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GOOD AND BAIT) TAXES.
The Dominion of Canada raised during the year 1910 tbe mite Of $60.-
111.11,1X4 lei the farm of mestere* deties, end the sure. ot 115,303,353 la ;Ale
form of excise row people realize the importance of tide feet. We are so
eituele ale:estop:led to think or the tante in tern* Of the well -wont eontro-
eerily between free trade and erateetlen. *ad he hear it spoke* Ot att a form
partieular privilege in favor of the manutecturing.clasus, that we are apt
to lose out Ot sight *0 larger et Awed itspeet Of the tariff Orem:a. Take for
igartaneig, Woe Of the Kenna in the year 1910 the date' paid on rateltinee
end Machinery (e cherge whicb, by the WAY, mune largely out ot the
Whets Of the manufacturers theteselYel), aMenneted to $2,0$4,0-67. The
limPorting JeWellent paid to .the Seven/0104 11447.870. The duty collected on,
0E10 goede amounted. to $1,077,361, Electrical apparatus contributed
•revenue of $909,482. Drage and eitenlieelit contributed ;604,318.
'Wee ;see here tile broad contrut tbat there la between direct and indirect
• :tamitiree. Indtract taeration hi the name given to such chargee as 'custom*
;end •eitchie, Which are. pearl in the -Aria place, not by tbe,Coneunter himself.
t ut by the nntsorter or manufacturer. -
"Meet Weal= inchedee such chargee AS PrepertY Metes, Income taxes.
feel' teXeth and AO fOrth, which are levied directly Upon the citizen in respect
'to the property Wildell he actually owns.
How the Tariff Helps the Provincial Revenue, •
NoW, ubUo reaeletie has got to be raised in one tuition or another, It
.we do do not Wee it by Merino Of the tariff we Meat fall back upon direct taxa-
. • •...tort, It Canada Were to abolieb. the Whole of its tariff system tOeTnerrow, We
have to Tale° Berne sixta or aeventy million dollars by email other
phut,- More thanthat,.and the fact le not. generally' appreciated,---ouet Cana -
elan provincee, though they levy no CUOtOras.' duties, in reality draw a very
heavy revenue out of the proceeds of the national tariff systeta. In our plan
Of.goVernmelit the Dominion of Oanade dIstributes to the different produces
• Canit year very large :sums. Which hractically come hue of the proceeds of tale
• -'lltlieect taxation, In the year 1910; the government veld out $9,361.388 in
'• Itiefashioa, EddeutlY, then. it the Dominion gievertiment had not its tariff
•ayatefa. ote which to rely for tale Money, the provinces would have to raise
'Was hest they could for themselves, and the only way In which this could be
would be by having recourse, to a greater or leas 'extent, to direCt,
a's;ailen, of, the citizens, .
• The Rigor of Direct' Taxation,
' 'Now, PO ciOnbt direct taxation is not without its advantages. The citizen
.,'Whe• has to confess:to the fax gatherer exactly *bat le the value of his prop-
erty :and time pay a percentage on it, Or who must make R sworn statement
of:hie; year's income And pay an Annual tax ow that, Is at any rate in • a
'VeSitiOn to tae. at lira head 'Just whet an e;nensiVe thing goverument S. and
learns to watch the Progress of pubic expenditure vyith a vigilant and
-nterested eye.
- • . HS Inequalities,
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But. perhaps„ the difficulty with the direct tax 'goes even deeper than
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this. . Whatever may be itsmenet in theory, It is extreniely difficult in prac-
tice to apportion and levy any such charge in e just and equitable manner.
' .Direet eaXeti in theory ought to fallon ell forms of property. alike. In prace
some kinds of property stIffer much more than. others.. property welch
visible and tangible,as for :firtatifece,, farm fends and buildings and live
:ntock, cannot possibly escape. Property such as • balances 1i the bank or the
• oaraliege ef professional men reaflilyslips through the net thus bold ota by
•.'the tax -gatherer, and, of course. the 'more ono kind of property escapes, the
: More heavily. de other Of property contribute. •
Direct graantiell In the United States.
