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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-02-08, Page 3;•,,, , o.loti341rx.o11:'. • ‘ithin4i.%13 Oar° Stlendilyi Conthhied, ',tether, . Tee .Arm ',Teelitselyes ;Welelean' or Fititection. eecital'en to enforce their,Tiglits' by ,1 ' siniplest Ana' roost bloodless Chinehave steadily cal: - t voted'. the ,art of eombluilllegothei ,haVe thus Atraled theniselves With immaterial, Invisible weapon, thnp)y"ParalYsee the ' aggre0- , ,,,ser, and ultimately leaves them Mari- ters' of` the field. The ',extraordinary •Part 'of' the Chinese boycOtt' or strike 411,, tho absolute fidelity by;which it is '011etirved, If the,,boatiden tpr •' 'cOollea at anY place' strilte, •they all ." .,Strike; there' are. fto blacklegs: If to butchers retuse tosell, they alf-Te, • f1114e., entirely confident. of each oth- 'er'a loyalty. • .iroreMn 'merchants Who • have of- - ' fended the Chinese guI1d by sone ,'courso of action not approved qf by . 'those .powerful bodies,have, often Tetrad to their cost that such conduct , . , be tolerated for 'a moment', p.Sometimes at a considerable ditonee, and ,that their, only course is to with-, • •front the untenable positieu -they had taken up. ; 9.1'he other side of the medal 10 ,entially instructive. Some years ago ' the foreign tea merehants at a large port, in order to curb excessiVe charg,es, deoided to hoist the Chinese teamen, or sellers of tea,with their ' „own. petard. They organised a strict • ;combination against the tqa-men, wiles° tea no colleague was to buy until, by what soented to be a Bator - n I order of events, the tea -men had been brought to their knees. The tea -men, however, ronmined firm, •-their 'counteuanees as Impassive as ;ever. 73efore long, the tea' merchants disoevered that some of their number ' hod, broken faith, and were doing a .ra4l'aing business for their own ac- . ' the ternin otigMally insist- ' . .ad n hy the tea -men. ' OUR 'WONDERFUL LANGUAGE, Ifew Allatt Fashioned a Teeple foi " he Englishman. '•In ePste of certain undeniable dis- , advantages, the Eiegush language a -steadily malted heatievay. There are ' • new tongues so hard to master. One foreigner, who has had hi troubles, but hen won his way to a perfect tonintand of the language, has pre - 'seated sonie of the humors of the din cabinet Reultles which belong to this richest ' tree nof, livitig languages. Ali; a ,boy, I heard a fantastie Turk- ish legend, which, to my mind, aptly illustrates the actual facts concern- -lag the origin and formation of mod- ern English. . After creating the Pint parents of 'each of the races, the story runs, Al lab took a large piece of meat, and cutting It Into slices, distributed them amoug all the peopie to serve them -as tongues. For some reason the . lenglishrnen was absent *then the others received their share. At last he came into the presence of • his ' Metter, and in mute humiliation beg- ' Win to put a tongue Into his mouth, nut nothing was left of the meat. 'Se Allah was obliged to cut a little Piece' f,rom the tongues of all the -ethers, and joining these pieces, he tliioned a tongue far the English - The Golden Opportunity. Among the persons who have re- •'',• trently made provision for old age wenn it comes are two seaters, aged respectively 83 and 34 years. They • have purchased from the Canadien ` government a Laet Survivor Annuity, ' that Is an annuity which will give • them together an income of $600 a year so long as they both live, and be continued to the survivor so long as she levee. The cost of this , Annuity, $3,643:65, has been invested, et 5 percent., and had brought .in •lens than $185.00 annually, with the ' .aficulty and annoyance or re -In- vestment. The Annuity becomes pay- able when Use younger sister attains Rio age of 55, and should both di• e before that time the purchase moneY w, • ill be retuuded to their heirs with • 2 per cent. compound Interest. Each le now, thrning •her own living,' and the sum paid is the fruit of their la - •bars for a number oe years. Thee were thus able the better to entire- ' * nate their splendid opportunity. A send of enquiry addresser' to the nuperintendent of Canadian Govern- ' ment Annuities, ,Ottawa, will secure for you any information you desire on the subject. , ' Kingeley Would Smelte.` " .Archbishop • Benson, when head- , . •• master of Wellington, was a great mend of Charles Kingeley, whose 'rectory or Eversley was but a few miles away. A. C. Benson gives many ' interesting reminithences or 'tinge- „ ley as he remembers • him in those , • "My father mod to toll how Once • , nteee was walking with Kingsley round bont Eversley, when Kingsley sod- donly stopped and said, 'It is no use; `4. 