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The Brussels Post, 1910-11-24, Page 2lri gin" es., or Tea You Can't Bet Lipton's" The Only Genuine Has This Signetureion the Peekages ty`•41.e. IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JO1IN IUJLL AND HTS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com - menial World. Mrs. Boyles, the wife of a jour - merman tailor, of. Springfields, has given birth to triplets—all girls. Fourteen varieties of new Califor- nia apples were on show at Covent Gardeu the other day. They fetoh- el $2.16 to $5,28 a box. Seven cases of infantileparalysis, one ending fatally, have occurred in the neighborhoud of Cerny Abbas, Uorsetseire, Eastbourne hunt will in future be known as the Duke of Devon- shire's Eastbourne foxhounds, the duke haying become master.' A farmer named William Marsh was burnt to .death while attetnptirig to rescue some horses from a stable which caught fire at Brook, near Ashford. Returning to St. Hollers from a trip to St. Aubin, Jersey, a father and son named Jeune los„ then lives, "apparently by the capsizing of their boat. Mr. C. W. Sheppard, manager of the Middlesborough aranch of the National Provincial Bank, died suddenlyin his room at the bank The herring boat Holly arrived at Yarmouth with net only her hold full of herrings, but a net sixty feet long, crammed with fish on her deck as well. Damage estimated at between $100,000 and $150,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed one of the Empire Porcelain Company's pot teries at Hanley, Staffordshire. Rear -Admiral Paul Warner Bush, M. V. 0., has been appointed Com- mander -in -Chief on the Cape of Good Hope Station, in succession to Vice -Admiral Egerton, K. C. B. An anonymous gilt of $2,500 has been received by the Mayor of Windsor towards the fund now be • ing raised in the royal borough for a memorial to the late King Ed- ward... Mrs. Mary Carter, of Shouldham Thorpe, a village in Norfolk, who celebrated her hundredth birthday the other day, has never been in a, railway train, and has only once seen' one. The King's gunner, Samuel Par- sons, recently completed his fifty- first year in that capacity at Wind- sor Castle. Ho has served sixty- six years in the ranks and is eighty- five years old. The St. Marylebone Borough Council is being recommended to purchase from Lord Portman a site in marylebone red, London, for $22,500, on which to erect a new town hall and municipal *faces. Hearing his death, announced by another delegate at the Poor Law Conference at Exeter, Mr. Robert Butler, of Marlborough, rose and said that, so far as he was aware, he was still alive and in good health. Police Constable Toone, of the Leicester borough force, retired the other day after twenty-six years' service as cell officer. He has safe- ly conveyed more than 10,000 pris- oners from the courts to Leicester Jail, Leonard Ernest Lapworth, aged. fifteen, ' and Arthur Herbert Bur- ford, aged ten, died in consequence of injuries received by being knock- ed down by an express train, near Brighton road station, Birming•• ham; recently. Exeter polite are offering a re- ward of '$250 to, any person afford- ing the first information that will lead to any conviction for bribery, treating, or undue influenec in con- nection with the forthcoming muni- cipal election, GOOD TEAM WORK THIS. The preacher's evening discourse was dry and long, and the eongre- g,ation gradually melted away, The sexton tiptoed to the pulpit and slipped a note under olio corner of the Bible. It read : "When you are tbreugh, will you pleas;, to en off the lights, luck the door, and rut' the key tnu:i, the mat.'' A'1 •dolli r is a peonies' thing, The 1 :, flirerr it gets away from you the INDIA'S ILLICIT TRAFFIC INGENIOUS METHODS Or SMUGGLING OF FIREARMS. Indian Blacksmith is Not an Un- skilled Artisan—Barrels of Guns in Walking Sticks. It is evident from the searches recently conducted by the Bengal police under the Arms Act, that the contraband trade in &rearms has not ceased in India. The steps taken by the Government of India to check the import of arms from Muscat have been instrumental, says The Englishman, in remedying the evil to a large extent, but there is reason to believe that the traders in illicit arms have adopted ingenis- ous methods to avoid detection. When the Government first adopted preventive measures against the arma trafNlc in the Per- sian Gulf it was understood by those