Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — Page 2

THE HERO OF THE KAZAN.

An Interesting Story of the Mexican War. BeUMUrkante Brnvnry anil Self-S»«rHl<*e of Pollard J. Brawn, Still Living Near Kokoino, lad., at the Ago «r Seventy-Three. Cincinnati Commercial Guttle. In Howard County, Ind., not far from Kokomo, lives an unostentatious citizen named Brown,on q well-aultivated farm and in a brick mansion made mostly with his own hands shortly before the late war. His full name is Pollard J. Brown, but he'is known far and near as. “Pap” Brown. His hprse, “Bob,” a dirly-colored clay bank, is as extensively known as himself and fully as popular, being a.great attraction at county fairs and soldiers’ reunions because of having borne his master through four years of the rebellion as a member of .the Third Indiana Cavalry. Both horse and master participated in many hard-fought conflicts while with the Army of the Potomac and both were wonnded twice with shot and shell. Although Stillwell preserved at the age of seventy-three years, Mr. Brown’s life has not been without adventure and hardship. lie was a soldier in the Mexican war, hewing a member of Company F, First Indiana Regiment, recruited at Lafayette in 1846. His Captain was John M. Wilson. The corfl-. and was hurried to the scene of hostilities on steamboats by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. At New Orleans they were divided, part going oh hoard a ship and the rest on the barque Kazan, among the latter being the company commanded by Captain Allen May, of Crawfordsville, and the company to which the hero of this story belonged. They sailed at once, and at firet enjoyed fine weather, but the second or third day out a storm of the most terrificebaraeter arose. Itblew for about two days, much of the time with great severity. The point of destination was the month of the Rio Grande River, but th* captain lost his reckoning, and the vessel went out of her course, being deflected twenty miles or more to the northwest. -

Many of the men had become sea-sick before the storm, and when this came it added to their misery. Very few had ever been on water before, so that the tempest none waves, which seemed to roll “mountain high.” wrought great terror.among them. When night came the moßt of them were in a pitiable state, bodily and mentally. Rome engaged in prayer, some resigned themselves helplessly to their fate, having yielded utterly to despair, while others appealed to the officers of the ship to save them. Bat there were some who were more self-reliant. Captain Delano R. Eckels, now Judge Eckels, of Greencastle, in charge of the commissary department, was active in trying to prevent the destruction of his stores by the tossing of the vessel, and found his time so fully occupied in this manner that he could give but little attention to other matters. The officers and sailors did their utmost to keep the ship on her proper course, and to keep her in shape to weather the the storm, but without avail. About two liours before daylight the cry of “Rocks! rocks!" was heard from the lookout, and a few minutes afterward, almost before they could realise what.had happened, they were, hard aground on Padre Island. The ship Struck very bard. Etch succeeding wave would lift her up and she would come down with such force that it seemed the bottom would be crushed in. The scene on board had by this time beoorag indescribable, and there were few who did not think that their last hour had come. Shortly after daylight the mainmast broke at the bulkhead, and in falling injured a number of the men. The sailors managed with much difficulty to cat it away, and it went overboard. Land could be seen about two hundred yards distant. The shore was a gentle slope of sand, op which the waves ran for fully three hundred yards, the return making immense breakers fully fifty feet high. The wind was from the northeast, aarrving the vessel almost parallel with the island, but bearing somewhat against it. Ahead, about one-half mile, could be seen Lost Child's Island, a reef of rocks over which the water was breaking so as to make immense white-caps, causing it jto assume much the appearance of a snow drift. It seemed that nothing could prevent the vessel going upon these rocks, and that all would be lost. By this time the | alarm and confusion on board had greatly increased. Captain Allen May. who weighed over two hundred pounds and was religiously inclined, made more fuss than anybody else by his loud praying. dHe had also greatly bothered the commander of the vesselprevions to this by his suggestions. While he and others prayed, there were others who swore. Many broke open the casks of liquor in the hold and got drunk. Peter Davenport, of Company T,sat on the bowsprit and shouted to a comrade between drinks, “Come on. Lem; let’s go to 'h—l merry!” Lem joined him with Borne difficulty, and they continued their merry making. At this time the water had not broken over the vessel, 3wing to the lact she had been kept moving before the wind. As soon as the Captain could see his

