HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-10-2, Page 6THE WORLD IN REVIEW
old -Aga Pensions And Pauperism.
In one respect Britain's old -age pension
8yatem hya fully justified, if not surpassed,
expectations. Pauperism among people
over 70 years of age has doollned 75 per
per cent., while in many neral districts
a pauper of that age fe almost unknown.
Outdoor relief to aged people has declin-
ed 95 per eent.
Some critics of the system say th
these figures have little meaning, been
what the state $aves in one direction
rays out 1n another, and that 1t mak
bat little difference whether a man is
state pensioner or a pauper. This vi
will not be approved by any real etude
of soeiat and moral problems. A Pension
p.ud by the community As a matter
,luetice to one thing; relief of paupers
whether in pooncerxeee or of the outdoor
variety, is a very different thing.
epeoter of the poorhouse ptoduees an
feet quite unlike that of the prospect
a peueion,.
Moreover, paupers are supported
local taxation, while the pension sya1e
reefs on national finance. Communtti
have been relieved of heavy burdens; th
even feel the benefit of the cireulatlon of
the money received by the pensioners.
The -weekly stun is only $3.36, and In many
cases this means starvation. An early
increase in the rate is quite probable,
whereas a return to the old plan ie en-
tirely out of the question,
Americans Learn From Britain.
George W. Perkins, of New York, who
has been abroad eine June, motoring
through the British Islee, says that peo-
ple wheeled look upon the United States
as In two sections, one part a America
and the other the state of New "York. The
political' situation in New York is a die-
grneo to the civilized world and It ought
to be straightened out at any coat.
"ifl80100 Englishmen would oomaeroveer
here and teach our people to build roads.
There bad been $100.000.000 anent on high-
ways iu the state o1 New York in the past
fow years and what have we to show for
it? The roads in England and Ireland are
built to last and not torn up by automo-
biles in a few months.
"Fifteen
000 semi-trustsrinaEngl there
now there are
upwards of 50,000. And these trusts are
not continually prosecuted and pereecnt-
ed by the Goverlunent, but are fostered
and encouraged, I visited the steel manu.
featuring distrfots; there is great activ-
ity; the people are all busy and apparent.
ly contented although they aro not eo
well housed as the workers in this coun-
try. I trovelhvl many thousands of
miles through England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. and I do not believe I saw as
many as 100 new houses or buildings of
recent construction.
Another point on which the English
People are much more liberal in their
views than the Government and people of
this Country le that of banking. There Is
one bank in London which alone has de-
posits of -$500,000,000. W11io11 is more than
one-third of the total deposits of all the
banks in New York together. Yet there
is no cry of money monopoly or anything
of that kind in England.'
The Fisheries of Canada.
It is 310 exaggeration to stats that Can
ada possesses the most extensive asherle
in the world. Abundant supplies of alI
the principal commercial food fishes, i
eluding salmon, lobsters, herring, ma
keret, sardines, haddock, cod halts an
al waters. The roast line c1 the Atlanta
Provinces from the Bay of Fundy to th
Straits of Belle Iele, without taking into
at
it
EA
ow way that they may be flattened out
later into fairly rectangular pieces.
of
sm,
of.
of
am pieces, which are then clamped be-
en tween metal plates on the circum-
ference of a large wheel, which re-
volves slowly, dipping them into a
tank of cold water, thereby cooling
and hardening them in shape,
They are then sorted according
to size and sawed into strips of
various lengths stud thicknesses
preparatory to running them
through the oomplioated and ingen-
ious little machines which out the
teeth. To eliminate waste, the
combs are always out in pairs, the
back .of each colnob being formed by
one edge of the strip, with the
teeth interlocking down the centre.
Ae the strips are fed into the mach-
ines the cutting is done by small
blades, or dies, which are automa-
tically carried down the centre of
the strip, slightly shifting their
angle for eaoh stroke. The final re-
sult is a. wide zigzag out from, ono
end of the strip to the other. The
two combs are then pulled apart.
