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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-02-22, Page 31 elnuary 22nd, (912 mommoosinsiosmnsowsommoommus.mo Clinton News -Record CONQUEST LONG STRUfifill Eemeret is of Opinion tbat the Mono- plane 'Is the Xaebi M oi the' Fature.—Piesent'St eed Meet Be'Donitled to Secure pafety. nhe fundamental prineiple onaero- • statioe wae discovered by ArchiMedes and tormulated as follows; "Every body plunged into a fluid is subject - led ey this fluid to a 'preseure' from betow to above which is ague' to the weinht clisplateed by that. body." The tirst application of this principle was to balloons, care being taken to two - %loco a body -whose total weight was ,JOBEI than that of the volume, of air at, displaced. But although the prin- ,.ciple was thus applied as far back as 1783, it was not until 1884 that the 'first balloon capable of being, steered , was produced by Col. Renard, who ;accomplished a circular flight in what deserved the title or a dirigitle. `tine measou for this was that in order to , :stem. a body floating in a fluid 11 is ;absolutely essential that thts body *Mould possess an independent speed, to permit it to move in the fluid of its own accord. In 1887 Col. Renard sue - needed in obtaining an electric. motor -or ,eight horsepower weighing only forty kilogrammes e horsepower and capable of great endurance. Monoplane the Future niaebine Today mechanicians nave succeed- " 'on in Perfecting meters especially de- signed for aviation of the almost in - erodible; light weight of two kilo- gramrnes a horsepower and of such perfect action that they ean start in mo instant without preliminary pre- naration. Professor ,Serget, in his volume "The Conquest of the Air," nxplains clearly and briefly the mechanical difficulty or the proniern and the scientific reasons why it took :a century to discover how to guide the machine which the brothers Mont - looney launched into the air in 1783. Next came the probleme connected 'with the resistance of the air, which .determine the shape ot the envelope tor a dirigible balloon. A spherical balloon can not be propelled. So long ago as the beginning of the nineteenth .ceutury Marey Menge preeinned the necessity of adopting a shape. should as attempt be made to propel aero- stats, which should have "the head of Za, cod and the tall of a mackerel." .AncordIng we see the fusiform shape In the Giffard and Santos -Dumont, iko tish shape In the Renard, Le- eauchy and Clement -Bayard and the nylindrical in the Zeppelin. As the result or the laws of air resistance large balleous have an advantage over the smell, the Zeppelin (18,000 Able meters) being the largest ever made, -though the shape is against ite best latent:ens in this particular case. The Aeroplane. The forerunner of the aeroplane Svaa the kite. In a chapter entitled "Application of General Principles," after diecussing the wings and their proper angle, stability and the means tor its realization, Prof. Berget pro- nounces docidely in favor of mono- planes as against biplanes and de- nlaree that the Rheims week or 1911 ,tionclusively demonstrated the su- periority of the monoplane, which ap- pears to be the aviation apparatus of nth future. One of the defects of the Wright biplane, he asserts, to be ;the warping of the wings to keep the 'carrying surface as horizontal as flOS- ,aible. Thls must inevitably end in endangering tbe essential solidity of the structure, he says. Another defect • is that it requires am extra action on the part of the pilot. SOf E HOMES THAT 1,6 ARE IMMELIKE ,Children Provided With Playgrounds Are Healtlimr and Happier foxlt. The teudency when building homes in the city is to ignore the sides and ...especially the roae of the Melee, •letting the windows and openings K'cade haphazzard wherever it fies in • with the interior arrangement con- wernently, but give the front of the house every attention as to detail, making It artietic, sometimes the re- neree of ibis, by an eXCOSSIVO use of nrearneet whit% contraets greatly "with the bald 'appe.aranec of the rest eir the home. While designing a home On this fashion can hardly be ap- proved, it 10 admittedly natueal, . When planning country hellion one tacee diffcreat coaditions. 