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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 219, 9 November 1904, Page 2

muce aotoiu pjet ures. Mr Sheldon a nZfc Td i WiU aS9isfcat the «2Sinnionfc, aud ho is reported to be a p O rv clover oxponeut in the art. TLis a£ noon a special luatince will ho given commencing al 3 w'cJocfr. Amateur Swjmiuiag ujub w i)| hpjd thl" I nrst sports fur tho BeilE on. Seventy com 1 pelilors w.ll t»ko pair in the vark,!' ! competitions, 6 o Llmt a good aftern^ T • auiu,omunt should bo furmahed S e ' sports will bo held in Sunday Hole tht Moitai, and .a ohargo o f 6d will | be Tmade for admission. Palace cars n ill ran from the city every twenty minufcos. i) W 5 rd r., . h '2; s ,' lK?on received that Mr D . S. Clusholm has won tile KxhiP^ vsdcs with i0n05?9 value £20, at the Canterbury^ Col *%c, Mr 43, g. Ohisfioln S n old Nslso^i College boy. " Pn Saturday 19th inst., the Exchange yards, Messrs Bisley Pro,s. and Co. s,ell tho privileges in connectipn with the Agricultural nnd Pastoral Assqciation's annual Show. The will of tho ate Dr Mo^ro, Roman Catholio Bishop of Ballarat, hus beou ' lodged for probate at Mel bom no. The estalo is valued at 310. fur- : niohlngs deceaseds late residence are ■ loft to hia successor in his biehopric. , About .£SQOQ is distributed among Koman J Catholio inrlitutionß, and a nephew Of ] the deceased, the Rev James McWanaray, ij made residuary legatee,

The Takaka Sluicing Company obtained 2rtoz of gold for the fortnight ending November 3rd. The doath of Deiblor. tbe public executioner for Franwv lia.adr.iwn attention to peculiar prerogatives of that office, which passes on from falhor to sou. Joseph Jeckyll once gave a description of the Trench executioner which makes interest ng reading to-day. :• The post is saored here," he ea : d, " and approaches the noblesse in the right of using a saovd, and the priesthood in being proscribed entry at all spectacles but that of the profession. If blood unsullied by improper alliances can ennoble, then I know of none so pure and xincontaininated, for a French hangman can marry nona but a French hangman's daughter. < Add to all this ft ba», ruffes embroidery, and. (at Paris) a coach, an i tho Cham of KaiuchaCEi is not so refined a personage." Since that was writ .en .France has adopted tho guillotina, but tho nnenviablo eminence- of tho executioner continues undiminifhed. In England no such dignity attaches to the task of taking criminals' wretched livus. The officeholder is as a rulo recruited from tho ranks of barbers or cobbler?, and is paid by results, so much a victim, with i the rope used as perquisite. . Some roinarkablo records recently made by " autoboats "—notably tho defeat in a race across tho English Channel of a fast turbine steamer by ft little 40-foot molor boat— load an English expert, Mr S. V, Kdgp, to predict that the now engine i borrowed from the motor car will take the place of the steam engine eveu for j larger vessels. Tie expects, indeed, to ! see the 20 odd miles betweon France and j England covered in as many minutes. The gasolene motor is already proving ' popular in Europo for small craft of a practical sort, Denmark having a fishing flotilla of over 300 boats of this type. According to s afistics jast issued 1200 strikes niid S'2 loch-outs took place in Genunny in r.103. This is the hiphe-t number yet recorded, the greatest number | hitherto having been 89.') ia IS9S. Last ; year 121,503 | t>rsons took part in such movements, the totul cost of which amonnt(d t;> over 5 # C 00,000 marks, 88 per ont oE j which was provided by the different ' , o.panidations The fium contributed hy i sympathisers a bread was somewhat over | '10.000 marks. i Or ( ouroc (snya the '■ Daily Chronicle") ; affection in tho honia ciiclo is proverbial lin England ; but affection does uot al ! way a moan courtesy. As the man said when tho stranger, who had pushed him iuto the wator, explained that ho had mistaken him for afiiond, it would be interesting to know what vou would have d >no to an enemy." Aud tho following conversation was overboard botnesn two male sivuuniors-at tho seaside.