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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-02-20, Page 3or VIP 11, AIRSHIPS IN FACT sure ot sailing through the air will trail. scold any aniusentent we now ham even that of travelling sixty miles an hottr in an automobile. AND IN FANcy saigicaletravio)irlilteviknotto:11, • 110 more expensive than 0, getod motor car. That these will find a ready sale and that others like them will also be dispos. ed.:of is certain. That they witit be flown Hurna,n Flight Brought Nearer by mAnot in the light of the past year's work be qamtiorted. Then hall to the greatest of all sports, flying through the air l 1907's Experiments. The year which has just come te) close luts marked a considerable advance in the solviug of the problem of human flight. Particularlyamateworthy hes been the increase in interest showu by the asneral Not only bra the steerable balloon been develeped to what may be nearly its highest pitch, but the art' of flying. by purely mechanical means lets received a great impetus through the experiments carried on In various part of the world, chiefly those which have taken place in the vicinity of Paris. Balloone, manned and unmanned, steerable and drifting, aeroplanes, gyroplanes, helicopters ,or- thopters-all have been dreamed of, planned, built and tried. Some have flown, some have not; iii the former case to the delight of tne aeronaut, and in the latter to the edification of that class of sceptics who possess the rare and in- frequent gift of hindsight. At a cursory glance the dirigible W- hen might seem to have carried off the honors for the year. Count Zeppelin's giant monstrosity circumnavigated Lake Constance several times during the month of August, travelling on one occasion distance of 220 miles and remaining in the air eight hours. La Petrie, after being a source of en- tertainment for the French Cabinet Min- isters and the chosen few of the army during the summer, traeelled 187 miles from Paris to Verdun. The Nulli Seeun- dus, the British war balloon, performed wonders, according to the London news- papers. 13eaehy completed a fell circle about the Sacred Codfish, enshrined in the Massaehusettes State House. In spite of these daring feats there is a reverse side of the picture which must be considered. The intrepid Breachy was blown out to sea, whence he was rescued from a watery grave by the combined efforts of two dories and a launch. Lake Frankenstein's monster, La Pet- rie, scorning the hands which made her, sailed majestically away, in emulation of Christopher Columbus, nct doubt, to discover America, occasioning no small commotion in Ireland during a hasty visit; while the poor old Nulli Seeundus suffered a melancholy shipwreck in the Crystal -Palace grounds in London after an arduous trip of twenty-five miles from Aldershot. Count Zeppelin, more careful than has contemporaries, has pre- served his curiosity intact by keeping vigilant watch on the weather at all times. The St. Louis balloon raee, which oc- curred last October, was a great event in aeronauticel circles. Fired with enthus- iasm over the possibilities of the gas bag in warfare, Capt. Lovelace, from the car of the winning balloon, the German Pomraern, in a later ascent accomplished the imaginary destruction of the city of New York by dropping tons of imaginary explosives, a remarkable feat under the circumstances, threatened as he was by a battery of no less than six million iof human eyes, with himself as the sole :target. He also took real pictures of the for- tifieatione of the metropolic at the im- minent rtsk of being interviewed by a thousand daily papers. Neither did his fears move groundless, but meeting his fate boldly he passed. unscathed through the ordeal, with the result that his opin- lope ere now set dovin in cold black and ohite. But Capt. Lovelace is not the only enthusiast. He is ably supported by. no "nese weighty an authority than Dr. Rudolph Martin, a learned German who deelares that the science of war is ,to be revolutionized by the balloon. Dr. Martin pictures aerial fleets deal- ing death and destruction broadea,st. The amnions and navies of the world in their present infantile stage will no longer Wait. Tretnendous battles will be fought althea the clouds, and fearful, indeed, will he the slaughter. Ittere are, however several difficul- Lica to be overcome before the dirigible balloon can become such a menace to she existeuce of the human race as one might he led to believe from the horrors thrown on the screen by the ea,ptain and the doctor. One of thaw is the fact that this form of aerial locomotion seems very nearly to have reaehed its limit and without exhibiting any very en- couraging algae of being able to contend &goblet tulverse weathl• conditions, to which cause may be laid the Patrie's de- fection and the demiee of the Nulli Se - epodes both, it may be geld in passing,. milstarier balloons. Sod indeed it would be to contemplate one of these aerial tereors loaded to the brim with melinite shell;, held back from her prey by the mere feet that the wind should nappen to be blowing the wrong way at an unwonted rate, aay thirty miles an hour. Or perhape ,in cease the. wind were favorable, going up ha smoke when a stray shot should strike her rather prominent and. unpro- tected megazine. It is refreshing to turn ,from the horrors so faithfully deaieted above to the more peaceful but infinitely mote hazardous aeroplane. Here at least is iound something which shows progrese, Of couvase there have been untoward incidents during the year's expraimente, as when a French. machine, with designs against the bodily and muted peace of tie owner, attempted to climb a tree near the parade ground aa laser les MO; - immix, or NYhen Bleriot narrowly es- eaped death through his aeroplane na 1. lapoing in midair in a trial near the tame place. Yet it must be remembered that flight by