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An Expensive English Editor.

London Letter to the Baltimore Sun: You
see very noticeable article in the present
number of the Quarterly Reuielo which dis
cusses the relations of the Grown and Con-
sttution." The article is based ON an able
pamphlet entitled the CrOlcn and Cabinet,
which was recently issued and sold here in
great numbers. Both the articles, in the
ReUietO and in the pamphlet, were written by
the co-editor and proprietor of the Manches-
ter Examiner. He came before the world in
this case as 'Nerex.' While ! maintain the
writer's incognito, though kaow him per-
sonally, | may be permitted to say that the
London Times, some months ago, offered
him twenty thousand dollars per year salary
If he would join its editorial staff At or
about the same time the Daily NeIcs offered
him twenty-five thousand dollars per annum
on like conditions, and before he decided upon
either, his employer, hearing of these bids, ten
dered an equal partnership In the Examiner,
which was accepted. That yields eighty
thousand dollars per annum and independence.
He Is regarded as the best political writer of
the day, and the Manchester Examiner, In
its leader, is the best paper in England. At
ter it, in deep thinking out of its themes, is
the Pail Mall Gazette. The London Times,
Ct late, has lost its best men by retirement,
and is now ''the paper without a head" Yet
its hold on the public Is strong.
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A WORLD WITHIN WORLD.

FIFTY years ago there lived in COyIngton,
Kentucky. on the opposite side Of the Ohio
river from Cincinnati, peculiar but scholarly
man named Symmes. He had formed
and published a theory that within the
globe upon which we live, there is vast
hollow space, as there Is space within an egg
shell when, hole having been made at each
end, the contents have been emptied out.
We live on the outside of the shell; other be-
ings live in the same manner on its inside.
When we 20 round the world we go over 1t,
as a fly goes round the outside of an egg
shell; when those who live in the world that
Is within our world do the same thing, they
70 round it as a fly who should walk round
the inside Of an eggshen. Besides this, Mr..
Symmes taught that this interior world
opened to our exterior one at the poles. Just
MS the two holes in the empty eggshell open
TO the interior. II follows, if this be correct,
that when man, by his ingenuity and
perseverance,, has passed the icy OBJ
structlon that opposes his advance toward
the pole, be will pass round the portion that
constitutes the brim of the opening, enter the
interior, and there find land and water, the
means of civilized life, and perhaps inhabi-
tants. But would not this inner world prove
TO be buried In darkness, and consequently be
a dead and uninhabitable world? Science
teaches us that such is not necessarily the case,
and that light and clouds and rain may exist
IN such an interior world; but its sky, instead
OF beng eoneave like ours, would be convex,
and the armament vast ball. All that the
Coyington philosopher got To- his interesting
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Rom. i'm the Time OF her Kings.

Contemporary ReUielo: 1t Is evident that
in the period designated as that of the kings,
when Rome commenced her career of con-
quests, she was, for that time and country, a
great and wealthy city. This is proved by
the works of the kings, the Capitoline tenn
pie, the excavation of the Circus Maximus,
the Servian wall, and, above all, the Cloaca
Maxima. Historians have indeed undert TX
en- to give us a very disparaging picture of
the ancient Rome, which they confidently
describe as nothing more than great vii
lage of single-roofed cottages, thinly scat
tered over large area. We ask in vain
what are the materials for this description.
1t Is most probable that the private build
ings Of Rome, under the kings, were rooted
with nothing better than shingle, and it is
very likely that they were mean and dirty, as
the private buildings of Athens appear to
have been, and as those of most of the great
cities of the middle ages unquestionably
were. But the Cloaca Maxima is IL itself
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The Umbrella in Agriculture,

