The Brussels Post, 1912-9-19, Page 6RJMANCE OF KING'S PALACE
suowr nisToRY 01? IRS MA.
JESTY'S LONDON 11031E,
George 111, •Bongbt Buetinglutin
Palace for the Paltry Sum
of 221,000.
If Buckingham Palace is the
"ugliest Royal residence in Eu-
rope," it can at least claim to be
one of the least expensive, for, as
our grandfathers cif early Victorian
days used to say, "It was built for
one Sovereign and furnished for
another," in spite of the fact that
the fourth George spew t a round
half -million in transforming Buck-
ingham House into a palacewhich
he did not live to oecupy, says Lou-
den Answers,
Although it is thus a mere infant
as Royal palaces go, it oan point to
three centuries of interesting his-
tory, since the clays when James L
planted his shiploads of mulberry -
trees on its site in a futile effort
to "gr•ow silk in England." But
though his trees were a lamentable
-
failure, his mulberry garden was
long a favorite haunt of fashion,
"the best plaice about the towne for
persons of the best quality," where
Dryden especially loved to repair,
to eat tarts with pretty Mistress
Reeve, the actress.
THE PROUD DUCHESS.
When the recreation -ground had
had its day. Goring House arose
among its mulberry -trees, to be re-
christened Arlington House when
the earl of that -name made his
home in it, and within its walls
drank the first cup of tea ever
brewed in England, made from
leaves imported from Holland at
sixty shillings a pound. But the
house that was good enough for my
Lord Arlington was no suitable
bouse for John Sheffield, Duke of
Buckingham, who raised in its
place a- "graceful palace not to be
contemned by the greatest mon-
arch," to quote a chronicler of the
time.
Here Sheffield's proud widow,
natural daughter of the second
James, held her mimic Court, and
"on each anniversary of her grand-
father's (Charles I.'s) execution,
received her company in the grand
drawing -room, seated on a chair of
State. and surrounded by her wo-
men, clad in the deepest mourning,
like herself." And here she
breathed her last, so jealous of her
dignity that "she made her ladies
vow that if she should lie senseless,
they would not sit down in the
room before she was dead."
The proud duchess's exit marked
the entry of George III., who
bought Buckingham House for the
paltry sum of £21,000, and spent
the greater part of his dull, decor-
ous life within its walls, cradling
his children, and "training them in
the way they should go." The Prin-
cess Sophia once told the Hon.
Amelia Murray "that she had seen
her two eldest brothers held by the
arms at Buckingham Palace to be
flogged like dogs with a long whip."
IN -I -GO JONES.
Here King George hacl his mem-
orable interview with Dr. Johnson
in the Royal library, so charming
the great lexicographer with his
urbanity that he exclaimed to the
librarian : "Sir, they may talk of
the King as they will, but he is the
finest gentleman I have ever seen I"
Here George's amiable Queen
Charlotte decked with her own
hands the first Christraas-tree ever
seen in England, and the King,
when his palace was threatened
with the Gordon rioters, kept
watch and ward with his garrison
of troops, telling them : "My lads,
my crown cannot purchase you
straw to -night, but ray servants
will serve you with a good allow-
ance of wine and spirits, and I shall
keep you company myself until the
morning."
When George's son came to his
throne, he turned up his Royal nose
at the "palace" which had served
his father se well. He found it
"dull, dowdy, and decent, nothing
snore than a substantial, respecta-
ble -looking red -brick house," and
nothing would please him but to
have it rebuilt on a scale of extra-
vagance and splendor batting as
"most expensive king in Europe."
• Thus it was that the present
stately. if inartistic, pile began to
rise
NEARLY NINETY YEARS AGO;
but before its splendors ware roof-
ed George was gathered to his fath-
ers, end his successor, the "sailor -
king," protested with much strong
language that no such "barrack"
should house him, and it was only
when his girl suceessor, Victoria,
eamm to her crown that the new
palace had its Revel christening.
