The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 June 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. Does the -weather chief still claim to be a better prophet than the groundhog? Paper money may be made smaller, In which case it will be just as hard to get. There is nothing nicer after all than the seen but not heard style of bathing suit. __ The size of the hatpin may be reduced, but the size of the hat will continue to develop. A New Jersey -woman married a man because be pestered her. That was why she divorced him, too. A Brussels surgeon wants $20,000 for an operation on King Leopold. Considering the results, is It worth the money. The United States of South Africa has just been born. It will take time, but the United States of the World Is bound to come. ’ When a man announces that he Is ready for a political fight, he means that he is prepared to make a scramble for a political job. , Launching of the battleship Florida calls attention to the fact that International peace is becoming more expensively armed all the time. The oyster recently found with, 54 pearls In its internal department teems to be In a higher class than the one which contains one million typhoid germs. "~j ' i A New Jersey woman wants a divorce because her husband stutters. And yet, when he proposed, she probably regarded' him as a charming conversationalist “Come on .to the Grass” signs have been placed in certain of the New York City parks—an innovation which fills the hearts of the children with joy. It is a pity that such signs are notmore common. Anna Held announces that If her husband wants a divorce he may have one without any opposition on her part. She Is alleged, also, to have declared Ln favor of experimental marriages. Nearly all marriages seem to be experimental ilowadays. A New York judge defends his acceptance of a free home telephone on the ground that, so far from being a private convenience, it Is a personal nuisance. But suppose the judge had a bill for It coming in every month, with a fine for non-payment before the tenth? Edison’s clerkless store, where the customer may, by dropping a coin In a slot, get what he wants done up in a neat package, will never be a success until he invents a return slot In which she may deposit the purchase to be exchanged for something else just a shade lighter or darker. German paper-makers are experimenting with various fiber plants In the hope of finding a material sufficiently cheap for use in supplying the constantly increasing demand. Sisal hemp, wild glasses, palm-leaves, Spanish broom, banana fiber and cottonbolls are among the substances tested. .The United States government Is engaged in similar experiments. If some substitute for wood pulp can be found *’ the forests will be allowed to stand a little longer. Occasionally, although not usually, a parrot is talkative at the right time. It was only by the opportune loquacity of her pet parrot that an Italian woman was saved from deportation recently at the New York Immigration station. She was unable to speak English, and was trying to convince the inspectors that she was returning to America after a visit to Italy, when the parrot broke loose with a volley of slang phrases which could never have been learned in any other land than this. France, like Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and Denmark, has adopted an old-age pension system. Great Britain and Denmark have the noncontributory system—that is, the beneficiaries pay nothing to the insurance fund, but the government does it all. This is condemned by its critics as a system of mere largess which Xs fraught with evils and dangers. cost In Great Britain is from $40,000,000 to $45,000,000 a year. France has adopted the contributory system, much after the German plan. Belgium has both systems, offering a much larger pension to" the contributing classes. The contributory system, which not only removes the fear of a destitute Old age, but also encourages thrift, is In effect a form of compulsory Insurance for the millions engaged in all kinds of gainful occupations, although for some classes, notably the farming class, it is optional rather than compulsory. Employers and workmen contribute equally in Germany' and France, and the government adds a third share to the total fund. In most cases the qualifying age is 70, except Denmark, where it is 60. On the theory that everything that fl done is done to the exclusion of something' else, W. C. Gannett discusses in Unity “the abdication of the

