A FINE BUDGET OF NEWS A Great Army of Ontario People Carried off by the White Plague Within the Past Forty Years--A Lord 'Who Has Proved His! Beneficence. The Kingston: (Ontario) Gazette of 1815 Was § recent interesting guest of the sanctum. It records three recent deaths, closing three remarkable hives. At Cambridge, N.Y, Solo- and well. ja enjoy other species, commotion. came ashore with the man on its back alive' Since that time they bave uever eaten or killed one of that species, although If one happens WHAT WAS FOUND IN A KINGSTON: . 1, be washed ashore there is a great! First the women sit down, sing : WHEN THE MINE CAVED IN. in Hours of Anguish. Youth's Companion. What the Women of Cherry Lived Through and beat sticks; next a white cloth 's placed! Dread is the alarm &f fire in a coal-mine. on the turtle's back; food is prepared and The sound smote the ears of the women of iplaced on the cloth, generally plantains, rice Cherry as an omen, of death, for three hun and palm oil; then, amid singing, dancing and, dred men, their husbands, brothers and sons, antics of the fetich people, it is carried back Were deep in the mine below the fown. Three into the sea. hundred, after all who could reach the shaft United States railway statistics for ten before the flame and gades cut them off had {years have disclosed the interesting fact that, escaped! A week later, 19 the very hour and | while 890,009,574 passengers were carried dur- Minute, twenty-one of the men were rescfied; {ing the last recorded year, 101,29 persons but who can tell 'what the women of Cherry! tn et s-- a fine artistic sense, and the so-called restora- tions of old buildings used to vex him. He told of a visit to a fine old church in New England. A grey dust filled the church, shov- els clattered, and he found three workmen digging out of the floor swith their picks 2 superb memorial brass that, in the prbcess, they were breaking to pieces. "What on earth are you about here?" de- manded Mr. Trask. The leader of the men, as his pick split a fine Gothic motto, answered: "Restoring, of course. What else? When Josephine was six years old she was taken for the first time to see a trgined amimal 1, . 'have been killed and 814495 persons injured mon Cronk funéral was attended by two have b ' ¥ e wives and twenty-six children, thirteen to! by railroads since 1898. Only about el each mother. They were sisters and he lived seven of the victims were passengers. But lived through in the dragging hours of anguish of those black seven days, or fhe sorrow that settled into despair In the homes of the other women? f : week about with 'them in the same village. In' Laurens district, South Carolina, Solomon Niblet's age at death was verified at 143 years. He was from England, emigrating when nineteen years olgk He did not lose teeth or eyesight, and went hunting a few days before death. Tager Talper, of Germany, aged 120 years, had buried ten wives, who had left motherless in all thirty-one children, The eleventh wife and "her five children survived the much-married Teuton. According to thé report of the Registrar: General, 87,654 persons have died in Ontario from tuberculosis since 1871, The average anmnal death-roll is 2,530. If economists are correct in fixing $1,000 as the minimum value of a life, the Province loses $2,500,000 a year through this plague to place loss of life at its lowest consideration. There should be no abatement in the interest of the societies do- ing" battle against it. Local sanitariums should be more plentiful. At St. Louis'the intéresting fact has been disclosed by the Mupicipal Commission that of the 5581 cases of tuberculosis reported there within three years, more than half were in a section of the city but one-ninth of its area. No disease yields so readily to sanitation and good sur- roundings. The truthful, but unversed, journal of the Laymen's Movement, "Men and Missions," New York, promised those who could attend the great convention there the pleasure of an addeéss by Sir John A. Macdonald, of Canada, The able editor of the Globe is an orator, far surpassing the merits of the great premier statesman in that line, but his speech would not aspire, on this particular occasion, to rival in world-wide wonder and interest one from the immortal Sir John. In Kingston he told his attached followers that he hoped to look down upon their comfort and prosperity from a higher sphere. But he did not promise to speak also, even for the religion that be- came his latest affection, ring excavations in Genoa, a Greek tomb of the fourth century B.C. has been discover- ed. Among the objects in the tomb was a magnificant vase of the time of Phidias. * At Atlanta, a policeman arrested his two] sons for burglary and his evidence convicted them. Faithful officer; unsuccessful father. The man who sits on a limb and saws it off is wise compared to him who thinks he can sin-without having to suffer. In the United States $8,000000 was spent during 1908 (the last year fabuiated) for the prevention. and cure of tuberculosiy; from public moneys, the remainder from v ry contributions. Perseverance is the price of success--but! The we do not reflect that it is always payable in advance! : in 'a ballot, the inmates of the Darlington Woeikhouse, England, decided by a maj» ity oi 165 not to have beer with their Christ.ias dinner, The champion absent-ntinded man is surely he who in London at Christmas sent a $5000 chéque through the postoffice and forgot to direct the envelape. The figiire 'one occurs twice in the year 