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New Zealand Tablet, 3 April 1913, Page 34

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A New Philosopher ff A new philosopher has been unearthed by the v American Magazine. His name is Kin Hubbard, and we have quoted him before in this column. Here are some of his later sayings: . It’s no disgrace t’ be poor, but it might as well be. ... Live so you kin go t’ th’ thea-ter without makin’ your grocer mad. 5 • The thing that’s depopulatin’ til’ farms more’n anything else is that you. can’t plough an’ be a dude. • It pays t’ be honest, but it don’t pay enough t’ suit, some fellers. ki ,iEz Pash says he alius hates t’ break in a clean t0we1.... Transparent hosiery hain’t doin’ much t’ boom th’ straight and narrow path. .f. A holiday is hardly worth th’ energy it takes t’ get back in th’ harness again. Ever’ time I look at some fellers I can’t help thinkin’ what good wives they’d make fer some girls. •. •. Most homely women make ’emselves homelier by ■addin’ some little touch t’ keep from bein’ so homely. Th’ average husband can’t understand why his wife should need any money when she don’t chew er smoke. I can’t figure out how chicken-pie got its name.

A Hint to the Rev. J. J. North Mr. John Caughley continues to do good work in the columns of the Christchurch papers in the cause of justice to his -members of the teaching profession. Seizing an opening presented by an anti-militarist "utterance of the Rev. J. J. North he makes a good ■point in a letter which appeared in the Lyttelton Times of Friday last. ‘ Though not a militarist,’ he writes, ‘ I can sympathise with the Rev. J. J. North’s indignation at any attempt to introduce a Test Act into New Zealand. The Rev. J. J. North, however, is to some extent a supporter of the Bible-in-Schools League. This League proposes a much more unjust form of Test Act than the one which has caused the Rev. J. J. North’s blood to boil. If the League’s scheme were adopted, no teacher in New Zealand could hold his •position unless he were willing to carry out the course of religious instruction drawn up by the three denominations forming the League. This course is opposed to the religious beliefs of many sections of the community. Therefore the requirements of- the Bible-in-schools policy would impose a most objectionable ’ form of Test Act on all teachers and would-be teachers. I hope the Rev. J. J. North will see that the League’s policy is far more worthy of his condemnation than even the one he denounces in his letter in Monday’s Lyttelton Times. He can do good service for liberty of conscience if he makes an equally spirited protest against the form of Test Act I refer to. —I am, etc., * John Caughley. ‘March 3, 1913.’

Adriahople In view of the capture of Adrianople by the allied forces the following particulars regarding the city will be of interest. Adrianople is to-day the principal city

of-a vilayet (province) of the same name, which has about 960,000 inhabitants. It has a thriving commerce in woven stuffs, silks, carpets, and agricultural products. Adrianople contains the ruins" of the ancient palace of the Sultans, and has many beautiful mosques, the most remarkable being that of Selim 11., of an altogether grandiose appearance and with a cupola three or four feet higher than that of St. Sophia. The city suffered greatly in 1905, from a conflagration. It then possessed about 80,000 inhabitants, of whom 30,000 were Mussulmans (Turks, and some Albanians, Tzigani, and Circassians); 22,000 Greeks, or those speaking Greek; 10,000 Bulgarians 4000 Armenians; 12,000 Jews; 2000 not classifiable. The See of a Greek metropolitan and of a Gregorian Armenian bishop, Adrianople is also the centre of a Bulgarian diocese, but it is not recognised and is deprived of a bishop. The city also has some Protestants. The Latin Catholics, foreigners for the most part, and not numerous, are dependents of the vicariate-apostolic of Constantinople. At Adrianople itself there are the parish of St. Anthony of Padua. (Minors Conventual) and a school for girls conducted by the Sisters of Charity of Agram. In the suburb of Kara Aehatch there are a church (Minor Conventuals), a school for boys (Assumptionists), and a school for girls (Oblates of the Assumption). Each of its mission stations, at Rodosto and Dede-Aghatch, has a school (Minor Conventuals), and there is one at Gallipoli (the Assumptionists). Prom the standpoint of the Oriental Catholics, Adrianople is the residence of a Bulgarian vicar-apos-tolic for the Uniats of the vilayet (province) of Thrace and of the principality of Bulgaria. There are 4600 of them. They have 18 parishes or missions, six of which are in the principality, with 20 churches or chapels, 31 priests, of whom six are Assumptionists, and six are Resurrectionists, 11 schools with 670 pupils. In Adrianople itself there are only a very few United Bulgarians, with an episcopal church of St. Elias, and the Churches of St. Demetrius and SS. Cyril and Methodius. The last is served by the Resurrectionists, who have also a college of 90 pupils. In the suburb ..of Kara-Aghatch, the Assumptionists have a parish and a seminary with 50 pupils.