Ns a ete | ie SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY MAY 19. os Lesson ViI.--The old law and the new life, Matt, 5, 17-26. Golden Text, Rom, 13. 8. 'Verse 17.--Think not that I am ~"eome--All that Jesus shad said thus far, including the Beautitudes, was so radically different from the po- pular conception of proper conduct that his hearers might easily have inferred that his teaching was to usher in an entirely new cra, in which the old order of things, with its dominance of law, should en- tirely pass away. Against such a mistaken inference Jesus directs the teachings which follow. To fulfill--In the light of the gos- pel message the law and the pro- phets were to receive a larger and fuller meaning, as their higher and deeper spiritual significance was thereby revealed. 18. Jot. tittle--Respectively a tiny vowel-point and consonant- ending in Hebrew script, both ~ easily omitted in hasty or careless writing. 19. Shall be called least--Jesus does not say that those who fail to observe the least of the command- ments shall be excluded from the kingdom; but that they shall not attain the highest reward. 20. Righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees--This consist- ed in the punctilious observance of the letter of the law, and in the ease of the Pharisees ,in scrupulous observance of forms and ritual. In the words that follow Jesus shows how the true righteousness exceeds the false in forbidding the wrong; 'ful disposition and secret thought, as well as the overt act of wrong. Tho higher righteousness is a righte- ousness of motive and nurpose ; the righteousness of the law cannot transcend the letter, In no wise enter--Jesus teaches that if the motive and purpose of life be right, the failure to keep a minor commandment literally is not nearly so bad as the absence of the higher motive in the strict literal observance of every minor require- ment of the law. 21. Ye have heard--The command- ments.as found in Exod. 20 and Deut. 5 were at stated times and regular intervals read in the public synagogue service. Them of old time--Those to whom the commandments were first given. 22. But I say unto you--Jesus does not correct the ancient law, but points out its deepér meaning. At the same time, however, he claims an authority greater than that of Moses. Judgment--Local court proceed- ings. Raca--An_ expression tempt. Hell ef fire--Literally, Gehenna of fire. (Compare Introduction to lesson for May 5.) 24. Leave there thy gift . .. first be _ reconciled--Sacrifice without love is not profitable. No offering of gifts or contribution to the work of the sanctuary can take the place of a sincere purpose and effort to live at peace with all men, and to contribute one's full part to their welfare. 25. Adversary--A legal opponent. The judge--The presidang author- ity. ; The officer--He who is charged with the execution of the court's order, 26. Farthing--The coin designat- ed by the word farthing was equal to about three tenths of a cent in our money. The same word occurs elsewhere only in Mark 12, 42, where it is said to be equal to two mites, the widow's contribution to the temple treasury. SR OL THE MAGIC GLASSES. The first field-glasses brought to the New Hebrides sorely puzzled the simple-minded natives, who of course thought them the product of wizardry. In '"'Islands of Enchant- ment" Florence. Coombs tells how ene of the mission clergy was walk- ing along the shore, when a native at his side pointed out a tiny figure in the distance "There goes one. of my enemies," said he. = _ The white man, drawing out his field-glasses, and adjusting the fo- cus, handed them to his companion, who, gazing through them in ex- cited amazement. beheld his foe ap- parently close at hand. Dropping the glasses, 'he seized his arrows and looked again. The enemy was es far away as at first. Once more ~ the snatched the magic glasses, once more exchanged them for his ar- 'rows, and once more was baffled. To lose such an opportunity was hard indeed. <A bright thought suddenly occurred to him. "You held the glasses to. my eyes," said he to the missionary, "and I can shoot him." Bake hre .-- © joes ay CHOICE, Some men are keen for dying rich, I've neo such lure; _ Than dying rich Fd rather keeo Oniving. pook= soe 3S of. con- TEETH WERE SAFE. -- "Sam Johnson, you've been fight- dn' agin. . You'se lost two of yo' _ front teeth.'