HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-2-20, Page 6C1teSt• Colds, Wheezing
Cured Over Nighl
You ('illi Break Up Cold, Peel Fine
Nest Morning, by Following
t', "Nervilhte" Method.
sa. irlenve of a Trained Nurse.
Every mother knows how difficult it is
to get a young child to take a cough
Mixture, Seldom will one help unless
given in large doses, and the result ie
to oompletely upset the stomach and
Make the child skit.
Speaking of the promptest ours for
*hest troubles and children's colds, Nurse
Carrington says: "In all my experience
.. In nursing I haven't met any prepare-
"
'Mon so dependable as :ferviliue, It Is
the ideal liniment. Every drop you rub
on is absorbed quickly, sinks through
the pores to the congested muscles, eases.
relieves and cures quickly. Especially for
chest wide, pain in the side, stili nook,
earache, toothache, I have found Nervi -
line Invaluable. In treating the minor
ills of children Nerviline has no equal.
think Nerviline ohould be in every
home."
Hundreds of tbouoanda of bottles of
)tervillue used every year—proof that it
is the ideal liniment for the home. Re-
fuse anything your dealer may offer in -
;teed of Nerviline. Large family size
bottles, 50c., trial size. 25o. :111 dealers,
or the Catarrhozono Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
and Kingston, Ont.
Small. Worries.
Worry is a habit, like biting the
finger nails, turning in the toes, or
talking sleang, It comes in time to
be not only a habit, but a sinful in-
dulgence, almost as hurtful to
peace of mind as over -eating, or a.
violent temper, or scandal and tale -
bearing. The mind readily falls a
victim to batt mental habits. To
make much of small things is to be-
little life. To magnify and give im-
portance to little evils is to distort
out of all reality the actual things
worth living for. Whea the peace
of a whole family is upset because
the breakfast coffee is oo1d, or some
one has mislaid the morning paper,
things have lost due proportion. To
be happy one should look at the
evils and worries of life as if from
the large end of an opera -glass;
while for pleasant things the small
end of the glass should be held to
the eyes. This mental adjustment
is possible. It is practised con-
stantly by people who "look upon
the bright side."
Marvels of .Heat.
Of all the remarkable develop-
ment of science in its relation to
modern industry none is more mar-
vellous than the utilization of ex-
treme heat. The romance of heat
is more fascinating than any of the
stories of adventure which capti-
vate the imagination of the reader
at the present they. For some years
hast scientific men have been etriv
rag to produce heat fiercer than any
temperature of which we have ex-
perience in ordinary life. The
greatest heat ever developed by the
agency of man was obtained by Sir
Andrew Noble, who exploded cor-
• dite in closed vessels so that a pres-
sure of 50 tons to the square inch
was registered and a degree of heat
never previously recorded.
•The Servant Problem.
• "How many servants have you
-at your little suburban home l'
"Three."
"You surprise me. I should think
that one would be enough. How
„can you find employment for three
• servants?"
''We always have one coming,
one going and one there."
Shivery
Mornings
You can have a taste of
the summer sunshine of
the corn fields by serving
a dish of
ost
Toasties
These crisp flivoury
bits of toasted white corn
rnake an appetizing dish
at any time of year.
Try them in February
and Taste the delicate true
maize flavour.
A dish of Toasties
served either with cream
or silk, or fruit, is sur-
prisingly good,
4'The .Memory Lingers"
Grocers everywhere sell
Toastles.
Canadian t'ostdm Cereal Oa.,
Whaler, Ontario,
VERY STRANGE COMMUNITY
MUTINOUS 'SAILORS START
ROME IN.. PAR SPOT.
Insurrection of the Seamen Result-
' ed In New Settlement in
Tahiti. -
Political economists are little
given to dreaming, but for purposes
of illustration they often imagine
the case of a man cast oil a solitary
island and speculate on what he
would do and what he eould accom-
plish. Robinson Crusue is their
example,
But what would a band of nine
criminals den if they set themselves
up in a hitherto uninhabited island
1,200 miles from the nearest point
of land? Suppose they took wives
from among the women of Tahiti
and impressed six South Sea Island
men to act as servants and went to
a blooming isle where all that was
necessary to sustain life , was to
sleep under a bread fruit tree until
breakfast, dinner and supper fell
,down to wake them up? The off-
spring of these people would be de-
generate, especially alter they in-
termarried for 100 years, most per-
sons would say.
