The Clinton News Record, 1912-01-25, Page 3nen+
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Clinton News -Record
ONTINUATION OF
MANCHUS UNLIKELY
Whateeer the OuteeMe of Negolla-
• 'Bons Yuan Sill Rai Will Probably
�o Ruler ot celestial
Land of Tea.
•
ePtiolletters Press News Service)
Shaagimi Pronds
e of peace In
eecomes More definite todeY
• wt.th the .announcethent that die six
• id the greed Powers, Crean Britten,
Jan, the leaked atee, Russia
,tarance and Germany, are united In
•eth-operaitive effort to assist Dr. Wu
•. Ting Fang and, Tang Sliao°Yi le their
negotiations. There was rejoicing to-
elay when it wae learned that the re-
•nresentateves of the six Powers were
preparing to offer formaliy their as-
eistanee for the speedy conclueion of
age underetanding, by the negotiations
of the present conference.
It is clearly understood thatthis
gotion by the powers is taken in the
• most friendly manner.
The pourparlers between Wu Ting
Nang am! Tang Shoo Ti opened with
eurprising smoothness and there was
,i complete absence of any sense of
..etrzein which might have seriously im-
peded the diplomatie progress ot the
4)onferencea: It is unmistakably 'evi-
' -dent, however, tbat the continuation
.of Manchu rule, even as concerns the
haperial throne at Pekin, is -consider-
ed nlikely by either side. In this
oonnection much signiticanc,e is at-
aached to the statement of Tang Shao
la that he does not represent the
ihreme, but rather the Premier. Coll-
ated with Wu Ting Fang's early in-
eietehce upon the establishment of ig
republic, thle is taken to mean that
:Yuan She Kiva is 'prepared to concede
the endeng at the dynasty.
Even though the present dynasty is
eested, the Premier evidently hopes
o retain tae Imperial form of govern-
ment, possibly with the present Em -
Fenn* designated ag the first ruler of
.a mew Olumse dynasty and with Yuan
•Slei Kai as regent.
STANDARD'S VICE PRESIDENT
-WILLIAM It. BEMIS
Vete York. -- The election of Mr.
Nltliain hi. Bemis as vice President
-- end „carector of the Standard Oil Co.
York has brought into greater
prominence a ethane which has ben
orattrimble in the annals of the cal
morld.
, Mr. Bemis was born In Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1864, and completed his ace -
delude education there, entering the
p!)1,1413 of 'the Standard Oil Co. in
1882. He organezed the statistical de-
partment of the company and beanie
interekhed irl foreign trade relacione.
3n 1894 Mr. Tietnis revealed- Weis
Mean:cos, Ford in Cleve/and and now
iteades in Larclunont. New Yore: Ile
iv an enetiuslastic sportsman and pee -
names a. unique cone/Minn of trophies
.gathered from all parts of the wond.
,
'CANARY IN CAGE HELPS SAVE
•, MINERS.
, Canaries 'hi cages were used very
aticeesefully in the rescue work at
the Cross Mountain mine at Brice -
nine, Tenn. The picture ehows one
of the rescuers with exygen equip-
ment and a canary. Poisonous gale
I trldkly kills the bled. Miners without
neltriets are not permitted to enter
thamberi where the emery caimet
Atm.
ZGOULD'S BM CASTLE INOLD
• SCOTLAND
1..ondon. it' s "Laird" Gould now,
Caorge Gould having bought -a castle
at -Menzies, a beautiful country place
in Scotland surrounded by Severe
iliontiand a.crett of woodeands, Ar-
rangements for obtaining the estate
are declared to have been carried on
through Lord Denies, who, with his
,wife, formerly Miss Gould, ts expected
to spend much ot lals time there nate
abet Goulds. • II
CALABASH PIPES
Showing Hew the Favonrite of the
Smoker Can Be Made to Grow
In Your Back -Garden,
• or Window.
