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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-05, Page 31 'rell+Cele?4444140:000 )41440444$ 14.)?"1444.414•4044444,44,4,44404:•004"0 Doings and Sayings hi . England. .404+.144.4.444044444444044444 44444 '44 ft: 444,44.4.440:442 440:48.4.4.0 11.8 a coneeesion to Scottish (minim' al London. • WaS represented to Sir john Ifell, the Lord alayor-cleet, and. Mr. Louis Parker, who is stage managing the show, that the prestige of thee° natioaal her - 008 woula suffer by their 111011W -0U in Eilleh 1111Zen.nt, Mr. L, Harcourt, firet commissioner of works, on Thureday addreseedia meeting in the Victoria. Hall, Batley, It Wae marked by scenes of great disorder. The hall VMS packed to suffocation, and it was evident at the very beginning that there were a largo number of Suf fragettes present. Immediately Mr. Harcourt commenced his speech there were interruptions, and very soon Miss Adela Pankhurst rose and Out a question to hint regarding wo- men's suffrage. This provoked tremend- ous uproar, and women jumped up in several parts of the hall shouting, "Votes for women!" A, skirmish took place in the middle of the hall, and the police were called in, but their presence had practically no pacifying effect,so it was decided to eject the disturbers. This proved a rather difficult task, but after a desperate slruggle Miss rank- hurst, Mrs. Lee, of London and. Rev. W. Geahain, of kluddersfie'ld, were all carried out bodily. After this the meeting was a little more peaceful, but now and again cheers and counter cheers for women s lemmatise broke out, and these were followed by hissing and booing, which rendered it practically impossible for Mr. Harcourt to make himself heard. For a time it looked as if the meeting would have to be abandoned. but the excitement sub- sided sufficiently to permit of a vote of confidence in the Government being pro- posed and carried. Outside the hall there was a huge crowd, who received the ejected ones with cheers and groans. Their dishevelled appearance testified to the ordeal they had passed through. They made their way to the market place, where they held a protest meeting. TWO MEN SEIZE A LIONESS. Mr. C. Trieharat on Oct. 8 saw four Times on Messrs. Laugridge and Taylor's ostrich farm on Athi Plains, British East Africa. He called Mr. Langridge, and the two went together to try to shoot the When the two men approached, three of the lions made off, but the fourth, a half-grown lioness, lay down and waited, •charging twice -when the.men came hp to evithin about fifteen feet of them. The farm dogs arrived and began to worry the lioness, which crept into a patch of bush. Messrs. Langridge and Triehardt de- termined to try to capture her alive. 'They made a loop of rawhide rope, fast. anted it, to a stick, and attempted at close quarters to pass the loop over the lioness' neck. The dogs were then set on to worry the lioness again, and while the brute defended herself loops were passed round each of her hind legs, and the lion- ess held fast until her other limbs were lbound. Then a, cart was fetched, and the aimless hoisted into it and conveyed to the farm buildings. • TO INDIA IN A WEEK. DOCTOR SHOT BY A DOG. Dr. Vernon Paul, a young Harwich meaieel man, the Victim of an extra- ordinory aecident Rameey, near liar- wieh. He had been eabbit shooting with some friends, and, the sport having finiolted, the gums were pltwed in a motor -car in readmees for the return journey. By eolue mischttnee one of them was left loaded, and juet ite De, Paul was taking hie seat a clog jumped 181 the car and Witched the trigger. The Marge entered Dr. Paul's body, paissing through the left lung, and he died shortly after- wards. SUICIDE AND WEDDING BELLS. A young W01111111 named. Elizabeth Amoe, hexing quarreled with her sweet- heart, named Bennett, attempted to end her life, first with a knife nod afterwards by strangulation. She expreseed her repot to the magis- trates at Dudley on Monday for her act, and Bennett stated that he had ageeed. to marry her, and had already published the banns. The magistrates ordered her to be re- manded to the workhouse infirmary. un- til the day fixed upon for the marriage. Sim expressed her williugnees to marry Bennett. The Novoe :Vremya advocates the ap- pointment of a commission to study 111, Lesser's project for a railway to India, remarking that M. Lesser has long been •the partisan of an Anglo -Russian rap- Iprochement. The journal states: "If the project is married out the journey from London to Kapachi via Baku, Krasdonvodsk, Merv, lEnsitita, Newchaman and Sukhona could the accomplished in seven and a half days. The section from Kushka to New- charean (430 miles) alone remains to be constructed. The record from London to Bombay has Preen beaten hy the Ellerman liner City oaf London, which has sueeeded in lower - ming the P. and 0. stendard rate of speed, anteing made the passage is just over ;twenty days. INOVELIST ON DESERT ISLAND. The South Sem Island steamer Suva fahes• hrought to Sydney from Naultalofa., in tke Tonga group, news of an author- ess who, like the late Robert Louis Stev- enson, has made a egecialty of Pacific Island stories. Early in this year Miss ,Beatrice Grimshaw was in London, :where she published a book that met %with some success. "A eew days ago," the report brought lbg tho Suva, runs, "'a. native was seen madWling his canoe at a furious rate toe wards the Nuakalofa beach. When he got lats breath and calmed. himeelf he de - catered to other natives on the beach that kad seen and bad been ehallenged by a lone white barefooted figura of a fe- male on an uninhabited island. "Next day the officials went out in a boat to invoatigete, and, with fear and .trepididation on their faces, la.nded on ;the old pilot statien end disedaered lire with a tea -kettle singing merrily, a gooking-glass, and inside a, hut, thump- iing bee typewriter, Miss Grimshaw, the authoress, who was trying to find eome Mind where no white man had ever trod." —7" PENHOLDERS. Hundreds of Kinds Made—Prices From One Cent to /tete A simple enough thind a penholder might seem to Pee ntertlf all simple things few aro produced in greater variety. Penholders such as are more oonamouly used that is, other titan those of silver er of gold, are now made in hundreds of styles or variations. A single American manufactur- er of lead pencils and penholders makes nearly 200 styles of penholders. To this now almost endless Lussottment now stylea are constantly added. Those penholders of tho kinds more. com