One of the heavy .teeth ant the end' of
each comb is left standing out at
an angle. .This is heated and press-
ed into dace,
However, the combs are still too
crude to be put on the market,
even sas the cheapest grade. The
teeth are square, blunt and rough,
and a great deal of grinding and
polishing remains to be done, and
the teeth have to be pointed by run-
ning the comb through another
machine.
este holders and pipe stems. The
other by-product of the factory, the
horn dust, which is collected by the
blower system that has been in-
stalled, is disposed of to fertilizer
manufacturers. When the tips
have been cut off the ,horns are iu
the form of truncated cones, which,
if split straight from end to end,
would spread out into fan shapes.
As these shapes are not economical
to cut from, the operators give the
horns a peculiar spiral twist as
they press them against the revolv-
ing eaves, cutting them in such a
The next operation to that of
cleaning, softening.and flattening:
A few minutes of boiling is euffi-
cieut for this, the horns, uncurling
and coming out into flat, limber
n- The first grinding is accomplish -
a ed by ?Weans of emery wheels, but
- one of the most interesting opera-
Polleek, are caught in Canadian territeri
e tions of the process is. the prelims
aoconnt thelesser bays and indentations,
meaattre over 5,000 miles, and along this
great stretch are to he found innumer-
able natural harbors and coves, in many
of which valuable fish are taken in con-
siderable quantities with very little ef•
Balkan Recuperation.
At the clone of the Balkan -Turkish war
it was said that commercial travellers
had kept out of the Balkan States for ea
months and declared that it would be six
years before industry, could regain its
ground. Deetitntton v1 tho larger cities
of Berrie, Bulgaria, Greece, and Maoo
(Ionia, lir. Benjamin Marsh reported on
the evidence of private letters, was wide
spread, and the governments unable to
meet the demand even for bread. The
first war had cost the Balkan allies. about
8300,000,000 in direot cash outlay. Since
then has occurred the desperate brief
struggle to crush Bulgaria, bringing fu
they destruction and the lees of many
more lives. During the Turkish muffle,muffle,100,000 Balkans were killed or died of
their wotindo or disease, Very much
higher, eetimates of lose and cost in blood
and money have been made but what-
ever the truth, it is certain that the Bal-
kan peoples face a terrific problem of ae-
conetrnctfon.
In little Greece there are mete lands,
WWI Mr. Mardi, totalling 1.000,000 acres,
with 5,000.000 in pasture, and very back-
ward- agriculture in the remaining 5,500;
000 which are naturally very fertile.
Two-fifths of Rervia is uncultivated and
the yield of enittvated land vory low. Tho
mince are said to he rich, but eallital 10
reluctant, because of the uncertainty of
oont dors. The manufactures aro
chiefly mining, brewing, angor refining,
and teba<co manufacturing, now a gov-
ernment monopoly.
Bulgaria, milled the "peasant state,"
lite less than two-flfthe of her territory
under eultiva4.ion, and a third in woods
and Impede. Her iaanufaotures, however,
have ;natio n creditable beginning, there
being 256 faetnries retirceenting an tn.
vestment of ever 813.000.000, having an
output of timely 618,000,000. and employ.
Ing 13,::35 natwsens. T110 manufacture of
food and beverages he the principal in-
duetry:
No grove of nations ever needed pence,
harmony, and cooperation more than
thew. They need capital and probably
outside enterprise, but they will find both
diflleult to nttroat. et, this time. The
strain nn Ecro a is heavy now and cant•
tal is needed at home. 5(8If. nes Mtn the
P,alkan0 7t will not be "for Fie health!'
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TURNING ' HORNS INTO COMBS.
An Interesting Description of the
Opel'ltlion,
The transition from the horn of
the steer to the semi -transparent
and highly polished comb on
milady .e dressing table' is en inter-
esting ono,
The horns aro received from the
slaughtorehouse in all sizes from
six to eighteen Maim, and in the
first, eltenatlon the solid tips are
cut off by means of high-speed cuter eaves, and, being melees for
'rho manufototuro of combs, are sold
to be /made up into cigar and cigar -
nary polish', for which the humble -
corn husk and a paste of sifted ash-
es and water is used. The ruskffi
bung wheels have to be renewed
every few days, but this is a very
simple task and an inexpensive one.
