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TRAINING DANES TO FARM
SEC UBE BIG Pit EN ICE BY.
THEIR EFFI CIE NC Y.
rmers in Denmark Are On a
Generally High Plane of
Ability.
The agricultural schools of Den-
mark have grown out of the efforts
of the farmers and their leaders to
instruct and train young men for
following farm line without subject-
ing them to influences from sum
thundings, instruction on occupa-
don which would be likely to wean
them from country life. They are
described in Volume II. cif the Re -
pore of the Canadian Royal Com-
mission on Industrial Training end
Technical E.:lunation.
They are all residential schools.
In addition to the class -rooms and a
Mean museum stocked with speci-
mens useful for illustration and
demonstration, the Agricultural
School has a fa= connected with it
as part of its equipment.
The farm is not managed or run
as' an, experimental station, and
only to a very small extent does it
use illuetration plots. An illustra-
tion is given of the management of
nhe farm as a Whole according to
the system and methods which yield
the best results in the locality. The
principal is also the managing fax -
mer. The preserrvation and increase
of fertility, and the quantity, qual-
ity and suitability of the crops for
market .and for consumption, are
considered. The numbers and the
kindg of live 'stack are determined
by the capacity of the farm as
directed towards making profits.
Since the institution receives a mem-
paratively small grant from the
tate, it mutt be managed as a pro-
fit-meking establishment. or at
least in such a way as to make ends twaMechanics. My designs are for
meet after paying salaries and pro- a craft that will be able to cross the
viding fur the upkeep. ocean in thirtenfine liners,"
Fran Beese some time ag:: mar -
Students and Courses. ried one of hex pupils. She has
The Agricultural School, which tut turned out about 40 pilots from her
first grew as a, branch from the echoed. She now owns six Item -
High School stem, follows the High planes. Speaking of the develop-
Sebool methods, but has agriculture me-nt of aviation to -day, she said:
and the related sciences as the "The future development of Mitt -
main portion of its subject, matter. tion so far as the sport is concerned,
Students pass no examination for especially for women, tics upon the
admission and receive no certificate water, .where it is easy to fly and
at the end of the course. there is little danger. It is only
After' leaving the elementary when the manufacturers recognize
school at 14 years of age, the boys this that flying will become the
return EL) their homes for a few popular sport it, deserves to he."
years; then. after 18,• they go for Frau Beese said that German
one or two winters to People's High boys who formerly ran off to sem to
. Schools to continue their educe- become sailers, are now brought by
tion. They then return to farming, their parents to the flying school to
or first take a course et Agricul- be turned into pilots, although they
tune]. Scheel. The popularity of 'are not, always promising material.
these Agricultural Schools and the She said that women learn the art
proof that they meet a felt want much easier than men, extent the
among the people is made clear by mechanical knowledge. They have
the feet that each winter they are more preeenee of mind than the men
attended by about 2,000 pupils, and act quicker in an emergency.
The ordinary course continues Unfortunately, all her woman pit -
five or six menthe. At some of the pile take out marriage licenses be-
mhools a number of the pupils con- fore the end of the ceursi, and
tinne three months longer for sem- marry pilots instead of taking out
tial studio of plants and matters pilots' licenses.
suited t•o•the work of the summer
months. To this extent it may ha
mlet that tin, (nurses are peovided
.---one of five or six months, from
November to May, and a fuller and
more extended cour.se, continuing
during May, June and July. _Aug-
ust, September and October are
Insentient months alike for the Peo-
ple's High Schools and the Agricul-
tural Schools,
The Premium for Ability.
'The Danes excel in having lev-
elled up in general. Canadians ex -
eel in the exceptions. Take one
illustration. The Danish people
send large gnantitiee of butter, ba -
eine and eggs to the Unibed King-
dom. They .get, high prime becanse
of the mipenority of the quality re-
sulting •feen their methods of man-
aging. They take out• of the
United.Kingdein annually over
eight millious ef dollars more than
• other teatime obtain for an equal
quantity of the same products,
They get more, as a premium un the
(Malin- of their butter, becon and
eggs than is Client on the whole sys-
tem of rural educatien in Canada.
Thee is a lenge tribute collected
from a foreign nation by the ability
of these, people, They aro teeing it
fcir rennin:1. training and further en-
liglitenment end' further develop-
ment. Fifty yawn age shadents
were, sent from Denmark to Scot-
land to study agriculture there.