natural parent,” and the “furious cul-. tivtftion” of fads of “child study,”, "child science,” "child legislation,”) and “child welfare” in general. Because we have child conferences, and because there is a bill in Congress to create a children’s bureau in the Fed-; eral Government, he seems to have jumped to the conclusion that the natural parent has quit, or, as he imto it; abdicated. Following the analogies which he himself invites, it would not be difficult to show that Mr. Gannett is wrong. For instance, because we have Industrial conferences and conservation congresses, it does not follow that every individual is not paying the same or Increased attention to his own business, and to the care of his own property. Conventions of insurance men do not mean less, but more, study of insurance. Congresses of millers, manufacturers, laundrymen or barbers mean not less, but more, study of the business represented. They mean simply that, while each man has his own ways of doing business, he can see that he would gain rather than lose by sharing some of his Information with the others. The child movement Is probably due more to society’s enlarged and Improved idea of the value of the child than to a waning Interest In the child in the home. Society formerly took children as they were developed by time into men and women. It accepted them as they came to it, of age. Today society looks back a stretch of years at the child who has not come out, and wonders whether there is not something it can do to bring him out stronger and better. It has learned through the patient Investigations of a few that a number of things which it supposed he was getting were not his. It has stepped iu to give him those things, sometimes directly, more often by stimulating parents to get them for him. This is almost the entire explanation of the child movement, which so amuses some and annoys others, but which holds an unwaning charm for those who are interested in it. The one-half of the world is beginning to be interested In how the other half lives. lye fimcr Vacgine Treatment of Colds. In a former article was explained the theory of the newly discovered opsonic or vaccine treatment of Infectious diseases, and It was shown how the Remedy is obtained from the patient himself. It was then stated that although in some cases a “stock vaccine” could be used, applicable to all cases of a certain disease, better results are usually obtained if the vaccine is prepared fresh fpr each • case from the special strain of bacteria in the patient’s own body. This is especially necessary In the treatment of colds and of the tendency thereto, for it has been found that the symptoms of an acute cold or of chronic catarrh are caused by several different species of bacteria, and the vaccine good for one kind is of little or no efficacy in the others. The only way to find out which bacteria are at work Is to make a culture from the patient’s own nasal or throat secretions, and when this js obtained It can be used as the proper vaccine. The usual form of. — croupous or lobar pneumonia—is generally caused by a specific germ, and a stock vaccine may be used if necessary, but it is better to use the patient’s own bacteria even Etere, for there are usually certain peculiarities in each case. The treatment of pneumonia In this way is very recent, but the few cases that have been reported have been so successful as to give hope that eventually the disease will be conquered by this means. In regard to colds and catarrhs, the matter is not so simple. It has been found that no less than six distinct forms of bacteria may produce an acute or chronic catarrh. There is one that has a preference for the nose, an•other for the back of the throat, and still another for the bronchial tubes; but no one of them has a monopoly of any region, and sometimes a number of them are working together in the same case in perfect harmony. In the treatment of a cold, therefore, one must first ascertain what bacteria are at fault, and whether one or several kinds. Then the corresponding stock vaccine, or a combination of several, Is given so as to lose no time while a new vaccine made from the patient’s own germs is being prepared. Not only has It been found possible to cut short acute colds, and benefit or cure chronic catarrhs, but It seems probable that permanent Immunity may be secured by an opsonic Injection, given every six months. All this is tentative, however, and although the method promises much, It is still too early to speak with confidence of future results. —Youth’s Companion. More Scandal. Mrs. Simmonds glanced at the scare headline, “Bank Robbed! Police at Sea!” and laid down the sheet. “Naow, look at that, Ez!" she ejaculated, repeating the headline aloud. "Here’s a big city bank broke Into by burglars, and the city police force all off flshln' somewhere! What a scandal 1" How far can you get from home be fore you become a stranger?

Zelda Damero: - By MEREDITH NICHOLSON Copyright, 1904, by The Bobbs-Merrill Co.

