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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-4-23, Page 7yyP' it • 1`_slats I I 1 11rA'lw�_ �fITiTA7J'1 MlTlT11T,Q.L 15 aTL'1ri BLACK FRIDAY ,1 -.J= ' iLesee i, th s . inner �rtanicaseseir.riri tail'II''ur Thele was one thing that: \1'illa n Tompkins was very sure about as' tiling I -expect to get it , he arranged with a vast amount of "If we was bo keepall the. things arranged, tut ec <_ ,l y noise, a f ile of empty people asks us for, we'd aveto !bassos[ Lias on the emitter of tl e taste the Crystal Palace to keep em fu " and N. r (.'aster moved I y. The lady bustled with ind'ign'a- tion: "13ut you can get diene for me,'' said, "We expect them at any ma - persisted the custtymer, oleo in. "Nut' 'if 'MI t,Ttlp' cfi'cil+3'' tai?tpen's ".P ie `fi sly en;ilea glsml y, n'oItle I eual'1 got nnything less'n "I •000 see that my visit to your a box," head office has done some goad," 'Chat is not very businesslike," she said, said the lady, "When 'I ask for a, "I •am sure, madam," began Ah•, Carter, humbly, "that I am very sorry if I have seemed disobliging, I hole you will aeoe t nl , a oro y.'' 1 P y P B. "You were disobligia,g," she said. "And you were very rude." "Rude, madam?" "Yes, rude! You made an offene sive reference to my name!" "Mr: Carter I" cried the chocked district manager. He came forward as he spoke. "I am the district manager," he explained. "We have lost no time in taking up your complaint. Mr. C'ar-ter here will be transferred to a subordinate position in another branch. We. are changing the staff here to our most capable mesa" A heavy sigh Ilam William Tom- kins broke the silence, Mira Peck glanced le his direction. "Are you getting rid of this young manl" she asked, ".Yes, madam. At once. I don't Think you will have any further cause fur complaint," "What has he been. doing?" • "I was stile the other morning, that's why !" burst out Tennkin's. "When I was chucked oils of that car --you remember ?—I couldn't get another. I had to walk, and 1—" "I remember." Miss Peck looked at Tomkins sternly. "You ought to have started off in time to cope with such an occurrence." She turned to, the district manager abruptly. "If you are transferring Mr. Car- tel., I think you should let this ,young men see how he can take Mr. Carter's place," ' "Oh, but--" began the district manager. "You will kindly see to that!" said Miss Peck de•cleively. "He doesn't look as if he had much sense," she continued, "but he has got good manners, In these days they are scarcer than brains. Good- merning.,, The district manager stared at Tdnikilus. "Well, of all the luck!" he cried. "Who is she, anyhow ?" asked the bewildered Tomkins. "Miss Peck!" was the reply. "Miss Peck is Bly's Stores, She owns the whole caboodle. There's no anoh person as Bly-died out long ago. Miss Peck is the hoes." Tomkins sighed again. This time foe sheer delight. "Ah, Tomkins," ea,id the district manager, "there's nothing like act- ing the gentleman. But it's a mercy foe you that ie was Miss Peck who. got your seat. Otherwise You'd have got the push from here, even if you'd given 11p your seat to the Queen oSheba." — London An- swers, Bingley eY Branchanc.of Bly's Stores. ,;Never agate," he said to him, •:self, between clenched teeth --"ne- ver again will I act the gentleman "You are imperbinernt!" she in all my life, 1t don't pay. Fil"st1 cried. ''Do you know who I am? it's one thing, and then it an- -other, and now Was this. And this, ten to one, will mean the sack!" IL was certainly very hard l:inee. William Tompkins, up to the point ,of his transference to the Bingley Do you know that. 'tam Mies Peck 1"• "If you were Mrs. Bushell it wouldn't make 110 difference !" re- torted Mr. Carter, Miss Peck hesitated for a moment, as though trying to think of some - branch, had every reason to can- thing suitablycrashing 'to say. 