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Ghostly Tales of the Sea.
OWN IN ONE or THE stagger with blanched fume into the
inlets of old Chesapeake I cabin, the ealt fromthe bridge still
Bay has Just come to grief 1
eneones white abuut Inna to drain a
vessel with a ghastly jam and amble' laugh at the fears
past roe years the Nee. which asvai1e.1 him out there in the
beam lied served a rail- dark If you mar him the cause of his
road as a, coal barge, and frighe he'll tell you "Nothing," but for
that ghost ridden repute,. all that he firmly believes he has seen
'Lion mantled her coal grimed aides and the Ste teed her swarthy hunter
deck and threw a glamour over even the Weep acmes his hew -
monkey engine Metalled. forward. It
came betwen her and a censorious ism. So famous lam become the Flying
going world, which otherwise would have Diadunan and the story of the punish-
I./eased her by with a sniff of contempt.
To have seen her shapeless hulk, bat-
tered, disreputable and dirty, one would
never have suspected that in her prime
e be was one of a fleet of clippers which,
racing wing and wing, brought glory to
Baltimore port. That time did not laet
long, for when she warped out of the
dock and turned her high arched nose
toward the sea for the Met time be
was in charge of a, famous captain of
elippers and a picked crew of English.
American milers. No chance for the
devil and all his works there, you'd say.
Five weeks later -she should have been
with any kind of luck off Cape St.
Roque, Brazil, at the time -the tog
Dauntlese picked her up just inside the
long, yellow spit of land that Tuna in -
lane from Cape Henry, forming the
southern shore of Hampton Roads. No
man was on her, her books had vanished
and her hold was cleared of the odds and
mute she had taken for the, China mar-
ket, There was no sign of bloodshed or
struggle • on her decks -nothing save the
indefinable Meitner of a mystery.
• How he had come to be deserted, how
she had worked her way northward
against adverse wind and current, what
had become of her cargo, and, above all,
how to.explain the fantastic yarns which
grew up around her reenein to this day
' one of the mysterie.s of the sea. Al-
' though a new ship, sailor folk would
have nothing to do with her, and she lay
rotting for want ef a crew. she
was sold to a 'railroad company to be
used as a coal barge,
If you ask one of the heavy shoulder-
ed men who get their livine frein the
water around the sand dunes back of
Cape Hatteras he will tell you that the
Pocahontas was officered and manned
by devils on that her first and only trip
to sea, and that her wraith still haunts
the ma oast and smith of Diamond
Shoals; that, even cm a mat barge, she
Imitated the grey seas 'off Gape Hatteras winds' are thin as lace, letting the sun
through in golden arabesques. All is or -
and he will swear that the hit erten her
der and _discipline "aboard as she sails
light surging ahead against winds and
slowly by the 'becalmed whaler, the
currents, the devil himself at her wheel,
white water under her forefoot and her
The sailor as a class till holdfast wake trailing behind, a glittering ssfur-
row. She swings wide as she come near,
to the superstitions that have been his I the sun glances for a moment on her
especial heritage throughout all ages. To ' geemmer canvas and -she is not. She
him the sea is still peopled with titan. "goes out like a slush lamp in a blow"
say old shellbacks who 'have seen her.
If the ghostly prom is the South Sea
version of the4"Swimmer," the fonloWing
story might be considered as the Chin-
ese or Japanese version of the Flying
Dutchman, save that it lacks a motive
for the curse. It comes from out of the.
Yellow Sea, where the water fairly siz-
zles with romance •and devilment. The
story of the "Four Eyed Junk" is known
ment visited for impiety upon her cap-
tain that the yarn bas overshadowed
many others equally good, There is, for
instanee, the tale still told in the atolls
of the South Seas concerning the brig
Bounty, of mutiny fame, which, for dra-
matic intenseness, far outwtegba it.
As a tale of adventure few, if any,
stories- of real life can exceed in tragic
detail the story of the mutiny of the
British brig of wee Bounty. Her men,
disheartened and oppressed by a tyran-
nical captain, set upon their officers,
and, murdering some, set the rest afloat
in open boats. Then the =lancers sail-
ed to a deserted island, first taking un-
to themselves wives`aaf 'the daughters
of the islanders, and their descendants
still live on a rocky island in the South
Nellie, For years after the mutiny the
whereabouts of the ship and her crow
wee unknown, and she was supposed to
have foundered at sea. Naturally stor-
ies, weaving themselves from the phan-
tasmagoria of the sea, were told con -
corning her at tile wharves where Sta-
mm congregated, and finally crystalliz-
ed into one grewsmne yarn which might
have served Coleridge as the framework
for his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Any old whaler in 'Frinco can tell the
legend which is the white man's contri-
bution to .the romance swathed South
Sea Islands.