Since, that time the practice contin.
nee for some Enemas sons to spend
t months, at year or more on Scot-
tish ferns.
TO FLY OVER ATLANTIC,
Melli Reese Is Building Her Own
ne.
Melli Beese, Gennany's famous
woman aviator, announces her in-
tentien of trying for the great honor
of being the first air pilot to fly.
across the Atlentie, for which pur-
pose she is constructing her own
heal ro-aeroplane.
replant,.
Belli Beese is widely known not
only as a daring flier and as Ger-
many's only woman aeroplane pilot,
but as the only weanan in the world
Who conducts a flying school, of
which she herself is the principal,
and who makes a business of de-
signing and manufacturing flying
machines. A small, lithe figure,
Frau Beese is a beautiful woman of
about thirty. She won a pilot's li-
cense more than four years ago, the
first to be granted to a woman in
Germany, She is not discouraged
by the fact that she has broken her
legs in five places, sustained frac-
tures of several ribs, and has bro-
ken her nose three times in tumbles
out of the air. These accidents, she
declares, were the fault of her
teachers and did not happen when
she herself was at the wheel.
When seen recently a•t the Johen-
nisthal flying field, where more than
800 machines are stationed, Frau
Beese said : "Yes, 1 am going to be
among those who will be the first to
try to cross the Atlantic. If 1 can-
not be the first to pilot a flying ma-
chine to America at least I want to
be the first woman to achieve that
honor. I am constructing a. new
type of hydro -aeroplane, which will
be completed in a few weeks. I will
test it thoroughly on the North Sea.
and if it proves satisfactory, it will
serve as a model for a larger craft
to be used in a trans-Atlantic at-
tempb next spring. I will begin
work on the big machine this smn-
mer. I will personally pilot my ma-
chine, assisted by my husband and
:NEW LIFE
Found in Change to Right Foot].
After one suffers for months from.
acid dyspepsia, sour stomach, and
then finds the remedy is in getting
the right kind of food, it is some-
thing to speak about,
An Eastern lady and her young
son had such an experience and she
wants others. to know how to get
relief. She writes:
"For about fifteen months my
little boy and myself had suffered
with sour stomach. We were un-
able to retain much of anything we
ate,
"After suffeming in this way for
to long I decided to consult a spe-
cialist in stomach diseases. Instead
of prescribing drugs, he pet us both
on Grape -Nuts and we began to
improve immediately,
"It Was the key to e new life, I
found we heel imen eating too much
heavy food which we could not di-
geet. In a few weeks after Coln-
mencing Grape -Nuts, I was able to
de my Ileum work. wake in the
morning with a clear heed and feel
rested and have no sour etennaeh.
?dy troy sleeps well and wakes with
a laugh.
"We have regained our lost
weight and continue to eat Grape-
Nins for both the morning and
evening meals., We are well and
happy and owe it to Grape•Nuts,"
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Co., Windsor, Ont. Read "The
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"There's a Rouen."
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MANY WOMEN GARDENERS
EIGHT IION. 40,1IN BURNS,
President 91 Britain's Board of
--- •
Teeth`, Son of Washerwoman.
SEVENTEEN SPECIAL SCHOOLS
IN ENGLAND,
Countess of 1Vanviek anti Duly
Wo Ise' ey Po united Ft rst
Instil Wiens.
The great member of superfluous
women throughout England means
nit almost overpowering •rush for
every profession or branch uf work
which open hospital doors to femi-
nine wage-earners. •
Two women of title and position
have been influential in giving other
wbmen a great- opening for their
energies. They are the Countess of
Wan -wick and Viscountess Woleeley,
who have started colleges for WO -
men gardeners.
The normal Englishwoman is a
natural born gardener. in her
childhood she has had her own little
patch of ground in which, aided by
someone in authority, she plants
little posies. All through her girl-
hood site interests herself in the
home garden, and marriage and her
own establishment bring her
A Garden of Her Very Own.
Until fairly recently, however,
she has bad no chance to study gar-
dening systematically and practi-
cally, and the idea, of making a, pro-
fession of it never occurred to her.
But as the labor market became
more congested because of feminine
applicants Lady Warwick and Lady
Wolseley, both enthusiastic garden -
ens, decided almost simultaneously
to open schools of gardening front
whieh women could be graduated
and take their places as profession-
al workers.
