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The Wingham Advance, 1908-02-27, Page 6.. og rroved ms r .. wo be eett t MOO yeer, Prep the Old lady - • . . e. . e, there ehe pee over that 1001" 1 tueued in time to catelt a glimpse of New II ir, gi 0 . Ole do -le anibling off in the Middle die, tanee, but as I was on the point of firing Wildcat and Bear' Hunt 1 ,n a Nova insappeered from eight tog.ether, We dauge bobbea Up ea her dieele Ana bath ' scrambled after them es fest As we were able, mid its the hound anti her woued ; impeded the bettee retreat iv° mune up , to them in a few minutes, Annapolis, N, S.---Ueele Ned held up it . 'lower it could mike it very lively for hu8thtelie%Ssulhleitilaisagehytiltiritily":01*thilersanleacekd tholes, set them carefully neross Ws nose is about as much Wee a bunch a steel light, tirie would face the hound, arive her to any extent, for she eves" full of letter, took out We big iron rimmed. spec- ou unarmed man, for a MU grown one alai read: slielllp run by .a. smolt cyclone as any. him beck With a wild, peas or two and, doses fur ten dollars he is e, good dorg ' dear sir I received yor leter will sel the tilintitgoigle caw% uttalinirleulf. la awl grab the atritttgattiltrtienfatioldr grouituag oanliewtoyabrea.tabi)aeyugolet tor wiltleat fox minks titter or enuy eat by the lundenisoaerters when its at. . heefor I got Win sevven bathe with Wm the cat WOuld tauctu aibaT :111waetQlfdallus'av"e11141, track you poot him On he Witee trained tention -was itttr t is sevven yeere old i give 24 dollars for though he was -clever enough to eseape Wm wood not sell lant but arn gettiug so in time nearly always, Jack tend. I rich I k,ant go in the mode with rumatiseu if la' enjoyed the mixup, b i wass yunger 1 wodnt Part with the fanjet tlmt Rouge Would. cetl,entiltVaell Wsil skold Wm if he goze thug he wit go rite belilitiegsautait?Agill- aorg 1 semi. him C a (1 aa you want by fatyrasnpot ;Wed oilint,hseo mister pennymen he will stay M a eanoo 151 Uncle ;Ned, who was 111a he'll chace nil daiy wil come back et badirveahntawigt4e1 ohfis ahsrielttirellthonnif eihJes'ephai. roll nite be =Out if are after eats or fox the hound. And sent a .22 ealibre b '1 t if he smells a moos or a bare he Nov leeve and. go after it if he wuzeyou jest eat's hedY, Unfortunalit'eley t2o;od,gh ,.the stay whar you ar ana be wit briug the "rwe "'a far aft to kill. Uncle NO uttered an exclamation of moos back to you be is a, god dorg his , impatience. name s range r a n g e wel wit close so ,, "Shot Too bad! You'll spoil the skin," good by yours truly mr John McBain. With a emile Uuele Ned transferred '1" lie. 'rWe had lam cornered and tuckered, and geoid have laid him o t his attention from John McBain to the with a stick. at "good dorg," a fairly well bred langlieh 1 Puss was. still gauteoand though part;, - foxhound of uncertain ago and modest yzed in the hind legs, growled •aud cuff - demeanor, with a few deep scars on head ed savagely at the dog, who continued to and ears that represented his diploma as hi • s worry him. Uncle N 1 et put, an end to a wildcat and bear dog. s stiuogles by a deft stroke over the "HOur he mused, critically regarding head, after which he took the cat and the animal, who wagged Ws' tail arnica- "pulled its heart," an operation neither bly, "tee. dollars fa a pretty good bar- Jaek nor I had Been or heard of, but gain for a really first elass hound. I've which is common Among trapper% of an heard of him before, too. Ohl Jobn Me- older generation, who weie careful not Bain used to be oue of the best all Os hurt their pelts. around hunters and trappers in Digby A wildcat or any exam& larger must, county, foul this old. Range was always of e'outse, first be renderea hore de com- called elbe best dog in Digby county. tat before being handled, but such small Wonder why he wants to let him go; and. game as mink, marten, hares and even at -such a price." foxes used. commonly to be killed by We explained that the old. min was really getting too feeble to cruise about Pelting their hearts. The animal is eith. er walked down with the snowshoe awl the woods and wanted to have las doe then grasped with the left hand by the in kind hands, but Uncle Ned was stir! throat, or a coat or skin is thrown over sceptical as he led. the way to the eanoes the head before the grasp. The business for the eat hunt. end of the game being held harmless by The late November weather was cola the lef t hand, the right feels for the and crisp, and a light dry snow that eov- heart, which, on account of the strangu. ered the ground for about three inches- lation, palpitates with unwonted power. promised to make, tracking and going Outside the soft skin the heart is seized easy. by the right hoodoo one of its down Our costmues wete regulated by the jumps, and a pull in different directions advice of Uncle Ned. by the two hands ruptures the heart We wore thin underclothing of pure strings, causing instant death. wool, thiek woollen gray shirts, necker- The demeanor of old, Range after the chiefs, stout knickers with. long stock - quarry was dead was amusing in its lugs, and. canvas leggings over a pair of 8taid dignity. He sat down gravely and ankle larrigans, which were made to fit watched proceedings with. an air of only closely by wearing an extra pair of e half interest, as if to say, "My part of socks. 6We also, wore our canvas shoot, - the work is done; Tal like to make a ing coats, svhich, though noisy, we soon meal of that cat, but it's not allowed, found were excellent for smashing through the killing Nova Scotia thicket, s3 WilY excite mVself?" and there is no reason for especial quiet His apathetie manner continued'as he trotted along in front of Uncle Ned, the when after wild cats with a hound. chain being hardly necessary to keep him . Hardly had we landed, when the hound in step. Suddenly bis mane bristled and began to whine and howl and sniff the a howling whine came frem him a,s he •air eagerly. Uncle Ned nearly lost him snuffed the air suspieiously. by an unexpectedly hard and sudden tug "Alia!" exclaimed Uncle Ned under his . on the chain, but recovered anti let the breath. "See bis beck go up. That's no dog drag bine ten yards up the carry, where, sure enough, a fresh wildcat cat. Whoa, boy, not so wild! Go on now, but don't get too skittish!" track led directly across the path. TJnele Ana lie let the dog pull him along in - Ned, hung on to Range only long enough to the swamp at right angles to the to make sire of the freshness of the course we were' taking, Range getting track, and the next moment the merry y more and more excited with evety step. musie was echoing through the frost Suddenly be burst out in a phlonged air: "OW1 OW 1 0.