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The Brussels Post, 1913-9-11, Page 6Di'r g ble Fleet Expensive. lYtost Satisfactory Form of Airship For War, But Cost is Almost Prohibitive. For some time past it, has been very difficult to make people think in anything but terms of dread- noughts anti sullen -dreadnoughts;, says Chambers's Journal. Now, however, topic of thought, so to speak, is slowly , but perceptibly veering, and we aro beginning to think in terms of •dirigibles. Almost every paper that comes to hand has au article in it pointing out the great value of the rigid airship and the necessity of building a large number of this type of aerial craft. There can be no doubt as to our need of this class of air vessel, but few persons realize the extreme "-costliness of building the rigid di- rigible and keeping it in au efficient state, The price of a Zeppelin is about :b'50,000, and a hangar to hold two ofthese vessels . costs about 280,000. Then there are re- pairs, gas, wages and a hundred and one other things which neees- eitate a large :running account to meat thein. To build a, fleet of 40 dirigibles, which we should have to do to en- able us to get on even terms with the aerial squadrons of other coun- tries, would cost us about 22.000,- 000, and then hangars must be pro- vided for all of these airships, which means the expenditure of an- other £2,•000,000 at least. Where these air vessels are to be built and how long they would take, to construct are also matters of• craft, and torpedo craft, acts very imporfanoe, seeing that we have not foolishly, as yet turned out any really satis- Anyone who has a knowledge of Factory airships of large size. Ar- heavier-than-air vessels knows that rangeauents, too, have been complete in normal weather conditions they ed in Germany whereby the sale of are always heseri before they are Zeppelin and Schutte -Lanz diri for the ramming aeroplane. No doubt, some safer and more certain mucle of attack will soon make its appearance, The advent of the fly- ing toilpedo seems to be at hand. A weapon fashioned on the lines of the steerable Brenuan torpedo, leaving a smoke trail or spark after it, would meet the ease. It can be stated with some cer- THE WORLD IN REVIEW Nothing Wrong With Canada, On hie return from England, Sir Ed. mnrtd lYulker, prosideut of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, expresses himself very hopefully on the money situation, and, in en interview stated that there was 30 need of auxtety among reputable Calm. dim business men engaged U. ordinary business ventures of a sound nature. "There is nothing wrong with Canada;' said Sir Edmund. "The whole trouble is with the world supply of money. The pro• duction of gold has iucroneed, but not sufficiently to keep up with the world' wide prosperity of the last font years, and the tightuese, in the money market to duo mainly to thus cause, though of course the war in the Balkans Itis aleo helped by diverting money from commercial cham taiiety that the action of the rigid ncle. The only reason why C,rnada ]las dirigible will be mainly confined to bene singled uttt far crtticiam;' went on R Sir Edmund• "ie that chs ie the most pro• night work in war. The aerflil tor- pedo must, therefore, carry within it some kind of composition which will become lighted on discharge and cause a spark or flame trail to aplreer which•wfll enable those minent borrower, and therefore attraets most of the attention bon capital:eie be - "in to discriminate in making their 1aalte. Canadian credit le not in the least instar. ell. and interest in Canadian investments has not Ragged, but investors in England are obliged to discriminate more came.fully and to charge a higher rate." using it to see its course through Widow of Sir John A. Macdonald. the air. The rigid airship will, eof Barmen hfacdonald of Earneeliffe is .the only Canadian woman• almost the course, be used for Yeconnaifisance onlyBritish {unman who holds n title to duties by day; it will seldom come her own right. The Batonese is the widow within the range of any gun,be-oY Sir ,Toho A. Macdonald. and was creat. ed a peeress in 1891,. on the death oY Lex cause the occupants of the vessel husband, i❑ conetderation ed hie pnblie can see such vast distances by servo! tbo 1008 Zion Mies . Bernard, 0! .Ta merely going straight up into the maks. Ilan marriage to the Canadian sky, but at night the dirigible will etatesman took pinee in 7867• the yon of be confederation. Lady Macdmtald snakes her home in England, but continues to The piaster of the. Situation. take aft interest in things Canadian, al- though she has reached' -the age of seven - Almost all the