'nee house ie not hemmed in between two. other • ,homes, with an alley In the rear, 'neither is the size of the hoase re- anricted In nay one direction because .,of lot line limitation. There are no •Jaws requiring the houss to be so 'many full stories high, and set back a nlevtain ntunber of feet from the side - ;walk, so that a desitmer or a builder Of a home In the country bas no excuse for not making the home 'AS beautiful on one side as on another. There is no reason why the klicheu • porch and entrance should not be at- tractive, although simple in design, whether it be on a city home or a etountry home. True the average pass- mrby does not see the rear entrance . nowt in most eases it Is well that he -acme not, but the owner of the house, ;end his family, whoge aeeds, comforts ..and pleasures should be most con- tsidered, sae the rear of the house Ire - saliently and it is a poor conniliment to them to assume that they are aot •nas capable of appreciating an attrac- Itively designed house from the rear ;as mucli as the average paeserby ap- mreciaten It from the front. . iDaIsy:"IS she go .econominal?" Meade: "Well, she's saving her 'wedding dress for a, possible second inarelagn" • THE TONGUE •OF SCOTIAAll Scottish Words /ire Now Used Very Extensively In Every Day USe Though There IS No In- dication to Make Serious. Use of the Tongue. Such. direct imitation, however, Is perhaps less important than the Passage of Many Scottish .words and phrases into English use, a procese laegely fostered of late ny senee ot the daily papers. Within Scotland itselt tb,e newspaper prees is more Seottitn in resent of language then it was a quarter of a century ago; and it Is clear that few writers nave now mueh drawl of allowing an occasional Scottitism to slip from their pen, The leading weekly papers have long made a epecIal feature of. a Scottish column in prose or versa, and have thereby chine much to support the humbler levels of a vernacular liter- ature. In special cases these columns „are even valuable for the number of local words and expeessions they ahd their trequent Inca of literary merit Is thus atouecl for by their linguistin worth. 'On the other hand, it must be said that the nOWs- papers have not alway0 been sufti- clently careful to distinguish the vernacular from the vulgar, and have helped to lower the popular taste in this respect• . Taken at its best, the literary stand- ing of Scottish Is thus In many ways 18 eatistactory one, and in some re- epects bee been so high that eertain limitations attaching to it are apt to be overlooked. At the most, ao higher position can be claimed for it than that of n dialect, Use use of which is confined to certain epheres, chief- ly those which have the closest re- lation to cemmon everyday life and thought. There Is a great contrast here, if we look back to the days when Scottish was a real national tongue, when it was not In any way subordinate to English, but stood side by side with it, as Portuguese with Spanish, or Swerlieh with Danish. 13e - fore it can la any way recover its old position it must be cultivated for higher purposes than It has been in recent times. It le not enough to use it, however correctly or etfeetIve- ly, for the dialogue portions of tales or novels, while all the narrative and descriptive parts are in English. It Is not even enough to employ it in poetry, whether of a light or ecrions kind; for poetic diction Is a thing by itself, and affords no test of the praetital value of a language. Of arty such serious use of the Scottish tongue, however, there are at present no indications. Kitchener io British Prisoner Kitchener's ability in disguising himself has given rise to many stories true and otherwise, of this famous soldier. Tile following incident was told by one who served with the Essex Regiment in a campalgo against the Dervishes. "I was acting corporal or the guard over a large number of `gentlemen of the desert' whom we had taken prisoners. In the course of my roundn'a captive 'within the tent drew my attention, anti 3 was surprleed to hear In good English the request, 'Corte:man I wish to get out of Wien I, of course, reported the occurrence to the Sergeant of the Guard, only to be met with the curt reply, 'let the tool stay where he is.' I continued my rounds and was again met with the request. Again reported the matter and this time the heply was as curt 'but ,a bit stronger, so I Went on my rounds again. As I passed the spot this time the voice frorn within said 'Say, Corporal, you are of the Essex Regiment?' I answered that I was and the prisoner seed, 'Well, tell Inn Il. that I want to speak to him.' 'What name?' I queried. 