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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-1-16, Page 6OWN A 14 HOE EST Own an Interest hi some good Gorporatlon, by buying the First Mortgage Bonds of theInstitu- tion. We can offer Well secured, hig9•grade bonds of established companm*, to ylotd 6 per cont. We also have some most at- tro,tive Preferred stooks, to Meld event Dor Cent. Write for Prl0es. J. A. MAOKAT & COMPANY IM TeO Oeerdien Building, MONTREAL Royal Balk Bul ding, TORONTO AD:1II ISALEII AN ELDORADO. Turkish Island In Danube Has No Laws, Pollee or Taxes. An Eldorado, where there are no taxes, no government, no police and no laws is the email island of Adair Rai -h, whish is owned by Turkey ard.lies in the Danube_ where the Serviaa, Roumanian and Hunger- ' fan frontiers meat. M. Funck-Ereatano, the histor- ian, describes this curious place in the Revue Hebdoma•-_'aire of Paris. It seems that the island owes its otran.ge potion to an act of forget- fulness on the part of the states- men who fram.d the famous Treaty of Berlin. At the time of the treaty, the island belonged to Tur- key, but it was overlooked in the debates on the larger issues of the Balkan settlement, with the result that Mali 'Caleb is still nominally Turkish. Separated as it is from the "mother country" by the entire width of Servia, the Turks were ne- ver able to enforce their authority, and very probably did not care, since the island is devoid of any importance. However, the popula- tion, of little more than 1,000, is atil'l entirely Mohammedan. M. neck -Brentano. who visited it not long ago, expresses himself as .asci ate.i by the natural beau- ties of this idyllic spot. There is a miniature capital, he says, sur- rounded by a picturesque dilapi- dated wall. The tiny town is quite Oriental in character. It has its bazaars and its Turkish cafes where life glides on dreamily and peace- fully, und'sturbed by the storms that may be raging without. Gypsies dwell in the cssemates of the centuries-old Turkish forts around the town. No one cares about politics, wars or internation- al tension. Here alone is peace 1 Restoring Rubber Elasticity. People using articles made of rubber that frequently lose their e'.ast:city through oxidation may re- store the malarial to its original condition by a simple process. Soak the part hi a mixture of one part of ammonia to two parts water. This is particularly well adapted to the restoring of rubber bands, rings and small tubing which are ready to become dry and brittle. Premature. Small Tommy hurt his finger and his mother took him in her arms and began to dry away his tears with her handkerchief. "D -don't wipe m -my eyes yet, sr -mamma," he sobbed. "1 a -ain't done c-ryin'." Sub5ta•itjal Breakfast Pleasure in every package of Post Toasties Crisp, sweet bits of toasted Indisxi Co ^n, lo be served with cream or milk. A.lwa _S"s. R✓r'ady to Eat Direct From Package— Allways Delicious. Sold by Grocers every- where. "The Memory Lingers" reesstia.a Powell Cereal (is, rued Windsor, Ontario. OnsOmsomMeasiveveimm, SHOWS YALE OF POOLICITY ADVERTISING MADE TIM i MULTI -MILLIONAIRE. Sir W. II. Lever Has Given a Oren Mansion to the British Nation. Twenty-seven years ago a young man was running a small wholesale grocery business in the little Eng lish town of Wigan, writes a Lon don correspondent, A few day ago, without bluster or excitement that same man bought Stafford House, the finest ducal home in London—the house which the lat Queen Victoria called a palae when comparing it with her own humble a.b..de—and, almost in the same moment, presented it to the British nation. The man whose bulging socket book enabled him to do this is Sir W. H. Lever. He made all his mil- lions out of soap. He is the head of the great fil711 of Lever Brothers, which brought Port Sunlight and Sunlight soap into existence, and his rise to great wealth is one of the romances of English business. From the smallest beginning he and his brother have built up their busi- ness until it is by far the largest soap concern in the world and one of the largest and richest institu- tions in Great Britain. But quick as has been his rise and rapidity as he has amassed wealth he has probably never made money faster than he did in his now fam- ous libe] suit against Lord North- cliffe, the Napoleonic owner of the Lo-dan Daily Mail and numberless other more or less important Eng- lish publications. Northcliffe, through his papers, attacked Lever and others for the formation of what he called The $60.006(190 Soap Trust. The soap manufacturers immedi- ately went to law about it and in the end Lever won a verdict on agreem_nt for $350,000 damages and other items, making in all more than $450,000. Four of the other soapmakers also got large damages, so that Northcliffe lost $1.250,000, besides his enormous costs, in a few weeks. As a consequence of the publicity given to the scheme. how- ever, Lever and his associates abandoned the project. Lever later gave the money he won to Liverpool University for the encouragement of architecture, one of his hobbies. Lever succeeded in businee be- cause he was one of the first on this- side hisside of the water to recognize the efficacy of spending a large part of his revenue in intelligent advertis- ing. Before his time the English manufacturer and business -man looked upon advertising somewhat as a luxury. Lever regarded it a first necessity as a business getter and by his advertising campaign( soon made his soap known from John o' Groats to Land's End. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent each year in publicity and the business grew so rapidly that the two brothers soon found themselves in affluence. Indeed, se profitable had the business been that they are able to look with un- concern upon a total expenditure on advertising of something ap- proaching $15,009,000. • Model Port Sunlight. They established themselves at a place christened Port Sunlight on the shore of the Mersey, near Bir- kenhead, Frees the fast they were ideal employers and the fame of the model community soon spread. To- day more than 15,000 people are de- pendent upon the soap factories and happier, more contented workmere and workwomen are not to be found anywhere else in England. They own the houses in which they live. thanks to the financial assistance of the Levers; they own their own bi amueniment hall, which seats almost 3.000 people;du they have their own clubs and e- entionnl centers. In fact, every- thing that could be done to increase the thrift. intelligence, happiness and welfare of the Pott Sunlight employees has been done by the brothers. What is, perhaps, al- most as important to his employees, he has successfully introdced a co- partnership aystem which': yields to the workers in his factories a yearly bonus of about 10 per cent. of their wages—a system based upon rate of wages and years of service and putting a premium upon long and faithful effort. So auocessfu1 has he found hie experiment and so well has it stood the test of time that he would like to see it extended to every industry in England. Hie system is being examined with especial Dare now that politicians, employers and em- ployees in every part of Great Bri- tain are flirting with the principles' of eo-paitnorship in -the hopes that it may prove the panacea for Present-day Labor Unrest,. Through the friendship of the late King Leopold, Lever' was able to make an agreement with the Bel- gian i'arliamenb whereby he was te„ have a free hand in developing the` palm-oil industry in the Congo. Ho is now in that country looking after his interests, which have grown to enormous proportions, Laver is a keen politician, was formerly a Liberal member of the Houee of Commons, and took his duties in that body more seriously than the majority of members who have large outside business inter• ests to attend to. He is popular among public men, is a big contri- butor to political and charitable t causes, is a non -conformist, a tee- totaler, and lives modestly and simply on but a very small fraction of his enormous income. He is ab- solutely without pretence and is al- ways hard at work, His amen at the Port SunIiaht works is the - merest room in the great estab- - ]ishmt'nt. He is extraordinarily no - o cessible for one with so many calls , upon his time, talks to visitors in a short, rather nervous way, but with great cons'deration and kindness. e In appearance he is typically Eng - O lish—somewhat short and fleshy, with Resit1 Thea' Hair house ard whichen tlt?s ie Eyes. many has bcu'ht for the English nation is - probcbly one of the most talked -of mansions in the world. With the radical land legislation of recent years in this country the Duke of Sutherland. its former owner, who owns unwards of 1,500 000 acres, became property poor and was com- pelled to raise money. He sold I many fine acres in the north of Eng- land and then let it be known that Stafford House. which he very set - dam used. was for sale. Under the ground lease the house reverts to the Crown in seventeen years. but