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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-08-15, Page 3Beggars That Are Choosers Seek Work, But will 'rake Only a Certain load (New York Sun), b en within- iOn"' time and she �r the beitr Fleeing him until they an- extensive agricultural a e tri t OM b the eldea lie Vil 1 04,44+444444,444444+,. IVaccination for Blackleg and Anthrax in Cattle. IFand driven back by beaters alreatly i-ita tele Therefore he clove the meet nate 1 thine in the world, by fleeing lip the oentre of the nullith, directly away f vont the encoining din, At the top of the alefi istitrele the saortsman. The undergrowth peobelny The disease known as blackleg in cat- prevente the spartamen teeing the bear tie, although entirely unknown in many sections of Can. Chagas ttia hot eianalder it txtraardilt- ary that the:et wartlike wrette on paper and in the French langtutgel Ultirnetely hie eyee were opened and lamas wits ar- rested and sentenced to two years' tue, prisoureent. The well-known stery "Pealmenee Z54', the famous Formolan " eluievs how eaeily the public can be imposed upon in regard to literature, This remarkable The asago "Beggara can't be choosere" ads, and not at all widespread inindividual made his emeerapee in Len- tually meet, &ought she would better go, Knowing her excited condition, I ireastedethat the snould wait a few minutes longer, ard she went back to her seat. Before oho wept away i had almost gotten her eon - :sent not to raise 433 or $0, if it were offered as a starter. "I am not preparea to say that this society or any one charitable lebor roan eau (tys provide' work imolai- ately for every applicant, but this much is certain a very iarge part of the num- ber of intialigent women over 30 who aim out of work are so particuler about the kind of employmeue they get that it handicaps any bureau trying to help them. Instead of trying to like what they can get they insiet upon gettiue what they like, and when they don't get it they ley all the blame at the door of employment agenciee and.,spread broad- cast hard luck stories of' the most pa- thetic description. "There are college girls who do not hesitate in summer to go to mountain resorta and earn considerable money working in the hotels and boarding houses as waitresses, but suggest such a thing to some of the quite ordinary wom- en who come to us looking for work, and they would. be deeply wounded." "I venture to say," remarked the manager of an employment bureau, which does not deal with domestic ser- vants, "that if the writers of hard luck letters, who say they have bad a beau- tittil home of their own and !under- stand the art of house decoration, etc., as one writer did say the other day, were willing to serve in some household capacity in the summer hotels, boarding houses and institutions—not necessarily in the kitchen—they would come back in the fall with enough money to give them courage to go to work to get the sort of employment they hanker after. "But,. no. My applicants want a place to trate:Lin luxury as companion, or to chaperon young women around the coun- try, or as private secretary, although they know nothing whatever about stenography, or else an office place or some easy clerical work of the genteel order requiring no experience—and so on. Most of these persons would rather starve; they would infinitely prefer to beg from friends and. acquaintances than to condescend to do anything practical which by any chance might come under the head of menial. Then those same persons go around with tears in their eyes telling every one ;the wit listefn what an awful place New York is to live in when dut of work." Men who are in touch with men's em- ployment agencies and have studied. the subject of the man out of work from ev- ery standpoint say that there is no city in the country where men are able to put up the bluff of wanting work and finding none with such succees as in New York, for the reason that no other city has so many different charitable agencies, so many ways whereby a man may scratch along at the expense of the community for a lung time without ac- tually suffering. And that a large part of hard luck stories are more or less bluff they frankly believe. "Lb is true," said one of them, "that men every day are patrolling the streets in search of work applying in person at this, that and the other concern for work, and that this, that and the other concern turns them down. It is true also that some of these men, a few of them, really want work. Eventually, if these men stick to their quest and make their wants known at the proper agen- cies they generally get work. Perhaps a few make an effort and don't get work— Pll concede that much. But the majority are only bluffing. "The merchants and business men vis- ited know this without even giving the matter a thought—that is they are not convinced of the applicant's manner, their interest is not aroused, their attention is not arrested, they turn him away without ceremony, and he deserves it. From time to time some enterprising young man studying social conditions takes it into his head to make a tour of New York to ascertain how easy or how hard it is for a stranger to get work, and subsequently he makes out a piti- ful tale of doors shut in his face and no work, even to the most laborious char- acter, to be had in this great city. I often wonder that these enterprising youths never suspect that the employ- ers they come in contact with know they are bluffing. The manner of a man or a woman who is only playing at wanting work is not convincing. Thad headed, keen