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THE WORLD IN REVIEW
Beef Shortage.
It le affirmed that everything points to
a world-wide shortage of beef cattle, and,
unless something le done to remedy con-
ditione, the shortage will beoome aoute
and the price of moat will mount still
higher. At the recent convention of the
American Meat Packerer it was decided to.
expend 9600,000 during the next five years
in educating the 'farmers throughout the
United Stave h regard to the raieing of
cattle. It was pointed out. that If every
entail farmer would raise at least two beef
steers a year the fearof a shortage would
soonbea thing of the past. - The aseootatlon also went on record
against the- 'unneceeeary slaughtering of
heifer calves as a etep,in a campaign of
eduoatton toprevent a further shortage
In the oonntry's meat. supply" Another
reoommendation made was that legielation
be enacted preventing the killing of calved.
for veal, It le estimated that 9,000,000 are
wlaugbtered In the United States each year
while if these calves were allowed to reach
the age of three or four years, the supply
of beef would be increased 9,000,000,000.
pounds,
Canada ehonld profit by these reeem-
mendattons. Farmers should raise more
cattle and go in for mixed farming in,
stead of confining their sole efforts 6* 611
rowing of grain. As far as Ontario and
Eastern Canada is concerned, it would
seem to be wisdom to go extensively Into
cattle raising owing to the removal of the
American duty with the consequent
greater demand .fromthat country for
-- -beef, cattle.
Baseball a Civilizing Force.
During the American occupation of the
Philippines conditions In the !eland have
greatly improved, even though there may
yet be much to accomplish. Numbers of
the natives who a few years ago were
living as 6avagee now build houses and
cultivate plots of ground. The physique
of the young men and boys has become
more robuet. Diseaee has been lessened.
There is lees vioious pastime, - and moral-
ly, mentally and physically the nailvee
have benefited through that change. What
basbrought, about the improvement? Re-:
rigfoue workers, doctors, health officers.
teachers? All have helped, of course; but
first among the civilizing factors, Bays Ur.
Frederick Chamberlain, the author of
"The Philippine Problem," have -been base
ball and other athletic eporte.
Comparing Budgets.
M. Rene Lauret ham recently given some
interesting comparisons between the na-
tional expenditures of France and Gen
many. Many attempts have been made
to ascertain the exaot average amount in.
taxation per head of the population paid
in each country. but the results are too•
oontradlctory to make it pceetble to ac-
cept them without reserve. M. Y. M, Gob-
let puts it at 165 trance in Germany and
142 franca in France. M. Jules Roche,
again, eetimatee that the Prussian pays
69 francs against 96 francs in France. The
Bulletin do Statieque et de Legislation
Compares makes the amount paid by
each person to Germany 61 francs, and the
writer thinks the last two estimates near-
er the truth than that of M. Goblet,
Much depends on the way in which the
amount is reckoned, the items !minded,
and the different articles taxed in eaoh
country. Railways in Germany, for in-
stance, form almost a state monoppoly; In
Prance tobacco 1e a monopoly. Military
expenditure in Germany is higher than in
France, but, compared with the popula-
tion, it ie lees. Germany apende more
than Prance on foreign affairs, but less
on eolonlee. Public lowers and 'adminie
tration, justice, oto., cost more in Ger-
many, or, at any tate, in Pruseia, than
irr France. The expenditure on educa-
tion seems pretty equal in both countries. I
France sacrifices more on behalf of cow.
merceand public works, and Prussia more
fax agriculture.
Food Faddists.
be no longer ooneidered of value excopt
.to the atudont of the hietory of diets. The
truth of the matter ie, however," adds
the statement, khat man's chances of
health are beet when he eats with mo-
4eratfon a diet made up of clean, whole.
sono ordinary foods,. well prepared In the
usual ways, 'Proper cooking eternizes
foods. If the deductions of many food
faddists accepted as -facts were really
operative, it would be difficult to explain
how the human race had survived. The
department adds a warning against the
danger of alleged mall cures 'sold be
"dietic experts."