The trails are allowed to remain an
the vine, weatieh is a relative of the
Gonrds, tell the outer parts are quite
bard, for if gathered before they are
thoroughly ripe, diffleality is ex-
perienced en seasoning. On the other
hand, they must not be allowed to
remain long enough to be subjected
to frost; ,fo,r a severe froet is likely
to cause inJuey. Dry, sunny weather
es more favourabie to the develop-
ment of fruit than wet weather, for
though the plants well take plenty of
water, mere eatistactory resales are
obtained from watering by hand than
from the plantbeing subjected 'to
an excessve amount of rake •
The
eutst summer, teeth Its eong-contiamed
heat, bee been ideae for the successful
cultivation of these. Gourds In Eng-
land, providing they were' well water-
ed at frequent "Intervale Seeds sown
here on a slight hot -bed and the plants
allowed to grow tiel they had felled a
frame, which could be lifted off about
nth! -June, would probably give the
most satisfaotory results. If eroWn
throughout the whole of then* career
in a frame or greenhouse, however,
arrangements ought to be made for a
free eirealabion of air at all times.
Apart from the utility of the fruits
ef this plant, it is quite ornamental
enough to receive ateention from a
decorative etandpoint, either indoors
or out. .
MAIN l'HING
The Poets May Sing that the ifearies
the Thing and Scientists the
Brain But It's the .Sternach.
That Counts.
Troubles 'to burn" we have, in turn,
and blessings befall us, too; and we
show our peteek and we have our
luele in whatever we have to do; but
all of our ptheic and most of our luck
will come from our real might, ,and
that wiel depend in the usual .end
upon whether the stomach is right!
There'll be bilis galore and we'll walk
the floor, if we're not in the best of
trim; there 11 be notes mature and
we'll feell for sure, if we're lacking at
all in vim; we tne.y want to roam
from the thIngs art home and consider
it all a blight, but there's nothing
se punk it can make ue Plunk, if only
the stomach is right! The poets may
sing that the heart's the thing, and
the sea:meted:3 talk of brain, and these
may not saes* in their daily work,
but it's little that they ordain; they
are organs fine but theta chief design
is as regieteas of mood, and the one
that guides and their. way .decides is
tbe one that handles food! And Its
funetion great and its high estate are
the marvels we should admire, and
to cherish it and to keep it fit. should
be our chief desire; if it's sound as
a bell we can do theigs well, and do
'em with all our raight; we can laugh
at fate and can calebrate if only the
stomach is right!
Sceptical
Meditating M a certain Northern
dhurebya.rd- the other day, we came
across an old tombstone bearing the
following epitaph:—
"Here lie- the bones of William
Shott,
Bluff landlord of the 'roaming Poe;
lie warmly welcomed, travellers sore,
But nole`hie 'senile is seen no more."
"Requeescat in pace," we mrumured.
One of the goad old sort." Then
Dun eyes wandered further' down the
Dad "memento marl," and discovered
that aome seeptic with a sharp nail
and added;
"Fret not; Ms welcome down below
Was more than *warm—neves hot, I
trow."
Then, alas! 'we, too, grew sceptical;
so fertile are the seeds of doubt and
entinicion. Alas! alas!
Kisses For Sale.
Miss Rose Bud: "Now, Mr, Compton,
what are you going to buy art My
table? We have honie-made cakes,
glees -cloths, 'tidies, and aprons. I
am sure you wane some of each."
Mr. Compton: "Oh, thanks, awfully;
have you any Moses for sales?"
Miss Rose Bud: "Certainly, $5 each.
Bow many well you have?"
Mr. 'Compton (handing out . the
money): "Ili talte two; good measure,
please."
Miss Rose Bud (with a seraphic
mule); "Oh, yes, we are particular
about that Miss Autumn Leaf, will
you deliver two kisses to Mr. Comp-
ton?" (Miss Leaf is forty in the shade
and parwlyzingly ntheetaine.),
Mr. Compton: "You are more than
kind. Dobson" (turning to his Man,
who is carrying hes parcels), "just
take this purchase from Miss Autumn
new.
The present-day young man rarely
gets left, even at a thurch bazaar.
A Tall Tarn:
A big -game huater and his brother
recently spent a year in and about
the Rocky Mountains. Tbey had two
rifles, one bullet, and one keg of
powder. With these ,they say they
killed on an average twenty-seven
head of buffaloes a day. The fact
that they did all this with one bullet
led to the following cross-queselon:—
"How did you kill all these buffs -
loos with only one -bullet?"