'Kitchener,' came the reply, and I at once reported accordingly to the Sergeant. He im- mediately made for the prisoner's quarters and I shall never forget that. meeting. The dishevelled 'dervish' was in reality the Lord Kitchener' that was to.be, who'had been out spying among the enemy and had apparently been ..aken prisoner by his own troops. Chinese Facts In Chine the average rate of wages throughout the empire is about 18e a day. The labourers at work on the new telephone line in Pekin get 100. and wheelbarrow coolies in Shaughai $4 a month. The wages of Pressmen average about 48c. a day, ' In the homes of the middle-elass Chinese the husband's mother reigns supreme, and clubs have been formed among wives with such titles as "Re- bellion Against the Mothers-in-law" and "Restciration of Female Rights." Pekin is often erroneously referred no as "The Forbidden City." As a matter of foot, it is the Royal Palace in Pekin which le the real Forbidden City and from which foreigners, ex- cept on very special occasions, are rigidly excluded. The Chinese, as a rule, are poorly housed. In the towns the buildings are mostly brick with tiled roofs, but many are built of wood. There is practically no attempt at infernal de- coration. The windows are papered, but glass is coming list° use among the well-to-do. The labouring classee live in , rand or wattle huts, tiled, thatched, or rooted with matting. Maybe So. "Pa!" • "Well, Ilildegarde?" "Sawfisll live in the sea, don't they?" "Yes, noy chinl.” "Doesn't the salt water melte their teeth rusty?" 'Mr. X.—"Oh, I've been doing, Oulte a round of calls, ancl I've been so un- fortunate." ' Mt's. Y. ---"What, everybody out?". Mr. X.—"No, everybody in." . entilta ' .r.kag41,1 FIRST LOVE OF KAISER WILHELM Tile Stein Neceesittes of PolitieS Carat a Clem( OvertTwo Young Linea and Compelled a Prince to • Desert Dia LOT . Who Bled.' The toechlug story on the romantic attachment of the Emperor wrillarn I. to 'Princess Eliza Radziwill evtien he was a young man. and 'she a girl, and of the obstacles that arose to prevent their union, is related in detail in a book just written by Dr. Bruno ilennigt of Berlin. The stern necessities of politcs cast. a aloud over these two young Royal loners, and compelled Prince — as he then was. — to desert the girl he loved to contract a union based ton prudence instead of on personal in- clination, Towards the end of the eightenth century Prussia had absorbed a pot- tioo of the ancleot kingdom of Poland, and Was engaged in the diffi- cult task — still ouly. imperfectly accomplished of assimilating the conquered Poles, who regarded their Getman masters with repugnance. The hopes of Prussia in those days were largely centred in Prince Antony Radziwill, one ointhe Polleh magnates, who accepted Prussian supremacy over his native land in a friendly spirit, and inarried Princess Louise, a niece of Frederic the Great, after evhich he was appointed :Viceroy, of Prussian. Poland, with Ills seat of government At Posen. His real home, however, was in Berlin, and it was here that his dauneter, Princess Eliza, who es a Holienzollent on the maternal side associated Irately with the Prussian Royal Reality, met Prince William, the second son of the reigning King, Frederic William III. Prince William and Princess Eliza grew up from childhead together, and it was not until 1820, when im was 23 and :Mc three years younger, that their friendship ripened into love. The first words of love were spoken at a plo-nic in the forest round Berlin, at which Prince Antony and Princess Louise Radziwill and. the Ring's remaining children, the CroWn Prince, Prinee Charles, mid Princess Alexandra, were also present. "Dear, dear Lulu," wrote little Princess Eliza to her friend, Countess Stosch, "how happy, how supremely happy I was with William." A Shadow During the next two years the young couple saw one another con- stantly, but a shadow had fallen across their happiness owing to the degree of difference in their respect- ive ranks, which constituted a bar to their marriage. When Princess Eliza's mother — a Hohenzollern Princess — married Prince Ratiziwill, her in - tarter itt birthright, she descended to his n.auk, and their children were not Royal Princes and Princesses, Mit merely the descendants of a Polish noble family, with Royal blood in their veins. A marriage between Prince William and Princess Eliza would thus have been a morganatic union, and the right of their children to inherit the Prussian Throne would, according to the "House Laws" of the Hohenzol- lern dynasty, have • been open to doubt. The question was raised whether Princess Eliza could not be raised to the rank -of "Royal High- ness" either by the King of Prussia or by the Tsar, and the two lovers went through an anxious time, • which ex- tended into