For twenty brilliant years it was
the theta of a gorgeous succession
of Italia and banquets—the famous
Plantagenet Ball, at which the
Qtieen and her IlJonsort masquerad-
ed as Philippa and Edward III,;
the Powder Ball, at Which Victoria
wore a dress which had belonged to
her grandmother Oharlothe ; and
the still more splendid Stuart Ball.
Hem her Majesty spent a delight-
ful time with Charles Diekens,
heeding hist her book upon the
Pfighlaiide, With its dedieetithe
"Prom tits ktutiblest of writer!: to
one of the greatest," and here she
received the embarrassing homage
of "an apotheeary's errand -boy
named Jones, who has the unac-
eountable mania of sneaking pri-
vately into the palace, where he is
found secreted at night under e,
'sofa, or some other hiding -place,
Mose to the Queen's bed -chamber.
. • Lady Sandwich wittily
wroto that he meet undoubtedly
was a descendant of In -I -go Jouee,
the aechiteet."
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MEND SAFE INVESTMENTS
SPECULATION VERSOS GAMBLING.
Speculation in the True Meaning of the
Word Takes Time—Buying on Tips
Dangerous—Few Speculaters—Some Es-
sential Paints of Difference,
The articles contributed by "Investor"
ore for the sole purpose of gelding proo
eective investors, and, if possible, of sari
isg them from losing nanlOY through
planing it in "wild -eat" enterprises,. The
impartial and reliable charac.er at the
Information may be relied upon. The
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper hare no interests to serve
hi connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
(By "Investor.")
The other day a man said to me, "lee
all very well for you to talk about the
dangers of speculation. Just because a
few men lose money you condemn the
whole game. Xis just as reasonable to
suggest elosing all drug stores bemuse a
few men buy poison and kill themselves,
or to condemn apple pie because some
People eat too much and suffer as 5 con-
sequence. Yon're partly right, and in
Your enthusiasm you condemn whole-
sale."
In the first place, I do not condemn
speculation. Speculation and gambling
are two entirely different things, yet the
word speculation has come to have a
meaning with the public which is sYtto•
nomas with gambling in stocks. In specu-
lation one etudies the situation, and hav-
ing taken the pros and cons into oonsid-
oration, buys some security which should
advance in value over a course of a, few
rears. A gambler buys a stook because
the market is strong, and it should ad.
Vance a few points in a few days. The
former takes an intelligent business
chance; the latter—well he just gambles.
Meet peeple who dabble in the stock
market are gamblers, because they merely
follow the "dope sheets" and Jump in
and out, scalping a point here and losing
a point there. Buell men, in about 95
cases out of 100, eventually lose all they
have put up, and sometimes all they have.
The average man in a commercial bust
nese is a speculator. He buys something
people want and figures to sell it to them
at a price greater than he paid for it.
Ent if he were to go along a street and
see a car load of lumber and buy it
without drat examining it to see if it
were sound and not all mills; without first
figuring on whether he wasn't paying
more than the lumber was worth, and
without enquiring whether there was any
demand for lumber, he would be geniis.
ling. And that is just exactly what most
so-called epeculators do in the stock
market.
A man looked at the quotations in the
paper last year and saw Black Lake le.
bestos preferred stook selling around
sixty, let us say. Ile sees it is a. seven
per cent. dividend payer. It lboks cheap;
other seven per sent, shares are selling
at about par. Why it's a great oppor•
'faulty. He buys, and In a few months
can't give it away. Had he been a speett
lator he would have studied the situation
surrounding that special smutty, and so
would have known that the market for
asbestos had all "gone to pot." That the
company was doing business at a IOU
and the prospects for its earning enough
to pay the interest on its bonds were
very slim. "But." you say, "to do that
takes too much time, and 1 ean't afford
to spend much time in that sort of
thine
Quite so. Speculation takes so much of
a man's time that very few people are
in a position to speculate. Sometimes a
man ttomes in contact with some large
corporation in the way of business, and
gets to know all about its business and
prospeets. life may, from hie observe,
tions, have reason to believe that the
company is growinrapidly in prosper.
ity and prestige. Bee buss the stock, puts
it away and wakes up some morning a
year or two later to find that lee has
made a nice profit. Ile has speoulated,
but if he had not taken advantage of
his opportunities he would certainly never
have found the time necessary for get-
ting together all the information es-
sential to intelligent speculation in the
Wet of that particular company, or of
any other.