11 cine Wishes to see the difficulties encountered' in direct taxation, one
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has only le turn teethe existing situation 'in the different States of the Amer -
lean 'Union. They receive 'no subsidy, as our provinces do 'front the. oilstones
'--roodipta. of the Federal government. 'ThOatate, county, and tOwnanip author-
, itiee draw,a very large proportion, in tbe case of the two letter practical:y.
elle of their fireandel'support from the proceeds of a .direetteic laid 011 all
all.
forms of property. The taX',appliee both to real and personal araperty--hind;
•"tonsils; hitilainae, horses, carriages, furniture, stock and shares,. mortgagee,
heeds._ etc. 'At, its origination it seemed eminently reationable, 'The States
'Were' forbidden to levy import and export duties, and • to levy excise !duties
Weald' tend to drive out manufacturers to a more favored legality; .they there-
- :afire, Or necessity, fell tack on direct taxes. • Ane pf. all Bitch, a single tax,
• .leid on all trams of property alike; seemed to 'commend itself as the Moat ani -
e form and egeltable. In practice it: has shown itself he be distressingly ine-
eatitable..
•The Distribution of the Taxa .
Thie is due. in part to the rammer of the assessment, witich is =fie as
:fellows!: The State authorities compute the, aperient of the direct tax needed
: *for •Alteir•putposee, and divide it amongthe counties in the proportion of the
'ening:eel assessed property in each. '• To the sum thus called foreach county.
•eadds the amount peeded,.fer its owe use and then distribates. It in like •mane
ncyeatneng Its townships, • again ..according to, the proportional value of the
faseessed propertyineach. To, this tem thetownship adds e whatis needed
for its own purposes, „usually the largest amountof alt. The total 'time
.teeched Is aistributed among all the property holders of the township accord -
jag to their' proportion of assessed property; in other verde, the total of
:-the assessed property is dividedby the Wel tax to he collected, and. a tax
„rate is thus obtained, Which Is levied' on all property. .If, for example, the
•, tptalof the property- was worth ea,000.,000. and •the total tax to be collected'
.• evert' $1110,090; thee the rate tax would.be .put at: one -fiftieth, or two per cent.
yeder''.i3uce' u system, then, everything 'turas. on tbe , .assessment.• • If' one
,eceuaty has been assessed forverymuch less property than than it,actUallY • neer
amount ef the tax -assigned to 11 Ify the state 'will ba very ranch less
abaa it should be, but at 'the expense 01 the other' counties; for the rate, all
'round will needto he higher -in order to rupply. the Axed .quantity of Money.
;tithed ton •or again let us suppose that in one, of the townships the property
•ianseeased.fer very much lest than it is worth: Then, the township in which
' liteeessesmeht is too low is given less than its' share- of the: °Olney tax, but
•etiveys at. the expense of the other tOwnships. on account et the tate-being
• of necessity higher than would be needed if the assessment were larger,
'„.Vinally, withia the township itaelf, prciselythe setae thing happens ainpng,
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• • - Tho Honest Ilan' Suffers.
Anyone whose property IS put at too low a valuation, or not valued.'at
As all, escapes, at the expense* his neighbors; and 'the more the property in.
aeheral fescapes assessment and .remains invisible, the higher 'becOmes the
tax rate.Hence has :arisen what is -called competitive under -assessment.
• The assessors, moreover; being elective officers, elected In Moat cases for a
very stunt term, arepersonally interested not making the betel property
of tlieje area stand at too high- se figure. .. „ • • '• •
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: • The upshot has been that while .the system was 'originally devised as the
• moie .equitable form of universal' taxation possible, In its actual operation
nothing could be more vicious and inequitable. For it is to be deserved that
• tin 'reality. discriminates most unfairly between different ia:fibs of propertY.
