HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-2-17, Page 3ENGLAND NEEDS A MA
411111 IlitIPIRI IS
D AN ILIER.
NI There need we been no ignorallO
41 eu viae, no diH$LeQn nocla
hatred.. PO dangerous pneerty
the ruling olass ruled 'wisely,
'N There need be no disaster • lie
the ruling class done their dut
There need be DO disaster yet, if ti
Allen will be brave enough to toll
the people the truth and treat
- them.
(olonioliluet be Held Mid Defend
ed —0 yore:non C $houJj
TrUtet
Cie People,
Socialiat Blatchford rnay nob have
the eorrect solution for the prob-
lem which faces England as the
bead a the Britieh Empire. He
certainly half en eloquent pen whieh
• makes his. •solution look like the
ouly' logical one while you are in
the atmoophoro of one of his ar-
tielea.
elL
The following.' article, from the
rondon Daily Mail, dole with the
censervation of the Empire. The
'folinwing is what Mr, 131atehforcl
- hue tej :my :—
Although I have often describe
Myself ea a Little Englander I have
been cognizant of certain eonsider-
ations which the more aggressive
Little Englander • oeems canenonly
to" ignore.
Graabing that we got niost of our
Empire by 'robbery under arms—
though often at the expense of less
capable robbera who had got the
booty in no honester way—granting
that we had no moral right to
snatch colonies from the French,
the Dutch, the Spaniard, the Ma-
hommecians, or the Zalus who had
stolen them before us, there still
remain: several knotty questions to
-he answered before we hand over
the stolen _property to 'any other
people.
• COLONIES.
:RAILROAD MEN WANTED
d BIG Il/ABRET FOR THEM IN
'TILE St-f.ES AND CANADA.,
We cannot give Auatralia back
hi the aborigines, for we have civ-
ilized them off the face of the earth.
If we gave New Zealand back to
the Maoris we ahould simply be
transferring it to Japan, America,
oe some European power. .
If we have no right to our col-
oni •s, neither has any other fore-
ign power.
And then, again, there is the
question z—Would any other powee
govern onr colonies hater than we,
ar leave them to govern themselves
as hilly as we
CONCERNING SUBJECT RACES.
Now I have no doubt that in In-
dia and the other subject states
" ear rule is full of imperfections.
But would our retirement, in many
VASeS, be an advautage or a disad-
vantage to the subject race? It is
nol a question only of the faults
if British rule; it is a question also
of the comparative virtues of Brit-
11%nadef' ish and other foreign rule. .
If we left India, eotdd the natives
held it'? If Russia or France, ur
Germany conquereil Iudia, would
the Indiana be better off or worse
than they now are?
It has always seemed to me that
we cannot abandon our colonies or
dependencies; and that we might
have to defend them against other
fereign powers until we can make
reasonably sure that our retire-
ment will not expose them to worse
evils than our own"rule.
THEIR FREEDOM.
4 -
To give India •to the Indians,
Canada to the Canadians, and
Egypt to dm Egnptiaita, I for one
arc quite willing; when these pee -
pies wish for and ave fit for self-
government and self-defence. liut
„
to atone for an ninny. by .exposing
our victim to a greater injury
divine to Inc an aggravation of die
wrong.
A COMPARISON.
Let us be just, even to our own
•enntry, The Belgians in Om Con-
go State, the Germans in Poland,.
the Spaniarde in 'Cuba, the Ruse
sians in all their depeedencies,do
not seem to have improved en Brit-
ih imperfect. though our
methods may bo. The Japanese in
rea, the French and -Spaniards
in Morocco, do not seem to letve
109)1 red Much . 1 tree or eon fide uce
in the native breast. Clive up In-
ilist 7 To whom 1 And howl .:\nd
why 7
Improve the government uf India?
en dainty. And While we are about
It we might de a little for England,
DON'T TRUST PEOPLE,
We might tenet our people more,
and educate them better, ;end ex,
pluit them lesS. ' Then perhaps they
Would be more willing to trued1 thtir
ralere than they now are. Then,
perhaps, our riding classes would
not be afraid to dei their duly 'for
fear if the politic wrath.