It isn't the scanty information one
gleans from the financial pages of the
daily press that enables one to speculate
intelligently. That amounts to little
more than scraps of news to egg on tile
stork gambler. First hand study and
hard work are the prime essentials for
the succeseful speculator. Few people
can give enough of their time to this
sort of thing, yet, unless they do, they
are foredoomed to failure.
"Specntlation is dangerouS," as the Irish.
Man said, "becaese People don't Went
late," They gamble, and that is the
height of folly.
PRINCE OF WALES AT OXFORD
Ile Will Net Be Permitted to Take
Part in College Games.
There is to he one remarkable
difference between the Prince of
Wales' life in Oxford and that of
King Edward when he went there
as an undergraduate.
For King Edward a house was
taken. and during his time at Christ
Church she lived, not in College,
but at Frenwell Hall, beside the
Union. But when the Prince of
Wale's goes up to Magdalen in Oc-
tober he is to live in college.
Magdalen has a royal lodging, a
set of rooms in the founder's tower
which were the residence of the Test
Prince of Wales who went to Mag-
dalen, the son of Henry VII., who
died in his youth,
The Prince of Wales new have
these rooms or one of the sets of
Fellows' rooms in the new building
overlooking the grove, which are
large and light and, of course, more
extensive than the undergraduates'
500800.
Living in college will give the
Prince mere of fial midergradnette's
life than his grandfather had. But
he is not, oho learns, to joih in eel -
lege games, which seems rather ae
pity.
Possibly that would be too demo -
Mettle step. It may have been felt
the;t net takingtt /muse specially
for hire le id far as oan b pee,
LORD ABERDEEN.
Lord Aberdeen has proved a very
acceptable Lord -Lieutenant of Ire-
land, and has gained the good -will
of the Irish people, which is it great
aehievement for a Man placed In
his position.
Lord Aberdeen is admirably gun-
lified by past experience for his
present post. He was appointed
Irish Viceroy by Mr. Gledeteee,
and when the latter was driven
from ()Mee Lord Aberdeen paid a
visit to Australia and received an
enthusiastic reception fPOril the
Irish residents in .Melbourne, Syd
ney, and other big cities. When
Mr. Gladstone returned to power
Lord Aberdeen was appointed Gov-
ernor-General of Canada. Whilst
Lord Aberdeen.
out there be devoted his attention
to ranching, and now owns a valu-
able tract of country in British
Columbia.
Besides possessing great wealth,
he he is a man of many hobbies and
accomplishments. He is a skilled
landscape gardener, quite an ex-
pert engine -driver, and plays a
good round of golf. As a landlord
he is highly popular, and he takes
a -very democratic view of life. Two
of his younger sons, who had a
taste for shipbuilcling, were ap-
prenticed to one of thbig firms,
and they led the life of an ordin-
ary apprentice.
Lady Aberdeen, who is the sister
of the late Lord Tweedmouth, has
identified herself with all manner
of educational and philanthropic
movements in Ireland, and has been
particularly active in combating
consumption. .
A NEW TREATMENT.
Hung a Boy Upside Down to Curo
D isease.
