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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-07-04, Page 2steretissleslireltslIssDrWatie P O1 sl THE WORLD 14 etsesseitecteaseeeteeseeseaseteeees Tile Bread, Pellet. "I wonder if mother has any fresh ','bread?" asked Fred, when the ehil- dren were ready for an experiment. ".A. whole panful!" Molly and Betty said together. "All right, Fred said; and he stepped to the door. "`Can you spare us a biscuit, mother?" he asked, "A biscuit V' repeated mother, wonderingly, /for one biscuit will net . go far with five hungry chil- * ti -.^'trail. "We don't want it to eat; w wantto use it in an >experiment,' explained Fred. "Here is a piping -hot one; come and get it,''' said mother. Betty and Molly darted into the china -closet to get a. plate, whil Bob and Joe drew up to the bi table. They loved Fred's little ex eriments. Sometimes Fred name little Bob "first. assistant," an sometimes he named Betty or Molly, who served him gladly. "There !" said the girls -as they placed the plate on the table. Fred broke the biscuit, and when it was cool, began to mold the crumbs into little knobby objects. He laid these back on the plate as fast as he finished them. "With all those knobs, they look like father's old jackstones," said Bobs Fred nodded. "Now this," he said, "is going to be an experi- ment in elasticity. What is elas- ticity?" las-ticity?" "Springiness ?" guessed Bob, promptly. "Correct." "A bow is elastic," said eagerly. "So is the air," Fred said. And so is a rubber band—it will stretch and stretch and stretch !" said Betty. "If you use force. But what hap - ,pens if you take that force away?" "The band springs back," said Bob, promptly. "Everybody knows that." "Yes," Fred continued, in what they called his high-school tone, "all objects are capable of some de- gree of expansion, and they will re- turn again to their shape. " "Isn't there a limit,':3-Fred admit- ted, smiling, for he was always glad when Bob thought things out for `Himself. "If you pass a certain point --the point • of stress, it is call- ed—an elastic body loses its power to return." "I understand!" declared Betty. "There were our fleece -lined gloves that had an elastic band at the wrist on the inside of the hand, and at first they snapped back tight, but after a while they were loose at the wrists." "Precisely 1 And now that we understand elasticity in a general way, suppose we try the experiment of the bread pellet. Now I will put this pellet on this little wooden table. 1'11 strike it on top with my Mand." As Fred spoke, he struck the pellet a lively blow. "What has happened 1" "You squashed it, of course 1" said Molly. "Any one would know that." "Not at all," said Fred. "Its shape isn't changed. Look 1" They looked. The little knobby object looked just as it had at first. "Let me try," begged Bob, who thought ib might be a trick. Bob picked up the pellet, and then clashed it down on the tale. Over it he bent. Molly, Betty, and little Joe crowded close, while Fred looked over all the bended heads. Right under their eyes the pellet flIowljr resumed its shape. "I said it wouldn't change, didn't I?" said Fred.—Youth's Compan- ion. r The passing of 'another Doneinio,:- has aroused some -discussion as to wheDa ther Canadians as a whole aro really treating Canada's natal day quite fairly, In most places it is about the quietest holiday of the year. It ie sandwiched between the 24th of gray, which continues to be nutt, versally observed, and the August civic holidays which towns and cities celebrate. Scarcely anywhere' is it made au occasion for a patriotic celebration, and its treat- ment is in marked contrust to the Amer- ican's manner of demonstrating on the Fourth of July. The reason cannot lie. in any apathy on the part of Canadians toward their native land. Perhaps it lies partly in the seasou of the year. The first of July finds that portion of the population which takes summer holidays either preparing to flit or flitting or settling down. And it finds the rural population entering on its busiest Beeson. ."Another explanation may be that we have not been taught to 9• fully appreciate the significance of Con- federation. The fact that men and newspapers are discussing the matter is a sign that a change is possible. The U. S. Tariff. Interest in the progress o1 the Demo- cratic Tariff Bill at Washington has been e revived by, the urn f sn ever :u re• ueh of of `merits. In the ors o ter t d op g raovi "tif dexft�zi£'tihor e' b• fog n v riov s�rawff'od products ducts s as live stuck and wheat, but tbey were n d placed on'the frac list, rho amount • •ditty remaining being, it was claimed, sufficient to provide the American farmer with ample protection, and to prevent the measure from being much good to the Canadian farmer. Finished food pro- ducts such as meats and flour were on the free list. Incidentally this looked like a pretty soft arrangement for Can adian millers and neat pnekers. However, the more radical Demoerato have declared that the only thing to do is to make a clean sweep of duties on food stuffs. It now looks as though their new might prevail with a certain pro- viso, and it is this exception which is of particular interest to Canadian. The present proposal in that wheat, lire stock, etc., should be placed on the free list, but that in the case of countriee maintaining a duty against these articles a duty of a similar amount will be levied by the United States. As Canada maintains duties on food Di'oducte she would be on this black list of Uncle Sam's. A Versatile Ruler. Canadians do not know much about th politics of France, but the visit of Pr Molly, sident Poiucare to the King of Englan calls attention to one of the most remar able men in the world to -day. Poincare the first man who bas been both Premie and President of France. It is ratite difficult to understand why any countr have both a Premier and a Pres dent or to understand what the respective functions of the two are. In a brow sense the powers of the President ar similar to those of the President of th United States, with the exception tha the office is supposed to be not a part one, but detached and judicial, somothin like that of the Governor-General of Can ada. The Premiership is, on the othe held by a party leader just as 1 the case of our own Premiership. Poin care is the first man who has been eon sidered sufficiently impartial and has ha enfficient popularity