Fox' Farms In Alberta.
Black foxfarm
e ir are now being started
in Alberta. There s one near Edmonton
which hats already been In existence some
menthe. The Indians are gettingwise to
the big profits that are being made out
of black foxes, and are contemplating a
raise in the price of the valuable ani-
mals which they trap, and which they
have hitherto been selling for a gong.
Even the Indian will turn. It eeoma that
there are victime of wildcatting in bleak.
foxee just ae there, have been victims of
wildcatting in real estate, and will un-
doubtedly be viotime of wildcatting in
oily Only In the drat carte the victim is
the poor Indian, whose untutored mind is
only just beginning to comprehend the
dark ways and vain tricks of the white
man,
The Pace of the West.
The following little' calonlatlon may be
commended to those who think the west
!e making too fast a pace. We owe it to
Mr. J. J. Haslam, a well-known woeterner.
Tho eachvalue of the 1913 prop for wheat.
oats, flax and barley may ba put at 9123,.
639,900. The indebtedness of the farmers
is estimated at 9126,000,000. Of this 960,-
000,000 is owing to mortgage companies;
636,000,000 to machinery companies, 620,-
000,000 to merchants, and about 910,000,000
other debts, 10 tho western farmer were
to take one-seventh of hie crop each year,
not an out-of-the-way proportion, thinks
the London Canadian Gazette, to pay off
hie debts, he would be clear to seven
years, and economically vastly better off
than any farmer in the world.
Stomach Always Balked,
Had Constant Indigestion
Smell of Cooking Made HIm Sick—
Bilious Two Days a Week.
Cured by Dr. Hamilton's Pills.
Mr. Clemmons' experience is not
unusual. Nowadays poor stomachs
are more the rule than the exception.
But the proper treatment is sure to
make a quick cure. Yon can always
depend on Dr. Hamilton's P111s, they
reach the trouble at once, go right to
business, work while you sleep and
have you feeling better if not cured
next morning. -
"My food seemed lo decompose in
my stomach," writes Mr. Ralph
Clemmons, of Newbridge P.O. "I
had a stomach that failed In some
way to perform its work. Digestion
seemed more or less arrested and I
grew thin, yellow, nervous. The
stomach became distended and im-
peded apparently the action of the
heart, for often at night it would do
great stunts. At times I would vomit
a mucous mass, and at these times
my head ached most terribly. A friend
who had been cured of a similar con-
dition, advised me to take Dr, Ham-
ilton's Pills regularly, which I did.
The result in my case was simply
marvelous, Dr. Hamilton's Pills re-
moved the cause, strengthened the
stomach, excited the liver to normal
action, the kidneys were released of
excessive work, Health soon grew
within me, I can now eat, sleep and
ive like a live man,"
Be advised—use Dr. Hamilton's
Pills—they are sure to do you good.
25c. per box, five for 91.00, at all
druggists and storekeepers or by mail
from The Catarrhozone Co„ Buffalo,
N.Y., and Kingston, Canada.
SOME GASTRON.OILIC FEATS.
The public who eat, and they are largely 1
in the majority, have become alarmed at
the campaign of the food faddieta and
have come. to regard with suspicion the
most harmless articles of diet. A bullet-
in recently issued by the United States de-
partment of agriculture will aid in re-
aowing a waning confidence. "Some of
theadvocatesof freak diets aro efnere,
but are themselves deluded," says the
warning. Others are fakers who eoek to
make monetary gain by advising peculiar
systems of diet. Neither class can offer
trustworthy advise. In most of the re.
commendations of these self-eetabliehed
'experts' there le hardly a shadow of
reason, though they may seem plauetble,
One of their methods of reasoning is to
use ieolated and often unrelated facts of
Balance es evidence that their peculiar en- e
tem ie of value. They completely ignore
statements is current historicaland seism.
title liter•aturo which could negative their B
contentions,
,lfuclt of the enppaeed ecientific advice
nowbeing sold for a price is really lit-
tle. more than folklore. A great 10007 of
the statements which are weed as argu-
menu have been traced by the govern.
went epeeiallete and found to come from
works on diet written so long *go ae to
Twenty-two Fried Eggs at a Meal --
Fifty-four Ear's Corn.
