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The Wingham Advance, 1911-11-09, Page 6A WEIGHTY. MATTER A Story of Love and Fish by velyn Grogan. Jack alenefiald WaS changiug a fly, awl. Kathleei . stood watching the pre- parations tor luring the wily trout. BU her small brother, lay on the banit unitising himself with. buckshot and a eetatudtottjn a reek lying In stream. Jasik wore a stutibont look. "Seedy, Kathleen," he said, "you are emeineU ney ear to the rtes to -mor- row?' "Ws ea nee, Jaelt, I can't. Chant 'Myles is tektite me in ltie. He offered to itelude Aunt Indane and Dille, end -I mad, not melee." My ear only holds two, so let aim thee the fatally and yoa come with me," "My Jeer „lack, be reesonable. you suppose be erater for Auntie and Billy?" "Preteuil you have already promised "Oh!" sold Kathleen, virtuously, "that would be acting a lie." "Talk of the there he is!" ex- claimed Jett:. "I never SAW him fishing here betere." Claurt atylea !tarried up and eonversa- tioa Imeetne genal, though confinea to raatters piscatorial. ituddeuty Jack- bethought himself of a wicked ruse„ and instead of acting a lie deliberately uttered one. What time did you say I had better briug the ceir to -morrow?" he stsked. Kathleen raised her .expressive eyee quickly to his, and etill more swiftly cast them to the ground. "Whenever yon like," she .replied, ebut I don't want to lose the first ratteei Claud Myles looked up sharply from the fly -hook over which ,he was poring. "I think yon have forgotten, Miss Stewart, tbat it tvas arrenged I was to fetch, you." • "Can there be a mistake?" said Jack, 'Surely you promised to come with um!" "On the contrary," said Myles hotly, "Miss Stewart, her aunt and Jilly haee ale settled to go in my ear." "Then we both claim you," cried Jack, "so make your choice now." "This la too absurd; and Kathleen looked Britt at one and tbe net the oth- er, "I must have made a moat foolish tnistake. Did 1 really accept your kind itividation, Mr. Myles?" "Of course, over ten days ago," "Then 1 must have forgotten, Jack, Wm it be possible 1 thought of coming with you?" "Yee," he replied, sinfully, "1 am quite owe' yon dd." "What obeli I do? in any ease it ap- pears I must break a Tromise." "Draw lots," suggested Billy, from Ms bed in the grass. 'Good Mea, then neither of you can be effended." She etrateked out her hand to take two clover stalks offered by Billy. "Whoever draws the longest shall be ray chauffeur to -morrow," she continued, MOP "No," fetid Jack, "if 'Menet must do - let us 143Ye a little skill thrown Wo edit fish for the pleasure of your reesepany, and whoever catches the heav- iest baeltet of trout shell claim ;roe° "Agreed," said Myles. "Agreed," said Kathleen, and whet. you return I will weigh the fish in your presence." A time for leaving off having•been de - *ideal upon,, the fisheriten got to work. "I won't stay and eiateh," said Katie. leas, turning away, "hut will leave you to your own devices. An revoir till weighing -in time. Billy, 1 suppose you are not coming with Me?" BiUy shook his heed. "PR watch Jack,' he said, and Kathleen felt that Billy anew where her inclinatioas lay. In silence the boy hovered beside the 'fisherman of his choice till a sudden teglateuing of the line and a cheerful lit- tle ecreeett of the reel -gave evidence that a trout had met its fate. Billy removed it' from the hook. "That's one to tits good," he remark- ed. "rm frightfully keen for you to heat that other ethap." "Why?" "Beeause Kathie wants to come with you. Wouldn't it be sport to see his face if he loses andhas to cut Auntie &same to the raees without her?" "How brutal yon are in your Ideas of sport, young mat," said Jack, casting Me line onee more. Tlie.,flsiiermen were lucky. There was y fair take on and the trout were rising freely. ;leek's hasket be. gsa to feel eortald.ershly heavier. Presently Billy volltuteered to walk ea and diseover bow Jack's opponent ea, feria& are was soma dieteatee ahead, and, oveteg to a ben.1 or the river, one of sight. "How are you getting on" etoitted IVRY, when he cattle up with afyies, "Not too bed." "Jack's got a real eke one, some a accent raze aud tile reet four tn the petted. What are youre like' Billy looked into the basket. "Pretty equal, erdept f.r Jsek's big oat. 1 believe you'll lose, Mr. "NLyles," 'Wait till we weigh In; tines enough thee. Rott away now, I hate being W5tAhe4L" "Cross as a weasel.° mattered the boy to himself, as he turned and left the. to:see:table 'atyles. "Dosed like being beaten," Before he had gone fee lliily ehauged his mind, autt determined for rt little while to wateh My1a unteen. Ile crept through the 'melee and quietly retetehatt his steps peened and witness. ea a littla scene of whieh he in st cern. taint)? wee not supposed to be a epeeta- tor. A head eountryinan Wag etrolling to. wards Ifylets equipped wall a eltintee I rad and rough taeltit, eytelently home- ward bouutl. (leer ehouller he earritaan ld fish which he removea When meeting Stylise. "Any spoke sill" Iteettked. tPretby god. Ana yen?" * titeit lucky. sir, 1 &let' been ont king; but just as t was leaviog 11f1 *vend one took hold.” led fish. out upon the Ant."Int Be knelt •down and turned th a seek - them lay a fine treat. "in o 1)()Jnd o ee-% 1ieskint 'Wish 1 ha.I vour 1f ;Pyles. eatvioutne. 'Take him. if veafTp,eta 1 wtt 01 me 111.1141110 tet tint tetl. tem. VI the lag 'um Leek of etettiemeri is start to retell "eiti on the FPO.: 01 4-4., tri nolo a good htw wheel they trete lento.