= See OVER ON DANGER 10 MEN SHUT IN STOKEHOLD OF VESSEL 5 r 4 = _---- Heat, Fire and Steam All Threat- _ en the Brave Workers Down Below. a Those who win victories at sea really owe them to the arms of the stokers. The stoker is a soldier who fights every day 3 he has to be ceaselessly watching and on the Sd he is the only witness of his Behan heroism, says London : The hardest time for a furnace gang is during a torpedo-destroyer trial a Voutrance. Before a vessel is admitted for service it 1s forced to Submit to a series of engagements that are called trials, and that are particularly laborious in these trials of "full force," or "to the death." the boilers and engines have amore merciless time than they would undergo in normal service. It is spectacle well worth the trouble to watch a furnace gang during one of these trials. One must descend backward by the nar- row trap which opens on the bridge and go down the quarterdeck lad- der, which penetrates swiftly below. Then one is in the stokehold, Besides the chieh of the gang there are eight men. When everyone is below it seems at first: that there is no room to move, so narrow is the space; before and behind the two furnaces limit it; between them are two pumps, the quarterdeck ladder, he ventilator and all the apparatus : f pipes, levers, chains and imple- ments. But it is, nevertheless, there that these men SUPPLY A GREAT NEED. All the apparently incongruous apparatus which surrounds them forms a whole so harmonious that no one part can be out of order without upsetting the rest. The pumps, force cold water back into the boilers; this circulates in a cluster of innumerable pipes-- thousands encircle the boiler--lick- ed all over by the flames. All these pipes open into agreat cylindical reservoir, the chest or storehouse for steam. From the reservoir comes the system of pipes which conducts the steam beyond the boil ers to the engines; in the engines the steam parts with its energy and is transformed anew into water in the condenser, so that the pumps can take it again, and the again commences without cessation the same cycle. Some cylinders con taining several tons of water con- stitute a reserve, which is used only to repair the wastage. At the command of the chief the sheet-iron door is closed and the stokehold is henceforth isolated ; it is a prison completely shut in by eet iron. The ventilator drives arge waves of air, which it sucks in from without, air which cannot escape until it has passed the grat- ing where the coal is burning. The flames from the furnaces un- expectedly throw out burning splinters, the boilers rumble and vibrate as if possessed with a desire to revolt. Behind their back and closed froats, at the edges of the doors, at almost imperceptible chinks, the fire shows itself in LINES OF LIGHTNING or in luminous spots; the water _and the cinders below resemble a stream of lava variegated by gold. -Eyerywhere there is an opaque ob- _scurity ; it seems as if the shadows slip in without ceasing from the open doors of the storehouses. The atmosphere is heavy, thickened with smoke, filled with steam, Above your head the pipes twist them- ves confusedly. Very high up oe: two small and dirty portholes shed a milky light, which scarcely shows the last rungs of the quarterdeck ladder. Everything vibrates, the yentilator snorts, the air emits __strifled groans, the steam whistles. It the pumps drive back the water regularly, if the fresh water re- places exactly and without cessa- tion, the wastage in steam, no part of the sheet iron or the mass of es can get redhot, and every one eels secure. But it is necessary that nothing gets out of gear in all this complex assembly of boilers, pipes, engines, condensers and pumps. Unfortunately, water 15 --eapricious. Sometimes, without ap- parent cause, when everything) -geoms in order, it slowly lowers be- low the water level. Immediately this is observed the men work the regulating taps, the pumps are driven with more force to try to accolerate the pace, and all the timo the fire is devouring tons of coal, and still the water gets steadily 'lower. Sometimes the cause of the ~~ mischief is a leakage--a pipe is broken in some innermost recess by the vibrations or a joint is strained bit by bit, and the water leaks out. fter some minttes the water, the faithful ally against the fire, only appears in the level when the ship rolls. Everyone watches it furtive- y. This is the moment when iS os PANIC MUST BE AVERTED, Beat hat always means a savage -posh for the foot of the ladder, ee fighting to try to mount it, ren the trap is opened in- ORGED RUN: ' out and urns everything. ah The chief knows what he is sup-| posed to do in such cases; he never goes into the stokehold without. re- peating to himself his lesson; al- most without any effort of will his brain responds to the emergency and tells him what he must accom- plish. vessel is going about seven liters of water leave the boiler in wapor form every second. About two min- utes would elapse before the re- serves of vapor and the top of the pipes could be empty. After this there would also another couple of minutes before the pipes would commence to get redhot; then one of them would burst, and the jet