a ORS: t ' : F ' . P naa 2 ='HALF A MILLION YEARS AGD! sects, 'vesting the great ctrongts | of this primitive man's:jaw muscles. 3 -- It is fair to pelieve that the rest of his muscular system was.in kee il) be -- that the UD SCOTIA'S LIFE BLOOO| = _ BEING DRAINED BY EMIGRA- TION TO THE WEST. West, great apple orchards, on ite city offices, men s i eg : of Aberdaon ° They have gee away from the old soil, but always these exiles re- member the country of their birth r of their forefathers with an en- love as deep as that of the ; '|Irishman for the Emerald Isle, Beotland is being drained of her; deeper, perhaps, than the English §fe's blood. In the Highlands and colonist for the Mother Country. Lowlands the old people are be- Se MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND. n loneliness, ae by rer rthsides they are tiinking wist- awe iy of the bair The Race Originated in Northe India. y of the bairns who once played That interesting race, the Maori, THEY SAY THAT MAN WAS AN + EARTH REALITY, Wast Seems to Have Been Proved By That Island of Jersey. . Discovery. How old is man, anyhow! For centuries no Christian question ap biblical dates, which make _ uman race nearly 5,672 years o ' and the world only afew days\meying acpmastered the brute by its senior. Then science sO den 101 other words. # iman : question the authenticity of these Pee e TIRE dates and soon decided for iteelf Tf these readings of-science are right; if that the earth was somewhere be- mmillien ine! gee ewer whe Building Homes in New Couuttrics --The Old Folks Are Left Lonely. carnivorous feeding from this that this early man was learning to eat more and more meat and that his ancestors at even some more remote period had been vegetar- ians. He had learned the use of z und them. There is'silence now stairase Scottish homes. The foot- weps of the young folk no longer : as not always liv in N % latter, up from the village street |). 04. 9 There ' gota i e tween 20,000,000 and marge gi are we to conclude about the real wr crush the scent out of the pur-| Forest and Stream, excellent evid-|>~ old. Science likewise built: antiquity of man? This estimate up # timetable of the coming a | going of species and races upon this jancient ephere, making man most | modern of all, though probably the , evoluted. product: of older species. | The length of man's tenure on | fhe pr ane next to be +a | j for study. oon diggers in the' this period knew how to make fire jearth began to find ekulls and! and Jead an arrow on its journey, | bones, which, by the aid of geo-| how long ago must it have been logy, tag and paeons that man was a genuine, cowering ae s ayo | 10BY, Were set down as belonging | primitive, eating roots and berries HELP TO BUILD EMPIRE. |the "black" islands of the Pacific. | Peoples of much earlier than our|and slowly lifting himself from For hundreds of years Scotland Traces of its visits to the west | histories treat, 'Soon. the. scientific | the terror of the greater brutes by bas sent out her sons in search of coast of the American continent! ¢&4" t° speak of the neolithic man dint of his better mind? fortune. Too barren is the soil to! have been found, and Charles Nel-j of 10,000 or so years ago, says the) Only a few years ago we believed pourish those who have ambition. | son, of Whakarewaréwa, an ethno.| Chicago Tribune. At the time pea that arrows and stone weapons Never has there been elbow room' Jogist and philologist of remark-| *°* considered an extreme age,/ were the creatures of the last few enough for Scots who have the | able attainments, who spent a yea | was received great skepticism, and . thousands of years. We thought StiE SSE cadoun ture: Wherever: | in searching the globe for evidences ot credited until skulls and bones! that cooked food was a compara- the old days, there was acrown | of the origin and wanderings of said to belong to much older speci-! tively modern idea. Possibly some to defend, a chivalrous course ora'the Maoris, declares that he has heather dn the hillsides. The moves a man who knew the arts of airns have grown up into tall men ; : firing and* cooking food and mak- ing weapons back into the early pleistocene,-when,--in the old geo- logies, nothing but the earlier forms of higher mamals were credit- ed with existence. If the man of ence i thls own historical and : genealogical records to show that ynd women, and they have listened | +)... Mine Shite tecin cies ek Pigalle