mechanical. means is still in its infancy and that the advents, made during the past year in i Lis branch of sterorauties has been utarked by a most- encouraging feature. This lies in the feet that men aro coming to maize time the way to, fly is to learn to tly juet tie yea and learned to ride a Merle, except thet we had the experience' of others, while the aviators hare had to !raze their swts trial. Hunt= flight Inuit come atout gradually. eleelliaes axe in exiereace toeley which can be made with -proper heed - ling to traverse the air, end men :tie living who with proper training can hanalte them, The elements of success in the solution of the problem are there- fore within reach, Of °puree this does not mean that the type of machine not importeest or must not be improved just as the safety bicycle was a great deal better than the six foot high af- fair whieh caused a dee= on the supply of vinegar and brown paper ttventy years ago, The most interesting experiment in aeroplane flight whiels took place dur- ing the lest year have been those car- ried. on in and about Italie, chiefly at the parade ground at Isey. Throughout the Met four months trials there have been of almost daily occurrence, Verities types here been tested; mons ()pilules, as in the ease of Santos Du- mont and Esualt-Pelterie who is the inventor of an ingenious motor design- ed to give 35 horse-pewer with a. weight of but 121 ponds, the Langley type, with its two pairs of wings, with win& 131eriort. has experimented; the box_ kite effect used by Henri Farman in his me- morable trials, and many others combin- ing qualities of all three. Farman, beyond a aoubt, accomplished snore in aerial navigation during 1907 than any other aeronaut. Been:fling his trials in the Meter part of the suramer he suocee.Oed in extending the lengta of his flights to a full kilometer -about 1,100 yardid-on November 9, a perfors mance repeated on December 30. In all attempts to capture the DeutaehArch- deacon prize of $10,000, offered for the first aeroplane flight of a kilometer in a, cloeed .eirole, he failed, being batuii- capped by the failure of his meter to work properly, or by unfavorable wea- ther, On one occasion he narrowly iniss- ed it, an unfortunate veering of his ma- chine as he rounded the fur -thee turn of the course ,causing a wheel touch the ground. Farman has, unlike Most of his ram- petitors, seenaed to have almost perfect control of the equilibritun of his aero- plane at all times, arse ting in every case without destroyine i-, an untoward con- clusion which has''been the fete of eiamy an aviator. Hie nearest approach to a serious mishap occurred soon after his record flight in November, when one of the blades of his propeller snapped off while revolving at 1,000 revolutions a minute, but he eseeped without injury, either to himself er to his machine. Later in the same month. while trying for the aeroplane prize, •thrnian was caught out a stiff squall, bat reedited ; shelter safely. On this &count, then, his work is porticularly noteworthy. Outside of France there hae beer emy little worthy of attention aceomplieaed in aeroplane .flight. A vast aim:lune ot grey matter has been expended in Amer- ica, airship companies have beeu fornsed and many inventors have told what they were going to do, but notwithstanding all this prodigious activity nothing has been done in the way of actual flight. Interest in the •subject did. not come to a head until after the balloon race from St. Louis, and in our climate win- ter experiments are unpleasant. tso pei- haps another year may bring something about here really worth while. In a discussion of this subject the Wright brothers must not be passed over without mention, but as hey have been talking how for two years and doing nothing ia public to suovetatiate their assertions they are facing just at present a decidedly Miesourian aspect on the part of the public. A feaster which will no doubt greatly stimulate the development of the aero- plane in this country is the issuance of contraot specifications for a machiee foe army use by the War Department. As stated in the announcemeot, the aero- plane° to be accepted by the Government must be much further advanced than anything yet seen in pubSie, for it must carry two men, and must make a flight of an hour's duration. The advantages of sueh h machine in warfare would be ceeeiderable, not enough to change the entire art, as the exponents of the vaunted dirigiblehvould. have people beileve, but sufficient to aid materially in the detection of an enemy's movements. As pointed out by Admiral Chester's article lately contributed to the American 'Magazine of Aeronautice, an aeroplane would form a valuable ad- , junet to -a fleet, being able to deteee and report from its superior altitude the courses of hostile submarines. But whee the (potion is presented of what benefit aerial navigation will be to hunianity there is ample food for reflec- tion. The commercial dtility of the air- ship, either balloon or aerophtee, will from the present outlook be insonsider- able. Methods of travel ere not- likely to be revolutionized, What, then, is the airship good for? For sport, and sport alone, Is -the answer at present. Without a doubt the lea. 4044-0400404.40+0404.44.0.0011:40030 41) Don't neglect your cough. 