eyed business men don't bother with him or her Another thing: An in- telligent, well appearing and. apparently well educated young man doesn't go in search of work after the methods adopt- ed by these students of sociology. Not at all. He puts in his application in the proper quarters, and he finds out where these quarters are and how to reach them by appealing to one or more of the societies or agencies maintaiged in New York for that very purpose. He puts some system into his hunt for work, and he doesn't usually need, to write long yarns to the newspapers about the re- sult. "I don't profess to be one of the know it ails or to be infallible in my judgments. It's possible I may be mis- taken when I say that the man who wants to work and is not too finicky about the sort of work he can get in an emergency and for a start, so long as it is respectable work, need. not be out of a job in New York for forty- eight hours." BEAR HUNT IN INDIA. Din Nfade by Beaters Drives the Quarry district or province, Annually causes non early in the eighteenth century, We raisers claimed to be native of Formosa and thoosere here. This is the belief of men quite extensive losses to ea • , and women long connected with employ- Anthrax, -which is quite a different dia. ; wrote in Latin his very singular "Des - doesn't go la New York, Beggars are MAKING A NEW LANGUAGE. Norway Would Like Something Better Than Made Over Danish. Norway has a now King. That is, he went and charitable bureaus of this city. ease, although frequently confused with eriptn Incf Formosa," The ariok widob LIGHTNING AN ITS, DANGERS*. The Loss of Life is Greater Than Como* Supposed. ox.,..,.......ftemeneromnr•••••**•••••lew In this country we have im means of • amined, and should ha repointed when • they are found to have rtinted away. ascertaining precisely what the mint of mischief done by lightning. In A lot of nonsense, theY think, is talked blackleg in the minds of many cattle was a pure concoction, did not deceive and 'written about the army of the un- raisers, is also the cause of serious loss anybody, but for many years its author raonao and “onnonY statiatics On the employed, This army might easily be of stock, The former disease is almost "remained an object of faith and cheeky subject are eyeternatically tabulatea by adept. 'the Ooverument every Year. if complete out on half, they are sure, if the adage entirely confined to cattle under three ' to a considerable section of his 'statieties were accessible there can be quoted was lived up to. years, and ma generally fatal. The latter ed countrymen." He repented, however, . little doubt they would ehow that the It WAS a signed letter in a newspaper attacks other classes of farm cattle, and of his fraud and his life ended with the "the best man he ever annual loss of life and property is far In which the writer gave harrowing de- the human subject is not exempt from esteem of many, while Dr. Johnson spoke knew( ,greeter than is commonly supposed. In -which caused an official of the charity °tally. 1 But who Psalenanazar really was a, memo respeet the damage is often greater tails of unsuccessful efforts to get work its infection, which generally results mei. of him as orgaulzetion to make e few remarks on liy the aid of science cattle raisers are mains to this day a literary secret. (than it need be, even apart from any eon- oee aspect of a problem. now enabled to protect their stock ' Even more audacious, perheps, was , 0 eideration of liehtning conductors. The letter writer, overtaken by Bann- against these maladies. As the human the attempt of an Irish elergyinan. named I During five or nix days in the summer cid disaster, faced for the first time at the same manner cattle are rendered the end of the eighteenth eentary,, eham.lauthority that besides etlier mischief family is vaccinated against emallpox, in l'acales, a resident of Bath, who toward lof 1884 it was estimated by a competent forty the necessity of earning her living, TI ed to have written "A Man of Feeling," not less than six hundred animals of one She was educated, refined, accustomed to a beautiful home all her life, and could do almost anything, she said, except men- ial work or hard manual labor. After a long search the obtained office work at $7 a week, but this job she lost in the spring because her employer cut down his office force, and since then she had visited agency after agency, leaving the required fee at some at others promis- , log to pay should she get work. The woman applied also to the labor bureaus of charitable concerns, including the Charity Organization, all of which took down her name and address with the promise to let her know if anything turned up for her. None ever did let her know, (she complained. The point amplified by the writer was her cap- ability to do good work in more than one role and the impossibility of get- ting a chance to fill any role in this city. ; The Charity Organization official, a woman of untiring patience, saw the printed letter arid mentioned it as an in- stance of the injustice frequently done the society she repeeents. "It is possible that woman came here and. that I saw her and took her name, although I do not remember any person :whose qualifications answered to the de- scription of those enumerated in the let- ter," she said. Is comparatively now. Some of the var- nish may have rubbed off by this time; but to all intent% and purposes the King is new. Norway now wants a new language, says a writer in the Boston Transcript. The national Parliament passed a bill authorizing the change, though it has not