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On the Cob or Shelled. Imp. Learning,
or White Cap Y. Dent $1.35 per buehel,
Longfellow $1.60; Compton's 01.60.
Freight paid in Ontario on 10 bushels
or more. Bags free. Write for catalogue.
GEO, KEITH & SONS, Toronto,
Seed merchants dam 1066.
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DAY'S 91019011 & SONS, ST, 9100Y'S 0t.
THE TICHBLE BEERRLNG.
2,950,090;000 Pickled in Europe in
a Tiear.
The humble herring, being one of
the most common fish, does not get
nearly so much attention as it
would otherwise, and people have
very little idea of its importance.
Some idea, of the number of her-
rings that are yearly caught and
eaten in Europe may be gathered
from the fact that in 1912 there were
3,623,807 barrels of herrings pick-
led in Europe alone. To this enor-
mous total Great Britain. contri-
buted 2,360,355 barrels, or more
than four times the number contri-
buted by any other country.
On an average it is reckoned that
eight hundred herrings are pickled
in each barrel, so that, the number
of herrings cured during a year in
Europe reaches the enormous rough
total of 2,900,000,000. About three
parts of an entire yettes catch of
herrings are put into pickle, though
this does not include those which
a•re tinned, kippered, bloatered, or
treated in divers other ways.
In spite of the enormous propor-
tions of herring that are pickled in
Great Britain, the sale in that
country is comparatively small, the
chief markets being in Russia and
Germany.
Everybody
From kid
To Grandad
Likes
P ISt
To . sties
Thin, crisp bits of white
Indian Corn, cooked to
perfection and toasted to a
delicate brown without the
touch of human hand.
You get them in the
sealed package.
Ready to Eat
A. dish of Post Toasties
for breakfast and lunch,
with thick cream or rich
fruit juice, is a dish that ep-
icures might chortle over.
NoUrishittg, edonoMicalo
dellelpUno "mOre4sh.”
Canadian Post= Cereal Cd„ Ltd.
Whedticia, Ontario,
CHINA'S VAST TERRITORIES
STORIES OF CONGESTION
OPEN TO QUESTION.
The Chinese Newspapers Express
Fears That Aggressors Will
Step In.
It has been generally assumed
that China, is so densely populated
that millions of its people are un-
able to find a livelihoed on land,
and are compelled to live on house-
boats on the rivers, and some au-
thorities, in. considering China's
present problems, have regarded
the possesion of her vast territories
beyond the Great Wall as being ab-
solutely necessary in order to pro-
vide for her surplus population. In-
quiries, however, have been made
by those in a position to make
them, and the results uf .these have
done much to disprove the gener-
ally accepted theory that China is
over -populated. Far instance, Sir
Alexander Heise, while acting as
commercial attache to the British
legation, wrote in his report on the
foreign trade of China in 1906:
"Having visited 15 of the 18 pro-
vinces of China proper, as well as
the three .Manchurian provinces,
and seen how scantily many of them
are populated, I doubt very much
whether the whole of China., Man-
churia, and the new dominion con-
tain a population at all approach-
ing the usually accepted 400,000,-
000."
Figures Exaggerated.
Mr, Rockhill, who travelled very
extensively in China, estimated that
China proper had nob a larger pop-
ulation than 200,000,000. A Chinese
newspaper, in. referring to the fron-
tier troubles at present existing,
stated that "The root of all those
trouble g is that we have done noth-
ing to populate the vast territories
along our borders. A fair land,
vast, undefended and unpopulated
is sure to attract the attention of
aggressors."
Allusion is made in the article to
ill -digested schemes which have re-
cently been put forward with a view
to encouraging eolonization in those
frontier regions of the south-west
and the north-west, now that the
military necessity for so doing has
been forced upon public attention,
and it has been proposed that dis-
banded soldiers should be settled
there, so that they might serve the
double purpose of developing the
land and checking any aggression
that might be threatened.
Colonization:*Difficult.
