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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-5-8, Page 64 PERSONS having Idle ,funds on hand for temenrory or tenger Periods, or awaiting permanent Investment, gen obtain FOUR FOR CI3NT. Interest, compounded quer- tellyby opening an account in the 5AVINt1S 1I)UNARTNItiP1 ' of this 'Company. .These funds are with- drawable by cheque and boar toter, est from date received until date withdrawn. Wo solicit out of town accounts, which may be opened by mail Uwrite for Boo4fat T'ho`IhTrust Company, a -united Temple Building, Toronto CAPITAL (paid up) - $1.000,0130 RESERVE - - $150,000 e rn On the Cob or Shelled. Imp. Learing, or White Cap 1. Dent 51.36 per bushel. Longfellow 51.501 Carton's 51.60, Freightaid in Ontario on 10 bushels or more. Ba a free. write for catalogue. CEO. KEITH & SONS, Toronto. Seed merchants since 1066. OUR LETTER FROG TORONTO WHAT IS ENOACINO THE ATTENTION OF .THE CITIZENS JUST NOW. Will Mayor Hoekon's Proposal Boar Fruit? - -Wants.City to Buy the. Railway and Electric Light, Mayor Hocken took the people's breath away by his bold proposal to buy out the Toronto Street hallway and.; the Toronto 1'sle03rie Light Company. As be put It in his first annouucemont, it might have been hupposed that the Companies bad come forward with an offer, but there Is little reason to doubt that his Worship hitneelf took the initiative, The plan to still a long way from completion. At best. the negotiations will bo long drawn out; there will be misnuderstanding0, criticisms and auspicious, and altogether the proposal hae a rocky road to travel before it eau reach the goal aimed at. But the incr. 1 dent, fie fur as it has gone, serves to show the Mayor at hts best. Ile hae large ideas and courage. If itt such nu important juncture as the present one, be exhibits also patieuee, ehrewdnees stud ►0uotained driving force, he will take rank as one of Toronto's best mayors. Nearly everyone admits, as far fie 1110 Toronto Railway Compan is concerned, that it would be a eplendld thing for the !city to purchase it if, end the 'if" isa are unexplainable—no one can tel ,1 pretty large one,, it can be mew on !pretty terms. As for the Toronto Elea ctro you just why they are in such dread Light Co., there is leas unanimity, for the of the number if you press them reason that the Toronto Electric Light Co. is in competition with the Hydro Elec- tric scheme and has a contract with the Electrical. Development Co., which eons- plicatee the situation. The purchase of the Electric Light Co., however, would free the local Hydro Eleotric Commission of a serious competitor and bring to the city a great quantity of new electrical bueI- nees. Infact, well-informed persons any that the business retained by the Toronto Electric Light Co., is the most profitable Part of the electric business in 'Toronto, mono yaary have passed these enterprises Will take Pam. With the new Union Sta. Hen and the now Customs ]louse and per. Rase a new 03,000,000 hotel, the lrrout street ruins will be enttroly obliterated. J. I,. Hpghes Resigns psaln. After many years of attempted re010115 tions it seems that Chief Inspector of Schools, ,lames L, Hughes, to at last to retire Isom municipal service. lie 19 ono or Toronto's moot picturesque figures and his departure from the sehool 0yst(01 will leave It gap. 111a attecea0ur, lir. R. H. Clowloy, is very little known here, though be has hada wide exporlenee b' 0du0u- tional matters throughout the Province, Mr, Hughes says he is the best man Sr; the country for the position. Ile knows because he trained him himeolf, and what Mr. Hughes says in Toronto geuer;tily 11000. I' THE 11.8 SUPERSTITIONS. Traced Beek to Biblical history or to Man's Calculation. What is the foundation of the "thirteen" superstition? Why is it, now that we aro fully started in the year 1913, that the superstitious are becoming more and more weighted down with the burden of their inexplicable fears? For they Dangers of Monopoly. To offset this, however,customers are not, altogether delighted at the .prospect of the electric business of the city passing again into a monopoly, even it that monopoly is the city itself. Competition between the Hydro and the Toronto Elec- tric Light Co., from the customers' stand- point, has