Hear eitateefor example elands and 'buildings), is much less easy to conceal
than such forms of property as shares In bank stock, bonds, debentures, etc.
In illustration of this It may be mentioned that in' the assessment et property
In Brooklyn in 1895, real estate constituted over ninety-eight per cent of the
total:values, Some years ago (1884), a tax commission In West Virginia re-
' perted in reference to personal property, "Things have tome to such a con,
•. Oleo la West -Virginia, that asregards paying taxes on this class of .prop-
• ertee :Rae almost as voluntary,and is considered pretty ratieh in the same
light as donations to the 'aighbortaeuring Church or Sunday school."
.. • A School for Perjure,.
In addition to thee a premium 15 put anon dishonesty; since people of a
pllable conscience will -11nd it- easier to dodge the assessment than those of
a more uncompromising morality. --Even some of the measures intended- to
• prevent this. as, for example, the adoption of a eaheduleof property made
out . and sworn to by the Owner, and the penalties (legal and spiritual) for.
perjury, etc, accentuate' the evil rather than lighten it. The worst feature
. or all is that, when ninlerassessment oxide sets in, it moves forward at an
• ''aceelerated pace For the higher the rate rises, the.niore imperative does it
• become for each individual to understate his property,' But the more the
property is understated, the higher the rate •rises, and thus the worse •the
situation is, tboworse it tends to beedme.• In some Casee the rate becomes so
high that to tell the literal truth, andpay the full rate tax, would' mean .
absolute ruin. Thee in some of the "towns" 01 Chicago, previous to the
• reform of the assessment system a fee, years Ago,"the rate stood as high as
night and nine .per cent. Now, it meet be remembered that this means, not
-the tontribetion of eight per cent. of one's 111C01)10, but ,eight per ceut, of
bee's capital property. To actuallypay this and continue in business would
not, for Ordinary enterprises, be found possible. The result is that both
the:assessors andthe assessed adopt a rough scale of depredation accepting
• as accurate a figure -that is perhaps Otte -fifth or ono -tenth of the probable
• actual value of the property .coneerned. Meanwhile, the: Incentive to Ms-
•' honesty remains, and a vast amount of property escapes untaxed.
Direct Property Tee Condemned.
broughout the entire United Settee Opinion is 'agreed as to the Inelti-
cfo
cl and iniquitousness of the general property tax. It has been con-
* ned by a long serieh of state tax commissions held Withinthe last forty
a and by ell the highest authorities on the subject Of public finance,
"Instead of being a tax On personal property,' said the New York eentinis-
itioners of 1872, "it has in effect become te tax Upon ignorance and honesty.
,That is to say its imposition is restricted to those who are not informed of
the means of evasion, or. knowingthe Means, are restricted, by a Mee sense
of honour from resorting to them.. ' The jilinolo comraiSsimi of 1886, spoke
ef •it as a school for perjury, promoted by 'law?" • The New York report of
1893 says: • puts a premium on perjury and a penalty on integrity.' The
event industrial commission In its MIDI report (vol. xia). quotes as illustrat-
ive of the general feeling, the words of a special eorritnittee on taxation which
reported to the California senate hi 1901; "From Maine to Texas and from
,Viekida to California, there Is but one opinion as to the war -Who of the pres-
ent system. That is, that. It Is inequitable, unfair, and positively unjust.
Theoretieally all property Is tailed upon to bear a share of the public burdens
in exact propertied' to its present Value. In practice, that end is admittedly
'net even approached. Scarcely tt fractional part of the property in any
lantfitinwealth Is brought to the tax rale."
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Usris radorwritAkrs WM Take All
Vs* el Risk*.
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Son's remarkable tundererititig
business In !IOW risks have been:
done by Lloyd's hi oonneetion with
the coronation. Large insurances
have been effected by traders whoa,
Interest s are bound up with the cor-
onation, and ben per cent has been
OAK to cover a cialm should the cere-
mony not take place before the end
of the year. la one or two MSS P91 -
Mee haVe betel taken out on the
/Wet &eel of the King and Queen
until the end of the Year, at the rate
of four guineas Per Cent, whIlet a
"Royal Family" risk has been ae-
eepted, insuring the Klee of the Eine
and the Queen and their claidren for
the same period, the premium In tine
instance being ten guineas per cent.