1910; next year "it will occur three times, which will not happen again for two hundred years. One consequence of a constitution and par- liandent for. Tutkey has been freedom for the press, Since July last 747 newspapers have been published in Turkey alone. In Persia one newspaper has the somewhat surprising name of Gabriel's Trumpet. ! : Montgomery Ward & Co., the great mail order house in Chicago, has bought ground near {ts new building for a recreation park for fits 3,000 employees. There are to be study: One hospital has been completed at Cals gary for $150,000, and a wing is to be added to another hospital (the Holy Cross) at cost of $75000. ; In the midst of the excited cries in the Old Land, "Down with the Lords," one of these dreadful men. has been proving. their benefi- cence, instances of which are of almost week- ly ogcurrence. Lord Ashton, in opening pa- latial municipal buildings, costing formally presented them to Lancaster, making with the Vietoria Statue, Ashton Memorial -and others, his gifts to his native town exceed $1,290,000. 4) Our English ancestors buried their dead at some distance from their towns or hamlets But -as Christianity spread the practice grew up; and at length became universal, of bury- ing around the churches, that the dead might be remenibered in the devotions of the peo- ple. The Bidding Prayer in King Edwards Injunction, 1547, facilitated this. The ribs are the frame of the ship; they may be hidden from view by the iron plates, but they, and strength to the vessel We cannot dismiss the idea of creeds with a shrug. of the shoulder. Written or unwritten, they are the ribs of the soul. What a man believes moulds "his character; he can never rise above the ideals which he makes his own. one road has been permitted to run through the ten years without killing a passenger, the Lackawanna, which transported | passengers 65340908 miles. It is doubtful iwhether this remarkable showing can be dup- licated by any railroad. Our life is just as marrow as we let it be. If we live in a lonely country place, we can study plants and animals until we come to understand something of the secrets of the universe. If our lot be in a great city, we have opportunities of studying human nature ~seeing the development of characters as 'can weep and suffer and pray and hope, and {that is all. All? Yes, but it saved theirescued miners of Cherry. Men fought the fire din the first three terrible days. { Chicago, and lowered their lengths of. hose, land followed it presently, and dragged it with ithem. The fan supplied them fresh air. For | three days there was hope that water would J sutidue the flames; but the mine led off in countless passages, and the fire subdued in What can a woman do when the mine caves) 193,787,224 in and buries her husband underground? She Firemen 'came from) strange as ever novelist put into his books.|90¢ woke from its embers in another, and the Multitudes of men walked the same streets Dattle waged uncertainly, with the advantage with Dickens without seeing a hundredth part, '" favor of the fire. Then on the third day of what he saw. It is the power to see and the sharp order was given to stop the {an and show, and went home much pleased. As she was at times slow to obey, her mother thought this a good time to teach her a les- son, so she said: "Don't yoy think, Josephine, that if dogs and ponies and monkeys can learn to obey so well, a little girl like you, who knows much more than animals, should lobey even more quickly?" "Of course, I would, mother," came the instant reply, "if I had only been as well trained as they have been." "I. believe I'll open a dramatic school," said the seedy-looking man. "Why? You never have been on the stage, have you? asked the preacher. "How are you able to teach people to act?" "It's simple enough. You're teaching peo- ple how to be angels, aren't you? Have you ever been in heaven" « PAGE NINE. TEA AT ITS BEST -- in all its garden freshness and fine flavour "SALADA" sealed lead packets are proof against dirt. The tea can't be contaminated --and it costs no more than common tea. this power should be cultivated. The little black pictures called "silhouettes derived their name from Etienne de Sil- houette, French minister of finance in 1759. His extreme economy was caricatured by all classes, and any cheap mode or fashion was sarcastically called by his name. About that time the profiles were produced by casting la shadow of a face by the: light of a candle. Because they were cheap they were called in ridicule "silhouettes." . Instead of ice, a scarce commodity, many Turkish cities in the summer depend on snow. This is gathered from the mountains in win- ter, packed in trenches and covered with pine needles until the hot season. The snow sells » not the object to be seen, that we lack, and| withdraw the firemen. This was done. As soon as the fan stopped, the smoke in- creased from the mouth of the mine. The fin that kept the firemen alive had supplied oxy- gen for the flame; and now, when the blower stopped, the flame followed the firemen, chas- ling them to the shaft, and bellowing after ; them; and the shaft ina little while becime fa roaring furnace. Then a galloping team brought a load ef planks, which were laid over the mouth of the mine, and after this came other wagons with loads of railway- rails, and these were "13id 'above the planks;| and then came carts of sand, and these were backed up to the mine Und shoveled over the rails, till the last fissure was covered and the last faint wisp of