PEOPLE OF ORKHEY ISLANDS - The inhabitants of the Orkney Islands are justly proud of their little corner of the globe, and one » enthusiast writing 'in a contem- you the, honeysuckle or rowan tree, r oS ert NO MORE HOSPITABLE PEOPLE INTHE WORLD. A Traveller Describes the Chief _. Attractions of the Beauti- ful Isles. porary, gets rid of his feelings on the subject as follows :-- Sir,--Here I am in the Orkney Isles, looking for something new in the way of scenery, and as a life- long "glebe-trotter" I feel fully authorizea to say I have found it} to my heart's desire. Here is} fascinating scenery, the like of| which I have longed to discover. 1 was born and bred on the plains | of Andalusia, and had seen all that | is on the eontinent before the age! of 20. Then I travelled through | Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, India | and traversed the border between | Tibet an China. Then I visited | Australia, with its salt lakes, smell- | less flowers, and numerous fascina- | tions; and New Zealand, with its | geysers, hot springs and quaint | Maoris; but they all failed to supply | the peaceful rest and beauty to be | found in this group of islands--a| group of emerald isles set in a/| silver sea. : : It is a very difficult thing, in- deed, to describe this group. There is so much equally worthy of praise. First, I think. I can mention its people, who need never be ashamed of their Viking characteristics and appearance, and, least of all, their world-famed hospitality. BOOKS IN RUNNING BROOKS. Of the beauty spots of the Ork- neys, I'think North Walles, Hoy, and Rackwick, should be first mentioned, Hills crags, streams and glorious verdure are the chief attractions. How vague indeed would Shakespeare's words-- "Books in the running brooks, ser- mons in stones, tongues in trees, and good in everything"--have been if he had been privileged to sojourn here for a short time. Of trees this place has not got its share, but there is much heather, and you wild roges, honeysuckle and such like. : Around each humble thatched cot- tage hangs a romance. You hear tales of sons and daughters wander- ing over the world, far from their childhood's home. Some have made their fortunes either on land or at sea, and some have died*in the service of their country. Then the proud mother will show which her oldest son, .who was drowned in the China Sea or some far away flace, planted 40 years ago. The Orcadians of to-da- like their ancestors, ara worthy and famous sailors. Ah! what pathos and tragedy is lying there! the mother will relate some boyish prank of Jamie, who was killed by the Modder River, but she can also tell you about her other sons, who have done well out west, and are keeping her from want and drudg- Then | JAPANESE BUSINESS HONOR. Their Standard Not the Same as Ours--The Reason Why. Japanese business methods have been widely criticised, especially in the last few years, as lacking those standards of commercial honor which prevail among Occidéntal na- tions. A writer in the Atlantic says that the question most frequently Orient has been: "Why is it that the Japanese are so dishonest that they cannot even trust themselves, and have to em- ploy Chinamen at the head of all their great business concerns?' He explains-this almost universal impression by saying that the aver- age tourist usually hag business re- lations only with the branches of the three great banks established in the treaty ports. When he cashes his letter of credit he ob- serves the singular fact that the money is bemmg handled by a China- man instead of by a native. "The simple truth," says this writer, "is that these three, banks-- all of them, by the way, foreign concerns--are the only business houses in the entire. empire so conducted. When Japan was open- ed and these foreign corporations in China sent their branches into the new 'field, they sent their Chinese comrpradores with them. "Yet, while all this can be said, and should be said, in the interest of simple justice, it is nevertheless undeniable that in Japan the ideals of commercial honor and the methods adopted in the conduct of business are not what they are in the West, and there is much of which the Occidental may justly complain. "There is a historical reason for this. The fact that in the olden days in Japan the merchant was placed-at the bottom of the social scale and the soldiers at the top. while in China exactly the reverse was the ease, fully explains why Japan has produced a splendid soldiery, and has wofully suffered in her mercantile life, while the army of Chinahas been the sport of the nations