yet advertised for bids or let the contract. Indeed, there seems to be a disposition to make the new language out of old materials. This will be a great saving, which means some little to a country with the slender purse of Norway. It seems that time present written and spoken tongue of the country is a made - over Danish. There have been some very slight modifications in the pronun- ciation and the grammar, but Danes and Norwegians understand each other at once and the literatures of the two countries are really a unit. But from time immemorial there have lurked in Norway many peasant dialects, dialects that vary so much that peasants from one end of the country talk Greek to peasants in another end. Those tongues are rich and racy, they are alive, they smell of the soil and they throb with the heart. Fifty years or more ago there came Into fashion an effort to preserve these tongues in the country's literature, The written language began to gather up quantities of these expressive spoken terms. Bjornson headed the movement and. started the fashion, and his books borrow some of their remarkable quali- ties from this broadening of his vocabu- lary. That broadening carried with it a broadening of interests and sympathies. From these healthy beginnings there grow up a widespread endeavor that soon overshot itself, became an exag- geration and received its proper epithet on "maalstraveri." From innocent en- richment of the language the enthusiasts passed to the point of attempting an en- tire upheaval of the language. Bjorn- son suddenly became a purist and set himself against this tide of wholesale Iconoclasm. Now it is quite possible that some change may actually appear in the Nor- wegian tongue. Parliament has voted that examinations in the Norwegian ver- nacular shall be imposed upon pupils in the schools along with study of the ex- isting forms of speech. The peasants really forced this measure through. They hold a large hand in the National Assem- bly, and their vanity had been reached when it seemed that they had been call- ed upon to supply their land with a lan- guage. First, the "Landsmaal" was recommended" as a study. Then it was made optional. Soon teachers were re- quired to possess a very good knowledge of it. Now the last step in this act, which compels the pupils in the second- ary schools to learn two Norwegian lan- guages, one with a literature and good for every -day use, the other a product of pedantic philologists—for by now the so-called "Landsma,a1" has dwindled into an artificial effort of the linguists, who, in their passion for order and exactness, have robbed the poor thing of its origi- nal life and vigor. There is in Norway an exaggeration of the nationalistic idea. There is a tendency to exclude foreign capital and foreign enterprise. This language deal seems another ultra -nationalistic extrav- agance. Fortunately for the present it appears to be nothing but a temporary eestacy of temporarily predominant peasants. The whole future of Norway consists in its Europeanization. 4 • • WOMAN Of SAMARIA. "It is possible she came and that I eeould ilea immediately provide her with work such as she thought she could do. i it is hardly possible, however, that she earns and went without an offer of some sort of work or the promise of some 'within a :day or two. For example, at this time of year I can often make room tor women of intelligence accustomed to the management of a house, in the fresh air homes and other summer institutions to fill the post of assistant matron and lelp look after the stores. and linen and servants. A place of this sort pays $25 a month and board, not a big sum, of :course, and the work wound be temper - :my only, but surely far better than =thing at all. "Nevertheless I have trouble often to set women suitable to fill these places, some of those meeting the requirements :demanding bigger wages than I can pay, and others refusing to accept any work which takes them away from their own lome. My experience is this: That men and women often remain long idle sole- ly because they don't fancy the sort of work offered and. that persons apparent- ly on the brink of starvation refuse a • tideover job at $5 or $0 a week with , the indignont remark: 'I can't live on ; $8 a week.' And when I point out that a quarter loaf is better than no bread at all and that -when in a place the , chances Deo all in favor of getting a raise or of hearing of a better job else- where I am looked at with suspicion. "I have no end of patience with seek- ers after work. It is my business to be ;patient. Were I easily annoyed or quick ,to take offence; I could klo no good here. try to put myself in the applicant's iplace and understand her fretful, des- pondent state of mind. I do not permit Iampertinence or ill temper -to bias one against the persons who offend. "It's a great mistake to imagine appli- cants to this bureau are willing to take almost any sort of work they can get, for that is far from the truth. ; "The other day, after several weeks of persistent' effort in behalf of a woman who is worthy and capable, I succeeded In getting.lier a place to take charge of or rather to oversee a workroom and a number of girls. I wrote to her and she came down to get particulars. While was talking to her in came a lady who dots a good dealof philanthropic work ,and who had seen the woman before. On ;hearing the news she congratulated the 'latter. The woman with a toss of her .head remarked: 'I was determined not Ito take a position where I would have eto take orders from anybody.' 