smoke disappeared. : for a high price and onfy the better class oft It was the only way to" stop hig fire, the! people are able to buy the luxury during the! managers explained. They had been, fighting extremely warm weather. the fire and feeding it dt the same time, d@nd Bibles, Testaments, and portions (Psalms or, had been blowing it into blaze in many places. funderstand coronet braids Each year are printed 17,000,000 Protestant while pouring water on it in owe or two places!' "You seem glad your wife has joined the Suffragette Club." "Yes," answered Mr. Meekton. "It's a [relief to find Henrietta with a regular audi- ence of her own. I've gotten a sore throat ptrying to furnish laughter and cheers every evening." "Did the niinister say anything comfort- ing?" asked the neighbor of the widow re- cently bereaved. "Indeed, he didn't!" was the quick reply. "He said my husband was better off." "Yes; I am going abroad." "And how are you going to artdnge your itinerary?" "I are the latest thing." "Do you think you will keep your new cook?' "We don't know. She has taken us $4.250= 20d all still at work. Gospels) in more than five hundred lan- guages or dialects. Of these 10,000,000 are published by Bible societies, and sold below cost. The remaining 7,000000 are printed commercially. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. True Practical Religion For Any Church Undertake. "A very interesting experiment was started by Doctor Pratt, of Boston--a tuberculosis class in connection with a chureh," says Dr. William Osler in Woman's Home Cothpanion. "It is.a nice sort of practical religion for any church to undertake. J!.s first class consisted of fifteen or twenty )*rsons, chiefly young clerks, all in the eariy stage of the disease, 1 He met them once a week in a school-room of 'the church, and there they discussed their cases with him. y were weighed every week, a careful analysis was made of thelr symptoms--how much they had gained, or how. much they had lost. Each one took his own temperature, arid brought his note-book, and it is a remack- able record of several years' work. A number of these young persons, some with well-mark- ed symptoms of the disegse, have been com- pletely cured without going to a sanitorium, without going away, and. while continuing their work. 1 know of no more encouraging feature in connection with this disease than this practical success. : One often hears the statement: "All this fuss about tuberculosis is terrible for the poor victims, who are made social outcasts, to their great distress and to the alarm of their fami- lies." There is no justification for this feeling. There is no risk in close contact with tuber- culosis if the patient is ordinarily careful about the sputum. If one is morbidly afraid of the disease and desires a place of safety from iss germs, go to some first-class sanatorium for tuberculosis. There are fewer getms there in the air and on the floor than ih any other place. And there is very little risk of catching the disease in the house of a tuberculosis patient if he uses caution and it is properly d'sinfected. to The Russian in Canada. Westminster. The British education helps a man to de- velop his individuality. The average German and Russian education tends to knock out of a man 'all originality and to grind him to that degree, that the goal of his ambition is to be like every body else. The average Can- adian is first of all taught, in the west coun- gt help himself, to be independent. The --especially the Russian-- has great en- durance. He was taught that endurance, sub- mission, and implicit obedience to the church and the rulers were the highest virtues. He has also an exemplary and touching reverence for his parents and old age. A Galician can live on the half of what it takes to keep an Englishman. The Galicians buy everything for cash, and hate to make debts; and when they have debts they are much concerned about paying them. The Galician is fond of dbistker; he gets into rows and fights; he goes often to jail. But he has lots of good qual ities all the same. ristmas week 70,000,000 letters, iNew York Times. "A railroad disaster is never an "act of God," the phrase runs. The blame for this sacri-| fice of human life at Spanish river bridge, the most horrifying conditions, rests & man or men employed by the Canadian to the by herself. Later her mother Ne the hateful cigarette; he is an intemperate They must smother it oul: 'And we knew that they did wisely. But whit of the hearts of the women who saw those J4id ahove butied husbands? To smother the fire was to drive the black damp into the rémotest corner of the mine. There thad 'been Hope while, the fan ran, but! nothing now colild live below. They crie the mine. Wise 'men jddressed them, and told them to go home and be brave. As for their husbands, unfortufately there was no hope for them. The mide had not been sedl. ed till it was practically certain' thas every! living man was out. Thee days the fire had been raging, and no ohe could remain alive below. Let the womén! go home now, and relief would be seat to them. * Everything hdd been done that could bd dome for thelr hus- bands. But when would, the mine be opened? 