A peseible change of route fort the
coronation procession has also C01110
wlthhi the Opeculative scope,' though.,
the prorate= are email.
'To pay a lots if there is a general
election before Aferch. 31, 1912, twen-
ty-five guineas per cent is quoted, and
Ave per cent has been accepted to
cover the payment of a claim shoUld
Mr. Lloyd George become prime min -
later on or before December al next.
This risk has been written several
times, but the amounts involved are
not large.
The next budget has also been the
basis of speculative Matinees of We
nature at Lloyd's.
The Met rate quoted to pay ef, loss
in the event of the duty on sugar be-
ing- abolished was twenty guineas per
cent, whilst several policies\ to cover
a reduction in the tea duty have been
taken out at tweety-fiVe guineas per
cent, the equivalent premium for cof-
fee and cocoa being thirty-five guin-
eas Per cent. The possibility of att
increase in the cost of license is ap-
parently .considered remote, seeing
tbat a policy for this risk can be got
at twenty per cent.
By far the largest amount of specu-
lation has, however, been done in
Connection with the income tax, and a
rate as Itigh. as‘lifty gumeas per cent
has been charged on a policy to pay
a total loss only In the event of tio
alteration being made in the present,
charges,
. THE CHOICE OF DEA.Til.
Condemned Murderers Prefer Shoot,
ing to Hanging.
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Why eto condemned murderers pre-
fer shooting in preference to bang-
ing? Since the State of Utah passed
a law giving convicts this chcice,
Arthur Pratt, warden ot tb,e Utah
State prison, has not had one who
would go to the gallows. • On one oc,
easion a murderer refused to make a
choice, and the judge sentenced him
to be hanged.
'Utale has a' la.w whieh allows a
condemned murderer to choose either
hangiti,g/ or shooting as a mode of
dying,"said Warden •Pratt, • "This
work is • done by the sheriffs of eaqh
eounty, but in the penitentiary yard.
So far we have not aad a man who
has chosen hanging. Onee a Murder-
er refused to make a Choice, and tae
nidge sentenced aim .to • be hanged.
Shooting. is the .mere humaneIt is
painless and instantaneous. The con-
demned man is lee to the prison eard,
Seated on a chair, and, ie he desires,
Is blindfolded. Five men armed with
rifles are then marched to Within ten
paces of the man. Pour. of the rifles
contain ball cartridges. The fifth has
a blank shell, A target is pinned
over the heart of tbe condemned man,
all five guards etake careful aim, and
at a signal the volley is fired. The
ordeal is over in a few moments,
whereas in hanging 'the suspense and
suffering last for many' minutes."
• THE VAGRANTS' HOME. •
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Missions Used by Loafers to Help
Them Out
, —
'Got any home?" said the judge to
a man who had been brought in on
the charge of vagrancy.
"Sure 1. have:"
"Where le it?" • '
The man named- a' street and num-
PADDY SECtIES TV*
• BONER.
After Charles. O'Malley had been
promoted to the lieutenancy ot his
regiment, be heard an Officer say to
his (0"Mally's) colonel:
"Ere I forget it, pray let me beg of
Yon to look into this honest fellow*
claim; he hu given me no peaso ths
entire morning!'
As be spoke O'Malley timed hie
ores in the direction IxiWcated, and,
to his utter consternation, belteld his
own man, Mae,' Free. standing
among the 'staff; the Possition he to-
cupied, and the presence he 'stood to
having no more perceptible effect
upon. Ida nervea than it we runlet-
ing at OM Irish wake. Ott seeing his
Metter, Mickey exclaimed, in a Bente-
what imialoriog town
"Arrah, spoke for me, Master
Charlet', alanah, sure they might do
something for me now. av It was onir
to make me a gauger,"
BlickeThl ideas of promotion thus
insinuatingly put forward threw the
whole party around into one burst of
laughter.