'The lady stared and said nothing. She •Ilimew as well as I did that the woman aantatod 10 ape pail= ems. no nogg peg lot a long time, depending often on tile ikindness of friends for food and carfare. ;But I answered: 'There are very few per- sons working for a living who do not lhave to take orders from someone higher lupe "Another woman, who by the way is again out of work, but who is intelligent and capable, has tried my patience per- haps as much as any one I have ever met. She is about 30 years old, cense- quently she balks at. working for a young girl's wage, and it was under pro- test that she consented to begin at $8 a week in an office where her task was in- dexing and work of that sort. "The head of the concern really made a place for her at my urgent request, . and he promised to raise her pay if she • was worth it. He kept his word. The woman was capable and made herself so e valuable that in six months the was get- . :tine $10. Two months later the force of (employees was cut down and she was • (discharged, She might have had the pre- - lerenee had it not been that she is hard Ito get along with, inclined to quarrel . with fellow employees and give herself airs. "She knew of her impending dismissal several weeks ahead, and came to me with the request to be on the look -out immune from blackleg an , '—a work by Henry Mackenzie, often me Department of Agriculture at Ottawa eluded in the popular reprints of to -day. through the health of animals branch le Eoaleain order to sustain his claim, now in a position to supply preventive . s vaccine for each of these diseases ; actually transcribed, the whole teork nicking the usual blots, erasures and ad- 48 unfit for human food, says the on - nominal cost of five cents per dose. Until don Chronicle, and they are ordinarily recently, by special arrangement with ditions to give the manuscript a pinto eible appearance of originality. Curious- buried Mr. Attfield, professor of chem- istry, to the Pharmaceutical Society, has extensive manufactures in the United States, these product*: were secured at a ienough,atedi.e calktithoelau although the peoplepb1i shoefr publishers arteh- ;pointed out that this is often an unneees- reduced cost, and were placed in the P 1Yrul hands of Canadian cattle raisers at ten' evidently believed in him, for when he Bore' waste. cents per dose for blac c eg vac fourteen cents per dose for anthrax vac- 'the beefiest; grave of Eccles, suggested eine. It is duo to the fact that these that a stone bearing the inscription "lie - preparations are now being • made at the neath this stone 'The Man of Peeling' biological laboratory in connection tvith lies" ehould be subscribed for. -43 • sort and another in England were killed by lightning, most of them being sheep and cattle in the field. In all such elm - =Mee it is usual to regard the carcasses • d died a certain writer, commenting upon carcassesare not in the slightest somenese as food by the eleetr c s - charge, and if within a short time after being struck down they were treated as in the ordinary process of slaughter- ing and the veins and arteries drained before the blood had coagulated there could be no reasonable objection to their being eaten. This summer has been especially dis- astrous. In various parts of the country thunderstorms have been frequent, and scarcely a week has passed of late in which the newspapers have not recorded the destruction of sheep and cattle. But besides the killing of sheep and cattle there have been several disasters fatal to human life, to say nothing of a great deal el mischief to property of various kinds. Here, again the mischief Is often quite easily avoidable. It is of course, very well 'known that a good lightning conductor properly fixed is an absolutely reliable safeguard against &I injury; but a fact which is not so well known is that an efficient lightning %in- ductor might often be set up at the cost of a few shillings by taking advantage of the conducting power of trees. Everybody should be aware by this time that trees are a, source of peril in times of thunderstorm, though from acci- dents which every now and again occur it would seem that there is still a great amount of ignorance on the subject. Only a few days ago a lightning flash struck a poplar tree near Winchester and killed a man who had taken shelter at the foot of it no doubt in ignorance degree affected as regards their whole- • The notion prevalent at one time that a conductor should terminate in a ball is quite abandoned, and so also is the idea that a tube is better than a solid. rod. It used to be thought that electricity pass- el only by the surface of the conductor, and as a tube presented mons surface Iliad a solid rod the tube was for a while the favorite form. This is now known to have been a mistake. It is true electricity at rest distribute* itself over the surfaces of a conductor, but when in motion it passes through the whole mass, and the efficiency of v. metal rod of any given kind is to Is gauged by it sectional area, only, as has been said, that sectional area must terminate in a point, the finer the better. Without the point it will carry the most violent discharge to earth—or as, of course, it sometimes happens, from the meth to the cleude—if the rod or band be sufficiently thick, but with the point it may act as a sort of spout or pipe through which the electricity may rush without any violent explosion at all. The Meteorological Journal for 1876 relates a very curious illustration of this action of conductors. A party of tourists In the Engadine had attained a height of about 11,000 feet above the level of the sea