"I started my school at, Studley,"
Lady Warwick said in a. recent in-
terview, ''because I had •tried in
vain to get some proteges of mine
into a, school for men gardeners and
found it impossible, so I raised
money and arranged to turn over
Studley, one of our estates in War-
wickshire, to a college.
School Now Self -Supporting.
"In the beginning, even with the
number of women who came to us,
we could not make the place pay.
NOW we are an entirely self-sup-
porting institutiun, and have been
able to place any number of girls in
good positions."
The lot of the woman gardener -Vat
fine was not easy. Everyone knew
there was no reason why she should
be less competent than a male gar-
dener, but British prejudice is hard
to break down, and profeesional
gardening by women was a new
thing and therefore regarded with
distrust.
However, some few great land-
owners were persuaded to allow wo-
men to come and "a•seist" their
gardeners, and their ability was
quickly proved. Now there is ac-
tually a demand for women garden-
ers ..
Their pay has not yet risen to the
proportion it should, but their com-
petence is recognized.
There are at present in England
alone seventeen colleges for women
gardeners, all of them flourishing
and on firm financial bases.
St intents Are of G ooll Fa 011 I i es.
The students are almost always
girls or women of good families,
vicars' daughters with their way to
make in the world, reduced gentle-
women, and 'daughters of deceased
army or naval officers. They have
alt sVS had some experience in
home gardening, and what they
want is the benefit of practical in-
struction and the advantage of a
diploma.
Lady Wolseley's school for gar-
deners is at Glynde, near Lewes.
The pupils must stay one year, and
are urged to remain two, and dur-
ing the second year they are al-
lowed to specialize in certain
branches of the week and to obtain
small rem u neeati ve jobs.
A number of Lady Welseley's pu-
pils have guile. to Canada, while
others have excellent poses in Eng-
land, and still others are teaching
what they have learned to small
groups of girls who 'cannot afford
or ,do not wish to enter the great
e etabliehm eats.
Poulbry keeping, bee keeping,
farming, horticulture, and domestic
science are also taken up in some
of the sehools, and in all these
branches women have shown them-
selves surprisingly sucenssful.
They have invented varione Inher-
ent ing appliances for gardening and
fruit growing which have ptnved
very ingenious.
The life absolutely agrees with
them, and the great band of women
gardeners displays the rusiest,
clearest -eyed, hand:tannest won -Mil 30
En gland.
On one °erasion Sir Henry Inn
ing, when playing Shylock at the
London Lyceum, drove to the thea-
tre in a hansom, and by mistake
tendered a shilling when the fare
was really eighteenpence or two
thillinge, The eahmanlooked hard
at the Willing, and then said
"Well, if you play the Jew inside
as well es yen 'play it outside, blest
if I don't spend the bob in coming
to 603 you !"
The announcement that the labor
party in Great Britain did not in-
tend aceepting the suggestion offer-
ed by Air. Asquith for ti' closer
working alliance between the Lib-
eraland Labor parties eel's (Item -
thin again to the refreeentative of
the working classes who sits in Ceb-
Met Councils, Mr, John Buries. He
is the flint workingman ever admits -
ted to the inner Councils of Down-
ing Street. Of eoureeehe has Made
no concealment of his lowly origin.
"I. 'ought to know something about
laundries," he told the House of
Commons, "for my mother was a
washerwoman." She was, he testi-
fled, a good mother. A Scotsman
by parentage, his father, Alexander
Burns, being an Ayrshire man, and
his mother hailing from Aberdeen.
John was born in London fifty-six
years ago. His school education at
Battersea was very brief. At the
age of ten he was employed at
Price's candle Dietary; two years
later he became a page -boy; subse-
quently he found a place as a rivet -
lad at Vauxhall; and at fourteen
he was apprenticed as an engineer
itt Millbank. This trade' he follow-
ed. He worked at it in various
parts of England, also on board
ship and far a year on the delta of
the Niger. Before then, at the age
of twenty-two, he was married to
the daughter of a shipwright. He
was an ordinary mechanical engi-
neer et Hoe'.s printing -machine
works when he beeame noted as a
leader of the poor and the out -of -
work. From his infancy, as he de-
clared, he had been in contact with
poverty of the Worst possible des-
cription, and he set himself to re-
lieve it.
Open -Air Orator.