A. man living at Housatonic,
Mass,. before entering on a recent
gg-eating contest, was known as
the champion fried egg -eater of the
erkshires. He had a record of 22
eggs, according to the New York
Sun, and the wager' was en the con-
tention that he could easily make
away with 25. When he had eaten I
17, however, he was seized with an
attack of acute indigestion, and he
had to stop, This mail also has a
record of 54'ears of green corn.
At the beefsteak dinners of many
political clubs astounding records
are made in the consumption of
viands. Some of those who take
part think nothing of eating 10 and
12 '.pounds of meat, at the sitting.
At one clambake held at College
Point recently eight baskets of food
were eaten by one dimer. This hair
het included a leg and a breast of
a chicken, 25 clans, 2 ears of corn
and 4 potatoes. This record is de-
clared accurate and authentic, and
is posted up' in an East Side club-
room. •
A Rhodo Island farmer had a re-
cord of half a bushel of walnuts; of
which ho was extraordinarily fond.
He used half a small bag of salt
while eating them,
' A Chicago man inordinately fond
of mush and milk, lived on it, for a
week not long ago, eating four
great bowlftiis of it three times 10,
dray, .
ip.
Between Liverpool and, New Fork
the Screw of an Atlantic liner re-
volves about' 830,000 times.
"ERI'
GLOVES
are the Standard of the
world
" for
Style,
Fit,
and
for
Dur-
ability
Sold
everywhere
43,12
FROM DONNIE SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTERTEST FROM IIER
BANES AND BRAES,
What is raping on the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia,
The death has occurred at Castle
Douglas of Mo', James Craig, in his
94t- year.
-
The' total number of visitors to
the Royal Scottish Museum sinoo
its opening is 18,388,585.
There is a proposal in Greenock
that the town should 'take over the
tramway undertaking,
Mr. John Grown, of Berwick, has
just completed sixty-five years ae
salmon net fisher in the Tweed.
A fine swordfish was recently
stranded on the sands of the Sol-
way at Annan. It measured 7%
feet long.
The water supply at Hamilton is
so restricted that Provost Smelton
has recommended theaoidance of
y
any waste.
Andrew Gray, an old soldier
known as the "father" of the Scots'
Greys, has just .died in Glasgow at
the age of 81- '
Some alarm was caused in the
higher parts- of Kilmacolm, the
other night, through a large stretch
of heather taking fire.
Damage to the extent of about
$780 was caused by a farm fire at
Bear£aulds, near Arbroath, tenant-
ed by Mr, R. S. Smith.
By the upsetting of a rowboat at
Alloa, Firth of Forth, two men,
James Goodwelter and Robert 16: -
Kenzie, were drowned. .
A new hall, gifted to Gartmore
by Sir Charles Cayyer, of Gart-
more House, Gartmore, has been
formally presented by the owner.
A destructive fire broke out at the
farm of Mr, John Hamilton, Goat -
milk, Leslie, and damage estimated
at $5,000 was done.
The Law and Finance Committee
of Greenock Corporation recently
decided to recommend a net in-
crease of 3 cents in the rates,
The Duchess of Sutherland mo-
tored from Dunrobin Castle to Bo-
gart and distributed prizes to
tweed workers in the parish of
Laing.
A serious outbreak of swine fever
has occurred at the farms of East
Freugh, Coln, Awhick and Spittal
Croft, near Stranraer.
Mr. George Gilroy, 55 years of
age, of Portmahomack, dropped
dead on the Bruntsfield golf course,
while playing in a foursome,
It is announced that Provost Ber-
nice, Inverness, whose term of of-
fice expires in November, has de-
cided to retire from municipal life,
At a recent meeting of Stranraer
town council, Mr. W. G. Belford,
solicitor, was appointed town cleric
in succession to Mr, Wm. Black.
