- Belgfhm. Betgium is then most confused little nntionallty on earth. In the great \ cities the population is made up `of in- extricable mixtures of Flemish rnces and the Walloons. pure. French and Germans. Add to this broad splashes `of the Spanish blood that came in with -the princes or the lastscentury. and you have a curious conglomerate man .-,-the brave . I-lairhrucheo. ' A ' Always `in the selection `-of a hair- the `Quality of '%1q:m mo L 9? it`-* ` A 9 ,. -in J ` , ` Lisa. The New Japan. Babylon. 5 1`.:'oto:1bl_'.' -1. r th`e first city? a million. The r square miles. this means. 1} IS A QE`)fT"AT Going Out of Business. mmouooo +++9o4 EVENTS oFfrH 1~: WEEK!` \ UXHHl\lL`\I llunu n u MONDAY, JUN"2:h. I Ralph 33:15 was drowned in the Humbcr at \\'c:tu11. -.__ A- Eighteen ;LHcgL-d tramps were 81": rcsud at \\'m uronzo. . V Thomas Hv_`H)-;TL nf St. Catharines died from Eu-an prostration. " ' ,A...- .1. Lu: n \U\\.l IIUHI AIKHL lA \.'-)5n|.~v-v-- | Allan E was strqck by a ialling trcc ;;L Di\`cI' zmd k11led. ` ,_._L._ -r\c~I|_I The town of .\'rth Toronto com-' D1a1ns01 thc Metropolitan car ser- vxcc. I I-\.. South\\';11:r1m Liberals nominat- m0I1S. ed Dr, Sylvcstcr .\I ycr for the C0111- I V15 sale of France. redncb ows :~ __ .An - --us John Su*"1"r*V1 `*1. the tOwn%hit}?i Montague wu: fvund dead y roadside. It is hoped the Cornwall July 12. . Lord Curz:..n`s fund for the 651:- ablishment of am clcctrical laborator) at OJWJTG ha: rcuchcd 100,000 A French L'h_L{il1(:('I' has a plan f0! constructing }1`.`..Z1h\N'3tef ship canal Wgh th-.-V st-me Valley to Paris- Two chi1<`_rc;1 v-.'cr<: burned to death at Arduch nllugc, nghming setting gfewto 11.2 rm:-9.<`.cncc of the Bauder Hm! U ' ` PosiLiv_ Price every department. "H. UJ Iami]y_ Ma M10 1.` goru ..x.. -v w IXUCIC. ` `J The Shah of Pcrsila, has P7la`;med 3 general amnesty. ,` . V _; ` he Toronto Railway 'must `3 to the Junction. H ._ LieutGovernor 'BuIY0 ...bmini0n Fair at'vC81831'Y..` 1." _ The 'C.P.R. will oben; th"*h iT;he victims of the\ T9!th" V` faccident are all, (1019 ' The bridge betweclf 4. s at Hespele u so you can nosamaysse every dolla1E;:f'e*_`_g . t/ze talo ato ('omin'.u-:1 from Page .1 --un~r-In A_ ab; ~. . T ` iV1i?"' BoL1ru.~:.~;a is rcP0"td '-be -"5' 3- Adele. .`. . . T I am :;m1p2ngn against the :111`.h',- has been started )1`: I to have the repairs to` L`:n::s1 completed by` (.1-3% . I 1ess\ a-ndeseores destitute as a result `of the tornado in Minnesota. A ` I '1-J -A` (xii--x\|19' Qav D ,II I Luv Lvlbluuv ... -.-7-,,-_ _ Advices received `at.Ot_tawa' say that the French treaty is lxkely to be rejected by the Senate of France. Brockville ratepayers carried the by-1aw_ to purchase the Malloch pro- perty rn the west end of the town for ia park. : . - - Mr. T.. V._ Denison, cashier in the Imperial Bank at North"Bay, was `found in bed with a bullet through | his_ head." - ' .\,A,_g_....... A: [Canals `an- Illa Jlvvu`-v A The Departmgznt nounces that i_t as e: % wall Canal wtll be l fc on` July 10th. `A - .1 Iond-4: fc July luun. _ . The United `States Treasurer s ex- cess of expenditure over receipts for the `scal year just ending willap- `proximate $60,000,000, . . Harry Baker _was kill`e_d and Wil- zam. Brooks seriously` injured by _an explosion in the `Leonard Engine work at London, Ont. The Brotherhood of. Railway . .. g,__.... ...:11 if is said. take up the _and is alleged `to _ _ V . ? mg by_ the track, has tra1_n_bemg ord- ered to proceed wxthout ham. ` ment or uauam .... expected the Corn- l_ reopened for tra- Canals an- ,_-....LnA Han ('nrn- 7 - It is A regrettable, irfdeed, that Bar- 5; rie `ha's`}h,ad to default in manic. TL. A. t.` 'in_term"ediate4 series.`-The fact remains e that _we are in danger of losing our -I reputation, as a. live. sporting town! 5 We had; splendid material this yearh fora first-class twelve`, but a champ- `a ionship, teamacannot be built up in a c few w`eek's`, and because a couple of home games were lost the public in~ \ terest waned almost before it had `be- 7 gun! to-take `hold. Lacrosse clubs. 