? "No, I ain't mammy, honest. J'se got 'em in me pocket." ee i EEESIND.. "Are there such things os ath- lotic pains? S "TT ghould call a jumping tooth- - ache one."' Si we ESS is - She--How did they ever come to marry? He--Oh, {t's the same old story. Started cut to be good friends, you know. and [ater on ghanged theiy minds. {after he severed his connection with = Sc atacclene WHO WILL SUCCEED HAYS? E. H. Fitzhugh, B. J. Chamber-lain and F, H. MeGuigan. -- Three men are mentioned as hav- ing a chance to succeed the late Charles M. Hays as president of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railways--Mr. E, H. Fitz- hugh, first vice-president of the G.T.R.; Mr.- E. J. Chamberlin, vice-president and general mana- ger of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and Mr, F. H. McGuigan, formerly one of Mr. Hays' right-hand men on the G.T.R. All three, like their great chief who went down on the Titanic, are natives of the United States. . The best guess for the position is Earl Hopkins Fitzhugh, who stood next to Mr. Hays and who had fol- lowed his chief through most of his career. Mr. Fitzhugh was born in Missouri:in 1858, started out as a banker, and then entered the ser- Mr. E, H. Fitzhugh. vice of the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railway as a clerk. When that road was absorbed by the Wabash he made the acquain- tance of Mr. Hays, and when Hays went to the Grand Trunk he soon sent for Mr, Fitzhugh. The latter came to Toronto as superintendent of the middle division of the G.T.R., and won rapid promotion. He was one of the men brought in by Mr. Hays to galvanize the old road into action, and he helped a whole lot, FITZHUGH RIGHT-HAND MAN. When Mr. Hays left the G.T.R. to become president of the South- ern Pacific he took Fitzhugh with him, and brought him back when he returned to the G.T.R. in Febru- ary, 1902. In 1904 Mr. Fitzhugh became third vice-president of the G.T.R., and in 1910, first vice-presi- dent. Last year he was made pres- ident of the Southern and New Eng- land Railway, a subsidiary com- pany. Mr. Fitzhugh looks like a Southerner. He talks very little, does not seek publicity, and is con- sidered a business man of the de- liberate and rather conservative type; a quict, steady, persistent worker; a careful hustler, so to speak. For some time all depart- ments of the Grand Trunk have, re- ported to Mr. Fitzhugh. Mr. Edson J. Chamberlin, who succeeded Mr. Frank W. Morse as vice-president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific three years ago, and who is also a possi- ble successor to the presidency of the two G. T. roads, is somewhat older than Mr. Fitzhugh. He is a native of New Hampshire, and re- | ceiyed his training in the United} States. He was general manager | of the Canada Atlantic when that road passed into the hands of the Grand Trunk. He has lived in Can- ada since 1886, and is an able, all- round railway man. McGUIGAN -WELL KNOWN. Mr. McGuigan, whose name _ is mentioned in connection with the big appointment, is better known to the public than either Mr. Fitzhugh or Mr. Chamberlin, because of his rather picturesque qualities. He came up from the ranks, and he is the sort of man about whom many stories are told. It is said he call- ed J. J. Hill a liar on the occasion of his rupture, with that magnate when he left the Great Northern, after a very brief stay in St. Paul, the G.T.R. It is also said that he favor by refusing to give him ad- applied the same, epithet personally to an Ontario Cabinet Minister in connection with the construction of the Hydro-Electric line, which he Yecently built. : Mr. McGuigan's success and the fact that he is looked upon as big enough to fill Mr. Hays' position may be traced to his Beestcwee when young of always fitting him- self fora better job than he held. One day when he was a boy carry- ing water on the Great Western down near St. Thomas there was talk of a strike. An engineer laughingly said to him: **You'll lose your job, son, if the men go out."' Mr. F. H. MeGuigan. ale! mag "probably Pll get your job. "What do you mean?" asked the engineer. ' "Why, Vill drive your engine," was the reply. "What do you know about the engine?' said the driver, "go ahead and show me." Whereupon McGuigan, the water boy, took hold and ran the locomo- tive! He had kept his eyes open and found out all about it. Me REDUCTION OF COSTS. Holland Is Endeayoring to Solve Problem of High Living. Co-operative housekeeping, which aims at solving the high cost of liv- ing problem and the servant ques- tion at one stroke is being tried by a small group of enterprising peo- ple in Amsterdam, Holland. They have calculated the immense, reduc- tion of costs if, for instance, ten families, instead of having each in- dividually ten