monly used, ranging in price at from olio cent to 25 cents ouch, are sold in this coun- try te the number of millions annualty, aud American penholders are exported to all parts ot the globe. There are penholders that can be bought at wholesale as low as 40.cents a gross; such retailing et one cent each, and of these great numbers are sold; but what Nvitlx the general spread in the country of wealth or ot com- fortable means, and the general spread of the Present day desire for something Potter, there ate probably now sold es many penholders of kinds' that retail for three or five cents, Venholders that have grace as even as util- When penholders were first introduced, with the introduction of eteel pens, those aseigned for common use were all very plain and simple, the almost universally used pen- holder being of wood, straight and round and of a uniform diameter and stained rod, and baying at one end a little bent cylinder of thin sheet steel, into the open md et wblch the pen was set. Now penholders aro 'Made, as to the han- dle part, straight, awell and taper, and in VATiOUR other shapes, and the tips, as theY are called, in which the pen Is hele are made of steel, or brass, or nickel,•or cork, or rub- ber, And then there are penholders with the handle all of Nvo0d, with the tip at the ex- treme end not gripped in the writer's hand, but a little embedded ring of metal through which the pen is inserted into the handle; and there are penholders all of hard rub- ber, these made also of many differeat sizes and shapes and of many colors. Wooden penholders are mide of cedar or of whitewood, some finished in the natural wood, polished, and some stained, and many dipped dr painted. There are to be found such penholders in all colors. And the tips aro in almost as ereat a vari- ety as to shape or finish. There are metal ties. plain and fluted and spiral and em- bossed. and these in various colors, or, vari- colored, or gilt; and cork tips of various shapes and sizes, and rubber tips likewise, and rubber tips that are called pneumatic, being not solid but hollow, and so yielding under the fingers. Among the penholders that might be called odd ahaped are sense with the grip part of the handle triangular, and others with the via part of the handle, or the whole pen- holder. made in the shape of half a Inexa- goe, Such penholders aro used by draughts- men. designera and card writers, who waut a pen:holder that picked up and held la their accustomed manner, preeent the pen to the paper filways in exactly the same way. so producing uniform results. And there are writers who prefer such penholders because they don't turn in the hand and so don't need to be held so hard, when a comes to silver penholders you might find of these in a ,eingle stock pen- holders of a hundred styles, ranging price from $.1. to $5; penholders of various Sizes and of various shapei% including octa- gon, and twisted, and of teeny kinde of fin- ish, minioth and engine then and engraved, and chased, and etched, in designs of many oatteries, which may be purely ornamental, or perbaps of dietinct Etyles, of Renaissance, Empire, George III, to match ink wells, pa- perholders, or other belongings of desk sets. And of gold penholders, including holders with pearl or with ebony handles gold - mounted, there would be found many etyles ranging in price, with a gold pen, at from $5 to $30. the gold penholders being finish- ed smooth surfaced and polished and in •va- teens etyles of ornamentation. With a small pearl set In the end of the handle, gold pen- holders range in price according to the work 11D011 them and ehe size et the pearl, at from 118.60 Up to $E0. . Se one may buy a penholder at any price he degree to pay. from one cent to $50; and between those prices he will find penholders in but endless variety. Range tocured. 1 hat day tide Itecend mate heekad 1.11renty-,401 en eleiree. sallow are muuetin.103 Credited WItti a Ilk. ter the Mak 01: the Matadi, bUt the =- Salty et them certaiuly heel) faucy ill tied direetion. Now alai then if a mall :Merl eaught, a pOrtion May fled lts way i re4 ey. but it doee not preee dainty eharle steak IOU tempting, latit, it is only the 11=j:trimmed Met Veyeger, Ite a rale. who M venters:tome enough to eat it. Yew' old salt Wee prebebly prefer pickled. Pork. Moreover, ho eince not like Um itte• Lion that he might be eatirig e Sailor Ws- geitie, Big eharks are reallY elate unPala- table, and are no teMptation. oveu to tore - melee, hands who may hevo had nothing but salt Junk ajtd'biscult etelethree or four month on, end. It said neverthelms that at Maur - films they fieli for starlit! lu order to teell them to Chinamen, who aro alleged to have a liking tor thie 01111113 Ot food. ArailIld the A.uetrallan anti New Zealand coaeti, eltarlie are unpleasantly prevalent and big to beet. &Hors have it that lf a boat upsee in Sydney hal•bor there Is cbane.e of 4 body being recovered. Otuel a large sherit found its. way into tho bathing place at Melbourne Bay anti ecized a owl:Inner by the leg. The map. wee pulled ashore. but his iniuriee were such that he (ilea almoet immodulately, Little wouder that thou: mon- Dieril are dreaded by the mariner Mtn the verY Moment diet Po goes to sea, eel that the lapse of years develops a hatred of thom which is only matched by bis ellAsrLa rule tho tailor Is as kind a man tee any that wants the enrth, but he shows no mercy to slearee when once he gets tnem In Ills Myer. Be apparently :tete upon the :se- tannption that a (Mark would epereaca with, a total absent.° et ceeeteey or eonsia- oration. Timm monsters will sometimes at- tain enormous size, but a man may go to sea for many years and not see ono more than 20 foot long or thereabouts. Such a huge fish could, of course, not be got on hoard without passing a bowline around his tall, and so easing the Strain on the fishing line, To find the sharlc tee sea novelists depict him Nvo muet go further south. It Is in tro- pical watere that he chiefly makes his home, • and' affords excellent fiehing for the crews of becalmed sailing ships. Steamer folk know little or nothing about sharks, The truth is, this monster of the deep has no liking for the screw. Same people even say that in Eouthern .barbors he eau read the natie,e sometimes attached to the etera ad- vising people to keep clear or the propeller. The ohancea are that the Mark is rather in- terested in the gradual disappearance a sail- ing vessels. for it is these ships that carry his deadliest enemies. O. piece of salt pork, ranted by preference, le