1 cannot run without a fair measure ofii popular support, and this was deci.d- edly. lacking in Barrie. Just fancy a : `$23 gate atahome game! when every- 1 thing was favorable to a big crowd. .Yet that is what happened at the last i scheduled contest. There should d have been,'at the very least, three or four hundred paid admissions. No wonder the club chucked it up. ljTf`in- ancial obligations are too, onerous to `be shouldered by one ortwo individ-'. 'uals. Other towns, towns much less pretentious as regards size and im- portance tha_n Barrie, do not deal out patronage to their sporting or- ganizations in this niggardly fash- ion. The old Spartan `spirit needs a vigorous revival, if Barrie would win back her departed glory. pot! If his workiati-the Canadian Hen- ley is any criterion, Lou Scholes, the Toronto oarsman, `should render a pretty good account of himself at the Olympic races in England. Sc- 5 holes was credited with having given , Eddie Durnan his back wash in a 1 mile-and-a-half trial -a fewvdays pre- , viously. As Durnanhas the reputa- 1 tion of being one of the world s,fast- . est professional 'scullers, Scholes l , chances of capturing the honors at Lo-ndon look bright, indeed. Cer- tainly, no amateur one this side of the V water is in his class, and his present form would go -to sh'ow that he is better than he was` four years ago when he won the diamond sculls at Henley in record time against a eld 1 that included so good a man as F. S. ;`Kelly of. Oxford. _Very rosy opin- ions are held in Toronto as "to Scholes ability. That these high hopes may nd realization will be` I the wish of very true Canadian.` ` How THEY CAN pnomorzfcxvlc lMPROVEMEN'l`_ As might be expected, United States PHASES oi spolrr % it`. TOUUCLE VI uvu_`.-_ i.W_e must rem-gamAze' Harmony w_ith that d pftetation_g1ven by Jo he s`id tvhatthe exter sin is not` private V pro: 7T%H]E fxbnrnmv ADVANCE Horticultural Societies. sporting `papers are se.e king: further ti to belittle Tommy Burns stic pow- ers, following his latest battle withi It Bill Squires, `On the Canadian s ` `showing, they say, he would have a . `hard tirneinow convincing` the aver- age ring` devotee that he is the equal of Jack Johnson. That may be, but Squires is a vastly improved ghter, and perhaps the negro might fare none too well`_himse1f __if asked to A take on the Australian heavy-weight ` 7 in'his present shape. Oncemore the 4 - question may be put, what has John- I L son ever done to merit the encom- J - iums of the .Yankee partizan press? - Examine his record closely. . Take, t for example, his battles with Joe 1 Jeannette (also colored). Five times I` have they met. Two were no-deci- J sion contests that` went six rounds - each`. One was a Io -round draw. 3 Another was loston a foul by John- -" .son in two rounds, and the last which 5 Johnson won went fteen rounds. .- Johnson _has been whipped by Mar` ' ' 7' /~--1---n- Dcqc-vac ADFDQ-+911` J11 n r 1 1 1 t V ( I ;JUlIll3U1l 11.03 U\.\a: vvnn-r:r-- ._ `viii Hart" (whom Burns defezitedv) in twenty rounds, and has had 3, num- ber of draws with men of mediocre ability, This is the pugilistic para- gon they would have us believe. is Burns ` masteti Something better, however, in the way of dope is want- ed to prove the case.` In consequence of the New.York State anti-betting. law, the Kenil- worth Park (Buffalo) officials have been obliged. to declare off their sum- mer race meeting. The New York City tracks, however, still live. Fav- ored by environment, with ve mil- lion people at their elbow, they may last for a while, but there is no chance at all for the jockey clubs in . smaller communities. O-ne result of the T placing of open ring betting under the ban has been to foster the busi- ` ness of the handbook men. Reports from Gotham say that these were nev- ~ er so numerous as now. The Kenil- ' worth Park peoplewill not (llspn-_=.e ' of their racecourse. They have an abiding faith in the future, and are 1 hoping for the Legislature, to nd 5 some way of easing up the situation. Times change, and moral waves have their ebbs as well asitheir. ood tides.