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U f1 N L, J D 9 R bag thus auulli is gradually con-
tracted
-
traoted byhauling ill, aim-
prisoned
the sardines are removed by
means of lauding nate.
The circular seine le very effeo-
tiv'e, but its employment on the
Breton coast is hardly practicable,
as was proved by experiment seven
years ago, The French packers,
nevertheless, would like to have it
adopted in order to increase the
catch, Some experts recommend
the Gueeennee net, a floating cage
of netting, open in front and on
top, which is towed behind the boat
and entraps the sardines as it ad-
vanees. When the catch is deem-
ed sufficient both openings are clos-
ed by. drawing cords. The top is
then removed with landing nets.
The French fishermen, however,
fear that an increase in the catch
will lower the price, and they are
reluctant to adopt any improved
device, although the packers re-
quire cheap raw material in order
to meet foreign competition, par-
tioularly, that of Spain and Portu-
gal, which annually throw about 1,-
500,000 cases of sardines upon the
market. The problem, therefore, is
a difficult one, and its satisfactory
solution will require many conces-
sions from both sides, before this
important industry is safe from the
demands of fishermen, tinsmiths
and packers.
4tPI'1';t1J SUDDENLY AND VAN'
IS1i AS QUICKLY.
Tho IEistory of the Little Silver
Fishes From the Ocean
to the Palate.
When you purchase a box of ear-.
dines, or when you open it and do-
vour its savory contents, do you
ever think how many hands - it
passed through before it reached
yours? The little silvery fishes
h:rave been subjected to a long ser-
ies of .operations by the fishermen
who extricated them from the mesh-
es of their nets, the women who
cleaned them, cooked them and im-
mersed them in a bath of oil, the
tinsmiths who sealed the boxes, and
a supplementary host of packers,
carriers and wholesale and retail
dealers, says the Scientific Amer-
ican.
When the fishing boats arrive at
their home port the sardines are
taken to the factory, where they
are beheaded, dressed and thrown
into vates of brine, in which they
remain from fifteen to 45 minutes,
according to their size. On their
removal from the, brine they are
laid on grids, which in fine weather
are carried to an open drying yard,
and in bad weather are placed in
racks mounted on carriages, which
are placed inchambers traversed
by a current of hot air.
When the sardines are dry the
grids are taken to the kitohen,
where they are plunged into huge
vessels of boiling oil. This oper-
ation is watched by women, who
take care to remove the sardines'
before their flesh has been heated
to excess.
After the sardines have cooled
they are deprived of their tails and
packed in tin boxes by women seat-
ed at long tables. The boxes are
classed as wholes, halves and quar-
ters. The quarter box contains
eight or ten sardines and is the
most familiar size. Sometimes pi-
mento, sliced lemons and pickles
and other condiments are put in
the bottom of the box.
The filled boxes are placed on
large trays and carried to the oil-
ing -room, where the voids are
quickly' filled with oil flowing from
a row of taps, which the operator
controls with one hand, while with
the other she brings each box in
turn under a stream of oil.
The boxes are sealed either by
soldering or by folding and pinch-
ing the edges. In the former case
the soldering iron is continuously
heated by a blowpipe as it passes
along the edge of the box, which
is clamped to a turntable. A Bingle
blower furnishes the air blast for
50 or 60 frames, tended by as many
• men. In the newer factories sold
ering has bean replaced by the more.
rapid and more hygienic operation
of folding and pinching, which is
performed by special machines so
perfectly that the lid is hermetic-
ally joined in the. box.
The sealed boxes are sterilized at
8" `-' igh temperature in autoclaves
and 'sre then rolled in sawdust to
remove?,' �Q`• ``gin rities
from t
curious and important fact in
the biology of the sardine is the
suddenness with which the little
fishes' appear in great numbers and
subsequently vanish, probably in
consequence of changes in oceanic
conditions. According to M.
Charles Rabot, sardines appear in
dense schools wherever they find
the most favorable degrees of tem-
perature and salinity and disappear
as soon as the water has been re-
placed
eplaced by a current of different
character. Unfortunately, we know
nothing of the physical conditione.
which the sardine seeks, or of the
movement of various strata of wa-
ter along the coast. We do not
know whether this sardine prefers
warm or coolwater, very salt or
moderately salt water, nor do we
know the temperature and salinity
of•the sea at different season depths
and distances from land.