a dainty bait which no mat"), hungry shark will retie° when it la thrown over tee ahlrect side. He turns over, expoeing his gleaming belly, and epens his hige mouth, As soon as the bait is swallowed the sailer's fun begins. The line is made fast to a be- laying pin and all bands stand by to haul the Mark aboard, He thumps his huge tail against the ship's side, but tt is all in vain. Ovee the rail manes an awful looking head, with small, diabolleal gray eyes. The first thing to do is to stand clear ot the ehark'e tail, for it la indeed a powerful weapon. The fish bends himeelf double and then lets his tall untold with ell the power et a big keel Bering unloosnd. The next thing 19 to put a handspike into Ids mouth to prevent hirn bltthe and then the carpenter with his nxe breaks tho monetor's baeltbone. The shnrk Is now belplees. But Ids vanity is amazing to the very Net. No sailor is so voilture- some as to put hts hand Into a shark'a nueith simply because his head is severed from the body. THE .QUEEN BUYS A DOLL. 4. young .woman at Epsom, Miss An- nie eihrubb, whose right arm was ampu- tate& some time ago, and who has been bedridden for the past three and a half ,years, recently sent some of her faney ovork to the Queen. Owing to the nature of her illness, :Miss Shrubb is unable to sit up in bed Ito do her work, 'and for making knots :she uses her teeth. During last week ohe received the following letter from Inickingham Paloce: "Mies nollys is sure Miss Shrubb will be pleased to hear that the Queen admiree her work so inttelt that she would like to keep the doll with one of the little hats, if Miss Shrubb would kinaly name a prim for it. The other oetieles will be returned, carefully pack. tetlfi A reply was sent. aila on Saturdey tanot'her letter was received from Miss •,•tenys. stating that Her Majesty had -purchased the "'beautifully dressed" doll. 'The doll is dressed in pink satin. HEROES WITHDRAWN. It vette originally intendad that Scot. land ahould renresented in the Lord Mayor's show by 'four figures notable in elie 'history of the country. .At Die last moment, however, tide plan has been abanaotted, and the fol. iewing substitutions lave been effected: • ineteaa of 'Wallace; Henry le Waleys, first M. P. for London, instead of Robert Bruce; Geoffrey Chau. .cer, Wetted of •Toltn lialliol; plivelei oartholinnewis, instead of John I' • These alterations have been made not SAILOR'S' ST9R14§ 9F SHARKS. --- Big Fish That Tolled the Old Ship's Bell—Male's One Day Catch. Shark etories give seamen 0 good deal of seope ler lertile imagination, but some of t110111 ere Well autnentleattd. • 'liters Is, iue instance, says the leondeu Teiegraph, tuo meta of a big Shark which was eafely hauled on. deck KAU WILD WARM it WAS 00411'011 make an experitticat. By MAAS of poeverful taceica talon to um captain the fish aas so eecured that it ceuld not lash Its powerful tall A mar was then mado met along tee fishes back and upon it was erected a sole of gallowe, from Which an old ahip's bell was euspeaded. Thus harnessed the shark WAS thrown overboard. The heavy wooden spar prevented him Lem have brought us into groat Waters, Every - going beneath the surface of the water, atul body from t Ito insurance man, who writes (so he made ids way aerose the sea tolling tato the policy on your life, to the ben boy who boll, One can imagine the wondernient which bring:, your pitcher of Ice water, wants some weuld be created on Emma yeasel rake-off, some foe, that he charges In pro - when, la the dead mimeo of the treeleal 'portion to your ignoranee. Ail theen tee :t night, the mournfut nete.of it bell come neat- us further into the great waters. I believe emit° peteble Wattle of these Sea WOIVOS thne*sueh things were protested. Ing over tee &minces of the sea. have twee made by Ships becalmed, 01.11 account is kept of these exploits, which are Indulged in not only tor amusenaent but be- cause the sailor hes a deadly and Inborn hatred of the share. In this monster the eellienn 9101110 to recognize Ills one and only enemy. One of the best dayse fishing of title kind has hitLecto gone unrecerded. It hap - Penal some thirty years ago. The fisherman wee the then steend Mato of the British bark Ladstock. Ilis veceet was bound from Ar - &organ to San Prantisto and Ley becaln0:1 in the tropical belt Of the Pacific, The heat was edema and the sea alive with fith of earione kinde, Tbe stagnant atmosphere seemed Impregnated with the amen of feet. The fltherman went Outboard on to the tnertiegale, known to sallormen (le the "dol- phin :striker," with a hook baited with it boulte, It WAS net the safest et poettions, but the line was made faet inboard. Al - Meet as coon to the book was thrown into the water cheek feebeti by tine went Off with halt the Lento:. Another carried ateaY the otter half, but aloe rate ed the heolt. A third, seeing the two others secure a partici? DOtS NO1 PAY "10 DIE NOW. Doctors to Charge Five Dollars in Future For Issuing Burial Certificates. Five dollars for burial eertificate hats been announced 08 a part of the programme for All 0.11-1,0Und increase of doctors.' fees, as proposed by the Ontario Medieta Couneil. Thoaselide of people have lound it a very heavy tax ou their reevurees te pay their doctors' bills at the old rate, '111,0 Menu() would. be a very earioue mat ter to many people were it not for the fact, that there 14 within the reach of all that woaderful remedy that, after the most bevel e cuuditious, ha proven that for all forme ot rutedown »ea te1114 frelli al111.04t any (lame or catts,•, cepechaly from. thoee diseases affectiog the throat, lungs dr stomaele Peyeltiee is a eater, surer and more dependebte ,deliverance than the untried and tot- perimental preeetiptione of nine out Of ten of the preseutolay doctors. Pey- chiae, adaition to beieg comma- trated life work of several of tlw world's most emineut inedieal special- ists, has a sixty years' accord of ua- paralleled. and unapproacheele til- umphe over disease and death that hae brought light and joy to tens of them salute of Ileums every year. And it is steadily going on to still greater triumphs, It dues not pay to die moo Take Psychine and live and enjoy life. It is a great system -builder. Fifty cents and 01 per bottle at your drug- gist's, or at Dr, T. A. Sloettuas, 170 King 'etreet west, Toronto. "Several years ago my wife was HO seriously sill of lung' trouble as for months to bo unable to walk, at whoO time a noted physician told me that tne next dress that 1 would bley for her would be a shroud. She used Psyehine and is now reasonably well."