She, like the death thip seen by the
Ancient Mariner, comes sweeping down
on a vessel when the wind has fallen
and the ship Hee "idle tie a painted ship
upon a painted ocean," bier dead crew
are at quarters and her murdered off a
cens am still on the quarter deck, but
there is no flag flying. Aft, at the taff-
rail, a man is struggling to raise the
bunting, but, as the old whaler will tell
you, he can't -fled won't let him," The
planking of the Ship is covered with
mould, and her sails, worn by countless
team. Men there are still who sail the
see believing in the power of the "Swim -
mem" men who believe in the "Walrus,"
of unholy fame, and in the existence of
the spectre barque Lucy, to he seen at
any time dodging in and out of the
oreek-s and bays of the South Carolina
coast. Tide is the tale of the "Swim-
mer":
Near Cape Finistere there lived a fish-
er maiden in days when the world asked,
fewer questions than now, and, with her
lived her fieher swetheart. On their wed. in the islands of Japan in the Phillip --
ding night, rum the yarn, smugglers pines, down through the Malacca, Straits
came down on their village -a thieving, 'to India and even to Mauritas. Ah Foo,
drunken band. When they left, having the Three -Eyed, commands her.
doue all the damage they could, the A alines.° junk, she wasoriginally
fisher maiden's sweetheart heal (limp- manned by the ghosts of a rebellious
Mandarin and his body guard, who keep
watch and ward over the pearl fisheries
they guarded during their lives. Since
the advent of the white man in them
waters her crew was changed and now
she as freighter with. a crew of • Malays,
"Chinks," Lescars and what not. All the
offscourieg of the seven seas have, in
course of time, been added to her origin-
al complement. Death and pestilence are
in her path, so if you run across her
in those seas beware.
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peered, whether with them or through
them was never known. Instead of pin-
ing uselessly, as would, most women, she
dressed herself in menas clothes and
started to find hi 7 . dead or
For years the wandered, over the earth
and. ocean, and, though her disguiseems
penetrated several times and She passed
through a host of troubles which vary
with each telling, she succeeded in keep-
ing up her hunt. Finally, after escaping
from an English prison', the vessel she
was on was lost at sea, and the simple
In no section of till the world is there
Breton fishermen enshrined her In a leg-
end wheel has her forever swimming the so much myisticam Ste in those groups of
seas still in se•arth of the man site loyal tiny islands which dot the Southern Pa -
and. hailing each craft site neon. A sail- eific and the waters round about. The tut-
or, be he Yankee or Portuguese, matter tivee have the sea alwilys with them. It
,of fact in all things else or grossly su- washes their doorsteps, supplies them
with food and With amusement and at
times terrorizes them. And, even as to
the white men, the sea has furnished
them with many Tegende. The story of
the ghostly proa, from the seas of the
myriaaislande, which goo; slinking frem
shadow to shadow of the moon haunted
waves, bringing death and pestilence in
her wake, is but one of thousands. A
Maori chief commands her, and tradition
many years ago, and there sailed with has it that he carries his head in a bam-
boo basket
her as a passenger in her caddy b cilia seeks li a ling lose none
rum the story, h •
doe gentleman, bearing with him many ail;eree* is he findser no rest for aim, or Ili's,
aurorae boxes, afterward. found filled •
with women's gear. He was as swarthy If you ever happen to be so fortunate
;and mysterious as e mosex g ,
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stickler fer the ancie.nt order of things as take trip 'flow nthe West. coast
in such matters could demand; a man - of Africa, you'll be sure to hear of the
with a past and a history on the face famous old. West Indianian King George
of him, a man whose lips refused p251. This yarn is backed up by the records
grew
tively to oabout hpen to easeim the curiosi-ty f the•• • •• • y, so of coulee it
which up And hie
ney Jour-
I! true...She .was 'wrecked in the year
in the minds of the Scandinavian
1(89, during a hurricane that devastated
crew. the coast of Cube and. the West Indies
At Honolulu, where the ship stopped
for water, the Passenger Want ashore. generally. Every MAU, woman awl child
ahead of her WAS lost, and the ship her.
What he saw or heard there no one
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self was gripped. of her top hamper,
knows, for he never told, but he came
masts and spars, a.nd• went drifting, A
sunning back to the Ship, and, going
Ii vereek, "bawd to all disaster."'
• ,dhectly to his bunk in the euddy, cut
d
She was first reported by a ship of the lis throat. The mate heard his groans
"a
nd
got to him in time to save .his life. Pam 'eoinaany some honked miles north
Thereafter a guard was placed ever him,
of the point where Om storm is suppos-
but despite tile watch he attempted sub ed to have struck hen Men were sent
tide twice more on the run to the Hornaboard her from he -r sister Indiaman and
reported that she was sinking rapidly.