The •stalks of the husks are fastened
in the slots of the buffing wheel
hubs. The wheels aro then set in
motion and the husks trimmed to
• the proper length by means of a
• sharp knife. The operators who do
the polishing aro generally covered
from head to foot with white mud,
but their work is not unhealthy, as
r- plenty of water is used in the
paste, and there is no dust to be
breathed into the lungs.
The finishing touches are put on
with chamois wheals, ,and by the
time the combs have been gut
through this operation they are
ready for shipment, and have ace
quired a vory high lustre, superior
to that of the tortoise shell article.
DO TOUR WORK.
•
Emerson Tells Eaell Man to Do Ills
Own.
Each man ]las an aptitude born
with him to do easily some feat im-
possible to any other. Do your
work. I have to say this often, but
nathro says it oftener. 'Tics clown-
ish to insist on doing'd]l with one's
own hands, as if every man should
build his own clumsy house, forge
his hammer, and bake his dough;
but he is to dare to do what he can
do best; not help others as they
would direct hint, but as he knows
bis helpful power to be, To do
otherwise is to neutralize all those
extraordinary .special talents dis-
tributed among men. Yet while
this sell -truth is essential to the
exhibition of the world and to the
growth and ,glory of each mind, it
is rare to find a man who believes
his own thought, or who speaks
that which he was created to say.
As nothing •antoeishe.g mon so ranch
as carmen Reuse and plain dealing,
so nothing is more rare in any Mart
than nn art of hie own, .Any work
looks wonderful to him except that
what he ran do, We do not believe
our owls thoughb,•--Eniorso i,
COBBLER LAD, NOW BICH.
L. R. resettled Attributes Ills Sitc-
om to Platting. ltellgiou First.
From eobbler's bey to the presi•
deny of one of the most successful
businesses of Montreal is Or long
step, and a striking ono. These are
the two extremes of the life of Mr.
L. H. Packard, the head of the L.
II, Packard and Co,, Limited, the
shoe supply firma, His father was a
cobbler, and the son was a cobbler,
tom 'but by diut of hard work and
clear, olean business principles the
sou has become a manufacturer on
a much larger scale than the parent
was when the lad began his career.
Mr. Packard was born near Bos-
ton, Mass., about seventy-four
years ago. His father was one of
the most highly esteemed men in
the little town where he lived, but
he had never succeeded in amassing
very much of this worid'•s treasure,
His days were long and` his work
tedious—he was a cobbler—but
from it all there was no very large
financial return. Consequently the
5001 was not very old when he was
called upon to assist en the task of
making shoes to earn the money to
satisfy the requirements of the fam-
ily. He taught his boy the shoe-
making business. Far several years
the young lad worked in the shop
for three or four hours every day
before he went to school and re-
turned to the cobbler's bench every
night after his studies wore over for
several hours' more work.
In those young years, too, as he
sae on the cobbler's bench he pon-
dered over the problems of life,
The United States was a bellied of
political unrest; it was in the days
immediately preceding the horrible
Civil War, The lad thought it all
through carefully. He was an ar-
dent advocate of freedom for the
slave. Even when he found himself
in Atlanta, Georgia, at the out-
break of hostilities between the
North and the South he slid not
change his views of the question,
The Southerners watched him care-
fully for a time, and then, one day,
declaring that they had found 802110
evidence against him in a letter,
they clapped him into Castle Thun-
derbolt for safe keeping. The
youth, however, then twenty-two
years of age, did not like the ap-
pearance of things there at all, and
so, at the first opportunity, he es-
caped and fled, But that chance
did not come to him until he had
spent several menthe in 'his dreary
call.
One night he slipped away. A
northern cruiser lay off his prison,
Mr. L. Il. Packard.
so seizing the first boat that he
could flute he rowed out to the war-
ship for protection. As he neared
it he raised aloft his white flag of
truce, lest he should be fired on by
the wintch. It is one of this most
treasured keep -sakes now in his fine
residence on Rosemount Avenue.
The white banner was part of an
old tablecloth and a handkerchief.
