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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 10

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A Swodfsh Russia 13 seeking | •■■ permission to. fortify. tho - Aland: group -Of • islands, in* tha Baltic, but slio cannot , do-.so i . without 'the permuwion .ot iEpgland^. ,- . • Swedes: fear for their own; safety /if such_fv . permission-is given, -Mr/ E. A.-ibitlv writrag'. ,i: ■ in the- of' Stockholm qmFeb? • ::... ruary 24,, ; s»ys:—-."A 1 : powerful ■ f6rt: with it:' strong -garrison . and - flee tun. tho. Alanfl ■■! ~ , arohipelago.iwilli oortainlY ibo .the jiiail.; : in- Swodcn's Rnd -later-on -in England's:. •' coffin, or: at loast .a'^great: danger: forr-tho-flatter: y It-is of no uso' trying'ito^conrmco' • ourselves thatjßussia, after: having go.tVhOT' own; way-, respecting.. Aland,-will, bo ..'(Son-: ;. ■ ■.i. tented • witlv'developing- her . floeo,;,and .-.its.. ... powor morelv in tho. Aland , group-of islands!., We-do j not doubt that a 'united Fatherland, I!.-".' with concentrated strength, . would bo able • }; to keep ;but an 'oventu&Kinvader years, but if tho r.nti-militarv. feelings-gavn-;(i;V*v !n v fobting^'in tlie*: :would prdbably bovwos-kencdrto.-a cofcsrder'- ■;! :v-nblo' extant, and .the day tvoukl not then 1 :-;':bo.: : far',; when ;,omf ..' would hr.ve a fivo 'years' , tramms; . ponod 'iir : v.i East . Asia with' Japan before them ■*and".'the' 'V .v. 'Ru6sia/ with" . '•. her ' innumerable •'•• resourceß:','for''. collecting nien, 'would .{jradiially be;siifccessful;:in" stifl- ; . - nig us,' and m obtaining a hnrbour. on- thov ,' ; ; r;S^ : comes^'England^Kturn^ Don't come to us ;cavii)g;: k can. novor go.bo iar,«.becau3o .it-.must also;..3eppi;d.aiDpiin . ■ . / what compensation Russia ; eau qfter Ger- : '■ many;- It is not at' l all absolutely j iinpoij- -' - ; siblovthat'Russia,-'in a moreior less distant: ?■ future, -r.-,. part;of 4he this stop,has been taken Russia' has securedv just what sho-iiocdsami desires: a first-class .i ; . .-'recruiting.; Hold for. her (loot.- 1 vW lion-: Sweden . ancl 'Norway Ui'avbybecomo;^ .-•. .J ■. tho .map.- than . Russian . provinces . tlie. J'.rH;lisli_ fleet : . wouldno, • 1 onger£ have^. ,: y ": ; V against yi,:. navy' manned; nierely flsy^^aiatics' •. : or Russians,' but . with -qmto another: and' estromely, eapablo. element... Has ."England: ' . r - weighed 'the importance of ■ possibihties?.-./■ .Every successful step tho Russian' > yEaglp" ; makes Aiiv.a;'!wostcrlyC>-*di'irectioii*-'iti' f ■ '.'favour of her 'position fox .attack , and ii t.i fenco ' 'brings tier nearer 1 to-tho:-British' Isles ■-y '. The Risk ,of L,!fe.—A French doctor has '"compiled" an awesome list of .tho "disoaecs -. irhich man > has - to risk- at vatious: joints ,111 , / .his journey from the cradlo to■ tho- t . • In the first vear (sava tJie ,'London JGx- .' ; pross''),. j;he puhng . llifant . ffiust v : overoome .ivaccination,' oidy.. to :spond his ■: . . BCfQnd -year. in .growing.tooth and revelling-. in/convulsions. ,F.rom two to sixteen ho.ib' subject; to all sorts of unplealsaiitthiiigSj* 'liy r f^m':measles ..td^ftyphoid,;;.and at latter, 'must-bo ready to suffer frohi an irritated spino; -Apparently ,as. ho leaves '.