when they found themselves en- veloped in mist and falling snow, and in silence broken only by a curious inter- mittent noise -which they presently traced to a flagstaff on the mountain peak. The noise resembled the rattling of hail- stones on a window, and dose scrutiny convinced them that it was due to the passage of a current of electricity through the pointed flagstaff. At one moment the rattling was at the top of the staff, at another at the bottom and at other times it quivered seemingly all through it, but never for a moment ceased. The party ventured to hold up ther iron -pointed alpenstocks, and, they all instantly experienced the familiar tingling of an electric current through their bodies. It was evident to them that the clouds over and above them were in what elec- tricians nowadays call a condition of high potentiality and that there was a sort of an electrical downpour through the flagstaff, which constitued an outlet for a force which but for some such pas- sage would probably have flashed out in lightning. •4-4, THE CHURCH ABROAD. the health of animals branch thatthey can be supplied at five cents per dose. The vaccine for blackleg may be ad- ministered by any intelligent person by moans of an instrument supplied by the MOTHER'S ANXIETY. The summer months are a time of department at fifty cents. anxiety for mothers, because they are Anthrax vaccine, which is also supplied the most dangerous months in the at five, cents per dose, is more difficult ; year for babies and young children. to adniinister, requiring a qualified vet- Stomach and bowel troubles come erinarian to treat an animal. I quickly during the hot weather and Cattle raisers who have fear of an almost before the mother realizes attack of either blackleg or anthrax that there is danger the little one would do well to apply to the veterinary may be beyond aid. Baby's Own Tab - director -general at Ottawa for the proper lets will prevent summer complaints if given occasionally, because they keep the stomach and bowels free from offend- ing !neater. And the Tablets will cure these troubles if they come suddenly. preventive treatment. GREAT LITERARY FORGERIES. The wise mother should keep these Tab- Cunningham's Early Scotch Ballads—A Ilets always at hand and give them occa- Frenchman's Forged Letters. sionally to her children. The Tablets "1 could cheat a -whole general assem- can be given with equal success to the lily of antiquarian; with my original new born, babe or the well grown child. manner of writing and forging ballads." They always do good—they cannot pea - The man who xunde this proud beast— sibly do harm, and the mother hits the Allan Cunningleun—was a youthful guarantee of a Government analyst that stonemason of Scotland, earning 18 .shin this medicine does not contain one pee- lings a week. That lie was no idle brag- tick of opiate or harmful drug. Sold garb is evident, says the London Tit- by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 Bits, from the fact that in his twenty- cents a box from the Dr. Williams Medi - fifth year he perpetrated one of ilhe eine Co,. Brockville, Out. greatest literary frauds of the nine- • 4 • teenth century. Canningham, in spite of his humble NEW YORK CITY. role in life, could write poetry the beau- ty and pathos of -which would bring team to the eyes of the reader. Appar- ently, however, he possessed a desire— characteristic of many rogues of literary agrdiuevrier aneCereenxiePekrestholeienk was travelling in Scotland with a view to 18f0o90 making a collection of genuine Scottish songs, asked Cunningham to assist him the etonemason conceived the idea of welting ballads and passing them off on Cromek as old Scottish preductione. 'Mese were included in a volume an& to Sportsman's Rifle. The beaters arrived at camp the fol- lowing morning. They began to esmO in twos and threes, then in fives and sixes (Revised.) A. woman came to Jacob's well, I Who in Samaria did dwell, And saw a man dressed like a Jour, Who asked some water that she drew. And with Samaritan racial pride She thus this Stranger did deride, Why is it you ask drink of me When Jews and my friends don't agree? This Stranger to the woman said, , If you but knew the gift of God, And had'st a drink unto Him given Would give Thee water sent from Heaven. This well Is deep, sir, she replied, You've naught to draw with, as she sighed, And said, to Me this water give That I may ever drink and live. This Stranger said, your husband call, She answered, I have none at all, You have had five, the Saviour said, The one you have you never wed. Like Rehab, the 11[14,0C on the wall of Jericho, before its fall, She lived( regardless of her fate In time or the eternal state. In pensive, thoughtful, quiet mood. Then, net till then, sue understood, How she had lived in days gone by Regardless of the Lord most high. She said, A Prophet you must be, 7hat opens up my faults to me, With heart and conscience smote within Conviction called forth ail her sin. Forgetting water pots, she then Ran to Samaria, called some men, Come, see a Man my sins can toll. If this is Christ at Jacob's well. Samaria's slaughter then did find Peace to her soul 011e neart and mind, In finding Him who strength Imparts To weary, sin -sick, burdened hearts. —John Laurie, Ben. Marathon, July 29, 1907. 