though her merchants have attained -a- high place in the world of business credit. "But even though the 'cake. of custom' is the hardest to break, its power of resistance has been al- ready materially weakened by this wise policy of the Emperor; and the merchant is no longer the pariah of the realm., Prominent among those' who by 'the Emperor's favor have, risen from the social dust into places of highest honor is a family whose history 38 significant. "The Mitsui family of Japan have been called the. Rothschilds of the East; but whild the fname of the latter has gone abroad over the world the Mitsuis have remained practically unknown except to a few Western merchants who have had extensive dealings with the Orient. The European family owes its great renown to the fact that for a century there has been no slightest stain upon its com- mercial honor. "But its career,' it should be re- world where, business itself has been held in honor; while the Mitsuis, engaged in a pursuit utterly con- temned by publie sentiment, for three centuries, in spite of the de- moralizing influence of the social ery in her declining years. Upon asking one mother the cause | of her hospitality to strangers, she | replied :--"Have I not boys wand- ering here and there in need of somebody's kindness? My motto is, 'As ye would like to have done to yours, do ye so to others."' No wonder, indeed, the Orcadians ara loved and reverenced. You will not hear on these isl- ands the shrill Cockney accent, or the rough Scotch dialect. The Orcadians are proud of their pure English, and pleasantly they speak it with a faint touch of Norwegian dialect. THEY LIVE AS MAN, Upon visiting "God's Acre" you can see many graves of strangers | --sailors who pers been drowned | by its rugged shores in the tumultu- } ous winter, or have, been washed | ashore from whence nobody knows --a convincing proof of the destruc- | tiveness of the Atlantic Ocean. | These. graves are well cared for, | although to a large extent those | who lie there are foreigners. Many | an evening some shy maiden will | wander thither with flowers to! strew over the grave and to think | of brother or lover who is far away at sea, or may be, lying like this | in # foreign land less cared for. T will now have to cross over the sapphire sea once more to tell my | countrymen what free lives can be | enjoyed in places such as this, and | help them to claim their rights and | the rights of their ancestors, and) live as men once more. Hs. "ANIMALS WITH MEMORIES. Bull Remembered a Cruel Beating With a Club. That animals of certain srecies ossess highly retentive memories 18 vividly illustrated by a tragic af- fair that happened some time ago in Colorado. Among the live stock of Antonio Anderson, a successful farmer, was a fine bull that was «o docile that Mrs. Anderson herself fed and wa- tered him regularly every day. On one occasion, more than a year ago, while Mrs. Anderson was absent, on tgs gave the animal a cruel ating with a club. The man had forgotten the affair, but had not approached the bull since then until one evening, when he decided to lead the bull to water. When Andereson drew near the | animal attacked him and gored him | to death. ; Neighbors who witnessed the af- fair insisted that the bull was mad and should be killed. To show that they were mistaken, Mrs. | Anderson stepped forward, rubbed | This the bull's nose, then put her arm | around his neck, and led him away. | - The.man forgot his cruel deed, but | the bull remembered, : i J, Fecal |" pte SSA Beta Most girls dislike being Ree by. the wrong feHow, 1 | gienic Gazette. Great Britain there is more of a, ban, have been trusted by Govern- ment and people alike, and have kert the honor of..their name un- stained. Now, thanks to the new spirit animating the nation, they no longer stand so conspicuously alone."' % EUROPEAN HOSPITALS. Many With Large Grounds--Less Care About Proper Light. "Tt appears to me that the tend- ency in Europe is to build the hos- pitals of to-day of pavilious, detach ed but nearer together than was the fashion twenty years ago," says awriter in the Dietetic and Hy- "In America and tendency to spread out hospital buildings than formerly. "In most of the hospitals visited it was gratifying to see the ample and beautify) grounds surrounding them. looks like alittle town lost in forest; the Virehow is through sixty acres of woodland. "In London, on the other hand, | raany of the leading hospitais are | crowded on all sides by mercantile; Public Baths. | houses and subject to the din of trafic: Charing Cross, King's