"I have hira down there," said he,
pointing aa ite epoke to A thick grove
at cork trees at a little dietsnce.
"Who have you got there, Mike?"
Inquired ali officer,
'"Devil a One 0! me knowe Ms
name," replied he; "may be it's Bony
himself,"
"And how do YOU know he Is there
atilt?"
"How do 1 know, is it? I tie him
last night?"
Curiosity to And out what Mickey
eould possibly allude to, induced' his
master and a brother officer to fol -
hew him down the elope to the clump
of trees mentioned. As they came
Pear, the very distinct denunciations
that issued from the thicket prove':
eretty plainly the nature of the allele.
It was nothing less than a French,
officer of cavalry that Mike had un-
horsed in the "melee," and wishing
probably t6 preserve some testimony
of his prowess; had made ,prisoner
and tied fast to a cork tree the pre-
ceding evening,
"Sacrebleur said the poor French.,
man as we approached, "que ce sont
des sauvages1 ' •
"Av Ins waking your sowl ye are,"
said Mike, "you're. right; for. maybe
they won't let me keep. you alive.'
Mike's idea of tame prisoner
threw his master into a fit of lauga,
ing, while his companion. asked:
"And what do you want to do with
him,Mickey?" •
"The sorra one o' me knowq, for be
spalres no decent tongue,. The -glum
thee," said he, addreseing the prison-
er with a poke in the elbs at the same.
•moment; "but sure, Master Charles,
he might tache me French." .
There was Something so irresistib-
ly ludicrous in his tone and look as
b.e said these words, that both the
officers absolutely roared with laugh-
ter. They began, however, to !eel
not,* little ashamed of their position
• In the business, and explained.to the
Frenchman that 'their worthy coun-
tryman had Mit little experience of'
the usages of war, and proceeded to
• unbind him and liberate him from hM
ntiserable hondaga
"It's lettinghim loose ,-you ante.:
captain! Master Charles, take care;
begone, av you had as much trouble
in catching him at had, you'd think
twice about • letting him out., . Listen
to me now," -here he placed his Clos-
ed • fiat within an inch of the poor
prisoner's nose --"listen to me; ay
• you say peas, by. the monad, I'll not
lave a whole bone in your skin."• .
With some difficulty the officers
persuaded Mike that his conduct, so
far trout leading to hispromotioe,
might, if known M another 'quarter,
procure biro an acquaintance with
the provost marshaL a fact which it
was plain to perceive ,gave him but
a very •poet •impression of • military
gratitude.
"Ole 'then,' if they . were .in swarms
forinent Me, devil recea.ve •the pris-
oner I'll take again."
MO= kin fir OMEN $Y.
itelleree in 54anaturoLleity Tubb* el
Irma the tine of Ifer Majesty's
birth, until her atarriage her We was
juin that of the fairly well-to-do thug-
lisit girl, hardly that of the MOderis
English girl, peril," but nearer the
old-fashioned. ideal. This was her
mother's plan:
"A cbild." she UM,' °hen 'lett*
enoughto do to learfl obedience and
attend to her lemons and to grow
without many puttee and late hours,
which, take the freshness of child.,
hood away and the bright:nese and
beauty from giribood—and then
children, become Intolerable. There
are too many grown-up .children
• the present day."
• A wrtter tette bow the Queenat
01140' high thtalltlin were develeped
-.-ner interest in charity by the fre-
quent visits made in her Mothers
eenePenie to the poor around her
Itiohmond home at White Lodge; her
relisious • convictions, ' bred by the
daily life of her home; her •mualcal
accomplishment* and her artistic
talents, fostered by her stay in Flew-
ence, Italy, wlaere her parent's lived,
for two years.