—Itey. C. E. Burrell, Forest, Ont. THE BRAIN. • A Wonderful Organ That Is Yet Little Understood. The ,discovery of a special speech re- gion in the brain furnished a key for un- locking one chamber after another of this mysterious physical organ of the mind. Even as regards the faculty of speech itself, it was soon revealed that it had three separate anatomical seats in the brain—one for hearing words, another for seeing and a third for speaking them, How separate and distinct from this uttering centre the brain place for read- ing is was illustrated by a lady patient of mine, who was astonished one morn- ing at finding that site cdula not read a word in anything, whether newspaper or book. She thought something must be wrong with her eyes, but she saw every- thing about the room as well as ever and could sew and knit. I tested her speeeh carefully, and found. that she could hear every word addressed to her, and could talk remarkably well. Her reading brain centre, however, had been destroyed in the night without her wak- lug by a plug in the little artery which eupplies that place, and she • forthwith became as illiterate as a Paupan savage, nor did she -learn to mad again, succumb- ing to apoplexy two years afterward. Generally more than- one speech centre is injured by an apoplectic hemorrage in the brain, as was the case with a pa- tient of mine, a gentleman who one morning lost not only all power of utter- ance, but also all ability to read. He could, however, hear words perfectly, and strange to tell, he proved that the place for arithmetical figures is in a dif- ferent braio oenlity from those for words, because he could read and write figures and calculate every kind of sum in large business trapsactions which he successfully conducted for seven years Afterward, withoute ohm being able to speak a word, or even to read his own signature.—Dr. William Hanna Thomson, in Everybody's. 4 • 0 NOW ABOUT MAETERLINCX. Diana Makes a Good Fight, But Gladys Gets the Decision. MUM wore her hair parted in the middle, revealing an expanse of . bulging forehead., kleeglauses clipped on her num and tinited forward gave farther evidence ot intelleau- linty. When Clarence could get his eyes away from Gladys he noticed that Dlana's Jaws were net. As soon as the conversation changed to Maeterlinok Clarence knew that he was to for it. There was no use in remarking that his knowledge of the drama was limited to Clyde Fitch and Dietrichitein. Ile simply had to look deep if only to keep up tappear- ances for Glady's sake. ehe looked sugar sweet in baby blue. "Which do you think is the true Maeter- linck," Diana had popped at Clarence, "the mystio or the realist?. "That depends," said Clarence desperately. "It'e all, you see—er—in the point of view, In fact, I wouldn't hesitate to say er er—in faet." The agony was awful. Clarence looked idlotie. If he had continued, Maeter- linck would have driven him into a padded cell. Luckily Diana interrupted. "What I mean," she said, 'is that we are ,eurning away from the mystics to con- front cold, hard facts." "Oh," said Clarence, much relieved. His mind and eye were now beginning to Nvandor Gladesward. "Why. do you know," continued Diana, "eN,en primary colors are beginning to have a vogue among intellectual people ?" "Give me American Beautie,s nestling in lustrous: dark hair," thought Clarence Just then. "If ever any girl ever looked ma- nently Itissable—" "Art you following mo ?" asked Diana, somewhat eharply. "I don't altogether deny," said Clete:nee rathee confusedly, "that. primary colors are bad or—er—or—that is to say, unattractive. Red, for Instance, properly set off—" Gladys was blushing very prettily and looking at Clarence out of the corners of her eyes, Oh, that look! "Of, course collars should be contrasted. I wott't deny that," asserted Diana wiping her glassee, "but as I was saying we have out- grown the mystic tendency." "To be sure,". said Olaseace absentneinde THE LITTLE BLUE BEAD. Nowhere in all Western Canada do the waters of romanee lie duller than a generation. So that the imagination Di tile Weiterner, be he farmer, rancher, merchant, or real estate dealer, is never athirst. The farmer breaks a patch of virgin prairie. and the plow turns up creelful of white bones; and hard by he sees the "wallow" or shallow depres- sion in which the mighty dead, a lord of the Northern buffalo herd, took his last ausabath. The rancher, ridiug towards the foothills qn round -up, chances on a place where stones have been laid in a wiae eircle. Here was, in olden days, a city oe the Blackfoot nation; eaca frag- ment of rock was once the hearthstone in a tepee thronged with the voices of men, women, and children. These stones are half -sunken in the prairie; in another century they will have sunk out of sight. The rancher's keen suet -bleached' eyes, focused in a frown, discern at point of blue gleaming in the grey -green expanse. He dismounts and picks up .a little blue bead about one-quarter of atn 'inch in diameter. To -day his three-year-old daughter wears it in her corel necklace --so that the long day's work of the N- uns the first to wear it? And who shall dian artificer has not beeti wasted. Who be the la,st?—Co.natle. • • The Degrading Tip. "These cusoldned habits we have acquired MI a Slight upen the "Land 0' Valces," hut mem, flung himself tit the hook and Was and son in steal a way as to prevent tae eXebango of confideueee between them. First the old Emperor was moved to a ecparate velem and the place WA filled with Japanese in the guise of bowie chamberlains, equerriea and secretarice waitime Still there were leaks awl the reigning' Emperor wined to be un- der the influence of his father, Ihrough the pliant Corm Cabinet. or. ders have reeently been transmitted to the new Emperor that only once a week elan he visit his father, and that on those occasione them 4101 be nothing more between them than the forma tea drinking and exchange of the usual elab- orate courtesies. The Enmeror has been advieed that since his father is really a bad man and no petriot it would not be for the' best interests of Corea for hint to pay more attention to him than the rigorous code of Corean etiquette de- mentia The last mg was stripped from the dignity of the former occupant of the throne on October 3, when the reigning Emperor paid a -Melt in state to the tomee of las ancestors outside of the eity walls, The procession through the city WaS beadea by. two mounted .fitpano DSO police inspectors mid a troop of Jap- aneee cavalry, Thr imperial banner carried by a ,Tap. aneee color sergeant preceded the Im- mita conele The imperial coach, ft gift from the Emperor of Japan to the Em- peeor of Corea, was drewn by Japanese liorSe8 and driven by Japanese drivers. As all oft this glitter passed out through the Taikan gate the old Emper- or and the Crown Prince,. his grandson. were allowed to stana near the gate and see the show, A Japanese reporter re- pertea to the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, of Tokio that the ev-Emperor "seemed overcome with emotion." 