-—" What is thi) boat way to touch a lady ?" " Oh. don't frighten lier. Just placo her tonderly in tho wator, coitx hor gently forw;ird wiih your hand under her chin, and then ." '•' Hung if, man. >ho ! a my s st-cr !" iulerruplod tho first speaker. " Oh," said the oilier. " shore her iu, then." Tho proposal made at a mooting of the Elham (Kent) lionrd of Guardians to supply tooth bnishes to children iu cotta(j° homes was declared hy tho Mayor of Hytho to bo a fad. Miiuy membnis of tho boiud, ho was certain, did not know what it was to havo tooth brushes during 45 yoars of their lives Thoso fad» wois ruining tho stamina of tho nation. If childron, instead of being pampered with soft foods, woie given hard crusts, their touth aud digestive j^wirs would bo hotter. ! The war correspondent of a Moscow paper (says the London. " Telegraph's " correspondent) alleges that not only soldiers, but colonels and generals, who had had nothing to eat for days, begged dry bread from more fortunate persons. 110 continues : " Have you ever seen people drinking water from filthy noisome pools, filled with tadpoles and teeming with slimy vermin? Jf not, come hither and see. See them devouring ravenously damp bread covered with green mould to such an extent that the ordinary man would not, touch it. Seo them eating meat coated with a grey film, and thanking (!od for bestowing it. Is it surprising that these famished, fagged-out men, with Hieir over-strained nerve-"?, aiv liable to panic '?"

: j The success of the Infiep^nderit ■ . Ijabour Tarty in confusing issues, ups<ftt.ing calculations, and inci■d<'ivtally annoying Laliour, has inspired a few tempera-nco revolutionists with tho idea of forming an Independent Temperance Patty, which is to take no heed of Conservatives or Liberals as siij.h, but to give faith to candidates- who are tot'.i-perai-nce first nnd not much tlst> nfterwardß. It is a g-ivnt schome, ami should appeal ntron.i>ly to ihosn w-ho imagine tnnt (lnink-eivii:\ss is th<- only political evil. I low grejii, , it is may l>o judged I'roin vln- follow- '■ ing f.iMitencv from th<> circular of : proposals : — '\\h< n tenuxTuncp men -.of all parties forsake blind political i partisanship, and by their solidity, ■ independence. and d.-tenninnlion ' show that their electoral support i>: worth having, the Liberal Panv j will begin to fulfil some of its pro- ! niises, and the Conservative Party to coosider schemes of tempernnc , reform which have the thorough] .support of the temperance refqrm- ! or." We may add (says oji Knglifih ' ■j- w i.vk ! 1 ) thai when temperance im>n J j how all t|ie.se virtues, something j more than all these results will en- , sue. The millennium will arrive without, fiu'ther notice. I The. laws of Japan have been greatly improved during the last ! fifteen years. Decapitation and tortuiv havo been abolished, and hang ' iitg remains the sole method of inflicting the death penalty. Inslea.d of 250 crimes calling for the full penally of the law under tUu oM system, capital punishment is now threatened only for treason, arson i minider, and rape. Of these fontarson is only capitally punishable .' in cases of a very grave nature, ac- [ companied with loss af life. Penal servitude, imprisonmc-nt witn op without hard labuur, fiaes, and pnice s:ui ur\ >s : .-.i ai'e the , \. t-h---ments intlir.-icd lor t ii« - u jmr Tinies Corporal punishment is i.o longer ; ix>rmitti-d. It is a happy idea of the Japanifju War Ollice to r>ro\ide thn> troops ' in the field with illustrated postcards -lx-firing a m.-.ssgjro for honifi I ready printed": and rioediflg onlv tho solhier s signatuw, T},e mess-ago . riuiK thus :-"This is to let vou ] know that I am alive and well.' I' can not give you my address for I do not know where I shall 'be to- ; morrow. But your letter will reach ' ?u e lt y ? u opy tlw Postmark on ; this card. Orcetingfl v u in V himilv i a«.)d frlendfi. I '. FpV hrvXity' and rit- ' redness, {his is like a despatch from ' ' Marshal Oyama. ov liko th letters >ve.-«sed to write in our schooldavs i in our best round hand. "I ani i quite well. I hope papa and mamma are the same. This is a boauli- ' i ful school. Please send ine a X ! " : —London "Chranicle," '