anion id the tallest | Pacific islands about the twelfth ses of Scotland, They have fol eee wed the call and have gone to uild new homes in the Far West, while the old folk sit with clasp ands, hugging L which is a cold and ghostly thing. ~The Polynesian race, of which the Maoris, Hawaiians, Samoans and some ether vslanders are branches, cab jhas been traced back to a prob- remembrance, | able origin in northern India, and it is in no degree related to the neared races of Australia or of t janens ofthe human race weredug of us believed that Prometheus nation in arms, the Scot might be! found in the Smithsonian Institu-. "ie ts we! ' ved really had filched fire from heaven found among the men-at-arms or! tion evidence that points to their! ,,°0° it was generally recognized ; for us some 3,000 or 4,000 years 'that man probably"had been on! ago in the King's bodyguard or by the' penetration even to the Rocky! Bons. -side of a man fighting for athrone Mountain region or to contact wit ae some 20, 000'yeara," A skull | But no! A blunt-toothed savage, and kingdom. They trooped over the race that peopled this contin-|!0U"d In Germany was dated at dwelling in a cave and hibernating | the border southward to London, |! ent. j 40,000 years, and for a long time and in spite of their broad Scots! (Certain it is that the old Maoris; *@5 considered ear, burned his wood and made speech and the racial hostility of | were bold and adventurous naviga-| THE OLDEST IN EXISTENCE. jis weapons and cooked his food the English they helped to build up! tors, and had sailed the south seas | Watrivatte. suuch- iain 5 Id | half a million years down the vista! the trade of the city and the em-'in their canoes centuries before the | Hae he - and iag ie sed ood | of the tyrannous past. Sic transit pire. They: followed the flag and first Eurepean crossed the Atlantic. | the itinnatad of the di as aD / gloria mundi! ° earried the flag to far colonies, as One of the first Maori canoes to! ins caiguy age © oe -- ™ pioneers of expluration, as Eee reach New Zealand was the Arawas| cveater <2 GACIRE § COnAOeIEy BAR MAY BE RESTORED. | ers, as bagkwoodsmen and ranch-' One of the clans or tribes takes its, anne _ j = men. in Siwralie and New Zea- name from that craft, and pre-| a Seana _ ape bad meen | he Corporation of London Is Take | land and Sonth Africa and Canada serve in oral history the names of, 1°: ae than ® year ago when | ing Steps to That End rie kes F : i : : | British scientists announced the} § Bs to ° they kept their Scottish habits and' the captain and crew. The Arawa discovery of a skull and other b 1° Th j d for hop-: Scottish speech and Scottish char- is the Mayflower of Maori history ; | yj, ne gi. Be geen hav of tke the | - eas Li or ell : wa : cll acter, and scattered the Empire the descendants of the people who 'th 100,000 pola oh si Fat inf om oat n of Ten le' Bar. the with their homesteads, and water it contituted her crew and passeng-) 0. his d SORTS BRO. specie al F id eget gi of temple Bar, the with their homesteads, and watered ers are the blue bloods of the race. | to say, this declaration was receiy-| famous old structure which once | it with their blood, and stiffened its. Without compass or knowledge of ibe the winter like a creat, sluggish ' ed with less disbelief than the orig-, stood at the top of Fleet street, | inal tales of a man 10,000 to 20,000 | marking the west entrance to 'he cea sttish emigration innot! Saha aaa Ne, Sid, thete hardy yeare old cts, and hich, on its removal to| - 'tale a ig rg ° she: vast waste of water in "vesuels | But now,-on the heels of the: permit of increased trafic, was, anew tale. It goes back to the 100,000 year old man, comes the; taken away stone by stone and set - unfolding of the modern world. | fashioned from the hollowed trunks Yet the tale now has reached anew Of trees? That is a question that "and startling chapter. For dur- has puzzled and amazed all who ing tho past few years this tide of have sought to learn the origin of | emigration from - Scotland has the Maoris, and who have traced swelled and broadened into a great, their course from India and the rushing, impetuous torrent. The Malay Archipelago through Poly- Bons of Scotland are leaving their nesia to New Zealand. True, their native soil not singly, but in bat- canoes were stanch and seaworthy! halions. The new census returns craft, some of them eighty to one, reveal a desolated country with