been entirely eatiefactory so tar. It has out his rates in two and re- sulted in an immense increase in effici- ency. Whether these tendencies would continue under a municipal -monopoly would require to be demonstrated. Oer- tainly the monopoly ought to be able to reduce coats by the prevention -of dupli- cation. Up to date the question of terms hae scarcely been <Haeuemed. The prices whiob have been mentioned are purely. tentative and will doubtless be the subject of long consideration if negotiations proceed. It may be said that if the city payo $160 a share for the stook of the Toronto Railway Company, which hae recently been sell - lug at less than 0143 a share on the mar- ket, it will not be getting any bargain, particularly if at that price It does not seoure the entire assets of the company. Toronto's Traffic Troubles. However, the teals' situation has, year by year, become more intolerable. Great new suburbs are being flung out on all sides of the city, caused by the rapid in- crease of population, amounting to 30,000 or 35,000 souls a year. Those suburbs the Toronto Railway Co. refueee to serve with ears. Apparently, they figure that the peo- ple .have to use. the cars anyway. and that even if they have to walk half a mile or a mile to reach them, the rail- way .will get its fore anyway, and it may as well get the fare for a short run as a long one. As a result the city has been obliged to build short spur lines in vari- ous outlying sections for local fraitlo. These stub lines cannot immediately be made profitable, but the worst feature about them is that pentons who 12e0 them bare to pay two fares to get to, the cen- tre of the city. The Street Rahway Co. is also scientifically and systematically starving its service on existing lines. It uses no more ears that it tan possibly get along with, with the result that there is overcrowding at almost any hour of the day, and every day of the week. in. eluding Sundays. Of course the Railway Co. la entitled to run its servi05 as eco. nomically as it can for the purpose of making as much money 06 it 0011 while its franehtse lasts. That franchise will expire in eight years, eight years which the Mayor describes as years of perepee- ttve misery, which he wants to avoid: Mayor Hocken was the originator of the scheme of tubes." This was voted on some three years ago, but the ratepayers thoughtthe time was not yet ripe for such an ambitious enterprise Even yet the Chicago traffic experts who were re- cently engaged to make a report on the transportation system, declare that un- derground railwdye are unaoeeeeary if only the surface system could be made efficient. Those facts explain Mayor Hocken's in- spiration to buy out the Railway Com- pany, The Telegram's Opposition. RECLAIMS A. COUNTRY. A. Dane Planted the Marshes and Moors With Trees. Denmark has made a national. hero of Capt. Enrico Mylius Dal - gas, the man who saved and re- made the country by watering the desert and by planting the marshes and moors with trees. How it was done. Mr. Henry Goddard Leach has told in McClure's Magazine. In the disastrous war of 1864, Prussia wrested from Denmark much valuable territory. The sol- diers of Jutland, trudging over the black and barren heath, home to their untitled farms, encountered a thick -set figure in riding -books that stalked across the moors with a spade over his shoulder, On nearer approach, it proved to be young Captain Dalgas of the engineers, already a veteran of two wars. When his late comrades in arms had returned his greeting with the discouraged complaint, "It is a bad, bad day for Denmark!" Captain Dalgas replied, "It is. But what has been lost without can be won within!" and he pointed earnestly toward the desolate heath that stretched to the horizon as unbro- ken as a desert. "In your time and in mine," he said, "we can turn that waste into forest and farms, and win back more than we ever lost to the Prussians." The enthusiastic dreams of the young engineer has been made to come true. Failing to get govern- rnent aid, he formed the Danish Society ; he pumped water from dis- tant rivers, and let it run over the heath . he introduced fertilizers, burned off the heather, persuaded farmers to convert the heath into plowland and pasturage, planted timber -producing trees, and went up and down the country address- ing mass -meetings and schools. At hast the 'government lent its aid. The result of the work of Captain Dalgas is that a new Denmark greets the traveller to -day. These forty years have doubled and tripled the wealth of the Danish na- tion. Railroads and highways are cutting the heath; new buildings and towns are rising everywhere. Tree -planting gives work for the "d.'