To -day the ruling classoe dere not
truzzt the people with reel dome:wee-
Aie powers dare not trivet the peo-
plc with artns. The people,tor their
part, dare not •trust their rulers
with the kind of army essential to
the safety ot the Empire.
The Maases are iguorent, they
are lazy, they are drunken, impro-
vident, prime to rint," their rulers
say in their aele if mit in Words.
P LA CING BUM E.
Whose fault ig 114 geotlemeo?
Who lots claimed the right to 'ger-
‘,r0, tqltiAate, enminy the peoe
pit
' Negie knowa :bettor than the eel -
ben eletee: whet will happen ehoeld
cheat -ter 00100 7,11)(111 111,6. 00 tic n.
A MANI
The Empire is in danger. It is
not well with us at home; it looks
dark for US abroad,
What the Britieh natien stands'
znost in need of in this.porteetous
hour is a manl
• Look where. we 'will we see only
party politicians; listen as we may
we hear only party .poltioe. The
nation broken up Into purpose-
less faction e I will for weeks be
orezy over meaningless election
cries. •
The German nation is homogene-
ous, organized. Theie imperial
policy is continuous. Their rulers
work etrommusly, sleeplessly, sie
lender, Their principle is the theory
of blood and •iron.
A 1310
T do not want war I want peace.
I am not an enemy of the Germans'
but a, friend. I lige Germany; but
I love England, as a elan loves his
mother, or his wife, or his com-
rade or his home.
Add the Empire is in danger, and
we are unready—and we need a
man 1
STARLING IN AMERICA
THE , PRETTY BIRD THREAT.
ENS TO BE A. PEST.
•
May Prove in Time a Great a
Nuiennee as the English
Sparrow.
• Down in New Yoek the authori-
ties. seem to fear that a DOW .Eur0
pean bird immigrant, the starling,
is going to be as great 0 pest as
the English sparrow.
Referring to the subject the New
York World 80)8
11 you hanpen to notice,Berne
Warm day soon, in the parkor
along a half deserted country road
a beautiful bird, aniallor than:some
cif the thrusheabroWn, finely
glossed with black, with rich metal -
lie promle and green reflections,
with a buff -colored tip to each fea-
then giving the bird a fine speck -
lei appearance, particularly on
thy breast and shoulders—you evil;
knewthat you havc. before you a
foreigner, ahnost a criminal;
against whom the authorities at tbe
bird -house in the New York Zoo-
logical Park the' other day put up
a warning in these words: '
"European starling, a genus
Sturnusi has been imported .and
liberated near New York lately -and;
may prove Os great a pest as the
English sparrow.."
ATTRACT IN CAGE.
' That is a sign well calculated to
make bird levers stop and gasp.
While the starling enriches English
literatere 11 is.doubtful if the) beau-
tiful bird leettld get on happily with.
our American biada, 'and there is
numb criticism of the European im-
sidents here who have recently lib-
erated the fob intiltiplying birds
is question. The starlings in the
cage: at, Bronx Park are very 'at-
tractive. The feinale is .1eas bril-
liant than the male and has the
terminal sante larger, Both sexes
are More speakied in winter than
in summer. They learn to
charmingly in confinement,
One day recently a visitor to the
Metropolitan Musemil saw One of
those new 0010005 flitting close 011
under the oath:a as if inspecting a
place to build its nest next sum-
mer,
eS BOUND IN EN0LAND.
Tfie starling is abundant in Mod
Pads of Britain and nowhere Mole
es) than in the Hebrides and Ork-
neys. To the Meditemerman .basin
it' goes itt enormous numbers in
cold weather, aad the folks along
the Florida keys and the coast Of
Movie() may expect to find this 0010
(1011101' 10 the continent flittingin
sight in the early winter, whet; it
has become acclimated sufficiently
Lo migrate. The nearest they have
01 011 oome to America bereave has
been Greizeland.
