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The Devil Story. - There is a delightful French story, ‘told with that utter abandon and non: moral moral that only the French know how to use, about the devil and his imps. This story is a favorite one 'of children at Sunday school picnics. “0 le portion of the story deals with a blacksmith who has a purse blessed by St. Peter. Through a subterfuge, the blacksmith gets the devil and all his imps to make themselves small and fc‘imb into the purse. When all are "in, Poverty, the blacksmith, shuts it ‘ ‘ quick, and not a devil can get out. At once a strange thing is seen. .There are no more wicked angels z. riaming round the world to tempt speople to become bad. All the people become good. N 0 one will play cards any more, nor throw dice nor gamble nor play billiards. So those persons in he used to make billiard tables and Eplaying-cards and dice and gambling lparaphernalia find their occupations "gone and become poor. No ladies would wear feathers or bright hats or ,peekaboo waists or bobble skirts, but :all dressed themselves simply and in a seemly manner, and all the dress-mak- ers and milliners became poor. No lone would drink whisky or other like -‘ stuff, nor go to horse-races. So whisky fmakers became poor and jockeys wan- ' dered around starving. No one would smoke tobacco, nor go to the theatres, ‘=nor buy naughty Sunday papers, nor lie nor steal nor go to law. So the 7‘tobacco makers all became poor and wstarved, and the actors and actresses --and stage managers and ushers all be- mcune hungry and wretched, as they -could make no money, and the law ‘_»yers found their business gone and went around in rags, and the judges .and sheriffs and jailers and constables :and court criers had nothing to do -.and could make no money, and so be- ;gan to starve. The judges, instead of being fat and sleek, became thin and 3 hungry looking. Now, all these people having noth- fin; to do and making no money had a bad effect on trade. They could buy .nothing, and so tradesmen began to ‘become poor. Things reached such a 'crisis that the king and his councillors 'VV'Vv‘r-V‘V i qr "7’59 ' mm mm wrrmfifi'irne new: 'vrvrv'V-VVV'VVVVVVvvvv are; . :- : nfiug", ‘ _ ;-'I _ luamaw‘tamu lob. 7 am ,l inlet and tried to find a remedy. For -even the priests were starving. The people had all got so good that they -did not need to go to church to learn not to swear and not to smoke“ They did not need preachers to pray for them, and so the preachers could make mo more money, and so they began to ..stai've. Then the king and his coun- vcillors devised ways and means to make the people had again, so that .the country could become prosperous. iSunday schools were opened to teach little boys to swear and pick pockets, :and to teach little girls to tell fibs and 'to make faces. But as soon as the «children got old enough to reason they :stopped swearing and making faces .and other like things. For there were ;.no devils to tempt them. The country kept getting poorer :and poorer and the people kept get- Tting more and more miserable, till at last the king disguised himself as a beggar and went around the country trying to discover a remedy. Finally he came upon a blacksmith running hot knitting needles into a purse, and could smell sizzling flesh. It was Pov- erty giving the devils a. taste of their home life. The king found out the story and begged Poverty, as a loyal subject and a man who loved his na- tive land, to let the devils loose. The patriotic appeal touched Poverty’s heart, and so he let the devils loose. They spread over the world and began to tempt people again. The theatres opened up. Men wanted to smoke. People begun to steal, and the judges again put on their wigs and earned their fat salaries. Everybody began to be wicked, and everybody began to be employed at dressmaking, tobacco raising and all that had been stopped. The country grew wicked and prosper- o'ls, the priests had a lot to do, and the nation blessed the blacksmith for timing the devils loose again upon his native land. Is this a foolish story? It looks so, because it is told about impossible conditions for the delight of children. But, do you know, 1 have had grown menâ€"men who thought themselves very, very wise and very, very practi- calâ€"argue like that to me. “ Social- ism is impossible. Under Socialism who will employ the pcople? The peo- ple will become poor under Socialism. You can ’t make it work, for who would buy the things made under So- cialism ? " That is the kind of.argumeut they employ. And it is just as foolish as theargument in the story about the devils. They think that jails make 1 lfififlfmmliggminiong werg addgd | . /¢- . -0 - .-...r .. . ‘-..