* do him jasttoe, (laud N1v104 7P.1 riikt bk imptit!an. bet the men Netted; an 1 atguea that wet a red teetemen tee.' atta tately waen 4 aw t.ti -ti f (.11 it 1.1,:o .11yies' eteket. eleeet meation till; to enseeate" e „al tit let . looki ng very UM! Jnt f L. b e, feet it-- vi.11, th! 1 e tea with a ;tout to know 1 Abet coti!,1 ;I, eat et:testi:ad is a little higlist up, :tad. 1 weidtt like to letve :nonthin he lett. just ter fun, you know." "I untieretitads, sir; I've pi tyed telt game beton.. Thank yoa, des suaell obliged. I'm sure, sir," ewe the veneer of trout poeketed the profaned coin and begun to gather up the remaintlet ht e fith. Itilly bolted, and theugh he htd taken up hit aosition with ,leek, by the time the emintryman hove tn tight, hleiip tete been settica commuting what he hal seen. "Omni evening, sir." PAi.l tilP mate ete eentlemen clown the river h ts got :a firierheitl, a teal good trout he've ereelels supooe you wetland do svith o, few extra Ones to fill up your hatkett 1 "il spare mute, althottgh my litigate it lotik for them." "So, thanks," seta JAck. -Mita obligee; but I don't want at than I esm eitteh myself." Tee same blautlistimente wsre again triter but na ehango was te be get out of Jed:. The Man went n,wa,y gnat-Utiel, and temarked, "It was diffiredt to do business with gents, and Ite"--Jaek— %Wag at bad Ad the other gentleman, who would auy nothing either," "The lying old scamp," thought Billy "Here, Bill," cried Jack, hoetting the basket oft tie shoulder; "collar hold of title; I'm beginning to feel the weight," Tbe boy took it eagerly, for an idea suddenly struck hiat--how he totght poseibly get the best, Of Myler. "And no one will guess," he thonght, "not even Kathie." lte sat down at some little distance stetter a tree, while Jack continued patiently to thrash elle river. Erein •the moment Myles had trans- ferred his purchase into the basket, the take ceased, and no meinuir of coaxing wattle entice the trout again to look at a fly. The rivals fished away till time was up, when they again met. "Which hietket weighs the most?" rteked jack, balancing the two together. "By .Tovel We a jelly close thing. Billy, you were right. 1 Audi bless rny small fry, for I believe, after all, it is a eight pounds vire ounces. Kathleen trete diem as they advanced toward the houtte She also essayed to find out which baeltet weighed the most. "Whoever Ivo:Ad have imagined it Gould be possibly he sach a near thing?" she cried. Each fisherman deposited his shining trophies upon a large dish. It, was, a moment of supreme excitement when the slippery fish slid into the settles. Claud Myles had the greater number, so his were weighed first. Down went the scales, and Kathleen, uow adding, now removing, weight after weight, at last declared that they scaled exactly eight pounds nine ounces. Billy darted forward, begging to be allowed to place jack's trout into the scale. One by one, he put them in, as if to prolong .the agony. The big one first, the medium next ,and so on till onlythree were left. Slowly be lifted oue ,of these important fish stud laid it -with its fellows. Surely—aurely the scales trembled. Breathlessly thet last but one followed, and the weights gent- ly TORO, causing the fish to reraltin bal- anced mid -way. With an exuberant grin spreading all Over his counten- ance, Billy flung in the little tltree-ineh trout, and down came the scale with a bump in favor of Jack. "Fewer fish, but better condition," .exolaimed the conquerer, "The prize goes to jack," shouted Billy, gleefully, Could there have been a hidden mean- ing in his words that only Sack and Kathleen understood? "Fairly beaten," said Myles, gloom- ily. The fishermen, after presenting the catch to Kathleee, departed, and. the glittering fish lay peatefully„ at rest on a marble slab. Billy crept down to the lower 'regions, seeking a. private interview with Mag- gie, the kitchen -maid, his faithful ally. "Please, I want you to unlock the larder," he asked, coaxingly, "and let me choose which wish we will have for breakfast." "What an idea, sir,"said Maggie; but all the seine she preceded him, and complied with his request. He sorted the fish over very careful- ly, picking and choosing as though it were e matter of extreme importance. Sack's largest trout was his first choice, and several others of fair size were laid on one side, "You've picked the beet, anyhow, Master Billy," said Maggie, approv- ingly; "they are line, heavv fish." "'Clean them note, ready for cook- ing," lie begged. With a burst of laughter Maggie rais- ed her head, ana taking the selected fish,. marched off to the scullery, the boy following in the tear. With a sharp latife she quiektv dieseetea them. "Well, Mester Billy," the said, "1 uever cleaned fish *at fed ea shot he - fore, mid if for your own purpose you choose to stuff them up -with lead, thete 15 no reason why yon aliould lose your ammuniticte." So Billy, whit Was of an economical turn of mind, gathered up his' buckshot and retuned it to his pocket, whence it had been taken to frtudrate the un- fair trick played upon Saelt.—Bvelyn Brogao in Ladies' Field. 