way he ordered thq first mate to man the long boat, the only boat left, with eight men, and take a nawser ashore. That officer complied promptly, and was soon in the boat with his men, with the hawser fastened to the stern. When he reached the surf it threw him back, alarming him so that lie cried out: the hawser go! Pull for your lives and let the ship go to h— 1!” This they did. and they were through toe surf and safely on shore. By this time many of the men on the' )iip were crying like children. Lieutenant Colonel Henry S. Lane, afterward Senator, was on board, sick. He came to the door of his cabin looking very pale—almost jieath-like. The Captain cried: “No man will he saved if the wind carries us on to Lost Child’s Island.” The ship had been constantly drifting and the rocks were dangerously near. At this time Brown was standing, on the shore side of the ship, beside one of His company officers, eodlly observing what was transpiring. The conduct of the mate excited his indignation and when he heard the words of the Captain he said: “Lieutenant, I ant going to leave you; lam going ashore.” Before the Lieutenant could comprehend what he meant he had slipped oti his outer clothing and sprang into the water. The Captain saw him, and as he- rose to the .surface called out: “My brave fellow, can’t Ton carry a rone with vou?”

“I don’t, think I can,” was the answer Captain May then shouted: “tor the Lord's sake trv!” “Throw it to me,” came back from Brown. No time was lost in throwing him a line, which he dextroimly caught and wound around his shoulders, putting the end in his month and gripping it with his teeth. He then,struck'out for the shore, while those on the ship watched his progress with the keenest anxiety, for they all felt that upon him their lives depended. Carefully the rope was paid out to him as he went. With nothing to sustain it hut his slight body and strength, it soon became very heavy, and dragged him down with a force that he could scarcely overcome. He made his way sLowly and laboriously, being under the water fully one-half of the time. Sometimes he was submerged so long as to he almost unable to Tegain his breath, and his strength was becoming exliausted. Resting and re-: covering himsell as best he could on tile surface of the water, he would again push ahead, continuing his progress, also, while under the water. Daring this time the ship was being carried away from him by a slight change in the wind, retarding him and adding greatly to his burden. The waves carried him forward and back in the breakers, and several times hope almost left him; hut at last his wonderful determination and (treat skill as a swimmer carried him through. The mate and his men, who had gone ashore in the longboat, bad witnessed all that was going pn, and they kept opposite to Brown as they saw him approach the shore. Holding to each other’s hands they formed a kind of chain, and while one stood fast on the sand the rest swam out in the water until they could reach Brown, when they seized him and brought him ashore. Although he was almost dead, being scarcely able to breathe and not able to stand, he still clung to his rope. A large tree, previously washed ashore by the waves, was imbedded in the sand near by, and to this the rope was quickly fastened. The mate and a part of his men ran up the beach and brought down the longboat. Four or five ot them then pulled out to the ship bv the line and brought off the hawser, which was also fastened to the tree." This brought the ship to so suddenly that almost instantly the water and sand went dashing over her, for. though the wind was abating by this time, the sea was still very high.

In two or three hours the men aboard, three hundred in number, were brought off, all greatly rejoiced at an escape, which a few hours before had seemed impossible. They recognized Brown as their deliverer, and were profuse in their promises of reward, which’ they must have afterward forgotten, for he j never realized anything but thanks from his exploit, which was one of the most unselfish and heroic actions on record. Tire only man hurt in the transfer was an Irishman, who lost a part of his scalp in a fall. A tent was pitched for Colonel Lane on the island, and he was made as comfortable as possible. Brown was on his feet again j by this time. Colonel Lane sent for i him, and after thanking him on behalf of the soldiers and sailors, said: “I have been a member of Congress, and I think I have some influence.. If we live-to get home I will see that the Government does something to reward you.” Whether he ever made the effort or not ismot kfiown; out many years afterward he offered to deed Brown a house and j lot in Crawfordsville in recognition of his services. This offer, like all others, was declined with thanks, our hero claiming that he had! only done his duty, and cbdriT feel like taking pay for it. After the storm went down the ship was left a total wreck, high and dry upon the shore. Papers were drawn up showing that the loss was thiough no -fault of her commander: t ais the artny officers signed. The stores aboard were