kitchen fires burning and ten or more maids to cook and clean them, were to concentrate all their work in one common kitchen and regulate the household business just as hotel managers arrange to provide for their guests. The experiment begins in an apartment house built for the pur- pose. The apartments are of vari- ous sizes to accommodate either large families or single men or wo- men. ivery one pays a certain amount towards the common house- hold. Every one may send in a list of dishes preferred for each meal with, of course, certain limitations as to their costliness. On the whole, Hollanders take kindly to co-operation, but it re- mains to be seen whether this do- mestic form of it will take their fancy, for in domestic individuality they are more like the Britishers; they like privacy and will not so easily give up their own particular brand of domestic economy for one in common with others. At all events, it will be an interesting ex- periment, for this is the first time in Hollard that an entire co-opera- tive household management _ is tried. Some portions of homekeeping like co-operative laundries and co- operative kitchens are already in operation with success. The co-op- erative kitchen at The Hague has now flourished for several years, and in 1911 it had to be greatly en- larged because so many new fam- ilies had joined. It now occupies two large houses and supplies quite a respectable number of people with good food, well-cooked. The co- operative kitchen was started by some fifteen or twenty families, none of them bountifully blessed with riches. To each family it has proved to be an immense economy. What is saved them through the absence of household worries and conflicts with domestics can scarcely be over-estimated. There is a board of directors of men and women, a woman mana- ger and a competent staff of cooks. Then, too, the bill of fare is com- piled to suit the individual tastes of each household. If preferred, the meals are served in the dinner sets belonging to each family and the dishes are taken into the homes of the participants in closed and heat- ed receptacles. From all this it will be seen that by degrees some sort of co-opera- tion in household matters has al- ready been reached and the Am- "Oh, I guess not," said young sterdam experiment is but a step or two further on the road to a com- plete co-operative housekeeping. It also promises to be a factor in the further enfranchisement of women from household drudgery. At the same time, it will open opportuni- ties for those to whom housework is congenial. i KING'S NEW STATE COACH, Magnificent Chariot Took Months to Build. The King's new state coach, a matchless piece of British work- manship, has been taken to Buck- ingham Palace from Barker and Co.'s in South Audley Street, May fair, London. This is no rival of the massive gilded coach which ap- pears cn occasions cf fullest state. it is lighter and Jess gorgeous. The body is dark in color, but the pan- els are made splendid by the full royal arms. A finely-carved rail around the top of the coach takes the form of rose, thistle, shamrock and palm, the latter being emble- matic of the Empire. The same de- sign figures in the specially woven silk tabourette upholstery of the in- terior. A magnificent blue and scarlet hammer cloth, with gold tas- sels and borders, covers the driv- er's seat. Every bit of the material is British, except the panels of Honduras mahogany. The frame is Twelve of British ash, and from first to last the coach took 12 months to build. It takes the place of the one. that was burned a year ago, and will doubtless be used at the com- ing levee. Its builders have been coachmakers for 200 years. WAKING SAFE NVESTHENTS 4 e Cet-rich-quick fakirs covering Ontarlo at present time--Real Estate wildcatting replacing old fashioned Mining Stock Speculation, ~The articles contributed by 'Investor are for the sole purpose of guiding pros pective investors, and, if possible, of sar: 'ing them from losing money through Incing it in "wild-cat" enterprises. The mpartial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "investor.") I was talking the other day with a beats salesman who had been travelling through western Ontario in the interests of the investment house he represented. Nearly everyone he interviewed he found had been buying or thinking of buying real ostate--principally western real estate. Not {isolated instances, but numbers of apparently sane people, were buying land-- or swamp--they had never seen from men they didn't know, on the strength of drawings and blue prints which