13y that time the crew laits in a panic
from terror and superstition and de- After that die Was never aemPletal7 lest
mended that their passenger be put in- tesesight for flue beetpart of five years,
to an open boat and left to ehift for when thi
e vatiohea n a storm off the
himself, ti
Grand Canaries. In that me the had
The refusal of the captain led to mu. drifted upward of ten thousand
tiny, which was quelled by the first and Loa been the erect cense of at toast
Mate after the skipper had been murder- four wrecks, and; the indirect Canulti of
ed. by the fear crazed sailors. The pan-
three more.
anger, however, was still on board, -Tier travels were etrange•heouga, cape -
and again the sailors rebelled against eelly at that time, when the Imations of
his .presence. The mate, the captain, the eeean em•ente were but vaguely
g ood firm, but the .sailers threw him gueesta at by the most eptentative of
overboard and marooned the "Jonah" merinera tam Vitiate:yea northward And
In an open boat, with just enough pro- eastward from time Gulf of Maxim) to the
Visions to salve their conscience. Briiiah les, one thee Makitne a twig
Once ria of their passenger their fears curve ti the west coast of Africa. Dur-
- row instead ot dintiniehing. They pie- Ina all that time the was constantly re -
urea him as pursuing the ship with ported by paseing elapa limey of wheal
beckoning arms, sturroUnded by a halo sent men aboard of lier. At lath the mit-
of phosphene+ and aetampanied by the tah• Government dispatched a man-of-war
wreithe of their murdered officer& Fear tater her, with erdere to blow her up.
gave life to their imagination, awl, Tneteed the frigate ran on et reef end
strong men though they were, they wag wrecked. Another. the Dwane, woe
broke open mast of Wine and drank nen gent out, but she encountered
themselves sodden in their efforts to eleviret allow and was sunk in the ensu.
avoid seeing the ghost of the man they Ma field.
oe.. had murdered. Inutility showed liven Thy this time 'the :whole Engiiih speak -
among them, and by the time the vmsel lug seafaring World was agog over the
was picked up by a Britieh gunboat off myeteree When a Mira waraltipmas dis7
Montevideo half the crew had jumped pstelied +Ina in her tura am Isiah luta
overboard in their frenzy. dry On the licAch uranntA'Lition had Its
The St, oleo mime the sea to- way, end the Nam .(leorge was Allowed
day, although her materiel hulk hat long •l oreeced an her eltallY Vint hi Peftee-
sines been broken up for firewteel. Owe wee enfolded a foe times after that
In a while the Mate of Sonic steamship, by page:leg merchantman, then diettp.
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on watch during a stormy night, will peered ier good end all in 4 tentacle'
perstitioue, believes firmly that if you
hear the hail 'of the "Swimmer" on a
dark night at sea and answer it not, woe
follows swiftly.
Still another tale like the former,
though the love interest is obscure, is
the story of the bark St. L-. She
sailed from the harbor of Canton, China,
that destroyed mach beside the deataitite
Bat her mune is still a 0414 to Conjure
With in !Qum parte of the vernal.
Now ghosts, witches and warleake
ashore have front time oat of Slte4
snot-
gregated together at certain moors and
so do seagoing phantoms. Nantucket 'has.
a yarn of a ghostly fleet of falling
smacks which turns up after heavY
storms in all orte of unlikely places,
and brings to naught the beet efforts of
:the best fishermen even Gloucester
sends out to prey on the finny tribes
of the sea, The fleet is said. to be com-
posed at smacks from all over the world.
The fleet was wrecked; so they tell you
on the island, off the "Maiden" in one
of the worst storms that over swept the
Danko, If you happen to be a fisherman,
especially A Breton fisherman:, Who be -
Heves more than Most seafaring folk in
such things, say it prayer for the ghosts
who man that uneasy fleet.
So %mu& the warp 'and woof of the
commerce of nations runs this thread of
mysticism the sailor loves. No nation is
free from it, The stolid. Dutchman, in
his blunt nosed, bluff sided lugger; the
stela eyed "Mink," and even the matter
of fact Yankee is not untouthed with it,
despite his denial and assertion to the
contrary.
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consult doctors and spent much
money on medicine, but nothing help-
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Every now and then we meet various•
people. It is when you get to know
them that their peculiarities are expos-.
ed. Any one wishing to describe such a
person will make use of this peculiarity
to label him, as it were. It may be he
is cranky, sassy, or fussy. He is ever -
developed in some one direction.
For instance, the fussy man. He
may be very agreeable until you work
with him. Then you notice his impati-
ence. If anything gets in his way lie
rushes at it as though he were fighting
it. He pushes mut pulls and laminar;
With all the strength in hie body. Quite
likely it is altogether unnecessary, and
he is apt to hurt himself, anyway.
He reminds me of a little, cheap clock.