Ho was a free man again, but the
months in the southern cell had
undermined hie health, and so he
was not in the war at .all,
Over forty years ago the young
shoo man came to Montreal. A
friend persuaded ' him to open a
shop, a one -roomed shack. He
worked hard and late, .and the fine
manufactory of the present time is
the result.
The corner -stone of a successful
business career, Mr. Packard be-
lieves is strict honesty in every-
thing.. Honesty -to him means, too,
the right relation between a main
and hes God, His business creed,
expressed in his logteal terms,
would be "Seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteoUlniess, and
all these things shall he added unto
you." Modern conditions have not
annulled the divine injunction of
nineteen hundred years ago, A
man is greater than hie possessions,
"A man's life oonsisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he
possosseth." This is the business
creed of Mr. L. H. Packard -the
first and main plank in his plat-
form. All others are subservient
to this one, On those principles ire
has built ftp a modern business in
which 150 men are emnployed, end
which extends from the Atlantic to
the Paoifto.
Mr, Packard is a hard worker,
r and tabes few holidays, He
man of widespread activity. For
years he has given some of his best
strength to the Y.M.C,A. work,
For forty years he has been assoei-
ated with the First Baptist aurae
and Sunday school, for thirty-seven
years be has presided over the San -
day school as its superintendent,
giving to it it constant and untiring
service. He is. a trustee of the
seals church,a member of the exe-
cutive of the Canadian Manufac-
turers' Aseociation, and identified
actively with the Board of Trade of
the city. Whatever has been the
nature of the position that has
come to him, he has performed his
duties from the one point of„view--
that of abeolute 'honesty, to 'him the
basal principle in business success
at any time and in a y place,
SUBALTERN TO MARSHAL.
Rungs in the Ladder of Success
Climbed by Lord Kitchener.
Opportunity is a fine thing, but
small compared with the ability to
grab it by the front 'hair—for op-
portunity'e head is bald behind.
Coni Kitchener, though hardly to
be galled an opportunist, has never
let a chance elip by him.
He comes, of course, of good fam-
ily and military stook, but when be
left the "Shop," as the Royal Mili-
tary Aeademy is known, he had
nothing behind him save his brains,
his "character," and his ambition.
And the last faltered at the start.
Life as an unknown subaltern of
"Sappers" is apt to be humdrum
and ciroumsoribed. Kitchener
found it so, and despaired of get-
ting an opening for his genius. He
even went so far as to approach a
theatrical manager, with a view to
going on the stage. Tho ananeger,
fortunately, had common-senee,
and told the stage-struck young
officer in plain terms not to be a
fool. Kitchener took the snub in
good part and? returned to his. work.
He saw that if he were ever to be
singled out from the ruck of Engi-
neer subalterns he must specialize
in something.
Photography was comparatively a
new thing, and he studied it thor-
oughly with a view to military uses.
Later the War ()thee proposed to
send a military survey to Palestine.
To lead it an officer was wanted
who, besides ordinary surveying ac-
quirements, had a knowledge of
scientific photography. Here was
Kitchener's opportunity, and he
grabbed it, his work on the expedi-
tion getting him; favorably noted at
the War Office.
Lord Kitchener's determination
has made the public think of him
as a man who world keep on run-
ning his head against et brick wall
until either the head or the wall
broke. A false notion.
The young soldier wanted an out-
let for the epee:al abilities the knew
he possessed, hut he did not go
seeking blindly for it.
He looked around, and in Egypt,
the Land of disorganization and
miracles, the land of many plagues,
he saw the field for the born organ-
izer, the man who was almost en -
pervious to hardships, -
In Egypt he was again quick to
seize his opportunities. He studied
Arabic until he was an expert. He
risked his life es a spy, until .he
was unrivalled among the British
officers in his knowledge ,of the
enemy. And so when the call cams
for a soldier who really understood
the problem of the Soudan Kitche-
ner was ready for it.
His task in the Soudan was al-
most superhuman. He could not
v°.fir thui4 F'r`MV.
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have achieved it had he not hacl
an unerring eye for such helpers
as Rundle, Hunter, Macdonald and
Wingate. .