AmeyicdH AgyieuitUiSt: 1t ID said that a
soldier hired himself 10 farmer to dig his
early potatoes After hearty breakfast, on
a bot August morning, the new help seated
himself in the shade OF the barn, saying to
the farmer, Now, if you want your potatoes
dug. bring them along. We cannot all
dig our potatoes in the shade, bot there is
much exposure 20 our intense midsummer
heat that may be, and should be, avoided,
not only a. a matter Of comfort, but of
health Sunstrokes are more frequently
heard Of in cities, as there every casualty Of
the kind goes at once into the papers, while
the same percentage Of sunstrokes in a popu-
lation scattered over county or two, would
scarcely be heard Of. We often see a kind
hearted farmer arrange a shade tor his horse
while he forgets himself. OF course, most of
the active work of the farm must be done
under full exposure Of the sun, or at least
with ouly the protection afforded by the
broad brim of straw hat. Mem.-Do not
forget 10 put cabbage Leaf in that hat. |
But in riding, whether upon the mower or
reaper, or upon an open wagon along an I'M
shaded road, a full exposure TO the monday
sun can be, and should be, avoided. He
must be deficient in ingenuity who cannot
''coniure up" some screen which shall break
the force of the sun upon the head at least.
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Eooa for . zoo,o,,caI Garden

Philadelphia Times: 1t costs about one
thousand dollars a month to feed the animals,
birds and reptiles at the geological garden.
The caterer has a most difficult task in prop
erly providing for his charges, with their va
rled appetItes. For instance, there Is the
giraffe. His long neck is very delicate part
of the anatomical construction. The morsel
that he starts toward his stomach first fire.
quently does not get at the lower end of the
throat before three or four instalments SINH
lar to it are travelling down the same chan
mel. The animal, under such circumstances,
being naturally greedy feeder, Is very like
ly to choke to death. His cook has, there
fore, not only to see that his food Is placed
before him, but that it safely arrives past the
line that divides the end of masticatlon from
the beginning of digestion. Most dainty of
all the residents are Jack and Gill Living
stone, Ithe chimpanzees from Africa, who
having been domiciled three weeks IN very
pleasant quarters are apparently satisfied
with their new home and hold large recep-
tions daily. Their bill of fare is as follows:
Breakfast, weak tea, with abundance of SUI
gar and plenty of milk and bread thickly
spread with honey. The honey these strange
people, whom the head -keeper persists IN re-.
gardlng as only a little less than man and
much more than beast, carefully remove, and
when there is no mere honey they dispatch
the bread. At half after ten In the forenoon
Jney lunch. lnlS releCIiOn COnslsGS Oh IIulJ
exclusively, chiefly bananas and oranges.
About three o'clock they want their dinner,
which consists of rice, tapioca or some such
farinaceous food, served with sugar and sher-
ry wine. For supper they have the same bill
of fare as tor dinner, with the addition of tea,
prepared as for breakfast. Their method of
feeding indicates not only the possession of
wonderful degree of adaptability to civilized
customs, but of desire to make progress In
the way of table observances. They feed
themselves with spoon, and drink their tea
from cup with degree of decorum that it
would be pleasure to witness In many chill
dren. Their board approximates in cost to
twenty cents each per diem. In point OF ex-
pense the seals rank first. 1t takes about
eighty pounds of fresh fish daily to feed hive
OFT hem, and like Oliver Twist, they want more.
In certain seasons they are a tremendous
drain upon the treasury and will eat up a
days receipts with the unblushing appetite
of the human boarder who comes late 70
breakfast and declines to pay for the dinner
to which he has invited friend. Formerly
the carnivora were the most expensive OF the
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a Bob LIncoln story.