He is tick -tick -tick, tick-tick-ing all the
time when he might as well slowly say
tick -tick, lace a Mg clock. The little
clock never gets any further tamed by
such hurled ticking. Neither does the
excitable man gain by so much fuss. He
had much better go slower end think. At
0 a, m. both clocks are at the same time
and at noon the little clock hasn't gain-
ed a minute, yet it has been tearing at
it all the time. It must amuse the big
clack. The little clock never learns,
clock. It still keeps wasting itself un-
til some day it stops altogether, Then
the big clock goes steadily on alone and
someone puts the little, foolish deck
away in some dark place, whore it is
forgotten completely.
If only some of the fussy, impatient,
men would take a lesson from the little
clock's fate before they run down, plat
es it did. I suppose there always will he
little clocks and fussy snen, but there's
no sense in being on . ,
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Songs of Seven.
There's no dew loft on the daisies and clever,
There's no rain left in. Heaven;
I've odd my "seven trace" over and over,
ISeven times ono are seven.
I can old, so old, I can was a letter;
My birthday lessons mire done;
1 Tho iambs Day always, they- know no better;
'They are only ono times ono.
0 mom In the night .1 tAlrb seen you railing
And shinitg to round and low;
You were brightt Sb, iiriglitt but your !lett
is failing -
You are nothing now hut it how.
You moon, have you done something Wrong
in heaven,
That +lad has hidden your race/
hose if you have You will soon be for-
given.
And dune again in your place,
n velvet bee, you're a dusty fellow,
You've towered your legs with soldt
O brave, rearehy-mary buds, Melt and renew,
Give lbw your money to hold!
O columbine, open your folded wronger,
'Where two WM turtle dove* dwela
O ceekoogent, toll me the emote elsaseer,
abet hangs In your tiara green bell,
AM ehow me your neat wall the young
one In It;
I Will trot alma than wear
I am old, You may trust ate, linnet; linnet-.
/ am seven times one to -day.
-Seen Ingeloar.
To lie popular a .oung tutu Sheila
always lie when the girls ask hint if
certain things they roar ars becoming
te there,
COW TERING.
GOVERNMENT TEST OF COWS
SHOWS REMA.REABLE RESULTS.
For the period ending 30th April, 31
cows in the Brockville, Ont., Aseociation
gave an average yield •of 709 lbs. milk
and 23.8 lbs. fat. One OM in the 30
days gave 1,200 lbs. milk, testing 3.0 per
cent, of fat. •
At Beaverton, Ont., 79 cows averaged
only 522, Res, milk and 18.9 the. fat, The
highest yield was 1,055 lbsauillk, testing
3.0 in the 30 days ending 8th May,
The 201 cows at St. Marc, Qua, bad
an average of 488 lbs. milk and 10.0 lbs,
fat. The beet cow gave 759 las, inily,
testing 3.1 during the month ending May
140e
Henryville, Que., with 80 cows, stood
at 550 the, mil lama 18.7 lbs. 'fat, with
the beet yield laal 11,4., testing 3.2 for
the 30 days ending May 14th, Norman-
din, Que., averaged 553. nee milk, with
090 lbs. ae the highest yield.
At St, Barnabe, QUe“ 58 cows gave on
average of 504 las, milk end 18.0 lbs.
fat, with the beet individual cow at (180
lbs., testing 3.8.
The Association at Milton, Oct., for
the 30 days ending May 12th lent an
average from 131 cows of 551 lbs, milk
and 19,4 lire fat, The highest was 1,130
lbs., testing 3.3 per eent, of fat.
Lorneville, Oct., from 31 coWs had an
average of 429 lbs. milk. 'anal; 14.2 lbs.
fat. The best cow gave 1,000 lbs. milk,
testing 3.0.
Tim averages for the first four months
of this year of the Amociations in One
tario and Quebec stand as follows:
Total
- No. of .
cows ' Average yield
tested. Me. Milk Teat Fat
Jim., Ont .. el0 479 3.6 17.0
Jan., Quo,,, 239 310 4.0 14.3
Feb., Ont. a 41 579 3.4 20,0
Feb., One. .. 1(13 415 4.3 18.0
Mare Ont, ., 19.1 741 3.5 20,3
Mar., Que. . 191 480 4.1 20,0
Apr., Oa, - 1,070 671 3.3 22.4
Apr., -Que. . 702 404 3.7 18.2
Ottawa, May 22nd, 1007,
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GERMAN PRINCF,a TN TRADE.
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Various Lines of Business in Which
They Are Engaged,
The kaiser,who inherited from' one: of
his wealthy subjects a porcelain factory
at Cardinen worth - about 0,000,000
marks, is not the only royal man of bus-
iness in Germany. . • .
The Prince of Lippe-Detmola 'makes
the major part of his income from the
sale of butter and eggs from his estate
and bricke from his limekihm. His civil
list is small and he keeps up the royal
state of his little principality (he looks
into three countries from his drawing
room window) by the revenues from his
personal property.
Prince Bismarck had the monopoly of
supplying the telegraph poles for the
German Empire and had a distillery in
which he produced a particularly viva-
cious schnapps, which is, said to be "a
near thingto a torchlight procession;"
Prince Guido Von Henekel Von Don.
nermarck is not only the richest coal
proprietor in the German Empire, but is
also a silk manufacturer.