'I know you detest tobaecoi Benson, -but I must have al smoke!' and be had actordingly gone to a, big furze- ' leash and put en arm in at the 'kale, and after some groping about, produced a churchwarden pipe, which • ne filled and sreoleed with great sat- isfaction, afteewards potting It into a 110110W tree, and 'telling TOY father, • -,'•nvith athuckle, that he had concealed ,plpes all over the parish, to meet the ' oeigeneee , of a ,sudden desire to GrOwth' ht Natal Fix.peuditure. • Sillee 1902 the naval. expenditnie k 43E• ctilleerine'el)ies• inerea..eed from £90,383,-, ipal epee ries or tile • 000 ,toiel45,319 009 G t Britain Is . ,LA • BikitrkribiN4 luicKEgtp;ER Noe etright luoughto DotIlusineas • New York, lietteintio Baek.40, 'A'eeertlittglelhe • Hitt , Some folks 'think that'rercy neck - atelier. te the nettle. :hope .the ' 1/peke1eller family,,11 10' 'M'editod With beingwise tine wary, eunipned 'with a positive guelt ,of conversatioa • that doesn't commit, when, that 'sort oe eltatter is needed, and' to be so si-, :lent at other tinles that a dungeon o deaf,. ant ::durob asyluta would . ',sound like , the',WIlisPering ,gnllerY In , St. Pantie L.Cathedral In comParlson. rEie keeps :a. , thumb on ,' the public palse, and trnsAvs' 'a ot . Of tillage' popular' .sentient , that ,many other 'rich men do not know •The other night he Went to a res- taurant with a party, of 'friends, The ,restourant is rather a -favorite of his,, and the iminattive pirate In charge 'of the hat -room had learned to know Mr: Rockefeller handed, hint • his mashed and' desiccated old 'brown liat as he entered: ,R was a good hat, '.--onap.. The hat 'pirate 'looked on :Mr, Rockefeller with -pity In his goze. and by IVIr. Rockefeller's littlesupper ended, and he returned to the coat- room to retrieve his hat: Instead of that decrepit old brownlid, the boy handed' hint a brand-new one,of the same general form and bearing the label of Amerieit's mot expensive xnalrer. it fitted Mr. Rockefeller per- fectly, but he handed it back. "That isn't my hat,” said he. "Get wise; boss," said the hat Pi- rate. "Nudge by with 11 while You can. It's worth, tea of them old ket- tles you 'been wearite." Mr. Roclrefellet said that was un- doubtedly true, but he did not want to rob an, unknown of a new hat. "Say," said the boy, in disgust,. "I thought I was dein' you a favour, be- cause you been. a good feller. But you better go back where .You come from. You ain't bright enough to de business in Noo York." EDISON'S 'ESTIMATE. Declates 'the British Standard of • Business Integrity the Highest • In the World. • Modesty is an admirable virtue which may be with advantage culti- rated by nations as well as individu- als. But it must not oe overdone. In 'these times of self-assertion, the in- habitants of the British Islands are familiar with coinparlsoas which suggest that the Germans and the Americans are chief of the world's good and smart men, and ' that tee Briton is now something of a back number. Faint heartp who permit themselves belief in this uncomfort- able doctrine may end 'relief In Mr. Edisonn latest pronouncement. It Is not an invention this time. He de- clares that the British—he calls it English—standard of business in- tegrity Is the highest In • the world, and that Germans themselves admit the soft impeachment. But that Is not all. In the old world, says Mr. Edison, the British—again he calls them English—are the enghest type, physically, morally, • and mentally. These are gineeful words. The only &MN left en the- subject is caused by Mr. Edison's neglect to say how we, stand in, relation to kis own countrymen. The omission cannot be due no modesty because he pre- dicts that the business Men of the United States will some day • show the Germans now to hustle In thelr own country. It will be a fine sight. Xotirr PIOTtritz ' • The oriono,.0 'obietutt • To DeeDestile a rit,lieleBetweee' • , esentrenrettheleeldwarat , • Ooreeidetaine ,diethseloat.' hae been lAst ISIto'WhO ariginnted.•'cinema. Miuny elaintents, to 4111e dilortinotion have Oethe forivard, bat after... careful ' investigation it Would appear that ;the honour really belongs to an Buglishmen, lidwurd , Who emigrated 'front , Kingetoti-nlion-Tharne.s in the forties, settled In Cailfornla, vihere later 'oof he obtahled ,art appointment as photographic' surveyor of the l'aciffe' Coaet... .