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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-03-07, Page 311‘t arch 7th, (912 DECREASED. BUIIUiET FORI•fiERIIANTAAVT.': nermany laill Spend $200,000 nese Nexl Year On Her Navy --- What te the Reason for the Deere:tee? (a'ualisheta Press Nowa Service) Berlin. The Norddeuitache AO- •egemeine Zeitung Pah Belies eummery of the empenial budget for 1912. The •total expendieune is gaven as2,811,- ,163,000 marks (mpreermately $704,a40,-• , 150), an lalerease oe 58,067,009 'ixsaeltist , (44,516,7,50a. The array eimencliture given esse 770,504,000 taterke ($192,- 026,000), run ancreaee of 41,241,000 mutates ($10,310,260). On the • nave 457.415,900 malice (114,353,750) is to arimeWiwelasmonanialtelleafte THE aTALIAN AT wpm Setter, -Frugal and Withal( Cheerful', the Italian in Hie Native Haunts • Exists Pleasurably. — • The Italian, eeasant, poor and ever- taxed, is of necessity emnionsiten,.leut be is by temperament ember and frugal in his mode ot lire. Macaroni and olive oil seem to be his staple ' artielee of diet. Beans with oil and salt are 'held, by the peasentey to' be a dish fit for tees gods. Chestnut trees flourish on the Apennines, and the nuts form a nutritive food —. even heing mound into,floumand made into a kind of bread — for the poorer 011 y, , peiseants of the countay. The dwellers Thus, in the case of a policy for in the Italian Mwns are ram), for the 05000 it is quite Probable that. the most part, frugel and' abstemious In tisk ' would be split up between, ten, their habits; they • eat ' arel, think members. Bach of these* members sparingly and are 'good cooke. 'They would' sign , the policy, gating the are, too, addicted to ' sech Inamless amount of risk underteken. As the plea,sures es cafe or theatre visiting. signatures are written on the policy There on Sunday or Thursdey nights one under the Other, the meaning of (the latter the weeldy half -holiday) the teem "undeawriter" becomes am - the good burgher and, Me wile may parent. i . ' be seen clad In their Sunday beste In the case of a large policy, there ,They spend little, but seem to enjoy, may be bolumne of names, and so it life. The Italian wo-man is, clever ' would happen that Motile a vessel be wide her needle, 'end does wonders wrecked no • individual person in the way of dress. But -she is pined, wthild be respon•sible tor the whole .and would. rather etay at bome sthan loss, in the case of disaater no Mem- look eltabby' orMunfa,shionable' in her would have to pay more than. public. They dresa carefully, and are the, amount underwritten by him. It careful' of their .drese, and men and frequently happens that the fractional women are invite:labia well grosimed, risk taken by an underwriter may be Away in the aouth of Itala, where underwritten again by other people), even the aristocracy are imoovevisla • who will thus share his loss, if such ed, tepee Who cannot affead to keep a opcurs. ' . • carriage and a pair of horses (and ' Lloyd's was started alma the year this is imperative in such circles), a 1688.,, by Edwerd Lloyd, the first ot number of families will club together nee Lloyds, wee kept a coffee seep in to use a common vehicle in turn ,on Tower Street, and who at tbe stone certain days of the week, and by a time provided such facilities fier stuiPle arrangement they are 'each marine insurance that his name has able te drive out in a comet that always remeined az Me, title of tho bears on its panels their own per- association of underwriters who denier armorial device. • transact business under its aim:Aces. , ,.., • Lloyd'e, grew and prospered. So WARS COST 115 CASIR, much so that 'the members made -- fortunes. The yews 1811 and 1871 Military atm, Calculate the Reams were red letter years in the history of the association, the former wit - Cash Outlay Entailed by a Modern.' nessing the organisation or the corn - Franco -German .War. pany on the lines on which it is still The Army and Navy Gazette cage Incorporation. , d the latter the Act of attention very appropriately- to this . subject 'Pim war of 1870-71 cost In every port and upon every coast France 12 millierds of 1 ranee. while Lloyd's are represented, and at the some French writers set down the Present moment there are no less than cost at about 10 mallards. The cost 2000 agents stationed all over the from July 17, 1870, to the 18101 of the globe. The movements of every sale following Islay, on wliich dee' the from point to point are known to