GILDED RUIN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

GILDED RUIN.

When Thaw's parents started him out m the world with an allowance of £17,---000 a year for pocket money, they might have Known where the finish would be. — News-Letter, San Francisco. MERCHANT TO MANAGE A TOWN. The inhabitant of Armour, South Dakota, have handed over the entire management of the town to Mr J. C. Cantonwine, a prosperous locfl merchant. Mr Cantoriwine has guaranteed to put the finances of the town on a sound basis by reducing outstanding loans, and has promised that he will at the same time reduce the taxes. NO PLACE FOR REVOLUTIONARIES The air of Canada isriot congenial to revolutionists. Immigrants vino have come here from despotically governed countries, bringing with them their spirit of opposition to all government, have discovered that this is no placed or them. They have been literally frozen out. If -the British flag is not. gotfcL enough for them they can take themselves off with their red ; flag -to some Other country.^-* Montreal, Witness. ■■■•"- '. BURIElf ik EVENING. DRESS. The will of the late Sir. James Colquhoun, Bart., of Luss, Dumbartonshire, which has been registered m Edinburgh, directed that his body should be dressed for burial m full evening costume, and laid m a- plain oak coffin, so that those who cared; for him during his life might see himTfjorrihe last tithe. ; TB* TbeqrieaT thed the family portraits to his successor, "while the residue of his property will go to his wii__6w''and; £10j; each f to his ex- . ecutors. v T ;■;-.:* v .;. ALL NIGHT COURTS. Arrangements to establish an all-night police court m New York have been practically concluded, and it is suggested that the 14 magistrates now holding office shall share the work amongst them. They are not keen oil nocturnal duty, but night are ;deiharided j as the only way of breaking up the disgraceful system of. "professional bbridsriien.'' New York ! bas already all-flight banks, all-night plumbers, all-night shoe shops, all-night oaf es,all-riight doctors; and vie necessity of an all-night police ;court is. greater£.it ; is: rirgedT-,thari .alkthe^. wtri.bined. ■"•:■' A FAIR' WARNING. The new assistant, rector was trying to impress, upon^thernind. of- his : young son the differenceTbeiween his. Own posi- , tion and that. of his, superior. "Now; TeU,' ,v: he eiSded; "I want you ? to remember to be* very polite to - the rector. We are strangers, and lam Only the assistant; it'^ecomes'. us to be ex ? . treniely courteous.. SbmeTaay,' perhapß, 1 ' ' I shall be rejdtb. my.elf.; rv The next. I dayj the-, bpy. was -walking with his father 'wheri^'tKe rhei therdigriified rector.."--. v- -■■■-__■■ «v*..- ; '-;'"*'-.,-'.-,.r'v. , "Hullo l' L promptly-began -Ted,- «' Pa's been tellin* me 'pout you— how you're the real thing, an' he's just the hired man an' we've got to knuckle under. But some day he may be it himself, and then you'll see." £50,000 FOR SLOUGH. Mr James Elliman, of embrocation fame, has supplemented his gifts "of a Volunteer drill hall and a fire station to ' Slough by the presentation of the Salt Hill Dlaying fields, which cost him nearly £3Z,000 to purchase, lay out, .and endow. The endowriaent consists of £10,000, and a cheque for that amount, and, the trust deeds of the ground, were handed to the chairman -of. the Urban District Council lately..;-;.' T \~ •; T Mr Elliman's object is to stimulate proficiency m healthy and manly; games^ and play ori Sunday will be permitted. The drill hall presented by Mr Elliman; a few years ago cost £10,000. The gift of a fire station and steam fire engi. nes was made previously. . ■ F^fty thousand pounds would jrobably not coyer the value of. Mr 'Elliman's •gifts to Slough. v : NOT QUITE TAXJTFUL. _ ; . "Pat Hurly is. as good a man as iver i stepped/ Said Mr Dolart, "but I misthrust the gurrls'U niver foind it out, his tongue is that awkward." „ "What's he said now T" asked Mrs Dolan. "I tonight he Was ■ getting on all right with the O'Brien gurrl." ,; "He's not," and Mr Dolan looked sad for his friend's sake. "'Twas only t!his noon she was coming along from church wid him, anY me just behint, whin We came to a great place m the road where* i the snow was melting. -"'l've no goloshes On,' says she. ; " 'Faith,}an' I'll lift you acrost,' says' i'be.-' ."'.■; • ."■.".'■''■Won't I be too heavy?' she asks i [him, for she's plootnp. • . j T "Sure not,' sajrs he. 