then removed. All this required about twenty-four hours. The command was then ready to march for the mainland, which they managed to reach hy wading through the intervening water when the tide wap out. and then proceeded down the beach, a distanae of twenty miles, to the Rio Grande, where they found Major Ogden in command, and relieved the regiment there, allowing it to proceed to the frorit. , Here is a bit of history relating £o Jeff Davis that has never been told, and which shows that he has always been of a rebellions disposition against legitimate autnority. The rule had been established for each regiment arrivfng to relieve the preceding one. Every officer had observed this until Davis came He refused to do so or to obev tlie order of the commanding officer to relieve the First Indiana, hut pushed on to join General 'tavlor, who was his father-in-law. Major Ogden tried to compel him to remain, and went so far as to refuse him transportation. It was a fit subject for a court martial, but the matter was never pushed to that ex tremity. When Brown eniisted in the late war he was told that he Could have a commission; hut he answered that he did not want an office; that he had built' ;a good home for his wife arid children and provided them with plenty of provisions to last until the war was over, and that all he wanted now was to serve as a private until the rebellion was put down, if it took five years.

- Union Spy of the Shenandoah. Pardew Warsley, as was announced in our news columns, died recently at Foster Brook, N. Y. He was the “Spy of the Shenandoah” and his war career is interesting: At the opening of the war of the rebellion he raised a company of the Fourteenth _ Massachusetts heavy artillery. He was soon after employed by Major General B. F. Butler, in the name of the United States, to go into the British provinces and look into the Bystem of the blockade running in vogue. He was successful in this mission, for Major General C. C. Augur, in his report of August 1566, says that it was through the instrumentality of Mr. Warsley that the extensive eystenr of blockade running from Baltimore and Washington Was broken up. After returning from this trip, Warsley went out as a spy on Mosby under orders from General Augur, although not until he had returned to Boston and married Helen Isabelle Francis, who survives him. Accompanied by his young wffe, Warsley set out ostensibly upon a peddling trip through Virginia. His real oDject was soon suspected by Mosby, and a spy was placed upon his track. The spy was a handsome y«ang lady, who was to becouducted to Washington by Warsley. The Union spy was too smart to be caught, and instead of using his pass through the union lines, he conducted the lady through swamps and by-roads until she became disgusted with the trip, and she returned to Mosby, convinced of the loy.alty of Warsley. Mosby was not convinced, and at one time placed a pistol to Warsley's head, threatening to blow his brains out. Tne young lady inter sered and V arslev’s life was saved. Afterward Mosby became his firm friend, fighting a duel with a nephew of General Lee because Lieutenant Lee had set a guard upon Wasrley and had condemned him as a spy. On two occasions Warsley furnished information by which the Federal troops were enabled to surround the house in which Mosby was quartered, but the dashirig rebel cut his way out and escaped. On several occasions Warsely got information es his intended raidsupon Washington in time to allow the authorities to mass their forces and save the capital. At the time of the assassination of President Lincoln Warsley was given command of a squad of detectives. When Booth wss killed Warsley returned to private life, and for ten years ran a park restaurant in the Bradford oil fields.

Worth Knowing Gas was adopted in Boston, as a means of illumination, in 1822. I That a man can often conquer, if he will, but nevei if he wont. The district of Mfcine was separated from Massac husertsiu 1819.' The Rutland (Yt.) marble quarries give employment to 3,000 men. One day in the last of June 120 clergymen sailed from New York to Europe. The pillory was used/for the last time) in Bos ton on the 22d of November, 1801. In 1797 the manufacture of straw braid for hats was originated in Dedham, Mass. i France has an agricultural school with a farm of 400 acres for girls. It has about 300 pupils. The census oi ISSO shows that there are 1,966,742 German born citizens in the United States to 1,854,571 Irish born. - A manufactory for sheet copper was started in Massachusetts in 1802, the first one of the kind in the United States. About 1820 portable, and so called fire proof, safes were infioffucSd for sale into New York. They were imported' from France. The people of the United States eaU about 500,000 cans of French sardines every year, and about- 6,000,600 tins of Maine herring.

