A FRONTIER FLARE-UP.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

A FRONTIER FLARE-UP.

"My Pathans." remarks an officer of a native cavalry regiment in India, writing to an English paper, "all say wo shtil have a big flare-up on the frontier next year. They are getting so well armed. Of con use, the papers and the publics all snivel about the importation <>f magazine rifles across the Persian Gulf and into the frontier territory. What, should we sav it they had more, magazine arms and guns than we had, owing to superior facilities for getting them!" What should we say? Why the same o'd tiling we always do say—too late—''Someone has blundered .'' rXDF.R TWO FLAGS. A curious German ytory reaches me circuitoii.sly, via India. My correspondent. on his way hack, visited a certain German town, and to while away an evening patvon'scd a cinematograph show. One < f the subjects wa,s a series of views of England, one picture being Windsor Castle, witii the royal ensign duly flying. This was received in stony silence. Immediately after, the same view of the castle wa.s thrown on. but this time with the German flag flying! Howls of joy from the audience. The moral hardly requires pointing. Wearily, but whole-hearted!v. I again emphasise the paramount importance of more than seven Dreadnoughts. THE ONLY WAY. A gentl man well known ill City circles tells an amusing st-nry of the President of the Board of Trade. One. very hot dav s >mc twenty years ago, ho went to Harrow to call upon one of the masters. While crossing the playing iields, he noticed with astonishment a .'mall and dishevelled boy madly racing round and roucd. "Who is that?" he asked of a youngster standing near. "'Oli, that's y 'iin'.; Churchill," replied the boy. ''He must be very fond.of exercise to run like that on such u flay," said the visitor. "It's not that,'* explained the other. "The fact is, Churchill talks too much ; so when he start-, we have to order him to run time times round the field, as hard as lie can. It is the only way of stopping him.''

HILL KNEW. Dr. Gore, the Bi-diop of Rirmingham, was standing on the kerb, waiting for a cab one day. when two little street a jabs came up behind and began to disitifis his clerical attire, one of them being especially struck by his lordship's episcopal gaiters. "Wot's 'e, Hill: - '' asked this youth of his- companion. "Oh " was the reply, "don't you know wot- eis V 'E'-s a Scotchman in mourning, of course!" He: '"I thought they weren't going to tret marrie d until the autumn ?" She: ''Yes; but they changed their minds suddenly, and were united yesterday. You see, they happened to hear of a good servant out of a place, and they wanted to secure her."

WITH MASTER MINDS

Happiness seems made to be shared —Corneillo.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships.—Sydney Smith.

What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay.—AYilliam Walsh.

Everyone should consider himself entrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others.—Johnson.

Character is tr> wear for ever; who will wonder or grudge that it cannot be developed in a day H. Drnmmond.

Affection is kept alive and happiness secured by keeping up a constant warfare against little selfishness;'ss. —J. H. Perkins.

He th at does a brse thing in zeal for his ffiend burns the golden thread that- ties their hearts together.—Jeremy Taylor.

See thnt all the hours of the day are so full of interesting and healthful occupations that there is no chance for ■worry to stick its nose in.—Luther H. Guliek.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason, that passior. alone is the trouble of it '-Xeeeding all other accidents.—Montaignc-

Th e greatest heroine in the world is the mother. No one else makes such sacrifices or endures the sufferings that she uncomplaining endures for her children.

Since men are ~o miserable, always say a kind word when you can, and do a kind action, when you can ; it may come in so it may save a man from despair.

Worry not over the future. The present is all thou hast, The future will soon be present, And the present will soon be past.

Tlie just living of a lifetime mark's a man incapable of any more selfish handling of another's interests—a fact on which the bystander may reckon.— Mrs. Humphry Ward.

A woman of good taste doe.- not wish to dazzle by her clothes e.;- to proclaim her husband's wealth. Her attire should lefler-t a refined mind. —Lady Catherine Milnes Gatkell.

Women are more subjective, but less differentiated, than men. They are more afraid to tread iuw paths. Aesthetically this conservatism is a defect.; socially, it may he of g-eat utility, for it is a powerful guarantee of order and .stability.

Beauty is all around us.' Look for it at the theatre, in the museums, in the churches: look for it in nature more especially (.father honey from all flowers. To know how to see, ta know how to feel was the secret of those women whose influence was go much felt in the- eighteenth century—of Lespinasse, of C'lairon, and many others. When one has felt strongly, how easy it ig to express it.—Cecil .Sorel.

Tt has been said that the most valuable man is he who, while superior in one thing, is fairly good in several ; and the same truth holds geod in mental and moral life, as well as in business or profession. The finest mind is that which, though strongest in a favourite line of thought, is able to run with ease in many others; and the best moral character is that which, while excelling in certain good qualities which are spontaneous. ha,s yet acquired many others in which it is deficient.

WHERE THEY WERE. It was in a eecond-olass carriage coming; up from Wellington. A young fellow had been airing his opinions on every possible subject. Finally lie wound up: "Gentlemen, depend upon it, this country of ours is going to the dogs. What was our position a few yeans ago? Why, the highest among nations. But where are wo now?" he in a voice calculated to strike home. A man in a corner scat quietly replied. "Marton Junction. s ir.'' Then the train slowed up, and the youthful orator took his bag and went into another compartment, completely disgusted. OX THE HONEYMOON, TOO. While waiting for the train the bride and bridegroom walked slowly up and down the platform. "'I don't know what this joking and guying may have been to you,'' he remarked, ''but it's death to me. I never experienced such an ordeal."' "It's perfectly dreadful,'"' she answered; "I shall be glad when we get away from everybody we know."' "They're actually impertinent." he went on. ''Why, the very natives—. —" At this unpropitious moment the whe- zy old st-ationmaster walked up to them. "Be you goin' to take this train?" ho asked. ''lt's nono of your business," retorted the bridegroom, indignantly, as he guided the bride up the where they condoled with each other over the impertinence of some of the natives. Onward came the train, its vapour curling from afar. It -was the last to the ir destination that day—an express. Nearer and nearer it came at full speed, then in a. moment it whizzed past and was gone. "Why in thunder didn't the train stop?" \oHed the bridogreom. " 'Cos you tsed 'twarn't nono of my bizne-\s. I has to signal if that train's to stop.'' And a.s the old statioiimr.ster softly stroked his board there was a wicked twinkle in his eye.

LENGTH OF LIFE AMONG ANIMALS. The maximum length of life among Borne of the best-known animals is as follows: The horse lives to a maximum of thirty-live years and the donkey to a like period ; the dog does not exceed twenty-five years., the rabbit t'rom eight to ten, the goose thirty, and the duck, the hen. and the turkey a dozen years. Among the animals having the best established reputation for longevity are the crow, which lives IPO years, and the parrot and the elephant, which attain an age of 1-I'J years. Carp, 011 the other hand, appear to have usurped their reputation, which was based 011 ill-understood facts from Chantilly ami Foiitainebh an. They rarely become centenarians The tortoise appears to be the animal that livei the longest, and the record of longevity is surely held by one weighing 2")0 kilogram*. which was presented in 1901 to the London Zoological (Jardens by the Hon. Lionel Rothschild, and which is said to have been born in 17--0. ' You look like a wreck to-dav, Anna! Have you been sitting up all liight leading a novel?'' _ "Yes, ,madam. It was such a beautiful story, but they didn't get married till nearly fivo o'clock this morning 1"