4) #0) 0 0 416 0 (Olt 0 ; elt:e Statistics show that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from Consumption. And most of these consumptives miggt Le living now if they had not neglected the warning cough. . You know how quickly Scoir,r Emulsion enables you to throw off a cough or coId. ALL bRUGOISTSe estie, ANIS 0.41:4401.0040: "0"010.4104.44 AavAIALAguri:Akola,..a.... TRADE NOTES. From the United States Consula of the Far East. Attention is called Ity Osumi -General Michael or Celeutta to the largo and growing trade of Rangoon, Burma, where the United States is represeoted DON'T SUFFER if eg----e-e.. er its Wise, to pny It* officere and (an- ployeee, to provide courts of Justice, to maintain its public buildings, to pay ALL WINTER the interest on Ito debt -in short, to • meet ell the regniremente Of the till. 1111a1 budget. Nl other single indestry Read This Evi:17—ene'e and Begin Te. gives oceupation to so many peewee or supports tio inany families, None day to Cure Yourself With other eontributes so much directly to Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. !nubile utility enters so closely into the daily life of every individual, None the support of goverment. No other v other exhibits, to .the public so constant. Sciatlett is neuralgia, of the sciatic ly and se completely every detail of ite nerve, Its is generally rheum,. business -its tracks, its eustipmente ite than Ala is the direct result of taking Power fasilltiese the enieleneY cif its n nt and employees the extent in"sis‘111.1y ll't°1110. 11:.0.11:70,ici tiltiesem cac rt se '4.t.kxltielosdeetilin'aiandilsy,otat stellr; Thom ia only oue thing; more painful, inspection and, criticism of ever 400; of it, as practiced. The siekening burn- 000.people, than sciatica and that is the treatment ing of the flesh is oulv oink of the forme one passenger, over 4,000,00q persona aro Figuring crab. mai fare or trateefer ;:s of enmity ern toyed by the old sehool transported every day, or twice as many by a eonsular agent. The imports that port during the six Months ended Septeinber 30, 1007, amounted in value to $10,000,000, an therms° of $1,179,- 330 over the same menthe of 1900, In the six mouthe ended September, 1007, Brstieb .410parts mounted to "nig Or bloodless Condition in which the eerve is literally stereo& It eeeds no argument to show any reasonable per- son that a starved nerve cannot be fed by the application of a hgt iron to the outer flesh. It may deaden the sciatic pain for a time, but it will not eure sci- atica., Absolute rest is the beat aid to proper snedieti treatment Rest and Dr, Wil- liams' Pink Pills, which actually make new blood and thus feed the starved nerve, will cure most ceses, Mr. H. W, Await is one of the leading merchatts of Hemford, N. S. A few years ago he was a great sufferer 'rem this excruciating trouble, He says: "The at - tea was so severe that had been off work for some time. The cords of my legs were all drawn Up and I could Cady limp e'en with the aid of a stick. The patin I suffered wa,s terrible. I was its nusery both day and eight. Every move. inent caused me such pain as only those who have been tortured with sciatica know. wae treeted by several dos - tors, but they did oot help me a bit. In fact I almost began to think my condi. tion was hopeless when Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were lirought to my notiee. got a half dozen braes. I had nsed the entire .quentity before I found any benefit. But I Was encouraged and ,got a second half dozen boxes, and befere these were all gone every vestige of the trouble lied disappearea. Not only this, but. was improved in health in every way, as it will be readly understood that the long siege of pain I had. suffered had left me badly'run down. I can't epeak too highly of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. t can't reconunend them too strongly to other sufferers." Sciatica is stubborn in resisting treat- ment and the patient often suffers for years. Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills do not simply relieve the paim They cure the disease caused by .poor watery blood. They actually meke new -blood and have therefore a direct and 'powerful curative effect on such diseases as rheumatism, anaemia, general debility and after ef- fects of the grip.. As the nerves depend upon the blood for nourishment, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills are unequalled for the treatment of even the most severe ner- vous disorders, such as neuralgia, par- tial paralysis, St. Vitus ranee and loco- motor ataxia. • As a tonic for the blood. and nerves they are used everywhere with the greatest success, building wasted. bodies and bringing the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks, Sold by all medicine dealers or by mil at. 050neta box or six boxes for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brocl.tville, NEW COLORADO GAME BIRD. doctors, and a I too often this is entire- ea" )(a' as a" Lall'ea' bY a ly 'vain for the relief gained is but tem- stem railroads of the United States, porary. The lives and safety of these end lima It is a seientifie fact that the major'. deeds of thousands snore oil the streets ty of sciatic% eases result from exposure and publia places are depenale»t upon the watchfulness and rare exercised by the managers and employees of these great corporations -a direct and inceesant hu- man reepousibility not beetle by WI, - 111:014 •4,16-poira.tions or governments anywhere in the entire world.-Vroni a speech by T. S. Williams of the B. It, T. do cold when the patient is in an mete - 099,850,2,06, and exports to $319,009,- 098. Beegal and Bombay provinces do three-fourths of the entire imparting by the she. provinces, including Burma, Consul Wilbur T, Graseey of Tsingtaio, China, says ilia copies in English of the Chinese baultruptey code of 1905 can be obtained from booksellers in Shanghai and Hongkong. The code was tiles work of certain Chinese students educated in Japan and was revised by Wu Ting-faug. The boom in India. cotton yarne in Shanghai has Tun out, and the high hopes a India mills are dampened. ;Jo^ pan has forted her yarns into , notice, sod China is also sure largely supplying the home market. Indta is ipoleing west- ward fr a market. At the examinations held. inPekin for official degreee men who had studied. in American universities were awarded the highest honors. Out of a large nomber examined only seven were given the highest degree obtainable, and of these five were