GEO. J. LANGSDALE.

CONCERNING BIGOTRY.

A Weakness Among Christians That Should Never Exist. The Origin of Mect:iriaul*m, It* Evils and It* Cnre*-Imperfect Education of tlie Home Circle Tend* to Aggravation, and Intolerance Will Never Succeed lu Hooting OutWickedne**.Rev. Dr. Taimage preached at “The Hamptons” last,Sunday. Subject “Concerning the Bigots.'” Text: Judges xii , 6: He said: > The Church cf‘G?d i: divided intc a great many denominations. Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Armenians, and the Sabbatarians, and the Baxterians, and the Dunkerß, and the Shakers, and the Quakers,' and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Congregationalists, and the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists.and ascoie of other denominations of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, and soqie of them founded by very bad men.» Bilt as I demand for myself liberty of conscience, I must give that same liberty to every other man,remembering that he no more differs from me than I from him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in politics, in morals and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecution, no intolerance. You know that the air and water keep pnre hy constant circulation, and I think there is a tendency" in religious discussion to purification and moral health. Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries the Church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discussion, and by strong censorship of the press, arid, by rack and gibbet and hot lead down the throat, tried to make people orthodox; but it was discovered that you can not change a man’s belief by twisting off his head,and thaCvou can not make a man see things differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man’s conscience which will hurl off the mountain which you threw 1 upon it,and, unsinged of the fire, out of the flame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. ’ln that time of which I speak, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries, people went from the house of God into the most appalling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such as the world never heard of, and the verv sewers of perdition broke loose and flooded the Church. After awhile the printing press was freed, and ’t broke the shackles of the human mind. Then there came a large number of bad books, but where there was one man hostile to the Christian religion there were twenty men ready to advocate it; so I have not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between Truth and Error. The Truth will conquer just as certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let Error run if you only let Truth run along with it. Urged on by skeptic’s shout and transcendentaFist’s spur, let it run. God’s angeis of wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle’s beak clutches out a hawk’s heart God’s vengeance will tear it to pieces. I propose this morqing to speak to you of sectarianism —its origin, its evils, and its cures. There are those who would make us think that this monster, with horns and hoofs, is religion. I shall chase it to its hidingplace, and rip off his hide. But I want to make a distinction between bigotry and the lawful fondness for peculiar religious beliefs” and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian. —i v In a world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a soul that must after a while stand before a throne of insufferable brightness in a day when the rocking of the mountains and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the sea shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference and dislike—that man is mad who has no religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, our mental constitution, will very much decide our form of worship. A style of psalmody that may displease you. Some would like to have and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen’s apparel. Some are most impressed when a little child is presented at the alter and sprinkled of the waters of a holy benediction “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy •host;” and others are more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism which signifies the washing away of sin. Let either have his own way. One man likes no noise in prayer, not a word nor a whisper. Another man just as good, prefers by gesticulation and exclamation to express bis devotional aspirations. One is just as good as the other.

1. In tracing out the religion of sectarianism, or bigotry, I find that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the home circle. There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar form of religion in the world, and denounce other sects and other denominations. It is very often the case that that kind of education acts just opposite to what was expected, and the children grow up, and, after awhile, jo and see for themselves, and finding that the people are good there, and they love God and keep His commandments, by natural reaction they go there and join those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of the gospel whose parents spent their whole lives bombarding other denominations,and who lived to see the r children preach tue gospel in those very denominations. But it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household,and that the subject of it never recovers. There are tenß ot thousands of bigots ten years oifl. I think sectarianism and bigotry also arise from too great prominence ot any 6ne denomination in a community. All the other denominations are wrong, and iris denomination is right because his denomination is the most wealty, or the most popular, or the most influential, and-it is “our” Church, and “our” religious organization, and “our” choir, and “our” minister, and the man tosses his hea 1 and wants other denominations to know their places. It is a great deal better in any community when the great denominations of Christians are about equal in power, marching side by side for the world's conquest. Mere

