NOT MERELY IDLING VVHBLED MAN ON BUOY. Stuck in the Usual Run of Ideas-- The Story of the Man Who Was Stuck Fast to the Buoy. "That writer," paid & publisher, ro ferting to an author who seemed to be 1difng away his time, "is In reality try. ing bard to work, to get his ideas flow: ing, but he Is stuck, "He sald to me himself that he re segibled a man who made a bet one Bummer day at the shore that he wopld swim out a mile and a half to a , certain buoy. The bet was accepted, and the wan stripped and plunged in, His friend retired to the hotel to watch his progress from the window, "From the window with a fleldglass the friend saw the swimmer reach the buoy In due course, draw himself up out of the water and sit down com- fortably, with his legs dangling over. Bo far #0 good. Evidently he was rest. ing, well pleased with his feat. "Some minutes passed, and the swim- mer had not moved. The watcher re- turned to his book. But every now and then he looked up, and still the swimmer sat in the same position on the buoy. "An hour, two hours went by. Still 1 immer remained. A white, slim fi seen against the oncoming dark, he"sat on the buoy's edge. His feet déhgled in the sea. He seemed to be musing. "Finally it began to grow quite dark, and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the watcher got a boat and a couple of batgees and rowed out to his friend. "Out there the mystery was soon ex: plained. The man was stuck fast to the buoy, which had been freshly tarred that gorning." « MEN OF EARLIER AGES. Were They the Mental Peers of the Men of Today? The general idea that our enormous advances In sclence and command over nature serve as demonstrations of our mental superiority to the men of ear ler ages is totally unfounded. The evidence of history and of the earliest monuments alike goes to Indicate that our intellectual and moral nature bas not advanced in any perceptible degree. In the second place, we find that the su posed great mental lnferlority of { Is equally unfounded. The "they are sympathetically studied re they are found to resemble ©8 In their inherent intellectual powers. Even the so long despised Australian savages, aldose. the lowest in material progress, yet show by their comples language, their social regulations and often by an Innate nobllity of char acter indications of a very similar in her nature to our own. If fhey pos sess fewer philosophers and moralists, they are also free from so large a Proportion of unbalanced minds--idiots anfl Junatics--as we possess. On the other hand, we find inthe higher Pa elie. xpos men who, though savages tds material progress, are yet #eaeraly, admitted to be physically, in tellectually and morally our equals, it hot our superiors, * * * Thirdly, we have no proof whatever that even the men of the stone age were mentally or 'momlly inferior to ourselves.--Alfred Russel Wallace In Fortnightly Review. ------------------------ ! A Curious Grace. The most curious form, or, rather, expression, of grace after meat which 1 have ever come across was that cus- tomary at Clifford's inn, one of 'the ¥atished inns of chancery. The sock ety consisted of two distinct bodies, the principal and rules and the Kents each body having its owd: tg- ble. At the conclusion. of the dinner the chairman of the Kentish mess, first bowing to the principal of the Inn, took from the bands of the servitor Some small rolls or loaves of bread and, without saying a word, dashed them several times on the table, after which they were taken away. Solemn silence relieved only by the thumps prevailed during this curious substi "tute for a verbal grace.--~Cor. London Tele. -------------------- Instinot and Reason. * Instinct fs the generic term for all those faculties of mind which lead t the performance of actions that are ¥e In character, but pursued without necessary knowledge of the re- Jation be ween the means employed and the ends attained. Reason refers 10 those actions that are adaptive In "character and that are pursued with knowledge of the relation between the a employed and the ends almed 18 the technical statement of between instinct and rea- t the real, basic difference be- 'the two faculties 18 unknown probably unknowable.~New York y ------------------ ; { Thackeray's Pink Bonnets. ? Thackeray was fond of putting pink on such of his lady characters to be speclally fascinating. LAUGHTER ANALYZED. The Observations of a Man With a Sensitive Ear. "Of coursé you hinvé heard" sald the man with a sensitive ear, "a lasgh that jarred. 