Di'. W. E. McKechnie, in a recent
issue of the Lancet, gave details of
a remarkable cure effected by him
in the ewe of a bey of 14 years, who
had been continuously ill since the
beginning of an illness five years
before. The boy was stunted in
growth, and the parents had given
up hopes of a cure, as he had un-
dergone much treatment without
any benefit. Dr. McKechnie diag-
nosed liver abscess, with perfora-
tion of diaphragm and pleura, and
secondary abecees in the base of the
lung, with adhesion of lung, liver
and pleura to the diaphragm in the
neighborhood of the Perforation,
with intermittent partial evecua-
tion of the cavities in the liver and
lung via the bronchi and traichea.
The boy, it should be stated, was
continually coughing up pus, Dr.
McKechnie came to certain conelu-
sloes, and, acting on these,
his
treatment was simplicity itself. His
own description is given in the fol-
lowing paragraph;
"I made the boy hang suspended
over the edge of a table, head down-
ward, the whole body hanging ver-
ticelly upside down, the legs and
thighs on the table at right angles
to the body and thus supporting
him. In this position he was made
to cough and squeeze his chest till
no more pus came out. By this
means the abscess cavity was com-
pletely emptied and he was made
to repeat the process five or six
times a day. At first he got rid of
large quantities of pue, but it rap-
idly diminished, and in about six
weeks he ceased to have pus and
was mired. His progress was re-
markable, The whole boy altered,
and a year afterward he had grown
several inehes and caught up with'
his younger brother. He became
aetive, bright and cheerful, and was
able to do his lessons with ease, in-
steadof being very backward as he
had been before,
"I think this is a good example
of a simple application of the prin-
ciple that we should allow the force
of gravity to drain abscessee. This
simple procedure cured in six
weeks, without operation or pain, a
condition whieh• had lasted five
years and had baffled other modes
of treatment, threatened the life of
the patient, made it a misery and
prevented his growth. No othei
treatment was employed by me. 1
suggest that this poatural method
of treatment should be tried in abs -
toss of the lung and btonehiectasis
before resorting to the inose for-
midable surgieal prooedures."
Perhaps you leave noticed how
Direly a woman who lives alorie gets
along—end how nicely a. men who
livea alone doesn't.
TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
INTERESTING OOSSIP FROM THE
CAPITAL OF ONTARIO,
After the Exhibition—Imperialism at the
Fair—The clty's Counsel—The
Ohile ebeatoir.
'Site week renewing Exhibition finds To -
route with something or the 'Morton;
ante, feeling. The streets, evort oL tear
sags and bunting, and their !lemma.,
throngn of people mon by comets; ;at
dull and deeerted. Aud there ts a notice-
able reactMu in mast lines of Mae,
both retail and wholesale, 'rho two weeks
of Exhibitien are probably as native 112
the retail district as any in the whole
year. Hu Divinable is .overy day that
many of the hugest stores have gat e.11 1118
the idea of observing Labor any, anvil
tomes lu the middle of the fortnight
as a holiday, but keep their ;Italie al their
Posts to enter to the greet numbers who
find it a convenieut day to shop. Those
who cater particularly for an out•oatown
trade take eare, too, that they offer bar.
gains sefficiently valuable to attract fur-
ther business during the year. This, of
course, doesn't, do the out-of-town num.
ohant any good, but he has some men,
sure of revenge when Termite shoppere
in turn go off to Buffalo or New York
to make purchases, which generally never
meet the eye ot the sauterne offielals on
the border.
For the wholesalers the period, too, 18a.13
one of unprecedented briskness, Many
onfightite.m kept their offices open day and
PARMERS DIDN'T TURNOUT.
The exhibition authorities have to ad-
mit that this year the attendance of far-
mers WAS not up to previous reeords. For
this the phenomenally bad weather and
late season is made to bear the blarae.
But on the whole the attendance was re•
markable. Jupiter Pluvius did his worst
and failed. The Labor Day attendance,
breaking all records on a day whish did
not have a glint of sunshine, and with
the rain sometimes coming down in tor-
rents, was particularly astounding. Of
course it has 1* be borne in mind that
Toronto, according to the figures of the
Assessment Department now coming in,
has 35,000 more people of its own than it
had this time last year. It is difficult to
realize how fast the place is growing.