Starlings are artless nest builen
ers, • using Mender roots, Wien; and
dey grasti in hollow tees in holes;
itt Mitre, milder eaves ot liouses, or
readily etiough inboxes, 'often
placed them.
for Last year there
was a starlingne neet in the hollow
of nn ohl blackheart cherry dee in
a lot on Gunpowder Hill road at
Williamebri- It 0, and the Italian
hunily ed 10 the.- houee
never sttepoded that the birds Wore
hmeigners to the land well am
they. Ito favorite food is loeusts,
and it is protected in many places
tm aeommt or this fad, but in In-
dia in the cold semion if; destroys
flinch grain.
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11:ferriage is either11 success, a
failure) or a compromise;
Balm. budding genius than a
bluortlizig idiot.
Tniee as Many Miles of Traelt lio
dee' (lonstrireflon as Cenada
Had itt 1887. '
To keep recruiting the ranks of
the great army of railroad einployes
in the United States 'is quite a
teske This is the largest 'standing
army ill the world, with one pos-
sible exeeption, that of the Russian
Government. The railroad army
of the United States 'numbers alma
1,000,000 men; the standing army
of the Czar is supposed to be 1,-
200,000.
With an ariny of 1,000,000 'or
more the annual loss through ill-
ness, aceidents," change of occupy,
tion, retirement, oto., is large, and
bar years the task of keeping the
ranks recruited has not been the
oai st the i•ailroads have had to
perform. Some years 'there hen
been a superabundance of mu-
ployes, but in Other years there
has been a lack. With the conetant
increase in the mileage; requiring
more men to operate and care for
it, the demand for employes has in-
creased,
. Now comes Canada with a tre-
mendous splurge in railway build-
ing, .to create another market for
the labor of railroad men. - The
railroad development of Canada in
the thirty-one years that have pass-
ed since Vim Confederation of the
Provinces under ene Government
in 1807 has been unequalled except
in the development of the railway
building in the United States, In
1867 in all of Canada there were
just 2,278 miles of railway- track.
During the year 1908 the new
track constructed entuiled about
one-fourth' the entire mileage of
1867; in 1908 the new Mileage to-
talled 514 miles. There have been
constructed during 1909 or are un-
der construction er-conbract nearly
twice as many miles of Mole as,
there were in Canada in 1868, or
4,327 miles.
• PLACES' FOR THOUSANDS.
When more than 4,000 utiles of
railway are added to a country's
.system in one year it means places
for thousands of workers, and the
competcnt railway men in Canada
have .not developed in numbers
large enough to supply the want.
The people themselves have not
realized how rapidly the work has
grown.
• Canada's entire railway mileage
is now about 23,000 miles, which is
one Mile to every 300 inhabitants,
as compared with one mile for each
381 inhabitants in the United
States, one mild to every 1,821
poreons in Great Britain, and ODA
mile to every 1,590 in France.
Canada has nearly twice an mann
miles of railway as has Australia,
more than twice as many as Italy,
as many as Groat Britain, nearly
twice as many as Mexico, almost
as many as the Austrian Empire,
three times as many as Spain,
three-fourths as many as France,
two-thirds as many as the German
Empire, and more than one -hall 11,0
many es Russia. Canada has
about one-tenth the railway mile-
age that the United States has; but
its mileage is greater than that of
all South America.
Many miles of railway- track, even
thuugh they represent an invest-
ment of nearly $60,000 per . mile,
would be of little consequence to
the worker if they wore not oper-
ated. In 1908 the total number of
passengers 'carded was 34,004,992,.
which was double. the number car-
ried ten yeaes ago. The freight
traflic amounted to 63,081,167 tons,
or three times the ameunti carried
twelve yeare ago. The figures for
1900 are extMeted to be greatly in-
creased.
WHEN STANLEY QUAILED.,
Dinner Bei tortes Too Muth for
• Man of Iron.
"Before 1 met ,Ilenry M, Shil-
ey," says William II. Rideieg ;n
McClure's, "1 bad • talked with
min who had been tinder 111111 in
his A f dean expeditions, and all
they told mo about him was more
or less appalling..