of steam it would produce would drive the flames everywhere. The pipes would burst at the precise moment when the doorf of the furnace was opened, because the fresh air of the ventilator would pass by and strike It. evitably the fire rushes The chief immediately orders the men to cease replenishing the fur- nace; he then waits for one of the two precious minutes, and if no change takes place he orders the fire to be raked out. In front of the wideopen furnace, literally ad- vancing to death if a pipe should crack, a stoker must loosen the hook, rake out some of the glowing coal, strive to reach the bars of the grate, force out some of them, and then by means of the space thus made hastily rake the blazing mass of cinders into the water. If he has not the time and the explosion takes place the chief throws the ventilator wide open at the risk of making the splinters fly in order to drive back THE FIRE AND STEAM. Then if there is still time he throws himself flat on his stomach like the others, his head under a sack, a handkerchief between his teeth be- cause of the steam that burns the lungs, and then he waits. The danger that they await is of a kind that rarely comes to the lives of most people. Suppose that in the engines the fault had been discovered, the crack riveted, that the last effort had finally suc- ceeded, that the risk alone had been run, first some tiny drops, then the water itself, would reappear at the bottom of the water level. Without a word, with work sus- pended for only five minutes, the men would resume their labor, but with the difference that tools would seem light, the air refreshing and even the regular sound of the pumps would be sweet in their ears. But unhappily too often the end is more tragic. It would take much space to record even recent tragead ies. At Cherbourg at the end of a torpedo trial a few years ago an in- take of flames set the boiler alight, terrified the gang of men, and then stopped of itself, and for some seconds the men thought they were let off with merely a great fright. But soon after there was a fearful ery, the cry of a man mortally in- jured, a cry which was never for- gotton by those who heard it It came .from an inspector whose clothes were burning. For a second he wreithed in the room, then with the movement of one out of his mind he mounted the ladder, open- ed the trap, leaped on the bridge and then threw himself into the sea, where his last cries were stifled. Be Raat ee THE HOUSE THAT JAP BUILT. A Japanese house is built quite differently from an American. or an English one. The roof, which with us is the last important part of the outward structure to be completed, is with the Japanese the first thing to be finished. All the tools used by the carpenters and joiners have a reversed action. The gimlets are threaded in the opposite way from our; the saws are made so as to cut on the upward pull, and not on the downward thrust; screws have their threads reversed, and keyholes are always made upside- down, and the keys- turned back- ward. In the house, if the clock is an old one it will have stationary hands, with the face revolving back- ward, and the hands marked 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, and so on, reckoning onward from noon. _--_- AS USUAL. "What's the matter here?' asked the caller, noticing the barren ap- pearance of the house, "Sent your goods away to be stored?' "No," replied the hostess. 'Not at all. My daughter was married ' last week and she has merely taken away the things that she thought belonged to her." A witty lawyer, whose ability brought him to the front rank ia his profession, ultimately became a'member of Parliament. In the course of a debate on one occasion he considerably angered a member of the opposite party. The latter jumped to his feet and exclaimed, angrily: "The honorable member for X----, as everyone knows, has rooms to let in his upper storey." The lawyer merely smiled as he re- plied: "True, I have rooms to let, but there lies the difference be- tween the honorable member for 7---- and myself... Mine. are fur- | nished."? i At the pace at which the|The Royal Irish Regiment Shed It's FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF ERLN SLAUGHTERED. -- Blood Like Water at Namur. An excéedingly interesting history. ° the bravery of the Irish soliders in fighting for the crown of Great Britain has been written by Lieu- tenant-Colonel G. Le M. Gretton, of which the following is a brief con- densation : 5 ae _ The history of the Irish regiments Im our army is a very picturesque one. For example, the Fourth Royals Dragoons Guards, former) the First Irish Horse, fought in the Peninsula with Wellington, in the heavy cavalry charge at Balaclava, and at Tel-el-Kebir. The Fiith Royal Irish Lancers fought as 'The Irish Dragoons"' with Marlborough at Blenhelm, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, winning on the battlefield, together with the Scots Greys, the right to wear the Gren- adier bearskin. Only the Greys now retain it. The Sixth Innis- killing Dragoons (raised at the same time as the Fifth Lancers) fought at Dettingen, took part in the charge of the Union Brigade at Waterloo, and added to its fame in the Heavy Cavalry Brigade charge at Bala- clava. The Eighth Royal Irish Hussars, raised by William III. fought in Spain under, Peter- borough in Queen Anne's War, did splendid work in India against the Hahrattas, and won wider fame still in the Light Brigade charge at Balaclava. Six other Irish cavalry regiments, now disbanded, did good service to the British flag in various Wars. And of our Irish infantry, the fame of the Inniskilling Fusiii- ers (the old Twenty-seventh, dating from 1690) is world-wide. They gave their lives for the Empire on half a hundred "stricken fields"-- among these Waterloo, "where 500 men fellandevery officer but one was knocked over, without the regi- ment moving an inch or firing a shot.'