In Brittany sardines are caught
with a vertical net, from 1,000 to
1.300 feet, longand 26 to .33 feet
deep, which is supported by corks
fastened to its upper. •border and is
attached to the stern of the boat by
a cord several yards long. As the
boat moves elowly against the cur-
rent the sardines are lured to the
net by salted cod thrown on the
water, The, net is made of thread
So fine that it is almost invisible
and the meshes are of such dimefi
a ions that the sardines thrust their
heads through them anti are caught
by the gills.' A net raised after a
law minutes' trawling sometimes'
yields several thousand sardines,
This simple and time-honored de-
vice gives good results in the hands
4`£
the'Breton fishermen, but their
rivals of she Gulf of Gascony and
the ,Atlantic coast of Spain,and
Portugal prefer the circular sine,
which ' is ivade by completely 'sur-
rounding a whole school ,tit' filth With
a vertical net and the drawing
the hatton of the .net together by
omens of. a -;paw—drying. The great
GERMAN INDUSTRY.
Now Claim's to be Ahead of British
Production.
Germany has made prodigious
strides in commerce and industry
since 1888, and much statistical in-
formation showing these increases
has been published in connection
with the celebration of Emperor
William's quarter century on the
throne. It is now claimed that
Germany is ahead of Great Britain
as a producer of merchandise.
In the last twenty-five years.Ger-
many's imports have risen from
8818,000,000 to $2,541,000,000, and
her exports from $798,000,000 to
$8,146,000,000. This foreign busi-
ness affected shipping as follows:
tonnage movement in 1888, 42,000,-
000 tons; in 1912, 137,000,000. Coal,
including lignite, was produced in
1888 to the extent of 81,000,000
tons; in 1912 the figures showed
259,000,000 tons. Crude iron pro-
duced in 1888, 4,300,000; in 1912,
17,800,000 tons. Imports of raw
cotton show equally interesting fig-
ures: 913,000 bales in 1888, as
against 2,278,000 bales last year.
Germany's great electrical industry
has almost been created during the
past twenty-five years, and the
leading electrical manufacturing
company of the country has in-
creased its capital strength more
than 90 -fold since 1888,
The general machinery trade has
been revolutionized, its product
enormously increased, and the effi-
ciency of all the loading industries
of the country has been multiplied
several times over by the introduc-
tion in the past twenty-five years
of improved machinery. .While the
efficiency of the individual work-
man has been greatly enhanced by
machinery, the number of working
mon and women also has beak
largely increased, as evident
from a gain of &tont 19,000,000 in
the poniiktoli of the Empire since
AN ERRONEOUS BELIEF.
French Expert Says Consumption
Is Not Hereditary.
The general belief than tubercu-
losis is hereditary is declared to be
erroneous by Dr. Calmette, dime,
for of the Lille Pasteur Inseitate,
Paris, France. The doctor has
submitted statistics to the Paris
Faculty of Sciences, compiled from
the examination of 4,000 subjects,
which he believes prove conclusive-
ly that the real cause of tuberculo-
sis is infection, and ooneinued re-
infection, coming after birth.
Of all the children less than one
year of age which Dr. Calmette ex-
amined, only nine per cent, were
found to be contatuina4;ed with tu-
berculosis. After that age the per-
centage increased rapidly, Between
one and two years of age 22 per
cent. of the subjects proved con-
taminated; between two and five,
53 per cent.; between five and fif-
teen, 90 per cont.; and 91 per cent.
to 97 per cent. over 15 years of age.
The reason tuberculosis' is more
prevalent in cities, says Dr. Cal-
mette is because the danger of re-
peated reinfection is greater. He
estimates that 9,1 per cent. of the
inhabitants of Paris carry tubercu-
losis bacilli in their blood, and al-
though they cannot -really be called
oonsunptive,,yet these people are
all capable of spreading infection,
7'llose Useless questions.
"'What are the passengers look-
ing out of the window for 1" asked
a nervous laxly passenger on the
train at theconductor carne
through.
"We ran over a eat on the
track," said the'condifetcr,
"Was the cat on the track 1" she
next asked.
"Oh, no, ma'am.," assured . the
cowhide. Tho 'engine chased lies
up the alley."
ne,: cuts o,rtvn
QUEEN OF GREECE A SISTER OF THE KAISER.
A new picture of Sophia, the Queen of Greece, who, .together
with her husband, King Constantine, is just now very much in the
public eye. Queen Sophia, is the sister of the Emperor of Germany.