4.4P FELL WITH BOOMERANGS, Story of a Deadly Encounter Between Australian Aborigines. , I was visiting at Port Augusta when the Cie 1 ',WACO tu tuat 1...wn to hold the ,ent of •Ite Lon- don Field, Port Augusta is alraost oa the "Where the past saw beauty in repose wo now seo beauty in action," "Indeed we don't altogether," said Clar- ence. A fine Mance to please Gladys had loomed up. "I still see beauty la repose," It wasn't altogether Clarence's fault. Gladys was gracefully reclining ngainst the cushions of a Morris chair. Diana was leaullee forward, glasses in hand, forehead cOrrugated with thought. "If you do you aro classical in spirit," she dogmatically aeserted. Personally Clarence did not know what he was He let it go at that. "Undoubtedly you have on your side all the wealth et statuary ch1selled by Greek and Italian masters." Clarence resisted the impulse to say "Have I?" Instead he listened attentively. Silence is an asset with intellectual girls, you know. "I can very well see," went on Diana, "how any beautiful object grows upon one through its mere Presence. It is said that the Mona Litia--" "1 agree with you there," Clarence Inter- rupted hastily. 'Beautiful objects do grow upon rm." No wonder. Gladys was expanding in his brain to heroic .proportions. Diana sudden- ly remembered that they had wandered from the topic. "We Were discussing Maeterlinck, I believe," she recollected. Clarence murmured "Yes," with the oheer- fulnee af a hired mourner. "He began, as you are aware, by being symbolic: and mastic:1e Then suddenly, through -a mental process which has not yet been explained, he turned aside from the vanue--" She stoped suddenly, for Clarence had risen to pick up the lace handkerchief that Gladys had let fall. Its delicate perfutne Nvas intoxicating. As he handed It, back Gladye whieeered: "I feel awfully warm; don't you?" "We'll go uut and get some fresh an," Clarence said. with hooted joy. No compunctions lingered in his mind about leaving the blaeteflinek question un- settled. Maeterlinck deserved all he got, and more. For fifteen uticomfortabie minutes ho bad kett Clarence on the raelt. What del Clarence care for the Belgian playwright, anyhow? Ho was helping Gladys on Nvith her cloak, VOTY faint odor of sweet lavender clung to her. imperceptible though it was, it went through bis very being, As they passed out arm in arm Diana call- ed back atter them: "Mr. Dawson, I just thought that Ibsen is artistically a parallel—" Unfortunately that front door closed. Per- haps wicked little Gladys pushed it. Per- haps she deserved to bo scolded—bet she had such pleading eyes! REPRESSION IN COREA. 4A,, 1111)11i:dial:a U.:L.-a:AA,. L.00,1 t1113/S 311113 vowing In prottmion the "mit busb," whien supporte tee life of the sheep durieg drought, andethe tempting "Prickly lace," a weed ;moo to luok upon but aceursed to tho farmer, as ate pointed spur works laavoc anunig the fleece:. Close by we saw a prosperous vetrich teem and a number of camels, with their Afghan driv- ers. about to start on a journey still fur - the: north, The strange impression of this juxtaposi- tion of old and new was deepened by the nature ot the principal case for trial. It was a charge agaiust Jimmy Wonyilta of the murder of 1311Iy Lee, bah aborigines. The story of the crime was not complicated. A quarrel seemed to have :wizen through the refueal of the deceased, though of utature Years, to submit to iudietory rites which technically made him a "young man," The witnesses were careful to speak of him al- ways as a "boy," though it was testified that ho had a f ew gray hairs. The actual confliet between the We men was conducted with much of the punctilio ot a duel. Bach of them was armed with what is comonly called the "double boomerang ••, strictly speaking, it should rather be cadet! a club in boomerang form. It is a large aud somewhat heavy weapon, not inteaded as a missiel at all, but used to inflict a blow which must be delivered only agaenet the head. The inviolable etiquette of such encounters, de- mands that each combatant in turn Ghent bend his head to the attack, net attempeng to repay it until he has steadily suffered his owe chastisement. Blow thee sonenly al- ternates blow, until the man with the stroag- or arm and harder head is left the victor. In this ordeal Billy Lee succumom. Tho wknesses in this trial were Of course mainly aborigines themselves, f or the crime was committed in one of their camps. Their demeanor was extremely nervous. Again and again they had to be exhorted to hold up their heads and to speak clearly. One of them. a etrong man with dents upon his head sueeeeting a long experience of boomerang duels, tainted in the course of giving his evi- dence, and another collapsed as soon as, he had left the box, Later witnesses were therefore allowed to sit, and were frequently refreshed by a glass of water, which they would empty at a single gulp. Their evi- dence was given in pidgin English, inter- oreted by a police inspector, who wile Pro- tector of Aborigines for that dietrict. The couneel for the defence had the ad- vantage of having lived' for some time am- ong the blacks when a boy, and could con- seque:ntly make himselt easily understood by them. 