mizht have been borrowed for the occasion, and not only buying but paying out real mon- ey on their purchases. : Tho amount of money which has gone out West--and even to Toronto--to pay for subdivision property and mortgages is appalling. Not since the days when George H. Munro sold farmers and_ oth- ers Canadian Marconi shares at a share, which he bought on the open snar- ket at not over $1,.50, has there been so much foolish eagerness to be swindled displayed as at the present time. Early in this series of articles I gave some particulars about investing in real estate, and showed that nothing could be jess wise than buying land which one hasn't seen. No sensible farmer would under any circumstances buy a farm in the next township he hadn't seen unless on the strongest advice of a trusted friend, and yet at the present time many such faremrs are breaking this funda- mental rule of elemeniary investment just because the land--mind you it usual- jy isn't even a farm, which could scarcely fail to be some good--is situated in the wonderful West. ; No form of speculation or investment requires more careful thought than buy- ing real estate. So many influences con- spire to make it valuable or to detract from its value. Means of transportation are particularly important in the case of city or town subdivisions. As a rule you may be sure that any subdivision proper- ties now on the market are too far away from the centre of things to make it pos- sible to dispense with some means of ra- pid transit, and if there is no rapid tran- sit there is no value to the property ex- cept as a speculative chance that some day a car line may run that way. However, words and rules will not in- fluence anyone who has gone so far as to be prepared to buy unseen land, and are not required for those who have had ex- perience or are otherwise too discreet to buy under such circumstances. There is one rule you may be quite sure of: If any property is sufficiently a bar- gain to warrant any one buying it as a sound speculation, you may be sure it would be cheaper and much less trouble to sell it to peopie at home who know all about the place than to peddle it about the country. It is only subdivisions miles away from anything that can be bought at a low enough price to make it worth while going to all the expense of sending salesmen through the country to sell on the installment plan. In many instances in the West of cities of not more than 20,000 inhabitants, the country about them has been subdivided further out from the centre of the city than has Toronto, a city of over 400,000. My friend the bond salesman. had this complaint also: "I go to see a man and offer him a sound security. I tell him its good points and its bad ones. I offer him goods that I would gladly buy myself if I had the money I have the house back of me with a good many years' reputa- tion, and as I have been on this district a number of years now I am pretty well known and,could get the strongest refer- ences from any of the bankers. Can I sell them bonds? Not one quarter of what the wealth of my district would jus- tify. Oh, no. Everyone is buying first Marconi, then mining stocks, now land, from men they don't know, who probably would get references from the bankers which would shut them out of business were they indiscreet enough to ask for them; who have no reputation, no strong house behind them, and whose land not one in ten would take a chance on _ buy- ing for himself. It doesn't seem right." I couldn't console him much. 'Oh, well," I said, "they'll lose their money and learn a hard lesson." That didn't seem to satisfy him, for he was strongly under the impression, and on mature considera- tion I agreed with him, that if they lost all their money they wouldn't be able to buy bonds or in fact anything else. He's quite right, and particularly so when he said that a great many people will believe a 'good whopping lie" who are more or less skeptical when they hear a plain unvarnished talk from a salesman who doesn't need to lie to point out the good points of his bonds. Meanwhile, if you are tempted to dabble in real estate, if necessary spend half your money going to see the property, and then you may save the other half; but don't buy real estate on a stranger's "say 80." (See BEWARE WHOOPING COUGH. Kills More Babies Than Any Other Disease, Says Doctor. Significant figures concerning chil- dren's diseases were given by Dr. Royal S. Haynes, one of the speak- ers of the Popular Medical Lecture Course at the Academy of Medicine in New York recently. He spoke of the fallacious