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He es and over- t the fellow, kens do_ yon town "was ;d_family._ It d to solve it axe that his nght. , qnly 9f up,in habits but is tram: home behind was' the siory Here !, he It. is stated in Washin to lish Gove'rnment, through a: 11:51:“ Bang- has urged the United States to a”: 9:; mediating influence between th ”3; .1 elements“: Brazil. e 0°” cmng A fourteen-year-old boy set fire to a. San Francisco grammar school on Friday, to see if the children could get Out of the school without being panic-sunken. The Carnegie Steel C0mpany, of Pitts- burg, Pa, has reduced the price of steel rails five dollars; ton, and Pl‘opos es to de- feat all competition. The family of George Buckner, afarmer living a few miles north of Milwaukee, are .flxcted with tric‘uinos-ja, the result- of eat- The village school at Coo rsv' '. caught fire Tuesday afterfizon llfhghfiisg Porter, the teacher, perished in, the figmes while rescuing the children, two of whom were also burned to death. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of the Homestead, Pm, steel works save the outlook for the winter is very discograging, and that he does not expect a. revival 0f business before next sprina. Three thousand miners in the Leigh dist. trict of Lancashire have resumed work a. the rate of wages paid before the great strike commenced. The Westminster Gazette, a Liberal or- gan, declares that the Government is de- termined that Parliament shall not be prorogued untxl the Parish Councils and the Employers’ Liability bills have passed the House of Commons. Mrs. Agnes McKinley, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in Buffalo for importing a. girl from Canada for immoral purposes, and was pardoned by President Cleveland, was released Tuesday, and left for L'oronto. In the English House of Commons Mr. Gladstone stated that the Duke of Edin- burgh, who is now the reigning Duke of Saxe-Cobourg, would be allowed to retain his place on the navy list without pay. Mr. Gladstone has informed the Woman’s Emancipation Union that a. clause will be introduced in the Parish Councxls bill giving women the right to vote for and be elected as parish councillors. The Viceroy of India. made a speech at Agra on Friday, in which he deplored the recent cow riots, and implored all religious sects to show tolerance for the beliefs of their fellow-men. A report: issued by the collector of Cus- toms an Calcutta. shows that the trade of that port with Germany during the past five years has increased threefold, while the trade with England has decreasedfrom sixty five to fifty-seven per cent. of the whole trade. The man Kennedy who has been 65:; Victed in British Columbia of the marl. t; of John O’Connor, and who admltted t'“ he committed a. murder in Essex counby’ Out.” is supposed to have been the slamyer 0‘ .Gaoler Leach in 1883. Mr.Duncan McIn tyre’s palatial residence at the foot of Mount. Royal, in Montreal, has been offered to the city for three hun- dred thousand dollars, and the Mayor is in favour of the city acquiring the property as a. residence for the Governor-General. The English reporter and two travelers who were recently expelled from Mllilla. are now declared by the Spanish news- papers to have been English officers in (hsguise. The British Government has submitted to King Humbert the name of Sir Francis Clareford, the present British Ambassador at Constantinople, as successor to the late Lord Vivian. Two firms in South Lancashire will re- open their coal mines shortly, paying the miners the same rate of wages that they received before the strike. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone are to spend their Christmas holidays at Cannes, where they will be the guests of Mr. Stuart; Ren- del, ~ at the Chateau de Thorence. ’Mr. J ames Po aver, a wealthy farmer 01 heppel, Ont. , was killed on his farm the ogh- at day. It is supposed that his horse shp- ped and fell on him. as, when he was found, the horse was lying on Mr. Power’s head. The estate of the late Sir John A1350“ hes offered for sale to the city of Ohm-W“ ins house as a viceregel residence. The Idea of providing such a. luxury for the Governor-General is meeting with consider- abieppposition, many citizens being 0f the opinion that under present circumstances the city should not go to such an expense. An important conference was held 1n Montreal the other day between representa- tives of the Dominion Government end the railway and steamship representatives,. to devise ways and means of promoting 1m- migration from Great Britain to the Cana- dian North-VVest. Mr. Geo. A. Stinson of Toronto, 11“ PQrchased debentures of the city °f £35331: , Ont., amounting to $31,100! for Mr. Emmanuel St. Louis, the contrgcwr for the w ork on the famous Curran bridggz has instructed his lawyers to take proceew ing against the Dominion Governmeflt have his account settled. .V_- _‘â€"â€""-, -â€"-v uâ€" v__ for the half-Swear ended October 31931 to have been about thirty thousand (1°13; better than for the correspondmg peno last year. The Newfoundland elections have DFOYed a decided Government victory. Sir Wilham Wbiteway, on his arrival in St. J_ohn’s on ”day, was given a. hearty reception- Ihe statement that Mr. W. Wainwright? assxstent general manager of the _ Grails Trunk railway, intended to resxgn POSiEiOR. has been officially contradicted from Montreal.