Prince Christian Kraft Von Hohen-
lobe, duke of lijost, is not only a mine
owner, but also the owner of the Ho.
henlohe meal factory, the Hohenlohe
cake bakery and -horrible to relate -the
1 Hohenloho corset factory.
Prince Max Egon Von Furstenberg,
the richest aristocrat in Germany and
friend of the kaiser, is a brewer and the
"Fursthch Furstenbergisches bier" has
more than a local reputation. It is the
kaiser's favorite beer and the prince has
the exclusive privilege of supplying the
beer for the whole of the royal house-
hold.
ARE INANIMATE HOODOOS.
Articles Believed to Have Brought Death
to Their Owners.
There are lots of things which happen
and for all of which, of course, the psy-
chologists have explanations, and yet
somehow these things do not readily re-
spond to the so-called explanations of
"purely mental effect" and all that sort
ofthing.hingIChicago
a pawnbroker in South
Clark street, near Madison, has a queer -
looking old turnip of a watch that he
will not sell and uvihl not wear, for he
knows itseshistory. He bought it -at a
sale of accumulated pollee property, and
after the sale, as a warning, one of the
police officials related three coincidences
in connection with it. The first Chicago
man to own the watch, as far as the
polio knew, had been killed by a bur-
glar, and the watch was one of the few
things the thief got away with.
A few weeks later the burglar, with a
party of his pals, pursued by the police
for another crime, took refuge in a house
on the outskirts of the city, and sought
to hold the officers at bay. All were
taken alive except the burglar, and he
was shot dead. The watch was found
on his body. It was around the detec-
tive bureau for a long time, and one day
one of the force asked permission to take
it home to show sonic friends, his de -
who had a long-standing grudge against
hecimrip.tion of its quaint, curious ease hav-
ing aroused their curiosity. On his way
in his possession he was shot by a crook
back to report that night with the watch
The pawnbroker put the watch in his
show ease, but purely as an ornament,
and made. such investigation regarding
its history as he could. He learned that
it had been made in France more than
100 years ago, end five men who had
worn it had died violent deaths, Yet
these were all coincidences, and the
curse of the old woman from whose
hands it had been snatched by a thief in
Bordeaux shortly after it left its maker's
hands bad nothing to do with the ease
whatever,
In the South Kensington Museum,
London, there is an object catalogued
22,458. It is a cast of a women's face,
and was found in en excavation net far
from Luxor, in Egypt, The cast is that
of a beautiful woman, but the face Wears
an expression of siniger evil. The man
who found the east died within twenty-
four hours after be touched it, ad the
two workers who handled i died within 4 /. .'.
, RAIT OF TIE CHINESE
LIKE THAT OF JOHN BULL
a feet weeks,
Three of the carriers who handled It on
the Nile boat disd within a haled 'space -
of time, and the man who reshipped it
at Cairo also died within le al than a
week after he had played his part in
the work of getting it to its destination.
All these were seemingly natural death%
but it is odd that ell the men whose
fingers touched the east in Egypt should
have died so soon after the handling.
When Mine. Carnet, widow of Sadi
Carnet, died, find her will was read,
clause in it caused .considerable comment.
This was to flue offeet that a certain
small Wilda idol carved from a herd
stone which would be found among her
property, must be taken out and eruelied
until completely destroyed, Many mar-
velled at this apparently singular re.
quest, for the idol seemed a harmless,
ugly little thing, but hues instructions
were carried out to the letter.
The idol had been presented to Sadi
Carnot years before be badever thought
of the presidency of France by a friend
Wit() luta brought it from India. Later.
lie had learned that there was a legend
attached to it which asserted that who -I
soever would retain it in Ma possession
would rise to the fullest height of power
in ha chosen profession, but die of a
stab wound when at the zenith of his
careerl,
teallm traced the hietory of the idol
and found that` for 500 years the rulers
who had possessed it had an died either
in battle or by .assassination by stab
wounds, Yet he laughed at the story, '
called the facts adduced by his search a '
mere chain of coineldeneee and retained
the idol. He died by a dagger in the
hands of an assassin, 'hence Mins, Car-
net's strange request.
450-
Some day Europe will find out that
the real Ceineso man is a great deal
more like John Bull than the typical Chi.
emelt as represented by the Heathen
Chime.
Ile is essentially a home loving, fam-
ily sort of inns, who bikes to grew fat,
is area of goal cheer, Mal te little cluil-
ily Lore of man, who likes to grow fat,
4m, geed luunoreel, citey going as an
employer, litter as is philanthropist, hard
working and uncomplaining as a day
laborer. Chime° do not allow sentiment
to interfere with business. The graves
of their 6ubcostors have blocked reads
and railways, but when a sufficient mice
is paid the graves of their ancestors
are removed. Their respeet for JAW and
eons:weal:leo 13 &early eomparablo to
that felt in England.
j Londoners look upon fogs as a dispens-
ation of Providenee not to be meddled
with. It is just so Chinese ordinarily re -
gaud dirt. They are amazed at our ender -
time of fop and rejoice to get Nick home
from, London, saying the latter is such
a dirty place.