.As a Socialist, an agitator'
open-air Orator, a champion of free
speech and of the right of combina-
tion, a leader in oleic reform and
an enemy of corruption and private
monopoly, the engineer won his
place in the sun. A hardy frame,
a powerful voice, a, striking faee,
great natural powers cultivated by
reading, end a glow of romance
rendered him an ideal leader. He
stood as a Socialist candidate in
Nottingham in 1885, but had, before
reaching Parliament, to •servo
public apprenticeship in London.
El. 11011.John Burns.
The efforts which he began among
the laborers of Battersea, were gra-
dually widened. His views re-
sounded from the clock in 1886,
when he was charged with conspir-
acy and with utbering seditious and
inflammatorylanguage; next year
he was imprisoned for leading a
rush on Trafalgar Squene on
"Bloody Sundey'- ; in 1889 he was
elected to the County Council, and
the same year saw "the orator of
Tower conducting the pro-
tracted and celebrated strike for
the "docket's tanner," a strike
whieh resulted in the greatest vie -
tory ever won for unskilled labor.
The Lundon Council gave Mr.
Burns a practical opportunity for
the employment of his reforming
zeal, By municipal enterprise ho
tried to realize this ideal, and at
the samentime be labored tenbeauti-
fy his beloved London.
In 1892 Mr, Burne was elected t,0
Parliament as member for Baiter -
sea. the woxkingmen providing him
with an income, sotall, but suffi-
cient. Be entered the Hcruse uf
Commons, he said, as a, big Briton
and a great, Londoner, caring for
the Fenglend "(het Chaucer exalted
in tong, that Milton ennobled in l
verge, end that Shakcespeare glori-
fled in eimetunental play." The
month es, for Be nersea distinguisbeol
himself as a spokesman fol' the Lon-
don Progreesiven his speeches be-
ing marked by literary allusiveriens
'ell AS by flueney end force, and
although he took comparatively
little pare in general debate, he
peoved 351 eloquent mailmen of
Unieniet Administrenien in the
1895-1905 regime, and was recog-
nized, moreover, 35 a doughty re -
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presentative of Labor before there
was a Labor panty,
Public Seryiee Defined.
Then came his admission to Sir
Henry Campbell-Bennerman's (ub-
inet as President of the Local Gov-
ernment Board,' a post winch he
held under Mr. Asquith until re-
cently, when he was transferred to
a position of equal rank at the
Board of Trade. "Public eervice"
Ile wrote in his first election
address as a Cabinet Minister—
"ought not to be an easy retreat
for the ignorant upper classes, nor
office a, dull yet decorous interval
for the gibt-edged incompetent be-
tween eleven and four o'elock." He
himself set a good example in dili-
gence, and although untrained and
unconventional, he has proved a
strong-minded administrator. Gibes
were thrown at "the Right Honer -
able John" when as a Cabinet Min-
ister he refused to sanotien some of
the Socialist schemes of those who
claimed him as a former comrade.
He confessed without shame or fear
that he found it net only politic,
but wise, to revise some of the views
which he expressed in his salad
days. When his salary was $10,000,
and still more when it we's raised to
$25,000, old friends taunted him on
his obiter dictum that, no man was
worth more than. $2,500.
Thus the candle -maker and page-
boy has risen to be a Minister of
the Crown, the head of a great de-
partment of State, a dispenser of
patronage, a friend of seine of the
most celebrated men in the land,
and himself one of the best-knowl
figures in the Empire. And yet he
retains his simple habits, He lives
still at Battersea '• he is a teetotaler
and a nornsmoker ; he wears a
"bowler" in Whitehall; lie is a
familiar habitue of the National
Liberal Club. Reading has been to
Mr. • Burns an enduring pleasure,
and his affection for his books is
one of the touching traits of his
strong, aggressive, challenging in-
dividuality.
THE ENEMIES OF EOSQVITOES.
Several Ways or Getting Hid of the
Post.
Since Sir Ronald Rose discovered
that the microscopic blood parasites
which give nine to malaria were
transmitted to the human body
through the agency of a mosquito
"bite," a, war of extraordinary
virulence hes been waged againet
that particular insect pest. The
larva, it was well known, bred in
more or less, stagnant water, be it a,
marshy peel, a sheltered corner of
a etream, a water barrel, or even
the chance drops that lunged in a
rain pipe. The seat of infection was
attacked. The haunts of the larvae
have been rendered -uninhabitable
by the spraying of oil to form a sur-
face skin, which the larvae is un-
able to penetrate in order to gain
its necessary supply of. air or by
the addition of mob poisons as
cresyl, which, even in so weak a
proportion as 3 deeps to 500 cm.,
has been found to kill mosquito lar-
vae in. five minutes, In other cases
the breeding areas have been en-
tirely done away with, by drainage.
