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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 7 (Supplement)

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DARK OUTLOOK FOR DOCTORS. The simple life needs simple food. I Bread-and-butter days are returning, and there will be fewer calls for the doctor. —American Medicine, Philadelphia. " GENERAL'S BOTHA'S SPEECH. The note that rings throughout the speech is the lofty spirit of a man who is rather prepared to reason with his opponents than to quarrel with them.— Argus, Capetown. INTERESTING ANALOGY. We should not be surprised if the Chinese remained as long m the Transvaal as the British remained m Egypt — we were always going, but never went — Saturday Review. RUSH FOR A HUSBAND. Mr George Moon, of Derby, Connecticut, advertised for a wife and received so many applications that hs had to post a notice on his door, "No more wives wanted." He Says it will be many week.i before he can announce his final choice ' PITIFUL DRUDGERY. Modern housekeeping is a pitiful, mechanical, drudgery business compared with the housekeeping of old, when the loom, the spindle, and a hundred delicate arts trained the aesthetic faculties of women. Leeds Mercury. = THE MIDDLE-AGED FIGURE. It is no good denying it ; after thirty it is very difficult to keep the figure just right, and maintain the. happy medium between undue leanness on one Side and an excess of adipose tissue on the other.— World and His Wife - THE BURDEN OF -EMPIRE. One has only to live m Canada and then come back to England to realise how light are the burdens borne by the Brit ish living anywhere else . compared to those that have to be assumed by the residents of the British Isles!— British ii.rhpu. Review. GOVERNMENT BY MILLIONAIRES. The indrease of millionaires m American public life will, if it continues at the ratio that has been maintained for the past decade, soon place the conduct of national affairs exclusively m the hands of the vastly rich.— Appleton's Magazine. . ►' BARMAID'S FRENCH CHAMPION One must have lived through a dull winters night on - the shores of the 1 names; one must have loooked m the laughing eyes of some waitress for a reflection of the absent blue sky, m order to understand all the horror of the proposal, ta replace charming barmaids -by men.— Matin, Paris. ' TASTE FOR MORBID NOVELS. The taste of men is less morbid m the matter of fiction than that of women, especially of modern women, to "whom the plain direct .telling, of -a story does not appeal, but who prefer the psychology of the soul and .the infinite dissection of recondite motives and feelings W dramatic movement:— Graphic. ' TIUIN WRECK FOR LOVE. ' L. D. Harrington, of Sidney, Ne'vv York has been arrested on .the charge of attempting to wreck; an, 6ntariq and Western passenger train, Mrs Henry Cotton stated that, she and Harrington planned the wreck so. that he could rob the passengers and obtain money, with which they intended to elope . TIMBER FROM SIBjBRIA. A new departure m the timber trade was the amyel at Sydney. Jast week of a_ car ? o of- pine, oak, and nasswood from Liberia by the- Norwegian steamer GhristianMichelsen.. The. vessel loaded 2;207,WXMt. jM t he consignment, 60Q,000ft are iprbydney,, the balance being for Melbourne. Ihe Cliristiaii Micheleen, which is a new steamer of 2293 tons, came from Siberia via Japan.* . CHAPLAIN AND COMMANDER. /.r-. ac i urc h parade m -Queenscliff fort (Victoria) an amusing, thqugh quite unin tentipnal, conflict of authority was" made apparent to the large attendarice, ' The sermon was; about to be'preached. Chanlam Smith Macßain ro,s_ to 'deliver his text. Colonel Hall, the senior officer present, anxious _thafc ' the sojdiery should listen m conditions qf "comfort, rose at the same tune., "Stand ye steadfast !" exhorted tne.chaplain, quoting, of course, from the .Bible.-. The words were barely uttered When Colonel Hall loudly gave the command, "The. troops will silf,' They GATHERING OF THE NATIONS. ".', Cambridge is to be the venue of the third Esperanto Congress, to be held from August 10th to 17th. Some 0000 congressists from all parts of Europe and America will be present. These organisers m Cambridge are receiving cordial support, and many public buildings and University halls will be plaped at the dinposal of the visitors.- Among the emirieut men . to . ho^present areJDr O'stwald, of Leipzig, and Mgr-T ob - -i m u A tvans h-tion of "Box and Cok" will be presented to give foreigners an idea of English farce. : ■'•'.-. . .". BOILED MILK ATTACKED, ' o ,.iS ro ; eß ? o *' ? ellt '. n S.: , speaking on the subject pf tuberculoß!s'at|the meeting of the Agricultural Union 'held at B £ flin on March 14, attackedM. Pasteur's system of purifying mtlk. He said Pasteur had sought to replace the natural milk by an artificial product. professor similarly condemned tho sterilisation of milk and the boilinc of water to lender them innocuous. He laid boiled milk -was not a suitable food tor infants, and the boiling of Water' killed the elements therein intended by nature to make bone and .sinew.* What is really necessary is pure water and "healthy cdws. ,--_-... .._»*- ■' COMEDY OF A UxVIFORM. A most amusing story was told by James Maylor, who was charged at Liverpool recently with wearing the uniform of the Lancashire Fusiliers without permission. He^weut into tiie canal at the north end ot. the city for an evening bathe, and was amazed on leaving the water to find that Ins clothes -had disappeared, and m their Place on the bank was the military l uniform. He dressed m the uniform, and informed the police of his loss, only to be apprehended for wrongful possession of his Majesty's uniform. It was explained that a deserter irom- the Lancashire Fusiliers had ingeniously availed himself of Maylot's bathe to get nd or his iricriminating regimentalo. The magistrate sympathised with Maylor and discharged him. ' THE SHAH'S JEWELS. A jnessage from Teheran says that a careful inventory of the treasures left by the late Shah' has been made. " .': The collection includes a number of : unrivalled diamorids'and other stones. Ihe old crown of the Persiari dynasty contains a ruby as big as a hen's egg; ' A belt studded with diamonds; and worn only on great state'occasions weighs 181 b, and is valued al several hundred thousand pounds. •--..