graduates of th University of California, while the two Others had studied in Janpan. • A British coneular report from Corea states that prospects for beet sugar culture in that esountry are bright. Ex- periments ehow a yield to the acre of twelve tons of beets with 10 per cent; of,,sugar, Farmers are financed by the sugar companies and get 50 per cent. of the yield. Mysore State le forging ahead in in- ternal lin.provoments in the way of rail- ways, electric trains, mills and factor- ies, improyed agricultural development, utilization of water powers for electri- city, the opening of manganese and gold mines and in the education of the peo- ple. Makers of American minim', elec- trical, agricultural and saw mill°maehe leery should exploit this State. While the Belgian electric street rail- way lines in Tientsin, China., do not as yet pay much, the Chineee are riding on the ea.rs in ever increasing numbers, and in a few years the company expects to. make handsome profits. The Chinese Ministry of Finance will estallish a hank in Tibet to issue notes for circulation there. China freely buys old. horseahoes the best class of iron for making fine tools and cutlery. The constant heatiug received by the shoes under -the feet af the horses .gives them e peculiar tem- per not obtainable in any other Way. Shantung is hy far the luegest nutrket for this class of iron in all Cheer, says Vice.Consul Velimer of Tsingtan. The Burma Agricultural Department oontinuee to devote a good deal of at- tention to the introduetion of Americen tobacco into that province by distribut- ing Havana and Virginia, seed. Nearly all fthe plumbago exported from Ceylon comes eo the United Stales. We took 15,405 tons out of 36,813 tons (total), the iargeet export of any year in the history of the trade. The Onoda Cement Company of Tokio is erecting oement works at Paottuls kal, Clhina. There is plenty of euitable limestone there, Me company las re- ceived a grant of 1,488 acres of land. This is a chance to sell American ce- ment making machinery, • Consul Hunter •Sharp of Kobe, Japan, reports that the Dein stoma: refinery, sieuated on the coast el trie Strait's of Shimonoseki, near Moil, teens out from 200 to 250 tons of relined eugar a day, using 4, Buffalo made vacuum machine. Its full capacity is 400 tons a day. The factory employe 700 workmen. Mostly raw java sugar is need and most of the product goes to China and Corea, The size of the plant is to be doubled. Japao has contracted with. the Ger- man steel trust for 20,000 tons of tails. - r Rebirth. When I went out to the meadow, When r went over the hill, 'rho whole wOrld was a -waiting My coming to fulfil. The whole world was a -waiting To sing its song to me, To make for ine Its color - The sky -the earth, the sea. I knew not that inf going Was such a wondrous thing, Till I came unto the meadow And the world began to sing. It sang: "To -day and ever Your so'ul's another hue, riecause of tho purple shadows And because the sky is blue. ::;) you are changed foroVer-• Bred the blood of you Are beach and billow and shadow, And green and gold and blue; Forever and foreVer- Because of the ancient hill, And the motion and the music, And the moments when. all arc atill," And I have taken the purple, The green and the sunny gold - And the long, Mng years of the old hill - Although I am not old: - And I have taken the seas -wing, Though who can tarry -wave- And have taken the e shag slag it in My grave. Bncarnadined, incarnate, Bred in the bloed of me - And I am ono forever With the earth and sky and seat Orace Fallow Norton, in the February Scribner. _ King Edward's Theones. Xing Edward has more thrones tbon any other moiler& in the world. Ho has three in his London palitees, one in the House of Lords, one at Westminster, and a sixth is at 'Windsor Castle, The inost eneient is the one at Westminster, where estelt rider of Greet Brititin is erOwned. The coronation chair is a Inas.'" sive throtte os,k, whieh seven Ed - words have silt. Beneath the eeat ,Is sandetono block, kuown as the "Stone of Destiny," front Seone, which Wee emblem of power of the Seottinh kings. The theerte in aid Hoene of Leta§ pf Buroseee terike, Aneyed guam mad ettulded With etesetale. The thread, In St. Joints' Palstee in Viges, With a. tasloPY oearlaid withierlOson velvet, • oriihroidt. ered with crowns, ivet with pearls.. Tho most costly throne is at Windsor. at is eomposed entiroly.of ottrved ivery, in- laid with precious stona%)..especially ' Mille. It Willi 'presented to Qiieert Vie- , toils: by the hithittojeb. of Travancore. *14, You are aiit to oat& a beastly told • When, it.it rainiiNkt cgs dad do., Mountain Forests Will be Stocked With Capercalizie From Sweden. Viso strange birds arrived in Denver Sat- urday, haiing journeyed all the way from Sweden. Now they are domiciled in the City park. If- the plans IA their owner, W. F. Kendrick, succeed tupey will be progenitors of a new race of birds in the Colorado mountains. They are the eapercallzie, pronounced caper-kel-zi, are the aim of a small turkey. In habits they are muck like grouse and ptarmigan. They thrive • best at the timber line and subsist on pine, -spruce and hemlock boughs and mountain berries. Mr. Kendrick, who is tremendously in- terested in birds and animals, has had an ambition for some time to start the breed- ing of these birds in Colorado because Of their rarity and beauty. He has -already bred and liberated thousands of pheasants, but the capercailzie were hard to get. For months he has had a commission in Sweden for two perfect birds. As the result of this ordor the two arrived Saturday, The capertailzie is almost as large as tind similar in habits to the American wild turkey. with the advantage that It can en- dure =eh more severe hardships and cold weather •and 'will live on food such tie is obtainable from the tree tops, if necessary, when the ground is deeply covered . with 611M"r: Xendrick keep the birds at tho nark until they breod, his plan being to take the young to the most suitable places in the mountains and liberate them -Den- ver Post, , RAILWAYS OF NEW YORK. Gr ea i c State m ent of the I mportance pf City's Transportation Business. • Of ell public services in Greater New York, saee perhaps the furnishing of wattle, the people are most dependent upon the railroads. The -supply of elec. trio light or gas may be interrupted, the eleaning of streets may be negleet- ed, the police .control may be inefficient, the maishinery of goyeriunent may be incompetent or corrupt, and the immed- iate effeet upon the people is not sharp- ly felt. But let the wheels of transit stop for' one hour and outcries pour forth from huodreds of thourtands of throats; let them. stop for a day and business halts; conceive them to be etop- ped for a week rad there would be conn mercial and municipal paralysis, with its deadening effect felt in every part' of the eivilized world, The teration companies of Greater New York pay out every year, before their stockholders get a cent, half ro- ma& money as it costs to support the entire city government-te pave end elessit its streets, to maintain its sewers, ptoteet its property from fire, to preeerve its health, to provide schools and teachers, to isteintain its police and the militia, to care for the &pea - dent and eriminal classes, to furnish Waters gas and electricity, to admints- l?t I t\'\-k-ilt::11!t4tt ta 41146,h AA"riEfr'clils'i i4:1,Allintreolithrptalit ' .ses Inas°1 " IN THE UPPER AIR. Ballooning Leads to Discoveries Re- garding the Flight of Birds. The growth of ballooning has hel to many curious investigations touching the atmosphere and its inhabitants.. By the use of anchored balloons with self - registering instruments some of the ex- periments of deep-sea sounding have been repeated. alott. At Strassburg sounding balloons have been sent to. a height of nearly 26,000 yards, ana 19,000 to 20,000 yards ie not an uncommon height. One of the 'astonishing things said to have resulted is the discovery at a height of 14,000 yards of an isother- mal zone, in which, contrary to experi- ence up to that height, temperature does not •diminish with resession from the' earth. One of the most interesting studies is that of the flight of birds. The °beer. Yeti= of aeronauts appears completely -to dispel the old-time notions that some birds soared to stupendous heights, Humboldt having ereditea the Condor with over 7,000 yards, and others belies,- ing that birds of passage flew at heights of 3,000 to 5,000 yards, and is excep- tional cases 10,000 to 12,000 yards. Bal- loon voyagino, however, establishes the feet that births never rise to anything like 'these distances above the earth. Professor J. Poeeehel, of Frankfort, re- cords ars altogether unusual the pas- sage of a balloon, in which, be was through a flock of birds at night at a height of 2,200 yards. The birds dashed: against the basket of the balloon and generally sided as if they had lost their bearings. 13ird flight nt tbe great elevations formerly assumed is now regarded as physically iinpossible. Tbe rarefaction of the air is too great to permit of fliseht without terrible exhaustion. especially as breathing would be difficult. Besides. the cold. is too extreme at a height of 10,000 yards, for instance, the thermom. eter dropping to (4) degrece below. The observatione of balloonists show that the vast majority of birds keep within 1.000 yards of the earth, and -the vast majority of these, indeed, -within a couple of hundred yards, even in long flights. Crows, however, were, frequent- ly observed at a height of 1.400 yards, a lark was once encounterel at 1.900 yysatrect and an eagle is on record at 3,000 BABY'S OWN TABLETS - A LIME LIFE SAVER Baby's Own Tablets have saved many a precious little life. There is no other medicine for children so safe and sure in its effects. The Tablets cure stomach and. bowel troubles, teething troubles, destroy worms, break up colds and pre- vent deadly croup. •And you have the guarantee of a government analyst that this medicine does not eontain a particle of opiate or narcotic. Mrs, 3% Laroque, Log Valley, Sask., says: "I AM a great believer in Baby's Own Tablets. I have used them an many occasions and know of no medicine equel to them in. curing the common ailments of babies and young children." Sold by niedieine deal- ers or by mail at 25 cents a box frbm The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. sse s_ The Lazy Lad. Young Albert was a lazy lad, And idled all the day, . He was not really -very had, But he had a slothful way. He would not work, and ovon had A great dislike for play. On journeys he could never go, He tried and tried In vain; 1301 he was always late, and so At home lie would remain, Because ho was so very slow He always missed the train. Once he took up a slice of bread And looked at it in doubt, And when they asked him Why, he said • As he began te pout, "The butter is so hard to spread, I'd rather go without," And when the Christmas sleigh bells rang, And Santa. Claus eried "Wheal" Ahd when the reindeens swiftly sprang Across the winter snow, His stocking he would never hang, BecauSe it tired him so. It made bird tired to go to bed; It made Min tired to rise; It made him tirod to lift his head, And tired to shut his eyos. wOuld not wink, because, he said, It seemed like exercise. And so through life young Albert went, A laty, lazy lad, 116 rawer eetned a single tent, And never virshed he had. Oh, he was very indolent, And yet riot. really bad. Arthiw Macy, In February st. Nicholas. L 1 The Coneeption of the Sphinx. The Berbers, who, although Afriean are as white as Ituropeats, are` the eld! est white rate reeord, says nai explor- er. "They ate supposed to bave coine from the south of Europe in ancient days," the. Dundee Advertiser says, "and althotigh their language and customs are entirely different from ours and their religion Mahominedant, they are probably closely tilcin by descent. Blue eyes end fair hate are not at ell necommon among the Berbers, and many of them lutve rosy elseeks and features so like our owe that were they dressed British ittili- ioe they would orally pees AS riatiVes the British Isles." :* Jury Oualification. Lawyer -Do you read the newspap- elf4LaT wyer-Have you any friends who Talestnart-Xo. bate opinionnit ' Talesman-Xo. Lawyer-Acepted,-Ohiesgo Journal. The plena:tut:est way for at woman to weeke. old they are carefully picked over teloz,niismbleyy,b10eceecoutieliginvgigteo0111;81iSfeolit.flania.gaeLett,.. 