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clat ) More time is spent in our public schools in maintaining order than in teaching, asserts an exasperated teacher, and suggests a return to the rod. Moral suasion, she says, is utterly ineffective as a means of maintaining discipline among school children. A return to corporal punâ€" ishment would make for greater educational efficiency. NOTES ANDCOMMENT S No doubt the teacher is up against many difficulties the average person does not realize. There are in every class a number of boys who come from homes where the bed slat is the only symbol of authority. While sympathizing with the exâ€" asperated teacher few people will agree with her that a return to corâ€" poral punishment is the only remâ€" edy for this state of affairs. There are other and more efficient ways of making boys behave. After all, lack of discipline primarily arises from the fact that the children are not thoroughly interested in their work. The unruly boy would forâ€" get his pranks if he found his lesson absorbing. To make the work abâ€" sorbing to such a distracted child is not an easy matter. It may even be above the ability of the average teacher. A sounder remedy than the rod might be to take these unruly boys and put them in separate classes in charge of expert teachers who would know how to make the There was never much doubt as to the approval by the German parliament of the special or nonâ€" concurrent ""military contribution tax.‘" There was much kicking and grumbling, but the government made its appeal to necessity, to patriotism, and was sure of success. Inmdeed, the reichstag would have been dissolved if it had rejected the It was, however, left free to amend nonvital features. As origâ€" inally framed, the bill taxed all inâ€" comes above $2,500 (or 10,000 marks), while now the minimum is 5,000 marks. It is called by the government‘s financiers ‘"a rich man‘s burden,"" for he who has an annual income of $1,250 is considâ€" ered in Germany, and in the rest of Europe as well, a wellâ€"toâ€"do perâ€" work so appealing to them that they would forget their pranks. It is a fact that a tax like that of Germany does not hit the averâ€" age man, or the great majority of the people. This largely explains the readiness of the social demoâ€" crats to vote for, or refrain from voting against, an additional and heavy military contribution that they do not think at all warranted by the actual military situation in son. The tax, moreover, is proâ€" wgressive, and rises from 1 to 8 per cent. as the incomes increase. Adventurous Time 'l‘r)'ing to Cateh !1!9 1A Deing Cnu@acted 117 2MO I1RENE is islands of Gorumna. _ Lettermore Fish. and Lettermullen, off the Conneâ€" While engaged in seientific reâ€" mara coast. Three dread scourges search along the coast of Japan for typhoid, typhus and tuberculosisâ€" the American Museum of Natural | are destroying the inhabitants, and History, Mr. Roy C. Andrews, Curâ€" though some effort at relief has ator of Mammals in that instituâ€"| been made, it is hopelessly inadeâ€" tion, accepted an . invitation â€" to | quate. make a trip on one of the small| There is a slum area unequalled whaling steamers which hunt the in misery by the blackest spot in Hei and biue whale of the Pacific. | any of the great industrial centres. Here is an extract from his story The people in this place lack not of the hunt as told in Outing : \merely the decencies of civilization. "I was clinging to a rope behind | They are without actual necessities. him trying to focus the camera, but _ With infinite labor they wring the the flying spray and rain made it barest living from the tiny pockets well night impossible. _ Suddenly T of soil caught between the boulders saw the captain‘s muscles tighten of their granite islands. Over Letâ€" as the tip of the harpoon dropped | termullen and Gorumna you will an inch or two, and I caught a| not find one continuous acre of tillâ€" glimpse of the gigantic phantom able land in ten square miles. The shape rushing upward through the people‘s diet consistas of potatoes swirling green water. _ Almost on and a small seaweed called ‘"Cranâ€" the instant a cloud of white vapor | nagh," which they eat raw as a shot into our faces and