eer Salk epee) oe ee Se ei Tape fi k f , re = ADVANCED ¢ c HINESE WOMEN. st They Korn alse Union Phat Will et Ae Not Strike.. Chinese working. women, mdstly workers in the local stocking factor- fies, have recently established a union in the French concession in Shanghai. In their petition to the French Con- sul-General the women promoters of this érganization state that their sole object is to protect their legitimate cenit ea add that they will have no o do with strikes or any- thing tending to disturb the, general peace. They omit, however, to sug- gest what methods they will. use to o n their ends. The women demand of their em- ployers that they shall have personal freedom of action and that they shall ‘not be dismissed without reason or Previous notice. | A Chinese labor union for men workers was established some time imilar to those existent in mediaeval urope, still provide organization for the merchants and artisans of the various trades. With the coming in of factories and large scale employ- ment unions for lower class workers are being formed. s The Government keeps a very close watch on these labor organizations, ; apparently fearing that the epidemic of strikes which has affiilcted the stu- -~world in recent months may | cause upheayal in the labor world as well. Workingmen have openly join- ‘ed with the students In their boycott of Japanese goods and some persons, declaring that this action showed Bol- shevistic tendencies, have urged the police to prevent labor societies. That is why the promoters of the new union, who are mostly young women, have publicly announced that they | will not disturb the peace. at China the old trade and elty guilds, ‘. Snail Eggs Breed Disease, Snails recently have helped to solve a problem that puzzled the army medical authorities. They are responsible for a dangerous and rede fatal kind of dysentery. - The malady in question is very | ‘prevalent in Porto Rico, It occu in other parts of the work, thoughnot in the United States. There is always danger, however that it may be introduced into that country by persons suffering from it. . was ascertained not long ago | that this kind of dysentery was caus- ed by a threadlike worm, half an inch | ‘long, which, getting into the human | ' body, swims in the blood-stream. There it lays eggs, and these are what do the michief. They are covered with tiny spikes, and, making their way into the bladder and intestines, set up irritation, producing an in- flamed condition and bleeding. Where did the worm come from? There was no special clue; but the army doctors extended their Inquiry, in Porto Rico, to every animal found . in neighborhoods where the disease prevailed, At last the worms were , discovered In a species of snail, which was manifestly an host" of the parasite. It is a pond snail. What happens is that the worm's eggs find their way into a pond (sanitation being rather wretched in Porto Rico), and the worms hatched from them attack the snails, boring into thelr flesh. There they pass, through a stage of their development, and, when mature, get into the bodies of human beings— presumably through the drinking of “the pénd water. Thus the cycle of “thelr @xist@nce is completed. Now that the cause of the trouble | is known, people in Porto Rico have | been warned not to drink pond water nd it {fs hoped ot the malady wil dichpheake Mexico's Millions. f Peele are ap. to think of Mexico, so much im the public eye just now, if a small country, and a poor one, whose national industry appears to be the fomenting of revolutions with- in her . borders, says Pearson's Weekly. As a matter of fact, it is one of the biggest’ countries in the world, and, naturally, one of the richest. Prior to 1836 Mexico and the United States covered approximately équal areas of.North America, but in that year, as a result of the Mexi- ean war, nearly a million square miles of ‘territory were transferred from the}fOrmer country to the lat- tor. as big as the aggregate in pre-war days,,of Austria, Hungary, Germany, ee ee tees eee me ame ta ne France ; and* Great Britain and . Jrelandd > While as stents her natural wealth, México before the war pro- dueed one-third of the world's silver, a considerable percentage of its gold, one-ninth of its lead and one-. twentieth of its copper, not to mention fron, coal and petroleum. Yet this vast and nat ' eountry is inbabited by only about | fifteen million tee pee ; 1 . fifth td white, the remainder being - Indians and -half-breeds. enatiete ten sh Poison Gas for Whales. ri gerer he pa eedog “intermediate | Even how, however, Mexico