Would they?
It was in 1789 that the British
warship Bounty sailed for Tahiti,
following the route of Captain
Cook. The expedition was to gath-
er bread fruit and other tropical
• plants to be taken to the West In-
dies for transplanting.
When the slip anchored at Tahiti
all hands, from the amniander,
Captain Bligh, down to the seamen,
started in on
A Lazy, Luxurious Existence.
There was little or no work to be
done, the weather was balmy, fruit
and other good things were plenti-
ful, and when the time came to set
sail the man were inclined to grum-
ble at the prospect of sea fare and
work again. To make matters
worse, Captain Bligh was a man
with a short temper and a sharp
tongue, and he made matters worse.
by giving most of his crew a turn in
irons. He vented his petty spite
furthermore by cutting down their
allowance of food and grog and
threatening to work them to death
if they didn't starve.
It ended in mutiny.
Captain Bligh awoke one morning
to find his bunk surrounded by
armed sailors. Already one of the
ship's boats had been dropped
astern, and in it sat 18 men who re-
fused to join the mutineers. lite
captain was forced into the boat
and a small supply of food and wa-
ter lo)vered after him. The ship
sailed off, leaving the faithful few
without a compass or any means of
discovering land,
Bligh was a blunt man, but he
was a brave and determined sailor,
and he made a plucky fight for life.
He won, too, after sailing 8,500
miles in an open boat, fighting
storms and hunger, he reached land
without the loss of a single lite.
When he arrived in England
73Iigh cleared himself of all blame,
and. was made an admiral a little
later, when ho distinguished him-
self in battle and was complimented
by Nelson.
A man-of-war was sent out to
search the Peelle for the mutineers.
The ones who had joined unwilling-
ly in the revolt were found at Tee
hiti, and •
Three of Them were Ranged.
But nine of the most desperate, led
by Fletcher Christian, who seemed
to have been driven half insane by
the commander's cruelty, had set
out in the Bounty to find a lonely
isle where they could hide from all
mankind.
All the world supposed that the.
Bounty had gone down, and it ivas
20 years before the truth was
known. It was an American whaler
that discovered the retreat of the
mutineers in 1808. It had stopped
at the island charted as Pitcairn
for water, and the crew was then-
deretrucic at being hailed from the
shore in good English. The man
who hailed them was the only sur-
vivor of the piratical nine who had
escaped.
According to the story of this
man, John Adams, about four years
after their arrival the six men from
Tahiti they had brought with them
revolted from the tyranny of the
white men and killed all except
him. The same night the widows of
the Englishmen arose and put to
death the whole of the Tahitians,
leaving him the only man alive on
the island, with eight or nine we -
men and several children.
Fur a time, it seemed, the muti-
neers had Iived peacefully, having
divided bbe tillable land into nine
parts, and rased the Polynesian
man as servants. All went well tine
til the wife of (''hvistian died, and
he determined to .fill her pleee with
the wife of his servant. The man
shot Christian and .anarchy began.
' The Down -trodden Savages
withdraw to the elope of tht'moun-
tain (the island is only a great peek
snrrountic'd by e coral reef, and it
contains about 'two square miles).
Then a Seottehmnan and a companion
went, of, t;r the forest and found a
runt, out of which they made e very
• eatrsfeetory substitute for whiskey.
Under the influence of this they
tenrorieed their more peaceable
neighbors until the two fell, or were
pushed, over a cliff, Further trou-
ble over the women was ended only
when Adams was the only man left
alive.
Some elements of conscience were
revived in Adams by these bloody
scenes. When the whaler landed
there he found about 36 inhabitants,
most of •them young grownups, who
aolttrowledged' Adams as their com-
mander, and had been educated by
him in a religious and moral way.
He had found an old prayer book,
and every morning commenced the
day with religious service. They all
spoke English fluently.
Adams was an old man by this
time, and was greatly in fear of be-
ing carried back to England for
punishment. Two English warships
called there six years later, but so
well was the little community pros-
pering that it was left in peace.