many people were anxious to slop reeler its bnord roof in the interval. Even the King wanted it for tee Pse of the Prince of Wales. Finally. however, soar carried the day and Lever. one-time provincial grocer. sueceeded the proud wearer of the strawberry leaves in the great house overlooking Green Park, - P — TO REDUCE COST OF HEAT. Sir William Ramsay Alms at Solu- tion of Lighting. Sir William Ramsay expresses the conviction that the mining and dis- tribution of coal is no longer neces- sary to the production and distri- bution of heat. He would trans- form coal into gas in the mines. He would distribute this gas to the consumers broadcast, from the mines. He would make central plants of the mines. With the gas he would have the means of gener- ating electricity, at the very pithead if desired, so that there would be a cwo ce for the consumer between heat by pipe and heat by wire. All of the coal -carrying char; would be eliminated by this p..tn, as would all of the cost of intermediate handling, all of the waste that is now said to represent 50 per cent. of the coal mined. Gas will flow -asily to alma't any distance. It could be carried to the farm as well as to the forge, to the hamlet as well as to the city. It would elimi- nate the coal bin, the chimney and the smoke nuisance, Sir William Ramsay's plans em• brace not only the solution of the dame tic lighting and heating prob- ems—by bringing both .clown to the very minimum—but they also con- template reducing electric power for railroads and irdustries to one- fifth and ptssibly one-tenth of their present cost a result that would assuredly be followed by gen- eral electrification in transporta- tion and manufacturing. That all this may be accomplished he is about to prove by actual demonstra- tion urder arrangement with a largs English colliery. The best wishes of the world will be with dlim in this undertaking, for the in- ipe sce of his success will extend rar eyond the mere cheapening of heat and power. It should so econ- emit e the cost of production as to se comfort among the entire human family. `'.b , diff u GERMANY'S AERIAL FLEET. A German Writer Says It Takes Foremost Place. British fears of Germany's pro- gress in the realm of military air- manship seem to be well justified, if one may believe the statements as to the Fatherland's present and fu- ture aeronautics as given by Fritz Leberecht in his new book, "Aerial Cruisers in Peace and Wee" Herr Leberecht, who uses nix as- sumed name to conceal his real identity, is an extremely well-in- formed personage, who oecttpies confidential relations with the Ger- man War and Navy Departments. His Book supplies graphic evi- dence of the steels. progress that Germany has made in assuring her- self of a foremost: place in air navi- gation. He participated in the re- eent thirty-nne.hour thousand -mile trial trip of the new Zeppelin naval ail•ship from south ficrmany across the North Sea and ]Baltic to Berlin —the mysterious flight which set Britain by the ears and gave rise to the belief that the German air- ship had been prowling around over Sheerness on the night of Oet. 14. The newest type of Zeppelins, he asserts, will be able to remain -aloft four days, and will have an action considerably greater than 1,500 miles, which the present type can negotiate with ease. sS+ Many a boy has acquired some very good habits bynot following 1n the footsteps of his father. CANTO] IS CERN BEATER CIL\ESE CITY IS NO LONGER WICKED. No Moro "Gambling here" Signs, No More Opium Dens. A common proverb in China was, "I£ you wish to be wicked go to Canton." One who knows the old Canton, with its treasures of iniquity, would be greatly surprised to -day at the treme. 'does ehaege, No longer do the Four-s,orey pa.aees of vice near the foreign settlement bring their seductive influence to bear on the youth of the city—all are dark and the streets are deserted, The lower bund fitted up in the latest style, a thousand foot front of "red light," is the military bsrraeks, writes a Canton correspondent. No longer do you find on three and four ccrners cf the principal street crossings the blatant sixes,l "Gambling Here." There is not an open gambling den nor a lottery in this oily of over a million and a I half people. Opium $moki g, that curse worse than drink in western lands. is gone, never to return, it is assartcd. Aged Abuses Aro Gone. Not only have three open sores of the western world healed, but age - berg abuses, due to ancient religion and custom, have been cut away to allow the new