-~ . a. trade good, that war makes trade good, that judges with fat salaries to spend make trade good. They think that if we abolish policemen and com~ mercial travellers, and competition a- mong a dozen retail stores in the little villages, many people will be thrown out of their jobs and there will be hard times. Beth in the devil story and in the argument of capitalist apol- ogists against Socialism, it is overlook- ed that labor can be made to do many things. It can be turned to forming an artificial lake for a multi-million- aire, it can be turned to building wide streets in the crowded quarters of our cities, or it can be turned to producing pure milk for the babies of our cities and distributing pure ice on hot August days. Under Socialism labor will be or- ganized. Labor power will not be bought and sold in slave pens asit is now. It will not be controlled by the capitalist class to produce a bare liv~ ing for the slaves and luxuries un- known to the ancients for the masters. Labor power will be carefully conserv- ed as the most precious gift of man. It will be turned into creating comâ€" fortable homes (for all. Maybe Mor- gan would not be able to smoke dollar cigars under Socialism. Maybe Strath- cona would not be able to dress up five hundred men and send them to kill people in South Africa. But the lives of little children will be made! happy, and fathers and mothers willl be able to enjoy home life without fear of the rent collector, and without that fearful dread of losing the job that only gives a slave’s pay. Have you been arguing against So- cialism? Then read the devil story and digest it, and never, never again show your gross ignorance by arguing against what will be the greatest boon to man that has ever come to this earth.â€"Cotton’s Weekly. arouse“ " LOST T .â€".â€"... The fate of King Manuel recalls that "rn-¢< ., _ -..... . . ~‘n --. .... ‘ .~ to Elie profinéé’fihdfiéfied by’ihe King of Sardinia, and henceforth became part of the “United Italy" of Victor Emmanuele and Garibaldi. Another lady who has lost a crown is the exâ€"Queen Natalie of Servia. She was the wife of King Milan, and mo- ther of that unfertunate young King Alexander, whose assassination with his wife, Queen Draga, put an end to the Obrenovitch dynasty of Servia. and paved the way for King Peter's accession. Altogether. these dispos- sessed Queens are not to be envied. Among the monarchs Who have (leased to rule are the deposed Shah Mohammed Ali Mirza the son of Muza- fin-ed-Din, who used to be so well- known in London. Another Mohammea dan monarch who has been replaced is Abdul Hamid. who, as the "Sick Man," was the bugbear of European politics fo_r forty years. He is now said to be I lunatic, and is, at any rate, a prl; soner. He is never likely to be ruler of Turkey again. Theebaw, ex-King of Burmah, who Was dethroned by the British Government after the last Burmese campaign, still lives and thor- oughly enjoys his rustication at Batv nagirl, a town on the West Indian Coast. He also is naminally a prison: er, but feels none of the restrictions implied by that term, but he will ne- ver be alloWed to see his beloved Bur- mah again. indie, by the way, has more .than one Maharaja who has been deprived of his “Gadi.” One of them is Mahdo Singh, the ex-Maharaja of Panna. He took a dislike to his nephew, who was heir-presumptive of the State, so Mah- ho Singh caused him to be poisoned. After a State inquiry, which lasted forty days, the British Government de- posed the Maharaja, and hanged the man who perpetrated the foul deed. A monarch who, in his day, has been much in the public eye, is the ex-Sul‘ fan of Morocco, who was defeated in war by Mulai Hafid, and removed from the Sultanate. The ex-ruler of Morocco was a. go-ahead sort of chap, and filled large rooms in his palace with golden cameras. toy railways, cinematograph apparati, concertinas, pianos, and bicycles. Prempeh, the ex-King of Ashantee, too, still lives, and is ready and will- ing on all occasions to talk of the “City of Blood" and the terrible hu- man sacrifices which were his diver- sion in' the days of his kingship. There are a few other dethroned rulers in various coast towns of the Dark Continent, but they are kept under strict supervision. The last monarch to be deposed before the fall of King Manuel was Yong-Hi, the Emperor of Korea,'who years ago saw his mother butcheredbn her throne, and who will probably be a happier man as a pen- he is not only the only living ruler who sioner, of , Japan than as an Asiatic has lost his throne, but he is not even . sovereign. True it is that "uneasy the only living member of the House of Braganza who has suffered the mis- fortune of dethronement. In the Isle of Wight there dWells a nun who was once Queen of Portugal. For six years her husband, King Miguel, strived hard to keep the Lu’sitanian crown from Donna Maria, the rightful possessor of it, but after a lot of bloodshed. he was sent to the rights.