0.41".1,4*. "WHEN OUR SHIP COMES IN." Mr. Yankintonis New 'England Hortte Recalled In a Offence Phrase. "I was bora in lieW England," said Mr. Yankinthei "and nob horn rich, 'We were not what you call poor folks.. We Were tomfortable, but We depended up. an labor for i:ur support, ard while we did live comfortably we did tot have many luxuricp. Those we were going to have, rte tet used to say„ when our, ship twine in, to which tenting we always rented fortotted cheetfully and hopefully, "Yetterday, walking past a toy store which had many pretty things display. ta in its window, 1 etteountered ft niOth. er and her little daughter, * little giri of maybe II, They were vomfortably mud nicely dressed people, but they were not x!oh; their watts, 1 should say, wore about like my own; and though thoW speech was in elear„ good raffish [hair aeoeut, alum(' that they saute from some foreign land. " 'Thereat what 1 woula like to have,' saki the sms11 girl as they passed, look- itte up at something iu the toy stem window • and looking up at the ehject that the little girl hail indicated mei theu loolting down at her, the mother saki smilingly: 'Wait till the ship cornea in,' "It interested me greatly to hews this said like that byn persot treet seethe]: country, for someltew thta phrase, familiar 38 it haft alKarl :bean to me, heti always seemed to me •treauliar to my oall land and regime, exit et first ib did surprise me. But then, to 40 aavo, Ituume hopes and espleationt ette the same in all lauds, and 'Omagh Around the 'world they may be voiced e neeny tongues there are nutty sayinge that we may Wilk peculiar to its that really are anoienl and common, and of them eepresting a hope that is univereal, ' when mu telp coulee ind is one." --11, Y. San, PRESS, PULPIT AND PLATFORM, valethe world goat beet:, democracy must -Q feeward.--The Biteep of Truro, at Troro Cathedral. Texts Omit mouninens falling upon ut are an oteession 0 terror for thidd sees. --.Bishop cf London, at Cheloea. Soup kitcherie an1 free jam, amen that lifo hat broken down; they are an net - lege en the people for whom they aro inteuttede-Cituon Scott, liollited, at Ed- monton. If :t man —I don't eare in whet station of Me— hoe nothing to do he le In the mostdangerous condition be ran be in. -- Mr. J. Rope, at. Sheffieta, It is by never loW.ng heart, ter one ow - molt that tate greatest good is done and the greatest bresoinge aellieved.--Latty Frederiek Cavendish, at $t. Mary's 001- 13' Ilicte svere more artiste and more creftsmen In this world there would be a greet deal more happinese—Mr. Martiu Harvey,. at Hull Arta and Crafts Ex'aibi- tion. It is .Impossible for a skilled nurse to be 111 it poor persotes house day after day without raising the standardof liv- ing in that hoase.--- Lord Chichester, at, Brighton. • Yon ean much Mere easily a.ppeal to the inetinet, or the emotiou, of a large crowd of people than you can to their vedette inteltigenees.--dlise Cicely Ham- ilton, at Sheffield. The "will of the people" is often re- ge.riled as it catchphrase, bet if it were realized more there would he lets ab. stention front votheee—The Marquess of Northampton, .at Thrapston. When I see the neatly-dreesed tnodern aetor with his golestieke, I cannot help thinking that the serious actor is slowly and silently passing away.—Mr. Laurence Irving at the 0. P. Club. If dhakespeare could hear 00e of his plays spoken with the prete.naday pro- nunciation he would tary often have coa. siderable difficulty in understanding his own words. --Mr. Daniel Jonee, At Brian ford. The most abominable sentiment of which .mankind is eapable is that ex - tressed in the couplet: "God bless the tquire and hie relations, and keep us in eur proper stations."—ear It. 'Beerbolen Tree, at Si. Michael -Bowes. CHEAP JAPANESE LABOR. In Some Lines at Least it Works Out as Pretty Expensive, "Wire nails are need exelusieely in Japan and hence there is an immense acmitail for them," writes the United .trates eonsular agent at Vlad.. ,,ustok. "Among the very many stoek ..Tropariles formed. .during the Japanet?. ▪ ambiari war, when money was plentiful, wits a, wire nail mill. Thievery latest up-' to. ea te eu toilette., runclorwry wat, wought out from the 'United States and Iverything that money and skill esuld erinunana was seemed to make the t great sneeeia. Ai a final step it super. au:nide:it was brought from a large inilt .n 010. -Mand, Ohio, and put in charge. "In pita of all this expenditure a tal.. ont, money and time tint fitut is not aile to make nails at a priee thAt at al. arterferes with imparting andaell:no.° at a • t :tif.tet ory profit. 11, hen askedu cannot make nails RS elm:tidy as he Iki in Cleveland the tuperintendent re - pike: "ft is simply it cpiestion of labor. in Cleveland ono man tended and kept running four or five mu:Vines; here it takes four or five men to tend one nue 13h UldEt tt lidil they d.opit. keep it running as 11 de_ large paper mill is havhag a similes experience. Labor is cheaply paid, but being inefficient it is more expentive than much higher paid efficieut labeire- "1 met three telgiant who had been mite months in Japan enhavoring to t a. window glass faeLory on a attec,,SA. ful money makims basis so it. to be able to eompete with imported whitlow Oast, ;they had abandoned the enterprise and were returning tome thoroughly ten- vineed that Japanese lib tr was yore eheap.but thet it could not sueemefully be utilized in a tench of Invnitfaetttring to Whiell it Was not eceuetomcd. "Coolie labor in japan ceminatult theta 25 cents a day, although in Kobe, tdokehama and Nagasaki 371.2 or 40 •entte is beirtg Asked end in many cosee awed. All employers of Moe were manirnons in &staring that the quality of the ,tervicee metered wee ;ping down teen feeler than the rate -of wages wee going up." THE FAMILY HEALTH. (11cLandburgh 11‘sno411 in New York Brother's in it hospital Rusted up and tante, -Someone used him for it mat In a football game. Mother's also quite Meshed up, Joining in the tush, Got some frfietures and the like In a bargain tough. Sister has a broken leg, Quite a common- butt, Oot it walking in the street In a hobble Skirt. rather has a broke bead Front 5 little Mite Got a brick upon his heita Tidking -.