acquainted with the conditions of the trade that the dealers would select a new distributing centre on the Arabian littoral of the gulf. Whether they have done so is not known definitely, but as far as the trade in India is concerned novel methods of smuggling have been re- sorted to by the traders. TRUNK WITH A FALSE BOTTOM has been brought into use by the smugglers, but the arrests by the police at Bombay and Karachi have shown to the smugglers or arms that they should adopt other me- thods. There have also -teen in- stances where arms were found concealed in the bedding of passen- gers by train. These and numer- ous other easesshow that there is a market for illicit arms in India. So far, however, the attention of the authorities has mainly been di- rected toward arms, of foreign man- ufaoture imported into the country. But, as we are aware, the Indian blacksmith is by no means an un- skilful artisan, and it is more than probable that in some parts of the country' he is engaged in supplying the demand for firemarms. In the native States chiefly there is no law to prevent the blaokamiths from making rifles. In some of the na- tive States, moreover, the black- smiths earn a decent livelihood by the manufacture of firearms. In the Central India States, in Dhar and Bhopal, thereare black- smiths who con turn out a rifle bar-. rel or a sword in many ways su- perior to the cheap foreign article sold . recently at Muscat for eight shillings odd. The number of guns of Indian manufacture found all over the country is by no means in- significant. There are only a few in the. native States who can afford the luxury of possessing a FIRST -RATE -ENGLISH RIT'LE, the others have to fall back upon local blacksmith. It is nob to be understood, how- ever, that the blacksmiths in the native States necessarily export their manufactures to British terri- tory. There is even no regular out- put of firearms from their factories. With their crude methods' of work they are not in a position to place a large number of firearms on the market in their city. They are de- pendent upon the patronage of the sportsmen who cannot; afford to buy English or other rifles. The quality of workmanship in guns and daggers manufactured in the native States shows the art has not died out in India. The steels and barrel of the locally manufac- tured article bears testimony to the skill of the Indian carpenter and blacksmith, The sword -sticks sold in the bazars are fair specimens of their work, It requires a minute examination in some cases to de- tect the sword black hidden away in the walking stick, In a case which recently came to the notice of the East Indian Rail- way authorities it was discovered that what was supposed to be a par- cel of walking stielcs was in reality a consignment of arms. By an in- genious contrivance the barrel of the gun was concealed in the stick. To all appearances the sticks were 'ORDINARY WALKING STICKS, but as was afterwards found out they could be ue.d as guns also. They were constructed on the same principle as the: swordstiek, 'The parcel was meant for a sta- aented et the station as Manghyr ea 4 Ifereel of walking st,ieks. !Pile sender was confident of smegglieg. through His parcel as Monghyr ia known throughout Bengal for its walking sticice, and it is not uueom- Mon for the railway to carry largo consignments: of those for different parts ;of India. On 'this occasion; However, the suspioions of the: booking clerk were somewhat arcus- ed and he asked the owner of the parcel to leave the, parcel in the office and return for the receipt af- ter a short interval. An examination of the contents' of the parcel revealed the nature of the consignment and the sender was arrested when ho palled for the railway receipt for his parcel. No doubt this new pastern of rifle has come to the notice of the authori- ties in Calcutta and East Ilongal and it would be interesting to know how many similar consignments. have reached their destination with- out arousing suspicion, HOMING PIGEONS USEFUL MESSENGERS IN T1Ml.S OF WAR AND PEACE. Employed Since Time .of Pharaohs — About Their Strength and Spend. For centuries good and bad news, prays. -s for • help, tidings of war. have been 'sent under a pigeon's wings. Egyptian records show that they were used thirteen centuries before Christ. Ovid tells thatthey carried the news of the Olympian games to the distant friends of the victors. MANY NATIONS. Three