-0-0-0-03N I OW I" howling bay, a Bare sign of a fresh track Jack and I Started to dash into the thicket after the hound, but Uncle Ned of some kind, ,"A bear, I bet you!" taid Thiele Ned, restrained us. and sure enough the next moment the "Hold on, boys; no rush,". he said, "Let's see where he's going. May come footprints of old .Bruin appeared in the right around across the teall again, you light snow. "Shot I thought they'd. all • domed in by this time. Mild MR, thottgli; "Well lost sneak along the carry for likely they're late this year." know. As he spoke he released the hound, . a •while and listen, If lio gets too far away we'll follow and keep- lam within who sprang up a slight gise crowned by dwarf spruce, on the top of wbiell ap- earshot. , eared an enormous boulder cleft in "No use trampieg through these P -, twain by some playful freak of prehis- swamps more'n necessary: We're likele t oric nature. to get enough a it before night anyway, "Great Scott!" exclaimed the old man for I guess the 'best dog in MeV Coon - "Don't mean to tell Me that's a den? ty' is a good one, oil right." f„ I've looked that pile over fifty times." The admonition was well timed, But a den it was nevertheless, a fact though the trail did not actually recross at once proved by the actions of old the carry, it would certainly have neces- Bange, -Who stood at the mouth of the sitated a forced bleach of some miles without resielt had we followed the gaping bole in the rock and barked furi. ously. It wasn't five minutes before we hound, for thot cat's tragic. must have described several figure Ss with a couple got action. Uncle Ned, who was unarm - of miles between tire 8ides, ineging from ed except for his axe, crept a yard or o into the areh of stone, but presently the baying of Hie dog, now faint, now tw backed out with en alacrity unusual, in stronger. a man of his years. At one time he was entirely out of egerimby1 he yelled. "It'e a den all earshot, but a plunge of half ,a, mile, in- id 0111 a d . bv gum the old man's at to a black Fepruce swninp brought this II° ,, nG t - .1 lentle ld t e • your s.o , t nosed cartridges ridiculous and yet mellow old howling ou , oe or! Go In there, boy. (To bay to ottr ears again, and. &meet be- g „e,e I qua- 'em! Take hold of 'em!" fore we knew it he was past us not a e`a"0-*" -‘ I was decidedly in the limelight nevi, hurried. over to the traek and found that 'for Jack's A was a bad card of intro - hundred yards off. Uncle Ned and we the cat was evidently getting tired; a _t .duction to a fall growo beae outside of least, so said the old Man, who judged e trap, while, besides steel jacketed MIL from the slightly Irregular footprints, lets for wildcato. I carried a henaful of "We've got her sure, boys," he ex- soft nosed "Hones" for nay .303, with claimed, and a moment after the words which I now proceeded to fill up my lef t his lips the (log was heard again inagazine with feverish haste. . a quarter of a mile en our right. Nor was 1 any too quick, for good old "He's circling," ;said Unele Ned. "Like- Raege, obeying the command of the trap. ly the cat won't leave the swamp, so per, had rushed into the hole without a we might al well wait hina see what'll moment's hesitation, In a trice came a happen," whereupon the old trapper medley of howls, :marls end yelps, borne squatted on Me haunehes while we, less to us as frOin the horn of a huge graph). afraid. of forest ehille, or rather less phone. expefienced in woodland precautions, fob In ten seconds the hound came bacaieg lowed his example as to rest, but seat- out, barking and snarling and snapping ed. ourselves upon adjoining logs. at something that we,s evidently following Nearer and nearer came the deep him, and as soon as the dogs' entirety baying and all at owe I thought I heard was agaht in fall daylight this something him puffin,g at ray very side. Looking was revealed to us in the form of a big down I saw an enormous wildcat half ihe bear, whose little red. and black eyes trotting, half Baking through the tan- snapped. viciously, while alut emitted a gled and snow broken brakes, his eare :iurious snarling whine. When. she saw laid, "back and his mouth half open. He us she raised herself to a sematrect posi- seemed to take no notice of me, and be- tion and was on the point of retreating fore 1 conkl raise iny.303 had. disappear- into. the den when Range sprang fiercely ed in the NIA. at her throat. . In a seeond the hound rushed past as radii him like lightning, she handed fresh as a. daisy, and we all followed him a gc ff timt would have laid the as feet az the thick tam& of fallen logs foundat• ti f i n for bis epitaph had it reached second groWth ihentorke and spruces son 'et s°11 h 1 ibe u oree, but the veteran hound and soft 'swamp Would permit. Within At en there before, and got away wi .1 -Lc a badly tipped ear. As he bounded half a Minute we heard the hound bay 1.1 'barks: "Owl Ottri Owl" without rest, b" lily °hall" ell"' "a 1 "1"Pea a "Weed!" with fratitic but regular o ullet full in the old lady's face, Pretty soon Mlle a yowl from the lAs I did so, and before we could tell eat, followed by a series of howls, snags w tat was the effeet, a euribes ;watching end barks whieh betolonea a caninefe- was heard at the mouth of the deft, and line scrap of the liveliest deseription one after the ether out roshed two more As we mem to the scene of thobattle i t Ian half grown cubs. There was 4 lively there was miss. a big tom, Wicked tip ind very eomplicated mix-up of beats, against is log. like the very image of men and hotind, in which no one of us Wan, 'Re Wasi puffing and ma evidently ee„e te „e„ lee „mega, fga gg,, g been contend by the hound before fkia- ---- -- -- --- "'-f---- -- ---' °' making matters worse. Scotia Swamp. dog At her heels. I waited for e good silence ana then, let her have heltina the shoulder, wheu she came. down in 4 heap and for good. )ee held her over a big log for a gloot- contemplation mid were .gled erwegh to sit down and confine our entire en- cirgies to gloating. "Wow!" exelaiined Jack, "Mlle about the strenuous lifer With which he pass - Al his flask, that was stinunarily emptied. betweeo puffs. The sue was high in the heevene when Uncle Ned .struek through the woods for the •end of the carry, where our canoe and lunch awaited us. M we etc great were the praises of the "best doeein Digby comity," ana we voted to grant bim heroldically an aug- mentation to his title (sinee ,he bore no arms), dubbing him "The best dog in Xgby and. Annapolis 'counties." • in.g a tree suitable