rigids carry power- ty-seven. A unman of intellectual power, g p Lady Dfacdnnald iu earlier yaara did n fol searchlights, but it seems doubt- service to Canada bo writing for the Eng• fol if these would be often used, use press of the resources of Lbs connti S. How many Canadians knew that the fam- because the showing of these lights ons statesman's wife was sun living? must necessarily give away their Temporanoo and Insanity. positions. The same statement, too, one of the speakers at the medsqnl Bon - to battleships. A Clew that grime now in 00eaio11 in London appliesdiscussed P the remarkable growth of the temperance keeps sweeping the skies with their movement inGreat Britain. Ile referred searchlights, leuking out for air- to the improved habits of army and navy otmoors, who are now expected to set a good example to the men under them, as well as to the enormous change among the commercial and professional classes. Other observers, inoludiug the chan- cellor of the exchequer, have been calling attention to the same gratifying phe- nomena, and the average man, without so much as a glance at etatistias, knows the statements regarding the spread of tem peranee to be true. It le undeniable, moreover, that the progress of temperance is not confined to England. It its world. wide. Now intemperance is n potent cause of insanity, and there should be observable everywhere a decrease of insanity as one Of the results of the gradual elimination of the drink evil. Yet, according to speakers at the medical congress, insanity is growing, and growing at an alarming rate. In England it has increased 276 per cent, since 1860, although the population seen. Tliis is one of the great clis- ibles to foreign governments advantages of the aeroplane for war prohibited, requirements. But the dirigible, Airship Pilots Scarce. once it has discovered the position Then, even supposing that we of a fleet, can, by maneuvering to could buy 40 of these aerial cruis- windward of the point of attacks ap- ers in the space of a year, we {should preach the ships and float over find considerable .difficulty in ob- them without making any sound, taining pilots qualified to sailthem. and bring into action its bomb - The official list published by the Federation Aeronautique Interna- tionale shows that, up to December 31, 1012, 32 aeronauts' (balloons) and eleven airship pilots' certifi- cates were granted to persons in Great Britain. There is no gainsaying the fact that as compared with any other kind of aerial craft, the rigid dirig- ible is the air vessel of to -day. In carrying capacity and radius of ac- tion, in its powers of remaining steady in the air and flying noise- lessly aided by the wind, the rigid airship has no rival. It has, of course, its disadvantages its im- mense bulk, which makes it a very noticeable object in the sky, and its unwielctiness, which necessitates a host of attendants to grapple with it when it leaves the earth and when it alights. The Zeppelin air- ships, too, are extreme'y heavy. The lifting capacity of Zeppelin L. 1 is 27 tons, but owing to its own great weight its useful load is only some seven tons. As regards the construction of the rigid airship, in this type of air ves- sel the shape of its envelope is not dependent On internal gas pres- sure. A huge framework, made of aluminum in the ease of Zeppelins, is provided with from seventeen to twenty separate gas chambers. At- tached to the framework is a keel which, in addition to serving other purposes, affords communication between the two ears. The latter parry the motors, gens, bomb -drop- ping appliances, etc. The propel- lers, of which there are four, are fixed to the frame above the cars. The framework is covered with a rubhered cloth. The Schutte -Lanz dirigible has a wooden framework, as has also the Trench rigid Le Spiess. The bomb -dropping arrangements carried by the Zeppelins are known to be accurately sighted. Quite re- eently the Hansa made excellent practice at comparatively small targets on the ground from a height of over 5,000 feet in the air. It is well known, too, that for attacking ✓ other air graft the Zeppelins Carly Five Gluts, probably machine guns or Weapons of sinal calibre. Twu of these guns are carried in each of the ears and the fifth is mounted on a specially constructed platform on top of the airship's envelope. Thio platform is surrounded by netting and is twelve feet square. A ladder leads from the ketol through the frame- wU.l'k to its rather airy position. The object of a gun so situated is fa shoot at air vessels (lying imine-. diately above the Zeppelin, as the fire of the four guns in the cars is masked by the protruding Hides of