a great "savory." They have fish when it dripping bedy rounded out under can be got. the ship‘s bow. The click of the From®t year‘s end to year‘s end camera was followed by the deafenâ€" they never see a morse! of meat, ing roar of the gun, and I saw the except, perhaps, a cheap sorap of ponderous fukes whirl upward, greasy American bacon. Many of pause an instant, and fall in one them never see~milk. During the tremendous emashing blow upon past few years three doctors have the water. There was a moment‘s died there in epidemics of typhoid stillness as the giant figure quiverâ€" : fever. A fourth sickened and reâ€" ed, straightened out, then righting covered. In the last twenty years itself with another crashing blow of six doctors have laid down their the fukes, swung about and dashed |lives in the district. The present away, tearing through the wacer medican officer, Dr. O‘Kelly, is the ’ufly on the surface, partly hakow only doctor in a diseaseâ€"smitten n 0 Lo e hk uie g o o ons wl n o ue Sure Enough. Kidâ€"What is it that occurs once in a minute, twice in a week, and yet only once in a year! Gentâ€"What is it 1 Kidâ€"The letter E. Europe away, tearing through the wacer medican officer, Dr. O‘ Kelly, is the partly on the surface, partly hakow only doector in & diseaseâ€"smitten 1€k" ;.m which includes a population of urmmzmrrrmmeire i remrmmmmmemomes ;}0.000 A;‘.id ext;':dn thirr:y.‘ml&o: 'tbdy orty milas. e nea ’,:"..' So-oylere. | is at Oughterard, forty miles s:lay. ‘My ‘”f'; is learning to c0ok by | There is no railroad, and the sole eoo; b°°k~e' Ihings comiity mtong 1 { means of conveyance for the feverâ€" How are things c long ! § is " We ‘"‘The book must be full of t\pn-‘;?,l::%:'{fi t iatd boe and graphical errors judging by the way | Since the &.k‘t epidemic the terâ€" things turn ou_t.." | ror_of typbfi §’c bitten so deeply wl ~. en( 0 0 ’tfufi' evenh the tinvy chfidrén fun WHALE HUNT IN JAPAN | en d val+ | ""Dhat‘s right, Buggins,‘"‘ said | Bobby, laughing. ‘‘You look after | your precious little toes, but I‘m |\ going to tickle him with my stick."‘ | _ ‘""Look out, Bobby !‘ said Betty. \"He might bite your hand."‘ | _ "I‘ll be very careful, ‘Mraid cat !‘ | said Bobby, as he tickled Mr. Crab, who began to walk round in his own \funny fashion. | Mr. Crab grew very cross, and |began to open his great claws and look at Bobby‘s feet ; but Bobby did ‘not think of them. C ma cal s ted tG \ _ Cross old Mr. Crab had put out ‘his great claw and pinched the toe ‘of Bobby‘s little bathingâ€"shoe. ! _ Bobby screamed with fright, and | tried to shake off Mr. Crab; but he \hung on tighter than ever, while ! Bobby shook his foot in the air, and danced on one leg as long as he lcould. Then he tried to run away, { but he was only giving Mr. Crab a ride, too. 4 Bob and Betty. Once Bob and Betty went down the beach together in their batp- "Ow !| ow ! ow denly. Betty came over to Mr. Crab, and whipped him with her beach shovel ; then she poured a pailful of water over him, and Buggins barked at him as hard as any little dog could barkâ€"and still Mr. Crab would not let go. ren away Buggins whined, and Betty cried, "O Bobby, do you suppose he will bite your big toe off 1 "I‘m afraid so,""‘ said Bobby. "Is it bleeding t‘ asked Betty, looking closely at his foot. "It scares worse than it hurts,‘‘ | owned Bobby, with his eye on thei big crab. ‘"Keep off, Buggins ! He‘d ; take your paw and hold it for you| if he had not taken mine first.‘"‘ | “'I"he c:rab's caught me," owned Bobby, very much frig_htencd. "Bobby,"" whispered Betty, as if she did not want Mr. Crab to hear, "let me untie your bathingâ€"shoe," and she leaned over very,> very quietly, and untied the tapes and loosened the heel of the thin canâ€" vas shoe. Bobby gave a long tug, while she held the heel of his shoe, and out came Bobby‘s poor, scared foot, with all five toes still growing on it, and over rolled horrid old Mr. Crab, with the bathingâ€"shoe held in his big strong claw, which never would let go so long as it grew on Mr. Crab‘s body. y So Mr. Crab did not eat little boy for luncheon that day ; all he had was a little canvasback shoe, withâ€" out a bit of good meat in it.â€" Youth‘s Companion. 'â€"‘â€"‘.