- The populationof Londén, Out. 3'1”“. 8n increase of 900, according to the 8’59” ment returns jusblcompleted. Absmeeting of the CV: C uncil 0f Hamilton, Ont., Dr. J. IDY. Egg at was appointed superintenéent of the Cigty hos hl'nl pital. The semi-annual statement of the Bapk (3f Mgntr‘eay‘ just issued, shows the Pmnf's THE WEEK’S NEWS CANADIAN. The price of bread in Hamilton has been “Siâ€"Feed to eight opts a ioat. UNITED STATES. BRITISH. The great Columbian Fair has gone into history and in a few months there will be hardly a vestige of the White City left on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its success was recorded from day to day in the num- bers attending and the beauty and extent of the display. But there were othtr features of the show, little noticed by the people, but which helped materially to make the ex- hibition the success it has been generally voted. They were the wheels within wheels without which the machinery of so vast and intricate an enterprise would not have moved as smoothly and as noiselessly as it did. The great attendance of 21,469,461, ex- clusive of the 6,052,188 who went in on passes, making a total attendance of 17,- 539,041, has been recorded. It has also been told that the total receipts will be almost $14,000,000, as compared with 38,- 300,000 at Paris in 1889, the only fair which offers an adequate comparison with Chi- cago. But this success would not have been reached had not the facilities for get- ting to the Fair grounds been ample. The great work done by the Chicago street rail- roads can be estimated from the fact that one company transported 73,000,000 pas- sengers from May 1 to October 31. Another company carried 22,500,000 passengers dur- ing the same time, and the total number of passengers carried by the citylines while the Fair was open undoubtedly reached 150,003,000. And yet, notwithstanding this enormous increase, the number of casualties was much less in proportion to the business done than last year. Safety in street car traveling has approached near to perfection when only twenty-six passen- gers out of 78,000,000 met with accidents. But even this good record is beaten by the work done by the steamboats on Lake Michigan and the pleasure boats inside the grounds. The total number of passengers carried by the Lake steamers was 1,758,665 and not one was lost or injured. The elec- tric launches were the favorite boats inside the Fair grounds and had a total patronage of 839,757. The steam launches came next with 196,698 patrons and the gondolas last with 149,192 patrons. About 10,000,000 people were fed in the restaurants of one catering company,and judging from this less than 15,000,000 took meals on the grounds. The comparative smallness of this number can only be explained by the reign of the lunch baskets. The record also shows that notwithstanding the millions of tickets handled only 175 mistakes were made, and so carefully was the money guarded that int 3. dollar was lost by robbery. One of the most interesting sights of the Fair was the Day Nursery where babies were cared for while their parents were sightseeing. The work done at this branch of the Fair is shown by the fact that 7.000 babies from 3 weeks to 6 years old were received, ticket- ed, attended to and returned. There were good babies and bad babies and prize babies‘ abics that cried and those that didn’t cry‘ and mothers that were grateful and those that were ungrateful. More than half the babies were under one year old. The weather was unusually propitious, there being only eight rainy days while the Fair was open. The average temperature for the six months was 64 degrees and the average temperature of each month was very near the average of some years past. The season was exceptional, there being no excess of heat or cold. Another feature of the Fair showing how thoroughly all depart- ments were organized was the emergency hospital, where 18,500 cases were treated, or an average of 120 a day, most of them being trivial. The total deaths were twenty- three, or less than an average of one a week. The fireworks were a feature that attracted a good deal ofattention. There were 105,- 000 rockets fired 011’ and 15,000 shells and a great number of wheels and devices, and twenty-five tons of red fire were burned. When to these are added the model post office that handled over 15,000,000 pieces of mail matter and an organized guard that met all demands upon it some idea of the work necessary to prepare and run the Fair can be gained. The last distinguishing feature of all will probably be the speed with which nearly every vestige of this great aggregation will disappear. On a. snowy day he tied her to the door of his barn,and amused himself by throwing snowballs at her. The village curate hap- pened to pass whilst Hodge was doing his best to score bulls-eye‘s on his living target, and of course reproved him for his unmanly conduct. Admiral Mello, leader of the Brazilifin neurgents, denies that he intends declaring in favour of monarchy. He advocates the overthrow of the present military Govern- ment, and the establishment of a. civil Republican Administration. Both