"Well, we shot a buffalo; I stood
on one side and my brothar on the
other. Brother fired, anti the ball
passed into the barrel of my rifle.
We kept up the hunt for twelve
months, keeling nearly 200 buffaloes a
week. and yet brought home the same
ball we started with!"
HUSBAND AND WIFE ON JURY
"We voted together for the
first time and I guess we
thought Just alike all along," said
Mre. Gideon Frazer, who, with her
husband, sat three days recently cm
the same jury and helped return •a
verdiet today eenv+Oting Meyer Colien
of• embezzlenient from the Moose
Lodge. It was the first time a hus-
band and wife had served on the
some jury, in this state, possibly in
the -country, and the emtple were the
centre of attraction for many who
visited title trial.
STRATHCONA
THEIIEALTHY
ne.eannen.
This Is Estimate of Yetertin Scots-
man's Fortune,— Six Mee Who
Could Pay Off Britain's
• National Debt. •
(Piiblishers Press News Service)
London. -- In an artiele in itte
Strand Magazine by George Morrow
he deale with the six rithest inen 111
the, world. They areale elderly a.nd
'include Rockeeellee, Morgan, Astor,.
Stratheona, Carnegie and Itoth.aoheld.
eforroW eays the Canadian patriarch
is otedthal with the snug fortune of
LORD STI&ATHCONA
.half a hellion dollars. The six mext
could heap together one ,thousand
Iltnes of pounds, They could pay off
the whole national debt of Britain,
aud could, if they those, put a million
men en the field and wage woe for ten
years. They could summon the whole
population of Britain and pay them
twenty pounas rapiece. The six could
buy all the railways it) llIngland and
buy all Scotland. Millions upon mil-
lions of Lord Strathcona's holdings
are in Canada.
HE'S PROBABLY NEXT SURGEON
GENERAL OF' U. S. ARMY
Washington. — Dr. Rupert Bthe is
expected to succeed Dr. Walter
Wyman as surgeon general of the
United States army. He is now on
DR. RUPERT BLUE
his way from Hawaii to Washington.
Before going to Honolueu lie was for
several years In charge of the public
health ,and marine work in San Fran -
deco.
SPIES SP,NTENCED
Seven Tears' Penal Servitude Given
Shipbroker Who Vfas Caught
With German Naval Plans.
Lelpele. — Heavy punishments were
meted out to Engliell spies arrested
at Hamburg and who have been on
trial behind closed doors for several
days before the imperial court.
Max Shultz, an ,English shipbroker,
was seritenced to seven years' penal
servitude. One of 11,I5 aseociates, an
engineer, named ILipsych, wes con-
demned to twelve years in jail; en en-
gineer named 'Wulff, woe sent to Jail
for two years, and a merchant, 'mined
Von Maa,ck, anti Max Schuetz's house
keeper, each received Orme years.
The judge in sentencing the men,
eaid the arrest broke up a group of
spies, whose activettes were dangee-
ous in the highest degree to the safe-
ty of ,the empire.
Hipsych, in particular, who had
been twelve yeare employed as an en-
gineer in a naval shipyard, was able
to collect designs and information
from ale the German yards, This he
delivered lash January to agents of
an English information bureau, thus
exposing Germany's ' moot important
military secrets.
Max Sehultz had organized,aecord-
ing to the judge, a network of spies
through Germany.
,Ielpsych probably was the lowest
salaried spy ot importance on record.
He was paid only $10 a week. Wulff,
et was stated, dealt with the question
of submarines.
THE' VATICAN:AND GERMANY
Berlin, — It is officially announced
that the Papal legate to Prussia was
informed by Clardneal Merry del Val.
the Papal secretary of state, when the
specMI order of the Pope relating
te °Duet proceedings against the
clergy was issued, that it did rioe
apply to Germany. The order has
been subJeoted • to bitter attacks be
newspapers on every side except the
Catholic organs. ,
CANADIAN MISSIONS. AIDED
London. --- "Two thoueand pounds
sterling ere being sent from the Arch-
bishop's fund for missionary work to
Canada, te be evenly divided, between ,
the Colonlea Continental elhureh so -
(piety and the Society foe the Propaga-
tien of nee Gospel.
COST OF WAR NEWS
The Modern Newspaper Spares No
ExpOnse to Net the Latest News '
• from the Seat of War to
the Breakfast Table.