CHAPTER IV. The law offices of Knight, Kittredge & Carr were tucked away in the rear of an old building that stood at the apex of a triangle. The firm had been tenants of the same rooms for many years. There was a battered tin sign at the entrance, but ifb inscription could be read only by. persons who remembered it from bygone days. Knight and Kittredge had been prominent in State politics during and immediately following the Civil War. They were dead now, but Carr, who had left politics to his partners, survived, and he had changed nothing in the offices. In the old days it had been the Custom of the members of the firm of Knight, Kittredge & Carr to assemble every morning at 8 o’clock in the library for a brief discussion of the news of the day, or for a review of the work that lay • before .them. The young men who were fortunate |nough to be tolerated in the offices had always enjoyed these discussions immensely, for Governor Kittredge and Senator Knight had known men and manners as well as the law; and Michael Carr knew Plato and the Greek and Latin poets as he knew the way borne. These morning conferences were still continued in Morris Leighton’s day, though Knight and Kittredge had long been gone. It might be a topic from the day’s news that received attention, or some new book —Michael Carr was a persistent novel reader —or it might be even a bit of social gossip that was discussed. Mr. Carr was a man of deliberate habits, and when he set apart this half-hour for a talk with his young men, as he called them, it made no difference that the president bf a great railway cooled his heels in the outer office while the Latin poets were discussed in the library, or that other dignified Caucasians Waited while negro suffrage was debated. Ezra Dameron was waiting for him this morning, for it was the first of October; and on the first of every month Ezra Dameron went to the offices to discuss his personal affairs. He was of an economical turn, and he made it a point to combine as many questions as possible in a single consultation. His relations with the offices were of long standing and dated back to a day when Knight, Kittredge & Carr were a new firm and Ezra Dameron was a young merchant whom people respected, and whose prospects in life were bright. While Ezra Dameron waited for Michael Carr, Rodney Mferriam was walking slowly from his house in Seminary i Square down High street to Jefferson, swinging his stick, and gravely returni ing the salutations of friends and ac- ' quair tances. He came presently 'to the offices of Knight, Kittredge & Carr, i He stepped into ”the reception-room ‘ and found it empty. The door into the 1 library' was closed but he could hear I Carr’s voice: and he knew that the lawyer was holding ode of those morning talks with his clerks and students that Morris Leighton had often described. He looked about with interest and then crossed the hall. The doors of three private offices were closed, but he turned the knob of the one marked in small black letters “Mr. Carr,’.’ and went in. Ezra Dameron was still looking out of the window when the door was filing open. He supposed Carr had come, and having been gazing out into the sunny court, his sight did not accommodate itself at once to the dim light of the little room. “Ah, Mr. Carr—” he began. “Good-morning, Ezra,” said Rodney Merriam, blandly. Dameron knew the voice before he recognized his brother-in-law, and after a second’s hesitation he advanced with a great air of cordiality. “Why, Rodney, what brings you into the haunts of the law? .1 thought you were a man who never got into trouble. I’m waiting for Mr. Carr. I have a standing appointment with him this same day every month —excepting Sundays, of course.” “So I have understood. I don’t want to see Mr. Carr, however; I want to see you.” Dameron glanced at his brother-in-law anxiously. He had believed Merriam’s appearance to be purely accidental, and he was not agreeably disappointed to find that he had been mistaken. He looked at the little clock on Carr’s desk, and was relieved to find that the lawyer would undoubtedly appeiir in a few minutes. “I should be glad, at any other time, [Rodney, but Mr. Carr is very particular about his appointments.” “I have heard so, Ezra. What I have to say to you will not interfere with your engagement w-ith Mr. Carr. As near as I can remember, it has been ten years since I enjoyed a conversation With you.” “Better let the old times go—l—l—am willing to let them go, Rodney.” “And on that last occasion, if my memory serve me, I believe I told you that you were an infernal scoundrel.” “You were very violent, very unjust; but let it all go, Rodney. I treasure no unkind feelings.” “It would be a source of real annoyance to me to have you think for a moment that I have changed my mind. I Want to haVe a word with you about Zelda. She has chosen to go to live with you ” “Very loyal, very noble of her. I’m sure I appreciate it” “I hope you do. She doesn’t understand what a contemptible hound you are, and I don’t intend to tell her. And you may be quite sure that her. Aunt Julia will never tell her how you treated her mother —how you made her life a curse to her. I don’t want you to think that because I have., let you alone these ten years I have forgotten or forgiven you. I wouldn’t trust you to do anything that demanded the lowest sense of honor or manhood.” There was no sign of anger or even resentment in Ezra’s face. His inevit-

