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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-03-12, Page 3- 14++++4++++++44.14+1411.4441+70++++++++44444+4++++++++++++ MAKINO LAWS IN WASHINGTON IDaily Performance of the flogee of RePreseintativea, +40-44,44444444.141+10++++++++ ashingte .—To be a galley god in the House of Representativee is to have a free $0(tt at a unique performonce. that particutar wine, of the national cap• itol they make more laws and do it with fewer symptome of law -making then anywhere elee in the world. The •nerformanee is setioeuleil to begin at noun, but meet speetators like to be on land before that time, Early birds straggle lu soon after 11, tette up claenth in the out tow aud settle down to eon - temptation ef the serrieit ranks of seats below them, .At that time oot half a dozen of thole seats are occupie41. One by one a eon- porers guard of members strolls in. The plaee i. qulet The pagee in their two corners are gossiliing in the subdued tones of which later they seen* to have a monopoly-. The few members reed the morning paper or work on documents, blandly uneouselons that a young man a few seats off is Mak- Antral/id sketches of them. Half past 11 comes. So do more Con- gressmen. So do other folks who have a pass whel admits them to the f oor when the Route is .lot in sesame RePorters ere getting expressions of opinion from chairnieo of committees. Ieven up in the gallery one hears the chairman's Now, Illy boys!" And one knows that the "lope are pressing him too hard. Odd figures in hats of the long ago end overcoats of the never was, at least in New York, wonder down the *Liles like so many lost muses. They exe an. stituents from back home. Their repre- sentatives have sent theni passes to the floor, good for one day. The passes are not good after 11.45 and the representa. tives aro careful not to arrive before that hour. .At precisely 11.45 one of the clerks for- mally °Announces the time and requests all persons not having the privilege of the floor to leave. Of course, they don't leave immediately. But at five minutee to 12 any leiterers are hmitlell out .by House officiate, who 4o up the aisles saying, "Time's up! Time's upl" A few women may be seen on the floor almost any morning before the Howe is cleared. They are relatives or friends of the representatives, By the time the clock is ready to join hands eh 12 there is a fair sprinkling of members. Congressmen are a dernonstra, tive lot. Probably they form the habit while they are campaigning. Anyhow, they are given to shaking hands with. one another, to Making two hands, to putting an arm around a coll_eague's shouldere, to poking him iv the ribs, to tapping him on the knee. At precisely 12 o'clock Uncle Joe eomes in at the tight of the Speaker's desk, goes up the steps, layhis cigar down at his left with the lighted end carefully . adjusted so as not to scorch the white marble, He doesn't always put his cigar' there, because he doesn't always bring one into the House with him. Even when he does being one in he never smokes it within the sacred precincts. Some of the members are not so par- ticular, but those who smoke at all do it in as unobtrusive a way as they can snanage, puffs few, far between, and al- most smokeless. There is some sort of rule against smoking on the floor dming .a session, but it's a ease of, "If we don't care, whose business- is it, anyway?" As soon as Uncle Joe is at his post— and he is as punctual es the clock itself —the blind chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Com sten, prays. He (Mee it as slowly as if be felt his way through speech as well through the material world. Everybody in the House, from the t3peaker to the smallest red-headed boy in the pages' corner, .Yew or Gentile, or- thodox or atheist, stands during the prayer. 'The general attitude is respect. Sul, but a sharp glance shows then many heads are not bowed and that, some of the members are frankly scanning the galleries. . "Amen!" The thertant the word le pronounced hubbub reds in. The Speaker's high voice le 'beard somewhere in the medley of emend end the clerk begins to read the journal. .No one pay: the slightest attention. Why should any one? Everybody knows It .ii, anyway. The time is devoted to a grand powwow of visiting, consulting, story telling, planning and diekering. Late °omens arrive. Pages fly- around, It'e hoorah, boys, cagy -where. Dy this time the important membees ore pretty sure to be in their seats, or in somebody else's seat. For it is by no mans safe to try to spot them by the places they occupy half the time. If you see a man unlock a desk and get out his limpets you can be sure lie be- longs to that seat. Otherwise there's no telling, Col, Pete Hepburn is as little given to straying from his ain swivel chair as any men in the House. There he slts and rooks and rocks, back and forth., back and forth, watching, listening, ,etudyinte .Representative Cole, of Ohio, ought to lbe able to make a good bit if he could Tent out his seat It is next to Hep- burn' and somebody is always dropping into it for a heart to heart talk with Cot Pete. You can go to any session of the Souse and be reaeoriably certath of dee. ing the men whose names are known threughout the country. They are not the ories whose tilaron are vatent day after day. The big wbite head of Payne le Mighty sure to be it landmaek at the seat he wieunies, tight in front of Dal- e/eV, who can also be mooted on to be there for alraoet every 'session. legerne perambolates aroand more or ken his hands th Ids trousers tookets, thoogh