Snryse WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913. HE clever house- wife, who considers . the pleasure and welfare of her family, BRITISH COMMONS WORK HAS GROWN WITH YEARS. Winter Tours FLOWDA snd THB WS DYING Gave Him "Frult-a-tives" And Saved His Life, In Palgvrston's Day the Routine CAMPBRILVILLE, ONT., May sth. 191 "Our 1 ittle boy, Lawrence, was affected with Chronic Jodigestion, « the doctor did not he. would recover. aan Lhe: would Hvar thing into this other trouble. he passed | throu ng ele kn Paed , cried incessantly and life was a misery to him. My husband had been using *"Pruit-a-tives' for I ion, getting 'benefit and I Songts t help our boy. Mgs. J. VANFLEET. Soc a box, 6 for $2.50, trial 2. At all. dealers hop from a Limited, Ottawa. Was Comparatively Light and Ther: Was More Time for the Jocna of Debate and Happy Phrases Hit Off Weaknesses Far Better Than Volumes, The Press Gallery, except in the person of Sir Henry Lucy, does not otten appeal to the general reader. Its work ordinarily ends with the Zhe ape pearance of 'the morning Those who care to recall the debates of long past sessions have to look for help to the volumes of that pré-emin- ently useful work, the "Annual Reg: ister." But, as inence is sel- | dom gained in more than one fleld, the interest of thé "Annual Register" is hardly on a level with its import- ance, It is a real gain, therefore, when an occupant of the Gallery, be- sides furnishing us each morning of PATENTS Herbert J. 8S. 8S. Dennison. BE ni rad 3 where! PRR here! eighteen the session with Parliamentary oratory, refers to his memory or his note-book and there finds lighter material. 'A volume drawn from these sources may give the his- torian of the future many of the de- tails on which the life of his narra- tive depends. Mr. Jeans' "Parliamen- tary Reminiscences" is a book of this kind. "Though not professing to be history" his recollections touch on nearly every measure or matter of importance within the sessions with which they deal--they are eon from 1869 to 1686--and th serve incidents and 'fragments of speeches which it might be dificult to find elsewhere. The by-plry of a de- bate may be quite as important as the debate itself, and a single sen- tence will sometimes describe a sit- uation which the remainder oi the speech only obscures. In both these ways Mr. Jeans' recollections will give real help to the student of par- liamentary history, Unf ately, useful as they are for this rpose, they do not do much to serve the purpose of the reviewer. He is ne- cessarily reduced to taking only the lighter of Mr. Jeans' work. The contfhst between the House of Commons urider Lord Palmerston and under Mr. Asquith ix a saddening one. So far as domestic affairs were concerned the country was living in a Parliamentary paradise. Questions rarely exceeded a dozen, private member's, nights frequently ended in a count out, and on Wednesday, which was then the day for unoffi- cial bills, the House sometimes rose early in the afternoon because it had no work to do. When there was lit- tle business to be done there was .| some chance of its being dong pro- perly, and among other gains must be reckoned the greatér control exercis- {ed by the Prime Minister. Lord Pal- merston was in his place when public | business began, and he never left the House till it rose. When the speaker retired to have his sleep, which was nearly at eight o'clock as possible, Lord Palmerston went out with him. "For this meal the Speaker never took | more than twenty or twenty-five min- Products Factory has cement blocks sills, bricks and lintels always on hand at reasonable prices. Anything in cement made to order. Longe ot Charles asa I Patrick hone, 1304. Na-Dru-Co Laxatives give gentle, timely and effective. aid, without discomf distres utes, and when he returned to the chair Lord Palmerston almost immed- ately followed him and remained till the adjournment. No doubt the de- partmental work of the Prime Minis- ter is much greater now than it was then, but the conduct of business in the House of Commons has suffered at least in proportion. At present the relations of the members of the Cabi- net to one another seem to be mo- delled on that epoch in Jewish his- tory when "there was no king in Israel," but every man did that which was right in his own eye. Each Gov- ernment Bill embodies the wisdom of its author and of no one else. In those days, too, the House of wg mons had still a will of its own r. Jeans describes an evening in which be heard Sir S. Northcote, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Gladstone suc- cessively silenced by an angry and de- termined House. The eccasion was a vote for the purchase of the Exhibi- | tion building of 1861. Both the front courage to say so. that Mr. Gladstone, while yin } that the building as it stood was not very