able smile died away in a sickly grin, but he said nothing. ° “With this little preface I think you will understand, that what I have sought you out for is not to ask favors but to give orders, in view of Zee’s return.” “But, Rodney, Rodney—that matter needs no discussion. I shall hope to make my daughter happy in her father’s house —I am her natural protector ” “You are, indeed; but a few instructions from me will be of great assistance, Ezra. To begin with, I want you to understand that the first time I hear you have mistreated that girl or in any way made her uncomfortable I shall horsewhip you in front of the postoffice. The second time I shall cowhide you in your own house, and the third offense I shall punish either by shooting you or taking you out and dropping you into the river, I haven’t decided which. I expect you to provide generously for her out y of the money her mother left her. If you haven’t squandered it there ought to be a goodly sum by this time.” “I fear she has acquired expensive tastes abroad. Julia always spent money wastefully.” “You ugly hypocrite, talking about expensive tastes! I suppose you have let everybody you know, imagine that it has been your money that has kept Zee abroad. It’s like you, and you’re certainly a consistent beast. As I was saying, I mean that you shall treat her well, not according to your own ideas, but mine. I want you to brace up and try to act or look like a white man. You’ve got to keep enough servants in that old shell of yours to take care of it. You must be immensely rich by this time. You haven’t spent any money for twenty years; and you’ve undoubtedly profited well in your handling of what Margaret left Zee. That was likte Margaret,'to make you trustee of her child’s property, after the dog’s life you had led her! You may be spre that it wasn’t because she had any confidence in you, but because she had borne with you bravely, and it was like her to make an outward show of respect for you from the grave. And I suppose she hoped you might be a man at last for the girl’s sake. The girl’s her mother over again; she’s a thoroughbred. And you —I suppose God tolerates you on earth merely to make Heaven mote attractive.” Merriam at no time raised his voice; the Merriams were a low-spoken family; and when Rodney Merriam was quietest he was most dangerous. Voices could be heard now across the hall. The morning conference was at an end; and Mic Kiel Carr crossed to his room at twenTy-five minutes before nine, and opened the door in the full knowledge that Ezra Dameron was waiting for him. Many strange things had happened in the offices of Knight, Kittredge & Carr; but Michael Carr had long ago formed the habit of seeing everything and saying nothing. “Good morning, gentlemen,” he said, affably, and shook hands with both men. •“I have just been warning Ezra against overwork,” said Merriam, composedly. “At Ezra’s age a man ought to check himself; he ought to let other people use the hammer and drive the, nails.” “Rodney always had his little joke,” said Dameron, and laughed • a dry laugh that showed his teeth in his very unpleasant smile. Merriam wished both gentlemen a satisfactory disposition of their business. It was, of course, a perfectly natural thing for him to drop into a law office on a pleasant October morning and, meeting there a connection of his family, hold converse with him on matters of common interest. . Michael Carr was not, however, a dull man. and he understood perfectly that Rodney Merriam had decided to resume diplomatic relations with Ezra Dameron; and he rightly guessed the reason to be the .return of Margaret Dameron’s daughter .to her father’s house. Merriam found Morris Leighton at work in the library. The young man threw down his book in surprise as the old gentleman darkened the door. “The date shall be printed in red ink on the office wall! I never expected to see you here!” “It may never happen again, my boy. Is this all you have to do, read books? I sometimes wish I had been a lawyer. Nothing'to do but read and write; it’s the easiest business there is.” “Mr.-Carr would like to see you; I’d be glad to call him —except that this is his morning with Mr. Dameron.’’ “To be sure it is; but don’t trouble yourself. I’ve seen both of them, anyhow.” „ “Oh!” “I just happened in and found Mr. Dameron waiting; so I amused him until Mr. Carr appeared. You still have your historic morning round-up here. I suppose. There are two things that you young gentlemen will undoubtedly derive from Mr. Carr —good manners and sound literary tastes.” CHAPTER V. Zelda’s day's ran. on now much like those of other girls in Mariona. Between Mrs. Forrest and Mrs. Carr, she was well launched socially, and her time was fully occupied? She overhauled the house and changed its furnishings radically—while her father blinked at the expenditures. Rodney Merriam, dropping in often to chaff Zelda about her neglect of himself, rejoiced at the free way in which she contracted bills. The old mahogany from the garret fitted into the house charmingly. The dingy walls were brightened with new papers; the old carpets were taken up, the floors stained, to®save the trouble of putting down hardwood, and rugs bought Ezra Dameron’s greatest shock was the installing of the telephone in his house; but every one else in Mariona.