• ' • ,' 'The .ffrat mOVIng'pletiire .Which he, produCed was ,:rently the outcome of si„ wager made between thei'lloverner of ', California (Leland'tieltiterd), 11414 ' a friend, as te' whether a horse 4ever. has four: legs off the' ground at the , same, .momentl While Tanning:. May - bridge was asked 'to settle ,the 'point, He pieced 24r cameras in a line , to cover each meVeraellt Of the horse .and Rio rider, the camera shutters belkn anoVed by connectingpieces of .string which the nnimal-broke a 11 paseed. The result Wats a series of pictui0. allowing ,each movement of tlie horse. , settled the argament, for Muy- inidge Was -able to show that except When junlping the horse never had all its feet off the ground at one 'title. This experiment caused 'IVInYbrIdge to think what All interesting thing it would be to present the photos in motion, To do this lie copied the method made familiar to many in the, zoetrope. l'tis toy was .a pasteboard cylinder, with slits. in tee upper sec- ten,and when It revolved rapidly it. reproduced drawings apparently iu motion. To reproduce the effect upon a ecreen, using photographs was a ineeharrical feat which was finally conquered, the movements of the horse being shown, but no back- ground. This was before die intro- duction of the flexible film for the camera, and before rapid photography had been developed. Muybridge lived to see the wonder- ful moving picture of to -day. When he died in 1904 at his home in England,. he loft with officials of the coin— munety and bee friends the photo, 'graphs and much of the appanage used' in his expeelments. • Permanent War.raint. The new football role making it imperative for a goalkeeper to wear a distinellielling Jersey led to an amusing incident et a luniter ;match in the Midlands recently. When the visiting team came on the Eeld thole goalkeeper, a Youth of gigantic proportions, was seen to be 'wearing a Jersey of the same flariug colours as the rest oe the side. "You must get another jersey," en- tered the referee, and the player trobted back to the payleion. Back he came in nye minutes, stel wearing the offending garment. "There can't another jersey in the .place half bi.g enough' he explained. "Then you'll have to play without one,"snapped the autograt of the whittle, whose temper was not sweet- ened by waiting about in a cold drizzle. When the young giant onee more taappetured on the field with hie team's colours; still in evidence, the gmblence et the official melte, gave way. "If you don't change that jersey I'll order you off the fileldi" he bet - lowed. , "I ain't got no jersey on, mister," came the reply. "I've been wearen' Rio bloomed theng as an undershirt all the week, and the bloomita dye's come , Ilis Original Sin. In a country seat M one of the mid- Two Days to Illeike a TOWn dle Weetern States dwelt a lawyer who, after a practice of thirty years, had accumulated a competence and retired. Being a man of much more than ordinary ability, an excellent speaker, eatertaining decided politi- cal views, and entoYing the confi- dence of the community, he was ur- ged by his friends to run for Coa- gress. He refused. A man high In Rio political councils or the State came to see him, and added his per- suasion. "You ought to take that epee," he Bald. "It might lead to something higher. You would make a national reputation." "That's what I am afraid or." "What do you mean by that?" "Well," answered the lawyer, hesi- tatingly, "I will tell you, but it is in strict confidence. It must not go any further. Many Years ago, when I was young and inexperienced, I pub- lished a small volume of original po- etry. So far as I know, there is not a copy of that book in exietence 110W, but one would turn up in sorne cor- ner of the world if I were to run for office, and the papers' would print extracts froin it. I wouldn't have that happen for a million dollars. No, sir, nothing doing!" Dogs Go Wild. Olir tame dogs would all go wild if left to themeelves for a few years, They tried the experiment once on Robinson Orusoe's island. They left some of their doge there, and nobody called at tee Island again for about thirty yeara. And they found all the dogs had become quite wild. Thee hunted just like wolves, and they heti forgotten how to bark; they could oniy howl. It was not till they be - curie used to men again that they learnt to bark. A few Years ago two dogs near to Nottingham lost then owners, so they made hotnee for theamelves in a field. They hunted sheep and lambs, and did a groat - deal of damage, just as the wild dogs' of India and Africa and Australia do. They looked just like wolves—so much, had they changed 'during the months they had lived the life of wild dogs; and, finally, they had to be ' responsible for an increase or 900,000, Germany fee, $12,000,000, en • Judge---"Yeu are a freehneer?" Witnese—"Yes, eir, Inn." • ;Tinge— "Married or single?" Witnest-- "Married three yea,re last eons." eudge—"Have you 'formed or • ex- pressed auy opinion?" Witness— . "Net for three years, your honour." ea,' • •efeeted States for te1e,000,000,1eranen 'over ' £4.000,006, tuia' Rusela for ea • t' £006,000. In the lase ten yeare ight, cent, naval powers have spent' ,the,sallliendous seot of .upwards of „ one ' 1)11110/1 pouutirs steeling 011,118081 • ecrence. - , The largest aingle building ever Moved bodny was a block of dwelling - bowies known as Normandy