“E'e was not inhuman, but in
despise:its,. straits he spared neither
man noe head, nem weuld he defer
t• the counsel or the pleae of others
or have any patience with less than
iitstant angl -unquestioning Miran-
ence to his orders under all eireume
stancas. He -would net forbear un-
der • arguments or excuses or relax
hie severity by any familiarity or
pleasantries,. oven when t
hie objec
had been gamed. Hii was both de-
spot and martinet; stern, exacting,
urcompromising, sibosib, humorlees,
inscrutable, Croinwellian,
"'I cannot may we loved him;'
one a his lieutenants said hi me;
`we wore all afraid of hint, but ne
all. believed in him, 'When ha
hadn't MS rifle in hand lie had his
Bible, and no ' matter where onr
camp was Or ItONV IODg Anti diS4ASS.
ing our march had been be never
missed his bath and shave in the
interning.' "
JJmis aspeot of the explorer was
very dinerent that whieli bo
showed to the gmesto at a dinner
which the Papyrua Club of Bodge
gave in his honor.
"Whether he oat or stood," five
3b'. Ibitising,"he fidgeted and an^
SWered monegeyllablea, not be -
mum lie was imarniable or neap-
Preciative but beeanSe.ho—this Man
oil iron, whose word in the field
bre Iced no contradiction 00 eva-
sion, he who defied obstacles and
dvhger and piereed the heart of
darlenesse-Wae bashful even in the
company of fellow mailmen,
"Its embarrassmeut grew when
after dinner the chairman eulogized
him ta the audience; Ile squirmed
axed averted his face AS cheer after
cheer confirmed the speaker's rhe
terical ebullience of prelim- 'Gsn-
ilernen 7 introduee to yob Mr.'
Stanley, who,' am.
"Tho hero stood up slowly, pain -
reluctantly, and with a ges-
ture of depreciation fumbled in first
one and then another of his pock-
ets without &tiding what he sought.
11 NVUS supposed that he was look-
ing for his notes, and more applause
took the edge off the delay.
• "Hie mouth twitched without)
epoch for another awkward minute
before, with a more erect bearing,
lie prodood the object of his search
and put it on his head. .11 was not
.paper, but a rag of a cap, and with
that on he faced thd company as ono
who by that ad had done all that
could .be oxpeebed of him, and
made further acknowledgment of
the honors he had received super-
fluous. It was a cap that Liv-
ifigstone had worn and that Lit-
ingstone had given him."
WOMEN IN BALLOONS.
Their Adventures Before the Aero-
plane's Day.
• The interest shown by women in
aerial navigation in these days is
no new thing. 'Women in the past
have done their share in conquer -
Mg the roadways of the air.
Mlle. Tible was the first French-
woman to make an ascent. On June
4, 1784, she went up in a balloon
from Lyons and lauded safely in
Belfort. In the following y -ear
'Mme. Hines and lime, Luzarche
in Paris and two French girls, the
sisters Sinlonnet, in London made
successful ascents. . .
The first of the wernen evheise
elaring was repaid by. death was
Mine. Blanchard, wife of a famous
aeronaut. While sailing over
Paris in a balloon on July 6, 1819,
she sal off a rocket, the balloon
caught- fire and she was Idlled by
falling On a roof.,
Mme. Radet in 1863 was caught
iu the ropes of her balloon and suf-
focated.
Among ;the attempts of women to
conquer the air none was more ex-
citing than that of Mrs. Stock, who
in 1824 went up from London in
company with the balloonist Har-
ris. • The journey continued with-
out iacidenb until an attempt was
made to descend. Than the.appara-
tus for emptying the balloon did not
function properly and the gas es-
caped too rapidly.
Only lightening the car could
sae() the two balloonists, and all
the ballast had already been thrown
out. Then Harris and Mrs.. Stock
looked at eacli other in the eye for
n second. Then Harris threw him-
self from the car to save the life
ef the -Woman who had heen brave
enough to share his peril with him.