is in alesse by the French graph Society, poison tubes were used. The Beluga, pest of the fisherman, | i generally cream white in color, feeds mainly on cen — at commits ravages“among the Te average ng of the adult cael is about 18 or 20 f To hunt down the "wiles whale ‘a net 1,100 yards long was set up at Douarnenez, while another Was p ed in a suitable position by the ‘a ermen at Concarneau. Furthermo: ihe skippers of the- sardine boa uged 4,000 Yves Delage poison tu against the Belugas, _ that peut. Contractors—"A house. on this plan can ee built for $6, 000.” The Other —‘I have no doubt it can. What I want to know is how riauch I'll have‘to pay’ you when it's built.” FO ae el ee Hearing Ears. A certain naturalist who maintains that we hear only that to which our | @ars are attuned tells how once, in 'a noisy New York street, he heard ‘the sound of a cricket hidden in a | basement window. /No one else ap- peared to hear it though every .passer- 'by promptly stopped and looked | round when the naturalist tossed a | dime oh the sidewalk a few seconds later. The agg onn anecdote also bea out the eory propounded | abo The late Lr Arthur Sillivan, the composer, and Sir Alexander | Mackenzie once found that they had | which th the number of a house to which they were invited. Sir Alex- | ander protested that all he knew was | that the door scraper was E flat. So |“away they went kicking the door scrapers along the row,’ until at last Sir Arthur exclaimed, "Here we are; Oceano- in -which nets and K ‘epae by thou as much and be books more Fg -or fll each new age and be F, the ereniot influence operating “upon our da “The twentieth bates is the heir of ali the centuries, the resultunt of cuniplementary and gira oy oan flicting fortes. The rel d work ‘of all the pioneers who struck out the ideals which are as yet only” dimly perceived and but partly ful- filled. The poets, philosophers and sclentists have bequeathed their tdeas. and achievements to their successors —and out gt pei png ay mater- fals of the are summoned be build: the edifice, ,of our spiritual e. “Luther and os Bossuet and Pascal, Hooker _ Butler, Goethe and Kant, Schletermeches and Hegel, eountiee and Carlyle, Maurice and McLeod Campbell, to name but a few at random of our teachers are Jiving to-day and making our thbught world. The Reformers and the Hu- manists, the Puritans and Anglo- Catholics, the Delsts and Evangeli- cals, the French Philosophes, the German -Idealists; the English Moral- ists, the Mystics, and apostles of so- cial religiousness and liberty—all are factors of the complex world of thought and action of which we are the heritors and trustees. “Some ages are greater than others and some have contributed more to the march of civilization—but all are links in the chain of continuity, All things considered the Victorian ‘era is among the great epochs of the world's history, and by its character and achievements has given to Great Britain a foremost place among the Nations.” 7 A Belated War Story. Neither Mr, Hamlin nor Squire Heaton is noted as a worker, but their wives are very industrious, and nothing gives either gentleman more pleasure than to boast of the wonder- this is E flat!” It was the right | house. ; His Reason, As the only youthful, unattached | > male at the resort he found smpees | i; upon him the duty of teaching a— | to be discreet—young lady the art of | ‘swimming. That she had been taught ' | before became very evident after they | had been in the water a few minutes. | Therefore, he took keen delight in giving false orders. “Now,” he said, “put your head entirely under water jand kick up in the air with both | feet. “But I never heard of such a | thing!" she gasped. “How will that help me to swim?” “It won't" re- marked the young brute, “but maybe you be see some other poor fish down } ther THE ZUEGLODON. This Monstgr Ruled the Ocean and. Its Creatures. | Did you ever hear of a zeuglodon? | This monster is only known through | its skeletons, several of which dre in| existence and may be seen In the! world’s largest museums. The zeu- | | glodon in life, was seventy feet long, | and which must have been ruler of | the seas during a bygone epoch. It was not so very long ago, for | there is good reason to believe that | this alarming creature dates back ; fewer than 100,000 years. Perhaps | | very much less. What wiped out the zeugl ful things that his wife accomplishes. “I don't know what the Red Cross would have rag without ny, wife,” sald Mr. Hamlin one day. ‘‘She knit 25 sweaters, 74 pei of socks poe, i316 wristlets." “That's