\-';;;".VBobby. see if you can‘t pull your foot out,""‘ she ordered. _ Terrible Drama Being Eoacted In Irish Isles. A terrible but hidden drama of life is being enacted in the little islands of Gorumna. _ Lettermore and Lettermullen, off the Conneâ€" mara coast. Three dread scourges typhoid, typhus and tuberculosisâ€" are destroying the inhabitants, and though some effort at relief has been made, it is hopelessly inadeâ€" quate. There is a slum area unequalled in misery by the blackest spot in any of the great industrial centres. The people in this place lack not merely the decencies of civilization. They are without actual necessities. of soil caught between the boulders of their granite islands. Over Letâ€" termullen and Gorumna you will not find one continuous acre of tillâ€" able land in ten square miles. The people‘s diet consists of potatoes and a small seaweed called "Cranâ€" nagh,"‘ which they eat raw as a Fro® year‘s end to year‘s end they never see a morse!l of meat, except, perhaps, a cheap serap of greasy American bacon. Many of them never see~milk. During the past {few years three doctors have died there in epidemics of typhoid when they geo the fever cart apâ€" proaching on the road. And ineviâ€" tably when it becomes known that any family has typhoid in the house théir neighbors will not go near rab, and ISLANDS PLAGUEâ€"STRICKEN. " cried Bobby, sud THE SUNDAY $SGRO01 STUDY Lesson IV. Moses‘s Request Reâ€" fused. Exod. 4. 29 to 6. 1. Golden Text, Matt. 5. 4. Having determined to obey the command of Jehovah and return to Egypt, Moses is further instructed as to how he shall proceed in dealâ€" ing with Pharaoh in order to secure his consent to the departure of the Hebrews from Egypt. While Moses is still on his way his brother Aaron is divinely commanded to leave Gosâ€" hen and proceed into the wilderâ€" ness to meet Moses, and to assist him in his momentous undertaking. Somewhere in the desert east of Egypt the brothers meet and return together into Egypt, where, first of all, they summon the elders of Isâ€" ‘rael to a conference and show them the signs by which Jehovah had set his seal of indorsement upon their errand. Verse 1. Afterwardâ€"Following the meeting of Moses and Aaron with the elders of Israel, they proâ€" ceed immediately to present their Ix'equest to Pharaoh in person, makâ€" ing it very plain to the king that they have come in the name of Jeâ€" \hovah. the God of Israel. Let my people . . . â€"~hold a feast unto me in the wildernessâ€" l'l‘hey do not immediately present their demand for the entire liberâ€" ation of the Israelites from bondâ€" iage, but proceed to test the king‘s temper and attitude toward the Isâ€" ; raelites by a much more modest reâ€" questâ€"that for permission to make a short religious pilgrimage and offer sacrifices to Jehovah just beâ€" yond the borders of Egypt. _ Get you unto your burdensâ€"The command is to Moses and Aaron as | representatives of the people. | __5. Manyâ€"In the estimation of Pharaoh there were already far too many Hebrews in the land. To lesâ€" son their burden and â€" grant them |leisure for religious feasts and cereâ€" monies would tend only to increase |their strength and make them so ‘much the greater menace to the land which held them in slavery. 2. Who is Jehovah!â€"Pharaoh feigns ignorance concerning any other gods than his own, and asks, not for information, but in utter contempt, concerning the God in whose name they ventitre to ask a favor of him. 3. The God of the Hebrewsâ€" Even the Hebrews themselves had not yet risen to the exalted conâ€" ception of Jehovah as the one and only true God over all nations and peoples. His claims upon his own people are here set over against the claims which other gods might have upon other peoples. e 4. Wherefore do ye . . . loose the people from their works ?iâ€"The king dismisses their petition withâ€" out even an answer and abruptly changes the subject by accusing Moses and Aaron of meddlesome inâ€" terference with the daily tasks of the people. 