But as the rich have not shown
any inclination to leave their com-
fortable homes to sojourn in this
remote land, and as the poor have
not the means to enable them to
leave their homes and develop this
land, it would seem as if China had
very little use for these outlying
territories at the .present •time, at
least for this purpose. Unless good
inducements are offered to remain
in this remote land, an k plan of
attempting to eolanize these terri-
tories with disbanded soldiers is not
likely to meet with success. At any
rate the reception which this pro-
posal has met with indicates that
the pressure of population is not
so great in China as many folks are
inclined to believe.
DIPHTHERIA. PREVENTIVE,.
Prolonged Immunization A.nnoune-
ed by German Doctor.
The discovery of a method of pro-
longed immunization against diph-
theria, consisting of an injection of
a mixture of diphthertic toxin and
anti -toxin, was .announced recently
by Prof. Emil. von Sebring, of the
University of Marburg, Germany,
tat the Congress of Internal Medi-
,
eine.
Adequate testa of the new method
in the clinks of Magdeburg and
Marburg had, said the professor,
shown that the treatment was
harmless and effective. The earlier
attempts to immunize by means of
Behring's original diphtheria serum
were unsuccessful, as the immunity
was very brief,
Prof. Behring offers to supply
clinics with the now prophylactic
under proper guarantees of obser-
vation and registration.
India's Floating Factories.
Floating factories have become
curt important part of the develop-
ment .of the forest resources of In-
dia. In certain parts of that cent -
try the forests are only accessible
through the water courses,and the
great expense of erecting land
plants for the utilization of the
lumber resources makes such a
course impracticable. Therefore,
sawmills and other manufacturing
establishments are built on floating
platforms and moved up the
,fitrearne as they are needed. After
the lumber is prepared in a saw-
mill it can be packed in a way that
makes transportation moll more
economical than any system of logo
ging. Plants for the preparation
of tanning extracts have &leo been
established in this manner. The
plants are built on flat boat, 200
feet long by 67 feet wide, capable
earryieg a load of 470 toea.
Wasessraesswaserraileedek.
CHILDREN IN THE HOME
When there are children in the
home it reqaires constant atten-
tion to keep them tree from the
many childhood ailments which
come so quickly --some of them
proving fatal while others leave
the little one cross, restless and
weak. To keep little ones well
Baby's Own Tablets must be kept
in the house, These Tablets regu-
late the stomach and bowels, break
up colds and fevers; expel worms
and make teething easy. The
Tablets are sold by medicine deal-
ers or by mail at 25 cents a box
from The Dr, Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Soule Mediaeval Kitchens.
There is a mediaeval kitchen at
Westminster Abbey, although little
remains by which to identify it aside
from the rubble flooring, the but-
tery hatch and an adjoining cellar.
Hampton Court Palace shows its
great kitchen, with vaulted roof
and sets of antlers on ita
Englishmee of other days fully re-
cognize the advantages of a large
kitchen. There is extant an order,
dated April 19, 1206, wherein Hugh
de Nevill is commanded to have the
Ring's kitchen at Clarendon roofed
with shingles and to cause two new
kitchens to be erected, one at
Mariberough'and the other at Lud-
gershall, in which "to dress" the
royal dinners.
The Size of the British Empire.
"It is 63 times the size of Franee,
52 times that of Germany, 3%
times that of the United States of
America, thrice the size of Europe,
with treble the population of all the
Russiaa. It extends over 11,000,000
square miles, occupies one-fifth of
the globe, contains one-fifth of the
human race, or 350,000,000 people,
embraces four continents, 10,009
islands, 500 iproraontories, and 2,000
rivers." The above is a little in-
ventory of the British Empire, and
the writer who is responsible for it
jotted down his figures before the
annexation of the South African
Republics.
If Bad Water
Causes Diarrhoea
Use Some 'Nerviline'
Prompt Relief is Instantly Aesured,
and Thousands Use Nervi -
line on This Account.
, —
A Traveler's Experience Related.