Were Pleased- A farmer who was plagued with a scold- g’ng wife,hit upon the following plan to cure he'r. “Oh, it’ts all right, sir,” quoth the farm- er, “ it gives us both pleasure. When I miss her she is glad ; and when I hit her I am glad.” M. Georgevitch, special envoy from Servia. to France, was stabbed in a. restaur- ants in Paris on Monday eveninO. His con- dition is serious. “I’ve seen that same gentleman with Mrs. Sweetly very often; 1:: it some one she cares for?” “Oh, no; that’s her husband.” “\Iartiallaw has been proclaimed in the rgvince 0f Barcelona, and the police and [detectiVes are hunting the Anarchists day ’ . land nigh} -L-.1 «L-L , H, 1“ , ,,‘- 1 WEmperor William has decided -bha.t the next magceuvres of the German army shall be held m Silesia. Private deepatches from Cuba. say that the insurrectlon is under full headway, but; the Government controls all news channels, and no informztjon is allowea uo pass. -v-.. The Spanish Government. has sent a. note to the Sultan of Morocco asking him to give a, guarantee of the payment. of the entire cost of the _Melilla._ expedition. ' . - eased meat. Mrs. Buchner is dead. Lifidéie husband and four children are in a. Jud-.. “It is stated that a. well-known retired English naval ofiicer is forming a small fleet of cruisers agd torpedo boats, in command of which he Intends proceeding to the as« sistance of Admiral Mello, who is in rebel- lion agginstfilleflBrazilian Government. an“ â€".-- dyin g condition. Native spies who have been among the Matabele rep?“ that Lobengula‘s Warriors are utterly disheartened. ' Lessons from the Late “’orld's Fair, GENERAL. Babb! Schindler on Ilse 03-0 era 5 _ Ing ofChlldl-el: ‘ n Rear , Rabbi SolomonSchindler, has been visit~ ing an Orphan Asylummnd has deemed the thoughts suggested by his visit to be of sufficient importance to print them, and give them to the world. His article to which is assigned the place of honour in the current number of the Arena, will beread with interest by a good many who will not be able to accept his conclusions. The worthy Rabbi seems to think that dry-nuts. ing is to be preferred to the mother’s breast; ‘ and that the co-operative method of rearing ‘ and educating children, is to be preferred 1 to the old method, bringing them up in the ‘ home. The officers of the Asylum visited by him were so much wiser and better than the average parent; the employees of the institution were so much kinder, and more skilful in the management of the children than parents and household servants gener- ally are ; and, as "-he result, the interests of the children were it“ much better cared for than they commonly are in the home, that he was tempted to desire that all children might be deprived of parents in order that they might be in a. position to enjoy the superior advantages of such an institution as' this. Of course Rabbi Schindler did not entertain this desire that sprang up unbidden In his breast. He is not quite radical enough to advocate the wholesale slaughter of all the parents in the interest of the children. Indeed the difficulties in the way of this are such that he judges it to be impracticable ; and the thought of it is, therefore, dismissed. But, as the next least thing, he advocates what he calls- “com- munal education,” or what might better be called, perhaps, as it has been called ‘above, the co. operative rearing of children, for his scheme of education includes the housing, the clothing, the feeding, and the care as well as the instruction of the young. Rabbi Schindler’s method of rearing' chil- dren is not an altogether untried one, Per- haps the most successful trial that it ever received was in ancient Sparta, to which the Rabbi refers in its support. But the Spartan system aimed at a single object. Everything was made bend to the attainment of a single end. Even chastity was not allowed to stand in the way of this. The aim of Lycurgus was to raise a race of soldiers such as would prove invincible in the field. In such a scheme of education, of course, the principle end con- templated was physmal perfection. It fair ed ill with the weaklings. The state had no place for them, no use for them, and the first part of the process of education was to weed them out. So far as the training of the intellect was concerned little more was aimed at than the strategy and quick-wit- tedness of a beast of prey. The all-com- prehending virtue in which the Spartan youth was trained was that of physical courage. There was no place for the play of the affections ; and the only vices that were punishable or odious were cowardice, lack of fortitude, or the non-concealment of vice or crime. There was little that was intellectual in this scheme of education, less that was moral, and of the highest element in human nature, and in human character, the spiritual, it knew nothing. The dry-nursing process was perhaps well enough suited to rearing and educating with such an aim. But the Spartan system was only possible under a military disposition of the most absolute form. It is strange that in the discussion of the subject of the rearing and education of children he does not once refer to his own race. The Hebrews are perhaps as ancient a people Qhe Lacademonians, and they are equally deserving of