-titute; the moor is peopled by families; the valuation of certain townships has risen one thousand and five hundred per cent, And it is not the 'reclaimed land only that has been improved ay the•planting of forests, for the woods have soft-. ened the climate rind increased the fertility of the whole peninsula of Jutland, The most violent opponent of the pro. meal to secure even permissive legisla- tion so that negotiations may be carried on has developed in. tbo Telegram news. paper. The announcement of the scheme not only took the Telegram's breath away, but it has been gasping ever since. The ostensible reaeon for the Telegram's vio- lent opposition is that the scheme deer not contemplate playing fair with the Hydro Eleotric, but Mayor Hoeken and the others who are trying to get some- where ought to be the last to display any enmtty toward that scheme. The Telegram, for many years, hae had the reputation or rltnntng things at the City Hall, and no doubt hae a wide influence with the electors. As an illustration of Re manner of warfare, it attacks the schemes es a plot to enrich the Ores, Num of Montreal, who are supposed to hold some shares of Toronto Railway. Or, again, it abows Wtlliatn Mackenzie /elid- ing the gagged and bound Adam Beek against a eiroular saw in what it calls "Tho Great Sawmill Scene." A\ Splendid so cent household Spe- clatty is being Introduced all over Can- ada. It in A'ppreoiated by the Thrifty, Ilausewlfe,Who wants things ::"I1sT A I,rt rill Bernell." Send Post Card to• day. Simplysay 1-- "Send ousehold :Specialty *d.- - 8063.0154 in my Netvapkper, TII;iC e ail I You wilt be Delighted I ray ;?` sad siidd,• We take the matt, Send to -day I Address E 0.1240, Montreal. Date" tela!9 vita eaP1tlt. for a reason, Neither is it in English-speaking countries that the date is a fateful one. You can trace -it in France, where the Minister postpones the publication of the names of a new Cabinet, that the list may not ap- pear on the 13th of the month. You meet with it in Germany, too, where even Bismarck would rather sacrifice a dinner than make ane of thirteen at a table. Again, you can come across the same su- perstitious terror in Switzerland, in Italy and in the Scandinavian coun- tries. You find it on the Stock Ex- change, and even in gay, cynical Paris it creeps out when a holiday starts on the 13th and half the peo- ple stay shame-facedly at home, An English expert along statisti- cal lines, says the Chicago Tribune, has recently compiled some valu- able information on this queer but interesting subject. The supersti- tion, traced back to antiquity, is thought to have its foundation in all Scandinavian countries in mythol- ogy. Their ancient gods and god- desses apparently loathed the num- ber, but back of that none can go. As for the reason in England, two explanations are offered, though probably nob one person in a thousand who cherishes the delu- sion can really tell them. One au- thority ascribes the whole tradi- tion to the ill -luck thought to be associated from the fact that 13 sat down to the Last Supper. But why any blighting or perni- cious ernicious influence should result in mankind from that solemn 'gather- ing no man or woman of any sane mind' has ever been able to say. Though there are scholars who ex- plain the terror by pointing out that since Judas, who was the first tc quit the table, hanged himself, the superstition has come down through the ages since then. But there is another and more definite reason for its origin, which -owes only. reached after a long and laborious .search on the part of a number of learned men. "The su- perstition," they say, "that where a company of persons amounts to thirteen one of them will die within the twelvemonth afterward seems to be founded on the calculations adhered to by the insurance offices, which presume that out of thirteen persons taken indiscriminately one will die within