bow he finds those pookhts is a problem net to be appreciated by any one who has not sten the figure of the htepublierin leader, Mross the aisle from Payne Ate Gen, 'Keifer. of Ohio, who was himeelf Speak- er of the House once. His chief elatni to c4+ge4heedee++44+4-4.44+++++++40 natio at premit Is the feet that he Weara a two -tined coat in the daytime, it is not a strictly dress suit, for it is leuttoued, what there is of it, snugly agrees the General's ample front. But it le eio unlike aeything else in the Ifouse army of garments that Ideifer's comings aud goings, witieli ere numerous, are al- ways followed with rapt atteetion by the galleries. Mann, of Illinois, kite near the Payne group; thet es, be occasionally site. He has an opinion about most things that vogue before the Hous, and if be isn't Already provided with one he ean ask some euestiona and fix himeelf out with material on which to form an opinion. This gets hini on his feet often enough to keep his knee § from going setiff. Across the aisle, right on the Demo- .ceditic frontier, John Sharp 1,Villianie us- ed to be, It was mighty seldom- that Williams was not in his ploce when the Howse epened, Ile watched everythieg closely, leaning ineward on his desk, his harld behind his ear to witch everything said by. the Speaker. His enemy, De Ar- mond, a els e attendant, too. No wonder Williams had to mike a sounding board of his bond. ele chief difference between the poise in the House of Repeesentellves anti the noise in a siewmill is the feet that the mill makes ite noise because it is sawing wood, and the House doeen't One man, even though he,talks at the top of hie voice, ie no match for a couple of hun- • dred swapping jokes and arguments in a oonvereational tone all around him. One source of noise has been done away with of recent years. Formerly the pages in the Home sat on the steps of the Spea,kee's platform, as they still do in the Senate, and a member sum- moned one by clapping his hand.s sharp- ly. Strangers in the galleries used to be startled, for instance, by an apparent burst of applause -as soon as the chap- lain's prayer was finished. It was not really- a tribute to the reverend gentle. man, buce, call for pages.. As the 'House grew larger and ever noisier this was done away with, electric push -buttons were attached to the desks, and the pages were hanished to the cloa.k room, where the annunciator was installed. This aimed a lot of delay, so the pages were brought back to the main hall and placed in two corners where noiseless annunciators are in operation. When a button is pressed at a desk the corresponding number disk on the an- nunciator turns a reddish brown. The color gradually fades, taking about thirty seconds to die out entirely. So there is an end to hand clapping, except for real applause. The representatives are fairly generous with this. It is a matter of Democratic duty to applaud any member of the min- ority who gives the sliglitest excuse for it. That side of the House always ieems to be saying: "Though we shout in vain, yet will we shout!" • When a vote Is taken and there is an indifferent number of ayes from the Republican side, and a violent explosion of noes front the Demo- crats, the gallery novice is surprised to hear Uncle Joe's calm, singsong: "The ayes seem to have it. The ayes have it." • But when the novice has seen the division of the House upon call alter a few of these votes and hes observed the number of Republitans tv,hicit it took to make that number of ayes and has seen that volume of noes peter out to aston- ishing thinness, he has more confidence in the Speaker's ability to size up a vote, It Is an interesting thing, by the way, . to see the Speaker count a rising vote. He turns his gavel around, gripping it by its white marbel head and using the foot long splender wooden handle arta pointer. With his head forward, his eyes keen; his lips moving; he inaietes each man with a peculiar motion of the gavel so decided arid -so exact that every member must know by watching that handle whether he is counted or not. His manner of using the gavel to main - thin order is peculiar to him, too. He is left-handed, so that it is almost invari- ably with that hand he grasps the handle, at its extremity and rather loosely. He stands a good deal when presiding, and as he lifts the gavel above his head it has a good long drop to the green baize cover of his desk. It falls with a slow bang—bang—bang. And when it i does fall it produces an mmediate effect When the House site as a committee of the whole, with somelmly else in the Speaker's chair, it is Amusing to watch the struggles of certain temporary chair- men. There is one who begins banging the desk before he is fairly seated, or he, like most of the temporary chairmen, site down to the wore, thee Uncle Joe sten& up to. He bangs and then he calls for order, and then be bangs some more. Then he scolds and pounds, singly and together.. And. with all the hullabeloo he makes he can't get as much order as the Speaker doe e 'witti three of those deliberate left, hander. But it keeps Uncle Joe's good left arm pretty busy. The top of the Speaker'e great marble desk, at least about four or five feet of the centre, of it, is covered with a pito board, which, in turn, is cov- ered with green baize. The boerd is already being pounded to pieces. If you should tun your blind Over the worn epots on the baize which show 'where the gavel comes down you would feel not only the dents in the wood underneath but that it is actually now th great slivers Before the old of the sec - dons it will be a candidate for the saw. dust pile. Heravrood was tried. formerly iestead of pine, but it hurt the Speaker's hand too much, and pine has been Used ever eioce. There a worn spot on the 'baize at the right end of the desk when the terin porary chairmen do their pounding, and the weed there is yielding to their blows. It is len refractory than the House itself • There is no &WWI whicheindicatee -•utovis vividly the differenee betweeu Sere ate and House rime/tem then tide very matter of gavel wielding. In the Senate that implement has no handle at all. It le a mere head, which the Vice -President bottle in his hand and with which he tape --taps, mind you— on hie desk. If the epeaker tapped on the House desk the guile might launh, gallery aria other varieties, Nobody else would know any thing about it. 