this airship's hufl. All kinds of methods have been devised for atitaoking the rigid di- rigible. ,Itis acid that the pilots of cicrtatn Tr'}ench aeroplanes are quid lireparod, witenn wain;, breaks eine to. lata tXte,rudders ani ele., values of rigid dirbhips and talus disable these vessels, Whether this can be accomplished Otknot 0emai05 to be same; it meads certain death for the crew) and tore destruction dropping arrangements. When its explosives have been discharged it'll". increased only 97 per cent. Is the xp nale580 largely apparent rather thou can quickly get out of range of real, became of better rel iatratlon and the ship's guns by its engines being delineate, or is it actual? Ie actual, what started. The question is, however, is it possible for the dirigible to dis- cover the whereabouts of battle squadrons atnightl If naval war- fare be likely to take place in nar- row waters, sueh as the North Sea., the answer must be in the affirma- tive are its causes? Conditions of life have improved. and so hnvo conditions of la- bor. Is it our modern paoe that kills the minds of so many? Light is wanted. The Pesch -Grower's Life. When the city man gazes upon the carmine -tinted peaches in the fruit stores, his imagination conjures a life of pleas - tare and ease in growing the luscious fruit. The reality is not quite so prim- rosey, awarding to one whohas tried it. "Tile peach.grower's life le a life of anx- A country that, like Germany, 1st'. He wntahi.'e the clouds, he marks the winds, he studies the thermometer, as possesses some twelve or more rigid anothet"mnn might the. tape from a stock - ticker. Ho hue ploughingto do and ter• airships mist bo expected to make good use of them in maritime war- fare. The Zeppelins are so con- structed that they can come to rest on the sea, hut they require special moorings, With even five of these tilizing. He mutt cut back the young trees and prune the older ones. There are insidious dseeaoes ho ratted troat-yellows, twig blight, leaf curl, black spot. Insecta dispute the possession of the orchard - bark beetle, aphis, poach tree borer and an ccaneional stranger with an appetite =slops searching specified areas for destruction quite as strong. The price '•film g Pof land in tfio peach growing district in - from lower or medium altitudes in dicates that 9110 orchards pay. But there the air it is difficult to see haw the is one thing the peach grower will swear to by the deadliest oaths. This is that attleship can reinain undiscover- he earns his money. There are none who "y disputa the fact" Canada Will Exhibit. ed. The new rigids being built in Germany will, it is reported, have a speed of nearly 60 miles per hour and a scope of action of 1,300 miles, so that one of these vessels would itself be quite capable of exploring a very large extent of sea and coast line. These aerial •cruisers are to carry no less than tight tons of ex- plosives and improved Bomb -dropping Appliances. The moral effect of the dirigible in sea warfare of the future is bound to be very great. One oan well imagine what an outcry there would be were a dreadnought to be put out of action by the bombs of an, airship, and yet such an occur- rence is by no means 'impossible. The man in the battleship has al- ready an anxious time of it, know- ing, as he does, that he has to avoid the attentions of the submarine, the mine and the torpedo. But now that the airship has been added to all them terrors, the extra strain that will be thrown upon the sail- or's nerves will be almost unbear- able, War generally, and war at sea particularly, has become a ter- rible undertaking, and as the day for turning swords into plough- shares hes not yet arrived, it be- hooves us to acquire such proved weapons of destruction that outer poWers will think twice before they venture to war with its, Perhaps the holiday in warship construction, if there is to he a holi- day, will mean that we shall have A strenuous teem of building air- ships, tit - Electrify Prussian Railways. Prussia's Minister of Public Works expreseee himself es in favor of the proposed eleotriflcation of. the Berlin eity belt and 1ubarhan railways. The traffic hays doubled on these lines within the last twen- ty years incl steam traction is no Tenger adequate to handle, the traf- fic. 7,leetric drive would give prac- tically cloeble the number of trains each hour, besides eecuring all the advitntages of the electric eysteln. Tiro I'l'lusion Parliament reoeutly voted a credit of $5/000,000 for car- rying nu preparatory work upon this inlpoitalvt sehemo. As the Dominion (government has de- cided. to exhibit at the Panama Paciflo Ex. position in San Francisco next