several years, while this matter remained undecided. But Prince William was obliged by what he considered his duty to the State to desert the girl of his heart, and in February 3829 his engagement to Princess Augusta of Weimar was, announced. Princess Eliza did not live long after the marriage of William to Princess Augusta of Weimar. HOW 'VANDERBILT SQUEEZED Many are the kettles royal fought between the "Bulls" and "Bears" Those who read money articles in newspapers have often seen the phtase, "Such and such n share rose sharply on what is believed to be a 'bear' squeeze." What is a "beer squeeze?" The uninitiatea might be pardoned for thinking that the "Bears" must have caught ihe "Bulls" and were proceeding to hug them. Whereas it Is in reality a painful operation Inflicted upon the "Bean" The best illustretion of it Is the classic Instance of how a big railroad magnate "squeezed" a whole Legis- lature In America a long time ago. It 'Was in the days when American Legislatures were rather corrupt. It appeared that this body promised Commodore Vanderbilt certain rail- road concessions winch inflated the value of his stock. They then formed themselves into a "Bear" clique, and sold it heavily. The "Bears" kept on selling until they had sole a good deal more stock than there was actually in existence.. When they thought they had Matte millions they repealed their grant of the conces- sion. The stock bad come down very little despite all the sellinn, but they thought that when their decision was announced it would slump. It did not. Some of them then decided to "cover." Tbe price they sold at was 75, and it had dropped to only 73. • If they could close their deal at that figure they would have .a profit o8 two points on each 'share. But when teey came Into; the market there was 310 StoCil to be ban. They started .bidding, andthe price rose with amazing rapidity to 179. The Commodore had all the stock! He allowed the "Bearsn, to settle at 179. They lost nilllions, etncl he raked in millions as the result of hies, great ',corner," ' Brown; "Ins a fine thing to have the advantage , of a college educe.- . Jones: "Yee, I've found it so." 13rown: "But you didn't go to col- Sooes: "No, but my wife did." THE ORIGIN OF OPIUM e Cnitivation. of Poppies which was .0We° Begun in Cleina .200 Yeans Aga ;Vile linsporten front ' • the West Into ' .India. , • The • game .political developmeuts are to be seen in the Last as in the West, but in a leaser degree, and to .affInal that tne•West has outatipped the Beet, 'or that tee Haathae lagged behind the West, is to affittn things about which nothing certain ca.n be said, It is curious that the vice *hide is regarded' tea most distinctly Asiatic should have originated , in Enrolee. Seven thousand years ago, in' the so-called Stone age, ,the lake 'dwellers of Switzerland were culti- vating popptes, apparently tor the oil en the seed, . In the South of Europe and on the 'Mediterranean shores of Africa the Worn poppy—or rather the wild pop ,py af which the opium poppy is , a -cultivated variety—was grown per - naps two thousand years ago. The Greeks were acquainted with the somniferous properties of the sap, which was used as medicine, but chiefly it was oultivated for the oll. Now this variety, of poppy does not grow wild In Asia; ita was appareotly Introduced into • Persia Tillie and China by Arab traders, as the nar- cotic juice seems to have been large- ly tweet by the' •Arablans for the 'pleasurable effects produced. It ap- pears to have reached India' about a thousand year% ago, although no doubt the drug was imported betore that time, and five hundred years ago it was an article of trode be- tween India and China. , The cultivation of poppies, how- ever, apparently was only begun in China some two hundred years ago, when the Chinese hit upon the plan of inhaling the fumes by burning the drug—the so-called opium smoking. Here we see the introductinn of a narcotic from the West to the East, and the question arises why the West has been able to escape from its influence while so many Eastera nations have succumbed? This is more especially curious when we re- member that tobacco, also introduced to the Eant from the West, is now as popular in Europe as in Asia „and ether parts of the Wont. Whatever be the cause of this comparative indifference to opium in Europe, It remains a fact that Reuse and oultivation were imported from the West, and thus an ,Asiatic vice turns out to be not peculiarly Asiatic, at all. SUPERTITIONS ROUND 'OPALS Sir Walter Scott Started the Idea that Opals Were Unlucky