careful study. Besides, while Sparta exists only as one of the dim and distant recollections of the past, the Jews are a living people to-day, and show no less signs of life than they did many centuries ago. What means this inexhaustible vitality, this persisteney of type, this survival of persecutions and all sorts of adverse circumstances. They have been in all their various fortunes and in all the lands of their dispersion a do- mestic people. Jacob has loved his wife, and Rachel has loved her husband; and their love for one another has only been equalled by their love of their children. Whatever have been their faults they have sacredly guarded the family. They have given perhaps more remarkable men to the race than any other nationality of equal numbersâ€"and, not to speak of the great men of Israel, the com- mon people generally succeed in the ordin- ary pursuits of life. A larger proportion of them are rich than of any other people ; they are seldom found begging their bread, they manage to generally keep out of the Police Courts, and they enjoy perhaps more than the average share of the good things of life. E. Scammon advdcates the virtual aboli- tion of childhood in the interest of their pur- ity. The Divine Father does not teach his children everything at the beginning, but has adopted the principle “little by little” as the means of imparting knowledge. He goes on the principle in imparting know. ledge that, of the evil, so of the good that eomes,to usinlife,suflicient for the day is that which belong to the day. The light comes as the need for it arrises. And when curi- osity seeks to know what is not yet best to be known, he does not teach us what we are not yet prepared to receive or to profit by, but bids us wait, telling us that what we know not now we shall know here. after. ButMrs. Scammon thinks she has found out a more excellent way. She thinks that while the little child is curious to know just where the baby came from and all about how it came,its curiosity is to be gratified to the full. The lisPing little girl must know all that mother knows about the ,mySteries of procreation and reproduction. But TRUTH s willing to run the risk of being regarded as an old fogy, rather than accept this dac. trine. Blessed be the memory of the dear old mothers, that told us as much as we ought to know about these and other things too high for us, but who judiciously taught us at the same time, that there were things that we should know by and by, that it was not best for us to know just then. TRU‘rE believes the old method better than the new,believing this new tangled idea of filling the minds of little children with what belongs to people of riper years a mis- take. No unvaccinated man is permitted to vote in Norway. While RabbiSolomon Schindler advocates the practical abolition of the family and the home in the interest: of the improved physical and social condi- tion of the rising generation, _Mrs._ Laura. COMMUNAL EDUCATION. Tne dusky manure]: of the Metsbele appears to have sufi‘ered seriously in the attack by the forces of the South African Company, reported in the last despatches from Cape Town. His impis cannot stand before Maxim and Gatling guns, and appear to be succumbing to the fate of dark races who have not immense resources of popu. lation to tall back upon. Neither can Lobengula. summon to his aid, as a. Maho- metan leader could in such a. pass, the forces of fanaticism. His soldiers are phy. sicslly brave and trained to feats of hardi- hood, but they are not sustained by dreams of a paradise which will be theirs when they die. By the latest news the Metabele appear to be considerably routed, while the forces of the South African Company have lost very few men. Although King Lobengula has adopted to some extent European methods, and now lives in a. brick house surrounded by irrigated gardens, the party in England who are inclined to side with the South African Company wish us to understand that he is u bloodthirsty ssvsge whom it is the duty of all civilized people to help to put down. But the affair is regarded in diverse ways in Britain. The proceedings of the South African Company have been considerably reprobated there. They have been called the employers of irresponsible filibusterers, who have not scrupled to carry on indefensible proceedings under the folds of the British flag. As a matter of fact, the trouble arose out of a descent by some of Lobengula’s soldiers on the Mashonas who work in the company’s mines, and from whom the supply of labour is maintained. This resulted in the Mashonas running away in fright, so that the mines were deserted. Lobengu- la on his part, seems to have thought that the interference of the South African Company was altogether uncalled for,seeing ‘ that his men had only done what they had. been accustomed to do for the past fifty, years. As the Mail says, the whole ques- ‘ tion turns on how far a private commercial company, ostensibly British, and supported by the moral force of the British Empire, can go in making war. The critics of the South African Company say that they have provoked this war ;that Lobengula did not want it, but that What the company wished twas to raise a quarrel, on the pretence of , which they could exterminate him and open up