4, Bananas by Weight. (London Free Press.) e. short time both the fruit dealers and This was 'Venal -Denis Lucas. the son of for another job for her. She is a nary- and finally in dozens, so that >3* time Ms woman and I could see she was much time breakfast was over the entire rale distressed over loaing her place. The population of some throe villages wtre day after she was free she came in again grouped about my tent. suppose you have been sending me epe- With the help of the shiltnrie fifty of ' and this is the way I was greeted: 'I Oka delivery letters and postale which tile -so were selected and eaoli realised a slip of paper boating my signature, for planet I could have' --this in the mast when they Came for their wages at the end of the' day did, not wish the Herds have miscarried telling me of splendid • aaroastio tont. and relatives of the heaters as pell as "'Poor thing,' I said to myself, 'you the beaters "theinselies turning ep -for are worried to death or you -wouldn't payment. talk like that! The din theee fifty souls succeed in "'No, X haven't,' I told her seriously, making as they move in a long line up for tho reason that / have nothing you the base end two stare of a weeded nun WoUld take! Theo I suggested a $5 job lah shrieking, howling, &calling, set-' and she flared up at once. ting off fire -crackers and beating tuni- "'If Ien not worth $10 a week I'm not tame is enough to drive- any self-respect- Weith anything,' she said, lug boar out of hi9 sense -C. "At that moment a contribution to An army of hattlealmuting dervistee the society came in, flea I excused my- mild hardly ereate a greater amount of golf for a, moment, knowing that the vis- uproar, nor is it at all am -prising thet iter would not take more than live the bear abould find, a pressing engage - Minutes of my Cam. Before the five min- ment elnewhere at, the earlies possible ntes were up the woman out of work moment after finding his nu ilah thus iaft her ant sad broke into our tonver. rudely invadea. If to turns dovtft the . 111010 With trio 'remark that she had frallah LO enematirs the involing irmyt Figures, Facts and Fancies of the Great of lois danger. Such fatalities aro exceed' Metropolis. tingly common, and it bias not infrequent- ly occurred that cottages and other give amusement to New York residents dur- buildings have been struck by lightning There are now 3,800 actors preparing to ;in consequence of the vicinity of some Sag the coming theatrical season. If New York city should receive no more ital water in' its reservoirs its present suPPIY, T1htereee.asualties to animals are often at the usual rate of consumption, would due to the fact that with the commence - last fifteen weeks. ment of a thunder shower they are apt ;to gather for shelter beneath the branch - in New York city. By calculation It is ei• •es of some isolated tree. The explanation Circulation of silver dollars is increasing timated that where the ordinary citizen re- ,of the mischief is very well known. A coived one in a month a year ago, he now 'tree is a, conductor of lightning, -but not receives three. Restaurants and small shops 'a -very good one. In the absence of a • will nasa fraud and it was doubt that Cunningham wrote the ban cc, ()(lellicniirglerde deception. , hundred established beyond them. of theintriVrilatteer . iag the one item of rent are cheaper on bian- : Mitten Island than any place within two ' whIty Is sall moafttettileofnewcoensstriesto of talnifye peexresellonts.i itohiriOttstgglilaint,c glancing gt atshiteieretolaaan17 better channel the lightning affords a readier passage. Now the body of a inan or an animal constitutes a amyesdiaumehathnacet although most of the erittes detee , particularly have an increased number of ilett(I6peoplelreputation himself, taontdaoK:tiiie.ai 1 ii -1. dirgnT"..".3 of it, The whiefrsidO).rices d inineh better conductor than a tree does. Nor was Cunningham the only forger I Number of arrests in New York city for and consequently the electricity when' of Scottish ballade,. Robert Surtees, the I exceeding the automobile speed limit have 'ever it has an opportunity of doing so celebrated antiquary and historian, for xnbeeeenthinfcerreagrigieett sitxhemereage of eleven a will leave the tree and flash through some curious reason not only palmed off 1 There is an average of fifteen. foreign auto- , the animal body. The same thing -will of- some on Sir Walter Scott as antique three mobiles coming to New York city every week. ten occur when the lightning passing ballads purely of his own composition "Step lively" has spread from the city 1 'downward through the tree, reaches a but actually suffered them to occupy a inotoetytheeeidiubfuorrobes, obeuttoleheor re lacks cer metropolis- 'point at which a readier passage is pine place. in the "Minstrelsy of the Scottish % ' and sounds more like a weak imitation of Sented by some adjacent building. The Border," with a fictitious account of the inside experienced guard or conductor, full volley is deflected from the tree into their origin and left -the novelist deceiv- who emphasizes his words as if he were ed to the end of his days. ._ After watching 152 women alight from , driving cattle, 1 It has been suggested that in all such the building. Mention of the deception of Sir Wei street cars the observer reported that one eases if a metal rod were carried from ter Scott eaminds one that the famous out or each eighteen got off correctly, Sao- :the earth for a short distance up the novelist was the victim on several oe- al% i&enth dead_ directioneot ttee ,Itii,ortst wereiitgoing,e..., , lil.. tree there would be no such deflection. OEUSIOTIS of literary forgers who used his tended to make it unanimous but math; m173- The metal conductor would afford a name to boom their own work. George takes. readier passage than the body of a man W Merin.