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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-11-13, Page 6J 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 t - V 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. NA- UVJ'. RUTasteless 'L® PregaraLon of - Prevents Sickness Are you one of those thousands who, Though apparently well, catch cold easily and often 2 it's a dangerous condition to tolerate, end ono which you- can easily prevent by takthe two or three bottles of Na-Dru-Co Tosteless Preparation of Cod Liver 011 at once—tlda Pall, This ple000nt-tasting food -tonic. given tone and vigor to the whole system,'- and so strengtheite lunge and bronchial tubes that they readily throw off theootd*which would otherwlOe take hold of you Cod -Liver Oil Restores Health By virtue of its remarkable combination of curative and nutritive proportion, Na. Dru-Co Tautelese Cod Livor 011 In one of the very bast remedied known for chronic caugbe end *tildes bronchitic, asthma and catarrh. It is eke) an excellent reconetruct- Ive tomo after !Oen, and In distance such as scrofula and rltkets, which aro due to constitutional weakness, Prove Ila worth by Bening a sec, or St,00 bottle front your Draggle!. 311 NATIONAL, DRIJ'G AND CHEMICAL CO, OF CANADA, LIMITED. 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.