'••Cleanliness is next to Godliness," our fathers used to sav, but the Mayor of Hytha (savs -'St. James s Budgot"-) decides that it is shwr extravagance. Therefore the children in the Union cottage homes may not have tooth-brushes Members of the Board of Guardians which he adorns, have not, according to this good chief magistrate induced m the "luxury" o f brush! ing their teeth for forty years. It would be interesting to have an idea as to how many teeth a man they have left. The dear thoughtful economical Mayor of Hvthe will be saddened tq hear that not tho 'eat•H»r of crusts will keep a clean S>t o| healthy teeth in one man's head • that one of the causes most fruitful ot diseased. teeth, and of consequent indigestion is tho retention of food particles betweeji and in the pi's •and grooves of the teeth '

..^rJ^ lll^- 1^ 1 ?,°S stor - v >s told by r.P. 5) \\eckly" about an Edinburgh gentleman who was Mnbaxass«l to find that a spaniol h-o ha-rl lati-i.y purchased from a dealer vv-m continually rvtzhinb iioiiie hiticlcs &no l.ad stolen fromi .shops. He took to watching her whenever be entered a shop, and noticed that in the shop sho affected to know nothing ot him. 17, howeyer, )tp happened to lay his hand casug-lly' upon any article, it was certain to be brought homo to him later on. The shoppeople, having- been instructed bv him to watch. Jjer after he had (quitted the shop, said that she would sit at the boor, or stroll casually in and out, or sometimes li<? down in the sjhqp itself, until she thought * that the attention of the attendant was distracted by a customer, when , r,ho would fetch, the marked artiple j Off tho coxtnter and bolt off with it 1 1 like a rabbit tq Us borrow. I '

England led the United States in the manufacture of a cheap Ircycle, and now a viaoroua effort ia to be mado to turn out/4 motor car that ie within the reach of flie greater public. The Automobile Club, of London, for example, has iust decided to hold a series of contests restricted to vehicles costing between £125 and £2C3, tho object being to develop a thoroughly reliable cheap vehicle. < Attention is also to bo paid to statistics of repairs, with a view to convincing tae public that a motor car is really a cheap means of travel. Tho impassivity of Johu Chinaman's couuten&nuci is now a!; least partially pxplaired Ho has no norves in his teeth. 1 his interesting bit of infornißtion comes from Or rod, where 1 10 dentists have buen. holding a State meeting. Oae of the speakers dec'ared that he had tinkeied .wifc'i the teoth of many Cbjna» m n, aad he had never known one of them to whimper. The only thing in regard to which t'.:oy show tho I'jast anxiety is t> ".secure any teeth thath*ve been pulled, and take them or send them back to China, eo that they nisiy have n fu Jl set when they are reincarnated.' 1 The '-Daily Mail's" corr< sp >ndei.t J says that exports declare thai one ' porson in every 150 in Chicago ii insane and ono in evory five predißpofol to insanity. Tlio increase in lunacy has beeo '• very rapid ia tho last tin yearn, and more so in Chicago than in any other city in America. Dr James P: Lynch - w hoover ho may be — declares that one-half of the civrisod world will be insane 500 years hence under the present conditions of . iving. and that in 200 yeare more most of tho Oaucnsian race will be mentally deranged. Civilisation tvill be wiped o!f the face of the earth, he says, by bar- . barians from Asia. Tho unconvontiona! habits of the Pope are still troubling the traditions of the Vatican. Visitors find that his Holiness l'.&s a great objectiou to the practice of kneeling in hisjpresonce. He takes caro to settle them promptly land comfortably iu chair?, and then, 1;o their amazement, ho romiins stauding. Children are oq no account permitted to kueel for tho Pope's blessing. He takes them up aid kisses I 1 hem. There may have been old times when Pontiffs showed undue favour to their kindred. 