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THE KING AS A NEW FOEOE His Majesty Is a Man of Active Temperament and of Keen Ambitions. T. P. O'Connor, Irish M.P. and writer, heads a recent number of his M. A. P. (Mainly About People) with a significant article on "The King ac a New Fore*/' signing it with the initials "T. P.," that there should be no mistake about the authorship. In this article he says : "The world is beginning to realize .the King. It took some time to do "The King as Prince of Wales had a freedom which he could never have enjoyed if throne at an early age. Indeed, many of the qualities which he exhibited since he came to throne have been made possible only by the fact that he was so long Prince of Wales. In that position, exalted and yet private, the King had a right to go among all sorts and conditions of men. The positior .was in some degree a private position, free from tho responsibilities, the terrific etiquette and the numberless restrictions which still surround, enchain and embarrass the occupant of a throne. And thus it camo to pass that when the Prince of Wales became King he had had experience wider, more instruct and in a sense more democratic than if he had, like so many other mon-archs, been brought up solely in the stiff, enervating and narrow atmosphere of courts. KING AND GENTLEMAN. "At the council board of the hospital, at the public dinner or charity, at the bazaar, on the racecourse, in the theatre, the King has mixed with men as a man ; and hence it is that whatever faults could be urged against him, nobody could ever say that ho had anything of the 'side' which even in monarchical circles sometimes distinguishes the king who is a bound-King who is a genth man of restlessly active temperament and of keen ambitions. It is more than probable that he will do many great and memorable things, then, during the reign. Already, in settling a difficulty so great as the Transvaal war, in laying the founda-s at least of a peaceful and reconstructed Ireland, he has done much. In making a tour through the chief countries of the continent he is at the same time removing that strong prejudice and hostility against this country which, how much it might be laughed at or demned in some quarters, constituted a real danger to the peace Europe. This is a great service his people, and it is the King alone who could have done it." i of the things his perfect man-of the secret of man. Indeed, about the King i body is agreed ii ners. This is on< his great success. "Another great advantage of the freedom of the King as Prince of Wales is that ho has been able to travel so much, and when on his travels to mingle so freely with men of all parties and creeds. Just think what all this must have meant dur-. ing the 30 to 40 years the King was prominent as Prince of Wales. It meant that he had the opportunity of making the personal acquaintance of every political and social personage of every country on the con- lot to the King-)f us--merely a catalogue of lip;'Iile and unknown names ; io revelation of the fortunes of persons whom the King knows all about ; and, therefore, it is to him, almost more than to any man in his kingdom, an open book ; showing tendencies, defeats, victories, possibilities of future trouble, or appeasement of anc-ent passions. Add to this that by family ties the King has means of knowing all the secret impulses, personal characteristics, even the small family troubles, of every monarch and of every royal family in Europe, and you will see that when a foreign situation comes to be considered the King has a fund of knowledge far larger than that of any other person, official or non-official, in the country. "Ministries come and go, but the monarch remains, holding in his hands the threads of a hundred different negotiations, and difficulties and any foreign minister who has the advantage of such knowledge and sel v uld 1 foolis !' he neglected to take full advantage it. "One of the advantages the Kiag has had in dealing with foreign statesmen and monarchs is his very fine gifts as a linguist. Three languages are perfectly familiar to him --his own, of course, and French and German, which to him are almost mother tongues. PEACEMAKER AND REFORMER "There aro some other things about the King which makes me think that his will be a memorable reign. He has a desire, it might almost bo said a . passion, for posing difficulties. Indeed, times, during his days as Prince of Wales, he went very near getting himself into difficulties by his well-meant efforts to bring about tiliation between his friends who were estranged. "I attribute the position which he is said to have taken up with gard both to the Transvaal war the Irish land question to this BE WATCHFUL, The wise merchant knows wher adopt a new plan and how to complish any given purpose through the ideas of others. It is well try to furnish all the ideas, but is foolish to turn down a good idea just because