6al :141 fl uapntoitethe mfark.11.010 prep,: foitr market, Of course you can't alwaya be o w ne you s ven Miss Gear lived iu the Pembroke section kept peetteuese eeseet, oot auessjeg A t of Maseachusette betweeu five anti eix •i should etty that about one young bird Milve.froni the railroad etation and three weeka old out of every fifty le most of her birds to Philedelphia. la put aside to try another week's fatten. spite of this distance and the added wet ing, of shipping; she Mule that leer Wetness "In selecting breeders I am even more PaYte particular thau in eeleeting my market "Ten yeers ago I went to Heaton as a MOS. I AM tryleg to get my flock all shop girl. To earn promotion I hut to one solid coler, gray, and for that rea- work 00 hard that by the time the pro- son, besides hemg perfect physically I motion same my health was gone. As , try to have all the young breeders diet had saved a little money when the doe- color, , I sell breeders., only on orders. tor told me I must lay off for a year's They are shipped anywhere from the sreottihidnegtertinhaintedwotouicdoikeLlrtne and get time they are four to sbs months old. rue out of As they mate when they ere sat months doom Finally I hit on pigeons. I read old, it Is best for them to be in their about pigeon raising as a work suited new hoine leest a few days before toven‘tv°InnIteeen t 1 that period. The male Ideal chooses the I could finti nest as a rale before ehooeing his mate, in the library about it, questioned mar- and during the eighteen days of ineubao ketenen, about the pewee, and when I tion he takes hie turn sitting on the nest seine home I had made np my mind to both morning and afternoon. It is not such an extent ihut rented an acre a graerally known that pigeons mate for grorad from my father. life. In several inetences I have experi- "On tide land T built a shed 40 feet, eneed some trrable in tsetting a widowed long, feet deep and 10 feet high in the bird' to eeleet second mate. In one bask, sloping to 7 feet in the front. I ease there was a largo beautifully mark- . divided the back wall of this shed into ed earner cock who remained in the nine shelyee one foot separt, and. the state of single blessedness for more than ahelves into spaces of one foot each. two yeare, Finally when he did take a That gave me nine shelves with forty seeond wife he Wit'S SO to her that spaces on each, so you will see just how I was forced to put hire in the pot, and many neets I arranged for. Except the give her another chime. few times that my father lent me a hand "My farm is, now four times as large in lifting 'Hie heavier ecantlings of which as it was at the beginning. While I still the frame of eny elsed was bailt I dta. all use sheds built after that first model, the work myself. I was not wleich, by the way, was copied from one gstoio•odngf,9rImIcei:eswo ithilaetrstelvieereerreise was recommended in a magazine, 1 have add- ed many little changes which for .sny "Once the shed was up I marked off purposee are improvements; Instead of my flying. yard' and het up my posts. bui,ling my sheds six feet deep I now This wee just 40 by. 100 feet and 10 feet reak1 them eight, which gives me a two high, the height of the hack of my bird foot covered paseegeway at the back. In shed. Oyer these posts I stretched wire the , baek of each compartment I noW anterattlivegf.rolutievaingneiboghtbigollit a load of clean saw at square hole end fix ovet it a and had it put swinging door. I now have only to walk in a vacant eorner of my father's barn, along these covered. passages, and, open - I wont into town to beeped the 200 birds ing each door, look into the nests and I had ordered. I picked them over so remove the young birds or clean them carefully that when the time same for out when necessary. Another and in shipping the number was ten pairs short my opinion important improvement is and the dealer willingly agreed to got me that instead of leaving the birds to build better birds to take their place: their nests on the bare shelf I put into "When these first birds were turned each nest epace a shallow earthen flat loose in my yard I fraud that some of bottom. bowl. This does not take up all them had already mated, and in a few the space, and if any of the old stagers days tItese began to build their nests. prefer to stick to their old way of mak- At the end of three months I made my ing their nests they are at libertY first shipthent. It was to Boston and do it. results were fairly good. For some three "Mixed diet is my pteference. It is months I continued to get good prices not only heelthful, but I believe it pro - fed my squabs. Then as the moulting duces fatter and larger birdie. My xnenu time came on and knowing that birds for my birds the year around is screen - were searee I looked for a raise in price. ings, mixed grain, boiled cornmeal, and As no raise was forthcoining I began to two or three times. a week stale bread, etudy the. markets of other cities. A which has been made aoft by soaking in week later, when it was time for me to water. When it is to be had I also give nutke =other small shipment, I sent it them sour milk to drink. They are very on to Philadelphia, Instead of receiving fond of this and I fancy might enjoy $3 a dozen for my squabs, which -were sweet milk, but unfortunately our sup - as good as any I have ever sent out, 1 ply has never been sufficient to try the got $10. experiment. "I have sold squabs as low as ae.50 a. 