Shortly afterwards a whaler, John
Buffet, was so taken with the sim-
ple life he found that he remained
on the island and built a school-
house. Trouble knew them not for
several years, until George Nobbs,
a young man with colossal nerve,
decided to cast his lot with them..
By virtue of his superior education
he declared himself their ruler, and
established a spstefn of taxes, with
the result that he was
The Only Man Who Old No Work.
Nobbs and a companion were put
on a ship a few years later and ex-
iled,
The Pitcairn Islanders do not of-
ten have visitors, but recently the
inhabitants of that romantic place
were hosts to Robert Hesketh, a
British scientist, while en his way
1iom Valparaiso. Chile, to Austral-
ia. The population now consists of
150 parsons, all Seventh Day Ad-
ventist,. having been converted. by
a missionary ship in the 60s. There
are 67 children tinder 16. The food
consists of sweet potatoes, alittle
I wheat, pumpkins and tropieal
fruits. The use of medicine is dis-
couraged and the usual cause of
death is old age. r. Smoking and
drinking are habits unknown.
All rise at o'clock and, after re-
ligious services, work until 2 in the
afternoon on public work, building
roads and in producing articles and
food to be held in common. The
rest of this day the inhabitants have
to 'themselves, to work or play, as
pleases them.. After the evening re-
ligious services most of the colonists
retire at sundown. Their total
wealth, this recent visitor reports,
is about $50.The community is
governed by a council.
A Bad Heart,
Its Cause and Cure
Many Firmly Convinced. They Are
Dying of Heart Trouble, Rave Of-
ten the Strongest Hearts.
Sometimes you wake up at night, heart
throbbing like a steam engine. Your
breathing Is short and irregular; pains
shoot through the sheet and abdomen,
and cause horrible anxiety.
Your trouble isn't with the heart •at
all. These aeneations are the outcome
of Indigestion. which has caused gas to
form on the stomach and press against
the heart.
Jost read what happened to reaao
Malloux, of Belle River, Ont.,
"Three months ago I was a weak, sickly
man. My appetite was poor, food fer-
mented- in my atomaeh, I had sour rite
Inks and indigestion. At night I would
often waken with' gas in the stomach
and heart palpitation,
"I consulted my doctor and need reme-
dies that my friends advised. Nothing
helped.
"One clay I received a sample of Dr.
Hamilton's Pills, and my cure commenc-
ed. Today I have a vigorous appetite,
strong heart action, and no sign of in-
digestion, I feel younger and healthier
than ever before."
Your druggist or storekeeper sells Dr..
Hamilton's Pills, 25e, per box or Rye boxes
for $1.00. By mail from The Catarrhozono
Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada.
Boastfully Arrogant.
"Some men do like to brag about
their 'wealth."
"What's the matter now?"
"Bartlett stopped me yesterday
to tell me proudly that he has hens
TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
INTERESTINo BITS OP GOSSIP FROM
THE QUEEN CITY.
The Late Dr. Beattie Nesbitt—Toronto Has
Some Rloh Men—Workmen's Compen.
satIbn—Passing of James Young,
Always dolls/Aim; in life in dramatlo
situations, the spirit of the late Beattie
Nesbitt must have found some satlsfac•
Mott in the chain of elrrumetaneoe which
"found a climax inhis death. In the
court room his lawyers pleading for the
mutating of the Indictments against
him; at his bedside his doctors struggling
to retain the breath of life. Tile lawyers
gained their point; but ono short hour
later Beattie Nesbitt was dead.
Beattie Neebltt'e hero in history wee
Napoleon, Hie living rooms ware filled
with pictures and books pertaining to
the Emperor, and it is said that he de-
voured every lino of Napoleon litera-
ture he could rlud. No doubt this fact
explains why Nesbitt's life was in some
striking respects (not excluding the mis-
ery of later years) au imitation of Na.
poloon'e,
Neebitt was an organizer. He had the
restless energy and Imagination of the
promoter. He was resourceful. But it le
hardly correct to say that he was either
. a very strong or a very great num. He
had the heart to resolve and the head to
contrive but he rarely had the hand to
execute,
Organized Ward Assoolatlona.