- -who under the pseudonym New York city has 105,000 babies under .or the materials of a house and the tree, One in every 2,000 of the populatits of China at present is a Christian. Queen Alexandra has given £500 to- ward the fund to restore Glastonbury Abbey to the Church of England. The Church Lads' Brigade in England has grown to such an extent that the Brigade List just published make's book of 400 pages. The Bishop of London will come to the United States next month to be hero for the tercentenary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Richmond. Canon Maaterraan, one of the most brilliant of the younger English clergy, has been placed over St. Michael's, which is to be a pro -cathedral for War- wickshire. A great tent mission which is held near the palace at The Hague is often attended by Queen Wilhelmina, who ex- presses great interest in the work of the missioners. Despite a tendency to oppose bitterly any religious liberty in Spain, there is not one of the 48 provinces of the coun- try where one or more evangelicals ase not at work. The cosmopolitan nature of the Evan- gelical Alliance convention in London, was shown at its last meeting, when within a half-hour there were prayers in six languages. Some 250 Congregational Churches of Great Britain are to hold an All London Missionary Exhibition in June, in which 5,000 persons will show the conditions of life in which the London Missionary So- ciety works. Although the official religion Is not Protestant, 90 per tent.of the inhabit - mita of Saxony are adherents of that faith. It has been. decided that Easter offer- ings given to ministers in their' capacity as parish priests are subject to taxa- tion, the Supreme Court of England having upheld the contention of the In- land Revenue officials. The Church Council of the Episcopal Church in Great Britain has been asked to provide a fund of $25,000,000 which wil afford pensions for 14,000 incum- bents in that country, but no way has yet been found for raising the money. General Booth, the aged chief of the Salvation Army, is on a tour of Eng- land that will take in 72 towns besides a large number of villages and hamlets, there being about 460 meetings ar- ranged for the month's trip, nearly two- thirds of them being in the open air. The annual meeting of the Church- men's Union in London was startled by the declaration of Rev. Dr. Raahdall of New College, Oxford, that certain! Psalms were opposed to the ethical spirit of Christianity, and that of 92 Old Testament lessons, he found only six edifying, 18 of the number dealing only with matters of historical interest. Many churches in Great Britain that have school buildings which they can no longer maintain because of emotions of the new educational law, have found themselves blocked when they have tried to use the places for parochial social purposes, the National Society's trust deed barring their use for any but pd. mary education work. *1 • , When to Wear Good Clothee. When people know you are making money you can afford to wear old, shab- by clothes. But when you're hard up put on the beet togs you can get. You know it doesn't make any difference how bad a wolf feels, just so he noean't show his distress. Once he begins to limp and terminals sufficiently pointed y p whine the reet of the peek are upon him venting corrosion. When it is predicable in it trite, ready to eat him up.—Lamaia to do so, they should be perloaleally ex- Mn., Democrat. of Willibald Alexis came to be one o Germanye; first novelists of the early pert of the nineteenth century, publish- ed his first book, "Walleamor," and an- nounced it as a free translation in to Ger- i novel boldly ascribed to Sir rattly, flat wheeled cars than any other !which otherwise is a source of danger, :would become an absolute protection, One year old. One Hundred and Twenty-fifth has more street in the city, but It has no monopoly. +even to persons or animals sheltering be - There is now in New :ark savings banks 1 5983,0100. neath it. Of course nobody would suggest New York eity's transportation factlities that all trees should be thus dealt with, have chanman ged considerably in seventy-seven but it often happens euswesereweeireereinetrdedequeceedte nal position a tree during a thunderstorm is not only a source of some peril but Walter Scott. He afterward encleavored yitiealrms.a,Tahnednotfwhirestiaeomnintlieb to excuse himself on the ground that people had been stupid enough not to see in "Walla,dmor" a satirical attack on • 414 the craze then prevalent for Scott's Tommy's Complaint. I works. In France several mimetic attempts on Scott have been made, notably "Allan Crtmeron" (1832) and "Aynie Verde," (1842), which were both publiebed in Paris as being Scott's, and "La Pythie des Highlands,' introduced to the world as the work of the famous novelist in 1844, by Charles J. David, son of the famous French painter. But perhaps the most interesting of •all the attempts to trade on Scott's the occasion of much uneasiness and anxiety. According to the lightning rod confer - Father's got the fresh air craze and once appointed a few years ago by the mother's got it, too, Meteorological Society of London to in - And I don't know if I can sten' this quire into the subject and report on the bloomin' winter through; best form of the thing there is nothing We haven't a furnace fire, 'cause father much better than a solid iron rod. On the says as where newest of our public buildings, such as A fire is unhealthy, so we warm with the new Law Courts, where it may be his hot air. assumed they would act on the best pro - He gets up early ev'ry morn' an' thaws