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1" English Peers Who Derive Their Des,
cent From Stage Beauties.
'There Is no chapter In the romance of
peerage which bus. quite the male glam-
or and !afitillatt1031 PA 144 which tells
the stories of humbly born maidens who
have emerged from their obscurity to
dazzle Me World, for a while from the
stage and then, by a aromatic turn of
fortune's wheel, to buret into the inert -
dean splendor of A, (blame or eoentess—
bridging in a few years of triumph the
gulf which separates the °berme from
the glittering liatelattlfi W114 circle round
Me throne.
Such was Me revolution waiter Copia
wrought by a toeeh of his magic wand
In the life. of Lavinia Fenton, who was
modestly ushered into the world when
Aane was Queen of England. Lavinia
never know her father—a 4:nm-et-heels,
retired, naval lieutenant, who died wane
she was still in the cradle, says a writ-
er in the London Tit Bae, and her moth-
er was only reseed) from dire poverty
when she found a husband in Mr. Fen-
ton, who kept an unpretentious coffee
house in a alum neer Charing Cross,
Humble as was the environment in
which he thus spent her girlhood, La-
vinia was fortunate in her stepfather,
who not only surrounded her with a fa-
thera care and affection, but Ow leer
out of his small earnings an excellent
musical echoes tion.
Ars achild Lavinia. Wag gifted with a
voice of remarkable sweetness and pro-
mise, which attracted many of the loot-
ing wits and actors of the slily to the
humble coffee house; and evert the
"pretty fellows" in all their splendor
and embroidered coats, laced we:Meats
and black velvet breeehes, with their
red heeled shoes, gold clocked stockings,
and their atmosphere of musk and civet,
dI& not think it beneath their dignity to
invade the slums in order to hear the
"little nightingale" sing for their delight
and to pat her encouragingly on the
bead.
of To her wonderful voice Lavinia unit-
ed beauty and grace of person and a
sprightliness and charm which marked
her out for mei/aortal success on the
stage, and, when she was 18, in the full
flush of her girlish beauty, she made her
first curtsey to the public from the
Haymarket stage at Monima in
Orphan." Her appearance was an im-
mediate triumph; all London flocked to
see and applaud tho girl whose oombina-
ton of loveliness ev4th rare histrionic
ability was a revelation and a new sen-
sation to jaded appetites. Not content
with admiring her art, scoresof would-
be wooers—men of rank and fashion—
besieged her with their unwelcome at-
tentions, but to all she turned a deaf
Oar, which but increased their importun-
ity.
Her next appearance wee as Cherry
in "The Beau's Stratagem," a character
of which she made such o brilliant suc-
cess that the manager of Covent Garden
'Theatre determined to secure her for
his own theatre. This, incredible as it
seems in these days of real salaries, he
succeeded in doing by an offer of fifteen
shillings a week, a salary which the av-
erage chorus girl of to -day would sroff
at. At Covent Garden Lavinia added
to her reputation and also to the embar-
rassing number of her admirere, until
she reached the crowning point of her
career when she created the part of
Polly Peaehum in Gay's new and lively
• "Beggar's Opera."
At this time Lavinia was 20 years
old and a radiantly beautiful girl, with
her remarkable voice fully matured. The
sensation she caused Was electric. She
became the idol of the town and the
toast of the gallants; songs were com-
posed in her honor, duels were fought
over her, and whenever she took the air
she was followed by crowds of admirers.
Even the ladies went into raptures over
Polly Nahum and court beauties cool-
ed themselves with fans bearing Polly's
pictured presentment.
It was, perhaps, inevitable that a girl
so richly dowered and surrounded by so
many tempting matrimonial baits should
not long :remain to adorn the stege.
pid had other views for her, and though
she left behind her a "trail of broken
hearts," the little mischievous god did
not intend always to be discomfited.
One of the most ardent and persistent
of all her wooers was Charles Paula, the
handsome, if not irreproachable, Duke of
Bolton; and whether it was owing to his
importunity or to the dazzling prospect
of a duchess' coronet, we know not,but
one day London was startled with the
Mews, which ran from mouth to mouth
and was the absorbing topic from the
7 court to the meanest coffee house, that
the "Mike of 13olton hod run away with
Polly Peaehum." The rumor was per-
fectly true. Lavinia, the child of the
shims, the dazzling ornament of the
stage, had capitulated at last, and—an
though not for some years—Was destined
to take her place among the greatest
ladies in the land, but little lower in
rank than a princess of the blood royal.
For nine years she wore her new and
splendid dignity with a modesty and
adaptability which conquered. even the
hearts of the OILViOUS. To all her charms
of person she united a rare intelligence,
and she repeated in the salons the great
triumphs she had wen as a girl on the
stage. "She had much wit, good, strong
sense, and a just taste in polite litera-
ture," says a contemporary. "I have
her, when her conversation was much
admired by the first characters of the
age, particularly old Lord Bethurst and
Lord Grenville." From Lavinia Fenton,
whose beautiful voice and childish
charms won her first conquests in the
obscure London coffee house, are de-
scended the present Lord Bolton and
others of the great nobles'of our day.
Eighty years came and went before
London again fell under the spell of an-
other Polly l'eaelitun, who, was destined
to a matrimonial fate little less bril-
liant than that of Lavinia Fenton, her
great predecessor. And to complete the
parallel between the two cerecre, the
name of this second Polly, who was to
win a coronet, was Bolton.