- . • . ; A wonderful silver vaso is decorated with a hundred smaragds, one of which is so large that it was found possible to engrave on it the Shah's -numerous titles. - ; A sword with a diamond-covered scab- ' bard is valued, at many thousands. ' A remarkable feature of the collection is a square block of amber of four hundred cubic inches said to have dropped from the skies at the time of Mahomet. TOOLE'S WILL -The. will -of the late "Johnny" Toole, the well-known actor, has been before the Chancery Courts for interpretation; Mr • Toole was a richer riian than "most persons Supposed, - The residue of his estate is over £80,000. After the payment of certain legacies,, all of which JiaveV been made known m the papeis, Mr' Toole directed that thei remainder slkhuM be divided into ten parts, and given to those persons wlio, at the time of his death, would have been entitled thereto, had lie ■ died intestate. Tlie next of kin werp Mr Toole's sister (Mm Young), fiye children of a- deceased brother, and four children of another .deceased brother. The "Po«rt decided that, 'according to the course prescribed in 'case of intesiacy,' Mns Young should take one-third, the five children of one brother shoyld have a tliird them, ami the foiir children of the other hrother should equally divide the remain, ing third. TRADING ON "CHARACTER." Blackmailers and other shady person? who nro ever on the watch to makp nioney by their precious "characters'' will read with disquiet the pronounce? ment mado by Lord Salveson at the trial of the "Whiteinch Hoax" case. Hjs Lordship laid down the sensible dictum that if m au alleged libeljous statement a charge is made fqr which there is jvi shadpw of foundation, and if the person against whom the accu^atida ip.n.ia^p is immediately able to demonstrate its untruth, theii the imputation, however grave, is not one which is calculated to do serious harm, and . the damages awarded should be merely nominal. Unhappily fqr many newspapers arid other, perhaps innocent offenders, this common-, sense "view has not ' hitherto been sufli ciently impressed upon juries, and many an adventure:- has received monetary recompense who would have been better served with a thorough dressjng'-down for attempting to blackmail. Every experienced journalist knows that it is the man of doubtful reputation who is the readiest to bring an action for slander. A good man's character requires no decree of Court to bolster it up - - is quite strong enough to look after itself.

COLONIAL LOVE OF POETRY. To find an English-speaking people among whom poetry is an incident of e very-day life, you must go to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia they want to read poetry. In New Zealand they want to write it. — British Austra'THElß OWN ENEMIES. Those who are anxious to leave work as soon as the clock begins to strike an never any good at. their jobs. They are the people you will find later m life declaring there has been a conspiracy against them to prevent them from getting on. — Daily Mirror. QUICKEST ROAD TO SUCCESS. Possibly the next generation will discover that after all the plan of turning a youth adrift -at sixteen to earn his own living and finish his own education is a better way than a first-rate education and a good start m. life.— Court Journal. THE WANDER FEVER. Have you never felt tho longing that it Were possible to step quietly off your accustomed path m life and strike out into fresh fields aiid pastures new? There are few of us so contented as never to be troubled with such a wish.— Weekly Dispatch. RECORD PRICE FOR A BULL. Shenley Victor, a red bull, bred by Mr C. F. Raphael, at Shenley, near Bar ..et, was sold at the Birmingham Shorthorn Show for the record sum of 1000 guineas. The animal was bought for shipment to South America. This is the 'highest price ever paid for a single animal during the history of the show. FIRE BRIGADE SINKS A SHIP The steamer Ella Sayer had her cargo of esparto grass on fire at Sunderland, England, on March 5. Two fire floats and the town brigade's engines poured water upon the cargo for some hours without extinguishing tbe fire. It was then decided to Open the sea cocks and sink her, but before this operation could be effected the weight of water m the hold accomplished the task, by submerging the vessel to her bulwarks. RECIPE FOR THE "BLUES.'? . Here is; a good! cheer recipe that is guaranteed a sure cure for the "bluea." Take a sheet of nice white paper, a wellsharpened pencil, ahd an odd quarter of an hour. Then write out every grievance, worry, and ailment you can possibly conceive of as pertaining to your woebegone self. Do you know what will happen when you are through? A Paris hat; to a. button that you willburSt out laughing as you haven't done for days. —-Good Housekeeping. . AIRSHIP COMPETITION. Mr P. J. Esser, of Johannesburg, is exhibiting a model of a machine wbi.h he calls the airmobile. He hopes to compete for the Daily Mail £10,000 prize with a full-sized machine, and is trying to float a syndicate to take up his invention. He claims that his inventiori is a great improvement on the aeroplane, and will have a speeo of one hundred miles »-n hour. A full-sized machine has not yet been built, and he has, therefore, made ho actual Attempts to fly. STUDENTS' POCKET-MONEY. , Some of the New York college