hundred feet in length: and two of deserted villages and abandaned them, lashed together in the man- | parishes. Even in the towns the ner of a catamaran, could weather | artisans are leaving their factories the fiercest storms of the Indian and besieging the emigration offices Ocean and carry provisions -- for: lor cheap passages to Canada. cam vosaees.._ tt & oes that the | sheltered Gi waclen wean. The it over to a celebrated brewer for CANADA GETS 17,000 A YEAR. chiefly with a tuber resembling the Societe Teumiee = by -- . hin . ; Soc Jersaise, a scientific an There are amazing figures which *¥8et potato, hich they Growgne historical society, so that the pos- | will strike sharp arrows inte the : to New Zealand. and that they car- : +5 . } ) logs , aria of Bootamen who hace pride S27 faid in the battom 'of Nhe Femote. The most primitive rort| | The personnel and culture of the. t a country s ga hha S canos and thus serced as bnilast. of flint instruments and chippings | Common Council as a whole have | ve for its soil. In ten years 2 But how did they find their' way, | ¥8 found in profusion and they | decidedly improved since then, and eeie of a million peuple have and what definite purpose did thev | are without exception Mousterian. | 80 gross an act of vandalism could : en drained from @ population of ye when ther pit to sea and From the nature of the human re-{ scarcely be repeated, but not until : hve millions. Canada alone ab- pushed hardily into the vast un-. ™é#ins, the character of the soil and! London's last remaining historic | torbs Scotsmen at the rate of 1i,- Lnawn * ; / Tock covering the ancient habitat! gate is a at the city boundary Piarge increase above this figure, 0 'ary interesting theory ts ad. OF would be ite most Siting portion ' ~ : x * vane vy Riehare« enry, the gov-' f ' } ears Ben in Fast jo the bong ben cetaen: si Resolution! it a han han nls now, can that act be in any degree a ne and fertile province in Island, a recently established bird If is be wey tha ae y ar ante- extenuated, otland, there are decreases inde- a : , dated any of the fossil remains o pulation in half the towns and *#Metuary In the Pacific. P| men yet dug u The cliffs at th vila res 4 more barcun digicc lieves that the seal fishery, which' oint are alout 200 feet hij h d Bepopulation has. been more swift in ancient times extended all over se with bowlders of ci nsid and more tra ic. It is eins be say the South Pacific, led. there Poly sable size. The point of land it- that only the old eople and the in- nesian mariners from island to isl-| self is cleft by a canine wi si. or Tent Refund. frm and the very poor have been ®24: from breeding-place to breed: | it crtical 'walls, and i in| At the Paris Exposition in 19 a poor have been ing-place, till the fying ceals and most vertical walls, and it was in e Paris Exposition in 1900 ' some | and | Jersey that part of askull, tect some arrow heads, The Corporation of London has heretofore discovered. Students who have examined the relics and| Which the City have estimated the period at which | for the removal of Temple Bar from | ; this man lived at about 500,000 | its historic site at the passing of | years ago. Fleet street into the Strand, on/| In the cliffs of La Cotte, Saint{the plain promise of re-erecting it, relade's bay, Jersey, was found; elsewhere, and then, to save itself the primitive cave dwelling which | trouble and a few pounds, passed his private use as the entrance gate | to his park several miles from the city is condemned as showing that en INVENTOR KEEPS HIS SECRET Austrian Government's Large Of- the soil in which they were found , Years ago obtained public sanction ' Africa or still on the sea. 'sia played for delay in i what similar eee ; } . : . wer for weeks, sibility of fraud or mistake seems! body at its worst. | streaming east. Shoe kept always! and, WHEN WAR CLOUDS BURST MAY BREAK wos HARDLYA MOMENT'S WARNING. "Strike -Befere the Enemy is Ready'? Appears to Be the Rule Now-a-days. The surprising suddenness with history of warfare. One day hard- ly any body outside the two coun- tries concerned knew that there was any friction between Italy and Turkey at all. The next, a 2%4- hours' ultimatum, was 'presented ; a few hours after its expiry shots had been fired in battle. i War hardly ever comes twice in: just the same way. During the! recent. bitterness between. France; and Germany the circumstances, were very