some other person furnished it. What is needed is business, not originality. If all the business could be done by one mar and all the ideas furnished by an-otter there would soon bo a change of conditions, for the man doing the business without ideas would e be convinced that the man i ideas was encroaching on his ti tory. The merchant with ideas and business will be able to use ideas to hold the business; and the merchant with business and without ideas will either have to adopt th< ideas of others or be willing to let a part of his business go by default, It is not advised that a merchant be a pilferer, of ideas, because that merchant will soon come to grief. The man who has not ability to originate some things may not have , enough ability to apply the things originated by others, but the who makes a point of picking suggestions from' here, there everywhere, which will help in business, and then busies himself seeing that his business keeps up to the ideas, will have reason to be glad of what he adopted, and to be proud of his work in combining ideas and business, to his own ad- POINTED PARAGRAPHS. No one can give anything and keep it---except a promise. Imaginary trouble is often harder to bear than tho real thing. While a flirt runs after a man the demure maid wins in a walk. It is often difficult to live up to one's reputation of being a bad man. It's much easier to live within your income than it is to live with- The difference between a cook and a chef is but a matter of salary. When a note goes to protest tho holder does a little protesting on his own account. Of course it was an Irish philosopher who said: "If you would keep your head above water you m!ust not let the grass grow under your feet.'/ EGGS UNDER PRESSURE, is rather curious to know just much pressure an egg will stand. The following tests, given in a scientific journal, may surprise readers. Bight ordinary hens' eggs were found only to give way under a pressure applied all round of between 400 pounds and 675 pounds on the square inch of surface. When the tests were applied internally to twelve eggs they yielded at pressures of 32 pounds to 65 pounds per ire inch. Tho pressure required 3ly to crush the eggs was be-m 40 pounds and 75 pounds per square inch. The average thickness " the shells was' 13-thousandths of WOELD'S SEED BIEDEM Why Our Root Crop Seeds Frequently Fail to Produce Satisfactory Crops. Every careful stockman recognizes the fact that flush pasture is the ideal feed for keeping all classes of live stock in a hearty thriving condition, but in most parts of this country it is necessary to provide large stores of succulent feed for the long winter months when pastures are not available. The various sorts of roots go a long way toward supplying a cheap and satisfactory substitute for grass, and in consequence many million bushels are grown annually. Large quantities of seed of turnips, swedes, mangels and carrots are used each year on Canadian farms, but the crops produced are frequently appointing. As a rule oui have hitherto been entirely COMPULSORY ARBITRATION New Zealand Plan Is Not Working Satisfactory. New Zealand has been referred to as the most advanced Government in the world. With its old-age pensions, compulsory arbitration, and other legislation of socialistic tinge it has seemed to promise the fulfillment of Utopian dreams, a paradise where the capitalist and the laborer --the lion and the tiger--might lie down together. But rumors that compulsory arbitration working as well as might bo wished recent article in the London Times. Most of the arbitration awards appear to have favored the employe. The result has been a general in-wages ; so far, so good IIiCFilU'8 POWER PLAIT' but the i of MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES. The most spoken language is Ch iese; but as there are so many di ects in the language, and as these differ so greatly in the confines Mongolia and Tibet from those iround Pekin, it is scarcely correct o say that the 382,000,000 Celestials all speak one language. Putting, therefore, China aside, the t spoken languages in the world as follows, in millions: English, 120; German, 70; Russian, 68; Spanish, 44; Portuguese, 32. If we two-foot rule, we should get the following results' Portugese, 4 inches; Spanish, 5£ inches; Russian, 8J inches; German, 8f inches; English, 1 foot 3 inches. find fat- other men would bo too eless or too cynical to interfere, il add to this that the King is, ording to all appearances, an bitious man--ambitious in the id sense of the word. Coming to the throne late • in , with all his powers matured, influence settled and powerful, he bably has said to himself that it ooves him to leave something be-d of his reign beyond the mere to the throne such t . This in such and such another yi would have been entirely out of keeping with the strenuous age in which the King lives. MONARCHS AT WORK. "Indeed, one of the remarkable phenomena of our