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ENGLAND TO FALL.
British NobIeman Predicts Capture
by Germany.

British NobIeman Predicts Capture
by Germany.
The Earl of Clanwilliam, who is
in Winnipeg with his bride on his
way to Alaska, expressed himself as
of the positive belief that England
is doomed. He says Germany has
made every preparation, has strength
ened her army and navy, and will in
wade England without moments no
tice. Nothing will prevent England
being devastated and captured The
British are unprepared. Her army ts
weak and she could make little resist.
anco against an invading force.
Il is such talk as this that has
kept many Britons in a condition Q;
nervous anxiety for months. so much
SO that the nation may be said to
have been hysterical But it seems
10 US that such talk is all rot Per
haps Germany could take England
The question is, however, could she
hold it? Japan could take the Phil
ippines from us almost without an
effort. The United States could cap
ture Canada or Mexico. Great Britain
could take Denmark and Russia could
conquer Sweden in a month. But in
none Of these cases would the matter
end there Nations in these days are
not permitted to go forth on pillaging
and conquering expeditions against
their peaceful neighbors. Civilization
would not stand for that. The other
powers would be asking questions and
taking action before the sun could
set twice. No. no; the old days are
past and with them the old ways of
doing things.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ALPINE ADVENTURE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In che northeastern corner of the
rope, writes w. A. Baillie-Grohman In
''Tyrol." The region has many lofty
peaks, which makes mountain climb
ing of interest. The author gives one
of his adventures on peak near the
village of Kitzbuehel.
ION one of these peaks occurred to
me many years ago little adven-
ture which gave ne an opportunity
of admiring the grand view rather
longer than was pleasant.
Il was out stalking chamois, and
having some unoccupied hours in the
middle of the day, when stalking is
practically useless, as the beasts are
resting, / thought 1 would ascend one
of those pinnacles upon which at that
time few human beings. I suppose. had
ever set foot
! THE very last bit was smooth
faced rock not more than twelve feet
high. but absolutely unclimbable If
unaided by rope, or another man, upon
whose shoulders one could get, and
so obtain hand grip of the top. and
thus draw oneself up. AS was alone.
rope had in my rucksdck. Making
a slip-noose. l threw it upward till it
gripped some projection. Then I drew
myself up.
while looking about me. an unfor-
tunate movement of my legs, which
were dangling over the brink as l
sat, caused the rope to slip and fall
down to the small ledge on which /
had stood when finging it upward.
This ledge, or band of rock, was I'M
comfortably narrow. not wider than
thirty inches. and the abyss below
was perpendicular wall four OF i've
church steeples in depth.
cat first it did not seem such a seri-
Gus Ak TO be in. BY letting myself
drop TO the ledge. my extended arms
gripping the top. the distance between
the soles of my feet and the ledge
was not more than four feet or So
nothiry 10 speak Of IL that yawning
gulf had not been there and had had
boots on my feet. But having taken
these off and left them below. together
with my coat and rife. I should have
to drop on to sharp rocks barefooted,
and hence would be very apt to lose
my balance
The more I considered the position,
the more funked that drop. and to
make long story short I stayed on
that pinnacle two nights, until the
morning Of the third day. before hun
ger drove me TO risk the drop. which
/ did IN safety.
How got down the remainder OF
that descent, SHINING down chin
neys and creeping along narrow
lodges, was q mystery to me after
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THE FINE ART OF MANNERS.
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Miss Prindle was a formal and pre-
else old lady who 'conducted" the
phrase ran-a very select sewing class
for young girls. Besides being an ex-
eellent school for learning needle
work, Miss Prindle's Thursday after
noon gatherings were instructed in the
niceties of old-fashioned manners. Miss
Prindle was herself a model of pro-
priety, and had her pupils tried only
to initiate her, their time would not
have been wasted.
One day, downtown, Miss Prindle
saw coming toward her girl whom
she recognized to be Marion knight,
one of her sewing class. The girl was
walking along rapidly, not seeming to
notice her teacher. AS the two met,
Miss Prindle caught her eye, and
bowed and smiled in her most formal
way. She then passed on. rejecting
that Marion would doubtless benefit
by the example of her salute, and
some time be herself an example to
others
A few rods farther on, to her sur
prise, Miss Prindle again encountered
so she disqualification knight The
girl was coming toward her, as be-
fore.