for eseape. Now, 1 read iast winter o series of asItri\dvea8a selitmiblYbeftei°smaeili°eItasstolfiktre$1:1?toNgdd letters by famous woodemen on wild- ef the llaskerviilee .heing whirled in the kras ilmi Ototada Irises, the purport lir, and Jack doing a tight rope or- Gingerly he counted mit the fifteen of nearly all of which was that these tormance over ft big wiedfall, the w iole coins, iiceepted the clime end the eitimale are poltroons of 1110 worst des- sitture being stuideoly blotted s 1,, smooth nieltel in eXchange foe them, eription. Moldy Hardy told Ws even hose ewful bump, the full force of vv°Ititicin;ywaans they are killed by a nien with bare after a prolonged eSettefiny, and ong concentrated at the very base of my early anorning bit:tailless tramiaetion hosnodsbeltloiri (motion tot the feet. ihlt anatomy, and. whieh in Mine oeeult but was cOmpletee, •p . .. nose efficacious manner landed me on of one thing I am sure, namely, that those tate were ret the kind a a have in the Maritime Provinees, or at least in It'ova Stotia. the Lynx gips, or giant wildeitt. However the question oar be deterinined. let it be placed on reeord that this wikleat put up an eit- viellent fight, all in and outnumbered se he Wan. Ife Would niake little jtunps at the dog and at ns if we Mink toe hear. lIe got one good liek in. on, Rangeft Tinge that drew bleod, end lot _growled epitio fully. lkto doubt if tt wildett knew its FROM A SCIENTIST'S NOTEBOOK. In Prussia, only 6,497 of 100,000 at- tempts at suicide were successful, ° Milk is suggested as a good, extin. IHF0444-•-•++404-14-44+4-4.-0441 -40--e. he MAO the Metro itan Methodist li:pietiopel Mach es WAS ettuads 404444-10-4.+.444-0.446•44-.4-4-40+04. 4W119(11M EPiseePal alerelh where h sesems, and visimiree of its 010(11100 pee - 01, nlio afterWard beetmee Bishop • . Mali Of that elturch, ass, "Preeident was not a notuber Orchjoeto of tiny chureli in Weellington, but he 'Wei' a regular affebilallt at rOuncirty wife We 44 aotive ehurch worker, Presidents' Unbroken t Lino of Ch In the ninety-ninth yeAr of his age, and "President Garfield, was art active almost seeing tile tlawn of another ecis- - Member Of the Olitirell, of the Disciilles, tury, Willieni Birth recently 'penetrated which used to be called the "cAuvheal- the veil between time and eternity in ite" ehurch, While he was in Conserese Washington city. Orte afternooxi, when he he often pretiched. in that (lurch, pulpit, said to the narretor: seas in comparatively good health, he Hofe tirinaerneobeea:uonficabisatft4tomdilyse, were all -°1 have lived M this national cepitel 'President Arthur Was 411 Episcopal - all of my life and bevel eeen it grow inn and a regular attendant at "St. iron° infancy to splendid maturity. I have knowo ineny of our Presidents aed have seen all but one of them. "My earliest recollections are of stades told to me by Vertieipants of the War of 1812. It has always been difficult for me to distinguish between WW1* then:heard an(1 Whet Actual -1Y }I'M do not believe that I saw the burning of the Capitol; and yet I heard so many stories concerning it that I have pictures cif it in my mind, so that it has seemed to me that I could actually See it all of these years, "I never saw President Washington, but I heard se much of him from those who knew lihrt thet I feel as though I shad known him in my childhood. I pre - smile that Washington was our greatest Christian President) and that Jackson was furthest from. being an ideal wee, ahipper. "Four of our Presidents were church officers, trustees or vestrymen, namely, Washington, John Quincy Adams, Gar- field and Benjamin Harrison; Madison, Monrie, Tyler, 'Fillmoth, Hayes, and Mc- Kinley were communieants. • "Everybody knows that Washington was an Episcopalian, and ell visitors to' this city who have the time go to Alex- andria, Va., to see Christ Church, where Washington worshipped. The old Pollick church, out in the country, is .seldom visited, and yet, as it was nearer Mount Vernon than Alexandria is, Washington worshipped there more frequently. In 'feet, Washington selected the site of that church and contributed the greater part of the funds for building and maintain- ing it During the civil war the Pohick -church was vandalized, and a part of the time it was used as a stable for the horses of cavalrymen. It is now re- stored, and a little congregation• wor- ships there regularly. , John Adains was a. Congregationalist, and ultimately became a Unitarian. There was no church of either one of :those denomination in Washington; • so _President. Adams usually went to either an Episcopal or a little Methodist church. Xetliodism was not popular in those days,' He always walked to church. In fact, all of our Presidents waiked about the capital city and mingled. with their fellow citizens as freely as they did at their homes until the civil war came, and sinCe then they .have been lesi accessible to the public. "President Thomas Jefferson attended different churches, and was what might be termed 'a godly man,' and he was an approachable man, too. He was not a church member, and was denounced in political campaigns es a 'French infidel,' His own daughters were. educated in a Catholic convent in France. "President Madison veal educated at Princeton, where Presbyterianism was and has been cradled; but he was an Episcopalian always, and a regular at- tendant communicant. "President Monroe •was also an Episco- palian and regular in his attendance at churcr. But he was a. reserved man and peeple thought him an aristocrat in his tendencies. He never stopped to talk to the folks after meetings and did not miagle with the people very freely. "Although John Quincy Adams at- tended the Second Presbyterian Church in Washington he was a Unitarian. There was no Unitarian church in Wash- ington , so he attended the Second Pres- byterian services. "President Jackson was a Seoteli Pres- byterian, and he also attended tbe Second presbyterian Church. Rev. Mr. Camp- bell was an eloquent preacher and had large congregations. He was unfriendly to the wife of John II. Eaton, secretary of War, a very beautiful wornan, whose name was roughly handled by the gos- sips, and" President Jackson left the church on that account. He stood by the abused woman, always to the day of his death defending her and saying to the Christians who attacked her: wrhis is a good- woman arid a good mother. Even if half of the slanders were true, or if even one of them were true, in the name of Christ, only he who is without ein should cast a stone at her.' "Martin Van Buren was a member of the same ehureh of which President Roosevelt is a member, the Dutch