1t is told of Robert Lincoln that, when he
was a boy-student at Phillips academy-his
father having been made President. he, with
divers other students, played some innocent
but mlschievous pranks on the citizens of
Exeter, such as making amusing. changes of
gates and signs in the night time. The clti-
zens naturally did not like it, and the students,
with the exception of Lincoln, were called to
the Justices Office next morning to answer
for their mischief. Then stepped forth Lin
coin, in a manly way, and said: al see by the
reading of the warrant that many of my
school comrades are charged with committing
offenses last evening against good order and
the peace and dignity of this pleasant village.
was in company with many of the parties
mentioned IN that warrant, and, if they aye
guilty Of the charges therein set forth, | am
equally amenable before the law. l therefore
ask, before proceedings commence, that this
warrant shall be amended by having my
name inserted with the rest of my comrades,
for | do not desire any person to shoulder any
responsibility rightfully belonging to myself. "
No objections being made, the warrant was
amended, also the certificate of summons,
and all the students, including the Presidents
son, were fined.
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conclusive evidence of large population, of
wealth. and of not inconsiderable degree of
civilization. Taking our stand upon this
monument. and clearing our vision entirely
of Romulus and his asylum, we seem dimly
10 perceive the existence of a deep prehis-
toric background, richer than is commonly
supposed in the germs of civllizahon-a re-
mark which may, In ali likelihood, be extend
ed to the background of history in general.
Nothing surely can be more grotesque than
The idea of a set of wolves, like the Morse
pirates before their conversion to christianity,
constructing in their den the Cloaca Maxima.
That Rome was comparatively great and
wealthy is certain. We can hardly doubt
she was the seat of industry and commerce,
and that the theory which represents her in
dustry and commerce as having been devel-
oped subsequently to her conquests, is the re-
verse of the fact Whence, but from indus
try and commerce, could the population and
the wealth have come?
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theory was the laughter and ridicule OF that
large section of the human race that know
better than he did, although they had not
hundredth part of the knowledge he pos
sessel These knowing ones gave the theory
the name of "Symmes's Hole, which 1t re-
tains to this day. There are people, however,
who, without believing IN a world of whose
exis. nee they have no proof, fully admit the
possibility Of its existence. There are
others who entertain as complete conviction
Of the truth Of the theory, and of the exist
ence Of the interior world, as Columbus had
conf lence in his theory, and in the existence
of continent on the opposite portion OF the
globe to that in which he lived. AS theo-
~, that of Symmes's is as consistent with SCI
ence rs we know it, as the theory of Column
bus was with science as known in his day.
Circumstances, however, as noticed by sailors
and others, had given TO the theory of Column
bus some corroboration; Symmes's theory is
not so well favored. Among the believers is
Americas Symmes, son Of the philosopher OF
Covington; and it is interesting to know that
he accompanies the Howgate expedition that
Is off on a voyage Of polar discovery, and he
expects, If the ship has the good fortune to
pass the icy barrier that has hitherto barred
out all intruders, to demonstrate the correct
ness of his fathers theory, and to present to
his country a new world, as Columb bus
presented his new world to CASTLE and
TO Leon. There IL an unex plored region
round the pole OF one million one hundred
and thirty -one thousand square miles, and
here, says Mr.. Symmes, will be found not
desolation and everlasting ice, but a genial
i cline, green meadows, wooded hills, flowing
| streams with fower-bedecked banks, the
song of birds and the presence of animal life.
The shores of Spitzbergen and Norway occa-
| sionally receive vegetable and ether waits,
none know from whence. DR.. Kane's party,
| from an eminence FIVE hundred feet high,
| saw the open Polar sea, from which blew a
breeze so mild as to melt the surface of the
| snow around them. This sea Mr.. Symmes
| expects to enter, and to experience there the
| strange glad thrill that made Columbus
start with joy when, on that eventual Octo-
| Der night, he saw in the distance a moving
| light One thing is certain, that those who
heard of the departure of Columbus were no
/ lcss luCItuulOuS do W lhC plODoOAAbJ Vi AiS
| theory turning out to be correct, than are
those incredulous who learn now of the de-
parture of Mr., Symmes. Another thing is
that we cannot but feel interested in the object
of son who sets off on an expedition to the
inhospitabe north, having for his pious aim
| the relief of fathers name from ridicule,
with the hope of placing it among the high
J est in the ranks of fame
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For the Sunday Appeal
MY MOTHER PRAYS FOR ME.
JOHN ]. BARRY.