The experience of Mr. Norman P. Eau:
drioks is not an unusual one. Writing
from Prince Albert he says: "My buoi-
nese calls ine from one Dime to another,
and I am frequently up against the bad
miter problem of the Canadian North-
West. In so many places the water dis-
agrees with mo, and I used to be kept
very miserable on that account, An old
settler told me one day that nothing is
so useful to newcomers as Nerviline, and
he explained to me how valuable it
proved to him under similar circum-
stances twenty-five years ago. You would
hardly believe how happy and comfor.
table ray trips are since I learned of
Nerviline. I look upon 'Nerviline' as nie
trusty friend, and give it a place of hon-
or in my hand bag. In fact, I wouldn't
think of. being without it in a country
this. It, (+urea any little stomach
trouble or digestive disturbances and re.
Heves a cramp in ten emends. To euro
Neuralgia, Earache, Toothache, or pain
in your muscled like Rheumatism, you
simply can't beat Nerviline."
To Curs little ills before they grow big
and to relieve the aches and pains of the
whole family got Nerviline to -day. Fam.
fly size, 50c.; trial size, 2,5c.; at all Store.
keepers and druggiets, or Tho Catarrh -
ozone Co„ 13ulfalo, N. Y.
Curious Pew This.
One of the largest churches in
Europe—the Frauenkirche, Dres-
den, which contains sitting accom-
modation for 6,000 people and
standing room for 2,500 more, has
an extraordinary pew reserved for
the city magnates and their fami-
lies. Ib is built in the form of a
Greek croes and surmounted .by a
spacious dome. The ground floor
is partly occupied by benches, all
numbered, and three of the arms
are fitted up with galleries in seven
or eight tiers, the lowermost pro-
jecting forward as in the dress cir-
cle of a theatre. There are besides
many minor openings, like win-
dows, the recesses round which bear
all the appearance of private boxes,
ZA.M.I3UK FOR 'HIE ORILIMF,N.
Mrs, J. Quiding, of Ninobte,
Man., says, "My little boy 'was suf-
fering very badly from. a form of
skin disease over his eye. I applied
Zam,Buk to the affected part, and
in a, very short time the sores were
healed,"
Mrs. F. Miners, of 811 Suffolk
St., Guelph; Ont., says : "My little
daughter Lorindo, (6), contracted a
skin disease. This first broke out
like tiny water blisters, afterwards
taking the form of dry scabs. These
would disappear for a short, time,
and then reappear worse than ever.
We tried Zare-Buk, and peraever-
alum with its use resulted in It
cure."
All druggists and stores sell
Zarn-Buk at 60c. box or post free
from Zeit-Ili* Co., Toronto, upon
reeeipi of price,
OUR LETTER FROM TORONTO
INTERESTING BITS OF GOSSIP FROM
THE QUEEN OITY. •
Sir Henry ',Matt's Glft to the Queen's
Own Regiment—The Olty's Food 13011
for a vette-salung water again..
The gift by Sir Henry Follett of a large
plot of laud in a populous motion at the
oily. to bo used. for drill purposes exelu.
sively by the Queen'e Own Regiment, calla
attention once more to this worthy
Knight, who le lu many mopeds the most
spectacular figure in Canadian finance.
Sir Henry believee in doing thine In a
big way when his enthusinom is aroused.
The Queen's Own Roginsent, said to be
Canada's crank conm, has alwaye had
Sir Ileury'e enthusiasm. He has served
in it himself throughout almost hie en-
tire life -time and in all ranks from
private to colonel. The jaunts ho teak
the regiment on are, matters of hietorY,
first sending the bug,le band. to England
and afterwards arranging the traespor-
tation of the entire regunent to take part
in the manoeuvree ut Alderehot. His pre-
sent gift of drill grounde is estimated in
melt valuer at something like $110,000.
Sir Henry has some other-enthueistems.
He has boon a generous patron of Trinity
College and of Grace Hospital,
His House on the Hill.
But perhaps bis outstanding entbneiasm
fe the residence he is building for him -
mit on the hill overlooking Toronto, at
the head of Spadina and Walmer Roade.
No description Can 00111891 an adequate
idea of the size and solidity of thio man-
sion. It has been under construction for
two years. Years previous to that, the
lodge and stablee were emoted, stables
which in themselves resemble a baronial
castle.