good, pleaded that the 'outside might be made quité handsome. Mr. Henley had an answer ready. x He compared the attempt to beau- tify the Exhibition building to the showman who was going about the country exhibiting a black woman. "I can make her red," said the show- . "I can make her white, but do what I 1 cannot make a hand- some woufin of her.' This story ex- hit off the and it was ed by the clowded House with delight. "Among sentences of. which a baton to Bopden vo te English friends of the Southern Con- "We sympathize with everybody's rebels but our. own"; Among the speakers at the BA Society dimmer im New York - Hon. W, T. White, Sir John Willison, Hon. W. . R. Riddell, ¥. B. Riddell, F. B. Featherstonhaugh, and Alexander D, Fraser. Mapy distinguished Americans were, present. , were: Hom. W. J. I. M. King, Justice SOCTETY DINNER. E---- A CURIOUS FEE. The Barrister Might Have Sold the Bible Anyway. - When the Dominion Coal Co. was formed back in the early nineties a number of coal eperators in Cape Bre- ton were brought out. Among them was one man who was noted for his strong religious convictions, During the course of the negotiations he se- cured the good offices of the present Premier of Nova Seotia, Hon. G. H. Murray, who, besides representing Cape Breton in the Legislative Coun- cil, was also a member of the Gov- ernment, to conduct the case for him. Though the purchase of this man's property was not necessary to the suc- cess of the deal, but Mr. Murray was able to have it included, and for it he obtained what was undoubtedly an excellent price. After the deal was put through Mr, Murray was sitting in his room at the Halifax Hotel with a couple of friends, when the mine-owner was an- nounced. The latter intimated that he had come to say good-bye to the lawyer, as he purposed leaving the country. He was profuse in his thanks for the service that Murray had rendered him, and, as he was taking his leave, produced a some- hat bulky parcel and handed it to im. The future Premier's friends were naturally curious to know what was in the parcel, which looked very much like a thick wad of bank bills. To gratify their curiosity he opened it as soon as the man was gone, and to his astonishment unwrapped a Bible. One of his friends promptly picked it up, and taking it by the back, shook it vigorously to see if by any chance paper notes might be hidden among the leaves. But not a single bill dropped out. The mine- owner had confined his recognition of Mr. Murray's kindly offices on his be- half to the copy of the Scriptures, with Matthew vi., 19 and 20 marked. The verses read: "Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal." Cy Warman's New Story. Cy Warman, Canadian by adop- tion, who railroads and writes novels, has a brand new story. He applies it to the troubles of a railroad system with which Mr. Warman is emphati- cally not conngeted. "The main fingers: on this other system," said he, "makes me think of the two Dutchmen." The two Dutchmen, it appears, sat by the roadside ome day. A lean, nervously active, excitable man leap-! ed off the half hourly car before it came to a full stop. the spaghetti "Where--w! factory?" he gasped. They looked at each other, and puffed and reflected. By-and-bye each shook his head. ° "We don't know where iss a spag- hetti factory," said they. The nervous man fled, bawling af- ter the car. He failed to catch it, and returned to crack his finger joints and prance in front of the stolid Dutchmen. The next car came in its dilatory course, and the nervous man sprang om board. The a started. Then the two Dutchmen "Hey!" The nervous man jumped off the car, and ran back to them. The con- ductor gave the motorman two bells. One of the Dutchmen fixed a calm eye upon the nervous man. "Did you mean---pufl noodle factory?" he asked. '"Yes---yes!" shouted the nervous 1 Counc] served without any sessional indemnity, Councillor B. was defeated in a contest in the parish of C., and at the next session the cofimcillors voted themselves $3 per day. In the next election: Councillor 2 was returned for the parish of C. 'by eT toh and at the following segsion it was proposed to increase the allowance to $5. : Councillor B. supported the resoln- tion. He believed, he said, that his services were worth $5 per day.to the eleetors of the parish of C. bo and that if he had not thought so he not have offered hia services. i "Mr. Warden," said 3 member who was Suposing the increase, "there is Bathing im that. Phree and they rejected him." When a 'watch is run down OPPOSES EUGENICS. Famous English Scientist Says Nat. ural Selection Is Only Real Force. Not eugenics, but a 'freedom fof society to exercise the power 6[ nat- ural selection is what is needed: 'to better the world. This is the opin: jon of a great man of science, Lhe late Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, of