? The Royal Irish Rifles had their part in winning no fewer than 10 of Wellington's Peninsular victories; the Royal Irish Fusiliers are the same old Eighty-seventh, 'the Fangh-a-Ballagh Boys," who in hand-to-hand fight won the first Napoleonic Eagle taken by the British Army. And the glory can never fade of the Connaught Rang- ers, who shed their blood hke water for the honor of the British flag at Badajoz,Fuentes D'Onoro and Wat- erloo, Picton's favorite crops when there was in hand "business with the cold iron." A PICTURESQUE STORY. The story of the Royal Irish Regi- ment is quite as picturesque as any that the Irish part of the army can supply. No fewer than fifteen 'Battle Honors" grace their colors, recording duty done all the world over; literally so for the Royal Regiment of Ireland has fought in Europe, in Asia, in America, in Africa, in Australasia. They won their famous motto, "Virtutis Nam- urcencis Premium," at the outset of their career, two hundred and six- teen years ago, and the man who gave it to them was one of the great leaders in war of European History, King William III. who with his own eyes witnessed their splendid feat. It was on August 20, 1695, at the storming of Namur, the most formidable fortess in Europe at that day, garrisoned by veterans of the Army of the Grand Monarque. A breach had been battered in the walls, but the first assault failed. Undismayed by the confusion and depression around them, the Irish- men with a yell rushed at the breach. At first they had to scram- ble over the bodies of those who fell in the first attempt, but halfway up they reached the Grenadier's high- water mark, and thence struggled upwards over ground covered by no corpses but those of the Eighteenth. From the neighboring works they were tormented by cross fire, but yet pushed on, to the admiration of their foes, who through the clouds of smoke watched them. gradually winning their way up the breach, the colors high in air, despite the carnage among the officers who carried them. Mad with excitement and determined to win at alt cost, the regiment by a splendid effort reached the top of the breach, where the colors were planted to show the King, who from a_ hill behind the Abbey eagerly watched the progress of his British troops, that the Terra Nova was his. But as the men surged forward they found themselves faced by an en- trenchment undamaged by the bom- bardment. The officers holding their lives as nothing for the honor of their country and their corps, led rush after rush against the en- trenchment, but in vain. They eould not reach it; guns posted on the flank of the breach mowed down whole ranks; infantry fired into them at close range. All that men could do the Eighteenth had done, but nothing could' withstand eveh a. torrent of lead: the second ettack failed, and the remnants of the reviment ware driven backward Gown the breach. it FOUGHT FOR CROW 'They soon came back, "although to onlookers it seemed impossible failure would face another breach." | Heading yet another forlorn-hope attack, the Royal Irish, with resist- lless heroism, captured the position | It is The Pantheon of Patroitism ; with the result that before evening the fate of Namur was sealed. _ Marlborough's four triumphs, | Blenheim and Ramillies, Oudenarde| -- and Malplaquet, are also on the} -- colors of the Royal Irisn and the} four names represent in addition a "Jong series of desperate but now forgotten seiges by which fortress after fortress was wrested from the French."? They helped to hold Gib- raltar when the Spaniaras tried to recapture the fortress in 1727; fought in the American War of In- dependence; took part in the de- fence of Toulon in the war with the French Revolution ; assisted Nelson and Sir John Moore to take Corsica ; and fought at Alexandria in the fierce battle in which Sir Ralph Abercrombie met his death. The past 60 years have seen the Royal Irish at the front in almost every war in which the British army has taken part. The Crimean War and Indian Mutiny; wars in China and Burmah; the New Zea- land War; service in Afghanistan ; the battle of Tel-el-Kebir: magmfi- cent work in the Nile expedition which Lord' Wolesley led in his gal- lant effort to rescue Gordon; the Black Mountain and Tirah camp- aigns on the Indian frontier; the South African War--such are more recent events in the record of the Royal Irish. --%. CHOIR SINGER'S SALARY. Reeeives $5.000 a Year for Singing Onee a Sunday. The highest-priced choir singer in the world is Corinne Rider Kelsey, who