The idea has got about that the China-
man is a peeuliarly Hy rogue and a fun-
ny fellow. The Chinese man was a good
i man ofebusinees in our days of skim
and wood; therefore he has somewhat
perfected his sentem of businegi artifice:3
-when he wants to take to them.
But ho is the beet man of business in
Mica 'that ',is, the (meet honeeta all3
there is a largeness about hie business
dealings that will yet surprise the world.
Indeed there is every prospect of a good
deal of nethoniebbeinent arising out of
China and not so very long thence; that
is, for people who are oontent to believe
of China what one casual observer re-
produces front another casual observer's
careless notes and what has thus be-
come stereotyped.
There is one matter that stands out
clear the Chinese is a master of organ-
ization. In the days of despotism, tor-
ture and "heads off" he organized secret
societies of such wide and complex ram-
i ications as no other nation line ever
known. Now he has been indoctrinated
in the system, of philanthropic societies,
committees, public meetings and the like.
The Chinese have taken to them as it
duck takes to water. They have formed
Red Cross societies to help the peasantry
in times of war and unrest, Doors of
Hope in the treaty ports, etc.
Suddenly the attention of world has
been arrested by the American boycott.
It MS all been carried on in the most
businesslike manner; goods already con-
tracted for were to be received, but even
as soon as the boycott was decided on
a Chinese shopkeeper in Pekin refused
to sell a pair of American shoes to a
passing traveller, although well stook -
ea thee -mita. Arid the success of this
boycott in obtaining concessions from the
United States has been se marked that
there is every reason to think the Chin-
ese will continue to adopt this foreign
method, 'applying to it Chinese union
and pertinacity.
If there is one thing John Bull dear-
ly loves it is a good dinner; a Chinese
man dearly loves it, too, and in "China.
no business of any kind. Is inaugurated
without a dinner to help it off.
There is nothing John Bull more des-
pises than a noisy braggart; but bas
lie ever thought of so delightful a name
for him as the Chinese have invented?
They would have called Falstaff a "pa-
per 'tiger." Even Shakespeare might have
Ibeen grateful to them for the term.
The English used between Chinese and
iEnglish in business circles, called bus-
lness or pidgin English, is very comical,
form it averterseness, being as a rule
it literal 'translation from the Chinese,
the perpetuated the idea that the Chin-
ese are very funny fellowe, and this
generally spread belief has been further
intensified because people mostly discuss
Chinese ways of thought much as if a
Chinese were to say:
"The English are exceedingly ingenious
and make carriages run very fast, and
pile up buildings one storey on the top of
another higher than our pagodas, and
have very this churches, but they enter-
tain strange old fashioned superstitious,
will not look at the new moon through
glass, must turn their money when they
see it first, and consider blackbirds un-
lucky. Thus their boasted science does
not affect their daily lives, nor is the
Christian religion the real religion of the
coIunntcryLa
, people from other lands are
apt to mix up the wise teachings of Con-
fucius, the superstitions of the stable
boy or children's nurse, and the opinioa3
•of the gentry they meet, if indeed they
ever do have any intercourse with Chin-
ese gentry, and thus out of them all
make it curious hodge-podge. As it is,
Chinese of the upper classes, being only
lately brought in contact with western
ways themselves, make odd confusion at
times like the rich 'long Kong merchant,
who excused himself for having taken a
itnicgk:et in a new German lottery by say -
"My think better. My no wantchee
phearvoer.tny bobbry with that German EIll.
Chinese are far fresher and more out-
spoken than -the Japanese. It is a ques-
tion whether they are now openly dis-
playing what the Japanese are smutty
feeling, or whether, as it has been wit-
tily put, "The Japanese have conquered
in a great war and the Chinese are put-
ting on side for them." Putting on side
is an art in which every Chinese excels.
Quarrelsome among themselves, Chin-
ese have yet a great aintempt for fight-
ers, and if they ever are transformed
into a nation of warriors It will be alai -
la against the grairt, the peasantry of
both China and Russia being peace lov-
ers and dispased to leave all high affaire
of State to the constituted. authorities.
The new leaven is now working, how-
ever -
American education is indoctrinating
China with the idea of individualism. So
far the family has been the unit, each
family responsible for the support and
the good conduct of its members. No
Chinese needs to be taught that "a man'e
A man for a' that," for no nation is
more truly democratic than the Chinese,
In fipite of the curious anomaly that
evheri a Governor leaves a province all
the lemer officials wait by the roadside
KEEP BABY WELL.