authorities are conducting a campaign of publicity against wealthy parents who allow their sons, while pursuing their studies m colleges, too much pocket-money. Professor Bailey has prepared data regarding the expenses of five hundred students at Yale. University. His table of percentages shows that the wealthiest students spent eighteen times as much as the poorest on pleasure,, and eighty-tw<? times as much on tobacco and intoxicants. NSW ARMY BQOT. The- United State? Government l}as accepted for tria^ a new boot fqr army usp which has been invented by Mr A. B_ Cross, pf Bayswate?Ti\e bppt is" mad§ of -yery Btrong uppers, and has? a sole fixed by screws, which are fastened intp .eyelet holes made through the outside "of the welt of the upper sole. Thus when the solo is worn it is unscrewed, and a fresh clump replaces it m a few seconds. The heels are treated m the same way. One pair of boots r it is claimed, will last fbr five years. The extra clumps, if carried m the breast of the tunic, would stop or deflect a bullet. : ' NEW BEAUTY CURE. Salt and water is the latest beauty cure, r "If women who spend so much time over their complexion and so much at facial beaUtifiers would simply wash their faces at night with salt or apply a salt and milk solution they woidd not only have better skins but save their money hesides,'-' is the verdict pf one ftho has tried it. ' At night the facdis washed m hot/water, using salt as you would use soap.' Then it is- rinsed m cold ! water. The salt, it is .stated, not only whitens the skin, but ren-* ders the flesh firm and solid. But this is not all. A teaspoonful of salt added to two" tablespoonf uls of milk is recommended as a cosmetic to be applied to the face at night. KILLED BY "CRAMMING." - The suicide of two German schoolboys, Rudolf Wiesner, aged sixteen, anfi Waldemar Draper, aged fifteen, iri a railway car between Breslau and Lissa once more draws public attentiph tp the appalling numbetf of juvenil.e'Gferftians who cpmmit self-destruction. "- "''.'* -Both boys' left letters, explaining that they were tired :of life, and despaired of ever attaining , happiness. - TW wrote that the outlook was so gloomy that they were convinced life was riot worth living. One of the principal causes of the increasing number of juvenile suicides appears to be the way m which children are systematically overworked m the schools MARBLE PALACE HOTEL, Achilleion, the heautiful palace bui-t for the late. Empress Elizabeth qf Austria at Corfu, at a cost of £1,000,000, has been purchased . by a Swiss-German syndicate, which will convert it into an hotel and sanatorium, ; \; The;palace, which is -of pure white marble, was designed by the .famous Italian architect, S. Ca,rito. tn contains 128 rooms and a chapel, situated m fine grounds planted with 25,000 - rare rose trees. . In 1896, when the Empress left her palace for the last time, it is said that she : burst into tears, and said to one of the ladies of her suite, "Something m my i he art tells me that I shall never return i here again." She was murdered at Gen-, eva soon after. OOASTIN^ STEAMER COMBINE. The prohibitive prqtectfon, which the United States throws around its coastwise carrying trade (gays a Washington despatch) Jias now produced the phenom:enpn of a monopoly of coastwise steamships m American waters. The announcement that Mr @harles W. Morse has brought the New York and Porto' Rico Steamship Line completes "a combination . whose total capitalization, held or controlled by Mr. Morse, is said (o be m the neighbourhood of '• BQ,ooo,ooo#ols. This combinatiori includes the Clyde Line, with a fleet of twenty-two ships ; the Ward Line, eighteen snips; apd tlie Mallqry Line, eleven ships; all m the Southern , coastwise trade; the Metropolitan Steam- i ship Company, with four ship's plying be- j tween New York city and Boston; and . the Maine and the Eastern Steamship Companies, with fifteen ships. Lines not yet nnder Mr Morse's control are the. Old Dominion and the Southern Pacific. This combination of coastwise steamships attracts special attention at this time because of the efforts to regulate by the Federal Government the ra tes charged for inter-State railroad freight on land. ' THE NIJW YORK STATE PROSECUTOR. One of the heroes of the hour m New York, District Attorney William T. Je- 1 rome, is one of those marvellous men j which America produces co richly for the 1 consumption of the wonder-lovers eh?.-' where. According to his latest biographer he eclipses all living spell-bipders. Peopl c are told that this new Savonarola, this purger of the modern Gomorrah, only needs to enter a haji where other spellbinders are at work m order to reduce : them to silence. The audience insist on j hearing him alone. "The man^" eaj .<= I the biographer, "for whom the. peopJ<- < have been waiting begins to speak. He does not wear the frock-cc.it of oratory, : he does not gesture, and his hands are j probably, m his pockets. But he looks I straight at his. audience with a pair oc wonderf ujly cool and steady eyes b >.• \ hind his glasses." His words, it is said, come rather slowly, with a "sort of inteii. sity that has nothing .to do with the tricks of the platform speaker. 'As "he approaches the particular message which he has for that evening Wb words begin .to come almost raspingly. He is giving his hearers a few minutes of the plainest kind of talk on some vital point which everybody else is dodging. And when he has put into words something which nine out of ten of his hearers have If )t m their hearts but never voiced, they respond with such cheers as all Tammany's fuglemen could not have orsairsed before." It seems that the District Attorney is at the present moment riding on the top of a moral wave that is sweeping virtue into the place of vice m the high places of New York. The purifier is abroad.