THE WORLD IN REVIEW
With each recurring distribution of
h000re there is some speculation ae to
why knighthood is not conferred on Mr,
Borden. To some persons it seems strange
that the Bret citizen of Canada should not
have at least a knighthood when so many
others have received the honor. These
persons forget that at the first oppor-
tunity after his election to the Premier-
ship, Mr. Borden bad conferred upon him
the rank of Privy Councillor, and tide
rank is a very high ono, eereral degrees
higher than that of G. 0. B. or Knight
of the Grand Cross of the Bath, It radial
immediately after that of Knight of the
Garter, a degree whioh is very rarely con.
ferred on any but members of the Royal
family, Sir Edward Grey being a notable
exception.. The President of the Privy
Council is the third officer of State. After
a man has been sworn in as n. Privy Coun-
cillor, it is very rarely indeed that he 1e
offered even the Order of the Bath. Man
like Bright. Gladstone. James -Bryce and
John Burns, all Privy Councillors, were
never knighted.
"Tho Kingdom of Canada."
A somewhat startling suggestion has
been made by Mr. Sohn S. Ewart, K.O.,
of Ottawa, to the affect that there should
be organized throughout the Dominion:..a
series of what he proposes to ehrieten as
"Kingdom Clubs," Dir. Ewart for many.
Years has been a leading adveoate of
complete autonomy for Canada within the
British Empire. Be likes to talk of "the
Kingdom of Canada"; in fact, he gave to
the first.. and in many reepeete
important address he has"delivered ou
the subject, that title. -
Sie theory is , utlisted in a clause which
i1e sucgget:3' al a statement of the object
.0". �li:ugdom Clubs. In it he says,'Be.
cognizing that after a long periodofpe,.
Meal evolution, Canada has at length
attained to the position of a -self-gcvern-
ing state; that her legislative and fecal
independence is undisputed; that her
right to make arrangements with foreign
countries Isundoubted; that exclusive
control of her forces, both land and sea,
is admitted; and that, therefore, aban-
doning the title, and appearance of a
colony she ought to assume the status
Of a nation, this Club !tae for its object
the elevation of our country to the in-
ternational rank to whiolt her acknow-
ledged maturity most justly entitles her. -
Although persistent progress towards
political emancipation has been the most
interesting and important charaetoristio
of Oanadianhistory, yet there has never
(with ono ephermal exception) been any
endeavor to end the allegiance of Can-
ada to her Sovereigns. The perpetration
of that allegiance will not in any way be
affected by the attainment of the object
of this Club. King George is now King of
Canada. Instead of Canada being one
of hie. dominions, she shall be one of his
Kingdoms,
"When framing our federal conatitution
In 1867, Sir John A. Macdonald; observing
that the period of our colonial subordin-
ation was approaching its close, desired
that our official title should be the King-
dom of Canada. This Club declares that
the fiftieth anniversary of our natal -day
would be a fitting and appropriate year
in which to realize the wish of the great-
est of our departed Canadian etatesmen,"
Mr. Ewart point, out that those who
areworking for a more centralized or•
ganization of the Empire. have no end of
organizations, including tate Across the
Seas Club, the Imperial Colonial Club, the
British Canadian Club, the United Empire
out. the Ladies' Imperial Crab, tho
toria League, Festivals of Empire, the
Imperial Mieaion, the Imperial Perlin.
men•tary Association, the loyal Colonial
Instituto, and in Canada such organize•
tions as the Imperial Federation League,
the Daughters of the Empire, the Overseas
Club, the Navy League, and the Canadian
Defence League. He therefore advocates
the organization of Kingdom Clubs with
thedefinite purpose as outlined.
Aftermath of War.
That there should be any connection be-
tweou the slaughter in the, Balkans in
the: year 1911 and the comforts of lito in
the Province of Ontario in .the year 1911,
,may be difficult to understand. It is
neverthelees. a fact, All wars leave a per.
iod of almost world-wide business do-
preseton in their, wake, Sometimes these
periods are of short duration, or from
special circttmetances they may be of 0021-
sidorablo length. The latest previous ex-
ample wee the South Afrloan war, sec.
needing which, for a year ortwo, there
was somewhat acute commercial and fin -
andel etagnatioe. •
The reason for this phenomenon is that
war not only. makes capital timid, but
destroys a largo slice .of it, An example
of thnidity wae.seen during the recent
Balkan eruption, whoa the peasants of
Franco and «erntanY, fearful of a. con
((aeration which would embroil gins
-
Ope, aro credited with having wtthdrawn
from the battles all their ready muter,
Their purpose woo to he in a position to
emote It Is 0580 of trouble, so that alter
the elouds rolled iv they ooul<i bob, up
eeroneie with their nasi 0770. This pro.