'Thera aider himself. one of 131y's coming she flounced out of the shop. William told Mary Huntley all about, it in the evening. "Are you e,111'e she was an old wo- young men. The Bingley a.ppotnt- • meet in itself had represented a rise of two shillings encs sixpence a week. Rut, from the very first day man?" asked Mary. +un which Tompkins had entered "Old and ugly!" replied William. that nicst popular of establish- "An' no snore manners'n my foot. Catch me dein' it again. Lost me my job, has that woman. I'll give her Cuthbert's craeknels if I get the chance." "You're quite right," said Mary. `There's no sense in giving up what you've paid for. Still, things may not be so bad as yon think." "I've a good mind," began Wil- liam, "to report old Carter abort them Cuthbert's oracknels. He could 'a' got 'e'm if he'd wanted to I" "Why, don't yore?" demanded Mary. il'illiani shook his head. "They woujd just think it was spite," he said. "An' Carter's got the letter In first. Best wait an' eee what 'appene to -morrow." 1Villiam Tomkins lay awake for at least an hour that night. He saw himself dismissed and -without 'oc- cupation, wearily seeking work, "Why wasn't I an engineer or something?" he asked himself, "A grocer's assistant, is a footling job." Then he fell to thinking how well Mary had taken it. Hang ie all f He ought to be able to get another job—perhaps a batter one. And thea he'd tell Mr. Carter what he thought of hila. He'd deal at his branch, and make his life a misery to Ilial. Every day he'd order some- thing that Bly's didn't steels. Then he fell asleep. An hour after the shop was open- ed next morning, there entered a fussy little man whom Tomkins re- cognized es the district manager. He greeted Mr. Carter with: "Look here, about this complaint. This sort of thing won't do at all!" He spoke complainingly, rasping- ly,'almost threateningly. The heart of Tomkins sank into his boobs: He teethed nervously, expecting every minute to be called forth. Tomkins strained his ears to catch what -gas being said, but the voice of the district manager had dropped to an inaudible grumble. Mr. Carter replied only occasional- ly, and then with a total absence of his accustomed aggression. There was an air of mystery and serious business afoot, that increased the nervousness of Tomkins. He' tried to pull himself together. "After all, he can't eat roe," he e'a.id to himself. "A sacking is only a sacking." Then the district manager raised hie voice. 1Vedl, that's how the matter stands," he said. "I can do noth- ing I'm acting on instructions. ]'TOW, where's Tomkins?" For a moment the heart of Tom- kins stopped beating. Then, feel- ing like a schoolboy about to be. caned, or ,a sufferer, on hie way.to the dentist, he emerged from be- hind a striking display of Bdy's bak- ing powder. "I hear you've been getting sl•acic, Tomkins," e,aid the district manager. ' "Turning up late and that, You're a feel! You've miss- ed the chance of your life!" "I couldn't help being late, sir,". said Tomkins. "Whet was the platter?" Tomldns explained. "I'm sorry 1 was such s fool as to give up my' s'ettt ]" he. said, contrite- ly. "It cha'n't happen again!" "Oh, I've heard than yarn be- fore," grumbled the diebriot mana- ger. "It's the gospel truth 1" declared Tomkins, e•arnestl,y. meats, he had realized that Mr. Carter was up against him, Mr, Carter was the branch mana- ger, a middle-aged man • with a -frayed mou'tache, who believed that Wil1111111 Tompkins had come, as Its. expressed it, to pinch his job. Yy's Stura., it may be .remarked, are eloquently described as Italian warehousemen. You will find it. lily's Stores in every town of im- purl nnce throughout the country. 