Miss Prindle stopped.
"Are you" she began, ARE you not
Marion Knight"
Certainly. Miss Prindle," said the
girl
And didn't l meet you only mo-
ment ago." she asked
mo. Miss Prindle, l think that was
my twin sister, Elsie"
Miss Prindle looked her confusion.
"And she-she isn't in my sewing
class, is she, Marion?"
mo, Miss Prindle she has been
away at school for long time"
20 dear o dear." exclaimed the old
lady And l don't know her, and |
bowed and smiled TO her. Ch-Marion,
dear, will you tell her just as soon. as
you see her that shouldn't have smil-
ed and bowed to her, because I've
never met her, you see? 1t was very
bad form, you understand"
But, Miss Prindle," protested the
girl, Il think you met her last year
when we first came to live here. Don't
you remember? 1t was at the church
fair"
"Oh, so I did," cried the other. after
a moment $50 I did. Well, in that
case. Marion. you may tell your sister
that I am glad I bowed, but l shouldn't
have smiled Good-by, dearl"
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pyl,s.1 the
III


The advice of the Harvard professor
urging students to fiirt is something
like advocating swimming lessons for
young Washington Post.
An Illinois University professor tells
US that the population will overtake
the food supply in 100 years" That's
a long time for hungry man to wait.
Cleveland Leader.
Be careful not to kill the calosoma
sycopranta, for they eat gypsy moths
and are patriotic citizens of the bug
world. If one only knew what the c.
8. looks like!-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The declaration of the state bacte-
biologist that ankylostomiasis is cpl.
demic in South Texas is not likely to
alarm the people unless they shall be
called upon suddenly to spell it.-Gal-
weston News.
Dean Davenport of the University of
Illinois has computed that in another
hundred years this country will have
population of 1.40O,000,000 We can
see it afar off-Maeon is going to be a
big town yet.-Atlanta Chronicle.
The latest guess at the age of the
earth puts it down as 240,000, 900
years. Side by side with this, the
couple OF centuries we shall have to
wait for enlightened and impartial
action ON the tariff seems nothing at
all.-Puck
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sister-in-:aw, wherein her own virtues
were set forth in striking contract to the
sins of himself and his wife, and a pro-
phetic denunciation of the sorrow in
store for Orkwell under regime. The
first smile that had been oD Stewart
face for many hours appeared as, reading
on, he found that Norman and Miss Fear
on were included in the general commina-
ton service, as having been playing their
own game in the attack on Mathilde,
with a view to diverting Sir James dis
possible property in their united direction.
Lastly, Nellie's letter was a long and
incoherent lament over her owa treach-
cry under Normans influence; over her
affection for him and his cold-hea rted
abandonment of her as sovn as he found
the scheme was useless. She ended with
a pathetic acknowledgment that she did
not dare to meet him now, but still hoped
for his future forgiveness.
"A pretty lot" Stewart said to him
self; but they matter nothing now" and
he turned back to graver anxieties.
But the doctor was right; Mathilde
had magnificent constitution, and grad
ually she emerged from that vague fever
land back into her own personality once
more. 1t was pleasant in that first weak
ness to lie and watch the nurse and
Jeanne moving about the door. or the
flicker of the freight on the walls and
on bowls of roses, and then to doze off
into slumber again.
Stewart had from the first quietly
brushed aside any professional objections
to his presence, and established his right
to slip in and sit beside her. so that sex
eral times she woke to see him sitting
there, and grew used to the sight He
spoke but little to her at first, but there
was the old feeling of protection, and of
strength in his strength, the latter
estrangement seeming to have faded away
into unreality.
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Air shins.

1t is said that the Wright brothers
snLbbe6 our Congressman. But they
are frequently in position to look
down on the whole world. -Atlanta
Constitution.
The latest society fad of honeymoon
ing above the clouds in balloons at
least assures protection from fool
friends with old shoes and rice
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The prophet is not without honor
save in his own country But, of
course, if he is the prophet of aerial
navigation and Dayton is his own
country, all rules are suspended
Washington Times.