Lord Kitchener's powers of or-
ganization are too well known to
need descriptionhat many have
tried to imitate him in his attention
to detail --and failed. Why? Be-
cause they wasted their time on un-
essential detail. Lord Kitchener's
eye for the essentiq,l helped him to
break the Khalifs,
Lord Kitchener's tactfulness has
never been fully appreciated.; it
has been lost sight of in overdrawn
pictures of him as the brusque,
stern, unbending soldier. None
can go far without tact,' and Lord
Kitchener has more than a. fair
share of it. He showed it when he
met Marchand at Fashoda, with
France and Britain on the brink of
war; again, in his treatment of the
Boer leaders, and again in 'India
as Commander-in.Ohief.
Lard Kitchener, as already said,
started with no special advantages
in the way of social position, mon-
ey or influence. He carved his own
career; and the like can be done
again.
What Is the Answer?
Why should you not live like fish-
ermen or •shepherds? Because they
live by hook or by crook.
Why, in case of a revolution in
England, would the people be the
greatest losers? Because they
would each lose a sovereign, and
the King only a crown.
Why would a. person taking a
sehoolboy's pocketbook remind one
of a line in Othello ? Because "Who
steals his puree steals trash."
When were salt provisions first
introduced into the navy? When
Noah took Ham into the Ark, •
What magazine would be likely
to give the best report of a fire ?
A powder magazine.
Why is Berlin a city to be avoid-
ed? Because it is always on the
Spree.
Why are clergymen like railway
porters? Because they do a deal of
coupling.
When is an umbrella like a par -
sen getting over an illness? When
it is re-covered. '
At what season did Eve eat the
apple? Just before the fall.
Why is a great bore like a tree?
Because both appear beet when
leaving.
Impossible.
"Does the baby take after his
father?"
"No. His father isnot the kind
of man to- leave anything behind
him to take."
FROM ERIN'S . GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRF.
LAND'S SHORES.
Happenings In the Emerald Isle 01
Interest to Irish.
01033.
The Irish channel averages'240 feet
in depth.
It has been deoided to ask the Ring
and Queen to open the first Irish
parliament in Dublin.
Offers made by the Congested Dis-
trict Board, Galway, for the purchase
of estates, have been accepted.
The Duke of Connaught may be
the first Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland
after the passing of the Home Rule
Bill,
Mrs. Margaret McNance, of Dun-
govey, Porkhill, is active, physically
and mentally at the age of 106 years.
A girl named Annie Reilly, a native
of Louth was knocked down and killed
by a train at a level crossing near
Balbriggan.
The death has occurred at his home
on Dunn street of Mr. Thomas Mason,
the well-known Dublin optician, at the
age of 73 years.
Negotiations are now nearly com-
pleted for the purchase by the Estates
Commissioner of the estate of Mr.
Young, at• Rough ,Bark.
A starch mill at Tullyframe, three
miles from Kilked, the property of S.
Nicholson, Balymegonett, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
The largest liner in the Australian
trade, the White Star Liner Ceramic,
built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff,
has left Belfast recently.
The King has appointed Mr. Wil-
liam Joseph Maguire, MD.,
to be a member of the first Senato,of
the National University of Ireland.
A workman named George Graham,
while working in the moulding shop,
Queen's Island, Belfast, was fatally
injured when an iron Deem fell on
him.
The Roscommon police discovered a
man named. John Higgins sleeping be-
tween two graves in the local burial
ground, with a frying -pan for a pillow.
The sum of $1,600 has been paid for
an Irish terrier bred by Mr. W. Dar-
ker, of Jones's road, Dublin, by Mr.
R. Northcote, who is taking the ani-
mal to Canada.
While wanting through her lands at
Tincurry, Ballycarney, Mise Sparks
was attacked by a swarm of bees and
so seriously injured that she died a
few hours after.
An obstruction on the line in the
form of spikba driven in between the
rails, caused a train from Limerick
to be derailed near Devon road sta-
tion, No one was hurt.•.
It was stated at a meeting of the
New Ross Guardian that there is a
man in the workhouse, aged seventy
years, forty of which have been spent
in the workhouse.