receives $5,000 a year from the First Church of Christ (Scientist) in New York for singing once every Sunday nine months in the year. In her single person she is the whole choir, and the entire apprepriation for the vocal music goes to her. In addition, her outside earnings from concerts, it is claimed, bring her total income close to $20,000 a year. For the singer with ambitions the choir has usually been a stepping stone. Girls with more voice than means have been glad to accept a church position for the chance of being heard, with little more by way of salary than compliments and cabfare. But Mrs. Kelsey chose her field deliberately because of its free- dom from the advantages of being inseparable from the theatre. She has sung in opera and knows. She was born in Rochester, New York, but early went west and received the grounding of her musical educa- tion in Chicago. Then she went to New York for further instruction. To heip to pay for her lessons she sought a position in a church choir and finally found one with the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. Within a year she was a concert star. She resigned her position and, putting her earnings to still further study, went abroad. Merit and hard work won her a debut in Lon- don at Covent Garden in 1898. To most young women it would have seemed that she was on the thres- hold of her career. But Corinne Kelsey sat down to think over the situation. The beginner in opera, she knew, had along wait for doubtful fame, certain competition with the best voices in the world, life without a home, and all the whims of managers and jealousies of the profession to meet. So she decided she would go back to the old field she had left--the church-- as a profession. It was acrowded field, but not with voices of her quality. The well-to-do congrega- tion of the First Church of Christ (Scientist) gave her the apprecia- tion she craved and had the means to gratify it. Se PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. Malicious innuendo and ridicule are cowards' weapons. N'ne out of ten rich men were poor boys. Poverty is an incentive to push. 1t is a well-established fact that men are so constituted that they are unable to do their best work except under pressure. It is equally true that the average man finds it extremely difficult to withstand the enervating effect of prosperity. If you make a mistake and offend a friend don't hesitate to apologize. It will make you bigger, broader, happier, and will prove you a man instead of a sham, When hate strikes a blow, the hater's arm is likely to be fractured by the act. Remember in business that suc- cess depends on the man and not on the plan. An honest man has a chance to succeed, but a dishonest man has no chance whatever. What a lot of time would be saved if some of the time lost in hurry- ing hadn't been wasted. It's a good plan to take your troubles to a philosophical friend who is big enough to point out the fact that you yourself are to blame for having troubles. A people should be guarded against temptation to unlawful: pleasures by furnishing the means | of innocent ones. : i that troops fresh from the costly 0 ST | fe THE SCOTTISH CAPITAL 18> A" BEAUTIFUL CITY. -- and Soul of National -- _ History. _ vas Edina, fairest and most romantic of modern cities, what wonder that the heart of every true Scotsman pulses at the very mention of the name. 'To the Scotsman the Mod- was to the Greek, the pantheon of patriotism, the soul of national history and association, says the Edinburgh Scotsiman. Surely no city of to-day can move the stranger as Edinburgh, w"th its mixture of romance of the past and of the life to-day in exquistie b'end ing of beauty. He is indeed a clod who atits sight feels not an estasy amounting almost te pain, s> lovely is this mest lovable of capitals. Nature itself has well endowed Edina. In the distance lies the sea. At one side rises the majestic rock crowned by the grim old fortress, while a mile away towers Carlton Hill, and between these extends the finest promenade in Europe with its stately edifices, its gardens, and its monuments. What boots it to say when first Edinburgh arose, Let it suffice to state that she received her name from Edwin, King of Northumbria, a territory which in that seventh century embraced all the North- land, from the Trent upwards, in- cluding Yorkshire. QUIET AND SEDATE as is this city of learning to-day, in the past it was ever the focus of tur- bulence, of storm and passion. Men armed to the teeth then flaunted down the narrow streets, which quarrels and bloodshed claimed for their own. "The streets of high Dunedin saw lances gleam and fal- chions redden, and heard the slog- an's deadly yell." Edinburgh's mob was known throughout Christ- endom as the fiercest of fighters. It was in 1128 that David I. founded the Abbey of Holyrood, since when the city has grown in steady progression, starting with the long straggling High street, connecting the castle and Abbey, which gradually sent off branches of wynds and closes. Then a wall was. built about the city, which some four centuries ago was made the metropolis of Scotland by James Tif. This king, the Man of Peace, granted the citizens important privileges