6. The taskmasters are the Egypâ€" tian overseers and slaveâ€"drivers, while the officers are Hebrew scribes or clerks, whose duty it was to keep an account of the number of the bricks made and the other tasks performed by each individual. of the Dricks made and ind olner; _;_. tasks performed by each individual. {z‘;)tr}?d(:fu 7. Straw |to make brickâ€"The wuna; wer Egyptian bricks were made of mud valleys h from the Nile mixed with straw. It! "‘The sa was customary to stamp the name oftén blo‘ of the reigning king upon the separâ€" sountty ate bricks, and modern excavations vy;a| fel in Egypt have brought to light & fyrostq, _ number of these bricks bearing the iy, by 1 name of Rameses II., father of the @o jhe ga Pharaoh referred to in our lesson that not] passage. s v k { aanedl . #rR Gather straw for themselvesâ€" They would not be able to secure good straw, but would be compelled to find a substitute in the field rubâ€" bish of every kind, including twigs, stems, roots, and withered leaves. To prepare this for use in brickâ€" making required that it should be sorted and chopped, this process entailing double labor on the part of the Israelites. 8. Lay upon themâ€"Require of them. 9. Let them not regard lying wordsâ€"Such as Moses and Aaron had in the thought of Pharaoh been guilty of in encouraging the people to believe that they might hope for a favorable reply to their request. 12. Throughout all the land of Egyptâ€"Not to be taken literally, but meaning rather "far and wide.‘‘ Stubble for strawâ€"Compare verse 7 above. B 14. Officers . . . were beater â€"The Hebrew scribes and time keepers suffered with the delin quent workmen themselves. The remaining verses of our lesâ€" son (5. 15 to 6. 1) give the complaint of the oppressed people to Moses and Aaron because of their increasâ€" ed burdens, and the assitrance given by Jehovah to Moses that he, Jeâ€" hovah, would so deal with Pharaoh that the stubborn king would yiéld and virtually drive the Hebrews out of the land. Mugginsâ€"I wonder why Dolly Dashaway is so popular l | y3 Bugginsâ€"She‘s one of those girls a fellow feels he can propose to without any serious danges of beâ€" ing accepte(r.‘ Professorâ€"Doesn‘t it make you sad to see women wearing feathers of the poor little birds on their hats 1 Married Manâ€"It isn‘t the feathâ€" ers that make me sadâ€"it‘s their bills ! INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 2. The Alarming Feature?! The Reason. were beaten Mr. Balfour‘s absences from the British House of Commons are UuSsâ€" ually put down to golf or to the gout that so often attacks members in pairs duriig a tedious debate. But of late he has played truant for graver causes; he is preparing for the press & work on political econâ€" omy, a continuation and in part & correction of a former volums. There is nothing Mr. Balfour takes so seriously as his written word. He goes further than most authors in conscientiousness. Having reâ€" written certain portions of his ‘"‘The "In the early part Oof tno NINCâ€" teenth century this area, more °8â€" Ipecial.ly that part known _ as the lLandes, was nothing more than a marshy, partly treeless, waste, covâ€" ered with a low, dense growth. It ‘ was originally damp, unhealthy and isparso]y inhabited on account of | the immense sand dunes lined up ‘ along the shores of the Bay of Bisâ€" | cay, which, due to their constant \trend inward, Swallowed up trees, | villages, and forests, and obstructâ€" \ed the rivers and inlets. \ "The rain which fell eould not ‘escape into the ocean, and thus, ‘banked up behind the dunes, floodâ€" ed large areas, which turned into stagnant, pestilential fever marshâ€" ‘es. â€"A Monsier Bremontier, in an | old report on the Landes, compared | this sandy tract to the billowy sea. It offered to the eye nothing but a | monotonous repetition of white, wavy hillocks, perfectly destitute of |vegetation, _ and _ when _ violent | storms of wind occurred the surface | of the dunes was entirely changedâ€" what were hills became valleys, and | valleys hills. Criticisms of Beauty,"‘ he made known through his publishers, bu! not exactly on their advice, that any purchaser of the first edition who returned his copy would reâ€" coive the revised version for nothâ€" ing. The methods of the member for the city are not according to city standards, exactly pushingâ€" unless, of courso, the first edition had risen to a premium | Vast Forests Built Up in France Over Stagnart Wastes. Some very interesting facts conâ€" cerning the