( outside prosperity, mere wordlv power/ is np evidence that the church is acceptable to God. Better a bam with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies rolling through the long-drawn aisle, and an angel from heaven in the pulpit, if there he no Christ in the chancel/and no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. Yon seldom find a man with a large intellect yrho is a bigot. It is the man who thinks he knows a great deal, but does not. That man is almost always d bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. . Look out for the man who sees only one side of a religious truth. Look out for the man who never walks, around about these great theories of God and eternity and the dead. He will bb a bigot ipevitably—the man who only sees one side. There is no man more to be pitied than he who has in his head just one idea—no more, no less. More i light, less sectarianism. There is nothI ing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine —God’s sunshine. 2. So Jhave set before you what I consider to be the causes of bigotry. I have set before you the origin of this great evil. What are some of the baleful effects? First of all, it cripples investigation. a Francis I. so hated the Lutherans that he said if he thought there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let them drop out. Just as long as there is so niuch, hostility between denomination and denomination, or between one professed Christian and another,or between one Church and another, just so long men will be disgusted with the Christian religion, and sqy. “If that is religion,l want none of it.” Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great damage in the fact that they hinder the triumph of the Gospel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition. How many men of splendid intellect have given their whole life to controversial disputes, when, if they had given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly useful. I sometimes see in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thiDg going on —church against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomination, firing away into their own fort, or the fort which ought to be on the same side, instead of concentrating their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness riding up through the bay. Igo out sometimes in the summer, and I find two bee-hives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be’stung, but I coaae just near enough to hear the controversy, and one bee-hive says, “That field of clover is the sweetest.” and another beehive says, “That field of clover is the sweetest.” I come in between them, and 1 say. “Stop this quarrel: if you like that field of clover best, go there; if-you like that field of clover best, go there; but let-me tell you that hive which gets the most honey is the best hive.” So I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of Christians say “That field of Christian doctrine, is beet and an another says, “This field of Christian doctrine is best.” Well, I say, “Go where you get the most honey.” That is the best church which gets the most honey of Christian g race for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if you want to build up thy denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down. Intolerance never put anything down. How much has intolerance accomplished, for instance, against the Methodist Church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pulpit of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the fields? Simply because they could not get into the churches. And the name of the Church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The critics of the Church said, “They have no order, they have no method in their worship:” and the critics, therefore, in irony called them “Methodists.” lam told that in Aslor Library, New York, kept as curiosities, there are 707 books and pamphlets against Methodism. Did intolerance stop that Church? No; it is either first or second amid the denominations of Christendom, her missionary stations in all parts" of the world, her men not only important in religious trusts, hut important also in secular trusts. Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it the faster it marched. What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist Church? If laughing scorn and tirade could have destroyed the Church would not to-day have a disciple left. The Baptists were hurled out of Boston ip olden times. Those who sympathized with them were confined, and when a petition was offered asking leniency in their behalf, all the men Who signed it were indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Baptist Church?' The last statistics in regard to it showed about *O,OOO Churches and two and a half million communicants. Intolerance never put down anything. But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you how we aro going to war against this terrible evil, and I think we want to begin our war in realizing our own weakness and our imperfections. If we make so many mistakes in the common affairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes in regard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat, or by the collar, because he cannot see religious truths just as we do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I think, there was something wrong in all oar creeds, and something right in all oar creeds. Bat since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world, do not let us be egotistic and so puffed? up as to have an idea that we can not make any mistakes in regard to religious theories. And then I think we will do a great deal to overthrow the sectarianism from our heart, and the sectarianism from the world, by chiefly enlarging upon those things in which we agree rather than those on which we differ. I think wp.rpay overthrow the severe sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts, and in the church also, by realizing that all the demoninations of Christians have yielded noble institutions and noble men. There is nothing that so etire my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adonirain Judson; another yielded a Latimer