` ' l . AJAX. l v 1 ther by railroad, by boat or by car- riage, we cannot fail to be struck with a remarkable tendency every- ` iwhere towards embell.ishment. Beau-l` ity and art in the truest sense are no `*1 ilonger reserved for the rich few- `are no_longer the perquisite of lux- iury-loving ar1sto_crats,`but are made Ithe common heritage of the common lpeople, for the benet and uplift of `all. Throughout the American cont- Ii11?1ntb\]llI_e ndf gentlemen pogsessing , t e a iity 0 statesmen evoting ` themselves unselshlyto the pur- suit of citizen-making and city~mak- ing, strenuously striving to prepare the people for improving their pres- ent conditions and planning a model city for the future. It is the awak- ing of a- general civic consciousness which means tht redemption of our . communities from the sordid and the A1,-1_L_- Tn Ax:-110 nallrlt-`QR 211d en- v I communities IIOIII Luc buxunu .....\. shabby. To exile ugliness and throne beauty is our common in est. Let ussas civic workers k up the struggle `until Canada iboast of a hundred cities with lbeauty that was ancient Greece's Ithe grandeur that V was anc ] Rome s. a (.[\aD|.I.I\.|.I\v and she L`- _ AA.`-n 7 `committee fis `-held,`_ at which Jnotes .-are .c_ompai-ed byathe` members and '_ a . report fpre`p'arled_:-for} transmis_sion ; s ....- 4-1.`. :om.m:.pn`nncil. ' Thfough {the )1 `example . The enect ox nus puuu\.- 1 lity is often magical. The town is . divided into wards or districts which ` are assigned for purposes of observ- ation to the different members of the l look-out committee; For two. or three months this committee goes- about quietly taking note of all eye- sores and offenses against the sense of sight, and noting ~.h.ow .much better the town would `look if certain im- provements wiereV made with the common.) -property of the` municipal- ity. In the spring ameeting of the *a report prepareu I01" uauaumpw... to the town pouncil. -Through the Chairman, the Mayorjis requested to '-call _g. sp__ecia1j me__'eti;ng.of -the ccuncil, _ ;.`f_}n:r'1_1t1;:-L - Aypegvygtten 3:. r.Pb..tt ' ' ` 5` ` 1 'Zii,1`.Q9}1'S d\; . ` Q34: n inter- rs keep la can with `the ce s and ancient . \ , T`6p}'57:;$i`ii`.7iiiT:EIiEE:'c6Es arm. `soc- ietjyjin carrying out as far as pos- siBle;, th e- r`ecommn`dations= of the -1001-tfeout `cqmmitteeg whichzare hand- ed out `to" theE1oc:i`1:'pr_ess for public- ation. The `ect is marve1lou_s_, the natural impulse for civic .-.improve- ment manifesting itself `in a general attempt'to\c1ean up and x up throughout` the town. ' - In appointing civic improve- ment..~committees, ;we should en- deavor to avoidv mists. I mean by that merely ornamental members with only names, `who do nothing, and are not worth _a cent .. 4.1.... ....+..-I.--a_r1av nnrnnse of anv ; nothing, and are I101 . wuuu as Lcuu u to- the work-a-day purpose of 4 any c live associa `on . And it may be said c by way" of parenthesis, thateven a ; well .selected comrnittee, with a sin- cere desire to do things, rarely gets anywhere unless the chairman has the gift of initiative, that is the fac- ulty. of seeing for one s self what should be done, and of doing it with- out ado. Usually an entire commit- tee or a whole societyhold back, ' waiting for the man or the. woman with the initiative to point the way. At least that has been our. experience at Cobourg. You have heard the story of the Sunday School teacher, . who quoted- the words of the Bible beginning many are called, a-nd ask- ed the class to repeat the remainder - of the text. Only one hand went up, - and the precocious child was told to I give the class thebenet of his Biblical lore; Many are called, but '- few get up, was little Johnny s real ' vised version of the Scriptural prov- 1 erb, which is lamentably applicable - to the work of our societies` to-day. ent single factor in the iovement is the inuence of our women, God blessthem! - They _are our good housekeepers, andgwhat is more-pro- per than that they should become good civic housekeepers? They abate` nuisances in the household. Why not in the town? They make the home. a place of beauty. \Vhy not the town? Moveover, patience ` and "perseverance more frequently