--- WfflQHIS IT? (Punch.) "Father 1" "Well, what is it '4" "It Itya• here, 'A Matt is known by the (latest -1y he keeps.' le that so, fath er "Yes, yes, yes." MVeII,father, if a geed man keeps coloPisnY With a bad Matt'le the good Man WA beeause be keeps edinpany with the bed man. and Is the had num% good hoent0,0 he keepa entirety with the good man?" MISS DOROTHY LAWSON. The third (laughter of Thomas W. Lawson has been wedded. to limy IVLcCalI,.son of the Massachusetts eon- gressman. JESUS' THE PREACHER. (Sermonby the Rev'. Dr, Johnston, of Montreal on the Caries:eta 'Masten "God. had one aun end He mode Rim it prencher, Jesus of Nazareth chose to be e carpenter until he began to be about 80 yeers of age. How the speeiel cell eitme to him that tient Him forte to build the true Kingdom of God in the hearts of menw , e are not told except thee it seems to have elope to Him m connection with the great revival that' moved all Judea under the trenching of John the Baptist. That this was Hie call Ire knew; and with absolute certainty Be declared 'The „Spirit of the Lord is upon me thecaose Ile hath anointed me to presteh."Phat same note of certainty is essential to the Christian preacher to -day, for not /done, if tee. message IA to be effeetive, mutt Ile have the note of certainty, but occasions arise 10 every preacher's experience when the butde» of Ills work would bt ietolereble were it nnt that he tan say 'I know thet I am in the pinee where God has set me.' If one could be satisfied in any other calling aud feel Gott eltewhere he it truly •mecting life's reepansibilities, it is probable that in that othet calling is his place of se-elec. To this note of confelence Christ added the note of authority. Ages ago Cato •in an essay upon twittery deelare e that it great orator wn$ jutt a good man skilled inspeakingobut especially Itgood man, and Phillips Brooks in hit lectures upon preaching declaree that the Remelt of great preaching is in ite posseselon of two eharaeteristice—Truth and Per. sonality. Behind the mett t:gage, if eit message is to be authoritative, mutt be the personality of a tree di:allele of Christ. Learning, voite, knowledge el the affairs of men eulture-ethete are unt bitbe despised, but above everything inn preacher must cultivate goodneste A great preaeher perhape tee wetted of his genera t Ilite rev ..ntly p reel twee, Dr. Alexander at:tel.:tree, of Manchester, • avolded atilt!. • thee sought the attention 6f the juridic. religiously ruled out of his preeehing so-eallee questions of the day. For nearly forty years his pulpit rang with the -prole:ma-Hon of the great eternal trate; of sin and righteeteineet, of God and the Savioureeruthe that ate teal to the deepest things of mann mime. His eongiegation wile weld. wide, mid the inm fluue te of tltt greet ininishy is unmeatered. On every baua men are .1eslo ring tbat the power of the pulpit it wart- ime thne indeed the world has outgeoten the preacher, but the true preeeher who knows hie call and knosie 'that. his MPS - dap it 111P one divine euro the world's need will 'himself dlitptGve nich qatenteuts, Mid will Atilt find in the un- satisfied hearts of men it nevem to the message that he has bean sera of (tad •.o declare." THE VIRGIN BIRTH. As man grows more intelligent the Immutability of law becomes ever more and more an established principle in his thought. Time was when men looked up - nit the laws of nature and of God es be - mg like humanly devised legislative en- actments, subjects for revision or repeal, Mit that time lute passed, at least am - cum the enlightened thinkers Of the world, end now all know that to law there is no exception. The man who is learned in natural af- fairs believes this doctrine from his faith in ,nature, and declares that all laws are unchangeable, and that there- fore the Scriptural miracles are Inn possible, and that the Clod of Scripture its unthinkable, The Scriptural man also believes in the immutability of law, but not from his faith in Dative, lie believer: it from his faith in Goil. Law from the spiritual man's point of view it simply the divine way of accomplishing the divine purposed; and bemuse the spire turd men believes in a God Who is in- finitely wise and who tamed, he be - novae that the ways of such it God are equally eternal, Thas on opposite grounds believing la the unchangeableuess of law, the nit. tural and the Spiritual man AA tiloY read the Scriptural account of the ght birth of the Lord, come to oppoelte. eoncausioue. The natural man says: Slime law is eternal mut ttt1t it. birth is eontrary to law, we eannot nerept it. The spititual man says: Shea law is et- ernal, slob. a birth met, bit in :word. ante with law, and therefere ti it it new revelation nf Taw. In the virgin birth the epiritnal inan 1,004 tile 1 iw whereby all the progreetions nI (Tors Creative work have been brought Aut. This earth Was once, awarding to the teientifie Mau, 111888 of fire, imitable of supporting lifts ia any form; it 14 now teeming with antmal and human life, no law of netural birth, can • as Ponta for this transformation, but tin- der the law of virgin birth, which is the law of a higher birth from a lower int - Lethal parentage, web progression miry be, understood. When the angel mottle. ed to Vary that Alle, a virgin, Aettla eonecive and 'Ming forth a son she ex- claimed, in atcordanco with