The increase or a single year is greater
than the whole population of most of th0
other cities of the Province, and as groat
as the population of a good sized coml.
ty. Whether this rapid concentration of
population is an altogether unmixed
blessing for the rest of the Province is a
question which will bear serious coneid.
oration.
But Torontoulans are wholsheartedly
proud of their Fair. There used to be a
disposition in some eiroles to regard it
rather disdainfully. All that has passed
now. And with rigid adherence to the
truth it can be said that the Exhibitthri
of 1912 surpassed all previous efforts. In
nearly every department there was a
noticeable sprueing up, and there were
several new feautres.
STRONG ON IMPERIALISM.
The distinctive note was probably the
tinge of Imperialism that was injected.
There were oadets from all parts of the
Empire, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Am
stralia, England and Iceland giving. daily
exhibitions and nightly terming into a
living flag. There was the Kings unele.
There were the bands from the mother
land. And the siege of Delhi from India
as a. nightly spectaele.
All this was deliberately planned, for
those in charge of the Exhibition's for.
tunes are ardent Imperialists. It cost
$40,000 to bring the cadets. The beside
cost *12,000 more. And it was probably
not by accident that many of the elmenhea
at the directors' luncheons echoed the
alarms of war.
Those who are not in active sympathy
with the propaganda were inclined to
ask what was the conneotion between
these sentiments and a purely industrial
and agricultural exhibition, which might
be supposed to glorify, if anything would,
the blessings of poaoe.
The prosperity or Toronto Is at all
events extending some distance out into
the surrounding 0001417. A eoncrote ex-
ample will Illustrate. Ten years ego a
farmer without meaus relied 100 acres
about 20 tense from Toronto. 110 took a
long limas, but at the end of four years
had made suilleient progress to buy. De
paid 00,000, which seemed a big price in
those days. He devoted himself to mar -
het, gardeeing and small fruits. The la-
bor problem was an obstacle, but be had
a fairly large fatuity* that he was able
to keep at home, and he was resourceful
in getting help, so that, often he bad am
Many as fifteen Men, women and chil-
dren in hie fields in the busy season.
The wet weather this year he just
spited hie tetedY eoil, and les has never
had such 9 filiceelieful swoon. At the me.
Mont he is busy marketing life green
corn. lie has been eoliths: it eine° the
of Ansonia but just now it is at its
best, On one day lie sent to Toronto
1,200 dozen -14,400 ears, the last week
hie receipts front eorn alone *OTC Me.
And corn ia but One of his produrde, 015
bas refused $46,000 for his 115 nereii, a
figere, no doubt, flied by sPeoulati6o, And
by NM doses ortelidthy &Wiens to se.
eure etiniltry lionme,. bat Ito cablitlatei
that the farm Is still wore: awe tuft
A $16,000 JOB A.BEGGING.
The resumption of activity in amuntoi•
pal politics after the summer holidays
found the most pressing issue to be the
question of the eity counsel appointment.
The recusal of Mr. T. G. Meredith to 90'
sept, the position hastily' offered him left
Met, a. little shameftteednees. To have a
$15,000 Toronto job turned down cold was
just a trifle humiliating. But no doubt
the receiving of the offer did not hurt
Mr. Meredith. He has a comfortable liome
in London, and at sixty a man does not
ilghtIy sever the cenneations of a lifetime.
With the ground cleared for a local
man, the question 05 evaryoue's lips was,
"Will Mayor Geary get iv." Ile himself
said no Word, but, of course, at the eal-
ary, or even half the salary, it is a posi-
tion that would attract any young law.
Yea The criticism of Mayor Geary's
chances arose partly from the fact that
he has not devoted muth time to law.
Polities has been his forte. Ott the other
hand he had to recommend him an ex.
eoptional knowledge of current municipal
problems.