HARD ON KANSAS. The Kansas Legislature abolishes capital punishment. A sentence for life m Kansas is a greater deterrent from crime than a death sentence. — Atlanta Journal. THE UNICYCLE. A cycle with only one wheel has been invented by Mr Henry Tolcher, of Pretoria, an employe of the Central South African Railways, who claims that the machine will cover between thirty and forty miles an hour oh level ground. '- SONGS THAT REACH THE HEART An old song is worth all. the conventions put together, especially if it is a song about love or the spring, with a flower or two m it, and a brave kiss at the end.— The World and His Wife. SILENCE OF SUCCESS, • ;' No Japanese general has yet written a book about the war. i\one will; for so the Eknperor has ordered, so. the General Staff has decreed. Besides, they are too •busy reading the books and the interviews and articles of Russian commanders.—Collier's Weekly, New York. HANDS OFF, The Military Governor of Lodz, Rus sia, has issued an order that all persons passing near policemen and soldiers shall take their hands out of their pockets. . Those who fail to do so will be immediately arrested. The order has been issued as terrorists continue to shoot policemen and soldiers, NEWSPAPER STRIKE RUINS. BUSINESS. The suspension of publication by the four daily papers at Butte, Montana, has seriously affected all the business of the town. Jfo daily papers have been published for more than a week owing to the strike of the printers, and the business of the merchants who advertised m the papers has fallen 60 per cent. KING EDWARD'S GENIUS. Tlie world recognises the genius of King Edward -VIL as something essentially personal, and the secret of his power is far-sightedness, natural judgment, shrewd tact, intimate knowledge of tli© Tacial characteristics of other nations, and, above all else, the ■great heart which beats m love.— South China Morning, Post. " - r- £35,000 FOR A DIVORCE. The New York Evening Mail states that the Countess d e Castellane (Miss Gould) hais received from Mr> Edward Kelly, her lawyer, a bill for £35,000 for his services m securing her divorce. Mr George Gould, the Countess' brother; declares tliat the bill; will not be Said, as it is outrageously high, and has emanded that it should be -reduced. - HARBOR-TRAItfED GERMAN NAVY The German Fleet spends; an immense amount of time m harbor, and a large part of its training is done hot m the open sea but m sheltered waters, and consequently it does not obtain the blue water experience which. falls to the lot of .the British Navy, with its worldwide activities.^Naval and Military' Record. PRICE OF LOST BEAUTY. A pretty girl of seventen was recently attacked m the streets of Davos^by a butcher's dog, which bit her severely m the face. The girl, through her father brought an action for damages against the owner, of the dog, and the local Court awarded her £160, whereon the butcher appealed. The case was tried by the Swiss Federal Tribunal, and the Judges increased the damage to £240, holding that the girl deserved that sum for the "diminution of her "beauty." SCOTSMAN LQST/ ■ Word has reached us (Times) from Saskatchewan, North-West Canada, which points m all probability to the unfortunate death of a member of the Eng. hsh. Bar, Mr Aeneas Mackintosh, who was lost on the trail m one pf the severe storms of the past winter,. and has not sihee been heard of. Mr Mackintosh was^a Scotsman by birth, but lived most of his life m England, and tfaa called -S-JKJE?? a Ls e Middle Temple m May, 1889. He went to the 1 J&uthEastern Circuit. DISSATISFIED WITH GOOD LUCK. r>An££* .* _! c ,Ww*fc to;-3*_f fortune of mm left by the late Patrick White, an Irish- Aiperican, who died '- intestate m New York, is an old man F named James Nolan, who is an inmate of the Oelbridge Union Hospital, County Dublin, It is probable that Nolan will pet one-fourth or one^fifth of the money, as he is a first cousin of White's. When he was brought to Dublin to give evidence before the Ariierican commission of inquiry he expressed the wish that he had been "left where he was, com^ foriahle and well enough," and ceclared that he "had not a minute's peace or ease since the infernal thing turned wp a »d cjestaroyed his peace of mind," — THE NEW PURPLE WEAR. ' cr c is on every hand a striking readiness on the part of, fashionable Lon. don tadors to' deplore the advent of pur pie for men's