In 1700, just thirty years after her
Grace of Boonton had been laid to rest at
Greenwich, her succeedr made a very
molleet retranee on the stage of life
in Long Acre, but a few minutes' walk
from Lavinia's old home, the coffee
house. Who or what her parents were
seems te me unknown; but beyond doubt
they o • 'spied a humble position in Ina
Like Mite Fenton, Mary Catharine
Bolton was a born singer and meteor,
and was &stilled for the stage aloarat
from her cradle, Her natural gifts were
trained ame developed under the boat
teachers of her day—Bellamy, Signor
ntlai told Mine. Ilivehi heeling among
her inetruetors; and at sixteen she dude
her debut as Polly with eon:ides:al&
success. Her triumph, however, was
no rivaue so in ThltitillicollS anti e,rinidet-1
as that of her aped rival, elle had, it
ie !eel. the sane lonely nnii wiaseme-
nees and an equally lovely voice, but her
t for rather was ea so great, How-
ever this nerey lee her mageger was mit
satisfied, anti only consented to re -en.
ga:!e at a starlike salary—an utter
Which site aceepted.
But if Mary Bolton was not an ideal
Polly, there were other rola she could
fill to the delight and unbounded riatis-
faction of the theatrical world. She made
a perfect Itosina, and her Ariel, it is said,
has never been surpassed. "her way-
wardness and winsomeness," wrote a cri-
tic at the time, "her capriciousness and
coquetry, the birdlike sweetness of lier
notes, and -the grace with which she
seemed literally to float in the air, com-
bined to make an ideal presentment of
Shakespeare's exquisite creation."
Nor ware Mary's conquests confined, to
the stage, for many a gallant and high -
placed lover sought her band; among
them a royal duke, who threatened to
destroy himself if she would not smile on
his suit. But elareds hand was not to be
won by such a dazzling offer; cajolery
and threats were equally powerless
against one who declared; "I. would a
thousand, time rather die an old mad
than wed where I cannot give my heart."
The fairy prince, however, came to her
as he conies to all maids; when Cupid
wills their conquest; and in Mary's case
he was none other than Edward Lord
Tburlow, the clever nephew of a clever
uncle who was Lord Chancellor of Ena-
land.
Few maids have had a more romantic
lover, for not only was his lordship a
handsome man of courtly exterior and
many graces and accomplishments, but
he was also, and foremost, a Poet—a
past master in the art of writing polish-
ed verses. A lover so bountifully equip-
ped to captivate a maiden's heart could
not. long be resisted, and one day in No-
vember, 1813, Mary Bolton blossomed
into a baroness, from whom many Brit-
ish peers have been prou'd to claim de-
scent. Lord Thurlow's gain of a beauti-
ful and charming bride was the world's
loss; for, as an enthusiastic scribe of the
time records, with an amusing confusion
of metaphor, "with her there vanished
one of the brightest stars that over
blazed in the firmament of the stage or
fired to enthusiasm the hearts of all
who love perfection of female charms
combined with a genius for the dra-
matic art."
So far we have seen two Polly Peach -
urns translated from the stage to the
"gilded eireles where coronets flash," and
yet Cupid was not content to leave the
winsome maid of "The Beggar's Opera"
alone. When Mary Bolton was playing
with her dolls in Long Acre Catherine
Stephens was being cradled in the west
end of London, but ft mile or so away,
and she was destined to complete the
trio of Pollys who have adorned our
eam he stated on the counties of thie
"Then When they no longer interested To Europe by
State. He now ha them at his tongue's - -
end, classified up to the fourth letter.
Now he is starting on kftto Capitals and
their locations; then be will take up
country seats.
A moment's glance at an atlas during
the day shows him when lie is wrong,
and the beauty of the plan is that he
rarely bine to think along these lines
longer than ten minutes before he is
sound asleep.
"To make it ehort, the study of gee -
grapey is a good mtreotic."—Pailadelphia
Record.
ROW MOVNTAIN SHEEP LEAP,
Ease With Which One of Them Rids
Himself of Dogs in Pursuit.
Soon after we started a black bear he
ran along the foot of a cliff and past a
bunch of mountain sheep up on the
cliffs, following one of them to the edge,
writes D. a Beaumu, in. the Denver Post.
It Was a big rani and when he got neer
the edge of the cliff he came to bay, and
for several minutes stood off one of the
fox terriers which had kept elose to him.
Pretty soon a foxhound got up on top
and joined Me terrier, and they both
made a charge on the Sheep, and it
looked, pretty bad, for hint, as we
thought, but he did not seem to think
so, for he made a sidewise spring
straight out from the edge of the preci-
pice, apparently six or eight feet, and
then spread his feet in a sort of bracing
woe:, and with his body in a perfectly
horizontal position and parallel to the
face of the cliff chopped straight down
to the foot of the cliff.
There is an old theory that mountain
sheep in jumping from a cliff light on
their horns, but that has long been ex-
ploded. However, many have supposed
that they jumped down in the ordinary
way, alighting first on their front feet,
Title I believe is also an error, except
when the distance is slight. Where
the distance le at all great, I now
entertain no doubt that they light on all
their feet at once, and as squarely as if
standing still, juet as this one did. The ,
position of this sheep when dropping was
stiff -legged, but the instant his feet
touched the ground his joints gave way, •
with increasing resistance, however, act-
ing as springs, until his belly almeet
touched the ground, before the force of
the impact was overcome by the memo- ,
lar resistance. The philosophy of this. is
'obvious.