A practical commercial use for bal
looms has at last been discovered Dur
ing the fall balloon meet at st. Louis
they will be used to display advertis-
ing signs.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat
A New York scientist says aero
planes will be substituted for trolley
cars within ten years. If reliable
prophecy, that marks the date when
Cleveland will encounter a little peace
III municipal politics. Houston Post
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Quick wit saves.

THE strangest and most thrilling
piece of craftsmanship ever saw"
said the fencing master, was in Yer
mont
Il was spending the autumn in a
mountainous Lart Of the state, and
there was a military encampnle1t near
my hotel One morning an officer
horse started to colt with the man
duEing parade. and made at breakneck
speed toward a precipice. The officer
tried to stop the horse, tried to turn
It's head-no use. On dashed the fran
tic animal straight for abyss.
I'VE all held our breath. In another
instant We expected to see horse and
rider 20 over the cliff But the officer.
when within fifty feet OF the edge.
drew his sword. and plunged 1t twice
deep into the horse. The horse stag
gersd. slowed. keeled over, dying.
The man had sacrificed the ami
mails life TO save his own"
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j. Bulls Nightmare.

The English conception of dog Of
war is perilously like dachshund.-
Atlanta Constitution
The next British battle ship will be
called THE Observation-Disclosures
mans. Cleveland Leader.
Now that Canada is going to have a
navy of her own, the citizens of the
Dominion can have great fun sitting
up nights and talking about German
lnvasion-Puck.
The movement in London to buy a
dirigible airshjp for the government
BY private contributions is evidently
an outgrowth of the fear of Germany
that exists in the British mind. The
airship can keep watch on the move
ments Of the German nayy.-Indian-
apolis Star.
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ping away from Hudson. So my play Of
marrying you first and making love to
you afterwards wasn't quite so mad is it
seemed. was it n
1T very nearly failed, though"
"Yes, fifty times over: but never quite.
And now | have you safe. and you shall
not run away again. Tell me" he whis-
pered, where you were going that night"
She told slowly and with many pauses,
the tale of her efforts and sufferings,
which, in the shelter Of those EMBEDDING
arms, seemed so strangely unreal.
AS she told of how she tried to make
her face calm, so that he might find it
fair in death, she felt tear upon her
forehead and raised her lips to his. Pres
emily she asked:
How did you find the glover,
ut was stuck in the front of your
dress, when l felt to know if the dear
heart were beating. All, | cannot bear
to think of it! My life shall be IN atone
ment for it !" he murmured And so at
last their mutual lives were clear to each
other, for once and to those lives end.
(THE END
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1621-First written constitution grant
ed to Virginia.
17O1-Detroit founded by Cadillac.
1722-New England declared war
against the Indians.
1774-Pennsylvania elected delegates
to the first Congress of the Colo
MES.
l779-The Minisink settlement in Or
ange County, New York, plundered
and burned by the Indians under
Brant. Congress voted thanks to
Gen. Wayne for his gallantry in
storming Stony Point.
ls12-British under wellington defeat
ed superior force of French un-
der Marmont at battle of Sale man
ca.
iS14-Americans and British engaged
in sanguinary battle at Bridge
water. near Niagara Falls.
lS22-The New Orleans Prices Cur
rent" appeared in New Orleans.
tS42-The cap-stone of the Bunker
Hin monument was laid.
tS47-Salt Lake City founded by the
MOrmOnS,
1S54-The allied Pacific French and
English squadron sailed from Hon.
olulu to destroy the Russian pos
sessions in Kamschatka.
received in Boston by way of St
Johns, Newfoundland.
lS5S-Jewish Relief Act passed by the
British Parliament.
1S61-Gen. Mcclellan took command
of the Army of the Potomac
1S64-Louisiana State conven ion
adopted a constitution abolishing
slavery.
1894 joint resolution was passed by
Congress restoring Tennessee to
the Union. Lieut.. Gen. Grant
nominated general. First mes
sage sent over the Atlantic cable.
1s74-Hundreds of houses destroyed
and many lives lost in destructive
rain storm in Pittsburg.
lS75-Statue dedicated in Hartford.
