The Brussels Post, 1912-7-18, Page 2TOIIONTO CORRESPODECE
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM TILE CAPITAL
OF ONTARIO.
Toronto's Acting Mayor—The "c Twelfth " and the
-City Ball --Travers vs. Ryan—New Chair-
man Dominion Railway Board.
Controller "Tommy" Ohureh. President
of the Council ft the absence of Mayor
Geary, le one of the characters of To.
mato, Many people refuse to take him
seriouely, but despite their jeers 'Tommy"
always turns up with sufficient votes to
elect him to whatever position he le run•
ning for. Years ago when Tommy" wee
a carefree Varsity undergrad (he spent
most of his time rooting for the football
teams, and it took him several years be.
gond the allotted four to get hisdegree)
he declared that he proposed some day
to be Mayor of Toronto. Well, he is act
tug Mayor now and going strong.
"Tommy" is probably the champion
bandehaker in Toronto. He also holds the
record for making introductions. He in-
troduces every two men who come together
in his presence, generally regardless of
whether- they are liable to want to know
emelt other, or whether they have ever
met before. Hie method is something like
this; "Shake hands with Bill Smith. one
of our cleverest lawyers; fine fellow; go-
ing to be a judge next year. Bill Smith,
Tom Jones;: tine fellow. Tom Jones. Cobalt
millionaire eh, Tom." All this and meth
more in thesame vein, delivered in e
staccato etyle,..maxim gun speed. Be is a
keen follower of sporting events, and con-
sequently has a strong following among
a certain class of the young blood.
Like many another man who theme large
in the public eye, "Tommy" has been wise
enough to use the newspapers judiciously.
He got himself Into the favor of one by
dmug its bidding. It boosts him hard.
He is attacked just as bitterly by others,
but it's all grist for "Tommy's" mill. Pu-
bltoity of any kind is the very titlug that
he thrives best on.
DOINGS ON THE "TWELFTH."
The Twelfth of July ie always one of the
biggest days in the year In Toronto. The
Parade is a real parade, participated in
by many prominent eltizena. A census of
the City Hall offices taken during the cele-
bration would reveal the fact that they
were all Iargely deserted, for the civic
service in every department is full of
Orangemen. It to no uncommon thing to
hear city laborers es they go about their
work whistling "the Protestant Bore," or
some such stirring tune. The o .oisie are
Orange because generally a majority of
the Council are Orange. of are also the
heads of departments. In form, if not in
spirit, it is the nearest approach to a
"machine," politically, in the city.
TRAVERS AND MR. RYAN.
Tho last echoes of the Farmers' Bank
promise to be as unsavory as were the
beginning. In its last days the Inquiry
has dwindled, as far as public interest is
concerned, to the destination of a 13,000
cheque, regardless of what is to be done
about the million dollar losses of share-
holders and depositors.
It is safe to say that most people would
accept lir. Peter Ryan's words as against
the unsupported assertions of Mr. Trav-
ers; and the first eifest of the latter's tee-
timony was, therefore, to just further be-
fuddle the situation to the public mind.
Mr. Ryan was a fellow Registrar with
Beattie Nesbitt, but they never pulled to.
gether well. The latter seemed to have
a "grouch" against his co -laborer. Mr.
Ryan has plenty of other enemies, for he
has used his influence on many omelette
remind se withoutpolitical
own party. a Hetisnalsso die -
liked by the banking interests, ae he has
been oartieul:rly outspoken in his de-
nuuelatior of the Canadian evotem of
banatng. ••ertioularlysince a big law.
suit he bed some veers alio with the.
Bank of Montreal. There was, therefore.
likely some quiet chuckling when the for-
mer bank manager gave his evidence.
In the old days Mr. Ryan was Ono of
the most eloquent stump speakers in On,
tario, but for many a day he hes been
a quiet Hegletrar, though the office has
not buried altogether hie characteristic
Irish wit.
MR. DRAYTON PASSES ON.
Toronto expecte •great things from Mr,
H. I. Drayton in hie new poeition as
Chairman of the Dominion Railway.
Board. As one writer says, he ehoald
have been born triplets. For Toronto
needs him. the Province needs him, and
the Dominion needs him.