growth of truth to appear. Slavery has been abolished by law, and assistance is given to those who are freed to find means of live'ihocd. Four hundred girls are being educated in one school at the c•ity's expen e. The blind ting- ing girls are now being cared for and given an education in indus- trial work. And. finally, the nunneries have been opened the girls in them are allowed the chance of leaving or re- maining, and the small girls pur- chased to be brought up as mins are liberated and are being taught in G-vernnent schools. Twelve of the th'r:eon Corfvcian temples in the city have been turned over to the control of the educational depart- ment to be used as schools. Natural Moral Force. These great reforms are but the result of the natural moral force of the Chinese, combined with the enlightenment of tate west. Once freed from the long crushing thral- dom of the Manchus, the Chinese have leaped to the front rank of moral reform. It is true that opium a"d gambling in Canton were pen - hill ed befsro the revolution .came, the la:ter only a few months before, but they were the results of agita- tion through these attempting to get at the root of the matter uncle' the inertia of the Manchu Govern- ment. and who were successful. The Ma^elms thought to throw them off the trail by permitting lesser forms. It is :oteworthy that within three months after, the new Cantonese Government was formed and the present corps of offteiais was well estahl•shed.. this city, once the wrret of the 'marts of China, has' become a model city, • Ilave Sense of Right. To trace the history of these revo- lutionary changes we must look along three lines. The Chinese have a de-p-rtot•d sense cf the right thing. Confucius taught an upright moral code, and every teacher throughout the 'land has literally beaten it into the minds of the student class. Such training often leads to the refusal of the teaching, but nevertheless the re- cognition of its value is implanted deep in the race fibre. Secord—The influence of students returning from abroad, and of for- eign schools in China. A Chinese youth studying in America or Eng- land may not appear there to be o•'thnsed with the wonder of civi- lization and machinery around him. But when he returns to his own country and sees the contrast, one of two things happen—total•disgust of h's country and the resultant loss of his newly -born patriotism is the desire for gain, or he throws him- self heart nrd soul into what place he sees needs him. Most of the offi• chili aro of this Iatter class, or of those who have been ediiaatel in foreign schools in China, Student Leaders. The foreign schools in China are centres of the now life. The .ob- server is struck not only with the conservation of the patriotic spirit of the students, but also with the importation of the best ideals of the west without the evils attending our modern civilization. And these stu- dents are the leaders. In the Can- ton Government the commissioner of education to W 11.. Chung, dean of the Canton Christian College, who received his western education in that school. The commissioner of civil affairs was the first graduate of thee institution. The Commis- sioner of Foreign Affairs is an hon- ored graduate of Queen's College, Hong Kong. In the north, St, John's University and others have contributed a largo, sharo of idle presont staff of progressive officials, Christian Inlhu'neo, Third --The influence of religion in the revolution. Wherever the re igion of the western world has gone the people have risen to a lrigner 't.and.ud and have become more able tc govern themselves. This naturally engenders a spirit of independence. t,h.na, end r the lead of good men, worked quietly but cffe_tually for manhood, free- dom and political sovereignty. Iii the first group of cfflcials cif the new Government d Canton, five of the rig'tt were Chris.ians, and now f ur of tlo nine are professors of Christianity. LONDON'S EN -MAYOR. Sir Thomas Boor Crosby, who hes just concluded his year of *thee as Lord Mayor of London, has not been affected in the least by the arduous duties that are attached to the post. He is still youthful and energetic, despite the fact that he has celebrated his eighti-third birthday. To him has fallen the double honor of beixg the o'dcst Lord Mayor and also the only me- dical man who has occupied that high position. During his mayoralty he never spared himself, and he can loos back with pride on the work that was accomplished. The huge sum of 1l400,001 was raised for the sir- vivors of