mighty pine forests in the southwest of France, which covâ€" er an area of about 2,500,000 acres, are given in the report for 1912 of the British consul at Bordeaux, Mr. Arthur L. S. Rowley, who writes : A Very Different Game Than In | This Country. _ _Our. footballâ€"whether _ Associaâ€" iton or Rugbyâ€"is played according to rule. Not so the football of | China. â€" There the contest is curiâ€" | ously primitive, and free and easy. ‘"‘The first game I saw,‘"‘ says a ©Kuropean in a letter to the London Talegraph, "I mistook for a serious riot. To begin with, each side was fifty strong, and as it was in northâ€" ern China, most of the players were six feet tail, and heavy in proporâ€" tion. They had no goais, sideâ€"lines | or halves.> Tha game was not finâ€" ished until one: side> defeated the other, and aometimes lasted several days. The idea of the gama is to carry a emall basket, which serves as a ball, into thoe oppononts‘ terâ€" ritory. The gams is fought out in the streete, and every player has a whistlo with which to call asmie tance when he is too hard presaed. Stealth, as woll as foroe, is permitâ€" "‘The sand on these occasions was often blown into the interior of the country, _ actually covering cultiâ€" vated fields, villages, even entire forests. This was done so gradualâ€" ly, by a shower of particles as fine as the sand used for hour glasses, that nothing was destroyed. The sand graduaily arose amongst the crops as if they were inundated with water, and the herbage and the tops of trees appeared quite green and healthy even at the momâ€" ent of their being submerged. "The damage caused by these moving sand dunes so increased that the Government officials had to devise and execute plans for reâ€" afforesting this area, which work was carried out gradually. As the pines gave a very good income, the plantations, or rather the forests. were extended far from the coast line, towards the Garonne, till what was formerly a sandy desert is now covered with maritime pines. | All the world loves a good liver, @eore or leas o e i sns Tsd climbing ovar the roofs of houses. As you may imagins, a hundred giâ€" gantic men yolling and fighting all over the public streets aro pretty certain to cause excitement.‘‘ PINXES ON FEVER MARSHES. Mr. Balfour as Bookman. Rt. WHon. A. J. Balfour. CHINESE FOOTBAELL. the early part of tho nineâ€" Apoplexy. Apoplexy is usually the result of a ruptured artery, with consequent escape of blood into the brain subâ€" stance. Buch a rupture occurs only when the arteries of the brain are diseased, and usually when they are the seat of n.jliary ancurisms. These are little sacs that project in conâ€" siderable numbers from the artery. At first the aneurisms relieve the pressure of the blood within the arâ€" teries, but their walls are very thin and soft, and may give way comâ€" pletely under some sudden increase of the blood pressure, caused perâ€" haps by a hearty meal, by lifting a heavy weight, or running for a train, or by strong emotionâ€"anger, fright, or joy. The first symptom of a severe "stroke‘"‘ is usually sudden and complete unconsciousness. The paâ€" tient lies motionless with congested face and dilated pupils, breathes noisily, and has a slow, strong pulse. From this state he may never revive, but in many cases consciousness returns. Then it is found that one side of the body is more or less paralyzed, and that the muscles of the face on the opâ€" posite side have lost their power. If the right side is paralyzed, the patient is often unable to talk inâ€" telligibly ; he may run his words toâ€" gether, or use a word that is clearly not at all the word he means to use. That is called aphasia. Apoplexy is not always due to hemorrhage in the brain ; it may reâ€" sult from the stagnation and clotâ€" ting of the blood within an artery (thrombosis), or from the plugging of an artery by a bit of fibrin (called an embolus) that is detached from a bloodâ€"clot, or from a disâ€" eased heart valve. Apoplexy from the bursting of a bloodâ€"vessel occurs only when the arteries are diseased. Therefore it is most common in old age, alâ€" though it may appear in younger persons whose arteries are degenerâ€" ated in consequence of gout or other diseases. The form that is due to an embolus may occur at any age, since it arises from a diseased heart. If the patient recovers from the immediate effects of a stroke, there is usually some improvement in the paralysis, so that he may be able to walk about ; but his recovery is seldom complete, and other and eventually fatal attacks are likely to occur.