Re- formed -Church. There is a church now for President Roosevelt to attend, and he attends there; but there was me Dutch Reformed chureh in Washington then, so President Van Buren attended the Epis- 'conalian Church. ' "President William Henry Harrison was a Presbyterian, but he did not live long enough to become identified with any church in Washington. "President John Taylor was an Episeo- -palitut and a regular communicant. He was very democratic in his manners all the time and usually stopped to shake hands and talk tvith meinbers of the congregation after churclg very often walking baek to the *White House accom- ponied by several of the ladies and gen- tlemen. . "President Polk attended the Prettily- ., ) Whin Chureh, but on communion days he took a back seat, while his wife sat nearet the front and partook of the Lord's Supper. "President Taylor beealeionally attenul- ed the Episcopal Moretti but he was an army man little used to elninchgoiog, and Vas seldona seen in public. I sup- pose all army meh are emnewhat wean- ed front ohureligoing on mount of their camp lives otnd eampaigns. "There Was a little Unitarian Oswalt here when Mr, Pillmore was in the White Howie, and he attended that ehureh. It Was 110.t a popular religion in those days. "President Pierce (protioutieed Purse) was a member of the First Peesbyterieu Church. He did not attend communion, but this wife did, I Was a Member of that ehurch, too. President Pieree often weet to the prayer meetiegs on Thursday eveniegs, end I frequently walked home with him to the White House. He told me that he had been reared in the Con- gregatiOnal Chureh. Subsequently 1m lee. came an' Dpiscopaliari and Whoop/ to that thurelt whn h "Presiderit Btichanait was it Scotch Presyhteriat. Ile attended the services in Willare's Hall, where a little 'congre- gation gathered about twite 'a nionth. the other side of it big rock with iny Mexic0 Helps OettleMbh. "President leneoln had a pew in the tlightly Mended gest directed toward First Presbjterittit tharth, and his Wife he heavens. ' .; intraber there, but President Lin- ' A hill was sehelittea YesterdaY se the . toln was not a member of any churelt Thiele Ned was 1110 first to reeover; ie Chanifft of Deputie0 bY the Departmerit that 7 ever heard of, altbough watt fact, perhaps he didn't have to, as . nf roulette' for the appropriatiori of -$80,- ssosaely with oie wife. strenuously denied afterward that he 000 menially to promote the improve- "Presidett doloison attended all of the 'mil ridden e Anyhow his stsio ment of the eattle. industry ill the re- : ehurches, although I do suit believe that toriart "Lively there, boys!" brought ut oFhlie't Ile Ms ever a MeMber 0,f auy religious to our feet. The lint thing 1 snw The depertmeetsavill lama. rewards to sotiety. vas one of the eitbS going it lieu bent, the cattle glirviitte Whe shoW' the best "'Weld -mit Grant and all the inefiaberd ip the hill, end I brought up my rifle cattle And horses, The &that/herd will of hie Minn" Were ItIethodiste, but to stop him when Unele Ned ealled out! also Aid in the holding of cattle 'shows,— Grant atteinled the Plitst Presbyterian "Steady, Doe; let the -Mist go; the '11 From the Mexleafl Iferold, Chureli. While he Wee President, *wash, etiisaing agent for burning petroleum. it forms an enstilsieu tvith the oils and, by distorbing its cohesion, athenua,tes ;,he coinbustible element as water can- not. The curious fact is noted by Pref. Lamdain, of Breslau, -that careful meas. urements of the intensity of gravitation n. different ports of the globe show this .o be greater on islands thao on mai- nents. • In Norway the longest day lasts from May 21st to July 22nd without interrup, aon, The telephoto attacbment bas proved s splendid addition to the use of a' cam- tra. It wee designed to enable the plio. .,ograplier to obtain magnified, pietureS if scenery and buildings at a consider. thle distance. According to a German investigator a smoker sends into the air about four Oillion particles of dust at every pull, „ A tly so minute ae to be almost invis- ible ran three inches in half a second, tnd was calculated eo make no less that 540 steps in the time a man could breathe once. A man With proportionate agility could run. twenty-four miles a minute. The 'right hand, which is more senso Hee to the touch than the left, is less sensitive than the latter to the effect of heat and cold. There are always 1,500,000 people afloat on the seas of the world. The digestive powers of the hyena ere extraordinary. One of these aninials has been known to swallow six large bones without crushing them. In Germany there are fewer suicides among miners than among any other class of workingmen. A scientific contemporary of aerose the item tells us that at present it is es- timated there are in the world's oceans 7,000,000 cubic miles of salt, and the inost astonishing thing about it is "that if all the salt could be taken out in a moment, the level of the ocean would not drop one single inch. A German biologist has calculated that the .human brain contains 300,000,- 000 nerve cells, 5,000,000 of which dip, and are succeeded by new ones every day. " At this rate we get an entirely new brain every sixty days. Flies are not the only things found in amber. In a big Mass of clear anaber dredged up out of the Baltic Sea, re.! cently, there was distinctly visible in its interior small squirrel—fur, teeth and claws • intact. It is said that dried cOrrants given occasionally to horses in lieu of oats • will inetease the animal's power of durance. The majority of color blind people, curiously enough, belong to the educat- ed classes; of whom no fewer than four per cent. have this defect. The heart of a vegetarian beats, ou an average, 58 to the minute; that of the meat eater, 75. This represents a difference of 20,000 beats in twenty-four hours. . Railway whistles inflict tortore pn so many people that the efforts abroad to cheek the plaeue" have won approval from the people. Austria has introduc- ed a system of dumb signallieg to start and stop the trains. Belgium is trying compressed air whistlee instead of steam ana Germany experimmite with horns. Germany had /1,013 euicides last year, a rate of 21 to 100,000 inhabitants. The rate for Pruesia alone is 20; that for the Province of Saxony 32, and for Sehles- wig-Holstein, 33; while in Catholic and Polieh Posen it is only 8. For Berlin the rate was 34. The year 47 B. C. Was the longest year on reeord, By order of Julies Caesar it containe. 