A lad named Ryan, employed at
the Limerick City Tannery, has had
to 'have his left leg amputated as the
result., of injuries received when he
was caught in the belting,
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SLS, SAYS PROFESSOR.,
World Should Seriously Begin u
Stoektgking of Resources,
He Says,
In an address delivered before
the British A;ssociation for the Ade
vanoement of Sctienee, . H. N. Dick.
BOD, professor of geography at Umi,
veeeityy Collage, l.duobuo'ger, and
President of the Royal Meteoeelogi-
eal Sooiety, said the geographer of
the future would have as his field
the vital questions of supplying and
distributing food and clothes to the
world,
Foremost of these questions, Mr.
Dickson believes, will be that of
growing wheat enough for the e
world's bread. A host of problems
of the future aro marshalled behind
this, among then being the tines -
teens of obtaining power and en- .'
ergy sufficient to operate the need- '"4
ed increase in factories, the feel
question and distribution of popu-
lation, Within a century, he esti-
mates, the resources of the world
will be taxed to their full capacity. .,w '
`'Expanding Too Fast.
"Civilized man is, or ought to
be, begin ling to realize," ibir.
Dickson said, "that in reducing
more and more of the surface of the
earth to what be considers a habi-
table condition, he is malting so
much progress and making it so
rapidly that the problem of finding
suitable accommodation for his in-
creasing numbers must become ur-
gent within a few generations. 'We
are getting into the position of the
merchant whose trade is constantly
expanding and who foresees that
his premises will shortly bo too
small for him. In our case removal
to more commodious premises else-
where seems impossible—we are not
likely to find a means of migrating
to another planet—;so we aro driven
to consider means of rebuilding on
the old site and so making the beet
of what we have that our business
may not suffer,
"In the type of civilization with
which wo are most familiar there
are two fundamental elements, sup-
plies of food energy and supplies of
mechanical energy. Since at pre-
sent, partly because of geographi-
cal conditions, these do not neces-
sarily (or even in general) occur to-
gether, there is a third essential
factor, the line of tranepoi-t."
Mr, Dickson referred to the
wheat acreage as net keeping pace
with the increase in population.
Crisis in a Century.
A
"If prophecies based on popula-
tion etatisltics are trustworthy,"
Mr. Dickson declared, "the 0risis
will be upon its before the end of
the eentuly. After that we must
either depend upon some substitute
to reduce tho consumption per
sort:"
heady or we aunt take to extensive
farming of the most strenuous
Ae ao the world's coal supply, Mr.
Dickson said that' the largest floe s
would last barely three centuries,
even at the present rate of con-
sumption. Of other fields, yet un-
disooyeeed, lie could, of eeilree,
make no reckoning.
"There must begin in the near
future," Mr. Dickson co otinued; "a
great equalization in the distribu-
tion of population, This equaliza-
tion will arise from a number of
causes, among them being intensive
cultivation of the soil and mora uni-
form distributi to of manufactures.
"What is wanted," ho eoneluded,
"is that we should seriously eel-
dress ourselves to a stock -taking of
our resourees. Wo should vigor-
ously proceed with • the oolleotion
and discission of geographical data
of all kinds, so that the major na-
tural distributions ellen be ade-
quately known. Eve:wheel•ie we
shall find that ' country -planning
will become as important as town -
planning. In the meantime geograt-
phical knowledge will yield scienti-
fic . results 'of much significa000
about such misters as distribution
of population and industries and
the dega'ee of adjustment to new
conditions which occurs or is, possi-
ble in different regions and lunongst
different peoples,"
Inventor of the Propeller.
An appeal is now' made in Great
Britain for scene memorial to the late
Mr, John Swan, .engineer, who in 1824
invented the screw propeller, now so
extensively used in steamships, I -e
was also tlio inventor of the solBact-
ing chain messenger introduced into
the British Navy in 1831, a saving to
the nation of about X370,000 a year,
Mr. Swan, who was born at Colding-
Ilam, Berlvickshire, in 1787, 'died 111
London in 1860 l t the age of 81 years,
and although, by sem means or other,
the 1111'oniotis tante' =cleat inventor
never received the slightest reinuner•
ation,
Latest.
"'What do you think of my new
ball dross, Edwin?"
;tea that the latest?"
"'he 'Very ]steed"
"It looks some like the earliest,"
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