Conn.,, to Horace Wells, the dis
coverer of Laughing gas
10 t--I-eAuSylNalltt troops Oruereu out
to suppress strike riots in Pitts
burg.
lS92-Henry c. Frick millionaire steel
manufacturer, shot in his office in
Homestead, Pa, by Alexander
Berxman. an anarchist.
lSs4-War declared between China and
Japan.
lS95-A monument erected by the
State of Iowa to commemorate the
massacre of 1857 dedicated at Ar
nolds park.
lS9S-The military expedition under
Gen. Miles effected a landing in
Porto Rico.
1903-William II. Taft accepted the APP
pointment of Secretary of War.
1904 strike involving $4,000 opera
tives begun in the textile mills at
Fall River
l905-The fleet bringing the body Of
John Paul Jones from France ar
rived at Annapolis.
190S-Formal opening of the new har-
Dor at Gary, Ind.--The Sultan Of
Turkey proclaimed the restoration
of the constitution of 1S76-Ty-
phoon at Canton, China, sank tho
Chinese vessel Wing King, drown
ing 300 natives--The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals set
aside the S29,4O0,000 fine against
the Standard oil Company.
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Turkey Hash.

At this distance it is not easy to
understand why anybody should want
to kidnap Abdul Hamid AS the Will
lie Whitla of Turkey, he doesn't look
good-Toledo Blade.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is still
concerned over what is to be done
with Mrs. Abdul Hamid. 1t figures
that there are about 1000 of her, and
she are getting nervous.-Augusta
Chronicle.
Ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid has not at
tempted to escape from his palace pri-
son at Soloniki, declares the Turkish
minister. 1t is not likely that even if
he wanted to a man with eleven wives
could go far without being caught up
with.-Galveston News.
Now the Young Turks" are said to
suspect that they have raised up a
military tyrant in the person of Chef
ket Pasha, who helped them over
throw Abdul Hamid, and more civil
war is threatened. Turkey is having
its share of the growing pains of ma
tions.-Cleveland Leader
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contempt and whose arguments and then
futed by historians and other learned This con-
ception of peace advocate however is wrong The
peace advocate the public thinks Of him is only
phantom He is only caricature created by those who
know nothing whatever about the movement and agi
tation for universal peace.
War has from time immemoral been and is at the
present day the ruling motive and course of human
society Peace is interruption and accident What
the advocates OF want is precisely to turn the
thing around. They want to make peace the ruling
course motive of human society, and war, in far
as it ever could arise to be only Illegal interruption
present society which rests entirely
basis peace is maintained only through expensive
preparations and through the constructing of fortified
lions.
The movement for universal has in the last few
years developed into science. Sciences create
plead force phenomena merely observe them
and recognize them. The movement toward universal
peace accomplshes and the world be-
comes organized it's separate units begin to unite
more closely This is process in harmony with the
laws of nature To conclude universal peace pact be-
tween all nations is the next step in human develop
ment.
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have passed have not still either stil
concerned with the work of evolving humanity
mighty Whole with and in the glorifed Christ
Then cometh the end" All illusions. all of
separateness. will disappear; the material will make
way for the spiritual the phenomenal for the real and
the universe Of universes visible and invisible attain
to perfect conscious in the eternal life Of God
This is the New Testament view of the matter in
the large perspective of presentday knowledge of
the vastness of the universal order
When to the question of the survival of in
divfdual consciousness after death say
than that the evidence which would satisfy the ordinary
religious mind might fail with uniformed by the
religious temperament. Nevertheless the lack may be
in the latter rather than the The plane OF
higher than the purely intellectual and it is in the
plane of spiritual experience that gertrude regarding
the immortality of the soul has hitherto generally been
attained.
There is the mind behind ALL and the divine love
that vbrates between soul soul in to the
call of human need like the ether that carries the cleo
force from point to point in the visible universe
see from the list OF injured in connection with the
terrible mining disaster of few days that there
is possibility that interesting correspondent has
been killed. If perhaps he knows now of the
ways of God with than l could ever tell him.
only to those who their loss. And even that
would turned to joy If could but know how things
really are in the great beyond
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SpftefuI.

"Grace seems to take deep interest
in yachting, doesn't she?'
Yes; she is quite carried away with
it,
And she knows all those nautical
terms, too
well. why shouldn't she? He1 faith
err started in life as deckhand, you
know"
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Fourteen State laws In favor of la
Dor were passed by the last Texas
Legislature.
| Striking granite cutters at Waco.