not a bad record,” admit- | ted the squire. “In fact, I call it a good record for an average Now, I don't know how many articles, my wife, turned out for the ed Cross; she didn't count them. She started to count them, but when she had knit several hundred articles of every kind she said counting tired | her, and she quit. After that she estimated her’ output by needles,” “By needles? What do you mean by needles?” asked Mr. ei a little huffily. “ mean the needles my wife pose out,” explained the squire. “Bhe w out three sets of needles kitting, dor the Red Cross; and the fourth set Was 50 nearly wore out Whe: ithe war ended that they wasn't no ‘thicker than horse hairs." Poison of Bee, Sting. A French scientist has made a study recently of the toxic and pre- servative effects of the stings of bees and wasps. It is well known ‘that many predatory wasps surround their eges with the steng bodies of smalé caterpillars, and similar organisms, on which the young will later sited These bodies the scientist has ca fully examined. He finds that life 4 not extinct; rather, it is a case of ded animation, The poison of) 15 a mystery. Not any marine Coane | more formidable.than they, certainly, for there was nohe such. Indeed, | | they must have been masters of the | briny deep, holding all contempor- | ) aries at their mercy. \ To perceive this, one has ‘only to | | look at the aforementioned skeleton, | | | With an enormously long “all, and Powerful swimming paddles, the zeu- glodon must have been able to swim at the speed of an express train, and its great aligator-like head was arm- ed with huge carnivorous teeth, It was manifestly a ferocious and predatory brute, and presumably fed on fishes and porpoises. The head was four feet long, ana in the front part of each jaw were eight teeth for seizing and tearing, which were sup- Plemented by a series of saw-edged cutting teeth at tt: back. The zeuglodoens, be it understood, were not fishes, but mammals, related to modern whaies They must in, pear time Have been very numerous, judging from the quantities of their bones dug up in Mississippi and Ala- ma, where in places there are’so many as to interfere with ploughing, Farm walls are bullt of them. Apparently the creatures, which were denizens of -warm seas, died and became dry land. Drifting sands covered their bones, preserving the omg to some extent. Their tenth (loose those. of pliipaeeey are found ie a about in the neighborh Q the The oaty nearly perfect skull)of a zeuglodon ever found fél, ‘Many ‘the and exhibited the matin a agthes called , the “h on-ruler of the waters. the | sting seems to affect the, nervous system alone; in faet the cells of the body are thoroughly alive, and are for a long period in good, condition for consumption by the young wisps. | The investigator is now pe with a theory that the poison ac pre- | servative, or embalming ~ uid, when all life finally ceases. —Popular | Mechanics. Nes Other Things to Study, Mr. A. is a very ithusiastic lodge than, spendigg about five nights out of every sevelat various lodge-rooms —of'all of which lodges he Is a num- ber. His wife, who is rather. tolerant of the whole business, howeyer, does occasionally get “peeved” enough to Say a'few sarcastic things. And then one night came her chance. For a wonder her husband was at home for an evening, curled up in a rocking chair before the grate fire she had made and reading very’ busily... For a long time she sat silent, Watghing ype neh she asked, “John, what reading?’” ‘My ritual,” he “Well, I must. say/). she had studied. your ‘much ag you Have studied you would bea modél husband,” Koreans and the Ironclaile | - The invention of the ironclad. war- ship.is credited to the Koreans; In d is conscious that it has within it the! T ; He (proposing) — "I've sa PeRoUsty 0 to five at the od of 4 ei: 000 bode poh aa no were, of course, the foremost ym culturists of day, and ‘kept’ records of the cattle aon Those records were preserved in the solved, the stock was dispersed all over the Kingdom, and was blended with @ common tocal rarieties— longhorns, were enclosed on.certain large pri- vate park lands. The stock grew ore or less wild and mad because of close inbreeding, and nothing was done to save them from extinction until two yehrs ago, when Sir Claude Alexander, Bart. Faygate Wood, Faygate, Sussex, appealed to the editor of ‘the London Live Stock ournal! to establish~the breed on oh book lines. Sir William Shak- erley in Cheshire, Lord Dynevor in Wales, Lord Tankerville in North- umberland, John Cator, Quintin Gurney and T. H. Cas# in