"Get (it at a reasonable cost if you
can, but get it." This practecally con-
stitutes the orderei issued to Its `NW
correspondents by the enterpriaing
newspaper of to -4y; for whether a
war is taking place next door to our
own Britain, or a couple of thouaarids
of meths, away, the public expects a
fuel •account at breakfast time of the
Previoue day's beetle. The conse-
quence is that the modern newspaper
Must epere 310 expellee to obtain war
news. •
Take the last big War --• that be -
twee Reside and Japan --- which
broke out at the beginning of 1904
and lasted twenty montb.s. • It is es-
timated ,that Bretith newspapers were
spending Outdate that time $200,000 a
week to secure newe of the war. This
money was expended on the sele.ry of
some 200 -correspondents, timer inter-
preters and pervanes, the upkeep of
at least 600 homes, the maanterience
of despatch -runners, and the forward-
ing of cable messages.
Costly Cables.
The expense ot getting war news Is
so great that the smaller newspapers
during recent years have, in some
cases, eornbined and shared the cost
of sending out correspondents. The
more important newspapers, however,
tend out their own men and also have
correspondents stationed et various
places where news Is most likely to
be obtainable. In the Turco-Ital1e/1
war, for intsa.nce, papere are receiving
telegrams from "our own correspond-
ent" at such places as Tripoili, Malta,
Djerba, Sfax, Constantinople, Ronne,
Tunis, and many other places.
. Telegraph Rates.
It is the cost of trensmeeting the
news which is the biggest item in the
war -bill fat a newspaper.. Dineng
the course of the South Afrecan War
the ()able Press rate was 25e. a word,
although 11 is now reduced to 18c.,
while in the Russo -,Tanen War the
rate ve.ried from about 371 to nearly
48cper word. These are the special
Press rates, but it often happened
that when the correspondent had
some exclusive news he paid two or
three times these rates in order to
secure precedence of Press -rate mes-
sages. In the case of the Tripoli War
the meet of transmitting news is not
so great, although from Tripoli Itself
there is no Press rate; but the full
rote per word is only 14c, while that
from Malta is only 04e.
The upkeep of war correspondents
at the seat of the campaign is a great
expense. As a rule the remuneration
Is from between $125 be ;200 per week
per man, apart from leis personal ex-
penses, and even such sums do not
exhaust the liabilities of newspapers
when wer breaks out. Many pro-
prietors take out a special insurance
on the lives of their representatives,
and some of the more generous go
to the extent of giving an undertaking
to see to the future of those dependent
upon them.
AN INDIAN SENATOR
Foe the first time in the his-
tory' of the United States a
man with Indian blood • was chosen
to act as president pro -tempore of the
Senate. He is Charles Curtis, who
has been senator from Kansas since
1907. Mr. Curtie will act as substi-
tute for Vice -President Sherman for
one week. Then he may be re-elected
or another may succeed him.
Senator Curtis, whose grandmother
was a Kaw Indian, was born January
25, 1860, and was admitted to the bar
thdrty yeats ago. Ho was serving his
eighth term in the House when elect-
ed senator. By reason of his Indian
blood, in 1903 he received 1,600 acres
of land in Oklahoma as his part of
the Kaw allotment
At the time of the great flood in
Kansas in May, 1903, Senator Curtis
Was the first man at Topeka to dare
the waters, rescuing his mother, then
ninety-six years old.
A Point of Etiquette.
The wedding had gone off without
a hitch, and the bride and groom hasi
aeparted amid a perfect shower of
confetti, rice, and slippers.
The r,rotess of departure had been
watched with the keenest delight by
tittle May, who with her parents was
of the party of guests remaining be-
hind. Then, When the hum of ex-
eitement had died away, the childish
ineuisetveness was manifested once
twain.
"Why do they throw things at the
pretty Lady in the carriage?' piped
May.
"For luck, my dear," replied a
bridesmaid.
"And why," she asked again,
'doesn't the pretty Indy throw them
baok 7"
"Oli," was the answer, "that would
be rude."
"No et wouldn't," Persketed the dear
tittle May, to the deldght of her
ea.rents, wbo were standing close by.
'Ma always does."
In a Tree -Top.