Melee Flanunarion wife of the
famous Camille, made a honeymoon
la•ip with her husband in the month
of August, 187-1, and landed hap-
pily after fifteen hours at Spa. This
sue 015101 example was followed by
one tragic • imitation when Giu-
seppe Charbonnet in 1893 started
out from Milan with his bride and
others to make the journey to
The firse day passed without ac-
cident. On .the second day as the
balloon was dossing the Alps it
was &aught in a whirlwind, met a,
snowstorm and fell more than a
thousand fed in a few seconds, The
storm drove the car • from ono rooky
peak to another and dragged it
over the glaciere until all the gas
heti escaped and the ear WAS left
on. 0 nmuniain. It remained there
till night., and the ne.xls day the
four, with no implement's and no
Ineitectioe against the cold, stett-
ed lo make the perilous descent.
„N silowstorm was raging, and the
young husband slipped hew a .000. -
valise and was clashed to death at
the bottom. It was three days be-
fore the party found refuge iri 15
hut.
Sarah Bernhardt made AD 10(.001
iii 1870 with the painter Chitin and
Cleiddard the balloonist.
Mr, A clam 1 Srgl e porin too-
' —
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done of Ayr Camidery, died sudden-
ly recently. lie was taken ill ,while
working in ono of the greenhouses
et the cemetery. Me. Pringle had
been superintendent for 13 years.
lieceetly Invert-rose:ache mansion
house, a low building on Loch Von-
nacher eide, wag berned dowe. .1
servant giri lost her life. Mrs.
Cox, the peoprietrix, was rearmed
with difficulty. Q0010 Vietnida
lived in the lionse in 1:360. •
THE YACHTS OF ROYALTY
COST VOIt'IlLINEIS PEft
To KEPI' IN 041/iiilt.
The Czar's "Standad" is a %den.
did Silip—Gernien Einnerer'a
ulifobenzollern."
Tile upkeep of A vessel of the size
of the Standart, which is plainly
-
hub tastefully fitted, with opeeial
naraerieo fur the Imeetial °hilt/Pouf
amounts to about $150,000 per 11(3-
8111)1, Another pfeaaure craft -own-
ed by the Czar is the Pollarnala,
Zyeeda (Pole Star), of 3,270 tons,
evbich was bat at St. Petersburg
101888, and which is now used prin-
eipally by' the Russian Admiralty.
Both vessels are lightly armored.
On the occasion of the meetings
between the Miele -vs of Russia and
Clormalnn which for reasons of pre-
oution generally take place on the
Ingh seas of the 13altie or in the
shelter of some Finnish fjord, the
German Emperor makes use of the
Hohenzollern, of 3,773 tone.
AN ARMORED CRUISER,
The Imperial German yacht,
built at Stettin, on the Baltic, in
1893, is as much au armed cruieer
as a pleasure craft, a concession
made to the Radical party in the
Reichstag, who were disInedined to
vote the funds for the cost of her
construction, 4,500,000 marks ($1,-
1230,000), for "mere purposes of os-
tentation." The Emperor William
IL is, of course, a keen racing
yachtsman. His present flyer, the
fourth Meteor, is entirely of Ger-
man design and construction, and
skippered and manned by Germans.
His first Meteor, now renamed tlae
Comet, was the famous old Thistle,
which carried the Scottish colors
in the America Cup contests of
1887, against the victorious Volun-
teer
TAKEN FOR A SAIL.
A pretty incident happened with-
in the recollection of the writer,
anent the present Emperor's love
for yachting. The Empress Fred-
erick, then Crown Princess of Ger-
many, was staying at Foehr, one
of the Frisian Islands, with her two
sans, Princess William and Henry,
Ibsen small boys under the care uf
a tutor. The \Vella, a'yawl-rig,ged
yacht, owned, by some Hamburg
merchants, happened to arrive off
Foehr, and the Crown Princess sent
a request to the owners to take the
two Princes for a sail. Accordingly
Plince William and Prince Henry
had their first sail in a yacht, and
the delight shown by the two bogs'
on that occasion may be taken: as
a sign of that incipient love for the
sport which has since grown in
strength both in the Emperor and
in his brother.