He has left hie mark on the political
life of Toronto, The Conservative Ward
Aeaoolations as they exist to -day are a
monument to his work. They are ex-
ceedingly influential and affective in their
organization, a feet for which Nesbitt.
must be thanked. His original idea, 0
is said, was to introduce an organization
that would be as eifeotive as Tammany,
but iu this he woe thwarted by what is
known as the silk-stocking element in the
party. However, ho had no trouble in
being elected to the Legislature, where he
could have held hie seat as long as he
wanted to. There was some disappoint -
wont among his friendswhen he was not
taken into the Whitney Cabinet which
was organized in 1900. and it was not long
afterward that be retired from the Log-
islature to accept the Registrarship. This
was the Elba of his career. Oe made hie
last plunge into polities by running for
the- Mayor's Chair, but he could not
carry the Conservative party with him,
and ho was defeated. At that timo • he
was President of the Partners' Bank and
it has been said in explanation of his ac-
tion in running for the Mayoralty that
his desire was to bring prestige to the
Bank. He calculated that as Meyer of
Toronto he could have got in England or
elsewhere all the capital necessary for
the now institution,
Ells Physical Strength.
Many stories aro told of his enormous
strength. Once single-handed be cleaned
up a crowd of lumber jacks wbo were
making trouble in a northern camp.
Again getting Into an alternation with a
cab man on account of some trifling dam-
e e that had been done to the '310101in
whish Nesbitt was riding, he bought the
outfit from the cabby for $23.00. and then
turned it upside clown on the street.
He was an aotive Orangeinan. As a
young man he broke from his party in
the Dalton McCarthy days, but later was
instrumental in bringing N. Clarke Wal-
lace and Sir Charles Tupper together on
the same platform in Hassey Hall. He
arranged for them to shake hands, when
turning to the audience he exnlaimed,
"55 not that a great pair to draw toP"
He was an admirer, however, of the Ro-
man Catholic Church, and frequently said
that if he bad been born a Roman Oatho.
lio he would have become a Bishop.
Toronto's Mob Men,
No little interest has been evinced in
the liat of twenty-three men who, as
cording to Hon. H. R. Emmerson, control
practically all of the big business in the
country. Or the twenty-three named by
Mr. Emmereon, nine belong to Toronto.
'Iwo of them, of course, are Sir William
Maekeuzie and Sir Donald Mann, the
twins of the Canadian Northern Railway
e§stem, who have spent their lives in get-
ting public utility franchisee of one sort
and another all over the world, turning
them into going conoerna and making
tremendous profits in the process. It le
at present impoeelble to compute how
mush those two men are worth. No
doubt they could not do so themselves.
It is generally admitted, however, that
their biggest coup has yet to come when
they will put on the market the stook
of the 0. N. R. corporation. This trans-
continental line, now running into its
thoneands of miles of trackage, tae been
built entirely by the sale of bonds, the
stook remaining in the control of Mao-
kenaio' and Mann personally, One of
these days this will have a value when
it will be put on the market, and the re-
turn to Mackenzie and Mann may be suf-
ficient to put them in a list of a dozen
of the wealthiest men In the world.
The G. N. R. Group.
Of the others named in the list, Mr.
Z. A. Lash, Mr. D. B. Hanna, Mr, Freder-
ick Nicholle and Sir Henry Pellatt are
more or less intimately associated with
Mackenzie and Manu corporations. Afr.
Lash is undoubtedly the ablest Corpora.
tion Counsel in Canada. Mr. D. B. Hanna
is Vice -President of the 0. N. R. and the
active force in its direct management.
Sir Henry Pellatt and Vrederiok Nicholls
are intereetod in many industrial, nader-
takings. A few years. ago Sir Benny
Pellatt realized over a million, dollar's In
cold cash from his sale of the control of
the Toronto Electric Light Co. He im-
mediately proceeded to pita a large por-
tion of thin amount into a residence on
the hill, now nearing completion, which
le a marvel to all beholders.
Sir Edmund Osier and Mr, W. D. Mat-
thews aro Toronto's repreaentativoa
among the Canadian Paoiile Railway's
group of flnaneiera. while the ninth man
en the list, Senator George' A. Cox, is
closely associated with the Grand Trunk
Pacific enterptlees, While not competing
in the s eetaeular achievements. of Sir
William Mackenzie and Sir Donald Mann,
Senator Cox is in many respects ono of
the shrewdest financiers in Toronto or
in the country.