years ago the British Admiralty, says the London Globe, decided to abolish the elaborate pigeon service which had long been established in the royal navy. Officers had first experimented with pigeons and the Government after- wards kept up three large cotes. Although to Italy belongs the credit, . of having first recognized the utility of training pigeons as messengers of war, France, Ger-4 many,, Russia, and Denmark were not slow to take advantage of send- ing news in time of strife. IN SIEGES. It was during the Franco-Ger- man war that pigeons proved :their. utility as Government letter car- riers. ar riers. • When Paris was invested, the' attention of the authorities was directed to the fact that the carrier pigeons in the city could be brought into service. At first the suggestion was ridiculed, but in a very short time birds were oonvey- ing news into and out of the be- sieged city hourly. When Sir George White was be- leaguered at Ladysmith, a few pigeons • belonging to English fanciers which hadbeentaken into the town before the siege, proved of inestimable value in eonveying mes- sages to the base at Dur -ban. First-class carrier pigeons are very expensive; some "stud" birds costing as much as $300, ,and they can attain the remarkable speed of nearly 1,500 yards a minute. SPEED AND ENDURANOE.. A Manchester firm is reported to be possessed' of a pigeon which has been employed as a -.messenger from one mill to .another for over ten years. During that time it has made over 2,000 journeys and travelled over 20,000 miles. It is calculated that to have sent the messages by wire would have cost $1,500. A few yearn ago a bird belonging to the latae King Edward, who was. a great pigeon enthusiast, as is King George, won the national race from Lerwick, covering 510 - miles at a velocity of 1,307 yards a minute. TILE IMPROVED BOOMERANG. It is Now No More Than a Cross of Plain Wood. Always the dusts:Alian boomerang has been interesting to the civilized general public. Many persons ere unfamiliar with the fact that the boomerangs of these aborigines of the far off island continent have been of various shapes and pat: terns. Most of those former experi- menters in civilization have made a particular type of the boomerang, deeiding finally for themselves that "the blamed flung will fly, but it won't come back, ' Ib has remain- ed for an Englishman so to improve on the Australian cross shaped wea- pon that it is no more than across' of plain wood, the lower strip of the cross being one-third longer than the other arms of it. In throws ing the "curve," as the maker has called it, the long lower end of the cross is hold, firmly between the thumb and finger vertically and with the plane of the cross beside his face. Thrown seventy-five. feet the, boomerang will not return, but for 100 feet or more as it whirls the curve begins to turn to a horizon„ tal plane, its revolutions increase rapidly until just as its maximum velocity has raised .the moss to the top of its flight it swerves to the. Left and begins its return flight to • x r�r ', sP eat ni ca t,u°;ingsjs nW' 1']:este +f.,, ti.ily, fills ui l"l l at Z • g,+w1�•i MOST PERFECT MADE We know and users of Royal Yeast Cakes know that the's. e the best goods of the kind in the World. Bread made with oyal Yeast Wilt keep moist and fresh longer than that trade with any, other. Do not experiment—.there is no other "just as good." 8 W o141.a7T g0. L,TU, Toronto, (Int. Word/log „ Awgrtj d{'h • p 5 honeys At all lagpoeitIone. Montreal ADIEU TO THE PIGTAIL TRE CI.IfNESE^ WILL SO0N ADOPT SHORT RAIR. Fashion of Three Centuries May Be Abandoned—Relic of Manchu Conquest. There is ground for believing that the fashion of the pigtail after a brief reign in China, is about to. be abandoned. For the •queer style of doing the hair has prevail- ed among the Chinese only since the middle of the 17th century, whereas, the Celestial Empire dates back 2,287,000 years. It is somewhat difficult to verify this extraordinary antiquity, and the exact date of the adoption of the picturesque, 'thoughsomewhat in- convenient, style of wearing the hair. Chinese historians have. attended to the former point in a manner satisfactory to themselves, but have left the more trivial ques- tion to the ingenuity of modern in- vestigators. About the, time our Martyr King Chaeles I., of Eng- land, •wars having that little affair with hie Parliament, which resulted in the