an angry husband, in the thick of a domesti: quarrel, to which the wife meekly responded :-"No, Samuel, I did riot.; brit then you always said I was no judge of character.' .71111. ,V, 61+ t'11 to tui Pie one to the W01 mn out In the wh. eitj Sthe 1 cos je sui abl ed ane Th, pal fro stir but ma see Ex' wa; enc giv for stn dui brc hip dat of Ion 'aro the ' are . T dui ste silk gov evi. 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