â€"Youth‘s Companion. Many rise from their bed in the morning _ unrefreshed _ by _ the night‘s rest. Their fitful sleep has been one long muddling dream. The brain and body have been robbed of their needful rest. If you want to sleep peacefully, and to avoid troublesome dreams, observe the following rules : Have the head reclining almost on a level with the body, not on a pilâ€" low that strains the neck. Keep the window open, and have the room thoroughly ventilated. Have the bedclothes as light as possible. Retire neither hungry nor too well satisfied. Do not sleep in a huddled posiâ€" tion, and keep the head well out of the bedclothes. If these measures fail, take a warm footbath, and slowly drink & glass of hot milk or water before reâ€" tiring. Hot water internally and exâ€" ternally works wonders as a sleep inducer. Fewer Children Than Any Country Save France. The London correspondent of the Journal of the American Medica) Association sends these figures and comments relative to the falling birth rate in Great Britain : ‘"According to a report just isâ€" sued by the census office this counâ€" try contains a larger proportion of young adulis than e‘ther France, Germany, Holland, or Sweden. It has fewer children than any of those countries but France, and fewer older persons than any except Germany. â€"In consequence of the fall in the birth rate the proportion of young children has considerably diminished. For each million of the population in 1881 there were 135,â€" 551 children under the age of five years. In 1891 this number fell to 122,523, and since then to 114,262 in 1901, aud to 106,857 in 1911. "At the London School of Keonoâ€" mics and Political SBcience Karl Pearson, in delivering a course of lectures on ‘Infant Welfare," drew attention to the falling birth rate wnich has existed since 1878. He showed that the process was less rapid in places like Sheffield, where men were chiefly employed, whereâ€" as in places like Dewsbury, where wool was the staple industry, it was most marked. In woollen areas the average families were 1.3, in cotton areas 1.8, and in engineering aroas %.12, the interprotation being that, except in the latter case, the famiâ€" lies, and consequently the towns, werse nof reproducing themaselvyes. "Immigution from the rural dis tricts could not continue, for their birth rates, too, were falling. The character of the population was tending to become morse middle Aged, and if the population was to be replaced, average families of four and five wore requiredâ€"a point of vital importance to the naâ€" tion, for no nation of forty millions could stand against one of sixty millions. That was the political asâ€" ENGLISH BIRTH RATE. Invoking Restful Sleep. xA m@ Just to Explain the Universe of God Rationally Is to Justify It Morally t Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon the checker board of nights and days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. s OPTIMISM OF PESSIMISM If we would convince ourselves of the basic soundness of the uniâ€" verse and the essential goodness of life we cannot do better than take up some philosophy of pessimism, and, accepting it at its face value, set ourselves soberly to the task of seeing just how bad it really is. I personally believe that the cosmic order, especially on its human side, is so beneficent that there can be formulated no interpretation of its phenomena which does not take on some semblance of the divine reality which it is purposed to describe. { The area of the Forest Reserves in the Union of South Africa in | December, â€" 1911, _ was 1,799,550 | acres. â€" Besides this, there were | also 42.587 acres reserved for growâ€" ‘ing railway ties, on which rail way \funds alone were expended, makâ€" iing a total reserved area of 1,842,â€" {137 acres. This area is divided into seven conservancies, â€" roughly .spea.king, a conservancy to each ‘ province in the Union. Each