The hoofs of the mountain sheep are
also heavily cushioned and are about as
elastic as a rubber ball, There seemed
to :be no more jar when this sheep lit
than if he had descended but two or
three feet. He was up and away in-
stantly, and was soon out of reach of
the dogs, which wouldn't think of mak-
peerage. Ing the jump.
Catherine was the daughter of a aro A short distance to the left of where
Cr and gilder in a small way of business, the sheep etood the cliff sloped off so
a man of modest ambitions, and, with no
love either of the stage or of lords and
lie knew little of either, thought
by a curious turn of fate his own child
was one day to be a countess. As a lit-
tle girl Catherine's voice gave promise of
exceptional sweetness; she was a born
singer, and her father was induced, much
against his will, to give her the advan-
tage of a good training. Under the tui-
tion of Lanza and Walsh, who were
among the greatest musical teachers of
the time, she developed into a vocalist
of rare gifts, and after a triumphal tour
of the principal towns of England she
burst on the world of London in the
part of Mandane in "Artaxerxes" at Cov-
ent Garden, leaping at one bound into
the very front rank of actresses.
Front this first appearance on the
stage at the age of nineteen there began
for Catherine Stephens, the gilder's
daughter, a career of almost unrivalled
brilliancy, the climax of which was
reached when she assumed the character
of Polly Peachum, in which it is said she
excelled all her predecessors. So wedded
was Catherine to her art that she turned
a cold shoulder on her wooers, though
seine were among the highest in the
land, until her avowed intention to live
and die a maid seemed almost certain of
accomplishment.
But woman proposes and. Cupid dis-
poses, At least it was so in .Catherine
Stephens case; for when even her most
ardent admirers had long despaired of
seeing lies' a wife Cupid let loose a shaft
that found a lodging in her heart. The
successful lover was no gallant full of
the fire and passion of youth—Catherine
herself was forty-four at the time, and
would certainly have scorned such a
wooer. The man to whom she gave her
hand and heart at the eleventh hour
was George Capel Coningsby, fifth Earl
of Essex, a man who would never see 80
again, and who led his first wife to the
altar eight years before Catherine was
born!
There could, one would think, be little
romance in this alliance of the widower
of 80 with the lady of el, and yet it
was beyond question a enjoin �f hearts,
and, though brief, the marriage, was sin-
gularly happy. So iinpetuous was the
veteran lord that he only waited three
months after burying his first wife be-
fore he appeared at fle. altar with his
second. For a few days over a year his
lordship survived, when he left his
widow, to be known and loved for many
a year as the Dowager Countess of Es,
sex.
These are but three out of a large
amber of Cases in wheel actresses have
blossomed into ladies of title under sin-
gularly romantic conditions. Lenin
Brunton, daughter of a strolling player,
a woman of great beanty and charm of
character, bad teeny noble lovers before
she capitulated, in 1807, to the first
Earl of Craven. From Louisa Britton
many of our great lords and ladies de -
Earl of Craven. From Louisa Brunton
daughter of a Cork apothecary, after e
brilliant stooge career, Was wooed and
won by Edward, twelfth Earl of Derby,'
and as a countess was one of the chief
favorites cit the court of George ITT.;
and to give Ind one more example from
these older times, Anastasia Robinson,
one of the sweetest singers the stage
has known, trots made a countess by the
third Teu:I of Peterborough, the penin -
Rubio hero, who, hi order to make quite.
sure of his lovely anti talented wife, ac-
tually went throegh two marriage cere-
monies with her.
that he could have descended to the
foot of it easily and without a leap of
more than four or five feet, but the dog
could have followed and thus kept hold
after him. This way clown was in plain
sight of the sheep and he was no doubt
perfectly familiar with it and with all
the features. of the cliff, as it was his
home. It seemed as if the sheep decided
that the only or best way to baffle the
dogs was to do something that they could
not do. I would not dare to assert that
such was the case lest I Should run up
against some of the naturalists who
claim that wilannhuals do not reason.
The dogs were afraid to approach
even as near the edge of the cliff as
where the sheep stood when he jumped,
and when he had passed out of their
sight over the edge they seemed to think
he had taken wing, as they immediately
quit the chase and came back to us.
Mr. Smith and myself were on the op-
posite side of the gulch, about 200 yards
away, and saw the whole performance,
,which lasted several minutes. It Wall
,the finest exhibition of animal agility I
'ever saw or expect to see. How far a
,sheep can jump, or, rather, drop, and
not hurt himself I do not knew, but this
was pretty good. I went up to the spot
afterward and measured the height of the
;cliff as accurately as possible, and found
'it to be between 20 and 25 feet. From
time ease with which he made it I Mould
think he could almost double tbe distance
without injury.
•o
TOUGH ON GEORGE.
I
Going to Steep on Geography.
A 'haggard. loneing Mari strolled into a
downtown arug store the other day and
reeked the aruggid, far help. He said he
load trouble in getting to sleep when he
retired. No metier how eirepy he might.
be auring Oa day tsr how nitwit sleep he
might haVo lost, Om moment, his head
tattelled the pillow he was melee awake
mid lay thus for several hours. The
drug elerk reeareeel him telizeically it
few momenie anl teen replica:
•Aly deer wave you don't went:Merle
eine. Neleti you went is plia,ttirr to
.0v.Trp, the teed of ewe, te,,egigo
el a friena ef mine did. IT.,' WAS Ir ;Weil
V:0 POMO war nee fennel test tee old
plan tof geode paseher i imarrier
and muffling! teem wan one of date. So
he began feeler: te mono all the Stetes
Its the radon. lie semi, ffet- thietn ho he
Could classify them Alphalleticalla,
He Tried to Plense His Young tadir
Mightily.