The toes toort e he
t
y I a real one. Whoa
he hoe occupied the poet of Corrporation
Counsel for only about two yearn, the
Council and all the departments. of civics
government had Dome to lean on his judg-
ment to ou unusual degree. It ie difficult
to analyze the elements of his character
whiolt have made his nutcase so nonepiou-
one. He gives the impreeeion of not be.
tug a hard worker. But that to no doubt
a false impreeeion. It doubtless arises
from the fact that he has an exceedingly
equable disposition, by which he never ap-
pears to be flurried or hurried or any of
theother thinge which men excuse by
eaying they are so busy and hard-work-
1ng.
There Is no doubt that his mental tad
pacify is of high order. Fellow•lawyere
tell of him coming into court to appear
in cases which he could not possibly have
known anything about to advance. He
would listen to the argument of other
counsel, and inside twenty minutes would
demonstrate that he bad grasped all the
ealient pointe at issue and had maetered
even the details. This ability is, of course,
Just the quality that le pre-eminently re.
quired in the new p0sftiou he hoe gone to,
Mr. Drayton has no hobbies. He likes
horses and sometimee rides with the Hunt
Club. He enjoys, too- a quiet afternoon
at the race track.
His training has been such that his
aympnthiee ought to be with the public
as opposed to corporations. It is safe to
eau that no lawyer has ever given To-
ronto more eleoient service in this regard.
In his new field, however, his functions
will be judicial rather than partisan.
Mr. Drayton is a son of Mr. P. H. Dray.
ton, also a barrister, and In recent years
a member of the Toronto Board of Assess.
meat Revision.
WATERWOR'G'S GROWIIOG PAINS,
Toronto's waterworks department is hav-
ing growing paiae. Lest Bummer 50,000,000
gallons a day, the pumping plant's capa-
city, was just enough to supply the city's
bot weather needs. This year the town
has 30,000 or 40,000 more people and the
plant has the same 50,000,000 gallon•a-day
capacity. The answer is easy. Something
had to suffer. But next summer we are
told tbe plant will be big enough.
MAYOR GEARY IN ENGLAND,
The announcement that Mayor Geary in.
tended to accompany City Treasurer Coady
to England for the purpose of participat.
Mg In a flotation of City of Toronto
bonds, aroused more widely -spread criti-
cism than any previous act of his Wor-.
ship who has, during hie two and a half
mere in office enjoyed unusually general
support for all his public acts. There
was little of personal feeling against the
Mayor; but people were nervous about
having Controller Church left to boss the
Job: they were nervoue, too, about the
water supply. and about some of the other
important public works at present under
cons 'Under
hefeeling was that the bar
thought, could be littlepoltehthan 1a sut m
mer holiday.
IkKDi SAME IYESTN:ETs
WIRT IT IS MORE SATISFACTORY TO Ii' -
VEST MAN TO LEAVE MONEY IDLE.
Money Compounded at 6 per cent. Doubles itself
in Twelve :'ears—If You Are Uneasy Over
Your liIoney Leave it in the Bank.
"Why, if investing my money to snob
a difficult task, shouldn't I bury it in the
garden or put it in a bank?" is a sues•
Mon asked by some people.
The reason ie simple enough, but rather
hard to explain in a concise and clear
manner.
You know, of course, the parable of the
talents, bow the man who put his out
at interest was commended, while the
hapless wight who did his one little talent
of silver up in a napkin and buried it
got into trouble, Well, In these days
anyone with no more sense than to bury
their money or keep it In the house, de•
serves to get into trouble.
If one hae money it enn be put In a
savings bank, and there it will realize 3
nor cent. There, if the interest is allow-
ed to compound the money will double
Rolf in twenty-three years. And at the
same time if it is required, may be used
quite as easily, if not much easier, than
if it were buried in a hole in the ground.
That is one sound reaeon why it shouldn't
be buried. Moreover, the bank le much
safer than hole, even if carefully ton.
cealed.
In a bank, however, the income is not
large on money deposited. The man with
810,000 gets only 6300 a year. If, however,
he invested that sure In cafe municipal
bonds his income could be at least 0475
and with care he might find several bar.