the year," Apparently, the superstition comes from a ridiculous deduction frcm Biblical history, or from. the chance calculations of some forgot- ten insurance man's caomputation, whose theory would probably be upset in five minutes by a modern authority upon life averages of healthy individuals, The Hydro "Mutiny." Dividing interest with the lfayor's big scheme of municipal ownership has been the mutiny In the local oSlees of the Hydro Electric Commission. The acting. General Manager, Mr. SwoaeY. with tell of his department heads, addressed Connell in a r0markn•ble letter, asking that the head of the Commission, Mr. Y. W. Ellis, should not be r5 -appointed. The result of this communication was that. Mr. Sweeny was immediately discharged, The ten department heads then wrote another letter, declaring that they had acted on their own volition and not be. 081108 of any intimidation on Mr. Sweany's part. The result was that they also were discharged. Afterwards. boaover, a nut*, her of them apologized and were reem- ployed. It line not been made very plain on the eurfaoe what the trouble has beenall about. Mr. Ellis le -a respeeted citizen of undoubted' ability, and the worst that Is said about him is that he 30 inclined 10 be fussy and .exacting. This may 'have. made it uncomfortable for the employee ofthe department at certain times, but the consensus of opinion is that Mr. Ellie. has given the city good. 00rvice. On the other hand, those who have !,ail buoihae0 relations with err. Sweeny opeak very highly ofhlm and regard him fie a '00ry eapablo man. They were surprised when they heard that the Coulmisslon had two months ago declined to appoint Mr. Sweeny, who I0 an American to the per- manent General Managership, but had ap. pointed an engineer from England to take the rhea. Neither in title mien nor in the controversy over the purchase of the raiiway and electric light corporations' 1180 the 15101,ueoion taken any polltieatly partlean fort». Nlne.voar-old Fire Ruins, The ninth ,anniversary of Tortfto'0. great Ore hagpassed and still the Thins are not all olearettuntr yet, at1e..vlAdnef and 'Union station 1olaY ars re 500101bl0; Toronto lives fa bops that before many WHY NOT LIVE 200 Y A.RS1 :flan Only Aldine] Not Living Light Times Period of Maturity. Nearly all spechnena of animal life on this globe, except man, live, under normal conditions, about eight times the period of their ma- turity, or that time it takes then to attain full growth. A horse, dog or COW, that will ob- tain its growth is four years, will live about 32 years. This rule ap- plias especially toallantbropodial and quadruped specimens. Man matures or gets his growth at about 24 years of age. Mea- sured, therefore, by the scale of all other animals, ho ought to live eight times 24, or about 200 years; but reckoning from the age of (3, man dies at fraction over 40, which, on this reckoning, is about one-fifth hio natural period of longevity; while, if we take into our calculations children under' 6, in- cluding the infant class, it brings ma'rl's period of longevity in all civilized countries clown to about 37 years. Man drinks the. same water and lives under the same sunshine as his brother animals. He differs from them Mainly in his food, quan- tity of fresh air and exercise, which are the three fundamental laws governing all forms' of life. It is fair to -assume that man is no ex- ception to the general rule govern- ing all other animals, and that if he did not commit some very grave error in maintaining life he would live his normal period of years, as probably did his very ancient an- cestors. ----'+i' Policeman's Fifty -Year Sob. An inquilitive member of the Bri- tish House of Commons was struck - one day by the presence of a police- man in one of the lobbies. He won- dered why this particular lobby should always have a guardian strolling up and dawn, and made inquiries. The records of the House were searched, and it was found that 50 years previously, when the lobby was being decorat- ed, a policeman had been stationed there to keep members from soiling their clothes, The order never hav- ing been countermanded, the con- stable had kept his beat foe half a century. London Chronicle. His Universal Eni'yclopaedia. Book Canvasser ---In these vol- umes you havo the whole sum