College, Westminster, St. George's, | St. Bartholomew's and a number of others. The new King's Hos- ital, however, has much more el- Ow room. : "We had to travel some miles into the country to reach the magnifi- cent new hospital which the corpora- tion of Rixdorf had provided for its sick; all about are farms of. wav- ing grain fiells and rich meadows, surely an ideal site for ahome for the sick. "The sunny and wooded grounds cf the Wilhelmina Gasthuis, Ame- terdam, are divided for the separate use of the various inmates. One plot is marked off for one, class of nurses who serve in the contagious pavilions, another for the male em- ployees, another for the female. "A wire fence thirty feet distant fromthe street keeps the ambulant patients convalescing from contag- ious diseases that distance from their relatives, who are able to see them and converse with them as they peer through the fence at the street line. "The general wards of the Eur- opean hospitals are considerably larger than those of our hospitals in America; they often provide for the accommodation of thirty or forty cases. We frequently found them overcrowded; they run east and west as often as north and south, Ceilings, as a rule, are 16 feet in height, sometimes more, the maxi- mum being reached in the beautiful | sea Gothic British Hospital in Paris, which the arch of the be at least 35° fee GOr Floors are of tile or | wood, French d windows ' with trantoms are, I should. say; the most popular.'* ~ membered, has~been passed in a| Continental | FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND. { } NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. --_ Occurrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- ; mercial World. Patrick Flanagan died recently at Cornashinagh, Four-Mile House, Limerick, aged 100. Fifty extra police in town did not prevent wild scenes taking place at Dundalk during the coal strike. A temperance hall be inaugurated in Granard, Long- ford. Attached to the hall will be a reading room and library. An apple weighing 28% ounces was exhibited, and won first prize flor weight, at the recent Fruit Show at Clonmel, Tipperary. The flax and corn mills, with their valuable machinery, of Mr. Geo. Kane, situated at Articlave, near Castlerock, County Derry, were destroyed by fire recently. The Rathfriland Sanitary Com- mittee propose supplying that town, and possibly Hilltown, with pure water from the Mourne Mountains, at a cost of $22,500. Reelers employed in a spinning mill at Tyrone complained about the yarn they were working, with the result that the mill shut down and 300 hands were left in idleness. Mr. W. R. Gregory's Coole Park and surrounding estate, situate near Gort, and which comprises about 2,000 acres, has been offered by him for sale to the Congested Districts Board. The Local Government Board of Wexford has sanctioned a loan of $15,000 to the New Ross Urban Council for the carrying out of a scheme of artisans' dwellings in the town. Drummond Farm, some three miles from Carrickmacross, was re- cently the scene of a serious con- flict between a large force of police and the assembled sympathizers with a man entitled to a farm of 200 acres. The tenants of the estate of ©olonel Duke, situate at Kilmor- gan, near Ballymote, have refused to pay rent when their demand to the agent of a reduction of six shillings in the pound or the sale of the property was not acceded to. Antiquarians in the Shankill dis- trict were interested recently in the removal of an old stone cross from Shanganagh to its original site in Tinker's lane, Rathmichael. It had rested in Shanganagh, which in olden times served as a grave- yard, for a considerable time. At a special meeting of the New- castle Town Commissioners, held recently, Mrs. J. Flanagan, the only jady town clerk in Ireland, tendered her resignation of the of- fice, as she has decided to leave the town and reside in Dublin. Her resignation was regretfully accept- ed, The death occurred recently in his 107th year of John Kelly, Lough, Portarlington. Born at Bishopswood, hey readily recalled the troublous days of the "White- boys" and the famine of '47, He worked on his farm until a few days prior to his dissolution. Such was his popularity that the neigh- bors carried his coffin three miles on their shoulders to Killenarde cemetery. : J we. MY LONGEST A Dive That Seemed to Last a Whole Lifetime. Many people seem to think that you cannot have adventures, thrill- fing encounters, hair-breadth es- capes, and the like, without going to the other end of the, earth for them, says a writer in London Ans- wers. Th. MOMENT, The Eppendorf | in all parts of the world, a/| most terrifying thing that ever hap- spread | ened to me was a while back ina i've had my share of experiences but the quiet little provincial town in the North of England. I was assistant-instructor at the It was an excep- tionally hot summer's evening. I had had my evening off, and was on my way home, hot and peevish, at about ten o'clock, after a two- mile walk from afriend's house. As I passed the baths I saw that all lights were out and the place shut up for the night, but I had a sudden inspiration that anice cool plunge would clean away all the discomfort I was feeling. To think was to act. I carried the keys of the building, and could let myself in by a side, door. I must explain that you reached the highest diving-board of the baths by a couple of steps from the gallery. It was a little drugget- covered platform, erected about twenty feet above the surface of the water, which was some seven feet at the deep end. I flung off my clothes rapidly, and, seizing the handrails, ran blithely ur. the steps, stood for a fraction of a second mother-nak- ed on the platform, swayed for- ward suddenly, bent my knees at the right moment as I was losing my balance, pushed off with my heels, and-- In the next five seconds I went through an ordeal so horrible, so agonising, that the mere thought of it sends me hot and cold in patches. Let me try to present the pictures that crowded vividly before my mind's eye one after another in such rapid succession that they seemed to come all at once in those years during which that dive seem- will shortly | ed to last. Lh was Wednesday night--the I was diving | o hard porce- | SOVIAN Oh. lain b of such} a fate My pa Head first | --a cracked skull p neck! | Feet firstt--broken legs:at tue least, ~ and a night of eternal torment at ; the bottom of the baths! On all- fours--could any man fall thirty feet in the dark and survive? I remember uttering a fervent pray- er and 'squeezing my eyes down tight. Down--down--down. And then-- : Flap! Plosh! Ob, the joy of it! Oh, the stinging, hysterical joy! Seven feet of beautiful, cold, lap- ping water to wallow in! I hard- ly noticed the pain of my collision with the surface--and it's no light thing to fall flat on water from a height of twenty feet--so gorgeous was the relief. : I let the water swallow me ur, and then rose slowly to the sur- face; but when I struck out I found that my ordeal rad left me as weak as a baby. I managed to keep afloat long enough to get to the side, and then, dragging myself along the rail to the steps, clambered to the bank and sank down, a complete phy- sical wreck. When I recovered I learnt the explanation of my escape on that dreadful Wednesday evening. It was simple enough. My mate had left in a hurry. and omitted to re. lease the plug to empty the bath. he NATURE AND HER COLORS. Why the Pink of the Flesh of the Watermelon, for Instance? The attractive appetizing outward appearance of most fruits is ex- plained by the scientific supposition that its function is to attract birds and animals which carry the fruit away to eat the fleshy portion and dscard the seed, thereby aiding in the disturbution of the syecies. According to Prof. O. N. Whitt, writing in a recent number of the Runrschau, modern science teaches us that everything related to color of fruits and vegetables has its de- finite purpose. The red cheeks of a peach, he says, are so enticing that the above distribution of species explanation will probably be readily accepted. but why that brilhant red color where, the flesh meets the kernel? The bird that picks at the flesh of the fruit does not strike this colored layer until the work is practically ac- complished. Somewhat similar conditions are met with in the vegetable kingdom. Why is the red beet deeply colored, while its close congeners have a white juice? After all, neither, under normal circumstances, sees the light*of day, so that it is pro- blematical what useful function the color can possibly serve. Then, again, why does the madder root contain quantities of alizarine and allied dyestuffs that in the fast have been of such great value, while in modern times we have learned to manufacture them by artificial means? Of what possible use can such dyestuffs be to the plants? Consider the watermelon covered by athick. opaque, dark green skin. We may make some sort of conjecture as to the pur- pose of this: it perhaps serves in keeping off some of the large ani- mals which would devour the fruit, skin and all, and thus leaving the melon to be burrowed by worms, who leave the seeds untouched. But