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If the publication you want is not in the above list let us We can supply any well-known Canadian or American pabitnetion. These prices are strictly cash in advance. Send subscription by post office or express order to Banner Pub, ‘Co, = r Ls ra By boring a hole In the earth's sur-| face twelve miles in depth enough enérgy would be discovered to furn- ish all the motive power of the world, | aecording to a British scientist, —— ge eee x CENERAL ELECTION The Curfew Must Not Ring, Monster Football Army | Supports Game of Soccer ‘| | . During Year in England OOPS POOLS DOO OPED VERY Saturday during the season it is estimated that tered thousands of excited spectators | record-breaking game, 4 | ground 600,000 Soccer enthusiasts flock to English football grounds alone. Let usin fancy, focus these scat- | into one vast crowd which numbers | more people than you will find in the entire city of Torgnto. So numerous are these weekly devotees of football that, if you were to arrange them in single file a yard apart, the column | ‘would stretch a distance of 340 miles. | If we arranged England's weekly ‘Soccer enthusiasts six abreast. with a yard interval between successive ranks, we should have an imposing procession | = But if we would get a really im-j| pressive idea of England's a pegaton for e season's | football, we must take th whtteh : will number | aggregate army, not less than twénty millions, , Let us, in fancy, take every man, woman, and child from the whole of | Canada, with its area of nearly three | and three-quarter million square miles, and add to these every inhabi- | tant of Australia, South Africa, and New. Zealand. We shall then have; the number of people required to re- present England's annual Socec cer | crowd, although we shall have taken | ™ the last inhabitant from an ares | sixty-four times as large as that of | the United Kingdom Let us now suppose that the Foni-| ball Association placed a veto on all | football except one international match between England and Scot- land, which every one of the twenty million spectators would make a point of attending; and let us make a mental picture of this stupendous, To accomodate this vast army of onlookers it weuld require a ground one and a half square miles in area, allowing each spectator a shade over two square feet of space for elbow- room, The aggregate football ground would, in fact, be a few acres larger than Hyde Park, Regent's Park, and St. James’ Park thrown into one; and our spectators would outnumber .by over a million all the males in England and Wales. So many would they be that, In single fle at inter- vals of yard, they would stretch round alinost half the earth at the | @quator. .f we were to take them to the in one vast, imposing pro-: cession arranged forty\ abreast, the | men in the front rank would be en- | tering, say, the Crystal Palace, grounds before the men in the rear were clear of Carlisle. To provide a single and substantial | meal for this twenty millions *would | - a cheque for $10;000,000, even at @ modest cost of 50 cents a) head; and at this meal our hungry | devotees would dispose, among other | items, of a drove of 5,000 bullocks, 35,000 sheep, 109,000 sacks of pota toes, 2,000 tons of bread, and_ 100,- | 000 barrels of beer. | The spectators at this “aggregate” | match would outnumber by 157 to the record attendance of 127,307 a the international match between Bes. | land and Scotland played at Hane i den Park, Glasgow, on March 23 19132. Intelligent Animals. At a country village not very far from London a newsagent was in the habit of going down.to the railway station each morning with his dog to | collect his daily parcel of periodicals. | One day he was unwell and org dog went to the station by itself an bro t back between its teeth ee correct Z ; The dog now goes by itself regu- larly, and although it has been of- ered packages of a similar size and weight it has never returned with | wrong parcel yet. A similar case is reported from New Zealand, where a butcher tried an experiment. He had a horse and eart with whieh he weat the rounds sometimes called, was also carried by mefehant traders in anclent times, ,on, € ns where peaceful nego- ' orariu | so impressed ce “ab as the first ees eee teratetniate sieve sasevedece/m ncaa tell | amongst his cusivmers. One day he | | had each order tabelled and wrapped | fn parcels, and harnessing the horse j to the shafts he let the animal go on {ts own, The beast did not make a mistake | once and pass a customer. As it at the same time as was usual when | | his master was with him, the cus-' tomers looked out for the cart, and i collected their parcels as per the | labelled meat. Then when the horse | ad been to every house at which he | usually called, he turned round and went back to the shop. | A Victory for Baths. | Although known to the tag of i’ people as a novelist, Rev. Silas K. Hocking, whose retirement parson the | literary