1 don't mean," he contin. ued, "so much a laugh at an inoppor- tune time--I imagine we have all heard such Janghs--as a langh the quality of which is unpleasant. There is some thing contagious in laughter of the right kind, even though you may be the object of it. It bubbles from the well of good humer, There Is no hid den thought, or 'arriere pensee,' as the French say, bebind it. It is the es: sence of frankness; it Is spontaneous and whole souled, and it cleanses the system of the laughter and, too, of the hearer, like a spiritual bath, "But there are other kinds of laugh. ter. The sneering laugh is perhaps the most familiar. Then there is a quiet laugh, a sibilant, secretive sort of laugh that Is quite as certain to mean mis chief. Another laugh, disagreeable la its nature, is the high pitched, nervous eachinnation that comes either from em- barrassment or Is a mere vocal habit. The worst langh of all, however, to my mind, is that mirthless sound pro voked by the distress or embarrass ment of others, and it resps naturally most of all the object calling it forth. A person laughed at and hurt never forgets the experience." ' \ A _ HUMAN LOVE. x The One Joyous Impulse That Rules the Whole Wide World. ~ There lives somewhere in the depths of every human heart the divine spark that we call love. It is the voice of the universe slumbering In {ts narrow cell to be awakened by a whisper or to cry out in dear desire and hear the echo- Ing answer from another soul. With. out it life would be a pale, relentless episode. Without its quickening force no temples would be reared by human hands, yet hovels wherein it dwells be- come more glorious than palaces. Am- bition, fame and fortune are its slaves. It chains the mind in sweet imprison- ment, makes credulity a guardian queen and lulls suspicion to repose. "No censorship of right or wrong can light the way of love. It walks in pathways all its own. It laughs at reason and dispels despair. It is the lsping wold of children, the puzzle of philosophers, the talisman of rulers. It is the first and last of life--~murmured at the cradle, cherished at the grave. It is the rainbow after tears, the cure for every sorrow, the one joyous im- pulse that rules the whole wide world, =Wade Mountfortt in Era Magazine. The Instinct of Design. When a Japanese cannot mold the shape of an object, when he cannot re. deem it by a design, when, in fact, he has no control over its creation at all, but it is placed in his hands as it is, finished, says the author of "Kake- mono," he will still contrive to add beauty to it merely by arrangement. "lI first noticed this on board the steamer going out," says Mr. Edwards, "where the Japanese boy arranged the extra blanket on the berth in a new de sign each day. He fo!"=d it into lotus leaves and chrysanthemums, into halt opened fans and half shut buds. He hgd one wonderful arrangement which, bejug patriotic, was more often repeat: ed than the rest. The blankets of the steamship company had at top and bot: tom two wavy red lines on a white ground. By some wonderful twist of his fingers the boy would fold that blanket into the rising sun, with the four red lines coming out of it like bisod red rays. He did it so perfectly that I reeognized the flag of Japan the moment I saw it."--Youth's Compan fon. Resigned Too Soon, ' One Missourt Heutenant governor missed the governorship because he rosigned too soon. When Frederick Bates was elected governor, there wis chosen for lieutenant governor on the same ticket Bemjamin HH. Rives of Howard county. Mr. Rives held office a few months and reSigmed. Shortly after his resignation Governor Bates died, and there being ne lieutenant gov- ernor the succession fell to the phesi- dent of the state senate, Abraham J. Williams of Boone county, who served for some six months as governor of Missourl, Governor Williams was a preacher, a shoemaker and had one wooden leg.--Kansas City Star. Isolated Greece. Greece Is an isolated eountry of 25. 041 square miles that supports a popu. lation of some 2,500,0/ people. It has no ralitpad connection with any other country, and, being cut off from the rest of Europe by the mountains of Turkish Macedonia on the north, all commerce is by sea. The principal ports are Piraeus (the port for Athens), Patras and Volo on the mainland and the island ports of Syra and Corfu. The Greeks probably number all told 8,000,000, of whom about 4,000,000 are in Turkey. ---------- Well Tested. "It seems to me that I have heard THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY. MARCH 30, 1908. A HAPPY DRUMMER, a------ He Won the Applause of the Eccen- tric Hans von Bulow. Hans von Bulow, the famous leader and composer, was one of the most eccenfric members of a profession whereln eccentricity is common. . It Is related that one day, whilgiwalking the streets of Vienna, Bulow came upon a regimental band on Its way to the cas- tie. Immediately he ran to the middle of the street and joined the small boys about the drummer. Following the band, he kept bowing to the sur prised drummer, applauding him at almost every beat. "That Is rhythm! Excellent! That's the way I like to Lear it!" he continued to ejaculate, to the surprise of ail and to the great delight of the small boys. Persons in the street began to recog: nize the famous pianist and joined the procession, so that the band had one of the largest andlences to, which it had ever played. Bulow listened attentively to the end of the last plece and then made a deep bow before the drummer and his in strument. "Thank you," he sald. "That was re- freshing! That puts my nerves in good condition again!" It is said that when the drummer learned who his strange admirer was he was