why that appetizing pink color of the, flesh of the melon? It can- not serve as a charm to attract visitors, for the guest that has eat- en its way through the skin needs no further attraction, after he has reacher the, interior. The black color of the seeds may perhars be put down as a preventive measure, protecting them from |sharing the fate of the rest of the fruit. We now know that the refresh- ing green of the woods and mea- dows is not provided for our enjoy- ment, but for the serious and practical purpose of plant nutri- tion; the flowers display their bright colors to attract the insect that carries the pollen from stamen tostigma; the Alpine hare is snow colored so as to be hidden from the sight of his enemy while the lion is tawny and the, tiger striped. Ja ee ee at BRIDE'S GOWN OF CRIMSON. Mary, Queen of Scots, First Started Custom of Wearing White. The majority of brides choose white when selecting their wedding dress because it is the conventional color, and many persons are of the opinion that it always has been fav- ored. As a matter of fact, it is of comparatively modern origin, and in most eastern countries pink is the bridal color. During the middle ages and in the Renaissance period brides wore crimson to the exclusion of all other colors. Most of the Plantagenet and Tudor Queens were married in that vivid hue which is still popular in parts of Brittany, where the bride is usually dressed in crim- son brocade. : It was Mary Stuart who _ first changed the color of the bridal gar- ments. At her marriage with Francis II. of France in 1558, which took place not before the altar, but before the great doors of Notre Dame, she was gowned in white brocade, with a train of pale blue Persian velvet six yards in leegth. This itnovation causéd a great stir in the fashionable world of that time. It was not, however, until quite the end of the seventeenth tury that pure, white--became popu- lar for bridal garments.--London Sketch. vie BEFORE MARCONI. An Egyptologist and an Assyrio- logist were disputing about the re- lative advancement of the two anci- ent peoples whom they were study- ing. "Why, sir," cried the Egyptolo- gist, "we find remains of wires ia Egypt, which proves they under- stood electricity." "Pshaw!" answered the Assyrio- logist, "ye don't find any wires io Assyria, and that shows that they understood wireless telegraphy." bE (peace Edonomy is right, but don't waste a dollar's worth of time try- ing to save-a penny, et UNPOPULAR PRISONERS, Instances Where They Have Been - Set Upon By a 'Crowd. A mob is acurious thing, and its fickleness is often illustrated dur- ing trails which have aroused popu- lar interest. the trial of Beeton, a year ago, for the, alleged murder of his child. Beeton was brought up at Hitchin, (England), Police court, ard the principal witness against him was a man-who had been a fellow-pri- soner of his while serving a former sentence. This convict witness was Colonel Thomas James Stockaui, the central figure of the sensational jewel rob- bery at Olerkenwell several yeans ago, and according to his account Beeton had confessed to him that he had done away with the chid. Stockall, who gave his evidence, reluctantly, was furiously hooted by a crowd of several hundred per- sons als he left the court in charge of wardens, while Beeton was loud- ly cheered. In France, the crowd is just as unreasonable. Rather more than a year ago aman named _ Favier robbed and killed abank messeng- er at Lille. A murder is alwaysa dreadful thing, but there was no special feature about this which made it different from scores of other similar sordid crimes. Yet the whole city was stirred to its depths. On the day of the exe- cution it took fifteen hundred sold- iers, reinforced by a great body of police, to keep the, crowd back. Every vindow and house-top, as well as the square itself, was black with people, many of whom had waited all night to see justice done. It was calculated that no fewer than forty thousand yrersons were gathered to watch the execution. Lynching was absolutely unheard of in Portugal until nine years ago, when a man named Onteiro, hav- ing robbed a farmer, was seized by his victim. and, drawing a pistol, fired at him. . He failed to kill the farmer, but hit instead the, local schoolmaster, who fell dead. The tragedy occurred on the _ station platform at a town in which a fair was in progress. The police ran in, and arrested the man, but be- fore they could get their prisoner clear the. crewd rushed at him, tore him away, and battered him to death with their sticks. A similar lynching was only avoided