'Half the pe.lple in England are eat- ing lily's biscuits and Bly's eggs, and drinking Bly's lxsa and coffee. On the day after his arrival at the ]Tingley branch, William Tom - kine dropped a hammer into a large boxhti of eggs. The faot that the impact did no harm to the hammer did not lessen Mr. Carter's rage. Then Tompkins allowed a mild -look- ing old gentleman to carry away teu shillings' -worth of edibles with- out paying for them, and Mr. Car- ter remonstrated volubly again. "You are worse'n useless'!" be toles Tomkins. "Worse'n useless. Wet 131y's sent you 'ere fore dear knows. If you don't take care, young fellow -me -lad, you'll 'ave to find another place that's rim for charity." William Tomkins felt seriously alarmed. It seemed that the Bing- ley branch was accursed. If any- thing could possibly go wrong •with his duties, then wrong it would go. And on the strength of the rise of half-a-crown. William Tomkins had got Regard to Mary Huntley. "Neter again will I act the gen- tleman 1" repeated Tomkins. t'An engaged man can't take any rinks!" What had happened was that Tnmkins had that morning given up leis seat in the tramcar to an elder- ly lady. She had not even been a pleasant elderly lady. She had not SO much as thanked him for his oulu tr y. As Tund:las stood balancing him- self on the ear, the conductor had approached him and informed him that standing on the. car was forbid; den. - "I've just given a lady my seat," Tomkins informed him, "Clays ,elp that l" was the firm reply. "You'll 'ave to get off the ear!" • The fortunate people who were seated took great interest in the discussion, all except the elderly lady, who was intent on the hoard- ings. "Jolly shame !" said one. "A tax on good manners!" com- mented another, • "'You've no power tee put ''im CPG l" cried a third. "If 'e don't gest off in two twos," said the coniiuetor, "I'll show 'im whether I've the power or not!" In the coal \\'illi'aau Tomkins masse as dignified an exit'as possible, • Cin the kerbstone he waited fes another car. When it dad oom'e along, it diel not slow down in obe- dience to Williaan'5 signals, and he saw that it, too, was full. So was the next and the next, and the next. Time wee getting on. William bad to open the shoji at 'eig]lt lite,. There. gas nothing for him t Pre- sently l01 • , T( to theCil t `1%t-3Jz'shop, rte found it necessary to run, and eventually arrived, half an flour Mite, to find lir. Carter blazing with anger. • ("Phis is (he limit l" he cried. "Wet you . mean by keepin' m•e 'angina;' about like this? Web you moan by .it? This very morning' I wtrite to the 'cad office. 'Ow can I "It always ie.," • was.. the reply, make the sleep pay if they send me "These tram -cern get blamed: for a foul like y051, web doesn't open everything. No, Tocnkins ,it won't .10" do. You'll be transferred to an- Withlea •ndt ht illi �1 f a C l�il enear, William Tomkins went about .alis ditties, He former wage. Let tale be a lesson. saw A't1'. Carter write and post the to you, And he .emit- you 'haven't letter to the head office. He went got the sack I" in hourly dread of dism.i,seal, Temkin. was unfeignedly glad. In the early evening, he heard He was about, tri coprevs his. thank - Mr. Cteter's votic;e raised in eon- fulness, when the maimer of the die- versati,on ,with an embower, lie trios manager underwent a sudden looked around, to find to+bis asters- change, " Tosekitis looked around islement,; that the 4insltonler was no for the cameo, and saw, approesshing other than the ekleilly lady who had the counter, the lady- who iiad been been the rankle of all his trouble, the cense of his disgrace;. T`I distinctly asked your boy to She fixed Mr, Cartes with air ma- sent ol-sen C utlili.ert's cracknels. And� ;No a li �' ebooglance, •, persist in sensiin:g 1510 s'omebedy> 'Can 1 have eixpenny:tFtrt•th of o'lsse's," said tho lady. • Cuthbert's cra,Ckncils1" cI a de "r,trll'!rCn we (1051'1 keep Oubh- mended irclly,.• " bert's1" 1s(uid Mr, Carter, testily, Me. Carter tubbed hies bands to - He had been in rc VHS detitpnn all the shay, alter brands and go back to your Are You One Of The Unfortunates WI'l'li BACKACHE, READAeJTE AND 'I'IHA'L' TIRED lE.ELING. If So, Listen to the Story of George F. Standee, and. Use Dodd's laid-. ney Pills. Handsworth, Sark., April 13th.— (Special).