fessional advice, they have adopted flat out both the cats, bands of copper. These are made in sizes And then goes up in our spare room an' varying from a sixteenth to an eighth of aerobats• an inch thick and from three -quartered The winders are left up all night, an' an inch to two or three inehes wide. name was that connected with t ie n in the mornin' gosh! The copper is a somewhat better conduc- of E. de Saint Maurice Cabany, director - I have for crack the ice up in the pitcher tor than iron, and the flat bands adapt general of the Society of Arehivistes of France, who in 1855 etertled the literary just bad, themselves more easily to the walls of when I wash. An' mother, too, she's as she a budding than a thick rod. But the world with,a newly discovered novel by walks from two till four iron makes a very satisfactory lightning Scott, entitled "Aforedun; a Talc of the And then comes back an' pulls at some- rod, and provided it is quite continuous 12I1n0." a g long breath— down, if possible, into a moist stratum j. A. Farmer's book entitled thin' hangin' on the door, and embedded well into the earth, going "Literary Forgeries" it is explained how, And then she takesbi it's one o' her best tricks— of soil, it affords perfect security. on account of inaccuracies in dates and And doesn't breath till she has counted The cost of such a rod up a house or the description of places, this novel could the main trunk of a tree to a height a not have been -written by Scott, but the We live on malted shavin's and shredded little beyond that of surrounding objects up ter ninety-six, authorship remains a inyetery. Vt., also hails from France, An' I can't use tit it' teat my appe e— s as is hrreaanllyy ypeelysontasifwlicligo. are well, aware of The prince of literary forgers, as re- door -mats, too, There is a erong possibility that within gar ds q grocers of London will be selling bananas by the pound instead of by the dozen as at present. A well-known wholesale dealer stated yes - tar -dame that Within a short time all fruit of this variety Which passed through his hands would be sold te the grocer and the small dealer by the sound, and that as a result it was likely that the purchaser Would have to buy them on the same Method. The foreigner with his push cart is to a large extent responsible for this change of trade precedure. The priees at which he molls his fruit, compared to these which the grocer asks, make it appear as if he was making a great cut in the price. Such a state of affairs is net the case, according to the statements of the fruit men, who claim that While the push cart men may bo his wares cheaper, he IS not selling the mune grade of fruit. "Their fruit may look an right, and to the overage purchaser be lust as good as that offered by the froeor," said one dealer, "but if it was put on a scales it wduld weigh below the class which the grocers Sell. The banana crap this year will be a peOr One. tiecording to Jamaican reports, and it Is probable that an advance in prices mill resent. • • Se sent who after provlaing certain classes of people with more or loss spur- ious pedigrees perpetrated one of the most colossal literary frauds of the nine- teenth century by successfully palming of f 27,320 forged letters of ancient and eminent men to Mr. Chaska, a man of world-wide reputation as geometrician mut astronomer, who paid Lucas nearly £0,000 for the collection. Lucas' false letters included' some from the Apostles, from Plate, Pliny, Lazarus and Mary Magdalene. And yet And Then Ile Ran. "M any man ever tell yon,"' asked Itenpeck, as he edged towara the door, "that you were the sweetest tuta most beautiftil woman in the world?" "N't•," replied his wife. "Gee! lien are helettor thitti Witthey were."—Chleago Record. good an new. . the protective power of a good lightning An' so I'M goin' to Grandma's house, rod aro not perhaps equally well aware where I can sleep and stuff, that it May serve not only to direct Till mother gets her lungs filled up an' harmlessly to earth an actual discharge pa gets air ernuff. of lightning, but may also prevent the --iluelc- occurrence of the flash by conducting the * - 6 electricity in a silent stream so to speak. For this purpose electricians now reeog- Editorial Troubles in Kansas. nize the fact that it is important that Everybody has his troubles, even the the conductor shall terminate in a, sharp editor of a newspaper. A reporter was point, indeed the most approved form of sent out lately to get the news of a, lightning rod now has a corona of points, party. The hostess would not toll the re- porter about it, saying she preferred to and n practical difficulty is to keep these have her friend Miss So -and -So write the re - piece. This wan on Tuesday. The Signal went to press Wedneaday night and Miss So -and -So brought the story in Thursday morning, after the papers were all in time -post -office. Later in the day the host- ess called at the Signal office and abus- ed the editor like a pieltpocket for net printing an account- of her party. If the hoetCEIS hail allowed the reporter to handle the story her party would nave been taken mit of promptly and prop- erly, for the reporter is on to her job, while Miss So -and -So can't write for sour apples. We strive to pirate, but. trying know Sherman's definition of war. --The to please everybody is war, and. you \ Itolton Signal. Men one woman insists upon paying ...---s-*-4.----- another woman's Oar fare and the other Women lets her she 114Ver forgets It. ti0004441"014144400444444.06.10100401. 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