455 days. The addi. tional days were pet an to snake the season eonform as nearly as oweesible with the solar year. The deepest oeean temperature width has been reeorded was reeeittly taken it the Pacific Ocean. At a depth of 420 feet. , g Close Bargain. Is was early in the evening at/the two grimy faced, shiverink riewsbeys were warming theinselvee. at the rads tater while wattirig for theirsimndles. "Tony," said the largos/one, • -got fifteen pennies ye'll sell?",1 "Yep," answered the Other. "What'll ye take foe ,eiriP" y .give?" "Give ye a dime."' Tony qudied over thii proplaition. "Hoye, he 'said, finally; 'fitin't nuff.' "It's a bran' nerv "Huth& ' "Well, giVe ye n, climb an" b. smooth nickel." Tony devoted a longer One. ithe consideration of this glittering Offer, "Yep," 1m said; "I'll take 'ena, but it ain't a agnate deel, are you knoW it. You're )gittirt" darn sight de best o' Johns Chureb, across the park known its Lafayette Park, through which be walked evet7 Sunday morning to at- tend eervieee. "Presiaent Cleveland ie Prealiryteriau and during his first administration was a regular attendant upou Sunday mann- ing service», But daring ids seeond ad- ministration he seldom went to church, His wife never failed in her church due ties and devotions. After departing from public life Abe Cleveland's. went to live in an atmosphere heavily laden with Calvinism, at Prineetou. While there, 1 ern informed, our great former Presi- dent has been one of the most promin- .and regudae of church going gentle - "President Harrison was a Presbyter- ian &so, and wee tin elder in that de- nomination. While in the White House be seldom etent to (thumb, although he seldom miseeS a Smiday while 110 was a member of the Senate, ' "President Afelfinley wae a Methodist, a very good ehurehgoer and interested in chunsh. affeirse While the was a mem- ber of Congrees he was a member ed Foundry Mural), and when he was elect- ed to the Presidency he sent word to Washington that- he would continue to attend Foundry. But after hie hatt iglu - :Won' Bishop Newman caIled Min and persuaded him to .go to the Metro- politan Methodist Episcopal Church, seli,ere the Bishop had long been pastor and where Preeident Gtant had worship- ped. This caused considerable coolneas between those churches for a time, "President Roosevelt, as everybody in Washington knows, goes to the Dutch Reformed -Church. He walks from the White House to the chureh almost ev- ery Sunday morning diata,nee of about one mile, and he is usually aceompa.nied by his broher-in-law. "All of OM' Presidents have honored the Lord in one way or another, and the greatest statesman of them all, in many way.s, was the only one ever euspected of Infidelity; but I could never agree that the man was an infidel at heart, who said, as Jefferson did, 'When I think of human elavemg in this country, and think that God is just, I tremble for my eountey.'"—N, Y. Sum .1 TWENTIETH CENTURY sCIENCE. One Amsterdam factory alone cuts 400,000 diamonds every year. The elepirant's span of life -is one cen- tury. • , Ten pounds of blood are sent through the human system at each pulsation of the heart. The Kimberley diamond fields have been developing only since 1871. • A new London library has a room set apart for conversation on literary mat- ters. Accident insurance is compulsory among the workmen of Holland and sickness,insuranee voluntary. The whale is thought. to be the long- est eived of the animal kingdom. Its average age is about 500 years. 00.44.444444444.4144.440.444444.444144411 Doings a:pd Sayings in . En:gland, 011441144444440448$44.040404+ter, 0111/41ESB TO STAY. Medial aid was at onee summoned, but Dr. Playfair, who was in altnoet Un- IMNOleblevr eniettoCRellatnidlaesIbileneenoefi°1wiro i'l°;1111t that death had taken place from, heart Mediate attendance, could may annoupee thus not all be repatriated at the eonelus failure. An impressive scene followed. eion of their agreements, That aucli it The whole company solemnly knelt by step ,wee ceiltamplatell has been denied, the side of the bishop's dead body, while but inquiries establish its adearacy. the Bishop of Glasgow and Bishop Dow - Great shortege of labor has been ex- den of Edinburgh offered im prayete, winced pit 'Lobito Bay, the port in Bor. =CITINC ROCKET RESCUES, tuguest West .Africa whence a railway line is beiug conetrueted inland, by the , The Hull steam trawler Shakespeare Bteciiiidguteillleah7ilway Compaoy, The schense , was on Wednesday morning wrecked be - ie a bold one, the ultimate idea being tween the Black Craig and the Point of that tbe Rhodesian Railways sliall ex- Breekness, near Stronmess, and four line front Broken Hill, 007 lives were lost. , miles north of 13ulftway0, to the Kan- The vessel, with a fall cargo, was re- sepshe Mine, where the Benguella Bad- turning home when she struck with may would connect with it, aud thet . great force on outlying' skerry, where swtietahnttehraS 81traerintillgO0h1tialamreglitollair tsoervLiocbsi9tof ated Iriefembaoiantedweliniests.umlilniosneTiftnhartiroMis- nese, and the former, the first to (tr. rive, found the vessel submerged to the middle of the funnel. Five men were in the rigging and one was clinging to the top of the funnel. A well -directed rocket was thrown over the mizzeninast, and threo of the men there were hauled into safety. Those drowned are: Benjamin Powley, trimmer (Norwieh); Harvey Maedonaid, deck hitod; 0. Watson Stewart (Hull). ---e-e- Lord Curzon delivered a stirriug ad- dress .on "The True Imperialism" in the Birmingham Town Hall on Wednesday. He spoke as an "unconquerable Imper- ialist?' "I believe," he said, "the British Em- pire to be inseparable from the idea of a single Sovereign of ancient -lineage, and personal prestige. A British Empire that had no visible head but a Prime Min- ister or even the President of a Repub. lie would not lest for twenty-five years. "Let the working rnan,pieture how he would faro, without the empire. When In,dia. has gone and the great Colonies thave gone, yowe ports and coaling sta- tions, fortresses and- dockyards, Crown Colonies and protectorates will go,' too. With a navy reduced. and a small army confined to home service!, Britain from having heen the arbiter,. would, sink into the inglorious) playground of the world. Wandenug pilgrims would come to zee just as they climb the Acropolis or ate mud the Nile. A congested population would lead a sordid existenee with no outlet for its overflow, no markets for its manufactures beyond sueh as were wholly or partially barred to it by hos- tile tariffs; our emigrants -would be wallowed up in the whirlpool of Am- erican cosmopolitanism; Britain would become a sort of giorified Belgium. "As for the priceless asset of the na- tional character without a world to con. quer