-If yon are one of those unfortunates who suffer' • from sore back, headache and that tired, list- less feeling that makes work a hard- ship and life not worth living, the story. of Geo. F. Stender, a well- known young man of this place, will interest you. "For nearly ten years," Mr•', Standee says, "1 suffered from sore back and headache. I had a bad taste in my mouth in the morning, and I was always tired. I finally decided that my kidneys were the cause of my trouble, and decided to try Dodd's Kidney Pills, I got half -a -dozen boxes, and before 1. had finished taking them 1 was coml- pletely cured. "I advise anyone suffering as I did to use Dodd's ICidney Pills." Healthy Kidneys strain all im- purities, all the seeds of disease, out of the blood. Weak kidneys leave these impurities in the blood, anal the result is nervousness, tired feeling and pains and aches that often develop into .Diabetes and 13 righ l's Dieca.se. Dodd' s Kidney Pills make weak Kidneys strong and healthy. rF Fall in Emigration. . The emigrants from. the Unitech Kingdom ebbing January numbered 12,817, as compared with 20,006 in January,. 1913. Of these 12,253 (as lx,lnpal•ed. with 19,407) were British subjects, 8,998 going to other parts of the lnlpi•re, and 2,450 to the United States. The month's immi- grants were 4,060, of whom 3,899 were llril,ish snbjset's-an increase of neatly (100 in, each •case, 1 h0 Exeeptdo)n. First married mar,'. Ta there ever an oaoacion when everything et your dinnei' teble.le stone-cold? Second mao1•ied m.an•---1st, not gethc r. ntwotisly. everything, M e always manage to "rimy are on.order, in.tdittn," he sieve a, limbed atrgument. • JI ARNESS TILE SA11,IRA, ]itrentar of 5ua•1,'0u'cr Plant 'fells flow 1l ('un Be Done, Frank Shut an, eif Teeony, Pa., Inventor of the once ridiculed but now famous sun -power plant, which is in such successful operation in Egypt, and n d is about to be dupli- cated for the British Government rnment 1n the Soudan, writes taking the Scientific American to task fur 501110 pessimistic allusions t:, the practicability of sun ]tower as a motive force for engines, The Scientific American, is an article on "Energy Suuroes of the Future," stated that all the coal and all mined in the year 1909 throughout the world furnished 720,000,000 horse -power. Mr. Sha- man takes this as a basis for the following interesting calculation : "Our sun heat absorbers et Cairo occupy lyse than an ael'e of mons and develop 50 brake ]gorse -power throughout a ten-hour dray, This does not mean that an acre of sun- light is intercepted. The area of sunlight intercepted is only 13,269 square feet, or less than one=third SAHARA DESERT Bloc': spot shoe's how 11111011 of Africa would he needed t(1 sup- ply suis power enough for nil the World. of an .sore, but it is necessary to place the heat absorber units suffi- ciently far apart so that they won't: shade each other in the early fore- noon and late afternoon. "Take the above- actual work of our plant as a basis, it would only be necessary to cover 20,250 square miles of ground is the Sahara Des- ert with aur sun heat absorber units, spaced as wide apart as they now are, to give perpetually the 270,000 'horse -power per year re- quired to equal all the fuel mined in 1909. "'.Phis area of 20,250 square miles is practically equal to a square of 143 miles, and its size as compared with the Desert of Sahara is shown by th•e accompanying map. Surely flow this showing, the human race can see that sun power eau take care of them. for all time to cone." The cast, according to Mr. Shu- man, would be $98,500,000,000, but it would be a good investment, as it would be worth to its owners at least as much as all the coal and oil fields in the world, but it would be perpetual, where as at the prawn* rate of consumption, the coal and oil fields cannot last more than 100 years, "To the individual," he says; "ninety-eight billion's is a stagger- ing sum, but to the human race, particularly if spread oat through a period of, say, 200 years, it is al- most nothing." ENLIST .DOGS .FOR WAR. French Use Them for Various Ser- vices in lied Cross Corps. In all parts of Europe, and nota- bly' in cu'eli countries as France, Switzerland, Belgium and 