different from 'those, which ended 40 years ago in the | great Franco-Prussian war. France| was then interested in the succes-' sion to the throne of Spain, and' forbade Germany to interfere. { Germany refused to submit to: this dictation, and all France was} jubilant at the thought of a war. | Crowds streamed through Paris: shouting; "To Berlin! To Berlin!" Public men and newspapers boast- | ed that the French army Was, "ready, forty times ready, ready! to the last gaiter-button !"' ut | events showed that it was not, but! 1u a bad state of disorganization. | INSULTED BY KAISER. It is known now thal Germany | was equally eay-r. A telegram) that reached Paris saying that the! French Ambassador at Berlin had! been publicly insulted by the Ger-, man mperor, brought French /! wrath to a head. This telegram | is now believed to have been sent | (under another name) by the great; German Minister Bismarck. It. served its purpose, and both armies. rushed to the frontier. In the negotiations preceding the Boer War Britain was badly out-! manoevvred. _Britain's demands. that "out-landers" should receive! fair treatment in the Transvaal. had ; been fruitless. The Government: then started leisurely drawing up. a final State paper, all the time! pouring. troops into South Africa. This State paper would have been followed by an ultimatum when all preparations were made. Butthe' announcement from the island of| up in Theobald's Park by the late: Transvaal knew that every day's! "wilderness called an oilfield' 'in Sir. Henry Meux. 'delay was against Quickly | had | her. she played the card Britain Britain ' promptly refused, and the Boers! swooped down into Natal, where! the British troops were even yet) badly outnumbered. TIME TO GAIN TIME. In the Russo-Japanese war Rus-! a a some- | fashion. A Japan-' ese final demand went without ans- | while troops were' promising an early answer, filling the European press with re- ports that everything would be. quite all right. | At last Japan refused to give i further time, and broke off negotia- | to io en Russia said she had; sent off her reply the day before! But it was to late; and the Jap-; anese fleet put to sea. In the Spanish-American war a} recent discovery has shown the: final reason for the bloodshed was founded on a tragic mistake. The' battleship Maine, when lying atthe mouth of Havana harbor, guard- ing American interests there, ex- ploded left behind in villages which ten the steadily blowing tradewinds the sides of this gorge that the cave | there was exhibited an assortment bwenty years ago were full of busy. sartied sizibe of them to 'nw was found, with its mouth some 60, of marquetry work of great intri- life and lusty manhood., Zealand in whick pleasant lend feet above mean tide level. | cacy of design and beauty of finish The voice of the Canadian ad- they settled, thrived and multipli- Before the excavations began the | but at prices so low as to cast reflec. | vertiser calls loudly in the ears of ' , , cave was almost filled with lateral | tion upon its geniuneness, _Many of | Beottish people. He goes every-! The theory is plausible. for it is "Tift of clay and smaller bowlders. | the pieces were of duplicate pat- | where, pasting his richly colored: based upon conditions that are From the nature of the remains and jtern. ; . pictures of the Golden West upon known to have existed in the past, thelr surroundings the Here is another industrial secret ol | scientific | every hoarding. He plucks the! and supplies an intelligible motive P&tties which have visited the spot of considerable value that doubt-| artisan by the sleeve, and says,' for mierxiens sores. the eat have assigned the Momo Brelad- less is destined to go to the grave , with its discoverer, if it has not al-' ;ensis to the earlier pleistocene | i Pa period. When most of the rubble | ready done so, says Cassier's Mag- | = had been removed from the floor|azine. No amount of examina-! THE DEATH PAIN. in the forward end of the cave aj tion, no matter how searching, suf-| ' gays a! hearth was found, containing a! ficed to reveal the manner in which! "Canada and a\rich life are! ocean. waiting for you." / He leans over | the gate of the peasant-farmer and | says, "Why scratch and scrape at'! barren soil? Come away to the fat! ' "Speaking generally,' lands of the Far West.' i well known surgeon, "the death-/ small amount of wood ashes. In one oe of table tops were | any atta _ -;, | agony