In one of Ids Books. The idea that opals were unlucky Is thought by many to be o11 account of the unfortunate part Sir Walter Scott assigned to It in his "Anne of Gelerstein.' The opal Is also asso- ciated with misfortune by Russians of ,both sexes, who, should they chance to see an opal amongst the goods dis- played for purchase, will buy nothing more that 'day, and it is a, curious fact that the Japanese, being under the sign that this stone belongs to, should be the nation to bring such 111 - luck' to the Russians during the disaettous war between these two countries. The Romans of old loved the opal so well that they bestowed upon it the name of "lovely youth." It never occurred to them that It was 18 gern whIch carried Ill -luck to its possessor. In the Middle Ages there were not wanting men who shared the Romans' Weakness, for opals did not lose their popularity as time went on. Each century brought its own joys and sorrows, luck and ill -luck, to the human race; and each age brought its fashions In Jewellery as 10 clothing, but the opal remained high in favour and entered largely into the adornment of both sexes. SIAMESE CATS. At Moth the Siamese cat is almost white, showing a faint line where the "markings" will, with age, develop. In a few months, the colour gradually darkens into a lovely pale fawn, and the markings are of a beautiful deep brown or even chocolate colour. These markings, which are promin- ently displayed on what cartine fano- leis would term the muzele—the face ,and head—nnd on the legs and tall should be as clearly defined as pole. sible, but the majority of cats. seen at the present time have the colour smeared and splodgy. Besides its ,peculiar colour, the Siamese cat has wonderful opanesque — blue eyes, whiolit seem to be set aslant, giving it a curious appearance. In thedark these strange creatures are stranger still, for they glow like red hot male. Two Good Reasons "Dorothy," said that young lady's mamma, "It seems to me that you had the gas turned rather low when Young Smart was here last evening, "It was solely for economy, mam- ma," answered the maiden. "There is no use trying to beat the gas company, my daughter. I have noticed that the shutting off of the gee is always followed by a corre- sponding Increase of preesure." "Well, that leeeens tee waist riaam, ma, dear; doesn't it?" replied the art- less girl. And her fond parent could find no answer. De Ruyter: "You see, 1 drop into poetry oceasionally," .Eclitor: "Yee, so 8 see! You ap- pear to drop clear through it." oun,ty Live Clinton t 'AN 0,1411 SAYING NOV/AMENDED (1133(0 (11.0iii,s„; is as Neceesary as prieate 'Cleanliness and 18 10 the Muly 'of Citizens to See this( Streets are tilean. The old saying, "Cleanliness is the Mother of Godlineem" has beeu re- vised by medern science.. It now reads, "Cleanlinese is the Mother of Health." ' Cleate houses, clean yards, clean stroel.s, clean lanes, clean weter are essential to good 'health. Xn Inte cities, towns 504 villages, Individual cloanliaess is not sutele Mont You make take the utmost paints to keep your own house and premises olean, but if the public etreete are dirty, duet laden with diseene will he carried into your, home. Civic cleanihmee is as neces- sary as private cleanlinees, and it is the ditty of every citizen to use his vote uod influence in thereon of keep- ing the lanes, streets and °tear public places perfectly clean at all seasons of the year, ft emits money to keep a city clean, ard the citizen should not grumble about any taxation that may be ne- cessary tor this purpose, There is thinner, however, in every community thermileiss tho right men are selected for municipal offices merino which should be used to ensure Molt clean- liness may be used for °thee pur- MIMS. The best way would be to (lave a special tax for street cleaning purposes, and restrict the municipal authorities from using the revenue obtained from this tax for any other purpose than street cleaning. FAGS ABOUT TIE DEAD SEA The Celebrated Sea of the East is, on Account of its Buoyancy, Good for Swimming In. The Dead Sea is some forty-seveti miles long, and about ten miles wide at its greatest breadth. Curiousin enough, it lies 1300 feet below the level of the Mediterraneam Many ridiculous stories are told about this sheet of water, even in Palestine it- self. For Instance, people will tell you in Jerusalem that It is Impossible to swine in its waters, and that to animals or vegetables can exist near itei sbores. While it Is true that fish cannot live In the lake, birds may frequently be seen, in