'Holland, dogs are compelled to take life seri- ously, says the St. Nicholas Maga- zine. This is cite ,to the fact that in the old world the natural function n'f .the dog is that of a draught ani- mal rather than a playfellow for young pe'o'ple, The French people have ,long been employing them to draw carts and shall wagons. Now they have gri'n's e step further, end lft e actually put dogs to work in their army. Real "dogs of war" they cell the picked animals which have entered upon a military career, These four footed soldiers have been enrolled. in the hospital corps of the French army, and their weak will be to ea- glet the c141010515 and the Red Cross nurses in emus and on theebaltle- fielyd. It is suspected that the always ingenious French got the idea frm. the famous dogs of .Se. Bernard, whose work". in carrying sn05411' to, storm -bound travellers in the Alps is known to every reader, •'At any rate, .the newly, enlisted Red Cross dogs .of the French army a.ree being trained to carry stimulants to the wounded; to search out injured sol- diers' surd to lead doctors or nurses to the scene, and perform other ser- vices requiring more or less re- source, as well as to act as messen- gers for the surgeons, tend to fetch and carry bandage's, medicines, etc., ill time of emergcn0$, jlis,L ns a well-trained' dog brings his me- ter's mail or newspaper. When a girl jilts a venlig man she may do him a }belt kindness• but he doesn't realize it until later. HORSES "WALK PLANK." They (Toss a Deep 'Ravine On ,t1 Slagle Log. s'h'e eurefoot Chess of the mule in proverbial, but the feats of this ani- mal are rivalled by those of the pack-horeeas used by the Domi'nio'n Forestry Branch sul'veJ arras in the wild timbered regions of •northern Canada and the Rocky Mountains, Laden though they are with "grub," as the surveyor terms pro- visions, these homes can swim wide rivets[, ford shallow ones, or fellow the. men of the party over is, single log, often no more than a foot in diameter, which bridges a deep nar- row mountain gorge where a fall would mean instant, death or worse. They can even fallow the foresters through the sloughs, muskegs and wind -thrown bride eharect'eristies of this northern forest, which is say- ing a good deal for a mere horse, for, as one of the forest -surveyors writes from the primeval forest near Loeser ' Slave Lake, "A forester needs to be here, besides all other professional titles, a real buslima.i, an axe plan and a jumper." There were eight forest -survey panties engaged in demarking forest and agricultural lands in the fat wee•t last summer, and their reports which will appear in the annual re- port of the 'Director of Forestry, Ottawa, contain •accounts of actual adventures which rival the moe+t fic- titious. The total area examined lash summer was about 11,000,000 acres, some on the rough slopes of the Rockies, some in the rocky areas of Manitoba and Saskatche- wan and some in the lots -lying and muskeg region of northern Alberta. Very little land was found fit for agrieultuee in these regions, and most of it is recommended as feeest reserves. The present area of the., Dominion Forest Reserves is 23,- 017,504 acres, or nearly 36,000 square miles. If all present recom- mendations for Reserves are ap- proved by Act of Parliament the area will be doubled. In compari- son, the National Forests of the United States - cover an ares, of 257,855 square miles, yet Canada is larger than the United States and contains larger land areas fit only for tree growth. 