or a duty 'to perform, it would rot of atrophy and inanition. That is the logical, consequence of the policy many preach. Great Empires before now have sunk to small States. It may be in the fulness of time the turn of Britain, but let it not be done by her own act. "Self-government on the Colonial would mean ruin: to India, Were India Ip°se rti • ,sh.the British Empire in Asia would "The Cabinet must net in future exer- cise uncontrolled power over the destin- ies of the entire Empire; some form of Imperial Cotmeil, advisory if no more, must sooner or later emerge. The ques- tion how the Empire is to divide the burden of military and naval defence between its membens, ana the Tatiff problem, or the question whether the .Empire can be made more self-contained and self -sufficing in respect of its trade, are still only in the preliminary stages. At least a quarter of a century will elapse before they are solved. "Of ene thing I am certain—that in proper hands the Crown will become, if not more powerful, at any rate mere in. dispensible• rrd mere important. look forward to the day. when the Sovereign will visit his dominions ih person and hold his Court in Cailcuta or Quebec." • The Italian Goverument is making ef- forls to divert the tide of emigration from the United States to Africa. The Japanese will never sleep with their heads to the north, but their dead are always buried _that way. It has been stated that Iceland has the greatest number of centenarians per capita. Italy leads the nations of the world in the matter of theatres. Some of the cigars of the Philippines are eighteen inches long. The Lyre bird of Australia is the larg- est song bird. It about the size Of an Engbsh pheasant. Sugar is to be Mona in the sap Of nearly 200 plants and trees. The average depth of the English channel is about 110 feet. Given plenty of water, a horse can subsist 25 days without food. - Great Britain uses 72 pounds of sale per capita per year. The Atlantic fleet, now -on its way to the Pacific, domptiees 223,000 tuns of fighting ships. Taking th.e entire country into con- sideration, building operations show, a decided decrease io the/past few"months. The same foree which moves a ton over a good road will move eight tons on a railroad or thirty-two tons on a ,eyaelli:41.1slel average life of the eagle 200 With 5.500,000 inhabitants Holland has 1,000,b00 wage earners. The municipality of Tokio now owns Re; own Street ear lino. The telegraph wire is about to pene- trate its. way into Lhassa, the Sacred City end the capital of Thibet. An investigation of 1,600 of New York's 1,900 street ears made recently, domed that 105 were filthy, 401 had flat wheela, 786 rattled noticeably,- 249 were without head. Itunps, 102 with broken glass, IAN with noise from the gears. The water unactounted for at Yonk- ers, N. Y., where practically all serviee pipes are metered, was 51.37 per cetit. of the quantity supplied in 1906, es in- dicated by plumber displacement eat - mates. This is about the usual discrep- &toy betWeen plunger amt. meter read- ings. Passengers of the new turbine steam - ere often expeess diseppointnneot and surprise to find that the vibration ex. pericnced on ocean-going vessels hae not been entirely elimioated. As a matter of fact, the vibration, so far as it re- lates to the enginee, has been suppressed and the coxiditions greatly improved, but there is a eertaio amount of vibratioi) mulling fror the passage of the pro. pellets through the water, and this will never be overeome as ioog as propellers tvre used. ea.* Nerthwestern Wgetning. 'When I was Govereor oe' Tennessee," said Setiatot Bob Taylor, of Teunessee, "I reteived a letter from an inmate of the Stete penitentiary of Missouri, 'My dear cousin, it ran, it aint fitting fer one uv rite kinfolks to lie the pen, and 1 wisht yowl git tie Out ef it was sighed, 'Bob TOylor,' which look- ed as if -the writer ought to be mighty close kin. "I sent it to the Governor of Missouri with the fellowing ind.emereenti '1 wish* IP you &in emiselentionsiy do so, that Ion would turh this fellow leose, and if ever nay of your relatives get in the Tentesee penitentiery 1'11 return the favor.' "1 hettrd lette," totieluded the Senetor "that Hob livid gained his • freedom, but whether through my efforts hitie new er Witted. Ando he teen% thanked nie yer,"—Prent flus*Witesiliington Bay 4 new express route wool(' be creat. ed between Great Britain and slobennea- burg end ether inland, towns; The Cape Town authorities, seeing.the menace to the interests of South .Africap ports, are anxiously watching the pro- gress of the line, whieh owing to verities difficolties--the elder' of which ie,. es stated, the shortage of labor—has .been somewOat retarded hitherto, although 100. kilometres have been finished. Tee country generally is very' level and fav- orable to construction. Now, however, the Transvaal bas conic to the rescue, and about 2,000 Chiuese from the Band and the adjacent distriets are to be sent to the railway works. SCENE AT A WEDDING, An attempt to prevent a inarriage led to. an exciting scene on Thursday in the parish church at Brighton. A. -wedding had just taken place, and the partiea were in the act Of signing the register, when the father of the bride hurried into the church and protested that the mar - ridge must not proceed, declaring that his (laughter was under age, The bride, however, asserted that she was of age, and then swooned in the arms of her newly wedded husband. The vicar, Canon Benedict Hoskyns who had conducted the ceremony, took the father aside end pointed out that he had arrived too late to prevent the wed- ding, and that further protest was quite useless. The father then realized the situation, and in a, short while the whole party lef the church in an amicable manner. PRINCESS AND WORK -GIRLS, A dozen, work girls of Bermondsey epent a delightful hour with a princeas yesterday.' They sat around her in a comfortable circle and chatted with shy pleasure about themselves and their amusements. She was a very• tall prin- cess and wore a lovely ermine stole; they were very .short London girls who wore ropes 'of Imitation pearls round their necks and clothes that were, to say the Least, not fashionable. Princess Louise Augusta. of Schleswig- Holstein shook hands with eaoh of her work girl friends before leaving them to enjoy the comfort of the new Princess Club, founded by her Highness. The club was formally opened earlier in the afternoon by Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, The objectcof the in- stitution is to give the girls who work in the neighboring. factories comfortable rooMs which they can