the thought of the nattwal man d of to ay, "Itow shall thie be, *Nee 1 know not a MAIO" Ana thtr e etteltt 311131115011'eens- hates the answer of the reatituel man of to -day lo the problem nf titer% plate reeitionet 443110 Trnly Rpirit ehell emu' Neon thee; Mal the powey tif the overshadow thee; therefore alio that holy thing whielt shall be Mum of the shall. be called the Son of God" 9r BSUto 1111111 of to-duY would ex roll. it: "The inflowing of Divine lifeis able through existing forms of life to create still higher forms, The virgin birth by which the Sou of .Ciod was born into the world, is therefore in accordance with a universal law illustrated on all planes of life, since it is through this law thet .forint of life distinctly higher than those at a given time existing, have Made their appearance 011 the _earth. Put thii applies in an especial way to the new birth through which each .0Tie ab tains his own regeneration. The being born again is n kind of virgin birth,it birth from the remains of good in maa, by Lite overshadowing of, power of tio Highest, whore it begotten and Welt a new nutn. The .angel that each may beeofne it a veritable Son of God. The virgin birth 'needles to 1.tS, thOni the doc- trine of the Divine imminence in all things, ever c.perating through the MI that is to bite expression a life distinctly I.h,lier; and it preaches to un farther the dectrine ttC n Divirm hn- minence in man's individual regenera• tion where t1.0 spiritual man bermws Son of flod, who is born, "not of blood, . will of man, but of God." The Divineness of the Spiritual man is what the virgin birth especially declares to US. and Is. what we may take to our hearts as 11 helpful thought belonging to tins an- niversary .of the Lord's birth. lrelper. A PASSING TYPE, The "Old Lady" Now Little More Than a Memory. We tre Otte generation remember her well—the gentle old lady with hair of erowued with In:movable years aua treasured memories ,and slipping quietly into the eltadows. In other days no home seemed complete without her presence, and the very dignity of her gentle grace added an indescribable charm to family life. She wore her years as a badge of distinction and dtd not begrudge exacting Time his toll. Her journey up the hill of life in the blazing sunlight of youth was replete with ineidents with whose memory she loved to enrich her twilight hours. ahe left no others the activities of the pres- ent, the eecolleetions of her day were yea of sufficient im,portance to absorb her interest, and she d'weat about do- ing good" in her own unobtrusive -way. Her sphere of existence was limited, it is true, but to her retiring nature and old fashioned ideas the familia inter- course around the fireside appealed as no outside becoming but a memory. The typical "old lady" of a. generation or two ago has passeci away forever. Here mid there, •in a few families who have not outlived the delightful customs that prevailed so extensively only•a comparatively' few years ago may be found some last exponent of her type who is loved end honored by all who know her and who exerts in her own way a more laeteng influence for good than do her independent sisters in their more aggressive lives. We have been taught from early youth to reverence old age, and one of our peoudest boasts as it civilized we tiou is that we have renutined true to our teachings in this regard at least. In these 7/101% exigaging times, however, there seems really to be no old age in the former acceptation of the term. It is true that the years add un just the tame, but nature seoms to ha,ve extended her leaee of life and rejuvenated the hu. man eyeball. The dainty lace caps that once set to lovelingly upon the white hairs have given way before the on- slaughts ai the hair -dresser, and the sombre blaek bonnet that tied with strings hat; long since been succeeded by the latest ereation of the milliner's art. It is juet as well, perhaps, that the period of a person's mental as well as physical activity can be lengthened to an almost indefinite extent, speak- ing comparatively, oourse, for just so much more of life's joy will fall to his share, even at the risk of a eorrespond- ing increase of its sorrow. The onward sweep of evente, with ibis confusion of purposes and noise of strug- gle and promise of power, attracts with tremendous force those who have hith- erto heeu content to watclt front afar. While the sphere or Woman's activitiea is yet, somewhat limited it has broad- ened enatigh to interest in no uncertain way many of the sex who have hereto. fore refrained from participation and who now eagerly weleame the opportun- ities presented' in club life, eettlement work and even politics. Ilt is sometimes claimed that the monotony of home life and its endless routine of duties makes a woman old before her time, and that getting iu touch with other interests, brushing against the outside world, re- juvenntes her system and refreshes mind and heart to such a degree that the en- eroachments of age are not so easily dis- tinguished. But, after all, it familiar figure in home life passes away with the advent of the "new woman," and somehow the Otero(' conditions do not seem to compensate for the loss of that WM& has long been dear to us. In a little while, perhaps, with the passing of this generation, there will be none left to ilinstrate theoh priceless arni of a rent old age, when; saeltered in the heart of her flesh and blood, the loved one, ehtelding gently all eare, and re- spousibility, dreams fled drifts into eternity. Her place can never be filled, but the mentoey of her quiet figure, dig- nified in its very simplicity and Aron even in its weakness, twist ever be eu inspiration to all those who have been so fortunate as to come under her in- fluence. $he moulded weli thee'd ay in- trusted to her hands, and after her lab- ors were over she found her recompense lit the hearth she guided earl her joy in the ntiracle she vermigla.