'I here is [no such thing now . A Christchurch bill-poater who tumblod down an uuprotectud open trap«door j of the Urosvcnor Hotel bei>r cellar, sued ! tl.o propj iotor. Peter McKollor, for £50 ! compensation. Plaintiff gave evidence ; that ho was walking from the bar to the j wall to post a bill ivhen ho fell through j ■ the opening, and bvoko ono of his thighs. i nnd wa3 likely to become an invalid tor life. Judgment for Uie fuU am >unt claiinod n-;ia given. . xV Turkish Slinigberial portfolio is a sort of gold mine to tho owner, lb is not the Vizier, however, who holds the richest chum, though his salary of £13,280 a j year, which is alto that of the WurMiiiis- ' tur. looks piiucoly to Western oyt-s. l'ho ■ " plum ' of Turkish offices is tho Adiuir- ! ally, which is worth £16,800 a year, and ; tho present holder is sliitod to have amassed a forlimo of £2,400,1 Z ) I Although a marked preferonco for flowory Clniitiau names has been shown by tlio working classes of Great Brila n of recent yo.ire, it i3 gratifyiug to learn from tlio latest returns that the plain names of our fathers and mothers aio . still tho mosb popular The two Chtis- | tian names lliat lioad the list iu order of j irequ ncy aro William and Mary. Tlieu comes John ; Elizabeth, Thomas,, George, { .Sarah, aad James aie well up. Hut A.uu '. and Juno havo somcwhtib declined, j tnou^h there is said to bo one parish in Ihe Mid ands of England m hero every girl is colkd Jano.

*( Probably Iho highest sum over paid for a sunnon g^es oai h yw»r to a lucky German pn.aehor, who receives .£720 for liis iffoit [u lu'iH) a wealthy French baron i;aiued Fuvarfc, who lived hi Elberfold, died and bequeathed hi) money to 1 lie Protojtant Church Iheio, with tho pro viso that it should Ijg invested and the inlirjst given annually to oomo clergyman chosen haphazard from thoso holdinir liie poorest livings in tho sou, on con. dition I hat ho p.'each a short sermon oxtol i g the £Ot.d deeds of the dead baron. ; It i, gem-rally delivered on Iho first I Sunday in Junr t aft< r tho regular niorn- : ing Lerv:ct>, asc 1 , bt.-ii go° half an hour's duraton euly. i. pa ; d (for at tho iat3 of £24 a minule. A Ne.v York messaf e. dabul Sept. ioth» to tho Londou " Di'ily Mail, ' says : " AlphoiiHO Stephani. who is undergoing a life senttneo ai; Danuemora Criminal Insane Asylum for the murder of Clinton Reynolds, a Ne.v York attorney, 14 years ago, ha 1 - jtiat inherited £ 20,01 j from bia mother, aud is now worth £50,000 While in prison at Danneiroca Slcphaui mode .£3O,OCJ by speculating in blocks. Although insane, he has extraordinary intuition regarding tho movement of stocks at d the faculty of acquiring wealth. Jla has ni^icy in various foreign banks*, but, b&ing civilly dead, canuot dispose of tho property, and tho companies in which ho holds shares rofuso to remit tho dividends aud Stophani is nnablo to tauch or cniuy a itenuy of his wonlth. Ilia grontcvt dvi.ly luxury is a tin of condensed milk " Among the changes uow on the carpet is tho abolition of the boatswain. So far as ono can gather (says the '■ Pali Mrtlt Gazette '*) the idea, is to make all boafcsivahißo! less than flftoen years' seniority qualify as gunnorg, and lot (his rank gradually die out, as of tho old navigating officers has dono. These alterations will remove ono of Iho oldest warrant anker iu tho nary. Tho " Halsuon," as the boatswain was originally called, was < in tho earlier daya a much more important individual lhau ho it to-day — in fact he seems i.o hare ranked almost as high us tho PjiilinH muster of tho ship. V»"Pos and saiU and masts and J'ards were iilwaya his epL-piality, aud the disappear* anco of tlirae from the fleet seems likolv to be followed by hi3 own. Nob that there is any lack of .vork for him to do. Even in tho modern ironclad the boatswain haa impoi taint duties to perform, but the authorises eeflqi to think that the dutlea niay just aa ivell be discharged by tho gunners, who nro now on (he top line in evorylh'ng, 130 much import auco is there attached to the branch for which I hoy specially qualify. | Mr Reid's experiences as Fodeca, : Primo Minister on a majority of Wo do 1 not soon), go £>ir fta can bo gathered from tho newspaper reportß of his speoche3, to be improving hiß temper. At times lately ]ho has threatened to-v+a' with Sir Wil* ; liam Lyne and Mr Hughes in I ittor personalities, and when provoked in (scliiCl'e lias some times dcsc3nd.ee} fa a l^vol nn> known bo hia prp^epeß^ora in offioe. A few wpojis ago, for instance, Mr Eeid said to an inter jeotor : " I should like to r&mindthe honourab'o member thafc I occupied an honourable position in politics -when he was in knickerbockers and did not keep them clean." O.n another occasion, in replying to Mr Isaac9,;a Jew, ho reported to have said tb/it "Jie wa,s filled with disgust at the tone adopted on this question (White Austria) by hon members liko Mr Isaacs, whose traditions and persecutions in all lands of the earth oughb ho have burned into his blood some sort of sympaUiy with men enjoying equal taws. (Uproar. " Disgracefn l , disgraceful. 1 )" Later, replying to Sir "William Lyno. tho Prime Minister remarked : " The nierabor for Hume cannot rise abovo sallowing in the filth of party strife. ' Sir VVilliam Lyne at any rate, was" able to givo as good a3 Ue cot, and retorted : •■ You are a filthy humbugv" To which !Mr Reid replied : ••' Don't mind him. Don't advertiaO hia filth. Sir William Lyne Beems to havo a monopoly of offen* sive interjections" And thoso are/ leading Australian statesmen. I

Tbe " Jowjßh Chronicle" announces that tho expedition appointed hy the Zionist organisation in Vienna t> ox-> plore the territory offered by the British Government for a Jewish settlement in East Africa will bo roady to btart in October. Tho expedition will bo coins posed of five gentlemen, Ibrop from Enjj. land and. two from South Africa, and its report is expected to bo ready uoxt ', March Th<) next Kiouist ConerroGs will be held :it Baslo early in Maroh, I>st manlli the builders' labourers afc To.i on to struct work for an advance in waguu from 25 conts to 28 coufcs an houy, c; U in^r a serious interruption of bnildir a operations, Soveral conferences held with the employers to arrange a settlement having proved fruitless, the Bricklayers Union, bj au overwhelming majority, decided that all ff« mombers | should cease wort in support of tho } builders' labourora. Work.was in con« J sequonce entirely suspended, and about ! 1200 men are idle. Both, sides are de- t termined, and there are prospect* of a ! lftng an^ bitte? Struggle, ' (

Weasels in the North Otago district ara reported to bo a greater nuisaaco than the rabbits they are supposed to destroy says the " North Otago Times," laittj mallard eggs sent to Mr W. Macauley, of Windermeje, by the Acclimatisation Society were safely (hatched, bat unforta toately all but four ducklings fell rictus in ono night to the depredations^ of weasels, which also took at the same time ■40 chickens. Several good stories are totd of Sir Robert Cranston, the present Chief Magistrate of the Scottish capital. One has for a period 'of time the Boer war. Sir Robert, it haa to be explained, keeps a shop and is o. keen officer of Volunteers. He w!as busily engaged with business affairs at the rear of his premises when a shopman approached, and informed him that he was " wanted at the front." " Good gracious ! " cried the Lord Provost, feelinglv, "is Lord Roberts dead ?'- Field-Marshal Yamagata is one af the oldest and most famous of Japan's military commanders, and has been variously described as the Moltke and the Lord Roberts of the East. He is one of the men who were " made " by the revolution of 1867, which restored the Mikado to power and overthrew the Sokugawa dynasty after a reign of two and a half centuries. Later he studied the art of war in Europe and went through the whole of the Franco-German campaign. Yamagata must be added to the list of chronic invalids who have accomplished work of epoch-making significance. For many years past his health has been poor, so that as often as not he has been unable to participate in person in the triumphs which his brain has planned. During the war with China, though he was credited with the direction of almost every battle that was fought. he was never present in person at a single important engagement. None the less, he insisted in accompanying the army during the terrible campaign through Manchuria.