time is the higher --J keener interest monarchs take in han they did in older ■orld to-day are their busiix days. Probably worked "But f its rulers, t fro i this TOLD IN FIGURES, Of 1,200 locomotives in use in Ji pan 500 are American made. The number of opium smokers i the United States is estimated a 1,000,000. Tho number of persons in the pen: tentiaries of Iowa per 1,000 populs tion has doubled in 14 years. There is one liquor shop for ever seventy persons in the Province c Bure, France. A speed of 40,000 w was reached in a recer Pollak and Virag sy graphy between Berl fort, Germany. rds per hour . test of the tern of tele- i and Fi- gging TOO FAR. "i think that my husband c busi i far, said Mrs. McBride to Mrs. Darley. "How so?" "I had a birthday last week, and he gave me a five-dollar i also asked if I would alb discount of 25 per cent, if he gave me next year's birthday present at the same time. I told him I would do no such thing." CHEAP POSTAGE, cheap i Postage is cheap in all countries these times, but in none, perhaps, ite so cheap as in Japan. A letter n be sent from one end to the ather of the Land of the Rising Sim " s fee of two sen, equal to the fourth of a farthing^ ng the sources of supply duct; of such seeds, and the methods of I ers j growing them. The seed division of tho Dominion Department of Agriculture has been investigating these questions, and is able to offer suggestions that cannot fail to be of value to growers of root crops. According to Chief G. II. Clark, of the Seed Division, a few farmers in Canada make a specialty of growing root crop seed, but practically the whole amount of such seed offered in the trade is imported from Europe and is grown in France, Germany and England. A favorable climate and cheap labor have made these countries the seed gardens of world. A few notes on the way which seeds are grown there will help to explain why farmers often " iii to get roots showing good type nd uniform excellence ALL OVER A FIELD. Turnips, swedes, mangels and carets are all biennal plants, that is they store up nourishment in the "ng the whole of the first [ use that store of food for the production of seed during the d and final year of their life. Most of our domesticated plants olved from wild types through long years of selection, cul-ld cross-fertilization. The Id types were usually annuals, producing seed the first ,v?ar, and there is a tendency among all improved plants to revert rapidly to the old unimproved types, whenever they are deprived of that careful attention' to selection and cultivation which has brought them up to their present high standing. Canadian farmers have not fully recognized that the value of root crop seed is far from depending on their vitality alone. It is even more important that they be taken from carefully grown and selected stocks, seldom see a field of roots that uniformly true to typo and free n abnormal growth of top large necks and ill shaped prongy roots. This undesirable state of affairs is largely duo /to tho sowing of seeds taken fror|i stocks of a similar quality and (character. The best quality of seed is produced from selected and transplant-Seed of turnips and swedes is produced in quantity in this manner in the North of Scotland. The climate of Scotland, like that of Canada, is such that root crop seeds can only be successfully produced by harvesting the roots before winter and transplanting them the following spring. The bulk of the seed of these crops, which is imported for the Canadian trade, is grown in France and the South of England, where tho climate is such that tho roots may remain unhar-vested through the winter and produce seed the following year. Some of the more reliable seed growers in these countries exercise a great deal of care in the production of thei: stocks. They supply seed from thei: own selected stocks to small far mers who grow quantities of seec for them under contract. THE BEST QUALITY OF SEED offered in the Canadian trade is grown in this way. There is, however, evidence to show that a great deal of the seed of these crops offered in Canada is of much inferior quality. The increased labor required to grov7 seed from selected and transplanted roots, raises their price above the range of American seed firms. For this tho seec is not to blame. Our farmers demanded cheap seeds, without guarantee as to quality, and seedsmen have simply tried to meet tho demand. A great deal of the root crop seed used in Canada is grown by small irresponsible European farmers whose chief object is to, obtain a maximum yield of seed, independent of its quality. In tho growing of these stocks it is a common practice to sow late in tho season after an early crop has been harvested from the land. Young plants thus produced are in many es not thinned, and do not grow a reasonable size during the first son. From a crop of this sort rery large amount of top is produced, and a large quantity of seed obtained per acre at