with the utmost difficulty by the New York police when James Gallagher shot and wounded Mr. Gaynor, the mayor. of the city. Mr. Gaynor was just leaving for Eur- ope on the Kaiser Wilhelm der |Grosse, when Gallagher, a man who had been discharged from the muni¢ipal employ for drunkenness, fired at him, hitting him in the neck. Before the police could reach Gallagher he was very near- ly killed. Frenized crowds sur- rounded the motor-car in which he was taken to prison, and after- wards, at his trial, a very large body of police had to be employed to protect him. ye A SNAIL PLAGUE. The Result of a Collector's placed Enthusiasm. Creatures removed from their na- tive land by accident or design often find in some strange country a congenial home. Indeed it may happen that not only are, the con- ditions of living favorable but enemies and more strenuous com- Mis- petitors may be absent, and the immigrant increases in numbers beyond all expectation, says the Scotsman, A notorious example is the rab- bit pest in Australia, but less marked and fortunately less severe cases are 'occasionally recorded. In 1887 or 1888 a West Indian snail suddenly turned up in the thous- ands on a coffee estate on the east coast of New Caledonia. How it found its way from the North At- lantic to the South Pacific no one knows, but that this particular transference, from 20 degrees north to 20 degrees south latitude and of some 120 degrees of longitude did not disturb its equanimity was very apparent. A still more extraordinary case occurred last year. Complaints were made to the Government of Ceylon of asmall plague which threatened to devastate part of the country. The plague was investi- gated on behalf of the Government by Mr. Green and his report fur- nishes many interesting details. The area infested covered only three or four square miles, but in that space monstrous snails with shells five inches long were identi- fied as Achatina fulica swarmed in millions. On a six foot portion of the stem of a cocoanut palm 227 were clust- ered. Yet the damage done was comparatively slight. True some trees were denuded of and fruitandthe bark was stripped | off some, but the country did not exhibit the signs of devastation one would have expected. The im- migrants seemed rather to under- take the duties of scavengers and to devour the rubbish which lay in plenty near the native houses. One peculiar food supply was in- dicated. Natives alleged that their bu'leings were being attacked anc thac holes had been eaten through the walls, but investigation showed that the snails had confin- ed themselves to the consumption of which they utilized for the con- struction ef their shells. The Achatina fulica is an East African native, but it is a great wanderer. From East Africa it colonized Mauritius, thence it was trans- ported to the Seychelles and Cal- cutta, where it thrives. And now to the misplaced enthusiasm of a collector who, receiving some, living specimens from abroad, liberated them in his garden in the uplands of Ceylon, can be, traced their in- troduction to the island. aya "A couple," said Mrs. Simpkins, 'sob married a few days ago after a courtship which had lasted fifty years." "T suppose," rephed Mr. Simpkins, 'the poor old man had become too fecble to hold out any ? longer." Pr, z 5 2 ae: 3 7 Take such @ case as. the leaves | the limewash and plaster materials, | = ioe DANCING TO A POST. ; Shoshoni Indians . Try to Keep it Up 72 Hours at a Stretch. _ 'The Shoshoni sun dance _ has tests," writes T, B. Le Sieur in the Man,- "that of recent years the Indians have called it the 'sand dance' or 'half dance,' hoping to 'deceive its opponents, But though shorn of some objectional features it is stil teachings of Christian civilization. "It 1s scheduled to take place about June 22, when the sun has gained its highest northern point and is preceded by the gathering of the tribe at some selected spot. A circular space having a radius of about forty feet is cleared and in the centre is placed along, forked post. "This post is the object of the most elaborate ceremonies, being bathed in holy water and being de- dicated or consecrated to the sun. It is supposed to embedy the Great Spir t and to contain the essence of that Deity sufficiently to cure all human ills or confer any favor. Where failure occurs it is always attributed to some outside influence or interference. "The arena encircling this sacred post is enclosed with the interwoven branches of trees, and only those participating in the dance are al- lowed inside. The dance begins with due ceremony. It is a wild, weird and