idea of many mothers that it was weli for their children to have measles and whooping cough and "get them over with."' "Whooping cough," said Dr. Haynes, "kills more babies under one, year of age than any other con- tagious disease. There are almost as many deaths from whooping cough as from typhoid." He gives startling statistics show- ing the large mortality from 'charmless" diseases. The deaths in New York in 1910 from measles were 785; scarlet fever, 953; whoop- ing cough, 461; diphtheria, 1,715, and smallpox, only 5. These figures were much below the average, of the few preceding years. In the same LONGEVITY AND THE. BRAIN Painters, Authors and Men. of Science Also Likely to Reach Old Age. The British Medical Journal has good news for those who are "of superior brain power" if they de- sire long life. ,It points out that it might naturally be supposed that superior brain power would not be conducive to long life, as the pos- sessors thereof have, to "bear the strain of an intense intellectual 'life," to which is often added "the unhygienic condition of a sedentary existence." But it seems that in- tellectuals on the whole have a high expectancy of life. "According to Benoiston de Cha- teauneuf," says the Journal, "the average life of members of the French Academy from 1635 to 1838 was 78 years and 10 months. Po- tiquet reckoned that between 1795 and 1848 the average for members of the Institute was 71 years and 4 months, while for members of the Academies of the Fine Arts, Sciences, etc., it was respectively 72 years and 2 months, 71 years and 4 month and 70 years and 8 months. We know of no corresponding sta- tistics for members of other learned societies, though to mention only the most recent cases Sir Joseph Hooker and Lord Lister had each passed the ordinary LIMIT OF HUMAN LIFE. "To arrive at any definite con- clusions we must discriminate be- tween different forms of intellec- tual energy. Poets and artists are not in the \same category as methe- maticians, for instance, or workers at scientific problems. Then there are the inventors, a class apart, in whim the mere intellectual excite, ment is increased by the hope of gain. Disappo'ntment, want of ap- preciation, lack of means, a squalid home, a scolding wife--all these things have to. be taken into ac- count as. tending to shorten life. "The longevity of statesmen has been so remarkable that during the last half century or so it has been said with truth that the world is governed by old men. For the poet it has been said that the fatal age is 37. This scems to be founded on nothing more solid than the fact that Byron and Burns died at that age. Leopardi died at 39, Shelley at; 29, and Keats at 25. "Before he was 40 Alfred de Mus- set was, according to Heine's bitter gibe, a young man with a great fu- ture behind him. Heine's own life after 47 was spent in what he called HIS MATTRESS GRAVE. Shakespeare died at 52, but his creative life had ceased some years before. "Goethe, on the other hand, lived to 82 in the full possession of his faculties. He was a man of power- ful physique, and though he ate and drank and did other things in any- thing but moderation, and, in fact, was supposed to be doomed to an early death in his youth, he con- tinued eating and drinking and high thinking almost to the end. "Victor Hugo died at 83, yet poets as a class are not long lived. In them generally intense exercise of the imagination alternates with pericds of inaction, and these have too often been passed in excesses which tend to undermine the consti- tution. "On the other hand, painters are long lived, as pointed out by Haz- litt in a well-known essay. Michael Angelo was 92, Titian 99, and there are many other instances. Men of science, too, whose life is spent, to use Newton's phrase, in 'intending' their minds on problems in the solu- tion of which disturbing influences are deliberately put aside, have a high : AVERAGE OF LONGEVITY. They are to a large extent free from the baleful emotivity which is a frequent accompaniment of crea- tive genius. They are not the slaves of passions which wear out the body as the sword does a scab- bard. "Tf an 'intellectual' enters on life with a weakly constitution he is more likely to take care of his health than a man whose only aim is to get as much enjoyment as he can. But apart from this, the man with a powerful brain is likely to have a corresponding vitality in his other organs. He is in fact better equipped than his fellows for the race of life. But a fine cerebral organization may coexist with lack of staying power. Hence