■the.:teens vice is auded: to .disease, for at ; . twenty, tho vouth. is threatened with alcolio-1 v .lism.'i-iand . at/jiwentj'-fivo.' comes '.marnagi)/] :. . wjnch medicalMiuSi9r^); t :' of. ipala\lio3; AtitwentyTßitJb'etol .'is > 'rsleqplossnesß ) ".atj.'.thirty■ he di'gestion,'.. at :.fortf-fivo' ,)ns. /-aK". , . fivo his,hair,' at. sixty his ..teeth;•• at- sdventy-' /,'hw : (l hqipijg,:'(s&' ,atV lastV.alUtliat;: fit*■< of..' r nJiiiA'is^car^il^o• tho;,'graVofat'!'sWefitJA' 1 •\ ■ five. . It is curious that no age :ismdnticS'ned ■ - for probablo bankruptcy.- .'Tho modern'mptlwi ■ ■■■.■■ • cal< Aiw -is a viirv ■ terrifying ipoi%6n,9fmid!( ■ ireally ifJittnod to 'Inm .']ifr<i)(k(ald&bW: u!':'''.'-. :i aiK{iMl!';bnifitfiQir'Bat'im«at-U'Tad<optf»i«ta; ■ :. Hp".persists' s in- hving'-dospiten-Uiß doctors.: • ' . Indeed,:ithe persistenc3.of;^the:f£cidntißtMias: . r aided: interest to life. - /iNo- Siiortui: popular unlessMt.-ontailfi. a. certain.rnßkii'to iJifo-i'.nnd.. ■ limb,-: and . modortt.'.hfo is -so -full-of'-: risks: .v. thfit .it- is ; a . stimulation .'. to'; : iive .•■through'i . • every day. ■It is splendid to. go:-, through;-' j twelvo . hours facing:,microbe? f i&nd'—ji}ptor-'< omnibuses with a smile,- and-,,t0 iescape'themi ,' 'all-rsomething attempted,something- done,-, he's earned nis night's repose ( ? -:-iVfr- v --J.::.v ; ' »V'C» : ,V> Lord Cromor on EsyDt.—When Lbrd ;Cromorrcamev'homevfrom' Egypt; •••.•• • hisi lifo-'s the.•■story, ; or-,rather -part of' :tho -'storj'j m i twoi.volumes;rwhifch hare?^ust : tbeoii"'ifesuod(i> , i.'Not . the i leastinteresting .portion - : of- / ttHf&e?i ; cinating 1 ; story is ithatvwhic^td§M?r>^Vitho ; t l • reforinß '.that;;hi>K;;-tb^nvinXtitu^f)is : - ; tho ■result: or tho Bntish onoupation—tho 'aliolj- . .tion .of the-.courbash and the corvee;. thp r 6yp-: pression of .official' corruntiojiy.'tha'. finance, the institution of vast--schcjnesi of > irrigation, the reorganisation■>of tho~. army, - : , the lmniovonicnt.of.intei'nalj.admiiiistratiffiii, , : .-.better' sanitation,::tho punficfition' of-ovstice, : - . tho/ introduction of ■ educationi i;.-What-. imgation. has already done smco .the:; Assouan. Dam was built is already known. .;j-TJi,&>worJf is -not yet ended .—". Much,: - as the British i engineer, has -, done , for. Egypt/, Ins ... .. work is;not. yet, complete.' The-'wholoi ofihe' v : cultivable -.lands in: EgyDt..aro npt aa- yet' .i v -biougnfc under, cultivation. ! In -ordersto'at- . - this object, .it jjthat* Jt-'will; : be necessary to storcv about four million! cubic ~- wotrcs .of water. The inac;niU{:ent .(3ani .ct)u- . structed at.Assouan, which-hns ali'ead}'. ren-, , dercdr.invaluablo .sen'ico. to' tho" ;, c'ountrv"'ls; capable, of storing one 'million tnetroß"' ■ Works are now in courso oT oxecution which-1 - : willv. increase iis;istorage capacity? to' ! i'apout' • , two , and a. quarter, millions' of : oubic'mStroS' l . It. is.,not .as. jot,;dccided' how. an'y 'furtliof' , > supply will,bo, obtained, but a, poneral'sketch' ■ the...projects which• aro- worthy--of.:'coU-' . .. eideration 'has- beon'igiven . iii Sir' AVilliani' ,- Garstin's , masterly :, report of •' Miiroh", •: 190f . • Probably I, shall not bo far from the. fnark ■'' I fliiy that, : in the course; of:the' next fifteen or tuentj joars, somo millions ster- '', n K profitably; bo ,silent'in iniprovirig/tho': ■■.' Egyptian and Sudanese .ofi-irnGa-; ti°n When, eventually, tho waters of thd Alio, from the Labui -to> the, sea/ aro'brought'' ' ( u 'v ,'inaer; control, '.it will be-'possible -to boast that man —in.. this ensb the .:Englisli- ■ man-hasrturned, the, gifts ■,of-nature* to; 'tho.uesr. Dossible advantago " . Ancrka,—Advices fiom tho United ;■estates announco. that 'effoi*tS' : aro.being' made' to!; organise . ekpodition l -under th? leader-' ,V. ship of.Mr:, Georgo Melville Boynton for the' fffWw of-: achieving; what is ' described' as'this' .. discovery of darkest America.; 1 Thore'^pedi-"-tipn appears-to bo planned:on somewiiat iffi-' ': ' bijious lines. .Mr/ Boyntonjs.'propoaal is 'to . explore in:.;a: thoroughly ;-scentific/manned a'; . broad: zone of the S.outli American, from' ■Pernam-' buco on the Atlaittic const;;to tho : estroino* . ' : of Brnzilj aii(l ; iherifio' across iicirthom. Peni to: Punta . Parina on " tlio . Pacific coast, llie 'Work has been planned - ' i : m.fho stages, to be covered nn a period of live• veara'. .It. is announced that'tlio';dis- ; patches, winch Mr. Boynton hopes to bo able to send homo from time to time, will i, :.be.furnished to,tho:R6val GeoftrabhicHl -So- ' cioty for, plihlication in the Society's journal, %..Bnd-:the'. inference has'been drawn•,in ;some : quarters that the - oxpoditioii is being' org an- . isod under tho ausmees of tho Socioty. Such;- , howovory:it; is understood,'is not ithc case'' Air. Boynton is a Follow of the Royal Geographical Society, but the latter is not asso-' - ciated with, tho expedition'm any way'what-' soever ; The Languaga. Tost.—One of-tho iriosb im^ ■ . portantclauses / of. the British- Merchant • . chipping Act, 1906, is that which imposes alanguago tost on ; all Seamen, • Hntish subjects cxceptcd, before they arc engaged -mt th^i, United.Kingdom,' oratany port.on.thoContinent '.between > tho ..Elbe -.and • BrentjAtKo l . object being to onshro a knowledge, sufficient to understand .ordinary'commands. I It has been in operation.; Jaßt, but -its, enforcement haV'rosuljietJ;-in",a; scarcity of Boamd)i ;for tho'regular trading vessolo ;to tho Mediterranean-snd i.tho','TJniteaStatps. ■ •'■Many•:comp'oterit'.hands' of,.proved Boryicovhave. already;: been ' th'roiVh out 'of', employnient; .as' tho result of which 'it j's • stated_ that'; sovoral owners have given , ui-' '. r, structions for'tlie engagement of but- 1 ' side the prescribed limits in order to escape ■ the test.

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fftv« v \ ». "iTQu^M'feft^htenary.—Oh both sides of tl si i'AHalft'io r TSdJ ,T 4 Y tEq "Scotsman ") ; tho ai :i nouMCbnitfitt Canadian Premie T .' to Earliamont' that ' tho Print ?' 'A.f.P ovcr tho 'colobriitic {'■ of;-:tho;tnj' 1 of tt j,'; founding 'of bo. hailed wit ■ Seen' satisfaction:■ .Tlife' presence of the He: & at once the interet V 'ofiho MotliefCoOftlyjlin tbocbminomoratib ;of;'.)tt>* ef^lt'..ft6ni r "frJU& Canada .dates! il L-. : and. ;tbo loyi jj iKdo-,ai3'-affcfifJon ; *;\vith fjvhich.; Canadian j > rsprcf tho; 'and tho other, linli .; |of'Km'sir(£" jThfe n ; tSrcintohii'ry ;of' tho landiii h bf Chnraplai4 , ''is , U' I 'gr(lsit occasion: -For wit '» the, pflsfcbn' tho ;St. Lawrenc >- thorp: the seed; : out c j» iwiufch ( f Dominion; thoro "Wa i, supremacy., betwee whic :? X^uf a fifty,;years !