Texas, have won their demands for a
raise from s3.35 to $500 day.
Charles H. wirmel of the Cincin-
natl Stationary Engineers Union, has
been appointed labor commissioner of
Ohio.
The building trades in Sweden are
now on the eve of general lockout,
owing to a dispute about working con-
ditions.
| A law was passed recently In Michi-
minors to work more than nine hours
day.
The Sawsmiths' international Union.
whose headquarters are in Indianapo-
lis, recently chartered a new union at
Vancouver, b. c.
II is stated that so per cent OF the
Scottish coal masters are In favor OF
pressing the claim for a reduction of
IL per cent I'm wages
According TO figures just published.
there were 5,434 persons affiliated with
the organized labor movement in Ser
via at the close Of 1907.
Pending the outcome of confer
ence between mine owners and miners
the 5000 striking miners at Pittsburg.
Kan, have resumed work.
President T. L. Lewis, of the United
Mine Workers, has been in the anthra-
cite districts arousing interest in or
ganization. The union has a large
number Of organizers in the field.
Tb> record Of cotton picking in the
Tinted States is probably bell by Miss
Margaret Montgomery, Of Saltwater.
okla. One day last fan Miss Mcnt-
gomery picked seven hundred pounds
Of cotton.
The Netherlands Federation Of
Trade Unions has aow twenty-seven
unions federated. With a total member
ship Of 36,671 at the beginning of 1909.
From now on II is the intention OF
the officers OF the Minnesota State
Federation Of Labor to make every ef-
fort to bring about peaceful settle
ments Of all labor disputes where such
thing is possible. Whenever any
controversy comes up these officials
win at once proceed to the seat of war
and VIII use every honorable means so
to arrange matters that settlement
may be arrived at by conference or ar
bitration should this means fail
Governor Hadley. OF Missouri, has
signed the wOman's nine-hour law. The
law regulates the employment OF girls
and women in factories. restaurants
and other such places. Employment Is
limited to nine hours day and pro-
hibits their employment later than 10
.. m or earlier than a. m.
The British imperial cancer research
fund. in reviewing its seven years OK
work. reports that every claim Of q
cure has been examined exhaustively
and with negative result Stir, much
has been learned, and the experts are
now hopeful Of some positive results
from the experiments being conducted
sD0n mice
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A bulletin issued by the Department
of Commerce ard Labor contains the
report of Consul General Michael Of
Calcutta, India, concerning a cloth
made for those exposed to the sun in
excessively hot weather, He sends
samples of the cloth which is called
thatcho and shikari. 1t is made of both
wool and cotton, but of such coarse
ness of fiber and lightness of color as
10 ward off the suns rays
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Professor Cube Roots class of geo
metrical geniuses were receiving in
structions They we're first taught
that circle was thing like this
o. They then learned that straight
line was one without wabbles In it.
Now, boys" said Professor Root.
~can any of you describe to me what
a half circle is like?"
Up shot half dozen grasping
hands.
We'll. Teddy" said Professor Root
Tets hear your definition of a half
circle first"
Please. sir" answered Teddy. its
a straight line caught bending -
London Express
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Potatoes without tops are being rails
ed by John Groves of Salem, Ohio, on
a small patch of ground, and the fine.
large "spuds" are being examined with
curiosity and interest by hundreds Of
citizens and farmers, who have seen a
number Of them on exhibition. Sam
pies VIII be sent to the State Expert
mental Station at Wooster by the
grower, who is the envy Of his neigh
bors, who come from their potato bug
slaughter to gaze in wonder at the top
less crop of tubers
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A View Trolley Car Axle.

Engineers and newspaper men who
witnessed the recent trials Of the new
differential axle invented by a Cslifor-
nian named Seabrook on trolley car
run between San Bernardino and Red
lands are enthusiastic IN their reports
of the innovation, and predict a great
future for it in both trolley and steam
railroad service. This axle is an adap-
tation Of the principle used in the best
automobiles by which they can turn
sharp corners without undue strain.
The wheels are SO adjusted TO the axle
that on a curve the outer one may re-
volve faster than the inner.