The Ton Richest Moh.
An estimate of the ten • wealthiest men
in Toronto and their,fartuuen has been
published as follows:
in his backyard that are still lay- sir William Mackenzie $15,000,000
ing eggs," J. 0. Eaton ...... 12,000,500
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SAVING TIML '
Veteran (with sieve) -While yes tip thorn, Neel, look if
yer can see the postman a -Conlin',
Senator Cox ... „ 6,000,000
Sir It imuud Osler ............. 5,000,000
Gevrtht% Muleek. ... ,. .... 3,400,000
W. 8. Gooclarham'...... ....... 3,000,000
G. R. Wood ,,.,,, ,,, 3,000,000
Sir fi'eury Pellatt ............. 3,000,000
Sir Donald Munn ........ ... , 3,000,000
5, W. Flavone ... ... .. . ..... 0,000,000
At the Legislature.
There promisee le be a hitch In the
Workmeu'•s Compensation legialatlon, due
title session, over the question of whether
Werke in stores and farm laborers aro
to bo included in the previalous of the
Aet, Tho general priuulple in modern.
Workmen's Componeation legislation is
that a fund is established to nhioh em,
players of labor contribute, and cut of
this fund demngee aro paid to workmen
whenever accidents occur. Industries aro
graded according to the hazard, so that
the employers in hazardous oouupatfoue
have W pay more than those in lose has.
ardoua oecupatiene. The workmen them
selves contribute nothing and the fund
is administered by the State.
Theoretically, legislation of this kind
should apply to everybody, but it is
feared that representatives of rural con-
stituenoies will object if farm laborers
and store clerks are included. There la,
therefore, a possibility that those classes
will be dropped in the legislation which
is to be recommended by Sir William
Meredith, the special commissioner, wbo has
been Investigatingthe subject, and that
the labor unions which have been eel-
tating for the Aot willnot object, fearing
that if they did so they would jeopardize
their ebanoos of getting any legiela.
Lion.
This will probably be the most import-
ant piece of general legislation to come
before the House this seseion. Tax Re-
form and Temperance legislation will no
doubt furnish the basis for what are
known an dress debates.
Passing of James Young,
The death of Hon. James Young at Galt
removes a Liberal of the Old Guard, who
for years past has taken a keen, though
an onlooker's, interest lu passing ovonta.
Hie two volumes of "Rominieconaoe," just
published, Have proved to be a very dif•
ferent work to that of Slr Richard (Sart.
wright'e, with whom ho was contemnor.
aneous. Mr. Young's work is largely
from the view polst of a spectator. Sir
Richard was a crusading participant in
the campaigns ho describes.
BELLS OP ALL RINDS.
Remarkable Collection of Over
Three Hundred of Them.
The enthusiasm of the collector
expends itself on objects of many
kinds; but few collections are so in-
teresting as that of Mr. Frank Mil-
ler of Riverside, California, who
has spent a great many years and a
great deal of energy in getting to-
gether his remarkable collection of
over three hundred bells.
Every quarter of the globe, every
oddity of shape and material, al-
most every historical era is repre-
sented. There are bells from the
United States, Mexico, England,
Scotland, France, Spain, Germany,
Holland, Belgium, Russia, Sweden,
Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Egypt, Arabia,. India, Ceylon, Ti-
bet, Borneo, Burma, China, Man-
churia, Japan, the Philippines,
Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands.
There is a row -bell with the name
and family arms of Pope Paul III.,
who excommunicated Henry VIII,
It was used on the bell cow of the
Vatican herd, of that day. A huge
bell from Avignoh was once part of
the city clock in the town of the
Popes. A ship's bell once tolled the
watches on one of the vessels that
carried the unhappy Acadianrs from
their homes, as Longfellow's poem
of "Evangeline" tells. There is an
iron bell from a temple in Muk-
den, taken by Japanese soldiers in
the Russian war. The very bell
which hung in the chapel of Molo-
kai, where Father Damien minis-
tered to the lepers,. is there. One
bell comes from a monastery near
Lhassa, and another is a Chinese
stone bell, probably over two thou-
sand years old.