Deas of witserawale is what is known ns
"hoarding- gold" and la said to• -lave
reached extensive proportions and tem.
porarily decreased the world', supply of
liquid capital.
But a permanent lose was sustained by
the actual destruction in the war. A vast
amount of property and wealth was lit -
orally wiped off the face ofthe earth.
When railways, bridges, public roads,
public buildings, telephones, telegraphe
and works of all descriptions,. to -say noth-
ing of privateproperty, are destroyed in
a habitable country, they have to be re.
placed. They can only be replaced by
drawing upon public credit and securing,
through it cash from the money lending
centres of the world—London, Paris, Ber-
lin and perhaps. Now 'York. Many of
these works are absolutely imperative.
Thus the cash- for them has te be secured
regardless of what it costa. It's for this
reason thatsucceeding a war of any pro.
portions there' is always a severe money.
tightness even more acute thanduring
the time of the war itself. The process
of rehabilitation is even more expensive
than the actual cost of earrying on the
military operations themselves.
That a period of tight money has ar-
rived is now generally recognized. It
1s said that the underwriters of London
have declined to take any further bond
issues until October. This practically
means that the municipalities or private
enterprises which bare not already ar-
ranged for their loan or the sale of
bonds or debentures will be obliged to
got along ae best they can for some
months. It will be seen thattheeffect of
this situation will be that bmI0oseea
planning extensions�p new -..enterprises
Starting up will bydfepoaed to wait 'Sian -
money can be ured with less difficulty,
This in tarty -Will re -act on employment,
and if snag' aro out of work or wages are.
redusgt it will then react on business
ge ally.
Such Je the connection between the Balk-
ans and business in Ontario.
Little Dullness In Canada.
So far there is little sign of dullness
in this country. Occasionally one hears
a complaint about collections, particu-
larly is the Wast, being alow. But the.
situation seems to have nothing to dog
with the Balkans, but results from the
amount of real estate speculation which
has been going on there, thus tying up
ready cash that should have been used
to pay accounts. Immigration continues
to come in by the shipload, and, of course
this adds new wealth to the country and
puts fresh money in circulation. Besides,
the C.P.I. has announced that they pro-
pose to spend at once 9100,000,000 in new
extensions and iutprovemente in Canada.
51 is presumed that theyhave made•the
necessary finauoiog. Other eorperattone
MT prepared for similar expenditures,
though none on as large a scale ae the 0.
P.R. These _things, taken in connection
with the prospects Inc:a bountiful harveet
both in Eastern and in Western Canada,
make it difficult for anyone to be pessim-
istfo about either the immediate or the
proecotive future of this country. •
It 18 probably perfectly safeto say that
should a world-wide depression develop
within the -next year there is ua country
anywhere whichwill feel ire effeete, ae
little as will Canada. Some of the real:
estate dabblers may get nipped, but there
is no prospect of any legitimate business
being badly hurt. Next winter may pos.
sibly see some lank of employment among,
unskilled labor, but only among those
dames who are always on the verge of
penury whether times are good or bad.
Making New Canadlans,.
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Scotch' girls 1n numbora, but there' was
no sign to -indicate that they wore ons,
thing but Americans. They had even dis-
carded theiraoeonta. The ones who take
the longest to lose their distinctiveness
were .the Swedes, but oven with them it
was only a matter of a few years. They
were all Americans.
FORTIFYING SCOTLA.ND.
Many Places on the East Coast Aro
Being Strengthened.
Within the next few- years the
east"coast. of Scotland will become
not only strongly fortified, but the
scene of very greatnavalactivity.
It is doubtless in view of the in-
creasing importance of this -district
in naval affairs that Vice -,Admiral
Sir R. S. Lowry has just been ap-
pointed senior officer on the coast
of 'Scotland: The office thus estab-
lished is an entirely new one.
Roystli, Cromiirty Firth, Dundee
and Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys,
are all to be important centres.
Work is proceeding rapidly at
Rosyth, where the naval base is, ac-
cording to the contract, to be com-
pleted by the beginning of 1900, the
total cost being estimated at just
over four millions- and a half.
The great natural harbor of
]Cromarty is being strongly forti-
fied, and arrangements are being
made for stationing a floating dock
at Invergordon large enough to ac-
commodate the heaviest warships.