summer it will be hoped that a really fine illustra- tion of Canada's re8anreee fwd products will be made. It is altogether a different thing for Great Britain to take part in dile exhibition. Tho 'United States and Canada run parallel for over 3,000 miles and yot there aro vast differences in their resources and possibilities which 00,11 only be gauged by a close comparison, While it is unfortunately impossible to ilhts- trate Canada's resourceful climate the products of that climate may be seen. This will be a One opportunity for the individual provinces to advertise their wares. A Governor's Downfall. Only a man without compassion could help being sorry for the Governor of New York State, who has been impeached, and who may indeed he threatened with crim- inal proceedings for falsifying the dom. mint in which he was required to account for the money epent in hie election cam- paign. In the course of that campaign, while he was denouncing the corporations and pledging himself to the service of the. people, be appears to have boon epeenlote mg privately in Wall Street with money that bad been given him to be used in se. curing his own eleotton and that of other candidates of his party. Governor Sulzer has been something of a demagogue. climbing to prominence as a champion of the "plain people," and as the uncompromising enemy of privilege and graft. Since attaining oiUoo he has sincerely tried to carry out the promises he made in the course of his campaign. and the reason he earned the enmity et Tammany Hall was that he did try. If ho had continued to be a more shouter for reform, and at the same time an enemy of progress, be would not now find him. self at rho end of his political career. Ile has been pursued and ruined 1108 for his faults, but for hie virtues. There is leas. on to believe that respoesillility made a new man of Sulzer, that his solemn oath of office drove llim to break with his Tam- many eventually to them 811071 they do ied him to Draper appolntments. tio one should ex. alt in hie downfall, lomat of all the people of tho State of Now. Yerk, wile will have lost a lean wlto wrecked a brilliant ear. per, thought in office he tridtl to bo true to the trust they had imposed in hint. In Jahn D's Class. "Is he rich enough to peep an au- tomobile and a Yacht V' "Yes,he is even richer1than that. He keeps a lawyer" IN FAR ,NORTH OF CANADA 1YOIII EN PLAY BIG, BRAVE DART IN 'WESTERN LIM Farmer's Daughter In Newer Bri- tish Colinubia 11311s a 13ear While Milking. A bright young woman in the newer part of British Culluuhia is the heroine of a bear story that is quite true. She is a faimner's daughter, and one of her daly. ties is to milk the cows. Ono even- ing not Long ago she was so en- gaged when a have suddenly came out of the bush a few feet away from her. The bucket was partly filled with rich Jersey milk, but the girl left it on the ground and beat a hasty retreat, which vas precisely what Bruin wanted. With Mulch relish he emptied the bucket, and then ambled away. The next evening the milkmaid was better prepared, and when elle went to the pasture she Carried the bucket in one ]rand and io the other a 'shotgun, which the lealroel against a tree; this because the looked for a return visit of the milk -loving bear, She was not disappointed. The pail was nearly filled this time when Bruin •appeared, coming to- ward her in n very evident hurry. The girl repeated her flight of the evening before, and the, bear again made up to the bucket. When his head waft comfortably into the milk, the gun, loaded with No. 6 shot, was very precisely aimed, and a second or two later Bruin Lay Lon'. The point of this story is that the women who live in the frontier country have need of keeping their wits about them. And, as a matter of fact, most of them do. Many tales are told of the bravery, forti- tude and remarkable endurance of women settlers in the remote places of the West and North, some of whom have also proved themselves the possessors of exceptional ability and business keenness. Thus there is an honor roll of at least a half-dozen women in Alaska who played the part of mining pros- pector so well that they made good stakes and won fame and fortune. They were in their mining days as well posted in the theory and prac- tice of Placer mining as any man in the North, and proved it by -re- sults. It is told of one of these venturesome six that once, to save her husband's bank at Nome from failure, she travelled three hundred miles in midwinter, alone and by dog -team, carrying a substantial clean-up of gold nuggets from her own holdings. By day and night, through snow and blizzard, she kept to the trail, and reached