1 Lumbagors Misery Ceases Every Au Muscle Cured JUST RUB ON OLD-TIME. "NERVI - LINE." Not necessary to drug inside! That awful stiffness that makes you yelp worse than -a kicked dog will be cured—curedfor' a certainty, and quickly, too, if you just rub on Nervi- lin Rub teerviline right into the sore spot, rub lots of it over those torture muscles, do this and the pain will y You see Nerviline is thin,' not oily. Therefore it sinks in, it penetrates through the tissues, it gets right to those stiff, sore muscles and irritated nerves that make you dance with pain. You'll get almost instant relief from muscle soreness, stiffness, aching joints; lameness or rheumatism by rubbing with Nerviline. It's a sooth- ing liniment, and doesn't blister, doesn't burn or even stain the shin. It's the most harmless cure in the world for Lumbago, Back Strain' or Sciatica. It takes away the ache at once and ends your misery quickly, Now quit complaining—don't suffer another day—Nerviline, that good, soothing old-time liniment will limber you up mighty quick. Get busy to- day, the large 50e, family size bottle is the most economical, of course, the trial size costs but 25c, Any dealer anywhere can supply Nerviiiue, DEATH Tama; PREVENTABLE How Some .Lives May Be Saved' by Proper Preeantians. That death is generally painless, in spite of -the rapid, labored and stertorous breathing which impress- es onlookers with an ideathat the 'dying person ms suffering, is the opinion expressed . by some of the leading physicians of England. Sir Henry Morris goes a step fur- ther ala 41 give's advice as to how this labored, heavy breathing, which gives the impression of suffering, may be at lanae improved or even entirely corrected," "Whatever may he its exciting cause," he says, the noisy snoring or sterberous breathing is the im- mediate result of a local mechani- cal concllition-namely, either palsy of the soft palate, or falling bask of the tongue over the top of the phar- ynx, 01' the presence of 118000us or other fluids in the larger air tubes; and this oandition may be always and at; meets changed to the great relief cf the distressed friends, eines sometimes to the permanent recov- ery of the patient •.by turning anal keeping him or her on -one side; when paralysis exists th•e paralyzed side should be downward, "The literal pasture allows of the tongue com.iaig forward and to one G I LETT' PERFUMED LYE .,r 1 � opt,y4,?...neto THE CLEANLIN ESS OF 51NKS,CLOSETS, BATHS, DRAINS, ETC. 15 OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO iiSALTH. JOINE mei tesees swee- „G I LLETT COMPANY LI14ITt5 TORONTO ONT. nc"w- side. If the chin is chrupped it should be held up. The lateral pos- ture also allows mucous or other fluids bo escape between the lips as well as to gravitate. into and fill up the lowermost lung, to the, great relief of the uppermost, whereby quiet respiration can be carried on. The lung is not permanently injured by reinaining inae.tive and filled with mucous or water for a consid- erable period. "There is good reason for saying than in some cases of apoplexy pa- his =minatory attitude toward ad- tients have died by suffocation from herents of the Christian faith, with which Con fuelanlsm has many points being kept on their basks rather of resemblance. ITis action Sn ardec than from the damage to the brain; ahead be a sacrifice a eeie lane, wilvbe and that had they been placed and a batt-ivas measure between lluadhism kept on the paralyzed side and res- 2,e7.11,541% ane agnoaticism on tho p P may 0000 the way to a Mention thus facilitated the brain wide acceptance of Christlanity. injury would have; bacl time to he- Turkey's Constitution. aa'n10 repaired and the patients Even Turkey- Is suffering constttit- mi ht have 1'eCarel'ed." tlonal pains. The general election o which took plane recently resulted in. an overwhelming majority for the Young Turks. The mechanism of tits election is, unfortunately, less setts- C.P.R. CAPITALIZATION. factory than its electoral ground -work. , Q,A►2'al.; .eza .. Events Annexing Canada,. The Unlled Stiltes Congress seems[ vexiO over (ejiadlau ndvertlslltg amgng American farmers. The Senate 9 1ab19" committee discovered that Canada hays been mending about $00,000 a year for advertisln --and. baa drawn some 500.- 0 Americans o", her bor era in the 1, 0 Am tical 10 l r d last nil ten years. Sonatas ingNelson In ex. e,ntining ilei Alfred:, hale esun, an nd- el owe: ve • imuleteer. s iolto - as f l utyt eb I a 1 g • •i govern- ment' were aired by a foreign g meat' Lo do '. net of disloyalty too itd'lr ow•n conittry. Ara Yntt not; aslia tad's" Mr, Washington replied. that he 01)1, pot 1(111111 i1 unsatrlo4la o1. 