!Cromarty is to become to the North
'Sea what Portland is to the Chan-
nel, a stategical point where the
main fleets will be beyond the reach
of a surprise destroyer attack, and
at the same time excellently placed
for operations against a hostile
fleet.
A base for submarines has been
established at Dundee, where a
'flotilla of twelve boats is stationed.
A Scapa Flow a sum of 20,000
pounds is to be spent to improve it
.as a base for torpedo craft.
Z•
Then Did the Barber Strike? •
,MTc,ue getting.very bald, air,,,
said the barber.
"You; yourself," retopted the
customer, "are not free front a
number of defects that I could
mention if I cared to become per-
sonal,"
Just Possible.
"I don't understand why we
eeem to be growing tired of each
other," said a"husband of but a few
months,
"I haven't an idea!" said the
wife.
``Well," 'replied the young man,
"perhaps that is the reason."
The relations of what may be described
as acclimatized Canadians to our new.
citizens are causing considerable discus.
eton. It is not merely the ease of for -
Milers, but the attitude which Canadians
bear .towards, Old Country immigrants
and which those immigrants bear towards
Canadians that is causing comment
It be perhaps overlooked by many pee,
pie that an entirely unprecedented eitua..
tion is. developing in this country. Not
since the first half.of the 19th century
has there been any immigration in vol.
ume to Canada until the laet ten years,
It is doubtful if there ever has been Eng-
lish immigration in any such comparative
quantities as is coming in now. The a.r-
rivals of the 30's and 40'6 were largely
Scotch and Irish. Sootch and Irish are
comingnow, the English aro now arriv-
ing, nleo in a way that will have the
effect of bale.ncing up the oomposite'ea.
tionalltY which -one day is to be Oen-
adiap.
In
..Toronto there are whole streets and
in come eeotions whole :blocks compesel
bntirely of Einglishmen. or Seetchmon.
They are hard workers as a rule and most
of them aro making good, And the noxt
generation will be Parc Canadian as aro
the orogen), children and arand.children of
former arrivals, .
to -hoe bean said that in Canada WO
matte Ino mach of the nationality of our
ammeters. liven in our octane rattans we
Inrifit on this Information, e0 that the
only• pereone who appear in the classlfl•
cation lu, the Canadian benne as pure
Capetian ere the Indian tribes, A <lit-
ewet, Onto of affairs; prevails it the
United Staten, 'Phare 0..0 coon as an 15.
tnfgrnt- arrlvee,;denidea that the country
to gaud aneugh Inc him and becomes
naturalized, he forgale that ha ever Nae
been nnvtlling but en American 0itivel1,
A lady from Chicago pp0iuted out to 106
this inta'o8de5 Pact thisother- day, In
Chicago silo heelmet iflngllsh, Irish and
WORIC HARD AND EAT WELL.
Mrs. Rebecca Clark, Aged 109
Years, Says So.
Mrs. Rebecca Clark, of High
road, Wood Green, who is believed
to be the oldest woman in England,
has just celebrated her 709th birth-
day with a party, at which five gen-
erations .were represented, includ-
ing a daughter of seventy-six and
a great -great-grandchild of five
months.
A fine looking woman, with sight
and hearing unimpaired, she still
preserves in marked degree many
of the attributes of youth. A great
event this year was the gift of a
Parisian bonnet, for, to the soft
impeachment 'of decorous feminine
vanity Mrs. Clark cheerfully pleads
guilty. Indeed, her unerring judg-
ment in matters affecting the intri-
cacies of feminine adornment and
her immediate detection of imita-
tions have gained for her the vary
wholesome respect of milliners alnd
modistes.
Her recipe for a bright and ripe
old age is : "Work hard and eat
well; go to bed early and get up
betimes." She still abides by these
golden rules. She was down to
breakfast on her birthday morning
soon after eight o'clock and made
a hearty meal, consisting of eggs,
bread and butter and several cups
of tea, and for her midday meal
she had cold meat and salad, new
potatoes, stewed fruit and custard,
with tea and bread.
Mrs, Clark expresses contempt
for coffee and cocoa. "Give me the
good old English fere," she says,
"and to the marines with your mod-
ern concoctions." ` She retires to
rest at eight each evening.
Did Not Hatter to Hfnt.
The good Samarititn was taking
his constitutional walk in the oo•un
try when he naw Tim Conners, the
man e.f all work froma neighboring
farm, approaching in the; distance.