King Edward dispenses hospital -
ha on board the Victoria and Al-
bert, 5,005 tons, built at Pembroke
in 1809, from designs by Sir Wil-
liam White. Some little flaw in
her displacement, which was dis-
covered and rectified soon after
her launch, brought her under the
sespicioe of being top-heavy.
The ruler Of Spain owns 4 pale -
t1/41 craft in the Giralda, 1,8131 tous,
built; on the Otede in 1.394 fer Cap-
tain Harry 11r0almont. Ring Al-
fonso, too, is an enthusiastic reel-
ing yachtsman.
_SULTAN AND KHEDIVE.
Among other yachts owned by
rulers of different countries a pas
thetic interest attaches to a fleet of
four belonging to the ex-Sulteut of
Turkey. The largest of these; the
Etthogrul, 904 tons, WAS bitilt in
Englancl m 190.1; so were the Son-
gbuditt, 188 tons, :and the- Freni, 190
ton.s. Jhe smallest, the Teelinfiyell,
75 tons, WAS constructed at Con-
stantinople in 1883. The Khedive
or' Egypt has a large cratt in the
1.4Jahroussa, 3,501 tons, bullt at Lon-
don in 1e.1(5.- The Ring of Sieun's
steamer, the Mahn Chiller', 2,090
Ino, was ronstructed at Leith in 1
igen The King of Portugid owns 4-
a comparatively modern reedit, the
cAmelia, SO tons, OMR at: 1.eith
ri 1900, while the Prince of azIone- t
co's PrA
incess lice, 1,80e tons, built
al Birkenhead in 189e, is quite
ubject on the SolvIlt,'
\Owneo s+he frequently eterts her I
eNpeclitions for emientifis research
among the flora and fauna 1,1 the I
deep.
To indulge in yachting. the.sport
of kings, is a royally expeneive
paetime, The tonnage ilf the plem- s
sure fleet owned in Great Britain a
amount): 111 abont 175,000; repro- il
se A linga emitted sma illeested of
at ou t 8-10,750,0001 and , withoin.
eeitmling' depreciation, ellij;11 ie na-
turally a very coUsitlerablo item,
the• annual outlay fey its 11p1sA1'T
exeeeds $7000,000.
•
FROM BONNIE. SCOTLAND
NOTES OF ' INTVREST VikOM
IfElt BANKS AND BRAES,
What Is Going On in the ItigillomOs
404 Lolisttontd: of Auld
• Jest year 349 meetings were held
in the City Chambers, Glasgow,
while the total for 1908 was 3003.
Dumfriesehirci Hunt steepleclutoo
have been fixed to take place ab
Jastinleee, near Annan, on 9111
April.
The Orkney harbor conemiesion-
ers bave agreed to build a largo
EMI mart at Stronsay, and sales -
emu's ofnces.
There aro atilt twelve. widows,
five dependents and 22 children re-
acesitviel. lean
ngreldie.f horn the Delting bis -
At Inverkeithing recently, Mi
Newbiggen, of Edinburgh, delive
ed the first of a some of teener
on poultry keeping.
The value of tbe linen goods se
from Dunfermline to the Unit
States last quarter • was $566,565,
and cotton goods $30,200.
Greenock had the other day an-
other maiden police court, the third
since the year began. Last year
there were 14 blank courts.
The Scottish Aeronautical Soci-
ety have acquired premises in 1E11-
head which they have fitted up as
a workshop and experimental
rooms.
An outbreak of glanders has oc-
curred at Kilmarnock. On the dis-
covery of the first case, steps were
iimmies.ccliately taken by the method -
.The late Miss MacFarlane, He
ensburgh, left the sum of $500 t
the Western Infirthary and $500
the Royal Hospital for Siek chil-
dren, in Glasgow.
The G &
Glasgow Scheel Board deed
to adhere to their former practic
of making no special arrangement
for the observation of Empire Da
by, cholera.
During 1900 there were registei
eel 213 births, Le deaths and 4
marriages for the parish of Ro
(which includes Helensbiu•g•h, Rn
o
Shandon, Garelocitheaci, eic.).