At the annual sale of Blaokface
and Border,- Leicester, rams and
ram lambs at Ayr, the average
prices obtained were the highest in
the history of the sales.
David Clark Kerr, a postman of
Moutieth, has been charged with
housebreaking. Over $250 worth of
property' has been recovered from
his house.
For freeing -a ferret in a Dumbar-
ton tramway car, to the great an-
noyance of several ladies, a Ren-
ton riveter has been fined $1.80, or
5 days' imprisonment.
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.-
Experience of a Southern Man.
"Please allow me to thank the
originator of Postum, which in my
case, speaks for itself." The man
writes.
"I formerly drank so much coffee
Chat my nervous system was almost
a wreck," (Tea is just as injurious
because it contains caffeine, the
drug found in coffee) "My physi-
cian told me to quit drinking ft but
I had to have something, so I tried
Postum.
"To my groat surprise I saw
quite -a change in my nerves in
about 10 days. That was a year
ago, and now Any nerves are steady
and I don't have those bilious sick
headaches which I regularly - had
while drinking coffee,
"Postum seems to have body-
building properties and leaves the
head clear, And I do not have the
had taste in m3' mouth when I get
up mornings, - When Postum is
boiled good and ' strong, it is far
better in taste than coffee. My
advice to coffee drinkers is to try
Postum and be oonvinoed:"
Mama given by Canadian Postum
Co„ Windsor, Ont. Write for copy
of the : little hook, "Tho Road to
Wehville," .
Postum winos in two. forms:
Regular 'Postum--must be well
boiled.
Inatant Postum is a-solubleow-
dor. A teaspoonful diesoivea quick-
ly in a cup of hot water and, with
cream and sugar, makes a delicious
beverage instantly. • Gropers sell
both kinds, ,
"There's a reason" for: Postum
Rubbers and
Over-Sloekings In One.
Boor to nut on and pike og, Int wolf
—Look well—Wert troll. Aa .Saes for
woman awl obBilrnn. '
Buy them and protsot yourself owl
1tolIy
from winker Mo. a
00,5100, Canal:data Babette,
Limned, M1tonir^ ' ,
PREMIER TOO]{ SPIRAL DIP.
Saskatchewan's First Minister Had
a Thrilling Experience.
Higher and higher soared the bi-
plane, like some gigantic bird. The
woman, with the lever in her hand,
smiled happily, She knew they
were now over four thousand feet
up in the •air. The rather heavy
sot, elderly, man passenger who
had craved thrills in an airship sat
tightly, as he had been told, but
with firmly -compressed lips. He
inwardly
hoped that this out
o5r and w
appearance indicated a real enjoy-
ment of the sensation of flying.
Never for a moment did his eyes
swerve from the alight, -girlish fig-
ure of the woman before him. How
cleverly she managed the groat,
flapping machine! ' One false move
of the lever and=
The mane reflections ceased
abruptly. He became suddenly ob-
sessed with the idea that something
out of the ordinary had occurred.
He leaned forward breathlessly.
The young woman at the lever hold
his life in her hands. Surely the
smile on the face of the golden -
haired aviatrice was just as bright,
but, even -as the man looked, her
blue elves seemed to become keener,
her slight form more alert. Her
trim -gloved hands moved quickly
from lever to lever. There came an
almost imperceptible jar as the ship
seemed ;to be swinging around. The
air currents changed. Tho man
gasped again. It was no imagina-
tion, Something was really hap-
pening. The ship was surely turn-
ing around, now slowly, now faster,
again and again. The man Passen-
ger who had wanted thrills was 'get-
ting them.
"Are you frightened 1" asked the
woman at the levers.
"No, n -n -not at all," gasped the
man as he felt himself being whirl-
ed faster and faster through the
air.
Hail to Do a Spiral Dip.