certain places, flying over the surface. As for swimming, the excessive buoyancy of the water merely ren- ders it difficult to tnake much head- way, but swimming is both feasible and refreshing. Among the party on au exploring vessel there were sev- eral who could not swim, yet in the evening they often ventured into the water, and floated about on their backs. What ono has to be careful about Is not to get the water into the eyes. Indeed, did Palestine belong to any othet Power but Turkey, pro- bably the northern shore of the lake would be a popular bathing station. No doubt the chrolide of magnesia welch enters so largely Into the composition of the water would be found to have medicinal and curative properties. Tha water is certainly very dense, containing twenty-three per cent. of solid matter, and is, bulk toe bulk, heavier than the human body. How dense It IS may be realised from the following table:—In a -ton of water from the Caspian Sea there are 11 lb. of salt; in the Baltic, 18 lb.; in the Black Sea, 26 lb.1 in the Atlantic, 31 111.; in the English Channel, 72 lbs.; In the Mediterranean, 85 lb.; fa the Red Sea, 93 lb.; and in the Dead Sea, 187 lb. It has generally been believed that this famous inland • sea is decreasing in size, bat the reverse is the case. Some twenty years ago there wns a small island. about half a mile from the north shorn This has now entire- ly disappeared, whilst on the west, east, and south shores evidences or the eneroa•chment of the waters upon the land were noticeable in the presence of partially submerged forests or large trees still standing, in the death -dealing waters. RECORD IN TRANSPORTATeney Railway shippers and especially shippers of live stock will he interests ed in the record made by Lite Son in transporting a shipment of horsee from St Paul to Vancouver recently. The shipment which consisted 0! 005 hundred and fifty thoroughbred horses was made from Lexington Kentucky, by Irving 11. Whealoroft, is retired United States Railway man and the` owner or several large stock farms, In shipping his stock, awe only stipulation of importance made by Mr. Wheatcroft was that the horses should be delivered in good condition at Vancouver in not more than sin days after they had left St. Paul. In forwarding the shipment, the rail- way not only made delivery at Vaacouver within six days but out the time down to lancer four days,— three days and twenty-one hours to be exact. The special train contain- ing, the ,borses left Minneapolis at 10.15 AM, one morning. The follow- ing day, et 6.30 P.M, It'roached Portal and it left Portal the some night at 8.05 o'clock. The trip trom Portal was made in sixty-two hours, Van- couver being reached four days. after. This is remarkably good time and on tbe arrival of the horses at Vancouver Mr. Wheatcroft complimented the Canadian Railway officiate on the high standard of their rreight service. The horses wane eventually ehippen to 'Australia on the eteanaship "Kfsh", ACADIANS AND ,DOUKHOBORS Two Communities, Whose Pale YVere Sung. by' Longfellow and Toletoy, wilf, Aro Settled Happily in Canada. To -Day. , The yeers 1605 ,anci 1632 .mw two otnesiderable mignatione 'from Nor- mandy and thettany to Ole peninsula sioce chrititened Nova Scotia, whioh fort a long time subsequently, formed a put of New France. Tliese..people were not fugitives of any description, neither the law requiring them nor persecution driving therm They form- ed a colony under thejr own Govern- ment's rule.'They were farmers, with a desire to obtain freehold property and a life of peace and quietness. Their name resulted ,frorn the deectiption of the /odious around, who designated any cultiveted.place as Snarly. These people were comparatively few in number, for about a centary after emigration their total population won computed' at a.bout two thousand. Things went fairly well at first, tor they made excellent friencle of the. Indians In the vicinity, the Mien -lace by name. Later, however, cause the sulljugation of the Frenols in Canada by the English, and the latter's com- plete possession. Then it became ne- ceesary for these simple folks to take full measures and precautions for self -maintenance; as it turned ,out they were unmolested fOr forty years, no English settlement being formed in Acadia during that time, Eventual- lyhowever, the inevitable Mole place: the English settled at last, ante found- ed the town of. Halifax, and the dis- affeeted Andians had to undergo the bitter experience of deportation. Tee Boulthohors To turn our thoughts In another direction, we find the