field after writing seventy , books is announced, has always | taken a keen interest in politica and the work of local councils. One of his.best stories concerns a | Labor councillor who fought hard for | the provision of baths in a certain small town. He was not very suc- cessful, but his party were jubilant when they scored a first victory for the cause by securing a seat on the | finance committee of one of thet cetiengnen: The leader of the movement rose | and said, very solemnly, ‘I hepe the | ] | gE Presence of Councillor on the |} ce committee will convince the council of the necessity for these baths. | Never Worries. | “I never worry!" exclaimed the — ist ‘wha! Never?" queried the pessi- | aes during the day I'm Je rury, and xt night I'm too gleen “Wand of Mercn.. .” The caduceus, which was intro- duced in 1902 by Col..John Van R. Hoff, M.C. U.S8.A., editor of the Mili- tary Surgeon, as part of the medical officers’ insignia, dates| back 4,000 ra. For a number of reasons the ser- pent was always the symbol of medi!- cine in antiquity. The Babylonians’ caduceus, which as the insignia shows to-day —two snakes entwined witht wings at the top of his staff—occurs in Hittle remains. It stands for an actual serpent god Ningishzida, who as the special mes- senger of Ishtar was the awakening of life in the springtime and the Mesopotamian prototype of the Greek ermes, The Romans had a special func- tionary, the caduceator, who was a sort.af.peace commissioner. The ca duceus was u on the title pages of books published bygthe famous in 1460 medical printer, Frobenfus, to 1527. The “Wand of Mercury,” as it is | tlations were desired and they want- , eff to be known as neutrals. Mrs. Gladstone's Cheque. Having failed to induce Mr. Glad-. ; stone to write for him, Mr Edward Bok, the editor of a famous American j Journal, paid Mrs. Gladstone £3,000 {for some articles. Then came an amusing episode which Mr. Bok re- lates in his recent volume of remi- niscences. Some time after he had sent the cheque to Mrs. Gladstone, | he received a letter from Mr. Glad- Blone expressing the opinion that his ‘wife must have written with a gdlden pen, considering os size of the hon- “But,” he added, “she is money she h ever earned by her pen that she is reluctant to part with | the cheque. The result is that she has | not offered it for deposit, and has de- | cided to frame it. Considering the — of our exchequer, I have tri o «ain to her, and so have ey pid and daughter, that if she were to present the cheque for pay- ment and allow it to pass through the ak, the cheque would come backs. syou, and that I am sure your company would return it to her as a souvenir of the momentous occasion. Our arguments are of no avail, how- ‘/ ever, and: it occurred to me that an assurance from you might make the chegue more useful than it is at present!” ‘land elect him. ‘does pot carry with tt seat im the | his. daughter had secured from American Citizen Will Accept the Opportunity To Become an Irish Peer DMUND MAURICE BURKE ROCHE. of New York, is to agsume his position as an Irish peer. The despatches say he will “renounce his American citizenship" and “become a member of the House of Lords."’ That, how- ver, is rather anticipating things. All he can do at present is to take up his residence in the old country and | let people call him Lord Fermoy in-!} stead of Mr. Burke Roche. Then, after five years, he can become ua naturalized British subject. As for the House of Lords, he will never sit there unless his fellow peers of lre- An Irish peerage Upper House. These peers, however. chose twénty-eight of thelr number for this honor at the time of the 'unson in 1801. and fll vacancies aa they occur The Scottish pase choose sixteen; but “elect these anew ‘after every dissolution of Padianieel. In the British law, Mr. Burke Roche automatically ‘became Baron Fermoy when the third baron died last fall. And while his Irish peer- age does not place him in the House of Lords, {t is the one peerage which ‘leaves him free to be a candidate for the House of Commons. Lord Curzon chose an Irish peerage with this in view, but on his return from India was given an earldom of the United Kingdom, which thus cut him off from the Commons even aa jt placed him in the House of Lords. A num- ber of Americans have done what Mr. Burke Roche now proposes to do, and have gone to the Old Country to take tithes which they could got as- sume as residents of the United States. Plain ‘'Mister" Fairfax, whose family had been in the United States since the revolution, removed his residence to Great Britain, and, as Lord Fairfax, became one of the re- Presentative peers elected by the Scottish peers to the House of Lords. In the British lists, generations of Fairfazs were carried as “lords,” though they were residents of Amer- ica and without title on this contin- ent. “ uncan, of Boston,” has also been so carried as the Earl of Camperdown, but he has refused to take the title. The case of Mr. Burke