'Among other good points about breed- droaizesen. in Philadelphia, but when time ing pigeons is that every item produced came for the price to go up I got the is salable. Pigeons are the healthiest fowts with which hese ever some in "I always count on grating eleven contact; .they are the most estsily eared pairs of squabs a year from each pair for, and the demand for them m the of pigeons, though in many instances market is always steady and sufficienily there are a pair for eaeli of the twelve above the supply- to guarantee prompt months. When the squabe aro three salee." the Most hopeless derelicts of our social era"iItnios Gen. Booth Recalls. Beginning of His 44 4. By far the greater number of our , SALVATION ARMY. Yeare Work.- olit:itsy-fleattiersyt — says Gen' . tei despair and destruction. , system!' andel worries and troubles, are driven applicente me 'these who, through fin- . epailmil;i'muicement, "Seven hundred eases have already upon the remarkable series of . efforts . olilloiwhis ,. London. aseed through our hands." For the first sent home from Japan, "since I entered P class it is proposed to found a home, a sort of lonely man's. club, in ,the City of the organizatien known as the Salvation. • which have culminated in the creation of Queen Alexandra's Pets. 4 : n Army." There was a moment at its com- mencemeet when the movement seemed Her Majesty the Queen often has about to perish. The General 'mils how strange peta given to hen Once she ac- cepted a drat from the captain of a it waa saved: "Mr. Samuel Motleys 0 merchant ship who Iblad rescued it in romantic sir - prince of the city of London, a lover eumstances from a desert island, and in of all sincerely Christian and philen- course -of time the animal had three thropie effort, sent for me. He had heard kids, which the Queen -and her daughters something of the deeperate effort I had used to feed from bottles. It is;or shouild sdarted in one of the. strongholds of Sat- be, well known that royal personages en in the eastern part ofthe metropolis. do not accept gifts from anonymous . "I went to his office in the city, and persons or from etran,gers, but the rule was ushered into hie private parlor. He was once Ineh en in favor of a ,black asked me a few questions bearing upon puppy. This fascinating little creature my history, my family, and the work I arrived one morning at Marlborough was doing. He , had evidently satisfied House wrapped up in rattan wool and himself of the promise of usefulnese that enclosed in a box, eddressed in a cliilti- our initial efforts contained. Then he isl, handwriting to the then Princese of bluntly, but kindly, asked: 'llow are the IN des. It was named "Fluffy," and re. financial requiremente of your enter- Inained all its life en insepaimble com- prise to be met? You say you have a panion of its royal mistrees, Perhaps wife and family; how are you going to her meat famous pet was "Cocky," a live?' cockatoo. of extraordinary wisdom aod "I could only make one answer, and beauty, who dwelt . for m.any years ill the then Prineese of Wale's boudoir, but that was: LI am going to trust in God.' 'I will help you,' he promptly responded, bed to be banished to the kennels be. and rang hie bell. 'My cheque book,' he cause he developed a habit of shrieking said to his secretary; and then, hand- 'nee the wbistlp of an eipress engine. ing me e generous gift, he weot on: She has just been presented with DA beitu- 'Here, take tide and come and see me tiful specimen of a. chow dog,' brought street from China, again in three months' time s" The revolutionary kind Of Socialism both In Germany and Hollana, we are in- formed, is the declared enemy of the Sal- vation Army, and has been destroying all reverence for religion. In A.msterdam. and Rotterdam, and such towns, the prevailieg indifferenge of the =sees to all religions iefluences threatens to des- troy the Dutch charaetertsties of piety and stability? of character. In Oesenany the decline of Morals end religion is still more deplorable. Rationaliem, the reign of the Bible critic in the pulpit, and "a mad Worship of pleasure among the people" have brought "a dreadful state of religious life." In Japen the Army has a farthing weekly newspaper. There ia not ale res- cue home for girls in the entire kthodem ' 1.4111101 of Itaiy. At home, the Army'e: newest tentacle is the Apti-Suiehle Bureau, a benefiel. idea tvhich taine int() OperlitiOn at the 'beginning of this year. Its departmental chief, Lieuteeant-Colrael rnsworth, gives bis experienece. Mr. Unsworth has Attempted at class- sifieation of these hove abandoned pen . - 4-16' ., .,:?.. , ,..4 . .44—"*IA ;:ti l' T UTI a0- -m-..--- "1'111 very fund: of littarature,' ' t4414 :%Infigle Nlaelhtzeoa, 4`.4y V.1:1 thillees,s ie :Lite p:et me: 'take, 116141'P til 3y toil thing i that penple hat," a sell, : And is ea We t instn•it-- ver,y fond of Met a high " -1theinit ietse, ea St tr, Orandma'a Way, When an eldsrly woman beginshe cons versation 1,y .elying, "1 ratted my siren. without help," it le an intimation t sh., it; tired. taking eare of granils ehildrene--ettehleon Globe, : t A Plagye of Rats. The island of Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde, hes been invaded by a huge army of was, The island, e very small one, is uninhabited for the larg- er portion of the year except for the , genie watchers sand the people who at.. tend to the lieithouse. Large coloules of rodents swarm round the lighthouse and the gamekeeper's house, and they are alto said to bo playing sad havoe with the poultry rad rabbits which aro on the island. Very extensive damage has also been done to the turnips, it being computed that upwaiels