Treaty ot Frankfort was ratified. was these men, and, as they are in 0011- 1,912,000,000 francs or about $385e 'atent communMation with head - 000,000, this being for war cherges, quarters in London, the latter are in properly $o called. This sum works ' a posidon to, answer all inquiriee re - out at something like $1,560,000. per lative to vessels In which Lloyd's are day-. But, if , other indirect charges Interestee. are included, and the vast indemnity . Nfarine insurance and marine in - or five milliards, with its interest be formation are the specialities of added, the total cost ol the war is' Lloyd's, but every kind of risk is brought up to the coloseal figure al undertaken. The underwritere will $1,970,000,000, and to a rate of some Insure any person against practically $8,1.00,000 per day. The cost ot the any Imaginable contingency. war to Germany is estimated, with , . oontinge------------ nd the reor- Clinton News -Record ‘mmisMeliamamlealMOatee VON BESVIIKANII-110LLWEG, German Chancellor abe spent, a decrease of 198,000 malice • (8199,500). The naval ordinary and anorarocurrent expenditure shows an ',Instreasse of 25,542,000 reserke (96,685,- 0001, but the extreionlinary eroendi- oarre or the navy le decreased by 26,- -340.000 marks (96,585,000). 'The army "inorease Is due to the &larger peace ,footing voted in the Reactstag during the test sessbaa. Thes interest on elle ;notional debt mita for, 602,792,000 •snarks (98,198,000) less. , rwn-A-T-4,74.71TITT-LiiitnsT MEANS A Well Enown.Phrase to Most People, ..bot Feel are Familiar With its Real SjgnIfiestitee. • Tit the first Ploce,at may be as Well to explain that Lloyd's it not an in-' stirance •compa.ny. It isesimply a nom,- bination of individual member,s, each member trensa,ctIng his own business, bot being bound by the connion rules. In other words, Lioad's does not in- sure its a body. all 'business being transacted hy individstal membere. These members divide the rials, °eeli member taking a small 'proportion fiERMANY AND • SOCIALISM' Germany's Enter° Hangs on Fateful Election of New Relebsteg '— Big Radiestl Gains Expected. • (Publi.she,rs Press News aervice.) Dorian. 'lase Gerkaan government Is duo fel' a beateng. Just hoar severe it will be depends on how strong the is)orcolvaeltsoleasiend other oppoeltion pardes ' 'Phe olternate results of the coming stationed election will meek it the greatest day in German tistory since the war of 1870. Upon, the iesue de - Ponds the exietenee of ail the political and economic Institutions which 'the outside waled regard as reprceentative of modern Germany. Tete election Is for members of 41 new Reichstag, the tairteenth since the union of Germany. , The new Reichstag will be elected by free, equal and aeoret suffrsege. Every male 0101)13 25 has a right to lORGAN'el xtrixioN8 vAlDra. AT TOP OF 43 -STORY BUILIallaal New York. •'111111S p‘tattue, shovve tease top stories of the new Hank of ativerreer,ce betiding in Nen' Yell. J. Pierpont Morgan has picket ,out, for lies, new •oraiees the etersta-aeoceid.flesor, amenediately beneath Me cedelooking ,pyranied on top. The pyramid wielbe need. by Morgan an& bee banking :house 0 safety vault for the storage me millions in gold cassia ittook e and Uncle. It this idea of storing wealth *high in the aie becomes ateel general it may lead eso a new type of daring aank robber, operating by aeeoplane. TREASUR HUNT IN AUCKLAND rise Your Previoes Attempts to Recover Lost Gold, a New 10xpe- di:ion Res Siartet1 Out Ott tile. Hunt. • genteel:Ion of ,the Army, but not the °reentry military budget, to have been Carpenter-tnason birds would pro - $675,000,000. In modern conditions a babiy own the 'hornffills as the head year of war would cost Fra:nce $2,200,- of their ' profession. A pair of these 000,000 while for Cennany the outlay birds make their ,nest in the trunk would, be something approacOing the of a tree, and, the female, when about vost sum of $5,500,000,000. to layher eggs, enters the hole and — ,does not come away until the eggs , • . are hatched. Th.ere is no way. out, The Gael null Ills Societies for her lord calmly fastens her in by The "clan soeMty" ise of necessite, plastering up the hole through which a 'comparatively modern institution, ehe has entered, leaving only a nar- la the days when nearly all the bear- row slit through which she can thrust ers mf a surname were to be found .out her beak to be fed by him. The in one Highland region, united fin male has a hard time in reeding her mutual