through the Golden Charter, and gave the craftsmen that famous banner, the Blue Blanket, wrought by the queen's own hands. In many a troublous fight has this old banner proudly flown, and unto this day it is jeal- ously treasured by the burghers. The throbbing story of Edin- burgh's greatness is too long to mention here, though it was when Queen Mary ruled that its romance was at the highest. It is with this time that the name of John Knox is interwoven. One must call to mind-how Jenny Geddes, that doughty old kail wife of the Tron, made history by fling- ing her stool at the head of the Dean of St. Giles. Then came THE FRIGHTFUL TIMES when the Covenanters signed the Sol emn League and Covenant with their blood, thus signing the death war- rant of the faithful. Then the old wynds and quaint streets saw terrible scenes; they saw the great Marquis of Montrase hanged and quartered, and the Marquis of Argy!i dragged t: execu- tion to em 'ace 'The sweetest maiden e'er he kissed"--the heads- man's block. And so until long after the union the troublous tale ran. - It was in the days of the Stuarts that parliament began to meet in the great hall of the castle, the place of meeting being altered later to the City Tolbooth, until the pres- ent parliament house was erected in 1631. The glory of Edinburgh is its castle, perching on that remarkable crag which Stephenson called "A Bass Rock on dry land,'"' a rock which in many parts to this day is unscalable. There a fortress has stood since times beyond the memory of man, while time after time the castle has been taken by the English and re-taken. On the crowd of the castle rock is the oldest building in Edinburgh, the little Norman chapel erected by St.Margaret, some eight centuries ago. Margaret was the wife of the famous Malcolm Canmore. : Within the castle is the strong room containing the Scottish re- galia. For over a hundred years the regalia was forgotten, but were dis- covered by Sir. Walter Scott in a large oak chest. By the conditions of the union these "honors of Scot- land must never be worn, but must always be kept in the castle. BEAUTIFUL THOROUGHFARE. The glory of the modern city is Princes street, which Scottish peo- ple claim provides the most mag- nificent view in Europe. Here stan famous Scott monument, -- one | proudly term it the Mode -|a resemblance ern Athens is what the Old Athens | hich is he by some splendid specimens of ly Grecian architecture. On the heights of Cal stands the National Mounmen fashioned after the Pantheon a: Athens, which looks like some relic | 47 of the past, from the fact that it] has never been completed. It was built to commemorate the gallantry of Scottish soldiers, but scarcely to the credit of the Scottish people, the funds subscribed were too small to allow the completion of the pro- ject. ' ae no doubt that Edinburgh stands pre- eminent. The roll of its great citizens is truly noble, from -- Sir) Walter downwards. 'The beauty spots around the capital are innum erable, embracing such places as Arthur's seat and Blackford Hill, the view from which has received immortality in "Marmion." What wonder that pen fails inde- scribing this fairest of cities which has ever fired Scottish thought, this that it might well have been brought into being by some power- ful magician desirous of dazzling mankind. : wk MONARCHS OF THE AIR. Will Man Ever Emulate the Fri- gate-Bird or Albatross? Early in the morning the great vulture of North Africa leaves his eyrie in the mountains and soars away into the sky, rising to such a height that the human eye, strain- ing against the sun-bathed sky, fails to perceive him. All day long, hour after hour, he swings or hovers, never dropping unless his keen eyes perceive car- rion beneath, and not until sunset does he wing his way back, appar- ently as fresh as when he started. This vulture has been watched by the hour through powerful tele- scopes, and never once seen to give so much as a single flap with his wings. Man has. been studying bird- flight for generations past. He has done his best to imitate it, he has gone deep into its problems, and has put forward all kinds of in- genious theories. And at the end of it all, even now that he himself is beginning to master the air by means of a rigid screw-driven plane, he has to confess that the problem of soaring flight is well- night insoluble. For a very long time the common explanation of soaring flight was that soaring birds, like the vulture, took advantage of air currents. It is a fact that some birds, like the albatross, need a breeze to enable them to sail through the air; but there are others, such as the fri- gate, or man-of-war bird, which can rise in the calm and float all day without a motion of their broad pinions. The wings of the frigate-bird have an expanse of ten to twelve feet, and it can fly at any pace up to a hundred miles an hour, and can remain for a week on the wing without once perching. The albatross of the Southern Hemisphere has been known to fol- low a sailing ship for a fortnight at a time, apparently never rest- ing. Its wing expanse is greater even than that of the condor, one bird that was shot off the Cape of Good Hope measuring seventeen and a half feet from