"Say you will be mine," he pleaded.
But she hesitated.
"You have been very, kind to me," She
said.
"And I swear to devote the balance of
my life tio you," he protested.
"Your devotion has always been mark-'
ed," she assented. "1 admit that you
have paid every possible attention. You
discovered my favorite flower and kept
me supplied with it all last winter. It
was very thoughtful of you."
"It was my love---"
"And sweets, George. You, seldom let
me be without thorn. It must have taken
a great deal of your salary to---"
"Pray don't speak of salary, Luella.
How can one think of money when try-
ing to anticipate your wishes? It was,
end is my greatest pleasure."
"You have seemed to think that I was
too fairy-like to walk anywhere, no mat-
ter how short the distance," she wont on,
"A hansom, dearest—you'll let me call
you 'dearest'.:- hansom is a small matter
When one enjoys your company. .How
eould I ask you to walk when I knew
you preferred to ride?"
"I appreciate it ell, George," she said;
"t appreciate it folly. And I like. you,
George. I—I—perhaps I could truthfully
say I—but T. rant marry you. I have
thought the matter over calmly and seri-
ously, and I feel that I could not be
happy with you."
"Why not?" he asked, enxiously,
"You are too extravagant."—Tit-Bits.
Scotsman and Whuskie
arise Elizabeth Marbury, of the board
of governors. of New York's woman's
chub, tho Colony, Was discussing the
queeleon of the club's liquor II, n
"It is railer is matter of indifference
to us," rue said, "whether we get a le
cense Or not Wcnmmen, you loony
are not given to drinking. .riney cite
too careful of their Appearaece, They
desire to remein elite and fresh; rind
wine es you Itnow tench to melte us
alla stale and hit. So if eve
had a license, I think wo ehottli sell
little.
"It would rot be with us ea with a
eirmer I .oere met. in eeetland.
"Travelling in time Soattish Higiolando
One summer, I stopped at a farmhonse
for a Map of Milk, and the View front
the door was so loving that I said to
the fanneve
) "'Aim what it euperb place to live Rd"
I "On aye.' he answerel, in convent.:
tional Sesmte, "it's a' rhea; but boo wad
ye Moe, ma'am, ta hue to walk lateen
simile ilka time yo wented a bit glass
• wbuskey?`
"'oh, we4W Artie I, `why don't lett get
▪ ilemijobn of whiskey and keep it, tat
.the
vIre shook his head sadly. .
Vintskey,, he said, 'wont kook°
Hudson Bay
The utter blockade of cretboune freight
or; all the railroad littet of the Northwest-
ern. States end weeterro danuee has given
great impetus be the agitation for a shoat
route to Bump° by way of Ittalsen Bay.
'Whin -the last six months, says the
lie -
view of Reviews, six different charters have
been taken out for different railroad schemes
connecting with iluason Bay.
Ono of these was obtained by Mr. IOU, who
used to ridicule it. liurlson, Liay road its a
venture that would be "snowed up for tea
Moutha of the year tuna Med up the other
two."
The Hill charter plans to teed the treleft‘t
of Daltilla and Bonne:out Into the saseatche-
torn to liudson Pay. Builders' are at work en
the southern end of this project now.
'
.A.notiaor of these six Ilueson nay charters
is owned by the uew Canadian eanscontin-
entre. ime—the MacKenzie -Mann road. Of the
400 miles needed to connect Churchill with
the railroads of the Saskatchewan the Mac-
Kenzie -Mann road has already eighty miles
P'tgleti. atilt riVelnrotieniT; Tor t rtaiiin" cows," as the
fny
unudstInDay.z
porslave always described roads
ou
Two other electa have Boon galvanized
into life by the schemes for a Hudson Bay
route, icor years Canada has talked of a
deep winter coma up the Ottawa from the
St. aawrenee to the Crest Lakes. suddenly
surveyers ere set to work estimating the
cost of a canal that would connect Lake
Superior with ocean traffic. The cost, it
mav ho said, Is estimated at $121,000,000 .
Then amend Beeson nay is a vast un-
organized territory—Keewatin, about the
rase of Germany, The 'western provinces of
Manitoba and Saskatchewan suddenly ovals -
en to the fat that each wants an extension
poorf titsonboriunudd%rinesrlitanyr.oss Keewatin tor a sea -
Roughly warble. Churchill, which will be
the seaport of tho Hudson flay routes, Is just
1,000 miles from the grain mese of II111's
roads. New York is 2,00 miles, Churchill is
1,000 miles from Oregon, New York is near-
ly 3,000.
Says Premier Laurier, in answer to a ro-
queat for a road from e.,-freinior Greenway,
of Manitoba : "I agree the tiler has come for
the railroad to Hudson Ilea rite statute
books contain a standing offer of 13,000 acres
of leada mile along the line of this rail-
road, and If this Is not sufficient encourage-
ment for promoters other Insane mast be
found."
As to the question of the practicability of
the 'Churchill harbor, mue writer quotes re-
cords showing that it has always an open
season of five months. In favorable seasons
this Is extended to seven months. .