But to the naturalist the adoption
and encouragement of the natural
enemies of the mosquito is of more
interest, It has been observed in
our 01511 ponds that atieklebacks and
minnows feed readily on gnat and
mosquito larYae. And this know
ledge has been turned to good am
ount, for a batch of a West Indian
fish—"millione"—recognized as a
mosquito destroyer, has been im-
ported into Sonth Africa -with the
idea that (here they will beconie
ncelimatized and aid in 1,11c earaca-
of the wild duck, Anas beeches, ha,s
been. advised, as it, too, has been
observed feeding largely upon lar-
val mosquito stages. But perhaps
meet curious of the methods of
utilizing natural enemies is that of
setting aside lumen beings to act
as mosquito destroyers. In the
malarial district of Bassam, on the
Ivory Coast, as many as five official
"mosquito catchers" we corutinu-
mealy employed during 1912 with
great success, and it is reported
that the "work of the mesquite
catchers hres been greatly. diminish-
ed in consequence of the spread of
knowledge amongst the inhabitants,
and most of the heada of factories
now employ men for this special
purpose."
Don't Get :Angry, Nellie.
She was angry, and her face re-
vealed the feet:, "What is the mat-
ter, deer 7" said her husband as he
entered the kitchen. "You see
thabl" she replied vehemently, as
she raised a mixing bowl M which
she had just broken an egg, "That
is the second bad egg I have found
to -day. 1 believe Jim Fletcher
keeps all the bad ones be gets
in his shop for me!" "Well,
you shouldn't get angry aboub it,
Nellie," said her husband soberly.
"You ought to have more sym-
pathy." "Sympathy !". she echoed.
"What do you mean'? Sympathy
for Jim Fletcher " "No, for the
eggs," he replied. "Think how
long they must have been trying to
be good."
Sciatica Vanishes Instantly
If Nerviliae Is Used
• •
CAN YOU BEAT THIS CASE?
No ordinary liniment will even re-
lieve Sciatica. Nothing but the most
powerful hind of a remedy can pene-
trate through the tissues' and finally
reach the Sciatic Nerve. You can al-
ways depend on the old-time "Nervi -
line." Nothing made to -day is as good
for Sciatica as Nerviline was when
first produced, about forty years ago.
All this time the same old "Nerviline"
has been miring Sciatica, Lhmbago,
Rheumatism, and is considered to be
without an equal in relieving pain or
soreness anywhere. "'Nervillne'
couldn't be made stronger or better,"
writes James E. Edwards. "The way
it, cores Sciatica is to the simply a
miracle. For years I suffered fright-
fully. I Mined my stomach with in-
ternal dosing. I rubbed in gallops of
oils and liniments—none were strong
enough. One good rubbing with Ner-
viline relieved. I kept on rubbing and
shortly was cured. My father cured
rheumatism in his right arm and
shoulder with Nerviline, and any
mother cured herself of chronic lum-
bago with Nerylline. Our family
swears by Nerviline and we are
never without a 500. family size bot-
tle in our home. We find that for ex-
ternal pain, for coughs, colds, earache,
such minor ills it is a veritable family
physician,"
Novel Fislt Freezing.
A novel way to freeze fish for
shipment has been invented in Den-
mark, Well consign of dipping the
fish in fresh water and then thrust-
ing it into a vessel containing. re-
frigerated brine. The fresh water
filmerou•nd the fiell congeals in-
stantly, preventing the access of the
salt from the brine. So quickly
does this method work that it live
oodfileh 18 in. long was frozen hand
enough to be sawn in 15 minutes.
Mrs. Parvenue—That pieture in
the corner is by 1171 old ma,ster, Men.
Sward eed 1 would never
.have guessed it. ;Min. Parvenue—
Yes, theman I in:night it from gave
me a written warranty 'that the
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BRITISH USE MOST SOAP
AVERAGE RUSSIAN CONSOLES
TWO POUNDS .. YEAR.