It does not fell to the lot of every-
one .to see. R. donkey and cart perched
on the top of an oak tree nearly
thirty -Sive feet from the grOund.
During the winter of 1909 ealarge
limb of eue oak tree, in Scotland, was
almost torn from the stem, and, was
overhanging a glasshouse wherein
were some very valuable plants. The
foresters lied elembed up the tree anti
fastened a long rope on the limb, with .
the intention of cutting the branda
away and lowering It gently, and so
awing a, disaster. The lemb, how-
ever, was heavier than was thought,
and when the saw had done its work
Etway the limb went with a crash. and
• loop ha the rope caught a hook in
the donkey's cart (which was theee
lo retrieve the limb when sawn tit
Moces), and in 'a 'twinkling donkey
and cart were Jerked up on te the
tree -top, and held there entangled
Denengst the branches.
It is satisfaotory to learn that the
donkey and cart were got down in
safety.
COUSIN MARRIAGES
Something of the Seriousness of the
Risk IWO by First CP"
Mho Marry I Told ee
Miss Ethel Elderton.
The serloaenees of the risk run by
first cousins who marry Is emphasized
by Miss Ethel =dottrel, a co -Worker
with Professor Kant Pearson at the
retelton 'Laboratory • Par National
Eugenies, London University. Mar-
riages between near kin, &tech as
uncle anti niece, aunt and nephew, or
grandparent and gtandchild, are for-
bidden eanindy on tile priacapte ui ie-
eerriblance. lellse Elderton therefore
determined eo see whether cousins
axe as much anke as any of these
pairs of relatives. She studied the
eases of no fewer than 6,000 pairs of
cousine, with a v,ew to
to measure the degree of resemblance
In health, intel it eueeeee,
per, and temperament.
Th R COZWIRRIOR she None to was
tilvie—that the general reeemimin
betweenonsins is about half that
between brother .and sinter, and prac-
timerm 'the same as that shown by
etatietice of uncles and nieces and or
aunts and nephews.
if
theceeta."in degrees is founded on
Mthieesuc
'Elkid' erten, "the law which for -
beds lee .
with niece and neenew should also
restniet the
The oftspring of cousin marriage,
appear to be parnetearae a'eeoe te
deaf mutes. "There seems little
doubt," camomile,
sloctalk,erae col'susiannyinadr°arefime,netivSanrn NiVnhena
both parties are ' free from the
thsease, is moat dangerous to the off-
spring."
STRANfiE BUT TRUE
— .
Fortunes Spent hi Cinema Films
Taken In All Part of the World.
—Triumph of the Picture
Playhouse.
Atter spending eeveral months in
the jungres of Melee, equeppeu Wien
14,000 ft, af felm, a complete canvas
dark -room, and a camena with a gyro-
scopic attechment whieb enablei 11101
t) take pictures from any positton. Or
angle without the dee of a stand that
daring cinematographer and natural -
!et Mr. Cherry Kearton, is returning
home with some of the most amazing
pictures of forest life ever Caton.
Seth neasts as nous, tigers, ourang-
outangs, and hippopotami are seen at
Close quarters, while another filni
shows a python making Its way aicmg
a branch without eny perceptible ea
etrt, at locomotion.
Such an expedetion in sea.roh of
material for the ever-growing .picture
palace ila naturally a somewhat coetly
aflexin As a matter of fact, this enter-
prise has entailed a cost of over
$25,000, adthougb this is by no means
a record,,for the writer was recently
told that th secure moving pictures
showing "Buffalo Jones," the wale -
known coveboy, 'lassoing ,lionp in the
wilds of Africa $31,000 was paid, by
a London Man.