The death of, Mr. John Walker,
prominent Alexandria provisio
merchant, which took place in 10Western Infirmary, has CAANSO
Much regret in the 'Vale of Leven
The lath Mrs. Ogilvy, liannagul
zion, has lefb 510,009, or more i
necessary, to found two $150 bur
aeries to assist at Glasgow Univer-
sity young men connected with
Pereio or Yalu.
Hawik eTown Council have
agreed to confer the. freedom of
Hawiek upon General Baden Pow-
ell on the occasion of -his forthcom-
ing visit in March to inspect the
Burcier Boy- Scouts.
814,
r -
RETURN TO'
womilw ToRTUfftl Tj
SELVES FOB BEAVI.
Maskmb
Masks, ThuSen0War: P11180C1anlpe, Bandages OD 1[00-4,
are Worn.
Read here 01 13 few of the tirades-
.
08 of the enlightened women of
faddist) of Cheistendom and the Me-
thods then take Co make theinSolves
more beautiful in the eyes of ibe�r
lords, or others.
Quito striking new- device la a
face and nook mask for removing
wrinklea. Stretching the skin tights.
our lady places stripe of ;adhesive
plaster upon ib, the idea, of course,
being to draw the :dein tight. Over
these strips goes a mask, the 11814(8
of which is lined with. still other
adhesive strips.
LIKE IRON MASK.
The wearer starts to bed, pre-
ef; Snit:ably to rest, despite the fact
that this instrument, uncomfor-
et table as the Iron Mask of hietoryi
ed is glued tightly to her forhead and
essed closely about chin and neck.
The theory, of course, is that the
wrinkles are wiped out. No cou
ii taken of those pressed in by
contrivance or the unbygienie
Loot ()Flack of ventilation for
skin and pressure upon the thro
Throat diseases from this fad a
quite frequent.
APPLY THUMB SCREW.
The thuaub screw was invented
an inetrument of torture to wrin
from • wretched persons the- s
they were trying to koep, ye
men 11011 035917 the thumb sere
1_ themselves, because it; is the
O thod of the moment to make Illeee,
fingers taper to a delicate point.
The finger clamps look like
clrenisy thimbles. But they .are lit-
erally thumb . screws. A screw
e..
ti
O gives, them an extra turn., crushing
e the flesh, lorturieg the nerves and
5. pinching the. bones yet more.
INJURY TO FINGERS.
'- If not 'alone the finor tip but 1109 entire finger is too thick and fleshy
1"to please the wearer, cm to bear
favorable comparison• with the
hands of her friends, sho lies tight- -ea. ly arohnd them muslin bandages
71 that are guaranteed to stop -the
• nirculation and cause atrophy 'cif
d the finer e Wiwi.' she remoyes
• the cloth the fingers do look sinal-
- ler and whiter to be ore. Of the
injury to the fingers arid to the
- health she does not think, nor
flunking, care.
TO MAKE HAND SMALElf.
To make the hand smaller womeis
will tie bandages tightly around ite
arreseing the circulation in the
hand just as it is arreeteek hu Anne
the finger. The hand is thus matte:, e
to look smaller, and it is smaller,
but for the same reason that a par-
alyzed limb grows shrivelled. The
effect is the reside of hapoverisha
circulation, and ia .the end out-
raged nature -pays back. The
hand treated thus will grew yellow -
end old far in advance of the time
11 sheuld 'naturally grow so, Palsy
is known to have ocoutred front thia
practise of bandaging, which., by
the way, is also applied to the feet
anll even the calves of the leg. Ix
the latter ease very evit resu
hare follewed
• A SIMPLE MILK TEST.
TO Determine 10 a Few 'Minutes
the Quality ot the
The following premiss fa the de-
tection of added water or .of skim-
med milk in ordinary milk it inore•
accurate than the simple use of a
lantode nsituete r :without •the
creatnometee• cheek. The whole
test, says the' Scientific American,
can be made in five minutes.
The result does not"sberiv whether
the adulteration eonsisted.in the ad-
ditiim of water or in the eubtraction
of eream, 1)511 111 a yule this matters
little' 61 the coneumer, What he
wants to knew is whether or not he.
got what he paid foe.