'You yabba lenge me now," WKS his intimation that they were now to %seek to him instead of to his learned brother. "You tell me straight, no tell lies," w.as sufficient to emphasize the importance ot truthtul ans- wers. Several peculiarities in linguistic us- age came out during the examination. The -Witnesses used the word "lose" as a euphe- mism for "die," and "kill" in place of "strike." It had the oddest effect to hear how Ono man would kill the other, and then tho other would retaliate by killing nim. Two peculiar characteristics noted by the writers on aboriginal customs were illus- trated tn this trial. Ono was the blacks' in- ability to count. At one point it was desired to ascertain what time elapsed between the death of the victim and the giving of in - formation to the magistrate. The man nem had himself carried the' news could give no answer when the qeestlon was put to him point blank. He was next asked how many "sleeps" he bad during the journey. ales ineuiry WAS also ineffectual. Lastly, t'he lawyer proceeded iu tbis fash- ion: "Where you sleep aame night Billy Lee toned?" "Me sleep So-and-so Creek." was the prompt answer, The place of sleep- ing night after night was then elicited lentil it WA easy to calculate the total interval. So, too the time of day at wbich any event happened was indicated not by mention of the hour, but by .pointing to the quarter where the sun was. Tbe other characteristic especially illus- trated, was the reluctance of the friends of the dead man to mention his name after he Is gone. It is steted by 0130 of the latest lath- ornien on aboriginal practices, N. W. Tho- mas, that to mention the name of a dead man is thought equivalent to suinmoning ghost, and that to avoid such a celamity words once familiar will even be allowed to ,dron permanently out of use. In thls CaS0 Billy Lee's "lubra" never etues referred to her husband by name in the whole of her evidence. Sho evoke of him inveriably as "dead men " If it was uncanny to hoar of.' a man killing his antagonist after he had neiready been killed himself. It gave one no lest. of a creepy feeling when this woman told bow 'dead man" ate his dinner or walk, ed. outside hietent or took up hie boomer- r-rg 4 *0* JaPanese Steps to Separate the Old Emperor and the New. Being an ex -Emperor and the father of an Emperor in Coree at %lie present time entails disadvantages. A recent de'epatch from Scott publisbed in a Tokio paper said that the Japaneee Resident, Cameral had begun to believe that tlua old ex.Emperor end his son were alto. gether too friendly end that repressive merteures would heve to bo taken. When the Emperor was forcea off the throne last July in favor of his young ttna weakenintled erni, who was eorisiet. :oral more amenable to Japanese design, he did not take kindly to hie voluntary abdication, bnt eontinued to keep up the ohl court intrigues amid hand out advice from ati obsenre room of the palace to the throne. The new Emperor was only a tool hi the lands of the Japanese, but he still retained Mlle spark of filial tool patriotib respeet for the former ruler. As ft, eoneeenenre the attpanese foutul. that =my, of their plans for the acquisi. Hoe of tbe last slireds Conan Sov- ereignty were being divulged nod. inter- forod with, With Japanese delicacy the Marvelous easevi Leo liOrrign which ehows that shin discaseci here- tofore considered hopelees can be cured. Since. Leo Corrigun had beeu tortured with the burnieg agopy and itchieor of Eczema. His parents had spent a great deal of money in con. eating physicians and buying utediclues --but all to no purpose. As lie grew older he souglit ether doctors—some of them speoialists. He was eleven weeks in a Toronto bospital— eight N't eelo iii bed. At tittles the irrie tation mid pain caused by the Eczettla were so eevere, life was tt burden, Ile would get to bad be could uot welk, Several winters ae could do no work, He wrote, on February 20, 29°61 ern November, rpos, I had another attack, and was advised to use Mira Ointment. (I thought this would be like the other remedies I had tried, and of 810 use to me). But, to my, great delight, a few hours after the first applicatian, I felt great relief. I have used it, now, two and a-lialf months, and unhesitatingly state that it ie the best remedy I ever used. It has worked wonders for MC. Since using Mira Ointment I have been able to work every' day—without irritation or pain—no stiffness of the lhubs or soreness. I feel a new percon. "From a state of great irritation and some- times excruciating pains to freeclont front all 311011 being capable of doing hardwork every day,ls a marvelous change. Mira Ointment has effected it, "I strougly recommend 01131 person afflicted with this terrible complaint—Eczema—to use Mira Ointment." What this wenderfully effective Oint- ment has done in this extreme chronic case, it can do in othereeemingly incur- able conditions. If you suffer from any fortn of shin-diseasel don't delve Certain relief and cure is waiting you in Mira Ointfuent. Get a box to -day. eoc. —6 for $2.so. At ding-stores—or from The Chemists' Co. of Canada,• Ltd., Hamilton—Toronto. 15 ee "°1111k—TRA0E MARK REGISTERED. .111 (41100 tii seee i.,;* t.p11U111:116. 1 .111 uttllekt mustaid, Jour level teen: seeteatila on cetera et thyme, level table- eeeoitittls, (Ilayote vtei te.,itt4 on (mete 01 olive me Lee) e...11..eveen- .a.i lattice of ehopped suet, a fourth of a cupful. To final half pounds and quarter potluck merely Mititenly by 1 otiv or remenueniug Lliat Cy, level taweepoonfels mite half a envoi!. artielet in, the male ol ouncel, wait the exception pf butter, Ilene and sugar, are seldom ueetl in pourels todhary hotteeliold revipee. '.1.4J 11114 'LOW nuked etillair3 pouna it IA 0111.3, 1.NALISS:try multiply by biz:teen. Per butter it is a pint, for Sugar elmut one pint, for nom about a quert. • A level tablespooliful is one that is flattened over tee top with a knife. A rounded tablespoonful is one that curves WEIGHTS AND .MEASURES. There is an old saying that A pint is a pound The world around. But -Unfortunately this is not true. If it temeeeweeleololeeeeetmeeleeeememetelletee0443414440:0144 The priee of radium bee declined 032-3 per epee le quoted Wee' at fillelfidell"/ an ounce. Slue:. •1 1410,8 7.7 1st Va.•1•• n . triblit Pit 0,6••2.780 grains 11.6i1.4 0‘.1 ,,f quinine among his untpl..y•:., • .t.e.t4 the PaiLlitia Canal. John Itteltefeller 11:11 a:tallet $2,600,000 gift to the etolownwer of the Rockefeller Institnte ler :tledIcal Re- seareit, Now York. lt is at gt,oll us. J make of wealth. inetelt over the top 04 the opoou it- self (lees beneetle A heaping, ceaspoon- Irielt butter at 25 to ell coat • , , polio ita is on piled high and. contains just t . re at 18 8t11111g in Montle and ill sui as much us the spoon can possibly' hold. A 'good.sizeti' is larger than 'mended,' i he offered in Toronto. ',that may eerve A great many houtiewives make the but not piled high. to help out the scarcity; mistake of contoundthe a heaping table- It is estimated, says the Philadelphia spoonful with a 'rounded' one. .A recipe for letuon pie %illicit calls for a heaping tablespoonful of dornetarch tatty be ruined it the spoon is merely 'rounded,' or even one teat is 'good-A:L- et idt,y' fool ej outs taa rtaii itili°1ault"thealripalen be