Baine which would matte the return about
0625. Not,, at 6 per rent If he Invested
hie income, hie 610,000 would beenme 020,.
000 in 15 years, while if he bought indult.
trial bonds toreturn 6 per cent, hie money
would double in 12 years and treble itself
in 19 yeare.
That is should not be buried, od The•on lattertfasto to
dicate why it ie better to put money 00
securities, -
en 3' over fsfmoee, and won to bbe
satis-
fied to have it in a bank, he would be u
fool to take it out and buy bonds with
it Oh the ether heed, ha would be mere.
of a fool if he were to withdraw his
fonds in the hope of getting nn ahem..
teal' rate of interest, forin that react be
will probably end by losing It all, and
that of couree, is not the prime aim of
Invading.
Of enures, in investing, as in banking,
or, in feet, in any business, ono mast rely
on the word of somebody else, No man
who Is not In the Inveettnent besine08 can
lnpeatiaate the condftiontt stirrnunding a
buoineeo lir a 110beeture with any degree
of ennteee. That Is wets` yenl bnve to buy
tour bonds from an Investment banking
toren. They /Inert lnveotigated the tenni.
glpallty. Or company and their lawyers
here' e001nitied into ell legal gtteetione in•
volved. After thst they buy the bends.
,After they have bought the betide they
turn nrnitnd and Gell them to the fn.
eas(or. It ten re7iller buelne9s, ,thee eq
10 the oreherm buhfnene an.v ether, The
bend dealer Saye trout the predeeer and
sells to the consumer. It, therefore you
want to invest in bonds you have to go
to the bond dealer. I2 you cannot trust
bus neesim. if yin thio way, dve no on'tedoebneinees—
keep your money in the bank. If, how-
ever, you are prepared to trust 6ome009,
pick out an investment house and stick
to it en long as you are satisfied with the
way they treat you. Continually changing
from one investment bougie to another is
quite as unoatlefectory as changing dot: -
tore with each illness, or changing farms
each year, At evei;7 change there is a
lot of ground that has to be sono over
again and much time and trouble is fray-
ed by not changing.
Sotos inventors have an Idea that by
moving around they get better treatment
—that by offsetting one house against an-
other they may get bonds cheaper. This
may be the ease oveasionally, but as a
rule investment houses do not like a
client of this sort, and if they have any
bargains be le tbo last man to hear of
them, or if he wants to sell his securities
he doesn't get the same consideration be
would have received if be had been eon.
etant in his dealings. This is natural and
ie human nature. If o bond dealer thinks
a client le selling his 0eenritiot to hue
those of another crouse Ile is by no 1130005
likely to give hie beet pries. If he thinke
a man has tried to cell In femoral other
platen lettere coming to him ho knows
that he will not have to give his bast
price, If yon are entiafled with your 1a-
vesttnent banker stink to him. It 9670
in the long run. Of berme, thle does nog
oreanythat but the house 7611 1060 with issues
lolly, Buy others if you wish but, so a
TOP.- volt will find it more eatisfantery to
stick to ono house,
GET ACQV:11NTEP WITH YOIiR
NE1(11IfOflS.
If ye0 aro genteel in appearance and.
bourteeno in 70516 manner, you will he
welcomed in every Immo In your lottahty,
when you ere showing &nettles of our nu.
Perim, toilet roods. ,household nerrseitins,.
and reliabie remndieo. The sntiefactinn
which our mods give, plsae0 the users
melte
the en seem 0to you. 80901, eeteem,oh eta wins
timate friendship "leen the prime, phvel•
Men, or easter. and vett will Woke more.
money frown VMir 9,80n time then you.
dream nt, besides a beet of !donde.
T1•/, i, veer ortemeunity fur P. pteasnnf•.
rnnh91.1, earl permanent besinees, ed.
ds,s.. The Hone getely ('60, Dept 20, 'Mer.
rilllinilding, Ttleoefn, Ont,
T,TY, hereon 1000 0(005'11 .r i•
:1 KtOaih. .,
t ',n rli•emnt nn( <1i' ft andiiontalid China
while otluti's werltnd, wearce it In
BRITISH FEMALE PIRATES
THE ANNALS Or ANNE BONNY
AND MARY READ.