so Zelda assured him, had one; an* A would undoubtedly be of service to her in many ways. Her real purpose was to place herself in communication with her aunt and uncle, whose help she outwardly refused but secretly leaned on. Zelda did not disturb the black woman in the kitchen, though she employed a house-maid to supplement her services; but she labored patiently to correct some of the veteran Polly’s distressing faults. Polly was a good cook in the haphazard fashion of her kind. She could not read, so that the cook books which Zelda bought of no use to her. She shook her head over “book cookin’,” but Zelda, who dimly’ remembered that her mother had spent much time in the kitchen, bought a supply of aprons and gave herself persistently to culinary practice. Or, she sat and dictated to Polly from one of the recipe books while that amiable soul mixed the ingredients; and then, after the necessary interval of fear and hope, they opened the oven door and peered in anxiously upon triumph or disaster.' A horse was duly purchased at Lexington, on an excursion planned and managed by Mrs. Carr. They named the little Hambletonian Xanthippe, which Zelda changed to Zan, at her uncle’s suggestion. It was better, he said, not to introduce any more of the remoter letters of the alphabet into the family nomenclature; and as they already had Z it woulcf be unwise to add X. Moreover, it was fitting that Zee should own Zan! The possession of the pretty brown mare and a runabout greatly increased Zelda’s range of activities. Her uncle kept a saddle horse and he taught her how to ride and drive. He also, under Ezra Dameron’s very eyes, had the old barn reconstructed, to make a proper abiding place for a Kentucky horse of at least decent ancestry, and employed a stable-boy. Zelda became daily more conscious of her father’s penurious ways, that were always cropping out in the petty details of the housekeeping. One evening when he thought himself unobserved, she saw him walking down the front stairway, avoiding the carpet on the treads with difficult care. Zelda did not at first know what he was doing; but she soon found this to be only one of his many whimsical economies. He overhauled the pantry now and then, making an inventory of the amount of flour, sugar and coffee in stock, and he still did a part of the marketing. Zelda had given the black stable-boy orders that Zan was to be fed generously; and when she found that her father was giving contrary directions she said nothing, but connived with the boy in’ the purchase of hay and corn to make good the deficiency caused by her indulgence. Late one afternoon she drove to a remote quarter of town in pursuit of a laundress that had failed her. She concluded her arrand and turned Zan homeward, but lost her way in seeking to avoid a railway track on which a line of freight cars blocked her path. She came upon q public school building, which presented a stubborn front to a line of shops and saloons on the opposite side of a narrow street Two boys were engaged in combat on the sidewalk at the school-house entrance, surrounded by a ring of noisy partizans. A young woman, a teacher, Zelda took her to be, hurried toward the scene of trouble from the school-house door, and at her approach the ring of spectators dispersed in disorder, leaving the combatants alone, vainly sparring for an‘advantage before they, too, yielded the field. Zelda unconsciously drew in her horse to watch the conclusion’of matters. The young woman stepped between the antagonists without parley, catching the grimy fists of one of the boys in her hands,® while the other took to his heels amid the jeers of the gallery. Zelda heard the teacher’s voice raised in sharp reprimand as she dismissed the lad with a wave of her hand that' implied an authority not to be gainsaid. (To be continued.) His Treasurer Knew. Ho who goes into politics must remember what he is recorded to have said, for it is the habit of the sharp nosed public to search out past utterances and hold the candidate responsible for them. John Burns, says Mr. Grubb in his life of that labor leader, once made the slip of, remarking that ho .man was worth more than £SOO a year. Accordingly, when he became a cabinet - member with a salary of £2,000, he was obviously open to attack. When he first met his constituents at Battersea after y he was made, president of the local government board a candid friend recalled the statement about a man’s worth by calling out in the middle of his speech: “Wot abaht that 'ere salary of £2,000?” Mr. Burns, was equal to the occasion. “That is the recognized trade union rate for the job,” was his apt reply. “If I took less I would be a blackleg.” “Wot yer goin’ ter do with the £l,500 over?” pursued the inquisitive questioner. “For details,” answered Mr. Burns, “apply to my treasurer, Mrs. Burns.” The Retort Courteous. A young woman had fallen upon the ice-covered pavement, and a man stepped forward to offer his services. “Allow me —” he began, but his feet slipped and he fell flat upon his back. “Certainly,” reiponded- the young woman, gravely.-“Lippincott s. His Identity Disclosed. j u d ge —What do you do during the week? Witness —Nothing. Judge—And on Sunday. Witness—l take a day off. ' judge—Oh, I see. What salary does the city pay you? —Lippincott’s. Elevating. Wiggs—The man who loves a woman can’t help being elevated. Wagg —And the riian who loves more than one is apt to be sent up too. —Philadelphia Record. Ever know a "jokey” man wh° amounted to much?