spend their evenings, cheap meals, and training in sewing and other useful subjects. SECRET OF JAPAN'S succEss, Sir T. Sutaerland's statement comes as no surprise to those who have followed recent shipping developments on the Ea,stein Asia coast. Since the Russian War Britain has been repeatedly warn- ed that unless she takes some steps to preserve liel• .connection,s every regular British steamship service will be driven of fthe Northern Pacific within a gen- eration. One result of the Russian War was that Jaapn acquired a greatly increased tonnage, partly • by capture, partly by purchase. In April, 190e; Japan owned no fewer than 1,423 steamships, or 335 more than before the war. In order to find work for- this extra tonnage, fierce competition was begun at many points. One gteat British house, Messrs. Butter- field & Swiee, was a special point of. at- tack, and the Japanese Government peured out money like water to sweep some of its services off the seas, The first reason of the Japenese use is that Japanese shipping is essen- tially political, and is therefore fostered by the Government regardless of present returns. lids is particularly tree of the Indian service, and Sir T. Suther- land's statement ean only be fully under- stood in its full me,aning when plead elongside of the repeated speeches by Japanese statesmen, like Count Okuma, in favor of the independence -of India. The Government, since 1870, hastriain- lathed a policy of subsidizing the ship- ping trade. Every steamer of over 1,000 tons doing ten knots an hour reueives ed. pet too for each 1,000 miles covered. The rath increases with tonnage and speed. Special grants are made to lines competing with foreigners. This latter form has given japanese shipping, in the war with our own, the resources of a nation at its back. British shipowners are. putting rp good fight, but it i - obviously inlpossible for priVate compan- ies, hoWever great, permanently to resist the resources of a Government. Shipleuilding is even more affeeled than shipping. The Japateee navy the swept the Russiahs from the seas was built mainly in Britian, but to -day Jap - en builds not only aer own bevy, but Chinese War vessels and ships for Siam and India. The Jepanose shipbuilders, like the shippers. ore helped by hortvy Governmetit subsidies; 22s. per ton is paid on steamers of over 1,000 tone and IN, pet ohe-horse power on the engines, Five years ago our cotton spinners laughed at Japanese eompetitioo. They laugh no lotger. Japauese eottoe goods are still, on the whole, of eoareo eounts and poor -quality, but they ere improve ing every year. The Jepanese have no factory haws protecting women and chirdren, and eorsequently young ehild. ren are freely 'employed, and the condi- tioris of Work are lieevy. Wonien earn Shalt 5d. it day, arid young thildren :few pence Week, The Chinese market —our best import fieldeeis fooling the Attain more .ana More, tted We are otlly lit the beginning of the fight there. necal of this world, IS 044441044. Think of the stores, and the inedilina 01 00M,, tunikation. The ehaiMele wbieh the ocedy ooes are reaatsi copetttute Jr. All blessing5 Are from Gosh All vow- , vents are appoulted by Him. they sonic wilts' with prayer, they rid,urn lad,en with inalse. I must not think of preyer ' as a stainpetle. Ile who provides for the um/in-10y rime, who tones up. the notle of tbe humming WO, will not suS. fee it confusion to etimplicate the bigh- et \awl most delicate machinery knewe. to tuegels, Ills movements; are rnejestie in simplicity, beautiful in• holinesa, pure In execution, "I pray not, then, lateitu.se I would, I prarbsteattse I must; There is ilo meaning in my prayer, But thankfulnese and trust, Ana thou wilt hoer the thotight. mean, And, not the weirdo I say; Wilt hear the thanks anion the. words :Met Only seem to 'pray." —H. T. Niftier, - — COREA 'A SUICIDE, • DISItOP Dit0PS DEAD, Wilkieson, Bishop of St, Andrews despattio °Mime 110AV el the bellndet. and l'rinuoi of the Scottish Episcopal les of Zion. Choice supplies are being - church, died With tragie suddenness on Tirepaws, elect, preototo, poraoritti, prr, THE BRITISH MIRACLE. The award to Mr. Rudyard Kipfling of the Nobel literary prize which the tes- tator decrees "to the best idealistic lit- erary work," hos caused a good deal of surprise in France, and M. de Vogue, in the "Figaro," attempts to explain the honoring of "le glorificateur du muscle Anglo-Saxon." He thinks that Mr. Kip. ling was chosen aa the author most re- presentative of the British race. "After Shakespeare and Defoe," he wrttes, "no one helps us to understand the British miracle as Kipling does. He expresses and. represents a force which dominates the world. His books bring to /11111(1 the sea-girt Rock of Gibraltar, bristling with cannon, guarded by gen- tlemen who play tennis, drink whiskey, think little, and are each and all ready to suffer atrocious death before relax- ing their grip of a piece of the world On which they have laid hand. "Yet we can henr Kipling gibe at them. He seems to say, I know them. They are very stupid, But they are Bris thin. And Britain rules hundreds of millions. The Deity constructed clums- ily the British machine of Empire. Yet He has never hullt a finer vine since Rome:, and' He never will ereete a great- er one than Britain."' 41.•••••••••.1.1 LIMERICK TRAGEDY. So disappointed was George Harrison, tramp master at Cheltenham Workhouse who formerly held similer positions at Stockton aud Sunderland, at his lack of snecess in limerick competitions that hehanged himself in a shed in the work- house garden, At the inquest it was stated by Dr. Davies that Harrison had latterly been broolling over something. He was cer- tainly very excited about limerick competitions, and extremely diappoints ed that he had never pitied a prize. The jery returoed a verdict of Suicide while of Unsound Mind. PRAYER. Little abort of the infinite is the . supply of human need. The larger holf of the ,neee withoist eon:44.16ns ef faith and prayer, as understood ley tis, the attintb elodeenee Of what is the mly plea, but, this is effeetlee, for "He tat- isfieth the desire of every living Oleg." Oely a pert of elbe leeser infinite of stotes -coulee with M the range of pray- er. Let us pause in the presenee Of these treasure houses. Clo to the rear of the great departmental housee, acores wogone are loading up, pothole aro Melt- ing to their deetination Vvith order atol • Evidences of National Rottenness Found in the Flermit Kingdom, "An example of national suicide:. is the way Prof, Edwin Maxey -des. cribes Corea, in a recent number -of the Forum. He says that Corea .00ne, flatted suicide and was not felonious- ly .slain by Tapan. To prove this point he snbniits es review of the Corean budget before Japan took charge. Some of the pabst startling items are appropriations. of $1,000,000 for the funeral. expenses of the Crown Princess and of $650,000 for burying the Queen .DOwageri B5 way of contrast the sum Of $424 was appropriated for public works and by the same budget the Imper- ial Privy Purse received $1,103,359. The appropriation • for all the schools in the country, excepting those at the capital, amounted tu the sum of .