and a Melville; another yielded John Wesley and the blessed Summerfield, while our own denomination vielded John Knox atjd the Alexanders—men of whom the world was not worthy. Now, I say, if we are honest and fairminded men, when we come up in the presence of such churches and such, denominations, although they may be diffeient from our own, we ought to admije them, and we ought to love ana honor them. Churches which can produce such men, and such large-hearted charity .and such magnificent martyrdom, ought to win our affection—at any rate, our reapect. '" So come on, ve four hundred thousand Episcopalians in tLis country, and ye eight hundred thousand Presbyterians, and ye two and a half million Baptists, and ye nearly three and threequarter million Methodists—come on, shoulder to shoulder we will march for the world’s conquest, for all nations are to be saved, and God demands that you and I help do it. Forward the whole line. Moreover, we also overthrow ths feeling of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniversary occasions begin, and all denominations come upon the same ?latform. That overthrows sectarianism, n the Young Men’s Christian Association, in the Bible Society, in the Tract Society, in the Foreign Missionary Society, shoulder to shoulder, all denominations. * I expect to see the day when all denominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of Christ and recite the creed: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the communion of Saints and in the "life everlasting.” May God inspire us all with the ' largest-hearted Christian charity!

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. The manufacture of school slates, the first of the kind in the United States, was established in 1826 in Pennsylvania. The plumbers and # steam-fitters all over the "West are forming a national union. The membership will be about 20,000. The numbsr of persons who struck during the first week of August was 10,500, while during all of August, 1886, only 18,200 struck. There are now 100,000 children under fourteen years of age employed, contrary to law, in the factories and workshops of New York. The Hatters’ Union, which has been in existence for forty years is now national trade district assembly No. 128, of the Knights of Labor. The Massachusetts State Board of Arbitration decided that three hundred Beverly lasters who threw 2,360 other shoemakers out of work had no case. Brown, Bonnell k Co., at Youngstown, have acceded to the demands of the Amalgamated Association regarding the two-job rule, and work will be resumed to-day. This practically ends the 6trike, as the operators of only two mills are standing out. When Isaac Cline, one of the truest labor reformers in Pittsburg, took the train for his new home in Kansas, not a soul was there to see him off. Had he devoted the same 26 years to his own benefit no doubt he would have been a prosperous employer. There is a wonderful development in the Lake Superior iron ore regions. A syndicate with $25,000 has been formed, and a number of powerful crafts will be built, and the facilities for mining and? transporting ore greatly improved. In the new Gogebic range there are sixty mines. The London Chamber of Commerce thinks the evil of a lack of technical education has became so pronounced as to call earnest attention to it. A bill has been introduced into Parliament to provide means for an extension of technical education facilities. The present means are found to be far behind continental facilities, and in consequence the manufacturing interests of the continent are scoring advantages in colonial markets over Great Britain. A much larger number of workmen than usual are taking a vacation wheth-' er allowed or not. In many cities vacation clubs have been informally organized, qnd the workmen depart in squads, the most of them to seek rural or fishing haunts. This custom will grow rapidly, and in a few years the vacation will become an institution among liluerican workmen, just as camp-meetings now are. There is a, growing sentiment against continuous summer labor. The demand for labor is great, and in numerous branches the supply is far short of the dbmand. Wages are high, and efforts are made by employers to reduce them: The great anxiety now is to have enough men to fill incoming and anticipated orders.

Baby Louise.

Detroit Free Press. A lady living in Detroit was called suddenly to Adrian, Mich., to wait on a sick relative, leaving her own little family at home. Before she could return her little child was taken ill, but as it had good care and a faithful doctor, the mother remained in Adrian, telephoning every few hours to know how “Baby Louise” was. At last in response to the mother’s question, a sick voice at the other end of the telephone feebly answered: “Me better, mamma; baby ’Ouise all yite now.” Baby’s home-sick mother took the next train for Detroit. Alarmed Pedestrian (picking up a painter at the foot of a ladder)—My poor Hiaßy are you hurt much? Painter —Only three ribs broken. But I went down with colors flying, didn’t I?