'reeve ie another interesting tletail about the S'peakeres .equipment. His ehair runs oa a traelt. ',Mich rail is foretell V two parallel pion) of braes slightly separated. The ende of the chair lees fit into these spaces, two running on one track, two on the other,- As lenele -doe is, up and down fifty times a day while presiding, tide Widths- track is very com twine Among tlie thiugs whieh alwaye moats the gellery gods is the spectaele of nre- presentetive going _through tell the um. thine of addressing' the Rouse while the Heine shows not the slightest conscious, nen that it is being addressed. The ora- tor himself doesn't seem to mind. He is in reality not talking to the .ROUSe, and the Howe knows it, lie is eetting hie /speech into the records, whellee Ile will litive it reprinted eu1 sent back te hie coeetituents. The records fortunately will not dis- close the fact that nobody paid, the elighteet atteution to the gentlemen's re- marks except the official stenographer, wee had to get within six feet of liiin in erder to hear what was said. These stenographers lead a feverish existence, anyway, tionietimee a small disenesion crops up which interests a few of the members. They menage to hear eaell other above the eonfusion, At least they get a gen- eral idea of what the others say, .klut the stenographer cannot be satisfied with a, general idea. He must have the exact language. So he scoots about from one to another, pad in hand, taking notes as he goes. It would be disconcerting to most men to have a stenographer loom up within a tat.fehwfeet as soon as they opened their mouths, but representatives get used to One of the funniest iittie ways of the House is its custom of letting those who are interested in a certain piece ef legis- lation get together in a more' or less compact group where they can hear and be heard by one another and where they go on with their nrgurnents and their speeches without any notiee at all from the surrounding country, so to speak, the gullying desks where the uninterest- ed continua their reading and writing, talldng and laughing, "Mr. Speaker," says Mann as he lumps into the argument. He says it reom force of habit, for on these oceasions half the time his beck is toward the Speaker, who for his part is deep hi conference with somebody and doesn't know who has the floor anyway. Butthe novice up in the gallery need not worry, If he goes to the Capitol often enough to get over being a novice he will see days come when the House is crowded with watchful, earnest men, analyzing minutely a proposed piece of legielation, contesting or fighting- for every inch of its way of passage, Assailing the Speaker with a rapid fire demand for relings which test at once his ability and his integrity. He will realize then that work has been going on somewhere. That to sit in his seat and listen to small talk is not really themhief end of Congress nen. That swapping stories has not been the sole occupation of the mea who hove been turning the House ineo a good imi- tation of a sawmill. There's no use getting into a pilule, a,s the new representative from Georgia did the other day. He seems to think that because the House doesn't ma•ke grand speeches about big bills every day and pass a revolutionary-HIM:sure three times a week nothing's doing. Re is likely to find out his mistake later, and even to wish there had been more 4nnoeuous penaien bills and fewer -pieces of radical legislation not cut after his parlicalar pattern. - A Sea.SPeil. The bay is bluer than all the skYt Tho sky is bluer than sapphire stone; The wind and the wave, the wave and the wind, )3eat anddazzle mo glad and blind, Over the marshes blown. °nee I Was a 'plover who ran, who ran, A crying shadow along the foam; _ Once I was a gull in the swing of the spray, Over green shallows I hung all day TUI sunset carried me home. Once I was a shi,p with glorious sails That leapt to the love of the wind, Up cver the edge of the world I fled, Sun -followed and fleet feam-hera.Ided— The hidden tides knewmy mind. But now I am only a girl who runs, A. laughing pagan with tangled hair, Plover and gull and ship was I -.- Perchance when my body comes to die My soul shall again fly fair? —Fanny Stearns Davis, in Fehruary Har- per. 1 WftlVeS Entice Away Hunters' Dogs, John Berry has returned from te huot- ing trip to Fish Creek, and reports lota of wolves and few rabbits, It is believed that the presenee of se many wolves has bad something to do with the scareity of genie in that sec. on, I e big gray annuals were eon. stantly tagging the hunters trying to entice away their dogs, and the dogs ma to be tied at night to keep them safe. . A wolf will Often approach close to camp and then sneak away as though he is seared to death of the dogs. A green canine is apt to take the bait and give chase. The *wolf turns, and if be ewe/necks in overtaking the unwiee dog the latter never returns.