Various Love Affairs Arose to In-
terfere With Their Blood-
thirsty Career.
Long before ever the suffrage
was an issue in England, in a time
when women for the most part spent
their lives by 'their own hearth-
stones, there flourished two women
pirates British born, Real bucca-
neers they were, who swaggered and
swore right lustily and sailed the
Spanish Main and slew folks with
broad cutlasses and did all the
other things that well -regulated
pirates were in the habit bf doing.
Their names were Mary Read and
A e
'nu Bonny, and their records are
still to be read in certain ancient
British court records, though they
seldom are.
Mary was one of those strange
women who have gone through life
dressed as mea. She kept her se-
cret from all except a very few.
Before she was 18 she enlisted as a
sailor in the British navy, and a
history of pirates published in Lon-
don in 1724 by' Capt. Charles John-
son tells all about her. Sho did well
enough as a sailor,then enlisted in
the army and event with a British
regiment to Flanders, where she
fought through a number of cam-
paigns and was distinguished for
reckless bravery and Helped keep
up the reputation • for profanity
which goes with soldiers in Flan-
ders., She ealled herself frank
Read, and apparently no one sus-
pected that she was a girl.
But, being et woman, she could
not refrain from falling in love, and
finally was married to a fellow -sol-
dier of whom she had grown very
fond. Then they both left the army,
bought a little inn in Flanders and
settled down to housekeeping. All
this seems a long way from piracy
but do not be impatient,
SHIPPED AS A SAILOR. •
two, and she went back to her wild
Mary's husband died in a year or,
masculine life, shipping as a sailor
on a Dutch merchantman bound for
the West Indies. Before the vessel
reached its destination it was halted
by British pirates, who, being in
need of a sailor, took the lusty
Mary, never,susperting that the re-
cruit to their crew was a woman.
Mary pirated for a little while
with the boys, and then the ship
put in at New Providence, one of
the Bahama Islands, and took ad-
vantage of a general pardon offered
to every British pirate except Cap-
tain Kidd and Captain Avery.
They all promised to be good, the
crew disbanded, and there was
Mary out of a job again.
Now, the British Governor of New
Providence was fitting out a priva-
teersm n
a at that time to harry Spa-
nish
commerce. Privateering, by
the way, was the respectable and
legal way of being a pirate, and was
countenanced because the owner of
a privateer had to divide his spoils
with the Government. Well, our
Mary became a member of the erew
of this British privateersman, and,
incidentally, it was a very tough
crew she joined. One memberof it
was a pirate named Rackam. An-
other was his wife, Anne Bonny, a
buxom wench, who, like Mary, was
disguised as a man, Anne was the
real "tough kiddo," Captain John-
son tells us, while Mary was just an
honest working girl whom cruel
fate had made a pirate quite
against her will. However, Mary
does not seem to have put any very
violent struggle against cruel fate.
However that was, the rough and
ready Anne Bonny fell in love with
Mary, who, she fancied, was a man.
lain., and
then Anne explain d, and had to they grew
very chummy, and, being women,
couldn't resist embracing each
each other frequently, so that
Reckham, Anne's husband, grew
very jealous of the supposed
Frank, and had to be let in on
the secret for fear he would sneak
up on Mary and insert a dirk be-
tween her shoulders.
The bokl Rackham couldn't bear p
dividing up the spoils of war
with the Government, so he led a
ninthly, soon tossed the officers of
the ship overboard and moved his
belongings tip to the captain's
cabin,
HOISTED JOLLY ROGER.
It is not known whether he hoist-
ed the Jolly Roger at the masthead,
bet probably he did, and if he
didn't he should have, < Anyhow,
they went plundering merrily over
the Southern seas, although they do
not seem to have been as bad as'
some. members of the profession.
Generally the crew of a merchant
ship was allowed to go its way after
everything of value had been car_
vied off. Necessarily men were
killed occasionally, but wholesale
plank -walking was nota feature of
this cruise. Maybe it was the re-
fining influence of having two
pirates of the gentler sex aboard,
but the chances are it wasn't. In
the first rs place there was a nothi
very gentle about Mary and Anne,
and in the second place, few mem-
bers of the crew knew they were
women. They brandished cutlasses
and pistols, and what they lacked is
whiskers they made up for in forf-
eiter.