fascinating performance: a fanatical -fantasy; an orgie in which nearly naked and _ frenzied Indians, to the accompaniment of the doleful chant of the singers. the dull thumping of arelay of drums and the shrill whistles of the dancers, for three days and nights without cessation, without food or water, dance in mute ar- peal, supplication and atonement to a long, forked post. "T recently had occasion to at- tend one of these so-called sand dances. One of the dancers, al- ready in a weakened condition from a long illness, died the second day from the exposure and exer- tion, and he died in the firm belief that the performance in which he was engased would restore him to health. Several strong men col- lapsed the third day and were car- ried from the arena. The dancers whose physical strength enables them to endure the terrible strain of seventy-two hours continuous dancing, become heroes in the tribe and are supposed to be rid of all ills and misfortunes. They are greatly envied by the Indians whose powers of endurance are limited, as well as by those who lack the hardihood to enter the dance at all. The fact that the dance never lacks participants is doubtless due as much to the resulting hero worship as to the belief in the efficacy of the ceremony."' eS JAPANESE CHILD MANNERS. What a Cluster of the Yellow Chil- dren at Play Suggest. A cluster of litthy Japanese chil- dren at play somehow suggests to me a grand picture gallery of a nation, 'says Mortimer Memres, Every picture is a child upon which has been expended the subtle de- corative sense of its family or neighbors, as expressed in the tint of its dress and sash and in the de- coration of its little head. It is in the children that the national artistic and poetic nature of the Jap- anese people mostassuredly finds expressfon, Each little one ex- pressed in its tiny dress some con- ception, some, idea or thought, dear to the mevic., some particular as- pect of th. national ideals. And just as in the West, the character of a man can eo gauged by the set and creases cf fis trousers, so in Japan are the sentiments and ideals of a mother expressed in the, design and coloring of her baby's little kimono. Thus, when watching a grour of children, maybe on a fete day, one instinctively compares them with a gallery of pictures, each of which is a masterpiece, painted by fi, artist whose individuality is clearly expressed therein. Each little pie- ture in this gallery of children is perfect in itself; yewon closer study it will be found that the children are more than mere pictures. They tell us of the truths of Japan. The science of deportment oc- cupies quite half the time of the Japanese children's lives, and so early are they trained that even the kaby of three, strapped to the back =f its sister, aged five, will in thet awkward fosition bow to you and Lehave with perfect propriety aad grace. This Japanese, baby has already gone through a course lof severe training in the science of 'deportment. It has been taught | how to walk, how to kneel down jand how to get up again without /disarranging a single fold of its | kimono. | After that it is necessary that it 'should learn the correct way to | wait upon people---how to'carry a | tray, and how to present it grace- 'fully; while the dainty handing of ja cup to a guest is of the greatest |importance imaginable. A gentle- ;man can always tell the character jof a girl and the class to which she ; belongs by the wav she offers him ja cup of sake. And then the chil- /dren are taught thet they must al- | ways control their feelings--if they 'are sad, never to erv: if they are hapry, to laugh quietly, never in a boisterous manner, for that would be considered vulgar in the ex- treme. Ss en ie a ese A RUST PREVENTIVE. - To keep iron goods of any kind, and especially those parts of mach- ines which are made of steal or iron, from rusting, take one-half ounce of powdered camphor and melt it before the fire in one pound of good lard. To give it a dark color, add as much fine black lead sired effect. Clean the iron-work |and smear it. over: with «this -pre- |paration: After this is should be | allowed to -remain untouched © for 194 hours, when the grease should be lremoved by wiping the ironwork j waith=a soft 'cloth. been the subject of so many pro-| inconsistent with the} as is necessary to produce the de- | } ad p her. hfe BRITAIN WANTS A HAL _ LION NAVAL LOA Determined to Have a Sea F Superior to Any Othe Nation, England is face te face w necessity for a $500,000,600 loan. e The scheme was law more than a year age by the U (ists, but was tess ie ree | ernment. Now I am able to say on the highest autherity that Win ton Churchill, who has just taken over the navy, will demand huge nayal loan when the estimates are laid before parlia- ment early next year, writes a Loy don correspondent, The idea the young minister, of course, is place the British navy at one strok in a position of strength unattai able by Germany. x When Ghurehill took charge the British navy as first lord of the admiralty, OR le predicted that things would ite for things have a way of happening in see oe partment ruled by Churchill. expected, however, that anythin sensational would develop as clean sweep of the board of ad- miralty, which is the executive committee that rules the king's mie under the first lord's dirag tion. CHURCHILL'S COUP _ must have proved a bitter disap- pointmert to Admiral Sir William May, who was actually named a: first sea lord, or chief of the board of admiralty, in suecession to Ad- miral Sir Arthur Wilson, who, in the natural course of events, would | have retired under the age limit next March. Admiral May was not gazetted, however, and when -- it became apparent that the rela- tions between Germany and Eng- land were entering on another rer-_ iod of stress and delicacy he was quietly pushed aside and Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman was ap- pointed to the post. There are a number of reasons for this clean sweep. Most im- portant of all is that it is a notifi- cation to Germany that England ready to fight any time the kaiser wants a scrap. On Monday, November 27th, Sir Edward Grey made his speech on fereign affairs in the house of commons and deciar- ed that England would stand by her friends, France and Russia, On Tuesday morning the Gernian papers with one voice declared that Germany must build more wir- ships. On Tuesday night Wims-~ ton Churchill announced his change at the admiralty. With the chi situation confronting him, hill wanted his plans and estim) prepared by the staff that will haves to carry them out in the next few -- years. ye A third and also an imporatnt reason is that the change gives an opportunity for many alterations -- in the active fleet commands, and the placing in positions of respon- -- sibility of young and active men. _ ADMIRAL BRIDGEMAN, the new first sea lord, who is 63. years old, is just the man for the -- job. He shines as an executive -- officer and to him was given the task some years ago of organizing the home fleet--the greatest aggreg tion of fighting ships ever brought together. In the navy he is known as Curly B. and to the man ;in the street as "the silent admir- lal." Unlike some other distin- guished British soldiers, he has never been known to grant a news- paper interview or to write aline -- for publication. He hasn't seen much active service. Prince Louis of Battenberg, the new second sea lord, will have to deal chiefly with the personnel of the navy. He is the most popular © officer in the service. Anyone | who thinks that his royal birth has, helped him to a soft job is makin a big mistake. He is ahardwo ing, thoroughgoing sailor and hé beloved by the lower deck. Hy a naturalized British subject is only distantly related to British royal house. His brother, the late Prince Henry of Batten- berg, married Queen Victoria's daughter and a third brother was | the late Prince Alexander, who was | reigning prince in Bulgaria from 1879 to 1886. Prince Louis had the offer of * the job before his brother, but he preferred to be a British sailor. | Dg AFFINITIES IN HISTORY. ---- ' Influence of Famous Women Over 4 Famous Men. : There are four women who may -- _ be said to have greatly influenced the life of Napoleon. These four are the only ones who need be 'taken into accotnt by the student of his Imperial career. The great , Kmperor was susceptible to fem- | inine charms at all times. Women, ito him, were the creatures of the | moment, although he might seem to care for them or show his love in /an extravagant way. He preferred 'that a woman should be womanly, and ont a sort of owl to sit and and not a sort of owl sit and government. ' pets Of the fous women whouine& enced Napoleon, first must come Josephine, because she secured for him his earliest chance of achieve- ment. When he discovered her perfidv he divorced her and ma ried Marie Louise of Austria, Na- poleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte, was the third woman who comes ta mind when we contemplate greats Corsiean's career would gladly have followed 1 the English i © J ' St. Helena rnAmMeN woman, ine in her on Yas well as in' thes & \ Vek story. uence Py