The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-08
POPULARITY CIVIL BAPTISM
GROWING FAST IN FRANC

near Paris, has been taken up w..
enthusiasm in various parts OF taa
country At Macon, in Burgundy. the
is especially popular. ard
the Mayor Of F1ace-les-M Macon has j4Sc
instituted a form of procedure more
elaborate than anything yet devse8.
This was first employed on the ian
July, the national fete.
After receiving at the marie the pa
rents of the infant. accompanied nr
the god-parents, he handed the family
a copy of the following remarkAu.5
document which was previously tran
srcibed on a special register:
Marie Philiberte Seye. daughter *
Louis SIEVE and of Philomena Charco--
set, gardeners at Facet welcome 10
the great family of those whose minds
are freed from religious dogma!
IN the presence of NJ. Philiberte
SIEVE and of Nine. Marie CIaudine Va
cot, thy godfather and god-mother,
|, Anthony Coron, officer Of the cINil
authority, Mayor of the II
F4ace-les-Macon;
In the name of the universal priu-
ciples of Free Thought,
In the name of the, glorious revolu-
ton of 1888. mother of the Rights OF
Man and of the Citizen.
In the name of the French Rcpub-
lie, democratic anu laic,
I baptize thee and give thee these
tIIcc Co1IIHld uuIi1ellS IOE WIItl L NdtN
publicly and solemnly as witnesses and
g~uarantors these thu god-parents, here
present:
/. Thou shalt honor thy country,
thy father and mother, and shalt Servo
them:
II. Thou shalt uphold with all thy
strength, justice and truth;
III. Thou shalt fear nothing except
to do i'll to thy neighbor.
And now, Citizeness Marie Phil
berte SIEVE, return to the home Of thy
parents, to be their joy and to live IN
peace.
Here follow the signatures of the
Mayor, the parents and god-parcnts.
Ensign Lemaire has invented =
g~yroscopic which possesses
the advantage of indicating the geo.
graphical north instead of the mag
netic north. By this compass the cal-
culation of the variation becomes uh-
necessary.
The war department has authorized
the radio-telegraphic station at the
Eiffel Tower to send out every morn
irg at 10:45 a despatch destined to
inform. mariners Of the weather they
will find on approaching Europe.
The Ministry Of the Interior has ap-
pointed a commission to study the Ell
feet of artificial light upon the eyes.
The chief object is to protect working
people against excessive illumination
which is found to be harmful TO the
eyesight. An attempt will be made -
fld a mathematical formula practIca-
bly, applicable to factories and other
places where a large lumber OF peo-
pie are employed.
A French agricultural expert de
clares $ week that the generally
accepted theory that bees are harmful
to vinlands is fallacious. On the con
trary, his expert finds that bees play
a beneficent role. for they suck from
the vines only those grains which are
injurious to the vintage It Is the wasp
and not the bee, which steals the NE
from the grape and plays havoc with
the wine crop.
NJ. Jusserand. the French Ambas-a-
dor to Washington, has gone 10 MS
country place in southeastern fran.H.
in the department Of the Loire, to re-
main there until shortly before nus
sailing date in September. VI. JuSS-
and has an apartment "permanenttt III
Paris. but he has been able To oe"HLs
it only a few days this year before and
after his visit TO England to lecture on
Shakespeare.
Fifteen Of the ~thirty-eight aviato-5
who started in the European circuit
aviation race received parts Of the
prize money. TWO We're killed, thI""
were DISABLED by injuries. ten never
got out OF sight Of the starting H@'t
and eight retired at various stages
the race without having won any
the minor prizes offered for except"-
al performances on some one n ne
stages Seven only finished the l+.
course. OF the s90.S80 Beaum'r.-
Conneau. winner. received s. ''
Carros. $3.50: Eidart. $135S< anu
>N~edrines. $4,000: while offers re-
ceiycd smaller sums
Some men NEEDLE so much in 9th
er peoples business they never have
any time to think Of their own.