"The Queen has a sweet voice."
Ws Sir Charles Einloch-Coelfe.
ectft. iMprano, which greatly matured
under the skilful guidance Of Signor
(now Sir Paolo)" Testi. * * * She is a
good Judge of a picture and an ex-
cellent critic, and white at Morino°
made went pretty sketches of
landscape scenery. She rarely rain -
els any geed exhibition of picteres in
London, is particularly fond of the
old mestere and prefers their more
Anished style of painting to the im-
ereesionist fielleal,
"Dramatic art of every kind appeals
to bor, and there are few plays of
importance or that have attracted
public atteetion during the last two
decades she has not seen. Like her
mother, she quickly'seizes upon the
humorous side of a question,. Titus
she has a keep appreciation tor a
sparkling comedy or a farce,
"'The Queen is greatly attached to
the historical past of her country,
Ancient monuments of every kind
nay° a fascination for hereaued her
•acquaintance With different kindit of
architecture must have entailed much
study and close observance.
"She is particularly feed of visiting
cathedrals, and knows the interior of
most of the old city churches, besides
being well versed in the countless
treasures contained in the other his,
toric buildings of our great metro-
polis.
"Her Majesty follows events atten-
tively. She reads the newspapers
daily, .and as Princess. of Wales . at-
tended the more important•
parlla-
mentary debates.
"Punctuality is a household word
la the royal establishment, and when
the Queen makes an appointment It
is always kept.
"In business matters Her Majesty
is clear and expeditious, methodical
and systematic. Her mornings are
generally taken up with attending to
•the voluminous correspondence that
arrives by every poste
"Her secretary, and lady in waiting
submit their letters and the •Queen
gives instructions concerning them.
She quickly grasps the main issue of
a question and. !mon Makes up her ,
• mind, and has never been knowtt to
lay aside a matter on the ground that
• to 'express an opinion thereon is lit-
he the some or difficult"
"Your Honour," voltinteered
cletk, "that ain't a house,. It's a mis-
sion!'
"g"Well„ call them up, anyway," said
the judge,."and see ,if they know any-
thing about. him." ••
They did not know anythinig, but
the .miselottary said he would crime
right doweeand. see. what could be
dorte. • ••
t‘lt is not an unusual cam" he said,
"Our mission 'is 'home' to many a
man whom .we never even heard .ef
lentil he gets arrested, If a man who
has been run in as.a hopeless derelict
can mention some 'address which -he
tan' call home his sentence 18 apt to•
'be lighter. Lott of oeitcasts have
been on the Irwin" so leng tbat It is,
• bard for there to tiainle of any place •
they. are Latinate enough evith.to caIl
It horde, 'bat through 'an occasional
peep in here tbey -remember the num- •
• her and brazenly sing it out. Court-
room 'attendants, communicate with •
us and ask our adviee.- Naturally We
respond even though the menare
perfect -strangers...Berne of them seem'
hopeless .wreeks, 'but now and then •
we dinCoVer 11. man who has good
stuff in him still and is capable of
developing into a useful' eitizet."
molt. im CA:PT. COWL
Young Borap WrneS *Beek In Slang.-
--
. When Cotemander Peary took
• George Borup, a graduate of •Yale, on
his last polar trip, he added a live
one to his party, Young Battle only
twenty-three years old, was the
laughmaker of the crew. Members of
the expedition saY that no night was
too dark for Borup fun -making.
• Since -his retan to Amerlea, Borer)
has written a book .entitled "A Teti-
•derfoot. With Peaty." He writes moat-
,ly in slang, hut his stdry is perhaps
the most interesting, popularly, that
• has ever been written of the aretic
regions; Whatever young Borup had
to do he did in a .epirit of fun.
V'or inatanee, when Commander
Peary' set hint to 'work at pecto-
•era,phy, Horup made his work doubly
eitoresting by epPlying a Writ of lite
The News-Reoord to
,n address address in Canada for
e remainder of 1911 for
cents.