protection, ownieg 1 e d r ai and the sehole faintly Which Is pre - personal allegiance to their 'ctdee the •sently hatched:- Stillehis family costs • Always Her "Al }tome Day 1 clan itself was literally a clan society, him less than -does that of the eider - There is, Indeed, a notable similarity duek, .whieh plucks tbe down from its between the causes of coherence in snowy breast to lint her nest. the old days of the clan and in the _ billets build retty well everywhere with tialhl manPner tof tmtatehrial. eTviiile_ new days of . the elan ,society. Both were groups of people of the same king- a er Is con en o ave , name, who claimed the right to elect smelling fisb-bones in the hollow their ovvu leaders, who considered . treestrunk in "whieh it lays its eggs; ' family, and, as such, bound to help the hoopoe, similarly housed, has a fleet whic,h smells vilely, apparently themselves a$ members of one great each other in adversity, 'sicloiese, or as a means of protectien. A bare ledge danger. It is Interesting to note that of rock for a ,sebebird, a hole im, the there,, is a tracealile reletiouship be - sand tor the ostrich,, a mound of de- tween the time of a clan's misfortunS caying vegetation a.cting as a natural as a historical entity and its forma - incubator for the eggs ot the arush- teen of itself .into the modern form of . clan . society. . Two turkey ; nests of leaves, n eats of aseociatlon -- the spiders' webs, 110StS of dainty Minns; of the most cruelly wronged chum in nests shaped like cues, like bottles, Scotland were the Mackays and tbe like hammocks lika ' sugar -loaves; Macgregors.. Each became the victim ' . , .. nests made from a s.ort of glue from of harsh oppression, though ift d'' tbe bird's mouthe—there lo no end sanilar forms, ano we find that these to the variety et nest -making, from. two clans were amen the very first to adapt themselves to tee new con- the ,simpleet to the -meet complex. ditions, anti, though exiled from their ancient lands, to elle their resPecalae ' Opening Up the West Lands 4 as resolutely as their forefathers had features of the railroading in Western One of the Most remarkabl e members to face the new probleme faced the old. Canada this year hae been the un- • flaggine energy sof the Caeadian The British Blue -Jacket , Pacific Railwae otacialg in pushing The British • Navy is essentially a forard its branah lines to comple- service which keeps very snitch to tion. Despite the fact that the com- iteeltathe consequence tieing that the pony lam had to pay big prices for pualic know very little of what goes construction gimp, owing to the on insele ef the mystic circle of re- scarcity of labor, hundreds of. metes ticened It is, however, a proteseion of new read have been built, :and good in which. the most Meal co-operation servites inatigureted, greatlY, to the between officere and men' bas to be, 'convenience of ;Incoming settles's. the rule lf good. results are 'to be What is probably the longest of 'forthcoming. That they are forth- these new. branch lines was opened corning 1.0 only too evident evhen we ter traffic early an November — the Tend in the newspapers of ships doing' Regina-Colonsay beanch, 'There were 'well at target practiCe, .etc. • mealy two branches open, ae at Vale - A naval lite le perforce every hard pert .Tunction, 24 miles from Regina, ones eor sailors all the world over, a sub -line Mayes the big branch and and warlike their conendee in elm rens, to Bulyee. From Regina to Con - Army, are always lialug, under acti've lonsay et le 133 vales, while from service ophditions, They always, beam valeport to Bulyes it, ts 19 miles. 'the eiensenM, the most peseerfeleanel merciless of toes, to coatend' wistbe 'Never Too Late and when follt ashore are listening neyseoer sailors• are at, sea peeparinge should be aumelea and kept bright: , Auckland, N. Z. — Captain N. C, ,Soreneon, formerly otnployerl as diver "by the Aucklend Harbor Board, pur-, ;aosee, conjuncdon wath a Partie‘r letuanneedin, to fit out so. expedition, itoS .about 950,000, to proceed to Aucloland Islands lo endeavor to trimooyer the bullion believed to bave ibeensloet ,the General Grant, wreck- eed ethere in 1866. lalaUT 111‘09110116 at- iterapte to 'recover Slide treasure were leneacceesful, Captain Sorensen be- • atemsee Mot ehe eadu.res were -through 'attemptaing the ware frosn the sea- lward side. Ilia Mee is to land an :ascpedation on the landwaed etde and seat a road eaross to Me weeola and ' cremate by meane