Roche has attracted particular attention because of the efforts put forth by his Amer- {can maternal grandfather to ensure against his taking the urse now announced. The new Lord Fermoy and his twin, a few minutes the younger, are gran ns of Frank Work, millionaire railway financier, me man = ence said that ‘‘inter- erriages should be a sanaing eben “ The divorce which the father of these boys had led him to that conclusion, and when he left an estate of $6,000,000 he stipulated that they would cease to be hetra if they continued to call themselves Roche instead of changing their name to Work; if they went to for- elgn countries; or if they visited thelr father. They were enabled to do all these things, however, by the action of their mother's sister in dis- claiming her right to take advantage of the terms of the will. And Frank Work ma) well turn in his grave now that Edmund Maurice Burke Roche has committed the crowning offence of assuming an Irish peerage. Shelly Forests. Whole forests may be seen coated with shelly substances on the contin- ent of New Holland. These encrusta- tloms are supposed to arise from de- compositions of shellfish, which, transported by the winds, are depos- ited in the form of dust on trees and ° Good Cleth. The extraordinary durability of the ancient mummy cloth is be. Heved to be due to the fact that nish it was fi th a vegetable blue derived from the African locust-bean te, Ut, t bom, 8 for $2.2, teal ais 2. dealers or sent — by Limited, Ottawa. LORE OF THE IRIS, ,,1 Beautiful Flower Is Usually Associat- ed With France. Every schoolboy who haa declaini- ed the ringing lines of “The Battle of Ivry" has learned to associate the lillies of France, no less than the, white plume of her hero king, with history in its most stirring aspect. Not every schoolgirl who follows with Pride and sympathy the career of Joan of Arc, the young French peas- ant girl, may know, however, that they are associated eveh more close- ly with the “ily maid" of France; since when-the king ennobled her, the title he conferred—needless, but aptly chosei—made her Dapie du Lis —the Lady of the Lilies. Yet the liHesa of France were n lilies at all; for the fleur-de-lis, o flower-de-luce, is certainly an iria’ Mediaeval Florence, however, also reckoned it a lily, blazoned it on her famous gonfalon, and made it com spicuous in her splendid chronicles. Possibly it may claim even an old- er and a loftier fame; for some bo- tanisis assert thet it was neither scarlet amaryllis, nor meadow lily, not blazing wild tulip, as others claim, but the stately Oriental iris, in its royal purple majesty, with which Solomon in all his glory could not compare. Of late years Japan, the land of gardens, bas added largely to our Iria lore. The Japanese irises, fur sur- Passing all others in beauty and var- fety, bear fanciful, often poetic, names, which it is a pity our prosaic nurserymen so seldom translate, One lively white variety is Moon- light; another, Moonlight of Foam; one faintly flushed is Dawn on the Mountain; a striped sort, waving in the wind, has acquired the name of Dancing TigeY, and then there are- also a Dancing Bear, a Dancing Lion, and a Heron's Feather The iris gardens of Japan are won- ders of loveliness, and in the most famous the little maids who serve the visiting crowds with tea in the Pretty summer houses are carefully arrayed in iris hues. On one special dav, May 5, It ia customary for all houses to display graceful and beautiful arrangements of iris, hung beneath the eaves, and at all the publie baths buds and pe- tals of the iris are cast afloat upon the water to delight the bathers with their scent ana color. One homelier kind ts especially the flower of the Japanese women; for centuries-old tradition tells that once, in time of famine, it was decreed that all cultivable land must be planted to food crops only; but the women, unwilling to forego their orris pow- der, made from the tuberous roota; cleverly transferred their irisea to the sods of the thatched roofs, where they grew and flourished. Certain it) is that this iris—the iris tectorum—is still so planted in Japan, and thrives in purple splendor, cresting the huiu- blest farms. He Felt Proud. An old actor, who had been rest- ing for a long time, was standing in the bar of a bublic house much fre- quented by the ‘“‘profession,”” when a well-dressed man came in and or- dered a drink, for which he tenderod a ‘Fisher.’ The barmaid could not change it, and the man turned to the old actur and asked: “Pardon me, but could you change mea Fisher The Actor. (after he had got over his surprise): “I’m sorry I cannot oblige you with the change, bu!'—as he took off his hat—"I thank you for the compliment.” i@ Saw It First. Father Hennepin, a Jesuit prt-at, is said to have been the firat white man to gaze upon Niagara Falls, i the seventeenth century, who has le/t any account thereof. Sos Tam in pain ost the Foote dectensh Gut poten J. A. Hacking, Druggist, Listowel. soul