"Don't you know better than to
drive that poor horse uphill so
fast?" asked the Samaritan.
"Up -hill, is it?" said Time, with a
wise eerdle, "0, begorra, what's'.
the difference? The nag's blind,
and he can't see it,"
The Irish Vision.
"When did you last see your bro-
ther?" asked the magistrate in a
recent trial.
Pat replied—"The last tonne I
saw me brother, your worship, was
about eight 'months "ago,: when he
called at my house and I was out."
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The major was waiting anxious y
in the plain but comfortable apart
meats, the runt of which, together
with the simple necessaries of a
well-earned retirement, waa just.
covered by his government pension
-waiting for the deputation, Soon
they wore standing before Win—
some dozen of them, They were his
son's creditors.
"Gentlemen," he addressed them,
<'1 really do not see what 1 can do
for you, I have' hoprivate, means,
beyond my pension, Perhaps you
were unaware of this?"
They seemed surprised at this in-
formation, and dieoussedit in an
undertone amongst themselves. It
occurred to him then that his son
had fpossibly led them to believe
that his father was a man of pro-
perty.
"In` that case, sir," said the
spokesman, "I am afraid we shall
have no option but to make your
son bankrupt."
"That—that would mean his hav-
ing to leave the Army," muttered
the major brokenly. He still' be=
Keyed that his son's prodigality had
been the result of mere youthful
thoughtlessness.
But the creditors were politely,
firm. Things had gone on long
enough, they said. And he real-
ized that it was. unreasonable to
expect them to take any interest in
his son's career.
"Will you give me a few days to
try and find a way out l" he asked
them. And they agreed, and de-
parted. As a fact, they were sorry
for the majors.
He thought it over after they had
gone. Bankruptcy I He • was still
old-fashioned enough to regard
bankruptcy as a dishonorable de-
vivo=excusable, no doubt, for a
business man' who had sincerely
done his best and failed through
misfortune. But through personal
extravagance -and his own son
tool
The major was suffering not only
as a father . but as an aristocrat.
His family pride had often been
laughed at by his more tgodern as-
sociates, who thought it was mere
snobbery. But behind all the ex-
elusiveness was a fine tradition of
public service. Back through the
centuries his ancestors had always
bled for their country. And •now
-the instinct of self-sacrifice re-
mained.
There was one way out ofthe
present difficulty. He must com-
mute his pension—take a cash pay
ment from the government instead
of his annuity. The amount would
just cover his son's debts and leave
himself a trifling balance of a few
pounds on which to start new life—
at fifty. For him it would mean—
well never mind what it would
mean; it 'vas for alio Honor of his
family, so there was an end of it.
At the end of a week the credit-
ors. -were paid in full, and the major
had left his "comfortable lodgings
and taken one room in a poorer
quarter of the city.
At first his efforts to snake a liv-
ing mat with anexepect•ed.success,
He had many quite generous offers
to join the directorate of certain
obscure companies. Later, he
'found that his name and honored
military title were being used as
a means of inducing people to in-
vest in unsound concerns, and he
at once withdrew.
Then he tried selling a number of
different commodities—cigarettes,
pianos, insurance policies, and the
hundred other things for which an
"exclusive agency to the- right
man" may. be seen offered in the
"Wanted" columns of the news-
papers. Ho failed in all of them,
though he fnanaged t6 serape
enough from each to buy the bar-
est necessaries of existence.
And so the years dragged on.
Oreo ho was employed by a big
West End agency to act as a pro-
fessional guest. Before accepting
the much-needed guinea he made
sure that he had never met his host
in happier days. He was relieved
to find"that the man was a newly-
rich, of whom be had never pre-
viously heard.
"Ah, major I" said his host effu-
sively. "There's another Army
man here to -night, engaged to my
daughter., y'know. Funny thing,
same name as yourself. 'I must in-
troduce you,"
The gmajor was brought fame to
face with hisown son. For the
fraction of a second he hesitated.
Then he extended his . hand form-
ally. „ aid.
Bow d, yon do, sirs he s
"Very pleased to meet you, Strange
that we should' have the sale name,
and nob know each other 1"
It was thus that the hired ,guest
refrained from spoiling his son's
chances.—London Answers.
Hard -worked Father—"I cannot
see why you.clielike work; to me its
real enjoyment." Lazy Son —
`-flat's it. 1 I don't think :it's right
for one to give one's self up wholly
to pleasure,,, •