The harbor itself could net have been bet-
ter '
direcit go ilinnililebilaninTh, aorpfent,o „oeid„perWafetr %sail
from thin west end of rho straits—no alioals,
no reefs, deep enough tot r..ne deepest draught
keel that over sailed the sea. This—as cap-
tains of the big warships know—is true of
neither Montreal nor New York. At Neiv'
, York deep draught slaps have to wait the
tide both for approach and departure; and
On the St. Lawrence shies are always taking
a mud bath on the and bars
Over against this advantage, let it bo stat-
ed -frankly, Churchill summer and winter is
subject to just WI furious gales as over bat-
tered the iron rocks of Newfoundland. One
other danger peculiar to Churchill must be
noted. Five miles out ..uo hay is open all
the your round, but as the cold hnomes in,
tense what is known as "frost fog" lies thick
1 asTvectolenocu tho sea, obscuring everything.
at mile the two headland
is not IL IIIRIfiellae .0, against the tremen-s ,
dous current of reivwerid and oh btinlebut t the '
dous current of river curd ebb tide;; b
harbor Inside, a magnificent expanse of land
looked water, with the fur post five miles,
up stream,
Nut all railroad projects to Hudson flay
bingo not on Churchill Harbor but on tho
straits. Can they he navigated? How long
: aro thoy open ? Even if they can bo navi-
gated by slow ocemignert, will they be of any
avail for a fact Atlantic route
Hudson Straits aro really a deep gorge
whIch the fen of the Arctic world — the Ice
of the prehistoric ages—lhas cut and grooved
and torn forcibly out of the solid rock, find-
ing egress from Fox Channel of the Anita°
to open water of the Atlantic. Into this
funnel of rock, CA miles long, ie jammed
front tho west and pounded and entreated
the area of an Inc cenoinent, and up this
channel from the cast runs a Udell* thirty -
!Ivo feet high, When thlerip and Me meet
there Occurs what. the old navigators of tho
Hudson Bay fur trade call "the furious over -
fall."
The Canadian Government hat sent two
special expeditlens (in 1.SRS amid 1897) to test
the navigation of the Straits, and one general
expedition to navigate the northern writers
(1908-41, but the natation has bocAnne no ter-
ribly political—so much a me.stion of east
versus west—that the official reports on the
expedition are more noteworthy for what
they have unsaid than for what they say.
The Gordon expedition of 13.31 and the
Wakcham et 1397 definitely establishment these
facts : Hudson flay is open, all the year
round; a open current flows through the
straits winter as wen es summer, but Owing
to ice drive this -current of tho Straits is
closed to navigation after November, and is
not open again till June—that is, there aro
always five months when the Straits can ho
navigated, sometimes six. There was also
discovered just inside the eastern entrance
M the Straits a splendid landloeked her-
- . or haven of refuge—Port Flurp11--shei-
tered front all win? s but the sou 1.
IA, P. Low's expedition or 190341 made a
still more Important centribution to the data
on the Straits. Prom actual experience and
from the testimony of old Hudson Day navi-
gators Mr. Low estromened the fact of two
onca currents always fleeing in the Straits;
one along the north shore, inland westward
i bearing the ice drift of oreeniand, so that
the ships entering can go with the Ice drive;
ono along the south shore, outward eastward,
...bearing the raft leo of Hudson flay, so that
the elites going to sea can also go with tho
ice drift; in teeth Cases ships can navigate
tho Straits with the tee drift, not against
It. In fact, the difficulties of the old navi-
gator,against the drive. Tiut wrecks or no wrecks,
the Hudson Bay route Is coming. If tho
be made fit.
not know those currents and attamped to sail
scented to have -peen that they did
Straits aro not fit for navigation they will
SCIENCE NOTES. ,
OM State* are eetfinated at 000,000,00,•
000 tone, or Allere titan 0119491ari4 tJte
efotinlitte4 coal reserve of the entire
country,
The average earninsa of an English:
train per mile is about $1.35, and the
total yearly receipts per mile are a
tie more than $23,000.
There are o thousand acresof sub-
marine coal mines being worked around
Cape Bolton. The diameter of the soil
overlaying these diggings enables them
to be worked without Interference from
the water from above.
The Fraternity Peril.
No intelligent pennon who studies our
CatietitiOnta bytitent at the present time
can doubt that the fraternity inevement
is another of the perils of modern edu-
cation, Boys like to be men, They like
to become men as quickly as possible;
and, unfortunately, it same more net-
ura to Ahem to imitate the defects and
vices than the sterling qualities of
Moo whom they admire. Among the it-
Imbittione of this genera trait is the
rage for secret organization which has
recently taken possession of our coun-
try from ocean to ocean. Boards of
education in (dela have been compelled
to take action. Stmerintenotents ci
schools and principals of high osehools,
as well as high school teachers, almost
without exception declare that these
eraternition are seriously injuring the
young people of time schools where they
are found. Everywhere that the sub-
ject has been fairly developed, so far as
we can learn, the boards or education
are prohibiting these organizations,. The
fraternities are appeolling to the courts
and the courts are sustaining the
boards of education; and we may hdpe
that the movement already checked
may be destroyed. But that the frater-
nity movement is a peril no one can
doubt.
It is unfortunate that the presidents
and professors of colleges have seemed
to be far less intelligent, or less careful
in respect to this matter, than the high
sehool men of our country. In multi-
tudes of our colleges secret societies arc
permitted to do, without let or hind -
ranee, what the boards of education and
the faculties of high schools are seeking
to prevent. The same snobbery, the
same petty persecutions, the same tend-
encies toward, smoking, drinking, gamb-
ling and licentiousness, which have
caused the high schoehe to reject the
fraternity, are clearly evidenced in the
fraternity city of the colleges. Yet the
governing boards of the latter seem to
be ignorant, unwilling to do the thing
which the situation requires,—From an
article in The Home Herald.