—Charles- ton News mid Courier. Strength of England, br a letter Sir W. M. Ramsay. sayst strength of the Englielt eslioy on tiewhile is the one strong ttAtioeal fhwitve At present Werhieg in tha weed to favor free bitereourte. Eva y other nation tries in its national policy to :-.‘111. rotind heel(( With it high wall and inqietle circulation. ()or policy it, in it rotrah a1:13 often unintelligen t le dame -the, world's life; and SO 10111 as IL remaia4 flue to this prineiple Englau 1taenet Tiu vountry may suffer in one limb or sine pate. but att a whole the livait oaths tented bexte through our life more free arid with lets impediment than h throug in' •other Ltati011. That i* the higher fiiiueipIe whielt is involved in what la ealled from a berm -eel ;mint of view ft •ee .trado'; oar pinItt. piney it ptC881lt : ittetetaly in order to mlintaln the wald's development, awl aerefore tits world eaunot do without us. There lies the mull, Ana the ,:afety of England, Our .dang,er lies in the fact that, so few flttAt' are not retpaniable for onr poliey undeveland Hat auffieiently„ ansi tliatetome rif them see Vietiellily aol -.rattly opposed to 9, UNCLE SAM PUBLISHES 1113 OWN urn PAPER IN CANAL ZONE. < ,Lt72,l0,0rV \w/f1111111 ,E; Pligatiatet. The C . "4" 44.111b,"747 IM kr 4.94' i'.4".16Y *id " r .4; 4.4 191.''".",'#* ECORD Noremeta .' 1LeLliooto; Pk, .44.* „ *40164 41. 1_ TOP OF FIRST PAGE' OF THE CANAL NEWSPAPER, Uncle Sam can boast one lonely flov- This story details how "representn- ernment newspaper. This paper is not lions ohfeidtbac nslixeetliongealinbatsieelbaullniavsesrosolitay; a. mere official bulletin, like the Con- gresaional Record. It's real newspa.- 6, an organized teo ;Tamale ciouti Char of Panama ou Sunday, November per with columns devoted to baseball Baseball League." The first game of and duckpins as well as to official mat- the seaion is scheduled for December 18. Two columns are devoted to 5d. M. C. tees. Also It hes a society column, A, work—mostly bowling end, billiards. This organ, edited and published by We read that "Thanks D g um ay was the United States of America, is celled the Canal Record. It 18 the official newtpaper ef the eanal zona It is is - suet!. every Wednesday, awl, RS befits the newspaper that is an earnest of the newspaper of the millennium, it is issued free to the people of the zone, Each government employee in the zone gets a copy every week. observed ne Chtittobal by the bowling ehampionship games in the morning end atternoou and by ail informid public so - teal In the evening." Not the least interesting part of the paper is the "market report" of the eom- missary department, which reveals the suggestive fact that Lrnele Sato can aldp Chicago killed beef all the way to Pante rhe awed Iteeogl Is it, three olama, ma.. and sell IL more cheaPlY than it la eight page paper. Aecording to the tea- being retailed, in Chicago itself. Here *rainy of it captain, it in "publishea are name zone quotations, vetail: weekly under the authority Mut super. Mask steak 14e pound, round 15c, sir - lout 21c, porterhouse 21e, stewing veal 10c, fresh mdfish 10c, halibut 155, sugar mtred limn 22e, butte 27e, butter (cream- ery) 40e, ice cream 25e quart, potatoe$ iteee, pound, orauges 12e dozen. Considering that most of thee° things have to be shipped over a, thousana miles front the States, in cold. storage, these prices are astonishingly reason- able. Arnow matters of les,ser inteeest to the general public, but possibly of tre- mendous interest to somebody, there is a. note to the effete that William Martin is missing. William, it seems "is known by the mute of 'Big Bill' Mee' din," and he is suposed to be in the zone. Some - betty in Empire wants to know where he is. vision of the lethmiert (?anal Commie - sten." lts eubscription lIsti includes "all employees of the commiesion and the Panama. Railroad Company, whose names are on thegold roll." In the ctutent issue there is oh inter- esting story about the fabrication of the Gatun lock gates at Pittaburg. This is .the leading flatlet° relative to the work of the canal. And there are many columns of tables relatives to the work —all about the week's record 10 con- crete, in excavatione etc. But the real story of the week, the longest story, arid the only one deemed by the Miters as worthy of a "two, deck" head, is the one that tells of the organization of the "Panama, Canal Baseball League." THE EGYPTIAN CROCODILE, Its Cunning and Wonderful Noiseless. ness--1 ts Enemies. One of the reasons given by old writ- ers for the crocodile being worshipped In Egypt was the somewhat eryptic one that it "laisi threescore eggs end lived for threescore years"; but from twenty to thirty is the 00111111011 1111111- ber of eggs found in a "clutch." In the reptile's easy code of ethice, however, its parental responsibilities ced with the aet of oviposition, for having cov- ered, the eggs with a layer of sand it leaven the sun to do the rest (whom° doubtless Shakespeare'e "your mud and the operation of your sun") and leaves it also to the ichneumon to do its worst, In some placess it seems that water tor- toisestoo eat crocodiles' eggs; but the ichneumon is the