Doulthobors, These strange people differ consider- ably from the Acadians, the first and foremost reason being that they are now a scattered' race, parts of which can be found, in various Canadian States. Again, their nationality Is different, for they are the descendants a Russian emigrants of the peasant class; and lastly, the cause of their emigration was in total contrast, to that of the Acadians. In tile reign of Catherine II, the Doukhobors, who are a religious elect entirely opposed to militarism, and in favour or a doctrine of non-resistance, could still not be induced to conform with the conscription laws of their country; the which had been the ease for a considerable period' previously; the ruler in question, however, consider- ed persecution an unwise procedure, so that any sufferings the Doulthos hors underwent were purely private. After the accession of Paul the plan was changed, and in 1709 persecution with the cognizance or the State com- menced. Alexander I. reverted to the policy of Catherine and permitted the sect to form a settlement of tbeir own at "Milky Waters," near the Sea of Azof. Thus the Doutchobors be- came an Industrial and economic com- munity, as well as inerely religious. Unfortenately they failed to give complete satieraction to the Govern- ment, and were transported to the Caucasus. Still, owing to their anti - militarist attitude, persecution fol- lowed them. After thle a small de- tachment emigrated to Cyprus, whilst In 1898 permission to leave Russia for Canada was granted by the Gov- ernment with somewhat stringent conditions. THE PROGRESS MADE IN KOREA Japanese Have hlade Great Improve- ments In New Territory , Recently Acquired. Since the Japanese took over the control of Korea they have opened there 133 primary schools; 83 seri- culture training schoole; 21 training schoole for weaving; 13 :sericulture' workshops; 8 training school e for the manufacture of paper 3 fishery tritiu- ing schools; 37 seeding nurseries; 4 Mulberry farms; 8 cortunon industrial workships; 7 industrial apprentice sohools;• and 4 Industrial training houses. State aid has also been given to 217 other schools, established by public or private enterprise. Five hundred MHOS of common roads have been completed, and fourteen bemired miles more, to cost $5,000,000, are un- der construction. Telegraph offices have been opened at twenty additional 'places; ten ntore telephone exchangee have been established; and eight hun- dred miles of neav telephone Ilnegrill shortly be added te the long-disffnee system. The postal service has been greatly improved, and the routes now covered by a daily mail service amount in the aggregate to more than O thousand tittles. Harbor imprOve- inents, to cost more than 34,000,009, are under way at Chemulpo, Chin- nainpo, and Fuean, told when they aro completed stmonere ot the, largest size will be able to reeeiVe and dis- charge cargo Without lighterage at any of these ports. A free public 'hospital lette been erected in every province of Inerett, a,ticl in LIM ,first five months of the present year the number of patients treated in these licspitals was eighty-nine thousand. . • Varying, Colors of Plamee. The varying colors of flames so they appear in' a wood fire are due to combuetion of the eletnenM of the fuel, The light blue flames' are due to the hydrogen?. the white to carbon, the violet to manganese, the red to magnesia and the yellow to soda. ' "Rowell married for Powell; "Yes, anti he didn't get enough to pay the nalrdster!" • BATTLINC WITH TILE CLOUDS , nekton Inte iteen Trying, to Fight; • the Tbreotening From 'Cline Immemorial. From time immemorial mankind' htri endeavored to find stone hlrysteaL 'neaps of preventing hallstorenen Ou antig tt lty the custom of hui-liap; imvollini and other raisallen againg (Amide; that threatened a dieclearg,e loSil wee widespread, In the ruidditt ogee Ore MO of the sorcerer who ci al mad the power et 11011 alot g the westiller ---.was Invoked to ilte sante- mid. Dells, also, were bettered to be efficeedous in avereing ilatIgrc l`rfle- norly .in. the nineteenth cenearry metal-tipped poles were eet up in great numbers in many parte eif Europe, in the belief that they would tir.aw off the tree olactrinety of tbee air, width wuo asentned to be the nilief eause of nallstorme. Aboat 1894 the nustom of "hail -shooting" was ere- tronueed Europe, especially in vine -growing districts, and zeon be - mime immensely popular. Thee eon- sintod 011 bontbarding tSo els-mitts -witla various special forma ot (motion. In tile year 1900 five letunered or