ANXIOUS MOMENTS.
•
Thousands of Little Ones Die During
the Summer Months.
Every mother of small children
knows how fatal are the summer
months. Dysentery, diarrhoea, chol-
era infantum and stomach troubles
are alarmingly frequent at this time,
and too often a precious little life is
lost after only a fewc hours' illness.
The mothers who keep Baby's Own -
Tablets in the house feels safe. The
occasional use of Baby's Own Tab-
lets prevents stomach and bowel
troubles, or if the trouble comes un-
awares the Tablets, will bring the
little one through safely. Mrs, George
Rob, Aubrey, Que. MTS.: "I have
used BaTaes Own Tablets: for stem- •
ach and bowel troubles, with, the :best
results. I feel quite safe when I have
the Tablets, in the house." Sold by
medicine dealers or by -mail at 25c,
a box, from The Dr. Williams Medicine
Co. Brockville, Out.
THE OAT CROP. •
The French cavalry recruit goes
through -a long course of instruction be-
fore he is cionosiderea competent to got
on a horose.
Old -age ineure,nee is compulsory in
Clormany, and the cost of carrying the
imumnee is altered by the- Government
senO the employer.
It is claimed that only one out of
250,000,000 paasengers on English rail-
road trains meets with an aecithent.
The railroad rolling ',Freak of -England
would form a train 1,800 miles long,
with 22,000 loeoinotivest
In Stockbohn one person in six is a
telephone subs:1.14er.
It is claimed that munieipal eweers?hip
of teleploones is a failure in England.
erne/es-hi telephone companies: have ria
elaborate scale -of charges selealuled ac-
eording to the character of the Nisi -
IOTA. Cl1111'q are eltargea the maximinin.
The Span -kill Gormimen.t encourages
telephones by taxing the oompanies from
reve-
nues.,
to 35 per rent, of their net reve-
At the preseent lime Prance is trona
blot with on :over -production of tvine.
Tantalum, the new metal, which is be-
teg extenovely mare, lige of at the pre-
bent time, twas discovered about two
e ears reel by o Swedish cherniet, and
was ore named becenee of the tantalizing
eifffieulties he experienced, in its devel-
opment,
'lee total coal resource's of the South -
Ale Insect Pest Attacks It in Huron
County.
A good deal of uneasiness has been a-
easionc,d am-ong fermers and others on
account of a blight which seems to have
conic on the oat crop. Many of the
blades have turned brown and present
a withered end dead appearance. This
is general and is quite distinguishable
from the road. Seine ascribe one cause
and seine another. Some attribute the
blight to frost and some to the rav-
ages of the wire worm. But a gentle-
man who has made a close examination
eays it is due to little insects
or lice which have settled on the
leaves and which have sucked the
moisture out of them, but that the
&talks and roots are quite sound end
healthy. He attributes the appearance
of these insects to the WarM, dry wea-
ther -at a certain stage in the growth
of the plant and says that the recent
heavy rains will destroy them. If this
theory is correct there need be no fears
for the crop on this amount, for so long
as the etalk and root are healthy there
will be an unimpaired crop.—Seaforth
Expositor.
*4 41, -
Booth's Impressions of Japan.
General Booth, who has just returned
from the far east, has given his impres-
sions of japan and its people to the
press. The general, in the course of an
interview, said: "I like them (the Japan-
ese) for their naturalness, thoughtful-
ness, and preparedness to consider any-
thing you may put before them. I like
them for their burning passion—such as
swept the Russians off the field of battle.
It was not all skill that beat Russia.
But," he added,. "in their ascendancy they
are going too far in westernizing them-
selves. The west is to them a paradise.
They even have their suffragettes. But
drink and gambling are the two demons
that are waiting ta pounce upon them.
Japan has lessons to learn front us and
we have lessons to learn from her. She
is full of controdictions. There the
children do not go to school without
their breakfast. There you will see none
without shoes and stockings. You never
see a child or a woman that is not de-
cently dressed. Everywhere the men are
struggling into civilization by means of
trousers.' With reference to commercial
progress, the general mid: "There aro
features about the Chinese ahd the Jaye
anese which are bound to make them the
eonquerore of the World; but they will
do it by peiteeful meeat.hods,"
Surprises a Thrifty Preliclitnaii.
A limn& business man visiting in this
country IS quoted as saying that what
surprises him most is the reeklese way
ine whieli our people Spend ineonea. In
Prance every laborer, no matter how
itunible or how small his pay, centrivee
to save something year by Veal.. There
elso bushiese Men work and- Save and
1 I ob eon]: fmo or :Yea r on
to p ebnelaiiingg athhleei r to
ot rnret,inirges
moot obitairea Workingmen teem to lie
Here, on the contrary, as this ?tench -
than axing, while busiriess Men appear
tweet to think of tetirinre but work on
ofourmutuhettureereandsadtepleafvinwtfo ortkhienigt rai and
lieOfielar temsWobilavnudbleictutxpe,nditure.--Sreftig-
Balloons and Lightning.
Great Danger for the Aeronaut Up In Ow
Storm Clouds.