a minimum uld bo unreasonable to expect our farmers to grow root crop seeds for the Canadian trade and compete in the matter of price with the seeds produced by the above methods in countries where labor is cheap, and climatic conditions so favorable. Until the consumers of these seeds learn that it pays to use leed that is taken from selected and transplanted roots, grown in a climate similar to that where tho seed is wanted for use, the quantity of home-grown stock offered in the trade will be extremely limited. It therefore appears that growers of crops will find it to their advantage to purchase only seeds from extra selected stocks, no matter what the price may be, or better still, grow their own seed from the best and most typical roots raised on their own farms. Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa^ brought an increase in tho cost living. Hitherto, owing to the general prosperity of a country splendidly farmers endowed by nature, and to th cellent prices obtainable for d manufactures, the employers in the colony have remained contentedly quiescent. There must, however, be some finality to the demands of labor, and the positio: now being seriously discussed by the employers in the various commercial centers. Employes have generally been satisfied with the awards. The increased cost of living, however leading to demands for still higher wages. At the present rate it may soon be cheaper to import articles than to manufacture them, and a present question is whether or not to increase tho import duties so as to keep up home manufactures. This could hardly be more than A TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT. The Times' correspondent concludes that "it is probably too early for any unbiased person to say whether tho industrial legislation in this colony is likely to achieve success or whether it will eventually break down altogether ; but it will be seen that there are not wanting, both among the employers and among the workers, those who emphatically state that it is foredoomed to fail-admitted that any sudden breakdown of tho present system would now have serious, if not disastrous results. This phase of the question was recently very well put by the Evening Post, the principal newspaper in the capital, and one that has always, dealt with labor problems in a temperate and judicial manner. This journal points out that in nine years so many interests have grown up around the legislation that the industries of tho colony would probably be dislocated to a dangerous degree if any attempt were made to revert to former conditions. At tho same time a doubt is expressed as to whether the court can satisfactorily grapple with the problems likely to come before it as the colony ^.nd its industries expand, and is .^dmitted that the difficulties that hSi illustrate th of the iiask regulation-„ :acty c stupendous character that Hbs toeforjj any ,,-ade and i^lustry.' MODESTY OF THE GREAT. In "Studies in Contemporary Biography" which James Bryce has just published, there occur two stories which have caused some of the critics to express astonishment the "modesty of the great." The "Meeting Mr. Gladstone in lobby, and seeing his face saddened by the troubles in Ireland, Bryce tried to divert his thoughts by mentioning a recent discovery -- to wit: that Dante had been saved his last years by Ik' that thes face lit i •How Mr. Glad-it Ts"'to think whose works all tho gener-ne after them, id anxieties strange beacoTlighTtc etions that have cc should have had care to vex themxin their daily life, just like the rest of "The words reminded mo," adds the author, "that a few days before I had heard Mr. Darwin, in dwelling upon the pleasure a visit paid bj Mr. Gladstone had given him, say: 'And he talked just as if he had been an ordinary per: ourselves.' The two men were alike unconscious of their great] It is only the little who think themselves great. They a those who do not know much therefore, imagine that there much to know. The great di think themselves so, just a learned are overwhelmed by their ignorance. In the same i not the socially importan affected and impertinent unimportant. THE CONTRARY CHINAMAN. With the Chinaman the left hand is the place of honor. He carries a pig instead of driving him. He whitens instead of blackens his shoes. His favorite, present to a parent is a coffin. He keeps out a step in walking with others. He shakes his own hands instead of his friend's. He deems it polite to ask a casual caller's age and income. His long nails are not a sign of dirtiness but of respectability. His visiting card is eight and sometimes thirty inches long. He often throws away the fruit of the lemon and eats the seed. His merits often bring a title not to himself but to his ancestors. His women folk are often seen in trousers accompanied by men in gowns. ALL-SUFFICIENT. T have several reasons for buying the horse," said the Contract for the Canadian Plant to Excel That