An arrangement by which Mayor Geary
would succeed Mr, Drayton as Oity Coun-
sel, Controller Ohurah as member ot the
Hydro Illeetria Commission, leaving the
field comparatively clear for Controller
Hocken am the next Mayor, was spoken
of as the "deal" that was under way. And
people are not generally enthuaiastie
about "deals."
TO HEAD OFF CIVIC ABEATOIR.
The proposal of the aity to Snead a
third of ts million dollare on a civic ale
batoir and cattle market extension drew
a akilful open letter from the Harris Ali.
batoir Company, which offers the city a
free site and a seat on the Board of
Directors if it would abandon its old
base of operations and move out to the
Union Stook Yarde at West Toronto. The
supporters of the civic scheme were in.
(dined to regard this offer as simply an
indication that the private packing inter.
wits feared the effect of the city's plan,
and wanted to head it Off, and it was
promptly turned down. Despite the frank
statement of low profite on the part of
the packing companieLL it is probably
stating the situation faiely to say that
in this vital line of food supply the pub.
lie regards the private intereste with
some suspicion, Oonsequently, it is likely
that for wo'ol or for woe the silty will go
ahead with its ambitious plan. for the
sake of ensuring pomp
as far as
possible in the meati
BIG MONEY IN SUBURBAN FARMS.
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that to him es a going =mere. A fair
return be has for ten yeare work, even
if it has been hard work. Many men in
gold mining cannot show anything like
the record. It's a pity that all the farm.
ors of Ontario have not slowed in this
man's prosperity.
THE BALL TEAM'S GLORY.
With the Toronto baseball team holding
on to the leaderehip in the International
League by its eyebrows the Toronto fan
—the real dyed-in•the-wool kincl—was in a
querulous mood. Convinced that the 1912
aggregation was the finest baseball team
that ever appeared in this league, ha
thought that their place was far out in
front of the race, So, whenever the -team
lost a game, and particularly on the day
it lost both ends of a double header to
Rochester, he was net partieularly pleased
if told tbat the team that played the
beet ball won.
The great rally of the team in the latter
half of the season in which they came
from sixth place to the top was a splen-
did piece of work, and raised a load from
the fans' heart, because he had Just about
given up hope. It is said that previous
to the rally the ownere and management
talkell to the pleyers in pretty plain
terms. This talk, assisted by the actoisi.
tion of two or three big league pitchers,
Kent, Dream and 'Maxwell, seemed to
have a marvellous effect, and the team
immediately stetted on Ste winning streak.
But there is not much left of the pitch-
ing staff that began the season, and in
this respect the early criticisme were all
Justified. Nor is the play in the Reid al'
18950 of the gilt-edged variety. Nor is
the team exceptionally speedy on the
bases. The one department it has shone
in has been batting. Nearly every man
has developed into an old-fashioned slug-
ger, and. most of their victories have
been won, not by keeping the other fel-
lows score down, but by running up a
score on their own account.
Probably the player who has acquired
the most popularity during the season is
Bonny Meyer, Por several seasons he has
been used as a eparo man by Various
teams, and came to Toronto in that cm
paeity. But he has hit like a fiend, run
wild on the bases and developed fairly
well in the field, so that he hae made a
place for himself among the regulars.
TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY
There is a, firm in Toronto who give hun-
dreds of men and women an, opportunity
to earn from 9250.00 to $1,500.00 every year
with but little effort. This firm nianufae.
titres reliable family remedies,' beautiful
toilet preparations and many necessary
household goods, such as baking powder,
washing compounds, stove, furniture and
metal polishes, in all over one hundred
preparations that every home uses every
day. Just one person in each locality can
secure exclusive right to distribute these
preparations to their neighbors. They
pay 100 per cent. 007MnillaiOn to their
agents. Write and Bemire sole agency bo'
lore it is too late. Address The Home
Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To-
ronto, Ont., for full particulars.
BUTTERFLY FARM PAYS.