wear. " A well-knpwn Strand tailor said j Everybody is familiar with the appearance pf a welbworn blu c coat on Vie back pf a tramp ; it boosts W many deljcate huea, arid when ''the s\t'n is shining purple predqmiiiates. The new colors are almost exactly like these, sun.dned, weather-worn* blue's, with thie difference, that unless they are. m the most expensive materials, they quick'y get worse. Tp wear a cheap purple smt wQuld be simply ridiculous. No one should attempt to adopt the color unless he pays a really good price. Even then the tailor would be foolish if be guaranteed the color. Ido not see why anybody should want this wretched -color r -when equally good effects cari be had m figured blues. ■■•■- OARING JEWEL THEFT, v A young man supposed to he ah American, giving the name of William Herinr Bruce, was remanded by the Brighton magistrates on a charge of stealing a tray of rings, of the value of £4,000 from. the window of a jeweller's shop. .- ' * 'Die theft was described by the chief constable, whostated that Bruce had two confederates, a woman and a man. The woman entered the shop of Messrs Lewis and Son first, and engaged an assistant m conversation. Then a man entered and efigaged\the attention pf another assistant. Bruce followed and : was seen to take a tray of rings from the window and huj- , riedly leave the shop, He was followed by one of the assistants' and seen to enter a house near by. • A polioeman was summoned and the man' arrested, forty-six of the forty-seven rings on the tray being recov. : ered. p The man and woman who entered toe shop first have not been arrested. MR JEROME'S HUGE QUESTION. The trial of Mr Thaw on March 14 again resolved itself into a long legal wrangle between the rival counsel Ultimately Mr Jerome called the six medical experts for the prosecution. After they were sworn the prosecutor announced that hp would read to them' a portehtoua hypothetical question of 15,QQQ words, aumriiing up all the evidence given m the trial. He would then ask their opinion as to the prisoner's sanity. Mr Delmas insisted that each expert should, hear the question separately. Dr Flint suhmitted to the reading of it, and answered that the prisoner m his , opinion was sane when he committed j the crime. It took an hour and a quarj ter, Reuter 'states, to read the question: After Dr Flint had answered, the court adjourned. AN ADMIRAL'S RETIREMENT. By the retirement of Admiral Sir A. K. Wil.son» who reached the age limit a few week* ago, the British Navy (says the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times) loses the ablest sea-strategist and the most brilliant tactician of the present generation. If the Navy had to elect its fighting commander-in-chief by ballot, there ia no one who would poll 5 per cent, of the votes that would be ! given to "Tug" Wilson. Every Wilson !in the Navy is "Tug," just as every -j Clarke is ''Nobby" and every Miller ! "Dusty." No admiral has ever put into . more constant practice the motto * 'Deeds, not words." His strict adherence to this principle earned for Sir A. K. Wilson the title of "The Silent Admiral." He is one of the only two officers of the i British Navy with the right to place th. i coveted letters V.C. after their names. i It was at ,the battle of Ei Teb, on Feb- ! ruary 29, 1884, that Captain Wilson; *s : he was then, won the Victoria Cross. ; Admiral Wilson stands high among those who Have made torpedo warfare their special study. He invented the doublebarrelled, torpedo-tube. When steel nets We're adopted as protection against torpedoes he invented an automatic shears, which, placed on the nose of the torpedo, cut through the thin defence; and followed this up by producing a net whi'h no shears could cut through... It is stated that Admiral Wilson will go to the Admiralty, where he will eventually succeed Sir John Fisher as First Sea Lord. His position as Commander of the Channel Fleet has been filled by Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, known to the public as "Fighting Charlie." Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, m taking farewell of his flagship Exmouth at Portsmouth, asked the men to maintain their discipline right to the end by not cheer- ! ing him when he left the ship for Lon- j don. The request was faithfully carried ' out; not a sound was made as Sir. Arthur descended the gangway after bid --i ding farewell to the officers.