Nome„ with her golden relief, just in time to avert the threatened dise ,aster. Tramped 1,450 Miles. She: "Rack, when we are mar- ried, I must have tree servants." Ho: "You shell have twenty, dear -'but not all at the same time," Sbe-There seems to be a strange affinity between a colored man and a, ehielten. I wonder wily 1 Ile - Naturally enough. One is decended from Hera and tris other from eggs, TilI WAR C O11fJiSPO11DEi+i'1'. Tells of Iris Experience in the (Balkan ti'ttr. "I had been captured some time between ten and eleven in the morning," a war correspondent who went to the front with •• the Turkish troops writes 111 the Fort- nightly :Review, " and about two o'clock I was carried past the halt- ing -place of the 36th 13u1garian.In- fantry, whore I was stopped and questioned. The escort explained that they were taking me to the quartier-general by (General Po- poff's order's, but the explanation was not enough for the colonel com- manding, who ordered me to dis- m011llt. "Before I could comply, the sol- diers seized mo, dragged ale from my horse, thrust a revolver into my face, and searched ane again. They demanded what my papers meant, what the peucillcd marks were on the map that I carried, and Wily I wore a Turkish uniform. Then they warned me volubly that if I tried to get away I should be shot. "They ordered .me to mount my horse, and strapped my knees to the saddle.' In that position I pro- ceeded along tile' line of marching troops until nightfall, when it be- came apparent that the guard could not find the quartier-general. Then we rode back along the line until we came again to the bivouac of the 30th Infantry. The officers were sitting in a group as we rode up, .and they told me to dismow:it and sit with them. When I had done Another woman, not a gold - hunter, mushed 1,450 miles from Itampar•t to Whitehorse, in the Yu- kon. She did it alone, too, and in the dead of a deadly winter. With her ,train of dogs she made an aver- age of twenty-five miles a day, and on ono or two days covered thirty- five miles. That is good travelling on the winter trail', even for a man, and especially good for a woman when for the greater part of the w.ay she ran, not rode, holding only by her hands to the bars of the. dog - sleigh. For on some days, it was too cold to ride; fifty and sixty and seventy below zero, which means that one must keep moving. Just like a man, this woman masher rode and tramped, some- times breaking a way ahead for the dogs when the zero -log was too dense for them to see. Just like a man, too, when cwt of reach of the road houses, eke made camp at night-time beside the trail, and slept the deep warm sleep of the outdoor North. A hole in the snow for a bed, a few fir branches for a mattress and her Arctic dog -robes for bedspreads, she lay herself dawn to sleep, alone ; and at grey down Shoves up and off again. Not many women could have done it, but this woman did it, and euffered nothing more serious, than the loss of a few pounds weight in her two months on the winter trail, Strange honeymoon trips some- times fall to the lot of northern triboa, A newly -wedded couple at Whitehorse wished 4o go to Dave - son, their home -to -be. But they. were too late in the, season to catch. the last steamer up the Yukon, and for a month they waited in White- horse. When the first snow came they set out for home by the over- land route. .A strange bridal outfit it was; dogs, and grltb-box, and a sled big enough for two; and an arduous bridal tour ahead of them, via the winter Yukon trail. But they had a' good time. The weather was not too slu erp, the going w•as good, and the numerous road 1)0818 38 along the Dawson train made convenient stopping places. When they reached Dawson they declared that they Mid net had a dull moment or an n.ncanlfcrtablc experience, and that dogwsled wed- ding trips in the North Were good. ! LL TT'S LY F, 11.11Sii11'r AND AEROPLANES. They /lave Proved Disappointing in Actual Wal'. Airships and aeroplanes in war- fare were tested for the first time in the recent conflict between Italy and Turkey, and the military and scientific critics are still trying to estimate the importance of the role they will play in future wars and to assign to • them their proper places. as eligines of attack and de - The Scientific American, analyz- ing the known facts as obtained from this war—for the more recent one in. the Balkans is negligible be - so, they bound my knees and ankles cause there was no organized air with ropes. service—predicts a much leas im- "After the men had had their portant role fur both airships and evening meal, the officers tools me aeroplanes than has generally been into a tent,and for an hour sub- foretold. jected me tan experience that I The Turks had 'no air service. hope may never repeat itself. 