$27,-, 718; but this was the year the Prin- cess had to be buried, so of course education had to stand aside. • • The navy got $450,604 a year. • At least that amount was apropriated. But as the navy consisted of ont old gunboat perhaps the navy did not:get the whole amount. Piof. Maxey declares that the GOV ernment might better have . spent $450,000 a year on a wildcat, the lat- ter being capable of quite as mamh fighting as the ntivy. As for the army its portion was $6,000,000 a year, which was about $4,999,000 more then it was worth. When the Pingyang regimerte' was ordered to the front its Colonol as- sembled the soldiers and asked- all those who wished- to go to hold up their hands. ' Though this unique method of ordering troops to the front possessed the advantage of reducing the regiment to a size that was no longer unwieldy it does not aaepeal even to civilians as being either prac- tical or evidence of good military discipline and there is little likeli- hood. of its receiving the endorse- ment ef military men. _ Yet 0-ange as it may seem this is not an exceptional instance. It is a recognized practice in the Corean army for the loldiers to hold a mass meeting and. vote upon whether or not they will go whsre they' have been ordered. Corea has a pension bureau too; but as the bureau gets an appropria- tion of $27,552 a year, while it pays out exactly $1,956 in pensions there seems to be a case of grafting with, two fists. There are other ways also. For instance, a. courtier proceds to the home of a well to do Corean, and having found the owner says:. "I fun delighted to be the bearer of good. news and a reward of merit. His Majesty the Eniperor has graciously deigned to bestow upon you the deess„ oration of the secood class of the Oen'''. der of Plum Blossom and to send ft to you by my unworthy hand." Having thus manifested the interest which his Majesty takes in his sub- jects he informs the newly meths knight of the Order of the Plum Ales- som that tho expenses connected with the bestowel of this high honor will be $5,000. • As this sum would represent all the property he had Sit Yong Ko He concludes that he can not afford the decoration upon these terms. Snell ingratitude forces from his Majesty's royal messenger the ex- clamation: "Then you scorn the im, pedal gift and insult his Majesty by refusing to accept it!" And With- out waiting for his righteous. Anger to abate, he proceeds to have the sordid ingrate thrown into prison. on a charge of lese mapeste.. To secure a trial is out of the ques- tion. His only alternative to remain Mg in prisrei i accenting the tenni offered and • benoming .4 penniless Plum Blossom Knight. THE PARIS POLICE, . _- Their Lives Continually Threetened by Men With Knives, Etc. (N. Y, Times' Correspondence.) In an laterview which M. Loin°, prefect of police, granted a ,iorrespondent of the Now York Times, he stated that tho forces at his disposal mere no longer sufficient to Qom*, hat the grcat army of miscreants which ha Paris as Its headquarters, At the same time, M. Levine had only words of praise far his honest anti censcieutwes styled them -and regretted that they were not botter paid. ' In fact, tbe Paris policeman, at the begin- ning of his service, receives a scant OW a Year, After many years of service he geta 5100, heeldes iers expenses. Here ia the French oapital, theretere, the policeman is forced to rilik his life every nay for less than Ail ordinary laborer gets in the United States. The job of a Paris policeritan is nu sineCure. Like tho members or the Paris detective force, he is engaged In a perpetual strUggle against a growing number of maic- factors from all parts of the world. There is a class of rOwcir who makes it a par- ticular point of pride tp have a notch In hii knife fOr the *wearer of a uniform. The other day POlicenlan Ptiardean was ataktrIniegnditofdraneltverhisoninftern ettoodtohuiVtiatealpOorla Wtrob111 DttOrieleE6batter3'heaaltrdt, PW11"11140114 Ithrtrseaktnedit;e the sissastin would Bay was that he htut dodo a good lob in "chillibg" an officer. necitt4 ancther bolic,eman, was attaeked la the semi), IlvtivesA: 01 011111wIlloar wn4atts:00801watietheeilCinencl:6:01clitidreiti:tullitt,ledmilbich s 401 1) III el; P"i4a4allenNia. rah 'two polleelilen, When atterallt- ing to arrest a bicycle twee were badly wounded and another killed, The thief hod fer help? abd Was aeon surrennlica by a crowd unfriendly to the officers. la the thick of the melee, 4 yonth scout a revolver from one 0( the oolteenten rind Idiot Min de.m. staVed"bxy4 (10."Itterg-°0"11°Yetittntigeenrfiswereeiit'6nbtsada the neukeverd sebasleool, the sante week three tont° p011eetrien were aloe einem). and Policeman Coniconalers was dangeroua- cut Mr a youth of fifteen, whe wiahed thua to Manifest Ms prOWete before htenbeV. or young ronnionions, Aireoet at um Emmen a fernier conviet, while resisting erreet, fel Uniting h double Metier Which 110 had hiat rommitted, abet another eolleeniaix dead. The list could be continued Medea inaettedtely. Wednesday at liAlinburglt. vete, iidt one neglected, forgotten or Ife ittidressed a. meeting of the retire- left. Think et the num.*, distributio - Whoa hs was 'deputy chtet of the neteatee In, lIsousra hes bed tome snob adventures. aeetative Mitch Canna! of the Seottish veriety and the methods by sviliehthelly1 1 netiertment a •ertmieiti One de broke a sel- it4piscopal Chureh on the subject 'of are ehosen, equipped end guided tu thorr 'iser bottle over Int 'hoed. laYe wounds ori Me Mee 800 still vie Chunk finitnet, and had ataroqy w, destioy. This is net. ta rabble, An hot ibte. Arid two yeate nee, tp t,tiOtien, another mateleeter shot at brat Framed his seat when he suddenly fell witliont orda 60 titselplise, /1 is a eTolthesmsevNitillit't ,t.bettti=e'PhIllng throut° l'rs' front hie •elutir to the floor. He moerieti titteilaa iv city, a World) nitwit* iu &arm feintly"severiti times end then lay quite itiheeslowahllogineityearatihd ibeg ituttuny, t"Tzbioellj.??7,rioief 01: MI: i'"f111108b1 allr°0"kkrAhoth6gtttltolisik.'"tguitt atilt tiered men in ketone.