Ask any mother who has used Baby's
Own Tablets and she will tell you
there is no other medicine so 'good. We
pledge you our word there is no other
medicine so safe -we give you the guar-
antee of it Government analyst that
Baby's Own Tablete contains no opiate
or poisonous soothing stuff. The Tab-
lets 'speedily relieve and cure all the
minor ailments of babies and young chil-
dren. Mrs, L. F. Kerr, Greenbush, Ont.,
says: "Baby's Own Tablets are the best
all round medicine for babies and chil-
dren I know of. I can strongly recom-
mend them to mothers from my own
experience." Sold by all medicine deal-
ers or by mail at 25 cents a box from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine "Co., Break-
ers:ale, Ont.
SWIMMERS LEARN TO RESCUE.
afeylan's Class ni Columbia Tank
Shows Big Improvement.
Dr. George 1.1. Moyhtin, head of the de-
partment of physical education at Col-
umbia, University, has just made public
it number of statistics which he Ilea col-
lected front the various classes showing
the development it is possible for a man
to attain by devoting two hours a week
to consistent training. Dr. aleylan
points to the life-saving class. In this
class at its formation six months ago
were twenty men, none of them having
extraordinaly ability in the swimming
line, and some of them being poor swim
mers. At the end of the six months
there is not one of them who has not
proved. his ability to rescue a drowning
man under difficult circumstance&
The man who was to be examined. was
placed at one end of the pool, dressed in
mat, Mart, trousers, shoes and stockings.
The man to be rescued went 100 feet
away to the other end; of the pool and
ahem himeelf into the water. When the
drowning man cried out his rescuer had
to shed his Mat and shoes, swim to the
man and then, despite his struggles, seize
him and drag hint fifty feet to the edge
of the pool. The time of each of the
rescuers in accomplishing the feat was
taken, and varied from two to four min-
utes.
Besides this the rescuer was examined
on special phases of saving. The first
thing lie was expected. to know was the
correct way to 'approach a person strug-
gling in the water so as not to get with-
in his grasp. Having once seized the
man, he was expected to know the best
way to tow him to the shore. If the vc-
tim was struggling, the rescuer was
taught to give him the strangle hold
and. squeeze until the struggling Mopped,
Other methods of towing taught were
by the back, face, arms and back of the
clotAilitoiltig.
her thing on which the test was
based was ability to swim under water
for a considerable distance in case the
drowning person succeeded in pulling the
rescuer down. The last part of the ex-
amination was a test of the knowledge
which the student lead of the restorative
method's to be used on an unconscious
person who had been pulled front the wae
ter. Of the twenty men who took the
ours all ell were able to pass tho exam -
illation at the end.
Dr. Meylan anticipates making this
course a part of the required gymnasium
work at Columbia as soon in the future
as is practicable. This will mean that
every man who is graduated. from' Col-
umbia in future will have to take an
examination in rescue work and either
pan that or sem other examination in
some form of physical education before
he earn get his degree.
One thing brought out in the courses
Di'. Afeylan is giving is the great varia-
tion that is found in the ability of men
when it comes to learning to swim. At
the beginning of the freshman year 75
per cent. of the class of 1910 could swim
more than 100 feet, wade at the end of
the year 95 per cent, had the same obit-
% e
The trouble that it has cost the vari-
ous melt to get this ability luts been
greatly vandal, and ens Case has been
found where it seemed almog impossible
for the man to learn to Swim at all. Be-
fore doming to Collimate, this man had
had three ittetritethre in swimming foul
had devoted, a great deal of attention to
the effort to learn. Sine arriving at
the university lie has worked steadily
tinder the direction of another instructor
for A year, and no wls Qtble to go only
about twelve feet, end that with an itn-
Meuse amount of splashing anal needless
effort. The Other niernbera of the time
who did not pass the gemination by
csairaming a hundred. feet Were prevent -
ad from learning by sputa tillage -al dime
Manifest improvement by the 'various
°lanes has Nen showit IC tigh jumping.
la other phase e of gymnasium work the
intprovemeeit wets its great or greater,
Dr. afeyian bits found a large improve.
rant in the Matter of person:11 carriage,
The general mark ef the Mass of 1909
when it entered college was 81 per tent.
There has been such an improvement un-
der the prescribe:1 courses in physical
editeation, lowovea that when the chest
loste looked over at the end of two years
its general leverage was 78 per cent. •
Hawitt---"I ant never restelyate go to
bed." jewett--"And "Iit }motile say that
3eou are of a tetirieg disposition."
aft York Pro*,
'
-•.‘ and must go clown on their kucies In the
mud as lie goes by.
1 But they are learning now to think for
themselves, to fight for themselves, and
1 to that cal to organize. The process
'may. yet end like our inarilage service
in atrrangementa' for there is no doubt
of Chinese brain power.