the Titania, and the de- pendents of those who were lost in that catastrophe. He also pros:did over a meeting of mayors with tee object of endeavoring to find some method of settling the coal str ke, and co-operated with enthusiasm in numerous schemes of social ameli- oration. I When he was elected Lord Mayor he received some curious letters. . One individual requested the Lord Mayor to make up the writer's rent, whilst another impecunious indi- vidual wanted the sum of ten Sir Thomas B. Crosby. • pounds to square the bailiffs. But the letter that pleased Sir Boor Crosby most read as follows; "I saw you walk to church. I saw you walk up the hustings. I heard you speak. I read in the papers that you are 83. If you'll tell rue how it's done I'll make it worth your while," Sir' Boor Crosby has no objection at all to telling how it is done, and here is the explanation of the phe- nomenon; "I have never adopted any particular regimen. I take a. glass of wine. I smoke a cigar. I eat what is put before me—but al- ways in moderation. Therefore, I should say that temperance is the thing to enable a man to make the best of his life. "One thing I do insist upon, and that is `early to bed.' Whenever possible I always get a long night's rest. I eat as little meat as pos- sible. And I am a great believer in plenty of exercise,- although my work has prevented me Inking as much of this as.I should have liked. Work does not hurt anybody; on the contrary, it keeps them. well. I believe it is because I have had to work so hard that has enabled me to get through my year at the Mansion House." Who Said Its Dean Swift is credited with "Bread is the staff of life." It was Feats who said "A thing of beauty is a joy Forever." "Man proposes, but God lis - poses," remarked Thomas a Kem- ple. Franklin is authority for "God helps those who help themselves." 1t was en obeervetion of Thomas Southern that "Pity is akin to lave." Edward Coke, the English jurist, was of the opinion that "A man's house is his castle." "When Greek joins Greek then is the tug of war" was written by Nathaniel Lee in 1602. Edward Young tells us "Death loves a shining lflfh„rk,' add "A fool at forty is a fool indeed." "Variety's the spied of life," and "Not much the worse for wear," were coined by Cowper. "Of two evils I have chosen the less," and "The end must justify the means," are from 'Matthew Prior. !TJRO;ITJ CORJESPDRDERCE INTERESTING BITS OF C0SSI1' FROM THE Q JEEN CITY, A Notable Judge -Wages of mos -Same Fine Positions -Agitation for Divorce court. Thero is no more p,OLAreagn0 figura in Toronto than ,)„ago erre.in, 0 0 0t Lha two Junior judges for the County of t'0ra. 3.,s long ituw.,,g wane. Penni cud Patel. arrhal pouutoutwee gtvo lrtm a venor:.b.0- t.ess eyed 008,3101• tlsau bed 73 Y0,U'e wmul h e00ant. .u„B0 H0rgnn le na.,'d for tbrea thissio: Lie knudduec8 of heart, 1118 ear8lui,neea of toe conventions and hs protan,td, Ills kiuutntess of heart brings hint work. Lawyers defending peraone ;.eeuecd of all Berta of one,.cee know hs ptxtul.trity and louse no Stene unturned to gat tnalr mules t,aterseu 80 that :hey will coma before him. When Judge Morgans court 15 in session i0 Toronto ther8 Is a verit,blo ptw:eseion of casts from rho poliou pours tt his court, rases which, !ti Lila g0r.0:111 ct.nrae 0f events, would snore pr,.pOl13' 00- IoJg to the rcllce tungrs.ra.s s jur.sd.e- tial. Pito 0(11,, day there Was sunt a ^gist of theseeases 8015150 along thatits h, -nor, in n very literal sense, brought his foot and his lint down and sa.d he wo IJ not atatld for the imgos.1500 any a lonmu h ger. The loss ua>;e he teed 5 08, of c= -un were graphic than that. lie is perfectly [rnuk nrd canodiduld in hisnmoro gto.itisenl tenden- caea. wbe goi511 f .r six months instead of m suspended 0510 truce, if you were being dealt with 10 another ponce, which upon be : nmel,•sn.' he will 0450 say to an eeeueod one Generally lie threrte• 8 the obloat of his mercy with a terrible yenta. e. if paid ohjshould not prove to be w0r-hy and should tie sol unfnrtuuate es to come back en ert enothur charge. His-Intermat Courts. Judge Horgan does not bettevo much In the trappings of ,i urte. Be willoften re• ce.ve lawyero an busisesa bent in Itis pri• mate room and like sal; not s ll hent thar mase while reclining on bin lounge. very mten 0t Lha sons- time smoking his papa• h tits Dammer 110 d0c.9 1105 hesstnte to take his cont off when sfkting 0u the bsuclt, When !n the country, on etrctig: ht frequently deolinesouth: to attend th0 00 - pular court