these, ;minion were In use in Pra,n.ce turd Spain, 2,000 •Itt Austria-Hungary, and, 10,000 In Italy. custom edit flourishes. It is, howenern open tee the fatal objeetion that, even simarld it prove efficacious, the expenee eat batted in systematic protertion by elide method is in excess of the benefits lea be obtained. WE ERE 'llftOlhltibi SUE FER The only justification AmerlenThan yet lead COinos direct from the splf- satisfaction or the Individual Amor-- loan. His satisfaction, however, in both unmistakable and voluble, says a writer critic. He is content, though the competition becomes daily more severe and .evident, 1ie 88 beginxiing to realise now that many are nandi- cupped .rut the very outset, that .the struggle is prolonged by tbe stronger for the sheer joy 'of conquest, and even that a good third of the e.snergy OXpended Is conannied in piling up SnOceSS On the top of viclory. Yet a encerral acceptenee or the i3tiniti•Oic IS price of his inclividnaltty, hitt entintienn and his chance of winninutt out, and he pays le ungrecleengly. There is a greater xneasure of non - tent and less of a senSa or 50/10011 - mental iniustine in Amertea than any- where ease in the world today. And the principles cif conduct .and sociat relationships, though elemental, are, like the rule% of a game, there is ars immediate appeal to public eenanro or approval, and. little discrepausw betweeu theory and practice. Naturally our theories suffer where compared with idealistic and more, divorced notien Where every num supposed to oonsider• his own in- tereats, no social blame le impteted, and no one, except foe initial handi- caps. has an excuee. That le not, ont the whole, an unenviable state of af- fairs; the Arnerloan temperament only approxeirtatee It. As ti inatina- lye theory, this is what it believes in, Yet with everee man Moo- retionMy for birnself, putelic spirited - nese prevails to a marked and un- usual degree. For every man drives O frank bergain with the community:: there i5 a competitive and open market for altruistic wares. Consider for a'moment. tbat pbettomenon 08 0011' olVIlisatio13, the millionaire philan- thropist. Is he an enigma, this per - sou who has eeemed eo ohange character and tactics under OUT very oyes? fly no means; if Amoricana worship money, 'they worship in ass power, aa tornered energy ann not in an intrinoic and :miserly way. Sifting Olit the Manchus The ChinoSe rebels, who ore the "original" Chinese, have resorted ttt. an efficient Israelitish trieic to sift; out the real Chineee frotol the doomed Manchus. Instead or eayIng to the suspect "Say now Shibboleth," as the Celleateltes said to the filphrainiltea, they say to them, "Say liushillu," the Chinese word for "six." And if the suspect doean't pronounce 8 right aceortling to ancient Chinese fashion, he gets il in the neck, literally, as the Ephrolmites got it aqui said "St's- boleth" instead of "Shibboleth." Olhe test Imposed by the Chineeo insurgents is a numerical one. Tho suspect is told 'to 1100118. When he masees eix his 'fate is sealed. If the .ettapect says "Lo -ow" he la spared. If he says "Le -Kee -Haw", no the Manelme clo, et's all day with. him, "Then they took lelin and slew him." Spruce for Britiell Admiralty, The. Iiritialt Admiralty has recent- ly pitteed an order tor 200,000 feet of white opruce to be used in the manu- facture of' oare tor the rowbeats of warshipe. It is perhape uot generally n known that the superior qualety of the white .spruce grown in the Queen . Obarlotte Islands, oft the coast of British Columbia,was discovered yeare ago by 13ritisl unveil officers of •the North Pacifin atatIon. The kind of timber was fOlind to be ideally adapted tor making oars, and et is now used exclostvely foe (het purppse by His Majesty'e vessels throughout tlie world. The timber will be shipped ease by the Canadian Pacitle Rail- way. Liglit fl'On1 Seger Thee ohm) CM) enom the rause ol. which bas hot yel, been satisfactorily explained, may be observed when discs of loaf sugar aro mountecl on e !lathe ,and rapidly TOtated while os hammer ploys lightly against them. An .airoont continuous radiation of light noty be thus produced front the sugar. It has been shown that tha liniet does not arisefrom heating of the sugar, and it is belteved to be caused by some change taltneg piano In the eugat .crystans. The act ot crystallisation le known to be soMe- times teccompanled by flaelies on, light The praetteal bearing of these expertments is cia the Queation of the aessibility of obtaining artificial light; ey methods as yet untried, ock ow April 0