And just at this stage of the game
that .soft-hearted Mary leII in Iove
again. A young artist had been
captured from a British ship—
Rackaai hail an idea that he might
be useful in sketching scenes and
drawing charts. Pirates, y Diu know,
were great at chart making—draw-
ing mysterious maps showing loca-
tion of buried treasure, with expla-
nations in cipher that it takes a
Sanskrit dictionary and an X-ray
machine to make clear.
Mary and the artist became good
friends long before the artist sus-
pected that she was anything but a
slender and more than unusually
handsome boy. At might, when
other members of the crew were
drunk or sleeping, these two would
sit together in a sheltered corner
of the deck, and Mary would lean
back, with her head in the artist's
lap, and listen to him tell the story
of his life and his ambitions. The
artist seems never to have suspect-
ed his comrade was a girl, ao at last-
Mary told him, and they were mar-
ried—informally, it is true, and
without priest or license. Pirate
ships do not carry chaplains, al-
though license is plentiful enough
aboard them.
SAVED HUSBAND'S LIFE.
After the marriage the cruise
went on for months, and once Mary
saved her husband's life when he
had been challenged to a duel by
one of the ruffians of the crew,
Mary succeeded in quarreling with
this man and fought him a duel her-
self before her husband had an op-
portunity to risk hie life. The girl
pirate—still known as Frank to her
shipmates—went ashore on a little
island, and the pirate with her.
Both drew their pistols and fired,
but neither was seriously wounded.
Then theyattacked
each other her with
broadswords, and after a' few min-
utes' fierce clashing, Mary stabbed
her enemy through .the body and
killed him. Then she wiped her
sword on the grass and went back
aboard ship and nobody thought
anything of it.
But it was not long after the duel
that the pirate ship was overbken
by a British frigate. A short fight
followed, the pirates serving their
stubby cannon until a storm of
grapeshot drove them from the
deck. Everyone rushed to the hold
except Mary Read and the redoubt-
able Anne Bonny, who continued to
load and fire the cannons. Anne in
rage rushed to the companionway
of the ship and roared down to the
men below to come up and fight,
and when they refused jerked a
great pistol from her belt and fired
into the huddling, cursing mass,
killing one and wounding several
others. But it was of no avail, and
in a little while the crew of the
man-of-war came tumbling and
cheering over the side of the pirate
ship and overwhelmed its cowering
defenders.
All the pirates, including Anne
and Mary, were put in irons and
carried back to England. The ar-
tist was allowed to go free, as it was
easily proved that he was a member
of the band against his will, but his
irate wife was tried and sentenced
the gallows,
thought
the of being a subordinate to
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PILOette
GUESS IN 'CHINA.
public nialcoe Chinaman eut: offuette; China 1
q , ally now
TO B.tNISH INSOMNIA.
Invention Produces Soundest Sleep
in a Few Minutes.
Alexander Bobitsehelc, a young
Austrian with an inventive turn of
mind thinks he has discovered a
wonderful insomnia cure, Not only
does heboastabout it, but he has
it working model and a mechanical
drawing of his invention, for et is an:
invention, He says now that every
one who wants to can sleep Without
batting an eye. It' is a simple de -
vim like any other great invention
or discovery. In brief, it is two
eyes fashioned of phosphorus, with
eyelids of black cloth suspended
from a thin wire. A pendulum
causes the eyelids to swing up and
down, in the manner of blinking,
The inventor says that looking upon
the blinking eyes, just like imagin-
ing the sight of sheep jumping over
a fence, will immediately put one to
sleep. But t us nte
nbi
on is much
better than the sheep chase, he ad-
mits. I am doing it for the benefit
of humanity, that great legion of
persons who cannot Bleep when they
wish to. This thing is so good that
if you use it in a darkened room
after you awake. from a freshened
sleep it will put you back to sleep
in a few minutes. Besides insomnia
patients, the machine is recom-
mended by the inventor to the wives
of husbands wlio are afflicted with
"anti -sleeping sickness," and only
come home each night for a short
nap and to shave before hurrying
to work again. The inventor agreed
yesterday that a phonographic at-
tachment with songs and airs would
assist in bringing the machine to a
higher state of perfection.