CIUSE OF NERVE DECAY Usually to Be Found in a Miserly Indulgence in “Nature’s Sweet Restorer.’’ SLEEP IS A FINE MEDICINE Exhausting Strain of City Life Can Be Guarded Against by Well Regulated Dozes. Learned men and the casual observer have waxed eloquent about the awful strain of city life, the wear and tear of its tremendous and incessant activities upon the nerve force of men i who have not yet keyed up their reI sisting power to withstand the de- ' mands of the vast commercial and sci- ' entitle machine they have built up. Fudge! They say that the noise and [ rush and bustle, the excitement of being in the midst of the seething throng, exhausts one’s vitality. More i fudge! Man adapts himself to his en- ! vironment so swiftly, so almost instan- , taneously, that the denizen of the deepest forest or remotest mountain peak . can become thoroughly city broken in a few weeks. Why, then, do we find in the great cities so many cases of nervous breakdown, which it is the polite and merciful fashion to ascribe Ito irritating environment and over- ! work? Chiefly because of lack of I sleep, says William Hemmingway in I Harper’s Weekly. If, besides robbing I himself of sleep, a man eats too much, 1 drinks too much, and otherwise dissipates his energies, the breakdown will come air the sooner and be all the more I severe; but sleep robbery alone is i enough to make a weakling of the I strongest man. Moreover, even the i dissipated person who averages, say, I sixty hours of sleep per week, will long ■ outlast the sober one who * averages I but forty. Is it possible to obtain eight or nine hours’ sleep every, night in the great and noisy city? Surely it is. The man or woman who pretends that this is impossible is either a victim of selfdeception or a very rare invalid. Let us consider a few cases in New York, the biggest and noisiest city in America. There are living in that city some half-million or more of men who work as day laborers, and who sleep as soundly in tenements in the most congested districts as in the equally noisy outskirts of the city. Any cases of neurasthenia or insomnia among them? Not to any great extent. Os course their hard manual labor gives them a fine appetite, their means are small and their diet therefore plain, and the good, honest fatigue resulting from a day of physical toil sends them swiftly Into sleep that restores to them abounding vigor next day. o Probably no historic fiction has ever done more harm than the legend that Napoleon required only four or five hours of sleep in each twenty-four. The truth js that while he was in good health and doing his most won- , derful feats he habitually took eight I 'hours’ sleep every night. In later life, ■ when his energies had depleted j r by luxury and the long, fierce gamble for power, his health gave way and ' his sleep was brief and fitful. This, ; however, was a symptom of decay, not >an evidence of great strength, and it I ped most logically to defeat, eclipse, I |early death. No man can be great or successful or even tolerably decent unless he isleeps enough and with regularity. the hours of sleep the heart-, beats become ten to the minute p lower as well as less forceful, and (that busy organ enjoys at least a partial rest from its incessant labors; that Invisible but useful agent in the (blood that floats away the brokenpown tissue resulting frdm -physical i find mental effort is constantly engaged in carrying down all the waste products of the preceding day to the [organs of elimination which rid the [body of them. In one word, the ashes are disposed of and the engine is [cleaned and oiled for its next day’s I [work. REBECCA HUSSEY’S WILL. 1 Money for Relief of Distressed Has Accumulated for 200 Years. The will of Rebecca Hussey, a spinster who died 200 years ago, has been ; made public through the advertisement ! in an English newspaper? according to ■ a London correspondent. Her fortune, : which at that time was something like $50,000, has new grown to an enormous sum. Os this amount she bequeaths $5,000 to the redemption of slaves and $15,000 to old maids. The balance is divided among other charitable institutions. Miss Hussey was called Rebekah in her day and was the daughter of Sir Thomas Hussey, a Lincolnshire baronet. She lived a very devout life, working night and day in the interes? of the poor. For 172 years the bequest stood idle. Then, in the year 1865, trustees were appointed under an order of the high court of chanrery. By that time the sum, which had been soundly Invested, ■ amounted with compound interest, to nearly SIOO,OOO and every year since grants have been made of $2,500 or $3,000 to missions and homes on the west coast of Africa. There are no longer any slaves to be redeemed, but the Interest of th° money is devoted by a necessary adiL tion to the terms of the will, “to t relief and assistance of the liberal. African slaves in need of assistance.