of doe...riche emoted LONIS.ON AND PARIS Rtatleir flapital 'lacers it eissinisre Face but tbe Ltuagh is Ever in "Gay Paree," Loudon is the workne male-elty. It ever remains a city, or if it take on a soul it is tent of :some terrific, almost Inhuman, force." You never tent Smiling on it when you arrive, or ernile to yourself when you think of It es, one thought of a levee one. Imedon receives you with a preoc- minted ane is meabre, heavy brewed. It has serious affairs to think of, and cannot relax to smile on you Orel make you welcome. You cannot' take e by the arm and make free with it. You feel there woule be' wondering, mousing eyes ors you 11 you did any- thing whicb would break the sober monotony of the usual, tile ordered. cYroonwarutisceetepwaonnt the pateavleerna, ert. cif the bring some colour, some vitTicte iota You 'know approving, sampathetic lioIwnevPoirisfoo0lnie0h-,whimo arde°vesr aianylatb• intstg' smusual, the improvised, the daring. life le weloomed. PflPiSiallS LOV0 1,11( Y0,011 on you as you parade your erne, lions, sir your eccentricities, or dote ronvention in any form, The French So not see why ehows should he kepi for theatres only; they would have their streets a stage, with a thrill at every corner. That is why the, bhshed in 1830. fla.mboyant Bohemian, the poet, the A number of day schools were alms dreamer, the lover, all half -mad souie •' conducted, and in a report dated 1837, those W110 SC0111 conventions beesekie we are told that many of the Wyatt - .heir minds are on bigger things arc dot Indians in Upper ()pada -were at home there. able to mad. In 1826 a school was The sole that looks out of the eyes opened at Claughnawaga. 'where to -day of Paris is that of one Who has lived, there are seven echools, alamanducted and loved, and tested lire's inane in buildings, erecMd within the last goblets, and remained youem, and gam, five years, on the most modern plans. The first funds available for Indiate education arose from the commutation by certaiu bands of Indians of their animal distribution of anununition. This contribution began in 1848 and ended in 1862. The first grant by Par- liament was made 2in 1875.6, when several day schools were opened in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. In 1E379-80, the first asp- peopriation for education in Manitoba asOl the Northwest Territories was made. The first school established by the Department in ehe West, was a Battleforcl in 1883. At, that time there vsere 134. day schools in operation throughout Canada and four industrial CHLOROFO_RMING PLANTS achools in Ontario. TEACHING THE INDIAN EDUCATIONAL WORK HAS MADE GR EAT PROGR ESS. _ I s Department of Indian Affairs Hai Pone a Magnificent Work, In the Elevation of the Standard of Train- ing and Life Generally Among the Aboriginal Races of Canada -11,000 Pupils In the Schools, With the exception of those directlyi interested, it may be said that the public generally have' little conception of Me efforts put forth by the De. partmeot cd indirie Affairs to provide educational facilities for the children of the Indians ot Cenada itudaof the great developanent that has taken place. ,s The raising of the Indian from his primiti-ve state to that in whieh we , now tfi'nofCitIhmimnealolpaserabtBire livaorrgkeloif the missionary and the teacher, the early days of our history, the mis- sionary, who was tae pioneer in In- dian work, was the teacher. The first. organized effort to establish schools was made by the inissionaries among Indians on the Grand River,. where an indestriel training aehool was es- ,. and above ell tolerant in sptte.of an her experiences. She will look with an indulgent eye on your follies, for she leaa known them, and will 'know thennesaain; she will laugh on a sigh at your extravagances, knowieg how 'Meting Is the season when one dare be exuberant; she will take, you to her heart, and with strange lures make you forget she has hint other lovers; she will let you go, tbe old half -mocking, balf-tender smile still ,AUGUST BEBEL, on her lips. Gone with her may be / Famous Leader of the German your illusions and your faith, but fors • Socialists. ;et her you cannot, ever. vote. The elector ,del.ivees at the polling both, which_ is presided over by honorary officials, his ticket, which must be on white paper. The ticket is delivered sealed, or in an envelope, and is thereupon deposited in a voting urn. T.he five great. parties are the con- servative, the center (clerical and Ca- tholic), the national -liberal, lhe trelsiarn (radical) and the social de- mocrats or socialists, The electic.n now being fought is, put roughly, be- tween the a Mat two in combination and the last three, more or less' in agreement. The conservative-olerinal pantiles form the famous "blue -black block," on which Chancellor von Beththann-Hollweg relies for a • relohstag majority. The three opposition parties do not form a coalition, althbegh attempts have beet made to induce them to. The famous pulslicist Friedrich Neu - many thausands, will vote with the Bassermenn to Bebel," meaning Mat the national -liberals with Basser- mann as chief, should (via the inter- mecidate freisinn) Jain the socialists under August Bebel. The liberals and areisinn and the freisinn end so- cialists have certain agreements about not splitting forces In doubtful electoral districts and about mutual support in "stichwahlen." But the three mediae remain Independent oa one another and are united oniy in their coannon ambition to overthrow the "blue -black block." In 1907-09, during Buelow's regOne, the 'socialists did net win one spec:del :election. Slane 1909, under Bethmaama Hollweg, they 'have 10011 no less than ten. In 1907 the socialists were badly defeated. Their Party of 81 was cut down to 43., With the ale of the sub- sequent epeolal elections, they now have 51 members, and few doubt that the coming election will restore the old 81. Some predict 100; a taw en- thusiast* say 120. The genuine socialist vote is pre- cisely known. The question is how mane' thousenes will vote with the socialists merely t,o display their anti- government Wes. Tbe General Grant ware a sailing atria of aacart. 1,300 tone. She. lett Melbourne for Lcudon, laden Wien , !valuable modecte ' the , Ballarat egoldetelds, 011 May 3, 188.0.- last. ten. 'era's later sbe struck hiden reeks' aft nese Ausildand lalands, and else major - sear, patties's). on beard .were haste The eiteevivors experienced.. hunger -and cold , to the wind howling Ste their chim- Chareoter may be improved, and it •Refarmatioa is pralseWorthe, end' it is never teo late for aeople to re- form, and Martge and mend their wa.ya • Refers -nation proceeds from within, and is ,independent of ex- ternal eiecurnstances. It inay be pro- duced by some good thouglat 'which enters and fixes ,on the mind, or bt may come' from the ',light produced' from the flame deveirmell by a :merle of goodoess ;wench entered the lierirt, and radiates, staneserareforms darle- uess into light csaer the whole Mar- es:ter. Tbere have been many in- atences of' People that 'have .not seen, • rrected the errors of theis• ways' Latest Idea to Promote Raped Growth In 1882 a policy of expansion was pursued, as shown by the expenditure of Plants is to Compel Sleep. for Indian edueatiou. In 1878-79, the One would think., at first slight, that expenditure was $16,000; nti 1888-139, $172,980, and in the year 1910-11, $639, - an anesthetic would retard the bate- 145.52., soming of a plant, instead of hasten- The returns show that during the ing it. The action would seem, 1.1.0W- year last mentioned' there were in ever, to resemble that of a man who operation 251 day, 54 boarding and 19 takes a sleeping -draught in the after- industrial schools, with a total 011. noon so that he might get to sleep rolment of 11,190 pupils and an aver - earlier and wake at 2 a.m. to take a age attendance of 6,763. Those schools train. are situated throughout the country, It was found by eeperiment that from Prince Edward Island teethe far In plants, as in animals, ether and • chloroform cause every indication of. eleep, and during the past few yeers the system of treating plants in this way, to hasten them tiarough the rest- ing periode, has been adopted com- Molly with extraordinary success. Thies, "a lilac -bash may be lifted from the ground at the end of the summer, -while the leaves are still on it, and kept for- several hours under the in- fluence of ether. By thie means. sub an effect is produced on the tissues as It would !lave taken Nature months to acconmilele It Is now easily pos- sible to flower lilac' twice in the same yetra by etherleIng the plant aud sub- sequently forcing it la the luet-house. Plants to be etherised are brought first into a dry canditiou at top end root, and then placed in an airtight structure. The door be sealed, and Ike ether applied through a email bole la the roof into a veseel tho hoases and the fames, neing heavier than the atmosphere, bang about near the