success is largely a matter of survival, the strong. outliving possible rivals. "Men of great intellect, if they year the dreaded typhoid caused only 558 deaths. In 1910 the num-) ber of cases of measles reported | were 18,924, and of whooping) cough, 2,018. Probably not a quar- | ter cfthe cases were properly diag- | nosed, he said. From chicken pox | there is less to be feared than the other diseases, but Dr. Haynes urged parents to guard their chil- dren against all such diseases, as | there was always danger of epidem- ics. Dr. Haynes said it was easier to stamp out smallpox than scarlet fever and diphtheria. '"'Whooping cough," he said, "be- comes widespread because there is no quarantine. A nurse with a baby having a choice seat in the park is often approached by an-| other nurse with a child and will say: 'My baby has the whooping cough.' The first nurse then leaves the seat to the other, but she has received more warning than is usually given. It would be a good thing if children suffering from whooping cough were obliged to wear ribbon on one shoulder with start in life with a good family his- tory, are more likely to live long than the common run of men only as far as their way of life keeps them out of the sordid struggles for a livelihood that beset most people. There is an element of truth in the. cynical saying that a bad heart and a gocd digestion constitute the se- cret of long life." % VALUE OF MANNERS. Manners affect for good or ill the daily happiness of every human be- ing and the fortune and destiny of every tribe or nation. Their in- fluence on human existence -is pro- found and incessant. Good man- ners are founded on reason or com- mon sense and good will. They put people at ease in social intercourse, weleome graciously the stranger and the friend, dismiss pleasantly the lingering visitor who does not know how to withdraw, express alert sympathy with others, and prompt to helpful co-operation with others. They enable people to dwell together in peace and con- cord; whereas bad manners cause 'the words 'Whooping Cough' on aes ace friction, strife and discord. 2 TORONTO. CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN OITY. -- Another Bank Merger--Toronto's Base Ball Fans -- "8 (We have arranged for a weckly letter about Toronto affairs, which, we believe. will be of great interest to many of out readers. These letters will be from the pen of one of Canada's foremost journa- lists, a man who has covered some of the world's greatest happenings and now 00 cupies a leading position ou one of the Toronto dailies.) The merging of the Traders Bank with the Royal Bank has not been received with any great enthusiasm in Toronto, partly, no doubt, because it means the loss of the control of a leading finan- cial institution to this city, In recent years Toronto has rather been giving it- self airs as the city rapidly assuming un- disputed supremacy as the banking cen- tre of Canada. While Montreal had tho head offices of the Bank of Montreal, Mer- chants% Royal and Molaon's, Torono could point to the Bank of Commerce, To- ronto, Traders, Imperial, Dominion, Met- ropolitan, Sterling, Home, and Standard. Now control of the Traders goes to Mont- real, and Toronto is now altogether pleased. It was just the other day when the Bank of Commerce invaded Montreal by absorbing the Eastern Townships Bank, but, now there comas a correapond- ing set-back to Toronto's aspirations. Nor does Toronto like to hear Montreal say anything about the Sovereign, Ontario or Farmers' Banks, all Toronto instivutions of late lamented memory. SIX BANKS HAVE HALF BUSINESS. Apart from this phase of the question, there is some disposition to argue whe- ther these bank mergers are a good thing or not. It is surprising to find there are fewer banks doing business in Canada now than there were many years ago, in spite of tho fact that new ones are con: tinually being organized. It is also sur- prising to find that the six biggest banks now have over half of the banking capital in the country, more than half of the de- posits, and more than two-thirds of tho discount or loaning business. This is a striking concentration of the money power. Whether it is a good thing for the country is a question for the economists. There are not wanting argumentative gladiators on both sides of the contro- versy. BASEBALL TO THE FRONT. The real opening of the Baseball season as far as Toronto is concerned came with the first week of May. Three weeks earlier the International League opened with the Toronto team away from home, but the event was so overshadowed