Perhaps the most interesting of
all is one that was cast for a church
in Valencia, Spain, in 1247. At that
time Ring Jaynes of Aragon had just
added Valencia to his dominions,
and was establishing Christian
churches all over the province. The
inscription cast on the bell bears
the names of the Virgin Mary, to
whom the church was dedicated, of
Jesus, of the King of Aragon, and
of the bell -founders Quintana and
Salvattr, as well as the year in
which the bell was cast.
The special value of this bell lies,
in the fact that it is the oldest dat-
ed bell in exieterice, Until Mr.
Miller found it in the scrap -heap in
a London bell -founder's shop, that
distinction was held by a bell in
Fribourg, Germany, which bears
the date 1258.
How this fine old bell got to Lon-
don can only be conjectured. It
may have come as a ship's bell- on
one of the ill-fated Armada, or as
a papal present to an English mon-
astery, or as booty from some of
the daring raids of Sir Francis
Drake on the coast cities of .Spain,
However -it ' got, there, n4• one sus-
pected its yahoo, or indeed its ex-
istence, until Mr," Miller unearthed
it. Once found, it was not so easily
gob out of England, for the British
Museum learned of the discovery,
and made every effort to prevent
its being carried to America. Hut
Mr. Miller had bought and paid for
it, and after negotiations that lash-
ed almost a year, he was permit.
ted to tante it home with him.
Pat Expleinee.
A tourist, calling at an Irish ca•
bin to obtain a glass of milk, tee;
tioed on the top of a chest of draw-
ers a glass shade lender which Ives
a brick and a faded rose, Natur. 1
ally he inquired. why the owner of
the shanty should cherish two such
dissimilar objects. ".Shure, nor,
there's memories aateehed to
diem," said the Irishman. "Feel
this big dent in me head 1 Well, it
rvae the brick that made it," "Iiut.
the retie l" said the visitor. "The
rode is off the grave of the pian [ant
threw the briolt," replied the host
''ate CZAR'S TREASURES FAKED
A GOOD HABIT
Tea when you are tired,
particularly if it's
Goes farthest for the money
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MET BY ARMY OFlMII
ONK1 S,
Lone English Officer Saved From
Death by Woman. Keeper.
In various parts of India monkeys
are regarded as objects of worship.
One of the principal monkey tem-
ples is alb Nuddee, Such veneration
le shown here to Huniman, the mon-
key gad, that visitors may not enter
the court of the temple without re-
moving their'shoes.
On one occasion en English offie.
car, in passing up the country near
Nuddea, chanced to stroll into a
bamboo jungle, when his boat had
"put to" for the night. He had not
advanced far before he heard a
terrific uproar all about him, and
was not a little alal'ined to behold a
whole army of the largest monkeys
he had ever seen making toward.
him from all quarters.
Some jumped on the ground be-
fore him, others swung by the baa'
boos over his head, acid many
closed up the path in tin rear.
Several females had young ones
clinging to them, but this fact did
not seem to render them less agile
than the others.
The Englishman knew not what
to do. He yelled at the top of his
voice for assistance. To his intense
relief, each tion that he yelled the
monkeys retreated a bit. This en-
couraged him to persevere. 10 his
shouting, but he ub.servod that
when he hiaaelf began to retreat
the monkeys would again begin to
close in upon him.
Then ho stood still and gave one
tremendous shout, whereat the
monkeys wont back again, This
time the man had gained fully
twenty. yards and was about to re-
peat the oaIl when there appeared a
new figure upon the scene in the
person of an aged, decrepit woman
hobbling through the midst of the
animals.
This aged person shook two or
three of the monkeys by the paws
as she passed. No sooner had she
come within hearing of the Britisher
than she opened upon him the vials
of her wrath for disturbing the sa-
cred animals in their reitirement,
She bade the intruder depart, and
than quickly, an order which he' lost
,no time in executing. The mon-
keys all seemed implicitly to obey
the odd woman's bidding, making a
way for the man's retreat.
The old woman, it appeared, was
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I1iS COS'I'LY BOOK IS i`I1LL OF
NISTA l►h8,
Authorities Angel' Ruler by Die.
par'agenlent of 1,11e Royal
Silverware.