real desolator of cro- codile homes, snatching up the nests and eating or breaking the entire "sit- ting" at it meal. Crocodiles' eggs, how- ever, are. absurdly small, a mother twenty feet long being content with an egg no larger than that of a goose, and the newly hatehed young hardle more formidable than a common newt, are preyed, upon by bird, whiell it little later the rapidly growing crocodile would like nothing betterethan to get within its reach, as well as doubtless by many other things, including . old crocodiles themselves, The real horror of the members of the crocodile tribe lies in their usual noise- lessness. "They swim with great sil- ence, making scarcely even a ripple on the water," sap M. Du Chant% and elle terror of the stealth of their apt preach is well conveyed in Ma Itudyard Kipling's "Ripple Song": "Wait, alt! wait," the ripple saith; "Maiden, wait, for 1 ton Death!" The first sight of an alligator or ere. mane, however large eunniog itself on a atudband and pretended to be a stranded log is usually disappointing, and if it is lying with its mouth open, as in the sunehine they all love to do (wherefore, seeing them remaining so immovably in what looks like so abett- ed an attitude, many visitors to the gardens go away declaring thee the crocodiles are stuffed.), it becomes al- most absurd, But when you have some upon one unexpectedly with its heatl and. forequarters out of the water, and have seen it slide noiselessly back until it disappears, and then even while you still watch the place where it vanished, not a movement, having so much as made the surface of the water quake, the hideous thing suddenly, still in one plete silence, thrusts itself out upon the bank many yards away-- it may le further off or nearer to you— to lie n mere snag it the water's edge, welting for whateVer May come within its reach, whether you or another, the dreadful - nese of the thing is very chilling. Sir Samuel Baker tells of the miming of crocodile's, which advance at au ani- mal without any conotalmeet, and thee, as if in disgust at their failure, turn tout swim away, still in sight, only at i last to -sink below the surfece and Ire I turning without a ripple to betray them rise immediately below the quarry, which has by thls time returned to drink in fancied security. By this trick be saw them again and again catch birds which settled on branches over- hanging the water. The chief food of most members of the family, and prob- ably the entire foe& of some, is fish; bue now that we know that a full grown rhinoceros can be pulled into the water and killed by it crocodile, we may believe that few living things do not at one time or another fall victimsto them. "Horses, oxen, buffaloes, bears, mules and camels" is it list which one writer gives of animals whit& are knottu to have been eaten by crocodiles in Egypt. In South America jaguars and tapirs have been seen being seized, pulled into deep water and drowned; while as for iman, consid.er the Mugger of Mugger Gha.ut in Mr.Kipling's grew - mem tale, "The Undertakers. According to old, writers the ichneu- mon, besides eating erocodiles' eggs, would run into the full grown animal's whence, after revelling for a wbile amid Leviathan's vitals, it ate its way out of the dead carcase vietoriously 'to day light. The "hydra," it seems. did, the same. But the dolphirea method. was with a knife edged d.orsal fin, it swam underneath "the encased crocodiles,, and sliced clean epee' the colt, unprotected below, of him that layeth at him epaanTrutisloesword of the spear, the dart nor the habergeon. "Cense thou draw out Leviathan with any hook?" asked the sacred writer. Herodotue says that in his day they could use a pig for bait. In India. we know that they have been cauglit with Africa the Anengee "harpoon them with a rude jagged Spear." Diodorus, how- ever, averred that they could. only be taken in iron nets, and the general belief that they were byond the Fever of man to capture is reflected In the medal which Augustus stilt* to com- memorate his conquest of Egypt, with the crocodile chained, to a tree, flue the prowl tegendt "No one has bound Inc before" If in Egypt they bound the crocodile at all it seems to have been with gar- lands of flowers and chains of gold and gems, a proceeding which probably inter- ested the crocodile only in so far as it offered a chance of a euccuient gar - lender coming within reach. The pro- miscuous beatification, which was shared with such things at eats and: beetle, was after all but an' indifferent coon plituent, nor even so was, it seemiugly wtiversal among the Egyptiens. "Those about Thebes and Lake Moeris consider them to be very seared, * * but the people who dwelt about the city of Eleplutntine eat them," 'Which fairly redressed the balance; but we must eonjecture that whether for worship or for the table the crocodiles were caught youngt—London Times. Giddigirl says her bath- ing, suit this summer is going to be out of sight. Slobbs--.As I remember it, the one she wore last year was nearly so. Many it man has beeh caught at his own game by people who let him think he was fooling them, IN THE DIVORCE ERA. • Nur—Who W/18 that goutltma it who spoko to you? Young Archin Rmitlt•Tonos-Brown.lilaelto.Oreeno-Altat used to be papa. ptire0:04tione4f7X:alsIlibvisale, 01"):14vIrratt ttitzui y Sines 11 has been eclehreted with victory of Cbarlea 11L, over the Au+ trians Velletri in 1744. This feast, wbieli was formerly the eldefly a night affair, celebrated an during summer, prohibited Om greatest in Naples, Juts now