England, who as the interpreter of Darwin upheld the law of natural se- lection, which was postulated a gen- eration ago. Any attempt to regulate marriages by law, to reject the unfit, to segre- gate or sterilize any portion of ;the buman race to prevent propagation would, declares Dr. Wallace, be a mere subterfuge. Society cannot be reformed from above, nor by artifi- cial law. Reform must begin within: Any great improvement is impossible, while the present social system is in vogue, which puts a premium on social inequality. Interference by law with the free- dom of marriage would be immoral, and would be a greater menace to the well being of humanity than the pres- ent ills it seeks to correct. Dr. Wallace recites the present so- cial status, which is familiar to social and economic students, and the basis of the arguments of Socialists. He points out ecomomic inequalities. While certain women can spend on dress and flowers and idle pleasures; $5,000 or $10,000 for a single enter- tainment, thousand# of other women are compelled to work for a pittance. He points to the thousands of girls who are driven to the street as the only means of breaking the awful monotony imposed an them by wages so small and employment so unecer- tain as to make them a mere make- shift. Pertinently he asks if a legis- lature, incapable of dealing with suet a status, Is capable of "ruling over marriages. Until soeial and econdmic inequali- ties 'are overcome and a degree of equality secured, he says, no improve- ment in the race may be looked for. Until women and men alike are in position to fellow their best impulses, the offspring cannot be improved. This is the line of reasoning: Many women, who otherwise would remain unmarried from choice, now aceepi husbands to' secure subsist- ence. They are driven to matrimony by starvation. In other words, their marriages are not the outcome of strong personal attachment or great emotion. On the other hand, in a society where every individual by contributing to the common weal with work, mental or physical, is economically independént, marriage by choice would be the rule. Every woman would be likely to have chances to marry. A powerful selec tive agency would be created. A man would have to be a pretty good speci- men to attract a mate. From go many men, women would reject naturally the unfit, the diseased, the crippled. the malformed, the weak-minded. It is the natural law of selection work- ing out, as it did in the beginning, does now and ever shall do world without end. What Dr. Wallace pleads for is a state of society in which the natural selection law may be given an oppor- tunity for free play. 1t may be taken as certain that when there is little economic force to eompel them to do otherwise, women will select for hus- bands few of the worst men of all classes, whe now by reason of money readily obtain wives. Some Snakes These! Some years ago Sir E. Ray Lanke- ster told us to be of good heart while contemplating: the gigantic extinet repliles of the past, for we had in the existing sperm whales, the Great Rorqual, and the halebane halen, creatures bigger than any of the That comparisos still holds true, but the German =ipedition in search of the Dinosaurs of East Africa, the first fossil remains of which were found mhseums. 1t is thought that the largest at- 'tained almost twice the length of the "there is a cast Musesm al South Kensington, ang 'which was 80 feet long. The neck of this reptsle, Gigantos- arus, appears to hi been at least 15 feet longer than that of the Diplo- docus and a good 4 thicker, as the vertebrae twice as high ar . "Dull-wit- alright, Peacock Green bottles to pre- vent it from deteriorating when exposed to light. yourself, old man." takes particular pride in the coffee she serves. It is usually "Yes! Kuntz's Old Ger- man Lager is my choice. There's nothing to match that 'Old Ger- man flavor, youknow. And just watch how itsparkles when I pour itout. See the beau- tiful foam, too. You can't beat it. Kuntz's Old German has the class, And it's put in Better order a bottle To make certain of getting Kunts's Old German, be sure the *0Old German" scene is on the label. KINGSTON FOLKS ASTONISH DRUGGIST N We sell many good medicines but we are told the mixture of buck- thorn bark, glycerine, etc., known as Adler-i-ka, is the best we ever sold. Kingston folks astonish us daily by telling us how QUICKLY Adler-i-ka relieves sour stomach, gas on the stomach and constipation. Mapy report that a SINGLE DOSE relieves these troubles almost IM- MEDIATELY. We are glad we are Kingston agents for Adler-i-ka. G. W. Mahood. THAT TOBACCO With the "Reoster" om it. {Is crowing louder as he goes along Only 45¢c, per pound. For chewing and smoking. AT A. MACLEAN'S, Outario Street. CALIFORNIA, SUNNY SOUTH. 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