of the United States. The sJecond great power house i the Niagara Falls, N. Y., Pow Company, is about completed ar six of the new generators have been installed. It is of stone, and general appearance is very much similar to power house No. 1. The long stretch of roof is, however, broken by gables at the center and ends, adding materially to the appearance of the structure. Power house No. 2 is 560 feet long and 70 feet wide. It stands over wheel-pit No. 2, which is 463 ft. 8 inches long, 18J feet wide and 178J feet deep. The turbines in the wheel-pit discharge into the tunnel which was extended for this pm-pose, making its total length 7,436£ feet. The tail-race facilities offered b> the tunnel allow of a developmen of more than 100,000 horse-power, and, its capacity will be taken up by tho ten turbines in wheel-pit No. ] and the eleven turbines which are to have place in wheel-pit No. 2. Each unit is of 5.000 horse-power, so that in the two wheel-pits and power houses the Niagara Falls Power Company will have a total development of 105,000 horse-power, making it the greatest hydro-electric installation in the world. WHEEL-PIT NO. 2 is on the opposite side of the inlet canal from wheel-pit No. 1, and ch er to the river. Between the V pits there extends a tunnel about 310 feet long and at a depth of 130 feet below the surface. This tunnel is for the convenience of tho pany's employes in passing from pit to pit without ascending On the canal side of power house No. 2 a forebay house 40 feet and about 460 feet long has been built. Water from tho inlet canal enters the forebay through twenty-four arches, the tops of which arc below the normal level of the water and this source of supply is expect-relief from floating ice. The water s,upply flows through the arches straight up to the racks, which are under cover in tho fore-bay structure. Power house No. 1 has no forebay house. 2w generators are of the ex-field type, with the nickel solving magnet ring, and are lilar in outline to the generators power house No. 1. They are each of 5,000 horse-power, wound for 2,300 volts, two-phase, 25 cycles at 250 revolutions per minute. Thus the company secures an exact interchangeability of current with lower house No. 1. The tunnel of the Canadian Ni-gara Power Company has been ex-avated, and the wheel-pit has been broken through into the tunnel head-' X- The tunnel is now being lined, d this work will occupy tho great-part of the present year. The debris of the tunnel portal is BfcfNO- Oi-iaiX-RED -tW OX. The"'"Toronto and Niagara * Company has awarded the for the construction of its tunnel tail-race to Anthon C. Douglass, the contractor who built the Canadian Niagara Power Company's tunnel This tunnel will be 2,100 feet long and about 25 feet high and 20 feet Tho construction of the tunnel necessarily proceed on somewhat different lines from the two tunnc previously built at Niagara. In ru ning from tho wheel-pit to tho lo er river or gorge, it will take route that will lead it right under the river as it approaches the Horseshoe Falls. The portals of the tunnel will be behind the sheet The n PERSONAL NOTES. What the Great People of the World Are Saying and Doing. M. Coquelin, the well-known French actor, was recently informed that an old lady with whom ha was not acquainted had bequeathed him her entire fortune of $60,000. The actor has decided to hand the money over to one of the funds for retired actors which exist in Paris.; Mrs. Esther Marler, who is ninety-two years of age, has been the recipient of a presentation at Taunton, England, from the authorities of the Paul's Meeting Sunday School, which she has attended for sixty-four years. Her son has been school for fifty yearst, her granddaughter thirty years, and great-granddaughter ten years. There are, therefore, four generations of the family attending the school. tobac years. "At one time," he says, when I was in India I regularly smoked twenty cigars a day ; but :r touched a cigar or cigarette since I was in the desert 1885. I found that smoking was playing havoc with my nerves ; and I wanted all the nerve I could command on my expedition to Khartoum, I decided to give up the habit altogether." i Queen Alexandra paid a visit to the Home for Scandinavian Sailors at Poplar. "I should like to see the kitchen," she said, and the lady superintendent accordingly conducted the royal Isitor to the lower regions. It was nner time, and the cook was frying fish. "I can cook fish," said the Queen (then Princess of Wales) ; show you if I cannot." And going up to the cooking-range she deftly used tho culinary instru-and turned the fish in the pan until they were brown. The new chairman of tho English Independent Labor Party, Mr. Philip Snowden, is among the most rkable men that the labor :ment has brought forward. He in the service of the Board of Inland Revenue when a serious accident affecting the spine confined him to his bed for many months ; and this period