char-` acterize their "efforts than those of men. Thisis the coin of success. The work that never lags is woman s i work. Yet there is no dearth of l opportunity in any -city, town or vil- - lage of this Province. It is intelli- . gent consecration and application that tells every . time. i Unquestionably the most promin- In undertaking this work, we `should not undertake to remake the town in one year. We do not pur-i posetmeddling ofciously with the work of our municipal .bodies or` offensively dictatipg to them what they` should orshould not do. Appreciat- ing their responsibility, we approach them deferentially, and politely offer to co-operate with them for thepgood of all. Every town ofcialpwho has ` '4 ---A A:-:v1n `no +1113 1\1`I}'\1`if` (Tnd 01 all. nvery town Uiiiciauvwuu ua: . an eye single for the public good should certainly welcome the co-op- eration and co-relation of our inu- 'eiitial societies for bettering rnunici-, lpal. conditions. The making of the`_ ideal modern town is essentially and ii-npolitically a business proposition, wherein the health and happiness of each citizen is considered a tangible asset equally with the annual tax .bill; where the costly ruinous re- \gime of the incompetent! self-seek- ing politician is_ ostracized; and where public service, as an honor and a duty, is cheerfully assumed by the ablest and best citizens._ If, as has been suggested in Chic- ago, art is a corrective for crime,- then -art would be made effective as . a preventive of crime. Educators . are beginning to see that the sphere` : of the state embraces not only the; redemption of those who have fallen} from grace, but equally the preven-1 _ tion of those walking in the paths of _ virtue from falling out by the way- .-nnc--:1 pact-nxiuave U011 OI 111056 Weuxuug All Lu\. blutlau \IQ virtue from falling by side and becoming moral castaways. An ounce` of prevention is worth a [I `pound of cure. As a consequence, .1 we rejoice to nd that- our school houses are becoming more and more the centres of renement for those who enter their walls. The school house should be made a real civic. centre of the community and a pere- nnial source of hopeful uplift to all classes. Unkept school grounds leave bad impressions on children, which in later, life will surely be re- produced in their homes and work- a-day surroundings. There is no , doubt that the rening inuence of school gardens takes out of boys the tendency to pilfer fruits. and owers. Each child feels that he has a per- sonal stake in some living, growing thing. It implants`. in his young, fresh, impressionable mind a love of the -beautiful. The public schools, wherein most of our future electors and legislators are being made fit for the responsible duties of citizen- ship, arethe place to which we should turn our attention in our ef- forts `to promote a. more beautiful- public life -in` Canada. If, the Ath- enians desire good citizens, let them put whatever is good into thelives of; their children, as the advice of a great philosop er in ancient U l ( tl \ l [' Greece,,which we ought to take to 2: heart to-day. ._ ~ ` - 1 ':-._ fdxf, as ?g1ist.i-nguishged from more gen-' i eral c1v1c xdeas, y1z : wasp: V-v-` _--.,', _; Preservation of the natural beauty i spots. - __"-Removal of unsightly_ bi11_-boards, poles, overhead wires, angl s1gr_1s lin- xfng the. streets and makmg hxdeous the town s principal avenues. `;~_'Object lessons on how to plant the hbftne groupds, showmg the import- zigpee of. a nght start, etc. Iago % 7f;V()1`fering-`prizes _ wtjfadow `and garden d1splay. 2:! relentless war against dirty, gar- e-stre'wn streets and vacant weed- has 'gj":i_f_own; lots. \-v v- -- -- fer the best poreh ;*,Ir'1sisftenee that all parks, squares, ajija public `grounds be kept in exem- p1ary.good taste, thereby stamping character of the community. ringing ,i.nue_n_ce to hear so as to ` _e the r ai1.w`ay.- station grounds ' and, attractive; First impressions. 7` V '-~ l A~Fo|ii'1 t--F_ircb`nnd.