Norfolk, and Messrs. Dawkins and Cocks and others from other parts of the coun- try got together, and with the aid or a litde publicity and propaganda the thing was'done. The first White Park Herd Book is on the. printers’ stocks, and the first open classifica- tion for the breed will-be seen at the Darlington Royal Show in 1920. These White Park Cattle are both horned and polled. [ love the polled ones, they are so docile. The monks preserved the polled animals because they were easier of domestication end did not revert to the antics of their ancient ancestors. h types’ possess genuine utility; if any- thing the polled cattle are the better milkers. The cows give a consider- able volume of milk, and present a butcher's carcass: when their dairying days are done. Beef carcasses from the Cator and Dawkins’ herds have caused stirprise when marketed com- mercially, As to the poHed type’s milking a I append the laca- tion records of some cows in the herds of fohe, caer Woodbastwick, Norfolk *qand Major Quintin Gurney at Bawdeswell, Norwich, in the same county of England; Woodbastwick Blue Bell 2nd, 11,952 pounds of milk; Bawdeswell Countess, 11,634 eam Bawdeswell Alberta, 11,368 unds; Woodbastwick Blanche 2nd:, ti, 033 ‘pounds; Woodbastwick Prim- ula 1st, 10, 716 pounds, Woodbast- wick Poverty 4th, 10,604. pounds, and Bawdeswell Elfrida, 10,000 pounds. The story of the origin and revival of the breed sounds like a legend, But it is nothing of the kind. It is good to know that the work of Amér- ican breed*+socleties in the eradica- tion of the scrub sire and the vast increase in the registration of pedi- Sree stock is but a continuation in another part of the world of the early herd bookkeeping done by our nfonk- ish folks hundreds of years a be German Paper Suits. A Dutch ara of importers of Ger- man goods in London is showing a range of paitinan, tweeds, etc., which ay be made up into men’s suits at sixty cents to $2.50 a suit. These suits. (“readymades"”) are manufac- tured from paper and cut to English styles. These paper “tweeds” and “cross ' breds” resemble the heavy rough cloth, both in appearance and feel. In fact there is nothing papery at all in either look or feel> e firm dealing with these Ger- man nent declare that at the pres- ent rate of exchange, it would be comfortably dressed in a new suit every week and the entire cost of the fifty-two new suits would be less than one single ‘sult of West End cut and style ous ‘material. any is using paper for every cononratits domestic necessity, and once the prejudice against paper ar- ticles is broken down, and their util- ity conceded,-there will be an aston- hing fall in prices. In Petticont ne and Clare Market, bool laces of Paper are three pairs for two cénts against one pair for six cents; and men's braces are twelve cents a pair, and warranted to hold-up at thet. . We most of us have tried a news- paper under a rug for extra warmth and renee: its value, 80 once we est o the idea of paper garmen tnere'll be a telling blow to the high cost of living. - Missed-One Guess, . never piatd ‘sbect t. She seean'e know what she’ pt you and my sister would be m i fore spring, and that was more & year ago.” — Enough. fora. The:“‘Gold Medal” Label Shields You Against Unknown Hardware Goods 3E)5 ey ae \y — hor weess 7/7" UALITY” R WATCHWORD et ° Easy to remember! Think of ‘GOLD MEDAL” when you want the best! Look for the Gold Medal Label on any article and you will know instantly—without ques-| tion—that it must be right, For Sale by C. ZILLIAZ & SON Flower Bulbs . We have received a large shipment of Tulips, Hyacinths, Crocus and Daffodills for garden and house culture—all colors, single and double. Beautify your lawn or garden by plant- ing Bulbs. Brighten your home dur- ing the winter months with a few pots of flowers. R. A. CLIMIE Wallace Street f Phone 72 possible for an Englishman to be! When You Think of Meat Think of No. 26. At the other end of the line is an satebiiahwment that standa for quality and service. If you want meat satisfaction, get the habit of calling “two- six." ‘ . The choicest fresh and cured meats, sausages, bologna, head cheese, lard, etc., always In stock. p G. A. Kennedy WALLACE ST. SUCCESSOR TO 8. J. STEVENSON. FRESH MEATS Afull supply of Fresh Meats will always greet your ‘ “eyes at this store. We take pride in cutting inents to piseve our ¢cus- m tomers, You are not urged to take what you do not want. ~ Should you ever buy of us meat not as represented, bring | it back sod we will return the money. | - _DOMM’ > The ‘Modern 5; Meat Market Se x as rine,