When complete the residence will un-
doubtedly be the most expensive and
elaborate to be found in the Dominion
of Canada, and will via with those to
be found at least anywhere on the Am-
erican continent. What the cost will be
no one knows, but it will probably be
no boos than $1.000,000.
The house has become one of the show
places of the city, and sightseere are not
considered to have completed their rounds
until they visitwhat is sometimes earn -
'ugly referred to as "Pellatt's Folly." De-
spite these and similar slighting remarks,
one cannot but feel an admiration for
the conception and execution of the idea.
Whore the Money Comes Front
Sir Henry Pellatt's career on the ma
of Canadian finance has been marked by
ups and downs, but chiefly ups, The buoy-
ancy of Oanadian business during.the past
few years has carried him well forward.
While he has not yet been regarded as
ono of the moet wealthy men In the coun-
try it is known that he hoe acquired a
very large fortune, and that a number of
hie ventures bare been attended with re.
markable success. This is a fact which
is not fully appreciated by Canadians,
who regard his present venture in the
castle building lino as a Diem of erratio
extravagance.
As an example of hie success, it may be
noted that in purohaeing the site of his
residence he made a remarkable coup.
That was some years ago, when land
even as close to the city as the site is
was selling, pot at so much a foot, but
in Nook by the sore. Sir Henry purchas-
ed the entire block from Spadina Avenue
west to Bathurst street and frore the face
of the hill north to St. Clair Avenue, re-
taining what amounts to two or three city
squares for the site of his residence, but
sub -dividing the rest and selling It under
restrintions as a high clew residential
district, It is dated that, he was able to
acquire the land at whet figured out at
niteut $3 a foot frontage and that What
he sold netted him about $45 a foot front-
age. It is now selling much higher than
that, some of it perhaps as high as $100 a
foot, but in this inetance, at least, Sir
Henry was willing to let somebody else
get mine of the profit. It is probable
that this single land transaction netted
him enough to pay the entire cost of hie
mansion. Aud this ie not the only real
estate deal that Sir Henry has Partici-
pated in during the last flee years.
A Hydro-Electrlo Opponent.
At the time of his absorption by the
Maakenzie.Ma,nn interests, Sir Henry held
a controlling interest in the stook of
the Toronto Electric Light 00, He had
always been very optimistic about the
future of this eompany, and on mtg.
.000510.00 of the stock had bought large
blocks of it. Ranier hos it that 'in the
transaction by which the Company was
sold to the Toronto Street Railway and
allied interests, Sir Henry Follett secured
a cool million in cash. He was one of -the
original prosnotere of the Electric Devel-
opment Company, and was exceedingly
annoyed bemuse the certainty of tre-
mendous profits in this venture was mod!.
fiveodi jorby the competition of the Ontario
Government with its Hydro-Eleetric
It is frequently stated that Sir Henry's
laIk of tact had much to do with the an-
tagoniein which developed between Sir
James Whitney and the Eta:4Mo capital-
ists.
Another financial transaction 'which 11.
instrates Sir Henry's tactics is mid to
have occurred in connection with the'stock
or a salmon-paoking industry. in British
Columbia, known on tho stock exchange
as B. 0. Packers. At a period of dull
times, shortly after its organization, the
stook of this company fell on evil days,
Sir Henry did not know anything about
salmon peeking himself, but he engaged
two experts at a, price of $6,000 to visit
British Columbia and go into the peed
bilities of the industry. They reported
that the Company was all right. Sir
Henry immediately began buying the
stook,.which was selling around $30 or $40
57 u;' erlev",,
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11 share, and before anyone realized what
had happened ho had a controlling inter-
est in the company. Tito views of hie
minute proved well founded, and the
stook is now worth several times what
Sir Henry paid for It. In this was an-
other mint of money for the venturesome
capitalist.
Sir Henry ie on the boards of a more
or more loading financial companies, and
has more or lees substantial interests in
them all.
His hobby le horticulture. His green.
houses are the equal of any to be found
in Canada.
Toronto's Food Bill.