Apart- ments in America. The building Weighed 8,000 tons, yet it was decided to shift 411 80 it stood, in order to make ZOOM for an elevated railway. et was, done, 'however, without any mishaps, though the.move took ten weeks' hard labour to accomplisb. In 1890 the innabitants of Tipperary irad a detente with then ground land-, lord, and gave nonce to quit in a ,body. 441 a spot seine miles distant) they were provided by the Land League wIth a brand-new Tipperary. Unlike the inbabetants of Platte they; deeided th leave th.e bouse.s standing, though everything elee portable wage taken. It was lucky they did so, for! Ilevr Tippthary proved a hopelose failure, ami after a few months thee inhabitants had another huge flitting baclt to their old hoines. Milking by Electricity. ; We hare had milking machines for game while; now comes the American electric maohene Which •Jealously watches the Milk from COW to pall, from pall to dal,ry, from' dairy to eterblizer, from eternizer to separa- tor, ream separator to ehurn, from intern to refrigerator, neatly packed tto as germathe butter. You press a button. Four cows are electrically nallited simultaneous- ly, and all ,thrie happehe. And not a germ, not a moleetiM' af &ottani:tea- time 'Phis le an era of hard choMes tor the mite. Who loves health and beauty eguanly. The fartuyand of the future is not tin Mepering specula- tion, but the most aesehetie person cannot ortherve a bleed eye to the eediment In his glass of milk. ' Underground Post.OffIce In Auetria, between' L'albach and Trieste, a few mees dietant from the former, are the famous Adlthberg caves, visited by thousauds ofalyht- seers every year. A feature of these. eaves, -netted by thousands nif sight- , . 215 yds. broad, and 190 it in height. In thin hell the Austrian Governme.ot has lately eetableetied 0, post-otteee at, \vetch stamps and ellusteeteci nests: nuns are eels' to vlsitors, Eaten card bears a special poet -mark denoting Rio feet of its haVing been malice in tlx bower regions, In •the first tew ' months after the oe.erring of the post- , °trice the number of earde dispanned .ioneeneeti, on tin average, to 10,00a ' ; Ro „ ,The' Bystem Aetiut An it of ,CJi*sit 0» thetPaet I ' •, ef etailMetine .eoeBeggern ,• , • 1,AL 'ild'ul7Inittnitgltmnied;°.71124V.61,a,:W.4',171:12"e4d'ia!e'i:4'ilYhis!e';'‘::4.11:°-: -,:tI:::r8e'elieligithistli6pie:int'eest'tO, the liti.n$ tle° .p conic, w 0_0 , lerhthle‘ott ent-of-the-wa.y b :Whba, 'hcame noO5 a hlind pegga , • Touched; by the 1r61p1ess seirpw: Of )the roan, he pat lads. hand 10, hisr !pocket and' gave .2rini a' pieee of lenttypney.to.' iwBarrt4 he.cvhtnatl„ tIhre';(114/YeggttrIte, ,0na., +honest meat ,Called hian back. Surely, sir;"' he ealdb,,"yint 'haVe Made,, a adetakel. Yen have given rad ,a crown instead of, a Penny."' , The astonished giver aeleed' „the' i:ebt6ilticalerr th114)Wdetaett aitli'441e''4,1;ft:nreit'at6):'v6a'Aztoci: of the money. • • "Oh," eaki the beggar, '14 10 eatongh 'for I00 10 'vase my finger over ' Mid was like a flash Of light. .co,i1,bin,a,ed his walk, eoan ,dieteneoleh "If the blind," thought 80 he' at the least touch a piece of inoney,; why should they net distinguish by the. same anemia a letter, a figure, a mark --- in stent, any sign vvhatelser so long. as at is refsed?" • On this toundabion lee set to work, and IReeently -Unvented a method for teaching the blind to read. His firet PIneuel'tlg; baoty awehboulurchhed-crees; Tnes boy Seamed with astonishing, -quickness to road by means of raised. letters. Very Seen' Valentine Holly was able to snow late pupil in publee,, 'and the sight of a child reading with SIB fingers enetted the greatest sur- prise •and admeration. When hie Method was perfected, he, appealed to the public for funds to carry onexis work, and, thanks to'the as haortp4ions whieh came to hen from eli sides, Hauy Wan 50011 able to opeo_ the fenst institote for teaching the blind ,to read. • What Water Can Do No sooner are the London and Ottawa seasons over than we see an- nouncemeuts of venous more or less great ,personages departing for some Continentail or British. enea .to take the tratens, and allow their systems to recover from the fatigues of ragtime - aisle or political lefe. The drinking of the medicinal water is not the whole of the cure; elmenge of scene, eremplicety of diet, early hours, free- dom from bustle and worry all play their part in the restoration oe body' and mind. It Is quite possible, how- ever, to have some of these benefits' without the ,expense of going away' from home, merely by the aid of pure drinking water. The human body con= slots of water in the proportion of about sixty per cent., and the water removed from the body by means of, the breath, the persotration, the urine and the bowels is the vehiole by which', the body gets rid of the sva.ste