either byway of making contributions to any institutions established or rendering such assistance, or otherwise.” Among the institutiones that are helped are the Onikha Industrial Mission, which instructs the of field slaves in carpentry,’farming and other trades; the anti-slavery committee and the Society of Friends of Pemba;. the Abeokuta Industrial Mission and ihe Lucy Memorial Freed Siayes Home, erected - in memory of the wife of Karl Kumm. In addition to the money for redeeming slaves, Rebecca Hussey s will contained, some strange bequests: ' “Good books” were toi b s e distributed in lieu of gloves—then the custom of the day—at her funeral. Five thousand dollars fp r prisoners in Lincolnshire Or adjoining counties “that are confined for small debts for themselves or have unhappily been bound for others.” Three hundred dollars a year for a worthy Church of England clergyman who will preach to the prisoners of Lincoln, “and pray dally with them and endeavor to discourse frequently what will be of use to their eternal happiness.” Ten thousand dollars was also left for a fund for publishing and propagating spiritual- and religious books. This sum is now represented by an amount of something like SIOO,OOO. the income of which is spent' annually In assisting public libraries and other Institutions vfith grants. Lieutenant General Sir H. L. SmithDorrien has Issued an order to the effect that no soldier in the Aidershot command is to be permitted to smoke cigarettes while under arms or on fatigue duty. Young soldiers of under a year’s service have been smoking as many as six or seven packets of cigarettes every day, and this is said tp have told on the standard of the musketry and’the marching power of the troops. < Steel has fe recently entered a new field, appealing as an effective material for power belts in njiills, factories and similar places, jts advantages He in the reduction iof width both of belts-and of pulleys, [the consequent reduction of weight ami expense, and a reduction in the disfance between axles necessitated heretofore to secure proper tension of leather belts. Size of pulleys can be increased, and therefore a gain in power secured, because of the reduction of weight and width. Extraordinary speeds, impracticable with leather or ropei transmission, are ffeadlly available with steel belts, and the savings effected in all departments cover an increased initial cost easily in a season. The pulleys are provided with canvas and cork surfaces to give the steel bands the best possible hold upon them. It really begins to look as if the next war—if whr there must be—[-will mark • the introduction of aerial maneu-rers on a scale which would hardly have seemed possible a few years ago. At the end of 1909 there were (already in existence,) either finished op promised to be ready for service very [shortly, 32 dirigible balloons and 56 aeroplanes belonging to the various European nations. Os these German}' hajs 14 dirigibles, of six different models, and five aeroplanes; France, seven dirigibles and 29 aeroplanes; Italy, three dirigibles and seven Russia,-'’ three dirigibles and six aeroplanes; Austria, two dirigibles and, four aeroplanes; England, two dirigibles and two aeroplanes; and Spain! one dirigible and three aeroplanes. It is interesting to[ remark how Germany runs to dirigibles and France to [aeroplanes. Yet France was the first officially to experiment with the former type. In connection with a recent demand of German nurserymen for seeds of the Montana larch, to be [ planted in Germany, the curious fact, is brought out that white-pine seedlings are to be imported from , Germany to be planted in the province of Ontario, Canada. Now the" white pine is indigenous to America, and *was transplanted to Europe many years ago, to re-enforce the forests there. It has flourished so well In the Old World that it now appears that the German nurserymen are abie to deliver white-nine seedlings nn this side of the oceqn more cheaply that American nurserymen will fur- , nish them. The interchange of trees among the various continents is a most interesting development of modern civilization. Besides the white pine, Europe has taken from us the ! Douglas fir and the black walnut, and we have taken the eucalyptus from Australia and the Norway spruce and Scotch and Austrian pine from Europe. Unfamiliar Commodities. “Any book in particular, sir?” asked ■ the young woman in charge of ihe book counter of a large department store. “This Is a great novel —” “Not for me,” said the old gentleman, who had been examining the stock In trade with an air of considerable disapproval Where do you # keep the classics, young woman? Lamb’s ‘Tales,’ for example?” The young woman looked puzzled. “Bacon?” said the old man. "Crabbe? Fox?” , ■ don’t know about fdx/’ said the young woman, “but I guess what you must be lookin’ for is the provision department.” After a man gets on the shady side 1 of 40 he decides that he’d rather be i rn than handsome. It’s difficult for a landlord and tenant to trot In double harness.