'When would their & be: reseed: The women pleaded piteoiisly, They knew-wgome: thing told them--that tere were living én below. The experts Wire divided In thelr mine would never be opened: The mine wis riined. : *But the women would not go homes, ipit, as the women! lingered at the tomb of their Lord in' thei garden mear Jerusalem; 'They prayed, they wept, they "irisisfed, they would fot be reasonable." Some of them were Hrsterjeal; some were. fuous; more were amb, with haunting eyes that pier th soul of every man that Tooked into ors. of and then returned to fix their gaze despdiringly on the mouth of the mine. At:last they small holes in the sand, and dropped lines of hose down the shaft and, let the water flow. Then, lowering a thermomefer rand finding the heat reduced, they uncovered the pit, and brave men went down, br. dead bodies, alas! very many of them: as they worked they heltd noises that meant life, and they worked till they rescued a score or more of their fellow men, who had walled themselves in, and vied sgaifist afl probability, for the coming of their friends. Now who saved the miners. of Cherry? Brave men, who took their lives in their hands, and whose fortitude had its rewasd i the salvation of their brothers. But not these only. The women of Cherry saved their hus bade and sons by their tears and. prayers land unreasonable insistence and blind, faith 'that would not be denied. Even so in the | long. ago, when the wisdom of men had dome its. dtmost, and the disciples Riuddled, cowed and helpless, in the Uppe® Room, the love and' tears of women watched without at the sepulchre till life triumphed over death, 'snd love had its answer from_the tomb. . GOSSIP OF THE PARISH. Things Theat Add Spice to the Religious 8 Life _ The Countess de Martel, the novelist who writes under the name of "Gyp," has u pretty wit. She was assisting at a charity to theif Paris, to which came Baron Rothschild : The Cou ess pressed him to buy. something. - nobleman. "You have nothing I want. Say, 1 have an idea. Sell me your astograph: should like that" paper and wrote: Rothschild the sum ity ~Gyp." ; "Received from of 1,000 francs for well pleased with the countess' € -- a a od EN ae The late Bishop Hare, of South Dakota, of- ten in his sermons. She insisted, at bedtime, in saying she had demanded this right of private For a time the little {| refused to answer (bit finally, after much 5 ET jos' wanted Sy © teal seme their} out in agony that}' their men were being smothered to death inl judgment, but most of {them held that the} They hung =about the" sand-covéred] But} E am 1 to buy?" said the wealthy}, He, Promptly the Jady took .a sheet of mote Xs Barong wever, The Baron read, handed over.the. money, pre "ingenuity. prayer. on trial, but we are in hopes that we will suit." "I likes fo 'ear you preach extrumpery, sit," remarked the old parishioner to the new parson; "yur languidge is that wonderful fiiid and spiritous." "HOw PATRICK HENRY DIED. [Thankful That the Goodness of God Was a Comfort as He Was Dying. - For centuries the world has admired the Fealtiness and fortitude of Socrates in the presence of death, but if Socrates died like a. philosopher, Patrick Henry died like a Christian. In his last illness, all the other rentedies having failed, his physician, Doctor Cobell, proceeded to administer to him a dose lof liquid mercury. Taking the vial in his (Hand, and looking at it for a moment, the dying man said: "1 suppose, doctor, this is your last resort?" lL ath sofry to say, governor, that it is." "What 'will be the effect of this medicine?" At will give you immediate relief, or--" The doctor could not finish the sentence 4 His: patient: took up the word: "You mean, doctor, -that it will give relief or will prove fatal immediately?" [You can live only a very shért time with- pout it," 'the 'doktor answered, "and it may possibly relieve you." " "Then, the old statesman said: "Excuse me, doctor, for a few minutes," and drawing over his eyes a silken cap which he usually wore, and, still. holding the vial in his hand, he prayed in clear words a simple, childlike prayer for his family, for his country, and for his own soul, then in the presence of Heath térwards, in perfect calmness, he swallowed the medicine. Meanwhile Doctor Coball, who greatly loved him, went out upon the lawn, and in his grief threw hifself down upon the uhder 'one of the trees, and wept bitterly. Soon, whén he had sufficiently mastered hiin- self, the doctor returned to his patient, whom he found calmly watching the congealing of the blood under his finger-nails, and speaking words of love ahd peace to his family, who jwere weeping round his chair. Among other things, he told them that he was thankful for that goodnéss" of God which, having blessed him through all his life, was then permitting Bim to die without any pain. Finally, fixing his eyes with much tenderness upon his dear friend, Doctor Cobell, with whom he had formerly 'held many arguments respecting the Christian religion, he asked the doctor" to {observe how great a reality and benefit*timat religion was to a man about to die. And aftet Patrick Henry had spoken these few words in praise of something which, hav- ing never failed him in his life before, did not then fail him in his very last need of it, he continued to breathe very softly for some moments, after which they who were looking upon: him saw that his life had departed. Silly Waste While Poor Suffer. wis given al Baltimore the other, ofior of 3 black and tan dog. This the property of a man who bears of Walter Wallenhorst. The de- not say whether Mr. Wallen- x his money or whether it was left 'indulgent parents. It does develop, y that Mr. Walleahorst had money, r the principal act of the evening was the jentation to the honored pup of the oc- of a $15000 collar. 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