floor, wbere the plaids are ma re.nged. The other has the effect or drying up the moisture ea the demises, and it is thought that in the natural rest of pInnts there its gradua.1 dry- itig proems at work, which, for want of better knowledge, the cultivator ooscribee es the ripening. of the tissues." Ammilowilownst PARLIAMENTARY BULLS., Mixed Metaphors Frequent le Fere; Oratory of Commens. Cielivorance hams m u ch ordi st su'y fallibility, etty$ 11. W. Anclereon in Canadiae Courier. Mara bere have hugely tabooed the effort. fin matte:Mal caeca, and the plain. seekers centsibution to debate is re- . cogaizecl Be the acceptable anO.telliee one., 'aTeverteeless 11111T1Y "1)11lla" and mixed teetephors occur, always to that unsmiseathatic andisornetimee bolsters MIS enjoyment of the listening. seem - berm So old a Parliamentarme aiss Mr. Hugh 'Guthrie, K.C.' last 110S6i011$ iTlfOrale(1 the Rouse thathis politiesit opponents had "etepped upon a coil- ed. adder, and dropped it like a hot potato," while Mr. David A. Later - tune, another King's Counsel, grave- ly informed Mr. Speaker Mat he lead "only one WOY'd to say, and. I will eay it in two words." Probably the best of last session's contributions wee that coutained in Mr, A. S. Guadeveass classic description of the. Ron. W. SS Fielding's announcement Of the fate- ful reciprocity arrangement. "Ho placed his Pandora's box upon. him , &eke' declared the British Columbia mau, "opened it; and out stepped the, Trojan Horse." The new Parliament has already contributed its quota of members pos- sessing peculiae oratorical qualities. Richard Bedford: Bennett, of Calgary,. drives ,Haesard to tb,e tll timberet with his fusilade of words and two- hundred-ocalmeerminete delivery, while Aikins, of the many initials,. who succeea.ed Hon. Clifford Slides. he Brandon, holds the record of poetical quotations. Foster, the baby member.. who defeated Sir Frederick Borden,. and. Armstrong. wit() takes Sir Allen aylesworth's constituency, possess the. strongest lung power ann. prevent the House from Sealing lonely over the absence of Hon, 'William Paterson. But the maiden speech of Webster, the vanquisher' of the doughty Hon. George I'. Graham in Brockville, took the palm. In the course of his two- hour deliverance Mr. Webster travers- ed a wide field. Canada a.. the Cium- diens, he opined, was "the greatest battle -cry ever unfurled." Re did not, propose to "conduct a post mortem over the dead corpse of reciprocity." Entering upon the agricultural fiel& he noted that "Canadian elseese ham climbed to the top of the ladder.'" and, in a buret of eloquent patriotisme proclaimed that Of the firmament oE Heaven was a blackboard and the, Rocky Mountains a piece of chalks, space would not suffice to write ',Mae thin great country might become.'" Nor was the pathetic touch misainge "There is no more sadder sight," Trail- ed Mr. Webster, "than to approach a big city and find all the chintneye lying dead." Story About Mr. Hays. Mr, Charles M. Hays, president of thee Grand Trunk Railway Seratera„ owes not a little of leis success, ace cording M those well acquainted witie away Yukon and Mackenzie his methods, to his habit of learning district. During the past three years, says something from everyone he meets. the Civilian, a vigorous policy of im- When ho became general manager ot provement in conditions of both day • the G. T. II., he started out to informs and residential schools leas been pur- himself thoroughly on the condition sued. On several reserves an improved of the road and its operation. And s yetem of day schools has been estab- when he had the time he would listen to the opinions and suggestions of me lashed by competent teachers. In. struction is given the girls, and in engine driver as attentively as to those of a district superintendent. For some instances also the women in their homes, in domestic science, the purnosee of dose observation arid. sanitation. etc. the free. accumulation of informations A mid-day meal arepared by the he sometimes traveled incognito in - girls, under supervision of the teach- stead of in a private car. ers, is given. Gardens are also con- One day. the story goes, he boarded. eineted at some of these schools end. a train on a braucir line, paying hie the results have been most satisfac- f are in the ordinary way. He sat. tory. Only a few clays ago samples beside an old villager, to whose talk of work performed in the emving-class be lieterted with every appearance of oi a school on lalanitoulin