loss of his head, there were great curl ructions abso in the Celestial Kingdom, and many loyal heads were paying tribute to the military skill of the daring rebel, Le. - WHEN THE MANCHUS CAME Just as the Irish in the time of Derinot, of Leinster, called on. the Sassenach to quell their intestine commotions, :the Chinese invited the warlike Manchus' of, the north to assist them in suppressing the domestic disturber. Le was soon annihilated, but the Manchus, far from heeding the request of the grateful, though apprehensive Chinamen, to depot in peace, chose to -remain and make the country their own. Hitherto the Ohinese had worn their hair twisted at the top of the head, so the Manchus called them "hair twisters" ; while the Chinese called their oonquerers "queue wearers," BADGE OF CONQUEST. Finally -the _"Great Pure Dyna- sty' having come to stay—the queue swept all over the Empire, and itis now one ,of the character- istic emblems of the nation. Every man in the country, with the ex- caption of a few who have been educated abroad, from Emperor to beggar, weans a, queue. And now, after only 270 years' trial of the pigtail, the fickle Chinaman de- sires to trim his hair like other people. Many anti -queue memorials' or petitions have been made to the throne by prominent officials since 1906. On the return of the High Commissioners for the study of the constitutional systems in foreign lands, the Minister to Holland, his Excellency Lu, presented a, memor- ial praying that an Edict might be issued abolishing the queue. COPYING WESTERN MODELS. The Minister to Germany, his Excellency Sun, is. Said to have presented one to the same effect, and, according to the papers, Dr. Wu Ting Fang, Minister to the United States, - recently- presented his anti -queue memorial. At Shanghai and ether open ports some of the Chinese inhabitants have adoptesd the European style, which makes them resemble the Japanese as closely as the Germans do the' English, And • the young students who are sent to Ameriean colleges, having . abandoned the queue while abroad, do not always grow it again on their return, It is a significant, fact that of the; twenty oddmembers of Prince Tao's suite -the Prince Regent's younger brother now travelling abroad --nineteen •are. minus the queue. Verily these signs woulcl seem to show that the queue has had its day, and will soon become a relic of the past. se Little Bobby—What are "sins of omission lf' Uncle Bob Those we have forgotten to commit, but which we promptly attend to as soon to :wo ate romindsd . of Ilio oversight. DII� I If`ULT. It must be awfully hard for a ,candidate to feel ,surprised when eopies' opu lar ackages TEA AND COFFEE 99 Win Popular' Favor Everywhere on their Merits • A ROYAL NOTRE% queen Mary of England Said to be • a Model. "A good wife, and one of the best mothers in England or out of it 1" This description of England's new queen, sincere in its homely phras- ing, was based on knowledge It was uttered by: an old royal retain- er who had known Princess May, all through her happy girlhood at the White. Lodge, Richmond, and wile had seen her taking her first- born son' for his first airing. Not so many years before, she had run races withher brothers and galloped on her favorite pony, her fair hair streaming in the breeze, laying in splendid health which she has bequeathed to lier..ohildren. It was when her first child was born that the lady who is new. green_came into her real queen dom, the realm that is woman's most glorious heritage_ that of a home with children in whose hearts she reigns supreme, their beloved sovereign. Before her marriage, Princess May had already proved herself a model daughter and a splendid sis- ter. helpful and practical, consci- entious and judicious, sympathetic and kind. She washer mother's right handin all her many good works, her father's favorite com- panion, first the playmate and later the confidante and trusted friend of her three brothers. With the birth of her first child, Princess May beget to fill a. special place in the interest and affection of the mothers of England. Tales about the denizens of the Royal nurseries began to circulate. Truer or not, all tended to- show that in the domain of nursery and school- room England's present queen had found scope for her fine .gifts of character and heart and brain. Her wisdom and 'foresight, the quick decision, the firmness temper- ed with sympathy, the genius for