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CARPSO'S COLD COSTS DEAR.
It Is Anttonded that Signor Cartise
will shortly leave for Italy, where
he hopes to benefit hy a complete
rest and change at air, the pliyalcians
having terbidded him to sing this
season. The loss 'sustained by the
great tenor through What was In the
fitet place 'regarded as an ordinary
Plight cold Is estimated at about $16,-
000, as he has been compelled to re-
frain froth' singing •for a period of
twelve weeks.
• London, tag., dock laliOrttS
Ott strike. • F
THE LAUGIIING FOUN-
'TAIN.
A Persian Story for .Canadiars Child-
• ren.
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NOVA ATIELIOTIC INACMINX.
ow laventiase he Tut Sistutstra
Tksy Rae Areend the Truk.
A *eve invention la the shatee of
an apparatus for automatically tak-
ing measurements or the work of
•tauck athletes at all potato in is race
bee just been installed on the run-
ning trecit in the Robinson Pima-
iluna, Hansel University.
The machine, which is the first of
its kind, and the inventIon of Dr.
Naismitb, director of ehridral cul-
ture, eonsists of small bamboo sticks.
'ocated *long tbe trs,ek so as to divide
the couree into quarters.
The sticks proJectsover the twit
and are touched by the breast of the
renner as be passes. The bamboos
are cOnneCted to a make -and -break
electrical machine, which transmits
the touch of the runner to a tcynto.
graph, which beide a lamebtacked
paper on whicit marks are made. A
clock is used in connection with the
kymograph for purposes ot
NEW' PARAGRAPIIS,
Electric carnets are the 10,teat ire,
vention for the heating of rooms, the
cest for one room tieing estimated at
a halfpenny an hour.
41.
At * tenet ei ilgnseet
'seote that the Palau at
Nit la slot esergitedgwasazonm,ear.....
the correet name tee tire Paritasseet.
err Houses—contaise a awed
throe*. Tide Ls pissed le ebe Imo
robing room srd li used by the• min
when he Ii putties oa bia legal gszb
before entering the Haase of Peen*
to read the "Speech from the
• Throne."
AA a Metter of fact. the (Moist
throne of these reelnus is the one et
• James., palace, that verx cesdinarr
looking building at the foot cc St.
• James' street Alt ambessadors are
accredited to title courtand, itt the
• eyea of foreign governments. it Stalede
for the MeJeatY of BritsIn. Its throne
is a very handeonie one, and stands
under a magnilicent and raost salute
caeopY.
Though the throna •et Wintimor
but little toted, it Is unique In Ona re-
spect. It is really an Eastern, throe*,
after the style of the one we read at'
in the recorde of King Solomon. for
it is composed entirely of ivory, mid
was the gift Of one of the Priem of
. -
India.
'Tile Liberal candidate was retinue&
for the Middletien division a Lan--
easuire. •
PORCELAIN roomks.
At One Time Very Fashionable Orna-
- meats.'•
The day of the, china and faience
poodle may be said to have been the
• closing years of the eighteenthcen-
tury and the twenties and*thirties of .
the last Century; a period when the
poodle Was the favorite pet animal of
the contetaporary .lady..
In the Old English china works' the
dog wasa sort of potter's standby,
says the Queen, and hardly one firm
but turned to the manufacture Of this
delightful ornament from Bow to
• Rockingham:. In size they vary from
• about six inches' downto one MO,
Commonest of poodle e are the Staf-
aordshire °examples, sitting bolt up-
right, and very much rarer are the
recumbent dogs reposing on - roe'
blue cushions. Porcelain poodles.'
were produced -at Bele but 'unlike
their' cousins. of • Rockingham. the
Bow canihes were lean and scraggy
specimens of their race, with legs
Of an almost impossible thinness.