room, but will h. re the ,aw- y. tiore andng-roon1 watneesses1a800Icolam.e. to the hotel sit. m Judge Morgan has held his present Do• sition for almost 25 vs 5's. Be isnae of the few Caruthers ,oho was born in the Irittnh west Indie�n, ,pending his early I. fo on the' planlrtio^s there. Over 0 years ego his father, who wrs an Angli. ear cleri.vu,an, came to Citneda and set• Vett in Barrie. Judge Mere -nn 1:kos to 00- cal that et that per:nd he breams juua.r editor of the Barrie Herald. and on etre.0051 ran the hand preen, The taw claimea him. however. nefnre his np5Daintn'ent @s t judge he prat't'leed his +profession in Orangeville and Newmarket, A 050t's Living Wage. There are discussions from time to thno as to what coestitutes a Hying wage for a.rls living away front born in Toronto. Some employers do rot think that they have any personal ree^o••sibility on, th's natter While that is en attitude that ie dying out it is undoubtedly true that t great number of girls from the 0001. try living in boarding houses In Toronto are barely eking out an exs:enee. I One of the lending emnloyers of labor recently axed $t 00 per week es the lowest nage they would par any girl. It may be confidently asserted that It is quite impossible for a girl paying board to live on any lese. in Toronto at the present time end retain any meesnre of self respect. In fret. It Is quite 1,1=ely that even 9'.00 k not actually a living wa;e. It may rrrve to be sufficient to get elms on for r swan time, but it can make no pro- vision for emergencies or sk knees Even n+ best it requires a crnntien of the pen - ries in a way that is not popular in this day or generation. , Plums for Capable Ones. Some atria are not worth 0600 0 week, and they ae-eevntc the situation fur t' a n-rre r'omnetont. And there are opportuni- t'ea for clever gar's to earn n greet deal wore than this amount There are in. staves where women here worked them• selves into positions where the anis,- le a1 high ns 00.0M or 04,000 per year in To- ronto. It wos never mo^e true then at the present any that there is ream at the ter ped that there la a keen demand far Yorkers of both sexes who hove brai,.e• the tal opsoitiee rt, thinenphyelral nrd, whet ismencrimer, to be almto ost• a1 Taro its either of these, indefatigable industry. Divorce Court Pro•rosed. kir. E P. B. Johnston, IGC.. by hie nd• dress at the Per Ass -oration, haw Marini 0:50,11 the discussion rs to whether Can. ear should hnve a Divorce Court. kir, Johnston rreics lhnt u- der the nresmt s'tnrtion only the rich can secure divorce, wh°elt is unfair. Pis sueae,dion for the establishment of ar mrmsoltto whit4t, like rthtr ,'o•trts for the settlement or nrnrerty dlsputea, wnu`d the tleni,10 rather thn15 make t'•o', reonie mme to 0. hrs caused considerable I comment, pertleularly among Ch:ren nnitla, who do not wish to see the br'e4• MP' of marriage made any easier. The rrrl'er sparse in tip, law is to make it I harder to get married *bey any. 0.0 of the greatest barriers against any inerons0 1„ the frellities fur Von di- vorces in Canada lies to the etdtnte of the Boman Cnthnlic Church. At present I divorces ere articled by the Cnnedlnn 8e -rte. of eerie. out or the 87 members, 30 Pre ltpm0n rethnlice, These 36, with a others. 0011 thnrerere et any time throw out any divorce application,. Canadians- Co Abroad, FROY1 [RH'S CRE] 13Li LWS BY M,tIL. FROM 1lllrs LAND'S SILORIlil. Happenings in the i:Inerald Isto 01 Interest to Irish.. Been. The body of a ehild'six months old was discovered in a dust heap in Bersbrook. I Negotiations are in progress for the ,sale of the town holdings in Granard to the tenants. • Mrs. Susan O'Sullivan, aged 60, of Doner'aile, wee instantly killed by falling downstairs. Three men were drowned when their canoe capsized near Colla- heitcue Pier in a sudden squall, The South Tipperary County Coune'1 are expending over $70,000 currying out steam rolling work. Twelve children have died in Bal- linescoe duri:lg the past week as a result of an epidemic of measles. Major-Gtnel'al Sir A. J. Itja`rray, has been appointed inspector of in- fantry in succession to Major-Gen- eral Ferguson. About 60 tons of hay: and straw, the property of Mrs. Hogan, Cool- derry, near Nenagh, have been de- stroyed by fire. Mrs, Annie Kelly, wife of a far- mer near Ballybofey, ,was acciden- tally browned in a stream near the r t'dway. The death has occurrecl at Capra, Carrickmacrosa of Bernard. Fee, who, it is stated, had r eaohea 120 year; of azo. Lcrd O']lrien, Lord Cheer Justice" rf Ireland, is