Englishman Makes a Good Living
By Raising Insects.
• That the breeding of butterflies
can be made a, very remunerative
pursuit has been discovered by a
rewidene of Bexley, in Kent. He is
L. W. Newman who owns a farm
entirely devoted to butterfly rais-
ing. Mr. Newman possesses three
acres of land on the outskirts of
Bexley, partly rented and partly
his own, on which he rears every
sort of British butterfly and in,oth.
He ells upwards of 50,000 pre-
served insects a year at prices vary-
ing from 2 cents to $50 each, as well
as quantities of ova, larvae, and
pupae, at remunerative rates. He
regards $5,000 es the minimum fig-
ure for his sales. in the year.
"I started rearing butterflies in
a back yard for a hobby," said Mr.
Newman, "but I soon took up the
business thriously, and have suc-
ceeded ,so well that 1 now own half
my land and iny house, and, in ad-
dition, have got together perhaps
the finest collection of British bete
barflies and moths that can be
found.
"The number *2. petitions who col-
lect these insects nowadays is SI -U-
prising. Schoolboys and well-
known collectors form the bulk of ,
my customere. 1 also sell large
numbers of specimens to various
aucational authorities for use in
their natural history classes. The
schoolboy buys the common kinds of
butterflies chiefly—the big, highly-
eelored insects, eosting from 4 cents
to 12 eents apmee. I rear only Bri-
tish insecits, and it is quite a com-
mon thing for a collector, from
abroad who wishes to, get a rem -
plate set of the English species to
come down to Bexley for a fee,
hours, and take. away several dozen
moths or • mounted butterflies, for
*Melt he may pay from $125 to
$150."
Mr, Newreen's farm presents e
somewhet peculiar appearance,
since all the land is covered with
bushes, wider ree__itI saPlin
with a few big trees. Nearly every
young tree or bash is enveloped in
huge bags of gauze or hanging zinc
cages, whilemany dumps of trees
are entirely surrounded by wire
netting Ita & pretectiou free]. birds,
On the leaves within these bags of
gauze or perforated zinc cages cat-
erpillars of infinite variety are feed-
ing.
Around the house, Mr. Newman
has a number of queer -looking glass
cages, at the bottom of which aro to
be found grass and a pot or two of
flowers. These are the initial breed-
ing plaees. "I put the females into
these cages," explained Mr, New-
man, "and they lay their eggs
there. Tho eggs hatch intoceter-
pillars on the trees. I keep them
well and fat by changing them from
one tree to another, perhaps es of-
ten as four or five times a week.
They are transferred to other fol-
iage when they change into chrysa-
lide.s, and asthon as they hatch into
full-blown butterflies or moths we
catch them and poison them in cya-
nide or chloroform. Then begins
the tricky and tedious job of mount-
ing them,
`The changing of caterpillars
from tree to tree takes a greet deal
of time,' as you have to pull each
one separately off the twigs, and
they number tens of thousands. I
have difficulty in engaging good
helpers, but atter a recent experi-
ment I believe I shall* solve the
problem by employing girls. They
are more nimble with their hands
than men and more adaptable and
energetic.
"I have reared every species of
British moth or butterfly known to
scierith, and there arc nearly a
thousand. However. I have room
for only 550 kinds in a year."
Insects are extremely local, and
Mr. Newman has to send his men
or go himself to all parts of Eng-
land to get his new stock. At pre -
thee he has a man hunting in the
Shetland Islands for a butterfly pe-
culiar to than locality.
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BLUNDERS ENLIVEN LAW'S
D ULL Itt) UTINE,
Sheer Ignoranee Is at Times gore
Eormidable Than Groat
• Learning.
"The lawless aliened of the law,",
like lighter Studies, is not lacking in
these 'howlers," among its young-
er disciples, of whieli the schoolboy
has no monopoly, says London An-
swers,
It was a young articled clerk, do-
ing his first "interlocutory" before
a master, who-, being asked wheat
the "venue"—i.c., the place whero
the ease was fixed fur hearing-ewas
placed, replied, with ingenuous
confusion, 'I think I must have left.
it on the office table."