the proudest man in the regi ment. ; TESTING HIS TONGUE. The Unhappy Experience of a Young | Married Woman. A young married woman in Brooklyn | suspected that her husband was in. dulging in, wine. She determined, how- | ever, to say nothing till she had con- firmed her suspicions. In conversation i with her bosom friend she said she | would give anything to discover the truth. The friend mentioned that a man even 'slightly intoxicated cannot pronounce words of length. This gave | the young wife an idea, which she pro- | ceeded to put into execution, When the young women met agaln, | the suspicious wife announced that the worst had been ascertained. She burst | into tears and took from her hand bag | a paper, which she handed to her friend. "I gave him this," she sobbed. The friend read from the list the fol- | lowing words: "Philoprogenitiveness, disproportionableness, pseudaesthesia, | phthisls, parachronism, hypochondria- | sis, photochromy, syncategorematic." "And," added the unhappy wife, with | a fresh sob, "the wretch missed nearly all of them!" In a French Chateau In Winter. It is not all bliss to be Invited to a French chateau in midwinter, no mat- ter how distinguished the host or how romantic and artistic the domicile. At least It isn't for the steam heated Bos- tonian, lapped in the luxury of dum- mer warmth, A visitor to a distract- ingly lovely abode near Fontainebleau says he put in twenty-four hours of physical anguish there and simply came away wondering how his hosts endured the arctic temperature of the rooms. "If T meant to live in foreign lands," says this shivering person, "I would go through the chilling process which inures human flesh and blood in | France. What do these people do to render the blood In thelr veins to | course like fire and act like an eternal furnace?" That's a question Ameri: cans abroad might well like to have | answered. Heat of the Sun. It has been computed that the tem- | perature of the surface of the sun would be expressed by 18,000 degrees | of Fahrenheit's thermometer, or be- tween eighty and ninety times the tem- perature of boiling water. This is | about five times the lLiighest tempera- | tore that man is able to produce by ar: | tificial means. The light given off from | the surface of the sun is reckoned as being 05,300 times more intense than that of the molten metal in a Bessemer "converter, though that is of an tlmost | blinding brilliancy. If we compare it with oxyhydrogen fistne, the sun sheds | a light equal to 146 times the intensity | lof the limelight. Children's Favorite Toys. A hundred and thirty-two schoolboys f Paris and seventy-two girls were in- vited to deseribe their preferences in the way of toys. Among the former | Mhirty-one voted for a railway train, Mwenty-three for tin soldiers, ten for | steam engines, nine for building bricks | mnd eight for toy typewriters and me- chanical horses, Forty girls<a solid "majority--declared without hesitation | that a doll was supeglor to any other implement of recreation. The super | «:hild seems, happily, a long way off.-- {all Mall Gazette. } - \ Napoleon as a Reader. Napoleon was 8 resder--persistent, tanivorous, indefatigable. By the «2ump fire 4nd la his traveling carriage, in his tem staff office or his own | texdroom his' favorite volumes were eyer kept within easy reach. | , 4 Now and Then. EAT ORANGES iF YOU WANT TO KEEP WELL Careful tests have proved orange Juice has ci€ edicinal virtues fier with Indigestion--are © p d that wards « anges In sk troubles, th the Moming meal with were noticeably improved Theradds, however, a quicker way to getwbetter results. This -is to take one or two "PFruit-a-tives" tablets at bedtime in addition to the juice of an orange before breakfast the next morning. "Fruit-a-tives" are the 'juicés of oranges, apples, "figs and prunes, in which the medicinal action is many times intensified by the spe- cial way of combining them. Vala- able tonics are then added. Take the juice of an orange before breakfast--take "Fruit-a-tives" at | night--and you will quickly be rid of Indigestion, Stomach Troubles, Con- stipation and Biliousness. "Fruit-a- tives" are sold by all dealers at 0c a box--~6 for $250, Sent on receipt of | price by '"Fruit-a-tives," Limited, | Ottawa. PURCST, STRONGEST, BEST. ('wiotas vo Alum, Ammonia, Lune, Phosphates, or any Iojoriont. E.W.GILLETT aires TORONTO, ONT. A SURGICAL OPERATION If there is any one thing that a woman dreads more than another it | is a surgical operation. We can state without fear of a contradiction that there are hun- | dreds, yes, thousands, of operations | performe: od upon women in our hos: | pitals which are entirely unneces- sary arm. many have been avoided by | LYDIA E.PINKHAM'S |" at an | VEGETABLE COMPOUND the following letter, | Mrs. Letitia Blair, Cannifton, Ont., writes to Mrs. Pinkham ; "1 was sick for five years. One doe- tor told me it was niceration, and an- jother told me it was a fibroid tumor, sud advised an operation. No one kmows what I suffered, and the bear- | ing down pains were terrible. 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