his splendid country for their future operations. Notwithstanding the feel- ‘ing that it is the fate of these savage inations to pass away before the methods 1 of the white man, there is a feeling on the part of many people that some show at least of fair and equitable dealing with the aborigines should be maintained, and that in the mad rush for diamonds and other wealth native rights should be borne in mind. As Sir Henry Loch, the High Commissioner of the British Government, has taken the matter in hand, an attempt may be made if things do not go well, to make, a political use of the support of free- booting by the Government which will be alleged. On the other hand, -Lord Ripon has told the South African Company that if the British force have to come in and settle the difficulty the company’s charter must disappear. It will therefore be inter- esting to observe the treatment of the matter by the foreign Office. i fictitious. The Mail calls attenticn to the fact that the United States is beginning to find that it cannot aflord to adopt an insular spirit in legislation affecting the security of prop- erty and the stability of value. Such laws must be made to suit people who send no representatives to its Congress. These are the very numerous and substantial class of ‘ foreign investors. The withdrawal of their ? wealth would cause incalculable disaster, beside which the consequences of the late revulsion of confidence would seem a small misfortune. It was the foreign investors Who gave the initial impulse to that out- l l l l break of distrust from which the country is ‘ recovering, and the general steadiness of 1 foreign investors assisted the bankers in preventing a panic. It was largely in deference to the same outsiders that the silver purchase law was recalled. The in- fluence of foreign trade, as well as that of foreign investments, pressed heavily on public sentiment in the country, and help- ed to force through repeal. It was large foreign trade balances that exhausted the Treasury of its free gold and a great portion of its redemption fund. External influences have, therefore, to be reckoned with even by the self-complete Republic. But it will have to go farther to assure in- vesting foreigners against loss upon proper- ties subject to its laws. The monetary prop is not the sole basis of confi lencc. The laws which govern the formation and manage- ment of those great joint stock corporations which attract so much capital from abroad need supplementing in some material respects by provisions protecting the interests of shareholders. This is a matter, however, for the various States to legislate upon, but it would conduce greatly to the end aimed at by recent Federal legislation, namely,the dissipation of distrust. Though the great stringency of the past summer was due to a monetary cause, it abounded in incidents which disclosed other dangers than those which proceed from a depreciation or infla- tion of the currency. The first approach to a. panic,that caused by the astonishing break in industrial stocks last April, brought before the attention of shareholders the urgent need of laws to suppress the increase of capital by the watering pro- cess. In order to effect the combination Of a group of industries this process had been freely resorted to. The Various buildings, plant, stocks, and other proper- ties of the individual manufacturing concerns which combined to form such a company as the Linseed Oil Trust, for example, were taken by the Trust at an excessive Value {in order to induce each concern to come in. PThe aggregate of these values was presented ‘as capital, though it was enormouslv more i than the real capital. Among the original members of the Trust were divided the shares of the preferred stock, represent- ing about all the real value of the com- bined property. The common stock, representing the water, was allotted to the public. Attention was drawn very sharply to this state of things when the Trust stocks were struck by the whirlwind that visited the New York Exchange last spring. Outsiders will not be eager to buy shares in a property of which one-half or more of the value is The South African Company. They Can’t Stand Alone. Number of Passengers Carried-06er- ll- terestlng Figures. In the last number of Engineering we find some striking statistics in connection with English railways. Here the returns for 1892 are compared with those for 1879. It appears that in the year last mentioned the number of first-class passengers carried in England represented 6.5 per cent. of the total number, the second-class passengers 11.3, and the third-class 82.2. Las t year. on the other hand, the proportion of firstâ€" class passengers had dwindled to 3.27 per cent., and that of the second-class to 7.43 per cent, while the proportion of the third- class had risen to 89.3 per cent. In Scot- land the difference was still more note- Wthhy. In that kingdom during 1879 the first-class passengers constituted 11.05 per cent. of the whole number, the second-class 7.45 per cent, and the third-class 81.50 per cent. The latest returns credit the first- class with only 5.3 per cent., the second- class with less than 1 per cent., and the third-class with 93.8 per cent. Even in Ire- land the same tendency is