During an Inspection of traps by
the King and Queen of Italy a short
time ago a balloon ascension took Fiore
pi Rome, and almost immediately after'
ward, when the balloon hod reached, a
Jwigimt ostm'ueikbfyioliilgyhtalugt aln,0d00 after feet, itta Icwi in
fire fen to the earth, The officer in
charge, Capt. Unveil', an engineer offi-
cer and balloon expert, was so seriously
injured by the fall of the basket that he
died in a few hours,
Timis ens the first time on record that
a free balloon was strack by lightneng,
Captive balloons, on the other baud,
have occasionally been known to serve
as conductors between a cumulus cloud
earth,Thishas
IltrnatipptelireasurfaceseVelofthealtinies uiule.d
For example, on November 11, 1801,
a balloon sent up on Monte Male,
which had been partially hauled down
on the sudden approach of a storm, was
struck by lightuing at a height of about
300 feet. The occupants, a captain of
ees-
cnagpientleeit'vshh"lxcomlicpDasraatnitd'elay slisergeantslight
in-
j
t
In the experimental trials of the Ger-
man balloon sections balloons have often
been struck by electrical discharges. A
very exciting ease of this kind occurred
tornooepIs.ay. 23, 1002, at Hurlach, south oh
Mater Ledfeld, in the Bavarian. balloon
First Lieut. I -Tiller, in charge of a bal-
loon, found himself at about 0 p.m. at a
height of about 2,000 feet, when a heavy
black cloud appeared ou the horizon, the
approach of which caused the men at
the telephone and the capstan to experi-
ence electric shocks. Thc officer in
charge decided to bring the balloon
down to the ground, but it was too late.
In the midst of the preparations to ef-
fect its descent a short, sharp thunder-
clap was heard and one of the horses
of the balloon wagon fell over. The
lightning had struck the balloon and set
the cover on fire. In a minute the burn-
ing material fell to the ground, Lieut.
Hiller in the burning mass.
The men came to his assistance so
quickly that he suffered no injury from
the fire, but his left leg and his right
ankle were broken and he suffered a
heavy concussion. After a long siege in
the hospital he recovered. Three of the
men standing below were also struck,
and had marks on their breasts or the
soles of their feet similar to the effects
of small calibre bullets, They reedy-
ered.
These accidents have suggested the
necessity for protecting eruptive balloons
with special lightning conductors, con-
necting the iron parts with the cable
and leading to earth front the capstan.
It has happened that even in fair
weather a DWI of lightning has been
discharged from a passing heavy cloud.
As a rule ascensions are not made in
threatening weather, and this matter
would have no general interest if it
were not for the fact that captive bat-
loone now form part of nearly all expo-
sitions or public outdoor entertainments
and opportunity is generally given to
make ascensions.
On these occasions, owing to the lack
of proper precautions, accidents often
occur. The principal societies which
take an interest in and encourage this
form of sport take precautions to avoid
accidents, but irresponsible persons hav-
ing balloons in charge are very apt to
neglect them.
.The question of the danger from light -
rung experienced by a free balloon has
become very serious, owing to the great
number of ascensions made nowadays, a
number which is steadily increasing year
by year.
Theearliest record of an aeronauts's
experience in a thunderstorm is that ot,
the Frenchescientist Tetsu Missy. On
May 11, 1780, while studying the electri-
cal condition of the atmosphere, this
experimenter made an eleven hour night
journey and remained for three hours in
thunder clouds conducting his observa-
tions. He noticed several times on the
iron points of the basket the well known
phenomenon of Si. Elmo's fire.
John Wise, the noted American bal-
loonist, gives an, exciting description ce
his experiences in a storm during an
ascent made on June 17, 1843. The bal-
loon, as it came under a black cloud, be-
gan to rotate anti to ascend rapidly. On
entering the cloud Wise experienced a
sensation of suffocating and had repeat-
ed attacks of vomiting.
Tnt consequence of the great cold the
ropes were covered with ice and snow
fell. The balloon was whirled about and
rose rapidly, roaring noises like those of
a, cataract resounding ni the air. The
balloon a -as sent alternately up and
down several times with great rapidity,
After about twenty minutes it was fin-
ally thrown ,out of the cloud.
Capt. Hildebrandt of the German army
had a sunder experience when he made
an ascent on Juno 7, 1002, with the di-
rector of the photographic laboratory of
the technical high school at Charlottem
burg, Prof. Miethe. At 5.30 p. M. near
Falkenberg, the brilloon hail the towline
out, but to avoid injuring the cultivated
fields a. landing was not effected. The
balloon soon reached Nieder-Finow, and
then the forest at Melee but no good
landing place Was found.
Ballast was thrown out and the bal-
loon rose a few hundreol yards and en-
tered an apparently imi•mlees, low lying
cloud. Suddenly the balloon began to
rise very rapidly, and a peculiar rushing
noise became audible as if there were a
waterfall down below in the wood.
Hail fell into the basket from all eidee.
Three Ones the balloon, was hurled rap-
idly from a height of about 400 yards to
2,-100 yards and down again. The lois-
tine stood mit straight, nearly on a heel
with the basket, and the latter Was
thrown About so violently that the in-
mates had to hold on with both hands.
The storm forced the gas out of the venti-
lator at a rapid rate, and opening the
ventilator had no effect.
Little lightning was noticed, but the
thunder was continuous and loud. After
about thirty minutes, juaging from the
barograph curves, the balloon left the
region of Me thundercloud and fell at a
1 rate of about thirty-four and A lutif feet
a second to the earth. It alighted in #4a,
top of an old beech tree tual remixed
there. Prof, Miethe was la down by the
people from Mope in
rope and brought
wagon, end with their assistance the hal.
loon was lowered to the ground.
Balloons have often been in oumulue
clouds heavily charged with eicarieltyi
end sparks have been noticed on the frog
ring or the writing lever of the homo-
graph, but no effect like a lightedoel
stroke has ever been experienced in free
balloons.