pro- ducts restilting tram the activity of Its various organs. As a rule the more active a tissue is -the more water it coalmine, and, therefore, within tea- eonable none, an. increase in the. amount of water bonen wn0ll lead to; increased tame change. • . , , , Plgs 'r0m All Quarters 014 prints, old books, old anyttelten, postcards or paintings, are all fit sub- jects toform a colleetion. But cam- el 'the most venous, end one of the Most intereeteng collections la a =Leanne of pigs. Not live legs,. mend you, but model; ones. For some years now the vide of Mine hoenof the Green Man Hotel, 91 131aokbeatle London, -has been gathering together a wondrous as- thetment of model pegs. There are pigs in pewter, china, • and ivory, earthenware, sliver, and gun-metal; pigs that tand a thot high, and pigs that measure 'less than half an Incis. over all; pigs in fancy -drew, and pigs In clover; as paper -knives, dralestands, or ashetrays. In every form end &butte there are pdgs. They have conot erten all over the, world, end practically every country is represented. People have stayed: at the hotel, adaneree the collection,, and later from eome far -away epot: has come a pig. How manythere are et would be difticult to say. Many a tine lobs then' owner begtin to number them, but - Met count. ARABI PASHA.• ; When the late Arabi Pasha receiv-I ed his pardon ten years ago, and wasj permitted to return th Egypt, he was( very greteful. He expressed a hope,' that be would be able to come to Engn land to pay his respects to the Kluge and thaolt those who had helped hime but that hope was fleeter realised. It: Is understood that it was on the re-, commendation of Lord Cromer that, the sealed rebel vote allowed tee return to- his native land, and the, liberty weeded hen does not 'appear' la any way to have , been abused. Arabi had sixteen children in exile. with him In Ceylon, and the $250, al- lowance per month which he received. from the Egyptian ,government Ito used to say Was scarcely sufficient to provide ,for his large family. 'How Garibaldi Died. A book recently published thus (lea seethes the death of Garibaldi: "The end came hi kis white 'house at Ca- prera, on a June evening in 1882. The old eater, farmer and fighter • 'was propped up on the pillows to watch for the last thne the sunlight gliding the waves and the granite rocks. White.his life was slowly ebbing Out, two little birds 'whorn he had taught not t4 forte hen fluttered .in from the moor, anti set chirping on the whe- n) drive them away lest they should new -sill. The attendants were aboutl. disturb him, when, that voice was heard once more by men, blddinel them let the Itttie birds come In, ance afWeYe feed them atter he was gooe.', Mid then the old warrior turned him face to the wall. mate quietlY Passed', 5 J., .strik,*:;EXellook,' ia...Etseletet•titel.Billin'Olatteliatiesenuel; '• b1flnIn ea -Sitolttin nett": ' 'boom" tittles neevspapere tell -tee 'that ',Belle" ,a,sa, heellag it :ell tii`eir • owri Way, in bad times , it eppeare that .thb ./3ettre' are getting an, , What, thett, are "Bull' enel, • Let es !lest gtance 'at the etettoleers , le the Stack Nxchange,. • Illiere is, the, genuine In?ePt°r, who Is content wit/1 , anything uP to 41/2 per cent. • and „eound' securtna ' Next eernes• a ltttie more 'direicult'man to, eatisfe. F01' Ise wants 5 per pent. on, his money and a chance of capital appreciation in ills Stock or share. Lastly anti lisis- 113 the elienn we are deeding with more particularly — there 15 the spoculritor .who swarms in the 18111185, retnen • and oft share, ,inareeLs in active tinics. Ile pays but little' re- gard to any of the onestiona that are' all important tb tlee other two einaSes. The speculator delights in possibili- ties, probabilities, rumours, peospecte, tea tact all the variea ingredieets that go to melte an appetising meal for a lealtilY, robust 'Bull. A Peril St tha "Bulls" and "Bears" A ``Bult" Is' a speeulator "for tette rise," a purchaser who hopes to sell at, a profit, it possible before the, settling day GOITIGS 11)11nd, and not one 'vim intends to take the shares all is market. 