wing-tip to wing-tip. From these figures it might be gathered that the larger the wing expanse of any particular bird the greater its powers of flight. Yet here we strike another snag. The powers of flight in various birds are not by any means pro- portionate to the bearing surface of their wings. : The stork, for instance, ean fly magnificently. On its annual mi- gration it covers two to three thousand miles, and will cross the Mediterranean with the greatest ease. Now, the stork weighs eight times as much as a pigeon, yet in proportion to its weight has only half as much wing surface. But a bird of prey must be able to do much more than support its own weight in the air. It has to lift its kill from the ground and carry it perhaps many miles up into the mountains. What such a bird is capable of may be realized when it is said that an eagle weighing about eight pounds has been seen to pick up and carry off a young pig weighing more than double as much as itself. And there are many cases on re- cord of eagles having carried off children weighing, with their clothes, over fourteen pounds. If man could build an aeroplane to match the eagle, that aeroplane would only weigh, engine and all, about eighty pounds, and its pilot uld carry it on its back. It would to be able to rise with only a few feet run, to sail with safety in any gale, and to remeim oMost for Educationally considered, there is] | city of such fascinating grandeur} ed in his thirtieth or year, 365 pounds then being record--- ed. At the expiration of the thirty- -- first year his power begins to de- -- cline, very gradually at first, fall- ing but 8 pounds by the time he is -- forty. From forty to fift crease of power is he Bat § rapid, having dropped to 3380 lbs at the latter age, the average lift- ing power of a man of fifty, there- _ that of a man of twenty. fifty the decrease in strength is usually rapid, but the rate of de- crease varies so surprisingly in in- dividuals that it h rf to obtain accurate data as to aver- age strength after that age. at least ten hours at a wisereh. t, | 2 as es ers, New York, was found dead in his office. Of the total population -- 3 73.9 per cent. are returned man Catholics, 13.1 per cent. as Be leg PALA haotane 10. pe: cent. as Presbyterians, 1.4 per cen' as Methodiste. B: er Strokestown Guardians _ granted a pension of $125 per to Miss Coen, late matron of th workhouse. SOS Shpping from the footboard of a Malone road street car, Belfast, a man named Thomas Murphy had his neck broken. Se eae The King has awarded the sil medal for gallantry to Willia: Christie for attempting to save the life of a comrade. Mea A cow bolted on the main stree of Fermanagh, and entered the shop | of James Martin, draper, and caus--- ed considerable damage. _ An interesting relic of the I Parliament has passed into the possession of William Connor, Newry. It is a table which was the property of Mr. Foster, the last Speaker of the Commons in College -- Green, and bears his name. Three hundred people witnessed seven bouts of cock fighting at Derrywallagh, County Armagh without police interference, = Denis Murray, farmer, Clon many, County Donegal, has been awarded $25 against Rev. Edward -- Loughrey, Dungiven, for assault. © Albert Hamilton, manager of the Lombard street branch of the Na- tional Bank, Dublin, has been found dead with his throat cut. A boy named Joseph Currie has_ been presented with a silver watch | for saving a comrade's life, while bathing in the Bann at Coleraine. Fire on the Queensland docks, where much cotton is stored, did damage amounting to $1,000,000. _ Immense quantities of saltpetre -- were destroyed. ee The Belfast and Ulster Vintners' Association had before them at a meeting the question of the marked increase during the past two years in Ulster in the habit of methylat- ed spirit drinking. In 1905 a man left pearls with a Dublin jeweller valued at* $1,500, and never returned. A magistrate has decided that if they are not claimed within six months they -- should be sold by the Crown. The police foree of Dublin are receiving congratulations for the total absence of disorder or crime during the royal visit. eee ctonooes MAN'S STRENGTH. ° Maximum Strength Reached Usual ly at Thirty-first Year, Inasmuch as a man's muscles de- velop with use, it would appear logical that the older he gets the stronger he should become, but such is not the case. Experiments made with thousands of men show that the muscles of the average man have their period of increase and decline, whether he uses them much or little. The average youth of seventeen has a lifting power of -- 280 pounds. By his twentieth year | his power has increased to such a degree that he should be able to exert a lifting power of 320 pounds, while his maximum power isreach- _ thirty-first the de- at more | fore, being slightly greater than After as been impossible NOT BESS: geeks "Don't yon know, Plumdig, that -- when a clerk on a moderate salary goes to putting on airs, wearing | diamoimls and buying fancy he's running a risk?' -- ine 'Tf you mean me, Gwimple, -- there's a surety company that takes all the risk in my case.'" 's ed lt's easy for _people to make "= a money who don't need it, S. Se See See