—Fairbanks coerespondenee Nome Press, See the Point? Oppottunity knocked loudly at the intua'S door. But the hum was busy discoursing on panics, their habits and habitats. So Opportunity. grihned and ambled along.—Pittsburg Poet. TORTURING Ski DISEASE' Afflicted this bright little girl Mrs. pi% Mlflef, O 311 Suffolk Street, Guelph, Ont., says: "1i ytar Ale., While While livieg in Oshewse Ont., my little -daughter Lotiridioesin years Of nice cootraOted a skid dist*** Mt the upper part of her body. Thie first broke oat like tiny watet blisters, *herr/Ards takiog the tone of dry scaint, These Weald disappear for A short time tied than reeppear worst than CVO'. The cloiliet somlog in contaet with the skin Set tap such a severe irritation that it wits impossible to keep her from loraithing. We tried minus preparations yet obteirtrol no geed intent MA we begen using datielluk, With each applicatiou the intuition and serenest was greatly relieved, end the child rested easier. Tine' etnitinUed using, the eruptions lied mein fart ditappeered and id a short speed Of time the side wet oesspletely cleared !rein the &tate. It is now tone months tince We used Iteurnitek, led rot there are ne signs of any Mora ertiptiOne breaking out on her body, ete ieve Zettollak htleworked it complete care." gansonosse garde coil, emtoped Iwo*, litigintii itch, 1cti, ectme, ranrate sort* and au is - in for ot hest hese tint of the Ada. Of al, tespiel AM le, druggists mid stoma gee. or a * Zaratgak hem addsOisn•Boit Toronto. IKi CO,, TO1t14140,1 LORINU_ , V^ deheoteheohiehineeeeedehtedoeldcdefgh, mem cotton milt has thrgely isuceeeded, Hoar Great Britain May Lose India. (By i. .A. lifeleenzie, Daily Mail's corre spondent itt the tar east.) The train from Semi' to VW= We five hours late. It had broken clowi twice. The leconeotive, badly ethane end loidly handled, was scarce eble t drag its load, end carriages had bem diseardea to lighten It, Some of us standing in the Coreau sta- tion—wet, cold and iniserable—were passing O.US tie remerlee about Japanese engine drivers and of the wity they mud- died and misused their engines, A Viet Scotsman turned on lie with a eingle question. "Do you ever reflect," he ask. etl, "on the weeder that these people can do as well as they do?" "Think of it," he contheued, "The driver was probably two years ago an agricultural laborer ina village, end Ilea never seen en engine. Hi e s running this train, badly it is true, but lie is it running it, and th twelve months" time • he will be handliug it well, What men of another natioa would hese done the same?" The quiet Scotsman hadtoughed the heart of the problem. The casual visitor to Japan today sees great and gtheing faults. But when he hes stayed longer in the country and gone deeper into Its problems his wonder is not that there are faults, but that developments has reached such a stage as to make the faults noted. It is barely thirty years since Japan was stil torn in the struggle between feudalism and modernity. The men who to -day are managing cotton mills wore In their younger manhood, two /swords and fantastic armor. Yesterday the sihehitai (irregular soldiers) walked through their districts armed to the teeth, terrorizing..peaceful farmers' . now the seine leilieitax work tbeir ten hours a daytirt this 'factory for fifteen pence. Yesterday the dainty wife •sat modestly at home waiting for her lord to return from his political brawls; to -day the same wife is busy over the spinnind jen- ny in the factory, while the lord is doing his share in shop or warehouse, The thing is a world miracle, and the longer one contemplates it the greater the intr. acle appears, What is the meaning of this new Jap- an? What .underneath her surface quiet is simmering there to -day? Japan has earned the reputation of saying little and striking hard, Is she .preparing again, in her grime silence, to strike a new blow a,t fresh foes? The world breathes more freely be- cause the prospect of early war between Japan and America, has been removed. That the danger was real, ana for a. time acute, none who knows the circum- stances will deny. The departure of the Pacific fleet did not stand alone. For nearly a year America has been Amin- ing every nerve to prepare the Philip- pines, Hawaii, and. to a lesser degret, the Pacific coast for defence. Diamond Reed, above Honolulu, had its rocks tinselly blasted and -nut, and great guns slung into positioo. Ships, weighed down with their loads of submarine mines, W4 Te rushed. to the Philippines to make trio waters around. Manila safe from an at- tacking fleet. Jahan, on her siae, *as &Malty ectivi, although the cloak of impenetrable si- lence and mystery was thrownove: her operations. Four new divisions were added to her army, and each division was 'increased in number. The great neva' yard of Kure has been eh busy that, al- though it is now a point of national policy to have ell warships built et tone, It was recently announced that the Gov- erntuent Intended to build a new battle- ship on the Clyde. The immediate fear of a Japanese - American war has gone, but the problem which created the danger remains. The present armed. truce resembles nothing so much as the tondition of affairs lif- ter Russia laid hold of Japan's conquests of war en the Liaotung Peninsula. Japan submitted, smiled, and waited for her hour to come. Those who see in the present- agreemeut a einal settlemenb. know little of the east. Japan will not permanently permit her people to be treated differeatly from Europeans. , The same problem may come to the front before long in the south. A few weeks ago Mr, Iwasaki, the acting Jap- anese Consul -General In Sydney, left Australia for Europe. Before leaving he -told the Australian people frankly; "It would be idle to pretend that, there are not many grave and importher. questions pending -which may be fraught with eeritme consume/tees to your na- tion end mine. There are many signs in Japan to -day of a steady revival of the dreaded joi— anti-foreign feeling, Strict control of the press ante public enables this to be kept well in hand, end manifestations of It are leygeey suppressed; but it is there. Responsible daily journals in the lead- ing cities have ituthlged freely during the last year in seeies -of articles ettack- ing white men in Janine denouncing their morals, sneering at their business methode, rt ncl gem -rally holding them up to contemrt. Tbe native &nth° press, sea as, for beim tee the Tokio Puck, belidges in unteding eeries of cartoons, all malting the -white' man appear °demi, ee few weeks ago a British trader was peneefluly returtut g home in Yokohama when he was set tmon by a crOwd ef roughs and Mullh used, No one knew why, for he had done nothing to offend them. In Corea, the Briton tbas t� walk earefully if he weld& avoid' unpleasant- ness_ from. Jeponese soldiers Mid coolies. This same anti -white feeling idioms it- self in the work of two ox' three seek - ties, controlled in Tokio. that are mak- ing a very vigorous agitatioo threughe out, Aga. Cornit OlatihieS ,spe.toh t dia was reeeived by the British public with inereehiloue stir/prise. mid. /a- te./rite were made to deny the occuraey of bhe reporth of it, Either these re- peal Were accurate or a eureber of sherthentl Writers present at the meet. ing—einen of diverse nations and view— jounce Itt an itedttlottely and feolish ad toleked. tortepireey. But Comte Okume's epeeeh does not stand alone, myself have reed rnney articles printed in Japan during loot summet, and re. torts of many epeeches, eovertlriti. sizing Britieli aetion In India. Every eauottee jananeae with Whont 1 110.+In dhenesod the miter regords it as Ito evitable that the revival of Aeia will hi- volve the lose of Itelle, to Englend, Time, think this, not froth tiny hostility to es but simply front a pethaps witural rite - lel !sympathy. Auerther way in which the new (level- opmeht of Jelninese life has hown • Self in In direct warfare in fields of toot. *Moine thet were formerly in the kande . of Etneenearet. NriOn, in the asionmeo of ilimo, / &butt to the Civet -Sees Deily I Moil Inein Kobe that Japan Woe oot oh teeming the milky of the 'epee doer hi ' tbe tow lends OVer whieh she lied /to Mitred tetettol, My et/element Wee re- edited with intligneet denten Tteday the hearth would be lege elephatie. Even • japarnete Writer, met eateit that lit1000 the Ithietelituden Mailed Wito pettetitielly etheed to white men They say that this wee remedied in 10071 but that is net wholly 'trete. One big syntlieate of Jap. In driving Amerkan cotton geode out .of . Maooliurla, enbetituting Japeneee goods for them.It hoe done thie under Gov - m e eleent direction and by Government • aseletlielen The Government advanced it money; the Governmentolirected We- tting lines Carried the goods between , Japan and Deluy for a nominal rate; s the Goveramenhewned Manehurian weed geve this Japanese cotton speeial fealties, What applies to eotion ap- o - plies AlinQSL equally to other things. In Chino today the foreign trader le email/ed to the treaty ports, while the Japenese are sendingtheir men through- • out the country, doing business far in the interior, in &thence of treaty teem batons. Only bet autumn. greet joy- eign enterprises hose bed to be aban- doned in Corea, because the Jo,pauese have mnde euell regulations there that ' foreign capital caenot live under them, ' The British mine -owner, for instence, under the new remit:110min bas to put binnelf at the mercy of the whims of a JeiheneseeePPoiuted (Miceli, who hes power eo coufiseate the entire property whenever he pleasee. Japan talks of au open door; but her open door i8 eve open to Japer' atom., ow to bar faeoeed proteges. WfAK, PAL(AND WORN OUT WOMEN. Can be Saved Prom a Life of Misery by Dr. Williz,ms' Pink Pills. Women are called the "weaker sex," and yet nature calla upon them to bear far more than peen. With too many women it is 051e7 long martyr- dom from the time they are budding into womanhood, until age begins to set its mark upon them. They are no soon= over one period of pain and • distress than another looms up only a few days ahead of them. 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Nearly 500,000 of ' New York city's population of 4,500,000 are crowded into the abnormally small area. of 881 acres. As the total -acreage of the city is 209,- 218, it can be seen at owe how extra. • ordinarily teeming the &ingestion In some parte of the city is, Unless some- thing is done, and done before many years, this increasing congestion will reach a point defying Menen efforts to remedy it, short of the most radical changes in the system itself. It is com- puted that within ten years the city will have a population of fully 7,000,000. The most recent census taken was that of 1905. The congestion revealed by that census was shockingly bad enough, but•in the last two..years it has grown much worse. The immense number of immigrants which every year augtnents the eite's resident population, and the results of ind.ustred depression all have had the effect Of still further maesing more and more humanity into the al- -ready swarming sectians. Although the figures of 1005 are the loose recent au- thentic ones, they do not, however, tell um hill tale. Present conditionare far worse than was the situation three • years ago. Contrary to the general opinion, the most, thickly inhabited. block in the city is not oil the eaat side, but is on the upper West side in the region inhabited by ne,groee, ancedubbed "Se,it Juan HU" It is the block bounded by Amsterdam avenue and West End avehue, Sixty- first and Sixty-second streets. Hem, on a little more than five mires, no fewer than 8,173 people are stuffed. t • LINO Light. Sometimes upon the strmitior IiijIs A flooding tenderness is shed, • low green lelt=ra &Mg As h its bed. One nieinent peat, It was not there— Or i.tere ttty eree not yet aware? Mat Light -•-1t 0011160 With flickering morn, .At bArvest noon, on aimed plains, And when the fields look old and lorn, And On the bow n� leaf remains; And it can reach and overflow Vie cruel spirit of the snow: g6411131±14W313tfie!p°46111ieet dtgd aahtttg°hone The Myriad eyes of Nigh austere Frain their Items wounding have heart hold. All tiabeteken Is that nay We1o55 daWn must he Midst dark Or ds, there id 811 ambient World of Love Wherein Mir little an atmorldbois rocked; AigilUbertr locked— And Lave Light thence, 1.11 )310114410 blest, Doha tremblies through tome dreamoge breairt. With M. Tholiule. Ned's Suggestion. "Where die you buy her, manumit" Asked 3-year-ohl Idea of me, As he leaned over the dainty 'cradle leis "sieve little sestet" to see. ",An angel brought her, detling," answered, arid he smiled, Then 'Softly bent hie early head And kitsed the eleeping lint a eudden change came over him, And he sai,(1, "If l'd been you, While I was about It, minima, ra eteught the angel, too!" aa.teeeet. USES OF THE CHAFING DISH. Mrs, Rorer Again Tells About Gook Ing. Resuming her coaree of lectures on scientific cooking for the patrons of the Gimbel Store, Mrs. Rorer talked yesterday morning and afternoon to large audiences of women who watch- ed with interest the (left work of the famous expouent of culinary art, Her morning demonstration Wati on "the • every -day possibilities of a. chafing clieh," and she pointed out the neces- sity, in thesetimes of financial strin. gooey, for every housekeeper to use wise economy, which to her miad. means the saving of good materials. Her morning demonstrations were On the following dishes: Oysters a la Richmend—Drain 25 Oysters, Put a tablespoonful of but- ter in a chafing dish, a tablespoonful of chopped celery; stir for a minute; then add the oysters, a level teaspoon- ful of salt, a dash of black pepper, a dash of cayenne And a little paprica. Cover the dish, and when the oysters begin to boil, add,if you have Re, four tablespoonfuls of cream or milk. Sift gently arid serve. Quick Goulash—Put into a chafiug dish a tablespoonful of butter, add a tablespoonful of chopped onion; stir until the butter is melted and the onion a little soft; add a tablespoon- ful of flour; mix; add a teaspoonful of paprica, a half-pint of stock; stir uutil boiling; then add two sweet peppers out unto strips, a,ncl a pint ot oold cooked meat cut into cubes of an inch. Bring to a boil and serve, Deviled Scallops—Mash the yolks of three -boiled eggs through a sieve, Put a tablespoonful of butter and one of flour hi a chafing dish; mix; add a half-pint of milk; stir until boil- etig; add gradually the yolks of the eggs, a dash of red pepper; a salt - spoon of white pepper and a teaspoon- ful of salt. Wash and soald the scal. lops—this may be doue in the morn- ing. Add them to 'the. sauce, and when thoroughly hot serve on crisp • crackers of squares of toast. In the afternoun leIrs. Rorer took for her subject, "The After -Theatre Supper at Home," and showed her audience liow to prepare the follew- ing dainties': Dry Panned Oysters—Drain and wash the oysters; throw them at ona into a hot chafing dish; add salt and .papriat, a little black pepper and a teaspoonful of Worcestershire, and when hot add a tablespoonful of but- ter Oysters Hongroise—Put into a chaf- ing dish a tablespoonful of butter and a level teaspoonful Of papwrica, mix andwhen hot add a level tablespoon- ful of flour; add 25 oysters that have been drained; stir carefully; add one sweet pepper cut ito strips and a half - cup of tomato, -Wheu hot adcl. a level teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoon- ful of chopped parsley. Chicken au Supreme—Put one tab- lespoonful of butter 8,nd one of flour into the chafing dish; mix; add two-- thirds cup of milk, one-half teaspoon- ful .of salt, a dash of pepper, and, if you wish, four tablespoonfuls of sherry; add the chicken; when hot sell in the yolks of two eggs that have been beaten with two tablespoonfuls of milk. Serve on toast. 