firm enough to cut. Yet add too much and the pie will be etarchy. Thus the knowledge of what a 'heaping,' a 'round- ed' and an 'even' or level spoonful, ete., is, is a necessity to a cook. When dividing a spoonful into halves, mg out half a spoonful, yod0 te xoe ict Ell\voits.e—a quaanida ter, divide the half crosswise. and the quarter crosawise for au eighth. The term 'a few grains' is considered in any quantity that is less than one-eighth of a teaspoonful. When weighing out ad 'even' or a 'le- vel' spoonful, use a ease knife to level it. Some shops now sell with their measur. ing eups and other measures measuring spoons, which are the correet regulating size for tableepoone and teaspoons. Oc- casionally they are marked off in halves and thirds. Nothieg could be more indefinite to the layman and culinary novice than the -expressions wineglaseful and cupful. Authorities, however, hove reduced these measures, cupfuls and wineglassfula, as well as the various spoonfuls, to a de- finite and exact scale. A cupful in all the best cooking books is exactly half a pint; four cupfuls making a quart, In regard to a wineglassful, which is an especially indefinite .term in the mind of the average cook, the following ad- vice is given by one of the best anther- ities: A wineglassful is apt to be a claret glass. If the diameter is two and three-fourths inches and the depth two and one eighth inehea from rim to bot- tom, the glass will hold three and a half ounoca, a hundred 'mid five cubic centimetree. A sherry glass, which is flaring and is also a common wineglass should hold forty-five cubic centime- tres, or one and a half ounces. A liquor glass with flaring sides and two and' one-eighth inches deep,. with a diameter of one and one-eighth inches, holds two- thirds of it fluid ounce, or twenty cubic centimetres! The following table may also be found useful to the everyday housewife: One hundred and twenty drops of wat- er—one tea,spoonful. Sixty drops of thick liquid—one tea- epoonful. Two tablespoonfuls—one deesert spoonful. Three teaspoonfuls—one tableepo•onful. Eight liquid tablespoonfuls—one half cup. One half cup—one gill. Four gills or two cups—one pint. Two tablespoonfuls of water— ounce. Betore measuring stir salt and similar articles to free 'them from lumps. Al - \lays measure a cupful level, using a case knife to level off the top. Put the article in by spoonfuls to be sure that ever part of the cup is evenly full. It is,par- ticularly necessary to do this with but- ter. Glass medsurang. cups are excellent; because one can eee perfectly if the butter has filled up every part of the cup completely.—The Tribune. • • _ • were tbe busy housewife would be saved much time and vexation of spirit, tor even when she pcesesses a good pair of scales it tali.(38 m010 Lune LU Wviga tut article than to measure it in cupfuls. If one is not the happy possessor of 'scales, a table of -tempts aud ineasuree, seeming equivalente, Is 0 most conven- ient thing to have in the kitchen, How- ever it is not well to (emend upon sueh a taible for pound cake, rich fruit co,ke that depends only upon eggs for lighten- ing, chili sauce which wile for (mese and half ounces of peppery ingredients, or for any recipe that demands absolute deltracy 10 weight, as such a table can- not always be exact. For example, one pound of butter will often be larger when measured by cupfuls than another rpii,,und—tilie differenele probably being tate to the amount of salt and NN3114.01' it eontaiu's, Some granulated Sugars weigh more than others and some flouro differ in weight, owing to the grind- ing. These tablee in cook books vary widely, but most of them agree that a pint of buttes.. equals. a pound, a quart of sifted flour equals a coulee, a large pint of aver a pound, and mne large or ten small eggs a pound. An efficient imusewife has compared weights and measures with the follow- ing table as a result: A scant quart of bread Houle after sifting, a pound; or three and two-thirds cupfuls auisiftede, a pound. A pint of graham, seven and three- fourths ounces. A pint of cornmeal, ten mita one-fourth ounces. A pint of rice, fifteen ounces. A pint of sump or coarse hominy, thir- teen ounces: A pint of tapioca, twelve ounces. A pant of bread crumbs eight and three-quarter ounces, A pint of butter, a pound. A pint of raieinto nine ounces (lightly mea.surede A pint of currante ten ounces. A pint of granulat'ed sugar, a pound, (sometimes scant and sometimes liberal). A pine of brown sugar, thirteen ounces. A pint of maple sugar broken into crumbly pieces, equals one pound* and four ounces. An ounce of butter, two level tables- moonfuls. An ounce of flour, four level tables- poonfuls. ., An ounce of cornstarch, three table- spoonfuls (level). An oune ' granulated sugar, two cil1/4 level tables tads. An ounoe o ;round coffee, five level tablespoonfulte Au ounce of grated c.h000lette, , three level tablespooniuls. An ounce of pepper, four level table- ihonfuls. An ounce of pepper, four level table- spoonfuls. An ounce of cinnamon, four and a half level teblespoonfuls. An ounce of clove, four level table- spoonfuls. An ounce of mace, four level table- spoonfuls. Travels of a Picture Film. The life of a picture film is limited. They constantly are wound and unwound on the machines and this in time wears them ao full of holes and scratches that they become valueless. Only by the best of cape can e, string of folms be made to last through one season. When the films are rented from the Paris manufacturers it costs the man- agers 111 this country all the way from $1 Oto $50 a week to get them. The rental price depends on the quality of thq films and the scenes which they pot. tray. In the five cent theatres, where there is a change of pietures every day, the same films eau be used only two or three times at most. After that 'they are sent to the next vaudevilleor five cent theatre in the circuit, thus going the rounds much after the numner of the actors and actressee thentselves.