Demand for War ,Pleturas
As a matter or fact, film-makers
spare no empeuse in their efforts to
secure unique pictures. One thoueand
(loiters was paid for special positions
;elong the Coronation route, while in
United States it has cost as much RS
$5000 to stage a drama for photo-
graphic purposes. And as an inuetra-
then of the enterprise of the American
filmernakers, the writer might men-
tion that he was recently at a private
view of a series of pictures depicting
scenes from Iriela novels, the actors,
naraberMg over twenty, being se,nt
trete Arnereca to Ireland to play the
ncidents among the hills or the
Emerald Isle,
, Picture Profils
The question naturally arises, "Is
there much profit to be gained by
securing such expensive fame as
those. mentioned?" There Is certainly
not so mueli profit as when the in-
dustry was in its infamy, when the
price of a fam was 25 eents a foot,
and a teem WIIS reported M be making
a prat of $25,000 a month. The price
ot the fern has dropped to 8 cente a
foot, but, whereas in the eaely days
there were only a hundredor so
.pletnee palaces in this country, to-
day Mime are hundreds and they are
rapkily increasing. Furthermore, the
owner of a good film an sell the
same several elines ,over to picture
palace proprietors. It might be men-
rion.ed, however, that the owner oi a
I11101 Is usually an agent, who buys
trim the maker and lets to the ex-
hibitor, .
SHOES OP SNAKE SKINS
From all reptiles the ordinary
woman shrinks m disgust 'Yet
fasttionalele women a re now being
tempted to conquer their aversion to
the extent of wearing snake -skin ,
shoes. One of the smartest boot shops
in the West -end of London is "Peleliu-
ag" these shoes; but up to the
resent it seems to be uncertain if
the fashion wide really establish et-
mif on w,ciespread Linea
Choke of mike a variety of skins
s offered. ehere es the dark mid
mayfly -marked skin of the deadly
mime, or the lighter ekin, with Its
nore deeleate pigment markings, of
ae rapacious pythou. The skies of
he wiper and the boa-constalotor have
also been made up.
Emake akin is very eott, pliable, and
durable. The thoes are expensive,
of course, for the skins are not 100
Plent41111, but this teeter shelled
rather commend itself to smart
people as il renders it lime& mare
diftieult to copy the .fasetion on clamp.
lines. •
•"Melee that little boy /text door
swears dreadfully. I hope you don't
play with him."
No; mother; not oow. He taught
me ell he knew." be loving For, a little tenger yet.
THREE ltIILLION MATCHES
Fifteen Hundred Billion is the Number
of Matches Used Annually by
the Entire World for
• Smoking.
11 has been estimated that, foe each
minute of time, the civilised nations
of the werld strike three million
matches. 'Phis * (said to ee the aver-
age for every minute of the twenty-
four hours of the day. Fifteen hundred
billion is the number for the entire
year.
The importance ot the industry
evleich turns out the little splinters
of wood tipped veeth sulphur or some
other material ignited by friction, is
oniy 0000gelaed when the average
emoker trees to contemplate his Pee^
dicament if he had to go back to the
Mane when he had to coax a spark
from a tinder -box, Small and Mai-
gaieticant as it is, the match demands
ea nem% attention in tee ohoice of the
wood InVolved in its manufacture as
any °tiler fcirest product. Only the
choicest portions of the best trees
are • suitable. Sapwood, knotty or
cross-grained timber will not do. In-
stead of being a by-peoduct, the little
match Is tureied out at hundreds of
mills over the country where the by-
products are bulky objects like doors.
sashes, Shingles, sidings, posts, and
cord-woode. The pines, linden, aspen,
white cedar, poplar, birch and willow
are the most suitable match timbers.
IT VERY STRANGE
How the Men Who Know All -- Vflio
Heard That Tears Ago Can
Be Taken Down.
Most of us have met, at some time
or other, that objeetionable Individual
who "has heard that years ago," and
knows everything under the sun
worth knowing.
When next you run up against
ask him how many five cent bits,
laid side by Side, it would take to
cover the surface of a half -dollar
without overlapping the edge. Ile
may suggest. four, and may probably
regard you wlth suepicion when you
inform him' that not even two of
little in can be so arranged.
When he has digested this marvel,
ask hm which oity is the father east
— Edinburgh or Liverpool — and
note the look of humility on his twee
when you produce a map and prove
to him that Liverpool enjoys that
distinotioul
If he is still cocksure about things
in general, get him to tell you how
many pennies, piled one on the other,
ft takes to equal the height of a
quarter. Mindful of his previous
failure, he may hazard eight or nine,
when you promptly pulverise him with
the fact that fourteen are required.
If, however, he is still obdurate, ask
him how far the human eye cao see
on a clear day. He may say thirty
or forty miles, whereupon you com-
plete his discomfiture by informing
hiln that ninety-five million miles Is
nearer the mark — the distance of
the earth from the sun.