Down, down, around and around,
down again, even circling, swifter
and swifter went the machine,
while the man held tight and gasp -
Premier Walter Scott.
eel and the woman gazed off into
space with these keen blue eyes
that are so ' unfathomable, and
smiled,
"We just enoonntcred an air
whirlpool," she observed noncha-
lantly, as she helped her much
thrilled passenger to alight, "and
I had to start the spiral' dip, that
was all."
All! Just a sudden little whirl
of four thousand feet, to earth. And
this woman *poke of the matter
with the calm indifference with
which any other woman might say
she dropped a hairpin.
"I'll rest for a few moments and
think it over. I feel a bit dizzy,"
said the man.
Was it any wonder?
It Was Premier Scott,
The man was Presnier Walter
Scott, of Saskatchewan, Canada,
and the woman who whirled• him
from the skies in a $6,500 Wright
biplane was Miss Ruth Bancroft
Law, called the most daring woman
aviator in the world.
"Thera was really nothing to be
afraid of," remarked the young wo-
man when telling' of the experience,
"All I had to do was to keep the
machine under control, Had it'
once got to going too fast in that
mad whirl the air pressure would
have ripped off a wing, The secret
of safety in the hpiral dip is to pull
up slowly enough to get out with-
out any sudden change. It is per-
fectly simple,"
"Of course," she explained,
"Mr,- Seott did not know we were in
whirlpool, Ho only knew ' we
were going like a merry -go -'round,
and 1 guess Ile held 1119 breath a bit.
Re told me afterward that for many
days the earth seemed to him to be
an inclined plane upon which he
had great difficulty in walking.
To hear Miss Law tell of airships
and their gentle ways oils would
think that any child could guide
one. Nothing is ciiffieult, nothing is
dangerous --if you know how end
have never known fear,
Has Steltfly Nerves,
Miss Law knows how, and in her
leeicwn of aviation there is no such
word as fear, She is .a •worthy sis-
ter of her daredevil brother, Fred-
erick- Rodman Law, who flies and
dives and jumps and climbs and
rows just as his lithe, fearless sis-
ter aspires to tor.
"Risk!" she exclaimed—land of
courso she smiled, "Why, really
there is vary little, Just enough
to maks flying fascinating. Noth-
ing is interesting you know, that
has not some lithe risk connected
with it. Nevertheless I never con-
sider that I take risks when I make
e flight. The very calmness with
which
the machinefides away
Y
from, earth gives a sense of security.
The higher I soar the greater free-
dom and liberty I feel. The vista
which opens out before one is so
vast, so wonderful, so all -absorbing
that the particular bit -of world one
has left below seems very small and
nerve-racking in comparison."
THE MOSQUITO NUISANCE.
A Fish That Ifeeps, the People of
Barbadoes Healthy.
Persons who live in the country
and oats'h the rain from the house
roof in barrels are contsantly trou-
bled by having the water in these
barrels infested by "wigglers,"
which are'simply the young of mos-
quitoes. The mosquitoes drop -
their eggs into the waiter, and glue
them together into a little boat -
shaped raft. After a few days a
brood of minute young hatches out.
They swim about and grow for a
few days longer, and then. they
creep out and fly about ata mischiev-
ous mosquitoes.
One of the ways to avoid- this
trouble is to put live fish, such as
'goldfish, perch, or minnows, into
the barrels. The fish will eat the
eggs and wigglers as fast is they
appear. The fish in the streams
and ponds do it, too, but unfortu-
nately, mosquitoes drop their eggs
into many bodies of warier where no
fish exist.
Most of our mosquitoes are mere-
ly annoying, but there is one less
common sort, known as the ano-
pheles, that gives malaria to any
person whom they may bite. If we
could get rid of that; variety of mos -
.quite, we should put an end to
malaria. Now that is the happy
condition in -the iellInd of Barba-
dos, where malaria is unknown, al-
though the disease is rife elsewhere
in the West Indies; and the credit
for it is duo to the presence in
streamlets and pools throughout
the island of a small minnow -like
fish called "millions," because ill
occurs in such vast numbers. It is
the only fresh -water fish in Barba-
dos, and the people say it eats up
all the Larvae. of the maluarial mos-
quito, which breeds in shallow ora-
tors only. Scientific men have
made a study of the matter and -
proved that the people are right.