of enforced inactivity that his studies of politi-social questions led him from the Radical position to the Socialist view, of which he is one of the most convincing and successful preachers. Wiltrud Marie Alix of Bavaria, who is now nineteen years old, is ded to be the most beautiful ess in Europe. She is a brun-with wonderful dark eyes, perfect features, and long, brown wavy haii- She i of r lassical scholar. But, sad to say, the beautiful Princess is of the house of Wittelbach, many of tho members of h havo suffered from insanity. To this family belonged the mad King Louis of Bavaria, and tha first In building other tunnels at Ni agara tho custom has been to sink a shaft at the middle directly the main tunnel and from the base of the shaft drive headings toward the pit and portal. The route of the Toronto and Niagara Power Company's tunnel being under the river, it will be impossible for Contractor Douglas to adopt this plan, but instead he will sink a shaft 8 bv 16 feet near the shore to a depth of 180 feet. From the base of this shaft he drive a lateral tunnel 10 by 14 feet to a distance of 700 feet out under the river, where ho will meet the li of the new tunnel. From this point ho will drive headings up and down stream, the excavated material bo taken up the shaft. It will require over two years drive the tunnel. As compared wi the other Niagara Power tunnels will be the shortest but its sectii will be slightly larger, the compai _ expecting to develop about 125,000 horse-power. - lea? GOOD WHITEWASH, old barn or shed not worth paint can be given of life rich i of whitewash. Slake a bushel of lime, strain, add half a bushel of salt dissolved in water, a pound of ground whiting and two pounds of dissolved glue. This is a very close, durable whitewash, a coat of it will make old board weather-proof for many years. A little lamp-black will make the color effect less glaring-, giving a quiet, gray tone. FROM A SMALL BEGINNING. "Leonidas," exclaimed Mrs. Meek-jn, suddenly interrupting herself, do you remember how this argu-icnt started?" "Yes, Henrietta. You said that I always insisted on arguing a point, and I said that you did, and then conversation gradually developed." The dangers of sweeping may idged by the fact that in a school-The first is that I haven't enough \ room where tho air contained 600 money, and----" j bacteria to the public yard before You needn't mention the others," sweeping, after this operation there inlUrrusted the owner. J ware 18.000 in the same fllace. Mrs. Maria Sandberg, tho v of an English clergyman, who just passed away, wai remarkable attainme forties Mrs. Sandberg and devoted herself to Hindustani, and published several books in the language for the use of the aries ; while at the age of eighty-eight she was to be found every morning working away with.her dictionary at some play of Sophocles or Aristophanes, or else translating an Italian or German book. Tho deceased had a knowledge of languages i hand writer. A quarter of a c .Jameson was the n tor in Kimberley, expert short- Dr. -ntury ago Dst popular doc-making an income of over $25,000 a year, and it was in this character that he first saw the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes at a time when his life was despaired of, and by his skill and tender nursing restored him to health. It is interesting to recall that it was Dr. Jameson's medical skill that really laid the foundation stone of the great South Africa we know to-day, for Lobengula was so grateful to the young doctor for curing his gout that he readily conceded the requests of the British South African Company, which Jameson then represented. It is not generally known that a member of the present English Cabinet sacrificed a fortune rather than run the risk of such a painful scene as was witnessed in tho House of Commons when Mr. Hayes Fisher resigned his official position. Lord Lansdowne, when he joined the Min-arge interest in a prosperous concern which is often brought close touch with the Government, id especially with the department ; was to preside over, and on accepting office he disposed of all his the price then obtainable. Soon afterwards the shares went up, id Lord Lansdowne was able to y that he had lost $300,000 by s example of political integrity. Mr. John George Butcher, M.P., rose Publicans' Compensation Bill is carried in tho House of Com-ons the other night by a large majority, is a lawyer, politician, and author of wide experience. In the House, however, he is best known the hero of an amusing episode which happened one night several go. The division bell rang while Mr. Butcher was enjoying a bath after a hard day's work, and, g very anxious to record his j, the member struggled desperately to get into his clothes. But tho sand-glass on ths Clerk's table waits for no man, anQ, having managed to put on his troueers, Mr. Butcher threw a huge overcoat around him, hurried to tha lebhy, told" along with the other