They were modelled prior. to the year
1-.7T76h.e'•
finest poreelein poodles were
produced at the celebrated Rocking- ,
ham works, and they were manufac-
tured between the year. 1820 (or
thereabouts) and the closing of the
works in 1842—in face - during the
"Brameld period," when the factory
Was carried on by Thomas, George,
leredelick and John Wager Brameld,.
The Rockingham works. Were situated
at Swinton, near . Rotherham, Yorke
shire, on the .estate of the alarquis
of Rockinghatn., .The animals theme
selves are uearly .alwaya plain White
In color, but. sometimes their bases
or stands are of a rich royal blue en -
netted with a gilt line Oceasionally
the bases are 'ornamented with green
and gilt foliage, and still, more rarely
red decoration is to be found.
The Staffordshire faience Oodles
were intended to erne:tientthe cot-
tager's humble Mantle/twee, not the
are muebmore roughly modelled than
their Rockingham relatives, • for they
drawing room ef the lady' of fasbion,
and they were retailed at the trifling
sum of sixpence each, so that care-
ful modelling and delicate glaze were
hot to be expected. These glazed
ettrthenware doge are squat in fig-
ure, withlarge ears, bushy tails, and
a decorative note is iutroduced
the addition Of a gilt toiler with an
elaborate padloek hanging from it.
China and earthenware poodles are
• now eXtensively imitated by the uti-
serupulous German tuanufacturet, but
.bis fakes are fairly easy to detect
• These Teutonic forgeries are Cliarae-,
tented by a dead While glaze, While
the autheethic eerier nineteenth cen.
titry •examples aro coated with. a
tream white glaze, which is frequent.
• ly a good deal Crackled. ,
• Aithy was a dear little girl of six
years old. Her mamma was dead,
but her papa milled her his star, and
her old nurse Memel loved het aear-
ly, and looked after her with the ten-
derest care., • •
• Althy's papa had made for his lit-
tle ,girl a garden in which grew the
loviiest flowers in ,the ' midst of
which a tinkling fountain played. The
fountain was the great .dellght• of
Utde Althy's heart; .lts Why was
so pearl -like and the music of its
falling water sit light and happy. She
would sit for hours watching it, and
listening to her old nurse talking of
her mother in paradise. One even-
ing, when the moon hung in the sky
like a great yellow pearl and the
fotintain tirtkled even sweeter than
•usual, her nurse, who had. alto Weir
her mother's nurse, cried: "Hark, I
hear yea mother laughing,"
Althy listehed. "It is the fountain,
nurse,' said she.
"Ale yes," sighed the nurse. "It
is the fountain!"
That night Althy, weeping aridly,
awoke from sleep. •
"What is it, heart of tny heart?"
irtgeired the ease. '
"I dreamt," said AlthY, "1 dreinnt
that my mother was dead."
The nurse, •knowing not what tOt
reply, remained silent.
Through the open window could
be heard the laughing fountain.
Althy brushed away her tars.
• "Alt, no," said she. "It is not so.
I tan hear her laughing, laughing!"
Het head. dropped. She Was 'sleep.
• Dig agaia,
Angtealia has Tallest Tree.
Australia titillate to have the tallest
tree in the world. It has long been
thought that to Calitornia belongs
this distinction, but, while Calitor.
nia trees are of gigantic dimensions,
tbey da not collie ttp to Australia's
eucalyptus trees. The Califernians
are toted not so muth for their height
as for their girth And diameter. '1 he
• tallest tree in Califortia yet diacover-
• ed was found by actual theasurethent
to be 3401t high Austredilea. teteOrd
.thiM tree ean be thie be I40H.
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Sophistry ,ot it Sophist.
tertain archbishop, When sake&
woman. to Misstate her age, teplied:
"A lie May be defined as a state.
mint made by one rational being •to
another rational being, with' the, in -
tea to decerve. rittow, as no rational'
being would think of asking a: WOnifee
her age with the expectation (it beisigg
Answered truthfully, .. one tthe .
eleMenta of the lie IS lite,king,and the,
'weetan's statement „paw:tot, strictly
ba defined *netts
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