became telltale feast of Pedigrotta, a t of the Virgin. It was origLually a pate. an rite resetunlinr, the saturnalia, ha& great magnificence in memory of the uproarious manner and around the grot- t TI!e ip)refiellet 'of Naplee ordered all the wine shops to be closed during the light anti strong detachments of polies and soldiers wore 'stationed to disperee the crpwde in case the Nettpoittant, ante:eat leg the prohibition, assembled neee the grotto of Posilipo. The precautions telt- en were, however, veeless, as the orter of the prefect was implicitly obeyel and the fact Was not celebrated. But the Neapelitarot were not to he deprived of their annual merrymaking, and instead of the usual pageants whielt characterized the festival they organ- ized a novel show, thus Incidentally in- setituting a new annual festival. tart - lowing the example of Paris, the .genp4.)- titans every year select the prettiest giri of the city and elect her queen of the sea. The election is undertaken aceoel- ing to certain rules and is quite intpor- tlai. Twelve candidates, one from each dis- trict, of the •city, are selected and the prettiest one among them. is elected queen, while all the patent are ap.point- eadailntelerdmItnidds corfollivonneodr.uT,ithhe gangeerneatte paeraol- of ceremony; escorted. by her maids of honor she parades the streets, presides at a banquet and attends a festival or- ganized for the oceasion; finally she takes part in it great parade on the. IseeyTaidsileesatoytele.daatroednuiNeev throne erected on a gat- ifehtefsi°iNnvecrognannedetifolang:; itb the queen of the sea were substituted for the festival of Pedigrotta and they Were the festival of Pedigrotta, as the queen of Genoa and the queen of Paris, attended by their respective courts, were invited to Naples on purpose.—From the Chicago Daily News. ORUELil TO OUR OWN (Kate Burr in Buffalo Times.) The people who let their own go to the almshouse are going to come up vedy short in .the home of "many mansions," I'm thinking. They will be jerked up by SL Peter as they knock for admittance, -with something like this: 'I don't think we want you, John Paul Smith. Your record down on earth was so bad -a" "Oh, you are mistaken. dear. kind St. Peter," interrupts Mr. John Pahl Smith, whose pomposity has shrunk into noth- ingness before the stern refusal of the doorkeeping saint, "I have the best 'recoril for attending S'unday sebool—haven't missed but ono day in 20 years and that was the day of the famous blizzard—in '05, you re- member—and the roads were impassable, and I had a cola; the doctor didn't think it safe for me to go out—" St. Peter cut Mr. John row Smith short in his defence. "Yon allowed your brother to live in the county house until he died." John Paul Smith falls back as if a blast of cold air hied struck him, but he begins again: "1 bave given generously to church purpoees, and built a fountain in our town." "i3ttt your brother died in the ceunty house within two stoma throw of your handsome home—" sold St. Peter, dos- ing the gate and looking at the crestfal- len John Paul Smith through the bars. As the latter sneaks down the inclined pathway of the approach, a haughty wo- man passes him. Sails majestically to Lite heavenly por- tal and gives a resounding knock—the knock of one who is accustomed to see all doom open at her comenand. St. Peter opens the door the smallest fraction of an, inch, and says: "What do you wish, madame?" "Way, to otne in, of course—kiadly step aside," saiki the haughy lady, was- ing her plumes- on the tossing head. "Not so fast, madame --this is no place for you," said the good saint, gent- lyshutting the door, "Why, do you know,who I am?" asks madante in clear, reverberating voice. "I am president at the Women's For- eign Missionary Society, the. Ladies' Aid Society, the—' "That will do, if you please, madaine,h geld the hind saint. "What ladies' itia did yea give your mother when yea sent her to the almshouse to weep the few remaining months of her life away?" Madame pales under the scathing loon and accusing tone. "Mother was childish," she said, "I could not have her around mortifying me before my friends." "Xearly all -these friends of yours are below," saki St. Peter'pointing to a distant valley, where the smoke was constantly rising mid settling like a fog mei the populeted cities spreading over the land. "And your mother it here— don't think yon would 'feel at home in heaven with yottr mother :tea without your friends.' Ana the gate went shut, leaving ale. dame the Haughty standing alone—outt 13kITEle poor etand ley one' another—but the selfish fiele*er those Who wish to live beyond their means, are the (nes wrilttejtey !Lice rotnd. oistfrequent examples of e There are even readers of this -calltrun —in good and regular elturelt standing, who are allowing brothers, daughters, sisters: fathers or mothers softer for tngive. want nf assistance they eon well afford Let not any of you who have so hard - toted your hearts to your own think to escape punishment. 11 19 tine you, &Ina in ,good time it is yours. Ansi its ye gave no quarter to the un- fortunate, expect none from the Great Judge. AN EA▪ SY JOB, ANYHOW. (Demon iTerstia.) Charles 11, Diglow, the con edian, is almo4 its bald RI he could be. One day at the Lambs (lab he said to the har- bor, "t am its a great hnrry. ran you tut mily ltair Vtith niy rellar ottIm "tire t ran," said the bather. eau Mit it nitit ynur 11.11 (I8." • 44J1•4411. - The aviator never realizes what a hard world this is till ho hits from a )tPight of about 800 foot, ift'N