418111)81 to olr- eulato Buell matter as that Ua nuestlan. The. New York World agrees and adds that "if the lobby committee haft swept the lobbies clear of every nuisance but lhls 1t might as well report and get a now job.” Canada," remark's the New fork Tsoelegraph, maday the ie notteda di) teeasuntwill"Y Uni annex Canada, and it is not a bad idea to have a few Hundred thousand or Your own people already in the Section." The Telegraph its befits its name looks a 1erig way telie11d. Canada will welcome several more' hundred thousand.. of the Telegraph's "own people" without woe ry1»g about "some day." It !s time enough tc .e my out -when we aro hurt and at present we aro Ret ting along nit'el ' Tae £conamy. The suggestion. that macadam roads ho not constructed anywhere and that brlek paved idoltways be made tuba,: he rule has much to commend it,.The coat of making a'brloltpaved road 1s twice as much per mile as that of macadam• but the cost of repai.rs,. to the latter le u figured atpktweepentof y tiamfesuseasl muroadc.h a year as the Macadam measle did well enough when nothing better wasin sight but the character of the vehicular traffic has greatly Changed. Automobiles wear out macadam roads faster than wagons. did, and brick pavement for automobile traffic Is so much better. The increas- ed coat of the brick roads in the end la true economy, Toleration in China. President Yuan Sill I{at has. issued a mandate explaining' that In proacrtbin1 the worship of Confucius he does not. establish Confucianism as the offlclal form of worship for the people of other religions. 'The choice of religions Is still .left to the people," and d(Versitles ofspected.faith from whatever cause will be re- 13uI the President intends to see to it that Inc sages or old shall have due hon- or and that political changes small not. deprive them of their worship. The President steps into the place of the .. Emperor upon the highest terrace of the Altar of I-Ieaven, formerly reputed to be the centre of the universe, that he may there intercede with the Deity in behalf of the tolling millions whose lot lOIs itttle changed by the passing of the old order and the humiliation of the It was . It was a 51'ancliu edict o1.' seven years apo that required formal veneration of Confucius In the schools end .put this worship 011 a parity with that ' of heaven and earth, Yuan Shi ICee's edict en- hances the standing of this worship but couples it with the enunciation of a broad system of toleration unknown to bigoted Manchus. It is In line with At the last general election the rests - tors were those used for Its remote pre - It is not without interest to note decessor. established under 1111dhat that the •t 1' t' f tl ] le glaass caps a lza ion o the Pasha in ISIS, and "suspended" frons 15.77 unlit the revolution of 1508• and C".P,11. per mile is greatly below the they can hardly ]lave been • 1 eviseU "'- fixed dm•}n 7 c ere s one m lTilley r a o ivevery r s nee: show iu the United States, The inhabitants, and etery 000 voters are averagewhich other big systems Th 11 t 00 000 fixed char' es of the entitled to elect a delegate: these tele R' C.I.R. are un- gates der $16,000 per mile, as against an average of $39,000 per mile. The lines Compared are the Atchison, Topeka, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific. As to the balance -sheet value of the rail-' way and equipment per mile the average for the lines indicated for 1913 was $72,000 per mile, while for the C.P.R. it was only $35,000 per mile. If the equipment of the C1.P.R, be taken as of equal value with the average of the lines named, there would be assets representing the ordinary of $300, per ordinary $1.00 share without allowing any- thing at all for land. Population of Irelauld. The Registrar -General for Ire- land, Sir 1Villiam Thompson. re- has recently added a million dollers to Gently delivered a very inteaestang mteltttnlpaidepat'imeat forttheatuly of fes then :nest at the chief town .0 the constituency, and elect the actual members. Thus the secondstage of the election Is liable to be influenced by the local authorities. and. there have been bitter complaints that the Chris- tian population have been under -esti- mated and under -represented, especially In Armenia. No doubt the question of recognizing the Young Turks will under the circumstances come. up for the de- cision ofthepowers. 