Soma person with a taste for figures has
been working out how much food Toronto
consumes in a year. He has arrived at
the result that no lees than 450,000,000
pounds of food -stuffs are required annu-
ally to keep the wolf from the, door in
Toronto. In this It is figured that ,,o less
than 14,257,011 dozen of eggs are inoluded.
while the figure may look large, when
It is divided up among the approximately
half million citizens, it does not look
out of the way. It provides for about 900
pounds per person per year, which is at
the rate of about only 214 pounds a day,
which does not seem exorbitant.
It la figured that the value of a year's
supply of food for Toronto is no lege than
$65,000,000.
On the •"Bolled water Waggon."
Toronto ba e juet been having another
week on the "boiled water waggon," and,
ae it turns out, all to no avail. Two
years ago, when the intake pipe broke,
a large quantity of eand wee drawn into
the tunnel tinder the bay. The presence
of this sand was demonstrated by the
occasional sediment In the water and by
a serious amount of damage being caused
to machinery. It was suspeeted, also, that
it, contained impurities. Finally the
Waterworks Department decided that the
tunnel would have to be ()leaned, and to
this •end shut on the supply coming
through it and asked the citizens to get
along on the amount of water that could
be pumped through two old pipes lying
on the bottom of the sewage -polluted bay,
and which have beeo, in disuse for a
groat many years, One of them ie
hided° pipe that on ono ocoaelon rose
to the top of the bay, thereby musing
the greeted water famine in the eity's
history. Though the two pipes have a
oapaeity of 35,000.000 gallons of water
day, they were found to be insufficient,
and before the tunnel could be pumped
empty of water, tosay nothing of get-
ting the sand cleaned out, half the city
was without a slimily of water of any
kind. Naturally, there was a great out-
burst of indignation. 'Phe waterworke'
officials threw up their hands and re.
mimed pumping through the tunnel, leav-
ing the problem of getting the eand out
of it to a more propitioun occasion, 10
that ever arrives. The chief result or the
inoldent was to bring a harvest to tho
private oompanion which supply spring
water, as a good many citizens through
long usage have acquired a distaste for
Cho boiled and chlorinated variety.
Baseball on Again.
The opening of the baseball season Linde
the fans not any too hopeful. For the
first time in history they have boon told
by the press correspondent at the front
that the team is not in eliape. Perhaps
an explanation of thio lies in the feet
tbat there has not been competition
among the newsmere in fulsome adula-
tion of the heroes of the diamend. In-
stead of each newspaper sending a 0091'
91559105100511 with the team on its training
trip this Year. as in former yeare, only
one correspondent, representing all the
papere, accompanied the team. On paper
the organization does not seem to be as
strong as last year. It containe a num-
ber of unknown quantities, but under the
direction of the popular Manager .Toe
Holly may develop into a good fighting
machine.
Ring George Dislikes "Fits."
Tho King has an intense dislike to
trying on clothes and rarely or ne-
ver does so, Exact models of His
Majesty's figure are kept at Buck-
ingham Palace in charge of the
chief valet, and on those the Ring's
clothes are fitted.
One of the greatest tests of friend-
ship is to listen to 'a hard luck
story.
"The Family Friend for 40 years." A never
failing relief for Croup and Whooping Cough.
We have prepared a Special Folder dealing with
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in a Well Established Industry"
We consider these bonds an exceedingly
good investment from the standpoint
of reliability and good interest yield.
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WHEN YOUR EYES DECEIVE
NOT WISE TO TIIINIC SEEING
IS BEL] E VIN G
A. Fewiustanees Showing 1Iow
Easily It lo For One to Bo
Mistaken.
One.of the curious faces regarding
people who disappear, is that after
they have ceased to exist they are
seen at va,riona places all over Eng-
land, in many ease.s on the same
day, says London An.swees.
A cam in point is the recent tra,
gic disappearance of Mrs. Nowill.