•: :THo it had be&un, ion; th •? gateway, the Gil raltar',' ■■.vabt" .arid • fertile ;• regions : t ; wJfic]i:.tk'o'jStVr^ljaTvfroiirGegives, access. Th r *. r'/ Even: to .tho Fronc P '-.once seemed los to 'gftuv'. VpA'ha,festival', of; July, nos ipiUi;cofpmepa6lit^. ; aloflg -.with* the beginiiiri; W+M^^pf^^®S' < tho end.' o • .tfo-jfeu^ i .an4;nyf^ J rFreneh-speaidni ,• and; iiinglish-spoakiiig /racks,. on; i America! -, ferojjnd.,:. There, ..Tvili! bp-celebrated notkonl tho .buiidihjv on ..Tilly ,3,', 1608, of tho firs in thd'heart' of;a sav s a® wU^r.wss,,b u t,Slsq ,tho memorable battl '" . the' Heights ; o ~ - ' and < Vanquished^ i .JYfilfo^M^Vi^f'^laxsacrificedV'theirvlivo .for• jthe :,ca}is.^; () p^;.;cq\ijatr,y,.' and the ■ s-abse ijubnt'-prigageiiient Saintb 1 when . - but':'for tho of the Brit ; havo' plupkei ;' the-,1 a^ivprti." ;.'ffhis yffeast of concord am :■ appropriate prd jPqt.vhas-vboeiiifqrao.djM.'purchasing'and 'con •;, ..park 'this :■; iocQipp!U'ahJe;> site;;' overlooking'.'.th< -■ town 1 : -and'" rivtff/;' 'diid'.-Yof ' raising -'upon: •it i ■. a-ti^d ; liberty.'-''.":-!. ',!>., ■ "V, not: Iniovt'n fo tlie'liresunt Houso of Com passed!'hway.'iii Lorcl. Hemphill. Hi ~^^p.2i^^%?,reimkable:'l , arlia ; p®»tai^'>i(9idtt^g^ , BSidf: courage'.'-.-.'. ;He"' had; i . whether' on th. Ministerial, or-, tlio;',Opposition side, not; los oi ; Mr.'.- Gladstpno h. 'ij&irit!; which; found /ex , ;■' >8, <■ "most '• 1 cnorgeti. . spotclies ever; delivered -..in tho - House By i member of T tlT.q..sy, 1 the long peridt •, ism JSffi-last' General Election ,®jn' : found' the- front- Op , ,l> y . air.bvit^him'self , P-Js Cctogenariiui dilige'iico ; and, his; excessivi . ' the ' admiration '"o; .' P'll.pnjsts^:..wha/saig' nim^y!championiiig . ..tlii ; ' aloiifr— conscieii '?>?ili all ? e uta'ry; responsibil. .; ygungei' men/,'flow .in th( ripj: found > the, depressior ■ f too' 'great. to' !"•;& ' what .may.'bt , cana.^a:ir{aoiuwin§^aobatof;'.': ho: m'add' -the : o«ltJifashionc'd 'declama- • F!i5P; : afejy e '.'lf.; thprc ' ! veteran Irish baTristpr;l iti'iVas $$ sign ,'of; disrespect-it i-ichiless: of ;liis P598«90 61l fervour''"of ■'? his style.^-^Hiss.jtt^eiippp^m; l -tho-!.'H'ousb'l of lacoustics of tho'- Chaiii>er would have! ai-fitl s difficult •'for''hjhi iian,< id it' - .!'. V "'i \ \ - ; .' : Id ."-''' r--. ;■' -'■ ' ; A SimpliTied DarcrTj^ri^At. a recent .meet? • of ...the; Puoyffl' ) -'S33ffi^;'of; ■EdinbUi'ghi'v'Mr. 1 Aißsandpr iPhilfp, JEB®ij^gave I 'a : .'d¥scfipijion 'ea:leudar,.^y:Wlnoli'' : Hd propbsala 1 'in "prmciples )n Wlsieli''fhH'LM3H{fc, fcalefidaiI,'1,' now.- in .us(!. : as follw^HI). •^^^^.^^^'v^ypar.' ! to':'b'e>r6gard«i.'as i .day apart-rbnbVn'Sis "Now' Year's Day—and udicated afe^ljj^U-^OS;..(Tt:'should not 1 m'erated as' a;'day'of ; or month,' but 'bank "holiday. ; (2) •bo: similarly irat?®-'ffflHbo iiftDrcdlSMa: between'!tho 'end ! VhWfttl)y .w'o'iild bo' made! syni-' 80; February; timiSkS, •^rV.ten,;/ao i :^ayir,3o.