manifest,although in this, the poorest of the three kingdoms, ‘ the first-class and second-class passengers are relatively numerous. This is because in Ireland the whole number of passengers is comparatively very small, the masses of people being too poor to pay even third- class fares. Thus, last year, in Ireland but five railway journeys were made for each inhabitant, whereas in Scotland there were twenty railway journeys to each inhabitant, and in England and Wales the number of passengers was equal to twenty -six times the population. Still, even in Ireland. as We have said, there has been, between 1879 and 1892, a falling off in the number of first-class and second-class passengers, the former declining from 10 per cent. to 6.63 per cent. ,and the latter from 23.3 per cent. to 18.57 per cent. The only part of the railway system of the United Kingdom where no marked change has occurred is that comprising the Metropolitan Under- ground roads and the suburban lines which carry season-ticket passengers to and from London. Here, as the distances are short, and the difference in fares, therefore, small, the proportion of third-class passengers is sometimes as low as 75 per cent., and in no case is it over 85. It is a matter of ob- servation that many passengers will travel second-class on a short journey, and yet go third-class when on a journey, of more than forty miles; Where considerable distances are traversed, the difference in fare between Ithird-class and second-class carriages is so great that few consider as of any import- ance the fact that a second-class carriage has a carpet on the floor, and perhaps a slightly better cover and finer hair in the cushions. Otherwise, it offers no extra. accommodations, not even in respect of space, which is remarkable, when we keep in View the advantage enjoyed by the first , class passenger in this respect. In a first-class compartment, there are but six seats, whereas there are ten in the second or third ; moreover, in each first-class carriage, there are but four com- lpartments against five in most other car- riages ; so that a railway company is satis- fied with twenty-four first-class fares each carriage, although fifty fares are exacted from the second-class as well as from the third-class carriage. rl‘he decrease of the second-class passen- gers is due, as we have seen, to the grad- ually improved accommodations of the third~class carriages, and the latter fact is traceable to the immense influence exert-ed upon railway managers by the greatly pre- ponderant contribution of third-class passengers to the receipts. Last year the first-class passengers on all the railways of the United Kingdom paid 3.12 millions of pounds sterling, the second-class 9.37 mil- lions, and the third-class 22.21 millions of pounds sterling. In other words, of the receipts for ordinary passenger fares,season tickets being excluded, 80.3 per cent. comes from passengers travelling third- class, 8.5 per cent. from those by second- class, and 11.2 per cent. from first-class whereas thirteen years ago out of each 3100, the first-class paid $18.40, the second- class$16.30, leaving only $63.30 to be con- tributed by the third-class. The obvious meaning of these figures is that, eventually, English railways will provide for only two classes of passengers. The second and third classes will be amalgamated, with the result that what used to be called second- class accommodation will be procurable for third class fare. This is one of the satisfac- tory results of the strong drift toward political and social equalization observable in the United Kingdom. Imperial parliament resumed business last week. Mr. Gladstone proposes to give up the whole session, which is only expected to last about six weeks, as an adjournment must be had over the Christmas holidays and the regular session must commence in February, to domestic business. There is every indication at present that this pro- gramme will be carried out Without exces. sive friction. The attitude of the Opposition is transient, as if it had been determined to rest from fighting for the present. Some little ripple has been caused by the attitude of the Parnellites under Mr. John Redmond who demand a. general amnesty for the imprisoned dynamiters and the immedicata passage of a. bill for the relief of evicted; tenants ; but as they can only command. nine votes all told and the opposition are disinclined to accept their aid, it is not anticipated they will succeed in causing any serious trouble. It is probable that the local option bill will;;;he‘ shelved, as likely to create a division in governmental ranks, but it is regarded as almost‘certain that both the Parish Councils and Improved Registration bills will be successfully put through. "A _ Total Depravity- “J uat think of it,” exclaimed Mr. Lushby’s wife. “Just think of it.” “Just think of what '3” asked Lushby. “This newspaper states that in Belgium there are 150,000 saloons and 5,000 schools. Lushby was silent in thought. “What do you think of that ?” asked his wife. “Why-er-ain’t that a god many school: for such a small country ‘3” Refused. Father “Did Mr. Sappy pro ose to last- night? . P W“ Daughterâ€"Yes. Fatherâ€"Aug is 116 to be my ”5-in-1“; fiangb terâ€"NO- BRITIS- nmwgu British Politics.