The males of these mosquito -eat-
ing fish are richly ornamented in
red, blue, violet and yellow, worn
in a pleasing pattern; brut the fe-
males are dull of hue, and much
more quiet than their gaudy part-
ners, who pay them constant and
assiduous count. They do not
spawn, but the young are born
alive, and the warm climate per-
mlts each fish -mother to produce
several broods of from five to
twenty-five young in a year. No
wonder th emosuttoes. waste .their
time in leaving eggs where such a
host of hungry mouths can get
them.
It -would seem an easy thing for
the people of the Antilles generally
to introduce these fish into the
other islands, whore they ought to
EW.6II.LETT COMPAPY,IJr II0
1t YOR ONTO•
Ot1T„ rafA1
"ayhif-'faX+'SY+rM
MOST PEriPeCT MADE
THE INCREASED, NUTRITI-
OUS VALUE OF DREAD MADE
IN THE HOME WiTH ROYAL
YEAST CAKES SHOULD BE
SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO
THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE
TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT
FOOD ITEM THE ATTE.NTION
TO WHICH IT 1S JUSTLY EN-
TITLED
HOME BREAD'SAKIN0 fE-
DUCES THE HIGH COST OF
LIVING SY LESSENING THE
AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE
MEATS REQUIRED TO SUP-,
PIASTRE NECESSARY NOUR-
I$HMENT TO THE BODY,
E. W. GILLETT'CO: LTD.
TORONTO, ONT
WLNNIPEG MONTREAL
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thrive as well as they do in Bar-
bados,
,
GREAT FISHERMEN.
The Object of the French People
Is the Taking of Coarse Fish.
All Franco '.fishes—men, women
and children—so that it. truthfully
might be considered as the natienal
pastime, for never have we seen
anything to compare with it else-
where, says a 'writer in Scribner's
Magazine. Fishing clubs and so-
cieties abound wherever there is
any waiter more important than the
village duck pond, ,most of them
leagued into large organizations;
but, with exceedingly few and re-
cent exceptions, their object is the
taking of coarse fish, and even
where there are trout they aro
usually considered rather as a side
issue, .save on those rare streams
where there is nothing else,
It was on our first visit to the
valley of the Durdent that we ask-
ed an old peasant, past whose gar-
den the river ran, if there was good
fishing there.
r`Nel" he replied, disgustedly,
"nothing but trout." There were
plenty of those at his very door,
but he could not sit on a oampstool
or in a flat-bottomed boat under a
large white cotton umbrella, with
throe or four rods fastened out in
front of him, and watch the floats
bob while he dozed in the sun, rous-
ing now and then to the joy of a
capture. No trout for him
Yon can by no means put implicit
trust in what the people tell you,
for a miller will scowl and, even
as you watch a beautiful rise, as-
sert that ,there isn't a fish in the
river; while" an old woman eager
to chat will invite you into her gar-
den, offer you a seat, assure you
that there are whales everywhere,
and ply you with fruit and advice
as long as you stay, Which probably
will be only until you have grasped
the fact that there never was any--'
thing better than eels and chub
'within miles.
Sarcasm Up to Date. •
"Why is he so bitter at the girl
he was only recently engaged to?"
"Because when she sent the ring
back she labelled the box, 'Glass
with cityh "
Autoist—T haven't paid aenny
for repairs on my machine in all
the tenmonthsI've had it. Friend --
So 'the man who did the repairs
told • me.
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PASSENGERS LOST AT SEA
WEIRD DISAPPEARANCES AND
AMAZING MYS'T'ERIES,
People Board Vessels aitd Suddenly
Vanish From Human
Reil,
If the ocean has its mysteries, so
has the ship that rides it, and
u'hbeh furnishes the more baffling
puzzles would be difficult to deter.
mine.