^rjuiib S?! I 'AueriVi'::3ot Septeriibej, '.31; - of - wo! proposed ■' arth4': the. bpsi, '<rf; four; quarters'. ; of interval -betTV'ebn ?°fepsS2(r« ' W; easily! calcu 1 atcd' oii! ' one, ,unnpjm i'pimcgj[p.,, ; .There ( Would ;}ie : great 'simplicity: ■ t ! Tho' laj" or the :,\v^k. J would always : bo iho^samo,-:,j A^eirie.tu'al^''.'calendar .would ! ; !be of. each 'quarter: and would -P^B\:%X rh two , Bonths'; wojfld;;c9ntajn'; four ; (Sundays .v.each:, Eaph - v quarjbor : •'rtaul<l 'ip olxacUy : similar^ 1 " aiii Exactly, thirteen, weeks? sucli 'as imarltot's; PSfti!"9, 1 } : tbird ■ fixed,;- H! ■ ■'; ; j uWleoJ—^^o-^liiinucikil' pocicty -.ntteii# ifirsthtfld,'. to • celebrate' :ths jubilee of the presentation by Charles Darwin and; Alff.e.d w!R'allaco : of,. their 5 ' joint 'bssay- on the. Origin -of Snccics " oil. July ,p1a00..0ß. pjfly • next* - ufio details aro not % yot com■pbtopMt?iW.hitl'lidß<l .that a. special: me'et:lngi>of,_4h« SMWty^h^ll-lie'held, oil that! da^,-•>ollbwpd')bj".-'.tiiii e.veningv.reception/ and "tlirit :copios.^^of:.a,,SpecTa'lvmdcTal^^'shotlld'ho r awarded; i Jtt.is: also ]plo'jT6s63 t'6?.record the p'roceoding's : pf vthovpbmmsmWtttieh in' a speoial volume, .tO'ibe iwWishod'by>the Linncan Socioty. ;i Expropriaiion..of jp.aios.—Tho Prussian Hill the Poles-from 'their, > n: St. ; Petorsbiirg: to', tho Dtimavmembers now to'-, tlio sohbnio ! of;.'fp^cihlo of the Poles.'' JLSotli thjJ r -;Consen'at.vv-p the. 'Liberal. ..organs ;iir hostile: terms. .Me > '''Novoe Trii'myil'') treats the' matter/ as' plan' for pushing' Of itussia: and the Slav 3 ' .generally. • ".Hitherto,".■": Says 1 the "^remya','Germany has moved to-'' Svards and captiously, biit noiv 'she; h|is|ten3 v as -j.f'to "a'hbusb; on' lire.' 'Itussia hSs'-givon' not'tha'.slightest' causd for 'this! alanh j '-therefore ; ; it ) ,jfe , ;n6t a defensive policy ,invasibir.of' : Novoe Vreraya '>■ furtlior argues' tliai th'p 'liili. will promote ybcaiJisp; bn'itlie grd\in'd''thaf';exprbpriation once having' befen it'Wjll.'be, impossible .ever- to cancel Mt'^frohj^the''/national consciousness. 4 'l'hero ' is': curious"' agreement between . tho " No'voc Vrernj'iv" and tho "Kech ". oh the 'subject' of 'Gentian activity; - The. latter 'hoWtf- ; paper • reminds .'its ; readers of ; Bismafck'li iiglibrism! tliatany . fool can : rule with';'a' • blii'dg'pd'n," to ! wliich-.tho " Kech likeiis the' C.-'. i ifqr prejudice.''' Tlio, less.'Avejtugw iQr,(i'' B ffjbiect,, tho • mdro: pro- . v ofe£#wsnr' 'Nowb.' Letter/' ' Sail H'Vawisco..,,.;., ... . ; }-s.J(K«ioftei' irbtito ctiiat. Nelson's famous sig-. jialiis-hispdiipir: politital jiUrp'oses; now we' ibid thaifeithff-.'sigiinliiof another, famous .sailor,.- ; Jonah,/is;.:bping?.used;by ;a^Socialist'M.P.-j who JifeilKTittoJtSa ' pateplilet'! entitled ; /.'Baok;,to; t^terLaHd.'''r»VLii)6rty<;Reviow.'' .1 "ft' Secins "'SHe^jtia jority !'of'. thol ptiblib. hay!pV'jtifJ,'^oPSel^.t intolleqtual : ; 1 strength . ji^'b9S^rj^f.br'^a^uig ; ;; meditating,. or versing' on_ ;'seriolus ..subjects;'' What; we ."want nowadays is"tq/!sec,!LWei look at; tho .pictures iri.'-tlip read: the . text, '-than drama,:.; tlie v lirtusic i li'an s, thafi : "thd theatre, aud illiistratld! postcards havo more interest for tta than letters.—" Figaro," Paris.