and ability to se cure elevation from the Premier's posi tion to that of President. His services to France have been re markable, and it is understood that 1n his ter, of office be has already con verted a shaky.Republic into one of con- siderable strength and stability, Iris,pop- ularity' with all elai4ses of people is'tre- mendous. And in addition to his marked sucoese as a statesman he is known as a meet generous and ' discriminating pat- ron of arts and letters. executive of re ttheeold world that ry chief Re- public of size is.the most remarkable public figure in the world to -day. e- d k - is r e d 0 0 y n a s Good Resolutions. Good resolutions are never a short cut to good works. Carefully thought out plans and earnestly made resolves are valuable only .as they bring; into plain' sight the du- ties that we ought to.be doing. They size worse than useless when we let them take the place of duty doing, as we often do. A man will, on his way from his house to work at the beginning of the day, make such good plans and resolves for that day that by the time he reaches his office he has unconsciously let him - Bell think that the hardest part of the work is done; and then therear doing of it evaporates in the glow of the plan -making. It is better for most people to .spend more of their •'ince on what needs to be clone than on planning when'and how they will do it. An unplanned .duty done is. ;better than a ditty that always re - 'mains planned for, For every sticker there are a doz- en quitters. Hotels Bring High Prices, The profits which are yet to he made in the hotel business in this country may be indicated by the feet that transfer has just been made of a Toronto hotel license at a price said to exceed considerably the sum of $100,000. It was the highest figure that has ever been paid in Canada for a hotel license. The property in question ie centrally situated down town, its main business being in the bar which, though almost one hundred feet long, does not by any means hold the record for To- ronto, there being two or three others with greater dimensions. It is understood that the property which has been in the possession of one family kr upwards of forty years, now xasses into the hands of interests which are controlled by one or other of the brew- eries. Brewery ownership is understood to apply to many hotels. And in other cases individuals own more than one hostelry. This system of tied houses is. however, frowned upon by the License Commissioners, who desire as far as pos- sible to suppress trafficking or speculat- ing in hotel licenses and it can therefore only be put into effect Under cover. Bourassa in the West. Henri Bourassa, the Nationalist leader, has been touring Western Canada. The party leaders, exhausted by their Parlia- mentary duties, have been content to re. tiro for a period of resin and quiet, but not so with the irrepressible Bourassa. In the West he has been expounding the doc- trine of Nationalism and he expresses himself as entirely satisfied with the re. caption lee has been receiving. Bourassa's eloquence and his brightness always Command attention, His speeches glitter with sparkling hits which break forth with apparent spontaneity. For ex- ample, at Winnipeg he made reference to our railway magnates who have grown so fat, so powerful and so loyal," who again ThomasconcornettShaughnessy,is' o the British Umpire, ought first to ask the British Government some means by which he can become a British subject before he teaches lessons of patriotism," Shaughnessy being an American whose Canadian naturalization does not make him a British citizen. Or, again, "some of our patriots get so broad -chested when they talk about the British Empire that you would think they had swallowed It whole." During lois tour he maintained that neither the Liberal Party nor the Con. servative Party constituted British insti- tutions. A .t the same time he still dis- avows anv idea of forming a Nationalist Party. "I consider there is more than enough with two parties, and T would not desire to take upon my shoulders the responsibility of creating a third source of evil doings." Quesflgn of Senate Reform. It looks as though • we were within measurable distance of an agitation for the abolition of the Canadian Senate. A number ,of Liberal papers aro already committed to the complete abolition of the second Chamber,' and now we aro having .denunciations of it from tire. brew of the other side. For example, one dis- tinguished writer declares that the Can- adian Senate "was born in compromise and from the cradle up it has been e. pretentious and. cestly humbug." VT read, also, front the same source that it "has never done a useful piece of work eine() it Was organized and that for the /Airport) for which it was created has boon disregarded ,in its actual performances," V:14a,924,, er...i`4Y.1•1,. �ry,..W,E JelaYj 10,000 SCHOOLBOYS IN 'GREATEST ATHLETIC MEET EVER HELD IN AMERICA. Central Park, the playground for the people of New York, was converted into a vast athletic field Saturday last, where 10,000 boys of the Public schools (the largest assemblage of schoolboys ever gathered in such an event 'anywhere in the world) met in 'a series of athletic contests ar- ranged by the Public Schools Athletic Association. It is said that throughout its whole his- tory only one man has been appointed to the Senate for other than .strictly party reasons. The exception was Hon- orable John Macdonald, of Toronto, a �r merchant who was appointed by his namesake, Sir John Macdonald, under in. teresting circumstances. Charges having been made in the Liberal Press that dur- ing the Fenian Raids Sir John had made questionable use of the secret service , funds, the matter was brought up ins Parliament. Mr. John Macdonald, who } had a seChoice Recipes.. at in the House of commons I declared that the attack on hie po litical opponent was most unjust He rose in his place in the House an defended the Premier in a few sentence Years later he was appointed to the Son ate, and furnishes the only example of Senator appointed by a Government the opposing politics. t4. Grains of Gold. It is well there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world.—Hazlett. The nearer one gets to God the more good one can and will do for fellow -even. -R. W. Barbour. There are a thousand hacking at the' branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. --Scottish. Re- fop mer. ?