Dirth Stones.
For ages certain gents have been
1allobted to the months, each with OH
significance. The /101 given below IS
one generally accepted:—
January—Garnet: Constaney and
fidelity.
February—Pearl or amethyet: Pun
tete,. peace, of minel.
lefareli—Jitointh or bloodstotie;
Courage in affection.
April—Diatnond: Unchanging affec-
tion,
,May—Emerald: Ensures happiness
in love ,and domestic folic:Ina
June—Agate: Ensures long life,
health, and prosperity.
attly—Ruby: Exempts front love
doubts and anxiety.
August—Moonstone: A charm for
conjugal felicity.
September — Sapphire: Eusures
cheerf uln ess.
October—Opal; Helpfulness and
hapey faith.
November — Tapaz: Fidelity in
fri end sh I p.
December — Turquoise: Success,
happiness, and many friends.
The Prodigal's Return
Larry could not get on.. vory well
with hie people at home, ite he en-
listed, and, after a time, went to
India.
After some years he returned to
his native village. How surprised the
old folks would be! He walked aeong
the village street in his smart -looking
uniform, kW heart beating fast as he
neared the old home Opening the
gate, he stepped up the gravel path.
Suet then a ferocious dog melted out
and grabbed the soldier's leg. Shaking
the dog off, *he speedny regained the
road, and was standing on the otber.
side of the fence when his 018 father
came out
"Ah! mY son,'." said the old man.
"like the prodigal, you have returned."
"Yes," growledthe eakiler; "but
It's your confounded dog Abet't. enjoyed the fatted ear."
• Fortune in Shintps
A lady' living in Sydney for many
years hos hoarded a collection of
!metal stamps lert by her 'rather, who
had pursued' his hebby of collecting
for fifty years. The daughter was
egnorant of any knowledge of philate-
'v, atul threw the stamps Into an old
trunk.
Recently she visited a stamp exhibi-
"on, and for the first time awoke to
ee value of the stamps in her pos-
ession. She secured the assistance
experts, who estimated the value
if the collection at $100,000. '
Photographs on Pinger.Nalls
One of the latest fads in Germany
e the mounting of photograPhe on
m• finger -nails, the idea growing out
Itt» whim 0111 cousin el the Kaiser,
vho had an enamelled portrett of her
encen worked on • the nail of her
ttle finger This portrait was a, work
art and cost $75, but now the
ishionablo manicures or Berlin have
limn Up the Idea in the photograph
/rm. The picture is rendered water-
-roof by coating it over with a
hellac-ithe substance burnel upon
ae nail, It is aid that photograph
o inounted will last about four
..ionths without renewal. ag
BIG REMOVALS
In These Days of Progress Mama
Large Buildings are Moved Bodily
to Other Cities for Different
Reasons.
.A remarkable moving font wasr„ado-
oessfully carieed through just o'er
year ago at Bochott, a little theme
bit Stegium. It was found neceentren
10 erekiege the church, and to, de"thila
it meant anoving the chureb atowen.
New fotindations Were prel)(tretralle*Rt,
80 do away, mid along the maehheerr •
emastruoted • for its transport the_
towed-, which dates from the four-
it‘ewertntht eiAen,,,tmitoryo,navii:hst flomwt.;17 elineta%Vared-, felt! .
It took the best part of a 'week to
move it the neceseary 30 et. Not'enitir
haul the engineers to face reliV possi-
lenity or the tower toppling en eths...
move, but iehey had the task 'of eleteng
2,700 tone.
• Moving a Glasgow Church
Whole towns have been melte&
hodilY. Some years ,ago .the lowitt-oe
Platte, tin South Dakota, was deelarear
to be insanitary. It was deelded tee
more to a more convenient spoa 110200,,,
Ales awey. The first building Moked
was lain Platte Hotel, One PaPhah
obstacle that had to be overcome -wasr
a bread creek. This was succesefiiifer
managed, however, with ihe telef%en,
120 horses. The town churn
lowed, .and then the rest or the
kegs, shops, houses, everenhing, lock„
stock, and berrel.