It is therefore a question whether a
balloon which may suatiordy find itaelf
in a thundercloud can be *amok by lighte
rung. in general, it may he await that
this is impossible, since the outer surface
of the balloon aways takers time elecariesd
potentud of the ethroundine nix oonse-
queutly a flash of 110,111141g (elle squab
izing of the difference of potential be.
tween two masa/ cannot mom,
On the other hond, it is not impossible
that when a lightning flash take. pities
between a cloud and the earth it may
set fire on the way to tine gas eseapiag
from a balloon between the two, but this
effect is not probable.
But it has often matured that a bal-
loon rapidly changing its elevation se is
nearly always the case in making a
landing, charged as it is with the posi-
tive electricity of the upper layers of
the atmosphere, comes down to the negae
tively charged surface, and thus causes
sparks to fly from the iron valve or ring,
which set fire to escaping gas and cause
an explosion.
In this way the balloon Humboldt* of
the Berlin Aeronautic Society, was burn-
ed on April 20, 1893, while making a land.,
fag, as the valve was pushed to the
ground by the strong wind. In 1902 the
new balloon Pannewitz, of the Berlin
society, burned up in the mule Amy while
making a landing on the island of Zea-
landU
Such discharges can be prevented by
coating the surface of the balloon with
calcium chloride, thus making it a eon'
duetor, as suggested by SigsfieId, or by
connecting the iron parts of the balloon
by wires with it long wire hanging down,
thus effecting idow discharge before the
basket reaches the ground. Them pre-
cautions are now well understood by the
princia aeronautic societies and are al-
ways taken, so that under their super-
vision there is little or no danger to the
aeronaut from this source.
HARD ON THE CAT.
Have you ever heard a eat get mixed
up with a sheet of sticky fly paper?
If not you have missed one of the real
sights of this life. The terrified,
jumping, spitting, mowing creature
presents a most ludicrous spectacle to
all onlookers and muses an immense
amount of laughter and fun, but when
the frantic and maddened pet becomes
almat smothered by the sticky stuff
and 'the -artana.ge to cam -pets, curtains,
etc., etc., begins to be realized, the
housewife fails to appreciate the
funny side of the episode, and then
and there deoldes that in future she
will use only Wilson's Fly Pads,
which are three hundred (limes more
effectual and cannot &maga carpets
or furniture. All druggists and store-
keepers sell Wilson's Fly Pads. Avoid
worthless imitators.
WHY CAMEOS ARE SCARCE.
None Are Being Made—Stones Used by
Cutters.
There Is A -great scarcity of cameos in Eu-
rope and America now, owing to the gradual
dying off of the old cameo cutters. No cam-
eos are being made, and the old stock is dim-
inishing rapidly because Of the present crams
for old fashioned jewelry, and Jewelers say -
the oraY way they can replenish their atoek
Is -by buying old cameos from private owners.
Of a dozen jewelry establishments In St.
Lents visited recently by a purchaser In
soarch of cameos, says the Globe -Democrat,
only one Bad unsot cameos hi rit0031, and
only throe had more than eight specimens of
tho-set game. This scarcity of cameos Makes
them very expensive, and those jewelers that
are so fortunate as to have them in stook
can get almost any price they ohoose to ask
for them.
The true nature of a cameo is very mach
mitrunderstood by the public generally. Moat
people think it ts the stone itself, whea in
reality the method of cutting is what pro-
duces the cameo. The real meaning of the
word is unknown, its derivation having never
been discovered, butt correctly speaking cam-
eos are small sculptures executed in low re-
lief on some substance precious either for
ita ebauty, rarity or hardness.
There are emerald cameos, turqU.case
cotta -
ens, shell cameos; coral cameos; indeed, any
subatanee that Janda Itself to carving la suoh
minute detail can be use* for cameo cutting,
ano nearly all predicate stonek *meat dia-
monds, have been so used, DiamoWe have
been used for intaglies but never for wa-
wa. ameraia is the twat common preolotre
steno from which ramose have been made,
and there are some very fine emerald Dor-
trait cameos in existence, notably' these of
Queen Illitaboth, In the British. Maseinn.
Shell cameos were first rude in the fifteenth
century but never became popular uftell re-
0,eativ.
flanded onyx is generally toted for cameo
work, because of Its hardness and coloring,
and It is this fact that bat Muted the Mis-
ripprobensien, the stone being used en stanch
In making cameos that it hart now become
better known as "ortmeo" than by Ito right
name.
4 • e•
RAKEOPP ON THE PANAMA.
Eloquence of Rat Store Salesmen Ins
spired by a Commission.
You may notice that the voice of the
hat store salesman grows more eloquent
when he mentions the Panama, his man-
ner more rnorestly persuasive.
"They all get a. commission of 5 per
cent. on the Panamas they smell," explain
ed the manager of the store. "We give
it to them because these hats cost so
much that we make money on it.
"Men often seem reluctant to buy a
Panama, however much money they
have. It is then that the persuasive
salesman intervenes and pile off the
sale.
"You can see it pays us to give them
a, percentage on hats that range in priori
from $20 to $75. On no other hots do
the retail dealers pay any percentage."
4- Op -
It is generally easier to tell what We
don't believe than what We do.
1444 4001C•40.1010040406.0440000.104401
Consumption is less deadly than it usea to be.
Certain relief and usually complete recovery
will result from the following treatment:
Hope, rest, fresh air, and—Scot/4%r
Emulsion.
ALI DRUGGISTS I 150c. AND $16004