CENTURIES OF INJUSTICE. It has been the habit of man from the time of Adam downward to blame the woman for whatover goes wrong iq this best of all possible worlds. — London Argus. BEERLESS PUBLIC HOUSE; What is known locally as the "beeness Sub." has just been opened at the -.dren City (Letchworth). It is conducted^ on public-house lines, but no intoxicants are sold. BUMBLEDOM. The auditor who examined the account, of the Spalding (Lines) Board of Guardians has* recomended that the treacle served with suet puddings on certain days at the workhouse should be weigh ed for each inmate. * security Insurance. "Securitas et Cie," which may be translated "Policemen, Limited," is proving a great success m Switzerland. For a small annual subscription the company protects life and property, and I performs all kinds of police duties. : "The force" is recruited from die I charged soldiers of good character, snd it is the boast of the company that so far np loss- or injury has been sustain3d by any client under their protection. BOGGS v. MOGGARDS. The twenty-year-old feud between the ! Boggs and Moggards families m the Cumberland valley broke out afresh today (says a New York message of March 14),* when representatives of the Boggs' family attacked the Moggards and fatally wounded two of them. A Boggs Was killed by way of retaliation. The feud was renewed m consequence of a quarrel over an illicit whisky still The authorities have not dared to make any arersts.- «• -■ HOCKEY PLAYER KILLED. Owen McCourt, of Cornwall, a hockey player, received injuries which resulted m his death during a match between the local and Ottawa teams at Cornwall, Canada, on March 6. . Rough play led to a fight with sticks, and McCourt was struck on the head by Charles Masson, of the Ottawa team. Masson was arrested, and will be tried for manslaughter. Several players were injured m the melee. Tha growing tendency to brutality m Canadian sports is causing aloud outcry from press, public, and pulpit. •■ THE MODERN COMMERCIAL. The work of a commercial traveller to-day is different from what it was a generation ago. Then the ideal commercial was often a man of loud voice and loud clothes, and worked his wonder? by personal attractions as an "entertainer. ' That Was m a day of wider matins of profits. . To-day, however, profits have been narrowed, and salesmanship is on a"- basis of strict business logic. Where the old-time commercial intrenched himself m a certain territory by acquaintance, the present-day man . perfects himself > iri knowledge of goods and selling tactics so that he cari fee thrown into a" new field. Men have not only learned how to sell, but also how to buy, and personal charms are as nothing against ability. COW'S STRANGE DEATH. Inporinectipn with a case hfeard at the Prestori Court, Viotoria, m which George Branscrove, farmer, of BeH street, sued John Brown, another, local -resident, for £3 10s, balance due.oh a cow hq hadtsold to him, it was shown tliat the animal had died from a oomplaint which is extremely rare m the annals of veterinary science. Mr W. T. Kendall, M.R.C.V.S., and Mr John Plnllips liad made a post-mor-tem examination of ; the cow, and they testified that death, was due to inflammation of the heart, caused hy a hairpin sticking .m that organ. They considered that the illness of the animal would be i so obvious that Bransgrove when he sold the cow shouid liave known that it was diseased., / ■ Tlie" Bench adopted this view, and, after, heaaina other evidence, dismissed the case, with. £4 4s costs. THE DEEPEST HOLE. Men Pf science are , interested- m all very deep borings m the "earth on account, of the opportunity which they offer for experiments on the internal temperature of the globe. Gas and oil wells sometimes atttain a great depth, and after they have cease 1 to be useful m other ways they are turned to scientific account. .The very deepest hol6 that man has yet succeeded m making m the earth is said to be near Rybhik, m Silesia, where the boring through strata of coal 1 and rock has reached a depth of about 6770 feet. .The deepest boring m America is believed to be an oil well at Pittsburg, which has reached a depth of 5740 feet, but is to he bored much deeper for the sake of the information it may furnish to sciqnee. MR DELM AS' THREAT IN THE THAW. CASE. ' Mr Delmas, the chief counsel for the defence, announced on March 7 that when the trial of Mr Harry Thaw is resumed to-morrow he will only call two ' more witnesses, to whom he will pnt only one question. The witnesses are Dr Hammond and Dr Jelliffe, alienists, and the questoin is a hypothetical one, which will covei every point m the case. Mr Delmas says that if he is not interrupted, he will bo able to put the question m two hours, but, as Tie has not written it out and submitted it to Mr Jerome, the District Attorney, it may taHe several days. It is expected that Mr Jerome will .interrupt and object, to the terms of the question m order to gain time to study it. ART OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE; A domestic training college is to be established m Sydney, Mr Carruthers promising that much last week to a deputation representing the various women's organisations of Sydney. The Premier, who expressed sympathy with any movement for the better training of women m the art of domestic science, said the institution should start wliere the Technical College left off. He pointed out that they could not establish a college to deal With thousands, and must more especially look to an institution "m which to train those who had to train the young, and, therefore, those to have the training should be the public school teachers above all others. A site has been selected close to the terminus of the railway system, and a college of two floors was to be erected at a cost of £5000. On the question bf control, Mr Carruthers said it must be oqnducted by State oflScialß. The work was to be put m hand as soon as Parlia? ment voted the money. :.....