'Pais is eeetitiely one of the neeet
extraordinary moves that -have ever
taken place. Snietiatg houaen la
tiAionneer.ica is not thought hall 'intfola
or as in. En,glated, whore it es ramedn
In 1899, 'however, Glasgow eenaille
witnessed the removal of St. lerideete
F.piscopal Channel from ets eeM
the Beaconstield Road to a new 'Ono
about their a mile away. It was fatted
to be considerably cheaper to eleitt
the °haven as et stood than to pail
to pieces .and re -erect it 'fbe chorale
was moved on a Satueday, vote 'on
the Sunday soimices were hehl in efe
as though nothing out of tile ordinary
tad happened.
BIG FISH HATCHES
The World's Largest Salmon Naraerr
Is In Canada. — Fish -Hatching
is Extraordinary •
Business.
Frain the Fesheries Departneena dr.
the Cananian Government, whose ante
11 10 to replenth the Canadian rittc,rsi
with the commerehte vamettes ot Alex
come some dnteresting teeth cancerag
Ing fish -thatching. The work is aar-
ried out by a eeries hatcherites es-
tablithed throughout the country a.t
points .both on .Atia,ntic and Pae.liew
,COR,5LS and on the Geeat beles.
„The largest of these — indeed, id
is said to he the largeet of Its kind
in the world -- is the hatchery eet
Harrison 'Lake, drained by the 'eraser
Inver en Belden Columbia, whaime
deals excluslvely with the hatching
of selmon. 'There are aleveys 10,.,000,0010
dash in the building — 7,000000
seekeYe 'salmon eggs and fry- trim fella
principally used for canning pur-
poses), and 3,000,000 spring salmon.
The building contains 160 Mitchell.*
troughs; each averaging 90,000 fish" -
During September and October he
eggs or the feeriaec are expressed feta
,a pera and the foetid:Ming "milt" or thss
,male 'thoroughly inbred with them.
The eggs -are kitten carried to the,
laatchery and placed ea troughs eatt ,
In tlowing water. '
IVIleu ready to be liberated the fish
are placed in a apecially-construtetet-
serni-submerged Thee is toured
• to a chosen epot, and erhen In proper
'posetion la allowed to sink below Eae,
water. '
BOILED SNAKE -ONE
Eelitiles.Though Repugnent to Mira -
peon 'Tastes are Considered la
Many Climes as Dainty
Dishes.
People in general have an Ina ,t -
eve ablioreence of reptiles, yet in any,
pales of tlee world it is a "cut" faimai
the atligator, not from the jpent the
waiter may deliver hes order eg'
"Dell ed Snalte—On e."
A peculiarly dainty .and noarisn re
lb
&eh is made with the iguana, he.
flesh of which is as NVIIII•te es IA
or a thicken and Jeet as palatable,
though the reptile's outward apnea's-
ence with its scaly, b lacksPatitade
green tenet, is more repgisive ttnee
either crocoalle or alligator. aro elio
inhabitants of the Bahamas Sod itho
other islands in the Weet ladies, aha
iguama affords a inueli valued WRIT&
of foed, They hunt them down atm
meane of clogs, their meanie niuzzleA, e
in order to prevent them using their
teeth allil elania.ging the reptile, thea
eat them sieve, or kill, scat and bativek,
them tOr home consumption. '1'her
flesh of the repelki is usually serited,
up boiled, together with a dish 'Or
clo.rified iguana rat, into which the
meat is :tapped as it is eaten. The
eggs of the iguana ale() are unlele.
releshed, rind are like bails' egge, lle
flavour, but wholly fined with yoBc„
and do not become hard in bolting_
Crocodile. flesh is publicly sold ire
the Meade mearkets of SeTIRRIVr 'tit(
Aerioa, URI in Siam yeti ,see their
carcases hung up tor stile like slierin!a,
au, the butcher's shop. Both au -
gator aucl crocodile ek;gs are meme
prized by cortaiii nations. The seeonek
is considered to be e {Minty in Skin,.
while the nnhIses ot Maaagaeear save.
Particularly fond of the eirst.
MOLY: "You keow, dear, we've bar"
engaged for ttre years, and 1 think-,
Tilly: "Ob., don't know, dear. la
it's tette we were getting niarried.'^
YOU really mee yo '11 1 t
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