Island were interest. Presently the conductor forwarded to the Department to show came along and the general manager what was being accomplished. This presented his, ticket. After the man work was, highly creditable and could with the punch had passed, the eon!): not be surpassed by white children, tryman said to his:unknown compan- ion s of the same age. . About the same time saraples of 'may. o Tou're foolish to pay a fare ern canned /reit and vegetables prepared twenty years's-110W and I gave eip buy - this line. I've been ricling- on it for by the girls of a school in the Bram Peninsula, from the products aE their school garden, were received. There gteennyatIolybaeboaustieletpallodrrusonmk,etvidivI plirkee.- ing tickets long ago. The conductor's oan be no doubt of the value of this that, mul he thinks he got my ticket practical education to the Indian away un the line. If he doesn't—why, youth. The acadernic aspect is not neglected arid there are, in all the I fix hint up easy enough. See?" Mr. Hays saw. He saw a. whole lot provinces, Indian schools that com- pare tnost f avorably with the white other over the entire system before ho of things on that line and on every - rural schools. An Ontario 'public had his general le -organization cora- school inspector mends, staled in an tofficial report, that the Indian schools 'n his inspectorate, in respect to build- pleNteoclv.a Scotia's Prestige Restored. ings, equipment and general work In October of . last year, when the, were superior to numy of the white schools within his jurisdiction, some rather ridiculous, stateneerstel hist census returns were published.: It may here be said that the In- 51)500 in Nova Scotia. were made as to the decline of popu- dian wheels in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are The uncorrected census reports ern - inspected by the Provincial inspectors while in the other provinces and dis- diets the work is performed by offi- ad not increased by rnore than 2,5001 phasizecl the fact that in the past ten Kears the population of Nova Scotiese oers el the Department. In all day souls. Aecording to the census given 10 in calisthenics and Ityalene, and schreals, systematio instruction is now , prestige ae the third most peopled' cials, Nova Scotia had lost her proud' good results are anticipated. These statements were douhted Whenever poseible, qualitlea teach - from am hest by NOVa Scotians. There, province in the Dominion. ers are ermaged, but owing to the must be sot/lathing wrong, Not. alit dearth of teachers during the past few years and the fact that many of the young men in the .province tee- the Indian schools aro situated remote the sea had piked out west. from white settlernents, it is not al. Recently, the eorrected census fig - WRVS. possible to secure teachers with ,. ures have been issued flora Ottawa. ceraMeates. Neverthelees many of the teachers without peolessional training, imbued with a missionary spirit aria lotion of Nova Scotia in the past Mit They tell a differolit story. The popu- years has actually . increased be a desire to uplift their dusky breth- uable service. ' , the third province in the federation rem are performi ng f or the state val. 32,765 souls. And Nova'Scotia is still with respect to the timber of its rem. ' The resulte aro, that en the older provincee there are few Indiais chil-' ale. dress who heve not received at least ' Sydney's Harbor., an elementary education. A number ey of booming.' her harbot facilities. oYeeleS,.N.S., talses every opportune,. •of, pregresaive .hoys mai garlsemeambe ad A The newspapers of the city daily Ma fonnd ini ma, higher . instieutioneata e mess npon their readers the superior keening. (colleges and eniyetsities) tlee white pupils. situation of the Sydney ha.ven. The . where they' compete successfully with' other clay The Record printea a story The Depertnsent gives. when neces- the Yacht Club who went swimming sary, financial aid to worthy pupils about some adventuroua members Of there are to be found, in nsereantile January. The 'bath of the ,sailormen to enable them to follow these ad- taaced courses. As a consequenee, in the harbor during the first days of' and professional life, representatives took place. a few eveeks after the late of the race, successful in tacit 0110SOTI Sari' bathing indelged its at the Amer - ceiling arid reepecteci in the .cona ican sea side resorts to which thmpa- ly ' ' pers devoted much space,' and head - deal Menne of education is the beard- . "We e great hexteor, good for ship - 131110i , , !sham for, S livelihood, the only prac. Marla --a pings good TOT swimming, and almost In the outlying portion of Ontario, lines lately. , u e tory end Wall 0110 Quebec •encl the Western' Provinces, The Recorms game the Triclia,ns largely follow the the eliarectere making tais cryptic re. good 1013 thinking. , And this is Janus aryl Ceu emu beat SO" , INVENTOR OF FREE LUNCH DIES WL'AITHIO. Chicago. — Frederica Glebe, inven- tor of the free lunch, Is dead. He came to Chicago when. 18, without money. 