of human knowledge in convenient form. Mr. Meek --Thanks; it's no use to me, Book Canvasser --But your wife, perhaps— Mr. Meek—O.h, she knows it all already. Cut hates, "The wisest man may change his mind," said, the ready-made philo. gopher, "Yes," replied the undesirable, "but there isn't as much in it as there used to be. I cari remember the time a voter Could gat $2 every time he changed his mind," INTERESTING STORY OF CANA- DIAN COhIPANY'S DEVEL- OPMENT. The Russell Motor Car Company has had long experience in the sell- ing and manufacture of cars. Starting as agents for other makes of cars, this company proceeded to build up a plant in Canada, manu- facturing cars in this country. Some of the parts were purchased abroad; others were designed and manufactured at home. The amount of home manufacturing steadily in- creased. In 1910 the adoption of the Knight Motor gave a further stimulus to the business and the company found it necessary to pro- vide in a strong manner for future developments of the industry. De- velopments in mind were the fur- ther adoption of the sliding sleeve in opposition to the poppet valve motor; the adoption of left-hand steering and centre gear and con- trol; the adoption of electric light- ing and self-starting. Early in 1911 a corps of engineers was set to work to develop a ear that would be worthy of "Russell" reputation. In September of that year they were ready for a prelimi- nary report, and taking advantage of the unusual opportunity, engi- neering co-operation and advice, a conference of engineers passed upon the preliminary plans. These ware then worked out in further detail, In January, 1912, this conference met a second time, there being pre- sent representatives of three of the foremost manufacturing firms in the United States and two engi- neers from Europe, from factories operating under the Knight license. After the designs had passed this stage, experimental cars were built and submitted to exacting tests, upon the bench in the factory and upon the read. Following this, a small number of demonstrating cars were put through, to discover any further points of difficulty. Then came the careful prepara- tion of exact tools for manufacture, so that each pioee would be an ex- act duplicate of a similar piece in any other car. These provisions, one after the other, have been car- ried through. `To -day the Russell Company is delivering cars design- ed under the most advantageous conditions of engineering and man- ufactured with a view to the re- quirements not only of 1913.but as well. e Russell car of this year is a 19T14h model on which there will be no portant change for two seasons at least. P7 r. • easaa sta. mill memo .1, i IglliIll1 u�u aulG►1►n1i1i ► �,}1114111111IIIII! a ♦ tl1WSri. -1�... iI�II 11 Conforms 2O ttne vl�tf A9t`teno�erd 63f Useful' for tfl "Ivo hundred tJ r n ad ra s. ' r ce ... 1, 41 rI5 WI,.mit IUI,i Ihil}iDi LIII it IIIIDlluuWoIi t ? :l?k;,, e fearaeliaaaaaal „ ealeataiasaaa, a`r..' &V k- 3rd. t.•""x""41 s'3i' ,T a NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISII COLUMBIA.. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Aro "Making Good." W. A. .Elliott of Brandon has been appointed chief inspector of the new provincial Parliament buildings in Winnipeg. When the oar lines in Calgary are completed the city will have 77 miles of railway and 90 passenger cars in Commission. By-laws calling for the expendi- ture of approximately $1,000,000 have been favorably passed upon by the Calgary City Council. A brilliant crowd watched the re- cord turn out of 1,300 animals at the opening of the Alberta Pro- vincial horse show at Calgary. Battleford has been selected as the camping ground for Fort Sas- katchewan Light Horse, from the 23rd June to the 54th July. By a majority of 71 the by-law to grant $24,000 to the Board of Trade for publicity purposes, was carried at Moose Saw last week. The five-year-old son of Henry Smith was killed last -week at Cal- gary, when a delivery wagon top- pled over him crushing his skull. Figures on the books of the C. P. R. show that 240,000 fresh eggs were shipped into Moose Jaw from Minneapolis and St. Paul during February. The Evans and Fraser garage, one of the oldest buildings in Ed- monton, has been gutted by fire and three autos destroyed in the