conâ€" | servancy, consisting usually of sevâ€" \eral reserves, is administered by a iDistrict Forest Oficer and a techâ€" | nically trained Assistant Forester. ‘Under them are chiefs of reserves, \forest guards, rangers, ete. The |more important positions are all |\filled by technical foresters, usualâ€" \ly highly trained men who haye icomple(-ed their course in the Oxâ€" ford School of Forestry and in Gerâ€" | many. This â€" organization â€" very closely resembles that of the Canaâ€" ‘dian Government forest reserves. Take, for example, the verse from Omar‘s "Rubaiyat,‘‘ which I have selected for my text. Here do we have the crowning expression of the cynical philosophy of life which is expounded in this strangely attracâ€" tive poem of the great Persian. This world, we are told, is a vast chess board on which the ‘"‘Master of the Bhow"‘ is Playing YTis Game of Destiny. Men and women are the pieces with which the movements of the game are marked and its progress indiâ€" cated. Most of us are pawns, some knights and bishops, here and there a castle or a queen. But, high or miners ab low, great or small, it makes no difâ€" | privilege . ference. We are simply moved save their helplessly as the necessities of the needed to game may dictate at the moment, | ture into and sooner or later are swept ofl;and every the board and ‘"back in the closet steps in a laid." | unteers. Now, it would seem as though there could be no morse hopeâ€" less picture of human existence than this. And yet is it so hopeless, after all! SBee what Omar is actually telling us. FORESTRY IN SsOUTH AFRICA. Progressive Policy Inaugurated by The Federal Government. The report recently issued by the Chief Conservator of Forests in South Africa for the year ending on December 31st, 1911, is one of conâ€" siderable interest by way of comâ€" parison with what is being done along forestry lines in this country. For such a young Union the proâ€" gress made is remarkable, and conâ€" siderable credit is due to the Forâ€" est Department for the efficiency already attained in administration and fireâ€"protection. Under their supervision, forest surveys are being made for the deâ€" marcation of new reserves, and exâ€" isting reserves are being protected from fire by burning or cutting fireâ€"belts around the reserves and by planting up their ~perimeters with trees of the less inflammable species. â€" As a result of these preâ€" cautions, there were burned during the season of 1911 only seven hunâ€" dred acres, or 0.04 per cent. of the total area. (On the reserves themsolves imâ€" provement cuttings are being carâ€" ried on under the direction of forest officials, for the removal of defecâ€" tive timber and weed trees, and these operations not only have much improved the species composâ€" ition of the forests, but have proved fAinancially justifiable as well. Replanting is also being extenâ€" sively carried on in the various reâ€" serves, the total area replanted at the end of 1911 being 48,136 acres. Beveral species of exotics are being introduced with considerable sucâ€" cess. _ Nurseries are maintained, and the seed and transplants of forâ€" est trees are sold to the public at cost. About six thousand dollars worth of seed was sold by the Deâ€" partment during the year, together with 2,806,402 seedlings, valued at over $42,500.00. No Other Explanation. ‘‘Do you believe in luck t‘ ‘‘Yes, sir. How else could I acâ€" sount for the success of my neighâ€" ‘sors 1‘ Heâ€"May I see you home ) Fimmyâ€"*@Just fancy, 1 know a Bheâ€"No, but you may watth M®!| man who lived on water for 25 start. days.‘" Tommyâ€""I knew a man messsome .