14e in known as e. "stale when .after waiting wearily for Rio' rise that neeer seems to come he 'ells in chemist. The "Bear" is the • epeculator who comes along when lee thinks money can be made by selling; tattens, of course, on the stale bull. , When a successrul 'Mull" sells he differs from the "Boar" in that he takes his Profits or cuts his losses, whereas the "Bear" is only juet setting out to make them. Thus a '13011" taking his profits does so by selling at teebigher price what he bought at a lower one. The "Bear" .ettels-aet because tie has shares in his possession upon which he, desires to realise a. profit, but,because he thinks Ise can sell you or me Setne shares -sow at, say, $15, which before setting day he can go into the market and secure at,. say, ee0; the difference between his selling and buying price is his profit. In effect he has sold es something at $15 which he has bought at $10. But he sold it first taking the risk of "covering" himself at a lower price betore he is called upon to settle up, Settling days on the Stock Exelange come round every fortnight, when everybody, Investors, speculators, "Bulls" and "Bears," settle ,their transactions. WHY CHILDREN ASK QUESTIONS One of the Most Interesting and Valuable of Our Instincts is Curiosity and This Feeling of Wonder is a Worthy Fact About Human Race. The whole of the doing part of our nature depends, in the first place, upon a most important fact of our naiture, which is that we possess in- stincts. All these instincts exist In order to serve our lives l one way or another, and their special businese is to urge us to action. When we thus act under the Influenee of an in- stinct we commonly leave a certarin kind of feeing or emotion, which con reeponds with the instinct that la at work. One of the moat interesting and valuable of our instincts is curiosity. In the eistory of bhe long line of lee - Inge who have orodueed us, curiosity is a high Instinct and one that is late Illeia,peey,sea. ring. We do not find it m aong the loweet animals, but in is cons0080500110150 151 haghest kinds of louk The particular kind of feeling or emotion that gees with the instinct of curiosity n whet we call wonder. Thus, when we ask a questeon of our- selves, we often say: "I wonder why" scoond-so. Anti this instinot grows, as mankind grows, from the most trivial curiosity abont trivial things until et leads men to devote their evhele lives to the discovery or the laws and tvonelmn of Nature. Children, therefore, ask questions became they are hume,n, and because the possession of the instinct of cur- iosity and the feeling of wonder is a very greet and wortnY faOt about the human race. With.out it we should not be driven on to Mara and to know, and without knowing. our place in the world week] not be near. ly so safe as It is. The trouble le that so many of as stop liaising quoin Mous wben we geow up. Jumping Jack Tars . The rhythinec jumping of three hundred and fifty bluelackets sexed S. Commonwealth from the fate of the Montague when she ran aground in a dangerous place. The battleship Montague svas itban- dotted as a hopelese wreck off the Cornish coast, but her sister ship, the Ctornmorrivealth, was safely got off by the muscular exertion of her crew. o The Commonwealth ran oa to an uncharted rock when returning from target practice, and was badly damaged. She wee so meely balanced in her lodgment, however, that It was decided, after reversing the engines had failed to extricate her, to try the experiment of mustering all the available hands on the exteeme art, and setting them to jump In unison. The regular jumping of twenty-five •tons of solidly -built seamen had the effect of making the huge vessel rock sea -saw fashion until she gradually floated off with the rising title In fifteen minute she Ives afloat, and • , A Time of Change. e We are in one of the great. crisis reCthe world'hietory; the era of transition ie full upon us, and there ,is no people which .is not reciting , on its'. waves. International relations ' are, changing, Empires are being broken up,Imrnemorl I syt5nss passing, away, struggles are threat- ening that will inVolve half the hu- A BABIEs „ . '74V ii(3y' X4180ttOn if; for u.4inti•la At'!"e. -end , It/11.511111e te'ell Sheila • ., NMI • • Anew 'pure, has been found Xor easebile 'eleoleeta inlet dread' cetalealet wipeMit se many young linos euerean nee .eattemer. The hot European enneniere whine has i'Welltin eledean elalal,ed a tell Of 'babies; and the new Method was glean 00 =ale teetleg. in ,L,ontIon aod Pieria tete erbat 'ere 'claitteed, rto have ecen, exceilent rea • ran eldetlue. a PariSiOn Pittleauthrop- 1st,' eras' • tho' disoovereee of elle etnev • aiethoar w5ih ie'reOlattosed' oe' °wa- hine detertnined .,dosee al inoclifled: Pen ' ter, eneeted under - - Rio 1411015 ' inteene sidot, aOrnduring the pant flea. , years thoueanes ee chilaren have' been •seeneectorily treated, The syst,ern -was' lirtroduced into London by tile, gene- rosity ,of Otto Belt, and a large leolyennie wee opened, at wheeh the. children were treated. So successful were the Janette that mallY ef the prottincial hospitals thin) introduced Rio breetreent with equal eatistannoo. The 'propane/non is eot a patent medicine, men 11 is stated, can be prepared by any ,themise and a it -um- bel' of locel ladles inteeeeted in -eked welfare are now in corninunication went , the London efficiele evkth the ilea ol getting the treatment este- bleshed isa Montreal reedy for next summer. THE TIMID.PENDULUM Onee Upo11 a time a clock -maker was making a clock, setting each wheel into its proper place, anti ite ang the ceiffeeeatt parts toeether. The pendent= was lying on. tlie table ie - aide welting tor Rs torn, mul it passed the time in making a celculat Oen of .how lone it would be beton We great -wheels of the' nook were wren out end lts own work done. 