'With- That of the Italians was systematic out giving the details, I may say and well organized, aeruplanes, df- that it was proved beyond doubt that I was a true Constantinople Turk. I also learned that a couple of scars on my body, which were relics of the siege of Mafeking, had really been received either in Al- bania or Arabia. "'When they had concluded that I was a Turk, they told me that I should be shot in the morning. They then took me to a cart, let nye it down, and bound me to the wheel. I think I must have been lying on the ground two hours when an - PLANTS HAVE TO STRUGGLE • LUST TOIL. FOR THE PRIVI- LEGE OF EXISTING. Scientists Say Ilje Biblical (£nota+ tion Is Wrongly Inter- preted. Consider the lilies of Oho field, flow they grow; they toil nob, nei- ther do they spin, The foregoing familiar Biblical quotation expresses a popular fan- cy and a poetic {sentiment, scien- tists say, but not the physical fact. The pries of existence for the lilies of the field, as well as all other forms of plant life, is incessant weak, it is only because 413oy are placid of mien, and do not visibly hurry and fret. and strain, that we conclude they leach a life of luxuri- ous ease, idling away a more or less brief sermon as ornaments on the landscape. 1f plant actions could be magnified in reed they would quickly convince the ob- server as to the labor they perform. William F. Ganong, professor of botany in Smith College, says in his • book, "Tho Living Plant," 'something of what aright be seen if plant labors were so hastened. `Then the observer evould'see the tip of every growing plant struc- ture nodding and moving energeti- cally about, so that a meadow, a copse or a forest would seem all of ri Vigorous Tremble, as if straining at some hidden leash; he would see the buds of some flowers open and close with a str'aining yawn or a sudden snap, and others burst into bloom like a rocket when it breaks to a spray of rigibles and captive kits balloons marry -colored lights; roots in their being used regularly. They proved efforts to penetrate the earth turn - of great use in reconnarssagee, en- iri and twisting like angleworms; sibling artillery to find targets and g g g regulate their fire and the staff to seedlings in their struggle to break correct their maps. But the bomb- through the ground heaving and dropping did no material damage, straining at the burden of super - whatever effect it had on the enemy incumbent soil, like a powerful man being purely moral. Which .leads at some load which has fallen upon The Scientific American to say: him; tendrils swooping in curves "In certain limited cases as re- through the air, gripping the first gards inanimate objects of attack thing they meet and jerking their aeroplanes might be effective, as, plants towards the support." for instance, for the. destruction of And that incessant labor, none the less real because the move- ments are too slow to be seen by human eyes, is goin'g-on within the plant, as well as without. Contill- u al changes are taking place in the plant structure; new growths are being added, and external injuries repaired and healed over. The life blood of the plant is forcing its way through the fibrous and oellular atruoture, and innumerable struc- tural atoms are hurrying about per- forming their' varied and never-end- ing tasks 01 building. Everyone 1'as noticed the tremen- dous, if imperceptible, force exert- ed by growing plants when their development is restrained by stones or other obstacles. A minute seed may lodge in .a pinc11t et. earth in re erevi0e of officer came by. He bud seen me railway lines, since sowing a num- during the day, and in reply to 111s questions, I explained what had taken place. Finally he went to headquarters in my behalf. "At the end of an hour an orderly arrived from headquarters. He led me across the field's, and showed me into a room where six staff -officers were in bed. One of them got up, had my arms and shoulders rubbed, gave me some brandy, and disap- peared into an inner room. When he came out, he Was with another officer, who apologized for the treatment I had received, waived the question of identification until the morning, found me a place to. sleep, and gave me blankets, In the morning it was decided that I was English, and that my papers were in order," Always Better To-illorrow. • ber of bombs, while the machine kept above a length of permanent way, would not be very difficult. As regards the destruction of fixed points, the aeroplane is practically useless, unless large numbers are