The suspected milk is stirred with
a, spoon 01 Order to dt$SOMillate into
the whole liquid the oream which
luny have • (mate to the surface.
alien one volume uf milk is poneed
into fifty velumes of water — one
inin ounce to twn and a half pints.
A candle is lighted in a dark
•oona. The experimenter takes ah
adinary drinking glass with a 1101
and even lilidom and holds it. im•
eediattly idenve the- candle at (1
1111111100 or iAbont 1)00 root from it
ht' able to see the name
g.the candle- throtigh Um bottom
if the glass, -He then 9011 10 SlOw-
y the diluted milk into the glass.
TIM dame, heroines lese and lege
lag -811(i n't117'fl
.1 Ili lvol''rlieillIa1M'Iewii(s1
on roduerd 10 A <inn Whilp Spot.
1111 1' 111o10 lhplid slowly 1111110(1
0 111 to AN ti ti pouring an ("NM's`,
ncl this liarno ahRolul (sly
1111111,1 All that remains 1. be
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si
•...
Dnring the past yenr Fraser-
burgh exported 175,833 barrelE4 of
cured herring to contitient. Scene,
2,300 toile of grain, 8,050 tome of
preserved heerieg in tins, 800 too
:11-, Arbroath last year 17e claims
ere submitted tor eld-age Den -
ons, t.1 which 1513 were Allowed,
tome is to meaeure the height ef
11) liquid in the esteem. this being
(0(951 enucenienily risco rt ain eel' by
dipping into it A :strip er
board and then ANNIMivilifr, tips wot,
part. It 410ettld mensmo nIL 01'l 11
1111 ineh 11. 11M Milli is pure,
With plod geality tnilk eillnivel
and tested me stated the tlepth -will
bet abolin.sevem-eightlie of .1111 ineh
bef re the flame is lost 1,, View, A
mixture Of ono 011 11)0 a min, and
111511A. VOIDIDO of NNIIter 14110)1111 11utt'
thspUt 111 35)10 And (131' hal? i15011041.
.1. depth (q Ore inches intliontes
limr partially sidenned Mille or re
mixture of one volume of geed milk
with one of water.
13A.N1CIN I.? AT 110111E.
Miniature Mintey Safes fur the
•Sm qt. lieptisitor.
The British Pest -office Savings
Brink- atitheritiee baste received a
large nurehe,e of replies to the eir-
'milers distributed among edeposi- ,
It re requesting them to assiSt the
Denaetment b1 mincluotirag their
Intsiness with as few separate trans -
a t•t100'Ai4; ree, device, whicu
$11011111 (en tO crollanly fit
1.11( aliniisirali,mm OF the .ROirre
Bank has been brought before 'the
Denim, of the authorities by ,Ve,
1•:. J. liowell, of the Bankers' See-
vietz Co ('15108lion, I An -titled. This
contrivance is a small steel mouea
box, resembling a miniature safe
and similar to Chose already es&
by a number of trustee saving
hanks in EuRland and America,
It has been suggested to the
C'timptroller. that by disteilinting
huxes the SavirGS
rs,,oapcs largo numbev of ridiculous,:
10et
1'wiihdrawabs
,;T•11 100
4(11(111
1i11 -(e 5
9°C) i1;0aelZezl
1:l id 115)1 0(1 1101
11 1 , , .• , +
1 Thoy are So contrived that
impossible to extract,. HAW tsoilt.
11(111) 1.116.111, thereby removing :Far
lemptaiion to fall 11111113' From grzvoc
,•(11); fe:w shillings have been'
saved. The key of each liox wont(
be retained by the bank officials,
elle would tenni it, in the preecnee
ef the depositor and platsh to MA'
VrOdit 1110 anionnt contained 111 the
eaten
'Om Ace oeea'sionally gets bn1tt
when it starts Ste) seek the mem.
is 1)i' (1010 tiniti:
There /1"57111P-(-1;
eNeept 5011J of the reang"-ies.
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