TUCRETT TOBACCO
INTERESTS REORGANIZED
C. Meredith & Co., Limited, Pur.
chase Assets of Old Established
Hamilton Firm.
Announcement has been made of
an offering of $2,000,000 of 7 per
cent. cumulative preferred stock
and $2,000,000 of common of the
Tuckett Tobacco Company, Limited,
by C. Meredith & Company, Limit-
ed, of Montreal. There will be no
bond issue and holders of preferred
stock take priority on -'all assets of
the Tuckett interests.
The Company is consolidation of
The Geo. E. Tuckett & Son Com-
pany, Hamilton ; The Tuckett Cigar
Company, Limited, Hamilton;
Tuoketts Limited.
These three companies have been
purchased by C. Meredith & Com-
pany, Limited, and reorganized
under the name ofethe Tuckett To-
bacco Company, Limited. The man-
agement of the new firm will remain
in the same hands as the old, Mr.
George T. Tuckett becoming Pre-
sident and Messrs. Witton and
Lamoreaux Vice -President and
Secretary -Treasurer, respectively.
The properties of the company,
consisting of head office, factories
and ware
houses at Hamilton, Lon-
don and Montreal, are valued by
Price, Waterhouse & Company,
Chartered Accountants, at some-
thing over $2,000,000 more than all
liabilities.
The average net profits for the
past two years was $300,288.41.
This means that after paying the 7
per cent. on the Preferred Stock,
over 0 per cent. will be left for the
Common. It is expected that the
concerns operating under the new
conditions with the profits will
show a natural increase during this
year and next.
The capital is 84.500,000, divided
into 82,000,000 7 per cent. cumula-
tive preferred stock and $2,500,000
Common. Of this only $4,000,000 is
being issued, the preferred at $95
and the Common at $40. It may be
noted that it is stipulated that any
person subscribing for the prefer-
red -stock must also subscribe for a
like number of shares of the con.
mon. Thus it will be seen that.
there is no bonus of common stock,
as is often the case with flotations
of this nature.
FLOATED 750 MILES ON ICE.
Crow of the Hansa Lived Eight
Months on Iceberg.
Some of the i11 -fated Titanic's
passengers or crew might have pro-
fited by the experience of the crow.
of the German ship Hansa and
taken refuge on the death -dealing
berg itself until rescued, if a foot-
hold could have been secured on
the slippery mass. The Hansa
struck an ice island in labtitude 52
degrees a little before midnight in a
freezing gale. The impact carried
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OR DISAPPOINTMENT
WHEN
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BAKI NG
POWDER
iS USED.
CONTAINS NOALUM.
COSTS NO MORE
THAN THE
ORDINARY KINDS.
MADE IN CANADA
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her bow far up on the berg and em-
bedded it' firmly in the ice. Her
back was broken by the force of the
collision, and before morning was
wrenched away from the forward
part by the battering seas, and
sank,
When the Hansa, struck, the
boats were lowered, but only one
escaped being swamped after pull-
ing away from the doomed ship. It
was soon found, however, that this
boat was leaking, and that no
amount of bailing would keep it
afloat more than a few hours, so the
mate in command of it made for the
berg, and succeeded in climbing up
on it to a place of temporary safety,
From the broken timbers of the,
Hansa's bow the castaways built a
rude shelter, and snared sea birds
to eke out the scanty supplies they
had been able to save from the ship.
As the ice drifted further south into
warmer waters and began percepti-
bly to shrink, the shipwrecked men
were a prey to constant fear that
the melting mass might turn turtle
any time and precipitate them all
in the sea from which it had so
providentially saved them. Also
they feared it mighb "calve," and
the part breaking away from the
main bulk might carry them with it
to destr tc ion.
t t The constant st tgrind-
ing and groaning of the great ice
raft filled their hearts with constant
terror, and the deserted seas added
to their despair. But the berg held'
together for eight months, and the
Hansa's men travelled 750 miles be-
fore they were finally picked up in
latitude 43 degrees, suffering from
frost bites and hunger, bub other-
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ANCIENT GAME OF CHESS
GREAT LESSONS ARE TAUGHT
BY THE PASTIME.