~ - A cat in Ireland. startled tron: sleep by the sudden barking of a dog, jump- ed on the table, overturned the lamp. 7 was drenched with blazing oil, leaped through at window in agonized ight. . ran amuck. a living torch, in the iarmyard and set are to half a dozen stacks before it could be killed. The resulting conagrution was disastrous. . The Firey. . It is believed that the rey secretes a peculiar substance which when oxi- dized` by the air is consumed. giving out only luminous rays. The time may come when this substance can be made IVIUIIII hiwun "a\Ion:1 Lisa" was painted by Leo- uurdo da Vinci and is now hung in the Louvre. Paris. It is "a portrait of the third wife (married 1495) of Fran- <-esco dc! Giocondo, whence called La Gioconda. It was painted in 1500-4. the artist having had it four years in hand. Francis I. paid 4.000 gold crowns for It a few years later. V-vs.-up . :1 rtiticixTyT > W :15 = _ A Tough Sentence. The late Bishop T. U; Dudley of Kentucky decmred that he was indebt- ed to a mountaineer of that state. for the most ungrammatical sentence he evelf heard- "This is it. Them there Miss Blake are three of as pretty a _:;-.1! 1 ever see. The Sassafras Tree. Ahhoxngh fossil remains of the sas- .saf1':zs tree are to be found in other parts of the world. it now exists as a native oniy in America. It has the dis- zim-tinn of being the only tree to ban` `three kinds of leaves on the same .n'aucl1. Itlis valued chiey for the avor which its roots. bark and wood give to other medicines. `Drinking Healths. The common custom of drinking weaiths had :1 curious origin. In the days when the Danes lorded it in Eng- iand they had,a way of stabbing Eng- :isb:.1eu in 1110' throat when drinking. Po avoid this viuuiny :1 man when drinking would request some of the -.ittersb,v to be his pledge or surety l while ta!-Ling his draft. b The Suez Canal. The actual cost of thesuez canal v as $120,750,000. }}i.}}{ 51.00 to $3} Babylon was _r.0 attain a popzllzxtion of 4 of the city was s G Stale Bread. .\n `(.`OnOXDi('L1'| use for stake bread is `J cut it intu thin siic.-es. which are Zrs.tte:'ed and pmced in :1 pie dish. .~`;u'in-:1 e a few we-:1 washed Currants I-tween the :-.1_ve1's. Six; eggs beaten into one qlmrt uf zniili, with sugar and '-.'a-.xvorin:;. hu:uu-g 0: cinnamon. are . h!n poured over the slices. Bake for mout an hour and ten minutes and wild to table in the dish in which 11: "as be ued. The Seventh Heaven. In the Mo!x:m.u.ex`.:2n religion there are seven h`.{\'("nl.'\. each a little liner (Exam the other. the lust cnmxinuting in Elle supreme gzory, being full of the '~.1ivine light which it is beyond the A 1-.-....|r..\ 7' '-.}ivine-light bey grower of speech to describe." A Cracked Nose. A doctnr aSS( !'t~' than the nose is of- ten made <-roolzod by the custom of using the hundke`-rt-!1`.e-f with one mind uuiy. This, S('a:`t'P [mud to say. is near- :_v always the right hand. He advises that the left hand he used in such cases and gravely atiirms that he has ` known sewral vases in young persom where crookedness of the nose has ` V ' ~*3--'-- ---nnnnt` |\>l` Yhii \\ UVIC LI\ruu\. ..... .. been entirely removed by ["3 IVEVV Ucpurn , As a `result of its war with Russia the area of Japan's territory was rais- -d from 189.000 square miles to 283.000 square miles and her population in- creased by 10.00,U.000. Gr-_-use on Carpet. To remove grease spots on carpet or matting cover with French chalk and sprinkle with henzine. Allow the hen- zlne to evaporate. then brush off the chalk- It the stain has not disappeared l repeat the process. . Breezy Wellington. Wellington. the political capital or New Zealand. is one of the windiest cities intlie world. Everybody in Wel- lington clutches his hat `on rounding a street corner to prevent its being olown into space. A Wellington man is al- ways known in Sydney. Melbourne and other cities by the determined manner iniwhich he holds on to his hat through forceor long habit. . Rusty.Key0. . Rusty keys should be laid to soak for sometime in a vessel containing.-. paraln 011. After soaking for a day or two "theoil will havehcted upon the rust and loosened it to such an extent that It will be qnite'easy_to remove with a little rubbing. .