method and management, for order and punctuality, the sound common sense that had distinguished Prin- cess May. even as a girl became ap- parenb. As her family grew, so did her hold on the imagination and loy- al respect of the mothers of Eng- land. It was evident that the prin- cess who had proved a, perfect daughter and sister was -^"likely to be no less admirable in her role of mother. The tribute that is sincerest praise was yielded her -her example was followed. Large families be - carne the fashion. Society mothers began to take their motherhood and its duties more seriously, just as they had done when Queen Vie toria's children and later those of Queen Alexandra were young. The five sturdy sons of Queen Mary and their bonny sistea owe. their health largely to their mo- ther's wisdom.—New Idea Woman's Magazine. LOW-PIIICED ELECTRICITY The general adoption of metal filament, instead of carbon fila- ment, for incandescent lamps in London, England, has resulted in the electric light stations having millions of superfluous units of oleo. trical energy on hand unused. This energy they are trying to sell at a cent per unit after midnight, and two cents poi unit during the busy iota's: This is a very low price, even to wholesale users of electris. city, anal it is expocte"d that advant- age will he taken of the cheapness of current to establish many new lines of busses and to set up msuuy hundred more electrical ihansnine el +n•,.;n. WIIY LEFT HAND IS USED SOME DOCTORS SAY 'THE, EYE CONTROLS IT. Such Persons Cannot Change to the flight Without Grave Danger. Every human being has a "dom- inant eye," and failure to recog- nize this fact has caused the race untold misery, say Dr. George M. Gould and Dr. A. 0. Durand of Utica, after a study of hundreds of oases- in their clinics. The great superstition of "the evil eye," they assert, has arisen through instinc- tive appreciation of the fact of the dominance of one eye over the other and over the mind and body of the possessor. It is not the hand, but the eye, that is, wrong, and back of the eye is the brain; all of whose. functions are disturbed by any change in the use of the hand. Right-handedness and left-hand- edness, say these two investigators, arise in the first year or two of life, and are caused by the dominance, respectively, of the right or left aye. In xelat'ively 92 per cent. of in- fants the right eye is the dominant or easier seeing eye, and in 8 per cent. it is the left. CHANGE VERY DANGEROUS. The attempt to 4nange the estab- lishing habit of left-handedness in a childinevitably produces diseases of many kinds, awkwardness, liabil- ity to accidents, incapacitates, and it handicaps in all the subsequent life, it seriously lessens the validi- ty of the person in the struggle for existence, and the two doctors give strange instances of the 'clanger of interfering with the "dominant" eye A girl of 12 was left-handed, but was compelled to write with the right hand. The result was that soon she began to reverse words having similar letters or sounds, saying "was" for "saw" and "on" for "no" and "of" for "for," etc. She fell into stuttering and stam- mering. Four years later she came under the observation of Prof. Gould. He put her to writing with her left hand. In two weeks she was proficient.. Her other symp- toms have disappeared with the use of ordinary bifocal spectacles. , BROUGHT ON INSANXTY. A woman of 32 has had a lifts of great suffering sines her mother forced her into right-handeduess— swooning, insomnia, swelling of the eyes and of the flesh around the eyes, nervous prostration, and, fin- ally, after several suicidal attempts, she was put in a convent and again in an insane asylum. She has al- ways had great confusion of mind,. speech and action, as, for instance, putting flowers instead of better in- to the icebox. By Gouid's advice she got spectacles to restore fuer "dominant" eye to its functions, and fres taken up writing, etc., with her left hand. Her confusions and other symptoms are already; disappoaring, and her memory is greatly improved. • SENTENCE SERMONS. Many mistake figure for. facts:: The man who talks tears never waters the desert. In the heavenly family kindness makes us kin. .. No mail grows grate bygraft- ing on the church, Praying may • be a costly thing when it is a recapfr•onapeying, Ho who worries over his words 1:n 'nen conn lases bis word for men. To be bead rout r,f too mane HOW RULI,IZS ARE CHOSEN 1'IIItllaa IILE'1'ICOIIS 0:1! 