■'* A HOPEFUL SAPLING. _ Mr Tree, at the dinner of the Sta go Society, pointing out that women are taking up the work of men, and that girls will be boys, gave an instance that came within his own ken. On the eighth birthday of his "youngest suffragist," he found her dressed m knickerbockers. "I said, 'What a disgraceful state! Ifow did you get those knickerbockers ?' She replied, 'I bought them of a boy for Is 6d. This is my eighth birthday and L have made up my mind to one thing j You tell me I should make good resolutions on my birthday— l am no longer a girl, but a boy. I will he a boy from to-day. All the good people that have ever lived have been men. Look at King David, and look at you.- I said I would rather not look at King David. And she said, 'All the wicked people who have ever lived have been women. Look at Eve, I don't want to go about the world tempting men with apples !' " "SEVERANCE OR PARTNERSHIP. It will come with the shock of an unpleasant surpris© to Australians (writes the Melbourne Argus) to learn that Tne Times ie publishing a 6er.es of articles on Imperial unity with the strange- sub-head-ing "Severance or Partnership." Emphatically Australians with one voice will assert that, the heading is misleading and uujustifiable, whatever may he written be. low it. The Empire stands at no such parting of the ways at the -title suggests. Partnership Australia ii hot prepared to undertake — severance is not even remotely contemplated amongst ns. Why should the existing Imperial union be disturbed Oy the promulgation of any . such questions? Ine intrusion of such an issue into Imperial affairs is unwarrantable and mischievous. What is .the matter with the Empire that all this bother should be raised? We are all doing very well. The relations ""between all its parts are friendly. The tie of sentiment, "the crimson thread of kihship," was never stronger than it is to-day. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said m a recent speech that tho3e who thought, Canada was inclining towards an American connection were 25 years behind their time, since that tendency died a quarter of a century ago. We may say that those who raise to-day the fictitious issue, "Severance or part-, nership," are behited by considerably! more than half a century. Tne Times utterly misunderstands Australian feeling when it supposes that the colonies are seeking for or are even willing to accept even au instalment of "a partnership" such as was suggested by Lord Milner. The predominant feeling is that any permanent council sitting m London and assuming to deal with Imperial affairs would be a source of embarrassment and danger to the Empire rather than a means of knitting it together more tightly. * ° I

THE PHCENIX OF THE GOLDEN GATE. The new San Francisco will look so grand tliat other cities ar& likely to pray for earthquakes and big-fires give them a fresh start.— News eLtter, San Francisco. AWKWARD FOR THE GUESTS. A young woman arrived at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, purchased the leading hotel f _ r _ c , » e J ec *°d all the guests and staff, ahd closed up the building. She then left the town without any explanation of her conduct. v . ROAD TO DISILLUSION. t The woman who marries a man fondly imagining that by means of his love for her she will be able to mould him accordlttg to her own, ideas, makes, m 99,uu0 times out of 100,000, a great and often a disastrous mistake.— World, New York. ' JOYS OF AUJ.HORSHIP. .ii . .? c • hoard of B nov *list confessing tnat Ins interests m the sorrows of his Mrome was so poignnnt that he damaged his type-writing machine by floods of Sany tours t He was enjoying himself.— r Andrew Lang, m the Illustrated London &€WS. PLAYING THE GAME. [ The girl or boy who learns by unconscious imitation always and above everything to "play the game," to do their vfry best to win, yet always accept defeat good-tomperedly, lias assimilated lessons m honor and good-fellowship that yill go with them tlirough life.— World and His Wife. j AUTOMOBILES IN WAR. An important addition to the Army l^artsport Department of Germany is to he, made immediately by the creation of a regular automobile section. The first duties of the section will be to teat the efficiency and safety of automobiles as a means of transport under actual war conditions, and, iurther, to train a special May oi men, to be known as the Automobile Uorps. It is intended that each Army Cprps fl i, a n have fom . antomoW i et lor passenger carriage. ■L .LARGE SUBMARINES, inj^v a Middleton, a London engineer, churns to have solved the problem of the ptopulsion and steering of large vessels udder water. This is the point now engaging the combined attention of the Admiralty and Messrs Vickers, Sons, and Maxim. •Mr Middleton believes that m the fuS e 1_ r /°° d m wor time will be brought to ua by large submarines, and tlist his invention will make this possible. r , The nature of his invention is ft close secret, but he is submitting it to experts mth a view to securing a trial for it. ) SMALL HOLDINGS LESSON. Lord Carrington, Minister of Agriculture, informed the Home Counties Liberals ofv> the progress made with small * 2 , o n J_lv bjr ihe M. ai J?ference to his charge of 62,000 acres of Crown lands. t Already fifty-nine families had been plajbea on a farm of 917 acrea m Cambridgeshire. Arrangements had been made to ihand over 200 acres m Wiltshire to a parish coincil, and nest Michaelmas they would obtain possession of a farm of 1000 acrfis m Lincolnshire. He hoped to put before landowners a series of . object -lessons. JTROOPS SCARED BY A CALF. _ Jr c /f^i. T*"* 8 . Tangier corresponderit telegraphs:— There was consider- * _£ j rm . a , mon £ the Moroccan troops ported outside the town last night. It appears that a calf escaped from some lurto and approached the outposts, who mistook it for the united forces of the Pretender and Raisuli, and opened fire, intt alarm spread, and cavalry were huirr -MT_3 t0 ._ he "?