- bout, and Donna Marla. came by her own. She was the great grandmother of young King Manuel. Then there is the Duchess of Parma. She is a Bra- ganza Princess who married another ill-fated European ruler. Her hus- band, who died two years ago, was the last sovereign ruler of an ancient roy- al house in Italy. What the last Duke do We“ in of Farms and his wife lost in regal buildings. prestige, they made up in domestic felicity, for the Duchess presented the late Duke with no less than twelve children, all of whom survive, while the Duke’s first Wife had presented him with nine sons and daughters. eight of whom are still living. Duchess of Parma is therefore the mother, or stepmother, of twenty-one , lies the head that wears a crown." _‘ o- I i ' , snslsllulal [mlljrtlllsl One of the First Requirements of a Horse or Cattle Stable is a System 01 Ventilation No kind of live stock can thrive and ill-lighted, poorlyaired One of the first require- ments in astablo is iliatit should be wellprovidcd with windows and ha 0. means for letiing fresh air in and foul rir out. Neither of these require- ments are, difficult to fill. Sunlight and fresh air cost nothing, and the ex- The pense of getting a sufficiency of each in the stable is no greater than that to which some stable , builders go to children. Another Brasanza Princess keep these two health essentials out. who has narrowly missed wearing a The first care should be to have the crown is the Comtesse D’Eu. Before stable light, Sunlight is Nature’s her marriage to this Orleans Prince most effective germicide; the next, to she was Her Royal Highness Princess get the fresh air in. Fresh air contains Isabelle Christine Leopoldlne, Augus- éhe vitalizing oxygen that the blood tine Michelle Gabrielle Raphaelle Gonâ€" lakes up through the tiny cells of the zaga De Braganza, the second daugh- lungs every time an animal breathes. ter of Pedro 11., Emperor of Brazil. To get light in is not so difficult, Had the Portuguese dynasty in Brazil r but to provide for the taking out of not come to an end, the Comtesse ! foul air and the getting in of fresh is D’Eu would have been an empress in regarded by some as a problem of her own right, as her two brothers ,some difficulty. Elaborate systems of both died in infancy. The House of i Ventilation have been built into farm Braganza has therefore suffered some Stables. and some of the Simple? 0f terrible dynastic vicissitudes during ' them WOI'k’satiSfaCtOFilY- The System the last half-century. {invented by Professor King has work- Among other living royalties who ed well under a wide variety of con- have worn crowns which are now in ditions. It is probably the most use- the possession of others are the ex.jful of the more elaborate systems. Empress Eugenie. the widow of Naâ€"iHOWever, lack of ventilation cannot poleon III., Emperor of the French“ be excused on the ground that the Her Majesty is still wonderfully ac. ' system necessary for effective work is five. She was a great beauty, but he,- too costly and difficult to install. vanity is said to have been the cause Cotton or duck tacked onto the window of the Franco-Prussian War, in which , frames will let in and diffuse abun- thousands of lives were lost. The ex. “ dance of outside air, as well in horse Empress lost her Only son, the Prince or cattle stables as it does in poultry Imperial, in the Zulu War. One of the houses. The curtain system of venti- most pathetic figures among the dish lation has disadvantages, so has the possessed monarchs is Charlotte, ex. open window method, or ventilation Empress of Mexico. For many yearglby means of holes in the ceiling or she has been in alunatic asylum. Her? “3115’ hilt is a long ways ahead or husband was the Archduke Maximilian ! “0thng at 3”- Because one cannOt of Austria, brother of the present Aug. ! afferd, or does not understand the trian Kaiser, and he responded to the ,. construction of the more complicated invitation of the peeple of Mexico to i system, is not reason why simpler. become their ruler only to find himself I methods should be neglected- Every drawn into a (manna-3p frOm which 3 one building a stable this fall or with there was no dignified escape. He was an old. stable that is damp and foul eventually shot dead in Mexico, and g and dark when the stock are in it in his miserable widow, not long after,l\vintcr, should arrange now to have lost her reason, She is the unhappyithese defects remedied. A horse or sister of the late King of the Bel- ' Cattle stable is better a. little cold than glans. dampâ€"Winnipeg Farmers' Advocate. The Grand Duchess of Tuscany is "m ‘ ' ' the last lady who will bear that his- toric title. The last ruling Grand Duke WWNWW” or lHl lllllll dom by royal decree of March 22, .....\....s u..-.,-. ..\..._ _ . .- â€"....\,-<-.~‘ . vv..~~'~ - v u . .- - a 012m THEM ONE I BETTER- Furniture delivered to your home at LESS THAN CITY PR] OES You run NO RISK. see our goods. 8. S. Gainer. FENELON FALLS. 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