Go Back Into the Ages and We
Always hind It Still Ex-
isting.
It is impossible to state just when
and where chess was born. Beek
the may go in the ages, but we still
find it existing. We see it painted
on the Egyptian vases, and we find
ib in the Chinese books of wisdom.
It has been ascribed to all sorts of
birthplaces, its creator having been
at times a man, at times a god,
Nothing positive is known about it,
yet the greatest probabilities seem
to point nt to its ha •
P vin come from the
g
East. It may be interesting to note
just a few of the hypotheses sur-
rounding its obscure birth,
John de Vigney assigned the in-
vention to a Babylonian philoso-
pher, Xerxes, Leneur attributes its
origin to Chilo, the.Spartan, one of
the seven sages of Greece. Sir Wil.
-lia,n Jones ascribes tho invention of
chess to Mars, and feels sure it
ORIGINATED FROM INDIA.
Gibbons says :—"To'adanonish kings
that they are strong only in the
strength of their subjects, the same
Indians invented the game of chess,
which was likewise introduced into
Persia during the reign of Nushir-
van•"
An Indian philosopher thus de-
scribes chess: "It is a representa-
tive contest, a bloodless combat, an
image not only of actual military
operation, but of that greater war-
fare which every son of the earth,
from the cradle to the grave, is
continually waging—the battle of
life," One sees clearly that, even
going back to its birth, the parallel-
ism between chess and men exists,
for does anybody know just when,
where and how the first man ap-
peared on earth? Also, is it not a
fact that man's attributes and na-
ture hate remained unchanged
throughout centuries, and that
chess was played much in the same
way, each chessman moving in its
allotted manner even 5,000 years
ago 4 -
According to .Carrera, the princi-
ples of chess could be applied to the
game of life, The board may be
considered the field of life, che-
quered with good and evil, on which
man is to play his game and be re-
warded
ACCORDING TO HIS DESERTS.'
The pawns .may be looked upon as
representing those feelings which
are first excited by circumstances
and form barriers to those stronger
passions which would be represent-
ed by the superior pieces. The
castle, moving on the board in di-
rect lines, represents that innate
sense of justice pervading
every
hu-
man
-man breast, which, however attack-
ed, When properly maintained can-
not be conquered. The knight ec-
centric in his movements, but regu-
lated by fixed principles of action,
portrays that feeling of honor
which, deviating from the beaten
course, seeks for adventures. By
the walk of the bishop may be con-
sidered the religious feeling which
is continually crossed by the move-
ments of ordinary life; as they
never leave the color of the square
they start from, they are typical of
a firm faith. The queen typifies am-
bition, and the king, moving only
one square at a time, while every
,direction is open to his choice, is
highly characteristic of prudence.
Heand seldambiomtimoves • unless forced,
shelters himself behind, and claims
the macer of justice, honor, religion
on,
ML SINGS,
About the time a girl puts on her
first long dress she begins to relcet
her bridesmaids.
If politeness costs nothing, why is
i1; that so few then give any of it to
their wives.
Many a young fellow who marries
in haste never has a chance to get
his breath again.
If a man has no wife to find him
unt, his sins will.
The average man can make a fool
of himself almost as easily as a wo-
man oan make a fool of hire.
Many a man can't even do his
duty without feeling that he is do-
ing mole than his share.
The smaller a, man's mind, the
longer it takc5 him to make it tin,
The man who talks landest cloes-
n't always have the largest atadi-
Thoeo who tan guess right soon
get the credit l having exeellen1
judgment,
About the only way to get what
you want is to ask for twice as
ankh,
By the time a man gets old he
ought' to have sense cuoitgh not to
let it worry him,
It isn't so hast to borrow front
Peter to pay Paul if Peter will
stand for it.
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the body with a pisco of ice, In
prostration from suuisttolre apply
heat to rho hands and feet,