'Why^ manny ;is the toime j've carried two; hundred' ! weight o' lead and paint,' he says, 'an' you—' but by that toime she was leppin* roight trough the slosh, wid niver a look ; at him I"- . .-. - ;• ..- < ( WHAT A GARDEN WILL PRODtTCE. ; It is really surprising how much can be grown m a small garden if proper methods are pursued. At the Kansas experiment station a trail was made last. year to see ' how much could be grown on a plot of SOft square. Successive crops were grown I from early spring- to late autumn, ana much ■of the land produced three crops, and all iofit two crops. The product was as fo' ! lows :— Lettuce, 1961b ; radishes, 1341 b; : onions, 3251 b .; peas, 14Ub_ ; siring beans, ' ; 1011 b .; beets, 1481 b .; cabbage 4501 b .;, j CHcttmberClSflb. ; -p'iriach, 1481b. ■■■'; toinmtoes, 5751 b.; peppere, 51b.; $muflsh,i , 1 3371 b .; parsnips, 2011 b.; carrot^ _51b. / : [turnips, 751 b .; green corn, 491 ears; egg- ! plants, • 24. For most of- tlie vegetables jthe rows were 18iri. apart -.; c6m and cab ; bage were- 3ft apart. There was not a" : j day after the first radishes were of "table size, wliich was 21 days after; planting, i until heavy frosts occurred, but that fresh , vegetables -were ready f^r use. ; ' !, TAX-JPREE TOWNS. | T There are rib taxes m the town of Orsa, j m Sweden. Furthermore, the towripeb- '! 'pie have a free railroad, free telephone, ; free education, and; free libraries., Think lot itr—not merely no taxes to^swear off •and dodge and lie about, but no car . -fares, nb telephone fees. In the French /town of Cham'aret there, are no taxes i either. The Chatnaret extra is a Christmas blow-out. The mayor spends 12500 : dols from the town treasury on a Christ.mas treat, to which all the inhabitants are invited. Monaco has no taxes ; thanks ! to the Monte Carlo gaming, and Klingen- ' burg-on-ihe-Main owns clay pits so prot Stable that they do not make everyone tax free alone, but afford to cacti inhabitant a small income as well. It is likely that Philadelphia will Borne day be tax free. When the Stephen Girard , estate grows sp big that there will be a surplus after all annual payments are made, this surplus is to be apnlied to 'diminishing the citizens' burden of taxation.' It will be some years before the Girard estate is big enough to pay me ; people's taxes. ' PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS. , In an interesting- article on old-age pensions m the current number of the Empire Review, Mr A. C. Brownlow , declares.. hat the class of the community which deserve pensions most are the wives of working men— the .women who, on a. wage Of sometimes less than 20s ■* : «Srk. ■_** brou g ht U P a large family. - -Without the mother where would the nation lie?" he asks. "Yet what is the .State doing at present for the mothers ii JJ, "S land? Surely these women above aH, others should be able to look forward tJMT S ???? of rest after fighting the battle of life. ' "With a State pension how much lighter would the burdens of the working man s wife become ! What an influence for good would she be m her oid age to the young mothers of a rising generation, instead of as at present a drag on the energies of her offspring, young people who ought to be able to give all their time and devotion to their own families." v< . TRADE SECRETS LOST. "We are losing many secrets m this shoddy age," an architect eaid. "If we keep on, the time will come when we'll be able to do nothing, well. Take, for instance, steel. We claimvto make good steel, yet the blades the Saracens turned out hundreds of years ago would cut one of our.owu blades m two like butter. Our modern ink fades m five or ten years to rust color, yet the ink of mediaeval manuscripts is as black and bright today as it was 700 years ago. The beautiful blues and reds and greens of antique Oriental rugs have all been lost, while m Egyptian tombs we find fabrics dyed thousands of years ago that remain to-day brighter and' purer m hue than any of our modern fabrics. We can't built as the ancients did. The secret of their mortar and cement is lost to us*. Their mortar and cement were actually harder and more durable than the stones they bound together, whereas ours—horrors ! We can t even make artificial diamonds now. Old brilliants of French paste were so beautiful that they could hardly be told from real brilliants by experts. But the secret of this French paste, like a hundred other secrets of the days of conscientious work, is irretriev- | ably lost."