by the Titanic disaster that it failed to reach the general public in even a mild degree. With the first appearance of the team at home it was different. The players and officials proceeded in carriages, as if in state, through the down town streets to the ferry, thence to the Island to the big grand stand that holds 15,000 people, com- pletely surrounding the diamond in an oval. «There were plenty of flags and mu- sic and big guns to do the honors. All the players, in uniform, lined up and march- ed across the diamond and back again to let the fans get a good look at them. then there was the formal "first" ball, and the game was on. MAYOR IS A FAN. There are a lot of fans among Toronto's public men. The Mayor himself is one. Controller "Tommy" Church is another, Controller Hocken likes to see a game occasionally, and many others of the Council slip off to the game whenever they get a chance. James L. Hughes, School Inspector, is a dyed-in-the-wool fan. So are T. C. Robinette, J. W. Curry, and other prominent lawyers. Prominent financiers like R. A. Smith, of Osler & Hammond, and Norman Macrae, of Pel- latt & Co., rarely miss a game, and there are a few clergymen who enjoy an occa- sional contest. ok WRECKS FOR THREE MONTHS. Forty British Steamships and Right Sailing Vessels Lost. Some interesting details are given in the Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping, containing re- turns of vessels totally lost, con- demned,- etc., for the quarter end- ing December 31. According to Lioyd's register book for 1911-12, the number of steam vessels owned by the United Kingdom is 8,487, with a net tonnage of 10,519,070. British colonies own 1,41 steam ves- sels, having a net tonnage of 788,- 580. The number of British owned sailing vessels is 847, with a tonnage of 579,982, and the colonies own 694, with a tonnage of 195,193. This gives a total of 11,442 British and colonial vessels, with a tonnage of 12,083,831. The total number of registered steam and sailing vessels of all nationalities other than Bri- tish and colonial at the same time was 15,574, with a total tonnage of | 12,982,219. These latter figures, however, do not include vessels trading on the great lakes of North America. The returns do not in- clude either vessels under 100 tons | net. : | During the three months compris- | ed in the returns the United King- | dom lost 40 steam vessels (19 being | wrecked, 2 abandoned at sea, 7 in| collision, 8 foundering, 2 burnt at | sea, 2 missing) of a net tonnage of | 44,374, and the colonies 4, with a/| net tonnage of 597. British sailing) vessels lost numbered 8 (3 wrecked, | 2 in collision, 2 foundered, and 1 missing) of a net tonnage of 908. | This gave a total of 58 British and | colonial vessels of all classes lost, | with a tonnage of 49,295. The ves-! sels of all other nationalities lost, during the same time numbered | 118, with a tonnage of 118,936. Of| these Norway lost 37 vessels, and | the United States 31, of which 29} were sailing vessels. The percen- | tage of losses to vessels and tonnage | carried is greatest in the case of | Norway, Sweden being second. During the quarter two British | jsteamers and two colonial sailing | | ships were abandoned at sea, two! British steamers were burnt (one in mid-Atlantic with petroleum, and | one sunk by explosion), two British |steamers and one sailing vessel | were reported as having left port and never heard of again. Among 'the "ost" vessels which for "want of sufficient information, ete., can- ;not be otherwise classified,' ap- | pears the name of a Turkish steam- er, the Dernia, of 911 net tonnage, with no record as to voyage or car- go, but with the significant record: "sunk by Italian warship at Tri- poli, about 2nd October." -- eaten CHAPTER IX. Ruby Trevalyn looked up into her lover's face, and saw by the-white, bright moonlight that it was great- ly troubled. "You say you and papa quarrel- ed?' she gasped, recoiling in alarm. "Oh, Oharlie, how could you?" "Your father forced it upon me," = UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL. | Friend--"And -who do you re- gard as the greatest triumph of modern surgery ?"