conflagration. Moose Jaw, Regina, and three trunk railways will combine to se- cure water from Saskatchewan River at an approximate cost of $20,000,000. Another man has disappeared from Calgary, in the person of Henry Helmuth, who vanished from the Alberta Hotel and has not since been heard of. The first Grand Trunk Pacific train from Winnipeg to Prince Ru- pert, will leave the former city on September 14th, 1914, says the gen- eral manager of the road. 1118 1ISTAi(E. "But that is the latoet style l" "Oh, I beg your pardon, madam, 1 thought you wars losing year pet- ticoat. For robbing George Clare in a Roy Casey and Rdbel't Johnson were sentenced to two years each in the Prince Albert penitentiary. Two thousand or more retail mer- chants will be in Regina next month, when a big convention is to be held, attended by delegates from all over Saskatchewan. Master Bellingham, 17 years of age, set fire to his own biome at Brandon, and has been taken charge of by the pollee; so that he may be examined as to his sanity. The 0; P. R. western carshops at Ogden are now in full swing. The company are making arrangements to feed 2,000 workmen in one hour, each meal to Dost under 25 cents. William G, S. Hooley, formerly a prominent Calgarian, is believed to have committed suicide by drown- ing himself in the Bow River, dur- ing a fit of :temporary derange- ment. A movement hat been set on foot in Moose Saw to combine interests with Regina • and the three trunk railways, with respect to the Sas- katchewan River navigation scheme. ORATORS 'NOT LEFT-HANDED THIS FACT PROVED BY RE. CENT ENS 311N1.'I'ION33. Powers of Specoh Is C+nitrollcd by Sec tion of Left Siflo of Brain. Everyone knows how extremely difficult it is to "break" a child or a grown person of the so-oallod ha- bit of being left-handed. After ex- periments and systematic attempts that have covered more than -twenty years, made by experts in the study and (:raining of children, the result has lead to the belief that the reason left-handed people .are not good talkers is because the power of the hands is intimately associated with the unfolding of the language sense and that the cerebral centres which regulate language are located on the left side. Not an Accident. In other words, that part of your brain whiob controls your speaking Ability is in the left side. of your head, in relation to the centres which regulate the control of your right arm and hand. And so, if this decision., made after a score of years of study, is quite correct, most of us have been wrong all these years in the belief that a child becomes left-handed, solely through accident or because it was allowed. to use its left hand too much. Some are even so superstitious as to be-' .lieve that if the first thing put in a baby's hand is put in the left hand, - the child will become left-handed and vice versa. Skeletons Studied. Sheep Carry Packs for Months. All sorts of animals are pressed into service as beasts of burden in various parts of the world. In Ti- bet, for instance, sheep and goats are used as pack -animals, and a flock of these animals, well loaded, journey from there to the Rainpllr Fair, in India, The hardy little beasts take over a month on the long and arduous journey, travers- ing on the way several high passes. Once in India and their loads deliv- ered, they are kept in. the plains during the winter and then sent back with a stock of grain for Tibet and regions on the border where foodstuffs are scarce. Made of Matches. A French artist, M. Amiot, has lately exhibited a collection of arti- cles made entirely from the ends of matches picked up in the streets of Paris. He weaves his material in a design, spreads the backs of the matches with gum, and presses the whole firmly- together. M. A•miot has made several vases in this way, and an excellent model of a violin. In the latter, which, says the Strand, has movable pegs and strings, there are no fewer than fifteen hundred matches. Do/nix xoN. SE UI TI '' con eO1ATION! IWED ESTABLISHED 1001 HEAD OFFICE 1 20 KiNG ST. EAST, 'TORONTO MONTREAL LONDON, E.C., ENG. Our Quarterly List just published contains complete par- ticulars of these Investments. CORPORATION AND INDUSTRIAL ISSUES Amount Security Income Yield Canadian Northern Railway Company (Equipment Benda) At Matket $30,000 Toronto & York . Radial Railway Co'y (Fleet Mortgage S's Guaranteed by To- ronto Railway Co.) 5 % 25,000 Electrical Development Company of On- tario, Limited (First Mortgage 5's) ,. 