'He opened "Fred's Beer Tun- nel" in the basement of the MeVicker theater. On one side was the bar, -on the other a counter, tiled high with eandwiches. It was the first free themselves for the day when ouis right to the title "Mistress of the Seas' will be disputed. • That they take it cheerfully shay 'be. deduced from the remark of one old ealt of a. bygone era, who, in a eouth-, westerly gale in the English Channel, and the foretopmaet of nts seat havieg just broken oft c ose ; 'marked to his chum, "Lor' bless me, Dal, but, I'm vtierry glad I ain't ashore, :lust 'thank as env tbe ebimeley pots u'd be flyin' about, in thie 'ere, breezes', Thet, remark sums up the spirit of the irmsent day man -of -W0 men very succinctly, for above all things r "I figure, I tan offer every anan somethin,g lo eat with his beer and make money. 'Beer arid food go 'to- gether," earl Glahe. Glate's idea justified itself'. In 20 years the free lune' was an American inatitutiou. Glahe died worth $200,000. extreme west, to Lake' Melleha, on the eat.' It is reported thaa the main body oe the Turks has retired on Gharlan, leaving a small advanced body at Aziz1a. ' • . IN THE LIMTLIGHT - Marten Lietlestea, eategaessanan from, , Rowe- yeetai aliatHet, and sioaMielaW. Bryan eleaaaakaaelaathora .#404,4000abaliniai leleYa'dlia°'agestMit eth. (Le' 'classecal bla aka madersa who Isave so HUM regard for Ottealeading states- men Mat they will Come ri,gh'st oat and tett what they thMk 'about the Iles. What prodded M. W. L. ,wes the accusation that he was as 'little brother to the steel eraata That aunt th,c3 cougems.staan with lintel they :reachea middle age, VW 111S constituents end tbefore they were diatiovered t e let r, 'by be is a person who takes Me align an°44'11 d Mardi' two al's wi h, s th in a philosophical they then turned over 'a, new leaf, Te110 took them an to sate Muff, ' ea• aaahla baa bra( e° end ameme geed end useful membere 1y. Littleton th,e,,hurt of the pure. ..0aletaln Game, or .tlus balg Hematites, ,s; t' .1- e -mean t eau er the day of hie entry iuto the service.e of the ecemaneity. • lig there burts somewhae Bad Times for Trebles! One sign of the prevailing. herd times In Germane- is the appearanee In the newspapers of advertisements of noblemen eeeking ready-made for- tunes with wives attached. The de- mand for beiressess Americaa and etherwise, was never so great as now. Titles in tho market range from Princes downward, and even the staid old eVossische Zeitung" contains the following ,advertisements -- Paine°, 28 years old, of noble aP- pearance, wishes immediate marriage condetion, $125,000. This 1$ typieal of many other led- vertisemente. Ie would 501.110 also that Mere are almost as many heiresses looking out for titled husbande. SS witness the fonowing tempting an- nouricamentet-e 'Refined, bandsome young* Mdy of 24, multinnarrionsires, acetai, a Count fe military service, Countess, possessing millione, hut divorced, seeks a second teateh with a gentleman bearing a noble titlm Lost Her VITSICItY. A, few days ago two young ladies bailed a tra,mcar, 'entered It, and found. only standing room. , One or them whispered to her compan Ion — gassing aloe gets. a seat Irma'. one alteeisesmene,)Youestrate -notice.", She looked down the row of men and eelectad a sedate gen•tlemen who bore the general eettlea appearance ef a married man. She sailed un to ana opened fire:— 'My dear Mr. Greeta Row delig,ht- a Sttanger. accept yeur seat? Well, I do feel tired. I beartily ad- mit. Thank you so much." • The Beate gentleman —, a total stranger, of course — looked, lieten- ed, then quietly, rose a,nd gave her bis seat, sayings—' . "Sit down, Jane, my girl. Bone often see yoU out Ou a washieg dine ' You mast, feel tired, Fne euro. Hom's your mistress?", The young lade got her seat but ine scheol where children are clothed, lost, her vivacity. fed and educated. While their parents .are absent from then' homo. eassieassa toc