'Of course, e shall go on tinting as long as these wheel's last," oeid the pendulem; '1 seen be expected to tick ee many times lo the mioute and sixty 11110,1 that to the hour I shall never rest day or night, so that I must tick twenty-four hours instead of lying still and sleeping peacefully througla a few of them. Then there are 1165 da,ys in one year alone, and the clock will, probably Met good for at least seventy years. If I had a peocid I would put It all clown, but I coon do multiplication in my head. Millions of ticks, I'm sure, if not billions! I can never do it," and the poor unhappy penduluin sighed deeply. "But surely you can do one tick at a tia'ner asked the cleckinalter "Oh, yes, that's a very 'simple mat - tee," answer the pendulum. "Well," said the clockmaker, "that is all you will over have to do really," and he hung the pendulum in its place, taking care to meth it quite comfortable, because it is more irn- extreme to get properly settled on 0, hook than on a chain and it sets -to work steadily ticking. "Now, if I were you," advised the clockmaker, "I should not count 'One, two, three, four,' because it you do bappen to think of something else You'll get wrong, You will find it ever so mu& sateoto say, 'Tick, beck, leek, tack,' that gen to be second nature in time and I can oroinise you, wet never go wrong." $o the pen- dulum took his advice awl went on steadily ticking one tick at a tiane, and it is ticking yet quite cheerfully, mid,aunteed by nay rows of figures either before or behisid. THE LITTLE BELL • For centuries it has been the cus- tons io Inscribe -church bens with =none sometianes in English, some- tlenee in Latin. If you have read Lonsefellown "Goldee Legend" you will remember the voices of the bells as they sing. Mese words are all taken from the .mottoes on very old bells. As a child I remember seeing the enormous new bele for St. Paul's going by rant to be hung in the Cathedral, and Iva could road the Latin inscription that was round it. Weer/ I was on my holiday I saw the belle in the tower of a beautiful old church, and looked for their insorip- tions. Setae of those only comme- morated the date of the founding and the name of the giver or the founders but one inscription was in rhyme:— Although I am both light and single I will be beard above you all, I .could not help thinleing Mat motto would do for a great many people, as well as for that smell bell, it any - con ever thought of putting an in- scription round a Little neves pinafore or a little boy's belt, Quite a Difference When Lawrettee Barrett's daughter wee married Steen Robson sent 'a cheque for a thoueand pounds to the bridegroom. The comedian's daughter Feldeia Ilobs011, Who attended the wedding, conveyed the gift. "Felicia," said her tether, upon her return "did you give him the cheque?" eyes," father," anevsered the daugh- "What did be say?" asked Robeen. "He didn't say, anything," replied Miss Feliela; "but he 'shed tears." "How long did he cry?" • "Why, father, I didn't eine him. I weenie say, however, that he wept fully a minute.' "Fully a minute," mused Robson, "Why, daughter, I cried an hour after g, An "Ear Telephone.' Differing from the various kinds of Monuments which are used to aid pei sons of defective hearing, a new Ong distance hearing apparatus has recently been invented to assist the hearing of normal persons in. much the same way that a telescope does Me eye; that is, it enables one to listinguish sOunds through ,a greater aistaDde, besides amplifying those which would ordinarily be detected by the unaided eare. For this rea- son it has been facetiouny c 11 d tit 'ear telescope." • ' LADY (tAHlatSITAtitliita ' leveptitsatiett Sleety Thal, Afilke a Ifeelnent, • '• , Attelidietge Cherity • Garde • • ' 'Parties ,te;'Caeot. • •• ' ' • Eteven eromeo tveict reinsee nedettleent•e s teen 'etteently o 'at,eleaufite '• •Oeg'weleell'aa Ile Ohnrah OE 0t. FrliaP41‘ ,ettneti itt Brooklyn., becaltee theYtwerte'• s•e believed to ee ca,ecl-sieteeperse An veSt,:gation.' wietele wee etart,ett •lute earthed theaflett , that a trumiter ar, , womett melte 5, bestheesof atteteding ,• , seSit taItOre t of the' gamblers, Who leauelteeresisaelarstic lissors, The Wo- men are not proteesloieal. gezablere, • ,• alter Meeneers of respeetal)16' faminess. t' wee 'ere 'tumble to etteistetlie iettetble- ' It has become 'known teat WOMOTh • baatd themselvee together for con- •, *erten week, by lip sienale, by meek-• • ing cards tn.111 1iny pm-pl e, allee