**• Alter a prolonged fusillttde the calf was discovered uninjured, but the troops are reported this morning to pc suffering from nervous shock. WW T P WECES AT DINNER. The Rev. J. B. Tittle, his father, wife, and; baby, weie blown to pieces by dynamite on March 2, while dining m their iffl? At p aimi > Illinois. Two other children of the family, were fatally injured. . ■ • ' Air Tittle, who was a Baptist minister, had taken a packet of dynamite into his boukse, intending to use it next day for blowing up tree stamps. A] large hole underneath the spot where the; sittihg-rbbm stove stood indicates that tlie dynamite must haye been placed close to it. GkN. BOOTH WANTS £10,000,000. General Booth, who urrived on March t> oh the Minneapolis at New York, told the reporters at the pier that he wanted jbiO^uuijOOO to carry out the plans of the Salvation Army m variou B parts of the world. .. % hopes that same philanthropic millionaire will come forward and help him, General Booth declares that he will *H»nf is confident that funds will be forthcoming. ' He says it does not.matter whether the money has been made by trust methods or not. It is ull the same to him. : -'.BRAJSENING IT OUT. It was on a corridor train going south. Among the passengers was a newly-mar-ried couple, who made themselves known to sUch au extent that the occupants com* m mr d . whispering and sniggering. Ihe bride and groom stood the remarks for some time, but finally the latter, who was ,6, man of tremendous size, broke tut torst- mng lan « UB 8e his tornien"Ves, we're married— just married. We are going one hundred and Bixty miles further, and I am going to 'spoon* oil the W If you don't like it you can get out and walk. She's my violet and i m Jher sheltering oak." During the remainder of the journey they; were leit iij peace. A • ;! THE BREAD LINE. A tnetropoliian charity that is as wellknown m London as m New York has lon X been that of the distribution of bread teonKWie Fleishman Vienna Bakery on Broadway-one of thoße businesses too well- known to be advertised. The death of the founder of this establishment and the acquisition of its site for other pur!Bs_^s? ttobelitl that one of the saddest of the mgu. scenes of New York Oity^that of the long Jine of hungry anplicarits passing the "bakery doo? I which none was ever turned hway-would vanish. It is . thei-efpre an ihteresting ahnounepment that the 'bread [ line^wui conunue to be fed at the hew site of the n?„r b toe ci Sd to eßtaWi6iled ° n bto^ AMERICA'S FOREIGN TRADE. An interesting point m the official summary of the foreign trade of the UniS,i,S tat ? f ? r X *s iB thnt while the lv^t S o^^ tQ ! nobll ! 8 to neariy iIjOOO.OOO m yalue, tins %ure was practically offset by the exporte of auto£9<Ste al f U S Rt «9W.°°o-. More than f of the exports went to the United rungdom. .i. 84 ?! .? n nt? t ' ier curious feature is that the United States, which produces threefourths of the world's cotton, actually imported last year from other oountries M*' : worth ot new cotton, beside? £200,000 worth of cotton waste. Ihe growth of the leather industry m trie United States has been remarkable _^__S? i of _ en( ! eavor contributed £30,. yw,uw to the foreign commerce- of the comitrir during 1906. or nearly £20,000,---000 mOre than m 1896. ' ' pOCILE WILD ANIMALS. Wild deer and chamois are beim. captured In the canton of Orisons like tame sheep, says a Geneva despatch. The .deep snow flint has fallen m the Alps this year -h«s deprived the unfortunate animals of food, and they are entering the villages m ai starving state m search of hay. - In ahd around the villages of Prattiffan, Busaemn, and Shraubaok, the peasants have Walked up to the famished de«u. and chamois, lifted them into sledges/ and taken them home. Dozens of dead animals have been found oh the bkirts of the villages. The cantonal authorities have issued an order prohibiting the. 'shooting or killing of the animn-l.v, otherwise they would be exterminated. Sportsmen, however, are buying Imy and having it placed m the mountains wherever traces of the animals can be found m the snow. GAS IN MARINE PROPULSION. At the annual dinner of the Scottish staff of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, held m Glasgow, Mr R. Wl Austin, m proposing "'Lloyd's Register," said the society has now 308 exclusive surveyors scattered over the shipbuilding and shipping centres of the world. Mr William Mollison, engineering surveyor for the Glasgow district, who presided, m replying, said tliere was every probability that the gas engine would m the near future take an important place m marine propulsion. Within tho past year many minds had been actively engaged m an endeavor to solve the problem of a gas producer capable of usini ordinary bituminous coal, which could be obtained at any of the coaling ports of the world. By the use of anthracite coal the work had, on a small scale, been attended with some measure of success, and lie hoped that before another year had passed still greater success woudd be attained. In their own Clyde district Lloyd's committee were anxiously looking for such a development, and were prepared to give it every encouragement.