Czar Nicholas is angry.. The
trouble, as usual, 1$ art. Whenever
his C'zarian Majesty dabbles in art
he invariably ends angrily, His
last experience was with the poet
Michaiioff, whom he flattered only
tv clisoovor that Michailoff in the
past; had written rovolutionary
songs, The Emperor's present
trouble is over the great book which
he ordered to be compiled about
the silver treasures in his palace,
says a a$t, Petersburg letter.
Compiler Made Mistakes.
The Czar lately discovered that
he has tons of artistic antique sil-
ver. To be precise, he has 8,1405
kilograms, which. ua 16,500 pounds
All this is old silver by famous ala
ists and does not include the mane
tons of silver which the has for pre-
sent table and ornamental uer. The
silver is to he found in the winter
palace, in the leg Alexand'.,1T pa-
lace, and in both Peterhoff palaces.
Some more is in Livadia. Nicholas
decided that all this treasure ought
to be described ler the public, and
that he must get out a book.
He entrusted the compilation to
Baron Foelkersaluit, chief of the
silver department in the Hermitage,
and a talented expert, and the book
has now appeared under the title,
"Silver Treasures of the Court of
His Majesty." It is a costly book
and has valuable data about art
silver work, as practiced in Russia
and abroad. But it has deeply an-
noyed the Emperor, .and he hap, it
is said, ordered that all available
copies al's to be withdrawn and de-
stroyed, and a new hook prepared.
Nicholas II. is a thrifty man, and
his anger is. all the greater because
the book cost nearly 515,000, ail
of which he has got to pay out of
his own pocket,
The trouble with the book is that
it is full of mistakes, and sniffy, su-
perior critics have been pointing
out the :fact. The mistakes are of
all kinds. In the silver, • for in-
stance, are certain mysterious
spoons with yard long handles;
these date hundreds of years Back
and are described as having been
used by Czarites for fishing sweet
things out of long glasses. And
now, says the critic, MI Jakevloff,
the imperial book is all wrong. The
spoons were made by the Venetians
purely as ornaments. The long
handles were a fashion.
l;xperts Proved Unkind.
Similar mistakes were made .in
describing other things: Old
Freuch_silvor cans, says critical M.
Jakovloff, were intended for hold-
ing chocolate, but they were de.
scribed as intended for quite other
things, And some of the greatest
treasures in the collection are not
real at all, but are indifferent cop-
ies, or bold and transparent fakes.
For instance, the book, in de-
scribing Nicholas' collection of
French table appointments, attri-
buted several of them to the French
artist,' Francois Thomas Germain.
Among these is a wonderful salt
cellar ,with two . cupids, which the
Czar particularly likes. Now, says
M. Rickoff, the famous critic, and
author of numerous books about
silver, the salt cellar is not genu-
ine. It i$ a copy. He proves this,
and he adds boldly and disloyally,
"It would surely have been better
tohave kept these silver things in
discreet obscurity than to display
thea: in betttaying pictures.to the
~eters eyes of, eipert•s,"
Ansi anotlrei critic says that some
of the Augsburg and Nttrmburg sil-
ver itis attributed to the .wrong art-
ists, and that one article described
as South German is as a faat Eng-
lish.
Naturally this little tragedy has
incensed Nioltol;ee II. First, his
poetis; proved ^tai ,be a. fraud; and
how' Ins sih'eo ' After this what
will .be the next .blow 1 Will 'his
gold turn out to be lead? , •
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GLACI.ERS AXE 8HIII NKiNG.
Most Famous Formations Are Re-
treating to the Montitaim.
It appears thnJ except dyer a
small area, the glaciere'of the `world
are retreating t0' the mountains,
The Arapahoe Glacier of .the
Rockies liar been melting at a rapid
elite for several year,o,, - The ,glacier
ntS Mount 'Sarmientei; in' South
America, which descended into. the
mein the last century, ie new sepa-
rated from, the shore by a vigorous
growth of timber,
'1h1s jacobshaven Glacier. in
Greenland, has retreated four miles
since the, year 1800, and .the East
Glacier, in Spitzberg'en, is mo5se
than a mile away from its old ter-
minal moraine. •
In Scandinavia the snow line 'id
further up the mountains, andthe
glaciers have withdrawn 3,000 feet
from bio lowlands in a, century, In
the F,it b rn Alps and one or two
other small dietriets, the glnriei's
are growing,