'Constitutionalism must be upheld at all costs even in Turkey. Mortality From Pneumonia. Croupous or labor pneumonia, so- called because of its affecting an entire lobe of the lungat once, is one of the most fatal forms of that disease, and tate discovery of a serval for it is -a dis- tinct advance in medical science: This fa another triumph folr the Rockefeller' Institute of Medical Research, Which is dying surh rood service in the wart against disease, and AS In the ease of the typhoid serum and the diphtheria antitoxin the few remedy had a long and painsttilcing test before it was Of- fered to tate public as a cure. Three years of. experiment at the institute werrints the gratifying announcement that mortality -frrotn pneumonia will now be greatly reduced, iitir, Rockefeller lecture at a. meeting of the National Literary ,Society. The lecture dealt with certain features of the Irish census. It appears that about the year 107e a eensns wee taken by Sir William Potty, when the ponnla- tion of Ireland was estimated at 1,100,000, the calculation having apparently been made on the num- ber of hearths, ''slnoaks" ,and chim- neys. The first Ccnsu:s in Ireland, to give satisfactory results, how- ever, was taken in 1521, when the population wee returned at 0,801,, 837, In 1831 the population was 7,767,401, rising in 184I to 8,175,124, the highest point reached et any ceases (milmeratioti in Ireland. In 1911 the population had fallen to 4,890,219, Confidence Justified. Father(left in cllar,ge)--No•ou cannot have any more Cake. ti ery e C seriously) 1), you know what I hall have to clo if you go oil snaking that d, eadful noise? Little Girl (sobbing) -Yes. Father --.Well, what is 1.111 Little Girl --Give me. some more caste, And isle was quite right. h r' i t 7, er Ce s t interest? If your money carne less than 7%, write, to us to -day. We are crterteg the Ilmids of a, successful well-organised con, pally which yield 7''7o interest end: have ci moth sharing feature as well, Tem. investment may be withdrawn any time after one year ea 00 days' -notice,• Hand for special folder and full partieulers. , NATIONAL SECURITIES COUPORATI-PI1 LIMITED, • oo2QS'ED£ ,AT8030 ZIs'E nusr,D):$OG - Tea'UtfTC, 0Akt'1&0a. animal diseases, HOLLAND'S NEW L_tND. About to Begin 'Work of Draining Znyiier ler. Little Holland is about: to begirt the great work of draining the Zuy- der Zee. It is expeobed that seven- teen years will be reuired to make the entire area now covered by wa- ter fit for habitation and cultiva- tion. About 24,700 acres of land are already being nnnually reclaimed, and tins reclamation is likely to continue for a,beuti ten pears, The reclaimed lands of the Zuyder Zee will be i;old by t,ho a,t,a,te, In small lots end gradually, 00 as not to de- press existing prices, It is esti- mated (flat et least 40,000 perso'ne will he required to cultivate this re- claimed sea• land, which will bo used for the growing of Joni crops, sugar beet's, p'ot'atoes, peas encs other vegetables: "It is esti- united," says La Gazette de liol- lanele, "that the . value of the.00 mops will he' nearly $30,000,000. The present Zuyder Zee fisheries 11m,p107 3,017 ' mem, and rira ft ee het r!ngs, flee edam, etieltaivies,: smelts and ihrimps to the value of. $835,000 a year. The hotels in nee in the Zuydel' Zee will be n.neuititblt for fisMeg in .the North Sea, 1111(1,. new boats will be supplied by the state to enable the fieh,ernlcil •0 work that sea." Some people aro abways Trp an'd doing, .and ethers are a1,lweye down and being done: