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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-09-07, Page 3Witir-4.4-444#444-4-4.4-teer+r+4.#4.4-#4-#4, 4res-44++-4.-9efe-4 4-e REVIVAL OF TIE ANCIENT AND 110NORABLE PASTIME OF AKIIERY0 liefteMt Weel$ for the Statelerd Oa 00111. t Poeta in that couittra U4out iuto trota* Me thereby—Mid he se 4140 1411. Officer of a lodge Qt hewer ot the Settees Of MOTs oeco. Allen ie onother of the globe-trote ten, lie hue been in Mexieo ad hi lesliee lic ain give youthe formation Of tee were) in Upper Durum or the well» in • Cheleea, °Mae :with equal facility, Aial laa+++++++++++41-4elaa+444•4 4•44a1 4+4'41" +11alef++.1a.+++.4."4"... it 1$ all one to him tthere he is so ion LIV witiT /2• demand the very best, espec- If I nu' 'ally as It coots no more than the ordinary tea? This Most graceful and elegant sport, once so popular, le again receiving the attention it so justly deserves, It will be found more ensy to set up a target epee the lewn than to lay out a tennis coert, and the exercise i$ guile ea Mine - fatal, eat not so violent. Golf clubs might set apart 4 portion of their links for this healthful amusement, for it lias charm that is peculterly its own anti offers an opporttutity for wear- ing pieturesque costume$ not to be tonna in any other sport. TIM first meutioa of the bow aud ar- row in found in the Boole of Cienesis, waere it is written 'Wet the eon of Abraham, "dwelt in the wilders riess end. became an archer." "A bow ehot," too, is naentioned as a meesure of distance. Ii tlie sculptured slates found at Khor- salami and Nineveh representattous of ;archers frequently occur, and the bow seem to have been 4 weapou in the As- syrian and Persian, armies. The bow and leave arrow played an im- portant part in the history of the wend, but to come down to modern times, tbe Royal aompany of Archers, the aeing's bodyguard of eicotlane, is the Most im- portant soeiety of archers now existing. W George IV, when Prince of ales pats ronized the practice of archery end au- reerous societies of archers were formed, some of which still Mild their meetings in various parts of the country, ladies tak- ing an active share in the competitioa for prizes. On the visit of Her Majesty Queen Vic- toria to Edinburgh at the time of her jubilee the Royal Archers of Edinburgh acted as her eseert. They are only a small body of men to -day, perhaps fifty in number, yet they uphold all the an - Ment traditious of the company. A. part of the public land was given over to them for their special use, and they care be seen any eaturday afternoon prattle- ig archery. The implements used in archery as a pastime are a bow, arrows, a quiver, a pouch, a belt,' a tassel and grease pot, an arm guardz a shooting glove, a target and a worms card, The bow le usually from five to six feet in length, the strength being reck- oned by pounds, varying barn twenty- five to eiglay, those used by gentlemen being in strength from fifty to eighty ipounds, those for ladies from twenty - live to forty. The former are made of a • single piece of yew or ash, the latter of • ilancewood or hickory, glued back to 'back. In forraine the bow the wood is gradus Sealy tapered': and at each. end is a tip of thorn, the one at the upper end being longer than the lower end, and one side of the bow is flat, called tlie "back," the either being rounded and called the "bel- ay." Near the centre, where the bow is aield, it is bound with velvet, which part Is called the "haudle," and in each tip of horn is a notch for the string to rest called the "neck." The string of the bow is manufactur- ed of hemp or flax; the hemp strings 'wear the longest, though they stretch. snore at first, but being more Mesta bear a harder pull. Before using the bow, hold it in a perpendicular direction, with the string toward you, and see if the line of the string cuts the middle of the bow; if not shift the eye and the nose of the string to either side, so as to"trieke 'the two lines coincide. This precaution prevents a very cornmeal cause of defective shooting, which is the .result of an uneven string throwing t be arrow aside. .After using the bow un- string it, and if a large party shoot- ing, after every "end" it should be freell from its state of tension, But io this respect there is a great difference in dif- ferent bow, some good ones soon get- ting east from their true shape, and others, though inferior bows in other Xespects,. bearing any ordinary ameent of tension without damage. Two points meet be attended to when staking aim—the lateral direction and the distance—since there is no bow Which 'will drive an arrow many yards perfectly point blank, and consequently a slight elevation must in all cases be 'wade, and. for long distances, with weak bows, a very considerable elevation, that as, the bow inust be raised above the point leaned at. The arrow cannot be shot straiget at an. object, become it will, of course, be subject to the earth's Attraction, and if shot straight at a smarts will fall below it, and therefore requires practice to nianag,e the eaves 'Con properly and much will depend on 'OM extra streegth of the bow and the distance of the shot. The lateral dime - ;Con, that is, the side to which the bow 'should be directed, depends greetly on 'the wind, if there is any, as the arrow tes znatenally affected by the wind. .And 'should. it blow from the right band, Alm :bow Meat incline toward it; to the 'left, if front the left. The distance to which an arrow can be geese from a long bow, with an eleva- amar of forty-five degrees, depends; en 'the stretigth and ability of the arcber; the distance used to be reckoned from 220 to 240 yards. The Turks have always 'been celebrated for shooting to long die- -tames, and the secretary to the Turkish Ambassrolor in Loricion shot, ht ia14, a ,distance of 415 yards, Ite used a Turk- ish boev and arrow and shot against the mind; with the wind the wind the die - r' twice ineesured 4S2 yards. 'The eyes sbould riot be fixed on the arrow, but) at the mise ark; eti both ee'ee °peat and look eleadily forwent, raise or lower the bow in tire proper direction. The targets/ ore fixed elemeite each other About saga' yard* apart, arrows are shoe first to one targets when the ambers piek up or extract the arrows, mid the mariser scores tor cub before drawing from the target, after whali the ambers shoot back again to tee other end, and so on mail the whole *lumber of ends have been allots, Butts are elso used to ehoot at, being built of long zrioueds of turf about eight feet long and five wide, height, of seven feet, the depth diminiebing grad- ually from the bottom to the top. Wheel more than two are used they aro aanged in seta each set consisting of four, about thirty years apart, and forming a chain of lengths of thirty yards, but so disposed as not to same in the way ofahe Matters when shooting at any of the lengths, 'Where archers rove from place to place awl have no fixed target it is called "roy- ings.a The ambers sboot at trees or Any other object, that they thoose. The win- ner of the first shot chooses the next, and so on, tee distance being from one hundred to 'two hundred yards; and all arrows felling within five bows' length scoring, if nearer to the mark than the adversary's arrow. The dress wore. el; archery meetings is very pretty and be- becoanmer—for lams, green jacket/4 and bets, with three plumed feathers; and for gentlemen, dark green, with green hat and feather, but this entirely de- pends upon the taste and inelination of elutes. SAFETY FOR LITTLE ONE. Every mother who has tried Baby's Own Tablets becomes enthusiastic about them—tells every other* mother how' safe and how effective they are, how much it relieves the anxiety over baby's health to use these 'aria - lets. Mrs, S. W. Crawford, Thomp- son, Ont., says: "My baby was ill with constipatioit and teething troubles and I gave hint Baby's Own eTablets, welch gave speedy relief. 1 consider the tab- lets an excelleut medicine for children." These tablets cure constipation, teething troubles, diarrhoea, simple fevers, de- stroy worms, break up colds and pro- mote natural, heelthy sleep. And you have a guarantee that there is not a particle of opiate or poisonous soothing stuff in them. aold by all medicine deal- ers or eent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Broekville, Ont, fiend for ouy little book en the care of infants and young children—free to all mothers. - THE WANDERING OIL MAN. Soldier of Fortune Who Searches the World for a Strike. The oil man is the real Bedouin of the world. Ile is a greater traveller than the Arab of the desert ever was, says the 13aeletaville correspondent of the lennsies City Star. Go to Philadelphia, to Texas, to California, to Japan, or to any other place where there are oil wells and you will find the same faCCS, you will hear the same talk of "working barrels," "pul- ling rods" and all that sort of thing. A men who woulki drop down inEau- goon to-morrow—and Rangoon is "on the road to Mandalay, where theflying fishes play"—or into K'or Or ante Tamaluipas might expect to find old man Jolla 11. Gilley, John Markman, J. C. McDowell, Hugh. P. 'Manley, The. 33arnsdall. It gets into a manes blood. He follows the derricks and the screech of the shackle rods naturally. He mina help it. Take the case of John If. Gilley. There is a man who is a multamillionaire. He needs no more of thiseworld's .goods. He has an independent fortune. Yet if an oil field should be discovered tomorrow in Kamchatka, off in the snow and ioe, John II. Galey would be one of the eirst men on hand. and. he would have the se- cond or third derrick erected in the field. John Markham, is another of the sold- iers of fortunes. He toile& and sweated in the swapms of Louisiana, and Testes, unproifitable helee, spent his money and came to Kansas. Then he merit to the Territory. Before that he had been all over tho world, And. he knows things. Ile knows what the East Indians drink in Rangoon to quench their thirst He knowahow they live in the tempera- ture of lee degrees in the shade, and he knows .other things which have helpeil him to success. John. McCready, a canny Beet, has drilled was for the Japanese Govern- ment and bas drilled wells for the Stan- dard Oil in Japan'. Ile has been all over ai the world, this driller. He knows the- aim of pipe, the size of the casing and the cost of the well lit every oil field in the Then there ie Bill Myers. He is some- times called Windy Bill. He has manufac- tured powder fcrr the United States ;fleet in the efediterranean to sedate President; - Loubet of France, and he has done other things of note. He has certificates of hon. or front the Khedive of Egypt -'-lie drilled 40 Ile is putting down the boles. Diels lsowler is another. Ile beta been all through the Perinsylvenie field" arid the West Virginia fields and the Ohio and Insliena hada and he ean spin yartie by, the hour. Ite knows etioW the glycerine mail 411 Bradford was blown up Ana bow the otherglyeeriae man escaped; how tit speinea of one of tee glycerine wegens Were located under the can and how tile other fellow had las springs three inches, to the right and thus semi his life. MTh Bromley Imo Wen with the oil companies in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Keane for more than ten years. Now Ize is in the gas blueness, but be haa Won around the world in the oil business, , John T, Gaffey is another one tif the globe trotters in the oa bu,siness. Re has been in tbe kyaele fields of Aimee., in tee Beaurnout fields in the Louisiana ; in the Mexican fields, and, now be bas made a fortune in California and 'rota:- ea—temporarily. No man who has ever got the fever in hie bones rettres from, the oil business permanently. There is atm M. L, Lookwood—his real ramie ie Marquis Lafayette—who bas done all the oil fields and, is now in Kansas. Ile is an old man as years go, graylleaded, told with a. son old, enough to vote two or three times, and yet he is still following the flag of adventure still after the pot of gold which grows at the rainbow's foot. Ie goes that way in the oil baseless. You meet a man at Nagasaki, you meet the game man at Half Moon Bay, yen meet the same man at Santa Maria, ana then Again you meet him "on the road to iefandalay." Young and old, heel:mum and possagrad.uate, saint and sinner, al the oil men follow the same road and wind up at the same place at last. They alt hope soine Unie or somewhere in. the game (if life to make a "play against the Standard." Most o them are too politic to admit 14 but that is the hope which, inspires the" to climb the reeuntaine and go down into the sea. looking for oil, always looking for oil, and always looking for oil where the Standard Oil Company can't get it. They think and dream of oil in places where the eurb is not a monoply, where they will get. a "run for their money.' It is the pathetic Side of the oil business this thing of men of years wandering over the earth searching for a place where the mailed hand cannot each. They have not found it yet. CURRENT GUARDS TILE GOLD. Electric Appliances on Safes in New Federal Building. Chicago's new Federal Building is re- markable for the attention paid to the minutest details in its construction. Its heating and ventilating system is one of the most complete in the country and e, v Ceylon Tea is Positively Unrivalled Wacky Mixed or Green $old only in Lead P4C1Ceta, 40e, See, 60C per pound. By all groom, taOsaseparasee-ese-e-a4**-4atetal44feaseeese '44see4eseasa-ea-eseasaaaseas#-0-0-0 Ballooning Over the Sea. SellSatiOnS Experienced Iti a Trip In it Dirigible Balloon —Triumphs of Personal Effort. • #4.++++++++++.4-4,4-aeseesea+4,+4-44-* was by tbis time an experienced di- and not feeling it, As any eirsaip plowed rigible balloon ceptain—it was the win- ahead the wind fluttered m coat viol - ter following my evanrung of the Deutsch, ently as on tbe deck of en Atlantic Prize in Paris. 1 had no teak to per- liner, though in all other respects it is 1 form, nothing to prove, and I could give more like river navigation with a, steam- Myeelt up to the pleasures of aerial nava boat, it is not at all like sail naviga- gallon na, by far the swiftest airship 1 tion, and ell talk about "tacking" as area yet constructed. As I steeredmy meaningless, Imagine the air current course 1 remember saying to myself: to be a river running ten miles per hour. "How different are these from the eon- If von'imainst the curre t • ' • sat tons of le spherical balloonist! it IS twenty miles per hour, your net pro- ; true that be has the earth flying, back- gress becomes thirty miles per hour. ward benceth him at a great speed; but Well, it is just so in an airship. In a e knows that he is powerless. The calm it makes its own speed unaffected . sphere of gas abolre Itim is the play- by wind -current. The uavigator of tbe thing of the air current in which it eines ea, however, has one great pleasure Itself, and Inc cannot ohange its daec- unknown to the navigator of the river. • tioni" Ile can seek to change the air current n my -dirigible balloon I could see my- for another. The air is full of yaryieg sell Ilmag over the sea, ansi I bad any- eurrezas, elounthig,I have often sougnt head on a helm that made me master Of and found either a calm or an advert- ' my direetioa in the splendid course 1 tageous breeze e e • ; was ana.kiege Onee or twice, merely to loon and this is one of the everchang- s test its power, I shoved the been around ing delights of the aerial realm. ( s while going at full speed. Delightfully 1 liefore going on my first airship ex - the obedient, the airehma helm swung to periment 1 really wondered if I should the other side, and I was speeding in a be seasick. I imagined that the sense, new diagonal. course that would bave tion of mounting and descending ole ' brought roe to shore in a few minutes liquely (with my shifting weights) might , hod I continued it. But the manoeuvres prove queerish. And I looked forward. , occupied only a few in,stants each, a.nd to a deal of pitching—not rolling—au is 1 each time I swung myself back on a other novelty n ballooning. Porerememe 1 straight line to the entrance of tass Bay ber always, the spherical balloon gives ' of Menem), from which I had come and no sensation of moverneet at all. ,. tormswebuilthieh fuoarmo net rebtrfnbetp.orithnoee baof11M000ri. pension was so long that it approximat- In my first airship, however, the Sus- hnaeo, for I was flying boinewarcelike an ed that of a spherical balloon. Por this eagle, reason there was very little pitching; To those watelang my return from the and. speaking generally, since that time, terraces of Monte Carle and Monaeo though I have been told that on this or town (as they toia inc afterwards) the that trip I pitched considerably I have ait:lei increased in size at eaoh moment You see, never been seasick in thair. -veritable eagle bearing down on in the eirship there is no smell; all is e ' l them Aa the wind was coming toward pure and eleani—Santos Dumont, in 1 them they could bear the low, crackling Badminton Magazine. buzz of Faintly now their own shouts of encours I my motor a long distance away. electric equipment of the sub -treasury vaults is particularly interesting. There are three of these vaults, one above the other, and reaching from the basement to the second floor. One of these is for gold, one for silver and one for surplus, which cannot be stored in the other two. Each is fitted with every safety appliance knowij to the art. On each is a burglar alarm, and the doors are fitted with four time locks, besides a combination lock. Within the main door, says the Western Electrician, is a grating having two locks, the 'keys of which are carried by two sepaaate em- ployees, one man never being allowed to enter the vaults alone. Outside of the main door of each yealt is a solid con- crete and steel platform wlaich is raised and lowered by an electric motor. The door of any vault cannot be opened or closed when this platforna is in its nor- mal position. To open the door the platform must first be lowered a die. tance of four feet, when the door may be swun,se back. The platform is then raised again, fitting so nicely against the sill and around the bottom of the door that its presence is scarcely notice- able. To close the vault door the plat- form must again be lowered. The motor controller welch accomplishes this is located a short distance from the vault door, but it is such an innocent looking affair that its purpose would not be guessed by' one not familiar with the arrangement, the motor and gearing be- ing concealed from view. Tee walls of the vaults are of solid concrete, two to four feet itt thickness, intersected in every direction by geams of steel. A Great African Republic Coming? Already the colored raan is a formid- able force in the game of party polities in one—and the oldest —South African colony. The native vote in thia colony as beceme so large, and the natives are pressing their numeral advantagc so strongly, that the whites have already raised the question of a suffrage limi- tation to save themselves from political Biit 't is 1 h th t this expedient will not save them. The population of Cape Colony, including the territories is, in round numbers, 1,200,- 000, and the white population 377,000. Day by day the power of the native grows. The gate of the political arena stands wide open to him, and he is not slow to enter. The agrees everywhere are a remarkably _fecund tree, and they are increasing relatively, much faster Iran the whitees Africa is first of all he black man's country, and all that climatic conditions and the congenial environment of a estate habitat caa do to help him in his struggle upward are there present. To all other influences now tending to the development of tlie negro- to a high- er social and political rank must be add- ed the force of education. tar in South Africa, as in tele country, the tegroes "take" to education with remarkable readiness and success. According to the Cape government educational report published three anorahs ago, the actual number of children receiving edus dation in the public schools of the eat. ony itt the end of last year was °Lam oolored and 60,840 white. The netives are awakening front the slumber of cen- turies and them le no more remarkable feature of OM awakening that their el - most insatiable thirst for knowledge. Cape Colony teed the territories are lit - entity covered with native school's, tee territories alone baring several hundreds. Those sehooisere manned very largely by native teachers who have ?Maki eite or other of the Capri University matify- ing rerainiluttieria, Med who display no lack of intelligence iti their Work. All these wale, in Met, and in plain latiguage, that South Africa, 18 surely destined at not distant day to Nene 'un- der native rule, to be governed by ne- groes for negroes. AtteMpts at disen- franehisement and litaltations.of the suf- frage will only hasten the day of negro supremacy.—Norman Notwood, in Les- Iie's Weekly. 1 • • AWIENT agement came to me, They grew loud- er. Around the bay a thousand hand- kerchiefs were fluttering. I gave it sharp turn to the helm, and. the airship The New Secretary of the Canada Bible Society. The Rev. Robert E. Welsh the new leaped into the bay to slow down and, a Scotsman, with Coventiater blood in be - his Secretary of the Canada Bible Society, is caught and conducted to its "stable.' veins. lie comes ef a. missionary family, personal effort from 1 thePlesapshuerresicaalikebatihiooese---nistthemasytrinuomt m ,minute to minute-- and was lAkinsowof, —the county where the graves of the born at New Cumnock, Ayrshire 1 reena a similar moment of fieree en martyrs lie scattered over the "wine -red joyment on my return from the Eiffel moors." Mr. Welsh had. his schooling at Ayr Anulemy, and then etudied • and ., Tower, when I won the Deutsch Pe!: gracluated at Glasgesv 'University, after- wOofnoralleedneyriawflaarnarlytv°igeavtieltili74"vNienrowillO,cYat;mbteoerrto'lrNbantkL1d. Edinieurgb. He was ordained in 1880 to , wards taking_ his course in theology es left et some five hundred yards behind the mimstry of tee United Presbyteria t ane, the motor was actually on he point Church of Scotland, and went out as one i of its missionaries to Japan. Here sea I of dot -ming. I had an instant of great ious illness in his family compelled him. ' uncertainty. I must make a quick de - to return after a short period of service. , cion. It waa to abandon the steering, wheel for a moment, at the risk of -being Ile then settled as minister of the Eng - torn from my course,in order to give lish Presbyterian congress -alien at Herres, - gate, where he built a new ehureh, leav- i amnay attht:ntltriort000tnitierocallirngbunathteineigeoletnve.r o mg it praetically free of debt when he spark. The motor began to work again. I had almost reached the Bois de Boa- suburb in the northaest of Londo. Hi accepted a call to Brondesbury, a rising ---- ' lope, where, by a phenomenon known new congregation, and during his seven - Mr. Welsh beg.an to gather what ivas it i , to all aemonsaixte, the cool air from the teen years' ministry at St George's. ' trees began makines the baeloon heavier ene" urch, a handsome and spacious edifice 'and heaner, 1. e., smaller by condensa- tion; and, by an unlucky coincidence, was built and paid for, a district zaission the ureter began slowing, again. Thies established, with two salaried agents, the airship was descending while its mos and a anission hall also erected. 8ince , tive force was decreasing. I had instant- best year Mr. Welsh has been in ,,charae ly to throw liack both guide -rope and, western suburb of Brighton. gravity considerably. 'i ; of the Presbyterian Church at Hove, theshifting-weights, changing teY °entre of This calmed 'the i Mr. Welsh has the wide horizon ;of the balloon to point diagonally upward, so ! Christian traveller. •A long visit to South that the remaining propeller force ca.used , maw, gave him insight into mission me to remount continualy into the air work througeout Kafharia, Naovertal and. 3. was directly- by jerks, so to speak. over the cro'wd of the the TratevaalCanada, to tine Pacifie coast and Veneou- 1 . bas travelled all Auteuil racetrack, I heard the applause I ver, and his gifts as a preacher, lecturer, of the mighty throng, wheo suddenly my alreada won and platform speaker have caprieioas motorm, suen o-acee eta e Waro confident amt he will receive a started working like a for hien some roputation in the Dominion. , I beau da e I propeller being almost mitt the up- hearty welcome and.prove himself ideally i e pointing airship caused an exaggeration qualified to sustain aria delvecate the , of the inclination, so that the applause cause of the 3.1Mle Society. 1 of the crowd changed to cries of alarm1 The committee of the Canadian Bible ' as 3. dnrted. for a moment ahnost . . Society at their ineetang an Toronto on upward. As tAhes fetirremutayssetalfneleshadannao Mr. Weigle and look forward to a period feaetitirY, Bois de BoOlogne, whose soft greener link between themselves and the entreat • feeling doubly Safe over the trees of the June 28 approved of Inc appointment of of successful work with him as the living, alway reassured ine in spite of its hav- committee in London.—Contributed. . . Signs of Evil Omen, ing p]ayod Inc niany it c y earlier experiments. I might have checked the sensational upward shoot by simply slow- ing the motor that was causing it; but (New York Express.) was doing a race that 3. actually clid If a dish towel falls from the hand to the floor you are sure to have company at win, so I went on, soft righting myself by shifting guiderope and eveigets foe- I odhorinc,e dinner the ehamt mistress of fTthiilsin ahpopulsieeanntod the want again. All the aame, this is why o 3. passed so high over the judges' heads hubby who helps his wife wash the that nay guide rope aould not be caught dishes. When man wind the cuckoo clock —e, detail that caused some hair -split- be sure, to pull the chain to the right ting at the time, as may be remembered. first. Don't wind your wateh ta bed - 1 If I were asked what were my very : time, as 099 men in 1,000 have a habit. , first sensations of aerial navigation, 1 of doing; Wind it When you rise in the Would have to confess surprise to feel morning and start out fresh with it. the airship going straight ahead. It was When keys rust in your pocket it is a astonishing to feel the wind in my' face. sign of low vitality, or ealt atmos - As a spherical balloonist I bad always pliere or perspiration. Don't turn u gone in the wied, becoming part of it, your toes; it is a sign you are dead. FEDIN FACITS In ordinary feeding the steer consumes about of its ordinary feed; the balance is un- digested or wasted. This undigested balance can be marl* to give % to 1 lb. extra gain per day, and at a profit, by adding the "salt, pepper, and gravy" to ite food to make it "May." You like these on your own food; why not the animal, Like ourselves the mental tongs for a "taste meal. It starts the "mouth watering' before eat- ing, and the stomach MIs with digestive fluids to thoroup;lily dissolve the food. This extra amount of digeetive fluid die - solves art extra amount of fated. Thie hievhere the extra gain cornea in. Clydesdale Stock Frood Is the "salt, pepper and gravy" that makesthe animal's "mouth Water." It is equally good for Horace, Sheep and Nothing injurious ht it and eau stop feeding it without hattnfal uffeets. Unman beings earl take it with benefit, We take it eve:y day. We know its contents. It is made dean. If not satisfied your money will be cheerfelly refunded by the deale TRY FICROU LES POULTRY POOO ttoillA0DAZI1 STOCIC mon Co., zuotted Tottovro, 1 • While ItugFia is down waiting to be de etered out, Japan is lardly winded, an shows an astanIsbing puever of eneurane and reserve fume for a eouetry of such area and population. This wonderful re. soureefulne.se and elassticity is largely a growth. of recent, years, and teatifies tolan the progress mole by tilos little isd people in the ways of modern eivilization. A statatician has devoted soine care to a eaniparison between the Japan of to 4,147 and the United States at the close of the Civet War, and offers theta figares for cousideration: United, States japan, about 186a 1004. Population ... 20,000,000 40,000,000 Debt afeer war$2,080,647,8G9 $750,000,000 Imports.,..34,6/0,119 300,000,000 Experts .. .. 333,570,057 145,000,000 Dank capital . *421 880 093 263 0e0 000 Bank deposits. *400,507,040 35a,000,ouo Public! revenue 50,004,008 115,000,000 *Not ineluding savings bank. Commenting, on this statement the Nev, York Journal of Commerce male: "The United. Statai 1865 not only hal nearlya. debt four 'nue of alien at the present, time, but had only bal the population to 'sustain it The net burderi of the individual Japanese to- day, -therefore, on account et the public debt is oruly about one-eightli the burden where fell upon the citizen of the North at the close of the war, Ability to carry this burden must be gauged, so far as public.. statistics afford a guide, by the 'volume of foreign trade and banking -op- erations. These show that while tee foreign trade of Japan is at present only about lialf what that of the United States was in 3860, her banking capital and bank deposits do not fall for be- hind." Japa.n's wise course in protecting her gold reserve by floating foreign loans and creating tunas in London and New York is in staikiag oontrast, with that of the United States in suspending specie payments, paper money going down to 40 cents on the dialer almost at one rash. The anthority already quoted says: Not only in regard to maintaining gold payments, but in prompt resort to taxa- tion, Japanese etateseaen have shown themselves more enlightened, than th.ose of America. forty-five years ago. The fig- ures presented above, showing an annual publie revenue in Japan equal to twice that of the United States in 1800, shows how resolutely and fearlessly the policy has been pursued of raising war funds by taxation anstea.d of relying exclusivedy upon loans. Such. a. policy is worth niany times the funds which it actually brings to the Treasury, because oe the proof it affords of the energy and good faith of the Government. * * The returns o1. commerce, banking operations and clearings in Japan indicate that industry bas been very little deranged by the war, and that the country is more tba.n able for many months to come to anaixamin the field of finance the wonderful pres- tige which she has won upon the field of battle and upon the sea. Japan has a large reserve for her loans reedy for use, if necessary, to prolong the war. She has a patriotic and mated. people ready to pay and to fight foi their country. And 11. natitla tha.t acts as one man is a nation not e.asily beaten Japaa is not winded yet. - one of the most ensitiring pleasures, it d was a, pleasure which lasted. through life a pleasure which none of the vales e * situdes of life could destroy and a plea* ure which afforded, a solace and a refuge among those vexatione aud rarrete whieli life brought to them all. The young' man who ;mends his wig - ter evenings kicking his heals at Watt corners or playi»g pool or in eeine other useless way, woula find it much to bis Advantage were Inc to cultivate a trate for such pleasures as are to be derived from readiug bootee. A man can nava no better companiOn than a good bee/G. :- That Sir 'William Wallace still liVe5 In the lacartS of the Scottish people is attested by the fact that fully 1,500 pee - pie asembled at Robroyston, near Glare gate, .on Saturday, the 5th instant, to commemorate his betrayal, yeah occurs red exactly six centuries ago. The gath- ering was held tinder the a,uspieee of the Scottish Patriotic Association, and stir- ring speeehes, were delivered. Resolutiens were adopted expressing satisfaction at the action taken by the Convention of , Royal Burghs pressing upon the atten- s1 tion of the educational authorities the necessity of havine acottish eatery Melilla adequately in the schools and de- ploring the apathy of most kleottish. members of Parliament. in regard to the national rights and honor of tecotlaede - Wireless telegraphy has already- be- come a emumercial enterprise. Accord- ing to a Parliamentary report reprinted, by the Telegraph Age, 111 naes-s4ges were received by the British Post Office in Jaanary, February and March of this year for transmission by wireless tele- geaphy to ships at sea. Ta the same months the post office received. from ships 1,655 messages. Tee total reeeipts • from this bran& of the empire's tele- graph business were 474. - Labeuchere says we eat too much; fasting, he believes to be the remedy for most human ills. But we are not all Tanners or Streams, and starvation soul heavy manual labor do not agree well, s- - Good crops in the Northwest and good crops in. Ontario. The farmer is in luck. • s - According to computations made by Mr. Arthur Harris in an inquiry into national finances the annual expendi- ture of the principal powers is, in round numbers, as follows: Russia .... .... L291,000,000 United Kingdom 179,750,060 Prance ..• .. .. 142,609,000 United States .. 129.500,000 German Empire .. 115,132,000 Austria-Iiitugary 111,203,000 Italy ,. 69,801,000 The public debts of the prineipal na- tions are given as follows: Prance 41,172,300,000 Itussia GrO "74 000 Great Britain ........838,93.0,000 Austria-Hungary 590,944,000 Italy .. 510,501,000 Spain. 387,000,000 Argen tine . . . . 183,57a0e0 Portugal 177,102,000 Turkey , 170,oputo German Empire .. 143,709e100 The proportion which the publie debt bears to tee estimated national capital, a knowledge of which is tiocessary to an understanding of what the figures inde rate, is said to he: Spaind Portugal 29 per ecnt. Russia . • .. 27 per cent AnsI riaalungary 17 per een t. , Preece . • • . .. 12.8 p. cent. 'United States .. . Holland and Belgium .. per cent. German Empire . Isnitea Kingdom .... Norway and Sweden . • • • 0 per cent, . ..s. °preen'. 2e- p. cent. .. 2 per cent. The great rstilway companies are I quet in Brifeale the other evening Mr. C. tenmeranee oia this contieent. At a ban - among the greatest faders that tend to J. Phillips, Superintendent of tit Buffala divizion of the Lackawanna, said the time was when a. railroad company paiil little attention to the lives of its employ- ospeaally. ween they were off duty. I "But time and experience," lie said, "him . dernonetratea Itt neeeesity of animal . - tams taking teepee:nice of employees, not i only when they are int duty, but off ditty as web. `the habite of a nun when he ' is all duty determine largely his effi- eleney when Inc is Nut duty. The engineer. the flagman, the telegraph •tiperater, the dis l • never dairies or eats to eNkeeS. 00111e3 011 duty with it akar brain, sehlom ever makee a mistake in the diseharge of his duty." The man wbe is irregular or un- Aemly in his habits is man elm make; ctfitly initakes, he raid. Tit this way tha ' railway companies are doing more effee- five temperanee work Mau ,loale of our tempera13e:0, ueh i' sreituretie4, ,41." Mr. 1:ryo., in opening the Manor rai Flee part tif Mr. Irv- . /:,ift to East Hain, England. saidr 'there was no better way -of providing f te pleas:lire in thin life than by aflame' ine the taste and Italat of reading bootie. Tait taste cool Malt of reading Meese leas one of the purLat pleasures --it wet PAINFUL PERIODS CRNAMB DIAN WOMEN FRELIEF The Casa of Ellen Walby Is One of Thousands of Qures Made by Lydia R. Pinkbanes Vessetable Corepound. How many women realize that men- struation sis the balance wheel of a womana life, and while no woman is entirely free from periodical suffering, it is .not the plan of nature that women should sufier so severely? Thousaaads of Canadian women, how ever, have found relief from all monthly suffering by taking Lydia E. Pinkhara's Vegetable Compound, as it is the most thorough female regulator k-novvn to medical scienee. It cures the condition which eauses so much discomfort and robs menstruation of its terrors. Ellen Walby, of Welliugton Hotel, Ottawa, Ont., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkbano— “Your Vegetable Compound wa.s reclean - mended tams to take for the intense suffer- ing whieh I endtu•ed every month and with 'which I had been a sufferer for many years getting no relief from the many prescriptions whiehewere peescribed, until, finally beteni- ing discouragod with doctors and their medi- cities I determined to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Cateepound, and. I atn glad that I diel, for within a short timo I began to mend and in an incredible shortme space of tithe ' flow was regular, natural and without This seems too good to be true and am indeed a grateful and happy woman.” Women who are troabled tvith pain- ful or irreguLar menstreation, should take prompt action to ward off seri- ous consequences, and be restored to pertect health and strength by taking Lydia. E. Pinkbana's Vegetable Com- pound, and theta write to Mrs. Pink- litem, Lynn, Masa, for further free ad- vice. Thousands 'have been cured. by 30 doing, The Ad, and the Collector. Some time ago a. num who cosetem- It h Itistory of Advertisements began to collect. sped - aliens from all parts of the world. He etiginally intended to Make a complete collection, but he has abandoned :the idea for the simple reason. that, unlike ens- tage et:untie, the ameba of advertise- ments is infinite and their variety past elassification. Ile expresses surprise at the magnitude munt t coeopolitah charac- ter of advertising. But why should he be surprised? It ie a big world; human desires are Mune:mumble, and the ad- s ertisement is the neat useful mediunt for nialstue. known and therefore setisfy- ing these desires. te. patv -Nth() takes Lia reveller reit, ats_