AS very rarely attended bys corner was found a mass~ of ,dupleated with euch marvellous CANADA SECOND SC OTLAND. | ainf because the system is always bone and teeth, including the re- | accuracy. By young and active and ambiti-, prepared for death by a weakening! mains of reindeer. woolly rhino-| That much the inventor, an ous men these flaming pictures, this ' of the vital forces, by the circulation eros, and several other animals. | Austrian, was willing to divulge. incessant voice, cannot be ignored. of impure blood through the brain, ; What the further excavations of the | The pattern, instead of being made They gaze across the purple moor, | and by the obtunding of the nerves. cave will show is not easy to fore- | singly of the thickness requisite | and give a heavy sigh, for they are' Of course, some people have more / cast. for the piece it was intended to! loath to' leave old Scotland; but pain than others, and this is very! Tn presenting these facte about! ornament, such as a table top, was one day they walk round to the largely determined by tempera-i this most ancient of men, there are, built up of pieces two or three shipping office, and at last they say' ment. A nervous man--all other riven two nlate. showing teeth of: feet long, from which sections were bye to the mother who is too! things. being equal--suffers more' the Homo Breladensis favnd among! then sawed off. How this composite rave to bid them be stay-at-homes. pain than a man who has enjoyed: the human ramains, and the cor-) structure was held together was So Scotland is being drained of| robust health, because the nervous 'r-snonding teeth of modern man. | quite another matter. ite life blood, and Canada welcomes man's senpibiliies) are strongér, . The nintec sre of senle and madeta! Interest in the invention reach- with wide embracing arms the men! but the pain of death is more in compare the two stes. The teeth: ed a point where the Austrian Gov- whom she needs so much, the meén| the anticipation of it than in the. she-+«n gre: ernment offered its discoverer a gf her future greatness, the men Ton: small fortune'on condition that his who will fill up hér great gaps of loneliness with the industry and solid characte: and the strong, brave epirit of the Scettish race. Canada already is a transp!snted Scotland. It is the Scotiand of . ths "Amevican continet. Jis trap » is strews wi wits § Seciti.a place- reality. Men of education face death with- greater fortitude than men who are not educated. Women are almost always pluckier than men. They endure pain much better."' Fi» ; Many a fellow is afraid to pro- From the vnner jaw, first right molar, record left premolar, ard the serond left molar. Rottom: T.ewer jew. cecond richt molar, second right incisor, left; left nremolar, and second left pose to a@ girl for fear sbe might eee mtd meoler . The ars them, ronine, firet left nremolar, ceenn] | facture as long as he lived. astonishing thing about it secret be; deposited, sealed. in the royal vaults, in order that it might be known after his death. © was to have the sole right of manu- the secret not to be revealed until after his demire, bnt he preferred to keep locked up in his own head. _- Eeverybody thought Spain had done the deed, and an American Court of Inquiry came to.that con- olusion. War was obviously in- evitable. Congress voted ten mil- lions for a war chest, and author- -serye storage ample Any Qil-producing Coun- _ tries in the World. Eyery one has heard of Me.) which war broke out between Italy r's millions and of the and Turkey marks a record in the} oilfields in some parts of Eurvpe,| i that but few have any idea voirs of liquid wealth lie unta ee within the borders of the B . > i + Empire To-day England buys her oil from' fe is no rea-| ~ the foreigner, but son, in tne opinion of Mr. J. D. Henry, one of the best-informed oil experts, why British Empire wells should not supply the rapi growing demands of British oil-. users, including the navy, with its| oil fuel ships. i "I believe there is more oil fuel! in British possessions and ---- encies," Mr. Henry writes in a book which. he has just published, | "that there isin some of the great-' est producing fields in Europe."' FIELDS OF NEW ZEALARD. | This is a statement which will cause astonishment to those who! have not Mr. Heiry « knowledge) and his book--'"O:l Fields of Ney: Zealand"--will awaken the intervst/ of those who have hitherto been! unaware of