It WAS an equally raw "Bar pep"
—to wit, pupil—wleo, about his first
day of "reading in chambers," re-
ceived from his mentor the very
sound advice that in settling a "de-
fence," the draftsman should deny
every material allegation in the
Statement of Claim, Presently in
came some "instructions tto settle
defence." The papers were turned
over to the novice.
WHOLESALE DENIALS.
Paragraph one of the Statement
of Claim ran, "The plaintiff is is
gentleman, etc," ; paragraph two
sot out that the plaintiffs leg had
been broken by the negligence of
the defendant. The defence was in
this wise: 1. The defendant denies
that the plaintiff is a gentleman.
2. The defendant further denies
that the eaid leg is the leg of the
plaietiff.
But sheer ignorance is at times
more formidable than the most ex-
act learning. In a small solicitor's
office, the managing clerk being
away, the common law department
was so short-handed that the part-
ner in charge had to ask the office -
boy -to help to the best of his ability
with some of the correspondence.
"just write to Mr. Ow -on and tell
him he must; pay by return, or we
take proceedings on our client's be-
half,
"Very good, sir," said the boy,
with becoming humility. And he
wrote:
"Sir,—Unless this account is set-
tled by return, wo shall take steps
which will amaze you."
"TAKE SALISBURY PLAIN !"
Now, a "blisteet," that dear little
yellow paper from the County
Court, had from sheer familiarity
long lost all terrors for Owen; but
this new move in the game beat
him, and the *ash was fortheemirg.
Legal abbreviations have brought
more than one to grief. Thus a
"commission" becomes a- "Com-
mon" • but a, certain young counsel,
blissfully ignorant of thisl mov.e.ol
for a "common to examine wit-
nesses."
"Have you many witnesses, Mr.
---5" asked the Court,
"Oh, yos—a great many!"
"Then take Salisbury Plain!" re-
plied the Court, with undisturbed
gravity.
Mr. Plowden relates how the ig-
noranee of a young counsel saved
a reseal hie liberty. It is a, golden
rele—towhich there are no excep-
tions --that the bad eharacter and
previous convictions of a prisoner
may not be nroved against him.
"Gentleniare .1 shall prove to
you," said our yming orator, "that
the prisoner is a. menace to society.
He has been convicted no fewer
than — tintes---e—" Here he was
about to read out the list.
"You must net say that," gasped
the judge.
• "But here they are in black and
white, !" said the irrepressible one,
brandishing the list before the
Court. "Herethey are!"
WHEN THE JUDGE PAID,
The judge stopped the case, and
directed an accmittal.
When put eight by the-Court,.it
10 as well to put 'a good face on it,
and in this ease the sons of Erin
are eharacterisMeally happy, The
Court detected a well-known leish-
iiamp in a blunder, and corrected
hn
• "Your lordship is right, and I am
wrong,. as your lordship generally
is,'.' Was the somewhat equivocal
apology.
• Howlers are- occasionally contri-
buted by the Bench itself, and on
two occasions in recent times judges
have been written for ordering the
wrong persons into custody. A bite
jedge,, was eo incensed against a
who appeared to have
supplied the prisoner 'with liquor oe.
the, "night in question," that he
ordered the men in blue toput hue
in the dook 00 ee% But the teis,
take cost his lordship a sum of ±11000
figures .to set right, for the law is
no respecter of. persons.
The eternal inisfitnees of things is
fairly well represented • by a $3
frame on a 30 -tent picture.
First Billiard Playee—Ilow is it
you aren't at home this evenihe
Second ditto—My vvifea in a bad
humor; she had company arrive
and she wean ready. How about
yourself 1 The first—Oh, my wife's
retoet, too; e±0 got ready for com-
pany•andthey didn't come,