—" Westminister Budget. Some interesting conclusions are, to be gathered from a survey of i the latest criminal statistics for I for England and Wales. The unc-n- --, viable distinction of being the worst county for all the most se- ■ rious crime docs not, as some might expect, fall to London. It is only third in the list, tho first place boing occupied 'by Monmouth, while j another Welsh caunty. Glamorgan. i is second. Tho most virtuous countv on the othor hand, in a negative son so. is Cornwall. It is curious that tho extremes at 'both onriV should bo teprcsontod bywhat wo wore assured, at a recent conforonco aro puro Celtic peoples. M. Jacques I^baudy, otherwise tho Emperor Jacques I. of the. Sahara, has recently been appearing in a new costume, entirely yellow. He wears a magnificent cloak, with an Imperial crown in the middle of tlve back, surrounded by boos. Perhaps unkindly suggests a contemporary, tho bees should be in his bonnet. Among the Salvation Army's officers at Homo and abroad are. says tho "Scotsman," a Russian princes*, the daughter of an English onrl, tho cousin of a Scottish duke, and the daughter 01 a Nev York millionaire, who, discarding . the society of that city is happy * . working amid tho shims of "London All those ladies have long booh ac- ; t ive and useful members of the 1 in various branches " of ita beneficent operations. The authorities at Simla, appear to doubt whether the Thibet treaty ought to be published ; but Colonei Younghusband, whon the signatures huu been affixed, rose and made a speech from which it is possible to deduce the main articles. After pointing out that the British Government had in no way interfered with their religion, had sought n c territory, and " had fully recognised the continued suzerainty 01 the Chinese Government," the Env«y dwelt on the advantages whicl freedom of trade would bring, 01 the propriety of respecting Brit is) representatives, and on the advisability of " not departing from the traditional policy of Thibet in regard to political relations with other countries." Tho treaty, he ; observed, would be rigidly respected sby the British, but would also be rigidly enforced, and any infringement of it severely punished in the end. Pie pointed out the perfect freedom, both of person and trade, which Thibetans enjoyed in India, intimated that British subjects expected the same in Thibet, and ended by asking General Macdonald to release all Thibetan prisoners. Wo have reasons for believing tha* tho. treaty, upon which the King has warmly congr-atulatod Oolono l Younehusbnndi may after all be carefully obstrvcri. That will br I tho direct interest of the Lamas, who do not want us back again, and of tho Chinese Court, whic> recovers its place in the government of tho imiiK-nso province. — English crirrespon'icnt . VICTORY BUTTER -Bo suro. and. nsk your grocer for Victory Butter ! 'urc nnd delicious.— Advt. Ask for Puponga Coal. It makop tho brightest fire with tho loa.st work in the grate or range. Tt ip first-class for steaming purposes.* Som,o people say that the Mayor as no confidence in the? City En ineer ; whilst others say they have no confidence in the Mayor in r ard his drastic resolution. Mr.<lumbles cant give an opinion . to the cause of the Council muddle, ut hopes Councillors' heads .won'' | well so rapidly as the overdraft, nd that thoy won't all become ■ gineeys, ponsulting or insulting. 5?Ut amidst this turmoil it is pleasng to know that everyone is unjr pious that Lock's Great Furnishing arehouse is the cheapest and 1 lace to buy furniture, etc.,-.^.Hd-veryone has jreat* confidence, in the irnlifc/ erf the. goods he sells. Mr .or.K h.is furnisUvd over 1400 happy homes Large shipments of no" pods, carpets, linoleums, curtains, tc. The marvellous Atlas Sewing Machines and Miner Ranges. Lock is a complete furnisher, and anyone can for a few pounds make their omes comfortable and aKv-aetive, .jid upon easy ter^s,*