otherwitte, tend, aecording to Fattier • Kelleher, of SO Franda ASSlei, Who. diecovered the latest eonspiraey, evere, ' hnoW 110w to stack, the cants. leather Keellieer's discovevy • wage • tele to ea extraorditary itecitieet. elo. • Was riding on. a Beooklye. trent-can •' when he overheard two woelloa seartete next to Intn discussing how they tended to captore the prizes et thee 61. Francis party by cheating. Feiner • Kelleher nold the other priests of the; c.hurell, and they wateleed tee (thorn way of the 47th. etegitnent Ameourye 'verrere. a card-a-rty was being givert. leather Itallehee detected the two eve - men with nine o there 115 they Wersa endeavouring to enter, They vrerat told thee they cote(' not get in. No explanation was offered, and the wo-- men did not demand any, but hastily, disappeared, The churches anO, charity organiaations are generally ceing notifted of the discovery, wino the suggestion than concerted effort', should be made this winter to break. up the practice. It is a disputed point! whether the women are amenable to, arrest on a charge of <meeting. GLORY OF THE MORNING Tlie Morning itself, few people, in- habitants of cities, know anythingl about. Among all .our good people, sot One ail a thousand sees the rise once in a year. They know no- thing of the morning. Their idea oet it is that part of the day which wrath. along atter a cup of coffee and to beefsteak or a piece of toast With; them, morning is not e oew Issuing ef light, a new buretieg forth of thee sun, a new waking -up of all that hen, life from a sort of temporary death. to bellold again the works of Gone the heavens and the earth: it is only' a part of the domestic day, belonging, to reading newspapers, answering notes, sending the children to school,, and giving orders 'for dinner. The, first streak of light, the earliest purpling of the east, which the larlti springs up to greet,. and the ,deeper aud deeper colouring into orange and red, till at length the "glorious sun ts Wen, regent of the day" -- thin they never enjoy, for they never sec It. I never thought that Adam had' much the advantage of us from having seen the world while it was new. The.' manifestation,s •ot the power of God„ like His mercies, are "new every morning , and fresh every moment, We see ae fine risings of .the nen oat 'ever Adam eaw; and its risings are( as much a miraole now as they were - in his day — and, I think, a goon deal more, because it is now a, part ot the miracle, that for thousands: and thothands of years he hes comes to his appointed time, without the, variation of a millionth part of a iiecond. Adam could not tell how thia might be, 1 know the morning — am acquainted with it, and I love it. I love it fresh and sweet as it is -- a daily new creation, breaking forth, and calling all that have life mutt breath and being to new aderation. new enjoyments, and stew gratitede. Grad Moral Question Mr. Alexander, the evangelist, tells the following story:—, "There were two emetics over in my country named elosee and Ephraim, who went out one /tight, to rob a hen -roost. Moses planted the ladder, climbed up the Line where the chickens were roosting, grabbed there round the neck one by one, and handed them down to Ephraim, who put theus in a bag. About a dozen had been bagged when Moses mid= denly stopped the proceedings. • "reetleatee the matter, Brother' Moses?' asked Beene= "'Ise dos' bent thinkine whether, now you ami rne's members ,ob da. chtuech, it's right for us to take all dis yer man's chicken's.' , '"Brudeler Mose,' said Ephrata; 'dares a great moral question trhiele P051 en' I ante gat dine to wrestle wid. Pass down aminder yaller-lee" An Evidence of Chinese Awaltenittg. O. Davidson, who for 25 years haa been engaged in educational work in Ohlna, gives this typical incident ae illustrating the viewpoito of the mode ere Chitiaman ae aroused by the rev-,' elution, A P,ritish teacher in one or the schools of Obetigtu, we are told, , was pointing with' pride, before his native geography class, to the mane: red colored poseessions of Great Britain, when he was stopPed Int shouts from the little Chinese pupils nYou stole them." Ole are further told teat in eon, neetiOn with the propaganda ot the revolutionary party there has been, circulaied a poster depicting; the swallowing or Egypt by Great Brit • English -Speaking Italians. A correspondent, who has been at eripoli, says that, ono, of the eurieSi- ties of the Italian army of occupatioo Is the large number of men in the reeks who speak broken English, anis is a, jargon learned in the lowes sections of large American cities. It has been picked up by Italians ,whe. had been resident in America for a, time, and have then gone hone again ai the ordinary course of events, or who have been rialled nome to take, ,,att In the War iloW 011. teneete