Ships leave port and are never
seen nor heard of again, and—in
some respects more inoxplioable
still—passengers board vessels and
suddenly for ever vanish from hu-
man ken,
The. strange disappearance of Dr,
Diesel, the famous inventor, is a
Daae in point which must' be fresh in
everybody's mind, One day in the
early part of last month, it will bo
remembered, Dr, Diesel left ,Ant-
werp on board ono of the Great
Eastern Railway Company's steam -
era for Harwich, whenoo 11e pro-
posed journeying to London to keep
an important business engagement.
On board, the steamer the doctor
appeared to be in the best of health
and spirits and at 10 p.m. retired
to his cabin for the night.
Into the Night.
Nmorning lie was nowhere to
be found, and the mystery of his
disappearance remains still uu-
solveextd,
Again, not many months ago the
steamship Baldor, on arrival in the
Firth of Forth from Gothenburg,
had a queer story to unfold
through the mouth of her skipper.
It concerned the uncanny disap
pearanee of a second-class lady
passenger. The last that was seen
of her was late at night, when one
of the stewardesses noticed her pac-
ing the deck. The vessel was then
in the North Sea. Afterwards this
passengor'e berth was found to be
unoccupied, .and, not only the lady,
but her baggage, consisting of a
bag, had vanished. Where and how
no one knows.
Could anything be more balling
than the following? It occurred
on board a steamer between Leith
and Orkney. Among the passen-
gers were two sisters, who were
travelling to attend the funeral of
a third sister. When off I3e11 Light-
house one of the ladies retired to
her bunk, the other, as the night
was fine, preferring to remain a
little longer on dock. That was the
last that was seen of her.
Through the Porthole.
Another amazing incident was
that reported by the captain of a
Dutch steamer, the Van Noort, on
his arrival at Singapore. The par-
ties immediately concerned were
three sisters of German nationality,
who were passengers aboard, and
had been touring in Java. After
having• spent the evening on deck,
chatting and reading, they were
seen one night going to their cabin
about ten o'clock, Next morning
the attendant could get no answer
to his knocks at the cabin door,
and, on an entry being made, the
room was found to be empty. On
the table was a note addressed to
the captain, which briefly- stated
that he was to- have their luggage,
and on a desk there was a bottle
containing a few drops of elilos'o-
form. From this it was conjectured
that the three gaiters had each taken
chlorofoam, and then climbed
through the porthole into the sea l
As a final example may be men -
blamed the case of a vi1'aoious young
lady who disappeared from a
steamer while crossing from Belfast
to Fleetwood. Tho circumstances
in this instaneo were peculiar in
the extreme.
The Missing Passenger.
At 11 p.m. the young lady was
seen by the stewardess, whom she
asked to bring her it cup of tea at
seven next morning, as she wished
to catch an early train •to Mstnches-
ter. .At the hour named the stew-
ardess took in the; tea as desired,
but was amazed to find •the cabin
empty.
It was surmised that the girl had
fallen overboard while Walking in'
her sleep, or climbed trough the
porthole into the sea—two theories
which had not much of -the element
of probability to recommend thele.
That she had disappeared was be-
yond all, doubt, but there was noth-
ing whatet'or to show why or holy
she had vanished in •tile stilly dark-
ness of the night,
Considerate.
"How do you toll bad . eggs?"
queried the young housewife. ''I '
never told any,"' replied the fresh
grocery elc1'k, 'but if I had any
thing to tell a bad ,egg I'd break
1t gently."
Truth, like all moral powers, ran
neither be .chookod or extinguished.
When compressed it but re -acts the
mote. It crushes where it cannot
expand.; it barns where it is not al-
lowed to shine, Ituman when origi-
nally divulged it becomes divine
wheal Ausilly established.. ---Sir D.
Brewster.