the fact that New Zea-! land is already an oil-producing: country. | In the North West of Canada,! also oil exploration work has been; begun this summer, and operations' in New Brunswick leave no doubt. | Mr. Henry believes that in this! region of the Dominion, production on a commercial scale will be af fected. GREAT INDUSTRY. Thus in Australasia and in; Canada there is a prospect of great oil industry being built up, yet Mr. Henry emphasizes the fact, that "nothing has occurred to| secure for it more than a few spas- modie rises in public favor. "There is a reason. for this,": Mr. Henry says, in explanation of| the lack of appreciation of the Em- pire's oil resources, and he gives} the reason in plain words. It is! 'the disaster which has befallen! speculators in foreign oil concerns. | e mentions an instance in which! a London company plunged intoa America, in which "a million of: capital gave the shareholders no-' other implements have lately been decided to instruct the City Lands! been meaning to play, and sent thing better than two dry holes.") duggup there, and that they seem | Committee to consider what steps|an ultimatum demanding that with-| "We have a shameful record of; much earlier and cruder than any can be taken for the reacquisition | in 48 hours an undertaking should mistakes' in foreign oilfields," «of Temple Bar. The fashion: in' be given to withdraw all recent} adds. "In many fields we seem to, i Corporation 30, reinforcements, whether in South have only invested money to lose: he it. ins AN EMPIRE PROPOSITION. "We can only make a success of} this colonial -oil business,'"' he, | states, 'if new concerns operate on) the lines which have made out-' standing successes of scores of foreign companies. working at) their own centres of industry.' | Mr. Henry's book tells the story; of the New Zealand oil fields, with: pictures of the chief wells. It is as an Empire proposition| that. the subject appeals to his sym-, pathies. He points out that our sources of petrol--now-in naval use; --are foreign and he asks what is) happen in war time if our petrol supplies are cut off. "We must hasten the time," he; says, "when we shall have our. | supplies of oil guaranteed by our colonies and dependencies, and a, home system of ordinary and re-; in capacity and protected against attack by an enemy."' 2. HEAD OF THE PALACE. King George's Kindly Act Greatly Pleased Uis Mother. King George does all in his pow- er to reconcile his mother to her new and distasteful position as the ized the President to use the na- tional forces to clear Spain out of Cuba. Next day each Governmen courteously handed each other's ambassador his passports. | polite pre- | But nowadays this liminary is usually left till later. The side that sees its chance takes | it, and lets the polite preliminaries wait, LITTLE SNOW EVERY SUMMER. When little Tommy Snow went to) school the other morning his face beamed and he rushed up to the teacher to tell her that another new babv had arrived at home. "Well, Tommy,"' said the tea- cher, "that's splendid! And how many have you now?' | "Oh, he's the fourth," replied Tommy. "We generally have a lit- tle Bnow every summer, as father says."' ' READY FOR WORK. "Now," said the warden to' the forger, who had just arrived at the prison, "we'l] set you to work. What can you do best !" "Well, if you'll give me a week's practice on your signature, I')] mign your official. papers for you.' r 'second lady in the land instead of 'the first. While the court is at the ,. | durbar he has arranged that Queen | Alexandra shall act as head of the palace and supervise the royal chil- dren, and this has greatly pleased her. Of course she will in no sense have any regency duty nor will she be consulted by the court officials /on any point, but she will be head 'of the household and responsible for the health and behavior of her 'grandchildren, and she will figure again in the weekly and daily }papers, which, it is said, always. pleases her. Queen Mary is not very enthu- siatic about the arrangement the King has made with regard to his ,mother, for her mother-in-law'a | ideas as to children and houschold matters are not hers, but she re- luctantly conse when she saw King George was bent upon paying' his mother this compliment. ie "Shure, Bedalia, and me won'é! be marrying this day. Oi've brak' the engegement." "An' fer phy did ye do that?' "Bedad she ram fed and married MeNulty ye: ay.'? 2 5 * of .