'Welsh Rarebit—Put into the chafing dish a pound of cheese, a lialf-tea- spoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of Wor- cestershire, a dash of red pepper, and, if you wish; four tablespoonfuls of ala; beat the yolks of two eggs, add them, and stir the mixture until per- fectly smooth. Serve at once on toast. —Philadelphia Record, TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Tako LAXATIVE BRO1VIO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it faile to cure. E. w. GnovET signature is on eraoh box. 25e. -! I Woman Plans Labor Reform, "A thousand dollars a year the smallest reasonable living wage for a family of five. "People are every day slowly starv- ing to death through small salaries and low wages. "Married women whose husbands work not to be allowed to enter a business which is competitive. "Greatest care exercised in the keep- ing of small boys off the streets at night." These are some of the things which Mrs, Emily Balch, teacher in econ oinks at Welesley college, and new- ly elected president of the Women's Trades 'Union leagae in Boston, hopes to • see aecomplished. "One of the things that I am most intereeted in," she said, "is to see people get a living wage. "It will take Sonia time to accom- plish this result, and it must be done by organizing the peonle. "It is peculiarly hard to organize Women. It is hard to reach them. Many are only working for a short time, until they ean get married, and they are not interested th the organ - thing of their f(mekm to neetelildieir re- • sults which may not materialize until their are in their limes. "All women xnust be organized, how. ever. Arid the employers enuet be made te feel thet organized workers give better service, bet:woos their organiza- tione keep them up to a elandard. The employerRuud be shown that the organizatione are better for therre than the lack of organizations. "After that all thingrethat are just and reasonable which the workine man and wonnin need will follow. "I am a great believer in every in- dividual giving something to the world, There should be no vampires who feed upon tire work of others— by that I mean the girl who mevely stays at home and plays the piano. She is eating foods which others have prepared and which .,01110 one else earned the money for, and she wears clothes which other hande have woven the cloth for ansi made into garments and °there' money has paid for, She feeds upon the work of others and she gives nothing in return. 'I believe thiet ,every individual should .give something to the world, something in payment for the Immo sities or lunuriee which he or she re- ceives, BABY'S- OWN TABLETS SAVE A LITTLE LIFE Mrs. T. Osborn, Norton Mills Vt., Writes; "I do not think euough can be said in praise of Baby's Own Tablets. I am satisfiedthat our beby would not have been alive to -day if it had not been for the Tablets, as lie was so weak and sick that be took no notice of anything. In this condition I gave him the Tablets and they have made hint a bright-eyed, laughing baby, the pride of our home. He is one year old, has nine teeth, arid is now as well as any baby can be. He site and plays nearly all thetime, and lets me do my work without worry. I would, say to all mothers who have sick babies give them Baby's Own Tablets as I dikl. mine, and you will have healthy, happy babies." The Tablets will cure all the minor ailments of little ones and are absolutely safe. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a boo from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brook- ville, Ont. • • t CANADA'S FORESTS. The Dominion Must Husband Her Timber Resources. Canada's forest area has been various- ly estimeted at from eight hundred million to three hundred. million acres. The latter is the latest estimate, and was given by Dr. R E. Fernow, the recently appoint dean of the faculty of forestry at the University of Toronto. He is due of the best authorities on forest subjects on the continent, and for years was head of the United States Bureau of Forestry. His estimate, he - thinks, "will cover the commercially val- uable timber land area, actual and po- tential." At this estimate the forest area of Canada is "not much more than one-half of the commercial forest area of the United States." Mr. R. II, Campbell, Superintendent of Forestry for the Dominion Govern- ment, givers a rather larger estimate. He has ealculated the forest area of the Doe minion at a.bout 535 million acres, divid- ed as follows: . • Acres. British Columbia . , a 182 • million Man., Sask., Alta. and un- organized territories .. 180 million Ontario .. ........ 40 million Quebec . .... 120 million New Brunswick 714 million Nova Scotia5 million "Inexhaustible" used to be a favorite word to describe Canada's forests. But the drop from the old figure of 800 mil- lion acres to the more recent ones given above shows clearly that the more Can- ada's forest wealth is investigated, the less are people inclined to use that word. Great as this wealth may be, it is for Canada to husband her resources, and make her forests a permanent asset In order to do this, she must carefully pro- tect her forests end see to their being re- produced, that a future supply of timber may be ensured from them. This would meau the careful management of these lands on scientific and business princi- ples, and these it is that the forestry movement is seeking to introduce throughout the Dominion. With Suitable Apologies. Once there was a Foxy Ruler who wanted Two Nlew Battleships. So he, (need the Wise Guys who handled the Purse &tinges and. kept Tab on the Expenditure of the Coon -Wyse Coin to Loosen UV a Little and Author- ize him to build Four New Battleships. The Wise Guys referred his Request to the Proper Committed. "Bosh!" exelaimea the Committee. "And likewise Piffle! He can't Work Ue for all those High Priced Toys. But weird lot him have Two," Moral: There ie more than One Way to Remove the Integument from the An- atom:deal Framework of a Feline Quad- ruped. Man and His Sweet Tooth. "If you want to have that tradition upset Mout women only having a sweet tooth," remarked the stenographer who works downtown, "just go into a quick- eunch room occasionally ana watch the men who drink coffee or chocolate with their midday meals, 1 give you my word I have seen not one, but many men put six lumps of sugar into their one tup of coffee or ehoeolate and then eat apple pie Oita is fairly covered with powdered sugar."—New York reed Most people know that if they have been sick they need Scoira Smut., aion to bring back health and strength. But the strongest point about .S4cotts Etrizt/..riorz is that you don't have to be sick to get results from it, It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy, brings color to a pale girl's cheeks, and pre- vents coughs, colds and consumption, Food in concentrated form for sick and well, young and old, rich and poor. And it contains no drugs and no alcohol. • ALL DRUODISTSi SOO. AND $1.00. 10+0401044106101.0100016.016.04441. o Example at Mend, *yes," zinded the literary editor, lay - bee aside his Shiss end gazing pensive. 4,1Is of hie library window, "travel certainly dote, breaden a men. Look At Tait." insurmetettelele Obstacle. "If you _end your litaband valet gat along peaceably," said the le eethor to whom elre. Pneer nee narrating her grievancee, tehy don't yon seperete And get a divoree?" "We have thought of Utah" 0010 Mtn Pneer, wiping her eyes; ebtre legal proceedingre so dreadfully expensive. Mr, Pneer thinks it will be money in -our pockets to keep on living- together." Undoubtedly. Tommy—hlamma the KM' conies down front bearer,'doesn't it?" Mrs. Tueker—Y-e-s, dear; why do you ask that?' Toeuny—rlicard pape thapking the Lord for it while be wet, shoveling it off the sidewelks this morning. Heard in a Restaurant. "Will yoll have n lobster?" Ile asked the maid. "This is so sudden sir," The fair one salCi. --Columbus Dispatele Like Humans, Flo—Isn't it queer that lobstersare always green when they get inte hot water ?" Joe—Nothing queer ebout that. If thee' wcrelet green they wouldret get into hot water.--Philadelphitt Bulletin. Regular Weather. hhhent no vegui-7ar weft. ther dat NiVne:sne. gettin' nowadays; " It's ;leen substitution, dat day's aged foil to raise, To keep dis earth a -running' in no cue. Da regt-°131tfiYvefiettYlileer's what we will be gittin' after 'while. —Washington. Star. Fussy. Soirie people make an awful lot of fuss about a man being his own worst enemy —but why should they 'care 7—Chicago News. THE MODERN WAY. Jasper—Have yew got a nurse for your children yet? jumpuppe—No. We have ehaoged our policy, arid have hired a referee ! No Clew. Reporter -4 suppose you don't know whet the senator thinks about this tariff reform business? Seuator's Private Secretary—No; no more than you do. 1 only know what he -nye about it. Historical Fragment. Delilah had betrayed Samson, and he was in the handnef the Philistines. "Jut the sawed' he inflected, proudly, "I 4.21 the strongest num now in. captiv- ity." Whereupon he proceeded to wait pee tiently for his hair to grow long again. Not Cutting Prices. Caller—is that the best you .cao prom- ise zue--a wife fifteen years older than I am, with, a sliarp nose, thin lips, and n sour desposition,: For tone 'le/ler—What more do you ex- pect? Did you think you could get a real affinity for a dollar? Not Well Heeled, Either. "Clarence" said his indulgent relative, "your reckless ways and your ceaseless requests for money discourage and dis- gust me. Have you UV S011t?" "Nary a one, Aun 1 Hepsy," answered her ecapegrace nephew, with a scowl. "efavelet I told you 1 am on ray uppera?" The Professor. The Doctor—it make,s ina proud of my profession to see that the great men of science are joining us in our warfare against disease gernis and all manner of basterial poisons. The Professoia—Oh, yes, you've sound- ed the toxiit of war, all right. -- • Standing Up For It. "tack Jerry," asked his shivering rel- ative from the south, "why do you spend you winters in this beastly climate?" "Why, I like this bradng, winter wea- ther," stoutly) answerel Uncle Jerry Peebles. "Besides, thee -the contrast, you know, enables me to—er—appre- elate our glorious summere," Most Familiar With That Kind. "Pape," asked one of the little girls, who had been looking at the advertising columns of the paper, "why don't you take us to one of these continuous per- formances sometinies?" • "Because, my dear," sighed papa, "I am running a continuous performanee of my own. I hese to buy shoes and school- books fur thirteen children," OPPORTUNE. Editor—The only way to succeed in the newspaper business is to give the people what they want. Friend—Have you got five &liars. you can let me have? A Human Failing. "Pa, what is the meaning of inconsist- eney1" asked Freddie, "Inconsistency, my son," ext4ained pi, 'means a man who growls all day and then goes home and kicks the dog for barking at night."—Harper's Weekly. AN EYE TO BUS1NEss. "Se Gailoy really had to pay Miss Yerner five thottsand for breach Of promise? • "Yes, and now he Wants to malty her for her Money." Those Fool Ouestions. A man entered It drug stet* in It hurry nue risked for a dozen tWo.grain qttinine "Shall 1 pat '0111 in a bog, sirt" the elerk asked. PS he &tented them out. "(he no," replied the etiStomer, "I want to roll them honte.°—Montreal Star, The Succession of Parts. lei, ()Id One ----ht adopting a theatrioad r. yOU are entering a touchy and ofieue prefeesion. Keep guard over year tee, nee The New One—Oh, I've felted tett ilia 111 love ample opportneity to thtnn fore I epailch -Puck. Ent p hetleal ly. "Dogs 3-0511' Inteband hoht any (Avid oi. fie, reed/tint" asked the eenveleer. "I eliould veer he did t'' itirKtVered the young nottren. "114 the iniejeetic panel bigh killemakew of the Arteient end II. Inettioue Order of Spizterinetuttebitegel"