now convalescent from his attack of acute inflamma- tion cf the ear. 141 Dr. J. B. Hackett, medical offi- cer of Kilkenny Union, has reeign- ed his position after a servirn of nearly fifty years. Owing to a serious outbreak •91 measles in Monaster^van and die, teict, all schools in the town have--.., been closed. A lance dwelling house at Black- . lands, near Fivemi'etown, the pro- perty of S. Kyle, merchant, has been desl•ro:-ed by fire. The Travers estate, Cork, has been purchased by the Estates Com- rei'rion ers for distribution among evicted tenants of the district. For bavirig on his premises a spoonful of poteen in a gallon jar, Mr. C. Walsh, Roasavel, was at Spieldal, Galway, Sessions fined 8000. Michael Kilroy, boots at Lough - read Hotel, was charged at Limer- ick with the wilful murder of Mnry Ct' ask, sister of the aeeused's wife. Patrick Walsh, aged 15, was sen- tenced to three years' detention in Clonnel Borstal Institution for the mnr.slauahter of George Tait. John Flanawan, postmaster of Cnet'e`own. Berehaven, and his ' wife have been convicted at Mun- e'er Aeozes of defalcations amount- inw to $3,040. Cnn!ain Murphy has been elected Harbormaster of New Ross. Ho was car'trti't of the Tela which for- merly '•.nn between 1%oss and Water- forcl di "lle, Ati Ten Petty Sessions Richard Kelleher, a tramp, was sentenced to one month's i''tri nnn'ent for tL•o 127.ey of two pieces of blanket, vah.e Jannis Reynolds, a farmer of ATtll- laPh, Ctrokestown. was attacked r^d seei ntsly injnt•rd by a bull. His dee seised the bull by the nose and t]oP7'0Pdhim off. The holy of Mrs. Cahill, nronrie- tpress of an eating hl:a nte iJt C1onmel Street, Listowel, who has been missing sometime, was felled float- ing in the river Fealo at Ennismore. In recent years there las been name in- crease In the number of divorces granted, The everogo la, however, but 19 a year. Since C'mifedoration only some 200 divorces ell told have been grunted by Pnrlln- r•ent. Pour of the manlier provinces have niticnnt thattone 00 these nPrincetidwited nrd Island. has never greeted n divorce. Nova Scotia averages 8 a Year, New Brunew+eit f n year, and British Columbia 8 a year. 0` the divorces arnntcd by the Cnnrdinn Parliament more have been seeurod from Toronto than from all the rest of the country nut together. As n matter of feet these 0enrea do not give melt In- dication of the reel number of divoreas g^anted Cnnndltins beot•.nse 5 sireater por- tion of them who seek divorcee go to the united States. o. WILY CLOUDS LOOlt BLACK. 'tipper Surface IIirldeu From Eye Absorbs All Reflection, The color of a cloud depends on the manner in which the sunlight falls upon it end the position of the observer. It will be noticed that high clouds are always white or light in ceder, and this is because the light by which they aro seen is reflected from the under -surface by the numberless drops of moisture which go to form the cloud. Heavy rain clouds, on the other hand, are found reenter the earth, and so the light falls on then more diroeely from above, giving, a silver lining to the cloud, though the under surface appears black, owing to the com- pleto reflection and absorption of the light by the upper layers:. .Seen from above by ah observer in a bal- loon, rho hltiekest clouds appear of the moat dazzling brilliant white, A modest man gets over it before he meatacioi'o'very far from home. OIL 1N sourif AFII,ICA. Active Development of a New Field to Be Started. Attention has been turned again to South Africa as nn oil producer. Before the Boor War there were some oil discoveries in Cape Col. oily, but the demand was small Coln., pared with to -lay. Sir Boverton Redwood has dis- cevered free vetrolenrn in samples of rocks which' have been submitted to him for investigation, and- other reports of a favorable charaeter have been obtained from experts, General Botha has expressed the view thot there. is a large supply of - oil in the Transvaal, and arrange - menta are now being rettde for the systematic and active development of the new field. The discovery of oil in various parts of the British Empire is of more than commercial importance, owing to the growing use of liquid fuel in the navy. ---'5 Doesn't Want It Round. De Geyboy—"They nay you aro marrying Miss Nukoin for her money," O'Spendix--"'they do, eh? Well, jest to show that I'm not, I'll gob rid of the money as quick as I can." - Sinashetl, Mrs. Dodge ---"Didn't Charlie break the running mord at, tied - lege?" Dodge -"Yes, running, through bis allowanr&l"