of five tons have been consumed hy the rats. Something like heir years ago a French vessel was weerked off the Little Cunt - brae, and it is believed that the native cololiy, which was even at that time very considerable, AM then largely re. inform]. A party of tendon experts have landed ot the island for the pur- pose of waging a war to the death. It is proposed to exterminate them hy Illealla of n bacillus which is "cultivatel" pie. , by the -Society for tile Batton' Exter- mination of Vermin at Copenhagen, and 1, The Lonely Class. These eneprise ;ow rat43 partake of the "dainties" people, he states. in such erowded Whieh Will he pliced in their w i 08 Louden and Glaegow who are almost beliee..ed there be a aneavyi'deal.'tliis. as, pitiably lonely persou living in thee great Sahara. in the petit fide :0 one pauses the other on the stake tuul • Demonstrated. scarcely knows or eares who the other is nor troubles to ask the time of day," Tteturhing to. Japan, the spy reported 2. The Down Grade, Young people who that Ameries was prepating for war. linve become eriminally involved through "Your proof," demended the Elder Ste tesusen. IViviehtfintlandofgiltintleti•illogs6 inieeione "I have evidenee," reenmed the epen, eleves to drugs. "These probably are tho "Hutt the yellow journals have. laid most hopeless derelieth of our SOCial enough red ink for n long and desper. , e rupitign." 8VeVietinis of their own paseihne or Apprehension in their eyes, tho tido, slaves to drugs. "These probably .mie Statesinen sat In silence. Appreciatioe, Mrs. Fourthly --The members of the congregation have voted to inerease year salary, have they, _navies? ltu thaeklid far that„ and sineerely hope they uever will reeret it." 1.110 Rev. Die Fourthly -I shall s.ee. that they don't, Amanda. I Lusa going te 'neaten', :shorter sermons from now on." Told Pa to Drop in. "M,y Slaughter te to be merried soon," "Then the young elan has spokeu. to you?" "Oh, yes, Montle:led the time rad, place, and told 1110 if Iliappened to he in the neighborhood to•drop ie. and 1.'11 lind myself welcome," ---Washington Iferalo. The Esoteric Prune,. All hail the eeoteric prune, it winner in the. Net, By tiny one who ever boards Hie preeeace won't be: missed, Some people like> him the jeice, - Soma like him etten plain, 'White lots and lots of others treat prutteship with disdain. -nine ingha tt ge.Herald. A Q-testion of .0Iass. "They are COIAS t £1,11t y catching more grafters," said -the hopeful citizen. - "Not regular grafters," annwered Mr. Dustiu Stax. "Those who get eaught are only umateurs,"-e-Washington Star. A Word From Josh WiSe. "I've eoticed no one ever raises th' question whea a womants usefulness ends. it simply doesn't." --Chicago Jour- nal, Safety Pit Oar. A 'Nottingham miner has patented a satiety let cage, which is clainied to be a great advance on all its. predecessors. Short But Animated Interview. May Roxley (at the telephone) -That you, Jack? You know you promised you'd speak to father to -day. Jack Lovett -Yes. I -er-spoke to him this morning at his office, • May Roxley-Oh1 What did he say? Jack Lovitt-Why--•er-I didn't wait to hear ell of it. -Catholic Standard. - A Matter of Taste, A writer in at London daily newspaper is annoyed at the hebit Loodoners of prefacing eveey other remarks with, "I Paean to say." Sketch diefeet in this - manner. The uncivilized roan'saye, "Wo- men are idiots" -bluntly, without a pal- liative -perfecto Tbe civilized man, with his deep :sense of propriety, sayts, "1 mean te eay, after all, yon knowe wo- men etre all more or less idiotic, don't J ou think?" Engli3h in Labore.• Testimonials to a Lahme Jeweller- e iserrated teem an advertieemeet in The. Madras Daily Mail: 'The rine are too mu& beautiful (and the stone sparkling like the glisten- ing sun.) flm Necklaces =kali . the Bosom swell and aratheth the savage breest. The Charms are eharming to the' Pees faction; The Brocethes are looking very inueli lovely, and lastly. The Prices • are much cheap which is lamming to the Pocket."-Punoh, BUT JOHNNIE DIDN'T LIKE IT. "Papa, give me a &liar?" . "What for?" "Oh just to own." . "All right, Johnnie. You can own the dollar I have in my pocket and I'll allay I'm a bank and keep it for you. Tommy's Penitence. "Mamma," said Tommy, slowly, as lie kissed his mother before going to bed, "Pm eorry kieked Tomer to -day, and. .1 won't hurt him .ray mores. foe even if you are cross, poor doggies don't have any ehance to go to Heaven. while little boys go, no matter how many mothers spank 'am." Sensitive SUbject. • "Spacer out of a job? Why, I thought he was running a fashion department in a woman's magazine?" "Yes, but he caused the magazine to lose so many rabscribers they fired him." ""How in the world did that happen?" "Why, the lobster headed hie column, 'New Wrinkles for Ladies.' "-The Wasp. When on Tour. Papa, -Ah, my boy, the old days were the best! Then we did our courting in the country lattice, gatherieg butter cups and daisies. Son -Why, pop! We go colleting in the country lanes ;Ind the saine'to-day; only instead of walkin,g we go hi autos, and instead of gatherieg datisies, we gather momentum." --Town atid Country. - The Ouelous Nag. A.,eurious nag of New Guinea Wes aged end epneined and -skinny. nom go foe a mile, Men Wen 'round and smile - And once in a white lie wen& whisinet --- The Ambiguous bog, Tbe <log beneath the cherry tree MIS Wari that sorely puzzle me. Ilehin 1, he wage a friendly tail; Before, hie growl Wraid turn you pale. His wiring ism% wholly 'sleet; Oh. is the wag or growl eineere? T nin't :t'd hater not descend- Ti.:1 bite, is at the growling end. --The Chihlren's Magazine, ...— A Riddle. There ` is it thing the which gain, Nor lose at ail, yet keep it never- Theugh not to gain it, or to lose, Ilut e'er to keep, is itiv endeavor. To mike fide dear, I ftdd three: / nt cloels, the thing hi time. g --Puck. . • 4 • •I ' ;