? - é LIFE IN PRISON. -- Moroso Released in Old Ago 'an f Again Imprisoned for _ Pocus, : A terrible story of an eminend Russian poet and man of science, -- whose reward by a grateful govern. mont has been half a lifetime in soli- tary confinement, is told in the cur- -- rent number of "Darkest Russia." A few weeks ago N. Morosoff, a Russian author and scientist, was put on his trial for a little volume of poems published in 1906, and was condemned to imprisonment in a fortress for ono year, ; Among the prominent scientists -- mentioned by the London Times as _ contributing to the glory of Russia, -- we find (says Darkest Russia) the name of N, Morosoff as the author | of important researches in chemical and physical science. No mention is made of the manner in which he | was rewarded for his activities. Here is briefly the story of his life. The son of a wealthy Jand owner, Nicholas Morosaift passod his child- hood in the country, and de- eloped a keen interest in nature stadies. -- = 20 years of ago, and while a stu--- ent in the University of Moseow, he was arrested on a charee "Sn spreading socialistic ideas among the peasants, and was kept in soli--- tary confinement for three years be- fore his trial, In the end he was made one of the defendants in tha famous "trial of 193" political of- fenders, but was released immedi- ately after the trial, WORKED WHILE SICK. In January, 1881, however, he was again arrested because of his liter- -- ary activity, and condemned to penal servitude for life, He was at first confined in a solitary cell of the ill-famed fortress of St, Peter and St, Paul, Four years later he was transferred to the "stone gacks" of the terrible Schlusselburg fortress, where he was kept for another twenty-one years, Many times during that long per- iod Morosoff nearly became the vic- tim of a deadly disease, and was on the brink of madness, but his in- domitable spirit overcame his phy- sical weakness, His extraordinary kindness and courtesy gained him the hearts even of his jailers, who called him "the marquis." From the very first years of his confinement Morosoff had set his mind to the solution of various scientific questions, During the last decade of his imprisonment he was allowed the use of paper and pencil, and provided with scientific bodks. Then this prisoner, his body emaci- ated and feeble, but his brain still vigorous, his intellect burning, be- gan day after day, with amazing and pathetic perseverance, to think out and set down on paper his hypothe- ses and reasonings, to make endless calculations for the preparation of tables and schemes. BACK TO THE CELL. "The greater part of his life was already behind him," writes Mme. Vera Figner, another of the Schlus- selburg prisoners, "and before him was nothing but blank hopelessness and a nameless grave in a little plot near the walls of the fortress, where |lay his friends, once, like himself, full of energy and strength, but cut off by consumption and scurvy. And yet how he worked! He never ceased to think and write, animated by the undying hope that his ideas would some day see the light." At the end of 1905, when the gen- eral strike had for a moment -held the Russian autocracy under its heel, Morosoff, with the few other Schlusselburg prisoners who were still alive, was set free. He was then 51 years of age. Of these he had passed twent}- eight years--more than half his life --in solitary confinement, Yet, with unbroken energy, this feeble man, made prematurely old, threw him- self into the world of science, to which he was so passionately de- voted, and issued a series ef scienti- fie researches in chemistry and phy- sics, and other works, including the little volume of poems for which he ~ has been again sent to prison. ' THE POWER OF COAL. One and a Quarter Pounds Has Working Force of Horse for Day. Does anyone realize the power of coal as a worker? A man was set to work a pump as hard as he, could. all day, and at the end of ten hours it was found that he had done just as much work as a little less than two ounces of coal could do, Taking all the energy put forth by a hard-working maa during one whole year, the same' amount of force would be furnished by 36th. -- of good coal, or, say, 401b. of aver: _ age coal, oy We produce six tons per head of population, and this contains the energy of 336 men working for whole year. 5 Of course, even in our best en- gines, the greater part of the work-_ ing energy of coal is wasted. But, even if only one-tenth is turned to account, 1% ewt. of coal is equal to a man working for 300 days of bi year. A horse can do as much work as ten men, but 1% Ib, of coal has as much working force as a horse ex- pends in one day, So that a ton coal, if we could use all its force, would do as much work 3 " horses working for a whole, year !-- London Answers, re ~~ Ud It's a long road to heayaay lots of short cuts to the other! A boy with an education doesn do so very much worse than his | Doc--"Collecting the bit." | ther did without one.