1 In Australia, where they have had A
fair field, the success of young Oldness
men in examinations Iota been most re-
, markable. But as one of the shrewdest
• writers about China once said in con-
versation, "It is impossible to telt the
I truth about China without telling a lie
jet the same time"; and thee there still
' renutine the questiOn, in ;mite of their
brain .power, of their vaunted gift for
1 orgenreatien and the like, whether Chin-
ese leaders of Chinese will ever be found.
, For three centuries now they have
been governed by all alien race, the Mau -
ohm For the English to govern, Ohins
would have been easy; there is a eat-
una affinity between the two races,
mind possibly even now it would be easier
for an Englishman than for a man of
their own race. For the French it would
be impossible; even French missionaries
do not talk of loving their converts.
But England thews no disposition to
poem China., nodthe time for any Eng -
Beaman to attempt anything of the kind
is past. The one choice, therefore, seems
to be, shell we make: these Ohinese our
very good friends, stemeling by them our.
selves as friends, or shall we treat them
as a negligible qualititio?
It is true they are not a pretty, grace-
ful people; they have nasty ways and
customs. Their women are far more re-
spectable than fascinating, anti yet
they have themselves t
he very -poorest
opinion of women.
Thewakjsgai11theirantuag:dimon4ranlerst14sslble.
ac-
quire. Their stare possibly the most
ofe;.vestareofalloaal,amdtheir
curiosity is bounaleee.
They will ask you. ,the !price of every-
thing you have on, and examine with
their lingerie every exact° of your cloth-
ing if you will Set them. This not only
ameng poor people but among the up-
per Masses in the litterior of China.
Perhape the most attractive past of
the population is the little boys. With
very soft, round faces and little sprout-
ing pigtails and clear little voices they
tell any educated European an astonish-
ing masa of fact he does not know;
which plant cures fever, aleph is good
for headache, and which is absolutely
useless; how to stop a d'oe&ney from
t braying by tying a stone to his tall,
how to fasten a whistle like an Aeolian
iharp to a pigeon's tail, how to bring up
white mice or train birds to Sly up into
the air and come back again. They will
I eliow you like little dogs, and if you
give them a copper coin they will beam
upon you, and they will love you and
learn anything of you that you may like
to teach them.
The next most attractive class is the
coolie. He will carry a. heavy load i4RY
you all day, make up your bed f --or you
at night; cook you a really delicious lit-
tle meal, wait upon you as if it were a
pleasure and he were proud to do so and
only after your every want is satisfied
retire to gulp down leis evening rice.
After which you must forgive him if,
while he washes his feet and legs, he car-
ries on an animated conmereation with
brother coolies in a loud vole° before
one after another drops off to Sleep.
It is not, of course, trite that the Chin-
ese workingman never drinks or beats
his wife but he is always kind to his
(little child and May often be seen in the
e ,
vening sitting outside lsis cottage doom
engaged in a game of chess or cards or
beguiling leisure with one of the Chinese
puzzles we know in ivory, made in 'bam-
boo,
The worst of it is as one rises in the
social scale steeling merit seems to ai.
n
thigh, and it is a sad truth in (thins
that the little girl is certai•nly less ate
tractiee than the little boy; but then,
poor ethild1 her feet have been rautilat-
ed in the oast, and as a natural result
the women. are lees attraetive etM. We
are about to change all that, however. -a
New York Sun.
BOOK PLATES. ;
Their Invention Came Half a ,Centery
After the Printing Press.
It was within half a century from the
invention of printing that book plates
were introduced as identifying emirate,
indicate the ownership of the volume,
Germany, the fatherland. of printing
from movallle type and of wood cutting
for making impressions In ink on paper
is likewise the home land of the book
plate.
The earliest dated wood cut of ac-
cepted authenticity is the well known
St. Christopher of 1423, which was as -
covered in the Carthusian monastery of
Iluxheim in Suable.
It was to insure the right of owner-
ship in A book that the owner had it
marked 'with the coat -of -arms of the
family or some other heraldic device.
Libraries were kept intact and passed
from generation to generation, bearing
the emblem of the family.
The first book plate in Prance is dat-
ed 1574; in Sweden, 1575; Switzerland,
1607, and Italy, 1823. The castles., English
book plate is found hi a folio volume
once the •property of Cardinal Wolsey
and Afterward belonging to his royal
master. 4,6
The earliest mention of the book plate
in English literature is by repys, July
10, 1688. The first ktowit book plate
In America belonged to Gov. Dudley.
Paul Revere, the patriot, was one of
the first Americium engravers of book
plates and a designer of great ability.
-From the Journal of American Jais-
airy.
••
A Strong Opinion. ;
(Pall Mall Gazette.)
Prohibition is one of the most notori-
ous failures of experimental plaits, and
England has no neat to tepee for itself
the practical lesson Which is written
plainly- enough in the. social history of
its contemporaries.
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nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and
nerve force.
It provides baby with the necessary fat
tind mineral food for healthy growth.
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