Among the places at which ashe was
"seen were 5. Highgate boarding-
house, Tonbridga Station, a South -
poet hotel, Wigan, and a Strand
'bus
The same thing happens in all
sensational "wanted" cases, Dur-
ing the hunt for Crippili and Peter
the Painter, ecores of people were
so absolutely convinced that they
had found the man wanted that
other scores of equally respecta,ble
people found themselves in very un-
pleasant situations,
Aiding the hiemory.
Why should this bel Well, psy-
chologists explain it rather curi-
ously. You sit opposite a man in
the train or 'bus, and something
about his face reminds you of the
photograph you saw in your morn-
ing paper.
As you stare, you grow more and
more certain. But the reason you
grow more and more certain is
simply th.art, after the firet moment
you saw him your rather dim mom-
ory of the photograph has begun to
take on the outlines of the face be-
fore you.
In fact, even if you have your
newspaper actually before you, you
are much more likely to be wrong
than right—if you start with the
idea that the man before you re-
sembles the wanted man.
Once you think that, you are
really unable to look at the photo-
graph fairly. You read something
of the man's expression into the
face in the n.eneepaper, and so gab
more and more certain.
Curious as it may seem, nothing
is really more untrustworthy than
the evidence of the eyes. A Mid-
land professor of philosophy has
given some interesting proofs of
this fact.
Unable to Identify.
A few months ago he put his.class
through &aeries of questions about
various parte of the university
buildings and other objects which
were before their eyes every day,
but not one of the students was able
to answer eight questions cor.reotly.
Criminal lawyers of experience
have often declared that evidence
identification_has to be very
strong indeed before it is to be re-
lied on. The reason is the untrust-
worthiness ef the oyes.
A recent instance was the case of
the man arrested at Maidstone in
eonnection with the Dundee mur-
der, Though several witnesses
brought from Scotland identified
him, he was released almost at
c>x1c.e.
People.generally believe they can
Must their own eyes if they can
trust anything at all, but Another
,s,et of university tests has shown
that in the matter of ability to iden-
tify, the average man as weak as
in his powers of observation.
In this case the professor arrang-
ed that a masked man should come
into the clase-roorn, stare round
and go out. On his head he wore a
three -cornered hat; in one hsod he
ea.rried a hemmer, in the other a
walking-stiok; his trousers were a
loud check, while round his shoul-
ders he siE-oacreabialaciukeyliteng cape.
Facts
(totto.
A couple of days afterwards he
asked bia class to write a descrip-
tion of the intruder. Noarly half
agreed that he had carried a re-
volver, a quarter of the class were
certain that he had worn a long
black sna,ckintoeh, only three
noticed the -qtalking-stick, while a
curiously large number agreed that
the man had, worn al Trilby. hat
That is'proof enough that.doscrip-
kons of a man seen sometime be-
fore are of little value. But in the
(Wen more important matter of re-
aolesgsn:esults were even reeve hope-
gie g fakes, a point on whielia
witness's evidence may hang a man,
the r
When shown life -like anaska, out
of which to select that worn by the
man in question, only four out of
the ;twenty-four students recogeizAd
the correct one, elevenmade
mis-
tto'ke.s, while four could tlOt make up
their minds, but of the eleven, six
agreed o0, a ma* which was quite
unlike the right one,
When a Mao, IS condemned on cir-
cumetaritittl evidence, many pope
declare that no Man should be
banged on eircuanstantial evidence
alone. But many criminal ablvo-
ogee and at keel., one Atm -ions judge
have ,stated that eirtionstantial ovie
donee is far themore satiefactory.
Facts, thez etty, cannot lie, while
sally 6a4 olbe.:11 do'' -
No man can hope, 40acquire po-
pularity tinletie he is willing to bo
bored once in a while,
'SERVICE° .
To
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,. Income 'Yield
1st. —$t,000. Railroad Equipment Bond 5 lb
2nd.—$1,000. Publie Utility Bond . , 5Y 1li,
3iele--$1,000. First -Class Municipal Debenture .... ... , .......... ,...,5% %
411,41,000. First Mortgage Industrial Bond, good market 0 '%
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WHEN YOUR EYES DECEIVE
NOT WISE TO TIIINIC SEEING
IS BEL] E VIN G
A. Fewiustanees Showing 1Iow
Easily It lo For One to Bo
Mistaken.