—From the Chicago Tribune. NOTES IN PASSING. For penknives the steel is tempered.et 470 degrees, for saws at 560 degrees. greee, for saws at 560 degrees. It requires fiftY .pounds of calidlee produce as Much light as 1,000 cubic feet of ges. The average weight Of Not,* obtained from a single elephant is alma fifty pounds. Organ grinders in Vientia are not al. Iowa to play in the tnornipg or evening —only between midday and sunset, During the last yettr the amount of water used in quenching .the fires of London was 20,000,000 gallons. Every soldier in the Russian army 10 to be provtded with tt pocket ("mimes with it luminous needle, and 300,000 eom- agents of Prinee Ito, the Resulent-Gen- passee, costing R80,000, have already oral, undertook to separate the father, been ordered. OEM Left Its Nark. Not having telegraphed for accommo- dations, ex -Senator Mason discovered in a small town that he would have to make shift as best lte could. Ile was compelled for that night to sleep on a wire cot that had only some blankets and o sheet on it. As Itfr. Mason is a man of considerable avoirdu- pois, he found his improvised bed any- thing but comfortable. "Well," asked the proprietor, when the politician appeared In the morning, "how did, you sleep?" "Fairly well," answered Mason, "but certainly looked like a waffle when got up."—Harper's Weekly. • • • The Wrong Question. On one occasion a Bishop who prided himself on never forgetting either the name or face of any clergyman in his dioce,se happened to be trav6ling some- where by rail, when, at a certain station, a clergyman got into the same carriage in which tbe Bishop was. ,The Bishop recognized the man's face but could not remember his name; and not wishineto acknowledge his forgetful- ness, Meet forward and, with a charm- ine simile, said: "Excuse me for forgetting, but how do you spell your name?" "J 0 N E 8, my lord," was the %reply. --Illustrated Bits. Men do all their writing of love letters before they are married. A woman car keop it up forever.—New York Press. 41/410+1)0161600010/40400044.44410/0 Grippe or Influenza, whichever you like to call it, is one of the most weakening diseases known. Scoil 'es Etnatrion, which is Cod Liver Oil ...Ind Hypophosphites in easily di- gested form, is the greatest strength -builder known to Medical sicience. It is so easily digested that it sinks into the spitem, making new blood and new fat, ancl strengthening nerves and muscles. Use Scott' E I la ion after Influenza. invaluable tot Coughs sod Colds. ALL EIRLIOOISTS1 606. AND $31•00. 446414404.411.41014014440446401 40 Ramo), t ha t 170/100 .Amerittin Heat tire.' seeond cabin passengers 111 transatlantic Steamers left not less than $150,000.000 in Europe during the year ended October lat. Europe, however, gave value for this SUM. much• did Europe lose during the same period -by the drain of imndgration to the 'United States? Lamps with defective- Malmo should never be used. H the top of a lamp has become worn out, get a new one. Lamps should be earefully Moaned. nnd filled daily. When not regularly cleaned there is danger of fire, end a lamp that Is used 1011C11, out .of order and when the oil he low in the bowl is always a source of clanger. Phoenix Company offieials blame the collapse of the Quebee bridge on changes in the design made by Cousulting En- gineer Cooper, thus Mere:wing the unit stresses. The Lancet bhunes "bridge" foe tile-, spread of colds, sore throats, influenza • and catarrh.. The cards become hotbedi of the deadly microbe. It suggeits thee if the ladies wall to avoid these diseases they use washable cards. One hiDidred. and ninety-nine saloon* weee voted out of business in Chicago at the election the otlar week. Of the. IGO precincts which voted on the queetion.' 140 voted against license. There were 260 ealoons existing at time of voting in these precincts and 109 were wiped out by the ballots. More than half of the area of Chicago is now sold to be "dry." asteee,-- Toronto reports quite a number of men out of work, and not a few of them ham are able to do so are mit? te be gOing- back to the old eountry. It• is a good - lime far thoee who have situations to • keep them. The bubonic plague at San Francisco • • is more than a mere settee, and fully jus. tifiee the extensive mea.sures taken to • inaily it oat. Already there have been 00 meta, and of those 57 have resulted fatally. A mortality of over 60 per cent, make* the vile disease a thing to be deviated. It is hart of the priee Unele Sam is called on to pay for his posies - skin of the Philippines. rf lora the so-called sport= n and t settt,,e, ow iSt.ttepsro Government to aeide b rd reservations and breeding grounds where' the feathered tribe miOtImm'othdee blooathirsay youth. Statisticians say the loss to that country alone resulting from the killing of birds and the neglect to properly protect them foots up to $S00,000,000 a year. We do not know how they arrive at that result. But We de know that in- Canada the annual slaughter of birds is a serious loss to the country, and that their extermiria- ttihoenctovuotiurryb.e fatal to the agraemture of cagForoim.epoviairsiofuhse States come reports of shut -downs. Peaoritiesernc7sf a prudent contraction for a time. Bug - avoided. ness is sound, but inflation must be a..15 111:: 8,000 mena The railwaye west of thnt city have discharged 25,000 men and gen- erally called off extensions owing the foolish "war Olt capital." In .11neteetlane, have beeif14--onts„Two of tibri...1"nited N. Y., 4,500 knitting mill employees States Sugar Truet refineries lave clos- ed. Many smith concerns are slowing up heee and thei.e, and there ttre indications that the pace is slackening. In Canada we have fared well, but we may look for been abolished in the State of New Imprisonment for life has praetically York, Prior to the present year the crime of murder in the second degree has been punishable in that State by life imprisonment in a State prison. Station 187 of .the Penal Code WAS amended by the Legislature of 1 007 so as to read as folic ws: "Murder in the second degree is pun- islaale by imprisonment under an inde- teinanate seutenee, the inittlinom of einel. shall be twenty yeas and the mein -min of which shall be for the 54 - felt cl er's Meal . ; and any • persoo eerving a term of imprismiment ler life, 'eider an original sentence for murder in thc .seemiti degree, when this section, as amended: takee .effeet, shall be deem- ed to he thereafter serving under suelt ;law liettneanneien"t is to em- power the State Board of Commissimmre for Pt -tailed Prisoners, after a person cone ivied of murder in the second degree lies been ineareerated twenty years to diecharge euell eonviet from any. further implisonment under the section. To jumify this action it is only neeeesary that it Phould appear to the lioard that there is reasonable probability that the pri:eilwr "will live anal remain at libert without violating the Uwe and that his absolute discharge from imprisonmeet not incompatible with the welfare of sil ciety." Already several life prieoneee have been liberated under the new law,