Germany ananuoinunt ennie Next„
Among Great Soap -using
Countries.
Are two pounds of soap euffielent
to keep a men clean for d year 1 A
recent return shows Mint tilts is the
amount per unit ouneuened in Rus-
sia.
The list of soap -using couneries is
headed by the United Kingdom,
with el pounds per individual; the
United State's coulee next; RWSS(bal
is last.
Even if the soap bill is a true
test of people's personal clewnli-
nese it is an invidious bask to tabu-
late the dirtiness of nations.
Louisa, in "Man and Supeaman,".
says: "Every Jow consider:8 in his
heart that English people are dirty
in their habilis."
It will be a familiar feet to many
readers that aanong the lower mid-
dle classes, and to some extent in
the lower classes, soap is regarded
as a sort of (therm. It is used on
the faee very much in the same way
as the holystone on a ship's deck.
A red and polished faoe is a proof
that the holenten a (or soapstson•e)
iias been well and truly laid. There
need not be much cleanliness about
this method, and perhaps our large
consumption of soap may be due to
a wasteful use of it, It, is possible,
moreover, that the soap bill is met
a true test.
Germany Near Top of List.
It is difficult to keep away from
the international aapeat. As to .
German that greet country is well
up in the list. So is Spain. Not so
Italy or Emmen Holland is quite
high; Sweden quite low. Cold or
warm climate, seems to have little
to do with the matter. The Brah-
min's morning ablutions are a reli-
gious eeremony, rand hygienically
thorough.
Tradition ofteti carries far. Pliny,
who wrote the first of all c•nen-clo-
needles, said that the German soap
was better than the Gallia Beth
Greeks tenet Romans "washed of-
ten."
Dr. Ellis argues that Christianity
for a time killed the -bath, the early
Fathers beiug by profession a living
contradiction of Pagan luxury.
This reached an extreme in one re-
spect of saintliness.
"The cleanliness of the backs- was
regarded as a pollution ef the
soul," says Lecke-. St. Athananius
relates with enthusiasm how St.
Anthony had never, to extreme old
age, been guilty of washing his
eet.
A famous virgin, though bodily
sickness was a consequence of her
habits, resolutely refused, en reli-
gious principles, to wash any part
of her body except her fingers.
' Tendency to Cleanliness Evident.
Weatermarek, the philosopher of ,
human habi is, says that man, like
many other 'animal's, is naturally
endowed with a certain tendency to
oleenlinese. He also ewe that man
is naturally inclined to idleness,
which explains the stories of tramps
who, on being bathed at it,he work-
house; stied layers of what seemed
to he .skins, but are actually shines.
Lord Kettles was of opinion that
indnetry is the greatest promoter
of cleanliness, and contrasts the
clean and ineluet lions Hollander
with his dirty and lazy fellow-coun-
tremen. He wrote, be ifs under-
etood,'in 1751. •
A greet physician has recently
stated that the skin cleans iteelf,
and that it is possible to overdo the
washing habit. Besides soap and
nature there are other methods:
hot water and soda IB /10 bad de-
tergent, But, notwithstanding the
increase of cleanliness among
cheeses, we still have among 03
"the unseapecl," "the geseat
Good Advice,.
At the death of the Duke, of Wel.
lington the whole diplomatic corps
was invited to the funeral ab St,
Paul's. The French Ambassador,
on receiving his invitation, was very
ranch upset, He hurried off to his
colleague. of Russia, Baron Brun -
now, and confided to him the diffi-
minty in which he was placed. "The
Oilcan," he "expects us to go
to St. Paul's to the funeral of the
Duke oE Wellington. How can I
go ennekkaing the injuring Nelda'
tiro Duke inflicted on my country
Whab shall 1 de 7" .Barron Brun -
now listened gravely to his col-
league's exposition, and then re-
plied, "As the duke is dead," he
said, "I think you can safely go to
Otto funeval. 31 ycm were asked to
attend his eesurrection 1 should say
refuse the invitation.''
Still She Could rib.
Maud (with inagazine).—Merey 1 I
wouldn't earo. to live in Japan,
ri''Alahvie111-1:7:s
1*!r'al,s1
Inc'f'1)(• re that when a
worrier buys a drees in Skeen the
sterekeepet asks liow old ette is,
there 'being epeciel• deeigne for the
different ages.
to.
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