Ihave fallen to the lowest, to the world am IN
known
And travel only In the paths can call my own.
The life lead is wretched never bend knee,
Still my heart will tell me my mother prayS for me-
me.
The world it may shun me and cast me from its
home
To live among the circle that always live alone.
The fallen cling together it's the same with me
But my heart still tells me mother prays for me-
In the long ago, loved that mother dear.
Knelt to her in prayer, had nothing then to fear.
The world to me was pure, kneeling at her knee,
But my heart still tells me my mother prays for me-
Prays that may turn from the paths that have
trod,
And live again in virtues home in the fear and love
of God.
can almost hear her prayer, as when kneeling at
her knee,
For my heart still tells my mother prays for me.
Yes in fancy can hear her calling back her child,
Her outst-etched arms pleading, and her gentle
smile.
Sometimes In my dreams am kneelIng at hsr knee.
For my heart still tells me my mother prays for me.
Oh, would leave this life and turn me back,
Worn now and wrecked upon Its wasteleSs track,
And once more be happy kneeling at her knee,
For my heart still tells me my mother prayS for
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For the Sunday Appeal
DETECTION.

WIZ art thou cast Otcn Oh, my soul, and 1ohy ar
thou disQttieted tClthin nae?''
Ny soul tonight gropes blIndly through
A labyrinth of dismal doubts.
In vain the mind cries out for light,
And struggles to dispense the gloomy thoughts
That round her fit like demons in the dark.
Life, family seen through storms and clouds,
Appears a hideous dream;
A dreary landscape is the past,
And DER Its Scorched and barren fields
Wan memory keeps ceaseless but unwilling
Watch and ward. The present seems
A dismal waste-a painless desert,
Compassed round with dangers and with snares,
While darkness, deep and threatening,
Shuts from view the futures store of good or bad
The heart, oppressed by vague forebodlngs, cries,
Existence, what art thou? know
The eye can see, the ear can hear,
The tongue can speak, the mind can think;
But still this is no answer. What art thou?
Alternate hope. and fear and Joy, and grief,
And after these comes death,
Tire shadowy pail, the mournful tomb,
And then, Godl what theHP'
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a Disting uished Irtshman with q
Strange Name.

The London Daily Ne,cs has the following
notice Of an eminent and worthy son of Ire
land, lately deceased in his adopted country,
Belgium. He retained strong Irish sympa-
thies to the last day of his lite. He hospita
bly, entertained Mr.. Smith O'Bnen, when
that gentleman visited Belgium after his re-
lease from penal exile in Australia, and he
was & subscriber to the Nation up to short
time before his death: Belgium has lost
very eminent and useful public man by the
death of Michael Corr Vandermaeren. De-
spite the thoroughly Flemish sound of his
name, which might recall memories of some
of his rival figures In Taylor's Philip Van
ArteUerde, Corr-Vandermaeren was an
Irishman. He was born In Dublin in 1902,
and while he was still boy he was taken by
his father to Belgium, where he settled and
became distinguished. He served for some
years in the Dutch army, and took part in
the Belgian revolution. But, unlike most
of his countrymen who settle in continental
countries, from the days of Count Thomond
and ''the handsome Dillon" to our own
times, NJ. Corr andermaeren was in
clined to serve the land of his adoption
rather as a civilian than as a soldier. He
became the most active promoter and rep
reseDtatve of the free-trade movement In
Belgium; he was the frienrt and fellow
worker of Mr.. Golden, and, like Mr.. Mellen,
ne carried his flag" among many foreign
populations. He labored hard to spread his
tree-trade principles by personal advocacy in
many European countries. He was one of
the founders of the International association
for the progress of social science, and, IN
deed, was always ready to lend a hand in the
getting up of any congress or other assembly
for promoting a sound knowledge Of the laws
of health, or the principles of political econo-
my. Despite his long absence from his ma
tive country, Corr Vandermaeren always re-
tanned enough of his accent to satisfy any
expert ear that the speaker came from the
land that, as Thackeray says, gave the Null
ligan birth" His career was creditable to
the country he came from, and to that in
which he lived. His name, if we are not
mistaken, was a combination of that of his
Irish father and of his Belgian father-in law.
He led long, full, and useful life, and,
until the illness came on to which he sue
cumbed at last, was hardly ever without hav-
ing his hands busy in some project to enlarge
mems knowledge of the laws by which the
health and prosperity of populations are Sc
cured.
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motbers. Mothers. Mothers.

Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's sooth-
ing syrup for al diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures
wind colo, regulates the bowels, and, BY Civ
ing relief and health TO the child, gives rest
to the mother.
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Death Heroine

A heroine has Just died in Scotland at the
ripe age of eighty five, Agnes Joanna Prin-
gle, widow of Alexander Pringle, of Whyt
bank, one of ''those sportive boys" to whom
Scott alludes in his introduction te the second
canto of Ma,miOn and daughter of Sir Will
ham Dick, of Prestonields. On the nine
teenth of February, 1925, Agnes Dick sailed
In the East Iudiaman Kent, bound for Ben
gal and China, with six hundred and forty
one souls on board, including the Thirty first
regiment, Colonel Fearon, and one hundred
and nine women and children. Miss Dick S
sister, Mrs. M'Gregor. wife of the major of
the regiment, had been mother but d few
days, and her sister went with her at short
notice to help and cheer her. On the first of
March, during heavy gale, fire broke out
among the spirit casks in the hold, and the
ship threatened to founder. In this frightful
to reach the powder magazine or the vessel
to go down by the head, Major M 'Gregor
wrote a note to his father, of the Commercial
bank, Edinburgh, which he placed in bottle
and committed to the sea. 1t was washed
up at Barbados, September 80, 1926, for
warded to its destination and is still pre-
served. 1t is quite legible, and in a firm
handwriting bears these words:
THE ship, the Kent Indiaman, is on fire.
Elizabeth, Joanna and myself commit our
spirits to the hands of our blessed Redeemer;
His grace enables us to be quite composed in
the awful prospect fentering eternity.
DUN. MGREGOR.
"1st March, 1925.
bay OF Biscay.''
Joanna" had proved the good angel of
the ship, camly reading the bible and pray
ing with the terrified wives and children of
the soldiers who had huddled aft. When the
Cambria hove In sight providentially, the Of
fcers of the Twenty first commanded 'funer-
al orders, the youngest officers first, and
that any man seeking to enter the boats till
the women and children were safe would tie
cut down. The first transfer was safely con-
Quoted, and Major M'Gregor's baby was the
first soul placed in safety on the Cambria's
deck. Eighty-one of the later passengers
were, however, lost, as so fierce was the sea
that the women and children had to be dashed
together and dropped from the Kent into
the water to be picked up by the rescuers.
Major M'Gregor lived to be colonel of the
Ninety-third Highlanders and chief of the
Irish constabulary. His sister-ln-Iaw, go
anna" has just died, while the new born
baby that was first handed up the side of the
Cambria is known to almost all English
speaking humanity as Jehn M Gregor, COM
mander of the canoe Rob Roy.
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Albany, N Y, June IA: The entire stock
of Sax, White & Co., wholesale dealers in
dry goods and notions, was destroyed by fire
this morning. Loss, fifty thousand dollars:
jasa sz.es, twenty-five thousand dollars.
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Charleston, S. c., June IA: JEFF Dayids,
sentenced to be hanged, has been again
granted respite till July 18th.
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Ottawa, June IA: A ballast-train on the
Occidental railroad ran off the track at Thurso
last night. Ten cars were wrecked, and the
engineer and fireman badly injured.