used, each carrying one or two heavy bombs and coming compara- tively close to the ground. Even so, the difficulties in obtaining ewer - racy of aim from the swiftly moving machine are very great. "Besides this, the Italians found that evenin face of the indifferent marksmanship of the Turks it was imperative to keep an altitude of 4,500 feet in order to remain oat of range of rifle fire. There 4s no cover In mid-air, and if the bomb - dropper should descend low enough 4o take any kind of aim the attack- ing aeroplanes would have -to run the gauntlet ofa fusillade so heavy and sustained as to render sight- ing difficult and the chances of es- cape from destruction very slight, Ranging on aeroplanes has been shown to be extremely uncertain on account of their speed, and for other reasone,,but the sustained fire of many rifles within say 1,800 feet, and necessitating no special adjustment of sights would elimin- ate the process of range -taking. "On the whole the damage likely to be done by aeroplanes dropping the bombs is negligible, the moral effect on good troops most nncer- fain, and not worth the expendi- ture of gallant lives and machines which are of much more value for purposes of reconnaissance," Another One. So long as a man has the courage to face one more day so long will he be a factor in the race for mater- ial success. He whose past looms constantly in front of him, who lives in .rebroapeot, has. Cheated the boatman of 'the Styx and encum- bers the machinery of this world. To live is to be up and doing to -day, not to be counting on the things that were, but to figure on the things that are and wf11 be, not to •say that to -day is not so good as yesterday, but to declare that to- morrow will bo the best day the universe has ever seen. And to- morrow is always a better day than to -day. We shall all be further along the road, we shall a•11 know more, feel more, approach a little closer the goal which is yet hidden. The roan acolain1' d as steccess£ul never feels his spirits flag, never lacks .the courage to, face another day, never looks backward except to profit by his experiences, An Exception. "So they married in haste. Then I suppose, following mit the pro- verb, they repented at leisure." "No; they repented ire haste° also." Caller—I suppose,. Elsie, when you grow up' you will be getting married, like the other girls. Elsie —Oh, no ; I've decided I will be a widow. Muggins: Longbow boasts that he never te118 the truth. Bugg'ans---Don't yell believe him, He's an -infernal liar. Uncle Josh Says: "I'd lake t'git acquainted with a man as kin smash his thumb with a hammer an' smile an' go right on talkin' this were happy day stuff, by jinks A. Long Time Ago. "Did she marry for money " "No. That soft of thing wasn't. fashionable in her day." Tho lave of money, says a hum.or- lot, is the easiest of all roots to cul- iva6o._ A Granite. Cliff, " germinate and 'send tiny delicate roots feeling their way deeper into the restricted aperture. Their pro- gress is painfully slow, bub • Irre- sistible. In the 'course of time the little .seed, which fell into slush an unfriendly cnvironnwnt, grows into a sturdy, towering tree and its roots 'halo split and rent asunder masses of stone weighting tons. The roots of trees planted along city streets frequently throw out of place ponderous curbstones that interfere with their growth, ander pavements themselves are uplifted and cracked by the strength of the seemingly frail plants. Even. soft - bodied fungi, inch as mush -rooms, are capable of bursting upward an asphalt pavement. Students of plant life have found that squashes and other gourd -like growths when harnessed to the pro- per recording machinery, exert thousands of pounds pressure. "Every operation of plant life," Professor Ganong says, "Involves some movement, and therefore real work; so that animals and plants aro working, and often right hard from. the physical point of view, when they merely are keeping alive ---a conclusion from which the read- er is wel.00lne to draw ien3' comforts he can." Obliging Ilex. The sweet young thing was being shown through the locomotive 90001ke. "What is that thing l" she ask- ed, pointing with her adainty para- sol. "That," answered the guide, "is an engine boiler." She .was an up-to-date young ,lady and at once became interested. "And why de 'shay 'boil engines 1" she inquired again. "To snake the engine ,tender," politely replied, the resourceful guider. Swint. • Native (to missionary) -1 tclleo you what the do. We swalrpee, b'lieve your 'tigien, if you b'licve my 'ligion. 13.108; "1 bell triy wife all 1. know," Dix r "Yes, she told my vlifo that you hardly say it thing to her,"