81100E8. SION ARE IN 1'OG1.404. Tho 0144 Salle Code Moe Cause Asti/ward Crisis in Austria-. Xluingary, 1 .No woman earl reign over the seri- Piro of Germany or over the king dons of Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Sweden 'or Norway. In all these countries, says "Answers," the an- cient Salle law still .holds good. The Salle code was written in the fifb'i century by the heathen Salian friars, One oluipter which relat- ed (i certain lands which lay along a hostile border, ordained teat these lands should be held by men only, and that the succession should descend only in the angle lino. Oddly enough, it was not until the 14th century that the Salic succes- sion was generally adopted in Europe. France and Austria, as well as the countries already named passed edicts • preventing women from ascending their thrones. WHLN FRANZ .JOSEF DIES. The Salic law sail holds. good iso Austria, and out of this may'arise an awkward crisis at the death of the Emperor Franz Josef. For Hungary has no such restriction, and may legally have a queen to reign; over her. Now, Franz Josef, although he has no direct male heirs, has grand -daughter whom the Hiingri- ans desire as their queen. Franz Ferdinand, the emperor's nephew heir -apparent to the throne, is not popular with Hungary, and the'dip- lomatic world is desperately afraid of a split, and even a war, between,] the two kingdoms. WHY WILHELMINA RULES. Prussia, Holland, and some of the smaller German states have this system of succeseiun, that males' of all relationship to the deceased monarch take precedence of fe- males. The throne only passes to the. female line in ease the whole of the male line is extinct. 1n the oircumatanees, it is curi- ous that a queen should at present rule over Holland. Before Wilhelmina succeeded to the throne in 1890, the Detail had never had a queen regent since the house of Orange become,stadthold- ers in the year 1502, By Dutch sue cession law, Queen Wilhelmina gives up the crown as soon asthe eldestof any sons she may have comes of age. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE. The third system of succession is our own, which we share with Spain and Portugal alone of all other countries. The eldest son comes to the throne, but if there is no son, why, then, the succession can .legal- ly descend to a daughter. In other words, females are ex- cluded when there are males in the same degree of relationship, but, take precedence of males whose de- gree of relationship is not so near as their own, In this country parliament has always exercised the power of lim- iting the hereditary: succession to the throne, GARDEN 01? MONTEZUNIA. Beautifpl Pleasing Grounds of Early Mexieen Rulers. That an unknown, highly cultur- ed people, of whom neither history, '• tradition nor legend has preserved any record, flourished in or near the Valley of Mexico and enjoyed spiced chocolate and aromatic beverages. from transplanted tropical fruit grown bythem in sl t a marvelously Y built garden at Oastopec from 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, is the latest theory of Guillermo Tellez regard- ing the recently discovered garden of Montezuma. .•'' Mr. Tesfrez applied to the Depart- ment of Public Instruction for a special permit to make explorations in the garden. Ho states that con - steeling 21 suecessive.,caciques on the land with copies in possession of the national museum has led luim to believe that the garden has great antiquity. lie has been devoting a large part of four years to studying the plants found there. Through the inscrip- tions he has been able. to glean his- torical data concerning 21 successive caciques. Tropical trees, flowers and fruits wore transplanted from('' the Isthmus of Tehantopee and Cen- tral America to this garden, and there. were grown cocoa, vanilla, pa - rota, ,yel]oxachitl, mocaxochiti and another rare {lower which gives off its odor ie the night. These plants , aid .,their friends were ingredients of the ilelieiotts chocolates which were the. favorite ,, beverage of the Aztec lords when Cortes arrivod. The garden 1VA5 visited by Acamapixito and Xihui- camina, the second named being identical with Montezuma. It is Maimed that Montezuma Ilhuica-, mina appropriated thisbeautiful garden to his personal royal uses and pleasure.—Itfoxican no It is safe not to depots') anything if you don't want to be disappoint-