10,000 Dominion Steel Corporation, Limited (5% Debentures) - 25,000 P, Burns & Company, Limited (Paekero, Ranchers and Provisioners, Calgary, Alta.) (First Mortgage 010 due bat April, 1924) 25,000' (First and Refundan'g Mortgage 8's due 1st January, 1931) £2,000 Western Canada Flour Mills Company, Limited (First Mortgage 6's duo 1st March, 1928) (First and Refunding Mortgage ars due 1st September, 1931) - - t Wirt- , Davies Co y, Limited (F rskrt- M gage 6's) ........ Sawyer -Massey' Company, ....„Limited (First • Mortgage 0's) ” - Dunlop Tire & Rubh,er deeds Cofnlpany, Limited- (Fist, Mo ttgage e'®) ` Gorden, Ironside 6t 'R'ares Oompany, Limi- ted (Wholesale Nekers, Marchers and Provisioners, Winnipeg (First Mortgage a's) 25,000 S. H, Ashdown Hardwsjglrp- Company, Limi- ted (Nast Mortgage 5's) . ,..,.. ,,. 25,000 The Hanle Abattoirt" a y, trtn36ec P , Oirst Mortgage 0's). •$25,000 25,000 85,000 - 25,000 25,000 CARMAACASWEENT' 1411241M AND ,Co'RP TION$tib But now it seems that left or right-handedness is really due to the develapment of the right or left side of the brain. Thousands of human skeletons were carefully ex- amined and this demonstrated that in all cases where the right arm is better developed than the left there is evidence of a correspondingly in- creased development of the left side of the brain. This is really not as complicated as it seems. If the left side of your brain is better developed your right arms will be better developed, If the right side of your brain is stronger, ,Your left arm will be stronger. It seems that it is the development of either one or the• other sides of your brain that regulates the strength of your arm, Oratorical Ability. Now it _happens, as mentioned above, that speeeh is controlled in a section of the brain just on the left side. The result is logically that if -your brain is better develop ed on the right side your ability to talk eloquently, to make speeches and carry on brilliant conversation is not as great as it would be if the left side of the brain were stronger. You are also inclined to be left- handed with a stronger section of the brain on the right side. Conse- quently, left-handed people are not good speech makers. It follows .that Ieft-handed people must have less linguistic abilites than the right-handed, and that children obliged to use both hands equally will have a diminished pow- er of ready speech and less ability learning and remembering lan- guages. This is believed to be the first argpment against teaching children to be ambidextrous, or -capable of using either hand or arm . ri. SUFIR:.GF, IN ELiltORE. Plural and Triply, Vote in Belgium —Bt'itain's New Bill. Belgium, like Prussia, Denmark, Norway and Holland, fixes the vot- ing age • at twenty-five. Thera to one voter to every five persons. Iu Belgium a man over thirty-five with children, or over twenty-five with a 5% % certain amount el property, has two votes. Larger property, higher education or official position con- fers three votes, The two -vote and three -vote men govern the one-voto mem who are 50 per 00113), more55 % putneratts. In Great Britain a, bill to abolish the plural vete of wealthy men haat- In ing property in different districts, university men land some others ie pending. Tho Manhood -Suffrage 5 60 % bill, which was withdrawn because of the muddle over women -suffrage 5.91 % amendments, would have increaeefi the number of votes by adding 5.76 %�. grown sons livi31g ab home, domestic servants and loclgera' paying leas 5.90 % than $50 rent,. . No1llinal manhood, suffrage is.. common on the Continent, but. liml- • 0 % cations are many. An educational test cubs out hall the men in South- ern Italy, Germany lets all men vote, but cheats t110 Social Demo- crats of power in the empire by an irremovable Senate and rotten boa. coughs for the Reichstag; and in Pt14214 1114, 1>rYp��� ,yS-rl-,ri' t11t ; class system which ma'lcoslie l5i%t rdl:ert powerless. Taxpaying of educatiot' ii1' toasts are \Sed. in Petio- late', Hungary, 13'axony and Bavaria, I'e,nre,e,At makes the age limit thirty a ti ly } years. Ms,eb nationg •exellydti cul 5% % 6