One.of the curious faces regarding
people who disappear, is that after
they have ceased to exist they are
seen at va,riona places all over Eng-
land, in many ease.s on the same
day, says London An.swees.
A cam in point is the recent tra,
gic disappearance of Mrs. Nowill.
Among the places at which ashe was
"seen were 5. Highgate boarding-
house, Tonbridga Station, a South -
poet hotel, Wigan, and a Strand
'bus
The same thing happens in all
sensational "wanted" cases, Dur-
ing the hunt for Crippili and Peter
the Painter, ecores of people were
so absolutely convinced that they
had found the man wanted that
other scores of equally respecta,ble
people found themselves in very un-
pleasant situations,
Aiding the hiemory.
Why should this bel Well, psy-
chologists explain it rather curi-
ously. You sit opposite a man in
the train or 'bus, and something
about his face reminds you of the
photograph you saw in your morn-
ing paper.
As you stare, you grow more and
more certain. But the reason you
grow more and more certain is
simply th.art, after the firet moment
you saw him your rather dim mom-
ory of the photograph has begun to
take on the outlines of the face be-
fore you.
In fact, even if you have your
newspaper actually before you, you
are much more likely to be wrong
than right—if you start with the
idea that the man before you re-
sembles the wanted man.
Once you think that, you are
really unable to look at the photo-
graph fairly. You read something
of the man's expression into the
face in the n.eneepaper, and so gab
more and more certain.
Curious as it may seem, nothing
is really more untrustworthy than
the evidence of the eyes. A Mid-
land professor of philosophy has
given some interesting proofs of
this fact.
Unable to Identify.
A few months ago he put his.class
through &aeries of questions about
various parte of the university
buildings and other objects which
were before their eyes every day,
but not one of the students was able
to answer eight questions cor.reotly.
Criminal lawyers of experience
have often declared that evidence
identification_has to be very
strong indeed before it is to be re-
lied on. The reason is the untrust-
worthiness ef the oyes.
A recent instance was the case of
the man arrested at Maidstone in
eonnection with the Dundee mur-
der, Though several witnesses
brought from Scotland identified
him, he was released almost at
c>x1c.e.
People.generally believe they can
Must their own eyes if they can
trust anything at all, but Another
,s,et of university tests has shown
that in the matter of ability to iden-
tify, the average man as weak as
in his powers of observation.
In this case the professor arrang-
ed that a masked man should come
into the clase-roorn, stare round
and go out. On his head he wore a
three -cornered hat; in one hsod he
ea.rried a hemmer, in the other a
walking-stiok; his trousers were a
loud check, while round his shoul-
ders he siE-oacreabialaciukeyliteng cape.
Facts
(totto.
A couple of days afterwards he
asked bia class to write a descrip-
tion of the intruder. Noarly half
agreed that he had carried a re-
volver, a quarter of the class were
certain that he had worn a long
black sna,ckintoeh, only three
noticed the -qtalking-stick, while a
curiously large number agreed that
the man had, worn al Trilby. hat
That is'proof enough that.doscrip-
kons of a man seen sometime be-
fore are of little value. But in the
(Wen more important matter of re-
aolesgsn:esults were even reeve hope-
gie g fakes, a point on whielia
witness's evidence may hang a man,
the r
When shown life -like anaska, out
of which to select that worn by the
man in question, only four out of
the ;twenty-four students recogeizAd
the correct one, elevenmade
mis-
tto'ke.s, while four could tlOt make up
their minds, but of the eleven, six
agreed o0, a ma* which was quite
unlike the right one,
When a Mao, IS condemned on cir-
cumetaritittl evidence, many pope
declare that no Man should be
banged on eircuanstantial evidence
alone. But many criminal ablvo-
ogee and at keel., one Atm -ions judge
have ,stated that eirtionstantial ovie
donee is far themore satiefactory.
Facts, thez etty, cannot lie, while
sally 6a4 olbe.:11 do'' -
No man can hope, 40acquire po-
pularity tinletie he is willing to bo
bored once in a while,