__| who lived for 45 years on water $ There is always plenty of room at Jimmyâ€"‘"Oh, who was he?" Tomâ€" the top, the bottom and on all sides myâ€"‘"‘Why, he was an old sea cap for successful men. | tain . * ‘Rubaiyat,‘‘ Omar Khayyam Condescension. This universe, he says, is presided over by a supreme Intelligence, which acts with deliberate foresight and determined purpose. The life of this universe, he adds, is to be interpreted as a game which this great Intelligence is playing personâ€" ally for stakes that are at least imâ€" portant enough to be worth the striving for. And then he concludes the whole by declaring that you and Now, what is there so terrible in such an interpretation of life as this! We may like the figure of the chess game or we may not. That is a nonâ€"essential detail. What is vital is the idea that there is a God in this universe who is trying to work out some mighty plan, and that He is using you and me as the means for the Achicving of His Purposes. Take Omar at his wordâ€"crude, inâ€" adequate, vulgar as it may beâ€"and what nobler fate can we ask than to be used as picces in a game which God finds it worth while to play 1 How better can we be spent than by being swept from the board and laid back in the closet at the very I are the pieces which this Intelli gence is using for the winning o Hs game.~ > moment when such a sacrifice means perhaps the winning of the game?! What greater honor than to be used by God as He thinks best!1 A child screams for help in a flaming teneâ€" ment, and the happiest fireman of them all is he who is picked to stake his life on the slim chance of rescue. A mine explodes, and the miners above ground fight for the privilege of entering the shaft to save their comrades. A soldier is needed to carry a dangerous venâ€" ture into the lines of the enemy, and every man in the regiment steps in answer to the call for vo!â€" unteers. Here is life at its very best. But if such is the case in our relations with men, why is not the same thing true, only on an infinâ€" itely grander scale, in our relations with God1â€"Rev. John Haynes Holmes. Beparate vests or waistooats to coats are very popular. Mandarin or setâ€"on sleeves are i» as great {favor as ever. ' Serge will come to the front for practical street dresses. Plaid silks are increasing in favâ€" or, especially clan colorings. Poplins, both plain and figured, are as much liked as ever. Neen in Paris Shops. The newest bracelet is the faceted bangle bracelet. _ _ â€"â€"fl:; new mohair dust coats have raglan shoulders. ; Summer hats are made of maline, chiffon, taffeta, and lace. _ Embroidered or shirred arms are seen on the finest silk gloves.: _ A gl"eat mlhy blouses of white messaline will be seen this fall. In the dressiest suits the skirts are the most elaborately draped. Velvet and tulle trimmed hats are being much worn in Paris. S Plain and brocade velvets are exâ€" ?octed to be in good demand this all. Children‘s coats still have the belt or sash placed to give a low waist line. Lisle gloves are probably the best for allâ€"around use in hot weather. Foulard frocks for young girls are being made with two ticred skirts. Navy and brown will be the staple color in plush for combination suits. Challis makes admirable dresses for children to wear on cool summer days. Reparate skirts of white serge with blue hair stripes are always good style. Bkirts with plaited founces made of tulle or lace are increasing in favor. Blue stockings and blue shoes apâ€" pear with white dresses and blue sashes. Cutaway effects are promiszed again for fall coats, but may be longer. Hleeves for evening gowns vary in length from the mere cap to threeâ€" quarters. A bunch of flowers and long streamers make a charming touch on a parasol. Bome of the new blouses have frills outlining what looks like a Gibson plait. A few summer hats show the long streamers of ribbon velvet and a rose tucked beneath the broad tulle brim. Belts are being used on motor and travelling coats and half be‘lts on some of the more practical garâ€" ments. A woman married to a "good felâ€" low‘"‘ usually has a bad time of it. ‘"You mean to say, Pat, that you feed your pigs one day and starve them the next; whatever for!‘ ‘"Sure, sorr, and ain‘t it that I like bacon with a sthreak of fat and a sthreak of lean equally &C & Fi euppose Th she THE PERFEC FOR SUMMER lean ing it Fauiine it were De Mr. Mench 8herhorne, broidery, : "Quite so," eaid acanoocly concealed « me. You may have danghter about th made out of limit« forte, my line. Â¥Ya take care of those "You understandâ€" understand ®" «aid "Oh, I quite unde the ladies, Mr. R« "My dear sir wealth!" interjoo W erly Â¥r Mersbon "Yee; I‘m ready it. But you must Thev‘ll expect Mr. Deanc‘s f2 "Let me tell y saaid, with a au have a emall i duces an income which we live." 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